New Relationships with Rex Linn

I want to thank y'all for following along with me as I'm living and learning, but we're changing up the format just a little bit this season. And I want to thank my cohort and crime and friendship, Melissa Pederman, for everything she taught me in the first season. Malibu, if you're listening, I hope I'm going to make you proud on this go-around. Let me know if I'm doing okay, but remember, don't call just text. Seriously, I love you with all my heart. Hey, I'm Reva McIntyre, and welcome to Living and Learning. I am tickled to pieces that here we are on our second season. I had such a great time last year. I learned a lot, and so we're going to continue those conversations this season with even more people that I know you're going to love hearing from, and I can't wait to share them with you. You know, since we were here last year, so much has happened for me and to me, and I'm sure for you too. I mean, we went through the pandemic. Everybody was quarantined, and so we're going to have a lot to talk about this season. The first season of Reva McIntyre, Living and Learning, we had that dating episode with Christian Chenoweth, and she was given advice, and Melissa Pederman and I were talking about trying to find me a person, well, I kind of want to say, well, I've already got me this person, but you know, at that stage of the game, you don't know if it's going to be something that sticks or not. And what's he going to think about me in another year? And should I say this openly? And so we just evaded the subject. After a while, I said, guys, I don't feel good about this. And they said, well, I said, well, because I'm kind of smitten with this guy in California. And I said, so I think I need to publicly say that I am in love. Well, here we are on second season. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to tell you right now, I'm still in love with this man from California, originated from Spirman, Texas, moved to Oklahoma City when he was six grade and then out to California, my boyfriend. The one I call sugar taught, Rex Leon, Tater taught, McIndar, we're the Tots. I'm sure everybody's wondering why and where we got the name sugar and Tater taught. It was that first night we met in L.A. Steve and Melissa Peterman and Marney and you and I were all out for dinner and we went over to Steve's wine bar and on the menu was Tater Tots and I just went nuts because I love Tater Tots and so Rex is famous for giving people nicknames and he said, that's yours. My nicknames are legendary. I mean, they stick with people, but I never pre-mentitate them and they always have to present themselves and that was the perfect moment. You ordered Tater Tots. You delved into them like a great white shark with ketchup and I just thought that's it. It's Tater Tots. And then later on when I was there on the ranch with Susie and Mark, Susie said, what are you doing? I was out in the car and I said, I'm talking to Rex. She said, what's he call you? I said, Tater Tots and she said, well, tell sugar taught high for us and I said, all right, that's his nickname. So Susie gave you your nickname. That's right. Then we've used it ever since. Sugar and Tater. The Tots. Where are the Tots? Sugar and Tater. I am so happy to be on your show. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Well, I'm excited to hear you. I listened to all your podcasts last season. Did you like it? I liked all of them and I just was sad that I wasn't on one. Well, I thought it was fitting that you were the first since you were mentioned last season. I was really nervous about stating my love for you publicly. You know, that's a big deal. It is a big deal. As a matter of fact, when you did that, my phone just started blowing up and I just thought, what is going on here? People were texting me going, I didn't know you were, are you, are you dating Reba? My entire, I mean, people from all over work. I was like, how do they know that? But now we know. Well, let's catch everybody up on it. I was in L.A. doing young Sheldon and you're on that show also. So when you found out, now this is a year ago January, you found out I was going to be on the show. So we got to text in each other and say, well, let's go out to eat after you're through. Well, I was tired, couldn't do it. So the next week where I was back out in L.A. and so we went to dinner, it was just kind of magical. Tell everybody where we first met. We'll start at the beginning. Well, we first met in 1991. I just moved from Oklahoma City in 1990 to Los Angeles to study acting. I had no agent, no representation at all in my good friend Dick Lowry, who was a well-known director, who's also from Oklahoma City called me and he said, hey, I got a, I got a role for you on gambler five. Can you Roger's movie series? Can you Roger's movie? I said, oh, great. He said, Reeve McIntyre is co-starring