Lauren Alaina stops by as the Friday Morning Conversation. She talked about how she got nervous touring towards the end of her pregnancy, what in her life has changed and how becoming a mom has been her favorite thing ever. She also shared the story behind her child's name and why people on social media were giving her a hard time for it. Lauren also shared why it's weird for her to talk about her exes a lot because of her current single. She also shares who it's been touring with Rascal Flatts and her favorite song of theirs. Lauren also talks about how it's now been 15 years since she was on American Idol.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
On the Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now longer to see you.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, how are you raven?
Speaker 3 (00:07):
You know, busy good raising a baby? Yeah, so's changed
in yours is about to.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I know, I know you're talking to my wife a
little bit too.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Yes, I have. Yeah, she's been asking me where do
you put the baby?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
That's what she said. She said, She asked you, when
you get home with the baby, what do you do
with it?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
You put it? I'm like, for the first few months
they just sleep a lot. So just found something cozy.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
But I told her, do not be embarrassed to ask
me any new mom questions because I have done so
many things wrong because I haven't I mean, not wrong
to the point where it can't be fixed. But like,
I definitely swaddled the baby longer than I was supposed
to swattle her because she had started rolling over, and
I didn't know that, like you just things I didn't know. Oh,
(00:50):
you mean, any question you have that you don't know, ask.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Me, like longer in the lifespan, not at a time, yes.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Not at a time about it?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I don't really know if there's a rule about that.
I hope not. I mean, you swaddle them when they sleep.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I was looking at your social media and you had
posted like a throwback to when you were touring with
Rascal Flats the last time, which was pretty recent, but
you were very pregnant. Very is that hard to sing?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You know?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I didn't really notice it at the time, I think
because it was such a surprise that I was pregnant.
I had taken the tour and then found out I
was pregnant, and it was a big surprise, and so
I just knew I had to do it. So I
don't know that I realized how hard it was until
now that I'm singing. I'm like, this is not This
(01:38):
is much easier not having a you know, seven pound
baby between my ribs.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I saw a TikTok and I saw it my wife
send it to me, and it shows when you have
a baby inside of you, how all your organs get
pushed up. And I was just thinking about you singing
when all your organs are shoved up because he's got
to make room for the baby.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I know, I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, I don't know how I did that, but I
mean a lot of us do it. But I was
eight and a half month's pregnant by the end of
that tour. So I was like, that's potentially having the
baby at that point.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Do you think maybe when you're on the road and
you're eight and a half months pregnant, it could happen anywhere,
whatever town you're in.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I did start to get nervous a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, I was like, this scene is really close was
height and a half months.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I was close. I was very close.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I was close enough that I think people in the
crowd may have actually been nervous that I was there.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
But all was well.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
She decided to come, you know, eleven days late. So
she's like, yeah, I was eleven days past my day.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So were you just every day like praying? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I did everything. Come on, I did all the things,
like you can do icy food? Her walking?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
What pineapple walking?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah? So it's like you don't know about Kurt walking.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Uh, Well, when she gets closed and she's great, you'll
be seeing her. You work, You walk like on a
curb and you put one foot up top and one
foot on the bottom, and it's supposed to do something
with like your hips.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I don't really know to help like dilate your cervix.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Did anything actually help? No?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
No, it just whenever we had to make an evacuation plan.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
She did not come. We could not get her to
come on her own.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I mean I was like, I was talking to her.
I was like, it's a really cool place out here.
It's really we really like you to get out.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
But has it been what's been the best part about it?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Oh? My gosh, it is the best thing that's ever
happened to me.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And everyone says that, but until you and you'll you'll
soon you will know. When they hand you that baby,
your whole life changes. I guess my favorite part is
the way she looks at me. I've never had someone
one look at me like that, like just she completely
(03:45):
Oh it's making me some emotional go figure, but just
she's completely dependent on me. And what a gift that
I get to be the one that can nurture her
and take care of her. And then my second favorite
is probably watching my.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Husband with her.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I love him so much more and I already loved him,
but watching him father her is pretty special.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Bobby, that's a good song for you.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, what, my wife already loves.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Me, Charity loves you, but she's about to find you
even more attractive.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
It is crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
If I do a good job, well, you're good. Who knows?
Speaker 5 (04:21):
So, like, what kind of things have you seen your
husband do where you're like, okay, wow, this is crazy,
Like is it just him holding her?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah, he has a dance party with her every day
when he gets home from work. So he will turn
the music on in the living room and picks her
up and they dance. And now she it's almost like
she's eight months old. It's almost like she expects the
dance party. Just the way he interacts with her. I
don't know, because.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
When she was really little, he was a little scared
of her.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I think when they're first born, everybody's a little scared
of them. I mean they're so yeah, they're so little,
but they're very resilient. I mean, your wife will she's
the baby's going to be great.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
But just the.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Way he talks to her, in the way he interacts
with her, I've just never seen that side of him,
and it's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
How hard was it coming up with a name?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
We went back and forth for a while. I am
a woman, and I don't know if this is true
of all women, but I had like fifteen names written
down since I was probably thirteen years old, but we
wanted to do family names for sure. So her first
name is She's named after my grandfather and his aunt,
(05:38):
but we had a couple different names, and then the
story behind her name is actually sweet, you mean tell it. Yeah,
I loved her, so we named her Benny, which you
know is a boy name. So a lot of people
are coming at us for that, but they can get
over it. But my grandfather Benny helped raise me. My
parents were really young, so I spent a lot of
time at my grandparents' house and he taught me to
(06:02):
play basketball and all these things. I was just really
close with him. And a few years ago I saw
a girl on Instagram named Benny and I thought that
was super cute, so I just wrote it down. And
then her middle name is Doll, like baby Doll. My
husband had an aunt, Lucy. Lucy Doall Arnold was her name,
and she never had children. He was very close with
(06:22):
her growing up. She actually just passed away right before
her one hundred and second birthday.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Lived a one yeah one on.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
One point nine wow yeah, and we she passed away
a few days after Christmas, and we took Bennie to
meet her on Christmas Day and she passed away like
three or four days later, So we were so thankful
that we stopped by. She lived in Atlanta, and on
our way down to see the rest of the family,
we stopped there.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
But anyway, those are the people that we named her after.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But when we were trying to decide how to spell
Bennie because obviously it is traditionally a male name, and
that was the first time I realized that Cameron was
going to be a really good dad, because he was like, well,
we can't spell it like your grandfather spelled it because
it's already.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I don't want people to make fun of it. And
I'm like, we have a little bit of a chance
for people to make fun of it with the name Benny.
