1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I'm Katie Couric and this is Next Question 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:10,399 Speaker 1: a bonus episode. In fact, today I'm continuing to share 3 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 1: interviews from my book tour. This one is from my 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 1: stop in Music City Nashville, Tennessee, where I got to 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 1: chat with Brad Paisley and Kimberly Williams Paisley. Here's our 6 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: conversation between the two of them. They can sing, act, 7 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: play guitar, bass and banjo, write a book, and dish 8 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: up millions of meals to needing people in this community. 9 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: I can honestly say they're doing everything they possibly can 10 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: to make the world a better place, so please help me. 11 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 1: Welcome too of your hometown heroes Nashville, Brad Paisley and 12 00:00:47,920 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: Kimberly Williams Paisley or I was, so I'll just do 13 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: with your you know what. He's going there, Katie, he is, 14 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: I'm going there. So I just have some things. Are 15 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 1: you tired, Brad? No, No, I just this is I 16 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: haven't been in therapy a long time. Let me see 17 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: if I can help you out here. You guys, I 18 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: was so so excited and honored that you agree to 19 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: to be here tonight, So thank you both so much. 20 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 1: And Kim talked you into it. I did. I listened 21 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: to your book. It's fantastic. Everyone get the book, So 22 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: thank you said, Well, we were talking about I listened 23 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: to it um, which was a really really great way 24 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: to experience it because of all the clips like we've 25 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: been playing tonight, but it was just a really cool 26 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: way to hear it. Yeah, it was fun to do. 27 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: Although that was exhausting. But I couldn't imagine writing a 28 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: book and having someone else read it. I thought that 29 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: would be so weird. So it took about eight days 30 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: and you're just reading all day long. Well, Kim, you 31 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: did you record your book as well? Did? Yeah? It 32 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: was exhausting, right, exhausting. I didn't realize how much I 33 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: had to act it. Yeah, Like I started just kind 34 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: of reading and I listened to it back and I 35 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 1: thought this is really boring, so I had to go 36 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: back and put something into it. Really. Well, we're going 37 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: to talk about your book and a lot of other stuff, 38 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: but you know, you are are doing so much for 39 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: the city of Nashville, and but first I want to 40 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: I want you to take us back because everybody loves 41 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,919 Speaker 1: the how did You Meet story? So how did you 42 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 1: two meet. It was I understand Brad, it was you 43 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: were responsible for getting Kim to be in a music video, right, 44 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: he stalked me, that's what happened. Well, yeah, basically, I 45 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: I as an excuse to reach out to where I said, 46 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: I called a manager of hers and said, you know, 47 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 1: I've written some songs about the other the Bride movie. 48 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: I went on a first date to that, and wouldn't 49 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 1: it be great if if she was in a music video? 50 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: But I was just doing that the stalker. And but 51 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: your manager at the time, who one of the best 52 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: management moves in my opinion, that she ever did, maybe 53 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: the worst in your opinion, was she called you and said, 54 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, he wants you in a video, but 55 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 1: you're going to date him. Really, she's not my manager anymore, 56 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: but that's why. But you know, she ruined your life 57 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: and made more. So did what did you know like 58 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: when you did that video? Did the sparks fly Kim? 59 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: You can be honest, not for her, I mean for me, 60 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: they did, but they did. I'm speaking for her right now, 61 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: but I mean we're married. It all worked out. Yeah, 62 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: they weren't flying yet. But you guys are from two 63 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: different worlds. You grew up in Glendale, West Virginia, and 64 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: um and and Kim, what the heck it's people, they're 65 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: they're all here. And Kim, you're for Rhyane New York 66 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: and New Yorker. Yeah so no New Yorker's okay, okay, good. 67 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: So so how did you guys click because your life 68 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: experience just we're pretty different. What what made it work? 69 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 1: I think opposites attracts maybe, I mean I was, I 70 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:22,919 Speaker 1: was in from the moment I've met her, but it 71 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: took me about six weeks to convince her. But I 72 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: don't know, I'm not sure what her story is. I mean, 73 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: you're you're just so he's so funny. It was the 74 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 1: charming funny. He's a really good guy, and I think 75 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: it was the humor. And then he wrote a song 76 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: for me, and that really, I mean that actually did 77 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,119 Speaker 1: Early on I had written a song H called Little 78 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: Moments that ended up being a hit, and it was 79 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,359 Speaker 1: funny because I sang it to her over the phone. 