November 7, 2025 • 19 mins
Trisha Yearwood joins us to discuss her new Christmas album, "Christmastime," out today!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Fly from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You're so excited. Tricia yearwould doing her holiday shopping in
New York City, thought she would drop on the way
to Sacks. Love that for us. Look, Tricia, it looks
like you've already been there. You look gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Do you wish well? I had a team of professionals.
I don't know how to dress myself. I wish I
had time to go shopping. Maybe so well, you.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Should go Sax's Avenue right around the corner, and you
know the windows are done up for Christmas. You're in
New York.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I know I love New York.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well you can have it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I love Christmas in New York.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
You don't have to put headphones on, you do. I'm
gonna say some music for you.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
You're gonna play music. I thought you're gonna sing for me.
That's what I heard.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm gonna sing. You're gonna Yeah, you don't have to
use them. I'll point at you when it's time to
put the headphones out. All right, Well, Tricia, youarwood here.
That album is out today. It's called Christmas Time. By
the way, let me play you see, okay, que there
is a cut on here that you do with Garth.
I do know that one Marry Christmas Valentine. I'm gonna
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give you a little they call it a hook.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Here we go and there's a special one to you
for me, tied with the bright red bull.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That sign.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Merry Christmas Valentine?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Where's Where's guard? There's no Garth on this cut. They
cut it off.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
They're saving him. He's harmony.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We're thinking he's on there.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
He is on there.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So it sounds like a romantic back and forth Christmas duet.
Were you in the studio together when you sang it
or not?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We were, Yeah. Yeah, it's not a it's not a
it's not a technical duet. It's a harmony part and
it's it's really beautiful. He you know, he's in all
the songwriter Hall of Fames. And I've been doing a
lot of songwriting the last couple of years, and he
was always encouraging me to write, and I was always like,
I'm not really a songwriter, and because I was really
in my own head about it, and when I finally
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kind of got to a place where I felt comfortable,
I said, you should write with me again, because I'm
really fun now like, I'm confident, I'm a lot more
fun to write with. And we were sitting outside. We
have this house on a hill in Nashville and we
kind of look downtown and we sit out there a lot,
and we were talking about it, and he was the
one who said, there needs to be a song. Has
there ever been a song about Merry Christmas Valentine that
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combines the holidays? Because it's one holiday is not enough
for this grand romance.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I don't think the Hallmark company would lie.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I know, I think so too. I feel like this
is a whole thing. And so we just started working
on it and he doesn't write anything down. I write
everything down. I'm a virgo and I'm on my phone
trying to like and I'm like, he's like, well remember it.
I'm like, no, I know we will not remember it.
And that was long before the Christmas album was even
on the books, and so when this came around, we
hadn't finished it, and I said, we need to finish
that song. You like to put it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
See, I always when you hear duets or harmonizing with
a couple together, a couple together, you envisioned them in
you know, a studio of the lights low, the cameras
are lit, and they're like making love to the microphone.
And then later now that he was in Nashville and
I was in London, but we didn't even see each
other when we recorded each other.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, this was a little different because we recorded this
whole album live in la with a live orchestra, forty
five piece orchestra.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Okay, let's talk about that.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, so he was there, but he so he came,
but he came in and sang his part after I
was done with But we were all together.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay. So Christmas does not only belong to Mariah Carey. No,
Tricia Yearwood is coming in for the kill. So this year,
you're actually doing a twelve night symphony orchestra tour for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yes, okay, the twelve Days of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
A real live symphony orchestra.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Every city has a live orchestra.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What's it like singing with a symphony orchestra behind you?
It's unbelievable, tell us, because it'll never happen to the
rest of them.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, here's the thing. This is why we're doing the
tour because when you're in the studio with these guys
and gals who are at the top of their game,
and the sound that is reverberating through your body is
different than listening to it any other way. You just
want everybody to get to experience that. So I feel
like the shows are our chance to kind of give
people a little bit of a chance to feel it,
because it's it's a it's physical. It's really amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
But as a performer, as a vocalist, it must give
you this charge that you don't get in a studio
or anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah, because when you make a record, a regular album,
and you might put strings on it, you know, but
you usually add that later. So when you're in the studio,
you're with like six guys and and there's an energy
there that's amazing. I mean, I do my best work
because I'm a performer in front of a crowd. So
I like to sing. Most of my vocals happen when
the band's there because I always think I can sing
it better later. But when they're gone home and I'm
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there by myself, I'm like, I have no one to impress,
so I just don't. I don't. I feel like the
energy is gone. So this when you're in a room
with forty five people you're like, okay, and it's just inspired.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You sound your best in front of an orchestra or
in the shower.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, and that's not bad either.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Is it harder with a band or with an orchestra?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Well, for me, the orchestra, I think I feel more
pressure because when you have forty five people, you don't
want to to be the one person who doesn't come
in at the right time, because if you mess it up,
you got to start over. And that's forty five people
you know, that have to retune and whatever. So there's
a little more pressure there. And also this record has
some interesting you know, you think it's really clever in
the moment of like maybe the intro is in a
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different key than you start singing in and you have
to know that note cold or or there's a lot
of pausing, which I like to the dynamic of it.
