Reba McEntire On Her Super Bowl Performance,

Nicknames With Her Partner Rex & More
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Reba McEntire on Rex and How She Got Her Nickname Tater Tots on Their First Date

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Drew: Now, Rex, is it true that this giant Everest of tots has something to do with Rex that maybe you and Rex have a tater tot something in your story.

Reba: Oh, yeah. We met in 91 doing the gambler movie with Kenny Rogers. He's from Texas, I'm from Oklahoma. So he moved from Spearman to Oklahoma City when he's 12. Well, I'm in the southeastern part of Oklahoma all my life until I moved to Nashville in 88. So we have that in common. We both love the western way of life. Rodeos, cowboys. I always wanted to be a world champion barrel racer. He wanted to be a cowboy team roper, but we weren't good at it.

So he goes into acting, I'm into music and so we do this movie together and then 2020 right before COVID, I'm going out to do Young Sheldon. He's on ‘Young Sheldon,’ Melissa Peterman is on ‘Young Sheldon.’ So we were all gonna go out and have dinner and Melissa says that that was our first date because I mean, I was like a magnet to Rex. I just couldn't get close enough to him. I don't know why, we had talked and communicated throughout the years, had a mutual friend and we stayed in contact. But for some reason, that night was just so special. So we had dinner and then, we went down to a wine bar and we went back in a private room and the lady comes in and says, ‘I know y'all have just eaten, but we do have some really cool appetizers.’ And we said, ‘Well, what are they?’ and she said, ‘Well, we have tater tots.’ And I said, ‘I love tater tots.’ And Rex said, ‘You know, I'm famous for giving people their nicknames and that's your nickname.’ I said ‘What?’ He said, ‘Tater tot. So later on during pandemic, I was in Oklahoma with my sister Susie and she said, ‘You know, he gave you tater tot, let's give him sugar tot.’

Drew: He's sugar tot.

Reba: So we're the tots, sugar and tater. How about that? Is that not cute? We're grown people.

Reba on Feeling a Magnet with Rex & Timing Being Everything

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Drew: It is weird when you actually get the magnet. That is a wild concept.

Reba: It was new.

Drew: I'm really glad it happened for you.

Reba: Thank you. Greatest thing ever. It was just like, why now? So I asked Rex, I've been married twice. He's been engaged four times but never married. And so I said, ‘Rex, how come you and I have known each other all this time, but we never got together.’ And he said ‘Probably because you would have killed me.’ He's a wild man. He's a 12 year old.

Drew: I don't, I don't wish my old self on anyone. But I'm excited for when the next magnet occurs. I'm literally gonna be like, you are getting like a newborn like a new human, a new version of me that's never explored a relationship. So I am excited about that and people do grow and change and I believe it because I've seen it with myself like we are capable of change.

Reba on What Singing National Anthem at Super Bowl Meant To Her

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Reba: Do you ever think that this is why you're put on earth? Do you think that there's a reason why God put you on this earth? Because you've touched so many people's lives and their hearts and you've changed people's lives.

Drew: So have you.

Reba: And you know, that is a true gift. And when I thought one time, well, I don't, I don't wanna do this, then I thought, well, if I don't do what God's given me to do, he'll give to somebody else. Well, that's my competitive coming out, you know? Oh, no, I don't want them to have it. I wanna have that experience. So, getting to sing the national anthem, 50 years after I started singing the national anthem, it's a gift of, you know, here you go now. But it's not about me. I'm out there singing, but it's not about me. It's about the song and hoping to reunite all the division that's going on in the world, in our country and hopefully that will heal hearts. And I kind of think sometimes that's why I'm on the earth. If it's to heal one heart, then great

Reba on if She Thinks You Can Work with Your Partner

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Drew: You were married for many years. And you worked with your husband Narvel and was that a fun, sexy, collaborative relationship? Was it dynamic? I've always dreamt of working with a partner. Do you think that it, it's possible to collaborate with a loved one or is it, is it enough to just collaborate in life or can you? But it depends on the circumstance.

Reba: I think it works for some people. They can be married or have a relationship and work together. Our work was all the time. Our marriage was 26 years. We started out working together in the band. He was part of the band and then became my manager later on then my husband, but it was a situation of it was always business whether we were getting ready in the morning, pillow talk, whatever, but it was business. So it worked out because we were both business minded, had a child together. Child's very ambitious, focused, very business minded.

Drew: Who I have other parenting advice, because he got into racing and because I would like to put my children in a break glass in case of emergency bubble I'd love to ask how you let that happen and go because I know I need to do the same, but to stay on track. I understand that I really love a collaborative relationship. You know, when you can talk about your dreams together and then go and make them happen.

Reba: That’s what we did….Even when we were on vacation to recharge the batteries about three days into a vacation. It was like, you know what we can do. Everything's charging back up, ready to go back on tour, ready to do another something, whatever.

Reba on Finally Being Able to Turn It Off and Take a Break

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Drew: I don't know how to turn it off.

Reba: Well, I didn't either. And this time going back to Tennessee was the first time I could say leave me alone. I wanna sit here. I'm liking what I'm doing. I wanna go out to the barn. I wanna go feed, I wanna come back here and clean out a closet. I want to cook dinner. I wanna cook breakfast.

Drew: I'm so turned on right now.

Reba on the Age She Believes Men Find Wisdom

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Drew: This has been the most profound decade of my life and that you are so self-aware of what you're wanting.

Reba: I'm 20 some years older than you are. It has taken me many years to get to this point to where now I feel a little wisdom seeking through, you know, they say men don't get that one thing where it comes over where they're 32 years old. That's when they become smart.

Drew: Really?

Reba: Yeah, that's what I heard. I kept waiting on a lot of men.

Drew: I was going to say, 32 seems very generous to some of the men I've encountered.

Reba: Very true.

Reba on Advice for Letting Children Follow Their Dreams and Almost Fainting at Her Son’s Race

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Drew: Do I let my kids go do what they wanna do. You let Shelby race and I, I just, I gotta trust.

Reba: Trust them to follow their passion. Yep. Killed me, it just killed me when Shelby ran in Daytona, he came around that corner and all I could see is my little baby's face in that helmet. I had to sit down I almost passed out. But you gotta let them follow their dreams. Mama did, Daddy's momma and daddy did. He was a world champion, cowboy.

Drew: Growing up in the rodeo, that's no joke.

Reba: No, you gotta let em do it. Just be there to catch them.