Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Says There’ll Never Be Another Dolly Parton

Episode Date: September 1, 2026

Uncle Si’s lifelong love for Dolly Parton takes over as he remembers her music, her hilarious honesty, and the business move that even Elvis couldn’t talk her into. Si casually drops the fact that he once stood just feet away from Elvis Presley while women screamed and fainted, leaving Martin to wonder how he’s never heard that story before. John-David debates the “Mount Rushmore of Beloved People,” and Phillip sheepishly reveals that he knows every word to Si’s most famous country music song, “Throwback Man.” Duck Call Room episode #584 is sponsored by: https://buyraycon.com/duckopen - Get 20% OFF The Essential Open Earbuds today! Thanks Raycon for sponsoring! https://duckstamp.com - Get your digital duck stamp online and keep it right on your phone! https://factormeals.com/duck50off - Use code duck50off to get 50% off and 1 free breakfast item per box for 1 year, while supplies last until 10/31/2026. See website for more details. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Easy. You start it like this. Welcome back to the duck call room, ladies and gentlemen. There's just too much to talk about. Too much to talk about where you want to start. Happy, sad, some of the middle. one place to start. Rest in peace, Dolly. We cannot go anywhere without paying our respects to Dolly Parton first thing.

There you go. Si, did Christine... I was a rough one. How did you find out, Cy? Sitting there, watching the TV, and it came out on. And I just went... What's the first thing you did? Played 9 to 5.

We lost a good one there, boys. Yeah. We really did. Oh, Dolly's great, man. I saw a thing that said of the most universal... liked people who would be on the most universally liked

Mount Rushmore of humans She's up there She's on She was Yeah And she might be number one No no I will say She is number one

Everybody loves She's a queen She's a queen man Like I don't know anybody It's like Ollie Parton Yeah Well she was

She was such a icon Well an original Yeah She didn't really care Because You know She was just

She was just a simple mountain country girl, okay, that was very, very, very talented, playing, and then her really deal was, you know, songwriter. Yeah, yeah. And a smart business woman. And, well, no, though, that's another thing. And they all called her names, okay, throughout her career. and she just laughed it off. Okay.

But her and her husband had a unique relationship. He didn't care nothing about what she did. And never, I don't think he ever went to anything that she's done. He stays the house. You want to talk about a sweet gig. Oh, Ollie Park's husband. I can mold myself into that. Well, no, no.

And they had a very, very, very. very good marriage. Yeah. Which is hard to do when someone is as talented and well known as Dolly is and is always gone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because that woman never stopped.

Yeah. She was still going. From the time she was little enough to to actually be on the stage, she was, and she didn't get off of it, you know. How tall was she? Was she five foot? Yeah. She hit five?

Like right at. Five even. Five even. Of course you are. And Drew Breeze is six foot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I thought so. I, you know, she was at a couple of things where I never got to talk to her, but I saw her. And you know what? She was talking to everybody that wanted to come up there and talk to her. Well, no, no. And I didn't want to be one more, right? I would.

Oh, I wouldn't. There's some people you break the rules. That's the one thing I was out. I never did get to me. Seeing the way she actually interacted in person was how you saw it on camera was good enough for me. I was like, that woman is who she says she is, and I can appreciate that. Well, there was no pretense with Dolly.

None. Yeah. You was who she was and she didn't give a flip what you thought either way. Okay. I saw something, and it could have been AI, but like she got some song to release on her 100th birthday. There's a rumor. That's like locked up.

There's more songs coming. It's like Dollywood. No, no. Her last few years, she had, I mean, they showed it on the television the other day. She had like 40 people that she had done songs with. And it was the rock world,

rock and roll world. I remember that. Oh, she went and took that collective soul song and said, oops, made it better. Well, no, no. Shine is a jam. Which got to stink for like your one song for like just an old lady to just be like,

watch me and a banjo make this song better. But she never would, you know, like with the fans. you know, when you walked up and was talking to her, there was nobody else. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. She's talking directly to you, eye to eye, and, you know, and that was everybody.

Yeah. I hate that we didn't get to meet her. No, no, I would have, you know, I would have loved to met her personally. It's probably a good thing you didn't. Well, no, I ought to got in trouble. Yeah. Yeah, you may have been more.

I know. I'm serious. I ought to got in trouble, okay? because I had to hug that woman So I noticed on the I ain't not wrong with hugging her At some point you got to let go

Yeah On the on the Duck Dynasty episodes You said like You were using her for an example When the old lady walked into the Salon And she come out looking like

Dolly Parton There you go So you've liked her for a long time Well I know She's always been on the list And she's just She's a Ain't that something.

I bet Phil got to meet her before you. He probably, ball, he probably did. Yeah. I'm just saying, I bet she, she up air in heaven saying.

She got a long line, all I'm saying. Yeah. She might take a few thousand years to get to both of them. Riebel McIntyre said, well, tonight heaven is celebrating and dolly is,

she's, she's leading the choir, buddy. She's leading the whole thing. Yeah, she leading the choir, man. And I always,

I thought soon as, the, it comes on the screen that she died, I said, Well, all of God's singers are coming home. Yeah. There you go. Wow.

And, you know, she's one of them. Yes. You know, she wrote, you know, thousands of songs. What's your favorite dolly song? What's your favorite dolly song? I'll always love you. Oh, that's a good one. And I like, I like putting in Houston's version of it the best.