But he was like, can we just make it more
girly for her?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And it was the first time I was like he
was protecting her already.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
It was really weird and sweet.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And we were at dinner at Jay Alexander on Whitebridge,
I'll Never Forget and we're super rich, fancy, and we
were talking about how to spell it, and so I
was just looking up different ways to spell her name.
(07:41):
And my dad passed away in July twenty twenty four,
and we found out we were pregnant with her in September.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
So that was a crazy year.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
We got married in February and then Dad passed in July,
and then we found out we were pregnant in September,
very unexpectedly. So it was like all of these emotions,
and I was so sad that dad, you know, wasn't
going to be a part of any of it.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
And my dad was, you'll love this because you're a
big Arkansas fan. But my dad was a huge Alabama fan.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And when we looked up the girl that I actually
saw named Benny years ago spelled it b E n
I And so I told Cameron at dinner, I was like,
this is how the girl that I got the idea
from spelled it.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
And he said, I love that. Let's do that. And
I was kind of like, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
And I looked it up and in Japanese that spelling
of Benny means Crimson, and it.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Was like yeah, wow.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And we were at dinner and he had actually gone
to the bathroom and I was looking it up and
when he came back, I was hysterically sobbing at the
table and you know, pregnant, and he was like, what's
going on? And I showed it to him, and this
is really funny. My husband went to Auburn, so he
hates Alabama with a passion. And I showed him the
(08:57):
meaning of Benny with that spear and he said, well,
there you go.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Your dad told us how to spell it.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
So that was a really good moment for us because
I know he hates Alabama, but he loved loves me
and my dad more and so that's that was like
confirmation for us too, because we were in the phase
then too that we weren't even a hundred percent sure
we were gonna name her Benny. That was just kind
of our number one name for her at the time.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
And when did you know? Was it after you saw
her that you we're sure this is the name? Now?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Well, people, we.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Told people that we thought we were gonna name her that,
and then they started monogramming things for us and we
felt like, yeah, I guess that's her name.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Yeah, nickname, we're either Jason or this or throwing away
all of the blankets, so you just keep it. Later
in life, she's like, why do I have all this
Benny stuff? You're like, well, we were gonna name.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Name Beby, but you didn't look like a Benny.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You take her to Benny Hannah every week her whole life,
just so it kind of matches. Oh you love Benny
Hannas that you were a baby, so people started getting
your blankets. Do you feel at all like you like,
have you feel like you've lost any of your identity?
Like people only want to talk about the baby now.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Some Yeah, but she is my favorite thing to talk about.
Before I was my favorite thing to talk about.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But now well that's kind of all of our jobs, right,
Like we're our own brand. We constantly got to be like,
this is what we're doing, this is how we're doing it.
But now you have something else. I hope that to
me it allows a perspective shift in me.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
It has for me.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, we teld me about that.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I just would I would rather talk about her. It's
really interesting. I think I people asking me about her
is no problem because she is the center of my world.
And honestly, it has opened me up a lot with
anxiety and stuff about all of the all of my
job in general, because my job is me, you know,
(10:56):
the brand is me. So I'm constantly thinking about me,
you know. I mean that sounds crazy, but it's true.
And now I have something more important and it's her,
So I don't mind talking about her.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I love talking about her.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And yeah, I've always loved my career so much and
that's it has been my identity.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
But now she is my identity.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And this is still so important to me, and I
love it and I want to do it until you know,
I've made enough money to retire.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Until you're one hundred and one point nine.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah, until I'm one hundred and one point nine. Like
I will never stop singing. But she has freed me
up a little bit and making it the only thing,
my only purpose, and that's really cool.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
That's a cool thing to have. I'm thankful to have that.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Are you doing any kids music? Not you singing it?
Or are you listening to a lot of it? And
then are you judging it?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Not yet.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I pretty much make up songs for her and sing them.
But she has just I've started playing piano for her
in the last couple of weeks and she's like obsessed
with the piano and he plays her a lot of music.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I have not fallen into the children music yet, but
it's coming. But I sing her a lot of like
the itsy Bitsy Spider, and I made up a song
and then realized I didn't make up the song at all.
I just I literally made it up around Christmas time
and I guess I had heard Grandma Got ran over
by Reindeer, so I sing her that every day, except
it's Benny, Bennie, Benny, Bennie Benny.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Does my funking, fucking fucking Ma.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
You're my best friend, You're my princess, You're the yuppa
appa lepl of my eye. And then one day Cameron's
was singing Grandma Got ran over by Reindeer, and I was.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Like, they stole my song.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
You written my song off? Wait, I ripped their song off.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I was watching you talk about your new song, the
Ebba Chase Matthew, and it's about your exes, all my axes.
