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Inside Nashville · Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic

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  Speaker 1: From the heart of the city, where the beat meets
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  Speaker 1: the rhythm of your day.
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  Speaker 2: It's Shauna m.
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  Speaker 3: What's up.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Shauna and Lalla. Check us out at
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  Speaker 4: Shauna and La La dot com on all social media platforms.
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  Speaker 1: At Shauna and La La.
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  Speaker 4: You could follow me on Instagram at the real Shawna
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  Speaker 4: May and check.
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  Speaker 1: Me out at Bella on the score La La one
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  Speaker 1: two five.
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  Speaker 4: We are back. It is the second half of our
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  Speaker 4: Nashville segment, and just before we begin, I cannot believe
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  Speaker 4: that summer is over and school is beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course it's depressing, but it's it's just extra
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  Speaker 1: depressing for some reason this year, because I really felt
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  Speaker 1: that our summer went so fast. Maybe it's because we
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  Speaker 1: had so much going on. We had Nashville right away,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like the end of summer I went away,
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  Speaker 1: and like I didn't really get to just enjoy summer.
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  Speaker 1: This year, I feel like it went by really fast.
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  Speaker 4: The weather pretty much was good, you know, but we
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  Speaker 4: did have like some cool summer days, rain rainy, rainy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe that's why, because I think the whole month
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  Speaker 1: of June and half of July was just rain so
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  Speaker 1: that's probably why it feels a little short or toss.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. So is Geo ready for seventh grade?
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  Speaker 1: No, I feel like we're still behind this year too.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't finished school shopping for him. He hasn't gotten
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  Speaker 1: his hair cut, so that's tomorrow. And tomorrow we're just
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  Speaker 1: doing all the things, all the things from morning. He
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  Speaker 1: has a dentist appointment, then we have a hair appointment,
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  Speaker 1: then we're gonna go shopping and we're gonna try and
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  Speaker 1: find shoes. Hopefully I can get it done because that's
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  Speaker 1: the only day I have till you know. He starts
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  Speaker 1: school next week, so not much time.
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  Speaker 4: No, not at all. It's crazy, just flies by.
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  Speaker 1: I know. The only things I did get done was
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  Speaker 1: I got his school supply list, and I got that
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  Speaker 1: old taking care of early and some snacks for his
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  Speaker 1: lunch box. And I love. I just wanted to share
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  Speaker 1: with you guys.
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  Speaker 4: I love.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Nature's Bakery. I have to admit I ate already.
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  Speaker 1: I had like six boxes in them, and I've already
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  Speaker 1: ate two boxes and that that was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: saved for my son. They're so good, like the fig ones.
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  Speaker 1: I used to like Fig Newtons. I know, that's odd
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  Speaker 1: for a kid to say. But when I was a kid,
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  Speaker 1: I liked fig Newts.
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  Speaker 4: Oh they are the most disgusting thing in the world.
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  Speaker 1: They I don't know. My grandma always had them because
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  Speaker 1: old people always had them, Yeah, and I would. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't have any other cookies, and I was like, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: I want one, and I liked it. So these were
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  Speaker 1: fig Newtons on steroids.
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  Speaker 4: But flavorful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I mean. Like they're just so much better,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like, oh, they're so much better. Soone they
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  Speaker 1: the flavor is amazing, just even the texture of it.
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  Speaker 1: So I have been like here and there because there
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  Speaker 1: are these little packs. They're not over indulgent. There are
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  Speaker 1: these little packs they have and I'm like, oh, I'll
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  Speaker 1: just have one, and then the next day I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'll have another one. Oh that's you know, I'm running late.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great thing to grab in the morning when
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  Speaker 1: i'm running. Yeah, I didn't eat breakfast because they give
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  Speaker 1: you energy. There's you know, good stuff in it. So
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  Speaker 1: I grab one and then now I look and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, I just went through two boxes, two boxes,
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  Speaker 1: the blueberry and the strawberry. And now I open the
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  Speaker 1: raspberry box, so I better stop. But they also had
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  Speaker 1: the oatmeal crumble ap. They have apple, they have blueberry,
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  Speaker 1: and they have these hardy bars. They have so many
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  Speaker 1: different flavor options and different They don't just have the
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  Speaker 1: fig new and so you probably would like the crumble.
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  Speaker 1: It's like kind of like the crumble.
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  Speaker 4: I did try the They had a chocolate chip one
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  Speaker 4: m hm. And you know me and chocolate chip.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I liked it. It's good. They're really good on
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  Speaker 1: the go. I love it.
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  Speaker 4: They're fantastic. Like I just grab them and go to
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  Speaker 4: the doctors, you know. M hm.
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  Speaker 1: I keep a ziplock of some of them in my car,
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I'm always on the road. I'm always hungry.
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  Speaker 1: I get angry very easily, and I grab one of
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  Speaker 1: those and I'm good. It holds me over, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't worry about any horrible shit. You know.
