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August 27, 2026 • 32 mins

We're still celebrating Dolly Parton, from the real story behind "I Will Always Love You" to how she made sure her music will live on forever, plus your beautiful lessons of she taught YOU.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy, Sam & Jody Daily Show Podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
A little extra time with us.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
You can always get it every day in the After
the Show Podcast. We look for you there.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Hello!

Speaker 1 (00:27):
One of her most famous songs, I Will Always Love You,
she wrote it in the early 1970s. I think I
cried the.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
First time I heard it when I was a little
girl because I knew it was a goodbye song.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
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,

(00:57):
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

(01:19):
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 (01:32):
Wait, there was problems between them because of that?

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, he didn't want her to leave because the show
was less successful. 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, you know,
I mean, 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

(01:58):
her grieving is where that song came from. 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 3 (02:11):
She says, no, thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
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 so

(02:33):
many elements of her business life. It's an incredible story.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
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 1 (02:47):
Yeah. Check out the other cool business decisions that she
made in our After the Show podcast from yesterday.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Coming up at 6.50, three things to know today. Join
us anytime we'd like to hear from you the most.
And if we are not here, you can always leave
us messages, voice memos, 877-310-4MSJ. Hi, guys. It's Lisa.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
I was just wanting to let y'all know that they
have posted nationwide. Everybody wear pink on Friday in remembrance
of Dolly and her battle with cancer.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
She was one amazing lady. And she is going to
be missed by many. She's made a definite impact on
many people for her love of music, love of family,
and love of people. Have a blessed day.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Thank you. And you are so right about that.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Wear pink on Friday for Dolly.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
I'm on it.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
I need to find something pink. I don't think I
have anything pink.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
I got you something.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
I'll get you something.

Speaker 6 (03:46):
I don't have anything pink either.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Okay, well.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, get me a pink shirt, Jodi. I'll wear that
on Friday. I would love to.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Do you want me to buy something for you too
or are you going to get your own?

Speaker 6 (03:53):
I'll do it myself. I knew it.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Okay. I want to say I have another Lisa who
reached out to us on Messenger, Instagram Messenger about Dolly.
And this is something that she sent yesterday afternoon. My
heart is so broken. I'm going to miss her singing,
her smile. She always had something kind to say. She
never said anything negative, and it was an honor to
get to meet her at Dollywood.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh, my God. I'm jealous.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
It says, we just so happened to be there. We
go twice a year as my daughter was growing up,
and we got to meet her. She really is the
kindest person. She was the kindest person in the whole
entire world.

Speaker 6 (04:26):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Man, we've been to Dollywood a lot, Murphy. I would
have fallen over. Me too.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
I think we looked for her. We never saw her.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Pat said, I figure when she didn't make it to
the roller coaster announcement, which was recently, the new coaster,
after other canceled appearances, that she might not be doing well.
But I just wasn't prepared for this.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't think anybody was. And look, her own positivity,
and she didn't know how to be any other way
other than positive.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
What was it, the last message that she said was
she planned to.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
She got more to do.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
She got more to do, yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Shelly said, I waited on her in a New Orleans restaurant.
Great woman, and she tipped well. And Wendy said, I
need bereavement leave this week. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
We feel you.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, I totally— and I mean, when I got the news,
that's exactly the way I felt. Never met her, but
you feel like, oh, my God.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Coming up, thank you for all those. Keep those messages coming.
We're here for it, too. Coming up next, your Hollywood Outsider.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Jodi's Hollywood Outsider.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
We all remember when Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson worked
together in the very dark, scary series called True Detective.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
I wonder if you're.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
A bad man.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Well, neat bad man.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
We keep the other bad men from the door.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
They worked together so well.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
And since this time, everybody wants them together.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
And there's that rumor that they might be brothers. These
insane coincidences that they might be related.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
In real life?

Speaker 3 (05:57):
In real life. Even Woody Harrelson said, look, they've never
done any of the tests. But there are a lot
of weird coincidences. And they noted the timing of his
father's relationship with Matthew McConaughey's mother.

Speaker 6 (06:07):
They don't look alike.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
There was some ishy stuff going on in the past
with them, and they really gel well together.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
They say they've never done the DNA testing.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, do it! I know!

