April 18, 2025 • 13 mins
Legendary Reba McEntire has enjoyed the most exhilarating success as well as the most tragic experiences in life - from the death of her band in a plane crash, to devastating divorce. Through it all, Reba has faithfully relied on her spiritual connection. Her words here give us all reason for joy and hope no matter what.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Lori Anne with you for Crook and Chase
Nashville Chats. Charlie.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Chase is with family as we approach Easter weekends. So
I am taking the opportunity to bring you something really special.
I think it's a conversation with the One, the Only Riba.
It's interesting because we're talking about faith and how it
(00:24):
guides her life. Because you know, I was thinking it
was not that long ago the public figures such as
Reba were advised to keep their religious and spiritual beliefs
to themselves. So it's you know, not to offend anybody,
but you know Reba, she is outspoken. Nobody tells this
lady what to do. So this pretty amazing conversation you're
(00:45):
about to hear. It took place two years after her
divorce and just as she was releasing her first Christian album,
singing it Now Songs of Faith and Hope, which is
awesome by the way. Actually you have lost a bit
of hope about her future, but she told me her
faith turned everything around.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Have you been I've been good? Thank you? How about you?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Great?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It seems like you are just crazy busy.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I've been staying busy the last couple of years just
going and having fun and doing new things and loving it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You are always fearless.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I am pretty fearless. Yeah, that's a good that's a
good adjective.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Are there times though, when you stop and go I
am afraid to do that?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Oh yeah, yes, Skiing is getting in a race car
with Shelby. I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Not doing that. You've never been in the race car
with Shelby.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
No, Oh, Reba, No, I think I would uh make
him nervous, and I don't think that's good for a
race car dropper.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You would have to wear diapers.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh my gosh, yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I have to tell you. And you know what, I think.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I have told you this on a few other occasions before,
since the first time I heard you sing walk On,
I thought the girl can.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Preach in her music.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Ah things, Reverend Reba.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It seems like you have taken everything that's been in
your soul, your whole life, and you have poured it
into this project.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Thank you very much. That's a great way of summoning
up because you're right. I asked Doug, I said, what
was different about this album? He said, you're singing different
And I said better or worse? He said more heart felt.
So these songs really do touch my heart. They are
I mean, that's my makeup, is my faith. Without my faith,
(02:46):
I wouldn't have been able to do anything that I've
done because you have to have faith that you can
do it. And God gave you the talent, so you
go forward and knowing that He's got you back, He's
paving the way for you, and so what you know,
why not go on?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And this is, in my opinion, just something that is
just not good about the world right now. It seems
that faith has become more and more controversial. You are
the furthest thing from controversy that I know. But because
faith and speaking about God has become such an issue,
(03:26):
did it take a certain amount of bravery for you
to do a project like this and tell everybody where
you stand and what you think.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, I think everybody knows where I've been standing for
a long time. This. I always believe that timing is everything,
and everything happens for a reason, and my faith, I
have really been using my faith over the last two
years real heavily, and so it just kind of fell
into place that this would be the time to do it.
(03:56):
I think a reason why people are so may be
afraid of standing up for their faith is because it
has to either be black or white. You either have
to be in church every day it's open, or you
have to be in the beer joint. I don't believe that.
I just don't believe that. Why not be a little
gray and in the middle and enjoy life, be social
(04:20):
and then and then talk to somebody over a beer
or a glass of wine that you do believe in
the Lord? What's wrong with that? And I'll probably get
my Twitter and everything blown up on for that. But
I just don't believe it's black and white. I think
you can be a great person, love the Lord, and
still have fun in the life in this world. You
(04:42):
don't have to be a Bible thumper or stand up
and preach to everybody that you come in contact with,
live a good life, great example, and then tell them
you love the Lord, and my gosh, I'm so happy
because I got the Lord in my heart and the
Holy Spirit. Don't you want a piece of that? Live
by example?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
This will make you laugh.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I wasn't going to tell you this, okay, but the
God's truth here. Last night, as I was listening to
your album, I was sipping a glass of whiskey, and
it didn't even occur to me. I'm drinking listen to
a gospel album. This is wrong.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I don't think it's wrong. I really don't. I mean,
that's that's just the way I believe.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It was a good night.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
What kind of whiskey was it?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It is Crown Royal?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Now there's one that you suggested bons.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yes, and I went to buy it. It was too expensive.
