The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

 

NBC, Summer 2000

 

Jay: Hi Martina! Nice to see you! Very nice! Have a seat. Welcome back!

 

Martina: Thank you.

 

Jay: (...) when you guys come to show, you always bring the kids...

 

Martina: Mhm.

 

Jay: (...) kind of day care back here. Now... I hope you don't mind... When you were rehearsing today, your daughter was watching you. How old is she? Two?

 

Martina: She's just a... She's about two years and four months.

 

Jay: Two years old. Well, I hope you don't mind this but we (...) recorded this. And she was... she was singing. Can we... can I show that? Would you mind? Do you mind if I show it? Well, here's your daughter, take a look.

 

They show a clip of little Emma singing.

 

Jay: There you go, that's pretty good.

 

Martina: Oh...

 

Jay: That's Emma?

 

Martina: That's Emma. That's her first time singing with the band.

 

Jay: Wow! Well, she's very cute. That's really good.

 

Martina: Thanks.

 

Jay: And you still got the bus thing? You're still on the bus?

 

Martina: We're on the bus. Actually something funny happened a while back... I got left... My bus left me. We were doing a radio...

 

Jay: (...)

 

Martina: Well, we were doing this... Like we were going and visit radio stations...

 

Jay: Right, right...

 

Martina: Had to do a morning show, get up at 5 am. So John had gone, he... I... I went in a hotel and slept so I can get ready in the hotel. And he didn't wanna get up at 5 and (...) up to the bus. He wanted to get a good night sleep, (...), we've been married for twelve years... So he slept on the bus. Well, I wake up and I get ready and I walk... I walked out and looked out - no bus... Anywhere... So I went to the nearest payphone and I called John on his cellphone and said... He said 'Hello', he was just asleep. I said 'Where are you?'. He said 'We're going down the road...' (Martina imitates John looking around) 'Where are you?' And I said 'I'm at the hotel'. So they had to turn around and come back to get me.

 

Jay: Sounds like a one (...) arrangement.

 

Martina: Yeah...

 

Jay: You know, what a good deal, he got to sleep on the bus. Yeah... And he gets to do the dishes. What a lucky guy.

 

Martina (laughs): Oh....

 

Jay: Martina McBride! Emotion is the new CD. How great, thank you, Martina.