Bobby was just in Oklahoma so wanted to revist his visit 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):
They wanted to share this episode of the Bobby Cast
you may have missed from a couple of years ago,
because well, it was just really good and real cool.
Sat down with Reba for an hour at my house
and it was just like some legendary Reba stories. And
I guess the reason that kind of came to mind
that we had this was I was in Oklahoma and
she just opened up that restaurant there and then know
she was live streaming a show from there and somebody
was talking about it. I was like, day, I got
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a really good interview with Reba that maybe if people
just started following the Bobby Cast, they haven't heard yet.
So Reba's are been legends. The corn dog deal, the
grocery shopping, the Starbucks, all this stuff with Reba. It's
really cool. So here we go. In case you missed it,
it's Reba on the Bobby Cast 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 as idea, Yeah, and I liked it
because only when I saw him an autograph, I only
had to put Reba because I'm lazy. Now it's kind
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of weird to hear McIntyre. Yeah, I like it. When
I'm doing liners and things, I say, Hm, 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 Rebay. I'm Reba.
Reba Hey, Red, Hey, I'm re McIntyre. It just sounds
better to me. It's funny to see, whenever you look
(01:23):
at your career, even today, how relevant you are pop
culture wise. Today I'm watching ted Lasso 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, my dog. I was sitting
there watching TV and and Roy Kent, my favorite character
(01:46):
of that whole show, comes up and says, I think
you're holding a ticket for Reba McIntyre. Riddler, did you
hear that? I was through? That's crazy Marty said the
same thing. She's sitting there with her dog Cooper. So
it was it was one the same kind of thing
because I'm on TikTok a lot when you know I'm
a survivor, is I must And it's everybody doing like
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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 read all of a sudden, this
song is massive on TikTok. Yeah, I think just was
the one. He sent it over to me, justin McIntosh
and uh he said, look at this looks what's look
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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 on 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 texts
(02:57):
me and goes, hey, what's happening here? And I was like,
what do you mean, what's happening? 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. Check that 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 that remix everywhere,
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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, 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 or what how do
you do it? How do I do? How do you
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do it? Do it? I don't do nothing. I've got
a great team that come up, they're young, they could
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 turn into rebund. Good job. You know, I'm a survivor.
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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
will live forever. The you did a whole album with
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different remixes on it. Yeah, was the remix album inspired
by it kind of blowing up again or were you
already 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
the first time we all said at a long conference
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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
is cool. And after that I was like, oh crap,
(05:04):
I'm gonna be way busier and I won't 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
a lot of people these songs you know, uh, defined
(05:26):
you know different parts of their life or were you like, hey,
have at it. I'm curious to see what you guys
do with three minutes. The latter 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 going added them all up, Fancies number one,
and I never and I'm probably I'm sure that you've
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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, like
seeing it. I was singing it hard. I mean, I
was really into it. And then it's like one day
you just go, oh, how about that? How about that? Yeah,
(06:12):
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 why you think it's about that, that's great.
So when you recorded that song, was there any talk
with your with you your team, like oh, this is
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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 on? And I said, yeah, Fancy. He said, oh, woman,
you don't need to be doing that. That's about a prostitute.
I said, I'm totally aware of that. And so when
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I went with Tony Brown in nineteen ninety he said,
would you like to do a song again? And I
said fancy he's Oh my gosh, that 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, nope, I can't do that.
Well this whenever, uh, the ninth the lights went out
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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
the same thing. Tony said, is there another song you'd
like to do a remix? To do it again? And
(07:34):
I said, yeah, that's the night the last went 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
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at TV Talk Show, and I went on and 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 was the biggest
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fan in the room. You know. It's it's wild to
hear someone who I look at as being the greatest
you 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 she in l
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A Was she in that phase? You don't know, I
don't know. The first time I saw Dolly was September
nine seven in person, remember the year, in 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 going to take one
of your songs away from you. You only do one,
And I said, why it's of Dolly Parton just pulled
(09:01):
in the parking lot and I said, well, she can
take both of them. Can meet her. And she walked
buying this chaffaun black pants suit and had those butterfly
round stone butterflies on and this big cotton candy hair. Allo. Man,
that must be what angels look like. That was the
most beautiful woman I ever saw in my life. And
(09:21):
did you say hello? I was backed up again like
everybody else was. I mean, they said, part the waves,
Dolly's coming in and I slammed 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 she
(09:44):
came on the reab A TV show and we got
to spend the whole week together. That was precious. That's
I absolutely love that priceless. I just look at you.
Two is out of the same cut of the same cloth.
Were 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 just that.
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And you both did it at a really high level.
And I would think that that hopefully she would be
someone same thing with like Taylor to you, you know,
with some of these other artists who are doing that,
that that that you could reach out to it after
a point and get advice from her. To that ever happened,
we 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
(10:30):
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 is on the tonight show them up before and
she said she's going to Vegas, won't be at Caesar's.