I'm not paying that for whiskey.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Out buy you a model. You really like it?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So why is it the best whiskey?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Just so I know, it's just it's a little sweet.
It's a little sweet, tokay, It's like crayon, gotcha?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay, a little similar.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
What strikes me about the music on this album is
that there are moments just like your you know, your
people and your producers were telling you where you are
just reverent and soft and sweet, And there are other
songs where you are.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Just laying out a message. Did you have so much fun.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Expressing all angles of how you feel about your faith?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Oh? Absolutely? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Some were.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Some were so tender that it was hard for me
to sing, but that's when the Holy Spirit's in me,
and I have to every morning the Holy Spirit think
for me, talk for me, help me sing this song,
walk for me. Just be there every breath I breathe.
And I did that this morning before the interviews. You know,
give me the words you want me to say, help
(06:45):
me sing this song, and it just works out like that.
And when when I sing it, it literally to be
the sweet or it'll be a preaching message, but it's
it all comes out the way it's supposed to because
of the healthy.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Get well and what strikes me. And you even alluded
to this just a few moments ago. It's not all
about praising glory and beautiful and wonderful and everything's perfect
in these songs. You you have questions, you're maybe angry
about some things that happen. You don't understand why things
(07:20):
have happened. Yeah, don't we all.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Do you feel that you are in some way singing
to yourself? Do you need these songs?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Absolutely? These are the ones that touch my heart. Who
I can but I can relate with to the song
from the inside out. That's very autobiographical. You know, pardon
me if I won't play the conversation game. Allow me,
forgive me, if I don't, if I don't cry. I
just need some time back off. And everybody goes through that,
(07:50):
whether it's a breakup, losing their job, getting their feelings hurt,
they need to back off just a little bit away
from everybody and heal from the inside out.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You are right.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
This is a very honest album. I think so very honest.
And in our past talks you have mentioned to me
that with your celebrity, you've sometimes struggled with how much
do I really give and reveal as an artist? How
much do I keep private?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
For my life?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
It strikes me that you didn't hold anything back here. No,
were some of these songs uncomfortable for you.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
No, they weren't uncomfortable. Truth and bringing feelings out hurt uncomfortable. No,
it hurt. It just hurt, and then you get through
it. It's kind of like when you've got a big, bad
secret and or something scares you and you're afraid, but
(08:57):
once you say it out loud, it dissipates. So singing
about something that hurts helps because you get it out
in the open and it's not that big a deal.
In you're kind of like, Wow, why was I scared
of that? Why was I afraid of that? Why did
that hurt so much before? And now it doesn't. And
(09:19):
I think it's just the grace of God by saying, Okay,
you got it out, let it go. That's a healing point.
It's like peeling off a layer of an onion you
just got you got to get from the inside out
to be cured, to be healed, and just to get
that thing out, whatever it is that's bothering you talk
about it, gos.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But you know, I know a lot of people listening
will say, and I'm I'm one of them. It's it's
so hard not to be bitter. These things happen to
all of us, just as you said, all kinds of
different things, and it's so hard not to be bitter.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It is. But it's only hurting me if I'm bitter,
because the person you're bitter to words or you don't like,
you hate, they're not bothered by anything. They're going on
with their lives, so you're only tormenting yourself. I listened
to Rick Warren an awful lot to his Daily Message,
and one thing I learned from Rick is just he said,
(10:15):
the person who you're upset about hate, don't like anymore,
and that you're so bitter and angry with, tell them,
say I forgive you, and do it five times every day.
I forgive them. I forgive them, I forgive them, I
forgive them, and another person do that. And then after
about three or four days, I forgot what I was
forgiven them for. Oh wow, God got it off of me.
(10:37):
And so if you do that, it helps so much.