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  Speaker 1: They are they don't have high fruit toast, corn syrup
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  Speaker 1: and them a lot of them are plant based. And
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  Speaker 1: they're school friendly. That's the other thing, and that's important
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  Speaker 1: nowadays with all these allergies the kids have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the allergies that dairy allergies. They're school friendly. So and
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  Speaker 1: they're you know, a lot of them are vegans, so
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  Speaker 1: they a lot of people can have them without having
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  Speaker 1: to worry.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's great. And they're perfect for traveling.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. They sit in my center console and ziploc bag
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  Speaker 1: so I can pick them as I go.
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  Speaker 4: So we have a great show this week for you.
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  Speaker 4: We have a great interview with Mary Claire that we
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  Speaker 4: did with her h in Nashville. And then we have
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  Speaker 4: Mike who is the manager of the hotel that we
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  Speaker 4: were staying at, Holston House, which is like right in
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  Speaker 4: this under everything.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, let me tell you about this hotel. It was
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  Speaker 1: absolutely perfectly located. I don't think you could have had
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  Speaker 1: a better location for a hotel in downtown Nashville. And
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  Speaker 1: why I say that is that when you go away
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  Speaker 1: and this is a party town, like we said in
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  Speaker 1: the last episode, party town, right in that little strip,
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  Speaker 1: when you go a yeah, you want to party, you
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  Speaker 1: want to have fun, but you want to get away
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  Speaker 1: from that when you go back to the hotel, so
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  Speaker 1: you can relax and recoup from your nights on the strip,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So this hotel was right there around the corner of Broadway,
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  Speaker 1: which is the main strip, and it's not that far.
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  Speaker 1: So you walk down a few steps past the hotel,
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  Speaker 1: you get to the corner and it's just quiet, and
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  Speaker 1: you look down and it's still a little quiet, and
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  Speaker 1: as you take a few more steps and you look
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  Speaker 1: over the hill, there's the strip right there. So I
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  Speaker 1: was going. It literally would take me about walking maybe
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  Speaker 1: three minutes from the hotel to get down to the strip.
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  Speaker 1: It was fast, but yet you wouldn't. You didn't know
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  Speaker 1: you were right in the center of all that. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear anything, you didn't see anything. It wasn't crazy
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  Speaker 1: or dangerous by the hotel, and that's why I loved it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was almost like a switch, you know. You
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  Speaker 4: you just turned the corner and boom, Yeah, there it is.
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  Speaker 1: There it is. There's thousands of people and the music
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  Speaker 1: and the lights and everything going on. And you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have known that just a few steps back by your
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  Speaker 1: by our hotel, the Holston House.
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  Speaker 4: No, you wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: And I liked that. I felt safe. I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I want fresh air. Sometimes i'd go up front of
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  Speaker 1: the hotel. It was a very safe area, very clean area.
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  Speaker 1: They clean those streets multiple times a day. I loved
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  Speaker 1: that too.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't even see the like pay attention to them
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  Speaker 4: cleaning the streets. Yeah, but the hotel itself was just gorgeous.
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  Speaker 4: You could eat off the floors if you had.
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  Speaker 1: To, mm hmm, so clean. Everything was just so. The
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  Speaker 1: way they decorated made it feel because sometimes hotels can
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  Speaker 1: feel kind of cold or too modern that you don't
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  Speaker 1: feel you don't get that feeling.
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  Speaker 4: No, this had like Southern charm to its comfort.
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  Speaker 1: The colors, the couches, they had so much room for
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  Speaker 1: you to just chill out in the lobby and comfy couches.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't modern, it wasn't cold. They didn't feel like
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  Speaker 1: a hospital setting type. Some hotels feel like that to me.
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  Speaker 1: I liked that about it. It just had the charm,
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  Speaker 1: like showing to say, a Southern charm. They had a
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  Speaker 1: bar upstairs, beautiful bar which we had meetings there with people.
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  Speaker 1: Had a pool bar which we talked about the last segment.
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  Speaker 1: Gorgeous pool bar, gorgeous rooftop pool with lot you know,
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  Speaker 1: the lounge area over there too.
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  Speaker 4: And they had singers come like almost every night. They
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  Speaker 4: had like different people lined up to sing and perform.
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  Speaker 4: The hotel was extremely a handicap accessible, yes, which to
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  Speaker 4: me is a plus.
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  Speaker 1: Of course it always is when we travel having disabilities.
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  Speaker 1: You want to make sure am I going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to get to my room? Okay? Are there going
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  Speaker 1: to be a million stairs or their elevators or is
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  Speaker 1: this accessible in the room? Even the beds like these
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  Speaker 1: are things that many people don't have to wonder about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being a short stature, can you get on
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  Speaker 1: a hotel bed?
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  Speaker 4: Can you know?
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  Speaker 1: Can you get to the sink? So this hotel was
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  Speaker 1: perfect for anyone who has a disability or his handicap.
