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“If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.”
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”
And then there’s our personal favorite:
“I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb, and I’m not blonde either.”
There really is nobody quite like Dolly Parton.
This week on Married to Radio, we’re celebrating the songs, the stories, the rhinestones, the one-liners and, most importantly, the heart behind one of the most beloved people in music.
Lois also takes us back to December 2004, when she got to see Dolly herself at Dodge Theatre in downtown Phoenix. More than 20 years later, the details may be a little fuzzy, but the memory of seeing that unmistakable voice, personality and presence in person certainly isn’t.
We go all the way back to Dolly’s childhood in the mountains of East Tennessee, one of 12 children growing up with very little except a whole lot of love, music and imagination. We talk about her father and how his inability to read and write would eventually help inspire Dolly’s Imagination Library, which has now put more than 300 million books into the hands of children around the world.
Through the songwriting and some of the incredible numbers attached to a career that has spanned more than six decades - including Grammys, milestones and the almost unbelievable list of accomplishments that come with the name Dolly Parton - we kept coming back to something that really can’t be measured.
How she makes people feel.
Story after story about Dolly seems to end the same way. People talk about her kindness. Her generosity. Her humor. How she remembers people. How she treats them. How she makes someone feel important whether there are 20,000 people in the room or just two.
For someone with so many songs, awards, records and accolades attached to her name, maybe Dolly Parton’s greatest legacy has nothing to do with any of them.
Maybe it’s simply this:
People feel better for having crossed her path.
Dolly the icon, yes, but even more, Dolly the human being.
And if that isn’t something worth aspiring to, we don’t know what is.
Come hang out with Lois & Jeremiah for 27 minutes of Dolly Parton stories, music memories, laughs and a whole lotta love for a woman who has spent a lifetime reminding us that sometimes you need a little rain to get the rainbow.
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Oh hello gorgeous.
SPEAKER_03Hello, handsome. We are number eight.
SPEAKER_00Yes, week number eight. And uh this week's gonna be a little bit different. You use the word circumvent. I don't know if that's the yeah.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Circumvent whatever programming we have, which was not we had programming.
SPEAKER_00It's delayed though. Okay. On purpose for a real reason, but fits well that we're gonna talk about Dolly Parton.
SPEAKER_03The one, the only, the legendary. I think like the last human that everybody can agree on. One of the last humans that everyone can agree on that we all love Dolly.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Jelly Roll said as he was hosting Jimmy Kimmel that she was the last or the only Christian that everyone liked.
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SPEAKER_03I remember feeling that way about Betty White too. I feel like when we lost Betty White, it was the same sort of like everybody was in on this. And I was thinking of other people that like I pray that we don't hear about anytime. I had to check on Willie Nelson because he's 93. And I mean, I'm every every time there's a news alert, I'm like, don't let it be Willie. Um, other icons, Julie Andrews. Please don't take Julie, um, Cher, Reba. I mean, there are just so many. Morgan Freeman. Like, there are just some of these absolute greats. And man, but to hear Dolly in only 80. And we knew something was going on health-wise, because she kept having shows and she had a residency set up for Vegas, canceled it, rescheduled it, and then had to postpone it again. And then I didn't, I don't think any of us knew that she was battling cancer, and that's where she ended up passing away was in Vanderbilt, Nashville, surrounded by family. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I did not read that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And I know that she she did really well at communicating, uh, postponing that she wasn't doing 100%, but she still looked amazing, looked like she was doing great. Uh, I remember I was at work and I saw it come through Apple News.
SPEAKER_01Oh.
SPEAKER_00And so I sent you a text right away. Because it's one of those that it hits you. You're like, oh man.
SPEAKER_03I was, I think I had to have been in the shower because I get out and whatever I was doing, if it wasn't the shower, I had like 12 texts and it was just like, no, not Dolly. Oh no, Dolly, no, not Dolly. And then I was like, what? And looked and just, yeah, I saw the alerts and oh, and then I'm I immediately I thought of Carly Pierce. She was the first person that I thought of because you know, uh, Dolly surprised her once. She thought she was like doing a a video shoot for something else. And then Dolly told her that she was gonna get to go to the Opry, I think is what it was, to become a member of the Granville Opry. You know, Carly has played Dollywood so many times and in her career. And so I was thinking about her, I was thinking about Lainey, I was thinking about Kaylee Hammock, who sounds so much like Dolly. Just so many people that she has influenced, but her influence goes so much further than just music. And so we thought maybe we could just talk about Dolly today, share some stories, share some memories. Did you ever get to see Dolly live?
