Speaker 1: Celebrity club. But church isn't open on Tuesday. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Sonic.
Speaker 2: Y'allay, whoo gosh, dignity damn Racks join me over here
Speaker 2: at the craft table.
Speaker 3: Oh well, Revide, I don't mind having some treats. My goodness,
Speaker 3: you have me slapping my knee in that last take.
Speaker 3: I almost broke character.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, darn it, diggity damn Rex actually looking at
Speaker 1: you and experience after you gave me a steadiness.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Well, thank you so much forba. That's such
Speaker 3: an honor. Would you like a Mortadella pin wheel?
Speaker 1: Oh? After the first my first c m A win.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you a story. Me and my first husband,
Speaker 1: Charlie Blidyblam we had Boloney miracle Whip wonderbread sandwiches in
Speaker 1: our hotel after our want and then sorry not to
Speaker 1: get we actually we may love after that, not to
Speaker 1: get to. Oh we're long over. But Mordi della here
Speaker 1: is the hot new Boloney.
Speaker 3: That's a fair folks anecdote he just related to me,
Speaker 3: and one that sexualizes you in my mind.
Speaker 1: Oh now that I was trying to do that. Tell
Speaker 1: you that I'm the type of woman that does still
Speaker 1: make love.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry, excuse me, No, I was just trying.
Speaker 3: I was just going for one of those baby carrots.
Speaker 1: Sweet tea. That's what I always say when I say
Speaker 1: something weird, just to clear the air. Oh, sweet tea,
Speaker 1: how have you been wrecks?
Speaker 3: Oh I'm I'm good. As you know. My third wife
Speaker 3: died of Christian cancer.
Speaker 1: Oh my bless her soul rest in marrying Jesus of Okatoma.
Speaker 3: Which does mean that I'm also a single man at
Speaker 3: this current juncture in my journey.
Speaker 1: And you know what, Rex, I bet you were such
Speaker 1: a beautiful and loyal husband. I bet you was so lucky,
Speaker 1: so lucky to have a strong and steady man like you. Reagananna,
Speaker 1: what are you six foot seven?
Speaker 3: Oh? Me? Oh, miss McIntyre, I'm just I'm I'm only
Speaker 3: sixty six, two hundred and thirty pounds. Ma'n.
Speaker 1: You remind me of my daddy's hut.
Speaker 3: A lot of women du'd be telling me that that
Speaker 3: I'm the height of their dad's. Well. Listen, maybe you
Speaker 3: want to come back to my trailer later and I
Speaker 3: could tell you some more stories about my good wife.
Speaker 1: I would love that, and I would be blessing. I
Speaker 1: would be honored. Maybe we can pack up some of
Speaker 1: this more tedella, as you call it. I love Rome,
Speaker 1: By the way, we should go sometime. I'm getting ahead
Speaker 1: of myself. Reboot, Sweet Tea. You've done it.
Speaker 3: Again, Reva. What a smoking wit you have on you
Speaker 3: and that hair how it moves but also doesn't.
Speaker 1: One day, maybe you'll know my secret.
Speaker 3: I hope to know all your secrets one day.
Speaker 1: Oh wrex, my, my, my, Okay, see you in your
Speaker 1: trailer by.
Speaker 3: Who's that knocking at the door. It's all your friends,
Speaker 3: you filthy horse. Your husband's gone and you've got books
Speaker 3: and a bottle of wine to kill.
Speaker 2: It's Hollywood, it's books, it's gossip.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's memoirs, Martinis.
Speaker 1: Celebrity Puff Club, Read it while it's hot.
Speaker 3: Celebrity poof Club, Tell your secrets.
Speaker 1: We won't talk celebrity books. No boys are loud. Celebrity
Speaker 1: book say it loud and.
Speaker 3: Cloud Celebrity Book Club.
Speaker 1: Buzz me in. I brought the queer vow. Hey, best friend,
Speaker 1: how the hell are you?
Speaker 3: I am feeling super respectful.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling grateful.
Speaker 3: I thought the most insane ad for the army the
Speaker 3: other day. It was like a girl in like in
Speaker 3: like a big like NASA control center command area with
Speaker 3: some of the computers everywhere.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hidden figures.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and he's like what was modern? And she's
Speaker 3: been like pressing so many buttons and like hacking and
Speaker 3: on screens. And then her like dumb bitch like midwestern
Speaker 3: mom is like walking through the like computer room zone
Speaker 3: being just like, well, I just don't understand like why
Speaker 3: you're doing all this computer stuff. And then like the
Speaker 3: girl's just like mom, like I'm hacking the future and
Speaker 3: I'm like building America, like what. And then it's like
Speaker 3: it turns out like it was all kind of like
Speaker 3: a fantasy. And then it's like cut to the girl
Speaker 3: in her suburban bedroom with the mom explaining to the
Speaker 3: mom why she wants to apply to the army to
Speaker 3: like be a hacker. Okay, and then they're like tomorrow's
Speaker 3: like women hackers are supported by today's super supportive parents.
Speaker 1: I was the mom being receptive and like the actual
Speaker 1: real life.
Speaker 3: And she kind of like started to come around the
Speaker 3: commercials okay. So the message was like when your girl
Speaker 3: boss daughter says she wants to hack for the Army.
Speaker 1: It's like, you buy me a PC on black Y
Speaker 1: Day and your mom is like, no, what about another
Speaker 1: iPad or an Apple Watch? And she's like, no, I
Speaker 1: want a PC. Like be all you can be?
Speaker 3: Be all you can PC. I want to It's like,
Speaker 3: do support your daughter's tech ambitions to be a woman
Speaker 3: in military style.
Speaker 1: Such a beautiful lesson. The plot of that almost reminds
Speaker 1: me of some of the lyrics uh To, just kind
Speaker 1: of deep plot driven songs.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: Today the book. Yes, she is someone that has broken
Speaker 1: barriers in country music. She has been in so many
Speaker 1: television shows.
Speaker 3: Many people call her the queen of country music.
Speaker 1: Snoop does I'll tell you that on the Voice I
Speaker 1: watched last night. She's like an ally to everyone, whether
Speaker 1: they be part of the LGBTQ plus can or the
Speaker 1: Chalk Taw Nation. Yes, you might know her as someone
Speaker 1: I don't know who's known as a survivor maybe a
Speaker 1: single mom who's worked three drops two jobs.
Speaker 3: Three times two jobs, two jobs.
Speaker 1: One of the lyrics, who loves her kids and cares
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You know her from her thin upper lip, you
Speaker 3: know her from her massive bangs issue waiting, Wig will
Speaker 3: discuss in detail.
Speaker 1: Does the curtain match to the drapes.
Speaker 3: We're of course talking about not.
Speaker 4: A legend literally Motherklahoma native and chef Reba MacIntyre and
Speaker 4: her new.
Speaker 1: Cookookbook, Not that fancy.
Speaker 3: Simple lessons on living, loving, eating.
Speaker 4: And dusting off your boots Forward Brooks.
Speaker 1: Now what I love this is a cookbook, but it's
Speaker 1: also part memoir part.
Speaker 3: It actually has a lot more memoir than I was
Speaker 3: kind of anticipating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot in here. And what's nice is
Speaker 1: it's also kind of a cliffs notes for her, like
Speaker 1: early nineties memoir that you put out that is very
Speaker 1: more like tiny print, paperback CVS.
Speaker 3: Weather super small print and for.
Speaker 1: Some of us that hell, we're agent okay, the glass
Speaker 1: they're only getting thicker and the that's again Baker, I.
Speaker 3: Kind of don't need to read that one. If you
Speaker 3: just want to read this, I will say it makes
Speaker 3: the book kind of crazy, Like the way it's organized.
Speaker 3: This is kind of not at all.
Speaker 1: She tries to kind of organize it like maybe by
Speaker 1: being like when I was on tour with Brooks and Done,
Speaker 1: we got into so many pranks and they would always
Speaker 1: silly string me, and then it will like the sentence
Speaker 1: will kind of trail off and the next pace will
Speaker 1: be like kicks, duns Cheri, coke barbecue.
Speaker 3: You're just like what sen It's not like there's sections
Speaker 3: like meats, like starters, like dream noops, it's just completely random.
Speaker 3: The chapter is our nature is my Church? Where what
Speaker 3: you want and put some fringe on it. You gotta
Speaker 3: be you. Happiness is where you least expect it. Nothing
Speaker 3: lacks some healthy competition.