But now I got to sing it that way and
hit it when it happens, and so it's it's a challenge.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And you know, in an orchestra, these these instruments are
typically right on the right note. They're all tuned up,
and your voice isn't. So if you come in like
it's like a train wreck. They sound great, you sound awful.
Get that note, Trisha.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, And I'm amazed how the conductor will be in
a forty five piece thing will go okay. The french horn,
the second french horn hit an F sharp there and
it should have been en f natural.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
How do I know?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
How did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
How do you play a French horn? You cram your
fist in that? Have no idea, It's like how it's
like checking the horse. That's why I'm a chick singer.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
So our producer told us that this album is very
classic Christmas. Were people pitching you like new songs and
you thought, no, I don't want those at all, because
I like this better.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well, I mean there is a little bit of I
did get a lot of pitches, but it's a combo.
You know. There are songs that you've heard your whole life,
like Blue Christmas is on here. But then there's song
the original song obviously that Garth and I wrote no
one's heard before. And there's a song on here called
Candy Cane Lane that when you hear it it sounds
like something that the Andrews sisters would have done in
the forties, but it was written by you know, in
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the ten years ago, and these girls pitched me these
songs and I'm like, I love this song. I think
it really fits. So I was just looking for songs
that kind of work together, and I don't want everything
to be exactly the same. There's a couple of songs
on here that aren't really even Christmas songs, but they
work like pure imagination from Willy Wonka. It's not a
Christmas song.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It's one of my favorite songs of all time.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But it works so well on a Christmas record, and
I'm not sure anybody's ever done that before. So we
were trying to just kind of, you know, every song
has a reason why it's on there.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And both Andrew's sisters way before our time, so to
stop assuming that we knew who they were.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You're okay, I'm gonna have to go lick them up.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
God, Yeah, Mindy kit Lane is actually one of my
favorite Christmas songs.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
See you did it?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, see you did it. It's so good.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
If you're just turning on Trishia, youyear, what is here
so much to talk about? Christmas time? Her new album
is out today and we're gonna play. We're gonna play
a song, my favorite song from your album coming up.
I don't well, it's my show. I'll do what I want. Yes, No,
it's a great song. It's one of my favorites. Maybe
you've heard it. Also. The Twelve Days of Christmas Symphony
Tour starts December second in Nashville, twelve nights in a
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different town, different city, with different choirs. I've heard coming
up and singing with you from that's that's a lot
of moving parts. This thing sounds a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, you know, every city has a different orchestra. So
you go in in the after and every day you
go in and you rehearse, and you basically do the show,
the whole show in the afternoon, and then you then
you go get dressed and go do it for real
at night for a crowd. So you do the show
twice a day.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I should bring my trumpet, Oh my god, you should.
He let me do this thing where we have artists
come in to perform and they'll start playing their song
and I tell them I do trumpet. I'm gonna play
along with you, and I have the music and I
just come in as a blast these notes out, there's nasty, nasty,
horrendous from a hell notes. I'm gonna come ruin your
I'm gonna come ruin your concert.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
We got a nice seat for you in the parking lot.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Where can we go to find the bathroom of the
tour bus? How do we find tickets for one of
your shows?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I don't know. How do you find tickets?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
We gotta find tickets.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Trishearoo dot com. Okay, that makes sense. I apparently have
a website.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yourself.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Oh my god, this new thing. Tricia Yearwood dot com.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
These kids today?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Hey, I got to bring up something else. Your cornbread
childie cast role is a hero.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Could we discuss that? Please?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Your dill pickle popcorn? I just don't get it.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You don't have to. It's not for everyone.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I love to. I give you a positive and they
give you like come in for the kill. I'm kidding.
