This Past Weekend with Theo Von - E537 Miranda Lambert

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00:01:03.200 Today's guest is a Grammy Award winning country musician.

00:01:06.640 She has a new album called Postcards from Texas.

00:01:10.720 And you know her songs, The House That Built Me, Drunk, January Heart, The List Goes On, Red Wagon.

00:01:21.420 I'm really grateful today to get to spend time with one of the queens of the country music industry, Miss Miranda Lambert.

00:01:30.120 Nice to see you today, Miranda Lambert.

00:01:59.000 Hello.

00:01:59.880 It's an honor.

00:02:01.040 Thanks for having me.

00:02:02.080 Yeah.

00:02:02.500 It's a cozy little place.

00:02:03.580 It's a pleasure.

00:02:04.300 Yeah, yeah.

00:02:04.820 We try to keep it cozy.

00:02:07.360 It's nice.

00:02:07.860 Kind of get to, you know, just catch up with folks and see what's going on.

00:02:12.360 I've met your husband a couple times.

00:02:15.020 Yeah.

00:02:15.320 He said that.

00:02:16.060 Y'all randomly on like two or three planes together.

00:02:18.460 Yeah.

00:02:19.060 We're like kind of, I guess, air buddies or whatever.

00:02:21.460 I don't know if there's a term for it or whatever.

00:02:23.140 I love that.

00:02:23.980 Yeah.

00:02:24.240 He said to tell you how.

00:02:25.140 Oh, I appreciate it.

00:02:26.040 He's golfing priorities.

00:02:27.560 Yeah.

00:02:28.240 Yeah.

00:02:28.780 Well, he's just dang handsome, too.

00:02:30.420 That's a thing.

00:02:31.140 I see that guy and I'm like, God, I got to get some conditioner or whatever.

00:02:35.620 He is.

00:02:36.180 He's a pretty one.

00:02:37.660 God, he is.

00:02:38.360 He's like a, and he used to be a cop, right?

00:02:40.700 Yep.

00:02:40.980 He's a retired NYPD officer.

00:02:43.520 And did you, you guys ever play cops and robbers or anything like that?

00:02:47.020 No, but last year or two years ago for Halloween, I got, I wore his uniform and I made him be

00:02:51.720 a donut and it was awesome because he's super fit and doesn't even eat donuts.

00:02:57.180 And I was like, I'm going to be a cop and you're going to be a donut. 0.97

00:02:59.580 And he was like, that's just cliche. 1.00

00:03:00.660 That's stupid. 1.00

00:03:01.340 I was like, no, it's awesome. 1.00

00:03:03.340 It was my favorite.

00:03:04.260 That's a great idea.

00:03:04.680 He was pouting the whole time.

00:03:05.940 He was like, I don't want to be a donut.

00:03:07.040 Dude, everybody wants to be a donut, bro.

00:03:11.840 I couldn't even imagine not wanting to be a donut.

00:03:14.500 Yeah.

00:03:14.820 I think everybody's always just wanted to sit in a box with 11 of their buddies, you know?

00:03:21.100 Well, it's funny because that whole like cliche or whatever, but I was like, and I was worried

00:03:25.580 I wouldn't fit in his uniform, but I did.

00:03:27.180 Oh yeah.

00:03:27.800 I was like, I can't fit in his uniform.

00:03:29.100 We have bigger issues.

00:03:29.960 Like, it's going to be a problem.

00:03:31.300 Yeah.

00:03:32.060 It was fun.

00:03:32.540 My dad, my whole family is first responders and so is his family.

00:03:36.160 So we had that in common right away.

00:03:37.880 Oh, sweet.

00:03:38.700 Yep.

00:03:38.920 Yeah.

00:03:39.100 Did you guys ever, has he ever like tased you or anything like that?

00:03:41.460 Or is that a crazy thing?

00:03:42.600 No, no.

00:03:43.520 And he has handcuffs and I'm like, that would be the one time that the key was gone.

00:03:48.800 Yeah.

00:03:48.980 Like we're not ever doing that.

00:03:51.080 Never.

00:03:51.820 It's not going to happen.

00:03:53.820 Yeah.

00:03:54.180 We got tased one time.

00:03:56.220 Oh, if you're ever in Shreveport or whatever, and you're, I guess, have some free time or whatever,

00:04:01.120 they will, they'll tase you there.

00:04:03.200 The officers there.

00:04:04.500 For fun?

00:04:05.340 Yeah.

00:04:05.740 For, yeah, for, there's not a lot to do there, I guess.

00:04:08.520 And, but yeah, they'll do it.

00:04:10.020 I grew up like, right, like an hour from Shreveport.

00:04:12.400 Oh, you did?

00:04:12.940 Yeah.

00:04:13.300 I used to play over there in little bars and casinos coming up.

00:04:17.600 I actually had my 21st birthday in Shreveport.

00:04:19.800 No.

00:04:20.580 That's pretty red.

00:04:21.780 Where did you, where'd you guys go?

00:04:22.920 We had to a casino?

00:04:23.940 Yeah.

00:04:24.380 We were at Sam's Town, I think.

00:04:26.640 My grandma was a VIP there because she spends a lot of money on the slots. 1.00

00:04:29.740 So she got the limo and all that, and I went with my grandma and her friends for my 21st

00:04:34.520 birthday.

00:04:34.940 And her friends?

00:04:35.860 Her friends.

00:04:36.480 They're wild, though.

00:04:37.440 Yeah.

00:04:37.760 They were wild.

00:04:38.940 Oh, yeah.

00:04:39.360 A lot of these seniors now, you can't, well, you see them in the pools and everything,

00:04:42.700 and they have those weights, and they're just doing it all.

00:04:45.720 Every time I see seniors, they're just getting crazier and crazier.

00:04:48.440 Do they have a senior citizen dating website, I wonder?

00:04:51.240 I don't know, but my granddad would just give her, like, allowance, like, stay out of my 0.99

00:04:56.480 hair money, and so she would just go blow it at the casino. 1.00

00:04:58.860 It was the best.

00:05:00.220 Was she one of those grandmas that, like, at the end of the year, they buy all the Christmas

00:05:04.340 gifts?

00:05:04.800 Oh, yeah.

00:05:05.400 And they all say, like, Sam's Town or whatever on the back?

00:05:08.100 Yeah, and she would always, like, buy and then wrap them and forget that she did it.

00:05:11.640 Yeah.

00:05:12.040 You know what I mean?

00:05:12.620 And she would be like, we'd open the presents.

00:05:13.900 She'd be like, I don't know when I bought that or what it is.

00:05:17.900 Oh, yeah, dude.

00:05:19.060 Yeah, they used to tase us over there, man.

00:05:21.640 That's real weird.

00:05:22.540 Yeah, it was kind of crazy.

00:05:23.920 But I think you can get a taser now.

00:05:26.840 Like, you can even get one on Timu that also, like, beats eggs and stuff.

00:05:30.180 Like, they just have everything now, you know?

00:05:32.840 I don't think I want to be tased.

00:05:35.420 You know, I'll say this.

00:05:36.420 Honestly, it was way easier than I thought.

00:05:39.880 Well, I'm glad you took one for the team.

00:05:41.460 I'm glad that's over with.

00:05:42.880 Settled.

00:05:44.160 So your 21st birthday, you guys went over there.

00:05:46.760 Was that, like, the biggest city close to you guys?

00:05:50.000 We're right between Dallas and Treeport.

00:05:52.140 So, like, I-20, my little hometown, Lindale, Texas, is, like, the halfway point where you,

00:05:56.620 like, stop it for gas and Burger King.

00:05:58.260 You know what I mean?

00:05:58.780 Oh, yeah.

00:05:59.200 So I was there a lot.

00:06:01.500 And Dallas was our, like, city.

00:06:03.580 Oh, yeah.

00:06:04.220 Yeah.

00:06:04.840 What was your first job over there?

00:06:07.280 I worked at Bell's.

00:06:09.600 Oh, my first singing gig?

00:06:11.520 No, your first, like, human job.

00:06:13.660 My first, like, my first big girl job, well, I worked at this little department store called

00:06:18.260 Bell's for, like, the Christmas season.

00:06:20.400 They hired me to wrap presents, which I'm terrible at.

00:06:23.540 So then they were, like, these presents are terrible.

00:06:26.700 So they put me in the back room to, like, sort things.

00:06:29.160 And I only lasted two weeks.

00:06:30.580 I was, like, I just started singing and playing.

00:06:32.920 I was 17, but I needed, like, I was not making any money.

00:06:35.760 I was, like, a starving musician.

00:06:36.880 And so I tried for that, like, you know, that, like, holiday season extra money and

00:06:42.820 realized quickly, like, I've got to make the music business work because this is not for

00:06:46.900 me.

00:06:47.560 Because that's not it.

00:06:48.300 No.

00:06:48.840 It was just not.

00:06:50.260 I wasn't good at anything else.

00:06:51.920 So I was, like.

00:06:52.340 Yeah, if they put you in the back to sort, that's not even.

00:06:54.860 I know I couldn't even use it.

00:06:55.820 Well, because I, someone lady asked me, like, does this look good on me?

00:06:58.420 And I told her my truth.

00:07:00.020 I was, like, not really.

00:07:01.120 They're, like, that's not how it works.

00:07:02.520 You kind of have to lie.

00:07:03.640 I'm, like, oh.

00:07:04.260 Yeah, I'm trying to think if I, well, I used to work at a pizza parlor for a while.

00:07:11.360 And we got late.

00:07:12.200 There were cutbacks there or whatever.

00:07:15.600 And I don't know how there could be cutbacks.

00:07:16.960 It's, like, there was four of us working there.

00:07:18.880 But I guess they had, like, cutbacks or whatever.

00:07:21.680 So a couple of us got laid off.

00:07:23.200 But I wonder if I ever worked at a department store.

00:07:27.320 I couldn't work around pizza.

00:07:28.760 I just, I love it too much.

00:07:30.060 Yeah.

00:07:31.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:07:31.560 We had the pizza inn.

00:07:33.620 In your town?

00:07:34.480 Yep.

00:07:34.920 And had the salad bar and had little corndogs on it.

00:07:37.440 And I was really happy about that.

00:07:39.080 They put corndogs on the salad bar?

00:07:40.340 I love a salad bar.

00:07:41.120 That's unprecedented.

00:07:42.280 Oh, I love a salad bar.

00:07:43.780 Pizza Hut used to have a great one.

00:07:45.080 Do you remember?

00:07:45.640 Pizza Hut.

00:07:46.220 It was like Pizza Hut, but, like, small town brand.

00:07:48.300 Pizza Inn.

00:07:48.720 Oh, yeah, Pizza Inn.

00:07:49.340 Same thing.

00:07:50.020 Did they throw the pizza in the air or not?

00:07:51.780 No.

00:07:52.300 No?

00:07:52.740 Nobody knows how to do that.

00:07:53.580 Oh, yeah.

00:07:54.180 Now I know.

00:07:54.700 I've actually seen it in real time now because my husband is from New York City.

00:07:58.640 Yeah.

00:07:58.860 So I've had, like, legit pizza now.

00:08:01.080 Yeah.

00:08:01.760 Not Pizza Inn.

00:08:02.560 Oh, we had a place.

00:08:03.920 I'm trying to think of what it was called.

00:08:05.180 But they had a big window there.

00:08:06.940 And some dude, I think he was a magician, but they gave him, like, daytime work throwing

00:08:10.980 those pizzas in the air because I think it just fit in people's heads.

00:08:13.840 Like, oh, that's magic.

00:08:15.580 That's hard.

00:08:16.240 Oh, he was, I think he really got the hang of it, and it was awesome.

00:08:20.060 People would come from miles around to watch him, you know?

00:08:22.860 You'd see kids just out there just licking lollipops, just staring at him, looking at

00:08:26.420 this doe wizard.

00:08:28.120 Small town entertainment is pretty simple.

00:08:30.720 Yeah.

00:08:31.380 It's easy to come up with.

00:08:33.780 Oh, yeah.

00:08:34.320 When the fair came to town, that was always exciting.

00:08:37.000 We could go to the fair a day before, and for 50 cents, you could, you were kind of a guinea

00:08:41.020 pig, they didn't tell you that, but it was like, come on over, and you can do a ride

00:08:45.580 for 50 cents. 0.81

00:08:46.580 So, we lived right down the street from the fairgrounds, so we'd walk down there, dude,

00:08:50.280 and you would just get rattled, electrocuted.

00:08:53.980 Yeah, I don't trust small town fair rides.

00:08:57.660 Yeah.

00:08:58.020 I just don't.

00:08:59.180 And I think that's probably a wise choice for you, you know?

00:09:02.100 Right, yeah.

00:09:03.120 How?

00:09:03.400 You seem like a drill tracer because you got tased, and you ride the 50-cent ride.

00:09:08.380 Like, you're just going for it.

00:09:09.760 I've been in some bad relationships.

00:09:11.040 Yeah, maybe I'm a thrill chaser, you know?

00:09:12.560 Yeah.

00:09:12.800 I think, yeah, if you stack all those things up.

00:09:16.380 How does a guy, this is news, so how does, because your husband was just like a regular

00:09:20.800 police officer, right?

00:09:22.380 Mm-hmm.

00:09:23.120 How does a regular police officer meet a celebrity comfortably?

00:09:29.740 Do you, is that a weird thing to ask, kind of?

00:09:33.280 No, I mean, honestly, like, we're kind of from the same fabric, so it was, though,

00:09:39.760 the weirdest part of it all is the language barrier at first, honestly, because he has

00:09:43.820 a New York accent, and you hear mine.

00:09:46.020 So it was like, any of my Southern phrases, any of the, like, redneck stuff I say, he's

00:09:51.000 like, well, I don't understand what you're saying.

00:09:52.620 So, but we just met, we met by chance, literally on the street, and like, and six years later,

00:09:58.340 it worked out.

00:09:59.420 But was there moments where he was like, you know, this is like, because I feel like

00:10:03.320 if I'm a regular guy, say if I met, you know, Julia Roberts, or trying to think of somebody

00:10:09.640 else, Queen Elizabeth or something, and I'm trying to date him, I would, I wonder if there

00:10:14.320 would be moments in my head where I'm like, how do I do this?

00:10:17.220 Like, you know, do I put on a special cologne?

00:10:19.020 Like, what do, how do I, just because there's some-

00:10:22.280 Well, Brendan does wear the polo, like the old school one.

00:10:24.060 Oh, he does?

00:10:24.740 The red bottle.

00:10:25.040 Oh, yeah.

00:10:25.680 That green bottle with the little gold cap?

00:10:27.340 The red one.

00:10:28.420 I don't know if I've seen that one.

00:10:29.560 That might be the sport.

00:10:30.380 Yeah.

00:10:31.780 Maybe it is.

00:10:32.540 Remember when sport came out?

00:10:33.780 Yeah.

00:10:34.260 Oh, every-

00:10:34.940 Did you ever wear cool water?

00:10:36.860 No, I didn't, but-

00:10:37.940 Yes, you did.

00:10:38.720 No, some of the fancier kids kind of did.

00:10:42.400 Guys that had, like, game with women wore it. 1.00

00:10:45.580 That's why I was like, did you, are you lying?

00:10:48.100 Did you wear the cool water, say it?

00:10:49.500 I didn't have game with women. 1.00

00:10:50.860 I was like, I was always the guy who, like, would, like, would help my buddy open all the

00:10:56.680 valentines, like on valentines in school, they would have, like, the key club or whatever

00:11:00.580 would come in, and if somebody bought you a valentine, they'd give them all out in the

00:11:03.580 room at the same time, so my buddy would get, like, 11 of them, and I wouldn't get any,

00:11:07.920 but he'd let me, like, hold a couple of them on my desk or whatever.

00:11:10.940 Make you feel good?

00:11:11.520 Yeah, and it's like, hey, hold-

00:11:12.380 Isn't it, like, wouldn't it, like, the one where you give everybody in the class one so

00:11:15.400 everybody feels love?

00:11:16.980 Oh, when we were kids, but when it got into junior high, it got, like, okay, somebody

00:11:20.460 had to go.

00:11:21.040 Got real, yeah.