Speaker 1: Don't forget to kick back and enjoy, Betty nobody. It
Speaker 1: doesn't alone. Do what you love, find someone you look
Speaker 1: up to, live out your legacy, keep dreaming forward, and
Speaker 1: here's your one shame.
Speaker 3: It's like pretty sample, don't forget to kick back and enjoy.
Speaker 3: Which Also, the photography in this book is completely insane.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. So there's like professional photography, I will say,
Speaker 1: and then there's like really fun crazy candids.
Speaker 3: So it's like the professionals always her in her massive kitchen,
Speaker 3: just be like absolutely airbrush to the gods.
Speaker 1: The photo that Steve was looking at right now, she's
Speaker 1: holding alone sandwich with my whip and an ipa.
Speaker 3: Everything looks photoshopped in the photo yeah, and.
Speaker 1: Then this one where she's just like leaning on like
Speaker 1: the biggest leather couch and you're.
Speaker 3: Like and pendleton blankets, which were not of her.
Speaker 1: Daddy, for daddy who was a racer.
Speaker 3: But then it's like the actual structure. So it's like,
Speaker 3: this is the section about enjoyment, which is like, okay,
Speaker 3: that's pretty broad. She has this whole thing about how
Speaker 3: to like icebreakers at a dinner party, and then there's
Speaker 3: a section of Rex, her new husband's favorite movies to
Speaker 3: scare you, which include The Exorcist, and then it's like
Speaker 3: four more pages about like how she likes her like
Speaker 3: French bulldog, Like, no, it's.
Speaker 1: Actually her boyfriend's French Bulldog's never had a pet, so
Speaker 1: it's about she had a lot of horses will of
Speaker 1: course she has a barrel ride.
Speaker 3: Pages and pages of all this, and then it's like
Speaker 3: chilled curried peach soup, which is a recipe that she
Speaker 3: stole from the veranda at the Four Seasons in Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: So I'm kind of just like what.
Speaker 1: I love about the honest but the honest.
Speaker 3: Oh no, she's not saying that this is her throughout
Speaker 3: this cook.
Speaker 1: But she goes y'all, I don't really like to cook,
Speaker 1: and then it'll be like chili recipe and she'll just
Speaker 1: be like, so, y'all, no, I don't cook, right, and
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, but so this is your cook.
Speaker 3: So it's your cook Cook and your chapter is dinner party, icebreakers,
Speaker 3: your husband's favorite scary movies, his French bulldog, and then
Speaker 3: a creed peach soup from the Four Vegas.
Speaker 1: But then also a lot of it is basically this
Speaker 1: like whole kind of Choctaw Nation like to help you
Speaker 1: to get to her restaurant, which is revitalizing her town
Speaker 1: that she's from Okatoka County, yes, and.
Speaker 3: So she has this restaurant in Oklahoma's place that is
Speaker 3: like on Choctaw Nations and she partnered with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like basically like the mayor of Okatoka was like,
Speaker 1: we want to revitalize the small town. And they came
Speaker 1: to Rebu and she was like, I'll put up half
Speaker 1: the money. Choctaw Nation also puts uff half the money.
Speaker 1: And the chief of chalk Chaw Nation is quote as
Speaker 1: being like but is an amazing person full of grace
Speaker 1: and faith, and she is like, I love the Chalk
Speaker 1: Taw Nation people, I have played at many of their casinos,
Speaker 1: and then they're like, Reba has played at many of
Speaker 1: our casinos, and we love her, and she's like, and
Speaker 1: I love them, and we use their bson.
Speaker 3: It's like everything she does is such a like lifetime
Speaker 3: show that she's in where it's like she's entering into
Speaker 3: a long term business negotiation with the Choctaw Nation, and
Speaker 3: like you can so imagine this being like this lifetime
Speaker 3: ass show where it's like every it's a.
Speaker 1: Big buil mild conflict and then it all gets settled right, And.
Speaker 3: The mayor of the town has kind of been like, well,
Speaker 3: I don't know, like, are you really gonna do business?
Speaker 1: Are you really gonna revitalize the Chalktaw Nature? Are you
Speaker 1: just some big name yeah coming in here?
Speaker 3: And then she's like no, like I do care about
Speaker 3: the people, and then like.
Speaker 1: The restaurant does open and she actually does higher more
Speaker 1: than half of the stuff. Yes, But this lifetime movie
Speaker 1: that she was in that she said was a huge
Speaker 1: risk for her to take because the last chapter is
Speaker 1: a lot about risk taking, which I kind of just
Speaker 1: want to jump into some of the risks she's taken.
Speaker 1: So this lifetime movie she's in. It's called The Hammer,
Speaker 1: and it's about her being a traveling judge, which is like, sorry,
Speaker 1: what's a traveling judge? And it's being like she's sassy
Speaker 1: and she moves into this town and this cop stops
Speaker 1: her and he's like, what are you doing speed and
Speaker 1: pulls a gun on her, and she's like, I'm the
Speaker 1: new third County Circuit Court judge and if you ever
Speaker 1: pull a gun on me again, I'll tell you. And
Speaker 1: everyone's like, who's this sassy traveling judge? And that's the plot.
Speaker 1: But Okay, some of the risks she's taken in life,
Speaker 1: because a lot of this book is like left lessons
Speaker 1: And a big risk she's taken was open up rapist place.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The thing is every country has a restaurant. It's like, no,
Speaker 3: I know that.
Speaker 1: I don't believe me.
Speaker 3: I guess it's the risk that's in Okatoka and not
Speaker 3: on Broadway. Yeah, I'm not in Nashville, so that is
Speaker 3: kind of a risk. But was she also maybe afraid
Speaker 3: to compete in Nashville because it's like she came to
Speaker 3: be a fish in a small pond. True, but as
Speaker 3: if she was a national she could be a small
Speaker 3: fish in a big pond.
Speaker 1: But I feel like she is so much about like God,
Speaker 1: family and barrel racing, and even though she does live
Speaker 1: in Nashville, she's just being like, I do want to revitalize.
Speaker 1: But she's also being like, yeah, it wasn't my idea
Speaker 1: at all. But all these recipes, if they are at
Speaker 1: Reba's place, like they have the Reba's Place stamp on it. Okay,
Speaker 1: but some of the risk, which I do think in
Speaker 1: her career, like she has taken a lot of risks.
Speaker 3: Well, she actually talks about how Fancy was a risk.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, her first risk. So Fancy was
Speaker 1: written by Bobby Joe Gentry and it.
Speaker 3: Was an existing song and then she wanted to record it.
Speaker 3: She's always loved that song, and her management at the
Speaker 3: time was like, no, it's about prostitution. You can't do
Speaker 3: that song right.
Speaker 1: And Bobby Joe Gentry, who wrote it, like she was
Speaker 1: more like alt folks sing her sixties, so they were
Speaker 1: kind of writing crazy stuff back then in the sixties.
Speaker 1: But as things got like more conservative and country music
Speaker 1: in the eighties, Yes, people like America, right, they're being
Speaker 1: like you're gonna sing a song about a prostitute and
Speaker 1: sex work And then she said, yes, I am, and
Speaker 1: then literally could that song like be more famous? And
Speaker 1: now I feel like Riba has had like such a
Speaker 1: crazy kind of like cult comeback in the kind of
Speaker 1: like queer and youth community because everyone is being like,
Speaker 1: you're such an icon and you have big hair and
Speaker 1: like this actually is like a sex worker anthem.
Speaker 3: I think that's interesting the thing that you just landed on,
Speaker 3: which is that she is basically this like camp icon,
Speaker 3: whereas like Beyond Fancy and a couple of her songs,
Speaker 3: but like none are really like such smash hits in
Speaker 3: the way that maybe other country stars, either of now
Speaker 3: or of that era of like the eighties and nineties
Speaker 3: like have songs that are really.
Speaker 1: Like right, it's basically like lights went out and georg
Speaker 1: the ninth lights went out in Georgia. But then from
Speaker 1: that it literally is the theme song to her show,
Speaker 1: which is now becoming like a full drag song.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it is about this kind of of like
Speaker 3: she's so campy and she's so consistent in it, yes,
Speaker 3: and like we love a survivor, we love a survivor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, single mom.
Speaker 3: But I'm just like, obviously like older straight women like
Speaker 3: love Riba, but I'm like, do like young maga girls
Speaker 3: like Riba or they kind of just like don't Is
Speaker 3: she really only a camp icon in like the gay community.
