Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I'm Katie Couric and this is Next Question
Speaker 1: a bonus episode. In fact, today I'm continuing to share
Speaker 1: interviews from my book tour. This one is from my
Speaker 1: stop in Music City Nashville, Tennessee, where I got to
Speaker 1: chat with Brad Paisley and Kimberly Williams Paisley. Here's our
Speaker 1: conversation between the two of them. They can sing, act,
Speaker 1: play guitar, bass and banjo, write a book, and dish
Speaker 1: up millions of meals to needing people in this community.
Speaker 1: I can honestly say they're doing everything they possibly can
Speaker 1: to make the world a better place, so please help me.
Speaker 1: Welcome too of your hometown heroes Nashville, Brad Paisley and
Speaker 1: Kimberly Williams Paisley or I was, so I'll just do
Speaker 1: with your you know what. He's going there, Katie, he is,
Speaker 1: I'm going there. So I just have some things. Are
Speaker 1: you tired, Brad? No, No, I just this is I
Speaker 1: haven't been in therapy a long time. Let me see
Speaker 1: if I can help you out here. You guys, I
Speaker 1: was so so excited and honored that you agree to
Speaker 1: to be here tonight, So thank you both so much.
Speaker 1: And Kim talked you into it. I did. I listened
Speaker 1: to your book. It's fantastic. Everyone get the book, So
Speaker 1: thank you said, Well, we were talking about I listened
Speaker 1: to it um, which was a really really great way
Speaker 1: to experience it because of all the clips like we've
Speaker 1: been playing tonight, but it was just a really cool
Speaker 1: way to hear it. Yeah, it was fun to do.
Speaker 1: Although that was exhausting. But I couldn't imagine writing a
Speaker 1: book and having someone else read it. I thought that
Speaker 1: would be so weird. So it took about eight days
Speaker 1: and you're just reading all day long. Well, Kim, you
Speaker 1: did you record your book as well? Did? Yeah? It
Speaker 1: was exhausting, right, exhausting. I didn't realize how much I
Speaker 1: had to act it. Yeah, Like I started just kind
Speaker 1: of reading and I listened to it back and I
Speaker 1: thought this is really boring, so I had to go
Speaker 1: back and put something into it. Really. Well, we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about your book and a lot of other stuff,
Speaker 1: but you know, you are are doing so much for
Speaker 1: the city of Nashville, and but first I want to
Speaker 1: I want you to take us back because everybody loves
Speaker 1: the how did You Meet story? So how did you
Speaker 1: two meet. It was I understand Brad, it was you
Speaker 1: were responsible for getting Kim to be in a music video, right,
Speaker 1: he stalked me, that's what happened. Well, yeah, basically, I
Speaker 1: I as an excuse to reach out to where I said,
Speaker 1: I called a manager of hers and said, you know,
Speaker 1: I've written some songs about the other the Bride movie.
Speaker 1: I went on a first date to that, and wouldn't
Speaker 1: it be great if if she was in a music video?
Speaker 1: But I was just doing that the stalker. And but
Speaker 1: your manager at the time, who one of the best
Speaker 1: management moves in my opinion, that she ever did, maybe
Speaker 1: the worst in your opinion, was she called you and said,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, he wants you in a video, but
Speaker 1: you're going to date him. Really, she's not my manager anymore,
Speaker 1: but that's why. But you know, she ruined your life
Speaker 1: and made more. So did what did you know like
Speaker 1: when you did that video? Did the sparks fly Kim?
Speaker 1: You can be honest, not for her, I mean for me,
Speaker 1: they did, but they did. I'm speaking for her right now,
Speaker 1: but I mean we're married. It all worked out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they weren't flying yet. But you guys are from two
Speaker 1: different worlds. You grew up in Glendale, West Virginia, and
Speaker 1: um and and Kim, what the heck it's people, they're
Speaker 1: they're all here. And Kim, you're for Rhyane New York
Speaker 1: and New Yorker. Yeah so no New Yorker's okay, okay, good.