So I call 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,
Reebal McIntyre, And presume Dolly came on the last she said,
is this really rebuld 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 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, she loves you, he loves you,
luck loss me loves me? Does he think of you?
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Does he think of you? And she was spoils? 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
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of all the songs and listening to him, and does
He Love You came up and I said, 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 pretty well, like I love her. Yeah,
(12:16):
but I remember watching the CMT You Guys video. It
was one of the videos that and probably propped me
up beside the jukebox when I die, or probably two
that I really you know, remember and think about from
from kind of that part of my life. But originally
I had read that you thought maybe why Nona would
be the one, but Linda killed it singing it, and
you're like, we have to go with that. Is that
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story true? Well, partially, Linda was on the road with me.
She and Hillary's 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,
(12:57):
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 the meantime while I'm recording it,
would can Lenda just step in and do the other
parts so I had 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
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in her mind she was like, I'm gonna sing this
so good that hopefully they can't refuse that. You know,
Linda is 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, love it. And you know, all Linda
has to do a sing and she she sells herself.
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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? That's why I said managers talked
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 it is
out now. Uh, that is on the box set. You're
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also doing the Christmas and Tune, which is the Lifetime movie.
Where does the acting rank on your passions? Now? I
love to act. I don't like to sit around hurry
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
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like almost all of it. I like the being an
executive producer. 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 would make me rehearse every day. I knew not
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only my lines, but I knew everybody else's lines because
he would be 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 reboad 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
(15:07):
mixed up? Because then we did Malibu Country. Um, I
was in the midst 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.
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I got Monday off. Tuesday morning was up front, so
I had to be 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
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in front of the audience tape it and Reba Briba
instead of Sally, then let's see how that test 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
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out this thing on the USA today that they're publisist.
Publicists had said, why the w B had ever hired
rebut mac and Tire for this part is ridiculous. She's
not ever what do you call it? Um? People that watch, Yeah,
she's not our demographics, and so the head of the
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company called. By the time we got back to the
hotel after upfronts 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 Norvel 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 REEB on the line. Banged on the bathroom doors
to pick up the phone and I so I said hello.
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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 Marvell 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 you go, did you move out
(17:21):
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. We were there three weeks.
So what happened was I got through it and 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 a found an apartment,
(17:42):
a condo 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 live in l A. I'd
(18:02):
love to go back and 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 to 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
(18:22):
and had it passed on, where you feel like 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? Is
that show. That show is done. That show is done, unfortunately,
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which I thought it was going to, you know, last forever.
I thought I'd retire off of that show. I mean
the ox Blood that show. That's it. Yeah. Yeah, Mark Cherry,
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 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 stay age, behind the setup, and
I'm walking on stage for my part and running and
kicks are 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
(20:13):
still 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 when it cut and how it hits me personally.
And I'm not even a cow girl, like I said,
no'all girl to me. I was talking to my wife,
(20:40):
she's 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 me Miama, Oklahoma, right, And so
you were born in say it for me it is Chalky.
I was born in McAllister and went to school at
Kyle Wall, which the town she was talking about, it
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said two different ways. Not Kyowa. It's Kawa. That's why
we say it the Kiowa 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 help help represent what town. I guess
(21:26):
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 lot of land by a lot of property, and
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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 see,
uh huh, and she wanted to be a singer, but
she ended up being a school teacher and teaching music too. Kids.
Did her desire to be a singer. Influenced your desire
(22:11):
to be a singer, Yes, they did her once make
you want it. 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.
Then first grade, uh, the teacher would say, all right,
(22:31):
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 pack Allison Susy. 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
when I went on to college, I took Mama made
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sure I took eighteen hours, keep me out of trouble,
a lot of hours and so, but they were mostly
music classes. And so when I went to the national
finals rodeo Oklomba City and seventy four, I was a sophomore,
Daddy knew I was up there party and having a
good time, and he said, won't you get you a job?
While you're up there. And I said, shoot, that would
(23:12):
interfere with all my fun I said, doing what and
he said sing the Nashal anthem. And that's when Red
Steagall heard me. So fast forward. 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 anybody in the music business. I had
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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. What didn't you say? So get in the car,
(23:54):
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
Susie back, say okay, I'm I'm back, I'll do it. Wow,
(24:19):
your dad, I am assuming he instilled the work ethic
that you must have to get to this point. Like
I'm assuming your dad was like, this is a two 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 up at four
in the morning and uh Peg and I would go
(24:41):
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 kind of walk back step on your feet,
and then we'd go in. Daddy'd have breakfast cooked and
Mom would be in. They're getting ready for work because
she was the superintendent's assistant secretary, And so we would
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go start gathering one end and then bring them all
down to the pens. 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, and in the
spring we would get cattle in and we'd have to
work them, you know, vaccinate on the horn on, castrate
(25:27):
on random, 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 castrate.
