00:01I want to talk to you about your first time at the Grand Ole Opry
00:04when Randy Travis comes out.
00:06You turn around, you take your hat off, you're like, whoa!
00:09So tell me about that experience.
00:11Well, this all started with a viral video of me singing to Madison
00:15in downtown Plant City, Deeper Than the Holler.
00:17The next day, Dylan Weldon, top podcaster in Nashville,
00:20he reached out to me and said, I'd like for you to be on podcasts.
00:23I'm like, absolutely.
00:25So a month goes by, I'm emceeing at CMA Fest.
00:28I get to do an ad for the Opry, and then they're like, hey,
00:31we want you to go backstage and do the podcast at the Opry.
00:33John Fritsch, the social media director of the Opry, got with me about that.
00:37And I'm like, yes, absolutely.
00:39Little did I know, I get back there, we do the podcast,
00:43Dan Rogers, the general manager of the Opry, walks out and says,
00:46we'd like for you to sing Deeper Than the Holler at the Opry night.
00:49So I'm like, of course, absolutely.
00:51No nerves whatsoever?
00:53I got excited.
00:54Oh, yeah.
00:56So I get out there, I sing the song,
00:58and just when I'm getting ready to walk off the stage,
01:00you hear Mike Terry, the announcer, say,
01:01and now, ladies and gentlemen, Randy Travis.
01:04I look to the corner of my eye, I didn't even hear the announcement,
01:07I look to the corner of my eye, I see him walking out,
01:09I just start losing it and getting starstruck.
01:12Randy Travis, one of my heroes growing up.
01:15Did you have a chance to talk afterwards?
01:17Absolutely.
01:17Talking to him and his family, they're precious people.
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