WEBVTT - RUTH POINTER: The Pointer Sisters, "An Evening of Icons" 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:08.440 Ooo Weed. July came in Hot, Hot, hot hot. I 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:10.960 don't think there's a single spot in the country that 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:16.279 hasn't been experiencing higher than normal temperatures. How are you 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:20.759 beating this heat? Do you have air conditioning? Are you 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:24.160 spending time by a lake or on the river? Are 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:28.640 you sipping cool drinks a little lemonade while you're sitting 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.840 in front of the fan, and are you chilling out 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.599 with lots of great music? Two legendary music groups are 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.080 going to be turning up the heat even more. The 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:44.240 Commodores and The Pointer Sisters recently announced an exciting limited 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:49.800 run co headline tour, an evening of icons celebrating Motown's 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:55.720 sixty fifth anniversary with a combined legacy that spans across decades, 0:00:55.760 --> 0:01:01.400 over one hundred million albums sold, twenty number one hits, 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:06.959 ten top ten albums. These icons, these artists are set 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:10.320 to take audiences on a journey through the very best 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:15.240 of funk, soul, R and B and pop, with support 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:19.600 from special guest The Spinners. The first tour leg kicked 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.119 off July eleventh in Illinois and will be making stops 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.440 in Wanta, Raleigh, Tuscaloosa, Tampa, and more before wrapping up 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.720 in prim, Nevada on November thirtieth. One of the greatest 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.160 Motown and R and B funk artists of all time, 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:38.959 the Commodores. The Commodores have influenced innumerable artists in all 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:43.200 genres with their classic hits. The Commodore is formed in 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:48.960 sixty eight while in college at Tuskegee Institute, after being 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.720 discovered by Barry Gordy. The Commodores went on to sell 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:57.120 over sixty million records for Motown with hits like machine 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:01.040 Gun and Sale On. They've remained a force in the 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:05.200 music industry for over five decades, with achievements spanning from 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:11.080 Grammy Awards to multiple number one singles like Brick House, Easy, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:16.120 Night Shift, three Times a Lady. Motown was the place 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.960 where dreams took flight, They've said. Sharing the stage with 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:24.200 another legend like the Pointer Sisters as Motown celebrates their 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:29.119 thirty fifth anniversary is truly special. We're proud to continue 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.120 to celebrate the music that brought us all together and 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.360 the Pointer Sisters. They have enjoyed a long and successful 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.239 career in the music industry after starting out with very 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:43.680 humble beginnings singing in their father's Church in West Oakland, California. 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.760 They went on to achieve worldwide success and secure a 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:54.040 place in pop music history with numerous Grammys and American 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:59.000 Music Awards. The eclectic, versatile pop R and B quartet 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:05.960 was originally formed with sisters June, Anita, Ruth and Bonnie Pointer. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.480 Bonnie left the group to pursue her solo career in 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.680 the late seventies, and the Pointer Sisters became a trio 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.799 known for their fun songs like I'm So Excited, Jump 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.960 for My Love, and Neutron Dance. They helped pave the 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.480 way for future black artists, being the first for many 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.000 opportunities in the music industry. They were the first black 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.560 female group to perform at the Grand Old Opry. They 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.120 were one of the first black acts to have videos 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.880 played on MTV. In addition, the sisters were part of 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.240 the iconic recording of We Are the World, and they 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.680 hit the big screen in nineteen seventy six with the 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:47.680 film car Wash starring Richard Pryor. The eldest sister and 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:52.200 only remaining member of the original group, Ruth Pointer, continues 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.440 to perform the music of the Pointer Sisters all over 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:59.000 the globe, only instead of with her sisters. She is 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.800 with her daughter is a Pointer, and one of her 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.800 granddaughters Sadako Pointer. So can you guess who might be 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.760 our guest today. 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And I'm so 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:18.960 excited to have our guest on today's edition of Love Someone, 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:24.680 because I have loved you from afar Hi Ruth, and 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.600 now I get to I get to see you in person, 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:33.760 or well not in person, but in zoom and find 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.280 out about what you're doing, and find out about the 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:43.360 new addition to the Pointer sisters, and I can't wait 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.680 to talk to you about your daughter and your granddaughter 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.080 and talk to you about this great music that is 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:54.040 part of the fiber of our DNA, like the music 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:59.000 of the Pointer Sisters has become a part of the 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:05.160 DNA of our world, of our generation, of the younger generation. 