I have never had your popcorn. Just a thought of
dill pickle and popcorn sounds kind of interesting. But the
Cornbridge chili cast role one of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
That was a that was my sister Beth and I
both learned from our parents, who were both really good cooks,
and we just make regular food and cornbread chili castrole
was her recipe that she made her She's got a
son who has now grown, and that was his thing,
Like that's what he wanted for his birthday dinner. And
like so I went to Yeah, it's a it's it's
it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I like you say, well, it's just regular food. Well,
to you, it's regular food because when I'm from from Texas,
little town in Texas, that would be regular food for
us here in New York. Chicken palm is regular food, right, yeah,
chick cornbread chili castrole to them is exotics. Sound it
sounds so good. It's from a far away land.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It's comfort food. And you eat that and then the
next day you have a grape and everything evens out.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Do you still enjoy doing all your cooking your cooking shows?
I do.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I love it. We are we're working on we're not
filming in the moment. We're working on the next kind
of the next iteration of the show. Trying to step
because we've been doing this for long time. I've done
the show for eighteen seasons, like nine years. We have
two seasons a year, and so we were figuring out
how do we kind of change it up? So but yeah,
I love it. It's fun. When I did the very
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first season, we only did six episodes, and I only
wanted to do six because I'm like, what if I
don't love it? Because I'm at a place on my
life where if it's not fun, I just I don't
do it anymore good?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And why do we wait? Why do we wait?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Because we need to make a living?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I guess today.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
But it's like I didn't know if it would be
fun because I'm I don't know if it's any behind
the counter being filmed, putting the butter in the mixing bowl.
It's going to be fun. But I have my best
friends on my sister, and we laugh a lot, and
it's very loose. We don't have a script, we don't
have a teleprompter. It's just it happens, and so it's fun.
And my crew is mostly they've been with me the
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whole time, so we're family, and it's it's like being
on the road of the band. It's very it's if
you're just making food.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And I love watching it because it takes me back
to where I'm from, because this is the food we
grew up eating like so for instance, yeah, regular food
with your family is like.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
A chicken berry on ee exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I remember my mom making that all the yeah, huge
in Texas.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Huge. So you mentioned something about it. As you get older,
as you progress in life, your feelings about how to
approach life and everything, it's totally changing. And I love that.
By the way, I say, if anyone says I'm just
turning forty, I'm so old, I'm like, no, No, the best
years are still as.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
That's a cute age.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So as it comes to Christmas and celebrating celebrating Christmas,
your thoughts have changed there too. I'm assuming putting out
this album of all these songs that are very heartwarming
Christmas feel good songs. I mean, getting together with family,
cooking with family now more important than ever for you.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Oh yeah, I mean I think that I come from
a family. My sister and I were very close with
our mom and dad, and they're both gone now, and
so I think for us, we were always we were
never those kids who didn't want to hang out with
their parents. Loved our folks and we were always close.
But when I was on the road in the nineties,
you know, I was gone. I mean really gone, and
so our holidays and our time together just kind of
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became when can we make it happen. It didn't have
to be on the day, it just had to be
we had to find that time. And it worked out
in my life that when my parents were older and
when they were sick, I was I was home and
I got to be with them a lot. So I never,
I never. I don't have any like I wish I
had been there for this, this and this, and now
I am at a place where I can pick and
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choose when I go and when I stay home. And
this will be the first time in a long time
that I've actually been just gone at Christmas. I mean,
this tour is not over till the twentieth. So I'm
decorating the house when I get home Monday, because it's
got because I mean, it's got to be. I've got
to have some time.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Do you decorate it yourself? Do you have somebody to
do it?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
No? I decorate it. I don't do I don't put
the lights on the roof in the eves.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I should, but they're up until you do your own
roof lights. You really haven't done anything.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I mean I used to elves, but not anymore.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
We hear you crochet after and do you give that
to people for prints?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I do?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I do. I'm a nerd.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I do now crochety and Afghan Afghanistan kids they get
How do you.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You can look that up? I feel like that's not
a thing.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
In seriousness? She was Daniel say, you know she does
Afghans for her for her family. It's every year, like, oh,
look she got us to another Afghan.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
No, it's not every year. And also it depends on
what is happening, Like you know, it's a lot of
work and it takes time and depending on the ones
I make. I actually have one I've been working on
that I have that's been several years. It's not done yet.
So you'll get one when you get one.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
You know that I would love one, right?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Is there when you're on tour? I think I feel
like Christmas time is sort of like wedding season a
little bit, where we all have these songs that we
love when GMT and then one comes on and we're like, no,
not that one that killed the vibe. Do you have
a Christmas song that you hate?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I do?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
What's yours? What's yours, So one I hate.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I don't like that.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Do they know it's Chris?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I think those ones that they just play over and
over and over again. But I don't know, because we
do listen to songs over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
If one of us mentioned the one you hate, you
have to say, Okay, that's mine. Mine? Is that one
from the Beach Boys? The Man with all the Toys?
