Miranda Lambert | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #537

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for your support today's guest is a. Grammy award-winning country musician. she has a new album called postcards. from Texas and you know her songs uh The. House That Built Me drunk uh January. heart uh the list goes on Red Wagon uh. I'm really grateful today to get to. spend time with one of the queens of the. country music industry Miss Miranda.

[Music]. bur I'll and you my. stor. shine on. me and I will find a song I will. [Applause]. sing nice to see you today Miranda. Lambert hello it's an honor well thanks.

for having me yeah it's a cozy little. place it's a pleasure yeah yeah we we uh. yeah we try to keep it cozy it's nice. kind of get to you know just catch up. with folks and see what's going on I've. met your husband a couple times yeah he. said that yall randomly on like two or. three Planes together yeah we've been. we're like kind of I guess Air Buddies. or whatever I don't know if there's a. term for it or whatever I love that yeah. he said to tell you hi oh I appreciate. it he's golfing priorities yeah mhm yeah. well he just dang handsome too that's a.

thing I see that guy and I'm like God I. got to get some conditioner or whatever. he is he is a he's a pretty one God he. is he's like a um and he used to be a. cop right yep he's a retired NYPD. officer and did you uh you guys ever. played cops and robbers or anything like. that no but what last year or two years. ago for Halloween I got I wore his. uniform and I made him be a donut and it. was. awesome he cuz he's super fit and. doesn't even eat donuts and I was like. I'm going to be a cop and you're going. to be a donut he like that's just that's.

stupid I was like no it's. awesome favorite he was pting the whole. time he was like I don't want to be a. donut dude everybody wants to be a donut. bro I could even imagine not wanting to. be a donut I yeah I've I think. everybody's always just wanted to sit in. a box with 11 of their. buddies you know well it's funny because. that whole like cliche or whatever but I. was like oh yeah and I was worried I. wouldn't fit this uniform but I did. thank I was like I can't fit this. uniform we have bigger issues like it's.

going to be a problem yeah it was fun my. dad's my whole family is First. Responders and so it's his family so we. had that in common right away oh sweet. yeah did you guys ever has he ever like. tased or anything like that or is that a. qu crazy thing no no and he has. handcuffs and I'm like that that would. be the one time that the key was gone. like we're not I'm ever doing that never. it's not not going to happen yeah we got. tased one time oh if you're ever in. shreport or whatever and you're I guess. have some free time or whatever they.

will they'll tase you there the officers. there fun yeah for yeah for there's not. a lot to do there I guess and but yeah. they'll do it I grew up like right like. an hour from streetport oh you did I. used to yeah I used to play over there. in little bars and um casinos coming up. I actually had my 21st birthday in. streetport no that's pretty red where. did you where did you guys go we had to. a casino yeah we were at Sam's toown I. think my grandma is a VIP there cuz she. spends a lot of money on the slot.

so she got the limo and all that and I. went with my grandma on her friends for. my 21st birthday and her friends her. friends they're wild though yeah they. were wild oh yeah a lot of these seniors. now you can't well you see them in the. pools and everything and they have those. weights and they're just doing it all. every time I see seniors they're just. getting crazier and crazier do they have. a senior citizen dating website I wonder. I don't know but my grandma's my. granddad would just give her like. allowance like stay out of my hair money. and so she would just go blow it at the. casino it's the best.

was she one of those grandmas that like. at the end of the year they buy um all. the Christmas gifts and they all say. like Sam's toown or whatever on the back. and she would always like buy and then. wrap them and forget that she did it you. know what I mean and she would be like. we open the present she'd be like I. don't I don't know when I bought that or. what it. is oh yeah dude yeah they used to tase. us over there man they would that's real. weird yeah it was kind of crazy but I. think um you can get a taser now like. you can even get one on Teemu that also. like Beats and stuff like there's every.

they just have everything now you know. um I don't think I want to be tasted you. know I'll say this honestly it wasn't it. was way easier than I thought well I'm. glad you took one for the team I'm glad. that's over with settled so your 21st. birthday you guys went over there was. that like the biggest city close to you. guys um we're right between Dallas and. treport so like I20 my little Hometown. Lindale Texas is like the halfway point. where you like stop it for gas and. Burger King you know what I mean oh yeah. so I I was there a lot and Dallas was.

Dallas was our like City oh yeah yeah. what was your first uh job over there um. I worked at Bell's oh my first singing. gig no your first like human job like. job my first like my first big girl job. well I start I worked at this little. department store called bills for like. the Christmas season they hired me to. wrap presents which I'm terrible at oh. so then they were like these presents. are terrible so they put me in the back. room to like sort things and I only. lasted 2 weeks I was like I just started.

singing and playing I was 17 but I. needed like I was not making any money I. was like Starving Musician and so I. tried for that like you know that like. holiday season extra money and realized. quickly like I've got to make the music. business work cuz this is not for me cuz. that's not it no it was just not I. wasn't good at anything else so I was. like yeah if they put you in the back to. sort that's not even I know I couldn't. even use well because I someone lady. asked me like does this look good on me. and I told her my truth I was like not.

really they're like that's not how it. works you kind of have to lie I'm like. oh um yeah I'm trying to think if I well. I used to work at a pizza parlor for a. while and we got late there were uh. cutbacks there or whatever and I don't. know how there could be cut back it's. like there was four of us working there. but I guess they had like cutbacks or. whatever so a couple of us got laid off. but um yeah I wonder if I ever worked at. a department store I couldn't work. around Pizza I just I love too much yeah.

yeah we had the um Pizza in in your town. yep and had the salad bar and had little. corn dogs on it and that I was really. happy about that they put corn dogs on. the salad bar I love a salad bar that's. unprecedented oh I love a salad bar. peteza used to have a great one you. remember Pizza Hut it was like Pizza Hut. but like small town brand Pizza in oh. yeah Pizza in did they throw the pizza. in the air or not no no nobody knows how. to do that oh yeah now I know I've. actually seen it in real time now. because my husband is from New York City. yeah so had like legit pizza now not.

Pizza in Oh we had a place I'm trying to. think of what it was called and but they. had a big window there and some dude I. think he was a magician but they gave. him like daytime work throwing those. pizzas in the air cuz I think it just. fit in people's heads like oh that's. magic and so that's hard oh he he was I. think he really got the hang of it and. it was awesome people would come from. miles around to watch him you know you'd. see kids just out there just licking. lollipops just staring at them looking. at this dough wizard small small town. entertainment is is pretty simple it's.

easy to it's easy to uh come up with oh. yeah when the fair came to town that was. always exciting we could go to the fair. a day before and for 50 cents you could. you were kind of a guinea pig they. didn't tell you that but it was like. come on over and uh you can do a ride. for 50 cents so we lived right down the. street from the fairground so we'd walk. down there dude and it you would just. get rattled. electrocuted um yeah I don't I don't. trust Small Town Fair rides I just I I. just don't and I think that's probably a.

wise choice for you you know yeah how. you seem like a drill Tracer because you. got tazed and you ride the 50 Rod like. you're just going for it I've been in. some bad relationships yeah maybe I'm a. thrill Chaser you know I think yeah if. you stack all those things up um how. does a guy this is news so how does cuz. your husband was just like a regular. police officer right how does a regular. police officer meet a um a celebrity. comfortably do you is that a weird thing.

to ask kind of no I mean honestly like. we're kind of from from the same fabric. so it was the the weirdest part of it. all is the the language barrier at first. honestly cuz he's New York accent and. you hear mine so it was like any of my. Southern phrases any of the like redneck. stuff I say he's like what I don't. understand what you're saying so but we. just met we met by chance literally on. the street and like and six years later. it worked out but was was there moments.

where he was like you know this is like. because I feel like if I'm a regular guy. say if I met you know Julia Roberts or. um trying to think of somebody else. Queen Elizabeth or something and I'm. trying to date them I would I wonder if. there would be moments in my head where. I'm like what how do I do this like you. know do I put on a special cologne like. what do how do I just because there's BR. does wear the polo like the old school. one oh he does bottle oh yeah that green. bottle with the little gold the red one. I don't know if I've seen that one that. might be the sport yeah maybe it is.

remember when the sport came out oh did. you ever wear cool water uh no I didn't. but did no some R uh some of the fancier. kids kind of did guys that had like game. with women wore it that that's why I was. like did you are you lying did you wear. the pool or say it I didn't have game. with women I was like I was always the. guy who like would like would help my. buddy open all the Valentine like on. Valentine's in school they would have. like the Key Club or whatever would come.

