What away the ceramic monkey?

That's right.

It's going right out to an in Beverly Hills.

I know.

Everyone's doing this to me, trying to start a plane to get Lindy off the ground to go to France.

My first guest has won the three Grammys.

She's a member of Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame.

She is a motion picture star and our only guest ever to have a theme park named after her.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Dolly Parton.

I look, wait, work together.

We'll go out and do shows together.

You had you might even look better.

Oh, great.

Dolly would happen.

Dollywood, Dolly.

And it's 1/4.

Right?

So that'll be nice about August.

Yeah, I like I like How are you?

You smell great.

I should put a quart of it.

Oh, What?

What is it all?

It's a mixture of two or three things.

Things that you put together yourself from Mary Kay and some tova from Chloe.

Well, anyway, I'm glad you noticed.

What's very nice.

Uh, tell us about this Dollywood deal.

Well, Dollywood is a theme park.

That I've started in East Tennessee of it as a little girl when you were growing up, was it always a dream of yours?

To have your own theme park well and actually has been?

To be honest, it has been a dream of mine for many, many years because I was always fascinated with the county fair when I was kid.

That was the big thing when we used to get to Goto.

So I was always through with it.

And for many years, about the last 14 15 years I have tried Thio pull it all together where I could go back home to the Smoky Mountains where I was born and raised, and take something back to to my people.

And that's a great part of the country and the folks up there great.

And it's really providing a lot of good jobs for everybody, and it's a hopefully a good business move to the right in the Smoky Mountains.

It's up in the great Smoky Mountain National Park.

It's 30 miles northeast of Knoxville, is anywhere near Chattanooga.

That's close, but it's it's It's more like, um, closer to Knoxville, about 30 miles from there.

What's it cost to get into this place.

Like 50 bucks to get No, actually, 13 50 for growth.

That'll get the entire carload of kids.

That's everything.

That's all right.

That's everything.

The food And for Children, forward to twig.

It's 9 95 It's great if you want to come and spend a week there.

Can you do that?

Yeah, they have.

They have At least, uh, well, they have six.

About 600 motel hotel rooms in 1000.

Are you ever there?

Yeah, I am.

In fact, at last year was the first year, but we open again on May 2nd, and I was there every month, and I would just go in and get up on stage.

A lot of my family were saying in there at the park, and I would get up with my guitar and sing and people have any when I was coming, So I made it, you know, kind of special to them was special to me to be able to drop in some very active.

I didn't just put my name on something and then walk away for sure.

Sure you did.

I did one of those tax deals.

You're never there.

I really involved, Remember, how big is it, how many acres we're talking about?

It's sitting on 700 acres at the moment, 187 100 acres.

We had a 1,000,000 1/2 people.

This park.

Where does that rank?

With attendance of theme parks, I guess.

Like Disneyland would be Is that number one biggest way?

We're I think we're third theme park, which was good and it was a good year on.

It was new.

Of course.

We're hoping to keep that up this year, but it's in the great five miles from the Great Smoky Mountains are great, and it's most based in National Park.

What is the elevation of the higher speaking the Smokies?

You've asked me a question.

I don't really know what I feel stupid.

I say That's no more than six.

No more than 6000 would be a high.

Klayman's dome is the highest place there.

At least I know.

Blame it, but I'm not sure, but I want you to come down sometime way fun stuff on your show.

What would be a good place?

Have fun.

Please marry me.

You consider it?

Yeah, well considering Think about Are you married now?

Yeah, You're married now, But yet you're gonna consider marrying May.

Well, you don't expect to treat me that way if we get married way last 20 years.

How long have you been married?

20 years.

What?

Your husband.

He's selling corn dogs in the theme park.

No, he should be.

But actually my was not involved in in the show business into my life.

He's made his living asphalt paving early on, and he does mostly real estate.

Guy buys property resales.

So that did he ever in when you were first married.

Ever try and talk you out of show business and come into the asphalt paving world?

No.

You never did that while we got along.

I think we have different worlds.

He would tell me about all the driveway.

He paid a lot of songs I've been singing.

It is a happy, happy, you wonderful union, isn't it?

Yeah, We're good friends.

Really are.

What is that?

Well, we're good friends.

I think it's really important that you be friends with the person you're married to think that's what lasted as long as it has.

And we're together enough to enjoy the quality time, and we're apart enough to keep it in.

So you haven't seen him in years.

What?

I just came from there because this is an impossible business in which to maintain a reasonable relationship.