Speaker 1: So so how did you guys click because your life
Speaker 1: experience just we're pretty different. What what made it work?
Speaker 1: I think opposites attracts maybe, I mean I was, I
Speaker 1: was in from the moment I've met her, but it
Speaker 1: took me about six weeks to convince her. But I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm not sure what her story is. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're just so he's so funny. It was the
Speaker 1: charming funny. He's a really good guy, and I think
Speaker 1: it was the humor. And then he wrote a song
Speaker 1: for me, and that really, I mean that actually did
Speaker 1: Early on I had written a song H called Little
Speaker 1: Moments that ended up being a hit, and it was
Speaker 1: funny because I sang it to her over the phone.
Speaker 1: She was in California and at the time, after we
Speaker 1: already dating, and I could tell she flipped out and
Speaker 1: it was about somebody else would have been that work.
Speaker 1: I would say writing a song for someone. No, I
Speaker 1: mean I just I heard that and I thought, oh,
Speaker 1: he gets me. Yeah, it was really that was a
Speaker 1: powerful moment. Well you, I want to talk about your
Speaker 1: your talents because you're both so talented too. And and
Speaker 1: I love asking people when they realized they had certain gifts.
Speaker 1: And I remember interviewing Barbara Streisan and asking her, like,
Speaker 1: when did you realize she could sing like that? And
Speaker 1: what was that like? That must have been so exciting.
Speaker 1: She talked about being in her grandmother's apartment in Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: and she remembers like the bronze uh staircase and and
Speaker 1: all that, and she said she sang and there was
Speaker 1: it was very good acoustics. And she thought, wow, that
Speaker 1: sounds really good. And I'm curious, Brad, how did you
Speaker 1: realize you had this musical talent because you started playing
Speaker 1: at a very young age, right your grandfather, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know that. Your grandfather, by the way, here's a
Speaker 1: little Brad. He wanted me to learn to play so bad,
Speaker 1: and so I did for him. And at first, it's
Speaker 1: no fun when you first start playing the guitar and hurts.
Speaker 1: It's you don't know what you're doing nothing sounds like
Speaker 1: what you wanted to um, and I don't know that
Speaker 1: I ever. I was never instantly I was. I was
Speaker 1: not some like, oh man, you're amazing at all. I
Speaker 1: mean it took along to a lot of work, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think if you'd my dad used to
Speaker 1: say something when I was young it was really smart,
Speaker 1: which was I was doing these local shows as a teenager.
Speaker 1: I was book solid the Lions Club luncheons. I mean
Speaker 1: they would give me a hundred dollars to go do
Speaker 1: like fifteen twenty minutes with an acoustic guitar and it
Speaker 1: thirteen years old. That's I mean, you know, you can
Speaker 1: buy a lot of Lego sets with that. And um
Speaker 1: My dad would say, you're cute now when you're twenty
Speaker 1: and if you're this good at twenty, that's not gonna work.
Speaker 1: You better get good by twenty, you know. And a
Speaker 1: lot of dad don't do that. It was really it
Speaker 1: was really good advice, even though he has musical ability whatsoever.
Speaker 1: But sorry, he has no ability and doesn't. But you
Speaker 1: just worked at it and practiced and practiced and practice
Speaker 1: I did. I did, And I think when was the
Speaker 1: realization for you that you couldn't sing. I still think
Speaker 1: maybe I can. I realized it early on. We're dating, well,
Speaker 1: you compliment each other because you can't act. You're right right?
Speaker 1: That was good. That's good. Okay, So Brad, let's talk
Speaker 1: about your front three Grammy. Oh no, no no, I want
Speaker 1: to talk about the colonoscopy. Let's talk about that. I
Speaker 1: think we've seen enough of my colin tonight. Here's what
Speaker 1: I really want to do. I want to do. I
Speaker 1: to pick the right song, but I want to use
Speaker 1: that as a music video for a song. Really, just
Speaker 1: Katie Kirk's colonoscopy, and people will be so confused. It
Speaker 1: might encourage them to get screamed and then they can
Speaker 1: play while they're under sort of. Maybe maybe we'll redo
Speaker 1: a new music video for Mud on the Tires the politostar.
