Introduction and Season 7 Kickoff

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This transcript was automatically created and has not be read or edited by our team . Hi , I'm Alexa and I'm Rory , and together we are the ROAMies .

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We are married To each other .

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Right ? , We are a touring musical duo .

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And our music has taken us to all kinds of places all around the world and keeps us always on the go .

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So we hope you enjoy our stories and adventures while running around working to keep all your plates spinning .

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And we hope to facilitate your busy lifestyle and feed your inner travel bug . Hi , everyone , welcome to season seven . Seven we are starting our seventh year . What Of this episode , of this podcast , of this episode ?

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Wow , you better hang on . This is going to be a long one . Settle in , get a cup of coffee or something .

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Seventh year of our podcast , so welcome to year number seven , season seven . We have a year of surprises for you lined up A year of surprises .

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Kelp bun surprise . Oh , you're so French , Rory . Yeah , so not French in the way I said it .

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That's okay , you're American , you can speak American . Alright , so we are on the road right now . We thought we would launch our season reading and a kickoff from our road trip . We had a concert in Nashville last night .

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Nashville Tennessee .

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Nashville , tennessee , because Nashville's not the only Nashville .

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Oh , that's right . My big band played a sweetheart dance for Nashville Metro Parks . That was fun . Yes , thank .

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Thank you , Kaylina and Nashville Metro Parks and with a partnership with Creative Parks Nashville , so that was very , very fun . It was a good time . There was a dance lesson before Rory's big band performed and folks there learned the Roomba . So that's what they learned last night .

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They learned to dance like a vacuum cleaner , like a robot vacuum cleaner the Roomba I was supposed to play .

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Rory was going to have me sing and play a couple songs with my uke and then we ended up not doing those . But we did do jambalaya and I played my ukulele with that and sang with you on some songs and stuff .

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Yeah , they were dancing to upbeat stuff and not ballads , which is really the opposite of what crowds normally do . So we like nicks , nicks , as Elvis would say , on the ballads .

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Right .

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Nicks , nicks . That's from Jailhouse Rock , by the way .

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We had to cut the ballad the remaining ballads out of the set list and keep it upbeat For the most part , yeah . So anyway , I think people enjoyed it and it was their first year to do it and that was very fun their first year to do it and that was very fun .

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And about three quarters of the way through , the emcee approached me dave , awesome guy . He approached me and said hey , when you finish this song , I need to make an announcement to the crowd because there's a tornado warning , what . So I said , well , what do I need to do ? Do I need to ? Like ? I mean , you want me to stop now so you can tell me ? Said no , go ahead and finish the song , and I thought , huh . And then I said so , when the song's done , do we need to like I'll go somewhere or something ? He goes no , just go ahead and play music and I'll think a tornado warning . That's what you heard him say anyway , yeah , that's what I heard him say .

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You thought you heard him say Well , that's what , kayleen , I heard him say too . So I think it was a tornado watch , and maybe he said warning , because warning means there's an imminent tornado . It's been cited , so anyway , it was interesting it .

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It was only a watch , though , so that's why there was no pause for a while .

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That's right , yeah crazy weather moving in . Last night and this morning , when we started leaving , there were snowflakes falling , and I'm seeing cars around me . Some of them have snow plastered at the front of their car , but the roads are in great shape right now .

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Other than that we're like stopped .

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We're dead stopped .

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Yeah , we're in a parking lot traffic right now .

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I 540 West parking .

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Something is going on . But that's why we decided we would go ahead and record now , because we had planned to just share a little bit of our road trip with you and we thought , hey , it's going to be a lot less car noise while we're stuck here in the traffic .

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But listen to this . You hear that that's the sound .

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That's the truck next door . Yeah , yeah , that's the sound .

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That's the truck next door . Yeah , yeah , that's the sound of American trade 18-wheelers flying down the highway . Well , he's parked next to us , but Right , right , yeah , definitely not flying . I-40 , I-10, . You get a lot of big rigs .

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True , it's always fun being back in Nashville because we lived there for a long time and just seeing the changes that have been made since we've moved and seeing friends .

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Going back to our old stomping grounds . I went to Fido Coffee , which hadn't been to it maybe since we lived there or not long after . It was great going back . They've expanded some but they're still there in Hillsborough Village and then also seeing the Belcourt Theater theater . There they've redone the lobby and everything . I mean the facade looks completely different , more of a contemporary sort of looking facade with a bunch of glass , whereas before it was old school . You walk in and you might trip on the carpet because it's coming up and all that when we were living in Nashville , the Batman building was the downtown .

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The E building . Yeah , man .

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Kind of the symbol of .

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Nashville , it was iconic yeah .