with him. I said, oh, great. And I said, what's my role? He goes, well, you're going to ride a horse into a saloon and go, I was so excited about it. So I went to the set. Of course, Reeve was number two on the call sheet. Kenny was number one. And then I wouldn't even own the call sheet. I mean, I was like, people are going, I think he's a friend of the directors. He's going to ride a horse into a saloon. Anyway, I met Reeve the first time then. I met you the first time and then we kept in touch over the years through a mutual friend, Ed Gaylord, my best friend who would have the Reeve McIntyre Ben Johnson Pro celebrity rodeo event, which was an event that raised money for children's medical research in Oklahoma City or the state of Oklahoma. And so we kept in touch over the years. And then we had that dinner. Yeah. Last year. So many years later, it was later on that it was texting you. And I told you about Mama, that we were just found out that she had bladder cancer. And you said, hey, you just feel free to call me any time you need to talk. And I just quit texting. And then we've been talking ever since. Well, let me just add to that. In 1998, my mom passed away. And the day we buried her, we went back to mom's house. And there was a lot of people there. Mom was popular. Love her. She's my best friend. Anyway, my sister walks up and says, you got a phone call. And I said, now, right now. And she said, yeah, I think you want to probably going to want to take this. So I went back in my old bedroom that I grew up in, sat on the bed. And it was it was Reba. And she said, hey, I understand what you're going through today. I wanted to talk to you. We talked for about 25 minutes. And I had never forgot it. It was amazing. And it was uplifting. It was really special. And little did I know 20 years later, 21 years later, I'd be doing the same thing with her on the phone. But I never forgot that. And that's why I said to you, if you ever want to talk, just give me a call. And we did. And we have been. Yeah. But it was a very special relationship us getting to know each other without any physical aspect to it at all. We talked in the morning. We started coffee camp while I was staying in Oklahoma, Susan Markshouse. And we've been, we haven't missed a coffee camp since March. Gosh, 16, something like that. So our coffee camp to clarify, we just had coffee every morning during the pandemic, during quarantine. And so I called it coffee camp. Let's have it. Let's get up for coffee camp. And when she says that we've never missed a coffee camp, we have never missed a coffee camp since we started. And that includes the mornings where she would get on good morning America to promote the same age or whatever. So I was in California. She was in Tennessee. So sometimes my coffee camp started at 3 a.m. But man, I have never missed one. I don't want to ever miss one. They've all been great. Usually it's two cups. But sometimes when we're just a little push for time, it's a one cup. But we haven't missed one time. Susan Mark got the biggest kick out of us doing that. They would laugh and they'd say, we're going to walk up till you want to go. I said, oh no, I got coffee camp. They just giggle and walk on out. Coffee camp is turning into a great institution. Yeah. More people ought to do it. I was getting ready to say I highly recommend it. I don't want to start a coffee camp. We say good morning. We kiss and say, I love you. Great way to start the morning. It really is. Speaking of quarantine, I sent you food during quarantine a lot of times. I was trying to figure out a way to connect with you other than us three hours a day talking with one another, which was great. It allowed us to develop an emotional intimacy through through those months and weeks. But I would send you food from all over the country. Because I'm a foodie and you're a foodie. And I was thinking last night, what was your favorite food that I sent you? Well, the first one. you sent was the pecan pie from good company barbecue in Houston. We were flabbergasted because that was such a good pecan pie. And I kept the box that came in and everything in your note and Suzy and Mark were just thrilled to death. Now, this back when, when, if Mark went to the grocery store, when he came back to the house, he wiped everything off outside. Remember that? Oh, yeah. And then brought it in the house and Suzy and I didn't leave the, the ranch. We were on a 3,000 acre, a cattle ranch. And the only people we saw was us three in the cattle and sometimes the kids would come up. So we were thrilled to death for the UPS or federal express or any kind of delivery person driving up the hill. And Mark would ask me that morning, is rec sending anything? So it was pecan pie. It was lobster rolls. It was McConnell's ice cream from California perennies and West Texas. Oh, perennies. Beef tenderloin. Oh