Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: My guest tonight, a legendary country singer currently on tour
Speaker 2: with her latest album, Those Were the Days. Please welcome
Speaker 2: Dolly Parton.
Speaker 1: And a good show.
Speaker 2: They're very, very nice. It's so nice to meet you,
Speaker 2: and we're delighted to have you.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you.
Speaker 4: We watch your show at home, and we have a
Speaker 4: lot of people that love you a lot.
Speaker 3: So there was I couldn't believe I was going to
Speaker 3: be on the show.
Speaker 1: Here are.
Speaker 3: I thank you.
Speaker 2: I also couldn't believe you agreed to be on the show.
Speaker 3: I was a little nervous. I said, you don't go
Speaker 3: to get all political with you this, No, I don't
Speaker 3: think so.
Speaker 5: Can I tell you something?
Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm just reading off.
Speaker 1: I don't well, don't get me.
Speaker 3: I don't know anything about it. I'm about like president.
Speaker 2: As far as I know, Eisenhower's president, haven't. I don't
Speaker 2: like to follow this sort of thing. Uh, but you
Speaker 2: know what is interesting about you? You transcend red blue
Speaker 2: politics any of that. Everyone no one has anything bad
Speaker 2: to say about Dolly Partner. Everybody loves Dolly Parton. What
Speaker 2: is the secret? Just kindness, goodness or talent?
Speaker 4: Oh, I've just been around so long. I think people
Speaker 4: just kind of know me. And I'm sure there's a
Speaker 4: lot of people that know a lot of bad stuff
Speaker 4: about me, but we don't want to hear from them.
Speaker 4: We have some fans out there, but actually, I've been
Speaker 4: in the business for a long long time and.
Speaker 3: I like people.
Speaker 4: I'm not a bit political, but I'm very patriotic, and
Speaker 4: that's kind of why I did some of these fun
Speaker 4: songs to kind of have a voice and all that's.
Speaker 3: Going on today.
Speaker 4: But not trying to make any big statements, but I'm
Speaker 4: just glad people like me, and it's kind of like
Speaker 4: like an older sister or a favorite ant or something
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 2: I think that how people feel about you is not
Speaker 2: so sister le and antish.
Speaker 3: Maybe some little Arnie goats.
Speaker 2: Or something O, if that's what you want to refer
Speaker 2: to them as. I think that's fine. Now with your
Speaker 2: this is an album. It's called Dolly Parton Those were
Speaker 2: the Days, and uh, you collaborated with a lot of
Speaker 2: interesting people on this I did.
Speaker 4: These actually were favorite songs of mine from the sixties
Speaker 4: and seventies, and I decided to do them because I'd
Speaker 4: always loved these songs, and right in the middle of recording,
Speaker 4: I thought, I wonder how many of the original artists
Speaker 4: or writers would.
Speaker 3: Be willing to sing on this. So I started looking.
Speaker 4: Around and ask a bunch of them, like Judy Collins,
Speaker 4: you know, she sang on we did both sides now
Speaker 4: and Leon Momack saying with her.
Speaker 3: And we even got Cat Stevens.
Speaker 2: Now, how did you get Cat Stephens?
Speaker 6: Who?
Speaker 2: I mean, as far as I know, he is ungettable.
Speaker 4: Well, actually he's he's been out of the business for
Speaker 4: the most part, certainly, and out of this country.
Speaker 3: Joseph Islama as he goes.
Speaker 4: But I had always loved him, and I've recorded songs
Speaker 4: of his before. I did a song of his called
Speaker 4: peace Strain, and he had, many years back, sent me
Speaker 4: a fax and an email saying how proud he was
Speaker 4: of that. And I think he used the choir that
Speaker 4: I had used on his Peace Train on some things
Speaker 4: he did. And then I wrote a song called Hello
Speaker 4: God that he had heard on an airplane. He just
Speaker 4: facted me saying it was a song that needed writing
Speaker 4: and it.