Your dad being a world champion roper, was he practicing
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a lot? Do you remember them 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 hard
to do. Yeah, that's really hard to do. Yeah, and
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he'd get it done. And so Daddy told us one
time that Grand Pap said, now, son, if the house
catches on far men, your ma all take care of it.
You just stay out there at the roping pen and
keep practicing. They were because Grandpap was a nineteen thirty
four world champions tire roper. What is your lineage? Well,
where did okay, your your dad, your grandfather, Where did
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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 me.
I love attention, so I like I like the fame.
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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'ld go do another
roping to make more money to buy more land, more cattle.
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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, we know that's not true because I would
have to imagine it's just famous was so different even
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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
can even in the nineties, but read the TV show.
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It was just a different were all 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'm saying, okay, I'd
like this rug number in three or four or five seven,
(28:20):
she says, hold on, they knew you by your voice.
There is this rabe entire I hadn't given her my
name or anything. I said, yeah, hold on, I was okay,
I blah blah back what else would you like? So
I thought, wow, my voices. But you know I can't
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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 had mentioned
to me that there was so much that went into
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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
seemed like a commercial. It would be a lot of work.
It was super cool, It was fun, but I gotta
imagine if you have to abide by the Colonel Sanders
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handbook of you know, exact living that that's probably a
lot leading into a shoot just of hair and makeup. 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 my mustache and my beard.
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All 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 you? Was that a one you have to keep secret?
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Or no? Do you? Because I remember it was annound
everbody 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,
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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 enough money
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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 was 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 the 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's Anders the last show
you watched and you thought, I can't wait to see
the next episode, Like right now, are you watching anything
where you're just like, what is absolutely? Ted Lasts? So
I'm I'm so into that show. I love it. It's
a it's really goofy, silly, but lots of heart and
(31:31):
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 too? And Ted Last? So I'm like, come on, yeah,
let's go. We're watching Only Murders in the Building right
now with Steve Martin Martin Short and Selena Gomez and
it comes out every week and it's so good. But
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I'm like, I would like to see them all please
true What I'm really excited about Ozart comes back, the
last 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 Bene and I went back.
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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 getting 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?
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Oh no, no, are you Thursdays? Did you know? Did
you know Thursdays and Wednesdays are the best time to go?
Why are they? 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
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story the other day happened. 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?
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Everybody in line? I what looked at everybody as said
works great advertisement? Right here, just going the bag 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
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you have any idea where so and so is? And
they'll go, it's are you? Yeah? Are you really? You're
out shopping? Yeah? You know where the bacon soda is?
They said, yes, it's right down that aisle. Okay, thanks.
I'm curious about the Grand ol Opery and for for
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a lot of reasons. One my grandmother raised me for
a lot of my life, and so that's what we did.
We watched it on TNN or or whatever channel it
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 I'd invited into the Grand ol Opry, which are
two big things, but they're different. Do you remember your
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invitation into the Grand ol Opry when they said, reb
we 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
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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 I've gotten to stand on the
circle septem seven now, Bobby. The reason I remember that
date so well is because thirty years prior, Daddy the
all around at the Pendleton, Oregon round Up. And then
you remember this next day at being like the anniversary
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of the same day that you saw. Yeah, so um
being the day that I got in conducted. 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.
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That was our only vacation. But when we pulled up
to the gate, Daddy rolled down his wind and said, UM,
got Reba McIntyre. She's gonna saying on the opera tonight.
And gentlemen looked on his clipboard and he said, who, No,
she's not. They said, 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
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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 the quarter
in and 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 it, asked Mr mcintigo, right over
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here on number sixty seven. You park right there, You're
glad to see y'all. So that was a night we'll
never forget. And then I got one of my songs
month because Dolly's there, but we're still thrilled. The old
babies in the air, we just loved it. I think
I've done stand up at the Opera probably twenty times
if I produced the TV show. And I'm gonna get
to the story where you come in and I now
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tell the story I've told you a couple of times
at the Opery, but you were maybe a month and
a half ago. You were performing at the Opery and
then there was a change over, and then you performed
on an NBC special and so I done stand up
earlier and they said, hey, go fill some time between
rabe change over. I was like, cool, no problem. So
I go and I'm doing some jokes. I'm it's it's
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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 them,
but if less people are laughing, you don't know if
it's funny, and so I'm up and they're like, okay,
Rebe's gonna be like a minute. 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,
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and for some reason, I thought you were about to
invite me into the Grand Old 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,
between the ship, 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
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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 you 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,
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
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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, that's it.
I see the meme everywhere corn dogs. I see the
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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 someone come to you and go read but you're
now a corn dog meme? No? No, I found it
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out by somebody. 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
was a big yeah, I think we had to even
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come out and say you didn't doubt, which is a
weird conversation to have to have with people. 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 said, Bob died.
