Two In The Think Tank - 185 - Dolly Parton

Episode Date: May 8, 2019

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

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but own dry. Is that, no. All right. Sounds like good advice. Bye. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Wanakin. I'm sitting here with let's introduce him first, Matt Stewart. He put up a bit of a fight last week. And Jess Perkins number two. Graceful in defeat, I always am. What's the next six months? That was gonna introduce me first, he said.

Apparently so. To get the body thing back in kilter. Yeah, we're gonna make up for the last 26 episodes. Yeah. I'll do it. I'll do it for you. Thank you. He was pointing to the listener's at home.

Yeah. Because they're annoyed. People write in. They're like, where's when's that's turned? Yeah, some people say they turn off on introduced jest first. Yeah, and I turned back on moments later when they introduced me. Yeah, well, I guess they're not introducing jest this week because Matt was first. Yeah. Anyhow, we're talking about big stuff early. It's so good to be here in the podcast studio. It's one of my favorite places. I love it. It's my safe space. And as a soy boy, I like being in safe spaces. I like a place to be vulnerable. Yeah. I liked it too until my

ice cream went missing from the freezer. What did you do with it? Who could have taken it? Who was here today? We need to find out. Who was at the studio today? I'm not sure because I've only been here tonight. I'd like you to check the security cameras. We can do that. Please. I assume you've got one in the kitchen as well. The freezer cam, for sure. Every business has a freezer cam, right?

If you don't have one, I think we should set one up and set a little trap. Then put rat poison in this ice cream. Just in case the trap backfiles. You've taken it too far there, Dave. What kind of ice cream was stolen? It was a connoisseur. Oh, good brand. Cookies and cream. Okay. I don't know what Plaro would do.

It probably rests his little graces. Consult the little graces. See if you can find the wrapper. Oh, that's good. It's if it's in the bin. Are we thinking about doing a spin-off true crime podcast about this? I think so. I'm into it.

What do we call it? Were they put in the con in connoisseur or something like that? Yes. Matthew! That's the opening line. So, yes! This podcast will put the con back in connoisseur. Well, that sounds like we're ton men.

Let me take you back 24 hours. I hate this voice you're doing. I'm already, I'm off. I love it. You know people say I'm off board. I'm off board. I'm over board. God, ask yourself, what would you do?

Someone took your ice cream. I hate this. This sucks. Let me stop you right there. Unsubscribe. He sounded like Michael Jackson. Well, and he's canceled. Yeah, I canceled him.

No, he's dead. Ah, I do get those two confused. I guess his life was canceled. Life was canceled. He has been canceled as well. Yeah. Post-life. Post-life canceled, plus canceled in life.

You're gonna probably fill out some people up because I saw someone do a tweet, maybe Murphy McLaughlin do a tweet. It didn't really have anything to it. It was a wordplay joke where he mentioned Michael Jackson how we can't listen to him anymore. And he got a lot of replies saying, hey, there's no proof. Those kids, like that was anyway, a lot of tweets sticking up from Michael Jackson. I mean, if anybody gets so angry that they feel the need to pull out their phones and

tweed, I'm not going to read them. Okay, let's read some of this tweets out. Don't waste your time. Go read a book or just go outside, go for a walk, talk to a friend. Listen to the other Jackson four, you know? Yeah. They're not all cancelled. So got Tito. We'll always have Tito.

Six hours after this recording. Ah! Jess Perkins House was firebomb. Jesus Christ, Dave. Why? Why? Just trying to do a true crime. I'm not listening to that true crime podcast

because that guy sounds like a lunatic. I'd listen to that. Thank you. And I'm going to to that true crime podcast because that guy sounds like a lunatic. I'd listen to that. Thank you. And I'm going to be involved in it when we start the spin-off podcast. But in the meantime, while we're doing this one, you're well-were before we spin off, let's complete one podcast.

It's called Do-Go-On. And the way it works is we take it in turns to research a topic and we bring it back to the podcast studio and we tell the other two about it. The other two don't even know what the topic is. That's not bad. This week Dave's doing the topic.

He's researches. Something was a free choice for him. Usually it's helped select, been helped select. How do I get out of this sentence? Well, maybe maybe start by looking at who's got the laptop in front of them. Okay, great. Jess is doing Was at this point then that thought I don't think Dave's doing

And Dave and I don't know what the report is about and Jess gets on a topic with a question Yes, Jess have you written a question? I have written a question. I wrote it just before while you were waffling on about something else. You'd drink your hopes and dreams. Select, select, Patreon select. You know what I'm saying? Everything, two out of three weeks, the Patreon's vote on the topic.

This week you've just plucked one out of the hat. Not even. You plucked one out of your butt. Yeah, that's my butt. This is the first time you've done that since River dance I will you be vulnerable and show yourself on other side that yeah, I'll shit all over quite possibly But I've got the confidence now to beat the shit out of you at the time you just Didn't even fight back it was quite sad

People have say still talk about it making them fill up set set. And that was obviously, I don't remember it really. I just remember that he tapped so much per second. So much. No, this is a topic that I've wanted to do for a really long time. And I could have sworn, I was like, surely it's been suggested. So I'll just go into the hat and I'll just get whose names it did. But nobody suggested this. And also, I'll talk more about it in a second, but it's

something that I am pretty excited about. So I wanted to do it and I thought hey it's my time. I can choose what I want to do. I'm going to do it. So my question gentlemen is which American music star shares a name with a now defunct Australian teen magazine. Oh Cleo. No. Dolly. Dolly. Dolly. Yes! Dolly! Pardon? No one suggested Dolly Pardon? No one has suggested Dolly Pardon. Not the official hat. FHM magazine? Surely FHM still around. I don't know. Zoo. Zoo, is it Zoo Weekly?

It's Zoo Weekly! Is it nuts? What do you think? Did that fun? What do you think? Probably with the Z. Oh nuts. That's yuck.

Dolly Magazine. Did it's final edition? Wait, is Dolly Pound's real name Dolly Magazine? I'm going to kill you. Oh no. Dolly magazine finished in 2016, a sad day for all of us. And if Femilo sees it, not familiar, Dolly Doctor has to be your trust here. Yeah. So it would come in a, often sometimes sealed section of the magazine. Yeah. And I think that's not because of the content to say you wouldn't just read it in the new sessions, probably. But people would write into Dolly Doctor about some questions sometimes below the belt.

Nearly always below the belt. Knees, foot care. Yeah. Have at least calisthenft feet. What do I do? What shades do you recommend for my next pedicure? You know? And because of that, it was a number one segment

for decades. Right. It was huge. So it was a number one segment for decades. Right. Yeah, it was huge. So it was sex stuff. Yeah. Footsex. Yeah, always footsex. But Dolly was aimed at like early teens.

So the questions that were asked were pretty funny and the answers were always very delicately put, but you're still kind of like, that's funny. That's gross. Even as a kid, you're like for that. Oh, that's funny. That's gross. Even as a kid, you're like, for that. You're like, ooh, bloody. Someone's burning. I was also aware that I've done a lot of music biographies.

Yeah, I reckon we've turned lately. It used to be a lot of killers and recent times we've been a lot of entertainers. Yeah, and I was kind of like, oh, I've done a few sort of biographies lately. Maybe I should try something, like look at something that's more of like a story, but I was just like, this is something I really wanted to do.

And Dolly Patton's a real badass. Like she's the best. I really don't know much about her. Well, you're going to learn. So I'm a bit excited because to me, I know how she is successful, but I don't really know why. Well, I think it's because of her work ethic. She would work nine to five most days,

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

And she's also just delightful. Like, you won't find gossip or, like, dirt on Dolly Parton. Did you try? Of course I tried. Good. I'm a journalist. Did you gossip or like dirt on Dolly Parton. Did you try? Of course I tried. Did you get a dirt unit on the work? Yeah, I got a dirt unit onto it. I was like, dig it up, boys. You're so good. And there's nothing to dig. Bloody hell. She's an angel.

So I have, and she's also done a lot, you know, in a career that's spent many decades. So what I kind of talk about here is mostly like her early life and how she sort of got started. And then after that she's just kind of like everything she does is just crushing it and winning awards. And then I just want to talk about a few other things that she's done in her life that you might know. I love the content section. Yeah. We go on through this like it's a Dolly magazine. Yes. like it's a Dolly magazine? Yes.

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

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

Dolly Rebecca was born on January 19, 1946. She was the fourth child of 12. Do they know what is causing it? So much 12. Sexing. Right. Well, they need to read Dolly Doctor. Do they know what is causing it so much? Well, sexing. Right. Well, they need to read the Dolly Doctor about the protection sections. Yeah. And the family lived in a really small one-room cabin.

No, no. One room. So open plan, love it. Parents' house. That room is huge. They lived in a warehouse. It was awesome. It was on the banks of Little Pigeon River in Pittman Centre, Tennessee, which is a really small community in the great Smoky Mountains. Apparently the family was so poor that when Dolly was born her father couldn't afford

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

knew, despite his lack of formal education. And Dolly's mother, A.V. Lee Caroline, stayed at home and looked after the children. She was a mother to 12 kids by the time she was 35. Wow. That's good efficiency. I mean, so mom and dad, middle names are both Lee. Oh, no, right? That wouldn't happen very often.

No, and spelled the same too. Crazy. LGZYX. Yeah. Which is that's the real interesting. Isn't it? Yeah. I'm sure once they met and once they found that out, I think like early days dating would be like not so sure about this guy. Then you'd find out that he has the same middle name as you and spelled the same. You'd be like this is for a matching birthmark. Yeah. And the same parents. Yeah. And the two of you have never been in the same room. Never been in the same warehouse. You're marrying yourself. Okay.

