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Carly Pearce talks to Everything Nash about new music, 2026 goals, her path in country music, and more.
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Hey guys, it's Gail and we are sitting
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here with Karly Pierce. I'm so glad I
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get to talk to you.
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I'm so happy to see you. It's
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my first inerson interview in 2026. Look
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at us.
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I love it. I love that.
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Uh, lots to talk about. Starting with
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Church Girl.
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Girl, no pun intended, but seriously.
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Okay, give me the story behind it.
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church girl. I think the whole theme for
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me with new music right now. Um I want
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to be bold and I want to um really stand
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on vulnerability in maybe a way that
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people haven't heard from me. I know
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they've heard it relationship wise. Um
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but church girl for me, I've
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grown up a Christian my whole life. Um,
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my faith is very important to me and um,
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I think that throughout my life I've had
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some not so perfect things happen to me
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that have sent me on a journey with my
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faith. And
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over the last several years, fans have
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come to my shows and they're also on a
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journey. And I think at this point in my
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life and at this point in my career, I'm
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reflecting a lot. And I just felt like
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this song is so important right now of
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all times for anybody who has felt shame
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or guilt or judgment or um left out to
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know that no matter where you are on
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your journey, you're welcome at my
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shows.
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Oh my gosh, I love that. It reminded me
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of NextGirl, which but I wonder if you
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can talk a little bit about about your
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trajectory from NextGirl, which was a
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really fun song to church girl, which
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has such a strong message.
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I think it's the evolution of music,
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right? So
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next girl,
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I love a good play on words and that
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song was like an anthem that really if
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you listen to the lyrics was pretty
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tough to think about. Um, but I think
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what that album 29 and what songs like
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Next Girl taught me is just who I am as
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an artist. And um, I think about all of
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the life that I have lived since then. I
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don't even think that I had processed at
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that time what had gone on in my life.
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Um, so I sit here now
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ready to sing a song like Church Girl,
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ready to stand proudly as a woman of
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faith that says you're accepted by me.
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Um, it is not me preaching to anybody.
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It is not me questioning the church or
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God or anything. It is just me taking
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this song and really wanting people to
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feel accepted.
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I love that. I'm going to get to more
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music, but while we're talking about
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church girl and faith, you Langley Laney
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Wilson, there's been a resurgence of
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people talking about their faith
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that I haven't seen in recent years. Can
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you talk about why it's important for
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you because you have a big platform.
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Yeah.
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To share it.
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It's a big part of who I am. It always
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has been. I feel like I've always been
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somebody who um long before I was, you
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know, a successful artist. That's what I
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turn to. But even more so, it's
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something that's really the northstar of
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my life. And in a life of chaos, um that
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is a constant and probably the only
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thing that is truly constant and
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unconditional in my life. And so it's a
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it's a strong strong pillar for me and
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something that I like to share with
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fans. I like to share verses that mean
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something to me or you know different
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things that um help me on days that
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maybe are a little harder than others.
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I love that. Uh let's talk about dreams
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come true. Girl, I cried.
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I was having a terrible day and I was
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like why did I ever start my own
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website? And then I listened to that
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song and sobbed. The story behind it.
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dream come true started this whole new
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chapter of music for me and I wrote it
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over a year ago. Um,
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and really it came from exactly what it
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says. It is my story line by line. I
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moved into a house with four bedrooms in
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a culde-sac. Um, and was surrounded by
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young women who
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had very different lives than me but had
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things that I wanted. They had families
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and husbands and normaly and um
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it made me start to
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question
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where I was at and and look at maybe
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evaluate is a better word of just the
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sacrifices that so many of us make no
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matter what your dream is but to chase
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it and you don't realize in the moment
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the things that you're missing out on or
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um the events that you have to miss or
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all of these different things. Um, and
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this business is so fleeting. I had just
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come off um an experience that was
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really again I think the heartbeat of
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the chorus of that song where I had won
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an ACM for I'm sorry I had won a CMT
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award uh with Chris Stapleton who that
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was my dream collaborator and less than
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12 hours later I wasn't nominated for
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the first time at ACMS and it was that
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push and pull in 12 hours that could
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make me go from feeling so high to so
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low and um knowing that other people
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feel that way when you have success and
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um just wanting to be honest about the
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struggles that come with this type of a
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life.