Speaker 6 (06:18):
The world wants to know.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Apple TV does have a new comedy series coming called Brothers,
and they're going to play, this is so weird to me,
fictionalized versions of themselves.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
It's weird.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
It's about, you know, Woody Harrelson struggling with the revelation
that Matthew McConaughey is facing... An identity crisis as he
tries to run for governor of Texas. And it's a
comedy where they're playing themselves, which sounds weird to me.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
I would be more interested in the real life story
with the DNA test.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Aren't we all?

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Coming up next, Sam has music news.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
Let you know how Dolly Parton made sure that her
music is going to live on after her.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Sam's got music news.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
You know, even though we have lost Dolly Parton, she
made plans for her music to live on forever.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Of course.

Speaker 6 (07:08):
I didn't know this, but she said she was one
of those people who believed in being prepared before the
end came. She says there is enough music that she
has recorded, and she has recorded it in a way,
this is according to her, that any producer anywhere can
take her song and make another song out of it.
She's apparently got a whole library of songs that are

(07:30):
just vocals and click tracks. Click tracks are what they
use when they record or in concerts for everybody to
keep on time.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, mainly the drummer.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
She's got a library of this stuff, so at any
point in time, if somebody comes along and likes this
song and wants to make something out of it, there
you go. She says you can take her songs and
make anything you want out of it.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
That's incredible.

Speaker 6 (07:51):
Any producer can arrange it any way they want. And
I don't know if you remember this, but she talked
a few years ago about a song she recorded and
put in a box at Dollywood to be opened in 2045.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Dolly!

Speaker 6 (08:05):
The song is called My Place in History. We don't
know what it sounds like, but it's supposed to be
open in 2045. She said... It's going.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
To sound like an angel.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
After she put it in the box, she said there's
been a few times she's wanted to dig it up
and put a better song in.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Artists are always that way.

Speaker 6 (08:20):
But she hasn't. She said she also included some guidance
on how to use a CD player because the song
is on a CD.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Oh, is it? Well, that would be what would have
been her 99th birthday. 99, yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (08:32):
And a little news about Dolly's funeral, the songs. She
actually picked the songs for her funeral. She said she
knew that, you know, they're going to play I Will
Always Love You.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
Of course.

Speaker 6 (08:41):
She said they played it. That's when she lost it
at Whitney Houston's funeral. She said when they started playing it,
she cried, and that's when it hit her that Whitney
was really gone.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (08:50):
But she said the one song she once played at
her funeral is If We Never Meet Again.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
If we never meet.

Speaker 6 (09:00):
It's an old country gospel church song.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Oh, I know this song.

Speaker 6 (09:03):
It was her daddy's favorite song.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:06):
And that's what she once played.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
I've heard that in church growing up.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
My heart is on fire at this moment.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Stop it.

Speaker 6 (09:13):
All right.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Coming up next, three things to know today.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Three things to know today. Number one, you may have
heard it, but it is true, and it's big news.
SpaceX set to build a major spaceport along the Louisiana coast.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
Biggest one they have. Where they're going to.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Launch thousands of rockets each year. That's the plan. Construction
is expected to begin next year with a possible launch.
Ha ha. The first one in 2029. So it takes
that long. Creating a lot of jobs over the next decade.
Some people are saying, hey, they're concerned about the state's
fragile coastline. SpaceX says much of the land will be undeveloped.

(09:54):
Number two, guess what? The news is if you eat
at your desk, your keyboard is gross. They say if
you eat at your desk a lot, the keyboard is
like a germ buffet. And it's not, you know, that
you're eating at your desk. It's that you're touching your
food and then touching your keyboard and you're transferring like
saliva and food particles. So the best advice is Wash

(10:14):
your hands after eating, before you touch your keyboard, or
best of all, don't eat at your desk. Take an
actual lunch away from work. And number three, Dolly Parton
fans are buying up, they call it panic buying, all
of the Jolines from the Good American denim line.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
What's the Jolines?

Speaker 3 (10:32):
It's jeans designed in honor of Dolly that were already there,
a part of the denim line. So bell bottoms, denim corsets,
you know, details like little rhinestones. they're selling out now
since her death. And so this was in a collaboration
with Khloe Kardashian, who formed this Good American Jeans line.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
You're up to date. Three things to know today.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
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 (11:03):
I mean, I'm sure we have some things. We've been
to Dollywood three times.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
We have a very coveted coat of many colors Christmas ornament.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
That's the best one. It gets us prime.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
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
the girls' room, they don't live with us anymore, Taylor

(11:36):
and Phoebe, but there were some boxes of stuff to
be donated recently. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
I really like to be efficient.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
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 great shirt and

(12:04):
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 yeah be careful like go you know
if somebody else puts it look when i put stuff
together to donate I know Murphy walks past it and goes, hmm,

(12:27):
are we really donating this?