in and if somebody bought you a. valentine they give them all out in the. room at the same time so my buddy would. get like 11 of them and I wouldn't get. any but he'd let me like hold a couple. of them on on my desk or whatever feel. good yeah and it's like hey hold isn't. it like wasn't it like the one where you. give everybody in the class one so. everybody feels love oh when we were. kids well when it got into junior high. it got like okay somebody had to go yeah. and you would get him and he would just. have a stack of he look like the damn B. you're going to get so many Valentine's. now it's going to be weird cuz you talk. about it good point.

yeah Valentine's were nice my mom would. get us like something that she would. like leave by our like bed or something. in the morning like uh that was pretty. sweet though um but yeah was there ever. a moment where he was just like where it. just seemed like ner like he's like I'm. a regular guy and you're you're a. regular person but then there's always. like a I think there's a fear in like a. regular guy's head of like how you would. behave around a celebrity I guess I. think um does it make any sense at all. yeah and def was an adjustment to like.

just jump into country music world and. move to Nashville I mean he like retired. you know he was eight years on the. department and he like sort of CH made. the choice we made the choice together. of like we got to be together you know. and yeah to trade your gun in for a. harmonica or whatever is a big deal I. think um well thank God he didn't cuz I. don't know if he he's he loves music. he's not necessarily musical he did. write a song on my new record he's a. co-writer on a song on my new record. yeah I had him writing during.

uh 2020 we were all doing anything. during 2020 like yeah oh if cops are. writing songs yeah I was like let's. write songs and so we did and he was. pretty good and I guess because I mean. growing up in New York City and like. being a cop on the street in Time Square. like you have a lot of Life lived you. know and so this record he has um a. co-write on my song called damn it Randy. and he had some of the best signs in the. song really yeah so he oh wait I've. heard that one some like in a hurricane. that his line nuh fly a hot in a.

hurricane I was like dang it that is a. good line it is a good line um but yeah. you know I think that like all the. celebrity part out of it I don't care. about that stuff you know so yeah it. just made it we're just real and regular. and like like I said both being from. first responder families like we kind of. grew up the same some different places. yeah yeah that's what I'm trying to do. I'm just just trying to inspire like. regular men out there to think that they. could handle it if they met a celebrity. person in that world that they.

everything it could be cool they can and. you know what it's like I'm such a big. sickler of like don't surround yourself. with us people and so having a husband. that's just a regular guy like just. being a cop in New York City and like he. come he comes into my world but he tells. me the truth he like calls me on my [ __ ]. he tells me the truth he doesn't sugar. coat he sees everything for what it is. and I really appreciate that like. there's the fact that he's not in my. industry at all and just really kind of.

it's a straight shooter it's like it's. such a blessing to have in my life and. so I'm glad that I married somebody that. just like is is that way that is just a. regular bluecollar guy that sort of. comes in and enhances my world and. speaks a lot of Truth into my life so. y'all go all y'all regular dudes go go. get it we need you yeah we need you. that's a great call he also married like. a country singer and a horse girl and so. I mean he signed up for a lot yeah cuz. horse girls like we're a different breed.

like I oh yeah dude I just met I went to. a therapy place for like a week and they. had horses out there and one of the. therapist like work with the horses she. was like the horse therapist lady or. whatever like the it's amazing yeah and. so like she had me out there hugging. this big old horse I don't think I don't. know what his name was I've done that. too the equin therapy it's amazing like. it I thought it was crazy but it's. really neat it teaches you so much like. where they're like put your hand where. you feel like the put your hand where.

you feel most drawn to the horse and. like immediately put my hand on its. heart I didn't even know where a horse. heart was now that I think about it like. I was like I don't know where it is in. that huge shot chest you know it's. pretty cool oh I had to take the horse I. was trying to take his pulse and I had. to do with both of my hands like that. like horses are crazy they just got like. 60 Ines of neck on them um but yeah it. was kind of wild cuz at first she's like. okay approach the horse and let it know. you're okay so then I'm like 4T from. this horse I think his name was Knuckles. or like Mitten or something and um and.

I'm like hey horse I'm just letting you. know I'm here like it was almost like. meeting an alien cuz i' just never even. been around a horse like in that much. like proximity like just being a horse. in a pin and but by the end I got to. take the horse for a walk and stuff and. I felt like it was cool because at first. I was super nervous and as I went along. it kind of. like yeah I kind of like my idol came. down yeah you know and it and it that. they're so therapeutic just being around.

them in general but like they're just. majestic creatures and I heard just I. think they can hear your heartbeat from. like 5 miles away or something oh my God. pervert crazy yeah that's crazy dude I. mean that's ease dropping that's I know. but they could sense everything it's. like they tell you the truth about you. before you even know your own truth. you're like ah I didn't grow up around. horses I didn't start till I was 30 and. I just wanted to do something that. scared me a little and I always wanted. to be that cowgirl like I I put used to. play all the rodeos back in the day and.

like thing the national anthem and small. toown rodeos when I first getting. started and all those like flag girls. and the barrel Racers with all the. glitter and Fringe I wanted to be that. so bad and I chose country music and so. I was like at 30 I was like I'm going to. be a cowgirl damn it I'm going to do. this and so I started riding for the. first time at 30 and now I'm really. super into it I love it I but I was I. mean I'm still like I'm green I don't. know what I'm doing but I just love like. having a hobby completely outside of.

what I do that's challenging and. physically challenging and also it's. like not up to you it's up to them you. know oh yeah dude it is like that's the. dang Lord's Uber dude being on a. horseback the Lord's Uber bro you get on. a horse it is not it's like kind of up. to you because they give you these. little strings you're like these strings. are not going to do anything against. this horse you know no like that I just. saw that pull up on the screen my um my. horse cool I started mounted shooting oh. his name Co his name is cool and I.

started mounted shooting uh last. December and what does that mean mounted. shooting so like shooting a revolver. with black powder off the back of the. horse at a balloon it's super fun it's. it's spectator safe and the horses wear. earplugs just FYI the horses do they do. they wear earplugs and the the gun has. black powder in it and so you do these. patterns and you go like 100 miles an. hour I don't yet I'm trying to get there. um and you shoot balloons my friend. Kenda lonay she's like the world. champion and she. Kendall Lon bring her up she's she's a.

badass like she she has taken me under. her wing and taught me so much about it. I've never even heard of so it's called. Mountain Shooting so you start at um. there she is let's let's see that her. she's a hey I'll let her shoot me that's. for sure she probably would really she'. probably Tas you if you wanted her to. look she can shoot me in the belt buckle. and see if my pants drop you know what. I'm saying baby that's where I'm at with. her she's a buckle shotter she's uh but. she's really great at it so wait explain. to me I've never even heard of this it's.

it's so fun so you have two revolvers. it's and you have five shots in each and. you're on the hor it's a gun belt you're. on a horse and it's timed event so like. come out of the gate and like she does. it in like 7.5 seconds which I'm still. learning to ride good enough so I she's. used to a quick shot I'm in again yeah. see so you're shooting you're shooting. at a pattern of balloons and you're. timed on the event and you do five shots. and a gun change so while you're riding. 100 miles an hour you're having to shoot.

aim switch your gun go around a barrel. go around a pattern like it's very. challenging super fun though it's like. the most adrenaline rush it sounds like. ADHD meets Yellowstone kind of it is but. it sounds beautiful wow it is called. mounted shooting yeah that's fascinating. and so do you get to try that so you. have your own horse that was nice to get. wasn't that I bought a horse um I was. one of those like I did it once and. loved it so much I was like I'm going to. Winter in Arizona I'm buying the horse. I'm buying the G it's like I fully got.

into it but I just you know I feel like. at 30 I started riding and then then I. turned 40 in November um last November. and I was like all right now is a new. season to keep pushing myself and try. something that's a little scary but new. and outside of my wheelhouse you look. beautiful for 40 well thank you yeah and. yeah I don't mean that in a FLIR I just. mean that in a complimentary way I'll. send you a valentine okay please do yeah. actually your husband will get them all. sit there and hold some for yeah he like. hold these for me you're going to get so. many I watch and see it's going to be.

great we'll see all my friends have a. crush on you by the way all yes all my. Nashville M gal Pals i' love to meet any. nice gal okay well I know some I've been. trying to be like yeah more like like. kind of like Brave about just like. dating and stuff you know cuz I just get. like I start to get like turned into a. little bit of a home body sometimes but. home so cozy you know it is cozy yeah. but they say it's cozy you're with. somebody but then you're like who is. that person though because has to be the. rot person or you rather be by yourself. oh yeah dude I don't want somebody just.

freaking bugging me and bothering me and. wanting pancakes or whatever can you. make pancakes huh no I can't well you. should learn cuz they're going to want. pancakes are yeah you're right yeah yeah. okay let me prce the little uh the. little cute ones like my mom used to do. like the Mickey Mouse one where she. would like pour the batter in the shape. of Mickey Mouse epic right I don't know. what oh our mom had like a one of those. things and it would sit on the table and. it had a little dial on it and it would. heat the Skillet like that and you.

plugged it in right yeah it's like a um. what do you call those things like a. little iron like a little Skillet yeah. it's kind of like a skillet yeah but you. don't have to put it on the oven the. oven's built into it and she uh one time. she did it though on like her wood table. and it roasted like a little hole in it. and she got we all got in we got in. trouble for we didn't how dare youall. want pancakes and make me burn my table. how dare you want pancakes in my house. yeah I was like well dear well that's. why you went to the horse therapy yeah. and. it really is full circle today's podcast.

