Briley King on meeting Marcus King, Mental Health, Her Childhood & Gold Digger Rumors

Jesus calling a rosé with some jalapenos. Some kind of a kooky outfit. Really? It's like the Brley King starter kit. Riley is not actually a gold digger. You're just funny. It's a bad thing when they not talking about you. So my dad ran the fair for days. It's like it's so redneck. It hurts. Oh my god. My attorney is going to be like cute dummy. I disappointed my parents. I was one of eight students accepted into the school of music theater. Men are not talking about mental health enough. Marcus too, you know, his whole last record was really dark and about his mental health, and this next one's about me, thank God. So, you know, it's going to be good. Big secret to relationships is just step outside between the hours of 8 and 10 a.m. I started doing that every morning. It changed everything. When I turned 30, I was like, "Okay, it's clicking. I'm about to have the time of my life." I hear that from people all the time. It just made sense. Like, why don't I start a trucker hat company? I don't think any business owner will say they started their business and it was easy, right? No. I'm going to go get my hair done, nails done, Botox, and eyebrows. That's all that Nothing will make you feel better than that. Exactly. And then I'll play my Sabrina Carpenter and drink my French 75 and take over the world. Hi y'all. Welcome back to the House guest podcast. Welcome to my house guests who are listening in. This week, you guys, we are in for quite the treat. We have my friend Brley King on the show. I am obsessed with Brley. We became friends via TikTok a couple years ago. I love that woman. She is truly the coolest girl in the world. She's an amazing friend. She's so nice. She's so creative. She's so genius. She's talented. She's cool. She's so original. Like she does this herself. I really appreciate someone who is fully themselves. Like 100%. It makes everyone else around them like feel more comfortable to be themselves as well. And like that is just Brley for you. She is just the best. I love her and you guys are going to absolutely love her. You might know her from Tik Tok. You might know her from her iconic hats that are everywhere. You might know her from her music. Honestly, it could be like literally anything from Marcus. Like there's so many things that you might know for, but honestly, her Tik Tok is like one of the funniest Tik Toks out there. And I just love her and I'm so excited she's coming over today and we're just going to chat on the chairs in Nashville. If you guys are listening to the podcast and you have yet to watch us on YouTube, you should be watching on YouTube because it is a whole production, let me tell you. And it is a stunning, stunning setup. We are here today in my home in Nashville, Tennessee. And it's just it's truly like the Nashville episode of all Nashville episodes. So, I hope you guys enjoy. I love you guys so much. And let's welcome Bryley on to the show. Brley King, the coolest girl in the world. Welcome to the podcast. I'm a house guest. Thanks for having me. Finally. It really took us long enough to have you here. Yeah, just a couple months, but I know we've gotten out and we've gotten together. That's all that matters. We have gotten together. That is all that matters. Now, we're checking the next box. It's very exciting. I love your place, by the way. These Thank you. The chairs are very comfortable. They're literally from Wayfair. I saw I saw your Tik Tok. I'm obsessed. My probably 3,000 Tik Toks that I made about these chairs. You know, when I like something, I do like it all the way. They're really really comfortable. See, this is more than anything. This is a Wayfair ad, guys. I know. I know. I know. But anyway, to to drive your engagement up on those ads. Thank you. We should uh keep this in there cuz this is these really are really nice. We're always looking to up that conversion rate, right? anything for that conversion right now. Absolutely. So, you and I met a couple years back at this point. It probably would have been like two years. Yeah. We followed each other on TikTok. Mutuals on Tik Tok. Mutuals. And we started DMing all the time. Then we started texting all the time. Then we were a audio messaging. It was a little hard for us to remember like when we actually met because we were like legitimate friends before we met. Yes. Like we were like talking about like actually like deep stuff. We were doing the whole thing and then we got lunch with Kate. Oh my gosh, it's storing outside. What is up with this Tennessee weather, Riley? Dude, it's been raining a lot, hadn't it? Yeah. Mhm. And as like a girl who's currently depressed, right? It's not doing It's not being helpful to me. You need a covered porch or something. Yes. So you could be outside. No, I know. It has been raining a whole lot. It's kind of lame. Which I just got back in from Colorado, so I did Did it rain this weekend? Cuz if so, I missed it all. You probably It needs to stop. Or we need to find a hobby in the rain. In the rain. What should we do? I don't know. Do we pull a Drew Barrymore and go out there and just sing and dance in it? Because honestly, Riley, like as like two mentally unwell girlies, there's also a fly circling your head. Yeah. Yeah, I'm cool with it. It's It's feeling the energy. Totally stank ass over here. You know, have you seen those videos of Drew more just swirling in the rain? Riley, we need to do that. I do it. Come to my house. I literally Yes. The other day I was like, you know what? because I was um trying to seal my Facebook Marketplace table, my outdoor table, and it starts raining. I'm like, you know what? Let it rain. Let it pour. I just got new outdoor speakers installed, so it could it could do anything. And I'll still backyard the upgrades, the photos that you sent me recently. Loving this. It's looking so good. I've got my pair out there. Love the pair. Um which we I feel like I need to talk about the pair because Can we That is Yes. This is the perfect place, too. I get a perfect place. Uhhuh. to talk about the perfect pair. I get so many DMs like what's up with the pair? And I there's really nothing. It's like the story is not that cool. But when I first moved to Nashville or like maybe first visited Nashville, Marcus took me over to this really rich person's house and they had a pair in the center of their dining room table and I was like, "Okay, love that." that because it was a color drenched room and a huge pop that chartreuse and I love chartreuse like lime green any kind of color like that and I was like all right one day I'm going to have me a bombass dining room with a pair on my dining room table and so when we bought our house recently I went and got me a pair then recently uh Callie Hardy Hardy Michael Hardy's wife texted me and was like guys ignore the storm sorry about our front door right now Yeah. Anyways, Callie texted you some pictures. Callie Hardy texted me just this picture of a pair and she was like, "This is at HomeGoods and I was like, "Are you buying that?" Because I will go get it right now. And I literally sped in my car. Went