A Word on Words; 2615; Ricky Friedman
- Transcript
building in the region dawn johnsen in the once again welcome to word on words kinky friedman is back with road kill welcome wait welcome thank you for i had a great time well i don't believe that red roadkill roadkill is some book i play it and nobody has unwritten fact and fiction about willie nelson with moerke like it and more you really knew that was just talking of a duo that willy's harmonica player mickey raphael you remember a long time about nineteen seventy three of life remember making him at cities go over from william way one issue to go it has to go away when i never
says with the well yes and i rely on its databases and that nobody's what they appear to be you can't tell whether you know i mean i think stephen crane says that the battle is not with a world with yourself and we're such a europe eyes and texan a mystery in such a gentle ruthlessness keeps him going that transcends country music and it's why user i think important days in people's hearts and i saw a show in honolulu couple months ago and the rain they're really anna mark chesnutt and marty stuart mr chesnutt don't know a thing about him i never met the man but it's sounding to me just like all the other guys you know and he's the fans like him you know and they're selling lotta records but basically these guys today i mean i would rather see george jones not show up in a sumatran is a national cowboy what you call cowboy hat natasha lomas and willie willie was just done he
was magic and then he signed autographs in the rain which is and where he does it and build back and now he's you know is not forgotten american farmer and now let's eat smoked a joint the size of a large closures along the user is it or i mean you have been involved in a double o's political blows as well this is about this is a book a desolate them that their euro my viewing audience not your reading from your reading public understands a kinky friedman is a sometimes country music in atlanta more all from fictional criminal investigator and then there's a book on witch in which lana willie <unk> college on a telephone says come on tv and you go along and willie's gotten the problem and uk to figure out why with the aid himself and his own everybody around and can't figure out
why willie and phil leaned been gave found out in a good shot and children just neil paine found out just building becomes a road kill them lead a push to johnny rodrigues downstairs is israel's ofer twelve step program that gives hope that desert there's a very there's a very fine line apparently thin line between a fiction or nonfiction and you walked over its writer with jordana but yeah i would doubt that theres a lot of truth in this book and most of that is intuitive as just one travel and willie just things i think you would know it watching a concert i mean he was just majestic on this show us on why he was just magical and nine relief you see something about the goddesses to disagree now it is a fact that you had been on the bus with back when you were doing a
magazine articles for that yeah i've known women in the game like a nose or another governor in a dead one piece for rolling stone permanent willie months or right and but it never crossed my desk to work to try to write about and really until about two years ago and i'm and then i thought we'd do weed weed see what happened at the trial that he thought it was ok let's let's do it and i immediately sense that the only aspect of his life the iphone store the finely dollars is great obsession with golf the sport of golf get a job i told him only to have balls ever have desert there's one in there that's a little rougher than that about a lady will pass on now but but the skies were other listeners know it has there is there are colliding christofferson very yeah but there is no explicit sex in this book do you get the acknowledgements
that's right fifty a ha ha i'm your son i'm a monopoly of a postal and that's a very very insightful observation that no one is made in hundreds of interviews of the reason is because every interviewer i've done has been so self absorbed he's ever showed bob costas was about the new york i was going to have a nervous breakdown that there was a limo they're the sons a blankie i was a rather fragile state trooper time and it was just when the book sort of starting out macabre crew of between cases as sherlock holmes i'm so sorry that i got there in a producer's big friends big fan of monitor gets another look into bob costas as lidded blue eyes interviews is going a career in a few hours for the olympics and you think about that you just could see transparent through the air and i kept i want to say what i said to the torpedo that our iras a certain
what what i call a literary echoes a repetition repetitive theme around of interest and running van gogh and some of his sexual acts in a hospital and no they decided not to run that their show the bob costas show and that that wasn't a weapon as to how we were discussing that most talk show people or people do interviews were so self absorbed and now that they are you know to read the book to watch american tv he's got it all locked the little compartment all of it funny cowboy but most recently seen a good read for things and and yet you're not like to talk with her just briefly about alan dershowitz well you sailors who has gotten just briefly in the book well it is in the book a little bit one line which is the pie chart of alberta with some kind of data about ellen beckwith well hugh martin writing nothing jews are very
different people but to apply for lovers which is that not only is the land is all lining up a nurse watches the pioneers a ninety eight percent larry king live show we'll hear now and i was a creditor that was my friend john callahan who's an artist and a strong response to the welder there should tackle its credit were cronies do right now or we discuss internally in the real story was i not to run with is a very humorous about them aside from the captain midnight says which is you can't put with a broken heart and seven letters ruler rely care about golf while they cared a lot about and you can tell i tell you tried a long tail up until about willie willie lives in the back of the bus and he is very