What happened? And she said, oh, no, I'd have been
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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 announcement. No, I think
it's before Twitter wasn't. Ye. Here are a few things, okay.
Is it true that you were in the running to
being Titanic the movie? Yes? And I had the part
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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 our concerts to November, December and then January, and
then they I mean, you start getting all the venues.
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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,
I gotta choose. I got so I said, sorry, I
can't do this to my people. So I turned down
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that part. You were a serious, like a really good
basketball player when you were younger. False, Well, we didn't
have that many people on the team, so I got
to play a lot. I was a guard that was
back in the day when it was uh six, you know,
three on three, not full court, thank god. But I
loved it. I went to basketball camp every summer. That's
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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
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,
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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
of a harmony singer at that time. Um no, what
meant to be. That's pretty cool though, that you could
tell she was going to be a star, you know,
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and back ond singing is different than just me just
singing the melody of a song to Okay, let's let's
let's roll through some of this, this this new stuff here,
because I have it up on our people to 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 netlis right there on the up top. Okay,
(41:52):
here we go, play me. I'm a survivor of the
dance remix her Kids and Never Stops with Lands and
the Heart of the fid I'm a survive What do
you think about that? I don't think it's that different.
(42:13):
I don't either. I think it sounds it's cool, yeah,
but I don't think it went total euro which is
not would be what I would be afraid of on
that song, or which is like, yeah, there's some of
them that 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
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never seen anybody do it. But it's got to be
a lot of work to remix a 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. It's very fancy. Here's the remix
of fancy she said you don't any day again. There's
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some part of that. It's like it's a yes she was, Yes,
she was chimed, the Queen chimed, the king a congress
bud 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.
This is the revisited can better then I guess weird.
(43:24):
Let's not track this on, consider me go, 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
cahe more cahone e. It was than it is a
(43:47):
snare And that's the first time I heard it. That's
what I thought too. Yeah, that was Dave Cobb, and
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
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dare you? You're an idiot? And this one's kind of like,
you know, it's just not working out. Let's just it's
just so much more mature. It's not throwing a fit.
It's just I like it better. The new box set Revived, Remixed,
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Revisited is available now. The Dolly Does He Love You
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
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else because it was us, the song about us. So
when someone wants to name check a city and Mike,
you can play that if 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,
(45:15):
can you imagine being so stupid not to play little Rock?
When you played 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 watched you and Kicks and Ronnie in Vegas.
What's that relationship been like? And why after all these
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years are you guys still together and still doing these
these shows together. We grew up together. We 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 up.
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They're they're not my brothers. We're very close. 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
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this perform on this absolutely incredibly well um 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
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to to get to do that and they could go
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 and you get your gun because
you're playing in the same theater. Yeah, you're not touring,
you know, did you have to do two shows a day? Ever?
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When you were? Because I had friends that it shows
on Broadway 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
I've ever had in my life. But I was gonna
ask the only, the only parallel, the similarity. But too,
I was in the same hotel room, I was in
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the same dressing room, in the same stage. Did that
make 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, well,
I like that woman and the fact that you bring
up Carol Burnette too, just a hero to me as
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someone who loves comedy too, love her just the best,
just the best. Well, I appreciate you coming by you
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.
(48:14):
It's not you just going here, here's old reb Let's
make old Reba cool again. It's like new Reba is
always cool, and so you have. I don't know if
they've told you that. If you haven't, 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 like faith, you're gonna be a star. Reba Um.
You're just the best. And I appreciate you coming over
and and you know, just being you, Mike, is anything
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you'd like to say? I think you're the only other
person that I know who is a fan of the
game Phase ten? Is that 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 to check those out. And I'm like, you know,
the only other person who likes this is the game player.
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I love games. One read one question from you. You You
said some then that you were gonna ask for 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. Non stop. That is too cute. Yeah,
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people get recognized 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 WNT 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. Had 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 talk about demos like almost if they're a fan
of your music, or if they're they're they're a fan
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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. Yeah, well listen, I will
let you go. But thank you so much. You've 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,
(50:25):
well 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
of your shows from back in the day. I thought
that was so cool that, Yeah, that was just a
brilliant idea. I watched the whole thing. I didn't come
(50:47):
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 in 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. The second one was
a lot better, but um, I was still very proud
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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 have 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 you eight songs and sweats.
I'll never forget seeing Shania Twain come out. Um. I
wasn't there in person, but I saw it and she
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had those fluffy little workout pants on and tennis shoes
and her hair 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 Reba,
thank you Bobby. Nice to see all these That was awesome.
They wanted to share this episode of the Bobby Cast
you may have missed from a couple of years ago,
because well, it was just really good and real cool.
