This Past Weekend - #627 - Leanne Morgan

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Starting point is 00:01:28 with one of my favorites Leanne Morgan No, I just my hair I feel like my hair just got out of the dryer You ever feel like that? Yeah, but you are stunning. I don't know if I want to be. damn stunning. I'm not stunning. Maybe I'm stunning in like a, like if people are trapped in a

Starting point is 00:02:02 mine or something and I walk up, they're like, yeah, damn, who's that model? You know, if people have been trapped in like a mine for like a month. In Kentucky? Um, but no, I think, I've always thought you're beautiful. And I, you know, that I don't want to be beautiful, Leanne. That's insane statements to call someone. What do you mean, handsome? Yeah, I just want to be a handsome guy. Yeah, guy looks healthy enough, right? But you've got that beautiful skin tone. Oh, well, that's, I will take that. Thank you, baby. I know. You don't need a spray tan. Thank you, baby, girl.

Starting point is 00:02:30 You're welcome. I appreciate that. Good to see. What's going on today? Oh, my darling. I'm so tickled to be here. Thank you for having me. This is my Super Bowl, as the young people say.

Starting point is 00:02:43 I mean, I really feel that way. All right. I don't know if you don't know this, but I saw you. Was that last comic standing in L.A.? Gary Marshall was one of the... Gary Marshall from the department store? Who are you talking about? Gary Marshall that did Laverne and Shirley.

Starting point is 00:03:04 He was one of the judges. Gary Marshall, bring him up. You were a baby, and you did last comic standing. I saw you do a set in L.A. It was on NBC. Okay. Gary Marshall. That was last comic standing, right? April Macy was on there.

Starting point is 00:03:21 Yep. She assimilated up Felacio in her set. she did you talked about um uh your little daddy being old when he had you and all that and i you killed and i fell in love with you then well you're an angel and then i got to see you do a full set at the hollywood improv david was on the show with you he came out first and i love him and then you i had my daughters with me and we laughed until we were weak and you did a full plank on a stool for, I don't know, seven minutes. Yeah, and that's part of the ticket cost.

Starting point is 00:04:01 I include that. That ain't extra. Okay. And then we got to meet you, and you remember their names, and you were darling. And there was a bunch of girls that looked maybe like porn girls that were wanting to talk to you. Oh, good. Mm-hmm. Had on high heels and tight bridges.

Starting point is 00:04:22 God, I'm so lonely. But go on. And they were beautiful girls around you. God, I wish they were still here. But go on. And then I always get, all my friends are at Zanis, and they always tell me they get to be with you, and I don't get to be with you.

Starting point is 00:04:38 Because I live in Knoxville, or I'm out on the road working like a mule. That's what it is. Or living in Los Angeles. Well, when are you just going to settle down, Leanne? I don't know. I mean, I'm 60. Did you know I turned 60 in October?

Starting point is 00:04:52 You are 60? Yes. Gosh, girl. I didn't even say that in front of it. No, it's fine, honey. I didn't even know 60 could be like that. God, I want to be 60 just for a half hour with you. You know, my God. Thank you, my darn. You know, I've got two grandbabies. You do? Don't even, I don't tell me that. Just tell me you're 60. I like that far. Do you do, really? Um, yes. Well, yeah, I mean, congratulations A on having a family. Obviously, that's something that's super important to you. I met your husband, Chuck. I met him. Was that his name? You met Chuck Morgan where?

Starting point is 00:05:25 Yes, I met him At the frickin With Morgan Wall Oh yeah, at the ball game Yeah At the ball game Go Vols You know I'm a Vaugh for life

Starting point is 00:05:34 I went to the University of Tennessee Oh yes Chuck Morgan was there That's right Chuck Morgan was lingering around We met Peyton Manning And he's worried death about Arch

Starting point is 00:05:44 He's having to tend to Arch At Texas Who is beautiful and precious I know his daddy Cooper I know Cooper But I never met Peyton So I was tickled about that

Starting point is 00:05:54 And then I know Tony Vitello we're friends. Oh, he's great. Is he not darling? I know he's great. I know that they're all going to miss him over there, but I know that they're all supportive of him. He's just the kind of guy you have to support as he makes those choices.

Starting point is 00:06:06 But God, he is just a great guy. There's some great people over there. And yeah, and, yeah, that was fun, though. Had you met Morgan before? Yes, honey, Morgan and I did a show together. When he got kicked off of the voice, that little thing was mowing. had mowing equipment

Starting point is 00:06:25 and we both got asked to do a charity thing I think they paid us $200 if they paid us anything I can't remember and he sang and we were in the bag and I promised him a casserole because I thought he was so sweet and during then he goes I'm going to try to make it in country music and I thought

Starting point is 00:06:43 how's that little thing going to go and not that I didn't think he was talented no of course but I thought that this is so sweetie that you would even consider making a casserole for him well he's the age of my children he's great and darling he is great

Starting point is 00:06:56 he does a good job he's a smart guy yeah he's a smart guy he's competitive and he just he's really fine-tuned

Starting point is 00:07:04 on who he is he's really you know some people they're willing to be this or that but not Morgan is this is who I am you know

Starting point is 00:07:11 I admire that and that's a good place to be you know you don't care I think it is well you've been working in comedy for how long

Starting point is 00:07:21 have you been doing comedy for if you don't mind if I ask you Oh, no, I don't mind you, Angel. God. I was 32 when I think, when I, my baby was 18 months old, the first time I ever opened, I opened at Zanis. I'd been, I'd been fooling around like at the Rotary, you know, like I'd take a baby to Mom's Day out, go and do a little something at the Rotary, make $50. And now were you doing?

Starting point is 00:07:45 In East Tennessee. Okay. Yeah. And then I came running. What county was that in? Hamlin County. Over in Hamlin? Uh-huh.

Starting point is 00:07:51 Okay. And that's where you met Chuck Morgan? I made him at the University of Tennessee. God, I knew it, huh? And what was he doing over there? It was loitering or was he enrolled? I was probably the one loitering. Okay.

Starting point is 00:08:03 He was enrolled getting a master's in NBA, and I was trying to finish up a undergraduate that took me several years, Theo, because I... Drank. I wasn't drinking. You weren't? I was smoking cigarettes with Diet Coke and coffee. Oh, that's fine.

Starting point is 00:08:19 And I was not going to claim. I was having to flirt with people to get notes. I didn't care. And I wish I'd have cared. But I was doing stuff like that. And making out with people. Yeah. Oh, God.

Starting point is 00:08:34 Like Italian boys, because I never seen one. Okay, so I was raised, like, right outside of Nashville in a town of 500 people, farming community. So everybody was the same. So when I got to Utah, I was like, oh, and I, you know, went to the club. Oh, yeah. If you see something new, you've got to put your lips on it, you know? That's the Hamlin County motto.

Starting point is 00:08:53 But then Chuck Morgan came to get an MBA and then fell in love with me. And was he on a horseback or something when you saw him? Was he on a damn damn big Dotson, wasn't he? Like, I think he's got a long one on him, under him. Is Dotson a dog? Doxon's a dog. I've had a dachson. Pudden. Yeah, she was precious. Well, she'd bring up a pitcher of her. Look up Pudden Dotson. She was a little bitty toey, little orange. overweight, had some thyroid issues

Starting point is 00:09:26 love to cuss UPS trucks but darling like another baby to me that's a beagle, that's my beagle right now That is beautiful That's you? Look at that old

Starting point is 00:09:39 Lord, that was a dress from Dillards From the junior department That was too tight on my back Theo Honey, look baby girl I know I used to have shoes That weren't mine growing up And I have to stuff the fucking edge

Starting point is 00:09:53 I might have to put a hand towel around each one of my feet and put them bitches on and go to school. Look like a damn vaudeville character or something. I look like they used to call me Ronald McDonald's son, Lil Ronnie. Here's a little Ronnie. It took me seven minutes to get off the bus from going down those steps, dude.

Starting point is 00:10:16 Because if I got out ahead of those skis, baby, it was downhill, you know? It was just slope central. You kill me. Louisiana, is that where you were raised? Yeah. What part of Louisiana? Over in St. Tammany, Paris, Louisiana. Okay, I just did Shreveport in Baton Rouge. Is that over in the Hoopty-Doo part? Shreveport, and I'll say it out loud, is definitely going downhill.

Starting point is 00:10:41 Which is interesting for a place that's flat land over there. Somehow it found a way to go down. I heard you said something about it when you got on stage. What did you say? Everybody that looked like a damn bad. missing person if you meet anybody in the city. The city is vacant. It looks like a movie set. I know. The, I mean, the buildings are empty and they told me they go, do not leave this hotel. Yeah. But I love that theater and they've got a little Elvis museum in it. You know. And Priscilla brought some bridges of little Elvis that you could not get your toe in. He was so tiny. That's beautiful. Bring up a picture of a little Elvis. How little did he get?

Starting point is 00:11:14 Before he got in bad health, have you ever been to Graceland? Yes, I have. And you've seen his little all those jumpsuits and you and they were his little wased he was getting little as he got older look there's little baby elvices look at little elvis right there and they probably had him down singing already probably 11 months old they got him out there i know when his little daddy had written band chinks just to connect care of their family he couldn't help it and he had dysplasia that's how he got the hips going you know that no yeah like an australian shepherd that's how it happened in the beginning he didn't know what he was doing dude he wasn't you're like he's a dance her no he ain't damn he just got a loose back are you kidding me because you know that i'm gullible

Starting point is 00:11:55 you can tell that about me you can smell it honey okay honey bun he had dysplasia baby girl i'm not joking with you yeah he had dysplasia he had a damn fucking loose tailbone dude he was missing a couple joists on that thing and yeah and he just had that tick talk in him you know hell we had an elvis impersonator in our neighborhood he had the same thing he had a thing this guy he broke his leg right he had a couple children he kept him on an electric fence in our neighborhood because they were his prized possessions and I actually respected that

Starting point is 00:12:27 the rest of the kids in our neighborhood got real you know you'd be out there and you know the elements would get you you know people smoking or getting in trouble drinking or people fucking catching crows and fucking picking bugs off of them and shit just fucking loose canning type stuff yeah

Starting point is 00:12:43 but this fella said well I got to take care of my kids so I'm going to get me a little electric fence right so we had that thing and And anyway, he kept people out. Kept people like, kept the kids in. Kept the kids in. Because my people had electric fans.

Starting point is 00:12:58 And that'll keep you in. You don't want to get buzzed by that thing. Uh-uh. You turn into a fucking doorbell for a couple hours, dude. That bitch, you get hit by that bitch. We really were so bored little country kids that we would go and just stand on it to feel something. Oh, God. Yeah, honey.

Starting point is 00:13:14 Oh, I remember one time I grabbed it on an accident, I couldn't fucking close my mouth for fucking four days. I couldn't close my mouth. Farming, you weren't from, you aren't rural, right? I couldn't finish a can of Campbell's around that. For half a week, I couldn't. And it was daylight savings time, too, so it was an extra hour I had to do. I was stuck like that.

Starting point is 00:13:35 It was horrible. Dude, my sister, she stays, this is where I'm from. My sister and her boyfriend will stay up to watch daylight savings time. I'm like, what in the fuck are y'all doing? They'll stay up to watch daylight savings time. It's 1159 again. And then they're like, you know, they think it's great. I'm like, you idiot.

Starting point is 00:13:57 It's the one night you get a free hour from God. It's God's caring about you finally after all that year. When you feel good and you think, what happened? Oh, I got that extra hour. And they stay up and watch it. I'm like, what are you watching? But that's who she is. Is she the one that's got the beautiful babies, the boys that I've seen you interview?

Starting point is 00:14:19 Those and no. That's my brother has those two little boys. Those are good boys. I'll say this. My family makes beautiful children. Beautiful. They are beautiful. And that's why I call you beautiful, Theo, and you need to receive that.

Starting point is 00:14:32 Gotcha. Thanks, girl. My best Hugh Hauser impersonation, huh? He's skipping right now up 12 south. He knows every one of those girls, and they all love him. Oh, he is just... I met him the night that... He's one of a kind.

Starting point is 00:14:48 For free, I came... I came and opened for Lady Annabellum. Oh, you did? Uh-huh. At a thing, at a thing. Not a bridge stone. No. At a bridge.

Starting point is 00:15:00 Yeah. Under the bridge. At a bridge. And he was in the bank with his shirt on button down to his belly button with a fresh spray tan, hair extensions, and we fell in love that, you know. And so we've been good friends ever since. And now he's doing stand-up. Oh, he's the female Michael Landon. That's what I call him.

Starting point is 00:15:17 He's known in a lot of homoerotic circles as a ginger Michael Landon. He will fuck your book club up. I know that, dude, just with his sheer entertainment and volume and attitude. Uh-huh. And then he also can tell you how to do a table scape.

Starting point is 00:15:35 But you ask me when I started doing comedy, I opened for Billy Gardell at Zanis. When my baby was 18 months old, she's out there, she's my makeup artist. She's about to turn 28. Tess. And she's beautiful. Thank you. Thank you.

Starting point is 00:15:49 And she's my makeup artist on my television show, and then she tours with me and tells people she's my caregiver now. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and she doesn't want to be. She wants to date, you know, and meet man, and it's hard with your 60-year-old mother. Well, it's hard once your mother, if your mother goes downhill early, that's what they call it, going downhill early. Yeah, you turn immediately like, and that's how to really, as a parent, I think that's what you want to gauge. You want, right when they get out of high school or college, you want to hit that downhill. So they have to take care of you.

