Do Go On - 185 - Dolly Parton

Episode Date: May 8, 2019

Please allow Jess to be a little self indulgent and talk about one of her favourite people on the planet - Dolly Freaking Parton (not her real middle) (Her middle name is RebeccaOne of the world's most successful and popular country musicians and all round lovely person, we learn a bit about the early years of Dolly's career ...and about a horse that works at a bank.Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://omny.fm/shows/bookcheatPrime Mates: https://omny.fm/shows/prime-mates Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasREFERENCES AND FURTHER READINGhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGYnFFMcUOEhttps://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/a43321/dolly-parton-carl-dean-love-story/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Partonhttps://dollyparton.comhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollywood Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serengy Amarna, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there. Canada, we are visiting you in September this year.

If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. This episode of Do Go On is brought to you by Matt Stewart. Bone dry.

Oh, cool. So you got my email. Yeah. You got my media request. That's all you have to do is email us and we'll advertise or whatever you want. Don't do that. That's so good because I'm coming to Sydney next week for the Sydney Comedy Festival. and it'd be so good for our Sydney listeners to come along to the shows.

Where are they? They're at the factory theatre on the 16th, 18th and 9th, that's Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 930, 930 and 830 on the Sunday. A little bit earlier on the Sunday, real civilised time. Love that. This is all during May. During the month of May, yeah. So next week, if you're listening to this episode as it comes out.

But where can people get tickets? They can go to Matt Stewartcomedy.com slash gigs. or if they go to the Sydney Comedy Fest.com.com. I say com weird. Yeah. com. Dot com. Dot com.

Without the bee. Silent bee. Silent bee. Yeah. Well, actually just don't even write the silent bee. Yeah. It is a silent bee, but we don't need it. It's also an invisible bee.

Yeah. Invisible bee. So, yep. And if you use the discount code, do go on. You get a sick discount. Anyway, shall we do go on? Yeah. That's Matthewitt, Stuart, own dry.

Another silent Ben. No, that B is loud. That's a loud B. B. Is that? No. All right.

Sounds like good advice. Bye. And welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnock and I'm sitting here with, let's introduce him first. Matt Stewart. He put up a bit of a fight last week. And Jess Perkins, number two.

Graceful in defeat. I always am. What's the next six months? Dave's going to introduce me first, he said. Apparently so. To get the body, the bloody thing back in kilter. Yeah, we've got to make up for the last, what, 26 episodes.

Yeah. I'll do it. I'll do it for you. Thank you. He was pointing to the listeners at home. Yeah. Because they're annoyed. People write in.

They're like, when's Matt's turn? I've heard some people say they turn off when I introduced Jess first. Yeah. And then turn back on moments later when they introduce me. Yeah. Well, I guess they're not introducing Jess this week because Matt was first. Yeah. Anyhow, you know, we're talking about big stuff early.

It's so good to be here in the podcast. guys of you. It's one of my favorite places. I love it. It's my safe space. And as a soy boy, I like being in safe spaces. I like a place to be vulnerable. Yeah. I liked it too until my ice cream went missing from the freezer. What did you do with it? Who could have taken it? Who was here today? We need to find out who was at the studio today. I'm not, I'm not sure, because I've only been here tonight. I'd like you to check the security cameras. We can do that. Please. I assume you've got one in the kitchen as well. Yeah, the freezer cam, for sure. Every business has a freezer cam.

If you don't have one, I think we should set one up and set a little trap. Okay. And then put rat poison in this ice cream, just in case the trap backfires. You've taken it too far there, Dave. What kind of ice cream was stolen? It was a connoisseur. Good brand. Cookies and cream.

Okay. I wonder what Poirot would do. He'd probably rest his little grays. It could. See if you can find the wrapper. Oh, that's good. See if it's in the bin. Are we thinking about doing a spin?

true crime podcast about this. I think so. I'm into it. What do we call it? Would they put in the con in connoisseur or something like that? Oh, Matthew. That's the opening line. Stop.

Yes. This podcast will put the Khan back in connoisseur. Wait, that sounds like we're ton men. Let me take you back 24 hours. I hate this voice you're doing. I'm already, I'm off. I love it. You know, people say, I'm on board?

I'm off board. I'm overboard. You've got to ask yourself, what would you do? Someone took your ice cream. I hate this. This sucks. Let me stop you right there. Unsubscribe.

He sound like Michael Jackson. Well, and he's cancelled. Yeah, I cancelled him. No, he's dead. Ah, I do get those too confused. I guess his life was cancelled. He has been cancelled as well. Yeah.

Post life. Post life cancelled plus cancelled. In life. You're going to probably fire some people up because I saw someone do a tweet, maybe Murphy McLaughlin do a tweet. It didn't really have anything to it. It was a wordplay joke where he mentioned Michael Jackson

how we can't listen to him anymore. And he got a lot of replies saying, hey, there's no proof. Those kids, like that was, anyway, a lot of tweets sticking up for Michael Jackson. Okay. I mean, if anybody gets so angry that they feel the need to pull out their phones and tweet,

I'm not going to read them. So. Okay, let's read some of those tweets now. Don't waste your time. Go read a book or just go outside. Go for a walk. Talk to a friend. Listen to the other Jackson Four, you know?

Yeah. They're not all cancelled. Still got Tito. We'll always have Tito. Six hours after this recording. Jess Perkins' house was firebombed. Jesus Christ, Dave. Why?

Why? I'm just trying to do a true crime. I'm not listening to that true crime podcast, because that guy sounds like a lunatic. I'd listen to that. Thank you. And I'm going to be involved in it when we start the spin-off podcast. But in the meantime, while we're doing this one...

Before we spin-up, let's complete one podcast. It's called Do Go On. And the way it works is we take it in terms to research a topic and we bring it back to the podcast studio and we tell the other two about it. The other two don't even know what the topic is. This is the week Dave's doing the topic. he's researched something. It was a free choice for him.

Usually it's helped select. It's been helped select. How do I get out of this sentence? Maybe start by looking at who's got the laptop in front of them. Okay, great. Jess is doing this topic. Was at this point then Matt Thorpe? I don't think Dave's doing the report.

And Dave and I don't know what the report is about. And Jess gets on a topic with a question. This week, Jess, have you written a question? I have written a question. I wrote it just before while you were waffling on about something else. Your hopes and dreams. Select. Select.

Patreon select. You know what I'm saying? Every two out of three weeks, the patrons vote on the topic. This week, you've just plucked one out of the hat. Not even. You plucked one out of your butt? Yeah, out of my butt. This is the first time you've done that since Riverdance?

Will you be vulnerable and show yourself another side that I'll shit or like. Quite possibly. But I've got the confidence now to beat the shit out of you. At the time, you just didn't even fight back. It was quite sad. People have, they still talk about it making them feel upset. That was obviously, I don't remember it really. I just remember that he tapped so much per second.

So much. No, this is a topic that I've wanted to do for a really long time. And I could have sworn, I was like, surely it's been suggested. So I'll just go into the hat and I'll just get whose names. But nobody suggested. this. And also, I'll talk more about it in a sec. But it's something that I am pretty excited about. So I wanted to do it and I thought, hey, it's my time. I can choose what I want to do. I'm going to do it. So my question, gentlemen, is, which American music star shares a name with a now

defunct Australian teen magazine? Oh, Cleo. No. Dolly. Dolly. Dolly. Dolly Parton? Yes! Dolly Parton? No one suggested Dolly Parton. No one has suggested Dolly Parton. Not in the official hat. FHM magazine?

Surely FHM's still around. I don't know. Zoo? Zoo. Is it Zoo Weekly? It's Zoo Weekly! Is it nuts? Johnny nuts?

Is that probably with a Zed? Oh, nuts. That's yuck. Dolly magazine. did its final edition. Wait, is Dolly Pondon's real name Dolly Magazine? I'm going to kill you. Oh no.

Dolly Magazine finished in 2016. A sad day for all of us. No more Dolly Doctor. Dolly Doctor has to be addressed here. Yeah. So it would come in a sometimes sealed section of the magazine. Yeah. And I think that's not because of the content,

just so you wouldn't just read it in the new stations probably. But people would write into Dolly Doctor about some questions sometimes below the belt. Nearly always below the bell. Knees. Foot care? Yeah. How about these calloused up feet? What do I do?

What shades do you recommend for my next pedicure? You know? Things like that. And because of that, it was a number one segment for decades. Right. Yeah, it was huge. So it was sex stuff. Yeah.

Foot sex. Yeah. Always foot sex. But Dolly was aimed at like early teens. So, yeah, the questions that were asked were pretty funny and the answers were always very delicately put, but you're still kind of like, that's funny. Gross.

Even as a kid, you were like, oh, funny. Someone's burning. I was also aware that I've done a lot of music biographies. Yeah, I reckon we've turned lately. It used to be a lot of killers and recent times been a lot of entertainers. Yeah, and it was kind of like, oh, I've done a few sort of biographies lately. Maybe I should try something like or look at something that's more of like a story.

but I was just like, this is something I really wanted to do. And Dolly Parton's a real badass. Like, she's the best. I really don't know much about her. Well, you're going to learn. So I'm a bit excited because to me, I know how she is successful. But I don't really know why. Well, I think it's because of her work ethic.

She would work nine to five most days as far as I can understand. That's from my understanding as well. That's impressive. Yeah. But she also had a great voice. I think, and still probably still does. Still does. And she, yeah, she does have an amazing work, I think.

And she's also just delightful. Like, you won't find gossip or, like, dirt on Dolly Parton. Did you try? Of course I tried. Good. I'm a journalist. Did you get our dirt unit onto her? Yeah, I got our dirt unit onto it.

I was like, dig it up, boys. And they were like, there's nothing to dig. Damn. Bloody hell. She's an angel. So I have, and she's also done a lot in a career that spanned many decades. So what I kind of talk about here is mostly like her early life and how she sort of got started.

