1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:04,439 Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge. 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 2: There's nothing more fun than being in Dolly Parton's kitchen. 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 2: And here we are. Good morning, Dolly, Well, good morning. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 3: I got my table set for you. 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, what are we eating there? Go ahead, 6 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 2: take you give us a little. 7 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:17,319 Speaker 3: Wi Do you know what? 8 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 4: We've got single served meals? And this one is the 9 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 4: beef pot roast. This one is the shrimp and grits. 10 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 4: It's got a little bit of a kick to it. 11 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 4: If you like that, you wouldn't want to feed that 12 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 4: to the baby. It's called the biscuit battered peach cobbler, 13 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 4: and it serves a lot of people. But these are 14 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 4: single service, but they're big serving, so if you don't 15 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 4: eat like a hog, it'll serve too. 16 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 3: Aye, We're excited. 17 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 4: It's in the frozen food OUs And this is something 18 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 4: I've been dreaming about for years, to have really good. 19 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 3: Meals that you could just go home into tartar cook I. 20 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 5: Love it because this is the stuff I grew up eating. 21 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 5: I ate every one of these things growing up. It 22 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 5: was the chicken fried steak or country fried steak, and 23 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 5: of course cobbler. But you know my mama always had 24 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 5: a little vat of bacon drippings next to the stove. 25 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 2: Did your mom know that too? 26 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 3: Yeah? 27 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 2: You still do? 28 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,199 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, people give me that for Christmas. 29 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 4: Thank God, I SA save your bacon drippings because there's 30 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 4: so many things that tastes so much better with that. 31 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 4: I guess it's supposed to be healthy, but what is healthy? 32 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 3: That's good? Right exactly? 33 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 2: You know, it's some funny. I don't know how it 34 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 2: was not that many years ago. 35 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 5: You came out with your your your baked good stuff, 36 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 5: and the strawberry cake is my favorite, just to be honest. 37 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 5: And now she has her chocolate pie in the freezer, 38 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 5: and now all this other stuff you never have to 39 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 5: cook in. Look, we have a whole list of things 40 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 5: we want to get to with you, and we start 41 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 5: with this. I'm want to get back to this as well. 42 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 5: Happy fortieth anniversary for Dollywood. Did you guys know it's 43 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 5: forty years old? 44 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 3: Yeah? 45 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: I did not know. 46 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 4: Last weekend we went up and celebrated the whole fortieth 47 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 4: anniversary of a couple of weeks ago, and it just 48 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 4: seems like it's fifteen years at the you know, at 49 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 4: the most. But then here it is it is like 50 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 4: forty years later and we're still going strong. So thank 51 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 4: you for bringing that up. 52 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 3: We're very proud of that. 53 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 5: And also, Danielle here is our biggest Broadway lover. Did 54 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 5: you know the Dolly Parton story is coming to Broadway? 55 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 2: No idea, that's the big news. Tell everyone about this, Dolly. 56 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 4: Well, actually it's called an original music musical. It's called 57 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 4: Dolly an original that'd be me, of course, but I 58 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 4: did write a whole lot of original songs for it 59 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 4: to carry the story. But of course it has all 60 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 4: the big hits, but it tells why and how and 61 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 4: the timeframe of how those songs came to be, and 62 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 4: it's just my journey from my early childhood up to 63 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 4: now and the behind the scenes that a lot of 64 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 4: people I think will be. 65 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 3: Surprised to know. 66 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 4: But it's actually going to start previewing in Nashville here 67 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 4: on July the eighteenth, But the big world premiere is 68 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 4: going to be here at the Fisher Center of the 69 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 4: Performing Arts at Belmont University on August the eighth and 70 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 4: then it'll play through August and then we moved to 71 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 4: New York and open on Broadway next year. 72 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 6: Well, did you have anything to do with casting, like 73 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 6: did you help them out with picking who you wanted 74 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 6: to play Dolly? 75 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 4: Well, we had several people. We put out a casting 76 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 4: call and we actually sent about forty eight people to 77 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 4: New York to be interviewed for different parts, not just 78 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 4: the dollares, but yeah, it's really harder to find. 79 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 3: There's three dollars. 