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  Speaker 1: It had it was you were able to do anything
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  Speaker 1: you needed to do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't need a step stool for anything, No,
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  Speaker 4: especially getting on the bed. Usually when I stay at hotels,
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  Speaker 4: I need like a step stool or a chair to
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  Speaker 4: get on the bed. I didn't need that this time,
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  Speaker 4: which was great. And also the pool was handicap accessible,
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  Speaker 4: which I've never seen in a hotel before, and I
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  Speaker 4: mentioned that to the manager that we interviewed. They had
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  Speaker 4: a pool chair for somebody in a wheelchair so that
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  Speaker 4: they could actually enjoy the pool as well. Yes, and
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  Speaker 4: I have never seen that in a hotel.
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  Speaker 1: It's rare. I've seen it a handful of times, but
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  Speaker 1: not many. Not many hotels have had that that I've
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  Speaker 1: gone to. Anyway, I thought that was really cool too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and our bedroom. The bathroom was probably one of the
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  Speaker 1: prettiest bathrooms I've ever had in a hotel. I gotta say.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't feel like a hotel bathroom.
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  Speaker 4: Oh god, no, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was like something I would do in my own house,
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  Speaker 1: like you to get my bathroom redone.
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  Speaker 4: And the water, oh my god, it was so hot.
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  Speaker 1: The pressure the water. That's a big That's something I
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  Speaker 1: I'm very picky about too, is hotels and their water
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  Speaker 1: pressure and the temperature of the water. I it like
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  Speaker 1: ruins my trip when I go to a hotel and
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  Speaker 1: the water pressure is not there and it's not hot,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, this is not an enjoyable shower.
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  Speaker 1: But it was there. So we also ate breakfast down there,
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  Speaker 1: and they have a little restaurant and it's called ten ten,
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, first I didn't know what that. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: oh the number ten, No, ten like Tennessee. It was
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  Speaker 1: so good. We got breakfast delicious.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, so good.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't like your exact traditional menu like for breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, we explored, we tried it out, and
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  Speaker 1: it was so freaking good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You got some kind of egg bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this egg, the scrambled egg. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: kind of eggs, but I got eggs. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was over easy eggs. And it was in a bowl
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  Speaker 1: with potatoes and this, this and that, and it was
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  Speaker 1: really really good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I just got pancakes and that wasn't even on
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  Speaker 4: the menu, Like they were like, we could do that
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  Speaker 4: for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Piggy shaw us. So she wanted her
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  Speaker 1: the traditional pancakes and they did it. They didn't give
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  Speaker 1: her a hard time, like yeah, no problem, no.
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  Speaker 4: And the chocolate milk I always get, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: mean I love my chocolate milk in the morning. It
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  Speaker 4: was like the best chocolate milk I've ever had.
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  Speaker 3: Really.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was so good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, all in all, it was a really
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  Speaker 1: great experience there from start to finish at that hotel.
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  Speaker 1: Gorgeous facilities. They had conference rooms that they let us
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  Speaker 1: use the interview these singers that we met, beautiful conference rooms.
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  Speaker 4: They were even impressed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they they had anything you can imagine it. And
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  Speaker 1: again Number one, guys, is the location. You can't beat it.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to get any better than that location
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  Speaker 1: at Holston House. So we did in view the manager, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll have to hear that because heyes, So there's
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  Speaker 1: history behind this hotel. That's another thing I love when
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  Speaker 1: I go to hotels. I want to know the history
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  Speaker 1: when it's something like that, an old building that the
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  Speaker 1: history was great. So stay tuned for that interview.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Mike Klein. I'm the general manager for
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  Speaker 5: the Holston House here in Nashville.
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  Speaker 1: Can you give us some history behind the hotel for sure?
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  Speaker 5: So, the Holston House is the second oldest hotel still
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  Speaker 5: in operation in the city. We opened in nineteen twenty
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  Speaker 5: nine as the James Robertson Apartment Hotel. I've been through
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  Speaker 5: many lives. We've had broadcast radio stations here, We've had
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  Speaker 5: advertising offices here, We've had apartments. The owners of the
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  Speaker 5: building actually lived on the penthouse and had a garden
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  Speaker 5: up on the roof, which is why we call the
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  Speaker 5: Poolbar heirloom. Perfectly located in downtown Nashville, just far enough
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  Speaker 5: away from Broadway to keep you out of trouble, but
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  Speaker 5: you get a quick walk to get back into trouble.
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  Speaker 4: And it's true.
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  Speaker 1: It's true. What I love about the hotel is it's
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  Speaker 1: quiet right here. And I'm like, I've never been to Broadway,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm like where you say we walked, and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're on Broadway. It's so quiet, and then you just look.
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  Speaker 1: You take a few extra steps around the corner and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, oh that's Broadway. It was a sea of
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  Speaker 1: people lights. It's just beautiful music and it's a perfect
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  Speaker 1: location right here for sure.