00:11:21.480 Yeah, and you would get him, and he would just have a stack of them. 1.00

00:11:24.420 He looked like the damn bachelor. 0.99

00:11:25.240 You're going to get so many valentines now, it's going to be weird, because you talked 1.00

00:11:28.140 about it.

00:11:28.600 That's a good point, huh?

00:11:30.400 Yeah, valentines were nice.

00:11:31.820 My mom wouldn't get us, like, something that she would, like, leave by our, like, bed or

00:11:35.520 something in the morning.

00:11:37.340 Like, that was pretty sweet, though.

00:11:38.940 So, um, but yeah, was there ever a moment where he was just, like, where it just seemed

00:11:43.500 like nerd, like, he's like, I'm a regular guy, and you're a regular person, but then

00:11:49.160 there's always, like, a, I think there's a fear in, like, a regular guy's head of, like,

00:11:53.840 how you would behave around a celebrity, I guess.

00:11:56.460 I think-

00:11:57.520 Does it make any sense at all?

00:11:58.520 Yeah, and it definitely is an adjustment to, like, just jump into country music world

00:12:01.960 and move to Nashville.

00:12:03.620 I mean, he, like, retired, you know, he was eight years on the department, and he, like,

00:12:08.740 sort of made the choice.

00:12:10.400 We made the choice together of, like, we got to be together, you know, and-

00:12:14.200 Yeah, to trade your gun in for a harmonica or whatever is a big deal.

00:12:17.660 I think, um, well, thank God he didn't, because I don't know if he- he loves music.

00:12:22.100 He's not necessarily musical.

00:12:23.880 He did write a song on my new record.

00:12:25.800 Really?

00:12:26.080 He's a co-writer on a song on my new record.

00:12:27.620 Yeah, I had him writing during, uh, 2020.

00:12:31.180 We were all doing anything during 2020.

00:12:33.500 Oh, yeah, things got weird.

00:12:34.540 Yeah.

00:12:34.900 Oh, if cops are writing songs, yeah.

00:12:36.740 Yeah, I was like, let's write songs, and so we did, and he was pretty good, and I guess

00:12:41.780 because, I mean, growing up in New York City and, like, being a cop on the street in Times

00:12:45.660 Square, like, you have a lot of life lived, you know, and so this record, he has, um, a

00:12:50.940 co-writer on my song called Damn It Randy, and he had some of the best lines in the song.

00:12:54.400 Really?

00:12:54.860 Yeah, so he-

00:12:55.760 Oh, wait, I've heard that when something, like, in a hurricane.

00:12:58.700 That was his line.

00:12:59.840 Nuh-uh.

00:13:00.380 Flying a cot in a hurricane.

00:13:01.640 I was like, dang it.

00:13:02.780 That is a good line.

00:13:03.480 Yeah.

00:13:03.920 It is a good line.

00:13:05.080 But, yeah, you know, I think that, like, all the celebrity part out of it, I don't care

00:13:10.280 about that stuff, you know?

00:13:11.300 So, it just made it, we're just real and regular, and, like, like I said, both being from first

00:13:17.120 responder families, like, we kind of grew up the same.

00:13:20.380 There was some glue there.

00:13:21.020 Just in different places, yeah.

00:13:22.760 Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do.

00:13:23.640 I'm just trying to inspire, like, regular men out there to think that they could handle

00:13:27.140 it if they met a celebrity person in that world, that they, everything could be cool.

00:13:31.600 They can, and you know what, it's like, I'm such a big stickler of, like, don't surround

00:13:36.100 yourself with yes people, and so, having a husband that's just a regular guy, like,

00:13:41.920 just being a cop in New York City, and, like, he comes into my world, but he tells me the

00:13:47.600 truth. 1.00

00:13:48.080 He, like, calls me on my shit. 1.00

00:13:49.740 He tells me the truth. 1.00

00:13:50.840 He doesn't sugarcoat.

00:13:52.000 He sees everything for what it is, and I really appreciate that.

00:13:55.420 Like, there's, the fact that he's not in my industry at all, and just really kind of,

00:14:00.200 if it's a straight shooter, it's like, it's such a blessing to have in my life, and so,

00:14:04.820 I'm glad that I married somebody that just, like, is that way, that is just a regular 0.57

00:14:09.440 blue-collar guy that sort of comes in and enhances my world and speaks a lot of truth

00:14:14.120 into my life.

00:14:15.700 So, y'all go.

00:14:16.600 All y'all regular do is go.

00:14:17.880 Go get it.

00:14:18.800 We need you.

00:14:19.800 Yeah, we need you.

00:14:21.320 That's a great call.

00:14:22.420 He also married, like, a country singer and a horse girl, and so, I mean, he signed up 0.92

00:14:26.380 for a lot.

00:14:27.840 Yeah.

00:14:28.120 Because horse girls are like, we're a different breed. 1.00

00:14:30.420 Oh, yeah, dude.

00:14:31.640 I just met, I went to a therapy place for, like, a week, and they had horses out there,

00:14:35.800 and one of the therapists, like, worked with the horses.

00:14:38.280 She was, like, the horse therapist lady or whatever, like the- 0.96

00:14:41.320 It's amazing.

00:14:42.140 Yeah, and so, like, she had me out there hugging this big old horse.

00:14:46.520 I don't think, I don't know what his name was.

00:14:48.660 I've done that, too, the equine therapy.

00:14:50.240 Yeah.

00:14:50.340 It's amazing.

00:14:51.340 I thought it was crazy, but it's really neat.

00:14:53.920 It teaches you so much, like, where they're like, put your hand where you feel like the-

00:14:59.700 Put your hand where you feel most drawn to the horse and, like, immediately put my hand

00:15:02.940 on its heart.

00:15:03.680 Oh, I was going to hope so.

00:15:03.860 I didn't even know where a horse heart was.

00:15:06.420 Now that I think about it, like, I was like, I don't know where it is in that huge shot chest.

00:15:09.980 You know?

00:15:10.340 It's pretty cool.

00:15:11.480 Oh, I had to take the horse.

00:15:12.520 I was trying to take his pulse, and I had to do it with both of my hands like that.

00:15:15.340 But, like, horses are crazy.

00:15:17.220 They just got, like, 60 inches of neck on them.

00:15:20.500 But, yeah, it was kind of wild, because at first, she's like, okay, approach the horse

00:15:24.300 and let it know you're okay.

00:15:25.620 So then I'm, like, four feet from this horse.

00:15:28.220 I think his name was Knuckles or, like, Mitten or something.

00:15:31.720 And I'm like, hey, horse, I'm just letting you know I'm here.

00:15:35.740 Like, it was almost like meeting an alien, because I'd just never even been around a horse,

00:15:39.560 like, in that much, like, proximity, like, just being a horse in a pen.

00:15:43.280 But by the end, I got to take the horse for a walk and stuff, and I felt like it was cool.

00:15:48.260 Because at first, I was super nervous, and as I went along, it kind of, like, I kind of, like, my idol came down.

00:15:56.800 Yeah.

00:15:57.160 You know?

00:15:57.660 And that, they're so therapeutic, just being around them in general.

00:16:01.500 But, like, they're just majestic creatures.

00:16:03.840 And I heard, I think they can hear your heartbeat from, like, five miles away or something. 0.99

00:16:07.380 Oh, my God, perverts. 0.97

00:16:08.880 Isn't that crazy? 0.99

00:16:09.620 Yeah, that's crazy, dude.

00:16:11.720 I mean, that's eavesdropping.

00:16:13.940 I know.

00:16:14.940 But they could sense everything.

00:16:16.800 It's like, they tell you the truth about you before you even know your own truth.

00:16:19.700 You're like, ah.

00:16:20.700 I didn't grow up around horses.

00:16:21.880 I didn't start until I was 30.

00:16:23.340 And I just wanted to do something that scared me a little.

00:16:26.300 And I always wanted to be with that cowgirl. 1.00

00:16:27.980 Like, I used to play all the rodeos back in the day and, like, singing the national anthem

00:16:31.460 and small town rodeos.

00:16:33.140 I love rodeos.

00:16:33.700 When I was first getting started.

00:16:34.500 And all those, like, flag girls and the barrel racers with all the glitter and fringe, I

00:16:38.520 wanted to be that so bad.

00:16:39.920 And I chose country music.

00:16:41.700 And so I was, like, at 30, I was like, I'm going to be a cowgirl. 0.99

00:16:45.560 Damn it. 0.99

00:16:45.920 I'm going to do this. 0.99

00:16:47.000 And so I started riding for the first time at 30.

00:16:50.220 And now I'm really super into it.

00:16:52.380 I love it.

00:16:53.180 But I was, I mean, I'm still, like, I'm green.

00:16:56.280 I don't know what I'm doing.

00:16:57.140 But I just love, like, having a hobby completely outside of what I do that's challenging and

00:17:02.860 physically challenging.

00:17:03.980 And also, it's, like, not up to you.

00:17:05.740 It's up to them, you know?

00:17:07.220 Oh, yeah, dude.

00:17:08.500 It is, like, that's the dang Lord's Uber, dude, being on a horseback.

00:17:12.980 The Lord's Uber.

00:17:14.060 Bro, you get on a horse, it is not, it's, like, kind of up to you.

00:17:17.840 Because they give you these little strings.

00:17:19.760 You're, like, these strings are not going to do anything against this horse, you know?

00:17:23.380 No, like, I just saw that pull up on the screen.

00:17:25.340 My horse, Cool, I started mounted shooting.

00:17:28.220 Oh, his name's Cool?

00:17:29.060 His name's Cool.

00:17:29.740 And I started mounted shooting last December.

00:17:31.900 And what does that mean?

00:17:32.880 Mounted shooting?

00:17:33.640 So, like, shooting a revolver with black powder off the back of the horse at a balloon.

00:17:37.880 Oh, my God, bro.

00:17:38.320 It's super fun.

00:17:40.120 It's spectator safe and the horses wear earplugs.

00:17:42.540 Just FYI.

00:17:43.580 The horses do?

00:17:44.540 They do.

00:17:44.920 They wear earplugs.

00:17:45.980 And the gun has black powder in it.

00:17:48.740 And so you do these patterns and you go, like, 100 miles an hour.

00:17:51.320 I don't yet.

00:17:51.880 I'm trying to get there.

00:17:53.300 And you shoot at balloons.

00:17:55.340 My friend, Kenda Lonsane, she's, like, the world champion.

00:17:58.500 And she... 1.00

00:17:59.160 Kenda Lonsane?

00:18:00.120 Bring her up. 1.00

00:18:00.900 She's a badass. 1.00

00:18:02.200 Like, she has taken me under her wing and taught me so much about it.

00:18:06.660 I've never even heard of this.

00:18:07.520 So it's called mounted shooting.

00:18:08.600 So you started...

00:18:10.020 There she is.

00:18:11.160 Let's see that beauty.

00:18:12.200 That's her. 0.88

00:18:12.560 She's a beaut. 1.00

00:18:13.080 Hey, I'll let her shoot me. 1.00

00:18:15.120 That's for sure. 1.00

00:18:15.700 She probably would.

00:18:16.720 Really?

00:18:17.120 She'd probably tase you if you wanted her to. 1.00

00:18:19.260 Look, she can shoot me in the belt buckle and see if my pants drop. 1.00

00:18:22.420 You know what I'm saying? 0.99

00:18:23.280 Baby, that's where I'm at with her.

00:18:24.800 She's a buckle shiner. 0.77

00:18:26.400 But she's really great at it. 0.63

00:18:28.080 So wait, explain it to me.

00:18:29.000 I've never even heard of this.

00:18:30.240 It's so fun.

00:18:31.060 So you have two revolvers, and you have five shots in each.

00:18:35.660 And you're on the horse.

00:18:36.300 It's a gun belt.

00:18:36.880 You're on the horse.

00:18:37.540 And it's a timed event.

00:18:38.720 So, like, come out of the gate, and, like, she does it in, like, 7.5 seconds, which I'm

00:18:43.900 still learning to ride good enough.

00:18:45.720 So I'm a lot slower.

00:18:46.420 Oh, she's used to a quick shot. 1.00

00:18:47.700 I'm in again.

00:18:48.200 Yeah, see?

00:18:48.660 So you're shooting at a pattern of balloons, and you're timed on the event.

00:18:54.600 And you do five shots and a gun change.

00:18:57.120 So while you're riding 100 miles an hour, you're having to shoot, aim, switch your gun,

00:19:02.040 go around a barrel, go around a pattern.

00:19:03.880 Like, it's very challenging.

00:19:05.320 Oh, man.

00:19:05.860 Super fun, though.

00:19:06.500 It's, like, the most adrenaline rush.

00:19:08.740 It sounds like ADHD meets Yellowstone.

00:19:12.000 Yeah, it is.

00:19:13.360 But it sounds beautiful.

00:19:14.240 Wow.

00:19:14.820 It is called mounted shooting?

00:19:16.280 Yeah.

00:19:16.740 That's fascinating.

00:19:17.820 And so do you get to try that?

00:19:18.820 So you have your own horse.

00:19:19.560 That was nice to get, wasn't that?

00:19:20.780 Yeah, I bought a horse.

00:19:22.320 I was one of those, like, I did it once and loved it so much.

00:19:24.720 I was like, I'm going to winter in Arizona.

00:19:27.220 I'm buying the horse.

00:19:27.980 I'm buying the guns.

00:19:29.020 Like, I fully got into it.

00:19:31.000 But I just, you know, I feel like at 30, I started riding.

00:19:34.880 And then I turned 40 in November, last November.

00:19:37.800 And I was like, all right, now's a new season to keep pushing myself and try something that's

00:19:42.100 a little scary but new and outside of my wheelhouse.

00:19:45.500 Well, you look beautiful for 40.

00:19:47.100 Well, thank you.

00:19:48.020 Yeah.

00:19:48.180 Yeah.

00:19:48.820 I don't mean that in a flirtation.

00:19:50.040 I just mean that in a complimentary way.

00:19:51.680 I'll send you a Valentine.

00:19:53.080 Okay, please do.

00:19:54.120 Yeah.

00:19:54.660 Actually, your husband will get them all.

00:19:55.900 I'll sit there and hold some for them.

00:19:56.500 He will.

00:19:57.120 Yeah.

00:19:57.400 He'll be like, hold these for me, dude.

00:19:58.660 You're going to get so many.

00:19:59.920 Watch and see.

00:20:00.720 It's going to be great.

00:20:01.780 We'll see.

00:20:02.140 All my friends have a crush on you, by the way.

00:20:04.080 Really?

00:20:04.700 Yes.

00:20:05.020 All my Nashville, my gal pals.

00:20:06.940 I'd love to meet any nice gal. 1.00

00:20:08.680 Okay.

00:20:09.000 Well, I know some.

00:20:09.980 I've been trying to be like, we have more like, kind of like brave about just like dating

00:20:14.400 and stuff, you know?

00:20:15.420 Because I just get like, I start to get like turning into a little bit of a home body sometimes.

00:20:19.740 A home so cozy.

00:20:20.740 You know?

00:20:21.120 It is cozy.

00:20:21.860 Yeah.

00:20:22.040 But they say it's cozy.

00:20:23.320 You're with somebody, but then you're like, who is that person though?

00:20:26.000 Because that-

00:20:26.420 It has to be the right person or you'd rather be by yourself.

00:20:28.600 Oh, yeah, dude.

00:20:29.640 I don't want somebody just freaking bugging me and bothering me and wanting pancakes or whatever.

00:20:34.020 Can you make pancakes?

00:20:34.840 Huh?

00:20:35.680 No, I can't.

00:20:36.660 Well, you should learn.

00:20:37.320 Yeah.

00:20:37.420 Because they're going to want pancakes.

00:20:38.640 They are. 1.00

00:20:39.140 Damn. 1.00

00:20:40.000 Yeah, you're right. 1.00

00:20:40.620 Yeah.

00:20:40.880 Yeah.

00:20:41.200 Okay.

00:20:41.580 Let me practice a little.

00:20:42.500 They're like the little cute ones.

00:20:44.260 Like my mom used to do like the Mickey Mouse one where she would like pour the batter in 0.96

00:20:47.820 the shape of Mickey Mouse.