Sat down with Reba for an hour at my house
and it was just like some legendary Reba stories. And
I guess the reason that kind of came to mind
that we had this was I was in Oklahoma and
she just opened up that restaurant there and then know
she was live streaming a show from there and somebody
was talking about it. I was like, day, I got
(00:21):
a really good interview with Reba that maybe if people
just started following the Bobby Cast, they haven't heard yet.
So Reba's are been legends. The corn dog deal, the
grocery shopping, the Starbucks, all this stuff with Reba. It's
really cool. So here we go. In case you missed it,
it's Reba on the Bobby Cast 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 as idea, Yeah, and I liked it
because only when I saw him an autograph, I only
had to put Reba because I'm lazy. Now it's kind
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of weird to hear McIntyre. Yeah, I like it. When
I'm doing liners and things, I say, Hm, 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 Rebay. I'm Reba.
Reba Hey, Red, Hey, I'm re McIntyre. It just sounds
better to me. It's funny to see, whenever you look
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at your career, even today, how relevant you are pop
culture wise. Today I'm watching ted Lasso 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, my dog. I was sitting
there watching TV and and Roy Kent, my favorite character
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of that whole show, comes up and says, I think
you're holding a ticket for Reba McIntyre. Riddler, did you
hear that? I was through? That's crazy Marty said the
same thing. She's sitting there with her dog Cooper. So
it was it was one the same kind of thing
because I'm on TikTok a lot when you know I'm
a survivor, is I must And it's everybody doing like
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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 read all of a sudden, this
song is massive on TikTok. Yeah, I think just was
the one. He sent it over to me, justin McIntosh
and uh he said, look at this looks what's look
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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 on 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 texts
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me and goes, hey, what's happening here? And I was like,
what do you mean, what's happening? 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. Check that 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 that remix everywhere,
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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, 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 or what how do
you do it? How do I do? How do you
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do it? Do it? I don't do nothing. I've got
a great team that come up, they're young, they could
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 turn into rebund. Good job. You know, I'm a survivor.
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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
will live forever. The you did a whole album with
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different remixes on it. Yeah, was the remix album inspired
by it kind of blowing up again or were you
already 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
the first time we all said at a long conference
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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
is cool. And after that I was like, oh crap,
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I'm gonna be way busier and I won't 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
a lot of people these songs you know, uh, defined
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you know different parts of their life or were you like, hey,
have at it. I'm curious to see what you guys
do with three minutes. The latter 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 going added them all up, Fancies number one,
and I never and I'm probably I'm sure that you've
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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, like
seeing it. I was singing it hard. I mean, I
was really into it. And then it's like one day
you just go, oh, how about that? How about that? Yeah,
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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 why you think it's about that, that's great.
So when you recorded that song, was there any talk
with your with you your team, like oh, this is
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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 on? And I said, yeah, Fancy. He said, oh, woman,
you don't need to be doing that. That's about a prostitute.
I said, I'm totally aware of that. And so when
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I went with Tony Brown in nineteen ninety he said,
would you like to do a song again? And I
said fancy he's Oh my gosh, that 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, nope, I can't do that.
Well this whenever, uh, the ninth the lights went out
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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
the same thing. Tony said, is there another song you'd
like to do a remix? To do it again? And
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I said, yeah, that's the night the last went 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
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at TV Talk Show, and I went on and 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 was the biggest
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fan in the room. You know. It's it's wild to
hear someone who I look at as being the greatest
you 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 she in l
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A Was she in that phase? You don't know, I
don't know. The first time I saw Dolly was September
nine seven in person, remember the year, in 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 going to take one
of your songs away from you. You only do one,
And I said, why it's of Dolly Parton just pulled
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in the parking lot and I said, well, she can
take both of them. Can meet her. And she walked
buying this chaffaun black pants suit and had those butterfly
round stone butterflies on and this big cotton candy hair. Allo. Man,
that must be what angels look like. That was the
most beautiful woman I ever saw in my life. And
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did you say hello? I was backed up again like
everybody else was. I mean, they said, part the waves,
Dolly's coming in and I slammed 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 she
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came on the reab A TV show and we got
to spend the whole week together. That was precious. That's
I absolutely love that priceless. I just look at you.
Two is out of the same cut of the same cloth.
Were 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 just that.
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And you both did it at a really high level.
And I would think that that hopefully she would be
someone same thing with like Taylor to you, you know,
with some of these other artists who are doing that,
that that that you could reach out to it after
a point and get advice from her. To that ever happened,
we 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 is on the tonight show them up before and
she said she's going to Vegas, won't be at Caesar's.
So I call 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,
Reebal McIntyre, And presume Dolly came on the last she said,
is this really rebuld 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 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, she loves you, he loves you,
luck loss me loves me? Does he think of you?