my gosh. So good. Lobel. And then yellow bell steaks and then the Louisiana and Cajun food from, from, from Bronx and, and also snake river farms and also, uh, we're leaving and said, Oh, oh, hello. Joe Stone crab. Oh, yeah. The stone crabs were great. I never fixed any of that kind of stuff. So it was an education for me. So which was my favorite? They were all great. But what prolonged and we got more, we got to have it more often was the McConnell's ice cream. Yeah, baby. And Susie, she would give us a little bitty scoop each night while we were watching Ozark on Netflix. So we were watching the, the, the TV and she would just be real scrimpy with, and, and Rex finally talked to her and said, Susie, why are you not giving them more? She's we're going to save it. Well, that's famous for Susie when she was a little bitty girl. She would collect rocks and daddy said, Susie, what are you going to do with that? Well, she had a list and she was a little bitty girl. She said, I'm going to, and then she also stuttered. She said, I'm going to save them. So she was the cutest little rascal. So it's typical for her to save something. And she was saving the ice cream and keeping it as long as possible. Yeah. Cause I said, I've got two giant scoops here that you got a big bowl and she goes, uh, two spoonfuls. Uh-huh. That's all Susie's giving us. We didn't eat on that McConnell's ice cream for a long time. It was delicious. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So why did you move from Spearman to Oklahoma City and then on to LA? Well, uh, my father was an attorney and he had a law firm in Spearman, Texas, which is north of Amorilla. And dad decided that it was a great opportunity for him and our family to move out of the town of 2,700 moved Oklahoma City and start his own law firm. Uh-huh. So we left in August of 1969, but I wanted to play football for the Spearman links. I want to put that purple and white helmet on with the links and I was going to be the best running back in the history of the state of Texas for the fighting Spearman links. But that didn't happen. But before you left, your dad owned a ranch out in Spearman, I grew up on working cattle on a ranch and your dad started the feedlot out in West Texas. He co-founded the cat brought feedlots in the panel of Texas. And daddy would get a cattle in the spring and fatten them up, sell them in the fall and a lot of times they went to the feedlots and could have gone out to one of your dad's feedlots. Probably did. Ranchers from the surrounding five states right there would go to the cat brought feedlots. They were huge and dad had a big acreage out there again. He was an attorney. He wasn't a cowboy by any means and I nor was I, but we had a cowboy that ran the ranch out there named Dale Hawkins. He was a true influence and hero of mine. And so every summer, I got to go out to the ranch and we got to work cattle and ride horses and I got to be a cowboy. I always wanted to be a cowboy, wasn't in my DNA, never good enough to be a cowboy. But I got to live it for a while and it was great. Me too. I wanted to be a world champion. And barrel racers about I couldn't hardly stand it. Never was that good. I was a good donator. That's about it. Coming on to from ranch and to rodeo and you are team roper. I'm a barrel racer. Here we are again, loving similar things. I guess that's why we get along so well now because we were dreaming of being cowboys and cowgirls, but that other side just kind of took hold. That's why you moved from Oklahoma City to LA becoming an actor. That's right. Everybody always says, I bet John Wayne was a big influence of John Wayne was an influence later on, I guess, but Clayton Moore, the lone ranger, man, I mean, I knew I wasn't going to be good enough to be a cowboy. I was so intimidated being around Dale Hawkins because I just knew that I didn't have any to be a cowboy, although I wanted to be one. And then I saw the lone ranger and episode of the lone ranger. I saw Clayton Moore. I didn't know his name was Clayton Moore at the time. I just saw the lone ranger and he was on a white horse and he had a mask on and I thought that's the coolest thing ever. Well eventually I started asking mom and dad, what is he? What race does he work on? He said, well, he's in a movie studio and I'm thinking, wall, I want to be one of those. And then I saw the wolf man. I saw a long chained junior play the wolf man. That scared me. And I said, where is the wolf man? And they said, that's an actor and he's putting on a wolf man mask. And I thought, well, that's as much as you can think it's five to seven years old. That's going to be the greatest job in all the world. So that's how I started. I didn't know that. And then in 1967, I saw Adam West and Batman and I'm like, this is what I need to do. You and I have talked about Batman. That was the second TV show