Blocks w/ Neal Brennan - Leanne Morgan

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

Neal Brennan interviews Leanne Morgan ('I'm Every Woman' on Netflix, What in the World?! book, 'Leanne' on Netflix) about the things that make her feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how she is persevering despite these blocks.  00:00 Intro 00:44 The White Ail Wong 1:00 Neal & Leanne’s relationship  1:49 Scared of LA 3:30 Leanne’s backstory 5:20 Femininity & Masculinity 7:08 Chuck Morgan 8:20 Standup career 16:58 Sponsor: BetterHelp 18:54 Sponsor: Modern Mammals 20:23 Wanting to Go To Hollywood 27:28 College in Nashville 30:00 Ambition 34:00 Rejection 39:00 Sponsor: Huel 40:39 Sponsor: Mando 43:37 Living in a Double Wide 53:42 Imposter Syndrome 58:00 Spirituality  1:01:39 Low self-esteem 1:04:38 Acting ---------------------------------------------------------- Watch 'Leanne' on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81752004 Watch 'I'm Every Woman' on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81636889 Follow Neal Brennan: https://www.instagram.com/nealbrennan https://twitter.com/nealbrennan https://www.tiktok.com/@mrnealbrennan Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557 Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ([e-mail])  Sponsors: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://www.betterhelp.com/neal and get on your way to being your best self. Visit https://www.modernmammals.com to shop for hair products. Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with Mando and get 20% off + free shipping with promo code [NEAL] at https://www.shopmando.com! #mandopod  Get Huel today with this exclusive offer for New Customers of 15% OFF with code NEAL at https://huel.com/NEAL (Minimum $75 purchase).” Sponsor Blocks: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/blocks ---------------------------------------------------------- #podcast #comedy #mentalhealth #earthquake #comedian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, before you watch this thing, hit subscribe, would ya? Hello, it's me, Neil Burnham. This is Blocks Podcast. We always have guests, right? Some are a little more illustrious than others. I'm gonna put us in a secret honey bun category. Aren't we kinda secret honey buns, you and I? Yes, we are, Neil.

I didn't wanna bring it up, but we are. No, we're secret honey buns, and I don't know why I look like I'm swimming. Well, am I? You know, I want my stomach to look nice We're never gonna be in that shot. I'm gonna take this baby off. Okay Whoo, but fell in love with this woman five years ago on Instagram and then Netflix fell in love with you and they gave you a special called I'm every woman and it was a you're like the white alley

Wong, that's how I see Exploded exploded on Netflix and then she has a book called what in the world and she's got a sitcom coming on Netflix called Leanne ladies and gentlemen Leanne Morgan is here can you believe it um we you were I don't know what it is about you and I, but there's just something immediately. You came to my, we met in Montreal two years ago, you came to my show, which nobody ever does.

Nobody come, we don't go to each other's shows. And you came to the show and you're just, I get it. You were my favorite. You were brilliant and my favorite and then we Kissed in the street. I think I kissed you on the mouth. I don't know To your heart. Well, that's yeah No, it's we just we just got it. We can't stream. We have it. You can't play it guys You can't fake it. Look at that wide shot. We're both staring at ourselves

I know and I felt good about this. You feel good. All this Hollywood stuff, Neil. We had a conversation on the phone about six or eight weeks ago, just a general what is happening with Hollywood. Where did you end up? I'm okay. And I think I know I'm sad.

I didn't know that I was going to get in a deep depression when this stopped. I don't know that I was gonna get in a deep depression when this stopped. I don't think I'm gonna get in a deep depression. But I came out here, I was scared to death of LA. I saw a lot of things now that were frightening. Then I, you know, because I'm from Tennessee and we don't have all that. And then the fires.

I was evacuated during the fires. And then I was doing a show in Palm Springs and the house that I'm renting got broken into by acrobatic men from another country is what they tell me. And they got on each other's shoulders and shimmied up the side of this stucco, and they got it on film. But they didn't take anything because I don't have anything out here. You know I don't have aliens out here You know, I don't have a yes out here. They took some like yeast infection medicine. Where are they? Where? Where are you just out of the case? They want to drive to Louisville or wherever you're where where's yours good stuff?

Where is my what you're good stuff your valuables? Where could they find your value? I live in Knoxville, Tennessee. That's where I've raised my children. Great. And I've been out here for seven months. I rented a beautiful home in Studio City. I had a beautiful view of, you know, Hollywood stuff. And I've, and I, but when I first got in, I thought, what have I done? It was frightening. I don't know. Okay, but all right. Here's what I relate to you about and what I just inherently like about you is

without even knowing you're, because by the time I saw you were in your late 40s, right? Honey, early 50s. Early 50s. In Montreal, yes. No, no, no, but I'm saying on Instagram or whatever. Yeah, but probably. five years ago. So yeah Yeah, it's your you're very easy to root for and then once I read your backstory, it's like exactly what I thought it was

Like it to what you were selling jewelry Yes, that now that was over 25 years ago. But yes after I graduated from the University of Tennessee My husband moved me to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains bought a used mobile home business It's over 25 years ago, but yes, after I graduated from the University of Tennessee, my husband moved me to the foothills of the Appalachia Mountains, bought a used mobile home business. I had my first baby, Charlie, and he's now 31 years old. I wanted to nurse him, stay at home, but we needed money, and I started selling jewelry, like women sell Tupperware and Mary Kay. And I was funny. Yeah.

You know, I was. And I would get up, I was supposed to be talking about jewelry, and I would talk about, I started really some of my first material, developing my first 45 in women's living rooms. They thought I was funny. They booked me a year in advance. The company started noticing, asked me to speak at their big things. So they would book you just a ladies house and she'd bring neighbors. Yeah, and nobody wants to go to those things. No.

Everybody's like, oh crap, Kathy's having a candy party, we've all gotta go and buy something. I think that it started out like that, but people, women thought I was funny, and they were like, you gotta hear her. And so they would book more and more. What's funny is you posted a photo, here's, I just, I'm gonna be all over the place.

You posted a photo from when you were in college, and you've mentioned, I think in your act, about being boy crazy. Oh yeah. And I kinda still am. Yeah. What, what, What is that? Cause it's, you clearly, you're very comfortable with your femininity and you appreciate men's masculinity.