That's a different one. Oh, Christmas Shoes, Christmas Shoes. It's
a song about a kid that's in Do we have time?
I don't know how we're doing on time. This kid
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goes to the store he has to buy a pair of
shoes for his mom, who's okay, it's a contrived story,
which is what makes me had. His mom's at home
in bed, and she's she doesn't have long so he
shows up at a store to buy her Christmas shoes,
but he can't afford it. So the guy in line
asked him, why, what's wrong? You don't have money for
the shoes. Mom's at home dying. I need money for
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these shoes. So I already hate it. Yeah, I'm just
gonna give you, like a minute of it, a second
of it, because we're gonna play your song.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Like sentimental but not super sad.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah? Yeah, but did I hate the song because it's contrived?
It never happened.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I think there's a movie based on this song all.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
The Hallmark channel probably, Oh here it comes.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, I'm in this.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Christmas jee Okay, so good? Okay, So he has the Okay, look,
it's a sad story. If it's true. I don't think
it's true. He checks off all the boxes.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Mom's s's my new favorite song? I hate?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Okay, what's yours?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Okay? So uh, in nine years when you do another
Christmas album, don't do.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
That one, do you. I think it's saved. I was
gonna say Christmas Shoes, but.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Now she actually hates it.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
What's the Christmas on I do?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I mean, I know we're going to talk about Christmas
time is here. That was probably the one song, the
first song on the list, that I knew I was
going to record for this record. I love Charlie Brown Christmas.
It's one of my favorite things in the world. And
I walk down the alt to that song. It's a
special hold on. I can't wait Christmas.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You have to go off key sent Yes, you have
to try. I just love this song, but I like,
I like to sing it and ruin it.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
So do you have a Christmas song?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Do you have a Christmas song?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I want a Christmas album yet, you should make a
Christmas but.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Every year we always play that and sing it. It's
like a yearly thing here. But your version, your version
is going to win this this concast without doubt. Okay,
Trica Yearwood. The album is Christmas Time. You needn't tell
us what your favorite Christmas song?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I don't know if I have one. I mean that's
a tough one. Do you have a favorite off this album?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I mean I really don't. I mean every song has
a purpose. My Favorite Things from Sounding Music was a
song that I I always wanted to record too. There's
this song. This album has a list of like here's
the four or five that I've been holding on to
for thirty years I would love to record, and then
kind of just figuring out how the rest would would fit.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Do you remember all the favorite things? Do you remember
this song?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
You can remember all the favorite things?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I think so, rain drops on roses, kittens, right copper kettles,
and warm woolen mittens, brown paper package saw it was strings.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
These are a few of my favorite. When the dog
bites from the beastings and in a feeling, how about dough.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Raymi, Yeah, I don't know all those do a deer
a female.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Along long water, so thread and then the next one
just really sucks.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Law because you know, drink bad? Does that bring us
back to do?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I love that? You just love music what I did?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Don't you do too?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I can door music, yeah, I can tell absolutely. And
you here we are in New York City. We've got
Broadway going on. Danielle goes with three Broadway shows a week.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I do. It's my favorite thing.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I mean, it's one of my favorite things to do too.
I'm going to I'm going to some shows while I'm here.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
What do you think.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I'm seeing Hamilton for the fourth time. And I'm going
to go see my friend Christian Channel with in her Yeah. Yeah,
I just saw that. Yeah, she's amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
She's a friend as well.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah, I'm going to see her. So I'm excited, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Tricia Yearwood, first of all, we support you at triciayearwood
dot com.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
It's so glad we it was such a clever name.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
There's still then, you know, there's something like you on
there that you had no existed.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I should check the website and see what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
And you can buy it on vinyl. And I must
say green is your color.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Look at that. Yeah, that was fun, so beautiful. And
when you're in New York you have to go see
the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. I don't know if you've
ever been.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I have not been. Neither gas all around.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
The interview over you would love it. It really is
a Christmas tradition here in New York City. And when
they do the Nativity scene and the camels walk out
on the stage really Oh no, yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
When they do that, and they do it every day.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, there's like two or three performances per day.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And I think that's the last thing. The Nativity scene,
I think is the last thing.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It's insanely New York, insanely great and very traditional.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
That's that's kind of great. How many camels just the
one camel, just one camel.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
It smells like a lot more.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Backstage camels.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Like all right, the next show is enough.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The album of course, Christmas time and it's out to
day and I want you to get it if you
can get on vinal Wow. I'm gonna throw down on
the turntable tonight. I'm going to play the real version
from Trisha Yearwood of Christmas Time this year. Thank you
for coming in so much.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I've had such a good time.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I bet you this weekend I'm going to have some
chili corn bread cast role.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I bet you are.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I will
Fly from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You're so excited. Tricia yearwould doing her holiday shopping in
New York City, thought she would drop on the way
to Sacks. Love that for us. Look, Tricia, it looks
like you've already been there. You look gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Do you wish well? I had a team of professionals.
