Bobby sits down with the legend herself, Reba McEntire. They talk about it all! Reba shares stories behind her new project Revived Remixed Revisited including a new version of “Does He Love You” with Dolly Parton. She talks about the time she made her Opry debut and had her set cut short because of Dolly. She addressed all the biggest Urban Legends about her turning down role in Titanic, and if Faith Hill really didn’t get the part as her backup singer. She also talks about where her love of corn dogs came from, how she goes grocery shopping and to Starbucks by herself and the first time she realized she was famous!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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
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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
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new song called Treasure Treasure, Here said your loves word.
Matt Stell has a new song called Boyfriend Season When
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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,
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
(31:56):
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
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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.
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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
(33:02):
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
(33:23):
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
(33:44):
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,
(34:09):
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.
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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
(34:55):
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
(37:05):
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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
(43:34):
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
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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.
(44:16):
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
(44:36):
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?
(45:02):
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
(45:22):
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,
(45:43):
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
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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
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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?
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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
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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,
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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
(47:57):
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
(48:18):
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
(48:40):
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
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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
(49:27):
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
(49:49):
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
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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
(50:30):
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,
(50:50):
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
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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
(51:33):
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
(51:57):
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
(52:18):
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,
(52:38):
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
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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.
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
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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
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new song called Treasure Treasure, Here said your loves word.
Matt Stell has a new song called Boyfriend Season When
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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,
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
(27:20):
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
(27:40):
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,
(28:05):
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
(28:25):
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
(28:45):
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
(29:06):
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
(29:27):
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
(29:48):
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?
(30:09):
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
(30:32):
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.
(30:52):
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
(31:13):
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
(31:34):
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
(31:56):
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
(32:18):
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.
(32:41):
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
(33:02):
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
(33:23):
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
(33:44):
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,
(34:09):
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.
(34:30):
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
(34:55):
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
(35:15):
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
(35:38):
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
(36:00):
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
(36:22):
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
(36:42):
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
(37:05):
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
(37:27):
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.
(37:49):
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,
(38:10):
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
(38:31):
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,
(38:52):
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.
(39:15):
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
(39:40):
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
(40:01):
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
(40:24):
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
(40:44):
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,
(41:04):
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
(41:26):
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,
(41:48):
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
(42:08):
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
(42:29):
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
(42:50):
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
(43:11):
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
(43:34):
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
(43:54):
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.
(44:16):
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
(44:36):
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?
(45:02):
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
(45:22):
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,
(45:43):
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
(46:06):
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
(46:28):
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?
(46:48):
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
(47:11):
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,
(47:35):
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
(47:57):
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
(48:18):
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
(48:40):
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
(49:05):
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
(49:27):
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
(49:49):
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
(50:09):
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
(50:30):
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,
(50:50):
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
(51:11):
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
(51:33):
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
(51:57):
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
(52:18):
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,
(52:38):
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
(53:01):
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.
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