Is that weird for your husband to have you still
talking about your exes?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Well, you know I would think so. But Cameron is
the reason that we even put this song out. I
wrote it a couple of years ago and he really
loved it, and we signed with Big Loud and we
were putting out You know a very country record, and
this one is the least country of all the stuff
that we had cut. But Cameron loved this song. He
thought it was a hit, and to the point that
(13:16):
when we were on tour with Al Dean and Chase Matthew,
he played it for Chase, and that is how the
duet even came about.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I had nothing to do.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
With it, but he played it for Chase.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
He played it for Chase and then told Chase to
act like he didn't and Cameron talked to me into
playing it.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Chase had committed to doing.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
The song before he ever even heard it from me
because of my husband.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Because your husband had played it for Yes, that's cool.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
He's very secure in our relationship. If I wanted one
of those eggs, i'd be with him. Well, I don't
know if they'd want me, but you know what I'm saying,
I chose him and we have a great marriage.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
So I think.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It bothers him less than it probably bothers me. I'm
very tired of posting about my exes, but I've got
to promote this song, so I'm like constantly trying to
think of ways to do this.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I mean, I've even gotten the baby in the Tiktoks.
At this point, I don't know what to do because.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
We the song's doing really well, and I'm super grateful
for that. But it's kind of a funny season of
my life to be posting this song about all my exes.
But it's the one that really caught on for us,
and I'm so grateful for that because I do have
a baby defeat. So we're going to continue to talk
about those xes until we don't have to anymore.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
He's like, it's fine, we can talk about it.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Camera's like, whatever pays the bills, that's right.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
What's it like to tour with the Flats guys, Rascal Flats?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
They are so fun, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I've been on a couple of tours like that, where
I toured with Alan Jackson and I toured with I've
toured with a lot of people who have these huge
careers that you don't get to tour with a ton
because they don't tour as much.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
And to be on a.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Tour with someone like that and to hear the hit
after hit after hit after hit is just I mean,
it's ninety minutes of nothing but hits. They don't have
one song that they just kind of throw in there.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know, what is the greatest Rascal Flat song? Let's
debate this in the room.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Woo.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I think the easy answer doesn't matter. You say yours first,
my personal favorite. Just do that.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
There's so many good ones. I mean, I get to
come out on the tour and sing I would say
currently right now, which I may have had a different
answer before I had my daughter, But is my wish.
I'm singing it with him on the tour and it
literally sounds. I don't know anything about the origin story
of this song, but I feel certain it had to
(15:41):
be a parent writing the song for a child.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Had to be.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Because my wish for you, I know the rest of it.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
That is life, because all.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
That you wanted to your dreams, stay big, you worry,
stay small. You never need to carry more than you
can hold. While you're health there getting where you're getting too.
Hope you know somebody loves you and wants the same
things too.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah that sounds like apparent.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yeah, yeah, it has to be because at at my wedding,
that was the dance between well my ex husband now
and his mom. That was the mother the mother son,
the mother son, mother son danced and she picked it
as like her as the mom, what she wanted for him.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
It had it had to be. Yeah, the verses too.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I mean, yeah, it does sound romantic.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It's not super romant. I mean because it just like.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Bill Belichick and his girl. That's the only way. It's like.
It's way older. My wish greatest Rascal Flot.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Song, God Bless the Broken Road. I mean, I know
that's probably obvious, but.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
That was gonna be. I love that song.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I love it. I mean it is an iconic.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
I mean, speaking of weddings, how many people have walked
down the aisle of that?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I think my favorite is what hurts the most.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Oh gosh, yes. And then when he goes, it's being.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
So close every night on tour, people are like, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah they he performed our wedding and he did Fast
Cars in Freedom.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Okay, famous, I know, flex Alexander, I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Remember you calling it the way.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I wasn't a big Fast Cards and Freedom guy. But
now I want to hear that song. I love it
because he's saying that. He's saying that and God Bless
the Broken Road in our wedding, because that's a wedding song.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
He's like a weddings.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I'm not so great about your wedding. That DJ. By
the way, Gary, the bugs sang it.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It's good.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
You know how funny people think his name is Rascal.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
No, they don't.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
People come up to me in the meet and greet
and be like, I saw that video of you and
Rascal because I've posted I posted a bunch with Gary
and like people thinking Rascal.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Just like random people, what's.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Really interesting, like lady a you know, lady annabellam like that,
that's we.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I wonder if people I think she's yeah, are you
and she's it?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I like those people must just be like half paying
attention to life.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, well I think they're just listening to songs that
they come.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yeah, that's why we are not totally dialed in.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Elena is my middle name, and so when I went
on American Idol, everyone thought my family we were the
Elena family. So my brother's name on Twitter and everything
for a while was Tyler Elena and that's literally like
not his name at all.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
He's a good sport. But yeah, everyone thought we I
was like, my name was Lauren Elena, which is legit.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Your last name is not Elena.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Nope, it's my middle name.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
I'm just learning this.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Her last name is Rascal. Crazy Idol still killing.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Huh Yeah, after all these years, insane.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
American Idol is still Do you go back every few years? Yeah,
every once in a while, because you're not a somebody
who like resents it at all.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
No, No, I've never had I'm very grateful for it. Yeah,
I mean I would go back and do whatever they
asked me to do.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I love the show, so that's cool.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I saw your post from like the other day when
you were like, it's been officially fifteen years since I
isn't that it was on TV for American Idol, and
I was like.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Oh my gosh, I saw that clip too.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Is you coming out? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:18):
And it was all these flashback clips of you. It
was so cute.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
What do you think when you see that really young
Lauren Rascal up there?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yeah, it's I I am so thankful for that girl.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
How the heck that fifteen year old little girl walked
in there confidence to do? Like when I see fifteen
year olds now, I have, you know, family members who
they're my first cousin's children are like that age.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
And I'm like, that's when my career started.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
How did I even think talk my parents and are
driving me up to the bridge down standing in that
long line?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And you audition here in Nashville.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I did.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, my official audition in front of the judges was
at the Rhyme, and so my whole career started there.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
That's crazy. How long was the drive up? A couple hours.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I'm from right outside of Chattanooga, so it's not too far. Yeah,
about two and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It feels like forever, but probably yesterday.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
At the same time, it is the wildest thing.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, yeah, I saw the clip. That show is still crushing.
