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MENOPAUSE IS HILARIOUS WITH SPECIAL GUEST LEANNE MORGAN · Uncluttered and Unfiltered: The Podcast For Women Over 50

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  Welcome to Uncluttered and Unfiltered, the podcast urging
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  you to let it go and don't look back, with nationally acclaimed
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  professional organizer Christine Stone and self-proclaimed Hot
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  Damn Mess radio and TV personality Eden Kendall.
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  Welcome everybody to 1 cluttered and unfiltered with Eden and
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  Christine. And we have, of course, an
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  organizing tip for you coming up at the end of this episode.
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  Like always, from now on, moving forward, Christine, who is a
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  professional organizer and is recognized through the entire
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  Galaxy, even through a Galaxy intergalactically back through
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  history and into the future. She is the professional
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  organizer that everyone talks about.
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  But anyway, we're going to have that tip coming up.
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  But today we're so excited because we had the opportunity
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  to chat with someone that I feel like is required viewing for
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  everyone in our age group, and that is comedian Leanne Morgan.
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  She is hilarious. She is so funny and she's far
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  from an overnight sensation. She's been at the stand up
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  comedy thing for like 20 plus years.
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  However, even then she started a little later and she I've heard
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  her say that in other interviews.
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  We didn't, we had a limited window to talk to her.
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  The thing is that she has a brand new sitcom on Netflix that
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  actually launches. We're recording this on a
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  Tuesday. This episode's getting released
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  on a Thursday. And today on Netflix is the day
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  that her brand new sitcom called Leanne is being released.
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  Let's, let's see, listen to a little clip from that.
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  After 33 years of complete and utter devotion, you find out
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  he's run off with a younger woman.
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  How do you know she's younger? She has to be, otherwise I'm
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  driving off a bridge. Any idea how long this has been
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  going on? I'm no Sherlock Holmes, but I'd
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  say right around the time Amazon delivered that nose hair
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  trimmer. So what do you want to do?
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  You want to break some dishes, set his clothes on fire, get
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  drunk on Kahlua, and wander around the Walmart in your
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  nightgown that was. You all.
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  I'm saying is I've been where you are more than once.
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  Twice, OK. Well, when it does come, when
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  the breakdown of all breakdowns hits, I'll be there because
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  you've been there for me. But that's your turn.
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  So they're so cute together. And that clip is courtesy of
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  Netflix. Thank you very much.
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  And Kristen Johnson is the other actors you heard remember her
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  from Third Rock. And she's been in plenty of
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  things since then. But they are sisters in the
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  show. Leanne Morgan, her husband,
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  after so many years of marriage, leaves her for another woman.
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  And now she's got to get back out into the world.
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  She's got her three kids and so so anyway, fortunately Netflix
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  reached out. You know, a lot of you guys have
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  been for for years now saying you all have to talk to Leanne
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  Morgan. Boy, she talks about everything
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  we talk about. And so when when we had the
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  opportunity to sit down and talk to her, the very first thing I
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  said to her was that literally every episode title, if you go
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  through our library are things that she covered in her I'm
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  everywoman Netflix special, which we're going to talk about.
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  So take a listen to that interview.
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  Thank you. If you look at the index of all
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  of our hundreds of episodes, you hit on every single topic
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  between all of your different comedy projects.
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  So thank you. Oh, you Angel.
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  Thank you, Aiden, my darling. Do you feel more than ever that
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  people are telling you like you are not just funny, but you are
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  validating? Does that sound?
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  Strange, no? Well, yeah, but you're.
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  I get it all the time. And I, I do think with this
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  sitcom shows that what I have been talking about on stage and
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  in Netflix specials about, you know, being a mom and a
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  grandmama and going through menopause and, you know, what am
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  I going to do now that I've got my children raised?
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  And yeah, we brought that into the sitcom.
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  It's about starting over, going through something bad.
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  But now what are you going to do now that you've gotten your
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  children raised and you know, what's what's important to you
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  in life and what you're able to accomplish?