80 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 4: There's a little Dolly in the middle Dolly, and then 81 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 4: the older Dolly that kind of carries the story, narrates 82 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 4: the story in a way. 83 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 3: So yeah, we had We've really had. 84 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 4: Some wonderful artists on the show, and I think people 85 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 4: are gonna love it, and of course once we get 86 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 4: to New York that might even change some again. But 87 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 4: we've got a wonderful cast and I'm really looking forward 88 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 4: to seeing it myself. We've worked so hard for so 89 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 4: many years on it, and all the casts from New 90 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 4: York came down to work the show up because my husband, 91 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 4: Carl was ill and I would not go out of 92 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 4: town and so I. 93 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 3: Stayed here, so we started working it here. 94 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 4: So we thought, well, we'll just go ahead and do 95 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 4: the whole premiere here since this is my second home 96 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 4: in Nashville. So I'm excited about the fact that it 97 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 4: is going to premiere here. 98 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: Is it bizarre to you ever to watch all of 99 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: these people pretend to be you in front of you? 100 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 4: Very It's very bizarre, and it's very emotional. It just 101 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 4: takes you on such an emotional journey just seeing your 102 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 4: life done like that and seeing different people playing you. Course, 103 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 4: it's always hard, like you mentioned what my feelings were 104 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 4: about the different members of the cast, but they do 105 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 4: a great job, and they're just so talented these people 106 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 4: to play on stage. 107 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 3: I have such. 108 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 4: Admiration this now that I never knew before what all 109 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,679 Speaker 4: goes into putting a show on Broadway or on stage 110 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 4: like that. I'm more used to television and performing on 111 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 4: stage as an entertainer, but boy, there's a whole world 112 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 4: of things that go on that you never know. How 113 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 4: hard these people work and how great they are. So 114 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 4: I really hope people are gonna like it. 115 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 5: Oh you're never gonna love it, and it will be 116 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 5: their front front center. But you know, this is not 117 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 5: a new thing. People pretend to be Dolly. My favorites 118 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 5: were always when a big old Dolly drag queen will 119 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 5: come out, and a lot of them love meeting you, 120 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 5: because I I've seen some photos over the years of 121 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 5: these drag queens who are like twice your height with 122 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 5: maybe sister wigs. 123 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 2: That must just make you feel kind of well. 124 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 5: Cool, knowing that people love you, they just love your 125 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 5: presence and they want to they want to act it 126 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 5: out on their own. 127 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 3: Well, I get a kick out of those drag queens. 128 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 4: You're right, I'm little anyhow, and even with the high heels, 129 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 4: I'm still little. 130 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 3: But these guys when they get dressed up, they're already 131 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 3: you know, six feet tall, and then they put on 132 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 3: those high heels and it's like you. But it's funny. 133 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 4: People always say, oh, okay, believe you look so talk 134 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 4: about the drag queens. Like I said, look, I don't 135 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 4: care what they dragon, as long as the dragon to 136 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 4: my show. 137 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: Is it true that you actually and because I see 138 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 1: this theme all the time, you entered a drag show 139 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 1: and you lost to someone who looked more like you 140 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: than you. 141 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 2: It's true. 142 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 3: But that was just when I have my little gay hairdresser. 143 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 4: At the time, UH lived up there near Santa Monica, 144 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 4: builder where did a lot of the gays hang out, 145 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 4: and every Halloween, of course, they'll all dress up, and 146 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 4: he said, well, let's go down, and he said they 147 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 4: get free drinks for you know, for the people that participate, 148 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,359 Speaker 4: so they would just walk them across the stage, and 149 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 4: whoever got the most clause, uh, you. 150 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 3: Know, got free drinks for the rest of the night 151 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 3: or whatever. 152 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 4: So he talked me into just kind of over exaggerating myself, 153 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 4: if that's possible. But you know, bigger beauty, mark, bigger hair, 154 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 4: bigger whatever. So I all these big drag queens going 155 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 4: across the stages Dolly, and then I walked across the stage, 156 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,679 Speaker 4: you know, just trapeding across my little sawed off honky 157 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 4: legs here and. 158 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 3: Nobody put it like little trickle it up. That was 159 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 3: probably David, my hairdresser. But we lapsed, oh hard. 160 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 4: So I always told the story that I entered a 161 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,359 Speaker 4: Dolly lookalike contest and lost. 162 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 3: I love that. 163 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 5: And you know what, so hearing you tell these stories, 164 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 5: it takes you back to a time, back to a 165 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 5: place of all the millions of things, these memories you 166 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 5: have that have built up over over your life in lifetime, 167 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 5: as we have it in our lives as well. 168 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 2: But to watch it being played out on stage. 169 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 5: And also reading someone's biography about you, it makes you 170 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 5: learn a lot about you. You learn you're always learning 171 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,679 Speaker 5: about you through what you've been through in your life. 172 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 5: And it must be just just a superchurch. You know 173 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 5: that so many people are interested in you, where you 174 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 5: came from and where you're going. 175 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 3: Well, I feel very lucky. 