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It's Album AND Baby Month for Gabby Barrett · Inside Country with Wayne D

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We are honored to be joined today. That sounded so official it made me
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uncomfortable. We are honored to be in the presence of not only a fantastic
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hit maker in country music, but a lady that I mean, how many
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number ones are you before? I? How many number one? Yeah?
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How many number one songs? You got so far to so you're about to
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outnumber yourself with number ones and children? Correct? Gabby Barrett is in the
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house. What a lead in? She's like, She's like, how did
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you start here? And then it's fine, Gabby, how you been girl?
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Life is good, life is fantastic. I need to ask you because
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last time we saw you was in Key West. Yes, you had all
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this new music, you were super amped. Did you know that you were
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potentially having a baby at that point? Did I know in Key West?
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Or is it because of Key West? No, it's because West. That
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trip was in and out. So nope, not that no you people,
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but disgusting middle schoolers in the room in here. No, I think I'm
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I think I didn't know that I was pregnant. I found out I was
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pregnant in May, Okay, so I think I knew. Okay, you
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didn't I did listen. We had no clue. How does that because being
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a mother, first of all, let me commend you for doing both,
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because I think there is a stigma in tay and I have talked about this
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before. There's a stigma that exists for a woman in any in any industry
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that doesn't for a guy, and that is, well, are you gonna
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be a mom and have kids or are you going to have a career.
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And you're out here saying well, I'm gonna put out a record and a
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kid in the same week. Yeah, you can definitely do both, Like
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you for sure can do both. It's just a matter of how much time
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you want to go into this or that there is it's either like you ride
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your career out and then have and like do that later or other way around.
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And that's for sure not true. You can do both for sure,
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and so and I don't want to make it sound like you're like, oh,
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I'm putting life before my career, Like you're balancing both fantastically, But
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what what in you makes it important? Like hey, like I'm going to
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do the family part at the same time because some people would wait on purpose.
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No, I mean, I don't even mind you putting it that way,
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because I would consider myself more that way quite honestly. Of I am
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more of a family oriented person firstly before getting to anything else. So I'm
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a Christian. I strongly believe in the Bible, and that's what our family
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relies on and goes off of. And so family always first, my kids
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and being a mom, as you know, something that I greatly want to
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be remembered for. I love doing the music. I enjoy it so mu
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shuld so just here for the ride, seeing where it's going, and it's
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really fun to be able to do both. It's challenging and difficult to find
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a balance between the two, right, like how you want to make sure
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you're spending enough time here and you want to make sure you're spending enough time
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there. It's doable, and you just kind of gotta go day by day.
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Day's gonna adjust your microphone real quick here, okay, thank you.
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When it comes to the parenting and and your career at the same time you
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you wrap the album, it's something that we're getting ready to celebrate early twenty
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twenty four, Does your excitement level change at all when for the album?
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Knowing that like when you're family. Your family's growing at the same time.
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Oh no, I'm because you're to me. An album is like almost another
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child. Yeah, so I really have let's see first album, second album,
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three kids, so I really have five kids. But no, I'm
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super pumped about it. I think it'll be two really large things to celebrate
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the two biggest things of my life, quite honestly, And I've just worked
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really hard on this project the past two and a half years, co producing
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it and really just putting the vision into place. So I'm excited to finally
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give that to people as a whole body of work and not just like singles
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and small songs. Last thing baby related I want to ask you is what's
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something baby one that you overthought or over analyze that Baby three, you're like,
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I'm fine, get it out and get it out of the way,
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Like whether it was like you wipe down the house too many times or yeah,
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it'd probably be in that it'd be like sanitizing, like you have to
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wash the bottles and keep them like away, but then also sanitize them in
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something and then maybe put them in microwavable bags and then put a like it's
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it's pretty wild and then the past fire drops on that floor. I'm licking
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it off and putting it back in their mouth like I'm not going to wash
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it off, I'll lick it. I'll take the germs first. But yeah,
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definitely changes from first the third baby, for sure. When it comes
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to the music, do you see that. Do you see that the more
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you're experiencing family and the more you're experiencing motherhood, that it changes your delivery
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when you get into the studio or if you're a part of a writing room,
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that that plays more of a role than just making a good song.
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Absolutely. I mean for having children, being married has changed so many things.