Because, you know, she made Dolly another, $10 million off of her when she sang. That's a good deal there. No, no, hey. It was a good song. Dolly sang it good, but not, you know,

Whitney Houston took it to a new level. Whitney got some pipes on her. You know, she sang it, and it was out of this world. That's two, it went a little bit different route. Yeah. Huh?

Doll and Whitney. Like I went a little. No, no, yeah. point coming in a road news say that was one of the things that someone else said about her that's your prerogative i'm just saying no one no one was off limits with dolly so to speak you know some some people just won't won't you know speak to anybody oh yeah you know and dolly you know dolly didn't go that route i always thought it was a a grand what you had i call a grand lady You had, you know, your Miranda Lambert's paying tribute and M&M.

M&M, yeah. Which you don't see coming, but, like, you never knew. Like, oh, she was reaching out to anybody making music and courage them. Yeah, super cool, man. She just, I don't think, will there ever be another person? And imagine Eminem holding on to that. Like, that tells you how big of a deal that was. Johnny D.

Look and see. Which, you know, you would think he'd know the importance of writing back. I think at that time he made a little confused himself, you know. The whole world was coming at. him. I mean, we live through that. I'm talking about that song. Oh, yeah. There you go. That's a good point. Hey, were you look and see who Dolly sang with this last time she made a CD? It was with a lot of different people. Oh, no, it was. I was telling me about it. Why aren't your people? It was like 40 different rock and roll star. Which is amazing. Rock star by Dolly Parton released November 17th,

2023. Okay. She did Reck and Ball with Miley Cyrus. Really? Which I'm interested in. That was the thing about her. She could sing. She was like Elvis Presley. There wasn't nothing that either one of them couldn't sing. Good gracious. Look at Johnny.

He's amazed about something. Yeah. Well, you know, I'm married to a Tennessee ball. So when she's saying Rocky Top in Needland Stadium, like, oh, I didn't get out there because, hey, I've been on a state of Tennessee. And when they started saying it, hey, you couldn't hear nobody but me. I'm serious when I had a mic and hey I was singing it all I could give it

What, Rocky Top? Yeah. That's a good song. It's a good song. It's a catchy too, especially when you're in a crowd of people Oh, no. That's all singing. Yeah, that are fired up too.

If you don't like Rocky Top, then there's just something wrong with it. You need to have your butt kick. I'm in. Hey, and the people in Tennessee will give you a butt kicking. Oh, freely. Yeah, they don't mind.

That is true. I was always kind of partial or to Jolene. Yeah. Maybe because that's my mama's name. Well, that was her. Very confusing song when that song's written about somebody and your mama's name is Jolene.

Jolene. No, that was, there was a, dolly was involved with a young man. And some lady at a bank had a crush on him in. Hey, careful now. You get to looking close to home. Where do you think Jolene worked? Yeah, that's a wild song for you.

No, no. Careful now. Yeah. Careful. Careful. Good, great. I didn't know that this album existed, but size right. What's another one?

I thought, Free Bird with Leonard Skinner, how's that one for you? Well, now she can actually perform that in heaven, so. Free Bird, man. This would have been whatever was left of Leonard. I mean, Elton John. Oh, hey. Stevie Nicks. Stevie Nicks.

Sting, every breath you tell. I know what I'm listening to on the way back to work, y'all. Well, before you do, before you pull it up, make sure you head to duckstamp. com, go ahead and get your duck stamp, man. Because we can forget that, bro. I do like how you can look at any Dolly Parton song you want and have the convenience of getting your duck stamp right there so quick and so simple. There you go.

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Who else is on the Mount Rushmore of just people that everybody likes? Of genuinely good people? everybody likes. I'm talking. In our lifetime? Mm-hmm. Yeah, size's got to be one of them. Are you on there? He's a household name.

No, Dolly Parton, there will never be anyone ever. You're like, she don't belong on Mount Rushmore. She's around. I hate to tell you, buddy. I ain't ever heard somebody say a bad word about you either. That's true. And I've heard a lot of people talk. And I ain't

trying to blow your head up or give you no ego. Well, I ain't. But, you know, you know, your brother, we would all think, feel a little bit but he had a way of having the other side that didn't agree with him very frustrated and upset with him you haven't had that i could think a whole group of people aside from that one weekend you made some atheist mad you know no well who cares they don't believe anyway hey that's one of the things that just uh blows me away we stood on a lot of the same things and yet nobody hated me he got death threats yeah it was kind of

you smile with all 17 of your teeth. Well, no, no, but that's so crazy. Somebody did ask why Sigh I looked so much younger on the Facebook today. I was like, well, he. I know, Phil said he always looked at all. The teeth. I mean, he lost his glasses and gained his teeth. Like, that'll change.

That's a good way to set you back 10 years. Yeah, that'll change you. Well, when you just replace everything, you know. New eyes. You always say it with a smile on your face, my friend. Yeah. Well, hey. A little more sternly.

