1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: Hey guys, I'm Kaylie Shore, and this is too much 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: to say question out you. I want to start off 3 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: this week's episode by giving a huge shout out to 4 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: Kelly over at Velvet's Edge. She does an incredible, incredible 5 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: podcast that's also on the same network as mine, the 6 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: Nashville Podcast Network, and I got to go on her 7 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: show and talk about some some real deep stuff. Um. 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 1: I love what she does. She talks all about the 9 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: kind of dichotomy, juxtaposition, whatever you want to call it, 10 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: between being vulnerable and being tough, and I think that's 11 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: a line that so many of us are walking, whether 12 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: it's trying to get closer to the line or you know. Um, 13 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: but she's just incredible and I really love talking to her. 14 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: So I highly recommend you guys go check out her podcast, 15 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: not just the one that I'm on, all of them. 16 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: And then this week I also was a guest on 17 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: my good friend Maggie rosso podcast called Salute the Songbird, 18 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: and it is focused on female creators and writers and 19 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 1: musicians and just songwriters and it's very very awesome. We 20 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 1: got to have a great chat. She's one of my 21 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: favorite people, and um, yeah, So if you guys didn't 22 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: get enough of me from my weekly podcast. There's more 23 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: out there, and if you didn't get enough of me, wow, 24 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: I'm incredibly impressed. So on this episode, I wanted to 25 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: talk about jobs, not like the jobs that you work 26 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 1: towards that you have a degree for, not my job 27 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 1: of being a musician, but the ones you work to 28 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 1: get there. Because if following your dreams was easy, everybody 29 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 1: would do it. If you didn't have to make sacrifices, 30 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: everybody would do it, and if you had unlimited money, 31 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 1: everybody would do it. I started working when I was 32 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: like eleven as a babysitter, and then I worked in 33 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,559 Speaker 1: my dad's store, and I really didn't stop for long. 34 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: I was able to do like some sports in school 35 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: and in theater. But when the time came that I 36 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: turned sixteen, which was when like you could legally start 37 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: working in um, the state I'm from, I got a 38 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 1: job and then I couldn't do any of that anymore, 39 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: which was a bummer. But I had to help pay 40 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: for groceries, and if I want to close, I had 41 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: to buy them myself. It was you know, I didn't 42 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: grow up with a whole lot, So if I wanted 43 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: a whole lot. I had to get it myself, and 44 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: a whole lot is considered anything other than like the 45 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: baseline necessities in UH in my household. So my first 46 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: job was at a pizza restaurant, and I remember I 47 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: hadn't really asked my mom's permission because I didn't think 48 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: about needing to UH. That was a recurring theme my 49 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: entire life that should surprise nobody. But basically, I just 50 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: after school and day I was taking the bus home 51 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: and I got off a stop early, walked in. I 52 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 1: asked him if they were hiring. They said yes, when 53 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: in the next day for an interview, and then came 54 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: home and told my mom had gotten a job, and 55 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: she was like, uh, maybe we should have discussed this first, 56 00:02:57,960 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, well, I mean you told 57 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: me if I wanted to buy things, I had to 58 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: buy them myself. So I figured it out and she 59 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 1: didn't have a good answer for that. So I worked 60 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: there until my senior year of high school. By the 61 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: time I was a senior in high school, I actually 62 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: lived out on my own. I moved out the like 63 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: a month before I started my senior year, and I 64 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: was finishing high school early, so that I could work 65 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: full time to save up to move to Nashville. And uh, 66 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: I finished school that December, but I walked with my 67 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: class at graduation in June of But in the meantime 68 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: between you know, getting the job and then I was 69 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: just working NonStop. In my typical day my senior year 70 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: of high school would be I would get up at 71 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: you know, six thirty, take the bus into school, and 72 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: go to school from seven thirty to forty five. Then 73 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 1: I would get the bus, which like I would barely 74 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: make like I would have like three minutes to get 75 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: from my class to the bus, and I'd take that 76 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: bus over to the pizza restaurant and I'd work there 77 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: from like eleven to three. Then I'd take another bus 78 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: and go work at this clothing store downtown from four 79 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: to nine, and then take a bus back home and 80 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: do it all again. And I didn't have a car. 81 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: I didn't have a license till I was nineteen. Yes, 82 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 1: I know. Um, it's actually really fucked because where I'm from, 83 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: if you want to take driver's inn at fifteen years 84 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: old and get your permit, you actually have to pay 85 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: for it, and it costs a lot of money. Like 86 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: it's like dollars and that was just never on the 87 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: table for me and like not something my parents could afford. 