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, you never know. I've had some things that almost
went that should not have been donated. Important shirts, clothes,
and other prized things.

Speaker 6 (12:38):
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 (12:46):
I don't think so.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
You see it sitting there and it's like, why did
I put that in there?

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Oh, so that's you second guessing. That's you holding on.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, and also when you're in a different emotional state altogether,
one moment you don't want it, the next minute it's like, yeah,
I do love it.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
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 6 (13:16):
And that shirt is pink?

Speaker 2 (13:17):
That shirt is pink, which means.

Speaker 6 (13:18):
So you can wear it tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Totally can wear it on Friday, yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
You want to wear a sweatshirt in this weather, though?

Speaker 3 (13:24):
No, no, it's a t-shirt.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Oh, it's a t-shirt.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
It's a sweet little pink tee.

Speaker 6 (13:28):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Coming up at 7.50, Jodi has three things to know today.
And next, your morning pick-me-up.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Today's Morning Pick Me Up comes from you on our
Instagram and Facebook Messenger, you sharing with us what Dolly
Parton taught you. And we thought to ask this because
in her passing, I realized something she taught me that's
so beautiful that all people need to hear was a
long time ago when she.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Was asked by Barbara Walters, why do you dress like this?

Speaker 3 (13:58):
You're very beautiful.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
You don't have to wear the blonde wigs. You don't
have to wear.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
The extreme clothes, right?

Speaker 1 (14:03):
No, it's certainly a choice. I don't like to be
like everybody else.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
I've often made the statement that I would never stoop
so low as to be fashionable.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
That's the easiest thing in the world to do. She
went on to say that I'm secure in myself.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
I like myself this way.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Onward. Next question. That's such a beautiful thing for her
to have said instead of being defensive about it. She's like, yeah,
I know it looks cheap, but I love it. Next.
We wanted to know what Dolly Parton taught you. So
from our messenger, let's get to some of these comments, guys.

Speaker 6 (14:36):
We got one here from Stephanie that says that she
taught me that it doesn't matter what people think. I'm enough.
It's okay to be different just as long as it
makes me happy.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Totally.

Speaker 6 (14:47):
She showed the world what a true Christian looks like.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yes, she did. Totally.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Stuart sent this. He says, hard candy Christmas taught me
as I got older that even tough times will be tough.
There's always something over the horizon for You just have
to look a little harder at what lies ahead and
not what's in front of you at the moment.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah, look. Did she ever do a song that wasn't
sort of a lesson, too? Hard Candy Christmas is that.
Heather said on Johnny Carson, she taught us it takes
a lot of money to look trashy, and I love it.
I love the story of why she chose her signature look.
Who cares what people think? You choose your style. And,
of course, she was always very humble and kind.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
So, so true. You can keep your Dolly lessons coming.
There are so many.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
I feel like in time, when we get more books,
when we get a biopic one day, it's going to
be more and more that she gives us.

Speaker 6 (15:38):
And also, too, she's got the Broadway play coming early
next year, and it's got her music, and she even
wrote new songs for it.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
So back to the fact that it's a morning pick-me-up.
That's good stuff, Jodi. Thank you. Coming up next, Jodi
has another Hollywood Outsider.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
Trending now, Jodi's Hollywood Outsider.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Brad Pitt's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sequel finally
has a real title.

Speaker 6 (16:00):
I am doing the.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Best I can under the circumstances. I do not want
to get into it tonight.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
This is the movie he won an Academy Award for,
so no pressure for a performance here, right? The movie
is called The Further Misadventures of Cliff Booth. It was
directed by David Fincher. Of course, it was written by
Quentin Tarantino. This time it's set in 1977, and it's
how Cliff adjusts to all the changes. He dramatically changed Hollywood.

(16:27):
It's going to be in IMAX theaters in November before
it starts streaming on Netflix December 23rd. So some Brad Pitt,
End of Year Christmas.

Speaker 6 (16:36):
That's pretty good. That first movie was awesome.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
How many times does an actor win an award for
a movie then go back and do the same character?
That's rare.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Moving on to something.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yesterday, actor Tim Curry died at the age of 80.
Of course, you know him from Rocky Horror. Dr. Frankenfurter,
which became a classic. He was also Pennywise in the
original It. He was in the Clue movie. Home Alone 2,
Lost in New York. He was never married and he
never had any children. And he kept his personal life

(17:08):
extremely private, which is also rare in Hollywood.