Speaker 3: Had touched him. And I know he's very involved in charity.
Speaker 4: So since I love his songs, I had recorded a
Speaker 4: song in this CD called Where Did the Children Play?
Speaker 4: And I thought, well, it's worth a chance. So we
Speaker 4: sent an email and Steve Buckingham, who helped me round
Speaker 4: up a lot of these artists, we kind of collaborated
Speaker 4: and he said, I'll come play the guitar, so he did,
Speaker 4: and we send it over there.
Speaker 3: He didn't come here to do it.
Speaker 2: But the idea of you and Yuseff islam like blackberrying
Speaker 2: each other, like this is like this whole story is like,
Speaker 2: I'm mean. Then he was on a jet, so I
Speaker 2: get a BlackBerry and then it's got.
Speaker 3: So I just I know, but that's the way it
Speaker 3: is with the writers.
Speaker 2: And that's the way it went down. And so you
Speaker 2: got together and a sweet man.
Speaker 1: Oh he's comfortable.
Speaker 4: Man, he's just you know, he's got a got a
Speaker 4: lot of bad pressure lately. But I think he's out
Speaker 4: to try to say the world, not destroy it.
Speaker 2: Anybody turn down, anybody say dey yeah, Bob Dylan.
Speaker 4: I wanted yeah, I did up going it well. Actually,
Speaker 4: to be fair to him, he wrote the song, that's
Speaker 4: all he needed to do. But I didn't actually speak
Speaker 4: to him personally. I'd send a message to him because
Speaker 4: I wanted him to sing at least one line on
Speaker 4: the answer, you know, at least that much. But I
Speaker 4: got the message back that he didn't want to do it,
Speaker 4: so I got Nickel Creek, this wonderful new group to
Speaker 4: sing on it. So in a way it worked out
Speaker 4: better because had had I got Bob Dylan, I wouldn't
Speaker 4: have them, and they did.
Speaker 2: Such a If I may say this, you already you
Speaker 2: your life force could have infused him with I think
Speaker 2: it would have been good to him to just touch you,
Speaker 2: and it would have been like one of those things
Speaker 2: where he would touch you and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: all the like blood.
Speaker 4: Except well, actually, like I say in all fantas, I
Speaker 4: didn't speak to him personally, so I don't know if
Speaker 4: he actually even got the message from me.
Speaker 3: If that came from yeah, that's what I thought.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 1: Was walking back in the program, Dolly Barton, you'll fins
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 3: This way you can.
Speaker 1: Talk to me. I'm gonna say this. I don't say
Speaker 1: this to everybody. I've missed you.
Speaker 2: Well you want to show a while and then you
Speaker 2: I haven't seen you in a little while. I'm missing
Speaker 2: your your personality. It's just very I guess it would
Speaker 2: would be vivacious.
Speaker 1: Is that what they would say is that? No, but
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 4: Everybody said they loved us together, and I was excited
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 3: So I'm happy that you're bringing me back.
Speaker 2: So make the calls or I send the letters. It's
Speaker 2: not what you would call, let's say, harassment. Tell me
Speaker 2: about this joyful noise? What is this a movie about gospel?
Speaker 3: Is this?
Speaker 4: Well, it's all got all this great gospel music in it,
Speaker 4: and it's the story about a small town in Georgia
Speaker 4: that's falling on hard times and the economy is bad.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 4: So it's about this church that's always competed in competitions,
Speaker 4: but they can't afford to do it. So anyway, Christofferson,
Speaker 4: who plays my husband, he dies early on.
Speaker 3: He's the choir director.
Speaker 4: So I think that I should be able to take
Speaker 4: over the choir. And of course, yeah, of course Latifa,
Speaker 4: she's a great singer there, and the committee says she
Speaker 4: should do it. So of course the rubb starts there.
Speaker 4: So we kind of fight all the way through. But
Speaker 4: it's about and there's a lot of fun in it,
Speaker 4: a lot of laughs.
