#319 - Reba McEntire on The Untold Story of “Fancy” + Her New Duet with Dolly Parton + Addressed Her Biggest Urban Legends + The First Time She Realized She Was Famous + Going Grocery Shopping By Herself

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Speaker 1: M Hello friends, this is a big one. Reba McIntyre is here for an Hour The Untold Story of Fancy, her new duet with Dolly Parton. She talked about some of the urban legends about her life the first time she realized she was famous. I mean, it's Reba centric and it's awesome, so I don't want to keep you waiting too long. Here are the five music releases I think you should check out. Natalie Himby has a new album called Pins and Needles. Here is the title track. Cody Johnson put out Human, the double album. Here's a new song called Treasure Treasure, Here said your loves word. Matt Stell has a new song called Boyfriend Season When you running out ways to forget me and the lights and the night, just staying enough when you're lying? What way can you give me? Old Dominion new album called Time, Tequila and Therapy. Here's All I Know about Girls. All I know about girls is a by world. Ain't gonna spend without him, but it'll spin around him. All I know about girls is your best get out of the way, shut your damn and the number one song is from Reba. She released Revived, Remixed and revisited, and it includes does he Love You? I do it with Dolly Parton, he love You? Does he love you? Luck? He love Swain loves Me? Does he Think You? Is You? Think of the lad? Is how Me? And is a five new releases to check out. I think we're gonna leave it there and get right onto the interview. Thank you, guys. I believe you will enjoy this one in studio with Reba? At what point did it just turn into just Reba? Gosh? I think in um Nanny four, was that a conscious decision by you and your team to go I want to be an icon, so let's just go with Reba? Or it was Marvel's idea? Yeah, and I liked it because only when I sign my autograph, I only had to put Reba because I'm lazy. Now it's kind of weird to hear McIntyre. Yeah. I like it. When I'm doing liners and things, I say, have Reba McIntyre because that has a cadence for me. But just to do Reba's fund with me too, I go with it. I guess you have to drag out Reba. I'm Reba, Reba, Hey, re Hey, I'm Reba McIntyre. It just sounds better to me. It's funny to see whenever you look at your career, even today, how relevant you are pop culture wise. Today. I'm watching Ted last though, and they're like, hey, we love the tickets under Reba McIntyre, and so that that itself. And we watched that episode I think two weeks ago, right did they Did you know that was going to be in that show at all? No? I was sitting there with Riddler Modog. I was sitting there watching TV and and Roy Kent, my favorite character of the whole show, comes up and says, I think you're holding a ticket for Reba McIntyre. Riddler, did you hear that? I was through. Marty said the same thing. She was sitting there with her dog Cooper. So it was it was fun the same kind of thing because I'm on TikTok a lot. When you know I'm a survivor, is I'm must and it's everybody doing like their little household things. You know, someone you know throws away the trash. You know that became and it still is a huge you know TikTok trend that did that come out of nowhere for you too? And did someone come up and go reab. All of a sudden, this song is massive on TikTok. Yeah. I think Justin was the one. He sent it over to me, Justin McIntosh and uh he said, look at this looks what's look what's going on? And I said, well, that's pretty cool. I said, these kids weren't even born probably when it was out first time, and he said, we need to do one. So we did and then it just got bigger and bigger, very flattering. It's it's it's one. For a few weeks it was the most the thing that I had seen the most. Now what's odd is that um uh neon Moon is having its Ronnie it texts me and goes, hey, what's happening here? And I was like, what do you mean? What's happening? And I don't I don't know. The guy that runs TikTok he was like, our, our song is being played all over the place. It's got some mix and then now there's like a dance to it. But it is really cool to see out and it's the easiest dance too. And some of those dances I look at I can't do, but it's like to eat. But that song that Mike the remix Everywhere, isn't it everywhere? I'm a survivor. Neon Moon are probably other than Walker Hayes's fancy like like the two biggest songs on TikTok. But it's it's just cool to see. I wouldn't even say every you know, generation in which I would say like ten years, but it's like, you just stay relevant. And if someone comes to you and says, you know, what's the keyest staying what? How do you do it? How do I do? How you do it? I don't do nothing. I've got a great team that come up there young. They can think of great things for me to do, and I just go do it. And thank god, fans like that thought it was interesting enough to sit on the toilet seat and change the role of toilet paper paper and then turn into rebund. Good job. You know, I'm a survivor. It's just cute things like that. I'm very flattered more than anything the songwriters. I mean I I text them and I sent the TikTok over to them saying, look what's going on for y'all song? So it's something we can all can share and celebrate with. But it is so good and it proves one thing, a great song will live forever. The you did a whole album with different remixes on it. Yeah, was the remix album inspired by it kind of blowing up again? Or will you pready in the works with that before it blew up? On TikTok, Cindy maybe came up with the idea of revisiting the catalog, and so their team, my team, they all got together and started coming up. I mean, I'm the first time we all said at a long conference table and they were telling me the ideas was that two years ago or a year ago at least two when we could without mask And I was like, oh crap, they're They're serious. They've got a lot of ideas here. And after the first fifty I was like, man, this is cool. And after that I was like, oh crap, I'm gonna be way busier and I want to be probably, but they were coming up with all these ideas and then the three albums and three ways of doing fancy and I thought it was just genius. And so here we are promotment. Now did you feel precious about Okay, I know you want to remix these songs, but to a lot of people these songs, you know, uh define you know, different parts of their life or were you