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and you have a new album out I know that. and we're going to talk about it um. what's well what's one of your favorite. songs off for your new album that you. like performing cuz like with as a. comedian like there's jokes you like. telling and then there's some jokes. you're performing and it feels that. feels even more vibrant is there a song. off of it that you really like. performing I mean I just started doing. some of them uh because I did we did a. little thing at my bar CER Roa which I. think is the first time I met you the. first time I met you there yeah um at.

the opening opening yeah um yeah we did. the whole record which was like it's. always fun to do I've only done that. once one other time with my record. Revolution a long time ago so it was fun. to like actually learn every song and. like I didn't really know him that well. I had lyrics up there I had a little. notebook like old school I was like it's. my first time to play these you know. what I mean um but I think I don't know. there's one on there called armadilla. it's the first song on the record and my. my friend Aaron rer I don't know if you. know him he's a Nashville songwriter and.

y'all should be friends cuz he's funny. as hell and the funnest and cool Aaron. rayer Ray tier rer yeah and he sent me. this song and it's just funny and quirky. and um so I don't know that one's been. fun to do live I've only done a couple. times but it's fun there he is right. there he's a Kentucky boy Aon rer that's. a cool. name um you got to tour with Toby Keith. before. I did yeah yep what was he like what's.

Toby Keith like that was one of my. earliest tours I was luy enough like I. went on so many well there weren hardly. any women touring back then like well. like in country there wasn't that many. Touring that much I mean in the early. days you got to play like2 200 shows a. year you know um so I went out with all. men for a long time I learned so much. from all of them like Kei irman was my. first one 2005. and then cuz I just played honky ton.

until then and then um dark mentley and. George Toby I think was like my fourth. big like major Country tour yeah and I. learned a lot I mean oh gosh old school. look at that hair that is like V Texas. hair oh my gosh wow yeah little old. school uh tease it to Jesus that's what. we. say oh the Lord does my hair while I. sleep exactly so don't even yeah wow. that's cool what was Toby like like what.

was he like I just never got to meet him. I've gotten to meet some different. artist that I'm a big fan of um but what. was he like as a person he was really he. was like he was himself you know what I. mean like he was his like authentically. himself kind of did everything his own. way an outlaw in his own way prolific. songwriter and you know he was he was. kind of a tough love at first out on the. road um but I guess I need did that cuz. I was a baby and didn't know you know.

what was going on yet I was learning all. the ropes of everything and it was it. was I learned so much from every tour I. was on and I would say Toby was just. like like his fans taught me a lot too. because they were really about Toby only. like you had to work to get them to care. you know because they were like we're. here to see Toby and he's his like. Outlaw kind of um I am who I am. mentality they kind of kind of adopted. that and I felt like it made me work for.

it in a good way like I had to. really figure out my set list and figure. out like they're I'm just some little. gal they're not here to see me and if. they're here early I really need to I'm. here to gain fans I got to work on this. I got to capture that yeah did you get. to interact with him before he passed. away I haven't I did see him um at the. BMI um Awards when he got the songwriter. Legend award a couple years ago so it. was right before he passed away yeah. and could you tell he was sick then I.

just because it was I knew people knew. he was sick for a long time he just. didn't like put much out there about it. it seemed like it seemed like he was. very private but I guess who would want. to right yeah well and I was I mean when. he was there he sounded great and he. looked great so I mean you know that. that journey is like everybody's got to. take that journey and however they feel. comfortable and their family and all. that stuff but I know that he was even. at the end like really about the music. you know cuz the last big thing s about. was the bmis and it was all about his.

catalog and I did not realize how many. he wrote like 150 songs a year or. something like crazy gosh like just. prolific and I also didn't realize how. many outside songs he cut like or that. he had other artists cut of his huh. until that. ceremony is there ever a song where you. write it and you think it's good but. it's not for you a lot oh really M A lot. of times. um yeah and I you know it's I'm thankful. that some artists are still willing to.

cut outside songs I I'm one of those. artists you know what does that mean. that they're willing to cut outside. songs like you can't write every you. can't cut every song you ever write you. know and so for instance Aaron sent me. armadilla and I was like I love this I'm. cutting it so you know I think it's. important if you're a songwriter to have. a balance of we live in Nashville like. there's amazing songs written all day. every day in this town for years and I. think it's cool when artists are not.

trying to write every song on their. records oh I see what you're saying. because at a certain point it it almost. you're just able to help out more people. by picking up songs that they've written. really yeah and you know like for my. career I mean my biggest songs I. wouldn't have if I would have tried to. write everything I mean like House That. Built Me is a staple in my career and. that's I didn't write that and Mom's. broken heart and Little Red Wagon like I. have some of the Staples drunk some of.

the Staples in my set that are my career. staple songs are not songs I wrote so I. think it's good to keep the door open to. like you know look around town look. where we live this is amazing right yeah. so many people yeah and you can't do. things alone too that's one thing I. realized like kind of like as I get. older it's like I used to want to do. everything by myself it was just like. how I was wired and it still is a lot of. times but it's certainly it started to. alleviate some where it's like I got I. need help I need people to do and I need.

people to help me do things and and I. can help people do things and then it's. more fun to do something with somebody. sometimes yeah and it's like when you. celebrate the highs with your friends. cuz you all did it together like a Korat. you know it's fun like collaborating is. great Nashville's such a good Community. for that like everybody's I mean you. know you live here like everybody's so. um country music Community is very. collaborative and we lift each other up. we kind of stick together you know you. don't have do you think that's true I do.

think it's true for me it has been for. 20 years and not that you have to love. every single person you ever work with. or in the business but oh yeah I feel. like everybody's kind of in it for the. same reason and there's a mutual respect. there most times. yeah yeah I guess but it's also. competitive right yeah but I think. that's also good you got to like compete. but I think there's a difference in of. my manager we've been together 21 years. and um I just recently went on a. birthday trip with her and one of her. really good friends who's um born and.

raised in BME her name's Elizabeth and. she said there's a difference in wanting. to win and wanting to beat everybody and. I thought that was really poignant I was. like that that it cuz that's a different. mindset like it's okay to want to win. and and like compete and be on top but I. don't I don't think you have to want to. go into it going I'm going to beat. everybody right I'm just going to win my. race yeah cuz it's almost uh it's almost. vind it's not vind but it's almost um. um yeah I'm trying to think of the word.

it really almost adds a Negative Edge to. it it does and I don't feel like I want. somebody to lose then right right we can. all win we just got to run our own race. yeah interesting yeah thanks for. thinking about that kind of stuff with. me yeah because I love songw writing in. oh in Nashville anything can happen you. uh like you'll drop a tomato at Trader. Joe's and somebody will come up and have. half a stanza written about it you know. it's like great yeah you get in a car. accident and the guy gets out of the. vehic. and he's already written a couple bars.

about the accident and he's like what do. you think of these and I'm like what do. you think about give me your insurance. papers you know well that's a title. insurance. papers but it really is watch in your. glove box that's a good song title yeah. dude yeah what's in your glove box dude. it better just be gloves buddy yeah if. there's gloves that's weird why is it. called a glove box because people we. talked about it it's even weirder if. there's gloves in there it is weirder. Now isn't it and it started off it's. only supposed to be your insurance. because people used to put the name is.

derived from the compartment's original. purpose storing driving gloves initially. the glove compartment was a box near the. driver on the floorboard driving gloves. were worn to keep hands clean and. considered essential equipment in early. Vehicles driving gloves are important. for women now too because our hands they. like keep you from aging cuz your hands. are on the wheel and like I didn't know. that but like driving gloves are a thing. but why does it keep you from aging. because the sun on coming through the. windshield you wear like gloves while. you drive so that the sun's not like. getting on your hands honey you're only.

