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Leanne Morgan _ This Past Weekend w_ Theo Von _627(M4A_128K) · Drawn of History

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  Speaker 1: Today's guest is a stand-up comedian. She's an actress. She's
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  Speaker 1: a writer. Her new special, Unspeakable Things, is out now
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  Speaker 1: on Netflix, as well as her series Leanne. I had
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  Speaker 1: a great time getting to know her and spend time
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  Speaker 1: with one of my favorites, Leanne Morgan.
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  Speaker 2: Shine on me, and I will find a way.
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  Speaker 1: No, I just, my hair, I feel like my hair
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  Speaker 1: just got out of the dryer. You ever feel like that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you are stunning.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to be damn stunning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not stunning. Maybe I'm stunning in like a, like
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  Speaker 1: if people are trapped in a mine or something and
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  Speaker 1: I walk up, they're like, yeah, damn, who's that model?
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  Speaker 1: You know, if people have been trapped in like a
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  Speaker 1: mine for like a month.
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  Speaker 2: In Kentucky? Um, but no, I think I've always thought
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  Speaker 2: you were beautiful. And I, you know, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to be beautiful, Leanne. That's insane. What do you mean? Handsome? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to be a handsome guy. Yeah. Guy
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  Speaker 2: looks healthy enough, right? But you've got that beautiful skin tone.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's, I will take that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, baby. I know. You don't need a spray tan.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, baby girl. You're welcome. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Good to see you. What's going on today?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my darling. I'm so tickled to be here. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for having me. This is my Super Bowl, as
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  Speaker 2: the young people say. I mean, I really feel that way.
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  Speaker 2: All right. I don't know if you don't know this,
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  Speaker 2: but I saw you. Was that on Last Comic Standing
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  Speaker 2: in L.A.? Gary Marshall was one of the.
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  Speaker 1: Gary Marshall from the department store? Who are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Gary Marshall that did Laverne and Shirley. He was one
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  Speaker 2: of the judges. Gary Marshall, bring him up. You were
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  Speaker 2: a baby, and you did Last Comic Standing. I saw
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  Speaker 2: you do a set in L.A. It was on NBC. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Gary Marshall. That was Last Comic Standing, right? April Macy
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  Speaker 2: was on there.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Wolfe. She assimilated up Felatio. She did? In her set.
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  Speaker 2: She did. You talked about your little daddy being old
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  Speaker 2: when he had you and all that. Yeah. You killed,
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  Speaker 2: and I fell in love with you then. Well, you're
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  Speaker 2: an angel. And then I got to see you do
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  Speaker 2: a full set at the Hollywood Improv. David Spade was
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  Speaker 2: on the show with you. He came out first, and
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  Speaker 2: I love him. And then you, I had my daughters
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  Speaker 2: with me, and we laughed until we were weak. And
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  Speaker 2: you did a full plank on a stool for, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, seven minutes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's part of the ticket cost. I include.
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  Speaker 2: That. That ain't extra. Okay. And then we got to
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  Speaker 2: meet you, and you remember their names. Oh, I do
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  Speaker 2: remember that. And there was a bunch of girls that
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  Speaker 2: looked maybe like porn girls that were wanting to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you. Oh, good. Mm-hmm. Had on high heels and
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  Speaker 2: tight breeches.
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  Speaker 1: God, I'm so lonely.
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  Speaker 2: But go on. And they were beautiful girls around you. Mm-hmm. God,
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  Speaker 2: I wish they were still here. But go on. And
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  Speaker 2: then all my friends are at Zany's and they always
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  Speaker 2: tell me they get to be with you and I
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  Speaker 2: don't get to be with you. Because I live in
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  Speaker 2: Knoxville or I'm out on the road working like a mule.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it is. Or living in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: Well, when are you just going to settle down, Leanne?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I'm 60. Did you know
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  Speaker 2: I turned 60 in October? You are 60?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, girl. I hate to even say that in front
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  Speaker 2: of you.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's fine, honey. I didn't even know 60 could
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  Speaker 1: be like that. God, I want to be 60 just
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  Speaker 1: for a half hour with you.
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  Speaker 2: You know? My God. Thank you, my darling. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I've got two grandbabies. You do? Don't even.
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  Speaker 1: Now, don't tell me that. Just tell me you're 60.
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  Speaker 1: I like that part.
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  Speaker 2: Do you do? Really? Yes. Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, congratulations, A, on having a family. Obviously, that's
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  Speaker 1: something that's super important to you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I met your husband, Chuck. I met him.
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  Speaker 2: Was that his name? You met Chuck Morgan? Where?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I met him. At the frickin'. With Morgan Wall?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, at the ball game. Yeah. At the ball game.