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I wrote about it by the way that you
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should have been nominated. Good.
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Thanks.
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What can you tell me about the album?
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I really dug deep. I I switched
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producers. Um Ben West, I'm working with
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him. We've been longtime friends. We
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wrote Show Me Around for Busby. Um he is
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incredible. He made the two albums last
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year that really moved me. Um, Lacy K.
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Booth and Steven Wilson Jr. And um, we
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made my favorite music I've ever made. I
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think I pushed myself sonically. Um, I
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co-produced this record and really just
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went back to my roots and really where
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the I returned to the original dream,
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which was the girl growing up in
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Kentucky wanting to sing country and
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bluegrass. And um the subject matter, I
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think I pushed myself writing and
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choosing songs that really were equally
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as vulnerable as what people know me to
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do, but that touch on some things that
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maybe people don't know about me.
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Writing them songs.
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All of them.
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Not all of them.
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Okay.
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No.
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Okay. Talk about the songs that you
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didn't write. What makes a song get on a
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Carly Pierce album that Carly did not
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write?
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Oh, it's it's a tough thing to get on a
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Carly Pierce record. Um, I have to feel
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melodically connected to it. I have to
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feel lyrically connected to it. It has
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to be something that I'm like, "Oh, I
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wish I would have written that, but I
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couldn't have written it that good."
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So, when is a release album? What's
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happen?
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You're going to get some songs before.
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Um, I'm not sure yet. We're kind of in
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this process and I'm really enjoying
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just like catching up to how music is
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being released right now. Um, obviously
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it's a much quicker
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digesting situation than years past of
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um, traditional albums coming out. So,
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you'll get a lot of music and I promise
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that the album is coming. Um, and I'm
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just really excited for people to
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continue to hear this stuff.
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I think the first time I talked to you
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was before Every Little Thing was
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released. So, can you take me from Carly
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then to Carly now?
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Oh my. It's been a decade. This year is
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a decade since Every Little Thing came
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out.
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And we're still 29.
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Always 29. I'm actually I'm good to
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never be 29.
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You are.
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I'm good. Um but it's been a decade.
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You know, I think in a lot of ways I
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have the same ambition. I have the same
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love of country music. many of the
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dreams that I had
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during that season of my life have
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happened truthfully, like pretty much
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all of them. Um, and that's a really
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beautiful thing to be able to say that
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in a decade my wildest dreams came true.
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Um, I think I'm way more grounded, way
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more self-aware,
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um,
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and happier.
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You seem happy.
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Yeah, I'm really happy. Um, I want to
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talk a little bit about the sisterhood
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that's happening in country music. I
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just got to talk to Laney a couple days
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ago and there's I've never seen in 20
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years of doing this, I've never seen
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such a strong bond of women and I feel
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like you and Laney are kind of leading
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that right now.
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That's really nice. Um, I just talked to
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Laney the other day. She texted me. Um,
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it's a great group of girls and even if
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I don't like let's say I'm closer to
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Kelsey and Laney, I'm still equally like
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I'm I'm mind blown at what Megan's
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doing. 450,000 tickets. I I wish that
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people understood what that means. Um,
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I'm so rooting for her. What Ella has
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done reminded me of the trajectory of
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watching Laney skyrocket. Um, I think
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she's an incredible artist and just a
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really, really great performer. Um,
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Laney, I've said it for so long, she
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just she reminds me of Reeba. Um, in the
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way that she is so poised and so perfect
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to hold the torch. Um,
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I think because I see those girls and
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truthfully like my relationship with
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Kelsey, um, we've grown up in this
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industry together and had success and
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and helped each other get through it on
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like a true human level. Um,
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I want to have
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an influence.