And then after that, she's just kind of like everything she does is just crushing it and winning awards. And then I just want to talk about a few other things that she's done in her life that you might not know that. I love a content section. Yeah. Are we going through this like it's a Dolly magazine? Yes.

So this first section will be about pubic hair. Oh, a whole section. There was always a lot of talk about pubic hair. I haven't got my pubic hair. Yeah, give it time. Okay. Everyone gets it at different times and that's okay. Oh, thank God.

All right, so Dolly Rebecca Parton. Yes, her actual name is Dolly. Really? And Rebecca. Rebecca. Rebecca. I think that was like a maternal grandmother or something. It's a backup name.

Dolly Rebecca was born on January 19, 1946. She was the fourth child of 12. Do they know what is causing it? It's so much sexing. Well, they need to read a Dolly Doctor about the protection sections. And the family lived in a really small one-room cabin. No, no. One room.

So. Open plan, love it. Parents and... That room is huge. They lived in a warehouse. It was a horse. It was on the banks of Little Pigeon River in Pittman Center, Tennessee, which is a really small community in the Great Smoky,

mountains. Apparently the family was so poor that when Dolly was born, her father couldn't afford to pay the doctor in cash, so instead paid him with a bag of corn meal. Couldn't pay the doctor. And they kept having children and he's like, well, I've got some more corn. Yeah, that's their fourth child. They had a lot more after that. Wow. Right. So that was literally Dolly's doctor. Yeah. That's cool. Paid in corn. Wild. So her father, Robert Lee Parton, Nina worked as a sharecropper and later he tended to his own small farm after the family moved to that farm on nearby Locust Ridge. Fun fact, she bought back this property in the 80s. So it still exists. Her father, Robert, was illiterate but Dolly has always described her father

as one of the smartest people she knew despite his lack of formal education. And Dolly's mother, Avey Lee, Caroline, stayed at home and looked after the children. She was a mother to 12 kids by the time she was 35. That's good efficiency. That means her mum and dad, middle names are both Lee. I know, right? That wouldn't happen very often. No, and spelled the same too.

Crazy. L-G-Z-Y-X. That's the real interesting thing. Isn't it? I'm sure once they met and once they found that out, I think early days dating, you'd be like, not so sure about this guy. Then you'd find out that he has the same middle name as you and spell the same. You'd be like, this is funny.

And a magic birth mark. Yeah. And the same parents. Yeah. And the two of you have never been in the same room. Never been in the same warehouse. You're marrying yourself. Okay.

Avey's health said, this is Dolly's mum. Her health was pretty poor, but she kept a fairly happy home with the children, telling them stories and singing songs together. And the children's grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. So Dolly and her siblings all attended church regularly. And her earliest public performances were in church, beginning at the age of six. She was always singing in church. And at seven, she started playing a homemade guitar.

And when she was eight, her uncle bought her her first real guitar. So she's playing music from a very young age. And soon she began singing on local radio and television programs in the East Tennessee area. And at 13, she recorded her first single. It was called Puppie Love. And it was recorded with the small Louisiana label called Gold Band Records. My goodness, that's so long ago. Yeah.

What was the year? Well, she was 13 and she was born in 46. So obviously... 59. It was the summer of 59. She got her first real six string. Whoa. She recorded in the 50s?

That's sick. Isn't that cool? And she also appeared at the Grand Ole Opry, which is a live stage show that was broadcast on WSM radio. It's the longest running radio broadcast in US history. And this is where she first met Johnny Cash, who encouraged her to follow her own instincts regarding her career. So she's a teenager.

I'm just meeting Johnny Cash. That's cool. I've heard of the grand old Opry, Opry. Opry, yeah. So that means Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton in a shared universe, which is cool. Yeah, isn't that cool? I love when our reports combined. Yeah.

That's real sick. So fun. So the day after Dolly graduated high school in 1964, she moved to Nashville. Day after. She's like, I'm done, I'm out. And she worked as a songwriter working for combine publishing with songwriting partner, who also was her uncle. Bill Owens.

I think that must have been the uncle that gave with the guitar. So she's working with her uncle, which is cool. She wrote chart-topping hits for other artists like Bill Phillips and Skeeter Davis. Skeeter. Skeeter. Skeeter. It's a great name. Like Skeet Ulrich?

I think we bring back Skeeter. Yeah, let's bring it back. Is that short for something or is that you're just a Skeeter? You're just a Skeeter. Somebody at work today had her brother and his partner had their baby over the weekend. Maverick. That's sick. Mav. Mav.

First name Maverick. First name Maverick. There's a, well, Tiger player now. What's the Saints player until recently called Maverick Weller? Mavrella. Maverick Weller. Maverick, well, I like it. You like Mav? Yeah, I think Mav, it's good.

Skeeter's. Skeeter. That's what I mean. Skeeter's up there. It's coming. Maverick, Skeeter, Stuart. What do you think? Love it. Yeah.

Do you know Skeet Ulrich? I feel like I talk about this guy a bit. Yeah, where was, where did that? There's a 90's hot job. Oh, yeah. I'm guessing his skate is short for skater. Hey, Skeeter? And you can only say it like that.

What was he in? Skeeter. He was in the craft. And that's it? He was also in a, I think he was in a TV show about being a priest hunting down demons or something. Buffy the Vampire Slayer? No.

That was about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Not really demons, aren't they? No, no, they were. demons. Oh, but Buffy wasn't a priest, played by Skate Ulrich. Interesting.

I might be wrong. Yeah, Jess, can you Google that one first? I'm looking up, Skeet Ulrich. He was what I would call a babe. I just want... Really?

Yeah. Real stud. He had the archetypal 90s heart drop goody. He's in Riverdale now. I bet he is. He's like a, he plays a kind of deadbeat dad in Riverdale now.

It's so funny. 90s heartthrobs and our deadbeat dads. Yeah. He's not,

no, he's a bit of a deadbeat. But anyway, back to Dolly Parton who's definitely not a deadbeat. No.

What's the opposite of a deadbeat? Live beat. I guess. She's a live rhythm. I hate myself. Anyway, so she's writing

all these songs and they're doing very well for the people that are singing them and putting them out there. So in 1965, at the age of 19, she was signed to Monument Records.

They had a very different vision for Dolly, though, than what she saw for herself. She wanted to write and sing country music, but Monument decided that Dolly's unique voice with its strong vibrato was not suited to country. I agree. Yeah. Yeah.

Hopefully she listened. Originally, and I think you guys would agree, they pitched her as a bubblegum pop singer. Yeah. Your unique voice will suit this bubblegum pop. What's bubble gum again? It's sort of like, you make, ba-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b. No, that's something else.

It's music, it's upbeat music that's contrived and marketed to appeal to preteens and teenagers, and it's like the monkeys and even Jackson 5 and stuff would be kind of bubble gum. Right. I was about it in Shirley Temple. I've heard as the Ramones described as bubble gum pop sped up. Okay. With leather jackets. I think that's kind of true.

I can see that. Very catchy. Short and catchy? Yeah. Just sort of simple chords and catchy, upbeat. It was like a little bit of innuendo too. Like if it was ever a bit, it was maybe a little bit cheeky, but never like, never full saucy, you know? Yeah.

A little bit of cheek, not sauce. Yeah. Cheek with no sauce, thanks. Thank you. Hold the sauce. Hold the sauce. So Dolly went along with it and she released a string of singles in the pop genre, but none more all that successful, except for happy, happy birthday baby. Oh, there's this lack of source.

But even then, like, that was probably the most successful track, and it didn't even crack the Billboard Hot 100. So it's like, ugh, do you even exist? I don't think so. Yuck. But Monument had to change their tune. After a song that Dolly wrote called Put It Off Until Tomorrow, recorded by Bill Phillips, made it to number six on the country chart in 1966.

So they're like, all right, you've had some success. Maybe you are okay at country. A country. It's funny good, but it's not her voice. that got it to number six. No, but it's just her songwriting. I know. So I think maybe she was just kind of like,

eh, and like, all right, fine. So they let us sing country. Can I just quickly say, when we're talking about charts really quickly, last week in the UK, a charity bird song

that was just bird noises, bird calls cracked to the UK top 20. I've been thinking, is there any way we could somehow get the do-go on theme song? We get enough people to buy a digital copy. Can we crack the top 20 chart? be easier in Australia than in England, I guess.

Maybe a remix of it. It'll be quite funny. It'll go to like a minute and a half or something. Evan's done a bunch of remixes. Yeah, I reckon if we had like a real party stutter, a banger. How many copies do we have to sell to make the top 20 in Australia? There's a, I mean, Pendleyn did a remix of the ABC News theme, and it goes off. So I don't see why we can't have a remix of ours that also goes off.

I think that would be really funny. Yeah, all right. If we've got any listeners who also happen to be DJs. Well, Evan's done it. Yeah, we actually do have the... So if we have any listeners... Evan, you're listening? I think he's all right.

Yeah, he's done a bunch of different versions of it already. You know Evan's always listening? Yeah. Evan's got these microphones... Not to the podcast, but... No, but he's got these mics linked up to his house. Yeah. He's always listening.

It's very hard to watch Netflix. He'd know who stole the ice cream. Yeah. Yeah. He'd be the first person I asked because he probably took it. The first person I asked was Evan. If he says, I've no idea, you couldn't find out, it was definitely him. Yeah, because he could find out.

He could definitely find out. He knows everything. Make a few calls. He could hack into the fridge cam. Yeah. Hack onto the Aria charts. Get us to number one. Make it happen, Evan.

Man having a number one single, it's your podcast theme song. That would be funny. That'd be sick. Do we have to explain who Evan is? Yeah. Well, he's from Stupid Old Studios here, host of Gamy, gaming game that we may have seen online and also. Part Robot. And he made our theme song.

And he's part robot. Yeah. He's a 30-year-old boy genius. Yeah. Yeah. He's a boy genius who never became a man genius. Yes. He's just become an all-encompassing boy genius.