And then now I'm a happy person because I'm not
mad at anybody, and and it just it totally turned
around for me.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Well, you know, there is one thing that is not
so forgiving. Reba's born and bred Oklahoma, all natural accent.
Now she's an actress, of course, that delivery of her
lines matters.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
When we come back, the absolute funniest predicament that Riba
has ever faced with her Southern drawl. I'm a big
fan of her.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Riba show that's huge in reruns right now, So we'll
get the inside story of RIBA's biggest Hollywood challenge.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Next.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
The funniest Riba outtake I ever saw, and you know
the one I'm talking about was when you had to
save the phrase chewing ice iceee, but with your glorious accent,
it came out as chewing ass as.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah it did. And I was saying, what gets on
my nurse so much as you? Just way you chew
ice cut? What riba? It's ice? So I just want
to say it. No, it sounds like ass. I did
not say that. Who was fifteen thirty minutes I start
to getting back and forth, and then I would say,
ice cut. You don't have to say it that. Moh
(12:00):
too much fun?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh, I was gonna say it.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Just it seems like with all the different things you
get to do, it could be stressful and it could
get you down, but you have there's something about your
personality that seems to turn everything into joy.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Oh A sweet thank you?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Is that easy for you?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Finding a positive way out of things out look on
the bright side, absolutely, finding the the the glow out
of everything, and cheering other people on. When you're playing
a game and they win, cheer them on. You didn't win,
but you may be next time. But cheer the people
on and always find a positiveness.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Well, She teases that it is wisdom from Weba Rema
back and tire on Criok Inchase Nashville Chats, a special
conversation for this Eastern weekend. Well, hey, we always have
your country covered. Listen to our Crook and Chase Countdown
every weekend on hundreds of radio stations across America and
(13:00):
streaming on iHeartRadio, and follow us on Facebook, X and
Instagram at Crook Inchase
Hey, it's Lori Anne with you for Crook and Chase
Nashville Chats. Charlie.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Chase is with family as we approach Easter weekends. So
I am taking the opportunity to bring you something really special.
I think it's a conversation with the One, the Only Riba.
It's interesting because we're talking about faith and how it
(00:24):
guides her life. Because you know, I was thinking it
was not that long ago the public figures such as
Reba were advised to keep their religious and spiritual beliefs
to themselves. So it's you know, not to offend anybody,
but you know Reba, she is outspoken. Nobody tells this
lady what to do. So this pretty amazing conversation you're
(00:45):
about to hear. It took place two years after her
divorce and just as she was releasing her first Christian album,
singing it Now Songs of Faith and Hope, which is
awesome by the way. Actually you have lost a bit
of hope about her future, but she told me her
faith turned everything around.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Have you been I've been good? Thank you? How about you?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Great?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It seems like you are just crazy busy.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I've been staying busy the last couple of years just
going and having fun and doing new things and loving it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You are always fearless.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I am pretty fearless. Yeah, that's a good that's a
good adjective.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Are there times though, when you stop and go I
am afraid to do that?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Oh yeah, yes, Skiing is getting in a race car
with Shelby. I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Not doing that. You've never been in the race car
with Shelby.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
No, Oh, Reba, No, I think I would uh make
him nervous, and I don't think that's good for a
race car dropper.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You would have to wear diapers.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh my gosh, yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I have to tell you. And you know what, I think.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I have told you this on a few other occasions before,
since the first time I heard you sing walk On,
I thought the girl can.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Preach in her music.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Ah things, Reverend Reba.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It seems like you have taken everything that's been in
your soul, your whole life, and you have poured it
into this project.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Thank you very much. That's a great way of summoning
up because you're right. I asked Doug, I said, what
was different about this album? He said, you're singing different
And I said better or worse? He said more heart felt.