Starting point is 00:16:20 So they can tend to you. That's how it used to be. They shouldn't get those free 10 or 12 years of joy into their mid-30s, and that's when you start capping off. But you need to catch it. You just, you got to hit it right at the right time. So I like your strategy, really. I do like that. Thank you.

Starting point is 00:16:36 I thought when I hit it big, I would be younger and thinner, but that's okay. Yeah, tell me about some of that. So what was that like going through? Because you, when do you say you really start to kind of hit a big? And also, I love your show on Netflix. That was the thing that I started. Thank you. And you shared it.

Starting point is 00:16:50 Thank you, my darling. Yeah, that's the thing I started watching. I was like, this is good. It reminded me of kind of like a re-but in a sense that it's a southern show. They hadn't had a good Southern show in a long time because Hollywood hates us. And so, but finally they're like so desperate because they realize that, oh, we are human at least, that we're going to put this great show on there and they chose you. And was that scary doing that?

Starting point is 00:17:13 had you done that before, and then when did your break start to come? Because it kind of came a little bit later than maybe you expected or wanted. Oh, yeah. My break came in my early 50s, and I was just about to quit. Were you really? I was just about to quit. I was working a lot. I had done a dry bar.

Starting point is 00:17:32 And my manager at a comedy special, yeah. And my manager at the time said, these Mormon people are doing these specials, and he said, nobody will ever see it. They're going to pay you a couple of thousand dollars. you're going to fly to Salt Lake City we'll get some clips out of it where you can do more corporate I was doing the Chamber of Commerce

Starting point is 00:17:51 for Dubuque Iowa Oh God, I love it there Dubuque's beautiful You know Al Capone had an Yes, in that hotel I love that place I know and beautiful people There's real pretty people in Dubuque

Starting point is 00:18:03 Iowa is some of the best people in the world Clear Lake Iowa have you been there? No So good it's where Buddy Holly and then where they took off from that plane out of the surf ballroom Oh murder Remember hearing about that? Yes.

Starting point is 00:18:14 You can still go there. It's perfectly, you can still go, you can still see the pay phone that they all called their family from before they took off out of there. Anyway, not to bring it down. But that is a beautiful place if you ever get to go. There's a lot of beautiful places in Iowa. But go on. So you were in Dubuque, Iowa.

Starting point is 00:18:33 My career was in the toilet, and I thought, okay, I'll go and do this special. I did a bunch of old material that people hadn't seen. I was rusty. I think it sucked and I did that special and some things went viral in it but I couldn't sell tickets from it I was getting work from it but it wasn't the work I wanted

Starting point is 00:18:54 like what do you mean were you getting what pressure washing or what kind of gigs were you getting? Close. Because dude I've seen, I've had somebody some guy saw me at a comedy club he's like man I love you dude I want you to come pressure wash at the house and I'm like well

Starting point is 00:19:07 that ain't helping me. He's like 200 bucks. I was like, I'll be over there. I'll damn spit really fast on that siding if I have to. I don't own a pressure washing machine. But yeah, it was like little baby girl. Little corporate things, stuff. You know, they pay you so much,

Starting point is 00:19:25 but you got to pay your travel out of it. I'd get an Uber with a man on marijuana drive for two hours and stay at a motel on the side of the road. Think I was going to be murdered. I mean, it just was and it was just not good. And I got very down. And I told Chuck Morgan, I said, I'm going to quit, and I'm opening up a hardware store.

Starting point is 00:19:45 And, because I always thought that would be fun. And he said, no, you're crazy. Did you really say that? Yeah, he goes, Leon, that's crazy. It's fine, you're fine, and you're just keep going. And so I hired these little guys that did social media for me, these young guys who knew how to do all that stuff. I didn't know. And they put out the clip where you showed that me and that tight dress from Dillard's

Starting point is 00:20:09 from the junior's department. And I did a bit about, and I'd never done it before, I just had taken Chuck Morgan to go see Def Leopard and Journey at Thompson Bowling, and everybody looked sick and had Planner Fasianitis. All the people look banned. All the band members? All the band members. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:20:27 I'm a deaf guy. Way more than death, yeah. Yeah. Tiny legs. Oh, God. Yeah. Anyway, it must have resonated with people. And that went viral, and I started selling out all over the United States.

Starting point is 00:20:40 in clubs that would not have had me. Yeah, wouldn't even answer your emails. Wouldn't answer, no. Or they'd had me in there like, she's sweet, she doesn't get drunk, and fighting the parking lot, but we're not having her back. She can't sell tickets.

Starting point is 00:20:51 So I started selling out, and then I got my first tour, and then the big penny tour. And I was in my early 50s. And you were in your early 50s. And what was that? Do you remember the first place that you played at that it was sold out at it?

Starting point is 00:21:06 Oh, gosh. Like first comedy club where you're like, oh my God. Yeah, probably, oh, like off the hook in Naples? Yeah. Brian's Club? Yeah. Oh, Captain Brian.

Starting point is 00:21:18 Yeah, Captain Brian. Dude, you're on stage and there's just serving shrimp right up between your leg, dude. Big platters of shrimp. I thought it was a seafood restaurant, and I thought I'm in the wrong place. It is a seafood restaurant. A lot of clinking. But I liked that stage, and they were darling, and I had a ball. Oh, no, it is a seafood restaurant, and you're in the right place.

Starting point is 00:21:37 It's both of those things, and that's what's amazing about it. Oh, Captain Brian's done a great job over there of keeping comedy, off-the-hook comedy club. That's what it is. Yeah, in Naples. Or Bricktown in Oklahoma. All these places that had never had me before. But that was the first place that you went. That was one of the first places, yeah.

Starting point is 00:21:55 Yeah, I was torn for probably 12 years, 13 years out there. Maybe, I don't even know if it's probably about that, you know, just getting in there, lucky to be a feature, hoping you'd finally get to headline, hoping you'd hit a bonus. You wouldn't. So you were at that kind of $1,200 a week mark, you know, and they'd give you $300 for travel, but you had to decide if you were just wanted to drive 18 hours or spend the $300 to fly over there, you know? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:22:21 Dude, hanging my food out. What I remember in Kansas City, I would, it was cold out there. So I got my groceries, and I would put them in a bag and hang them out the window at night because there wasn't like a fridge in the room. I'd hang them out. I'd get them in the morning and let them thaw out and then have me a little lunch a few hours later. And, yeah, just little things you would figure out over time. But there were some clubs that always, like Brian Dorman at Zanies in Nashville,

Starting point is 00:22:47 always let me play Cap City in Austin. I consider that my home club. Chuck Morgan moved us to San Antonio for his job. So I worked the River Center and Cap City in Austin, and they were really good to me. Wait, in Austin or San Antonio? Oh. San Antonio, the River Center. And then L-O-L.

Starting point is 00:23:04 And then Cap City and Austin believed in me. And I would drive back and forth from San Antonio with little children. I had three babies, three, five, and seven. And in San Antonio, I'd get up at the late show when everybody was high on marijuana at midnight and talk about how somebody do-doed on a tee ball field because I was a mama. You know, I was different from all those boys. There was a lot of young boys doing Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonations. Oh, baby girl.

Starting point is 00:23:29 So I stood out, but, you know, not a lot of clubs wanted to book me. Yeah. But I got to raise these children. I was raising children in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Texas. And first of all, let me say this beautiful place, Knoxville. And also, I think Knoxville probably best place to see a football game. I think the best place to see an SEC football game. I haven't seen a lot of football games outside of the SEC.

Starting point is 00:23:57 But, man, Neeland, there's something special about it. I just got to go to Ole Miss and see their game. I saw that you were with Lane. And did y'all do hot yoga? Yeah, we did. He's been on a cleanse. I've said horrible things about Lane Kiffin on stage when I have, well, you know, he left us. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:24:14 So I said some crap. Oh, when Daddy leaves. But I'm sorry for it now. There we are right now. Because he's doing, he's, you know, he's, he was cute and there was a lot of girls. Well, you can tell I was raised by a single mother too with how I wear that towel. I'm going on ahead and say that. That's why.

Starting point is 00:24:31 People are like, what are you doing? I'm like, what are you doing? Okay, with your dad. okay so you can tell that to I am and those are some wonderful ladies there that were training they was I don't know if they were trainers or something one of them I think they wanted they work at Facebook marketplace I don't know what one of them was actually going to buy a cat off a Facebook marketplace and I said

Starting point is 00:24:52 honey she's like I'm driving in Batesville to get a cat off a Facebook marketplace and I said baby girl that's bad idea okay she said it's a $60 cat I said I'll give you $70 right now not to go yeah just to get you a little nap or something You know, just to watch cats on YouTube and get your little shut-eye. Oh, my Lord. I hope she made it. Well, I hope she made it too. And, you know, who knows?

Starting point is 00:25:14 You know, you can't follow up on everything. But you give people. You're so busy. Well, you give them a little bit of advice, you know. If at that point she drives off to meet somebody off a damn Facebook marketplace at a trailer where they're like, well, we're going to add an addition to the trailer, that is when I'm like, do not do it. anytime, and let me make this speech right now,

Starting point is 00:25:37 and I'm going to put my hat on to make this because I don't like my hair today. My God, I need a wife. But what I'm telling you is this, okay, if you meet someone and they're like, yeah, we got the trailer, and then we're going to add on to it, you're like, that it doesn't work. It's not a realistic project. You can't just add on to a trailer with extra housing or quick, creed or whatever they're using all type of shit you know did you know that chok morgan is in the

Starting point is 00:26:08 mobile home industry i could imagine it i didn't know that and did he put you in one yes i lived in a double wine um he flipped it and he said to me we're just going to be there temporarily yeah and it was big you could ride a bicycle through it oh yeah but i was pregnant with my third baby it was in the middle of nowhere it was a hard time for me was it there was a mom that lived behind us. She had a pot-belly pig. It charged me all the time. It wasn't a big pig. But it was scary, you know, to have a little pig charging you while you're big pregnant, trying to get up in a double wine when you don't have stamps. Yeah. It's kind of, yeah. Oh, definitely, dude. Chuck Morgan owned the business and had steps sitting out in a field several and just forgot to

Starting point is 00:26:57 bring steps home. So I had to pitch two babies up in a double wine. Then hike my life. Lenga, big pregnant. I mean, I had tense, that baby, I was pregnant with her. Yeah. And we lived on it, and it was on a gravel road. And he said, I promise you, I'm going to, I'll make money. Oh, yeah, she's got big hands, I saw. And so hell, yeah, I can imagine that thing, helping you balance on the way up a little.

Starting point is 00:27:21 Oh, no. And then he did. He flipped it. But, yeah, Chuck Morgan still works in the mobile home industry. Oh, dang. And I don't think, I don't know, maybe some people do try to build on to a mobile home, but I get what you're saying. Yeah, it just when you...

Starting point is 00:27:35 You could put a fire pit out in front. Put it out front. Do not try to put it inside. That's what I'm saying. Do not do that. That's a thing, you know. We're going to take... My sister was like,

Starting point is 00:27:44 we're going to tear down this wall inside and we're going to... No, you don't need a living room that has a bathroom in it. Like, you know, but no wall. Did you ever live in one? I didn't live in one. We lived in an apartment complex

Starting point is 00:27:56 that was sinking. So we'd sit... I remember we'd sit there at night and watch Unsolved Mysteries of Mom and stuff. and one part of the fucking apartment after about the second episode once like a full house came on your fucking bottom was getting wet

Starting point is 00:28:15 because it was just the floor was sinking there was like some sink in there in the living room and people would steal this was the worst part about our place people would steal our wood from our balcony let's even find that picture I've talked about this before, but...

Starting point is 00:28:35 People were trying to steal the... So people... There was a balcony up on that top? Yes, there was. And the police were like, well, you have any pictures up? We're like, Officer, you don't think there was a balcony there? What do you think we just live with a witch or somebody who just travels on just propulsion or something?

Starting point is 00:28:54 Or some woman on her period who can just levitate out like that? What do you... Like, he's like, well, we need to see some images or something. And I'm like, it was just that. That was a nightmare. But people would steal that, and they would use it to build something at their house. And then we'd go get it back and get it back installed. If my mom was seeing a guy, we'd convince him if he was drunk to go get that wood back.

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Starting point is 00:31:54 Are you the baby? No, I'm the second one. We have four children, and I'm the second one. So we had a... Yeah, older brother, two younger sisters. What about you? I have an older sister.

Starting point is 00:32:06 You do? Mm-hmm. What's she like? We were a pretty big deal in Adams, Tennessee of 500 people. Yeah. You know, we were tall, blonde. I played sports. She twirled.

Starting point is 00:32:18 She twirled. She twirled. She was a major aunt. And boys used to call and breathe into the phone. Oh, that's flirting my problem. Oh, she's beautiful, huh? Thank you. She was.