SPEAKER_00Never got to see her live. Uh, always thought she was one of the, especially when she was younger, most beautiful women I've ever seen. Just so gorgeous. And I she stood out to me. I really loved Dolly because of uh her relationship with Kenny Rogers. Growing up, I was a big Kenny Rogers fan. I was in the Kenny Rogers fan club.
SPEAKER_03Oh, you really were? Like the paid fan club?
SPEAKER_00I I believe so. It could have just been a lie from mom because she showed me a letter when I was a kid.
SPEAKER_03You probably were.
SPEAKER_00And um, and then in my mind, I was also the president.
SPEAKER_02Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00So I I probably made some things up, but uh that stood out, Kenny Rogers. And so Islands in the Stream. Uh, it was always a song that I loved. It was a song that I would use to hit on women to say, Hey, you want to sing a song in karaoke? Uh, I didn't learn my lesson the first time I did it, I did try and sing it, and that is not easy.
SPEAKER_03It's not easy, and it's a really long song. It's like I think it's over four minutes.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it never panned out for me using that, but I still tried.
SPEAKER_03I will say this past week, as we've been reminiscing about Dolly, seeing all of the pictures, you definitely had have, had have, continue to have a crush on Dolly, and it's adorable watching you. I think you have a thing for dimples. I don't have dimples. I'm sorry that I'm letting you down in that department.
SPEAKER_02I think you're pretty dang gorgeous.
SPEAKER_03Thank you. I did get a chance to see Dolly, and I almost didn't believe myself, so I had to go fact check my own self because I was like, is this possible? Did this happen?
SPEAKER_00When?
SPEAKER_03This was in 2004.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03I was working at KIX. I was on the radio at KIX, and it was before what is now Arizona Financial Theater, which was before that Arizona Federal Theater, before that, Comerica. Before that, it was originally Dodge Theater. It was when it first opened, and it was Dodge Theater, one of my favorite places to see a show. The acoustics are so good. And it was December 8th. And I remember it being so close to my birthday, and I got to go. I thought I took my mom, but she doesn't remember going with me. So I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_00I feel like that's a pretty memorable experience. Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_03I I remember that she got right to the hits, which I thought was really, really cool. I mean, I think Jolene was like the second or third song, which I thought was really, really cool. And it was almost as if the show was separated into two parts because I remember it being like the more nine to five and Jolene and everything at the beginning. And then near the end, it was like the more emotional songs and the Smoky Mountain songs and like um coat of many colors. And of course, she had a ton of outfit changes and she did the nails and you know, told the story about using the nails in nine to five. But I just was enamored. I remember just being enamored like the entire time. But yeah, December 8th, 2004 at Dodge Theater, and just uh, I I actually looked it up a little bit. Um, she played the same place, it had changed name to Camerica by then, uh, January 28th, 2014. And that was her last Phoenix concert. Oh, 2014 was her last Phoenix concert. Now she played years earlier at many of the great venues here, but not that many times, only a handful of times that she played. She played celebrity theater. She played on the Porter Wagoner show way back in 1968 when it was Phoenix Giants Stadium. Um, and then she played the old Sundome in Sun City West. Oh wow, things I didn't know about. So I was just looking those things up with I thought was really cool.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, um Dolly and where she's been, what she's played, what she's done, uh pretty incredible. The talking about that makes me think the fact that she has a truck stop. It's crazy.
SPEAKER_02She has a truck stop?
SPEAKER_00She has a truck stop.
SPEAKER_02What?
SPEAKER_00Like what do you mean in Nashville? Like it's Dolly's truck stop.