Speaker 1: I think there's camp icon and then I think maybe
Speaker 1: like the younger girls are just like she's a queen
Speaker 1: and it's more just like a Dolly worship, Like we
Speaker 1: love her songs. We watched the show Riba as kids, right,
Speaker 1: and like she's just napsolete back on. I mean she
Speaker 1: was my full Like obviously I was like being retro
Speaker 1: and nine the stay Johnny Cash, but she was like
Speaker 1: what broke me into modern country because my mom's friend
Speaker 1: would like teach me how to drive and put on
Speaker 1: rebec these and then took me off to a Riba concert.
Speaker 3: Wait, that's so cool in like.
Speaker 1: Mansfield and Brad Paisley opened, and that was like my
Speaker 1: first I mean like wait, I.
Speaker 3: Think that's how we all got into countries.
Speaker 1: Yeah, friend, yeah, ant literally shout.
Speaker 3: Out that that was a net Wow. Yeah that is insane.
Speaker 1: I mean at that time, I feel like going to
Speaker 1: that concert, there were like mass girls in their country dry,
Speaker 1: but like she was like cult status yet in like
Speaker 1: early two thousands.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like when did it start, like the real
Speaker 3: cult status, Like was it posts the show Rebook?
Speaker 1: I think it was pocause that at that time the
Speaker 1: show Rebu was still on.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Also, she's just straight up is hilarious.
Speaker 3: No, for sure. So she is funny, She's got good time.
Speaker 1: She's really good time.
Speaker 3: Because I watched her movie Tremors from the eighties.
Speaker 1: Which another risk she took.
Speaker 3: I mean everything she does is like a risk, which
Speaker 3: is a really great just like classic fun family action film.
Speaker 1: Isn't kind of safa.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's about these like crazy sandworms in the desert,
Speaker 3: and like she lives in a small town and she
Speaker 3: doesn't really have a big she plays the wife of
Speaker 3: like a doom say prepper who lives in the town.
Speaker 3: It's mostly Kevin Bacon this other actor, and they are
Speaker 3: like the two like crazy cowboys who are like trying
Speaker 3: to get out of this town. And like they're like
Speaker 3: total punks, badasses.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's kind of like eighties badass.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, they're just these like venture silly, like unemployed
Speaker 3: guys in this like tiny town. And then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden there's these like crazy like sandworms that start
Speaker 3: attacking people. But everyone in the movie is very like
Speaker 3: not like southern or Western, and then like ree but
Speaker 3: just has her insane thick accent where she's just like, well,
Speaker 3: we're gonna have to get off the dessert because there
Speaker 3: the worms will come around. She's the only one. You're like,
Speaker 3: it's actually so good that she's in there, but it
Speaker 3: also is almost jarring like how southern she is.
Speaker 1: Also, it's like she doesn't just have like kind of
Speaker 1: the Dolly or like some other kind of like classic.
Speaker 3: There's something mouth in this.
Speaker 1: It's a little like something is in her mouth.
Speaker 3: She's got something in there.
Speaker 1: Craziest fact revealed this book is that she was cast
Speaker 1: in Titanic as Molly Brown. But then Kathy Bates, yes,
Speaker 1: but and she moved all her schedule around, and then
Speaker 1: they moved the production schedule, and she was like, well,
Speaker 1: I just had too many people relying on a paycheck.
Speaker 1: I couldn't move my tour around again. And she goes,
Speaker 1: but the wonderful Kathy Baits got the role. And it's like, ooh,
Speaker 1: sounds like you're a little still bitter about that.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, she'd probably still be raking in money
Speaker 3: off the back end of that.
Speaker 1: Wait, that's crazy crazy, But also they had Reba before
Speaker 1: Kathy Baits and again this is nineteen ninety six, Like
Speaker 1: again this is before her kind of like she is
Speaker 1: just she's just.
Speaker 3: Like straight up kind of famous country at that point.
Speaker 3: That's so crazy. It's really hard to think about her
Speaker 3: and that movie instead of Kathy Bates.
Speaker 1: I'm like, did what's his name? Why am I blanking
Speaker 1: on his name? James Cameron like watched Tremors and he
Speaker 1: was like, it's a reaper or bust.
Speaker 3: You know, is the very James Cameron right?
Speaker 1: Because it's like action sci fi dusty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's like Americana huh. I mean she's good
Speaker 3: in the movie, she sells it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure she's good in Hammer the Lifetime movie.
Speaker 3: But I bet she would be good. It's just so
Speaker 3: weird because it would.
Speaker 1: Be Leo and Riba. She'd be like at the table
Speaker 1: as like cups are jingling and a jangle in Yeah,
Speaker 1: the unsingablee Molly Brown.
Speaker 3: Because like Kathy Bates obviously has like you know, she's
Speaker 3: got the oscar and like she has this real gravitas
Speaker 3: to her.
Speaker 1: She's the most like actress.
Speaker 3: And I feel like she makes the movie feel more serious.
Speaker 1: Right because no one really knew, Like Leo wasn't so
Speaker 1: famous by then.
Speaker 3: And it was like Victor Garber or Billy's ame, Like you'd.
Speaker 1: Be like, not even Caplin's. But you're like, not even
Speaker 1: Victor Garber hadn't even started Ilias.
Speaker 3: It's super weird to think about that four times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, Riba, if we get to a little of
Speaker 1: her backstory, why is she such a rebel? Rouse? Why
Speaker 1: she did so many risks? Well, Daddy and Grandpappy they
Speaker 1: were rodeo stars, okay, and you learned a lot of
Speaker 1: lessons from the rodeo. Okay, you get kicked off and
Speaker 1: you just got to get back up. And then her
Speaker 1: older sister was a barrel racer, and so then she
Speaker 1: became a barrel racer.
Speaker 3: Daddy liked the rodeos, but he loved ranching. Rodeo and
Speaker 3: selling timber rocks and natural gas all helped in the
Speaker 3: progression of our ranch. Dad had to travel to compete
Speaker 3: in rodeos, but he wanted to be home on the ranch.
Speaker 3: But ranch life was not an easy life, That's more it.
Speaker 3: Ranch life was not on easy life. Maintaining the land
Speaker 3: and cattle takes time, and you can't just skip a
Speaker 3: day just because you're walking out working the land towards
Speaker 3: a whole family affair. The only time she wouldn't find
Speaker 3: us kids helping out was when we were in school.
Speaker 3: I thought that going to college would give me a break. Nope,
Speaker 3: I was strong. Daddy had leased some land halfway between
Speaker 3: home and the Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: And at this point you're like, this is a cookbook.
Speaker 1: No, and well and this okay, this is.
Speaker 3: What my clothes. I loaded up thirty fifty pound shacks
Speaker 3: of feet into my pickup truck and fed the three
Speaker 3: hundred head of cattle.
Speaker 1: This is what also gets so like show that she's
Speaker 1: in with her boyfriend called like Big Sky on just
Speaker 1: like the Yellowstone Network actually, and she's like, she's like, so,
Speaker 1: daddy got a car from his sister in law when
Speaker 1: he got married, but he traded it in for six
Speaker 1: point eighty five acres of land and they called that
Speaker 1: sorry land. Well, turns out that sorry land had natural
Speaker 1: gas on it. They shrug gas, baby, So yeah, imagine
Speaker 1: bond Land.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, bine land gas such a mind about
Speaker 3: striking guys, that'll be so dope. Dad is three rules
Speaker 3: to live by. Don't play cards in the daytime, don't
Speaker 3: watch TV in the daytime. Don't count your money.
Speaker 1: Actually really good rules because it's basically about like get
Speaker 1: out and work.
Speaker 3: Okay, in the day, you gotta work. I do think
Speaker 3: watching TV during the day is always sad, unless it's
Speaker 3: like the weekend and you're hungover.
Speaker 1: No, exactly t you said it. No, I never watched
Speaker 1: TV during the day time. It's also like, yes, did
Speaker 1: I watch Emily in Paris this weekend at three pm? Sure?
Speaker 3: If you're able to watch TV in the day, it
Speaker 3: means that your TV is in a room with no windows,
Speaker 3: which is sad. It's like there should be too much
Speaker 3: glare for you to watch.
Speaker 1: And I don't play cards during the daytime personally.
Speaker 3: Strictly only play cards. The last time you played cards?
