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Dolly Parton Retirement · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our American mama. Dear mamma, do you think
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  Dolly Parton will ever retire? Well, let's ask our American mama, Mama,
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  Mama, and joining us now our American mama Terry Netteville. Now obviously
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  Dolly Parton is your favorite, Oh my gosh. And I would say I
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  would make the argument, like if I had to get into a debate with
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  somebody, I would make the argument that, since the passing of Betty White,
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  Dolly Parton is America's sweetheart. I would agree. And you know,
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  one of the main reasons for that, we don't know where politics exactly right
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  exactly. She's so wise not to get into that because she recognizes and has
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  said that her purpose on this earth is to entertain. It's to make people
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  happy, to make people think. I mean, her last song it was
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  a little political, but you still I don't know which political, what side
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  of the political Alice lands on, right, It was basically um talking about
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  the human experience, right, And I just adore her, you know,
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  I did, I do, I do, And she's and she's great and
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  you know, of course she came to fame back in the days of Johnny
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  Carson. Yes, Johnny Caution had on the Tonight Show all the time,
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  and of course his philosophy was, I don't need to get into politics either
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  when I am with my celebrity. That would be an abuse of my power.
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  My job is to entertain, That's right. Elvis said the same thing.
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  Yeah, when he was asked, um, you know back in during
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  I guess Vietnam right because he was drafted. Yes, Um, he wouldn't
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  go there. And he said that, he said, And it was so
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  funny because if you hear his voice, he's like, honey, you know
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  the girl asked him the political question. Honey, I'm here to entertain.
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  I'm not gonna entertain that question because I'm not here for that, right.
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  And I have so much respect because it takes great restraints not to share your
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  political views when you feel very strongly. Because someone as smart as Dolly,
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  this is one of the things I think people will disunderstand about her. She
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  is very, very smart. You cannot be that kind of a businesswoman and
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  be so successful and not be brilliant. And I also think you can be
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  that funny. Yeah without right. You and I have had this conversation before
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  too. I think comedians, the good ones, the most successful ones,
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  the one the funny ones. Among us, they're the most brilliant because they're
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  so observant right there, So they could take one part of the day,
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  one part of someone's character traits that everybody else yes, yes, and make
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  you be able to laugh at yourself, right like you you can kind of
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  resemble what they're talking about. You can laugh at yourself. So yeah,
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  she is just absolutely amazing. And you know, I love one of the
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  things that she said, and I kind of I circled it. I could.
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  She said, you know, when one of the somebody asked her if
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  she was ever going to retire, and she was like, you know,
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  I hope I die on the stage. I hope I'm singing. I'm I
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  hope I'm in the middle of my song. You know, if she had
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  her I think the audience may object to that. Yeah, you know what,
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  now that I know that that's her wish, your dying wish, I
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  would be all for it. And thank god she deserved to go the way.
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  I mean, Kevin has a diam wish. I won't tell you what
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  it is on the air, but I hope he doesn't go like that.
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  That's all I can say about that, anyway, she said. She said,
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  every dream kind of spawns another dream. You can branch off of almost
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  anything that happens and make a business of that as well. So it's kind
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  of like a tree with good roots. It's got a lot of limbs,
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  and it's also got a lot of leaves, So why not make the most
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  of it? And I'm not one to sit around do nothing. In other
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  words, she's saying, because of this one dream, she's been able to
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  catch other dreams. You know that. My dad he had this saying that
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  dreams are contagious. Right, So not only does do your dreams can they
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  veer off and have these different branches that you can try, but you also
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  can bring others along for the ride, like if somebody caught that Dollywood dream
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  right with her, right, like all of her cousins, her family,
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  that's all. They are all a part of it. She is basically saying,
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  until my last breath, I'm gonna take this limb this way, I'm
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  gonna take this branch this way and see how far I can tell. Kid,
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  you know what She's done with the books for the children of Tennessee,
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  millions of kids have gotten books all over the world. Really, it's not
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  just the United States, but this is branched out over into Ireland. They've
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  been getting Dolly Parton books in the Great in Great Britain, in Australia,
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  English speaking parts of the parts of the world, they've been getting free books
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  because of her Dolly Parton Library founder. I love her so much. And
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  you know what else recently I just read she gave ten million dollars to an
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  African American neighborhood and if it was ten million dollars of royalties from Whitney Houston
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  from her song I Will Always Love You. Yeah, she gets royalties every
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  time Whitney. You know the song, it's her song, but Whitney's version
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  of it. She makes money off of that because that's her song that she
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  wrote. Right. She gave ten million dollars recently to an African American neighborhood
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  and to beautify it, and I thought she freaking gets it. Wow.
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  She understands that when you have a dream and you are successful and you are
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  allowed to live out your greatest dream in the world, the most fun part
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  of that is to not only bring others along for the rod, but to
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  share the wealth with people who will truly appreciate it. She's the one that
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  doesn't even care. She gets the lime light for it. She didn't want
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  to be in the rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Remember, she was
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  like, I'm not really rocking roll. So since they did, said,
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  hey, we're doing it anyway without with or without your permission. So what
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  does she do? All right, Well, then I'll do a rock album.
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  Is she not the coolest? She really is the coolest. I love
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  her, and I love that she doesn't plan on retire. And again back
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  to Betty White. Yes, Betty White was still making films up to within
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  a couple of years of her passage. Yes, and she was still you
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  know, the hot in Cleveland TV shows. She's in the late nineties and
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  she's on a regular TV series. That's a lot of work. So,
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  um, I hope Dollie doesn't retire either. I think she won't. I
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  mean, like she said, I just you know, this sounds kind of
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  creepy, but I hope she gets her wish. I hope she's singing to
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  her husband and then you know, she gets to see her maker. If
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  you like ask American Mom a question, go to our website American ground Right
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  dot com, slash mama and click on the ask the Mama button. Terry
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  Edaville, thank you so much, Thank you,