Speaker 6 (17:13):
Coming up next, the new Halloween decoration they're selling at Lowe's.
You've got to have this one, and it's not 12
feet tall. All the Halloween decorations are rolling out now
at Home Depot and Lowe's.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Some of them were out in May. That's another story. Summerween.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
They called it Summerween.

Speaker 6 (17:31):
Now, Murphy, I know for a few years now you've
had your eyes on Skelly, the big 12-foot skeleton they
sell at Home Depot.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (17:41):
Y'all haven't bought that yet, have you?

Speaker 1 (17:42):
No, and I don't plan on it.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Oh, good.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Because we've got a neighbor down the street that's got one.
It looks great. You know, we don't need two of
them in the neighborhood.

Speaker 6 (17:50):
True. Unless you've got a bigger one. But anyway.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Where are we going to store that? That's my question.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Don't worry. I'm not interested in buying one.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Okay, good. Wow.

Speaker 6 (17:59):
However, Murphy may be interested in buying this new thing
from Lowe's.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (18:04):
It's the 12-inch haunted hologram crystal ball.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
12-inch.

Speaker 6 (18:09):
Yeah. Okay. Like a basketball.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (18:12):
It's a hologram.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
It makes holograms. It's got some pre-programmed ones like a
trick-or-treat or a skeleton and a pumpkin and all that,
but you can actually load your own stuff into this.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Oh, really?

Speaker 6 (18:25):
Download it off the internet, and it's got an app,
and you can load it in because, you know, okay.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
It's like you talking?

Speaker 6 (18:31):
Disney World. And Disneyland, the Haunted Mansion, you know the
head that's in the crystal ball, Miss Leota? Serpents and spiders,
tail of a rat, call in the spirits. I saw
this guy on TikTok. He downloaded that. I don't know
where he got it from.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
I put that.

Speaker 6 (18:47):
He downloaded that and uploaded it into this. So he's
got it. It looks just like Walt Disney World at
the Haunted Mansion.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Oh. Freaky.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Like at your door for trick-or-treaters?

Speaker 4 (18:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (18:56):
Put it right outside the door.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
I like to create your own.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Thing okay so you want to be in it and
say welcome.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Trick-or-treaters i mean to me that's more fun than having
to mount a 12-foot skeleton in the front yard every
year you know and.

Speaker 6 (19:07):
I don't know if you remember a couple years ago
i bought a projector and so i projected onto the
window and there's a there's a youtube thing called atmos
where you can go download all the ghosts or people
headless people walking along yeah scary images you could do
the same thing grab some of those and put those
in this crystal ball.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, you could even do personalized messages to your neighbors.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
You could if you're really personalizing it.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, that's actually a cool idea. That would freak somebody
out if they walk in and the.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
Crazy crystal ball is in there. Hello, Mimi. Would you
like some Reese's?

Speaker 6 (19:39):
Stay off my porch.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
How big is the crystal ball?

Speaker 6 (19:42):
12 inches.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Like a basketball size.

Speaker 6 (19:45):
80 bucks. Okay. Okay.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Fine.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
All right. Murphy.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Coming up next, three things to know today.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Here's three things to know today. Number one, a petition
to rename Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton has gained
new momentum.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Following her death, more than 122,000 people have signed the
Change.org petition.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
Yesterday it was 78,000. That's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
And she had even joked that it would be fun
to hear that a flight was departing from Dolly Parton Airport.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
If she joked about it, you know she wanted it to.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
Number two. Football fans, from the NFL, the Pro Bowl
is no more. It will no longer be a standalone game,
whether tackle or regular flag or whatever.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
It wasn't a real game anyway.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
I know. 88 players will still receive the Pro Bowl honor, okay?
And you get to cast your ballot and all that
kind of stuff. And why even have it, even name it? Well, money.
Veteran players get bonuses for being named to the Pro Bowl.
There's a whole thing, a status and bonuses, but they

(20:59):
just won't play a game anymore. And number three, we've
got a near total lunar eclipse visible tonight for most
of America. OK, it's going to be like that reddish
orange color.