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

first real guitar. So she's playing music from a very young age. And soon she began singing on local radio and television programs, programs in the East Tennessee area. And at 13, she recorded her first single, it was called Puppy Love, and it was recorded with a small Louisiana label called Gold Band Records. Goodness, that's so long ago. What was it? What was it?

Well, she was 13 and she was born in 46. So obviously. 59. It was the summer of 59. She got her first real six string. Oh. She recorded in the 50s and that's sick. Isn't that cool? And she also appeared at the Grand Ole O'Pry, which is a live stage show that was broadcast

on WSM Radio. It's the longest running radio broadcast in US history. And this is where she first met Johnny Cash, who encouraged her to follow her own instincts regarding her career. So she's a teenager, I'm just meeting Johnny Cash. That's cool. I thought, yeah, I've heard of the Grand Old O'Pri, O'Pri. O'Pri, yeah. So that means Johnny Cash and Dolly Pond are in a shared university. It's cool. I love when our reports combine. Yeah. That's real sick. So fun.

So the day after Dolly graduated high school in 1964, she moved to Nashville day after. She's like, I'm done, I'm out. And she worked as a songwriter working for Combine Publishing with song running partner, who also was her uncle Bill Owens. I think that must have been the uncle that gave her the guitar. So she's working with her uncle, which is cool.

She wrote chart-topping hits for other artists, like Bill Phillips and Sketa Davis. Sketa. Sketa's such a good name. Sketa's a great name. Like, Sketa Ulrich. I think we bring back Sketa. Yeah, let's bring it back. Is that, like, is that short for something?

Or is that you just- Sketa. You just can give to Sketa. Somebody at work today had her brother and his partner had their baby over the weekend. Maverick. That's sick. Mav. Mav. First name Maverick. First name Maverick. Oh, is it a... Well, a target player now. What's the Saints player until recently?

Could it Maverick? Weller. Maverick.verick weller Maverick weller. I like it. You know what mav yeah, I think mav it's good. Skater's Skater. That's what I mean. Skater's up there. It's not maverick skater. Stuart. What do you think love it? Skater. Yes. Do you know skater or Rick? I feel like I talk about this guy a bit. Yeah, where was where did that? There's a known itself. Oh, yeah. I'm guessing his skate is, is short for skater. Hey, skater.

And you got to only say it like that. What was he in? Skater. I was in the craft. And that's it. He was also in a, I think he was in a TV show about being a, a price-tunning damn Damon's or something.

What? Buffy the Van Pustler. No. That was about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That was about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Not really demons are they? No, they were demons. But Buffy wasn't a priest, played by Skate Ulrich. Interesting. I might be wrong.

Yeah, just can you go over that one? I'm looking up Skate Ulrich. He was what I would call a babe. I just want really yeah real stud. He had the archetypal 90's hotthrob gody. He's in he's in Riverdale now Betty is that he's like it. He plays a Kind of deadbeat dad in Riverdale now. It's so funny that 90's hot thrubs and our deadbeat dads Yeah, he's not you know, he's a bit of a deadbeat, but anyway, back to Dolly Parton, who's definitely not a deadbeat.

No, what's the opposite of a deadbeat? Livebeat. Let's figure it out. She's a live rhythm. Hmm. I hate myself. Anyway, so she's writing all these songs and they're doing very well for the people that are seeing them and putting them out there.

So in 1965, at the age of 19, she was signed to Monument Records. They had a very different vision for Dolly though that the more she saw for herself, she wanted to write and sing country music, but Monument decided that Dolly's unique voice with its strong vibrato was not suited to country. I agree. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully she listened. Reasonally, and I think you guys would agree, they pitched her as a bubblegum pop singer. Yeah. You know, your unique voice will suit this bubblegum pop. Yeah. What's bubblegum again? It's sort of like, you make, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, and give it a go.

It's, uh, it's something else. It's the music, it's upbeat music that's, uh, contrived and marketed to, marketed to appeal to pre-tains and teenagers. Right. And it's like, uh, the monkeys and even Jackson Five and stuff would be kind of bubble gum. Right.

I was not even Shirley Temple. I've heard it, um, the remains described as bubble gum pop sped up. Okay. With leather jackets. I think that's kind of true. I can see that. Very catchy, short and catchy.

Yeah. Just sort of simple chords and catchy, upbeat. It was like a little bit of innuendo too. Like if it was ever a bit, it was maybe a little bit cheeky, but never like, never full saucy, you know? Yeah. Little bit of cheeky. Small, noty. Yeah, a little bit of cheeky, not sauce. Yeah, cheek with no sauce, thanks.

Thank you. Hold the sauce. Hold the sauce. So, Donnie went along with it and she released a string of singles in the pop genre, but not more of that successful, except for happy, happy birthday, baby. Oh, there's this lack of sauce. But even then, that was probably the most successful track and it didn't even crack the Billboard Hot 100.

So it's like, do you even exist? I don't know, sorry. Oh, yuck. But monument had to change their tune. After a song that Dolly wrote called, put it off until tomorrow, recorded by Bill Phillips, made it to number six on the country chart in 1966. So they're like, all right, you've had some success. Maybe you are okay at country.

So it's fine, but it's not her voice that got it to number six. No, but it's a songwriting. I know. So I think maybe she was just kind of like, eh, eh, eh, eh. It's a crack. It's a crack. Fine. So they let us in country. Can I just quickly say what we're talking about charts really quickly. Last week in the UK, a charity bird song that was just bird noise, it's bird calls, cracked the UK top 20.

I've been thinking, is there any way we could somehow get, do go on theme song. We get enough people to buy a digital copy. Can we crack the top 20 chart? That means you're in Australia, isn't it in England I guess? Maybe a remix of it? It'll go to like a minute and a England I guess. Maybe a remix of it. It's actually quite funny. It'll go to like a minute and a half.

Evan's done a bunch of remix. Yeah. I reckon if we had like a real party set or a banger. How many copies do we have to sell to make the top 20 in Australia? There's a, I mean, Pendulum did a remix of the ABC News thing. And it goes off. So I don't see why we can't have a remix of ours that also goes off. I think that'd be really funny. Yeah. All right. So if we've got a new listeners who also happen to be DJs.

Well, Evan's done it. He's got a- Yeah, we have to do have the- So if we have any listeners, Evan, you listening? I think he's done a bunch of different versions of it already. You know, Evan's always listening. Yeah. Evan's got these microphones. No, but he's got these mics linked up to his house. Yeah You know Evans always listening. Yeah. Evans got these microphones.

No, but he's got these mics linked up to his house. Yeah. He's always listening. It's very hard to watch Netflix. He knows. He's still the ice cream. Yeah. He'd be the first person I asked because he probably took it.

First person I asked was Evan. If he says, no idea, you couldn't find out. It was definitely him. Yeah. Because he could find find out he could definitely find out He knows everything make a few calls. He could hack into the fridge cam Yeah, hack onto the area charts get us to number one make it happen Hey, what single is your podcast theme song? That would be funny. Let me sick Do you have to explain who Evan is?

No, Evan. Well, he's from Stupid Ols Gideos here host ofamerGamerGamer, that we may have seen online and also. Part Robot. And he made our theme song. And he's part Robot. Yeah. He's a pretty year old boy genius. Yeah. Yeah.

He's a boy genius who never became a man genius. Yes. He's just become an all encompassing boy genius. He's, oh, like, and I don't mean that, like, he hasn't gotten any better. I mean, like, he's better than all the man geniuses. Yeah. And he's just a boy genius.

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And he's just a boy genius. And he's just a boy genius. And he's just a how we can get on the charts, E-Malice, let us know. Yeah, any chart whispers. Yeah. So, Dolly, she's now allowed to sing country music. Her first country single was called Dumb-Lond. Oh! Reach number 24 on the country chart the following year, followed by something fishy, which went to number 17.

Now we're getting saucy. And the two songs appeared on her first full-length album called, Hello, I'm Dolly. Oh, nice to meet you. That is a lovely one. So good. Finally enough, considering she was originally a songwriter, her first single to chart that Dumb-Blonde was actually written by Curly Putman, but it was one of very few songs during this era that she recorded that she didn't write herself, but it was the first one that sort of got some attention. Anyway, also...

It would have been a bit of a blow to your confidence, right? Yeah. Well, neither, I mean, you know, resilience. It's a good thing to learn. I'm pretty sure Elvis never wrote any of his number ones, so... Yeah, that's right, but I mean it would have been a hit to her writing confidence. But I guess she's also written hits for others. Exactly, yeah.

Putting ski to something. Yeah. Skater Davis. Skater Davis. Also in 1966, at 20 years old, she married Carl Dean. They'd met when Dolly first moved to Nashville. Carl Dean. Carl Dean. Carl D.

Carl D. When Carl and Dolly got engaged, Carl's mother was excited to plant a big wedding because her only daughter had a loapt. But the mother-in-law's dream did not come true because as this is a quote from Dolly, she says, everyone at my label who invested money in me

and in building my career. So they asked me if I'd wait a year to get married. And I didn't want to not do what I was supposed to do. Carl's mother was just heartbroken. So they had a really small ceremony. So his mother wanted a big wedding. So you wanted a big wedding and they, like, just, they kind of alloped.

Like they just went sort of far away from where they were living so that the press weren't hassling them. And it was just like, Dolly's mom and the pasta and his wife. And that was it. It was like a really small wedding. She was just in like, I didn't even invite Carl Dane's mother.

