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August 28, 2026 • 31 mins

Dolly Parton at the Nail Salon! What color did she always pick? 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy, Sam & Jody Weekend Show podcast,
highlighting some of our favorite moments from this past week.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Angelia is visiting with us. Is it true that you
had a standing regular appointment to have your nails done
with Dolly Parton for years?

Speaker 3 (00:16):
I sure did.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh, my gosh. First question, did she get acrylic? Did
she get dip? Did she get gel?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Okay, so she got the acrylics, as she calls them.
But then she would always say, but they're mine. But
she got the acrylics, and she always got either a
bright pink or a bright red every single time. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
So this went on for years. You would see her
sometimes when she wasn't traveling, right?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Correct, correct.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Did you ever have conversation with her or was she
on the other side of the room?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yes. Oh, okay. So I'll tell you this. So since
I live in Nashville, obviously I see a lot of stars.
And I'm just not someone who's going to bother people. Sure.
But I will tell you, like she would always be
sitting beside me. The owner would do her nails, right?
And so my girl would do mine and she would
be sitting right beside me. And she would always strike
up a conversation every single time.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Of course.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
And then just because, I mean, I was obviously familiar
after several instances. Mm-hmm. We would just chit-chat about whatever,
like the weather, or she'd ask me how my week
had been. And one time I was talking about how
bad my nails looked and it was time to get
them redone. And she said, sugar, she goes, have you
been scratching your way through the new year?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
And I was like, yes, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Did she come in like with an entourage, a bodyguard,
or was it just her?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
No, no, sir. Her husband would drop her off. She
would walk in and just take a seat.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Was she dolled up?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
So she was always very, very put together for sure. Yes.
My favorite story is she was one Thursday morning, and
I happened to be off from work, so I had
an early appointment. And she came in, and she sat down,
and I was like, oh, my goodness, Dolly. I said,
you are awfully fancy for a Thursday morning at 930.
And she said, sugar, I'm here to tell you I

(02:02):
would not be this fancy if I didn't have somewhere
to be. She goes, but I'll tell you this. When
my husband comes back and gets me, you'll see that
he's not so fancy.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Sure enough, y'all.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Listen, when Carl pulled up, he pulled up in what
looked to be like a 1980s van. I'm not even
kidding you.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Oh, really?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, he's the mystery. Like, we all knew her heart.
I bet you worked hard to keep that appointment, to
keep on her schedule. Guys, there's a nail schedule. It's
about every two to three weeks.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Correct. Yes, ma'am, that's correct.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, and you kept that appointment.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
I did indeed. I saw her quite a bit.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
I love that he would drop her off and pick
her up. I mean, in a van. In a van.
I love that. Thank you for this. How lucky you
were to just even have, you know, those moments with her.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm very blessed to have those memories. I'm so glad
that I was able to share them with you guys
and your listeners.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
All right.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, have a great weekend. Appreciate you so much.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
You too.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Reach out anytime. We'd love to hear from you.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
877-310-4MSJ. Morning pick-me-up time. This is a love story you
are going to remember. This is a young couple. They're
getting married in September, Noah and Brooklyn. And so Noah
got down on one knee and proposed to Brooklyn last Christmas,
like with the tree and the family and everything. They're

(03:23):
very much in love. Their families have known each other
most of their lives, okay? And but they started dating
when it was, you know, age appropriate for them to
start dating. But the crazy story is it goes all
the way back to when Brooklyn was 18 months old.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
At the time before my transplant, the doctors only gave
me three days to live. And they told my mom
to go ahead and call the funeral home and make
my arrangements. And she didn't give up on me.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
So Brooklyn needed a liver transplant when she was very little,
she was a baby and things did not look good. Um,
Noah's brother, when Noah was a little boy, his brother
Michael was 10 years old when Michael became interested in
organ donation and signed up as a, asked his parents,

(04:11):
can I donate my organs? And then within that next year,
he died in a car accident. He was on his
bike and he died. He got, yeah, it was a tragic,
he was 10 years old when he died. And so
this is Noah about his brother, Michael.