Speaker 7: Now you are.
Speaker 2: In stature, obviously, a legend in the business, but physically
Speaker 2: smaller individual. The tiefa is if I may also a
Speaker 2: legend industry, but a larger was there ever? Was there
Speaker 2: physical fighting?
Speaker 4: She gets me in a choke hold and I'm this
Speaker 4: tiny little thing down here.
Speaker 3: I'll call us Biggie small from that world.
Speaker 4: But anyway we do at the end when they sum
Speaker 4: up this whole thing, she really has me in the
Speaker 4: choke holds and she's got me. She could have hurt
Speaker 4: me bad if she'd have wanted to, but she didn't.
Speaker 3: But she's great.
Speaker 1: She is big.
Speaker 4: She's what five nine.
Speaker 2: That I'd like to say to you, Yeah, that's not much,
Speaker 2: But I look at that and think, oh God, if.
Speaker 3: She's great, I love her. Her heart is funny.
Speaker 6: Guys.
Speaker 4: We had a great time and the music is spectacular.
Speaker 4: It's a Warner Brothers fam. I wrote three of the
Speaker 4: main songs in it. And I had a chance to,
Speaker 4: you know, to sing all the great stuff that I
Speaker 4: hadn't had a chance to do.
Speaker 3: That brought music something. Yeah, gospel.
Speaker 4: Well, I was brought up in the church Pentecostal Holy
Speaker 4: roller Wood.
Speaker 3: We just say congregations.
Speaker 4: We didn't have like a choir, but everybody was singing
Speaker 4: and shouting and a praise to the.
Speaker 3: Lord and all.
Speaker 2: What we Jews are like that except with complainings. We
Speaker 2: all get together and you're not like, oh my God.
Speaker 3: Well, what's funny about this whole thing? It's very Christian.
Speaker 4: It's all about Jesus and all these wonderful gospel choirs.
Speaker 4: But it was written by a Jew, Todd Graft, who
Speaker 4: wrote what.
Speaker 1: We do, It's what we do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, but he did a great job. He
Speaker 3: did a wonderful He really got you know.
Speaker 2: Do you were you able to harken back to your
Speaker 2: days in gospel? Was that just you know where you
Speaker 2: got the love of the music and where it all
Speaker 2: came together for you.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 4: My grandpa was a preacher and a great singer, great musician.
Speaker 4: My mother's people were all very musical, mostly in the
Speaker 4: church and around in the community. But I wanted to
Speaker 4: make a business out of it. But I still to
Speaker 4: this day because that's where I learned to sing in church.
Speaker 4: We always went to church, and I still have a
Speaker 4: feeling singing gospel music that I don't get in anything.
Speaker 2: I love the sense and this may be an absolute
Speaker 2: sort of stereotypical picture that I had my head of it,
Speaker 2: of these communities and these families gathered together and everybody's
Speaker 2: got the music, and they're all sitting around on a
Speaker 2: Saturday night and just going around. I used to look
Speaker 2: at that and maybe romanticize it. That feeling of I
Speaker 2: don't know, just that that talent but also with family
Speaker 2: and doing it together.
Speaker 7: Is that made up in my head?
Speaker 4: Or that tell you that's exactly what we used to do.
Speaker 4: Especially my family and my brothers and sisters. We all
Speaker 4: used to sing, and we used to go around sing
Speaker 4: at all the funerals, all the weddings, all the square dances,
Speaker 4: anywhere there was music in the community, and certainly around
Speaker 4: our house. And on Sundays, you know, we'd get up
Speaker 4: in church too and do all that special sing and
Speaker 4: we'd play our guitars and all the instruments and it
Speaker 4: was great.
Speaker 3: So exactly what you have in your mind is how I.
Speaker 4: Did grow up with a family of twelve children, just
Speaker 4: country people, and the church and the music was what.
