Your son, Shelby, I did not know until today,
he's a race car driver?
Yeah, yeah.
(audience applauding)
There he is!
Look at that.
That's Shelby!
Have you ever driven one of those?
No.
Well, why not?
It looks fun.
He could show you how, right?
It looks like a toy, doesn't it?
It really does.
Yeah, when I first went to the Daytona Speedway
and he was racing at Daytona, they drop that green flag
and here they come racing around.
And I was sitting there filming him
and all I could see was his car
and then underneath the helmet,
was little, bitty baby face, you know.
It just broke my heart.
I was like, "Ah."
So I went over and I sat down.
I was about to pass out
and Carolyn, my tour manager came over, she said,
"Are you alright?"
And I said, "Oh my gosh, gimme a second."
And then I watched the rest of the race.
It was alright.
(audience applauding)
I know. That's pretty...
I know. Hits your heart.
I know.
But did you see the picture
a while ago of my grandson?
Lemme see, put the baby back up.
Ah! [Reba] There he is!
Look at this baby!
It's a baby dog!
That's my grandson, Watson.
Oh, Watson is adorable.
Smart, smart as he can be.
Well, yeah, his name is Watson.
Yeah, I just love him.
I love Corgis.
He's so cute. Because they're short.
(audience laughter)
And so am I.
So, I get them.
You know, Funny
I didn't know until this morning
that my niece, Jessica, has something in common with you.
What's that?
I did not know that you were a barrel racer.
Oh, yeah.
That means she's a hell of a rider, by the way.
(audience gasp)
Barrel racing is a horse involved sport,
(Reba laughs)
not a...
(Rachael laughter) It's a sport--
Not like rolling barrels down a hill.
Yeah, we didn't do that.
What you do is, it's a sport in rodeo.
You've got three barrels out in the arena,
kind of in a triangle and
you go around in a cloverleaf pattern.
It's really cool.
Time to vent.
If you knock over a barrel,
you get an additional five seconds, which is not good.
I wasn't that good, but I had the best time with it.
Yeah, my niece loves it.
Yeah.
I grew up near one of the oldest rodeos in America
at the Painted Pony, up in Lake Luzerne, New York.
No kidding.
I still live there.
I didn't go very far.
(laughter)
Are you a speed demon behind the wheel of a car, too?
No, no.
Oh, I drive like a granny, but yeah.
Yeah, I'm...no, I don't drive fast.
So, it must really freak you out
that your baby goes that fast.
I don't know where he got it.
I mean, he was,
I thought he was going to stay in the music business
but then, one day,
he came home from college his freshman year and he said,
"I want to come home."
I said, "What do you mean?"
He's got the need for speed.
He said, "I don't like college."
I said, "Oh, who doesn't like college?"
(audience laughter)
I had the best time of my life in college.
And he said, "No, I want to be a race car driver."
And I said, "Who are you?"
(Audience laughter)
I said, "I don't understand this."
And what did you do with my son?
Exactly, where is he?
Bring him back.
And so I bribed him.
I said, "If you will finish the year, I'll send you..."
He told me about the Bondurant Racing School in Phoenix.
Right.
I said, "I'll send you to that
and we'll see if you've got any talent."
Any stuff.
Yeah, and he did.
Wow.
Yeah, so we were thrilled to death.
So, he just knew.
He had like a little inner voice.
Yeah.
Isn't that funny?
Really makes you believe in a soul,
that people are just-- Oh!
Born with that thing To do.
Yeah, absolutely.
So, 15 times.
Why would you take the same gig 15 times?
Yeah, I know.
(Rachael laughter)
Bored. Bored.
(Audience laughter)
Is it weird to host a show when you know everybody
that's nominated and everybody in the show?
No, it's pretty good.
It's more fun.
Yeah, because you're rooting for everybody.
I'm rooting for everybody.
That's what everybody says.
"Who do you thinks gonna win in this one?"
I can't say in that category who's gonna win.
They're all my friends.
I'm pulling for all of them.
(audience applause)
See, and I would, but I still,
even if I was hanging out with my friends
and it was a super fun night and all that,
I would never take that gig
because you have to change too much.
Oh, yeah, five or six times.
Oh.
It used to be fun, the first year I did it.
And you do it once and then you've got to do it again.
And then they expect more and more and more.
And I never want to disappoint my fans,
so that's the hardest part of doing an award show is
the finding the clothes.
Is the changes, right?
So, they said, "Do you want to do it?"
And I said, "Let me talk to my stylist, first."
Yep.
"Can you do it?"
"Yeah, we can do it."
"I'll do it."
(audience applause)
There you go.
Oh, you know it just occurred to me,
that you probably have as many ACMs as you have hosted it.
How many do you have?
(audience applause)
Do you even know?
No.
Do you even know?
Do you know what your total count is for Grammies and ACMs?
No.
Where do you keep them?
Do you have a warehouse?
No, I keep them where I can seem them.
For real.
Yeah.
Yeah, I've got them--
That what I said, like a wing?
(Reba laughter)
Was that the Grammy for the gospel album?
Uh huh, that was, yeah.
Do you even know how many Grammies you got?
Three.
Okay, good.
(audience applause)
That's countable, countable.
(audience applause)
(tinkling bells)