00:20:49.200 Oh, that's beautiful.

00:20:50.260 And it was just epic, right?

00:20:51.460 I don't know what-

00:20:52.520 Oh, our mom had like one of those things and it would sit on the table and it had a little

00:20:56.980 dial on it and it would heat the skillet like that and you plugged it in, right?

00:21:01.100 Yeah.

00:21:01.300 It's like a, what do you call those things?

00:21:03.740 It's like a little, like a little skillet.

00:21:06.920 Yeah.

00:21:07.140 It's kind of like a skillet.

00:21:08.100 Yeah.

00:21:08.240 But you don't have to put it on the oven.

00:21:09.160 It's flat.

00:21:09.260 The oven's built into it.

00:21:10.800 And she, one time she did it though on like her wood table and it roasted like a little 1.00

00:21:15.320 hole in it and she got, we all got in, we got in trouble for it.

00:21:18.740 We didn't do-

00:21:19.920 How dare y'all want pancakes and make me burn my table. 0.84

00:21:22.480 How dare you want pancakes in my house? 1.00

00:21:24.740 Yeah.

00:21:25.160 I was like, well, dear God.

00:21:26.120 Well, that's why you went to the horse therapy.

00:21:28.120 Yeah.

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00:22:30.840 So, you got to tour with, and you have a new album out, I know that, and we're going

00:22:35.240 to talk about it.

00:22:37.720 What's one of your favorite songs out for your new album that you like performing?

00:22:41.140 Because as a comedian, there's jokes you like telling and then there's some jokes you're

00:22:46.580 performing and it feels even more vibrant.

00:22:49.500 Is there a song off of it that you really like performing?

00:22:52.040 I mean, I just started doing some of them because we did a little thing at my bar,

00:22:56.460 Caceroso, which I think is the first time I met you.

00:22:58.280 Yeah, it's the first time I met you there.

00:22:59.480 Yeah, at the opening.

00:23:01.000 It was the opening.

00:23:01.440 Yeah.

00:23:03.460 Yeah, we did the whole record, which was like, it's always fun to do.

00:23:07.340 I've only done that one other time with my record, Revolution, a long time ago.

00:23:11.580 So, it was fun to like actually learn every song and like I didn't really know them that

00:23:16.620 well.

00:23:16.780 I had lyrics up there.

00:23:17.600 I had a little notebook, like old school.

00:23:19.460 I was like, it's my first time to play these, you know what I mean?

00:23:22.540 But I think, I don't know, there's one on there called Armadillo.

00:23:25.500 It's the first song on the record.

00:23:26.640 And my friend, Aaron Ray-Tierre, I don't know if you know him.

00:23:30.120 He's a Nashville songwriter.

00:23:31.960 And y'all should be friends because he's funny as hell and the funnest and cool.

00:23:35.920 Aaron Ray-Tierre?

00:23:37.040 Ray-Tierre.

00:23:37.860 Ray-Tierre.

00:23:38.700 Okay.

00:23:38.900 Yeah, and he sent me this song and it's just funny and quirky.

00:23:44.000 So, I don't know.

00:23:44.760 That one's been fun to do live.

00:23:45.900 I've only done it a couple times, but it's fun.

00:23:47.960 There he is right there.

00:23:49.660 He's a Kentucky boy.

00:23:51.080 Aaron Ray-Tierre.

00:23:52.340 That's a cool name.

00:23:55.960 You got to tour with Toby Keith before.

00:23:58.700 I did.

00:23:59.360 Yeah.

00:23:59.760 Yep.

00:24:00.020 What was he like?

00:24:00.980 What's Toby Keith like?

00:24:02.140 That was one of my earliest tours.

00:24:04.220 I was lucky enough, like, I went on so many, well, there weren't hardly any women touring 0.97

00:24:09.340 back then.

00:24:10.180 Really?

00:24:10.460 Well, like, in country, there wasn't that many touring that much.

00:24:16.780 I mean, in the early days, you got to play, like, 200 shows a year, you know?

00:24:21.700 So, I went out with all men for a long time.

00:24:23.520 I learned so much from all of them.

00:24:25.080 Like, Keith Irvin was my first one, 2005.

00:24:29.180 And then, because I just played Honky Tonks until then.

00:24:31.920 And then, Dirk Spentley and George.

00:24:34.500 Toby, I think, was, like, my fourth big, like, major country tour.

00:24:38.740 Yeah.

00:24:39.240 And I learned a lot.

00:24:39.980 I mean, oh, gosh, old school.

00:24:41.180 Look at that hair.

00:24:41.900 That is, like, Mendel Tex's hair.

00:24:44.120 Oh, my gosh.

00:24:45.860 Wow.

00:24:47.320 Yeah.

00:24:47.980 Little old school.

00:24:49.540 Tease it to Jesus.

00:24:50.460 That's what we say.

00:24:53.720 Oh, the Lord does my hair while I sleep.

00:24:56.100 Exactly.

00:24:56.760 So, don't even, yeah.

00:24:58.060 Wow, that's cool.

00:24:59.080 What was Toby like?

00:25:00.220 Like, what was he like?

00:25:00.980 I just never got to meet him.

00:25:02.400 I've gotten to meet some different artists that I'm a big fan of.

00:25:05.940 But what was he like as a person?

00:25:07.800 He was really, he was, like, he was himself.

00:25:11.500 You know what I mean?

00:25:12.400 Like, he was his, like, authentically himself.

00:25:15.680 Kind of did everything his own way.

00:25:17.760 An outlaw in his own way.

00:25:19.820 Prolific songwriter.

00:25:21.660 And, you know, he was kind of a tough love at first out on the road.

00:25:25.920 But I guess I needed that because I was a baby and didn't know, you know, what was going on yet.

00:25:32.640 I was learning all the ropes of everything.

00:25:34.860 And it was, it was, I learned so much from every tour I was on.

00:25:39.040 And I would say Toby was just, like, like, his fans taught me a lot, too, because they were really about Toby only.

00:25:47.140 Like, you had to work to get them to care, you know, because they were like, we're here to see Toby.

00:25:52.920 And he's, his, like, outlaw kind of I am who I am mentality.

00:25:57.940 They kind of adopted that.

00:25:59.060 And I felt like it made me work for it in a good way.

00:26:01.600 Like, I had to really figure out my set list and figure out, like, I'm just some little gal.

00:26:08.280 They're not here to see me.

00:26:09.180 And if they're here early, I really need to, I'm here to gain fans.

00:26:12.520 I got to work on this.

00:26:13.120 I got to capture that.

00:26:13.820 Did you get to interact with him before he passed away?

00:26:18.040 I haven't.

00:26:18.560 I did see him at the BMI Awards when he got the Songwriter Legend Award a couple years ago.

00:26:26.520 So it was right before he passed away, yeah.

00:26:28.880 And could you tell he was sick then?

00:26:30.520 I just, because it was, I knew people knew he was sick for a long time.

00:26:33.020 He just didn't, like, put much out there about it, it seemed like.

00:26:35.320 It seemed like he was very private.

00:26:36.480 But I guess who would want to, right?

00:26:38.040 Yeah.

00:26:38.620 Well, and I was, I mean, when he was there, he sounded great and he looked great.

00:26:41.920 So, I mean, you know, that journey is like, everybody's got to take that journey and however

00:26:47.400 they feel comfortable and their family and all that stuff.

00:26:49.900 But I know that he was, even at the end, like, really about the music, you know?

00:26:56.480 Yeah.

00:26:56.660 Because the last big thing I saw him out was the BMI's and it was all about his catalog.

00:27:00.600 And I did not realize how many, he wrote like 150 songs a year or something, like crazy.

00:27:05.160 Oh my gosh.

00:27:05.820 Like, just prolific.

00:27:07.980 And I also didn't realize how many outside songs he cut, like, or that he had other artists

00:27:13.320 cut of his until that ceremony.

00:27:16.880 Is there ever a song where you write it and you think it's good, but it's not for you?

00:27:20.920 A lot.

00:27:21.680 Oh, really?

00:27:22.300 Mm-hmm.

00:27:23.040 A lot of times.

00:27:25.960 Yeah.

00:27:26.460 And I, you know, it's, I'm thankful that some artists are still willing to cut outside

00:27:31.400 songs.

00:27:31.960 I'm one of those artists, you know?

00:27:33.260 What does that mean, that they're willing to cut outside songs?

00:27:35.300 Like, like, you can't write every, you can't cut every song you ever write, you know?

00:27:40.160 And so, for instance, Aaron sent me Armadillo and I was like, I love this, I'm cutting it.

00:27:46.620 So, you know, I think it's important if you're a songwriter to have a balance of, we live in

00:27:52.380 Nashville, like, there's amazing songs written all day, every day in this town for years.

00:27:57.420 And I think it's cool when artists are not trying to write every song on their records.

00:28:02.760 Oh, I see what you're saying, because at a certain point, it, it almost, you're just

00:28:06.520 able to help out more people by picking up songs that they've written, really.

00:28:10.620 Yeah.

00:28:11.160 And, you know, like, for my career, I mean, my biggest songs, I wouldn't have if I would

00:28:16.460 have tried to write everything.

00:28:17.580 I mean, like, House That Built Me is a staple in my career.

00:28:20.980 And that's, I didn't write that.

00:28:23.780 And Mama's Broken Heart and Little Red Wagon. 0.96

00:28:27.820 Like, I have some of the staples drunk, some of the staples in my set that are like career

00:28:33.500 staple songs are not songs I wrote.

00:28:35.660 So I think it's good to keep the door open to like, you know, look around town, look where

00:28:40.340 we live.

00:28:40.760 This is amazing.

00:28:41.620 Right.

00:28:41.800 Yeah.

00:28:41.960 So many people.

00:28:42.780 Yeah.

00:28:42.920 And you can't do things alone, too.

00:28:44.380 That's one thing I realized, like, kind of like, as I get older, it's like, I used to

00:28:48.260 want to do everything by myself.

00:28:49.960 It was just like how I was wired.

00:28:51.800 And it still is a lot of times, but it's certainly, it started to alleviate some where

00:28:56.540 it's like, I got, I need help.

00:28:58.100 I need people to do, and I need people to help me do things.

00:29:01.740 And, and I can help people do things.

00:29:04.100 And then it's more fun to do something with somebody sometimes.

00:29:07.240 Yeah.

00:29:07.480 And it's like when you celebrate the highs with your friends, because you all did it

00:29:11.760 together, like a co-write, you know, it's fun.

00:29:13.840 Like collaborating is great.

00:29:15.340 Nashville is such a good community for that.

00:29:17.820 Like everybody's, I mean, you know, you live here, like everybody's so, um, country music

00:29:23.900 community is very collaborative and we lift each other up.

00:29:27.400 We kind of stick together, you know, you don't have to look.

00:29:28.980 Do you think that's true?

00:29:30.020 I do think it's true.

00:29:31.100 For me, it has been for 20 years.

00:29:33.780 And not that you have to love every single person you ever work with or in the business,

00:29:38.140 but I feel like everybody's kind of in it for the same reason.

00:29:41.640 And there's a mutual respect there most times.

00:29:44.180 Yeah.

00:29:45.940 Yeah, I guess, but it's also competitive, right?

00:29:48.100 Yeah.

00:29:48.620 But I think that's also good.

00:29:50.660 You got to like compete.

00:29:52.620 But I think there's a difference in my manager.

00:29:56.040 We've been together 21 years and I just recently went on a birthday trip with her and one of

00:29:59.580 her really good friends who's born and raised in Bellmead.

00:30:02.860 Her name's Elizabeth.

00:30:03.620 And she said, there's a difference in wanting to win and wanting to beat everybody.

00:30:08.100 And I thought that was really poignant.

00:30:10.280 I was like, that, that it, cause that's a different mindset.

00:30:13.200 Like, it's okay to want to win and, and like compete and be on top.

00:30:17.380 But I don't, I don't think you have to want to go into it going, I'm going to beat everybody.

00:30:22.160 Right.

00:30:22.540 I'm just going to win at my race.

00:30:23.900 Yeah.

00:30:24.260 Cause it's almost, uh, it's almost vindictive.

00:30:26.580 It's not vindictive, but it's almost, um, yeah, I'm trying to think of the word.

00:30:30.920 It really almost adds a negative edge to it.

00:30:33.580 It does.

00:30:34.180 And I don't feel like.

00:30:34.740 Cause I want somebody to lose then.

00:30:36.580 Right.

00:30:37.080 Right.

00:30:37.340 We can all win.

00:30:37.980 We just got to run our own race.

00:30:39.540 Yeah.

00:30:41.060 Interesting.

00:30:42.120 Yeah.

00:30:42.500 Thanks for thinking about that kind of stuff with me.

00:30:44.620 Yeah.

00:30:44.980 Cause I love songwriting.

00:30:45.960 Oh, in Nashville, anything can happen.

00:30:47.760 You, uh, like you'll drop a tomato at Trader Joe's and somebody will come up and have half

00:30:52.400 a stanza written about it.

00:30:53.580 You know, it's like, yeah, you get in a car accident and the guy gets out of the vehicle

00:30:58.060 and he's already written a couple bars about the accident.

00:31:01.060 And he's like, what do you think of these?

00:31:02.400 And I'm like, what do you think about give me your insurance papers?

00:31:05.000 You know?

00:31:05.480 Well, that's the title insurance papers.

00:31:07.280 But it really is.

00:31:09.620 What's in your glove box?

00:31:10.540 That's a good song title.

00:31:12.620 Yeah, dude.

00:31:14.100 Yeah.

00:31:14.300 What's in your glove box?

00:31:15.620 Dude, it better just be gloves, buddy.

00:31:17.500 Yeah.

00:31:17.820 If there's gloves, that's weird.

00:31:19.480 Why is it called a glove box?

00:31:21.380 Because.

00:31:21.540 Now that we talked about it, it's even weirder if there's gloves in there.

00:31:24.400 It is weirder now, isn't it?

00:31:25.700 Yeah.

00:31:25.980 And it started off by.

00:31:26.700 It's only supposed to be your insurance.

00:31:28.240 Because people used to put, the name is derived from the compartment's original purpose,

00:31:33.000 storing driving gloves.

00:31:34.180 Initially, the glove compartment was a box near the driver on the floor.

00:31:38.120 Driving gloves are worn to keep hands clean and considered essential equipment in early

00:31:42.340 vehicles.

00:31:43.340 Driving gloves are important for women now, too, because our hands, they like keep you from 1.00

00:31:46.940 aging because your hands are on the wheel.

00:31:49.500 And like, I didn't know that, but like driving gloves are a thing.

00:31:52.160 But why does it keep you from aging?

00:31:53.460 Because the sun on coming through the windshield, you wear like gloves while you drive so that

00:31:58.500 the sun's not like getting on your hands.

00:31:59.820 Honey, you're only driving to Smyrna.

00:32:01.180 That ain't a lot of sunshine on them.

00:32:03.120 I don't know.

00:32:03.660 But I ride in gloves now because of that.

00:32:05.680 My horse.

00:32:06.560 I have my little gloves.

00:32:07.420 I'm like, I don't want sun damage.

00:32:08.540 Oh, I thought you'd ride shotgun in a car.

00:32:11.700 I ride my horse with gloves on now because I'm like, oh, God, I don't want aging hands.

00:32:15.800 There's so much to think about.

00:32:17.060 It's a full-time job.

00:32:18.340 Oh, yeah.

00:32:18.780 You don't want aging hands, though.

00:32:20.280 No.

00:32:20.960 Because you can hide everything else, but you can't just show up to something with mittens

00:32:24.600 on for no reason.

00:32:25.180 No, but Dolly does wear those sheer gloves with the rhinestones, and I'm kind of like

00:32:28.080 really into that.

00:32:28.960 So that's a vibe.

00:32:30.220 Somebody said she's full body tatted up. 1.00

00:32:32.940 I heard that, too, but whoever really knows the answer.

00:32:35.180 I don't know.

00:32:35.680 A couple men have to.

00:32:37.320 A couple, for sure.

00:32:39.000 I mean, I don't know how many.

00:32:40.020 I mean, I know.

00:32:40.980 Is she still married or not? 0.99

00:32:42.020 Yeah, Carl.

