This Past Weekend with Theo Von - #627

00:00:00.000 Today's guest is a stand-up comedian. She's an actress. She's a writer. Her new special,

00:00:05.840 Unspeakable Things, is out now on Netflix, as well as her series, Leanne. I had a great time

00:00:13.720 getting to know her and spend time with one of my favorites, Leanne Morgan.

00:00:30.000 No, I just, my hair, I feel like my hair just got out of the dryer. You ever feel like that?

00:00:40.020 Um, yeah, but you are stunning. I don't know if I want to be damn stunned. I'm not stunning. Maybe

00:00:46.420 I'm stunning in like a, like if people are trapped in a mine or something and I walk up like, yeah,

00:00:51.720 damn, who's that model? You know, if people have been trapped in like a mine for like a month.

00:00:56.020 Kentucky. Um, but no, I think, I've always thought you were beautiful and I, you know.

00:01:00.980 I don't want to be beautiful, Leanne. That's insane.

00:01:02.880 What do you mean? Handsome?

00:01:04.520 Yeah, I just want to be a handsome guy. Yeah. Guy looks healthy enough, right?

00:01:09.240 But you've got that beautiful skin tone.

00:01:11.440 Oh, that's, I will take that. Thank you, baby.

00:01:13.720 I know. You don't need a spray tan.

00:01:15.820 Thank you, baby girl.

00:01:16.920 You're welcome.

00:01:17.980 I appreciate that.

00:01:20.520 Good to see what's going on today.

00:01:22.400 Oh, my darling. I'm so tickled to be here. Thank you for having me. This is my Super Bowl,

00:01:28.640 as the young people say. I mean, I really feel that way.

00:01:31.980 What?

00:01:32.500 All right. I don't know if you don't know this, but I saw you, was that on Last Comic Standing

00:01:38.760 in LA?

00:01:40.260 Mm-hmm.

00:01:41.240 Gary Marshall was one of the...

00:01:43.880 Gary Marshall from the department store? Who are you talking about?

00:01:47.180 Gary Marshall that did. Laverne and Shirley, he was one of the judges.

00:01:52.560 Gary Marshall. Bring him up.

00:01:54.120 You were a baby, and you did Last Comic Standing. I saw you do a set in LA. It was on NBC.

00:02:02.400 Okay. Gary Marshall. I don't know.

00:02:04.300 That was Last Comic Standing, right? April Macy was on there.

00:02:07.860 Yep. Josh Wolfe.

00:02:08.420 She assimilated up Felicio.

00:02:11.480 She did?

00:02:11.860 In her set. She did. You talked about...

00:02:17.180 Your little daddy being old when he had you and all that, and you killed, and I fell

00:02:24.860 in love with you then.

00:02:25.980 Well, you're an angel.

00:02:27.440 And then I got to see you do a full set at the Hollywood Improv. David Spade was on the

00:02:32.880 show with you. He came out first, and I love him. And then you... I had my daughters with

00:02:38.700 me, and we laughed until we were weak. And you did a full plank on a stool for, I don't

00:02:45.180 know, seven minutes. Yeah, and that's part of the ticket cost. I include that. That ain't

00:02:51.200 extra. Okay.

00:02:53.860 And then we got to meet you, and you remember their names.

00:02:56.820 Oh, I do remember that.

00:02:57.700 And there was a bunch of girls that looked maybe like porn girls that were wanting to

00:03:04.020 talk to you.

00:03:05.240 Oh, good.

00:03:05.820 Mm-hmm. Had on high heels and tight britches.

00:03:09.440 God, I'm so lonely. But go on.

00:03:12.820 And they were beautiful girls around you.

00:03:16.740 God, I wish they were still here. But go on.

00:03:19.300 And then I always... All my friends are at Zany's, and they always tell me they get to

00:03:23.820 be with you, and I don't get to be with you. Because I live in Knoxville, or I'm out on

00:03:27.900 the road working like a mule.

00:03:29.460 That's what it is.

00:03:30.200 Or living in Los Angeles.

00:03:32.100 Well, when are you just going to settle down, Leanne?

00:03:34.700 I don't know. I mean, I'm 60. Did you know I turned 60 in October?

00:03:38.940 You are 60?

00:03:40.400 Yes.

00:03:40.860 Gosh, girl.

00:03:41.220 I hate to even say that in front of you.

00:03:42.860 No, it's fine, honey. I didn't even know 60 could be like that. God, I want to be 60

00:03:48.540 just for a half hour with you. You know? My God.

00:03:51.780 Thank you, my darling. You know, I've got two grandbabies.

00:03:54.800 You do? Don't even... Now, don't tell me that. Just tell me you're 60. I like that part.

00:03:59.160 Do you do? Really?

00:04:01.080 Yes.

00:04:01.900 Well, yeah. I mean, congratulations, A, on having a family. Obviously, that's something

00:04:06.900 that's super important to you.

00:04:07.780 Thank you.

00:04:07.880 I met your husband, Chuck. I met him. Was that his name?

00:04:10.540 You met Chuck Morgan where?

00:04:12.320 Yes, I met him. At the frickin'... with Morgan Wall. It was Morgan...

00:04:16.780 Oh, yeah. At the ball game.

00:04:17.900 Yeah.

00:04:18.200 At the ball game. Go Vols. You know I'm a Vol for life.

00:04:21.480 I know you are.

00:04:22.000 I went to the University of Tennessee. Oh, yes. Chuck Morgan was there. That's right. Chuck Morgan

00:04:25.900 was lingering around. We met Peyton Manning. And he's worried death about Arch. He's having

00:04:31.720 to tend to Arch at Texas, who is beautiful and precious. I know his daddy, Cooper. I know

00:04:38.000 Cooper. You do know Cooper.

00:04:38.620 But I never met Peyton, so I was tickled about that. And then I know Tony Vitello. We're

00:04:42.640 friends.

00:04:43.140 Oh, he's great.

00:04:44.320 Is he not darling?

00:04:45.300 I know. He's great. I know that they're all going to miss him over there, but I know that

00:04:48.520 they're all supportive of him. He's just the kind of guy you have to support as he makes

00:04:52.280 those choices. But God, he is just a great guy. There's some great people over there.

00:04:58.060 And yeah, that was fun, though. Had you met Morgan before?

00:05:02.440 Yes, honey. Morgan and I did a show together when he got kicked off of The Voice.

00:05:09.280 You told me that.

00:05:10.040 That little thing was mowing. Had mowing equipment. And we both got asked to do a charity thing.

00:05:16.800 I think they paid us $200. If they paid us anything, I can't remember. And he sang. And

00:05:21.700 we were in the back. And I promised him a casserole. Because I thought he was so sweet. And

00:05:27.520 darling, he goes, I'm going to try to make it in country music. And I thought, how's that

00:05:31.020 little thing going to go? And not that I didn't think he was talented.

00:05:34.420 No, of course. But I thought that's just so sweetie that you would even consider making

00:05:37.500 a casserole for him.

00:05:38.800 Well, he's the age of my children.

00:05:41.080 He's great.

00:05:42.000 And darling.

00:05:43.260 He is great. He does a good job. He's a smart guy.

00:05:46.480 Yeah.

00:05:46.980 He's a smart guy. He's competitive. And he's really fine-tuned on who he is. Some people

00:05:53.920 are willing to be this or that, but not Morgan as this is who I am.

00:05:57.860 Uh-huh. I know. And he does not care.

00:05:59.740 And that's a good place to be.

00:06:01.860 Yeah.

00:06:02.120 You don't care.

00:06:02.880 I think it is.

00:06:03.140 You do your own thing.

00:06:04.520 Well, you've been working in comedy for, how long have you been doing comedy for? If

00:06:09.480 you don't mind if I ask you.

00:06:10.400 Oh, no. I don't mind you, Angel.

00:06:12.440 God.

00:06:13.080 I was 32 when I think, when my baby was 18 months old, the first time I ever opened,

00:06:20.320 I opened at Zaney's. I'd been fooling around like at the Rotary. You know, like I'd take

00:06:26.620 a baby to Mom's Day Out, go and do a little something at the Rotary, make $50.

00:06:31.140 And now were you-

00:06:32.080 In East Tennessee.

00:06:32.860 Okay.

00:06:33.400 Yeah. And then I came-

00:06:34.520 What county was that in?

00:06:36.220 Hamblin County.

00:06:37.140 Over in Hamblin?

00:06:37.580 Morristown.

00:06:38.020 Uh-huh.

00:06:38.420 Okay. And that's where you met Chuck Morgan?

00:06:40.040 I met him at the University of Tennessee.

00:06:42.040 God, I knew it, huh?

00:06:43.920 Yeah.

00:06:44.080 And what was he doing over there? Was he loitering or was he enrolled?

00:06:46.480 I was probably the one loitering.

00:06:49.700 Okay.

00:06:50.240 He was enrolled getting a master's, an MBA, and I was trying to finish up an undergraduate

00:06:55.720 that took me several years, Theo, because I-

00:06:58.480 Drank.

00:07:00.200 I wasn't drinking.

00:07:01.820 You weren't?

00:07:02.120 I was smoking cigarettes-

00:07:03.660 That's fine, honey.

00:07:04.000 With Diet Coke and coffee.

00:07:05.600 Oh, that's fine.

00:07:06.240 And I was not going to class. I was having to flirt with people to get notes. I didn't

00:07:13.200 care. And I wish I'd have cared, but I was doing stuff like that and making out with people.

00:07:19.880 Yeah. Oh, God.

00:07:21.700 Like Italian boys, because I never seen one. Okay, so I was raised like right outside of

00:07:27.100 Nashville in a town of 500 people, a farming community. So everybody was the same. So when

00:07:31.640 I got to UT, I was like, oh, and I went to the club.

00:07:34.880 Oh, yeah. If you see something new, you got to put your lips on it, you know?

00:07:38.780 That's the Hamblin County motto, I think, isn't it?

00:07:41.120 But then Chuck Morgan came to get an MBA and then fell in love with me.

00:07:45.360 And was he on a horseback or something when you saw him? Was he on a damn King Corso?

00:07:48.860 What was he on? He was just on a damn big Datsun, wasn't he? Like, I think he's got a long

00:07:54.260 one on him, under him. Is Datsun a dog?

00:07:58.420 Datsun's a dog. I've had a Datsun. Puddin.

00:08:01.120 Puddin?

00:08:01.660 Yeah. She was precious, honey.

00:08:03.660 Well, she'd bring up a picture of her. Look up Puddin Datsun.

00:08:06.500 She was a little bitty toy, little orange, overweight, had some thyroid issues, loved

00:08:14.280 to cuss, UPS trucks, but darling, oh, like another baby to me. That's a beagle. That's

00:08:23.080 my beagle right now.

00:08:24.560 That is beautiful. That's you?

00:08:26.200 Look at that old, Lord, that was a dress from Dillard's from the junior department that was

00:08:30.540 too tight on my back. Theo!

00:08:33.360 Honey, look, baby girl, I know I used to have shoes that weren't mine growing up, and I'd

00:08:38.960 have to stuff the fucking edges of them. I'd have to put a hand towel around each one of

00:08:43.460 my feet and put them bitches on and go to school.

00:08:46.480 My daughter.

00:08:46.780 Look like a damn vaudeville character or something.

00:08:50.720 I look like they used to call me Ronald McDonald's son, Lil' Ronnie. Here come Lil' Ronnie.

00:08:56.880 It took me seven minutes to get off the bus from going down those steps, dude, because

00:09:03.100 if I got out ahead of those skis, baby, it was downhill, you know? It was just slope central.

00:09:08.700 You kill me. Louisiana, is that where you were raised?

00:09:11.580 Yeah.

00:09:12.420 What part of Louisiana?

00:09:14.160 Over in St. Tammany, Paris, Louisiana.

00:09:18.620 Okay, I just did Shreveport in Baton Rouge. Is that over in the Hoop-dee-doo part?

00:09:23.320 Shreveport, and I'll say it out loud, has definitely gone downhill, which is interesting

00:09:29.240 for a place that's flat land over there. Somehow it found a way to go down.

00:09:33.600 I heard you said something about it when you got on stage. What'd you say?

00:09:37.420 Everybody that looked like a damn missing person, if you meet anybody in the city, the

00:09:41.040 city is vacant. It looks like a movie set.

00:09:43.300 I know. I mean, the buildings are empty, and they told me, they go, do not leave this hotel.

00:09:48.120 But I love that theater, and they've got a little Elvis museum in it. And Priscilla brought

00:09:53.780 some britches of little Elvis that you could not get your toe in. He was so tiny.

00:09:58.920 That's beautiful. Bring up a picture of a little Elvis. How little did he get?

00:10:01.680 Before he got in bad health, have you ever been to Graceland?

00:10:06.920 Yes, I have.

00:10:07.920 And you've seen his little, all those jumpsuits, and his little waist?

00:10:12.320 He was getting little as he got older.

00:10:15.280 Look, there's little baby Elvises.

00:10:17.180 Look at little Elvis right there, and they probably had him down singing already. Probably

00:10:21.380 11 months old, they got him out there.

00:10:23.200 I know, and his little daddy had written bad chinks just to take care of their family.

00:10:26.640 He couldn't help it.

00:10:27.600 And he had dysplasia. That's how he got the hips going, you know that?

00:10:30.740 No!

00:10:31.440 Yeah, like an Australian shepherd. That's how it happened in the beginning.

00:10:35.100 He didn't know what he was doing, dude. He wasn't. If you're like, he's a dancer.

00:10:38.720 No, he ain't. Damn, he just got a loose back.

00:10:40.060 Are you kidding me? Because you know that I'm gullible. You can tell that about me.

00:10:43.260 You can smell it.

00:10:44.380 Honey.

00:10:44.860 Okay.

00:10:45.580 Honey bun.

00:10:46.180 He had dysplasia.

00:10:47.580 Baby girl, I'm not joking with you. Yeah, he had dysplasia.

00:10:50.940 He had a damn fucking loose tailbone, dude. He was missing a couple joists on that thing,

00:10:55.800 and yeah. And he just had that tick-tock in him, you know?

00:10:59.400 Hell, we had an Elvis impersonator in our neighborhood, and he had the same thing.

00:11:02.480 He had a thing, this guy, he broke his leg, right? He had a couple children, he kept them

00:11:07.940 on an electric fence in our neighborhood because they were his prized possessions, and I actually

00:11:13.700 respected that. The rest of the kids in our neighborhood got real, you know, you'd be

00:11:18.200 out there and, you know, the elements would get you, you know, people smoking or getting

00:11:22.120 in trouble drinking or people fucking catching crows and fucking picking bugs off of them

00:11:27.720 and shit, just fucking loose cannon type stuff. Yeah. But this fella said, well, I gotta take

00:11:33.580 care of my kids, so I'm gonna give me a little electric fence, right? So he had that thing,

00:11:37.840 and anyway. He kept people out. Kept people out, kept the kids in. Kept the kids in,

00:11:43.860 because my people had electric fence, and that'll keep you in. You don't want to get

00:11:47.560 buzzed by that thing. Uh-uh. You'll turn into a fucking doorbell for a couple hours, dude.

00:11:51.600 That bitch, if you get hit by that bitch. We really were so bored, little country kids,

00:11:56.020 that we would go and just stand on it to feel something. Oh, God. Yeah, honey. Oh,

00:12:01.260 I remember one time I grabbed it on accident. I couldn't fucking close my mouth for fucking

00:12:05.180 four days. I couldn't close my mouth. Were you from Birmingham? You weren't from,

00:12:09.520 you weren't rural, right? I couldn't close, I couldn't finish a can of Campbell's around

00:12:13.600 that. For half a week, I couldn't. And it was daylight savings time, too, so it was an

00:12:20.020 extra hour I had to do. I was stuck like that. It was horrible. Dude, my sister, she

00:12:25.640 stays, this is where I'm from, my sister and her boyfriend will stay up to watch daylight

00:12:30.260 savings time. I'm like, what in the fuck are y'all doing? They'll stay up to watch

00:12:35.680 daylight savings time. Yeah, they'll be like, it's 11.59 again. And then they're like, you

00:12:42.240 know, they think it's great. I'm like, you idiot. It's the one night you get a free hour

00:12:46.860 from God. It's God. I know. It's God caring about you finally after all that year. When

00:12:53.640 you feel good and you think, what happened? Oh, I got that extra hour. And they stay up

00:12:58.340 and watch it. I'm like, what are you watching? But that's who she is. Is she the one that's

00:13:03.320 got the beautiful babies, the boys that I've seen you interview? Those, no, that's my brother

00:13:07.520 has those two little boys. Those are good boys. I'll tell you this, my family makes beautiful

00:13:11.060 children. Beautiful. They are beautiful. And that's why I call you beautiful, Theo, and

00:13:16.680 you need to receive that. Gotcha. Thanks, girl. My best Hugh Houser impersonation, huh?

00:13:25.580 He's skipping right now up 12 South. He knows every one of those girls and they all love him.

00:13:31.020 Oh, he is just. I met him the night that. He's one of a kind. For free, I came and opened

00:13:37.780 for Lady Antebellum. Oh, you did? Uh-huh. At a thing, at a thing. Yeah. Not a, not a

00:13:44.680 bridge to home. No. At a bridge. At a charity thing. Yeah. Under the bridge. At a bridge, yeah.

00:13:50.600 And he was in the bank with his shirt unbuttoned down to his belly button with a fresh spray

00:13:54.400 tan, hair extensions, and we fell in love. That, you know, and so we've been good friends

00:13:59.920 ever since. And now he's doing stand-up. Oh, he's the female Michael Landon. That's what I call him.

00:14:04.040 Yeah. He's known in a lot of homoerotic circles as a ginger Michael Landon. He will fuck your

00:14:12.420 book club up. I know that, dude. Oh. Just with his sheer entertainment and volume and attitude.

00:14:18.220 Uh-huh. And then he also can tell you how to do a tablescape. But you asked me when I

00:14:23.380 started doing comedy. I opened for Billy Gardell at Zany's when my baby was 18 months old.

00:14:28.600 She's out there. She's my makeup artist. She's about to turn 28. Tess. Tess.

00:14:32.860 And she's beautiful. Thank you. Thank you. And she's my makeup artist on my television

00:14:38.760 show. And then she tours with me and tells people she's my caregiver now. Oh. Yeah.

00:14:45.080 Yeah. And she doesn't want to be. She wants to date, you know, and meet men. And it's hard

00:14:49.740 with your 60-year-old mother. Well, it's hard if your mother goes downhill early. That's

00:14:53.760 what they call it. Going downhill early. Yeah. You turn immediately like. And that's how to

00:14:59.020 really, as a parent, I think that's what you want to gauge. You want, right when they get out of

00:15:03.600 high school or college, you want to hit that downhill. So they have to take care of you.

00:15:07.280 So they can tend to you. That's how it used to be. They shouldn't get those free 10 or 12 years

00:15:11.320 of joy into their mid-30s. And that's when you start capping off. But you need to catch it. You

00:15:18.020 just, you got to hit it right at the right time. So I like your strategy, really. I do like that.

00:15:22.880 Thank you. I thought when I hit it big, I would be younger and thinner, but that's okay.

00:15:27.700 Yeah. Tell me about some of that. So what was that like going through? Cause you, when

00:15:31.760 do you say you really start to kind of hit it big? And also I love your show on Netflix.

00:15:35.500 That was the thing that I started. Thank you. And you shared it. Thank you, my darling.

00:15:38.480 Yeah. That's the thing I started watching. I was like, this is good. It reminded me of

00:15:42.160 kind of like a Reba in a sense that it's a Southern show. They hadn't had a good Southern

00:15:46.360 show in a long time because Hollywood hates us. And so, but finally they're like so desperate

00:15:51.740 because they realized that, Oh, we are human at least that we're going to put this great

00:15:55.680 show on there and they chose you. And, um, was that scary doing that? Had you done that

00:16:00.900 before? And, uh, and then when did your, when did your break start to come? Cause it kind

00:16:05.600 of came a little bit later than maybe you expected or wanted.