Speaker 6 (04:26):
Even as a kid, he'd do anything for anybody. He
taught me how to ride a bike. He was there
for me. He was a sweet kid. Pretend he was
way more mature than he needed to be.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
So he donated his liver?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
He gave his eyes, his heart, and his liver, and
his liver went to Brooklyn.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (04:48):
That is how the families met. They ended up knowing
each other throughout the years because Noah's brother, Michael, saved
her life. And they became family friends. Nobody could have
predicted that Noah would have wanted to date Brooklyn along
the way. But they fell in love. They're getting married soon.

(05:08):
This is what she had to say about it today.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
I get to enjoy life because of him. And I
get to live and hopefully honor his memory the best
way that I can.

Speaker 6 (05:16):
And get his last name.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
And I did get his last name.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
And she'll get his last name. And you know what else?
The wedding is happening in September. And someone that neither
of the families have ever met is going to be there,
and it's the grown man who received Michael's heart. Oh, wow.
It's an unbelievable pick-me-up.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
I would like to share a secret with everybody.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Okay, Sam.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, then it won't be a secret anymore, Sam.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
No, because it's something I can share now. This goes
back to my solo Sam weekend this past weekend, the
bar crew and concert. I haven't told anybody this, but
it was... kind of a personal retreat for me. I
went into it as a, not just a solo Sam trip.
It was a personal retreat to work on some anxiety issues. Okay. When,

(06:05):
when I do these solo trips, I do it number
one to get away for enjoyment.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Part of being by yourself is you make all the
decisions and there's a lot that when I take these trips,
I don't talk about this, but you know, it's like, okay,
when should I leave to get here? Is there going
to be traffic? I'm going to eat at this restaurant.
Let me check out the menu online so I know
what I'm doing. It's just a whole bunch of stuff
that a normal person would think is unnecessary.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
You're saying that this kind of stuff that is normal
in our lives, especially with travel, causes you a lot
of anxiety.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, it sounds like control anxiety, basically.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Yes. Control anxiety. And so this trip was a little
bit of me working on just let it go.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Go with the flow.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Go with the flow. When I went to Lockhart to
do the barbecue eating, you know, there was that line. Yeah.
I might have not sat in that line before, but
I decided to sit, talk to people, chill. There was
a farmer's market in the city. I walked around a
little while at the farmer's market. I didn't have every
second of this trip planned out.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Very smart.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
And that's unusual for you.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah, because I do too much research, too much worrying,
too much, you know, boom to boom to boom to boom.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
This is so beautiful that you know you need to
work on this, that it's internal because no one else
would ever know that. Now, we work really close with
you and we've worked with you for so long. I
do know. that you are a stickler for things going
the way they're supposed to go.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
And it's like, sometimes to me, it's like, well, we
don't finish at 1030. We finish at 11. What difference?
What's the big diff?

Speaker 4 (07:40):
That is a whole nother problem I have too. When
things interrupt my schedule, my planned and my head schedule.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
I can tell it tenses you.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Well, you know, they say, and it's difficult to do.
I think it's even more difficult today to leave 50%
of your day open for emergencies because that's what's going
to happen.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
But it's more difficult now than it's ever been before.
But this is a really good step in the right direction.
If you take a breath and realize the world is
not on your schedule, unfortunately, then life gets easier.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Do you feel, though, that you got something out of it?

Speaker 4 (08:12):
I felt like I accomplished. I didn't accomplish everything I
wanted to, but I accomplished concerts. I usually leave before
the last song to beat the traffic. I stayed the
whole time this time.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yay, Sam!

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah. A little extra time with us. You can always
get it every day in the After the Show podcast.
We look for you there.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yesterday, it was all about Dolly Parton, but it was
about the amazing business success. I think that's a morning
pick-me-up or a success story anybody would want to hear.
So check it out if you missed it. One of
the things that we focused on was this song. One
of her most famous songs, I Will Always Love You,
she wrote it in the early 1970s. I think I

(08:53):
cried the.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
First time I heard it when I was a little
girl because I knew it was a goodbye song.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, and I'll tell you the real reason that she
wrote it in just a second. It was Whitney Houston
that then repopularized it in the 90s, won a Grammy
for it, The Bodyguard. That by itself netted Dolly Parton
in the years that followed about $ 10 million worth of royalties.
Because of a song that she wrote. But the thing is,

(09:18):
it almost never happened for two different reasons. One of
them was in her early career, and she was hungry.
Right out of high school, straight in the recording studio,
writing her own songs. She determined early on that she,
by the way, wanted to keep her own songs when
she wrote them. But there was one contract that she
could not get out of, and it was her partnership

(09:40):
with Porter Wagner. Now, this is a long time ago,
so just so you know, she actually did have a
life before her solo career. They were wildly successful. He
didn't want her to exit. She did, and there was
later a lawsuit about that.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Wait, there was problems between them because of that?