No. Oh, that is great. All right, I think we get into the real life. Yeah, we know what she's heartbroken. That sucks. So Dolly, Dolly's trying to please everyone. Tip Carl Dane's mom. Yeah.

But she just wants to get married. She's like, I don't want to wait. I don't want to put it off. I just want to get it done. And let's just do it. Should have done a year later, done a big ceremony then. Big flashy, but you know. And after they were married, they took in

five of Dulley's youngest siblings to look after them. So she kind of like helped raise some of their youngest siblings, because like there was so many of them. They never had children of their own. Carl is notoriously private and has very rarely a company dolly to any events. Even before she reached the mega start on that she's at,

it became very clear that her husband had no interest in the entertainment industry. Apparently, after joining her on the red carpet for an industry event in 1966, and not long after they were married. None of the six, that's the other side, on a premiership in the Fairfell. There's no coincidence.

Yeah. There are no coincidences. After that in the car on the drive home, Kyle said, Dolly, I want you to have everything you want. And I'm happy for you, but don't you ever ask me to go to another one of those damn things ever again. Oh, that's nice, I think. Yeah. So he's still with her. I've never heard of him.

50 odd years I've been married. Bloody hell. And he's never at any events, because he just hates it. It sounds like a stubborn mofo. Yeah, but she just kind of gets on with her own life. So their sort of independence is, they say, it's one of the secrets to their long-lasting union. And Dolly says, you can't be in each other's face all the time.

Actually, I think that that's been the best formula for us. The fact that we appreciate each other, win way together. We don't have to be together all the time. So he's a bit of a homebody, she likes traveling, so she's like, all right, catch her, and off she goes and does whatever she wants to do and then she just comes back.

I think it's kind of sick. That does seem great. That's what it is. Well, and it's worked, it's worked for them. Everyone's different. I was gonna say, she says, like, that's the secret, but that's like worked. It's worked for them. Everyone's different. I was gonna say she says like that's the secret But it's like that's a secret for them. There are people like my old boss Here and his wife work together both run the company together the air conditioning company

And they would they just spend all day together then they they drove home in different cars, but called each other on the phone To talk on the drive you are kidding and And then spend the night hanging out at home. And they're like, you know, they've been together for ages. Yeah. So it's a. It's each of their own, isn't it? Because that seems like too much for me.

And Dolly. Dolly, Dolly's like next level for me is like, I couldn't handle that either. That wouldn't work, but damn, but it's worked for them. She thinks her husband's name is Jolene. She doesn't even know who he is. She's called him. She's called him.

She's never write a song about me again. Yeah, that's what really set it off. So this is 1966. She's married. She's doing some of her own stuff and in 1967 musician and country music entertainer Porter Wagner. I think Porter, that's a good name. Porter, you wouldn't name a kid Porter. But it sounds wealthy doesn't it? It's not a maverick. But what does Porter mean? Doesn't that mean someone who gets your keys or something? Carrot your bag, Carrot. And that's what you'll make your children do.

Absolutely, they'll be carrying my bags even when I don't need them. Back up the stairs, I'm sorry I didn't need that one. Look, I'm going out after all. It's a cool, it is a cool, I like that as a name, Porter. But I guess that's where it comes from, right? They normally come from jobs or whatever.

Yeah, true. Well, that's surnames, I guess. Or someone who drinks a lot of port. Yeah, Portawagna. So he offered Dolly a regular spot on his weekly television program, the Port of Wagner show. And in his roadshow, it was like stage shows. Dolly would be replacing Norma Jean, who was a... Good bad.

I'm not that Norma Jean. A different Norma Jean. Even Norma Jean, she was a country singer and she was loved. Like everybody, the audience absolutely adored her. But she was leaving, like she was just moving on. It was her sort of choice. But the audience like took a long time to warm to Dully. Apparently they'd even chant Norma when Dully came on stage.

Brutal. To be like, sorry, you've got the wrong name. I'm Dully. Dully. Dully. Dully. It's a bit of name, the Dolly. Dolly. Dolly. Dolly. Dolly. It's a better name than Norma. Norma. That's not cadets, I was.

Norma and Porter, they're my two kids. I had Norma Jane at that moment, but yeah, maybe it's just because it's sometimes. I think it's a Norma Jane. Norma. Norma. That's not good. Show for normal. Normal Jane. You're gonna call Norma Warnicky.

That's a mess. No-1-K. No-1-K. Porter-Won-K. Porter-Normal-Won-K. Yeah. No-1-K. Yeah.

Normal. No-1-K. No-1-K. Everyone. No-1-K. But anyway, in time, the audience came to accept Dolly and they loved her. And then for the next seven years, 45 million people tuned in each week to watch it. Oh, seven years and four.

Every week. That's more than Australia's population now. Every week. Every week. Yeah, it was a big show. That's wild. Yeah. That's like double Australia's population

in the early 90s. Just to put it into perspective for everyone out there. So if you're an Icelandic king, what does that mean for me? What did think of it? But you're just putting it against your own experiences. And that's... I've experienced the 90s and... You have experienced the 90s and the Australian... Could that be your right-day of, you know, populations?

Yeah, that's like... The Australia was low 20, 20 millions in the 90s. What is it now? It's in the it's pushing 30 right? I thought it was 25. Okay, great. I'll stop talking Well that Eventually as well Wagner convinced his label which was RCA Victor to sign her and they agreed but they decided to play it safe with the first song for her And they released it as a duet with Portawagna. And this was the beginning of an amazing partnership between Dolly Parton and Portawagna with the

duo then releasing a six year streak of virtually uninterrupted top ten singles. Like everything they did together just did incredibly well. So how many, that's interesting, because I really, I was trying to think of the songs, I know, I reckon I know, do I know more than three or four of our songs? Possibly. Jolline working on a five,

islands in the stream. You'd probably be surprised with some of the others that you do, right. Right. And may I recommend Baby Unburning? You can. It's the greatest thing ever.

Baby Unburning, that's your favorite. My favorite. It's a bit like a headline for a Dolly Doctor. Baby Unburning. Unburning. Please see a GP and get an ointment. So, and this is the country chart that they just top-tening all the time. Yeah, that's right.

So, for six years. Six years, they're just like, they're releasing music and they're just smashing it out of the park. So it says virtually uninterrupted top 10 singles. So there'd probably be a few that maybe weren't quite top 10, but they're just, everything they're putting out, people are just loving. And she was releasing solo music as well, but none of her solo efforts were as successful

as the track she was releasing with Porter. And they were even named the vocal group of the year in 1968 by the Country Music Association. But again, her solo records were continually sort of getting ignored, not ignored, but just like not the kind of acclaim. Right, that's the number you think that there'd be some flow on.

Yeah, but not a heap. And so by 1970, both Dolly and Porter Wagner had grown frustrated by her lack of solo chart success. He wanted her to do well as two. Porter was in height. Yeah, Porter's like, come on, she's great. Why isn't she getting more? That's what you want, supportive collaborators.

And he ended up persuading Dolly to record a version of Jimmy Rogers' Mule Skinner Blues, which is a classic country song that was first recorded in 1930. So it was seen as a bit of a slam dunk, like it was an easy grab for some attention, because the song was well known, and she's got a great voice, you just do a cover of that and people will be all around it. And it worked. It made its number three, followed very closely the following year by her first number one single,

Joshua. Joshua's great. Joshua! Oh! Don't, Joshua! Joshua! It's really great. I don't know if I know it.

Oh look, what I did is I downloaded an Apple music playlist of Dolly Parton Essentials. Okay. And that's where the love affair began. Right, okay. I've just looked up the population of Australia, Dave, you're right. In the early 90s, it wasn't even 20.

It was like, in 90, 90s, about 17 years ago. Oh my goodness, everyone has to readjust their scale now to understand the 45 million. So it's more accurate, it was, I was 45 million right. So more accurately, it's about double what it was in 2010. The The Science Drew was calling it in the grand final. Okay is that help anyone? About 10 years ago. Is that helping anyone? Is that helping anyone? Is that helping anyone? You both just googling things. No I'm not. You were. That's how I was.

I got just to put into perspective it is the population now of Uganda. Okay. All watching. Imagine all Uganda watching. But what does that mean for Iceland? What if I'm million? Well, okay. What's the population of Iceland?

Slow down on this list to tell you what. Oh, all right, man. Okay, there's no need for judgment. You don't need to read out your list of my favorite countries. Yeah. I think the best country I've ever visited in my life. I know you didn't know a lot of sucking up. Yeah, I think it's too late, mate.

You are unbelievable. It's all over? I think it's turned off. Yeah, they're like, yeah, this guy sucks. I would consider moving that. 338,000. What? So how does that compare to the 45 million who watch? Well, it's about 135 times.

135. 338,000. Wow. That's awesome. Yeah, it's about 135 times your population Iceland, all watching one program. That's wild. That's insane.

OK, so she's finally, she's had her first number one single with Joshua, which is a great song. Joshua, sorry, it's all jaw-lein to me. Yeah. And it's mainstream chart. No, I think that's still country. Right. Because she moves to other stuff later.

I'll explain. For the next two years, she had numerous solos, including her signature song, Coat of Metacolors, which was number four in 1971. That's a signature song. One of them, which was a song that she wrote about her impoverished upbringing. In the song, she's telling the story of her mum making her a coat, sorry, with scraps of material. Same with my Tennessee mountain home, which is another song she wrote about her upbringing, which was released in 73.