00:16:08.660 Oh yeah. My break came in, in my early fifties and I was just about to quit. And then I was

00:16:14.520 just about to quit. I was working a lot. I had done a dry bar and I, and my manager

00:16:20.280 drive our comedy special. Yeah. And my manager at the time said, these Mormon

00:16:24.780 people are doing these specials. And he said, nobody will ever see it. They're

00:16:27.960 going to pay you a couple of thousand dollars. You're going to fly to Salt Lake

00:16:32.060 City. We'll get some clips out of it where you can do more corporate. I was

00:16:36.460 doing the chamber of commerce for Dubuque, Iowa. Oh God, I love it there. Dubuque's

00:16:41.620 beautiful. You know, Al Capone had a, uh. Yes. In that hotel. I love that place. I know. And

00:16:47.740 beautiful people. There's real pretty people in Dubuque. I was some of the best

00:16:51.260 people in the world. Clear Lake, Iowa. Have you been there? No. So good. It's where

00:16:55.140 Buddy Holly and them, where they took off from that plane out of the surf

00:16:57.240 ballroom. Oh, murder. Remember hearing about that? Yes. You can still go there. It's

00:17:02.460 perfectly, you can still go, you can still see the pay phone that, uh, they all

00:17:06.940 called their family from before they took off out of there. Anyway, not to bring it

00:17:10.940 down, but that is a beautiful place. If you ever get to go, there's a lot of

00:17:14.400 beautiful, uh, places in Iowa. Um, but go on. So you were in Dubuque, Iowa. So I, he

00:17:19.000 said, and I, my career was in the toilet and I thought, okay, I'll go and do this

00:17:24.440 special. I did a bunch of old material that people hadn't seen. I was rusty. I

00:17:28.260 think, I think it sucked. Um, and I did that special and some things went viral in

00:17:35.140 it and, um, but I couldn't sell tickets from it. I was getting work from it, but it

00:17:39.740 wasn't the work I wanted. Like, what do you mean? Were you getting what, uh, pressure

00:17:43.320 washing or what kind of gigs were you getting? Close. Because dude, I've seen, I've had

00:17:47.280 somebody, some guy saw me at a comedy club. He's like, man, I love you, dude. I want

00:17:52.580 you to come pressure wash at the house. And I'm like, well, that ain't helping me. He's

00:17:57.220 like 200 bucks. I was like, I'll be over there. I'll damn spit really fast on that

00:18:02.560 siding. If I have to, I don't own a pressure washing machine. Go on, baby darling, little

00:18:07.360 corporate things, stuff that, you know, they, you, they pay you so much, but you

00:18:12.200 got to pay your travel out of it. I'd get in an Uber with a man on marijuana, drive

00:18:16.100 for two hours and stay at a, at a motel on the side of the road. Think I was going to

00:18:21.140 be murdered. I mean, it just was, it was just not good. And I got very down and I told

00:18:27.820 Chuck Morgan, I said, I'm going to quit and I'm opening up a hardware store. And cause I

00:18:32.720 always thought that would be fun. And he said, no, you're crazy. So, but.

00:18:37.620 Did he really say that?

00:18:38.500 Yeah. He goes, Leon, that's crazy. You're, it's fine. You're fine. And you're just keep

00:18:42.740 going. And so I hired these little guys that did social media for me, these young guys who

00:18:48.440 knew how to do all that stuff. I didn't know. And they put out the clip where you showed

00:18:53.320 that me in that tight dress from Dillard's from the juniors department. And I did a bit about,

00:18:59.600 and I'd never done it before. I just had taken Chuck Morgan to go see Def Leppard and

00:19:03.240 Journey at Thompson Bowling. And everybody looked sick and had plantar fasciitis. All

00:19:09.980 the people looked bad.

00:19:11.340 All the band members?

00:19:12.120 All the band members.

00:19:13.480 Oh, yeah.

00:19:14.040 Def Leppard guy, I think, had a hernia.

00:19:15.680 Way more than Def, yeah.

00:19:16.640 Yeah. Tiny legs.

00:19:18.560 Oh, God.

00:19:19.340 Thin hair. Anyway, it must have resonated with people. And that went viral. And I started

00:19:25.420 selling out all over the United States in clubs that would not have had me.

00:19:28.800 Yeah. Wouldn't even answer your emails.

00:19:30.480 Wouldn't answer. No. And then, or they'd had me in there like, she's sweet. She doesn't

00:19:34.320 get drunk and fight in the parking lot, but we're not having her back. She can't sell

00:19:37.020 tickets. So I started selling out. And then I got my first tour. And then the big panty

00:19:42.080 tour. And I was in my early 50s.

00:19:47.160 And you were in your early 50s.

00:19:48.460 Uh-huh.

00:19:48.720 And what was that? Do you remember the first place that you played at that it was sold

00:19:51.780 out at?

00:19:52.900 Oh, gosh.

00:19:53.720 Like, first comedy club where you're like, oh, my God.

00:19:57.240 Yeah, probably, um, oh, like, Off the Hook in Naples.

00:20:02.120 In Florida's?

00:20:02.640 Yeah.

00:20:03.260 Brian's Club?

00:20:03.900 Yeah.

00:20:04.320 Oh, Captain Brian.

00:20:05.160 Yeah, Captain Brian.

00:20:06.420 Oh, yeah. Dude, you're on stage and they're just serving shrimp right up between your leg,

00:20:10.320 dude.

00:20:10.700 Big platters of shrimp. I thought it was a seafood restaurant. And I thought, I'm in the wrong

00:20:14.940 place.

00:20:15.420 It is a seafood restaurant.

00:20:16.200 A lot of clanking. But it was, but I liked that stage. And they were darling and I had

00:20:21.280 a ball.

00:20:21.780 Oh, no, it is a seafood restaurant. And you're in the right place. It's both of those things.

00:20:25.240 And that's what's amazing about it. Oh, Captain Brian's done a great job over there of keeping

00:20:29.040 comedy, Off the Hook Comedy Club. That's what it is.

00:20:31.960 Yeah, in Naples. Or Bricktown in Oklahoma. All these places that had never had me before.

00:20:37.260 But that was the first place that you went.

00:20:38.900 That was, that was one of the first places.

00:20:41.320 Yeah.

00:20:41.860 Yeah, I was on, I was touring for probably 12 years, 13 years out there. Maybe.

00:20:46.200 I don't know if it, probably about that, you know, just getting in there, lucky to be

00:20:51.100 a feature, hoping you'd finally get to headline, hoping you'd hit a bonus. You wouldn't. So

00:20:56.380 you're at that kind of tap $1,200 a week mark, you know, and they give you $300 for travel,

00:21:01.020 but you had to decide if you were just wanted to drive 18 hours or spend the $300 to fly

00:21:06.220 over there, you know?

00:21:07.720 Yeah.

00:21:08.160 Dude, hanging my food out. When I remember in Kansas City, I would, it was cold out there.

00:21:12.560 So I got my groceries and I would put them in a bag and hang them out the window at

00:21:17.100 night because there wasn't like a fridge in the room. I'd hang them out. I'd get them

00:21:20.340 in the morning, let them thaw out and then have me a little lunch a few hours later. And

00:21:25.600 yeah, just little things you would figure out over time.

00:21:28.580 But there were some clubs that always, like Brian Dorfman at Zaney's in Nashville always

00:21:34.520 let me play. Cap City and Austin, I consider that my home club. Chuck Morgan moved us to San

00:21:40.460 Antonio for his job. So I worked the River Center and Cap City in Austin and they were

00:21:45.660 really good to me.

00:21:46.380 Wait, in Austin or San Antonio? Oh.

00:21:47.960 San Antonio, the River Center, and then LOL, and then Cap City and Austin believed in me.

00:21:53.920 And I would drive back and forth from San Antonio with little children. I had three babies, three,

00:21:58.740 five, and seven. And in San Antonio, I'd get up at the late show when everybody was high

00:22:02.660 on marijuana at midnight and talk about how somebody doo-dooed on a t-ball field because

00:22:07.820 I was a mama. You know, I was different from all those boys. There was a lot of young boys

00:22:12.680 doing Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonations.

00:22:15.780 Oh, baby girl.

00:22:16.660 So I stood out. But that's, you know, not a lot of clubs wanted to book me.

00:22:22.180 Yeah.

00:22:22.580 But I got to raise these children. I was raising children in Knoxville, Tennessee and Texas.

00:22:28.040 And first of all, let me say this beautiful place, Knoxville. And also, I think, I think

00:22:33.140 Knoxville probably best place to see a football game. I think the best place to see an SEC

00:22:40.340 football game. I haven't seen a lot of football games outside of the SEC. But man, Nealon,

00:22:45.200 there's something special about it.

00:22:47.460 It is.

00:22:47.900 I just got to go to Ole Miss and see their game.

00:22:49.540 I saw that you were with Lane. And did y'all do hot yoga?

00:22:52.940 Yeah, we did.

00:22:53.560 He's been on a cleanse. I've said horrible things about Lane Kiffin on stage when I have,

00:22:59.240 well, you know, he left us.

00:23:01.280 Yeah.

00:23:01.400 So I said some crap.

00:23:03.320 Oh, when daddy leaves.

00:23:04.120 But I'm sorry for it now.

00:23:06.320 Here we are right now.

00:23:07.240 Because he's doing, he's, you know, he's, he was cute. And there was a lot of girls.

00:23:12.800 Well, you can tell I was raised by a single mother, too, with how I wear that towel. I'm

00:23:16.380 going to go on ahead and say that. That's why. People are like, what are you doing? I'm like,

00:23:19.900 what are you doing? Okay. With your dad. Okay.

00:23:23.260 So you can tell that to who I am. And those are some wonderful ladies there that were training.

00:23:30.000 They was, I don't know if they were trainers or something. One of them, I think they work

00:23:34.660 at Facebook Marketplace. I don't know what, one of them was actually going to buy a cat

00:23:37.700 off a Facebook Marketplace. And I said, honey, she's like, I'm driving to Batesville to get

00:23:41.600 a cat off a Facebook Marketplace. And I said, baby girl, that's a bad idea. Okay. She said,

00:23:47.400 it's a $60 cat. I said, I'll give you $70 right now.

00:23:50.100 Not to go? Yeah. Just to get you a little nap or something, you know, just to watch cats

00:23:53.920 on YouTube and get you a little shut eye. Oh my Lord. I hope she made it.

00:23:58.520 Well, I hope she made it too. And you know, who knows, you know, you can't follow up on

00:24:02.260 everything. But you give people. You're so busy.

00:24:06.120 Well, you give them a little bit of advice, you know, if at that point she drives off to

00:24:11.360 meet somebody off at a Facebook Marketplace at a trailer where they're like, well, we're

00:24:16.880 going to add an addition to the trailer. That is when I'm like,

00:24:20.100 do not do it. Anytime. And let me make this speech right now. And I'm going to put my hat

00:24:24.540 on to make this because I don't like my hair today. My God, I need a wife. But what I'm

00:24:32.060 telling you is this, okay? If you meet someone and they're like, yeah, we got the trailer and

00:24:37.660 then we're going to add on to it. You're like, that, it doesn't work. It's not a realistic

00:24:44.180 project. You can't just add on to a trailer with extra housing or quick creed or whatever

00:24:51.780 they're using, all type of shit, you know?

00:24:53.860 Did you know that Chuck Morgan is in the mobile home industry?

00:24:56.980 I could imagine it. I didn't know that. And did he put you in one?

00:25:01.100 Yes. I lived in a double wine. He flipped it and he said to me, we're just going to be

00:25:07.620 there temporarily. And it was big. You could ride a bicycle through it.

00:25:12.060 Oh yeah.

00:25:12.820 But I was pregnant with my third baby. It was in the middle of nowhere. It was a hard time

00:25:17.760 for me.

00:25:18.320 Was it?

00:25:18.740 There was a mom that lived behind us. She had a potbellied pig. It charged me all the

00:25:23.720 time. It wasn't a big pig, but it was scary, you know, to have a little pig charging you

00:25:30.260 while you're big pregnant, trying to get up in a double wine when you don't have stay-ups.

00:25:35.220 Yeah. It's kind of, yeah. Oh, definitely, dude.

00:25:38.300 Chuck Morgan owned the business and had stay-ups sitting out in the field, several, and just

00:25:43.540 forgot to bring steps home. So I had to pitch two babies up in a double.

00:25:48.720 Double wine. Then hiked my leg up being pregnant. I mean, I had Tess, that baby, I was pregnant

00:25:55.600 with her.

00:25:56.260 Yeah.

00:25:56.620 And we lived on, and it was on a gravel road. And he said, I promise you, I'm going to,

00:26:00.980 I'll make money.

00:26:01.240 Oh yeah, she's got big hands, I saw. So hell yeah, I can imagine that thing helping you

00:26:06.860 balance on the way up a little.

00:26:08.480 Oh no. And then he did, he flipped it. But yeah, Chuck Morgan still works in the mobile home

00:26:13.980 industry.

00:26:14.420 Oh dang.

00:26:15.780 And I don't think, I don't know, maybe some people do try to build onto a mobile home,

00:26:20.180 but I get what you're saying.

00:26:21.480 Yeah, it's just when you-

00:26:22.320 You could put a fire pit out in front.

00:26:24.360 Put it out front.

00:26:25.520 Do not try to put it inside. That's what I'm saying. Do not do that. That's a thing,

00:26:29.520 you know? We're going to take, my sister was like, we're going to tear down this wall

00:26:32.620 inside and we're going to, you know, you don't need a living room that has a bathroom in

00:26:37.000 it. Like, you know, but no wall. Like-

00:26:39.400 Did you ever live in one?

00:26:40.620 I didn't live in one. We lived in an apartment complex that was sinking. So we'd sit, I remember

00:26:47.360 we'd sit there at night and watch Unsolved Mysteries with mom and stuff. And one part

00:26:51.220 of the fucking apartment after about the second episode, once like, once like a full house

00:27:00.420 came on, your fucking bottom was getting wet because it was just, you could, the floor

00:27:05.060 was sinking. There was like some sinking there.

00:27:08.420 Some sinking.

00:27:09.120 In the living room. And people would steal our, this was the worst part about our place.

00:27:13.600 People would steal our, the wood from our balcony. Let's even find that picture. I've talked

00:27:20.260 about this before, but people would try to steal the, so people, there was a balcony up on

00:27:27.940 that top.

00:27:28.620 Yes, there was. And the police were like, well, you have any pictures of it? We're like, officer,

00:27:31.940 you don't think there was a balcony there? What do you think? We just live with a witch

00:27:37.480 or somebody who just travels on just propulsion or something, or some woman on her period who

00:27:42.500 can just levitate out like that? What do you, like, he's like, well, we need to see some

00:27:47.200 images or something. And I'm like, it was just, that was a nightmare. But people would

00:27:51.160 steal that and they would use it to build something at their house. And then we'd go

00:27:55.380 get it back and get it back installed. If my mom was seeing a guy, we'd convince him if

00:27:59.980 he was drunk to go get that wood back. And it'd always be a little bit less of it. Every

00:28:04.420 time he got it back, it was that sort of deal.

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00:30:39.720 Where are you in your family? Are you the baby? No, I'm the second one. We have four children and I'm

00:30:44.860 the second one. So we had an older brother, two younger sisters. What about you? I have an older

00:30:52.520 sister. You do? Mm-hmm. What's she like? We were a pretty big deal in Adams, Tennessee of 500 people.

00:30:59.560 Yeah. You know, we were tall, blonde. I played sports. She twirled. She twirled? She twirled.

00:31:06.700 She was a major hit. And boys used to call and breathe into the phone.

00:31:11.700 Oh, that's flirting. My problem.

00:31:15.800 Oh, she's beautiful, huh? Thank you. She was National Simicai Calendar.

00:31:22.280 You're dressed like a damn dish set we had when I was a kid.

00:31:25.140 That was at the Opry. God, that's great.

00:31:28.060 Oh, my Lord. We both have an unrealistic hair color right there. We've both gotten some

00:31:32.140 dimensions since then. Yeah. A lot of your photos, you kind of look like an Asian woman that's

00:31:35.900 dyed her hair to look American in some ways. Because of my eyes? Do you think my eyes?

00:31:41.060 No, I just feel like you are a beautiful lady. A lot of these pictures, I don't see you in them

00:31:46.520 for some reason. But they look great. I'm just saying. And maybe I've seen a lot. I've been

00:31:52.360 on too many sites with Asians on them or something. But go back. I want to talk about your sister for

00:31:57.020 a second. What's her name? Beth. Beth. Oh, she's beautiful. And so what was it like having a

00:32:01.580 sister like her? She was a majorette, you said? She was a majorette and, you know, 5'11".

00:32:07.120 And she was in Miss Tennessee. Of course she was, dude. Any tall girl, they just,

00:32:12.440 they will get it all. If you just happen to be fucking tall. I don't care for whatever

00:32:17.800 reason or something. Maybe there wasn't a lot of gravity in the home or whatever. But whatever

00:32:21.420 happened and you got to be tall, they were like, she's beautiful. You remember that?

00:32:25.780 Uh-huh. And we, you know, when you're in, I graduated 42 people. I think she graduated

00:32:30.520 with 20-something.

00:32:31.740 Okay. So easier for her to do well.

00:32:33.780 Yeah. And, but she was always very, and still is, very prim and proper. And she went to Austin

00:32:38.640 P. She was homecoming queen. And she was a national semi-calendar on the, yeah. And then

00:32:45.720 I went to UT and I was in a mess. A mess. A mess. I was flailing around.

00:32:52.100 But were you dating women too?

00:32:53.180 No. Okay. I mean, no. I love men. Okay. Love them. I don't know how weird it got.

00:33:00.320 No. I didn't go through that. Yeah. And were you knocked up outside of wedlock or not?

00:33:05.440 No. I, um.

00:33:06.660 Oh, she did pretty good.

00:33:08.040 You know, oh, but, but the, you know, I did, I dropped out and I got married the first time.

00:33:12.540 It wasn't Chuck Morgan. Mm-hmm. I have a past.

00:33:17.040 Who was it?

00:33:18.040 It was, um, a guy that was older than me. He went to UT. He had already graduated.

00:33:25.000 Well, yeah, I think so. I think so.

00:33:27.920 It just didn't work out.

00:33:28.900 Um, I, he had problems. It was bad. And I don't think he could help it.

00:33:33.600 Oh, my God. I hope he's all right. Is he alive?

00:33:37.700 No.

00:33:37.980 Oh, God. Oh, that's sad. I'm sorry. Thank you for telling us about him.

00:33:43.180 Oh, my darling. It, but you know, it made me who I am today. It's okay. Um, it's okay.

00:33:48.340 Yeah.

00:33:48.580 And he was, um, a beautiful, talented.

00:33:52.500 He was beautiful.

00:33:53.780 Talented and all that, but it was bad. And I was dumb and 21. And then, um, we're talking

00:34:01.960 the late 80s. I still probably had some big hair.

00:34:04.620 And were you listening to, like, any type of music? Annie Lennox.

00:34:08.500 Okay.

00:34:09.700 Uh, Prince. Uh, Billy Idol. Rick James. Nasty Rick James.

00:34:15.400 Okay, so you guys were partying a little.

00:34:18.040 I mean, I was dancing and smoking cigarettes, but I was not a drinker. I didn't care about

00:34:23.140 drinking, and I didn't, I never did drugs because I'm scared of things.

00:34:27.140 That is you, huh?

00:34:28.220 I was, that's me, 17, a junior in high school.

00:34:30.900 Tess looks like you, kind of, huh?

00:34:32.360 Mm-hmm.

00:34:32.740 Oh, my God. Beautiful ladies. Oh, my God. And who is that?

00:34:36.140 My, me and my sister.

00:34:38.180 Oh, I thought that was two of the Von Ericks. You ever seen those kids? The wrestlers?

00:34:41.840 Yeah.

00:34:42.560 Bring them up.

00:34:43.340 Yes.

00:34:43.940 Bring them up.

00:34:44.460 Didn't you interview?

