WEBVTT - Book tour bonus with Brad Paisley and Kimberly Williams-Paisley 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:06.160 Hi everyone, I'm Katie Couric and this is Next Question 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:10.399 a bonus episode. In fact, today I'm continuing to share 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.119 interviews from my book tour. This one is from my 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.799 stop in Music City Nashville, Tennessee, where I got to 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:21.280 chat with Brad Paisley and Kimberly Williams Paisley. Here's our 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:25.960 conversation between the two of them. They can sing, act, 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:30.360 play guitar, bass and banjo, write a book, and dish 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:34.760 up millions of meals to needing people in this community. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.800 I can honestly say they're doing everything they possibly can 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.760 to make the world a better place, so please help me. 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:47.839 Welcome too of your hometown heroes Nashville, Brad Paisley and 0:00:47.920 --> 0:01:10.240 Kimberly Williams Paisley or I was, so I'll just do 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:14.920 with your you know what. He's going there, Katie, he is, 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.440 I'm going there. So I just have some things. Are 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.039 you tired, Brad? No, No, I just this is I 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.440 haven't been in therapy a long time. Let me see 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.200 if I can help you out here. You guys, I 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:30.160 was so so excited and honored that you agree to 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.440 to be here tonight, So thank you both so much. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.400 And Kim talked you into it. I did. I listened 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:43.520 to your book. It's fantastic. Everyone get the book, So 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.960 thank you said, Well, we were talking about I listened 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.720 to it um, which was a really really great way 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.840 to experience it because of all the clips like we've 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:53.840 been playing tonight, but it was just a really cool 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.600 way to hear it. Yeah, it was fun to do. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.520 Although that was exhausting. But I couldn't imagine writing a 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.280 book and having someone else read it. I thought that 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.800 would be so weird. So it took about eight days 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.240 and you're just reading all day long. Well, Kim, you 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.880 did you record your book as well? Did? Yeah? It 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.520 was exhausting, right, exhausting. I didn't realize how much I 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.120 had to act it. Yeah, Like I started just kind 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:16.280 of reading and I listened to it back and I 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.680 thought this is really boring, so I had to go 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.240 back and put something into it. Really. Well, we're going 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.360 to talk about your book and a lot of other stuff, 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.280 but you know, you are are doing so much for 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.080 the city of Nashville, and but first I want to 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:34.000 I want you to take us back because everybody loves 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.919 the how did You Meet story? So how did you 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:41.520 two meet. It was I understand Brad, it was you 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:45.000 were responsible for getting Kim to be in a music video, right, 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:49.280 he stalked me, that's what happened. Well, yeah, basically, I 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:54.000 I as an excuse to reach out to where I said, 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.600 I called a manager of hers and said, you know, 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.920 I've written some songs about the other the Bride movie. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.880 I went on a first date to that, and wouldn't 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:05.959 it be great if if she was in a music video? 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.639 But I was just doing that the stalker. And but 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.240 your manager at the time, who one of the best 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.320 management moves in my opinion, that she ever did, maybe 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.880 the worst in your opinion, was she called you and said, 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:19.560 oh yeah, yeah, he wants you in a video, but 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.640 you're going to date him. Really, she's not my manager anymore, 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:28.880 but that's why. But you know, she ruined your life 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.480 and made more. So did what did you know like 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.160 when you did that video? Did the sparks fly Kim? 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:39.720 You can be honest, not for her, I mean for me, 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.920 they did, but they did. I'm speaking for her right now, 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.280 but I mean we're married. It all worked out. Yeah, 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.640 they weren't flying yet. But you guys are from two 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:54.720 different worlds. You grew up in Glendale, West Virginia, and 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.320 um and and Kim, what the heck it's people, they're 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:02.240 they're all here. And Kim, you're for Rhyane New York 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:08.640 and New Yorker. Yeah so no New Yorker's okay, okay, good. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.880 So so how did you guys click because your life 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.080 experience just we're pretty different. What what made it work? 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:20.280 I think opposites attracts maybe, I mean I was, I 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.919 was in from the moment I've met her, but it 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.240 took me about six weeks to convince her. But I 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.560 don't know, I'm not sure what her story is. I mean, 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.560 you're you're just so he's so funny. It was the 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:34.360 charming funny. He's a really good guy, and I think 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.360 it was the humor. And then he wrote a song 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.640 for me, and that really, I mean that actually did 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.119 Early on I had written a song H called Little 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.320 Moments that ended up being a hit, and it was 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.359 funny because I sang it to her over the phone. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.000 She was in California and at the time, after we 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:55.760 already dating, and I could tell she flipped out and 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:00.360 it was about somebody else would have been that work. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.080 I would say writing a song for someone. No, I 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.320 mean I just I heard that and I thought, oh, 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.039 he gets me. Yeah, it was really that was a 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.400 powerful moment. Well you, I want to talk about your 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.440 your talents because you're both so talented too. And and 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:19.240 I love asking people when they realized they had certain gifts. 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:23.200 And I remember interviewing Barbara Streisan and asking her, like, 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.760 when did you realize she could sing like that? And 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.120 what was that like? That must have been so exciting. 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.840 She talked about being in her grandmother's apartment in Brooklyn, 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:37.640 and she remembers like the bronze uh staircase and and 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.000 all that, and she said she sang and there was 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.560 it was very good acoustics. And she thought, wow, that 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.680 sounds really good. And I'm curious, Brad, how did you 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.320 realize you had this musical talent because you started playing 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.160 at a very young age, right your grandfather, Yeah, I 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.400 don't know that. Your grandfather, by the way, here's a 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.440 little Brad. He wanted me to learn to play so bad, 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.160 and so I did for him. And at first, it's 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.719 no fun when you first start playing the guitar and hurts. 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.719 It's you don't know what you're doing nothing sounds like 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.719 what you wanted to um, and I don't know that 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.960 I ever. I was never instantly I was. I was 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:19.200 not some like, oh man, you're amazing at all. I 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.200 mean it took along to a lot of work, you know. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:25.479 I mean, I think if you'd my dad used to 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.239 say something when I was young it was really smart, 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:31.000 which was I was doing these local shows as a teenager. 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.240 I was book solid the Lions Club luncheons. I mean 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.320 they would give me a hundred dollars to go do 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.680 like fifteen twenty minutes with an acoustic guitar and it 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.680 thirteen years old. That's I mean, you know, you can 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.599 buy a lot of Lego sets with that. And um 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:52.680 My dad would say, you're cute now when you're twenty 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.440 and if you're this good at twenty, that's not gonna work. 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.479 You better get good by twenty, you know. And a 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.240 lot of dad don't do that. It was really it 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:05.039 was really good advice, even though he has musical ability whatsoever. 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.640 But sorry, he has no ability and doesn't. But you 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.760 just worked at it and practiced and practiced and practice 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.720 I did. I did, And I think when was the 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:19.600 realization for you that you couldn't sing. I still think 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:26.560 maybe I can. I realized it early on. We're dating, well, 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:33.120 you compliment each other because you can't act. You're right right? 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:40.440 That was good. That's good. Okay, So Brad, let's talk 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.760 about your front three Grammy. Oh no, no no, I want 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.440 to talk about the colonoscopy. Let's talk about that. I 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.680 think we've seen enough of my colin tonight. Here's what 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.560 I really want to do. I want to do. I 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:52.720 to pick the right song, but I want to use 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.880 that as a music video for a song. Really, just 0:07:55.320 --> 0:08:00.560 Katie Kirk's colonoscopy, and people will be so confused. It 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.960 might encourage them to get screamed and then they can 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.240 play while they're under sort of. Maybe maybe we'll redo 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.360 a new music video for Mud on the Tires the politostar. 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:20.520 Gu that's okay. Let's talk about your awards. You've won 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.240 three Grammys, two American Music Awards, fourteen c m A 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.760 S you fifteen Academy of Country Music Awards. You've written 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:32.720 twenty one No, Brad has written twenty one of his 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:37.640 twenty four number one hits. So I mean, I'm fascinated 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.880 by songwriting. How where do you get your inspiration. Just 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.080 are you driving down the street and you see something 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.960 and something just pops into your head? How does it happen? 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:51.160 I think, well sometimes, I mean it's like just like 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:55.359 when you sat down to write this book. I'm fascinated 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.600 by that. Like I have a book that I co 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.920 wrote with a good friend and we kind of shared 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.640 the duties about being a guitar player. But what Kim did? 