My Tennessee mountain home. My Tennessee mountain home. My Tennessee mountain home. He's waiting for me. We do know our songs then. Yes. Yes. yeah, we do. I've never heard of that in my life. Well, I've got to tell you after hearing that rendition. That is that's a beautiful? Oh stop it. Yeah, let him go. Our biggest hit at this time and arguably still now was Jolene. Never heard of it. It was released in late 1973 and according to Jolene, the song was inspired by a red-headed bank clerk who flirted with her husband Carl and his local bank branch around the time they were newly married. Jolline and Carl Dean.

That is perfect. Jolline and Carl Dean. Jolline and Carl Dean. Imagine Dolly Parton being left by anyone. Yeah. Jolline, come on. Yeah. She's dreaming.

But we've all got our insecurities. You know? Dolly talks about this moment and she was like tall and had long legs and Dolly's kind of short and she's like, oh, it wasn't a real like full-on jealous year. And it was a bit of a joke between them. I hope she cast her. But it's kind of spied by that.

She cast her royalty checks for that song at that bank. There you go, Jolene. I didn't do anything. I just said, try taking the man there Really I could if you want me to no, oh god, please Jolene let me just get these long legs out no Clip it to club clip it to club. Oh step right over the bank teller. Is that is Jolena horse? Clip it to club! Oh, sorry, um, you didn't know. There's a horse in this bag.

My, my horse body had been hidden behind the bank teller. You know Caldene loves horses. Caldene. Let's ride into the sunset, Caldene. Caldene. Angelene. Jolene. Under Caldene.

Riding to the sunset. don't come looking for me. Don't, don't come looking for me. Oh, I kick. You get up to close my horn legs. Oh, kick. Oh, kick. Um, so this is some of their solo stuff that's doing a lot better. And she was kind of like,

look, I've always seen myself, I've always wanted to be a solo artist. So she made the decision to leave the TV show and sort of that collaboration with Porto Agna. They performed their last duet concert in April 1974 and she stopped appearing on his TV show middle of that year. But it certainly wasn't a messy split, it wasn't, it was very amicable. In fact, her 1974 song, I will always love you. Oh, that's another one I know. Yeah. Whitney made famous. Correct.

It was written about her professional break from Wagner. Right. It wasn't about like a relationship, it was just about like, I'll always be really grateful for. That's cool. You've done. And it went to number one. I'm going to actually.

And actually it wasn't written about Kevin Costner. It had nothing to do with bodyguard. No. That is disgraceful. How do you watch that film? Oh my God. Amazing. Amazing.

Okay. Okay. They did a stage production of it with Pauline. Pauline. It was Pauline. It was Pauline. It was Pauline. It was Australian Idol. An ex-Australian Idol finalist.

Yeah, so one of my friends who sometimes listens, Hello Ray, Love You Lots, for his birthday, a whole group of us went and saw the bodyguard. And I was like, I am not that interested. Therefore, this is going to be amazing. Wow. And I was like, I am not that interested. Therefore, this is gonna be amazing. Wow. And I sat next to my friend Anna,

and it was very bad, and we laughed a lot. Oh. It was great. Pauline, his voice, incredible. Absolutely nailed it. But the actual production was like so lame. In parts, it was amazing. I loved it.

Did you know the source material? Source material. Oh, I know you said those source before. The film. Yeah, the film. Yeah, yeah, that's in the film. Right, so it was was lame in comparison to that which I assume is a kind of lame film. Yeah, it's pretty lame. Extremely. Extremely lame. But it was in that hot streak for Kostner, right? Everything he touched tender. Cinema gold. So, Dolly wrote that song. And around this same time, Elvis Presley, who you mentioned, Dave, he expressed some interest in recording the song.

What was he like? Who? Did he? Was that? So he was, did he? He's taking me for someone else then. Now the previous topic. Yeah.

So he expressed some interest in recording the song. He was like, I'll do it. I'll do it. But he's manager told Dolly that it was a standard procedure for the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song recorded by Elvis Presley. And Dolly said no. Hey, so what's the standard deal? Sorry, the Elvis's manager, who apparently was a little bit ski-y. The Colonel. Yeah. He said, look, like if Elvis is going to do his song, you have to sign over half the publishing rights to Elvis. Oh, so royalties and everything would go to him. A bit of a dodgy deal. And she said no. Dodgy deal, but also like, maybe it was

helping it be a sure thing of a hit. Maybe. I guess he's in a strong bargaining position. Well, normally, but this is a totally partner. She's already a big star. No, she wasn't that big then. Like she was 45 million people watching her every week. Oh, I don't know.

She's getting big, but like it would have been quite a get. Right. For Elvis's singer song. So I think it was probably considered really bauzy at the time to say no considering the status that Elvis had. But people say now they reckon that that decision actually made her millions of dollars down the track because Whitney Houston made it such a huge hit and Dolly got all the royalties. And I read an interview with her about that decision.

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

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

And then she pissed on it. She took Jolene, the bank teller there, put her in the stable and made her watch her, piss on her, it was a pass. I'm gonna take a shit in the jungle room. Whitney Houston won the Grammy in 94 for best female pop vocal performance for that song. And who better to present the award to any than Dolly Parton herself?

It was really sweet. Dolly says something like heart breaks, hard to go astray, but it's always soothed by a lot of money. She's very funny. Did she have much success with the song herself? Yes, and it is good. I've heard it, I think it's good. That's great. But you can witness this and just took it up a notch.

And it was arranged a bit differently too. So it sort of, yeah. But yeah, she had some success with it herself, but not it really got a resurgence in the 90s. So back to like the 70s. So throughout the 70s, Dolly had consistent, charted hits and even had her own television variety show called Dolly. Exclamation point. She'd wanted to expand her audience base and Dolly did pretty well in ratings, but it only lasted one season. And this was one of the reasons was because Dolly asked to be released from her contract with the show because the stress that was put on her vocal cords. Only 17 million people watched.

Yeah, and it was just like, oh, what's the point? What's the point? This is Australia in the mid 80s. If Australia gets a Rating any show on Australia gets ratings over a million. It's crazy. It's like articles are written about it. Yeah Seriously, yeah, it doesn't just happen anymore. It did happen semi-regulate 10 years That's wrong then that does seem too high, but America is a much bigger population. And also the time there's probably two channels. Yeah, right. Pretty casual stuff.

So yes, also wanting to be. Is this pre-intinent? It is pre-intinent. Yeah, so there's no YouTube. Not by much. OK. But it is pre-intinent. In nobody's streaming it.

Yeah. Also wanting to expand our audience, Dolly moved into a more interpop music with her first entirely self-produced effort called New Harvest, First Gathering, in 1977. It was well received, but it didn't really make much of an impression on pop charts. And after New Harvest disappointing chart performance, she turned to the high profile pop producer, Gary Klein, for her next album. And the result was

1977's Here You Come Again. That's a good song. Here you come again. Fuck, she's cool. It would take a Gary to get it to the top of the chart. It became her first millionseller, topping the country's album chart and reaching number 20 on the pop chart. So Gaia Cahn is this the song of the album? The album. Wow, that's a big deal. And in 1978 she won the Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for that album and she continued to have hits with heartbreaker 1978. Heartbreaker. Love maker. Don't make a wrong brick. Love, meckah. Don't make a wrong.

I'm a guy. Oh, yeah, that's the one. That's a really good dolly. Yeah, it sounds just like it. I think I, I don't know what that song is at all, but I'm pretty sure Larry David is the boss of the Yankees sang something like that in an episode of So I felt, hard brick car. Love, meckah.

I'm assuming it's that. Yeah, must be. I hope so. That'd be great if it is. She was a baby I'm burning in 1979, my fave. Oh wow. And you're the one in 79 as well. All of which are,

Childling the top, and the top top 40, and top to the country chart as well. So now she's like across both genres of music. She's got one leg either side of Jolene so to speak Right out horse the success The bank Jolene works You're heading to work and give you a ride

I've got more checks to cash So just keep making all this money Jolene like our Dolly also thinks of it as giving her a ride, even though Jolly is doing a look, I'll give you a ride. Obviously you could be a club, but I'll... I'll hold the reins. You were going to work anyway, but... Well, right. What's that, you day off?

Yeah, but I need you to think. I think. Come on. And I need you to witness it, because... I'm better than you. You decide there how much money that's worth. Yeah. Just put your hoof down three times for yes. I can talk.

No, no, I prefer the hoof system. To put your cloppy little hoof there, jollin' in. He's my man. You don't mind. Just gets right up in a horse. It's a mom! It's a mom!

She just gets really guttural. She's honestly, she's so sweet, and her face is just always smiling. She's really lovely, so the idea of her display is very funny. In 1980, she made the move to Hollywood. She portrayed a secretary in a leading role with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in the comedy film Nine to Five. Came out in 1980. Lily Tomlin in the comedy film 9-5 came out in 1980. She received nominations for Golden Globe for Best Actress in a motion picture at musical or comedy and a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year and of course she wrote and recorded the film's title song 9-5. 21 years after her first

release she's hitting getting new star awards. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's pretty amazing how like she's still seen as a new star even though she's had this slow build. Yeah. Well, I guess you start a screen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So she hadn't done a lot of that before. But it's also it's hard for people who've already got

a decades of a reputation in one. It's true to come across and not be seen as a bit of a joke. Justin Timberlake. Yeah, Hugh Jackman. Oh, okay. Pretty sure I used to chop wood before. Or is that Logan? You know, I shouldn't use appropriate here. Yeah, I'm guessing so.

Hey, John, I gave it was off TV, musicals. Paul Hogan, maybe? Paul Hogan. He was not as painting thes. Paul Hogan maybe. Paul Hogan. He was known as painting the bridge. Pain of the bridge. Yeah, and people like he'll never do anything in any time. And he's painted that bridge too well. One of the odds he can also be funny on screen with adulthood.