Like me and my girlfriend, we're talking about that. It's like a thing that we both admire about you. Thank you, my darling. Yes, but what I'm curious about is like, is it, it's sort of old fashioned, right? It is, it sure is out here. But I, you know, I've got a son, I've got two grandsons, I've got my husband, I love men.

We need men. I mean, now, you know, things have changed for me and I've got earning potential, but I didn't for a long time and Chuck Morgan has taken care of me so that I could have these babies Intend to them and and also like if there's I've said this before if there's a raccoon in a garbage can and you know I'm not going out there to get it. Yeah, I need a man. I love me And I've always had men as friends in high school growing up I mean only graduated 42 people and we all went to church and school together, but they were my good friends. I always enjoyed Boys, I think they're fun. Yeah, I think men are fun. Yeah, we're entertaining

yes and I've got this huge crew on this sitcom and I Yes, and I've got this huge crew on this sitcom and I love all of them Yeah, I mean I have and you know and they want you know sometimes I'll have themes about women empowerment all that and I'm for that Yeah, but I want those men to know we need y'all. I want y'all to know that. I mean we do we need do you find yourself like Taking a tactical route if you're in an argument with, is it Chuck Morgan? Yes, it's Chuck Morgan. Thanks, sir, how do you do?

So it's Chuck Morgan, do you find yourself thinking about gender stuff in a tactical way? Or is it just like, I don't know, I mean, do you know what I mean? No, what do you mean? Do you think of it from a, you are a feminist in that like, you like, you love women, you like women, you've succeeded as a woman.

But you also respect, it doesn't, you're not sacrificing your feelings for women about your feelings for men. Right. And I guess it's like, is that, do you have to think about it or is this natural? It's your feelings for men. Right. And I guess it's like, is that, do you have to think about it or is this natural? It's just natural to me.

Yeah. It's just like this. I mean, but I'm, you know, Neil, I'm 59 years old. I think I'm from that old school where we flirted. Yeah. You know, like I've got daughters, my youngest. You flirted with me in the photo, the Instagram from college.

You flirted with me. Will, show the photo. It's real like, oh, okay. I got it once I saw it. Well, and I flirted with you in Montreal in a biblical way. I mean, you know. Kissing in the mouth apparently. Okay, well, that's one of the things I'll have about you. Thank you, my darling.

Yeah. And how do you, what did you think was gonna happen to you? Let's say 20 years ago. So at this point, are you doing stand-up? Oh yeah, I was doing, all right, after the jewelry, then my husband sold that business, we moved to San Antonio, Texas. He sold the mobile home business.

Well, his dad took it over. He went to work for a big, large Warren Buffett company, manufactured housing company, Berkshire Hathaway, and was over South Texas. And is still an executive with him. But anyway, he moved us to San Antonio and I did open mic one time at the River Center. Do you ever work the River Center in the mall?

No, I've heard of it though. Everything it sounds like? It was rough. It was rough. It was in the mall. That'll tell you. But- How'd you do? But I'd been in front of those women. Yeah. My demographic, I'd been killing. You know, it really helped me. Did you have a mic at the jewelry things?

No. I just stood up in people's living room. Great. And you know, they'd put a dip out in a brownie Uh-huh, we'd have a you know, it was I'd schlep all that jewelry out and had a ball. We had a ball did the How hard you kill reflect in how much you sold? Yes But also more more importantly, I would book more parties That was a big thing. You wanted to book more parties to stay busy,

so I stayed really busy. Did they give you an upfront fee for the parties? Or it was just? No, no. You make, I can't even remember what it was, a large percentage of what you sold at those parties. And I sold, yeah, it was good money, you know, for a little mama in the foothills

of the Appalachian Mountains. And then I was pregnant with my second baby, and was still selling it. By that third baby, I couldn't be schleppin' all that anymore. But, okay, so we moved to San Antonio. little mama in the foothills of the at the rotary or something, drop my babies off at preschool. I did whatever I could to get on stage. 15 minutes. 20, you know. The first time I ever did what I thought was stand up, I did 45 because I didn't know any better. I didn't know what y'all were doing out here.

People get up and do a, you know, 10 minute set. And this little man in a sandwich shop in Morristown, Tennessee saying, I have bands that come into my sandwich shop And they play and they make the money at the door. I make the money off the beer and sandwiches Do you want to do stand up and I went yes, and I did 45 the first time I ever really did it and I'm sure it sucked and then after that I went to Zanies Brian Dorman Let me come to Zanies. But anyway, then Austin Cap City Comedy Club in San Antonio. I would drive back and forth and they

Believed in me and that and that made me the headliner like I've featured maybe Four or five times and then you just and you had a decent 50 55. I mean Against the like, you know, it doesn't sound like you stole or did anything wrong, like, yeah. Well, in that first 45, I got my first television development deal with ABC and Warner Brothers, and it didn't make it. But yeah, I mean, yeah, I was pretty,

I had laid out pretty much a sitcom in that first 45 minutes, and Hollywood was kinda coming after me then. But you know, nothing happened, and then I'd flail around. Here's my question. It seems like you kinda had a hunch about yourself. I did, at nine or 10 years old now. I thought.

And did you think 10 years ago, like boy this is taking a long time. Yeah, and I was just about to quit I was getting really discouraged for the first time in my in 25 years of doing stand-up I cried to Chuck Morgan one night at dinner and I said I don't think anything's gonna happen I'm exhausted I was working a lot but it was horrible gigs and I was it was I wasn't going and how were the kids oh in there well I mean early 50s I'm 59 so you know 20s out of college I mean and I said you know I knew that my first child had

gotten married I knew they wanted to have babies I said I'll just be grandmama because in the south when we have a grandbaby we you know put on a house dress and start cooking pinto beans so I thought I'll just tend to that baby and I'm going to let this go and Chuck said, you're crazy. Don't say that. And so I did the best thing I've ever done in my life. I hired two young guys to do my social media. Yep. And they put out one video on a, I went viral. That video went viral. Everybody, people started looking for me what else I had done.

I had done a dry bar special. Oh, had you? Yes. I don't want you to ever watch it. I won't. It's on Hulu, I don't even know how it got on Hulu. And I've got a terrible hair color. Do not watch it.

