This Past Weekend - Theo Von - #627 - Leanne Morgan

Dec. 3, 2025 - This Past Weekend - Theo Von

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#627 - Leanne Morgan

Leanne Morgan is a stand up comedian and actress. Her new special “Unspeakable Things” and her show “Leanne” are both streaming on Netflix. Leanne joins Theo to talk about surviving some wild years at the University of Tennessee, how her longtime husband Chuck convinced her to do comedy, and what country singer she owes a casserole. Leanne Morgan: https://www.instagram.com/leannemorgancomedy/ ------------------------------------------------ Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com ------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: Celsius: Go to the Celsius Amazon store to check out all of their flavors. #CELSIUSBrandPartner #CELSIUSLiveFit https://amzn.to/3HbAtPJ Shopify: Go to http://shopify.com/thispastweekend to get started building. Better Help: This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Go to http://betterhelp.com/theo to get 10% off your first month! PDS Debt: Go to http://pdsdebt.com/theo for your free, personalized assessment Modiphy: Visit https://modiphy.com/theo to get 50% off the last website you’ll ever need. Perplexity AI: Ask anything at https://pplx.ai/theo and download their new web browser Comet at https://comet.perplexity.ai/ ------------------------------------------------- Music: “Shine” by Bishop Gunn Bishop Gunn - Shine ------------------------------------------------ Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to: tpwproducer@gmail.com Hit the Hotline: 985-664-9503 Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: https://www.theovon.com/fan-upload Send mail to: This Past Weekend 1906 Glen Echo Rd PO Box #159359 Nashville, TN 37215 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoVonClips Shorts Channel: https://bit.ly/3ClUj8z ------------------------------------------------ Producer: Zach https://www.instagram.com/zachdpowers Producer: Trevyn https://www.instagram.com/trevyn.s/ Producer: Nick https://www.instagram.com/realnickdavis/ Producer: Andrew https://www.instagram.com/bleachmediaofficial/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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	Today's guest is a stand-up comedian.
	She's an actress.
	She's a writer.
	Her new special, Unspeakable Things, is out now on Netflix, as well as her series, Leanne.
	I had a great time getting to know her and spend time with one of my favorites, Leanne Morgan.
	No, just my hair.
	I feel like...
	I feel like my hair just got out of the dryer.
	You ever feel like that?
	Yeah, but you are stunning.
	I don't know if I want to be damn stunned.
	I'm not stunning.
	Maybe I'm stunning in like a, like if people are trapped in a mine or something and I walk up, they're like, God damn, who's that model?
	You know, if people have been trapped in like a mine for like a year.
	In Kentucky.
	But no, I think I've always thought you were beautiful.
	And I, you know, I don't want to be beautiful, Leanne.
	That's insane.
	What do you mean, handsome?
	Yeah, I just want to be a handsome guy.
	Yeah.
	Guy looks healthy enough, right?
	But you've got that beautiful skin tone.
	Oh, well, that's, I will take that.
	Thank you, baby.
	I know.
	You don't need a spray tan.
	Thank you, baby girl.
	You're welcome.
	I appreciate that.
	Good to see you.
	What's going on today?
	Oh, my darling.
	I'm so tickled to be here.
	Thank you for having me.
	This is my Super Bowl, as the young people say.
	I mean, I really feel that way.
	All right.
	I don't know if you don't know this, but I saw you.
	Was that on Last Comic Standing in LA?
	Gary Marshall was one of the.
	Gary Marshall from the department store?
	Who are you talking about?
	Gary Marshall that did Laverne and Shirley.
	He was one of the judges.
	Gary Marshall, bringing you.
	You were a baby and you did Last Comic Standing.
	I saw you do a set in L.A.
	It was on NBC.
	Okay.
	Gary Marshall.
	That was Last Comic Standing, right?
	April Macy was on there.
	Yep.
	She assimilated up Fallacio in her set.
	She did.
	You talked about your little daddy being old when he had you and all that.
	And you killed and I fell in love with you then.
	Well, you're an angel.
	And then I got to see you do a full set at the Hollywood Improv.
	David Spade was on the show with you.
	He came out first and I love him.
	And then you, I had my daughters with me and we laughed until we were weak.
	And you did a full plank on a stool for, I don't know, seven minutes.
	Yeah, and that's part of the ticket cost.
	I include that.
	And then you.
	That ain't extra.
	Okay.
	And then we got to meet you and you remember their names.
	Oh, yeah.
	You were darling.
	And there was a bunch of girls that looked maybe like porn girls that were wanting to talk to you.
	Oh, good.
	Had on high heels and tight breeches.
	God, I'm so lonely.
	But go on.
	And they were beautiful girls around you.
	God, I wish they were still here.
	But go on.
	And then, and then I always get all my friends are at Zaney's and they get, they always tell me they get to be with you and I don't get to be with you.
	Because I live in Knoxville or I'm out on the road working like a mule.
	That's what it is.
	Or living in Los Angeles.
	Well, when are you just going to settle down, Leanne?
	I don't know.
	I mean, I'm 60.
	Did you know I turned 60 in October?
	You are 60?
	Yes.
	Gosh.
	I hate to even say that in front of you.
	No, it's fine, honey.
	I didn't even know 60 could be like that.
	God, I want to be 60 just for a half hour with you.
	You know, my life.
	Thank you, my darling.
	You know, I've got two grandbabies.
	You do?
	Don't even, now don't tell me that.
	Just tell me you're 60.
	I like that part.
	Do you do, really?
	Yes.
	Well, yeah, I mean, congratulations, A, on having a family.
	Obviously, that's something that's super important.
	I met your husband, Chuck.
	I met him.
	Was that his name?
	You met Chuck Morgan?
	Where?
	Yes, I met him at the freaking with Morgan Wall.
	It was a game.
	Oh, yeah, at the ball game.
	Yeah.
	At the ball game.
	Go Valls.
	You know, I'm Evolved for Life.
	I know the University of Tennessee.
	Oh, yes.
	Chuck Morgan was there.
	That's right.
	Chuck Morgan was lingering around.
	We met Peyton Manning and he's worried to death about Arch.
	He's having to tend to Arch at Texas, who is beautiful and precious.
	I know his daddy, Cooper.
	I know Cooper, but I never met Peyton.
	So I was tickled about that.
	And then I know Tony Vitello were friends.
	Oh, he's great.
	Is he not darling?
	I know.
	He's great.
	I know that they're all going to miss him over there, but I know that they're all supportive of him.
	He's just the kind of guy you have to support as he makes those choices.
	But God, he is just a great guy.
	There's some great people over there.
	And yeah, and yeah, that was fun, though.
	Had you met Morgan before?
	Yes, honey.
	Morgan and I did a show together when he got kicked off for the boys.
	You told me that.
	That little thing was mowing, had mowing equipment.
	And we got both got asked to do a charity thing.
	I think they paid us $200.
	If they paid us anything, I can't remember.
	And he sang, and we were in the back, and I promised him a casserole because I thought he was so sweet.
	And darling, he goes, I'm going to try to make it in country music.
	And I thought, how's that little thing going to go?
	And not that I didn't think he was talented.
	No, of course.
	But I thought that that's just so sweet of you that you would even consider making a casserole for him.
	Well, he's the age of my children.
	He's great.
	And Darling.
	He is great.
	Yes.
	He does a good job.
	He's a smart guy.
	Yeah.
	He's a smart guy.
	He's competitive.
	And he just, he's, he's really fine-tuned on who he is.
	He's, you know, some people are willing to be this or that, but not Morgan is this is who I am.
	You know, I know.
	And he doesn't care.
	And that's a good place to be.
	You know, you don't care.
	And you do your own thing.
	Well, you've been working in comedy for how long have you been doing comedy for?
	If you don't mind if I ask you.
	Oh, no, I don't mind you, Angel.
	I was 32 when I think, when I, my baby was 18 months old, the first time I ever opened, I opened at Zane's, I'd been fooling around like at the Rotary.
	You know, like I'd take a baby to Mom's Day Out, go and do a little something at the Rotary, make $50.
	And now were you in East Tennessee?
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	And then I came to the United States.
	What county was that in?
	Hamlin County.
	Okay.
	And that's where you met Chuck Morgan?
	I met him at the University of Tennessee.
	Good.
	I knew it, huh?
	And what was he doing over there?
	Does he loitering or was he enrolled?
	I was probably the one loitering.
	Okay.
	He was enrolled getting a master's in MBA.
	And I was trying to finish up an undergraduate that took me several years, Theo, because I drank.
	I wasn't drinking.
	I was smoking cigarettes.
	That's fine.
	Die coking coffee.
	Oh, that's fine.
	And I was, and I was, I was not going to class.
	I was having to flirt with people to get notes.
	I didn't care.
	And I wish I'd have cared, but I was doing stuff like that and making out with people.
	Yeah.
	Oh, God.
	Like Italian boys, because I never seen one.
	Okay, so I was raised like right outside of Nashville in a town of 500 people, a farming community.
	So everybody was the same.
	So when I got to UT, I was like, oh, and I, you know, went to the club.
	Oh, yeah.
	If you see something new, you got to put your lips on it.
	Yeah.
	That's the Hamlin County motto, I think.
	But then Chuck Morgan came to get an MBA.
	And then was he on a horseback or something when you saw him?
	Was he on a damn king torso?
	What was he on?
	He was just on a damn big Dotson, wasn't he?
	Like, God, I think he's got a long one on him under him.
	Is Dotson a dog?
	Dachshund's a dog.
	I've had a Dachshund.
	Pudding.
	Pudding?
	Yeah.
	She was precious.
	Well, she bring up a picture of her.
	Look up pudding, Dachshund.
	She was a little bitty toy, little orange, overweight, had some thyroid issues.
	Loved to cuss.
	UPS trucks.
	But darling.
	Oh, like another baby to me.
	That's a beagle.
	That's my beagle right now.
	That is beautiful.
	That's huge.
	Lord, that was a dress from Dillard's from the junior department that was too tight on my back.
	Theo.
	Honey, look, baby girl, I know.
	I used to have shoes that weren't mine growing up, and I'd have to stuff the fucking edges of them.
	I'd have to put a hand towel around each one of my feet and put them bitches on and go to school.
	Look like a damn vaudeville character or something.
	Fucking just like, damn, I look like they used to call me Ronald McDonald's son, Lil Ronnie.
	Fuck his shoes, dude.
	It took me seven minutes to get off the bus from going down those steps, dude.
	Because if I got out ahead of those skis, baby, it was downhill, you know?
	It was just slope central.
	You kill me.
	Louisiana, is that where you were raised?
	Yeah.
	What part of Louisiana?
	Over in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.
	Okay, I just did Shreveport in Baton Rouge.
	Is that over in the hoop-de-doo part?
	Shreveport, and I'll say it out loud, has definitely gone downhill, which is interesting for a place that's flat land over there.
	Somehow it find a way to go down.
	I heard you said something about it when you got on stage.
	What'd you say?
	Everybody, they look like a damn missing person if you meet anybody in the city.
	The city is vacant.
	It looks like a movie set.
	I know.
	I mean, the buildings are empty.
	And they told me, they go, do not leave this hotel.
	But I love that theater.
	And they've got a little Elvis Museum in it.
	And Priscilla brought some breeches of little Elvis that you could not get your toe in.
	He was so tiny.
	That's beautiful.
	Bring up a picture of a little Elvis.
	How little did he get?
	Before he got in bad health, have you ever been to Graceland?
	Yes, I have.
	And you've seen his little, all those jumpsuits and his little waist.
	He was getting little as he got older.
	Look, there's little baby Elvis's.
	Look at little Elvis right there.
	And they probably had him damn singing already, probably 11 months old.
	They got him out there.
	I know, and his little daddy had written band checks just to connect care of their family.
	He couldn't help it.
	And he had dysplasia.
	That's how he got the hips going.
	You know that?
	No.
	Yeah, like an Australian shepherd.
	That's how it happened in the beginning.
	He didn't know what he was doing, dude.
	He wasn't.
	If you're like he's a dancer, no, he ain't damn.
	He just got a loose tail.
	Are you kidding me?
	Because you know that I'm gullible.
	You can tell that about me.
	You can smell it.
	Honey.
	Okay.
	Honey bunny.
	He had dysplasia.
	Baby girl.
	I'm joking with you.
	Yeah, he had dysplasia.
	He had a damn fucking loose tailbone, dude.
	He was missing a couple joists on that thing.
	And yeah.
	And he just had that TikTok in him, you know?
	Hell, we had an Elvis impersonator in our neighborhood.
	He had the same thing.
	He had a thing, this guy, he broke his leg, right?
	He had a couple children.
	He kept them on an electric fence in our neighborhood because they were his prized possessions.
	And I actually respected that.
	The rest of the kids in our neighborhood got real, you know, you'd be out there and the elements would get you, you know, people smoking or getting in trouble, drinking, or people fucking catching crows and fucking picking bugs off of them and shit.
	Just fucking loose cannon type stuff.
	Yeah.
	But this fella said, well, I got to take care of my kids.
	I'm going to give me a little electric fence, right?
	So he had that thing.
	And anyway.
	He kept people out.
	Kept the kids in.
	Kept the kids in because my people had electric fence.
	And that'll keep you in.
	You don't want to get buzzed by that thing.
	Uh-uh.
	You'll turn into a fucking doorbell for a couple of hours, dude.
	That bitch, you get hit by that bitch.
	We really were so bored, little country kids, that we would go and just stand on it to feel something.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah, honey.
	Oh, I remember one time I grabbed it on accident.
	I couldn't fucking close my mouth for fucking four days.
	I couldn't close my face.
	Were you from Farming Penny?
	You weren't from, you weren't rural, right?
	I couldn't finish a can of Campbells around that for half a week.
	I couldn't.
	And it was Daylight Savings Time too.
	So it was an extra hour I had to do.
	I was stuck like that.
	It's horrible.
	Dude, my sister, she stays.
	This is where I'm from.