I don't know how to dress myself. I wish I
had time to go shopping. Maybe so well, you.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Should go Sax's Avenue right around the corner, and you
know the windows are done up for Christmas. You're in
New York.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I know I love New York.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well you can have it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I love Christmas in New York.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
You don't have to put headphones on, you do. I'm
gonna say some music for you.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
You're gonna play music. I thought you're gonna sing for me.
That's what I heard.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm gonna sing. You're gonna Yeah, you don't have to
use them. I'll point at you when it's time to
put the headphones out. All right, Well, Tricia, youarwood here.
That album is out today. It's called Christmas Time. By
the way, let me play you see, okay, que there
is a cut on here that you do with Garth.
I do know that one Marry Christmas Valentine. I'm gonna
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give you a little they call it a hook.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Here we go and there's a special one to you
for me, tied with the bright red bull.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That sign.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Merry Christmas Valentine?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Where's Where's guard? There's no Garth on this cut. They
cut it off.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
They're saving him. He's harmony.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We're thinking he's on there.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
He is on there.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So it sounds like a romantic back and forth Christmas duet.
Were you in the studio together when you sang it
or not?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We were, Yeah. Yeah, it's not a it's not a
it's not a technical duet. It's a harmony part and
it's it's really beautiful. He you know, he's in all
the songwriter Hall of Fames. And I've been doing a
lot of songwriting the last couple of years, and he
was always encouraging me to write, and I was always like,
I'm not really a songwriter, and because I was really
in my own head about it, and when I finally
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kind of got to a place where I felt comfortable,
I said, you should write with me again, because I'm
really fun now like, I'm confident, I'm a lot more
fun to write with. And we were sitting outside. We
have this house on a hill in Nashville and we
kind of look downtown and we sit out there a lot,
and we were talking about it, and he was the
one who said, there needs to be a song. Has
there ever been a song about Merry Christmas Valentine that
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combines the holidays? Because it's one holiday is not enough
for this grand romance.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I don't think the Hallmark company would lie.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I know, I think so too. I feel like this
is a whole thing. And so we just started working
on it and he doesn't write anything down. I write
everything down. I'm a virgo and I'm on my phone
trying to like and I'm like, he's like, well remember it.
I'm like, no, I know we will not remember it.
And that was long before the Christmas album was even
on the books, and so when this came around, we
hadn't finished it, and I said, we need to finish
that song. You like to put it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
See, I always when you hear duets or harmonizing with
a couple together, a couple together, you envisioned them in
you know, a studio of the lights low, the cameras
are lit, and they're like making love to the microphone.
And then later now that he was in Nashville and
I was in London, but we didn't even see each
other when we recorded each other.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, this was a little different because we recorded this
whole album live in la with a live orchestra, forty
five piece orchestra.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Okay, let's talk about that.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, so he was there, but he so he came,
but he came in and sang his part after I
was done with But we were all together.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay. So Christmas does not only belong to Mariah Carey. No,
Tricia Yearwood is coming in for the kill. So this year,
you're actually doing a twelve night symphony orchestra tour for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yes, okay, the twelve Days of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
A real live symphony orchestra.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Every city has a live orchestra.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What's it like singing with a symphony orchestra behind you?
It's unbelievable, tell us, because it'll never happen to the
rest of them.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, here's the thing. This is why we're doing the
tour because when you're in the studio with these guys
and gals who are at the top of their game,
and the sound that is reverberating through your body is
different than listening to it any other way. You just
want everybody to get to experience that. So I feel
like the shows are our chance to kind of give
people a little bit of a chance to feel it,
because it's it's a it's physical. It's really amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
But as a performer, as a vocalist, it must give
you this charge that you don't get in a studio
or anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah, because when you make a record, a regular album,
and you might put strings on it, you know, but
you usually add that later. So when you're in the studio,
you're with like six guys and and there's an energy
there that's amazing. I mean, I do my best work
because I'm a performer in front of a crowd. So
I like to sing. Most of my vocals happen when
the band's there because I always think I can sing
it better later. But when they're gone home and I'm
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there by myself, I'm like, I have no one to impress,
so I just don't. I don't. I feel like the
energy is gone. So this when you're in a room
with forty five people you're like, okay, and it's just inspired.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You sound your best in front of an orchestra or
in the shower.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, and that's not bad either.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Is it harder with a band or with an orchestra?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Well, for me, the orchestra, I think I feel more
pressure because when you have forty five people, you don't
want to to be the one person who doesn't come
in at the right time, because if you mess it up,
you got to start over. And that's forty five people
you know, that have to retune and whatever. So there's
a little more pressure there. And also this record has
some interesting you know, you think it's really clever in
the moment of like maybe the intro is in a
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different key than you start singing in and you have
to know that note cold or or there's a lot
of pausing, which I like to the dynamic of it.