I saw in color, Bewitched and then Batman. They came on Thursday night and you're a huge. I wanted to be wished and you wanted to be Batman. I was in love with Elizabeth Montgomery too. Oh, yeah, everybody was. Can you squit your nose? No. Can you see anything? My ears move. But man, just the idea that there was a guy that put on a Batman outfit, he was getting paid for it. I just thought, man, if I can't be a cowboy, that's what I want to be. So you went to LA in what year? 1990, February, I left Oklahoma City, February 5th. My goal was to get to Winslow, Arizona, cause my favorite band of the Eagles and standing on a corner in the Winslow, Arizona, such a side to see. So I wanted to go to that corner. And so I got in my youth hall in the morning. I was 34 years old when I moved from Oklahoma City. Everybody, of course, thought I was having a nervous breakdown, except for my family and my two best friends. I'd been talking about acting since I was five years old. So a mom was ball, and I mean, and I was in a packed on my stuff at a youth hall. Little did I know that youth hall was only going to go 54 miles an hour. So I didn't get to Winslow until 1.30 am, but I got to Winslow. So I made it to Winslow, had a good time there, this little pool hall, this little motel, and then February 7th at midnight, I pulled in Los Angeles. And that was my first night at the home where or the place that I would be spending now over 31 years. Wow. So two years later, I got my first break, you know, cliffhanger. I'd never even been in a movie in Los Angeles, since I moved to California. And I got the movie cliffhanger. When cliffhanger came out, it was the number one movie in America. And I mean, I was with John Lithgow and Rocky. Here I was with Stallone. I mean, it was a big deal in John, and I played the two bad guys. But yeah, it was February of 1990 when I moved. So two years you were in LA and got a huge box office smash hit. Wow. That's incredible. Well, I was lucky. I mean, I read for literally read for one line for cliffhanger I read for, and I remember the line, they've ascended to 36,000 feet, and I'm looking at a radar. Well, I didn't get that role, and not only did I not get the role, but they postponed the movie until it was completely financed and they found the location. So the movie took place in Colorado, but we filmed it in Italy for six months up in the Dolomites, up there in Northern Italy. So once they secured those locations and everything, they started recasting. And the casting director brought me in and said, I want you to grab these pages and read for this role. And I read for it, and she was nonplussed. She wasn't really enthused at all. And I got a call later, hey, come back in and read for it. So I read for it. And then I was at Warner Brothers Studios auditioning for a sitcom. I had overalls on. I had two lines like Lisa, could you pass the chicken fried plays in the gravy? Well, there were a bunch of other bald guys with overalls in there. Okay. There's like 20 of us. It's raining. It's on Friday. And my manager called at the time my mother was it doing well, health wise and we get this call. I hear this girl say is Rex Lynn here. So I immediately thought some terrible. And it was my manager and he said, what are you doing? I said, what do you think I'm doing? You sent me on this audition. I'm wearing overalls in this lobby with a bunch of bald guys that have overalls on. Get ready to ask for the gravy. And he said, you got to go over to get over to La Siena right now. They want to do a screen test with you with. Sylvester Stallone this afternoon. So getting your car and drive over to this address. I said, "I've got overalls on." So anyway, I drive over there. And Mindy Marin was the casting director. Anyway, I did a screen test with Sly. And at the end of it, he almost seemed non-plus. He just said, "Have you ever been to Italy?" And I said, "No." He said, "It's a cool place." And he left. And two weeks later, I got a call and said, "Pack your bag. You're going to Italy for five and a half months." And that's how that started. Okay, I've seen the movies lots of times. And what was the hardest part for you? I know it's an action-packed thriller. You're in Italy. What was the hardest part about being in that movie? So here's the thing, man. I'm claustrophobic. And so we had a fight scene underwater that didn't make the movie. They had a fight scene set up under ice. Okay, so by the time Stallone and I get in this fight, he's about half naked. He's got a torn shirt, torn spandex, leotards on. I've got 80 pounds of down jacket on. As you remember, we're in the mountains in the snow. And I get thrown in the water. Oh, he had your boots on too. Boots, everything. So then I had a metal brace around my chest. So the underwater divers could pull us. And so we were fighting underwater. And we'd go to an oxygen