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Does he think of you? And she was spoils? 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
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of all the songs and listening to him, and does
He Love You came up and I said, 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 pretty well, like I love her. Yeah,
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but I remember watching the CMT You Guys video. It
was one of the videos that and probably propped me
up beside the jukebox when I die, or probably two
that I really you know, remember and think about from
from kind of that part of my life. But originally
I had read that you thought maybe why Nona would
be the one, but Linda killed it singing it, and
you're like, we have to go with that. Is that
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story true? Well, partially, Linda was on the road with me.
She and Hillary's 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,
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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 the meantime while I'm recording it,
would can Lenda just step in and do the other
parts so I had 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
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in her mind she was like, I'm gonna sing this
so good that hopefully they can't refuse that. You know,
Linda is 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, love it. And you know, all Linda
has to do a sing and she she sells herself.
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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? That's why I said managers talked
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 it is
out now. Uh, that is on the box set. You're
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also doing the Christmas and Tune, which is the Lifetime movie.
Where does the acting rank on your passions? Now? I
love to act. I don't like to sit around hurry
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
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like almost all of it. I like the being an
executive producer. 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 would make me rehearse every day. I knew not
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only my lines, but I knew everybody else's lines because
he would be 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 reboad 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
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mixed up? Because then we did Malibu Country. Um, I
was in the midst 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.
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I got Monday off. Tuesday morning was up front, so
I had to be 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
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in front of the audience tape it and Reba Briba
instead of Sally, then let's see how that test 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
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out this thing on the USA today that they're publisist.
Publicists had said, why the w B had ever hired
rebut mac and Tire for this part is ridiculous. She's
not ever what do you call it? Um? People that watch, Yeah,
she's not our demographics, and so the head of the
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company called. By the time we got back to the
hotel after upfronts 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 Norvel 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 REEB on the line. Banged on the bathroom doors
to pick up the phone and I so I said hello.
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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 Marvell 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 you go, did you move out
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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. We were there three weeks.
So what happened was I got through it and 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 a found an apartment,
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a condo 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 live in l A. I'd
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love to go back and 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 to 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
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and had it passed on, where you feel like 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? Is
that show. That show is done. That show is done, unfortunately,
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which I thought it was going to, you know, last forever.
I thought I'd retire off of that show. I mean
the ox Blood that show. That's it. Yeah. Yeah, Mark Cherry,
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 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 stay age, behind the setup, and
I'm walking on stage for my part and running and
kicks are 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
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still 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 when it cut and how it hits me personally.
And I'm not even a cow girl, like I said,
no'all girl to me. I was talking to my wife,
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she's 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 me Miama, Oklahoma, right, And so
you were born in say it for me it is Chalky.
I was born in McAllister and went to school at
Kyle Wall, which the town she was talking about, it
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said two different ways. Not Kyowa. It's Kawa. That's why
we say it the Kiowa 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 help help represent what town. I guess
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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 lot of land by a lot of property, and
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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 see,
uh huh, and she wanted to be a singer, but
she ended up being a school teacher and teaching music too. Kids.
Did her desire to be a singer. Influenced your desire
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to be a singer, Yes, they did her once make
you want it. 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.
Then first grade, uh, the teacher would say, all right,
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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 pack Allison Susy. 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
when I went on to college, I took Mama made
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sure I took eighteen hours, keep me out of trouble,
a lot of hours and so, but they were mostly
music classes. And so when I went to the national
finals rodeo Oklomba City and seventy four, I was a sophomore,
Daddy knew I was up there party and having a
good time, and he said, won't you get you a job?
While you're up there. And I said, shoot, that would
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interfere with all my fun I said, doing what and
he said sing the Nashal anthem. And that's when Red
Steagall heard me. So fast forward. 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 anybody in the music business. I had
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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. What didn't you say? So get in the car,
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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
Susie back, say okay, I'm I'm back, I'll do it. Wow,
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your dad, I am assuming he instilled the work ethic
that you must have to get to this point. Like
I'm assuming your dad was like, this is a two 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 up at four
in the morning and uh Peg and I would go
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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 kind of walk back step on your feet,
and then we'd go in. Daddy'd have breakfast cooked and
Mom would be in. They're getting ready for work because
she was the superintendent's assistant secretary, And so we would
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go start gathering one end and then bring them all
down to the pens. 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, and in the
spring we would get cattle in and we'd have to
work them, you know, vaccinate on the horn on, castrate
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on random, 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 castrate.
Your dad being a world champion roper, was he practicing
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a lot? Do you remember them 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 hard
to do. Yeah, that's really hard to do. Yeah, and
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he'd get it done. And so Daddy told us one
time that Grand Pap said, now, son, if the house
catches on far men, your ma all take care of it.
You just stay out there at the roping pen and
keep practicing. They were because Grandpap was a nineteen thirty
four world champions tire roper. What is your lineage? Well,
where did okay, your your dad, your grandfather, Where did
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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 me.
I love attention, so I like I like the fame.