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Yeah , iconic , that's a good word . I know there are so many skyscrapers that have been built up so you can barely even see the Batman building now .

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Yeah , it's like not even a thing . Now , it's crazy .

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There's been , like , so many changes . Let's see , we left , we moved to LA , in la in 2010 yeah , so it's been quite a long time completely different city since we lived in nashville I mean even the titan stadium , which is like .

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Another iconic thing is you're driving down 40 and now they're building huge buildings in front of it . They're going to be tall , I guess , look like maybe uh , apartments and stuff . You won't even be able to see the stadium as you drive by . That's crazy .

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So it's a very different nashville than what we left , but so many cool things about it too and so many dear friends , and it's just like we wish we could see , like everybody we just I don't know how we can arrange that yeah , it's not really possible hey , come to our concert so we can see you , yeah , yeah , we don't want to be in a position , but come see us .

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come to our concert so we can see you . Yeah , we don't want to be in a position , but come see us , come to us .

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Basically like we were going to make this trip a longer . We were going to spend like a week on this trip . Yeah , about a week on this trip , because my parents live just three hours away from Nashville , so we were going to go see them and probably bring the cats maybe Rory didn't like that idea , maybe not and probably bring the cats , maybe rory didn't like that , but you know , like kind of settle into this area , at least for a little week . And then , yes , and then family member got covid and they're like don't come visit us .

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We're like okay , okay . So , even though it's much milder , it's still very contagious , and when you sing , you don't want to know .

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So what we did instead of being there a week , we drove over Friday . We did the last minute thing . Yep drove over Friday . It's a 12-hour drive or something like that , maybe a little more , depending on how long you take . And then we sang yesterday .

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We sang on .

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Saturday , and now it's Sunday . Got to bed last night , 30 in the morning . Well , this morning at three , 30 in the morning . We stay with our awesome friends , more like family . Reggie and lady love Smith and uh stay with them last night , so we after our gig .

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people I know that would like meet us for dinner after . Yeah , it was awesome Stay up and like hang for hours .

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I'm like , hey , it's 10 o'clock and they're like , oh , yeah , it's time for dinner , let's go meet somewhere , let's go . So we had dinner . It was awesome . They would do well in Spain , I think , yeah , yeah , yeah . Or Italy , right , where everybody eats at 10 o'clock at night . So we did that .

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Then we went back to their house and Reggie's like , oh , we've got to go up to the studio , you've got to listen to something told me the day before or so that oh , there's this stuff I'd love to get y'all doing this crowd sort of background singing on it . And I was like , well , okay , so last night , at oh , it must've been midnight or a little after midnight when we went up to the studio later than midnight , and so we went up and sang on a couple of things and then we listened to some new stuff they're doing which is really awesome . It's all man , old Lionel Richie and songs that I grew up with , these wonderful . You listen to them and these emotions just come out because they are time stamped for your childhood , you know . Oh my gosh , yeah , I almost cried listening to Lady Love sing that one . Oh my gosh I saw the tears welling up yes , she was , she's so great .

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And he , reggie , sounded fantastic on some of that stuff he was doing , just scratch vocals , only some , what no ? Great . And he's reggie sounded fantastic on some of that stuff he was doing , just scratch vocals , what no ? I'm saying , I like he's saying these are scratch vocals , it's not very good . And after we finished he was like , uh , you need to keep that . So , okay , maybe . Anyway , pretty , pretty , pretty awesome . We sang stuff . Then we went downstairs and he was playing the piano again .

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Yeah , yeah , yeah , we're like we gotta go to bed . And he's like , yeah , oh , rory , just listen to this , he sits playing the piano again . Yeah , yeah , yeah , we're like we got to go to bed . And he's like , yeah , oh , rory , just listen to this . He sits at the piano and starts playing . So he wants to start singing again . I'm like man , my voice is so tight . I did a gig and now it's like it's just getting all tight and weird . Oh , me too , me too . And then they start singing , and okay , so then we sing some and I got to go to bed . Okay , yeah , yeah , oh , hey , listen to this , it's always that way . They're awesome , they're awesome . So at 3.30 in the morning I climbed into bed and then we got up and left . This morning , I don't know .

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A good night's rest for a 10-hour drive . Actually , it's an 11-hour drive with no stops .

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Yeah , yeah , that's what I'm saying . It's not a 12-hour drive .

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We started an 11-hour drive with no stops and now we have this half-hour . We are stopped , stopped , yes , and there's really no way to do side streets and Google didn't get us onto a side street before we use Google Maps .

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No , we're in the middle of nowhere between Nashville and Jackson , tennessee , on I-40 West .