Speaker 3: Kept us going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, after school, what I would do is come home
Speaker 2: and there's a key that was put under a carpet,
Speaker 2: and then I'd go in and heat myself up some spaghettios,
Speaker 2: so it's very hard.
Speaker 3: Well, we would have prayed for you. We will keep
Speaker 3: you in.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's so great to see you again.
Speaker 1: Come back and see us speaking.
Speaker 2: You're you're gonna do a big musical. You're gonna come
Speaker 2: back and see us.
Speaker 3: Anytime I get to talk to you all. Come back
Speaker 3: and go see the movie. It's great. It's called Joyful Noise,
Speaker 3: and it's fun.
Speaker 2: Joyful Noise Dollar everybody.
Speaker 5: My guests tonight are legendary singer songwriter Dolly Parton and
Speaker 5: best selling author James Patterson. They're here to discuss the
Speaker 5: novel that they've co written about the country music industry
Speaker 5: and the album Dolly wrote to.
Speaker 7: Go with it.
Speaker 5: James Patterson, Dolly Partton, Welcome to The Daily Show. Well
Speaker 5: are you I'm I'm. I could not be in a
Speaker 5: better place because you realize I am talking to two
Speaker 5: of the most successful people in the fields that they
Speaker 5: do anything in. I mean, James Patterson, You've written books
Speaker 5: that have gone around the world. I mean, hundreds of
Speaker 5: millions of people have consumed them. Dolly Potton, we're familiar
Speaker 5: with your music. I grew up listening to it with
Speaker 5: my mom like would be driving around and are like
Speaker 5: Folks and Beatles singing to your songs with Kenny Rodgers,
Speaker 5: and I would like sing your part. My mom would
Speaker 5: do Kenny Rodgers.
Speaker 7: It's it's a care you do her part.
Speaker 5: Now you can't sing Dolly Poton to Dolly Parton, James,
Speaker 5: don't put me on the spot. Run Rose Run. It's
Speaker 5: not dark, but it's thrilling. I mean, it's a it's
Speaker 5: a really different site to the music industry than I
Speaker 5: think what a lot of people would have expected. You know, James,
Speaker 5: I maybe would have expected something like this from you.
Speaker 5: But Dolly Potton, what made you think? You know what
Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna show you, guys, maybe another world
Speaker 5: in music that you might not be familiar with. And yes,
Speaker 5: it's fiction, but at the same time, it touches on
Speaker 5: some of the themes that people have encountered in music.
Speaker 4: Well it does. And like I said, I knew all
Speaker 4: about the business. And I've never written a novel before.
Speaker 4: I've written books, written children's books, and so I know
Speaker 4: what it's like to kind of write. But I had
Speaker 4: often thought I liked to write an album when I
Speaker 4: was old, And so when James presented me with this.
Speaker 4: I thought, yes, why would James Pattersman even be searching
Speaker 4: me out? And I thought, why he don't need me,
Speaker 4: look at what all he's done. But it made complete
Speaker 4: sense when he told me what the book was going
Speaker 4: to be about. And I knew I really could.
Speaker 6: Because you know, I mean, Dolly came out of the
Speaker 6: hills of Tennessee and I came out as sort of
Speaker 6: a similar situation in upstate New York. And the character
Speaker 6: in the book also, I mean, we were both kind
Speaker 6: of million to one shots, and the character in the
Speaker 6: book is a million to one shots. She's very talented
Speaker 6: Anny Lee Keys, but that doesn't mean you're gonna make it.
Speaker 4: But also her story, everybody has a story when they
Speaker 4: come to town. Everybody's going to past their childhood and
Speaker 4: how they grew up, and everybody's story is different. Everybody's
Speaker 4: life is a soap opera. And so it's really about her,
Speaker 4: her story. She was running to something. She loved the music,
Speaker 4: but she was running from something. So I knew that
Speaker 4: I could write great songs of all the bad people
Speaker 4: in town, like snakes in the gra asked about the
Speaker 4: bad managers and things, the guys that we because I've experienced.