I don't know, unfortunate Jean with a wedge. I just really wish you wouldn't. Anyway, I think it's done well on Hulu. But anyway, that from that, I mean, I just was getting terrible gigs and nothing was happening. I couldn't sell a ticket. Like the improvs we have me in Florida and they go, we love her. She doesn't get drunk fighting the parking lot, but we don't want her back. She can't sell a ticket. And then I went viral overnight. Cl clubs all over the United States started calling saying can she do I was started out doing one nighters in my I mean this was like 53

54 years old and I was going all over selling out and then I mean it couldn't get arrested Neil for 20 for 20 years. I mean, I was doing okay. Something would come along, you know, Hollywood deals. I wouldn't make it. Never got invited to Montreal, but two times. You know, Aspen never had me. I never, Comedy Central, I would audition at stuff in Austin because that was a good club.

There really was a bias against people from the South. Like, I can tell you... Is that what it was? Yeah, it's like... Because I remember Theo would complain about it, and Nate Bargatse would complain about it. Like, rightly so. It was just sort of like bumpkin-y.

And even Jeff and Larry the Cable Guy and Ron, those guys, it was kind of like, it's... I remember, they're roast those guys are fucking crushing. But it was like, mm. In a private plane. Yeah. I remember on Comedy Central, people making fun of them. Yeah.

And they were on top of the world. Yeah. But put on top of that, I was a woman in a kitten hill with a Capri, with the birds on it, with a bob talking about' to Weight Watchers. I was really not cool. I was not edgy. They just did not want anything to do with me.

And do you feel, so it was, what did your inner monologue sound like? The, like, you know what, sweetie, you were kinda right. You are winning, you got a winning spirit. Like what did it sound like? Did it get, were you always kind or did you ever turn on yourself?

No, I thought, I honestly thought there's a bunch of me out there that would get what I'm talking about. How can I get to them? I didn't know how to get to them. Well, that's how I, when I saw you, I was like, oh, this is gonna destroy, even with Nate and Theo, I was like, these guys are gonna, once they get ignition,

I knew it was just like off to the races. So when I saw you two, I was like, I know I'm not even from, and I know that your specialist called it I'm Every Woman. It's like, yeah, and that's, that seems like it would be something to like, oh, are you every woman, but then you watch it, you're like, oh, yep, you know what, you are.

And so yeah, you were just like nice to yourself. I was, and I always believed in myself until my early 50s when I had just had all I could take and I was down. But I would have little Hollywood things come along and they wouldn't make it, but it would give me enough to think, okay, if they think I can do something, I'm doing the right thing. And I always had work. I didn't have – you know, I couldn't go out and do comedy club after comedy club every

week because I wanted to raise my own children. But I just got on stage wherever I could. I did a lot of little private corporate things that were not fun. But it kept me on stage. But I got to raise these children. But always in my mind, I thought, I'm going to Hollywood. Ay-yum! This is an ad by BetterHelp.

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wanting to go to Hollywood. And I remember feeling like something wrong with me because nobody else in my little bitty town, nobody, I was talking about going to Hollywood and then, so as a child I would think, something wrong with me, am I crazy? Because I'd say to my classmates and stuff, do you want to go to Hollywood?

And they were like, no. And you know, but I- I had the same experience. my classmates and stuff, do you wanna go to Hollywood? And they were like, no. And you know, but- I had the same experience. I'd be like, don't you wanna be famous? And they're like, what? They're like, yeah, you're famous. And then, I've told this story before,

and then I moved to New York and I met a guy and I was like, didn't you like imagine a camera crew following you around? And he's like, absolutely. And it was Dave Chappelle. It was like, he was had, we just, I don't't know if it's I'm sure it's something bad but you know you got it you need entertainers or not guys right hello there's your close-up I'm over here oh well and let me tell you I heard Steve Harvey say one time that I just saw a clip of him saying that as a child,

like 10 years old, his teacher said, I want you to all to come up and say what you want to be when you grow up. And he said, I told everybody at 10 years old, I was going to be on TV. And she made fun of him. And he said, I knew she was wrong. And as a child, and he said, I feel like God put that in my imagination and that's how I feel. I feel and I just did a podcast with Oprah. She felt the same way.

She went through the same thing. She said, Leanne, I knew from the time I was little bitty something's bigger coming. I'm made for something bigger. But then I think am I in a technical? What am I doing? And then I think am I like one of those kids on American Idol that think they can sing? You know, I don't wanna be like that either. So yeah, I had wrestling in my mind.

Did you, did you have, wrestling in your mind's a good title for something. Did you, did you like make your parents drive you to places or anything? No, honey, I never got to do any of that. We were in the middle of nowhere farming people. Always wanted to take tap. places or anything? No honey, I never got I'm from farming people town of 500 people outside of Nashville, Tennessee on the Kentucky to tap Pretty poor. It was just my parents had a business and nobody had time to take me to town

Yeah, then I projected that onto my children and made them all take all kinds of things because I didn't get to do any of that So so you have the suspicion, but again, are you sweeter than most people from where you're from? Or is everybody around the same amount of sweet? Everybody's, I think people are sweet. In the South I really do. Yeah. I have a really sweet mama, and I think I take a lot after her,

and I do think I'm sweet. I think I've got some other horrible flaws, but I'm not a butthole now I don't want to be mean to anybody. Well that's what's fun about you though is cuz you it seems like you have I can we can all see you have the option to not be sweet and then you go no I'm gonna be sweet. And that's like the fun of it. It's like we can hear you, we can hear what you mean. Oh, without. Through the sweetness. That's like the trick, I think.

If I may say. And was it tested? What makes you unsweet? Did you love being a mom? Loved it. Loved being a grandmama. Would have had more children. Chuck Morgan was worried about money.

I would have had, I wanted four. I loved it. I loved nursing. And you had three? Do I? You had three. I have three. And a boy and two girls. And I would have nursed them. I was like one of those Kumbaya mamas.

I could have been like in an African tribe and raised my children with other women while we wash pots. I mean and I sleep in the bed with everybody. I am a very Kumbaya mama and I put them first. And through all this in my career, and I'll just say, I did, I put them first. And I have more people out here say, oh my gosh, Lynn, you got to have both. I mean, I've gotten to do both. Because I did, I stayed in Knoxville and I got to raise these precious children and they

turned out well. I've seen. And they're sweet and they're not buttholes. And I just enjoyed that, but I got my degree in child and family studies, crisis intervention counseling. So I always felt like, you know, I did some things, I made some mistakes, but I think I raised some precious children. This is a very broad question.