00:34:45.220 Kevin Von Erick, we did.

00:34:47.060 Honey, after that, I looked him up because it was so fascinating.

00:34:50.280 As children.

00:34:51.240 They were fascinating.

00:34:52.540 They are fascinating. Great guy. But yes, some of the, that picture, I thought it was two

00:34:58.020 of them.

00:34:58.980 Well, yeah, we were little, blonde-headed children. And our family owned the little

00:35:02.000 grocery store in our town.

00:35:03.580 Oh, yeah. Oh, I could easily.

00:35:04.400 Is that all those wrestling boys?

00:35:06.720 Yeah.

00:35:07.260 The daddy sitting there, did he wrestle, or?

00:35:09.980 He did. He wrestled, too.

00:35:11.560 Where were they raised?

00:35:13.120 Maybe East Texas.

00:35:16.080 That's Kevin.

00:35:16.640 And their little mama, you can tell she cooked.

00:35:19.120 Oh, definitely.

00:35:19.800 And she tended to them and got them casseroles.

00:35:22.800 She did not have a choice to cook. I can't believe you gave Morgan a casserole. What kind

00:35:25.900 was it?

00:35:27.360 I didn't, I never got to fix little Morgan. He, now, he did take my Maggie, my middle

00:35:31.940 child, on a couple of dates.

00:35:33.480 Oh, that's beautiful.

00:35:34.700 Mm-hmm. But she said, I think he likes wild girls that like to key cars.

00:35:39.200 Oh, well.

00:35:40.520 And see, my children went to a Christian school and were taught not to. But she said, I just,

00:35:47.840 she thought he was darling. And she said, I think he likes wild, this was a long time

00:35:52.220 ago, this before he hit it big. He was, you know, he liked girls that like to fight in

00:35:57.640 the yard.

00:35:58.860 Yeah, dude. I could see that. I mean, yes.

00:36:02.460 Yeah, and that's okay. There's pretty girls in Powell. They were all from Powell, Tennessee.

00:36:07.120 Yeah.

00:36:07.760 And he was a baseball player and mowed.

00:36:11.140 A free fight.

00:36:12.180 Yeah.

00:36:12.720 Yeah.

00:36:13.720 And especially if he just mowed the yard.

00:36:16.260 Yeah.

00:36:17.000 Somebody needs to throw down in it. You know, that's what I'm saying.

00:36:20.600 I know. And see, my sister and I and my kid, we don't like to fight. We're not fighters.

00:36:24.240 That's not your thing. No.

00:36:26.000 And I've got a son, 32. He's not a fighter.

00:36:28.260 Y'all are lovers then.

00:36:29.260 We're lovers. Uh-huh.

00:36:30.540 I interrupted you though. So he owned a car dealership, you said? What were you saying

00:36:34.040 before I interrupted you?

00:36:35.420 My little mom and daddy.

00:36:36.820 No, I told you.

00:36:37.580 Oh, wait, who?

00:36:37.880 You were talking about, oh, the two little kids, go back to them as children. And sorry,

00:36:41.380 I interrupted you and took you on this crazy thing where I compared you to look like-

00:36:44.540 With the wrestlers.

00:36:45.340 Yeah, and I'm very sorry. But now here we have two beautiful children.

00:36:47.940 Yes, that's me and my sister. And I think that was taken in the back of our, I think

00:36:53.120 people could get their picture made in our grocery store.

00:36:55.700 Oh, I love that.

00:36:56.400 My family owned the little grocery store there.

00:36:57.720 They did?

00:36:58.300 And we're farmers. We have land. We still have farming.

00:37:02.000 In outside of Knoxville?

00:37:02.780 Tobacco farming. In Middle Tennessee, here outside of Nashville.

00:37:06.500 Ooh.

00:37:06.980 On the Kentucky-Tennessee border near 101st Airborne, Fort Campbell, Clarksville. That's where

00:37:11.580 I was raised.

00:37:12.220 Oh, beautiful.

00:37:12.980 But I went to University of Tennessee and then, you know, married a bunch of men up there.

00:37:16.480 But, so we had, we had grocery store and then my little daddy opened a meat processing

00:37:23.880 plant.

00:37:24.400 Oh, he did.

00:37:24.740 And he did everybody's beef, deer, and hogs and all that.

00:37:29.800 And did y'all do nuggets too or anything like that?

00:37:31.780 No.

00:37:32.760 God.

00:37:33.860 It's kind of like now these fancy people that do grass feed. My people were doing that

00:37:37.860 a long time ago.

00:37:39.320 Yeah. Well, I was from, if they saw a cow eating grass, he'd be like, this thing's a little

00:37:42.160 gay, you know? Like it was feed only back then. You know, if you saw some grass, they're

00:37:45.880 like, look at this thick bitch having a salad. You know, it'd be like, it was a different

00:37:50.060 time. I worked at a place called Soup Galore. I worked over there.

00:37:54.600 I love soup.

00:37:56.440 Yeah. Enough people didn't love it like you did, I think, because we could not keep a

00:38:00.980 strong clientele in there.

00:38:02.480 Really?

00:38:03.160 Well, it's just hard. And our big thing was, it was supposed to be like the Baskin Robin

00:38:06.180 of soups, right?

00:38:07.360 Yeah.

00:38:07.780 So they were supposed to have 31 soups. And I'm like, dude, we don't have enough. If

00:38:11.420 everybody came in here and had two bowls of soup, they're like, well, maybe after the

00:38:15.540 game, everybody will come in and have a couple of bowls of soup. I'm like, there's not?

00:38:20.460 That, there's only like seven parking spots too. It was like, it didn't even make any sense,

00:38:25.540 dude. And I'd be back there just damn stirring like a booyah bass or a fucking split pee.

00:38:31.080 I mean, that shit would sit there.

00:38:32.040 Are there 31 soups is what I'm wondering.

00:38:34.700 Oh, of course there are. Bring up a list of soups if you don't mind, brother.

00:38:38.660 For the non-believers out here, for the Methodists, as I'll call them, okay?

00:38:43.860 Bring up a list of decent soups. Put that on there.

00:38:48.300 Tomato, French onion. That was an easy one. Cream of mushroom. That was pretty basic. We had that.

00:38:52.940 Butternut squash, we didn't do. Now, I've had that a lot as an adult.

00:38:55.620 Do you like that, my darling? Because that's not a go-to for me, butternut squash soup.

00:39:00.820 It's a rich thing. Like, sometimes I'll be at a place where somebody will invite me to some thing

00:39:05.100 where you have to have all your clothes on to eat.

00:39:07.880 And hoopty-do. Yeah.

00:39:09.280 Okay, first of all, yeah.

00:39:10.880 And there's nowhere to put your gum.

00:39:13.100 So you have to swallow it.

00:39:15.940 Do you get invited to a bunch of nifty things because you're so cute and fun

00:39:19.600 and everybody wants to be with you and you're exhausted?

00:39:23.100 Is that basically it?

00:39:25.320 No, I don't think that's true.

00:39:27.400 I do, like, one thing that was, one thing that sometimes is neat, like, my best friend went to Ole Miss.

00:39:32.820 So I got to go to Ole Miss. It was his birthday, right?

00:39:35.320 So we went up to Ole Miss.

00:39:36.620 And so I'd met Lane Kiffin from podcasting with him.

00:39:39.580 So I got to, like, take my best friend on, like, this walk that they do at the beginning of the thing.

00:39:44.220 But if you'll see, play that video, and I'll tell you when to pause it in just a second.

00:39:50.860 Okay?

00:39:51.820 Pause it.

00:39:53.260 Right behind me on the right is my best friend.

00:39:55.680 So he loves SEC football.

00:39:57.800 He loves Ole Miss.

00:39:58.640 I've never – in fact, I've only supported Ole Miss because he was an Ole Miss guy, and I love him.

00:40:04.680 He's just my – we've been friends who were children.

00:40:07.600 His father convinced me to go do comedy.

00:40:09.640 His father was a Jerry Clower fan and used to put Jerry Clower on the radio and on the CD.

00:40:16.800 But little things like that are great.

00:40:18.260 Like, I know you're doing – it's probably similar stuff.

00:40:22.180 I know you're doing the CMAs with Lainey Wilson, right?

00:40:24.660 You're going to just guest with her on there for a little bit, which is amazing.

00:40:28.760 Yeah, I get to intro somebody, but I get to be on stage with her for a little while.

00:40:33.280 She and I played each other in Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud.

00:40:37.700 You did?

00:40:38.120 She invited our family to play.

00:40:41.020 And then I did something else with her with CBS, so I love her, and she's the real deal.

00:40:46.780 She's the best.

00:40:47.940 I went and saw her and Ella Langley play not long ago, and that was beautiful.

00:40:51.640 And Ella Langley.

00:40:52.620 I got to meet her on the Today Show.

00:40:54.740 Beautiful.

00:40:56.080 Beautiful.

00:40:57.020 Oh, y'all.

00:40:58.540 Is she dating anybody?

00:40:59.620 Huh?

00:41:00.180 Is she dating anybody?

00:41:01.120 I don't know a thing.

00:41:01.960 I don't know anything.

00:41:02.900 I mean –

00:41:03.360 She's got beautiful bangs and legs.

00:41:05.380 Did you notice that?

00:41:06.360 I know she is a great performer.

00:41:10.880 She is a firecracker.

00:41:12.460 I know that.

00:41:13.720 She's just a, you know, confident young lady, so talented.

00:41:16.840 She is so talented.

00:41:18.060 But I don't know.

00:41:18.740 I don't know if she – whoever she – whoever – if she's dating somebody, they're a lucky –

00:41:21.500 They are very lucky because she's a doll, a living doll.

00:41:24.400 She was with Riley Green, and I got to meet him.

00:41:26.720 He was – look at her.

00:41:28.500 That doll.

00:41:29.800 Oh, mm-hmm.

00:41:32.000 Beauty.

00:41:33.080 Beauty.

00:41:33.920 Yeah, she –

00:41:34.560 Blaney's a beauty, too.

00:41:35.740 Oh, she'll iron your fucking shirt with her stare, too.

00:41:38.780 She could put – look, Ella will get something done.

00:41:41.520 I'll tell you that.

00:41:41.740 And Ella, where was she raised?

00:41:42.920 Alabama?

00:41:43.440 I think in The Jungle Book.

00:41:44.620 Have you seen that movie?

00:41:45.460 She is a wild one.

00:41:47.600 And I mean that lovingly.

00:41:50.220 Ella, she knows that.

00:41:51.540 She is from Alabama.

00:41:52.600 Hope Hull, Alabama.

00:41:54.480 Hope Hull, Alabama.

00:41:54.740 I know she just won a couple of Sea-Dos, I think, in a raffle down there.

00:41:58.520 I saw her using them.

00:42:00.140 They had a raffle down there at the hardware shop, and she won them.

00:42:03.420 I remember my granddaddy, when we were kids, would take us over there.

00:42:05.520 He'd be like, let's go enter the raffles.

00:42:07.220 It's raffle week.

00:42:09.080 You go enter them.

00:42:10.860 And then he'd go over there in the pool hall and smoke, and you have to sit out in his truck or whatever.

00:42:15.920 Yeah.

00:42:16.400 With a couple stuffed animals.

00:42:17.580 I think we were raised similar.

00:42:19.440 A lot of people sitting, smoking out in a truck.

00:42:22.580 Oh, yeah.

00:42:23.200 Yeah.

00:42:23.500 And the men would go cry behind the Winn-Dixie.

00:42:25.960 If things weren't going well, they'd park back there and cry.

00:42:28.420 Oh.

00:42:29.840 Good chicken, though.

00:42:31.460 Yeah.

00:42:31.840 They had great produce.

00:42:32.620 My buddy Robbie Taylor worked over there for a long time.

00:42:35.520 He was a steadfast employee there and went on to create some businesses of his own.

00:42:39.800 But, yeah, we'd go up there and watch a fellow's cry over there.

00:42:42.880 There were people crying outside of the Winn-Dixie.

00:42:45.280 In the back, not out front.

00:42:47.180 If you were crying out front, that's a gay guy.

00:42:49.480 You know what I'm saying?

00:42:49.900 The real man parked and cried in the back.

00:42:52.040 Crying in the back.

00:42:52.400 If you were just up there.

00:42:53.500 Having a little too much trouble getting one of those big bags of ice out of the icebox thing.

00:42:57.720 That's just a fellow that's afraid to admit something to his wife.

00:43:01.460 You know?

00:43:02.380 Oh.

00:43:03.540 Okay.

00:43:04.040 I used to go back when I was waiting tables and smoke with the line cooks.

00:43:08.660 They're fun.

00:43:09.520 They'd gotten out of jail.

00:43:10.920 Had fun stories.

00:43:11.940 First of all, if you consider the people that work at Winn-Dixie, the line cooks.

00:43:15.560 No, the restaurant that I worked at.

00:43:17.980 Oh, sorry.

00:43:18.380 Oh, those boys.

00:43:19.280 Those line cooks that I worked with.

00:43:21.100 Pretty fun.

00:43:22.320 Criminals.

00:43:23.180 Had a ball.

00:43:24.080 Yeah.

00:43:24.380 Wanting to hear what they did.

00:43:25.580 Where was his first job at?

00:43:26.560 So this was a restaurant?

00:43:28.020 This was a restaurant.

00:43:28.740 And it was a real place?

00:43:29.980 A real place where I met Chuck Morgan when he came to get his MBA.

00:43:35.320 And I was finishing up that undergraduate that took me many years.

00:43:40.160 And this is in Knoxville?

00:43:41.180 In Knoxville, Tennessee.

00:43:42.460 The restaurant where everybody wanted to work because it stayed on the wait all day long.

00:43:46.660 You made big money.

00:43:47.720 Oh, I like that.

00:43:49.080 Because, yeah, you seem like a woman that's probably slept the way to the top of a Marie Callender.

00:43:53.020 You know what I'm saying?

00:43:53.700 I'm not judging you.

00:43:55.420 But go on.

00:43:56.360 Anyway, sorry, I shouldn't be talking while you're here.

00:43:59.740 And I'll say this.

00:44:00.720 That place was nice.

00:44:02.160 That fucking pie aquarium they had at the front.

00:44:04.160 That Marie Callender.

00:44:06.000 You know, I've never been in one.

00:44:07.320 Are you talking about a real Marie Callender?

00:44:09.120 There were restaurants.

00:44:10.240 Yeah.

00:44:10.620 Where were they?

00:44:11.600 I've never been in one.

00:44:12.700 I don't know.

00:44:13.560 You know, they had, I think they had one up there towards Missouri.

00:44:17.400 They had one.

00:44:18.160 And it was, I think it was in the same town as they had.

00:44:21.300 You ever place that, Lambert's, the Throde Rolls.

00:44:23.560 You ever been in that place?

00:44:24.220 Yes, I think I've been in the Lambert's.

00:44:26.700 Marie Callender is based out of Mission Viejo, California.

00:44:29.260 Oh, I did not see that coming.

00:44:32.380 Okay.

00:44:33.120 Were you living in Los Angeles when I saw you do The Last Comic Standing?

00:44:36.780 Were you out there living as a young, young, young, young boy?

00:44:41.020 Mm-hmm.

00:44:41.760 Because I, see, I was a little mama out in the middle of nowhere.

00:44:45.840 And you had your kids out there?

00:44:46.880 Wanted to be with y'all.

00:44:47.740 Oh.

00:44:47.980 I mean, but, I mean, I wanted, you know, I wanted to be one of the cool kids at the

00:44:51.540 comedy store.

00:44:52.320 And I would, you know.

00:44:53.340 And where were you at that time?

00:44:54.500 That's when you were working at that restaurant?

00:44:56.380 No, this was when I started doing Cap City Comedy Club and all that.

00:45:00.960 Got it.

00:45:01.360 And then he got, Chuck got promoted.

00:45:03.960 And then we came back to Knoxville where the corporate offices are.

00:45:06.960 And that's when I, well, I mean, I worked, but I, you know, nobody cared.

00:45:15.080 Well, honey, I don't even have fucking long socks.

00:45:17.080 Look what I'm wearing.

00:45:18.240 Cute.

00:45:18.600 We're both of our ankles are showing.

00:45:19.580 Very cute.

00:45:19.800 Very lame-kiffing.

00:45:20.540 Dude, your ankles look nice.

00:45:22.060 Oh, thank you.

00:45:22.520 I got a spray tan for you.

00:45:23.860 You did?

00:45:24.600 Yeah.

00:45:25.480 Somebody came to my home and did it.

00:45:27.320 Mm-hmm.

00:45:28.360 That's nice of them.

00:45:31.900 Yeah, but, yeah, I wanted to be out at the comedy store and all that.

00:45:36.240 I wanted to be like you.

00:45:37.760 But was there a thing, like, was it, what was it like, like, really having the children

00:45:41.200 and you're wanting to do this?

00:45:42.600 Like, did you have to say, like, okay, I can't do it these years.

00:45:45.820 I can't do it this time of year.

00:45:47.420 Were there times you had to set off, or did you not be able to do that?

00:45:50.960 Because I know sometimes it's like, you get a week, you're like, that's the week I'm

00:45:54.440 working, you know?

00:45:55.120 I mean, that's how it was for me.

00:45:56.140 Like, I didn't have, I had friends for, like, 12 years that I was out there touring, but

00:46:00.180 I didn't see them that much.

00:46:01.880 I was gone.

00:46:02.560 If I met a girl, I'd start to get to know where I was going.

00:46:05.020 When I came back in town three weeks later, I didn't remember who she was.

00:46:07.400 I didn't know who I was.

00:46:08.600 Yeah.

00:46:08.940 You know, just things were, it was hard to keep things together.

00:46:11.380 What was that like for you out there?

00:46:12.820 I mean, I just, I took any job I could get, and I tried to stay on stage when I could.

00:46:17.500 And at times, I would go on a little tour with, like, two other female comedians, because

00:46:20.980 Blue Collar had blown up.

00:46:22.820 And so, do you remember Etta May, a comedian named Etta May?

00:46:27.180 Yes.

00:46:27.900 I toured with Karen Mills and Etta May, and we called ourselves the Southern Fried Chicks.

00:46:33.400 Oh, yeah.

00:46:34.320 She plays a character.

00:46:36.280 Etta May.

00:46:37.120 She used to be, do the Funny Bone in Baton Rouge sometimes.

00:46:39.800 Yeah, and she was, she lived out in LA for, and was in movies and stuff.

00:46:43.700 Wow.

00:46:44.280 I don't know if I ever got to meet her.

00:46:46.040 She's out there working theaters and clubs, still.

00:46:51.160 Etta May.

00:46:52.120 So funny.

00:46:52.800 And who else?

00:46:53.800 Karen Mills, who is a good friend of mine who opens for me on, when I tour.

00:46:59.280 Oh, yeah.

00:46:59.880 I got to get to see that Etta May, because I remember, yeah, like, just, you see the flyers

00:47:05.840 at the clubs at the Funny Bone, that's who was coming through.

00:47:08.160 That's back when Baton Rouge had a Funny Bone, and they don't have one anymore.

00:47:11.120 I don't think Louisiana even has a comedy club anymore.

00:47:13.380 Well, I know in Knoxville, there were side splitters, but you would come to the Tennessee

00:47:17.480 Theater when I was working the side splitters.

00:47:20.740 Yeah, by the time I got to Knoxville, I was already doing outside of-

00:47:25.040 The Bijou, or, yeah, I know you were at the Tennessee Theater.

00:47:27.700 I was outside of clubs.

00:47:28.540 That Tennessee Theater is awesome.

00:47:29.800 Beautiful.

00:47:30.400 Yeah.

00:47:30.860 But I would do, I would work when I could.

00:47:32.980 I did a lot of private things.

00:47:34.760 I did clubs when they'd have me, and I always had television deals, though, going.

00:47:40.700 That's the thing.

00:47:41.140 Oh, you did?

00:47:41.860 I had Hollywood after me.

00:47:44.240 Well, honey, shush.