Dancing with the Stars is crushing like crazy.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yes, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Those two shows have lasted our whole life.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Basically, Dancing with the Stars is a hard show. Yeah,
it is crazy, it's terribly You're the whole reason I
did that show.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
But it's you were also way better than I was.
But yeah, it's really hard.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Well you want so champ, Yeah, the champion.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Butt it's really hard, right, Yes, it's very hard.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Mentally it's I kind of wish I'd had a baby
and then done it because I was in the best
shape of my life. It would be that, but I
couldn't do it anymore with the child. There's no way
with that schedule.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
The eating thing was hard because you would train and
you'd order food while you're eating, and you were even
get to eat all the foods. So not only you're
training your face off, you know, for hours and hours,
you're only eating a little bit.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah, it's crazy. The schedule is wild, but I had
so much fun. I'm so glad I did it. I'm
so glad you got me to do that.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Would you ever go back? If they were like, hey,
we're doing like an All Stars?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I don't know that I could because I didn't win.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Well. Sometimes, like Survivor, they don't pick this winters right lunchbox.
They picked like good people, like people, Yeah, just people
that are memorable and are good game players or evoke emotion.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I would I would.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Would you ever do like a Survivor away from your baby?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Though?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
It is the problem?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah, I don't know. See I did. I did a
show kind of like Survivor you did? I did what?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
But like did it air? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I got hurt on it? It was called what was
it called?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
That military was Beyond Beyond the Edge. No, it wasn't
that one. I would do that one too. That one's gnarly, though,
that one looks scary.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
But I lived outside in the Pandomanian jungle and had
to build a hut and do all the things.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Y'all don't know about this.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Are you sure that it was on something or.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
No?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I definitely was.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
But I was doing one of the races and and
I twisted my ankle and hurt my foot, and they
I said, I will stay and try to tough it out,
but they basically disqualified.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Oh my gosh, it was a CBS be on the
Edge only a few years.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Ago, back in like the sixteen seventeen hundred's possibly little
bit eight undreds. Had you twisted your ankle, you're just dead.
It's over because your job is like carrying stuff and
running and running from animals and a simple ankle twist.
It's nice knowing you, Lauren.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Yeah, that girl, she was pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Now she's going, Oh I remember the show now that
I see the picture of it.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah, I was like dominating. I won every competition I
was in until I got hurt.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Like I was so far in the lead. I would
have won that show because Craig Morgan was on it.
Craig Morgan was there. Yes, my dear friend.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I thought you're gonna say he died. Greg, I gotta
let you guys know, we may have all died without you.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Heared me.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
She was like, I got bad news for you guys.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Oh yeah, Like so he was providing the food. Yeah,
he was a great person to have on a show.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
When you're trapped in the jungle.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah. I mean he could live.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
You could drop him off anywhere and he would live.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
You are going to play our iHeart Country Festival, which
were super excited about. Yeah, so that's gonna be a
lot of fun. Those festivals are always fun when you
get to play with other people because it's not like
you get to you live in the same town. But
when you come home, you definitely everybody goes to their
own little huts.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And so with this's you, we get so few time, Yeah,
a little time at home that it's not like we're
trying to hang out, do you.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Luke Bryan, you have a tour Luke twice.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
That was my first tour ever after idle I went out.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Luke was direct support for Jason Aldane and I was
first what a crazy tour.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I was sixteen years old. That was my first tour.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Oh, that was a long time ago. Like as far
as like that's kid, Lauren, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
And he's that.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
They have both actually taken me out on tour a
few times, do you have to have Apparently? Yeah, my
mom toured with me until I turned eighteen.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Poor thing. That was really fun for her.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I'm sure dealing with a sixteen year old who all
of a sudden think she knows everything.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But oh, this season of life with my mother has
been the best.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
And I have apologized fifteen hundred dollars for her for
every time I was ever a smart a like now
that I have my own daughter, and I'm like.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Is she ever gonna do that?
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Probably? Yes, a little bit.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah. I come watch Lauren on our iHeart Country Festival.
It's a Saturday, May second at the Moody Center in Austin.
Go ticketmaster dot com. And congratulations on the song. Yeah,
you're right, it is really doing well.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, super cool, Thank.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
You and congrat and Chase will be there at the
show as well, so we'll do it together.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So I say, by Chase, it gets a crap. I'm
just kidding that. I'm totally kidding. I like Chase a lot. Yeah,
Chase chases really great. Uh yeah, you guys go follow
Lauren on social and not only that, Strain the song,
all my exes, congratulations on everything, long cross on the baby.
Mostly thank you, that's too. I like the name Bennie.
I never thought Bennie was like a super dude name.