and got that pair. My aunt texted me. She was like, "I saw your story that you found a concrete pair. There's one at the HomeGoods here." And so I'm like, "Everyone buy the pairs." Like, if you know the lore, buy the pairs. There is no lore. It was just a rich person had one on their table. And I was like, I want a pair. So good. It actually looks super. Yeah. I love it. It's just so weird. Now, hers was like a piece of art type pair. Now, mine's like timu pair. I got it off a website where like you, if you own a restaurant where you would go to get like the giant fruit, the front, you know, like the, you know, that huge chef that people like in the 90s and early 2000s would have at their door like those kind of like figurines. Anyway, that's where I got it from. If anyone's looking, make sure you measure. Mine's a lot larger than I was expecting. It's like half the table, but it looks incredible. It's gonna be great. Like, we still need to have our dinner party. Yes. Yes. My drapes are being made right now. So, um, as soon as they're up, I'm ready because I'm like, in my mind, I'm planning, my assistant really wants to be the butler and greet people. She's a very special human. And she wants to dress up and wait on us. We'll have uh drinks inside, dinner outside. Me and you, we're gonna crush it. It's gonna be so perfect. I already have like a I have a mood board in my head. And does it involve mushrooms? Cuz you know I bought like 25 mushrooms from Pottery Barn that light up at night. I thought I told you. Um you haven't told me about the mushrooms, but like I'll be adding those immediately. And they're still available and on like extra extra clearance if you need any. So they're battery powered. They're so cute. I love that. I can think about I have some stuff like that on Pinterest. Cute. Obsessed. Obsessed. Okay, so we became friends a while back. Then we went to lunch and then now here we are. I'm in Nashville. Yes. Riley was like the first person that I told. I texted her that morning and I was like, "Hey, do you happen to be in town right now? I extended my trip. I'm leaving tomorrow, but I also think I'm moving." And then you were like, "Yeah, let's go get dinner." And that was it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And you were like, "I think I'm going to move here." And then Oh, while we were at dinner, you got the text that this place was available, right? Oh, yeah. Like, literally, we were together. Incredible. Yeah. Wow. Right in the stars. Yes. And in the storms. And in the storms. Truly. Okay. So, we have so much to talk about. I feel like people don't know you and like your actual lore. Something that you're really good at on the internet is like taking the narrative and just leaning in. Like all the gold digger stuff. Like Riley is not actually a gold digger. You're just funny. And that's so much funnier than like getting offended 24/7. It's funnier. I did. Absolutely. For a long time. And even if you still do, that's fine. But it's funnier like in a response. I just think it's like taking the like narrative back. Yeah. Yes, that was like a huge thing. Which this when we met, I was still kind of going through it um through the Reddit thing. But yeah, I was like, wait, the internet is writing the narrative for me that I'm a gold digger. And it was like it would just poison my mind so bad that like I would convince myself that I was a gold digger, that I was ugly or whatever, you know, whatever they were saying that week. And I yeah, I had to take the narrative back and I was like, you know what? I'm just gonna lean into it. And it's been hilarious ever since cuz so good. They got to come up with something else. Like talk about how ugly my knees are. Like find something else and you know here they are. Just find something else. Anyway, yeah. Not actually a gold digger. So before Marcus and I met I was working at a bank like I had a nice corporate job and then you know a star is born situation happened. Marcus and I met and whole life changed and I had to like kind of learn how to deal with the public's opinion coming from like a desk job to like everybody has an opinion on everything you do. And so that was just weird. And when I like came to terms with that's the way it's going to be for the rest of my life and that it's actually a good thing because it's a bad thing when they're not talking about you, you know. Amen. So, so when I came to terms with it, I was like, "Oh, wait. I can be myself again. And I don't know. I feel like I just now like got back online like with it with the new year. Like I'm like, "Okay, I want to be funny and silly and be myself again instead of like OOTDs with just sound over it cuz there's just so much more to me to talk about. I mean, you were so funny. You have so much personality even in like the OOTDs with music. Like you can tell like it's you were so you just are so yourself which is such an amazing quality. It's also pretty rare. Yeah. So, it's easier to attack at the same time, too. Like, we always talk about like you're not like a cookie cutter anything. Yeah. You know, and like people just are mad. That's fine. Yeah. I I also in the beginning like when I when Marcus and I got married and um obviously I wasn't working anymore. I was like, "Okay, well, I have to find a way to, you know, fulfill this hole that's now in my heart after working for so long that when I got online surgeon showing what I was wearing to shows and stuff, I was like, this is not fulfilling either." When I was trying to be like an influencer type, it just like it wasn't natural to me and I had a hard time. So, that's when I like quit. Like I my voice would change. I would just not sound like myself or try to be like super pitchy or super salesy and that is never how I would act, you know, normally. So that like was hard to accept like, okay, I'm not built to be an influencer because that that job is like way way way hard. That's when I started my trucker hat line. And anyway, I've just had these like roller coaster of emotions of like I love the internet. I hate the internet. I love the internet. And now I'm just like I don't really care anymore. Say what you want, you know? Mhm. I do feel like you're in a way better place than at least you were like last fall. Yes. Yeah. When you when we met, I think I was in the ultimate pit of it. Like ultimate pit. I remember I was like 86 lbs at the time. I have these Zara jeans. I like always pull them on to see how you know that one pair of jeans you have where you're like, "Okay, if these don't button, something's up." Or if these feel too big, something's up. But I have this pair of Zara jeans. I remember exactly what I was wearing that day. And um they were like loose as hell. There's a video of me that on stage that night and they looked like so baggy and these are supposed to be like super tight jeans. That's when we met. And yeah, when my mom came to town like a month later after that, she moved me into our new house and it's like a blossom. I don't know. I just was like, I can be myself again. I can start over, you know. But what do you really feel like you did at that point? Cuz I feel like