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Opening Segment 8/26/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: And it is a sad day today. The word legend
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  Speaker 1: is thrown around a lot, but in this case, it
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  Speaker 1: absolutely works. Uh, there was the passing of a legend yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton dead at the age of 80. Now you'll remember, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we've been talking about Dolly Parton now for several months. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: going back a year because she was opening a play
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  Speaker 1: on Broadway, and she was never able to come to Broadway,
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  Speaker 1: and she was never able to promote it, and she
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  Speaker 1: was never able to get out on the road, and
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  Speaker 1: she had to cancel many appearances. And she kept putting
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  Speaker 1: videos out saying, I'm okay, I'm all right, don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about me, but the entire time she was apparently fighting cancer.
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  Speaker 1: And she thinks that she got sick, when she was
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  Speaker 1: caring for her husband, Carl Dean, someone she was married
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  Speaker 1: to for 52 years. He passed away last year, and
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  Speaker 1: apparently Dolly Parton since then has never been the same.
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  Speaker 1: Her passing was announced by her nephew, Brian Seaver. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they have a close relationship with both her brother-in-law and
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  Speaker 1: her nephew because The brother-in-law helped her launch her music career.
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  Speaker 1: The nephew, Brian Seaver, is head of security and is
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  Speaker 1: always with her, so that's why he made the announcement.
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  Speaker 2: Dolly called me and said she wants to rest in
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful bed of plush cotton because after a life
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  Speaker 2: wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable and
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  Speaker 2: have some rest. Rest in peace, Aunt Dolly, Aunt Granny, Gigi.
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  Speaker 2: May God bless Dolly Parton, and may God bless you all.
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  Speaker 2: She Will Always Love You.
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  Speaker 1: That was beautiful. Songs like She Will Always Love You
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  Speaker 1: that was made a hit by Whitney Houston, 9 to 5,
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  Speaker 1: the theme of the movie that she played in. She
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  Speaker 1: starred in two movies. She was nominated for an Oscar.
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  Speaker 1: She was very close to getting the EGOT. She just
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  Speaker 1: needed that Tony to get the EGOT. Her career, she
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  Speaker 1: might be the biggest star in the country. Think about it.
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  Speaker 1: And never a scandal. never got involved in politics. I've
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  Speaker 1: never heard her say a bad word about anyone. And Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: she is the American dream because if you think about it,
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  Speaker 1: she was born in the Smoky Mountains in a cabin
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  Speaker 1: that only had one room. There were 12 kids and
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  Speaker 1: it never seemed to get to her. She always thought
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  Speaker 1: she was going to be a star. At the age
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  Speaker 1: of six, She sang her very first song that she
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  Speaker 1: wrote about a doll that her father gave to her.
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  Speaker 1: And just a couple of years ago, when she was
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  Speaker 1: on CBS this morning, she sang that song.
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  Speaker 3: And she kept writing from that song.
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  Speaker 1: And made it to Nashville first. She was on a
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  Speaker 1: local radio show and then a TV show. And then
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  Speaker 1: she went to Nashville where her uncle was waiting for her.
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  Speaker 1: She signed Curtis a recording contract when she was in
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  Speaker 1: high school. And when she graduated, she performed at the
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  Speaker 1: Grand Ole Opry. And after that, she was a star.
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  Speaker 4: Wow. You know, obviously, I wasn't a follower of her music,
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  Speaker 4: Dolly Parton. I liked it when she teamed up with
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  Speaker 4: Kenny Rogers, because I always liked Kenny Rogers. And that's
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  Speaker 4: really when I was introduced to Dolly Parton. They did
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  Speaker 4: great duets together. But I also liked her because she
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  Speaker 4: reminded me of a more beautiful Yogi Berra. And give
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  Speaker 4: me a moment to explain that.
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  Speaker 5: Please.
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  Speaker 4: Yogi Berra, if you ever went to Little Falls, Montclair State,
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  Speaker 4: they have the Yogi Berra Museum and they have all
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  Speaker 4: of his yogisms. You know, things that he's famous for saying.
