Get Real with Caroline HobbyBRILEY KING: Getting Real About Falling in Love Backstage to Trucker Hats on the VMAs!
Buckle up for the wild ride of Briley King — from backstage romance with Marcus King to her trucker hats taking over the VMAs! How did this Broadway-dancing, powerhouse singer go from rocking Little Bird Trucking hats to becoming a style icon with a voice that can stop a room? Join us as Briley opens up about her meteoric rise, battling “gold digger” rumors, and living life on her own unapologetic terms. Get the inside scoop on the magic moment she met Marcus at his concert and fell head over heels, plus what’s next for this unstoppable couple. You won’t want to miss this jaw-dropping, real talk journey of love, music, and fashion!
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Briley King, Riley King, the coolest girl in Nashville.
N you are no no new kid on the block.
How new on the block? Are you?
I moved here well m M twenty twenty two, February twenty two, Oh to to to to to to whatever it was?
Was it important to you to move on February twenty second and twenty twenty two? Are you weird with numbers? Because to to to two two is a big number.
No, I'm not.
You moved on to twenty two in twenty twenty two, and that that night destined to be the coolest kid.
I asked what what angel numbers meant to to too. Yeah, what is it? I think it was You're in the right place or something like that. There was really letting you know, yeah, very refreshing.
Do you need a lot of reassurance? Like do you need to when you make a decision, do you need it to be clear that you made the right choice?
Yeah, for sure. So you need it all to fly too.
Yeah.
Yeah, so that was a that was a nice little push to Uh. Then my now husband left for tour like the next day, Marcus King was alone.
So why did you move before he left?
Just so he could help me and get everything? You know, moved in situated and that way. I you know, I really should have planned even more, had of time and and moved when he was still here. Am I making any sense? Yeah? Moved when he was you know, off the road and like not doing anything. But I moved the day before. It was just that was the way I worked a full time job. What was your jobs? I was a project manager at Bank of America, so I was working in like acquisitions in the technology space.
But to be so wildly creative that shocks me that that was your job.
Yeah, me too, How did you do that? I don't really know. To this day, I do wonder because you know, I was eight to five. I was a totally different bitch. But do you cuss on here?
Yeah?
Okay, yeah, eight to five, I'm one person five o'clock, I'm you know, in my little creative energy.
So I do you have that technical brand?
Also?
No?
So that's that's a well yes, but yes and no. But that's the beautiful part about being a project manager is like you don't have to know the ins and outs of the tech world, and you know, you're pretty much just Boston people around telling people what to do. Are you good at that? Yeah? You are good at that?
Where'd you learn that skill?
You know what?
You know?
It's something I really came into after moving to Nashville, Like my feminine energy kind of just all of a sudden came over because I kind of had to start acting like a man here like Nashville. Yeah, you got to have you gotta.
Like you're saying you got your feminine energy came here or you work.
Well I guess technically. Yeah, Like I became more of a feminist when I moved here, Like I don't need you to hold the door for me, Like but also I need you to hold the door for me. You know. Yeah, I just came into this like energy of if my husband's gone all the time, so I'm gonna have to play, you know, the smarts of a man meeting with contractors when they come to your house and they have to give you a quote for you know, fixing the sink or remodeling your kitchen or something like that. I mean that people like that will look at a woman and screw over in a heartbeat, thinking, oh, we'll just we'll just shoot high on this job, and she won't know, she won't know the difference. So I I just felt like I had to like kind of bump into being a man and a woman thinking like one at least, and just embrace it and roll with it. I don't know where I was going with that, but here we are.
You said you had more feminine energy before you came here, and then you married Marcus, he went on the road, and you're doing all these things interacting in a man's world, and you're okay.
I had to start like thinking like a man, but like in a feminine way, if that makes sense.
Okay, So how does that play out?
I'm just a bitch. I think.
If people think that of you, do you think that of you?
I have no idea.
I don't really care. I feel like maybe you're just restored. Yes, yeah, I feel like you may just say what you feel.
Yeah, that's the thing. That's one thing my business manager and I were talking about the other day. You know, she was writing an email while we were on the phone, and she was phrasing it really nicely, like Hi, could you please YadA YadA, And I saw this TikTok recently that was like how a woman writes an email versus a man and like delete the whole first part of the sentence and just say what you need direct And that's like, that's what i' That's what I mean. That whole spiral that I just took you on, That's that's what I mean. Say what you mean?
Yeah, I mean what you say. Yeah makes it easier, right right right?
I will tell you that. Uh yeah, not being fake has been a blessing as well.
Have you always been transparent with who you are or takes some growing into yeah, because it's taken me a minute to like be okay with people not liking me.
Yeah, No, that that's new to me as well, Like, are you okay with people not liking you know, okay with them not liking me? But what what's different now is they they can let you know. Usually they just say it behind your back, and now they'll just comment on your pick and or video. It's tell you they'll like you. You know, it's it's it's interesting. But but yeah, I mean, I I've always known I'm not everybody's cup of tea.
How'd you know that?
Uh? Because I'm insane, I mean just a wild wild card.
So okay, so I went down hard the rabut hole with your TikTok. I'm scared, and I was just like in all of you, like all of the things that are coming out of you, this tiny little human, like you're an explosion of talent. Not only are you gorgeous, like stunning, you can sing like crazy like no no, no, I mean I can sing like I'm a person who can sing like I can sing, I can like sound good. But then there's people who can like sing who are like it's a soul experience. It's not just like hitting notes and singing. Yeah, it is like a huge like it's it's an immersion experience. Yeah, And you and your husband are both that, which she's crazy.
He man, that guy.
You're the same. Y'all are like a match female version. I know, he's freaking phenomenal.
I I've never seen somebody walk into a studio, nail something in like thirty minutes and bolt out.
Is that what made you fall in love with him? It's like just beautiful talent is probably Yeah, he's soul.
That's what.
Okay, so let me finish this. Though you are an artist, that is also just who you are. I can tell all of these expressions of you is actually just who you are, just needing to come out in all these ways because you have so much power in you. And like your hats, it's so phenomenal.
I love it.
I make sure that the little bird trucking. Yeah, it's like freaking awesome. Your hats are awesome. Everyone's wearing them. I like post Malone is a poster child for you, which is.
We were just with him the other night.
They are just hanging out from right.
Yes, that's been a really cool experience. Obviously, I like bestie's not besties. I mean, now we are, we're buddies. But it was fun to see he and Marcus like chat about the music industry and in their world, but you know, as well as him rocking my hat's twenty four to seven, which has just been like a crazy crossover of Marcus and I's world. Like I'll tell you when he came out on the stage with Taylor Swift and Flavor Flave at the VMA's, I thought, this a feeler?
What does that feel like?
I was crying. I had no idea. I had no idea. I gave him, uh, his first hat a year ago. I like wrote him a note and just told him about the hat and never saw him wear it, And I was like, whatever, you know that. You know how it is you get free stuff all the time. People were just sending you stuff like we wear this, we wear this. So I did it and I never saw him do it, and I never saw him wear it. And then he just his album The f one trillion, his album launched, and it was his favorite hat. I mean, boom boom boom, just every day. So I sent him some more and then yeah, we finally got to meet up and chit chat and I got to say a proper thank you.
Did you meet him before Marcus met him?
We met him at the same time. Okay, yeah, we yeah, we met him at the same time. But you know how the music industry is, like they've they've chatted, like everyone's like intertwined and have your people call my people. They've they've been chatting. But it was fine. It was good to like finally shake hands and yeah, you know, be cool, just hang out Shaboozi, Post Malone and Marcus King. I'm just sitting there like the biggest loser in the room, Sux.
I mean, that's a good room to be in. What do they say, Like, you want to be in rooms with people who inspire you. Yeah, talk about the inspiration.