Speaker 1: Gu that's okay. Let's talk about your awards. You've won
Speaker 1: three Grammys, two American Music Awards, fourteen c m A
Speaker 1: S you fifteen Academy of Country Music Awards. You've written
Speaker 1: twenty one No, Brad has written twenty one of his
Speaker 1: twenty four number one hits. So I mean, I'm fascinated
Speaker 1: by songwriting. How where do you get your inspiration. Just
Speaker 1: are you driving down the street and you see something
Speaker 1: and something just pops into your head? How does it happen?
Speaker 1: I think, well sometimes, I mean it's like just like
Speaker 1: when you sat down to write this book. I'm fascinated
Speaker 1: by that. Like I have a book that I co
Speaker 1: wrote with a good friend and we kind of shared
Speaker 1: the duties about being a guitar player. But what Kim did?
Speaker 1: What what you did? Where it's you sit down in
Speaker 1: that solitary thought, it's the same thing. You just start
Speaker 1: going and then you write something. And the best things
Speaker 1: are really when you realize, okay, I have to get
Speaker 1: rid of that. And I think that that as a songwriter,
Speaker 1: you find inspiration in daily life. But the best songs
Speaker 1: are rewritten. You know, you rewrite to make it what
Speaker 1: it could be. Yeah, And when you're rewriting it, do
Speaker 1: you just sort of change the lyrics or do you
Speaker 1: figure out like the it can be either, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, the melody's gotta fit. I've always said in
Speaker 1: country music, the best country songs are the way you'd
Speaker 1: say them. And anytime that you that you're trying to
Speaker 1: rhyme something and it's not a word you would say
Speaker 1: in the sentence it it feels off in country music,
Speaker 1: so and also melodically like you should sing the way
Speaker 1: you'd say it. And you know, like when you put
Speaker 1: the emphasis on a part of the word you would
Speaker 1: ever emphasized just to rhyme it or whatever. There's little
Speaker 1: tricks to make something feel right. And then other than that,
Speaker 1: it's just magic. And I don't have any idea. Well,
Speaker 1: whatever you're doing, keep doing it, because I mean, you're
Speaker 1: you're just incredibly successful. And then Kim for your acting,
Speaker 1: sort of the same question. What was there a moment
Speaker 1: that you said, I love doing this, you know, this
Speaker 1: is this is what what I was born to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I was about five years old, and I
Speaker 1: used to I used to put on plays with my
Speaker 1: my friends or my brother and sister in my parents
Speaker 1: living room, and I charged their guests when their guests
Speaker 1: would come over, I charged them like twenty five cents
Speaker 1: to see our show, which I'm pretty confident was awful,
Speaker 1: you know, and I and I take the many so
Speaker 1: I saw it as a business opportunity for really on um,
Speaker 1: but it was all I ever really wanted to do that,
Speaker 1: and right I just loved I loved acting. And when
Speaker 1: you were at Northwestern, that is when you were discovered
Speaker 1: to be Annie and and father at the bride, right
Speaker 1: and and wait, so there you are. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite scenes when you're playing basketball was stuck Martin. And
Speaker 1: how did you get how did you get discovered? How
Speaker 1: did that happen? Um? Well, I was a sophomore in
Speaker 1: Northwestern and I auditioned in Chicago, and I was just
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to take the L train,
Speaker 1: because I mean I didn't really want I was a
Speaker 1: college student and didn't want to audition for anything. But
Speaker 1: I had this thing come up. A friend of mine
Speaker 1: was interning in a casting office in Chicago, and I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I've never taken the L, so let me see if
Speaker 1: I can navigate that and forget whatever. This audition blah
Speaker 1: blah blah a bride. You know, it was like the
Speaker 1: furthest thing from my mind. And then I think it
Speaker 1: was because I was so relaxed that it just went
Speaker 1: really well. But actually they flew me out to California
Speaker 1: a couple of times, told me I didn't get it,
Speaker 1: like fired me before they hired me a couple of times.
