Interview: Dixie Longate of DIXIE'S NEVER WEAR A TUBE TOP WHILE RIDING A MECHANICAL BULL at McDavid Studio

Earlier this week, I had the chance to chat with Dixie Longate, the hilarious entertainer whose famous Tupperware Party has conquered just about all of the world. Dixie's new show, NEVER WEAR A TUBE TOP WHILE RIDING A MECHANICAL BULL opened this week at Bass Hall's McDavid Studio in Fort Worth. Dixie told me all about her love for the South, and what kind of person makes the perfect party guest at her shows. Check out our conversation below.

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Dixie Longate: Well Hello, Kyle West!

Kyle West: Well hello, Dixie! People don't usually know who I am before I introduce myself!

Dixie: Oh my Lord, it popped up. It's very scientifical! It says "Kyle West is calling you: make sure your have panties on!"

Kyle: [Laughs]

Dixie: How is your day going so far?

Kyle: My day is going great. You are about to start tech week, aren't you?

Dixie: Oh my Lord, it's crazy. We've got the mechanical bull up and running. I'm so excited, I can't stand it! This is our very first market with the show; this is a world premiere. It's bigger than the Tupperwear party, so we got a lot of little things to work out here and there.

Kyle: You've obviously performed in Texas before, so you must have a connection to the area. Can you tell me why you picked Fort Worth to debut your new show?

Dixie: It is one of my favorite cities in the whole world. This is my fifth time here, actually! I meet people and they say, "Come back! Come behind the dumpster and rub against my leg." It's so neighborly; I just can't stand it!

Kyle: Well, that's sounds fun!

Dixie: It is! You know, sometimes when you're having sex and you say, "Hey, you're sweet," and they say "Well Ma'am, thank you very kindly." and they tip their hat while you're doing something with your mouth? It is the nicest people in the world here! You know, I've been in five different countries now. I've been to places that I didn't even know had food [snort]. Oh my Lord, it's been crazy. It's nice to be here in the South though, because everybody's much more neighborly. I mean, they're neighborly in the North, but not like you are down here. I mean, you'll have your goat come over and start licking my leg, and just do neighborly things like that.

Kyle: While on tour, I imagine you must meet a lot of different people who ask about you and your shows. How do you typically introduce yourself?

Dixie: Well, you know what? I just introduce myself the way God intended me to: "I'm Dixie Longate, and I'm the Tupperware lady!" People say, "You sell Tupperware?" and I say, "I do. I've been selling it for fourteen years and helping people with their food storage needs." And then I tell them about my program and all different things. With the new one, there's all kinds of different questions, because everybody thinks that I still been talking about Tupperware in the new program and I'm not. It's all kinds of different stories. It's super fun!

Kyle: Does that mean people cannot buy Tupperware from you this time around?

Dixie: Listen, I am a Tupperware lady through and through, and I'm always going to give people the opportunity to buy the fantastic plastic crap, but this program don't talk about it much. If at the end of the party, people want to come out and say, "Hey, I sure do need a bowl," I'm gonna sell it to them! What kind of Christian woman would I be if I said they did not have the opportunity to buy a bowl? I'm a giver; I can't help it!

Kyle: Well, what can people expect from coming to your new show? You said it's a lot different that your last one. What's new this time around?

Dixie: Well, what it is, is you know how when you drink you get smarter? Like when you at somewhere like a honky tonk, or at a bar, and you put ideas together with your friends and you keep drinking...and all of a sudden those ideas become bigger than you ever thought, and you think, "This is the best idea I ever had! I have to share it with the world!" Well that's what me and my best friend Georgia Jean did. One night we was planning a party, because she was getting married at the time, and I starting writing down the ideas: basically, ideas to take over the world and make the world a better place. So what I've done is taken all them ideas and I brought [them] here to Bass Hall to share with everybody. It's like a recharge for your life.

Kyle: Wow! After Fort Worth, where do you take the show from there?

Dixie: Then I go to Des Moines, so I'll be there for the Christmas and the Jew's Christmas and for the New Year's. Then, Lord, I go to Kansas City in January and I go to Buffalo, New York. I go to Orlando, which is where Tupperware headquarters is. Oh my Lord, I can't even stand it. I'm switching between my Tupperware program and my new tube top program.

Kyle: You're so busy; I'm impressed!

Dixie: I can't help it. It keeps me away from the kids and the law, so it's a good thing.

Kyle: Tell me, who do you like to invite to your shows?

Dixie: You now what? I want anyone who's going to have a good time. I want people who want to come to a party. I want people who like to fill their tumbler up with something they can stick in their mouth a get a little bit fuzzy. That's what I want: anybody who likes to laugh and have a good time. It can be a little old lady with no panties on; it can be somebody who's just gotten married; it can be a man that wants to have sex with me (accidentally or otherwise). I don't much care for the kids, because they're sticky and they mess things up!

Kyle: Well, thank you so much for making me laugh. I wish all of my interviews were this much fun.

Dixie: Oh, stop it with your nice words. You are sweeter than poop on a stick.

Kyle: Oh behalf of Texas, we are so excited that you are back. I can't wait to see your show next week!

Dixie: Oh hooker, you handsome devil, I appreciate that. Have a good rest of your week, now. Bye bye!

Kyle: Bye!

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