	My sister and her boyfriend will stay up to watch Daylight Savings Time.
	I'm like, what in the fuck are y'all doing?
	They'll stay up to watch Daylight Savings Time.
	Yeah, they'll be like, it's 11:59 again.
	And then they're like, you know, they think it's great.
	I'm like, you idiot.
	It's the one night you get a free hour from God.
	It's God's God caring about you finally after all that year.
	When you feel good and you think, what happened?
	Oh, I got that extra hour.
	And they stay up and watch it.
	I'm like, what are you watching?
	But that's who she is.
	Is she the one that's got the beautiful babies, the boys that I've seen you interview?
	Those are, no, that's my brother.
	Has those two little boys.
	Those are good boys.
	I'll tell you this: my family makes beautiful children.
	Beautiful.
	Thank you.
	They are beautiful.
	And that's why I call you beautiful, Theo, and you need to receive that.
	Gotcha.
	Thanks, girl.
	My best Hugh Hauser impersonation, huh?
	He's skipping right now up 12 South.
	He knows every one of those girls, and they all love him.
	Oh, he is a just.
	I met him the night that for free.
	I came and opened for Lady Annabellum.
	Oh, you did?
	Uh-huh.
	At a thing, at a thing.
	Not a bridge to the bridge.
	And he was in the bank with his shirt unbuttoned down to his belly button with a fresh spray tan, hair extensions, and we fell in love.
	And so we've been good friends ever since.
	And now he's doing stand-up.
	Oh, he's the female Michael Landon.
	That's what I call him.
	He's known in a lot of homoerotic circles as a ginger Michael Landon.
	He will fuck your book club up.
	I know that.
	Dude.
	Just with his sheer entertainment and volume and attitude.
	Uh-huh.
	And then he also can tell you how to do a tablescape.
	But you asked me when I started doing comedy.
	I opened for Billy Gardell at Zane's when my baby was 18 months old.
	She's out there.
	She's my makeup artist.
	She's about to turn 28.
	Tess.
	So she's beautiful.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	And she's my makeup artist on my television show.
	And then she tours with me and tells people she's my caregiver now.
	Oh.
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	And she doesn't want to be.
	She wants to date, you know, and meet men.
	And it's hard with your 60-year-old mother.
	Well, it's hard once your mother, if your mother goes downhill early, that's what they call it, going downhill early.
	Yeah, you turn immediately like, and that's how to really, as a parent, I think that's what you want to gauge.
	You want right when they get out of high school or college, you want to hit that downhill.
	So they have to take care of you.
	So they can tend to you.
	That's how it used to be.
	They shouldn't get those free 10 or 12 years of joy into their mid-30s.
	And that's when you start capping off.
	But you need to catch it.
	You just, you got to hit it right at the right time.
	So I like your strategy, really.
	I do like that.
	Thank you.
	I thought when I hit it big, I would be younger and thinner, but that's okay.
	Yeah.
	Tell me about some of that.
	So what was that like going through?
	Because you, when do you say you should really start to kind of hit a big?
	And also, I love your show on Netflix.
	That was the thing that I started.
	Thank you.
	And you shared it.
	Thank you, my darling.
	Yeah, that's the thing I started watching.
	I was like, this is good.
	It reminded me of kind of like of Reba in a sense that it's a Southern show.
	They hadn't had a good Southern show in a long time because Hollywood hates us.
	So, but finally they're like so desperate because they realize that, oh, we are human at least, that we're going to put this great show on there.
	And they chose you.
	And was that scary doing that?
	Had you done that before?
	And then when did your break start to come?
	Because it kind of came a little bit later than maybe you expected or wanted.
	Oh, yeah.
	My break came in my early 50s and I was just about to quit.
	Oh, really?
	I was just about to quit.
	I was working a lot.
	I had done a dry bar.
	And my manager.
	Drive our comedy special.
	Yeah.
	And my manager at the time said, these Mormon people are doing these specials.
	And he said, nobody will ever see it.
	They're going to pay you a couple of thousand dollars.
	You're going to fly to Salt Lake City.
	We'll get some clips out of it where you can do more corporate.
	I was doing the Chamber of Commerce for Dubuque, Iowa.
	Oh, God.
	I love it there.
	Dubuque's beautiful.
	You know, Al Capone had a.
	Yes, in that hotel.
	I love that place.
	I know.
	And beautiful people.
	There's real pretty people in Dubuque.
	Iowa is some of the best people in the world.
	Clear Lake Iowa.
	Have you been there?
	No.
	So good.
	It's where Buddy Holly and them where they took off from that plane out of the surf ballroom.
	Oh, murder.
	Remember hearing about that?
	Yes.
	You can still go there.
	It's perfectly, you can still go.
	You can still see the payphone that they all called their family from before they took off out of there.
	Anyway, not to bring it down, but that is a beautiful place if you ever get to go.
	There's a lot of beautiful places in Iowa.
	But go on.
	So you were.
	So he said, Dubuque, Iowa.
	My career was in the toilet.
	And I thought, okay, I'll go and do this special.
	I did a bunch of old material that people hadn't seen.
	I was rusty.
	I think it sucked.
	And I did that special and some things went viral in it.
	But I couldn't sell tickets from it.
	I was getting work from it, but it wasn't the work I wanted.
	Like, what do you mean?
	Were you getting what?
	Pressure washing or what kind of gigs were you getting?
	Clothes.
	Because, dude, I've seen, I've had somebody, some guy saw me at a comedy club.
	He's like, man, I love you, dude.
	I want you to come pressure wash at the house.
	And I'm like, well, that ain't helping me.
	He's like, 200 bucks.
	I was like, I'll be over there.
	I'll damn spit really fast on that siding if I have to.
	I don't own a pressure washing machine.
	But yeah, there was like little corporate things, stuff that, you know, they pay you so much, but you got to pay your travel out of it.
	I'd get in an Uber with a man on marijuana, drive for two hours and stay at a, at a motel on the side of the road, think I was going to be murdered.
	I mean, it just was, and it was just not good.
	And I got very down.
	And I told Chuck Morgan, I said, I'm going to quit.
	And I'm opening up a hardware store.
	And because I always thought that would be fun.
	And he said, no, you're crazy.
	Did you really say that?
	Yeah.
	He goes, Leon, that's crazy.
	It's fine.
	You're fine.
	And just keep going.
	And so I hired these little guys that did social media for me, these young guys who knew how to do all that stuff.
	I didn't know.
	And they put out the clip where you showed that me in that tight dress from Dillard's from the Junior's Department.
	And I did a bit about, and I'd never done it before.
	I just had taken Chuck Morgan to go see Def Leopard and Journey at Thompson Bowling.
	And everybody looked sick and had plantar fasciitis.
	All the people looked banned.
	All the band members.
	All the band members.
	Oh, yeah.
	Def Leopard guy.
	I think he was deaf.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Tiny legs.
	Oh, God.
	Thin hair.
	Anyway, it must have resonated with people.
	And that went viral.
	And I started selling out all over the United States in clubs that would not have had me.
	Yeah.
	Wouldn't even answer your emails.
	Wouldn't answer?
	No.
	And then, or they'd had me and they're like, she's sweet.
	She doesn't get drunk, fight in the parking lot, but we're not having her back.
	She can't sell tickets.
	So I started selling out.
	And then I got my first tour and then the big panty tour.
	And I was in my early 50s.
	And you were in your early 50s.
	And what was that?
	Do you remember the first place that you played at that it was sold out at?
	Oh, gosh.
	Like first comedy club where you're like, oh my God.
	Yeah, probably, oh, like off the hook in Naples.
	Florida's Brian's Club?
	Yeah.
	Oh, Captain Brian's.
	Yeah, Captain Brian's.
	Dude, you're on stage and they're just serving shrimp right over your legs, dude.
	Big platters of shrimp.
	I thought it was a seafood restaurant, and I thought I'm in the wrong place.
	It is a seafood restaurant.
	A lot of clanking.
	But it was, but I like that stage and they were darling and I had a ball.
	Oh, no, it is a seafood restaurant and you're in the right place.
	It's both of those things.
	And that's what's amazing about it.
	Oh, Captain Bryan's done a great job over there of keeping comedy off the hook comedy club.
	That's what it is.
	Yeah, in Naples or Bricktown in Oklahoma, all these places that had never had me before.
	But that was the first place that you went.
	That was one of the first places.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I was on, I was touring for probably 12 years, 13 years out there.
	Maybe, I don't even know if it was probably about that.
	You know, just getting in there, lucky to be a feature, hoping you'd finally get to headline, hoping you'd hit a bonus you wouldn't.
	So you were at that kind of $1,200 a week mark, you know?
	Yes.
	And they'd give you $300 for travel, but you had to decide if you were just wanting to drive 18 hours or spend the $300 to fly over there, you know?
	Yes.
	Dude, hanging my food out.
	I remember in Kansas City, I would, it was cold out there.
	So I got my groceries and I would put them in a bag and hang them out the window at night because there wasn't like a fridge in the room.
	I'd hang them out.
	I'd get them in the morning, let them thaw out, and then have me a little lunch a few hours later.
	And yeah, just little things you would figure out over time.
	But there were some clubs that always, like Brian Dorfman at Zane's in Nashville, always let me play Cap City in Austin.
	I consider that my home club.
	Chuck Morgan moved us to San Antonio for his job.
	So I worked the River Center and Cap City in Austin, and they were really good to meet me.
	Wait, in Austin or San Antonio?
	Oh.
	San Antonio, the River Center, and then LOL.
	And then Cap City and Austin believed in me.
	And I would drive back and forth from San Antonio with little children.
	I had three babies, three, five, and seven.
	And in San Antonio, I'd get up at the late show when everybody was high on marijuana at midnight and talk about how somebody did it on a team all field.
	Because I was a mama.
	You know, I was different from all those boys.
	There was a lot of young boys doing Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonations.
	Oh, baby.
	So I stood out.
	But that's, you know, not a lot of clubs wanted to book me.
	Yeah.
	But I got to raise these children.
	I was raising children in Knoxville, Tennessee and Texas.
	And first of all, let me say this beautiful place, Knoxville.
	And also, I think Knoxville probably best place to see a football game.
	I think the best place to see an SEC football game.
	I haven't seen a lot of football games outside of the SEC, but man, Nealon, there's something special about it.
	It is.
	I just got to go to Old Miss and see their game.
	I saw that you were with Lane.
	And did y'all do hot yoga?
	Yeah, we did.
	He's been on a cleanse.
	I've said horrible things about Lane Kiffen on stage when I have, well, you know, he left us.
	Yeah.
	So I said some crap.
	Oh, and daddy leaves.
	But I'm sorry for it now.
	There we are right now.
	Because he's doing, he's, you know, he's, he was cute and there was a lot of girls.
	Well, you can tell I was raised by a single mother too with how I wear that towel.
	I'm going to go on ahead and say that.
	That's why.
	People are like, what are you doing?
	I'm like, what are you doing?
	Okay.
	With your dad.
	Okay.
	So you can tell that too.
	I am.
	And those are some wonderful ladies there that were training.
	They were, I don't know if they were trainers or something.
	One of them, I think they worked at Facebook Marketplaces.
	I don't know what one of them was actually going to buy a cat off a Facebook Marketplace.
	And I said, honey, she's like, I'm driving to Batesville to get a cat off a Facebook marketplace.
	And I said, baby girl, that's a bad idea.
	Okay.
	She said it's a $60 cat.
	I said, I'll give you $70 right now.
	Not to go?
	Yeah, just to get you a little nap or something, you know, just to watch cats on YouTube and get you a little shut eye.
	Oh, my Lord.
	I hope she made it.
	Well, I hope she made it too.
	And, you know, who knows?
	You know, you can't follow up on everything.
	But then you're so busy.
	You give them a little bit of advice, you know.
	If at that point she drives off to meet somebody off a damn Facebook marketplace trailer where they're like, well, we're going to add an addition to the trailer.
	That is when I'm like, do not do it anytime.
	And let me make this speech right now.
	And I'm going to put my hat on to make this because I don't like my hair today.
	My God, I need a wife.
	But what I'm telling you is this, okay?
	If you meet someone and they're like, yeah, we got the trailer and then we're going to add on to it.
	You're like, that, it doesn't work.
	It's not a realistic project.
	You can't just add on to a trailer with extra housing or quick creed or whatever they're usable type of shit, you know?
	Did you know that Chuck Morgan is in the mobile home industry?
	I could imagine it.
	I didn't know that.
	And did he put you in one?
	Yes.
	I lived in a double wine.
	And he clipped it and he said to me, we're just going to be there temporarily.
	Yeah.
	And it was big.
	You could ride a bicycle through it.
	Oh, yeah.
	But I was pregnant with my third baby.
	It was in the middle of nowhere.
	It was a hard time for me.
	Was it?
	There was a mom that lived behind us.
	She had a potbelly pig.
	It charged me all the time.
	It wasn't a big pig, but it was scary, you know, to have a little ping charging you while you're big pregnant, trying to get up in a double wine when you don't have stamps.
	Yeah, it's kind of like, yeah, definitely, dude.
	Chuck Morgan owned the business and had stamps sitting out in the field, several, and just forgot to bring steps home.
	So I had to pitch two babies up in a double wine, then hike my leg up, big pregnant.
	I mean, I had tested that baby.
	I was pregnant with her.
	Yeah.
	And we lived on it, and it was on a gravel road.
	And he said, I promise you, I'm going to, I'll make money.
	She's got big hands, I saw.
	So hell yeah, I can imagine that thing helping you balance on the way up a little.
	Oh, no.
	And then he dandy flipped it.
	But yeah, Chuck Morgan still works in the mobile home industry.
	Oh, dang.
	And I don't think, I don't know, maybe some people do try to build onto a mobile home, but I get what you're saying.
	Yeah, it's just when you could put a fire pit out in front.
	But I don't know.
	Do not try to put it inside.
	That's what I'm saying.
	Do not do that.
	That's a thing.