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  Speaker 4: It's everything is in walking distance. You don't have to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, rent a car un that you really want to.
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  Speaker 1: But the restaurants all around so everyone has something. It's
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  Speaker 1: there's something for everyone all around here. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: went to the park. If you have kids, there's a
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  Speaker 1: park right there with they had Uno cards, chalk. Then
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  Speaker 1: you had the bars, the restaurants, and then all the
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  Speaker 1: night life and the music. What amenities does this hotel
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  Speaker 1: offer that someone looking to book would spark their interest.
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  Speaker 5: So we have a fantastic broad restaurant and open seven
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  Speaker 5: days a week from seven to two. Our pool and
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  Speaker 5: pool bar are gone to be open probably through October,
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  Speaker 5: depending on what happens with the weather. And then we
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  Speaker 5: will also be featuring our bar Tend pop up starting
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  Speaker 5: in mid September. The theme of it this year is
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  Speaker 5: going to be spook Easy, So we're going to have
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  Speaker 5: moving frames and a lot of creepy cocktails and delicious
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  Speaker 5: but creepy looking food available for purchase, and we're going
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  Speaker 5: to have some really neat stories of historic characters who
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  Speaker 5: may have died in odd and spooky ways.
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  Speaker 1: Is the hotel wanted depends on the day.
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  Speaker 5: I was actually here during COVID, and I will say
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  Speaker 5: one of six people, and there were a couple of
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  Speaker 5: times where the music just all of a sudden blasted
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  Speaker 5: after and when you're by yourself in an hotel, it
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  Speaker 5: becomes a little bit creepy.
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  Speaker 1: That's greaty yeah, yeah, with all the history. And it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be one hundred years old, you said in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine, right, so.
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  Speaker 5: Looking forward to that. Our birthday will be ninety six.
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  Speaker 5: Birthday will be coming up in October.
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  Speaker 4: You have a big party.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely. I think the biggest thing that I lean on
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  Speaker 5: here is there are so many hotels. There's so many
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  Speaker 5: choices that you can pick in Nashville. We really have deep,
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  Speaker 5: authentic roots, and I'm so proud of this team. We
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  Speaker 5: have a team of very passionate people ready to take
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  Speaker 5: great care of you wherever you want to go, with
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  Speaker 5: good recommendations, and we're just here to make sure that
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  Speaker 5: people have a great time and accomplish what they want
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  Speaker 5: to accomplish here, help them tell their Nashville story.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much Mike for coming on the
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  Speaker 4: show today, and we absolutely love staying here and we
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  Speaker 4: can't wait to come back next year.
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  Speaker 1: It's absolutely beautiful. We love our room, love the views,
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  Speaker 1: the views from the pool so.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, bath taking.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I went up early this morning for that and
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  Speaker 5: thankfully those won't change anymore. When with the hotel first opened,
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  Speaker 5: you could see all the way down Broadway. So that's
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  Speaker 5: how much how quickly this city state has been changed.
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  Speaker 1: And now they put a stop that were just built.
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  Speaker 5: Up a giant apartment tower right between us.
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  Speaker 1: It's still beautiful though, it's still beautiful. But yes, thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much. We are enjoying our stay. The food
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  Speaker 1: was absolutely amazing this morning, and we look forward to
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  Speaker 1: staying here again coming back.
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  Speaker 4: So after all of our interviews that we did, we uh,
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  Speaker 4: took a trip downtown to put Shack, which is a restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: Bar slash in door mini golf.
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  Speaker 4: In door mini golf, it was so cool. It was
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  Speaker 4: very bright in there, like it was just very lively
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  Speaker 4: I felt when I walked in. The food was okay,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you loved it.
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  Speaker 1: I love the food. But that's again, Sean is pickier
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  Speaker 1: than me, so she likes more traditional stuff. I was.
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  Speaker 4: I liked to and the burger was good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. The beria tackles were amazing. I
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  Speaker 1: also got like the gravy cheese fries of poutine. I
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: thought that was good. I had a burger too. The
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: burger was very tasty, very moist. What else did we get?
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: It was definitely everything was.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Fresh, yes, fresh, flavorful.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: The meat was fresh.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: The desserts were great.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, talk about oh my god.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: There, you know, shut up. She could talk about the desserts.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: She's a sweet tooth. She loved it. It was some more.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: It was a nutellas'mores on flatbread. Yeah, oh my god.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: I was in heaven. And our waiter, Parker, he was like,
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: why don't you play golf and then come back for dessert?