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And anybody that has kids knows that. And you can't truly know that
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until you do have children, how they impact your life and how they would
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change it. Perspective, priorities, your outlook, the way you want to
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present yourself, you know, like everything that's at least how I think about
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it. And then they're my life. So they're day in day out,
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who I take care of, who I pay attention to, and so of
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course when I go in to write songs and think about the material and think
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about the message, they're heavily involved in that in the best of ways,
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and having kids and a family out courage anybody to do because it teaches you
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so many valuable things. When it comes to the current single, Glory Days,
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as you were finishing the album, at what point in the album process
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where you like, Glory Days is going to be? This is what this
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is my first introduction to this project. When we had mainly all the songs
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put together, then we could start really narrowing and it was between Glory Days
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and another song I think maybe Cowboy Back Yeah, and we loved. I
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knew that I wanted to release something that was upbeat because what I had released
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before was either ballad or like mid tempo and upbeat. And I'm an upbeat
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performer and very energetic on stage and stuff, so I like to I wanted
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to make sure that that side of me was represented in the music. So
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I want to do an upbeat song. Glory Days just better represented the album
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as a whole. When choosing a song going in what's coming out first,
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and then it leads into the to the theme of the rest of the album.
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So it was just it was just the best fit in that way,
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and it's really a good picture of what my life looks like right right now,
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and to remind us myself, everybody to just live understand the time that
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you're living in, because life just moves so fast and then all of a
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sudden you're like, well, what what happened? I've had so many people
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ask me are you soaking in? Like what's happened? Do you understand what
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you know the past several years? And I'm like, I'm like yeah,
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But then I actually think about it, I'm like, I don't know,
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I don't know if I'm soaking that in or not. I'm really paying attention
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to that. So it's almost a reminder to myself to remember, you're in
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some really good days right now. Knowing that that's the message in that song,
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was any part of you taken back a little bit because we're how involved
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were you with the writing process of this song or is this something that you
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were you came into No. I co wrote this song, I co wrote
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a lot of the album, and I actually co produced the album as well
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this time around, So I co wrote on Glory Days and was very into
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I'm not so being a writer in town the type of writer that I am,
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though, I'm not the one who's having a huge catalog of songs,
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who's going on writing camps and writing all the time, which is actually helpful
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to me because I am very targeted when I go into writing sessions, like
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I'm adamant on coming out with something good, okay, And so that's what
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I really did around the record we got They were all very targeted and focused
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rights and it was like got on, got one, got one, got
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on. Thankfully, it was like that wow, and we just banged them
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out and had a theme. And there's a bit more of a consistency to
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this than my first album, and so there was a lot that changed,
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a lot that was different this time around than the first time around. When
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it comes to the songs that you've already put out, it connects to you,
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it makes sense for you and where you're at, yep, But what's
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the song that surprises you that has connected the most with etel fans are a
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fan, maybe a story jumps out, like a fan DMD you about this
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song and it connected with them, and you're like you kind of just put
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the song out because it works for you, and you're like, oh,
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wow, this matters people. Yeah, I mean, I hope we're the
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good ones. Really, I didn't know, especially with I Hope. I
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Hope was the fourth song that I ever wrote in Nashville, Tennessee. It
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was I was just starting to get into writer rooms with people. Did not
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know if I could write a song or not. And I Hope came out
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of the room the one day, and so I didn't know. I didn't
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even walk away from the room after we'd I've recorded the demo vocal and the
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like the whole song, and I didn't walk away. I didn't I didn't
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know if it was going to resonate with people or not. And so when
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we released it, I released it independently. I wasn't with a label or
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anybody. At the time. Was just like, well, let's see and
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I was thinking knowing people that were buying that, or my dad, my
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mom, my grandparents and siblings and streaming, and then it was like this
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happened, and this happened, and then you're breaking records and then went number
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one here and what number one there? And it was insane. Did not
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know that it was going to resonate with people that much. And it's a
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sad story. I mean, it is getting cheated on is not fun and
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it happens to both sides, and it sucks, and so I'm really glad
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that it has helped so many people, though through a lot of difficult circumstances.
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When it comes to the most rewarding thing for you career wise, would
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it be being able to give a voice to somebody or a story to somebody
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who might not realize they're living that, you know what I mean, Like
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they don't have the words, but you're able to sing them for them.