Yeah, if only I could just keep my mouth closed long enough that that I get inspired by let them talk. You know, I'm a million miles an hour.
What just what do you like to talk about? What comes to mind? What's going through that.
Pro it doesn't come to mind? I have a whole like notes have dedicated to like the things. Let's see what the last thing I wrote?
Please tell me what your notes? What are your notes in your phone? Like I would love to hear a few of your titles.
Oh, right now. The to do list is combined with the Amazon Prime Day, which is actually Black Black Friday List. Let's see, we got MK and BK Christmas list, got a Oh, here's like my phases of life?
Tell me your phases of life? You have that listed in your phone?
Yeah? Where? Well? Like professionally, so when I graduated from college.
Always did you make a list of everything you've done?
A recruiter? And then I was in digital media litigation?
Why did you make this list?
Just as I just remind yourself. Yeah, like all all the places I've come from.
You're gonna die. Okay, I knew I loved you so much. I have in Oh, I have in my phone with a girl drinker Cartwell, my leaps and I wrote down every big leap I've ever turned everything in my life.
Oh that's awesome. I had to do that. Yeah, well that's aspiring. Well I did know. This is the opposite of that. What do you mean? No, this this just says cruises podcasts for the pookies. Uh, women in mid sized SUVs. I don't know what kind of car you drive, but I feel like women in mid sized SUVs could run the world.
Period. Say Like, I feel like you're like this is directed of me.
Do you drive a mid sized suv.
Yeah, I tell you right. But I also made Michael trade it out. Now he feels like he's a mid Uh what is it? A woman in an suv? Now he has like a mom driving my car because I took his tesla.
Oh sorry, yeah, sorry about it? What else is on here? I love close friends on Instagram. I love being on someone's close friends like you, that's yeah? Yeah.
Oh.
I like when someone adds you to their list.
Yeah yeah.
Are you on some a lot of people's list?
Yeah? I don't know. I don't know how how many is a lot? I don't know. I just love it when someone's bubbles green. I'm like kind of special treat am I getting today a little snack? I love it? Hey? That time my little brother had a long cair business called busting grass instead of busting ass busting grass. Apparently I was having a roll tide summer at some point. Never been was not an Alabama student. Not sure where that came from. The Lord has tested me. I have not testing me, and I have not studied. I love Alabama. Was I'm a big Alabama kick for Wow, Damn Ashley Simpson is back.
So wait, so these are just when you get a thought that you feel like it's profound.
It's on a plane a lot of times, cause like.
This is your brain dump, So this is literally what's going on in your brain.
Ashley Simpson is back actually and I here's this. I wrote it twice so I was really passionate about it. Is Ave Lavine dead?
How do you what makes you think to write it down?
But a lot of times, you know, WiFi on a plane.
But like why don't you just like think it out?
Oh I do?
I say it out loud and then yeah, that's a great thought. I want to circle back on that, think about that more. I love turbulence. So yeah, this is definitely on a plane. And if we don't figure out what the fuck is going on with Britney Spears before I pass away, I'm gonna be pissed. Is that one? Yeah? I I do. I need to know what's going on. I need to know, Like.
You have these thoughts and then you write them down, Yeah.
Because I don't want to What am I going to do?
Go?
Get on TikTok Like I'm holding this like I'm about to perform, but I am terrified that I will go. I'll be the one that gets on TikTok and and like does the brain dump on TikTok and then just gets like crucified. First, did people come at you on TikTok?
Because I feel like you do a lot of clapbacks if people like say.
Are the gold digger?
So I think you're a gold digger.
I mean I think people think that because Marcus and I don't look like we would go together. You know, I'm with a long haired, tatted man. I'm this like little preppy girl.
You're pretty, You're pretty wild like you're pretty.
I wasn't always like this, Like Marcus really helped me come into my into like my true self.
Will you a little bit more like put together, polished?
Yeah, little pearl earrings and stuff? Hell no, no, not that. No. I did work for Lily Plitzer in college, yes, yes, But did.
She carry the bags?
Did I care, of course carry the backs? Facts?
Did she those backs?
Lillly Plitzer was dresses? Which bag? Are Vera Bradley? Now vera Bradley? I love Vera Bradley. No one loves a Vera Bradley more than me. It's so funny that you pivoted to that millennial millennial Core is Vera Bradley and they're back, like Ashley, just like ash Simpson and ever Levine. I feel like she's coming back to Kesha. She's gonna come back, right, Yeah, we're gonna get these get these women back. But Jessica Simpson's back to like everybody's back.
Everybody is back. It's like the nineties all over again.
Doesn't it feel like?
I feel like we're having a reboots have Brooks and Done? No, man, both our husbands are on that reboot album.
Talking about TikTok. I can't stop listening and only making tiktoks to the reboot album. I'm that obsessed with it. That's so good. Yeah it is Berkson Done.
What about them just being back again and then getting all these awesome singers to like reboot their hits.
You know, they were one of my I think they were my first concert Brooks and Done and I laugh about it all the time, Like remember they were like, we're done, not touring anymore, We're not making any new music, and then bam, we're back. The best things could ever happen. Kicksbrooks what a Katie?
I mean?
I love Ronnie too, love love me some Kicksbrooks. I think it kind of makes Marcus uncomfortable.
Actually, how much you love them?
Yeah, He's like, there's so weird, but Brookes Kicks has that uh Dale Earnhardt Senior like daddy energy, you know what I mean?
Energy?
Yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't know anything about him, were his personal life or you know, anything like that. But I just like met him once and I was like, yeah, you run me like Dale Senior daddy kind of. I like that.
It's very comforting. It's like they can handle the situation.
Yes, yes, yes, like, yeah, reminds me of my dad. Yeah.
Yeah, your dad's a truck driver.
He is.
Yeah, he inspired your hats.
Right, yeah. He He was one of the reasons that I started doing it, and Marcus as well. You know, Marcus is always wearing the feathers on his cowboy.
Hat and we needed like trucker hat.
Yeah, and we needed to dress him up a little bit. That's I always found myself like kind of looking for a trucker that was just a little elevated agreed, you.
Know, yes, yes, because.
They there's just a lot of them everywhere and now, and they're not always like the most meaningful things, and so I just I liked to have something that was a little bit nicer than say, like what I have on my head right now. This is but then again, I do be wearing this with like a damn ball gown. So this is your hat, this is no, this is the guy that makes Marcus his guitars. Banker Banker my handcrafted. Yeah, that mister banker custom on Instagram. But he just had a bunch of these. And I worked Everyone thinks I'm a banker, so we did work at a bank, right, So when I met Marcus's family, they were like, you know, even like my mom, just people from back home who haven't really like seen these, you know, the big towers in the city, like in Charlotte where people work in Bank of America. If you tell somebody I work at Bank of America, they're thinking like a teller or something like that. And so Marcus's family when we first met, they were like, oh, you know, Uncle Danny had a big amount of money go missing out of his account the other day. Do you think that you could, like, uh, you know, help him with that. And I'm like, I don't know how to tell you this, but I don't work at like a branch. I work from home, which is another foreign thing that my mom couldn't wrap her head around, was working from home a lot. But anyway, I I told his family, I'm like, no, I'm in like, I'm in like acquisitions. So we're like, you know, taking over a company and banquifying them. And yeah, I'm not sure that I ever fully explained it to them, but hopefully Uncle Danny got his money back. I didn't. I was just like, I can't help in that department. I don't, I don't do that. I don't. I don't touch the money, and thank God for it, because I'm a gold digger, you.
Know, a gold digger, so you would think because of that, actually you doing a banker hat would be fitting.
Yeah. I like it.
I mean the brand, Yeah, I love that.
Yeah, this is one of the first ones that I was probably.
Say you're a gold digger just because you're married to Marcus. Was he already like rocking when y'all met?
Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, he really want to tell me. Uh he slid my DMS, threw me.
A fire light. How did he find you?
I was I had gone to his concert. It was my it was my birthday. That week, and so you know, white girls into birthdays. I got to have a week full of events and say at the top of it, yeah, I think he was smack dab in the center. He might have even been on a Tuesday. O crunk on a Tuesday.
Okay, so what year was this? How old were you?
This is where twenty twenty one. I turned thirty that year.
So this is a big birthday week. Mm hmmmm.
And yeah, we're in Charlotte, Charlotte, and then we met in Raleigh the next night. He was like, can I take you to dinner?
So how did he know you were at the show?
I had posted a story.
Oh he saw himself tagning it and he was like, man, that girl's.
Cut and what did he say? So what? He just sent me a fire emoji?
What is it like when you are at a show watching someone who you like just love their music.
I wasn't even watching.
I wasn't you were just having a great time.
Yeah, what were you doing? I was hitting my pen and I was laid back on the lawn because I was in like the very very back of the lawn section. I was just watching the planes and things go by and chatting with my friend like, can you believe I'm thirty?
I you know, are you feeling good about thirty?
Yeah?
Oh I'm good.
Yes. Any anytime I meet someone that's like, oh my god, thirty because you know, in the South, like you got to be like married by twenty five or at least that's that's how it is where I'm from. And uh, anytime I meet someone that's like, oh, you know, I thought I'd have my life together by thirty or that this that that that, I'm like, it's it was the best. Like I came into my own when I turned thirty. Now I did meet my husband that week, but I'm just like, yeah, how.
Had you come into your own? I had change or shifted.
I had my dream job mm hmm. That was that was really you know where because my mom was is in by Nance and you know, worked for a long standing company like Bank of America, and so it was just a really good job I had. Like I'll said, I loved in the you know, cutest part of Charlotte Dealworth, and I thought, you know, this is I can die happy. I've got a little teather in the backyard from my dog to run around the circles on and uh two bed one badly. Yeah. It was just everything everything I'd ever wanted. And then here comes mister king.
Were you ever thinking you'd be married to someone like creative like that? Or would you would you have thought you would have married someone like a banker?
You know? The thing with me is is like I didn't ever have a type, so like all the men were very very different and different different career paths. Uh So I didn't really know what to expect. Honestly, I kind of accepted that it wasn't in the cards for me anytime soon. Like I was just like, I don't I don't need no man. I was making good money and I'm like, I don't need anybody to come wreck shop you. I kind of truth holding it down myself. Yeah, but I'm happy that it happened the way it did.
Okay, so you go to the show, you're looking at stars, feeling good about thirty.
Yeah, wake up at five am, got a fire mugie, and.
So you posted the story and then just send it out into the universe, and then.
You're on in a bush, got my ober, went on.
That's a great that's a good solid night right there. Yeah, So then you wake up at five. Why are you waking up at five in the morning?
Uh, the dog something, you know, somebody something or my neighbor might have stabbed the other one. I don't know. Kind of crazy yet.
Did that happen in your neighborhood?
Yes, my neighbor on the right side stabbed my neighbor on the left side in my backyard. It's crazy.
What your yard was the battleground? Yeah?
Yeah, so okay, so my neighbor.
It was not funny. I'm not trying to laugh at this. Somebody die.
No, no, no, they're all good. They're all good.
Thank god. What happened? How could that?
I think they were drunk.
Why are they even like fighting with each other? And why are you in the middle? Well, I know you just positioned, you're in the middle.
I don't know.
Are they like boys, girls, men?
Men? Man? I don't know why they were single?
Guys? Married?
Single?
What are they fighting over?
I don't know.
Did they hang out?
Were they friends? Yeah? Off and on. They would be friends one week and and not friends.
And you were in the middle of it. Did you feel that energy?
Nah? I was friends with both of them, the one on the right side, we shared a driveway. And he swore to guy that it was his driveway. Well, there was an easement that said it was mine, and so he would like he was a little kind of bully energy, and so I was just like, all right, we're sharing this driveway, you're gonna let me park in my freaking yard? And uh, where where is I going with that?
Yeah?
I was friends with him and the other other side. I really needed his help sometimes some tree branches would be coming onto the roof and I would always have to get him to help me come down. So and he was just really nice.
So are we thinking the guy on the right started it?
For sure? For sure?
So they meet it in the middle, and finally the guy on the left like I'm not taking this anymore, and they meet in your yard and he stabs him. Yeah, where's he stab him?
I just looked over the fence when I stepped outside, and he was bleeding in his forehead. That's all I saw it. Yeah, I don't know what else happened, but I was like, all right, just let me know if you need the footage from my security cameras, because I got it all. Yeah. Yeah, And that may not have been the night that Marcus and I met, but that did occur. I hope it was too. I need to go back to.
Your life already. You just live a colorful life, don't you.
I do, I really do. And I'm so blessed because, like I have people like yourself that will just come invite me over to their house and let me talk their freaking head off.
You know, you're fascinating. Okay, So then you Marcus slides in the DMS you're waking up. What happens when you see his fire emoji?
I hit him back.
I was just like, were you stoked? What are we thinking? Like? What is your first thought when someone that you like, don't know but like you know, you obviously a fan of Yeah, what are you thinking?
I was just like, oh, no way, I just screenshot it and send it to my best friend. I was like, ha ha, well, and I hit him back with a like you're gonna have to do better than that, or like you got anything else? Like that's all you got. I don't even remember what the message said, but he's like, yes, let me take you to dinner in August. And this was in July, and I'm like, I'm crazy. I could be like, you know, living in Australia in August, married in August. Like, I'm insane, I don't know what I'm gonna be doing, so that's not gonna work for me. And he's like, well, come to my show tonight. And so my best friend and I went.
Where was the show?
It was in Raleigh at red at Amphitheater and then so he drove there. I was heading out of town that weekend, so I just went a day early and Raleigh's on the way home for me.
So, so what was it like when you'll met is are you nervous? That's kind of nerve wracking?
Yeah, I was super nervous.
That would make me really nervous.
I was super nervous.
But also to go to his show at an amphitheater after you just went to show to watch it and now you're going to meet him and.
Like hang out kind of crazy, right, Yeah, like really gives me I feel like nervously bad anyiety. I don't even remember how.
To date, but like I can picture that scenario and I would bombit. I would do awful. I would be such a bitch. I was terrible at dating. I would try to be cool. I would have been done awful. I would even totally mess that up.
How did you do it? I don't I don't know.
How did it go down? Were you just yourself? Yeah?
My best friend, the girl I took with me, she is like same energy as I am. Like we are always like all right, we're gonna go in here, We're gonna set the tone, like we're going to set the tone and.
Uh, what kind of tone are you trying to say?
Well, just like, you know, we're good time girls. We want to hang out with everybody, like we want to get to know everybody like we're you know, we want to dance, we want to listen to Linda Ron's dad. We want to control the ox and and do our own thing.
We want to make sure it's fun.
Yeah, yeah, because I don't know. You've been on a tour bus and backstage it's like number one most not fun place ever.
Like, to be honest, what would you say the vibes are like just like left to their own devices now or then backstage before before you come in and you like set the tone. What are the vibes like backstage?
Oh? Well, with Marcus it was very I mean it was very calm, but we went in there and just immediately were like, Linda Ronstad it is so, this is like the first time you connect the blues tooth. Yeah, he had another girl back there. Yeah, another girl, Yes, sister.
I was like, who is the other girl?
I don't even remember her name? Was she like horses?
Was she a friend or was she like did she work with him or was she just like I.
Think they might I think they might have. Uh, I think they might have. Like I don't know, I met on a dating app or something, because he was on the app he had.
Two girls that he was trying to go on a date with.
Yeah, I don't know if he's if he's ever told that.
People know that now.