176 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 4: You know that I've lived long enough to even and 177 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 4: did well enough to even Marrit having my life story 178 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 4: told her that have people that interested in me. It's 179 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 4: very humbling, but it is very emotional, just like when 180 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 4: putting the shows together then when I started seeing all 181 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 4: these actors playing out my life story, I mean I 182 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 4: would cry and then I would laugh, and then I 183 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 4: would just get kind of moody. 184 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 3: You know. 185 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 4: It was just like it was such an emotional journey 186 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 4: to watch your life like that and still be alive, 187 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 4: to watch your live story. 188 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:16,119 Speaker 3: I'm still living. 189 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 4: But we did manage to cover it from the early 190 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 4: days until pretty much. 191 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 3: Up to now. 192 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 4: And I wrote a book years ago called My Life 193 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 4: and Other Unfinished Business. So to me, some of this 194 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 4: is a lot of that unfinished business that I didn't 195 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 4: didn't get to tell back when the book came out 196 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 4: many years ago. So a lot of things happened since then. 197 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 4: But it's it's emotional when they get to the parks, 198 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:42,560 Speaker 4: you know, because my husband plays a big part in 199 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 4: the show, my uncle Bill, who was very important in 200 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 4: my life, and all Importer, all those people that were 201 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 4: so important in my life they're dead now. And my friend, 202 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 4: my best friend Judy, she's in the show. She's not 203 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,680 Speaker 4: in great health either. But I get I guess so 204 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 4: overwhelmed with emotion when we're doing those parts. But yet 205 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 4: at the same time, I'm just so proud of the 206 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 4: wonderful people that I have been able to have made 207 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 4: contact with and to have in my life. Because nobody 208 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 4: success is, you know, is by themselves. There's always wonderful 209 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 4: people that support you and help you emotionally, physically, and 210 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 4: even financially. 211 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,319 Speaker 3: So it's it's a good story. 212 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 4: And I really I've really been willing to allow a 213 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 4: lot of truths and things to come out in this 214 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 4: that I've never really talked about in depth in books 215 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:37,559 Speaker 4: or in interviews. So I think people are going to 216 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 4: be surprised for what this show really is. 217 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 5: Well, the stories and the legacy Live Forever Dotty parton 218 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 5: of course, let's get back to the food, because you 219 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 5: know what, another way to. 220 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 6: Tell them, I'll always get back to your food. 221 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 5: We talk about we talk about where we're from, what 222 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 5: makes us who we are, the culture we're from, and 223 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 5: the foods that you have chosen to put in your 224 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 5: line that's coming out. It takes me back to like 225 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,679 Speaker 5: I said to my childhood. I mean, what's one of 226 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 5: these dishes we're talking about in your new line that's 227 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 5: you gonna be out? 228 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 2: Is it out now? Is it soon? It's soon? 229 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 4: R Yeah, it's supposed to be nationwide now in the 230 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 4: frozen food isles. 231 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, how long? 232 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 4: Because the other stuff, as you mentioned before, is still 233 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 4: there and doing really well, and this just kind of 234 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 4: enhances it. 235 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 3: But this is like you can have complete four meals. 236 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 4: We got the cobbler for dessert, but you can also 237 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 4: bake all those other cakes and pies and cookies. 238 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 3: But this is Southern. 239 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 4: Food the way I remember it, the way I love it, 240 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 4: And I'm very involved in the food tasting when we 241 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 4: put these things together with ConAgra and so these are true, hearty, 242 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 4: flavorful meals. You get so many frozen foods, especially that 243 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 4: are just bland, and you think, Lord, you have to 244 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 4: put so much salt and pepper and butter on it, 245 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 4: you just wonder why you're even doing it. 246 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 3: And I'm really proud of the whole. 247 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 6: Long How many times did you say to them, No, 248 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 6: this is not right, it needs more spice, or it 249 00:10:57,559 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 6: needs less spice. 250 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 4: Well, I said it to come to and they listened. 251 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 4: I said, always got it. That's not that's not rich 252 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 4: or hardy or flavorful enough. So we gotta have more seasoning. 253 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 3: You gotta put more. 254 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 4: You gotta put more salt and pepper and butter or 255 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 4: whatever it does to give it that flavor. Because these 256 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 4: these are not diet dishes. So I'm not promoting it 257 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 4: as that these are hardy meals. You gotta you gotta 258 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 4: really build a good eater to want these kind of things. 259 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 2: I mean, before we. 260 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 5: Come too, Amen, Amen's sister, But before we go, choose 261 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 5: one of those dishes that you grew up eating and 262 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,599 Speaker 5: tell maybe it's a story behind it or something you're experiencing. 