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  Speaker 2: Go Vols. You know I'm a Vol for life. I
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  Speaker 2: went to the University of Tennessee. Oh, yes. Chuck Morgan
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  Speaker 2: was there. That's right. Chuck Morgan was lingering around. We
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  Speaker 2: met Peyton Manning. And he's worried death about Arch. He's
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  Speaker 2: having to tend to Arch at Texas, who is beautiful
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  Speaker 2: and precious. I know his daddy, Cooper. I know Cooper.
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  Speaker 2: You do know Cooper. But I never met Peyton, so
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  Speaker 2: I was tickled about that. And then I know Tony Vitello.
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  Speaker 2: We're friends. Oh, he's great. Is he not darling? I know.
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  Speaker 2: He's great.
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  Speaker 1: I know that they're all going to miss him over there,
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  Speaker 1: but I know that they're all supportive of him. He's
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  Speaker 1: just the kind of guy you have to support as
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  Speaker 1: he makes those choices. But God, he is just a
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  Speaker 1: great guy. There's some great people over there. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: was fun, though. Had you met Morgan before?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, honey. Morgan and I did a show together when
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  Speaker 2: he got kicked off of The Voice. You told me that.
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  Speaker 2: That little thing was mowing. Had mowing equipment. And we
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  Speaker 2: both got asked to do a charity thing. I think
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  Speaker 2: they paid us $ 200. If they paid us anything, I
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  Speaker 2: can't remember. And he sang, and we were in the back,
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  Speaker 2: and I promised him a casserole because I thought he
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  Speaker 2: was so sweet. And Darlene, he goes, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: try to make it in country music. And I thought,
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  Speaker 2: how's that little thing going to go? And not that
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think he was talented. No, of course.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought that this is so sweet of you
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  Speaker 1: that you would even consider making a casserole for him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's the age of my children. He's great. And Darlene.
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  Speaker 2: He is great. He does a good job.
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  Speaker 1: He's a smart guy. Yeah. He's a smart guy. He's competitive,
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  Speaker 1: and he's really fine-tuned on who he is. Some people,
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  Speaker 1: they're willing to be this or that, but not Morgan
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  Speaker 1: as this is who I am.
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  Speaker 2: I know, and he doesn't care. I admire that. And
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  Speaker 2: that's a good place to be. You don't care. I
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  Speaker 2: think it is. You do your own thing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've been working in comedy for— How long have
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  Speaker 1: you been doing comedy for, if you don't mind if
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  Speaker 1: I ask?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, I don't mind you, Angel. God. I was
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  Speaker 2: 32 when I think, when I, my baby was 18
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  Speaker 2: months old. The first time I ever opened, I opened
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  Speaker 2: at Zaney's. I'd been. I'd been fooling around like at
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  Speaker 2: the Rotary. You know, like I'd take a baby to
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  Speaker 2: Mom's Day out, go and do a little something at
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  Speaker 2: the Rotary, make $ 50. And now were you in East Tennessee? Okay. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then I came. What county was that in? Hamlin County.
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  Speaker 2: Over in Hamlin?
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where you met Chuck Morgan? I met him
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  Speaker 2: at the University of Tennessee. God, I knew it.
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  Speaker 1: And what was he doing over there? Was he loitering
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  Speaker 1: or was he enrolled?
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  Speaker 2: I was probably the one loitering. Okay. He was enrolled
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  Speaker 2: getting a master's, an MBA, and I was trying to
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  Speaker 2: finish up an undergraduate that took me several years, Theo,
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  Speaker 2: because I... Drank. I wasn't drinking. You weren't? I was
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  Speaker 2: smoking cigarettes. That's fine, honey. With Diet Coke and coffee. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's fine. And I was.
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  Speaker 2: I was not going to class. I was having to
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  Speaker 2: flirt with people to get notes. I didn't care. And
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  Speaker 2: I wish I'd have cared. But I was doing stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that and making out with people. Yeah. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 2: Like Italian boys because I'd never seen one. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: I was raised like right outside of Nashville in a
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  Speaker 2: town of 500 people, a farming community. So everybody was
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  Speaker 2: the same. So when I got to UT, I was like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: And I, you know, went to the clubs. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If you see something new, you got to put your
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  Speaker 1: lips on it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Hamlin County motto, I think.
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  Speaker 2: But then Chuck Morgan came to get an MBA and
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  Speaker 2: then fell in love with me.
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  Speaker 1: And was he on a horseback or something when you
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  Speaker 1: saw him? Was he on a damn cane torso? What
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  Speaker 1: was he on? He was just on a damn big Datsun,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't he? Like, I think he's got a long one
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  Speaker 1: on him, under him. Is Datsun a dog?
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  Speaker 2: Datsun's a dog. I've had a Datsun. Puddin'. Puddin'? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: She was precious. Why don't you bring up a picture
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  Speaker 2: of her?
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  Speaker 1: Look up Puddin' Dotson.