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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'ld go do another
roping to make more money to buy more land, more cattle.
(27:17):
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, we know that's not true because I would
have to imagine it's just famous was so different even
(27:37):
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
can even in the nineties, but read the TV show.
(27:59):
It was just a different were all 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'm saying, okay, I'd
like this rug number in three or four or five seven,
(28:20):
she says, hold on, they knew you by your voice.
There is this rabe entire I hadn't given her my
name or anything. I said, yeah, hold on, I was okay,
I blah blah back what else would you like? So
I thought, wow, my voices. But you know I can't
(28:42):
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 had mentioned
to me that there was so much that went into
(29:03):
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
seemed like a commercial. It would be a lot of work.
It was super cool, It was fun, but I gotta
imagine if you have to abide by the Colonel Sanders
(29:24):
handbook of you know, exact living that that's probably a
lot leading into a shoot just of hair and makeup. 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 my mustache and my beard.
(29:44):
All 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 you? Was that a one you have to keep secret?
(30:05):
Or no? Do you? Because I remember it was annound
everbody 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,
(30:25):
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 enough money
(30:48):
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 was 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 the 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?
(31:10):
That's pretty cool and I will always remember that for
years and years you as Colonel's Anders the last show
you watched and you thought, I can't wait to see
the next episode, Like right now, are you watching anything
where you're just like, what is absolutely? Ted Lasts? So
I'm I'm so into that show. I love it. It's
a it's really goofy, silly, but lots of heart and
(31:31):
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 too? And Ted Last? So I'm like, come on, yeah,
let's go. We're watching Only Murders in the Building right
now with Steve Martin Martin Short and Selena Gomez and
it comes out every week and it's so good. But
(31:54):
I'm like, I would like to see them all please
true What I'm really excited about Ozart comes back, the
last 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 Bene and I went back.
(32:15):
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 getting 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?
(32:37):
Oh no, no, are you Thursdays? Did you know? Did
you know Thursdays and Wednesdays are the best time to go?
Why are they? 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
(32:57):
story the other day happened. 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?
(33:22):
Everybody in line? I what looked at everybody as said
works great advertisement? Right here, just going the bag 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
(33:43):
you have any idea where so and so is? And
they'll go, it's are you? Yeah? Are you really? You're
out shopping? Yeah? You know where the bacon soda is?
They said, yes, it's right down that aisle. Okay, thanks.
I'm curious about the Grand ol Opery and for for
(34:04):
a lot of reasons. One my grandmother raised me for
a lot of my life, and so that's what we did.
We watched it on TNN or or whatever channel it
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 I'd invited into the Grand ol Opry, which are
two big things, but they're different. Do you remember your
(34:25):
invitation into the Grand ol Opry when they said, reb
we 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
(34:45):
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 I've gotten to stand on the
circle septem seven now, Bobby. The reason I remember that
date so well is because thirty years prior, Daddy the
all around at the Pendleton, Oregon round Up. And then
you remember this next day at being like the anniversary
(35:05):
of the same day that you saw. Yeah, so um
being the day that I got in conducted. 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.
(35:27):
That was our only vacation. But when we pulled up
to the gate, Daddy rolled down his wind and said, UM,
got Reba McIntyre. She's gonna saying on the opera tonight.
And gentlemen looked on his clipboard and he said, who, No,
she's not. They said, 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
(35:47):
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 the quarter
in and 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 it, asked Mr mcintigo, right over
(36:09):
here on number sixty seven. You park right there, You're
glad to see y'all. So that was a night we'll
never forget. And then I got one of my songs
month because Dolly's there, but we're still thrilled. The old
babies in the air, we just loved it. I think
I've done stand up at the Opera probably twenty times
if I produced the TV show. And I'm gonna get
to the story where you come in and I now
(36:30):
tell the story I've told you a couple of times
at the Opery, but you were maybe a month and
a half ago. You were performing at the Opery and
then there was a change over, and then you performed
on an NBC special and so I done stand up
earlier and they said, hey, go fill some time between
rabe change over. I was like, cool, no problem. So
I go and I'm doing some jokes. I'm it's it's
(36:50):
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 them,
but if less people are laughing, you don't know if
it's funny, and so I'm up and they're like, okay,
Rebe's gonna be like a minute. 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,
(37:11):
and for some reason, I thought you were about to
invite me into the Grand Old 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,
between the ship, 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
(37:32):
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 you 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,
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
(37:53):
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, that's it.
I see the meme everywhere corn dogs. I see the
(38:14):
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 someone come to you and go read but you're
now a corn dog meme? No? No, I found it
(38:35):
out by somebody. 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
was a big yeah, I think we had to even
(38:55):
come out and say you didn't doubt, which is a
weird conversation to have to have with people. 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 said, Bob died.
What happened? And she said, oh, no, I'd have been
(39:17):
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 announcement. No, I think
it's before Twitter wasn't. Ye. Here are a few things, okay.