It really is.

It's very hard, but I think it's easier winning.

When you're in separate.

I find it hard.

There's no competition, no conflicting.

He goes.

He's proud of me and I'm proud of him.

And we're happy.

Good for you.

But I will.

Thank you.

Uh, we have to do a commercial here, and then we'll be right back with Dolly Parton.

Ladies.

Okay, back.

Dolly Parton is here.

I see Klingons Dome right here on the map.

I know doesn't give the elevation of it, but we could find out before, but they're beautiful.

Mountains, beautiful, have the most beautiful flowers and trees and smoky mountains.

And we're really proud of it.

Dollywood is a theme park.

It's centered in the 18 hundreds, and it's to preserve the old smoky mountain heritage.

Was that Was that your idea?

Well, this is what I've always wanted to do.

I went in business with the hearse and family, which people that have been in amusement park business for many years.

And they have.

They had parks in Missouri and in East Tennessee called Silver Dollar City.

So we went in together and we combined our ideas and just added more things to it.

But they really know how to make park run whale.

And I'm very exciting.

Is it clean?

Very clean, because that's that's very important.

I think that's the money we have a lot of we have a lot of great food.

We have a lot of arts and crafts, candle making, basket weaving.

We have the blacksmith, and there's a lot of other attractions around there.

We have a brochure here about your theme park there, Dollywood.

And then here's an attraction here.

Located, I guess, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Is that near your park?

Yeah, that it is in pigeon this when you're done there, walk tall with Buford Pusser's charred bones Smoky Mountain Police Museum.

Now there are a lot of things in and around that's very high on an extra day for this one.

That's not part of their many things to see and do, including including the 1974 Corvette that well, it gets a little, uh oh.

Police museum, Police museum.

Not a theme park, but there are many things out outside the park.

It's really a because the smoking mountains, so popular for campers, know there's about 1600 campsites there in Pigeon Forge in severe.

Well, that's my And then up in the park and have another 1000 You mentioned you mentioned your hometown.

You know what we got here is a copy.

We've done this from time to time.

We had Willie Nelson's high school yearbook, and we have years.

You graduated just a year before.

I did.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And we have you.

You were a knockout in high school.

Like, I guess we couldn't have guessed that I really wasn't a knockout.

Well, let's let the folks judge for that judge for themselves.

Here we are, 90.

This is your senior class picture?

Yeah, this is there, here?

Like, to that?

That was not a week before.

What's the deal on this guy?

Appear there.

You stay in touch with any of these people.

Wait.

Do I enjoy shop class?

I don't know.

My high school picture is the goofiest ever.

So I don't need to be casting a pretty good.

Actually.

Looked like a pretty nice group of kids.

They were great.

I get a chance to see all of them.

It's amazing because one of the kids I went to school with is the mayor now.

Severe county.

Uh huh.

Very Wade.

He was a little sweetheart.

Reactive.

Were you in the musical productions and the Glee Club in that kind of thing?

No, I was I was most popular girl in school, but for the reason I never was a cheerleader.

I never really got voted for anything.

I wore a lot of makeup.

I will.

Real tight clothes.

And I wore my hair.

Oh, no.

Mile high.

That was a Well, those don't sound like the wrong reasons.

Like right.

Reasons that really trash that a lot of the girls were whole.

No.

I see a Wigan Wigan names.

Really drunk was it wasn't Susan.

What about Mary Helen Simms?

Yeah.

Get over there in the booth.

All right, friend.

Duty.

Okay.

Did you find her in this?

She's actually back here in the green room now.

In fact, she was trying to call you bid on that jewelry for me.

Hey, All right.

While you're looking at him.

We have, Ah, mountains.

Klingons Dome is 6600 feet.

That's the highest big I can't find fresh guess she dropped out of school way Have Maxine Parton and catchy partner.

There really were some great kids getting back to what we're talking about.

I was pretty A lot of people thought I was a bad influence on their daughters because I told I told Joe to know where a lot of makeup and actually, I was pretty good.

I just had a real outgoing personality.

Some, you know, some of the girls I was hanging around with, we're really doing it.

And I was getting all ready for Could it have been Dorothy Hodge?

No.

Now, you I don't know how they're gonna feel.

They'll be proud.

I think that would be some apologies tomorrow.

Listen, it's always great to see you, and you're just terrific.

I'm really finding Well, thank you very much.

Thanks for coming by.

Yeah, you're welcome.

Right back.