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  And I think people, I hope people love it as much as we did
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  making it. I think it's going to have just
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  such a huge following like right from the get go.
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  And obviously those, those of us that are big fans of yours know
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  that the one piece of this that's very different than your
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  life is that you know your husband has not forsaken you and
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  made you take to the bed. But what parts of the sitcom
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  that do reflect your life? OK in yes, you're right, Chuck
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  Morgan has not left me, thank the Lord, OK, but I do take care
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  of my elderly mom and daddy, you know, in real life.
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  And this has my elderly parents in it that are helping me
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  through this bad time. My sister, I have a sister, but
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  Christian Johnson plays my sister in this and she's my ride
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  or die. You know, sisters take care of
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  each other and fight like dogs and then I've got my children
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  that help me through it. It's not based on my real life,
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  but it does have some, you know, of my stand up in it, my
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  sensibilities. And I am Southern, you know, so
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  they really captured that part of it.
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  So there's some jello salad to be eaten.
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  There is some jello salad in there.
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  Aiden, you don't. Thank you for knowing that I
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  have eaten a lot of jello salad. I I want to ask you this though,
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  were you surprised a few months back we all found out that you
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  were going to be a part of that Oprah special she did on
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  menopause? Were you surprised to be brought
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  into that? No, a honey that well, I mean,
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  for Oprah to ask me to do it, yes, I could.
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  That was a pinch me moment. But I used to have a podcast
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  talking about menopause with my nurse practitioner.
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  And I've always been interested in that because I had a horrible
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  perimenopause. And I so I have always been
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  interested in, you know, hormone replacement and taking care of
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  my health. And then I'm the only person I
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  think that's talked about menopause in a Netflix special.
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  And that's how she found me. So it made sense, you know, that
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  I would be on it because I need a little comedic.
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  Yes. You know.
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  Blair in there. I agree.
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  One last question for you. Is there going to be a watch
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  party on Thursday? Honey, I'm going to be out
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  working like a mule. I've got shows that day.
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  But I hear that a lot of darling people are having watch show,
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  you know, with their house and parties.
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  And I'm so excited about that. But yeah, I'll be, I'll be
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  wringing my hands backstage in a theater somewhere hoping that
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  people love it because this means so much to me and I had
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  such a ball making it. So I hope people love it and.
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  Well, every every box is checked from Chuck Lorre being involved
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  to all of it. So it premieres on Netflix
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  Thursday, July 31st Leanne Morgan, thank you.
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  So. Thank you, my darling.
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  Thank you, Aiden. She is the sweetest love her so
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  much. So couple of things of note
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  about that. All right, so first of all, I
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  feel like we all need to be watching this sitcom.
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  If you, if you have Netflix, watch it to support her just
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  because she's out there doing it.
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  And look, look, she's going to be on the road working so hard.
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  And you, you brought up something, Chris, before we
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  started recording today. And you said, do you wonder if
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  she thinks if only this would have hit a little bit more when
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  I was a few years younger than this even she's 59.
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  So I mean, all of this is happening right now.
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  She's realizing her dreams and working harder than ever.
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  And. You know, we did that episode on
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  the If only. If only I were younger.
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  Yeah. And so I do wonder that because
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  the stamina to go on the road. Yeah, my goodness.
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  I mean, I don't know how she does it so.
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  But she doesn't. She's great.
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  I laughed so hard at her special on Netflix.
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  Oh my God. And the special is very aptly
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  named. I'm every woman and she is she's
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  every woman. So we're going to suggest that
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  you also watch this special. It was recorded in 2023.
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  She talks a lot about post pandemic, right?
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  She talks a lot about perimenopause, which by the way,
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  I don't know if you've, you've seen this right where people
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  we're referring to perimenopause is cougar puberty, not, not
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  Leanne Morgan, but I've seen that in other places.
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  Yeah, I heard that. It's crazy.
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  So all right, let's talk about that special because the Netflix
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  stand up comedy special, not the sitcom, which we haven't
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  obviously seen yet. The things she covers, if you
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  were to take, like I said, the library of every single episode
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  and go through it, you would. There's a joke for everything,
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  for everything. What are some of them?
