December 23, 2024 • 29 mins
Get ready to feel the festive vibes! Carly Pearce and Michael Bublé's 'Maybe Next Christmas' is here! 🎶🎅 #ChristmasMusic
I still can't belive we got to hang with these two. Michael Bublé & Carly Peace put together amazing Christmas song and you'll never believe how they recorded it. This is honestly on of the coolest hangs we've had this year.
I still can't belive we got to hang with these two. Michael Bublé & Carly Peace put together amazing Christmas song and you'll never believe how they recorded it. This is honestly on of the coolest hangs we've had this year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I gotta say, first of all, I can't believe you
offered to sing for us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Michael.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
He's like, yeah, Carli looked like I was like, I'm kidding,
Carly Pearce, Michael Blay, Welcome to downtown Nashville, Holly, y'all
doing thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
For having us.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
You're so excited to sing for you this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Run Oh my life.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Come on, Carl, I'm putting this on iTunes. I'll share
with y'all. Listen.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I got asked because the opera was last night. Carly
has made that place a second home. That's a first
for you, Michael Blay, and taking over the opera.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Was Queen car for letting me get on the door.
I'm not joking.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
That's the best, one of the best moments of my
career ever. I mean, I understand the gravity, and I
understand that there are a few people that live outside
the world of country who have ever been invited in
that circle. And I was, I mean, and you know what,
it's amazing because being in there, I wanted to take
I needed to be in the moment, and I loved
(01:09):
everything in the musicianship and everything. The sound of that
church is just something but it's backstage, man, it's backstage
where like I just listen. They may never invite me back,
but I will just go and find my way back
there because it's funny. I called my wife last night
and she said, so, how was it? And I said, Babe,
(01:29):
those are our.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Kind of people.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
That's our people, babe, you know, like really beautiful, warm, empathetic.
You could you know, you just not to push it,
but you feel God is everywhere, you know, and that's
that's what I want from my life. I want to
be surrounded in that and that kind of positivity.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
So it was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So that circle is special obviously know the you know
the history behind it, but the actual history of like
that's everybody stood there man.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Man, And it's why it's funny because you know, Carly
and I did our single that maybe this Christmas song,
but I hit like bag, I was like, can I
please do? I want to do a Hank song because
I'm a huge Hank fan and I really wanted to
pay tribute because I'm a I'm a massive I have
such reverence for the genre, for the music, for the history, and.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So I said it on stageass night.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I was like, you know, I've never sung this song,
you know on the only place I ever sung was
in the shower.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I thank god that audience didn't have to see that.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
The singing part of the shower part.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
So it was just something where I felt like, man,
I just felt like I was very I felt very
loved and very welcomed as part of that family, and
it meant a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We our radio station has hosted two shows there and
we've been on Tay and I have been on stage
and introducing whoever's performing next. And I want to step
in that circle because I love the history of it,
and especially I'm a big Elvis guy.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So that's one of the names. And I'm like, but
I couldn't step in it. Tay ran in there, she
was like she liked. She stomped up and down.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
You've never stepped in the circle.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I'm nervous.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Do you remember your first first time?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I do, May twenty fifth, twenty fifteen.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I'm sorry, May fifteen, like that, Yeah, And I remember
I walked in and I put I like walked and
I put my hands down on it. And I remember
telling my two players that were playing with me, Mike
being one of them. I was like, I actually think
I'm going to throw up, Like I don't know if
I can do this. It was literally my dream to step.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
In that circle. But oh yeah, I smacked my hands down.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
There's a video.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I actually, you know, it's funny and I felt little.
I didn't want to cringe people out. I did it
in a very quiet way. I don't know if you
know that, but I actually got down and.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Kissed at the stage. Literally I walked out and I like,
I didn't know. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't want
to be weird about it.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
And yeah, no that's not weird.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
No, no, it's no, I don't know. I went down
and I was like, I need to do this.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
This is I need to give her a kiss and
to make sure that I'm here and I'm you know,
it was I mean, I'm pumped.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I was on my family chat.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
We have like a group chat where yeah, you know, sheriff,
what was the kid? I was like, there, this is
the coolest night ever. And then when I saw it back,
a friend of mine sent me a video of Carly
and I and the ending of the song, and it
didn't I want.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
To cry, like the curtain comes out, what's the beautiful
man who was what's that man's name?
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Bill, Bill Cody, Oh my god, And the curtain's coming down,
and it's and it says thank you everybody, thank you
for coming to the opery for one hundredth anniversary and
Michael Bluebla's day.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Like I got goosebumps telling you. And the curtain came down.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
And I cut the piece and I sent it to
my manager Bruce, and I was like, man, this is
something like this is one of those career defining moments.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
The music that you have made your whole career doesn't
necessarily fall into it's this, it's that, it's this, whatever.
But does the opry experience make you want to dip
your toe into all things country a little more?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I have you know, it's weird, man, And it's not
your fault for not listening to my records more.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I have absolutely but listen I until today. I just
haven't met you yet, So.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Don't do me like that.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, here's the weird part.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I paid tribute on almost every single record I make
by doing a country song. I love country music. I
have covered so many country songs. My favorite duet of
all time I begged Willie Nelson to send crazy with me.
You know, for me, there's always a Patsy Klein song,
there's always a Hank song. I've just it's just been
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such a big part of the love I have.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I mean, even the favorite artists.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
You know, my favorite records, actually standard records was Willie
Nelson Duin Starred Us and a lot of my favorite
music was Ray Charles covering great country songs. And so
what's weird is I always felt organically that the music
the Great American song Book and jazz mixed in the
most beautiful way.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
You know. It doesn't even.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Rhythmically, It's not like you're taking a circle and trying
to jam it into a square.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
They work together, you know.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
And it was also doing a lot of blue grass
backstage with the Isaacs last night, and it was it
was pretty great.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I've been writing with her all morning, which I love
is sending me videos.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
We were doing gospel stuff and Patsy Klan song. We
did what did we do last night?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
We did ah see the Pyramids.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's a long boom.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Anyway, how often did Carly Piers rolling her eyes over here?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Well he'll just sing something and I'm just like, how
is it perfect every single time, and then he's like
so funny.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
But then he'll like sing and it's.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Like, oh my god, you guys, you're here to talk
about a song you did together. Before I get to that,
I want I want to ask does the opry experience
like that? Because you've you've executed at a high level
for such a long time, does an experience like that
motive vat you creatively in a way that maybe you haven't.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Been Oh completely, I mean I've been, Like I said
the Isaacs, I want to go and make We need
to make music, and I mean we need to go
and record without a doubt. And it doesn't have to
be fancy. We need to sit in a room without machines.