	You know, we're going to take my sister was like, we're going to tear down this wall inside and we're going to, you know, you don't need a living room that has a bathroom in it.
	Like, you know, but no wall.
	Did you ever live in one?
	I didn't live in one.
	We lived in an apartment complex that was sinking.
	So we'd sit.
	I remember we'd sit there at night and watch Unsolved Mysteries with mom and stuff.
	And one part of the fucking apartment after about the second episode, once like, once like full house came on, your fucking bottom was getting wet because it was just a, you could, the floor was sinking.
	There was like some sink in there.
	Some sinking.
	In the living room.
	And people would steal, or this is the worst part about our place.
	People would steal our the wood from our balcony.
	Let's see if you can find that picture.
	I've talked about this before, but people would try to steal the.
	So people.
	There was a balcony up on that top.
	Yes, there was.
	And the police were like, well, you have any pictures of it?
	We're like, officer, you don't think there was a balcony there?
	What do you think?
	We just live with a witch or somebody who just travels on just propulsion or something or some woman on her period who can just levitate out like that.
	What do you like?
	He's like, well, we need to see some images or something.
	And I'm like, it was just, that was a nightmare.
	But people would steal that and they would use it to build something at their house.
	And then we go get it back and get it back installed.
	If my mom was seeing a guy, we'd convince him if he was drunk to go get that wood back.
	There'd always be a little bit less of it every time he got it back.
	It was that sort of deal.
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	pdsdebt.com slash theo where are you and your family are you the baby no i'm the second one we have four children and i'm the second one so we had a uh yeah older brother two younger sisters what about you i have an older sister you do what she were pretty big deal in adams tennis of 500 people.
	Yeah.
	You know, we were tall, blonde.
	I played sports.
	She twirled.
	She was a majorette.
	And boys used to call and breathe into the phone.
	Oh, that's flirting where I'm from.
	Oh, she's beautiful, huh?
	Thank you.
	She was National Semiconductor.
	You're dressed like a damn dish set we had when I was a kid.
	That was at the Opry.
	God, that's great.
	Oh, my Lord.
	We both have an unrealistic hair color right there.
	We both gotten some dimensions since then.
	Yeah, a lot of your photos, you kind of look like an Asian woman that's dyed her hair to look American in some ways.
	Because of my eyes, do you think my eyes?
	No, I just feel like you are a beautiful lady.
	A lot of these pictures, I don't see you in them for some reason, but they look great.
	I'm just saying.
	And maybe I've seen a lot too.
	I've been on too many sites with Asians on them or something.
	But go back.
	I want to talk about your sister for a second.
	What's her name?
	Beth.
	Beth.
	Oh, she's beautiful.
	And so, what was it like having a sister like her?
	She was a majorette, you said?
	She was a majorette and, you know, 5'11, and she was in Miss Tennessee.
	Of course she was, dude.
	Any tall girl, they just will get it all.
	If you just happen to be fucking tall, I don't care for whatever reason or something.
	Maybe there wasn't a lot of gravity in the home or whatever, but whatever happened and you got to be tall, they were like, she's beautiful.
	You remember that?
	Uh-huh.
	And we, you know, when you're in, I graduated 42 people.
	I think she graduated with 20-something.
	Okay, so easier for her to do well.
	Yeah.
	And, but she was always very, and still is very prim and proper.
	And she went to Austin P.
	She was humping coming queen.
	And she was National Semiconductor Calendar on the, yeah.
	And then I went to UT and I was in a mess, a mess, a mess.
	I was flailing around.
	But were you dating women too?
	You were kidding me?
	No.
	Okay.
	I mean, I just didn't know how to date.
	No, I love men.
	Okay.
	Love them.
	I don't know how weird it got.
	No, I didn't go through that.
	Yeah.
	And were you knocked up outside of wedlock or not?
	No.
	Oh, she did pretty good.
	You know, oh, but, but they, oh, I did get, I dropped out and I got married the first time.
	It wasn't Chuck Morgan.
	I have a past.
	Who was it?
	It was a guy that was older than me.
	He went to UT.
	He had already graduated.
	Well, I think so.
	I think so.
	It just didn't work out.
	He had problems.
	It was bad.
	And I don't think he could help it.
	Oh, my God.
	I hope he's all right.
	Is he alive?
	No.
	God.
	Oh, that's sad.
	I'm sorry.
	Thank you for telling us about him.
	Oh, my darling.
	But you know, it made me who I am today.
	It's okay.
	It's okay.
	Yeah.
	And he was a beautiful, talented, talented, and all that, but it was bad.
	And I was dumb and 21.
	And then we're talking the late 80s.
	I still probably had some big hair.
	And were you listening to like any type of music that Annie Lennox?
	Okay.
	Prince, Billy Idol, Rick James, Nasty Rick James.
	Okay, so you guys were partying a little.
	I mean, I was dancing and smoking cigarettes, but I was not a drinker.
	I didn't care about drinking.
	And I didn't, I never did drugs because I'm scared of things.
	That is you, huh?
	I was, that's me 17, a junior in high school.
	Tess looks like you kind of, huh?
	Beautiful ladies.
	Oh, my God.
	And who is that?
	Me and my sister.
	Oh, I thought that was two of the Von Ericks.
	You ever seen those kids?
	The wrestlers?
	Yeah.
	Bring them up.
	Yes.
	Didn't you interview?
	Kevin Von Eric, we did.
	After that, I looked him up because it was so fascinating.
	As children, they were fascinating.
	They are fascinating.
	Great guy.
	But yes, some of the that picture room, I thought it was two of them.
	Well, yeah, we were little blonde-headed children, and our family owned the little grocery store in our town.
	Oh, I could easily is that all those wrestling boys?
	Yeah, the daddy sitting there, did he wrestle?
	Or he did, he wrestled too.
	Where were they raised?
	Uh, maybe East Texas, that's Kevin.
	And their little mama, you can tell she cooked.
	Oh, definitely.
	And she tended to them and got them casseroles.
	She did not have a choice to cook.
	I can't believe you gave Morgan a casserole.
	What kind was it?
	I didn't, I never got to fix little Morgan.
	He, now, he did take my Maggie, my middle child, on a couple of dates.
	Oh, that's beautiful.
	But she said, I think he likes wild girls that like to key cars.
	Oh, well.
	And see, my children went to a Christian school and were taught not to.
	But she said, I just, she thought it was darling.
	And she said, I think he likes wild.
	This was a long time ago.
	This four hit it big.
	He was, you know, he liked girls that like to fight in the yard.
	Yeah, dude.
	I could see that.
	I mean, yes.
	Yeah, and that's okay.
	There's pretty girls in Powell.
	They were all from Powell, Tennessee.
	Yeah.
	And he was a baseball player and mowed.
	A free fight.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And especially if he just mowed the yard.
	Yeah.
	Somebody needs to throw down in it.
	You know, that's what I'm saying.
	I know.
	And see, my sister and I and my kid, we don't like to fight.
	We're not fighting.
	No.
	I have a son, 32.
	He's not a fighter.
	They're lovers then.
	We're lovers.
	I interrupted you, though.
	So he owned a car dealership, you said?
	What were you saying before I interrupted?
	My little mom and daddy.
	No, I told you we were talking about, oh, the two little kids, go back to them as children.
	And sorry, I interrupted you and took you on this crazy thing where I compared you to little kids.
	With the wrestlers.
	Yeah, and I'm very sorry.
	But now here we have two beautiful children.
	Yes, that's me and my sister.
	And I think that was taken in the back of our, I think people could get their picture made in our grocery store.
	Oh, I love that.
	My family owned the little grocery store.
	And we're farmers.
	We have land.
	We still have farming.
	In outside of Knoxville.
	In the back of farming.
	In Middle Tennessee here outside of Nashville.
	On the Kentucky, Tennessee border near 101st Airborne, Fort Campbell, Clarksville.
	That's where I was raised.
	Oh, beautiful.
	But I went to the University of Tennessee and then, you know, married a bunch of men up there.
	But so we had, we had grocery store, and then my little daddy opened a meat processing plant and he did everybody's beef, deer, and hogs and all that.
	And do y'all do nuggets too or anything like that?
	No.
	God.
	It's kind of like now these fancy people that do grass fed.
	My people were doing that a long time ago.
	Yeah, well, I was from if they saw a cow eating grass, you'd be like, this thing's a little gay, you know, like it was feed only back then.
	You know, if you saw some grass, you're like, look at this thick bitch having a salad.
	You know, it'd be like, it was a different time.
	I worked at a place called Soup Galore.
	I worked over there.
	I love soup.
	Yeah.
	Enough people didn't love it like you did, I think, because we could not keep a strong clientele in there.
	Really?
	Well, it's just hard.
	And our big thing was it was supposed to be like the baskin robin of soups, right?
	Yeah.
	So they were supposed to have 31 soups.
	And I'm like, dude, we don't have enough.
	If everybody came in here and had two bowls of soup, they're like, well, maybe after the game, everybody will come in, have a couple bowls of soup.
	I'm like, there's not that.
	There's only like seven parking spots, too.
	It's like, it didn't even make any sense, dude.
	And I'd be back there just damn stirring like a bullya base or a fucking split pee.
	I mean, that shit would stop.
	Are there 31 soups?
	Is what I'm wondering.
	Oh, of course there are.
	Bring up a list of soups if you don't mind, brother.
	For the non-believers out here, for the Methodists, as I'll call them, okay?
	Bring up a list of decent soups.
	Put that on there.
	Tomato, French onion.
	That was an easy one.
	Cream of mushroom, that was pretty basic.
	We had that.
	Butternut squash, we didn't do.
	I've had that a lot as an adult.
	Do you like that, my darling?
	Because that's not a go-to for me, butternut squash soup.
	It's a rich thing.
	Like sometimes I'll be at a place where somebody will invite me to something where you have to have all your clothes on to eat.
	And hoop-de-doo.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	And there's nowhere to put your gum.
	So you have to swallow it.
	Do you get invited to a bunch of nifty things because you're so cute and fun and everybody wants to be with you and you're exhausted.
	Is that basically it?
	No, I don't think that's true.
	I do like one thing that was one thing that sometimes is neat, like my best friend went to Ole Miss.
	So I got to go to Old Miss.
	It was his birthday, right?
	So we went up to Ole Miss.
	And so I'd met Lane Kiffen from podcasting with him.
	So I got to like take my best friend on like this walk that they do at the beginning of the thing.
	But if you'll see, play that video.
	And I'll tell you when to pause it in just a second.
	Okay.
	Pause it.
	Right behind me on the right is my best friend.
	So he loves SEC football.
	He loves Ole Miss.
	I've never, in fact, I've only supported Ole Miss because he was an old miss guy and I love him.
	He's my, he's just my, we've been friends for children.
	His father convinced me to go do comedy.
	His father was a Jerry Clower fan and used to put Jerry Clower on the radio and on the CD.
	Yeah.
	But little things like that are great.
	Like I know you're doing, it's probably similar to stuff.
	I know you're doing the CMAs with Lainey Wilson, right?
	You're going to just guest with her on there for a little bit, which is amazing.
	Yeah, I get to intro somebody, but I get to be on stage with her for a little while.
	She and I played each other in Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud.
	You did?
	She invited our family to play.
	And then I did something else with her with CBS.
	So I love her.
	And she's the real deal.
	She's the best.
	I went and saw her and Ella Langley play not long ago, and that was beautiful.
	And Ella Langley, I got to meet her on the Today Show.
	Beautiful.
	Beautiful.
	Oh, y'all.
	Is she dating anybody?
	Huh?
	Is she dating anybody?
	I don't know a thing.
	I don't know anything.
	I mean, she's got beautiful bangs and legs.
	Did you notice that?
	I know she is a great performer.
	She is a firecracker.
	I know that.
	She's just a confident young lady, so talented.
	She is so talented.
	But I don't know.
	I don't know.
	If she's dating somebody, they're a lucky.
	They are very lucky because she's a doll, a living doll.
	She was with Riley Green, and I got to meet him.
	He was darn.
	Look at her.
	That doll.
	Oh, beauty.
	Beauty.
	Yes.
	Lainey's a beauty, too.
	Oh, she'll iron your fucking shirt with her stare, too.
	She could put, look, Ella will get something done.
	And Ella, where was she raised?
	Alabama?
	I think in the jungle book.
	Have you seen that movie?
	She is, eh?
	Wild one.
	And I mean that lovingly, Ella.
	She knows that.
	She is from Alabama, Hope Hull, Alabama.
	I know she just won a couple of sea-dews, I think, in a raffle down there.
	I saw her using them.
	They had a raffle down there at the hardware shop, and she won them.
	I remember my granddaddy, when we were kids, would take us over there.
	He'd like, we'll just go enter the raffles.
	It's raffle week.
	You go enter them.
	And then he'd go over there in the pool hall and smoke, and you have to sit out in his truck or whatever.
	Yeah.
	With a couple of stuffed hands.
	I think we were raised similar.
	A lot of people sitting smoking out in a truck.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	And the men would go cry behind the Wind Dixie.
	If things weren't going well, they'd park back there and cry.
	Oh, good chicken, though.
	Yeah, they had great produce.
	My buddy Robbie, my buddy Robbie Taylor worked over there for a long time.
	He was a steadfast employee there and went on to create some businesses of his own.
	But yeah, we'd go up there and watch a fellas cry over there.
	There were people crying outside of the Wind Dixie.
	In the back, not out front.
	If you were crying out front, that's a gay guy.
	You know what I'm saying?
	The real man parked and cried in the back.
	Just up there having a little too much trouble getting one of those big bags of ice out of the icebox thing.
	That's just a fella that's afraid to admit something to his wife.
	You know?
	Oh, okay.
	I used to go back when I was waiting tables and smoke with the line cooks.
	They're fun.
	They've gotten out of jail, had fun stories.
	First of all, if you consider the people that work at Winn-Dixie, the line cooks.
	No, the restaurant that I worked at.