They did an interview. He was a scary. They did an interview with me, and it was about growing up with Phil, what kind of brother and all this was. And it was one of the best interviews I ever did because everything about it was great. Because I started out when they asked me, okay, well, what about your brother? And I said, well, number one, he was very intelligent, way smarter than I am. he's got two degrees okay and but he you would never know it when you talk to him i'm trying to think like that's hard to think of somebody like arnold palmer doesn't come to mind as people

being like sworn enemies he always seemed to be mentioned in high regard i got one on arnold palmer no oh no i got one person no i wasn't talking about you i was just wondering if there was something i mean you know it to some level it seems like everybody that gets to a certain level has some form of scandal or something. So I'm just trying to think of people like that don't. Steve Irwin. The crocodile man. Everybody loves Steve Irwin.

Absolutely. And now everybody loves his kids. I would agree with that. Keanu Reeves is mine. Yeah, he's a pretty good one. Really? Yeah, no scandals. Always treats cast and crew with respect.

That's interesting. Best man. Are we talking about like point break, Keanu or the replacements, Keanu? every version of Keanu by two favorite movies he's in you don't think if he had a podcast he threw the ad papers that the camera guy when he was done he would do it with a smile just like y'all oh good i'm trying to hurt you my friend yeah sometimes johnny d loses a smile but that's a little faster yeah i'm just keanu ruse that's interesting i didn't know that about him so i may or may not have googled this before we got here oh and he was on the list was he oh awesome that's cool yeah i had no

idea about that. I mean, I didn't think he was bad towards him either. I just had no idea. It's nice to know. I'm just trying to make sure everybody knows. I wasn't judging Keanu. Mr. Rogers is on the list. Oh, yeah. He's a good one. Bob Ross. Yeah. On the list. But Dolly Parton is at a weird other level than all of them? Oh, yeah. Bigger following. But it's nice to know that people are genuine, you know, like Dolly was. Does I make the list? I was curious. Okay. Wait, this is AI. Is there some else that you think deserves a spot. Sy Robertson, Mr. Google AI.

There you go. Let's see what they say. Searching. Not in this lifetime. It's definitely a pop culture legend who commands his own massively dedicated families. He became the absolute breakout star of the series, adored by millions for his erratic war stories, unwavering faith in his permanent tub-aware,

cup of sweet tea. That's why people don't like you. They think it's sweet tea all these years. That probably is the only letdown I've seen is one to tell people it's unsweet. Really? Well, he might not have the global, multi-demographic, universal consistence of Dolly Parton. He holds a firm spot on the Mount Rushmore of reality TV legends or America's favorite uncles. I agree.

We salute you, sir. And the other thing that people don't know about Si is that he's married. Yeah. Because I have witnessed the women go for Sy. I don't know if they don't know or don't care. I've always been a player, boys. No. I thought he was full of it until I saw it for myself.

All right, y'all ready? You got to hate the game. What did they say? I have got the Mount Rushmore of America's favorite uncles now. Uh-oh. Can you guess it? Uncle Fester. No.

What? Uncle Jesse? How? Is Uncle Jesse on there from D. Luke's a hazard? Or Uncle Jesse from full house. There you go. Uncle Jesse from full house.

Yeah. John Stamos, that's one of the coolest uncles ever. Yeah. Uncle Sy is on there. I'm going to struggle now. It's pretty easy. Is it? There's two very famous uncles.

Only one of them's in TV. Uncle Ben? Nope. Uncle Buck? No. Uncle Buck is a different. I like Uncle Buck. That's a different deal.

Uncle Buck ain't as big as these two, uncles. Is there a singer? Nope. Uncle Cracker. who's Uncle Cracker Wait What is Uncle Cracker saying Uncle Cracker's saying

Not way bigger than Uncle Cracker Sye you don't know Zah is not the biggest uncle for sure Uncle Sam Oh God Did you just oh God I was just I was thinking you were talking about a person

Was Uncle Sam a real person Got to be Was it? Sure I mean he's somebody's uncle And then Uncle Phil Everybody loves Uncle Phil Everybody loves Uncle Phil

Uncle Phil Oh, Fresh Prince Everybody love Uncle Phil Yeah, fresh prints, uncle Those are America's favorite uncles right there There were some good shows That it took having a great uncle to make them That's facts

Yeah I can't believe Uncle Jesse from Dukes of Hazard didn't No, that should have been He was always a wise old man Yeah, he was Uncle Jesse was average Uncle Jesse didn't command the show Like the other uncle

No, but he was a He was a permanent fiction there and his overalls and his red hat. You'd watch that show for something else. Yeah, jumping cars. He was a hazard. Absolutely not. And shooting dynamite with Bowenheim.

Nope. Still not while I watched it. Oh, Daisy. There it is. Are you all up to date with other celebrity deaths this week? The guy from, actually, yeah, I am. And it really upset me that they never mentioned Home Alone, too, with that guy. Who?

I don't remember his name. Tim Curry. Yeah. the guy from Home Alone 2 Oh He was the one at the plaza hotel That guy Okay yeah

Yeah Sad day Home Alone 2 is his best movie I've never seen the other ones Yeah I don't like scary movies hunter They're scary Oh yeah he was like the original it clown

Yeah that's terrible Oh he was the clown Yeah oh really Interesting Oh that Tim Curry Tim Curry And then today the voice actor for Optimus Prime from the original

and the newer Transformer movies passed away. He was in Home Alone too. He was the bellhop. Would it be a bellhop? Is that what you'd call him? No, the bellhop was that other guy. He was like, he was in charge of the hotel. Yeah, okay, yeah.