We need to just you know, sit there and sing
and play. Because that was that that's what moves people.
(07:26):
I think more and more we're realizing in music that
people are looking to feel something and and authenticity is
just so huge and people might not even be able
to articulate why they feel it, but they do. And
last night sing singing with them, it was like, oh yeah,
this is a no brainer.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
This has to happen.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
And mind you, Sonia, who to me is one of
the greatest female vocalists of all time texted me in
the morning and said, do you think I can meet Michael?
He's literally my dream due at partner And then now
she's texting with like her music here.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You know, it's weird. I was thinking about country too.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I write, I don't know why, but I write in
a way that's very country. When I write, it's just
even this song, the Christmas song was like me on
the guitar and me kind of you know, embodying Willie
and Uh. One of the first big hits I had.
I'd written Home and right away Blake Shelton took it
and he had I think it was his first number
one hit, And for me that was like I realized.
(08:28):
I was like, oh, that's kind of what. Even the song,
everything that I wrote. I don't know if you know
that song you're.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
But it's very country. It's kind of I have that
kind of that love and passion for I think it
just seeps through what I do.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I was reading a little bit of the backstory. Obviously,
you guys came together. Carly was an advisor for your team.
Two musical talents like y'all are bound to connect on something.
Why why a Christmas song? What made a Christmas song work?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You want to kind of tell him quickly.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
So I was called to be Michael's advisor, which of
course I'm such a fan of him as an artist.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Could you please it's live please?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And she was like, hm, He's like, you know how
many people I've called?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Yeah, He's like, you're my fifteenth.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
And then he like literally called me for the first
time as we're chatting about like you know, hey, can't
wait to meet you whatever, and he was like, Hey,
I'm working on this.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Song. I really want you to be a part of it.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I'm doing something really special with Apple and the new
iPhone and this new feature where we're going to be
able to record on our iPhones in a new and
innovative way. And I was like, okay, awesome, I'm in.
And then over the next couple of months, he would
just send me these little as he was like working
on the song, and then before I knew it, here
(09:47):
i am flying to Vancouver. We're singing and I'm going
to let him speak just because this is so amazing
as an artist to advocate for other artists and other
creatives in the way that he has I mean he's
changing history. Just get to go along on the ride
and laugh all day, but I mean what he's done
for young creatives who may not be able to afford
being in a studio or may not have the just
(10:10):
abilities they're going to be able to record. I mean,
we recorded this song our vocals on an iPhone. There
is people all day have been like, but really did you?
And it's like, no, seriously, literally on an iPhone.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
By the way, There's a guy named John Dancy who
works with mister Tim Cook and Apple.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
And is a genius and as a team of geniuses.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
And I was hanging with him and I didn't even
know really what he did, and he was like, how'd
you write your music? And I said, oh, I use
my voice memo on my phone. And I was like,
how come it sucks when I don't use a headphone
and it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Sounds like I come out of the shower. And I said, like,
you guys are geniuses. Can't you fix that? And that's
what I literally said.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
And then he called me like a year later and
he went, hey, remember when you were saying that stuff.
He said, I went back and my team did it
and he goes, we now we have studio call you
and the new the sixteen. And he goes and we
have two tracks. And I was like, oh my god.
For me as a writer, that's like really, you mean
I can like plunk something down and sing to a
(11:11):
demo and not have to go to a studio. And
and I was cynical, but then I was. So this
song was written quickly. It was all done quickly, flew Carly.
The producer's name was Greg Wallas. He had just finished
doing producing the Wicked movie, the music for Wicked. They
flew to Vancouver. She was amazing. Literally literally in a
(11:31):
day's notice. Was it literally less than a day's notice.
It was like the red Eye of Vancouver. Greg came,
she put that stuck the iPhone in the in the stand.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I got one in my stand.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Greg took the iPhone and stuck it into the piano,
got to the piano.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
And it was like it worked, like it works, and
I just.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
You know again going back to that authenticity, going back
to organic stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
You just it just works, man. And there's it's like
you can work in this business.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
And you know, because you see every day people come
in here selling you their wares and they could work
the hardest on it with the greatest technology people in
the world, the best writers, and dude, sometimes it doesn't
hit and you can't expect how come it didn't hit?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I just that was the biggest songwriter and the biggest movie.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
In the And then sometimes something like this happens, where
it just kind of happens and our friendship is organic
and it works and there's no reason.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
It just you can't even explain. It just happens.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Just moves people when it comes to being organic, whether
you write a song, and this is a question I
repeat often because the answers are wild. When you are
approached with a song or maybe you're a part of
a write. Has there been a song that you just
didn't feel because it wasn't authentic to you that ended
up going to somebody else and like now has been massive?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
No, because I write, and I've written all the how
about you?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
I have a flip of that, yeap, So I didn't
write the Wine and Little Big Town cut it first,
but then didn't feel like it was right for them.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
But then it became a hit for me.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Massive.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, it's like one of my defining You still get
bottles of wine as a gift because I'm thank you
so much.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I had and I have.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
The opposite is because going back to home, Like, I
was very proud of myself because I was like, this
is a good song, and I knew it was a
good song.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I was in shower writing it. You didn't ower a
lot I do. I do all my best No, I
do all my best work in the shower.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I really do way different, dude.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
And but then Blake, Blake had it and it was
like this massive hit. And then like for years after,
I would be doing it somewhere and people come up
to me. They'd say, I just really loved your version
of Blake Shelton's Home, and I'd don't.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Damn it, that's my song.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Never I've never missed a song. I mean I've had
songs by the way that I thought would be huge.
Like I wrote a song called I Got It Easy,
and it's still one of my favorite songs that I've
ever written. I was like, oh, this is gonna kill
this for sure. It is so deep and rich and authentic.
