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Takin’ A Walk Nashville: Wendy Moten on Resilience in the Music Industry and Her Journey with The Time Jumpers · Takin’ A Walk Nashville

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  Speaker 1: Taking a Walk Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, this is Sarah Harrelson, your host of Taking a
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  Speaker 2: Walk Nashville, and tonight we are at the iconic music
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  Speaker 2: venue Third in Lindsley, right near downtown Nashville, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: you're in the green room today with our guest Wendy Morton.
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  Speaker 2: She was on the Women Behind the Lyrics episode with
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  Speaker 2: us on Taking a Walk Nashville, and she is about
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  Speaker 2: to go on stage with the Time Jumpers here in
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  Speaker 2: a bit.
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  Speaker 3: They perform here at Third and Lindsley.
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  Speaker 4: Every Monday night in Nashville, and there's just such a
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  Speaker 4: stellar lineup of award winning musicians in the Time Jumpers.
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  Speaker 3: Wendy, thanks for being back on Taking a Walk Nashville.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for inviting me.
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  Speaker 4: This is exciting, it is How long have you been
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  Speaker 4: with the Time Jumpers?
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  Speaker 3: I will say this is six years. I've been in
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  Speaker 3: math for six years, which is I never thought this
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  Speaker 3: could happen. Yeah, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: And so in that six years, do you perform every
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  Speaker 5: Monday night? And do you guys rehearse every week and
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  Speaker 5: change up the set list?
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  Speaker 3: We don't rehearse, which is really ironic. But when somebody
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  Speaker 3: wants to add a new song. They just bring it in,
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  Speaker 3: they put it, bring your body a chart, and then
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  Speaker 3: we just try to do it that night. Wow, just
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  Speaker 3: like tonight, I probably try for a couple of songs
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  Speaker 3: that hadn't done before. But these guys they make their
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  Speaker 3: living as session musicians, and so there is easy for
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  Speaker 3: them just to pick up a heart, read it and play. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Very fun.
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  Speaker 4: And Vin Skill used to be a part of the
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  Speaker 4: Time Jumpers and he was the one you introduced you
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  Speaker 4: to this group.
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  Speaker 3: Correct, Yes, it's because of him that he's turned me
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  Speaker 3: onto this path. And I think we've never talked about it,
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  Speaker 3: but I think that he probably felt, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: he was going to the Eagles, if he didn't want
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  Speaker 3: to leave them, you know, not that they needed anybody.
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  Speaker 3: They were here before he became a member, and then
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  Speaker 3: when he was a member for like thirteen fourteen years,
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  Speaker 3: and he just starts saying, you know, when I started
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  Speaker 3: touring with him, it was like, come sit in with us.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm like, sit in with her, come sit in
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  Speaker 3: with the Time Jumpers. And then I love the music,
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  Speaker 3: love the musicianship, and love of those guys, so I
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  Speaker 3: would just sit in every once in a while, and
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  Speaker 3: I thing I know, they were just like, Hey, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to add you to our team, even though that's
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  Speaker 3: something they didn't have to do, and I'm so glad
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  Speaker 3: they did. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I recommend anyone who was visiting Nashville, especially on
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  Speaker 4: a Monday, to check out the time Jumpers at Third
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  Speaker 4: in Lensley. And I kind of want to circle back
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  Speaker 4: to the beginning of your career.
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  Speaker 3: So you grew up in Memphis and you always say
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  Speaker 3: that you watched Soul Train and he all growing up
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  Speaker 3: and we're drawn to all sorts of genres.
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  Speaker 4: And then you had to deal with EMI in the
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  Speaker 4: nineties releasing Coming Out of the Rain, which was a
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  Speaker 4: top five hit on Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart. What was
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  Speaker 4: it like to you when you relocated to Nashville thirty
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  Speaker 4: years ago and got your first label deal.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it happened like I got my record deal first.