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  Speaker 2: She was a little bitty toy. Little orange. Overweight. Had
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  Speaker 2: some thyroid issues. Loved to cuss. UPS trucks. But darling.
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  Speaker 2: Like another baby to me. That's a beagle. That's my
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  Speaker 2: beagle right now. That is beautiful. That's you? Look at
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  Speaker 2: that old. Lord, that was a dress from Dillard's from
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  Speaker 2: the junior department that was too tight on my back. Theo. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Honey, look, baby girl, I know I used to have
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  Speaker 1: shoes that weren't mine growing up. And I'd have to
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  Speaker 1: stuff the fucking edges of them. I'd have to put
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  Speaker 1: a hand towel around each one of my feet and
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  Speaker 1: put them bitches on and go to school. Look like
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  Speaker 1: a damn vaudeville character or something. I look like they
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  Speaker 1: used to call me Ronald McDonald's son.
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  Speaker 2: Lil' Ronnie. Here come Lil' Ronnie. in those fucking shoes, dude.
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  Speaker 1: It took me seven minutes to get off the bus
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  Speaker 1: from going down those steps, dude. Because if I got
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  Speaker 1: out ahead of those skis, baby, it was downhill, you know.
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  Speaker 1: It was just slope central.
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  Speaker 2: You kill me. Louisiana, is that where you were raised? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What part of Louisiana? Over in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I just did Shreveport in Baton Rouge. Is that
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  Speaker 2: over in the Hoop-de-Doo part?
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  Speaker 1: Shreveport, and I'll say it out loud, has definitely gone downhill,
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  Speaker 1: which is interesting for a place that's flat land over there.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow it found a way to go down.
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  Speaker 2: I heard you said something about it when you got
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  Speaker 2: on stage. What'd you say?
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  Speaker 1: Everybody that looked like a damn missing person, if you
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  Speaker 1: meet anybody in the city, the city is vacant.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like a movie set. I know. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the buildings are empty, and they told me, they go,
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  Speaker 2: do not leave this hotel. Yeah. But I love that theater,
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  Speaker 2: and they've got a little Elvis museum in it. And
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  Speaker 2: Priscilla brought some britches of little Elvis that you could
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  Speaker 2: not get your toe in. He was so tiny.
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  Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Bring up a picture. of little Elvis. How little did
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  Speaker 2: he get? Before he got in bad health, have you
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  Speaker 2: ever been to Graceland? Yes, I have. And you've seen
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  Speaker 2: his little, all those jumpsuits and his little waist?
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  Speaker 1: He was getting little as he got older.
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  Speaker 2: Look, there's little baby Elvises. Look at little Elvis.
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  Speaker 1: Right there and they probably had him down Singing already,
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  Speaker 1: probably 11 months old they got him out there.
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  Speaker 2: I know, and his little daddy had written band chants
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  Speaker 2: just to connect here with their family. He couldn't help it.
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  Speaker 1: And he had dysplasia. That's how he got the hips going.
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  Speaker 2: You know that? No.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like an Australian shepherd. That's how it happened in
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. He didn't know what he was doing, dude.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't. If you're like, he's a dancer. No, he ain't. Damn,
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  Speaker 2: he's just got a loose back. Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 2: Because you know that I'm gullible. You can tell that
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  Speaker 2: about me. You can smell it.
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  Speaker 1: Honey.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Honey bun. He had dysplasia.
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  Speaker 1: Baby girl, I'm not joking with you. Yeah, he had dysplasia.
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  Speaker 1: He had a damn fucking loose tailbone, dude. He was
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  Speaker 1: missing a couple joists on that thing, and yeah. And
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  Speaker 1: he just had that tick-tock in him, you know? Hell,
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  Speaker 1: we had an Elvis impersonator in our neighborhood, and he
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  Speaker 1: had the same thing. He had a thing, this guy,
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  Speaker 1: he broke his leg, right? He had a couple children.
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  Speaker 1: He kept them on an electric fence in our neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: Because they were his prized possessions. And I actually respected that.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the kids in our neighborhood got real,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you'd be out there and, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: elements would get you. You know, people smoking or getting
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  Speaker 1: in trouble drinking or people fucking catching crows and fucking
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  Speaker 1: picking bugs off of them and shit. Just fucking loose
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  Speaker 1: cannon type stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But this fella said, well, I got to take care
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  Speaker 1: of my kids. I'm going to get me a little
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  Speaker 1: electric fence.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So he had that thing, and anyway. He kept people out.
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  Speaker 1: Kept the kids in.
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  Speaker 2: Kept the kids in, because my people had electric fans,
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  Speaker 2: and that'll keep you in. You don't want to get
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  Speaker 2: buzzed by that thing. Uh-uh.
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  Speaker 1: You'll turn into a fucking doorbell for a couple hours, dude.