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  And we're not going to sit here and try to repeat her jokes and
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  her humor or her voice by any means.
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  But what were some of the things she hit on that you were like,
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  Oh my gosh, this woman gets me? Her husband.
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  Chuck Morgan, OH. My God, he sounds like my
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  husband's twin. I mean, I've been married 37
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  years. So when she said when he first
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  met me, he was so enthralled by me, pursued me, vacuumed out my
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  car and now he wouldn't pull me out of a burning vehicle, I
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  swear. It's so trivial.
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  That way. There, there's a part where she
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  talks about and trust me, there's so much in this that
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  we're not ruining this for you if we tell you a few things.
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  There's a part where she's just standing in her kitchen and he
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  comes over and puts just one hand on her right boob and and
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  goes is what's for lunch? Yeah, well, let me tell you,
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  don't watch that with your husband unless you want him to
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  do that to you every time he wants to know what's for lunch.
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  I just thought everything she talked about her parents.
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  Her little daddy. Yeah, I mean, just everything
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  was dead on with people of our age.
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  I mean, just talking about two, I mean, and some of it goes a
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  little deeper, like how for women, intimacy is talking,
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  right? And for men, intimacy is sex,
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  right? And just, you know, really
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  getting into it, really covering a lot of subjects and talking
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  about her grandson saying that she would cover up a murder for
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  him, right? I mean loving your grandson so
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  much. Yeah, I, I well, the funniest
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  part to me because I have a grandchild is, you know, when
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  she was saying, well, when they were pregnant, it was, you know,
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  I'd say our baby. And they'd say, now we're going
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  to have to set some boundaries here.
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  It's not your baby, it's our baby.
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  And she said, oh, those poor things, they don't know what's
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  ahead. And as a mom, you also, you
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  always think that like, God, I almost feel sorry for them
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  because they just don't get what is coming.
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  And then she said, And then the baby was born and they could
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  barely, you know, he wasn't sleeping and they could barely
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  get through the day. They were so exhausted and they
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  were practically throwing the baby in the front lawn for us to
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  take. And she said.
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  And I knew that was going to happen.
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  Those boundaries go right out the window then.
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  Boundaries go right out the window when you have absolutely
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  no sleep. And then there was another part
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  that was so reflective of our conversation when you got back
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  from your European vacation, because she was talking about
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  going on vacations and how Chuck wanted to do these dangerous
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  excursions. And I'm like, Oh my gosh, that's
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  Mitch and Chris. He wanted to go to the top of
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  the volcano, and you're like, if this volcano explodes and she's
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  talking about going in one of those little biplanes.
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  No, and it's just not. From I don't do small planes at
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  all. No way.
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  No chance. No.
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  I mean, she was just, she's just absolutely delicious.
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  I, I mean, when she said if she made out in the car, she'd get a
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  new purse out of that. I mean, because she's talking
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  about her youth and she's like, Can you imagine if I came home
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  and said to my husband, like, let's go make out in the car?
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  I think my, she said my husband would have a heart attack.
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  I know my husband. Yeah, she goes.
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  He'd have a heart attack. Oh, he'd do it right, but he'd
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  have a heart attack first. Or if she asked him for a
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  Hickey. Right, Because why would I ever
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  want someone to just suck on my neck right till it leaves a
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  mark? Yeah, I.
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  But back in the day, hey, we were just like, yeah, let's go.
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  Yeah, I mean, it really made you think like how, what stage of
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  life you're in, you know? What I mean and how accomplished
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  her kids are compared to how she was when she was in college,
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  right? Like when I was in college,
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  there's no way I was. Doing this she's like, I was
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  smoking cigarettes behind a dumpster, you know?
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  And they're like, you know, making these great agricultural
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  right gains and doing all these really important things in
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  college, right? I, I, it cracked me up.
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  I mean the whole thing. Yeah, so that's if we if we had
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  a book club, we wouldn't have a book club.