like, hey, have that it. I'm curious to see what you guys do with three the latter, and I was saying, go for it. Then when they said I'm a survivor as a dance mix, I said, really, but it turned out great. It's fun to look at your top streaming songs. Fancies number one of all that when we went through all the different services kind of added them all up, Fancies number one, and I never and I'm probably I'm sure that you've heard this many times. Whenever I was singing fancy as a kid, I never really knew what fancy was about until I got to be an adult. And then when when I found out what fancy was about, I was like, wow, I've been singing that song a little too passionately because I'm seeing it. I was singing it hard. I mean, I was really into it. And then it's like one day you just go, oh, how about that? How about that? Yeah, the little girl coming to school and wanting to sing fancy for the talent not and she goes, do you know what this is about? She's yeah, she gets a brand new red dress from her mama. Okay, and then okay, if that's what you think it's about, that's great. So when you recorded that song, was there any talk with your with you your team, like, well, this is kind of an area that we're gonna be singing about that maybe isn't talked about a whole lot in contemporary country music. Well, when I was with Jimmy Bowen in the eighties, he said, is there a song you want to a remix song? And I said, yeah, fancy. He said, oh, woman, you don't need to be doing that. That's about a prostitute. I said, that's totally aware of that. And so when I went with Tony Brown in nineteen ninety, he said, would you like to do a song again? And I said fancy. He said, oh my gosh, that's my favorite song. So we did it. So it had been discussed years earlier, and you decided not to cover it, but I was vetoed, Yeah, it was like, no, you can't do that. Well this whenever uh the ninth the lights went out in Georgia, which I know that song because of Mama's family and then you know, doing research on her and then realizing she was a singer. You have Vicky Lawrence. Um, when you do that song, was it similar or did you go We're just gonna do it and right away same thing? Tony said, is there another song you'd like to do a remix? To do it again? And I said, yeah, that's the night, the last one out in Georgia. And you know Vicky, that was her one and only song she recorded went number one. That amazing. Do you have a conversation with the person if they're alive, like did you talk to vickians did and what was her thoughts? Like have at it? Oh? She was thrilled to death. Yeah, but it was after I did it when I talked to remember she had that talk show at TV talk Show and I went on the visited with her and we sang it together on on the show. That's pretty cool. Yeah, I would assume even for you, that would be pretty cool. And you get to do everything cool. Oh, everything I get to do cool. I am thrilled to death about it. I don't take it for granted. Still, after all this time, you're not jaded? Oh no, No. When I got to do the video with Dolly Parton, I was like I was the biggest fan in the room. You know, It's it's wild to hear someone who I look at as being the greatest you, and to look at Dolly at the greatest she is, and to to know that you would walk into a room with her and be like in awe when you moved to Nashville. Where was it Doll? Was Dolly available when you moved to Nashville? Or was she in l a Was she in that face? I don't know. The first time I saw Dolly was September sevent nineteen seventy seven, in person, the day the hour I was going to go on and do my first performance at the Grand Old Opry, and they told came up and said, we're gonna take one of your songs away from you. You only do one And I said why, said well, Dolly Parton just pulled it in the parking lot. And I said, well, she canna take both of them? Can I meet her? And she walked buying this chaffaun black pants sued and had those butterfly rund stone butterflies on and this big cotton candy hair. Hell man, that must be what angels looked like. That was the most beautiful woman I ever saw my life and did you say hello? No? I was backed up again the wall like everybody else was. I mean they said, art the waves, Dolly's coming me in, and us lamed back up against that wall and just watched. I don't think her feet touched the ground. She was an angel. And when did you guys have your first you know where we kind of do the same thing experience years later, and then she came on the Reba TV Show and we got to spend the whole week together. That was precious. That's absolutely love, that priceless. I just look at you two is out of the same cut of the same cloth. Where you're as country as can be, you have ambitions that are bigger than just singing country music. Although that's your most that's your pillar, you have ambitions other than just that. And you both did it at a really high level. And I would think that that hopefully she would be someone the same thing with like Taylor to you, you know, with some of these other artists who are doing that, that that that you can reach out to it after a point and get advice from her to that ever happened when you reach out like Dolly, you know, can I can I pick your brain at all. Oh yeah, yeah, I have done that. I did that in the early nineties. A phone call, and she took my call. A matter of fact, I called her. She was at I think Caesar's in Vegas, and I was in Bakersfield somewhere, and I needed a piece of advice from her, and and um, she was on the Tonight Show the night before and she said she's going to Vegas, won't be at Caesar's. So I called Caesar's, but you actually called the casino and I said, um, I need to speak to Dolly Parton please. She said, one moment, please, who's calling? I said, Reba McIntyre, And presuming Dolly came on the last she said, is this really Reba McIntyre or some squirrel that wishes she was Rebul McIntyre. It's me. That's funny to think about. We just have to call I mean, I haven't thought about having to do that. We just had to call a place to get someone. You have to call a restaurant and be like, hey, my uncle there. Yeah, that was like back in the day. I want to play a little clip of does he love you? This is you and Dolly here this here love you loves me, loves me? Does he think? Does he think of you? She was spo how cool is that to hear even though you've heard it ten thousand times? Yeah, you're right because when we first heard it, uh, Dave Cobb was the one that produced this one. And when we were going down