Speaker 1: This is Later with Lee Matthews. It's Lee Matthews Podcast.
Speaker 2: More of what you hear from news Radio one thousand
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Speaker 1: You've seen him in so many things, whether it's The
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Day after Tomorrow, Traffic Vantage, my favorite,
Speaker 1: The Right Stuff where he played Oklahoma's own Gordo Cooper.
Speaker 1: Dennis Quaid has just been in the studio to record
Speaker 1: a song called America I Love You Too. May have
Speaker 1: seen it on CMT's twenty twenty Concert for Love and
Speaker 1: Acceptance and it is out now. Dennis, welcome.
Speaker 2: How you doing there, Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: Love to have you back here in Oklahoma, which we'll
Speaker 1: talk about in just a minute. Did you write America
Speaker 1: I Love You Too? And what inspired it?
Speaker 2: Yes? I did. I wrote it. I was sitting around
Speaker 2: early last year that would be pre COVID and knowing
Speaker 2: there was an election year coming out, how we were
Speaker 2: sort of talking at each other rather than talking to
Speaker 2: each other. And I wrote this song America, I Love
Speaker 2: You Too. It's about unity, really, it's about coming together.
Speaker 2: I wrote it as a non partisan campaign song, if
Speaker 2: you will. I like to say that it's nonpartisan, but
Speaker 2: it's for sale.
Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that. And you had some help from
Speaker 1: Robbie Kreeger of the Doors.
Speaker 2: Yes, we did a video of it. We had a
Speaker 2: block party and right outside my house, which is a
Speaker 2: cul de sac, had set up an American flag behind
Speaker 2: a bandstand and just did a block party concert. All
Speaker 2: the neighbors came out and we had a great party
Speaker 2: back and it was fantastic.
Speaker 1: How did Robbie get involved? Did you ask him?
Speaker 2: Yes, I did, Robbie. Robbie and I've been playing together
Speaker 2: or for a couple of years now. I've become friends
Speaker 2: that you know, He's always been my hero. The first
Speaker 2: song I tried to order on the guitar when I
Speaker 2: was twelve years old was Light My Fire. But it
Speaker 2: just turns out that I have a voice that is
Speaker 2: in the same register as Jim Morrison, and so I've
Speaker 2: had the pleasure and honor of playing with him around
Speaker 2: kind of charity events. He gives a lot of He
Speaker 2: gives a lot back in the community.
Speaker 1: Robbie does Dennis Quatus with us. You know him from
Speaker 1: so many great movies and one of which we'll ask
Speaker 1: about in just a minute. But his new single out
Speaker 1: is called America I Love You Too. A live performance
Speaker 1: that is available for download and everywhere. What do you
Speaker 1: think is the primary reason we're talking at each other
Speaker 1: rather than to each other these days?
Speaker 2: Well, you know that is I think something that's been
Speaker 2: building and building as the political parties get more and
Speaker 2: more separated. Used to have used to have liberal Republicans
Speaker 2: and conservative Democrats, and now it's become so polarized that
Speaker 2: it seems like we can't agree on hardly anything because
Speaker 2: everybody's got to get in line behind the party. I
Speaker 2: myself have been an independent all my life, voted both
Speaker 2: ways or into what, uh, you know, I thought the
Speaker 2: country needed at the time. And you know, I think people.
Speaker 2: It's not people. But in general, it's become too much
Speaker 2: about political parties rather than America itself.
Speaker 1: I don't think social media helps either.
Speaker 2: I don't either. Now recently we have seen free speech
Speaker 2: h pretty much muddled because of social media, and I
Speaker 2: don't think America is going to take to that very well,
Speaker 2: no matter what political party you might you might be
Speaker 2: affiliated with.
Speaker 1: He wrote it and performs on America I Love You Too.
Speaker 1: The singles out now you might recognize Robbie Kreeger also
Speaker 1: playing with him and Dennis Quaid is with us on
Speaker 1: news radio one thousand kt Okay and am I correct.
Speaker 1: The song is available for download.
Speaker 2: Everywhere, absolutely everywhere you can get music.
Speaker 1: I used to say go down to the CD store,
Speaker 1: but we don't say that anymore. Dennis Quaid, you were
Speaker 1: here in town not long ago production of that movie
Speaker 1: that you were shooting in Guthrie.
Speaker 2: Yes, wrapped up production in Guthrie. The movie is called Reagan,
Speaker 2: and it's about the life of Ronald Reagan. And guess who.