He's, oh, like, and I don't mean that, like, he hasn't got any better. I mean, like, he's better than all the man geniuses. And he's also won an award from Fox Kids one time. Yeah. Two awards. Two awards. So. Pretty cool.

Yeah. Now we're all across whoever it is. We should get a photo with his awards. before we leave tonight. We will forget that. And if anyone knows how we can get on the charts, email us and let us know. Yeah, any chart whisperers.

So Dolly, she's now allowed to sing country music. Her first country single was called Dumb Blonde. Oh! Reach number 24 on the country chart the following year, followed by something fishy, which went to number 17. Now we're getting saucy. And the two songs appeared on her first. full-length album called Hello, I'm Dolly.

Oh, nice to meet you. That is lovely. So good. Funnily enough, considering she was originally a songwriter, her first single to chart, Dumb blonde, was actually written by Curley Putman. But it was one of very few songs during this era that she recorded that she didn't write herself.

But it was the first one that sort of got some attention. Anyway, also. That would have been a bit of a blotier confidence, right? Yeah. Well, no, like, I mean, you know, resilient. It's a good thing to learn. I'm pretty sure Elvis never wrote any of his number ones. Yeah, that's right.

But I mean, it would have been a hit to her writing confidence. But I guess she's also written hits brothers. Exactly, yeah. Putting Skeeter something. Yeah. Skeeter Davis. Also in 1966, at 20 years old, she married Carl Dean. They'd met when Dolly first moved to Nashville.

Carl Dean. Carl Dean, Carl Dean. When Carl and Dolly got engaged, Carl's mother was excited. started to plan a big wedding because her only daughter had eloped. But this mother-in-law's dream did not come true because, as this is a quote from Dolly, she says, everyone at my label had invested money in me and in building my career. So they asked me if I'd wait a year to get married. And I didn't want, I didn't want to not do what I was supposed to do.

Carl's mother was just heartbroken. So they had a really small ceremony. So his mother wanted a big wedding. She wanted a big wedding and they like just, they kind of eloped. Like they just went sort of far away from where they were living so that the press weren't hassling them and it was just like Dolly's mom and the pastor and his wife and that was it.

It was like a really small wedding. She was just in like... So they didn't even invite Carl Dean's mother. No. Oh, that is true. All right. I think we're getting to the root of why she was pissed off. That sucks.

So Dolly's trying to please everyone. Except Carl Dean's mom. Yeah. But she just wants to get married. She's like, I don't want to wait. I don't want to put it off. I just want to get it done. And like, let's just do it.

It should have done a year later, had done a big ceremony then. Big flashy, but, you know. And after they were married, they took in five of Dolly's younger siblings to look after them. So she kind of like helped raise some of their younger siblings because like there were so many of them. They never had children of their own. Carl is notoriously private and has very rarely accompanied Dolly to any events.

Even before she reached like the mega start on that she's at, it became very clear that her husband had no interest in the entertainment industry. Apparently, after joining her on the Reddollinger, carpet for an industry event in 1966, so not long after they were married. 1996, that's the other same one on a premiership in the FFL, the only one. No coincidence. Yeah. There are no coincidences.

After that, in the car on the drive home, Carl said, Dolly, I want you to have everything you want, and I'm happy for you, but don't you ever ask me to go to another one of those damn things ever again? Oh, that's nice, I think. Yeah. So he's still with her. I've never heard of him. Fifty-odd years I've been married.

Bloody hell. And he's never at any events because he just hates it. Sounds like a stubborn no foe. Yeah, but she just kind of gets on with her own life. So their sort of independence, they say, is one of the secrets to their long-lasting union. And Dolly says, you can't be in each other's face all the time. Actually, I think that that's been the best formula for us,

the fact that we appreciate each other when we're together. We don't have to be together all the time. So he's a bit of a homebody. She likes travelling, so she's like, all right, catch her. And off she goes and does what it. whatever she wants to do and then she just comes back. I think it's kind of sick. That does sound great.

Well, and it's worked. It's worked for them. Everyone's different. I was going to say, she says like, that's the secret, but it's like, that's the secret for them. There are people, like my old boss and his wife work together. They both run the company together, the air conditioning company. And they just spend all day together. Then they drove home in different cars but called each other on the phone to talk on the drive.

You are kidding me. And then spend the nights together, you know, hanging out at home. And they're like, you know, they've been together for ages. Yeah. So it's a, it's each to their own, isn't it? Because that seems like too much for me. And Dolly. Dolly's like next level from me is like, I couldn't handle that either.

That wouldn't work. But damn. But it's worked for them. She thinks her husband's name is Jolene. She doesn't even know who he is. Colleen, Colleen, Colleen. Don't you ever write a song about me again? Yeah, that's what really set it off.

So this is 1966. She's married. She's doing some of her own stuff. And in 1967, musician and country music entertainer, Porter Wagner. I think Porter, that's a good name. Porter. You would name a kid Porter. It sounds wealthy, doesn't it?

Better than Maverick. But what does Porter mean? Doesn't that mean someone who gets your keys or something? Bag carrier. Bag carrier. And that's what you'll make your children do. Absolutely. They'll be carrying my bags even when I don't need them.

Back up the stairs. Decide I don't need that one. Not going out after all. It's a cool. It is a cool. I like that as a name, Porter. I guess that's where it comes from, right? They normally come from jobs or whatever.

Yeah, true. Well, that's surnames, I guess. Or someone who drinks a lot of port. Yeah, Porter Wagner. So he offered Dolly a regular spot on his weekly television program, The Porta Wagner Show. And in his road show, it was like stage shows. Dolly would be replacing Norman

Jean, who was a... Good bad, Norma, Jean. Not that Norma Jean. A different Norma Jean. A different Norma Jean. She was a country singer and she was loved. Like, everybody, the audience absolutely adored her. But she was leaving, like, she was just moving on.

It was her sort of choice. But the audience, like, took a long time to warm to Dolly. Apparently they'd even chant Norma when Dolly came on stage. Brutile. She'd be like, sorry, you've got the wrong name. I'm Dolly. Dolly. Dolly.

Dolly. It's a better name than Norma. Norma. That's not kid ourselves. Norma and Porter, they're my two kids. I don't mind. But yeah, maybe it's just because it's on the time. I think it's a normal gene.

Norma. Norma. That's not good. Short for normal. Normal gene. You're going to call Norma Warnocki. That's a mess. Norma Warnocki.

Porter, Warner, Warner Kee. Porter and normal Warnocki. Yeah. Normal one key. Yeah. Normal. Norma woniki. Norma woniki.

Norma won a key. Everyone. Norma won a key. But anyway, in time, the audience came to accept Dolly, and they loved it. And then for the next seven years, 45 million people tuned in each week to watch her perform. Seven years and 45. Every week. That's more than Australia's population now.

Every week. Every week. Yeah. It was a big show. That's wild. Yeah. That's like double Australian's population in the early 90s. Just to put it into perspective for everyone out there.

So if you're in Iceland thinking, what does that mean for me? What a wise way to think of it, but you're just putting it against your own experiences. And that's... I've experienced the 90s in Australia. You have experienced the 90s in Australia. Would that be right, Dave? You know populations. Yeah, that's like...

Australia was low 20,000, 20 millions in the 90s? What is it now? It's in the... It's pushing 30, right? I thought it was 25. Okay, great. I'll stop a talking. It's more than that.

Eventually, as well, Wagner convinced his label, which was RCA Victor, to sign her. And they agreed, but they decided to play it safe with the first song for her, and they released it as a duet with Porter Wagner. And this was the beginning of an amazing partnership between Dolly Parton and Porter Wagner, with the duo then releasing a six-year streak

of virtually uninterrupted top ten singles. Like everything they did together just did incredibly well. How many, that's interesting, because I really, I was trying to think of the songs I know. I reckon I know, do I know more than three or four of her songs? Possibly. Jolene, working on a five, islands in the stream. You'd probably be surprised with some of the others that you do know. Right.

And may I recommend, baby, I'm burning. You can. It's the greatest thing ever. Baby, I'm burning. That's your favourite. It sounds a bit like a headline for a Dolly Doctor. Baby, I'm burning. I'm burning.

Please help. see a GP and get an ointment. So, and this is the country chart that they're just top tening all the time. Yeah, that's right. So the smack. Wow. For six years. Six years, they're just like, they're releasing music and they're like just smashing

it out of the park. So it says virtually uninterrupted top ten singles. So there'd probably be a few that maybe weren't quite top ten. But they're just, everything they're putting out, people are just loving. And she was releasing solo music as well, but none of her solo efforts were as as successful as the tracks she was releasing with Porter. And they were even named the vocal group of the year in 1968 by the Country Music Association.

But again, her solo records were continually sort of getting ignored. Not ignored, but just like not the kind of acclaim. Right. That's interesting you'd think that there'd be some flow on. Yeah, but not a heap. And so by 1970, both Dolly and Porta Wagner had grown frustrated by her lack of solo chart success. He wanted her to do well as two.

Porter was annoyed. Yeah, Porter was like, come on, she's great. Why isn't she getting more? That's what you want, supportive collaborators. And he ended up persuading Dolly to record a version of Jimmy Rogers' Mule Skinner Blues, which is a classic country song that was first recorded in 1930. So it was seen as a bit of a slam dunk. Like it was an easy grab for some attention because the song was well known.

And she's got a great voice. You just do a cover of that and people will be all around it. And it worked. It made it to number three, followed very closely the following year by her first number one single, Joshua. Joshua's great. Joshua. Joshua, Joshua. It's really great.

I don't know if I know it. Look, what I did is I downloaded an Apple music playlist of Dolly Part and Essentials. Okay. And that's where the love affair began. Right, okay. I've just looked up the population of Australia, Dave, you're right. In the early 90s, it wasn't even 20. It was in the, it was like, in 989, it was about 17.