00:47:46.280 You had damn-

00:47:46.700 But they wouldn't make it.

00:47:48.300 At least you had it.

00:47:48.680 I mean, I had big television deals, but they wouldn't make it.

00:47:50.860 They weren't making any of our shit, but at least you had the deal.

00:47:53.960 I did, and that kept me going, you know.

00:47:55.800 I'd get down, and I'd think, well, something must be telling me to keep going, because I

00:48:02.080 would have a, you know, I'd get a deal with ABC and Warner Brothers, and then I had one

00:48:05.680 with Nick at Night, and then Sony, and then, so the one I had with Chuck Lorre, that was my-

00:48:11.860 For this new show?

00:48:14.700 Uh-huh.

00:48:15.360 And that, I mean-

00:48:16.820 For Leanne?

00:48:17.440 Yeah.

00:48:17.900 And this went, like, he just said, we're doing it, and Netflix said, we'd love for you to

00:48:21.900 do it.

00:48:22.380 Wow.

00:48:22.960 And we got to, I got an unbelievable cast, and, you know.

00:48:28.060 Who played your sister in it?

00:48:29.500 Kristen Johnston from Third Rock from the Sun, and Righteous Gemstones.

00:48:34.660 Y'all are so good.

00:48:35.780 And she is brilliant.

00:48:37.800 And she had to tell me what all they were saying to me.

00:48:40.740 I didn't know, I go, what is all this?

00:48:42.840 And then Ryan Stiles from Whose Line It Is Anyway, brilliant.

00:48:46.040 Oh, yeah.

00:48:46.800 Celia Weston plays my mother.

00:48:48.600 She played my mother in the only movie I've been in with Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell.

00:48:52.740 You're cordially invited.

00:48:53.940 She was my mother in that.

00:48:55.280 Blake Clark, who's in all the Adam Sandler movies, plays my dad.

00:48:58.600 Blake Clark plays your dad?

00:49:00.100 Yes.

00:49:00.680 Oh, that's beautiful.

00:49:01.780 And he is darling.

00:49:02.880 He's great.

00:49:03.540 He was in the water.

00:49:04.360 Boy, I thought he passed away.

00:49:06.160 No, honey, he is my daddy.

00:49:07.540 Shit, I went to his, I swear to God, I went to this guy's funeral online during COVID.

00:49:13.460 Oh, my God.

00:49:14.940 Good to see him alive.

00:49:16.340 And he does great.

00:49:17.500 I mean, he is, man loved this show.

00:49:20.360 And I think it's because of him and Ryan Stiles.

00:49:22.800 And then my love interest on it is Tim Daly from Wings.

00:49:27.460 So I made out with Tim Daly.

00:49:29.900 I never watched Wings.

00:49:31.220 And is he a gay fella or straight?

00:49:32.880 He's straight.

00:49:33.640 He's married to Taya Leone, you know, that beautiful actress.

00:49:37.220 He is?

00:49:38.000 Yes.

00:49:38.780 He's married to Taya Leone?

00:49:40.460 Yes.

00:49:40.840 They just got married.

00:49:41.560 They've been together for like 14 years.

00:49:43.420 Oh, that's wonderful.

00:49:44.360 She is in my favorite movie ever, Family Man, with Nicolas Cage.

00:49:49.720 Oh, my gosh.

00:49:50.740 Okay, I loved her in Spanglish with Adam Sandler.

00:49:54.240 Mm-hmm.

00:49:55.180 Wow.

00:49:56.340 Mm-hmm.

00:49:56.900 He plays Agent Andrew, my love interest, because my husband, Ryan Stiles' character, has walked

00:50:02.820 off and left me after 33 years of marriage.

00:50:05.660 Are you sure he wasn't just looking for something?

00:50:07.100 Do you have any clue?

00:50:08.140 Is there any, has he called or anything?

00:50:10.360 Yeah, he's still around.

00:50:12.200 He is?

00:50:12.880 Yeah.

00:50:13.480 That's, yeah.

00:50:14.980 That's Blake Clark.

00:50:15.600 We've got two grandbabies together in this, and...

00:50:18.280 God.

00:50:19.540 And has this, when it, when this started all, like, yeah, what were your, like...

00:50:26.080 I cried every day.

00:50:28.700 Did you...

00:50:29.080 I was like, what the, what have I gotten myself into?

00:50:32.080 It was so scary.

00:50:33.180 Yeah, when this finally happened, what was it like?

00:50:35.540 It was like, oh, no, I've got to learn a script every week, and I'm in every scene.

00:50:41.540 I'd never done that before.

00:50:42.920 Mm-hmm.

00:50:43.580 I was overwhelmed by that.

00:50:45.580 It's a lot.

00:50:46.480 It's a lot.

00:50:47.340 Yeah.

00:50:47.440 You got 250 people there staring at you, a set, a darling people that have worked for

00:50:52.460 Chuck Lorre for years.

00:50:53.520 They're counting on you.

00:50:54.740 Yeah, they're counting on you.

00:50:55.140 Not to screw up.

00:50:56.580 Yeah, and for people that don't know, the show starts off where you just found out that

00:51:00.020 your husband cheated on you, kind of.

00:51:01.100 Mm-hmm.

00:51:01.200 That's where you girls are spending so much time in the laying in the bed together and kind

00:51:04.700 of just getting through life.

00:51:05.760 If I remember that.

00:51:06.880 Mm-hmm.

00:51:08.160 We had 16 episodes, and at first Netflix was going to do, because you know, they only

00:51:12.280 do things in eight or ten episodes, so they were going to drop eight, and then my new Netflix

00:51:16.740 special dropped November the 4th, and they were going to drop another eight this coming

00:51:20.880 spring, and then they got a wild hair and dropped 16 at one time, first time in their

00:51:26.460 history.

00:51:27.120 Wow.

00:51:27.820 Yeah.

00:51:28.280 So it all got dropped, and it did really well.

00:51:31.060 I'm so thankful.

00:51:31.920 I was scared to death.

00:51:33.540 I thought, does anybody go?

00:51:34.620 Because it's a multi-cam, and they said to me at Netflix, we think you can bring back

00:51:39.440 the multi-cam, and I'm like, don't put that burden on me.

00:51:42.060 Yeah.

00:51:42.740 And then it did really well, and I think people miss that format.

00:51:46.760 I think people think of it as comfort and comfort food, kind of, and people really liked

00:51:52.260 it.

00:51:52.800 Well, I think-

00:51:53.460 And I'm so thankful.

00:51:54.400 On a streamer, you can be a little bit more edgy, right?

00:51:56.640 You're not as locked in as to a lot of the cable laws.

00:52:00.900 What things are allowed on streaming that aren't allowed on cable?

00:52:03.760 Can you find, is there any information on that?

00:52:05.880 Can you look up on-

00:52:06.640 We, I think Ryan did say SHIT.

00:52:09.980 Can you look that up on perplexity real quick?

00:52:12.540 They wanted to probably cuss a lot more, but-

00:52:15.920 Let me see.

00:52:16.560 You know, I didn't want it.

00:52:18.180 Streaming services allow certain types of content that cable television cannot.

00:52:21.580 Correct, right?

00:52:22.380 Streaming platforms often feature uncensored profanity, explicit sexual content, nudity.

00:52:27.820 I was not nude.

00:52:29.500 Okay.

00:52:30.840 Graphic violence and mature themes that would not be allowed on cable channels.

00:52:34.320 There are fewer restrictions on the depiction of drugs, controversial political topics, or

00:52:39.760 socially sensitive material in original programming produced for streaming.

00:52:43.220 On streaming, creators are less limited by requirements around content rating or time

00:52:46.540 of broadcast.

00:52:47.600 That apply to cable and especially broadcast TV.

00:52:49.700 Cool, examples of content differences.

00:52:53.440 Shows and movies on streaming may include swearing, nudity, sexual situations, and violence

00:52:57.160 without censorship, while cable versions of the same content are often edited or bleeped

00:53:02.480 for language, blur nudity, and cut explicit scenes.

00:53:07.380 I did carry a gun.

00:53:09.200 You did?

00:53:09.580 Well, that's fair.

00:53:11.120 We thought somebody was breaking in.

00:53:12.480 It's a Tennessee state law.

00:53:14.200 You can.

00:53:15.420 Well, Ryan Stiles said to me, I didn't know how to hold one.

00:53:18.120 And he goes, you know how to hold them, Leanne.

00:53:20.860 You're from Tennessee.

00:53:21.980 I go, we're not just going around packing guns.

00:53:25.060 My people call it packing.

00:53:26.760 And I said, I mean, I know people that have them and hunt, but my daddy never did.

00:53:32.560 And I don't know how to, I think people think in Tennessee, it's like the Wild West.

00:53:36.840 Yeah.

00:53:37.620 Oh, people think it's shoot them up out here.

00:53:39.800 You know what I'm saying?

00:53:41.420 Like, people are just like, yeah, if it gets a little weird, you can shoot.

00:53:45.200 But I do like the fact that if somebody thinks they're going to walk into a place and get

00:53:49.460 a little weird, they're going to have to know that there's six or seven men and women

00:53:54.000 and people, you know, women in the middle who are willing to pop, who are willing to

00:54:00.080 pop.

00:54:00.540 I know.

00:54:01.340 In the movie theater.

00:54:02.340 Shoot back immediately.

00:54:03.080 I know.

00:54:03.940 Yeah.

00:54:05.320 There's some bad mama-jamas taking care of business, which I like.

00:54:09.020 The show is great and people are loving it.

00:54:12.040 How many, what season are you guys on now?

00:54:14.540 Do what?

00:54:15.040 You only have your first season?

00:54:16.580 Yeah.

00:54:17.180 I go out.

00:54:17.880 Are you going to do a second season?

00:54:18.760 Uh-huh.

00:54:19.240 I go out.

00:54:20.080 Thank you, my darling.

00:54:21.120 I go out in January and start again.

00:54:23.140 And will Tess go out there with you?

00:54:24.320 Will your daughters go out there?

00:54:24.860 Uh-huh.

00:54:25.700 She's about to get her union.

00:54:27.540 So she works on the set with me.

00:54:29.320 Okay.

00:54:29.940 And is my makeup artist.

00:54:32.820 And also, I mean, it's just good to have family out there.

00:54:35.420 Because Chuck Morgan's still working a big job, and I don't want to be out there by myself.

00:54:40.280 It makes me feel better to have, you know, one of my children with me.

00:54:43.640 Oh, yeah.

00:54:44.280 My oldest child's married and got my two grandbabies and working, and then my middle child lives

00:54:49.540 in, I told you that at the UT ballgame, the one that went to Chipotle with Morgan Wallen.

00:54:54.240 She lives in New York and works for the food bank.

00:54:58.500 She's a nonprofit.

00:54:59.940 She's always worked in nonprofit.

00:55:01.280 And this baby went to school for makeup for television and film in Manhattan.

00:55:05.420 That's beautiful.

00:55:06.220 I know.

00:55:07.240 So I get to, so they get, you know, she takes care of me while I'm out there.

00:55:11.620 I love that.

00:55:11.740 Because I need, I can't, I got to learn all this stuff.

00:55:14.980 Honey, you can't just be, yeah, just wandering around, just wondering if your bra fits all

00:55:20.320 right all day.

00:55:20.880 Right.

00:55:21.540 You know what I'm saying?

00:55:21.860 You ever been in a tight bra?

00:55:23.400 Yeah.

00:55:24.080 God.

00:55:24.720 What's that like?

00:55:25.960 Bad.

00:55:26.440 Is it?

00:55:27.120 Bad.

00:55:27.520 Bad.

00:55:28.140 Yeah.

00:55:28.680 I don't want to be so pitiful that I'm like Mariah Carey and like men had to carry me

00:55:33.180 around.

00:55:33.940 Yeah.

00:55:34.400 But I do, I need people to tend to me now.

00:55:39.720 I never thought I would get that way, but I mean, I got to learn a lot.

00:55:42.740 And my girlfriends back home, they're like, just drink some wine at night.

00:55:46.000 You got so much on you.

00:55:47.020 I go, I can't drink wine and sweat in the bed all night and not be able to learn a script

00:55:51.660 the next day.

00:55:52.460 I can't be drinking.

00:55:53.540 And you wake up, yeah, and your mouth is all dried out and stuff.

00:55:57.220 Uh-huh.

00:55:58.100 Yeah.

00:55:58.300 And it makes women's blood vessels expand and you sweat in the night.

00:56:02.240 I hate to even tell you that.

00:56:03.760 God.

00:56:04.100 When you get to certain age, it's not girls your age.

00:56:07.020 They're not sweating.

00:56:08.100 I don't know.

00:56:08.780 They might be beginning to sweat.

00:56:10.720 Some people are, yeah, people are losing water.

00:56:12.920 I know that.

00:56:13.980 People are losing water weight.

00:56:14.960 And some are retaining it.

00:56:16.360 Well, people are losing weight too.

00:56:17.580 I mean, everybody's on those GLPs or whatever, the XPVs or something.

00:56:21.220 The BC, yeah.

00:56:23.300 People are on all that shit.

00:56:24.400 But, I mean, they busted a lady selling Ozempic outside of a damn vineyard vines out there,

00:56:29.400 you know?

00:56:30.760 She was outside of the vineyard vines.

00:56:33.720 Selling it, yeah.

00:56:34.520 Selling dope or selling GLP-1s?

00:56:37.780 Selling Ozempic, baby.

00:56:39.100 Yeah.

00:56:39.760 And all you can do is pray for her.

00:56:41.300 I know.

00:56:42.480 It's hard.

00:56:43.260 Everybody's going through something.

00:56:44.840 Everybody's going through something.

00:56:46.360 Yeah, that's a thing.

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00:59:23.500 They don't F around.

00:59:26.560 What was your town like?

00:59:28.600 Like, was there any, like, lore in your town?

00:59:30.760 Like, any famous people that came to visit or did anything like, was there any, like,

00:59:34.960 I'm trying to think of something interesting that happened over there.

00:59:37.440 Honey, there was a demon.

00:59:39.520 Of course.

00:59:40.760 The Bell Witch.

00:59:42.300 The Bell Witch is from your town?

00:59:44.120 Yes.

00:59:44.800 Oh, my gosh.

00:59:45.780 We just-

00:59:46.100 You've heard of the Bell Witch?

00:59:47.080 We had some ghost hunter children, and I don't know if something happened to them through

00:59:51.160 the church or something.

00:59:52.020 They didn't tell me everything that happened to them.

00:59:53.540 We had two young fellas who were touched by the spirit and out there hunting.

00:59:58.440 The Bell Witch.

00:59:59.080 They went to the Bell Witch, which is the only, that is the only time that the government

01:00:02.560 got involved in a-

01:00:06.400 And investigated.

01:00:07.640 Investigated a witchcraft situation.

01:00:09.580 Right.

01:00:10.140 That was-

01:00:10.380 Honey, that's where I'm from.

01:00:11.940 Oh, those little boys.

01:00:13.300 They look like they love a ghost.

01:00:16.800 Sam and Colby.

01:00:17.820 Yeah, Sam and Colby.

01:00:19.480 Sam and Colby.

01:00:20.980 Great guys.

01:00:21.880 But, yeah, so that's, oh, so that was your area.

01:00:23.660 That's where I'm from, and I was raised, yes, with a demon.

01:00:26.840 They talked about it all the time.

01:00:28.120 If there was a Fourth of July picnic, they'd put a dummy in a coffin and said, that's the

01:00:33.960 witch, that's Kate Batts.

01:00:36.560 So that was big lore around y'all.

01:00:38.400 Oh, yeah.

01:00:39.000 And the Vanderbilt football team fraternities would come down, torment each other, beat

01:00:43.640 the windows out of our church.

01:00:45.500 Everybody had to pass money around to put more windows in the church.

01:00:49.140 Oh, that's an HVAC issue.

01:00:50.780 Graveyard, dogs that had bullet holes that couldn't explain why they're still walking.

01:00:54.460 Crows comes in, she comes in the, in the, she comes in the, in the form of a black dog,

01:01:01.920 a crow, a black crow.

01:01:03.640 Crazy mess.

01:01:04.500 Chris Robinson.

01:01:04.900 And I was raised in it.

01:01:05.720 Yeah, she just showed up dressed like Chris Robinson.

01:01:07.840 Yeah.

01:01:08.740 It was great.

01:01:09.700 And people come from all over.

01:01:10.940 They still come.

01:01:11.780 And during October is the Bell Witch play, and it sold out.

01:01:15.540 And I was, I went, my sister got me tickets a couple of years ago, and I sat by a guy

01:01:21.120 that works at Warner Brothers on the pit.

01:01:23.420 Wow.

01:01:24.080 And shrinking.

01:01:25.100 He came to see it.

01:01:26.580 He was shrinking?

01:01:27.660 Shrinking with Harrison Ford, that television show.

01:01:31.700 Oh, got it.

01:01:32.280 Shrinking on Apple.

01:01:34.020 Does he, uh.

01:01:35.080 A Warner Brothers executive.

01:01:36.460 I'm sorry.

01:01:36.920 Is it worth going to see that?

01:01:38.540 Yeah.

01:01:39.300 I think if you, do you want to be around a demon?

01:01:42.960 I don't, but do you want to go, do you like scary mess?

01:01:46.960 I would like.

01:01:47.340 I know you've got the Holy Spirit, and that probably bumps you.

01:01:50.600 I think it doesn't make me feel great, but I do like to go over there and just every now

01:01:56.360 and then make sure that the devil's still out and about so I know that the path I'm on

01:02:00.020 is what I'm supposed to be doing.

01:02:01.020 Right.

01:02:01.440 I get that.

01:02:02.160 I get that because the devil is at work.

01:02:04.440 Okay.

01:02:05.020 There's a cave.

01:02:06.040 You can go in the cave, and there's Native American bones.

01:02:10.740 There's animal bones.

01:02:12.240 The witch is in there.

01:02:13.500 People come from all over to go through that cave.

01:02:15.360 I've never been through it.

01:02:16.200 I didn't want to go.

01:02:17.040 Oh, my God.

01:02:17.300 And my daddy didn't want me to go in it.

01:02:19.140 Oh, my God.

01:02:20.620 And what town is that in?

01:02:21.660 That's over in Adams?

01:02:22.400 That's in Adams, Tennessee, on the Kentucky-Tennessee border in Robertson County.

01:02:26.380 Wow.

01:02:26.900 There's been movies written about it, books.

01:02:29.080 See, children that grew up in Tennessee used to have to do a book report on it, but now nobody,

01:02:33.760 I don't think they make them do it.

01:02:35.020 The Bell Witch Cave story is one of America's most famous mysterious events experienced

01:02:40.040 by the Bell family in Adams, Tennessee, between 1817 and 1821.

01:02:44.920 The haunting began when John Bell, the family patriarch, encountered a bizarre creature resembling

01:02:48.600 a dog with a rabbit's head on the property.

01:02:51.900 A dog with a rabbit's head?

01:02:53.260 Yeah.

01:02:53.460 I haven't heard that one.

01:02:54.960 It sounds like a hormone issue, but I don't know a lot.

01:02:58.340 See, Betsy must have been beautiful.

01:03:00.540 And then John, there was a-

01:03:02.040 Because what does it say?

01:03:02.380 Betsy?

01:03:02.780 Let me see.

01:03:03.320 Oh, disturbances escalated to eerie-

01:03:04.960 Sorry to interrupt you.

01:03:05.920 No, that's all right, Angel.

01:03:07.420 Disturbances escalated to eerie noises, objects moved by unseen forces, bedsheets pulled away,

01:03:12.700 and this could have just been a pervert, and violence towards the family, especially daughter

01:03:16.640 Betsy Bell, who experienced beatings and fainting spells.

01:03:19.580 Dang.

01:03:21.540 I know the real story.

01:03:22.980 You do know the real story?

01:03:23.940 I do.

01:03:24.360 Then set us straight.

01:03:25.100 Okay, first of all, let me say that before Nashville became the capital of Tennessee,

01:03:31.820 it was going to be Adams because of our rich, dark-fired tobacco crops that grow.