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  Speaker 4: It ain't over till it's over. When you come to
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  Speaker 4: a fork in the road, take it. You know, and
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  Speaker 4: it goes on and on. And people love that because
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  Speaker 4: it was very genuine. There are a whole list of Dalai-isms,
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  Speaker 4: of things that she has said in interviews and publicly
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  Speaker 4: and They had pretty much the same thing, except naturally
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  Speaker 4: she was much better looking than Yogi Berra was.
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  Speaker 6: And I love the story she told.
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  Speaker 4: She said, look, I finally had that music contract, and
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  Speaker 4: the executives, they're saying to me, you won't be taken seriously.
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  Speaker 4: You look more like a hooker the way you dress
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  Speaker 4: than a singer. And she used one of those dollyisms.
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  Speaker 4: Don't judge me by the cover, because I'm a real
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  Speaker 4: good book.
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  Speaker 6: That's right out of Yogi Berra, right? You start thinking
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  Speaker 6: of it.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, when it came to interviews, I watched
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  Speaker 4: some of her interviews yesterday when I heard of her passing.
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  Speaker 4: You could ask her a question as an interviewer. Go out,
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  Speaker 4: get a cup of soup, a sandwich at the diner,
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  Speaker 4: come back, and she'll still be answering the question because,
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  Speaker 4: as she always said, ask me anything and I'll tell
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  Speaker 4: you what I want to hear, which meant she was
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  Speaker 4: in total control.
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  Speaker 6: But in a nice way.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Always smiling, always laughing and self-deprecating.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: Who do you see any longer who's self-deprecating?
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  Speaker 1: No, absolutely. Absolutely. And she was such a kind person
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  Speaker 1: and never, ever got involved with any controversies. Hers or
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  Speaker 1: anybody else's. Never talked about it. Always smiling. Always was nice.
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  Speaker 1: And we have to point out one other thing about
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  Speaker 1: her that she is especially proud of. And that is
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  Speaker 1: the Imagination Library, where she gave 300 books to children
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  Speaker 1: around the country from the age of one all the
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  Speaker 1: way up to 12 to promote literacy. She spent $ 600
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  Speaker 1: million in her lifetime in philanthropy projects. And when she
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  Speaker 1: was asked what her legacy should be, she didn't talk
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  Speaker 1: about the music. She didn't talk about the movies. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't talk about Dolly World or her Broadway play. She
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  Speaker 1: talked about the charity.
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  Speaker 5: Do you ever think about what you'd want your legacy
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  Speaker 5: to be?
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of wonderful things that's happened to me.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things I'm proudest of is the Imagination Library.
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  Speaker 3: But of course, I'm a writer and a singer, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm in both Songwriter Hall of Fame, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: big one, the country music, and the other one up
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  Speaker 3: there with the big guys. I'm just trying to leave
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  Speaker 3: as much stuff. I just want to see how much
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  Speaker 3: I can do in a lifetime. And I've been blessed,
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  Speaker 3: and I've been lucky, and I don't take any of
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  Speaker 3: that for granted. But I just wanted to be remembered well.
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  Speaker 1: She's being remembered well today. $ 600 million she gave in
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  Speaker 1: charities during her lifetime. Natalie, did you want to say something?
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  Speaker 7: You know what? That last cut got me. It teared
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  Speaker 7: me up because she was such a kind human being,
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  Speaker 7: and you just don't see that anymore. She just wanted
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  Speaker 7: to help people, whether it was helping somebody with a
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  Speaker 7: song or helping somebody who was unfortunate and couldn't afford
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  Speaker 7: books for their children. I mean, she wanted to make
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  Speaker 7: people happy. She made an amusement park. I mean, this
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  Speaker 7: woman did everything. And, you know, sometimes you can't connect
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  Speaker 7: with your kids on people that you grew up with.
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  Speaker 7: And my daughter, she was the first one who texted
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  Speaker 7: me yesterday to tell me about it.
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't even seen it yet. She may be the
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  Speaker 1: biggest star in America. She was the biggest star in America.