But now I got to sing it that way and
hit it when it happens, and so it's it's a challenge.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And you know, in an orchestra, these these instruments are
typically right on the right note. They're all tuned up,
and your voice isn't. So if you come in like
it's like a train wreck. They sound great, you sound awful.
Get that note, Trisha.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, And I'm amazed how the conductor will be in
a forty five piece thing will go okay. The french horn,
the second french horn hit an F sharp there and
it should have been en f natural.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
How do I know?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
How did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
How do you play a French horn? You cram your
fist in that? Have no idea, It's like how it's
like checking the horse. That's why I'm a chick singer.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
So our producer told us that this album is very
classic Christmas. Were people pitching you like new songs and
you thought, no, I don't want those at all, because
I like this better.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well, I mean there is a little bit of I
did get a lot of pitches, but it's a combo.
You know. There are songs that you've heard your whole life,
like Blue Christmas is on here. But then there's song
the original song obviously that Garth and I wrote no
one's heard before. And there's a song on here called
Candy Cane Lane that when you hear it it sounds
like something that the Andrews sisters would have done in
the forties, but it was written by you know, in
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the ten years ago, and these girls pitched me these
songs and I'm like, I love this song. I think
it really fits. So I was just looking for songs
that kind of work together, and I don't want everything
to be exactly the same. There's a couple of songs
on here that aren't really even Christmas songs, but they
work like pure imagination from Willy Wonka. It's not a
Christmas song.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It's one of my favorite songs of all time.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But it works so well on a Christmas record, and
I'm not sure anybody's ever done that before. So we
were trying to just kind of, you know, every song
has a reason why it's on there.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And both Andrew's sisters way before our time, so to
stop assuming that we knew who they were.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You're okay, I'm gonna have to go lick them up.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
God, Yeah, Mindy kit Lane is actually one of my
favorite Christmas songs.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
See you did it?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, see you did it. It's so good.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
If you're just turning on Trishia, youyear, what is here
so much to talk about? Christmas time? Her new album
is out today and we're gonna play. We're gonna play
a song, my favorite song from your album coming up.
I don't well, it's my show. I'll do what I want. Yes, No,
it's a great song. It's one of my favorites. Maybe
you've heard it. Also. The Twelve Days of Christmas Symphony
Tour starts December second in Nashville, twelve nights in a
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different town, different city, with different choirs. I've heard coming
up and singing with you from that's that's a lot
of moving parts. This thing sounds a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, you know, every city has a different orchestra. So
you go in in the after and every day you
go in and you rehearse, and you basically do the show,
the whole show in the afternoon, and then you then
you go get dressed and go do it for real
at night for a crowd. So you do the show
twice a day.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I should bring my trumpet, Oh my god, you should.
He let me do this thing where we have artists
come in to perform and they'll start playing their song
and I tell them I do trumpet. I'm gonna play
along with you, and I have the music and I
just come in as a blast these notes out, there's nasty, nasty,
horrendous from a hell notes. I'm gonna come ruin your
I'm gonna come ruin your concert.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
We got a nice seat for you in the parking lot.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Where can we go to find the bathroom of the
tour bus? How do we find tickets for one of
your shows?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I don't know. How do you find tickets?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
We gotta find tickets.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Trishearoo dot com. Okay, that makes sense. I apparently have
a website.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yourself.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Oh my god, this new thing. Tricia Yearwood dot com.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
These kids today?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Hey, I got to bring up something else. Your cornbread
childie cast role is a hero.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Could we discuss that? Please?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Your dill pickle popcorn? I just don't get it.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You don't have to. It's not for everyone.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I love to. I give you a positive and they
give you like come in for the kill. I'm kidding.
I have never had your popcorn. Just a thought of
dill pickle and popcorn sounds kind of interesting. But the
Cornbridge chili cast role one of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
That was a that was my sister Beth and I
both learned from our parents, who were both really good cooks,
and we just make regular food and cornbread chili castrole
was her recipe that she made her She's got a
son who has now grown, and that was his thing,
Like that's what he wanted for his birthday dinner. And
like so I went to Yeah, it's a it's it's
it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I like you say, well, it's just regular food. Well,
to you, it's regular food because when I'm from from Texas,
little town in Texas, that would be regular food for
us here in New York. Chicken palm is regular food, right, yeah,
chick cornbread chili castrole to them is exotics. Sound it
sounds so good. It's from a far away land.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It's comfort food. And you eat that and then the
next day you have a grape and everything evens out.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Do you still enjoy doing all your cooking your cooking shows?