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, he didn't want her to leave because the show
was less successful.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
What?

Speaker 1 (10:00):
He kind of went off the rails. It was both
of them together that kind of propped up Porter. No
disrespect to Porter Wagner, but it changed the dynamic. So
she wrote I Will Always Love You about him, and
not just him, but leaving the band, that time, the
TV show, everything that they had done together. It was
really sort of her grieving is where that song came from.

(10:22):
About five years later, Elvis Presley wants to record I
Will Always Love You. Colonel Tom Parker says, that's fine.
Hand over 50% of the writing credits.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
She says, no, thank you.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
She says, no, thank you. But she said she cried
all night about that, saying, I can't believe I just
told Elvis no. But the fact that she stood her
ground and she knew that she was a businesswoman at
heart if she didn't keep that. then it wouldn't have
turned into what it ultimately did. And so not only
one of the biggest songs of all time, but funded

(10:53):
so many elements of her business life. It's an incredible story.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
We've heard that story before in other ways, like the
whole Rocky thing, too. But a lot of people don't
know that about that song. You just think, oh, she
had it. She gave it to Whitney to use.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Direct message us on Facebook. Love hearing from you. Lori
wants to know from Messenger, does Sam have a new
dog yet? It's Lori asking, not me.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
That's right, because your timing was supposed to be once
vacation was over, school's back in session.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
It's the Clear the Shelters event nationwide through Sunday. Shelters
across the country are waiving or massively reducing adoption fees.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yeah, I timed this perfectly. And No pressure on me, please,
but it was already in my plans this weekend to.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Oh, really?

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Either look up some of the shelters online and see
who's there or go visit a couple of shelters. And
you know how they bring out dogs and cats to
some of the pet stores and do them on the weekends?
I'm going to hit those, too.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Those are called adoption events.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yeah, it's already in my plans for this weekend.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Sweet.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
It's possible that Monday I could be telling you about
my new friend.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
It is possible, although no pressure, just... Do you jive
with a dog or not?

Speaker 4 (12:10):
I do have a question, though, about adopting a dog.
When we had originally adopted Gus, he was like a
couple months old. So that wasn't his name when we
adopted him. We gave him Gus.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
A dog that's a couple years old, should you not
change the name? Because you know how they all have names.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
You know how I feel about this. I would ask
the person who's either fostering the dog or is the
most familiar from the shelter to Chances are, in a
shelter situation, a dog does not know their name. But
if a dog came from a different home already and
a couple of years old and knows a name, maybe
consider sticking with the name they were given.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
But understand— Well, what Jody's saying there is shelter dogs
sometimes are strays. Yeah. So there's no way to— so they
get their name from the shelter.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Not necessarily.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
At intake, they give them a number and they give
them a chip and.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
They give them a name.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
They don't know who the original owner is. So that
name might be given by the shelter, which.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Means it's a week old. 99% of the time it's
given by the shelter if it's a shelter animal. So
understand that, yeah, if you adopt some dog named Spot
and you want to name him Max, of course you
can do that. But you have to start using the name.
Use it especially when rewarding he or she.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
The recommendation.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
My plan is to, I'm going to try to keep
it to one syllable because I like the shortness on
the name. And it's going to have to be as
soon as I, the dog that it is, when I
see who he or she is, that's going to help
me decide.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, that makes sense. That's really sweet.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
No pressure, but so excited. Top mistakes that dads-to-be make
in the delivery room. This is based on, this is
from a labor and delivery nurse who has done thousands
of births and been there thousands of times. And by
the way, I want to just say up front, I
do want to hear from you guys about how you