the list of all the songs and listening to him, and does he Love You? Came up and I sat there and listen. I said, play it again, and we listened to it again. It was just the best. Can I ask about the original version? Because from me moving to Nashville, I've gotten to know Linda Hillary's mom, Yeah, pretty well, like I love her. Yeah. But I remember watching that CMT you Guys video. It was one of the videos that and probably propped me up beside the jukebox when I die. Probably two that I really you know, remember and think about from from kind of that part of my life. But a Originally I had read that you thought maybe whine knowing that would be the one, but Linda killed it singing it, and you're like, we have to go with that? Is that story true? Well, Parsley, Linda was on the road with me. She and Hilary's dad Blank Scott. They were on the road with me, and I thought, Linda, we could do this every night on stage because she's backup singers. I was featuring her on some songs because she had a record deal, and so Tony said, well, let's well. The record label of course, wanted either Tricia or one Ona, and I said, but it's right here. It's so handy, and they said, well, let's keep working on it. And I said, well, in the meantime while I'm recording it, would can Lenda just step in and do the other parts so I have somebody to sing against. They said okay, And when she got through, Tony said, she got the part. Did you tell her then, hey, you're just gonna sing this as kind of a demo version. Do you think in her mind she was like, I'm gonna sing this so good that hopefully they can't refuse that. You know, Linda is so honest and so innocent. She was just probably glad to be there and just I don't know what was in her mind, but I knew she would kill the song. I love it, and you know, Olinda has to do a sing and she she sells herself. It's wonderful. Did you know that Dolly would say yes if you asked her to do that? Did you worry she wouldn't say yes. That's why I said, managers, talk to managers. I didn't want to put Dolly on the spot. Besides, I don't have her phone number, so I thought it would be a good idea just to go in that way. She had an out if she didn't want to do it. The new box that revived, remixed, re revisited is out now. Uh, that is on the box that you're also doing the Christmas and Tune, which is the Lifetime movie. Where does the acting rank on your passions? Now? I love to act. I don't like to sit around her up and wait. I don't like that part of it. But I'm doing several episodes of Young Sheldon on CBS. I love to do that. I love the acting. I love the preparation. I love to memorize my lines. I like almost all of it. I like the being an executive produce. Sure, I like being at the beginning. I like to rewrite and uh, if they let me do that once in a while, and they've been they were really nice on Christmas and Tune to let me do that Rex helped me tremendously. My boyfriend, Rex Lynn, he was boy. He'd make me rehearse every day. I knew not only my lines, but I knew everybody else's lines because he would be every other character and I'd be me. So it was fun. It was I was very prepared for that role. Whenever you started to do Rebuild Your your television series, did you guys get a straight deal or did you do a pilot and then the pilot got picked up? Do you remember I'm getting them all mixed up? Because then we did Malibu Country. Um, I was in the midst of doing any Get Your Gun. We went in in April. I took ten days off from and he Gets Your Gun to do go to California shoot the pilot. Then we went to Upfronts, which is in May, and I had done eight shows that week. I got Monday off. Tuesday morning was up front, so I had to be but crack of dawn over there. And they changed the name three times. When we filmed the show for the pilot, it was the script was called Sally, and Marvin went to him and said, you know, if you did the afternoon filming as Sally and then in front of the audience, tape it and Reba b Reba instead of Sally. Then let's see how that tests out, and they said okay, So the title went from Sally. By the time I got to upfronts, it was deep in the heart because we were off from Houston, Texas and we were the Heart family. So then there came out this thing on the USA today that they're publisist. Publishists had said, why the w B had ever hired Reba McIntire for this part is ridiculous. She's not ever uh what do you call it? Um? People that watch, Yeah, she's not our demographics. And so the head of the company called by the time we got back the hotel after up fronts and said, terribly sorry, terribly sorry. What can we do to make up for this? Well, I'd already gone back to bed. I had a performance that night. So Marvel was talking to Hernie. He heard me get up and go to the bathroom and out of the other room and he said, um, hang on, let me put reb on the line. Banged on the bathroom doors to pick up the phone, and I saw I said hello, I said, We're terribly sorry what happened? And what was in the USA today? What can we do to make this up to you? And I was half asleep and I said, uh, oh, well, she said, well, Norvell said if we call it Reba, you'll be happy with that. And I said that's a wonderful idea. Thank you, hung up, went back to bed. So that's how I got the name Reba. And so you go, did you move out to l All because it was that like you said, Hey, I got I just gotta go. If I'm gonna do this, I don't need to visit it, I need to go live it. Oh we had to. We were there three weeks. So what happened was I got through it, then he gets your gun. On June we went to Ireland for a vacation. I did five weeks All Girl Tour and then went to l A. Found the found an apartment, a condo we lived in for the first season because you never know, it could go thirteen weeks and you don't get picked up. But then we got picked up on the back nine, and then Marvel went house hunting and we bought a house and we were there for six and a half seasons. Did that ever feel like home out there? I loved living in l A. I'd love to go back and do another show. Oh yeah, absolutely, Have you guys, you know, explored different versions of that. Have you been close, real close? Have you shot a pilot anything? Yeah, the Mark Cherry pilot. We did one called ox Blood and they passed on it. It's always a weird thing because I've shot a few pilots and had it passed on, where you feel like everybody so pumped about it and everybody loves it, But then might have been talk shows like oh, this is it. Research has been great, Yeah, it's been, It's