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Comedian Leanne Morgan on Netflix, The Road, and Just Getting Started · Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald

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  Speaker 1: The car is beautiful. Where did you end up going
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  Speaker 1: for it? This exclusive place that Dad has connections with.
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  Speaker 1: They have more cars for more dealerships than like anywhere else.
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  Speaker 1: You have to put me in touch.
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  Speaker 2: What's it called?
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  Speaker 1: It's Dunaidial. Where? Dunaidial.
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  Speaker 3: There's an accent on the E.
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  Speaker 4: Do you mean.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I got it on Dundale Cars.
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  Speaker 4: Lift?
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  Speaker 5: Please.
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  Speaker 1: Are you going past Kimmage? Oh, Kimmage.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Dundale Cars. You couldn't possibly go anywhere else. Heather MacDonald
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  Speaker 1: has got the Juicy Scoop.
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  Speaker 1: Woo, woo. Heather MacDonald.
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  Speaker 4: Juicy Scoop.
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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Juicy Scoop.
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  Speaker 5: I have comedian, fellow mother, grandmother, hilarious woman, Leanne Morgan.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on the show.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so tickled to be here.
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  Speaker 5: I describe you as just everything you say is funny.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's just, where are you from?
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  Speaker 5: What is this accent from?
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  Speaker 4: I'm from a town of 500 people that grows dark
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  Speaker 4: fire tobacco in middle Tennessee outside of Nashville on the
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  Speaker 4: Kentucky-Tennessee border.
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  Speaker 1: That was very specific.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Can you tell me people ask me, I mean, can
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  Speaker 4: you tell that people ask me that all the time?
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  Speaker 1: So I get it down to, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So you are a very successful standup comedian and I
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  Speaker 5: discovered you because you were showing up all over my
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  Speaker 5: Facebook page a couple of years ago. And then I
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  Speaker 5: was doing a show and this guy's like, Oh, I
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  Speaker 5: use the same social media people that do Leanne Morgan.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, my God. So I paid these guys. I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: Can you do what you did for Leigh-Anne Morgan?
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  Speaker 1: And it did not work. It did not work. My
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  Speaker 1: stand-up did not go at.
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  Speaker 5: The only viral stand-up clip I have is when I
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  Speaker 5: fainted on stage.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have any... Thank God for the podcast.
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  Speaker 5: And thank God for those that are juicy keepers that
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  Speaker 5: come to see my show.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't have these moments that you are.
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  Speaker 5: It's just you're so funny, and I think it's just
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  Speaker 5: so relatable. And every time you come across my thing, I, like,
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  Speaker 5: sit and watch it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you angel.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, my darling.
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  Speaker 5: And my sister went to go see you in what
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  Speaker 5: casino were you at in Palm Springs?
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  Speaker 1: Morongo. Morongo. In Palm Springs? Yeah. She had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun. She went with a bunch of girls.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Well, let me say that, see, to me, you're one
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  Speaker 4: of the cool kids in the cafeteria, and that means
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  Speaker 4: so much to me. Because I've been doing comedy for
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  Speaker 4: over 20 years. But I was living in Knoxville in
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  Speaker 4: Texas and trying to do comedy and raise three children.
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  Speaker 4: And I always knew who you were. And for you
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  Speaker 4: to say that about me means the world to me. Because, see,
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  Speaker 4: I see you, L.A., cool kid, cafeteria, you know everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody knows you. And I always wanted that. And I
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  Speaker 4: begged their daddy to move to L.A. when they were babies.
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  Speaker 4: I said, let's sell everything and I'll cook on a
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  Speaker 4: hot plate. And he was like, what are you, crazy?
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  Speaker 4: We need health insurance. And he's always been an executive
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  Speaker 4: for a company. And anyway, so we didn't go.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, let's talk about your life a little bit. Well,
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  Speaker 5: I was born and raised here, so I had that advantage.
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  Speaker 5: And when I started doing stand-up, everyone would say, well,
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  Speaker 5: you can't start doing stand-up in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to go somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: Get your act down, and then try to be a stand-up.
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  Speaker 5: And so I came home one day, and I told
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  Speaker 5: my dad, I go, I think I'm going to move
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  Speaker 5: to Florida. Because at the time they were doing some like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, there was probably, there's always problems filming here.
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  Speaker 5: That's why like people film in Atlanta and Canada and
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  Speaker 5: everywhere else, but LA, I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, who cares?
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to get political, but we don't, we
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  Speaker 5: don't give anybody a tax break to film here. So
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  Speaker 5: they go out to other places. And I was like,
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  Speaker 5: they're doing some filming in Florida. I'm going to go
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  Speaker 5: do that. And then I'll work on my standup and
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  Speaker 5: then I'll come back. And my dad's like, What? That's
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  Speaker 5: the dumbest thing I've ever heard. He's like, do you
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  Speaker 5: even know how hard that is? And I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 5: I guess I didn't realize that it is nice once.
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  Speaker 5: That's the one thing.
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  Speaker 1: Like I knew how to get to the locations of
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  Speaker 1: the auditions and whatnot. And I had a home base here.
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  Speaker 5: But you, so tell me a little bit about, I've
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  Speaker 5: heard little bits and pieces of how you got started
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  Speaker 5: in standup just growing up in this tiny town when
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  Speaker 5: you weren't fighting off demons.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that? That you were like a naturally
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  Speaker 1: funny person? Did you watch stand-ups growing up and think
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  Speaker 1: one day I'd like to do that?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I did all of that. I loved... Well, I
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  Speaker 4: loved all comedy, like Saturday Night Live, you know, Carol Burnett,
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  Speaker 4: all that. My mom, you know, loved it too. Lucy
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  Speaker 4: Arnaz and all that. And I just always wanted to
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  Speaker 4: be in show business. And people thought I was funny.
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  Speaker 4: And I could tell that I was funny.
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  Speaker 5: And I was.
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  Speaker 1: But I went to this little bitty.
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  Speaker 4: Country school that was kindergarten through 12, 650 students. And
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  Speaker 4: it was Big Future Farmers of America. And I took
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  Speaker 4: home ec and learned how to make an omelet instead
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  Speaker 4: of doing chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I was worried to death. I had my high
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  Speaker 4: school boyfriend. And everybody, most people in my class got
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  Speaker 4: married right out of high school and went with their
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  Speaker 4: families farming.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: But I always knew in my heart that. I got
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  Speaker 4: to get out of here. I loved where I was raised,
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  Speaker 4: but I thought something big is going to happen to me.
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  Speaker 1: I just knew it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I feel like even at like 10 years old,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like God, you know, said to me, it's
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  Speaker 4: something bigger. And then I got to thinking, am I crazy?
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  Speaker 4: Am I like one of these American Idol kids that
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  Speaker 4: think they can sing? Like I've just gone through that
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  Speaker 4: kind of.
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  Speaker 1: That, okay. That is so funny.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I fell.
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  Speaker 5: I remember being in my school, and, you know, of course,
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  Speaker 5: they were going to do, like, the most likely to succeed, like,
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  Speaker 5: eighth grade yearbook, whatever. And, of course, like, the smartest
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  Speaker 5: girl got it or whatever. And I remember thinking, I'm
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  Speaker 5: not going to get it, but I am going to be. Like,
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  Speaker 5: I kind of was just, like, knew it like it's something.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't even think that I am in that class.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if I'd be considered. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: what considered success, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But I was always, like, you know, like, there was
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  Speaker 1: something– it's interesting.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of people say that like when they kind
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  Speaker 5: of knew it and it's almost like, Oh, I don't
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  Speaker 5: want to be boastful.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to say it out loud. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to, you know, that kind of a thing.
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  Speaker 5: But then when it happens, you're like, well, I did
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  Speaker 5: always kind of manifest it or know it or know
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  Speaker 5: I had a gift.
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  Speaker 1: Um, type of thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And so, so then, so did you marry the
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  Speaker 1: high school sweetheart?
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  Speaker 4: I did not, but I followed him to the university
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  Speaker 4: of Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: And, He broke up with me in about three weeks
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  Speaker 4: after we were there because he was, you know, drunk
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  Speaker 4: in a fraternity party. And I was coming off of
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  Speaker 4: the Adams United Methodist Youth Fellowship. And I nagged him
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  Speaker 4: because I was like, what is this Sodom and Gomorrah?
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  Speaker 1: And he broke up with me.
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  Speaker 4: And then I grieved and sat in my dorm room
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  Speaker 4: and watched TV and cried over Marina Dongchil commercials. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I was a wreck. And then I got out and
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  Speaker 4: started clubbing and, you know, went through horrible sin, did
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  Speaker 4: horrible things, made horrible decisions.
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  Speaker 1: In the 80s. Did you bone a lot? And I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying that in front of my children. Did you bone
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guys?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 4: No, but I made out. I made out with a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people, and I let them treat me terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Did you dry hump?
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  Speaker 4: Probably. I should say that. Are you going to let
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  Speaker 4: people know? My children are in here. They're grown women, but, yeah, I...
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  Speaker 4: And I think, and I really messed with people's hands. Like,
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  Speaker 4: I really tried to torment men.
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  Speaker 1: I did. I mean, I was, you know, I knew
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  Speaker 1: I had power over them. Well, you know, my book
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  Speaker 1: is called You'll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I remember when your book came out. Yeah, because I
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  Speaker 1: was a big dry humper. I was an old virgin
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  Speaker 1: big dry humper.
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  Speaker 4: Were you? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And I, these guys all say, I dress slutty. I drink.
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  Speaker 5: They all thought they were going to get laid. And
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  Speaker 5: then by the third date, never heard from them again.
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  Speaker 5: But I got some nice meals.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my bad. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and I was going to say, you being raised here,
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  Speaker 4: I know that you were saying, oh, you got to
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  Speaker 4: go and do comedy and get your act somewhere else.