SPEAKER_03Really?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And she's about to open up a hotel, uh-huh. Um, which I think is really cool. One of my Instagram friends who's friends with in real life, Edward, he just got a job there and he was so excited. And I mean, is still so excited, but I can't wait to go visit that next time we're in Nashville because the colors, and you know it's just gonna be over the top.
SPEAKER_00At some point, we have to, and I think I saw signs or like the billboard, the um facade, the face of it going up uh on social media this week. But at some point, we have to do Dollywood. Yeah, because you haven't, right? No, no, neither have I.
SPEAKER_03Maybe we invite Carly Pearson, she could take us and show us around.
SPEAKER_00That would be amazing.
SPEAKER_03We have some stories that maybe you haven't seen or heard this week, but then also Jeremiah found a list of quotes that he really, really loved. Um, start with one.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, there's there's two here that kind of are the same thought. Um, but it uh the first one storms make trees take deeper roots. The junk that you go through life makes you dig down deep. Uh you have to. And the more you dig down deep, the more foundation you have, the sturdy, the sturdier you become. The second one, like that, the way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. We had some rain today.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we did.
SPEAKER_00I did not see a rainbow. No, but uh the idea again is sometimes things don't go your way in life, but they will. It'll turn around.
SPEAKER_03I don't know, and like I've never seen Belly Parton in a bad mood. Like, I know that celebrities are going to shield us from those things. But you see people cranky, you see people in pictures, you see things, you hear things. I mean, never ever. It just dawned on me just now because look, it's something we talk about in our relationship, in our marriage. Like, you see me when I have hit the end of my energy bank, and I call it my control alt-delete moment where I just and you are one of the only people to see that. Yeah. So I'm sure that her husband, Carl, and her family got to see those things. But it's like every time I saw her smiling, laughing, jovial, giggling, joking, and she was always in on the joke. And that was something that was like my favorite thing about Dolly. I saw that Barbara Walters interview floating around. Like, why do you have to do that? Why do you have to have the big hair? And why do you have to have the big bosom? And why? And Dolly was like, Because I want to.
SPEAKER_00No, yeah. I want to be that kind of person too, that no one sees the the down part of me or the frustrated part of me. And uh even this week, I'm I'm sure others have seen that in me. But I I aspire to being that and understanding these quotes, like, hey, the storms will come, the rain will fall, but there is a rainbow, there will be a better day. Um, another quote I like, not from her, but I can have a bad moment, I can even have a bad hour, but I will not have a bad day because life is too good. There are too many things to remind me that everything's gonna be all right.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I think you're you definitely do a really good job of that. You really do a great job of recovering and you help me with that, especially because I do suffer from anxiety and I'm a panic girl, and you really try to work me out of that. And sometimes you're more successful than others, but I do appreciate you trying to help me with that, you know.
SPEAKER_00Pretty good. You do pretty good receiving and being encouraging, and I don't always do a great job. Even lately, I've seen that um I'm not as patient, and that's something again, I think that comes from these thought processes that uh we can slow down, calm down a little bit. Everything's gonna be okay because uh next year I turn 50. And if I were to live the life that Dolly lived, that means I have 30 more years to spread the joy. You don't want me to live that way.
SPEAKER_03We want much more, we wanted much more with Dolly, too. But 30 years, like man, when you really think about it, time is so precious and it is so short and it is so fleeting. And I mean, it's why my mom is like, be careful and be careful everywhere you go, be careful what you're doing, and we taking better care of ourselves, getting back into routines, all of those things matter because man, I mean, 80 is young.
SPEAKER_00Well, whatever you're going through, another saying that's not Dolly, uh, don't waste the pain. Uh let that rain come. Uh, weather the storm, grow through what you're going through.
SPEAKER_03Dolly, we talked about her appearance. The reason she loved that appearance is uh in her hometown, she would see the town tramp and she would have the How do you get that title?