88 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 1: And then by the time I got a job, I 89 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 1: couldn't take three weeks off work every day after school 90 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 1: to go take the test, and so it was just 91 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: this really horrible thing. So I actually didn't get my license, 92 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: and I moved to Nashville. So I was taking the 93 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: bus a lot, and it was terrible because like, if 94 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: I would miss one, I'd be super screwed. This was 95 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: before Uber and lived like I mean, I think I 96 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: took a cab one time because I missed the bus 97 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: or like came early or something. It was something terrible, 98 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: and I just remember being like, it's awful, But I 99 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: did that, and then by that January I was able 100 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: to work full time. The clothing store I worked at 101 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 1: actually closed down, which was very sad because I loved 102 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: working there. It was right in the middle of downtown Portland, Maine, 103 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,159 Speaker 1: and it was just like so fun, Like I'd see 104 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: the same people at the same local coffee shop every 105 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: day when I go in, and my boss will let 106 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:23,679 Speaker 1: me listen to whatever I wanted, So I just listened 107 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: to Red by Taylor Swift, like on repeat, over and 108 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: over and over again, and I just I just loved 109 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: it was really really fun. I loved working there, but 110 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: it closed down, so I just went to working at 111 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: the pizza restaurant full time, and I did that until 112 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: I moved to Nashville, and that pizza restaurant was really fun. 113 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: It's called Portland House Pizza. It's back home in Portland, 114 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: of all places, obviously, and the pizza is so good, 115 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: Like they have these cheesy breadsticks that I still crave 116 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: to this day NonStop. And that's like you'd think that 117 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 1: you would get sick of it, because there's been other 118 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: places I've worked where I've just been like, I just 119 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: hated the food by the end of it. And I still, like, 120 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 1: every time I go home, I have to stop and 121 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: pea hoop and like see if, like you know, I 122 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: still know anybody working or whatever. But I worked there 123 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 1: with my best friend, and it was really funny because 124 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: I had um three best friends in high school and 125 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: the four of us would hang out all the time, 126 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: and two of us worked at Portland House Pizza and 127 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: the other two worked like across the street at the 128 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: Little Caesar's, So we were all pizza gruls A competing 129 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: pizza restaurants, and there was just if we weren't eating 130 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 1: cheesy bread from Pea Hoop, we were eating Italian cheese 131 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: sticks from Little Caesar. So it was just a lot 132 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: of carbs, a lot of cheese. Oh to have a 133 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: seventeen year old metabolism again, so I need let's say 134 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 1: that was a pretty crazy, crazy time. I also did 135 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: some work the summer after my senior year of high school, 136 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: right before I moved to Nashville, and I worked as 137 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: a casting assistant for children's casting like commercials and catalog 138 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: shoots and whatnot. And so I was just dealing with 139 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: a lot of stage mombs and that was terrible, Like 140 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: it was. That was bad. That was super rough. It 141 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:03,359 Speaker 1: was just like a lot of like it was just 142 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: a bunch of Karen's with a bunch of like cute 143 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 1: little kids running around who did not want to be there. 