Trying to get the kid. Yeah, out of the hotel. He was the one running the hotel. He wasn't the ones trying to get. Yeah, he was pretty good on that show. Per se. That's interesting, man. Who were the other ones on the Mount Rushmore, though?

Dolly? Dolly, Keanu Reeves, Steve Irwin, Bob Ross. Oh, yeah. Mr. Rogers, it depends on who you go with. He just died too. He's 80. Who?

That's what I was saying. Oh, they're both the same age. That's what you're getting at. Yeah, he was 80 as well. Interesting. You got two years left. God, man. Hey, live it up.

Live it up. How's time to go get on that Woody, Ruth. somebody call that old boy with that car no the good news is the size not 80 because you know they all say them things coming threes man yeah you're safe yeah you're good man you good i was worried something was up because as a theme park connoisseur dolly wood just had a new ride open and they were like ah she can't make it i bet there's a bunch of flowers and candles and i bet there's been like a little pilgrimage to dolly wood well i'm trying to get there no no when you i sent alison it's a nine hour and 57 minute drive y'all are like

Two hours ago. What I thought when I seen it on the screen. Yeah. I didn't really know what to affect. Yeah. Because she's such a... Well, y'all the same age. So, I mean, effectively, y'all are peers.

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See, that's the great thing about her. There will never be another one. And my deal for all those ladies out there that are want to be singers. Hunter got a chuckle. That would be a good thing for you to watch. Is anything Dolly Parton did? Watch her and then implement what she was. Yeah.

Well, here's why everybody loved her. I saw this video. I'm going to play this. Just the, it's short. But it made me go, oh, yeah, she ain't no dummy. Here it is. I just don't get into that. And so if you are deciding you may want to ask me something more serious, don't.

I'm not going to answer it. You have a president of the United States who said those things on that bus. I'm not addressing that. I do not get into that. Of course, I have my opinion about everybody and everything. But I learned a long time ago, keep your house shut if you want to stay in show business. I'm not in politics. I'm an entertainer.

I knew that about it. He said, keep your dang mouth shut. I'm not into politics. I'm an entertainer. Thank you. Yeah. I love that. And that needs to be the tagline of this rig.

That needs to be the tagline of everybody's... Everything. Everything. Yeah. That made me... Yeah, have your own feelings about politics, but you ain't got to give them. You ain't got to share them because guess what? Don't care.

Oh. Oh, man. One thing that I did regret, though, is when she and Elvis got together, because they was going to let him sing, I'll always love you. but colonel parker says now because he he wants the publishing rights and tally laughed at him and said i'm not giving you the publishing rights of this idiot you know because she was a she was a business woman yes she was sure and nobody she's she didn't nobody nobody's you know she always come out on top on the business deals i literally just googled elvis and dolly parton top article

Dolly Parton's smartest business mood was saying no to Elvis Presley. You've been watching a lot of Dolly stuff. Well, I've just, I've, I've, you know. Oh, well, I think the biggest thing is her career as I've lived, I've lived it. That's what I'm saying. He was a fan, fan, like, I mean, I'm a fan of Dollar 2, but I wasn't there for that. This old man even had, was standing next to a cooker, the 18-wheeler flat bed is Freeport with Elvis with Elvis was on the stage I was standing up at

screaming with all the women wait I didn't not know that what did you saw Elvis and concert oh yeah that's report I didn't not know that I'm standing you didn't throw your other garments hey I'm look I can touch the stage he is on which is 18 fifth flatbed at the Louisiana hayride radio show yeah on October 16th 1954 Yep. Yeah. What was that? He's six years old.

He would have been six years old. When he, hey, the old boy had, you know, they called him swivel hips. He got up there and got done his thing and had the women just fainting. When he was shaking. So how was he shaking? Oh, he got it down. That was his first one. He was one of Elvis Presley, James Brown, imitated him.

Okay. How many times? he do that? A couple. What was the other one? How old do you think you were? I don't even remember. He was either six or...

This one's a couple years. He went back to Streetport a lot. I wasn't very old. Yeah. Golly. You ain't ever told me. You've been a old man. You got to see Elvis?

Yeah, I'm just remembering him. That's cool. He's like three foot away from me. I did not know that about. you, but when we went to see the movie Elvis, remember you and your wife and me and my wife went to go see Elvis? Yeah. And we left there and sigh was crying

and he was mad. I said, Si, are you okay? No, I said, if I ever could get my hands on that, Colonel. No, no. I would like, hey, I'm fair. If I'd have ever met Colonel Parker, I'd have whipped him with a black snake, 12 foot, I'd have took hide off of him. Who's Colonel Parker?

Apparently, his management. Yeah. is what I'm guessing. Oh, I'd have killed that dude. Oh, I'd have killed that dude. Well, he was around until 19th. Because he run the best singer of this earth to death. What was your favorite Elvis song?

Oh, love me tender. Love me tender. I was thinking, ain't a bunch of them, but that was one of them. I'd feel about you ain't nothing but a hound dog. No, oh, what's that other one? In the ghetto? No. In the ghetto.

In the ghetto. Heartbreak Hotel was another one. Oh, break hotel. Where are you at and in the street or whatever it was? It was a heartbroke hotel. Okay. I was just curious. But him and Dolly are the same in the respect that there was nothing that they could not sing.

Gospel, jazz, blues, whatever. I love how Dolly can sing with anybody. They could sing it all. My favorite is her and Kenny Rogers. They sang together. Well, no, no, because, see, everybody. Gambler. Everybody had said that her and Dolly, him and Dolly, had a sexual affair.