Speaker 1: And then I guess couldn't find anyone else and so well,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine anyone else being in that role than
Speaker 1: you because that's such a great movie. And and you know,
Speaker 1: you continued your acting career and now you're acting with
Speaker 1: your sister, which is so fun. You've got to Hallmark
Speaker 1: movies and you and your sister are starring at Brad.
Speaker 1: I know you wrote a song. You just heard it's
Speaker 1: a real family affair because your sister's husband as the
Speaker 1: executive producer. So tell us about that. Those are there's
Speaker 1: your sister. That's so great and there's so much. She
Speaker 1: just came. She was here today. She just flew out.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately she couldn't make it, but we had an event
Speaker 1: last night together. But yeah, we've got this. These two
Speaker 1: movies for Hallmark coming out December five and December twelve.
Speaker 1: It was Ashley's idea to do them. Um and I
Speaker 1: started one, she starts in the other, and then we
Speaker 1: kind of visit each other's movies and there's there's fun
Speaker 1: scenes that start in one point in my movie and
Speaker 1: end in a different point in hers, so they overlap,
Speaker 1: so they kind of fit together like a puzzle. It's cool.
Speaker 1: Why are those Hallmark movies so addictive. I was getting
Speaker 1: a blow dry at dry Bar and they played them
Speaker 1: and I'd already seen the one because I've had to
Speaker 1: get my hair blown out in every city. So I
Speaker 1: just called dry bar and I'm like, I can't stop
Speaker 1: watching THEO what what? What is it about those because
Speaker 1: they make you feel like everything's okay. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you're right. Drink hot chocolate and there's they have Christmas
Speaker 1: trees and fall in love and they live happily ever
Speaker 1: after and all that stuff. More from the Comforting Kem
Speaker 1: and Brad. Right after this, let's talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about about your philanthropic work, because that's really one of
Speaker 1: the main reasons I was so excited to have you
Speaker 1: all here during the pandemic this Uh. You started a
Speaker 1: place called The Store, which is a nonprofit grocery store
Speaker 1: here in Nashville, and it's amazing. And before before we
Speaker 1: talk about it, I I think when when I met
Speaker 1: when I saw you guys, I sat next to him
Speaker 1: at a Michael J. Fox Foundation event in New York
Speaker 1: and it was so fun because I sat next to
Speaker 1: her and your sweet dad and Brad was performing, and
Speaker 1: you told me that you got the idea and when
Speaker 1: your boys, you and your boys were in Santa Barbara
Speaker 1: and you wanted to start teaching them about the importance
Speaker 1: of giving back. So what happened? Yeah, well, I mean
Speaker 1: I grew up going delivering meals on wheels with my mom.
Speaker 1: She'd throw us in the backseat and she would deliver
Speaker 1: and we used to go to soup kitchens and we
Speaker 1: dole out food and stuff, and so it was something
Speaker 1: that I was brought up with. And then we really
Speaker 1: wanted to teach our kids the same. So, um, I
Speaker 1: asked around and Santa Barbara, there's this place called the
Speaker 1: Unity Shop, and we took the kids there and it
Speaker 1: was incredible. Um, they learned how to stack the shelves,
Speaker 1: they learned how to pack beans, they looked, learned how
Speaker 1: to check people out at the grocery at the check encounter.
Speaker 1: And Brad said, we've got to do this in Nashville.
Speaker 1: And that was about five years ago. Yeah. Well, I
Speaker 1: think also that like all the good things the kids
Speaker 1: get in their life, from that standpoint or from her,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I don't know what kind of kids
Speaker 1: they'd be if it was just me. Like she's the
Speaker 1: one that thinks of oh, they should learn about charity,
Speaker 1: and like that's a good idea we should do. And
Speaker 1: so we went there and Unity Shop is its own place.
Speaker 1: It's got its own sort of philosophy and its own
Speaker 1: uh other little cool things they do in that community.
