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little bit of a p incident. Um yeah, traveling across the country with cats, I wouldn't recommend doing it unless it's out of share necessity, which in this case it is, but they're precious and um yeah. So yeah, so we're I'm driving, Um, I'm about to go to Dallas spend the night there. I'm trying to do as much on the way there as i can while still like staying on a schedule where I could get to l a like as soon as possible. But I'm glad to see my aunt who lives like a little more of Dallas,

and she'll get to meet my boyfriend Sam easier. He's sleeping um. And then where I have a couple of fun stops specifically, and oh, we're staying at this place in Albuquerque and it is a filming location for Breaking Bad. I did not believe Sam when I was looking on Airbnb and he was like, Oh my god, that's like a place from Bringing Bad. And I was like, no way they would have it in the title if it was like from No Shot and No Shot would be

this inexpensive. And um, I read the description and it absolutely was so five points to Sam for that one. And then we're going to Arizona or to see the Grand Canyon for the first time, and then we're doing a couple of places that I've already done there. I actually really freaking love Arizona. I think it's so cool. It's very hot. But um, we're going to Sedona to see the Psychic vor Texas if you haven't heard of those incredible fun fact. Also, the word for Texas is

not a word. It is only used in the context of the title of these Psychic Vortexes, but that's what they're called. So um. And then we're going to go to this ghost town called Jerome and one of the guys who's in the band Tool. It's a literal ghost town. It used to be population and now it's like under five hundreds, so it's classified officially as a ghost city. And there's like a bunch of ruins that still remain in like there's an old jail and there's still like

a bed in this old eighteen hundreds jail. Very cowboy vibes. But one of the guys in Tool has a store there, and it's just like this like rock and roll store in the middle of a ghost town, and like people definitely, like tourists definitely go there. It's not like a unexplored ghost town, but it is very, very very cool and some getting to show say on a lot of these places they've seen while I've been on tour, and I

really thought about that. And then we will get to l A. We're doing like mostly like Root sixty six after Arizona said that, I'll be really fun and then um, we'll get to l A on Saturday. Then then like this new phase of my life starts. But it's it's crazy, you know, like I'm in this interesting like mental space right now because Nashville is so important to me for

so long and leaving it is hitting harder. I was kind of in a weird mood all this past week, and I think it's just because I'm realizing how much I've changed and how much my life has changed. My relationships have changed, and even my goals have changed, and so like, you know, looking at this big of of you know, I don't want to say change again. I can't think another word. Um, this big of a like move, mom,

that's another good work for it. This big of a move is like really cementing how much and everything is different than it was when I was national years So we'll talk a little bit more about that. We're a different break. I would just like to apologize once again for the audio quality. There's a lot of construction happening right here. So it's just like Poplo city. I don't know what town I'm in, but it's a potlo city.

And yeah, so all of that being said, like Nashville was such a huge, huge change for me from my small, you know city that I'm from Portland, Maine, which is beautiful. It's on the coast. It's amazing, but it's also like there's no music scene. Everybody knows everybody, everybody's related to everybody. And when I moved to Nashville right after high school, I was like looking around and I was just dumbfounded how big it was. And I was like, there's no

way I'm ever going to explore this whole city. There's no way. And then you know, nine years later, I'm like, Okay, well I've seen I've seen quite a bit of it, and that being sad, I've seen a lot of the really good parts of it, but a lot of the really bad parts of it too, And I'm personally very excited to have some space from that because I want

to be able to miss Nashville again. I want to be able to I want to be able to look at it and think fondly of it and not just be like hit in the phase with all these horrible memories and like relationships gone wrong and friendships gone wrong and all of this stuff that happened there. And I know that it's not all Nashville's fault. I mean, that ship just happens in your early twenties, like Perry it,

but it definitely some of it's Nationals fault. And this is also my first time in since twenty four team because it's my first time. It's not playing songs oft for Deutsu at cmafest or playing Smifest in journal. So that's an interesting feeling too, because if you guys have ever been to Cifest and see me play, or you've been to my fan club party that I've had every year, it's such a special time. But I'm in this like in between, like am I doing country? Am I not

this genre? Even matter? Do I have to pick? I don't know. I literally changed my Instagram bio yesterday too. I don't know, ask me later. And that's pretty much my life motto right now. But it's just weird to see, you know, this thing that I used to look forward to would be so like participate so actively and then just like not be doing it and instead to be moving now life. I don't think I would have believed you if you told me that this was going to happen.