Speaker 7: A lot of that myself, you know, when we met.
Speaker 6: So I go back home and two days later I
Speaker 6: had to I had some notes for Dolly to react to.
Speaker 6: She sent me notes on the outline, and she sent
Speaker 6: me the lyrics for seven songs.
Speaker 7: Well, I got a lot of to days.
Speaker 4: I had said to him, I said, now, look, if
Speaker 4: I'm not the kind of person, but if we're going
Speaker 4: to work together, I'm not going to just put my
Speaker 4: name on a book, you know, if you put my
Speaker 4: name if I don't really work not so hi am
Speaker 4: I going to contribute the most to it? And then
Speaker 4: one day I thought, well, I write songs and I
Speaker 4: know these stories, and I would love to write a book,
Speaker 4: I mean, an album about these situations and the characters
Speaker 4: in the movie. So it just seemed to fall from
Speaker 4: natural and it just really helped us both, I think.
Speaker 3: So it was just such a magical thing.
Speaker 7: It worked very quickly.
Speaker 6: It was kind of like a TV show where every
Speaker 6: week we would have another episode or another two or
Speaker 6: three chapters to mess around.
Speaker 4: With, and I really enjoy it. Just seemed to work.
Speaker 7: I say it with the best thing at all. We
Speaker 7: really become really good friends.
Speaker 6: You know, from my birthday, She's sang happy birthday and
Speaker 6: me over the telephone.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's that's all about. That's everything the book is.
Speaker 5: The book is already a success in your world just
Speaker 5: because of that. Actually, James, from your side, you you
Speaker 5: worked with President Bill Clinton writing a book together. Now
Speaker 5: you you're a successful author on your own. I mean,
Speaker 5: this is what you do. You onet of the most
Speaker 5: beloved authors around the world. But now when you're writing
Speaker 5: with somebody who has their own points of view, who
Speaker 5: has their own fan base, who has their own style,
Speaker 5: I'd love to know how you find a way to
Speaker 5: meld those two worlds, you know, and and and the
Speaker 5: second part of that question is what were the biggest
Speaker 5: differences between writing with Dolly Potton and Bill Clinton.
Speaker 6: Well, the biggest difference between Dolly Dolly is a much
Speaker 6: better singer and does a better sax player. I thinks
Speaker 6: she plays.
Speaker 7: Uh, you know, they're both great to work with, and
Speaker 7: they're both friends.
Speaker 6: I mean it's really that's the most precious thing to
Speaker 6: me about both of the relationships. But the authenticity that
Speaker 6: built the President brought, and then the authenticity that that
Speaker 6: we worked on in terms of Ron ronins rotten and
Speaker 6: now he goes there was never any bumps in the
Speaker 6: road ever, not one, no bumps.
Speaker 7: But I think people are accepted. She says, I can't sing.
Speaker 7: I don't like that you can't sing, and.
Speaker 4: I don't know that perfect but he can't write. But
Speaker 4: I really think people are enjoying this book. Are going
Speaker 4: to enjoy it because I think, like you said earlier,
Speaker 4: they love to see the inside and the stories of
Speaker 4: these people, you know, some of the stories behind the
Speaker 4: scenes and what Nashville is kind of like kind of
Speaker 4: gives them an insight into the business end of it,
Speaker 4: not just the entertainment entertainment side.
Speaker 5: You know, James Lost we spoke. We talked about your
Speaker 5: your family foundation and how you know you have scholarships
Speaker 5: and how you get books out to kids and just
Speaker 5: people who want to read, and it's it's really important
Speaker 5: to you, Darley. I didn't know why you got into it.
Speaker 5: I've always known you as a philanthropist. I've always known
Speaker 5: you as somebody who loves giving back and you know,
Speaker 5: loves getting kids reading and loves donating books. But I
Speaker 5: didn't know why you got it. Is it true that
Speaker 5: your father couldn't read and so you said, you know what,
Speaker 5: not only is this important to me, but I think
Speaker 5: it should be important to everybody to be literates.