00:32:43.440 Somebody knows, and we're going to have to get to the bottom of this.

00:32:45.880 Somebody knows.

00:32:46.120 Does Dolly have the tattoos or not? 0.97

00:32:47.540 Somebody tell us.

00:32:48.660 Somebody's seen that artwork, brother.

00:32:50.160 It ain't me, you know?

00:32:51.700 I ain't no peeping time.

00:32:52.640 I hope she does.

00:32:52.960 If it's possible for her to be more badass, that makes it more badass. 1.00

00:32:57.720 Oh, if she came out in one of those ESPN where they do the nude, like they're pushing 1.00

00:33:02.820 a baby carriage, but they're naked or whatever.

00:33:06.080 If she came out and she was full body tatted, dude, it would be crazy. 1.00

00:33:12.440 Like Kat Von D just totally, that'd be insane. 1.00

00:33:16.400 Yeah.

00:33:17.120 Tats are awesome.

00:33:17.960 Yeah.

00:33:19.460 You have them?

00:33:20.440 Yeah, I got tats.

00:33:21.380 I'm not like sleeved or anything.

00:33:23.020 Because I don't know about the top, like the top of your arm, like as you age, like does

00:33:26.320 it get weird?

00:33:26.780 I don't know.

00:33:27.620 I don't know.

00:33:27.820 So I just have them down here where they can't like swing at some point in my life.

00:33:31.720 I'm on my forearms.

00:33:33.160 I don't want like mama tattoo arm. 0.99

00:33:35.460 Don't need that.

00:33:36.500 You get a chair and then years later it's a swing set. 0.99

00:33:40.120 You're like, oh, that's a damn fourth swing right there. 0.99

00:33:42.540 Exactly. 0.99

00:33:43.320 Got to be strategic.

00:33:44.160 Is there an artist that passed away that like you really missed their music?

00:33:50.080 You missed them?

00:33:51.720 Is that a weird question?

00:33:53.020 There's a bunch.

00:33:54.640 Like one you knew maybe even?

00:33:56.540 Haggard.

00:33:57.640 Haggard, like he was such a, like my number one hero.

00:34:01.000 And I was really sad the day he died.

00:34:05.280 And like, I guess it was like the first kind of, oh my God, one of my heroes is gone, you

00:34:12.240 know, feelings.

00:34:13.760 I was lucky enough to get to sing with him and meet him and know his family.

00:34:18.640 And so that was awesome.

00:34:20.320 In fact, I just saw his family this past summer at the Plain State Fair and Ben Haggard and

00:34:25.560 the family opened.

00:34:26.940 But I just, I don't know.

00:34:28.740 That was, Merle's my like, number one, you know.

00:34:33.380 Yeah.

00:34:33.820 What did you admire about him, you think, so much?

00:34:35.940 I think that, you know, he, one of my favorite quotes is from Johnny Cash and he said, I sing

00:34:41.860 about the things that Merle Haggard actually lived.

00:34:44.720 Because he literally turned 21 in prison.

00:34:46.920 Like he told his truth.

00:34:48.200 Like he didn't have a glamorous childhood or upbringing and he took his outlaw and sort

00:34:53.560 of the troubled times of his life, turned him into songs and turned it into a beautiful

00:34:59.000 career.

00:34:59.380 And every time I was ever around him, he's one of those heroes that like is exactly what

00:35:05.500 you hope he would be.

00:35:07.200 Like a little mysterious, but super kind, you know.

00:35:09.760 And it's always like, meet your heroes or not, it's scary.

00:35:13.500 Because what if they're, what if they let you down?

00:35:15.680 Yeah.

00:35:16.040 But he never did.

00:35:18.420 Like all these pictures they're bringing up, like tease it to Jesus.

00:35:21.620 I mean, look at the hair.

00:35:22.800 That is Texas hair, y'all.

00:35:25.680 That's definitely a full crop.

00:35:27.360 I mean, they got a lot of rain that summer.

00:35:28.880 I'll say that.

00:35:30.620 That is for sure.

00:35:31.740 Um, what's a song that you put on, like, say like everybody has songs when they want

00:35:37.660 to feel something.

00:35:38.520 Right.

00:35:38.860 So like you have like, man, I really want to feel something right now.

00:35:42.380 Like, or I don't know.

00:35:43.500 I do.

00:35:43.860 I'm kind of an emo kind of dude.

00:35:45.520 So I'll put on like, um, like I used to put on like Trace Adkins, uh, every light in

00:35:54.680 the house is on.

00:35:55.220 You know what I'm talking about?

00:35:55.940 Yes.

00:35:56.380 Is that Trace Adkins?

00:35:57.060 You're going to say Trace Adkins.

00:35:58.280 Yeah.

00:35:58.600 Yeah.

00:35:58.880 Oh, I told you that guy.

00:36:01.220 Yeah.

00:36:01.440 You want the big deep voice?

00:36:02.580 Oh yeah.

00:36:02.960 You want to feel it?

00:36:03.940 I don't know.

00:36:04.420 Oh, I went through a breakup.

00:36:05.220 Yeah.

00:36:05.340 And I would sit on my porch and just smoke cigarettes.

00:36:07.560 I don't even, I don't even smoke.

00:36:09.120 You, well, everybody smokes when they break up.

00:36:10.740 Yeah, dude.

00:36:11.240 It's kind of part of it.

00:36:11.540 I would just smoke and I'd play that on repeat till my neighbors were like, what the

00:36:15.120 turn off the light or whatever.

00:36:17.080 We can't handle it anymore.

00:36:18.780 I think, uh, Nobody in His Right Mind by George Strait.

00:36:22.920 I haven't even heard it.

00:36:23.700 It's so good.

00:36:24.480 It's one of my favorite George Strait songs.

00:36:26.180 It's just like a heartbreaker.

00:36:27.220 We're like, I don't know.

00:36:29.040 I love country.

00:36:30.020 Like I truly, like my go-to is country.

00:36:33.480 Old country is like my jam.

00:36:35.920 Um, and George Strait, we call him the king for a reason.

00:36:39.420 So it's a great song.

00:36:41.460 Nobody in His Right Mind.

00:36:42.620 Nobody in His Right Mind would have left her.

00:36:44.760 Even my heart was smart enough to stay behind.

00:36:47.460 Hmm.

00:36:48.560 Come on. 1.00

00:36:49.240 God, put my fucking feelings in a wheelbarrow. 1.00

00:36:53.800 We need to go to that horse therapy place immediately. 1.00

00:36:57.900 Yeah.

00:36:58.260 What else would I listen?

00:36:59.100 Oh, Lee Bryce's I Drive Your Truck.

00:37:01.400 That one's a heartbreaker.

00:37:02.300 Oh man, my friend Jesse Alexander wrote that song.

00:37:04.060 Really?

00:37:04.680 Yes, she did.

00:37:05.760 And she's amazing.

00:37:06.860 She wrote it.

00:37:07.320 I don't know who she wrote it with, but I know she wrote it.

00:37:09.180 That's a great song.

00:37:10.520 She, yeah.

00:37:11.220 Oh, it's so good.

00:37:11.860 And Lee's, Lee's delivery is like insane.

00:37:14.780 See, but that's a song that he didn't write.

00:37:16.840 Right.

00:37:17.320 Right.

00:37:18.000 And that's why it takes a group.

00:37:19.460 It's like, but you also, if he doesn't perform it, if somebody else does, who knows if it

00:37:22.700 works the same?

00:37:23.640 It could.

00:37:24.560 It all has to land in the right basket, right?

00:37:27.040 Like the right song finds the right artist at the right time.

00:37:30.220 Yeah.

00:37:31.000 You know?

00:37:31.860 Yeah.

00:37:32.280 The house that built me too, I had, I saw some, the writers of that song, it took them

00:37:41.300 like, they wrote that song for like seven years.

00:37:42.820 Alan Shamblin and Tom Douglas.

00:37:44.440 Yes.

00:37:44.680 It, they rewrote it and rewrote it.

00:37:46.860 It's seven years of writing it.

00:37:48.520 But I'm, that is such a lesson.

00:37:50.640 Like, I'm not good at that at all.

00:37:51.960 Like, I'm like, I'm kind of millennial about my, like, I know I want to come into this co-write

00:37:57.280 today and then I'm going to leave with a song.

00:37:59.220 Like in, you know, four hours you get a song or two hours or whatever it is.

00:38:04.640 I, I don't know that I could have stuck with it for seven years.

00:38:07.360 Yeah.

00:38:07.760 It's a lesson to all of us to like be patient till it's right.

00:38:11.080 Oh, that song is like perfectly written.

00:38:12.900 Yeah.

00:38:13.140 Yeah.

00:38:13.620 Yeah.

00:38:13.980 They made like a real Sistine Chapel with that one.

00:38:16.960 Dude, I remember, it's kind of weird maybe, but like I grew up in like a pretty traumatic

00:38:21.080 youth, you know, and, uh, and I heard that song, this is a couple of years ago, maybe two

00:38:28.100 years ago.

00:38:28.460 It was like Christmas time.

00:38:29.860 I was in my town where I grew up and I went and got it like an orchid or whatever from

00:38:37.220 a, uh, flower place.

00:38:39.460 And I took it back to the place that I grew up at and I went, this sounds really bizarre

00:38:46.140 now.

00:38:46.620 I wasn't doing peeping Tom or anything.

00:38:48.220 It was like, I, I knocked on the door and I gave him that.

00:38:52.520 I was like, I think that's really cool.

00:38:55.800 Yeah.

00:38:56.100 I said something nice should grow here.

00:38:57.820 That's what I said when I gave him that.

00:39:00.560 That's a song.

00:39:01.640 You said that to the songwriter.

00:39:02.980 So it was interesting to write it down, but honestly, I, but it's funny that what a song

00:39:08.320 can do to somebody, you know?

00:39:09.740 Cause that's, I didn't write that song, but I was like, how did they know my story?

00:39:12.940 Like, but my guitar player that was with me for forever since I was 17, we lost him

00:39:18.100 two years ago, but he said, I, that is, that song hits me because it's what I wish I

00:39:24.760 had.

00:39:26.140 Yeah.

00:39:26.540 And that sounds like what you're talking about.

00:39:28.260 Like, and I never thought about it from that perspective.

00:39:30.540 Oh, he wished he'd had those things at his home.

00:39:32.100 Like he wished he would have had the house that built him.

00:39:33.880 Right.

00:39:34.340 But he didn't have like a healthy childhood.

00:39:37.380 Yeah.

00:39:37.580 So, you know, but I, I just, I love a song like that.

00:39:41.220 And the fact that they waited it out and just stayed with it is like goals.

00:39:48.180 I got to work on it.

00:39:49.540 I got to work on it.

00:39:50.780 Yeah.

00:39:51.060 That is.

00:39:51.480 Yeah.

00:39:51.960 Yeah.

00:39:52.280 Who knows like what things, and that's what's the one thing that's nice about life.

00:39:56.000 It's like, you don't know the little things you're doing now, how they'll merge with

00:39:59.400 like the things you're doing later on and how it'll help you form like wherever you're

00:40:03.480 supposed to be.

00:40:04.180 Like sometimes it's so hard to get through, um, just the moment, you know, but you don't

00:40:08.720 realize that the moment are the stairs that are going to get you to the place you're supposed

00:40:13.100 to stand, you know?

00:40:14.400 Yeah.

00:40:14.600 Um, anyway, sorry, but yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:40:18.480 I don't know.

00:40:18.940 And those people must have thought I was batshit crazy.

00:40:21.840 No, but it's not like the house I grew up in was an old tobacco farm and it was a house

00:40:26.580 built in 1905 and it was just a farmhouse, no central heat and air, one bathroom, like

00:40:32.880 not like, like a farmhouse.

00:40:35.860 Like we didn't have a lot growing up, but people constantly stopped by there, specifically

00:40:40.600 older people, seniors.

00:40:42.020 And we're like, you know, I, they would cry.

00:40:45.860 They would just be standing on the front porch crying.

00:40:47.480 And I was like 10, like hiding behind my mom going like trying to eavesdrop and like,

00:40:51.800 what are they saying?

00:40:52.780 You know, that they had so many memories there and those, those handprints were there.

00:40:56.440 That's why I thought when I heard the song, I was like, have they been eavesdropping on

00:40:59.340 my whole life, like because it was such an old farmhouse that had so many stories in

00:41:04.320 it and it touched so many people's lives, you know?

00:41:07.240 Oh yeah.

00:41:08.200 Yeah.

00:41:08.580 I think that's one thing that's amazing about art is that it can do that.

00:41:12.680 I mean, I think you could, it's just powerful, you know, that the beats and the words and

00:41:18.720 you put it all together the right way and it unlocks something.

00:41:22.000 It does.

00:41:22.400 And it's like, everybody feels like, okay, I'm not alone in this world.

00:41:26.620 And this, this, whatever's happening to me, good, bad, or ugly, I'm not the only one.

00:41:30.980 That's the beauty of a song or any art, really, truly, but especially songs.

00:41:35.180 I love, I'm, I'm, I'm in awe of songs.

00:41:38.920 I'm a songwriter.

00:41:39.960 I'm a song lover.

00:41:40.700 I'm a music lover, like especially country ones.

00:41:42.920 Cause we just tell the, tell the sad truths no matter what, like you get in your feels,

00:41:47.280 you know?

00:41:47.680 Oh yeah.

00:41:49.060 So what do you listen to when you're like wanting to like rage or like rock out or.

00:41:53.840 I mean, I'll put on before, well, I mean, before I go on stage, I listen to, uh, FGL

00:41:58.860 dirt.

00:41:59.360 It's a little uptempo for me, but it's also kind of, kind of chill.

00:42:02.260 Yeah.

00:42:02.480 And like down home and grounding.

00:42:04.320 And then I'll put on a little bit of boozy bad-ass and listen to him.

00:42:07.360 So I'll turn it the other way.

00:42:08.620 You know, I might even go some sexy red or something like that.

00:42:12.040 I don't go anything too crazy.

00:42:13.820 I mean, sometimes I'll put on maybe like sound garden or like, um, uh, I've been listening

00:42:21.020 to Steven Wilson jr.

00:42:22.160 I'm obsessed with that record.

00:42:24.100 God, it's so good.

00:42:25.080 Golly, it's great.

00:42:26.740 I actually have a rock coming up with him.

00:42:28.280 You do?

00:42:29.020 Yeah.

00:42:29.600 Oh my God.

00:42:30.300 What are you going to wear?

00:42:31.600 I know.

00:42:32.700 We, it's, it's like hard.

00:42:34.440 I wrote with him and Natalie, him be, um, recently.

00:42:36.680 And we wrote this song called, well, the hook is, I don't want to see the movie.

00:42:40.720 If the dog dies, like all of us sitting there crying, it was just like the most magical

00:42:45.940 right.

00:42:46.400 And it was Steven's idea obviously shows up with that and my dogs were there and they're

00:42:50.220 seniors.

00:42:50.780 I was like, Oh God.

00:42:51.480 And they're scared.

00:42:52.200 They're like, Hey, let's don't finish the song.

00:42:54.160 No, he's so great.

00:42:55.500 I love him.

00:42:56.080 But I also love it.

00:42:56.740 It said sound garden.

00:42:57.380 Cause mine is audio slave.

00:42:58.980 Like that's my really, what do you wear while you listen to people?

00:43:03.260 Like, what do you, what people would be surprised to know about you?

00:43:05.500 I'm like, he's audio slave.

00:43:06.520 Yeah.

00:43:07.540 Cause it's like, I just get all ragey.

00:43:12.740 Yeah.

00:43:14.060 Female rage is a thing. 1.00

00:43:15.120 You know, it's like my bread and butter.

00:43:17.620 Yeah.

00:43:18.000 No, I definitely noticed that some of it's in you, you know?

00:43:20.860 And yeah, I've been victim of it for sure, dude.

00:43:23.260 I've got a couple of angry women in my texts, in my D and my dang. 1.00

00:43:26.860 In your ding dang DMs.

00:43:28.460 In my ding dang DMs.

00:43:30.380 Yeah.

00:43:30.700 But yeah, it is.

00:43:32.720 It's just interesting.