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Yes, I think that's amazing. That's something I love about music in general,
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specially country music. It was like when I listened to it, I
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was like how Like I almost wanted to ask the song or the person that
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I'm like, how do you know me? Like, how do you know
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what? I didn't even know how to formulate into words? You know what
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I'm talking about? So I love that so much with country music, that
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there is a story for every little thing in your life and it so deeply
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connects lyrically. So that's something that I do enjoy about making music and country
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music and then seeing that happen to other people, of people coming up to
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me and just being like, oh my gosh, this song, you know
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that song and it just connects to them and blesses their life in some type
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of way. That is a huge payoff for sure when it comes to connecting
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with people. I'd imagine it's it's essentially your story, but somebody else is
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like, wait, that's my story too. Yeah. Yeah, So take
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us to the new album and if this is sensitive, we'll chop it to
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use it when we air it closer to the album release. What was the
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hardest the hardest story to tell on this album, the most honest story that
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maybe you had to choke back a tear or take a deep breath when you
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were writing or recording it. There's two songs that comes to mind. Growing
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Up Raising You is a really emotional song for me that was written specifically about
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my daughter, and it just talks about like I'm only twenty three, I
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don't know everything. I got a lot of stuff to learn, and I'm
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figuring that out about myself while raising other humans to be the best they can
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be, the people they are supposed to be, and helping them to figure
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it out when I don't even fully I haven't even fully figured it out.
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So it's this interesting dance that you have to do, especially with me being
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a woman and growing and raising little girls. And I will have two little
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girls next year. So it's an interesting dynamic for sure, and a very
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very song that's SNAr and dear to me, and then another song will be
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Hard to Read. Hard to Read is a very vulnerable song in the sense
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I have been told a lot through my life that I have a hard to
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read personality. And I never knew how to take that. Like if somebody
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goes, you know, you're hard to read, how do you take that?
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Is that good? Is that okay? You know? So I don't
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know, and then you ask someone and they go, no, it's you
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fine, Oh it's good. Yeah, it makes you And I'm like,
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okay, I don't know how to take take you know, take that.
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So it's confusing, it feels it's it's complicated. You kind of feel misunderstood
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because you're you feel like it's more of a negative thing, but probably weren't
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meaning anything harmful. So you know, it's been like that my whole life.
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So that that song, I was really excited, uh to write that
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because it's just a topic that I've never heard anybody write something like that before,
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but something that I felt passionately about and have been told you know that
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throughout time. Is it tough to be that vault ulnerable, especially with the
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story like that, Yes, and no. I think at first it is
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because you're like, I want to hold this back. But at the same
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time, I think country music fans are so awesome, welcoming and genuine,
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and then you realize, wait, like these tough stories are the ones that
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actually connect with people, probably the most, you know, because they're just
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things that not everybody talks about, and then you can connect to them through
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song and it can be really touching to somebody in that way in their life
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and to remind people like, oh, there are other people that go through
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this or feel this way, and so it's really cool to be able to
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create it and put it out that way. Has there been a moment so
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far in your career where you kind of had to take a deep breath and
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be like, wow, I'm like what I'm doing, what I'm supposed to
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be doing, and that is you know, maybe there was a moment on
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stage where people were singing back your song and it almost knocks you over,
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or any interaction with another artist that kind of validated now validated your existence,
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but validated the spot that you've carved out for yourself in country music. Sure.
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Quite honestly, I would say when I did release I Hope independently and
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didn't think anybody was like listening or knew my music or anything like that.
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I remember before being signed, going to CMA Fest and being on the I
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can't remember the stage name, but it's right by Bridgetown. Oh now,
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Mali Jim, Yeah, Vali Jim stage. I was on there and I
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think it was either my first or second time maybe first time performing at CMA
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Fest and uh, I sang, I mean the beginning of I Hope.
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You would swear this song's been out for ten years. From how everybody responded
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to the song, never in my life completely blew me away and was so
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motivating. That's so motivating to a heart that's a little bit tired after you
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been doing it for ten years and you get no no, no, no
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no, and then you finally get a yes, it's like, oh so
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worth it and it was really motivating. So that's a time that always sticks
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out in my head that the it's like the lit the little song that just
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the gift that keeps on giving. Really that song is just a great song,
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and I'm glad I connected with peoples as fast as it did, and
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I'm excited to see what this next body of music does with people as well.