Starting point is 00:32:31 National Simaqa calendar. You're dressed like a damn dish set we had when I was a kid. That was at the Opry. God, that's great. Oh, my Lord. We both have an unrealistic hair color right there. We've both gotten some dimensions since then. Yeah, a lot of your photos,

Starting point is 00:32:47 you kind of look like an Asian woman that's dyed her hair to look American in some ways. Because of my eyes? Do you think my eyes? No, I just feel like, you are a beautiful lady. A lot of these pictures, I don't see you in them for some reason. but they look great. I'm just saying that's a, and maybe I've seen a lot,

Starting point is 00:33:05 I've been on too many sites with Asians on them or something. But go back. I want to talk about your sister for a second. What's her name? Beth. Beth. Oh, she's beautiful. And so what was it like having a sister like her?

Starting point is 00:33:15 She was a majorette, you said? She was a mageorette and, you know, 5-11, and she was in Miss Tennessee. Of course she was, dude. Any tall girl, they just, they will get it all. If you just happen to be fucking tall, I don't care for whatever reason or something. Maybe there wasn't a lot of gravity in the home or whatever.

Starting point is 00:33:34 But whatever happened and you got to be tall, they were like, she's beautiful. You remember that? Uh-huh. And we, you know, when you're in, I graduated 42 people. I think she graduated with 20-something. Okay. So easier for her to do well? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:33:47 And, but she was always very, and still is, very prim and proper. And she went to Austin Pee. She was Homecoming Queen. And she was a national Sima-Kan calendar on the, yeah. And then I went to, you. UT, and I was in a mess. A mass. A mass. I was flailing around. Were you dating women to her? You were keeping it? Okay. I mean, I just don't know how bad. No, I love men. Oh, love them. I don't know how weird it got. No, I didn't go through

Starting point is 00:34:15 that. Yeah. And were you knocked up outside of wedlock or not? No. I, um. Oh, she did pretty good. You know, but, but they, um, I did, I dropped out and I got married the first time. It wasn't Chuck Morgan. Mm-hmm. I have a past. Who was it? It was a guy that was older than me. He went to UT. He had already graduated. Well, I think so.

Starting point is 00:34:39 I think so. It just didn't work out. He had problems. It was bad, and I don't think he could help it. Oh, my God. I hope he's all right. Is he alive? No.

Starting point is 00:34:51 God. Oh, that's sad. I'm saying, thank you for telling us about him. Oh, my darling. But, you know, it made me who I am to do. day, it's okay. It's okay. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:35:01 And he was a beautiful, talented, talented, and all that, but it was bad. And I was dumb and 21. And then we're talking the late 80s. I still probably had some big hair. And were you listening to like any type of music? Annie Lennox. Okay. Prince, Billy Idol, Rick James, nasty Rick James.

Starting point is 00:35:28 Okay. So you guys were partying a little. I mean, I was dancing and smoking cigarettes, but I was not a drinker. I didn't care about drinking, and I didn't, I never did drugs because I'm scared of things. That is you, huh? I was, that's me 17, a junior in high school. Test looks like you kind of, huh? Beautiful ladies.

Starting point is 00:35:47 Oh, my God, and who is that? Me and my sister. Oh, I thought that was two of the Von Ericks. You ever seen those kids? The wrestlers? Yeah. Bring them up. Yes.

Starting point is 00:35:57 Didn't you interview you? Don Eric, we did. Honey, after that, I looked him up because it was so fascinating. As children, bring him up his... They were fascinating. They are fascinating. Great guy. But, yes, some of those, that picture room, I thought it was two of them.

Starting point is 00:36:12 Well, yeah, we were a little blonde-headed children. And our family owned the little grocery store in our town. Oh, I could easily... Is that all those wrestling boys? Yeah. The daddy sitting there, did he wrestle, or... He did. He wrestled, too.

Starting point is 00:36:24 Where were they raised? Uh, maybe East Texas. And their little mom, and you can tell she cooked. Oh, definitely. And she tended to them and got them casseroles. She did not have a choice to cook. I can't believe you gave Morgan a casserole. What kind was it?

Starting point is 00:36:40 I never got to fix little Morgan. Now, he did take my Maggie, my middle child on a couple of dates. Oh, that's beautiful. Mm-hmm. But she said, I think he likes wild girls that like to key cars. Oh, well. And see, my children went to a Christian school. and we're taught not to.

Starting point is 00:36:59 But she said, she thought he was darling. And she said, I think he likes while this was a long time ago, this before he hit it big, he was, you know, he liked girls that like to fight in the yard. Yeah, dude. I could see that. I mean, yes. Yeah, and that's okay. There's pretty girls in Powell.

Starting point is 00:37:18 They were all from Powell, Tennessee. Yeah. And he was a baseball player in mode. A free fight. Yeah. Yeah. And especially if he just mowed the yard Yeah

Starting point is 00:37:29 Somebody needs to throw down in it You know, that's what I'm saying I know and see my sister and my kid We don't like to fight We're not fighters No And I've got a son, 32 He's not a fighter

Starting point is 00:37:41 They're lovers then We're lovers Uh huh I interrupted you though So he owned a car dealership you said What were you saying before I interrupted? My little mom and daddy No I told you

Starting point is 00:37:50 You were talking about Oh the two little kids Go back to them as children And sorry I interrupted you And took you on this crazy thing I compared you to look like... With the wrestlers. Yeah, and I'm very sorry.

Starting point is 00:37:59 But now here we have two beautiful children. Yes, that's me and my sister. And I think that was taken in the back of our... I think people could get their picture made in our grocery store. Oh, I love that. My family owned the little grocery store there. They did? And we're farmers.

Starting point is 00:38:13 We have land. We still have farming. In outside of Knoxville? Tobacco farming. In Middle Tennessee, here outside of Nashville. On the Kentucky Tennessee border near 101st Airborne Fort Campbell, Clarksville. That's where I was raised. Oh, beautiful.

Starting point is 00:38:26 But I went to University of Tennessee and then, you know, married a bunch of men up there. But so we had, we had grocery store and then my little daddy opened a meat processing plant. No, he did. And he did everybody's beef, deer, and hongs and all that. And did y'all do nuggets too or anything like that? No. God. It's kind of like now these fancy people that do grass feed.

Starting point is 00:38:49 My people were doing that a long time ago. Yeah, while I was from it, they saw a cow eating grass, you like this thing's a little gay, you know. You know, like it was feed only back then. You know, if you saw some grass, like, look at this thick bitch having a salad. You know, it would be like, it was a different time. I worked at a place called soup galore. I worked over there. I love soup.

Starting point is 00:39:09 Yeah, enough people didn't love it like you did, I think, because we could not keep a strong clientele in there. Really? Well, it's just hard. And our big thing was, it was supposed to be like the Baskin Robin of soups, right? Yeah. So they were supposed to have 31 soups. And I'm like, dude, we don't have enough. If everybody came in here.

Starting point is 00:39:26 and had two bowls of soup. They're like, well, maybe after the game, everybody will come in, have a couple bowls of soup. I'm like, there's not... That, there's only, like, seven parking spots, too. It was like, it didn't even make any sense, dude.

Starting point is 00:39:39 And I'd be back there just damn stirring like a bull your base or a fucking split pee. I mean, that shit would... Are there 31 soaps, is what I'm wondering. Oh, of course, there are... Bring up a list of soups if you don't mind, brother. For the non-believers out of here for the Methodists, as I'll call them.

Starting point is 00:39:56 Bring up a list of decent soups. Put that on there. Tomato, French onion. That was an easy. When cream of mushroom, that was pretty basic. We had that. Butternut squash we didn't do. Now, I've had that a lot as an adult.

Starting point is 00:40:08 Do you like that, my darling? Because that's not what I go-to-for-me, butternut squash soup. It's a rich thing. Like, sometimes I'll be at a place where somebody will invite me to something. We have to have all your clothes on to eat. And hoop-de-do.

Starting point is 00:40:22 Yeah. Hoop-de-do people. And there's nowhere to put your gum. You have to swallow it. Do you get invited to a bunch of nifty things because you're so cute and fun and everybody wants to be with you? And you're exhausted. Is that basically it? No, I don't think that's true.

Starting point is 00:40:40 I do, like, one thing that was, one thing that sometimes is neat, like, my best friend went to Ole Miss. So I got to go to Old Miss. It was his birthday, right? So we went up to Ole Miss. And so I met Lane Kiffin from podcasting with him. So I got to, like, take my best friend on, like, this walk that they, they do with the beginning of the thing. But if you'll see, play that video.

Starting point is 00:41:01 And I'll tell you when to pause it in just a second. Okay, pause it. Right behind me on the right is my best friend. So he loves SEC football. He loves Ole Miss. I've never, in fact, I've only supported Ole Miss because he was an old Miss guy, and I love him. He's just my, we've been friends for children.

Starting point is 00:41:20 His father convinced me to go do comedy. His father was a Jerry Clower fan and used to put Jerry Clower fan. and used to put Jerry Clower on the radio and on the CD. Yeah. But little things like that are great. Like I know you're doing, but it's probably similar to stuff.

Starting point is 00:41:35 I know you're doing the CMAs with Lainty Wilson, right? You're going to just guess with her on there for a little bit, which is amazing. Yeah, I get to intro somebody, but I get to be on stage with her for a little while. She and I played each other in Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud. You did? Uh-huh.

Starting point is 00:41:52 She invited our family to play. Oh. And then I did something else with her with CBS, so I love her. And she's the real deal. She's the best. I went and saw her and Ella Langley play not long ago, and that was beautiful. And Ella Langley, I got to meet her on the Today Show. Beautiful.

Starting point is 00:42:09 Oh, y'all. Is she dating anybody? Huh? Is she dating anybody? I don't know a thing. I don't know anything. I mean. She's got beautiful bangs and legs.

Starting point is 00:42:18 Did you notice that? I know she is a great performer. she is a firecracker I know that she's just a you know confident young lady so talented she is so talented but I don't know I don't know she whoever she whoever if she's dating somebody they're a lucky they are very lucky because she's a doll a living doll

Starting point is 00:42:37 she was with Riley Green and I got to meet him he was darned look at her that doll oh mm-hmm beauty beauty yeah she'll iron your fucking shirt with her stare too she could put look that Ella will

Starting point is 00:42:53 get something done. And Ella, where was she raised, Alabama? I think in the Jungle Book. Have you seen that movie? She is a wild one. And I mean that lovingly. Ella, she knows that. She is from Alabama.

Starting point is 00:43:05 Hope Hole, Alabama. Hope Hole, Alabama. I know she just won a couple C-dos, I think, in a raffle down there. I saw her using them. They had a raffle down there at the hardware shop, and she won them. I remember my granddaddy when her kids would take us over there. You'd go enter the raffles. It's raffle week.

Starting point is 00:43:22 You go enter them. And then he'd go over there to the pool hall and smoke, and you have to sit out in his truck or whatever. Yeah. With a couple stuffed animals. I think we were raised similar. A lot of people sitting smoking out in a truck. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:43:36 Yeah. And the men would go cry behind the wind, Dixie. If things weren't going well, they'd park back there and cry. Oh. Good chicken, though. Yeah, they had great produce. My buddy Robbie Taylor worked over there for a long time. He was a steadfast employee there and went on to create some businesses of his own.

Starting point is 00:43:52 But, yeah, we'd go up there and watch a fellow's cry over there. There were people crying outside of the Wind Dixie. In the back, not out front. If you're crying out front, that's a gay guy. You know what I'm saying? The real man parked and cried in the back. Crying the back. If you were just up there, having a little too much trouble getting one of those big bags of ice out of the icebox thing, that's just a fella that's afraid to admit something to his wife, you know?

Starting point is 00:44:15 Oh. Okay, I used to go back when I was waiting tables and smoke with the line cooks. They're fun. gotten out of jail, had fun stories. First of all, if you consider the people that work at Wind Dixie, the line cooks. No, the restaurant that I worked at. Oh, sorry. Oh, those boys, those line cooks that I worked with, pretty fun, criminals, had a ball, wanting

Starting point is 00:44:37 to hear what they did. Where was this first job? So this was a restaurant? This was a restaurant. And it was a real place. A real place where I met Chuck Morgan when he came to get his MBA. And I was finishing up that undergraduate that took me many years. And this is in Knoxville.

Starting point is 00:44:54 In Knoxville, Tennessee, the restaurant where everybody wanted to work because it stayed on a wait all day long. You made big money. Oh, I like that. Because, yeah, you seem like a woman that's probably slept the way to the top of a Marie calendars. You know what I'm saying? I'm not judging you.

Starting point is 00:45:08 But go on. Anyway, sorry, I shouldn't be talking while you're here. And I'll say this. That place was nice. That fucking pie aquarium they had at the front. That Marie Callender, you know, I've never been in. Are you talking about a real Marie Calendar? There were restaurants.

Starting point is 00:45:23 Yeah. Where were they? I've never been in one. I don't know. You know, they had, I think they had one up there towards Missouri. They had one, and it was, I think it was in the same town as they had. You ever place that Lamberts, the Throde Rolls? You ever been in that place?

Starting point is 00:45:37 Yes, I think I've been in the Lamberts. Marie Callender's is based out of Mission, Viejo, California. Oh, I did not see that coming. Okay, were you living in Los Angeles? When I saw you do last comic standing, were you out there living as a young, young, young, young boy. Because I, see, I was a little mama out in the middle of nowhere.