What? Oh, yeah. Yeah. We find out of stuff today. Well, no, no. You know, everybody used to talk about all that, yeah, they got, they, you know, they're getting it on together. you know and and it wasn't because dolly that's why I said they'd called dolly

a bunch of names and she used to laugh about it because she she once mentioned and said y'all don't know how much money it's it costs to look this cheap you know you're talking about a character she didn't care okay that's funny that's wild well her and Kenny Rogers because Kenny Rogers

they were like brother and sister. And Kenny Rogers said, well, hey, if it's in Dolly's mind, it's fixed to come out all for a little. I know somebody else like that. Well, yeah. Yeah, that's facts. Yeah. Yeah, well, yeah, if it is up here, it will come out.

Might come out as a different word or two. Don't say. So I don't say this. That's what he's going to say. That's how you get them to say it. Yeah. Oh, man. Wow.

But there's just, there's certain people that, Garth Brooks is another one for me. You just put Garth on Dolly level? No, no. Because I'll tell you why. Garth or Chris? That man had a catheter put in his body, and then he signed autographs for 24 hours straight.

What? Yeah. Okay. He done a concert one night. and never did leave. Hmm. Okay. And he signed for 24 hours, y'all, after the concert.

Oh, my. What? I didn't know they had AI back when you were hearing this story. What are you telling me? That's, I don't think that one's. That's, hey, that's a true statement I just said. Uh-oh. Here we go.

Okay. Because he signed autographs for 24 hours and had, what, uh, okay. hooked up a deal that was tied to a stupid canteen. The Guinness was a world record. This is a thing. Apparently it is a thing of 1996. Brooks made a surprise appearance at fanfare, now CMA Fest,

and spent 23 hours signing autographs for fans supposedly without even stopping for a restroom break. He didn't have a restroom break. Wow. He had it hooked up for him. Man. He went on a podcast to explain the truth. Was it true?

Yeah. There you go. See, that's one of the things that he's want to be. Oh, he's no. Hey, that's one of the things he's want to be stars. He want to be. No. Because, hey.

If you want to be. Oh, sorry. Yo, you got to treat your fans right. You got to get with my friends, too. Ball, shock. Y'all, y'all. What? What, Hunter?

You didn't like my Spice Girls reference in there? No, I liked yours. I just never thought you would know that song. I was too deep in the story of this. I'm reading about Garth signing for 23 hours, trying to figure out if it's real. Hey, you got it. You got him?

Trust me, what I tell you. It's real. It's telling the truth. He did this, you know. He, he, he, he, he, loves his fans. So I round it up to 24 hours. That's that 5%.

Okay, it really did happen. Yep. He does not speak of a catheter. But here's the quote from him. I'd love to tell you it was done for the love and stuff, but the real story behind it is there was a new regime at the label come in. There was rumor the older acts were going out. Newer acts were going to come in and replace him.

So Garth said, watch this. Watch what I can do. Well, good for him. him putting it out there on a table. That's good. Sometimes you just got to lay it out there, you know? He started at 9 in the morning and went well past midnight. I don't want to talk on that clip that you reshared about Taylor Swift and Dolly Parton.

Yeah. I've changed my opinion. I don't think Taylor Swift could ever be a Dalai Parton. Thank you. She ain't got no theme park. That went out the window once you married, got Kelsey Boy. but no the one that's got a chance if she keeps doing what she's doing is as is lany wilson that's the one that's got a chance i'm an ella fella now those europeans taught me that

i'm just saying i'm just saying ella's got the european vote yeah i'm just saying from general overall personality and what you see out of it that that's that's my opinion that ain't because she's a louisiana girl but um well when one of them gets a theme park i will go Laineyland And Ravel Right down the street From the Daneus and her just Things are growing over there

Baby, Laineyland A Tim McGraw parking lot Yeah Right about Tim McGraw's Little League Baseball field Start Like Oh that's

Oh that is funny What would Ellis be called? Langleyland Langleyland Yeah But hers has got to be Ella. I don't know. But I would go there too.

Do you know how much research I've done on Dollywood once again in the last 24? You could probably start like a new Chippendell still, but just call it Ellis Fellas. You know, they do the Las Vegas shows. You need a guy. I'll sign up. I'm in better shape than I used to be. A little jump rope intermission. With shirt off.

I did see that. A jump rope intermissions. We can do it. We can do it. Ah, that makes me giggle. We just went 35 minutes on Dolly, and I don't feel like that's enough. No, I don't ever be enough to talk about all the stuff that woman did. Yeah, she did good with her stuff, man.

Have you ever been to Dollywood, Phillip? Kind of crazy, they just started the truck stop deal. Yeah. I wonder if they're going to keep that all, keep it rolling. I bet it gets even more popular now. She's going to be like, she's going to be like, I mean, Walt Disney is a dude's name. Yeah. And Dolly Parton.

One day there'll be people that are like... You think we'll have Dolly Plus? Probably. It'll be like... Yeah. It'll be like little cartoons for Redneck Kids. Yes. It'll be like Duck Dynasty, the cartoon that came out in 2016.

I bet we'll have a page on there. Yeah, that's true. Oh, yeah. Yep, that's what it is. Sponsored by Cracker Barrel. If they get their crap together. Oh, wow. What a lot.

