Chapter 1: What inspired Craig Morgan's journey from Kingston Springs to country music?
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Chapter 2: How did Craig's military experience shape his life and music career?
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Is this thing on? Hello, babies. Welcome back to another episode of Dumb Blonde. I have a Tennessee legend sitting on my couch today, and I couldn't be more ecstatic about it. Mr. Craig Morgan, how you doing?
I'm good. Not legend, but good.
You I love how humble you are, but honestly, you are a legend. Like the things that you've accomplished, the life you've lived when I was studying you last night, my husband was so excited. He's like, do you want me to write the podcast for you? I was like, no, he's like, you don't understand. And he was like telling me all these like little cool stories.
And we called Loba and Loba told us a couple of cool stories. And it was just really cool to learn about you and the man that you are. And you're just a, you're a beautiful soul.
I'm just a blessed individual. And you guys know, you may not know, but we love you. We love Jelly. I love that. I tell people every night on stage, I tell the story about him telling the story about almost home on the Opry. And I tell them, go look at that. And I talk about how when he told that story, he was talking about what that song meant to him and everything.
But what he didn't know and what both of y'all continue to do today is when he was telling that story, he was moving me. You know, somebody who has been doing this for a while. It motivated, it excited me to see that we have such good spirits in our people, in our human race. In spite of our history.
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Chapter 3: What emotional impact did the loss of Craig's son have on him?
No, we appreciate you so much. And the love is returned. We love you and your wife so much. I think your wife is just a badass, if I'm allowed to say that. I think she's amazing. She's a badass. And has stood behind you. And I love that she's from Texas, too, because I'm from Texas. I love that. Oh, my God.
If I hear one more Texas thing... You Texas girls. But they do make them pretty down there.
Listen, we're proud of where we come from, okay?
Yes, you are.
But let's talk about you. So I was really surprised to learn that you grew up in Kingston Springs.
I did. I was born in a general hospital in Nashville.
That's crazy.
Like you're a lifer. Graduated from Cheatham County High School. Went to MTSU before I joined the Army.
Yeah, that's amazing. Growing up here, do you think Nashville is completely different than the Nashville that you grew up in?
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Chapter 4: What is the story behind Craig Morgan's viral hit 'The Father, My Son'?
That's amazing. And actually Jay and I, whenever we were kind of like rekindling our marriage, we went to Alaska and we were driving to fair. Yes. And we were driving to Fairbanks. And when we were driving to Fairbanks, we got to see the Northern lights flash in front of us.
Did y'all see them?
They could see them. I couldn't see them.
I got pictures. It was absolutely amazing.
Do you get to see them in Alaska also all the time?
Yes, regularly. Is that not like- So when you drove, y'all drove from Anchorage to Fairbanks?
Yes, and we went to the springs that were out there.
Yes, the hot springs.
It is beautiful out there though, like Alaska.
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Chapter 5: How has Craig's faith influenced his music and personal life?
But his philosophy that we talk about is sometimes you need to disconnect to reconnect.
I love that.
And it's true. You get up there, man, you separate yourself from all of these things that separate us from each other. And you find yourself coming back together in a way that you can't here.
I love that. And I'm going to take that with me. And I'm going to tell everybody that like, you have to disconnect to reconnect. Like that makes so much sense. I love it. So doing research on you, I read that your mom used to take you hunting.
Yes.
Okay. Where, where was dad? Was he in the picture or was this?
Oh yeah. My parents, uh, actually my parents were married for my, most of my young life. They divorced when I was 18, but I was already at, you know, 18 going into college. You know, I have younger siblings that affected differently. Obviously they were younger. Um, But they were together the whole time. My dad worked and he did hunt. And I would hunt with my dad some.
But my very first hunt was with my mom.
That is so savage. Because the only reason why I asked where your dad was is because normally you talk about hunting with your dad. But to hear hunting with your mom, I was like, dude, that's straight savage. Like, that's so cool.
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Chapter 6: What role does Craig's wife, Karen, play in his life and career?
We were lower middle class at best. But I can remember coming into school going, there ain't shit in here to eat and I'm starving to death. And my mom would come in and cook dinner and he'd be like, where did this come from? But she was able to make stuff out of nothing.
That is so cool.
It was cool.
Can you take me on that first hunting trip? Or what about your first kill?
Did you just ask me to take you on your first hunting trip?
Well, I mean, I would like for you to take me on my first hunting trip.
Oh, my God. April, I'm taking you turkey hunting. It's going to change your life.
Oh, my gosh. I'm so scared. I don't know if I can hurt a little animal, but I'll go.
You don't even have to shoot it. I want you to experience the interaction between a male... Gobbler, a mature male gobbler. And it is one of the most unbelievable things because when you go turkey hunting, it's a lot like elk hunting, except they're obviously a lot smaller animal. But there's an interaction that takes place that defies nature.
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Chapter 7: How does Craig Morgan define success in the music industry?
All right, we'll think about it, but I'm definitely... We have to go.
We're going to put some lead in the head.
That would be so fun to even vlog that.
But then you have the best meat that you've ever eaten in your life. It's grain. It's not grain-fed, corn-fed. It's grass-fed. Grass-fed. It eats insects. It's a wild animal. You know the butterball turkey that you buy in the store? That turkey is about 12 weeks old. In order for a wild turkey to get that same size, it takes about two years.
Wow.
That's the difference.
Wow. So it's just all the stuff that they're feeding.
It's all natural. And I'm a huge food freak. I'm a big faster. My wife and I eat one meal a day.
Oh, you guys do the OMAD.
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Chapter 8: What legacy does Craig Morgan hope to leave behind?
He's such an inspiration because that's hard. It's hard.
He fasts. He fasts a lot.
But it's hard for anyone to lose weight, but it's really hard when you have so much weight to lose.
Oh, yeah.
It took him two years. It takes so much work.
It took two years. A lot of people think that it happened overnight because they don't see him every day.
But look at him two years later. And I can see him healthy. I see him running around. I remember two or three years ago when he would walk out on the stage and be out of breath.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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