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I'm really big into the girls behind us.
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Um,
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I love that.
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I know that we're good here. like we've
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got our thing going on. I wish I would
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have had one of me or a Laney or a
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Kelsey back then.
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I have goosebumps.
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I do. I really do. I I And I didn't.
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It's not that anybody wasn't nice to me,
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but they just I wasn't It just didn't
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happen. And um I've taken a great pride
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in that kind of mentorship. And I have
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very I I've gotten to a place where
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these girls call me and they come over
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or we'll talk on the phone or we send
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voice texts and um nothing's off limits
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and it's the kind of relationship Kelsey
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and I have and honestly we went and hung
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out with Laney uh over the summer and we
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didn't post about it cuz it wasn't for
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anybody. Kelsey and I did and it was so
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fun and it was like, "Oh yeah, this is
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what it's all about." And um I feel like
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I have that with some of these younger
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girls and it's been like super
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fulfilling for me, but it's also like
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gosh, let me tell you all the things
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that if I could go back in time, I would
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probably do different or learn from this
10:45
or maybe you should do this. And it's
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just fun. It's fun to be a big sister to
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girls that are walking right where
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you're you've kind of like left the
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breadcrumbs and they're coming up.
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I love that so much. Um and I am so glad
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that there's people like you and Laney
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with integrity leading the charge. I
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love that. And Kelsey, I love Kelsey,
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too. Um let's talk about what's
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happening with you in 2026 touring.
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Yes. I'm spending a lot of the beginning
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of the year. It kind of all happened. I
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think it's a total God thing of just
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like being able to I it's been a really
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long time since I put music out. So, I
11:21
feel like in a lot of ways I'm giving
11:22
myself some space to release music while
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going overseas. So, I'm spending a lot
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of time at the beginning of the year in
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Australia and um doing a UK tour and
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then I'll be back once a lot of music
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and album announce and things are out to
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do some things in the fall
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and then we'll talk about it some more.
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Yeah.
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Um you have other things going on too
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like your conundrum wine. Yeah. Oh my
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gosh. I know.
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What a dream for you.
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It really I mean and truly like my
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favorite. If I could have like
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handpicked who I would collaborate with.
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I'm not just saying that. Conundrum was
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like the wine that I always drank when I
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first started drinking wine. So it's
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like very nostalgic. I obviously love
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CS. I love just the whole family.
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That's a beautiful collaboration. Okay.
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Anything else happening this year? We're
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going to do something fun in a minute.
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Anything else you want to talk about
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that's happening this year?
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I'm really just so focused on new music.
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So I'm just really excited for people to
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hear it. Will there be songs about a
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relationship on this album?
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Um, you know, I'm not really good at
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love songs. I have one. Um, but that
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doesn't mean that I'm not very happy.
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I literally, Sidebar, you posted a
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photo. It wasn't the first one. I think
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maybe the second one. And I literally
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went because I've seen you a lot, like
12:35
10 years, and you looked
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happy. Like it was a different that I
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have not seen in you before. Well,
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that's probably true. I know, right? No,
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that's very true. Um, and again, like I
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I look at my story and I'm like any girl
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out there, like I'm in my mid30s and you
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just have to sometimes trust the
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process. But we're great. He's so great.
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I was 38 when we started dating.
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See, you just never know. I'm like, hold
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on, girls. There's good ones. Don't
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worry.
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All right, we're going to end with
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something fun. 11 questions with Kylie
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Pierce. And I need my readers for this.
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I'm scared. Don't be that. Uh, favorite
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food.
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Um, I like anything with carbs. Bread,
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pasta, chips,
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pizza,
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dessert.
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Um, ice cream for sure.
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Yes. Okay. Uh, any food you hate?