Speaker 1: This summer, I got into some played with the local Yeah,
Speaker 1: I play jin Rummy. We also played a fierce game
Speaker 1: of fire. I feel like it's actually really a pre
Speaker 1: basally okay, if I'm mey, she loves to kind of
Speaker 1: get a little pranky.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So she was doing a Vegus residency with Brooks had
Speaker 1: Done Amazing band and just spoiler alert yesterday. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you this now and we'll heat it up. I know
Speaker 1: y'all hate it when we eat.
Speaker 3: Oh and if you come back ten minutes, okay, because
Speaker 3: we made food from the cookbook, we're gonna.
Speaker 1: Give a damns busted okay, and my give a shitter. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's done. So I made kicks Brooks ribs from Brookston Done,
Speaker 1: which is very her cookbook to be like, these ribs
Speaker 1: are from his cookbook. So I had to make them
Speaker 1: because they were just too damn good. So here's the passage,
Speaker 1: because it's just fun, and then we'll start to heating.
Speaker 3: We'll get to hating.
Speaker 1: One show, during our last song of the night, we were
Speaker 1: standing close together and Kicks kept spraying me with spit
Speaker 1: as he sang. When we got off stage, I hollered
Speaker 1: at him, would you started spitting in my face? Ron
Speaker 1: had Dunn thought that was hilarious. The next night, when
Speaker 1: I arrived at my dressing room, I found a bright
Speaker 1: yellow ring with a hood and rain pants waiting for me.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it was Ronnie or Kicks who
Speaker 1: sent it, but I loved it still. I couldn't let
Speaker 1: them have the last word. So when I went to
Speaker 1: change the last song, Sandy had my rain gear ready.
Speaker 1: I put it on and went up to perform. The
Speaker 1: look on Kicks's face was priceless. We laughed about that
Speaker 1: raincoat for years to come. You're like, literally, like what
Speaker 1: in the Oka Toka.
Speaker 3: Just like random expensive franks where we.
Speaker 1: Fit on me? And then I'm like, well, I'm actually
Speaker 1: gonna like wear the raincoat on a live show. And
Speaker 1: then we're laughing about it for like years to come.
Speaker 3: But when God throws you a curveball, you just have
Speaker 3: to roll with it. Wait, and the baby back Ribs
Speaker 3: are in this section about like that prank or not even.
Speaker 1: Yes, like seven pages later, so.
Speaker 3: They're supposed to be like fun ribs. Is that the idea?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And we're just like honoring like her tour with
Speaker 1: Brooks and don in like at like Caesar's Palace in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3: The Mac and Cheese, I mean, so it's in the
Speaker 3: kind of like nobody does it alone section and about
Speaker 3: like comforting friends when they experienced loss. Oh, that actually
Speaker 3: does make sense because Mac and cheese is comfort food.
Speaker 1: And because Riba basically experienced one of the biggest losses
Speaker 1: I think like any musician probably could ever experience.
Speaker 3: It's so sad though, if you guys don't know. In
Speaker 3: March of nineteen ninety one, Reba was performing in San
Speaker 3: Diego and then the next day she had to be
Speaker 3: in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and she and her band were
Speaker 3: flying private and Reba flew ahead of the band and.
Speaker 1: They were taking several small planes.
Speaker 3: And the rest of her band literally gotten a plane
Speaker 3: crash leaving the San Diego Airport, which is actually one
Speaker 3: of the most like dangerous flight pattern areas in the country.
Speaker 1: San Diego to Ohio.
Speaker 3: No, the San Diego Airport airspace, oh because there's a
Speaker 3: lot of like low lying hills that are like difficult
Speaker 3: to see.
Speaker 1: How do you know this? The CIA work? You do?
Speaker 3: I do a lot of work in the aviation community.
Speaker 3: And yeah, the play was too low and like a
Speaker 3: wing got clipped on like something the tree or maybe
Speaker 3: even touched ground, but it like flipped over a huge
Speaker 3: fireball exploded. Everyone died, So like nine of her bandmates died.
Speaker 3: Guitarally gets Indiana and then suddenly finds out like it's
Speaker 3: this call call it her hotel room, and then she
Speaker 3: has to go. It's like so sad and tragic. But
Speaker 3: so she does reference that in the book a little bit.
Speaker 3: She doesn't get into too much details, but she's like,
Speaker 3: I went to bed then not feeling happy and relaxed,
Speaker 3: and awoke to a namere voter. I don't think any
Speaker 3: of us will ever fully recover from the world gave
Speaker 3: up some of the most wonderful musicians it has ever
Speaker 3: known that nut Chris Austen, who played mandolin, piddle and guitar.
Speaker 3: And then she's like lit everyone and so in this
Speaker 3: section is when she.
Speaker 1: For a list of how to care for a friend.
Speaker 3: Yes, one of her ideas for friendish hurting is give
Speaker 3: them a nourishing, comforting meal, or you can make a
Speaker 3: playlist of comforting music, or a basket of self care assntion,
Speaker 3: give the gift of relaxation with a sweet smelling candle,
Speaker 3: some bath salts and bags of tea to encourage them
Speaker 3: to take a little time to recharge, or a devotional
Speaker 3: when life hurts. The ultimate healer, healer capital Age is
Speaker 3: who we need passing along a devotional that speaks to
Speaker 3: you can help your friend found comfort in God's word
Speaker 3: and his promises. My favorite is Jesus Colin by Sarah Young.
Speaker 3: And then she's like cherry coke, barbe Burger. Yes, so
Speaker 3: let's go, let's go. I'm gonna go get my comfort
Speaker 3: food for a friend who has experienced a loss.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get my pranking chilly ribs and my
Speaker 1: not so fancy panto beans and corn bread for a
Speaker 1: time when you're having your ex sister in law over
Speaker 1: for a chili cookoff.
Speaker 3: Okay, club kids, we are back in the studio with
Speaker 3: our hot, hot food. We are ready to try this out.
Speaker 1: Okay, y'all, Okay, here's the thing. What happens at Ripa's place. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's about having your friends over and sure, just making
Speaker 1: a big pot of something something not that fancy, but
Speaker 1: of course you can make something a little fancy. So
Speaker 1: what I made was Kicks Brooks from Brooks and done
Speaker 1: his ribs, which was basically kind of a brown sugar
Speaker 1: paprika rib.
Speaker 3: Okay, wait, I'm trying the Pento beans.
Speaker 1: And then I did the pento beans, which whose recipe
Speaker 1: are these are great? Honestly, I thought the Pento beans
Speaker 1: were kind of my favorite thing. I feel like they
Speaker 1: fucking laughed.
Speaker 3: So what's in your there's onion.
Speaker 1: It's onion, bacon, carrot, homemade chicken broth, and penta beans.
Speaker 1: I kind of just did that for like an hour.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, the ribs are They're good. They're not quite
Speaker 3: as sweet as I was worried they would be.
Speaker 1: No, they're actually like her rub was pretty spicy. It
Speaker 1: was like, it's not that much heat though, No, but
Speaker 1: I meanly compared to what it's not.
Speaker 3: So you did a nice job on them, thank you.
Speaker 3: They're super succulent.
Speaker 1: And of course the recipe was for like a smoker,
Speaker 1: which sadly I do not have at my disposal at
Speaker 1: this moment. So I just did really low in the
Speaker 1: oven for three hours after doing an hour with the
Speaker 1: rub and the fridge.
Speaker 3: Wait, is this forr cornbread recipe? That was like so crazy? Yes,
Speaker 3: honestly corn muffin mix, and like.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it's not that one, because that one was
Speaker 1: crazy where one.
Speaker 3: Of her cornbread recipies was like corn.
Speaker 1: Corn muffin mix from like Jiffy or something. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: like Hamburger.
Speaker 3: This was like gradina that looks and American cheese.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: And I almost made that because I was like, this
Speaker 1: looks fucking crazy, and I suggested.
Speaker 3: That the corn bread's fine, but it's a little no.
Speaker 1: I agree. I don't think her corn bread recipe is
Speaker 1: all fat. It's dry. It's not that sweet.
Speaker 3: It needs to be sweet.
Speaker 1: It's a little okatoca. In this way, it feels a
Speaker 1: little more like this is a plane's recipe, like from Daddy. Okay,
Speaker 1: got to try the mac. The mac. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the recipe of the mac is it's like Velvy the
Speaker 1: cream cheese.
Speaker 3: It is tasty, it's slutty and stupid because it is cheese,
Speaker 3: and I like the ritz Cracker on topic, it's super fun.