No one has ever heard of it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's one of my tops. Honest.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
This song is called Maybe This Christmas is it tough.
Christmas music is some of the most iconic music. Like
it's people have their favorites, their classics, and they kind
of just stick with that. Knowing y'all have created fantastic
music outside of a holiday.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Is it intimidating to do a Christmas song? You're like,
we're just gonna have fun and if people dig it,
they dig it.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I mean, I felt like I was in really good
company as far as getting to mix like something that
I feel like when you hear him sing, there's something
so classic about it and timeless. Yet like I feel
like I've heard this song for years and I don't
know how to explain that to you, Like I feel
like sweet Spot to me is like if you're going
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to create something that's going to be played for years
to come, it's very rare that it feels. But because
I do feel like this song is speaking to a
group of people that maybe feel like Christmas music is
only for people who feel joyful, and this song is
about people who maybe feel sadness. But it just sounds
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perfectly new, yet I feel like I've heard it for years.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I get asked a couple of times a month by
the biggest artists on our planet Earth, no joke, and
they'll call and go like, we should do Christmas thing,
and and I think they want to. I'm not a
kidding man like this, and I think the thought is that, man,
(15:40):
it's easy, like you just do it and it'll sell
and you'll make a ton of dough and everybody wants in,
like every like who wouldn't want to have an iconic
Christmas moment and every year in perpetuity, it's evergreen, and
and it doesn't work for them.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It doesn't work ever like ever.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
And the reason it works for me is because I
am the hugest nerd in the universe.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
And I genuinely love Christmas.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I love it. I love the feeling of it. I
loved it before I got four kids now and I
see the wonderment in their eyes, and I want to
recreate what my mom and dad recreated for me, made
for me from their parents.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And so it is so earnest and.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
It goes right back to what we've been talking about
this whole time, which is is authenticity. It's like people,
they may not know how to say it, it's hard
to articulate.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
But they feel it.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Man, you can't trick them, and so you know, like
people that dig it, it's you can feel it, and
it's something that's like Kelly Clarkson is somebody who's had
a lot of success with pristance.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
That woman, you know that she loves it, like you
know what I mean, that's a joyful, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Soul and when she does.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
It, you not just that she has the voice of
an angel, you know, but she's.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
It's real even in our format.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Brett Aldridge, it's like he's had some much success it's
because he loves it.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, I mean at this point he's almost like, forget
the other music on the Christmas truly what So let
me ask what are Christmas is all about? Positivity and happiness?
What are Christmas songs that you're like that you may
skip on your playlist.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I'm not like a Rootolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Frosty
the Snowman. I know, but I don't have kids and
my dogs can't talk.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Obviously you don't know your dancers comedy listen, but she did.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Recall her least favorite reindeer of all Michael.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Michael, what about the same question for you?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Are there are there songs that you're like, Okay, I've
heard enough of this one. Not in a negative way, but.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Like songs like there's songs like that I feel are underplayed,
Like why how can we never hear?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
All I want for Christmas is you?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
That's what?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
How does that one go? That's you know what?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It wasn't on my bingo car for this morning. But
it's fine, man.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
You know what's funny.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I'm I don't hear enough, no joke, I don't hear
the hymns enough, you know, like and people are so
afraid that you're not allowed to say Merry Christmas, and
because it doesn't politically correct to love you know what's weird.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
People have no.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Problem ever using the Lord's name in vain and nobody
even blinks, but you say I love my Jesus and
people go like huh. And it's like, I'm miss hearing
beautiful hymns man, that are spreading the good word absolute
and I don't hear it enough. And there's there's room
for everything, and I'm loving the you know, the fun
you know, commercial Christmas songs. But give me a little
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bit of Oh Holy night, you know, give me a
little bit of Silent night or or you know the
drummer boy, Like, those are the ones I like, that's
what That's what inspired me to love Christmas music is
growing up with my faith and like loving that we
got to share our love of our faith.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Like that cool.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Funny enough as you bring up those song titles, those
were mixed in with the Santa Babies of the World
when I was younger, Like you would hear those songs
just as much as Burl Lives and all those.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, not the case anymore though.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Not the case so much.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
And I'm you know, I love and when they were
like listens for me, Bing Crosby was a big part
of our life growing up and that was playing all
the time.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I love that. I just think it's really beautiful.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
And by the way, it was a big part of
the inspire you know, inspiring me. When I wrote this song,
it was like I wanted to write a hymn, you know,
a really beautiful hymn that brought some hope, brought some.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Light when it comes to what happens past this.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Have you guys had enough fun where you're like, hey,
let's do a non Christmas song together?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I'm like sad that Christmas is almost here because I
won't see him all the time.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I've been seeing him so much. So yeah, we have
to we have to sing something that's her.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
No joke it listen, You're gonna see you mean, because
well again, they're probably whether I'm invited.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Back or not.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
I will be disguising my way in and finding my
way into the opry.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I'll be coming a handsome hey are you That's all.
I'm George and I'm here too. I'm coming back.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
My go to is if I want to be somewhere,
I just go as lejanitor because nobody.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Questions a guy with the mop, you know what I mean.
It's like somebody Carly throw up backstage again She's it's true,
so that.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You know we need to work together for sure. This
girl's voice is it's just stupid. It's so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I have written her so many messages or called her
after me and my wife sitting in bed listening to
this song and going like like god, this.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Is so she's so good. She's so good. By the way,
last night we were good.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
I don't know if we're allowed to say that, but like,
I saw so much stuff like sent to me on
socials and stuff of our performance?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
What why are we so good? I really, why are
we so good? And so beauty and humble?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
That's what I love about you is that we didn't
have to turn your head sideways a gainst you on
the door.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, uh, you said, go back to the Opery experience.
You said you had called your wife as soon as
it was over, and you saw the clips or whatever.
It's party like, they have to be here next time
because you can't explain, you can't.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I was crushed, I said, I said, Actually, weirdly, I
literally before I sat down with you, I'm texting with
a friend of mine named Eric stone Street and Eric.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Is is do you know Eric?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
He's uh, he Eric's he's an actor. He was in
a Modern Family member Modern. Oh yeah, yeah, Eric Stones
She's a wonderful comedian. Really, And he's so angry with
me because he said, if I had known that you
were at the Opry, I would have flown. And he's
giving me so much hell right now on the phone.