Speaker 4: I absolutely started the Imagination Library because from my father,
Speaker 4: who I loved to death, and he seemed to always
Speaker 4: be embarrassed and kind of almost crippled, you know, that
Speaker 4: he couldn't read, and he thought he couldn't read after
Speaker 4: he was grown. But my daddy was so smart and
Speaker 4: so good and I just I just one day, I
Speaker 4: just thought, you know, I'm going to start something where
Speaker 4: children can learn to read when they're in their young days,
Speaker 4: that's when they're most impressionable.
Speaker 3: And I wanted to get my daddy involved with me
Speaker 3: in it.
Speaker 4: So my daddy, I took him with me. He helped with,
Speaker 4: you know, with all the little things, and he just
Speaker 4: loved to hear the kids call me the book lady,
Speaker 4: and I'd say, this is my dad, And of course
Speaker 4: I didn't say anything about that. But he couldn't read
Speaker 4: and write at the time, but anyhow, I was he
Speaker 4: got to live long enough to see the Imagination Library
Speaker 4: doing so good, and he was so proud, and so
Speaker 4: I have to answer to say, that's one of the
Speaker 4: most proud things that I have ever I'm proud of
Speaker 4: to that. I mean as anything I have ever done
Speaker 4: in my whole career. That is because because of the kids.
Speaker 5: That is so beautiful. I mean, I'm sure he's proud
Speaker 5: of you. I'm sure you know, and I'm glad that
Speaker 5: he got to see it, as you say, in his lifetime.
Speaker 5: People have been eternally grateful to your organization for this.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: I remember as a kid, you know, one of the
Speaker 5: biggest things that changed my life was my mom spent
Speaker 5: the little money that she had to get me books,
Speaker 5: which changed my life forever. I was actually surprised to
Speaker 5: see that, you know, in I think it was a
Speaker 5: Kentucky state state legislator who said they don't want some
Speaker 5: of the books that you were offering because they didn't
Speaker 5: think it was appropriate for young kids. What do you
Speaker 5: think some people miss in and around, you know, what
Speaker 5: kids can or cannot read, or how we process what
Speaker 5: we're reading.
Speaker 4: Well, I would never, in many years begin to think
Speaker 4: that I would choose those books.
Speaker 7: I don't choose.
Speaker 4: We have a whole committee of people that choose the
Speaker 4: books that are made up of parents and all different people.
Speaker 4: So I would never be so bold as to think
Speaker 4: I knew what other people's kids should read. But it
Speaker 4: goes through a whole committee, and so we do the
Speaker 4: best we can. And I'll let people, you know, thought
Speaker 4: that out. So why does you want to be there
Speaker 4: for the kid?
Speaker 8: I mean, they're not going to be reading going with
Speaker 8: the wind, you know, So anyway, let people figure that
Speaker 8: one out.
Speaker 4: But we do have other people that choose. They choose the.
Speaker 3: Books, not me.
Speaker 5: James, Are you going to try your hand that songwriting?
Speaker 5: Is this gonna rubble for you on your side?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 7: You know the answer is not. But when I was
Speaker 7: down here at Vandabilt, you can't help yourself. So I did.
Speaker 7: When I was down here, I did try to write
Speaker 7: some songs. It wasn't a good idea. What do you think?
Speaker 5: What do you think is actually hard to honestly, do
Speaker 5: you think it's hard to write a novel or do
Speaker 5: you think it's hard to write a song for you? Specifically?
Speaker 7: Well for me? No, for me, I can't know, because
Speaker 7: I can't write country songs or any other kind.
Speaker 4: But I bet you could. I mean you're a runner.
Speaker 7: Yeah, maybe I don't thing the novel thing.