I don't know. No comment over here. All right. The crapper barrel. That place sucks. I'm just saying. Google. Yes, sir.

Google. How many songs? Dolly root. How many songs? Oh. Did Dolly write. Under or over a thousand. You know how, hey, hold on.

Before I say it. I'm going to say how big you got to be, you ain't got to type in or that. name and they know. Dolly Parton? Dolly. I'm having of the doll as you know, other than that sheep they tried to make over in Scotland or where. First off, ain't no try.

They did. Yeah. But, you know, I've seen cloned animals. It never turns out well. I've seen a couple of cloned human beings. I'm pretty sure, but we're not going to talk about that. Whoa. Dolly Parton has written more than 3,000 songs in her career.

Wow. I knew. I knew it was a lot, but I didn't think it was that much. Did you ever write one? She has roughly recorded a thousand of them herself. Y'all, what's her biggest? What's the biggest song she's ever written? I'll always love you.

I will always love you for sure. I just didn't know if there was. Jolene. Jolene. Coat of many colors. Yep. Nine to five. Which really sucks because my job is nine to six.

I was just wondering if there was another one that... Change it up. Like that we didn't even realize that she had read. You know what I mean? You know what the first one that wasn't number one for her was Jolene. Was Jolene? Yeah. Yeah.

I ain't number one in my heart too, man. Well, it was the one that was most popular, it may be Jolene, but to me, I thought, I think it would be always love you. Yeah. Probably so. Can you sing that one? Huh?

Can you sing that one? I can't. If we put the music on, could you sing? No, no, I can. First, but I can't get the hype. I kind of want to hear, sigh. And no. Yeah, I tried it.

I never did. Hey, that's pretty good. That's why I stopped right there. Hey, when a music coach is teaching people to sing. They always take you to where you, they say you break over. You know what?

You don't go so high? I'm like a wood duck call. I break over pretty quick. Yeah. I ain't going on. I don't go very far. Yeah, I don't go very far before I break. I don't go very far.

I actually saw a video the other day of, in my phone of. Cy playing Willie his music right before his country career was going to take off in that room. No, that room. Okay. It's going to take me a lot of time. You own the video, so I don't know why that one's not queued up for us. I was thinking about we were going to talk about songwriting.

I thought we were going to talk about Dolly Parton. Well, you can't talk about one without the other. I was making fun of myself. I know. I don't know. If you haven't tried it, don't knock it. Is it songwriting? What, writing a song?

Bid, no, writing and singing it. Oh, don't you worry, buddy. Oh, hey. I had a blast. I'm good in a choir. Oh, no, I have a blast. Yeah. I can sing with you.

Yeah. I took this video just in case Size's musical career took off the same way as Dolly Parton. So I could say I was there. I knew he when. I knew him when. And I took it secretly at a conference table like this. Yes, praise God.

Oh, can we watch it? I do not know what it entails. Hold on, hold on. Let me stop it. Look at Si. Look at Young Sae. Sai looking good. All right.

I'm queuing this one up correctly. Ready? Cue it up. It's a country guy that does a... You're like going back. Oh, Willie was trying to call you Ray Stevens. Yep. Yeah.

That's the only video I have of that day, but I said, I want to be there. Oh, man, there's my duck. I've got seen that thing in a while. Look, there's the Uncle Sy, I still have that shirt, Sire, Sigh, the Psychotics. There's some shirts I don't get rid of, even if they don't fit anymore. Uncle Side and the Psychotics, I got that one. Are you trying to move back into it or if you've gone out of it? Maybe was it like too big or?

It would be too big now. Okay. I hope. Yeah. I just didn't know. I didn't know if you got the right size then or if they only had a few so you snagged one. We've all been guilty of that.

I got my hay shirt. I got a lot of shirts with size face on it in the back of my closet. I still got that green one from his retirement party somewhere. We had ZZ-Z time. I got one with Christmas ornaments in his beard. Yeah.

There's five or six songs that are very good that we did write and record. You wrote it? Huh? You wrote it? We wrote, yeah, I wrote with, So Bridget and Marshall. But my favorite part is you couldn't really hear it.

When that video starts, the first thing you hear is, okay. Okay. And he says okay, like three more. Yeah. It was so good. What was the best line you ever wrote in a song in your opinion? I'm just, if you remember. I don't even remember.

I'm not trying to put you on. No, no, I don't even remember. But throwback man's got a lot of good lines. You know? Right there were. But it was very, it was very. very interesting to me of how all this takes place. What, writing a song?

Yeah. Yeah, because you don't, you would think you just, you know, throw a bunch of words. You got to say, okay, yeah, that's it. That's good. No, it's got to be where you can say something, but you're singing it. And certain words won't work. So that throwback, the song is called Throwback Man, and it tells the story of your life, which was.

Oh, no, no. because it says, hey, because I'm not anything, anything technical. Yeah, I don't text. I don't tweet. Okay. I don't cell phone. It won't wait. Because you got to look at it.

When a man can turn on a phone, hit the home button, and then get cussed out by a phone. Well, him and technology do not get alone. He said, I'm a throwback, man. Okay. I am. I, you know. I do love it. And, hey.

I was trying to find the lyric. Yeah, you're not believing how dangerous this is right here. You were actually upside down? No, no, no, no. Look, I have got like four bottles of hair spray to have my hair like that. And I got a sparkler. Because if it popped. That's a real sparkler?