(13:59):
felt about being in that room because it's very different
than the mom's perspective. But she does say that most
dads are fine, caring and attentive.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
I'm sure most are.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
There's only some that are like the red flag dads.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
But if you're the first time dad, you don't know.
You're already nervous anyway about what do I do.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Is that what you felt like? You felt nervous? Like,
what do I do? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
I mean, I think that the mistakes that I learned,
the things not to do, to be honest with you,
was because my sister was the first in the family
to actually have kids.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
And so, you know, I made those mistakes with her.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Just like looking at the monitor and I was joking
about things. It's like, all right, whatever.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, you were.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
She's in pain and I'm sitting there pointing at the
monitor going, oh, here comes another big one. Can't do that.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, you sure did. Bless her. I know. Bless her.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
So anyway, yep.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Sam, were you in the delivery room for some of
the kids?

Speaker 4 (14:54):
Yeah, for some of them. And yeah, I was nervous
about it.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
I can see that. I believe it.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
I don't think I asked any dumb questions.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
Good.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Were you attentive and caring?

Speaker 4 (15:04):
I think so, yeah. I mean, for number two, you know,
we brought along a jam box and we had some
CDs that we had chosen just for this. No, I
mean relaxing CDs.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Of course, nice.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
Rock and roll, and I was in charge of that.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's sweet. Okay, so you were like the DJ.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
Hey, I'm coming up next.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
That was a while ago, obviously, with the CDs. Yes.
So the red flag dads, the worst things she has seen.
Please don't do this. If you're a dad-to-be, don't do
these things. Being interested, being very concerned with being entertained.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Can we watch TV? Can I hook up my Xbox?
She's seen that.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Oh, really?

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Don't do that.

Speaker 5 (15:42):
Well, yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
I would think that would be no duh.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Being on your device the whole time in a meeting.
You know, if you're going to be working or in
a meeting, you should leave the room. There was a
time when dads weren't allowed in delivery rooms.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
I thought it was kind of a blessing and gift
actually to be able to be there for both of us.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
The other two big no-nos that she has seen, and
it's a low percentage, but the other one's like showing
up absolutely having had some alcohol.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
You're nervous.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Really?

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah, and she's also seen them flirting with the nurses
and being inappropriate. Do not be that guy. You would
lose me in that moment. Do not be that guy.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
There's going to be more difficulty coming after the birth.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
You better believe it. And on top of her postpartum,
you better believe it.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Sam's Got Music News.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
Hey, you know, we're going to kick off with Dolly
Parton today. Earlier this week, we did an After the
Show podcast. Murphy, you were talking about Dolly Parton's business genius, basically,
for everything that she did. And now we find out
that that genius is actually going to extend now after
she's gone. She handpicked a team to carry out her

(16:53):
wishes after she left. In fact, she was actually personally
involved in directing a lot of things that are going
to happen now with her music and other things now
that she's gone. We know about the travel stops that
are coming. We know about the hotel that's going to
be opening up next month. But did you know we're
going to get Dolly Dolls? No.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Oh, I'm ready.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
I have no description on these, if they're going to
be Barbie-like or bigger, but we're going to get Dolly
dolls sometime in the next couple of years.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
And there's so many different, like, you know, 70s, 80s, movies, music.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
Oh, full of rhinestones.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Oh, my gosh. So much fun to dress and play.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
Dolly's Cup of Ambition Coffee. That's going to be launching
online at the end of September, and then it'll be
expanding to stores and retail 2027. We also have coming
during the holiday season... Dolly on the holly.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Are those ornaments?

Speaker 4 (17:44):
I'm assuming it's like Elf on a Shelf.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
And Snoop on the Stoop. Snoop on the Stoop.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Dolly Parton moves around every day in your house.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Dolly on the holly.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Don't touch her. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Best one.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
It's the best one.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
You know, we're getting the show on Broadway next year.
They're also working on a musical documentary.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Good.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
They're working on a biopic.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
That's what I want to know.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
They're working on a docu-series.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
They're working on a scripted series. And they're working on
an animated series as well.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Please.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
All for Dolly Parton.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
And she put these wheels in motion.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
That's amazing.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Early in 2027, we're getting Dolly's Dog Treats. And also
in January, we're getting the Kendra Scott Dolly Parton 9
to 5 collection. Excellent.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
There was already another Kendra Scott Dolly collection.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Well, and you remember, she wants her... You know, the efforts,
the donations that she does, the Tennessee schools and all
those things to continue, to fund those, you've got to
have something that outlasts you, right?