tested so wonderfully. Well let's spend some month. Well it's just right now. So is that showed? That show is done? That shows done, unfortunately, which I thought it was gonna, you know, last forever. I thought I'd retire off of that show. I mean the ox Blood, that show. That's it. Yeah, Mark Cherry, Yeah, I love his show Now Why Women Kill? It's just he is a genius. I saw my wife watching that show one day and I was like, why are you watching Why? I don't know what it was about, just exactly what are your motives are we learning from this show? Yes? What? My my favorite duet in country music. The cowgirls don't cry that thanks. That song to me, I think is the sad It's we're in the land of sad songs. I mean, we have the format of the greatest sad songs of all time, because I think we have the format of the realist songs of all time. Cow girls don't cry that song to me. And maybe it's because I just didn't have a dad growing up. Maybe it hits me like that and I'm not a cow girl, but you know, there's that relationship like when when you heard that song, like, were you moved? Yes? Because I am a cow girl and my daddy was a cowboy and a very strict uh cowboy. And so when we do that song on stage in Vegas, there is a huge screen behind the stage, behind the setup, and I'm walking on stage for my part and running and kicks already out there, and I happened to look up and see that cowboy. I barely got my notes out. It choked me up so bad. I mean, that song still doesn't anytime we do, or anytime someone's interviewing me about country music and they're talking about emotion and song like that's the one I still go to after all these years. And and you know, we could was fifty great sad songs, but that one to me and maybe it's the time I want to cut and how it hits me personally. I'm not even a cow girl, like I said, no girl to me. I was talking to my wife, she's she's an Oki, and she was talking about how all the towns in Oklahoma are A lot of them are set in different ways. And she's talking about it's not Miami, Oklahoma, it's Miama, Oklahoma, right, And so you were born in say it for me, it's Chalky. I was born in McAllister and went to school at Kawa, which wall is the town she was talking about. It said two different ways, not Kyo Wall, It's Kawa. That's why we say it in the Kyo Wa Indians. And then I lived in Chalky, and then I lived before I left Oklahoma, lived in Stringtown. Just keep going south. But I went to college for three and a half years in Durant. That's a lot of Oklahoma. There's a lot of towns that kind of help help represent what town. I guess they probably all feel like they're your town. Like when you go do they all represent you in some way. Girlhood, home, born here, went to college here. Yeah, that's gotta be pretty cool. It is cool, and I go back. I go back quite often, Probably will Moore in the future. Um. Mom and daddy were worked real, real hard to gain a lot of land by a lot of property, and so they split it four ways between us, us kids, and now we are managing our own properties and it's a lot of fun. I'm curious about your mom because rememberything I've read about her. She was she could sing, and she wanted to be a singer, but she ended up being a school teacher and teaching music to kids liked. Did her desire to be a singer influence your desire to be a singer? Like? Did her once make you want it? How so? Because when we were rodeo and we didn't have a radio in the car and four kids in the back seat, rassling was getting would get on anybody's nerves, and so Mama would get us to sing to keep us out of trouble, keep us occupied. Then first grade, Uh, the teacher would say, all right, we're having a Christmas program. Anybody want to sing? And I'd raised my hand and Mama would encourage me on that, just like she did Pake Allison Susie. And so when we got in the high school junior high years, we they formed a little country western band and we played at the football games and had little concerts. And then when I went on to college, I took Mama made sure I took eighteen hours, so keep me out of trouble. A lot of hours we'll keep and so. But they were mostly music classes. And so when I went to the national finals rodeo o Clombas City and seventy four, I was a sophomore. Daddy knew I was up there party and having a good time, and he said, why don't you get you a job while you're up there? And I thought, shoot, that would interfere with all my fun. I said, doing what? And he said to sing the Nashal anthem. And that's when Red Steak All heard me so fast for that was in December seventy four, seventy five. He said, Jack, bring Reba down and we'll cut a demonstration tape. I didn't really want to. I didn't know anybody in the music business. I had all my friends in the rodeo. I wanted to be a world champion barrel racer. So about halfway from Oklahoma here, Mama, I said, let's stop here and do this. Mamma said, you know, if you don't want to do this, that's fine, let's just go home. But if you do this, I'll be living all my dreams through you. I said, we'll thunder. What didn't you say? So get in the car, let's go. And when Mama died, I told Susie because we were cleaning up Mama's house, I said, I don't think I want to do this anymore. She said why. I said, I was doing it for mama. When you do it now, are you still doing it for your mom? Yeah? Yeah, But it took me good three months to say, call Susie back, say okay, I'm I'm back, I'll do it. Wow. Your dad, I am assuming he is stilled the work ethic that you must have to get to this point. Like I'm assuming your dad was like, this is a to b We do the hard work because you're living on a ranch. What what kind of work was there to do around the place. Oh, before school, we'd get up at four in the morning and uh Peg and I would go out and catch probably four to five horses out in a forty acre pasture that were frisky because it was September, and then we'd have to saddle him up and send them up. They'd kind of walk back step on your feet, and then we'd go in. Daddy'd have breakfast cooked, and Mom would be in there getting ready for work because she was the superintendent's assistant secretary, and so we would go start gathering one end and then bring them all down to the pins. Mom would stay there at the scale and she had weigh them. We'd put them on the trucks, and then we'd go to school. That's before school. That's a day's work before school. Yeah, that wasn't all the time. That was in the fall, and in the spring we would get cattle in and we'd have to work them, you