much about the state of that if if willie about rosa parks are never would've been a civil rights movement has he only leave to go on stage of course and i asked what would happen if you're so obsessed with golf if you rented oj was also obsessed with what is about to happen someday one and only comes up that uses a well it was said of course which examines what i now that they own the methane really is re think the answer the question though really what's wrong with one why is we're not the way he was in everybody's worried about then you mean i guess someone's politically correct would say that it might have been the result of floodgates and accidently driving the bus into a native american and taking his
life u city t bone an indian your way to your opponent by one they apparently it in fictional is upset about recent gang get off of mud and his morose about them about everybody now wants everyone to get real deep which and this is this is really want to we put most of our viewing audience into a calm unbiased a winter long run to sign on that's like an allegorical thing i think there is something that is troubling really as all great men are troubled by something you know and i think he's one of the original and he's a great spirit and great voice and this is a dying breed and now there are some that we don't pick up if we interviewed him or if we see a cancer that must bother him the owners of being willie nelson i saw a new worker's incredible he came to new york to have failed to promote rojo and
we did vicki lawrence show which was immediately counselor for women today on the show which was a nightmare i was and i were a german government isn't it was ugly most people in the area i saw almost reports on actually that was pretty funny you know it's funny but the really discover what marley perplexed amanda bonner arguing about mother teresa and princes than almost the show amity and willie did his little joke about illnesses last words with we're a corn corn and company but also about the very funny that i was funny and i am and amazon books and so afterwards as willie johnson was very courageous selfless gesture come in you're just help me promote the book would you mind doing a few more cities with this and he said fine another sucker i saw it i went out to him we called dwight yoakam in la and asked him if he would do his side will have done a really nice insurance similar
to what we've said is ok to be the sucker for la and so we did a big signing with the white and la and now the white is a guy who are not well is it i mean this is unfair but dwight is a really i think a guy who was in touch with all time country music year and in this day when no johnny cash and know wayland jennings i think of both really under the weather or not feeling well now well i think i think these are real important people they're a very many of them around there are on the cash was a hero of mine is as a kid and whalen is the great spirit whole life and it is a real important people in contrast to what's happening in country music today and in america today you know the kind of lives these guys have led i find it just very very startling as in the report of the
good there's a gold row like roger miller liked it all i know whether these guys to get to where they are to be who they are to be willie nelson it is a very very heavy thing that they and not willing is on trial with it in a lighthearted way to go you really have a situation or may know he i see him as a kindler to martin luther king maybe or gandy you probably say gandhi but since i have been to south africa i say again the counselor and that's really were getting started because of he was not some of the stuff you're a lawyer you know we are down south where native dress and we put in they started dressing as a woman nobody started at
about what a daughter amara over a little bit well you very well know not all right about that character brosseau but i'm fascinated by little wheeze woodward case <unk> jonbenet and things like that i don't think the world is well some people some people don't and they don't well as a city of haves and i knew i was thirty you know indirectly from fidel castro always offer my disclaimer that i'm not supporting our economy on martin there feel that there's a scene on border security and it's interesting because this guy's only guy who had a country he was kicked out of the country that was named after him and this is some work i think to johnny cash in nashville oh man especially a lot to do with national with a white is one of could get a record deal in this town and in some years back to go to california or someplace and he got a new book out he writes a little bit about a little bit about that event he's not as you know an innocent ones elders we're
we are foreign that's right but what he does and he does you know unfortunately you know just just as the book just didn't look into just as it again or promote gun parkinson's a bit of the shudders in it and so i as attorney for were marginal poor we have just the same again the real truth the real at a real loss and you know when you're right away and die william suffer since rejection of your estate and that will is on the road now a close though illegally taken a lead industry not interested in in in public and now an artist in music in an honest and people and it says we're in search of country music today really has transcended country music totally also struggling mr chesnutt show out there that couldn't i was taught in a mickey raphael again he was just i was on stage i didn't know it was them songs also
acknowledge a retirement none of the people and i mean a poker violation of guards is one that i refer to as the anti hacking and that would lead to but the songs are also gotten his education these are not bases can imagine singing the song she ran to the yemen and they're just an endorsement deal of nothing and nobody got willie finally song so out of time in a place like stardust or something for these young kids men and having them go over townes van zandt the covered townsend counselor three hundred victims and first on the daily was three months ago and was in the willie sutton and also realize a poncho lefty as that and all of their allies say moo a kind and so i suppose that's the same ending elton john has a month
of song and that is very low as you know as long as your ability to play yeah but i wanted one quick point there isn't there were from well a second growing worry about facial hair is that during the abdication minor helen is that i had a song called home or records which show but anyway in nineteen seventy four with panama red and i what now discovered has is the same alley one of ag breaky heart exactly ok and i'd told actually invalid it's the same damn song is i don't ever stole and i think some unconscious person heard is the writer of a commercial colorado's that enrolled at reggae are absolutely it's the same melody and i could do one of those early george harrison my sweet lord how a lawsuit and then i started thinking about what we do with my life and what