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.880 When I told my twenty year old daughter, she's at 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:09.920 work right now, that I got to interview you, she 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:14.880 started singing and jumping around, and I thought, this is wonderful, 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:19.320 this music that's become a part of us and binds 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.880 us together with chords of love. So welcome to Ruth 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:27.800 Pointer and the Pointer Sisters going on tour and going 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:33.360 to be performing with the Commodores and the Spinners right correct, 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:38.240 celebrating sixty five years of Motown. 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.760 Well, I mean, we were with Motown a very brief moment, 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.160 and I think it was during a period when they 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.800 were going through a lot of transitions, you know, I 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:52.880 think Barry already had left and someone else had taken over, 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:57.200 and we were excited just to have ourselves attached to 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:02.120 Motown quite frankly, in any capacity, because we had admired 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.520 them for years and years and years, and all the 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:06.960 artists that came along with them, the Supremes and the 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.280 Temptations and the Ivy Brothers and Ladys Knight and Tips, 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.560 and I was like, oh my god, We're going to 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.920 be a part of this. So it was exciting for us, 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:17.800 you know, it was exciting for us. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.000 How did you go from your papa's church singing in 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.680 your dad's church? You girls, you sisters? Who really were 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.120 the Pointer Sisters? I don't know if everybody knows that 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:28.520 you really are sisters. 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.760 He used to irritate us so much an interview. Are 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.400 you really sisters? Yes, we're really sisters. Why would we 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.960 make up a name like Pointer? I don't know, I mean, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.720 I don't know, but yeah, and Dad, we grew up 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.280 with my dad, pastor to church in Oakland, California for 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:50.120 over twenty years, and we, of course, being the pastor's daughters, 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:54.240 were expected to sort of be role models for the 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:58.559 other younger girls in the church. You know. My dad always, 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.920 you know, insisted that we'd be part of the choir 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.280 and participate in all of the church activities, you know, 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:10.320 the summer camp meetings and Bible schools and all that 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:14.440 kind of stuff and youth conventions and and it was 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.200 I mean, the only part I loved about it was 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.320 being in the choir because I could sing, I learned 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.600 early in my life to love music and singing. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.520 And do you still love the old I'm sure. I'm 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.760 sure you guys put your own unique twist on some 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.240 of those old hymns that I still loved today. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:40.480 You know, our church was very I don't know if 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.640 the word is traditional, but it was the Church of God. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.079 And I know that a lot of singers come out 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:52.920 of churches that are pretty much Pentecostal and very sort 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:59.480 of jumping, jumping and gospel. That was not our church. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.440 And as far as I'm current concerned, my opinion of 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:04.679 our church was boring. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:11.199 Why can I not picture the Pointer Sisters ever being boring? 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.880 We weren't, And that's the church was boring because we 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.360 weren't boring. And I was always looking, you know, just 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:23.240 from going to other girlfriend's houses that were playing music 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:29.559 like you mentioned earlier Motown records and you know, different 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.240 songs that I never heard before because my parents were 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.320 very strict about what we listened to at the house. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.199 And I heard all this different kind of music when 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.000 I would go to my girlfriend's houses, and I was like, 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.199 oh my god, this is amazing. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.520 Okay, I gotta ask, how did Dad respond the first 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.440 time I heard you guys your recording of slow Hand. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:53.400 My dad wasn't here when we did Slow Hand. He 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:54.400 was already gone. 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.880 Could you imagine if he was here, how would he 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.439 have responded a pastor of a conservative church. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.960 My mom, who was still here, had already accepted, and 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.959 my dad had accepted. You know who we were. And 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.679 I have to say that we did make it, make 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:14.080 a conscious effort to not be totally embarrassing to our parents, 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:18.520 you know, by our song choices that we picked. I mean, 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.400 some of the things that I hear today, there's no 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.920 way we would have said, oh yeah, we're going to 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.800 sing about that, and and know that my parents would 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:29.320 have approved. So I was. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.640 I was in radio back when Slow Hand came out, 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.400 and I remember some of the stations in my town 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.720 wouldn't play it. They thought it was too. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:41.960 Heard about, that too really. 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:48.040 To too sexual. And now you listen to stuff now, 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:53.480 it's like there's nothing left of the imagination a thing, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.960 not a thing, and there's nothing sexy about it. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.520 No, slow Hand is modest compared to what I here today. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.000 Yeah, the boy Back in the day, you guys were 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:05.920 blazing trails. 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.079 Yeah, yeah, I guess we were. And didn't even know it, 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.360 you know, because we just we were just singing what 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.520 we liked, and we we knew the song was kind 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.200 of sexual because me and my sisters had talked about 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.559 the lyrics okay, and had thought, yeah, more men need 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.520 to listen to this song because everybody seemed to be 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:32.080 in such a damn hurry, you know. Oh absolutely, Oh 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:32.720 my word. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.400 So now you're on tour with the Pointer Sisters, only 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.760 it's not your sisters, but it is your family. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:47.080 Yeah. Yeah, it's definitely a different experience because no one 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.600 can replace my sisters, you know, and they know that, 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.120 and they knew that coming in, and they were terrified. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.439 And I would just say, look, just do your best. 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.720 You were born into this, both of them were, and 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:08.520 because they don't know me any other way. So we 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:12.960 just rehearsed a lot and they just pretty much get 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:14.760 up there and have fun is what they do. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.000 So tell me. Tell me about your daughter and your granddaughter. 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:23.319 My daughter Issa is a product of me as a 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.040 Pointer sister, and her father was one of the Temptations, 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:26.920 Dennis Edwards. 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:32.240 So there is no way that child cannot sing. There 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.840 is no way that child does not have the best voice. 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.000 God ever created. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.840 Come on, please I created, and I was like, oh yeah, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:46.160 she will sing, and she does have a voice and 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:50.240 personality and stage presence, and she and I have a 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.719 lot of fun up there. My granddaughter is she's more 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:57.560 of a dancer, and she's younger than my daughter. And 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.440 that's not my daughter's daughter, it's my oldest daughter to Starter, 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:05.600 and she just brings such a youthful, playful element to 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.440 the lineup, which sort of takes the place of June, 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:11.480 my baby sister. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:11.920 You know. 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.120 She's just kind of fun and dancing and she'll go 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.440 all out in the audience and she sinks, jump and 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:18.600 it's just fun, you know. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:23.720 So three generations of Pointer women are going to be 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:29.560 touring the nation and cranking out great music along with 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:36.680 the Commodores. I know, I know, I love the Commodores. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.240 Oh my gosh, what a fun, fun show. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.880 Yeah yeah, I was telling somebody the other day, I 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.160 don't know if I'm going to be able to stay 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.120 in the dressing room when the other acts are on, 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.240 because I want to go out and see what see 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.200 the show, like I'm part of the audience, which I 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:57.080 do a lot anyway. Whenever we're performing with anybody that 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:02.400 I've loved. I mean, I just I just love doing that. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:07.120 It's my opportunity to see another act up close. Because 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.080 I don't go to a lot of concerts, you know, 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.840 I really never have. But this gives me an opportunity 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.680 to see you know who I love of close. You know, 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:18.800 didn't have to wait in fine for it. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:21.880 That's why I don't go to concerts. I don't want 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:23.720 to deal with traffic, and I don't want to wait 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.960 in line for restrooms or tickets or anything. 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:28.840 Parking, all of that. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:34.000 Yeah, No, I'd rather just you know, come down here 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:35.880 in my studio and chat with you this way. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:38.280 Well there you go, see. 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:44.240 Yeah, and have fun. And so you're going to be 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.480 with the Commodoers and the Spinners, right, yes, yes, And. 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.080 We've always loved the Spinners. Oh my god. All those 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.320 great songs that they had back in the seventies and eighties. 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:57.080 Whoo my god. I'm just they're going through my mind 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.120 right now as much as we speak. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:13.680 What people don't understand a lot of people today, I 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:18.760 think is how hard you had to work back in 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:23.680 the sixties, the seventies, the eighties for people of color 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:28.960 to get a fraction of the recognition they deserved. You 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:33.040 had to work ten times harder, and the obstacles that were. 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.600 You know, now we look at all the top artists 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.520 are women of color, men of color, all of the 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:42.560 top recording artists today. But when I started in radio, 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.840 I was not allowed to play two black artists in 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:46.840 the same half hour. 