you did stop reading Reddit. I did. I I got sober from Reddit. Um what else? Um, oh, um, Charlie Star, Blackberry Smoke, uh, a a band and a friend of ours, his wife Christine, she gave me all these supplements and, um, like all this advice and I have this whole email. I need to send it to you, especially if you're going through it, but all this advice about natural like remedies to take, but number one being step outside between the hours of 8 and 10 a.m. and like that. I started doing that every morning and it changed everything for me. I mean that sounds so dumb that and download the Merlin Bird app. I'm not even kidding. What is this app? This app that I like post about daily. You literally open it and press a red button record and it's just starts listening and it'll identify every bird that's around you. So like in the morning like I don't it was just something to look forward to that. Oh my god. setting up bird feeders like so I have one like on my porch so birds can come up and I have the same cardinal almost feels like a pet like the same cardinal comes up every day he's bald so I know it's him his name is Randy and his wife is Geraldine after Miranda Lambert's songs of course so anyway that like all just really like sounds so dumb also birding is like the cheapest like hobby and hit a dopamine you can get it's cheaper than weed so there you go but I say that now I'm going need another start another company to keep up with feeding them all cuz I'm like I'm at the bird store like yes what here would attract uh indigo bunting like the guy told me you can't you can't get them back and they've been back every day since binge so no it's it seems very grounding like I need to do something like that I trusting Tennessee like my routine in Texas I'm so good because you know I'm so like mentally illrone like so I do I do so many things to just stay at like an operating level. Yeah. And now that I'm here and I'm out of like my normal routine, I feel like is when it goes downhill because I'm out of that routine and then I just lose it and then once I'm bad, I just like don't leave the house. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you're and at that point you're you're like bedrotting and depressed and your body's in like fight or flight mode and you're probably not eating the best. I taking I don't know if you take Armra. Yeah, I need to be consistent. It helped me a lot. Helped like my energy levels. I wasn't so reliant on caffeine. Yeah, there there's a number of number of things. But the most This storm is crazy. I don't know if you guys can hear this, but like it's a really wild I didn't even know it was going to rain today. I didn't either, but it's Nashville. Why are we not surprised? So true. Anyway, I don't even know what I was saying, but uh Oh, Arma. Yeah. Not to get all addy, but it was just like a bunch of supplements. And I swear getting outside and listening to birds and knowing like what birds were around me like healed me. It was a hobby, you know, something different to do than sit inside. And when we moved, um, our new house has all this sunlight. The our other house, it was so dark in there. And that was like what I was craving was sunlight and, uh, and birds. And so that's It sounds so corny, but birding. I'm I'm here to influence the number influence everyone to start birding. Yeah. Yeah. It's fun and like it no matter where you are like if you're traveling like when we were in Colorado just open the app and it'll listen and I'm like what is that bird a house sparrow? Cool. I don't get those at my house. That's interesting. Yeah. See I get how this would be helpful. Yeah. And it just it's anything that's like kind like it's mindful or mindless. Right. Right. Look, we don't we don't have TVs in any of our rooms except for the living room and the um in our basement, but I that was one thing I was really really I feel like since we're your house like I need to lean into my house things, but we um when we lived with Rick Rubin when Marcus was recording Mood Swings, his previous record, we stayed lived stayed with Rick Rubin and there were the walls were white, the ceilings were white, the floors were white, no art on the walls. Um, no TVs, nothing. I remember you telling me this after like I remember that so vividly thinking like this is insane. It's It sounds insane, but like you see why like Kim K's house is like that too because it was like so it was so cleansing like I can't I can't describe it like you are just with your thoughts. The furniture is very minimal like kind of even on the floor. Um the kitchen is original to the house but anyway it was just lacking in technology. you're able to disconnect. And so when we moved, I was like, I wanted this house to be the same way. So I never watch TV. Like sometimes like if if Southern Charm or um there's like a new housewives series, I like binge watch that um whenever the season's over and call it a day. But yeah, I just like I'm outside 24/7. I'm getting pigeons. It's incredible. I I just got the little house built today, but yeah, I'm getting I'm going to go get pigeons. Speaking of bad raps, you know, I was like, I feel like I got bad rap a bad rap on the internet. Like people weren't very nice to me. Pigeons have a bad rap. You know, like everyone's like, "Pigeons are nasty." But they're not. They're just misunderstood. So misunderstood. Earnest wife texted me, "Hey, two pigeons that need a home. Would you be open to adopting them?" Um, and it didn't end. She ended up taking them. And I was like already prepped and ready. Like I wanted the pigeons. So now I ended up adopting pigeons and go pick them up tomorrow. But Martha Stewart had pigeons. Mike Tyson had pigeons. I do know about Mike Tyson having pigeons actually. Yeah, I he had a lot. But um yeah, I'm just going to do two. But I need to come see the pigeons. You have to come see the pigeons and and my and my porch. And then we'll get set up on the Merlin app. And I got one of those crazy feeders with a camera on it. See, this is like I'll go spend 2 minutes at your house and this is what I'll have soon. Yeah. Obsessed with that. But even that's too much for me. Back to the whole technology thing. I told I texted my mom. I was like, "Dude, it's taking me like two weeks to put this bird feeder together and to get it connected to Wi-Fi. Sometimes it'll disconnect." Like hate that thing sometimes. No, I'm horrible. If it has a remote or anything, like it's just absolutely not. Oh my god, the fans. I can't get some of the fans to turn on cuz I can't find the remote. No, it's horrible. Same candles. Like I got It's too much. It's too much. It's literally like actually the worst thing ever. Too much. Okay. I want to go back to like you as a child even prior to meeting Marcus cuz you met Marcus when you were 30, right? Yes. Okay. So, you had a whole life before this that I think people know nothing about. Daughter of a long haul trucker. Where are you from? Like just fill in the girls. From North Carolina. Um Kinston, North Carolina where Jamie Presley, Jerry Stack House, just to name a few. Marcus uh had a huge crush on Jamie Presley. That would be his