SPEAKER_00I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Dolly said maybe she wasn't actually a tramp at all. No way to know. But she would have the bleached hair and the lipstick and the heels and tight clothes, and Dolly just thought that was so beautiful. And so she thought, well, that is just how I want to be. I want to stand out. And and that was one of the things she said in that Barbara interview. It was like, because deep down she knows how real she is. And I just love that dichotomy. Like, wow, five-dollar word there for you. But I just love the difference of putting out your appearance the way you want versus who you are on the inside. Some things that I found out that I didn't necessarily know. She appeared at the Granville Opry, introduced by Johnny Cash at 13 years old. No way. 13 years old. Johnny Cash introduced her at the Granville Opry, and I thought that was really, really cool. Uh, back in 1989, she was hosting Saturday Night Live, and she reportedly gave the writers, and you will love this, two real boundaries. Don't make her curse and don't make fun of Jesus. All right. Those were her two boundaries, and I thought that was just like so cool. I've never heard her cuss. I mean, she's definitely cheeky for sure, but how interesting, right?
SPEAKER_00Wow. I uh won't tolerate making fun of Jesus either, but I do like to cuss every now and then.
SPEAKER_03The coolest thing how we said earlier though about Dolly was about like she was in on the joke, whether it was the blonde jokes or the boob jokes or just anything like the little mischievous look that she always had in her eye, like that was my favorite. Yeah, you have you have a quote that goes along with that, don't you?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb. And I know that I'm not blonde either. So it doesn't pertain to her. I love that confidence.
SPEAKER_03I really am purple though.
SPEAKER_00There are no dumb purple hairs, there are no dumb purple jais.
SPEAKER_03Uh Jolene, the story about Jolene. Do you know the story about Jolene?
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_03So it's basically about two women Frankenstein together. It was two different stories. So the name came from a beautiful little red-headed girl named Jolene who asked Dolly for her autograph. But the story came from a redheaded bank teller who was paying a little too much attention to Dolly's husband, Carl Dean.
SPEAKER_01Oh wow.
SPEAKER_03Dolly's own joke about it was essentially that Carl was visiting the bank more often than their bank balance justified. So hence the song Jolene. And I was noticing this week um multiple country radio stations, and probably not just country, because she was such an icon, period. Um, but I think it was like six or seven or eight of her songs actually ended up charting this week because they got played so much from Jolene to Of course I will always love you to nine to five. Um, but there were multiple songs that charted. And I thought that that was really, really cool that people radio is alive and is real and is timely. And people jumped right on that because for somebody like Dolly, that's why you go to radio. That's what you want to hear. That's what pre-recorded can't do. And it's different. Could you pull up Dolly on whatever playlist you use? Yes, but it's like the connection of your favorite DJ, your favorite radio host, your best friend on the air that's like sad with you and remembering with you. And that is like, I'm getting emotional thinking of that because I've been missing doing that.
SPEAKER_00And like yeah, soon enough, dear. Uh, I did listen this week. I think it was Katie Neal. Yeah, uh, did a couple days of just because she recently spent time with Dolly. And then can you imagine sitting in a room with Dolly for a little bit of time? Like I saw Post Malone, um, there's some others, and uh that was a great video as well. I mean, because he was just so respectful and and she was just in awe of him and not judgmental. See, that's a that's a great example of not two people you really put in a room, maybe more so now because of his country album and so forth, but when two people who you don't think would be in a room together are in a room together and there's so much chemistry and it just feels good. Yeah, I'd love to be in that room.
SPEAKER_03I think that would have been so cool. And I bet you I would love to know if Post Malone has a poster of Dolly Parton when she wore that cowboy's getup. Remember when she performed and she was wearing the cowboy cheerleader's uniform and like the cutest thing ever? Oh my gosh. Oh yeah, there she is right there. She is too cute. I cannot with her. Oh my gosh. I just love all her style and all her wigs just so much. Um, this is one of my favorite quotes. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I feel like that was so good because there are times that I forget who I am. Uh, either because of responsibility or pressure or situations, and I just forget who I am, the strength that I have, uh lose my confidence then. Uh so what a great reminder. Do it on purpose. Find out who you are and do it on purpose. I think a lot of that goes along too with career and um just what you do in your life. Uh, because if we don't, you'll you'll hit nothing every time. Uh I mess that quote up.
SPEAKER_02It's okay. I know what you were trying to do. Too many quotes today. Take the shot. If you don't take the shot, you're gonna miss every target.