station, a regulator, and take a big deep breath of oxygen. And then start fighting. And they'd pull us to the next one. And so we had this system. And we had a little emergency oxygen tank, a little baby when wrapped around a wrist. And so one of the Navy SEALs, they had Navy SEALs there for us. And one of the Navy SEALs said, "Look, if you get panic, we had the signal, you know, hand across your throat. Like, I can't do this now to get me out of here." And so it was a whole sheet of ice. And it was about 50 feet long. And it was probably 20 feet deep. And he said, "If you got a problem now when we get in here, just give me the signal and we'll get you out." And why didn't we want to do that? You know, and he goes, "And also, when you get deeper, as we get deeper and deeper, those clothes that you're wearing are just going to close up on you pretty tight." So just remember that, but it'll be all right. Everything's good. And when you get to the regulator, you know, just breathe like you're going to sleep. Well, you can't breathe like you're going to sleep when you're fighting Rocky under ice. Plus, I was a little bit-- Plus, my heart rate was way up thinking, "I'm going to get deeper and deeper under that ice." And there's only one way out, it's just back here. So the first time we rehearsed, we went down there, I got about halfway under that ice. And I'll tell you what, Reba, it was every-- I was trying to pull all the macho, all the-- you're a stud, man. You can do this. And it just didn't work. I just looked at Kevin the Navy SEAL, and I just gave him the sign, like, "Get me out. Get me out of here." So he pulls me out. And by that time in the movie, all the other actors had gone home to their respective countries. And it was just sliding me. And the crew was exhausted. The huge-- The heroes of Cliffhanger were the 400 crew members who had to go 13,000, 9,000, 8,000, 5,000 feet up in the mountains. And then work hard. They were ready to go home. They didn't want any more delays. So I come back and here they are. They popped me out of the water. And Rene Harland, the director, that it comes running over and he's, "What's going on? Why are you doing-- what's going on?" And Kevin was really cool, man. He said, "There's a problem with Rex's emergency tank on his arm. I saw a cord hanging out of it. We got to fix it." Well, how long is that going to take? Is it going to take 15 or 20 minutes? Bless his heart. He just looked at me and winked. He said, "It's all right, dude." After that, I was rock solid. It was fun after that. That's great. Well, that was a great movie. Absolutely loved it. Who's your heroes of your fellow actors? You know, you already talked about Adam West, but who's your A number one? Well, I'll tell you an instant, favorite ones. Who do you like to work with? You've worked with so many people. You and I can't watch a TV show or a movie without you saying, "Oh, he's the nicest guy I worked with him on so and so." Well, you know, going back to Cliffhanger, I have to say, John Letho is amazing. And he and I are really, really close. And I couldn't have gotten through that movie without him. I mean, he was what I meant, or he's been my go-to advice man since 1992, loved working with him so many people. David Crusoe, for 10 years, we're the most generous people I've ever worked with. I'll see you some Miami, Ed Harris. I mean, I've just been fortunate, Reba. Yeah, you sure have. To work with a lot and a lot of people. My favorite actor, I would have to say, going back, way back, you know, I had influences like I told you, "Lawn Cheney's playing the Wolfman Bourse Carlaw, Frankenstein, Claymorelon Ranger, Adam West Batman." But in November of 1975, I was a senior in high school, walked in the Continental movie theater, which was arguably the best movie theater in the state of Oklahoma. And I saw on a Friday afternoon opening day, I saw what is still to this day my favorite movie of all time, which is One Floor of the Cuckoo's Nest. And that movie's hard to watch one time. You know, it's almost three hours, and it's exhausting. And I walked out of the movie theater, got on the payphone, called my mom. I said, "I'm not coming home for supper. I'm going to go back and watch this movie again." I watched it back to back. And when I got home, I told my mom and dad, "This is it." I know Jack Nicholson's performance as Randall Patrick Murphy has confirmed that this is what I want to do in my life. Honestly, it really, it really was. And so he's always been really my favorite actor. That's always been my favorite movie. And so, yeah. - Okay, so I'm in the music business. Both actor and a music person, you're an actor. You love music. I know a few people that love music more than you do. When I get ready for a concert, I have a ritual I go through. First of all, while I'm getting ready, I'm warming up doing my vocal exercises. Nothing