Speaker 1: But immediately it was like, Nashville is the type of
Speaker 1: giving place that we'll just eat this up, you know,
Speaker 1: And here we are and you want to say, no
Speaker 1: pun intendedive to eat this up, um, But what's amazing
Speaker 1: about what we do and what unity What we learned
Speaker 1: from Unity Shop is instead of people getting a hand out,
Speaker 1: they're coming into a grocery store and they're able to
Speaker 1: choose what they want for their family, and their kids
Speaker 1: are seeing their parents in a position of power. So
Speaker 1: we just love that concept, not winding up with a
Speaker 1: lot of food that they don't want or don't know
Speaker 1: how to use. And it's also it gives people dignity, dignity,
Speaker 1: dignity and agency, right right yeah, as well hold on
Speaker 1: will wait? Oh it um? You know it's like it's
Speaker 1: it's like, also you feel like you are not helpless
Speaker 1: in a pandemic when you have something like that, Because well,
Speaker 1: I was going to say Brad, because you all worked
Speaker 1: very hard for five years kind of just figuring this out. Um,
Speaker 1: and then the pandemic hit, and tornadoes hits, the tornadoes
Speaker 1: and then the pandemics you all have to pivot pretty
Speaker 1: quickly to Immediately. It was so weird because immediately it
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this whole idea of a grocery store, now,
Speaker 1: how's it look? What do you how do you do
Speaker 1: this for folks to where they're not getting sick by
Speaker 1: coming in here? And we uh, my producer, a guy
Speaker 1: named Luke Wotten, came up with the idea of deliveries
Speaker 1: for the elderly. So the next thing you know, we
Speaker 1: were getting grocery orders and delivering to the towers nearby
Speaker 1: where a lot of a lot of folks, and they
Speaker 1: would the second time they delivered them food, they showed
Speaker 1: up and they had gotten dressed in their Sunday best,
Speaker 1: these these older folks and all came out as the
Speaker 1: as the food was placed at their doors and gave
Speaker 1: a standing ovation to the delivery folks. And um, So
Speaker 1: you know, when I look back at this pandemic, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you feel the same way. It's there's things that
Speaker 1: you look back and go. I learned a lot from
Speaker 1: that and there's things I wouldn't change, brought out the
Speaker 1: good in people and and um, now that it's open,
Speaker 1: how first of all, I wanted to ask you where
Speaker 1: do you get all the food and how does that work?
Speaker 1: We buy a lot of it from Second Harvest Food
Speaker 1: Bank of Middle Tennessee. They're great. And then we have
Speaker 1: we have fantastic farmers that donate to us. We have
Speaker 1: three different partners and they donate produce, which is great.
Speaker 1: So people can come in and they can take as
Speaker 1: much produce as they want. There's a lot of things
Speaker 1: that we have, some things that we have to limit
Speaker 1: and you know, certain amount per household so everybody can
Speaker 1: be served, but produce doesn't count toward any of that.
Speaker 1: So we really want to encourage people to get fresh
Speaker 1: fruits and vegetables. And so we're so lucky to have
Speaker 1: farmers that are willing to donate produce for us. And
Speaker 1: when you see, Brad, when you see some of the
Speaker 1: people come into the store, and you know they have
Speaker 1: the freedom to pick things and put it in their
Speaker 1: their cart, and you know, um, and by the way, Kim,
Speaker 1: that's so important because so many of these people probably
Speaker 1: live in food desserts where they don't have enough enough
Speaker 1: fresh produce, and that contributes to obesity and diabetes and
Speaker 1: all kinds of things. But it must be so gratifying
Speaker 1: to see them shop. Yeah, on my birthday this year,
Speaker 1: she went and volunteered for the day, and difficult fashion,
Speaker 1: I stopped by and for a little while, but going
Speaker 1: on your birthday and seeing you know, it was one
Speaker 1: of the first times I've been in there since the pandemic,
Speaker 1: since we're fully operational like we wanted. And you know,
Speaker 1: mother of two. They were all dressed in Halloween matching
Speaker 1: Halloween o. These two little toddlers and her newborn and
Speaker 1: a stroller, some elderly folks. A guy left there and
Speaker 1: you pointed it out. He walked out. There's a bus
Speaker 1: stop right by it. He walked out with his groceries,
Speaker 1: got on the bus and sat down and the bus
Speaker 1: pulled away and he come to you're seeing. You're seeing
Speaker 1: the faces of the people we wondered who they'd be.