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.800 What what you did? Where it's you sit down in 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.240 that solitary thought, it's the same thing. You just start 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:13.320 going and then you write something. And the best things 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.000 are really when you realize, okay, I have to get 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.600 rid of that. And I think that that as a songwriter, 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:24.440 you find inspiration in daily life. But the best songs 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.680 are rewritten. You know, you rewrite to make it what 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.200 it could be. Yeah, And when you're rewriting it, do 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.160 you just sort of change the lyrics or do you 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.240 figure out like the it can be either, I mean, 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.240 you know, the melody's gotta fit. I've always said in 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.960 country music, the best country songs are the way you'd 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.120 say them. And anytime that you that you're trying to 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.280 rhyme something and it's not a word you would say 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.160 in the sentence it it feels off in country music, 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:54.240 so and also melodically like you should sing the way 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.520 you'd say it. And you know, like when you put 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.800 the emphasis on a part of the word you would 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.400 ever emphasized just to rhyme it or whatever. There's little 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.160 tricks to make something feel right. And then other than that, 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.480 it's just magic. And I don't have any idea. Well, 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.360 whatever you're doing, keep doing it, because I mean, you're 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:17.600 you're just incredibly successful. And then Kim for your acting, 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.560 sort of the same question. What was there a moment 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:26.040 that you said, I love doing this, you know, this 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:30.080 is this is what what I was born to do. Yeah, 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.240 I think I was about five years old, and I 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.439 used to I used to put on plays with my 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.200 my friends or my brother and sister in my parents 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.040 living room, and I charged their guests when their guests 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.720 would come over, I charged them like twenty five cents 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.560 to see our show, which I'm pretty confident was awful, 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:48.520 you know, and I and I take the many so 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.240 I saw it as a business opportunity for really on um, 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.160 but it was all I ever really wanted to do that, 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:58.080 and right I just loved I loved acting. And when 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.240 you were at Northwestern, that is when you were discovered 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.440 to be Annie and and father at the bride, right 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.600 and and wait, so there you are. One of my 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:12.040 favorite scenes when you're playing basketball was stuck Martin. And 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.120 how did you get how did you get discovered? How 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.880 did that happen? Um? Well, I was a sophomore in 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.960 Northwestern and I auditioned in Chicago, and I was just 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.800 trying to figure out how to take the L train, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.040 because I mean I didn't really want I was a 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.440 college student and didn't want to audition for anything. But 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.480 I had this thing come up. A friend of mine 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.400 was interning in a casting office in Chicago, and I thought, well, 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.440 I've never taken the L, so let me see if 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.000 I can navigate that and forget whatever. This audition blah 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:38.720 blah blah a bride. You know, it was like the 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.640 furthest thing from my mind. And then I think it 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.360 was because I was so relaxed that it just went 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.720 really well. But actually they flew me out to California 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.840 a couple of times, told me I didn't get it, 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.920 like fired me before they hired me a couple of times. 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.200 And then I guess couldn't find anyone else and so well, 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.280 I can't imagine anyone else being in that role than 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:03.080 you because that's such a great movie. And and you know, 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.320 you continued your acting career and now you're acting with 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.920 your sister, which is so fun. You've got to Hallmark 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.120 movies and you and your sister are starring at Brad. 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.200 I know you wrote a song. You just heard it's 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.120 a real family affair because your sister's husband as the 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.720 executive producer. So tell us about that. Those are there's 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.319 your sister. That's so great and there's so much. She 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.280 just came. She was here today. She just flew out. 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.640 Unfortunately she couldn't make it, but we had an event 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.640 last night together. But yeah, we've got this. These two 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.760 movies for Hallmark coming out December five and December twelve. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.839 It was Ashley's idea to do them. Um and I 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:40.439 started one, she starts in the other, and then we 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.960 kind of visit each other's movies and there's there's fun 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.360 scenes that start in one point in my movie and 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.680 end in a different point in hers, so they overlap, 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:50.960 so they kind of fit together like a puzzle. It's cool. 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.880 Why are those Hallmark movies so addictive. I was getting 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.360 a blow dry at dry Bar and they played them 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.040 and I'd already seen the one because I've had to 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:01.920 get my hair blown out in every city. So I 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.560 just called dry bar and I'm like, I can't stop 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.640 watching THEO what what? What is it about those because 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.880 they make you feel like everything's okay. Yeah, I think 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.719 you're right. Drink hot chocolate and there's they have Christmas 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:19.320 trees and fall in love and they live happily ever 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:23.640 after and all that stuff. More from the Comforting Kem 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:36.120 and Brad. Right after this, let's talk a little bit 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:40.200 about about your philanthropic work, because that's really one of 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.480 the main reasons I was so excited to have you 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.760 all here during the pandemic this Uh. You started a 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.640 place called The Store, which is a nonprofit grocery store 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:58.840 here in Nashville, and it's amazing. And before before we 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.280 talk about it, I I think when when I met 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.640 when I saw you guys, I sat next to him 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.640 at a Michael J. Fox Foundation event in New York 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.280 and it was so fun because I sat next to 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.959 her and your sweet dad and Brad was performing, and 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.240 you told me that you got the idea and when 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.840 your boys, you and your boys were in Santa Barbara 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.040 and you wanted to start teaching them about the importance 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.440 of giving back. So what happened? Yeah, well, I mean 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.880 I grew up going delivering meals on wheels with my mom. 