My friends, welcome back everybody.
I'm Tom and the color cast is on the air now for Thursday night the 17th of September,
1998.
Our old friend Areva McIntyre is here tonight and Marcia Kite, an aftermath of the bombings
in Oklahoma City back in 1995 and you on the toll free line.
I got some email today that there was an audio problem with the show last night when Grace
Slick was here.
We did not delete anything from the show.
She was not profane nor was I, but apparently there was a problem with the mixing equipment
that causes us to put a delay on the program to protect ourselves against, you know, certain
language going out over the airwaves into your living rooms to prevent you from hearing
words that you probably have heard in your living room all night long.
But I'm told that has been repaired and that we will have no audio troubles tonight.
Also I thank all of you who called 213-852-790.
Thank you, and thank you.
Now today I took Oliver, my pup, out for an evaluation at his trainers to see how he's
doing with something called the remote collar, which you dog lovers know is a collar which
contains a little antenna that resembles that on a Sony Walkman.
It's kind of like Oliver's little FM radio, but only he can hear the music.
And he did great, except now we're looking the dog over, and he's got a spot about this
big, about the size of a silver dollar, where he's got no hair at all.
It's gone.
And the trainer said, you know, it looks like ringworm.
The minute I heard the word ringworm, I began to itch all over my body.
So I got him to the vet and he's fine.
I take him to the dog park for exercise this afternoon, run him around, and there's some
kids there.
And one kid says to his mom, he says, hey mom, look, a sheepdog with a radio.
Anyway, what I thought we'd do tonight is imagine if, now by this premise, okay, I mean,
we all know the slogans of various companies that do business over the airwaves, okay?
This would be what would happen if these companies sold condoms, birth control devices.
For example, the diet Pepsi condom, give the bit here.
Diet Pepsi condoms, you got the right one big, okay?
Pringles condoms, once you pop, you can't stop.
Flintstones vitamins condoms, 10 million strong and growing, huh?
Secret condoms, strong enough for a man but balanced for a woman's taste.
The Macintosh condom, it does more, it costs less, it's that simple.
Chevy condoms, like a rock.
This is a various companies, you know, make condoms, yeah.
It's quarter to one in the morning, we can do this.
Dial condoms, aren't you glad you use it?
Don't you wish?
Everybody did.
New York Lotto condoms, because hey, you never know.
Lays condoms, bet you can't have just one.
Campbell's soup condoms, mm-mm, good.
AT&T condoms, reach out and touch someone.
Bounty condoms, the quicker, pick her up.
The Energizer condom, it just keeps going and going and going.
M&M condoms, that's okay.
The Sears condom, one coat is good for the entire winter.
The Delta Airlines travel packet condoms, Delta is ready when you are.
And finally the Star Trek condom to boldly go where no man has ever gone before.
And the Timex condom, no, no, no, no, no.
Reba McIntyre joins us first up and then Marsha Kite, Memories of Oklahoma City and you on
the toll free.
I'm Tom, you're watching CBS and thanks for catching our stuff as we fly it through the
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Reba McIntyre has sold more than 35 million records. She's received all of her professions major awards and packs auditoriums around the country and the world. Her newest film, Forever Love, airs Sunday here on CBS and it's always a pleasure to have Reba in the chair on the Late Late Show here at CBS. Thanks for coming in. Nice to see you again.
You were almost Molly Brown in Titanic I read today. Except fate and time got in the way. What happened there?
Well I went in and auditioned for James Cameron and had a real good time visiting with him. And he said, yep you got the part. And then turned it over to the agencies and managers and everything and they were trying to figure out the scheduling when they needed me for the filming.
They said we need you three months right here. And then later on they came back and said well we don't need this three months we need this three months. Well we had already moved all of our shows. All your concert dates and stuff.
And then it just worked out that you had to pay the payroll. Did you see the picture though? I saw the movie it was wonderful. Yeah it was something wasn't it? Yeah.
And hey if it wasn't meant to be, it wasn't meant to be. And you know I walked out of that movie theater thinking it was a wonderful movie. Kathy Bates did an excellent job and it was just not meant to be.
Well you know the last time you were here, that we were together, we talked about your family. We talked about some of the eccentricities in your family. And in reading about your book and parts of it this afternoon, you talk about your grandmother having a transformation when she used to go to church.
What happened to your grandmother? Well my grandmother was a holiness. It's a form of Pentecostal belief and religion. And she is the most spiritual woman I've ever known in my life.
The next person, and maybe that's running a close race, is my mother-in-law Gloria Blackstock. They're very spiritual, very close to God women. And grandma spoke in tongues. Oh really? Yeah.
And when I'd stay all night with her, we'd be saying our prayers and she'd be on her knees praying and pretty soon she'd start talking in tongues. And once she got through I'd say, grandma who are you talking to? She'd say, well I'm talking to Jesus.
I thought it was really neat. Yeah but now when she talked in tongues, what did it sound like? Can you give me an answer? It sounded like a foreign language. Oh I gotcha. And she would just lapse into this after a certain amount of time in church. Did she ever get in trouble for it?
Oh yes. I think she was asked to leave one church. Because some churches frown on that. Oh yeah. Some people, a lot of people don't believe in it. But then a lot of people do.
And we also talked about the time that you spent on the ranch in Oklahoma growing up. Was there a lot of male chauvinism on the ranch? You know usually guys are tough and they're in charge and they kind of take over things.
Well on the ranch there in Oklahoma, all of us girls had to do the same jobs as the guys. We had to work just as hard as they did. We were required to do the same jobs that they did. But we were also required to do the ladies' jobs too.