Oh my goodness. Everyone has to readjust their scale now to understand the 45 million. So it's more accurate. So it was 45 million, right? So more accurately, it's about double what it was in 2010. The Saints Drew was Collingwood in the grandfinal. Okay. Okay.

Is that help anyone? About 10 years ago. Is that helping anyone? Is that helping anyone? Is that helping anyone? You both just Googling things. No, I'm not. You were?

Well, you said Googling things. Just to put it into perspective, it is the population now of Uganda. Okay. All watching. Imagine all Uganda watching. But what does that mean for Iceland? 45 million. Well, okay.

What's the population of Iceland? Slow down on this list, I'll tell you what. Oh, all right, man. Okay, no need for judgment. You don't need to read out your list of my favorite countries. Yeah. Iceland is the best country I've ever visited in my life. Now you're doing a lot of sucking up.

Yeah. I think it's too late, mate. You are unbelievable. Is it all over? Iceland's turned off. Yeah, they're like, yuck, this guy sucks. I would consider moving that. 338,000.

What? So how does that compare to the 45 million who watch? Well, it's about 135 times. 135? 338,000. Wow. That's awesome. Yeah, it's about 135 times your population in Iceland,

all watching one program. That's wild. That's insane. Okay, so she's finally, she's had her first number one single with Joshua, which is a great song. Joshua, sorry, it's all Jolene to me. And it's mainstream chart? No, I think that's still country. Right.

Because she moves to other stuff later. I'll explain. For the next two years, she had numerous solo hits, including her signature song, Coat of Many Colors, which was number four in 1971. That's her signature song. One of them, which was a song that she wrote about her impoverished upbringing. And in the song she's telling the story of her mom making her a color of just with making her a coat, sorry, with like scraps of material. And same with My Tennessee Mountain Home, which is another song she wrote about her upbringing, which was released in 73.

My Tennessee Mountain Home. My Tennessee Mountain Home. My Tennessee Mountain Home is where we're. We do know our songs then. Yes. Yes. Yeah, we do. I've never heard of that in my life.

Look, well, I've got to tell you, after hearing that rendition, that is a, that's a beautiful song. Thank you. Thank you. Wow, I didn't realize it was a duet. What is, yeah? Porter. Oh, stop it. How do we break it to him?

We don't. Yeah, let him go. Her biggest hit at this time, and arguably still now, was Jolene. Never heard. It was released in late 1973 and according to Dolly the song was inspired by a red-headed bank clerk who flirted with her husband Carl

at his local bank branch around the time they were newly married. Oh, Jolene and Carl Dean. That is perfect. Jolene, Carl Dean. Jolene Carl Dean. Imagine Dolly Parton being left for anyone. Yeah. Jolene, come on.

She's dreaming. But we've all got our insecurities. We do, yeah. Dolly talks about this moment and she was like tall and had long legs and dolly's kind of short and she's like, oh. It wasn't a real like full on jealous or anything. It was a bit of a joke between them. I hope she cast her royalty checks for that song at that bank. There you go, Jolene.

I didn't do anything. I just said. Try taking my man now. Really? I could if you want me to. No. Oh God, no. Please.

Jolene. Let me just get these long legs out. No. Clippity clop. Clippity clop. Oh, I've stepped right over the bank teller. Is that, is Jolene a horse? A clippity clop.

Oh, sorry. You didn't know. There's a horse in this bag. My horse body had been hidden behind the bank teller. You know Carl Dean loves horses. Carl Dean. Let's ride into the sunset, Carl Dean. Caldine.

Goline. Jolene. Cardi, right into the sunset, don't come looking for me. Dolly pardon? Don't. Don't come looking for me. I kick. If you get up too close to my hind legs.

I'll kick. I'll kick. So this is some of her solo stuff that's doing a lot better. And she was kind of like, look, I've always seen myself. I've always wanted to be a solo artist. So she made the decision to leave the TV show and sort of that collaboration with Porter Wagner. They performed their last duet concert in April 1974

and she stopped appearing on his TV show middle of that year. But it certainly wasn't a messy split. It was very amicable. In fact, her 1974 song, I Will Always Love You. Oh, that's another one I know. Whitney made famous. Correct. It was written about her professional break from Wurterman.

Wagner. It wasn't about like a relationship. It was just about like, I'll always be really grateful for what you've done. And it went to number one. And actually wasn't written about Kevin Costner. He had nothing to do with bodyguard. That is disgraceful. Have you watched that film? No. Oh my God. Oh my God. Amazing. Okay. Okay. They did a stage production of it with Paulini. Paulini. Was it Paulini? Really? It was Paulini? Was it Paulini? Yeah, it was Pauline? Pauliney from Australian. An ex-Australian idol finalist. Yeah.

So one of my friends, who sometimes listens, Hello Ray, love you lots. For his birthday, a whole group of us went and saw the bodyguard. And I was like, I am not that interested.

Therefore, this is going to be amazing. Wow. And I sat next to my friend Anna, and it was very bad. And we laughed a lot. Oh. It was great.

Paulini's voice, incredible. Absolutely nailed it. But the actual production was like so lame in parts. It was amazing. I loved it. Did you know the source material? The source material?

Oh, it's in the film. The film. Yeah, the film. Yeah, yeah, I'd see the film. Right. So it was lame in comparison to that, which I assume is a kind of lame film? Yeah, it's pretty lame.

Extremely. Extremely lame. But it was in that hot streak for Kostner, right? Everything he touched turned to. Cinema gold. So Dolly wrote that song. And around this same time, Elvis Presley, who you mentioned Dave,

he expressed some interest in recording the song. I was looking like, who? Was that? It's taking me for someone else then. Another previous topic. Yeah. So he expressed him interest in recording the song.

He was like, I'll do it. Or I'll do it. But his manager told Dolly that it was a standard procedure for the song where I'd to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song recorded by Ellis Presley. And Dolly said no. Hang on. So what's the standard deal, sorry?

So Elvis's manager, who apparently was a little bit skeevy. The Colonel. Yeah. He said, look, like, if Elvis is going to do your song, you have to sign over half the publishing rights to Elvis. Oh. So royalties and everything would go to him. A bit of a dodgy deal.

And she said no. Dodgy deal, but also, like, maybe it was helping it be a sure thing of a hit. Maybe. I guess he's in a strong bargaining position. Well. Normally, but this is Dolly Parton. She's already a big star. No, she wasn't that big then.

45 million people were watching her every week. I don't know. She's getting big, but like it would have been quite a get for Elvis to sing her song. So I think it was probably considered really balsy at the time to say no, considering the status that Elvis had. But people say now, they reckon that that decision actually made her millions of dollars down the track. Because Whitney Houston made it such a huge hit and Dolly got all the royalties. Yeah. And I read an interview with her about that decision.

And she said, I said, I'm really sorry and I cried all night. I mean, it was like the worst thing. It's like, oh my God, Elvis Presley. And other people are saying, you're nuts. It's Elvis Presley. Yeah, wow. And I said, I can't do that. Something in my heart says, don't do that.

And I just didn't. And he would have, he would have killed it. But anyway, he didn't. And then Whitney Houston's version came out. and I made enough money to buy Grace Land. And she did. And she did. And she pissed on it.

She took Joeline, the bank teller there. Put her in the stable and made her watch her piss on Elvis's house. I'm going to take her shit in the jungle room. Whitney Houston won the Grammy in 94 for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for that song. And who better to present the award to Whitney than Dolly Parton herself. It was really sweet. That's nice. Dolly says something like, you know, heartbreaks hard to go through,

but it's always soothed by a lot of money. She's very funny. Did she have much success with the song herself? Yes. And it is good. Yeah, I've heard it. I think it's good. That's great.

Yeah. But, yeah, you can, Whitney Houston's just took it up a notch. And it was differently, it was arranged a bit differently too. So it sort of, yeah. But yeah, she had some success with it herself. but not, it really got a resurgence in the 90s. So back to like the 70s. So throughout the 70s,

Dolly had consistent charted hits and even had her own television variety show called Dolly! Exclamation point. She'd wanted to expand her audience base. And Dolly did pretty well in ratings, but it only lasted one season. And this was, one of the reasons was because Dolly asked to be released from her contract with the show

because the stress it was putting on her vocal cords. Only 17 million people watched it. Yeah, and it was just like, oh, what's the point? What's the point? This is Australia in the mid-80s. If Australia gets a rating, any show on Australia gets ratings over a million, it's crazy. It's like articles are written about it.

Seriously. Yeah. It just doesn't happen anymore. It did. It happened semi-regularly 10 years ago. Perhaps that's wrong then. That does seem too high. But America is a much bigger population.

And also at the time, there's probably two channels. Yeah, right. Pre-cable and stuff. So, yeah, also wanting to... Is this pre-internet? It is pre-internet, yes. Not by much, but it is pre-internet. Nobody's streaming it.

Yeah. Also wanting to expand our audience, Dolly moved into pop music with her first entirely self-produced effort called New Harvest First Gathering. It was well received, but it didn't really make much of an impression on pop charts. And after New Harvest's disappointing chart performance, she turned to the high-profile pop producer Gary Klein for her next album.

And the result was 1977's Here You Come Again. That's a good song. Here you come again. Fuck, she's cool. It would take a Gary to get her to the top of the chart. It became her first million seller, topping the country's album chart and reaching number 20 on the pop chart. So Gary Klein

Is this the song or the album? The album. Wow, that's a big deal. And in 1978, she won the Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for that album. And she continued to have hits with Heartbreaker, 1978.

Heart breaker. Love maker. John Baker. Hey, ha, ho. Yeah, that's the one. That's a really good dolly. Yeah, it sounds just like her. I don't know what that song is at all,

But I'm pretty sure Larry David is the boss of the Yankees saying something like that in an episode of Sinefeld. Heartbreaker. Low maker. I'm assuming it's that. Yeah. Must be. I hope so. That'd be great if it is.