driving a Smyer that ain't a lot of. sunshine on them I don't know but I ride. in gloves now because of that you my. horse I have my little gloves I'm like I. don't want sun damage Oh I thought you. ride shot I ride my horse with gloves on. now cuz I'm like oh God I don't want. aging hands there's so much to think. about it's a full-time job oh yeah you. don't want aging hands though no because. you can hide everything else but you. can't just show up to something with. mittens on forever reason no but Dolly. does wear those sheer gloves with the. rot Stones I'm kind of like really into. that so that's a Vibe somebody said.

she's full body tatted up that too but. who ever really knows the answer I don't. know a couple men have to a couple for. sure I mean I don't know how many I mean. I know is she still married or not some. yeah to Carl somebody knows and we're. going to have to get to the bottom of. this does have the tattoos or not. somebody tell us somebody's seen that. artwork brother it ain't me you know I. know I hope she does that would even. make her if it's possible for her to be. more badass that makes it more badass if. she if they if she came out with like in.

one of those ESP and where they do like. the nude like they're pushing a baby. carriage like but they're naked or. whatever if she came out and she was. full body tatted dude it would be crazy. like cat Von D just totally that'd be. insane yeah tats are awesome. yeah you have them yeah I got tats I'm. not like sleeved or anything cuz I don't. know about the top like the top of your. arm like as you age like does it get. weird I don't know so I just have them. down here where they can't like swing at.

some point in my life I have on my. forearms I don't want like Mama tattoo. arm need that you get a chair and then. years later it's a swing set you're like. oh that's a damn for swing right there. exactly got to be. strategic um is there an artist that. passed away that like you really missed. their music you missed them is that a. weird question there's a bunch um like. when you knew maybe even Haggard Haggard. like he was such a like my number one.

hero and I was really sad the day he. died and like it I guess it was like the. first kind of oh my God one of my heroes. is gone you know feelings um I was lucky. enough to get to sing with him and meet. him and um know his family and so that. was awesome in fact I just saw his. family this past uh summer the play. State Fair and been Haggard and the. family opened but I just. I don't know that was Merl's my like my.

number one you know yeah would you. admire about him you think so much I. think that you know he one of my. favorite quotes is from Johnny Cash and. he said I sing about the things that. Merl Haggard actually lived cuz he. literally turned 21 in prison like he. told his truth like he didn't have a. glamorous childhood or upbringing and he. took his Outlaw and sort of the um. troubled times of his his life turned. him into songs and turned it into a. beautiful career and every time I was.

ever around him he's one of those Heroes. that like is exactly what you hope he. would be like a little mysterious but. super kind you know and it's always like. Meet Your Heroes or not it's scary cuz. what if they're what if they let you. down yeah but he never. did like all these pictures they're. bringing up like tease it to Jesus I. mean look at the hair that is Texas hair. y'all that's definitely a full crop I. mean they got a lot of rain that summer. I'll say.

that that is for sure um what's a song. that you put on like say like everybody. has songs when they want to feel. something right so like you have like. man I really want to feel something. right now like or I don't know I do I'm. kind of an emo kind of dude so I'll put. on like um like I used to put on like. Trace Atkins. uh every light in the house is on you. know what I'm talking about yes is that. seconds yeah yeah yeah I told you that.

guy yeah you want the big deep voice. like you want to feel it I don't know oh. I went through a breakup yeah and I. would sit on my porch and just smoke. cigarettes I don't even I don't even. smoke you well everybody smokes when. they break up yeah dud I would just. smoke and I'd play that on repeat till. my neighbors were like what the turn off. the light or whatever we can't handle it. anymore I think uh nobody in his right. mind by George Straight I haven't even. heard it it's so good it's one of my. favorite George Straight songs but it's. just like a heartbreaker we're like I. don't know I love country like I truly.

like my go-to is country old country is. like my jam um and George Straight we. call him the king for a reason so it's a. great song Nobody in his right mind. nobody in his right mind would a left. her even my heart was smart enough to. stay. behind come. on God put my [ __ ] feelings in a. wheelbarrow no we need to go that horse. therapy place immediately. yeah what else would I listen oh lee. bry's I Drive Your Truck that one's all.

man my friend Jesse Alexander wrote that. song really yes she did and she's. amazing she wrote it I don't know who. she wrote it with but I know she wrote. it that's a great song she yeah oh it's. so good Le Le's delivery is like insane. see but that's a song that he didn't. write right right and that's why it. takes a group it's like but you also if. he doesn't perform it if somebody else. does who knows if it works the same it. could it all has to land in the right. basket right like the right song finds. the right artist at the right time yeah.

you know yeah The House That Built Me. too I had uh I saw some that t the the. writers of that song. um it took them like they wrote that. song for like seven years Alan shamblin. and Tom Douglas yes it they rewrote it. and rewrote it it's seven years of. writing it but I'm that is such a lesson. like I'm not good at that at all like. I'm like I'm kind of millennial about my. like I know I want to come into this. coat today and then I'm going to leave. with a song like in you know 4 hours you.

get a song or two or whatever it is I I. don't know that I could have stuck with. it for seven years yeah it's a lesson to. all of us to like be patient till it's. right that song is like perfectly. written yeah yeah they made like a real. cine Chapel with that one dude I. remember it's kind of weird maybe but. like I grew up in like a pretty. traumatic youth you know and uh and I. heard that. song this a couple years ago maybe two. years ago it was like Christmas time I.

was in my town where I grew up and I. went and got like an orchid or whatever. from a uh flower place and I took it. back to the place that I grew up at and. I went this sounds really bizarre now I. wasn't doing Peep and Tom or anything it. was like I I knocked on the door and I. gave him that I was. like I think that's really cool yeah I. said something nice should grow here. that's what I said and I gave him that.

that's a song you said that to a. songwriter so it was interesting I have. to write it down but honestly I but it's. funny that what a song can do to. somebody you know yes because that I. didn't write that song but I was like. how did they know my story like yeah but. my guitar player that was with me for. forever since I was 17 we lost him two. years ago but he said I that is that. song hits me because it's what I wish I. had and that sounds like what you're. talking about like and I never thought. about it from that perspective oh he.

wish you had those had The House That. Built him right but he didn't have like. a healthy childhood and so you know but. I I just I love a song like that and the. fact that they waited it out and just. stayed with it it's like goals I got to. work on it I got to work on it yeah that. is yeah yeah who knows like what things. and that's what's thing the one thing. that's nice about life it's like you. don't know the little things you're. doing now how they'll merge with like. the things you're doing later on and it.

how it'll help you form like wherever. you're supposed to be like sometimes. it's so hard to get through um just the. moment you know but you don't realize. that the moments are the stairs that are. going to get you to the place you're. supposed to stand you know yeah um. anyway sorry but yeah yeah yeah I don't. those people must have thought I was. batshit crazy dude no but it's not like. the house I grew up in was an old. tobacco farm and it was a house built in. 19. 05 and it was just a farmhouse no.

central heat and air one bathroom like. not like like a farmhouse like we didn't. have a lot growing up but people. constantly stopped by there specifically. older people seniors and we're. like you know I they would cry they. would just be standing on the front. porch crying and I was like 10 like. hiding behind my mom going like trying. to ease drop and like what are they. saying you know that they had so many. memories there and those those. handprints were there that's why I. thought when I I heard the song I was. like have they been e droing on my whole. life like because it was such an old.

farmhouse it had so many stories in it. and it touched so many people's lives. you know oh yeah yeah I think that's one. thing that's amazing about art is that. it can do that I mean I think you could. it's just powerful you know that the. beats and the words and you put it all. together the right way and it unlocks. something it does and it's like. everybody feels like okay I'm not alone. in this world and this is this. whatever's happening to me good bad or. ugly I'm not the only one yeah that's.

the beauty of a song or any art really. truly but especially songs I love I'm. I'm I'm in allwe of songs I'm a. songwriter I'm a song lover I'm music. lover like especially country ones cuz. we just tell the tell the sad truth no. matter what like you get in your feels. you know oh yeah so what do you listen. to when you're like wanting to like Rage. or like rock out or I mean I'll put them. before well I mean before I go on stage. I listen to uh FGL dirt it's a little. uptempo for me but it's also kind of.

kind of chill yeah and like down home. and grounding and then I'll put on a. little bit of Boosy badass and listen to. him so I'll turn it the other way you. know I might even go some sexy red or. something like that I don't go anything. too crazy I mean sometimes I'll put on. maybe like Sound Garden or like. um uh I've been listening to Steven. Wilson Jr recently obsessed with that. record God it's so good golly it's great. actually have have a r coming up with. him and I'm tell yeah oh my.

