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Dolly Parton<\/a> makes an appearance on Monday’s <\/span>The Drew Barrymore Show<\/span><\/em>, where the 77-year-old musician and host\u00a0<\/span>Drew Barrymore<\/a> engage in a conversation about Parton’s steadfast refusal to embrace text messaging and her enduring love for fax machines.<\/span><\/p>\n Parton shares her unique approach to communication in the digital age. “I always say I’m a low-tech girl in a high-tech world, but I surround myself with all these people that are into this high-tech world. I don’t want to talk to everybody that wants to talk to me. I don’t text because I don’t want to have to answer,” Parton explains to Barrymore.<\/span><\/p>\n “If somebody calls me, I’ll answer if I want to talk to them or I’ll call them back when I can. Otherwise, I got too much to think about to clutter my mind up with everything else. I’m certainly not a stupid person. I could learn it if I wanted to, but I’d rather just have my fax machine, call in my creative stuff to my crew, and I’ve got the best crew in the world,” Parton adds.<\/span><\/p>\n Parton’s unconventional love for faxing has been well-documented, with her goddaughter, Miley Cyrus, and friend, Reba McEntire, sharing amusing anecdotes about it in the past.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Cyrus recalled on <\/span>The Graham Norton Show<\/span><\/em> in October 2021 that Parton sent her a fax to collaborate on a holiday album, emphasizing Parton’s preference for this outdated form of communication.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “She gets upset when you don’t respond,” Cyrus said, acknowledging that she doesn’t even own a fax machine. “It’s like, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t even know. Half the people watching your show might not even know what a fax machine is!'”<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Parton’s affinity for faxes was also mentioned by McEntire, who collaborated with her on a 2022 duet. “You don’t call Dolly, you fax her,” McEntire explained in an interview. “You fax your people and your people talk to her people. That’s the only way I know to get ahold of her.”<\/span><\/p>\n