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: So that way, you know, burn off all that food
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: we ate. Yeah, and you could actually, you know, maybe
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: be hungry to try it. Yeah. So I was like, yeah,
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: that's a good idea. So we did golf and uh
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: then we went back for dessert. I was in heaven.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: It was it was good. I got the beignets. They're
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: kind of like Zeppelese, but the French makeum usually and
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: they're like fried dough and you can dunk them in
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: different topings. I loved it. They were so so good.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: I ate too many. But that was the food side.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: They had a huge bar. We don't drink. Unfortunately, they
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: did have a nice drink menu. Like if my husband
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: was with us, he probably would have went crazy for
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: their cocktail menu because they had so many different drink
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: recipes on there. So unfortunately we're not drinkers, so we
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: can't really give you any info on that. But I
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: saw that they had a great menu on that, lots
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: of different options, a beautiful bar, lots of beautiful seating,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: and the most important part was the mini golf. It
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: was so freaking cool. You go in and you go
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: on these these computers, you kind of log yourself in,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: you pick a time, how many people, and then I've
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: never seen anything like it. It's so high tech that
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the golf ball that they give you, it tracks everything.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: It tracks how many times you hit it, how many
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: times it goes in a hole, you know, how long
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: you're taking, what hole you're at, and it goes up
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: on a screen right away. So like, if it took
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: me four tries to get it into the hole, it's
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: gonna my score is going to show that on the screen.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I don't have to keep track of that. It just
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: goes you know, oh, you did this in four times.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Or if you get a hole in one, which means
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Shanna shockingly got once or twice, we were like, what
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the heck? It comes right on the so you're like
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: hole in one, Oh my god, you know.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: And then like if you hit it and you missed,
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: it'll say like you missed, and I'm like, how does
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: it know?
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Or keep trying, keep trying, And then.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: If you don't take your ball out of the hole,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: which happened quite a lot to me, it would say
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: get your ball.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Lauren, get your ball, Lauren, get your ball. You know
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: on the screen, don't forget your ball. So it was
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: also I thought that that technology behind that was so great,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Like in these little golf balls and if I hit
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: her ball by accident, it knew it didn't know it
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: was me, but so Shana would get that. It would say,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: oh Shanta hit it. I'm like, oh, shoot, that's not
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: so keep track of your balls. They have specific numbers
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: on them. But so cool, really cool. Everyone there was great,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: This service was great. That people were great. The guy
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: who was teaching us with the mini golf, he was
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: so friendly. I forget his name, but great. This is
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: something that you want to do when you go down
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to Nashville. They have a few locations all over the country. Yeah,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: so that it is a fun thing to do on
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a trip or if you live by it, get a
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: group of friends and go for your birthday or something.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: We had such a blast and we both really have
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: never played. I've never really played golf. I had no
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: interest in it, but I had so much fun.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: It was a lot of fun. And I don't I'm
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: not a golfer. I don't golf. My dad and my
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: brother did, but you know, I know nothing really about
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: sports or golfing, and I had a good time.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: It was fun. We honestly highly recommend it and I
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: highly recommend the food because there's something for everyone on there.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: If you're picky like Seawana, they have the traditional burger,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: but if you're more exploratory like me and want to
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: experience different foods, they have all different types of flavors.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: So there's something for everyone there and it'll be a
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: great time. Highly Reckoned meant that.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Right now, we're gonna hop into our interview with singer
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: songwriter Mary Claire. We are here in Nashville with singer
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: songwriter Mary Claire.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Hi.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Hi, are you guys doing good?
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: I love your song Your Love by the Way, Thank you?
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: And you are a Christian music artist, yes, Thatt genre. Yeah,
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: so what made you get started in the industry?
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, I grew up in a Christian household, and
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: you know, in Nashville there's music around you constantly, it's
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: hard to ignore it. But specifically my dad, he has
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: been in the industry for a long time. So I've
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: just grown up at concerts in the studio and got
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: to see, you know, firsthand, what it's like to be
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: a musician.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: And realized at the early age that I wanted to
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: do that.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: So yeah, So is he like a manager or in
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: a band or manager.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't want to be me and a fan,
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm hearing thing far.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Away, But yeah, he's just on the business side of things,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: so I really got to see what it's like.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Business side, business side, yeah, which is totally different than performing.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, And I don't ask him performance advice, just
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: business advice.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: But that must be awesome having your dad as a manager,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: because he's looking out for your best interests where maybe
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: someone else wouldn't, you know, you never know.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: It's a huge blessing because you hear so many stories
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: of artists, you know, having hard times with management and
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: just business people. And to know that I have someone
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: that's in my corner and isn't going to try to,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: you know, do anything shady.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Is really a big comfort and a big blessing.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: And I think that, you know, that's just the Lord's
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: way of showing me that he's you know, with me
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: throughout this journey.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely. And you said that your love can be
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: sung to God or to someone you care about, and
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: it's really written for anyone, right, you know, So we
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: love that about the song. And how important is that
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: versatility when you're writing in music?
