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 Got to get on the choice. Make it on mandate. Get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling the friend. We love that about you. Tanya Tucker is joining me, I think, from Nashville. Are you in Nashville? No. Where are you? >> We're in Austin right now. Austin doing a show for um uh Save the MUN with Ben Crrenshaw, the great golfer >> and uh so excited about it and they're trying to save this golf course uh from development and uh I'm glad to be a part of it. Austin.

 That's >> So that's what we're doing with with a Sleep with the Wheel and Jack Ingram. There's a bunch of us on the show tonight. >> Uh I did not know. I mean I you know it's kind of weird because you've been around my entire life except we're we're almost the same age. So I don't know how that worked.

 And then someone explained >> explained to me you >> you uh at 13 >> you you did Delta Dawn had a hit with Delta Don which uh was a well it was written Del what's the flower you have a faded rose gone by >> and did I hear you say >> did I hear you say >> you were meeting you here today to take you to the skyh I mean, yeah, I remember now.

>> I love the way you say it. >> Delta Dawn. >> Delta Dawn. I remember obviously Helen Ready had a big hit with it. You had a hit with it. Uh I don't know who else had a hit with it. >> U >> No, that was it. >> But how so young? How how did you figure that one out? How'd that even begin? Was it parents? Was it you? >> Well, yeah, my dad.

 He was the soul warrior there. He he recognized my my voice, my talent, I guess you could say, when I was about nine. And I lived in Willox, Arizona. So, uh, he asked me what I wanted to do, and I said, "Yeah, I want to be I want to be a a big country star." And so, he moved, uh, me and my mother that day and started working for me and and I never quit and is still working for me this day.

 I I hear him now more than ever. But he wouldn't take no for an answer. And he's really the reason. Uh he just made it happen. >> Wait, he moved you that day? I >> Yeah. >> What was your >> I mean, we went >> What was your dad up to? You were nine. >> Well, my dad could do everything. He he was there because um he was building the the um chairlifts at Telluride and um I was about 3 years old then.

 And then he moved us to Arizona because he could get water well. He was a water well driller. And then he started drilling for copper. Uh and I remember many times going out with him uh me and my mother and uh going out with him and he'd wake me up and say, "Look, I think we struck copper." Uh and it was just a lot of wonderful time. But he had a six sense.

He was a different kind of guy and uh from Oklahoma. Married my mother at 15. >> What? >> And uh Yeah. and they were married for I guess when my dad passed in ' 06 for about 67 years. So come from a long line of love. And uh my dad had a he had some kind of magic. Um uh and when he moved us to Henderson, Nevada, right outside of Las Vegas when I was 11.

 Uh uh then, uh we met some he met some people and uh he met a lady there that uh managed uh Johnny Rivers. >> And so she said, "I know who you need to talk to. You need to talk to Billy Cheryl and he's a gambler. So he'll be in town and when he is, I'll call you." And that's what that's what she did. And so when he heard me, he heard the demo tapes, which were awful.

 U but uh he heard them and and said he wanted to meet me. So my mother and my dad and I went down to the Riviera. You remember the Riviera in Las Vegas. >> Sure. >> And um at the coffee shop and uh met Billy and he said, "So let's cut a hit record." And u it wasn't that was in November of 71. And then 72 of March, I flew to with my dad to Nashville and we Billy and I started listening to to songs to to record and they brought me in this record that was a 45 and the publisher had control of it and it wasn't out uh but it was Happiest Girl in the whole

USA and uh I listened to it and and uh he said, "What do you think about that, kid?" And I said, "Well, I think it's a great song, but it's not my song." And uh so after they all scratched their heads and thinking he's listening to a 13-year-old kid, he's going crazy. So they left and and he played me Delta Don u Alex Harvey u the writer uh uh had a guitar vocal and when he when the song ended I said now that's my song.

 So we went and recorded it the next day and they rush released it uh and uh the rest is history. radio really really came they're the reason that that song you know back in those days you just had need to had one DJ that would put the song on first time >> so your dad had this incredible belief >> in you and I guess he must have understood you had ability and I guess singing is different >> than let's say comedy you know if you had a funny son or daughter and and there were 12 or 13, you might go, "All right, stay in school. Don't quit your

day job." But a voice you could hear, you could hear if someone had, you know, when you heard Michael Jackson when he was nine, you went, "I can hear that voice." >> But if it was something else like, >> I don't know, comedy or writing or painting, I don't know. I don't know. You would know, right? But your voice >> Well, I don't know that a lot of people would know anyway because he and Billy too.

 Billy had the ability to listen through those bad demos that I made to some sort of talent he could hear. And my dad always did hear it. He always uh always was a bigger fan of mine than I was. He always thought I was better than I did. But it was just some a way to make him happy. And when he was happy, I was I was happy. So, >> but also your dad >> and he you know, he's the best manager I ever had. There'd be no better.

 Your dad is a builder. I don't know. Fabricator, driller, you know, working on uh ski lifts and tell you ride. >> He can do anything. >> Yeah, but it seems seems like not the guy who's the show biz guy. Feels >> different than that guy. >> No, totally. I mean, my dad never did want any uh any spotlight on him. He wanted all on me.

 And um he was uh but he was, you know, he was tough. He was hard. He he was tough on people. He I mean, if he saw uh or thought someone wasn't going to do a good job for me or uh was going to uh you know, not do me right, he he he wouldn't mind telling them. And he didn't he didn't mind that he didn't have a whole lot of friends.

He he said, "I got enough friends." So, >> who' you know, >> he didn't mind telling you >> who did you out with early like what >> who were some of the bands, >> performers, artists you toured with, >> you know, uh, back in the day I would have to use, uh, right tonight I'm using, uh, Sleep at the Wheel.

 They're backing me tonight and I haven't done that in since I was probably 14 uh or 15 using my own band. Uh but back though in those days I had to use other people's bands like Tom T Hall was always gracious with with his band Hall. >> Uh I I toured with um Bobby Bear and uh uh I I mean Johnny Bush. Uh and then Johnny Rodriguez and I had a Texas tour.

He was like 18, I was 14. And we boy we played every G joint in that state. And uh I had Delta Dawn and he had passed me by. So, uh, we used one band and, uh, done it. I haven't done that since then, but it's kind of hard for a 14 year old to tell a musician, you know. >> Who do you remember? >> Just not right.

>> Who did you did you open for people? And who opened for you? Well, I don't I think I was the more the opener, but uh I remember one time um when I was just about to turn 16, uh um Barry Fay uh promoted a a concert in Little Rock, Arkansas, and uh Whan opened for me. >> I thought, "Oh, this is >> Yeah, it was great. It was great.

" And uh and then I also set me up. I've had a lot of weekend managers because after the weekend they figure out that there's no way to manage me. You know, my dad got me back all the time, but uh had a couple times they had to buy me back, buy my contract back, but uh there was one time I was 16 and I got uh opened for Leonard Skard in uh Louisville, Kentucky.

>> And that was I thought, "Oh, I don't know if they're going to like me." But Ronnie Vanzant was so wonderful to me. and he he walked me to the stage and introduced me to his audience and they they were so wonderful. They were great and I loved [clears throat] Leonard Skinner. They were always good to me. So, I've had some some really good experiences with that.

 I had a few maybe that weren't so good, but um I don't mind opening the show. You know, I like to give them something to follow. You know, I remember Elvis Presley um Hank Snow, I think, uh opened or closed behind him one time and he never did it again. [laughter] Yeah, >> the first and last time. >> Well, I mean, sometimes >> the people opening for you, you don't know who they are yet because sometimes Elvis isn't Elvis.

>> Yeah. You don't >> Yeah. Oh, he wasn't. He wasn't, >> right? So, you don't know. >> Exo was big, you know. He was big, >> right? >> He was really big. >> So, you wouldn't know if you're a comedian and you wouldn't know if you're a singer, songwriter. I mean, you wouldn't know who this person was before they were who they were, but then you get >> uh Leonard Skard opens for you, although they're not Leonard Skinnard and no one knows who they are, but yet they look super good and now you have to go after them. And that's a weird position to be

in. >> Well, it's crazy. The opening uh act you have to kind of straddle the fence because you can't be too good and then you can't be not good enough. So you gota that fine line there. >> Well, when you're opening for someone, is that a thing where you don't let it all hang out, so to speak, like where you kind of go, >> "Oh, no, no, no.

>> Well, you don't want to be too good." You just said, you don't want to be too good. >> Well, you know, I didn't know that philosophy till much later. [laughter] I always like to give it my all if I can. Like Delbert McClinton said of me, he said, "You don't leave no chicken on a bone." [laughter] So, >> that's a good >> I try to eat it all.

>> That's a nice compliment. And uh >> I know you and Dolly Parton were pretty close and she just passed recently. Do you have any thoughts about Dolly? >> Well, you know, uh I have many, many, many uh but she's a real outlaw as far as I'm concerned. She did what she wanted musically and uh was such a talent.

 But I found that, you know, when I was coming up, I kind of kind of uh copied uh the men more than the women. Um like Elvis was a big uh he was a big inspiration to me and I copied a lot of his stuff. Um all the moves he made and uh so and Merl Haggard was a real big influence for me. uh George Jones, all those guys, Sinatro, you know, when I was a kid.

 Uh but as a as I found out the day I found out that Dolly died, that she'd passed, I said, you know, I think I want to be more like her because of all the not just because she was a great talent, but she was a great human being. And I've never heard one bad I've never heard anybody say anything bad about her in my whole entire life.