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  Speaker 4: But it was, I think, being raised here, it's probably
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  Speaker 4: what kept your weight down. I mean, you've got a
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  Speaker 4: beautiful body. And I've been watching you in your combo
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  Speaker 4: pictures and your bikini. Because you've had how many children?
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  Speaker 1: Two. Lord.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody looks like that in a bathing suit. Well, maybe
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  Speaker 4: these L.A.
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  Speaker 5: Girls. Well, you asked if I was athletic, and I
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  Speaker 5: am not. So I was always last picked on the team.
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  Speaker 4: Did you do ballet? You look like a dancer. Your legs.
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  Speaker 5: No, I just kind of like, I like to dance.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I like to have fun dancing.
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  Speaker 5: And I do like stay fit and I do Pilates
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  Speaker 5: and stuff now.
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  Speaker 1: Pilates? Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm just, you know, but I've been lucky to like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, just kind of have like good genes or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And I just try. Just try. Yeah. I try to
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  Speaker 1: be cute. You know, I like it. I like it.
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  Speaker 4: But you aren't cute. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: So cute.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. So, okay.
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  Speaker 5: So you are blue balling men and you're drinking and smoking.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Smoked cigarettes.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't a big drinker, but I smoked cigarettes and
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  Speaker 4: drank coffee and Diet Coke and tried to torment people.
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  Speaker 5: And, okay, so then what happened? Then when did you
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  Speaker 5: get married?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Oh, well, I might as well tell you everything.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so.
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  Speaker 4: I married I married the first time at 21 oh
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  Speaker 4: you had a starter marriage I had a starter and
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  Speaker 4: I and I said this to Little Tony Horton while
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  Speaker 4: we were exercising. I was out of breath. Okay. So
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  Speaker 4: I think when I went to UT, I think I
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  Speaker 4: always wanted to be in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I always thought this is crazy. I don't, okay, I'll
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  Speaker 4: go to college, whatever, but I'm going to be a star.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, but my family, you know, they were like,
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  Speaker 4: you need to either go to college or in the military.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, what?
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  Speaker 1: I can't make it in the military.
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  Speaker 4: And I just, I didn't have the guts to come
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  Speaker 4: out here.
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  Speaker 5: I always told my dad, if they ever draft women,
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  Speaker 5: I'll just get pregnant. That's how much I didn't want
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  Speaker 5: to go to the military.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Lord, I could not make it. Yeah, so go on. So,
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  Speaker 4: and I was, you know, I had these, all of
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  Speaker 4: my friends were getting married right out of high school.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, I went to college, and then my high
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  Speaker 4: school boyfriend and I broke up. And I think I
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  Speaker 4: was just, I was taking classes, but I wasn't doing well.
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  Speaker 4: I was flailing around in college. And I really think
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  Speaker 4: that I married this man to.
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  Speaker 1: Because I didn't know what else to do.
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  Speaker 4: Because I was lost and I didn't know what else
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  Speaker 4: to do.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know walking down the aisle that you shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: marry him?
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  Speaker 4: I knew it was a terrible mistake.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have a big wedding?
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  Speaker 4: It was big for little Adams. It was in my
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  Speaker 4: church and there was mints and nuts afterwards. But it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't that big. No, it wasn't like now how big
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  Speaker 4: my son had. But in my mind, back then at 21,
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  Speaker 4: I thought, oh, my mom and dad have paid for
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  Speaker 4: all this and the dress and all that. But I
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  Speaker 4: knew it was a horrible mistake. And he was a beautiful,
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  Speaker 4: talented somebody, but he was very mentally ill.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, back then.
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  Speaker 4: How was he? Bipolar, and he took his own life
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  Speaker 4: about probably five years ago.
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  Speaker 1: And had a beautiful family. So how long were you married?
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  Speaker 4: I was only married to him for about two and
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  Speaker 4: a half, three years. And I left in the middle
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  Speaker 4: of the night because he was... mean but you know
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  Speaker 4: I look back on it and I didn't I didn't
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  Speaker 4: know what bipolar was right you know back then I
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  Speaker 4: just thought he's crazy he's mean and all that but
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  Speaker 4: anyway I left and I went back to school and
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  Speaker 4: got my degree and I met their daddy while we
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  Speaker 4: were waiting tables he was getting an MBA okay and
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  Speaker 4: I was I was finishing up this undergraduate it took
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  Speaker 4: me years because I'm so unorganized anyway The whole time,
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  Speaker 4: all of this happening, thinking, I'm going to make it
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  Speaker 4: in show business.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where. I don't know how. But you're not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing anything.
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  Speaker 5: But are you thinking it's stand-up, or are you thinking
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  Speaker 5: you should be a star in a sitcom, or are
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  Speaker 5: you trying to do a play?
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  Speaker 4: Sitcom, sitcom comedy, stand-up. But I really, I mean, I've
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  Speaker 4: watched Jay Leno, everybody on Johnny Carson, Roseanne, when she
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  Speaker 4: debuted on.
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Carson. And it blew me away.
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  Speaker 5: The fact that you were doing this and you weren't
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  Speaker 5: pursuing that, was that difficult for you? Like, you're like,
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  Speaker 5: I got a gift from God and I'm not using it. Like,
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  Speaker 5: when am I going to have the balls to start
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  Speaker 5: to do something with this?
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  Speaker 1: Was that like torturing at all?
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't gnawing at me. It really wasn't because I
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  Speaker 4: knew I wanted to be a mama more than anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to be a mama and I wanted babies.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And so, but I was still kind of flailing around. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: my husband and I, met, and then he moved me to,
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  Speaker 4: this is, I know God had his hand on me
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  Speaker 4: the whole time. All right. So my husband had never
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  Speaker 4: stepped foot in a mobile home, went and played golf
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  Speaker 4: with his daddy and a little crusty man named Fran
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  Speaker 4: that had a refurbishing business, refurbished, used mobile homes, glamorous,
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  Speaker 4: and then resold them to people like on a car lot. Okay. Well,
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  Speaker 4: my husband had This little old man said, I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to retire. This has been very lucrative. I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: sell this business. My husband bought that business. Now, we
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  Speaker 4: weren't married yet. He moved on to Bean Station, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 4: which is in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. We
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  Speaker 4: got married. Moved me up there. I got pregnant with
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  Speaker 4: my first baby, Charlie, who's now 29.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't the Appalachians like where people have like.
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  Speaker 4: Heather, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Like, are there documentaries about.
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  Speaker 5: People that they, like, marry their brother and they, like,
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  Speaker 5: they have, like, weird ailments because they marry their brother
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  Speaker 5: and they have, like, teeth?
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  Speaker 4: Like Deliverance, remember, with Bo Reynolds. Okay, so the Appalachians
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  Speaker 4: go from Georgia to Maine. And I don't think people
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  Speaker 4: realize that. So there are some, a stretch of the
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  Speaker 4: Appalachians where people really and truly don't know who the
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  Speaker 4: president is. It is so.
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  Speaker 4: You know, and those sweet people, like opioids, when you see,
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: did you ever see? The dope sick? Dope sick. We're
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: talking about, like, you know, the southeastern Kentucky, all up
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: in there.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: So, this was in Bean Station, which is very pretty, lakes, mountains, beautiful,
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: but rural. Yeah. And I'm from rural, but not that rural.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: Like, my people know who the president is.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: Anyway, he moves me up there, and I'm thinking, oh,
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: my Lord, what has happened? Okay, so I have my
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: first baby, Charlie.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: Who, you know, when you have your first baby, and
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: I nursed him, and I mean, I thought, I don't
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: need anybody else. I've got this precious baby. And I
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: told my husband, I go, I don't, if I don't
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: want to put him in daycare, I don't want to work,
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: I'll do without. I just want this baby. And then,
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: of course, I needed my hair highlighted. And we had
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: this small business, and we were young. I mean, like 27,
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: you know, 28. And so I wanted to make a little,
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: I've always had a side hustle. I've always had some
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: way to make money. So my friend in Nashville said,
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: I'm selling this jewelry like women sell Mary Kay Tupperware.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: And she said, you ought to do it, Lynn. You
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: can meet people. You can make a little money. Chuck
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: can take care of the baby while you're having these parties.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: And I don't even care about jewelry. I really don't.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: And it's just bizarre to me that I even did it.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: And I started doing these jewelry parties in women's houses.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: And I was supposed to be talking about jewelry and how, like,
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: a clip-on can change the look of a pump. Yeah.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: And instead, I talked about... Oh, clip it on your shoe? Yeah.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: And it was very.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: They didn't call it costume, but it was, you know,
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: like 1999 for a period.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: Okay, so... Instead, I was talking about breastfeeding and hemorrhoids
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: and resenting Chuck because he didn't hear the baby.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: In the night.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: And I developed a shtick. Yeah. And I look back
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: on it and I think there was no comedy clubs,
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: but I had... It was like my own little comedy
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: club with my demographic every night.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: Women that were going through the same thing I was
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: going through. And... I started booking a year in advance
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: because people would say, she's funny. You need to have
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: a jewelry party with her.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: It's so fun. Would they at least buy some jewelry
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: from you?
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, I sold a buttload of jewelry. And we ate
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: dip and brownies and we had a ball.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: And people had fun. Now, did you have people under
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: you selling the jewelry? Yes, then I had women. And
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: I was not a good leader.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: I was not a good leader.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: So then you were part of the pyramid system. Yeah,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: kind of like Lulu Roe. Yeah.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: But it wasn't twisted. It really wasn't. It was sweet.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: It was sweet people.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: It was a Christian company out of Dallas, and it was.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: A little old dominant man. Aren't they all Christian companies?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: But that's good.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: But they were sweet, and it gave me something to do,
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: and I felt good about it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: So how long did you do that for?