So these songs really do touch my heart. They are
I mean, that's my makeup, is my faith. Without my faith,
(02:46):
I wouldn't have been able to do anything that I've
done because you have to have faith that you can
do it. And God gave you the talent, so you
go forward and knowing that He's got you back, He's
paving the way for you, and so what you know,
why not go on?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And this is, in my opinion, just something that is
just not good about the world right now. It seems
that faith has become more and more controversial. You are
the furthest thing from controversy that I know. But because
faith and speaking about God has become such an issue,
(03:26):
did it take a certain amount of bravery for you
to do a project like this and tell everybody where
you stand and what you think.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, I think everybody knows where I've been standing for
a long time. This. I always believe that timing is everything,
and everything happens for a reason, and my faith, I
have really been using my faith over the last two
years real heavily, and so it just kind of fell
into place that this would be the time to do it.
(03:56):
I think a reason why people are so may be
afraid of standing up for their faith is because it
has to either be black or white. You either have
to be in church every day it's open, or you
have to be in the beer joint. I don't believe that.
I just don't believe that. Why not be a little
gray and in the middle and enjoy life, be social
(04:20):
and then and then talk to somebody over a beer
or a glass of wine that you do believe in
the Lord? What's wrong with that? And I'll probably get
my Twitter and everything blown up on for that. But
I just don't believe it's black and white. I think
you can be a great person, love the Lord, and
still have fun in the life in this world. You
(04:42):
don't have to be a Bible thumper or stand up
and preach to everybody that you come in contact with,
live a good life, great example, and then tell them
you love the Lord, and my gosh, I'm so happy
because I got the Lord in my heart and the
Holy Spirit. Don't you want a piece of that? Live
by example?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
This will make you laugh.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I wasn't going to tell you this, okay, but the
God's truth here. Last night, as I was listening to
your album, I was sipping a glass of whiskey, and
it didn't even occur to me. I'm drinking listen to
a gospel album. This is wrong.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I don't think it's wrong. I really don't. I mean,
that's that's just the way I believe.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It was a good night.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
What kind of whiskey was it?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It is Crown Royal?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Now there's one that you suggested bons.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yes, and I went to buy it. It was too expensive.
I'm not paying that for whiskey.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Out buy you a model. You really like it?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So why is it the best whiskey?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Just so I know, it's just it's a little sweet.
It's a little sweet, tokay, It's like crayon, gotcha?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay, a little similar.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
What strikes me about the music on this album is
that there are moments just like your you know, your
people and your producers were telling you where you are
just reverent and soft and sweet, And there are other
songs where you are.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Just laying out a message. Did you have so much fun.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Expressing all angles of how you feel about your faith?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Oh? Absolutely? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Some were.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Some were so tender that it was hard for me
to sing, but that's when the Holy Spirit's in me,
and I have to every morning the Holy Spirit think
for me, talk for me, help me sing this song,
walk for me. Just be there every breath I breathe.
And I did that this morning before the interviews. You know,
give me the words you want me to say, help
(06:45):
me sing this song, and it just works out like that.
And when when I sing it, it literally to be
the sweet or it'll be a preaching message, but it's
it all comes out the way it's supposed to because
of the healthy.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Get well and what strikes me. And you even alluded
to this just a few moments ago. It's not all
about praising glory and beautiful and wonderful and everything's perfect
in these songs. You you have questions, you're maybe angry
about some things that happen. You don't understand why things
(07:20):
have happened. Yeah, don't we all.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Do you feel that you are in some way singing
to yourself? Do you need these songs?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Absolutely? These are the ones that touch my heart. Who
I can but I can relate with to the song
from the inside out. That's very autobiographical. You know, pardon
me if I won't play the conversation game. Allow me,
forgive me, if I don't, if I don't cry. I
just need some time back off. And everybody goes through that,
(07:50):
whether it's a breakup, losing their job, getting their feelings hurt,
they need to back off just a little bit away
from everybody and heal from the inside out.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You are right.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
This is a very honest album. I think so very honest.
And in our past talks you have mentioned to me
that with your celebrity, you've sometimes struggled with how much
do I really give and reveal as an artist? How
much do I keep private?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
For my life?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
It strikes me that you didn't hold anything back here. No,
were some of these songs uncomfortable for you.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
No, they weren't uncomfortable. Truth and bringing feelings out hurt uncomfortable. No,
it hurt. It just hurt, and then you get through
it. It's kind of like when you've got a big, bad
secret and or something scares you and you're afraid, but
(08:57):
once you say it out loud, it dissipates. So singing
about something that hurts helps because you get it out
in the open and it's not that big a deal.