No, Well, I mean I won. All you gotta do is pay him no attention, no attention. I was like, all right, you got on another woman back here.
I would have totally been a bitch.
Oh I was not. I was like so not worried about it. I just went back there with zero expectations. I was like, I just want to have fun and yeah, like you know, I can go to dinner in August. But whatever he wants to take me.
So what was he trying to do? Just like hang out?
Yeah, everyone just sat there and chilled. I mean it was we just chilled, danced to listen to music. I'd go outside with him when he went to smoke a cigarette and the other other one was trailing behind.
You feel like you're on the Bachelor, like on the No, the day with the two.
No, she didn't hold a flame. I had had on lock when I walked in. I've never been this confident in my life. I don't know who this girl is.
I love you well. I also saw you sinking Broadway in a robe, so yes, you are convent.
Oh I was a music theater kid.
I could tell you got a crazy.
Vocal pageant girly. Yeah, I didn't compete in the patches. I was just the talent in between. You know when the judges go back to make their decision.
When they probably wanted to pick you, but you weren't a contestant.
Yeah, I I'm sore loser. So you know I could like, yeah, why I'm just so competitive?
Do you have siblings?
I do, two brothers, middle child, middle child syndrome. Competitive. Yeah, a lot of things, A lot of a lot of things happening. What are your brothers like, Oh, there's they're just good old, straight laced, good old boys. My you know, my younger brother's in construction and my older brother was a civil engineer. He's followed in my mom's footsteps finance now. But they're just good, you know, they're like probably everything my parents dreamed of. I'm both I'm just like your typical middle child, you know, only girl wanted to sing and do pageants and dance and gymnastics and tap and god everything else. Have like four jobs in high school, just couldn't be still, and then.
So much energy, so much, so much, so much, always have.
That's why I say, like, I've just always been used to, like I'm not gonna be everyone's favorite person in the in a room. I'm used to not being liked by everybody.
So would people not like you just because they think there's just too much going on? Probably keep up with it, yeah, I mean, because you're definitely like the kindest, sweetest. The only reason I would they just think you just have put too much energy on them.
Probably. I mean, it's just it's a lot. Eighty HD hyperactivity is a lot.
I appreciate it.
Thanks you don't like it's it's intimidating to me, Like walking into a room, like I feel like more of a bitch when I walk into a room and I'm just like, hey, why do you feel like that? Because I got resting bitch face. It's just like it's just written all over me, and like my nervous energy comes off like bitchy, Whereas like if I'm just if I just be myself, be a normal, bubbly person, but keep it between the navigational beeping, like don't get out of control. I like have a better time, you know, And you always have to like walk into rooms with a lot of women, and I just the best way to do it, I think is just disarm yourself. Hey how are you introduced yourself to? You know, be the girl's girl. That's just I don't know. That's been my life the past couple of years, and I always kind of always been the way I try to do it with a room full of girls or like just a room full of people in general, is just be myself. I love that, but a little tamer, definitely a little tamer that I'm being right now, I'm a little wild, Like I'm talking and.
Did our camera die?
Talking? And spirals? Do we need to pause?
No, You're great what's he going? Okay, so you go on, you go to the room with Marcus behind that with the bus. The other girl she's out in the picture. Now, okay, So then how do y'all decide that y'all are going to I gotta tell Ruby stop barking.
Hold on, we might need to. I mean, I don't even know what the hell I've been saying.
It's so good, Riley, and listen, we're still, oh great, this is the best. Okay. So you're now on the bus with Briley, I mean, with market with.
Marcus and living it up dancing. He wanted to go outside and smoke a stick and I'd never really been to that been to that venue before, and so he's like he just went and they already cleared off the stage. It was like late, She's showing me the stage and all that, and I mean, yeah, I don't I don't even know. I was drinking vin So and so was he. So it was just like a natural like we just naturally gravitated towards each other.
And easy connection.
Yeah, very easy, in fact, like one of the like right out the gate, he said something and I said, look at God, and he replied, won't he do it and that toop it. That's like, I'm like, I always say that and he's like, no, I always say that, and he goes, I got to text my cousin Brantley. She always says that. And so it was just you know, he's also from South Carolina. I'm in North Carolina, gal, So I mean, yeah, the Carolina's I feel like a lot of those folks are pretty.
Y'all are like a little little niche yeah, deaf.
Community, yes, community of folks.
So then did you a side right then? And there you are just gonna date?
Well yeah, he was like, will you marry me? And that night yeah, he said, I really I want to marry you. When he texted me the next morning and I was like, good morning, I still want to marry you. Quit your job? And I was like, oh no, shit, yeah, are you kidding me? Yeah, no, I'm not.
So he knew you were just like this fantastical creature that he would never meet again. He don't lock it down. He knew you are You're like a unicorn. Oh I think that way.
You are like an so is Marcus. He's just like a god. He's so he's got so many layers to him like there's just I mean, nothing that you can hate about him, you know, like instantly when you meet him. A lot of my friends say, God, when he talks, it's just like a song, you know, just she's so well spoken. We were talking about well spoken people earlier, and I don't have that bone in my body. So when you know, when he opens his mouth to talk, I'm like, yes, your completing sentences, that's hot. I where's the period in my sentence? Because they don't, they run on I'm the same.
And then I get out of the situation, I'm like, what did.
Yeah, what did I just say? That's how I feel right now, spiral and out of control.
Oh, but I think that's I think I'm just saying this. I'm the same. I feel like that's a good quality. It can get on people's nerves because I feel like people will get in with me. Also, I feel like some people just don't like my energy, not because I'm a for everybody, but just because it's a lot. I'm gonna come at you with a lot of words. I'm gonna come at you with a lot of things about life and question and then questions about everything else. And then it's just and it's a lot for people.
Yeah, I'm trying to be more calm, same, but it's not working. So you need to go get my xanax Refield or something. I don't know, maybe get back on that. Yeah, I don't have a calm bone in my body. I never have. I just never.
So what went down that night to make him say I want to marry you? I mean, I know you're magical. I can already know that.
Meaning you think the white calls went down the esophagus? Is that where they go?
I mean, yeah, we think so we're.
Gonna go, liquid go down esophagus.
That's true.
Oh I don't know. Now you're gonna have to make us figure this out, hey, Siri. Also does your drink go down your esophagus? Your esophagus is the two that connects your throat to your stomach. It does, all right, move food and liquid? All right? Yes? One point for is that anatomy?
Oh yeah, body? And here we go again, Here we go again.
I don't know, just really trying to tap back in that education at high school education that okay?
So, but like seriously, I know the white But what was that date like to have someone text you the next day, they want to marry you that night. I mean I would want to marry you too, But like, well, what went down.
Just good energy. I mean the love was there, like it was just like a really really instant connection. And yeah, we gave us smooge and right when the bus was leaving, we was how the kiss go to? Oh when we were on when he took me on.
The stage, Yeah, you know it was coming.
I knew it was coming, was coming. Yeah, I mean the energy was like there, all yeah, that's fun. Yeah. So it's like we just need to go take a little step aside and get this out of the way because I don't know want the most see you again.
Wait did he say that?
No? Oh no no no, but that was very much the energy like let's go, let's go be alone for a second and get out of the way from everybody. He asked me if he could kiss me. He's a gentleman. He really is, like throw and through, so say it. It just said can I guess you? And I was like, yeah, let's do it. Hurry, come on, knock this cowboy hat. We're just kissing it red hat. And yeah. Then the bus goes to leave and I get an uber and it was just like a really sad movie by by you never I don't know what I'll see you again. And woke up to that text and that was cool, but it was weird. I did. I did. There was a little little flame there and I was like, man, this is weird of ship, Like this man's crazy and he's crazy and so am I and and here we are. So seven months later he did.
Propose how did y'all date? Like, how didy'all date with him on the road?