80 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: She was in California and at the time, after we 81 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: already dating, and I could tell she flipped out and 82 00:04:55,760 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: it was about somebody else would have been that work. 83 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: I would say writing a song for someone. No, I 84 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: mean I just I heard that and I thought, oh, 85 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 1: he gets me. Yeah, it was really that was a 86 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: powerful moment. Well you, I want to talk about your 87 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: your talents because you're both so talented too. And and 88 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: I love asking people when they realized they had certain gifts. 89 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: And I remember interviewing Barbara Streisan and asking her, like, 90 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: when did you realize she could sing like that? And 91 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: what was that like? That must have been so exciting. 92 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 1: She talked about being in her grandmother's apartment in Brooklyn, 93 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: and she remembers like the bronze uh staircase and and 94 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: all that, and she said she sang and there was 95 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: it was very good acoustics. And she thought, wow, that 96 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: sounds really good. And I'm curious, Brad, how did you 97 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: realize you had this musical talent because you started playing 98 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 1: at a very young age, right your grandfather, Yeah, I 99 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: don't know that. Your grandfather, by the way, here's a 100 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: little Brad. He wanted me to learn to play so bad, 101 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: and so I did for him. And at first, it's 102 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: no fun when you first start playing the guitar and hurts. 103 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 1: It's you don't know what you're doing nothing sounds like 104 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: what you wanted to um, and I don't know that 105 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: I ever. I was never instantly I was. I was 106 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 1: not some like, oh man, you're amazing at all. I 107 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: mean it took along to a lot of work, you know. 108 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 1: I mean, I think if you'd my dad used to 109 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:27,239 Speaker 1: say something when I was young it was really smart, 110 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: which was I was doing these local shows as a teenager. 111 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: I was book solid the Lions Club luncheons. I mean 112 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: they would give me a hundred dollars to go do 113 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: like fifteen twenty minutes with an acoustic guitar and it 114 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: thirteen years old. That's I mean, you know, you can 115 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 1: buy a lot of Lego sets with that. And um 116 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: My dad would say, you're cute now when you're twenty 117 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: and if you're this good at twenty, that's not gonna work. 118 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 1: You better get good by twenty, you know. And a 119 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: lot of dad don't do that. It was really it 120 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:05,039 Speaker 1: was really good advice, even though he has musical ability whatsoever. 121 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: But sorry, he has no ability and doesn't. But you 122 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: just worked at it and practiced and practiced and practice 123 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: I did. I did, And I think when was the 124 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: realization for you that you couldn't sing. I still think 125 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: maybe I can. I realized it early on. We're dating, well, 126 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: you compliment each other because you can't act. You're right right? 127 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: That was good. That's good. Okay, So Brad, let's talk 128 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: about your front three Grammy. Oh no, no no, I want 129 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: to talk about the colonoscopy. Let's talk about that. I 130 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: think we've seen enough of my colin tonight. Here's what 131 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: I really want to do. I want to do. I 132 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: to pick the right song, but I want to use 133 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: that as a music video for a song. Really, just 134 00:07:55,320 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: Katie Kirk's colonoscopy, and people will be so confused. It 135 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: might encourage them to get screamed and then they can 136 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: play while they're under sort of. Maybe maybe we'll redo 137 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: a new music video for Mud on the Tires the politostar. 