(21:58):
And and yeah, he just wrote me to say that
he's upset about many things.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
That's just that.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You've opened the door.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah, it's a tough Kansas City Chiefs game for him.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Listen, that's fine with me. They can it's been They've
had plenty of fun. They can go to the back
of the line.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
So there's a lot of people. I would have loved
to to be there last night.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
But honestly, I spent most of my night last night
sharing videos with my family with my manager. You know,
this was my manager managed Martina McBride for a long
time and he managed Anne.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Marie for a long time. Oh wow, yeah, so this
would have been a big moment for him.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
That's anytime Anne Marie's name comes up.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
My grandma went to high school with her, and so
she always is like, you know I I'm like, yeah, grandma,
and you messed.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Up somewhere partly Canadian or something.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I am from Minnesota close enough.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Oh yeah, I can tell because you're very handsome.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You're lying.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
The Canadians have and I'm not saying that. It's like
we're all as sexy as you and I, but.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
That's what hey, But you can tell. Everyone's trying to
catch up though, Keep trying, but keep trying.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Carly's like, what Minnesota accent?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I had to did that thing? You get out get
you know what?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I mean, yeah, I've been here for four years now,
so I was like, I try not to stay boat.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You want to go on the boat?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
My assistant is from North Dakota and sometimes she'll be
like bag and I'm like what She's like bags.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Pop because we say pop in the Midwest.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Hop I say pop.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
But I changed the soda because people are like, why'd
you want? Almost did a New York accent for NASCAR.
It's fine, They're the same place. Fine, what what are
you guys doing the rest of the year, Like, what
are your plans as far as are you guys performing
again together?
Speaker 5 (23:49):
This is the end.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
This is time to drink.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
This is the end. Well, less traumatic, It's time to
have a drink.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Honestly, this is really I am going to start.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I have been so disciplined and so good and uh,
you know, doing music and so she's got a wine,
I've got a whiskey and and uh and I've been
doing all that and selling that.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
But it's time to start drinking it. Ye, selling and
more drinking.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Yeah, I mean I it's kind of become a running
joke everywhere that we've been together over the last few months.
I either uber eats a bottle of wine too wherever
we are, or I bring them. So last night I
had my stash and he was just like, look at you.
I'm like, I drink with you when we're together.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
It's not good. I was glad she had to do
something this morning, and so did I.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I am so excited, like I go, we leave it
one and my kids are so happy to have me come.
You know now it's just poppy time and and it's
just time to get you know, put my phone down.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I lost in almost all of.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
My fantasy football leagues, so there's no reason to thank
you for loving on me.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Man, and my team on paper was stacked by the
way I.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Was destroying all your My heart is aching.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I started six and one, then I lost every game
after that.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You know what my wife would say to you. He
would say, it's no real. It's called fantasy because there's
no real. Mike is no real. But she doesn't know
how real.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
That's what I'm saying. I had a bond with these guys.
We went into war.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
You think I'm kidding. This is the truth. Oh, I
don't want to say it out.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Loud, do it?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I got no filter?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Do it?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
If you said if you said Grammy or the Pop
jazz Is Fantasy Football Championship Trophy, Oh, it would be
the Pop Jazzers Championship Trophy. It's I've been in the
league for fifteen years with all my musicians who are
my family, and I hate them so much.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh yeah, God threw you.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Nick. I just want to say that Nick Vainos.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
We're gonna jump neck next time we see him.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Stupid.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Uh, what are Christmas plans?
Speaker 6 (26:02):
I'm hanging out with my two children, my Shitsuos, Johnny
and June, drinking a lot of wine. I think my
mom's worried about my wine intake these days. But just
hanging out with my parents and just taking a little break,
like you know, not clipping the hair in, not putting
all the clothes on, just like chilling.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
That's I try to avoid the you know what.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
I mean, clip it in the hair is tough.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's not authentic when I do it, exactly, it's not.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
When I do I'll take it off right now, I
think the same day, you know what, I'm going to
be basically walking around Vancouver, Canada telling people that I
won the voice.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And if they don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I will say, do you know that I wont I'm
the winner of season twenty six.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
The boy just have a shirt, then you don't have
to voices and your voices check you know what I mean,
like just put it on a shirt.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
And uh and just collecting Christmas money and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
That's Christmas music. I heard pays the can we hey,
can we hey? Check your DMS on Instagram. I just
have a song idea for Christmas. If you get a
secon yes, I was like, no, I wouldn't listen. I
will never pitch a song idea unless do we still.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Have but encounter about snowman and reindeer.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's yeah, whatever, and maybe happiness. I don't like flakes
and like children playing.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
No SHOs playing yes yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Whatever you want to call the kids. We don't care.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
H I appreciate you guys so much, sanction making the
times fun today.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
You know you should have played the game with him
where you give the clearly to play this game where
he had it was idea where one of us got
the shot of tequila or vodka or whatever you get.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
It was tequila.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
It was a TikTok thing where one of us had
water or one had tequila and the other two had
water and then people watched the video and had to guess.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
So if you drank it, you couldn't react.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Can we do a TikTok before, like before we finished this?
Can we do one together?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
What kind looks?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Just don't make me do a dance? I won't do
I can't.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I won't dance.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
And plus TikTok's going away in like a few weeks,
isn't it. Yeah, it just got banned.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Do you know what? Don't I'm no joke.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Guys, don't even worry about that because with the aliens
coming to attack, that's true.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Do you have an alien song? Yet?
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I'm having a hard time rhyming with orb orb or
that's not a rhyme with or. That's what's going on
with the orbs by the way.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
That's listen. We could get into that. It's funny because
his dad on Instagram just posted what did he just
posts yesterday? Did you see it? But it was something
very like if you come and get us already, we've
had enough or something like that. Just get it over with, please,
I'm my good lord.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
I mentioned that I won the Voice this season. This
was this season Yeah, I just did it.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I just wanted. I don't know if I had said that.
I don't want to be a braggart. I wait those
kind of people.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
But so the voice, Christmas music. I know I'm dominating.
