December 25, 2025 • 19 mins
In 2025 we had so many amazing people stop by Elvis Duran and the Morning Show. Here's one of our favorites!
Trisha Yearwood joins us to discuss her Christmas album, "Christmastime"!
OG Air Date November 7th, 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to one of our favorite celebrity interviews from
twenty twenty five, Elvis Duran in The Morning Show Live
from the Mercedes Fenz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You're so excited, Tricia yearwould doing her holiday shopping in
New York City, thought she would drop on on the
way to Sacks. I love that for us, Tricia. It
looks like you've already been there. You look gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
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. That'd be so well.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You should go Saxshul Avenue right around the corner, and
you know the windows are done it for Christmas. You're
in New York.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I know I love New York.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well you can have it.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I love Christmas in New York.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You don't have to put headphones on, you do. I'm
gonna play some music for you.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Do you're gonna play music?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I thought you're gonna sing for me. That's what I heard.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm gonna sings, man, 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. Oh
by the way, let me play you say, okay, cue.
There is a cut on here that you do with Garth.
I do know that one, Marry Christmas Valentine. I'm gonna
(01:05):
give you a little They call it a hook.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Here we go and there's a special one to for me,
tied with the bride red Bull that sign Merry Christmas Valentine.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Where's where's Garth? There's no Garth on this cut. They
cut it off.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
They're saving him. He's harmony.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
We're thinking he's on there.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
He is on there.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
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 (01:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
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 looked 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 (02:31):
I don't think the Hallmark company would lie.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
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. I like to put it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
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 we found out later now that he was
in Nashville and I was in London, and we didn't
even see each other when we recorded each other.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
This was a little different because we recorded this whole
album live in LA with a live orchestra, forty five
piece orchestra.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Okay, let's talk about that.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
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 (03:24):
Okay. So Christmas does 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 (03:40):
Yes, okay, the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
A real live symphony orchestra.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Every city has a live orchestra.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
What's it like singing with a symphony orchestra behind you?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Tell Us because it'll never happen to the rest of them.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
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 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 (04:15):
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 (04:21):
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.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I feel like the energy is gone. So when you're
in a room with forty five people, you're like, okay,
and it's just inspired you.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So on your best in front of an orchestra or
in the shower.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, that's not bad either.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Is it harder with a band or with an orchestra?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, for me, the orchestra, I think I feel more
pressure because when you have forty five people, you don't
want 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 and you know, in an orchestra.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
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 (05:49):
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 an F.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
No natural, How do I know?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
How did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
How do you play a French hord? You cram your
fist in that thing? No idea. It's like it's like
checking the horse.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
That's why I'm a chick singer. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
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.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Because I like this better. Well, I mean there is
a little bit of I did get a lot of pitches,
but I it's a combo.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
There are songs that you've heard your whole life, like
Blue Christmas is on here, But then there's song that
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
the ten years ago. And these girls pitched me these songs,
(06:45):
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.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's not a Christmas song, it's one of my favorite
songs of all time, but.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
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 (07:07):
And by the Andrew's sisters way before our time. So
to stop assuming that we knew who they were, You're
I'm gonna.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Have to go lock them up.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
God.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Yeah, Benny Kit Lane is actually one of my favorite
Christmas songs.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I love that See you did it?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Yeah, see you did it.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah. If you're just turning on Trisha year, 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. 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 a lot of
moving parts. This thing sounds a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
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 and
you can go get dressed and go do it for
real at night and for a crowd. So you do
the show twice a day.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I should bring my trumpet, Oh my god, you should.
We 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 (08:22):
We got a nice seat for you in the parking lot.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Where can we go to find the bathroom of the
tour of us? How do we find tickets for one
of your shows?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I don't know. How do you find tickets?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
We gotta find tickets so much?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
What Trishayo dot com. Okay, that makes sense. I apparently
have a website.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Yourself.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Oh my god, this new thing. Tricia Yearwood dot com.