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  Speaker 3: I was still in Memphis when I got the record deal,
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  Speaker 3: and it was during the Whitney Houston era, so it
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  Speaker 3: was Whitney Selenium, Mari Carry and I will consider myself
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  Speaker 3: number four, but every label was looking for Whitney Houston.
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  Speaker 3: So the only way I got to Nashville was because
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  Speaker 3: my guy David Santo's Fixed Bared to the Stars, was like, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna move to Nashville. I'm like, Memphis. People don't
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  Speaker 3: live in Nashville. What are you talking about? So it
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  Speaker 3: was not a bad move because I was a recording artist,
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  Speaker 3: so it didn't matter where I lived. But we're in
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  Speaker 3: the same state, so it wasn't It wasn't too strange
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  Speaker 3: to be in Nashville other than I only knew it
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  Speaker 3: for country music. But moving here thirty years ago was
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  Speaker 3: still a little traumatizing. Yeah, but I moved here for
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  Speaker 3: love and we're still here. Yeah, it's two together. There
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  Speaker 3: was a lot different in Nashville thirty years ago. Now
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  Speaker 3: it's all new and new restaurants, and people are from
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  Speaker 3: everywhere and you know, this other place, but there's still
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  Speaker 3: a small town element here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I'm definitely embracing other genres besides country music now too.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that was not in existence thirty years ago, right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And from there in your career, you became one of
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  Speaker 4: the most in demand background vocalists. You toured with Julio Iglesias,
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  Speaker 4: Martina McBride, and now Vince Gale. Was it kind of
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  Speaker 4: a strange transition, going from an artist with a label
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  Speaker 4: deal to a background vocalist.
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  Speaker 3: No, because I didn't know what I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 3: So when those opportunities presented themselves, it gave me a
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  Speaker 3: chance to make a living when I was still trying
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  Speaker 3: to figure it out, you know, and you're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to work one way or the other. You're gonna either
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  Speaker 3: work at a department store or you can sing background
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  Speaker 3: for somebody else. So I said, let me just try that.
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  Speaker 3: And I used their experience to learn something from these icons.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's what it was really about, was every
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  Speaker 3: time I said yes, I the goal was to learn
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  Speaker 3: something new that could take with me and add to
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  Speaker 3: my artsal of things. And you know, it gave me,
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  Speaker 3: brought me some time because I didn't know if I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to be a solo artist anymore. I didn't know
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  Speaker 3: if I wanted I love music enough to stay in it,
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  Speaker 3: So those gigs gave me opportunity to stick around till
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  Speaker 3: I can figure that out.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's so important that you bring that
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  Speaker 4: up because it's not always easy for artists just to
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  Speaker 4: get a label deal and go forward from there. A
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  Speaker 4: lot of artists and creatives have to do other gigs
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  Speaker 4: or side gigs while they're trying to make it as
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  Speaker 4: a solo artist.
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  Speaker 3: And like you said, it can bring you so much experience. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what it did. And it gave me realistic
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  Speaker 3: idea of what I really want out of my journey.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I could check some things off. Do I
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  Speaker 3: need a three million dollar maintenance G five six every year?
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  Speaker 3: Do I need that? No? I don't need my private jet. Okay, good,
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  Speaker 3: that's less pressure, you know. So it gave me a
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  Speaker 3: chance to check some things off to help me, you know,
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  Speaker 3: really figure out where I want to be and what
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  Speaker 3: I don't want. Absolutely, yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And Vince Gale, he's been such a huge mentor in
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  Speaker 4: your career as well and person in your life. He
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  Speaker 4: produced your twenty twenty solo country album I've Got You Covered,
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  Speaker 4: and it was this project that gave you the courage
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  Speaker 4: to enter the show the voice in your fifties.