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Until I got pregnant with my third baby, and I thought,
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: I can't be schlepping all this jewelry around.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Because it was getting too hard then.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: But I did it.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: While I was pregnant with my second one, because I
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: remember breastfeeding her in the toilet at Opryland Hotel in
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Nashville and then handing her over to my mama.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: So that I could go on stage.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Because what happened was I started booking so far in
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: advance that the company asked me to start speaking at
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: their big things.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, right.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: So then I would do these big things and women
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: would come up to me and there would be three.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Now, would they pay you? Would they pay you extra?
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: No, they would just say, can you talk about how
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: you get booked so far in advance?
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: And then I'd get up there and talk about breastfeeding
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and hemorrhoids.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: And women would say, you need to be a stand-up.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: You're so funny. And that gave me the strength and
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: the courage. But I can remember in my twisted mind,
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: while I'd be doing these jewelry parties, I would say
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: to these women in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: you can book a party with me now or you
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: can see me in Las Vegas later. Because I knew
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: in my head, I'm going to be in Las Vegas.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be on TV.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: I remember thinking that, which how crazy is that?
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: It's believing in yourself.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: It's not bad, but I always talk about the secret,
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: you know, about the secret and manifesting things. And I
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: just kind of discovered that, you know, shortly after like
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Oprah featured the people and you saw that weird video that,
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: you know, everyone was talking about the secrets. And I
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: then realized, ooh, I would do that. I used to
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: do stuff like that without even knowing. And I never
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: made the board. I never did the board. I would
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: just kind of say it or sometimes I wouldn't say
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: it out loud. I'd just say it in my.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Head or whatever.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: And yeah, it's so true. So I don't think that's
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: a bad thing. I mean, I think in our generation,
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: at least with me, people were so mean if they
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: thought someone was conceited.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: So it's like, oh, she thinks she can be a model.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Like people are really mean.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Totally different because now every kid is glamming themselves.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Every kid's conceited.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Every kid has their own TikTok, their own, and they're
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: taking their own selfies. But in our day, that was like,
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: that was bad to think so highly of yourself.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Don't you think?
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You're right. Yeah.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: Christmas shopping has already started in our house. My daughter...
• 19:50
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• 19:54
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• 19:57
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• 19:59
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• 20:01
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• 20:04
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• 20:16
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• 20:19
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• 20:22
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• 20:27
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• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Life is one long lesson of chaos. I'm heading to
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: the Emmys, and I have police complaints filed against me.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: When your free will was about to be taken from you,
• 20:38
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• 20:41
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• 20:43
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• 20:46
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• 20:47
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• 20:48
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• 20:49
  Speaker 5: When I came in, he started crying.
• 20:51
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• 20:55
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• 20:58
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• 21:02
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• 21:03
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• 21:06
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• 21:08
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• 21:11
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• 21:22
  Speaker 4: I didn't even think about that.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: But I remember coming before Chuck and I married. We
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: came out here to see my sister. She lived in
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Huntington Beach. Oh, that's nice. And worked for a company.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: And I remember saying to him, I want to go
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: to the comedy store and I want to watch comedians
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: because I just loved them. And I saw Dom Herrera
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: and Paul Mooney. Con Sunset? Uh-huh. Okay.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: And I remember my heart beating out of my body,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: standing in line. And it was like a physical thing,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: like I'm supposed to be doing this. And I remember
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: watching them and thinking, I can do this, I can
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: do this. And what year was this? That would have
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: been in like 91, 92.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, so then you had all the babies, you did
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the selling the jewelry.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: Jewelry and all that.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: So then when was the first time you actually went
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: on a club after you established the act selling the jewelry?
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Okay, I was, I had... My baby child was 18
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: months old and I called Zany's in Nashville and asked
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Brian Dorfman, who is now my concert promoter.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: And she was 18 months old. She just turned 25.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: So I said to him, I know you don't know me,
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: but because by then I'd quit selling jewelry and I
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: was like the person in Morristown, Tennessee. That would do
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: like the rotary. Like if you needed somebody to come
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: and do 20 minutes and I dropped my babies off
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: at preschool and I called myself a comedian, even though
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: I'd never been on. So then I asked him, can
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: I come and open? I opened for Billy Gardell.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: And I did 10 minutes and I'm sure I sucked.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: But anyway, I went back and he took me back
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: in the office and he said, what do you want
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: to do? And he goes, because I think you've got something.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: And I said, oh, I'm going to make it, and
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be a sitcom star, and I'm going
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: to do– you know, I'm going to make it. And
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: he said, Lian, there's no way you can go out
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: here and do these clubs and raise these three children.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: He said that you cannot do it. Roseanne– he said
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: this to me. He goes, Roseanne raised hers in a
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: station wagon in the parking lot, and it didn't turn
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: out well. Now, I don't know what happened with her.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: I don't know. But I remember him saying that to me,
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: and I remember getting– angry and thinking you're not going
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: to tell me what to do I can too make
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: it and he and I've talked about it several times
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: I go you know you were right like I couldn't
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: have raised them to be who they are today if
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: I had have gone on the road and just not
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: like I know people who've done it women it's not
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: many you know because it's so hard.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: It's really not and you know um kind of when
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: I was like you know trying to get more people
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: like interested in my stand-up I was like, honestly, besides you,
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: I go, there's no other female comic who's currently married
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: who is raising kids that are not babies. Like there's
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Ali Wong and there's, you know, a bunch that have
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: little kids, Amy Schumer and that are doing it. But
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: I'm like, there's nobody that's like doing it now. And
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: I go, and I think that's like what makes it
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: unique that I was lucky enough too, in that I
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: wasn't on the road.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Leaving my kid.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Like I was able to establish my comedy in other
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: ways by being on TV shows and writing books and,
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: and all of that. So I would leave for the
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: weekend when my kids were school age and I'd leave
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: my kids with my husband, but I was not gone
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: for weeks on end making $ 10 to try to get
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: that act. And that's where, depending on the kind of,
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: you know, parent you're comfortable being with as a woman,
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: That is why you see less women doing it, because
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: essentially there's all different ways to make it, especially today.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: I don't think there's that the strict way that people
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: say that you have to do every night. You got
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: to go up five times. I don't really believe that
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: you did it differently. I did it differently and we're
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: both successful. So I don't think you have to do it. But,
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: you know, it's but a guy, most men are very
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: happy to leave their toddler for four nights.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: And go on the road.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And I've got a wife at home that's got groceries.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: And nobody says anything about him because he's providing.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: But the woman, it's, you know, even my mom said
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: to my friends, you know, she's never with those kids.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I love my mom, rest in peace. But she did
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: tell my friend that.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: She did. Well. I mean, I forgive her. But I
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: was like.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: You know, and she always praised my husband, you know,
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: that he was like, but he was having a great
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: life being not working full time. He didn't have the
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: stress of it. It worked out between us. Nobody was suffering.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: Everybody got to do what they want to do. But
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: people are very weird and critical of it. You know,
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: it's like at a certain point, I remember saying like
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: at Chelsea lately, like when everyone was like giving me
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: make kind of kind of like making fun that my
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: husband was the stay at home dad. And I was like,
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: I wanted so badly to be like, so to the men,
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: so your wives are losers.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Like, I mean, are you kidding me? Or would it.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Be better if he was a traveling attorney and we
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: just had a nanny that didn't give a shit about
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: our kids?
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Would, would that make us better?
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Like, it's like people are, You know, and that's why
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: he said that, you know, like I think he was like, oh,
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: you're so talented.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Too bad you have children to raise. Yeah.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: And he and we've talked about it lately. I mean,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Brian and I are very close. And and I said,
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: you know, I just need it motivated me to find
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: another way. I just had to find another way.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: And but we moved to Texas right after that.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: My husband went to work, sold that company, that business
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: and went to work for a large mobile home company.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: And he was over South Texas. And so I moved
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: to San Antonio, which was not really a comedy town. Yeah.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I've performed in San Antonio too. LOL.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Which was fun. That's darling. Yeah.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: But when I moved there, it was at the mall.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. River. Yeah. I remember that. Something.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And I did an open mic for the first time.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: It scared me to death. And the manager came up.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: God love him, but he had like managed a Fridays,
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: a TGI Fridays. And he was like, don't do any
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: crowd work or don't do any. And I remember thinking, oh,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: they know what they're talking about. They really did. But anyway,
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: I was, that club I went and I did late night.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: I'd get up on stage at midnight. I had little
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: children that got up at six in the morning and
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: I would be, you know, everybody be high on marijuana
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: and I'd be talking about doo-doo on the tee ball field.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: But I was different. And I think, and I stood out.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Because all these male comics all did Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonations.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: And I was just different from everybody. And so I
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: would get things that other people didn't get. And then,
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: I mean, like, you know, I'd get invited to a
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: festival or something. So then I started driving back and
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: forth to Cap City Comedy Club in Austin. And Margie
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Cole ran it. And she believed in me. And I
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: would do Chick Stick that night, 10 minutes. And she
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: believed in me.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Meaning the only girls could do it?
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like they had it on Wednesday night.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, because you've got to have all the
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: girls together because no one wants to see a female comic, right?
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know what I would always say to my audience?
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: They'd say, oh, I'm coming to see you. And they've
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: gotten better now because I've scolded them. And they'd write
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: me thinking they're being nice. I'm coming to see you tonight.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: I'm dragging my husband. And I said, you know, you're
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: not helping the cause. Why are you thinking that your
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: husband won't find me entertaining?
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: If you find me entertaining... That means he married a
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: funny woman. So he will enjoy it just as much.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: If let me just, you know, I'm like, if he
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: got brought home tickets to Chris Rock and said, we're
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: going to go see Chris Rock Friday, you're telling me
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: that you wouldn't be thrilled that you wouldn't get your
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: hair done.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I'm like, why is that? And I think.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: Some of it is women think because there's a lot
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: of female comics that are maybe higher profile than us
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: that male bash and that are like, you know, super
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: left and male bash. And if their husband is not
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: that they think, Oh God, this is going to be
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: uncomfortable for him. Cause we all care about the man
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: and his ego and that he's having a good time.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: It's just the way we are. And I think they think,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Oh God, you know, if she is.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: Like, whatever, I'm not even going to say a name
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: of somebody that's like that, then he won't have a
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: good time. And then I'm like, trust me that like
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: that won't happen because I know that the men love it.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: And after I like set it out, like I get
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: so many more like couples and straight men that are
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: like loving it.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Having them all.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: But I feel like so early on in our careers too,
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: even before we made it, The male executives felt they
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: had to market it. I remember there was a whole
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: night of just female-driven.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Sitcoms all in one night. Like, what? Like, it was
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: just so weird.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: And that they think that there's no way that unless
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: we live your life, I can't find you funny.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, then how do I find Chris Rock funny?