01:03:37.900 We grow tobacco for Copenhagen and Skull, but because it was so rich in the land for tobacco,

01:03:43.660 it was going to be the capital, but then for some reason they made it Nashville.

01:03:48.000 John Bell ran for president at one time with the Whig Party, so they were a very prominent

01:03:52.080 family.

01:03:53.100 Lucy must have been a beauty.

01:03:54.980 A man came through town, was in love with her.

01:03:58.260 Lucy or Betsy?

01:04:01.020 Lucy.

01:04:01.680 Okay.

01:04:02.060 Wait.

01:04:02.640 Lucy, wait.

01:04:03.480 Leah, Lucy's the daughter.

01:04:04.680 Betsy was the mom.

01:04:05.700 Okay.

01:04:06.140 John's, okay.

01:04:07.660 So Lucy, she did not want that man, and so to torment her, he could throw his voice.

01:04:15.160 They said he was a ventriloquist.

01:04:16.160 Ventriloquist, I know what you're going to do with that.

01:04:18.440 Oh, my God, like Frank Caliendo.

01:04:21.200 Hey, I'm John Gruden.

01:04:24.580 You need an exorcism, Betsy.

01:04:26.980 Go on.

01:04:28.160 Hey, Lucy.

01:04:29.460 But they, like, blamed it on a slave.

01:04:31.900 God love him, and it wasn't him.

01:04:33.940 It was this man that came through.

01:04:35.700 It was never the slave.

01:04:36.740 Every time the slave was like, what did I do?

01:04:39.000 This was a man that could throw his voice.

01:04:43.600 He was a mathematician, a ventriloquist, and he fooled them all.

01:04:47.320 And then poisoned John Belen, killed him.

01:04:50.920 Oh.

01:04:51.400 And then she didn't, Lucy didn't know it, and I think Lucy ended up marrying him.

01:04:55.660 That's how it works.

01:04:56.400 That's how it works.

01:04:57.300 Hey, they say shooters shoot.

01:05:00.080 That's what I'm saying.

01:05:00.840 And women are attracted to twisted.

01:05:03.080 Are they?

01:05:03.800 Yeah.

01:05:04.660 So.

01:05:05.280 Oh, God.

01:05:05.720 And trauma.

01:05:06.440 So, and, you know, you want to fix people because we're nurturing.

01:05:12.740 So, anyway, and that is the bell witch and the whole thing.

01:05:18.740 And people come, and it's always on the front of USA Today.

01:05:21.140 It's one of the oldest ghost stories, and it's part of Tennessee history, like you said.

01:05:25.180 But that's what I was raised, and that's what we're known for.

01:05:28.260 Now, maybe they're known kind of for me.

01:05:31.800 Maybe.

01:05:32.420 Oh, yeah.

01:05:34.000 I think so.

01:05:34.580 Me and a witch, I think she's beaten me.

01:05:37.640 I think it depends.

01:05:38.540 How many tickets do they sell every year to that event?

01:05:41.340 I sell more.

01:05:42.480 Let's go.

01:05:44.700 Let's just say I sell a few more tickets than the bell witch.

01:05:48.160 They sell quite a few tickets.

01:05:49.380 I ain't bragging.

01:05:50.160 But not, but I'm, you know.

01:05:52.100 Yes, I know you do.

01:05:52.800 I did some small arenas this year, so.

01:05:55.180 Hell yeah, you did, and I'm just joking.

01:05:56.460 You know that.

01:05:57.700 I know, but that is popular.

01:05:59.240 And, you know, people that love ghosts love ghosts.

01:06:01.580 Oh, yeah.

01:06:02.140 And people are speaking and, you know, channeling the Beatles and all that kind of crap down there.

01:06:09.100 But I don't like all that.

01:06:10.460 I believe in demons.

01:06:11.720 I don't like all that.

01:06:12.980 Well, you know, this is one thing that we just did talk about when Sam and Colby were here,

01:06:16.780 these ghost hunter children, who I'm not saying were victims of sexual crime.

01:06:21.200 I have no idea.

01:06:22.480 I don't know what their lives were like.

01:06:24.040 Some of that's alleged.

01:06:25.100 I'm not saying that.

01:06:26.360 I read that somewhere.

01:06:27.260 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.

01:06:36.060 It's like having faith, asking God to show up in your life.

01:06:38.240 If you sit out there and ask for it to come, it'll be there.

01:06:41.280 And that's sometimes why I think the devil's winning, because you have people that are spending more time summoning the devil than you have people that are sitting here asking God to show up.

01:06:48.520 See, and there's the thing about the Bell Witch, and growing up, my cousins would do it, and it would scare me to death that they'd go, say your name three times, turn around, and she'll appear.

01:06:59.120 Okay, I was at the Stardome.

01:07:02.040 In Birmingham.

01:07:02.760 In Birmingham, doing.

01:07:04.740 I finally got to do that place.

01:07:06.040 I'd emailed them.

01:07:08.600 11, 12 years, and then finally, one day, it just came up on the schedule.

01:07:12.800 Now you're going to be at the Stardome.

01:07:14.720 And I bet you killed.

01:07:15.860 I was so excited.

01:07:17.540 Well, I was in the back.

01:07:18.920 You know, they have several little, I guess a little theater and the big theater, a big room, and there was the girl that you've seen and a million posters that go around to comedy clubs and talk to dead people.

01:07:30.500 I mean, she talks to dead people, and she says in the audience who, you know, your uncle so-and-so's here.

01:07:35.840 Yeah.

01:07:36.060 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.

01:07:43.780 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 with, you know, something on TBS on the TV.

01:08:01.340 I'm, surely, I'm not going to be stuck in a green room, you know?

01:08:07.920 Yeah.

01:08:08.760 I don't, surely he'll let me walk somewhere fun.

01:08:12.540 Not where, you know, the pillows don't match on the sofa.

01:08:18.780 That hard-ass sofa in there a lot of times.

01:08:21.780 God, this, oh, green rooms are crazy.

01:08:24.260 And then sometimes, like, this is a green room, like, this is a bathroom, it doesn't have a toilet in it.

01:08:28.360 I'm, like, you're, like, sometimes the green room is crazy.

01:08:30.960 Sometimes it's just a curtain.

01:08:32.620 People don't, like, oh, there's nothing like that, that all the clubs over the years are coming up.

01:08:38.120 All the places you go do, you know?

01:08:40.900 But I think it's like that about everything.

01:08:42.620 You think, like, backstage then is going to be amazing once you get to certain levels.

01:08:46.180 And then sometimes backstage is you're just hiding behind the edge of the stage waiting to walk out there, you know?

01:08:52.100 It's all exciting, but it's always just about putting the show on.

01:08:56.880 Oh, no.

01:08:57.180 Making sure that it looks good out there.

01:08:59.520 Backstage is never, there's not a lot of money spent backstage, you know?

01:09:03.120 Uh-uh, it's kind of dusty.

01:09:04.280 Yeah.

01:09:05.240 But isn't it thrilling, though?

01:09:06.760 Oh, I've watched you in big places and women yelling and all that.

01:09:11.780 I mean, do you just...

01:09:12.820 Some of those are men with long hair, but, yeah.

01:09:14.780 Those are men that have had sex changes, but happy they're there.

01:09:18.880 Mm-hmm.

01:09:19.340 We did have a guy pee in a woman's hair one night out there in Colorado, and we had to give her a free shirt.

01:09:27.960 Because somebody peed in her hair?

01:09:30.000 Yeah.

01:09:30.800 Just drunk and crazy, or what was it?

01:09:33.420 I don't know.

01:09:33.920 She wanted a hoodie, too.

01:09:35.040 I'm like, baby girl, chill, okay?

01:09:39.060 So, you know, the shirts, they're pretty good shirts.

01:09:42.300 I know.

01:09:43.280 Probably $65.

01:09:45.260 Oh, we don't...

01:09:46.020 Yeah, we actually sell pretty cheap on the road.

01:09:48.520 You do?

01:09:49.020 Yeah, we don't sell, like, super expensive.

01:09:51.800 See, my people don't want a big hot hoodie, but I've got women in menopause and their husbands.

01:09:57.600 I do skew a little bit younger now.

01:09:59.540 Yeah.

01:09:59.820 But I don't know.

01:10:01.280 I love a hoodie, and I think a hoodie's cute, and I can see where one of your hoodies would

01:10:05.800 be darling.

01:10:06.740 But I've got to go with a v-neck.

01:10:08.760 Everybody's sweating.

01:10:10.120 Yeah.

01:10:10.980 Yeah, well, you start...

01:10:11.700 The fire starts to have to get out, you know?

01:10:13.860 The heat starts to pop out after a while.

01:10:16.660 And I don't even...

01:10:17.440 Somebody does the merch now.

01:10:20.100 It's like a...

01:10:20.500 That's like a ghost.

01:10:21.560 I never see them.

01:10:22.400 I don't know.

01:10:23.140 I know.

01:10:23.320 I can't even get a hold of my own shirt.

01:10:24.440 People are like, can you get me a shirt?

01:10:25.360 I just go online and order and pay for it and buy it.

01:10:29.280 Yeah, I can.

01:10:30.400 But it is kind of interesting once you get to certain spots or certain parts of your career,

01:10:36.280 if you're fortunate enough to have some of those moments.

01:10:38.560 Yeah, what an exciting ride that you've had.

01:10:40.820 Because did you ever feel like women don't get the appreciation that men did?

01:10:45.680 Did you feel that in comedy?

01:10:46.800 No.

01:10:47.400 I always hear women talk about that.

01:10:49.700 And I don't know.

01:10:50.520 So everybody was always good to me.

01:10:53.320 And I never...

01:10:54.860 If I didn't get something, I thought...

01:10:56.840 I didn't think of it as man-woman kind of thing.

01:10:59.540 I just thought I'm not ready or I'm not edgy enough.

01:11:02.660 You know, Comedy Central was big.

01:11:04.240 I would always audition for stuff.

01:11:05.920 Didn't get it.

01:11:06.580 Just for laughs.

01:11:07.400 Didn't get it.

01:11:08.420 Until later.

01:11:10.040 And I never thought of it as a man-woman thing.

01:11:12.900 I just thought it's not my time or I got to get better or...

01:11:16.800 I don't have that whole man-woman thing.

01:11:19.160 I just don't.

01:11:20.300 Yeah.

01:11:20.520 I mean, I always...

01:11:21.940 I know there's a lot more male comics and all that.

01:11:24.460 But I did not feel anything...

01:11:26.940 Nobody was, like, disrespectful to me or that I didn't deserve something or...

01:11:32.000 I just didn't get that.

01:11:33.360 I don't know if people didn't want to bully...

01:11:34.940 I don't...

01:11:35.460 Because I'm a mom.

01:11:36.640 I don't know.

01:11:37.200 I have thought that some people don't...

01:11:41.600 People are used to seeing men be the jesters, right?

01:11:45.900 And there is something...

01:11:47.540 I think it used to be more this way.

01:11:50.520 Because I don't think it's this way anymore.

01:11:52.520 That it used to feel like the jester is supposed to be a male.

01:11:56.560 You don't want to see a woman...

01:11:57.940 You know, it's like you want to...

01:11:59.160 You don't want to see a woman, like, imagine if it's something that's kind of vulgar or something like that.

01:12:04.280 That, you know, that there's...

01:12:06.500 It's not as popular of a view of women.

01:12:11.960 So I think it took...

01:12:12.920 Some of it...

01:12:13.420 I think it took time for the view of that to be more possible.

01:12:17.600 Does that make any sense, you think, at all?

01:12:18.700 Yeah, that does make a lot of sense.

01:12:19.580 That makes a lot of sense.

01:12:20.600 Now it's like...

01:12:21.820 Yeah, you're like, oh, that chick's hilarious, you know?

01:12:24.360 But I think there was probably...

01:12:26.020 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.

01:12:33.020 Or I think, also, they want a woman to be pretty and not making faces where she's not as attractive or something.

01:12:41.500 I fought with that.

01:12:42.440 Like, I wanted to be pretty, but I didn't want to look stupid.

01:12:46.280 And when I was younger...

01:12:47.820 Right.

01:12:48.000 Now, I mean...

01:12:49.040 Whatever we can do.

01:12:49.920 Whatever we can do.

01:12:51.000 And Christian Johnson would say to me, because when I first saw myself on TV, I thought, oh, my gosh, where's my chin?

01:12:55.740 And I need to get a facelift.

01:12:58.040 And, you know, Hollywood, how that does that mess to you.

01:13:00.300 And then she goes, Lynn, think about the funny.

01:13:02.420 Think about Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore.

01:13:06.720 And, you know, instead of just fixating on trying to be youthful and the prettiest and all that.

01:13:13.060 And I do think that's wonderful that this happened to me at my age because I don't have that pressure of somebody...

01:13:18.660 I mean, you look at Nikki Glacier's legs.

01:13:21.300 She is stunning.

01:13:22.760 You know, she is a beauty.

01:13:24.600 Oh, yeah.

01:13:25.120 Like a couple of dams.

01:13:26.100 She's got some Charleston shoes on her, baby.

01:13:28.500 Things are nice.

01:13:30.160 Yes.

01:13:30.340 All these young girls that are, you know, so pretty.

01:13:33.020 And I think I feel like that even puts more pressure on them, that I don't feel that pressure anymore.

01:13:38.060 I used to feel that pressure.

01:13:39.240 Yeah.

01:13:40.500 So it really kind of everything kind of happened at the most perfect time, you feel like?

01:13:43.580 Oh, I know it did, my darling.

01:13:45.300 It's kind of a silly question because to me it's all on God's time.

01:13:48.420 And what else am I going to do about it?

01:13:50.160 I know.

01:13:50.800 No, and you think about if I always think if those television deals are made, these children would not be who they are, my kids.

01:13:57.600 Was there any real tough moments with your kids where they kind of held it against you that that was more of a thing or something like that?

01:14:02.460 No, no.

01:14:03.900 And really, I wasn't, I was not working.

01:14:06.180 I mean, I was working, but I was always there for them.

01:14:09.240 And I never had to hire anybody that nobody ever resented me for anything.

01:14:12.580 I did miss a few things.

01:14:14.320 Did you coach it?

01:14:14.740 They were growing up.

01:14:15.640 Yeah.

01:14:15.900 But not bad, not bad.

01:14:18.040 I got to be there with them.

01:14:19.880 And when I did that movie with Reese Witherspoon, she said to me every day on that, see it, you got to raise your own children, Lynn.

01:14:25.980 She did.

01:14:26.620 And I did.

01:14:27.340 I just saw her the other day.

01:14:29.500 I just met her first time.

01:14:31.560 Beautiful.

01:14:32.160 Is she not beautiful and smart?

01:14:34.500 Connor.

01:14:34.860 I met her kid, Cullen.

01:14:36.700 She had two boys with her, Cullen.

01:14:39.280 Oh, Tennessee's the baby.

01:14:41.280 Cullen and Tennessee.

01:14:42.240 Those are their names.

01:14:43.420 I just met her the other day.

01:14:45.160 Yep, beautiful, nice, friendly.

01:14:46.400 Beautiful children.

01:14:46.840 We chatted for a little while.

01:14:48.300 Actually, I told her I would check in and just say hey to her.

01:14:50.960 Yeah, I got to say hello, but.

01:14:54.280 She's smart.

01:14:55.260 Ava Deacon in Tennessee.

01:14:56.660 Wait.

01:14:56.960 Deacon.

01:14:57.220 You saw Deacon, and I was trying to think of that baby's name.

01:14:59.840 And he's stunning.

01:15:00.800 No, she has two little ones, though.

01:15:03.800 Tennessee's the baby.

01:15:04.640 She had the first two by that Felipe boy.

01:15:07.880 Okay.

01:15:08.320 Ryan Felipe, yeah.

01:15:09.360 Yeah.

01:15:09.700 And then this baby.

01:15:11.040 I got to meet.

01:15:12.540 Well, I met all of them.

01:15:13.760 Maybe his friend was there.

01:15:15.000 I thought it was Cullen.

01:15:15.860 Oh, I did.

01:15:16.180 He probably had a little friend with them.

01:15:18.100 He might have had a damn friend.

01:15:20.480 And then I met.

01:15:21.120 And she said he loves living in Nashville.

01:15:23.000 He gets out and plays in the neighborhood and does all that.

01:15:25.640 They were joyful children.

01:15:26.900 I mean, yeah, I met them at the Vanderbilt game.

01:15:31.380 Yeah, that would be the tough part.

01:15:32.780 I wonder, was it tough balancing any of that?

01:15:34.920 Is it tough?

01:15:36.900 It wasn't tough.

01:15:38.260 I need to tell people.

01:15:39.460 It was not tough because I had Chuck Morgan that was an executive that made good money.

01:15:46.000 So Chuck could help provide everything.

01:15:47.500 Uh-huh.

01:15:47.820 I didn't have to.

01:15:49.260 I mean, I took horrible gigs.

01:15:51.100 I did horrible gigs like everybody, but I wasn't sleeping in a Ford Festiva.

01:15:53.900 Ford Festiva.

01:15:54.620 Right.

01:15:55.560 Yeah, my mother had a Ford Festiva, actually.

01:15:58.000 She did?

01:15:58.060 And we used to have to make jewelry in the trunk in there at night.

01:16:01.120 Making jewelry?

01:16:02.080 We'd sit in there and make little earrings and stuff like that and bracelets and stuff.

01:16:06.220 Well, I sold jewelry when I started.

01:16:08.820 That's how I got into comedy.

01:16:10.840 Chuck Morgan moved me to Bean Station, Tennessee, in the foothills of the Appalachia Mountains.

01:16:16.420 And I sold jewelry like women sell Mary Kay and Tupperware because I'd had my first baby

01:16:21.380 and I wanted to stay home with him.

01:16:23.900 And I was supposed to be talking about jewelry in these women's living rooms.

01:16:28.240 And I would, you know, I started some of my first material there talking about breastfeeding

01:16:32.620 or hemorrhoids or whatever.

01:16:33.960 Got laughs.

01:16:35.660 Women would book me far in advance.

01:16:38.240 And then that gave me the confidence to do comedy clubs.

01:16:41.240 By the time I got to San Antonio, I had a comedy club.

01:16:43.540 And I did open mic and all that.

01:16:46.120 But I sold jewelry.

01:16:47.100 I wasn't making it in the back of a Ford Festiva, though, my darling.

01:16:49.980 Well, yeah, we would just do it in there because it was quiet in there.

01:16:54.460 It was a kind of loud.

01:16:55.060 And you need quiet to make jewelry.

01:16:56.700 Yeah, it was just peaceful in there, kind of, you know.

01:16:58.800 We'd go sit out in the car a lot at night, I would.

01:17:01.100 I'd go sleep out there sometimes.

01:17:02.340 My mom had these boxes.

01:17:03.440 She used to deliver cookies.

01:17:04.560 My mom mostly did delivering.

01:17:06.440 So she was always boxes of some shit at our house.

01:17:09.500 Boxes, it is.

01:17:10.280 Like Little Dabbies?

01:17:11.260 Or what are we talking?

01:17:12.360 Well, she worked for this cookie company for a while called Vortman Cookies, I remember.

01:17:16.200 And I'd go sleep out there.

01:17:18.260 And that Ford Festiva, that bitch would barely go, dude.

01:17:20.380 That thing was probably, had about 400 pounds of cookies in that bitch.

01:17:23.800 Car only weighed 80 pounds, dude.

01:17:25.900 Dude, if you drop something near the car, you could pick it up and look under there for it.

01:17:29.540 It was so easy.

01:17:31.080 Look at that car.

01:17:31.820 Yeah, that one right there.

01:17:33.400 Yep, that was it.

01:17:34.000 Ours was gray, though.

01:17:34.820 That thing was small, brother.

01:17:37.260 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.

01:17:42.840 And my long-necked brother hit his Simba last.

01:17:47.400 But she could pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.

01:17:49.460 We were misbehaving in that little car.

01:17:51.260 But yeah, there was never any peace in the area.