These kids today, Hey, I got to bring up something else.
Your corn bread Childie cast role is a hero.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Could we discuss that? Please?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Your dill pickle popcorn? I do just don't get it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
You don't have to. It's not for everyone.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I love. I gave 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 cornborated
chili castrole. One of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
That was a that was my sister Beth and I
both are 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 (09:33):
I like you say, well, it's just regular food. Well,
to you, it's regular food because when I'm from from Texas,
a little town of Texas, that would be regular food
for us here in New York. Chicken palm is regular food, right, yeah.
Chick cornborad childy castrole to them is exotics. It sounds
so good. It's from a far away land.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
It's comfort food. And you eat that and then the
next day you have a grape and everything evens out.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Do you still enjoy doing all your cooking your cooking shows.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I do.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I love it. We are we're working, 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 a 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
(10:18):
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 in my
life where if it's not fun, I just I don't
do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And why do we wait? Why?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Because we need to make a living, I guess today.
But it's like I didn't know if it would be fun,
because I'm like, I don't know if standing 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
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have a teleprompter. It's just it happens, and so it's fun.
And my crew is mostly they've been with me the
whole time, so we're fan family and it's like being
on the road with the band's stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You're just making food, 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.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Like a chicken berry on e exactly what my mom
making that all.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Yeah, it's huge in Texas.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Huge.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
So you mentioned something about it. As you get older,
as you progress in life, your 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 at.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
That's a cute age.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So as it comes to Christmas and celebrating celebrating Christmas,
you your thoughts have changed there too. I'm assuming you're
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 (11:54):
Oh yeah, I mean, I think I think that I
come from a family. My sister and I were very
close with our mom and dad. 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. We 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
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of 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
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pick and 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 6 (12:50):
Do you decorate it yourself? Do you have somebody to
do it?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I decorated. I don't do I don't buy the lights
on the roof and the eves.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It should, but they're up until you do your own roof.
Like you really haven't done anything.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I mean I used to Elvis, but not anymore.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
We hear you crochet Afghans? Do you give that to
people for prins?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I do?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I do.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I'm a nerd.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I do now crochet an Afghan Afghanistan kids they get?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
How do you you can look that up? I feel
like that's not a thing.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
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 (13:28):
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. You know
that I would love one, right is there when.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
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 we
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 (13:55):
I do?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
What is it? No, there's no lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
What's yours? What's yours?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
One? I hate?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
I don't like that. Do they know it's Chris?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
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 (14:14):
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. Christmas Shoes Christmas. 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 goes
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to the store and 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 in 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
these shoes. So I already hate it. Yeah, I'm just
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gonna give you like a minute of a second of
it because we're gonna play your.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Song like sentimental but not super sad.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah yeah, but I hate the song because it's contrived.
It never happened.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
I think there's a movie based on this song all.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
The Hallmark channel probably.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Oh here it comes.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, I'm in this 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 5 (15:31):
Mom's dying.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Maybe my new favorite song? I hate?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Okay, what's yours? Okay? So in nine years when you
do another Christmas album, don't do that one.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Do you have and think it's saved. I was gonna
say Christmas Shoes, but now I got she hates it?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
What's the Christmas on I do?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I mean, I know we're gonna talk about Christmas time
is here. That was probably the one song, the first
song on a 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 note. I can't wait Christmas.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
You have to go off key. Yes, you have to try.
I just love this song, but I like I liked
to sing it and ruin it.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Do you have a Christmas song?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Do you have a Christmas song?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I want a Christmains album yet, you should make a.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Christmas but 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,
Trisa Yearwood, the album is Christmas Time. You didn't tell
us about your favorite Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I don't know if I have one. I mean that's
a tough one.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Do you have a favorite off this album?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Mm hmm No, I mean I really don't. I mean
every song has a purpose. My favorite things from Sounding
Music was a song that I always wanted to record to.