Speaker 3: I think ultimately the flavor of Elvida for me is
Speaker 3: I do prefer just the flavor. There is real cheese
Speaker 3: in here too. There's like a right chet.
Speaker 1: Let me take another bite here, honestly, and me, I'm
Speaker 1: really impressed even by your work here.
Speaker 3: I think it's my boyfriend made the mac cheese. So
Speaker 3: what I did with her fried bon sandwich, okay, because
Speaker 3: we had had this amazing fried baloney sandwich at.
Speaker 1: Roberts Roster World right on Broadway. And if you listen
Speaker 1: to our Patreon and thank God for those of y'all
Speaker 1: that subscribe to it, because we wouldn't be here, we
Speaker 1: wouldn't be here alive, we wouldn't be buying these ribs
Speaker 1: without you. So Roberts they do a fried bloney sandwich.
Speaker 1: They are called the Recession Specials. That's frad baloney and
Speaker 1: then just lettuce tomato and then on buttered bread fret
Speaker 1: again like a grilled cheese.
Speaker 3: So what I do for this one? So I go
Speaker 3: to the supermarket and I was like, do you have
Speaker 3: because she calls for smoked baloney? And I was like,
Speaker 3: do you have smoked bolooney? And he was like, all
Speaker 3: I have is beef balooney. And I was a little like, oh,
Speaker 3: is that gonna be weird and kind of like dark
Speaker 3: and have this like kind of unctious flavor that I'm
Speaker 3: not looking for flavor. But he gave me a little sample.
Speaker 3: It tasted totally fine, and I was like, great, cut
Speaker 3: it thick. So he cuts me these like half inch
Speaker 3: thick slices of boloney, which frankly, honestly, I think I
Speaker 3: should have gotten them even thicker.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And then you make a barbecue sauce that was really
Speaker 3: quite good.
Speaker 1: Which, so she has tons of barbecue sauce recipies in here,
Speaker 1: and one of them is a cheery coke barbecue sauce
Speaker 1: rusby which I didn't do.
Speaker 3: It was not that one. It's a spicy hot barbecue sauce. Okay,
Speaker 3: so it's corn syrup, tomato paste, white vinegar like hot
Speaker 3: sauce tomato juice, Worcester. Sure. She also keeps saying granulated
Speaker 3: onion in this book instead of onion powder and granulate garlic.
Speaker 3: I'm a little bit like, is that just like a
Speaker 3: weird AI thing that happened at some point? Yeah? Is
Speaker 3: that a or is granulated onion different than onion powder?
Speaker 3: And I'm stupid?
Speaker 1: Or is she talking about like is it more just
Speaker 1: like old fashioned to be like you're granulated girl.
Speaker 3: Like like, and that's what they call it an over?
Speaker 3: But then sometimes she'll refer to a powder here and there.
Speaker 3: I am so I thought that barbacue sauce was super tasty.
Speaker 3: I have a ton of it at home, and I
Speaker 3: will say corn syrup is like such a creepy substance.
Speaker 1: Well, it's weird to just buy a straight up corn.
Speaker 3: Syrup of like when it comes out of the thing,
Speaker 3: you're like, oh, this is not supposed to be eaten,
Speaker 3: Like it looks like an evil chemical substance that you
Speaker 3: used to make a bomb.
Speaker 1: It's also weird because on the package it says, I
Speaker 1: love the res Oh my god, thank you kicks. And
Speaker 1: for those of you all at home who think, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't have a grill or I don't have a smoker,
Speaker 1: like literally just low and slow in the oven, like
Speaker 1: you can do it at home.
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh wait, we finish my store up out the
Speaker 3: bolooney sandwich. So I toasted my potato butns and butter
Speaker 3: just like face down on the pan, and then the
Speaker 3: leftover residual butter in the pan is when I used
Speaker 3: to fry the baloney. Then I put a little bit
Speaker 3: of barbecue sauce on the blooney at the last minute
Speaker 3: of frying. Then Christ, bitch, you put on her creamy
Speaker 3: colts law, and then more barbecue sauce on top of
Speaker 3: the blooney when you put on the button. The coleslaw
Speaker 3: was also really good. Okay. So one thing about this
Speaker 3: book is that every time she calls for manage, she
Speaker 3: puts in parentheses dukes. I love dukes, and I've been
Speaker 3: saying recently that I feel like there's some weird conspiracy anywhere.
Speaker 3: Suddenly everyone's talking about dukes everywhere I look, and I
Speaker 3: feel like I'm seeing so many like greater bonappetite people
Speaker 3: be just like oh, and by the way, it's gotta
Speaker 3: be dukes.
Speaker 1: And oh, Jukes is my favorite.
Speaker 3: Well, I was like, when did this start?
Speaker 1: This goes with ranch too. In the last five or
Speaker 1: so years, it's now like hip and Indie to like
Speaker 1: ranch and mayonnaise. Right before it was so like white
Speaker 1: people like mayonnaise the top of the ification of like
Speaker 1: being hot.
Speaker 3: Totally that I would say like more predicting Trump's whin
Speaker 3: that everyone is like fetishizing like southern culture like for
Speaker 3: the past few years.
Speaker 1: But I think it makes people feel like also like
Speaker 1: cooler for having a brand of mayonnaise that they like.
Speaker 3: Right and knowing that it's not just homonds like devowering
Speaker 3: is ReBs right now. Anyway, as much as I've been.
Speaker 1: I do qps of Japanese.
Speaker 3: Everyone's been random for living dukes. It actually is really good.
Speaker 1: Are this podcast? We love Dukes?
Speaker 3: I was like, wait a minute, it like is better?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, someone divide cheese. I also loved the ritz
Speaker 1: crackers on top of it.
Speaker 3: I think if I were to do it again, I
Speaker 3: like the cream cheese, the sourness that the cream.
Speaker 1: Cheese, yeah, the tartness.
Speaker 3: What I would do is I just wouldn't use the volpito.
Speaker 1: I don't think you need the velveta. It makes it naughty.
Speaker 1: But it's like with regular cheese and flour and milk,
Speaker 1: you can make a cheese sauce.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So interesting fact about velvet It was developed by
Speaker 3: a US government.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think I knew that what to like send
Speaker 1: to like Korea.
Speaker 3: I think just to like few people in the Great
Speaker 3: Depression or something. But it's like basically now it's only
Speaker 3: available in parts of the world where there's like an
Speaker 3: intense US military present. So it's like you can get
Speaker 3: it in like Panama and like Japan and like South
Speaker 3: Korea and like right in.
Speaker 1: A sam Way. It's like this fifties army overall y'all
Speaker 1: about this cookbook is like it honestly, yes, we're eating
Speaker 1: these Southern favorites. It's really actually not as naughty as
Speaker 1: you think. Like there are a lot of recipes that
Speaker 1: are just like chicken thighs with vegetables or like, I mean,
Speaker 1: we haven't even talked about they look boring, and it's
Speaker 1: a little bit like so random because you're like, this
Speaker 1: is the most normal recipe that I'm making every week
Speaker 1: for my sons. It literally is just like chickens well
Speaker 1: with carrots.
Speaker 3: It's like judition. It should be like our neighbor Susie,
Speaker 3: like her husband always makes this chicken and pepper's for
Speaker 3: his sons, And you're like, okay, I almost made that,
Speaker 3: like bread and chicken with like a lemon vinegrete a ugal.
Speaker 3: This is so and that.
Speaker 1: Is like when her neighbor comes over and it's the
Speaker 1: most just like New York Times recue of it all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and what y'all may not know either is right now,
Speaker 1: our iHeart Studios are across the street from her favorite restaurant,
Speaker 1: Quality Bestrop, which we've never.
Speaker 3: Gone to her list of restaurants on.
Speaker 1: Fifty five Not to Dos Ourselves.
Speaker 3: I remember that it was her favorite restaurant. For some reason,
Speaker 3: I'm always thinking about her being like, wait, so the
Speaker 3: meats are really good.
Speaker 1: There, yeah, and so she says it. So I also
Speaker 1: last week made her limestone gap old fashioned. So the
Speaker 1: limestone gap is like where she like lives in Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: And basically it's like cinnamon simple syrup and whiskey.
Speaker 3: Why did she say it needs to be like twenty
Speaker 3: four hours in advance.
Speaker 1: And I didn't do that. So I made a cinnamon
Speaker 1: simple syrup. And then the recipe is like, okay, now
Speaker 1: put the simple syrup in the fridge for like forty
Speaker 1: eight hours, then make your old fashion and I was like, girl,
Speaker 1: not that fancy. I don't have the time right.