Speaker 1: And the great thing is we partnered with Belmont University
Speaker 1: and they have a Yes, Belmont, they have health Ministry
Speaker 1: center right next door. So we've got all these wraparound services,
Speaker 1: so it's not just about addressing food and security. But
Speaker 1: they also have a music therapy program, they have financial
Speaker 1: literacy program, they have legal services, so they're really helping
Speaker 1: to address all of the issues that are needed to
Speaker 1: get someone back on their feet to self sufficiency. Well,
Speaker 1: and I know that you all are involved in because
Speaker 1: you went to Belmont and there's a scholarship that you
Speaker 1: all established at the university and they named the ballroom
Speaker 1: after you all recently, which was cool, right, I moved
Speaker 1: in where I'm going to be living there for a
Speaker 1: little while. A great place to roller skate. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's some kids. I talked to them before the show
Speaker 1: and tried to give them some career advice. I hope
Speaker 1: it was helpful. But the Belmont kids get But what
Speaker 1: would you tell them, I'll take advantage of you all
Speaker 1: being I would tell them that a two point three
Speaker 1: grade point average is all you need. You get anywhere
Speaker 1: you want with that. And because they have never at
Speaker 1: the back door here, they have never asked what I
Speaker 1: what I got many of the classes, so learned a
Speaker 1: lot while you're there. But Brad, Brad got a D
Speaker 1: in guitar. Really, yes, I got it change to see
Speaker 1: later it was because I didn't go to class. But
Speaker 1: let's not go into go to class. Kids coming up
Speaker 1: a special serenade from Brad Paisley himself. Swoon. Not only
Speaker 1: have you all done the store, but I just want
Speaker 1: to point out that Keim, you've done so much for
Speaker 1: Alzheimer's disease. You lost your mom in two thousand sixteen,
Speaker 1: and I know that must have been heartbreaking and very difficult. Um,
Speaker 1: can you tell us a little bit about your mom, Linda? Yes,
Speaker 1: my mom was an amazing fundraiser for the Michael J.
Speaker 1: Fox Foundation. Um. She started their development pro him there.
Speaker 1: She was an expert at asking people from millions of
Speaker 1: dollars and getting it. It was, which is like a
Speaker 1: really as and now we're fundraisers, you know, that's a
Speaker 1: really hard thing to do. Um. Um. But she was
Speaker 1: vibrant and amazing, funny, smart, you know, and um we
Speaker 1: saw her deteriorate over eleven years. But just last night,
Speaker 1: well actually it's five years since she passed tomorrow. Um,
Speaker 1: But just last night we had an incredible event in Nashville.
Speaker 1: We had our eighties dance party. Were you guys there. Look,
Speaker 1: here's some pictures from the eighties dance party looks so
Speaker 1: much fun. Yeah, so, I mean I've I've found so
Speaker 1: much healing from writing about it. I wrote in my
Speaker 1: memoir where the Light Gets In and then having these fundraisers,
Speaker 1: and Katie, I have to say, you are such an
Speaker 1: inspiration in this department because you have raised seven million dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what you've done with your cancer stand up? Stand up
Speaker 1: to cancer? What's the what's the tally right now? What's
Speaker 1: the total figure? Right now? You can brag? What have you?
Speaker 1: What's the total figure? What have you raised? I think
Speaker 1: we've raised uh, seven million dollars as Yeah, that is
Speaker 1: so fantastic And has it? How has that been heeling
Speaker 1: for you to be able to take this tragic experience
Speaker 1: and really create incredible good from it? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I learned so much when both Jay and my sister
Speaker 1: Emily were sick. And one thing I learned is that
Speaker 1: these scientists operate sometimes since silos. There's so many brilliant scientists.