01:17:53.360 But I'd go out there at night sometimes and spend a little bit of time.

01:17:56.700 I'd go lay on those boxes of cookies.

01:17:58.120 They smelled so good.

01:17:58.820 They had gingerbread cookies, too, around Christmas.

01:18:01.480 I'd go lay on there and just smell that gingerbread and just pretend I lived in England or something.

01:18:06.900 Oh, my darling.

01:18:08.220 I love that.

01:18:09.000 And my mom had a big rug in her room and it was a, I don't know if it was a cow.

01:18:16.420 I don't know what it was.

01:18:17.100 It was an animal that had died.

01:18:19.120 Real?

01:18:19.700 Yeah.

01:18:19.920 Hod?

01:18:20.460 Real hod.

01:18:21.540 I think it was an animal.

01:18:22.540 Hell, it could have been a damn Doberman.

01:18:24.440 I don't know what it was, but it was big.

01:18:26.320 You know what I'm saying?

01:18:26.840 It was pretty big and it looked like somebody had milked it.

01:18:29.640 But, uh.

01:18:30.460 And you laid on that?

01:18:31.400 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.

01:18:40.380 I remember that.

01:18:41.460 Well, your imagination, honey, was.

01:18:44.240 It was fun.

01:18:44.860 But, yeah, the damn apartment was sinking and people would steal that wood.

01:18:48.260 I just want to finish the love life here.

01:18:50.040 So, Chuck Morgan, you meet him over there in Knoxville, and he walks into where and sees you?

01:18:57.180 At the restaurant that I was working.

01:18:59.360 And what were you doing there working?

01:19:00.760 What was your.

01:19:01.580 I was waiting tables and I was standing waiting for my table to get seated.

01:19:06.620 And he came through with a training group and he's six foot four.

01:19:09.680 And I said, you're tall as a tree.

01:19:11.600 And he said, sorry.

01:19:12.760 And I thought, another butthole's come to work at Grady's.

01:19:15.580 Yeah.

01:19:16.120 And I thought, stay away from him.

01:19:18.200 He's not fun.

01:19:19.100 And he just would, like, stand next to me, you know, and kind of lurk.

01:19:24.360 And then we'd be in.

01:19:25.220 And provide shade, you mean.

01:19:26.180 I love how you can't see the positive in it, Leanne.

01:19:28.460 Go on.

01:19:29.760 My God.

01:19:30.340 And then we would have shift meetings and I'd be eating a baked potato with some sour cream and butter on it.

01:19:37.260 And maybe cheese.

01:19:38.980 And he would.

01:19:39.820 I remember the second thing he said to me was, you don't need to eat all that fat on your baked potato.

01:19:44.620 And I thought, man, what a butthole.

01:19:46.800 I mean, he doesn't need to sit by me.

01:19:49.860 Leave me alone.

01:19:51.180 The next time, I think I've said on the back there doing catch-ups or something, I said to one of the girls working, I love your Dooney and Burke purse, girl.

01:19:59.960 The next day, he brought me a Dooney and Burke purse and a big box with a bow on it.

01:20:05.200 And then started doing all my side work.

01:20:08.980 And if I had a test, he would say, I'll take your shift.

01:20:13.340 I'll give you the money.

01:20:15.160 And started, like, pursuing me, wooing me.

01:20:18.660 And see, I had been through a divorce at 23.

01:20:21.820 I was divorced at 23.

01:20:25.040 Which, how redneck is that?

01:20:26.500 Were you living in a group home?

01:20:27.420 Where were you living?

01:20:27.940 No, well, I roomed with two boys that were in the basement.

01:20:32.420 I was working behind a clinic counter.

01:20:35.040 Honey, that's a group home.

01:20:37.060 I think it's a halfway house.

01:20:38.460 Go on, though.

01:20:39.640 And they said there's these new apartments opening up.

01:20:41.620 Did y'all have a wreath or not?

01:20:42.420 Wreath or no wreath?

01:20:43.400 No wreath.

01:20:44.240 Yeah.

01:20:45.100 And they said, one of them worked in the shoes and one of them worked in security.

01:20:48.620 And they said, there's a new apartment complex being built in the fort by UT Campus.

01:20:54.660 If you, Lou, they called me Lou.

01:20:56.400 They go, do you want to share an apartment with us?

01:20:59.440 We'll keep you safe.

01:21:00.620 We'll be in the basement.

01:21:01.880 There's two down below the steps.

01:21:04.580 You can have the, there were two bedrooms up.

01:21:06.320 We didn't have a fourth roommate.

01:21:08.240 Except one time, this little boy moved in there for a little while that wanted to be a weatherman.

01:21:12.760 He did not have it.

01:21:13.920 Oh, yeah.

01:21:14.820 Sometimes that's a gay guy, too.

01:21:16.440 He was gay and darling and we did each other's hair and had a ball.

01:21:20.740 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:21:21.340 Okay, but, and smoked.

01:21:22.700 200% chance of sunshine, I'll tell you that, baby.

01:21:25.580 He had a little bitty robe and he'd walk around in and he had a big pompadour and he wanted to do the weather.

01:21:30.920 But, you know, some people just don't have that, the support behind them.

01:21:36.300 Oh, God.

01:21:36.800 I don't think he ever got to do the weather.

01:21:38.920 But anyway, I don't know how he came in.

01:21:41.880 And the, but anyway, I took care of these boys.

01:21:45.320 They were dating and doing and, and I was kind of like the, not the mom.

01:21:49.660 I was 23 years old, but I made a, I made a good Rotel dip.

01:21:53.300 I liked to make over them.

01:21:55.020 They'd have their girlfriends over.

01:21:56.420 They'd have their boyfriend, guy friends, fraternity boys.

01:21:59.460 And so I, it was something to help me get over this divorce and have, you know, and have friends and all that.

01:22:05.920 And it turns out Chuck Morgan was in their fraternity and was in MBA school with one of them.

01:22:11.720 We made that connection later.

01:22:13.560 But by then I had, I had been through a horrible divorce.

01:22:16.480 I'd cut all my hair off.

01:22:17.760 I had short hair.

01:22:18.740 How off?

01:22:18.860 You shaved it off?

01:22:19.760 Not shaved, but short.

01:22:21.540 Like were you going to join the Air Force, that type of shit?

01:22:23.560 If I had had the guts, yeah, but I didn't.

01:22:26.820 I'm sissy.

01:22:28.480 But, but I didn't want anything to do with men and, because I was so hurt and all that.

01:22:34.140 And then Chuck Morgan just would not take no for an answer and wooed and wooed and wooed me and bought me gifts and paid my rent.

01:22:41.160 And, you know, later now in interviews, he brings it up and acts like he resents it.

01:22:45.080 I had to pay her rent.

01:22:46.540 I go, what?

01:22:47.080 Nobody asked you to.

01:22:48.180 First thing he told me, I had to pay her.

01:22:51.220 He had a damn invoice written up in his phone.

01:22:52.980 He said, I'll email it to you.

01:22:54.360 I said, look, but I'm.

01:22:55.620 He probably kept that receipt.

01:22:58.340 But did you finally, was there a moment you realized you loved him kind of or did you just kind of.

01:23:02.820 Yes, I fell in love with him.

01:23:04.340 And then.

01:23:05.300 But was there a moment you did or just kind of slowly build up?

01:23:08.080 It slowly built because I did not.

01:23:09.840 I always had trust issues because I had been through something terrible.

01:23:13.540 And I told him I've been through something terrible.

01:23:15.900 Don't woo me.

01:23:17.280 And he does not take no for an answer because he's a mobile home salesman.

01:23:21.180 Oh, yeah.

01:23:21.720 They got a lot of testosterone.

01:23:23.940 They're very dominant.

01:23:25.540 And the first thing you tell them is no.

01:23:28.140 Yeah.

01:23:28.720 And they don't take no for an answer.

01:23:30.540 They can sell.

01:23:31.660 I mean, he's been successful.

01:23:33.140 Yeah.

01:23:33.540 He does not take no for an answer.

01:23:34.800 He still does it.

01:23:35.580 Oh, you're slinging mohos, dude.

01:23:37.020 That shit's fucking.

01:23:37.820 You got to.

01:23:38.460 You got to.

01:23:39.160 It's lucrative.

01:23:39.980 You can't give up.

01:23:40.700 Oh, yeah.

01:23:41.540 Yeah.

01:23:42.240 Oh, yeah.

01:23:42.820 Warren Buffett company.

01:23:44.800 Berkshire Hathaway.

01:23:45.700 Mm-hmm.

01:23:45.960 Anyway, yeah.

01:23:48.340 He would not leave me alone.

01:23:49.640 And then he said, when I get a job after MBA school, we'll get married.

01:23:54.100 And then I was cocktailing.

01:23:56.540 He was bartending by then.

01:23:57.960 And he broke up with me.

01:24:00.880 What?

01:24:01.720 Yeah.

01:24:02.000 He broke up with me for no reason.

01:24:04.640 What?

01:24:05.500 No reason?

01:24:07.080 Well, he said that I smelled from the cigarettes and he could not take anymore.

01:24:12.100 But I don't think that was the main reason.

01:24:13.720 I did smell.

01:24:15.860 Marlboro Lights.

01:24:16.880 Oh, yeah.

01:24:17.380 They're good.

01:24:17.980 They're good.

01:24:19.620 Loved them.

01:24:20.220 I wish they were healthy.

01:24:21.200 Yeah, they're good.

01:24:21.960 Anyway, I had just, I don't know what he was going through, but he broke up with me.

01:24:25.700 And then he bought a used mobile home business up in Bean Station, Tennessee, where there's no women his age.

01:24:32.480 I think that was also a factor.

01:24:34.320 He gets up there.

01:24:35.040 There's women working at the bank, you know, in their 40s.

01:24:38.720 Had a hard time.

01:24:40.320 Okay, so then I'm down finishing up my degree.

01:24:43.660 I went to Fort Lauderdale on spring break, got a tan.

01:24:47.460 I was a third wheel with another couple.

01:24:49.480 Don't matter, bitch.

01:24:50.400 The sun hitting everybody.

01:24:51.860 Yeah.

01:24:52.540 And he had never seen me with a tan.

01:24:54.280 By then, I was working behind another counter.

01:24:57.120 I had like four jobs, you know, trying to make it.

01:24:59.960 And he saw me with a tan and then said, can I buy you a pair of tennis shoes?

01:25:04.480 And I was like, maybe.

01:25:07.840 And then I took him back.

01:25:12.620 He bought me a pair of Asics.

01:25:14.400 Oh, God.

01:25:15.100 They were nice.

01:25:16.520 They were pretty nice, I thought.

01:25:17.680 They were nice.

01:25:19.140 Yeah.

01:25:19.700 And he wanted me back.

01:25:23.200 I had been dating a long-haired boy that was an artist who was poor.

01:25:30.920 And I do like a man with health insurance.

01:25:33.760 I got to tell you, I like a man that when he takes you to Costco, he buys the toilet paper.

01:25:38.760 He doesn't say, let's split it.

01:25:40.500 Yeah.

01:25:41.500 I don't like that.

01:25:43.040 Yeah.

01:25:43.480 So, this was a long-haired artist and one of my roommates said, either Lou's got a date

01:25:48.960 or we're being robbed.

01:25:50.520 And he did kind of look like my sister.

01:25:52.720 But anyway, Chuck found out.

01:25:54.480 Sister's good looking, though.

01:25:55.340 Yeah.

01:25:55.960 He was a pretty guy.

01:25:57.100 He was pretty, but he had a bicycle.

01:25:59.380 He didn't own a car.

01:26:00.540 He could make mayonnaise from scratch.

01:26:02.620 And that was pretty nifty.

01:26:04.420 Oh, my God.

01:26:04.900 And that was considered also a hair.

01:26:07.020 People would put on their hair back then.

01:26:08.220 Remember that?

01:26:09.360 Yeah.

01:26:09.840 People put on their hair.

01:26:10.360 In deep condition.

01:26:11.220 Yeah.

01:26:11.940 Yeah.

01:26:12.340 And he also, I thought about this the other day because it was fall.

01:26:15.920 He made pumpkin cheesecake.

01:26:18.220 He said, I'm going to, this was, Lord, what was this?

01:26:21.820 The early 90s.

01:26:22.580 And he goes, you know what?

01:26:23.420 I think pumpkin, canned pumpkin would be good in a cheesecake.

01:26:27.460 And I remember thinking, I don't even know what you're saying.

01:26:31.900 Who is this fruit wizard over here?

01:26:33.740 Yeah.

01:26:34.120 Who is this fucking Halloween fruit wizard doing that crazy shit?

01:26:39.420 I mean, that was considered damn experimental at the time.

01:26:42.200 I know.

01:26:43.040 He really was, you know, kind of a savant.

01:26:45.740 So then he said to me.

01:26:47.480 He was in over his head at a damn Marie Callender.

01:26:49.560 I'll tell you that.

01:26:50.240 That's for sure.

01:26:53.040 And he rode a bicycle.

01:26:54.340 And the bicycle had a sticker on the back of it that said, burn fat, not oil.

01:26:58.520 And I was driving a Toyota Corolla.

01:27:01.140 Oh, those are nice.

01:27:02.200 Mm-hmm.

01:27:02.940 That my little daddy bought me because I had been driving after a divorce.

01:27:06.800 My granddaddy's 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.

01:27:16.700 They'd have one of those lights on the outside of it.

01:27:18.300 Remember those sometimes?

01:27:19.180 You get those police vehicles.

01:27:20.300 People would have at an auction.

01:27:21.540 That was the big thing in our town.

01:27:23.000 Somebody get them a damn auction vehicle, them bitches.

01:27:25.860 Go on, though.

01:27:26.840 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.

01:27:37.760 And I broke up with him that day.

01:27:40.720 And I was like, I don't have any earning potential.

01:27:44.400 And I need somebody who's a hunter and a gatherer like Chuck Morgan.

01:27:49.760 I've never had to worry about Chuck Morgan.

01:27:51.660 And 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.

01:27:59.180 He'll be fine.

01:27:59.840 He'll be fine.

01:28:01.020 He can make it off of Flat Rock.

01:28:03.300 I love that.

01:28:03.520 He can make a living off of Flat Rock.

01:28:05.480 Amen.

01:28:06.740 So, yeah, so we married, and then that's when he took me up into Appalachia's.

01:28:12.780 Because, yeah, once you get something good, you go hide it near the mountain.

01:28:15.340 You got to hide it somewhere if he's a man.

01:28:17.200 So he put you over there.

01:28:18.300 He put me up in those mountains.

01:28:20.260 Bean?

01:28:20.880 Bean Station, Tennessee.

01:28:22.460 Bean Station, Tennessee.

01:28:23.360 Pull that up.

01:28:23.880 I want to see that beautiful joint.

01:28:25.760 That's, and it's beautiful looking at the mountains and the lake, but we didn't have that.

01:28:30.380 We didn't have that kind of view.

01:28:33.940 Very tiny town.

01:28:35.140 There was an IGA grocery store.

01:28:37.340 Oh, I remember those.

01:28:38.760 Uh-huh.

01:28:39.060 And I liked it.

01:28:39.860 They were good.

01:28:40.460 And there was a post office, and his business was right behind the post office.

01:28:43.740 And he had that business at 27.

01:28:45.080 He bought that business and was running and had employees.

01:28:47.920 Was it a car wash, or what was it?

01:28:49.620 Used mobile home refurbishing business.

01:28:51.760 Ooh, I like that.

01:28:52.500 And I worked for him a few weeks, and we don't work well together.

01:28:58.320 And I, honest to goodness, I know that that helped start my comedy career, because I saw

01:29:03.680 things you've never.

01:29:04.980 I saw a family drive up in a gremlin with the window out and a nine-year-old smoking a cigarette,

01:29:10.480 looking for a single wide.

01:29:13.300 And they came in the office, and the grandmama said, or the baby said, give me a light, ma'am-o.

01:29:20.100 She lit her cigarette off of that, her grandmama.

01:29:24.160 Oh.

01:29:24.600 She was nine.

01:29:25.260 And I thought, okay, I need to go home.

01:29:28.600 I need to go home, get pregnant.

01:29:31.600 Oh, yeah.

01:29:32.360 Because I can't take this.

01:29:33.780 I mean, it was a lot.

01:29:35.420 Oh, yeah.

01:29:35.700 I want something to come out of, climb out of my body and start smoking.

01:29:39.460 Yeah.

01:29:39.760 But I, yeah, it was, my husband is very loving and giving, and there would be, like, if a

01:29:48.580 family didn't have a home, there was a little old woman that didn't have a, that wanted a

01:29:53.400 house, and he said, she said, I can make you blankets.

01:29:56.500 And so he took a blanket that she would make every few months, and that was her payment.

01:30:02.400 So Chuck Morgan also had a mobile home park and bought all the children their Christmas.

01:30:08.440 He would come home and say, we've got to get a Justin Bieber doll ASAP.

01:30:13.040 And I'd be like, okay.

01:30:14.500 So then Chuck went to work for a big company because he would give everything he had away

01:30:19.300 to everybody.

01:30:20.360 And he still does.

01:30:21.160 He still is very giving and loving.

01:30:23.720 Not to his own family.

01:30:25.400 No.

01:30:26.140 Not at all.

01:30:26.880 He captured you and put you in the hills.

01:30:29.520 Or tells me that I don't need to be flying first class on tour.

01:30:35.400 So, because all these boys have these big buses and stuff.

01:30:38.080 These comedians have, I am in a Mitsubishi rental car.

01:30:42.280 Yeah.

01:30:43.560 Oh, yeah.

01:30:43.940 This baby and I share a hotel room.

01:30:46.080 I talk about that in this new special on Netflix that dropped.

01:30:50.540 That's the truth.

01:30:51.580 If people watch this, Chuck Morgan wants us to share a hotel room.

01:30:56.000 She's going to be 28 years old.

01:30:57.920 We are sleeping butt to butt in a king.

01:31:00.060 God.

01:31:01.320 Yeah.

01:31:02.200 Oh.

01:31:02.480 And he prefers us to eat the free continental breakfast.

01:31:06.340 Some of them.

01:31:06.840 Now, I will say this.

01:31:08.260 The ones at Hampton Inn got better.

01:31:10.980 They did an upgrade about nine years ago.

01:31:13.120 Yeah.

01:31:13.500 That I respected.

01:31:14.520 You could start to see it.

01:31:15.240 They put like pictures inside of the elevator.

01:31:17.180 And I was like, okay.

01:31:18.320 Okay.

01:31:18.960 Okay.

01:31:19.360 And they had that little omelet you could get with cheese in it.

01:31:22.740 That was good.

01:31:23.420 And they started to get that thing, the waffle maker.

01:31:26.880 Yeah.

01:31:27.360 But then somebody fucking leaves it on.

01:31:29.280 You have to turn it over.

01:31:30.260 It's very hard to use.

01:31:31.800 I watched somebody.

01:31:32.820 You'll see somebody get burned.

01:31:34.080 There's a lot of issues.

01:31:34.900 I wonder if they're still keeping those.

01:31:36.280 But Hampton Inn.

01:31:37.160 But they make a good waffle, those things.

01:31:38.820 They've done a great job.

01:31:40.080 Yeah.

01:31:40.600 Yeah.

01:31:40.960 And you know a Hampton Inn's clean.

01:31:43.040 Of course.

01:31:43.360 Of course, man.

01:31:46.360 Yeah.

01:31:46.640 Those are the days, you know.

01:31:48.940 Well, I'm still in them.

01:31:50.140 I'm still in them.

01:31:50.960 I know.

01:31:52.520 But, you know.

01:31:53.400 But that's love.

01:31:54.100 He was not used to this.

01:31:55.820 Like, I didn't make money for years.

01:31:58.060 I mean, I'd make a little bit of money and get my children Santa Claus.

01:32:01.100 Get everybody a haircut.

01:32:03.000 Not save for taxes.

01:32:04.960 He'd be real mad, you know, come April.

01:32:07.400 But then when this started happening, you know, he's just not used to it.