144 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: The kids don't give a ship. It's all the parents, 145 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: And it was just miserable. But then I got to 146 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: Nashville and I needed a job obviously, like as soon 147 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: as I got there, and I didn't have any full 148 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: waitressing experience because the pizza restaurant was just counter service, 149 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: but I knew that waitressing was probably going to pay 150 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: the most money. But having no waitressing experience, I was like, 151 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: who will hire me? And I went to Hooters because 152 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: I didn't have experience, but I do have thirty two f's, 153 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: So I got hired on the spot. And then, um, 154 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: I didn't end up taking the job, which is, you know, 155 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: probably for the best, but it would have been an adventure. Honestly, 156 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: just being able to say that I got hired at 157 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: Hooters is like a good enough story without having to 158 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: go through all the trouble of working there. Then I 159 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: got hired at this place called the Pub, which is 160 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: it's not a Hooters, but you still were these really 161 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: short skirts, and then um, I ended up just uh, 162 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: I think something about like the hourly wage was just 163 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: like way too low or something. So I found a 164 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: job at a clothing store so that I I had those 165 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: like three jobs to pick from. And I worked at 166 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: this clothing store called Apricot Lane, which was really fun, 167 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: but I only worked there like two days a week, 168 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 1: so I was like, I need more money because you 169 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: know rent, So I started doing this thing like I 170 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: would pass out flyers on Broadway downtown Nashville, and I 171 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: would go from this job at this really cute little 172 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: boutique where like everybody wore like it was so there 173 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: was lots of chevron, there was lots of like knee 174 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: high like Tory birch boots, like it was the Infinity scarves, 175 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: like the whole thing. So I go from that world 176 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 1: to downtown Broadway, where I'd put on like my push 177 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: up bra and my short shorts and my cowboy boots 178 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: and walk around handing out flyers to this one club. 179 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: And I feel like I need to clarify it was 180 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: not a strip club. It was just like a normal 181 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: club bar on Broadway. But the way I'm describing it, 182 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 1: it would be plausible that it would be a strip club, 183 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: but it was not the less, so I have to 184 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: handle these flyers and my boss was like, oh my god, 185 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: he was something else. I mean, I don't even care 186 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: if he hears this. I think that that man found 187 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: the world's last last reserve of quludes and just took 188 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 1: them all day every day. He was just, Oh my god, 189 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 1: let's call him. Well, I don't even know what to 190 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: call him because his normal name is just so fitting, 191 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 1: but I can't say it, so we'll just call him, um, 192 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: we'll call him Little Timmy, a little Timmy. So my boss, 193 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: Little Timmy would give us these flyers to hand out, 194 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: and it would be me and like another girl, and 195 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: I actually still talked to the girls who I did 196 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: this with like seven years ago, which is so funny. 197 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: But we'd have to pass out these flyers and the 198 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 1: problem was it would be like a Thursday and the 199 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 1: would only be so many people on Broadway, so we'd 200 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: be passing them out to the same people, and like, 201 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: if we didn't get rid of all the flyers, we'd 202 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: be super screwed. So there was one time, like we 203 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: had walked up and down that street like five times, 204 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: it had been three hours. Everybody already had one of 205 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 1: these little orange flyers, and we were just like, we can't. 206 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 1: There's nobody else to give these two. And our boss 207 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: had already made it really clear that like we wouldn't 208 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: get paid if there was any flyers left over. So 209 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: this listen. I was eighteen years old, Okay, I was 210 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: not very smart when it came to things like this, 211 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,079 Speaker 1: but there was on the pedestrian bridge in downtown Nashville, 212 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:28,079 Speaker 1: I saw like this little like Great or like vent 213 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: or something like that, and it seemed like the perfect 214 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: place to stuff a pile of flyers and then go 215 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: back and get them later because I was just terrified 216 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: that if I put them in a trash can, like 217 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 1: he'd find them. So I was like, I need to 218 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: go tuck them away like a squirrel and then I'll 219 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: come back and get them on my walk back to 220 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: my car, which you know is a complicated process just 221 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 1: to hide something from your boss. But it did not 222 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: go as planned. So it turns out that that Vent 223 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 1: thing that I stuffed these into because I had like 224 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: stuff them so they wouldn't blow away, um, it actually 225 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: went right down to the Cumberland River, Like it literally 226 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: just went right from the where I was standing to 227 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: the Cumberland River. So all of these Neon Orange promotional 228 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: flyers are floating in the river and I'm not even kidding, 229 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:16,680 Speaker 1: like there had to be like two hundred of them. 230 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: And it's still like the worst thing I've ever done, 231 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: because I so like, I'm not a litter er. I'm 232 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: I always like pick up trash, I always recycle, I 233 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: always leave things as I found it, And I just 234 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: felt so terrible for putting this neon orange paper into 235 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 1: the beautiful Cumberland River and it was just like I 236 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,199 Speaker 1: was so terrified that my boss was gonna walk outside 237 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: and he was going to see it, because it was like, 238 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: I mean, it was a spectacle, like it covered so 239 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: much of the river and you're just seeing them all 240 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: floating down and it was just a nightmare. And so 241 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, I hate this. But 242 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: also part of that job was there was a hot 243 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: dog stand attached to the bar that we were promoting for, 244 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: and little Timmy owned at the hot dog stand, and 245 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: oh my god. So I would go to work at 246 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: this clothing store sometimes, like I'd work like ten to three, 247 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 1: and then I go work at this place from six 248 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:17,960 Speaker 1: to four am, sometimes because bars closed in Nashville at 249 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: three am. But like everybody's drunk and wants a hot 250 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 1: dog between three and four when they're like you know, 251 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: calling their uber rides home and stuff. Oh my god. 252 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: And so we had like I have to be making 253 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 1: these hot dogs and they were just like they just 254 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 1: sat there all day. It was really gross. I wasn't 255 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,319 Speaker 1: allowed to throw them away because it was not not ideal. 256 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: And then we had these like pizzas that were like frozen. 257 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:41,439 Speaker 1: I cook them in a little toaster of it, and 258 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: I'm just stuck inside this like shack all day. And honestly, 259 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: like the tips weren't bad. It really did the job. 260 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:49,839 Speaker 1: And then I was able to write during the days 261 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: that I wasn't working at the clothing store. But oh 262 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 1: my god, it was terrible. And then I'm still like 263 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: I have such a clear visual of those fucking flyers 264 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: floating down the river. That was That was a whole 265 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 1: whole nightmare. But the hot Tacks name wasn't as ridiculous 266 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 1: as it sounds like it would be. Like, honestly, it 267 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 1: was one of the more manageable jobs I've had. However, 268 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 1: the one time that like I really had to go 269 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: at it with my boss was it was so I 270 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,319 Speaker 1: was working like overnight essentially. You know, I get off 271 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: at four am, and it was daylight saving time, which 272 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,839 Speaker 1: flips over at two am, so we went back an 273 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: hour and that means that I worked the hour of 274 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: two am twice. And then on my paycheck, he tried 275 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: to give me the amount for just like what the 276 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: time said, but I was like, yes, little timmy, but 277 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 1: there was a an hour in there that we're not 278 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: accounting for because why And he was like, well, I 279 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: don't know if the works, and I was like, sir, 280 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: I was present for that hour. You knew that, and 281 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 1: I need that nine dollars and fifty cents just based 282 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: on fucking principle. Little Timmy, I mean home on and 283 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: you'd always like do weird ship. And I remember one time, 284 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,719 Speaker 1: I mean I was like nineteen, and he brought out 285 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 1: round of shots for all the girls who worked there, 286 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 1: and I took one because I was trying to be 287 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: cool and it was whiskey and it was like really 288 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: cheap whiskey, and I took it and I immediately had 289 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom and throw up, like just immediately. 290 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: It was. It was very embarrassing. I am happy to 291 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: announce that I can now shoot whiskey. Carrie under would 292 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: be would be proud. Um. Yeah, that was That was 293 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: the whole thing. I always would like find a friend 294 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: at every job that was like an older woman and 295 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: just become best friends with her. And the bathroom attendant 296 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 1: at this place was so funny because she'd always like, 297 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: let me cut in line so I could use the 298 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: bathroom because all there would just be like gaggles of 299 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: bachelor at parties waiting, and she was so fun and 300 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: she'd always give me gum. I was she really she 301 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: was a bright spot in a dark place. So the 302 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: clothing store ended up closing down too, so that's how 303 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: that ended. I ended up leaving