Speaker 6: I've kind of have a groove on it now, I believe,
Speaker 6: so yeah, and all kinds of now because I do
Speaker 6: the kids stuff and then nonfiction and you know, so
Speaker 6: we're you know, I know what I can do.
Speaker 7: And what I can't do. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 5: Darley. On your side, you you've said, and you know
Speaker 5: it's crazy that you have wishes that haven't been fulfilled
Speaker 5: in life yet. But I know one of your wishes
Speaker 5: is you've said that you wish that Beyonce would cover Jolene.
Speaker 5: There are over four hundred renditions of Jolene, multiple different languages.
Speaker 5: People have done it, and you said you specifically want
Speaker 5: Beyonce to do that. Are there any updates? Is that,
Speaker 5: like you know of this happening, you know? And and
Speaker 5: why Beyonce? Maybe that's that's even more important.
Speaker 4: I don't know if she's even got the message, but
Speaker 4: wouldn't that be killer? I think she's fantastic and beautiful
Speaker 4: and I love her music. I would just love to
Speaker 4: hear Joelene done in just a big way, kind of
Speaker 4: how Whitney did my I will always love you, just
Speaker 4: someone we can take my little songs and make them
Speaker 4: like powerhouses. So that would be a marvelous day in
Speaker 4: my life if she ever does, Joeline Darlie.
Speaker 5: One last thing, you famously donated a million dollars for
Speaker 5: the research that went into helping us get the vaccine
Speaker 5: for COVID nineteen. How is it that you've always been
Speaker 5: on the right side of history? You know, you've said
Speaker 5: amazing things during the civil rights movements, you know, when
Speaker 5: many people were far behind, you said amazing things like
Speaker 5: you know about equality, about women's rights. You said amazing
Speaker 5: things now in and around the vaccines, like what is
Speaker 5: the magic of Dolly Parton? That you were always on
Speaker 5: the right side of history.
Speaker 3: I just love people. I think we're all God's children.
Speaker 4: I make no difference in that I always try to
Speaker 4: find a God light and everybody. Always keep my ear
Speaker 4: and eye trained on what's going on. And I saw
Speaker 4: right away that that pandemic was going to be awful.
Speaker 4: I just sensed it, and I thought, well, what can
Speaker 4: I do to maybe help a little bit? So I
Speaker 4: donated the money to the research, and I'm happy I did.
Speaker 4: I got a lot more credit than I deserved that.
Speaker 4: I am very proud of whatever effect that I had
Speaker 4: on that going on, because it's still going on. But
Speaker 4: I just kind of be aware and want to help
Speaker 4: when I can. I think when you get in a
Speaker 4: position to help, you should.
Speaker 7: And you know, the other thing is is you know
Speaker 7: Dolly does what Dolly does.
Speaker 6: But having been around here now for a year and
Speaker 6: a half, she is the smartest person I've ever dealt with.
Speaker 7: Oh please, that's a piece of it.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you both for the confliments.
Speaker 5: James Patterson, Dolly Parton, thank you for your partnership, and
Speaker 5: thank you so much for taking the time and joining
Speaker 5: us on the Daily Show.
Speaker 3: And we just love you. You have a lot of
Speaker 3: fans too. You've just got that God blow and I
Speaker 3: love it.
Speaker 4: So keep up what you're doing.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much. There are a few moments in
Speaker 5: life that I think my mom would actually like consider
Speaker 5: as me making it. Interviewing Dolly Partton is one of them.
Speaker 5: Like of all the things in life that is it.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go back to her and be like, huh
Speaker 5: this now, and she'd be like, oh, you did one thing.
Speaker 5: Well done, James. Really wonderful seeing you again. Congratulations, it's
Speaker 5: a fantastic book.
Speaker 3: Well done.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Dorothy.
Speaker 1: Great meeting you.
Speaker 4: Hey, how do you mom for me?
Speaker 5: I will do, I will do definitely.
Speaker 3: Sending it right to her.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna clip this and send it to her.
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