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: And how do I find Dave Chappelle funny?
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: So why couldn't someone who's not a female who's a
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: mother find you funny?
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Like, it's just, I even had a man at a
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: big theater on my first tour, the big panty tour.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: I had him, he came out and did announcements, you know,
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: you know, if there's a fire or whatever, turn your
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: cell phones off. And then he said, well, I know
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: you men got dragged here. And my heart dropped. And I,
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: and it was one of the first shows I did
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: on the big panty tour. And I was already freaked
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: out because it was the biggest thing that ever happened
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: to me. And it was in 2000, after the pandemic
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: got better.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: And I remember I called my manager and said, I
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: cannot believe that he just introduced me or introduced this
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: tour by saying, and I know you may not got
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: all dragged here. And it was a theater I'd sold
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: out in, I can't remember, somewhere. But I mean, you know,
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: I don't know what it was, 1,000, 1,200 seats. And
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: I was like, That didn't set me up well.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: I'm so glad that you said something. Because I'm sure
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: there's been times that you didn't.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: And, like, I hadn't. Same thing.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: And I remember I was, like, I thought, you know,
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: I'd get some guy to open for me.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: And this guy did a whole thing. I remember it
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: was Aspen. A whole thing about what it's like to
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: screw a woman over 40. At this time, I'm over 40.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: This is Aspen. This is people over 40 that can
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: afford Aspen.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: And it's all like, oh, they're grateful or they're dry
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: down there.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I could not. And I'm like, and I have to.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: And this is my show.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: But my I trusted my agent who I still, you know, like.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: And, you know, to pick somebody.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: And then he ends it. He goes, now I'm going
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: to bring out my really good friend. We just met backstage.
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: I was just like, and after that is when I
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: was like, I will never just get the local unless
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: you send me video and stuff. And I can make
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: sure and I can tell you, don't be dirty.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Don't do this.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: And even when I've done that, I've had people backlash
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: and say, oh, she told me I couldn't be dirty
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: because she's so insecure in her career. I'm like, I
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: don't need you talking about anal at seven o'clock before
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: I come out.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Like, like, no, I don't know. Like I, if I can, I,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I don't talk about that.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: But if I get a little dirty, the opener shouldn't
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: be dirty. I don't think that's unheard of.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: But I think some of these guys just immediately think that, oh,
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: you know, and I've had that too.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: And, but let me tell you what my manager would
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: say before I did this.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Big panty tour and picked who I wanted. When I
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: would do clubs, they would, and I was selling, I
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: started selling out all over the United States. Couldn't get arrested,
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: you know, for years. Nobody would book me. And then
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: they were like, all of a sudden, you know, I
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: was in demand and selling. And they, and he said,
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: she needs somebody clean. And they automatically thought, I don't
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: know why, but let's get a woman in her 60s
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: in community theater who wears black. Not even Birkenstocks. I
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: don't even know what you would call those shoes. And
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: somebody that, like, would get up and sing opera or
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: do something bizarre.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: And they thought, I guess because I'm a middle-aged woman,
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: that they had to get another.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Woman who was, you know, a kook. Oh, my God.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: I had the kookiest women. God love them.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: But, you know, I mean, just bizarre shoes. And also,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: you don't need a woman.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: I don't need a woman.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to take jobs from men. I want
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: someone different than me. Right. I just don't want them
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: talking about.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: We ended up having to say, yeah, all right, we'll
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: take a man. But I've had... At Moon Tower, at
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Moon Tower College Festival, they said, they said, Leigh Ann
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: needs somebody clean to open for her. They gave a
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: list of women. They always put women with me, but
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: a list of women, and somebody came and did... I mean,
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: the filthiest stuff. And I guess that was their idea
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: of clean. You know, somebody's idea of clean is different
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: than my idea of clean, I guess. But she did,
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: and I loved her. I mean, as a person, I
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: loved her. But I thought, is that who they put?
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: You have to have who you want. There's no guess
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: in it anymore. Which was why I was telling you
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: when I came in here, I'm in love with Chris Pringola.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: I love him with you. And I know that he
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: opens for Fortune some. And I just think he's so funny.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: He's great. He's great. We've been friends for a long time. And, yeah,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I love him to death.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, he's so darling.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: And so, okay, so when you started to, like, really
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: make it, I believe that someone sent me, did you
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: have a script or a sitcom deal?
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've had several.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. And what happened with those?
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: Over the years. Which I think kept me in this,
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: you know, when I would be kicked down and I'd
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: get no's and nobody cared. Because I think about Comedy
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: Central never wanted me.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: To do stand-up.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: I mean, for years, like, Cap City Comedy Club in
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Austin would put me up for something. I never got
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. Now I'd get Funniest Mom in America,
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: things from Nick at Night and stuff like that.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, you did that?
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: I did it the first year.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Sandra Bernhard was the... Okay. And then wasn't, um, who
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: are some other people that was on with you?
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: The on with me would have been the woman that
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: won it. I'm always the bridesmaid, never the bride. I
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: didn't win it. Darlene West Gore won it the year
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: I did it. Um, there were funny people on it.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: I think I, I mean, I watched it because I
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: was just getting back into comedy.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Like I didn't do standup.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: I did stand up in my twenties and then I
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: stopped at, Oh, here's why I stopped doing it.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: So I got a deal.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: A TV deal about my life and I was 30
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: and my manager at the time said, don't do standup
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: because if for some reason you bomb in LA, it's
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: going to look bad that you have a deal. I mean,
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: and I also never really bombed. I mean, I would
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: have better nights, but I never was like crickets or
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: nothing like that. And so I was just like, Okay.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: And so then I kind of stopped doing it. And
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: then I always lived far from the clubs and I
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: was never a regular at a club. So then I
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: just let, like, then I basically didn't do it for
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: a bunch of years. And for the same reason, like,
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, to go and waste five hours, like,
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: downtown or whatever.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know how y'all do it here. I
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: don't know how y'all do all that.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: Well, I don't really do the clubs here. So, like,
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: because of the same thing, I would just rather go
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: do stand-up somewhere else. But I did back then, you know.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: But, okay, so when.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: So what happened with all your deals? Did you ever
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: get close to having a sitcom?
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: I think the first one was probably, well, the second
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: one was pretty close too, but just different things happened.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: All right, the first one was with ABC and Warner Brothers,
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: and at the Laugh Factory I did a showcase in
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: front of a bunch of executives, and ABC bought it
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: before we got out of the parking lot. They wanted
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: Paula Deen to play my mother. I went and met her.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: We hit it off. She said yes, and the writer's
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: strike hit, and it ended. Within a day. And I
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: think I went into a clinical depression.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: But your show ended within a day.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they said it's over. Okay. The writer's strike hit.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: We're not doing anything.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: It's dead. Okay. And I didn't know how Hollywood worked.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Right. And I really, in my heart, thought this is it.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be a sitcom star. And I didn't
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: realize how, you know, it's easier to win the lottery
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: than it is to get a television show on there.
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: So I thought, oh, this is it. And then it
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: ended in a day. And they were like, it's over, Lynn.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: And I had been, you know.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Traveling all over.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: They would send me to go with Paula to open
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: for her to do all this stuff. I was back
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: and forth to LA. And then they were like, it's over.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: So my husband bought me a binkle in Ogden, Utah,
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: trying to make it up to me. And, and I
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: love that dog. And he's an old little man now,
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: and he's been the best dog we've ever had. But
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: I remember just being in, just staying, you know, sitting,
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: staring into space. And that little precious binkle would just
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: sit and look at me and pee in the floor.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: And I just thought, What is it? I mean, my
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: life is over. And then, not my life is over
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: because I had these precious children. Well, then I get
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: the second deal.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Could not.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: I was on a tour called the Southern Front Chicks.
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you ever heard about us.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Is that where you were? That's what Trish did.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Trish sure did that. Yeah, she did it after I
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: did it. Okay, all right.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: But I was one of the original ones.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: And they were going to shoot us. for CMT, and
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: I couldn't do it because I had this deal with ABC.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: They didn't want me to do it.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because God forbid you have more exposure to get
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: people excited to possibly watch your show.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, doesn't that make sense?
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Uh-uh.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, go on.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: And then, so, yeah, but that's how I met Trish.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: But Southern Fried Chicks was wonderful for me because it
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: was on the weekends in small theaters. And I was
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: really the opener for the other two that were very seasoned.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Professional comedians. But it was a good way for me
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: to get that time on stage.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: It was from heaven, really. And that was about three years.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: We did 50 dates a year. And I never had
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: to hire anybody to take care of these kids. Chuck
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: would be with them on the weekend.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: I could take them to school during the week. And
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: I didn't work every weekend. But anyway, and then I couldn't.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: It's like that deal came. I thought, I'm going to
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: be the next Roseanne. Then it was over. Then couldn't
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: get booked. Was just begging anybody if I could, you know,
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: do the... I was your big fundraiser person in Knoxville. Like,
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: if you needed somebody to come and do a few
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: minutes for the breast cancer fundraiser, I was your person. Right.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: So I was doing that kind of stuff. Felt like
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: it was over. But you weren't making, like, good money.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I was making pretty good money. Oh, pretty good money.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: So you're... You know, a few thousand a night to
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: do these things.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: And then, out of the blue, I get.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: Uh, Fremantle that did American Idol said, we'd like to
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: do a sitcom with her and we want to put
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: her with Matt Williams who created Roseanne and Home Improvement.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: They want to do a show with him on Nick
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: at Night, like the Cosby show and, and all those
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: kinds of shows. And so I met Matt Williams. We
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: fell in love, darling. And he said, yes, I'll do
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: it for her. And we, he came to Knoxville, met
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: my family, built this sitcom around me. And then Nick
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: at night, he called me and he said, Lynn, you're
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: going to have to trust me. Nick at night, I think,
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: wants to make this into like a children's show, like Disney.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Not a sitcom like. Yeah, like Cornwall City.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like Possum Loose in the Living Room is what
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: he called it.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Possum Gets Loose in the Living Room. Yeah, that would
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: be the big funny moment.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he said, I'm not doing that. And you
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: got to trust me. I got to take it back.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: So he took it back from Nick at night. And
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: that caused a big stink. And then we went to
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: TV Land and they bought it in the room and said,
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: we want to do something. And then held on to
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: it for nine months and then came back and said,
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: she's too traditional. She's married to a man. She's got kids.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: It's just not what's in.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: What year is this?