the hot dog stand 304 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: because I was like, funk this, I can't do that. 305 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: And yeah, so I was like, Okay, I should probably 306 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: get a job that's you know, normal hours, a little 307 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: bit more manageable, maybe not so goddamn chaotic all the time. 308 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: So I worked at a corporate hotel and oh my god, 309 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: I'm not going to say which one, but it was, 310 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: oh my god, it was a lot. That was a 311 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: pretty pretty crazy time. I've tweeted about this before, but 312 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: everybody there smoked cigarettes because it's so stressful to work 313 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 1: at like a nice hotel, and so everyone's smoking and 314 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: they have their smoke bracks and they don't have to 315 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: clock out for it. And the manager smoked too, so 316 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: they don't make anybody clock out for it. So they 317 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: all just like would go out, like, you know, ten 318 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: minutes every hour or two hours to go have a cigarette. 319 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: And I'd just be sitting there being like well, I 320 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: don't smoke, but I still want that ten minutes outside 321 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: And so I went to my managers and I was like, hey, 322 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: so I totally understand the need for a smoke break, Um, 323 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: I also need air brakes, so I would like to 324 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 1: go have a fresh air brake when other people are 325 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: taking their smoke breaks. And they were like, well, it's different, almost, 326 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: like why is it different? Is because I'm not addicted 327 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 1: to cigarettes? Why is it? Why is it different? And 328 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: nobody could come up with a good answer. Nobody wanted 329 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 1: to have to figure out how to explain it. They couldn't, 330 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: and nobody wanted to give up their smoke breaks. So 331 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: I got to go out and take a fresh air brake. 332 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: Was paid for ten minutes, like every two hours. And 333 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: I know that I sound like a big Karen, but 334 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: it was the principle of the thing. And I wanted 335 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 1: to be able to go outside and look at my 336 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: phone and drink a diet coke And that's exactly what 337 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: I did and it was amazing. No regrets. Also highly 338 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: recommend doing that, because I mean, like, literally, what were 339 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: my supervisor supposed to do? Be like, well, no, I 340 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 1: can take that, but you can't it just it does 341 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: not make sense, and like, because it's anyways, I just 342 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: highly recommend it. It was are effective, and I can't 343 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 1: imagine somebody having a counter argument for it that would 344 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: hold up against your argument for fresh air. But the 345 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: craziest thing that ever happened at the hotel was Oh 346 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: my god, Oh my god. There's so many Okay, So 347 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 1: the biggest one that I remember is this man came downstairs. 348 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:19,679 Speaker 1: He just checked in at like three pm. He was 349 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: like a you know, rewards member whatever, silver Gold something 350 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: like that, and he'd gone upstairs with his wife. He 351 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: comes right back down and he starts healing at me 352 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,119 Speaker 1: and says that there's no and I mean like literally yelling. 353 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 1: And he was like it's like there's no hot water, 354 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: and I just can't believe this joke of a place 355 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:39,880 Speaker 1: like this is. I'm not paying for this da And 356 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 1: I was like, well, sir, did you get the emails 357 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,640 Speaker 1: that we sent out last night? He was like, well, yeah, 358 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: but and I was like what because we'd send out 359 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: these emails because the city was shutting off hot water 360 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:55,680 Speaker 1: on all of this one road in Nashville for like 361 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 1: an hour in the middle of the day, and so 362 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,399 Speaker 1: we'd send out emails to all the guests, we let 363 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: everybody know they checked in all of this just to 364 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: be like, hey, we're not gonna have any hot water 365 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: for an hour. It's the city has nothing to do 366 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: with us. This man did not care, and he was like, 367 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take it 368 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: out on this little twenty year old girl here. And 369 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: he's just yelling at me and he's like this is 370 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: complete bullshit, like fuck this, it's like this is not 371 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: the you know, I'm trying to just not say the 372 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: brand of the hotel, but he's like, this is not 373 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 1: the hotel that that I know, and I'm a rewards 374 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: member and I'm going to call corporate and boh blah blah. 375 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: And I was like, sir, I just I don't know 376 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: what to tell you. And he was like, I want 377 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: to refund on my room and I was like, I 378 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: can't do that because you've already checked in and we 379 