Thank you, Like Bennie's just like a universal thank you. Also,
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like I've said this on the show for fifteen years,
I like dude names, unless it's like Frank Iron. I
think guy names work on girls.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, Laura Laine, everybody there's she is. Good job.
On the Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now longer to see you.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, how are you raven?
Speaker 3 (00:07):
You know, busy good raising a baby? Yeah, so's changed
in yours is about to.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I know, I know you're talking to my wife a
little bit too.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Yes, I have. Yeah, she's been asking me where do
you put the baby?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
That's what she said. She said, She asked you, when
you get home with the baby, what do you do
with it?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
You put it? I'm like, for the first few months
they just sleep a lot. So just found something cozy.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
But I told her, do not be embarrassed to ask
me any new mom questions because I have done so
many things wrong because I haven't I mean, not wrong
to the point where it can't be fixed. But like,
I definitely swaddled the baby longer than I was supposed
to swattle her because she had started rolling over, and
I didn't know that, like you just things I didn't know. Oh,
(00:50):
you mean, any question you have that you don't know, ask.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Me, like longer in the lifespan, not at a time, yes.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Not at a time about it?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I don't really know if there's a rule about that.
I hope not. I mean, you swaddle them when they sleep.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I was looking at your social media and you had
posted like a throwback to when you were touring with
Rascal Flats the last time, which was pretty recent, but
you were very pregnant. Very is that hard to sing?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You know?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I didn't really notice it at the time, I think
because it was such a surprise that I was pregnant.
I had taken the tour and then found out I
was pregnant, and it was a big surprise, and so
I just knew I had to do it. So I
don't know that I realized how hard it was until
now that I'm singing. I'm like, this is not This
(01:38):
is much easier not having a you know, seven pound
baby between my ribs.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I saw a TikTok and I saw it my wife
send it to me, and it shows when you have
a baby inside of you, how all your organs get
pushed up. And I was just thinking about you singing
when all your organs are shoved up because he's got
to make room for the baby.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I know, I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, I don't know how I did that, but I
mean a lot of us do it. But I was
eight and a half month's pregnant by the end of
that tour. So I was like, that's potentially having the
baby at that point.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Do you think maybe when you're on the road and
you're eight and a half months pregnant, it could happen anywhere,
whatever town you're in.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I did start to get nervous a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, I was like, this scene is really close was
height and a half months.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I was close. I was very close.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I was close enough that I think people in the
crowd may have actually been nervous that I was there.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
But all was well.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
She decided to come, you know, eleven days late. So
she's like, yeah, I was eleven days past my day.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So were you just every day like praying? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I did everything. Come on, I did all the things,
like you can do icy food? Her walking?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
What pineapple walking?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah? So it's like you don't know about Kurt walking.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Uh, Well, when she gets closed and she's great, you'll
be seeing her. You work, You walk like on a
curb and you put one foot up top and one
foot on the bottom, and it's supposed to do something
with like your hips.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I don't really know to help like dilate your cervix.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Did anything actually help? No?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
No, it just whenever we had to make an evacuation plan.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
She did not come. We could not get her to
come on her own.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I mean I was like, I was talking to her.
I was like, it's a really cool place out here.
It's really we really like you to get out.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
But has it been what's been the best part about it?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Oh? My gosh, it is the best thing that's ever
happened to me.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And everyone says that, but until you and you'll you'll
soon you will know. When they hand you that baby,
your whole life changes. I guess my favorite part is
the way she looks at me. I've never had someone
one look at me like that, like just she completely
(03:45):
Oh it's making me some emotional go figure, but just
she's completely dependent on me. And what a gift that
I get to be the one that can nurture her
and take care of her. And then my second favorite
is probably watching my.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Husband with her.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I love him so much more and I already loved him,
but watching him father her is pretty special.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Bobby, that's a good song for you.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, what, my wife already loves.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Me, Charity loves you, but she's about to find you
even more attractive.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
It is crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
If I do a good job, well, you're good. Who knows?
Speaker 5 (04:21):
So, like, what kind of things have you seen your
husband do where you're like, okay, wow, this is crazy,
Like is it just him holding her?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah, he has a dance party with her every day
when he gets home from work. So he will turn
the music on in the living room and picks her
up and they dance. And now she it's almost like
she's eight months old. It's almost like she expects the
dance party. Just the way he interacts with her. I
don't know, because.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
When she was really little, he was a little scared
of her.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I think when they're first born, everybody's a little scared
of them. I mean they're so yeah, they're so little,
but they're very resilient. I mean, your wife will she's
the baby's going to be great.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
But just the.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Way he talks to her, in the way he interacts
with her, I've just never seen that side of him,
and it's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
How hard was it coming up with a name?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
We went back and forth for a while. I am
a woman, and I don't know if this is true
of all women, but I had like fifteen names written
down since I was probably thirteen years old, but we
wanted to do family names for sure. So her first
name is She's named after my grandfather and his aunt,
(05:38):
but we had a couple different names, and then the
story behind her name is actually sweet, you mean tell it. Yeah,
I loved her, so we named her Benny, which you
know is a boy name. So a lot of people
are coming at us for that, but they can get
over it. But my grandfather Benny helped raise me. My
parents were really young, so I spent a lot of
time at my grandparents' house and he taught me to
(06:02):
play basketball and all these things. I was just really
close with him. And a few years ago I saw
a girl on Instagram named Benny and I thought that
was super cute, so I just wrote it down. And
then her middle name is Doll, like baby Doll. My
husband had an aunt, Lucy. Lucy Doall Arnold was her name,
and she never had children. He was very close with
(06:22):
her growing up. She actually just passed away right before
her one hundred and second birthday.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Lived a one yeah one on.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
One point nine wow yeah, and we she passed away
a few days after Christmas, and we took Bennie to
meet her on Christmas Day and she passed away like
three or four days later, So we were so thankful
that we stopped by. She lived in Atlanta, and on
our way down to see the rest of the family,
we stopped there.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
But anyway, those are the people that we named her after.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But when we were trying to decide how to spell
Bennie because obviously it is traditionally a male name, and
that was the first time I realized that Cameron was
going to be a really good dad, because he was like, well,
we can't spell it like your grandfather spelled it because
it's already.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I don't want people to make fun of it. And
I'm like, we have a little bit of a chance
for people to make fun of it with the name Benny.