138 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: Gu that's okay. Let's talk about your awards. You've won 139 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: three Grammys, two American Music Awards, fourteen c m A 140 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: S you fifteen Academy of Country Music Awards. You've written 141 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: twenty one No, Brad has written twenty one of his 142 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: twenty four number one hits. So I mean, I'm fascinated 143 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: by songwriting. How where do you get your inspiration. Just 144 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 1: are you driving down the street and you see something 145 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 1: and something just pops into your head? How does it happen? 146 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: I think, well sometimes, I mean it's like just like 147 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,359 Speaker 1: when you sat down to write this book. I'm fascinated 148 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: by that. Like I have a book that I co 149 00:08:57,720 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: wrote with a good friend and we kind of shared 150 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: the duties about being a guitar player. But what Kim did? 151 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: What what you did? Where it's you sit down in 152 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: that solitary thought, it's the same thing. You just start 153 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 1: going and then you write something. And the best things 154 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: are really when you realize, okay, I have to get 155 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: rid of that. And I think that that as a songwriter, 156 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: you find inspiration in daily life. But the best songs 157 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,680 Speaker 1: are rewritten. You know, you rewrite to make it what 158 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: it could be. Yeah, And when you're rewriting it, do 159 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: you just sort of change the lyrics or do you 160 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: figure out like the it can be either, I mean, 161 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 1: you know, the melody's gotta fit. I've always said in 162 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 1: country music, the best country songs are the way you'd 163 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: say them. And anytime that you that you're trying to 164 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: rhyme something and it's not a word you would say 165 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: in the sentence it it feels off in country music, 166 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: so and also melodically like you should sing the way 167 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: you'd say it. And you know, like when you put 168 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: the emphasis on a part of the word you would 169 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: ever emphasized just to rhyme it or whatever. There's little 170 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 1: tricks to make something feel right. And then other than that, 171 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: it's just magic. And I don't have any idea. Well, 172 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: whatever you're doing, keep doing it, because I mean, you're 173 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: you're just incredibly successful. And then Kim for your acting, 174 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: sort of the same question. What was there a moment 175 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: that you said, I love doing this, you know, this 176 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 1: is this is what what I was born to do. Yeah, 177 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: I think I was about five years old, and I 178 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 1: used to I used to put on plays with my 179 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: my friends or my brother and sister in my parents 180 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: living room, and I charged their guests when their guests 181 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: would come over, I charged them like twenty five cents 182 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: to see our show, which I'm pretty confident was awful, 183 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: you know, and I and I take the many so 184 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: I saw it as a business opportunity for really on um, 185 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: but it was all I ever really wanted to do that, 186 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 1: and right I just loved I loved acting. And when 187 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: you were at Northwestern, that is when you were discovered 188 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: to be Annie and and father at the bride, right 189 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: and and wait, so there you are. One of my 190 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: favorite scenes when you're playing basketball was stuck Martin. And 191 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: how did you get how did you get discovered? How 192 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: did that happen? Um? Well, I was a sophomore in 193 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: Northwestern and I auditioned in Chicago, and I was just 194 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to take the L train, 195 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: because I mean I didn't really want I was a 196 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: college student and didn't want to audition for anything. But 197 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: I had this thing come up. A friend of mine 198 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: was interning in a casting office in Chicago, and I thought, well, 199 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: I've never taken the L, so let me see if 200 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: I can navigate that and forget whatever. This audition blah 201 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: blah blah a bride. You know, it was like the 202 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: furthest thing from my mind. And then I think it 203 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: was because I was so relaxed that it just went 204 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 1: really well. But actually they flew me out to California 205 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 1: a couple of times, told me I didn't get it, 206 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: like fired me before they hired me a couple of times. 