	Oh, so those boys, those line cooks that I worked with, pretty fun.
	Criminals had a ball wanting to hear what they did.
	Where was his first job?
	So this was a restaurant.
	This was a restaurant.
	It was a real place.
	A real place where I met Chuck Morgan when he came to get his MBA.
	And I was finishing up that undergraduate that took me many years.
	And this is in Knoxville.
	In Knoxville, Tennessee, the restaurant where everybody wanted to work because it stayed on a weight all day long.
	You made big money.
	Oh, I like that.
	Because you seem like a woman that's probably slept away to the top of a Marie Calendar.
	So you know what I'm saying?
	I'm not judging you.
	But go on anyway.
	Sorry, I shouldn't be talking while you're here.
	And I'll say this: that place was nice.
	That fucking pie aquarium they had at that time.
	That Marie Calendar.
	You know, I've never been in one.
	Are you talking about a real Marie Calendar?
	There were restaurants.
	Yeah.
	Where were they?
	I've never been in one.
	I don't know.
	You know, they had, I think they had one up there towards Missouri.
	They had one, and it was, I think it was in the same town as they had.
	You ever place that Lamberts, the Throat Rolls?
	You ever been in that place?
	That was that?
	Yes, I think I've been in the Lamberts.
	Marie Calendars is based out of Mission Vieo, California.
	Oh, I did not see that coming.
	Okay, were you living in Los Angeles when I saw you do last Comic Standing?
	Were you out there living as a young, young, young, young boy?
	Because I see, I was a little mama out in the middle of nowhere wanting to be with y'all.
	I mean, but I mean, I wanted, you know, I wanted to be one of the cool kids at the comedy store.
	And I would, you know.
	And where were you at that time?
	This is when you were working at that restaurant.
	No, this was when I started doing Cap City Comedy Club and all that.
	And then, and then he got, Chuck got promoted.
	And then we came back to Knoxville where the corporate offices are.
	And that's when I, well, I mean, I worked, but I, you know, nobody cared.
	Well, honey, I don't even have fucking long socks.
	Look what I'm wearing.
	Cute, very cute.
	Very lanky.
	Your ankles look nice.
	Oh, thank you.
	I got a spray tan for you.
	You did?
	Yeah.
	Somebody came to my home and did it.
	That's nice of them.
	Yeah, but yeah, I wanted to be out at the comedy store and all that and wanted to be like you.
	But was there a thing like, was it, what was it like really having the children and you're wanting to do this?
	Like, did you have to say, like, okay, I can't do it these years.
	I can't do it this time of year.
	Were there times you had to set off or did you not be able to do that?
	Because I know sometimes it's like you get a week, you're like, that's the week I'm working.
	You know, I mean, that's how it was for me.
	Like, I didn't have, I had friends for like 12 years that I was out there touring, but I didn't see them that much.
	I was gone.
	If I met a girl, I'd start to get to know her.
	I was gone.
	I came back in town three weeks later.
	I didn't remember who she was.
	I didn't know who I was.
	Yeah.
	You know, just things were, it was hard to keep things together.
	What was that like for you out there?
	I mean, I just, I took any job I could get and I tried to stay on stage when I could.
	And at times I would go on a little tour with like two other female comedians because Blue Collar had blown up.
	And so, do you remember Eta May?
	A comedian named Etta May.
	Yes.
	I toured with Karen Mills and Etta May.
	We called ourselves the Southern Fried Chicks.
	Oh, yeah.
	She plays a character.
	Eda May.
	She used to do the funny bone in Baton Rouge sometimes.
	Yeah.
	And she was, she lived out in LA for and was in movies and stuff.
	Wow.
	I don't know if I ever got to meet her.
	She's out there working theaters and clubs still.
	Eda May.
	So funny.
	And who else?
	Karen Mills, who is a good friend of mine who opens for me when I tour.
	Oh, yeah.
	I got to get to see that Ed May because I remember, yeah, like just you see the flyers at the clubs at the funny bone.
	That's who was coming through.
	That's back when Baton Rouge had a funny bone and they don't have one anymore.
	I don't think Louisiana even has a comedy club anymore.
	Well, I know in Knoxville, there were side splitters, but you would come to the Tennessee theater.
	When I was working the side splitters.
	Yeah, by the time I got to Knoxville, I was already doing a fees you or yeah, I know you were at the Tennessee Theater.
	I was outside of clubs.
	That Tennessee theater is awesome.
	Beautiful.
	But I would do, I would work when I could.
	I did a lot of private things.
	I did clubs when they'd have me.
	And I always had television deals, though, going.
	That's the thing.
	You did?
	I had Hollywood after me.
	Well, honey, shush.
	You had damn it.
	But they wouldn't make it.
	I mean, I had big television deals, but they wouldn't make it.
	They weren't making any of our shit, but at least you had the deal.
	I did, and that kept me going.
	You know, I'd get down and I'd think, well, something must be telling me to keep going because I would have a, you know, I'd get a deal with ABC and Warner Brothers.
	And then I had one with Nick at night and then Sony.
	And then, so the one I had with Chuck Laurie, that was my fifth.
	For this new show?
	Uh-huh.
	And that, that, I mean, for Lee?
	Yeah.
	And this went like he just said, we're doing it.
	And Netflix said, we'd love for you to do it.
	And we got to, I got an unbelievable cast.
	And who played your sister in it?
	Kristen Johnston from Third Rock from the Sun and Righteous Gemstones.
	Y'all are so good.
	And she is brilliant.
	And she had to tell me what all they were saying to me.
	I didn't know.
	I go, what is all this?
	And then Ryan Styles from Whose Line Is He Anyway?
	Brilliant.
	Oh, yeah.
	Celia Weston plays my mother.
	She played my mother in the only movie I've been in with Reese Witherspoon and Will Farrell.
	You're cordially invited.
	She was my mother in that.
	Blake Clark, who's in all the Adam Sandler movies, plays my dad.
	Blake Clark plays your dad.
	Yes.
	Oh, that's beautiful.
	And he is darling.
	He's great.
	He was in the water.
	I thought he passed away.
	No, honey.
	He is my dad.
	I swear to God, I went to this guy's funeral online during COVID.
	Oh, my God.
	Good to see him alive.
	And he does great.
	I mean, he is man, love this show.
	And I think it's because of him and Ryan Styles.
	And then my love interest on it is Tim Daly from Wings.
	So I made out with Tim Daly.
	I never watched Wings.
	And is he a gay fella straight?
	He's straight.
	He's married to Taya Leone, you know, that beautiful actress.
	He is?
	Yes.
	He's married to Taya Leone.
	Yes.
	They just got married.
	They've been together for like 14 years.
	Oh, that's wonderful.
	She is in my favorite movie ever, Family Man.
	With Nicholas Cage.
	Oh, my gosh.
	Okay.
	I loved her in Spanglish with Adam Sandler.
	Wow.
	He plays Agent Andrew, my love interest, because my husband, Ryan Styles' character, has walked off and left me after 33 years of marriage.
	You sure you weren't just looking for something?
	And do you have any clue?
	Is there any has he called or anything?
	Yeah, he's still around.
	He is?
	Yeah.
	That's, yeah.
	That's Blake Clark.
	We've got two grandbabies together in this.
	God.
	And has this when it fine, when this started all, like, yeah, what were your, like, I cried every day.
	I was like, what the, what have I gotten myself into?
	It was so scary.
	Yeah, when this finally happened, what was it like?
	It was like, oh, no.
	I've got to learn a script every week, and I'm in every scene.
	I'd never done that before.
	I was overwhelmed by that.
	That's a lot.
	It's a lot.
	You got 250 people there staring at you, a set, darling people that have worked for Chuck Laurie for years.
	They're counting on you.
	Yeah, they're counting on you not to screw up.
	And yeah, and for people that don't know, the show starts off where you just found out that your husband cheated on you.
	Kind of, that's where you girls are spending so much time in the laying in the bed together and kind of just getting through life.
	I remember that.
	We had 16 episodes.
	And at first, Netflix was going to do, because, you know, they only do things in eight or 10 episodes.
	So they were going to drop eight.
	And then my new Netflix special dropped November the 4th.
	And they were going to drop another eight this coming spring.
	And then they got a wild hare and dropped 16 at one time, first time in their history.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	So it all got dropped.
	And it did really well.
	I'm so thankful.
	I was scared to death.
	I thought, is anybody going because it's a multi-cam.
	And they said to me at Netflix, we think you can bring back the multi-cam.
	And I'm like, don't put that burden on me.
	Yeah.
	And then, and then it did really well.
	And I think people miss that format.
	I think people think of it as comfort and comfort food kind of.
	And people really liked it.
	Well, I think all of them are thankful.
	On a streamer, you can be a little bit more edgy, right?
	You're not as like locked in.
	It's like a lot of the cable laws.
	What things are allowed on streaming that aren't allowed on cable?
	Can you find, is there any information on that?
	Can you look up on I think Ryan did say SHIT?
	Can you look that up on Perplexity real quick?
	They wanted to probably cuss a lot more, but let me see.
	You know, I didn't want it.
	Streaming services allow certain types of content that cable television cannot correct, right?
	Streaming platforms often feature uncensored profanity, explicit sexual content, nudity.
	I was not nude.
	Okay.
	Graphic violence and mature themes that would not be allowed on cable channels.
	There are fewer restrictions on the depiction of drugs, controversial political topics, or socially sensitive material in original programming produced for streaming.
	On streaming, creators are less limited by requirements around content rating or time of broadcast that apply to cable and especially broadcast TV.
	Cool.
	Examples of content differences.
	Shows and movies on streaming may include swearing, nudity, sexual situations, and violence without censorship, while cable versions of the same content are often edited or bleeped for language, blur nudity, and cut explicit scenes.
	I did carry a gun.
	You did?
	Well, that's fair.
	I saw it was breaking in.
	It's a Tennessee state law.
	You can't.
	Well, Ryan Styles said to me, I didn't know how to hold one.
	And he goes, you know how to hold them, Lynn.
	You're from Tennessee.
	I go, we're not just going around packing guns.
	My people call it packing.
	And I said, I mean, I know people that have them and hunt, but my daddy never did.
	And I don't know how to, I think people think in Tennessee, it's like the Wild West.
	Yeah.
	Oh, people think it's shoot them up out here.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like, people are just like, yeah, if it gets a little weird, you can shoot.
	But I do like the fact that if somebody thinks they're going to walk into a place and get a little weird, they're going to have to know that there's six or seven men and women and people, you know, women in the middle who are willing to pop or willing to in the movie theater.
	I know.
	Yeah.
	There's some bad mamma jammas taking care of business, which I like.
	The show is great and people are loving it.
	How many shows?
	What season are you guys on now?
	Do what?
	You only have your first season?
	Yeah.
	I go out.
	Are you going to do a second season?
	I go out.
	Thank you, my darling.
	I go out in January and start again.
	And we'll test out there with you with your daughter's season.
	She's about to get her union, so she works on the set with me.
	Okay.
	And is my makeup artist.
	And also, I mean, it's just good to have family out there because Chuck Morgan's still working a big job.
	And I don't want to be out there by myself.
	It makes me feel better to have one of my children with me.
	My oldest child's married and got my two grandbabies and working.
	And then my middle child lives in, I told you that at the YouTube all game, the one that went to Chipotle with Morgan Wallen.
	She lives in New York and works for the food bank.
	She's a nonprofit.
	She's always worked in nonprofit.
	And this baby went to school for makeup for television and film in Manhattan.
	That's beautiful.
	I know.
	So I get to, so they get, you know, she takes care of me while I'm out there.
	Because I need, I can't, I got to learn all this stuff.
	Honey, you can't just be just wandering around, just wondering if your bra fits all right all day.
	Right.
	And then I've ever been a tight bra?
	Yeah.
	God.
	What's that like?
	Bayon.
	Is it?
	Bayon.
	Yeah.
	I don't want to be so pitiful that I'm like marine carrying like men had to carry me around.
	Yeah.
	But I do.
	I need people to tend to me now.
	I never thought I would get that way, but I mean, I got to learn a lot.
	And my girlfriend's back home, they're like, just drink some wine at night.
	You got so much on you.
	I go, I can't drink wine and sweat in the bed all night and not be able to learn a script the next day.
	I can't be drinking.
	And you wake up, yeah, and your mouth is all dried out and stuff.
	Uh-huh.
	And it makes women's blood vessels expand and you sweat in the night.
	I hate to even tell you that.
	God.
	When you get to age, it's not girls your age.
	They're not sweating.
	I don't know.
	They might be beginning to sweat.
	Some people are.
	Yeah.
	People are losing water.
	I know that.
	People are losing weight.
	And some are retaining it.
	Well, people are losing weight too.
	I mean, everybody's on those GLPs or whatever, the XPBs or something, the C BC.
	Yeah.
	People are on all that shit.
	I mean, they busted a lady selling Ozimpic outside of a damn vineyard vines out there.
	You know?
	She was outside of the vineyard vines.
	Selling it.
	Selling dope or selling GLP ones.
	Selling Ozampic, baby.
	Yeah.
	And all you can do is pray for her.
	I know.
	It's hard.
	It's everybody's going through something.
	Everybody's going through something.
	Yeah.
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	They don't F around.
	What was your town like?
	Like, was there any like lore in your town?
	Like any famous people that came to visit or did anything like, was there any like, I'm trying to think of something interesting that happened.
	Honey, there was a demon.
	Of course.
	The Bell Witch.
	The Bell Witches from your town?
	Yes.
	Oh, my gosh.
	You've heard of the Bell Witch.
	We had some ghost hunter children, and I don't know if something happened to them through the church or something.
	They didn't tell me everything that happened to them.
	We had two young fellas who were touched by the spirit and out there hunting.
	The bell witch.
	They went to the Bell Witches.
	That is the only time that the government got involved in investigated a witchcraft situation.
	Right.
	Honey, that's where I'm from.
	Oh, those little boys.
	They look like they love a ghost.
	Sam and Colby.