I'm even think I would have believed you. Like last year, I'm like, no way, And but I mean I made up my mind this past February. I was just like, I gotta do it, and yeah, sometimes you have to light your world on fire. Sometimes you just have to do it. And I am a big proponent of that. I think all of the best things that have happened to me have come from me taking a huge jump that scared the ship out of me and just like figuring everything else out later. Like, truthfully, can I afford

to move to Los Angeles? No, I really can't. I'm a musician and I still not have not been able to tour like full time as I was able to uh pre pandemic. Um, I cannot afford to move to Los Angeles right now, but I just like to do

it anyways, assuming everything will fall into place. And um, it did end up calling into place a little bit, especially with the whole like getting hit by a garbage truck and then getting a new car in talkinging some of the insurance prepare money, what you're allowed to do? You are allowed to do that, by the way, Um so that worked out about as well as getting hit by a dump truck could. But yeah, things fall into place, and even like Nashville, like I mean, I don't. Here's

the thing. I have a friend who wants to move to l A. And he's been talking about it for a really long time and he's like, Oh, I'm just like waiting to have enough money and I'm like, dude, you are never You're never going to have enough money to move across the factory. You're never going to have enough money to do that. There's like what's the right amount? You know, you have to just do it and figure it out, and you might have to do ridiculous things for money, um, but you just have to You just

have to do it. Like I mean obviously, like you have you know enough for like rent and like the gas to get there, but you just have to believe that it's all going to work out, because like, no amount of cushion is going to be enough to convince you that you can uproot your life. You just have to be convinced that you're gonna uproot your life and it'll all work out. And truthfully, poor people move across the country to Los Angeles every single fucking day so

that they become famous and not pour anymore. And um, yeah, people make it work. It's like thinking it and it feels very very weird. So obviously, these past few episodes have been a little bit different than the normal format. You know, there hasn't been any interviews, and I haven't really been doing themed episodes because I've just been in move mode. But now that it's over and I can work out of a really cute little studio in l A. It was just fun. I got to do the Eve

six episode there. That was fun. I felt so professional. It was like it was like big girl radio studio and had this guy the lead singer of like one of my favorite bands, and I was just like, oh, welcome to my mouth is like I've ever even been there before that Monday. But i am going I have a lot of really fun episodes planned, a lot of interviews, and I'm really excited for this next phase of the podcast.

There's a whole other like lame for it to go now being between l A and Nashville, and We're gonna be able to tell more stories. I'm gonna have more stories. I already have so much ship plan for like the first week that I'm there. I'm like, bullish it. I'm gonna have I'm gonna have a lot of grey stories. So um, this is going to be like this is like a little This has been like a little intermission between phase one of the podcast and phase two. But

thank you guys for sticking around and listening. I appreciate all of you so much. I appreciate um you listening. I'm so thankful to Bobby Bones and I Heart and the National Podcast Network and um Mike and Abby who were like relentlessly on this podcast and just always put up with me be late piece of ship. I mm hmmm. I never you know, I never overpromised. I never let anybody think that I'm going to be anything other than that. So I like to think that that gives me a

little bit of amnesty there. Um. I still do believe it's something I couldn't should work on, but um, I'm very excited to see where this goes. And I mean not in the broadest sense of the term. But I'm going to get back to this several thousand mile drive and I will keep you guys updated and I'll see you next week. Thanks so much for listening. I'm paily sure and this is too much to say. Don't going questions now, turn it out you