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 (17:16):
Do you remember all the favorite things? Do you remember
this song?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Do you remember all the favorite things?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I think so, rain drops on roses, kittens right, copper
kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper package just said
it was strings.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
These are a few of my favorite and when the
dog bites from the beastings and a feeling sense? How
about dough raymi?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, I don't know all those do a deer a female.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
A long long later? So a thread and then the
next one just really sucks.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Law because you know you drink of gem bread? Does
that bring us back to.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Do I love that? You just love music?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I did? Don't you you do too?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I can tell door music, Yeah, I can tell absolutely.
And you here we are in New York City. We've
got Broadway going on. Danielle goes to with three Broadway
shows a week.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
I do.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
It's my favorite thing.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
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 6 (18:12):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I'm seeing Hamilton for the fourth time, and I'm going
to go see my friend Christian Chenna with in her Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Yeah, I just saw that. Yeah, she's amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
She's a friend of show as well.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yeah, I'm going to see her, so I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
All right. Tricia Yearwood, First of all, we support you
at Tricia Yearwood dot com.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
It's so glad we know it was such a clever name.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
There's no going over there, not even you know. There's
something about you on there that you had no existed.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I should check the website and see what I'm doing.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
And you can buy it on vinyl. And I must say,
green is your color?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Look at that.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Yeah, that was.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
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 (18:52):
I have not been. Neither gass all around.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
The interview over you would love it. It really is
a Qui Smith's 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 (19:10):
They do and they do it every day.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, there's like two or three performances per day, and I.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Think that's the last thing. The Nativity scene, I think
is the last thing.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
It's insanely New York, insanely great. And very traditional.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
That's that's kind of great. How many camels just the
one camel, just one count.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
It smells like a lot more.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Backstage Camel's like.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
All right, The next show is a en.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
The album of course, Christmas Time, and it's out to
day and I want you to get it if you
can get on final while I'm gonna throw down on
the turntable tonight, I'm going to play the real version
from Tricia Yearwood of Christmas Time this year. Thank you
for coming in so much.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I've had such a good time.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I bet you this weekend I'm going to have some
chili corn bread cast role.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I bet you are.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I will
You're listening to one of our favorite celebrity interviews from
twenty twenty five, Elvis Duran in The Morning Show Live
from the Mercedes Fenz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You're so excited, Tricia yearwould doing her holiday shopping in
New York City, thought she would drop on on the
way to Sacks. I love that for us, Tricia. It
looks like you've already been there. You look gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
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. That'd be so well.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You should go Saxshul Avenue right around the corner, and
you know the windows are done it for Christmas. You're
in New York.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I know I love New York.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well you can have it.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I love Christmas in New York.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You don't have to put headphones on, you do. I'm
gonna play some music for you.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Do you're gonna play music?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I thought you're gonna sing for me. That's what I heard.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm gonna sings, man, 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. Oh
by the way, let me play you say, okay, cue.