Speaker 3: And I don't understand what that accomplishes.
Speaker 1: I'm sure maybe it like gets thicker.
Speaker 3: Or like you did the cinnamons. Do you put cinnamon
Speaker 3: and sugar?
Speaker 1: Did cinnamon sticks sugar water? Left that boil?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: And then I put in the fridge for like twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: and then I did whiskey on rocks and then I
Speaker 1: did like a spoonful of the cinnamon simple syrup and
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, this is so good. I love
Speaker 1: the kick of the cinnamon. And then I added more
Speaker 1: and then it made it too sweet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I kind of you gotta be careful with
Speaker 3: an old fashioned.
Speaker 1: It's all about precise measurements really precise. But her favorite
Speaker 1: whiskey is Blantons, which we just discovered in Nashville.
Speaker 3: Which I love. And if you listen to the Vipe
Speaker 3: dot com sash CBC The Pond, you can hear us
Speaker 3: talk about all the whiskies we tried in Nashville, including
Speaker 3: Beyonce is with Sir Davos and you'll have to subscribe
Speaker 3: to hear what we.
Speaker 1: Thought about speaking of cocktails. I just think it is
Speaker 1: so cute how she's just being like, I took such
Speaker 1: a risk doing the Kristen wig any Mimlo movie Barbon
Speaker 1: Star because they didn't.
Speaker 3: That she had a cameo in. It's like, how's that risk?
Speaker 1: No, That's what's so insane about her. It's like in
Speaker 1: Reba's mind, she's like, this is an insane risk because
Speaker 1: this is just like a comedy from the Bridesmaids.
Speaker 3: She thought it was such a risk for her to
Speaker 3: do like drag as Colonel Sanders for like a CMA
Speaker 3: PROI my.
Speaker 1: Favorite part of this book, wait, let's and let me
Speaker 1: pull up though, let's read it. Okay, but in the
Speaker 1: Southern community, as I'm calling it, like I guess for
Speaker 1: her to be a drag king like and to take
Speaker 1: on such an iconic man, it.
Speaker 3: Was so.
Speaker 1: Right, and I remember.
Speaker 3: Remember I was like, oh my god, rest trance.
Speaker 1: Okay, read this part.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: It was a risk to appears the first ever female
Speaker 1: Colonel Sanders for Kentucky Fried Chicken. When KFC approached me,
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure about it. I didn't know my fans
Speaker 1: would like it. I asked just about everyone around me
Speaker 1: if I should do it. Some people said yes and
Speaker 1: some said no. But when Aaron Spalding said it would
Speaker 1: be really cool, I went with that my gut and
Speaker 1: signed on. They even added fringe to Colonel Sanders' famous
Speaker 1: white suit just for me. The scripts were funny and
Speaker 1: it looks like a heck of a lot of fun
Speaker 1: So I said, yes, I'm so glad I did. It
Speaker 1: was a hoot her being like they theemmed the Colonel Sanders.
Speaker 3: All too got a Southern fried a little bit, add
Speaker 3: a little rape to it.
Speaker 1: You gotta take a risk.
Speaker 3: And like she looks.
Speaker 1: Good, she looks like really good.
Speaker 3: Like she's like she's not so drag where she's like no,
Speaker 3: it's like kind of there's brows, yes, there is, Yeah,
Speaker 3: has the mustache. She's kind of been like twink Death,
Speaker 3: like Colonel Sanders.
Speaker 1: You know, it is really like Twinkie, la gay guy
Speaker 1: that owns like kind of an oddities like high skill
Speaker 1: furniture shop. Maybe, So that was her risk. And then
Speaker 1: she's being like, it was a huge risk to be
Speaker 1: at the end of Barbon Star because they didn't advertise
Speaker 1: my name because they wanted to be a surprise, right,
Speaker 1: She's like, and that really paid off. And I remember
Speaker 1: watching that film and when Riba was at the end
Speaker 1: as a mermaid A sorry spoiler alert, I was like, hilarious,
Speaker 1: A threeba.
Speaker 3: You're just like the resk paid off because you were
Speaker 3: watching the whole movie being like, where's Reba.
Speaker 1: It was just a fun surprise, right, I'm not waiting.
Speaker 3: For you know what? Else was a risk when she
Speaker 3: went out for the role of June on Young Sheldon,
Speaker 3: which is where okay, she knew her current husband from
Speaker 3: before they had actually met. While filming Kenny Rodgers movie
Speaker 3: The Gambler Returns in nineteen ninety one, I was playing
Speaker 3: Burgundy Jones and Rex had a bit part riding a
Speaker 3: horse into the saloon yelling yeeha can touch After realizing
Speaker 3: we had a mutual friend, ed Gaylord. We instantly bonded
Speaker 3: over living in Oklahoma. We kept in touch occasionally. When
Speaker 3: Ed told me Rex his mom had passed away in
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety eight, I called to offer my condolences to
Speaker 3: see how he would do, and we talked for twenty
Speaker 3: five or thirty minutes, and again we were thirty.
Speaker 1: It's like, this is an insane deeds. I put it
Speaker 1: in a cookbook.
Speaker 3: You can talk between twenty five and thirty minutes after
Speaker 3: his mom passed away in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, And she's like, I'm gonna send him one
Speaker 1: of my famous bath bomb baskets.
Speaker 3: And this is all leading up to the recipe for
Speaker 3: tater tots because he calls her Tater Top.
Speaker 1: Because once after they wrapped filming, I guess, like young Sheldon,
Speaker 1: they all went out and then she's like, and then
Speaker 1: my tour manager said, let's go to my wine bar.
Speaker 1: Then there was appetizers actually served up the wine bar,
Speaker 1: and I said, let's do the tat toss. And from
Speaker 1: then on he calls me to Top and I call
Speaker 1: him sugar Talk.
Speaker 3: So then the rest of you for tater tots is
Speaker 3: pretty iconic of Tater tots. All right, y'all, let's not
Speaker 3: mesh around. One, get in your car, two, draft to Sonic, three,
Speaker 3: order the tots. Four, just be happy.
Speaker 1: And it's an amazing photo her just holding a container
Speaker 1: of Sonic Tater tots.
Speaker 3: Put to the tots.
Speaker 1: That is the one thing I wish I had tried.
Speaker 1: I've never had sonic. I remember there's randomly one in
Speaker 1: Union Square. But I'm like, if I'm gonna go to
Speaker 1: a sonic, I want to go to like Union Square.
Speaker 1: There used to be on fourteenth between like Union Square
Speaker 1: and six.
Speaker 3: There's a song in that, like nurs, like the journeys
Speaker 3: and like the.
Speaker 1: Foot Yeah, in the midst of the journeys. I don't
Speaker 1: know what's there anymore. No, there's one day there.
Speaker 3: Was, I don't think. So, okay, you are mistaken.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's agree to.
Speaker 3: Take their ginko beloba.
Speaker 1: Let's agree to disagree. Because here's the thing about friend Okay,
Speaker 1: don't let see little little things come between you friendship.
Speaker 3: You have to have their back.
Speaker 1: And she says, I heard her friend Marcy. They do
Speaker 1: such fun things together. They went balloon shooting, and then
Speaker 1: Marcy straight up just shot her leg. We had a laugh.
Speaker 3: See okay, I love the board where she goes. My
Speaker 3: go to movies and TV shows. These are some of
Speaker 3: my favorite films and TV shows. But characters, you'll never forget.
Speaker 3: A great script, like a great song, it's what people
Speaker 3: relate to. Like this is a little bit like this
Speaker 3: speech they give at like the oscars before they're like
Speaker 3: introducing like best Adapted Screenplay. You can watch anything on
Speaker 3: this list time and time again. It'll only get better
Speaker 3: with every viewing. And then it's this long list of
Speaker 3: just like kind of generic movies and TV shows, but
Speaker 3: them that she's in.
Speaker 1: She's like Big Yellow Sky. She's like Young Sheldon.
Speaker 3: Young Sheldon, the sound of music writers of the Lost
Speaker 3: arc Tremors. Riba just the last one is just her show, Riba.
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, of course, she's like ted Lasso.