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:29.960 She'd throw us in the backseat and she would deliver 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.840 and we used to go to soup kitchens and we 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.360 dole out food and stuff, and so it was something 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.560 that I was brought up with. And then we really 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:41.360 wanted to teach our kids the same. So, um, I 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.480 asked around and Santa Barbara, there's this place called the 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.560 Unity Shop, and we took the kids there and it 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.720 was incredible. Um, they learned how to stack the shelves, 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.280 they learned how to pack beans, they looked, learned how 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.440 to check people out at the grocery at the check encounter. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.800 And Brad said, we've got to do this in Nashville. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.720 And that was about five years ago. Yeah. Well, I 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.760 think also that like all the good things the kids 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.840 get in their life, from that standpoint or from her, 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.800 I mean, I'm I don't know what kind of kids 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:10.840 they'd be if it was just me. Like she's the 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:15.120 one that thinks of oh, they should learn about charity, 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.960 and like that's a good idea we should do. And 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.320 so we went there and Unity Shop is its own place. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.440 It's got its own sort of philosophy and its own 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.320 uh other little cool things they do in that community. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.840 But immediately it was like, Nashville is the type of 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.880 giving place that we'll just eat this up, you know, 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.040 And here we are and you want to say, no 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:44.360 pun intendedive to eat this up, um, But what's amazing 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.560 about what we do and what unity What we learned 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.880 from Unity Shop is instead of people getting a hand out, 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.720 they're coming into a grocery store and they're able to 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.400 choose what they want for their family, and their kids 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.080 are seeing their parents in a position of power. So 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.800 we just love that concept, not winding up with a 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.120 lot of food that they don't want or don't know 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:08.600 how to use. And it's also it gives people dignity, dignity, 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:12.480 dignity and agency, right right yeah, as well hold on 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:22.760 will wait? Oh it um? You know it's like it's 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:27.360 it's like, also you feel like you are not helpless 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.800 in a pandemic when you have something like that, Because well, 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.160 I was going to say Brad, because you all worked 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:38.200 very hard for five years kind of just figuring this out. Um, 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:42.800 and then the pandemic hit, and tornadoes hits, the tornadoes 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.960 and then the pandemics you all have to pivot pretty 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:50.440 quickly to Immediately. It was so weird because immediately it 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:54.160 was like, Okay, this whole idea of a grocery store, now, 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.560 how's it look? What do you how do you do 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.040 this for folks to where they're not getting sick by 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.360 coming in here? And we uh, my producer, a guy 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.520 named Luke Wotten, came up with the idea of deliveries 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.280 for the elderly. So the next thing you know, we 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.679 were getting grocery orders and delivering to the towers nearby 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.760 where a lot of a lot of folks, and they 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.200 would the second time they delivered them food, they showed 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:19.000 up and they had gotten dressed in their Sunday best, 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.080 these these older folks and all came out as the 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.160 as the food was placed at their doors and gave 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:29.000 a standing ovation to the delivery folks. And um, So 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.080 you know, when I look back at this pandemic, I'm 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.399 sure you feel the same way. It's there's things that 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.240 you look back and go. I learned a lot from 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.520 that and there's things I wouldn't change, brought out the 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.600 good in people and and um, now that it's open, 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:46.920 how first of all, I wanted to ask you where 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.600 do you get all the food and how does that work? 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.320 We buy a lot of it from Second Harvest Food 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:57.320 Bank of Middle Tennessee. They're great. And then we have 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.639 we have fantastic farmers that donate to us. We have 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.639 three different partners and they donate produce, which is great. 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.880 So people can come in and they can take as 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.120 much produce as they want. There's a lot of things 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.240 that we have, some things that we have to limit 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.119 and you know, certain amount per household so everybody can 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.840 be served, but produce doesn't count toward any of that. 