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  Speaker 3: Correct. Yes, I just don't think that had I not
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  Speaker 3: done that record with Vance, because Vice he chose the
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  Speaker 3: songs at the end of the session. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: gonna do I know, so that was already story. So
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  Speaker 3: he's like, oh, let's do each season, and I'm wondering,
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  Speaker 3: like what is each season? Like, I've never heard it before,
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  Speaker 3: So Dolly Parton do it? And so he would play
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  Speaker 3: the song he had chosen. All the musicians. We did
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  Speaker 3: it at his house, and he would choose a song
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  Speaker 3: and then they would play it like two times. Somebody
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  Speaker 3: would write a chart and then they're ready to cut. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I've never been in that kind of situation before, because
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm not used to I'm used to jumping
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  Speaker 3: in on live gigs, but on recording sessions you usually
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  Speaker 3: have a little bit more planning. And so he called
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  Speaker 3: the song and I never heard it before, but I
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  Speaker 3: was like, can I make my own? Can I get
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  Speaker 3: a lyric sheet and like make my notes? And I
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  Speaker 3: told himself that I was not going to be afraid today,
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  Speaker 3: like I don't care what happens, I'm going to jump
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  Speaker 3: in today. I will not be the weakest link with
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  Speaker 3: all these iconic musicians in the realm. So if I
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  Speaker 3: don't know going to jump in, and Vin said, because
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  Speaker 3: you don't know these songs, you're truly gonna make them
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  Speaker 3: your own. That was the psychology behind that, which was brilliant.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't have been able to come up with that.
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  Speaker 3: I was terrified, but I was like, I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 3: jump in even if I don't know the melody well enough.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know the song at all. And he said, well,
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  Speaker 3: that's what the magic is, and then you'll make it
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  Speaker 3: your own. That's an interesting perspective, isn't it. And I
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  Speaker 3: was like, okay, there was a method to his madness
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  Speaker 3: instead of obsessing over it exactly and over analyzing and
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  Speaker 3: you know, not even finding yourself in it. So that
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  Speaker 3: process really helped me think more like an artist again
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  Speaker 3: for the first time, and I decided I would trust
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  Speaker 3: my instincts for myself. I do it for all the
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  Speaker 3: other people that I work with. That's why they get
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  Speaker 3: the call, because they know I can deliver. But as
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  Speaker 3: a song little artists, I hadn't had to use that
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  Speaker 3: in a while, and so that gave me an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to to say, yes, I'm ready to do that again,
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  Speaker 3: A ready to trust my artistry, just trust my instincts.
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  Speaker 3: And that was the first step. Trust your voice, trust
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  Speaker 3: my voice. Yeah, well, I don't get you know. I
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  Speaker 3: always made a living with my voice, so I never
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  Speaker 3: worried about that. But as you know, being out front,
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  Speaker 3: it takes a whole other mental challenge.
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  Speaker 4: It's speaking of mental challenges, you know, it's it's hard
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  Speaker 4: enough being on live TV with the Voice. And I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure a lot of people know the time in the
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  Speaker 4: show when you fell on stage and you.
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  Speaker 3: Broke your elbow right yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: What was it like having to go right on TV
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  Speaker 4: right after that after falling on stage? How did you
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  Speaker 4: overcome that or how did you deal with that?
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  Speaker 3: At least well, going on the Voice after everything that
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  Speaker 3: I've done was a big decision. And this was post COVID,
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  Speaker 3: so we weren't sure we would ever get a chance
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  Speaker 3: to be in a place where you got other people
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  Speaker 3: sitting there with our mask on. So I said, when
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  Speaker 3: the world opens back up, you know what am I
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  Speaker 3: going to do? And so I decided that I needed television? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: what can I stomach? Because everything is real? How I
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  Speaker 3: need TV? And I'm from the era that you don't
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  Speaker 3: talk about yourself at all. If you don't boast, you
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  Speaker 3: don't brag. And so I was like, Okay, I need TV.