God I know we it's it's like hard not I. wrote with him and Natalie HBY um. recently and we wrote this song called. well the hook is I don't want to see the. movie if the dog dies like all of us. sitting there crying it was just like. the most magical ride and it was. Steven's idea obviously shows up with. that yeah and my dogs were there and. they're seniors and I was like oh God. and they're scared they're like let's. don't finish a song no he's so great I. love him but also love says Garden cuz. mine is Audio Slave like that's my.

really yeah girl what do you wear while. you listen to it people like what do you. what people be surprised to know about. you I'm like I'm huge Audio Slave fan. yeah I just like nail in my head I just. get all ragy yeah yeah female rage is a. thing you know it's like my bread and. butter oh look yeah no I definitely. noticed that some of it's in you you. know and yeah I've been victim of it for. sure dude I've got a couple angry women. in my text in my D and my dang you Ding. Dang DMS in my ding dang DMS yeah but.

yeah it is it's just interesting how a. song will get you activator to get you. ready for like a certain moment or. something did you ever have to play at a. funeral or anything do you ever get. asked to do something oh God I can't. like I'm not good at it at all I just I. get too emotional do you give her half. to or not yeah I had to sing at my. grandma's and I had to sing at a friend. that was like my age that was the worst. one oh God the accident it was the first. like. like reality check like teen years high.

school friend you know what I mean and. her family asked me to sing and I did. but it was it was just one of the. hardest things I've ever done I I really. I know I know so I I but you know when. you're giv a gift like what are you. going to say I'm not going to use it to. celebrate someone that was amazing you. have to do it yeah get on up there. Miranda yeah Lord my good. God yeah man oh one time I was at a. funeral and some uh the person that sang.

it was a girl and she was so nervous she. started singing the Star Spangled Banner. on accident yeah oh man well you. shouldn't sing that somebody had to go. and gra and kind of grab anyone should. sing that hardly let's just talk about. it it's time to talk about especially if. Kenny's right there in the casket and. she's just like who's people were like. we can't even be here right now honestly. like there's like four people on Earth. that should sing that song and that's it. and she made it to like this and people. wait and some people started going like.

this I was like No No Yeah cuz part of. it is I just feel so uncomfortable right. now I'm gonna go down those spiral. stairs and leave forever right now only. go thinking about it oh and they only go. up a lot of us were like what I thought. what happened he wasn't even in the. service the whole thing got really. confusing man I've been in some weird. funerals my dad was 70 when I was born. he was an older man and so he had to get. me a suit for a funeral funeral one time. right and it was around. Halloween he got me a Beetle Juice.

costume like the pin stop and like a. costume version though like not even it. what I don't even know if it was real. Tex did they just think you were like. stylish or I don't I don't even if it. was real textiles or whatever but anyway. I so I go to this funeral dude in a dang. Beetle shoes costume bro and I guess it. was kind of hip guess how old are you I. was probably 11 or 12 so like already. awkward years so that didn't help it was.

horrible yeah but you know I guess. that's what happens when you send a. senior citizen to the uh it wasn't rid. back then it was called kmbb was a store. they had that had them a couple of. costumes over there but God it was yeah. that was too much but yeah anyway. funerals are a lot yes they are so sorry. I brought that up um I was like I don't. have anything to say to that yeah I'm. sorry about that it seems terrible. um um I heard a rumor that you got to.

meet Gypsy Rose when she was a make A-. wish kid is that true I did I met her. several times do you remember it yep. there's a lot there's look at that hair. that crunchy hair I got that Aussie. scrunch spray going in my hair the. hair's coming along these photos go. forward yes uh I've met her several. times super super sweet girl and what. was her mother like like I believed her. yeah I mean I did like when all that. came out out I was freaking out I was. like that's what I was wondering how did. you feel was somebody just tell you oh.

my god do you see what just happened. yeah like somebody text me and was like. have you seen this documentary I'm like. what what's happening and I'm now I've. been down all the rabbit holes of it I'm. like in it I'm 100% now she's pregnant I. watched all the things but she's seems. to be thriving so yeah I mean she's had. a crazy childhood the whole thing was. crazy I that's what I'm just saying I. can't even imagine how crazy it was like. if something like that would cuz you. have these moments in your life you're. being supportive of somebody they're. dealing with a a disease A syndrome and.

then um but it was real to her I mean oh. totally so she was a child you know she. was a baby child but then then suddenly. it'd be like a national thing you're. like what is going on I can't believe I. was part of that but I'm you know you. don't know at the time and neither did. she so yeah it was just like you know. her I mean her mom worked a system and. it worked cuz we have all met her like. the whole country music Community like. ask any of us she was part of it she was. in it yeah she was hobnobbing mhm oh.

that's interesting yeah a lot of us that. gets kind of crazy too sometimes you. know but if that's what the child loves. or something but she did and Gypsy was. very genuine really truly that's just. such a I heard that I was like this. can't be true it's just so crazy yeah. yeah did um has she have you reached out. have you guys has she reached out to you. since no I mean that was so long ago she. might just put all that behind her which. I would if I were her you know the whole. thing I don't know some of y'all songs.

are so good I don't know how you could. put it all behind you well we'll see if. she comes to a show yeah there we go. dude um yeah that's just a crazy thing. that I heard so I was like is this the. truth or not it's the truth it's on. Google it's got to be true well now you. know chat GPT is kind of getting better. than Google because there's not. advertising on it oh yeah my brother's. like super smart like really a techie. and he's telling me all about this stuff. first said I was like who's Chad he kept. talking about Chad and I was like who's.

Chad and then he asked it to write a. song at Father's Day we had Father's Day. in New York with my husband's family. we're sitting around you know with like. forc family fun you have to like think. things to do yeah and so my brother's. like I'm going to ask chat to write a. Miranda Lambert song and I was like okay. and it did and it didn't have a Melody. but it just the lyrics and it was called. whiskey and wild flowers it was kind of. good I was like oh God oh God my. career's over it's happening do I get a. royalty will it go on tour tell me all. the answers Chad gbt there it is dude.

that's definitely the it is the redneck. version of Chad gbt is Chad GB I thought. he I was like who's Chad he was like I'm. saying chat and I was like oh and it's. like how do you get to New York City you. put in there it's like how much gas. money you got you know what I'm saying I. know like it has a different voice like. it has like a h like a heck voice that. would be funny that'd be great haven't. Chad GPT that would be so good hey dad. uh how do I fix this two-stroke motor.

bub that'd be so good dude we have. somebody has to come up with that yeah. whiskey and wildf flow sitting on the. porch Sun sinking low memories of you. like a river flow your laugh still. lingers in the evening air but loves a. wild ride why is it talk about drinking. when it's my song and I'm holding judgy. Chad's judgy and then the pre course got. a bottle in my hand and a Heart full of. Scar that sounds like Trace Atkin well. it also sounds like you're a pirate so.

that's the crazy part of this it's so. stressful but this is also like Chad GPT. is a newborn you have to think in a few. years if it starts to really get like. the ability to do some stuff but I don't. if it would ever take over like the. human ability to feel and stuff and. actually create music that's based on. real feelings I don't think it could do. it and that's the you know it's all. weird whatever I'm trying to say hip and. cool but it's it's weird but I'm not. going to be that hip and cool it's weird. where I don't even have feelings anymore. right like you have to go to a museum to. see feelings like somebody's smiling.

behind a piece of glass you're like oh. remember that remember that oh there's a. tear this is this is a fossilized teer. that you're looking at oh wow we don't. even have those anymore yeah I'm on the. pill that makes us you can't. cry like when people had those but that. could be a real thing one day I know but. maybe it'll be we'll be long gone and. doing something else by then hopefully I. hope I'm in the dang stars or definitely. just I don't know I hope something. happens to me I hope I'm I hope I'm in a. dang Time. Capsule um well you live in Nashville.

and and Texas for a bit what was. Nashville how was it how has Nashville. changed over the years to you um it's. popular now like everybody everybody. wants to come here it's the it city. which is awesome I think like the fact. that country music is thriving right now. and our town is a destination I love. that because these hongy tongs have been. here for a is and kind of like it's the. music of Our Lives you know of my life.

and so people are wanting to get a. little glimpse of it I love that yeah I. don't love that the roads aren't really. made for all these people yet but we'll. get there yeah some of these roads are. damn homemade too I'm like what is. somebody I you see somebody F just put a. damn cake batter in a pothole out there. you know yeah it's just people are. filling with anything I drove through. something the other day had batter oh I. drove yeah people are using anything to. fill them now there's so many potholes. in January around that time yeah I drove. through something the other day and had.

