WEBVTT - #117 - Kimberly Schlapman from Little Big Town 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:06.240 Yeah, welcome to it, everybody. Yeah. Yeah, So this was 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.920 the episode where we were nervous for two reasons. One, 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:12.000 we just set the student bye. We Mike de settled 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:13.680 it all up. It's like two days at the studio 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.040 up uh so. And then two it was Kimberly Slatman 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:20.560 from a little big town who just personally I really like, 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:25.239 and we were messing with somebody we really liked and 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:27.280 a new studios. We're a little nervous before we went 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.120 into it. So that being said, I think you're gonna 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:31.720 enjoy this. I'm just a big, little big town fan. 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.920 It's episode one sixteen of the Bobby Cast. Does she 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:40.280 reference that she was late and I felt back Listen, 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.120 I moved to a new place. Traffics terrible. I was like, 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.479 don't worry about it. But yeah, she felt super guilty. 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.680 But she brought food. Listen. If anybody listen to this 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.560 and you want to bring food, you have ten minutes. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.160 You have a window. You have a good window now. 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.040 But she's really really the best. I think you'll hear that. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.120 Let me say this though a couple of things. One 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:01.800 that there's some really great episodes in the past. If 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:03.280 you want to catch up if you're a new listener. 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.839 The woman Red Akins is Fantastic talks about his career 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.000 as an artist, his career as a songwriter, also being 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.759 Thomas Right's dad. Like check that one out or check 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.000 out another one of the podcasts on the Nashville Podcast Network. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.640 Jake Owen has a podcast called good Company, Really Good. 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.800 The guys from Whiskey Riff. They're big fans of country music. 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.480 You know, they bring artists by, but you know, it's 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.880 very much the fan perspective called Whiskey Riff Raff. Christian 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.320 Bush from sugar Land talks about things like friends or 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.319 it's called geeking Out where he talks to people about 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.520 things that are really really geeky about. And then Velvet's 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.520 Edge is a new podcast if you're listening and you 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.560 love style. I think one of the last ones was 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.720 Kelly Henderson and Amy from My Bobby Bones Show. So 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.000 search Velvet's Edge. So here you are an episode one 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.720 sixteen with Kimberly Schlapman. How does this sound good? Sounds 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.920 really good? Yeah, new equipment. You may not know the difference. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.280 My ear is not even as trained as Mike ds 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.360 is for audio. We have new microphones, and I'm pretty 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.440 excited about this. So here we go, Episode one six, 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:09.080 Team from a Little Big Town. Kimberly Schlapman. All right, 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.040 welcome to another episode of the Bobby Cast. This is 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.200 the first time we've used the studio, so this table 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.200 is much shorter than I'm remember sitting this close to anyone. No, 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.000 I never have. I don't mean that like in a 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.120 good or bad way, but it's kind of so. Kemberly 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.799 Slapman is here and I can I can reach out 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.520 and touch you here. And in the past, yes, in 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.519 the past, we've had these big recliners which looked sloppy, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.000 so we wanted to change it up. But I didn't 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.040 know we'd be able to reach out and give each 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.560 other high fives. Mike de So, how are you good. 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.919 I'm great. I'm so happy to do this. I've been 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:43.840 looking for We've been trying to work this out for 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.760 a while. Yeah, but I'm gone, You're gone. We have 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:53.360 to traveling themes. Yeah, you guys go hard? When do 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:57.440 you not go hard? Because you guys, You guys are reminiscent, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.000 Like I see you guys in the road because I 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.240 follow you guys on Instagram and I feel like I 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.359 know everybody from Instagram me too, and I feel like 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.000 you and I are friends over Instagram. There's this, but 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.920 there's this like weird part of life where you can 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.400 we don't have each other's text, but I needed it 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.480 on the way over here because I was seven minutes later, 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:19.760 you're killing you. There was nothing terrible over here, but 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.160 we don't. There's like three levels. There's email, there's Insta 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.960 Story friends, and then there's text, and so we'll actually 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.040 send messages on Insta Story. So we're at that level. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.360 So by the end of this though, let's just trade 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.760 fund number. Sure. In my life, I don't bother people. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.520 What did you bring over over to the house? Some 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.240 kind of food I brought you? Slap happy bars those. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.640 My husband's name is Steve, but so is my late husband, 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.160 So I don't call my current husband Steve because that 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.240 would be weird to be married. It is already weird. 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.120 I'm married to Steve's so the second Steve I call 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:57.320 schlap because our last name is Schlapman. So there. Starbucks 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.240 once made this bar that he was crazy about and 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.320 they quit making it, and he loved it so much 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.240 that I decided I would figure it out for myself, 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:08.280 so they discontinued it. But I figured it out. I 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.840 figured it out, and um, I call him schlap happy 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:12.880 bars because they make him very happy. So I brought 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:14.839 you a plate of appreciate and I know you don't 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:22.160 eat much of that, but just indulge. You do look 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:24.640 well you know this too. Whenever you can get on TV, 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.480 you do look bigger. Listen, one time I was at 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.440 my sister's church down in Georgia and this lady walked 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.080 up and she goes, oh, honey, you look a whole 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.599 lot bigger on t V. How do you cook so 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.839 much but you're so skinny. I'm just careful. I eat 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.599 like I already ate a slap happy bar at my 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.440 house when I cut them. But um, but then I won't. 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.680 I'll just be careful the rest of the day. I 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:52.760 just take it like day. But but if I if 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:54.839 I go to my mama's house and have biscuits and gravy, 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.080 which I'm not going to turn down, then for the 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.560 next day or two I'll be just real strict. I 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.400 think it's about moderation. I really do, because I do indulge, 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.040 but then I'll restrain when I waited tables, So I 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.240 gotta say I didn't eat a lot of the food 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.000 that I was serving. Yeah, I've waited tables here too. 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.680 You wait tables here in Brentwood at a little cafe 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:19.040 called Maggie's Cafe. It's not open anymore. What was What 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:20.880 was your job like that when you waited tables? What 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:25.479 do I just served? I've took um the orders and 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.560 took it back to the kitchen and handed it in 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.720 and then took it to the table. Oh, yeah, it 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.919 was when I first got here. Yeah, it was a little, tiny, 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.960 little lunch cafe. It was just lunch only in Brentwood. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:37.680 And so what would you do You work in the 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.200 daytime and then seeing at night. Yeah, I was working 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.400 in the daytime, and then Karen and I would hang 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:46.039 out at night and dream and brainstorm and figure out. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.000 We knew we wanted to do something together. I know 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.359 you talked to Karen through all this on her podcast, 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.960 But we we knew we wanted to do something together, 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.400 but we just didn't know what. And for months and 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.240 months and months we tried to figure it out. And 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.560 we just hang out together all the time. And you 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.880 guys went to school together and you were friends through school, 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.479 moved to Nashville and still stayed friends. Oh yeah, we 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.280 met in college and we were in there at Sanford. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.640 They Sanford University in Birmingham. They have this incredible a 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:16.040 cappella choir, and so we literally met on the bus 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.840 going to choir camp. She was sitting in front of me, 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:20.720 I was behind her, and we struck up a conversation 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.680 because we were both from Georgia. And I mean, I 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.520 I remember that vividly. I remember the seats and everything, 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.320 and her face and her long Amy Grant hair which 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:35.280 she had back then, and I just remember the conversation 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:40.200 and and stracking up a friendship that has lasted a very, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.960 very decades, very long time. Then individually, we both moved 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.640 here to Nashville. She came first. Oh you guys didn't 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.000 move at the same time. No, because we never did 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.840 talk about doing anything in country music together until both 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.239 of us got here, because we were all just always 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.719 just really good friends. We had so we had already 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.800 at that point experienced so much fun stuff together, and 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:03.760 so we just kept in touch and we would just say. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.000 It first started with you know, we're both here in town, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.960 let's go to lunch, let's just catch up. Did you 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.360 guys ever consider just being a duo a female duo? 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.640 Was that a thing? Even? I mean the Judds, the 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.440 Juds and the chicks were really hot at that time, 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.760 so we didn't want to do an all girl thing. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.320 And that's why we thought, let's let's put a male, 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.160 at least one male. Le's took up with some you 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.280 know guy and start singing. And then and then somewhere 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.760 along the way, we decided, well if we had two 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:39.280 guys and we could do even better harmony. Um. So 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.640 at first we were singing with Jimmy for many months, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.800 so as you Karen and Jimmy right. And then first 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.400 of all, it took when Karen and I finally were like, hey, 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.360 let's just do a mixed group. It took us probably 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.840 a year to even start singing with Jimmy just to 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.280 figure it out. And then it took us many many 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:04.200 more months to find Philip, and then finally in I 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.600 think it was late not it was the fall of 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.200 n when we first sang together in my living room, 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:15.400 and that was the beginning. But even those guys like 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.960 they probably came to town looking to do their own thing. Yeah, 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.560 we all did. Karen was gonna do country music. I 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.360 was gonna do country music on our own thing. Yeah, Philip, Jimmy, 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.760 everybody was just going to chase their own dreams. Is 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:29.640 there a bit of an ego drop to go, Okay, 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:31.480 now I'm part of a group. I didn't come as 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.600 a band and now we're a band. It's like a 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.240 relationship almost where there's a lot of compromise that then 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.440 goes in. Yeah, but I don't. I don't think it 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.280 was an ego thing at all. I think it We 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:45.200 were so excited about the idea um and we had 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.440 all been in groups before, well, Karen and I had, 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.760 Jimmy had, and Philip had sung with his family a 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.120 lot at his mom's um country music theater in Arkansas. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.840 So we had all, you know, had that experience and 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.400 we loved being in groups. So you know, it wasn't 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.680 it wasn't like it was a compromise or anything. Is 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:07.640 there a code with you guys, because you're all of 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.480 you guys are notoriously super nice like always to me 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:11.959 at least, I don't know how you are everybody else, 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.040 but you are super kind and you've been kind to 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:15.520 me even when people weren't kind to me when I 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.839 came to town and I was the guy that was 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.920 trouble or the guy that was different. You guys were 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.200 always so nice to me. And I'll always be thankful 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.120 because you are nice to me when other people weren't. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.000 But I wonder, is there some kind of secret code 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.840 in the band where you have to be nicer and 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.800 then when you get away you're just mean? Ever? But 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.360 are you? Is that? Is it like written somewhere that 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.520 you guys really try to be kind? Everybody's not written anywhere. 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:38.880 I feel like that's just how we were raised. We 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.720 were just raised on some good Southern roots to treat 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.720 people well. All four of you guys. It's hard. Usually 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.240 there's a turd in there somewhere. And I've been able 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:53.360 to be friends with Philip a bit outside of the 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.840 music world, Philip and his wife and so. And he's 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.520 the quietest of all four of you guys. Yeah. Sometimes 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:05.120 well whenever you guys come in and do you know publicity, Okay, 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.400 he usually doesn't say much. And he's who I've probably 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:13.280 become socially the friendliest, right, And he's super nice. And 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.760 he's the least nice because he doesn't talk as much. So, yeah, 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.199 you guys have always been super super kind since the 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.000 very beginning. And I just if that was like because 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:22.560 our show, you know, we have roles on the show, 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:24.360 in radio show. I do wonder if you guys had 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.480 a role, like, Okay, even you're feeling bad, you got 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:27.720 the rules. You have to be nice and if you're 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.160 not nice, you can find a thousand dollars. That's hilarious. No, no, 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.480 nothing like that. I feel like, um, I feel like 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:38.959 the reason maybe that you would say we're all nice 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.720 still is because of our journey, because it wasn't handed 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.160 to us on a silver platter. We worked so very 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.720 very hard and we are very very grateful for what 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.800 we've been given and know that any day, you know, 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.800 it could it could go away. But I think that 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:59.360 that appreciation just keeps us grounded and helps us remember that, 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.280 you know, remember what the other way was lack and 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.680 and and just just you know, my just my parents 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.640 taught me to treat people well and to be good 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.600 to everybody. And you know, you never know what somebody 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.640 else is going through, even if they're you know, ugly 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.040 or mean, you never know why they might be ugly 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:19.560 in me, and you don't know what's going on at home, 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.360 so just be sweet to him. I feel like a 