that I have to do to psych myself up. That kind of a routine. But before I hit the stage, I say a prayer. And I asked the Holy Spirit to walk for me, talk for me, think for me, sing for me. And hopefully that somebody in the audience will take home something that they've needed out of those songs are my performance. Do you have a ritual that you do before acting? - I do. I'm a prayer warrior, as you know. I always say my two minute prayer. And so, from the time I started, when I was nervous, and I was staying in a little bitty, honey wagon, cubby hole, you know, maybe I had one line in something or two lines, it didn't matter what size of a row. I always started off with my two minute prayer. So they'd knock on the door and say they're ready for you. I would always say, I gotta say my two minute prayer. Now, when I started to say that early on, when I was really green and really a rookie, you'd get one of the assistant directors or base camp people looking at me like, dude, they're ready for you. Whether you wanna say a prayer or not, I don't understand why you're telling me two minutes, you know. But I always did it. So I always say a two minute prayer before I go to the set. I always listen to my music. I have a playlist for all the characters that I play. So I put together a music playlist, put the name of the character on it, and I have it on my phone, so I can listen to it. When I get there, so basically music is a huge part of my acting. It's a huge part of my life, and so I always have my playlist. I listen to while I'm getting ready, study the dialogue and then say my two minute prayer, and then I'm off to work. - I've never seen anybody rehearse more than you do. Practice, you're so prepared. When you were helping me with the lines for the Christmas movie coming out this year, we started on the day one, and we rehearsed, and then we'd go to day two, and I'd learn all of that. And you'd read the other parts. Day three, and then we'd stop for the day. And then the next day, we'd start at one, two, three, and then go to four. And by the time we were filming the movie, I knew my lines, I knew, I felt like Dolly Parton. I knew everybody's line in the whole movie. So thank you for that. You're a, you're a task master. You'd make me rehearse when I didn't want to rehearse. - Oh my God, you got mad sometimes. I was like, let's go back over the scene of the, no, I'm done. - I know it. - No, we're going back over. But here's the thing, that comes from me, survival for me. If I could do what you do, I would be, I mean, I'd probably be making what Tom Cruise makes. I mean, you can look at a page of dialogue, and you got it down in five minutes. I have to do that repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition. Out of, that's out of survival. I have to survive, especially on, you get on a show like, and I'm so proud to be on it, better call Saul. One of the best shows on the planet. But I'll tell you what, and all of my scenes have been, with Ray Seahorn except for the last two, but with Bob Odenkirk. The first time I had a scene with Ray Seahorn, she was talking like a cheetah on speed. I mean, she was like, well, she was in the Kevin. So what do you do? And by the time she was done, I didn't even know it was my turn to speak. I was looking at her like, oh my god, is it my turn? But she reminded me the first time she goes, it's your turn. We were rehearsing and I was like, oh my god, I got to, I have to. So the point of that is I have to go over that dialogue hours every day. But what advice did you get from John about that? John said, one of the greatest things John let's go said to me was, John's eight and I have it. He's a huge fan of Better Call Saul. So I call him and I said, man, I'm a little bit worried because I was getting ready to travel to Albuquerque. We're Better Call Saul's film. And I had a ton of dialogue with Ray. And I said, I'm kind of a little bit nervous about it. He goes, what are you nervous about? And I said, well, she talked so fast and she's so good. And I got all this dialogue and I just feel like I have to keep up with her. And he said these words and it's helped me ever since in every job that I've done. He said, well, first of all, I've seen your character in the show and you don't talk fast. You're a businessman. You own a lot of banks. You're from New Mexico. You're solid. You know, I got a little advice for you, Rex. And I said, what is it? And he said, you just let her come to you. Hmm. Let her come to you. You don't have to come to go to her. You're a plusher. You've hired her. You're a boss. You don't have to let all of them let everybody come to you. You take your time. And man, oh, man, it worked out. That was a great advice. Great advice. Speaking of which, we were talking about my favorite movie in high school, me getting to see movies. I haven't even asked you, even