 And or Willie, either one, those two. Now, I've got a file of all the things they say about me, but uh I keep them all in a file. [laughter] Probably a few I haven't heard yet, but I think it's a wonderful uh legacy that she left. And um I think her music will be forever, you know, forever more. Well, what do you you know I'm I've had >> never never heard her hit a bad note either.

>> I Yeah. So, that's interesting. So, you know, people have said bad things about me, too. >> Oh, they better not. >> Yeah. Well, too late. But nobody [laughter] nobody thinks they're bad. But how is it how is it that they never said a bad thing about Dolly Parton and they've said some bad things about you? How does that work? >> Well, I don't know.

 You know, I my reputation precedes me. I I I my reputation seems to be a lot more lot different than I am. But uh that's okay. My bad reputation's made me a damn good living. So I'm good. I'm good with that. So don't say anything nice about me. >> No, I won't say. [laughter] >> Don't worry. But I don't know. I Yeah, I don't know how the reputation and all that stuff works.

 But I think you're right. Willie and Dolly are two people who, you know, combined were, you know, 170 years old and nobody had anything bad to say about >> either one of them. And then there's like Merl people had things to say, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. They were from another world. It's almost like, you know, they're in this world but not of it kind of. Yeah.

 That's the way I feel about Dolly and Willie. Are you glad that you came up the time you came up like you got to see things and be around people and it was before everyone filmed everything and you got exposed to things that >> sort of it's not really replicatable. I don't think it's doable anymore. No one can be there. >> I've always thought >> Yeah.

 I've always thought yes, it was a great time for me. Uh I was the youngster uh the new kid on the on the block but uh you know I'm a part I could still be a part of the old and I know the Ernest Tub he was one of my best friends and I treasure those friendships with Mini Pearl and Merl Haggard and George Jones and and so many others uh that I'm so grateful for.

 But I'm a part of the new as well. So I said well maybe I'm just a bridge between the two. So, I've been trying to write this song called the bridge about being a part of the old and a part of the new because, you know, you got to kind of keep up with the Joneses, as they used to say. Um, but now it's more like keep up with the >> uh the Shanayas and the uh the Beyonces, you know, I mean, the uh the El Langley's, you know, the Mirandas.

 So, I'm trying to hang in there, you know. >> Yeah. I I you know it's kind of weird though like if you if you look on the internet there'll be footage of Frankie Valley singing or somebody and you'll someone will say you got to hang it up or you got to retire at some point like it's kind of sad >> sometimes people get pushed up there and they're like they're almost a shell of their former self and the internet is so cruel it'll just isolate them singing and it'll do say some snarky [ __ ] about David Lee Roth or something, whoever it

is they're making fun of this week. >> And so now >> I'm always kind of torn. I'm sort of like, leave the guy alone, leave the girl alone. On the other hand, hey man, once you get to 80, I don't know, maybe it is time to spend some time. >> Give it up. >> Spend time with the grandkids. You know, >> I I totally I totally agree with you.

 I mean, uh I think everybody's individually uh uh have their own times. Everybody's got a a number uh uh when they should stop. And uh uh I I I I brace myself every day, you know, because I don't want to be that. I want to I want to be able to uh just kind of dissolve, just dissolve out and leave the stage gracefully.

 But someone like Willie, Willy's going to he's going to die on stage. That's where he wants to be. So, uh, and it's just wherever God decides to take me. Uh, it'd be great if it was on stage. You know, >> you'd like on stage? >> Well, I don't really I mean, I I don't want to go period, but uh I know that I've got a probably a date on my on my name, but I'm going to get the best I can get out of it life while I'm still here and give as much as uh I can and to make try to make a difference in some of these things. And that's, you know, the

kind of the the problem I'm having in Texas right now with our ranch is uh they're trying to come through it and demolish our home. Uh my cattle, my horses, everything that these 765 kilo kilovolt transmission lines built by Encore uh coming through our ranch and not just our ranch, but thousands of other land owners.

>> I don't know the story. Tell me tell me the story. >> It's just it's all over Texas. They're they're building these uh these 200 foot uh kilobolt and 200 200 feet high and there's got to be 300 or 200 feet on each side. >> So they have to come through, they kill all the wildlife. They they uh destroy the water table.

>> Uh uh just and they didn't even notify us. >> Well, what do they need it? What do they need it for? They want to take the the uh they want to send the power to West Texas. >> Oh, okay. >> And uh so it's like uh we're just saying just pause, Governor Abbott. Just pause and let's wait till the legislature comes back in in January and I'll make a good decision that this is the right option.

 It just feels like you're trying to sneak something in on us right now. >> And they're going and they're doing it on your land. >> Yes. Mhm. Don't they >> thousands of other people >> ask you or pay you for that? >> No. >> Wouldn't it be nice? Yeah, that would be nice. Well, the problem with our place is where they're cutting through. It cuts us off from our our house.

 It separates us from our house to our cattle. So, what the they'll pay us for the land they go through, >> which is, you know, so many acres. The rest of it's ruined. It's it's no good. They can't even say give it away. >> Nobody wants to live under those lines, >> right? and uh you know they won't they'll deny that it's bad for your health and we know we all know it is and there's people that cannot live under them because they either have cancer or they're afraid of getting it.

>> So there's so many uh I guarantee you though the PUC Texas Public Utility uh commission who is making the uh judgment on this and bringing the hammer down. They're the ones I guarantee you they none of them and none of Encore who is building it have any of those lines going through their property. >> So I just wonder what would happen if we'd move it over there to their property and wonder what they would say.

Well, they wouldn't have it. >> Yeah. Be a knot in my >> We're really upset in Texas because these people they don't know. You have to jump through so many hoops just to protest. You know, there's this, you got to do that, that, that. And a lot of these people don't know how to do that. So, I'm speaking up for them on their voice and uh I'm going to be loud about it because it's not right.

 There's nothing right about it. >> How many acres do you have? >> Well, we have 250 where we're at, but there's his cousin has another 250. Then his sister's right. They'll go right through her house, too. So, she has nowhere to go. >> And you you >> I'm a singer. I can go on, you know, >> but these people can't.

 It's totally destroying their homes and their their livelihood. That's what they make their money doing. Selling, raising and selling cattle >> and farming. >> Yeah. You do cattle as well? >> Oh, yeah. But I'm small time and and there people that are much much bigger than we are. >> Sure.

 But just to think, you know, those are going to come right through the property. And I I I don't see a good thing about it. Not one good thing. They need to stop it. And I'm serious. I mean, they might get loaded shotgun if they come out cuz I mean, you you got to got to protect your your home. >> Yeah. >> And they're trying [clears throat] to destroy it. Yeah.

 So, these data centers are getting out of hand, too. >> Yeah. Well, that's what I was thinking initially when you were talking about I thought you were talking about a data center, but you're talking about something it goes to the Perian Basin and and it it uh it does it's going to it's going to be for data centers. >> But oh, I see >> they why don't they leave us with nothing but startup land and then they transfer everything to West Texas, which is the most powerful uh place in Texas.

So, they make their own power. leave just leave our land alone. So that's that's basically what I'm saying. >> And it's wrong. It's just wrong. >> I was uh reading about you and uh I was reading that you'd uh dated Merl Haggard back in the day and a couple other ran people ran away with him. How'd you run away with him? >> Date him.

>> How'd that go? I just I just just snuck out of my window when I was 21 and then got on a plane and went to steam him in uh uh god where was it the [clears throat] tech place in Texas but my dad caught up with me in about Meridian Mississippi. So and that's the year I played the I opened the uh Lake Placid Winter Olympics.

>> Oh. So >> Oh wow. >> He dropped me off at in Atlanta at the airport. Then I took a plane to Lake Placid and I got there. I opened it with Texas when I die. Um, but yeah, I I I I wanted to be hang hang out with my hero. I just wanted to see how he was dayto-day. And we ended up being best friends right up until the day he died.

In fact, I was just with his boys, Nol and uh Benny Haggard and Teresa, his widow, and they all came over to my my daughter's house the other day in Nashville, Presley, and we all cooked and seeing all the Haggards and the Tuckers in the kitchen was pretty funny. I mean, and we listened to Merl Haggard and talked about him and what we missed about him and and uh it's just, you know, you don't see you don't hear many voices.

 Well, you won't hear any voices like him. There's just not any of those anymore that stand out, you know. >> I sure do miss him. >> The other name I found interesting was Jerry Cooney, the exheavyweight boxer >> who uh >> famously fought Larry Holmes probably in like 86 87. >> Cooney Cooney was a good heavyweight, but Larry Holmes was a great heavyweight.

 And >> he was great. That's right. Larry Holmes didn't really get his due cuz he was kind of in the shadow of Ali and Frasier and Foreman. But the reality is is >> Larry Holmes was a heavyweight champ for like a decade. Like he was he was unbeaten for a much longer period of time than Ali was. >> And >> Wow. >> Yeah.

 Yeah. He was he was a I mean he was in the shadow of Ali. But the reality is is >> he was a really good heavyweight and he was he was pretty much unbeatable for at least seven or eight years which is a long time in the heavyweight and >> Clooney probably caught on. >> Cooney I should say got onto him right in the middle of his reign and really it was a good fight but Larry Holmes was pretty much unbeatable >> when he was in his prime.