Hey, I got, I got burned up. There's been some people that happened to them. And, hey, that's happening to people, okay? Mm-hmm. Who? Oh, look, people. Markler to their hair. Michael Jackson got caught on fire one time.

Oh, who's the comedian? Oh, yeah, the comedian. Oh, shoot. You're looking at me like I know. Nice to him out. He's real foul fire. Yes, Richard Pryor. That's who it was.

Richard Pryor done that was smoking a cigarette and had all that crap and caught in and burned him bad. Yeah, that's right. Disfigured him. He had to have plastic surgery. So, hey, I was stupid to do that. I still just telling me, hey, thank you, Lord, for you don't take care of me. I made a hairspray might not have been the dumbest part.

Well, it wasn't smart. I'm just saying, you could have just, the sparkler didn't have to be lit. Oh, no, it had to be lit to make it look right. Hunter could have done that. Hunter, could you have made that sparkler lit in post? He probably could have made your hair in post. Oh, hey. Hunting season's coming.

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a tailor-fitted song. Yeah, I hope you do find the lyrics. I've got it on my phone, but it's the song, I got the song. It's on YouTube. It's on Shazam. You can buy it on iTunes.

Can you really? How much? A lot of his one. I don't remember the other one. The other one is where it's got a really good jive going on. Yeah. I like the one with you and Brooks. Man,

Brooks one of them, but I'm talking about the two brothers. Oh, here we go. Malden brothers. Hey, has given me the lyrics, y'all.

Oh, good. I went out of style a long time ago. Wearing worn out wrangler jeans with Jesus in my soul. How many times have you listened to this song? Oh, we listen to us a lot. We travel a lot.

I don't feel it with the trends. And the trends don't fit in. with me. I don't take, I don't tweet, I don't cell phone, anything. I don't text and I don't tweet.

Oh, okay. Hey, I see. Yeah, they're close. Yeah, that's just me and that's how it's

gonna be. Why don't you just sing it for us, Phil? Yeah, I'm a throwback, man. I am who I am. I love it.

Hey. Okay. I love it, man. Way back when this world made more sense. It's a good song. It's really about size life. Flying that flag.

that flag on his porch, laying that Bible by his bed. I mean, it's pretty cool. Why don't you just sing it? I mean, I'd have to have the music because I just can't, unless I know what's going to. Church Christ, sucker, you don't need no instruments? I'll just say this. He's so hurtful. This is my statement.

My record label did not do the singer right. Kind of like, oh, what's his face? Elvis Elvis no no I'm serious they tried to run you in the ground well no this no they didn't they didn't spend no money okay scared money don't make money boys hey if they had to spend some money on me I would still be out saying thank God you're not oh no yeah I'm yeah in that respect I agree with you yeah thank God this it's a young man's game yeah okay or young ladies game and you started at what 65 yeah that's what I'm saying hey I'm saying I say. I'm trying to imagine my dad

sitting me down and be like, son, I've got a plan. I understand why they didn't spend on money. Okay. All right. Too old. Okay. No, I think you're just more suited

for podcast, man. I think we could go do this on the road if we wanted to. Oh, yeah. No doubt about it. Be like a quasi little walking comedy show. Somebody call Hunter. If you want us to come to a duck call room

at your place, we'll do it. Yeah, ran out the theater for a moderate price, we can get everybody there. It ain't even got to be moderate. That's why I was just saying to get everybody there. It'll be cheap. That part ain't going to be cheap.

Me and Phil are cheap. We know we're cheap. Hey, these two, uh-uh. Whatever y'all charges up to y'all. I can get aggressive. He shouldn't. That's all I'm saying. I can get reasonably aggressive.

He can't. Or he shouldn't. Like the movie, the Blues Brothers, I would have loved to have been at that filming of the movie. Because you're a soul, man. Well, no, no, because of all of the tower, okay, that was at that movie and you know good well after they quit filming. They had a time.

All they broke out to get to. They had a throw down. They had a little time out. Hold down. You know, and that's like, I just, I would have loved to be. at some of the greatest times of Dolly's career. Because you know she did that. She was on the road.

And like when they would be done with the show, because that's like I've been to the Grando Opry about six times, and the show ain't out on the stage. That's country. The show is in the green rooms before the stage. Because they get in there and sing, and got up. You talk about, you know, just...

A lot of people would never experience that, but I do know what you're talking about because I've seen you in there with those guys. Oh, no. I sang with Larry Gatlin. Yeah. In the Green Road. What did y'all sign?

One of his hits. Oh, I got you. Who did you go on? Siah has sang with a lot of people, y'all. Who did you go on stage with? then, um, where did the term hold down come from? Well, I song was, what's the, uh, uh, that's what? Uh, he wrote the, uh, the mullet, he got a bullet.

Billy Ray Cyrus. Billy Ray Cyrus. I sang with him. Look, he didn't know who he was that night. Who sings that song with Meade in the middle? We'll, me. Diamond Rio? He sang with Diamond Rio on stage.

They called him up. They were like, Uncle size here. Come on up and sing with us. I was like, that's awesome. You ever been on stage? Stangen? I've been on stage. I've been on stage.

I can't remember who I was with. I can't remember who I was with. Nope. Jason Aldeen. Better. Willie. Well, he got invited and his friend, which would be me.