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  Speaker 1: As you think of everybody else, I mean, Tom Cruise,
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  Speaker 1: you go through all the names. They rise and fall
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  Speaker 1: and rise and fall. Dolly Parton's always there. And you
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  Speaker 1: know why?
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  Speaker 6: For all these, for decades.
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  Speaker 3: Because.
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  Speaker 7: She didn't alienate one group of people.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 7: Everybody felt connected to her in some fashion.
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  Speaker 6: In fact.
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  Speaker 7: Whether it was her music or her, you know, philanthropies.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, I'm creating theater of the mind now. Imagine
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  Speaker 4: we're in a gin mill and on one side you
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  Speaker 4: got these truckers with their Confederate flag caps on and
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  Speaker 4: the drag queens dressed like Dolly Parton on the other
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  Speaker 4: side cheering her on.
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  Speaker 6: Can we hear like a potpourri of her songs now?
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  Speaker 6: You play that? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know why that's important to play her songs? Because
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  Speaker 1: at the core, what made her Dolly Parton, what made
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  Speaker 1: her famous was songwriting. She was one of the best
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  Speaker 1: songwriters in America for decades.
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  Speaker 8: Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene. I'm begging of you, please don't
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  Speaker 8: take my man. And I. Here you come again.
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  Speaker 5: Looking better than a body has a right to. And
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  Speaker 5: shaking me up so.
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  Speaker 8: That all I really know is here you come again.
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  Speaker 7: And here I am.
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  Speaker 5: They make a living barely getting by.
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  Speaker 3: It's all taking and no giving.
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  Speaker 5: They just use your mind and they never give you credit.
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  Speaker 5: It's enough to drive. you crazy if you let it
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  Speaker 5: Islands in the stream, that is what we are No
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  Speaker 5: one in between.
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  Speaker 8: How can we be wrong? Sail away with me to
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  Speaker 8: another world And we rely on each other above guitar.
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  Speaker 1: Solo Dolly Parton, dead at the age of 80. She's
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  Speaker 1: going to live on through her music. And Natalie, how
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  Speaker 1: do you think that Broadway play is going to do?
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  Speaker 7: That is going to sell out in a second. I'm
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  Speaker 7: sad that the tickets weren't on sale yet because I
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  Speaker 7: was going to get one. So now it's going to
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  Speaker 7: be tough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's going to be the biggest play
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  Speaker 1: on Broadway for a long time. I think it's going
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  Speaker 1: to run for a while. I know it didn't get
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  Speaker 1: great reviews the first time it opened. They say they
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  Speaker 1: fixed it. I don't think it's going to matter. I
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  Speaker 1: think people just want to go as a tribute to her.
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  Speaker 4: I think her best contribution outside of music is when
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  Speaker 4: she set up Dolly World right outside of Knoxville where
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  Speaker 4: it was basically Dixieland where they would recreate Confederate victories
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  Speaker 4: over the Bluecoats. And she walked onto the premise because
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  Speaker 4: they said, yeah, you could have your Dolly World here
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  Speaker 4: and we'll do our recreations here.
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  Speaker 5: She goes.
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  Speaker 4: You know, this dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool, but we
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  Speaker 4: ain't going to get no northerners down here. They get
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  Speaker 4: 4 million people a year to Dolly World because she said,
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  Speaker 4: what are you, crazy? The South didn't win the war?
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  Speaker 4: You're going to continue to do that? I can't be
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  Speaker 4: a part of that. And she basically bought him out lock, stock,
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  Speaker 4: and barrel.
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  Speaker 1: There's still joy in Bayonne. You know how they say
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  Speaker 1: there is no joy in Mudville? Well, there's still joy
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  Speaker 1: in Bayonne. They couldn't be prouder of their team, even
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  Speaker 1: though they lost last night and were eliminated from the
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  Speaker 1: Little League World Series. We'll talk about that. Plus, we
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  Speaker 1: want to hear from you about Dolly Parton. Go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and leave us a talkback. Plus, a chance to see
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  Speaker 1: Chicago at 825.