celebrity crush growing up. And I'm like, "Oh, lucky for you. I know her." And I got to introduce him to, uh, her, so that was cool. But, um, yeah, I grew up just in a really small town where my parents live or even a stoplight. They live at the stop sign. And yeah, dad, mom worked a desk job, dad ran the road, and I was a music theater cheerleading like freak. I had my hand at everything. I was playing softball, cheerleading, all the community plays. I would that we did plays at the airport. Oh wow. Yes. I would go sing for nursing homes, birthday parties, anything. You name it, I was doing it. So dancing. What else was I doing? Just a lot. I've always like been really hyperactive. And um yeah, so my childhood was real whimsical. My brothers raced motocross and ATV, so we had a motocross track named after my dad. My dad ran the fair going for days. It's like it's so redneck it hurts. Sometimes people comment and say I'm faking my accent and I'm like I'm trying so hard to dull it down. Definitely knew. Yeah. Only they knew after after a couple white claws how bad it is. If we'd had that rosé, they would really Yeah, it would. They they have no idea what's have a field day. Yeah, absolutely. It's bad. It's bad. But yeah, anyway, you know, I'll talk for for days about childhood anything. So, yeah. I've had an interesting childhood and my families, they all still live there about like an hour from the coast. So, I love going home and visiting there, but I do love it here in Nashville now that I'm like settled, you know what I mean? Well, then you had a full career. Yeah. Yeah. I went to I went to ECU, East Carolina University. I was one of eight students accepted into the school of music theater. Got there and was not live loving it. And um I I disappointed my parents but switched my major and did um broadcast media like digital communication. So graduated from there, got a job. You know, I actually had Have you ever had anyone work for as a recruiter? Like a tech recruiter? That was my first job out of college. Oh my god. You've You don't know anyone that was a technical recruiter? No. Sorry. I know a lot of people who are recruiters. I thought you meant Have I ever worked with a recruit? No. Yeah. No. like like in the early days of recruiting. I mean, this was like 10 years ago, you know. No, all my friends who are recruiters, by the way, they just drink all the time. Yeah. Yeah. With their boss. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my god. It was the worst job I've ever had. Hopefully the culture is better. Like I don't know what the situation is, but the company I worked for was a [ __ ] show. Um I was not there very long and then moved into like project management role and then that's how I ended up like at the bank. I was living in in Charlotte. I found a little shack off of Craigslist and was living the dream with a two bed, one bath, $895 a month for rent in this economy. God bless. Then Marcus said, "Will you marry me?" And I was like, "I really don't want to give this place up, but thank God I did because it just blew up the other day." Oh, Riley, what? Yeah, for real. Oh my god. My attorney is going to be like, "You dummy." But yes, my well ended up I thought it was my house but ended up being my neighbor. He poured gas or did something blew his whole house up. Wait, that's horrible. Yeah. And mine went with it. Oh, okay. So, thank God I moved out. No, actually. But it was like it was bad. Like the laundry was outside. Not that it was bad, but it just like wasn't ideal. There were a lot of roaches. Mhm. But, you know, if your neighbors got roaches, you're gonna have roaches. So, Absolutely. But, I loved it. It was It was the best. I like had decorated it my way. So cool. I miss it. But yeah, I loved Charlotte, by the way. If you're if you ever get a Inkland to is it England? Is that the word? In England to go. Yeah. If you ever want to leave Nashville, try somewhere else. I loved Charlotte. So, love that. Great. Great city. Yeah. Lived in Raleigh, too, for a little bit, but I liked Charlotte better. I'm going to Wilmington this weekend. I love Wilmington. That's like an hour away from where I'm from. Have family there. Winry Hill was filmed there. Exactly. You know, that's my favorite show ever. Is it really? Yes. Oh my gosh. I'll have to introduce you to um Bevon from the show. Bevon Prince is a friend of mine. Is she the one who owns the Spven Studio or whatever? Yeah. Okay. I have another mutual friend with her then. Cool. You got to go. You recess is her. Yeah. I love her and her sister. Uh her whole family. They're all They're all awesome. But that's incredible. I'm waiting for them to reboot that by the way. I want to be on it. We will talk about fair because I Yeah, there's Oh, you have insider info? Well, I have Yeah, they there is something that's in the works. It's been public. Like that's not like insider. It's just like public, but there is some seems to be some tea. Sick. Anyway, okay. So, you are doing this career. You're living in this house. You're like dating other people and then you meet Marcus. Yeah. And then your whole life changes cuz you guys got engaged like pretty quickly too. Yeah. We were together for like seven months. See is how I'm trying to be. See? Yeah. See, I told people I mean like dating these days is like I don't know. Especially with his lifestyle, it was like you're dating about as quick as you do on the Bachelor because you're on top of each other 24/7. If I was traveling with him, we were on the bus all the time. So, you get to know people pretty fast that way. But also, you know, I hate saying when you know, you know, but you kind of do, you know. Does that just mean you feel peace? Like what does that mean? Yeah, I think you feel peace. I think you feel like, "Wow, this person isn't going to hit me or this person isn't going to haul off and do drugs." I don't know. It just feels right. Like everything just oddly clicks. It's not really something I can put into words, but I don't know. Trust everything is there and it's mutual, you know? Like you never ever have to guess what the other person's thinking because they're so vocal and they tell you how much, you know, how much they like you, how they feel. So that's at least that's how it was for me like there was there just were no games. I don't know dating don't you do you feel like like there's a lot of games like who how long how long do I wait till I text him or till he texts me and that was like not a thing and I don't play that game like if you text me I'm texting you back immediately and if you don't like it then it's not the one. Yeah. So that's why it didn't work out with all the all the others and MK he quick to respond. So, I just said, you know, there's no games. It's just it's easy. It's not supposed to be hard. Can you take us through the story of how you guys met? Yeah, he he slid in my DMs, shot me a freaking fire emoji at 5:00 in the morning. I'm like getting up for work or I don't know, just cracking my eyes open for something. Probably reaching for a glass of water and after drinking a whole bottle of pino noir or some [ __ ] the night before talking about