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What is your plan the album gets out, it's in people's hands.
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Yeah, what's your plan when you get back to like post maternity leave,
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mm hmm. I won't be gone for very long. I'll be popping up
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through stuff. It'll the album will come out early twenty twenty four, and
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then I'll be popping up through stuff through the summer, and then we'll really
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start touring the new album, like at the end of summer and through so
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I'll be popping up and stuff, still doing things you'll see me. What
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are moments that you because obviously as an artist who you talk about you know,
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starting off, I mean a tiny stage that a lot of the times
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is ignored. It's like the last thing that people will check out if there's
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nothing here, here, here, here, or whatever. What are moments
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that that shock you the most about your rise to where you are now,
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or maybe tours that you were on leading up to now that shocked me the
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most. Yeah, I mean like you like you, I feel like you
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stay levelheaded and cool through whatever you do. But to be asked to be
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a part of tours is special, especially when you're starting out right, So
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what are some of those moments? Are are shows you were a part of
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that meant more to you than maybe another one, hmmm, like regardless of
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who the opener was, or maybe a city that was more special to you
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so far on the journey. Yeah, I mean I did get to go
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back to some originally for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I did get to go
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back this year to PNC Park, which was one of the first places I
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had ever sang. I went and sang the national anthem the multiple times when
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I was about eleven or twelve, was just starting to get into it.
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And I got to go back and we did a show after the baseball game,
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and I had no idea what to expect, because it's like a I
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think a smaller stadium, right, I think it's a I think it's a
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stadium, and basically, and I knew what they were averaging and doing,
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and I was just like, Okay, this is gonna be it's gonna be
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great. I don't know what the number is going to turn out to be
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because the last time I was there, you know, it wasn't for anything
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like that. So I had no clue and I went into it and there
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was They told me, they were like, do you know that there was
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thirty one thousand people that came to this and that was like triple our average
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of what we've been normally having. And I was like, are you kidding?
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And it was such a big moment for me. I was battling so
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many emotions before I got up onto the stage. I was walking, I
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was walking across the field and here and dream on and I just aerosmith and
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I couldn't. I just couldn't put it into I was like, is this
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is this really life? So that was a really big moment for me,
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especially this year, to have kind of a full circle moment and just to
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be like, hey, Gabby, you're doing good. You're doing good,
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you're headed, You're headed the right way. I think. So that was
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what when it comes to you performing live, obviously your husband plays as you're
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singing, Yeah, what does it mean to be able to share that part?
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Because you could easily I mean, and no disrespect to his ability,
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I mean, you could have your own band and be like, hey,
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you do your thing. I'm doing my thing. Why is it important you
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guys are able to share this whole thing together. I think it's specialer with
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him and involved in it. Quite honestly, I think it would be really
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easy to just throw a background player and push somebody more to the back and
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be like, you're a part of the band. But our dynamic on stage
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is more than him just being my player. I kind of see it more
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like a Stevie Nixon, a Lindsay Buckingham. How it's more like Lindsay added
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so much guitar wise and musically to Fleetwood Mac, and so we kind of
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see it more so is that a lot of people know me and Kaid together,
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because really when we started coming into the limelight, we both were on
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American Idol. We met on American Idol. He was originally an artist.
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I was an you know, and and he did rock music. He loved
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southern rock, grew up in Texas. He's from Texas, and I love
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country music. And so when it came to us getting married, we were
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like, not interested in do it pursuing double solo. We were like,
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I don't know how to make a family in a marriage work. If we're
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both going to like separate and go do our own things and have like an
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airport date like here and there, Like I'm not interested in that. So
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we were like, hey, what do we want to do here? And
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that's how we saw it, just to do it together. So we do
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everything together. It has worked out amazing, and he he really is involved
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in a lot of stuff musically. A lot of the solos you hear on
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my album are from him, and a lot of the guitar work and stuff.
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So he adds a lot to me to what I do. Is it
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challenging because you have your career and you have your idea on what where you
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want to go with it? Right, He's got what he's doing, but
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he also compliments what you're doing. Yep. Is there ever a challenge creatively
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where you're like, hey, I'm thinking this and he's like, no,
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I'm thinking this, and you're like, yeah, but I'm for sure.