he did with my lai was he sold that damn song for a hundred dollars along with family bible for that even less active and up i mean his name was taken off the song understand sold outright light of the songs we recorded now over a hundred times it's worth millions and millions who knows as william there were attempted to get this money doesn't go back you know i mean most people are hard fouls the warriors and spent her whole life looking backward to how they screwed up so nightline related to this day does not admit it as a mistake he says i needed groceries for the kids and he thinks it was good news and he says it also taught him sometimes one everybody was it was a freak he could write a number one hit song when he was roger miller curator ana the senate approved that he could do that he could write another one song he's going to write another one after that the dead and a bunch of curated and now he says he has never would have never thought of him as a severe as well you know that is
classic classic know for nothing that says amtrak's lady agnes this a try on the low one is about what is about texas that makes you spent on to germany or on about texas i rarely occasionally a fiery gently place that caused me to come you know what you're really only ever imagined i know you got that trailer out there in that field where those imaginary was in a law go away mr morris to know why an australian military abut taxes on a wide open spaces between peoples years you know they're in which case becomes a creative idea a word no more active so yeah one of the song for you know federal level and a lot of dandy in the book is something like the name even jesus like little bacon to know yeah there are
going out of his career or greater this is a we have a project coming out called the pearls in the snow and it's a cd of old katie's songs re cut by great artists of today and we've already recorded it on dylan and it features a willie nelson singing right of jubilant which is remarkable says police guy clark singing wild man from borneo and white singing rapid city south dakota it's what we're going to do and dumber mcalinden leroy pernell and know that jesus' love brothers and asleep at the wheel and when bob dylan committed to do so the marketing and the big prawn we're having is marty stuart and now the problem is most eagerly we have no one on this record there's a gay men's choir and so we have a report katie lange to do your job it gets an
element of arms in the air she surpassed so rarely have a tumble glaser may be doing there and and joni mitchell as expressed interest of the work has been so this will be adjudicated your records go with you know to get to do it i don't know what the area that first word itself doesn't know visitors into the show i don't know if there were wondering where it usually a memo from itself there but their sprees by casey jones says that was a woman international which gives a wolf and an important project that should be ready for more awareness this audit is the first pro choice country saw ugly and possibly only and dwight jones record a great version of themselves out of america's with this is it this is where the conditions that reform is a report from the roger miller
wrote and swings were like an angel just write it dc and how laughter just the snow fall before he said his friends were to add is always dude than me solar
cities it also set off the couch at all have a way to slow so thank
you that's true that's a terrific a terrific prose welcome her lifestyle and it's going to be on an interactive does this mean you are moving away from literature and back to music we are pre wall books are routed well they are indeed around the world a veteran for boys as is and fifty languages and i guess they're bringing that australia city you'll sing the songs that made him infamous and read from the book somebody respectable law and they don't have to follow these books and make him respectable ha ha i should say that though that the you know they're there isn't and this is a book about about the incident about willie so but it's also the day
the funny part with a happy ending i mean they are the kinks to once again solve the crime and the dirty dog gets caught and have to pay the price and i think that your friends and you've got i think it got a call that i think of the kinks to go and build up around the country of them during an idiom to injured i'm a jewelry i'm of a series so as billy joe shaver says that no we take seriously maybe but i really want to write like oscar wilde behind bars you know i mean i i really i'm not interested in in the bestseller nominee watcher they're your grave we get pretty much aware
that we show this last time and again elected i mean you really do with it oh look you've got all the others in a book that will be out next year term cold blast from the past and at the lesbian dance class in a loft above near the ceiling collapses on my head and says we back twenty years to read serves a skin marked couch and to my first washington not so now you're right you're right and it's a lie my first case as before the captain and started to women is a big company out tickets on the street and run bomber detective is a rabbinical school and i'm abbie hoffman is a liar no
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- Series
- A Word on Words
- Episode Number
- 2615
- Episode
- Ricky Friedman
- Producing Organization
- Nashville Public Television
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- Nashville Public Television (Nashville, Tennessee)
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- Awow-The Christmas Note 27:46 P2616 Cut 2 Upstairs Basement
- Date
- 1997-11-04
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- Talk Show
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- Literature
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- Duration
- 00:27:52
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- Chicago: “A Word on Words; 2615; Ricky Friedman,” 1997-11-04, Nashville Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 5, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-524-j38kd1rm4q.
- MLA: “A Word on Words; 2615; Ricky Friedman.” 1997-11-04. Nashville Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 5, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-524-j38kd1rm4q>.
- APA: A Word on Words; 2615; Ricky Friedman. Boston, MA: Nashville Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-524-j38kd1rm4q