Starting point is 00:45:59 And you had your kids out there? With y'all. I mean, but, I mean, I wanted, you know, I wanted to be one of the cool kids at the comedy store and I would, you know. And where were you at that time? That's when you were working at that restaurant? No, this was when I started doing

Starting point is 00:46:12 Cap City Comedy Club and all that. And then he got, Chuck got promoted and then we came back to Knoxville where the corporate offices are. and that's when I Well, I mean, I worked But I, you know, nobody cared Well, honey, I don't even have fucking long sock

Starting point is 00:46:30 Look what I'm wearing Cute, very cute, very lanky. Your ankles look nice Oh, thank you. I got a spray tan for you. You did? Yeah. Somebody came to my home and did it.

Starting point is 00:46:41 That's nice of them. Yeah, but yeah, I wanted to be out at the comedy store and all that wanted to be like you. But was there a thing like was it, what was it like really having the children and you're wanting to do this? Like did you have to say like, okay, I can't do it these years. I can't do it this time of year. Were there times you had to set off? Or did you not be able to do that? Because I know sometimes it's like you get a week. You're like, that's the week I'm working. You know, I mean, that's how it was for me. Like I didn't have, I had friends for

Starting point is 00:47:11 like 12 years that I was out there touring, but I didn't see them that much. I was gone. If I met a girl, I'd start to get to know where I was going. I came back in town three weeks. I didn't remember who she was. I didn't know who I was. Yeah. You know, just things were, it was hard to keep things together. What was that like for you out there? I mean, I just, I took any job I could get.

Starting point is 00:47:28 And I tried to stay on stage when I could. And at times I would go on a little tour with like two other female comedians because Blue Collar had blown up. Mm-hmm. And so do you remember Edomé, a comedian named Edomay? Yes. I toured with Karen Mills and Edomay, and we called ourselves the Southern Fried Chicks. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:47:47 She plays a character. Edom May. She used to do the funny bone in Baton Rouge sometimes. Yeah, and she lived out in L.A. for, and was in movies and stuff. Wow. I don't know if I ever got to meet her. She's out there working theaters and clubs. Still. Edom A. So funny. And who else? Karen Mills, who is a good friend of mine who opens for me on when I tour.

Starting point is 00:48:12 Oh, yeah, I got to get to see that, Edom May. Because I remember, yeah, like, just you see the fly. liars at the clubs at the funny bone. That's who was coming through. That's back when Baton Rouge had a funny bone and they don't have one anymore. I don't think Louisiana even has a comedy club anymore. Well, I know in Knoxville, there were side splitters, but you would come to the Tennessee theater when I was working the side splitters. Yeah, by the time I get to Knoxville, I was already doing, uh, outside of, or, yeah, I know you were at the Tennessee theater. I was outside of clubs. That Tennessee theater is awesome. Beautiful. Yeah. But I would do,

Starting point is 00:48:44 I would work when I could. I did a lot of private things. I did clubs. I did clubs. I did. when they'd have me and, um, and I always had television deals, though, going. That's the thing. Oh, you did? I had Hollywood after me. Well, honey, shush. You had damn, but they wouldn't make it. I mean, I had big television deals, but they wouldn't make it. They weren't making any of our shit, but at least you had the deal. I did, and that kept me going, you know, I'd get down and I'd think, well, something must be telling me to keep going, because I would have a, you know, I'd get a deal with ABC and Warner Brothers. And then I had a, you know, I'd get a deal with ABC and Warner Brothers. one with Nick at night and

Starting point is 00:49:20 and then Sony and then so the one I have with Chuck Lori that was my fifth for this new show uh huh and that that I mean for Leanne yeah and this went like he just said we're doing it

Starting point is 00:49:33 and Netflix said we'd love for you to do it and we got to I got an unbelievable cast and you know who put your sister in it Kristen Johnston from Third Rock from the Sun and righteous gemstones

Starting point is 00:49:47 y'all are so good And she is brilliant. And she had to tell me what all they were saying to me. I didn't know. I go, what is all this? And then Ryan Stiles, from Whose Line Is Anyway, Brilliant. Celia Weston plays my mother. She played my mother in the only movie I've been in with Reese Witherspoon and Will Farrell.

Starting point is 00:50:05 You're cordially invited. She was my mother in that. Blake Clark, who's in all of Adam Sandler movies, plays my dad. Blake Clark plays your dad. Yes. Oh, that's beautiful. And he is darling. He's great.

Starting point is 00:50:16 He was in the water boy. I thought he passed. away. No, honey. He is my daddy. I swear I got I went to this guy's funeral online during COVID. Oh my God. Good to see him alive. And he does great. I mean, he is, man loved this show, and I think it's because of him and Ron Stiles. And then my love interest on it is Tim Daly from Wings. So I made out with Tim Daly. I never watched Wings. And is he a gay fellow straight? He's straight. He's married to Taya Leone. know that beautiful actress.

Starting point is 00:50:50 He is? Yes. He's married to Taya Leone? Yes, they just got married. They've been together for like 14 years. Oh, that's wonderful. She is in my favorite movie ever, Family Man. With Nicholas Cage.

Starting point is 00:51:02 Oh, my gosh. Okay, I loved her in Spanish with Adam Sandler. Mm-hmm. Wow. Mm-hmm. He plays Agent Andrew, my love interest, because my husband, Ryan Stiles' character, has walked off and left me after 33 years of married.

Starting point is 00:51:18 Is you sure he wasn't just looking for something? What, and do you have any clue? Is there any, has he called or anything? Yeah, he's still around. He is? Yeah, that's, um, yeah. That's Blake Clark. We've got two grandbabies together in this and.

Starting point is 00:51:31 God. And has this, uh, when it finally, when this started all, like, yeah, what were your, like? I cried every day. I was like, what the, what have I gotten myself into? It was so scary. Yeah, when this finally happened, what was it like? It was like, oh, no, I've got to learn a script every week, and I'm in every scene. I'd never done that before.

Starting point is 00:51:57 I was overwhelmed by that. It's a lot. It's a lot. You've got 250 people there staring at you, a set, darling people that have worked for Chuck Lorry for years. They're counting on you. Yeah, they're counting on you. Not to screw up. Yeah, and for people that don't know, the show starts off where you just found out that your husband cheated on you.

Starting point is 00:52:14 That's where you girls are spending so much time in the laying in the bed together and kind of just getting through, life. I remember that. We had 16 episodes, and at first Netflix was going to do, because you know, they only do things in eight or ten episodes. So they were going to drop eight, and then my new Netflix special dropped November the 4th, and then they were going to drop another eight this coming spring. And then they got a wild hair and dropped 16 at one time, first time in their history. Wow. Yeah. So it all got dropped. And it did really well. I'm so thankful. I was scared to death. I thought

Starting point is 00:52:47 does anybody go? Because it's a multi-cam. And they said to me at Netflix, we think you can bring back the multi-cam. And I'm like, don't put that burden on me. Yeah. And then it did really well. And I think people miss that format.

Starting point is 00:52:59 I think people think of it as comfort and comfort food, kind of. And people really liked it. Well, I think I'm so thankful. On a streamer, you can be a little bit more edgy, right? You're not as, like, locked in as to like a lot of the cable laws. What things are allowed on streaming that aren't allowed on cable? Can you find, is there any information on that? Can you look up on...

Starting point is 00:53:19 I think Ryan did say S-H-I-T. Can you look that up on perplexity real quick? They wanted to probably cuss a lot more, but... Let me see. You know, I didn't want it. Streaming services allow certain types of content that cable television cannot, correct, right? Streaming platforms often feature uncensored profanity, explicit sexual content, nudity?

Starting point is 00:53:41 I was not nude. Okay. Graphic violence and mature themes that would not be allowed on cable channels, There are fewer restrictions on the depiction of drugs, controversial political topics, or socially sensitive material in original programming produced for streaming. On streaming, creators are less limited by requirements around content rating or time of broadcast that apply to cable and especially broadcast TV. Cool.

Starting point is 00:54:05 Examples of content differences. Shows and movies on streaming may include swearing, nudity, sexual situations, and violence without censorship, while cable versions of the same content are often edited or bleeped for language, blur nudity and cut explicit scenes. I did carry a gun. You did? Well, that's fair. He thought some I was breaking in.

Starting point is 00:54:25 It's a Tennessee state law. You can't. Well, Ryan Stiles said to me, I didn't know how to hold one. And he goes, you know how to hold them, and you're from Tennessee. I go, we're not just going around packing guns. My people call it packing. And I said, I mean, I know people that have them and hunt.

Starting point is 00:54:43 But my daddy never did. And I don't know how to, I think people think in Tennessee it's like the wild west. Yeah. Oh, people think it's shoot them up out here. You know what I'm saying? Like people are just like, yeah, if it gets a little weird, you can shoot. But I do like the fact that if somebody thinks they're going to walk into a place and get a little weird, they're going to have to know that there's six or seven men and women and people, you know, women in the middle who are willing to pop, who are willing to shoot back.

Starting point is 00:55:15 I know, yeah. There's some bad mamma jamas taking care of business, which I like. The show is great, and people are loving it. How many, what season are you guys on now? Do what? You only have your first season? Yeah, I go out. Are you going to do a second season?

Starting point is 00:55:31 Uh-huh. I go out in, thank you, my darling. I go out in January and start again. And we'll test out there with you. Will your daughters go out there? She's about to get her union, so she works on the set with me. Okay. And is my makeup artist.

Starting point is 00:55:45 And also, I mean, it's just good to have family out there because Chuck Morgan's still working a big job. And I don't want to be out there by myself. It makes me feel better to have, you know, one of my children with me. Oh, yeah. My oldest child's married and got my two grandbabies and working. And then my middle child lives in, I told you that at the U.T ballgame, the one that went to Chipotle with Morgan Wallin. She lives in New York and works for the food bank. She's a nonprofit.

Starting point is 00:56:13 She's always worked in nonprofit. And this baby went to school for makeup for television and film in Manhattan. That's beautiful. I know. So I get to, so they get, you know, she takes care of me while I'm out there. Because I need, I can't think, I got to learn all this stuff. Honey, you can't just be, yeah, just wandering around, just wondering if your bra fits are all day. Right.

Starting point is 00:56:34 You know what I can't. You ever been in a tight bra? Yeah. God. What's that like? Bad. Is it? Bad.

Starting point is 00:56:41 Yeah. I don't want to be so pitiful that I'm like, where I carrying, like, men had to carry me around. Yeah. But I do, I need people to tend to me now. I never thought I would get that way, but, I mean, I've got to learn a lot. And my girlfriend's back home, they're like, just drink some wine at night. You got so much on you.

Starting point is 00:57:00 I go, I can't drink wine and sweat in the bed all night and not be able to learn a script the next day. I can't be drinking. And you wake up, yeah, and your mouth is all dried out and stuff. Uh-huh. And it makes women's blood vessels expand. and you sweat in the night. I hate to even tell you that. When you get to certain age,

Starting point is 00:57:18 it's not girls your age. They're not sweating. I don't know. They might be beginning to sweat. Some people are, yeah, people are losing water. I know that. People are losing water weight. And some are retaining it.

Starting point is 00:57:29 Well, people are losing weight, too. I mean, everybody's on those GLPs or whatever, the XPBs or some, the BC, yeah. People are on all that shit. I mean, they busted a lady selling a ozimic outside of a damn vineyard vines out there, you know? Yeah. She was outside of the vineyard vines.

Starting point is 00:57:46 Selling it, yeah. Selling dope or selling GLP-1s. Selling Ozambic, baby, yeah. And all you can do is pray for. I know. It's hard. Everybody's going through something. Everybody's going through something.

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Starting point is 01:01:16 That's M-O-D-I-P-H-Y.com slash Theo. They don't F around. What was your town like, was there any, like, lore in your town, like any famous people? that came to visit or did anything like was there any like uh i'm trying to think of something interesting that happened honey there was a demon of course the bell witch the bell witch is from your town yes oh my gosh we just you've heard of the bell witch we had some uh ghost hunter children and i don't know if something happened to them through the church or something they didn't tell me everything and it happened to them but we had two young fellows who were touched by the spirit and out there hunting

Starting point is 01:01:55 the bell witch they went to the bell witch is the only that is the only time that that is the only time that the government got involved in a... And investigated. Investigated a witchcraft situation. Right. Honey, that's where I'm from. Oh, those little boys, they look like they love a ghost. Sam and Colby, yeah, Sam and Colby.

Starting point is 01:02:17 Sam and Colby. Great guys. But, yeah, so that's, oh, so that was your area. That's where I'm from. And I was raised, yes, with a demon. They talked about it all the time. If there was a Fourth of July picnic, they put a dummy in a, in a coffin and said that's the witch, that's Kate Bats.

Starting point is 01:02:34 So that was big lore around y'all. Oh, yeah. And the Vanderbilt football team, fraternies would come down, torment each other, beat the windows out of our church. Everybody had to pass money around to put more windows in the church. Oh, that's an edge-back issue. Dogs that had bullet holes that couldn't explain why they're still walking. Crows.

Starting point is 01:02:54 She comes in the, in the form of a black dog. A black crow, crazy man. And I was raised in it. Yeah, she just showed dressed like Chris Robinson. Yeah. It was great. And people come from all over. They still come.

Starting point is 01:03:09 And during October is the Bellwitch play, and it sold out. And I was, I went, my sister got me tickets a couple of years ago, and I sat by a guy that works at Warner Brothers on the pit. Wow. And shrinking. He came to see it. He was drinking? Shrinking with Harrison Ford, that television show.