She'll say, Baby I'm Burning in 1979, my fave. Oh, wow. And you're the one in 79 as well, all of which are child in the pop top 40 and topped the country chart as well. So now she's like across both genres of music. music. She's got one leg either side of Jolene, so to speak. Riding that horse the success. All the way to the bank, when Jolene works.

You're heading into work? I can give you a ride. I've got more checks to cash. So I'll just keep making all this money, Jolene. But like our Dolly also thinks of it as giving her a ride, even though Jolene's doing it work, I'll give you a ride. Obviously, you clippity clop, but I'll... A clip to clop.

I'll hold the rain. You weren't going to work anyway, but all right. What's that? Your day off? Yeah, but I need to go to the bank. Come on. And I need you to witness it because I'm better than you. Just sign there how much money that's worth.

Just put your hoof down three times for yes. I can talk. No, no. I prefer the hoof system. Can't you club your little hoof there, Joeline. He's my man. If you don't mind. Just gets right up in her horse.

It's mommo! She just gets really guttural. She's honestly, she's so. sweet and her face is just always smiling. She's really lovely, so the idea of her just like, is very funny. In 1980, she made the move to Hollywood. She portrayed a secretary in a leading role with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin

in the comedy film 9 to 5. Came out in 1980. She received nominations for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, and a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. And of course, she wrote and recorded the film's title song, 9 to 5. 21 years after her first release, she's hitting new star awards. Yeah, yeah.

It's pretty amazing how she's still seen as a new star, even though she's had this slow build. Yeah. Well, I'm guessing that's for actress. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So she hadn't done a lot of that before. But it's also, it's hard for people who've already got a decades of a reputation in one industry to come across and not be seen as a bit of a joke.

Justin Timberlake. Yeah, Hugh Jack. What would, okay. Pretty sure he used to chop wood before. Was that Logan? You know, I assume you's appropriate here. Yeah, I'm guessing so. He jumped, like he was off TV, musicals.

Paul Hogan, maybe? Paul Hogan. He was known as painting the bridge. Painting the bridge. Yeah, people are like, he'll never do anything in any time, and he's painted that bridge too well. What are the odds he can also be funny on screen with a dolphin? I thought it was a seal.

I thought it was a seal. No, you're thinking of Andre. Yeah, Andre the giant seal. Oh, God. It seems it was a normal size seal. The film 9 to 5 became a major box office success, grossing over $3.9 million in its opening weekend and over 103 million worldwide.

And Parton was named top female box office star by the Motion Picture Herald in both 1981 and 1982 due to the film success. So she's just crushing it. And also she's tumbled out of bed and over to the kitchen. Pour myself a cup of ambition and yawning and stretching. Try to come to life. So that's not also about Jolene, working 9 to 5 at the bank. Suck shit.

You got a normal job. You idiot. I've got Carl Dean here, huh? I can take the day off because I'm worth millions. Yeah, Jolene, more like normal gene at your job over there at the bank. More like no dean Because you don't have him You ain't getting no dean

Because I've got Carl Dean Yeah No Dean No Dean No Dean no Dean I like this dolly She's a nutbag She's crazy

She's tripping her way through I'm sorry I served your husband once at the bank You've really got to move on I'm sorry I was polite to a customer Yeah that's wrong You will be sorry I bought this bank And not just this branch

The entire bank I'm your boss And you're not fine Yeah, you're working here forever I'm giving you a little raise Just to show you That I'm not the worst But you're fucking gone

Hey, you don't know what to make of me do you Yeah big old horse We should talk about that too How are you a horsewoman? I've never seen it before Who let this through? What's going on? I need to

speak to Jenny and H.R. Jenny! I'll be back. Oh, Jenny's not at her desk. Hang on a second. See if I can get her on her mobile. This is the first time I've seen Jenny away from her death. She's a turtle. What? What a bank.

Yeah, it's a pretty wild bank. I'd bank there. Would you? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Noah's Bank. Noah's Bank.

So after the success of 9 to 5, she went and made a different movie. Her second film was the musical film, The Best Little Horehouse in Texas. I was confusing those two. I thought 9 to 5 was about the whorehouse. No, that's the best little whorehouse in Texas. Oh, I see.

Yeah. Does she work then, 9 to 5? Yeah, very standard hours. Horhouse. Is that a common term? Not anymore, no. Do you see that in many movie titles anymore? No, this was in 82.

It was a different time. Hawhouse. Ho House. Sounds like a Spanish name. Horhouse Lorenzo. Lorenzo Horhouse. Lorenzo Hawhouse. That was my father's name.

Please. Please call me, Signor. Horhouse. I'm confused. Does that mean? Okay. Mr. What's your first name?

Senor! Horhouse. Anyway, then she teamed up with Sylvester Stallone in Rhinestone in 84. It was a comedy film about a country music star's effort to mold an unknown into a music sensation. And the film was a critical and financial failure. Dolly is Molding Sylvester or the other way? I think there's training montages of Dolly. Punching carcasses.

Yeah. Like firing at Bowen arrows and she's looking at him like, no. Play the piano. Just sing into the microphone. What are you doing? Yeah. He's like, I've got to kill this microphone. Adrian.

No, my name is Dolly. Adrian So the film made I mean that's an accurate impression Yeah no I was just I mean She really just trying to help out so much

She even named her character Dolly To make it simple And he still couldn't get it I could not get it right Calling her Adrian the whole time She's like Yeah no That was a different

I was a different Oh forget it I'm Adrian Silly Sloane That's what I'm silly Sloan Sillone The film made Just over 21 million

On a 28 28 million dollar budget. Put it in the bin. But, I mean, she's killing it and everything else. So despite this flop, she continues to write, record, release, chart-topping music and hasn't really stopped since. There's too much to talk about Dolly, but that's why I wanted to talk about her early years.

And now I just want to, I'm just going to mention some other things that she's done. And then I have some fun facts. Is that okay? Yes. Not to cut it off there, but like, honestly, everything beyond that point, if you're looking at a timeline of Dolly's life, it's just like, she put out this album, it won a bunch of awards, she put out this album, it won a bunch of awards. Like, she's just, she's insane. She's like, how old would she be now, Dave? She's born in 46.

She's 73 years old. Yeah, and she's no plan of slowing down or stopping working ever. She just keeps doing it. In 2004, she played at Glastonbury, and that was not like her target demographic, and she fucking killed it. When you hear Joeline played at a festival, it always goes off. Yeah. People, I think it's that, for whatever reason,

a song that spans generations love that song. Yeah, definitely. And I mean, if they're not listening to islands in the stream, what are they doing? Yeah, that also gets a, I think a lot of people would know most words of that. How can we be wrong? Yep. To celebrate with me to another one. And we rely on each other.

Ha ha. From one love to another. Ha ha. That's Matt and my karaoke go-to. Yesterday we recorded a booktheet episode with you, Jess, as one of the guests. And you surprisingly told... Sorry, what?

Matt, you're a place by Andy Matthews, and it was fantastic. And, um, Jess, you're a place by Andy Matthews and it was fantastic. And, um, Jess, you... You told us that you're not a karaoke fan despite the fact that you love singing. I love singing alone. I do sing along on this podcast. Yeah, it just blew my mind. I'd never spoken to you about karaoke before.

It did surprise me a lot. My worst nightmare is singing in front of people. I will not do it. I'll get a front row seat every week. Yeah, I'm so sorry. But I'm not doing it seriously. Like singing quite earnestly. Not like karaoke.

Not like a serious karaoke. Yeah. Not like, you know, when people do their best at karaoke. Hell yeah. It's, no. So when I was touring around Ireland years ago. With a folk band? Not with a folk band, just with a, it was a first night too.

So you just met all these people and they're from all over the world. And we went to a pub and there's a guy with a guitar and he's like, everybody has to get up and sing a song. And I was like, I will kill myself. I do not want to do it. Big card to play. On night one. I dragged up three other girls with me and I kind of said, yeah, let's do this song.

And then I barely sang. I sort of mouthed it. A guy with a guitar sounds like a nightmare. Yeah, it is a real pain in the ass. Lock the doors. No means no. None of you are leaving until you sing a song. Sing for us.

Yeah, that just feels like a team building exercise at a bad corporation or something. But like we've just met. I don't want to sing in front of any of you. I imagine that's what he was trying to do like an icebreaker thing, right? Probably, but, bleh. Sounds like David Brent. Was it David Brent?

It was David Brent with a guitar. Then Brent loves a guitar. So if you are the... La. All life Oh life Or life Anyway

A couple more things about Dolly She is a co-owner Of the Dollywood Company Which operates the theme park Dollywood That is amazing And what? Tell me about it

What? What the hell is that? It's got there's like a There's a resort and spa You can stay in cabins There's a theme park And a water park And you can go and like

Are they all Dolly themed? No No, not necessarily because it used to be, it was called Silver Dollar City, and then it became Dollywood later on. I mean, there's a great title that, Silver Dolly City. Right. Yeah. But what's Dollywood?

Because Hollywood's like a, that's a different thing. It's just Dollywood. It's great. Oh, yeah, no use. And it's in Pigeon Forge, so it's in the area that she grew up in. Right. And Dollywood is the 24th most popular theme park in the United States, with 3 million visitors per year.

24th most popular how many do you have we have like four on the way what you do you do if you're talking like on the gold coast yeah what do we have well there's five on the gold coast and then there's a lunar park in sydney and a lunar park here yeah there's a we don't have wobby's world anymore oh damn don't tell me wobby was years ago gun by a park where the city meets the country still one of them still gone no gum by park where the fun just never just looking at a good time Fun time. We don't have 24. We don't have 24 theme parks.

Oh my God. Oh, my God. There's a Geelong Water Park. Oh, true. There is... Adventure Park. We're still under like 10. What about...

What about... I'm not counting zoos. Okay. There's zoos. Anyway, but that is crazy. And I want to go to Dollywood. We should put it on the list. Where is it in Nashville?