damn devil's food all over my tires I. was like shit's getting weird out here. was it doll's brownie mix I don't know. it is that those are. good the Dunkin Hans brownie mix doll. Dolly has everything and I bought them. of course I bought them and I was like. there it is of course I bought them. because they don't have like oil in them. you know how the Box brownies have oil. no she has milk and eggs and butter like. real ingredients they're delicious I. love that dude what I used to love was. whenever our mom would make something. dude and she would let us lick those.

things that were in the the raw egg she. let you lick the beaters lick them. beaters boy. beaters now they're called kitchen. mixars well but my mom had like the. Walmart brand beaters like yeah kitchen. mixers is a little bisexual for me okay. them my husband has the kitchen aid and. he's obsessed with it he does all of the. he makes homemade pasta he has all the. um the every accessory you can have for. he's like in it he's in there he's not. doing like old school beers not we don't.

even have those put them beaters on. there honey and I I was like your mom's. like don't eat too much of it cuz it's. raw eggs yeah and we'd be. like bro and the crazy thing was some of. the whatever was in it I mean we e damn. it's like that grainy stuff GRS it had a. little bit of like yeah it had like I. don't know what it was who care you. didn't get but the crazy part was some. of it if you started licking the the. beater at the top then some of the stuff. would float down on your hand so you get. all the then you're just licking your.

own hand with that still holding on to. that beater and then somebody would like. accidentally put soapy dish water in the. bowl and you're like no it's over cuz. dude if you can get even part of your. head in that dang Bowl you know I just. wanted to grow I just wanted to grow. longer I pray to God I make my tongue. longer at night well that's a whole. different episode okay yeah sorry sorry. well that's for that's for the Trac. Atkins dude I told you I'd leave yeah. you're right things have changed um.

what's a place that you miss in. Nashville that's not here anymore I kind. of miss old losers like old losers was. like I love losers still but like. Midtown it was like just one little. shitty dive bar bar with like darts in. the back and smoke and like a good great. juke box and popcorn you know and now. it's like three stories and the rooftop. and all the things but it's still great. but kind of Miss like the little like. the the dive or the better you know yeah.

yeah now they still have the back porch. of there you can go kick it at sometimes. yeah that little deck I have a little. sign up there it says marand Lambert way. hanging up there yeah do you have you. been on that VIP deck yeah I have a. couple times exactly. ma' I put it yes I put in a usually out. there waiting for an ambulance put in a. lot of late nighters to get that sign oh. I bet you did I didn't drink a certain. amount of titos out of a shitty plastic. cup to get your sign up there and I have.

one so and at least it says way it could. have ended up being Miranda lbert. culdesac too you know oh no see that. wouldn't be as cool no but at least. driveway Road I can deal with not. culdesac yeah cold I remember when. somebody put a damn culd AAC first time. I ever saw one I was like what is this. [ __ ] what do you mean you can't keep. going just [ __ ] hurt my feelings boy. I said we'll see about that I'm going to. call the damn Sheriff we'll see about. about this I can't find a picture I have. one on my phone um what else was I.

thinking about um oh if you if you had. to travel back in time right if you had. a time warper um and it could have a. Hemi on it or whatever I don't know how. you like to travel but uh if you had a. time warper what time back in your life. would you go to do you. think right now I think I just stay. right now I feel like I've done done it. but I'm still learning somebody asked me. that like what's your most fun era and I. was like right now like still young but.

like not dumb you know I mean yeah you. know that that whole vibe where you. learn a lot um early 30s were weird late. 30s were fine but like now I'm like. what's what we're doing right now you're. like we're here we're here everybody is. like 40s is the best decade I'm like. let's roll yeah we'll see yeah I believe. it yeah here we go yeah. um tell me something else that you think. about oh you're the one the new songs.

damn it Randy on your new album who's it. about man. well it's about. Randy oh I see you it's about Randy. everybody has a Randy in their life and. okay everybody has one and it's about. just a time where I was like this is not. good it's not serving me anymore this is. I got to move on and and was it a real. like was it serious or was it just. somebody that didn't install y'all's. cable well or something like you know.

well it depends on the person. everybody's got a Randy damn it Randy. right and I wrote it with John Randall. who's one of my besties and his real. name is Randy so I always say that to. him anyway so it's kind of funny and. that's the one that Brendan's a riter on. oh yeah I was flying a kite in the. middle of a hurricane there it is that. little. songwriter um what else was I thinking. about um what drives you at this point. in your career I know this is kind of a. general question but like you've gotten. to have um notoriety you've had number. ones you've won Grammys You've Won.

you're a household name you have um you. can afford to pay your rent you know. it's like what what goals are there. still for you or do things evolve from. goals. into like just wanting to still do the. job I'm just curious and it's stuff I go. through in my own life too with comedy. you know um I'm just s I'm just curious. what do you think about that you know I. I'm lucky enough to have reached a lot. of the goals that I set when I started.

this journey I mean I was 17 when I was. I'm chasing music that's what I'm doing. yeah um and people like [ __ ] you you'll. be at a Dairy Queen in two months I was. like okay see youall next time like I'll. be singing in the drive-thru damn it. exactly I don't know I I feel like now. I'm just like open I'm trying to be open. to you know I don't I'm not walking. around saying I'm going to do this and. this and this I'm just like absorbing. what's around me and being open to new. opportunities and meeting new people and.

like also saying no to the saying no to. the right things like I think that's a. big part of it because you can save your. energy for the right things if you just. say no to the things that are not right. for you like that's kind of where I'm. headed and where I've been living in the. past couple years um cuz I realize like. if you put all your energy into the. wrong people and the wrong things then. you don't have any openness or any time. or energy left for the right things and. then it's too late you know so I think.

I'm just in this space right now where. I'm like What's Next what I mean this is. new I've just started doing podcasts. like I've never done that before until. this year you've done a good job I've. watched some of them well I'm new to it. and I'm not great at talking like I'm. I'm a singer like I'm in front of people. I'm actually an introverted extrovert I. have an extroverted job with an. introvert personality and so I'm trying. to I'm branching in that way um you know. I always I'm fine to say my truths in. songs it's just harder to do just you.

know saying it out there but I think. it's important either way so I don't. know my goals are like what's next let's. do something that scares us let's do. something that's you know makes you grow. and makes you learn yeah yeah that's. true huh yeah some it's so we it's so I. I feel like it when you're involved in. some part of the Arts kind of you know. people call them and some people just. call them music and comedy and painting. or whatever but. um it's weird to also kind of evolve cuz.

it's like you age right we age and and. you're like well if I some songs I can't. even really sing anymore or some jokes I. can't even really I could tell them. still but is it really going to be true. to where I'm at you know I find that. that's interesting about art itself is. you have to and then you're but then. you're like but if I change will I still. have the people who likeed this thing. yeah it's like how do you keep the. common thread and keep Reinventing it's. a tiny little fine line you have to walk. yeah and it's scary because what we do.

is very public and like what we signed. up for and what we started saying or the. jokes we told at 20 or the songs we. wrote at 20 are not the same we're not. like same life space and we're not in. the same Lane anymore you know so it's. like figuring out how to how to do that. gracefully but still keep that common. thread of like where where you've been. and where you're going but kind of walk. this line of staying authentic yeah to. the to the true you that started this.

whole journey and comedy is the hardest. thing in the world like I not I think. that would be the literal hardest part. of the Arts of any art I really do. really yeah I just respect it because. it's the most vulnerable like standing. up there in front of people and just. telling jokes and hoping they re like. that it lands you know and there's no. ban there's it's just you yeah oh God I. wish somebody would pull up with a drum. sometimes just. like start playing a drum solo. immediately if you're like no this one.

didn't happen take it away Henry you. know just turn yeah you just don't have. anybody to like lean on you're just up. there by yourself like emotionally naked. like oh in the beginning it's so scary I. think God I can't even believe sometimes. when you think back and I don't mean it. like I'm not trying to fill my own ego. but but when you think back like I don't. know if I'd go do it now but yeah you. get up there that first time and you're. just like this is. gonna this is going to be good you know. you don't even believe yourself you're. just screaming that to yourself in a car.

like you know in a Ford tourist you're. like this is going to B like in your. best Chris Cornell. voice yeah beefing yourself up I don't I. know the fact that you said you don't. know if you do it now like I think about. I I knew like three nervous I know I. just got anxiety I think about like I. knew three cords and I was like walking. in these bars like can I play at the set. change like I just I got to get some. experience and you know it's that thing. of like how do I get experience if you. don't let me play and then but but but. then you say I can't play cuz I don't. have any experience like just put me on.