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: This would have been, what year would that have been? Lord,
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: I have no conception of time.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Like 10 years ago or like five years ago?
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, 10 years ago.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: Like Modern Family had come out. It was a huge hit.
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: And I understand why.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I sold another show.
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: Well, first of all, when the first show didn't go, okay,
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: after that, and it got to, like, the pilot stage,
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: it didn't go.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: And so right after they said it's not going to go.
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: I remember they were like, Les Moonves is reading it
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: this weekend and blah, blah, blah.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: It was with CBS.
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: And then they're like, they wanted it for Sherry O'Terry
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: to play me because I wasn't famous enough.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: They were like, maybe you could be the sister. Anyway,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: she didn't like it.
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: She had to deal with CBS, so she passed on it.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: And they're like, so it's not going anywhere. And so
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: then I was like, oh, okay. And then I went
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: off the pill. Oh, do we have the other iPad?
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Pop it on the other one. I'm just going to
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: keep talking.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: Who cares?
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: People like to see the behind the scenes stuff.
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: Anyway, so then she, so then, but then I went
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: off the pill and then I got pregnant right away
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: with my first child.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: But if I had the show gone, I wasn't going
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: to try to get pregnant.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: So then I had.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: Another show, which reminds me of, you know, being.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: And I thought... I met with these people, and I
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: thought they were really interested. After it had.
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: Gone already, they were like, these people, Fox doesn't want it,
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: but maybe USA will want it.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: After Fox had bought it, they didn't want it. And
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: the guy goes... I.
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: Mean, again, he's like, I mean, like, her family, it's
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: just like two... I mean, too traditional. He goes, like,
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: maybe if you were like, I'm not kidding. He goes,
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: maybe if you were like aliens or something. I'm not kidding.
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: He said, maybe if you're alien. And I'm like, well,
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: then no. Like, I'm not going to rewrite it to
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: be an alien.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: So goodbye.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, so then they said, you're too traditional after nine
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: months of holding it.
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Matt Williams said to me, Matt Williams, who
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: created Roseanne and Home Improvement, and, you know, for Carsey
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: Warner and all that.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Right, right.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: He goes, Lynn, I don't know what to tell you.
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: He goes, I don't, you know, what do you say
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: to that? He goes, they want to have a hook.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: And so for a while there.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: We were thinking. Like you had to be a lesbian.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, because I'm white. You know, if it would
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: be good if I were an alternative lifestyle. They even
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: talked about, like, an interactive thing. Like, if people could
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: almost rewrite the script as we're going through the... Matt goes,
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: I just don't even know what to do.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, I.
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: Have another friend of mine who did have a show.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: I don't even care. I'm just going to tell.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: It was Fortune.
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: Fortune had a show. And during her time of trying
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: to get her show off the air, they were like,
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: but your family, you.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Know, is all white. With her being a gay girl? Yeah,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: she's herself, she's gay. Yeah, yeah.
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: But the people, but that's her family. And so then
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: I remember she was like, so they were saying like,
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: can we cast like your brother's wife to not be
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: a white person.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: And I mean, she's like, sure. Anything you want to
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: make the show work. Right. But I remember her telling
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: me this Sunday, but you know what?
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: If you're this Southern white family and now your brother's
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: married to this woman who's not white, wouldn't there be
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: storylines and discussions about that?
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: You could be embracing her. It could be great. Yeah.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: But if we're being honest about a family and a
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: home and how they talk, it's not like you would
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: just never acknowledge that. That your brother is now not
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: married to, you know what I mean? So that kind
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: of changes her life story because it was based on
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: her life story. Anyway, I think they, I don't know
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: if they ever filmed the pilot or if they got
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: to go to the writing site, but it's that kind
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: of thing where then you're like, and it's why like
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: everyone thinks like, oh, you come up with this sitcom
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: idea or you have this perfect 10 minutes that I
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: can see it. I can see what your sitcom would
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: be from your 10 minutes. But then when you get
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: all these people involved that are like, Like I had
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: the first time I sold a show, I had, it
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: was about a young girl working with her parents in
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: real estate, which is based on my life and based
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: on my standup. And I had these brothers that were
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: like arrested development brothers. They were like, you know, like
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: 40 and like living at home and dah, dah, dah.
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: And I remember they go, we're going to make the
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: brothers into one and he's going to be 18.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, well then that's not like, no offense.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: It's not a loser.
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: Like it was kind of funny that we had this
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: kind of like, Like the whole, I'm like, it doesn't
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: even make sense. And then, but at that point I
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: was like, whatever. My deal was like, even if I
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: never even show up, I'm going to get a check.
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: So if they want to sell this dumb watered down script,
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: I didn't care. But the second time around when they
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: wanted me to be an alien is when I was like,
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: you know what?
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: I just don't even care. I don't care. It's like.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: So anyway.
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: So I've had four. Yeah.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: And I've loved all the writers and all that.
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: But then they get to the executives or whatever, and
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: they have to check off boxes. So the last one,
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: they said, you're going to be married to a Hispanic man,
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: which I've always loved Hispanic men. Yeah. I've always loved
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: Hispanic men. And my girls know that. They're sitting in here.
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: My grandmother married a Hispanic man who was my step
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: granddaddy who was darling and he would talk Spanish to her.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: We believe you. And love talk.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: And I've always loved Hispanic men.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: But it's not your life story though.
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: But it's not my life story.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: And if you were.
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: Would a Hispanic man be quiet and introverted like Chuck Morgan?
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: No.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: A Hispanic man would be, you know, we would dance
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: in the kitchen.
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: You'd have a completely different life, a completely different dynamic.
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: You'd have those in-laws. It would just change it too much.
• 48:07
  Speaker 5: If that's what they want, then go get some talented
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: writers and write a story about, you know, a white girl.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: But it's not your story. Put Laura Linney in it. Yeah.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to have me. Exactly. But
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: you're right. They take, they go, we love it. We
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: love it. We love you.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: We love these kids.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: But then they wonder why these shows don't work.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: And then they put it into, well, this child is...
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: this not not right how my real so i don't
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: have storylines for that i don't i can't write for
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: that i don't know yeah you know my that's not
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: who my child is right so now i mean yeah
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: i'd like to have a i guess i'd like to
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: have a television show but i mean you know and
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: now i'm traveling and i'm and these live shows are
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: so wonderful that i think don't you feel.
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: Like my goals have changed don't you feel like even
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: if the offer came to you right now you'd be
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: like fuck it.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: If it did and it was somebody that it made sense, maybe.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: But it would also have to be like, no, I'm
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: not going to give in. Like, I was giving in
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: on things.
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: I remember one of the things in my pilot for
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: the second time around was I met with this girl.
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: You know, they wanted me to write it with somebody
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: that was actually like a showrunner of other shows.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: And I was like, that's fine. I liked her a lot.
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: And some of my friends, you know, Chelsea lately read
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: it and stuff.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: And this one guy that I really liked, he's like.
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: I don't feel like this is totally you because there
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: was like a Xanax reference or something. And I don't
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: take any prescription drugs that I never have. And, but
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: the mom, you know, my character was like, Oh, hand
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: me a Xanax. Like I'll have a Chardonnay.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: That's real. But like, Oh, hand me a Xanax.
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: Like, let's be a little edgy. Let's, you know what
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: mom isn't on like drugs or whatever. And I remember
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: he said that and I go, I know you're right.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't know why I couldn't
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: tell this woman. I didn't want that joke.
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: Like I wasn't, ready to be my complete authentic creative
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: self in that, because it was like, I didn't have
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: another way of making money. And how could you say
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: no to like possibly star in a sitcom?
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: But then you wonder about all the ones that made it.
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: And it's like, every element has to be there. It
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: has to have the great, you know, it has to
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: have the great time slot and all that, but then
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: it has to have, I remember when I would guested
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: on Frazier and I, They were at the Lucky Lot.
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: There was one of the lots is like 13 at,
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: I think, Paramount or whatever. And they were like, this
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: is the Lucky Lot because this is like literally, I
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: don't know if it was I Love Lucy or whatever.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Every show that was there lasted a lot of years.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: So I'm waiting. So they're like, oh, okay.
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: And this is where you're going to hang out. You know,
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: you work all week and then you do like, you know,
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: a live audience at the end. And we're in this
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: room that's not bigger than this. And there is Kelsey Grammer,
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: and there are the two girls, and there's everybody. And
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: I'm like, don't they have their own dressing rooms?
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: And they're like, no.
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: And I'm like, that's why this show works. Because they're
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: talking about their weekend, and they didn't ask for it.
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: That's what they got. But I'm like, this is why
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: it's the lucky lot. It's because they're not all in
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: their trailers or back then on their phones. And that chemistry,
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: you just cannot... It has to be cast right, but
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: then they have to actually love each other, like friends.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: I wonder, is that what happened with Everybody Loves Raymond?
