In his mid-70s, Terry Bradshaw is still on stage and says, ‘I’m in my prime.’

Should your travels take you to St. Jo, Texas, population 924, the person standing in front of you that can’t “possibly be him” is probably him.

And should your travels take you to Branson, Missouri, the person whose name is on the theater marquee, who can’t possibly have his own show, is probably him, too.

Terry Bradshaw lives on a ranch in St. Jo, and has his own one-man show in Branson. Go figure.

“The Terry Bradshaw Show” is currently running at the Clay Cooper Theater in Branson, Missouri.

“People have no clue why they even come,” Bradshaw said of his 70-minute show.

For the guy who “couldn’t spell CAT if you spotted him the C and the A,” the kid from Shreveport, Louisiana continues to fool anyone who was ever dumb enough to believe that Terry Bradshaw is, or was ever, dumb.

The former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback and current NFL analyst for FOX Sports lives on a ranch about 90 miles north of Fort Worth with his wife where he raises horses. At the time of this interview, he was washing a car and cleaning his garage.

Even the most passionate, ardent fan of the Dallas Cowboys who was born and raised to hate all things Pittsburgh Steelers would have to admit Bradshaw was a great player, and a man who continues to lead a fascinating life.

He recently spoke with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and he remains one of those subjects who makes every subject interesting, and fun.

Star-Telegram: You have been open your battles with bladder and skin cancers, how is your health now?

Terry Bradshaw: I am cancer free. This is my second or third year free. I got through with one treatment, so thank God I am blessed enough to be cancer free. I still get preventative treatments for bladder cancer, and for Merkel cell there is no preventative treatment.

S-T: What prompted you to take the stage for a one-man show?

TB: Seven years ago a friend, who used to choreograph for Michael Jackson and some for Elvis (Presley) had seen me give a talk. She said, ‘Oh my God, you’re so animated. I know you can sing, have you thought about putting together a show for Vegas and taking it to Broadway?’ I said, ‘Absolutely not.’

I had not thought about it, but I sat down with my former manager, who has passed away, and we stormed an idea out for a show. It was, ‘Terry Bradshaw: America’s Favorite Dumb Blond.’ We worked on the script, and we hired a guy who wrote six songs and they were about my life growing up in Louisiana. Then my time in Pittsburgh and struggles with (Steelers head coach Chuck Noll).

It took me about a year to learn it all. Then I got busy with horse operations, and then speeches, traveling. I finally went to the Mirage Hotel (in Las Vegas) and I did the show for two nights, and it averaged about 2,000 people. We got excited about it, and then took the show on the road to casinos, and a few theaters.

Then my son-in-law got killed, so I stopped it. Then I came back with my daughter do it, and then COVID hit. So that was another delay.

Then we got a residency at the Luxor (hotel in Las Vegas), and we did that a year there. And we got about 200 a night; the theater was perfect. Someone who worked in the show asked me if I had thought about Branson, and the crowds we got were 600 or 800.

And that’s when decided to take the show to Pittsburgh, Tulsa, Shreveport. Now I am adding more music, less talk. More modern stuff. I do this because it’s fun. I love singing and making people feel good.

S-T: You did TV and movies, and you played football in front of 65,000, were you nervous about doing something like this in front of an audience in a theater?

TB: Not really, no. No. 1, people don’t know that I can sing, so that’s a surprise. They might not know I’m a guy of humor. If I had not gotten the impression at all that people didn’t enjoy themselves, and had it not been received favorably, that would have been OK.

Then I would have continued with my corporate speeches and with Fox (Sports). I would have been disappointed, but not hurt or embarrassed.

The question I asked myself was, ‘Why would anyone want to watch Terry Bradshaw tell his life story? That makes no sense.’ During the shows, I talk to the crowd quite a bit. I will ask them, ‘How many people came here not having any idea what was going to happen?’

S-T: You spoke in an interview, years ago, about the benefits of counseling at a time when maybe there was a stigma attached to that. Do you think football, and the NFL, is a place where that is accepted?

TB: I spent three years in counseling dealing with depression, and how to cope with it. I am a celebrity, and a football player, and we have an audience that really we are not qualified to get. If we tell our story they may be like, ‘OK, so it wasn’t hard or courageous at all.’

I think (people admitting they see a counselor) is fine now. It’s not the ‘50s and ‘60s tough guy stuff. When I was in high school, you never had a water break. Men don’t cry. All of that (expletives). It was pounded into your brain. And it does have an effect.

As a player, I would get hurt and play, or take shots to play. I hurt my elbow and I was told you can play through it. It cost me my career.

Now, if I had come out of college during social media, I would not have been the No. 1 pick in the draft. Small school. I don’t test well, which doesn’t mean I am dumb. In football, I’m good. With horses, I’m great. In fishing, I am focused. In geometry or math, screw you.

S-T: When you consider where you came from to where you are today, and all that you have done, can you ever believe this is your life?

TB: I like to use this famous line from the movie ‘Tombstone.’ When (Johnny Ringo) says to Doc Holliday, ‘I heard you retired.’ And Doc Holliday says, “Not me. I’m in my prime.’

Howie Long told me, ‘I can’t believe you’re doing this.’ The (one man play). I have found that there is a big part of me, a big character or personality, that really yearns to please people. I never felt being funny or self-deprecating was a bad thing, although I was led to believe it was.

I think I’ve had an impact on people in TV. I love to entertain the viewer, and I do enjoy being different.