Name: Ronnie Dunn's Tense Weekend at Johnny Cash's House
Uploaded: 2024-10-02T22:20:17.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ronnie Dunn's Tense Weekend at Johnny Cash's House' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-02. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ronnie Dunn's Tense Weekend at Johnny Cash's House' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-02. Transcript available.

so you guys got to meet johnny cash yeah no way yeah what was he like like just
as a regular guy
was he like a friendly guy was he kind of like a stoic guy stoic quiet by
nature when you first
meet him just did and and that's that in and of itself it's intimidating oh
yeah and uh then as
you get to know him he's a 17 year old kid you know that that was it i mean he'd
do just crazy
funny as all get out yeah yeah my wife uh her first husband uh in in the car
one piece at a time
uh and johnny sing about it one piece of time anyway built that car he built
the car oh built
that car one piece at a time i'm sorry yeah the song he built the car so he uh
or johnny really
built a car so i'm confused no her ex-wife built the car about the song that
johnny sang got it
he liked a song and him and his bud said man let's let's build it let's
actually build it
they're always going around they own cold strip coal mines in oklahoma and he
uh johnny did or his
friends no no janine my wife okay got it yeah so she was they were well
acquainted they they all became
fast friends travel the world together i mean really really tight and uh so
when when i was brought in
her husband passed away and uh when i was brought in it's like she's she's
marrying or dating a musician
you know and uh janine goes i'm gonna take you to john and june's house in nashville
first time
she did it from oklahoma and i went i don't really want to do that you know i
just kind of saw that one
coming you know and uh uh john and of course john's real quiet and would you
wear over that you get
dressed up or what you know black all black no jeans what i have on now this
kind of stuff and uh
were you nervous or not you remember yeah yeah i was always i was super shy and
quiet and then i'm
kind of coming out of my shell a little bit these days but uh
he was obviously glad to see her i mean i'm the new kid on the block you know
you don't just
long drinking your girlfriend yeah your girlfriend bringing you to over to meet
her parents who's just
pervert or whatever yeah yeah i mean i don't know you but yeah i mean i'm a pervert
so i'm sure most
of us all that goes with it okay yeah you can't be in a band not be a pervert
yeah anyway and johnny knew
that he'd be a pervert himself oh yeah who isn't man right dude if you show me
70 people yeah i'll show
you 70 perverts you would have been you're a comedian yeah yeah you're a pervert
wow that's pretty
fascinating though and did you did people look up to him as like a like kind of
like was he this
was he as uh because now he's almost he there's an idolatry about him in a way
you know you see the
t-shirts with the johnny cash and just his cash on the like no he's but he's
always been that way
listen here's a funny thing uh so the log cabin that they let us live in june
did that for janine
not for me you know called her and said look okay this guy's gonna try to make
it in the music
business you know good luck it ain't gonna happen but we'll give you a place to
live okay right we'll
give you a flammable home temporary residence okay because it's not gonna last
long until i find you
a guy with money all right so thank god we have these hits right off the bat
and suddenly june goes
whoo okay you're in you know she told janine during that first visit she said
look here's how it goes
down she says it the chance the odds are a million to one no 10 billion to one
you know that they'll make
it and and if if he does it's not gonna last long it's just that's not that's
the nature of the business
and uh number three they're all crazy if they do make it for a long time yeah
you know so she
she called her babies uh it was waylon jennings willie nelson hank jr uh uh larry
gatlin i mean just
the wild boys of that of that era oh yeah the feral yeah so she goes you know
just just look you know
the uninsurable they put us through hell right she said so get ready you know
she said there's no there's
no good to it there's no no so anyway where was i uh with johnny you said was
he stoic and stuff
first day there june takes janine and they leave the house to go shopping oh so
it's just you and him
and me and john in that house alone okay i always go in the bathroom and stay
there for at least a
minute to get ready to and yes sir and like i'm the unwelcome guest or at least
i'm feeling that way
oh for sure you are and and they're they're john's quiet anyway he does he hasn't
he hasn't like
and what's he just polishing a gun or something no no probably yes pretty close
to it he comes out of
far into the house there are two black uh leather recliners in front of this tv
and uh he sits down
and he's watching like cnn or whatever and i sit in the next one just sitting