	Yeah, Sam and Colby.
	Sam and Colby.
	Great guys.
	But yeah, so that's, oh, so that was your.
	That's where I'm from.
	And I was raised, yes, with a demon.
	They talked about it all the time.
	If there was a 4th of July picnic, they put a dummy in a coffin and said, that's the witch.
	That's Kate Bats.
	So that was big lore around y'all.
	Oh, yeah.
	And the Vanderbilt football team, fraternities would come down, torment each other, beat the windows out of our church.
	Everybody had to pass money around to put more windows in the church.
	Oh, that's dogs that had bullet holes that couldn't explain why they're still walking.
	Crows comes in.
	She comes in the, she comes in the form of a black dog, a black crow.
	Crazy music.
	And I was raised in it.
	Yeah, she just showed up dressed like Chris Robinson.
	Yeah.
	It was crazy.
	And people come from all over.
	They still come.
	And during October is the Bell Witch play, and it sold out.
	And I was, I went, my sister got me tickets a couple of years ago, and I sat by a guy that works at Warner Brothers on the pit.
	Wow.
	Was it pretty?
	And shrinking.
	He came to see it.
	He was drinking?
	Shrinking with Harrison Ford, that television show.
	Oh, God.
	Shrinking on Apple.
	Does he a Warner Brothers executive?
	I'm sorry.
	Is it worth going to see that?
	Yeah.
	I think if you, do you want to be around a demon?
	I don't, but do you want to go?
	Do you like scary maus?
	I know you've got the Holy Spirit and that probably bumps you.
	I think it doesn't make me feel great, but I do like to go over there and just every now and then make sure that the devil's still out and about so I know that the path I'm on is what I'm supposed to be doing.
	Right.
	I get that.
	I get that because the devil is at work.
	Okay, there's a cave.
	You can go in the cave and there's Native American bones.
	There's animal bones.
	The witch is in there.
	People come from all over to go through that cave.
	I've never been through it.
	I didn't want to go.
	And my daddy didn't want me to go in it.
	Oh, my God.
	And what town is that in?
	That's over in Adams?
	That's in Adams, Tennessee, on the Kentucky-Tennessee border in Robertson County.
	Wow.
	There's been movies written about it, books.
	See, children that grew up in Tennessee used to have to do a book report on it, but now nobody, I don't think they make them do it.
	The Bell Witch Cave story is one of America's most famous.
	Mysterious events experienced by the Bell family in Adams, Tennessee between 1817 and 1821.
	The haunting began when John Bell, the family patriarch, encountered a bizarre creature resembling a dog with a rabbit's head on the property.
	The dog with a rabbit's head.
	Yeah, I haven't heard that one.
	It sounds like a hormone issue, but I don't, I don't know a lot.
	See, Betsy must have been beautiful.
	And then John because there was a Betsy.
	Let me see.
	Oh, disturbances escalated to eerie.
	Sorry to interrupt you.
	No, that's all right, Angel.
	Disturbances escalated to eerie noises, objects moved by unseen forces, bed sheets pulled away.
	And this could have just been a pervert.
	And violence towards the family, especially daughter Betsy Bell, who experienced beatings and fainting spells.
	Dang, John.
	I know the real story.
	You do know the real story?
	I do.
	Then set us straight.
	Okay.
	First of all, let me say that before Nashville became the capital of Tennessee, it was going to be Adams because of our rich dark fire tobacco crops that grow.
	We grow tobacco for Copenhagen and Skull, but because it was so rich in the land for tobacco, it was going to be the capital.
	But then for some reason, they made it Nashville.
	John Bell ran for president at one time with the Whig party.
	So they were very prominent family.
	Lucy must have been a beauty.
	A man came through town, was in love with her.
	Lucy or Betsy?
	Lucy.
	Okay.
	Wait, Lucy, wait, Leah, Lucy's the daughter.
	Betsy was the mom.
	Okay.
	John's, okay.
	So Lucy, she did not want that man.
	And so to torment her, he could throw his voice.
	They said he was a ventriloquist.
	I know what you're going to do with that.
	A guy like Frank Caliendo.
	Hey, I'm John Gruden.
	You need an exorcism, Betsy.
	Go on.
	Hey, Lucy.
	But they like blamed it on a slave.
	God love him.
	And it wasn't him.
	It was this man that got a slave.
	Every time a slave was like, what did I do?
	This was a man that could throw his voice.
	He was a mathematician, a ventriloquist, and he fooled them all and then poisoned John Bell and killed him.
	And then Lucy didn't know it.
	And I think Lucy ended up marrying him.
	That's how it works.
	That's how it works.
	Hey, they say shooters shoot.
	And women are attracted to Twisted.
	Are they?
	Yeah.
	So and trauma.
	So, and you know, you want to fix people because we're nurturing.
	So anyway, and that is the Bell Witch and the whole thing.
	And people come, and it's always on the front of USA Today is one of the oldest ghost stories.
	And it's part of Tennessee history, like you said.
	But that's what I was raised in.
	That's what we're known for.
	Now, maybe they're known kind of for me.
	Maybe.
	Oh, yeah.
	I think so.
	Me and a witch.
	I think she's beaten me.
	I think it depends.
	How many tickets do they sell every year to that event?
	I sell more.
	Let's go.
	Let's just say I sell a few more tickets than the Bell Witch.
	They sell quite a few tickets.
	But not, but I'm, you know.
	Yes, I know you did.
	I did some small arenas this year.
	Hell yeah, you did.
	And I'm just joking.
	You know that.
	I know, but that is popular.
	And, you know, people that love ghosts love ghosts.
	Oh, yeah.
	And people are speaking and, you know, channeling the Beatles and all that kind of crap down there.
	But I don't like all that.
	I believe in demons.
	I don't like all that.
	Well, you know, we talked, this is one thing that we just did talk about when Sam and Colby were here, these ghost hunter children, who I'm not saying were victims of sexual crime and short.
	I have no idea.
	I don't know what their lives were like.
	Some of that's alleged.
	I'm not saying that.
	I read that somewhere.
	What I am saying is that, yeah, they said, well, we talked about how it's just like if you summon something, it'll show up.
	It's like having faith, asking God to show up in your life.
	If you sit out there and ask for it to come, it'll be there.
	And that's sometimes why I think the devil's winning because you have people that are spending more time summoning the devil and you have people that are sitting here asking God to show up.
	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, she'll appear.
	Okay, I was at the stardome in Birmingham.
	In Birmingham, doing.
	I finally got to that place.
	I'd emailed them 11, 12 years, and then finally, one day that just came up on the schedule.
	Now you're going to be at the stardome.
	And I bet you killed.
	I was so excited.
	Well, I was in the back.
	You know, they have several little, I guess a little theater in the big theater, a big room.
	And there was the girl that you've seen in a million posters that go around to comedy clubs and talk to dead people.
	I mean, she talks to dead people and she says in the audience, who, you know, your uncle so-and-so's here.
	Yeah.
	She was in the green room at the stardome and she said, and she was a doll, and she said, oh, yeah, there's, they're in here right now, dead people.
	And I thought, surely to goodness, our sweet Lord would not, if I die, I don't have to be in the green room in a comedy club with a half a bottle of mustard with, you know, something on TBS on the TV.
	I'm surely I'm not going to be stuck in a green room, you know?
	Yeah.
	I don't, surely he'll let me walk somewhere fun, not where, you know, the pillows don't match on the sofa.
	That hard ass sofa there a lot of times.
	God, this, oh, green rooms are crazy.
	And then sometimes like, this is a green room.
	I'm like, this is a bathroom.
	It doesn't have a toilet in it.
	I'm like, you're like, sometimes the green room is because sometimes it's just a curtain.
	People don't like, oh, there's nothing like that.
	All the clubs over the years that are coming up, all the places you go do, you know.
	But I think it's like that about everything.
	You think like backstage then is going to be amazing once you get to certain levels.
	And then sometimes backstage is you're just hiding behind the edge of the stage, waiting to walk out there.
	You know, it's all exciting, but it's always just about putting the show on, making sure that it looks good out there.
	Backstage is never, not a lot of money spent backstage.
	It's kind of dusty.
	Yeah.
	But isn't it thrilling, though?
	I've watched you in big places and women yelling and all that.
	I mean, do you?
	Some of those were men with long hair, but yeah, those are men that have had sex changes, but happy they're there.
	We did have a guy peeing a woman's hair one night out there in Colorado.
	And we had to give her a free shirt.
	Because somebody peeing in her hair?
	Yeah.
	Just drunk and crazy?
	Or what was it?
	I don't know.
	She wanted a hoodie, too.
	I'm like, baby girl.
	Okay.
	You know, the shirt, they're pretty good shirts.
	I know.
	Probably $65.
	Oh, we don't see.
	Yeah, we actually sell pretty cheap on the road.
	You do?
	Yeah, we don't sell like super expensive.
	See, my people don't want a big hot hoodie, but I've got women in menopause and their husbands.
	I do skew a little bit younger now.
	Yeah.
	But I don't know.
	I love a hoodie and I think a hoodie's cute.
	And I can see where one of your hoodies would be, darling.
	But I got to go with a V-neck.
	Everybody's sweating.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, you start, the fire starts to have to get out, you know, the heat starts to pop out after a while.
	And I don't even, somebody does the merch now.
	It's like a, that's like a ghost.
	I never see them.
	I don't know.
	I know, I can't even get a hold of my own shirts.
	People are like, can you get me a shirt?
	I'm like, I don't even, you know, I just go online and order it and pay for it and buy it.
	Yeah, I can.
	But it is kind of interesting once it, you know, you get to certain spots and or certain parts of your career, if you're fortunate enough to have some of those moments.
	Yeah, what an exciting ride that you've had because did you ever feel like women don't get the appreciation that men did?
	Did you feel that in comedy?
	I always hear women talk about that.
	And I don't know.
	Everybody was always good to me.
	And I never, if I didn't get something, I thought I didn't think of it as man-woman kind of thing.
	I just thought I'm not ready or I'm not edgy enough.
	You know, Comedy Central was big.
	I would always audition for stuff, didn't get it just for laughs, didn't get it until later.
	And I never thought of as it a man-woman thing.
	I just thought it's not my time or I got to get better.
	I don't have that whole man-woman thing.
	I just don't.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I always, I know there's a lot more male comics and all that, but I did not feel anything.
	Nobody was like disrespectful to me or that I didn't deserve something.
	I just didn't get that.
	I don't know if people didn't want to bully.
	I don't, because I'm a mom.
	I don't know.
	I have thought that some people don't, people are used to seeing men be the jesters, right?
	And there is something, or I think it used to be more this way because I don't think it's this way anymore.
	That it used to feel like the jester is supposed to be a male.
	You don't want to see a woman, you know, it's like you want to, you don't want to see a woman like imagine if it's something that's kind of vulgar or something like that.
	You know, that there's, it's not as popular of a view of women.
	So I think it took some of it, I think it took time for the view of that to be more possible.
	Does that make any sense?
	Yeah, that does make a lot of sense.
	That makes a lot of sense.
	Now it's like, yeah, you're like, oh, that chick's hilarious, you know?
	But I think there was probably, I could see there being like, you know, a generation or two ago where people were more like, oh, I can't believe she's saying that.
	Or I think also they want a woman to be pretty and not making faces where she's not as attractive or something.
	I fought with that.
	Like I wanted to be pretty, but I didn't want to look stupid.
	And when I was younger, now, I mean.
	Whatever we can do.
	Whatever we can do.
	And Christian Johnson would say to me, because when I first saw myself on TV, I thought, oh my gosh, where's my chin?
	And I need to get a facelift.
	And, you know, Hollywood, how that does that mess to you.
	And then, and she goes, Leighn, think about the funny.
	Think about Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore.
	And, you know, instead of just fixating on trying to be youthful and the prettiest and all that.
	And I do think that's wonderful that this has happened to me at my age because I don't have that pressure of somebody.
	I mean, you look at Nikki Glacier's legs.
	She is stunning.
	You know, she is a beauty.
	Oh, yeah.
	Like a couple of damns.
	She's got some Charleston shoes on her, baby.
	Things are nice.
	Yes.
	All these young girls that are, you know, so pretty.
	And I think I feel like that even puts more pressure on them that I don't feel that pressure anymore.
	I used to feel that pressure.
	Yeah.
	So it really kind of, everything kind of happened at the most perfect time, you feel like?
	Oh, I know it did.
	Right.
	And that's kind of a silly question because it's to me, it's all on God's time.
	And what else am I going to do about it?
	I know.
	And you think about if I always think if those television deals have made it, these children would not be who they are, my kids.
	Was there any real tough moments with your kids where they kind of held it against you that that was more of a thing or something like that?
	No, no.
	And really, I wasn't, I was not working.
	I mean, I was working, but I was always there for them.
	And I never had to hire anybody that nobody ever resented me for anything.
	I did miss a few things because they were growing up.
	Yeah.
	But, but not bad, not bad.
	I got to be there with them.
	And when I did that movie with Reese Witherspoon, she said to me every day on that set, you got to raise your own children, Leighn.
	She did.
	And I did.
	I saw her the other day.
	I just met her first time.
	Beautiful.
	Is she not beautiful and smart?
	Connor.
	I met her kid, Cullen.
	She had two boys with her, Cullen.
	Oh, Tennessee's the baby.
	Colin and Tennessee.
	Those are the names.
	I just met her the other day.
	Yep, beautiful, nice.
	We chatted for a little while.
	Actually, I told her I would check in and just say, hey, yeah, I got to say hello.
	But she's smart.
	Ava Deacon and Tennessee Wave.
	Deacon.
	You saw Deacon, and I was trying to think of that baby's name.
	And he's stunning.
	No, she has two little ones, though.
	Tennessee's the baby.
	She had the first two by that Felipe boy.
	Okay.
	Ryan Felipe.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And then this baby.
	I got to meet.
	Maybe he met all of them.
	Maybe his friend was there.
	I thought it was.
	Oh, I did.