>> But how do you and Jerry Cooney come about? How did that happen? Uh, well, I remember um it was in New York City, but I think I met him in Las Vegas, but I saw him again in New York City, and I was doing a a thing with a uh tennis players. They had the entertainers matched with the tennis player.

 I was with Elen Estasi and I'm going like, I don't even play tennis. You know, I never did play. But uh uh Joe Cocker was there that night. Um and then we all went to an after hours place and and and of course Cooney was with was with us in the group. I never dated him though. We were I was you know I could just stand next to somebody. I was dating him.

 But uh we spent a little time together, had fun, and I took him to Studio 54. I think >> Studio 54. Oh my god. By the way, Cooney was like 66, >> maybe 67. I mean, he would stand out at Studio 54. Like, literally stand out. >> Oh, yeah. With >> Well, my friends owned it at that time. I mean, Steve Reubel, of course, was the first, but uh this was uh Mark Christian and his twin brother, and they had they owned a lot of properties all over Manhattan.

 And so, um, you know, I'd stay with them in the hotel and he had the penthouse. So, there were people like coming in and, uh, uh, at all hours. Um, trying to think the one, um, kind of his name, Miss I miss having a brain. You know what? Uh, >> part. Yeah. >> What was his name? Um, >> we'll figure it out. Now, this is Studio 54. Like, >> he was a black kind of a rap singer kind of a >> but he passed.

>> All right, let's see. >> And he was uh uh uh he wore like some blonde wigs sometimes. >> Yes, that was um >> he was in Penthouse. >> Yeah, I know who that was. >> I'm gonna think of his name second. Dave Chappelle played him. >> Rick James. >> Rick James. I'm gonna go Rick James. Yeah, >> Rick James.

 Rick James. Yeah, he was a cool guy. I spent a good time with him. I, you know, gave him this but preached to him a little bit. But, uh, we had fun. Yeah. Lot of different different people. >> I mean, >> and George Steinbrer, I mean, >> George Yeah. >> Yeah. Well, see, I don't think we're ever going to replicate that time because >> No.

 No. Everybody's worried and there's a Ring doorbell on every porch and everyone's got a phone with a camera in it >> and there's just no more of those those times. I've always said >> they're gone. They're gone. >> I said the best time to party in this country was pre-ads mid Coke, meaning there was no such thing as AIDS and Coke wasn't bad for you and people partied, man, >> and didn't care.

>> It was like a party favor. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, Studio 54 back in the day had to be crazy. >> Oh, especially for Halloween. I mean, uh, it was like, you know, the crazies had had their day, you know, and, uh, I saw Frank Zappa. I mean, that year, uh, uh, I said, "Are you in costume?" He said, "No.

" [laughter] >> We'd see Michael Jackson be there, Brook Shields, Mick Jagger was there. >> Eliza Manelli was there. Eliza [clears throat] Minnelli. Like everyone would just be Amy Warhol. >> Andy Warhol. That's it. Yes. I said, "Who's the little guy taking pictures with me?" They said, "That's Andy Warhol.

" I mean, well, those were the times though that they'll never be again. It was for that time. >> Yeah. >> It's a Yeah, it was just it was really pretty special. Very special time. I remember Bernie Coffin being there one night >> and we spent a lot of time in the dungeon. >> That a dungeon. Well, >> Calvin Klein and the >> people here's what I will say and you you can correct me because you were there, but >> you take something like those times and there's never going to be those times again because everything is so regulated and there's so many lawyers and there's

a camera everywhere. >> Yes. >> And in a way, it was kind of like automobile racing. Automobile racing used to be really dangerous, >> but it was exciting. But people got killed. >> But it was a time and now it's very safe. It's very regulated and it's very safe. >> And there's still professional racing and it's still exciting, but it's not what it was.

>> When people were getting killed out there. >> Same thing with bull riding. >> Yes. Bull riding. Yes. Guys wearing hockey helmets shouldn't be on on bulls wearing catcher face masks and a and a chest protector. Yeah. You should be wearing a cowboy hat and you should be drunk. That's >> back in the day.

 They didn't they didn't do that. >> That's what I'm saying. Like I agree. >> I mean, there was a guy I'm trying to think who the guy was in NASCAR, but there was a guy who drove NASCAR >> that had a cigarette lighter installed in his car. [laughter] And he had a cigarette lighter installed in his car because he liked to smoke.

 And he'd pull in for a pit stop. And while they're changing his tires and refueling, he would light a cigarette. >> Dick Trickle. Dick Trickle would smoke. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Because while you're refueling his car, you know, he can just he just burn one >> and he would be arrested today. But it's what >> that is so funny.

>> made that stuff the way it was. >> The real the real cowboys back in those days, you know, everything's totally different. Just like Nashville. I mean, I go, you know, back and forth. I live in Texas now, but I'm back and forth there because my business is there, but I'm I'm telling you, it's I don't recognize the town.

 I It's not a town anymore. It is a bustling city with lots of traffic. And >> I told him, I said, "Hell, the uh the crane should be the state bird because there's one on every corner." Yeah. >> I mean, they're going up everywhere. >> Everything's different now. I'm just glad I got to be born at this time, you know. >> Yeah.

 You got >> one of these times. No, you got to see it. >> Yeah. >> And everyone else just kind of hears stories and looks at pictures. >> They'll just read about it. Yeah. >> But you you got to live it and you got started so young. >> Yeah. >> That you got a lot of years of it. Who were >> Yes. >> Who were So you got Elvis, you got Sinatra.

 I mean, you got everybody at some point wandering through your >> Yeah. >> Wandering through your life. Well, who who else are we for? >> What's funny is that we're talking about Reagan. You know, the movie Reagan, which I guess they're going to re-release that uh this next uh week. Um and of course, I have a song on the soundtrack called Do We Want to Fight or Do We Want to Win.

 It's a Chuck Cannon song and really great song. Something totally different than I've ever done before. Uh I stepped outside the box for Chuck. I mean, he just he's so great. and uh Mark uh Joseph and of course Quaid, you know, Dennis Quaid is a very different one. >> He's great. Quaid's great. >> And we have a new video and a song out now called On My Way to Heaven with Christopherson.

 It's his last performance. >> Wow. >> So, I got all these things going on. Then Shaniah just released a record called Little Miss Twain, which I'm a part of, and in fact, I just heard it on the way over here. Uh, and she talks, you know, just about our the thread, my thread going through her life. And her mother always said, you know, according to my mother, I'm the next Tanya Tucker.

Cuz her mother always thought she was going to be the next Tanya Tucker. And so she >> she pushed her like my dad pushed me to try to get started. And and so we've become very good friends and I was with her for my birthday and and recorded that song. But I thought it was so great.

 Uh, so I've got all these things going on and and then these transmission lines and then I'm doing this save the mun tonight which is Ben Crrenshaw. He's he's going to they want to save this golf course and I think they should. It's 102 years old. So, but I'm involved in so many things and now this movie's coming back out. So, >> I don't know.

 Do you? >> My life is not my own. >> Do I feel the same way? Do you uh >> I bet you do. I saw you with the I saw you on TV. Yeah. >> Last night. >> I'm on TV sometimes. >> Yeah. Yeah. You did great. I was laughing. >> Did you um Now, do you have brothers and sisters? And if you do, what was it like being the one with the talent who your dad was getting behind so early? because that would be strange for the brother and the sister whoever other siblings, right? >> Well, the thing about it was is my brother uh was the oldest and then my

sister was seven years younger and I was seven years younger than her. So, there was a lot of there was seven years between us and my brother was in pilot school in college and uh my sister also went to Cotis College in Douglas, Arizona. Uh, and then my brother went to Brian, Texas. Uh, he was in the the military academy there and then he got stabbed by some uh guys at a movie theater and almost killed him.

 But and I remember going going down there uh when I was a kid. But uh my dad I you know he worked a lot but he was my mentor and I was a kid and I I I loved it. you know, he'd make me practice over and over. So, they weren't really involved so much. >> Cuz you had one that was too young and one that was already out.

 Is that is that how it worked? Your brother was out of the house. >> Yeah. He was he was Yes. And uh gone to school and uh then my sister, she left and went to school. So, I had the I had the parents by myself. >> Oh, okay. >> And uh Yeah. And so I got into horses and uh lived out in the country on Fort Grant Road in Willox, Arizona.

 And uh and I still love horses to this day. I still have horses. Uh but they later on um of course my brother, he drove my bus and and uh my sister got a record deal and she had several number like top five records. She never had a number one, but she had some pretty big records. So, she did quite well.

 And uh my dad always thought that, well, one of us does well, then we're going to help the others. So, that's what that's what we did. So, uh uh and if there was any jealousy, I don't I didn't know about it, you know. >> So, you when did you I mean, you start at 13. By the time you're late teenager, you're you're good on your own, right? I mean, you >> I my dad said, "You're never going to be an adult as long as I'm alive.

" >> Really? >> So, he uh it didn't matter how old I was. He he was there. And sometimes it like anybody, you know, we get annoyed at our parents for always always being right, and he usually was. Uh uh I he just uh but he was always right. And now I I I see it more than than ever now that he when he I wish I'd listened to him more when he was alive.

 That's my big regret. Um because he was uh he was number he was on my side and uh I'll never have anybody be on my side like that again. >> You think you were you rebelling? You think? >> Oh, of course. I mean, I went through my rebellious years uh in my 20s, but I went I was on the cover of the Inquir when I went through my rebellious years.