I took my laptop and went on the road with him.
So that was great. You could work from home, girl, I would be.
In a field trying to connect, like carrying the laptop around looking for a signal because you know, like festivals and stuff.
Yeah, this body no internet.
Yeah, and even your cell phone doesn't really work, so like if you're trying to connect through your hot spot on your front, it's just bad, bad, bad news. So it wasn't really like it wasn't really the greatest, uh setup, but we made it work.
And what was that like, Tori? So you probably had never toured before?
Hey, no, I never done anything like that.
Now you're in a whole new world.
Yeah, it's a lot of boys, a lot of boys, and.
You're just on a Ruby. Sorry, everyone, My little Kavapoo is letting everybody know that somebody's here or there's a dog outside. She takes her dog very seriously.
My childhood dog was named Ruby. Maybe it's energy. Yeah, she wants to be she wants to talk with.
Us, she has things to say. Yeah, she's like Ruby is trying to communicate.
Have you watched that show A Dog Whisper.
Wait with Cizar Cesar.
I don't know who is the host. My mom has been watching it. I'm not sure why she's stuck on the dog Whisper, but she's been texting me tips, like my dog had you know, running stools today and she was like, well, you know, the dog whisper says YadA, YadA, YadA.
So my dog had to get two teeth extracted today, so sad. She had to go on her anesthesia.
And that's Angel.
That's what she is. An angel. Her name is Sugar Sugar, but she's an age definitely. Yeah, Angel had to go under Anna's Angel. She is an angel. Though she is an angel, she really is. She's like one of those dogs. It's actually human in a dog's body. Yeah, you know, like you don't always get that. Yeah, actually I've always gotten that. I always have human dogs.
My was not she was was a Schnauzer. There was not, you know. And I've got a Great Dane now that there's maybe he is a human. I don't know.
But none of my dogs not the human dog.
No, maybe Libby a little bit. I have a Wiener dog, a Great Dane, a lab, and two cats the zoo. So I my cats are more human than Okay.
So I surprised Michael with a cat the other day, a kitten or a cat, a cat. Sunny and I went to pet Co to get hamster bedding and look at bearded dragons. She's Sunny is interested in all the animals. And my parents let me have every animal that I wanted growing up, and it was so awesome. So I'm like, get some chickens. We'll get a dog. Yeah, we'll get a hamster. I love taking care of them, so I'm like bring them up.
Yeah, but they start shitting and piss and all.
They're really wanting a cat because I think cats are I just love cats. I love dogs. I think cats are just.
Cats are really clean and smart and.
That's so I brought it home and Michael was like, no, no, I ended up. I just adopted it. And actually a friend was over who was looking for a cat. It was very serendipitous and she and her sister wanted it so great Christmas. A Russian blue hair, it was so beautiful.
What kind of pet store were you at at? Pet coat?
What Russian blue hairs are phenomenal?
Yeah, they're beautiful cat and they're just like short haired and she's so sweet. Are they kind of blue? Yeah? Yeah? Did you say blue or gray?
Russian blue hair? Russian blue blue, but Russian blue is what they're called.
There, but they're kind of gray but blue on the hair. Really pretty eyes you have? My girlfriend has one of those.
Do you love having cats? I do.
They're so sweet. We've got a long haired tuxedo and his name is Zip, and then we've got his sister Biddy short for bitch because she was a bitchy kitten, pitchy kitten, but now she's the sweeter of the two. So Biddy and Zip, but they're brother and sister and then we rescue them from Percy Priest.
Do they make your house feel like there's dander everywhere, and like are people sneezing?
Oh no, no, but we've we're just now kind of getting settled into a new house. So they're still adjusting, you know, and cats have you know, anxiety moving places, like it takes them a little bit to adapt, more so than a dog in my opinion, Like you don't. We wouldn't ride around with your cat in your car, right, And so they're they're adjusting. I don't know, I don't know how it's gonna play out, but we'll see. They've got they've got a whole like space set up for them and like a cat room they do. Yeah, they've got like a whole. They have little robots galore. They everything's like automatic. They all like the cameras are on everything because we travel so much. So that's what we got too. Because they cats, Yeah, they do better in pairs, especially if they're going to be you know, alone for like a couple of days. But thankfully we have you know, friends and neighbors and people like that that come check on dogs, cats, farm.
Yeah, so I don't know where I was you now, I've gotten off track.
I know, Sorry, I probably just derailed your whole list and we can go back to mind if you wan't.
No, but I want to finish back with you and Marcus dating on the road. I don't know how we got to animals, So sorry anyone. If we don't circle back, I'm gonna try to remember.
Yeah, probably your viewers are probably really overwhelmed.
Both of us together and we are like scary.
I love it.
I'm having a great time, okay on the road. God bless yourselves. They are dating on the road and it's a whole new life. You're looking for internet and fields and you're living with stinky boys, but you're loving it.
Yeah, we loving it. I bring him home him to meet my family at that Christmas and my mem just immediately took to him. So my grandfather got he got sick the day after I met Marcus. So we my family very much. And he passed like a week later, and so my fam I don't maybe not my whole I don't want to speak for my whole family's I don't think that way, but I and my mom and my grandmother all feel like Marcus was kind of like, you know, like my grandfather and Almos sent him as because they Marcus has grandpa energy.
He's like wise. Yeah, it's like wisdom. He's like a sage. Like when you like see him speak his spirit the way he plays guitar or anything.
It's literally like with his soul, like with his soul being with his ninety year old soul.
Yeah, he just knows things, doesn't he.
Yes, Oh my god, he's smart as a whip. And he uh he quit high school. He dropped out because he didn't need it. Yeah. Well, when you're that damn good. But yeah, he's so Yeah, he's got the grandpa energy.
So I took him home, met all the family.
Yeah, they loved him. My brother was like Mark's king, Oh he was. He like that, he's a fan. And I was like, Dad, you didn't you didn't tell anybody before him. Dad's like, I don't know who he is, Like, I don't know who he is. It was. It was cool, met the family. They loved him, and then that February of twenty two we got engaged and I be bopped on over to Nashville.
Okay, So then circling back to the beginning of this conversation, I can't believe him to circle back. That's when you were moving to Nashville after you met him and all that, and then he was going.
Engaged, engaged, hitting the road.
So then at that point you left everything your past life and you just packed all up and came to Nashville. So he's on the road. You didn't really have a time when he wasn't not touring. It's kind of consistently, there's no like perfect time, right, Okay, So then you're moving here and to two on the two Whirlwind, and how has it been it's not even here two years.
Yeah, it's been good. I've loved it.
Almost three were all married right when all moved here. Just engaged.
We we were engaged. So we we did the whole year long engagement thing. And we needed it because I you know, living on the road like that and trying to play in a wedding. We were recording his record. We he was recording his record with Rick Rubin in Italy and.
Hand on we can't just like you can't like just breeze past that go over there.
Yeah, yeah, we lived, We lived like.
Where did he record it, like in a castle or something?
Yeah? It was it was it. I don't know if it was a castle. I think it was. It was like an old church. There's a school in there, a church. Yeah, huge, there's a lot.
Is the album just like otherworldly? Spiritual? Incredible? Like Rick Rubin in a castle in Italy.
The first half I was done in Malibu in In Uh yeah, in Malibu at Rick Malibu home. Hella. That was quite the sentence. Okay, the first half of it was done. That was like our third date was in Malibu and then yeah, by the time we finished the record. He finished the record keeps saying we I sang backup vocals on it, and I think I did. Yeah. I just think I'm just the.
Tits you are. That's amazing.
Yeah, we uh we were in Italy. Oh yeah, right.
Baby? Do you mind let her in? Kay?
Thank you, Law.
That's a name Law. What does that mean? That's oh la Laul.
It's just that redneck in there. Come on, Ruby girl, get in here. Ruby.