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 1: sent out these letters. It has nothing to do with 380 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: the hotel and like, our our cancelation policy is like 381 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: air tight. And I was being really respectful, like I 382 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: really was, and he gets so mad. He takes his 383 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,919 Speaker 1: keys and he throws him in my face and I 384 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: got a paper cut on the side of my face 385 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: from this man and throwing these keys, and I was 386 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:58,479 Speaker 1: like so taken aback, and nobody was around, so like 387 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 1: I was alone at the desk when this happened, and 388 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 1: he he throws his keys at me, and I just said, sir, 389 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: please don't throw things at me, and he's like, what 390 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: are you talking about? I was like, because these as 391 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:09,639 Speaker 1: I said that, this couple walked around the corner and 392 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: to throw anything, what are you talking about, like trying 393 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,919 Speaker 1: to gaslight me? Like immediately like that is not how 394 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: that works, sir. And he's trying to cover his ask 395 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: to those people who just walked around, and they were like, sir, 396 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 1: we just saw you, Like what are you talking about? 397 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: And so I guess he ended up just like walking 398 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 1: right out of the hotel because we would have kicked 399 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:27,679 Speaker 1: him out for that for sure. I mean, he like 400 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,879 Speaker 1: literally like got violent. I mean, I know it's a 401 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: paper cup, but still like what uh, So he just 402 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: walked out of the hotel and then I guess his 403 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: wife kind of snuck out after and they just paid 404 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 1: whatever fees they had to for their I don't know 405 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:46,200 Speaker 1: where they went, but it was insane. Also just get 406 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 1: like regularly hit on by like really old men. That 407 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: was always interesting. Then I worked in the v I 408 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 1: P Lounge up on the top floor that was for 409 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: like our most prestigious rewards members, and that was always 410 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: interesting because I was bartending and I really had no 411 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:01,639 Speaker 1: idea what I was doing, Like I did not know 412 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: how to make a drink, but nobody seemed to care 413 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:05,880 Speaker 1: and I got away with it. But what I did 414 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: learn there was I learned how to make a great, 415 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: great cheese plate. So thank you to the hotel for 416 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: that one. There's so much more drama. I actually had 417 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: like several viral Reddit posts during that time period because 418 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: there's this reddit um sebreddit called Tales from the Front Desk, 419 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: and I would like always just like read it all day, 420 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: like me and my co workers and stuff. And I 421 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: actually ended up meeting Annie wilgiin there at that hotel, 422 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,439 Speaker 1: who wrote my song Effie Forever with me, and she's 423 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: um played in my band when we were touring back 424 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 1: in and she's just amazing. I mean, we got to 425 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,080 Speaker 1: play for a hundred thousand people on Nashville New Year's 426 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: even Open up for Steve Stevie Nicks and travel all 427 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:48,639 Speaker 1: around the country together and obviously didn't get to do 428 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 1: as much of that last year's we would have liked to, 429 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:53,399 Speaker 1: but uh, it was really cool to go from working 430 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: at a front desk with her to that because we 431 00:20:55,840 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: really seen some ship. So I started singing in hotel 432 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: lobbies around the same time. So I would be singing 433 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: covers like Luke, Brian Taylor, Swift, Power Hours, lots of 434 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 1: Reba McIntyre, and I I was singing at different hotels 435 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 1: like I think this girl that had worked with me 436 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: at the hotel started working in another one was like, Hey, 437 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,919 Speaker 1: do you want to come and sing? And I was like, yes, please. 438 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: I would love to do something that's more relevant to 439 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,880 Speaker 1: what I, you know, want to do with my life 440 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: because it was so time consuming working at the hotel 441 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 1: because I would work three to eleven, but I'd have 442 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: to start getting ready at like two, and so if 443 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 1: I wanted to write, have to like rush out of 444 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: my right and then I'd be going for twelve hours 445 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 1: every day and it was just exhausting, and I felt 446 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: like my writing was suffering and I wasn't able to 447 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: go out or do anything with my friends, and it 448 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 1: was just really really tough. So I start singing in 449 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: these hotel lobbies and basically one led to another, and 450 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 1: I I think in total of sang it like over 451 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 1: four or five different hotels like regularly during that time period. 