there and no one says
anything i'm like the longest day of my life i didn't know what to say to him
because he didn't talk
but now i know know what i know he didn't talk to anybody right uh and all of a
sudden out of the blue
he goes you see these uh you see these these news reels here these these things
he said that's a loop
and he said you know i'm an addict and i went okay and he goes i used to sit
and watch tv for days
until those loops would end and then he said it would start a whole other cycle
of the news and he's
explaining you know how tv works to me and that stuff and through the eyes of
being high yeah
you know and shortly after that it seemed like two days that we were sitting
there it's probably a
couple hours and uh janine and june come back and they've been shopping at steinmark
and uh
i like steinmark actually some of the sleeves are a little different well june
took her there in her
new uh blue rolls royce that john had just given her for her so there's there's
a little dot you know
ying yang there yeah janine was just pale white now she knows no strangers so
you never see janine down
so she kind of walked and she was like she'd just been scared by a ghost and uh
so i kind of peeled away
and better in the back of the house i said what happened she goes i'll tell you
later i can't
talk about it well june had read her the right act on on all this stuff i just
told you about you know
they're not going to last and i said can we go now she goes no we got one more
day one more day right
but no sooner no sooner did we get here and and they were the most absolute
supportive people in the
world john came up one day we were getting ready to shoot the the cd cover for
brand new man the first
cd and uh i said he he was always into everything he says what are you gonna
wear you know how you
gonna look i can't do your hair or that kind of stuff into image i said well i
don't know i said don't
i've got a few things ideas he goes all right i'll be back he said left getting
his mercedes he shot out
it's down the hill he hadn't needed a goat to get up the mountain to it becomes
fly he goes flying down
the hill i guess he goes home comes back in an hour or so opens the trunk of
the car reaches in and
hands me this black suit and he goes he goes i had this back in 1972 it was
made by manuel and he goes
i was sick back then which meant i was he was sick yeah right so he was skinny
enough for me to wear my
skinny ass to get out that suit you know he goes don't tell june she doesn't
like me giving stuff away
and i have it today i wore it on the back of that cd cover oh wow yeah that's
that's crazy oh it was
hey man check the pockets dude let's party it was that thing's got something
she was something and the
parties there too was strictly lemonades lemonade and iced tea really keeping
it sober keeping it
completely sober uh on the table for sure oh yeah you know and nothing in the
back kitchen i mean she
she was she was pretty she wore the pants in that deal huh yeah at that was she
pretty much uh yeah
he probably needed somebody to really care care for him yeah let me add spice
to that that little
story is that that particular weekend that we were there he was on furlough
from rehab okay and how
long do you have to be really like you get furloughed i thought that was a
military i don't know
johnny cash right only johnny cash would have went to right only he would have
went to boot camp right
right and so all of a sudden at the end how many tours did he do right oh he
did a lot but the day
the day before he's supposed to go back this is a saturday he's going back on
sunday he comes down
with the flu yeah june's having no part of that she's completely just uh no we're
done so she wanted to
talk to him and we're caught in the middle of that and i'm going chicken well
can we go home now can
we go home no no no not yet please go home janine can tell the story better i
can but so june goes to
janice goes y'all have to drive me to the hospital take him to the hospital
here in hendersonville make
sure just see what's wrong with him she says i'm not talking to him says he can
walk as far as i'm
concerned okay we got it so we get in the car start to get in the car john
wants to drive
yeah okay so john drives he drove yeah man but it was like pedal to the metal
boom off all the way
pedal to the balance and janine so he just drives you start nodding off and he
nods
so like we get to the hospital and they're rolling him in in a wheelchair and
uh janine goes up to the
desk to give them all the information and they take john back and he's there
maybe an hour and then we come
back and uh he goes up to his room you know his hospital room at the house he's
playing it up man
he's like i gotta go back you're going back to rehab uh so june goes well how
did it go janine she
goes well they asked for his doctor and june goes oh hon he's in rehab the
doctor was the doctor was in
rehab okay we can go now right pretty soon wow that's a great story that's my
first johnny cash
and june carter unbelievable yeah experience
Thank you.