But he was like, can we just make it more
girly for her?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And it was the first time I was like he
was protecting her already.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
It was really weird and sweet.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And we were at dinner at Jay Alexander on Whitebridge,
I'll Never Forget and we're super rich, fancy, and we
were talking about how to spell it, and so I
was just looking up different ways to spell her name.
(07:41):
And my dad passed away in July twenty twenty four,
and we found out we were pregnant with her in September.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
So that was a crazy year.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
We got married in February and then Dad passed in July,
and then we found out we were pregnant in September,
very unexpectedly. So it was like all of these emotions,
and I was so sad that dad, you know, wasn't
going to be a part of any of it.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
And my dad was, you'll love this because you're a
big Arkansas fan. But my dad was a huge Alabama fan.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And when we looked up the girl that I actually
saw named Benny years ago spelled it b E n
I And so I told Cameron at dinner, I was like,
this is how the girl that I got the idea
from spelled it.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
And he said, I love that. Let's do that. And
I was kind of like, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
And I looked it up and in Japanese that spelling
of Benny means Crimson, and it.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Was like yeah, wow.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And we were at dinner and he had actually gone
to the bathroom and I was looking it up and
when he came back, I was hysterically sobbing at the
table and you know, pregnant, and he was like, what's
going on? And I showed it to him, and this
is really funny. My husband went to Auburn, so he
hates Alabama with a passion. And I showed him the
(08:57):
meaning of Benny with that spear and he said, well,
there you go.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Your dad told us how to spell it.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
So that was a really good moment for us because
I know he hates Alabama, but he loved loves me
and my dad more and so that's that was like
confirmation for us too, because we were in the phase
then too that we weren't even a hundred percent sure
we were gonna name her Benny. That was just kind
of our number one name for her at the time.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
And when did you know? Was it after you saw
her that you we're sure this is the name? Now?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Well, people, we.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Told people that we thought we were gonna name her that,
and then they started monogramming things for us and we
felt like, yeah, I guess that's her name.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Yeah, nickname, we're either Jason or this or throwing away
all of the blankets, so you just keep it. Later
in life, she's like, why do I have all this
Benny stuff? You're like, well, we were gonna name.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Name Beby, but you didn't look like a Benny.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You take her to Benny Hannah every week her whole life,
just so it kind of matches. Oh you love Benny
Hannas that you were a baby, so people started getting
your blankets. Do you feel at all like you like,
have you feel like you've lost any of your identity?
Like people only want to talk about the baby now.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Some Yeah, but she is my favorite thing to talk about.
Before I was my favorite thing to talk about.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But now well that's kind of all of our jobs, right,
Like we're our own brand. We constantly got to be like,
this is what we're doing, this is how we're doing it.
But now you have something else. I hope that to
me it allows a perspective shift in me.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
It has for me.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, we teld me about that.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I just would I would rather talk about her. It's
really interesting. I think I people asking me about her
is no problem because she is the center of my world.
And honestly, it has opened me up a lot with
anxiety and stuff about all of the all of my
job in general, because my job is me, you know,
(10:56):
the brand is me. So I'm constantly thinking about me,
you know. I mean that sounds crazy, but it's true.
And now I have something more important and it's her,
So I don't mind talking about her.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I love talking about her.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And yeah, I've always loved my career so much and
that's it has been my identity.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
But now she is my identity.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And this is still so important to me, and I
love it and I want to do it until you know,
I've made enough money to retire.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Until you're one hundred and one point nine.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah, until I'm one hundred and one point nine. Like
I will never stop singing. But she has freed me
up a little bit and making it the only thing,
my only purpose, and that's really cool.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
That's a cool thing to have. I'm thankful to have that.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Are you doing any kids music? Not you singing it?
Or are you listening to a lot of it? And
then are you judging it?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Not yet.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I pretty much make up songs for her and sing them.
But she has just I've started playing piano for her
in the last couple of weeks and she's like obsessed
with the piano and he plays her a lot of music.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I have not fallen into the children music yet, but
it's coming. But I sing her a lot of like
the itsy Bitsy Spider, and I made up a song
and then realized I didn't make up the song at all.
I just I literally made it up around Christmas time
and I guess I had heard Grandma Got ran over
by Reindeer, so I sing her that every day, except
it's Benny, Bennie, Benny, Bennie Benny.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Does my funking, fucking fucking Ma.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
You're my best friend, You're my princess, You're the yuppa
appa lepl of my eye. And then one day Cameron's
was singing Grandma Got ran over by Reindeer, and I was.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Like, they stole my song.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
You written my song off? Wait, I ripped their song off.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I was watching you talk about your new song, the
Ebba Chase Matthew, and it's about your exes, all my axes.