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  We'd have a stand up comedy club, right?
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  So much like we said, watch to to go read Mel Robbins.
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  Let them. We're saying please watch Leanne
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  Morgan's I'm every woman special or just go down the rabbit hole
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  on TikTok and Instagram and just watch all of your little clips.
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  I promise you won't be disappointed if you've yet to
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  discover this lovely woman and we're all going to watch.
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  I have such high hopes for the sitcom.
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  I think it's going to do great. I.
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  Really want it to. It's very reminiscent of the of
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  the old sitcoms, you know, the the cameras, the angles, it's
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  very Roseanne ish looking. But but of course with her at
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  the center of it, it's just so sweet.
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  And there's some recognizable people and a lot of actors whose
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  names I can't tell you, but I definitely recognize from other
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  shows that they've been on. I think it's going to do well
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  because there just isn't anything out there was Frankie
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  and Grace. Yeah.
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  But other than that, I can't think of any show that has been
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  about women over 50 only, like, you know, where they're talking
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  about dating later in life or having grandkids or menopause.
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  You know what I mean? Yeah, and just starting again
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  and and trying to date again, right.
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  And she does address that. She said if I had to, if I had
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  to start over, if I had to be single.
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  Now I don't know what if I could do it?
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  And she said it would take $1000 just to groom herself.
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  Yes, which is true by the way. Yeah, it'd be $1000 just to get
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  all this ready, right. So, yeah, we're, we're really
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  excited for her. I mean, obviously we don't, you
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  know, we're just saying it like she's a girlfriend of ours and
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  you know. Does she miss a girlfriend?
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  Don't you? Oh my.
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  Gosh, Well, she said she was like the funniest lady at, you
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  know, choir practice is kind of how she got her start.
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  She was just your friend. That's funny, but if they had
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  the wherewithal to go into stand up comedy, which is a grueling
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  line of work. Grueling.
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  So she has really taken off and we're just, we couldn't be
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  happier about it. And thank you to all of you guys
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  that had reached out to us and said please try to get Leanne
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  Morgan on your show. She was delightful, as you
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  heard. So we are going to make sure
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  that there's an organizing tip at the end of every episode.
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  Which brings us to today's. So what do you have for us?
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  Well, today we're going to talk about all those yetis.
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  They make the. Yetis they may come other under
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  other. Stanley Cups, Stanley.
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  Cups. I mean, there's.
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  There's a whole other one now that they all.
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  Have lala or Walla or. Whatever.
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  I can't tell you in my job how many of those I see that are
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  warped or ruined or missing lids or have been through the
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  dishwasher 1000 times and I am saying here and now please go
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  through these. It takes just a few minutes and
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  only keep the ones that you really use you really love and
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  let the rest go. That includes the 1:00 you got
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  free at something, you showed up and they gave you a free
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  imposter Yeti. That's what I call them, the
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  imposter Yetis and really go through those and you know, cuz
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  I see those taking up so much real estate and kitchens I mean.
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  Especially the big Stanley Cups. Remember when you and I both got
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  them as gifts and we were like our arms were getting sore?
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  Like what in the world? I know I gave mine away because
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  it was so heavy. It was the one with the hand.
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  Yeah, I still have mine, but I get so much grief from my
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  husband if I bring it with us. Like let's say we're going to
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  run errands. I'm like, oh, let me get my
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  water. And he's like, you're taking up
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  the whole center of console with that.
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  Thing right I they are the bane of my existence and I'm not
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  against drinking water or staying hydrated.
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  It has nothing to do with that. It's the amount people have.
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  They have so many of them. So that's my tip for this week.
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  That's a good one everybody. So remember, when it comes to,
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  we'll just use that as our closing.
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  Remember, you can join us on our ladies only group on Facebook,
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  Ladies only, uncluttered and unfiltered.
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  Just search it in your in your browser.
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  Please tell one friend about us. And as far as all of those ways
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  that you can drink it hot or drink it cold, you can let those
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  go. And don't look back.