know, vaccinate on de horn, on cash, straight on brandom, and then put them out in one pasture and make sure they're all right to go into the bigger pasture and then put them up in the hills. All those same things have been done to me since I got married a couple of months ago. Vaccinated castrated, your dad being a world champion roper, was he practicing a lot. Do you remember him practicing a lot as a kid? Yeah, like was he younger? Younger younger? And then Grandpapa always told us when they were all at home, Daddy would be out there roping. He said, Clark, get out there and rope and got to practice. And Daddy would practice roping chickens, he'd rope anything. Yeah that's hard to do. Yeah, that's really hard to do. Yeah, and he'd get it done. And so Daddy told us one time that grand Pap said, now, son, if the house catches own far, me and your ma all take care of it. You just stay out there at the rope and pen and keep practicing. They were because Grandpap was a nineteen thirty four World champions to roper. What your lineage? Well, where did okay, your your dad, your grandfather, Where did your family come from? Because this is some kind of work ethics something. I mean you guys, how you can sing your athletes? You work hard like I think it comes from being a survivor, I really do, Daddy, Daddy didn't rope for the fame. Daddy, Now that's pretty much for me. I love attention, so I like I like the fame. I love it, but Daddy he'd rather been at home. He went out he could make money by roping and winning ropings, and he would bring the money home. He would make a payment for the land and cattle at the bank and pay off the grocery bill, and that was the main two thing. Then he would go do another roping to make more money to buy more land, more cattle. You say you like fame. When did you feel famous for the first time? Well, you're like, oh man, this is a this is a lot of opportunities now that I get to have because of fame right here talking to you. That's not true. We know that's not true, because I would have to imagine. It's just famous was so different even ten years ago. Like I'm just now starting to get my first real experience of going places I've never been and people being like, recognize you from this TV show at this rate, And for me it still hits me a little weird. But there are there ten million famous people. Now. You can be famous on TikTok, you'll be famous on YouTube on But when you were famous, I mean you even in the nineties with Reba the TV show, it was just a different world because there weren't five hundred thousand famous people. They were kind of just two hundred famous people period, and you were one of them. When for you did you go, wow, I'm actually famous. This is crazy. When I was ordering something on the telephone before Internet and I was I was saying, okay, I'd like this rug number in three four or five seven, she says, hold on, they knew you by your voice? Is this entire I hadn't given her money, aim or anything. I said, hold on, I was okay, blah blah, back what else would you like? So I thought, wow, my voices. But you know I can't get a commercial, you know, like this is the kind of truck you need voice over. I've done movies, you know, in cartoons, animation, of which I love to do that. I was talking to Clarence whenever you were doing the Kentucky Fried Chicken the Colonel Sanders, and he had mentioned to me that there was so much that went into even you getting dressed as Colonel Sanders, because they have very strict protocol at what Colonel Sanders can wear can look like. And I was like, really, even Reba as Colonel Sanders are like, oh yeah, it needs to be exactly like this, Like that was like that, But that seems like a commercial. It would be a lot of work. It was super cool. It was fun. But I gotta imagine if you have to abide by the Colonel Sanders Handbook of you know, exact living, that that's probably a lot leading into a shoot just of hair and a cup. Right. The thing I remembered more than anything is the length of the fringe? Could we put Ryan stones and fringe on my outfit? Like? Was it a question of what would they allow it? Yeah? Would they allow it? And they did? They approved it, and then we had to get I had to get my mustache and my beard. Oh I had to get fitted for my beard that's weird, and then my hairpiece. But it was fun. I enjoyed it. I just imagine there's a team with a bunch of clipboards walking around you with chicken going all right, this is not work. We gotta the ears are too high? Did you do that whole campaign before you announced it? So? Did was that a one you had to keep secret? Or no? Do you? Because I remember it was announced? Aybody kind of flipped out a little bit. Yeah. Was that an automatic yes from you? Or did someone have to convince you no. Clarence came to me and I said, oh, I don't know about that. And then he presented it to his son, Aaron, who's a little younger than Shelby my son, and Aaron said, that's the coolest thing ever. Okay, I'll do it because you you know how your generation might think about it, But what would the next two three generations below think about it? Younger? And when Aaron said, oh man, that's the coolest thing ever, I thought, okay, that's hip. I'll do it. Do they give you any sort of chicken for life or I'm sure they give enough money to buy chicken for life. I'm sure that's not a that's not a cheap get. That was really cool. I really liked it. As Colonel Sanders Banks, I had a blast doing it. And what's the great thing about it is you only do it once. Then they find somebody else the next time. It's a one time thing. Did you have to do a bunch of different shoots over weeks or did you go in for like a few days and do it all the same just one week. That's pretty cool and I will always remember that for years and years. You as Colonel Sanders the last show you watched, and he thought, I can't wait to see the next episode, Like right now, are you watching anything where you're just like, what is the absolutely Ted Lasso. I'm I'm so into that show. I love it. It's a it's really goofy, really but lots of heart and and and it makes you feel good. Yeah, Ted Lasso. And they're not done yet this season. They're still more to come. Do you like when shows are coming out each week or do you like when you can binge? It all binge too and Ted last, So I'm like, come on, yeah, let's go. We're watching The Only Murders in the Building right now with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Sleena Gomez and it comes out every week