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: Because I read Phil Rosenthal's book.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, I've interviewed Phil, too.
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: You have?
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: And I read his book about how they would come
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: in on the weekend. I mean, during the week and
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: talk about what happened on the weekend. And they were
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: all very close. And that had to have been what
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: it was.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: That's what it was. I talked to him about it, too.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: And he was just like... It was the, yeah, it was,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: it was a perfect thing. And I've said that too.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: It's like, it just, it's lightning in a bottle.
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: And that's why there's only, and then after Friends made
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: it every year, I'd get tons of pilots.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: It's Friends in Alaska. It's Friends in San Diego.
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: Everybody was trying to do a different combination of it.
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: But the only one that lasted was Friends.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: You know, and like.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: What do you think about TV now? What do you,
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: is there a place for a sitcom? I mean, I
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: know Abbott.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Elementary.
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: People always talk about that.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: But that's not a sitcom in front of a live audience.
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: I don't even know. What shows are in front of
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: a live audience? I don't even know. I don't know.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: But are people even doing that?
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: But that's what I always imagined my life to be.
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: That I'd be a mom in a sitcom. And I'm
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: kind of like, that doesn't really... That's not my desire anymore.
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: It kind of changed.
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: And.
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: you know, and, and like, I don't even know that
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: it would make financial sense, you know, like to do it.
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: And I think that's why some of the biggest, um,
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: standups now, like I know Bert Kreischer, all these people
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: have been offered all this stuff. And if it, and
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: you're like, no, they're not doing it because it's like,
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: are you kidding me? He goes on tour and this
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: and that. And if it's not going to be what
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: they want, it's like, well, why would you, I also
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: think sometimes, and I've said this too, like I do
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: think sometimes the stories that we tell as a stand-up,
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: that art form, is better when you're sitting in the
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: audience and imagining what your kids look like than when
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: 13 people get together and cast it and now we're
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: going to see the.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Story of when the chicken burned. It's not as funny.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 53:37
  Speaker 5: And I think everyone thinks like, oh my God, this
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: is so great, you know. But then they have to
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: not then try to, like I remember Margaret Cho, I
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: read her book. And she got her deal when she
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: was 25 called All-American Girl and everything.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: And they made her lose all this weight.
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: I need to read that book.
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: And she became like anorexic. And they were like, no,
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: you have to be like the hot girl, which wasn't
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: what made her funny. Like she was this girl from
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: San Francisco who blah, blah, blah. And then the guy
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: that she paired, that was paired with her to write
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: the sitcom, she's like, he just watched one of my
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: specials and just only one. And then literally took all
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: my jokes from that one special and put.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: It in the second, like extremely, extremely lazy. You know
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: what I mean? And it's like, well, where will this
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: show go? Like in five years?
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: What would Rob a hundred episodes?
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Like, I don't think people think like that, you know?
• 54:34
  Speaker 5: Okay. So, so now you're like, okay, so you have
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: all your, so then, so now you're just exploded as like,
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: Was it the Facebook stuff?
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: What made it like that now?
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people know you.
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: Do you know what Dry Bar is?
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Dry Bar specials. Okay.
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: So in 2000.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Chris did one of those.
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: Little Chris Frangoletti? Yeah. That angel did it.
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: I've got to watch his.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But it has to be clean, right?
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: It has to be clean.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: Is it run by Mormons or something? Yeah.
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And I was one of the first ones. I
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: think I was in the second season. And back then,
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: they gave you a list of like, do not say
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: these words. If you do, it'll get... At the time,
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: it was on a different platform or whatever.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't get as much money. I don't even remember.
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's like that anymore. But so my
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: manager at the time said, they want you to do
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: this dry bar. He said, nobody's ever heard of it.
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: Nobody will ever see it. He goes, we can get
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: at least... It'll be a nice film. You can get
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: clips so you can get more... breast cancer fundraisers. So,
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: because that's what I was doing.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: And, and I knew my boy got married right out
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: of college at 23 and I knew they wanted to
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: have babies. And I, I really was going through a,
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: like a crisis in 2018, 2019. Like this is, I
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: don't even know. I know it's not going anywhere.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: You're, you're going through a career like identity. Yeah.
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: And I remember saying to my husband, I'm going to,
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: maybe I could open up a store in Knoxville, like a,
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: like a hardware store and I could just sit out
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: in front and dazzle people. And I mean, and I
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: was about in tears and he was like, what? And then,
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: and I was like, I don't know. It just didn't
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: say nothing was happening. It was, it was, I was
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: very sad.
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: One time I asked, one time I was like, when
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: I was for so long, like things weren't happening either,
• 56:23
  Speaker 5: you know? And I was like, there, is it a
• 56:27
  Speaker 5: fine line between positivity and delusion?
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Like, am I delusional?
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: I thought I was delusional. And I thought I was
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: like the kids on American Idol that think they can sing.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: I thought, am I one of those?
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: Do I think I'm funny and I'm really not? I've
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: gone through that.
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: And then I think, no, I've... So you're crying to
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: the husband.
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: So I told him, I go, I need that job.
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: I've always, I want to do, they were grown. I thought,
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: I'm going to do something. And he was like, you're
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: losing your mind.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: And then.
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: So, but I thought they'll have a baby and I'll be,
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: I'll just be the grandmama and I'll help with the baby.
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: And my manager at the time said, why don't you
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: go do this dry bar thing? He goes, nobody's ever
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: going to see it. It was like before it, even
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: the first season came out. So he said, they're going
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: to give you a little bit of money. So I
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: went and did that and, and just like forgot about
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: it and thought nothing's going to, you know, I didn't
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: think anything about it. That aired, I got millions of views,
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: like 50 million views. One of the bits about her being,
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: about the middle child being mean when she was 16
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: must have resonated with people. That got a lot of,
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: but it did not translate into, I got a.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: Lot of gigs.
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: But it wasn't great gigs. Like a lot of people,
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: it was still like low paying gigs. you know, we'll
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: pay you $ 3, 500 like corporate things, but you got to
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: pay your travel out of it.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: And I was busy.
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: But were you doing like, uh, weekends where you do
• 57:55
  Speaker 5: like five shows at a club and headline it or
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: not really?
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: I did only like a few clubs a year that
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: would book me that loved me and, and cared about
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: me like Cap City Comedy Club in Austin, Zany's. I
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: didn't do the weekends at Zany's cause I couldn't bring in,
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: you know, I couldn't sell tickets, but he, Brian would
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: give me a Sunday or a Tuesday night or something. And, um,
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: But no, nobody, nobody wanted me like that. But I
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: had a show on Sirius XM for a while. Like
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: there was always something God would drop and go, stay
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: in it. And then, you know, I've had a lot
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: of nifty things happen to me and Hollywood stuff, you know,
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: four deals, you know.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: People coming out.
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: But anyway, but wouldn't make it. But, but so I
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: always felt like I was in the game. Yeah.
• 58:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: But around that time, I thought, this is crazy. I'm
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: getting older. You know, I'm probably going to have a grandbaby.
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: This is nuts. I'm going to go to work at
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: Target or something. And then my manager, after the dry
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: bar thing, got me in Orlando Improv and a couple
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: of places, Chicago Zanies, and couldn't sell tickets. And they
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: were like, oh, you're one of those dry bar comics. Like,
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: like we're you're not really a comedian but we're letting
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: y'all come in here because it that had boomed and
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: was very successful and people were loving dry bar but
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: i don't think it translates into ticket sale i know
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: it doesn't it didn't for me yeah nobody was buying
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: tickets yeah.
• 59:20
  Speaker 5: It's really interesting what translates into actually leaving your house
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: and going right and i don't think dry bar people
• 59:26
  Speaker 5: were Or even, like, huge follows. Like, it's interesting, like,
• 59:31
  Speaker 5: these people that have huge Instagram following, then they start
• 59:34
  Speaker 5: a podcast, and they're like, no, I'll like your picture,
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: but I'm not going to listen to you talk for
• 59:37
  Speaker 5: an hour.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: So not every medium, like, crosses over.
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: Right. Okay, so they would say in Orlando, love her.