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  Speaker 3: It's obvious because I don't have a team, I don't
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  Speaker 3: have a label, agent, management, I don't have a machine,
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  Speaker 3: and so I decided I was going to send a
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  Speaker 3: video in to the voice. I didn't tell anyone, and
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  Speaker 3: I said, if they accept me, then I know that's
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  Speaker 3: the path I need to take. If they don't because
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  Speaker 3: I got way too much experience, then I will have
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  Speaker 3: to find another way to make a living. And sure
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  Speaker 3: enough it took a few months. So I didn't even
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  Speaker 3: tell David Well, my significant other for third one, Geers.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even tell him that I set the video
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  Speaker 3: in because I knew what he was gonna say. He
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  Speaker 3: was gonna say, why are you doing that? That can't
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  Speaker 3: teach you anything? But I knew I had nothing else nothing,
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  Speaker 3: So I sent the video in and I said, I'll
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  Speaker 3: just keep it to myself because then if they reject
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  Speaker 3: me for whatever reason, too much experience, whatever, then I
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  Speaker 3: can live with that. Nobody will be like I thought
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  Speaker 3: you were gonna be on the ball, and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to live with that. So I set
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  Speaker 3: that video in I and once they said yes, then
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  Speaker 3: I had to figure out my purpose, like what to
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  Speaker 3: expect out of this. And I needed to number one,
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  Speaker 3: know if I was still competitive, if it still mattered.
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  Speaker 3: Number Two, I needed to know if there were people
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  Speaker 3: that still liked the type of song I loved singing.
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  Speaker 3: And then number three was I had to I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to be an advocate for people over fifty to say
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  Speaker 3: that we still have dreams and have things that we
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  Speaker 3: want to do and say so I needed to get
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  Speaker 3: those things answered me on a reasonable doubt because I
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  Speaker 3: knew wats the show was over. I'm gonna be on
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  Speaker 3: my own again, but I'll have what I need. So
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  Speaker 3: when I got on the show, I just left my
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  Speaker 3: ego at the house. I said, I'm just gonna pay
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  Speaker 3: attention to the challenge of the week, and I should
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  Speaker 3: go far, because if I think about all my experience,
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  Speaker 3: it's just gonna make everybody miserable, and I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 3: miserable too, because like, come here, we're doing it this
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  Speaker 3: way and not that way. So I got rid of
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  Speaker 3: all of that comes treatum the challenge of the week.
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  Speaker 3: So when I did fall, I got this three weeks
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  Speaker 3: before the finale. I had just turned fifty seven on
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  Speaker 3: the show, So that was November my birthday, twenty second,
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. I turned fifty seven on the show.
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  Speaker 3: The next day, I fed, oh, why TV five sixty
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  Speaker 3: eight million people. So when I fell, there was only
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  Speaker 3: two other people on team Blake left because we're three
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  Speaker 3: weeks from the Fanala and the Gentleman Paris. He was
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  Speaker 3: also on Blake's team, but he had been in the army.
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  Speaker 3: And nobody was picking me up off the ground. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: none of the crew, nobody. They were all in shock.
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  Speaker 3: And then I heard him say, Wendy, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: pick you up because I couldn't get up. They were
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  Speaker 3: all waiting on me to get up and I didn't
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  Speaker 3: get up. I said okay, So he reached under my
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  Speaker 3: arms and then he got me up. But he was
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  Speaker 3: the only one. Nobody else touched me. Everybody was like,
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  Speaker 3: LetGo we ate the ground and so you got me up,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like okay. I looked over and I
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  Speaker 3: realized I'm injured, Like, oh my god, that's what a
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  Speaker 3: break looks like. Because I've never been injured before. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't cry. Got me up. They cut to commercial, took
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  Speaker 3: me off to the stage and had me sit down,
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  Speaker 3: and still wasn't crying yet or anything. I never cried,
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  Speaker 3: and they said can you come back out there? And
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  Speaker 3: I knew why because they having a Live TV. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure the network was going crazy. I'm sure the producers
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  Speaker 3: of the show were going crazy. They're like what and
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  Speaker 3: I'm a true professional. Yeah, they were like even cursing day.
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  Speaker 3: It's like everybody was like, are our lives gonna changed before?