set change then and I'll play my three. songs that I just learned yesterday like. not good but just being brave anyway I. don't know we did it that's a good point. yeah and know the ones that hurt too do. you have a show you remember that really. just kind of burned you when you're just. like God this is hard oh yeah like a. birthday or anything like you ever get. played one of those Arab birthdays or. something you're like prate parties I'm. so thankful for private parties I love. them I would love to play your private. party um but some of them can be hard.

yeah you know where it's like I did I. played a um I played a sweet 16 one time. and this thing was the most extravagant. party I've ever seen in my life it was a. bunch of 16-year-olds and they only. wanted me to do four songs Michelle. Branch was part of it lean RS and me and. we each did four songs wow and like this. thing was like legit was in Washington. DC and these kids were dressed to the. they all had on like everything designer. and I was like I was working at Bells.

when I turned 16 Rob those bastards we. were dressed to the threes. hone okay I'll tell you we was the three. of us combined we was in that was a that. was one that sticks out my mind I'm like. oh Lord this is this is bougie oh yeah. we remember I had hand-me-downs from. damn women and I was like we don't I. would have an older sister I was wearing. [ __ ] I was like who [ __ ] is this just. you know stuff that whatever was around. my mom my mom was like a big um big. thrifter so big thrifter I'm like I.

found but this is awesome so like it was. in the Doc Martin like Heyday and we. couldn't afford those those were very. those were very nice they were very nice. God where mother hubard lived in one of. those I heard they were fancy we went to. Goodwill a lot and like I found a pair. of Doc Marts for $7 and they were like. new and I went to school and my mom's. like just tell everybody got got them at. gws and say it's like a n store in.

Dallas so I forever was like these are. my doc Marts I got at gws it's an oor in. Dallas just flat out live and I was like. $7 dog Martins like that's a score. that's 350 a foot honey let's party. that's rest of the threes oh that's like. putting damn each foot into a dang. Sheran that's really nice sheron's have. very good beds you know what I do notice. as after touring and going to hotels and. stuff I get one thing that b bugs me now. is if the mattress is too soft and I. don't mean it in a negative way but it's.

like your back starts to fall apart and. you start to realize how many bones you. have in your body as you get older and. you're like th we this is not a this. isn't holding anybody up you figure out. like what like but is your Continental. like breakfast like just Froot Loops or. is it like hot breakfast oh those things. you start to like really appreciate on. the road like do y'all have real eggs or. are they powdered eggs cuz you can't say. hot breakfast if it's powdered eggs. that's doesn't count that's fair doesn't. count yeah that's more MREs like it's. like MREs but with a television that's.

on ESPN you know like they'll have that. set up yep yeah God I think yes I. remember we used to go to um the. continental breakfast and uh we would. pretend like the PE people there were. waiters or whatever we weren't even. supposed to be there we weren't staying. there at the holiday in and we would go. up there and eat up there and my stepdad. would take us up there but your not. staying there huh uhuh and we go in that. [ __ ] and D honey you know what what I'm. saying and when they have happy hour and. it's in a box but I'll take it it's fine. box wine sounds great let's do it um do.

you have a favorite party like birthday. party that you ever had so far I know. you just 40 you said I think it was this. one was it yeah I I you go back to the. casino no we went to Billy Bobs on a. Monday Billy Bob is like the biggest. Fort Worth yeah in the Stockyards my. friend Gwen she's sings with me in my. band for 13 years and she was like where. do you because I was like I don't know. what to do there's so much pressure on. that. birthday yeah you know like the big the. zero ones you're like I don't I just.

would rather do nothing like I shut down. and she was we're getting our hair done. and she was like it was typical getting. your hair done in the foils she's like. where do you want to turn 40 and I was. like she was like I feel like you want. to turn 40 at home in Texas go back to. the route full circle and I was like I. do I think and so um Billy Bobs gave me. the bar on a Monday cuz they're closed. and we had barbecue and bunch of my. Texas friends uh Randy Rogers and Wade. Bowen and Adam Hood played and it was.

just a big old honky ton night and it. was like it felt like man this is like. why I loved why I started this in the. first place like I just I've been. playing Billy bobs for so long and going. there to see shows and so I think that. was my favorite birthday so far that's. perfect well that's the most recent one. you know. um what else was I thinking about. anything in the news that we could think. of we pull it we'll get you out of here. soon too Miranda I know you guys have a. show you have a show tonight no I don't. tomorrow tomorrow oh tomorrow night yeah. oh tomorrow night yep for singing for.

the doggies oh for your pup music for. nut music for muts yeah it's a benefit. for mut Nation music for muts and how. what qualifies a mud actually just. us. probably uh I don't know like I I have. just rescue animals and like they're. just all just mixed little puppers and I. started a foundation in 2009 called mut. Nation foundation with my mom your mom. yep that's her and um and we've raised.

over $2 million since then $10 million. $10 million we raise awareness for. adoption for spay neuter for adopt don't. shop and like right now with the. hurricane Helen we're doing a lot of. work with Tractor Supply rescue relief. and with greater good to you know people. are first obviously but there's tons of. shelters down there that were already. overcrowded and got hit and so just it's. it's there's a lot of moving parts so. really what our foundation does is kind. of Meet the need whatever the need is.

you know whether it's lifting up. shelters giving them grants for. renovations natural disasters we kind of. run the gamut but our main focus is to. encourage people to. adopt and once someone creates something. like this this Foundation right yeah so. this is a um nonprofit organization how. do you raise funds for it obviously you. can do fundraiser shows you can put your. own money into it. and then how does I'm just curious how. does a nonprofit even well I guess those.

are the ways you put money into it or. you do fundraisers we've done. fundraisers i' I sing for the pups I. mean we haven't done a music one but. like for my Vegas residency we gave a. dollar a ticket and I was there for two. years so a dollar ticket we've done that. on tour where a dollar ticket goes to. mut nation and then this is our first. benefit show in a couple years so wow. excited I got some friends coming out to. sing some surprises really yes it'll be. fun can any animals ever tune in any of. them ever hit a b SHP or something and. have you ever trained any uh my mom has.

this terrible shitty dog though his name. is roie and he's just like my dad I know. my dad found him on the side he held. back in school yes and he has an. underbite and he's a tweny it's like the. worst of all the world what is that and. he's like my little shitty brother now. and that's what she calls him cuz me and. my brother my real brother are like God. sibling of Hearts is terrible and he. will sit there my dad plays guitar and. writes songs and it's specifically. George Jones He Stop Loving Her Today. when Dad starts singing that that thing.

howls and it's like this screeching. awful noise and you have to put it away. like you have to put the dog in the. house and it's still you could hear it. howling and then my that part where they. go. stoping that thing hows and it's just. like and my parents think it's cute. which is even worse I know it's the. worst so yeah they could be some dogs. sing do you want them to absolutely not. but if you could organize them well yeah.

do like a family choir yeah that's what. I'm talking about get your a little. batch of hounds and those uh in those. Church gowns or whatever yeah we could. do it I mean anything can be done we. could ask Chad yeah yeah Chad will do it. that's Chad GPT hey organize these muts. guys um was there two pieces of news. anything else in the news what were the. top two news stories that we had in. there um oh yeah this is a and we don't. have to talk about this either if you. don't if it's awkward thing yeah g. Brooks got accused of harassment did you. ever know him as a bad guy I always.

heard the nicest things about him I. don't know him I don't I just heard this. today so I have not been down the news. like rabbit hole of this so it's fresh. off the press I have nothing to say. about it but I'm I want to read it I. mean I'm going to read it like everybody. else I'm going to read it I want to know. yeah no I've I've always heard the nice. things about him or I've but he's always. seemed kind of mysterious to me in a way. like he always seemed like he's done his. own thing I guess you know he was the. biggest artist when I was a kid he was.

my first concert was he yep when I was. 10 years old not to at Texas stadium and. he flew in he like dropped out of a. helicopter and they when he did Standing. Outside the Fire and they lit the whole. stage on fire and I was like and I okay. this is bad but I had braces but only. two because I had a gap so I had to do. the Gap close the gap on the front two. so just those two yeah who had I haven't. even heard of well this was a while ago. they should never do this to a child. ever again now they have likeis it's not.

it's not fair kids these days don't have. to be ugly like we were ugly like we had. have just I had scrunchy hair and teased. to Jesus and braces and all things but I. had the two races when I saw that g. Brook show and I had all my Rockies do. you remember those jeans that were like. real high-waisted with no back pockets. and so everybody's butt looked real long. and it had a the label was black and. white lettering Rockies yeah and I had. on those and they were red I had on my. boots and I was my flame shirt I was. like my brush popper like and he came in.