How do you feel about daycare. Because me and my girl Lucy talk about this a lot. And obviously everyone needs... America is what it is, but man, imagining dropping off a six-month-old with daycare or one-year-old, it's like, that must be... Gut-wrenching. And my daughter-in-law has had to do it. She likes to work and she's got a nice a good career But they needed the money I mean I need to you know in my grandbabies have gone to daycare and it yeah it did hurt me because I didn't

Have to go. I just Chuck Morgan is a Workaholic and I was able to you know, he provided well and I did without you know, but I understand they had to they needed Yeah, I mean it's but man if you that having raised the kids provided well and I did without. But I understand, they needed two incomes. But man, having raised the kids the way you did, like the idea of daycare. Obviously it's a privilege and we're lucky to be in that position, but it's so crazy that hundreds of millions of kids are in daycare.

I know, and I think mine have done well. And we've all gotten hand foot in my mouth. Lord, every time they go to daycare, we all go through a stomach bug. Just wait till I go home tomorrow. I'll have a stomach bug by Wednesday, because I have to kiss them in the mouth. But, they're, I mean, they know sign language

when they go mo, when they wanna eat more. I mean, I wanna bawl my eyes out. And then I also feel guilty now because if I were really a country grandmama, I would have not done all this intended to those babies and stay at home with them. But Chuck Morgan saying they need your money worse than they need that land. You need to help these children for future and be able to put them all through college and do

all that. I think we're there. I Think you got it, right? Coming we're road to have senior road dates. I think we're pretty open to 538 or whatever. They're called All right So you you felt so so you you were a bit of not even an outsider You just wanted to you had dreams mama. I did I'm doing big I still dream big but but I always wanna be one of the cool kids like you, Neil.

And I may have told you that in the streets of Montreal. You did, before you had your way with my mouth. Okay, so then you go to University of Tennessee. What do you think's gonna happen then? I followed my high school boyfriend. I had no intention of, this sounds psycho boyfriend I had no intention of this sounds psycho I had no intention of graduating I Thought my parents said either the military or college And I was like I'm too sissy to be in the military and I dated my high school boyfriend

And everybody got married right out of high school in this rural town and I thought because in my mind this is crazy I was always thinking Hollywood, but at the same time You know, I'd been raised around all that and I thought well I'll marry and have a bunch of kids and we can raise Our own tobacco. Well, he was smart and wanted to go to college and Went to UT. I followed him there. I Nagged him because he was getting drunk and singing Rick James and stuff. Mmm, and I'm saying I nagged him because he was getting drunk and singing Rick James and stuff. And I nagged him.

He broke up with me and I flailed around, but let in at UT. But let me tell you that I went to this little bitty country school where it was future farmers of America, home ec, very few college preps at UT. No, at my little house. So then when I got to UT and you have to take that test orientation I don't know how they didn't go just girl you can mop but you're not gonna be able to stay but anyway I was really not prepared to go to a large university and I that's one of the things that I felt very outsider because I God put me with a bunch of

Country Club private school girls who were smart who had gone to private school Roomed with all these girls. They would Kind of make fun of me. I mean it was I were you prettier than them. I Don't know about that. No, I mean I was in the same league. Yeah. Okay. Did they like that or not? Maybe that was what was I don't know. I think I had charisma. I do think that and I know and um, and they did steal my clothes and wear them because I had I went through the whole Banana Rama, you know Madonna I was all in that they were in preppy pink and green and lions and this is a

2 8182 8383 83 83 and I was you know in guest rooms over watching chips every Friday night I was watching chill You were watching The Duke of Hazzard. I mean, I'm not really, I mean, kinda not, you know, I don't like like truck movies and cars going past. I was watching Sweet Sixteen and Breakfast Club and I was doing all that. Fair enough. Okay, here's a question. Do you think that what you described is everybody from your town getting married right out of high school?

Is there something to be said for it? I mean, you know. If it's, like, it's almost like a range marriage in a weird way, or like, you know, if it works, it kinda works. It works well enough. It does work well enough, and you gotta think about, these families were all farming families,

so these, you know, grew up together and then they, you know, then that now you got two big farms. It's just about land. Yellowstone, but it's, but it is, it's a lot of farming families and all that. And so yeah, a lot of people, you know, and had a bunch of kids and they're doing fine. I went to my class reunion, everybody was doing well. Nobody was in jail. We lost a few, but I mean, people were tickled and still with their spouses and all that. And they didn't seem any better or worse off than people that moved and got this and did

all the stuff. No. Yeah, that's why it's it's it's fine. Yeah, it's fine. And I tell you being out here now, I didn't realize when I tell people I have a 31-year-old and I'm a grandmother, people look at me like, did you squat in a field in the mountains at 14 and have a baby? But I was 27 when I had my first baby. That seemed normal to me. That's probably late.

I have a lot of eggs. You had so many eggs. I mean, everyone watching and even listening to this can tell she's a, what they call a fertile myrtle. Was very fertile. Of course. Yeah, but that's, 27's late for a kid probably where you're from, right?

Probably about average, really. I mean, my parents had them younger than that, like 21. But you have 26, 27. Yeah, there's nothing crazy. I didn't think that like 21, but but you have 26 27. Yeah, nothing crazy I didn't think it was crazy, but out here people go what well out here. You got a freeze stuff I mean, there's a whole freezing ever freezing there for all freezing and and then they start when they're for and it's like what do you and then they They it's hard. It's very hard. It's been I've noticed a lot of people going through that do they what do you think do you just think like oh honey I just I understand these the

ambition yeah and I hit that ambition but I thought I want those babies first I gotta have those babies and then you know when that television deal came by the the first one that I had that was The big big pretty big I thought I mean mine were probably an elementary and middle school And it didn't make it but I look back on that and I think that was God's protection that you know If I think they'd come out here or I remember them saying to me You'll need to move out here and not bring your family because it'll get canceled probably So it's you know more likely for you to win the lottery for it to make it and and when I look back on that I think I couldn't have lived away from my children not raise my own children even for a year if I I've been away from

Everybody and they're grown they don't even need me and this has been hard So I'm glad it didn't make it then and I'm glad I got to go on and stay in Oxford have my babies Talk about you know things that are really relatable people. That's made me successful now Because all of your material is age-appropriate Really it really is like you children and they're adult and I have big panties and all the menopause Yeah, I have menopause and parent. I'm sure you've got yeah, you got itches and you got I feel like there are many drug commercials that apply To you pep said I mean I would love to do it. Sometimes I have the guard on the road You know how it is now do I?