Cooking. Yeah cooking and cleaning and taking care of everything.
So what would happen at a certain time during the day when you're out working the herd, would they say, okay Reba it's time to go in and start cooking?
Well they would usually ask Alice to go cook. Because Alice was the oldest and then it was Peg the only boy and then me and Susie was the baby. And usually it was Alice's responsibility if Mama wasn't at the house for Alice to go cook because she's the oldest girl.
One time Alice was going somewhere and Daddy looked over at me about 11 o'clock, 11.30 and said Reba go on up to the house and cook us some dinner. We called lunch dinner and supper was a late dinner.
Right, right.
And so I said are you sure? Yeah, go on cook us some. So I went up there and when everybody got to the dinner table there was about six kind of beans out there and Daddy said Reba you partial to beans? I just went into the cabinet and kind of opened every can I could find. So I didn't know what else to cook.
Probably the last time you were asked to cook. Yeah I got out of that job real quick.
How's your son Shelby doing? He's eight years old now. Oh thank you for asking. Yeah I called him a while ago and he's just been to a hockey game. Oh good. We've got a hockey team in Nashville now, the Predators. And he is so excited he can't hardly stand it. Does he play the sport or try to? He plays ice hockey very well.
He's a lot like me in the aggressive department. But he's getting in there doing a lot better. He's been playing just for a year now. Now what's the story you found out you were pregnant in Mexico? Oh when I got pregnant with Shelby? When you were in Mexico. Yeah we were in Mexico and Norval and I both kind of got the Montezuma's revenge. Oh the Green Apple Quick Step.
I've never heard it called that. The Green Apple Quick Step. Yeah the Green Apple Quick Step. We got that. But when we got back home I still had it and Norval got over years and I went to the doctor and I found out I was pregnant. So don't go to Mexico. You're not planning to hold a family.
From what I've heard reading about it, it was a tough time for you. You had to, you went into contractions very very early on. Well yeah I was touring and then I toured for the first five months of my pregnancy and then I went to the doctor and he said whoa you better get horizontal, stay in bed and don't do anything else. Just stay in bed. But I had to hang by my toes for that child. I wanted a healthy happy baby.
Hey the hockey player of the future huh? You bet. Now when you and your husband married, he had children right? How tough was it for you to blend with his kids? Because you're really not their new mother, you're their father's new wife.
Right, right. You know I was married once before and had two step children and that was a great training period for me because when I married Norval and he had three children, it made me realize that I'm not their mother. I just need to be their friend and help them out through this transition of the divorce and going through all that and trying to help as much as possible. And it was really a rough start. We weren't all buddies and friends and it wasn't easy at the beginning but now we are.
Were they against you for a time though or kind of wary of you? A little resentful. Yeah. You know because. Encroaching on their lives, on your father's time. Disrupting their whole livelihood which they knew. But it all turned out very well and we're all very close now.
How'd you win them over? Little tricks? Make a speech? Hey kids? No, no being consistent, being fair and Norval and I sticking together and not letting them play one against the other. That was very important.
And what about his family? Way back his great great grandfather I read was quite a character.
I think you're talking about the story when he was going, when he was getting really sick and ill and he had all of his kids in he was going to tell them. Where the money was.
He was going to split up the money. Right. Well and when he was sick. Very very important. Well when he was sick he found out that they had already started planning the funeral. I think that's what happened. Norval's mom told me this story and I put it in my book. I thought it was so interesting.
And well when he found out they had already started planning the funeral he got mad at him and then wouldn't even discuss splitting the money up. So then he got better and got all his money out of the bank and hid it. He buried it.
And so then he got sick again and he said well bring all the kids in and I'm going to tell them where I hid the money and he died. Oh dear. Without telling anybody.
And so Norval's great great grandmother I think it was she was mamaw black stock went and was trying to find this money. All of them did and she went to a fortune teller and the fortune teller said it's by a body of water.
That could be a lot of places. Well they had a large place and so everybody the whole community came in and helped them start digging up the place around the ponds and the creeks trying to find this money.
Well they couldn't find it so they gave up. Years later she went to another fortune teller and the woman told her it was in a cistern in the house behind a certain wall.
And if she moved this panel in the wall she could find it and sure enough she went in there where exactly where the fortune teller told her you know what the cistern is where they held the water in one of the old farm houses and mamaw black stock she put all the money in a paper in two big paper grocery sacks and took off towards town walking with these two paper sacks full of money and went to the bank walked into the president's office and said would you deposit this for me.
So the fortune teller was right and how much was in there? I don't know that. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sounds good doesn't it? That's a good figure.
Now do you still have the racehorses? No we got out of the racehorse business. We never did get to see them race. And if you can't go watch your racehorses race it cuts out a lot of the fun.
What was the favorite horse you ever had? Oh we had one named Cowboy. Had one called Shocking Mountain. And then Rich Man's Gold was the best one we had.
And when you say the best one you had what was his record? And would he have qualified to run in any of the big races like the Triple Crown races?
Well he did race in the Arkansas Derby and if he had won a place like 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the Arkansas Derby then he could have gone to the Kentucky Derby. And then if he had done something like that then he could have gone off.
But when we got to the Arkansas Derby he came out of the gates and his ears went forward and that was not a good sign and then he started looking around and that was even the worst sign.
And so that went downhill from there. We're out of the racehorse business. We are chatting here with Reba McIntyre who will be seen in the CBS movie on Sunday called Forever Love which we will get to and to you on the toll free right after this short time out.
Music.