Speaker 1: She's so ted Laso because it's such a positive show
Speaker 1: with like little pranks. Well, what Riba likes doing on
Speaker 1: date nights or family knights is curling, getting her pajs,
Speaker 1: get a blanket, okay, make a pineapple infused rum mohito,
Speaker 1: and curl up with your love bug and just watch Okay,
Speaker 1: she is amazing.
Speaker 3: You put It's Complicated on them because that is such
Speaker 3: a good movie you could watch over and over again.
Speaker 1: With your family or just with a loved one.
Speaker 3: Nancy Meyer's classic.
Speaker 1: Real Classic. Okay, she is an amazing party tip that
Speaker 1: I took from this that I think is genius. No,
Speaker 1: don't let the night fade out and things with a bang.
Speaker 1: With a final activity or a treat like s'mores around
Speaker 1: the fire pit or fresh warm cookies to go taken
Speaker 1: bake from the grocery store works just fine. Sometimes we'll
Speaker 1: close out a party with a sing along with the
Speaker 1: guitar piano. Just like a good show. You always want
Speaker 1: them to leave wanted more.
Speaker 3: That is a really good thing because I do think
Speaker 3: classic party wise, the party does fade and then there's
Speaker 3: the stragglers are.
Speaker 1: Like, way, like, let's have one more people.
Speaker 3: Who aren't getting the message, and you're kind of like, babe.
Speaker 1: Babe, let's go. So if you do this kind of
Speaker 1: final big blowout, whether it's cookies or another type of cookie,
Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying, oh disgusting, so good question,
Speaker 1: or a sing along, you know, then everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 1: buy y'all and they get in their big SUVs and
Speaker 1: go yeah, like some sort of like punctuation.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know what that would be in
Speaker 3: the context of like a house.
Speaker 1: Parties same because it's like the way.
Speaker 3: She describes like this whole section, it's very much like
Speaker 3: for a suburban or rural home where she's like, don't
Speaker 3: stress over decorations, like throw down a few tablecloths, phil
Speaker 3: a few mason jars with flowers or branches from your yard.
Speaker 3: Add some battery powered remote control candles on your steps
Speaker 3: or line in a path.
Speaker 1: The battery part.
Speaker 3: And I'm just like, Okay, the battery powered candle is
Speaker 3: on the pathway, and I'm getting these branches in the yard.
Speaker 3: What about those of us in urban setting? And then
Speaker 3: she's like, have some sunscreen and bugs, very options available
Speaker 3: for everyone. Lot some citianella candles to keep pests away,
Speaker 3: keep blankets handy in a basket outdoors for a brisk
Speaker 3: fall night.
Speaker 1: Well that's like this big fire. And like everyone's huge
Speaker 1: glasses that you're swirling of yours. She calls them margaritas.
Speaker 1: She has a name for her margaritas that are called
Speaker 1: redheaded ribas. And then she goes as I'll have to
Speaker 1: call them margarita.
Speaker 3: But it's like we already named it, so you're.
Speaker 1: Renaming it again. Yeah, I don't know exactly what, because
Speaker 1: I feel like if I do an activity during let's
Speaker 1: say a holiday party, that's actually kind of more towards
Speaker 1: the middle of.
Speaker 3: Well, let's think about your holiday party last year. You
Speaker 3: have the gift exchange things.
Speaker 1: That was actually two years ago. You had a holiday
Speaker 1: part last year, Tom flush.
Speaker 3: Oh right too, and we didn't do competing parties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you were like part and I was like,
Speaker 1: have it. I would love to attend.
Speaker 3: And there's like cut to meat panicking, just like drilling
Speaker 3: Trillian holes, plastering my walls.
Speaker 1: So we got a white elephant gifts exchance. That was
Speaker 1: so fun and hilarious. But I feel like that was
Speaker 1: kind of the middle of the party.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It'd be weird if I was like, get the fuck
Speaker 1: out right after.
Speaker 3: That's what I like about, like the s'more songs of
Speaker 3: it all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it has to be out of suburbans
Speaker 1: are good.
Speaker 3: Okay. So I was recently at my aunt's eightieth birthday
Speaker 3: party in.
Speaker 1: San Francisco, not that fancy.
Speaker 3: And it was not that fancy, but there was like
Speaker 3: a sing along to old just like sixties folks songs,
Speaker 3: and it was like so cute and lesbian. But it
Speaker 3: was that was towards the end of the party.
Speaker 1: Okay, and it was kind of circle game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, circle game, like Bob Dylan Dylan, and there was
Speaker 3: like someone had a guitar and like after that people
Speaker 3: did trickle out and like it wasn't so like we're
Speaker 3: kicking it out, but like it was a nice kind
Speaker 3: of like pin on it. And then I'm thinking, like,
Speaker 3: I feel like my parents are always having like caroling
Speaker 3: at the end of their like holiday parties, like gathered
Speaker 3: round the piano, being so nineteen forties.
Speaker 1: And everyone was being like singing and who's playing.
Speaker 3: My dad was like playing piano and then they were
Speaker 3: like a grown ups would be like singing too.
Speaker 1: Have you ever caroled?
Speaker 3: Oh, like condor like a complete psychopaths not to pry. No,
Speaker 3: that's so scary.
Speaker 1: I've like been in someone's house and had carollers come
Speaker 1: someone else's house and was like in Belmon Mass of course,
Speaker 1: and it's so fucking freaky.
Speaker 3: And like buzzy everyone's apartment in the building and.
Speaker 1: You show up and you're just like jingle bells. Jingle bells.
Speaker 3: Yeah, should we bring it back?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, let's go so like song.
Speaker 3: Could be good, like maybe there could be like.
Speaker 1: Or a dessert like having been like whoo now s'mores
Speaker 1: are like whoa, okay, now here's the Sunday bar.
Speaker 3: Wow, Okay, that's involved. I'm wheeling on the Sunday bar
Speaker 3: on my that's to.
Speaker 1: Put a pin in it. Actually, at my gathering of
Speaker 1: ladies last night over for Reba's ribs, we did actually
Speaker 1: end up with a bunch of ice cream. So we
Speaker 1: just brought out all the pants and just a spoon
Speaker 1: and after that, you know, we kind of chatted a bed.
Speaker 3: Wait, that is so cute. We're all going through something,
Speaker 3: whether it's a breakup or a marriage or well we
Speaker 3: need some ass cream, Grab a spoon. At Lily's place,
Speaker 3: there's always a spoon for you.
Speaker 1: Avocado segment.
Speaker 3: What does she ate?
Speaker 1: What does she?
Speaker 3: Where does she live?
Speaker 1: How does she live? Well, there's a beautiful photo in
Speaker 1: this book of a coffee table with all of her
Speaker 1: brass belt buckles, And I feel like it's very this
Speaker 1: custom western.
Speaker 3: I mean it's very just like a store in Nashville,
Speaker 3: and there's pendlets and blankets.
Speaker 1: Everywhere the case, but it's I think it's more downhome
Speaker 1: glue case.
Speaker 3: Long horns like on the wall longhorns.
Speaker 1: It's huge brown leather couches. It's photos of daddy, it's
Speaker 1: photos of Mama, it's a photo of her kids, her
Speaker 1: son Shelby Blackstock, who is a car racer turn real
Speaker 1: estate agent.
Speaker 3: I think that there is a lot of just dark,
Speaker 3: heavy wood, and there's a patina on everything, Like the
Speaker 3: kitchen cabinets have this faux patina on them. All of
Speaker 3: the coffee tables have this like faux patina.
Speaker 1: I feel like they're also like ombre, kind of like
Speaker 1: the lucasy boot. Like everything is like honey whiskey cut.
Speaker 1: Everything just the color of blanterns. And it's like this
Speaker 1: oak is actually from my ex's store in law's house,
Speaker 1: and I think in ok Token, we had it cut
Speaker 1: down because a critter got into the wood, so to
Speaker 1: save the wood, we had it turned into stool stumps.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's very like I'm repurposing things, like, Okay, so
Speaker 3: all the knobs in my second garage are old belt
Speaker 3: buckles that daddy went rot barrel racing.
Speaker 1: It's a genius idea buckles as knobs.
Speaker 3: She's got like a heavy four poster high bud.
Speaker 1: Oh because Rex is doing the business.
Speaker 3: He's giving her that good Christian young Sheldon.
Speaker 1: Business, young Sheldon like business in the four poster and
Speaker 1: it's still shaken a little but a steady. And then
Speaker 1: he steps his big feet onto a pendleton blanket as
Speaker 1: he gets out of the four poster bed. Do you
Speaker 1: think her toilet like flusher is like a horn in
Speaker 1: the office bathroom?