I do.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I love it. We are we're working on we're not
filming in the moment. We're working on the next kind
of the next iteration of the show. Trying to step
because we've been doing this for long time. I've done
the show for eighteen seasons, like nine years. We have
two seasons a year, and so we were figuring out
how do we kind of change it up? So but yeah,
I love it. It's fun. When I did the very
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first season, we only did six episodes, and I only
wanted to do six because I'm like, what if I
don't love it? Because I'm at a place on my
life where if it's not fun, I just I don't
do it anymore good?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And why do we wait? Why do we wait?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Because we need to make a living?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I guess today.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
But it's like I didn't know if it would be
fun because I'm I don't know if it's any behind
the counter being filmed, putting the butter in the mixing bowl.
It's going to be fun. But I have my best
friends on my sister, and we laugh a lot, and
it's very loose. We don't have a script, we don't
have a teleprompter. It's just it happens, and so it's fun.
And my crew is mostly they've been with me the
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whole time, so we're family, and it's it's like being
on the road of the band. It's very it's if
you're just making food.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And I love watching it because it takes me back
to where I'm from, because this is the food we
grew up eating like so for instance, yeah, regular food
with your family is like.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
A chicken berry on ee exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I remember my mom making that all the yeah, huge
in Texas.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Huge. So you mentioned something about it. As you get older,
as you progress in life, your feelings about how to
approach life and everything, it's totally changing. And I love that.
By the way, I say, if anyone says I'm just
turning forty, I'm so old, I'm like, no, No, the best
years are still as.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
That's a cute age.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So as it comes to Christmas and celebrating celebrating Christmas,
your thoughts have changed there too. I'm assuming putting out
this album of all these songs that are very heartwarming
Christmas feel good songs. I mean, getting together with family,
cooking with family now more important than ever for you.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Oh yeah, I mean I think that I come from
a family. My sister and I were very close with
our mom and dad, and they're both gone now, and
so I think for us, we were always we were
never those kids who didn't want to hang out with
their parents. Loved our folks and we were always close.
But when I was on the road in the nineties,
you know, I was gone. I mean really gone, and
so our holidays and our time together just kind of
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became when can we make it happen. It didn't have
to be on the day, it just had to be
we had to find that time. And it worked out
in my life that when my parents were older and
when they were sick, I was I was home and
I got to be with them a lot. So I never,
I never. I don't have any like I wish I
had been there for this, this and this, and now
I am at a place where I can pick and
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choose when I go and when I stay home. And
this will be the first time in a long time
that I've actually been just gone at Christmas. I mean,
this tour is not over till the twentieth. So I'm
decorating the house when I get home Monday, because it's
got because I mean, it's got to be. I've got
to have some time.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Do you decorate it yourself? Do you have somebody to
do it?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
No? I decorate it. I don't do I don't put
the lights on the roof in the eves.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I should, but they're up until you do your own
roof lights. You really haven't done anything.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I mean I used to elves, but not anymore.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
We hear you crochet after and do you give that
to people for prints?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I do?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I do. I'm a nerd.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I do now crochety and Afghan Afghanistan kids they get
How do you.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You can look that up? I feel like that's not
a thing.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
In seriousness? She was Daniel say, you know she does
Afghans for her for her family. It's every year, like, oh,
look she got us to another Afghan.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
No, it's not every year. And also it depends on
what is happening, Like you know, it's a lot of
work and it takes time and depending on the ones
I make. I actually have one I've been working on
that I have that's been several years. It's not done yet.
So you'll get one when you get one.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
You know that I would love one, right?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Is there when you're on tour? I think I feel
like Christmas time is sort of like wedding season a
little bit, where we all have these songs that we
love when GMT and then one comes on and we're like, no,
not that one that killed the vibe. Do you have
a Christmas song that you hate?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I do?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
What's yours? What's yours, So one I hate.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I don't like that.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Do they know it's Chris?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I think those ones that they just play over and
over and over again. But I don't know, because we
do listen to songs over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
If one of us mentioned the one you hate, you
have to say, Okay, that's mine. Mine? Is that one
from the Beach Boys? The Man with all the Toys?
That's a different one. Oh, Christmas Shoes, Christmas Shoes. It's
a song about a kid that's in Do we have time?