SPEAKER_00You miss the target every time for every shot you don't take. There we go. Holly.
SPEAKER_03Uh, one of her most iconic songs, and how crazy that there are multiple. We talked about Jolene on the same album. I think it was in 1974. The same album comes out, I Will Always Love You.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And there's a crazy story about this song, which I don't even know if you know, I Will Always Love You, not originally a romantic breakup song. She actually wrote it to Porter Wagoner. And I think most people do know this part when she was leaving the show, she was leaving their professional partnership, she brought it to him, she sang it, and he cried. And that was beautiful. But what really makes the song special is I think it was her greatest business decision ever because Elvis really wanted to record the song. Yep. And uh she was thrilled, pumped, pumped.
SPEAKER_00But then she was so excited, they were prepared to go, she was on her way, or getting ready the next day to go uh meet with Elvis and have him sing it.
SPEAKER_03She was so excited to hear the king, not back then, but the king sing her song, and then Colonel Tom Parker wanted to keep the proceeds, the publishing, the publishing, yeah, part of the publishing. Yeah. And she said, Can you imagine saying no to Elvis? I mean, she wasn't saying no to Elvis, she was saying no to his manager, and man, in watching all the Elvis movies, like, oh bad managers are the worst. And that is something that, man, if like a new artist, it is so important to vet your manager. It is so important to get in with the right crowd because I mean, Elvis, his talent could have been so much bigger, so much greater.
SPEAKER_00He was world tour for him. No, no world tour, just stuck in Vegas. Oh my gosh, yeah. And just just a sad story. There are a lot of great managers out there, and we've had the privilege of meeting a lot of them. Good, good people out there that can use their skill set to help talent like that go a long way. But good on Dolly for saying, nah.
SPEAKER_03I would have loved to hear Elvis' version, but maybe the greatest, one of the greatest songs of all time, Whitney Houston singing it with the voice that she has. Like I love Dolly's version, of course. It's the OG. Yeah, she's the writer, it's beautiful, the way that she almost storytells it while she sings it. But when Whitney sings it, and then yeah, Dolly kept all of the publishing, so got all of the proceeds on that, which I mean, what a businesswoman.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And yeah, 1974 on the same album, Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same album. Like that's talent.
SPEAKER_00What's the stat on how many songs that she's written?
SPEAKER_03Oh gosh, I didn't look it up.
SPEAKER_00I feel, and I could be wrong, and someone can tell us, but I feel like it was over 3,000.
SPEAKER_03Oh, really? I bet that's because I think I think she and Willie were in that same boat where they were having like a lot of songs, and Willie had the same thing where he would have songs and like some of them he would he gave because he had like no money and he just needed to like give up a song at the time, which I'm so glad that she protected her assets the way that she had her assets.
SPEAKER_01Dolly.
SPEAKER_03Um, Coat of Many Colors, a favorite song for so many. Um, the program that we got Gus named after that, Coats of Many Colors, a play on uh the coat of the dog, but not mythology. Dolly was one of 12 kids. They grew up really, really poor, and her mom really did pull together fabric and stitch it together, quilt it together to make her a coat of many colors. And she would wear it to school and the kids would make fun of her and she got bullied for it, and she was so proud of her jacket. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, what a proud individual. She definitely stayed true to that quote of find out who you are and do it on purpose.
SPEAKER_03She formed her own publishing company in 1967. She protected her copyright, she built Dollywood, she built her publishing catalog, she expanded into film, television, books, merchandise, tourism. And in Nashville, a lot of the time it's uh it's a male controlled business. And how cool that she not only did that, but then showed other women. And I think that's why you see the Carly's and the Cayleys and the Laney's just like so in awe of. And so the Brandy Carlisle I saw was just absolutely gutted. I mean, everybody in Nashville gutted for the loss of Dolly, but it was the like the Barbie doll presentation with the business brain that was just so fascinating.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, not a pushover at all. Definitely a leader in business. And uh, and then also um giving.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Donating. I'm sure you'll get to that a little bit.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I do want to talk about the donating because she uh founded the Imagination Library, and these numbers are so crazy, but people might not know why she wanted to get books into the hands of kids. Yes. Her dad, her dad, Robert Lee Parton, he couldn't read or write. He was unable to read or write. And so Dolly has repeatedly said that his struggles with literacy inspired her to create the Imagination Library that happened in 1995. Not just for children here, it expanded across five countries. This number is crazy. I knew it had done, she had done a lot. Just by the end of last year, the Imagination Library has gifted 304 plus million books. Over 300 million books in 2025 alone, 40 million books. That's roughly one book every 0.78 seconds. Like if you think of that, like we're breathing book, book. Like I just think that is so cool. And it all started because her dad couldn't read or write. And then she decided to do that. Like the philanthropy is impressive too.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That's the word I was trying to come up with. Philanthropy. I couldn't think of it because then I would have butchered it. Philanthropy. Philanthropy.
