Dolly Parton’s Family Gathers for Emotional Final Goodbye

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Hey, welcome to The TMZ Podcast. I'm Branson Quirk, and I'm joined by the lovely Talia today.

**Talia** (0:39)
Oh my God, thank you so much for introducing me for myself. Hey, it's me, Talia.

**Branson Quirk** (0:43)
I just started doing that again.

**Talia** (0:45)
Men, am I right?

**Branson Quirk** (0:45)
You know, you're very popular here.

**Talia** (0:47)
Great. That first time in my life I've ever been popular. It feels pretty good.

**Branson Quirk** (0:51)
Always getting passed around, you know, like podcast. No, no, no, like podcast to podcast, project to project.

**Talia** (0:57)
Yeah, I just love talking.

**Branson Quirk** (0:58)
Demand, right?

**Talia** (0:59)
High demand.

**Branson Quirk** (1:00)
High, high demand, of course. High demand, while high, right?

**Talia** (1:04)
What?

**Branson Quirk** (1:05)
No, I'm just kidding. You're a good employee.
You're a good employee, you're a good employee.

**Talia** (1:09)
Thanks Branson for having me. Thank you so much for having me. Just joking around. All right. Thank you so much.

**Branson Quirk** (1:13)
All right, let's get to our stories. How about that? Let's get to the stories. They didn't come here to listen to us. Maybe they did.

**Talia** (1:18)
You know they didn't.

**Branson Quirk** (1:19)
All right. Well, we talked about this earlier this week. We were talking about how amazing Dolly Parton was and just how tragic it is that she suddenly passed away. I mean, I've never felt-

**Talia** (1:30)
80 years is a lot though.

**Branson Quirk** (1:31)
80 years is a long time, but life is short. You know, it really is. And like I've heard people say that, you know, 10 years feels like yesterday.
And that's kind of how it felt. I felt like it was yesterday. I just saw her on Hannah Montana.

**Talia** (1:46)
So true.

**Branson Quirk** (1:47)
And Islands in the Stream. I was just listening to it the week before.

**Talia** (1:51)
You've seen the movie Dumplin?

**Branson Quirk** (1:52)
No.

**Talia** (1:52)
You got to watch that. It's about like a young girl who is a plus size woman, and she gains confidence through Dolly Parton's music and then becomes like a pageant queen. It is the most feel good movie you will ever watch.

**Branson Quirk** (2:04)
Is Dolly in it?

**Talia** (2:06)
That is to be revealed.

**Branson Quirk** (2:07)
It sounds like a movie you would watch. It's like a cult classic or something like that.

**Talia** (2:11)
It's not a cult classic.
It actually did like really badly on Rotten Tomatoes, I think, but it's one of the movies you're watching. God, Dolly's music just makes you want to be a plus size pageant queen.

**Branson Quirk** (2:21)
Yeah, same.
We're here to talk about, we have a new update with Dolly Parton. There's been a few updates since we last spoke. The most recent one was that there was a change.org petition thrown out there to change the name of the Nashville International Airport to Dolly Parton International Airport.

**Talia** (2:38)
Update on that?

**Branson Quirk** (2:39)
No update.

**Talia** (2:40)
They gotta do it.

**Branson Quirk** (2:41)
They have to. The signatures are just skyrocketing.

**Talia** (2:43)
I mean, I'll sign.

**Branson Quirk** (2:45)
I signed already.

**Talia** (2:46)
Oh, you did? I went on there. I borrowed me the link.

**Branson Quirk** (2:48)
It didn't take long. And I mean, it's a no brainer. Nashville International Airport is a boring name.

**Talia** (2:54)
It's also it's a Nashville International. I'm getting confused.

**Branson Quirk** (2:57)
Oh, Nashville International Airport.

**Talia** (3:01)
I'm not going to attribute it. Nashville International. No, Dolly Parton International Airport. Oh, I know exactly where I'm flying into.

**Branson Quirk** (3:08)
Well, Dolly Parton's loved ones. And we knew this is going to happen, that they were going to have an intimate gathering. Small, small.
Not something big, like something big.

**Talia** (3:17)
Well, that's what small is, the opposite of big.

**Branson Quirk** (3:19)
Oh, I know that. I know that. I know the way things were going to Cunard and Burden.
But, you know, something big would be like for Dolly Parton, probably would have been something like a Michael Jackson funeral, where it was like a straight up parade and everybody was there. But when it comes to somebody like Dolly, the whole world would show up. So them gathering in a small way is honestly just as meaningful, just as meaningful. And this is actually what she wanted, by the way.