and it's so good. But I'm like, I would like to see them all please true. What I'm really excited about Ozark comes back, the last season, Succession and it comes back, Peaky Blinders comes back, and I have so many favorites that I absolutely knocked out the ballpark when during COVID, you know you can just sit and watch and binge and I went back. Rex hadn't seen Boardwalk Empire, so we started that one over again. I just love it. Are you able or do you ever just go into Starbucks and get it coffee? You? Yeah, you can just go into Starbucks and you have grocery shopping everything. You you're telling me that you will just go to the grocery store. Ye by myself at two am? Oh no, no a Thursdays? Did you know? Did you know Thursdays and Wednesdays are the best time to go, That's when they restock. You will just get in your car and go to the grocery store. And do you feel like you can for the most part grocery shop and people are just cool. Yeah, and they'll let you grocery. I gotta tell you the funniest story the other day happened. I was checking out and the grocery sat girl was sitting there and she was going through all the stuff and she was narrating and commenting on everything that I had bought. And she picks up a bottle of beano. She said, is this for you? I said, yeah it is? She said, well does it work? Everybody in line? I would looked at everybody as it works, great advertisement right here just to buy if you would, you had to love and not for the reason but to wear a mask though people probably didn't know it was you a lot of the time. A lot of the times until I talk, they don't um And I will stop and ask other people shopping, do you have any idea? We're so and so is, and they'll go it's yeah, are you really you're out shopping? Yeah? You know where the bacon soda is? They said, yes, right down that as okay, thanks. I'm curious about the Grand ol Opery and for for a lot of reasons. One my grandmother raised me for a lot of my life, and so that's what we did. We watched it on TNN or or whatever channel that was on, because it's kind of had its different, you know, iterations of being on television. Mostly for me it was TNN back in the day. But when you were inducted, how id invited into the Grand ol Opry, which are two big things, but they're different. Do you remember your invitation into the Grand ol Opry when they said REB would like for you to be a member. No, I don't. I do remember in eighty four when I got inducted. Who inducted you? Do you remember that night? And was it just because I will go now, and some of my friends are getting inducted, and it's like the coolest thing, and I'm so proud for them, and it's a massive deal. What was it like when you were inducted? I got to stand on that circle. I was really thrilled because I'd gotten to stand on the circle. Septem seven, Now, Bobby, the reason I remember that date so well is because thirty years prior, Daddy won the all around at the Pendleton, Oregon Round Up. And then you remember this next day that being like the anniversary of the same day that you saw. Yeah, so um, being the day that I got in inducted. Uh wasn't as huge a time as it was in September because Mom and Daddy and Alice drove from Oklahoma just to be there with me. My first time. We'd been to the Grand Old Opry at the rheman lots of times. That was our only vacation. But and we pulled up to the gate, Daddy rolled down his wind and said, um, got Ruba McIntyre. She's gonna saying on the opera tonight. And gentlemen looked on his clipboard. He said, Oh no, she's not. They say yes she is. He said, she's not on this clipboard. She's not gonna be I said, Daddy, let's just go across the interstate. That getting going. I'll call Shorty and Dick. That was Shorty Lavender and Dick Blake, who were my book and agents got me on the gig. So I went over there and I put my quarter in and I called I think it was Dick, and I said they won't let me in. He said, um, you just go right back over there. And I'm terribly sorry this happened. So Daddy pulls up and rolls down his wind and is asked, Mr McIntyre, right over here on number sixty seven, you park right there. You go glad to see y'all. So that was a night we'll never forget. And then I got one of my songs Bump because Dolly's there. But we're still thrilled. Old babies in the air. We just loved it. I think I've done stand up at the operator probably twenty times if I produced the TV show. And I'm gonna get the the story where you come in and I now tell the story I've told you a couple of times at the opera, but you were maybe a month and a half ago. You were performing at the Opery and then there was a change over, and then you performed on an NBC special and so I don't stand up earlier and they said, hey, go fill some time between raps. Changeover. It was like a cool, no problem. So I go and I'm doing some jokes. I'm it's it's hard for me to write new jokes because you can't practice in front of people, right because the pandemic has allowed me to do no touring. Jokes aren't like songs. I can't practice in my room, I could say, but unless people are laughing, you don't know if it's funny. And so I'm up and they're like, okay, Rebe's gonna be like a minute, and so I do another joke and then you come. You're on the side stage and you look at me and you point at me, and for some reason, I thought you were about to invite me into the Grand ol Operate and I remember going, oh, this is the this is it because between between all my performances, I've probably been on that stage two hundred times, between the hosting the TV show, all during the pandemic, and like it's been a dream, and you pointed at me as you were coming onto the stage to do your second thing, and for some reason I thought it was an extra sincere point, and inside even went about to be invited to become remember the opery. And you came closer and you were like, hey, thanks, and I was ready for you, and he said okay, I'll go, and I was like okay. I walked off and I was like, well that did instead of that just happened. I was like, well that didn't just happen, And so I wished it had to be in there. You know what, I think it's a better story that it hasn't yet. But for for a split second, I thought reb it was inviting me to be a member of the Grand ol Opry, and my life was perfect. For that second, my life was perfect. Where does your love of corn dogs come from? County fairs, state fairs? Uh? I see the meme everywhere dogs. I see the meme of you with the corn dog in a private jet, like the living the life