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October 8, 2025 5 mins

Country singer Zach Bryan is going under fire after a snippet of an unreleased song went viral on TikTok. Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to pray for her after some health concerns.

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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Fred was it called America's Team, the Gambler and his Cowboys?
That's the one. Okay, So that's the Jerry Jones documentary
if you guys were wondering what that was called? Okay,
So here is what I kind of feel like the
problem is with the world today. So by now you
have probably heard based on where you're getting your information
from that Zach Bryan released some sort of song that

(00:56):
people are calling anti American, and there's a mention of
ice this song right, it's all over online. Country singers
like Jake Owen and John Rich have already come for him.
I believe on X one called him a tool. YadA YadA.
Even the Department of Homeland Security has been involved, telling
him to stick to Pink Skies, which is one of
his songs. The White House has weighed in. But here

(01:17):
is what actually happened. Months ago, Zach released a snippet
of a song that does mention ice. Months later, this
song went viral. He has not released the entire song yet,
and people are reacting based on what other people are
saying without the facts. Zach is now coming out it's
actually on a story right now to say that if
you hear the full song, it hits both sides of

(01:38):
the aisle, and it is meant to reflect the division
in America, not to pick a side, but he says
this snippet proves that we just want to argue about everything.
By the way, Zach served our country for eight years
in the Navy, so he's like, listen the full song,
you'll understand the context. I don't know if he's releasing
it or when, but we all just want to be
so mad and we don't have all the facts. By

(02:00):
the way, I cannot stand Zach Bryant so the fact
that I am defending him is even crazier. But we
gotta just chill. It's okay, it's okay. Everybody's eat, breathe
because we need to shift our focus to Dolly Parton
right now, because Dolly needs our prayers. Okay. So her
younger sister, Frieda which I did not know that was
her name. I love that, says that she actually stayed
up all night one night praying for Dolly, saying that

(02:23):
she isn't feeling her best lately. And Dolly has told
us a little bit about this. You know, she postponed
her Vegus residency citing health challenges, saying she needs some
procedures she, of course and Dolly fashion minimized it, joked
about it. But her sister is now asking fans to
become prayer warriors for her recovery. She is feeling confident
that she's going to be okay. But when a sister

(02:45):
is up all night praying makes me a little nervous.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah. Well, I guess she posted this morning like an
apology or something that she was like, oh, she got
people too scared about it. Well, you know that like
it because I read it yesterday and was like, oh
my god, she's dying, like it's over because usually when people,
you know, say stuff like that, you know, prayers and
whatever like that, I can't stand if you do that
and you don't really need the prayers.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Right, and I guess we do need the prayers.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
But she she issued some kind of further statement saying like,
oh well, you know, like it's sorry if I made
you all like overly concerned about her imminent the potential
of her imminent death or something, because I guess it's
not that bad.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
That's a great point because she's literally saying like that,
you know, it was nothing more than my little sister,
Like I'm asking for prayers, but it's like, you know,
if you're gonna ask me for that that.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'm like, she's as old as she is and her
husband died and love of her life. And then we
were canceling things and then it's like, oh man.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
You know, I'm social and ask for prayers, like it
better be like we share you do anything wrong.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
But I think I think the reaction was like, oh
my gosh, we're days away or hours away, and maybe
we're not hopefully freedom.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
I still think that she's now minimizing it in my
personal opinion, because the reaction got so big. I don't
think Dolly's on her death bet. I do not think that,
and I don't. I haven't spoke to her in some time,
but I really think that regardless, if you're up all
night praying for someone you know, I don't think it's
making me nervous. It's still making me nervous. I know
she apologized. I think she felt very guilty for upsetting

(04:11):
people and upsetting fans, But I do think we just
need to keep her in our thoughts. Okay, And lastly,
do I know my girl or do I know my girl?
Taylor Swift is finally speaking about the reason that she
is not doing these super Bowl halftime show this year,
and it is because of Travis. It is because he's
still playing, and she says it's nothing to do with him.
He would love her to do it, but she says

(04:32):
she's too quote locked in. She just it's too many
variables and it's too much for her. She says she
has a great relationship with Jay Z and Rock Nation,
who leads the super Bowl halftime show. She was asked
directly about the rumors that the media filled in the
narrative that she was too difficult, they couldn't meet her demands.
She wanted to own the footage. None of that is true.
Not a single part of that is true. So let's

(04:52):
just calm down again. She will do it at some point.
I'm sure she's open to it. Not while her man
is playing and he's not playing very well. So yeah,
he's on my fantasy team, so pick it up, Travis.
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