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.400 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure it was that way, yeah, 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:54.040 because oh, I mean from my own experience, I just 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:59.520 say that today's artists are so blessed and they're so 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:04.480 much much more informed. You know, we were naive and 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.600 nobody told us anything, you know, so we didn't know 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:12.640 about money being made from songwriting except just the surface 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.240 things about it. We were always told you got to 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:16.880 go on the road, you got to make your money 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:20.000 out there in your concerts. And meanwhile, the record companies were. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.119 Just clean cleaning up, breaking in the dough while they 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:23.800 pimped you out. 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.639 I mean, the managers were living in mansions and driving 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.399 rolls Roycees. And we we were, the four of us 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.200 girls were still living together in one house and driving one. 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.880 Car and touring on a bus probably with no ac 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:36.080 not even a bus. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:40.520 We were touring on rented car station wagons. Yeah, And 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:44.320 I was like, oh God, something is wrong. What the picture? 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.040 But thank you for blazing the trail for so many, 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:50.880 you know, yeah artists today, you really did. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:52.160 Yeah. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.879 Yeah, you blazed a trail. You said a standard, you learned, 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.560 you said you were naive, You're not now. 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:04.520 Nope, nope, not now, Nope nope. I learned how to 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.480 say no, I'm not doing that. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.320 How old were you when you learned that magic word? 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:15.439 No? Wow? I think probably I al must have been 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:16.639 in my early forties. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.840 Felt weird the first dozen times, didn't it. 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.399 Yeah, early forties. I mean I had Easter when I 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.879 was for third Well, I had East when I was 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.560 thirty one, and then I got married again and I 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:39.439 have had twins when I was forty seven. What yeah, girls, 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.040 That's why I ended up back here in Massachusetts. 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.200 Twins at forty. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.240 Seven, whens at forty seven. 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:47.360 God bless you. 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:52.520 I was on the cutting edge of in vitro fertilization 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.600 and I had had everything in this body. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.920 Locked down, tubes tied, I ain't having no more kids, 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.280 and they when I met my husband, who's younger than me, 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.800 much younger than me, and didn't have any children, and 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.120 in vitro fertilization had come around, and they said, oh, 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.199 we can find a way around all of that. 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:17.000 And I was like, okay, that's love. By the way, 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.800 that is love. You loved that man. Come on, now, 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:23.800 that is some kind of amazing love. So how old 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.080 is your oldest and how old is your youngest? 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:28.560 My oldest is fifty nine. 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:30.080 And your youngest. 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.600 Youngest is thirty one. My youngest daughter, the twin, she 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.680 just got married last year, had a beautiful wedding in Newport. 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:41.240 Rhode Island, and her daddy still making you smile? Yeah, 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:42.119 how many years? 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:43.760 Thirty five years? 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.320 I'm back thirty five years ago. Did people think you 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:48.760 were crazy and try to talk you. 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:51.120 Out of it? They hated it? Oh my god, that's 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.479 wondering why we moved back here. We're like, let's get 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:57.640 away from these crazy people because they don't understand and 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.280 we don't need their influence, and we don't want to 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.600 raise our kids here anyway, so let's go. And he 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.000 was from Massachusetts, so we came back here. His family 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:10.240 was back here, his mom, his dad, and so we 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.640 raised the kids back here, and I'm glad we did that. 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.480 Yeah, sometimes you just got to get a fresh start. 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:20.000 Yeah, yeah, I did get a fresh start. My twin 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.960 boy is a firefighter and paramedic, and I'm just so 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:27.720 proud of them, and they're both college graduates, and I mean, 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:31.359 it's it's wonderful. I'm glad I did that. 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:38.280 And your granddaughter that's singing with you is your oldest 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:43.360 daughter's daughter. Correct, So it's like a family reunion every 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:44.560 night that you're on stage. 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.199 Yes, it is, and we have the best time. Is 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:51.240 some We have got to at some point we're going 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.760 to have to film the dressing room before. 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:57.840 The The conversation before the show and after the show 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:00.680 is probably as colorful and fun as the show. 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.160 Oh it is, because we party in the dressing room 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:07.439 before the show. I bring my boombox and we play songs, 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:09.520 and sometimes the song gets so good I get up 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:12.480 and start dancing. My granddaughter starts dancing. 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.560 Okay, we're doing. 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