Speaker 2 (18:42):
That's right, the imagination library.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
She's got a whole bunch of ideas. Oh, and by
the way, after Dolly passed away, over on Apple Music,
number one song this week. Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Such an OG song. I didn't mean to make you
nervous earlier, Murphy. And I know Sam said his palms
were sweating about my story about thinking I had left
it on an airplane, which means you talk about never
see a device again. You can't get back on those planes.
You can beg. And when I went up to the

(19:14):
two agents, these two older gentlemen, and I was like, hi,
I misplaced my phone. I can't call a car. I'm
in a strange city. I think I left it on
the plane. One of them goes, ooh. I'll never forget that.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yeah, right.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Because it's like, and they called somebody on the plane.
They knew which plane and where I was coming from
and all that. And he says, I'm ringing your phone now.
And that's why I heard it buzzing. It's like, oh,
it's underneath my back. I felt like such an idiot
because I just slipped it on top of my suitcase
underneath my carry-on. It was hiding. I was rolling it
around the airport.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
I didn't know.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Know it.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
That reaction that you got is the reaction from anybody
because I think anybody will immediately project that upon themselves.
You will relate to the fact that you panicked.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
I was about to try to call an Uber and
I couldn't call anybody. I was stuck without it and
tried not to panic. But The reason I tell you
that story is I love to travel and I can,
I intend to do it for the rest of my life,
you know, with you all, with just you and me,
with our kids and solo. I like that. I need that.

(20:22):
So I, it's one of the things I want to
get better at is just making sure that I have,
you know, it all together, that I'm not having a
blast talking to somebody on the plane that I accidentally
leave my device, which is probably what would have, it's
what I thought would have happened. Like when I thought
I had lost it, I thought it's because I was
talking to that lady. So another thing I'd like to
get better at when traveling is that I don't sleep

(20:46):
well away from home. I just don't. You know, I
came back exhausted.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
And it's not because I was in bed early every night.
It's not like we were out to the break of anything.
I just don't sleep well away from home.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, I just, maybe there are ways to, do you
need to like play rain sounds on your phone or something?

Speaker 6 (21:05):
I did it.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
That didn't work?

Speaker 4 (21:07):
I mean, is it because different bed or Murphy's not
there or.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
I think it's just both. And, you know, when I
travel alone, it's just, you know, you're different. You have
to be more on alert.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
So it's harder for me to relax. But I do
think I'm gonna start bringing some melatonin.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
OK.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Because I will continue to travel.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
You can always bring me if you really want to.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
But when it's so low, it's so low. Tomorrow is
Grateful Friday, and we want to hear from you. My
heart needs it. So you can jump in and get
on it. 877-310-4MSJ. Get a jump on it.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
So, Jody, I need to give you a heads up. Sam,
I don't think it will happen here necessarily, but I
may be getting served some papers soon.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Oh! Hey!

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Okay, ha-ha. Why is that funny?

Speaker 4 (21:56):
I'm just wondering who he made mad.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
No, I didn't make anybody mad. Actually, I will get
an official summons. I've got the card for jury duty.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
And what's interesting is over the years, I don't think
I've ever missed any of our shows here because of
jury duty. Maybe, well, that's not true. It was once along,
it's been probably 12, 15 years ago.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
Right.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
And I got dismissed.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
I did too. I was so sad.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
But this is the first time that I've actually received
the card, had to go online electronically and answer all
the questions online first. And so one of the questions is,
have you ever been the victim of a crime? And
if you choose yes, you've got to describe what. Or
do you know someone who's been a victim of a crime?
And then same thing, describe it. And so in the

(22:44):
back of my head, I'm thinking, is this my opportunity?

Speaker 4 (22:48):
To get out of it?

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Right.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
But look, I love my civic duty. I'm not going
to try to get out of it.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
What would you have put?