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  Speaker 1: That bitch, if you get hit by that bitch.
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  Speaker 2: We really were so bored, little country kids, that we
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  Speaker 2: would go and just stand on it to feel something. Oh, God. Yeah, honey.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I remember one time I grabbed it on accident.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't fucking close my mouth for fucking four days.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't close my mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Were you from farming? You weren't rural, right?
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't finish a can of Campbell's around that. For
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  Speaker 1: half a week, I couldn't. And it was daylight savings time, too,
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  Speaker 1: so it was an extra hour I had to do.
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  Speaker 1: I was stuck like that. It was horrible. Dude, my sister,
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  Speaker 1: she stays— this is where I'm from. My sister and her
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend will stay up to watch daylight savings time. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: what in the fuck are y'all doing?
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  Speaker 2: They'll stay up to watch— They like saving time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're like, it's 11.59 again. And then they're like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they think it's great. I'm like, you idiot.
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  Speaker 1: It's the one night you get a free hour from God.
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  Speaker 1: It's God caring about you finally after all that year.
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  Speaker 2: When you feel good and you think, what happened? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I got that extra hour.
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  Speaker 1: And they stay up and watch. And I'm like, what
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  Speaker 1: are you watching? But that's who she is.
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  Speaker 2: Is she the one that's got the beautiful babies, the
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  Speaker 2: boys that I've seen you interview?
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  Speaker 1: Those, no, that's my brother has those two little boys.
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  Speaker 1: Those are good boys. I'll tell you this, my family
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  Speaker 1: makes beautiful children.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: They are beautiful. And that's why I call you beautiful, Theo,
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  Speaker 2: and you need to receive that. Gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, girl. My best Hugh Houser impersonation, huh?
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  Speaker 2: He's skipping right now up 12 south. He knows every
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  Speaker 2: one of those girls, and they all love him. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: he is a just. I met him the night that.
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  Speaker 2: He's one of a kind. For free, I came and
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  Speaker 2: opened for Lady Antebellum. You did? Uh-huh. At a thing.
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  Speaker 2: At a thing. Not a bridge to home.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: At a charity thing. Under the bridge. At a bridge.
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  Speaker 2: And he was in the back with his shirt unbuttoned
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  Speaker 2: down his belly button with a fresh spray tan. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: hair extensions, and we fell in love. And so we've
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  Speaker 2: been good friends ever since. And now he's doing stand-up. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: he's the female Michael Landon. That's what I call him.
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  Speaker 1: He's known in a lot of homoerotic circles as the
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  Speaker 1: ginger Michael Landon. He will fuck your book club up.
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  Speaker 1: I know that, dude. Just with his sheer entertainment and
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  Speaker 1: volume and attitude.
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  Speaker 2: And then he also can tell you how to do
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  Speaker 2: a tablescape. But you asked me when I started doing comedy.
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  Speaker 2: I opened for Billy Gardell at Zany's when my baby
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  Speaker 2: was 18 months old. She's out there. She's my makeup artist.
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  Speaker 2: She's about to turn 28. Tess. And she's beautiful. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. God, she's beautiful. And she's my makeup artist
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  Speaker 2: on my television show, and then she tours with me
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  Speaker 2: and tells people she's my caregiver now. Oh, yep. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and she doesn't want to be. She wants to date,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and meet men. And it's hard with your
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  Speaker 2: 60-year-old mother.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's hard if your mother goes downhill early. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they call it, going downhill early. Yeah, you turn immediately.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how to really, as a parent, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's what you want to gauge. Right when they get
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  Speaker 1: out of high school or college, you want to hit
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  Speaker 1: that downhill. So they have to take.
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  Speaker 2: Care of you. So they can tend to you.
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  Speaker 1: That's how it used to be. They shouldn't get those
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  Speaker 1: free 10 or 12 years of joy. into their mid-30s,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when you start capping off. You need to
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: catch it. You've got to hit it right at the
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: right time. So I like your strategy, really. I do
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I thought when I hit it big I
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: would be younger and thinner, but that's okay.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me about some of that. So what was
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: that like going through? Because when do you say you
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: really start to kind of hit it big? And also,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: I love your show on Netflix. That was the thing
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: that I started.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Thank you, and you shared it. Thank you, my darling.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thing I started watching. I was like,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: this is good. It reminded me kind of like of
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Reba in a sense that it's a Southern show. They
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: hadn't had a good Southern show in a long time
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: because Hollywood hates us. But finally, they're like so desperate
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: because they realize that, oh, we are human at least,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: that we're going to put this great show on there,
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: and they chose you. And was that scary doing that?
