The Cowboy Hat Interview | movie | 2025 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

An unreleased taping of a defunct late-night program reveals the artifice behind the show and its very special guest. | dG1fYm5NXzVJcnZJN1k

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00:00Wonderful, Manny. So a top-of-the-hour question would have to be,

00:04what inspired your first runway show in, well, half a decade?

00:07Well, my contract, for one.

00:12Nah, for real. It was a sensational story, Blanket.

00:16I was walking downtown one day searching for something that perhaps I didn't know I lost.

00:22I digress.

00:23I've seen this beautiful storefront, big display windows and such.

00:29Nothing like I'd ever seen in my old little hometown.

00:32Couldn't shake the picture from my head.

00:34Ah, I see. So you'd say you're inspired by-

00:36Steady, honey. Let me finish, will you?

00:38I mosey on inside, eye out for a new pair of flares, and that's when I see it.

00:44Get this, big old display case, way up at the front, enamoring old thing, the kind that holds crowns.

00:52So I nod up to the fine piece at the counter, and I ask her, I say this,

01:00How much would this dome here run me? Looks mighty sturdy.

01:05She looks at it, back at me. She says to me,

01:08Oh, this here? Ain't never had a price on that bear hat. You want to name your price?

01:16Along to the owner's grandfather, apparently. A rail worker, according to her.

01:20And I, uh, I looked at this, well, this young lady, and I said,

01:27How could you put a price on such an authentic, work-worn item?

01:35Something so invaluable, so...

01:39Otherworldly. I digress.

01:43Wow, sensational. Uh, how much did you end up purchasing it for?

01:47By God, I stuck up the damn place and nearly robbed it off her!

01:53I'm kidding, I'm kidding.