Do you got something to tell us from Ruby?
Yeah?
Ruby, she really wants to say something.
She said, I'm going to go see Jelly Roll tonight.
That's amazing. So you went to Malibu. You heard that one? You were recorded there and you were singing backup vocals. Did you sing backup vocals?
In Italy is where I did it.
Yeah, he's backup vocals with Marcus in Italy and a Castle.
Yeah, probably one of the scariest things I've ever done.
Is that one of the coolest experiences of your life.
It was cool, but it was really scary. I mean Rick Rubin. If you know anything about Rick, I mean just like appearance wise, he's very stoic, like has very peaceful energy, like kind of the opposite of what I was would describe myself as.
That's what Marcus's energy is.
Yeah. Yeah, so they they Yeah, they have great chemistry and it was really cool to be a part of the process and but nerve wracking for me because I you know, like I sing, but like I was like, like I said, doing the local pageant.
But you're phenomenal thing, like you are phenomenal. Thanks, And Marcus probably didn't even know you sang when you met. You didn't know he didn't and you just bust this out later down the road you're like, oh, by the way, freaking awesome.
He forced me into that for sure, for sure. Yeah, I did not want to sing, and he's always like always pulling me out. I just don't like I never it's just not like that's not my motive for being in this relationship. And I really can keep relationship, and I just never wanted to like come across that.
Way and it doesn't at all.
And honestly, like me, it's really hard to stand next to him. I mean, he's so good, he's so good, and I'm not the best like harmonizing and things like that. So I get really really like a stage right bad, and I'll get up there and start talking, start talking, have two glasses of wine, just start running my mouth on stage. Yes, God, you get up on stage and singing with them, uh huh sometimes like.
Like you'll sing like landslide together. What else did y'all sing?
His his uh song on his new records called Delilah. That's the one that we've been really hitting lately. Yeah, landslide. Oh, the first time we were linger yeah, linger that We did that one at the beach, the first time we ever sang together. The little girl that I nannied when I was in college, I had like four hundred jobs at one time. The little girl I nannied was getting married and she asked me to sing in her wedding. And I was like Okay, well, if you're gonna be my puzzle one like would you mind like playing the guitar for the song? And it was Joy in My Life, which is John Fogerty song. But you know, made uh New Again by Stapleton. So and Marcus is on tour with Stapleton. You know, all the stars were aligning. So we do Joy of My Life a lot. We and we we obviously look up to Chris and Morgan a lot because they travel with you know, all the road, They've got kids, all the things, and they I mean handle it, yeah, hang it all so well yeah, yeah, that's amazing.
Though that sod you sing on tour with him?
Yeah, but just not not not every night, Like he really has to drag my ass out there. I'm like fighting backstage, like no you do it, No, come my name, I'm not coming out. I hate it. I don't hate it. I need to stop. I don't mean to be negative. I don't hate it. It is just I just have really bad stage.
Right, Okay, Just so you know, from the perspective of the people watching you guys, that is a cool moment for people to get experienced, Like I know how you're personally feeling. Yes, if you want to hear it from the perspective of a fan, like, how amazing to have this artist that you love to listen to Marcus and then his amazing, awesome other half comes out and sings with them. It just gives you like a little insight into in their world, you know, And it's just a cool thing for like people to get to see.
I think, yeah, I think it's cool. I think that's like been one of the harder things that I've you know, had to accept as like being in this position as a wife of people want to want to know more about your relationship. They want to dig and speculate and you know whatever else that they do, but they want to get to know the wive, you know, the wives of and I just I'm like, I just want to be in the background, you know. I just want to make my hat to do my shit. Like let me.
You're never going to be in the background, Brightley, Oh well, I mean it's not physically possible. You're too you And like I said in the beginning, okay, now I'm so glad I'm circling back to the beginning. You have so much coming out of you at one time like you're Broadway musicals, your creation of paths, the way you sing, your incredible style, your the way you can do all these different jobs and like do so many things at one time, Like you have so much coming out of you at one time that it's impossible. You're never going to be able to be in the background. You have too much to share all the time. It's the way you're built, and it's what's so awesome about you. I think you.
I think that's what I was trying to get at when we first sat down talk about my feminine and masculine energy that I've had to tap into is like I have played, you know, all these roles in life, like whether it be a job role or my role as a wife, as background vocalist, you know, whatever it may be. It's just I got to tap into all these energies for each room that I'm in, you know what I mean.
Yes, you've got a lot of doors that you can open.
Yeah.
In your personality, Yeah, big toolkit and you get a big toolkit.
Yeah. My parents raised me that way. My dad being on the road, my mom, you know you kind of being not a single but when her dad's gone, Yeah, she had to play both parts a lot of times, and so that's just kind of where all that that energy comes from. I think, is you know, just watching them.
Do you think your dad being on the road prepared you for being married to Marcus.
I mean I was knee deep in therapy when Marcus and I met, and my therapist kind of always told me, like, you're you're I can just you''re gonna be in a similar situation that like you were raised in. You'll thrive in that. And I mean it's going well so far better celebrate two years in February. So yeah, so she was kind of spot on with it. She's like, you've just your dad was in and out in the best way. Long haul truck drivers are gone like every other day. So mom really had a heavy load to carry, and she's like, you were built for that. That's that's the you know, kind of relationship you need. And Marcus kind of well, he didn't follow my lap. He'd fell in my DMS. So and yeah, it's been this wild out of living in Nashville ever since.
But I feel like Marcus with who he is as an artist, and this is what it's also trying to stay at the beginning. You can tell when he sings it is like and like you're talking about his whole personality. It's an extension of who he is. Yeah, like his music is just like all of your stuff is an extension of who you are. That's probably why y'all match so quickly, is because y'all are both so authentically expressing yourself. Thank you, your soul through the physical you know. I feel like being in the physical body is our vehicle to express who we are, correct, and y'all are doing it so well. Like y'all are both doing such a good job of expressing your soul outwardly, which I think is the coolest part of being human.
Yeah, Mark's actually you know, it says all the time that his guitar is an extension of him, Like it's just like so natural that everything that comes out of him is so genuine and.
It's just flowing passion. His antenna's turned on.
Hmm. Yeah, he's just he's brilliant, and like, how can you not like fall in love with like that? Like you don't you don't meet that every day on the street or on an app.
What is y'all's day to day relationship?
Like, oh, my god, can I just give you a rundown of today and tell me the y'all's dynamics dynamic? Oh and somehow I knew you were gonna ask this question. What is our dynamic? And how do I put it? Simply? Like I don't know. We both wear the pants. We were very considerative of each other in in life decisions and travel and what each other can handle emotionally. And uh, he was in therapy when I left, so I was like, well, I love you, be right back. So love that because he's in therapy, I'm in therapy. Yeah.
Yeah, it's important to y'all both to do the work inwardly.
Yeah, and then meet in the middle. And that's awesome.
Y'all talk about y'alls like inward work together.
No, actually we don't. We just try to apply it because if if we're in an argument, I will say like, okay, well can I give you this perspective of like what I've been working on and like how I tried to approach this differently and maybe why it didn't work? Yes, like for sure, yeah, well you've married and you know back and now now it's like you gotta work on it.
So that's awesome though. Yeah, I think that's like such a key Yeah.
Communication, I mean, that's all it boils down to is just talking. And I'm not the most like feelings, warmy, fuzzy gal. So he definitely pulls all of that out of me, especially in an arguments. I want to like shut down. That's the only time I will be quiet, damn.
So if you're quiet, something something's up.