207 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: And then I guess couldn't find anyone else and so well, 208 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: I can't imagine anyone else being in that role than 209 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: you because that's such a great movie. And and you know, 210 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: you continued your acting career and now you're acting with 211 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: your sister, which is so fun. You've got to Hallmark 212 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: movies and you and your sister are starring at Brad. 213 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 1: I know you wrote a song. You just heard it's 214 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 1: a real family affair because your sister's husband as the 215 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: executive producer. So tell us about that. Those are there's 216 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 1: your sister. That's so great and there's so much. She 217 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: just came. She was here today. She just flew out. 218 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: Unfortunately she couldn't make it, but we had an event 219 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: last night together. But yeah, we've got this. These two 220 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: movies for Hallmark coming out December five and December twelve. 221 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,839 Speaker 1: It was Ashley's idea to do them. Um and I 222 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:40,439 Speaker 1: started one, she starts in the other, and then we 223 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 1: kind of visit each other's movies and there's there's fun 224 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: scenes that start in one point in my movie and 225 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: end in a different point in hers, so they overlap, 226 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 1: so they kind of fit together like a puzzle. It's cool. 227 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: Why are those Hallmark movies so addictive. I was getting 228 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: a blow dry at dry Bar and they played them 229 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 1: and I'd already seen the one because I've had to 230 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: get my hair blown out in every city. So I 231 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 1: just called dry bar and I'm like, I can't stop 232 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: watching THEO what what? What is it about those because 233 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: they make you feel like everything's okay. Yeah, I think 234 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:15,719 Speaker 1: you're right. Drink hot chocolate and there's they have Christmas 235 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 1: trees and fall in love and they live happily ever 236 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: after and all that stuff. More from the Comforting Kem 237 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: and Brad. Right after this, let's talk a little bit 238 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: about about your philanthropic work, because that's really one of 239 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: the main reasons I was so excited to have you 240 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: all here during the pandemic this Uh. You started a 241 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: place called The Store, which is a nonprofit grocery store 242 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 1: here in Nashville, and it's amazing. And before before we 243 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: talk about it, I I think when when I met 244 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: when I saw you guys, I sat next to him 245 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: at a Michael J. Fox Foundation event in New York 246 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 1: and it was so fun because I sat next to 247 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:11,959 Speaker 1: her and your sweet dad and Brad was performing, and 248 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 1: you told me that you got the idea and when 249 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: your boys, you and your boys were in Santa Barbara 250 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: and you wanted to start teaching them about the importance 251 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: of giving back. So what happened? Yeah, well, I mean 252 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: I grew up going delivering meals on wheels with my mom. 253 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: She'd throw us in the backseat and she would deliver 254 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 1: and we used to go to soup kitchens and we 255 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: dole out food and stuff, and so it was something 256 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: that I was brought up with. And then we really 257 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: wanted to teach our kids the same. So, um, I 258 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: asked around and Santa Barbara, there's this place called the 259 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: Unity Shop, and we took the kids there and it 260 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: was incredible. Um, they learned how to stack the shelves, 261 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: they learned how to pack beans, they looked, learned how 262 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: to check people out at the grocery at the check encounter. 263 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: And Brad said, we've got to do this in Nashville. 264 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: And that was about five years ago. Yeah. Well, I 265 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: think also that like all the good things the kids 266 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 1: get in their life, from that standpoint or from her, 267 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I don't know what kind of kids 268 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: they'd be if it was just me. Like she's the 269 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: one that thinks of oh, they should learn about charity, 270 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: and like that's a good idea we should do. And 271 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: so we went there and Unity Shop is its own place. 272 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: It's got its own sort of philosophy and its own 273 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: uh other little cool things they do in that community. 