No, it's in Tennessee. Pigeon. Forge? I'd love to go to Tennessee. I want to go there. Whiskey's from there. I think I want to go there for my 30th. Some whiskey.

Really? You want to get a Dollywood for your 30th? Dollywood. It's actually not that far away your 30th. Sorry to say. Thank you, Dave. Yeah. Maybe around American Tour time.

No, no. That would, hopefully we can get there before then. Yeah, I hope so. I really need you to get there in your 20s. That's when I got there. So I went when I was eight. In the 1920s. Am I right?

All right. You're old. To me, so it would be sad. to go to Dollywood in your 30s. Oh no. I need you to go on your 20s because in your 30s is sad. It's a little, yeah, it's a bit sad. I want to go to Dollywood.

I don't really know that much about it. It's amazing that a country singer could have a theme park. Could we share a cabin? No. Oh, I looked at one cabin and next to the bed was a heart-shaped tub, hot tub. And a cup of ambition? Sure. In the room?

In the room. Next to the bed. amazing. And then out on the, like, balcony, another hot tub. I was like, you never, you never need to be not tub. Wow, it sounds like the 24th sexiest place in America. Yeah, it's pretty sexy. You'd just be going from in.

What were we, inside or outside tub today? Oh, let's start inside and see how we go. Yeah. We'll have pre drinks on the inside tub. Actually, no, start outside. When it gets a bit chilly, head inside. That's a better way to do it. Yeah.

So, yeah, that's insane. And I need to look into that in more detail because it sounds amazing. There's also a replica there of. of the house she grew up in. Wow. Like the one room. What a fun exhibit. Oh, the one room.

The warehouse. Let us hope to wear a house. Is there any mention? Obviously, she's fabulously wealthy. Any mention of the 11 siblings and what, did any of them have anything to do with her? Could she give them jobs or anything? A couple of them, there wasn't heaps of mention about them, or I didn't really deep dive into it too much.

But a couple of them were also like musicians, A couple of them had record deals. I know, well, according to Wikipedia, I think two of them have passed away. But that means there's 10 of them left. Do they know what was causing it? Who knows? It can literally be any number of things at any time, and that's what's terrifying about life.

That's why I never leave this room. Dave lives here. Which potentially could also kill me. Your one bedroom apartment. Another fun thing is that Dolly co-owned, Sand Dollar Productions with Sandy Gallen, her former manager. It was a film and television production company, and it produced several shows.

It produced a documentary called Common Threads, Stories from The Quilt, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Stories from the Quilt! That sounds like a Troy McClure film. You might have remember me from such films as Stories from the Quilt. It also produced, though, the television series Babes, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Oh my God, the Demon Show mentioned. earlier. Yeah. Starring Skeeter Davison. Fuck, he sucks. Skater Ulrich. Skate all wreck. And so she produced Buffy.

Well, yeah. Her production company did. And the feature films, Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride, Part 2. Oh, fantastic films there. They actually are. Straight Talk in which Dolly Putton starred and Sabrina in 1995, among other shows.

So she had to, just for a while, I don't know if she still does it. I don't think she is still a co-owner, or maybe Sandala Productions doesn't exist. anymore. But for a while there, her production company was doing a lot. Oh, maybe it was Buffy the Vampire Slater, the film. No, no, no, it was the series. Oh, the series?

Yeah, from 97 to 2003. Oh, that's the cool one. Yeah. That's the cool one. Yeah. Sorry, Josh Whitton. Yeah, well, he did that too. Yeah. No, didn't he, he didn't really, he lost creative control.

Yeah, he acted. That's right. You should be apologising to Luke Perry, the star. I'm sorry Luke Perry. So sorry, Luke Perry. And Skeed Ulrich by Association. Yeah. Parton is known for having undergone considerable plastic surgery on a 2003 episode of the Oprah Winfrey show.

Oprah asked what kind of cosmetic surgery Dolly had had, and she replied that cosmetic surgery was imperative in keeping with her famous image. She said, she joked, it takes a lot of money to look this cheap. That's great one. I love Dolly. And she's all big hair and rhinestones and a lot of makeup. up and she is very like self-aware and she's like, this is just the look I like. Deal with it.

And what does Carl Dean look like? Have you seen? Well, there's only really photos of him quite young because he doesn't come out now. Do we think Carl Dean exists? Oh, wow. No one's seen him in 50 years. Jolene really did. Get the man.

Carl Dean left her for Jolene. They're probably galloping on a tropical beach somewhere. right now. But he just didn't want to tell everyone about it. Yeah. So she's like, no, he just keeps himself.

I do my thing. He does his thing. Jolene. And I'm fine. His thing is Jolene. My hobbies include Jolene. She's my hobby horse. Ugh.

Since the mid-80s, Dolly supported many charitable efforts, particularly in the area of literacy, primarily through her Dollywood Foundation. And her literacy program is called called Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, and it mails one book per month to each enrolled child from the time of their birth until they enter kindergarten.

Currently, over 1,600 local communities provide the Imagination Library to almost 850,000 children. Wow, that's a lot of books. Across the US, Canada, the UK, here in Australia, and the Republic of Ireland. In 2018, she was honoured by the Library of Congress on account of the charity sending out its 100 millionth book. Wow. So just free books sent to kids.

Let's see. And in an interview I saw, Dolly says that she believes, regardless of your formal education or opportunities to go to school, go to college, if you can read, you can self-educate. This sounds like this comes back to her dad maybe? Yeah, I think so. And that's where I heard her talk about her dad as someone who was incredibly smart, but illiterate.

And there were lots of people in her family, not just necessarily her immediate family, but also just extended family who didn't have the opportunity to go to school. definitely didn't get to go to college or anything and didn't learn to read and so just having that skill meant that she could, you know, learn other things and progress through life

much easier. Yeah. Pretty cool. So 100 million books, though, sent to kids all over the world. Make the book stop. One comes every month. I don't get it.

So this is just like, I've just got a few examples here of some of the awards. awards and honors and stuff like that. In 2009, she gave the commencement speech at the graduation ceremony for the University of Tennessee, and during the ceremony, she received an honorary doctor of humane letters from the university. It was only the second honorary degree given by the university.

And in presenting the degree, the university's chancellor, Jimmy Cheek, great name. Jimmy Cheek. Wow. Said, because of her career, not just as a musician and entertainer, but for her role as a cultural ambassador, philanthropist and lifelong advocate for education. It's fitting that she'd be honoured with an honorary degree from the flagship education institution of her home state. So she's got an honorary degree.

She is the most honoured female country performer of all time. The Record Industry Association of America has certified 25 of her singles or album releases as either gold record, platinum record or multi-platinum record. She has had 26 songs reach number one on the Billboard Country Charts, which is a record for a female artist. She has 42 career top 10 country albums, which again is a record for any artist, and 110 career charted singles over the past 40 years.

It's incredible. 110? 110. What? Career charted singles. Yep. Over the past 40 years. There'd be a lot of people who had never recorded.

I haven't even recorded 110 singles. Really? No. What are you doing? And she's charted with 110. What do you do all day? I don't know. You said you were recording.

Yeah, I know. I've been meaning to. See, this is why you'll never be Dolly. You know, when I was saying I haven't charted, but it's, you know, I'll just accept the public's decision. It's not true. If I had released something, it would chart. Well, then release it.

Well, I'm telling you, we're going to try and get our theme song to chat. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I don't think that's going to happen. I'm going to look into it. Dolly has earned nine Grammy Awards. All right.

Our song probably won't get that. Probably won't get nine. Maybe nominations. Yeah, well, she's had a total of 46 nominations. What? That is incredible. And the most nominations of any female artists in the history of the prestigious award, a record that she shares with Beyonce.

They've had their most nominations. Yeah, they've both had 46 Grammy nominations. They'll like Beyonce may overtake. Well, Beyonce, oh, yeah. Well, probably. She's one of only six female artists to win the Country Music Association's highest honour, which was entertainer of the year.

She won it in 1978. Also on that list, Shanaya Twain and Taylor Swift. So, and Reba McIntyre. Who had that show, Reba. I had no idea that she was a superstar overseas when that show was on. I just thought that was just a terrible TV show.

Yeah, it was pretty bad. I think she's really big. I imagine just in America probably. Yeah, but I just had no idea But over there, she is like a Dolly Parton style. She's like selling out stadiums. The show even made its way over here. I know.

I guess it got packaged up with other things. Yeah, it was one of it. It was like on in the afternoon, was it? There was something about her though. You could tell she had star quality. She had that country charm. She did. I can deny on it.

She, uh, Dolly has also been nominated for two Academy Awards and a Tony. She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her music at 1984. And in 2005, she was honored with the National Medal of, of arts, the highest honour given by the US government for excellence in arts. You have a very full cabinet awards. You know, that's what they call them, right. A cabinet. Everyone's got a cabinet of awards.

Oh, yeah. I've got a Evans Fox Kids award. I've got a cabinet for it. And just to kind of round it out, because what she likes to do when she's home with Carl, who definitely exists, she likes to just kind of chill out. And for their 50th wedding anniversary, Dolly talked Carl into having a big blowout ceremony in Nashville, something she said he only agreed to because they planned to sell photo rights to raise money for charity. Oh, Carl Dean.

Does she not have spare money to? No, she's just like, well, let's have a party and celebrate being 50 years. And he was like, I don't want it. And she's like, will you sell the rights and make some sell money? Was his mom around? Probably not. She wore a dress by Steve Somer. Summers, her long-time costume designer, and the couple spent their second honeymoon, honeymoon,

honeymoon in their camper van by a lake in Georgia. Oh, that sounds beautiful. They have an RV and they've been known to like on date night go through the drive-thru at like Taco Bell. Dolly Parton stays in an RV. No, she owns an RV. She doesn't rent it, doesn't have other people's farts in it. I love it by a lake though. I'm picturing a real beautiful spot.