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.920 bit and maybe more than a bit. But Keith Urban's 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.920 like that too, because I'll talk to Keith even outside 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.319 of the world of whatever we're in, and keeps always 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.520 super kind to everyone. But I'll talk to him, and 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:37.600 you know, keeps going to a lot of drug issues 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.600 and we talk about we we'll talk about that because 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.520 my my mom died of you know, drugs and or 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.440 forties and I was around that my whole life. And 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.080 so I think he's been a little more open with 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.880 me about that. And he'll talk about not even remembering 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:52.480 yours and being rude, and I think now he appreciates, 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.679 and so that makes him kind and I hope that's 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.920 what makes me nice because I get it. And so, yeah, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:01.920 you guys are just you. And I have only have 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.760 like three plaques. I have that one you guys gave me, 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.360 and I don't keep plaques. I normally don't even take plaques, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.199 but that one. I have that one. And then it's 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.040 it's a girl crush plaque. That's before it even sold 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.720 all of it, like that's way. 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The offer does 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.360 end soon, and again you're probably gonna hear this after 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:23.880 Mother's Day. They still have a lot of great deals 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.080 on a lot of great things. Just typing Bones and 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.760 get the deal right there. So you're a mom twice 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.880 now and you have a baby baby, yeah, I have 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.400 a one year old. Whenever you came in, you're like, hey, 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:34.559 how you know has your girlfriend? I was like, I 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.400 didn't go au Frond like six months and you said, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:42.880 forgive me, Oh my goodness, that little angel phase she 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.680 she she you know, she requires a lot of time, 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:48.640 and I don't. I feel like I really have felt 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.679 the last six months like I'm struggling socially to keep 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.160 up with what is happening in this world. It's so 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.760 weird how I feel like I know things about social media? 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.520 Does it? But I know? I watch your daughter and 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.000 your husband Karate Taekwonda, Oh my goodness, they just got 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.680 their black belts. I saw that, and that's and oddly 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:10.840 I'm proud of them. Listen. I told Daisy I was 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:12.400 coming to see you today, and she said, oh, I 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.480 love Bobby Bones. When I tell her that you know, 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.520 she got her black belt. She's going to feel like 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.680 the biggest kid in the on Instagram And I was like, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:23.240 and then I watched after she finished a singing recital. Yeah, 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.520 all that that's why I feel like I know you. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.280 I think we all feel a bit like I know 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.800 each other more than we do. Yeah. So how old 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.120 does she? She's tin And then you have a one 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:36.120 year old. Dolly is one, so she's sixteen months. So 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.760 you've done it before. So is it harder the second time? Yeah, 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:46.080 because it's a decade later, mama is older. Yeah, it's 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:51.320 it's it's I mean, I guess it's harder physically, but 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.680 oh my word, it's this the sweetest thing. I mean, 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.680 it's the best. The best part of my laugh is 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.600 being a mama. Ah, you look forward to going home. 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:03.880 I love it. They go with me on the road, 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.200 though I don't leave them. I rarely ever have to 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.520 leave him at home. Um, but yeah, I love if 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.440 I've been working all day in town and I walk 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.600 in the door and Daisies like mommy, and Dolly starts 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:19.360 running towards me. There's nothing better. Amy, my co host, 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.960 adopted two children and it was a five year process 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.200 for the kids to get here, and you know, it 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.600 was obviously a whole different situation, but I feel like, 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.920 in a third hand way, I know what it's like 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.080 to at least be close to someone who goes to 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.040 the process. And so how long were you in the 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:40.880 adoption process? Well, Um, Daisy started praying for a baby 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.120 when she was five years old. She wanted a baby 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.920 brother or sister. She didn't care what, she just wanted 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.800 a baby brother sister. So we were trying to have 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.680 another baby very hard. We did everything you know, under 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.600 the sun medically that we could do, and so then 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.720 we decided, well, maybe God that's not in his will. 