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Had you done that before? And then when did your
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: break start to come? Because it kind of came a
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: little bit later than maybe you expected or wanted.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. My break came in my early 50s, and
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: I was just about to quit. Were you really? I
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: was just about to quit. I was working a lot.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: I had done a dry bar. A dry bar comedy special, yeah.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: And my manager at the time said, These Mormon people
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: are doing these specials. And he said, nobody will ever
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: see it. They're going to pay you a couple of
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: thousand dollars. You're going to fly to Salt Lake City.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: We'll get some clips out of it where you can
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: do more corporate. I was doing the Chamber of Commerce
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: for Dubuque, Iowa. Oh, God, I love it there. Dubuque's beautiful.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: You know, Al Capone had a hotel. Yes, in that hotel.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: I love that place. I know. And beautiful people. There's
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: real pretty people in Dubuque.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Iowa is some of the best people in the world.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Clear Lake, Iowa, have you been there?
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: No. So good.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: It's where Buddy Holly and them, where they took off
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: from that plane out of the surf ballroom.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, murder. Remember hearing about that? Yes. You can still
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: go there. It's perfectly. You can still go.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: You can still see the pay phone that they all
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: called their family from before they took off out of there. Anyway,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: not to bring it down, but that is a beautiful
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: place if you ever get to go. There's a lot
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: of beautiful places in Iowa.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: But go on. So you were in Dubuque, Iowa. My
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: career was in the toilet, and I thought, okay, I'll
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: go and do this special. I did a bunch of
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: old material that people hadn't seen. I was rusty. I
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: think it sucked. And I did that special, and some
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: things went viral in it, but I couldn't sell tickets
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: from it. I was getting work from it, but it
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: wasn't the work I wanted. What do you mean? Were
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: you getting what?
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Pressure washing or what kind of gigs were you getting? Because, dude,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I've seen, I've had somebody, some guy saw me at
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: a comedy club. He's like, man, I love you, dude.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I want you to come pressure wash at the house.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, that ain't helping me. He's like
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: 200 bucks. I was like, I'll be over there. I'll
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: damn spit really fast on that siding if I have to.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I don't own a pressure washing machine.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it was like little corporate things, stuff that,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: you know, they pay you so much, but you got
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: to pay your travel out of it. I'd get in
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: an Uber with a man on marijuana, drive for two
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: hours and stay at a motel on the side of
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: the road, think I was going to be murdered. I mean,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: it just was, and it was just not good. And
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I got very down and I told Chuck Morgan, I said,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I'm going to quit and I'm opening up a hardware store.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: And cause I always thought that would be fun. And
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: he said, No, you're crazy. Did he really say that? Yeah,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: he goes, Lian, that's crazy. It's fine. You're fine. Just
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: keep going. And so I hired these little guys that
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: did social media for me, these young guys who knew
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: how to do all that stuff. I didn't know. And
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: they put out the clip where you showed me in
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: that tight dress from Dillard's from the juniors department. And
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I did a bit about, and I'd never done it before,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I just had taken Chuck Morgan to go see Def
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Leppard and Journey at Thompson Bowling. And everybody looked sick
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: and had plantar fasciitis. All the people looked banned. All
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: the band members? All the band members. Oh, yeah. A
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: deaf leopard guy, I think, had a hernia. Way more
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: than deaf, yeah.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Tiny legs. Oh, God, yeah. Thin hair. Anyway, it must
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: have resonated with people, and that went viral, and I
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: started selling out all over the United States in clubs
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: that would not have had me. Yeah, wouldn't even answer
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: your emails. Wouldn't answer, no. Or they'd had me, and
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: they're like, she's sweet. She doesn't get drunk and fight
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: in the parking lot, but we're not having her back.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: She can't sell tickets. So I started selling out, and
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: then I got my first tour, and then the Big
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Panty tour. And I was in my early 50s. And
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: you were in your early 50s. Uh-huh. And what was that?
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Do you remember the first place that you played at
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: that it was sold out at?
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Like, first comedy club where you're like, oh, my God.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably, oh, like, off the hook. In Naples? Yeah.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Brian's Club? Yeah. Oh, Captain Brian. Yeah, Captain Brian. Dude,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: you're on stage and they're just serving shrimp right up
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: between your legs, dude. Big platters of shrimp. I thought
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: it was a seafood restaurant and I thought, I'm in
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: the wrong place. It is a seafood restaurant. A lot
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: of clinking. But I like that stage and they were
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: darling and I had a ball.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, it is a seafood restaurant and you're in
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the right place. It's both of those things and that's
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: what's amazing about it. Oh, Captain Brian's done a great
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: job over there of keeping off-the-hook comedy club.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: That's what it is. Yeah, in Naples. Or Bricktown in Oklahoma.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: All these places that had never had me before. But
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: that was the first place that you went, didn't it?