	He probably had a little friend with him.
	He might have had a damn friend.
	And then I met him.
	And she said he loves living in Nashville and gets out and plays in the neighborhood and does all that.
	They were joyful children.
	I mean, yeah, I met them at the Vanderbilt game.
	Yeah, that would be the tough part.
	I wonder, was it tough balancing any of that?
	Is it tough?
	It wasn't tough.
	I need to tell people.
	It was not tough because I had Chuck Morgan that was an executive that made good money.
	So Chuck could help provide everything.
	I didn't have to.
	I mean, I took horrible gigs.
	I did horrible gigs like everybody, but I wasn't sleeping in a Ford Festiva.
	Right.
	And we, yeah, my mother had a Ford Festiva, actually.
	And we used to have to make jewelry in the trunk in there at night.
	Making jewelry.
	We'd sit in there and make little earrings and stuff like that and bracelets and stuff.
	Well, I sold jewelry when I started.
	That's how I got into comedy.
	Chuck Morgan moved me to Bean Station, Tennessee, in the foothills of the Appalachia Mountains.
	And I sold jewelry like women sell Mary Kay and Tupperware because I'd had my first baby and I wanted to stay home with him.
	And I was supposed to be talking about jewelry in these women's living rooms.
	And I would, you know, I started some of my first material there talking about breastfeeding or hemorrhoids or whatever.
	Got laughs.
	Women would book me far in advance.
	And then that gave me the confidence to do comedy club.
	By the time I got to San Antonio, I had a comedy club and I did open mic and then all that.
	But I sold jewelry.
	I wasn't making it in the back of a Ford Festiva, though, my darling.
	Well, yeah, we would just do it in there because it was quiet in there.
	It was a kind of thing.
	And you need quiet to make jewelry.
	Yeah, it was just peaceful in there, kind of, you know, we'd go sit out in the car a lot at night.
	I would.
	I'd go sleep out there sometimes.
	My mom had these boxes.
	She used to deliver cookies.
	My mom mostly did delivering.
	So she was always boxes of some shit at our house, boxes that is like little dabbies, or what are we talking?
	Oh, she worked for this cookie company for a while called Vortman Cookies, I remember.
	And I'd go sleep out there.
	And that Ford Festiva, that bitch would barely go, dude.
	That thing was probably had about 400 pounds of cookies in that bitch.
	Car only weighed 80 pounds, dude.
	Dude, if you dropped something near the car, you could pick it up and look under there for it.
	It was so easy.
	Look at that car.
	Yeah, that one right there.
	Yep, that was it.
	Ours was gray, though.
	That thing was small, brother.
	And my mom could beat all of us while she was driving, play us like a damn drum setting there while she was driving, dude.
	And my long-necked brother hit his symbol ass.
	But she could pop, up.
	We were misbehaving in that little car.
	But yeah, there was never any peace in the area.
	But I'd go out there at night sometimes and spend a little bit of time.
	I'd go lay on those boxes of cookies.
	It smelled so good.
	They had gingerbread cookies too around Christmas.
	I'd go lay on there and just smell that gingerbread and just pretend I lived in England or something.
	Oh my darling.
	I love that.
	And my mom had a big rug in her room and it was a cow.
	I don't know what it was.
	It was an animal that had died.
	Real?
	Hyde?
	Real hide.
	I think it was an animal.
	Hell, it could have been a damn doberman.
	I don't know what it was, but it was big.
	You know what I'm saying?
	It was pretty big and it looked like somebody milked it.
	And you laid on that.
	Oh, I'd lay on that thing and just smell that animal and just think of like being out on like the prairie or something or being like a cowboy or something like that.
	I remember that.
	Well, your imagination, honey, it was fun.
	But yeah, the damn apartment was sinking and people would steal that wood.
	I just want to finish the love life here.
	So, Chuck Morgan, you meet him over there in Knoxville, and he walks into where and sees you at the restaurant that I was working.
	And what were you doing there working?
	What was your I was waiting for tables and I was standing waiting for my table to get seated.
	And he came through with a training group and he's six foot four.
	And I said, You're tall as a tree.
	And he says, Sorry.
	And I thought, another butthole's come to work at Grady's.
	Yeah.
	And I thought, stay away from him.
	He's not fun.
	And he just would like stand next to me, you know, and kind of lurk.
	And then we'd be in.
	I don't know if you like shade, you mean?
	I love how you can't see the positive in it, Leanne.
	Go on.
	And then we would have shift meetings, and I'd be eating a baked potato with some sour cream and butter on it and maybe cheese.
	And he would, I remember the second thing he said to me was, You don't need to eat all that fat on your baked potato.
	And I thought, man, what a butthole.
	I mean, he doesn't need to sit by me.
	Leave me alone.
	The next time, I think I said on the back there doing ketchups or something, I said to one of the girls working, I love your Dooney and Burke purse, girl.
	The next day, he brought me a Dani and Burke purse in a big box with a bow on it.
	And then started doing all my side work.
	And if I, if I needed, had a TS, he would say, I'll take your shift.
	I'll give you the money.
	And started like pursuing me, wooing me.
	And see, I had been through a divorce at 23.
	I was divorced at 23, which how redneck is that?
	Were you living in a group home?
	Where were you living?
	No, well, I roomed with two boys that were in the basement.
	I was working behind a clinique counter.
	Honey, that's a group home.
	I think it's a halfway house.
	Go on, though.
	And they said, there's these new apartments.
	Do you have a wreath or not?
	Wreath or no wreath?
	No wreath.
	Yeah.
	And they said, one of them worked in the shoes and one of them worked in security.
	And they said, there's a new apartment complex being built in the fort by UT campus.
	If you, Lou, they call me Lou.
	They go, do you want to share an apartment with us?
	We'll keep you safe.
	We'll be in the basement.
	There's two down below the steps.
	You can have the, there were two bedrooms up.
	We didn't have a fourth roommate.
	Except one time this little boy moved in there for a little while that wanted to be a weatherman.
	He did not have it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Sometimes that's a gay guy, too.
	He was gay and darling.
	And we did each other's hair and had a ball.
	Okay, but 200% chance of sunshine.
	I'll tell you that, baby.
	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.
	But, you know, some people just don't have that support behind them.
	Oh, God.
	I don't think he ever got to do the weather.
	But anyway, I don't know how he came in.
	But anyway, I took care of these boys.
	They were dating and doing, and I was kind of like the, not the mom.
	I was 23 years old, but I made a good rotel dip.
	I liked to make over them.
	They'd have their girlfriends over.
	They'd have their boyfriend, guy friends, fraternity boys.
	And so it was something to help me get over this divorce and have, you know, and have friends and all that.
	And it turns out Chuck Morgan was in their fraternity and was in NBA school with one of them.
	We made that connection later.
	But by then, I had been through a horrible divorce.
	I'd cut all my hair off.
	I had all short, not shaved, but short.
	Like, were you going to join the Air Force, that type of shit?
	If I had had the guts, yeah, but I didn't.
	I'm sissy.
	But I didn't want anything to do with men because I was so hurt and all that.
	And then Chuck Morgan just would not take no for an answer and wooed and wooed and wooed me and bought me gifts and paid my rent.
	And, you know, later now in interviews, he brings it up and acts like he resents it.
	I had to pay her rent.
	I go, nobody asked you to.
	First thing he told me.
	I had to pay her.
	He had a damn invoice written up in his phone.
	He said, I'll email it to you.
	I said, look, but I'm.
	He probably kept that receipt.
	But did you finally, was there a moment you realized you loved him, kind of, or did it just kind of?
	Yes, I fell in love with him.
	And then.
	But was there a moment you did or just kind of slowly build up?
	It slowly built because I did not, I was having trust issues because I had been through something terrible.
	And I told him, I've been through something terrible.
	Don't woo me.
	And he does not take no for an answer because he's a mobile home salesman.
	Oh, yeah.
	They are, they got a lot of testosterone.
	They're very dominant.
	And the first thing you tell them is no.
	Yeah.
	And they don't take no for an answer.
	They can sell.
	I mean, he's been successful.
	Yeah.
	He does not take no for an answer.
	He still does it.
	Oh, when you're slinging mohos, dude, that shit's fucking.
	You got to, you got to.
	It's lucrative.
	You can't give up.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Warren Buffett Company, Berkshire Hathaway.
	Anyway, yeah, he would not leave me alone.
	And then he said, when I get a job after MBA school, we'll get married.
	And then I was cocktailing.
	He was a bartending by then.
	And he broke up with me.
	What?
	Yeah, he broke up with me for no reason.
	What?
	No reason.
	Well, he said that I smelled from the cigarettes and he could not take it anymore.
	But I don't think that was the main reason.
	I did smell.
	Marlborough Lights.
	Oh, yeah, they're good.
	They're good.
	Loved them.
	I wish they were healthy.
	Anyway, he had just, I don't know what he was going through, but he broke up with me.
	And then he bought a used mobile home business up in Bean Station, Tennessee, where there's no women his age.
	I think that was also a factor.
	He gets up there.
	There's women working at the bank, you know, in their 40s, had a hard time.
	Okay, so then I'm down finishing up my degree.
	I went to Fort Lauderdale on spring break, got a tan.
	I was a third whale with another company.
	It's all matter, bitch.
	The sun hitting everybody.
	Yeah.
	And he had never seen me with a tan.
	By then, I was working behind another counter.
	I had like four jobs, you know, trying to make it.
	And he saw me with a tan and then said, can I buy you a pair of tennis shoes?
	And I was like, maybe.
	And then I took him back.
	He bought me a pair of ASICs.
	Oh, God.
	They were nice.
	They were pretty nice.
	They were nice.
	Yeah.
	And yeah, and he wanted me back.
	I had been dating a long-haired boy that was an artist who was poor.
	Poor.
	And I do like a man with health insurance.
	I got to tell you, I like a man that when he takes you to Costco, he buys the toilet paper.
	He doesn't say, let's split it.
	Yeah.
	I don't like that.
	Yeah.
	So this was a long-haired artist.
	And one of my roommates said, either Lou's got a date or we're being robbed.
	And he did kind of look like my sister.
	But anyway, Chuck found out.
	Yeah.
	He was a pretty guy.
	He was pretty, but he had a bicycle.
	He didn't own a car.
	He could make mayonnaise from scratch.
	And that was pretty nifty.
	Oh, my God.
	And that was considered also a hair.
	People were putting their hair back then.
	Remember that?
	Yeah.
	People put in their hair.
	Deep condition.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And he also, I've thought about this the other day because it was fall.
	He made pumpkin cheesecake.
	He said, I'm going to, this was, Lord, what was this?
	The early 90s.
	And he goes, you know what?
	I think pumpkin, canned pumpkin would be good in a cheesecake.
	And I remember thinking, I don't even know what you're saying.
	Who is this fruit wizard over here?
	Yeah.
	Who is this fucking Halloween fruit wizard doing that crazy shit?
	I mean, that was considered damn experimental at the time.
	I know.
	He really was, you know, kind of a savant.
	So then he said to me.
	He was in over his head at a damn Marie Calendar.
	I'll tell you that.
	That's for sure.
	And he rode a bicycle and the bicycle had a sticker on the back of it that said, Burn Fat, Not Oil.
	And I was driving a Toyota Corolla.
	Ooh, those are nice.
	That my little daddy bought me because I had been driving after a divorce 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.
	Did it have one of those lights on the outside of it?
	Remember those sometimes?
	You get those police vehicles, people with that auction.
	That was the big thing in our town.
	Somebody get him a damn auction vehicle, them bitches.
	Go on, though.
	And so the long-haired boy said to me, If we marry, I want to stay home with the children and you be the breadwinner.
	And I broke up with him that day.
	And I was like, I'm not, I don't have any earning potential.
	And I need somebody who's a hunter and a gatherer.
	Yeah.
	Like Chuck Morgan.
	I've never had to worry about Chuck Morgan.
	If whatever happens, if the world's coming to an end, Chuck Morgan will get out there and dig ditches or drive a truck or do whatever.
	He'll be fine.
	He'll be fine.
	He can make it off of flat rock.
	He can make a living off of flat rock.
	Amen.
	So, yeah, so that we married, and then that's when he took me up into Appalachians.
	Because, yeah, once you get something good, you go hide it near the mountain.
	You got to hide it somewhere if he's a man.
	So he put you over there.
	He put me up in those mountains.
	Bean.
	Bean Station, Tennessee.
	Bean Station, Tennessee.
	Pull that up.
	I want to see that beautiful joint.
	And it's beautiful looking at the mountains and the lake, but we didn't have that.
	We didn't have that kind of view.
	Very tiny town.
	There was an IGA grocery store.
	I remember those.
	Uh-huh, and I liked it.
	They were good.
	And there was a post office, and his business was right behind the post office.
	And he had that business at 27.
	He bought that business and was running and had employees.
	It was car wash or what was it?
	Use mobile home refurbishing business.
	Oh, I like that.
	And I worked for him a few weeks, and we don't work well together.
	And I, honest to goodness, I know that that helped start my comedy career because I saw things you've never.
	I saw a family drive up in a gremlin with the wind out and a nine-year-old smoking a cigarette, looking for a single wide.
	And they came in the office, and the grandmama said, or the baby said, give me a light, mamma.
	She lit her cigarette off of that, her grandmama.
	She was nine.
	And I thought, okay, I need to go home.
	I need to go home, get pregnant.
	Oh, yeah.
	Because I can't take this.
	I mean, it was a lot.
	Oh, yeah.
	I want something to, I want something to come out of, climb out of my body and start smoking.
	Yeah.
	But I, yeah, it was.
	My husband is very loving and giving.
	And there would be, like, if a family didn't have a home, there was a little old woman that didn't have a, that wanted a house.
	And he said, she said, I can make you blankets.
	And so he took a blanket that she would make every few months.
	And that was her payment.
	So Chuck Morgan also had a mobile home park and bought all the children their Christmas.
	He would come home and say, we've got to get a Justin Bieber doll, ASAP.