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: She doesn't get drunk and find the parking lot, but
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: we're not having her back. I mean, you know, she
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: can't sell tickets, and I was devastated. And I was like,
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: I had a good time. And so then... I said
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: to my manager at the time, I said, I love,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: I've always loved Jim Gaffigan. There's different people I've loved
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: to watch. And I was watching his social media and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: I said, he's got somebody doing his social media. And
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: I said to my manager, I think I need to
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: hire somebody to do my social media. And he was like,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: you can't afford that. And you don't need to be
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: doing that. And But I'd made some money from Dry
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: Bar and the gigs, you know, I worked like a
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: meal that year, but it wasn't good gigs.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: It wasn't what I wanted. It wasn't like what I'm
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: doing now.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: And I was very discouraged, but I thought, I'm going
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: to hire these people. boys that, and I call them boys,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: they're 30 and they've got children, darling. But I thought
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: I'm going to hire these young people that know how
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: to put all this together. Cause I was putting up
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: pictures of my dogs and I didn't know what I
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: was doing.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: And, and, um, or they had posed something or, you know,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: for me, I didn't know. Yeah. And so I gave
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: them all my stuff, you know, that I feel my
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: head and cause I never done anything. Dry bar wouldn't
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: let us use their special. I couldn't cut that up
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: and use it. But anyway, I got all my old
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: stuff and gave it to these young guys. And I
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: was moving my baby into, she was going to school
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: in New York.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: And I, and they, they started October, 2019. They put
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: out a clip about me talking about taking my husband
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: to go see deaf leopard and journey and how everybody
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: looked old and people had plantar fasciitis. And you know,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: the little man that rock sing rock and roll got
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: tiny legs.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 4: We were moving her out and I, and we had
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: all these suitcases. We were in this tiny hotel room. And,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: and I said, I looked down, And I could see
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: it was being shared thousands of times. Like I could,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: I saw something and I could feel it. I said,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: something's happening. And their dad was like, Lynn, quit looking
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: at your phone. The Uber's here.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: And we got to get these suitcases out because we
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: had to move.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: Her into her apartment. And everybody was stressed out over that.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: And I thought, oh, okay. And then throughout the, you know,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: putting her stuff in her cabinets and her, you know,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: in her apartment, through the day, like I thought, Oh,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: my Lord. Like, I've never had anything.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: Do like this. And then they may have put out
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: another one.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: I wish I could remember because it was, I'm not kidding,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: the beginning of October and it went like wildfire.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: And like, I don't know if women, then they started
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: looking at other stuff I had done. Like, they liked
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: Def Leppard and Journey. They looked at other stuff I
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: had done. And within a month, people were, comedy clubs
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: were calling my manager. We want her. Like, people must
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: have started calling. The comedy club's asking for me.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: So I didn't have an agent. Nobody wanted to represent me.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: We couldn't, my manager begged people to be my agent.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: And I think he got somebody to be my agent
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: because he owed him a favor. Like people pass me
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: up and we're like, and I was selling out all
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: over the United States. And they were like, yeah, you know,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: this mom, I don't know what, I don't know.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Cause it's men. It's predominantly men. And even women agents
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: pass me up. Yeah. Well, that's true too. They don't
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: see it.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: They don't see the value. I was going all over
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: the United States selling out. I had checks in a
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: backpack traveling. My husband's like, you're like a drug dealer.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: You got all this money in your backpack. We didn't
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: even know. It had never happened to me. I did
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: not know how to even handle it. And I was doing,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: first I was doing like one-nighters and I would sell
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: them out. But I think, Heather, that I hit a— I
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 4: know that I have gotten into a lane that.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: Nobody else was in.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah. It was like just middle-of-the-United-States women who've been raising children, and,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm pretty clean. I mean, I, you know,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 4: have innuendo and stuff, but I'm not— I' m a Christian, but
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: I'm not a Christian comedian. I'm a mainstream comedian who's
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: a believer. Yeah. So I'm pretty clean. But, you know,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: I go to the edge. But, you know, nothing crazy.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: You know, I talk about I prostituted myself to their
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: daddy for years so they could have nice shoes and stuff.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: But I just have hit something that people, that was
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: a lane, like Jeff Foxworthy says to me, you know,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: if you can get in a lane that nobody else
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: is in. And I think I did.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: He told you that? Uh-huh. Oh, that's great.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: And it has just been crazy. And if you'd have
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 4: told me this was going to happen to me, because
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: in my idea of success, I really wanted to be Roseanne,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: Ray Romano.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. All that.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: And so for this to happen for me, I'm 57.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: I got a grandbaby, another one on the way. Because
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 4: my new tour is called Just Getting Started Tour. Because
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm just getting started. And in my life,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 4: at this time in my life, And it's been wonderful.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 4: So the first tour was called the Big Panty Tour.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: We had a ball, talked about my panties. Women brought panties,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 4: threw panties at me, just like I was Tom Jones.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 4: I did 100 cities.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 5: Now, when you did all these cities, like, does the
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 5: husband come?
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: What is his role?
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 4: A lot of husbands come.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: No, your husband.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, no. He's still working like a mule. Providing health
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: insurance for us.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: If I go to the Wynn or somewhere like that,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: he wants to go and play blackjack or if there's
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: somewhere to play golf. But no, he stays at home.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: And my husband only, only if he comes, he always
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: books like all the hotels and stuff. And then what,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden he'll come and I'll
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 5: be like, oh my God, like this hotel is so nice.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: How did we get such an, and then I realized
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: it's because he's coming.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah. So he's booking like the nicest hotel room or
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 5: not the nicest, but nicest for me. And, um, but yeah,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 5: like if it's, yeah, if it's, you know, going to.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: Be kind of some fun or whatever.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: They're dating. I hate to say this in front of them,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: but when he does travel with me, he acts like
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: it's our honeymoon and makes me do, you know, be
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: it all night. And I'm too tired and I've got
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 4: to get on a pair of Spanx and my eyelashes and,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: and he's holding on to me and I'm trying to
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 4: get ready and I'm breaking out in a sweat over
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 4: my lip.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 4: But he's got a lot of testosterone.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: So it's just too hard for me. I've got a world.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's why you just have to be smarter about
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 5: how you do it. And that's why I feel that, too,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: like in doing tours, like to be smarter about, okay,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 5: what's not going to exhaust me, you know? And sometimes
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 5: when you've been kind of like selfless and you haven't
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: always had the money, you're, you know, I finally was like,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 5: we need to book a professional driver to pick me
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 5: up from the airport. I'm not going to drag my
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 5: bags to the Uber lot and wait for the cheapest Uber.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: And that took a long time for me to do that. Yeah.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: To finally go.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 4: And I don't do that all the time. I don't
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: get a driver all the time. I still kind of
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 4: drag some stuff out to the Uber thing. But like
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 4: if it's, if I'm in a big city and I'm scared,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: like if I'm in New York, they get me a driver.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I pay for that. Of course. It's so expensive.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: And it's hard for me because I've got Chuck Morgan.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: Their daddy has always been a saver and has been
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: so stable. And see, I was the dreamer and I
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: was like, oh, and he's the one that's been like
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: saving for our retirement. Got a 401k.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: Same with my husband.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So when I would be out with Southern Front Chicks,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: for instance, they would say, let's go to Panera for breakfast.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 4: And I had Chuck Morgan in my ear going, eat
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 4: that continental breakfast. That's free. So I would be there
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: eating an old muffin.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: Oh my God.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 5: So my husband would go, he would call me in
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 5: the morning. And wake me up because we're three hours ahead.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's from East Coast. So he'd call me
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 5: like at 930. And that means he set his alarm
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 5: at 630 to call me to say, I got you
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 5: a free breakfast. It's going to expire at 10.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: So will you please? And I'm like, oh, like, no.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 5: And just recently have I been like, I still will
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 5: take advantage of a free breakfast who can't. And I
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 5: have stolen like an orange and stuff.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: I have too. I've always got something that's put in
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: my purse.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And like in the green room, like the
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: snacks and stuff. Yeah. Oh, all the waters. The waters
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: in the green room.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 4: I take the waters.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: I take all the waters in the Diet Cokes and yeah.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 4: I do too.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 4: I do too, Hannah.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: And I still take leftovers and stuff.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 5: And my kids are like, mom, if you, they got
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: so mad at me about the leftovers thing.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: And then my sister, same thing.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 5: And so now I've said, I will only do now
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 5: leftover if it's like a really good pasta or a steak.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: That's it now.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 5: Because those, I think, do last the next day. But
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 5: I mean, I would take every fucking, and I still do.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 5: It's still hard for me to. And I'm like, Heather,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 5: I was with my son in Mexico and I got
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 5: the buffet and.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: I, couldn't finish the... No, no, no.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 5: I ordered a lox and avocado like toast and I
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 5: couldn't finish it. And I took it in the bag
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 5: to the beach where it's hot, getting hotter.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: And then we moved... To a different pet, to a
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: different lounge chair. And I carried it with me. And
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: my son is like, whoa, I can smell that fish.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: I'm going to throw up.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm looking at the avocados are brown and
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 5: I go, God.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: But, you know, it was like $ 28. I know.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, throw it.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: Away, you loser. Throw it away. I know.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 4: I do the same thing, Heather. I do the same thing.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 4: And when I started this big panty tour, you know,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 4: I have a writer and they have stuff back there,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 4: fruit and cheese and all. So the guy that they
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 4: put with me with Outback Concerts, he started bringing Ziploc
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 4: bags for me so that I could then take it
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 4: and put it in the hotel refrigerator and then get
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 4: up the next morning and eat that cheese and that fruit.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: I did that.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 4: And then I got to think, like the people that
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 4: work the whatever in the theaters, I think wanting to
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: eat that stuff. And we're like, you know, I think
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: getting angry.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 5: Well, then I realized that I realized because then Peter
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 5: goes through the contracts, my husband and he, so now
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 5: we're like, don't be getting me a tray for $ 200
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 5: that comes out of my final net.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: I will eat before I come. All I need is
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: some waters. Yeah.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 5: And how much are you going to charge for those waters?
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 5: Because otherwise, I'll bring my, like, there's all those, like,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 5: hidden fees that you, like, didn't know.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: This is getting boring. Okay, listen. I have another question.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: Your girls are here. Your daughters are here.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 5: And was there ever a time where the girls were like,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 5: I don't like that you told that story on stage
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 5: or anything like that?
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 4: No, they've never said anything to me. My boy, when
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 4: he was in, I think he was in fifth or
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 4: sixth grade, he was going through puberty. and i was
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 4: on local radio in knoxville and on wivk and probably
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: couldn't i mean i was i don't even know what
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 4: i was on there for i guess because i'm the
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 4: only comedian out of knoxville and they used to have
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 4: me on all the anyway i was telling about him
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 4: having like one little arm hair under this armpit but
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 4: not under this one something and his voice was changing
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: and um He was already in school. They were already
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 4: in class. One of his friends went to the orthodontist
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 4: and was riding home, riding to school with his mom
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 4: after his orthodontist appointment and went in and told Charlie,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 4: your mom's talking about your puberty on WIVK. And he
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 4: said to me after school, don't ever say anything like
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 4: that again. And I felt terrible. And I went, I won't.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 4: I promise. So when they were in middle school, I
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 4: tell everybody that was a dry time for me. You know,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 4: middle school is a hard time for everybody. And I
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: knew that they didn't. They were very self-conscious. And they
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 4: didn't want me to say anything. I guess I really
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 4: wasn't working that much when y'all were in middle school.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 4: Because that was what y'all were in. I was with
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 4: Southern Fried Cheeks when y'all were in elementary. And on
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 4: Nick at Night when y'all were in elementary. And then
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 4: middle school, I think I could barely get arrested. Nobody cared.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 4: And then when they were in high school, they were like,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 4: we don't care what you do. Like, you know, they
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 4: were over me.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 5: I think that's really important. Because, like, I've talked about
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 5: a lot about this, about... a lot of people exposing
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 5: every moment of their life because they're like TikTok influencer
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 5: moms or whatever. And there's a big movement of like,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 5: these kids don't have any say in it. You would,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 5: if you were on a sitcom, you don't, you know,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 5: how much you're exposed or whatever. But the same thing
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 5: goes with talking about your kids on stage or writing
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 5: them out on a.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: Book or whatever.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 5: And I did talk about my kids in my special,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 5: but I always told my kids, you can't see my
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 5: standup till you're 16.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: And they're like, why?