00:43:33.420 A song will get you activated or to get you ready for like a certain moment or something.

00:43:37.800 Did you ever have to play at a funeral or anything?

00:43:40.020 Did you ever get asked to do something like that?

00:43:41.280 Oh God, I can't.

00:43:42.340 Like, I'm not good at it at all.

00:43:44.220 I just, I get too emotional.

00:43:45.900 Did you ever have to or not?

00:43:46.980 Yeah.

00:43:47.360 I had to sing at my grandma's and I had to sing at a friend that was like my age.

00:43:51.440 That was the worst one.

00:43:52.700 Oh God.

00:43:53.000 Was it the first thing you ever went to?

00:43:54.760 It was a car accident.

00:43:55.040 It was the first like, like reality check, like teen years, high school friend.

00:44:02.400 You know what I mean?

00:44:03.720 And her family asked me to sing and I did, but it was, it was just one of the hardest

00:44:08.240 things I've ever done.

00:44:09.840 I really, I know.

00:44:11.460 I know.

00:44:12.720 So I, I, but you know, when you're given a gift, like, what are you going to say?

00:44:18.140 I'm not going to use it to celebrate someone that was amazing.

00:44:21.040 You have to do it.

00:44:21.980 Yeah.

00:44:22.120 Get on up there, Miranda. 1.00

00:44:23.080 Yeah.

00:44:23.440 Oh, my good God.

00:44:26.400 Yeah, man.

00:44:26.960 Oh, one time I was at a funeral and some, uh, the person that sang, it was a girl and

00:44:32.420 she was so nervous.

00:44:33.240 She started singing the star spangled banner.

00:44:36.780 On accident?

00:44:37.500 Yeah.

00:44:37.900 Oh man.

00:44:38.880 Well, you shouldn't sing that.

00:44:39.840 Somebody had to go and grab and kind of grab.

00:44:41.740 Hardly anyone should sing that.

00:44:43.740 Hardly.

00:44:44.120 Let's just talk about it.

00:44:45.300 It's time to talk about it.

00:44:46.080 If Kenny's right there in the casket and she's just like, who's people were like, we can't

00:44:51.180 even be here right now.

00:44:52.580 Honestly, like there's like four people on earth that should sing that song and that's

00:44:56.580 it.

00:44:57.280 And she made it to like this and people wait and some people started going like this.

00:45:00.680 I was like, no, no.

00:45:01.940 Yeah.

00:45:02.120 Cause part of it is just, I just feel so comfortable right now.

00:45:04.500 I'm going to go down those spiral stairs and leave forever right now.

00:45:07.920 Those only go up.

00:45:08.680 Just thinking about it.

00:45:10.220 Oh, and they only go up.

00:45:11.940 A lot of us were like, what?

00:45:13.740 I thought, what happened?

00:45:15.620 But he wasn't even in the service.

00:45:17.280 No.

00:45:17.440 The whole thing got really confusing, man.

00:45:20.060 I've been at some weird funerals.

00:45:21.540 My dad was 70 when I was born.

00:45:22.740 He was an older man.

00:45:23.580 And so he had to get me a suit for a funeral one time.

00:45:27.600 Right.

00:45:27.960 And it was around Halloween.

00:45:30.480 He got me a Beetlejuice costume.

00:45:33.720 Like the pin strap.

00:45:35.120 And like a costume version though.

00:45:37.140 Like not even, I don't even know if it was real textiles.

00:45:40.260 Did they just think you were like stylish?

00:45:42.200 I don't even know if it was real textiles or whatever.

00:45:44.340 But anyway, I, so I go to this funeral dude in a dang Beetlejuice costume, bro.

00:45:51.900 And I guess it was kind of hip, I guess.

00:45:54.620 How old were you?

00:45:55.500 I was probably 11 or 12.

00:45:57.280 So like already awkward years.

00:45:58.760 So that didn't help.

00:45:59.580 It was horrible.

00:46:00.580 Yeah.

00:46:00.840 But, you know, I guess that's what happens when you send a senior citizen to the, it wasn't Rite Aid back then.

00:46:06.720 It was called KMB was a store they had that had them a couple of costumes over there.

00:46:11.040 But God, it was, yeah, that was too much.

00:46:14.240 But yeah, anyway, funerals are a lot.

00:46:17.240 Yes, they are.

00:46:18.100 So sorry I brought that up.

00:46:20.900 I was like, I don't have anything to say to that.

00:46:22.760 I'm sorry about that.

00:46:24.040 It seems terrible.

00:46:24.740 I heard a rumor that you got to meet Gypsy Rose when she was a Make-A-Wish kid.

00:46:33.640 Is that true?

00:46:34.040 I did.

00:46:34.600 I met her several times.

00:46:36.020 Do you remember it?

00:46:36.960 Yep.

00:46:37.800 There's a lot.

00:46:38.620 There's, look at that hair, that crunchy hair.

00:46:40.580 I got that Aussie scrunch spray going in my hair. 0.91

00:46:43.040 The hair is coming along as these photos go forward.

00:46:46.500 Yes.

00:46:47.120 I've met her several times.

00:46:48.560 Super, super sweet girl.

00:46:50.640 And what was her mother like?

00:46:52.500 Like, I believed her.

00:46:54.820 Yeah.

00:46:55.380 I mean, I did.

00:46:56.080 Like, when all that came out, I was freaking out.

00:46:57.820 That's what I was wondering.

00:46:58.560 How did you feel?

00:46:59.380 Was somebody just tell you, oh my God, do you see what just happened?

00:47:02.500 Yeah, like somebody texted me and was like, have you seen this documentary?

00:47:05.040 I'm like, what?

00:47:05.680 What's happening?

00:47:07.060 And I'm now, I've been down all the rabbit holes of it.

00:47:09.260 I'm like in it.

00:47:10.140 I'm 100% now.

00:47:11.180 She's pregnant. 1.00

00:47:12.300 I watched all the things.

00:47:14.080 But like, she seems to be thriving.

00:47:16.940 So.

00:47:17.280 Yeah.

00:47:17.640 I mean, she's had a crazy childhood.

00:47:18.800 The whole thing was crazy.

00:47:20.000 That's what I'm just saying.

00:47:20.700 I can't even imagine how crazy it was.

00:47:23.300 Like, it's something like that.

00:47:24.300 Because you have these moments in your life.

00:47:26.280 You're being supportive of somebody.

00:47:27.600 They're dealing with a disease, a syndrome.

00:47:30.640 And then.

00:47:31.380 But it was real to her.

00:47:32.440 I mean.

00:47:32.800 Oh, totally.

00:47:33.640 So she was a child.

00:47:34.900 Yeah.

00:47:35.540 She was a baby child.

00:47:36.640 But then suddenly it'd be like a national thing.

00:47:38.980 And you're like, what is going on?

00:47:42.020 I can't believe I was part of that.

00:47:43.540 But I'm.

00:47:44.800 You know, you don't know at the time.

00:47:46.100 And neither did she.

00:47:47.060 So.

00:47:47.660 Yeah.

00:47:47.880 It was just like.

00:47:49.820 You know.

00:47:50.500 Her.

00:47:50.740 I mean.

00:47:51.460 Her mom worked the system.

00:47:52.960 And it worked.

00:47:53.720 Because we have all met her.

00:47:54.840 Like, the whole country music community.

00:47:56.620 Like, ask any of us.

00:47:57.600 Oh, so she was.

00:47:58.220 She was part of it.

00:47:58.760 She was in it.

00:47:59.400 Yeah.

00:47:59.700 She was hobnobbing. 0.98

00:48:00.840 Mm-hmm.

00:48:01.560 Oh, that's interesting.

00:48:03.120 Yeah.

00:48:04.300 A lot of us.

00:48:04.920 That gets kind of crazy, too, sometimes.

00:48:07.300 You know.

00:48:08.320 But.

00:48:08.640 But if that's what the child loves or something.

00:48:10.640 But she did.

00:48:11.140 And Gypsy was very genuine.

00:48:12.600 Yeah.

00:48:12.700 Really.

00:48:13.040 Truly.

00:48:14.000 That's just such a.

00:48:14.880 I heard that.

00:48:15.480 I was like, this can't be true.

00:48:16.820 It's just so crazy.

00:48:17.840 Yeah.

00:48:18.420 Yeah.

00:48:19.340 Did.

00:48:19.920 Has she.

00:48:20.360 Have you reached out.

00:48:21.040 Have you guys.

00:48:21.440 Has she reached out to you since.

00:48:22.880 No.

00:48:23.860 I mean.

00:48:25.260 That was so long ago.

00:48:26.120 She might just put all that behind her. 0.88

00:48:27.600 Which I would if I were her.

00:48:28.560 You know.

00:48:29.100 I don't know.

00:48:29.380 The whole thing.

00:48:30.060 I don't know.

00:48:30.480 Some of y'all's songs are so good.

00:48:31.620 I don't know how you could put it all behind you.

00:48:33.540 Well.

00:48:34.260 We'll see if she comes to a show. 0.91

00:48:36.080 There you go, dude.

00:48:38.460 Yeah.

00:48:38.780 That's just a crazy thing that I heard.

00:48:40.400 So I was like, is this the truth or not?

00:48:41.840 It's true.

00:48:42.440 It's on Google.

00:48:43.180 It's got to be true. 0.62

00:48:44.900 Well, now you know, chat GPT is kind of getting better than Google because there's not advertising

00:48:49.500 on it.

00:48:50.680 Oh, yeah.

00:48:51.300 My brother's like super smart.

00:48:53.200 Like really a techie.

00:48:54.700 And he's telling me all about this stuff.

00:48:56.440 When we first said it, I was like, who's Chad?

00:48:57.940 He kept talking about chat.

00:48:59.040 And I was like, who's Chad?

00:49:00.840 And then he asked it to write a song at Father's Day.

00:49:04.000 We had Father's Day in New York with my husband's family.

00:49:06.140 We're sitting around, you know, with like forced family fun.

00:49:08.680 You have to like think of things to do.

00:49:09.800 Yeah.

00:49:10.400 And so my brother's like, I'm going to ask chat to write a Miranda Lambert song.

00:49:14.320 And I was like, okay.

00:49:15.660 And it did.

00:49:17.200 And it didn't have a melody, but it's just the lyrics.

00:49:19.020 And it was called Whiskey and Wildflowers.

00:49:21.700 And it was kind of good.

00:49:23.160 I was like, oh, God.

00:49:24.600 Oh, God.

00:49:25.380 My career's over.

00:49:26.480 It's happening.

00:49:27.500 Do I get a royalty?

00:49:28.360 Will it go on tour?

00:49:29.140 Tell me all the answers.

00:49:30.940 Chad GBT.

00:49:32.340 There it is, dude.

00:49:33.320 That's definitely the redneck version of Chad GBT. 0.79

00:49:37.540 That's what I thought he said.

00:49:39.160 I was like, who's Chad?

00:49:40.100 He was like, I'm saying chat.

00:49:41.760 And I was like, oh.

00:49:42.960 And it's like, how do you get to New York City?

00:49:44.620 You put in there.

00:49:45.120 It's like, how much gas money you got?

00:49:46.980 You know what I'm saying?

00:49:47.800 I know.

00:49:48.120 Like it has a different voice.

00:49:49.140 Like it has like a hick voice.

00:49:51.680 Yeah.

00:49:51.960 That'd be funny.

00:49:52.640 That'd be great.

00:49:53.400 Having Chad GBT.

00:49:54.940 That'd be so good.

00:49:56.200 Hey, Chad.

00:49:56.900 How do I fix this two-stroke motor, bub?

00:50:01.920 That'd be so good, dude.

00:50:03.400 Somebody has to come up with that.

00:50:05.220 Yeah.

00:50:05.700 Whiskey and Waffle Heart sitting on the porch, sun sinking low, memories of you like a river

00:50:10.000 flow.

00:50:10.620 Your laugh still lingers in the evening air, but love's a wild ride.

00:50:14.540 Why does it talk about drinking when it's my song?

00:50:16.820 And I'm holding on with Ken.

00:50:18.000 They're judgy.

00:50:18.640 Chad's judgy.

00:50:20.020 And then the pre-chorus, got a bottle in my hand and a heart full of scars.

00:50:22.900 Full of scars.

00:50:23.540 That sounds like Trace Atkinson. 0.94

00:50:26.720 Well, it also sounds like you're a pirate.

00:50:28.980 So that's the crazy part of this.

00:50:31.220 It's so stressful.

00:50:33.020 But this is also like Chad GPT is a newborn.

00:50:36.700 You have to think in a few years, if it starts to really get like the ability to do some stuff,

00:50:42.060 but I don't know if it would ever take over like the human ability to feel and stuff and

00:50:45.700 actually create music that's based on real feelings.

00:50:48.060 I don't think it could do it.

00:50:48.700 No, and that's the, you know, it's all weird.

00:50:50.900 Whatever.

00:50:51.260 I'm trying to stay hip and cool, but it's weird.

00:50:53.360 But I'm not going to be that hip and cool.

00:50:54.540 That's weird.

00:50:55.060 Why don't you have feelings anymore?

00:50:56.280 Right.

00:50:56.720 Like you have to go to a museum to see feelings.

00:50:58.500 Like somebody's smiling behind a piece of glass.

00:51:01.280 You're like, oh, remember that?

00:51:02.380 Remember that?

00:51:02.980 Oh, there's a tear.

00:51:03.860 Yeah.

00:51:04.020 This is a fossilized tear that you're looking at.

00:51:07.120 Oh, wow.

00:51:07.780 We don't even have those anymore.

00:51:09.980 Yeah.

00:51:10.100 I'm on the pill that makes it so you can't cry.

00:51:13.260 Remember when people had those?

00:51:14.860 But that could be a real thing one day.

00:51:16.540 I know.

00:51:16.900 Oh, but maybe it'll be, we'll be long gone and doing something else by then, hopefully.

00:51:21.500 I hope I'm in the dang stars or definitely just, I don't know.

00:51:24.940 I hope something happens to me.

00:51:25.960 I hope I'm in a dang time capsule.

00:51:28.060 Well, you live in Nashville and Texas for a bit.

00:51:33.280 What was Nashville, how has Nashville changed over the years to you?

00:51:38.400 It's popular now.

00:51:40.740 Like everybody wants to come here.

00:51:42.540 It's the city, which is awesome.

00:51:44.440 I think like the fact that country music is thriving right now and our town is a destination.

00:51:52.300 I love that because these honky tonks have been here for ages and kind of like it's the music of our lives, you know, of my life.

00:52:01.540 And so people are wanting to get a little glimpse of it.

00:52:04.020 I love that.

00:52:05.300 Yeah.

00:52:05.580 I don't love that the roads aren't really made for all these people yet, but we'll get there.

00:52:09.300 Yeah. 0.92

00:52:10.160 Some of these roads are damn homemade too. 0.99

00:52:12.260 I'm like, what is somebody, you see somebody just put a damn cake batter in a pothole out there, you know? 0.99

00:52:18.260 Yeah. 0.98

00:52:18.820 It's just, people are filling with anything.

00:52:20.420 I drove through something the other day.

00:52:21.800 Cake batter.

00:52:23.300 Oh, I drove.

00:52:23.860 Yeah.

00:52:23.980 People are using anything to fill them now.

00:52:25.580 There's so many potholes, especially in January around that time.

00:52:28.160 Yeah. 0.99

00:52:28.540 I drove through something the other day and had damn devil's food all over my tires. 0.99

00:52:32.000 I was like, shit's getting weird out here. 0.99

00:52:34.000 Was it Dolly's brownie mix? 0.99

00:52:35.500 I don't know.

00:52:36.220 Is that a thing?

00:52:36.820 Those are good.

00:52:37.860 Dolly has no brownie mix?

00:52:38.800 Have you tried them?

00:52:38.820 The Duncan Hines brownie mix?

00:52:40.900 Dolly has everything.

00:52:42.460 And I bought them.

00:52:43.420 Of course I bought them.

00:52:44.460 And I was like, there it is.

00:52:45.760 Of course I bought them.

00:52:46.520 Oh, God.

00:52:46.940 Because they don't have like oil in them.

00:52:48.380 You know how the box brownies have oil?

