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one of your friends on the phone, martina mcbride, are you there? hello?ends jerry. >> i think he wrote nice stuff about me in the book. >> be nice to him then. what impact has he made, martina? >> jerry made a few impacts on this town and that we all got to listen to him every morning for many, many years and he made me laugh every single day. and the thing i love most about jerry is that he's one of the people that is super funny, but really generous. so you know how some people have to be the only funny person in the room? they're funny, so they can't let anybody else have any -- they don't laugh at anybody else's jokes. he's always so generous. he's just a great person. i'm really proud to know him as a friends. >> what a great testimony. >> she has a book coming out. it's called "under the table," isn't that your book? >> yes. >> what's your book called? >> "around the table." >> a little different story. >> one of the great things about jerry is hes have a writer. he understands from the musical point of view and the personality point of view. we're

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you could never no matter how far blake then does the stuff he got really loves country music martina mcbride was on recently we talked about the symptoms of the gay community and country music you think that could happen could there be a country star who. i don't know i have as a question a star i know in the community in asheville i mean it's you know i have a lot of friends there are gay straight there's all sorts people national writing songs and an industry in the music it's you know gays arriving soon to some singing of course. i don't know who's unknown in that artist but those were driving down a redneck country usually that we have maybe a stereotype that rev yeah yeah national is and i think he'll come to nashville it's kind of a good thing in a bad. thank you the people are just discovering my little city after being there for twenty years just blowing up as you go realizing that it's just such a great town it's not stereotypes might have that it or country music i think are merely shot down the second it's national because it's such really is of such a mixture of people it's such