and dropped out of that helicopter and I. was just like God I was like screaming. and I was like waving but I only had the. two and I had like pink rubber bands on. them yeah so just like totally and it. was in that area where you would like. curl one bang up and one down and tease. it and it would look like a big cloud oh. that was never an era but tell me more. about it it was so bad it was so bad and. I just was so excited and I was like I'm. going to be a country. singer it was epic. standing outside oh I was just thinking. all of it and I I would get so excited.

when I could say damned old Rodeo my mom. would be like and my mom would be like. that's cuss word I'd be like well gar. said it so I get to say it dude the. beach is a Cheyenne so many good songs. so many yep that that no fences record I. bought the tape but I'm older than you. but I had I don't know if you are and we. used to play that tape together oh we. used to play we used to they used to. have this thing called crying loving or. leaving on the radio do you remember. that yes I loved that. did you record the countdown like yeah. same and you had to push the button at. the exact right time yeah and for but.

for two years the number one song was um. Whitney. Houston I always I was like gee can we. just do something can't Red Hot Chili. Peppers do something like we just there. it was this why can't we do Scar. Tissue it was a number one song for so. long I was like something's got to. happen man we need a war in this country. you know I just like we got it we needed. something new in there but yeah that was. and that's when all the music some of. the channels even it was all of it was. all one that top 40 was anything was in.

there yeah everything cuz it was at. Casey kasm yeah so it was like all of. the songs like it wasn't just one genre. crying loving or leaving was it though. hey Ernie where are you and he's like. yeah I'm over here in Davenport Iowa. first time call her he'd be like you. crying loving or leaving Ernie and he'd. be like I'm loving I want to see if we. could like find that and listen to it. like I wonder if it exists somewhere on. YouTube or something I would totally. listen to that yeah oh I called in I. called in two times got through I called.

in 60 75 times what were you doing. crying loving or leaving I was loving. one time and then I was leaving one time. I was going to leave home I was going to. go to the Post Office and mail myself. somewhere else that was my goal and. they're like you can't do that buddy. you're going to mail yourself somewhere. else yep that'd be kind of cool I'm here. but oh I rode my bike all the way over. there and it was closed I thought it was. open 24 hours a day I'm like. what the hell you guys can even but just. learned a lot that year but yeah crying.

love and leave him play one of them real. quick for us if you. can it. exists Today's Country. 10na perfect one to pick by the. way. perfect perfect there's no way we did. not that is so perfect. BR I swear to God that was one of them. uh we did not picked that on purpose I.

had no idea that was actually perfect. God my first wedding song guys let's. play. that was it really I'm sorry it. was you believe me though that we did. not do that on purpose love it we did. not do we just manifested all that I. would never do that we're crying loveing. Ain leaving now bye yeah uh leaving okay. left yeah yeah uh all three we need to. do a a a new spin-off of it this they. should have it wonder if kicks Brooks.

does something like that cuz I know he. has I think he has a weekly show or. something but that was it man when you. were a kid waiting to hear if somebody. was crying loving her leaving you even. know I'm going to listen to these not. that one particular where people were. and if they did that on purpose I'm. sorry I don't think they would do that. it's pretty funny um they're too nice of. guys to to actually do that um about the. new album what else what like what's new. about it what's feels new to you about. it obviously you have new tunes and um. and that sort of thing but yeah like.

what feels like exciting to you about it. or anything different well I made it in. Texas it's the first time I've recorded. in Texas since I was 18 okay so back to. your roots kind of the roots yeah I. wanted to go to Austin and just like. really it's a really Honky Tonk record I. mean it sounds like my childhood it. sounds like the music I grew up on and I. think it's just because I have a new. chapter a new label um a new decade. ahead of me of like whatever is going to. happen 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 like. I think I had that sort of Awakening. when I had my birthday at Billy Bobs and. I was like I'm turning 40 one of my. favorite places on Earth in my home. state at a honky tonk listening to. country music and that's just where my. heart lives at the end of the day is a. honky tonk listen in country music yeah. so it felt right to like make my own. music that way this time you know 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 it is and I have.

I have a house in Austin I spent a lot. of time in Austin and Love Austin me too. my little brother lives there and um and. I I just I don't know I I I SP I I. always say I'm a TN TN State girl cuz my. heart's half in Tennessee half in Texas. and um but both places that I live are. revolve around music and I love that. yeah it's like sometimes your life gets. so busy and then you're like you're like. it stops at a certain point of there's a. special day a moment you're like okay I. can get a look at where I'm at yeah it's. good to like have enough time to stop.

and look at where you're at because I. didn't for so long I mean when you're. young and you start young following your. dream and then you just sort of are a. horse with blinders and you stop and you. go okay I'm now what I made it now what. you know and it's it's like it's kind of. a weird spot to be but then once you. embrace it which is where I feel like I. am right now just embracing. like look what what I've done so far but. like what else can we do you know yeah.

still feel really inspired and excited I. mean I'm I definitely don't have the. same energy for like long you know 150. days a year on the road or anything but. I'm still so inspired to like write. songs and you know I love the music I. can't it's it's my life I dedicated my. whole life to it yeah it is funny you. kind of yeah you do when you get busy. and your career gets busy you a lot of. you gets dedicated to what it is it's. like I spend most of my time like I. there I have some close friends I don't. even get to talk to that much and I know.

it's sad to say people like well you. work instead of talk to them but it's. almost like you build up your dream and. but then your dream takes a lot of. responsibility yeah you know and nobody. tells you what to do when you have done. it 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. so now what happens at this point in my. career at this age with this these. accolades like what happens now you just. figure it out as you go and you know I'm.

like working with younger artists now in. like new Arts I have a label called big. loud Texas partnership with big loud and. oh your part that's your so you guys. have a branch there now yep oh that's. awesome dude and it's you know keep an. ey keep wson J on big loud too he's on. big loud let's go so he's playing in. nville pches on patches on yeah torn. cigarette oh when he said is this song. called Torn cigarette it's called. patches but oh that lyric that he says. my torn cigarette my patches got Patches. it's so good but he is playing in.

Nashville every December 4th. te so good my Father's son drain my. blood dude God it's like the one it's. one of the greatest records that's come. out in a decade that's our Audio Slave. man it really is it's all of it it's. hillbilly and it's rage and it's sad and. it's funny it even has some Native. American some of the Beats some of the. drums that he uses have a very like. native sound to me it's great it blows. me I'm like and I keep finding new songs. on it that I like that's that's what's.

always amazing keep going back and. rearing them and you be like oh now this. one I like no this hitting me weird yeah. let's get [ __ ] weird buddy um anyway. also like that he wears his like little. vest he just like wears his little vest. in all his videos he's just sitting. there freaking slaying the guitar and. he's just like his little uh puffy vest. yeah just cozy I love it there he is his. puffy V I love it um he looks like a. lifeguard at Woodstock kind of in a way. you know what I'm saying he has a.

very safe but risque Vibe dude uh you. can tell he's so sweet by the way like. the sweetest you can tell like uh of. just listen to some interviews and stuff. with him and just listen to his music I. got to see him play one night at um. Whiskey Jam yeah at Whiskey Jam and that. was so cool but yeah it's amazing um him. red clay Strays I've been listening to. um so much good music out there so much. so many great Lany Wilson I know you. talk to her I love her so much God if.

they had Lany Wilson good gal palow. you'd be in there in the dut box with 11. Lany wil I sure would yeah yeah and. you'd be the cop I would well no well. look what are yall doing what are you. doing in there huh with the New York. accent I gotta work on that hey what are. you doing in there um anyway uh Miranda. L thank you so much for all the. beautiful music thank you for spending. time with us today and U just sharing a. little bit your life and yeah and thanks. for just like the inspiration and just. being a space of like hey this is where. you are and now let's see where we are.

and uh let's make the best stuff yet to. come and um yeah I just really enjoy my. time well thank you we got deep and it. was good I liked it yeah we talked about. some good songs too it's nice yep we. sure did um your new album is out it is. it is called postcards from Texas. postcards from Texas and um and yeah. we'll be listening to it and and uh you. got to check out Aaron rer okay you're. going to like him okay de quirky one. yeah yeah all right I'm in uh thank you.

so much thank you yep now I'm just. floating on the breeze and I feel I'm. falling like these leaves I must be. Cornerstone oh but when I reach that. ground I'll share this piece of M I. found I can feel it in my bones. it's going to take.