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 5: I go, because at 16, you won't care. And so then, yeah, they.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: Never saw what I said.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 5: Because, like, if I tell a story about my son
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  Speaker 5: crying about his, you know, Hot Wheels car that, you know,
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  Speaker 5: fell in the toilet with a big poo, like, I
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  Speaker 5: think that's really funny, but if he hears me tell that, like,
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  Speaker 5: and he was only eight, and he was eight at
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  Speaker 5: the time, like, it's that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like they don't get it. And, like, Recently, my son.
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  Speaker 5: Told me, like, you know, yeah, that would have been
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  Speaker 5: really hard if you were, like, a housewife or something
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  Speaker 5: while I was in middle school because kids see everything
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  Speaker 5: and say everything. And especially, like, in Hollywood and how
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 5: much people are sharing about their kids, I do think
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  Speaker 5: it's something to be kind of conscious of.
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  Speaker 1: The age, you know? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Like, talk about the 2-year-old whatever and talk about the 20-year-old.
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  Speaker 5: But it is that age that, oh, my God, and
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  Speaker 5: especially if another kid hears about it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it was awful, and I never did it again.
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  Speaker 4: And the only time– and then, you know, now they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: my gosh, Mom, tell it. We don't care. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you? Y'all don't– they don't care.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, but my husband, one time when I first got started,
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  Speaker 4: I have breast implants that are old, and they've calcified,
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  Speaker 4: and I need to get them out. But I'm breastfed
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  Speaker 4: all these three children. Yeah. And I had to do
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  Speaker 4: something because I nursed all those babies and they looked
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  Speaker 4: so bad. And I still had life left in me. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: I got these breast implants, but I started comedy before
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  Speaker 4: I got the breast implants. And I said on stage
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  Speaker 4: something about I'd get breast implants, but it's been a
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  Speaker 4: bad mobile home year. And my husband said, heard it
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  Speaker 4: and said, don't you ever say that again. He said,
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  Speaker 4: you know that I've always taken care of you. I
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  Speaker 4: could write a check for those breast implants right now.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 4: And he said, because he, you know, he's been a
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  Speaker 4: wonderful provider.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And that's his job. And he takes it very seriously.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 4: And he said, don't ever say that I cannot provide
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  Speaker 4: for you because I can. And I was like, I
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  Speaker 4: was just saying, it's been a bad mobile home year.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: You know, it's like back then it was like $ 3, 000
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 4: to get a breast implant surgery. But anyway, I said,
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  Speaker 4: I won't. I'll never say that again. And I've never
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 4: said anything like that again. Yeah. And I got those.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 4: Then he wrote a check for my breast implants. And
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 4: now they're old and calcified. And he goes, nothing's wrong
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: with those. And I go, yeah. I mean, they're, you know,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 4: 20 years old and 20-something years old. And they got
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 4: to come out. And he's like, you know, he doesn't
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: like to spend money. He's like, oh, good Lord. You
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 4: don't need any new ones. I go, I really don't
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 4: want any new ones, Chuck. They're calcified. They're getting hard.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 4: They're huge.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: You know, I hate them. Whatever the doctor says, you know.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 4: He said I needed them out. Okay. He said I
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 4: need them out. I would mess.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: With that if the doctor says it.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he goes, with the skin, I think you need
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 4: to put a small one back in.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to put anything in.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 4: He goes, I think you're going to need to put
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: a small one in because it'll be a horror if
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 4: you don't. But anyway, I don't have time.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: I don't have time to do that. I don't know
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: when I'm ever going to do that.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 5: But I think that's, you know, I think that's interesting. And,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 5: you know, speaking of Roseanne, you know.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I did meet her son. He had a radio
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 5: show and I was on it like years ago. And
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 5: I did ask him the same type of things. How
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 5: did you ever feel about your mom like talking about you, whatever.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 5: And he said something great. He's like, well, it wasn't
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 5: like my mom was out going to clubs and drinking.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 5: She was doing stand-up.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 4: So they all turned out okay and everything was fine?
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what all the kids are doing.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: I know she just did a special.
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  Speaker 5: So I know there's, like, there's the three and then
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 5: she had the youngest with, like, the, you know, the
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 5: husband after Tom Arnold.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But, I mean, the three older ones, the two girls
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 5: and the boy, I mean, they must be, you know,
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  Speaker 5: in their 40s by now.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know what they do, but I'd love
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: to know, like, you know.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, that's, you know, it's interesting.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 5: And I wanted to get more in because I was like,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 5: then you went from, like, whatever, being so middle class
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 5: is so rich. What could that have been like for kids,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 5: you know?
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, I know.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 5: And then in the tabloids and, like, all that tabloid
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 5: stuff that, like, you know, you and I never had
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 5: all that tabloid stuff.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, I know.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 4: And Tom Arnold, all that.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Do the girls.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 5: when you meet new people, is it ever like, no way,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 5: that's your mom?
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: Or what is that like?
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: Hey, this is Maggie, middle child. Yeah, I mean, oftentimes
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 3: if it comes, I look a lot like my mom.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 3: And so a lot of times now people will say,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: I feel like I know you.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: Do they see you on her Instagram or anything?
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: My kids get recognized from that too.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: So that happens a lot pretty locally. But yeah, I mean,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: if it ever comes up, I mean, I've been all
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: over traveling in the u.s and somehow it's come up
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 3: and people are like no way there's no way and
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 3: then they always ask how what was it like having
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: a mom that's a comedian does your do your kids
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: get that and what do you say i'm like it's
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 3: the best i mean she was i mean always mom
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: first so she's funny but i feel like it was
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 3: just the same i don't think i even realized she
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: was a comedian until like people talked about her being
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 3: a comedian and i knew it was unusual but it
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: was the same as her working at target you know
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 3: what i mean like she didn't talk about comedy i
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: don't think we talked about it till i was maybe
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: in high school yeah I mean, Nick.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 4: At night came and filmed y'all and all that, but
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: it was when y'all were babies.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: But I was, like, seven.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 3: You know, I knew people came and filmed, but I never,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 3: I don't think I quite understood what it was or
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 3: how unusual it was.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 4: Plus, we were living in Knoxville. It's not like we
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 4: were in L.A., you know?
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 5: When you go and, like, go out to eat, like,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 5: while you're here, like, will you get recognized?
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: And what is that like for you guys?
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think at first, when we were growing up,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: because she was the only comedian, she In Knoxville, there
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: would be some local fans, you know, that would have
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: heard her at a breast cancer awareness thing or heard
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: her on the radio. But now everywhere we go, I'd
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 3: say every single place we go, she gets recognized. And
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 3: at first I thought, oh, my gosh, I'd get butterflies
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: and feel like I was getting recognized. And now it's
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: kind of become the normal.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: But it's so sweet.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: Her fans are so sweet and see. in her exactly
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 3: what we see, you know, and how special she is.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: So I think it just.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh. It's so sweet. Today's her birthday. She's 27.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 4: That's why she's here with me this week. So cute.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: If I knew I'd be on camera, I wish I
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: would have worn something else.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 5: Well, tell everybody where they can.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: You have a special out. We're coming out.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 4: Netflix, April the 11th. I'm Every Woman is what it's called.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 4: And then I'm on my new tour, just getting started tour.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 4: It's 100 cities all over the United States. And that's leahmorgan.com.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 4: We're about to announce the fall dates. Great. Yeah. And
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 4: it's fun. And I'm having a good time. And I'm
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 4: doing some small arenas.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 5: Wow, that's amazing. I'm so happy for you.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Heather.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 4: I mean, I just think it's every day, I think,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 4: what in the world is about to happen now? And
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 4: my book that's coming out in 2024 is called What
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 4: in the World? Because I just feel like, I mean,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 4: every day is just a miracle of things that are happening.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 4: And even though I felt like this, it feels right
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 4: to me. I knew something was going to happen. But
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 4: I just didn't know it was going to be this.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 4: And it's so much sweeter and better than what I imagined.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 4: Because I'm in front of these women every night. And
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 4: husbands are with them, but it's a majority of women.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 4: But I look out there and I think, you know what?
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 4: I'd be best friends with all of them in every town.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 4: I think, oh my gosh, they're mine. We would have
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 4: a ball.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: We'd go to Jazzercise. Yeah. We'd have a ball. Leanne,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: I have to go.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 4: Darn it. And there's so much I want to talk about.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: Well, let's hang out more. This has been amazing.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 4: I would love it, Heather. You angel from heaven.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 5: I'll get your details of when your shows are in L.A.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: And stuff. Anyway, everybody, Leigh-Anne Morgan, special Netflix.
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  Speaker 4: April the 11th.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: You'll love it. I hope y'all do.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 5: Follow her so that you know when she comes to
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 5: your town and you buy the tickets.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 4: Love you.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 5: Anyways, don't forget to check out all of my new
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 5: shows that are coming up this summer.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: Go to heathermcdoll.net. Get your tickets. It will sell out.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: Make your fun summer plans.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 5: I'm going to a bunch of cities, Las Vegas, San Diego, Napa, Irvine,
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 5: Red Bank, New Jersey, Connecticut, Hampton, Sacramento, and San Francisco.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 5: And then after that, I don't know. So get your
• 1:21:12
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