I mean, I literally chat, she'd be teed guard natural remedies within the last week. Okay, and then you say you sort of how did you you mentioned rejection being God's protection? Were you always in touch with that? Or did it feel like personal or miserable and horrible at the time? I think I went into a clinical depression after that first big rodeo because that was my first one I didn't know how Hollywood worked and when they called one day and said it's over. It's not happening We are now have reality TV

It was the first writer strike that ended that one and I took to the band and Chuck bought me a puppy thinking that would make me feel better and that puppy was from heaven But talk to me about your bed game. What were you doing? What was it all 24 hours? What was no but I still had children to raise but no I got every you know when you get depressed and everything looks gray I mean I and I couldn't get booked nobody cared. I don't it was just a bad time I went from you know newspaper articles and Len's got this deal with ABC and Warner Brothers Blah blah blah Tom Warner. Yep, it's over and then could not get arrested For I mean for a couple of years man like not getting many gigs

They got another deal with Matt Williams that created Rosanne home improvement went through all that with TV landing it good night Then they go, you know what, she's too traditional. Meaning a man and a woman and children, that's not fun, which I get, that was kind of boring. And then- It only applies to like 95% of the country, but it's a little traditional. Okay, so, and did you,

clinical depression, did you take it personally, this is about me, I'm, what's your negative thing about yourself? Yeah, that it's, yeah. I am too traditional. I'm too traditional or I'm, you know, they don't want me. I don't, I'm not good enough. I'm not, you know, I'm not edgy.

I'm not this, I'm not this I'm not that yeah What was what was it was it? Honey, I don't know I feel like I you know I pray Neil and I swear I would pray about it and I feel like God did not shut that door I mean like there was just always something coming down the pike that would like Nick at night's funniest mom I was in my head like there would always be some little nugget That would keep me going because you you know y'all were out here doing big things and and New York and LA and everybody going

yeah, and and But I would get a little nugget that would just keep me going yeah, I mean that sounds boring But that's what no well that's what I'm curious about is like cuz cuz like I said It's you got there. You had this hunch and you're like I feel like I'm spud. It's gonna happen. I really did And I'm just curious as to what kept you going like that's the and whether it's it is a little You go like I'm down to my last sort of nickel In terms of self-esteem and then you get like a little like you say something funny on

the phone or you you know you say something that's just got like a little more kick yeah you're like you know what I'm pretty fucking funny yeah if it was in the McDonald's parking lot with a bunch of moms, or it's a soccer game or whatever, that kind of stuff kept me going. Yeah, and people wouldn't believe it, but it's like, no, no, no, no. That was, I know, like a good spark from a bat, from a, or just a regular thing.

And you go like, okay. I just knew I had something. Yeah. I just did, and I would always, and then I would think, is that egotistical? Is that wrong of me to think that? Maybe I'm crazy, maybe I don't. But I always had people in my life,

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But he would say, Lingen, I think you've got something. But he knew I wanted to raise my children. But I always had people that would help me. I always had people that believed in me. The people at the Cap City Comedy Club, Margie Cole, booked me for years when nobody else would. Yeah.

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Chuck Morgan makes a good living. Chuck Morgan is an executive, yes. It sounds like he's always made a good living. He's always made a good living, and I gotta give it to him. I didn't have to do a bunch of crap that other people had to do Because I was always I didn't have to make a living so I didn't have to live in a Ford festiva And just in the night and feature and all that kind of in the car

You know, I skipped a lot of Morgan in my understanding makes a good living. Mm-hmm Little tight very tight with money. Yeah. And very frugal and rides with the- Could've lived in a triple, is what you're, he could've lived in like a something better. He has no qualms with driving an old, old car. He does not care what other people think.

That's the main thing about Chuck Morgan. He could care less. Does that give you confidence in yourself? You're like, well, look at this goofball. No one, no one, he doesn't care. Why should I care? I know. Yeah, I mean, it made me mad at times

because I drove a Honda Pilot for about 10 years that was in bedshy. But I mean, all the executives' wives, I mean, he works for a big company. He has done well. All the wives drove the fancy cars and did all that He does not care what anybody else has we have lived way under our means and And he has always had me on a budget. So this has been fun I mean, it's been fun having a little power if we want to talk about women in power

Yeah, can you talk about this? That's been kinda fun. I'm very curious about this, because did you feel, not under his thumb or whatever, but like the deal is the deal. Yes. He's making the income.

Yes. The rules are, what's changed? In terms of like spending. I mean, I've seen you make some pretty big Costco, Sam's Club runs. I have. They've got all the ski gloves So if you're if you're gonna go and do all that this winter go and get them

There's so much cheaper at Costco and they've got long underwear and I love a Costco I don't ever I don't want to if I blow up and I'm famous I don't want to not be able to go to the Costco that would hurt you miss that much You must it must be pretty close. I Can go the bar right hat can go the Burbank one. You gotta wear a hat. Which one? The Burbank one. Oh yeah yeah yeah. I'll get a couple of people say hey. But and go but Knoxville Costco I can't go anymore. People are expecting me to be there. But anyway it's been nice to be able to make some decisions. Okay, so what do you, give me some, give me something. What have you done? I went and got those grandbabies a big swing set playground that does not splinter.

It was very expensive. Well, for a playground. Installation? And yeah, I did. You paid for it? And I got landscaping people to come and do the, where you can fall and it won't hurt you, all that mulch or whatever with railroad ties around it. And that meant a lot to me, it really did.

10 grand? Probably about that, yeah. I hate to even say that. But I mean, that's what I did. That was my biggest splurge at the beginning. Oprah asked me the other day. And then I have bought, I am renovating a home. I've lived in the same house for over 20 years.