I'm dominating, you know what.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Just wait, do we get to Mother's Day in Valentine's
because I'm back then too, Michael coming.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Carly Fierce. I appreciate you guys so much.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Fabby, don't leave me hanging
I gotta say, first of all, I can't believe you
offered to sing for us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Michael.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
He's like, yeah, Carli looked like I was like, I'm kidding,
Carly Pearce, Michael Blay, Welcome to downtown Nashville, Holly, y'all
doing thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
For having us.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
You're so excited to sing for you this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Run Oh my life.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Come on, Carl, I'm putting this on iTunes. I'll share
with y'all. Listen.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I got asked because the opera was last night. Carly
has made that place a second home. That's a first
for you, Michael Blay, and taking over the opera.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Was Queen car for letting me get on the door.
I'm not joking.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
That's the best, one of the best moments of my
career ever. I mean, I understand the gravity, and I
understand that there are a few people that live outside
the world of country who have ever been invited in
that circle. And I was, I mean, and you know what,
it's amazing because being in there, I wanted to take
I needed to be in the moment, and I loved
(01:09):
everything in the musicianship and everything. The sound of that
church is just something but it's backstage, man, it's backstage
where like I just listen. They may never invite me back,
but I will just go and find my way back
there because it's funny. I called my wife last night
and she said, so, how was it? And I said, Babe,
(01:29):
those are our.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Kind of people.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
That's our people, babe, you know, like really beautiful, warm, empathetic.
You could you know, you just not to push it,
but you feel God is everywhere, you know, and that's
that's what I want from my life. I want to
be surrounded in that and that kind of positivity.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
So it was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So that circle is special obviously know the you know
the history behind it, but the actual history of like
that's everybody stood there man.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Man, And it's why it's funny because you know, Carly
and I did our single that maybe this Christmas song,
but I hit like bag, I was like, can I
please do? I want to do a Hank song because
I'm a huge Hank fan and I really wanted to
pay tribute because I'm a I'm a massive I have
such reverence for the genre, for the music, for the history, and.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So I said it on stageass night.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I was like, you know, I've never sung this song,
you know on the only place I ever sung was
in the shower.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I thank god that audience didn't have to see that.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
The singing part of the shower part.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
So it was just something where I felt like, man,
I just felt like I was very I felt very
loved and very welcomed as part of that family, and
it meant a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We our radio station has hosted two shows there and
we've been on Tay and I have been on stage
and introducing whoever's performing next. And I want to step
in that circle because I love the history of it,
and especially I'm a big Elvis guy.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So that's one of the names. And I'm like, but
I couldn't step in it. Tay ran in there, she
was like she liked. She stomped up and down.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
You've never stepped in the circle.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I'm nervous.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Do you remember your first first time?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I do, May twenty fifth, twenty fifteen.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I'm sorry, May fifteen, like that, Yeah, And I remember
I walked in and I put I like walked and
I put my hands down on it. And I remember
telling my two players that were playing with me, Mike
being one of them. I was like, I actually think
I'm going to throw up, Like I don't know if
I can do this. It was literally my dream to step.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
In that circle. But oh yeah, I smacked my hands down.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
There's a video.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I actually, you know, it's funny and I felt little.
I didn't want to cringe people out. I did it
in a very quiet way. I don't know if you
know that, but I actually got down and.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Kissed at the stage. Literally I walked out and I like,
I didn't know. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't want
to be weird about it.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
And yeah, no that's not weird.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
No, no, it's no, I don't know. I went down
and I was like, I need to do this.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
This is I need to give her a kiss and
to make sure that I'm here and I'm you know,
it was I mean, I'm pumped.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I was on my family chat.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
We have like a group chat where yeah, you know, sheriff,
what was the kid? I was like, there, this is
the coolest night ever. And then when I saw it back,
a friend of mine sent me a video of Carly
and I and the ending of the song, and it
didn't I want.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
To cry, like the curtain comes out, what's the beautiful
man who was what's that man's name?
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Bill, Bill Cody, Oh my god, And the curtain's coming down,
and it's and it says thank you everybody, thank you
for coming to the opery for one hundredth anniversary and
Michael Bluebla's day.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Like I got goosebumps telling you. And the curtain came down.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
And I cut the piece and I sent it to
my manager Bruce, and I was like, man, this is
something like this is one of those career defining moments.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
The music that you have made your whole career doesn't
necessarily fall into it's this, it's that, it's this, whatever.
But does the opry experience make you want to dip
your toe into all things country a little more?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I have you know, it's weird, man, And it's not
your fault for not listening to my records more.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I have absolutely but listen I until today. I just
haven't met you yet, So.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Don't do me like that.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, here's the weird part.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I paid tribute on almost every single record I make
by doing a country song. I love country music. I
have covered so many country songs. My favorite duet of
all time I begged Willie Nelson to send crazy with me.
You know, for me, there's always a Patsy Klein song,
there's always a Hank song. I've just it's just been
(05:33):
such a big part of the love I have.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I mean, even the favorite artists.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
You know, my favorite records, actually standard records was Willie
Nelson Duin Starred Us and a lot of my favorite
music was Ray Charles covering great country songs. And so
what's weird is I always felt organically that the music
the Great American song Book and jazz mixed in the
most beautiful way.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
You know. It doesn't even.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Rhythmically, It's not like you're taking a circle and trying
to jam it into a square.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
They work together, you know.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
And it was also doing a lot of blue grass
backstage with the Isaacs last night, and it was it
was pretty great.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I've been writing with her all morning, which I love
is sending me videos.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
We were doing gospel stuff and Patsy Klan song. We
did what did we do last night?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
We did ah see the Pyramids.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's a long boom.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Anyway, how often did Carly Piers rolling her eyes over here?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Well he'll just sing something and I'm just like, how
is it perfect every single time, and then he's like
so funny.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
But then he'll like sing and it's.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Like, oh my god, you guys, you're here to talk
about a song you did together. Before I get to that,
I want I want to ask does the opry experience
like that? Because you've you've executed at a high level
for such a long time, does an experience like that
motive vat you creatively in a way that maybe you haven't.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Been Oh completely, I mean I've been, Like I said
the Isaacs, I want to go and make We need
to make music, and I mean we need to go
and record without a doubt. And it doesn't have to
be fancy. We need to sit in a room without machines.