Speaker 3: Yeah, in one of the KOOKI your bathroom And.
Speaker 1: She's like, isn't that silly? That is a gift from
Speaker 1: Chris Blanton. He's my ex A and R person for Columbia.
Speaker 1: But we still get along through the faith of God.
Speaker 3: Okay, wait her New York City RECs. Okay, what does
Speaker 3: she hate? Let's get into it. These are her New
Speaker 3: York City recommendations. Scaleina tael A Restaurante. This ton of
Speaker 3: intimate Italian restaurant is tucked away below the street on
Speaker 3: the upper east side. The hand you menu with their
Speaker 3: regular features, but the server will rattle off a ton
Speaker 3: of daily specials and can customize your meal however you
Speaker 3: want it.
Speaker 1: Literally describing is so it's a Brinton menu, but then
Speaker 1: server's gonna have all these Italian things to say, like
Speaker 1: baroda salad and chi.
Speaker 3: I'd like to customize my meal. Tratoria de larte. This
Speaker 3: Italian restaurant has the biggest antipasto bar I've ever seen
Speaker 3: and the best thing crossed pizza. Then she goes Maria,
Speaker 3: which is like so expensive.
Speaker 1: She loves Italian, which is like.
Speaker 3: Full two starts, but then she says Sarah Beeth that
Speaker 3: like cheesy chain on the embray side.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's so like where you go to tea and
Speaker 1: a so gossip girl. She's cheesy, and then of course quality.
Speaker 1: I think Riba is eating a lot of salads and
Speaker 1: probably like chicken and vegetables, and then like really going
Speaker 1: wild at like she loves Italian, but I don't think
Speaker 1: she's having like a huge pasta. She's like going wild
Speaker 1: for like roasted red peppers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what does she wear?
Speaker 1: What does she wear? And like, well, she's actually not QC.
Speaker 1: She's Dillard.
Speaker 3: Sorry, okay, And when she's doing she has the Dillard
Speaker 3: sign and that whole thing where she was like and
Speaker 3: when Dillard's first sent me some of their designs. I said,
Speaker 3: these aren't going to work. I can't put myself behind
Speaker 3: these designs.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, that's what I'm saying. She's not gonna just
Speaker 1: put her name on any damn Dillard's poncho.
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean she loves is so pancho and loose
Speaker 3: and like bell sleeved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's bell sleeves. She's flair, she's friends, she's swayed, she's.
Speaker 3: Boots boots down.
Speaker 1: And also like this pancho she's wearing on the cover
Speaker 1: is like asymmetrical at the bottom.
Speaker 3: I think that's just because she's holding it up a
Speaker 3: little bit, and it's kind of she's kind she's a
Speaker 3: standing contraposter her favorite word. Okay, here's my question. Does
Speaker 3: she wear a wig regularly? And is her hair and
Speaker 3: every one of these photos a wig?
Speaker 1: I think yes, And I kind of think her hair
Speaker 1: is when it was short on Reba when she had
Speaker 1: her kind of just like I'm a busy mom, single
Speaker 1: mom of two kids. Yeah, because the hair doesn't the
Speaker 1: way it moves is really wig wigish. Yeah, and now
Speaker 1: like she's become her hair is almost taken over her
Speaker 1: with the identity. Yeah, grabs a wig wear's my wig.
Speaker 3: No, and then she needs it and she wears what
Speaker 3: it would be like, I do like that thing about
Speaker 3: where she was like she cut her hair short for
Speaker 3: like her second album or something, and then they were like,
Speaker 3: you can't reveal the short hair until the album drops,
Speaker 3: so she had to wear a wig. That's so the
Speaker 3: top model, yeah, until like the promotional cycle could be
Speaker 3: like a now ordering short hair and short album, but
Speaker 3: it was probably just that album won six Grammys. Hello,
Speaker 3: so she's won three Grammys and of course her career
Speaker 3: I was on her Wikipedia. She has won an award
Speaker 3: every year since nineteen eighty four until the present.
Speaker 1: That's insane, some sort of just some award, whether it
Speaker 1: be like from the Firefighter's Reliance.
Speaker 3: Or CMT like music video of honoring her, yeah, legends.
Speaker 1: Or she's like a one an Emmy for like Best
Speaker 1: Visual Song to the intro to Young.
Speaker 3: Sheldon absolutely winning Best Visual Song.
Speaker 1: Okay who are you in the book?
Speaker 3: Okay are you this photo of the hallepeni Oter.
Speaker 1: I mean you know what I think we are.
Speaker 3: We're like every photo of for sipping a tea, like
Speaker 3: making direct eye contact with a camera.
Speaker 1: I mean this actually wouldn't happen to us where It's
Speaker 1: like her and Marci are in Barbados and they ordered
Speaker 1: to teas a Stas because of course they love tea. Well,
Speaker 1: the tea they thought it was nasty, but it got
Speaker 1: them giggling. Turns out it was Long Island nasty and
Speaker 1: they're like, we didn't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think we'd be drinking like five alcohols
Speaker 3: and not know. We fucking love alcohol. We know, didn't
Speaker 3: it a mile away?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: But I mean, obviously we're actually so mercy and like Shane,
Speaker 1: like black Stock or whatever. We're like surprising her in Nashville.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm also Carolyn's panco and Parmesan crusted chicken with
Speaker 3: lemon vinagretta rugola salad.
Speaker 1: No, you are like the girl dinner of this, and
Speaker 1: I'm the whoever's in New England mule I think muleing.
Speaker 3: Now all right, well, Reba, your cookbook was actually surprisingly tasty,
Speaker 3: and I do feel like I did maybe absolutely destroy
Speaker 3: the Link bathroom today.
Speaker 1: Because of it. No, I will say, do I feel
Speaker 1: maybe like I need to go in some sort of
Speaker 1: clans this week? A little? But also it was Sunday
Speaker 1: and it was not that fancy.
Speaker 3: Okay, thea though, I actually would make that again. I
Speaker 3: would make that for like a barbecue.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In the coles it had like kale and carrots and
Speaker 3: a cabbage.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. It was actually kind of healthy.
Speaker 3: And it was kind Yeah, it was like tanging healthy
Speaker 3: and bombing. The proportions were really like right on it,
Speaker 3: Like it wasn't creamy in like a sludgie way. It
Speaker 3: was actually crazy a fresh.
Speaker 1: I think like her rib Risbee was good. I think
Speaker 1: the pento beans recipe was really good. And looking through
Speaker 1: I was like, I would make a lot of this stuff,
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's really good to have in
Speaker 1: your back pocket, like party cookbook. Yes, honestly what we
Speaker 1: call a back park pocket party pocket party cookbook.
Speaker 3: Crust Chicken.
Speaker 1: I'm given this. I'll say I'm giving it four belt
Speaker 1: Buckle coffee tables out of five because I love the random,
Speaker 1: super random.
Speaker 3: I'm giving it for Luke Casey Boots out of five.
Speaker 3: I'm deducting points for the insane organization of this book,
Speaker 3: where it's like, if you wanted a recipe.
Speaker 1: Like it's fancy, he wants to organize a book.
Speaker 3: It's like you wouldn't be able to find you. Like,
Speaker 3: that's my problem with the I'm like, oh, what if
Speaker 3: I want to make like a Riba salad or like
Speaker 3: a Reba meat dish. It's like, well, good luck, bitch,
Speaker 3: You're gonna have to read the entire book to find it.
Speaker 1: You know the amount of times this week where I
Speaker 1: kept like flipping through and being like, wait, where's the
Speaker 1: ribs again?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And her niece is named Blue.
Speaker 3: Casey, which is insane.
Speaker 1: And she also has a good another nephew named Lake. Oh.
Speaker 1: I wrote down Chelsea Mason, Lake, River, Remington, Lukesey.
Speaker 3: Those are some of the nieces Niece a'clock.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, y'all just listen to him.
Speaker 3: Listen to him.
Speaker 1: Because if she says all I've had in this life
Speaker 1: is because of God, you just got.
Speaker 3: To listen and rat a letter to a friend who
Speaker 3: has experienced loss. Have a game night in your pjs
Speaker 3: with your good gals.
Speaker 1: Don't stuff your boots.
Speaker 3: Best.
Speaker 5: This episode of Book of Stephen, when Lily was produce
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Speaker 5: executive producers, a little cowgirl named Christina Everett.
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