Starting point is 01:03:30 Trinking on Apple. Does he... A Warner Brothers executive. I'm sorry. Is it worth going to see that? Yeah. I think if you... Do you want to be around a demon?

Starting point is 01:03:41 I don't, but do you want to go... Do you like scary mess? I would like... I know you've got the Holy Spirit and that probably bumps you. I think it doesn't make me feel great, but I do like to go over there and just every now and then

Starting point is 01:03:54 make sure that the devil's still out and about so I know that the path I'm on is what I'm supposed to be doing. Right. I get that. I get that, because the devil is at work. Okay, there's a cave. You can go in the cave, and there's Native American bones.

Starting point is 01:04:08 There's animal bones. The witch is in there. People come from all over to go through that cave. I've never been through it. I didn't want to go. And my daddy didn't want me to go in it. Oh, my God. And what town is that in?

Starting point is 01:04:19 That's over in Adams. That's in Adams, Tennessee, on the Kentucky, Tennessee border, in Robertson County. Wow. There's been movies written about it, books. See, children that grew up in Tennessee used to have to a book report on it, but now nobody, I don't think they make them do it. The Bell Witch Cave Story is one of America's most famous. Mysterious events experienced by the Bell family in Adams, Tennessee between 1817 and 1821.

Starting point is 01:04:43 The haunting began when John Bell, the family patriarch, encountered a bizarre creature resembling a dog with a rabbit's head on the property. A dog with a rabbit's hand? I haven't heard that one. It sounds like a hormone issue, but I don't know a lot. See, Batesy must have been beautiful. And then John... Because what it says? Hey, Betsy?

Starting point is 01:05:00 Let me see. Oh, disturbances escalated to eerie... Sorry to interrupt you. No, that's all right, Angel. Disturbances escalated to eerie noises, objects moved by unseen forces, bed sheets pulled away, and this could have just been a pervert

Starting point is 01:05:12 and violence towards the family, especially daughter Betsy Bell, who experienced beatings and fainting spells. Dang. I know the real story. You do know the real story? I do. Then set us straight.

Starting point is 01:05:24 Okay. First of all, let me say that, before Nashville became the capital of Tennessee, it was going to be Adams because of our rich dark-fired tobacco crops that grow, we grow tobacco for Copenhagen and Skull, but because it was so rich in the land for tobacco, it was going to be the capital, but then for some reason they made it Nashville. John Bell ran for president at one time with the Whig Party, so they were very prominent family. Lucy must have been a beauty. A man came through town, was in love with her. Lucy or Betsy?

Starting point is 01:05:59 Lucy. Okay. Wait, Lucy, wait, Leah, Lucy's the daughter. Betsy was the mom. Okay. John's, okay. So Lucy, she did not want that man. And so to torment her, he could throw his voice.

Starting point is 01:06:13 They said he was a ventriloquist. I know what you're going to do with that. I'm like Frank Calianda. Hey, I'm John Gruden. You need an exorcism, Betsy. Go on. Hey, Lucy. But they, like, blamed it on a slave.

Starting point is 01:06:30 God love him, and it wasn't him. It was this man that came to. Every time the slave was like, what did I do? This was a man that could throw his voice. He was a mathematician, a ventriloquist, and he fooled him all. And then poison John Bell and killed him. Oh. And then she did, Lucy didn't know it.

Starting point is 01:06:51 And I think Lucy ended up marrying him. That's how it works. That's how it works. Hey, they say shooters shoot. That's what I'm saying. And women are attracted to twisted. Are they? Yeah.

Starting point is 01:07:02 So. Oh, God. And trauma. So, and, you know, you want to fix people because we're nurturing. So anyway, and that is the bell witch. And the whole thing. And people come, and it's always on the front of USA today is one of the oldest ghost stories. And it's part of Tennessee history, like you said.

Starting point is 01:07:23 But that's what I was raised. and that's what we're known for. Now, maybe they're known kind of for me. Maybe. Oh, yeah. I think so. Me and a witch. I think she's beating me.

Starting point is 01:07:35 I think it depends. How many tickets do they sell every year to that event? I sell more. Let's go. Let's just say I sell a few more tickets than the Bell Witch. They sell quite a few tickets. I ain't bragging. But not, but I'm, you know.

Starting point is 01:07:50 Yes, I know you do. I did some small arenas this year. Hell yeah, you did. And I'm just joking. You know that. I know, but that is popular. And, you know, people that love ghosts, love ghost. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:08:00 And people are speaking and, you know, channeling the Beatles and all that kind of crap down there. But I don't like all that. I believe in demons. I don't like all that. Well, you know, this is one thing that we just did talk about when Sam and Colby were here, these ghost hunter children, who I'm not saying were victims of sexual crime. I have no idea. I don't know what their lives were like.

Starting point is 01:08:22 Some of that's alleged. I'm not saying that. I read that somewhere. What I am saying is that, yeah, they said, well, we talked about how it's just like if you summon something, it'll show up. It's like having faith asking God to show up in your life. If you sit out there and ask for it to come, it'll be there. And that's sometimes why I think the devil's winning because you have people that are spending

Starting point is 01:08:42 more time summoning the devil and you have people that are sitting here asking God to show up. Seeing there's the thing about the bellwitch, and growing up, my cousins would do it, and it would scare me to death, but they go, say your name three times, turn her she'll appear. Okay, I was at the Star Dome. In Birmingham. In Birmingham. I finally got to do that place.

Starting point is 01:09:04 I'd email them 11, 12 years, and then finally, one day that just came up on the schedule, now you're going to be at the Star Dome. And I bet you killed. I was so excited. Well, I was in the back. You know, they have several little, I guess a little theater in the big theater, a big room. And there was the girl that you've seen in a middle.

Starting point is 01:09:24 million posters that go around to comedy clubs and talk to dead people. I mean, she talks to dead people, and she says in the audience who, you know, your uncle so-and-so's here. She was in the green room at the Stardome, and she said, and she was a doll, and she said, oh, yeah, they're in here right now, dead people. And I thought, surely to goodness, our sweet Lord would not, if I die, I don't have to be in the green room in a comedy club with a half a bottle of mustard. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:09:56 With, you know, something on TBS on the TV. I'm surely, I'm not going to be stuck in a green room, you know? Yeah. I don't, surely he'll let me walk somewhere fun. Not where, you know, the pillows don't match on the sofa. That hard-ass sofa in there a lot of times. God, this, oh, green rooms are crazy. And then sometimes, like, this is a green room.

Starting point is 01:10:23 I'm like, this is a bathroom, it doesn't have a toilet in it. I'm like, you're like, sometimes the green room is crazy, someone's just a curtain. People don't, like, oh, there's nothing like that, all the clubs over the years that coming up, all the places you go do, you know. But I think it's like that about everything. You think, like, backstage then is going to be amazing once you get to certain levels. And then sometimes backstage is you're just hiding behind the edge of the stage waiting to walk out there, you know?

Starting point is 01:10:50 It's all exciting, but it's always just about. putting the show on making sure that it looks good out there the backstage is never there's not a lot of money spent backstage it's kind of dusty yeah but isn't it thrilling though i've watched you in big places and um women yelling and all that i mean do you some of those were men with long hair but yeah those are men that have had sex changes but happy they're there we did have got peeing a woman's hair one night out there in colorada and we gave we had to give her a free shirt Because somebody peeing in her hair? Yeah.

Starting point is 01:11:29 Just drunk and crazy? Or what was it? I don't know. She wanted a hoodie, too. I'm like, baby girl, chill, okay. You know, the shirts, they're pretty good shirts. I know. Probably $65.

Starting point is 01:11:43 Oh, we don't see. Yeah, we actually sell pretty cheap on the road. You do? Yeah, we don't sell, like, super expensive. See, my people don't want a big hot hoodie, but I've got women in men of and their husbands. I do skew a little bit younger now. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:11:58 But I don't know. I love a hoodie, and I think a hoodie's cute. And I can see where one of your hoodies would be darling. But I got to go with a V-neck. Everybody's sweating. Yeah. Yeah, well, you start the fire starts to have to get out, you know. The heat starts to pop out after a while.

Starting point is 01:12:14 And I don't even, somebody does the merch now. That's like a ghost. I never see them. I don't know. I can't even get a whole of my own shirt. People are like, can you get me a shirt? I'm like, I don't even, you know, I just go online and order and pay for it and buy it. Yeah, I can.

Starting point is 01:12:28 But it is kind of interesting once you get to certain spots and, or certain parts of your career, if you're fortunate enough to have some of those moments. Yeah, what an exciting ride that you've had because did you ever feel like women don't get the appreciation that men did? Did you feel that in comedy? No, I always hear women talk about that. And I don't know, everybody was always good to me. and I never if I didn't get something

Starting point is 01:12:54 I thought I didn't think of it as man-woman kind of thing I just thought I'm not ready or or I'm not edgy enough you know comedy Central was big I would always audition for stuff didn't get it just for laughs didn't get it until later and I never thought of as a man-woman thing I just thought it's not my time or I got to get better or I don't have that whole man-woman thing

Starting point is 01:13:17 I just don't yeah I mean I always I know there's a lot more male comics and all that, but I did not feel anything. Nobody was like disrespectful to me or that I didn't deserve something or I just didn't get that. I don't know if people didn't want to bully. I don't, because I'm a mom. I don't know. I have thought that some people don't, people are used to seeing men be the gestures, right? And there is something or I think it used to be more this way.

Starting point is 01:13:47 because I don't think it's this way anymore that it used to feel like the jester is supposed to be a male you don't want to see a woman you know it's like you want to you don't want to see a woman like imagine if it's something that's kind of vulgar or something like that

Starting point is 01:14:02 you know that there's it's not as popular of a view of women so I think it took some of it I think it took time for the view of that to be more possible does that make any sense you think at all? Yeah that does make a lot of things

Starting point is 01:14:17 That makes a lot of sense. Now it's like, yeah, you're like, oh, that chick's hilarious, you know. But I think there was probably, I could see there being like, you know, a generation or two ago where people were more like, oh, I can't believe she's saying that. Or I think also they want a woman to be pretty and not making faces where she's not as attractive or something. I thought with that, like I wanted to be pretty, but I didn't want to look stupid. And when I was younger. Right. Well, I mean, whatever we can do.

Starting point is 01:14:48 Whatever we can do. And Christian Johnson would say to me, because when I first saw myself on TV, I thought, oh, my gosh, where's my chin? And I need to get a face left. And, you know, Hollywood, how that does that mess to you. And then she goes, Lynn, think about the funny. Think about Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore. And, you know, instead of just fixating on trying to be youthful

Starting point is 01:15:09 and the prettiest and all that. And I do think that's wonderful that this has happened to me at my age because I don't have that pressure of someone. Somebody, I mean, you look at Nikki Glacier's legs. She is stunning. You know, she is a beauty. Oh, yeah. Like a couple of dams.

Starting point is 01:15:24 She's got just some Charleston shoes on her, baby. And things are nice. Yes. All these young girls that are, you know, so pretty. And I think, I feel like that even puts more pressure on them that I don't feel that pressure anymore. I used to feel that pressure. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:15:38 So it really kind of, everything kind of happened at the most perfect time, you feel like? Oh, I know it, dearly. Right. And it's kind of a silly question because it's, to me, it's all on God's time and what else am I going to do about it? I know. And you think about if I always think if those television deals have made it, these children would not be who they are, my kids. Was there any real tough moments with your kids where they kind of held it against you

Starting point is 01:15:58 that that was more of a thing or something like that? No, no. And really, I wasn't, I was not working. I mean, I was working, but I was always there for them and I never had to hire anybody that nobody ever resented me for anything. I did miss a few things as they were growing up. But not bad, not bad. I got to be there with them.

Starting point is 01:16:18 And when I did that movie with Reese Witherspoon, she said to me every day on that scene, you got to raise your own children land. She did. And I did. I just saw her the other day. I just met her first time. Beautiful.

Starting point is 01:16:30 Is she not beautiful and smart? Connor. I met her kid, Cullen. She had two boys with her. Cullen. Oh, Tennessee's the baby. Cullen and Tennessee. Those are their names.

Starting point is 01:16:41 I just met her the other day. Yep, beautiful, nice friendly. Beautiful children. We chatted for a little while. Actually, I told her I would check in and just say, hey, to her. Yeah, I got to say hello, but she's smart. Ava Deacon and Tennessee. Wait.

Starting point is 01:16:54 Deacon. You saw Deacon, and I was trying to think of that baby's night. And he's stunning. No, she has two little ones, though. Tennessee's the baby. She had the first two by that Felipe boy. Okay. Ryan Felipe, yeah.

Starting point is 01:17:07 Yeah, and then this baby, I got to meet. Well, I met all of them. Maybe his friend was there. Maybe his friend was there. I thought it was cold. Oh, I did. He probably had a little friend with him. I might have had a damn friend.

Starting point is 01:17:18 And then I met. And she said he loves living in Nashville. He gets out and plays in the neighborhood and does all that. They were joyful children. I mean, yeah, I met them at the Vanderbilt game. Yeah, that would be the tough part. I wonder was it tough balancing any of that? Is it tough?