	And I'd be like, okay.
	So then Chuck went to work for a big company because he would give everything he had away to everybody.
	And he still does.
	He still is very giving and loving, not to his own family.
	No.
	Not at all.
	He capture you and put you in the hills.
	Or tells me that I don't need to be flying first class on tour.
	So, because all these boys have these big buses and stuff, these comedians have, I am in a Mitsubishi rental car.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	This baby and I share a hotel room.
	I talk about that in this new special on Netflix that dropped.
	That's the truth.
	If people watch this, Chuck Morgan wants us to share a hotel room.
	She's going to be 28 years old.
	We are sleeping butt to butt in a king.
	God.
	Yeah.
	And he prefers us to eat the free continental breakfast.
	Some of them now went.
	I will say this.
	The ones at Hampton Inn got better.
	They did an upgrade about nine years ago.
	Yeah.
	That I respected.
	You could start to see it.
	They put like pictures inside of the elevator.
	And I was like, okay.
	Okay.
	Okay, baby.
	And they had that little omelet you could get with cheese in it.
	That was good.
	And they started to get that thing, the waffle maker.
	Yeah.
	But then somebody fucking leaves it on.
	You have to turn it over.
	It's very hard to use.
	I watched somebody, you'll see somebody get burned.
	There's a lot of issues.
	I wonder if they're still keeping those.
	But Hampton Inn.
	But they make a good waffle, those things.
	They've done a great job.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And you know what?
	Hampton Inn's clean, clean, you know.
	Of course, man.
	Yeah, those are the days, you know.
	Well, I'm still in them.
	I'm still in them.
	But, you know, that's love.
	He was not used to this.
	Like, I didn't make money for years.
	I mean, I'd make a little bit of money and get my children Santa Claus, get everybody a haircut, not save for taxes.
	He'd be real mad, you know, come April.
	But then when this started happening, you know, he's just not used to it.
	It takes your family a while to figure out what's happening.
	The baby knew what was happening because she's out there with me.
	He's like, this could end tomorrow.
	Yeah, he just, yeah, he's just looking at the balance sheet.
	When you guys get home, it's never great.
	You know, who spent $60 at a damn Wendy's, you know, and it's just like, well, you know.
	Uh-huh.
	Or in an airport, one of those, you know, you got to have some magnesium for stress.
	Oh, yeah.
	Let's get mosques.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And how long have you guys been married now?
	It'll be 34 in a day.
	Oh, it's beautiful.
	I had three babies and two grandbabies.
	And everyone asks, what's the secret to 33 years of marriage?
	I say it's a lot of praying in the bathtub.
	It's hard.
	Tornado prayers kind of.
	Yeah.
	It is, it's hard.
	And you just got to fight the big battles, not the little ones.
	You know, just let things roll off your back because it's a lot to live with somebody.
	And it's not easy.
	It's not easy.
	And Chuck Morning and I are both very opposite.
	He's very introverted, very anal retentive.
	Everything's got to be in its place.
	I'm an artist, Theo.
	Yeah.
	My junk drawer is pretty bad in my kitchen.
	But I've raised these children.
	They're fun.
	Like if I, he's very well educated and loves school.
	If he had been at home with them, I've always said if he went traveling, they would end up in Harvard with a nervous tick.
	But they had me.
	And we went to the zoo and we went to Dollywood.
	I didn't let them skip school, but we had a good time.
	I love that.
	And they want to be with me now.
	Of course they do.
	You know, they're fun and they want to be with me.
	But they're not over.
	They do great, but they're not.
	He's an overachiever.
	Not us.
	Never enough, never enough driven, driven.
	I realize now I'm kind of driven in comp in my stand-up.
	I want things to be like this special coming out.
	I worried my, I told you at the UT ball game, I'm worried sick.
	I just, you know, it's just, it's never good enough for me.
	I don't, you know, I wish I could do it a hundred times more, even though I don't, because it'll give me the shingles.
	I don't want to do it again because it'll give me the shingles.
	Unspeakable thing that just came out on Netflix.
	Congratulations, your second one.
	Yes, thank you, my darling.
	My second one, and um, it went to number one.
	And then, you know, in my mind, I'm thinking, oh, nothing else came out that week.
	Raw wrestling will be out Monday.
	That'll knock it out.
	Yeah.
	And then the squid games, the little children who are, I don't even know what that is.
	But my, okay, my television show had to compete with, that went to number two.
	That had to compete with those girls that were killing those boars in their panties.
	Oh, I don't know if I saw that.
	Was it Hunting Wives?
	Oh, I haven't seen Hunting Wives.
	Is it good?
	It is kind of, it's nasty.
	If you like a good, nasty, there's some lesbian going zone.
	Oh, I've heard about this.
	And they're killing boars in their panties.
	People are watching Mormon wives right now.
	I've heard it is fascinating.
	Shit, I'll take either one of them.
	I'll take it.
	I got to get a dang wife.
	I think I could handle a hunting wife.
	Whoever made that show, I don't think cares for Republican people in Texas because it's about Republican people that are shooting boars in their panties.
	And that was number one.
	I never got to number one with my television show because I could not compete with that.
	Who could?
	Who could?
	Yeah, honey, you got to number two, and that's great.
	I think that's perfect.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, that's love.
	So you got Chuck Morgan.
	You got your, you've had a nice life so far, Lee.
	I do.
	Lou, they call you Lou.
	In college, everybody called me Lou in high school.
	Were you a tomboy, kind of?
	And I love sports until I, you know, then I love boys and I got real boy crazy.
	And I still played sports, but I didn't care as much.
	And I, and then I projected onto my children, made my kids play all these sports because I knew I didn't do as much as I should have.
	Oh, I love that though.
	You have to do that as a parent.
	Yeah, they played club volleyball.
	My girls played all over the United States.
	Travel.
	Yeah.
	Oh, my kids are going to, my kids are going to play shit that I never got to do, whether they wanted it.
	Are you look athletic?
	Did you play ball?
	I played high school basketball.
	I smoked also at the same time, but they let me play.
	I was pretty good for, I was the only kid that would smoke.
	It was an active smoker.
	Yeah.
	Like, I remember one time I was out there smoking and one of the assistant coaches out there smoking.
	So nobody could say shit.
	But I was pretty good for somebody out there that hadn't have your full lung capacity.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I was good in spurts.
	That was kind of my nickname.
	Good in spurts.
	Well, they made me play everything because I went to this little bitty tiny country school and they need I was tall.
	So I played softball.
	You have the models.
	Basketball.
	She's the model.
	She's basketball.
	Everything.
	Meet up at her if we're in a field and people are lost.
	Meet up at her.
	The tall person always gets all the action.
	They're the lighthouse of the fucking world when you're tall.
	Those are the days, especially in a small community.
	Yeah.
	Tall one.
	I miss that, though.
	I miss like, yeah, there's something.
	I wonder where I'd like to live one day whenever I get a family and stuff.
	Maybe in a small place.
	There's small little towns around Middle Tennessee that are darling.
	Do you think you'd want to stay in Tennessee?
	I think so.
	You know, I want to spend time back in Louisiana when I can, but I do, I've enjoyed it here.
	I miss my home.
	I miss a lot of the people.
	But I go back and see them.
	Every time I'm home, I spend most of my time home traveling and seeing teachers that taught me when I was a kid.
	I'm still close with a lot of like people from my childhood.
	You've had to have been very smart and bright, and they knew it.
	I don't know what because you're so quick-witted.
	I do all right, I guess.
	What was all like?
	I don't know what I was like.
	I bet you were a yummy little kid, and they thought that kid's got it.
	Like Elvis and J-Lo and Michael Jackson.
	You know, when somebody's got it, they've got it and you can't manufacture it.
	And you have it.
	Well, that's a sweet thought.
	But Theo, it's true, my darling.
	And then you're bright and you're quick-witted, so they knew you were smart.
	And then, you know, you people are fun that used back then that used to smoke.
	That's fun.
	That's a fun kid.
	Wrong.
	Nobody needs to be smoking now.
	Let's say that.
	Nobody needs to be smoking.
	But it is fun to watch a kid smoke.
	You know what I'm saying?
	When that nine-year-old pulled up in your story to buy that double wide, and he's a little girl.
	That's a little girl.
	Oh, look.
	She's getting a discount.
	We had a smoking porch at my school.
	Everybody smoked on that porch.
	I didn't smoke then.
	I waited till I got to UT and I started at like 19 because all these girls that were waiting tables and had Louis Vuitton purses.
	I wanted to be like them.
	Yeah.
	Of course.
	And they were like, let's go smoke in the bathroom.
	Screw that manager.
	Yeah.
	Oh, dude.
	I remember the first time.
	Yeah.
	I never, like, yeah, I definitely smoked and then finally got a little bit of cocaine.
	And then.
	Who gave you cocaine?
	I don't remember.
	I just remember I'd been.
	There was cocaine in a little town in Louisiana.
	Not a lot.
	Not a lot.
	Not a lot, but somebody had it.
	Enough to keep you up.
	See, I didn't even know what in the world.
	We didn't know what there was a couple of boys that they'd be like, they like to do dope.
	But we stayed away from them.
	We were scared of them because they were all these farming kids that had future Farmers of America jackets.
	So we stayed away from that, but we couldn't write a paper either.
	You know, we weren't ready for college, but we weren't.
	It wasn't a wild, it was insulated from farming people.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, that was more when I got to college.
	In our town, we never had, yeah, you'd have people smoking.
	Oh, so it was college.
	Yeah.
	But yeah, in our town, you did have people smoking, but it was like weed.
	Yeah, we're smoking dope.
	Yeah, like those kids smoked dope.
	That's when they would say dope.
	Dope.
	You didn't really see like pills and stuff back then.
	It would just be people got high on weed and it was kind of an issue.
	But I don't know.
	I miss it.
	I miss this being in our neighborhood.
	You know, that guy, the Elvis impersonator who put that fence up.
	Yeah.
	He had broken his leg.
	And so somebody set it in cement, right?
	Save money from going to the hospital or whatever.
	So they set that bitch in cement and it must have been fine, right?
	Seven weeks, whatever they take that cast off, they broke the cast off.
	They broke it with a, the hammer was too big that they broke it with, and it broke his hip when they beat that.
	Are you kidding me?
	No, I'm not kidding at all.
	When they hit the thing with the hammer, it cracked his hip.
	So now his shit's re-broken up at his hip and he ended up getting that kind of TikTok in him like that.
	And he got into Elvis impersonating, which is so wild.
	But that helped him when he gyrated.
	Well, that's what I'm saying.
	He was, yeah, he was built like it was just about to be noon.
	You know what I'm saying?
	He was built like, you know what I'm saying, another 60 ticks and it was time, you know, it was lunch break.
	You know what I'm saying?
	He was just a damn pentameter walking around town.
	That's all he was.
	He was one of those things where the thing goes back and forth, you know, when you pull the ball and you let it go and then this one goes and it's like that.
	That was him.
	He was just TikTok McGutter right there and he was just cruising around.
	But yeah, he had a couple kids, kept them in the yard.
	And I don't remember what that story was about.
	Kept them in the yard.
	And that was the electric fence that he got.
	I don't remember how well that started.
	All right.
	Let me ask you, how far is St. Francisville?
	Is that anywhere near where you were raised?
	That's about two and a half hours from me.
	You know who it was from there that you're making me think of?
	John Morgan, the raging Cajun.
	Raging Cajun.
	I opened for him.
	You did?
	I've opened for him.
	Bring him up.
	He was a good storyteller.
	And he still is.
	And he could get a crowd going.
	God, he could.
	Very high energy.
	John Morgan, the raging Cajun.
	That was at the Stardome.
	I opened for him or featured for him at the Stardome and then in San Antonio.
	Play a clip is real quick if we can.
	Is he still doing it on one?
	Yeah, I think so.
	God, there was nobody like him and he had to doctor.
	30 years of being together.
	You make love and you move on.
	You get up and you move on.
	You ask the right questions.
	You want some nut buttons and milk?
	No, he wasn't like none buttons after bustle and left.
	With a glass of whole milk, she's at the point of my life where you can ask me, you want the fuck or you want nothing but a cookie milk?
	That's whole milk?
	Pull that glass at the food.
	I love him, man.
	He was the best when I was starting out.
	I mean, he's a great comedian.
	There's a lot of comedians that people that, you know, that don't get some of the acclaim maybe in some.
	I know.
	Do you remember little Mark Ryan?
	Mark Ryan was a good storyteller, too, that was kind of like him.
	And he was from Louisiana.
	Mark Ryan.
	No, I do remember Mark Ryan.
	A little blonde-headed.
	That boy.
	Oh, wait.
	You know what?
	I don't know if I remember him.
	I worked with him.
	That's cool.
	Yeah.
	It's hard to know.
	He told me.
	He yelled.
	Yell.
	I mean, like, you know, high energy, like John Morgan.
	Oh, dude, John Morgan.
	But John Morgan lived in St. Francisville.
	I believe.
	And he had a little Asian daughter.
	They adopted a daughter, I believe.
	And he had this.
	He would tell some stories about her.
	He was, he's one of the best storytellers that I've ever heard.
	He kind of reminded me of that Jerry Clower in some ways, you know.
	But yeah, there he is right there.
	John Morgan.
	Yeah, he's a sweet guy.
	He stayed in touch with me.
	Yeah, he was darling.
	Raging Cajun, John Morgan.
	Well, one of my good friends owns, I asked you that because one of my friends owns an inn in St. Francisville that is beautiful.
	And I go there sometimes.
	And I just didn't realize how.
	And I did the shows in Baton Rouge and Shreport.
	And I thought, Louisiana is fascinating.
	People in Louisiana are fun and wild.
	And darling, I had a ball.
	Which one of the reasons I think there's not a lot of comedy clubs there because you can have just as good a time talking to somebody, anybody.
	Everybody there is an entertainer.
	Everybody there is a comedian.
