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You're so excited.

Trisha Yearwood doing her holiday shopping in New York City,

taught she a drop-bide on the way to Sacks.

Love that for us.

Trisha, it looks like you've already been there.

You look gorgeous today. Well, I had a team of professionals. I don't know how to dress myself. I wish I had time to go shopping. That'd be so awesome. You should go. Sacks Fifth Avenue, right around the corner. And, you know, the windows are done up for Christmas. I know. I love New York. I do. You can have it. I love Christmas in New York. You don't have to put headphones on. You do. I'm going to play some music for you. I do. I'm going to play music. I thought you were going to sing for me. That's what I heard. I'm going to sing for you. I heard. Man, you're going to have to use it. I'll point at you when it's time to put the headphones out. Well, Tricia Yearwood here, the album is out today. It's called Christmas Time. Oh, by the way, let me play, okay, cue. All right. There is a cut on here that you do with Garth. I do know that one. Merry Christmas Valentine. I'm going to give you a little, they call it a hook. Here we go. And there's a special one. Merry Christmas Valentine. I'm going to give you a little, they call it a hook. Here we go.

And there's a special one to you for me.

Tied with a bright red

bowl, a note that signed.

Merry Christmas Valentine. Wait, where's, where's Garth? There's no Garth on this. Cut. He's coming up. They cut it off. No, wow. They're saving him. He's harmony. We're thinking he's on there. He is on there. So, so it sounds like a romantic, you know, back and forth Christmas duet. Were you in the studio together when you sang it or not? Yeah, we were. Yeah. Yeah, it's not a, it's not a, it's not a technical duet. It's a harmony part. And it's really beautiful. He, you know, he's in all the songwriter Hall of Fames, and I've been doing a lot of songwriting the last couple of and he was always encouraging me to write and I was always like, I'm not really a songwriter because I was really in my own head about it. And when I finally kind of got to a place where I felt comfortable, I said, you should write with me again because I'm really fun now. Like I'm confident. I'm a lot more fun to write with. And we were sitting outside. We have this house on a hill in Nashville, and we kind of looked downtown, and we sit out there a lot. And we were talking about it. And he was the one who said, there needs to be a song. Has there ever been a song about Merry Christmas Valentine that combines the holidays? Because one holiday's not enough for this grand romance.

I don't think the Hallmark Company would like this. I know. I think so too. I feel like this is a whole

thing. And so we just started working on it. And he doesn't write anything down. I write everything down. I'm Virgo. And I'm on my phone trying to like, I'm like, he's like, we'll remember it. I'm like,

no, we will not remember it. And that was long before the Christmas album was even on the books.

And so when this came around, we hadn't finished it. And I said, we need to finish that song because I really liked to put it. Yeah. See, I'll always, when you hear duets or harmonizing with a couple together, couple together, you envision them in, you know, a studio with the lights low the candles are lit and they're like making love to

the microphone and then we find it later now that he was in Nashville and I was in London and we didn't

see each other when we recorded with each other this was a little different because we recorded this

whole album live in L.A. with a live orchestra 45 piece orchestra okay let's talk about that yeah so he

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