274 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: But immediately it was like, Nashville is the type of 275 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: giving place that we'll just eat this up, you know, 276 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 1: And here we are and you want to say, no 277 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: pun intendedive to eat this up, um, But what's amazing 278 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: about what we do and what unity What we learned 279 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: from Unity Shop is instead of people getting a hand out, 280 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: they're coming into a grocery store and they're able to 281 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: choose what they want for their family, and their kids 282 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: are seeing their parents in a position of power. So 283 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: we just love that concept, not winding up with a 284 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: lot of food that they don't want or don't know 285 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: how to use. And it's also it gives people dignity, dignity, 286 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 1: dignity and agency, right right yeah, as well hold on 287 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: will wait? Oh it um? You know it's like it's 288 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: it's like, also you feel like you are not helpless 289 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: in a pandemic when you have something like that, Because well, 290 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: I was going to say Brad, because you all worked 291 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: very hard for five years kind of just figuring this out. Um, 292 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 1: and then the pandemic hit, and tornadoes hits, the tornadoes 293 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: and then the pandemics you all have to pivot pretty 294 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: quickly to Immediately. It was so weird because immediately it 295 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this whole idea of a grocery store, now, 296 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 1: how's it look? What do you how do you do 297 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: this for folks to where they're not getting sick by 298 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: coming in here? And we uh, my producer, a guy 299 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 1: named Luke Wotten, came up with the idea of deliveries 300 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: for the elderly. So the next thing you know, we 301 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,679 Speaker 1: were getting grocery orders and delivering to the towers nearby 302 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: where a lot of a lot of folks, and they 303 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 1: would the second time they delivered them food, they showed 304 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: up and they had gotten dressed in their Sunday best, 305 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: these these older folks and all came out as the 306 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:25,160 Speaker 1: as the food was placed at their doors and gave 307 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: a standing ovation to the delivery folks. And um, So 308 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: you know, when I look back at this pandemic, I'm 309 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 1: sure you feel the same way. It's there's things that 310 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: you look back and go. I learned a lot from 311 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 1: that and there's things I wouldn't change, brought out the 312 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 1: good in people and and um, now that it's open, 313 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 1: how first of all, I wanted to ask you where 314 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: do you get all the food and how does that work? 315 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: We buy a lot of it from Second Harvest Food 316 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: Bank of Middle Tennessee. They're great. And then we have 317 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 1: we have fantastic farmers that donate to us. We have 318 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 1: three different partners and they donate produce, which is great. 319 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:07,880 Speaker 1: So people can come in and they can take as 320 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:10,120 Speaker 1: much produce as they want. There's a lot of things 321 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: that we have, some things that we have to limit 322 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: and you know, certain amount per household so everybody can 323 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: be served, but produce doesn't count toward any of that. 324 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 1: So we really want to encourage people to get fresh 325 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: fruits and vegetables. And so we're so lucky to have 326 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 1: farmers that are willing to donate produce for us. And 327 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: when you see, Brad, when you see some of the 328 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: people come into the store, and you know they have 329 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: the freedom to pick things and put it in their 330 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: their cart, and you know, um, and by the way, Kim, 331 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 1: that's so important because so many of these people probably 332 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: live in food desserts where they don't have enough enough 333 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 1: fresh produce, and that contributes to obesity and diabetes and 334 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,400 Speaker 1: all kinds of things. But it must be so gratifying 335 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: to see them shop. Yeah, on my birthday this year, 336 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: she went and volunteered for the day, and difficult fashion, 337 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 1: I stopped by and for a little while, but going 338 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: on your birthday and seeing you know, it was one 339 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 1: of the first times I've been in there since the pandemic, 340 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: since we're fully operational like we wanted. And you know, 341 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:19,919 Speaker 1: mother of two. They were all dressed in Halloween matching 342 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: Halloween o. These two little toddlers and her newborn and 343 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:26,479 Speaker 1: a stroller, some elderly folks. A guy left there and 344 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 1: you pointed it out. He walked out. There's a bus 345 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: stop right by it. He walked out with his groceries, 346 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: got on the bus and sat down and the bus 347 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: pulled away and he come to you're seeing. You're seeing 348 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 1: the faces of the people we wondered who they'd be. 349 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: And the great thing is we partnered with Belmont University 350 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: and they have a Yes, Belmont, they have health Ministry 351 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: center right next door. So we've got all these wraparound services, 352 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 1: so it's not just about addressing food and security. But 353 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: they also have a music therapy program, they have financial 354 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: literacy program, they have legal services, so they're really helping 355 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: to address all of the issues that are needed to 356 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: get someone back on their feet to self sufficiency. Well, 357 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 1: and I know that you all are involved in because 358 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: you went to Belmont and there's a scholarship that you 359 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 1: all established at the university and they named the ballroom 360 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: after you all recently, which was cool, right, I moved 361 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 1: in where I'm going to be living there for a 362 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: little while. A great place to roller skate. I mean, 363 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: there's some kids. I talked to them before the show 364 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 1: and tried to give them some career advice. I hope 365 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: it was helpful. But the Belmont kids get But what 366 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:40,400 Speaker 1: would you tell them, I'll take advantage of you all 367 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: being I would tell them that a two point three 368 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: grade point average is all you need. You get anywhere 369 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: you want with that. And because they have never at 370 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 1: the back door here, they have never asked what I 371 00:20:55,600 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 1: what I got many of the classes, so learned a 372 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: lot while you're there. But Brad, Brad got a D 373 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: in guitar. Really, yes, I got it change to see 374 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: later it was because I didn't go to class. But 375 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 1: let's not go into go to class. Kids coming up 376 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: a special serenade from Brad Paisley himself. Swoon. Not only 377 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 1: have you all done the store, but I just want 378 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 1: to point out that Keim, you've done so much for 379 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: Alzheimer's disease. You lost your mom in two thousand sixteen, 380 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 1: and I know that must have been heartbreaking and very difficult. Um, 381 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: can you tell us a little bit about your mom, Linda? Yes, 382 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,679 Speaker 1: my mom was an amazing fundraiser for the Michael J. 383 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: Fox Foundation. Um. She started their development pro him there. 384 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: She was an expert at asking people from millions of 385 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: dollars and getting it. It was, which is like a 386 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: really as and now we're fundraisers, you know, that's a 387 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: really hard thing to do. Um. Um. But she was 388 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: vibrant and amazing, funny, smart, you know, and um we 389 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 1: saw her deteriorate over eleven years. But just last night, 390 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 1: well actually it's five years since she passed tomorrow. Um, 391 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: But just last night we had an incredible event in Nashville. 392 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 1: We had our eighties dance party. Were you guys there. Look, 393 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 1: here's some pictures from the eighties dance party looks so 394 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: much fun. Yeah, so, I mean I've I've found so 395 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: much healing from writing about it. I wrote in my 396 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: memoir where the Light Gets In and then having these fundraisers, 397 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: and Katie, I have to say, you are such an 398 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 1: inspiration in this department because you have raised seven million dollars. Yeah, 399 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: what you've done with your cancer stand up? Stand up 400 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,120 Speaker 1: to cancer? What's the what's the tally right now? What's 401 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: the total figure? Right now? You can brag? What have you? 402 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: What's the total figure? What have you raised? I think 403 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: we've raised uh, seven million dollars as Yeah, that is 404 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,199 Speaker 1: so fantastic And has it? How has that been heeling 405 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: for you to be able to take this tragic experience 406 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 1: and really create incredible good from it? Well, you know, 407 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 1: I learned so much when both Jay and my sister 408 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: Emily were sick. And one thing I learned is that 409 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: these scientists operate sometimes since silos. There's so many brilliant scientists. 