263 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 5: And you had to come in after a long day 264 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 5: working somewhere and then you sat down and there was 265 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 5: a big plate of whatever right in front of you, 266 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 5: and it just changed your night. Which is your favorite 267 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 5: dish out of all these that has probably the most 268 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 5: stories behind them. 269 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 4: Actually, they're all favorite foods of mine and favorite dishes. 270 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 4: I've always been a fit, big fan of chicken and dumplings, 271 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 4: and I do make chicken and dumplings for my family, 272 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 4: and I even cook it and freeze it and give 273 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 4: it to my family, my brothers, and so there's nieces 274 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 4: and nephews, you know, for Christmas, I kind of I 275 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 4: cook food and give it to them because I still 276 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 4: cook like Mama and my aunts and my grandma's and 277 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 4: that's what a lot of this food tastes like. But 278 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 4: everybody has their own kind of chicken and dumpling recipe. 279 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 4: But we added more vegetables and things in this chicken 280 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 4: and dumplings, so when you do have a single meal, 281 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 4: you feel like rather than just having the dumplings and 282 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 4: the gravy, which a lot of people do, we added 283 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 4: vegetables to it as well, and it's really really tasty. 284 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 3: But there's nothing in this world too, just like a 285 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,079 Speaker 3: good old pot roast, don't you agree? 286 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 4: When you go somewhere it's absolutely yeah, Because I would 287 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 4: never I could never be a vegetarian myself, because I 288 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 4: love I love meat. 289 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 3: I love and pork and all all of the good meat. 290 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 5: So and you know what they said about, you know, vegetarians. 291 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 5: If God had meant for us to be vegetarians, he 292 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 5: would not have made animals out of meat. 293 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 3: I justify anything we want. 294 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 5: To gott you have one more thing she to talk about, 295 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 5: because we talked about this last time we spoke with you. 296 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. I love everything you do. Obviously, you are one 297 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: of my very favorite people on the planet. And something 298 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: that I think doesn't get nearly enough attention as it 299 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,200 Speaker 1: should is your Imagination Library. I just wanted to say 300 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: how much I love it and what a good program 301 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 1: it is. But for people who don't know about it, 302 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: can you tell us about it for a second. 303 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 3: Well, thank you for bringing that up. 304 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 4: That's one of the things I'm proudest of in my 305 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 4: whole career is the Imagination Library, where we actually give 306 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 4: books to children from the time they're born. 307 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 3: It's no cost to the parents. All you have to 308 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 3: do is sign up. 309 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 4: For it and they get their own little book in 310 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 4: the mail once a month until let's start school. And 311 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 4: we started this twenty almost thirty years ago now, and 312 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 4: we just started in my home County. 313 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 3: I did it with my dad. 314 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 4: Who couldn't read and write, and it always troubled him, 315 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 4: and it troubled me that he was trouble. So I 316 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 4: wanted to do something special that dad could help me with, 317 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 4: and so he really got involved with me to help me, 318 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 4: give me some good pointers and all that, and he 319 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 4: got to live long enough to see it doing really well. 320 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 4: But we started out just in our home county. Then 321 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 4: we the governor at the time, Governor Phil Bretison, thought 322 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,079 Speaker 4: it was a great program. We took at Tennessee wide, statewide, 323 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:16,959 Speaker 4: then it went into Canada. Now we're in parts all 324 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 4: over the world and up to date we've given almost 325 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 4: three hundred million. 326 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 2: Books to. 327 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 4: Children to learn to read, to love books, and more 328 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 4: than anything, if they get that little book with their 329 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 4: name on it in the mail, they're going to make 330 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 4: somebody sit down and read it. So it is my 331 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 4: philosophy in my belief that if you can read, you 332 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 4: can educate yourself. If you can't afford to go to 333 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 4: college or whatever, there's a book out there on anything 334 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 4: and everything you want to know, just like online these days, 335 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 4: you know you can you can find anything you want 336 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 4: to know. 337 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 3: But if you can't read. 338 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 4: That makes your life very limited. But I am proud 339 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 4: of that, and thank you for bringing that up. 340 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 5: I just love yeah, Dolly, you were just something fabulous 341 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 5: and you know and and now we can go to 342 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 5: the grocer story and we can get a taste of 343 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 5: Dolly and everybody, Oh my god, this tastes like dollty partner. 344 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 2: Fabulous. 345 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 5: Thank you so much for being with us, and I 346 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 5: hope you have the most wonderful day and you always have. 347 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 5: You always have a place at our table here, Dolly Parton. 348 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 5: We love you. Thank you so much. 349 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 3: That's baste. Thank you so much. I love you.