01:32:11.200 It takes your family a while to figure out what's happening.

01:32:13.760 The baby knew what was happening because she's out there with me.

01:32:17.020 He's like, this could end tomorrow.

01:32:19.020 Yeah.

01:32:19.160 He just, yeah.

01:32:19.800 He's just looking at the balance sheet when you guys get home.

01:32:22.120 It's never great, you know.

01:32:25.720 Who spent $60 at a damn Wendy's, you know.

01:32:28.800 And it's just like, well, you know.

01:32:31.640 Uh-huh.

01:32:32.140 Or in an airport, one of those, you know.

01:32:34.860 You got to have some magnesium for stress.

01:32:37.680 Oh, yeah.

01:32:38.180 Those kiosks, yeah.

01:32:39.460 Yeah, and how long have you guys been married now?

01:32:42.380 It'll be 34 in April.

01:32:43.780 Oh, that's beautiful.

01:32:44.480 And three babies and two grandbabies.

01:32:47.220 And everyone asks, what's the secret to 33 years of marriage?

01:32:51.440 I say it's a lot of praying in the bathtub.

01:32:56.800 It's hard.

01:32:57.760 Tornado prayers kind of.

01:32:58.980 Yeah.

01:32:59.620 It is.

01:33:00.400 It's hard.

01:33:01.160 And you just got to fight the big battles, not the little ones.

01:33:06.540 You know, just let things roll off your back because it's a lot to live with somebody.

01:33:11.140 And it's not easy.

01:33:13.360 It's not easy.

01:33:14.620 And Chuck Morgan and I are both very opposite.

01:33:16.880 He's very introverted, very anal retentive.

01:33:19.840 Everything's got to be in its place.

01:33:21.740 I'm an artist, Theo.

01:33:25.440 Yeah.

01:33:25.920 My junk drawer is pretty bad in my kitchen.

01:33:30.960 But I've raised these children.

01:33:32.480 They're fun.

01:33:33.800 Like, he's very well-educated and loves school.

01:33:37.520 If he had been at home with them, I've always said, if he went traveling, they would end up

01:33:41.840 in Harvard with a nervous tick.

01:33:43.900 But they had me, and we went to the zoo, and we went to Dollywood.

01:33:48.280 I didn't let them skip school, but we had a good time.

01:33:51.900 I love that.

01:33:52.740 And they want to be with me now.

01:33:54.240 Of course they do.

01:33:55.340 You know, they're fun, and they want to be with me.

01:33:58.140 But they're not over—they do great, but they're not—he's an overachiever.

01:34:03.900 Not us.

01:34:04.960 Never enough, never enough.

01:34:06.880 Driven, driven.

01:34:08.640 I realize now I'm kind of driven in my stand-up.

01:34:12.740 I want things to be—like the special coming out.

01:34:15.940 I worried my—I told you at the UT ballgame, I'm worried sick.

01:34:20.120 Like, I just—you know, it's just—it's never good enough for me.

01:34:24.440 I don't—you know, I wish I could do it a hundred times more.

01:34:27.220 Even though I don't, because it'll give me the shingles.

01:34:29.360 I don't want to do it again, because it'll give me the shingles.

01:34:33.040 Unspeakable thing that just came out on Netflix.

01:34:35.460 Congratulations.

01:34:36.020 Your second one.

01:34:37.280 Yes, thank you, my darling.

01:34:38.900 My second one.

01:34:40.240 And it went to number one on Netflix.

01:34:45.660 And then, you know, in my mind, I'm thinking, oh, nothing else came out that week.

01:34:50.100 Raw Wrestling will be out Monday.

01:34:52.600 That'll knock it out.

01:34:53.560 Yeah.

01:34:53.860 And then the Squid Games, the little children who were—I don't even know what that is.

01:34:58.000 But my—okay, my television show had to compete with—that went to number two.

01:35:02.780 That had to compete with those girls that were killing those boars in their panties.

01:35:07.200 Oh, I don't know if I saw that.

01:35:08.720 Was that a—

01:35:09.100 Hunting Wives?

01:35:10.100 Oh, I haven't seen Hunting Wives.

01:35:10.980 Is it good?

01:35:12.340 It is kind of—it's nasty.

01:35:14.420 If you like a good nasty, there's some lesbian going zone.

01:35:20.960 Oh, I've heard about this.

01:35:23.040 And they're killing boars in their panties.

01:35:25.280 People are watching Mormon Wives right now.

01:35:27.680 I've heard.

01:35:28.480 It is fascinating.

01:35:29.320 Shit, I'll take either one of them.

01:35:30.560 I'll take—I got to get a dang wife.

01:35:32.840 I think I could handle a hunting wife.

01:35:34.640 Whoever made that show, I don't think, cares for Republican people in Texas.

01:35:42.000 Because it's about Republican people that are shooting boars in their panties.

01:35:47.400 And that was number one.

01:35:49.000 I never got to number one with my television show because I could not compete with that.

01:35:54.400 Who could?

01:35:55.240 Who could?

01:35:56.100 Yeah.

01:35:56.280 Honey, you got to number two, and that's great.

01:35:58.140 Thank you.

01:35:58.360 I think that that's perfect.

01:35:59.380 Thank you.

01:35:59.800 Yeah, that's love.

01:36:00.780 So you got Chuck Morgan.

01:36:01.780 You got your—you've had a nice life so far, Leanne.

01:36:04.560 I do.

01:36:06.060 Lou, they call you Lou.

01:36:08.240 In college, everybody called me Lou in high school.

01:36:10.780 Were you a tomboy kind of?

01:36:12.140 Mm-hmm.

01:36:13.100 And I love sports.

01:36:14.400 And then I love boys.

01:36:18.040 And I got real boy crazy.

01:36:19.580 And I still played sports, but I didn't care as much.

01:36:21.900 And then I projected onto my children and made my kids play all these sports because I knew I didn't do as much as I should have.

01:36:27.940 Oh, I love that, though.

01:36:28.680 You have to do that as a parent.

01:36:30.620 Yeah, they played club volleyball.

01:36:32.520 My girls played all over the United States.

01:36:34.820 Travel.

01:36:35.880 Yeah.

01:36:36.140 Oh, my kids are going to play shit that I never got to do, whether they wanted or not.

01:36:40.700 Or you look athletic.

01:36:42.240 Did you play ball?

01:36:43.380 I played high school basketball.

01:36:45.460 I smoked also at the same time, but they let me play.

01:36:47.800 I was pretty good for—I was the only kid that would smoke.

01:36:50.160 It was an active smoker.

01:36:51.780 Yeah.

01:36:52.140 Like, I remember one time I was out there smoking, and one of the assistant coaches was out there smoking.

01:36:56.520 So nobody could say shit.

01:36:58.680 But I was pretty good for somebody out there that had a—

01:37:01.280 That didn't have your full lung capacity.

01:37:03.480 Yeah.

01:37:03.760 Yeah, I was good in spurts.

01:37:06.840 That was my nickname, good in spurts.

01:37:09.960 Well, they made me play everything because I went to this little bitty tiny country school, and they need—I was tall.

01:37:15.960 So I played softball.

01:37:17.140 Yeah, the model.

01:37:17.960 Basketball.

01:37:18.260 She's the model.

01:37:19.000 She's basketball, everything.

01:37:20.360 Volleyball.

01:37:20.600 Meet up at her if we're in a field and people are lost, meet up at her.

01:37:23.140 The tall person always gets all the action.

01:37:26.220 They're the lighthouse of the fucking world when you're tall.

01:37:29.940 Those are the days, especially in a small community.

01:37:33.420 Yeah.

01:37:34.040 It's a tall one.

01:37:35.140 I miss that, though.

01:37:36.220 I miss, like—I wonder where I'd like to live one day whenever I get a family and stuff.

01:37:41.940 Maybe in a small place.

01:37:43.160 There are small little towns around Middle Tennessee that are darling.

01:37:48.480 Do you think you'd want to stay in Tennessee?

01:37:50.780 I think so, you know.

01:37:52.100 I want to spend time back in Louisiana when I can, but I do—I've enjoyed it here.

01:37:55.860 I miss my home.

01:37:56.620 I miss a lot of the people, but I go back and see them.

01:37:58.980 Every time I'm home, I spend most of my time home traveling and seeing teachers that taught me when I was a kid.

01:38:04.720 I'm still close with a lot of, like, people from my childhood.

01:38:07.480 Well, you've had to have been very smart and bright, and they knew it.

01:38:11.900 I don't know what I was.

01:38:12.640 Because you're so quick-witted.

01:38:14.340 I do all right, I guess.

01:38:16.120 What was I like?

01:38:18.680 I don't know what I was like.

01:38:20.000 I bet you were a yummy little kid, and they thought, that kid's got it.

01:38:23.920 Like Elvis and J-Lo and Michael Jackson.

01:38:27.700 You know, when somebody's got it, they've got it, and you can't manufacture it.

01:38:31.560 And you have it.

01:38:32.820 Well, that's a sweet thought.

01:38:34.120 But, Theo, it's true, my darling.

01:38:36.440 And then you're bright and you're quick-witted, so they knew you were smart.

01:38:40.020 And then, you know, people are fun back then that used to smoke.

01:38:45.740 That's fun.

01:38:46.380 That's a fun kid.

01:38:47.920 Wrong.

01:38:48.420 Nobody needs to be smoking now.

01:38:49.960 Let's say that.

01:38:50.700 Nobody needs to be smoking now.

01:38:51.520 But it is fun to watch a kid smoke.

01:38:54.440 You know what I'm saying?

01:38:55.080 When that nine-year-old pulled up in your story to buy that double-wide, and he's talking.

01:38:58.420 That's a little girl.

01:38:59.260 That's a little girl.

01:39:00.180 Look, she's getting a discount.

01:39:01.900 We had a smoking porch at my school.

01:39:04.120 Everybody smoked on that porch.

01:39:06.020 I didn't smoke then.

01:39:07.100 I waited until I got to UT, and I started at, like, 19.

01:39:10.500 Because all these girls that were waiting tables and had Louis Vuitton purses.

01:39:13.580 God.

01:39:13.920 I wanted to be like them.

01:39:15.220 Yeah, of course.

01:39:16.220 And they were like, let's go smoke in the bathroom.

01:39:18.040 Screw that manager.

01:39:19.800 Yeah.

01:39:20.020 Oh, dude, I remember the first time.

01:39:21.300 Yeah, I never, like, yeah, I definitely smoked.

01:39:23.300 And then finally got a little bit of cocaine.

01:39:25.900 And then, um...

01:39:27.140 Who gave you cocaine?

01:39:29.120 I don't remember.

01:39:30.440 I just remember I'd been...

01:39:31.640 There was cocaine in a little town in Louisiana.

01:39:34.540 Not a lot.

01:39:35.260 Not a lot.

01:39:36.000 Not a lot, but somebody had it.

01:39:37.840 Enough to keep you up.

01:39:39.880 See, I didn't even know what in the world...

01:39:42.120 We didn't know what...

01:39:43.600 There was a couple of boys that they'd be like, they like to do dope.

01:39:48.060 But we stayed away from them.

01:39:49.540 We were scared of them.

01:39:50.460 Because they were all these farming kids that had Future Farmers of America jackets.

01:39:54.560 So we stayed away from that.

01:39:56.160 But we couldn't write a paper either.

01:39:57.760 You know, we were...

01:39:58.460 We didn't...

01:39:58.940 We weren't ready for college, but we weren't...

01:40:01.000 It wasn't a wild...

01:40:02.200 It was insulated from farming people.

01:40:04.680 Oh, yeah.

01:40:05.360 Well, that was more when I got to college.

01:40:06.800 In our town, we never had...

01:40:08.280 Yeah, you'd have people smoking.

01:40:09.080 Oh, so it was college.

01:40:10.560 But yeah, in our town, you did have people smoking, but it was like weed.

01:40:13.700 Yeah, we're smoking dope.

01:40:14.780 Yeah, like those kids smoke dope.

01:40:16.220 That's when they would say dope.

01:40:17.440 Dope.

01:40:17.760 You didn't really see like pills and stuff back then.

01:40:19.800 It would just be people got high on weed, and it was kind of an issue.

01:40:22.220 But I don't know.

01:40:23.480 I miss it.

01:40:24.080 I miss just being in our neighborhood.

01:40:25.700 You know, that guy, the Elvis impersonator who put that fence up.

01:40:29.140 Yeah.

01:40:29.580 He had broken his leg.

01:40:30.600 And so somebody set it in cement, right?

01:40:33.740 Saved money from going to the hospital or whatever.

01:40:37.860 So they set that bitch in cement.

01:40:39.640 And it must have been fine, right?

01:40:41.120 And seven weeks or whatever, they take the cast off.

01:40:46.140 They broke the cast off.

01:40:47.340 They broke it with a...

01:40:48.660 The hammer was too big that they broke it with, and it broke his hip when they beat the...

01:40:52.920 Are you kidding me?

01:40:53.740 No, I'm not kidding at all.

01:40:54.840 When they hit the thing with the hammer, it cracked his hip.

01:40:57.900 So now, his shit's re-broken up at his hip, and he ended up getting that kind of tick-tock

01:41:04.020 in him like that, and he got into Elvis impersonating, which is so wild.

01:41:10.320 But that helped him when he generated.

01:41:12.880 Well, that's what I'm saying.

01:41:13.660 He was...

01:41:14.100 Yeah.

01:41:14.700 He was built like it was just about to be noon.

01:41:16.720 You know what I'm saying?

01:41:17.540 He was built like, you know what I'm saying?

01:41:18.960 Another 60 ticks, and it was time...

01:41:20.980 You know, it was lunch break.

01:41:22.260 You know what I'm saying?

01:41:22.920 He was just a damn pentameter walking around town.

01:41:25.900 That's all he was.

01:41:26.700 He was one of those things where the thing goes back and forth, you know?

01:41:29.480 When you pull the ball, and you let it go, and then this one goes, and it's like that.

01:41:32.840 That was him.

01:41:33.560 He was just tick-tock my gutter right there, and he was just cruising around.

01:41:36.700 But yeah, he had a couple kids, kept them in the yard.

01:41:38.740 And I don't even remember what that story was about.

01:41:42.320 Kept them in the yard.

01:41:43.640 And that was the electric fence that he got.

01:41:45.180 And I don't remember how well that started.

01:41:46.600 All right.

01:41:46.960 Let me ask you, how far is St. Francisville?

01:41:50.260 Is that anywhere near where you were raised?

01:41:52.040 That's about two and a half hours from me.

01:41:53.080 You know who it was from there that you're making me think of?

01:41:55.480 John Morgan, the raging Cajun.

01:41:57.980 Raging Cajun.

01:41:58.620 I opened for him.

01:41:59.520 You did?

01:41:59.920 I've opened for him.

01:42:01.080 Bring him up.

01:42:01.840 He was a good storyteller, and he still is.

01:42:04.680 And he could get a crowd going.

01:42:06.160 God, he could.

01:42:07.020 Very high energy.

01:42:08.680 John Morgan, the raging Cajun.

01:42:12.100 That was at the Stardome.

01:42:13.320 I opened for him, or featured for him at the Stardome, and then in San Antonio.

01:42:17.640 Play a clip of his real quick if he can, or just, is he still doing it on one day?

01:42:21.620 Yeah, I think so.

01:42:22.860 God, there was nobody like him, and he had adopted.

01:42:24.680 Thirty years of being together, you make love, and you move on.

01:42:28.220 You get up, and you move on.

01:42:29.340 You ask the right questions.

01:42:31.420 You want some nut butters and milk?

01:42:35.640 Anybody like nut butters after bustling them up?

01:42:38.020 Boy, I'm going to tell you about it.

01:42:39.300 Would a glass of whole milk?

01:42:40.880 Shit.

01:42:42.560 Bitch, I'm at the point in my life where you can ask me,

01:42:44.860 you want to fuck, or you want nut butters and milk?

01:42:48.460 Is that whole milk?

01:42:52.220 Pour that glass into one.

01:42:55.460 I love him, man.

01:42:56.880 He was the best when I was starting out.

01:42:59.720 I mean, he's a great comedian.

01:43:00.880 There's a lot of comedians that people that, you know,

01:43:03.140 that don't get some of the acclaim maybe in some.

01:43:04.900 I know.

01:43:05.380 Do you remember little Mark Ryan?

01:43:07.860 Mark Ryan was a good storyteller, too, that was kind of like him.

01:43:12.340 He was a writer, wasn't he?

01:43:14.240 Mark Ryan.

01:43:14.960 No, I do remember Mark Ryan.

01:43:17.380 A little blonde-headed.

01:43:18.940 Yeah, that boy.

01:43:20.440 Oh, wait.

01:43:20.920 You know what?

01:43:21.380 I don't know if I remember him.

01:43:23.780 I worked with him.

01:43:25.540 That's cool.

01:43:27.580 Yeah.

01:43:27.860 It's hard to know.

01:43:29.100 He yelled a lot.

01:43:29.880 I probably did.

01:43:30.560 He yelled?

01:43:31.080 He yelled.

01:43:31.880 I mean, like, you know, high energy, like John Morgan.

01:43:35.960 Oh, dude, John Morgan.

01:43:37.380 But John Morgan lived in St. Francisville, I believe,

01:43:40.540 and he had a little Asian daughter.

01:43:42.060 They adopted a daughter, I believe, and he had this.

01:43:44.980 He would tell some stories about her.

01:43:47.100 He was one of the best storytellers that I ever heard.

01:43:50.560 He kind of reminded me of that Jerry Clower in some ways, you know.

01:43:54.120 But, yeah, there he is right there.

01:43:56.080 John Morgan.

01:43:56.520 Yeah, he's a sweet guy.

01:43:57.600 He stayed in touch with me.

01:44:00.100 Yeah.

01:44:00.320 Yeah, he was darling.

01:44:01.780 Raging Cajun, John Morgan.

01:44:03.460 Well, one of my good friends owns, I ask you that because one of my friends owns an inn

01:44:08.220 in St. Francisville that is beautiful, and I go there sometimes, and I just didn't realize

01:44:15.720 how, and I did the shows in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, and I thought, Louisiana is fascinating.

01:44:21.280 People in Louisiana are fun and wild and darling.

01:44:26.420 I had a ball.

01:44:27.780 Which one of the reasons, I think there's not a lot of comedy clubs there, because you can

01:44:30.680 have just as good a time talking to somebody, anybody, everybody there is an entertainer.

01:44:35.520 Everybody there is a comedian.

01:44:36.640 Everybody there, they're going to open their mouth, and you're going to hear something that's

01:44:40.000 going to make you smile or think or question.

01:44:42.760 They're entertaining.

01:44:43.800 It's an entertaining state.

01:44:45.660 You know, it's one of the most native states where people are born there that never leave.

01:44:50.780 I think like per capita, it's the number one where people are born that never even leave

01:44:55.800 the state.

01:44:56.180 They're born and then die right there, I think, because they just got everything they

01:44:59.040 need over there, you know?

01:45:00.660 Yeah.

01:45:00.860 So, it's a special place.

01:45:04.080 You're a special person, Leanne Morgan.

01:45:06.220 Thank you so much.

01:45:07.280 Hey, oh, my darling.

01:45:08.200 Thanks for coming and hanging out.

01:45:08.980 You don't need me to vacuum or anything.

01:45:11.200 I feel like-

01:45:12.280 I think we're good.

01:45:12.940 I need to do something for you for letting me be on here, because you're so darling.

01:45:18.260 You know what you can do for me?

01:45:19.440 What?

01:45:19.700 Really, honestly?

01:45:21.520 Come back next year, will you?

01:45:23.220 Oh, my darling.

01:45:24.360 You promise you will?

01:45:25.140 Do you mean it?

01:45:25.680 Yeah, because I've just had so much fun.

01:45:27.120 This has been a gift of my whole life.

01:45:29.140 It's just like, yeah, the past week, I did Joe Rogan's podcast yesterday, and it's like

01:45:33.840 sometimes it's like, you know, it's like, I think sometimes I live in a place where

01:45:38.260 it's like there's so much of me out there, like just online, and some of this could be

01:45:42.980 like paranoia or ego stuff.