Starting point is 01:17:35 It wasn't tough. I need to tell people. It was not tough because I had Chuck Morgan that was an executive that made good money. So Chuck could help provide everything. Uh-huh. I didn't have to, I mean, I took horrible gigs. I did horrible gigs like everybody, but I wasn't sleeping in a Ford Festiva. Right.

Starting point is 01:17:53 And we, yeah, my mother had a Ford Festiva, actually. And we just had to make jewelry in the trunk in there at night. Making jewelry. We'd sit in there and make little earrings and stuff like that in bracelets and stuff. Well, I sold jewelry when I started. That's how I got into comedy. Chuck Morgan moved me to Bean Station, Tennessee, and the foothills of the Appalachia Mountains. and I sold jewelry like women sell Mary Kay in Tupperware

Starting point is 01:18:18 because I'd had my first baby and I wanted to stay home with him and I was supposed to be talking about jewelry in these women's living rooms and I would, you know, I started some of my first material there talking about breastfeeding or hemorrhoids or whatever. Got laughs. Women would book me for in advance and then that gave me the confidence to do comedy club.

Starting point is 01:18:39 By the time I got to San Antonio I had a comedy club and I did open mic and all that. But I sold jewelry. I wasn't making it in the back of a Ford Festiva, though, my darling. Well, yeah, we would just do it in there because it was quiet in there. It was a kind of loud. And you need quiet to make jewelry. Yeah, it was just peaceful in there kind of, you know.

Starting point is 01:18:56 We'd go sit out in the car a lot at night, I would. I'd go sleep out there sometimes. My mom had these boxes. She used to deliver cookies. My mom mostly did delivering. So she was always boxes of some shit at our house, boxes it is. Like little dabbies, or what are we talking? Well, she worked for this cookie company for a while called Vortman Cookies,

Starting point is 01:19:13 I remember. And I'd go sleep out there. And that Ford Festival, that bitch would barely go, dude. That thing was probably had about 400 pounds of cookies in that bitch. Car only weighed 80 pounds, dude. Dude, if you drop something near the car, you could pick it up and look under there for it. It was so easy. Look at that car.

Starting point is 01:19:29 Yeah, that one right there. Yep, that was it. Ours was gray, though. That thing was small brother. And my mom could beat all of us while she was driving. Play us like a damn drum set in there while she was driving, dude. And my long neck brother hit his symbol ass. But she could

Starting point is 01:19:46 We're misbehaving in that little car But yeah, there was never any peace in the area But I'd go out there at night sometimes And spend a little bit of time I'd go lay on those boxes of cookies They smelled so good They had gingerbread cookies to it around Christmas I'd go lay on there

Starting point is 01:20:00 And just smell that gingerbread And just pretend I lived in England or something Oh my darling I love that And my mom had a big rug in her room And it was a I don't know what it was. I don't know what it was. It was an animal that had died.

Starting point is 01:20:17 Real, hide? Real hide. I think it was an animal. Hell, it could have been a damn Doberman. I don't know what it was, but it was big. It was pretty big, and it looked like somebody milked it. And you laid on that? Oh, I'd lay on that thing and just smell that animal and just think of, like, being out on, like, the prairie or something or being, like, a cowboy or something like that.

Starting point is 01:20:38 I remember that. Well, your imagination, honey. it was fun but yeah the damn apartment was sinking and people would steal that wood i just want to finish the love life here so you so chuck morgan you meet him over there in knoxville and he walks into where and sees you at the restaurant that i was working and what were you doing there working what was you i was waiting tables and i was standing waiting for my table to get um seated and he came through with a training group and he's six foot four and i said you're tall as a tree and he said sorry and I thought, and other buttholes come to work at Grady's.

Starting point is 01:21:13 Yeah. And I thought, stay away from him. He's not fun. And he just would, like, stand next to me, you know, and kind of lurk. And then we'd be in. And provide shade, you mean? I love the, you can't see the positive in it, Leanne. Go on.

Starting point is 01:21:28 And then we would have shift meetings, and I'd be eating a baked potato with some sour cream and butter on it, and maybe cheese. And he would, I remember the second thing he said to me was, you don't need to to eat all that fat on your baked potato. And I thought, man, what a butthole. I mean, he doesn't need to sit by me. Leave me alone. The next time, I think I said on the, back there doing ketchupes or something,

Starting point is 01:21:54 I said to one of the girls' work, and I love your Duny and Burke purse, girl. The next day, he brought me a Duny and Burke purse in a big box with a bow on it. Mm-hmm. And then started doing all my side work. And if I had a test, he would say, I'll take your shift, I'll give you the money

Starting point is 01:22:12 and started like pursuing me, wooing me. And see, I hadn't been through a divorce at 23. I was divorced at 23, which how redneck is that? Were you living in a group home? Where were you living? No. Well, I roomed with two boys that were in the basement. I was working at behind a clinic counter.

Starting point is 01:22:33 Honey, that's a group home. I think it's a halfway house. Go on, no. And they said there's these new apartments. Whatever, wreath or not, wreath or no wreath? No wreath. Yeah. And they said, one of them worked in the shoes and one of them worked in security,

Starting point is 01:22:46 and they said there's a new apartment complex being built in the fort by UT campus. Do you, Lou, they call me Lou, they go, do you want to share an apartment with us? We'll keep you safe. We'll be in the basement. There's two down below the steps. You can have the, there were two bedrooms up. We didn't have a fourth roommate. Except one time this little boy moved in there for a little while that we wanted.

Starting point is 01:23:09 to be a weatherman. He did not have it. Oh, yeah. Sometimes that's a gay guy, too. He was gay and darling, and we did each other's hair and had a ball. Okay, but, and smoke. Two hundred percent chance of sunshine, I'll tell you that, but, you know. He had a little bitty robe, and he'd walk around in, and he had a big pomp of door,

Starting point is 01:23:27 and he wanted to do the weather. But, you know, some people just don't have that, the support behind them. Oh, God. I don't think he ever got to do the weather. But anyway, I don't know how we. He came in. But anyway, I took care of these boys. They were dating and doing, and I was kind of like the, not the mom.

Starting point is 01:23:47 I was 23 years old, but I made a good rotel dip. I liked to make over them. They'd have their girlfriends over. They'd have their boyfriend, guy friends, fraternity boys. And so it was something to help me get over this divorce and have, you know, and have friends and all that. And it turns out Chuck Morgan was in their fraternity and was in MBA school with one of them. we made that connection later but by then I had

Starting point is 01:24:12 I had been through a horrible divorce I'd cut all my hair off I had short hair not shaved but short like were you going to join the Air Force that type of shit if I had had the guts yeah but I didn't

Starting point is 01:24:24 I'm sissy but I didn't want anything to do with men because I was so hurt and all that and then Chuck Morgan just would not take no for an answer and wooed and wooed me and bought me gifts

Starting point is 01:24:37 and paid my rent And, you know, later now in interviews, he brings it up and acts like he resents it. I had to pay a rent. I go, nobody asked you to. First thing he told me. I had a damn invoice written up in his phone. He said, I'll email it to you. I said, look, but I'm.

Starting point is 01:24:53 He probably kept that receipt. But did you finally, was there a moment you realized you loved him, kind of, or did you just kind of? Yes, I'm feeling love with him. And then. But was there a moment you did or just kind of slowly build up? It slowly built because I did not. I was had trusty.

Starting point is 01:25:09 choose because I'd have been through something terrible. And I told him I've been through something terrible. Don't woo me. And he does not take no for an answer because he's a mobile home salesman. Oh, yeah. They've got a lot of testosterone. They're very dominant. And the first thing you tell them is no.

Starting point is 01:25:26 Yeah. And they don't take no for an, they can sell. I mean, he's been successful. He does not take no for an answer. He still doesn't. Oh, when you're slinging mohos, dude, that shit's fucking, you got it. You got them. It's lucrative.

Starting point is 01:25:38 You can't give up. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Moran Buffett Company, Berkshire Hathaway. Anyway, yeah, he would not leave me alone. And then he said, when I get a job after MBA school, we'll get married. And then I was cocktail and he was bartending by then. And he broke up with me.

Starting point is 01:25:59 What? Yeah, he broke up with me for no reason. What? No reason? Well, he said that I smelled from the cigarettes and he could not take it anymore. But I don't think that was the main reason. I did smell. Marlboro lights.

Starting point is 01:26:15 Oh, yeah, they're good. They're good. Loved them. I wish they were healthy. Yeah, they're good. Anyway, I had just, I don't know what he was going through, but he broke up with me, and then he bought a used mobile home business up in Bean Station, Tennessee, where there's no women his age. I think that

Starting point is 01:26:31 was also a factor. He gets up there, there's women working at the bank, you know, in their 40s, had a hard time. Okay, so then I'm down finishing up my degree. I went to Fort Lauderdale on spring break, got a tan. I was a third wheel with another couple. Don't matter, bitch. The sun hitting air, body.

Starting point is 01:26:50 Yeah. And he had never seen me with a tan. By then I was working behind another counter. I had like four jobs, you know, trying to make it. And he saw me with a tan and then said, can I buy you a pair of tennis shoes? And I was like, maybe. and then I took him back. He bought me a pair of A6s.

Starting point is 01:27:12 Oh, God, they were nice. They were pretty nice, I thought. They were nice. Yeah, and he wanted me back. I'd been dating a long-haired boy that was an artist who was poor. And I do like a man with health insurance. I got to tell you, I like a man that when he takes you to Costco, he buys the toilet paper.

Starting point is 01:27:36 He doesn't say, let's split it. Yeah. I don't like that. Yeah. So this was a long-haired artist, and one of my roommates said, either Lou's got a date or were being robbed. And he did kind of look like my sister. But anyway, Chuck found out. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:27:54 He was a pretty guy. He was pretty, but he had a bicycle. He didn't own a car. He could make mayonnaise from scratch, and that was pretty nifty. Oh, my God. And that was considered also a hair. people put in their hair back then, remember that? Yeah.

Starting point is 01:28:08 To deep condition. Yeah. Yeah. And he also, I've thought about this the other day because it was fall. He made pumpkin cheesecake. He said, I'm going to, this was, Lord, what was this? The early 90s and he goes, you know what? I think pumpkin, canned pumpkin would be good in a cheesecake.

Starting point is 01:28:25 And I remember thinking, I don't even know what you're saying. Who is this fruit wizard over here? Yeah, who is this fucking Halloween fruit fruit? wizard doing that crazy shit. I mean, that was considered damn experimental at the time. I know. He really was, you know, kind of a savant. So then he said to me, he was in over his head at a damn Marie Callender. I'll tell you that. That's for sure. And he rode a bicycle, and the bicycle had a sticker on the back of it that said burn, fat, not oil. And I was driving a Toyota Corolla.

Starting point is 01:28:59 Ooh, those are nice. Mm-hmm. That my little daddy bought me, because I had been driving after a divorce. my granddaddies Impala, that was beige, that when I drove through a parking lot, people threw dope out of the window thinking I was the FBI or the police. They had one of those lights on the outside of it. Remember those sometimes? You get those police vehicles, people at an auction. That was the big thing in our town.

Starting point is 01:29:21 Somebody get them a damn auction vehicle, then bitches. Go on, though, so? And so the long-haired boy said to me, if we marry, I want to stay home with the children, and you be the breadwinner and I broke up with him that day and I was like I don't have any earning potential and I need somebody

Starting point is 01:29:44 who's a hunter and a gatherer like Chuck Morgan I've never had to worry about Chuck Morgan if whatever happens if the world's coming to an end Chuck Morgan will get out there and dig ditches or drive a truck or do whatever he'll be fine

Starting point is 01:29:57 he'll be fine he can make it off a flat rock he can make a living off a flat rock Amen. So, yeah, so we married, and then that's when he took me up into Appalachians. Because, yeah, once you get something good, you go hide it near the mountain. You got to hide it somewhere if he's a man. So he put you over there. He put me up in those mountains.

Starting point is 01:30:18 Bean Station, Tennessee. Bean Station, Tennessee. Pull that up. I want to see that beautiful joint. That's, and it's beautiful looking at the mountains and the lake, but we didn't have that. We didn't have that kind of view. Very tiny town. There was an IGA grocery store.

Starting point is 01:30:35 Oh, I remember those. Uh-huh, and I liked it. They were good. And there was a post office, and his business was right behind the post office. And he had that business at 27. He bought that business and was running and had employees. Is it a car wash or what was it? Use mobile home refurbishing business.

Starting point is 01:30:49 Ooh, I like that. And I worked for him a few weeks, and we don't work well together. And I, honest to goodness, I know that that helped start my comedy career, because I saw things you've never. I saw a family drive up in a gremlin with the wind out and a nine-year-old smoking a cigarette looking for a single wide. And they came in the office and the grandmama said, or the baby said, give me a light, ma'am, she led her cigarette off of that, her grandmama. She was nine. And I thought, okay, I need to go home. I need to go home, get pregnant.

Starting point is 01:31:29 Oh, yeah. Because I can't take this. I mean, it was a lot. Oh, yeah, I want something to come out, climb out of my body and start smoking. Yeah. But I, yeah, it was, my husband is very loving and giving. And there would be, like if a family didn't have a home, there was a little old woman that didn't have a, that they wanted a house. And he said, she said, I can make you blankets.