We need to just you know, sit there and sing
and play. Because that was that that's what moves people.
(07:26):
I think more and more we're realizing in music that
people are looking to feel something and and authenticity is
just so huge and people might not even be able
to articulate why they feel it, but they do. And
last night sing singing with them, it was like, oh yeah,
this is a no brainer.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
This has to happen.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
And mind you, Sonia, who to me is one of
the greatest female vocalists of all time texted me in
the morning and said, do you think I can meet Michael?
He's literally my dream due at partner And then now
she's texting with like her music here.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You know, it's weird. I was thinking about country too.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I write, I don't know why, but I write in
a way that's very country. When I write, it's just
even this song, the Christmas song was like me on
the guitar and me kind of you know, embodying Willie
and Uh. One of the first big hits I had.
I'd written Home and right away Blake Shelton took it
and he had I think it was his first number
one hit, And for me that was like I realized.
(08:28):
I was like, oh, that's kind of what. Even the song,
everything that I wrote. I don't know if you know
that song you're.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
But it's very country. It's kind of I have that
kind of that love and passion for I think it
just seeps through what I do.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I was reading a little bit of the backstory. Obviously,
you guys came together. Carly was an advisor for your team.
Two musical talents like y'all are bound to connect on something.
Why why a Christmas song? What made a Christmas song work?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You want to kind of tell him quickly.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
So I was called to be Michael's advisor, which of
course I'm such a fan of him as an artist.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Could you please it's live please?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And she was like, hm, He's like, you know how
many people I've called?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Yeah, He's like, you're my fifteenth.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
And then he like literally called me for the first
time as we're chatting about like you know, hey, can't
wait to meet you whatever, and he was like, Hey,
I'm working on this.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Song. I really want you to be a part of it.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I'm doing something really special with Apple and the new
iPhone and this new feature where we're going to be
able to record on our iPhones in a new and
innovative way. And I was like, okay, awesome, I'm in.
And then over the next couple of months, he would
just send me these little as he was like working
on the song, and then before I knew it, here
(09:47):
i am flying to Vancouver. We're singing and I'm going
to let him speak just because this is so amazing
as an artist to advocate for other artists and other
creatives in the way that he has I mean he's
changing history. Just get to go along on the ride
and laugh all day, but I mean what he's done
for young creatives who may not be able to afford
being in a studio or may not have the just
(10:10):
abilities they're going to be able to record. I mean,
we recorded this song our vocals on an iPhone. There
is people all day have been like, but really did you?
And it's like, no, seriously, literally on an iPhone.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
By the way, There's a guy named John Dancy who
works with mister Tim Cook and Apple.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
And is a genius and as a team of geniuses.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
And I was hanging with him and I didn't even
know really what he did, and he was like, how'd
you write your music? And I said, oh, I use
my voice memo on my phone. And I was like,
how come it sucks when I don't use a headphone
and it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Sounds like I come out of the shower. And I said, like,
you guys are geniuses. Can't you fix that? And that's
what I literally said.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
And then he called me like a year later and
he went, hey, remember when you were saying that stuff.
He said, I went back and my team did it
and he goes, we now we have studio call you
and the new the sixteen. And he goes and we
have two tracks. And I was like, oh my god.
For me as a writer, that's like really, you mean
I can like plunk something down and sing to a
(11:11):
demo and not have to go to a studio. And
and I was cynical, but then I was. So this
song was written quickly. It was all done quickly, flew Carly.
The producer's name was Greg Wallas. He had just finished
doing producing the Wicked movie, the music for Wicked. They
flew to Vancouver. She was amazing. Literally literally in a
(11:31):
day's notice. Was it literally less than a day's notice.
It was like the red Eye of Vancouver. Greg came,
she put that stuck the iPhone in the in the stand.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I got one in my stand.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Greg took the iPhone and stuck it into the piano,
got to the piano.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
And it was like it worked, like it works, and
I just.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
You know again going back to that authenticity, going back
to organic stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
You just it just works, man. And there's it's like
you can work in this business.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
And you know, because you see every day people come
in here selling you their wares and they could work
the hardest on it with the greatest technology people in
the world, the best writers, and dude, sometimes it doesn't
hit and you can't expect how come it didn't hit?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I just that was the biggest songwriter and the biggest movie.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
In the And then sometimes something like this happens, where
it just kind of happens and our friendship is organic
and it works and there's no reason.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
It just you can't even explain. It just happens.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Just moves people when it comes to being organic, whether
you write a song, and this is a question I
repeat often because the answers are wild. When you are
approached with a song or maybe you're a part of
a write. Has there been a song that you just
didn't feel because it wasn't authentic to you that ended
up going to somebody else and like now has been massive?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
No, because I write, and I've written all the how
about you?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
I have a flip of that, yeap, So I didn't
write the Wine and Little Big Town cut it first,
but then didn't feel like it was right for them.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
But then it became a hit for me.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Massive.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, it's like one of my defining You still get
bottles of wine as a gift because I'm thank you
so much.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I had and I have.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
The opposite is because going back to home, Like, I
was very proud of myself because I was like, this
is a good song, and I knew it was a
good song.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I was in shower writing it. You didn't ower a
lot I do. I do all my best No, I
do all my best work in the shower.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I really do way different, dude.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
And but then Blake, Blake had it and it was
like this massive hit. And then like for years after,
I would be doing it somewhere and people come up
to me. They'd say, I just really loved your version
of Blake Shelton's Home, and I'd don't.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Damn it, that's my song.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Never I've never missed a song. I mean I've had
songs by the way that I thought would be huge.
Like I wrote a song called I Got It Easy,
and it's still one of my favorite songs that I've
ever written. I was like, oh, this is gonna kill
this for sure. It is so deep and rich and authentic.
No one has ever heard of it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's one of my tops. Honest.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
This song is called Maybe This Christmas is it tough.