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

and over 103 million worldwide. And Patent was named top female box office star by motion by the motion picture Herald in both 1981 and 1982 due to the film success so she's just crushing it and also she's tumblr to get a little bit of the giggle for myself a couple of ambition and your instruction try to come to laugh so something

also about jolene working nine to five of the night suck shit you got a normal job. I got Carl Dan here, huh? I can take the day off because I'm worth a million. Yeah, yeah, Jolly more like normal gene. It's job over there at the bank. More like no Dean. Yeah, because you don't have no Dean, no Dean, no Dean. I like this, Dolly. She's in a bag. She's crazy.

Just tripping away through. I'm sorry. I served your husband once at the bank. You really got to move on. Oh, sorry. I was pulling to a customer. Yeah, that's wrong. You will be sorry.

I bought this bank and not just this branch, the entire bank. I'm your boss and you're not fine. Yeah, you're working it forever. I'm giving you a little raise just to show you that I'm not the worst, but you're fucking gone. Hey, you don't know what to make of me, do you? Yeah, big old horse. We should talk about that too. How are you a horse woman? I've never seen it before.

Who let this through? What's going on? I need to speak to Jenny and Hachar. Jenny! I'll be back. Jenny's not a new desk. Hang on a second, see if I can get her on her mobile. There's a first time I've seen Jenny away from her desk.

She's a turtle. What's going on? What a bank. Yeah, it's a pretty wild bank. My bank there. What's you? Yeah. No, it was bank. No, it was bank. So after the success of 9 to 5, she went and made a different movie. Her second film was the musical film, the best little hallhouse in Texas. Oh, I was confusing those two. I thought 9 to 5 was about the hallhouse. No, that's the best little hallhouse in Texas. I see. Yeah. Did she work there 9 to 5? Yeah, very standard hours. Hallhouse. Is that a common term? Not anymore, no. Do you see that in many movie titles anymore?

No, this was in 82. It was a different time. Poor house. Poor house. Sounds like a Spanish name. Poor house Lorenzo. Lorenzo Horhaus. Lorenzo Horhaus.

That was my father's name. Please. Please call me Senor. Poor house. Poor house. Oh, house. I'm confused. Does that mean? Is it Mr. or what's your first name?

Senor. Oh, house. Anyway, then she teamed up with Sylvester Stallone in Rhyne Stone in 84. It was a comedy film about a country music star's effort to mold and unknown into a music sensation. and the film was a critical and financial failure So she is the best for all the other way I think this training montages of Dolly punching Firing our bow and arrows and she's looking in like no play the piano

To the micro for what are you doing? I've got a kill's mark from So my name is a dog. So the film made I mean that's a accurate Yeah, yeah, no, I was just I mean So she really was trying to help out so much that she even named it a character dolly to make it simple So she really was trying to help out so much that she even named her character Dolly to make it simple. He's still going to get it. Good not get it right.

Calling her Adrian the whole time. She's like, yeah, that was a different. Oh, I forget it. I'm Adrian. Silly Salon. That's what I call him Silly Salon. Silly Salon. The, the film made just over 21 million on a 28 million dollar budget.

Oh, put it in the bin. Put it in the bin. But, so she's killing it and everything else. So despite this flop, she continues to write, record, release, chart-topping music, and hasn't really stopped since. There's too much to talk about Dolly, but I want to just talk about like her early years. And now I just want to, I'm just going to mention some other things that she's done. And then I have some fun facts'm just gonna mention some other things that she's done,

and then I have some fun facts. Is that okay? Yes. Not to cut it off there, but like, honestly, everything beyond that point, if you're looking at a timeline of Dulley's life, it's just like, she put out this album, it won a bunch of awards.

She put out this album, it won a bunch of awards. Like, she's just, she's insane. She's like, how old would she be now, Dave? She'd born in 46? She's 73 years old. Yeah, and she's no plan of slowing down or stopping working ever. She just keeps doing it. In 2004, she played at Glastonbury, and that was not like her target demographic, and she fucking killed it. When you hear Joel Ayn played at a festival, it always goes off. Yeah.

People, I think it's that for whatever reason, it's a song that spans generations love that. Yeah, definitely. And I mean, if they're not listening to islands in the stream, what are they doing? Yeah, that also gets it. I think a lot of people would know most words of that. Yeah, we're on each other. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, well yesterday we recorded a booktid episode with you Jess. It was one of the guests and you surprisingly told... Oh, what? Sorry, what?

Matt, you're a place where Andy Matthews and it was fantastic. And just to tell you something... You told us that you're not a karaoke fan, despite the fact that you love singing. I love singing alone. I do sing along on this podcast. I'm like, well yeah, it just blew my mind. I'm never speaking to you about karaoke before.

This applies me a lot. My worst nightmare is singing in front of people. I will not do it. I'm going to get a front row seat every week. Yeah, I'm so sorry. But I'm not doing it seriously. Like singing quite early. Not like karaoke.

Not like a serious karaoke. Yeah, not like, you know, when people do their best at karaoke. Hell yeah. It's, no. So when I people do their best at karaoke. Hell yeah. No, so when I was touring around Ireland years ago. With a folk band? With a folk band, just with there. It was the first night too, so you just met all these people and they're from all over the world and we went to a pub and there was a guy with a guitar and he's like, everybody

has to get up and sing a song. And I was like, I will kill myself. I did not do it. I dragged up three other girls with me and I kind of said yes, do this song and then I barely sang. I sort of mouthed it. I go with the guitar sounds like a nightmare. Yeah, it is a real pain in the ass. Lock the doors. No means no. None of you are leaving until you sing a song. Sing for us. That felt, yeah, that just feels like a team building exercise at a bad corporation. I feel like we've just met.

I don't want to sing in front of any of you. I imagine that's what he was trying to do, like an Osprey could thing, right? Probably, but, it's like David Brent. Was it David Brent? It was David Brent with a guitar. Then Brent loves a guitar.

So if you have a... Laugh, pour laugh. Pour la few of them. Love, or love. Or love, or love. Or love. Anyway, a couple more things about Dolly. She is a co-owner of the Dollywood Company, which operates the theme park Dollywood. That is amazing.

And what tell me about it? What the hell is that? It's got, there's a resort and spa. You can stay in cabins. There's a theme park and a water park. And you can go and like... Are they all Dolly themed? No, not necessarily,

because it used to be, it was called Silver Dollar City. And then it became Dollywood later on. I mean, there's a great total of that. Silver Dollar City. Right. But what's Dollywood? Because Hollywood's like a, there's a great total there silver dolly city. Right. Yeah, what's dolly wood because the hollywoods like a that's a different thing. It's just dolly wood. It's great. Oh Yeah, nice. And it's in it's in pigeon four shots in the area that she grew up in right and dollywood is a 24th most popular theme park in the United States with three million visitors per year. 24th most popular. how many do you have?

We have like four. On the way, what did you do if you're talking like, on the Gold Coast? Yeah, what do we have? Well, there's five on the Gold Coast. And then there's a lunar park in Sydney and a lunar park here. Yeah, there's...

You don't have a Wobby's world anymore? Oh, don't tell me. Wobby, what are you doing? That was years ago. Down by a park with a city made to countries. To one of them. So gone. No. Gumba park where the phone just maybe gumba park. Just looking at it.

Good time. Fun time. We don't have 24. You'll have a ball. We don't have 24 thing parks. Gumba park. Oh my god. It's fun for all. There's a long water park. Oh true. There is a venture park.. Oh, true. There is a... Adventure park. We're still under like 10. What about...

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

I sent a Nashville. No, it's in Tennessee. Pigeon forge. So, if you go to Tennessee. I want to go there whiskies from there I think I want to go there for my 30s some whiskey Really you only got a dolly would for you 30 dolly would it's actually not that far away 30s. Sorry, sorry. Thank you Dave Yeah, maybe around American to a time. No, no, that would hopefully we can get there before then. Yeah, I hope so I Really needed to get there in your 20s. Jess. That's when I got there

So I went when I was eight in the 19 20s. Am I right? You're old. Um, so it would be sad to go to dollar wouldn't you 30s? Oh no. He does, he does. I've needed to go on your 20s because in your 30s it's a little. Yeah, it's a bit sad.

I want to get a dollar would. I don't really know that much about it. It's amazing that a country singer can have a theme park. Could we share a cabin? No. I'll share one more. I looked at one cabin and next to the bed was a heart shaped tub, hot tub. I was like, sure.

In the room? In the room. Next to the bed. That's amazing. And then out on the like balcony, another hot tub. Oh, no, no, no. You never need to be not tubbing. Yeah, sounds like the 24th, sexiest place in America.

Yeah, it's pretty safe. You just begun from inside or outside tub today. Oh, let's start inside and see how we go. Yeah, we'll have pre-drinks on the inside tub. Actually, no, start outside when it gets a bit chilly, head inside, that's a bit of way to do it. Yeah. So yeah, that's insane.

And I need to look into that in more detail because it sounds amazing. There's also a replica there of the hash you grew up in. Wow, what a fun exhibit. Oh, the one room, the warehouse. That is how the one room happened. The one room. The one happened. Is there any mention? Obviously, she's fabulously wealthy.

Any mention of the 11 siblings and what it did, any of them have anything to do with her? Is she giving them jobs or anything? A couple of them, there wasn't heaps of mention about them or I didn't really deep dive into it too much. But a couple of them were also musicians, a couple of them had record deals. I know, well, according to Wikipedia, I think two of them have passed away, but that means there's ten of them left.