mean, that's what that is. You with a corn dog in a private jet is like nothing else could be better than this moment. And to be memed itself one time you're memed in every way, all these positive ways. It's the most amazing thing. Did did someone come to you and go read but you're now a corn dog meme? No? No, I found it out by somebody you. Oh yeah, somebody did come to me and tell me that you're exactly right. Yes, I want to do a thing, and then I do want to get back into the music for a second. But I want to do a um an urban legends thing about you because there are so many things that you hear and you go is it true or isn't it true? Once I heard you died this season on this there was a big yeah. I think we had to even come out and say you didn't diet I did, which is a weird conversation to have to have with people. Yeah. My nephew was in Arkansas traveling and he walked into a convenience store and everybody was saying, Rube McIntyre just got killed. She fell off a mountain. He went running to a phone to call his mama, my sister, so it's a bob died. What happened? And she said, oh no, I'd have been the first one to find that out. Nope, she's fine and that's a weird thing to go. I'm not dead, look at me. How did that even start? Somebody? Just on Twitter? There was a trend going on there for a while that the fake death announced. No, I think it's before Twitter wasn't. Here are a few things. Okay, Is it true that you were in the running to being Titanic the movie? And I had the part you? So you did, and you thought, what unsinkable Molly Brown was the part I was gonna play. I went auditioned for James Cameron and we were back on tour and they needed like August, September, and October, so we moved our concerts to November, December and then January. And then they would I mean, you start getting all the venues. We were promoting ourselves, and you get all that set, and then they'll come back and go, you know, we're gonna have to move it three months for Well, you can't do that. I've got people that are depending on me for their livelihood, that's their paycheck, and I just said, I gotta choose. I got so I said, sorry, I can't do this to my people, So I turned down that part. You were a serious, like a really good basketball player when you were younger. Falsely, Well, we didn't have that many people on the team, so I got to play a lot. I was a guard. That was back in the day when it was six you know, three on three, not full court, thank god. But I loved it. I went to basketball camp every summer. That's another place I learned how to volunteer. Coaches love volunteers. I wasn't that good at all, but because I was a volunteer, I stayed on the coaches good side. There's an urban legend about Faith Hill trying to sing background for you. Um she did audition to be a background singer and she didn't get it, and Marvel and I looked at each other and said, she's gonna be a star, big star one day. So you could see stardom in her, but you didn't think it was that she was right to be a backup singer because she was too big for the job. She was saying she wasn't that good of a harmony singer at that time. Um, No, wasn't meant to be. That's pretty cool, though, you could tell she was going to be a star, you know, and back got singing is different than just me just singing the melody of a song too. Okay, let's let's let's roll through some of this this this new stuff here because I have it up. I want our people to hear this so they can check out the box set, so they can check out we played does He Love You? Mike? What do we have over there of the remixes? All those on that right there on the up top. Okay, here we go. Play me I'm a Survivor, the dance remix single mom, two jobs, kids and never stops with lens and the heart of the Fire. I'm a survive What do you think about that? I don't think it's that different. I don't either. I think it sounds it's cool, but I don't think it went total euro which is would be what I would be afraid of on that song, or which is like, yeah, there's some of them that it's you know, it takes ten minutes to get into the song because of the little hook line that they found. But I enjoyed listening to it. I really did. That's gotta be a really special talent. I've never seen anybody do it. But it's got to be a lot of work to remix the song. I have no idea. Yeah, it's like me, I just I'm like, that sounds good, that doesn't and I have no idea what I'm talking about. It's very fancy. Here's the remix to fancy. She said, yeah, there's some part of that. It's like it's a yes she was, Yes, she was chimed, the queen chimed, the king a congressman, and there's there's something that they put back in. And the video is pretty funny to somebody did a video of the remix. One more. Let's do consider me gone is the revisited sick. You can't do better? Then? I guess weird. Let's stop trying this. Consider me God? What do you here different about that? It's relaxed, it's mellow, it's um not so confrontational. It feels like the percussion on it too as much. It's a little soft. Very sorry more cahone e. It was than it is a snare And that's the first time I heard it. That's what I thought too. Yeah, that was Dave Cobb, and we had five musicians and they'd bring in a fiddle player or a still guitar player for specialty, and it was just so relaxed. The difference in consider me going on what you just heard and the original. Uh, the original was more in your face screaming you know, how dare you? You're an idiot? And this one's kind of like, you know, it's it's not working out. Let's just sack. It's just so much more mature. It's not throwing a fit. It's just I like it better. The new box that revived, remixed, revisited is available now. The Dolly Does He Love You remake is also on this box set. The Lifetime movie Christmas and Tune premieres on November. I would like to ask about one more song, being from Arkansas. Little Rock was played everywhere this song I was a kid. I remember hearing it on the radio probably more than anywhere else because it was us, the song about us. So when someone wants to name check a city and Mike, you can play that, I would have to imagine in a song where you name check a city and you get to play in that city, everybody's just just waiting to hear the song about their town, Like, right, can you imagine being so stupid not to play little Rock? When you played a Little Rock, even if you took it off your set lest later you have to put it back on right when you go back to everybody, refresh your memory. What what has