Christmas music is some of the most iconic music. Like
it's people have their favorites, their classics, and they kind
of just stick with that. Knowing y'all have created fantastic
music outside of a holiday.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Is it intimidating to do a Christmas song? You're like,
we're just gonna have fun and if people dig it,
they dig it.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I mean, I felt like I was in really good
company as far as getting to mix like something that
I feel like when you hear him sing, there's something
so classic about it and timeless. Yet like I feel
like I've heard this song for years and I don't
know how to explain that to you, Like I feel
like sweet Spot to me is like if you're going
(14:53):
to create something that's going to be played for years
to come, it's very rare that it feels. But because
I do feel like this song is speaking to a
group of people that maybe feel like Christmas music is
only for people who feel joyful, and this song is
about people who maybe feel sadness. But it just sounds
(15:15):
perfectly new, yet I feel like I've heard it for years.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I get asked a couple of times a month by
the biggest artists on our planet Earth, no joke, and
they'll call and go like, we should do Christmas thing,
and and I think they want to. I'm not a
kidding man like this, and I think the thought is that, man,
(15:40):
it's easy, like you just do it and it'll sell
and you'll make a ton of dough and everybody wants in,
like every like who wouldn't want to have an iconic
Christmas moment and every year in perpetuity, it's evergreen, and
and it doesn't work for them.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It doesn't work ever like ever.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
And the reason it works for me is because I
am the hugest nerd in the universe.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
And I genuinely love Christmas.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I love it. I love the feeling of it. I
loved it before I got four kids now and I
see the wonderment in their eyes, and I want to
recreate what my mom and dad recreated for me, made
for me from their parents.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And so it is so earnest and.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
It goes right back to what we've been talking about
this whole time, which is is authenticity. It's like people,
they may not know how to say it, it's hard
to articulate.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
But they feel it.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Man, you can't trick them, and so you know, like
people that dig it, it's you can feel it, and
it's something that's like Kelly Clarkson is somebody who's had
a lot of success with pristance.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
That woman, you know that she loves it, like you
know what I mean, that's a joyful, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Soul and when she does.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
It, you not just that she has the voice of
an angel, you know, but she's.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
It's real even in our format.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Brett Aldridge, it's like he's had some much success it's
because he loves it.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, I mean at this point he's almost like, forget
the other music on the Christmas truly what So let
me ask what are Christmas is all about? Positivity and happiness?
What are Christmas songs that you're like that you may
skip on your playlist.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I'm not like a Rootolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Frosty
the Snowman. I know, but I don't have kids and
my dogs can't talk.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Obviously you don't know your dancers comedy listen, but she did.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Recall her least favorite reindeer of all Michael.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Michael, what about the same question for you?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Are there are there songs that you're like, Okay, I've
heard enough of this one. Not in a negative way, but.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Like songs like there's songs like that I feel are underplayed,
Like why how can we never hear?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
All I want for Christmas is you?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
That's what?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
How does that one go? That's you know what?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It wasn't on my bingo car for this morning. But
it's fine, man.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
You know what's funny.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I'm I don't hear enough, no joke, I don't hear
the hymns enough, you know, like and people are so
afraid that you're not allowed to say Merry Christmas, and
because it doesn't politically correct to love you know what's weird.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
People have no.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Problem ever using the Lord's name in vain and nobody
even blinks, but you say I love my Jesus and
people go like huh. And it's like, I'm miss hearing
beautiful hymns man, that are spreading the good word absolute
and I don't hear it enough. And there's there's room
for everything, and I'm loving the you know, the fun
you know, commercial Christmas songs. But give me a little
(18:48):
bit of Oh Holy night, you know, give me a
little bit of Silent night or or you know the
drummer boy, Like, those are the ones I like, that's
what That's what inspired me to love Christmas music is
growing up with my faith and like loving that we
got to share our love of our faith.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Like that cool.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Funny enough as you bring up those song titles, those
were mixed in with the Santa Babies of the World
when I was younger, Like you would hear those songs
just as much as Burl Lives and all those.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, not the case anymore though.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Not the case so much.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
And I'm you know, I love and when they were
like listens for me, Bing Crosby was a big part
of our life growing up and that was playing all
the time.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I love that. I just think it's really beautiful.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
And by the way, it was a big part of
the inspire you know, inspiring me. When I wrote this song,
it was like I wanted to write a hymn, you know,
a really beautiful hymn that brought some hope, brought some.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Light when it comes to what happens past this.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Have you guys had enough fun where you're like, hey,
let's do a non Christmas song together?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I'm like sad that Christmas is almost here because I
won't see him all the time.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I've been seeing him so much. So yeah, we have
to we have to sing something that's her.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
No joke it listen, You're gonna see you mean, because
well again, they're probably whether I'm invited.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Back or not.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
I will be disguising my way in and finding my
way into the opry.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I'll be coming a handsome hey are you That's all.
I'm George and I'm here too. I'm coming back.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
My go to is if I want to be somewhere,
I just go as lejanitor because nobody.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Questions a guy with the mop, you know what I mean.
It's like somebody Carly throw up backstage again She's it's true,
so that.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You know we need to work together for sure. This
girl's voice is it's just stupid. It's so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I have written her so many messages or called her
after me and my wife sitting in bed listening to
this song and going like like god, this.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Is so she's so good. She's so good. By the way,
last night we were good.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
I don't know if we're allowed to say that, but like,
I saw so much stuff like sent to me on
socials and stuff of our performance?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
What why are we so good? I really, why are
we so good? And so beauty and humble?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
That's what I love about you is that we didn't
have to turn your head sideways a gainst you on
the door.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, uh, you said, go back to the Opery experience.
You said you had called your wife as soon as
it was over, and you saw the clips or whatever.
It's party like, they have to be here next time
because you can't explain, you can't.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I was crushed, I said, I said, Actually, weirdly, I
literally before I sat down with you, I'm texting with
a friend of mine named Eric stone Street and Eric.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Is is do you know Eric?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
He's uh, he Eric's he's an actor. He was in
a Modern Family member Modern. Oh yeah, yeah, Eric Stones
She's a wonderful comedian. Really, And he's so angry with
me because he said, if I had known that you
were at the Opry, I would have flown. And he's
giving me so much hell right now on the phone.
