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Ruthie interviewed on B-97
January 24, 2000
HAPPY BIRTHDAY is played.
Booker: Some people call her Ruthie the Duck Lady. It’s officially Ruthie the Duck Girl.
Stacey: Well, it can go either way.
Booker: Ruthie!
Ruthie: Good morning, Sugarplum!
Stacey: Oh, happy birthday.
Ruthie: Yeah.
Booker: Yeah. Hey, Mr. Gary Moody was there yesterday, huh?
Ruthie: Oh, how you know he was there? My boyfriend, my husband.
Booker: Is he your boyfriend or your husband?
Ruthie: My husband.
Booker: Oh, he is your husband.
Ruthie: Yeah.
Booker: Did you guys get a little nookie going on after the party?
Ruthie: Yeah, I was dancing, huh?
Booker: Mr. Moody danced with ya, huh?
Ruthie: Yeah.
Booker: So, was it just another birthday party, or was this one a special one Miss Ruthie?
Ruthie: No, I might have another one.
Booker: Oh, you’re gonna have another one.
Ruthie: Yeah, on a Sunday.
Booker: Sunday?
Ruthie: Yeah.
Stacey: Oh, this is just the early one.
Ruthie: Yeah.
Booker: Wow. You deserve all kinds of birthday parties, huh?
Ruthie: Yeah.
Booker: Ruthie, what’s it like to be a local celebrity?
Ruthie: I sure do. What about you?
Booker: Like me?
Ruthie: (barely intelligible) Do you like boys?
Booker: No, you’re much more famous than I am, Miss Ruthie.
Ruthie: Yeah.
Booker: Yeah. So, do you get bothered by people always comin’ up tryin’ to talk to ya?
Ruthie: Uh huh?
Booker: Does it bother you when people always come up and try to talk to ya?
Ruthie: Yeah.
Booker: It does?
Ruthie: Yeah.
Booker: Yeah. You like your privacy?
Ruthie: What?
Booker: You like your privacy?
Ruthie: Yeah, you?
Booker: Yeah… yeah.
Stacey: So how do you like your new home, Miss Ruthie?
Ruthie: Oh, I’m doing fine!
Stacey: Yeah?
Ruthie: Same thing like you do.
Stacey: Do you miss the French Quarter?
Ruthie: No, no, no.
Booker: Not at all?
Ruthie: Bad to worse. One foot in the graveyard, one foot out.
Booker: Starting a new life, huh Ruthie?
Ruthie: Yeah, my new life.
Booker: Yeah, you rite.
Ruthie: Yeah, I’d like to go to Minnesota.
Booker: You’re going to Minnesota?
Ruthie: Yeah.
Booker: Are you gonna go be with your husband Gary Moody?
Ruthie: Yeah.
Booker: You are?!
Ruthie: I like it better over there.
Booker: Oh, Ruthie. It’s cold in Minnesota.
Ruthie: Don’t ask me. I don’t want to know.
Booker: I don’t think you’d like it in Minnesota. It’s too cold.
Ruthie: I got my cold pants on, I’m gonna go.
Brad: Are you gonna heat things up?
Ruthie: Yeah.
Brad: You and Mr. Gary Moody?
Ruthie: Yeah. My duck’s going too.
Brad: Did you drink a lot last night?
Ruthie: No, you?
Booker: (laughs) Did you drink any of that Budweiser?
Ruthie: I bet you got loaded last night.
Stacey:(laughs) He did Miss Ruthie. He was watching football.
Ruthie: Yeah.
Booker: Hey, Miss Ruthie?
Ruthie: Yeah.
Booker: You got any ducks there at the nursing home?
Ruthie: Yeah.
Booker: They let you have some ducks?
Ruthie: Huh?
Booker: You got any ducks?
Ruthie: Yeah, I got a duck.
Booker: At the nursing home?
Ruthie: It make do-do (nap) like you in bed with a girlfriend.
Booker: Ohhh.
Stacey: Mmmm.
Booker: Do you ever go visit some of your old ducks in City Park?
Ruthie: No.
Booker: You never do?
Ruthie: No, I don’t take ‘em to the City Park, you.
Booker: I bet they miss you.
Ruthie: No they don’t.
Booker: Hey, Ruthie. We just wanted to say how much you have entertained us over the years and how beloved you are, and how near and dear you are to some many people’s hearts in this city. And you’re just truly the epitome of New Orleans.
Ruthie: Don’t ask me. You ask too many questions, you.
Stacey: (laughs)
Booker: I have no idea what you just said, but I’ll go along with you. Ruthie, we love you, and very very happy birthday.
Ruthie: Yeah.
Stacey: Happy birthday Miss Ruthie.
Ruthie: Yeah.
Booker: (parroting Ruthie) Yeah, how you know?
Ruthie: I think I got a real mind like you.