Speaker 1: They're my personal heroes, who are you know, getting very
Speaker 1: little attention or credit and they're just toiling day and
Speaker 1: night these research labs. And when I when Jay was
Speaker 1: sick I spent so much time calling these medical centers
Speaker 1: and pharmaceutical companies. I would after the Today's show, I'd
Speaker 1: go on my office and I'd call like Israel tell
Speaker 1: Leviv and ask them like about monoclonal antibodies and all
Speaker 1: these clinical trials. And I just thought if they collaborated
Speaker 1: instead of competed, then we could move science forward faster.
Speaker 1: So Stand Up to Cancer is all about having these
Speaker 1: dream teams of scientists that that work together and share
Speaker 1: their resources, their ideas, their creativity, brain power, tissue samples
Speaker 1: so they can come up with better treatments in a
Speaker 1: much you know, a much more efficient and faster way.
Speaker 1: And you know, at first they were really like, we
Speaker 1: don't want to work together, and now they love it.
Speaker 1: It's re energize them and some of them take family
Speaker 1: vacations together. And our our scientists have contributed to nine
Speaker 1: new FDA approved drugs since we started in two thousand eights.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and you know, listen, we're so blessed. And
Speaker 1: I feel like and and and we're so lucky that
Speaker 1: we have a platform um that we can we can
Speaker 1: share our information with people. We can change people's lives
Speaker 1: and give them back their dignity as you all are doing,
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's almost criminal not to take
Speaker 1: advantage of that. But you know, I talked to a
Speaker 1: lot of people who lose people they love to cancer
Speaker 1: and other diseases, and I always say, even if if
Speaker 1: you can do something, if you can, you know, organize
Speaker 1: a walkathon in your community or bake sale or do
Speaker 1: something you feel so powerless. I'm sure you did when
Speaker 1: your mom was sick, Kim, And it just I think
Speaker 1: it's so cathartic and healing to say what can I
Speaker 1: do for the greater good? I couldn't say this person,
Speaker 1: but maybe I can help somebody else. So I think
Speaker 1: that's what is really motivating for me, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: you two as well. And we found such a community
Speaker 1: in the Alzheimer's Association, and we never reached out to
Speaker 1: them when my mom was sick because she was embarrassed
Speaker 1: by her illness. There's a huge stigma around Alzheimer's and
Speaker 1: so to be able to push past that, to scream
Speaker 1: about it now, you know, and share our message of
Speaker 1: you know, encourage people to ask for help and you
Speaker 1: know that you don't have to do it alone. It
Speaker 1: has been really healing for our family. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: think it's so you know the numbers when you think
Speaker 1: about aging baby boomers, that Alzheimer's is going to be
Speaker 1: such an epidemic in the next ten or twenty years
Speaker 1: that the push to science and trying to come up
Speaker 1: with preventative strategies and hopefully new therapies is going to
Speaker 1: be more important than ever, isn't it. Chump, Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I think it's wonderful. What I mean, honestly, what you
Speaker 1: guys do for for not only Alzheimer's patients, but as
Speaker 1: I said, for for people in need in Nashville is extraordinary.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to ask you about sort of another
Speaker 1: entrepreneurial endeavor you you guys are I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're doing this, cam or this is Brad's idea, but
Speaker 1: you're in the bourbon business. Now she's not in that.
Speaker 1: She's not in that. I sip on it, I don't
Speaker 1: sell it now. We we had this idea. So the
Speaker 1: thing about bourbon, Uh, I don't know. John loves bourbon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah he was. He was hammered back there, but now
Speaker 1: it's Uh, bourbon age is in a really unique way.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's the American spirit, but most of
Speaker 1: the time it spends its life in a in a
Speaker 1: rick house in Kentucky or somewhere, and there's way more
Speaker 1: Kentucky and West Virginia represented the New York City. But
Speaker 1: we had this idea. You know, they used to age
Speaker 1: Koonak at sea, and they used and a friend of
Speaker 1: mine started a bourbon that's uh called Ocean is Great.