recruiters drinking a whole lot. I feel like everybody in the corporate world drank, but anyway. Yeah, I just woke up to a couple fire emojis. And he liked all my photos. And I replied and was like, "That's all you got? Fire emoji? Let me take you to dinner in August." This was in July. And I was like, "Hell no, I might be married by August." You know, I'm crazy. And anyway, I he was like, "Well, come to my show." Uh, so I went to a show the next night and we met and he was just such a gentleman. So sweet. took his cowboy hat off. He like took me on the stage. It was after the show was over because everyone was kind of sitting on top of each other. Takes me on the stage and he's like, "Look, isn't this so cool? All the lights." And he takes his hat off. He's like, "Can I kiss you?" And I was like, "You know what? Yeah, you can." I love a gentleman. Like I just love a proper gentleman. So anyway, rest was history. He was driving off. It was like a movie, a sad movie. Like, "Bye. See you never." And then the next morning text me, "You should quit your job and marry me." Wow. Yeah. I was like, "Why can't I have both?" And I do now. I have my own company and and a husband. That's actually so sweet. Yeah. But he was just very straightforward all the time. Yeah. With all the time with his feelings and still to this day very much is. So big secret to relationships is just and I'm you know me, I'm a very straightforward person anyway. So we keep it we keep it 100 in the King household. Yeah. I Being direct is like the best thing ever. Yeah. Your life then takes like a 180. Yeah. So, what was that like? You're moving to Nashville, you're getting married, suddenly everyone's looking at you, like your husband's career is taking off. Yeah. It was way harder than I thought it would be and way quicker. Like the day we got married, the next day an article was posted uh people or somewhere and then something was like on the sun or something like that. my iCloud was instantly started being hacked. Like I I don't know like the social media everything just popped off. Like people overnight know who you are and care and hate you like I don't know it was just crazy. So that was a huge adjustment. then moving to Nashville having no friends like really nobody to call when because he you know he travels so much and I don't I couldn't go all the time um starting my trucker hat company and so it was just like I don't know it was it was hard but I'm glad that it happened to me at the age that it did because at 30 I was so sure of who I was and there was like you know no budget on my part so everything I signed up for I knew what I was getting myself into so you know it wasn't as painful I think as it would have been, you know, if I was further along, like deeper in my career, because that would have been harder to quit. I mean, quitting was hard enough, but um but also in my 20s, like not really knowing who I was cuz, you know, it's different for everybody, but when I turned 30, I was like, "Okay, it's clicking. Like, I'm about to have the time of my life." I hear that from people all the time. They're like, "Literally, I woke up on my 30th birthday and I just didn't care about anything anymore and I felt great." Yeah. Yeah. Like I I don't I just, you know, I didn't care about dating. I'm like I also wasn't like the right guy's going to find me, you know? I was just like wasn't looking just quit like everything fell in my lap. I don't know. I don't know. I maybe I have a a dream dream story, but that's just how it worked for me. And yeah, the moment I quit caring, the moment everything fell into place. Not saying that it has to be 30, but you know, that's when it happened for me. So, absolutely. I don't know. Yeah, it's been it's been a wild ride. We should talk about the Chucker Hats because those have really taken on a life of their own. and they're like quite literally everywhere. It's like so insane. I feel like every time I open Instagram, it's someone else wearing the hat. Dude, um I was downtown for CMA Fest and I hadn't been downtown the daylight in a minute. But Post Malone of you know he's has worn them and he was wearing it on the side of a building on like a billboard downtown for the I think it was the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don't know. But I was like, "Holy, that's crazy." A big thanks to Laney Wilson for that one. I uh I sent her uh a hat when she and Marcus were writing together and they've actually their song is coming out probably right around the time this airs, but a song they wrote together and I was like, "Hey, will you give her these hats?" And this was obviously a couple years ago and Post Malone saw her wearing it was like, "Where'd you get that?" And so she hit Marcus up. I sent them to her and she gave them to him and rest was history. And now like I'm so grateful for her. So grateful Bunny Jelly Roll's wife. She has helped me like adapt to this life big time. I love her. She's my favorite. Love her. She That's like if something's something's wrong, like when especially when I was dealing with the Reddit stuff and the gold digger stuff and it was really taking me down. That was like my first phone call. I'm like, "How do you do it? Write a book." Thank God she is. I'm like, "Write a book. We need a manual." Yeah. Of how to deal with this because, you know, she she's a superwoman. And anyway, I'm grateful for her support. She wears my hats a lot, too. And D um I don't know. It's really taken off. But it really the in inception of it was just seeing the feathers on Marcus all the time and my dad being a long haul truck driver. So it just made sense like why don't I start a trucker hat company. It took me a while to do but I was like very meticulous making sure everything was right. I'm still still learning still calling you. I think that's why we connected um like the first time because uh how I got your cards right. You sent me your cards and I was like wait who is fulfilling Yeah. who's doing your stuff because I was doing everything myself. Well, that's what I was about to say is that I don't think people realize how much you were doing because like even with friend of mine like I went into it like there's no one who's like employed so like we're still in such early phases but I do have a fulfillment center. I do have people on retainer. We have designers like we have people that we work with just more in like a retainer sense. When Bryley's calling me and I'm like oh you have literally no you're fulfilling the orders you're doing this. You're doing like no wonder. I'm like, you cannot handle all that and you're touring half the time and you're doing this. Like, you have so many other things going on. You really put your heart and soul into this, dude. I mean, to the point that like it there I my energy levels were so low. Like, the bedrock was so bad. Like, there would be days I could only pack like four orders and I had a thousand to get out the door cuz like usually on on average I could get a a couple hundred, however many the USPS truck could fit. I mean, the my USPS driver became my best friend. She would come in when she'd come cuz she'd deliver the