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 4 (01:07):
Here we go and there's a special one to for me,
tied with the bride red Bull that sign Merry Christmas Valentine.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Where's where's Garth? There's no Garth on this cut. They
cut it off.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
They're saving him. He's harmony.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
We're thinking he's on there.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
He is on there.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
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 (01:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
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 looked 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 (02:31):
I don't think the Hallmark company would lie.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
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. I like to put it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
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 we found out later now that he was
in Nashville and I was in London, and we didn't
even see each other when we recorded each other.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
This was a little different because we recorded this whole
album live in LA with a live orchestra, forty five
piece orchestra.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Okay, let's talk about that.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
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 (03:24):
Okay. So Christmas does 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 (03:40):
Yes, okay, the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
A real live symphony orchestra.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Every city has a live orchestra.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
What's it like singing with a symphony orchestra behind you?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Tell Us because it'll never happen to the rest of them.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
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 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 (04:15):
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 (04:21):
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.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I feel like the energy is gone. So when you're
in a room with forty five people, you're like, okay,
and it's just inspired you.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So on your best in front of an orchestra or
in the shower.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, that's not bad either.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Is it harder with a band or with an orchestra?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, for me, the orchestra, I think I feel more
pressure because when you have forty five people, you don't
want 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 and you know, in an orchestra.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
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 (05:49):
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 an F.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
No natural, How do I know?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
How did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
How do you play a French hord? You cram your
fist in that thing? No idea. It's like it's like
checking the horse.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
That's why I'm a chick singer. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
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.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Because I like this better. Well, I mean there is
a little bit of I did get a lot of pitches,
but I it's a combo.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
There are songs that you've heard your whole life, like
Blue Christmas is on here, But then there's song that
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
the ten years ago. And these girls pitched me these songs,
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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.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's not a Christmas song, it's one of my favorite
songs of all time, but.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
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 (07:07):
And by the Andrew's sisters way before our time. So
to stop assuming that we knew who they were, You're
I'm gonna.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Have to go lock them up.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
God.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Yeah, Benny Kit Lane is actually one of my favorite
Christmas songs.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I love that See you did it?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Yeah, see you did it.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah. If you're just turning on Trisha year, 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. 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 a lot of
moving parts. This thing sounds a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
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 and
you can go get dressed and go do it for
real at night and for a crowd. So you do
the show twice a day.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I should bring my trumpet, Oh my god, you should.
We 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 (08:22):
We got a nice seat for you in the parking lot.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Where can we go to find the bathroom of the
tour of us? How do we find tickets for one
of your shows?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I don't know. How do you find tickets?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
We gotta find tickets so much?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
What Trishayo dot com. Okay, that makes sense. I apparently
have a website.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Yourself.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Oh my god, this new thing. Tricia Yearwood dot com.
These kids today, Hey, I got to bring up something else.
Your corn bread Childie cast role is a hero.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Could we discuss that? Please?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Your dill pickle popcorn? I do just don't get it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
You don't have to. It's not for everyone.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I love. I gave 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 cornborated
chili castrole. One of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
That was a that was my sister Beth and I
both are 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 (09:33):
I like you say, well, it's just regular food. Well,
to you, it's regular food because when I'm from from Texas,
a little town of Texas, that would be regular food
for us here in New York. Chicken palm is regular food, right, yeah.
Chick cornborad childy castrole to them is exotics. It sounds
so good. It's from a far away land.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
It's comfort food. And you eat that and then the
next day you have a grape and everything evens out.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Do you still enjoy doing all your cooking your cooking shows.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I do.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I love it. We are we're working, 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 a 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 in my
life where if it's not fun, I just I don't
do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And why do we wait? Why?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Because we need to make a living, I guess today.
But it's like I didn't know if it would be fun,
because I'm like, I don't know if standing 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
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have a teleprompter. It's just it happens, and so it's fun.
And my crew is mostly they've been with me the
whole time, so we're fan family and it's like being
on the road with the band's stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You're just making food, 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.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Like a chicken berry on e exactly what my mom
making that all.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Yeah, it's huge in Texas.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Huge.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
So you mentioned something about it. As you get older,
as you progress in life, your 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 at.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
That's a cute age.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So as it comes to Christmas and celebrating celebrating Christmas,
you your thoughts have changed there too. I'm assuming you're
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 (11:54):
Oh yeah, I mean, I think I think that I
come from a family. My sister and I were very
close with our mom and dad. 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. We 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
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of 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
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pick and 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 6 (12:50):
Do you decorate it yourself? Do you have somebody to
do it?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I decorated. I don't do I don't buy the lights
on the roof and the eves.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It should, but they're up until you do your own roof.