Starting point is 01:31:54 And so he took a blanket that she would make every few months. And that was her payment. So Chuck Morgan also had a mobile home park And bought all the children their Christmas He would come home and say We've got to get a Justin Bieber doll Asap I'd be like, okay

Starting point is 01:32:12 So then Chuck went to work for a big company Because he would give everything he had a way to everybody And he still does He still is very giving and loving Not to his own family No Not at all. He captured you and put you in the hills Or it tells me that I don't need to be flying first class on tour.

Starting point is 01:32:33 So, because all these boys have these big buses and stuff. These comedians have, I am in a Mitsubishi rental car. Yeah. Oh, yeah. This baby and I share a hotel room. I talk about that in this new special on Netflix that dropped. That's the truth. If people watch this, Chuck Morgan wants us to share a hotel room.

Starting point is 01:32:54 She's going to be 28 years old. we are sleeping butt to butt and a king. God. Yeah. Oh. And he prefers us to eat the free continental breakfast. Some of, now when, I will say this, the ones at Hampton Inn got better, they did an upgrade about nine years ago.

Starting point is 01:33:11 Yeah. That I respected. You could start to see it. They put like, like, pictures inside of the elevator. And I was like, okay. Okay. Okay. And they had that little omelet you could get with cheese in it.

Starting point is 01:33:20 That was good. And they started to get that thing, Waffle Maker. Yeah. But then somebody fucking leaves it on it. You have to turn it over. It's very hard to use. I watch somebody, you'll just say, you'll see somebody get burned. There's a lot of issues.

Starting point is 01:33:33 I wonder if they're still keeping those. But Hampton End. But they make a good waffle, those things. They've done a great job. Yeah, yeah. And you know what Hampton End's clean, you know. Of course, man. Yeah, those are the days, you know.

Starting point is 01:33:47 Well, I'm still in them. I'm still in them. But, you know, he. But that's love. This was, he was not used to this. Like, I didn't make money for. a year. I mean, I'd make a little bit of money, get my children, Santa Claus, get everybody a haircut, not save for taxes. That he'd be real mad, you know, come April. But then when this

Starting point is 01:34:06 started happening, you know, he's just not used to it. It takes your family while to figure out what's happening. The baby knew what was happening because she's out there with me. He's like, this could end tomorrow. Yeah, he just, yeah, he's just looking at the balance sheet when you guys get home. It's never great, you know. Who spent $60 at a day? and windies, you know? And it's just like, well, you know. Uh-huh. Or in an airport, one of those, you know, you got to have some magnesium for stress.

Starting point is 01:34:35 Oh, yeah. Those kiosks, yeah. Yeah, and how long have you guys been married now? It'll be 34 in April. Oh, that's beautiful. And three babies and two grandbabies. And everyone asks, what's the secret to 33 years of marriage? I say it's a lot of praying in the bad tub.

Starting point is 01:34:54 It's hard. tornado prayers kind of yeah it is it's hard and you just got to fight the big battles not the little ones you know just let things roll off your back because it's a lot to live with somebody and it's not it's not easy it's not easy and chuck more and i're both very opposite he's very introverted very anal retentive everything's got to be in its place i'm an artist theo yeah my my junk It's pretty bad in my kitchen. But I've raised these children and they're fun. Like if I, he's very well educated and loved school.

Starting point is 01:35:35 If he had been at home with them, I've always said, if he went traveling, they would end up in Harvard with a nervous tick. But they had me and we went to the zoo and we went to Dollywood. I didn't let them skips go, but we had a good time. I love that. And they want to be with me now. Of course they do. You know, they're fun.

Starting point is 01:35:54 And they want to be with me. but they're not over they're they do great but they're not he's an overachiever not us never enough never enough driven driven i'd realize now i'm kind of driven in con my stand-up i want things to be like the special coming out i worried my i told you at the youtube ball game i'm worried sick i just you know it's just it's never good enough for me i don't you know i wish i could do it a hundred times more. Even though I don't, because it'll give me the shingles. I don't want to do it again, because it'll give me the shingles. Unspeakable thing that just came out on Netflix. Congratulations, your second one. Yes, thank you, my darling. My second one. And it went to number one on Netflix.

Starting point is 01:36:43 And then, you know, in my mind, I'm thinking, oh, nothing else came out that week. Raw wrestling will be out Monday. That'll knock it out. And then the squid games, the little children who were, I I don't even know what that is. But my, okay, my television show had to compete with, that went to number two. They had to compete with those girls that were killing those boars in their panties. Oh, I don't know if I saw that. Hunting Wives. Oh, I haven't seen Hunting Wives.

Starting point is 01:37:09 Is it good? It is kind of, it's nasty. If you like a good nasty, there's some lesbian going zone. Oh, I've heard about this. And they're killing boars and their panties. People are watching Mormon wives right now. I've heard it is fascinating. Shit, I'll take either one of them.

Starting point is 01:37:28 I'll take, I got to get a dang wife. I think I could handle a hunting wife. Whoever made that show, I don't think, cares for Republican people in Texas. Because it's about Republican people that are shooting boars in their panties. And that was number one. I never got to number one with my television show because I could not compete with that. Who could? Who could?

Starting point is 01:37:54 Yeah, honey, you got the number two, and that's great. Thank you. I think that that's perfect. Thank you. Yeah, that's love. So you got Chuck Morgan. You've had a nice life so far, Leanne. I do.

Starting point is 01:38:04 I do, you, Angel. In college, everybody called me Lou in high school. Were you a tomboy kind of? Mm-hmm. And I love sports. And then I love boys. And I got real boy crazy. And I still played sports, but I didn't care as much.

Starting point is 01:38:20 And then I projected on my children and made my kids play all these sports. because I knew I didn't do as much as I should have. I love that, though. You have to do that as a parent. Yeah, they played club volleyball. My girls played all over the United States. Travel. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:38:34 Oh, my kids are going to play shit that I never got to do, whether they wanted or not. Or you look athletic. Did you play ball? I played high school basketball. I smoked also at the same time, but they let me play. I was pretty good for, I was the only kid that was smoke. It was an active smoker. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:38:50 Like, I remember one time I was out there smoking in one of the, assisting coaches out there smoking so nobody could say shit but i was pretty good for somebody out there that was that had uh that didn't have your full lung capacity yeah i had yeah i was good in spurts that was my that was my nickname good in spurts well they made me play everything because i went to this little bitty tiny country school and they need i was tall so i played softball yeah the model she's the model she's basketball everything meet up at her if we're in a field and people are lost meet up at her the tall person always gets all that all that all the all the action of the lighthouse of the fucking world when you're tall.

Starting point is 01:39:28 Those are the days, especially in a small community. Yeah. Tall one. I miss that, though. I miss like, yeah, there's something. I wonder where I'd like to live one day whenever I get a family and stuff, maybe in a small place. There's small little towns around Middle Tennessee that are darling. Do you think you'd want to stay in Tennessee?

Starting point is 01:39:48 I think so, you know. I want to spend time back in Louisiana when I can, but I do. I've enjoyed it here. I miss my home. I miss a lot of the people. But I go back and see them. Every time I'm home, I spend most of my time home traveling and seeing teachers that taught me when I was a kid. I'm still close with a lot of people from my childhood. Were you, you had to have been very smart and bright and they knew it. I don't know what I was. Because you're so quick-witted. I do all right, I guess. What was I like? I don't know what I was like. I bet you were a yummy little kid and they thought that kids got it. Like, Novice and J-Lo and Michael Jackson. You know, when somebody's got it, they've got it. And you can't manufacture it.

Starting point is 01:40:29 Mm. And you have it. Well, that's a sweet thought. But, you know, it's true, my darling. And then you're bright and you're quick-witted, so they knew you were smart. And then, you know, people are fun that, back then that used to smoke. That's fun. That's a fun, kid.

Starting point is 01:40:46 Wrong. Nobody needs to be smoking now. Let's say that. Nobody needs to be smoking now. But it is fun to watch a kid smoke. You know what I'm saying? When that nine-year-old pulled up in your story to buy that double wide? That's a little girl.

Starting point is 01:40:57 That's a little girl. Look, she's getting a discount. We had a smoking porch at my school. Everybody smoked on that porch. I didn't smoke then. I waited until I got to UT and I started like 19. Because all these girls weren't waiting tables and had Louis Vuitton purses. God.

Starting point is 01:41:12 I wanted to be like them. Yeah, of course. And they were like, let's go smoke in the bathroom. Screw that manager. Oh, dude. I remember first time. Yeah, I never like, yeah, I definitely smoked. and then finally got a little bit of cocaine.

Starting point is 01:41:24 And then... Who gave you cocaine? I don't remember. I just remember. I'd been... There was cocaine in a little town in Louisiana. Not a lot. Not a lot.

Starting point is 01:41:34 Not a lot, but somebody had it. Enough to keep you up. See, I didn't even know what in the world. We didn't know what... There was a couple of boys that they'd be like, they like, they like to do dope. But we stayed away from them. We were scared of them.

Starting point is 01:41:48 Because they were all these farming kids that had future farmers of America. jackets so we stayed away from that but we couldn't write a paper either you know we were we didn't we weren't ready for college but we weren't it wasn't a wild it was insulated from farming people oh yeah well that was more when i got to college in our town we never had yeah you'd have people smoking oh so it was college yeah in our town you did have people smoking but it was like we yeah we're smoking dope yeah like those kids smoke dope that's when they would say dope you know you didn't really see like pills and stuff back then it would just be people got high on weed and it was

Starting point is 01:42:19 kind of an issue but I don't know I miss it I miss bitch being in our neighborhood you know that guy they all was impersonated who put that fence up yeah he had broken his leg and so somebody said it in cement right save money from going to the hospital or whatever so they set that bitch in cement and it must have been fine right seven weeks whatever they take that uh cast off they broke the cast off they broke it with a the hammer was too big that they broke it with and it broke his hip when they beat the... Are you kidding me? No, I'm not kidding at all.

Starting point is 01:42:53 When they hit the thing with the hammer, it cracked his hip. So now his shit's re-broken up at his hip, and he ended up getting that kind of tick-talk in him like that, and he got into Elvis impersonating, which is so wild. But that helped him when he generated. Well, that's what I'm saying. He was built like it was just about to be noon, you know what I'm saying? He was built like, you know what I'm saying? another 60 ticks and it was time you know it was lunch break you know what I'm saying he was just

Starting point is 01:43:21 a damn pentameter walking around town that's all he was he was one of those things where the thing goes back and forth you know when you pull the ball and you let it go and then this one goes and it's like that that was him he was just tick-tock my gutter right there and he was just cruising around but yeah he had a couple kids kept him in the yard and uh I don't remember what that story was about kept him in the yard and that was the electric fence that he got and I don't remember how that all that started all right let me ask you how far is St. Francisville. Is that anywhere near where you were raised? That's about two and a half hours for me. You know who it was from there that you're making me think of?

Starting point is 01:43:53 Who? John Morgan. The Raging Cajun. Raging. Cajun. I opened for him. You did? I've opened for him. Bring him up. He was a good storyteller. And he still is. And he could get a crowd going. God, he could. Very high energy. John Morgan, the Raging Cajun. That was at the Stardome. I opened for him or featured for him at the Stardome and then in San Antonio. Play a clip of his real careful he can or just Is he still doing it on one? Yeah, I think so God, there was nobody like him and he had adopted.

Starting point is 01:44:22 30 years of being together, you make love and you move on you get up and you move on, you ask the right questions you want some nutty butters and milk well, I don't know like metal buttons after bustling him up boy I'll tell you right, right? With a glass the whole milk, shit. Bitch, I'm at the point of my life where you can ask me you want to fuck or you want another butter,

Starting point is 01:44:44 I love That's whole milk I know That's whole milk I know I love him man He was the best When I was starting out

Starting point is 01:44:57 I mean He's a great comedian There's a lot of comedians That people that, you know That don't get some of the acclaim Maybe in some I know Do you remember little Mark Ryan?

Starting point is 01:45:06 Mark Ryan was a good storyteller too that was kind of like him And he was from Louisiana Mark Ryan No I do remember Mark Ryan. A little blonde-headed, yeah, that boy. Oh, wait, you know what? I don't know if I remember him. I worked with him. That's cool. Yeah. It's hard to know. I probably did. He yelled a lot. He yelled.

Starting point is 01:45:29 He yelled. I mean, like, you know, high energy, like John Morgan. Oh, dude, John Morgan. But John Morgan lived in St. Francisville. I believe, and he had a little Asian daughter. They adopted a daughter, I believe. And he had this, he would tell some stories about her. he was uh he's one of the best storytellers that i ever he kind of reminded me of that jerry clower in some ways you know but yeah there he is right there john yeah he's a sweet guy he stayed in touch with me um yeah he was darling raging cajian john morgan well one of my good friends owns um i ask you that because one of my friends owns an inn in st francisville that is beautiful and i go there sometimes and i just didn't realize how and I did the shows in Baton Rouge and Treesport and I thought Louisiana is fascinating.

Starting point is 01:46:19 People in Louisiana are fun and wild and darling. I had a ball. Which one of the reasons I think there's not a lot of comedy closed there because you can have just as good a time talking to somebody, anybody. Everybody there is an entertainer.

Starting point is 01:46:33 Everybody there is a comedian. Everybody there is going to open their mouth and you're going to hear something that's going to make you smile or think or question. They're entertaining. It's an entertaining state. You know, it's one of the most native states where people are born there that never leave. I think, like, per capita, it's the number one where people are born that never even leave the state.