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: That was one of the first places. Yeah.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was touring for probably 12 years, 13 years
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: out there. Maybe, I don't even know, probably about that.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: You know, just getting in there, lucky to be a feature,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: hoping you'd finally get to headline, hoping you'd hit a bonus.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: You wouldn't.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: So you're at that kind of $ 1, 200 a week mark,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you know?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: And they give you $ 300 for travel, but you had
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: to decide if you just wanted to drive 18 hours.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Or spend the $ 300 to fly over there, you know? Yes.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Dude, hanging my food out. When I remember in Kansas City,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: it was cold out there. So I got my groceries,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and I would put them in a bag and hang
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: them out the window at night because there wasn't like
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: a fridge in the room.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I'd hang them out.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I'd get them in the morning, let them thaw out,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: and then have me a little lunch a few hours later.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: And yeah, just little things you would figure out over time.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: But there were some clubs that always, like Brian Dorfman
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: at Zany's in Nashville always let me play. Cap City
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: and Austin. I consider that my home club. Chuck Morgan
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: moved us to San Antonio for his job. So I
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: worked the River Center and Cap City in Austin, and
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: they were really good to me. Wait, in Austin or
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: San Antonio?
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: San Antonio, the River Center, and then LOL, and then
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Cap City and Austin believed in me. And I would
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: drive back and forth from San Antonio with little children.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I had three babies, three, five, and seven. And in
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: San Antonio, I'd get up at the late show when
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: everybody was high on marijuana at midnight and talk about
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: how somebody doo-dooed on a t-ball field because I was
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: a mama, you know? I was different from all those boys.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: There was a lot of young boys doing Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonations. Oh,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: baby girl. So I stood out. But, you know, not
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of clubs wanted to book me. Yeah. But
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I got to raise these children. I was raising children
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: in Knoxville, Tennessee and Texas. And first of all, let
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: me say this beautiful place, Knoxville. Thank you.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: And also, I think Knoxville is probably the best place
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: to see a football game. I think the best place
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to see an SEC football game. I haven't seen a
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: lot of football games outside of the SEC. But, man, Neyland,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: there's something special about it.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I just got to go to Ole Miss and see
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: their game.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: I saw that you were with Lane, and did y'all
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: do hot yoga? Yeah, we did. He's been on a cleanse.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I've said horrible things about Lane Kiffin on stage when
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I have, well, you know, he left us. Yeah. So
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I said some crap. Oh, when daddy leaves. But I'm
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: sorry for it now.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Here we are right now.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Because he's doing, he's, you know, he was cute and
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: there was a lot of girls.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Well, you can tell I was raised by a single
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: mother too with how I wear that towel. I'm going
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: to go on ahead and say that. That's why. People
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: are like, what are you doing? I'm like, what are
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: you doing?
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Okay. With your dad. Okay. Okay.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: So you can tell that to who I am. And
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: those are some wonderful ladies there that were training. I
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: don't know if they were trainers or something. I think
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: they work at Facebook Marketplace.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: One of them was actually going to buy a cat
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: off of Facebook Marketplace. And I said, honey, she's like,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I'm driving to Batesville to get a cat off of
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Facebook Marketplace. And I said, baby girl, that's a bad idea.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: She said it's a $ 60 cat. I said, I'll give
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: you $ 70 right now.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Not to go?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just to get you a little nap or something,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: you know, just to watch cats on YouTube and get
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: you a little shut-eye.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, my Lord. I hope she made it. Well, I
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: hope she made it, too. And, you know, who knows?
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: You know, you can't follow up on everything.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: But you're so busy. Well, you give them a little
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: bit of advice, you know.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: If at that point she drives off to meet somebody
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: off at a damn Facebook marketplace— At a trailer where
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: they're like, well, we're going to add an addition to
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the trailer. That is when I'm like, do not do it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Anytime.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: And let me make this speech right now. And I'm
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: going to put my hat on to make this because
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I don't like my hair today.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: My God. I need a wife. But what I'm telling
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: you is this, okay?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: If you meet someone and they're like, yeah, we got
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the trailer and then we're going to add on to it.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: You're like, that, it doesn't work. It's not a realistic idea.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: project you can't just add on to a trailer with
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: extra housing or quick creed or whatever they're using all
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: type of shit.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: You know did you know that chuck morgan is in
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: the mobile home industry i could imagine it i didn't
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: know that and did he put you in one yes
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: i lived in a double wine um he flipped it
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: and he said to me we're just gonna be there
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: temporarily yeah And it was big. You could ride a
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: bicycle through it. Oh, yeah. But I was pregnant with
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: my third baby. It was in the middle of nowhere.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: It was a hard time for me. Was it? There
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: was a mom that lived behind us. She had a
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: pot-bellied pig. It charged me all the time. It wasn't
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: a big pig, but it was scary, you know, to
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: have a little pig charging you while you're big pregnant,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: trying to get up in a double wine when you
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: don't have stamps. Yeah, it's kind of, yeah, definitely, dude.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Chuck Morgan owned the business and had steps sitting out
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: in the field, several, and just forgot to bring steps home.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: So I had to pitch two babies up in a
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: double wine, then hike my leg up, being pregnant. I mean,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I had tensed that baby. I was pregnant with her. Yeah.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: And we lived on it, and it was on a
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: gravel road. And he said, I promise you, I'll make money.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, she's got big hands, I saw. So, hell, yeah,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I can imagine that thing helping you balance on the
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: way up a little.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. And then he did. He flipped it. But, yeah,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Chuck Morgan still works in the mobile home industry. Oh, dear.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: And I don't think, I don't know, maybe some people
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: do try to build onto a mobile home, but I
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: get what you're saying. Yeah, it's just when you... You
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: could put a fire pit out in front. Put it
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: out in front. But I don't know.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Do not try to put it inside. That's what I'm saying.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Do not do that. That's a thing, you know?