Like you really haven't done anything.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I mean I used to Elvis, but not anymore.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
We hear you crochet Afghans? Do you give that to
people for prins?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I do?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I do.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I'm a nerd.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I do now crochet an Afghan Afghanistan kids they get?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
How do you you can look that up? I feel
like that's not a thing.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
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 (13:28):
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. You know
that I would love one, right is there when.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
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 we
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 (13:55):
I do?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
What is it? No, there's no lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
What's yours? What's yours?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
One? I hate?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
I don't like that. Do they know it's Chris?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
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 (14:14):
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. Christmas Shoes Christmas. 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 goes
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to the store and 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 in 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
these shoes. So I already hate it. Yeah, I'm just
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gonna give you like a minute of a second of
it because we're gonna play your.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Song like sentimental but not super sad.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah yeah, but I hate the song because it's contrived.
It never happened.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
I think there's a movie based on this song all.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
The Hallmark channel probably.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Oh here it comes.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, I'm in this 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 5 (15:31):
Mom's dying.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Maybe my new favorite song? I hate?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Okay, what's yours? Okay? So in nine years when you
do another Christmas album, don't do that one.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Do you have and think it's saved. I was gonna
say Christmas Shoes, but now I got she hates it?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
What's the Christmas on I do?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I mean, I know we're gonna talk about Christmas time
is here. That was probably the one song, the first
song on a 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 note. I can't wait Christmas.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
You have to go off key. Yes, you have to try.
I just love this song, but I like I liked
to sing it and ruin it.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Do you have a Christmas song?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Do you have a Christmas song?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I want a Christmains album yet, you should make a.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Christmas but 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,
Trisa Yearwood, the album is Christmas Time. You didn't tell
us about your favorite Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I don't know if I have one. I mean that's
a tough one.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Do you have a favorite off this album?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Mm hmm No, I mean I really don't. I mean
every song has a purpose. My favorite things from Sounding
Music was a song that I always wanted to record to.
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 (17:16):
Do you remember all the favorite things? Do you remember
this song?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Do you remember all the favorite things?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I think so, rain drops on roses, kittens right, copper
kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper package just said
it was strings.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
These are a few of my favorite and when the
dog bites from the beastings and a feeling sense? How
about dough raymi?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, I don't know all those do a deer a female.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
A long long later? So a thread and then the
next one just really sucks.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Law because you know you drink of gem bread? Does
that bring us back to.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Do I love that? You just love music?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I did? Don't you you do too?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I can tell door music, Yeah, I can tell absolutely.
And you here we are in New York City. We've
got Broadway going on. Danielle goes to with three Broadway
shows a week.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
I do.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
It's my favorite thing.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
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 6 (18:12):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I'm seeing Hamilton for the fourth time, and I'm going
to go see my friend Christian Chenna with in her Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Yeah, I just saw that. Yeah, she's amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
She's a friend of show as well.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yeah, I'm going to see her, so I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
All right. Tricia Yearwood, First of all, we support you
at Tricia Yearwood dot com.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
It's so glad we know it was such a clever name.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
There's no going over there, not even you know. There's
something about you on there that you had no existed.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I should check the website and see what I'm doing.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
And you can buy it on vinyl. And I must say,
green is your color?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Look at that.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Yeah, that was.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
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 (18:52):
I have not been. Neither gass all around.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
The interview over you would love it. It really is
a Qui Smith's 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 (19:10):
They do and they do it every day.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, there's like two or three performances per day, and I.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Think that's the last thing. The Nativity scene, I think
is the last thing.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
It's insanely New York, insanely great. And very traditional.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
That's that's kind of great. How many camels just the
one camel, just one count.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
It smells like a lot more.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Backstage Camel's like.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
All right, The next show is a en.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
The album of course, Christmas Time, and it's out to
day and I want you to get it if you
can get on final while I'm gonna throw down on
the turntable tonight, I'm going to play the real version
from Tricia Yearwood of Christmas Time this year. Thank you
for coming in so much.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I've had such a good time.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I bet you this weekend I'm going to have some
chili corn bread cast role.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I bet you are.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I will
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