in our a long time. Well, did you get an opportunity in all the things that you were doing constantly in high school and college? Did you ever get an opportunity to go see movies? Oh, absolutely. I remember in the fifth grade, sixth grade. I went with Marilyn McClendon, my good friend, and her family to the Oakland theater in McAllister, Oklahoma. We got dressed up. I borrowed a dress to go see the sound of music. Oh, man. One of the greatest movies of all time. There's no telling how many times I've seen it. I remember in the seventh grade, no, in the second grade, we were in my city, Montana. And daddy was up there rode on and we went to see how the West was one. Oh, yeah, baby. It had an intermission, just like sound of music. And then even in high school, after the Friday night basketball game, a bunch of us girls would get in the car and we go to McAllister and watch the second showing of whatever's showing up at the Oakland theater. So yeah, we watch movies. I'm a movie buff. I love movies. I like everything from a nacho Libre to Shindler's list. If you had to pick one of three, it's hard to pick your favorite movie. I know that's a tough for anybody to answer, but if you had to pick one of your top three, what would it be? Well, it'd be something from Christmas vacation to sound of music. That's one of my favorites. I don't know how many times I've seen that one. But when you will set through and watch a movie over and over, and then you go see a movie like Coda or Palmer, the Justin Timberlake and Marley Matlin movie where it's so real and everyday life and you cry, you laugh, you're pulling for the underdogs. That's that's the kind of movies I like. You know what? I've always wanted to ask you this too. What what music were you listening to in the 70s when you were when when you were my age and you're in high school cause I have to ask you that or everybody wants to know that. Well, because we were the singing McIntyre's, Paik, myself and Susie, Alice didn't sing with us that much, but we were the singing McIntyre. So Paik all the time was the lead singer. Once in a while Susie and I would get to sing a song and then the other two would sing Harmony to us. So we were singing a lot of Merle Haggard, Glenn Campbell, Ronnie Millsap songs. And when I did get to sing solo, it was either Dolly Loreta, Tammy Ann Murray or Barbara Mandrill, Lynn Anderson. But then I was Dayton in the 10th grade a rock and roller who was the drummer of the band. So I got into three dog night in Chicago. Yeah, baby. The harmonies of three dog night. That's why I love them in Chicago so much. I don't know if I told you this. In August, we moved from experiment to Oklahoma City. We stayed at the holiday in the first night because our house wasn't ready. It was a Saturday night. There was people up all night at the swimming pool. I mean, all night long and mom got mad called down to the front desk and really the next morning, we go have breakfast and we're sitting in a booth. And I kept looking at these guys because they didn't look like they really, you know, they certainly weren't from Spearman, Texas. And they were in the booth right next to us, Reba. And Rhonda goes, my sister just goes, oh my god, it's three dog night. No. Three dog night had a concert at the state fairgrounds and they stayed at the holiday in. They partied all night. And that's what mom was complaining about was a three dog night. It was an ongoing joke. And I will never forget looking at their drummer, Corey and all those guys. And they were literally in the booth right next to us. And they look like they had had some fun. It's cool. So you listen to three dog night. Oh, I love three dog night. Absolutely. Love the stories of how they found their songs, their Hwood Axton story that they had come to listen to some of Hwood Axton's songs. And he played what he thought they would want. And they said, now he said, well, let's play some pools, drank a beer or whatever. And so he was just letting the real run of all the songs he had written. And then the Jeremiah was a bullfrog song came up, joy of the world. And one of the guys from three dog night said, oh my gosh, that's the one we want. Now if that's not the true story, I'm sorry, but that's what picked him. Someone blamed that on page. It sounds good. Let's go with it. Yeah. Yeah. Stay tuned after the break. We'll be right back with more. All right, Rex. It's time to play a game. We both love games. This will be fun. It's a game called three, two, one, go. I'm going to read off these prompts that end in a blank. And we're going to fill in the blank at the same time right after I say three, two, one. All right. This is to see how well you really know me. Wow. Don't be nervous, but this is a test. Okay. You ready? Okay. We're having a date night at home. My favorite takeout meal is three, two, one, go. Sonic. Oh, perfect. Okay. Number