I have lived in a double-wide. Nothing's wrong with double-wides. If you want to hear that story, I'll tell you about it. But I am renovating a home that I've got, my elderly parents are still living. My mom's in a wheelchair. My mother-in-law's on a walker. And this house has a

tiny elevator Where I can get them up and and I'm redoing a handicap area It's gonna be like a nursing home But if they needed to come and live with me and that makes me feel good that kind of stuff a lot of railings a Little bit during next to the toilets But now you know if I were, if this had happened to me at 20, 30, 40, I would have been, I would have done God knows what.

What do you think you would have done? Do you think that- Oh, I would have liked a fancy car, I would have bought Chanel sunglasses that my friends had. I would have done some crazy mess. And you think, you have drugs? No, I'm not a drug gal. I smoked cigarettes in the 80s.

That was fun. It was so fun. I like a diet coke or a cup of coffee and a cigarette, but that's been long gone. No, I don't think I would have done dope. I don't, I'm scared of things. I like, I tell you when I started going through perimenopause, I craved wine.

I went through a red wine thing and I thought, I gotta get off of this. My first tour, the big panty tour, I was drinking a little wine every night. Before you went on? Yeah, and I thought, I don't wanna do that, this is crazy. And then I wouldn't sleep at night because I'd be wallering in the van

because my blood vessels wouldn't expand. That's what happens to women my age, Neil. And then you can't sleep. And then you feel like the next day, it's not worth it. But yeah, I went through a spail, but not but not no when I was working those clubs in a kitten hill with three little children Oh, no, I was I was no I would get a diet How spent would you get when you were doing shows in a kitten hill? Um, it was hard. It was hard and I tell you when it was when I would go back and forth to Austin

I would get them up for school two and a half hours Yes, and then I would they would let me do the late show in San Antonio, which would be after midnight Everybody was drunk and high on marijuana and I was getting up and talking about t-ball. They want what you say That's a good crowd late You like that? No, I'm kidding. Oh Yeah from our act All the men that work there were doing Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonations. And I would get up and talk about T-ball

and all this stuff that was happening in my life, but I stood out. I mean, I was different from everybody. But everybody was hot, drunk, and I was like, ugh. So you'd drive home, get three hours of sleep. And then get them up for school. And traveled and Chuck traveled would you ever be gone? Did you have babysitter? Mm-hmm What did you resent at that point? Did you was it any were you just like this? No, I was like I'm having a ball and I love it and I've got to do it and there's something in me from the time

I started doing stand-up. I know sounds great. I just had I just had to do it I loved it. No, I'm with you and it just did you feel that pull like I'm just pulled today man Yeah, like I do it for free. Yes, and you've been built. I do. Yeah Interesting and then double why what was the double did you what was the what was what do you think was happening in the double? I okay What was the double did you what was the what was what do you think was happening in the double ed? Okay? Chuck Morgan went through a little crisis I mean, but he was still like 30 years old had ran a business owned a business had payroll for all these people in his 20s

Nobody was buying their baby's diapers and the foothills of the Appalachian Mountain So he had by everybody's diapers felt responsible for everybody. He's very generous and giving he got on his nerves He said I think I want to do something different. We moved to, we sold everything. And I was a member of the country club in Morristown, Tennessee. Now, which was a big deal for me because I'm farming and I, and we didn't have swimming pools. So I was tickled to take my babies and matching bathing suits. I was having a good time. I was in junior reading circle, which is like junior league. I had a good life. He said, I'm selling everything, and I'm gonna go move into South Carolina,

I'm gonna start a whole new thing, work for another company. We got there, it was a mistake, he knew it right away. We moved back, we didn't have anywhere to live, he goes, just trust me, his dad's taken over RefurbCo, which was a refurbishing business. He bought, he goes, if you'll just trust me, his dad had taken over RefurbCo, which was a refurbishing business. He bought, he goes, if you'll just trust me, Land, I'm gonna flip this, we'll make money, buy another house. He made me into a double one that had been set on fire because somebody was reposting

it from, you know, from this people. They took a hammer and knocked all the sinks out and set the thing on fire there were black marks up it he said I'm gonna we're putting you carpet in it that carpet had been outside in the rain and weather put that indoor outdoor carpet in that double wine move me and it was in a middle of a field there were mice there was a woman that lived behind me with a pot belly pig that would and I was big pregnant with Tess, my baby, and I would get out of the car and that pot belly pig would get loose and charge me. Now it was not big, but still frightening.

Yeah, you're with child for God's sake. Oh, and I had two little toddlers, and I'd like throw them up into this double one, then I'd have to get up because Chuck didn't forgot to put stamps on it. Anyway, I'm driving. Well, that's a whole nother story. But anyway, these G I'm still in junior reading circle with all these women that are still at the country club and all that we've hit, you know, not kind of hard times. We're in a double wine that's been set on fire. And I remember going to a party, a Christmas party. I was big pregnant and a woman said in front of everybody, are you still living in that trailer park? And I was pregnant, so I was emotional,

and it embarrassed me, and then I went in the bathroom and I sneezed, and I peed all over myself, because that's what you do when you're pregnant, and I remember just leaning up against that sink and thinking, how did I get here? I'm supposed to be in Hollywood. Yeah. Yeah. I remember thinking that in someone's nice bathroom at this Christmas party. But when you say, have you ever felt isolated, lonely? That was a very lonely time for me. And Chuck Morgan was doing the best he could and it's always been a wonderful provider. He did. He flipped it, made is he probably had 200 grand in the bank at that point

He probably dingin and didn't with not it's not for you. It's for later Right and the guy that sold us the satellite put the satellite for cable out there said what are y'all doing out here? When I tell him what his income was he goes, what are y'all doing out here? But anyway, I made it through It's part of my story. It sure is Okay, and then how did you find? Did you get the did you have an ego flare up at all in the last couple years or is it is it even At this point like what a big ego for what I feel more imposter syndrome I'll do anything. I really did during the my first tour

the first big tour, uh-huh, I thought Because I know so many talented people. Yeah, and I thought why am I? Getting this and other people that have worked Harder or better or whatever than I have I went went through that because I have fans, Neil, that say you got me through chemo, or my husband left me and I would sit and watch your videos at night. And that was a lot to carry and it was sweet,

but I thought I'm not worthy, because my fans are so precious and wanna see me win. And I think, Neil, I'm in a lane by myself when you think about it Absolutely, so these darling women out in the middle of the United States are Cheering for me. Yeah, and and blowing me kisses and giving me a standing ovation forever say a word Yeah, so that kind of mess with my head and I thought I don't know if this is if I'm worthy of this and I Don't know. So I went through I probably should should've gotten a therapist. And then I got-

Who do you think, not even the, there are people that deserve it as much as me. Are there people like you, friends with Jeff Foxworthy, I mean are there people like Jeff deserves this? Or Larry the Cable, or Ron White, or Bill, or any of those, are there people like I, that do you see those see the people that had that or got that as like fundamentally better than you?