They know what was causing it. No, who knows. It can literally be any number of things at any time, and that's what's terrifying about life. Oh, but I never leave this room. Dave lives here. Which potentially could also kill me. You're one bedroom.

I love it. Another fun thing is that Dolly co-owned Sand Dollar Productions with Sandy Gallen, her former manager was a film and television production company and it produced several shows. It produced a documentary called Common Threads, Stories From The Quilt,

which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Stories from the quilt Sounds like a Troy McClure You might remember me from such films as stories from the quilt It'll so produce though the television series babes and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh my god the demon show mentioned earlier Yeah, starring skater Davis Oh my god, the demon show mentioned earlier. Yeah. Starring Skater and Davis.

Oh, they're now fucking sucks. Skater or Rick? Skater or Rick. And? And Rissa, she produced Buffy. Well, yeah. That is a magazine. The production company did.

And the feature films, Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride, part two. Fantastic films there. They actually are. Straight talk in which Jolly Parton starred and Sabrina in 1995, among other shows. So she had to, just for a while, I don't know if she still does it. I don't think she is still a combiner or maybe a sandal of production so it doesn't exist anymore. But for a while there, her production company was doing a lot.

Oh, maybe it was the buff of the vampire slave, the film. No, no, no, it was the series. Oh, the series. Yeah, from 97 to 2003. Oh, that's the cool one. Yeah. That's the cool one. Yeah. Sorry, just wait. Yeah, Well, he did that too. Yeah. No, didn't he didn't really a lost creative

Contrary that that's right. You should be apologizing to Luke Perry the star. I Sorry Luke. Sorry Luke Perry and Skiddle Rick by association. Yeah by association. Yeah. Um, Patton is known for having undergone considerable plastic surgery on a 2003 episode of the Oprah Winfrey show. Oprah asked what kind of cosmetic surgery Dolly had had and she replied that cosmetic surgery was imperative in keeping with her famous image.

She said, she joked, it takes a lot of money to look this cheap. Oh, great, Ron. I love Daly, and she's all big hair and rhinestones and a lot of makeup and she is very self-aware. She's like, this is just the look I like. Deal with it. And what does Carl Dean look like? Have you seen... Well, there's only really photos of him quite young because he doesn't come around.

Do we think Carl Dean exists? Oh, wow. No one photos of him quite young because he doesn't do we think Carl Dane exists Wow, no one's saying in 50 years Jolene really did Carl Dane left her for Jolene They're probably galloping on a tropical beach somewhere right now But he just didn't want to tell everyone about it. Yeah, so he's like, no, he just keeps himself. I did my thing. He does his thing at Jolene. And I'm fine.

And he's doing his Jolene. My hobbies include Jolene. She's my hobby horse. Love. Since the mid 80s, Dolly supported many charitable efforts, particularly in the area of literacy, primarily through her Dollywood Foundation, and her literacy program is called Dolly Partens Imagination Library.

And it mails one book per month to each enrolled child from the time of their birth until they enter kindergarten. Currently, over 1,600 local communities provide the Imagination Library to almost 850,000 children. Wow, that's a lot of books. Across the US, Canada, the UK, here in Australia, and the Republic of Ireland. In 2018, she was honored by the Library of Congress on account of the charity sending out its 100 millionth book. Wow. So just free books sent to kids.

That's it. And then in the interview I saw, Dolly says that she believes regardless of your formal education or opportunities to go to school, go to college, if you can read you can self-educate. This sounds like this comes back to her dad maybe? Yeah, I think so. And that's where I heard her talk about her dad as someone who was incredibly smart, but illiterate. And there were lots of people in her family, not just necessarily her immediate family, not just necessarily her immediate family, but also just extended family who didn't have the opportunity to go to school,

definitely didn't get to go to college or anything and didn't learn to read. And so just having that skill meant that she could learn other things and progress through life much easier. Yeah. Pretty cool. So 100 million books though, Santa kids. Do they know what... Make the book stop! One comes every month! I don't get it. So this is just like, I've just got a few examples here of some of the awards

and honours and stuff like that. In 2009 she gave the commencement speech at the graduation ceremony for the University of Tennessee. And during the ceremony, she received an honorary doctor of humane letters from the university. It was only the second honorary degree given by the university. And in presenting the degree, the university's chancellor, Jimmy Cheek, great name. Jimmy Cheek. Wow. Said, because of her career, not just as a musician and entertainer,

but for her role as a cultural ambassador for Lantropist and lifelong advocate for education. It's fitting that she'd be honored with an honorary degree from the flagship education institution of her home state. So she's got an honorary degree. She is the most honored female country performer of all time. The record industry association of America has certified 25 of her singles or album releases as either gold record, platinum record or multi-platinum record. She has had 26 songs reached number one on the Billboard country charts,

which is a record for a female artist. She has 42 career top 10 country albums, which again is a record for any artist, and 110 career-charted singles over the past 40 years. Incredible. 110. 110. What?

Career-charted singles. Yep. Over the past 40 years. There'd be a lot of people who had never recorded it. I haven't even recorded 110 singles. Really? No. What are you doing?

And she's chatted with 110. What do you do all day? I don't know. You said you were recording. Yeah, I know. I've been meaning to. See, this is why you'll never be dolly. You know, when I was saying I haven't chatted, but, you know, I'll just accept the public's

decision. It's not true. If I had released something, it would chart. Well, then release it. You know, I've been telling you we're going to if I would release something at wood chart. Well then release it. Do you have anything? Well I'm telling you, we're gonna try and get our theme song to chart. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. I don't think that's gonna happen. All right. I'm gonna look into it. Dolly has earned nine Grammy Awards. All right. Our song probably won't get that.

And a total. What do we want to get nine? Maybe nominations. Yeah. Well she's had a total of 46 nominations. What? That is incredible. And the most nominations of any female artist in the history of the prestigious award, a record that she shares with Beyoncé.

They've had the most nominations. Yeah, they've both had 46 Grammy nominations. Till I bounce, I may overtake. Well, Beyoncé, ohake. Well, Beyonce, oh yeah, well probably. She's one of only six female artists to win the Country Music Association's highest honor, which was entertainer of the year. She won it in 1978.

Also on that list, Shania Twain and Taylor Swift. So, and Reba McIntyre. Oh, Reba. Who had that show? Reba. I had no idea that she was a superstar overseas when that show was on. I had a sort of terrible TV show. Yeah, it was pretty bad.

I think she's really big. I imagine just in America probably. Yeah, but I just had no idea that over there. She's like a Dolly Parton style. She's a huge, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big,

she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, she's a big, it's way over here. I know. I guess I got packages up with other things. Yeah, it was like on in the afternoon, wasn't it? There's something about her though. You could tell she had star quality. She had that country charm. She did, didn't deny it. She, a dolly is also been nominated

for two Academy Awards and a Tony. She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her music in 1984. And in 2005, she was honored with the National Medal of Arts, the highest honor given by the US government for excellence in arts. She should have a very full cabinet awards. You know, that's what they call them, right? A cabinet.

A red cabinet. Oh yeah. I'm going to... So Evans Fox Kids Award. I've got a cabinet for it. And just to kind of round it out, because what she likes to do when she's home with Carl, who definitely exists. She likes to just kind of chill out.

And for their 50th wedding anniversary, Dolly talked Carl into having a big blowout ceremony in Nashville, something she said. He only agreed to, because they planned to sell photo rights to raise money for charity. Oh, Paul Dean. Does she not have spare money to do? No, she's just like, now let's have a party and celebrate being 50 years.

And he was like, I don't know why not. And she's like, will the girl sell the rights and make some sell? Well, it's his mum around, probably not. She wore a dress by Steve Summers, her long-time costume designer, and the couple spent their second honeymoon. Honeymoon. Honeymoon in their camper van. By a lake in Georgia. Oh, absolutely.

She just like, they have an RV, and they've been known to like, on date night, go through the drive-through like Taco Bell. Dolly Parton stays in an RV. No, she owns an RV. She doesn't rent it. Doesn't have other people's farts in it. I love it by a lakeside.

I'm picturing a real beautiful. Definitely, and I'm imagining like top of the line RV. Oh, it's gonna be pretty luck. Still. But I just like that, that just gives me the feeling that she's like quite grounded, you know? She's just kind of,

man, she's just so delightful. And that is my report basically on the early life and then some fun facts at the end of Dolly Part. Do we get a ruling off of whether or not those facts were fun? I've deemed them all average. Okay. Oh, right. I think they were interesting.

I think you're like, wow, she's done a lot. Did you happen to Google her net worth? Oh, shit. I did. We play a game at work called celebrity net worth where someone thinks of a celebrity and you Google their name then the word net worth and the first article that comes up,

that's the answer that you have to go with. So they're wildly inaccurate. I did. But Dolly Parton was one of the ones that I severely underestimate. 500 million. 500 half a billion US dollars. She's massive. It go to holiday in an RV

What's what she likes to do she's just a she's just a country girl and She had the money ran dolly. She's like spending time with a share ran. Give me some Yeah, dolly give us some money. Are we getting ready? Give us an RV dolly? Dolly we love RV would be good for us Are we getting raw beef? Give us an RV, Dolly. Dolly! We love RV would be good for us. We could take on the ride. Oh, that'd be sick.

Where would we take it on the ride? Brisbane. We drive to Brisbane. Yeah. In an RV. We had an RV, hell yeah. We're doing a East Coast tour. Sydney.