410 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,199 Speaker 1: They're my personal heroes, who are you know, getting very 411 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: little attention or credit and they're just toiling day and 412 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:50,199 Speaker 1: night these research labs. And when I when Jay was 413 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: sick I spent so much time calling these medical centers 414 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,360 Speaker 1: and pharmaceutical companies. I would after the Today's show, I'd 415 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: go on my office and I'd call like Israel tell 416 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: Leviv and ask them like about monoclonal antibodies and all 417 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: these clinical trials. And I just thought if they collaborated 418 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: instead of competed, then we could move science forward faster. 419 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: So Stand Up to Cancer is all about having these 420 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 1: dream teams of scientists that that work together and share 421 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 1: their resources, their ideas, their creativity, brain power, tissue samples 422 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 1: so they can come up with better treatments in a 423 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: much you know, a much more efficient and faster way. 424 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,439 Speaker 1: And you know, at first they were really like, we 425 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 1: don't want to work together, and now they love it. 426 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: It's re energize them and some of them take family 427 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 1: vacations together. And our our scientists have contributed to nine 428 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 1: new FDA approved drugs since we started in two thousand eights. 429 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: So yeah, and you know, listen, we're so blessed. And 430 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,919 Speaker 1: I feel like and and and we're so lucky that 431 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,120 Speaker 1: we have a platform um that we can we can 432 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: share our information with people. We can change people's lives 433 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: and give them back their dignity as you all are doing, 434 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: and I feel like it's almost criminal not to take 435 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: advantage of that. But you know, I talked to a 436 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 1: lot of people who lose people they love to cancer 437 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: and other diseases, and I always say, even if if 438 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: you can do something, if you can, you know, organize 439 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 1: a walkathon in your community or bake sale or do 440 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: something you feel so powerless. I'm sure you did when 441 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: your mom was sick, Kim, And it just I think 442 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:44,199 Speaker 1: it's so cathartic and healing to say what can I 443 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 1: do for the greater good? I couldn't say this person, 444 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 1: but maybe I can help somebody else. So I think 445 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 1: that's what is really motivating for me, and I'm sure 446 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,679 Speaker 1: you two as well. And we found such a community 447 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: in the Alzheimer's Association, and we never reached out to 448 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,439 Speaker 1: them when my mom was sick because she was embarrassed 449 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: by her illness. There's a huge stigma around Alzheimer's and 450 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 1: so to be able to push past that, to scream 451 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 1: about it now, you know, and share our message of 452 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: you know, encourage people to ask for help and you 453 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,880 Speaker 1: know that you don't have to do it alone. It 454 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,359 Speaker 1: has been really healing for our family. Yeah, and I 455 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 1: think it's so you know the numbers when you think 456 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 1: about aging baby boomers, that Alzheimer's is going to be 457 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 1: such an epidemic in the next ten or twenty years 458 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 1: that the push to science and trying to come up 459 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: with preventative strategies and hopefully new therapies is going to 460 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: be more important than ever, isn't it. Chump, Yeah, well, 461 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,199 Speaker 1: I think it's wonderful. What I mean, honestly, what you 462 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: guys do for for not only Alzheimer's patients, but as 463 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: I said, for for people in need in Nashville is extraordinary. 464 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,959 Speaker 1: And I wanted to ask you about sort of another 465 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: entrepreneurial endeavor you you guys are I don't know if 466 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: you're doing this, cam or this is Brad's idea, but 467 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: you're in the bourbon business. Now she's not in that. 468 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 1: She's not in that. I sip on it, I don't 469 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 1: sell it now. We we had this idea. So the 470 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,360 Speaker 1: thing about bourbon, Uh, I don't know. John loves bourbon. Yeah, 471 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:22,959 Speaker 1: yeah he was. He was hammered back there, but now 472 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: it's Uh, bourbon age is in a really unique way. 473 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: You know, it's it's the American spirit, but most of 474 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,439 Speaker 1: the time it spends its life in a in a 475 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: rick house in Kentucky or somewhere, and there's way more 476 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: Kentucky and West Virginia represented the New York City. But 477 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,400 Speaker 1: we had this idea. You know, they used to age 478 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: Koonak at sea, and they used and a friend of 479 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 1: mine started a bourbon that's uh called Ocean is Great. 