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January 2, 2026 9 mins
Rewind with us back to CMA Week when we were able to talk to Bailey Zimmerman, Hudson Westbrook, Vincent Mason, and Mackenzie Carpenter. We hope you enjoy all of these great conversations. 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Vincent Mason in the house. Oh no, how's the warning been.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's been good, you know, just thrown into the fire
right here? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
People, oh yeah there. Oh yeah, Sorry, if you don't
want me to talk about them.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
No, no, no, not at all. Yeah, we're all inclusive here, Okay.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
I like it. I like it. How's the week? Shipping up?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
As an outsider? Someone that I heart like this, I
think is the one that it just comes to mind
for me. She has to hear me talking about music
all the time. Yes, but I feel like you would
be way busier this year with all of this.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
How's the schedule? How you holding up?

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
It looked like, yeah, this year's been the busiest year.
We were gone, me and our league guitar player. We
did the math.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I think it's over two hundred something day, two hundred
and fifteen days.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
At Ye, you're tired at all, you know, you actually
do learn how to just be tired all the time eventually, professionally,
I know.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, that's right. But I feel good.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
I mean, it's definitely the most I've been away from home,
definitely the most shows I've played. But with that being said,
I feel like we're holding up pretty well.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
I'm going to ask you a random question, not about music.
Are your eyes greened?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
They change? Okay? Your grand shirt will bring them out there.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
You go tell them how especially as with green eyes,
that's the population.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Okay, I have green eyes? Do you like super special? Wow?
There you go?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
You know, every now and then fifty percent of the time,
I'm two percent special?

Speaker 2 (01:14):
I guess is that.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
What's been the key to ramping up the shows and
like maintaining like and how keep an energy challenging?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Was it early?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Because obviously you hit a point where like he's just
always tired and you've lived there definitely of getting through
the first.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Part, I think you know, you can't go out the
way we used to, especially when we started headlining. You
can't go out and drink uh every night. You have
to really cut down and uh, you just can't do it.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
I didn't quit.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Everyone thinks I quit when I say that I quit
drinking heavily.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah. Shifted, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
I just shifted it way back. And then I started
working out on the road, which was big. You just
kind of bit the bullet and started paying a day
pass wherever we go.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
You know, is it hard when you're on the road,
what you eat because you want to feel healthy.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
And so that also once we hopped on those bigger tours,
they're they're all catered, so there's all always like some
kind of version of you know, chicken steak.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Whatever that you can you can figure out. So I
did figure.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
That out the energy at first, so it's like dragon
and then I definitely got it all to a place
where the baselines higher.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
So we're gonna let you do one question.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I want to tell to some people, but we want
to pick him pray one question for you.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Also, I like the heart, like this shout. I appreciate.
That's what got me into the catalog.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Man, if you had to write a shotgun with an
artist on a ten hour road trip, who would you
want behind the steering wheel? I'm gonna go with Parker McCollum.
I think trust that guy. I trust that guy.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
You heard it here first.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
It's basic, all right, Parker McCollum will vote confidence trustworthy.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
There you go, Thanks and watch man, Thank you, Thank
you all.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Okay, So should be Kinsey Carpenter in the building up,
Thanks for being here.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
How's the morning treating you? Oh my gosh, it's so guy,
this is such a good day.

Speaker 6 (02:48):
Like I know CMA week and Nashville is absolutely chaos,
but it's like also great energy, Like there's just like
something in the air, and I'm really excited for today
because I'm getting my first B.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
And I a war, Like, let's go, let's talk about that.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
Yes, it's for I'm Not Pretty that I wrote with
Meghan Maroney and my brother was also a co writer
on it, so.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
We get to do Wow, that is amazing.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, so many jokes right now because you are obvious.
So I'm just gonna let Sarah handle this because you
must be really creative to.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Write that song many creative liberty. Some people take wow, congrats, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I think that song is so cool.

Speaker 6 (03:26):
I love that Meghan like had the guts to sing it,
you know, I keep telling yourself that. So it's really
cool that she's taking it to where it went, and
I'm just excited to Like the BMIs mean so much
to me. It's like I love songwriting and that's a
big piece of my heart.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
So especially in this town. To get an award for that,
it's like, are you a big deal? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:46):
How long did it take you to write it?

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh, not long at all.

Speaker 6 (03:50):
We kind of have this thing where when we all
write together, our little crew, we end up writing like
four to six songs, like in the.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Matter of like a day or two.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
Oh wow, I'm on her last album twenty eighth to
June the girls indifferent really And I think.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
One other of it is, oh, you had to be there.

Speaker 6 (04:07):
We all we wrote like, oh wait, no, sorry, just
tweed to do the girls in different We wrote all
in the same day.

Speaker 7 (04:12):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
My last question is, after you write that and you
walk out of that room, did you feel like this
thing has the potential to do something special?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (04:20):
Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh really all that's amazing.