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  Speaker 3: You know? So I was just like, so I went
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  Speaker 3: off to the side. I still hadn't cried, and can
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  Speaker 3: you come back on? So I said yes, And mainly
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  Speaker 3: because my family, I want people to know that I
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  Speaker 3: was injured but not life threatening. Yeah, so I said yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm sure to help that work and all that
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  Speaker 3: stuff too. And so I ended up going to the
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  Speaker 3: hospital and you know, the show was still going on.
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  Speaker 3: And then it took me about three hours before I
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  Speaker 3: saw a doctor. Me in a room, and I had
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  Speaker 3: three phone calls while I was waiting to see a doctor.
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  Speaker 3: One was vest Gill. He said, I just saw the fall.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you. I said, I'm at the hospital. He
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  Speaker 3: was like, okay, well you have to stay on the show.
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  Speaker 3: I said, I don't know. I'm broken. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: how broken. And he was like, well, he still wasn't registering.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody thought because they saw me after the fall, they
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  Speaker 3: thought I was okay. He's like, well, you have to
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  Speaker 3: stay on the show. I said, okay. The second call
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  Speaker 3: was Leslie Fram see him to us the fram She called,
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  Speaker 3: I saw the fault. Where are you at the hospital?
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  Speaker 3: And she said, you have to stay on the show.
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  Speaker 3: So I got two successful people telling me that I
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  Speaker 3: have to stay on the show. Dam and I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: well if the show lets me stay, because I'm thinking
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  Speaker 3: that I'm on my way home, I'm thinking that it's over.
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  Speaker 3: And then the third call was a friend, christ Klaus,
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  Speaker 3: who used to be the CEO of Northwest Carolinas. So
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  Speaker 3: he used the CEO and king too, and he called,
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  Speaker 3: you have to stay on the show. Like okay, three
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  Speaker 3: successful people say I have just said it's okay. So
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  Speaker 3: finally I get to a room and of course they
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  Speaker 3: have somebody with me. The voice people have somebody with me.
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  Speaker 3: And then I asked the doctors finally like what's wrong? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: You got two broken arms? This is completely broken my
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  Speaker 3: elbow and this is broken mayfractured and broken pieces in here.
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  Speaker 3: So I said, how long do I have before I
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  Speaker 3: can't get this repair? And they were like, you got
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  Speaker 3: three weeks. So a person I was like, when is
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  Speaker 3: the finhale three weeks? I said, okay, I guess I'll
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  Speaker 3: stay and then she was like really, and so she
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  Speaker 3: was so, let me make some phone calls. They called
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  Speaker 3: some people and they were like, hey, she wants you
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  Speaker 3: to stay on the show. So we were like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I said, if they'll have me, because I didn't know
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna have splints and I would be you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's obvious that my arms are like this. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: have that idea. I didn't I've never been injured. So
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  Speaker 3: that night, by now we're like six o'clock in the morning,
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: around three pm, I checked out of the hotel, went
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  Speaker 3: back on the set with you broken arms. And then
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  Speaker 3: when I walked on the set, they had Blake on
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  Speaker 3: a screen and he was talking to me and he
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  Speaker 3: was like, man, break a leg, not your arms, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, I know, I know. So if I
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  Speaker 3: hadn't had those phone calls, I don't think I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't have known them to keep going. I just
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't have thought about it. I was I was thinking that, okay,
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  Speaker 3: well this is it. And when I said, you know, well,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: they let me stay on the show, they were like, yeah,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: you can stand on the show, just don't fall again.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: And I was like, you gotta worry about that. I'm
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: gonna be taking my time. But it was amazing that
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: fall was for me because it was like if I
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: can do that in front of all millions of people,
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: and it not phased me at all. Like I was
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: still singing, still being active, never complaining, never cried. I
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: still didn't cry. Even Blake talk about it a lot.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: She don't even talk about it. But I'm like, if
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I talk about it, you might as well just go home.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: You know, nobody wants to hear it.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you just want to keep going and focus on
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  Speaker 4: your singings.