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: We're going to take.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: My sister was like, we're going to tear down this
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: wall inside and we're going to... No, you don't need
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: a living room that has a bathroom in it. Like,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: you know, but no wall.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Did you ever live in one?
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I didn't live in one. We lived in an apartment
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: complex that... Was sinking.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: So we'd sit.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I remember we'd sit there at night and watch Unsolved
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Mysteries with Mom and stuff. And one part of the
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: fucking apartment... After about the second episode, once like....
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Once like.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: A full house came on, your fucking bottom was getting wet.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Because it was just... You could... The floor was sinking.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: There was like some sink in there.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Some sink?
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: In the living room. And people would steal... This was
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the worst part about our place. People would steal... our,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the wood from our balcony. Let's even find that picture.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I've talked about this before, but.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: People were trying to steal the. So people. There was
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: a balcony up on that top. Yes, there was.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: And the police were like, well, you have any pictures
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: of it? We're like, officer, you don't think there was
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: a balcony there?
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: We just live with a witch or somebody who just
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: travels on just propulsion or something or some woman on
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: her period who can just levitate out like that. What
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: do you, like, he's like, well, we need to see
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: some images or something. And I'm like, it was just,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: that was a nightmare. But people would steal that and
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: they would use it to build something at their house.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: And then we'd go get it back and get it
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: back installed. If my mom was seeing a guy, we'd
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: convince him if he was drunk to go get that
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: wood back.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: And it would.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Always be a little bit less of it every time
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: he got it back. It was that sort of deal. Oh.
• 28:06
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• 28:08
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• 28:15
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• 28:21
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  Speaker 2: Where are you in your family? Are you the baby?
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: No, I'm the second one. We have four children, and
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I'm the second one. So we had an older brother,
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  Speaker 1: two younger sisters. What about you?
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: I have an older sister. You do?
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: What's she like? We were a pretty big deal in Adams,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Tennessee of 500 people. Yeah. You know, we were tall, blonde.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: I played sports. She twirled. She twirled? She twirled. She
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: was a majorette. And boys used to call and breathe
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: into the phone.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: That's flirting where I'm from.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, she's beautiful, huh? Thank you. She was National Simicot Calendar.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: You're dressed like a damn dish set we had when
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I was a kid.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: That was at the Opry. God, that's great. Oh, my Lord.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: We both have an unrealistic hair color right there. We've
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: both gotten some dimensions since then.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of your photos, you kind of look
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: like an Asian woman that's dyed her hair to look
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: American in some ways.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Because of my eyes? Do you think my eyes?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: No, I just feel like you are a beautiful lady.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: A lot of these pictures, I don't see you in
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: them for some reason. But they look great.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: And maybe I've seen a lot too. I've been on
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: too many sites with Asians on them or something.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: But go back. I want to talk about your sister
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: for a second. What's her name? Beyonce. Beth. Oh, she's beautiful.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: And so what was it like having a sister like her?
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: She was a majorette, you said?
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: She was a majorette and, you know, 5'11, and she
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: was in Miss Tennessee. Of course she was, dude.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Any tall girl, they just, they will get it all.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: If you just happen to be fucking tall, I don't
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: care for whatever reason or something, maybe there wasn't a
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: lot of gravity in the home or whatever, but whatever
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: happened and you got to be tall, they were like,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: she's beautiful.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: You remember that? Uh-huh. And we, you know, when you're in,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: I graduated 42 people. I think she graduated with 20 something. Okay.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: So easier for her to do well. Yeah. And, uh,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: but she was always very, and still is very prim
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: and proper. And she went to Austin Peay. She was
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: homecoming queen and she was a national Semeca calendar on the, Yeah,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: and then I went to UT, and I was in
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: a mess. A mess. A mess.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I was flailing around. Were you dating women, too?
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: No. Okay. I mean, no. I love men. Okay. Love them.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know how weird it got.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't go through that. Yeah.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: And were you knocked up outside a wedlock or not?