00:52:50.580 Nope.

00:52:50.920 She has milk and eggs and butter, like real ingredients.

00:52:54.720 They're delicious.

00:52:55.500 I love that.

00:52:56.640 Dude, what I used to love was whenever our mom would make something, dude, and she would

00:53:01.060 let us lick those things that were in the- 0.99

00:53:03.240 The raw egg.

00:53:04.400 Yeah.

00:53:04.600 She lets you lick the beaters. 0.99

00:53:06.140 Lick the beaters, boy. 0.98

00:53:07.460 Beaters.

00:53:09.040 Now they're called kitchen mixers.

00:53:11.000 Yeah, well.

00:53:11.500 But my mom had like the Walmart brand beaters. 1.00

00:53:14.160 Yeah, kitchen mixers is a little bisexual for me, okay? 0.64

00:53:17.360 Yeah.

00:53:17.700 Them things were-

00:53:18.340 My husband has the KitchenAid, and he's obsessed with it.

00:53:20.180 He does all of the-

00:53:21.180 He makes homemade pasta.

00:53:22.700 He has all the-

00:53:24.620 Every accessory you can have for a KitchenAid.

00:53:26.780 He's like in it.

00:53:27.660 He's in there.

00:53:28.480 He's not doing like old school beaters.

00:53:30.600 Yeah.

00:53:30.940 We don't even have those.

00:53:31.760 Put them beaters on there, honey. 1.00

00:53:33.920 And I will-

00:53:34.260 But I was like, your mom was like, don't eat too much of it because it's raw eggs.

00:53:37.260 Yeah.

00:53:37.460 And we'd be like, bro, and the crazy thing was, some of the- whatever was in it, I mean,

00:53:43.220 we'd eat them.

00:53:44.040 It's like that grainy stuff.

00:53:45.860 Yeah.

00:53:46.140 Granules.

00:53:46.680 It had a little bit of-

00:53:47.800 Like, yeah, it had like- I don't know what it was.

00:53:50.020 Who cares?

00:53:50.660 You didn't even get it down.

00:53:51.340 Nobody cares.

00:53:51.900 But the crazy part was, some of it, if you started licking the beater at the top, then

00:53:56.380 some of the stuff would flow down in your hand.

00:53:58.460 So you'd get all the-

00:53:59.220 Then you're just licking your own hand with that- still holding on to that beater.

00:54:02.940 And then somebody would like accidentally put soapy dishwater in the bowl, and you're like,

00:54:06.680 no!

00:54:07.460 Oh, yeah.

00:54:08.180 It's over. 0.67

00:54:09.340 Because, dude, if you could get even part of your head in that dang bowl, you know?

00:54:13.360 I just wanted to grow longer.

00:54:15.200 I would pray to God.

00:54:15.980 I'd make my tongue longer at night.

00:54:17.560 Well, that's a whole different episode.

00:54:20.060 Okay, yeah.

00:54:20.680 Sorry.

00:54:21.720 Sorry.

00:54:22.020 Well, that's for the Tracee Atkins episode.

00:54:24.580 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:54:25.820 Dude, well, I told you I'd leave.

00:54:28.700 Yeah, you're right.

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00:54:58.300 What's a place that you miss in Nashville that's not here anymore?

00:55:04.880 I kind of miss Old Losers. 1.00

00:55:06.960 Like, Old Losers was like, I love Losers still, but like Midtown, it was like just one little 0.68

00:55:13.180 shitty dive bar with like darts in the back and smoke and like a great jukebox and popcorn, 0.73

00:55:20.140 you know?

00:55:20.740 And now it's like three stories and the rooftop and all the things.

00:55:24.360 But it's still great.

00:55:25.420 But I kind of miss like the little, like the, the divier, the better, you know?

00:55:31.620 Yeah.

00:55:32.800 Yeah.

00:55:33.160 And now they still have the back porch over there you can go kick it at sometimes.

00:55:35.960 That little deck.

00:55:36.840 I have a little sign up there.

00:55:38.260 It says Marine Lambert Way.

00:55:39.480 It's hanging up there.

00:55:40.740 Do you?

00:55:41.280 Have you been on that VIP deck?

00:55:43.340 Yeah, I have a couple times.

00:55:44.920 Exactly.

00:55:45.140 Go look for it, ma'am.

00:55:46.540 John Daly's usually out there.

00:55:48.320 I put it, yes.

00:55:49.840 I put in a lot of-

00:55:50.480 He's usually out there waiting for an ambulance.

00:55:51.820 I put in a lot of late-nighters to get that sign.

00:55:54.300 Oh, I bet you did.

00:55:55.860 I didn't even think about that. 0.98

00:55:56.160 You have to drink a certain amount of Tito's out of a shitty plastic cup to get your sign 0.98

00:56:00.460 up there. 0.98

00:56:00.920 And I have one, so.

00:56:02.360 And at least it says Way.

00:56:03.620 It could have ended up being Miranda Lambert cul-de-sac, too, you know?

00:56:06.640 Oh, no.

00:56:07.180 See, that wouldn't be as cool.

00:56:08.100 No.

00:56:08.860 But at least it's-

00:56:09.560 Drive, Way, Road.

00:56:11.080 I can deal with.

00:56:11.660 Not cul-de-sac.

00:56:12.380 Yeah, cul-de-sac. 0.98

00:56:12.860 I remember when somebody put a damn cul-de-sac. 1.00

00:56:14.920 First time I ever saw one, I was like, what is this shit? 1.00

00:56:17.560 What do you mean you can't keep going? 1.00

00:56:19.820 Just fucking hurt my feelings, boy. 0.99

00:56:22.220 I said, we'll see about that. 1.00

00:56:23.460 I'm going to call the damn sheriff. 1.00

00:56:25.560 We'll see about this. 0.99

00:56:26.800 I can't find a picture.

00:56:27.560 I have one on my phone.

00:56:30.260 What else was I thinking about?

00:56:32.920 Oh, if you had to travel back in time, right?

00:56:35.460 If you had a time warper, and it could have a hemi on it or whatever.

00:56:40.280 I don't know how you like to travel.

00:56:41.340 But if you had a time warper, what time back in your life would you go to, do you think?

00:56:47.860 Right now.

00:56:49.040 I think I just stay right now.

00:56:51.000 I feel like I've done it, but I'm still learning.

00:56:55.380 Somebody asked me that the other day, like, what's your most fun era?

00:56:58.800 And I was like, right now.

00:57:00.860 I'm like, still young, but like, not dumb.

00:57:04.760 You know, I mean, you know that whole vibe where you learn a lot.

00:57:09.620 Early 30s were weird.

00:57:11.900 Late 30s were fine.

00:57:14.140 But like, now I'm like, what's we're doing right now?

00:57:16.940 You're like, we're here.

00:57:17.840 We're here.

00:57:19.180 Everybody's just like, 40s is the best decade.

00:57:21.120 I'm like, let's roll.

00:57:22.300 Yeah, we'll see.

00:57:22.940 Yeah.

00:57:23.680 I believe it.

00:57:24.540 Yeah.

00:57:25.140 Here we go.

00:57:26.000 Yeah.

00:57:28.220 Tell me something else that you think about.

00:57:29.640 Oh, the new song is Damn It Randy on your new album.

00:57:33.860 Who's it about, man?

00:57:35.320 Well, it's about Randy.

00:57:38.840 Oh, I see.

00:57:41.660 It's about Randy.

00:57:43.000 Everybody has a Randy in their life.

00:57:44.920 Okay.

00:57:45.660 And everybody has one.

00:57:46.800 And it's about just a time where I was like, this is not good.

00:57:50.980 It's not serving me anymore.

00:57:52.020 Or this is, I got to move on.

00:57:54.720 And was it a real, like, was it serious?

00:57:56.520 Or was it just somebody that didn't install y'all's cable well or something like, you know?

00:58:00.100 Well, it depends on the person.

00:58:01.420 Everybody's got a Randy. 0.99

00:58:02.420 Damn it, Randy. 0.99

00:58:03.280 Right? 0.99

00:58:03.980 And I wrote it with John Randall, who's one of my besties.

00:58:05.760 And his real name is Randy.

00:58:06.960 So I always say that to him anyway.

00:58:08.780 So it's kind of funny.

00:58:10.000 And that's the one that Brendan's a rider on.

00:58:12.440 Oh, yeah.

00:58:13.320 I was flying a kite in the middle of a hurricane.

00:58:14.920 There it is.

00:58:15.820 That little songwriter.

00:58:18.100 What else was I thinking about?

00:58:19.440 What drives you at this point in your career?

00:58:23.140 I know this is kind of a general question, but, like, you've gotten to have notoriety.

00:58:29.040 You've had number ones.

00:58:30.040 You've won Grammys.

00:58:30.860 You've won.

00:58:31.800 You're a household name.

00:58:33.520 You can afford to pay your rent.

00:58:36.500 You know, it's like, what goals are there still for you?

00:58:41.200 Or do things evolve from goals into, like, just wanting to still do the job?

00:58:48.260 I'm just curious.

00:58:48.840 And it's stuff I go through in my own life, too, with comedy, you know?

00:58:51.800 I'm just curious.

00:58:53.300 What do you think about that?

00:58:54.980 You know, I am lucky enough to have reached a lot of the goals that I set when I started this journey.

00:59:00.680 I mean, I was 17 when I was chasing music.

00:59:02.720 That's what I'm doing.

00:59:03.520 Yeah. 1.00

00:59:04.560 And people are like, fuck you. 1.00

00:59:05.540 You'll be at a Dairy Queen in two months. 1.00

00:59:07.300 Yeah, and I was like, okay.

00:59:08.640 See you all next time. 0.99

00:59:09.300 You're like, well, I'll be singing in the drive-thru, damn it. 0.98

00:59:11.940 Exactly. 0.98

00:59:12.820 I don't know.

00:59:13.660 I feel like now I'm just, like, open.

00:59:16.120 I'm trying to be open to, you know,

00:59:18.680 I'm not walking around saying I'm going to do this and this and this.

00:59:21.640 I'm just, like, absorbing what's around me and being open to new opportunities

00:59:26.520 and meeting new people and, like, also saying no to the right things.

00:59:35.520 Like, I think that's a big part of it because you can save your energy for the right things

00:59:40.120 if you just say no to the things that are not right for you.

00:59:42.480 Like, that's kind of where I'm headed and where I've been living in the past couple years

00:59:47.940 because I realize, like, if you put all your energy into the wrong people and the wrong things,

00:59:54.760 then you don't have any openness or any time or energy left for the right things,

00:59:58.640 and then it's too late, you know?

01:00:00.180 So I think I'm just in this space right now where I'm like, what's next?

01:00:03.280 I mean, this is new.

01:00:04.600 I've just started doing podcasts.

01:00:05.960 Like, I've never done that before until this year.

01:00:08.460 You've done a good job.

01:00:09.260 I've watched some of them.

01:00:10.000 Well, I'm new to it, and I'm not great at talking.

01:00:13.620 Like, I'm a singer.

01:00:14.480 Like, I'm in front of people.

01:00:15.560 I'm actually an introverted extrovert.

01:00:17.720 I have an extroverted job with an introvert personality,

01:00:20.660 and so I'm trying to – I'm branching in that way.

01:00:25.380 You know, I always – I'm fine to say my truths in songs.

01:00:28.280 It's just harder to do just, you know, saying it out there.

01:00:31.540 But I think it's important either way.

01:00:33.780 So I don't know.

01:00:34.600 My goals are, like, what's next?

01:00:36.960 Let's do something that scares us.

01:00:39.160 Let's do something that's, you know, makes you grow and makes you learn.

01:00:42.980 Yeah.

01:00:44.160 Yeah, that's true, huh?

01:00:46.180 Yeah, sometimes it's so – I feel like when you're involved in some part of the arts,

01:00:51.420 kind of, you know, people call them, and some people just call them music and comedy

01:00:54.740 and painting or whatever.

01:00:55.820 But it's weird to also kind of evolve because it's like you age, right?

01:01:03.880 We age, and you're like, well, if I – some songs I can't even really sing anymore.

01:01:09.160 Some jokes I can't even really – I could tell them still,

01:01:12.300 but is it really going to be true to where I'm at, you know?

01:01:14.760 I find that that's interesting about art itself is you have to –

01:01:18.760 and then you're – but then you're like, but if I change,

01:01:20.940 will I still have the people who like this thing, you know?

01:01:24.080 Yeah, it's like how do you keep the common thread and keep reinventing?

01:01:27.020 It's a tiny little fine line you have to walk.

01:01:29.600 Yeah.

01:01:29.820 And it's scary because what we do is very public and like what we signed up for

01:01:35.180 and what we started saying or the jokes we told at 20 or the songs we wrote at 20

01:01:39.780 are not the same – we're not in like the same life space

01:01:42.800 and we're not in the same lane anymore, you know?

01:01:44.920 So it's like figuring out how to do that gracefully

01:01:50.500 but still keep that common thread of like where you've been and where you're going

01:01:55.240 but kind of walk this line of stay inauthentic to the true you that started this whole journey.

01:02:01.800 And comedy is the hardest thing in the world.

01:02:03.780 Like I do not – I think that would be the literal hardest part of the arts of any art.

01:02:07.940 I really do.

01:02:08.580 Really?

01:02:09.180 Yeah.

01:02:09.640 I just respect it because it's the most vulnerable.

01:02:13.200 Like standing up there in front of people and just telling jokes

01:02:16.000 and hoping they – like that it lands, you know?

01:02:20.360 And there's no band.

01:02:21.800 It's just you.

01:02:22.880 Yeah.

01:02:23.420 That's scary.

01:02:23.900 I wish somebody would pull up with a drum sometimes.

01:02:26.100 Just like –

01:02:26.680 Start playing a drum solo immediately if you're like, no, this one didn't happen.

01:02:31.720 Take it away, Henry.

01:02:33.280 You know?

01:02:33.600 Just turn it over to somebody.

01:02:34.280 Yeah.

01:02:34.420 You just don't have anybody to like lean on.

01:02:35.880 You're up there by yourself like emotionally naked.

01:02:38.920 Like it's scary.

01:02:39.460 Oh, in the beginning, it's so scary, I think.

01:02:41.480 God, I can't even believe something when you think back.

01:02:43.540 And I don't mean it like – I'm not trying to fill my own ego.

01:02:47.060 But when you think back, like I don't know if I'd go do it now.

01:02:50.800 But yeah, you get up there that first time and you're just like,

01:02:53.160 this is going to – this is going to be good, you know?

01:02:57.760 You don't even believe yourself.

01:02:58.780 You're just screaming that to yourself in a car, you know, in a Ford Taurus.

01:03:02.620 You're like, this is going to be good.

01:03:04.340 Like in your best Chris Cornell voice.

01:03:06.340 Yeah.

01:03:08.060 Beefing yourself up.

01:03:08.940 I don't – I don't.

01:03:09.640 The fact that you said you don't know if you'd do it now.

01:03:11.420 Like I think about – I knew like three –

01:03:14.380 It makes me nervous.

01:03:15.220 I know.

01:03:15.760 I just got anxiety.

01:03:17.040 I think about like – I knew three chords and I was like walking in these bars like,

01:03:20.180 can I play at the set change?

01:03:21.280 Like I just – I got to get some experience.

01:03:23.240 And you know, it's that thing of like, how do I get experience if you don't let me play?

01:03:27.300 Yeah.

01:03:27.780 But then you say, I can't play because I don't have any experience.

01:03:30.320 Like just put me on set change then and I'll play my three songs that I just learned yesterday.

01:03:35.200 Like not good, but just being brave anyway.

01:03:37.660 I don't know.

01:03:38.120 We did it.

01:03:39.580 That's a good point.

01:03:40.560 Yeah.

01:03:41.360 I know the ones that hurt too.

01:03:42.780 Do you ever show you remember that really just kind of burned you when you're just like,

01:03:46.120 God, this is hard.

01:03:47.280 Oh, yeah.

01:03:48.620 Like a birthday or anything.

01:03:50.100 Like you ever get – play at one of those Arab birthdays or something. 0.99

01:03:52.840 You're like –

01:03:53.340 Private parties.

01:03:54.220 I'm so thankful for private parties.