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.600 Maybe he just wants us to adopt a baby because 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.320 I've always wanted to adopt a child. So we started 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.160 the process um, and they told us it would be 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.920 eighteen months at least we'd waited eighteen months, and we 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.200 were like, oh, that's a big bummer, but okay, because 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:18.000 we were doing it domestically. Um, and lo and behold, 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:23.440 it happened. About four months later. I got a call 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.320 about Dolly. It just happened. It just you know, it 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.680 was just this fluke thing that happened. And someone called 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:36.120 and said there's a baby girl. Are you interested? Yes? Yes, 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:41.480 But here's the great thing. Um. That was in Um 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:48.000 January of two thousand seventeen, and Daisy had asked Santa 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:52.160 Claus for a baby that year we got her when 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:57.280 whenever she asked, did you know no, no, and my 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.680 husband and I were like, oh, baby, you and asked Santa. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.480 But you know, Santa really we really didn't have control 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.240 over that. So you know, I mean, he probably talks 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.120 to Jesus so you can have him, you know, put 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.159 in a good word. But but I don't think Santa 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.880 can do that. And even when she sat on Santa's lap, 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.840 he said, oh, she sat on his lap and asked him, 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.600 and and before she got out there, I was like, baby, 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.720 you know he probably I don't know what he's going 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:26.439 to say to this because I don't know Santa can 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.720 even Santa can do this. And so she said, um, 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.520 I wanted the only thing I want this Christmas is 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.119 a baby, and I know you might not can do it, 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.960 but if you talk to Jesus, would you tell him 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.560 that I want a baby? And that's what we got. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.159 So whenever you told her, did you tell her at 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.840 Christmas Okay, I got a text on my phone and said, 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:56.520 there's a baby, are you interested? And we were um 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.280 out of town. We were, she, myself and my husband 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:01.520 were all sitting on the bed together very late at night, 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.600 and when I read that text, it took my breath 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:08.280 and I went and of course Dasy's like, what what what? What? What? 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.760 What is it? What is it? So I turned my 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.919 phone so that she and my husband could see it, 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:17.560 and oh. She burst into tears and started jumping up, 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.000 jumping up and down on the bed saying thank you Jesus, 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.840 thank you, Jesus, thank you Jesus, jumping up crying. And 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.119 my husband are like, baby, hey, we don't know if 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:27.719 this is our baby. We don't know, we don't know, 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:29.919 and she was going I believe it as I believe, 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:33.680 I believe, and she was really so emotional, and it 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.800 was just one of the most beautiful visions I still have. 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.679 It will last me my whole life, just her on 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.320 that little bit, jumping up and down crying because she 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:47.479 knew that was her baby. That's crazy. It's crazy that 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:51.880 she asked Santa. She did. She wanted it so bad 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:56.840 and now she's the best little mother. She loves that 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:02.320 baby to pieces. Yeah, okay, gratulations, that's a special How 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:07.040 important it's faith to you? Most important? Yeah? It is 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:12.480 most important. Um. I just I have a very strong faith. 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.080 I grew up that way, my parents raised me that way, 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:21.520 and I just believe that my whole life is because 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.720 of God and what He's given me. And I've been 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:28.280 incredibly blessed and I've been through a lot of hardship also, 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.840 and um, but what He's given me now I could 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.720 have never even dreamed or I've never could have even 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:40.240 dreamed up, both business wise and personal mostly really, what 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:42.960 kind of church did you grow up in? Southern Baptists? 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:47.879 So did? I? YEA a non dancing because we weren't. 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.200 They let us dance. They let us dance that we 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.480 were a non drinking one though the only down there 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:55.160 if you were a Southern Baptist, only way you could 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:57.320 drink is if you were in the closet. You had 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.240 the hide in your closet, and you know, nobody And 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:02.400 maybe I was just a kid and my parents didn't 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.159 go to church with me, so I don't know, but 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.760 I went to us in Arkansas, Southern Baptist Church and 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:13.200 it was pretty free considering what a lot of we 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.040 were to church camp and they would be hardcore. I 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.119 mean there were kids that couldn't dance. It was like footloose. 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:20.119 We would go to church camp and there were other 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.240 kids that were they were in footloose um and they 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.080 couldn't dance. I thought it was so crazy that we were. 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:26.640 We danced, did you have because we would go it. 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:28.760 I went to I was in a very small town. 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:31.119 How big was your town? Oh? I don't even know. 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.000