In you're kind of like, Wow, why was I scared
of that? Why was I afraid of that? Why did
that hurt so much before? And now it doesn't. And
(09:19):
I think it's just the grace of God by saying, Okay,
you got it out, let it go. That's a healing point.
It's like peeling off a layer of an onion you
just got you got to get from the inside out
to be cured, to be healed, and just to get
that thing out, whatever it is that's bothering you talk
about it, gos.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But you know, I know a lot of people listening
will say, and I'm I'm one of them. It's it's
so hard not to be bitter. These things happen to
all of us, just as you said, all kinds of
different things, and it's so hard not to be bitter.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It is. But it's only hurting me if I'm bitter,
because the person you're bitter to words or you don't like,
you hate, they're not bothered by anything. They're going on
with their lives, so you're only tormenting yourself. I listened
to Rick Warren an awful lot to his Daily Message,
and one thing I learned from Rick is just he said,
(10:15):
the person who you're upset about hate, don't like anymore,
and that you're so bitter and angry with, tell them,
say I forgive you, and do it five times every day.
I forgive them. I forgive them, I forgive them, I
forgive them, and another person do that. And then after
about three or four days, I forgot what I was
forgiven them for. Oh wow, God got it off of me.
(10:37):
And so if you do that, it helps so much.
And then now I'm a happy person because I'm not
mad at anybody, and and it just it totally turned
around for me.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Well, you know, there is one thing that is not
so forgiving. Reba's born and bred Oklahoma, all natural accent.
Now she's an actress, of course, that delivery of her
lines matters.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
When we come back, the absolute funniest predicament that Riba
has ever faced with her Southern drawl. I'm a big
fan of her.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Riba show that's huge in reruns right now, So we'll
get the inside story of RIBA's biggest Hollywood challenge.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Next.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
The funniest Riba outtake I ever saw, and you know
the one I'm talking about was when you had to
save the phrase chewing ice iceee, but with your glorious accent,
it came out as chewing ass as.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah it did. And I was saying, what gets on
my nurse so much as you? Just way you chew
ice cut? What riba? It's ice? So I just want
to say it. No, it sounds like ass. I did
not say that. Who was fifteen thirty minutes I start
to getting back and forth, and then I would say,
ice cut. You don't have to say it that. Moh
(12:00):
too much fun?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh, I was gonna say it.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Just it seems like with all the different things you
get to do, it could be stressful and it could
get you down, but you have there's something about your
personality that seems to turn everything into joy.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Oh A sweet thank you?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Is that easy for you?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Finding a positive way out of things out look on
the bright side, absolutely, finding the the the glow out
of everything, and cheering other people on. When you're playing
a game and they win, cheer them on. You didn't win,
but you may be next time. But cheer the people
on and always find a positiveness.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Well, She teases that it is wisdom from Weba Rema
back and tire on Criok Inchase Nashville Chats, a special
conversation for this Eastern weekend. Well, hey, we always have
your country covered. Listen to our Crook and Chase Countdown
every weekend on hundreds of radio stations across America and
(13:00):
streaming on iHeartRadio, and follow us on Facebook, X and
Instagram at Crook Inchase
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Welcome to "Decisions, Decisions," the podcast where boundaries are pushed, and conversations get candid! Join your favorite hosts, Mandii B and WeezyWTF, as they dive deep into the world of non-traditional relationships and explore the often-taboo topics surrounding dating, sex, and love. Every Monday, Mandii and Weezy invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives dictated by traditional patriarchal norms. With a blend of humor, vulnerability, and authenticity, they share their personal journeys navigating their 30s, tackling the complexities of modern relationships, and engaging in thought-provoking discussions that challenge societal expectations. From groundbreaking interviews with diverse guests to relatable stories that resonate with your experiences, "Decisions, Decisions" is your go-to source for open dialogue about what it truly means to love and connect in today's world. Get ready to reshape your understanding of relationships and embrace the freedom of authentic connections—tune in and join the conversation!