01:03:55.520 I love them.

01:03:56.140 I would love to play your private party.

01:03:58.800 But some of them can be hard.

01:04:00.700 Yeah.

01:04:01.020 You know, where it's like – I did – I played a Sweet 16 one time.

01:04:05.560 And this thing was the most extravagant party I've ever seen in my life.

01:04:11.420 And it was a bunch of 16-year-olds.

01:04:12.860 And they only wanted me to do four songs.

01:04:14.640 Michelle Branch was part of it, Leigh-Anne Rimes, and me.

01:04:17.440 And we each did four songs.

01:04:19.580 And like this thing was like legit.

01:04:22.240 It was in Washington, D.C.

01:04:24.140 And these kids were dressed to the nines.

01:04:26.200 They all had on like everything designer.

01:04:28.940 And I was like – I was working at Bell's when I turned 16. 1.00

01:04:32.560 Oh, I don't rob those bastards. 0.99

01:04:33.820 We were dressed to the threes, honey. 1.00

01:04:36.460 Okay?

01:04:37.240 I'll tell you that.

01:04:38.380 We was – the three of us combined, we was a nut.

01:04:41.080 I mean, that was one that sticks out in my mind.

01:04:43.640 I'm like, oh, Lord, this is bougie.

01:04:46.180 Oh, yeah. 1.00

01:04:46.760 We remember I had hand-me-downs from damn women. 1.00

01:04:48.920 And I was like, I don't have an older sister. 1.00

01:04:50.760 I was wearing shit. 1.00

01:04:51.440 I was like, whose shit is this? 1.00

01:04:52.720 Just – 1.00

01:04:53.160 You know?

01:04:54.220 Stuff that – whatever was around.

01:04:55.920 My mom was like a big thrifter. 1.00

01:04:59.860 So, big thrifter.

01:05:01.660 I'm like, I found – but this is awesome.

01:05:04.820 So, like, it was in the Doc Martin, like, heyday.

01:05:07.500 And we couldn't afford those.

01:05:08.480 Those were very nice.

01:05:09.240 Those were very nice.

01:05:10.420 They were very nice.

01:05:11.200 God.

01:05:11.640 That's where Mother Hubbard lived in one of those, I heard.

01:05:13.900 They were fancy.

01:05:14.840 We went to Goodwill a lot.

01:05:17.660 And, like, I found a pair of Doc Martins for $7.

01:05:20.900 And they were, like, new.

01:05:22.860 And I went to school, and my mom's like, just tell everybody you got them at GW's.

01:05:27.140 And say it's, like, a nice store in Dallas.

01:05:30.840 So, I forever was like, these are my Doc Martins I got at GW's.

01:05:33.620 It's a nice store in Dallas.

01:05:35.680 Just a flat-out lie.

01:05:36.780 But I was like, $7 Doc Martins.

01:05:38.580 Like, that's a score.

01:05:40.080 That's $3.50 a foot, honey.

01:05:41.600 Let's party.

01:05:42.240 That's the rest of the threes. 0.99

01:05:43.140 Oh, that's like putting, damn, each foot into a dang Sheraton. 0.98

01:05:47.700 That's really nice. 0.99

01:05:48.860 Sheraton's have pretty good beds.

01:05:50.120 You know what I do notice?

01:05:51.560 After touring and going to hotels and stuff, I get one thing that bugs me now is if the

01:05:56.860 mattress is too soft.

01:05:58.720 And I don't mean it in a negative way, but it's like your back starts to fall apart,

01:06:02.340 and you start to realize how many bones you have in your body as you get older.

01:06:05.000 And you're like, this isn't holding anybody up.

01:06:09.460 You figure out, like, what, like, but is your Continental, like, breakfast, like, just

01:06:14.800 Froot Loops, or is it, like, hot breakfast?

01:06:17.060 Oh, no.

01:06:17.540 Like, it's those things you start to, like, really appreciate on the road.

01:06:20.140 Like, do y'all have real eggs, or are they powdered eggs?

01:06:22.380 Because you can't say hot breakfast if it's powdered eggs.

01:06:24.220 That just doesn't count.

01:06:25.120 That's fair.

01:06:25.840 Doesn't count.

01:06:26.480 Yeah, that's more MREs.

01:06:28.480 Like, it's like MREs, but with a television that's on ESPN, you know?

01:06:31.780 Like, they'll have that set up.

01:06:32.920 Yep.

01:06:33.640 Yeah, God, I think, yes, I remember we used to go to the Continental Breakfast,

01:06:38.780 and we would pretend, like, the people there were waiters or whatever.

01:06:43.100 We weren't even supposed to be there.

01:06:43.960 We weren't staying there at the Holiday Inn, and we would go up there and eat up there.

01:06:47.780 My stepdad would take us up there.

01:06:49.040 But you're not staying there.

01:06:49.920 Huh?

01:06:50.280 Uh-uh. 1.00

01:06:51.220 And we'd go in that bitch and dine, honey. 1.00

01:06:54.040 You know what I'm saying? 1.00

01:06:55.140 And when they have happy hour, and it's in a box, but I'll take it.

01:06:58.220 It's fine.

01:06:58.900 Box wine.

01:06:59.440 It sounds great.

01:07:00.600 Let's do it.

01:07:02.040 Do you have a favorite party, like, birthday party that you ever had so far?

01:07:06.160 I know you just turned 40, you said?

01:07:07.580 I think it was this one.

01:07:08.940 Was it?

01:07:09.380 Yeah.

01:07:10.260 Did y'all go back to the casino?

01:07:11.960 No.

01:07:12.800 We went to Billy Bob's on a Monday.

01:07:15.720 Billy Bob's was, like, the biggest.

01:07:16.280 Oh, in Texas.

01:07:17.320 In Fort Worth.

01:07:17.640 Yeah, in the stockyards.

01:07:19.080 My friend Gwen, she sings with me in my band for 13 years, and she was like, where do you?

01:07:22.940 Because I was like, I don't know what to do.

01:07:24.180 There's so much pressure on that birthday.

01:07:26.680 Yeah.

01:07:27.000 You know, like, the big, the zero ones, you're like, I don't, I just would rather do nothing.

01:07:31.220 Like, I shut down, and she was, we were getting our hair done, and she was like, it was typical,

01:07:36.840 getting your hair done in the foils.

01:07:38.060 So she's like, where do you want to turn 40?

01:07:39.540 And I was like, she was like, I feel like you want to turn 40 at home in Texas.

01:07:43.380 Go back to the root, full circle.

01:07:45.680 And I was like, I do, I think.

01:07:47.640 And so Billy Bob's gave me the bar on a Monday, because they're closed.

01:07:52.260 And we had barbecue, and a bunch of my Texas friends, Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen and Adam Hood played.

01:07:59.780 And it was just a big old honky-tonk night.

01:08:01.460 And it was like, it felt like, man, this is like why I loved, why I started this in the first place.

01:08:07.220 Like, I just, I've been playing Billy Bob's for so long and going there to see shows.

01:08:11.140 And so I think that was my favorite birthday so far.

01:08:14.160 That's perfect.

01:08:15.160 Well, that's the most recent one, you know.

01:08:19.420 What else was I thinking about?

01:08:20.380 Anything in the news that we could think of?

01:08:21.900 Let me just pull it.

01:08:22.760 We'll get you out of here soon, too, Miranda.

01:08:24.120 I know you guys have a show.

01:08:25.120 You have a show tonight?

01:08:26.180 No, I don't.

01:08:27.420 Tomorrow.

01:08:27.740 Oh, tomorrow night?

01:08:28.280 Yeah.

01:08:28.600 Oh, lucky.

01:08:29.100 Tomorrow night.

01:08:30.680 Yep, for singing for the doggies. 0.99

01:08:32.640 Oh, for your pups?

01:08:34.020 Music for mutts, yeah.

01:08:35.180 It's a benefit for Mutt Nation. 1.00

01:08:37.180 Music for mutts.

01:08:38.040 And what qualifies a mutt, actually?

01:08:40.600 Just us.

01:08:43.060 All right.

01:08:45.940 Probably.

01:08:47.760 I don't know.

01:08:48.500 I have just rescue animals, and they're just all mixed little puppers. 1.00

01:08:55.060 I started a foundation in 2009 called Mutt Nation Foundation with my mom.

01:08:58.640 With your mom?

01:08:59.220 Yep.

01:08:59.920 That's her. 0.88

01:09:00.640 And we've raised over $10 million since then.

01:09:04.640 $10 million?

01:09:05.360 $10 million.

01:09:06.180 Wow.

01:09:06.500 We raise awareness for adoption, for spay-neuter, for adopt-don't-shop, and like right now with

01:09:11.500 the Hurricane Helene, we're doing a lot of work with Tractor Supply Rescue Relief and

01:09:16.020 with Greater Good to, you know, people are first, obviously, but there's tons of shelters

01:09:21.000 down there that were already overcrowded and got hit, and so just, there's a lot of moving

01:09:26.460 parts.

01:09:26.880 So really what our foundation does is kind of meet the need, whatever the need is.

01:09:30.820 You know, whether it's lifting up shelters, giving them grants for renovations, natural

01:09:35.660 disasters, we kind of run the gamut, but our main focus is to encourage people to adopt.

01:09:42.900 And once someone creates something like this, this foundation, right?

01:09:46.760 Yeah.

01:09:47.100 So this is a nonprofit organization.

01:09:49.940 How do you raise funds for it?

01:09:52.380 Obviously, you can do fundraiser shows.

01:09:53.860 You can put your own money into it.

01:09:55.460 And then how does, I'm just curious, how does a nonprofit even, well, I guess those are

01:10:01.020 the ways.

01:10:01.340 You put money into it, or you do fundraisers.

01:10:03.040 Yeah, we've done fundraisers.

01:10:04.040 I sing for the pups.

01:10:05.840 I mean, we haven't done a music one, but like for my Vegas residency, we gave a dollar a

01:10:10.220 ticket, and I was there for two years.

01:10:12.600 So a dollar a ticket, we've done that on tour, where a dollar a ticket goes to Mutt Nation. 0.96

01:10:17.160 And then this is our first benefit show in a couple of years, so I'm excited.

01:10:20.740 I got some friends coming out to sing, some surprises.

01:10:23.400 Really?

01:10:23.920 Yes.

01:10:24.300 It'll be fun.

01:10:24.720 Can any of the animals ever tune in?

01:10:26.420 Any of them ever hit a B sharp or something?

01:10:28.840 And have you ever trained any?

01:10:30.680 No. 0.98

01:10:31.420 My mom has this terrible shitty dog, though. 1.00

01:10:33.660 His name is Rhodey. 0.99

01:10:34.920 And he's just like my dad.

01:10:36.120 I know.

01:10:36.520 My dad found him on the side.

01:10:37.240 Was he held back in school?

01:10:38.780 Yes.

01:10:39.680 And he has an underbite, and he's a Chawini. 1.00

01:10:41.780 It's like the worst of all the world.

01:10:43.020 What is that? 0.97

01:10:43.740 And he's like my little shitty brother now, and that's what she calls him, because me 0.98

01:10:47.660 and my brother, my real brother, are like, God, this sibling of ours is terrible. 0.99

01:10:52.040 And he will sit there.

01:10:53.100 My dad plays guitar and writes songs, and it's specifically George Jones.

01:10:57.420 He stopped loving her today.

01:10:58.500 When dad starts singing that, that thing howls, and it's like this screeching, awful noise.

01:11:04.280 And you have to put it away.

01:11:05.880 Like, you have to put the dog in the house, and it's still, you could hear it howling.

01:11:08.860 And then that part where they go, ooh, ooh, ooh, that thing howls, and it's just like,

01:11:16.780 and my parents think it's cute, which is even worse.

01:11:18.660 Oh, God, dude.

01:11:19.240 I know.

01:11:19.860 It's the worst.

01:11:20.740 So, yeah.

01:11:21.560 They could be, some dogs sing.

01:11:23.580 Do you want them to?

01:11:24.420 Absolutely not.

01:11:25.860 But if you could organize them?

01:11:28.400 Well, yeah.

01:11:29.420 We could do like a family choir.

01:11:31.220 Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

01:11:32.400 Yeah.

01:11:32.760 Get you a little batch of hounds in those church gowns or whatever.

01:11:37.220 Yeah, we could do it.

01:11:38.520 I mean, anything can be done.

01:11:40.660 We could ask Chad.

01:11:41.880 Yeah, yeah.

01:11:42.600 Chad will do it.

01:11:43.320 Ask Chad, GPT.

01:11:44.480 Hey, organize these mutts, guys. 1.00

01:11:47.800 Was there two pieces of news?

01:11:49.000 Anything else in the news?

01:11:49.820 What were the top two news stories that we had in there?

01:11:53.700 Oh, yeah.

01:11:55.140 And we don't have to talk about this either if you don't, if it's an awkward thing.

01:11:57.820 Yeah, Garth Brooks got accused of harassment.

01:11:59.640 Did you ever know him as a bad guy?

01:12:00.780 I always heard the nicest things about him.

01:12:02.440 I don't know him.

01:12:03.660 I just heard this today, so I have not been down.

01:12:07.040 The news, like, rabbit hole of this.

01:12:09.820 So it's fresh off the press.

01:12:11.760 I have nothing to say about it, but I'm, I want to read it.

01:12:15.180 I mean, I'm going to read it like everybody else.

01:12:17.480 I'm going to read it.

01:12:18.600 I want to know.

01:12:19.980 Yeah, no, I've always heard the nice things about him.

01:12:22.280 But he's always seemed kind of mysterious to me in a way.

01:12:25.460 Like, he always seemed like he's done his own thing, I guess.

01:12:28.540 You know?

01:12:29.040 He was the biggest artist when I was a kid.

01:12:31.620 He was my first concert.

01:12:32.780 Was he?

01:12:33.100 Yep, when I was 10 years old, night two at Texas Stadium.

01:12:36.720 And he flew in.

01:12:38.240 He, like, dropped out of a helicopter.

01:12:40.180 And they, when he did standing outside the fire, and they lit the whole stage on fire.

01:12:44.440 And I was like, and I, okay, this is bad.

01:12:46.840 But I had braces, but only two because I had a gap.

01:12:50.420 So I had to do the gap, close the gap on the front two teeth. 0.61

01:12:52.640 So just those two?

01:12:53.740 Yeah.

01:12:54.180 Who, hey, I haven't even heard of that.

01:12:55.440 Well, this was a while ago.

01:12:57.420 How does it even.

01:12:57.940 But they should never do this to a child ever again.

01:12:59.880 How does it even work?

01:13:00.180 Now they have, like, Invisalign.

01:13:01.160 It's not, it's not fair.

01:13:02.100 Kids these days don't have to be ugly. 0.56

01:13:03.700 Like, we were ugly.

01:13:04.840 Like, we had to just, I had scrunchy hair, and Jesus, and braces, and all things.

01:13:10.400 But I had the two braces when I saw that Garth Brooks show.

01:13:13.240 And I had all my Rockies.

01:13:14.400 Do you remember those jeans that were, like, real high-waisted with no back pockets?

01:13:17.780 And so everybody's butt looked real long.

01:13:19.500 And it had a, the label was black and white lettering? 0.92

01:13:22.120 Rockies, yeah.

01:13:22.700 Yeah.

01:13:23.300 And I had on those, and they were red.

01:13:24.640 I had on my Roper boots.

01:13:25.760 And I was so excited.

01:13:26.700 My flame shirt, I was, like, my brush popper, like.

01:13:29.980 And he came in and dropped out of that helicopter, and I was just, like, Garth.

01:13:33.120 And I was, like, screaming.

01:13:34.440 And I was, like, waving.

01:13:35.500 But I only had the two, and I had, like, pink rubber bands on them.

01:13:39.040 Yeah.

01:13:39.480 So just, like, totally.

01:13:40.640 And it was in that area where you would, like, curl one bang up and one down and tease it,

01:13:44.940 and it would look like a big cloud.

01:13:46.340 Oh, that was never an era.

01:13:47.400 But tell me more about it.

01:13:48.320 It was so bad.

01:13:49.060 It was so bad.

01:13:49.980 And I just was so excited.