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There's really not much there it would be really pretty , but because we're at the end of winter , we still have a lot of trees that are just um wintry barren , so it's just a winter look yes , but it was great to be in nashville really , was it's ?

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it's really great to get to go there and visit . I think it felt good because we went to some of the old places we hadn't been in so long places we used to go a lot I also .

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I also I'm not going to reveal what it's going to be but . I got my flavor inspiration for my tea that I'm going to name my nashville tea oh my I got my flavor inspiration while I was there .

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Does it have like boots in it somehow or something like old boot ?

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old boot leather it's going to be a while till I get that one , because it's that one's going to be a hard one to like , come up with a tea that tastes like that , but it's going to be good , but that'll be , you know , a couple years , a couple years down the road , depending on when you're listening if you're still listening , listen to this two years from now , and then she'll reveal it .

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Yes , yes , speaking of tea , I am heading to an online webinar now that I'm going to be listening to , to learn more about herbs .

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Isn't that redundant saying online webinar ? Sure , Because the web is on the online .

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It is on the online .

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Yeah .

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So , anyway , I'm off to a little webinar conference . That is starting now , but we will be back to close out this episode . We'll give you an update on how long this road trip actually took right now . Yeah , so see you in about 17 hours .

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It's now 2259 in the evening .

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Rory is always military time boy . Oh , it just turned to 23 . Okay , so it's 11 pm .

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Yep , and we stopped to get gas here at loves , got a nice discount using their app . So if you're traveling , that's a great tip 10 cents off using the loves app . It was the cheapest gas we've got the whole trip 255 a gallon , 255 . And you know why ? Because we stopped where all the way home . We took a little stop in Italy .

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Yes , we're in .

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Italy Yep , pretty cool . So in Italy the gas is only 255 gallons . Italy , texas , that is yes .

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See , here in Texas , we got us an Italy Texas and a Paris Texas . All kind of things no promises , but you might be hearing about a little bit of that later this year .

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No , no promises just only .

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I will give a sneak peek , though , oh , one of the series we are currently working on . We are going to be sharing a fun city with you guys called Mineral Wells , texas .

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Yeah . Yeah , that's fun , but I was hoping the sneak peek was something for me Anyway , so yes because you had so much fun . Right , that's what I mean and there's more . Yeah , that'll help keep me awake on the way home .

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Yes , we have 45 minutes left until we get home . 45 minutes , we're so close . I really need a nap . We left this morning .

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Rory has been driving the whole time . At about 10 am we left this morning and now it's well , we're up to 10 and it's 23, . So you can do the math .

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Y'all , rory has been driving the entire time and and so he does . He gets an audio book and he is a machine and he can just go . So audio books have been what keep him awake and keep him going .

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Yes , and we use our Libby app Young teen audio books or teen audio books , yeah , yeah .

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Fantasy . So if y'all have not yet heard our episode about the Libby app , I will put that a link to that in the show notes , because it's really really great , A super great and helpful tip .

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It's a library app while we're here at this loves again . We didn't want to have too much rory's opening um a little .

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Yeah , that wasn't actually a bodily noise , right , but we're stopped at this . Loves , here there's a whole tesla charging area right next to their dog park , and that's another thing we appreciate about loves is they have the dog park . So when , when you're traveling with your pets , most loves have a little dog park for you to get out , and if you charge your Tesla loves , then the dog can pee on your tires .

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So I think maybe that's why they put it there . Well , they actually separate it from each other , I know , but it's like if the dog you know dogs like to pee on hydrants and tires .

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So let your dog for a walk by the Tesla .

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Well , your dog's on a leash , let it walk by the Tesla chargers and peel some tires .

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When there aren't dogs there and we have our cats with us , we let them walk around in the tires .

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They sniff the dog .

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I'm trying to move on from your weird conversation , okay . We're going to hit the road and get back to some . Yeah , we're so close to home and Rory doesn't get to finish his book tonight . We still have four hours left on the book . So yeah , you're not even close , mister . Oh man , you are just at the climax of this book .

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I got to plan another long drive to finish the book . That's right .

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So you'll have to catch us on our next adventure so you'll have to catch us on our next adventure .

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I guess kelsey will have to deal with it until I can get back to him and save she and her heroine .

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The heroine in the book she's a redhead . I'm just saying she's a redhead . All the good books have redhead heroine redheads are like heroin see , that's why you married one . Huh , yep , hey , that rhymes . You should write a song about that . I like heroin and redheads .

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Okay , great , well , I'm going to go home now . Redheads being heroines , that's what I mean , Right ? That's what you mean A heroin redhead .

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Alright , y'all , we'll catch you next time . Looking forward to sharing season seven with you .

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