So, it was a little different than just normal, but normal whenever was in my vocabulary. So, uh it was different. It was a different way of life, but it was the one that was meant for me. >> Yeah. So >> I was uh >> it's it's a I mean again it's kind of a crazy time but it's not replicatable because >> no >> of the way our society is >> and >> it's not for anything.

 I mean, uh, it's almost like it was written down somewhere that this is I'm just playing out the role, you know. Uh, it was meant to be and, um, and they just have to that's the only thing I can come up with. >> Yeah. I mean, >> yeah, it's kind of interesting when you think about it like are you in the cockpit flying the plane or are you just in the back of the plane along for the ride? And sometimes you can make the argument for being in the cockpit, but sometimes it feels like you're just sitting in coach.

>> Oh, >> hopefully business. And you're just >> you're just going to the place that the plane is going. >> Yeah, exactly. And you know, just doing what you're supposed to be doing, you think. So, uh um you know, you know, I I I look I look people say don't ever look back, but I I look back. Looking back helps me look forward.

um and prevent me from making some of the same mistakes. So, I look back long enough to know that uh I am moving forward and um uh sometimes it's hard to tell, you know. >> Yeah. >> Especially when you are a somebody that's visible and um celebrity. Um, you know, it's sometimes it's uh people don't understand that you're just really, you know, a plain old simple person.

 They might not be as uh entertained if they knew the real me. But uh I don't know. I I I I like people. Um the people are are are you got to serve somebody. So I try to serve the public as much as I can and keep them happy. I was uh also when I was reading about you on the way in today, I also saw that you dated Andy Gibb back in the day. Untrue.

>> No, that we're Andy and I were really good friends. We hung out at Cafe Central and uh in New York and uh and the china club. I mean, we go to xenons. Uh so we were that was our party stage and uh but no we didn't date. >> You didn't date. Yeah. I was Yeah. Was that crazy? >> He was uh really upset about his breakup with Victoria's uh Victoria principal.

>> He was >> and I was sort of a shoulder to cry on. Yeah. >> Yes. He f the youngest Gibb brother. >> Yes. >> And he had hits and he was uh >> kind of had everything going on. I mean, it was very good looking. He was talented. >> He had it all. >> And he dated Victoria Principal, who was on Dallas, I think, >> Dallas.

>> And was beautiful. Still is. I think she's still with us for sure. >> And >> yes, she married a plastic surgeon. >> Smart. >> Mary Glassman. >> And she was I think she was a little bit older than him. >> Yes. >> And uh I guess they broke up and he had a lot of trouble with it. >> He did.

 He did. He had a hard time dealing with that. Uh, I wish I'd had more time with him because I could have pulled I could have probably talked him out of that, but uh uh you don't ever want somebody who don't want you. I don't want you even more. [laughter] So, I would have to give him my my speech and I probably did, but he was a gentle soul and um I miss him. Miss him.

He great great talent. Really great talent. >> Yeah, I know. And Barry's the only one left now, you know, and he is all the brothers are gone. >> Barry Gibbs the only one left. Yeah. And Andy died very young. I think he was in his 20s. Oh, yes. I think >> he was like uh 32 or 33, something like that. >> Maybe not that old.

 It's crazy if you hang around long enough and uh you know, >> see the results. >> Yeah. [laughter] Well, it's kind of >> to see what see how the story ends. Yeah, it's kind of but it's almost I don't know if you feel like it was a almost a dream like almost you weren't there >> all the time. All the time it's like another person was you know I see myself sometimes doing something on my kids will show me uh and I'm going wow I don't it's just like that's someone else doing that not me.

>> Yeah. I mean like opening the Winter Olympics in was it 1980? 1980. Mhm. >> That had to be. >> But sometimes it really gets me though when someone plays me a song that I don't remember recording. And I've got a pretty good memory. Um I said, "You never met a memory like me." [laughter] Uh but uh uh that's I'm thinking, "Oh my god, what's happening to me? I'm losing it.

" Uh, but I guess when you get to to the point where you've done so much, I guess it's hard to put them in little compartments and remember things, but I've been told that I have a good memory just on certain things. So, >> did you hang out? That was the Miracle on Ice year, by the way, like Placid. It was American hockey team. >> Oh. Oh, the Russians.

 The Russians and Americans and the and the hockey. I was there. >> Did you hang out? Did you were able to watch some of the stuff? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I was right above them like right where they were uh playing and it was just it was a very very energydriven I mean there were some people that were I mean girl I didn't really know a whole lot about hockey you know but it was so exciting.

 I wanted to learn and uh and when in the the Olympic village too we all everybody cuz I stayed where the athletes stayed. So, I think it's a prison now or something. But, uh, you know, it took a lot to get in there. I mean, you they would and I had if you have a headache, they they wouldn't [clears throat] even give give you an Advil, you know.

 Uh, they just wouldn't they're very strict. And so, there were 350 athletes. >> And I actually stayed in the the same uh place there. It was a a big building. I don't know like a school or a prison or something. But then at night everybody would go down the Olympic village and we traded pins. So I had you know American pens and I'll give you two of my Italian for like one training or something.

 So that was I have got a big old bag of pins somewhere. >> So you all you were there to do the opening ceremony right? >> Yes. I opened it >> right >> now. We did Walt Garrison was there that year, too. >> Walt Garrison, who's ex Dallas Cowboys running back. >> Yes. And remember Heidi uh and her brother Eric >> Hayen. Eric Hayen. >> Eric Hayen and his sister, >> right? Speed skaters.

>> And they were the speed skaters. >> Yes. >> Well, I went out and did my show because I performed for them. And it was wild because not many of them could speak English. And uh so I said, "Well, I'm going I I'll know I'll know how to get them." So when I did my last song, I went off >> and I borrowed Heidi uh his Eric Heidis sister.

 What was her name? Heidi. >> I can't remember her name. I know he was They're both speed skaters. Yeah, I borrowed her speed skating suit and it was just like, you know, it's like another it's just like a skin and I mean just as tight every and then I put the hood I tucked the hood down up underneath my in my neck. >> So you took her >> and I went back out and did the encore and I mean they lost it. They lost it.

They were throwing skis in the air, you know. >> Beth hiding. So funny. So you put her like singlet on like her her well would have would have been >> just >> a yoga pants with a yoga top with a yoga everything >> just your skin >> just your skin >> and you took the hood for aerodynamics and tucked it back into the thing and went out there and everyone went down like that.

 Yeah, >> that's a crazy memory. And then you hung out long enough to watch the Russians and the Americans play their hockey game. >> Yes. Yes, I did. I did. So from Merl Haggard to the Olympics and then I don't know what I did after that, but uh uh that was I think I stayed another few days in that lake.

 It was just beautiful and plus everybody was giving me stuff, you know. They were here have some skis, you know, Rosnal or have some gloves. [laughter] I said, "I loved it. It was a lot of fun." >> And got to know a lot of the athletes. Yeah, >> that's interesting. >> And of course, my friend was the trainer, the the the coach for the ski team, the US ski team.

>> Mhm. >> Moose Barrels, and we just recently lost him, but he was the original crash of 60 uh was it 68? The crash of 68 where he uh ABC Wild World of Sports. Well, that was the long that was >> agony defeat. >> That was him. >> Yes. >> That Yeah, that was the ski jump. >> Yeah. Well, he he he lost it and he broke a lot of bones and uh and he's a bigger skier, you know.

 He that's why they call him Moose, but he was of course Billy Kid was one of my best friends, always has been. He was immortalized at the beginning of the wide world of sports because of the agony of defeat. >> Agony of defeat. Yeah. >> Which is kind of interesting. It's kind of interesting. I I you know on on one I mean because it's it's the famous footage with the guy doing the ski jump but he somehow eats it on the way down and then just goes ass over tea kettle off the end of the thing >> and and gets the [ __ ] kicked out of him.

>> But uh but and you know it's kind of weird. So in one way you're immortalized screwing up something you do. on the other hand, right? >> Everyone knows who you are cuz we've definitely seen everyone's seen the agony of defeat >> of your failure, you know, cuz that that he paid dearly for that.

 But, you know, it's like anything, it's like everybody sees mine, too. So, when I have a failure, it's it's well documented. [laughter] >> Yeah. But it's not the front of a TV show that runs every Sunday for 25 years. >> That's true. That's right. >> I guess it could be. Where are you now? >> I'm in Los Angeles now. >> Unfortunately, >> sunshine all the time.

>> I'm looking. >> You're having a heat wave. >> Yes, we are. I don't like it. >> So, are we in Austin, >> which is too hot? >> I'm looking down. It says you did a Pontiac Trans Am commercial in 198. >> Oh my gosh. >> But I don't know if we have that. >> Road. >> Do we have No, King of the Road is something else.

 But that is what's his name. We just mentioned. >> No, I did King I did uh King of the Road for a Trans Am commercial. >> Oh, you did? Oh, >> for sale rent. Ain't got no cigarettes. All but three hours of pushing by 12. Mama woman means by no means >> king of the road. >> Jeez, I should get out there and open for you. >> Roger Miller.

 Do we have that commercial? >> Oh, man. I got to see this one. >> Oh, >> this going to take us back. >> That makes me want to buy a Trans Am. [laughter] >> I should have got one. I mean, they gave me one, but >> Oh, they gave you one for the commercial. >> They did, but I was silly for not taking it.