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  Speaker 3: Focus on why I'm there. I was too close to
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: the finish line to just stop, and thank goodness, I
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: had those people in my life who said you have
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: to stay on the show, because I thought they would
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: even want me on the show. So when I talked
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: to the producers the next day, and you know, I'm
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: sure they told everybody, you know, don't talk or do
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: you know, do do too much because they don't know
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: I to beget sued or what. And I didn't go
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: down that process. I just didn't feel like going even
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: though my arm is crooked for life in my spirit,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: It's just it wouldn't have passed. I just felt like
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: it would have been a waste of time. And I
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: don't know if I would have really reaped the benefits
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: that people would us assumed that I would. I just
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: I just didn't see. I saw that being like a
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: short lived type of thing where I lose instead of
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: on all of my life. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's great that you embraced it, kept
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: going and you made it to runner up of the
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: season because you stayed on.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Yes, I loved it. I love the opportunity. And it
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: was for me that whole process of the three things
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I needed to know to stay on the journey because
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: age is a factor, being a gender as a factor
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: in the music industry. Yeah, it's just this, And I said,
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: I need a way to get rid of all of
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: that noise in order to continue. And that's what happened
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: in the fall was the ice And it was like
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: you like have two broken arms on TV for three weeks.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: You have everything going against you, but you're still gonna
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: do it that and just not you know, that not
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: being enough to stop anything. M h.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And also, yeah, be persistent. Yes, yeah, yeah, thank
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: you for sharing them. I have a couple of questions left
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: for you, and I just feel fortunate to have gone
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: to know you through the past year through I'm behind
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: the lyrics and performing with you.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: You know, I've gotten just.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: You through so many different events like time Jumpers, Muscle
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: showals at the CMA Theater, Todd Rendering last April.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: That and I know you performed.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Around the world, and I think I already know the
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: answer to this question, but do you have a favorite
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: moment or a place that you performed at.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Yes. My number one ultimate performance was in front of
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: the pyramids in Egypt when I was touring with Leioid
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Glaciers because I was his duet partner. So I'm singing
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: duets with one of the most amazing singers in music history.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I am in front of the pyramids. Are right here,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: This Finx is right here. We're singing love songs and
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: people have a tuxio and stars. It's like the Starry Night.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: And so after we did our duet and he was like, Darling,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: are you happy? And I was like, yes, I mean,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: I'm dear en, I'm thinking about it. He said, yes,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: and he's like, why are you happy?
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: All I could do was sparty. People started to clap,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: but that was so like, I don't know, other worldly. Yeah, yeah,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: that's amazing.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: I always say you never know where music can take you,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: and now music's definitely taken you a lot of places.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Do you have an idea where it's taking you next? No,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: I just know to stay open and keep working at
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: it and keep believing in myself and me and kind
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: and nice and learning and being and having gratitude.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Well, last time you're on taking a walk in Nashville,
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: I asked you if you had a favorite place to walk.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I think you said downtown.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: So this time I'm going to ask you, do you
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: have a favorite place in Nashville, like a favorite restaurant
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: or a place to eat?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yes I do. I love Princess Chicken,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: the one off of Old Eir Grey Boulevard and Noah's
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Phil because I love that chicken hot chicken, Medium, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I love mac and cheese and green.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I was going to ask the spice a
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: little again, Medium, but I want the reviews and I
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: want the mac and cheese. Yeah, even medium can be
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: pretty hot there you he can handle it though.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: That job all the way from spring Hill, get it? Wow? Yeah? Nice,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: that's all you know. It's good.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Yes, well, Wendy, thank you so much for being on
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Taking a Walk in Nashville tonight and I hope you
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: have a wonderful time with the time Jumper.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for comedy, thank you for inviting me,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: and congratulations being on your podcast. Thank you.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Taking a Walk Nashville with singer
• 22:33
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• 22:38
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