Yeah, something's up. My period's coming, you know, one of the two. But I don't know. We Yeah, we both wear the pants or he wears the pants, I pick them out something like that. Yeah, that's awesome. And uh yeah So today, gosh, I was up at like nine being a crazy woman. You know, I was getting in the crevices of the Corners house at the vacuum being a nut job. Like eight am. I had to do a couple zoom business meetings this morning, be all prim and proper on some calls. And he usually sleeps in when he's off the road, and I give him that time. That man's got the noise machine on volume one hundred and the curtains are shut tight and he I let him snooze. He'll get up, maybe burn a cigarette or a joint and we'll have lunch. Like today. I sprung it on him at like one o'clock. I was like, hey, can we take our Christmas pictures? And he's like right now? And I'm like right now because I've got makeup on, it's a sunshiny day, and he's leaving for an acoustic run in December. I'm like, I'm never gonna get these bitches out if we don't take it now. So we took it. This pinky ring that he gave me as a wedding gift the day we got married, flew off my hand during photos, so we like lost it. We're spiraling over that. I'm in my tights, you know, I like ripped my dress off, put my running shorts on over my tights. I'm down there in the ivy, like where it is and where it is? It was in my pocketbook, it did. It didn't even make it to the porch. It fell off in my pocketbook before we got to the picture. So I was sitting over there thinking, I know I heard it. He said I heard it too, too. Crazy people in a relationship. So that's the day to day right there. But anyway, found the ring and was like all right, I could. We know. I sucked it up and I was like, get these damn pictures out of the way. The fide my ring and yeah, right as I was leaving to come here, I was like, are you shipping me? It was in my pocketbook the whole time. So when I went to get my lip claws, it must have like slid off your Your fingers are like, really, mine are shriveled up right now because it's so cold. It's so cold.
Yeah, anyway, so that's kind of the vibes, and we're yeah, we're.
Big time on. I'm not. I'm not like a super chef, like a super housewife. It's just that's one one place God failed me. Yeah, I'm vacuum.
My vacuum is out. I vacuum every day. Sunny in my five year old she's like, Mom, stop vac I'm sorry. Do you want to clean for right?
Right?
Do you want dog hair in your cheerios? No? You don't, No you don't.
Yeah.
I don't cook either, I mean I can. It's unfortunate for anyone who has.
To eat it. Yeah, we're big crop pot people.
That's good. I like an instant pot.
Yes, yeah, same, I really want to come out with a cookbook for like like picky eaters, like myself, Like, what do you like to eat chicken? I was miserable in Italy? I mean I was eating charcooteriie boards every day, cheese and balgoney and red wine and rose. So they didn't have chicken tenders over there.
You like a big old chicken dinner, girl.
Chick I'm country, yes, North Carolina, big meal.
If you're gonna have your perfect.
Bojangles kids meals supreme with sweet tea and barbecue sauce. Dirty rice.
What's dirty rice?
It is rice with like sausage in it. It's on the menu. But jngles, have you been to Bojangles? All right, Well, don't go in Tennessee because they don't have the supremes. So you gotta go like a Tans Incorporated. That's sad. I know then, which franchise is to hit in North Carolina. They're definitely Alabama. Maybe that's why I was loving Alabama all summer's because they have the supremes. But anyway, there's specific type of chicken tender that boaj Angles has called kid like the chicken Supremes. Yeah, that's what they're called, and they're way better than the homestyle chicken tenders that are here. Okay, so on the road, I have to have a chicken tender that's just like a daily chicken is.
Daily every day. Yeah, put a chicken you want to ader.
It doesn't have to be, but yeah, I'm usually eating love Ruby, sorry, joined bad.
I could literally go off with you all day.
Riley. I'm gonna try to take us home here, although I don't want to. I love talking to you right now, to Marcus.
For a year and a half, almost two years, two years in February.
It's the best part of being married.
Best part of being married. I mean, it's just living with your best friends, like being back in the sorority house. But it's a man, yeah, you know, being married to your best friend who understands all your your kinks and your quirks. Not I don't mean like that, but you know, you know what I mean that I did. Maybe a little, but I mean that, dude. Yeah, and one that will, you know, pick up the load for you when you can't handle it all. That's, you know, very much, the beauty of being married to Marcus King.
What is the joy of road life for you?
The joy of road life. I mean just seeing everybody's faces and how much they like appreciate his music, because his fans are so passionate, like they love him so much, they love me. They give me such a big old hull. You know, Marcus caused me little bird, so a lot of his fans know me as that. And where did that come from? That was the night we met. I had on this huge gold calf tan. And it's like me to say something self deprecating when I walk in a room, so that like, I'll talk to you about myself. Said that y'all won't do it. And I was like, what's up? Y'all look like big bird and he goes, no, you're a little bird. And that was like our first exchange. And so now I'm a little bird to his fans. So anyway back to the question, because here I go going down alleyway, a dark one. I'm sure are they ever liked? I don't know, But anyway, the joy of being on the road is definitely just like seeing the fans and how much how obsessed with Marcus they are just as much as I am.
That's amazing. What have you loved about being a business owner? And launching your hat company a little bird trucking would have been the joys and would have been the growing pain.
Oh, the growing pain. Yeah, well I did it all by myself, like was making the hat. It's like I mean, I was the accountant, shipping, customer service, m m not anymore. I finally was able to get help. I was. I don't know if I just recently started talking about it, but I got like super duper like sick from stress. I was down to like eighty six pounds in August. Yeah, it was.
It was batter stress like the hat.
Yeah, just from carrying the load by myself, like it was getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Posts had started to wear it. I was, you know, selling out every time, and now like I have to be able to scale this, Like I don't want it to be an unattainable thing for people to get a hat, Like I want everyone to have one and.
Good problems to have. But yeah, not when you're the only one.
And not when you don't really know anybody in town, you don't know who to call to help you, or so it was. That was, you know, one of the growing pains is like finding the right help and you know, the people that would that understand the vision of Little Bird, which I don't even understand some days because I'm so meaning. I got these jackets coming out.
Like those you're on your brand.
Yeah, and like a couple of weeks and I'm just like, all right, were we we're doing? Are we doing clothes? I don't know, Yeah, you're doing a far And so that was definitely one of the growing pains, and it still is one of the growing pains, is like where did you take it to next?
How did you get help for that? Like how did you Marcus?
I mean, he was like girl, but the Tucker hats down. He he helped me get in touch with the with the right people, people that you know can handle the fulfillment on that level, because i mean we're talking like I'd done over ten thousand myself. Yeah, it was insane.
That's amazing for your business, it was, but like crazy to do on your own.
It was great. I'm I'm beyond grateful, but it was just a lot.
You know.
The customer service was I was getting slower because I was getting sicker, and that was just because I just needed an app. I just needed to take take a break and eat some food and not be stressed out that because you know, somebody's hat didn't make it to them that they would like trash me on the internet or something like that. Not that it's not that serious, like okay, but I took it that serious and well because it meant the world to me is my name. You know, I wanted I wanted to succeed. I want every like I said, I wanted everyone to have one. And now I'm just able to do it a whole lot faster with a lot of help. So that's been one of the joys of joys and growing pains of it.
Yeah, the ruby's looking herself in the reflection and growling.
Not a big cacti fans.
Okay, so what are you? How do you? We're gonna wrap up. We're both under jelly roll tonight, which I cannot wait for. I'm so excited to see jelly roll. You got these cute little shoes with a little clip on them. I was like, what are you putting there? And you're like, well, money, joints, whatever.
Points and money. And my husband carries my ID and his wallet. So if I don't feel like clunking a person around, I'm good. To go all I look, all I need is these two little, two little things on on there and I can go all night. I mean to take down the town.
What have you loved about it? Because it was a big move, like you if your whole life jumped into relationship, I mean with an artist that people knew, a whole new world watched your hats. Yeah, I mean became a fashion icon that everyone loves and adults. I mean, you are it.
I know where I'm gonna come, and I got a skip therapy for a week here.
Yeah, call me, I'll give you, I'll butter you all up, but it's all gonna be true. Think I'll tell you all the good things and I'm not lying.