452 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 1: But it got to the point where I was able 453 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 1: to quit working at the hotel front sk and just 454 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 1: go to singing full time, which was really fun and 455 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,919 Speaker 1: I loved it. And I mean I would be singing 456 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: for there was this one time period that I would 457 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: sing at this one hotel from three thirty to five thirty. 458 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: I'd go sing it another one from six thirty to eight, 459 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 1: then I go home. I'd usually take a power nap 460 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 1: and have a Red Bull, and then I go sing 461 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 1: it this one from ten pm to one am, and 462 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 1: so I was just like blowing out my voice. That's 463 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: probably where this rasp kind of got enhanced. Shout out 464 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: to and the year of the cover gigs. And then 465 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 1: shortly after that fight Like a Girl came out, I 466 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: signed my first publishing deal and I was able to 467 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 1: do like that kind of music full time, and honestly, 468 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: full disclosure, I sang at the hotel lobbies like through 469 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: all of it, and I would have people come up 470 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: to me and be like, are you really sure do 471 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: you sing by like a girl? What are you doing here? 472 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 1: And I'm like paying my rent? And I would, you know, 473 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 1: play a big stage at cmafest and then the next 474 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 1: day be singing at this hotel and people would have 475 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: been at the show and be like, didn't you just 476 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 1: play a Sunday up the theater. I'm like, yeah, but 477 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,959 Speaker 1: that doesn't pay me and anything, and this does. But 478 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: I loved it. I mean it would be fun and 479 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: like it was always really cool, like people would request 480 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,640 Speaker 1: my own songs because they knew them, and that was 481 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 1: very special and definitely helped out. And I know that 482 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,120 Speaker 1: there's so many people who still come to my shows 483 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: who are like, oh my god, we saw you play 484 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,199 Speaker 1: in the holiday and lobby or whatever, and it's just 485 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 1: very very cool. During this in between time between publishing deals, 486 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: because I signed to a new publishing company in twenty nineteen, 487 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 1: but I had like a full year that I wasn't 488 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,919 Speaker 1: signed anywhere. I did a lot of dogs setting. I 489 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: actually briefly cleaned up dog poop for this one very 490 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 1: affluent family that was That was a time that was 491 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: not fun. It was. It was not difficult, but it 492 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 1: was like it was definitely very humbling, and I think 493 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: maybe that was like a sign from the universe to 494 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: like be like how much do you want it? And 495 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,879 Speaker 1: I wanted it, but like, you know, it's just weird 496 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,159 Speaker 1: to be on Instagram and like acting like you're the 497 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,880 Speaker 1: ship and then literally picking up ship so you can 498 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 1: pay a rent. Oh my god. So I guess hypothetically, 499 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: the last job I had was the dog poop thing. Um. 500 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: I do still dogs it a lot. I really just 501 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: enjoy it because I don't have dogs at this point 502 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 1: in my life. I have two cats, and I just 503 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 1: really like being around them, so it's always nice. Like 504 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,199 Speaker 1: there's this one family that I dogs it for and 505 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 1: they have two white huskies and they are so freaking cute, 506 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,440 Speaker 1: Like they're the best dogs ever. They snuggle you. One 507 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 1: of them sleeps underneath the bed. She's so cute. I'm obsessed. Anyways, Um, 508 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,959 Speaker 1: so I love dogs, and so that doesn't feel like 509 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: a job. But I would love to hear what weird 510 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: jobs you guys have worked. I mean, if Faith Hill 511 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: can work at McDonald's, we can make it through anything. Okay, 512 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: that's what I would always tell myself at the hot 513 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: dog stand. That's what I hope you tell yourself. Can't 514 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: wait to hear where you guys have worked. I will 515 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 1: be sharing on next week's episode the most ridiculous job 516 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,160 Speaker 1: I get. On Twitter, you can tweet me. My social 517 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: media is in the description for this podcast. It's just 518 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 1: at Kaylie Shaw are everywhere. You guys are amazing. My 519 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 1: new single aemies out everywhere, and I'm going to be 520 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: releasing new music very very soon. Thank you guys so 521 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 1: much for for your support and for being a huge 522 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: part of the reason why I don't have to pick 523 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: up dogsh it anymore. I love you all so much. 524 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: I'm Gaily Shore and this is too much to say. 525 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:25,920 Speaker 1: Let's don't ask me questions. Soon I must turn it 526 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: out of you.