Starting point is 01:46:54 They're born and then die right there, I think, because they just got everything they need over there, you know? Yeah. It's a special place. You're a special person, Leanne, Morgan. Thank you so much. Hey, oh, my darling, you don't need me to vacuum or anything. I feel like I need to do something for you for letting me be. on here because you're so darling you know what you can do for me really honestly come back next year

Starting point is 01:47:20 will you oh my darling you promise you will yeah because i've just had so much fun this has been a gift of my whole life it's just like yeah the past like week like i went i did jo rogan's podcast yesterday and it's like sometimes it's like you know it's like um i think sometimes i live in a place where it's like there's so much of me out there like just online and some of this could be like paranoia ego stuff i don't know but it's still something that i think about sometimes that i just gets i like i don't know i've just felt like nervous the past few weeks so to be able to sit down in a conversation that um is easy and it's fun um you know joe is like he knows a lot of information so it's like you're having to learn a lot and like sometimes i think i feel like i don't it's hard for me to like

Starting point is 01:48:04 chime in because i don't really know about stuff and this is just two people i don't know what a lot and we can just, which is what I love. Oh, you angel. When I watch you, I think, and I'm not blowing smoke up your butthole. When I want you, I think, oh, my God. Also. I think when I watch you, I think he's got the sweetest spirit. You've got a sweet spirit.

Starting point is 01:48:29 Oh, thank you. You really do, and I feel like God gave me that discernment. I know he did. And I've always, and I've said to John Christ and to Hugh and people that know you and they go, he's got the sweetest spirit. They think it too. And just so bright, you're such a bright light. When I think of you planking and then talking about those hamster bones.

Starting point is 01:48:52 Oh, yeah. And we were crying, laughing so hard. There's just nobody like you. And that's, and, you know, in this business, I mean, you're just so unique. There's just nobody like you. And I hope you know that. and you give so much joy. When I told people I was doing this,

Starting point is 01:49:11 they said, please tell him hello for me. My stylist, who's from Australia, who dresses Oprah Winfrey. And Maria Shriver said, I love him. She goes, I would marry him. Everybody wants to have a baby with you. I just want you to know that. I would have carried one for you.

Starting point is 01:49:28 I think Chuck would have let me. I was very fertile at one time. I could have done it. I'm very healthy. I'm from farming people. We killed her on beef. I could have done it. and I would have done it because you've got to have some children.

Starting point is 01:49:41 You are so beautiful and fun and your teeth are pretty. Well, thank you. Yeah, I appreciate it. I want to have kids. I want to have a family and stuff. It's just been like, you know, it's tough. It's like you've got to meet the right person, you know. I don't know.

Starting point is 01:49:54 I met somebody that was kind of neat the other day. And so that was kind of cool because it made me think like, okay, this is still possible, right? Whether or not that ends up, like, if there were ever anything there. Like, because sometimes you start to be like, you know, you get in this space where just something doesn't kind of click for a long time, you know, like you meet people when you go on dates. I'm like you have people you just kind of like are flinging with or philandering with. But when you're like, oh, this is the partner that I want. And I think like, are there something about this person just that would keep me interested for a long time, you know, just

Starting point is 01:50:29 something about them. I don't know what it is. Maybe they got, you know, it could be a damn mole or something or they're missing a fucking burtabur or whatever. One of them bitches is all a little, you know what I'm saying? Like, they got a, like, just that... But you want a girl that wants to have babies? Yeah, I would like to have a woman that wants to be a good mother. That's super important to me. Yes. Yes.

Starting point is 01:50:46 That's hard working. You know, I'd like to have a, I want an attractive woman, but that that's not the most important thing to her, you know, like, you know, you can be attractive, but if that's the most important thing to you, that's, that's okay, but that's not really what I need. I need somebody, you know, like just like a teammate. But here's the thing. It's like, it's just, it's just, always hard to figure out, but then once you start trying to figure everything out, that ruins

Starting point is 01:51:11 everything. So, you know what? God's made it perfect for me that I got to do all this work. You know, I got to go to it and do all these fun things and live out like a lot of my dreams, you know? I know. You know. You're living them out. I know. I know. It's crazy. You're living them out. I'm living them out. I could see this. I knew this as a child. Did you know it as a child? No. I knew something was wrong. I didn't know what it was. You didn't, because I've heard Steve Harvey say to his teacher, when she said, what do you want to be when you're growing up? He goes, I'm going to be on television at 10,

Starting point is 01:51:45 and she said, no, you're not, made fun of him. All right, and then I heard Eddie Murphy in an interview on today's show, he said, I knew I was going to be famous. I feel like in Adams, Tennessee, at 9 or 10 years old, I thought, is something wrong with me? Because that's all I could think about is I wanted to be in movies and in television. And I thought, is something wrong because nobody else is talking about it? talking about this, but I just knew it in my heart. But then I, you know, I went to school and got

Starting point is 01:52:12 divorced and blah and all this crap. And then this happens to me at this time in my life, but I could see it. I didn't know it was going to be this unbelievable. It's bigger and sweeter than I ever dreamed of. Yeah. But I could see, I could see this happening for me. And I just wondered if you felt that way. You didn't know? I know, you know, at one time I got voted most likely to either be on TV or succeed. You know what? I loved laughing with my friends. I just loved it.

Starting point is 01:52:45 I loved making people laugh. I just loved it. You know what it was? It made me think that it gave me some sense of worth. You know, it was like, you know, I don't even know if I wanted to be joking around all the time, but I felt like it was the only way that I knew that I had some kind of a value as a kid,

Starting point is 01:53:01 if that's kind of crazy, you know? And not to make like a sad thing, but I think it makes sense as a kid. You're like, oh, well, this is, if I do this thing, whatever it is, you know, if it's a trick, if I hide my legs behind my neck, whatever, you know what I'm saying, or do that, you know, do some weird shit or something or like tuck my eyelids and whatever it is, then like people think it's, you know, I didn't do any of those things, but if I say certain stuff, it's entertaining to people, you know? So I was like, well, I got to just do that, you know?

Starting point is 01:53:28 I don't know. Did I ever see it? I don't think so. I didn't go to a comedy club. I was in college. I didn't really know it existed. I'd seen like Chris Rock and I knew he was very, you know, he was just so funny in the way he sounded and just him, you know, but I'd never felt like I was close to that.

Starting point is 01:53:48 I didn't know about comedy club. I would watch, you know, David Letterman and Jay Leno and all that, but I was more like, I wanted to be like Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, but I didn't know there was, I, I thought I didn't know how to get there, but then I came into the comedy store. Chuck Morgan took me to the comedy store and we were dating. And we came out to L.A. and I said, I want to go on that Hearst. I want to go in there and see where people have been murdered in L.A. Oh, it was fun.

Starting point is 01:54:17 And then I want to go to the comedy store, and little Dom Marrera was up there. Oh, yeah. One of the greats. And my heart beat out of my body, and I thought, okay, that's it. I think I can do that. And I want to do that. But, you know, I didn't know how I don't know that. But you just start and then, that's the thing.

Starting point is 01:54:35 You know what somebody said one day? They said, you kind of start this job and then comedy chooses you. It's like, does your life work out enough for it? Right. There's so many great comics that, you know, John Morgan might have had to raise his daughters and stuff like that and his family and, you know, he, he had a beautiful wife. I'm not sure if they're married, but I remember. They are, and she's like a detective or an investigator or something because she was

Starting point is 01:55:01 in a documentary about a murder in Louisiana. God, I love that. And that's every woman's dream. But no, he had a beautiful wife. He just had such a great life that it's like at a certain point, you're like, well, shit, this life's so great here that, you know, I'm not saying, but it's like, somebody said at a certain point, it kind of chooses you. Can you still do this? You know, I didn't like any commitment. So I didn't like, so that was one thing that was perfect for me. It was like, oh, I have a chance to leave. I want to go. If, oh, I can say, buy I want to go whatever it is I have somewhere else I have to be I don't have to be right here so it's been good you know it's giving me some unique things I mean now it's like more it's fun because

Starting point is 01:55:41 you get to have like unique experiences and like you know like you go places and they'll let you be on a sideline sometimes it feels a bit extravagant for me and I wish that some of the things it was a little more normal um some of the popularity part I do not like about today um a lot of that's from social media and stuff. I'm not saying boo-hoo or anything, but some of it's uncomfortable. You know, sometimes you want to just be like

Starting point is 01:56:05 in a place where you're sitting there with everybody else, just kind of enjoying the deal, you know? That's the first time I went on in the field was at UT. You did great when you came out there and waved. I was like, she's a pro. Thank you.

Starting point is 01:56:19 I was very nervous, and that didn't feel real to me like I deserved to be. And I don't know. I just thought, what in the world? What are they doing? I love my school. I don't want anybody know

Starting point is 01:56:29 my GPA. I mean, I barely got out of there. And they're so good to me. They're so good to me, because I'm the only comedian that came out of there. And I guess, but that made me feel special, but I thought, what am I even, what am I doing? But it was wonderful. And Chuck Morgan enjoyed it and all that. I'm glad he did. Well, you, and you know what? And you're inspiring young women to do comedy and inspiring young southern women. And we need that. We need like the South to stay alive through storytelling you know it's like we need that i would love to eventually get back to just telling stories from home like just stories from growing up and locking it down more and really getting in and like writing some tales from growing up and and uh i hope that that's something that's

Starting point is 01:57:13 part of my future uh you tell the best stories from growing up well i love them and it's something you know it's like but it's like yeah it's just important and it's so good that you're doing it and you know one thing i forgot about my wife i want a funny gal so um someone of the funniest girls i think are from philadelphia and new jersey i'll say that flat out they are funny they are funny and uh oh laura peek i mean she's from tennessee she's great she's married we got her in i know she opened for me a lot and she would tell me that she'd be out on the road with you she loved being out there with you we had so much fun she's very funny she's the best when you have a show in town you're gonna invite me i'm gonna um i think we're gonna finish up the end and here's why because

Starting point is 01:57:49 i'd rather you come back sometime and we get to do it again it's been so much fun honey i'll make you a casserole Yeah, you promised Morgan won. Look, you make me one I'll give it to Morgan. I'm going to see him tomorrow at Bible study, actually, so. You will see him at Bible. I think he's going to end up preaching. That little thing.

Starting point is 01:58:06 You know, I have no idea. I just know, yeah, I don't know. He's an inspiring guy. He's just, he's an interact. Morgan is, he is him, you know. He is him. Authentic. He is.

Starting point is 01:58:22 But you're authentic too, my darling. Yeah, for sure. Bible study? Is it a Beth Moore? What are y'all studying? I mean, it's, uh, I mean, tomorrow I think we're watching a movie, but it is, uh, it is Bible study, yeah. That's so sweet, Theo Bon. I'm not sure what chapter we're on. I shouldn't even have said that because I'm not in one right now. I used to be in one when I was growing, raising my children, but I don't, I'm not in one. And I need to be disciplined to do it on my own. Well, that's when you need the lure the most of when you're raising those little hench women, um, and men. Um, but no,

Starting point is 01:58:54 I'll tell him you said, hey, and that was fun. Even just to get to see you guys next to each other when I saw y'all at the game and talking to each other, like, little moments like that bring me so much joy when there's like two people that you think are like, oh, these people are so interesting and they get to meet each other or get to spend time around each other, you know, watching stuff like that is fun. All right, Leanne Morgan, unspeakable things. Yeah. It's out now. Your second special. It's on Netflix. You guys can go and watch it.

Starting point is 01:59:18 And you're going to be touring again at some point. No, you're going to do the second season in your show. I'll do the second, and we'll wrap. I think in April, and I'll start touring again. Okay. If I can come up with another hour, honey, I'm working on that. You'll be fine. Will I?

Starting point is 01:59:33 I think just have Chuck Morgan tell you the truth about yourself. I know. It'll hurt, but it. Critiquing, yeah. Critiquing what I eat, and if I'm eating too much fat. Lord. He does give me a lot of material. He does.

Starting point is 01:59:47 See, that's a blessing, yeah. I think, yeah, you got somebody. And when you marry and have babies, that's a whole other. You're going to have to work for another. 30 years, honey, because you're going to be so prolific over all that. Really? Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 02:00:00 I think that was my best. I'm ready for some of that. I've got to spend more time in prayer, I think, you know. But it's okay. Everything's fine. Everything is wonderful. Look at your skin tone. Thank you.

Starting point is 02:00:13 And you got that full out of hair, you didn't have to go over to turkey. It's so flunk this time of year. You know, I don't know what that is. I'm going to call Hugh Houser. Yeah, he will know. Because he'll say to me, would it kill you? to tease your hair, Leanne. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:00:26 Let me get back there. See if you'll put a little conditioner in it. Sorry, nothing, yeah. A root lift. Yeah, maybe he'll just help me get a root lift. Thank you for having you, sweet angel from heaven. Oh, my God, you're the best. Leanne Morgan, thank you so much.

Starting point is 02:00:41 The pride of Tennessee, here she is. And grateful to spend time with you today. Go balls, my darling. I must be cornerstone. Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this piece of mind I found I can feel it in my bones. But it's going to tell you...

This Past Weekend - #627 - Leanne Morgan

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