480 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 1: It's aged at c on a boat. And we thought, 481 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 1: what if we take bourbon on tour and loaded we 482 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: we had and we figured it out. We we loaded 483 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,640 Speaker 1: up a truck full of ninety barrels of bourbon, really 484 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 1: really good bourbon from Kentucky and UH and sent it 485 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: on tour in thankfully, because there was a tour in 486 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. We didn't hadn't canceled everything yet and it 487 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: went to almost all forty eight contiguous states and I 488 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 1: think there's fifty now, but then you go to the 489 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 1: other two. We went all around America. It aged, it went, 490 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,120 Speaker 1: It hit all of the climates. It was at every city. 491 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 1: We have pictures of the truck in front of signs 492 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: and you know, city limits signs and stuff. And then 493 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: got it back and the aging on the road. Think 494 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: about it. First of all, if you've ever ridden with 495 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 1: any of my drivers, you know that's what you want 496 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: a bourbon to do. It's really it's shake is shaking around. 497 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 1: There's a lot of heartbreaking. It's impossible to sleep. But 498 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: the bourbon turned out amazing. We we named it American Highway. 499 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 1: Uh and it's available now, that's awesome. I think you 500 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 1: brought a bottle, didn't perfect. Yeah, we're going to try 501 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 1: the bourbon and did John drink it all? Thank you? 502 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 1: Look how much has gone? And um, while Kim and 503 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: I sit on a little bit of American Highway reserve. 504 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: You're going to play us a song? Yeah, sure, that 505 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 1: is so great. Better to say up first, cheers, cheers. 506 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 1: Actually that's really well. Yeah, sorry us, thank you, cheers everyone. 507 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: I hate to be sorry. I'm sorry sorry that everybody 508 00:29:44,080 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: say Hi. Dave. Dave's famous gotta get a little on 509 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 1: turn like colin Oscopy song, the coling Oscopy song. If 510 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: I could ride a letter to me, hand it back 511 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 1: in time to myself, it's seventeen. First, I prove it's 512 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 1: me by saying, look under Ben, there's a skull can 513 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 1: and play for and no one else and you know 514 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 1: you're hit. And I say, I know it's tough when 515 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 1: you break up, bout to sit in months. Yeah, I 516 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: know me like you just don't see eve it but 517 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: all I can see pain like that. It's fast. It's 518 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: a rat. Got so much going for cleen, right, but 519 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: I know it's seventeen. It's hard to see past friding. 520 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,959 Speaker 1: She wasn't a right for you, but still feels like 521 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: days and night. Stick it out your back and you 522 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 1: want and year survived and you'll make it through. See 523 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: you're still write write this letter me. You got so 524 00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 1: much hard head, your man, new friends, and you should 525 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 1: see your kids. And I'm saying, movies are no best years. 526 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: You remember high school? I remember what adults would say. 527 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: I'll enjoy this, son, these are the best days of 528 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: your life, which is not something you should say to 529 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: the high school kids. I have a living proof high 530 00:32:56,040 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 1: school is not the best years of your life. Now, college, 531 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 1: I guess I'll see you in there. You're wrong, man, 532 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 1: t school, hugging everything every chance. You can't got so 533 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 1: much going for you, right, but out it's seventeen. It's 534 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 1: hard to see past Friday night. I would you study Spanish. 535 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,720 Speaker 1: I wish you take a t class now. I wish 536 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: you would out where let it be. Yeah, I see 537 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 1: have the little faith in me. You'll see if I 538 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 1: could run to me. It's so great. That was so great. 539 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:30,959 Speaker 1: You've got some talent, Young Kevin, Brad Paisley, everybody Hurt, 540 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:35,719 Speaker 1: Hurt a big country. Thank you to Brad Paisley and 541 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,839 Speaker 1: Kimberly Williams Paisley. You can find more about their incredible 542 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 1: nonprofit grocery store at the store dot org. And I 543 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: believe there's still time to catch Kim's Hallmark movies. They're 544 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 1: called Sister Swap a Hometown Holiday and Sister Swap Christmas 545 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:59,239 Speaker 1: in the City. Next Question with Katie Kurik is a 546 00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,360 Speaker 1: production of My Heart Media and Katie Couric Media. The 547 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:07,239 Speaker 1: executive producers Army, Katie Couric, and Courtney Litz. 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