mail, then come back and come in and help me pack orders. Wow. So that I could get as many out as possible with the little bit of energy that I had. Yeah. I was doing I had to get a fork forklift at one point to get because the I had like 10,000 one time and the uh they Yeah. They wouldn't come pick up that many. So, I had to load up my brother's motocross trailer, drive all the hats to North Carolina, load up the motocross trailer, and take it to USPS. It was crazy. And and then, you know, talking customer service, like it was taking me like longer and longer and longer each time just because I was like running myself into the ground, literally. And um then like people, you know, were like, "Oh, I wanted to have this for a birthday." And that's when I was like, "I've got I've got to get help. like I'm going to drive my business into the ground if I don't get help. At least someone to answer the emails, you know, cuz there I would have to put up like an away message that's like or what do you call out of office message that's like hi one woman show. I'm packing orders, but I swear I have it like please be patient with me. And I there's one girl that she didn't she didn't send me an ugly email, but if somebody was just, you know, a little spicy. I would pick up the phone and call them from like with given they so people out there have my cell phone number. But this girl and I got to talk. I mean, we were down to talking about God and the the the things that she had faced in her marriage. She was out of Texas. And um anyway, I ended up having heartto-he heart with a lot of people and um making some cool friends through it. So, I'm grateful for it. Like I I don't think any business owner will say they started their business and it was easy, right? No. I mean, well, and you just had such a crazy demand, too. Yes. Yes. Out the gate. Yes. Out the gate. Like 10,000 units is unheard of. Yeah. It was scary if I'm being honest. It was so scary. And you know, now I've got help. Thank God. But I mean, I'm still growing is still like hard. It's just the demand continues to grow and I'm so grateful for it. But as I grow, like Marcus is growing at the same time and so it's just like I don't know, we feel like we're on a buck and bull and just trying to keep up with it all. But, you know, I don't mean that negative, you know, I'm I'm grateful, but it's just it's a lot. It's growing pains and I mean I would make anyone go crazy. My favorite hat is obviously the granny hat. The granny. Yes, I brought that for you. Thank you. You know what's actually so hard even for me? Like I put my alarm on to buy hats and like and they go they go. Yeah. Yeah. It's insane. I'm working on that though because like it's just it's so hard like it's hard to guess like what what are people going to love? Like it's just especially when you introduce something new like I'm doing all the time. That's something I love about my mind and the way my brand is. It's like you're when I look at you, you're so curated like with your drops and your your things and I'm just whatever hits the brain is going out on the internet, you know, and that's like I don't know. I like that about my brand, but it is it's makes it harder to judge like, oh, what what's what's everyone going to love more this this feather or this feather or this thing or this thing, you know? Well, casting units in general, it's like so difficult to do. Like you you're killing it. It's like so incredible. It's so exciting. Thank you. And so are you, dude. I mean, thank you. I need another set because uh or no, I need a new recipe book. Okay, I have a mirror. My dog. We can do a little shopping in my office. It'll be perfect. Yeah. And vice versa. But but I did bring like 12 hats in the car. So, okay. I like can't wait for that. Um something I do want to talk about is mental health. That's something that like we talk about a lot. And I mean, we were saying this before and I was like transparently, I'm so down in the dumps. Like I've had probably the worst mental health week I've had probably in like the past couple of months. But I really appreciate how both you and Marcus are like so open about it. Especially like with Mark I mean it's like the one thing like as a male I just I don't want to say it harder but like men just don't really talk about it. So I love that he does especially amongst men like men are not talking about mental health enough. Yeah. I feel like southern folks especially really don't talk about mental health. Like therapy was not a thing growing up. you know, I hate that you're down in the dumps, but like I was saying earlier, it's like I've totally totally totally been there. And I mean, to the point that I gave the, you know, the bullets to my gun away because I was like, I don't I don't know what suicide feels like, but I do know that it can, you know, you can plan it out or it can be a split-second thought, and I don't want it to ever be a split-second thought for me. So, I've been not saying that's where you are, but I've been deep down in the dumps. And I like I've been so scared to talk about it because um you know, some people find it shameful or or you know, talk about it like you're it's a victim mentality, but like I was saying, I think when I was answering your cards, like if I could tell myself, you know, something from or myself a year ago something, it would be like it it does shine. the sun shines on the other freaking side because I was down that bad. Bed rotting, tub rotting, wouldn't leave the house for over a week. I was scared to go on vacation. I remember I went on vacation and slept the whole time because my my body I finally felt like safe. So, and it's been coming up on my uh for you page a lot. A lot of people are being more outspoken about their depression and how it takes that exact form of like not being able to get out of the bed, which is just so crazy. And I, you know, I saw um I don't want to say her name, but an influencer talking about her weight and how people are really really like getting after her about her weight. And the same was happening to me. In fact, uh it was at the Grammys last year. People were saying that I was editing my videos that like my arm actually really wasn't that skinny. And I was like, man, if only they knew that it really is that skinny. And it I got smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller. And that's when I, you know, got blood work. Don't scroll past them cortisol uh Tik Toks because there is some there is a little bit of truth to it. A lot of the a lot of the crap and the supplements out there are like not you know not Yeah. not doing what they claim they are. But yeah, been there. And Marcus too, you know, his whole last record was really like dark and about his dark time with his mental health. And this next one's about me. Thank God. So, you know, it's going to be good. You guys are safe. Yeah. Thank God. Yeah. It's going to be great. But yeah, no, we both we both have experienced it. When I started my hat company, I had ne I've never really dealt with anxiety. I'd never had a panic attack before. Like I've never really heard anybody talk about what that feels