❤️ Kris Kristofferson, Singer-Songwriter And Actor, Dies At 88

Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, whose poignant lyrics made him a country music legend and whose rugged good looks led to 1970s Hollywood movie star fame, has died.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation. I've just heard some sad news.
Chris Christopherson has passed away at the age of eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
What a big deal he was As a kid, I
used to love Chris Christophers because he had everything for
men and everything for women.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Well, I remember when I was younger, I used to
watch him and I realized now it was his wife,
Rida Coolidge, and they'd sort of share one microphone and
the bee, all looking at each other's eyes, and I
felt like, get a room. I felt uncomfortable watching.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
What songs did they do?

Speaker 1 (00:27):
They're saying mocking Bird together.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
They did that slow one.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well, it help helped me make it through the night.
Let me make it through the rhym from she'd have
a snooze while he had a bit of a scene.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Look at it, she's right in there. It's pretty sexy.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
They were married. I'd be looking at it. I could
see what, see why I was uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm just going to go for it.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I know, I know it was very uncomfortable. He's got
eight kids. He was married to Rider Cooler. She was
the second of his three wives. So remember him from
Star is Born the first Star or no, the second
stuff is born. There was one of the thirties. He
was in one with Barbara Streisan showing the scenery. She
was He wasn't He was just sexy in the track.
He was sexy.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Hellared, Yeah, he was like amazing. He had a relationship
with Janice Joplin.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Well, they had that song together.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
They had well he wrote me and Bobby McGee James
Joblin from Massive.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Did he write this?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
And he had it off with Janice Joplin. He feel
There's a book that Janice Joplin's girlfriend wrote and it
was called Going Down with Janice and she details a
very sexy manage attire between Chris Christophers and Janice Jocquelin
Joplin and her.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Wow, do you remembers a part of it?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
And this is I don't know where reader was.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
You might he was a reader reader. She was with
the shops. I'm just going to get something from the shops.
You'll be okay, Christy, Yeah, I'll be fine. Friends, I'm here.
It's me, Bobby McGee and a couple of chicks.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
You remember Convoy. He was in that as the you
know he was he was a truck driver.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
He was an actor as well.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
It was a great actor and the highwaymen later in life,
remember the highwaymen.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
With the yards broke con this and.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
That, But it was Willie Johnny Cash, Whal Jennings, Whylon,
Jenny's and Chris Christofferson.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Look, obviously with this news has just broken for us.
But so more accolades will be put together with a
little bit more finesse than this