Or is it just kinda like, cause I don't, I don't in terms of like looking at you from the outside in. Well thank you. I don't, I hope this doesn't sound egotistical, but I feel good now. I feel like I'm on that level and I'm there. I don't know what was going through my head. It was just mess with my head.

I don't even know how to explain it. No, it seems like a weird, like there's been a mix up or something. Yes, and I also thought, why all of a sudden, after 25 years of doing this, is it different now? It's just like somebody turned on a light in a room. And I'm like, like a switch, like, well, all of a sudden, does everybody treat me this

way? And, you know, it just mess with my head. But I've got a television series on Netflix, and I swear to you, I mean, it'll be out, you know, this year, but I think every day, it's like, it's not even really happening to me. I pinch myself every day. It doesn't even feel real to me So I don't think I mean I I do get to where I do like to have somebody drive me I do somebody like you see about that. Yeah, I like I mean I kind of gotten I've gotten sissy about stuff

I took care of all these kids all this time Now I'm like can somebody drive me to the so-and-so? That is, I'm getting kind of, I'm not saying Beyonce. I think you would ask my crew and they would say she's sweet. But I, um, I do need a little more pampering because I got to learn all this stuff and I've got to do all this stuff. Well you learned how to get pampered. Also you saw what was available. And you go, oh, I didn't know I could get that. And it caught, whatever, it's just a number

on a settlement sheet. Yes, and it's so nice to have somebody mail something for you, but I don't have to go and mail things. Yeah. That was nifty. Yeah, yeah, and again, no one resents you for it. Thank you. Because you put your time in like yeah

but as a person as a fan is like a Yeah, I'm interested What it must be like to go from I was looking at my phone Matt rife texted me the other day He asked if he could open for me three years ago That's how like dumb show business is that like he was literally like hey can I and then I was like It was three years ago. Yeah, and now he's doing arenas Basically, it's so it's so dumb. It's so it is so like turn the switch on

They don't know they can they can chase crowds But they can't really discern talent a lot of the time I think What do you think the spiritual lesson is in it for you or for a person? What do you, what do you make of it? Um, well without sounding sappy, I feel like that voice, that gut intuition or whatever you whatever you call that, I call it God. But I feel like I've learned to listen to that. Every time I've listened to that, it works out for me when I didn't in the eighties. I mean, things went bad. But if I listen to that voice and and I knowing that

It's the truth that that's what has kept me going and that's what sustains me It does That's funny. It's it's we're in LA. So you go. Sorry, but everywhere else. It's like everyone's Way ahead of you What do you think the difference is I have found that there were there I guess it's like people here of course believers yeah yeah but but I guess it's like I've come around to it I like grew up Catholic and then left and then came back but or came back to God. But I've know that about you.

Yeah. So so I'm curious as to do you sort of hide it a little bit out here or do you do you make a decision around it? Do you go like, I'll just kind of leave the whatever faith stuff or I call it God or whatever. And I've I've in my sitcom that we've shot, there's church scenes, there's all that. And it's been, I've got wonderful writers, wonderful writers, but they are not church going people.

So they don't know, just like if I tried to go write for a Russian family in New Jersey. I mean, they've gotta learn, but I have wanted that to be part of it and I do want to, I don't want to shy away from that. And I found a church out here. Did you really? Yeah. Great. And I, Scientology. And I do care so very, very, very much. And I, um, yeah, but I mean, you know, I'm 59 years old, but I've seen a lot and lived a lot and learned a lot, and I just feel like God has had his hand on me.

And I don't mean that like he's made me famous. I don't mean that, but I feel like, you know, he has been with me, showed me, you know, put people in my path that have helped me. I can look back on that and think, all that made sense, what happened. Those television deals didn't make it.

I was meant to raise my family in Oxford, Tennessee. I believe that. I was not meant to be out here. I don't think I could have handled it. Maybe I would have gotten on dope, Neal. Maybe I would have, because I had found this out in LA. How did these young people come out here and get this rejection and don't know

where their next job's gonna be? Actors, I don't know how they do it. No, it's a terrible way to make a living. It's not a way to make a living. It is for like 15 people. For 15 people, it's the same 15 people. Yes. And then everybody elseets kind of humiliated

Yeah, I don't think I could have handled that well because I've gone through low self-esteem in my life I would have it is a young woman. It would have killed me. I think how's it man? How did it manifest yourself? Was it eating? What were you doing? For what to throw low self-esteem as a young woman? I dated a bunch of people that were not good to me. I dated a bunch of ding-dongs. I did. And I put up with crap I shouldn't have put up with. And yeah, that's probably it.

Just let people treat me badly. That I would never let happen now. Now I don't think I could make, I can make, when I say I don't think I could make a bad decision, I wouldn't make a bad life decision, right? Yeah, I have overeating at times I have I could eat a chicken so how we in the band when a child goes off to college. Yes, I have Instead of getting out and exercising stop doing crossfit It chips a whole way watch scandal live through that couple that I think were really doing it that kind of stuff.

The couple on scandal. Yeah. Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn. Do you think I mean I don't think they're really doing it but it felt like they were doing it and I enjoyed it. It's called chemistry. It's called chemistry and we have it. And there's nothing you can do to stop it.

What do you make of the rejection, the stuff about not being cool and not being, by the way, I don't think I'm cool either. Like no one thinks they're cool. I know, it's stupid. Like you go, you, yeah, no one, everyone's got imposter syndrome. Well, let me tell you that Nate,

Borghese is a good friend of mine, and I said, you're one of the Nate We're against his good friend of mine and I said you're with the coke hands He goes I've never felt like I was on the coke hands link I go what are you talking about you fool? He goes I don't I've never felt like that. Surely he does nail He's probably starting to but I it's so he's in such a cool Thing now at the Golden Globes, he still looks like he's wearing an Under Armour shirt. Um, with his tits hanging out. Or a silhouette of his tits.