Speaker 1 (22:54):
That you're on the dark web? Well, but I did. Well, no,
I did put that. Yes, I had my social security
number stolen.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
That was a victim of a crime.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Three years ago, and I'm still very upset about it.
And they're all guilty. But, you know, outside of that.
I mean, not really not much else. You know, thank God.
And so I Googled to find out what what is
that about? And they really are. They're looking up front.
I guess it's a time saver for certain information that

(23:22):
they can present to attorneys now to know whether somebody is.
predisposed to be biased against or for something. That's probably
very smart.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
It's context of who you're talking to. Right.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
But my guilty conscience wasn't going to let me load
that up. Well, you know, let me tell you about
what happened to my grandmother. I didn't do any of that.
Let me tell you.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
What's interesting about you showing up for jury duty. If
you make it all the way and you're on a jury,
he is definitely going to be in charge.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
He's the foreman.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
You're going to be the foreman. You're going to be
the foreman before you even form a group.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
You think so?

Speaker 5 (23:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yes. If you get chosen.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
Right, if.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
We'll have to see. It's all just the card and
the submission now. So I'll let you know if somebody
shows up with a summon.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
You guys have any Dolly Parton merch? And the reason
I ask is because I have a story to tell.
I have a story, Murph.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
I mean, I'm sure we have some things. We've been
to Dollywood three times.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
We have a very coveted coat of many colors Christmas ornament.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
That's the best one. It gets us prime spot on
the tree every year. And this year, for sure, we're
going to shine a light on it. But I have
to tell you this, and we've talked about this before.
Moms of kids, you learn this the hard way. When
you ask your kids to box up stuff for you
to donate, go through it. Go through it. So in

(24:44):
the girls' room, they don't live with us anymore, Taylor
and Phoebe, but there were some boxes of stuff to
be donated recently.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
I really like to be efficient, and I almost just
hauled them to donate, and I started going through them.
And do you know what I found in there? And
I'm sure Phoebe did not mean to put this in here.
I don't believe that she meant to put this shirt
in here, but I had bought her a shirt years ago, soft, pink,
and it said, In Dolly We Trust. It is a

(25:12):
great shirt. And I saw it in that box and
I was like, no, this was weeks ago, a month ago.
And I pulled it close to me and I'm like,
I'm getting rid of this. So it's in my drawer
now and I do need to give it back to
her or we could share it, I guess. But it's
just one of those things.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Be careful. Like, you know, if somebody else puts it, look,
when I put stuff together to donate, I know Murphy
walks past it and goes, hmm, are we really donating this?

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Well, you never know. I've had some things that almost
went that should not have been donated. Yeah. Important shirts, clothes,
and other prized things.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
Have you ever picked anything out of your donation pile
that you put there and thought later, hmm, I should
keep this? I've done that with a shirt.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
You see it sitting there and it's like, why did
I put that in there?

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh, so that's you second guessing. That's you holding on.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Well, and also when you're in a different emotional state altogether.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
One moment you don't want it. The next minute it's like, yeah,
I do love it.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
It's just a reminder to make sure you always go
through stuff before you donate it. Because I would have
been so sad this week. We're already, you know, it's
like listening to the music and talking about it and
trying to accept it.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
And that shirt is pink?

Speaker 2 (26:27):
That shirt is pink, which means.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
So you can wear it tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Totally can wear it on Friday, yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
You want to wear a sweatshirt in this weather, though?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
No, no, it's a T-shirt.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Oh, it's a T-shirt.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
It's a sweet little pink T. Okay. This is the
last weekend of the Clear the Shelters event across the
country at different animal shelters.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Did they do this the whole month?