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.280 So we really want to encourage people to get fresh 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.600 fruits and vegetables. And so we're so lucky to have 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:26.399 farmers that are willing to donate produce for us. And 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.240 when you see, Brad, when you see some of the 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.240 people come into the store, and you know they have 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.240 the freedom to pick things and put it in their 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:40.200 their cart, and you know, um, and by the way, Kim, 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:42.640 that's so important because so many of these people probably 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.600 live in food desserts where they don't have enough enough 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.920 fresh produce, and that contributes to obesity and diabetes and 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.400 all kinds of things. But it must be so gratifying 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.520 to see them shop. Yeah, on my birthday this year, 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:02.040 she went and volunteered for the day, and difficult fashion, 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.680 I stopped by and for a little while, but going 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.560 on your birthday and seeing you know, it was one 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.680 of the first times I've been in there since the pandemic, 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:15.480 since we're fully operational like we wanted. And you know, 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.919 mother of two. They were all dressed in Halloween matching 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.080 Halloween o. These two little toddlers and her newborn and 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.479 a stroller, some elderly folks. A guy left there and 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.760 you pointed it out. He walked out. There's a bus 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.000 stop right by it. He walked out with his groceries, 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:33.280 got on the bus and sat down and the bus 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.800 pulled away and he come to you're seeing. You're seeing 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:38.639 the faces of the people we wondered who they'd be. 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.560 And the great thing is we partnered with Belmont University 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:47.720 and they have a Yes, Belmont, they have health Ministry 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.760 center right next door. So we've got all these wraparound services, 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.159 so it's not just about addressing food and security. But 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.800 they also have a music therapy program, they have financial 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:00.760 literacy program, they have legal services, so they're really helping 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:04.760 to address all of the issues that are needed to 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.680 get someone back on their feet to self sufficiency. Well, 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:09.840 and I know that you all are involved in because 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:13.000 you went to Belmont and there's a scholarship that you 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:17.360 all established at the university and they named the ballroom 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:21.760 after you all recently, which was cool, right, I moved 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.119 in where I'm going to be living there for a 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:27.720 little while. A great place to roller skate. I mean, 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.240 there's some kids. I talked to them before the show 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:32.800 and tried to give them some career advice. I hope 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:37.879 it was helpful. But the Belmont kids get But what 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.400 would you tell them, I'll take advantage of you all 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:42.960 being I would tell them that a two point three 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:47.080 grade point average is all you need. You get anywhere 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:52.040 you want with that. And because they have never at 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.399 the back door here, they have never asked what I 0:20:55.600 --> 0:21:00.199 what I got many of the classes, so learned a 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:05.480 lot while you're there. But Brad, Brad got a D 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:13.040 in guitar. Really, yes, I got it change to see 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:16.600 later it was because I didn't go to class. But 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:21.399 let's not go into go to class. Kids coming up 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:36.000 a special serenade from Brad Paisley himself. Swoon. Not only 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.000 have you all done the store, but I just want 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:41.919 to point out that Keim, you've done so much for 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:46.040 Alzheimer's disease. You lost your mom in two thousand sixteen, 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:50.520 and I know that must have been heartbreaking and very difficult. Um, 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:54.040 can you tell us a little bit about your mom, Linda? Yes, 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:56.679 my mom was an amazing fundraiser for the Michael J. 0:21:56.760 --> 0:22:00.480 Fox Foundation. Um. She started their development pro him there. 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:03.600 She was an expert at asking people from millions of 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:06.080 dollars and getting it. It was, which is like a 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:08.399 really as and now we're fundraisers, you know, that's a 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:12.399 really hard thing to do. Um. Um. But she was 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:18.200 vibrant and amazing, funny, smart, you know, and um we 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:22.160 saw her deteriorate over eleven years. But just last night, 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:25.800 well actually it's five years since she passed tomorrow. Um, 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:29.000 But just last night we had an incredible event in Nashville. 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:33.680 We had our eighties dance party. Were you guys there. Look, 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:37.840 here's some pictures from the eighties dance party looks so 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:41.240 much fun. Yeah, so, I mean I've I've found so 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:43.520 much healing from writing about it. I wrote in my 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:47.760 memoir where the Light Gets In and then having these fundraisers, 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:49.600 and Katie, I have to say, you are such an 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:56.720 inspiration in this department because you have raised seven million dollars. Yeah, 0:22:56.800 --> 0:23:00.359 what you've done with your cancer stand up? Stand up 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:04.120 to cancer? What's the what's the tally right now? What's 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:06.480