01:45:44.880 I don't know, but it's still something that I think about sometimes that I just get,

01:45:48.660 like, I don't know.

01:45:49.940 I've just felt like nervous the past few weeks.

01:45:52.120 So to be able to sit down in a conversation that is easy and it's fun, you know, Joe is

01:45:59.180 like, he knows a lot of information, so it's like you're having to learn a lot, and like

01:46:02.220 sometimes I think I feel like I don't, it's hard for me to like chime in, because I don't

01:46:07.260 really know about stuff.

01:46:09.700 And this is just two people that don't know a lot, and we can just, which is what I love.

01:46:15.340 Oh, you angel.

01:46:17.020 When I watch you, I think, and I'm not blowing smoke up your butthole, when I watch you,

01:46:22.560 I think, oh my gosh.

01:46:22.960 Well, thank you for that also.

01:46:25.720 I think when I watch you, I think he's got the sweetest spirit.

01:46:30.240 You've got a sweet spirit.

01:46:31.760 Oh, thank you.

01:46:32.440 You really do.

01:46:33.220 And I feel like God gave me that discernment.

01:46:35.100 I know he did, and I've always, and I've said to John Crist and to Hugh and people that

01:46:41.300 know you, and they go, he's got the sweetest spirit.

01:46:43.820 They think it too, and just so bright.

01:46:48.820 You're such a bright light.

01:46:50.240 When I think of you planking and then talking about those hamster bones.

01:46:54.100 Oh, yeah.

01:46:54.740 And we were crying, laughing so hard.

01:46:59.640 There's just nobody like you.

01:47:01.540 And that's, and you know, in this business, I mean, you're just so unique.

01:47:06.040 There's just nobody like you.

01:47:08.200 And I hope you know that, and you give so much joy.

01:47:12.140 When I told people I was doing this, they said, please tell him hello from me.

01:47:15.540 My stylist, who's from Australia, who dresses Oprah Winfrey.

01:47:20.200 And Maria Shriver said, I love him.

01:47:22.660 She goes, I would marry him.

01:47:24.600 Everybody wants to have a baby with you.

01:47:26.680 I just want you to know that.

01:47:28.320 I would have carried one for you.

01:47:30.220 I think Chuck would have let me.

01:47:31.860 I was very fertile at one time.

01:47:33.640 I could have done it.

01:47:34.520 I'm very healthy.

01:47:35.280 I'm from farming people.

01:47:36.680 We killed our own beef.

01:47:38.540 I could have done it, and I would have done it because you've got to have some children.

01:47:43.300 You are so beautiful and fun, and your teeth are pretty.

01:47:47.140 Well, thank you.

01:47:48.660 Yeah, I appreciate it.

01:47:49.300 I want to have kids.

01:47:50.080 I want to have a family and stuff.

01:47:51.100 It's just been like, you know, it's tough.

01:47:53.500 It's like you've got to meet the right person, you know?

01:47:55.100 I don't know.

01:47:56.040 I met somebody that was kind of neat the other day, and so that was kind of cool because it

01:47:59.500 made me think like, okay, this is still possible, right?

01:48:02.200 Whether or not that ends up, like if there were ever anything there.

01:48:06.560 Because sometimes you start to be like, you know, you get in this space where just something

01:48:10.180 doesn't kind of click for a long time, you know?

01:48:12.700 Like you meet people when you go on dates, and like you have people that you just kind of

01:48:16.040 like are flinging with or philandering with, but when you're like, oh, this is the partner

01:48:20.280 that I want.

01:48:20.960 And I think like, are there something about this person just that would keep me interested

01:48:28.180 for a long time, you know?

01:48:30.980 Just something about them.

01:48:32.020 I don't know what it is.

01:48:32.980 Maybe they got, you know, it could be a damn mole or something, or they're missing a fucking

01:48:37.420 vertebra or whatever.

01:48:38.660 One of them bitches is off a little, you know what I'm saying?

01:48:40.800 Like, they got to, like just that.

01:48:42.100 But you want a girl that wants to have babies.

01:48:44.500 Yeah, I would like to have a woman that likes to have a, that wants to be a good mother.

01:48:47.500 That's super important to me.

01:48:48.580 That's hard working.

01:48:51.540 You know, I'd like to have, I want an attractive woman, but that's not the most important thing

01:48:55.980 to her.

01:48:56.620 You know, like, you know, you can be attractive, but if that's the most important thing to you,

01:49:01.060 that's, that's okay.

01:49:02.780 But that's not really what I need.

01:49:04.320 I need somebody, you know, like a, just like a teammate.

01:49:07.460 But here's the thing.

01:49:08.340 It's like, I don't, it's, it's just always hard to figure out.

01:49:10.300 But then once you start trying to figure everything out, that ruins everything.

01:49:14.140 So, you know what?

01:49:15.360 God's made it perfect for me that, uh, I got to do all this work, you know, I got to go

01:49:20.140 and do all these fun things and live out like a lot of my dreams, you know?

01:49:25.000 I know.

01:49:25.960 You know, you're living them out.

01:49:27.840 I know.

01:49:28.320 It's crazy.

01:49:29.120 You're living them out.

01:49:30.180 I'm living them out.

01:49:31.300 I could see this.

01:49:32.280 I knew this as a child.

01:49:33.460 Did you know it as a child?

01:49:36.300 No.

01:49:37.400 I knew something was wrong.

01:49:38.760 I didn't know what it was.

01:49:39.780 You didn't, because I've heard Steve Harvey say to his teacher, when she said, what do

01:49:45.080 you want to be when you grow up?

01:49:45.840 Because I'm going to be on television at 10.

01:49:47.720 And she said, no, you're not.

01:49:48.840 Made fun of him.

01:49:49.900 All right.

01:49:50.340 And then I heard Eddie Murphy in an interview on Today Show.

01:49:54.480 He said, I knew I was going to be famous.

01:49:56.080 I feel like in Adams, Tennessee, at nine or 10 years old, I thought, is something wrong

01:50:01.420 with me?

01:50:01.780 Because that's all I could think about, is I wanted to be in movies and in television.

01:50:06.900 And I thought, is something wrong?

01:50:08.760 Because nobody else is talking about this.

01:50:10.640 But I just knew it in my heart.

01:50:12.320 But then I, you know, I went to school and got divorced and blah, blah, blah, and all this

01:50:15.620 crap.

01:50:16.240 And then this happens to me at this time in my life.

01:50:19.140 But I could see it.

01:50:20.280 I didn't know it was going to be this unbelievable.

01:50:23.080 It's bigger and sweeter than I ever dreamed of.

01:50:25.460 Yeah.

01:50:25.620 But I could see, I could see this happening for me.

01:50:29.800 And I just wondered if you felt that way.

01:50:31.540 You didn't know?

01:50:32.600 I know.

01:50:33.140 You know, at one time I got voted most likely to either be on TV or succeed.

01:50:41.280 You know what?

01:50:42.220 I loved laughing with my friends.

01:50:46.220 I just loved it.

01:50:47.240 I loved making people laugh.

01:50:50.780 I just loved it.

01:50:51.980 You know what it was?

01:50:52.780 It made me think that I, it gave me some sense of worth, you know, it was like, you know,

01:50:57.120 I don't even know if I wanted to be joking around all the time, but I felt like it was

01:51:00.000 the only way that I knew that I had some kind of a value as a kid.

01:51:03.380 If that's kind of crazy, you know, and not to make like, like a sad thing, but I think

01:51:07.020 it makes sense as a kid.

01:51:07.900 You're like, oh, well, this is, if I do this thing, whatever it is, you know, if it's

01:51:12.040 a trick, if I hide my legs behind my neck, whatever, you know what I'm saying?

01:51:15.380 Or do that, you know, do, you know, some weird shit or something.

01:51:18.260 Like tuck my eyelids and whatever it is, then like people think it's, you know, I didn't

01:51:23.840 do any of those things, but if I say certain stuff, it's entertaining to people, you know?

01:51:27.560 So I was like, well, I got to just do that.

01:51:29.300 You know, I don't know.

01:51:30.720 Did I ever see it?

01:51:31.920 I don't think so.

01:51:33.020 I didn't go to a comedy club until I was in college.

01:51:35.300 I didn't really know it existed.

01:51:36.640 I'd seen like Chris Rock and I knew he was very, you know, he was just so funny in the

01:51:44.200 way he sounded and just him, you know, but I'd never felt like I was close to that.

01:51:49.920 I didn't know about comedy club.

01:51:51.740 I watched, I would watch, you know, David Letterman and Jay Leno and all that.

01:51:56.960 But I was more like, I wanted to be like Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, but I didn't know there

01:52:02.640 was, I thought, I didn't know how to get there, but then I came into the comedy store.

01:52:07.860 Chuck Morgan took me to the comedy store when we were dating and we came out to LA and I

01:52:12.200 said, I want to go on that Hearst.

01:52:13.920 I want to go in there and see where people have been murdered in LA.

01:52:17.480 Oh, it was beautiful.

01:52:18.320 Oh, it was fun.

01:52:19.560 And then, um, I want to go to the comedy store and little Dom Herrera was up there.

01:52:24.660 Oh yeah.

01:52:25.540 Um, and I, my heart beat out of my body and I thought, okay, that's it.

01:52:30.020 That I can do, I think I can do that.

01:52:32.240 And I want to do that.

01:52:33.680 But I, you know, I didn't know how.

01:52:35.340 But you just start and then, and that's the thing.

01:52:37.060 You know what?

01:52:37.380 Somebody said one day, they said, you kind of start this job and then comedy chooses you.

01:52:41.980 It's like, does your life work out enough for it?

01:52:45.340 Right.

01:52:45.500 Like there's so many great comics that, you know, John Morgan might've had to raise his

01:52:49.080 daughters and stuff like that and you're, his family.

01:52:51.440 And you know, he, he, uh, his, he had a beautiful wife.

01:52:55.800 I'm not sure if they're still married, but I remember.

01:52:57.460 They are.

01:52:57.980 And she's like a detective or an investigator or something because she was in a documentary

01:53:03.980 about a murder in Louisiana.

01:53:05.940 God, I love that.

01:53:06.980 And that's every woman's dream.

01:53:08.740 But no, he had a beautiful wife.

01:53:10.420 He just had such a great life that it's like at a certain point, you're like, well, shit,

01:53:14.400 this life's so great here that, that, you know, I'm not saying, but that, but, but it's

01:53:19.560 like, um, somebody said at a certain point, it kind of chooses you.

01:53:23.340 Can you still do this?

01:53:24.500 You know, I didn't like any commitment.

01:53:26.360 So I didn't like, so that was one thing that was perfect for me.

01:53:29.300 It was like, oh, I have a chance to leave.

01:53:31.480 I want to go.

01:53:32.560 If all I can say bye, I want to go, whatever it is.

01:53:34.860 I have somewhere else I have to be.

01:53:36.620 I don't have to be right here.

01:53:38.160 So it's been good.

01:53:39.720 You know, it's given me so many unique things.

01:53:41.520 I mean, now it's like more, it's fun.

01:53:43.080 Cause you get to have like unique experiences and like, you know, like you go places and

01:53:48.220 they'll let you be on a sideline.

01:53:49.380 Sometimes it's a, feels a bit extravagant for me.

01:53:51.720 And I wish that some of the things, it was a little more normal.

01:53:55.840 Um, some of the popularity part I do not like about today.

01:54:00.360 Um, a lot of that's from social media and stuff.

01:54:02.300 I'm not saying boohoo or anything, but some of it's uncomfortable.

01:54:05.600 You know, sometimes you want to just be like in a place where you're sitting there

01:54:09.200 with everybody else, just kind of enjoying the deal.

01:54:11.160 You know, um, that's the first time I went on the field was at, at UT and, um, you did

01:54:18.280 great when you came out there and waved.

01:54:19.460 I was like, she's a pro.

01:54:20.380 Thank you.

01:54:21.320 I was very nervous and I, and that didn't feel real to me.

01:54:24.440 Like I deserve to be, I don't know.

01:54:26.280 I just thought what in the world, what, what are they doing?

01:54:29.120 I love my school.

01:54:30.120 I don't want anybody to know my GPA.

01:54:31.660 I mean, I barely got out of there and they're so good to me.

01:54:35.140 They're so good to me.

01:54:36.080 Cause I'm the only comedian that came out of there.

01:54:37.940 And I guess, but, um, but that made me feel special, but I thought, what am I even, what

01:54:44.240 am I doing?

01:54:45.220 But it was wonderful.

01:54:46.240 And Chuck Morgan enjoyed it and all that.

01:54:47.980 I'm glad he did.

01:54:49.540 Well, you, and you know what, and you're inspiring young women to do comedy and inspiring young

01:54:53.180 Southern women.

01:54:54.000 And we need that.

01:54:55.160 We need like the South to stay alive through storytelling.

01:54:59.580 You know, it's like, we need that.

01:55:01.420 I would love to eventually get back to just telling stories from home.

01:55:04.940 Like just stories from growing up and locking it down more and really getting in and like

01:55:10.560 writing some tales from growing up.

01:55:12.240 And, and, uh, I hope that that's something that's part of my future.

01:55:17.060 Uh, you tell the best stories from growing up.

01:55:19.100 Well, I love them.

01:55:19.640 And it's something, you know, it's like, but it's like, yeah, it's just important.

01:55:22.900 And it's so good that you're doing it.

01:55:24.480 And you know, one thing I forgot about my wife.

01:55:26.360 I want a funny gal.

01:55:27.620 Some of the funniest girls I think are from Philadelphia and New Jersey.

01:55:30.220 I'll say that flat out.

01:55:31.300 They are funny.

01:55:32.360 They are funny.

01:55:33.660 And, uh, Laura Peake.

01:55:35.040 I mean, she's from Tennessee.

01:55:36.280 She's great.

01:55:36.800 She's married.

01:55:37.120 We've got her in.

01:55:37.780 I know she opened for me a lot and she would tell me that she'd be out on the road with

01:55:41.960 you.

01:55:42.200 She loved being out there with you.

01:55:43.860 We had so much fun.

01:55:44.520 She's very funny.

01:55:45.660 She's the best.

01:55:46.400 When you have a show in town, you're going to have to invite me.

01:55:48.440 I'm going to, um, I think we're going to finish up the end.

01:55:50.800 And here's why, because I'd rather you come back sometime and we get to do it again.

01:55:54.680 It's been so much fun.

01:55:55.600 Oh my angel, honey.

01:55:56.040 I'll make you a casserole.

01:55:57.840 Yeah.

01:55:58.140 You promised Morgan one.

01:55:59.620 Look, you make me one.

01:56:00.380 I'll give it to Morgan.

01:56:01.660 I'm going to see him tomorrow at Bible study, actually.

01:56:03.660 So you will see him at Bibles.

01:56:05.440 I think he's going to end up preaching that little thing.

01:56:08.720 You know, I don't, I have no idea.

01:56:11.780 I just know.

01:56:13.500 Uh, yeah, I don't know.

01:56:16.000 He's an inspiring guy.

01:56:17.240 He's, he's just, uh, he's an interact.

01:56:19.540 Morgan is there's, he is him, you know, he is him.

01:56:23.200 Authentic.

01:56:23.700 He is.

01:56:24.140 But you're authentic too, my darling.

01:56:26.240 Yeah, for sure.

01:56:26.640 And y'all are in a Bible study.

01:56:28.580 Is it a Beth Moore?

01:56:29.620 What are y'all studying?

01:56:30.860 I mean, it's, uh, I mean, tomorrow I think we're watching a movie, but it is, uh, it is

01:56:36.180 Bible study.

01:56:37.260 That's so sweet, Theoban.

01:56:39.560 I'm not sure what chapter we're on.

01:56:40.920 I shouldn't even have said that.

01:56:41.840 I'm not in one right now.

01:56:43.220 I used to be in one when I was growing, raising my children, but I don't, I'm not in one.

01:56:47.360 And I need to be disciplined to do it on my own.

01:56:49.760 Well, that's when you need the Lord the most of when you're raising those little hench

01:56:52.500 women, um, and men.

01:56:55.020 Um, but no, I'll tell him you said, Hey, and that was fun.

01:56:58.100 Even just to get to see you guys next to each other.

01:56:59.760 When I saw y'all at the game and talking to each other, like little moments like that,

01:57:02.820 like bring me so much joy when there's like two people that you think are like, oh, these

01:57:06.240 people are so interesting and they get to meet each other or talk or get to spend time

01:57:09.500 around each other, you know, watching stuff like that is fun.

01:57:12.620 Um, all right.

01:57:14.160 Uh, Leanne Morgan, unspeakable things.

01:57:16.880 Yeah.

01:57:17.340 It's out now your second special.

01:57:18.820 It's on Netflix.

01:57:19.280 You guys can go and watch it and you're going to be touring again at some point.

01:57:22.420 No, you're going to do the second season of your show.

01:57:24.660 I'll do the second and we'll wrap, I think in April and I'll start touring again.

01:57:28.500 Okay.

01:57:28.780 If I can come up with another hour, honey, I'm working on that.

01:57:32.980 You'll be fine.

01:57:34.580 Will I?

01:57:35.380 I think just have Chuck Morgan tell you the truth about yourself.

01:57:38.100 I know.

01:57:39.260 Yeah.

01:57:39.780 It'll hurt, but.

01:57:40.460 Critiquing.

01:57:40.960 Yeah.

01:57:41.820 Critiquing what I eat and if I'm eating too much fat, Lord.

01:57:46.560 He does give me a lot of material.

01:57:48.120 He does.

01:57:48.620 He does.

01:57:49.280 See, that's a blessing.

01:57:50.500 Yeah.

01:57:50.980 I think, yeah, you got somebody.

01:57:52.260 And when you marry and have babies, that's a whole nother, you're going to have to work

01:57:55.960 for another 30 years, honey, because you're going to be so prolific over all that.

01:58:00.160 Really?

01:58:00.660 Oh, yeah.

01:58:02.120 I think that was my best.

01:58:03.900 I'm ready for some of that.

01:58:04.820 I got to pray.

01:58:05.380 I got to spend more time in prayer, I think, you know, but it's okay.

01:58:09.540 Everything's fine.

01:58:10.760 Everything is wonderful.

01:58:12.560 Look at your skin tone.

01:58:14.240 Thank you.

01:58:15.580 I just, my hair is.

01:58:16.260 You got that full out of hair.

01:58:17.200 You didn't have to go over to Turkey.

01:58:18.680 It's so flunk this time of year.

01:58:20.020 You know?

01:58:20.600 I don't know what that is.

01:58:21.300 I'm going to have to call Hugh Houser.

01:58:22.980 Yeah, he will know.

01:58:24.040 Give me something.

01:58:24.320 Because he'll say to me, would it kill you to tease your hair, Leanne?

01:58:27.660 Yeah.

01:58:28.260 Let me get back there.

01:58:29.400 See if he'll put a little conditioner in it.

01:58:31.600 Nothing.

01:58:32.160 Yeah.

01:58:32.320 A root lift.

01:58:33.380 Yeah.

01:58:33.760 Maybe he'll just help me get a root lift.

01:58:35.980 Thank you for having me, you sweet angel from heaven.

01:58:39.120 Oh, my God.

01:58:39.880 You're the best.

01:58:41.240 Leanne Morgan, thank you so much.

01:58:43.660 The pride of Tennessee.

01:58:45.540 Here she is.

01:58:46.660 And grateful to spend time with you today.

01:58:48.420 Go Vols.

01:58:49.140 Go Vols, my darling.

01:58:50.440 Now I'm just falling on the breeze.

01:58:53.260 And I feel I'm falling like these leaves.

01:58:56.220 I must be cornerstone.

01:59:01.340 Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind.

01:59:06.280 I found I can feel it.

01:59:08.200 In my bones, but it's gonna tell you.

This Past Weekend with Theo Von - December 03, 2025

#627 - Leanne Morgan

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