Is it true that you were in the running to
being Titanic the movie? Yes? And I had the part
(39:40):
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 our concerts to November, December and then January, and
then they I mean, you start getting all the venues.
(40:02):
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,
I gotta choose. I got so I said, sorry, I
can't do this to my people. So I turned down
(40:24):
that part. You were a serious, like a really good
basketball player when you were younger. False, Well, we didn't
have that many people on the team, so I got
to play a lot. I was a guard that was
back in the day when it was uh six, you know,
three on three, not full court, thank god. But I
loved it. I went to basketball camp every summer. That's
(40:47):
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
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,
(41:09):
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
of a harmony singer at that time. Um no, what
meant to be. That's pretty cool though, that you could
tell she was going to be a star, you know,
(41:30):
and back ond singing is different than just me just
singing the melody of a song to Okay, let's let's
let's roll through some of this, this this new stuff here,
because I have it up on our people to 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 netlis right there on the up top. Okay,
(41:52):
here we go, play me. I'm a survivor of the
dance remix her Kids and Never Stops with Lands and
the Heart of the fid I'm a survive What do
you think about that? I don't think it's that different.
(42:13):
I don't either. I think it sounds it's cool, yeah,
but I don't think it went total euro which is
not would be what I would be afraid of on
that song, or which is like, yeah, there's some of
them that 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
(42:36):
never seen anybody do it. But it's got to be
a lot of work to remix a 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. It's very fancy. Here's the remix
of fancy she said you don't any day again. There's
(42:58):
some part of that. It's like it's a yes she was, Yes,
she was chimed, the Queen chimed, the king a congress
bud 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.
This is the revisited can better then I guess weird.
(43:24):
Let's not track this on, consider me go, 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
cahe more cahone e. It was than it is a
(43:47):
snare And that's the first time I heard it. That's
what I thought too. Yeah, that was Dave Cobb, and
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
(44:09):
dare you? You're an idiot? And this one's kind of like,
you know, it's just not working out. Let's just it's
just so much more mature. It's not throwing a fit.
It's just I like it better. The new box set Revived, Remixed,
(44:31):
Revisited is available now. The Dolly Does He Love You
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
(44:52):
else because it was us, the song about us. So
when someone wants to name check a city and Mike,
you can play that if 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,
(45:15):
can you imagine being so stupid not to play little Rock?
When you played 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 watched you and Kicks and Ronnie in Vegas.
What's that relationship been like? And why after all these
(45:35):
years are you guys still together and still doing these
these shows together. We grew up together. We 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 up.
(46:00):
They're they're not my brothers. We're very close. 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
(46:21):
this perform on this absolutely incredibly well um 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
(46:44):
to to get to do that and they could go
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 and you get your gun because
you're playing in the same theater. Yeah, you're not touring,
you know, did you have to do two shows a day? Ever?
(47:07):
When you were? Because I had friends that it shows
on Broadway 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
I've ever had in my life. But I was gonna
ask the only, the only parallel, the similarity. But too,
I was in the same hotel room, I was in
(47:29):
the same dressing room, in the same stage. Did that
make 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, well,
I like that woman and the fact that you bring
up Carol Burnette too, just a hero to me as
(47:49):
someone who loves comedy too, love her just the best,
just the best. Well, I appreciate you coming by you
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.
(48:14):
It's not you just going here, here's old reb Let's
make old Reba cool again. It's like new Reba is
always cool, and so you have. I don't know if
they've told you that. If you haven't, 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 like faith, you're gonna be a star. Reba Um.
You're just the best. And I appreciate you coming over
and and you know, just being you, Mike, is anything
(48:37):
you'd like to say? I think you're the only other
person that I know who is a fan of the
game Phase ten? Is that 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 to check those out. And I'm like, you know,
the only other person who likes this is the game player.
(48:57):
I love games. One read one question from you. You You
said some then that you were gonna ask for 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. Non stop. That is too cute. Yeah,
(49:20):
people get recognized 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 WNT 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
(49:41):
it was a really fun time to get to do
the movie. Had 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 talk about demos like almost if they're a fan
of your music, or if they're they're they're a fan
(50:02):
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. Yeah, well listen, I will
let you go. But thank you so much. You've 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,
(50:25):
well 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
of your shows from back in the day. I thought
that was so cool that, Yeah, that was just a
brilliant idea. I watched the whole thing. I didn't come
(50:47):
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 in 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. The second one was
a lot better, but um, I was still very proud
(51:10):
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 have 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 you eight songs and sweats.
I'll never forget seeing Shania Twain come out. Um. I
wasn't there in person, but I saw it and she
(51:31):
had those fluffy little workout pants on and tennis shoes
and her hair 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 Reba,
thank you Bobby. Nice to see all these That was awesome.
Host
Bobby Bones
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