Thelma & James at the CMA Awards

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00:00It's Jeff Kirkshen at the CMAs with Thelma and James, but you also know them as Mackenzie Porter and Jake Etheridge.

00:11Hi, you two.

00:12Hello.

00:13I rabbit hold seriously really hard on your guys' music.

00:16Aw.

00:17Absolutely love your voices.

00:18You're like, and I hate it.

00:19And it's terrible.

00:20Thanks for coming.

00:22No, no, it's great.

00:22So we do something a little different here at this booth.

00:25I do one big question.

00:26Okay.

00:27So I give you one question, then I have you on your way, okay?

00:29Okay.

00:29And that was really hard for me because I've become a big fan of your guys' music and your connection.

00:33Now, obviously, the connection is a given.

00:35You're married.

00:36You have a child together.

00:37Like, that's a given.

00:38But I always felt, growing up as a musical theater kid, there's nothing more intimate than singing with somebody, right?

00:46There's just like this met-eye connection.

00:48Can you take us back to the first time you sang together and your eyes met?

00:53What was the song and what was the moment?

00:56Because it's already intimate whether you're with the person or not because you naturally are harmonizing.

01:00But it must have felt a little different, right?

01:03I feel like officially the first song we sang together was your song.

01:07Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:08Because that's a great question.

01:09A little known fact.

01:10Yeah.

01:10So I put out a song like, oh my gosh, like back in 2013 called If You Asked Me To.

01:16Yep.

01:16And at the time, him and I were just friends.

01:18And do you know Carolyn Don Johnson?

01:21Name's Maria.

01:21She was a, I mean, she's an iconic Canadian country singer, but she had a hit here too.

01:25Right, right, right.

01:26And anyways, she was, I was staying at her house.

01:28She was producing a song.

01:30And I was like, I know this guy who could like sing harmonies.

01:32I love his voice.

01:33So Jake came over, sang harmonies.

01:35And then he left and she's like, he's in love with you.

01:38And I was like, no, he's not.

01:40Spoiler alert.

01:40I was, in fact, in love with her.

01:43Yeah.

01:43So we have like a stamp of time of like when we were still friends.

01:48That song was on that record and got some airplay.

01:51Yep.

01:51Got me a record deal.

01:52And so it's me singing harmony.

01:53So that was the first official time.

01:55That is so incredible.

01:55It was a long time ago.

01:56Did she hit you with the friend zone?

01:58Like subtly?

01:59Well, you were, hey, you had a wonderful boyfriend at the time.

02:01Oh, that's good.

02:02Very good.

02:03Very good.

02:03I was living in Nashville.

02:04You were living in Canada.

02:05Yeah.

02:05I did.

02:06I did friends on him.

02:07Yeah.

02:08I was very much in friend zone territory.

02:09It was okay.

02:10I snuck out.

02:11Yeah.

02:11I see why you love him.

02:13I mean, I have a lovely wife and I'm falling in love with him.

02:15I know.

02:15He's such a good guy.

02:16He's a cutie.

02:17Listen, do yourself a favor.

02:19Thelma and James, just go listen to the music.

02:21But even more importantly, go on social and watch them sing around their house because

02:25it really is something special.

02:26They're raising a child together.

02:27They're making great music.

02:28It's magical.

02:29Thelma and James at the CMAs.

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