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yes, I do believe. Yes, that's why it's wrapped up
this weekend. And so most adoption fees... are very much
lower or sometimes they are waived depending on how full
the shelter is. And I bring it back up. No pressure, Sam.
I mean it. I bring it back up just because
I want to tell a story. I know you're planning
to go look for a new best friend this weekend,

(27:09):
which is fantastic. I was thinking about this last night, Murphy,
as I went to bed. I went to bed before you.
You were still kind of walking around the house and
I laid down And next to me on the floor
on his bed was Champ. Curled up right next to
me and he looked up at me.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
He's so spoiled he actually has his choice of two beds.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
Oh, wow. A summer home.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Kind of. So it was like yesterday afternoon was one
of those days where I did not get to take
him for a walk, but he wanted me to. He
was stalking me all afternoon around sunset. He sits there
and watches me with such anticipation because he knows the
time of the day. And I just didn't make it happen.
And I felt so bad about that. I looked down
at him last night and I was going to bed.
I said, I'm sorry I didn't walk you today. And

(27:52):
he just looks at me and he winks at me
like he does, you know.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Is that what you think?

Speaker 2 (27:57):
No matter when, I know he winks. He does really wink.
I don't know what it means, but, you know, he's
a shelter rescue. When we got him all those years ago,
he was at the back of a crate. He was
not even responsive. And he raised it. He had kind
of given up. He had been surrendered. We don't know
his backstory. He was like three years old. And now
he's ours and he's been ours for many years. He's

(28:19):
old now. But my point being, you might let them down.
I might have let him down yesterday. I don't get
to walk him every afternoon. But they never let you down.
He's sitting there next to me because he knows I
like that. And that's where he likes to sleep. And
it's just like, he's over it. He's happy to be
with me. It's just, it's the best.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
Yeah, like today, he's going to completely forget about yesterday.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
I know, and he's going to look at me with
anticipation at sunset.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
I guess that's where the man's best friend name for
many years comes from.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Such companions.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
They're fantastic companions.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah, and if you get an animal from a shelter,
know that it does take them some time to let go,
to decompress from being in the shelter, then to get
to know the noises and the routines of your home,
and then to finally feel comfortable and at home. So
it takes some time. Yeah. And even before you make the.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Decision, even then you're going to still learn just through
the process of trial and error of things that they
experienced that were negative experiences when you see them react
to certain things. So the older the dog, the more
experience they've had, you know, best.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Thing ever though, still best thing ever. And the event
goes on all the way through Sunday. When Angelia spoke
with us earlier about having a standing appointment at the
nail salon sitting next to Dolly Parton for years.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
She lives in Nashville.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
She does live in Nashville.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
And so we got to speak to.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Her this morning. Her favorite story is that Dolly's husband, Carl,
would drop her off at the nail salon and then
pick her up.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
In a van.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
In an old van, which is... Carl is the mystery.
I'm here to tell you, when we get the... biopic
one day. I don't know how much Carl is going
to be in because he didn't want to be in
the spotlight at all.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
That is such a good question because you also don't
know what Dolly is going to allow and not allow.
She's been, her image has been everything and she's always
been true to herself. She may not ever want any
of that disclosed.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
If he didn't want it while they were together, while
they were in this life, if he didn't want to
be public, It's probably going to kill me because that's
what I want to know. He's the mystery. And the
fact that they were so different yet were so successful together.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Well, and they got married in the 60s. I mean,
they spent a lifetime together. He was only like the
third or fourth person she dated.

Speaker 6 (30:40):
Seriously?

Speaker 2 (30:41):
I got news. Women all over the world. The question
mark is how did he not? Maybe he did and
we just didn't know. How did he not get so jealous?
I mean, there's a lot of men who would have
a problem with the woman being that much in the spotlight,
that much celebrated. I don't know. It would take a

(31:01):
really strong, mental, healthy man to go, I'm just going
to pick her up in a van and drop her off.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
They obviously had a healthy respect for each other.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Or they wouldn't have stayed together.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
Didn't she say in interviews that that's why it worked
is because.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
So different.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
Yeah. I vaguely remember that he went to one event
with her early on. Rented a tux and all that.
And as soon as it was over, he was like,
I don't want any part of this anymore.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
Like not the fame and just like being by her
side and all. You go do your thing.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Sure.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
I'm cool at home.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
I'm sure that was probably nice for her. Yeah. To
have a balance of a very real, you know, just organic, real,
normal relationship because her life was not normal. It's what
she wanted. But it was very big.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
It obviously worked because it lasted forever.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Look, yeah, and I love that whole dropping you off
at the nail salon and then picking.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
You back up. I think that's as sweet as can be, honestly.
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