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How do you tackle that stuff because you're raising children together and creating music together.
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Yeah, for sure. That doesn't happen often, thankfully, I think
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because we are so compatible musically, it could be a lot rough, but
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we just see eye to eye on a lot of things, and it's really
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helpful always remembering to keep family at the center of things and to keep a
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solid relationship at the center of things. So we really don't clash musically on
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a lot of things. He hears a lot of the same stuff I do.
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If I'm like, it's a little wonky or m I always loved his
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guitar playing and respected it, and he's always loved my voice and what that
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sounded like. And you know, so it always it always compliments. We
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just hash it out and come out with something. I don't know if we
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disagree, and it's great. You're like, if we disagree, he doesn't
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tell me, no, no, he does. I listen. I listened.
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I take him into consideration. Okay, no, but it works out
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really good. Uh take me And just touching on American Idol briefly, because
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we have interacted with artists who are a part of that show, artists who
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have won that show. Sure, and it's it's great because it maybe it
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gives you a head start or puts you a little further into the light you're
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going to be stepping in any way, you know, sooner than you were
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going to. But I also feel there can be a negative connotation between like,
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yes, I did do that show, but I'm here now. There's
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artists who have shaken that as they moved their career forward. Carrie Underwood,
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nobody says American Idol champ, carry on Wood, nobody says Scotty mcquery from
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American Idol. And to be totally honest, I don't know if I've ever
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heard anybody say, I mean, obviously I knew you were a part of
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Idol, but I've never heard anybody like, oh, yeah, she was
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on American Idol, So how important is that to you to still respect it
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but also be like that's a that's a brick in the house I'm building exactly.
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That's a great way to put it. Yeah, it's always going to
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be a huge highlight in my life. It's not like I'm super super thankful
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for. But I don't think it would be fair to just limit it to
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that, because there's a lot more blossoming to do outside of that. That
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was really like the rocket to launch, and then it's like, well,
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what else is gonna keep the rocket going? You know? And that's other
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things and getting into Nashville and building a team and getting original music. You
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can't just do cover songs, like you have to dive into what makes you
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you as an artist and figuring all of that stuff out. But I'm really
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thankful for the platform that Idol gave me. I do find it a little
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I personally found it a little tricky in town coming to town after coming off
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a television show. A lot of people think you're like some overnight thing and
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you're all of a sudden making millions of dollars, like it's crazy, and
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it's really the opposite. I came off the show and like you're getting treated
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like you're getting your hair and makeup done and you got it a style,
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and you're going on and you're in front of Luke Bryan and all these people.
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You're like, I this is cool. I feel on top of the
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mountain right now. And then the show ends. It's like high school.
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The show ends, and it's like go figure it out, start over again.
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And it's hard. It is so hard because you got to come be
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prepared to work, work, work, and you know that's that's that's what
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I tried to do. Thankfully, I had a good team around me,
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got into writing original music, and uh, now we're here. Very blessed
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so celebrating the release of your sophomore album, which is is it weird when
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they call it the sophomore It's like what you're like, No, it's my
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second I mean, I guess that's still the same thing, but it's just
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cud, I don't know. Yeah, So your fourth album is your senior
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album, and then what you graduate, you don't get to put out music.
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That's it. Then it's my master's and my doctorate. Well, part
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of that album, which we'll dive into, we want to start with a
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Cowboy Back. Tell us a little bit about that song and the background to
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why it makes sense for this album. Cowboy Back. I love this song.
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It's so fun. It's definitely one of the upbeat, very upbeat songs
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on the album. I found it really important to have a good mix of
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everything, like where you've got your slower and then you've got your mid and
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then you've got a few upbeat kind of resembles life, you know, the
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peaks in the valleys of life even through your music, and how that talks
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to you. So I love this song. Is very Shania Twain esque vibes
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to it, with the fiddle and just like bootstomping fun dancing theme, and
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it she talks about leaning into being authentically country. My husband is a is
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a great inspiration for tons of my songs. And he's originally from Texas,
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very East Texas. I think he literally grew up I think forty I don't
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even know thirty forty five minutes from where Miranda is originally from. So he's
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a real cowboy, real country boy, real and he leans into that and
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I love that about him, and so it's just a fun It's a really
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fun song and I definitely leaned into the country roots for this album for sure.