I don't know how we're doing on time. This kid
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goes to the store he has to buy a pair of
shoes for his mom, who's okay, it's a contrived story,
which is what makes me had. His mom's at home
in bed, and she's she doesn't have long so he
shows up at a store to buy her Christmas shoes,
but he can't afford it. So the guy in line
asked him, why, what's wrong? You don't have money for
the shoes. Mom's at home dying. I need money for
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these shoes. So I already hate it. Yeah, I'm just
gonna give you, like a minute of it, a second
of it, because we're gonna play your song.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Like sentimental but not super sad.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah? Yeah, but did I hate the song because it's contrived?
It never happened.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I think there's a movie based on this song all.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
The Hallmark channel probably, Oh here it comes.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, I'm in this.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Christmas jee Okay, so good? Okay, So he has the Okay, look,
it's a sad story. If it's true. I don't think
it's true. He checks off all the boxes.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Mom's s's my new favorite song? I hate?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Okay, what's yours?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Okay? So uh, in nine years when you do another
Christmas album, don't do.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
That one, do you. I think it's saved. I was
gonna say Christmas Shoes, but.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Now she actually hates it.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
What's the Christmas on I do?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I mean, I know we're going to talk about Christmas
time is here. That was probably the one song, the
first song on the list, that I knew I was
going to record for this record. I love Charlie Brown Christmas.
It's one of my favorite things in the world. And
I walk down the alt to that song. It's a
special hold on. I can't wait Christmas.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You have to go off key sent Yes, you have
to try. I just love this song, but I like,
I like to sing it and ruin it.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
So do you have a Christmas song?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Do you have a Christmas song?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I want a Christmas album yet, you should make a
Christmas but.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Every year we always play that and sing it. It's
like a yearly thing here. But your version, your version
is going to win this this concast without doubt. Okay,
Trica Yearwood. The album is Christmas Time. You needn't tell
us what your favorite Christmas song?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I don't know if I have one. I mean that's
a tough one. Do you have a favorite off this album?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I mean I really don't. I mean every song has
a purpose. My Favorite Things from Sounding Music was a
song that I I always wanted to record too. There's
this song. This album has a list of like here's
the four or five that I've been holding on to
for thirty years I would love to record, and then
kind of just figuring out how the rest would would fit.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Do you remember all the favorite things? Do you remember
this song?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
You can remember all the favorite things?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I think so, rain drops on roses, kittens, right copper kettles,
and warm woolen mittens, brown paper package saw it was strings.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
These are a few of my favorite. When the dog
bites from the beastings and in a feeling, how about dough.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Raymi, Yeah, I don't know all those do a deer
a female.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Along long water, so thread and then the next one
just really sucks.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Law because you know, drink bad? Does that bring us
back to do?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I love that? You just love music what I did?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Don't you do too?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I can door music, yeah, I can tell absolutely. And
you here we are in New York City. We've got
Broadway going on. Danielle goes with three Broadway shows a week.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I do. It's my favorite thing.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I mean, it's one of my favorite things to do too.
I'm going to I'm going to some shows while I'm here.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
What do you think.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I'm seeing Hamilton for the fourth time. And I'm going
to go see my friend Christian Channel with in her Yeah. Yeah,
I just saw that. Yeah, she's amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
She's a friend as well.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah, I'm going to see her. So I'm excited, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Tricia Yearwood, first of all, we support you at triciayearwood
dot com.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
It's so glad we it was such a clever name.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
There's still then, you know, there's something like you on
there that you had no existed.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I should check the website and see what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
And you can buy it on vinyl. And I must
say green is your color.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Look at that. Yeah, that was fun, so beautiful. And
when you're in New York you have to go see
the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. I don't know if you've
ever been.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I have not been. Neither gas all around.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
The interview over you would love it. It really is
a Christmas tradition here in New York City. And when
they do the Nativity scene and the camels walk out
on the stage really Oh no, yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
When they do that, and they do it every day.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, there's like two or three performances per day.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And I think that's the last thing. The Nativity scene,
I think is the last thing.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It's insanely New York, insanely great and very traditional.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
That's that's kind of great. How many camels just the
one camel, just one camel.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
It smells like a lot more.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Backstage camels.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Like all right, the next show is enough.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The album of course, Christmas time and it's out to
day and I want you to get it if you
can get on vinal Wow. I'm gonna throw down on
the turntable tonight. I'm going to play the real version
from Trisha Yearwood of Christmas Time this year. Thank you
for coming in so much.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I've had such a good time.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I bet you this weekend I'm going to have some
chili corn bread cast role.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I bet you are.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I will
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