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I mean My main mission as an artist is to
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: have a song that people, you know, believers and non
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: believers can either sing toward Christ or toward a loved one,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: you know, a spouse or a family member, because I
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: want it to be accessible. I don't want you know,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: non believers to get afraid of my music, and I
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: don't want you know, Christians to feel like it's not fun.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: And you know, music's supposed to be fun.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: So I just wanted to have an updeat song that
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: you know, you can sing anyone that you love and
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: you know it's sweet and you can roll the windows down.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: And just vibe out. So that was what I wanted
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: to do with this one, and I think I did it.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I hope I did it. But it's just a fun song.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: I liked the music video too. Oh yeah, so did
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: you shoot that around here in Nashville? Er?
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like ten minutes from my house at a little
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: public park and I don't think that we had a
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: video permit, so.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it was super fun.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: And I sent a text to some family and friends
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: and I was like, hey, if you want to come be,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: you know, in this music video with me, feel free,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: and a.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Lot of people showed up and that was really sweet.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: But I loved the video.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: It was fun, it was it was a very whoever
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: produced it did an amazing.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, it was incredible.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love like she was saying the versatility in
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: your in your music, because yeah, if you box yourself
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: sometimes in you might people might not want to even
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: try and listen, and if they did, they'd be like wow,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: you know. So I love that and that speaks a
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: lot about your songwriting ability and all that.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you have kids, you know what it's
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: like to like hear the music that they're listening to
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: and they think that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: It's harmless, and you know what it's really saying.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I have a little sister, and whenever I was her age,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I had the Jonas Brothers.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: And Hannah Montana and that was fun.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I mean there were some things here and there, but
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: for the most part, you know, it's just upbeat, fun music.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: And I listened to what she has on her radio
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: now and it's scary, right, And so I wanted to
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: give her age group and demographic stuff that they can
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: have fun too. And the lyrics, you know, are pointing
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: towards the truth and the message as well. So she
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: was a big inspiration in me and kids and just
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: giving them something fun but also meaningful.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, And you know, we were talking about that
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: this morning while La has a three year old and
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: the stuff that is on these YouTube channels for little
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: kids is just the songs and the videos, and I
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: just I just shake my head.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Right, we need more Mary Claire's because I think my
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: daughters need you know, she's three and she doesn't know
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: what she's listening to, but we're watching and we're we're
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: saying it's very important because all that it sticks with
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: them and then it just goes into something else or
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: flourshs into something else. So it's important to have that
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: good basis and good music and good messages in the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: songs that they're listening to.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Right absolutely, And I want to show them that, you know,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: being a Christian is fun. I mean, God wants us
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: to have fun and celebrate life, and you know you can.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: You can wear fun clothes and you can hang out
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: with your friends and.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be bad and you don't have
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: to you know, become someone that you're not.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm glad you guys get what I'm trying
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: to do. You know, we get it, we.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: Love we love it.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you've worked with legendary producers like Ted T
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: and Mike Woods. So what was the biggest lessons that
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: you've taken from them.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, anytime that I'm in a room with someone
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: like that that just has a lot of experience, I
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: just try to learn and just to do like a
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: sponge and just to soak up everything that I can.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: But Ted has helped me from day zero, Like without him,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be a singer.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: He you know, found me and he knew my dad
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: and he said, you know, don't you want to be
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: a singer? And I said yeah, and he was like, well,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: let's do it. Come to the studio.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: And so he's an influential from the beginning. And you know,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: people like Mike Woods and Jeff Cardo, Carter Froze, they're
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: just producers that I can't believe that I get to
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: work with. So whenever I do work with them, I
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: make sure that I can really learn as much as
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I can. And I'm also blessed that I've been able
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: to become friends with them as well.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: So it's it's been a really big blessing.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: And I think working with people like that is another
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: way of the Lords showing me that.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: I'm on the right path, you know.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: It's a good well, that's definitely important.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: And do events happening in the world today, do they
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: like influence your music and your songwriting.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: That's a good question. Oh my goodness. I mean.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, But I will say that whenever I go to
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: write songs, I usually think what have I gone through?
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: And what am I going through?
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Because chances are there someone else that's going through that.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: And I don't want to become someone so focused on
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the world around me because I know personally that would
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: just make me distracted, you know, like I would have
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: an opinion and it would just get messy. And so
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I just like to focus on what the Lord's telling.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Me where I'm at.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I know that people my age are going through the
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: same thing, you know, identity issues, anxiety, mental health, and
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: so I try to focus on those things and let
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: the world work itself out.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but your debut album enough it blends with a
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: faith Beast theme. But Wilso pop m hm, So tell
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: us a little bit about that, and how do you
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: balance staying true to your values?