Definitely. And I'm imagining like top of the line RV. Oh, it's going to be pretty lux. Still. But I just like that that just gives me the feeling that she's like quite grounded, you know? She's just kind of, man, she's just so delightful. And that is my report basically on the early life and then some fun facts at the end of Dolly Park. Do we got a ruling off of whether or not those facts were fun?

I've deemed them all average. Okay. Oh, right. I think that were interesting. I think you're like, wow, she's done a lot. Did you happen to Google her net worth? Oh, shit. Because we play a game at work called Celebrity Net Worth,

where someone thinks of a celebrity, and you Google their name, then the word net worth, and the first article that comes up, that's the answer that you have to go with. So they're wildly inaccurate. I did. But Dolly Parton was one of the ones that I severely underestimated. 500 million. Half a billion US dollars.

She's massive. It goes on holiday in an RV. What's what she likes to do? She's just a country girl. Share the money around, Dolly. She's just like spending time with her hubby. Share it around. Give me some.

Yeah. Yeah, Dolly, give us some money. Are we getting roll? Give us an RV, Dolly. Dolly. We'd love, RV would be good for us. We could take it on the road. Oh, that would be sick.

Where would we take it on the road? Brisbane. We drive to Brisbane. Yeah. In an RV. We had an RV. Hell yeah. We're doing an East Coast tour.

Sydney. Canberra. Okay. Well, you guys have fun in the RV and I'll fly. Thanks. Oh. I don't want to spend any more time with you than I have to. Oh, okay.

Well, you're the anti-Dolly pun. Matt and I are grounded country superstars. Yeah, it was really hard to hear that from you. But, yes, that was a fascinating report. Love all that stuff because I didn't know anything about it. And to be honest, the happiest I am from that report is just to hear that she is just a nice person. Yeah, she just seems really lovely. Because my main exposure to her, apart from the couple of really famous songs,

is her being on Hannah Montana. Yes, because she's Miley Cyrus's godmother. Yeah. I, okay, so I tried to buy a t-shirt with Dolly Parton's face on it off Etsy. And I made the purchase in February. And I immediately realized that the address was my old work address. So I messaged and I was like, made a mistake, this is my actual address. So they said, no worries.

A month went by, no T-shirt. And I said, hey, I haven't got this. And she was like, oh, that's weird. And I said, just to confirm, you sent it to this address, right? She's like, yeah. And what address did she send it to? She said, I said, you've sent it to, and I sent my home address. Which is.

Yep, I'm not saying my home address. And then it still didn't arrive. Month later, again, nothing. And I said, sorry, just confirming once more, this is the address you've sent it to. She's like, yeah. Anyway, so I still haven't received it. And I messaged her yesterday and said, I haven't got this t-shirt. She was like, this is the weirdest thing.

I can't believe it's been lost so many times. Here's the address I sent it to. And she sent it to my old work address. I've confirmed with her three times. So she said it three times to the wrong address? She sent it, she sent two t-shirts to my old work. Even though I told her the address three times. So then I said, okay, well, thanks for getting back to me.

I think I've figured it out. You've sent it to the wrong address. Here's my address. And she goes, oh, that'd be it. All right, cool. Well, I'll send off a new one tomorrow. Are you paying for them every time? No, she's giving me a refund, but that's also gone.

to a credit card that no longer exists. So I'm, I'm fucked. And that t-shirt is never, never arriving. So she gave you a refund and she's in theory sent out three t-shirts. She's sending the third one tomorrow. So no one's one in the situation. No, and I'm definitely not getting that t-shirt, but I want it because it's sick. Is there any question why Dolly Parton's worth half a billion dollars?

I reckon that's her on the other end of that email. Her or Carl D. Just going, oh, whoops. Playing funny buggers. Yeah, I reckon they're playing funny buggers. Anyway, so that's just a little tidbit about my love for Dolly Parts. Oh, no. I am very impressed by that. Do you like her by that report?

Yeah, she seems fun. I reckon, just listen to her music. She's a bloody delight. Amazing voice. Yeah, I reckon that. I've got baby I'm burning, ready to go on my laptop for as soon as we're finished. I'm ready to give her a go. I reckon.

Now, Matt. Give her a bloody go, mate. You've got something to do, don't you? Yes, it is now time for everyone's favorite segment of the show. It's called the fact-f, quote or question segment. I'm going to say fact-f. Fucker questions. Oh boy.

Fact quote or questions. We'll have to up the pledge a little bit if we're going to give him that option. And this week, I've just done a, I cannot find his surname, but his name, as I've got it written down, is Larry. And he's given himself the title of Chairman of the Department of Religion and Bible Study and Sexual Organ size and Ejaculation Volume Calibration. Wow, what a double portfolio. And his quote is from the Bible and probably making his title more relevant, I assume.

Let's see. Inspirational quote from the Bible. It's from Ezekiel 2320 specifically. She lusted after their male consorts whose sexual organs were like those of donkeys and whose ejaculation was like that of horses. I can't believe how relevant this is to the episode we just did. Jolene. Lusting after horses.

Caldane. That's from the Bible? That can't actually be from the Bible, is it? Cardine, is that how he defended himself? Well, actually, Dolly. It's in the Bible. Ezekiel, Ezekiel 2320, I believe it is. Yes.

That you feel like a bit of a fool. Yeah. Doing God's work, I tell you. So that's from Larry. Thanks Larry. And what else do we do at the end of the show, David? Which is I thank you so much for your support, Larry. Yeah, thank you so much for enlightening us and bringing us to what is probably my new favorite quote from the Bible.

If you want to get into the fact, quote or question segment of the show, you can support us on Patreon at patreon.com slash do you go on pod. And that is on the Sydney-Schenberg, rest in peace, memorial level of Patreon or above. And you get to give us a factor quote or a question. And the next thing we do, Jess, which I interrupted there, I just didn't feel like we'd given Larry enough. And now I think he's got his just desserts. He's the one who ate the connoisseur? That would make sense.

At this point, I thought, I'm going to read the entire Bible. See if there's any clues in there. I hate you. Brought me to Ezekiel 2021. Something about ejaculating donkeys. stuck out of my mind. I headed to the source. Jerusalem.

Plain noise. You went to Jerusalem? Yeah, for the true crime podcast. Okay, so what we do at the end of every episode is we like to take some time to thank our Patreon supporters who support the show. And that's what we're going to do now.

Absolutely. These are the people who make the show possible. And we appreciate it so much. And normally we do a little game, don't we, Bob? Yeah. Let's name their first album Okay Dolly's was

Hello I'm Dolly Oh great Should I kick her off Yeah go on Should we or do you want to do something else I don't know where this is going to go I feel like it's going to fit a format Hello I'm

Dolly All of them We've got to go better than that What's your favourite first debut album Dave? Oh The Sound of White Missy Higgins I don't know.

It was just the first album I thought of. Oh, one of my... That was her debut? Yeah, it was good. The sound of white. Good album. Probably what I think is the best debut album of all time is the Arctic Monkeys. Whatever people say I am.

That's what I'm not. That is a very good album. That is a very good album. That is. Yes, I don't have an answer to that, but maybe it's great truck and songs of the Renaissance by Tism. Probably. So, I mean, that gives us some scope there for different formats.

Yeah. I'd love to thank from Luronels. London in Greater London in Great Britain. Geez, they, I think they're pretty good over there. Not a great saying. A lot of London's. I love to thank Alistair McGregor. Ooh, I like that name.

Alistair McGregor's debut album was... Often they're self-titled as well. Oh, that's wordy. Self-titled. Or often they're self-titled as well. That's pretty fun. Alistair McGregor, often they're self-titled. as well. No, this isn't what I mean for the name of the album. No, stop, stop writing. No, please.

Oh, you're putting it straight onto the album cover. No, oh, no, you've filled up all the space. Alistair, you've done it again. God, he's good. That's fun. I like those, there's a few iconic album covers that do have a lot of just text on it. Like, there's a Howling Wolf album and says something like, this is an album by a Howling Wolf. The album is called, or something like that. I think the Black Keys did it kind of an homage to that with. One of their albums as well. And I think that they often look pretty cool. Dave, do you have any ideas for Alistair McGregor's album?

McGregan with the best of them. You are the master of pun. Thank you so much. I don't get it. You don't need to get it. But what does it mean? What is it to McGreg? McGregon with the best of it.

I mean, if I have to explain it, in brackets, if I have to explain it, don't come knocking. Oh, wow. It's complex. McGregan were the best of them. If I have to explain it, don't come knocking. That's really good. Yeah, good one. I think that, and that's just text. I think that would look good. Okay. Well, Alistair, good luck with your album. I think that's really good. I'd also like to thank, I've just found this is the Howling Wolf album. I was so far off it. On the cover, it says, this is Howland Wolf's new album. He doesn't like it. He didn't like his electric guitar at first either. That's the album cover. Pretty cool. Can you not be googling things on my computer

because I'm scared you'll find all my porn Oh no Oh you're howling with porn Desperkers.com slash porn Oh no I've done it again I'd also love to thank also from Great Britain This time from Cornwall From Truro in fact

Home of the Cornish pasties Cornwall I'm pretty sure And other Cornish things Like Cornish people Yep Cornish Rose Yep The list goes on

I'd love to thank Nicolene Nick Lean Nick Lean Nick Lean I'm begging of you please So Horse and around It's a 90s

Oh yeah okay great You've done it again Nick Lean Horse and around And it's a The album covers him But the saddles Flipped down to the underside of the horse

And he's still got a big smile On his face He's still riding it But he's on the underneath Of the horse but he's still like smiling with his hand out like he's on top of the horse when he's really underneath the horse

and the horse is pissing on him. That piss part could be in or out, take it all over here, Nick. We can edit that in post. Is that not a deal breaker? I think, yeah, this will sort of be a Photoshop deal, but that is, I think that could be great horse and around. I think that could be big. That's a lot of fun.