Speaker 6 (04:21):
Our crew just we have like a vibe and be right,
it's like it's it's magic.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Amazing.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well, thank you for making time. Yeah, I'm plain people
wrapping us up like we need her.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
So thanks, thank you. Uds in Westbrook. Let's go. How
we doing.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
We want to ask you the same question because the
rumor is that you've played one hundred and thirty seven
nights consecutive and today's your first day off.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Is that Hey, that was the chase.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
Then we we'd be I don't know, I'd probably be
on the ground man schedule.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
I was in Yeah wild, we we've been in.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
We played Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Wow week prior
to that same thing. We proud of that same thing.
So we've been rolling, grinding, But touring super important to me,
you know, and playing for radio stations is important too,
So you gotta make both work.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
We just saw you and Charlotte, and I love your
song Sober, I mean on my player so much.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
What I love about you is that you are so
big and there are so many girls that go crazy.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
But you say I hate that about you. That's that's
not what I enjoyed.

Speaker 8 (05:24):
Yeah, I look at all these dudes, I'm like, oh,
no care about fans, And you signed every autograph and
I remember somebody in your team was like, he's doing tiktoks.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
With every listener out there. Yeah, yeah, and most artists
don't take that time. I think. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (05:40):
It was never about girls for me, you know, like
ever since the beginning, I've had a girlfriend, and so
I've I haven't ever been like, man, I'm doing this
to to bring these girls along. So I always make
sure even when I'm doing tiktoks and videos with girls
or whatever, like being like, what's up, dude, let's get
a picture too, Like they want a picture, but they're
not going to be like, come on, bro give me

(06:01):
and the girls. But it's been really cool to see
everyone's attaching to it. And I mean, I feel like
they are the ones making it happen, so it's important,
you know, to take care of them.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
I feel wayless akar and I was like, I gotta
do it for work.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Let me get a picture the dads.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
It's funny.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
The dads will come and they'll they'll beat me and
they'll they'll say, what's up at the meet and greet?
You want to get a pick and the right?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Nah? After the concert? Come on, come on.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Hey, you went them over? All right, We're gonna do
pick and prey before we let you go. So you're
just gonna pull a question out of here, totally random
and see what you get.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
All right, my hot seat, We ready for it. We're ready.
Let's go.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
Drum roll, drum roll. One phone call to get belt
out of jail. Which artist are you calling?

Speaker 4 (06:43):
You're never going to jail this guy and going to jail.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
I alouldn't say that.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
I would probably call I'm going I'm going Bailey zo man,
He's gonna pick up, and I know he'll instantly say
yes without thinking. He'll be like, yeah, I'm there four am.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
You're getting the rest of midday?

Speaker 1 (07:01):
You know, like, are you checking the sat next to
you before you make that call to make sure he not.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Argued him that. In that case, we'll call him mom.
All right, all right, sounds good?

Speaker 5 (07:12):
Brother?

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Probably brother. Thank you so much, brother, for you so much.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Good to see you then, is in the house. No
introduction needed, but we do love this guy. Thanks for
making Tom for us. I only have one question. At
one point in Tom, you said you were nervous, and
I would imagine anybody would be too. Text and artists
will say, Luke Holm's about collabing. Has that changed and
that you're starting to build up your own catalog and
you feel a little bit more comfortable about reaching out

(07:38):
to your peers.

Speaker 7 (07:39):
When Luke texted me back and was like, yeah, I
want to do it, I told myself I will never
not send a song again. You will never be scared
to send a song because oh what, you're gonna get
mad at you for sending a song. No, They're like,
send the song, Send the text hit the d MS,
let's go shoot shots, shoot shots. You're never Hey what
Kobe saying?

Speaker 2 (07:59):
You missed one hundred percent of the shots you don't take?

Speaker 4 (08:02):
So the first time I saw you was on this
stage cool and Morgan walling you dude, your energy is amazing.
Where does it come from? Like you don't even slow down.
Like the longer the concert goes on, the hyper you get.

Speaker 7 (08:15):
Well, I have ADHD me too. Yeah, yeah, so ADHD.
It actually just takes control out there and everybody's like, man,
you run around, you run around, And I say, when
I'm standing at the mic, I feel like everybody's watching me,
so I get really nervous. So I love running around,
so it doesn't let my brain like think about being nervous.
You're just like going, going, going, going, And then when

(08:36):
the crowd has giving you all that back just makes
me a hundred times more.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's like so crazy.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
I think we may have a Carolina connection. Luke Cowboy
or Cowboy Luke time player for Morgan. He is also
an artist, an incredible artist. I talked to him about
a painting and he was like, yeah, I just put
this painting up and Bailey Zimmerman bought it, and I'm.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Like, what he got it already?

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Is that true?

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Do you have well this, Luke?

Speaker 7 (08:59):
So I've I hit him up because I was like, dude,
I didn't know you.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Did all that. Yeah. So it was like, you got
to support your homies. You gotta support your dogs.

Speaker 7 (09:08):
And when you when they have something, they're like, hey man,
you like this and you love it, support them, Let's
go because I love that. Luke has always supported me
every time I'd come backstage, like we'd always have this
moment before I would go out for Up Down with
Morgan and we would just sit there and be like.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Dog. So yeah, yeah, gotta support the fellas.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
And it's awesome art too.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Oh yeah, it's supporting us. Man's good seeing you, bro,
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