Um... Um, and what do you want for the rest of your life? What are your goals now? I would like to do... I hope this show goes to second season and on as long as I can do it. Because I wanna be successful. Do you wanna go to a second season so you can do it better?

Yes. I feel like. Talk to me about what the learning curve was. I thought I was having a heart attack. I think I told you that on the phone when we talked. It was very difficult. When I got out here, I thought, what have I done? Because it was so much pressure.

There was a director that I don't think is a wonderful director, but not for new actors. And I came out here thinking, well, Ray Romano did it, Roseanne did it, Tim Allen did it. I always heard that their pilots and all that, that everybody was terrible at first and then they got better

and Ray Romano can do anything now. And I love him. And I thought, well, they know that I'm a comedian, that I don't have any acting classes. And they didn't want me to take acting classes because they don't want to change me And they wanted me to be natural but it was a lot to learn all that blocking Yeah, and here pick up that cup of coffee and then say that line You put it in that you know, and I'm like what but learning lines and I do have comedy time And I had that I knew I had that if I can get in front of a live audience, that helps me.

But that in front of a, I wanted to do a single cam, I really did, and then Netflix wanted me to do a multi-cam. And single cam, I did one movie with Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell, and Rory Scovel played my brother, and Fortune Feimster was in it, and they would say to me, this is gonna be- Directed by the great Nick Stoller're by the great Nick Stoller.

And the great Nick Stoller. Great guy. Ah, from heaven. But when nobody was laughing and in my ding dong mine, I thought, and fortune would go, I know it's in your head, land, people, they can't laugh. But all that was, you know, messed with my head. So I do know I'm better in a multi,

I think that's what I'm supposed to be doing. I would agree. But yes, it was hard and everybody, you know, messing with my head. So I do know I'm better in a multi, I think that's what I'm supposed to be doing. I would agree. But yes, it was hard. And everybody, you know, it's either they're, you know, people would say, oh, you're a star, or they're looking at you like, I don't know if you can really do this. And there's nothing in between.

And you know, it just messes with your head. And then learning about this way. And it's like hour to hour too. Yeah. You're a star at two and at three, it's like, I don't know, honey. Yeah, nobody speaks to you at Crafty. So it's up and down and that was hard for me because I've been out here a long time.

Well yeah, that's what I was wondering about. It's like what did you, does being 59 and having lived a lot of life kind of make it like bearable? I think so. Yeah. And I think if I were 40, 30, if this had happened to me when I thought it was gonna happen to me, so. Yeah, and I think if I were

40 30 if this had happened to me when I thought it was gonna happen to me I would be hysterical I don't think I could have handled it and they um, and I want to do well don't get me wrong I want to do well and I love these People I love the everybody I want to do well for them. I want everybody to have jobs, but I can go and do Stand I'm okay. If want everybody to have jobs, but I can go and do stand-up. I'm okay if this doesn't work, but yeah, I don't even know what I'm saying. I just like that.

Well yeah, I guess it's just what was it like? It's very scary, but Jerry Seinfeld called me and we talked about it, and he said, Lane, I promise you, you're gonna feel like, you're gonna walk on that set one day and it'll feel like home. He said, I didn't wanna do a multicam. I didn't like multicams.

I thought, he goes, I did it so I could sell tickets in a club, and then he busts out laughing. He goes, can you believe that? That's what I thought. I thought, well, maybe I can sell some tickets in a club if I do one. But he said, eventually it felt like home to me and it will do you.

And so it kinda does now to me. I, I'm kind of saying that it's over I'm ready to go home and I want to be with my family and all that but it but I've gotten used to it and And I think I can be good at it. I don't think I'm there yet. I mean, I think we've done a wonderful job I really do. I think we got a darling show with heart and funny and all that, and I think I did pretty well for doing it for my first time. I bet you'll know the difference and the audience won't in the second season.

You'll be like, I'm in it. And the audience will be like, it's the same. Maybe. That's generally, in my experience, what happened. It's like, I thought Ray Romano was great from the pilot. You did? Yeah. I remember seeing him being like, this is he's he's great.

And I'm sure you're yeah, it's like you're. Yeah, you're already it. You can do it. You're like you are. You're it now. Do you know what I mean? So it's just as long as you don't act crazy. Yeah, so you don't clam up, which I'm assuming when the audience is there, you're just like, were you better?

Was there the thing where rehearsals were pretty good then the audience would get there and you'd get like. Nervous and torn up. But also better? Yes, both. I've been at the beginning, I would be so nervous. I'd be back there, you know, deep breathing and thinking, oh my god and then

Now it yeah, I look forward to them coming because I know I think I can it just gives me energy I'm still nervous. Yeah about to die But it does it helps me when they come and I can hear them in their chatty and we sell out every time We're coming and I mean, I don't know they may be walking off the street trying to audition for all I know. But I mean I'm on the stage where Friends was shot. Great. And that's been nifty.

Yeah. But and also I mean it's been a nice break from being on the road. I do it's I don't want to say it's easy me, but I've just been doing stand-up so long that that feels like home to me. Stand-up. Being in the theater, yeah. Yep. And, but. Do you do a bus?

No, I don't, I've never done a bus. I've ridden on nights with him. Yep. But, you know, logistically, they just make it to where I don't have to. Great. And I do worry about my head being cut off, when they tell you, put your feet at the front.

You gotta not think about it. That's my experience, you just can't think about it. Well, no wonder Loretta Lynn got hooked on pills. I mean, I would be hooked on pills if I were young, having to make a living for all those kids that she had with Do, and she's riding the bus and trying to calm down at night. Because you go back to a hotel room and you can't sleep. If I were on a bus, what about my head getting cut off?

Well, your age, your veins are doing stuff. Do what? Your veins are doing stuff at your age. It's a nightmare. Sweetheart, I'm so glad you did this. And I'm sure everyone knew all about you anyway, but like No they didn't cuz you've got the cool kids, Neil I am you would you'd be surprised maybe a couple cool kids, but Leanne Morgan is the best and watcher

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And vacuum please and then do my special as well leave it on oh Yes, you doll from heaven. You doll from heaven. The best. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna cut cameras so you can give me a nice big kiss on the mouth. Away from the prying eyes of old Chuck. Bye!