I think that could be big for you, Nick. That was a lot of fun. Congrats, Nick, on your country and Western album. Nick Lean. Nick Lean. begging on you, please get back on top of that. May I thank some people also? Please do.

I would like to thank from what's W.A. in the US. Washington. Washington State. And you know what? I didn't back myself. Is that? Well, it might not be. It could be Wisconsin.

Is there a name, Wisconsin? I think it's Washington. Let's not even double check it. Let's just wait for the tweets to tell us where we're right. I would like to thank Richard Compo. Oh, Compo. That's what we're using. used to yell out when someone had a fall at work.

Compo. A bit of a joke. Falling off ladders. So you get, oh, that's a good title. Falling off ladders. I love it. Yeah. Compo, of course, meaning in Australia's Shaw for Compensation.

And then the, I was a little joke. No one ever did anything. We're making fun of the litigious culture of America, really. We weren't. We weren't 15. We didn't know what we were talking about, to be honest. Compos. But the album cover for this is, who was that famous artist who did the,

pictures that were those impossible rooms that had stairs going. Escher. Esher. So it's an Escher type picture where he's got ladders going up on every side of the room. This is the second time this week that Escher's come up in conversation for me. Am I hanging out with arty-farty wankers? I don't know if Escher is it. I think that's pretty high brown stuff. If it was on my grandparents who lived in the country's wall, I've got to tell you, they were pretty high-art-loving people. So the answer to my question is yes, then.

So he's upside down on the ladder somehow. And it's called Fallen Off Ladders. Yeah, I love it. I think that's a great. That album cover is going to be iconic. Richard Compo falling off ladders. So thank you to Richard. And I'd also like to thank from our nation's capital,

the Australian Capital Territory, Canberra. Oh. Bit of a circus up there. Bloody plod clowns up there. Well, they're an overdrive at the moment. Yeah, I guess hardly any of them are in Canberra, but they... I reckon Canberra's cool. I like Canberra.

I'll tell you who's in Canberra. Matt Duncan. Dunk. Love to have a beer with Duncan. I love to have a beer with Duncan. Oh, you must get that all the time, Matt Duncan. Sorry, Matt. Sorry, Matt.

Matthew and son. It's never done. There's always something new. Always something new. Oh, yeah, that's good. Matt Duncan, always something new. And on the cover, he's walking down a beach with a jacket of his shoulder. Yes.

Walking away from the camera. Oh, great. Maybe with the newspaper hanging out his hand, right? And on the newspaper, there's a picture of him, and the headline says, hit debut record. That's a real cocky debut. Real cockiness here. I love it. Matt, hey, it works. So thank you, Matt. Thanks, Maddie D. All right, I'm going to bring us home now.

With a shout out to a place that I was at on the weekend down to the beach here in Victoria in Point Lonsdale, I would like to thank. Weird brag. We get it. You've been to a beach. Hey, it's a great place. You're unbelievable. Yeah.

I was in my house this weekend. Yeah, some shoving it down our throats. Yeah, I don't need your social life or lack thereof. Well, it really wasn't. My parents have retired down that way. Anyway, I'd like to thank. You were hanging out with your parents for the weekend. Yeah, it was a great time.

You fucking nerd. Oh, I haven't fed. Family time. Oh, you lehiz. I think if Jim Carrey was here, he would call you a real dickhead. Classic Kerry. Well, I would like to thank from Pointe Longdale in Victoria, Fred Rhodes. Fred Rhodes.

War Machine. Whoa. Because Rhodes in Marvel Universe is War Machine. Oh. Played by. by the guy who puts on an English accent in the heist movies with... Oh, yeah! The guy who advertises coffee.

George Clooney. Ocean's 11. Don Cheedle. Don Cheedle. We got there. He does. Not a good one either. Yeah, real.

Like, it's almost comically bad on purpose. Yeah, maybe. All right. I'm sorry. Oh, right. Oh, we're going to hoist bank, aren't we? I'm Don Cheedle, aren't I? Aren't I?

He doesn't even get it right. Hello, hello, hello. Yeah, it's like Don Cheeto. Anti-Done Cheetaheel. Sorry. What? No, you're not. You're playing a character.

I reckon Fred Rhodes' War Machine album is like heavy metal. Oh, yeah. You know? But in the middle is just a scar track. One. And it goes a little something like this. A do-a-b-bap-bap-bap-bop-b-d-d-a-b-d-a-b-tab-a-t. You're scat.

You are scarring all over the place. I'm scarring, yeah. You've scat your pants. No, it's the, yeah, okay, the sing. is Scat, but the plural is scar. That's not it. Yes. Matt, I think I know music.

I work in radio, mate. That's true. You love music. I love music. You're on Triple J. We love music. Next one to drop this week from... That's how we talk.

All of us. From Scat. Scat. Next Scat to drop out my pants. Have you ever played a Scat song live? Yeah. Or even done some Scat live on air. Of course.

No further questions. I would find. I'd finally like to thank. And thanks again to our War Machine, Fred Rhodes. I would like to thank from Leeds, a place we've been. Yeah. In West Yorkshire, I would like to thank Dylan Volens. Volens.

Dylan Volins. Something about Volley? I was thinking... Half volley. Voluntary manslaughter. Oh, wow. What is that? What's the album art?

Him in a coffin. Okay. Oh, yeah. Being lowered into the grave. for voluntary manslaughter. What does that mean again? I think it's always involuntary manslaughter.

And that's why it's funny. Okay. That's why it would. You might have to explain this to you. That's why it's funny. We won a title that's funny the first time you hear it, but it's less funny each time you hear it after that. And Dave's the master of that.

Yes, thank you to. Voluntary Man Slaughter, an album by Dylan Volens. And it's in the coffin is a Yes. Which is an animal, right? In England. Yeah. And he's in England.

He's in England. It makes sense. It just works. Nailed it. The only reason I know Vols is because of a comedian with long hair from England. Geordy comedian. Long black hair. Goes on long side tracks.

Ross Noble. I was going to say. Oh, right. He says, I've heard him talk about voles a bit. Otherwise, I've never heard of it as an animal That was really worth bringing up Have you heard of voles? Yeah

Really, have you heard of voles? I've heard of voles But I've also heard of Ross Noble So that could be my exposure as well Me too, maybe But we'll never know I wish we could I wish we could get at the bottom of it

Maybe we could do another real crime podcast About when we first learned about voles I asked myself What is a vol? Can you just wrap up please? Okay, well, we've got to say thanks to everyone that supports us on Patreon, and we look forward to joining these chart toppers that we just mentioned when we release our own single.

And hopefully we top the ARIA charts coming up soon. Drop a single. I genuinely think that would be quite funny. Well, let's get on it. Yeah. I mean, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Thank you. Let's give it a great.

Wayne Gretzky slash Michael Jordan. Someone pulled me up on that recently. I said something like that and they're like, no, you haven't taken them. You haven't missed them. You just haven't taken. You have to take them. You know exactly what they're trying to say.

What the Gretz means. So just shut up. You fucking Nancy no snow. Oh, no. Fuck off. Nancy no snow at you. Okay, how about? Real Nancy no snow over here.

If we change it to you get zero points for 100% of the shots you don't take. Oh, that's boring. That's catchy. That sucks. Put it on a poster. It sucks. I'd buy that. calendar.

Thank you. Let's make that the cover of the CD. And that's January and then February it says, fall down four times and get up three in brackets because every time you get up, you don't have to. Otherwise, mathematically doesn't work out. You know, there's people that are like, why would you get up four times when you've only fallen down four times? Wait.

Just. Why wouldn't, wait, why wouldn't you? Right, it's the other way around. You know, when people are like, oh, my God. You fall down four times. get up five, but you only need to get up four. Shut up, nerd. Go again.

Yeah, and you just basically want to slam dunk their face. Slam dunk the funk, which is what I call it up. Five. Slam dunk to funk. My favorite debut album, five. Is that slam dunk the funk is a five thing? Yeah, slam dunk the funk put it up, got that feeling. That is catchy.

Just to remind everyone, they spelled five where the F was replaced with the number five. Five, five. It was sick. Five-Ave or make you feel. The only thing I can ever remember about that band is one, there was a member called Abbs, who had sweet abs. And the other one is possibly also Abbs. At the time he had, gel-d hair was really popular.

Gel and wax in your hair, like heaps of it. And he had twisted up little spikes. But then I remember he shaved his head and everyone was pissed off because they were like, but that's your look. And he had to say, the hot lights was melting my hair every night when we were performing. so that's why I had to shake my head. Jesus, that is grim.

They had to call a press conference. I know. I bet his abs were out at the press conference. Yeah, get him out. Get them out. Anyway, that's my report on five. That was great. Great bonus report there at the end of the episode.

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That's the best. If you can share around it, it's so good. If you can do any of that, if you know someone who might enjoy it, normally a specific episode is a good way to get someone in. You go, oh, I know someone who loves Dolly Parton. Maybe they'll like to hear some idiots talk about it for a while. Hey.

Hey, and also, I've got to say, people will say like, oh, why haven't you come to my city or whatever? We do look at the download stats. It does give us a vague idea where people are. And if we see where people are, that's probably where we're going to go. So if you're in a smaller place and you're like, we want to get them there, tell all your friends. So that way, when we come to your town, people will actually turn up.

Yeah, that would be nice. And then you've got someone to talk about. the show with that kind of stuff that's nice yeah that's nice that's nice all right but i think that's us that's us yeah thanks for bloody listening we're kooky we're cookie we're cookie and we're spooky no no i changed it oh sorry it's a remix day we've changed every song we've talked about how about you lift up a little bit you're always putting down uh cutting me down i mean i don't change i don't change every song i only changed jolly Darling.

Damn it. Let's go. It's going to be in my head forever, so. That's a great tune. I reckon it'd be in the mix of my all-time top hundred, I reckon. Really? Yeah. Love that tune.

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