Is that weird for your husband to have you still
talking about your exes?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Well, you know I would think so. But Cameron is
the reason that we even put this song out. I
wrote it a couple of years ago and he really
loved it, and we signed with Big Loud and we
were putting out You know a very country record, and
this one is the least country of all the stuff
that we had cut. But Cameron loved this song. He
thought it was a hit, and to the point that
(13:16):
when we were on tour with Al Dean and Chase Matthew,
he played it for Chase, and that is how the
duet even came about.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I had nothing to do.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
With it, but he played it for Chase.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
He played it for Chase and then told Chase to
act like he didn't and Cameron talked to me into
playing it.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Chase had committed to doing.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
The song before he ever even heard it from me
because of my husband.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Because your husband had played it for Yes, that's cool.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
He's very secure in our relationship. If I wanted one
of those eggs, i'd be with him. Well, I don't
know if they'd want me, but you know what I'm saying,
I chose him and we have a great marriage.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
So I think.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It bothers him less than it probably bothers me. I'm
very tired of posting about my exes, but I've got
to promote this song, so I'm like constantly trying to
think of ways to do this.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I mean, I've even gotten the baby in the Tiktoks.
At this point, I don't know what to do because.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
We the song's doing really well, and I'm super grateful
for that. But it's kind of a funny season of
my life to be posting this song about all my exes.
But it's the one that really caught on for us,
and I'm so grateful for that because I do have
a baby defeat. So we're going to continue to talk
about those xes until we don't have to anymore.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
He's like, it's fine, we can talk about it.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Camera's like, whatever pays the bills, that's right.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
What's it like to tour with the Flats guys, Rascal Flats?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
They are so fun, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I've been on a couple of tours like that, where
I toured with Alan Jackson and I toured with I've
toured with a lot of people who have these huge
careers that you don't get to tour with a ton
because they don't tour as much.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
And to be on a.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Tour with someone like that and to hear the hit
after hit after hit after hit is just I mean,
it's ninety minutes of nothing but hits. They don't have
one song that they just kind of throw in there.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know, what is the greatest Rascal Flat song? Let's
debate this in the room.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Woo.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I think the easy answer doesn't matter. You say yours first,
my personal favorite. Just do that.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
There's so many good ones. I mean, I get to
come out on the tour and sing I would say
currently right now, which I may have had a different
answer before I had my daughter, But is my wish.
I'm singing it with him on the tour and it
literally sounds. I don't know anything about the origin story
of this song, but I feel certain it had to
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be a parent writing the song for a child.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Had to be.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Because my wish for you, I know the rest of it.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
That is life, because all.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
That you wanted to your dreams, stay big, you worry,
stay small. You never need to carry more than you
can hold. While you're health there getting where you're getting too.
Hope you know somebody loves you and wants the same
things too.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah that sounds like apparent.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yeah, yeah, it has to be because at at my wedding,
that was the dance between well my ex husband now
and his mom. That was the mother the mother son,
the mother son, mother son danced and she picked it
as like her as the mom, what she wanted for him.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
It had it had to be. Yeah, the verses too.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I mean, yeah, it does sound romantic.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It's not super romant. I mean because it just like.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Bill Belichick and his girl. That's the only way. It's like.
It's way older. My wish greatest Rascal Flot.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Song, God Bless the Broken Road. I mean, I know
that's probably obvious, but.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
That was gonna be. I love that song.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I love it. I mean it is an iconic.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
I mean, speaking of weddings, how many people have walked
down the aisle of that?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I think my favorite is what hurts the most.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Oh gosh, yes. And then when he goes, it's being.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
So close every night on tour, people are like, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah they he performed our wedding and he did Fast
Cars in Freedom.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Okay, famous, I know, flex Alexander, I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Remember you calling it the way.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I wasn't a big Fast Cards and Freedom guy. But
now I want to hear that song. I love it
because he's saying that. He's saying that and God Bless
the Broken Road in our wedding, because that's a wedding song.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
He's like a weddings.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I'm not so great about your wedding. That DJ. By
the way, Gary, the bugs sang it.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It's good.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
You know how funny people think his name is Rascal.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
No, they don't.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
People come up to me in the meet and greet
and be like, I saw that video of you and
Rascal because I've posted I posted a bunch with Gary
and like people thinking Rascal.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Just like random people, what's.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Really interesting, like lady a you know, lady annabellam like that,
that's we.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I wonder if people I think she's yeah, are you
and she's it?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I like those people must just be like half paying
attention to life.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, well I think they're just listening to songs that
they come.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yeah, that's why we are not totally dialed in.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Elena is my middle name, and so when I went
on American Idol, everyone thought my family we were the
Elena family. So my brother's name on Twitter and everything
for a while was Tyler Elena and that's literally like
not his name at all.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
He's a good sport. But yeah, everyone thought we I
was like, my name was Lauren Elena, which is legit.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Your last name is not Elena.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Nope, it's my middle name.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
I'm just learning this.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Her last name is Rascal. Crazy Idol still killing.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Huh Yeah, after all these years, insane.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
American Idol is still Do you go back every few years? Yeah,
every once in a while, because you're not a somebody
who like resents it at all.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
No, No, I've never had I'm very grateful for it. Yeah,
I mean I would go back and do whatever they
asked me to do.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I love the show, so that's cool.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I saw your post from like the other day when
you were like, it's been officially fifteen years since I
isn't that it was on TV for American Idol, and
I was like.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Oh my gosh, I saw that clip too.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Is you coming out? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:18):
And it was all these flashback clips of you. It
was so cute.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
What do you think when you see that really young
Lauren Rascal up there?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yeah, it's I I am so thankful for that girl.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
How the heck that fifteen year old little girl walked
in there confidence to do? Like when I see fifteen
year olds now, I have, you know, family members who
they're my first cousin's children are like that age.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
And I'm like, that's when my career started.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
How did I even think talk my parents and are
driving me up to the bridge down standing in that
long line?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And you audition here in Nashville.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I did.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, my official audition in front of the judges was
at the Rhyme, and so my whole career started there.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
That's crazy. How long was the drive up? A couple hours.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I'm from right outside of Chattanooga, so it's not too far. Yeah,
about two and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It feels like forever, but probably yesterday.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
At the same time, it is the wildest thing.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, yeah, I saw the clip. That show is still crushing.