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I found myself last year writing a ton
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: of songs and working on a ton of music, and
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I had no problem with just making an album. And
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: then I realized that, you know, I'm I'm an extremely
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: small artist and no one knows who I am. But
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: I didn't really see a problem with that. So we
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: put together an album and released it. And all the
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: songs are very personal, and you know, there's not any
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: that are like fillers or just there because.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: We had to make an album. They're all very you know,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: important to me.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: And there's songs about you know, depression and people passing away,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: song about my parents getting divorced recently, so they're all
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: very It's like a page out of my journal.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Like you know, people say, you know, what are you
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: going through? What are you walking through? And I say, well,
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: you can just go to Spotify and hit play.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: And that that's my journal right there for the whole
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: world is thing. It's me right right, But yeah, enough
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: is a compilation of everything that I've walked through up
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: until this point in my life. And growing up, I
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: had two sisters and a brother, and the brother was
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: always out doing sports and things, and me and my
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: sisters would be home and before we would leave the
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: house or go to a friend's house.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Or do anything. He would say you're enough, and we'd
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: be like, okay, Dad, whatever, I don't really know what.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: You always told me that.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: And then we became a teenager and you know, we're
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: getting looking at our chops of the mirror and stuff.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Like that, and he would say you're enough.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: And I never really understood why he spoke that over
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: us until I became an adult and I realized that
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: some days you don't feel enough, and that's such a
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: crazy concept to have. But as a believer, I think
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: that we can, you know, get kind of insecure and think,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: you know, am I worth?
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: It? Was he right about me, you know, and.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Just hearing the Lord say you know, you're enough, and
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: also that meaning of enough going back to the Lord.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Saying you're enough for me. If all I have is you,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: that's enough. So just a few meanings. But I love
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: the album and it's oh my goodness, I don't even know.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: I'm very emotional.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: That's no, no, it's good. It's just beautiful to have,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: you know, your father saying that to you, and that
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: that's that's it makes me want to do that to
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: my children. You know, I can think about it, and
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: that's something that I should do because there's so many
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: doubts and they might not have them now my son's
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: getting into that age, but that's important and that builds
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: confidence in themselves and that it kind of protects them.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I thinking away from the evil of the world and
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: evil of your mind wandering too. So that's it's beautiful
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: to touch me.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: And they might not get it now, but no, one
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: day they'll say, no, I know, my mom said that.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: They'll be like, I don't.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: I don't. It's something that you don't get it when
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: you're young, you know, but now that you're older and adult.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: You know, now you get it.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Right now you're like, oh, mom was not crazy?
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, a lot, right, I love it.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: So do you have any current projects going on or
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: coming up?
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: We have a few things in the works, a few
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: festivals and shows here and there. But I'm really trying to,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: you know, find who I am and do local things
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: coffee shops and writers rounds because I want to be
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: confident in, you know, who I present myself as on
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: stage and make sure that it's authentic before I go
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: to anything bigger than that, because you know, I am
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: secure and who I am, but at the same time,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I have no clue, and so just.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Being honest with myself and trying to be authentic to
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: my fan base and working through that.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: So yeah, some exciting things coming, but for now keeping
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: it small.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: But once I have things, they'll be on social media
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: and I'll text you about it.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Yes, And what is your social media so that our
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: listeners can find you? And your website?
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so everything is Mary Clare Music, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: TikTok YouTube, Yeah, Mary Clare Music.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: That's my website as well. So yeah, it's all the same.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Awesome.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: Well, thank you so much.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: For coming in today, absolutely chatting with us.
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  Speaker 5: We love to have you.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: And if you're ever in New York let us know, Yes, go.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: For a hike. Yes, And next time you're in Nashville,
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: text me we can have a girl's day. Yeah. Awesome,
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: I really love that.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, we need to relax some girls.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Then.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: So while we were in Nashville, we did some research
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: about you know, what artists had places there and uh
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: Luke Brian had a place there, Post Malone had a
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: place there, Kid Rock, Kid Rock, Miranda, Lambert Blake shell In. Yeah,
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: so many people. But you know who also had a
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: spot there was our very own Gavin de Gars, who
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: grew up in our area. He had opened up a massive,
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: massive bar, restaurant.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Gaming, gaming, bowling, carrying, I mean rooftop bar.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It was ginormous. I think it was seven floors.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know, five to seven floors. I can't remember exactly.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: It was a lot.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: It was a lot and the food, oh my god,
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: so good. We ate on the rooftop. They had karaoke,
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: They had live bands on like almost every floor. It
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: was so much fun.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we that. When you walk in, you have the
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: bar there, you have the mechanical bowl, which is always
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: a must when you go to any Southern place, like
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: you want to get on the mechanical bowl. And then
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: all the gaming's down there. Then you go to the
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: next floor and you know, they have karaoke, they have this,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: They had the DJ there. Then there's another floor and
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: they had bowling. They had the minipin bowling. I guess
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: that's what it's called, Like it's a new thing, minipin bowling.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: They had some more arcade games there. The rooftop bar