(21:58):
And and yeah, he just wrote me to say that
he's upset about many things.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
That's just that.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You've opened the door.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah, it's a tough Kansas City Chiefs game for him.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Listen, that's fine with me. They can it's been They've
had plenty of fun. They can go to the back
of the line.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
So there's a lot of people. I would have loved
to to be there last night.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
But honestly, I spent most of my night last night
sharing videos with my family with my manager. You know,
this was my manager managed Martina McBride for a long
time and he managed Anne.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Marie for a long time. Oh wow, yeah, so this
would have been a big moment for him.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
That's anytime Anne Marie's name comes up.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
My grandma went to high school with her, and so
she always is like, you know I I'm like, yeah, grandma,
and you messed.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Up somewhere partly Canadian or something.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I am from Minnesota close enough.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Oh yeah, I can tell because you're very handsome.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You're lying.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
The Canadians have and I'm not saying that. It's like
we're all as sexy as you and I, but.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
That's what hey, But you can tell. Everyone's trying to
catch up though, Keep trying, but keep trying.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Carly's like, what Minnesota accent?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I had to did that thing? You get out get
you know what?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I mean, yeah, I've been here for four years now,
so I was like, I try not to stay boat.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You want to go on the boat?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
My assistant is from North Dakota and sometimes she'll be
like bag and I'm like what She's like bags.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Pop because we say pop in the Midwest.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Hop I say pop.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
But I changed the soda because people are like, why'd
you want? Almost did a New York accent for NASCAR.
It's fine, They're the same place. Fine, what what are
you guys doing the rest of the year, Like, what
are your plans as far as are you guys performing
again together?
Speaker 5 (23:49):
This is the end.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
This is time to drink.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
This is the end. Well, less traumatic, It's time to
have a drink.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Honestly, this is really I am going to start.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I have been so disciplined and so good and uh,
you know, doing music and so she's got a wine,
I've got a whiskey and and uh and I've been
doing all that and selling that.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
But it's time to start drinking it. Ye, selling and
more drinking.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Yeah, I mean I it's kind of become a running
joke everywhere that we've been together over the last few months.
I either uber eats a bottle of wine too wherever
we are, or I bring them. So last night I
had my stash and he was just like, look at you.
I'm like, I drink with you when we're together.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
It's not good. I was glad she had to do
something this morning, and so did I.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I am so excited, like I go, we leave it
one and my kids are so happy to have me come.
You know now it's just poppy time and and it's
just time to get you know, put my phone down.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I lost in almost all of.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
My fantasy football leagues, so there's no reason to thank
you for loving on me.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Man, and my team on paper was stacked by the
way I.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Was destroying all your My heart is aching.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I started six and one, then I lost every game
after that.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You know what my wife would say to you. He
would say, it's no real. It's called fantasy because there's
no real. Mike is no real. But she doesn't know
how real.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
That's what I'm saying. I had a bond with these guys.
We went into war.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
You think I'm kidding. This is the truth. Oh, I
don't want to say it out.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Loud, do it?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I got no filter?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Do it?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
If you said if you said Grammy or the Pop
jazz Is Fantasy Football Championship Trophy, Oh, it would be
the Pop Jazzers Championship Trophy. It's I've been in the
league for fifteen years with all my musicians who are
my family, and I hate them so much.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh yeah, God threw you.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Nick. I just want to say that Nick Vainos.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
We're gonna jump neck next time we see him.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Stupid.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Uh, what are Christmas plans?
Speaker 6 (26:02):
I'm hanging out with my two children, my Shitsuos, Johnny
and June, drinking a lot of wine. I think my
mom's worried about my wine intake these days. But just
hanging out with my parents and just taking a little break,
like you know, not clipping the hair in, not putting
all the clothes on, just like chilling.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
That's I try to avoid the you know what.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
I mean, clip it in the hair is tough.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's not authentic when I do it, exactly, it's not.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
When I do I'll take it off right now, I
think the same day, you know what, I'm going to
be basically walking around Vancouver, Canada telling people that I
won the voice.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And if they don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I will say, do you know that I wont I'm
the winner of season twenty six.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
The boy just have a shirt, then you don't have
to voices and your voices check you know what I mean,
like just put it on a shirt.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
And uh and just collecting Christmas money and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
That's Christmas music. I heard pays the can we hey,
can we hey? Check your DMS on Instagram. I just
have a song idea for Christmas. If you get a
secon yes, I was like, no, I wouldn't listen. I
will never pitch a song idea unless do we still.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Have but encounter about snowman and reindeer.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's yeah, whatever, and maybe happiness. I don't like flakes
and like children playing.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
No SHOs playing yes yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Whatever you want to call the kids. We don't care.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
H I appreciate you guys so much, sanction making the
times fun today.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
You know you should have played the game with him
where you give the clearly to play this game where
he had it was idea where one of us got
the shot of tequila or vodka or whatever you get.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
It was tequila.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
It was a TikTok thing where one of us had
water or one had tequila and the other two had
water and then people watched the video and had to guess.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
So if you drank it, you couldn't react.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Can we do a TikTok before, like before we finished this?
Can we do one together?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
What kind looks?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Just don't make me do a dance? I won't do
I can't.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I won't dance.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
And plus TikTok's going away in like a few weeks,
isn't it. Yeah, it just got banned.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Do you know what? Don't I'm no joke.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Guys, don't even worry about that because with the aliens
coming to attack, that's true.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Do you have an alien song? Yet?
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I'm having a hard time rhyming with orb orb or
that's not a rhyme with or. That's what's going on
with the orbs by the way.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
That's listen. We could get into that. It's funny because
his dad on Instagram just posted what did he just
posts yesterday? Did you see it? But it was something
very like if you come and get us already, we've
had enough or something like that. Just get it over with, please,
I'm my good lord.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
I mentioned that I won the Voice this season. This
was this season Yeah, I just did it.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I just wanted. I don't know if I had said that.
I don't want to be a braggart. I wait those
kind of people.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
But so the voice, Christmas music. I know I'm dominating.
I'm dominating, you know what.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Just wait, do we get to Mother's Day in Valentine's
because I'm back then too, Michael coming.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Carly Fierce. I appreciate you guys so much.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Fabby, don't leave me hanging
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