Dancing with the Stars is crushing like crazy.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yes, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Those two shows have lasted our whole life.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Basically, Dancing with the Stars is a hard show. Yeah,
it is crazy, it's terribly You're the whole reason I
did that show.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
But it's you were also way better than I was.
But yeah, it's really hard.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Well you want so champ, Yeah, the champion.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Butt it's really hard, right, Yes, it's very hard.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Mentally it's I kind of wish I'd had a baby
and then done it because I was in the best
shape of my life. It would be that, but I
couldn't do it anymore with the child. There's no way
with that schedule.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
The eating thing was hard because you would train and
you'd order food while you're eating, and you were even
get to eat all the foods. So not only you're
training your face off, you know, for hours and hours,
you're only eating a little bit.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah, it's crazy. The schedule is wild, but I had
so much fun. I'm so glad I did it. I'm
so glad you got me to do that.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Would you ever go back? If they were like, hey,
we're doing like an All Stars?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I don't know that I could because I didn't win.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Well. Sometimes, like Survivor, they don't pick this winters right lunchbox.
They picked like good people, like people, Yeah, just people
that are memorable and are good game players or evoke emotion.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I would I would.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Would you ever do like a Survivor away from your baby?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Though?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
It is the problem?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah, I don't know. See I did. I did a
show kind of like Survivor you did? I did what?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
But like did it air? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I got hurt on it? It was called what was
it called?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
That military was Beyond Beyond the Edge. No, it wasn't
that one. I would do that one too. That one's gnarly, though,
that one looks scary.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
But I lived outside in the Pandomanian jungle and had
to build a hut and do all the things.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Y'all don't know about this.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Are you sure that it was on something or.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
No?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I definitely was.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
But I was doing one of the races and and
I twisted my ankle and hurt my foot, and they
I said, I will stay and try to tough it out,
but they basically disqualified.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Oh my gosh, it was a CBS be on the
Edge only a few years.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Ago, back in like the sixteen seventeen hundred's possibly little
bit eight undreds. Had you twisted your ankle, you're just dead.
It's over because your job is like carrying stuff and
running and running from animals and a simple ankle twist.
It's nice knowing you, Lauren.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Yeah, that girl, she was pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Now she's going, Oh I remember the show now that
I see the picture of it.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah, I was like dominating. I won every competition I
was in until I got hurt.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Like I was so far in the lead. I would
have won that show because Craig Morgan was on it.
Craig Morgan was there. Yes, my dear friend.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I thought you're gonna say he died. Greg, I gotta
let you guys know, we may have all died without you.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Heared me.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
She was like, I got bad news for you guys.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Oh yeah, Like so he was providing the food. Yeah,
he was a great person to have on a show.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
When you're trapped in the jungle.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah. I mean he could live.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
You could drop him off anywhere and he would live.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
You are going to play our iHeart Country Festival, which
were super excited about. Yeah, so that's gonna be a
lot of fun. Those festivals are always fun when you
get to play with other people because it's not like
you get to you live in the same town. But
when you come home, you definitely everybody goes to their
own little huts.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And so with this's you, we get so few time, Yeah,
a little time at home that it's not like we're
trying to hang out, do you.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Luke Bryan, you have a tour Luke twice.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
That was my first tour ever after idle I went out.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Luke was direct support for Jason Aldane and I was
first what a crazy tour.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I was sixteen years old. That was my first tour.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Oh, that was a long time ago. Like as far
as like that's kid, Lauren, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
And he's that.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
They have both actually taken me out on tour a
few times, do you have to have Apparently? Yeah, my
mom toured with me until I turned eighteen.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Poor thing. That was really fun for her.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I'm sure dealing with a sixteen year old who all
of a sudden think she knows everything.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But oh, this season of life with my mother has
been the best.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
And I have apologized fifteen hundred dollars for her for
every time I was ever a smart a like now
that I have my own daughter, and I'm like.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Is she ever gonna do that?
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Probably? Yes, a little bit.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah. I come watch Lauren on our iHeart Country Festival.
It's a Saturday, May second at the Moody Center in Austin.
Go ticketmaster dot com. And congratulations on the song. Yeah,
you're right, it is really doing well.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, super cool, Thank.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
You and congrat and Chase will be there at the
show as well, so we'll do it together.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So I say, by Chase, it gets a crap. I'm
just kidding that. I'm totally kidding. I like Chase a lot. Yeah,
Chase chases really great. Uh yeah, you guys go follow
Lauren on social and not only that, Strain the song,
all my exes, congratulations on everything, long cross on the baby.
Mostly thank you, that's too. I like the name Bennie.
I never thought Bennie was like a super dude name.
Thank you, Like Bennie's just like a universal thank you. Also,
(25:02):
like I've said this on the show for fifteen years,
I like dude names, unless it's like Frank Iron. I
think guy names work on girls.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, Laura Laine, everybody there's she is. Good job.
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