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: was absolutely gorgeous, huge space. They actually had two rooftop bars.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: One was higher and one was lower, So that floor
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: we couldn't really go on because they had a private
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: party there that booked it out, and there was like
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: an outdoor area, like a rooftop area. So it was
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the views number one from that rooftop bar.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: Holy crap, they were breathtaking. I took a picture. I
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: posted it on Instagram, so everyone probably have has already
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: seen it. I couldn't get over the view.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: One view was what Seanna posted was the strip of
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: just all the lights, all the people, all the energy
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: was she captured in that picture. And then if you
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: turn the other way, you had the river, yeah, and
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: this beautiful lit up bridge over that. So it just
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: it was like a perfect location for that place too.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: It was on the end of the strip where you
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: had the most gorgeous views all around.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, you know, it was kind of like
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: the last stop on that strip. Yeah, and then you know,
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: you eat or drink or whatever, and then you go
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: back to the little chat.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: But this was another great spot, guys. I just love
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the vibe there, the service there, the people, that bartender upstairs,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: what was her name, she was phenomenal. I don't remember phenomenal.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: She was so nice.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, we had we got a kick out
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: of her. But great place to bring friends. When you
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: go to Nashville, you have to make your way down
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: that strip and go there either before pregame there or
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: after and you'll have a blast. You know, all the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: arcade games, the bowling, the mechanical bull, the karaoke. There's
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: something for everyone in your group. And you can hit
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Flora by floor by floor to get something different out
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: of that that location where I don't think you can.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: We didn't go to every place there, but I don't
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: think there's many spots on the strip that are like
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: that that have that can offer you all of that.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think there is one at all. Actually.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: And the building again is historic and we loved that.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Yes, we learned about the history from the manager there.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: It used to be a shipping warehouse and that's why
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: it's right on the river, so it had that old
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: history there. Of they would get deliveries and they put
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: stuff out. I love that kind of stuff, and I
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: love how they took something old that probably would have
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: sat there and rotted away and they transformed it into
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: this just beautiful, crazy, fun facility for people to enjoy,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: to get enjoyment out of this old building that probably
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: would have been knocked down, you know, and I love that.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: And what made it even better again was it Gavin
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: de grow and his brother Joey's place. And it's called
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Nashville Underground. So if you're in the Nashville area, definitely
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: put that on your list to check out anytime of
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: the day. But it really gets lively, you know, the
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: later in the night, but anytime the day, it's like
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: it'd be a fun, fun place.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I think we went around seven and we didn't
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: leave there untill like eleven o'clock at night.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was fun.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: It was so much fun. So our last night there,
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: I decided, you know, my mom came with us, who's
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: our assistant, and I promised her that I would do
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: something with her. You know, she wanted to see a show.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: She's like, we can't go to Nashville and not see
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: a show. So I found the perfect show for her.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: It was an off Broadway show about Dolly Parton's life
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: that Dolly Parton herself wrote and choreographed and all that.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: So she basically put this whole show together. Started on
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: I think on on Monday, and then we saw it
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: on Friday.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was very new. Yeah, Like I I'm
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: gonna be honest, I'm not a big show person, and
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: at first I was like, I like Dolly, but I
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: really don't want to sit through I don't want to say
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: it through a show.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: I'm not a Broadway person either.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I was amazed. I was. I loved. I
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: absolutely love the show. It had emotion. It told me
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: things about Dolly that I never knew, and they made
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: it entertaining. I was never bored. I was like, oh my, gosh,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: oh my, I didn't know that. Wow, this is all
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: She's funny, she had a personality on her and she
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: incorporated that into the show. Like that was Dolly.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know. And it was longer. The show was
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: two hours. Oh it it moves long, twenty something minutes
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: and originally it was over three hours and they had
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: to cut it down, so our version was two hours
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: and twenty something minutes. But it's also going on tour
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: to New York and all around the United States, so
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: there's still I think editing it to make it a
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: little bit shorter, because you know, people's attention span. Hmm,
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: isn't that great? But I I'm gonna go see it
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: again when it comes to New York.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to take my mother in law. She
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: loves Dolly. I think that she would. She's gonna love
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: it because she likes Broadway plays. So this is I've
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: never been to a Broadway play, but this was great.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: The music, the singing, everyone was so talented. Even I
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: was more shocked at the little kids. They have little
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Dolly like Dolly as a little girl. And that actress
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: was amazing, Like she's saying, so good. She was so
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: good in it.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And the girl who played Dolly, I don't know
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: her name, but she sounded just like Dolly.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I know how crazy is that. Then someone can sound
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: exactly like you like or make themselves sound that way. Yeah,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, I highly recommend it. If it's coming to
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: a city near you, check it out. Dolly is an
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: amazing person. She's such a helpful person. She's helped so
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: many people in her lifetime.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Poor, probably billions of dollars.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is to support her and to hear
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: her story and see her. I highly recommend that because
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: she is such a good person and she deserves everything
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: that comes to her, every good thing that comes.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: To her, she really does. And that's our show for
• 39:10
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• 39:14
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• 39:17
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• 39:21
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• 39:24
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• 39:29
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