I'll give you a hundred bucks if you guess it. Willie Nelson. Oh, maybe not as big as. Maybe not a hundred bucks. Maybe bigger. Maybe bigger than Willie Nelson. Oh, bigger than Willie Nelson? I don't know.

Jimmy Buffett. Oh. He said, and Willie sang was singing Margaritaville and I went back there to those bongos

and said, never done this before. But it's, I'm going to give it my all. Yeah, let's get it. It was awesome. I got a video of that somewhere.

That was a good day. Willie was just started kicking beach balls because he realized he didn't know the words. Margaritaville? There's more than you think. Oh, he should have knew the words that.

He knew the words that. the chorus, but you get into that verse and Willie was like, Willie started doing this and just kicking beach ball. What would Jimmy Buffett do? It was a fun time. That was the best day of my life in Shreveport at least. No, I'm trying to remember where

me and Willie sang and who we sang with. Y'all sang all this. Every time we had a party, somebody would break out karaoke at the end of it. Well, I know, well, hard to say. By the way, Martin, a ho-down originated around

1840 to 1845 coming from the literal act of farmers putting their hose down after finishing tedious field labor. Okay. I was hoping that's where it came from. Oh, down. Yeah. No, I'd love to ask Dolly Parton some of the wildest things she did on stage in her career. You may not want to know that answer. So what about Chris Cagle?

What kind of gone? Chris Cagle was in Shreeport. they called sigh up on stage and sigh said i don't know how to they said we won't just like get up here and act like you're playing the guitar and i said i said he can't play the guitar they said oh just unplug it we want you on stay side sighs up there dancing around oh look acting like he's playing the guitar in street one of the guys backstage is talking about the old philip said man i didn't know he could play a guitar like that and because the guy told me i said what i need to do he said hey just just do what i do he said watch me and do the same time well i was doing it and the crowd thought i had a rock band

no no hey they thought i was playing it for real it was hilarious it was our hero i'm in a peruvian music video playing the bass no idea how we unplugged it i just sat there oh willie mago oh yeah wellie was in a music video with the guy we know from peru that's one all the candid but hey there if i'm just in the back acting like i'm playing the They're saying I give you, y'all, and they may say this, the ball-faced lie, but I actually think this is the true. I watched a guy, who's the Texas guy? That's the, uh, that's the, uh, country star. Weldon.

George Strait. Nolan Wright. Oh, and Wright. Dang it. George Stake can't play a guitar. What? Because I was watching him on stage and, hey. Oh, my goodness.

No, no, he wasn't even called on what he was watching. What he's supposed to be doing. If you were wondering what today's clip should be. Here to celebrate Dolly Parton. George Strait doesn't know how to play the guitar, says, Si. Well, hey, I watched him that died and look, he was not playing what he was supposed to be playing. George, feel free to come here and defend yourself.

I actually, I can get a hult of George's people. Oh, yeah. Oh, you know what? We could, too. George's people were the same people that did the Christmas album. That might have been a whole thing. I said he can't play. It may have been one he first.

As the proud owner of like the 50 number one hits album, I'd love George Strait comes sit here. Oh, yeah. A king, baby. Oh, we'd have a lot of fun. He donated a bunch of stuff. If only he could play the guitar. I'm sure he can.

He donated a bunch of stuff to the Mia Moo. It may have been early in this career, but I'm just telling you, I watched him on stage one out on television. You can't play the guitar. Hey, and he was not playing the chords. Did you have the vault? Volume right?

Oh, I had it right. Were you at the concert? No. No. You're on TV. He was watching it on TV. The man can't even work for remote. He can't play the remote, and he's telling the George Strait can't play the guitar.

Hey, I'm telling you that. Hey. You just hurt my ears. That needed to be said. Come on. He's supposed to be playing a G-cord, and he ain't playing a G-court. You wouldn't know a G-cord if it hit you upside your hand. Oh, I don't want a G-C-C-C-C-C-R-2, don't me?

I can't wait for the new rock band to come out. I had a story about that today, too, but there's so much to do. Hey, I told you, it may have been when he first started. When you first started? But he was... When George first started, you wouldn't have been able to tell it was George straight on the TV. Yeah, it was. Like, so pitilated.

Hey, I'm just saying, hey. You were in NOM! Hey, I'm just saying, hey. I was drunk on a dulae Nog. He was doing what I was doing that night with Cagle. He was acting like he was playing a guitar. Mama son, he ain't playing. Then a Bengal Tiger comes over and grabs George Strait.

Give me a cigarette. He ain't playing. Make it a good one too. California Gold. We've done going way too far, boys. I don't know how to. I think I can recover. I love it.

Can you? I love it. Philippians. Nope. Very. Song of Solomon. Very similar verse. I looked up

Dolly Parton's favorite Bible verse and in an article she said this was her favorite Bible verse. Oh, wow. Which is really cool because it was somebody that grew up in a log cabin, worked her butt off, made it big,

changed the whole world. And she didn't change. Unlike, yeah, she didn't change. And it's a lot like our good friend sigh here. Her favorite Bible verse is Matthew 1926. Oh, that's a good one. Jesus looked at them and said with man, this is impossible, but with God everything, all things are possible.

Including a bunch of number one hits, some great music, a theme park. She really got it going on. And now some truck stops. God bless America. We'll see y'all next time right here.