 I I took a a bigger car and I should have taken a Trans Am. >> Oh, they gave you a choice. >> Yeah, >> they did. And they shouldn't have. >> They [laughter] should have said I made the wrong one. >> All right, let's see. >> Let's take a walk down memory lane >> with Tanya TNT. >> Oh my god, there it is. and a trans riding in my new transm.

 I know how good it feels to groove when my fire is on the roof. Try a fire by means king of the road. >> Spandex pants tail [music] lamp as black as how it warms my country soul. It's a great car. You need [music] more proof. Take a look at my new hat. Try a fine bird by all means. King of the road. I know every time I step on a train, get on a sailboat or get on a plane.

 I'm wishing I could be back on the ground. My bird and I love to race all around. If I could [music] have my way, I would live inside my car all day trying to be [laughter] my bird by all means. King of the road. King of the road. >> Wow. >> Now, >> oh my gosh. >> Do you you have to memorize that song obviously. >> Yeah, I I was thinking about that.

 Now, how do they >> I did memorize it. >> Do that? Somebody writes it and goes, "You gotta memorize this song." Or do you go, "Give me some Q cards, man." >> I [clears throat] don't remember any qards, but uh I had to lip sync it, you know. Um but I had to record it at some point. Um which I could read the words then, but I had to learn the words to do to do that.

>> Yeah. >> And I love that car. Dang, I was crazy for not getting that car. >> Yeah. Smoking. my decisions. I worry about myself. >> Well, they're going up in value. They're worth something now. >> Dang it. >> I know. >> Just dog on it. Yeah. >> It's >> spilled milk. >> It's back when uh if you did an advertisement, they just give you give you the thing you're advertising. Yeah.

>> No, back when they used to do a lot of things, you know. >> Yeah. A lot of things. >> Yeah. >> Where'd you shoot that? Do you remember? uh some sound stage there in LA. >> Oh, really? >> Yeah. So, >> they rolled >> I'm not quite sure where. Uh >> could have been, you know, a lot of places it could have been, but that's where we did it. Yeah.

>> Back in LA. All right, Tanya, let me give you a plug. First off, the uh Reagan movie, which I recommend, and of course, uh Dennis Quay's great >> in it as well. Yes, he was. >> Is Reagan and a great dude. Let me get a napkin here. He was just fine. And and when they asked me to do the song, I was uh I was elated. I mean, I loved it.

 I loved it. And uh it was a perfect song for that. >> It's in the director's cut, which is going to be re-released in theater September 25th. And then Tanya, where do we find you if we want to find you? Dates, tours, events, things of that nature. >> Yes. Uh, you know, I'm [snorts] I'm the worst about that.

 But I guess tanyyout.com. I don't know though for sure. >> I'm unmanageable. >> Yeah. Well, you don't need to be managed. You're the queen of the road. >> Well, I mean, I don't have a manager, so um I'm going to kill my career by uh being my own assistant. >> You can't kill your career. You've already you already had [laughter] a 50-year career. You can't kill it.

>> Yeah. >> Uh I guess so. Great catching up with you, Tanya. I hope you come join us again soon. >> I want to be there with you, though. >> When you're in LA, next time you're shooting a Pontiac Trans Am spot out here. >> We'll take a ride. >> Come. We'll take a ride and you say hi. >> All right, we'll take >> I'd love to see you.

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>> Yeah, great job on the Hannity Sean Hannity show. Uh Aceman, great job. Great job there. uh that they made you an offer yet because it looks to us like they're grooming you for Fox News. Take it. Do it. Make that money. Don't be humble. Yeah. They want you. Fox News. The new fresh face of Fox News is going to be Adam Cor.

Good job, sir. Keep up the great work. >> You can leave us a message at 8886341744. Yeah, Rudy's got his uh news. Yeah, I did U Hannity went to his place in Florida. Oh, it's always like, you know, you get right out of the gate. I don't like Kimmel. I don't know what you know about me and Kimmel.

 [laughter] I know you like Kimmel. I don't like Kimmel. Made fun of Melania. What do you think about a guy makes fun of Melania Trump? >> Okay. All right [laughter] then. Here we go. >> Can we just have a scotch and just enjoy each other's company for five minutes before I have to try to defend my friend? >> Got to get right into it.

 always got to get into it all the time. Uh all right. So, uh last week I was at the uh RNC. >> Mhm. >> And I was uh giving a thing and uh you know trying to think I uh these things get agreed upon at some point. I I don't pay them any never mind for for an extended period of time and then you know at some point I arrive at the place and it's the enorm dome and you you look out over the place and you see this giant stage and all these people and you know the cameras and security you know just security getting into the place and

you know patting everyone down and I mean barriers everywhere I mean like nutty you know nutty cuckoo I don't know if there's more security that you would see, you know, just nothing but security. And uh then you you like walk into the bowels of the place and it's it's it's enormous and there's tons of people and everyone's you know literally guys talking into their sleeve and uh you know you look out on stage and and then at some point it kind of dawns on you like oh I'm going to do this thing which it never really dawns on me before that.

I don't I don't have a lot of thoughts about it. I was just traveling and working and I was in Hawaii and >> yeah, I didn't give it I just didn't give it any thought, you know, and then um then you get down to um well, it's kind of getting close to the time you're going to be doing this and the place fills up and there's I don't know 12,000 people in the place.

10,000 I don't know how many people in there. It's where they play b when they the Mavericks play basketball. >> And uh there's all cameras everywhere and all the pundits everywhere and everyone's walking around and you're starting to recognize you know people >> and celebrities and uh you know politicians and stuff and then it kind of dawns on you like oh I got to go out there and do something >> and then I'm not really exactly sure how this is going to work.

 So then you go into a It's kind of smart. They have a teleprompter room. They have two teleprompter rooms. >> That was going to be my question was cuz I saw the clip of you on it and I I couldn't tell. It didn't seem like you were on teleprompter. Like you would never use one, but >> not really.

 Well, so what it is, >> sorry, I'm getting a cup of coffee me. It's kind of I if you wanted to encapsulate my life, I think you would do it this way. They have the teleprompter and there's two kinds of teleprompterss. There's the the one that's good is just the big screen that's straight ahead. It's the one they use on the Oscars and the Emmys and everyone walks out there and they just look straight down the barrel of the camera and it's like a 80in TV at the back and and it's not at the top.

 It's like where the split of the deck is for the theater where the lower seats are before they go up. They just put it there. It's not great because people in the audience can look back and literally just read what's on the prompter. >> You're giving away the joke. Yeah. >> But you walk out and you just look right down the barrel and you you just It's right in front of you.

 It's directly in front of you. These ones are the mirrored ones. The glass ones are to the right and to the left. >> And it's the same thing running on both of them. Both of them are the size of a of a notepad. They're about like it's like it's like if somebody just held a notepad up. >> Sure. >> With a glass and it and it reflects >> and it has whatever you want on it.

 But as I was saying when I went to the uh teleprompter room, we're going to go over your teleprompter. I go, you know, it's kind of weird because you're looking to the right and then you look to the left. It's there to go. I'm looking to the right. I'm looking to the left, but you never really look down the middle.

>> Yeah. which is what you would do if you were speaking. And then also for the uninitiated like me who doesn't do teleprompter very well and I've never done the reflection glass ones. It's it's kind of weird. You you look to the right for a little and then you you have to go pick it up on the left.

 You pick it up for a while and then you got to go to the right. For me with uh some reading difficulties, the biggest problem is stopping and starting you. I can't figure out the place I I left off, you know. Anyway, so I said to the guy in the teleprompter room, I go, "Is it going to look weird?" First off, it's going to look weird just staying on one side the whole time.

 It's like you're just looking to the right the whole time. And then it also is going to look weird if I just stay the left the whole time. But you would it look better just to go from the right, you know, back to the left and then back to the right. And the guy in the teleprompter room goes, "The best way to do it, you just look right down the middle because that's where your camera is.

" And I [laughter] go, "Yeah, I know, but there's no [ __ ] words there, YOU [ __ ] IDIOT." LIKE, YES, I [laughter] know. >> I know. It's great to look right down the middle except for there's no >> Yeah. >> words there, so I don't know. But I get it. That's the best. Yeah. the best is commit everything to memory like you're doing Man of Lancha for the 15th year in a row and don't look at anything.

 That's almost kind of what you have to do. I mean, you're not >> you're not the most excellent reader as well. So, if you're not staring directly at it, I can only imagine how difficult it is. >> Yeah. Finally, you just said, "You know what? Just put Stallone's Cobra on both these and let me just run see what happens.

" >> That's right. Well, I I had Angel on one because she was a street walker at [laughter] at night, but by day she was an honoral student. And then I had Cobra on the other one. >> Oh, for sure. >> So, the guy was explaining just look straight ahead except for there's no >> teleprompter straight ahead.

 But I appreciate his advice. >> Yeah. >> So, I don't know also how guys get themselves into that position like you know my advice is look straight ahead where there's no teleprompter and deliver it straight to the camera except for I don't know what I'm delivering. So, [clears throat] I I worked it out with them, but I said, I'm I'm just I'm going to have a couple of things that are written, but also I need everything else that's got to be beats, and I'll just look up and I'll I'll see where the beats are, you know? Yeah. And I will uh

I'll pick it up at the beats. >> Yeah. That's a sign of a good comic. Doesn't write everything out. Just beats. Just, you know, you just need one word on a piece of paper and it'll jog your memory. Yeah. Also, or on a on a glass a glass screen. >> Did you do any time traveling while you were up there? Cuz I've never done an arena, but I've done 7,000 people in a theater.