I appreciate that. Yeah. One of the things I've really loved about, Uh, you asked me what I love about Nashville.
Yeah, and this big, this big life ship that you've done.
Yeah, It's something really unexpecting for me was the the diversity of u of Nashville that you don't really see like portrayed online or on TV shows things like that. I mean, there's there are all genres of music here. There are like so many talented musicians here of all backgrounds, and so that was like one thing that I've really loved about nash It was like I can pop over to East and see this type of artists, pop over to this, you know, go to Bridgestone, go see Jelly Roll hit Broadway, see you know those hard, hard work and men and women out there. I mean, there's so much diversity. It's not just country, and I've loved that Nashville is really embracing fashion. You know, like boot Barn just had a fashion show here that'll be on Hulu in January. I don't know why I'm plugging it, but I am. But I went and I was just really excited to see a fashion show and you know, just Nashville and embracing that because I think we're next on the radar for you know big you know big. Uh What am I trying to say here? Like I don't know, just a big part of an extension of the music is fashion always, and so I could see like the trickle down from New York. You see every time you go out, you'll meet somebody from California, come somebody coming from Texas, and those are all just really really strong fashion or fashion heavy states city. And I'm glad that Nashville's like kind of comment on the on the map. With that, and you know, along with the diversity, I cannot talk today, my goodness.
Okay, And I'll wrap up with what if you could plan your next five years out, what would have happened? What would have transpired?
Oh man, my next five years? Hmm, I don't know, because I I've my whole life motto is like, don't live on a timeline, because I was miserable when I did. Circling back to my comment in the beginning about if I'm not married by twenty five, f me like shit, because that's how I lived for a while. I'm a huge Casey Musgraves fan. One of her songs, she says, if you don't have two kids by twenty one, you're probably gonna die alone, because that's that's the way we were raised. If you're you make it at thirty, you're washed up. So I don't know. I cannot predict the future, but I'd love to have some babies at some point, and just a happy, healthy marriage. It's really all I could ever ask for in this industry and in this lifetime, in this economy. I mean, shit, we're all hurting, but I'm blessed.
I love that. I always wrap up with leave your light, and it's just dropping some inspiration. What do you want to tell people? What do you want people to know?
You can live outside the box, that little box that your hometown puts you in, you can live outside of it. You know, get the college degree, do whatever whatever makes mom and dad happy, but also prioritize yourself. I I was definitely doing things earlier in life that were specific to what my parents had envisioned my life looking like. And I'm so glad that I've learned to embrace living outside the box, because, like I said, I think that's when my life really began, was when I turned thirty and learned that, you know, I don't have to be a square. I don't have to live in this little square. Throw your senior superlatives out the window. Let that kind of go. Even though I was class clown and most talkative, that's kind of stuck. But you know, throw that kind of shit out the window and just live your life like who cares what anybody thinks. We've got one life and get on TikTok and post your notes, your.
Your TikTok is such a treat. Everyone needs to follow you.
And girl, it's a mess.
Wait what is it?
Just kids Mill Supreme, it's my order from Bojangles.
That's your name.
I didn't I didn't know that it was gonna take off. And then I was like, well, it's too late to change it. Kids Mill Supreme. That's what I get from Bojangles. And I still can't get a sponsorship God Tans Incorporated, Bojangle. Somebody reach out. Send me a hoodie, something, a bumper sticker, anything, a magnet, something would be nice.
And then you said something too that you said, Marcus really influenced your style and you didn't always used to be this bright, because now I mean you're bowld and bright and you're being bright, but like your outfits are creative and they're like all all of it. Yeah, up in it.
That's that's all there. I think. Just being a gentleman and complimenting me every time I was dressed or undressed. You know what's like you can wear that, you can wear that, I think that looks great. I mean you just always it's complimentary or it'll be like a straight shooter and tell me like maybe you can trust him. Yeah, yeah, because he I mean, look at look at his Instagram, like he's a fashionista himself. He's really really into his own And yeah, when you're on the road living out of a suitcase, like, it's terrible for me because eventually, like the whole suitcase just winds up on my body. I'm like, oh, how many layers can I add? Because every layer is a conversation piece, right, So just look at it that way every time I get dressed, Like, what are we gonna like, what's going to be the topic today?
You know?
Now that is a book. Yeah, that's a book if you should write that, like I'm gonna talk, you know something like that.
I can talk, but if my clothes could, we would need somebody to write it.
Okay, everyone, we said it here first. That's gonna be your book clothes to talk because I can't or something, you know. But how it's like when you put together an outfit, it's because you are expressing how you want to express yourself that day, and it makes it so much more. The fashion it's actually like who you are.
Oh my gosh, very much. So like the the trucker hat thing, I'm like, I'm naked if I don't have one on my head. Yeah, not always. Like I we had the CMA's and uh that bootbarn red carpet thing, and so I was like, can I put that on? Can I put that on? And everyone's like, no, we have glam here, you're putting your hair up. And I'm like, okay, fine, which I do love some damn glam now.
Oh I love to get bring on the glow.
Yeah, but it's like a safety blanket for me.
Okay, just kind of comforting. Yeah, like your blanket.
Every time I post on TikTok with that one. Like when I was posting that glam, Everyone's like, oh, think I've ever seen your forehead? Well, here it is, and it's a true forehead. I've been measuring mine lately because a forehead well you know, a forefinger forehead. It's because everyone's like, dumb, her forehead's huge, and I'm like, no, this is just the first time you're seeing people think you have a big forehead. I think for a second there they're just shocked.
This is a big forehead.
It's four. You're a four.
I mean, I don't say you have a big four head at all.
I don't either. I think it was just like a really big shock and maybe been the angle. I don't know, I'm like a putt some weird things. So it's also do you know, just the shock like when you get your braces often, do you feel like did you have braces? Do you feel like your teeth were like.
You were hat so much that people were just shocked to see your forehead.
Yeah, I don't post. It's not even that I don't really post without one, Like I'm not wearing a damn truck or hat while I'm being psycho vacuuming and getting into corners like that. My hair is on top of my head and a bun. But yeah, if I'm out and about, I don't know. I just feel better and I don't always have to wash my hair. And I went crazy and cut bangs in May.
How it has a bitch were going through something usually like die haircut banks. I always do. I cut my hair and diet.
When I'm saying yeah, that was like kind of the start of like when I was like my stressy and depressy episode.
But we're back up okay.
And but they look good when they're stout.
It's just a st yeah, pain in my ass I feel you.
So I don't know where I was going with that either, but hey, we are.
We cover covered it all. Probably you're the most fun human.
Thank you. You're such a great time meeting your family.
Time you denied a jelly roll. You're probably meet my daughter. I think she just got home. You're so fantastic. You're such a bright light. And I hope you never dimn yourself or ever think that you should not go. Who cares if people can't hint, don't prefer it. What you are is such a treat to the people who do prefer it.
Thank you. My mom always said, don't dim your light simply because it's shining in someone's eyes. Ay, and that should have been the wisdom section still there, we could have we could have just said that for the wisdom part and shut down there.
I know we have to leave, but can you stick around for five extra minutes to do like a quick uh? I will some questions and yeah, yeah, okay, Riley King, thank you. So tell everyone where they can find all your stuff?
Oh real Brilly King on Instagram, TikTok where kids Mills Supreme. I'm not really into like the YouTube and stuff yet, but maybe oh yeah.
Little Bird Trucking Trucking.
Yeah at Little Bird Trucking and Littlebird Trucking dot Com. And yeah, I think I said. My husband's real Marcus King, who I love. I love to refer to people by their handles, Real Marcus King. I call him bat in the flesh, so you can find him there if you want to listen to his music. He's got some good ship.
I love everything about you. This was so fun. Thank you, Riley, Thank you
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