Speaker 1: It's aged at c on a boat. And we thought,
Speaker 1: what if we take bourbon on tour and loaded we
Speaker 1: we had and we figured it out. We we loaded
Speaker 1: up a truck full of ninety barrels of bourbon, really
Speaker 1: really good bourbon from Kentucky and UH and sent it
Speaker 1: on tour in thankfully, because there was a tour in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. We didn't hadn't canceled everything yet and it
Speaker 1: went to almost all forty eight contiguous states and I
Speaker 1: think there's fifty now, but then you go to the
Speaker 1: other two. We went all around America. It aged, it went,
Speaker 1: It hit all of the climates. It was at every city.
Speaker 1: We have pictures of the truck in front of signs
Speaker 1: and you know, city limits signs and stuff. And then
Speaker 1: got it back and the aging on the road. Think
Speaker 1: about it. First of all, if you've ever ridden with
Speaker 1: any of my drivers, you know that's what you want
Speaker 1: a bourbon to do. It's really it's shake is shaking around.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of heartbreaking. It's impossible to sleep. But
Speaker 1: the bourbon turned out amazing. We we named it American Highway.
Speaker 1: Uh and it's available now, that's awesome. I think you
Speaker 1: brought a bottle, didn't perfect. Yeah, we're going to try
Speaker 1: the bourbon and did John drink it all? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Look how much has gone? And um, while Kim and
Speaker 1: I sit on a little bit of American Highway reserve.
Speaker 1: You're going to play us a song? Yeah, sure, that
Speaker 1: is so great. Better to say up first, cheers, cheers.
Speaker 1: Actually that's really well. Yeah, sorry us, thank you, cheers everyone.
Speaker 1: I hate to be sorry. I'm sorry sorry that everybody
Speaker 1: say Hi. Dave. Dave's famous gotta get a little on
Speaker 1: turn like colin Oscopy song, the coling Oscopy song. If
Speaker 1: I could ride a letter to me, hand it back
Speaker 1: in time to myself, it's seventeen. First, I prove it's
Speaker 1: me by saying, look under Ben, there's a skull can
Speaker 1: and play for and no one else and you know
Speaker 1: you're hit. And I say, I know it's tough when
Speaker 1: you break up, bout to sit in months. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know me like you just don't see eve it but
Speaker 1: all I can see pain like that. It's fast. It's
Speaker 1: a rat. Got so much going for cleen, right, but
Speaker 1: I know it's seventeen. It's hard to see past friding.
Speaker 1: She wasn't a right for you, but still feels like
Speaker 1: days and night. Stick it out your back and you
Speaker 1: want and year survived and you'll make it through. See
Speaker 1: you're still write write this letter me. You got so
Speaker 1: much hard head, your man, new friends, and you should
Speaker 1: see your kids. And I'm saying, movies are no best years.
Speaker 1: You remember high school? I remember what adults would say.
Speaker 1: I'll enjoy this, son, these are the best days of
Speaker 1: your life, which is not something you should say to
Speaker 1: the high school kids. I have a living proof high
Speaker 1: school is not the best years of your life. Now, college,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll see you in there. You're wrong, man,
Speaker 1: t school, hugging everything every chance. You can't got so
Speaker 1: much going for you, right, but out it's seventeen. It's
Speaker 1: hard to see past Friday night. I would you study Spanish.
Speaker 1: I wish you take a t class now. I wish
Speaker 1: you would out where let it be. Yeah, I see
Speaker 1: have the little faith in me. You'll see if I
Speaker 1: could run to me. It's so great. That was so great.
Speaker 1: You've got some talent, Young Kevin, Brad Paisley, everybody Hurt,
Speaker 1: Hurt a big country. Thank you to Brad Paisley and
Speaker 1: Kimberly Williams Paisley. You can find more about their incredible
Speaker 1: nonprofit grocery store at the store dot org. And I
Speaker 1: believe there's still time to catch Kim's Hallmark movies. They're
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