 And when you get on stage and that light hits you and you get off stage, you go, I don't remember the last 15 minutes of my life. I don't know. All I know is I walked on stage and now I'm off stage and I don't remember anything in between. >> I uh I was pretty good. I was pretty there. I had a a sleep issue. I had a travel issue. I had a time issue.

 I had I had a lot of issues. >> And I'll tell you about those issues. So, I left Hawaii at 6:00 and I landed in Dallas [snorts] at 7 a.m. So, I left 6:00 p.m. and I landed at 7 a.m. And I I couldn't do all the math because Dallas is Hawaii is 3 hours earlier than LA, but Dallas is 2 hours later than LA. >> Really? You left at 6 p.m.

 in Hawaii and ended up in Dallas at 7 p.m. >> 7 a.m. >> Oh, 7 a.m. >> Oh, [clears throat] sorry. I'm [laughter] I should have said am, but I figured you could do that math if I left at 6:00 p.m. from Hawaii, but because there's a time difference, but there's not not 11 hours. >> I don't know if there was a layover or something like that.

 That's why I thought that'd be weird. >> Oh, you mean the next No, no, no. Okay. I should have said AM, but you could have done the math. I left at 6 PM. I landed at 7 a.m. in Dallas. >> Yes. >> And then uh I got back to the hotel. I got up to my room at probably like 8:00 a.m. >> And then I had to be down at the event center atuh 200 p.m.

 which which gave me a nice time to go to bed because I really been to bed. I was on a flight, you know, I could recline and and that kind of stuff, but it didn't really sleep. You know, I'm not a good I'm a belly sleeper. I'm 6'2, >> so it's just not really ever going to work on on a flight. >> But, um, so I get there and they got me a suite and everything's good and I'm like, now I'm going to go to bed and I'm going to get some sleep because I'm just no good on lack of sleep.

 It it bothers me. It's it's it's like different people function different ways in different situations. And for me, sleep deprivation is just not good. It's just it's not good for me. It's not good for being up on stage. It's not good for memorizing stuff and picking up beats and stuff like that. I'm just I'm just off. Most people are.

>> Yeah. They they'll do the studies of guys with no sleep that drive a car and it equals them in like at a you know four level or something, you know. >> Yeah, that's what I would say to the officer. [laughter] >> He says, "I can smell the no sleep on your breath, son." I go, "Yeah, well, >> I only had one no sleep, sir.

 Just had one." >> So, um I I get into my room and I go, "I'm going I'm taking a nap, but I'm not just taking a nap. I'm going to bed for the night essentially because I haven't been to sleep yet and I'm going to get me some sleep." So, I go to bed at about 8 and at about 10:00 a.m. I start hearing noise, the noise of uh water.

And I go, "What is this?" It It basically sounds like someone fired up the bathtub. And I go into the bathroom and it's the bath there's water all over the tub. And I go, "H, something wrong with the spot or the shower, something like that." Shower's separate. Tub's separate. And I'm looking at it and I look up and I see water coming from the light fixture in the ceiling above the tub.

>> And I'm like, [sighs] "Something's broken upstairs. Some some pipe man." >> Yeah. >> Something. Now, best I can do is I think, well, maybe whoever's above me, maybe they left the tub running and it's overflowing. >> Flowing now. Sure. >> The tubs have a runoff, >> but you can't overflow them. >> Sure. >> So, I'm like, maybe it's just some chick up there left the tub on and then passed out or something.

>> It's RNC. There might be a dead hooker in that tub. >> Yes. So, I go, it's dripping in the tub now. It's making a lot of noise cuz it's falling from the ceiling down the tub. So, I do what any hero would do, which is I grab the bath mat and I throw it in the tub just to cushion the sound. >> Sure. >> And then I go, "Fuck, I'm going back to bed.

" I go back to bed and now I hear more. >> I love this. >> I hear more [laughter] water. And I'm like, there's more. I can hear there's more. And now I open the door to the toilet and it's coming down in the toilet, too. So, it's coming down through the light fixture above the tub and above the toilet. >> Wow. Wow. >> And I'm like, it's really on now.

>> Yeah. >> And I'm like, maybe it'll stop because >> I have to would have to repack all my bags, >> get dressed, >> and go find another room [clears throat] in the middle of my REM. >> And I'm I'm on the clock now. I'm running out of time >> to sleep. I got to meet Mike at 1:00 down in the lobby or whatever. >> And so I'm like I'm like I'm like on the clock. And I'm like, ah.

 So I go, you know what? I'm just gonna lay down. I'm just gonna lay down and hopefully it stops or whatever was going on above me. Someone gets a hold of this problem. And I get up like every like 15 minutes I get up and I just put the light on and I can see it's not slowed down at all. And uh with my contracting background, I'm like, I know what's going on.

 Some pipe's [ __ ] up and this thing's coming down and it's not going to just stop on its own. It's just on and I live with it for like half an hour and I'm like now my floor is flooding. So now the bathroom floor of my place is flooding and I'm like god damn it. I'm in my underpants. I'm like I don't want to have to repack and leave this room. I'm in a suite.

 I just want to go to bed. I'm like all right. So I go, "Well, now I'm going to call the front desk >> except for there's no phone in the room. The phone's I don't know, maybe optional these days. There's no phone. I can't find the phone anywhere in the room. >> So I now pick up my phone and I'm like, I have to call the W Hotel in Dallas.

" And then, of course, first thing I do is I I try to look it up and I dial and it's, you know, it's Kayak. You know, we can get you the best rate of the room for W. [laughter] Not good. And I keep finding around. Finally, I I find like call. I get the front desk. I get the automation. I put on hold for 10 minutes. Then it gets hung up on.

Eventually I get hold of somebody the front desk. And I don't know. There should be a code for I know what I'm talking about. I'm like, what's the issue, sir? There's water. Is it on the floor? Just It's an issue. Believe me, it's an issue. It's an issue. They go, "Oh, we'll send up maintenance." I'm like, "All right, but there's nothing maintenance. It's in the roof.

 It's in the ceiling. Okay, it's nothing." >> So this 10 minutes later, this little Chuco chick shows up. She's like, "Maintenance?" I'm like, "All right, good luck." [laughter] She like walks into the room into the bathroom, turns the light on, looks up, and does the like, "Hi." You and I [laughter] like I go, "Yeah, she saw the chupacabra.

" I was like, "Okay." She's like, "Uh, no, no, no, no." I'm like, "Yeah, I know." And she she leaves. I call back to the desk. I go, "Listen, I we we got to switch rooms." He The guy's like, "Yeah, I know. I talked to maintenance. You got to switch rooms." I go, "Okay." Uh then there's a knock on the door and it's the guy from the front desk and he's like, "Uh, also, could we do this? Could we wait five Mississippi before you knock again?" You know, like I'm in a suite.

It's a suite. Like I'm over on in the bedroom say just give me Yeah. >> JUST WAIT FIVE SECONDS. I I will walk. I'M NOT GOING TO DO A [ __ ] shoulder roll like it's the beginning of SWAT. I'm walking >> to the front door, but you got to knock. You got to hit it again. >> So then I open the door.

 It's a guy from the front desk. And he goes, "Yeah, this room's not going to work, but we we can get you into another room." I go, "Please, like as fast as we can because I got to get to I haven't been asleep yet." Mhm. >> I got to go to I got to go to sleep. He goes, "Oh, okay. How long is it going to take to pack up your bag?" I go, "It's 2 minutes. Just I'm I'm going to pack up.

Let's go." He goes, "All right, I'll be back with the key." >> I go, "Okay, hurry. >> Pack up my bag, stand there by the front door. Five minutes, 10 minutes goes by." Of course, he's not backing up key. And so then I do what I do, which is a dumb thing that I always do. I try to move things along by doing something on my end. Like I'm all packed up.

He's not I'm at the end of the hall. He's nowhere around. But he said he'd be five minutes, but it's been 15. I'm just going to get all my [ __ ] and lug it to where the elevator is. He'll have to come up the elevator. When he pops up the elevator, then I'll go, "What's where's my new room? What floor around? We'll get in the elevator.

 We'll go to it." >> Sure. >> Then I stand by the elevator while people exit the elevator. Just look at me like a weirdo cuz I'm just standing [laughter] there the whole time. You getting on? No, I'm just standing here in my shorts. I'm not going anywhere at some point. Then I go, "Well, [ __ ] it. I got to go to the lobby with all my luggage, by the way, and find this guy who said he was coming right back up.

" >> So then I take all my luggage, including the merch bag. I go down to the lobby. Now everyone's awake and walking around and dressed in suits and stuff, and I'm in shorts and flip-flops, and I come dragging all my [ __ ] through the lobby, and I see the guy, and he's chatting up somebody, and I'm like, "Hello.

" And he's like, "Oh, yeah. I was coming right up." [laughter] I was like, "Okay, okay." God, why does everything have to go so he go, "Oh, I got your new room." Blah, blah, blah. >> So, he got me checked into my new room. And it was fine. It was all good. But now, >> at this point, however it worked out, I' I'd figured out I have one more hour of sleep. Then I have to get up.

 I have to get my [ __ ] together. And uh also, I got to work, so I got to like figure stuff out. And then I was just laying there in my bed. I was thinking about the stuff that they cut. I had some jokes that they cut >> and and the guy's like, "Uh, well, we cut we cut stuff, so go ahead and replace it with something.