SPEAKER_03The nine to five with the nails. I mean, so cool. I have shorty nails. My my nail go, she called them chiclets. This week I got chiclets, but they're cute at least. But I just I love that Dolly was always like inventing and coming up with different ways of doing things. But those acrylic nails made such an iconic, and she would do that in concert and put the mic, you know, near it. Um, and told the story on top TV, you know, late night TV talk shows and stuff like that, too, which was very cool.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. She gave a ton of money. Uh speaking of inventions, she gave a ton of money uh for COVID vaccine. Like that that really started.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I the the magic is inside you. There ain't no crystal ball.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Hard work pays off, and you gotta do it. I'm trying to find we asked for, we asked for people to share with us their thoughts about Dolly, and and we got a bunch, most of things that we have already covered, but specifically one of our really close friends, Levi, who we love so much, he says, Dolly showed up consistently and authentically. She spent her whole life showing us how to love out loud. She was unconditional love. And for a lot of us, and Levi, especially for you, you are enough exactly as you are. And we didn't get that from people that we were supposed to give that to us. And so Levi says definitely every memory had made him tear up with Dolly partner and Kenny Rogers specifically. Um, just the partnership that they had. I know I moved away from your awesome quotes.
SPEAKER_00No, no. I I was just looking at the picture of Kenny and Dolly and wanted to go back to showing us how to love out loud. I mean, there's so much we talk about it all the time. There's enough hate and indifference. Um, indifference might be worse than hate. Um, but caring for people as a human being doesn't cost you anything. You can be kind, you can uh smile at someone and change their day, you can give someone water, literally. Uh scripture talks about that. Uh just giving someone water that is in need of that. Find out who you are and do it on purpose because who you are matters. If Dolly wouldn't have done those things or didn't have purpose in the books because of her dad, uh, where would others be?
SPEAKER_03And I thought it was the most interesting thing to me over the past days after losing Dolly, it wasn't about how many songs she had written, how many chart toppers she had had, how many records she had sold, how many, it was less about that and more about how she made people feel.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And that is the ultimate prize.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I won't reach the millions that she has, but I hope that the hundreds or even thousands that come in contact with you and me feel better because of doing that. I want to be the kind of person that someone wants to work with, yeah, that someone wants to hang out with, yeah, that someone wants to talk to or be around because uh kindness doesn't cost you anything.
SPEAKER_03And I want to do it all on purpose. I wore Megan Moroni because I saw she did a beautiful cover this week uh at her show of I Will Always Love You, such a different voice than Dolly's, but I love how Dolly was really the voice of all of us. And we're so happy that we have a chance to highlight her today. And we will always love you, Dolly. You take us out.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Lord, thank you for individuals like Dolly who set the example of just being kind and doing something with who they are. Um, Lord, you've given us gifts. You've poured into us, you've created us for a purpose. I believe that. And so, Lord, may we not sit on our hands, but may we take those gifts that you've given us and do something with it to bless someone else. And so, Lord, I pray this week, uh, may you challenge not only Lois and I, but each of the individuals that are listening or watching this podcast to do something kind this week, not sit on their hands with the gifts and talents that you've given them. Uh, but that they would act out in your power and do great things and aspire to be like Dolly. Lord, we love you, we praise you in Jesus' name. Amen.
SPEAKER_03Amen. I love you.
SPEAKER_00I love you. What a good episode.