Okay. Well, you guys have fun in the RV and I'll fly. We're good. Thanks. I don't want to spend any more time with you that I have to. Oh, okay. Well, you're the anti-dollipotent, Matt and I, grounded country superstars. Yeah, it was really hard,

actually hard to hear that from you. But, yes, that was a fascinating report. A love all that stuff, as I didn't know anything about it. And, to be honest, the happiest I am from that report is just to hear that she is just an us person. Yeah, she just seems really lovely.

Because my main exposure to her, apart from the couple of really famous songs, is her being on Hannah Montana. Yes, because she's Miley Cyrus' godmother. Yeah. I, okay, so I tried to buy a t-shirt with Ellie Patens face on it off Etsy, and I made the purchase in February, and I immediately realized that the address was my old work address. So I messaged and I was like,

made a mistake, this is my actual address. So I said, no worries. A month went by, no t-shirt. And I said, hey, I haven't got this. And she was like, oh, it's weird. And I said, just to confirm, you sent it to this address, right? She's like, yeah.

And what address did she send it to? She said, you sent it to, and I sent my home address. Which is? Yep, I'm not saying my home address. And then it's still doing the right month later, again, nothing. And I said, sorry, just confirming once more, this is the address you've sent it to. She's like, yeah.

Anyway, so I still haven't received it. And I messaged her yesterday and said, I haven't got this t-shirt. She was like, this is the weirdest thing I can't believe. It's been lost so many times. He's the address I sent it to, and she sent it to my old work address. I've confirmed it at three times. So she sent it three times to the wrong address?

She sent it, she sent two t-shirts to my old work. Even though I told her the address three times, so then I said, okay, well thanks for getting back to me. I think I've figured it out. You've sent it to the wrong address. He is my address and she goes, oh, that'd be it. All right, cool. Well, I'll send off a new one tomorrow.

Are you paying for them every time? No, she's giving me a refund, but that's also going to a credit card that no longer exists. So I'm fucked. And that T-shirt is never, never arriving. So she gave you a refund and she's in the year and sent out three T-shirts.

She's sending the third one tomorrow. So no one's one in the situation. No, and I'm definitely not getting that t-shirt, but I want it because it's sick. All right, is there any question why Dolly Parton's worth half a billion dollars? Are we gonna let's hear on the other end of that? Yeah, we'll hear all Karl D.

He's just going, oh whoops! Playing funnybuggers. Yeah, are we gonna play funnybuggers? Anyway, so that's just a little tidbit about my love for Dolly Parton Why not? I am very impressed by that. Do you like it by the why that report? Yeah, she seems fun I reckon just listen to her music. She's a bloody delight amazing voice. Yeah, I reckon that I've got baby I'm burning ready to go on my laptop for as soon as we're finished. I'm ready to give her a go I reckon now Matt give her a bloody go., now Matt. Give her a bloody go.

You've got something to do, don't you? Yes, it is now time for everyone's favorite segment of the show. It's called the fact, Quoad or question segment. I'm gonna say fact, fuck, questions. Oh boy, fact, Quoad or question segment. We'll have to up to pledge a little bit

if we're gonna give them that option. And this week, I've just done a, I cannot find his surname, but his name, as I've got it written down, is Larry. And he's given himself the title of Chairman of the Department of Religion and Bible Study and Sexual Organ size and ejaculation volume calibration. Wow, what a double portfolio. And his quote is from the Bible and probably making his title more relevant. I assume let's see. Inspirational quote from the Bible.

It's from Ezekiel 2320 specifically. She loves, she lusted after their male consorts, whose sexual organs were like those of donkeys and whose ejaculation was like that of horses. I can't believe how relevant this is to the episode we just did. Jolly. Lusting after horses. Jolly. Lusting after horses. Carl Dane. That's from the Bible.

That can't actually be from the Bible. Is it? Carl Dane, is that how he defended himself? Well, actually, Dali. It's a boy. A great day, Zikil. A Zikil 2320, I believe it is. Yes.

But you feel like a bit of a fool. Yeah. Don't go to work, Dali. Jolly. Jolly. Jolly. So, that's from Larry. Thanks, Larry. And what else do we do at the end of the show, David?

Which would say, thank you so much for your support, Larry. Yeah, thank you so much for enlightening us and bringing us to what is probably my new favorite quote from the Bible. If you get, if you wanna get into the fact quote or question, it's a good one of the show, you can spot us on Patreon at patreon.com slash Degon Pod. And that is on the Sydney Sharnberg Rest in Peace Memorial level of Patreon or above.

And you get to give us a factor quote or a question on. And the next thing we do, Jess, which I ended up to there, I just didn't feel like we'd given Larry enough. And I think he's got his just desserts. Just his things. He's the one who ate the connoisseur. Oh, that would make sense. At this point, I thought,

I'm gonna read the entire body. Ah! I don't see if there's any clues in there. Oh, hey, you. Brought me to Ezekiel 2021. Something about ejaculating donkeys. Stuck out of my mind. I headed to the source.

Jerusalem. Playing noise. You went to Jerusalem? Yeah, for the true crime part. Okay, so what we do at the end of every episode is we like to take some time to thank our Patreon supporters who support the show. And that's what we're gonna do now. Ab, so, totally. These are the people who make the show possible. And we appreciate it so much. And normally we do a little game, don't we, Bob? Yeah. Um, let's name their first album.

Okay, and- Dollies was- Hello, I'm Dollie. Oh, great. Should I kick her off? Yeah, go on. Uh. Should we? Or do you want to do something else? No, I don't know where this is going to go.

But I have to really quickly. I feel like it's going to fit a full man. Hello, I'm Dolly, and all of them. We got to go better than that. What's your favorite first album, Debu album, Dave? Oh. The sound of white, Missy Higgins. I don't know, it's just the first album I thought of. Oh, one of my... That was it, Debu? Yeah, it was good. The sound of white, Missy Higgins. I don't know, it's just the first time I thought of.

Oh, one of my... That was a debut. Yeah, it was good. The sound of white. Good album. Probably what I think is the best debut album of all time is the Arctic monkeys. Whatever people say I am. That's what I'm not.

That is a very good album. That is a great debut album. That is. Yes, I don't have an answer to that, but maybe it's great trucking songs of the Renaissance on the floor. Tism. Probably. Yes, I don't have an answer to that, but maybe it's great trucking songs of the Renaissance song by Tism. Probably. So that means that gives us some scope there for different formats.

Yeah. I'd love to thank from London in Greater London in Great Britain, she's a, I think they're pretty good, I believe. They're probably great, same, Little London. I'd love to thank Alistair McGregor. Oh, I like that name. Alistair McGregor's debut album was... Often they're self-titled as well. Oh, that's wordy. Self-titled or often they're self-titled as well. Oh, that's pretty fun. Alistair McGregor, often they're self-titled as well. No, this isn't what I mean for the name of the album.

No, stop, stop writing. No, please, are you putting a straight on the album cover? No, no, you filled up all the space. Oh, Alistair, you've done it again. God, he's good. That's fun. I like those. There's a few iconic album covers that do have a lot of just text on it.

Like, there's a Howling Wolf album and said something like this is an album by Howling Wolf, the album is called, or something like that. I think the Black Keys did a kind of an homage to that with other albums as well. And I think they are from a pretty cool. Hmm. Dave, do you have any ideas for Alice to McGregor's album?

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

McGregor with the best of I mean, if I have to explain it in brackets, if I have to explain it, in brackets, if I have to explain it, don't come knocking. Oh, wow, it's complex. McGregor with the best of them, if I have to explain it, don't come knocking. That's really good. Yeah, good one. I think that, and it, and that's just text, I think that would look good. Okay. Um, well, I'll stay good luck with your album. I think that's really good. I'd also like to thank, I've just found this is the hailing with album I was so far off it on the cover it says this is howl and wolf's new album he doesn't like it

He didn't like his electric guitar at first either. That's the album coming pretty cool And can you not be googling things on my computer because I'm scared you'll find all my porn Oh, yeah hailing withperkers.com slash porn. Oh no, I've done it again. I'd also love to thank also from Great Britain, this time from Cornwall, from Truro. In fact, I'm of the Cornish pasties, Cornwall, I'm pretty sure. Another Cornish things, like Cornish people, Cornish Rose, let's go on. I'd love to thank Nick Lene. Nick Lene. Nick Lene.

So, horse and around. It's a 90s, oh yeah, okay, great. You've done it again. Nick Lene, horse and around. And it's the album covers him, but the saddles foot down to the underside of the horse, and he's still got a big smile on his face. And he's still riding it, but he's on the underneath of the horse, but he's still like smiling with his hand out like he's on top of the horse when he's really underneath the horse. And the horse is pissing on him. That piss part could be in or out, take it all with me. We can edit that in part. Not a deal, bro. I think most of this all sort of be a Photoshop deal, but that is, I think that could be great, horse and around. I think that could be big. That's a lot of fun. I think that could be big for you, Nick.

That is a lot of fun. Congrats, Nick. On your country and western album. Nick Lee. Nick Lee. Mayor Gennon, you please get back on top of that. May I think some people also? Please do. I would like to thank from what's WA in the US? Washington's store. Washington's store, and you know what?

I didn't back myself. Is that why I'm not being? I probably could be Wisconsin. Is there an aim Wisconsin? I think that's what it is. And that's not even double check it. Let's just wait for the tweets to tell us where we're at. I would like to thank Richard Compo.

Oh, Compo. That's what we used to yell out when someone had a fault at work. Compo. A little bit of a joke. Falling off ladders. So you get, oh, that's a good title for. Falling off ladders. I love it. Yeah.