like. And so I was like begging Marcus to call 911. Thankfully he is a panic attack pro and was like, "You're having a panic attack." And so uh just lay on the cold bathroom floor and beg God for mercy to get through it and got through it. But I was like, "Holy cow, I never want to experience that again." But there were several after that. Several. Um, but I also didn't want to be on like I didn't grow up on medication. So, it was like hard for me to go to the doctor and say, "I I need to be on anti-depressant." And so, I just I didn't this this time. I tried it in my 20s and everything just felt gray. I can't describe how that felt, but it takes a while to find the right one for you. Like if that's the path that you go down, that's the other thing with meds that kind of suck is that it just takes a bit. Well, I ain't got time. So, I just quit and I was like, I just I'll just be psycho. I guess it's way more fun this way. I don't know. But it's it's it's just seasonal for me. I feel like, you know, comes in waves. And that's when I found the Lord. You know, my neighbor gave me a Jesus Calling um devotional. And that, I mean, alone saved my life. Here I am talking about the sun and things like that. not need to be talking about the Lord because that book I swear it's so funny when I scroll through like there will be like I can look and see there's like a shape of a teardrop from where like a one particular day like would really resonate and make me cry and I'll pass through it and it's just so funny because it's last year and that's when I was reading that I'm like wow I'm in a totally different headsp space now that's so crazy and I have that book to thank that the sun the birds I was showing a friend your Instagram recently we were going somewhere And I don't remember why it was like you were going to be there or something. So I like pulled it up and I went to your Instagram story and it's a Jesus Calling photo and I'm like okay that's not really the best way to describe her personality. Not at all. Well it's like Jesus calling a joint uh rosé with some jalapenos and like some kind of a kooky outfit really is like the king starter kit. No, it's crazy with mental health how you can feel so out of control. And like I've dealt with mental health issues. Like I I don't remember life where I haven't dealt with it in some capacity. Not that I there's definitely been times where like I actively like I'm not anxious. I'm not depressed. I'm like okay, but it's I'm not so far away from having felt it in my life, you know? So like it's always been there. It's run so deep in my family. like it. I I've always like had the issues, but I've been pretty good at dealing with it cuz my dad had them. My dad saw it to me really young and it's like taught me how so much of like when it's like things are put together or planned or whatever. So much of that is just me getting ahead of it so I'm not going to end up getting anxious. Yeah. So I have some sort of control and I'm not going to like lose my actual mind. But and I'm like when I am depressed I'm so high functioning so it's not obvious to other people besides the past week or so when I'm like oh I actually like cannot get out of bed. But it is crazy cuz I just have to remember I'm like it does pass. I will get better. I will feel better. A lot of it to me for me is hormonal cuz I have PMDD. But like it's just so crazy. And then it sucks when like you share so much of your life online and I'm like I feel like between this and grief in the past year, all I do is like go on the internet and say hate my life and like that's not what I want to be and that's not who I want to be. Like obviously I've been in those spaces and that's like fine for me to feel, but like that's not where I want to land. Especially when you're like grieving or you're in just such deep dark depression like you don't really want anyone to look at you and I don't really want to remember these moments or to like that's not really what I like the thing I want to like put forward. I don't want to look back. Also like grief specifically is very ugly. So like there's things that I feel about people that I wouldn't necessarily you know like all the things. So, I hate that aspect of like when I'm sharing so much of my stuff online, which I feel like people can feel that way regardless, you know, but I mean, think about how many people like watched your grieving journey and it helped them, you know, like I I wish I was more confident in my like unstable mental state that I could get online and post more because like I said, like I kind of disappeared and so like I I don't know as you know, some people may think it's cringe. I I find it like really helpful and it really helps like your audience get to know you and like what you're going through. And I think that all all goes back to my raisin was we do not talk about do not talk about your problems. Like don't share it, bottle it up. And that's probably why like all this anxiety is bulled up, you know, as an adult. But I know I appreciate creators like yourself, like Ken Urick and you know, anyone else that's sharing their like mental health stages, even Bunny, like yeah, you know, she sharing her IVF journey like somebody. Yeah, somebody benefits from seeing all that. So that's like, you know, maybe this maybe this inspire me to talk about my [ __ ] a little bit more. I definitely lean towards a side of like I love vulnerability and I want like if I'm doing this like I want to connect with people and I'm glad like I post it because I hope that it helps people like I that is the intention but there's just times where it's like you're just so down it's just like you just I don't mean like you feel ugly physically necessarily. I think it's just like inside it's like I don't like how I feel right now. Right. But authenticity wins. I mean like but people I feel I feel like people love authentic people like yourself and I don't know you you help so many people like even even when you are like if you're doing your normal content like we're sitting here right now talking about I hate life but like you're still staging and posting like all these cool things that I want to be doing. So it's like I hope I hope that well I hope this will inspire others to you know push through like keep posting. We're all freaking going through it and it's not easy. It's like not easy online. It just everything is so fake if I'm being honest. I don't even think everything's so fake. I mean, it is fake, don't get me wrong, but I also think like people do have a right to like only I think people just only share their highlight reel, which like is fair, you know, but it is like refreshing. I remember when I lost my brother. I remember googling people who had like lost their brother and survived. And like to me, I'm like if I can help people Yeah. cuz it is helpful to see someone who's like 20 years on the line. It's like okay like there is a life that can be lived still and I feel similarly obviously grief is so different than like mental it's different and similar to like mental illness but they're all just problems and also just like talking about it in general like even like