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You have also have a song called Dance Like No One's Watching Yeah,
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where Luke Colmbs has a writing credit on that song. How do you guys
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end up together? Because you're very successful doing your own thing, Luke is
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literally rewriting country music history with the way you know his shows are going,
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the way the charts are. How did the two of you guys come together?
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And how did this song make sense for this project too? I was
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really thankful he shot me a message one day. I just got a text
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message from him and he said, hey, we wrote a song and he
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wrote it. So I didn't write on this song This was one of the
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only songs I did not write on for this album, and he said he
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wrote it with Emily Wiseman and James mc nair, who, funny enough,
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side note, I wrote Glory Days with oh Wow, So that came so
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good writers, You're like, I'm familiar good writers for sure, And he
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just said, we wrote this song when my wife was pregnant with our first
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baby. We didn't know if it was a boy or a girl. Yet
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come to find out it's a boy. The songs more based on a father
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and a daughter dynamics. It wouldn't make sense for him to sing, but
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he kindly thought of me to sing it and to be on it, so
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he shared it with me and I listened to it the first time I heard
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it through. I fell in love with it verse and chorus, and as
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like the best thing ever, at least for me as an artist, like
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melodically, to hear a verse and then I don't know if you've ever heard
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this, but like I've heard a song where I'm listening and to listen to
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the verse, I'm like, yeah, I like this, and then it
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hits the chorus and I'm like, ugh, you wanted more whoa where did
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it go? And this song was everything right, melody, lyric, everything,
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and I just loved it. I called my manager. I was so
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excited. I was like, I'm cutting this song. I love it so
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much. And he was kind enough to also put his vocals on this song
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as well, so he's singing on the background of it, and it's a
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really, really touching song and I definitely connect to it a lot. So
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how many of these songs have you performed already in front of people? We
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have only performed I think, like this past summer twenty twenty three summer of
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touring, I did I think two songs just to see what people thought and
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good reactions so far. So thankful for that. I think we did.
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I did do Dance Like no One's watching, and I did Cowboy Back,
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So they were fun. Do you ever have to fight back any emotional I
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mean, especially with you being you know, involved in the writing process,
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co producing, because you have more skin in the game when when you're not
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telling us telling a story that relates, but it's somebody else's writing, right,
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So you have a little more skin and a little more emotion in the
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game. Yep, is it? Do you ever have to catch yourself like,
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hang on, I'm performing, I will cry later or I will get
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emotional later about it, because if I'm you and I'm singing a song,
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I'd be like, hang on, guys, absolutely no. There's a lot
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of the time I feel like I'm just being honest. You just get into
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like autopilot mode where you I'm enjoying it, but at the same time,
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you're doing almost the same thing every single night in different states all the time,
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and it's so nice to see different fans and different reactions and all that
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stuff. But when it comes to like your set and like your music,
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once you do it over and over and over and over, you become a
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tiny bit desensitized towards them. But then there's those moments where you click back
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in too, like originally where you were at with the message of the song.
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And absolutely it can definitely draw draw a tear to the eye. But
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I'm like, come well, Gab, you're gonna be tough. You can't
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mess up the soul girl. You spent too long on this makeup. No,
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you're not rooining these pictures. So so yeah, there's definitely, there's
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definitely both, for sure. For sure, have those moments where it's just
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very sensitive and very real and vulnerable. There though, as an artist and
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as a creator, you want people to wrap their arms around the whole project.
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You want them to love it, and especially if they're fans of yours,
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whether the country music fans, Gabby beartt fans like here here's my latest
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offering, hope you dig it? Is there one song out of this current
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project that you're like, Man, I really really hope this is the one
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that people really like love? Yeah, listen, no ugly children right out
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of all of them, My gosh, is there one that's like man?
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And it would mean the world if people really gravitated towards that, it would
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resonate. Yeah. H that's probably tough, having so much writing on this
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and so end up producing as well, right, that is, that's tough.
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If you were asking me personally away from more of the like I'm trying
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to think of one, I would probably say hard to read. If you
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were asking me personally, like on a deep level of one that's more vulnerable
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for people to lean into and hopefully love and connect to, it would probably
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be hard to read, really hard to read or grown upraising you we're just
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deeper songs to write and then to record, and so the goal is always
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to have people connect to every song. But I think those are more those
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came from more of a vulnerable spot, a more tender spot from me for
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sure, that you don't just show to everybody or talk about to everybody.