been so close because I came out? And why you and Kicks and Ronnie in Vegas? What's that relationship been like? And why after all these years are you guys still together and still doing these these shows together. We grew up together. We toured three or four times in the nineties. Um they opened the show for me the first time we toured, and then we were you know, co headlining and having fun and playing pranks on each other and going on vacations together and um, hanging out. It was just a great relationship. They're learn not my brothers. We're very close, our children grew up together and we're just buds. Are you sad to see that run come to an end because you guys are about to finish up these shows? Yeah, I'm very sad about it. It was the gig of a lifetime. You got to stay in this nice sweet you got this perform on this absolutely incredibly well um lit and the sound was incredible. Stage restaurants over the chart. People came from all over the world to come see you, and it was a consistency that we're not familiar with. We're used to three different cities, three different days, and to to get to do that. And they could go play golf, Ronnie could go off and take pictures. I could stay upstairs and play all the games I wanted and with my family and friends. It was it was a dream job. Were there any parallels and that job? And when you did any get your gun because you're playing in the same theater. Yeah, and you're not touring, you know, did you have to do two shows a day? Ever? When you were? Because I had friends that did shows on broad Away and they were like, man, we'd have off a Monday, but then we're doing two shows, you know on weekends. Two shows on Wednesday, two shows on Saturday. You had Monday off, eight shows a week. Hardest job ive ever had in my life. I was gonna ask the only, the only parallel, the similarity. But too, I was in the same hotel room, I was in the same dressing room, in the same stage. Did that make you want to do more on Broadway or less? Oh? I asked Carol Burnett that. I said, do you think you'll ever do another Broadway play? She said, sure, only if I can do the matinees only. I thought we all like that woman. Man. The fact that you bring up Carol Burnette too, just a hero to me as someone who loves comedy, love her. Just the best, just the best, well read. I appreciate you coming by. You have again I am. What amazes me the most and what I see other artists try to emulate, is just almost being ubiquitous with the time, always like it's it's it's every few years there's something else that is new Reba. It's not you just going here, here's old Read. But let's make old Reba cool again. It's like new Reba is always cool. And so you have I don't know if they've told you if you have it. I don't know what it is. People may not have. I'm gonna identify it. You're not right for this job, but you have it. I'm gonna like it. If faith, You're gonna be a star. Um. You're just the best, and I appreciate you coming over and and you know, just being you, Mike, is anything you'd like to say. I think you're the only other person that I know who is a fan of the game Phase ten, one of your favorite games to play. It is one of my favorites. I'm into Rummy Cube now also and a new one called Sky Joe. Have to check those out. Yeah, I'm like, you know, the only other person who likes this is reb. I'm a game player. I love games. One read one question from you. You said something that you were gonna ask you but if you had a chance, do you remember what it was? Oh yeah, your cameo and the Little Rascals changed my life. Are you kidding? Oh my gosh. I grew up on that movie. I can remember being and my Grandma's uh and I would eat strawberry ice cream and watch that movie. Not stop. That is too cute. Yeah, people get recognize you for everything. I was there for people one day to shoot and I was hearing all the stories. You know. After the kids would do their line one time, they don't want to do it again, you know, they were like, I don't, I don't wi't play. Okay, I'll give you a piece of candy, And then it got to I'll give you a dollar if you just say that line one more time. But they said that it was a really fun time to get to do the movie and to do the remake of Little Rascals. But you're right. Of all the movies I've ever done, Tremors and Little Rascals are the two that I get recognized and talked about more man and I bet you can tell what the person is going to recognize you from. Again, we're talking about demos like almost if they're a fan of your music, or if they're they're they're a fan of the TV show. If they say, hey, I'm a big fan, you can kind of go, oh, I bet you're a fan of this. Well, listen, I will let you go. But thank you so much. She's got so much out. Well, we'll talk about it again in a second. But if it's music, it's the Christmas movie, it's Dolly, it's the shows that Brooks and done. Uh new tour next year? Are we talking about that? Yeah? Okay, well then what's happening? Well, starting in January, we'll be going out on tour, the Reba Tour me and the band, which we were supposed to do in do you also it's so it's that, Okay, you're doing the tour that got delayed. You know what I thought it was cool is when you put out the YouTube concert of the tour of your shows from back in the day. Though. That was so cool. Thanks. Yeah, that was just a brilliant idea. I watched the whole thing. I didn't come up with that. I can't take credit, but I think it was justin that came up with it, Justin McIntosh, and we had it and why not get it and you know, get it ready and put it out on television. Let people know that, you know, we have been doing this a while. In a way, that's bad because the first one was pretty poor quality, not up to standards that we see today. Second one was a lot better, but um, I was still very proud of it. When when you're out on tour and we will end with this, she'll be out January, do you feel like you've put an unhealthy expectation of you having to wear all the great clothes all the time. Yes, don't you ever just want to go and sweats and be like, I'm gonna sing eight songs and sweats. I'll never forget seeing Shani Twain come out. Um. I wasn't there in person, but I saw it and she had those fluffy little workout pants on and tennis shoes and her hair up in a ponytail, and I was like, I'm way overthinking this. And she had all her dancer and be Bob Brown. It was so cool, and I thought, man, why didn't I think of that? Okay, thank you, thank you Bobby. Nice to see all of you. That was awesome.