Speaker 6 (21:10):
Yeah, it looks nice.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
It's going to look like a total blood moon, actually.
And no special glasses needed for this. That's the most
important part. Safe to watch with the naked eye.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
You're up to date.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Three things to know today.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Tomorrow is Grateful Friday, and we want to hear from you.
My heart needs it. So you can jump in and
get on it.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
877-310-4MSJ. Get a jump on it.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
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. Oh!

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Hey!

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Okay, ha-ha.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Why is that funny?

Speaker 6 (21:46):
I'm just wondering who he made mad.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
No, I didn't make anybody mad. Actually, I will get
an official summons. I've got the card for jury duty. Oh, okay.
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 5 (22:08):
Right.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
And I got dismissed.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
I did, too.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
I was so sad. 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,

(22:33):
describe it. And so in the back of my head,
I'm thinking, is this my opportunity?

Speaker 6 (22:39):
To get out of it?

Speaker 5 (22:39):
Right.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
But look, I love my civic duty. I'm not going
to try to get out of it.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
What would you have put?

Speaker 1 (22:45):
That you're on the dark web? Well, but I did,
you know, well, no, I did put that. Yes, I
had my social security number stolen.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
That was a victim of a crime.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Three years ago, and I'm still very upset about it.

Speaker 6 (22:56):
And they're all guilty.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
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 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 (23:21):
It's context of who you're talking to.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Right.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
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 what's.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
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 6 (23:40):
He's the foreman.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
You're going to be the foreman.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
You're going to be the.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Foreman before you even form a group.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
You think so?

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (23:46):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
If you get chosen.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
Right, if.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
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 at the summit.

Speaker 6 (23:53):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Coming up in a bit, your Hollywood outsider.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
Direct message us on Facebook.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
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 (24:10):
That's right, because your timing was supposed to be once
vacation was over.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Schools back in session.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
And it's the Clear the Shelters event nationwide through Sunday.

Speaker 6 (24:20):
Oh, is it?

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Shelters across the country are waiving or massively reducing adoption fees.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
Yeah, I timed this perfectly. And no pressure on me, please,
but it was already in my plans this weekend to
either look up some of the shelters online and see
who's there or go visit a couple of shelters online.
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 (24:45):
Those are called adoption events.

Speaker 6 (24:47):
Yeah. It's already in my plans for this weekend. Sweet.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
That's awesome.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
It's possible that Monday, you know, I could be telling you.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
About my new friend. Although, no pressure.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
You know, just do you jive with a dog or not?

Speaker 6 (24:59):
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 3 (25:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
A dog that's a couple years old, should you not
change the name? Because you know how they all have names.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
You know how I feel about this.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
I would ask the person who's either fostering the dog
or is the most familiar from the shelter. 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 (25:37):
But understand— Well, what Jody's saying there is shelter dogs
sometimes are strays.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
So there's no way to— so they get their name from
the shelter.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Not necessarily.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
At intake, they give them a number and they give
them a chip and.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
They give them a name.

Speaker 6 (25:50):
They don't know who the original owner is. So that
name might be given by the shelter, which means.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
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 dogs. He or she is the recommendation.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
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 (26:25):
Yeah, that makes sense. So sweet. That's really sweet.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
No pressure, but so excited.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Coming up next, your Hollywood outsider.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
Jodi's Hollywood Outsider. This movie is coming out starring Robert
Pattinson called Primetime, based on the TV show and real
events that happened on the show To Catch a Predator.
So Chris Hansen, the guy who had this show, had
his doubts about this movie being made, but he's still
piggybacking on it when it hits theaters. So when you

(26:56):
go see this in the theater, which is late in September,
he purchased Chris Hansen some ad time tickets to air
a commercial before you see the movie where he's pitching
to you his True Blue streaming network, which is devoted
to the same kind of predator investigations that made him famous.
So when you see that, that's really him. And then

(27:17):
you see the movie. The movie's called Primetime.

Speaker 6 (27:19):
And Robert Pattinson sounds just like him.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
And if you really want to dig into that story,
Robert Pattinson became him. Yeah. Even though Chris Hansen was like,
I don't want him to play me. Okay, moving on
to something. I did not see this coming, and Ryan
Gosling is involved. A Flintstones live action movie is coming.
From Warner Brothers. And we don't know if that means

(27:43):
he's going to be one of the Flintstones people or
if he's just producing it.

Speaker 6 (27:47):
It's supposed to be about Bam Bam.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yeah, so it's a side story. It's not about the original. Look,
there was already a Flintstones movie. It was a while
back in 1994. It was a live action with John Goodman.
And Steven Spielberg was the executive producer.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
But here we go again.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
If it's new and you can eat it, Sam's found it.