01:13:51.220 And I was, like, I'm going to be a country singer.

01:13:53.940 It was epic.

01:13:56.700 Standing outside.

01:13:57.620 Oh, I was just singing all of it. 0.99

01:13:59.040 And I would get so excited when I could say, damned old rodeo. 0.99

01:14:02.480 My mom would be, like, that's cuss word. 1.00

01:14:05.100 And I'd be, like, well, Garth said it.

01:14:06.580 That's how I get to say it.

01:14:07.920 Dude, the beaches of Cheyenne.

01:14:09.900 So many good songs.

01:14:11.120 So many.

01:14:11.780 Yep.

01:14:12.000 That No Fences record.

01:14:14.120 I bought the tape.

01:14:15.620 I'm older than you.

01:14:16.720 I don't know if you are, and we used to play that tape together.

01:14:19.320 Oh, we used to play.

01:14:20.200 We used to, they used to have this thing called Crying, Loving, or Leaving on the radio.

01:14:23.260 Do you remember that?

01:14:23.860 Yes.

01:14:24.260 I loved that.

01:14:25.660 God.

01:14:25.880 Did you record the countdown?

01:14:27.300 Lux?

01:14:27.500 Yeah.

01:14:27.880 Same.

01:14:28.900 And you had to push the button at the exact right time.

01:14:30.800 Yeah.

01:14:31.340 And for, but for two years, the number one song was Whitney Houston. 0.99

01:14:37.460 I always loved you.

01:14:38.440 I was like, gee, can we just do something?

01:14:41.120 Can't Red Hot Chili Peppers do something? 0.95

01:14:42.920 Like, we just, it was this.

01:14:44.520 Why can't we do scar tissue?

01:14:46.740 It was the number one song for so long.

01:14:48.880 I was like, something's got to happen, man.

01:14:50.420 We need a war in this country.

01:14:51.980 You know, I was just like, we got it.

01:14:53.460 We needed something new in there.

01:14:54.920 But yeah, that was, and that's when all the music, some of the channels, even it was all

01:14:58.360 of the, it was all one, that top 40 was anything was in there.

01:15:01.980 Yeah.

01:15:02.300 Everything.

01:15:03.000 Cause it was Casey Kasem.

01:15:04.520 Yeah.

01:15:04.820 So it was like all of the songs.

01:15:06.480 Like it wasn't just one genre.

01:15:08.660 Crying, Loving, or Leaving was it though.

01:15:10.940 Hey, Ernie, where are you?

01:15:12.880 And he's like, yeah, I'm over here in Davenport, Iowa.

01:15:15.100 First time caller.

01:15:15.940 He'd be like, you Crying, Loving, or Leaving, Ernie?

01:15:18.140 And he'd be like, I'm loving.

01:15:20.180 I want to see if we could like find that and listen to it.

01:15:22.540 Like, I wonder if it exists somewhere on YouTube or something.

01:15:25.040 I would totally listen to that.

01:15:26.840 Yeah.

01:15:27.320 Oh, I called in.

01:15:27.980 I called in two times.

01:15:29.580 Got through.

01:15:30.540 I called in 60, 75 times.

01:15:32.420 What were you doing?

01:15:32.820 Crying, Loving, or Leaving?

01:15:33.800 I was loving one time.

01:15:35.580 And then I was leaving one time.

01:15:37.300 I was going to leave home.

01:15:38.540 I was going to go to the post office and mail myself somewhere else.

01:15:41.080 That was my goal.

01:15:42.860 And they're like, you can't do that, buddy.

01:15:44.420 You're going to mail yourself somewhere else.

01:15:46.420 Yep.

01:15:46.920 That'd be kind of cool.

01:15:48.060 I'm here.

01:15:49.400 Oh, I rode my bike all the way over there.

01:15:51.980 And it was closed.

01:15:52.900 I thought it was open 24 hours a day.

01:15:54.600 I'm like, what the hell can you guys can even?

01:15:58.120 But I just learned a lot that year.

01:16:00.680 But yeah, Crying, Loving, or Leaving.

01:16:01.680 Play one of them real quick for us if you can.

01:16:05.480 It exists.

01:16:06.420 Perfect one to pick, by the way.

01:16:17.900 Perfect.

01:16:20.080 Perfect.

01:16:21.360 There's no way we did not.

01:16:22.720 That is so perfect.

01:16:26.460 Brennan, I swear to God.

01:16:28.200 That was one of them.

01:16:29.620 We did not pick that on purpose.

01:16:31.960 I had no idea we were going to talk about that.

01:16:33.220 That was actually perfect.

01:16:35.160 Oh, my God.

01:16:36.340 My first wedding song, guys.

01:16:37.960 Let's play that.

01:16:40.160 Was it really?

01:16:41.120 I'm sorry.

01:16:41.440 It was.

01:16:43.420 You believe me, though, that we did not do that on purpose?

01:16:45.260 I love it.

01:16:46.520 We did not do that on purpose.

01:16:47.160 We just manifested all of that.

01:16:48.960 I would never do that on purpose.

01:16:49.860 We're Crying, Loving, ain't leaving now.

01:16:51.180 Bye.

01:16:53.240 Leaving.

01:16:54.080 Okay.

01:16:54.700 Done left.

01:16:55.500 Yeah.

01:16:56.340 All three.

01:16:57.200 We need to do a new spinoff of it.

01:16:59.400 They should have it.

01:17:00.520 I wonder if Kix Brooks does something like that.

01:17:02.120 Because I know he has a weekly show or something.

01:17:03.980 Yeah, he should.

01:17:04.160 But that was it, man.

01:17:05.080 When you were a kid waiting to hear if somebody was crying, loving her, leaving, you didn't even know.

01:17:08.940 I'm going to listen to these.

01:17:09.720 Not that one particular.

01:17:11.080 Where people were.

01:17:12.280 And if they did that on purpose, I'm sorry.

01:17:14.140 It's pretty funny.

01:17:14.560 I don't think they would do that.

01:17:15.840 It's pretty funny.

01:17:16.400 They're too nice of guys to actually do that.

01:17:21.640 About the new album, what's new about it?

01:17:24.820 What feels new to you about it?

01:17:26.060 Obviously, you have new tunes and that sort of thing.

01:17:30.600 But yeah, what feels exciting to you about it or anything different?

01:17:35.400 Well, I made it in Texas.

01:17:36.540 It's the first time I've recorded in Texas since I was 18.

01:17:39.140 Okay.

01:17:39.700 So back to your roots, kind of?

01:17:40.920 Back to the roots, yeah.

01:17:41.560 I wanted to go to Austin and just like really, it's a really honky-tonk record.

01:17:45.960 I mean, it sounds like my childhood.

01:17:47.500 It sounds like the music I grew up on.

01:17:49.420 And I think it's just because I have a new chapter, a new label, a new decade ahead of me of like whatever's going to happen.

01:17:57.540 And I wanted to like go back to the root of where the whole passion started to begin with, which was like playing those honky-tonks in Texas.

01:18:05.080 Like I think I had that sort of awakening when I had my birthday at Billy Bob's.

01:18:09.840 And I was like, I'm turning 40 at one of my favorite places on earth in my home state at a honky-tonk listening to country music.

01:18:15.280 And that's just where my heart lives at the end of the day is a honky-tonk listening to country music.

01:18:20.140 Yeah.

01:18:20.320 So it felt right to like make my own music that way this time, you know?

01:18:25.080 Yeah, it's hard for your heart to kind of get back home when your life gets busy like that in a way, you know?

01:18:29.800 It is.

01:18:30.180 And I have Austin, Austin.

01:18:31.400 I spend a lot of time in Austin.

01:18:32.720 I love Austin.

01:18:33.520 Me too.

01:18:33.900 My little brother lives there.

01:18:35.220 And I just, I don't know.

01:18:38.060 I always say I'm a TNT state girl because my heart's half in Tennessee, half in Texas.

01:18:44.980 But both places that I live revolve around music.

01:18:48.000 And I love that.

01:18:48.940 Yeah, it's like sometimes your life gets so busy and then you're like, it stops at a certain point.

01:18:53.880 Or there's a special day or a moment.

01:18:55.300 You're like, okay, I can get a look at where I'm at.

01:18:58.240 Yeah.

01:18:58.580 It's good to like have enough time to stop and look at where you're at because I didn't for so long.

01:19:04.240 I mean, when you're young and you start young following your dream and then you just sort of are a horse with blinders.

01:19:11.280 Then you stop and you go, okay, now what?

01:19:15.560 I made it.

01:19:16.140 Now what?

01:19:16.980 You know?

01:19:17.340 And it's like, it's kind of a weird spot to be.

01:19:21.060 But then once you embrace it, which is where I feel like I am right now, just embracing like, look what I've done so far.

01:19:28.280 But like what else can we do?

01:19:29.840 You know?

01:19:30.280 Yeah.

01:19:30.500 I still feel really inspired and excited.

01:19:32.500 I mean, I definitely don't have the same energy for like long, you know, 150 days a year on the road or anything.

01:19:39.560 But I'm still so inspired to like write songs and, you know, I love the music.

01:19:44.860 I can't.

01:19:45.600 It's my life.

01:19:46.500 I dedicated my whole life to it.

01:19:48.840 It is funny.

01:19:49.420 You kind of, yeah, you do when you get busy and your career gets busy.

01:19:52.640 A lot of you gets dedicated to what it is.

01:19:54.700 It's like I spend most of my time, like I have some close friends I don't even get to talk to that much.

01:20:00.700 And I know it's sad to say, people are like, well, you work instead of talk to them.

01:20:04.480 But it's almost like you build up your dream, but then your dream takes a lot of responsibility.

01:20:09.340 Yeah.

01:20:09.920 And nobody tells you what to do when you have done it.

01:20:14.060 Like there's not like a manual you can like, there's not like a podcast you can like go back and look at and be like,

01:20:20.520 so now what happens at this point in my career at this age with this, these accolades, like what happens now?

01:20:25.960 You just figure it out as you go.

01:20:27.860 And, you know, I'm like working with younger artists now and like newer artists.

01:20:33.500 I have a label called Big Loud Texas.

01:20:35.300 Oh, yeah.

01:20:35.800 We partnership with Big Loud.

01:20:37.520 Oh, that's your, so you guys have a branch there now.

01:20:40.020 Yep.

01:20:40.340 Oh, that's awesome, dude.

01:20:41.520 And it's, you know, keeping that.

01:20:43.360 Steven Wilson Jr. on Big Loud too?

01:20:44.640 He's on Big Loud.

01:20:45.180 Let's go.

01:20:45.680 Yeah.

01:20:46.420 So he's playing in Nashville.

01:20:47.980 Patches on patches on patches.

01:20:49.240 So good.

01:20:49.700 He is, yeah.

01:20:50.820 Torn Cigarette.

01:20:51.900 Oh, when he said, is this song called Torn Cigarette?

01:20:54.160 It's called Patches.

01:20:55.340 Oh, that lyric that he says?

01:20:56.560 I'm a torn cigarette.

01:20:57.620 My patches got patched.

01:20:58.520 It's so good.

01:20:59.260 But he is playing in Nashville.

01:21:01.760 Everyone.

01:21:02.360 December 4th.

01:21:04.320 Tethered.

01:21:04.880 So good.

01:21:05.560 My father's son. 0.98

01:21:06.680 Drain my blood.

01:21:08.400 Dude, God.

01:21:09.240 It's like the, it's one of the greatest records that's come out in a decade.

01:21:12.700 That's our audio slave, man.

01:21:14.100 It really is.

01:21:14.800 Because it's all of it.

01:21:15.720 Yeah.

01:21:15.900 It's hillbilly and it's rage and it's sad and it's funny.

01:21:19.700 And even as a Native American, some of the beats, some of the drums that he uses have 0.95

01:21:23.620 a very like native sound to me.

01:21:25.900 It's great.

01:21:26.540 It blows me.

01:21:27.700 I'm like, and I keep finding new songs on it that I like.

01:21:30.680 That's, that's what's always amazing.

01:21:31.980 Like you keep going back and re-hearing them.

01:21:33.720 Yeah.

01:21:33.840 And you're like, oh, now this one I like.

01:21:35.600 Now this hit me weird.

01:21:36.420 Yeah.

01:21:36.700 Yeah. 0.99

01:21:37.180 Let's get fucking weird, buddy. 0.99

01:21:39.980 Anyway. 0.99

01:21:40.620 I also like to do wears his like little vest.

01:21:43.180 He's just like wears his little vest in all his videos.

01:21:45.340 He's just sitting there freaking slaying the guitar and he's just like his little puffy

01:21:50.140 vest.

01:21:50.760 Yeah.

01:21:51.200 Just cozy.

01:21:52.400 I love it.

01:21:53.240 There he is.

01:21:53.860 It's his puffy vest.

01:21:55.100 I love it.

01:21:56.220 He looks like a lifeguard at Woodstock kind of in a way.

01:21:59.580 Yeah.

01:21:59.680 You know what I'm saying?

01:22:00.160 He has a very safe, but risque vibe, dude.

01:22:06.600 You can tell.

01:22:06.980 And he's so sweet, by the way.

01:22:08.180 Like the sweetest.

01:22:09.520 You can tell like, I've just listened to some interviews and stuff with him and just listen

01:22:13.120 to his music.

01:22:13.580 I got to see him play one night at Whiskey Jam.

01:22:15.960 Yeah.

01:22:16.300 At Whiskey Jam.

01:22:17.040 And that was so cool.

01:22:18.440 But yeah, it's amazing.

01:22:20.300 Him, Red Clay Strays, I've been listening to.

01:22:22.340 Is it great?

01:22:23.680 So much good music out there.

01:22:25.000 So much.

01:22:25.500 Yep.

01:22:25.620 So many great.

01:22:26.580 Laini Wilson, I know you talk to her.

01:22:28.280 I love her so much.

01:22:29.120 God, if they had 11 Laini Wilsons. 0.97

01:22:32.060 Good gal pal.

01:22:32.900 You'd be in there in the donut box with 11 Laini Wilsons. 1.00

01:22:35.660 Because there would, dude.

01:22:37.060 Yeah.

01:22:38.020 Yeah.

01:22:38.400 And you'd be the cop.

01:22:39.420 I would.

01:22:40.220 Well, no.

01:22:40.780 Well, look.

01:22:41.260 Like, what are y'all doing?

01:22:42.360 Hey, what are you doing in there, huh?

01:22:44.120 With the New York accent.

01:22:45.200 I got to work on that.

01:22:46.360 Hey, what are you doing in there?

01:22:48.460 Anyway, Miranda Lambert, thank you so much for all the beautiful music.

01:22:51.520 Thank you for spending time with us today and just sharing a little bit of your life.

01:22:55.060 And yeah.

01:22:55.920 And thanks for just like the inspiration and just being a space of like, hey, this is

01:22:59.100 where you are and now let's see where we are and let's make the best stuff yet to come.

01:23:05.060 And yeah, I just really enjoyed my time.

01:23:08.100 Well, thank you.

01:23:08.720 We got deep and it was good.

01:23:10.180 I liked it.

01:23:11.060 Yeah.

01:23:11.360 We talked about some good songs too.

01:23:12.940 It's nice.

01:23:13.680 Yep.

01:23:13.920 We sure did.

01:23:14.960 Your new album is out.

01:23:16.860 It is.

01:23:17.460 It is.

01:23:17.920 It's called Postcards from Texas.

01:23:19.120 Postcards from Texas.

01:23:20.620 And yeah, we'll be listening to it.

01:23:23.920 And you got to check out Aaron Ratier.

01:23:26.000 Okay.

01:23:26.400 You're going to like him.

01:23:27.080 Okay.

01:23:27.460 Quirky one.

01:23:28.220 Yeah?

01:23:28.620 Yeah.

01:23:29.480 All right.

01:23:30.760 I'm in.

01:23:31.500 Thank you so much.

01:23:32.340 Thank you.

01:23:32.840 Yep.

01:23:33.000 Now, I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.

01:23:38.900 I must be cornerstone.

01:23:44.120 Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.

01:23:49.520 And I can feel it in my bones, but it's going to take.

This Past Weekend with Theo Von - October 10, 2024

E537 Miranda Lambert

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