two, we're listening to music. And my favorite song, The Dance Two, comes on. The song that gets me up on my feet is three, two, one, go. Fancy. Fancy. Oh, ball. Okay. Number three. Okay. Okay. Number three, you know to leave me alone when three, two, one, go. You growled at me. What did you say when I'm asleep? Oh, that was cute. Yeah. Oh. Okay. Number four. I love surprises. True or false? Three, two, one, go. True. True. Yep. Number five. It's Sunday morning. And you know, you can find me three, two, one, go. At the coffee camp. Oh, right after church. Number six. We're browsing Netflix on a weekend at home. The show I'm most likely to binge watch is three, two, one, Ozark. Virgin River Ozark. Yeah, I would be. Well, Virgin River. I would be doing that by myself or better call Saul or young Sheldon. True. Very true. I'd binge on all those. All right. Number seven. On a night out, you order me a drink. The drink is three, two, one, go. Moist. In seven. Perfect. We ought to date longer because we're on the same page, babe. I know. Number eight. My dream vacation with you is three, two, one, go. Africa. Perfect. I'll ask you one question real quick. Okay. Do you or don't you put beans in your chili? Three, two, one, go. No. Well, then you're not a Texan. We never put beans in her chili. I know. I'm an oaky. And we do. My podcast. I say you're wrong. Well, let me tell you this. What if I just walk out of here? Where would you go? Your house. Okay. Things went so well. You asking me? I'm going to ask you. Are you ready? Okay. I'm ready. My favorite take out meal is three, two, one, go sushi. Okay. Okay. Perfect. We're listening to music. In my favorite song, the dance two comes on. That song that gets me up and all my feet is three, two, one, go. One of these. Under Jackson Brown. Oh, one of these knots. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You're right. Okay. There were three. You know, to leave me alone. When, three, two, one, go. On watching, on television. Yes. Texas football. Okay. We got it. We got that one. Perfect. Number four. I love surprises. True or false? Three, two, one, go. True. Number five, it's Sunday morning. In my recovery camp. Okay. Perfect. Okay. Number six. But show our most likely to binge watch is three, two, one, go. Breaking bad or better call Saul. Yup. There we go. There we go. Uh-huh. Number seven. On a night out. You ordered me a drink. Fake beer. What was you going to say? I was going to say fake beer. Okay. Good. And eight last but not least. Uh-huh. My dream vacation with you is two, three, two, one, go. Africa. Uh-huh. We are a couple on fire. We know each other really well. You passed the test, did I? Yeah. She passed 110%. Fun. I loved it. Me too. Okay. Wait a minute. I got one other one. What is your favorite breed of dog? Three, two, one, go. Three, two, one. Yeah. Well, Rex, that went very well. I know you. You know me. We're as happy as we can be. This podcast confirms it. And this question there firms it. We are a couple and we are moving forward. So y'all, thanks so much for hanging out with Rex Lynn and myself for the first episode on the second season of Reeve McIntyre Living and Learning. I learned some more about you, Rex. That's a lot of fun. I love that. You know, it's always fun to go to dinner with friends and stuff because you'll tell stories that I hadn't heard before. But I do know something that's very important about a relationship. Whenever you tell a story, no matter how many times I've heard it, it means so much to you if I stay engaged and listen. I can see you looking around at everybody and you come back to me. And if I'm listening and watching, hanging on your every word, your eye sparkle. So that's what I've learned. Maybe I haven't done that enough in the past, but I'm learning about my past mistakes, what I need to do to the special man in my life. And that's you. So thank you very much for being a part of our show today. I hope you had a good time because I sure did. Can I just say that it's been one of the highlights of my career? Oh, thank you. Love you dearly and thank you for having me on the show and I look forward to moving forward in this life with you. Thanks for having me on. Hope I didn't bore too many people. Well, you certainly didn't bore me. Thank you, Rex. Love you with all my heart. And we'll see y'all next time on "Rebume McIntyre's Living and Learn." Well, thanks for listening to Living and Learning with Rebume McIntyre. A Spotify original production. Our lead producer is Dylan Rupert with producer Baron Farmer. Our executive producers are Gina Delfack, Yassie Solick, Danny Trebatch, and Justin Macintosh. Editing by Cheryl Crosby. Original music by Doug Seismore. Special thanks to Leah Edwards, Robert Adler, Casey Simonson, and Kyle Canaro. I'm your host, Rebume McIntyre. Follow us only on Spotify. (upbeat music)