" But I'm like, I don't have an unlimited supply of jokes that would work in this arena that are G-rated or PG. I don't have a cacophony of jokes for this place. I can't just go get new jokes. >> But uh but I was laying there in bed and I just had this thought about I should open with a land acknowledgement. >> It just it just popped into my head and I thought that would be good.

 That would be good to open with a land acknowledgement. So when you do the event, they assign you a writer, but the writer doesn't I mean he may write for other people, but he doesn't write for me. He gets all my stuff, >> kind of sorts it out and then says, "Yeah, you can't say this and you you can't say that.

 We're not going to do the Guantanamo Bay joke and we can't do that." >> Yeah. I like those shows when they because you will pitch jokes to them three weeks before the event and then they come back to you a week before and go, "No, you can't do this. can't do this. And then it's seven minutes before you're about to go on stage and you pitch them something, they go, "Yeah, yeah, it's fine. Go ahead.

" And you're like, "Well, if I were to pitch this three weeks ago, you would have totally shhat all over it." >> Well, they cut some stuff and I get it. You know, it's the situation, the environment and the the jokes were like a little Somali and Guantanamo Bay and like some stuff. Okay, fine. So, I cuts a few and I go to him, but I want to open with a land acknowledgement.

 And he goes, "Oh, that's good. Yeah, that'd be that'd be a good idea." And I go, "Yeah, okay. I haven't really sussed it out like exactly what it is just yet, but I I'll figure it out, but just understand. I'm going to open with a land acknowledgement." He goes, "Oh, okay." And so then we go into the uh teleprompter room.

 It's just a room with a teleprompter and three people. And of course, Mike was eating the whole time. In the room, the guy had to re [laughter] fill him with candy. Like Mike, it was like Halloween. He was eating peanut butter cups and eating the whole time. And and the guy So the guy goes, "Uh, the writer guy goes, I go, "No, listen, I got the I I think I figured out the land acknowledgement.

 I wrote it I wrote it out how I wanted it." And he goes, "Oh, I I wrote one, too." And I go, "Well, let me see what you got." His name was like, "Yeah, we're here in Dallas. A land acknowledgement, blah, blah, blah." And I was like, "Okay, that's that's fine, but we're gonna we're going to replace it with what I got.

" I mean, it was like a placeholder. He didn't he's you know, he's not he wasn't writing for me, but he he did he took a pass at the land acknowledgement. >> And uh I said that, "Yeah, that's that's good, but here's what I got. Let's just do this." And I I dictated him mine. He's typing it in. >> Says, "Okay, so now we go let's uh let's go to the prompter.

 Let's let's run it through the prompter once." I go, "Okay." So I go there and it starts with I like do a land acknowledgement and then it it's his and I go hold on where's now now this is the part of life I'm always curious about. I go what hold on this the wrong script? He goes no that's the right script. I go but but that's your land acknowledgement. Yeah.

>> I go but I gave you the land acknowledgement. Yeah that's the land acknowledgement. I go [laughter] no I told you the land acknowledgement. Yeah that's what that is. >> Yeah. This is my nephew. >> Right. I go, [laughter] "No, it's it's it's it's it's not it's that's your that's your one.

" Then I gave you my one. Yeah. No, this is that script. I go, "But it's not that script because it it it has yours in it." Yeah. You wanted the land acknowledgement. I go, "Yeah, I I wanted my land acknowledgement in there." Yeah, that yours is in there. I go, "What? No, mine is in there. Mine's replacing yours.

" No, we we have the land acknowledgement and then we have yours is under it. I go I'm not doing two land I'm not doing two separate land [laughter] acknowledgements. What I just did hold on. What part of where I go? Yeah, that's great. What you did is like a six and a half or seven like that. That's fine.

 Now here's I'm just going to word it this way. I'm going to take it and just kind of tweak it and I'm doing it this way. And he just dutifully types the whole thing and then starts with his and then he's like, "Yeah, yours is underneath." I go, "Yeah, but we got to get rid of yours." Wow. >> We You don't want to do the land acknowledgement? I go, "Wait a minute.

 I HOLD ON. I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON NOW." LIKE, I'm literally standing there and everyone's looking at me. >> I'm like I'm in maniac. I go, I don't know what's going on. I I told you mine. Replace yours with mine. So, you don't want to do a land acknowledgement? Like it's a weird I [laughter] WHAT IS SO difficult about everything all the time? I I said to the guy, I'm going to open the land acknowledgement. He took a pass.

 His pass was fine. And then I got with him and I go I dialed it in. Here's what I want. So just put this in the land acknowledgement. And then he puts it under his. And now it's a ball of confusion. It's now a world. Now we're going down this weird road where I'm going, "This isn't the script.

" And he's going, "Yeah, it's the script." And I'm going, "Yeah, but I didn't. It says Texas. I That's not mine." "No, yours is in there, but this isn't what I wanted. You wanted a land acknowledgement." Like, it's now we're just [ __ ] going in circles, and it's weird. And I don't get it. Like, I don't know what that is. >> It's almost as if as for a guy who's a writer, it's his first time ever having this situation pop up where he's had to write for somebody who is also a writer.

Has nobody ever told him, "Hey man, your joke was fine, but we got to replace this." Also, doesn't it make sense? Is there Is there a red light that goes on for this guy? Like a Hang on. Wait a minute. Does something feel right? We're going to do two jokes about the same thing. Feels weird. >> I agree. It's always confusing.

 It's always exacerbated by no one else in the room has any idea what's going on. Stupid land acknowledgement arguments. And uh at some point we just uh figure it out and I go, "Okay, now [laughter] now I got to now I got to print this out so I can take it with me so I can look at it because I've never really really looked at it.

" But it's also it's also an interesting also is another interesting part of life. I'm with the guy backstage and I go the teleprompter. Can they can they print that out? what what's in the teleprompter? Can they print that out? And he goes, "Yeah, I think uh I think they could probably do that. I'm not sure, but I think they could do that." I go, "Good.

 It'd be good to get a print out of it." He goes, "Okay." Then we go in there and he's like writing on his laptop. And I say to the teleprompter person, "Can we print out what's on the teleprompter?" And she goes, "Well, yeah, it's in his laptop. He can just go print it out." And then he goes, "Yeah, I'll go print that out.

" [laughter] Well, why didn't you just say it's in my laptop? Yes, I'll go print it out. Why do we have to go? I think I can talk them into what's with the communication. That's all I'm saying. Like why is everything confusing? I don't get it. He just go, "Yeah, I write it out my laptop.

 I just go to the back and print it out. It's not even up to them. We can print out whatever we want in my laptop. It has nothing to do with the teleprompter." He his answer is I think they could probably print it out for you. I don't know. We could check. >> But it's not even them. It's you. It's him and his laptop. >> Yeah. >> What What is the necessary part of all of this? I don't know.

 I I have heard something recently and it sort of sparked a little bit of insanity in me, which was uh you have to move and dictate your actions the way the boss does. And that is something that most people don't do. They don't move at the same pace as the boss. They don't move at and in this instance, you are the boss.

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 Here's the clip. bribing them. >> If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000. [clears throat] >> So now we're just bribing people. >> Yeah. >> Which evidently works.

 It definitely works on all the poor people. We'll just get you free cheese and free school and free Medicare and we'll get you free [ __ ] >> Why the rich people start bribing people? >> Yeah. I was uh in Minnesota when Jesse Ventura was elected governor and I got that first Jesse check when I was 18. It was like 900 bucks.

>> Really? >> And it was as a 18-year-old kid who's never had more than $7 in his pocket. $900 that just magically shows up in your bank account. You are a rich man. I like uh Jesse Ventura, although he has gone completely insane. >> Yeah, I I watched that dude break up a fight during that election. Really? >> He was on the road.

 He came to I'm from Hibing, Minnesota. He was speaking there. went down to it was during like our our prom >> and you know they got the king and queen and the they got everybody goes to the hotel that night and they hang out before the election and and Jesse was there and two dudes were drunk in the bar and he's having a drink and these guys start getting lippy with each other and Jesse stands up and grabs both these guys by the collar and it's like not on my dime.

>> I ain't got time [laughter] to bleed. >> BUNCH OF SLACK JOT [ __ ] AROUND HERE and just slams him down. We had a tape of him doing his his show when he did his radio show in Minnesota >> and we we used to play it on a loop. Somebody sent it to us and it was him just in that voice going >> man show best show on TV.

 Best show on TV. We'd always just play it in our office and made us laugh. >> He's great. I love him. >> Yeah, he's fantastic. Uh Gavin Newsome. Well, there's a lot of things that were happening that we've been told that never happened, but illegal aliens getting welfare in the United States. Turns out that's actually going on.

 Uh, California Governor Gavin Newsome bragging about this, giving tax dollars to illegal aliens on Don Lemon's show. >> People say on Fox News is why is Gavin Newsome out here in South Carolina? His state is in shambles and he's not serving the people of South Carolina. >> Well, I mean, I mean, he's serving the people of California. Excuse me.

>> I think they deserve more than a $725 minimum wage here. I think they deserve more than a governor refuses to expand Medicaid. Oh, wait. Hold on a second. >> We don't expanded. >> So, is this Wait, governors do this? They just go to other states that are across the country and sit down and start talking about working on their minimum wage.