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So probably those songs. But Glory Days right now shows the best image for
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the album as a whole, and I think it's just the album as a
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whole has a more consistent theme through it, more so than my first album
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did. Now, before we wrap things up, Halloween is coming. Uh
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Huh do you say Halloween? Yeah? I say what I say, Hello,
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Halloween, Halloween. People always get on me for the way I say
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things. Helloween. What do you call? What do you call? Uh?
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My gosh, I don't even know what to call it. To ask
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you the question, what do you call? Like like a sprite? Would
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you call it a sprite? Or no? Like a soda. So I'm
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from the Midwest, from Minneapolis, so they say pop, but I've always
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said soda, so I would say soda. Okay, I'm for Pittsburgh,
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so we said pop. My whole life, pope, so I said so,
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I said pop when I was younger, but some reason, I'm like,
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some people say soda water for it, and it didn't know water?
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What about coke for everything? Don't get there. I can't. I can't.
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People will be like, you want to coke and then I'll be like,
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here you go. I'm like, so doctor Pepper, yeah, coke
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brand. What are you doing? Exactly? Sorry? I had to ask
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that. So when it comes to Helloween, uh do you do you remember?
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Uh? Costumes you wore as a kid are like one that was favorite,
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like this is my this is my gem. I want to be this
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again next year. I wish I would have wore some cooler stuff, but
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I didn't. I was like the I don't even know zombie cheerleader and my
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Bumblebee I was, uh, I think Bell was like my favorite Disney character
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or princess. I wasn't that cool when it came to costume. Yeah.
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The only story that you know, my mother will bring up anytime someone talks
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Halloween is one year it was just me, her and my grandma, and
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so she was trying to go on the cheap. She took bed sheets and
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cut eye holes and I was so pissed that I wouldn't do it. So
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she rips the sheet off my head, hands me the bag, and she
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goes, just go trigger treating, And I go, what am I going
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to tell people? I am? She goes a brat, so I'll never
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forget I went as a brat for Halloween. Shut your mouth. That is
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LUs. I don't talk to my mother anymore. Oh my gosh, that's
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a great story. Please always tell about so. So now let me ask
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you Thanksgiving. Is there something that you or your husband are fantastic at in
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the kitchen when it comes to Thanksgiving? That's like, this is my go
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to me, No kidding, he can cook some really good stuff Thanksgiving.
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I mean we're still trying to figure out. Like I've been married for four
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years, so we're still trying to fake out, like the combo of he
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grew up with, like these dishes. I grew up with these dishes,
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Like what are we making our table? What are we putting at our table?
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What Southern dishes are making it? What Northeast dishes are making it?
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Here and smash them together. I have learned a few recipes from his mother
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that I that I really like. Another thing is I called it stuffing,
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But it's dressing. Dressing is salad dressing? Yeah? Not listen, listen,
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we could be here. How much time you got next time? You
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need to bring him through so we can be like I'm gonna bring it through.
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We're gonna quiz. But uh, I can throw down. I can
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throw down in the kitchen. So I'm sure I'll be throwing down some turkey
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or something for Thanksgiving. See, the turkey part would scare me the most.
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Tay did a turkey. You said you were pretty proud of your turkey.
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Right, Okay, maybe I need some advice then, because I don't
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think I got the turkey thing down. I got some sides down, but
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not to turkey. But also, let me ask you, you have have
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a fantastic career, things are going well. Have you ever been like,
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hey, I'm just going to make a call and someone's going to drop the
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food off. I've wanted to you know what, there's places that you can
37:13
do that where they basically just sort of like com pick up your Thanksgiving dinner.
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And uh, I've been questioning that. But I'm like, come on,
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Gabby, you gotta come on, girl. You've got this. You
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pull through. You can pull through, But can I tell you this year,
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you have a pass. If you don't feel like I got a pass,
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it's a little too pregnant feeling it. Make yourself a sandwich, leave
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me alone, Turkey sandwich but boo, and you can put his dressing on
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it. Yeah, that's right, Gabby. I appreciate the stopping by a
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girl. Thank you, thank you very much,