Speaker 1: Have you got? Have you got his? Well down? Well?
Speaker 2: Well, so, uh you know, he said, well a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That was really a way to kind of a collect
Speaker 2: his thought. Let you know, he was about to come
Speaker 2: go about you.
Speaker 1: Well, I know, we had a lot of my friends
Speaker 1: and listeners who are in the theater in the theater
Speaker 1: scene apply for and become extras in that movie. And
Speaker 1: they were very excited excited about the project.
Speaker 2: Well, Oklahoma is a great place to make movies. They
Speaker 2: understand that there that it does help the economy. Uh
Speaker 2: you know, whether you're a carpenter, a painter, or you're
Speaker 2: a ranch or whatever. It's a great uh advertisement for
Speaker 2: your state for tourism and uh, you know it puts
Speaker 2: a lot of people to work, and uh, I just
Speaker 2: love My dad is from Oblahoma by the way, Oh okay,
Speaker 2: and yeah, my cousin is Geene Audrey.
Speaker 1: So when you played Gordo Cooper, who is from Shawnee,
Speaker 1: you weren't that far away from home.
Speaker 2: That's that's right. God, he was a great guy and
Speaker 2: I met him. I was in the right stuff. We're
Speaker 2: talking about the movie in Gorda Cooper, for those who
Speaker 2: don't know, was one of the first of the seven
Speaker 2: Astronauts way back there in nineteen sixties, and I grew up.
Speaker 2: He was my hero. Actually as a kid. I was
Speaker 2: in Houston, which is a city, and he was the
Speaker 2: youngest of the seven. He was like the rock and
Speaker 2: roll astronaut. I really thought that name Gorda was cool.
Speaker 2: When I got the part, which I couldn't believe I
Speaker 2: got the part. He turned out he looked three miles
Speaker 2: from me here in Los Angeles, and we became friends.
Speaker 1: Well, you had you had the right stuff for the movie.
Speaker 1: He had the right stuff for the project. And the
Speaker 1: right song America I Love You Too, that performed by
Speaker 1: Dennis Quaid CMT's twenty twenty concert and Love and acceptance
Speaker 1: you might have seen. Oh, and I guess I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you how coronavirus doesn't seem to be slowing
Speaker 1: you down. You're still making movies, still making music.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a great time to start a podcast platform,
Speaker 2: which my partner and I did this last year because
Speaker 2: we're making scripted podcasts and it's about all you could
Speaker 2: do for a while. You can make movies, but you
Speaker 2: can listen. And that's going great gun and I'm very
Speaker 2: excited about it. And doing Reagan was really one of
Speaker 2: the thrills of my life. In fact, the only other
Speaker 2: movie I could compare it to as far as my experience,
Speaker 2: would be the right stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, look for the podcast. It's available. It's called Denna Sense.
Speaker 1: Am I pronouncing that right? Dinnoissance?
Speaker 2: Well, it's called there's the one called the Dinnaissance. We're
Speaker 2: doing eighteen podcast. Actually, we have a descripted podcast called
Speaker 2: make It Up as Over Man. Mailla does Nashville to
Speaker 2: become you know, a singer songwriter. Uh. We have a
Speaker 2: Halloween series coming out. We have another queen called Uncle Dranch.
Speaker 2: It's kind of all our South Park type of thing
Speaker 2: that we want to make it into an animated show
Speaker 2: about a golf and Western singer who woke up out
Speaker 2: of his thirty year hangover and wants to make a comeback.
Speaker 2: Uncle Drank is played by Jerry Busy.
Speaker 1: Perfect perfect another Oklahoma boy, I might add, that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I play Blendy, who is Blender his best friend.
Speaker 2: We have Luke Wilson, Kinky Friedman, who you may remember, yep,
Speaker 2: have Kinky Friedman. Blaze is agent and it's so inappropriate,
Speaker 2: it's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, look for the Uncle Drink. The Totally Hammered podcast.
Speaker 1: Dennocence is another one of his podcasts, and you can
Speaker 1: probably find those on the iHeartRadio app wherever you find podcasts.
Speaker 1: And his new hit single America. I Love you too.
Speaker 1: We love you, Dennis Quaid and thanks for giving us
Speaker 1: some time today.
Speaker 2: Well love Oklahoma and we'll be back very soon there
Speaker 2: making more films because it's just a great place to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: And we looked for the premiere of Reagan, which should
Speaker 1: be out in the next couple of years.
Speaker 2: I gather I well, yes, in about a year. You
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