Compo, of course, meaning, in Australia, sure, for compensation. And then the, I love it. Yeah. Compere, of course, meaning, industrial for compensation. And then the, I was a little joke, no one ever did anything. We were making fun of the litigious culture of America, really. We weren't, we were 15. We didn't know what we were talking about. We were honest. Compos!

But the album cover for this is, who was that famous artist who did the pictures of those impossible rooms that had stairs going? Escher. So that's an Escher type picture, where he's got ladders going up on every side of the room. This is the second time this week that Escher's come up in conversation for me. Am I hanging out with Artie Fati-Wankers?

I don't know if Escher is. I think that's pretty. It's pretty high-brow. It was on my, grandparents who lived in the country's wall, I gotta tell you, they were pretty high brass. And it was on my, grandparents who lived in the country's wool, I gotta tell you, they were pretty high-hot, loving people. So, the answer to my question is yes, then.

So he's upside down on the ladders on there. And it's called Fallen Off Ladders. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's a great, that album cover is gonna be iconic. Riches Compo Fallen Off Ladders. So thank you to Richard, and I'd

also like to thank from a nation's capital, the Australian capital territory, Canberra. A bit of a circus up there. Bloody plunge clowns up there. They're an overdrive of them, man. Yeah, I guess hardly any of them are in Canberra, but they... I reckon Canberra is cool. I like Camber. I'll tell you who's in Camber. Matt Duncan. Duncan. Lover, have a beer with Duncan.

I love to have a beer with the, oh, you must get that all the time, Matt Duncan. Sorry, Matt. I'm Matthew Woodson. Let's never done. There's always something new. Always something new. Oh, yeah, that's good. That's good. Matt Duncan, always something new. Always something new. Oh yeah, that's good.

That's good. Always something new. And on the cover, he's walking down a beach with a jacket every show. Yes. Walking away from the camera. Oh, right. Maybe with the newspaper hanging out his hand, right?

Yeah. And on the newspaper, there's a picture of him. And as Headline says, hit debut record. It's a real cocky. Wow. Yeah. Real cocky. I love it. Yeah. Maddie D. That. Hey, it works. Yeah. So thank you, Matt. Thanks, Maddie D. All right, I'm going to bring us home now. With a shout out to a place that I was at on the weekend down to the beach here in Victoria in Pointe Lundstale. I would like to thank. Weird brag.

We get it. You've been to a beach. Hey, it's great place. You're unbelievable. I was in my house this weekend. Yeah, shoving a down a throat. Yeah, I don't need your social life or lack thereof. Well, it really wasn't my parents have retired

down that way, so anyway. I'd like to thank you. You hanging out with your parents for the weekend. Yeah, it was wasn't my parents have retired down that way. So anyway, I'd like to thank you hanging out with your parents for the weekend. Yeah, it was a great trip. You fucking. No, I haven't family time. Oh, you. Oh, you. Well, Jim Kerri was here. He would call you a real dickhead. Classic Ker carry. Well, I would like to thank from Pointe Lanzar, Lin Victoria, Fred Rhodes. Fred Rhodes. War Machine. Whoa. Because Rhodes in Marvel Universe is War Machine. Oh!

Flayed by the guy who puts on an English accent in the high smoothies with. Oh, yeah. Who advertised his coffee? George Clooney. George Clooney. Oceans 11. Don Cheedle.

Don Cheedle, great. We got there. He does. Not a good one, I think. Yeah, real like it's almost comically bad on purpose. Yeah, maybe. Oh, right. He's a, oh, sorry. Oh, right. Yeah, man. Oh rock. He's a I'm sorry. Oh, right He'd have oh we're gonna have hostage bank out. Well, you're right on cheetah. Why not I

I'm tired. He doesn't even get it right. Oh, no, I know I know. Yeah, it's like don't eat. I'm tired on cheetah Sorry, what? No, you know what you're playing a character. I reckon Fred Rhodes war machine album. It's like heavy metal Oh, yeah. You know? But in the middle is just a scar track. One. And it goes a little something like this. I do a bit of b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b Yeah, okay, the singular is SCAT, but the plural is SCAT. That's the first time. That is not yet. Yeah!

Matt, I think I know music I work in radio, my age. You love music. I love music. You're on Triple J, we love music. Next one to drop this week from... That's how we talk, all of us. From... SCAT.

SCAT. Next SCAT to drop out in my pants. Have you ever played a SCAT song live? Yeah. Or even done some SC Scat Song Live? Yeah. Or even done some Scat live on air? Of course. No further questions. I would finally like to thank. And thanks again to our war machine, Fred Rhodes.

I would like to thank, from Leeds, a place we've been. Yeah. West Yorkshire, I would like to thank Dylan Volans. Volans. Dylan Volans. Uhans. Dylan Volans. Uh, something about Volly? I was thinking, uh... Half Volly. Voluntary Manslaughter.

Oh, wow! What is that? What are you, Kay? What's the album art? Him and a coffin. Okay. Oh, yeah. Big load into the grave. Cool. Voluntary Manslaughter. What does that mean again? I think it's always in in voluntary manslaughter and that's why that's why it's funny. Okay

You have to explain this to you and that's why it's fun I want a title that's funny the first time here, but it's less funny each time you hear it Yeah, and Dave's the master of that. Yes, thank you to here but it's less funny each time you hear it up. Yeah and Dave's the master of that. Thank you too. Voluntary Mansell Order, an album by Dylan Volens. And it's in the coffin is a vol. Yes.

Which is an animal. Right? In England. Yeah. And he's in England. It makes it work. It just works. Nailed it.

The only reason I know Vols is because of a comedian with long hair from England, Jordy, comedian, long black hair, goes on long side tracks. Ross Noble. I was gonna say. He says Vols, I've been talking about Vols a bit. I know, otherwise I've never heard of it as an animal.

That was really worth bringing up. Have you heard of Vols? Yeah. Otherwise, I've never heard of it as an animal. That was really worth bringing up. Have you heard of voles? Yeah. Really, have you heard of voles? I've heard of voles. But I've also heard of Ross and I, so that could be my exposure as well.

Me too, maybe. But we'll never know. I wish we could. I wish we could go. We wish we could get the bonus. Maybe we could do another real crime podcast. About when we first learned about vols. I asked myself,

ah! What is a vol? Can you just wrap up please? Okay, well, we've got to say, thanks to everyone that's supported us on Patreon and we look forward to joining these chart toppers that we just mentioned when we release our own single. And hopefully we top the Aria charts coming up soon.

Drop a single. I genuinely think that would be quite funny. Well, let's get on it. Yeah. I mean, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Thank you. Let's give it a big one. Gritzki slash Michael Jordan.

Someone pulled me up on that recently. I said something like that. And they're like, no, you haven't taken them. You haven't missed them. You just haven't taken them. You know, you know, you know exactly what they're trying to say. What the grats mean. So just shut up.

You fucking Nancy no snow. Oh no, fuck off. Nancy no snow. If you want. I can help it. Real Nancy no snow over here. Can we change it to you get zero points for 100% of the shops you don't take. Oh, that's poor.

That's so much. Put it on a poster. It sucks. On a brother calendar. Thank you. Let's make that the cover of the CD. And that's January and then February. It says, get fall down four times and get up three in brackets because every time you

get up, you don't have to get it. Mathematically, it doesn't work out. And there's people that are like, why would you get up four times and't have to work it. Mathematically, it doesn't work it. You know, there's people that are like, why would you get up four times when you've only fallen down four times? Um, wait. Just. Why wouldn't, wait, why wouldn't you?

Oh, that's the other way around. You know what people are like? Oh my God. Can you fall down four times, get up five, but you only need to get up four. Oh, right. So that's how you go again. Oh, right. Shut up. No.

Yeah. And then you just basically want to slam dunk their face. Slam dunk the funk, which is what I put it up. Put it up. Slam dunk the funk. My favorite debut album, five. Is that, is that slam dunk the funk? Is a five thing.

Yeah. Slam dunk the funk, put it up, got that feeling. And catchy. Just to remind everyone, they spelled five, what the F was replaced with the number five. Five, five. It was sick. Five, five, make you feel. The only thing I can ever remember about that band is one, there was a member called Abbs, who had sweet abs. And the other one is possibly also Abbs. At the time, he had

Gelled hair was really popular. Gelledin waxing hair like he's on it. Remember it well. And he had twisted up little spikes. But then I remember he shaved his head and everyone was pissed off because they were like, but that's your look. And he had to say the hot lights was melting my hair every night when we were performing. So that's why to shake my head. Jesus, that is grim.

You have to call a press conference. I know. I bet he's absolutely out of the press conference. Yeah, get him out. Get him out of the press conference. Anyway, that's my report on five. That was great. Great bonus report there at the end of the episode. Just as clocked off.

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If you can share around, it's just, it's so good. If you can do any of that, if you know someone who might enjoy it, normally a specific episode is a good way to get someone in. You go, oh, I know somebody loves Dolly Parton. Maybe I'd like to hear some idiots talk about it for a while. Hey, hey, and also, I've got to say, people will say, oh, why haven't you come to my city or whatever? We do look at the download stat that does give us a vague idea

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No more. And pre-b. And I changed it. Oh sorry. It's very mean, though. It's been changed every song we've talked about. How about you lift up a little bit. You're always putting down. It's cutting me down. I mean, I don't change every song. I don't change every song. I only change Jolly. Jolly. Damn it, let's go.

It's gonna be in my head forever, so. That's a great thing. I reckon it'd be in the mix of my all-time top 100, I reckon. Really? Yeah. Love that tune. Anyhow, someone pull his band out of.

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