Speaker 5 (28:09):
He's the food dude.

Speaker 6 (28:10):
We have some chicken nugget wars heating up here between
Burger King and McDonald's.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (28:14):
Ooh. McDonald's is bringing back their spicy McNuggets this fall.
September 1st, actually.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (28:21):
They had them a few years ago. fans have screamed
for them again, so they're bringing them back. They're spicy
with cayenne and chili pepper. They're also bringing back Mighty
Hot Sauce, one of the dipping sauces.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Hot as in.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
And I would have to say McDonald's really was responsible
for popularizing the nuggets. I don't know if they were
the first, you know, restaurant to do it but i'm
sure they were the first non-chicken restaurant yeah fast food
restaurant to.

Speaker 6 (28:46):
Do right okay you know there's actually a reddit sub
thread where people vote on their favorite uh shape of
mcnugget which one is the best and the boot wins
every time i didn't know they had different shapes yeah
there's like four shapes i know there's a.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Round oval looking one but that's all i can remember.

Speaker 6 (29:01):
The boot they like because you can use the Put
part to dip down in the sauce.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Important stuff in life here.

Speaker 6 (29:08):
That is right.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Just depends on how they grow the chicken.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (29:13):
Over at Burger King, they have listened, because you know
they had that campaign a while back, but tell us
how we can improve. A lot of folks chimed in
on chicken nuggets, so they're improving their chicken nuggets. They're
going to have crispier breading, tastier marinade, also coming September 1st.
And they're going to drop a new sauce on us
called Special Savory Sauce. The way it's described in some
of the foodies online say, think cane sauce.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
I'm sure they'd like for it to be.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
I'm sorry, but there's only one.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Sounds like there was a pub. in the drive-thru.

Speaker 6 (29:41):
Yeah. And Pizza Hut's giving you a chance to win
free pizza for life. I'm going to get to the
fine print here. You know how they changed their name
recently to Hut for the football season?

Speaker 2 (29:50):
They're trying to change it.

Speaker 6 (29:51):
So they want you to shoot a little video of
yourself doing Hut. You know, whether you're tailgating at home
or just, Hut! Send it in. You can go to
their website. And they're going to pick three winners to
win one million Hutt Rewards points. And they're calling it
Pizza for Life, but it's really a million Rewards points,
which should last you your entire life. You think?

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Oh, should they? I guess so.

Speaker 6 (30:14):
According to them, yeah. So Hutt, upload the video.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
It's still a lot of pizza that you would win.
It's still a lot.

Speaker 6 (30:19):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
A million, yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:20):
And Pringles has three new chips there. Thick chips. They're
called dippers because, you know, you can't dip a Pringle
at all.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
You can't.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
Interesting.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
You're right. Too light.

Speaker 6 (30:29):
These are thicker and they have ridges and they're going
to be coming out at the end of this month
for you just in time for football season.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Thank you, Food Dude.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
Three things to know today.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Number one, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has sounded the alarm
a little bit on AI. He published this long essay
on his Gates Notes website. And did you know that existed? Mm-mm.
And where he talked about AI and he says in
terms of equality, AI is either the greatest equalizer ever
invented or the worst source of injustice. And it remains
to be seen. Talked about the great areas, the great

(31:03):
things that can bring us in medicine and agriculture, but
the problems it could cause with unemployment, education and the
social development of children.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Correct on all those points.

Speaker 6 (31:13):
Yeah, both sides.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Number two, we always assume that parking at a mall
or any sort of big shopping center is free, and
mostly it is, but certain shopping centers across the country
have started charging for preferred parking spots, the best ones,
premium parking.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
The ones you have to ride around for usually.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Two and three dollars for the first hour. I think
that's totally worth it. And they reserve the right. So,
you know, you don't want to pay to park. Parkway out.
And it's just a trend that is growing. Just be aware.
And number three, when is the best time to work out?
If you ask a personal trainer, they'll say any time
you can fit it into your day. But if that

(31:52):
time is late in the evening, you know, just beware.
If you cut it too close to bedtime, if you
exercise before bedtime, do it at least two hours before
you try to go to sleep. Because your heart rate,
your body temperature, all of that has to come back down.
It's almost as if it's so stimulating, it could mess
up your sleep.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
You're up to date. Three things to know today.
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