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Hey guys, this is Mel. 
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Yeah, we're happy to talk about 
love with you. 

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Break UPS, divorce. 
Yep, you name it, it is hard. 

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And yeah, today's couple we are 
diving into is a couple from 

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country music. 
I was really into country music 

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back when I was in high school. 
Not so much anymore. 

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But this couple at the time 
seemed like a power couple in 

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that industry and I wasn't 
really paying attention to 

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tabloids or anything. 
So I thought like, too powerful 

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to fail, which I don't think is 
actually a thing. 

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I think, you know, there's some 
couples who are like, they seem 

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so unloved, don't never break 
up. 

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You can unfortunately never 
think that when it comes to 

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celebrities. 
Always have to stay on your 

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toes, but yeah, I I was not part
of the country music world, but 

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I obviously heard of them and 
they also seemed like a powerful

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couple. 
But what are their names? 

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Mel who? 
Who are we talking about? 

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So this is Blake Shelton who you
guys, now if you're not into 

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country music, might also 
recognize from the Voice in the 

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United States, the competition 
show and Miranda Lambert, 

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Miranda, She sings the song The 
House That Built Me. 

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That's like one song. 
I really love by her a lot. 

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I didn't know that one. 
And yeah, 3 words that I would 

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use to describe this couple 
would obviously be country. 

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I'd also say wild. 
And a word that kept coming to 

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mind that I haven't used before 
would be sour. 

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Oh yeah, we have not used that. 
Which is sad. 

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They they just started to feel 
kind of sour to me. 

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But yeah, I mean Blake Shelton, 
so he was born June 18th, 1976 

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in Atta, Oklahoma. 
So he's very, very country. 

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He's crazy tall by the way. 
He's 65, which I didn't realize 

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that is. 
So tall I I wouldn't have. 

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I don't know. 
I didn't picture. 

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That I know. 
Me neither. 

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He was born to a beauty salon 
owner named Dorothy, and his 

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dad, Dick, was a car salesman. 
He was raised on a ranch in a 

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small town in Oklahoma and had a
passion for music at a very 

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early age. 
A lot of that was inherited from

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his brother, his older brother 
who was 10 years older than him,

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who we looked up to a lot. 
He said that his brother Richie 

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would always be listening to 
different records and blasting 

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his stereo in his room, across 
the hall or in his car, and 

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Blake just idolized his brother 
and really wanted to be just 

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like him. 
I know, sadly I hate to pivot 

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with this, but his brother 
actually passed away when Blake 

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was 14. 
His brother Richie died in a car

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accident at just 24 and it was 
truly life changing and 

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devastating for Blake. 
And I feel like I don't. 

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I don't know. 
I don't want to infer, but it 

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seems like maybe a major 
motivation for him pursuing a 

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career in music was because he 
thought it would really make his

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brother proud and his brother 
would just think it's like the 

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coolest thing ever so. 
Definitely. 

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I mean, I I feel like a lot of 
people when they witness tragedy

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so young. 
I mean, it can can make you do 

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two things that you can kind of 
make you shut down or it can 

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make you realize, you know, how 
short life it. 

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Can be and. 
Go for it. 

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You know, it kind of parallels 
Johnny Cash, who also lost his 

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brother really young. 
He was a big country music 

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singer. 
It's. 

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Our other country music episode.
So after graduating high school,

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Blake moved to Nashville, where 
he worked at a music publishing 

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company and pursued a singing 
career. 

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He hustled for several years 
before he had his first record 

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deal with Giant Records for his 
debut album, and success came 

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pretty quickly for him after 
that. 

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In 2001, he released his first 
single called Austin, which 

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became a number one hit and 
stayed at the top of the charts 

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for five weeks. 
Around this time, he married his

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longtime girlfriend who was his 
high school sweetheart named 

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Kanet Williams, and she worked 
as a road manager on tour for 

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Blake. 
So they were very, very close 

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dated for what? 
I mean, he probably at this 

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point is like in his early 20s. 
So they probably dated for like 

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a decade before getting married.
Then he went on to release two 

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more albums called The Dreamer 
and Blake Shelton's Barn and 

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Grill before we get to where our
story begins. 

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But I would say that he's been 
described as very goofy with a 

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boisterous personality. 
He's definitely very 

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extroverted. 
And in an interview with CNN, he

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described himself by saying my 
heart and soul is being a 

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redneck and drinking and being 
stupid. 

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That's what I do. 
Being a. 

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Redneck, OK, they're both really
into that redneck lifestyle and 

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drinking. 
I think that comes up quite a 

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bit. 
OK, cool. 

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So Miranda. 
She was born November 10th, 

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1983. 
So she's a little bit younger, 

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about six years younger than 
Blake. 

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She was born in Longview, TX and
her parents, Rick and Bev, they 

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were both private detectives who
even worked on the Bill Clinton 

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impeachment trial. 
So they were some pretty, I 

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know, super random, but they 
also like lived a pretty simple 

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life. 
She was raised on a farm and for

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two years of her childhood they 
only lived off the land 

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completely where they raised 
chickens and pigs and they would

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slaughter them and they also had
a lot of pet animals too and 

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just seems like a very simple 
Country Life. 

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I know her parents. 
She's like hippie farmer. 

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I know. 
Detective. 

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I know seriously her to add to 
this, her parents also would 

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take in abused women who were 
seeking like Shelter Asylum and 

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they would stay at the Lambert's
house and Miranda would sit and 

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talk to them and just listen to 
their stories. 

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And she has said that this has 
informed her music and a lot of 

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the stories and the women that 
she sings about in her songs 

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makes sense. 
And then at 16, she finished 

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third in ATV talent show, which 
gained her a decent amount of 

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exposure and then LED to her 
releasing A debut album called 

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Kerosene a year later in 2004. 
And then that went platinum. 

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Then a year after that, she won 
the ACM, which I think is 

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American Country Music Award for
Best New Female Vocalist, which 

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kind of put her on the map. 
And around this time, she also 

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reportedly was engaged to a 
country singer named Jeff Allen 

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Mcgannis. 
Not much has really known about 

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him, but that's like all there 
is to know that he was engaged 

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to her, OK. 
All right. 

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