even if I'm around someone I'm just having a bad couple days I don't need to talk about it necessarily but like just so it's out there so you're not like sitting there overthinking too because it's like after I'm like well was did I say this? Was I entertaining? Did I do that? You know what I mean? It's like it doesn't it doesn't need to be that way, you know? Oh, I I know what you mean. I used to have a um like a private little Instagram during COVID where I like would keep it as a journal so that I was like writing and I had like maybe four or five friends up there that if if I wasn't because I would used to go days without answering people. I still kind of do sometimes but that's for other reasons. But um yeah, I would just like go journal on a spare Instagram so that everyone could see like I'm good. I don't need to talk about any of this. Don't bring it up. But just to spill it. And that was when I was like deep deep deep deep in therapy, which still am. I like I think I always will be. Therapy is like amazing. But yeah, just sharing that privately and publicly definitely, you know, got to help somebody, you know, actually. I'm like hopefully myself at this point. Like yeah, you know, okay. So crazy. Yeah, I went to go see Trisha Pis uh literally at the Ryman and she was talking about or you know just her the reel that starts before the show starts. It just shows all of her phases like her crying in the kitchen floor phase and like just all the eras of Trisha which was her the name of her tour. But anyway, it was really inspiring to listen to her talk about like and thank her fan base for like sticking with her through all of that [ __ ] because I mean she did some crazy stuff. She's but that's why we love her. You know that's why we love her. I had that exact takeaway when I left. I like talked about it on the podcast and I'm like it's crazy but like I really like not that Trisha is actually really genius and smart and like people don't give her credit. I don't mean it in that way but I'm like it is crazy that I'm like coming here telling you that like how much I learned from Trisha Pis crying on her kitchen floor. But seriously like and she has pushed through. No one's more consistent. No one is consist like she has she is the epitome of consistency and just pushing through. And it's been really cool because like she's been online for so long that I feel like I've like just watched her grow up and I don't it's so cool like and she's so cool dude. She she'll be on she was on stage you know she's so she's like super pregnant right now and her uh Elvis she was doing an Elvis routine and the belt kept coming undone and me I would have been like what the [ __ ] you know like freaking out about it. She's like oh yeah my belt's coming off. Oh well. And I'm like, "Oh, that is what I that I want to be that unbothered." But she talked about her journey to get to that point and it won't pretty. So, I don't know. We all go through it. Just different different fonts, I reckon. I just love her so much. Yeah, dude. She's the [ __ ] She's amazing. Okay, we can end off by like making our pact of like things that we're going to do, okay, in the next week. Okay. To better our mental health. I will Well, we need to do things together, too. But I will get outside between 8 and 10 a.m. Yes. No sunglasses. No sunglasses. Feet in the ground. It's called grounding. I do know about that. Touch the grass. Touch the grass. Okay, that's good. I'll force myself to leave the house. We need to do something fun. Yeah. Can we go antiquing? I would love to go and there's a place called Gas Lamp. Yeah, that's where Yes. And I only went to one side the other day cuz I spent spent too long in there. I couldn't make it to the other. So, I'm ready. Okay, perfect. We'll go antiquing. And I need to make like a bucket list in general for Nashville. You need to develop a bucket list. Is that what you said? Yeah. I need to like make a bucket list of things so that I like make myself go do things. Yeah. So, you check all your boxes. You get the full Nashville experience. Okay. So, this next week, aside from us going antiquing, we I need to make sure I'm checking all the boxes. See, I have my my best friends coming into town, so I'm so excited. So, I'm going to make sure I deep clean my house because that is like really really fills my cup when my house is super clean. Make sure I do that. I need to get out of the house and go to a nice dinner and um get like Okay, I'm going to go get my hair done, nails done, Botox, and um eyebrows. It's I'm overdue for all of it. So, all that Nothing will make you feel better than that. Exactly. And then I'll play my Sabrina Carpenter and drink my French 75 and take over the world. Eat a chicken little chicken tender. Yes. There you go. Chicken tender never hurt nobody. No, it didn't. No. Um those are my things. That's what And that's I just I just gave myself a whole list for this next week. That's a lot to get done. It's okay. But I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it cuz I'm like I'm at the point where I'm either going to chop my hair off or I need extensions. Like something's got to give. You got to like change it up. Yeah. Not Sophia. Richie. No, not a bob. You don't want a bob? No, I can't do a bob. But you are like the least bob person I think I've ever met in my life. I can't even like Oh, I will send you a picture. I cannot face and the top was black and the bottom was um platinum. I was I was emo for a while. Who I know. Yeah. Who would have ever seen this girl in black? Absolutely not. Never. But in I was an emo girl and I did have a bob. So I need to send it to you. Trisha Pis eras. Totally. Dude, when she was up there singing um like when she had her emo era like you know she was in the middle hospital and she talked about how her emo era like helped her get through all of that. Same. I'm I'm like I'm in the kitchen making the same music video. I just don't post mine. No, she's like literally the best. Okay. Well, we've actually been talking for over an hour already. Um, so unfortunately, but like you're welcome to come back literally anytime. Wow. I must This is so fab. I feel like this is a good like another side of you versus like other things. Yeah. Like I really appreciate a space where I can come and not have to be crazy. Yeah. It was just chill. Yeah. So chill, dude. So chill. So funny. So stylish. So cool. So, perfect. Amazing. So, where can they find you and shop the hats? Okay. Yes. Okay. Website for hats, littlebirdtrucking.com. Follow me on uh Tik Tok, kids supreme, and Instagram, real Brley King. Brley King was taken. And there you go. Okay. Love you. And eventually YouTube. You got to help me on the YouTube. I don't know how. We need to schedule a date for the dinner party because that's what we need to do. I like need to Yes. Yes. Okay. And we're going to have a dinner party. We're going to that will add that to our list of things to do this week. And that'll be perfect. Schedule a dinner party. And by the time this comes out, so will the real of our dinner. Yes, it will. Period. Amazing. Okay. Well, love you so much. Love you. Bye. Bye. Bye.