	Everybody there, they're going to open their mouth and you're going to hear something that's going to make you smile or think or question.
	They're entertaining.
	It's an entertaining state.
	It's one of the most native states where people are born there that never leave.
	I think like per capita, it's the number one where people are born that never even leave the state.
	They're born and then die right there.
	I think because they just got everything they need over there.
	So it's a special place.
	You're a special person, Leanne Morgan.
	Thank you so much.
	Oh, my darling.
	You don't need me to vacuum or anything.
	I feel like I need to do something for you for letting me be on here because you're so darling.
	You know what you can do for me?
	Really honestly?
	Come back next year, will you?
	Oh, my darling.
	I promise you will.
	You mean it?
	Yeah, because I've just had so much fun.
	This has been a gift of my whole life.
	It's just like, yeah, the past like week, like I went, I did Joe Rogan's podcast yesterday, and it's like, sometimes it's like, you know, it's like, I think sometimes I live in a place where it's like, there's so much of me out there, like just online.
	And some of this could be like paranoia or ego stuff.
	I don't know.
	But it's still something that I think about sometimes that I just get, like, I don't know.
	I've just felt like nervous the past few weeks.
	So to be able to sit down in a conversation that is easy and it's fun.
	You know, Joe is like, he knows a lot of information.
	So it's like you're having to learn a lot.
	And like sometimes I think I feel like I don't, it's hard for me to like chime in because I don't really know about stuff.
	And this is just two people don't know a lot.
	And we can just, which is what I love.
	Oh, you angel.
	When I watch you, I think, and I'm not blowing smoke up your butthole.
	When I watch you, I think also.
	I think when I watch you, I think he's got the sweetest spirit.
	You've got a sweet spirit.
	Oh, thank you.
	You really do.
	And I feel like God gave me that discernment.
	I know he did.
	And I've always, and I've said to John Christ and to Hugh and people that know you, and they go, he's got the sweetest spirit.
	They think it too.
	And just so bright.
	You're such a bright light.
	When I think of you planking and then talking about those hamster bones.
	Oh, yeah.
	And we were crying, laughing so hard.
	There's just nobody like you.
	And that's, and, you know, in this business, I mean, you're just so unique.
	There's just nobody like you.
	And I hope you know that.
	And you give so much joy.
	When I told people I was doing this, they said, please tell him hello for me.
	My stylist, who's from Australia, who dresses Oprah Winfrey.
	And Maria Shriver said, I love him.
	She goes, I would marry him.
	Everybody wants to have a baby with you.
	I just want you to know that I would have carried one for you.
	I think Chuck would have let me.
	I was very fertile at one time.
	I could have done it.
	I'm very healthy.
	I'm from farming people.
	We killed our own beef.
	I could have done it.
	And I would have done it because you've got to have some children.
	You are so beautiful and fun and your teeth are pretty.
	Well, thank you.
	Yeah, I appreciate it.
	I want to have kids.
	I want to have a family and stuff.
	It's just been like, you know, it's tough.
	It's like you got to meet the right person.
	You know, I don't know.
	I met somebody that was kind of neat the other day.
	And so that was kind of cool because it made me think like, okay, this is still possible, right?
	Whether or not that ends up, like if there were ever anything there, like, because sometimes you start to be like, you know, you get in this space where just something doesn't kind of click for a long time, you know, like you meet people when you go on dates.
	I'm like, you have people that you just kind of like are flinging with or philandering with.
	But when you're like, oh, this is the partner that I want.
	And I think like, are there something about this person just that would keep me interested for a long time?
	You know, just something about them.
	I don't know what it is.
	Maybe they got, you know, it could be a damn mole or something or they're missing a fucking vertebra or whatever.
	One of them bitches is off a little.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like they got a like this.
	But you want a girl that wants to have babies.
	Yeah, I would like to have a woman that likes to have a faith that wants to be a good mother.
	That's super important to me.
	That's hardworking.
	You know, I'd like to have a, I want an attractive woman, but that's not the most important thing to her.
	You know, like, you know, you can be attractive, but if that's the most important thing to you, that's, that's okay.
	But that's not really what I need.
	I need somebody, you know, like just like a teammate.
	But here's the thing.
	It's like, it's just always hard to figure out.
	But then once you start trying to figure everything out, that ruins everything.
	So, you know what?
	God's made it perfect for me that I got to do all this work.
	You know, I got to go and do all these fun things and live out like a lot of my dreams, you know.
	I know.
	You know, you're living them out.
	I know.
	It's crazy.
	You're living them out.
	I'm living them out.
	I could see this.
	I knew this as a child.
	Did you know it as a child?
	No.
	I knew something was wrong.
	I didn't know what it was.
	You didn't, because I've heard Steve Harvey say to his teacher when she said, what do you want to be when you grow up?
	He goes, I'm going to be on television at 10.
	And she said, no, you're not and made fun of him.
	All right.
	And then I heard Eddie Murphy in an interview on Today's show, he said, I knew I was going to be famous.
	I feel like in Adams, Tennessee, at nine or 10 years old, I thought, is something wrong with me?
	Because that's all I could think about is I wanted to be in movies and in television.
	And I thought, is something wrong?
	Because nobody else is talking about this.
	But I just knew it in my heart.
	But then I, you know, I went to school and got divorced and all this crap.
	And then this happens to me at this time in my life, but I could see it.
	I didn't know it was going to be this unbelievable.
	It's bigger and sweeter than I ever dreamed of.
	But I could see, I could see this happening for me.
	And I just wondered if you felt that way.
	You didn't know?
	I knew, you know, at one time I got voted most likely to either be on TV or succeed.
	You know what?
	I loved laughing with my friends.
	I just loved it.
	I loved making people laugh.
	I just loved it.
	You know what it was?
	It made me think that it gave me some sense of worth.
	I don't even know if I wanted to be joking around all the time, but I felt like it was the only way that I knew that I had some kind of a value as a kid, if that's kind of crazy, you know?
	And not to make like a sad thing, but I think it makes sense as a kid.
	You're like, oh, well, this is, if I do this thing, whatever it is, you know, if it's a trick, if I hide my legs behind my neck, whatever, you know what I'm saying?
	Or do that, you know, some weird shit or something or like tuck my eyelids and whatever it is, then like people think it's fun.
	You know, I didn't do any of those things, but if I say certain stuff, it's entertaining to people, you know?
	So I was like, well, I got to just do that, you know?
	I don't know.
	Did I ever see it?
	I don't think so.
	I didn't go to a comedy club until I was in college.
	I didn't really know it existed.
	I'd seen like Chris Rock and I knew he was very, you know, he was just so funny in the way he sounded and just him, you know, but I never felt like I was close to that.
	I didn't know about comedy club.
	I watched, I would watch, you know, David Letterman and Jay Leno and all that, but I was more like, I wanted to be like Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, but I didn't know there was, I thought, I didn't know how to get there, but then I came into the comedy store.
	Chuck Morgan took me to the comedy store when we were dating.
	And we came out to LA and I said, I want to go on that hearst.
	I want to go in there and see where people have been murdered in LA.
	Oh, it's beautiful.
	Oh, it was fun.
	And then I want to go to the comedy store and little Domerrera was up there.
	Oh, yeah.
	And I, my heart beat out of my body.
	And I thought, okay, that's it.
	But I can do, I think I can do that.
	And I want to do that.
	But I did, you know, I didn't know how.
	But you just start and then that's the thing.
	You know what somebody said one day?
	They said, you kind of start this job and then comedy chooses you.
	It's like, does your life work out enough for it, right?
	There's so many great comics that, you know, John Morgan might have had to raise his daughters and stuff like that and his family.
	And, you know, he, he, his, he had a beautiful wife.
	I'm not sure if they still married, but I remember.
	They are.
	And she's like a detective or an investigator or something because she was in a documentary about a murder in Louisiana.
	God, I love that.
	And that's every woman's dream.
	But no, he had a beautiful wife.
	He just had such a great life that it's like at a certain point, you're like, well, shit, this life's so great here.
	You know, I'm not saying, but that, but, but it's like somebody said at a certain point, it kind of chooses you.
	Can you still do this?
	You know, I didn't like any commitment.
	So I didn't like, so that was one thing that was perfect for me.
	It was like, oh, I have a chance to leave.
	I want to go.
	If I can say bye, I want to go.
	Whatever it is, I have somewhere else I have to be.
	I don't have to be right here.
	So it's been good.
	You know, it's given me so many unique things.
	I mean, now it's like more, it's fun because you get to have like unique experiences and like, you know, like you go places and they'll let you be on a sideline.
	Sometimes it feels a bit extravagant for me.
	And I wish that some of the things it was a little more normal.
	Some of the popularity part I do not like about today.
	A lot of that's from social media and stuff.
	I'm not saying boohoo or anything, but some of it's uncomfortable.
	You know, sometimes you want to just be like in a place where you're sitting there with everybody else, just kind of enjoying the deal, you know?
	That's the first time I went on the field was at UT.
	And you did great when you came out there and waved.
	I was like, she's a pro.
	Thank you.
	I was very nervous and that didn't feel real to me like I deserved to be.
	I don't know.
	I just thought, what in the world?
	What are they doing?
	I love my school.
	I don't want anybody to know my GPA.
	I mean, I barely got out of there.
	And they're so good to me.
	They're so good to me because I'm the only comedian that came out of there.
	And I guess, but that made me feel special.
	But I thought, what am I even, what am I doing?
	But it was wonderful.
	And Chuck Morgan enjoyed it and all that.
	I'm glad he did.
	Well, you know what?
	And you're inspiring young women to do comedy and inspiring young southern women.
	And we need that.
	We need like the South to stay alive through storytelling.
	You know, it's like we need that.
	I would love to eventually get back to just telling stories from home, like just stories from growing up and locking it down more and really getting into like writing some tales from growing up.
	And I hope that that's something that's part of my future.
	You tell the best stories from growing up.
	Well, I love them.
	And it's something, you know, it's like, but it's like, yeah, it's just important.
	And it's so good that you're doing it.
	And, you know, one thing I forgot about my wife, I want a funny gal.
	Some of the funniest girls I think are from Philadelphia and New Jersey.
	I'll say that flat out.
	They are funny.
	They are funny.
	Oh, Laura Pink.
	I mean, she's from Tennessee.
	She's great.
	She's married.
	You got her.
	And I know she opened for me a lot.
	And she would tell me that she'd be out on the road with you.
	She loved being out there with you.
	We had so much fun.
	She's very funny.
	She's the best.
	When you have a show in town, you're going to have to invite me.
	I'm going to, I think we're going to finish up the end.
	And here's why.
	Because I'd rather you come back sometime and we get to do it again.
	Oh, my meaning.
	Honey, I'll make you a casserole.
	Yeah, you promised Morgan one.
	Look, you make me want to give it to Morgan.
	I'm going to see him tomorrow at Bible study, actually.
	You will see him at Bibles.
	I think he's going to end up preaching.
	That little thing.
	You know, I have no idea.
	I just know.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	He's an inspiring guy.
	He's just, he's an interesting.
	Morgan is there's, he is him, you know.
	He is him.
	Authentic.
	He is.
	But you're authentic, too.
	Yeah, for sure.
	And y'all are in a Bible study.
	Is it a Beth Moore?
	What are y'all studying?
	I mean, it's, I mean, tomorrow, I think we're watching a movie, but it is Bible study.
	That's so sweet, Theo, Vaughan.
	I'm not sure which after we're on.
	I shouldn't even have said that.
	I'm not in one right now.
	I used to be in one when I was raising my children, but I don't, I'm not in one.
	And I need to be disciplined to do it on my own.
	Well, that's when you need the Lord the most when you're raising those little hints, women, and men.
	But no, I'll tell him you said, hey, and that was fun.
	Even just to get to see you guys next to each other when I saw y'all at the game and talking to each other, like little moments like that, like bring me so much joy when there's like two people that you think are like, oh, these people are so interesting and they get to meet each other or get to spend time around each other, you know, watching stuff like that is fun.
	All right.
	Leanne Morgan, Unspeakable Things.
	Yeah.
	It's out now.
	Your second special.
	It's on Netflix.
	You guys can go and watch it.
	And you're going to be touring again at some point.
	No, you're going to do the second season of your show.
	I'll do the second and we'll wrap, I think, in April and I'll start touring again.
	Okay.
	If I can come up with another hour, honey, I'm working on that.
	You'll be fine.
	Will I?
	I think just have Chuck Morgan tell you the truth about yourself.
	I know.
	Yeah.
	It'll hurt, but critique it.
	Yeah.
	Critiquing what I eat.
	And if I'm eating too much fat, Lord.
	He does give me a lot of material.
	He does.
	He does.
	See, that's a blessing.
	Yeah.
	I think, yeah, you got some.
	And when you marry and have babies, that's a whole nother.
	You're going to have to work for another 30 years, honey, because you're going to be so prolific over all that.
	Really?
	Oh, yeah.
	I think that was my best.
	I'm ready for some of that.
	I got to pray.
	I've got to spend more time in prayer, I think, you know.
	But it's okay.
	Everything's fine.
	Everything is wonderful.
	Look at your skin tone.
	Thank you.
	And you got that full-headed hair.
	You didn't have to go over to Turkey.
	I'm going to work this time of year.
	You know, I don't know what that is.
	I'm going to have to call Hugh Hauser.
	Yeah, he will know.
	Give me something.
	Because he'll say to me, would it kill you to tease your hair, Leanne?
	Yeah.
	Let me get back there.
	See if he put a little conditioner in it or sorry, nothing, yeah.
	A root lift.
	Yeah, maybe he'll just help me get a root lift.
	I uh thank you for having me, you sweet angel from heaven.
	Oh my god, you're the best.
	Uh, Leanne Morgan, thank you so much.
	Um, the pride of Tennessee, here she is, and uh, grateful to spend time with you today.
	Go Vols, Go Vols, my darling.
	Now, I'm just floating on the breeze, and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.
	I must be cornerstone.
	Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind.

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