Lane Brody: Walden's Puddle is in Joelton, just outside of Nashville, and it's a wildlife rehabilitation center, where we take injured and orphaned animals, about fourteen hundred a year, that's a lot of animals for a little place like that, everything from possums, raccoons, squirrels, every kind of bird, we've even had bobcats, depending on what's going on in the TWRE, you know, where they keep track of what you're doing, we're monitored, if there's a rabies in the population of raccoons, like up in Chattanooga, then all of a sudden, the raccoons, they can't take 'em. But so far in Nashville, we've been fine, we can take raccoons, we haven't had anything like that. But there are some speciality places that handle the little tiny deer, the babies. So it's a wonderful place, and most of them get returned to the wild. If they can't be, then we place them in centers where they can live out their life and we do have some educational animals in schools, teaching, educating people on wildlife, just keeping a profile for the littlest beings in our neck of the woods here.
JoleneHost: Some friends of mine in Joelton have coons that come to their house, they feed them and they've named them and they have I don't know how many they have thirty of them or something.
Lane Brody: Me, too. Every night they come, they like dog treats and cookies and-
JoleneHost: Are you serious?
Lane Brody: Yeah. Our whole yard is feeding stations for everything within twenty miles, you know.
JoleneHost: They send videos at Christmas, and all these little coons are comin' up-
Lane Brody: Yeah, they bring the babies, and yeah.
JoleneHost: It's great! It's like their kids.
Lane Brody: That's how we are at our home.
JoleneHost: That's cool, though.
Lane Brody: Yeah, and you don't always wanna tell everybody that, 'cause they think you're crazy but you know, it's our life.
JoleneHost: It's what you like to do.
Lane Brody: Yeah, it's what we love.
JoleneHost: And animals appreciate it.
Lane Brody: They do! Oh, I get so much in return from them.
JoleneHost: Exactly. You do it and they appreciate it.
Lane Brody: Yeah, they do.
JoleneHost: Earlier on you'd done some acting. Are you doing any of that right now?
Lane Brody: Not really. I just never wanted to act, you know, I had- I always tell people that I- and I tell young, little kids, put them in a theatre group, it's so good for them to come out of their shell, you know, it just helps you get in touch with your - it grounds you, you know, get in touch with your emotions, how to relax, you know, all kinds of techniques you can learn being in a little playhouse, in a group or something like that, or having an acting coach, it's very healthy for life skills, it really is, it's amazing. So I just did that kinda to become a better recording artist, better performer, not knowing that when I went out to Hollywood I'd start landing roles. But it wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I had fun, though, Taxi was great, and I did a guest- starring role on Heart of the City, and I would do it if somebody asked me. Every now and then something comes up, I was offered something on a Broadway play kind of a thing, singing a musical kind of a thing, so at the right time, maybe I'd do something, but I'm not out there, I got an agent, still, and they know that I'm sort of at home with the animals.