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Oh, yes. I hate yellow squash. I hate
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you and my son.
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I really hate yellow squash. Like I
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don't want any sardines or any of that
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nasty. I don't really like uh like
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oysters. I don't like any of that stuff
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at all. Yellow squash that. And um I
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don't really like zucchini.
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Interesting. Slimy things for you.
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Oh, dream vacation.
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Um Italy.
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If you go, I want to go.
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Um biggest pet peeve.
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I have a lot. Um
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you name the top three.
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Uh I don't like people who are late.
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uh chew with your mouth open and um like
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arrogance
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like that that can actually like ruin it
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for me. If you're arrogant, I'm gonna
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know really quickly. I'm out.
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That's a you need a good radar, too. Uh
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dream duet partner.
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Um
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I don't know. You'll have to wait and
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see.
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Chris Stapleton was my dream dream
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dream. So, I've I've I've found some
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really great prospects. And you did do
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that thing with Michael Bubé.
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I mean, again, insane. He's like
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amazing. I love him.
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Still call him my best friend. Whatever.
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He's pretty awesome.
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Celebrity crush.
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Um, I used to always say Dan Taminsky
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from United Station, which people are
14:49
like, who is that? So, he is my
14:50
celebrity crush and he knows this. But I
14:53
would say um
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I don't know like Ryan Reynolds. He's
14:59
pretty hot.
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He do. John Mayer.
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Um, what's your weirdest talent?
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Oh,
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I was hoping you did.
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Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if you can see
15:07
it through here, but I have the most
15:08
double jointed arms in the history of
15:10
the world.
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It's great.
15:14
I love it. I wrote that specifically for
15:16
you, hoping you would do it. I'm just
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saying. Um, oh, this is going to be hard
15:20
for you. Best career moment so far. Or
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maybe it's not.
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Um, I have two. Grand Opry member and um
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female vocus of the year for sure.
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Yeah, that was a good one. Um what is
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your biggest fear?
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Um
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honestly, I'm not laugh. I'm laughing
15:45
because it's so dark. Getting to the end
15:47
of my life and
15:50
realizing I didn't live it.
15:54
There's a song in there. Mhm. Just
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saying. There's a song in there. You can
15:58
think of me when you write it. Um,
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perfect day for Carly Pierce.
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Um,
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let's see. I wake up.
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I work out. I wear sweatpants. I hang
16:09
out with Johnny and June.
16:11
I drink some wine. And my perfect day
16:14
would be I could play a show in my
16:16
sweatpants.
16:16
Oh, wouldn't that be a dream?
16:18
Yeah. But that's not really real. But
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it's my day.
16:20
You could in your living room. And then
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I could eat a full pizza and a drink a
16:25
bottle of wine and eat a pint of Ben &
16:28
Jerry's and not be fat from it.
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If you figure out how to do that, let me
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know. Okay, last question. What is
16:36
something very few people know about
16:37
you?
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H
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um
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I feel like everyone in here is like,
16:51
"What is she going to say?" I don't
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know. Uh I have like a really crude
16:56
sense of humor. That's kind of like I'm
16:58
kind of like a dude. I don't know that
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people would maybe think that.
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You ride on a bus with dudes.
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Yeah. Like I'm actually the most dude of
17:04
all the dudes. Like they're like,
17:06
"Please stop. You're gross." Um Yeah.
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I'm like gross.
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Do you still ride on the bus with them?
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Yes. You still have one bus?
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I have I have two buses, but yes, we
17:16
have our bus and I I don't want to be
17:18
without them. So, like my emotional
17:20
support animals.
17:20
Sometimes people dream of their own bus
17:22
and you're like, "No, I'll stay with
17:23
you."
17:23
I have like my own I got a whole haven
17:25
in the back, but I need I need my
17:28
emotional support animals.
17:29
They would love for me to get my own
17:30
bus.
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They're like waiting.
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I have nothing to say after this. Carly
17:35
Pierce.
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