>> Only governors who [ __ ] up their state already and need to go try to [ __ ] up America, >> right? So he's going to he's going to another state wants to talk about the minimum wage. Uh so he's going to work on their he's governing. He's going to help govern. >> Oh, okay. All right. >> I know. >> Well, I mean I >> I mean serving the people of California, excuse Yeah, I think they deserve more than a $725 minimum wage here.

 I think they deserve more than a governor refuses to expand Medicaid. We not only expanded Medicaid, but we have we only state in America providing universal healthcare regardless of pre-existing condition, ability to pay and your immigration status. I know how offensive that is to people. And I get how controversial that is.

 We >> Yeah. So he um Well, first off, all they do is they go, "That's not happening." And then at some point they go, "Yeah, it's happening, but it's barely happening." It's all anything to do with illegals. Everything to do with illegals goes from they're not voting or they're not being taken into the consensus or they're not getting Medicare or they're not getting issued IDs or like it it all goes from it's not happening.

 Oh, by the way, they're contributing to the economy, not taking from the economy and they're not murdering anybody and they're not doing anything illegal. So it always goes from this isn't happening to yeah it's happening but barely to yeah it's happening a lot but that's a good thing. >> Mhm. >> Which is a weird way to do it.

 So it'd be like me going you know it like if your daughter woke up she's covered with mosquito bites and she goes there's mosquitoes in this house. You go there's no mosquitoes in this house. And then she'd go I'm covered with mosquito bites. and you go, there's maybe one, well, one or two, but there's no, it's not really a thing.

 I mean, maybe there's some mosquitoes, but not really. And then at some point that then turns into it's a good thing. Mosquitoes are good. So, it went from there's no mosquitoes to there's only a couple mosquitoes, you shouldn't be complaining. It's not a problem to there's lots of mosquitoes and that's the way we like it.

>> Mhm. >> Well, you got to pick an argument is is what I'm saying as terms of mosquitoes go. >> Yeah. They're easing into the argument is what it is, >> right? So, he's giving taxpayer money to illegals because that's his constituency is illegals. >> Mhm. Well, luckily, Poly Market on X tweeted this out the other day, saying, "Gavin Newsome's 2028 presidential odds collapse to an all-time low as he's laying groundwork for a potential White House run.

 A 7% chance is what he has right now." I got a new name for him that I hope catches on cuz when he talks his hands are all all over the place now. >> I think I want to call him spaz hands cuz there's jazz hands but he's not that fluid. He's [ __ ] but he's moving. >> And I think spaz hands would work would work for him.

 Maybe I'll get it uh >> I'll get the word over to Trump. >> Yeah, for sure. Uh Karen Bass saying that it is not her responsibility for streets being in despair. She's cut street service by 61 million between 2023 and 2025. That has led to the despair and that potholes are not her fault. >> Desperate attention, right? Potholes to start.

>> That's right. >> Right. These potholes and and by the way, we have a crumbling infrastructure in this city that has been crumbling for about three decades. Oh, yeah. And so, >> by the way, can I say something? crumbling infrastructure for three decades. It's like saying, you know, in roofing, you know, roofing, your grandpa knows roofing.

>> In roofing parliament, you get a 30-year roof, you get a 20ear roof, you know, you get a 50-year roof, but if you go, I got a 30-year roof, but it's been crumbling for 30 years. [laughter] Well, technically, yeah. It the day it's put on, it starts its 30-year run. And every day you get closer to 30 years is a day it's not going to be good for.

 But you can't start infrastructure crumbling. >> Yeah. >> You can't be crumbling for 30 years. It was good 30 years ago and now it's crumbling. >> Yeah. When you got five years left on that 30, that's when you start looking at possibly getting things up, >> right? And when people do this thing where it's like the new argument for everyone who ruined LA is that like, hey, I didn't ruin it.

 It was already ruined. [laughter] Like, okay, so we should give you another four years of attempting to fix something that you've had no ability to fix. Like when they go back, it's always here's here's what here's where you know it's going bad. It always goes bad when they start talking about national. you know, when they go LA's got a pretty bad homeless problem.

 You know, all nationally, we got a bet. When you go nationally, that's bad. >> And uh, by the way, when you're out of problems is when uh they start going to Africa. They go, you know, how AIDS affects so many. Oh, okay. So, we're done with AIDS. If you're getting to Africa, then we got no AIDS problems >> anymore.

 [laughter] >> All right. So, it's always been crumbling. >> Yeah. >> And she's not But what's the plan? crumbling infrastructure in this city that has been crumbling for about three decades. And so, believe it or not, those potholes did not come. And those sidewalks did not break because I'm mayor. [laughter] >> You mean it's not your fault? >> No, I didn't break I promise I didn't break those sidewalks.

>> Yeah, they didn't get fixed because you're mayor. Nothing got fixed. You didn't do anything. You didn't even attempt to stop it. >> It's I don't think you know you know what this argument is? It's that same argument I always yell about when they go, "Uh, illegals don't kill as many Americans as Americans." Yeah, I know.

Okay, maybe they don't, but they're still killing Americans. Like, I want to do something about this. Okay, so it's funny. >> Infrastructure is falling apart. It's Los Angeles. It's potholes and sidewalks. And you're laughing about it because it started before you, >> but you're the mayor who can do things >> or iso ostensively supposed to be able to do stuff.

 Yeah, at least try to level it off a little bit. >> Your campaign slogan can't be it was that way before I got here [laughter] because that's by the way that is the that is the it's it's it's the politician version of my dog ate my homework. Like that means you've just done a [ __ ] job. You just done nothing. Like things you're basically going things were [ __ ] up then I got here and they're still [ __ ] up and now I need four more years.

>> I don't know what your argument is. Your argument is an argument against you >> because you didn't fix whatever needed fixing. All right, what else? >> Speaking of disparagement and crumbling, Nicholas Cage's neighbors are being evacuated from their homes over the massive sinkhole that swallowed up the actor's driveway after the crater was discovered outside the actor's $10.

5 million beachfront mansion in Malibu, California on Tuesday. >> That's his place. >> Yeah. So, the city issued an an emergency order of imminent danger for Seale Drive residents. Where the hell was that? >> Is that not That must not be too far from you. >> Uh, it's got to be further down closer to like Pepperdine or something.

 I I don't know. We can we can look at it. >> But that is a big ass sinkhole. >> And that's the front. >> Is it on PCH? Andrew, I have to look now. >> So, this says, it's weird that they put this in the in the report, but it says CLE drive. So, I don't know if that's off of PCH. Yeah, it must be up in the hill or something.

>> Something like that. >> It's beachfront for sure cuz there's a water right there underneath it. >> Yeah, that's true. Sinkhole took it out, >> man. >> Oh, we're going to have to get some engineering to get that [ __ ] back together. >> Well, it should be up in about what, 2, three days, four days, maybe.

 At least get the permits and you know. [laughter] >> Yeah, I know. Yeah. This time next week. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Is it [clears throat] He's playing John Madden in a movie. >> Yeah. But I don't think that movie is coming to theaters now. Somebody somebody told me. >> Just direct a prime or something. >> Yeah.

 Is this Where is this? Must be way down PCH like heading down toward Zuma or County Line or something something of that something of that nature. >> Cool place. >> Looks nice. Yeah. I watched a ton of uh Monday Night Football. Howard Coell era Monday Night Football. The best. Yeah. >> Oh, I got so many things. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So much to say. >> So much to say.

 Everyone's just got to watch that stuff. >> Yeah. >> All right. We got time for half a story. >> Half a story. Well, uh, a little bit uh, further up the road from Nicholas Cage. The Santa Monica prominade is now empty storefronts with no customers. 80% of local residents don't feel safe shopping there anymore. Uh, a 2024 business survey by the Santa Monica Coalition found 90% of GR uh, ground floor retailers reported walk-in theft with 72% saying it happened almost daily.

 All right. Do we have a clip, by the way? Yeah. I mean, look, people are just sort of creatures who will sort of go where the winds take them. M >> and if you have a bunch of [ __ ] hobos walking in and a bunch of thugs ripping [ __ ] off, then they'll just go do business somewhere else. That's it's pretty >> basic stuff.

 I don't I don't get why people don't understand that. We'll play the clip. Sorry if I have a second here. >> What is happening down here in Santa Monica? This is a busy shopping area and I'm seeing that all the stores are closed. 80% of the local residents don't feel safe shopping here anymore. They go elsewhere.

 The beauty of the pro of this mall and the prominade were the boutique homemade type stores and a few national and regional retailers. Those have left because of the daytime theft. >> All right. I I don't know. I I feel like, you know, as a citizen, you pay your taxes, you pay your utilities, you employ people and whatever, and then the government protects you so you can do business.

 And and in LA, they just let that part of it go. Sure. >> The businesses are just on their own. >> They'll tough it out and then they'll leave. >> And I I don't know what you expect from them. But, you know, when Burger King, sorry, when In-N-Out Burger left Oakland, they're gone because they can't do business there. I I don't what is difficult about this? I don't I don't These are all real basic normal stuff.

Anyway, [ __ ] off Santa Monica. You're the tip of the spear for the [ __ ] show that is California. All right. Uh San will be at the Jordan family classic cars. That'll be with Leno coming up this Sunday. And uh then Flappers after that. You can go to amcroller.com for all the live shows. What do you got, Rudy? >> Uh the 18th coming up this Friday.

 I'll be in Columbia, Missouri. And then Centerview, Missouri on the 19th. Go to Rudy Pavage.com. Should be some great shows. So until next time, Adam Crawler Pavitz and Tanya Tuck are saying mahala