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: No. Oh, she did pretty good. You know, oh, but
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I dropped out, and I got married the first time.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: It wasn't Chuck Morgan. Mm-hmm. I have a past. Who
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: was it? It was a guy that was older than me.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: He went to UT. He had already graduated. Well, I
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: think so. I think so. It just didn't work out.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: He had problems. It was bad. And I don't think
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: he could help it. Oh, my God. I hope he's
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: all right. Is he alive? No. God! Oh, that's sad.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you for telling us about him.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, my darling. But, you know, it made me who
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: I am today. It's okay. It's okay. Yeah. And he
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: was a beautiful, talented. He was beautiful. Talented and all that,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: but it was bad. And I was dumb and 21.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: And then we're talking the late 80s. I still probably
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: had some big hair. And were you listening to, like,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: any type of music? Annie Lennox. Okay.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Prince, Billy Arnold, Rick James, Nasty Rick James. Okay, so
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: you guys were partying a little. I mean, I was
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: dancing and smoking cigarettes, but I was not a drinker.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: I didn't care about drinking, and I never did drugs
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: because I'm scared of things. That is you, huh? That's me, 17,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: a junior in high school. Tess looks like you kind of, huh? Mm-hmm.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Beautiful ladies. Oh, my God. And who is that? Me
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: and my sister.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, I thought that was two of the Von Eriks.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: You ever seen those kids? The wrestlers?
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Bring them up. Yes. Didn't you interview? Kevin Von Erik,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: we did. Honey, after that, I looked him up because
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: it was so fascinating. As children. They were fascinating. They
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: are fascinating. Great guy. But, yes, some of that picture room,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: I thought it was two of them. Yeah, we were
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: little blonde-headed children. And our family owned the little grocery
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: store in our town. Oh, I could easily... Is that
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: all those wrestling boys? Yeah. The daddy sitting there, did
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: he wrestle or... He did. He wrestled, too. Where were
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: they raised?
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe East Texas. That's Gavin.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: And their little mama, you can tell she cooked. Oh, definitely.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: And she tended to them and got them casseroles.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: She did not have a choice to cook. I can't
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: believe you gave Morgan a casserole. What kind was it?
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: I never got to fix little Morgan... Now, he did
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: take my Maggie, my middle child, on a couple of dates.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's beautiful.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: But she said, I think he likes wild girls that
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: like to key cars. Oh, well. And see, my children
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: went to a Christian school and were taught not to.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: But she said, she thought it was darling. And she said,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: I think he likes wild. This was a long time
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: ago before he hit it big. He was, you know,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: he liked girls that liked to fight in the yard. Yeah, dude.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I could see that. I mean, yes. Yeah, and that's okay.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: There's pretty girls in Powell. They were all from Powell, Tennessee. Yeah.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: And he was a baseball player and mowed. A free fight. Yeah. Yeah.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: And especially if he just mowed the yard. Yeah.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Somebody needs to throw down in it. You know, that's
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: I know. And see, my sister and I and my kid,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: we don't like to fight. We're not fighters.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: That's not y'all's thing.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: No. And I've got a son, 32. He's not a fighter.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Y'all are lovers then. We're lovers. Uh-huh.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I interrupted you, though. So he owned a car dealership,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: you said? What were you saying before I interrupted you?
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: My little mom and daddy. No, I told you. Oh, wait, who?
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: You were talking about, oh, the two little kids. Go
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: back to them as children. And sorry I interrupted you
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: and took you on this crazy thing where I compared
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: you to look like.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: With the wrestlers.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm very sorry. But now here we have
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: two beautiful children.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's me and my sister. And I think that
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: was taken in the back of our... I think people
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: could get their picture made in our grocery store. Oh,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I love that. My family owned the little grocery store there.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: They did? And we're farmers. We have land. We still
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: have farming. Outside of Knoxville? Tobacco farming. In Middle Tennessee,
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: here outside of Nashville. On the Kentucky-Tennessee border near 101st Airborne,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Fort Campbell, Clarksville. That's where I was raised. Oh, beautiful.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: But I went to University of Tennessee and then married
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: a bunch of men up there. So we had... We
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: had grocery store, and then my little daddy opened a
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: meat processing plant.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, he did?
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: And he did everybody's beef, deer, and hogs and all that.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: And did y'all do nuggets, too, or anything like that?
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: No. God. It's kind of like now, these fancy people
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: that do grass-fed. My people were doing that a long
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: time ago.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I was trying to, if they saw a
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: cow eating grass, you'd be like, this thing's a little gay,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: you know? Like, it was feed-only back then, you know?
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: If you saw some grass, you'd be like, look at
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: this thick bitch having a salad, you know? It'd be like,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: It was a different time. I worked at a place
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: called Soup Galore. I worked over there.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: I love soup. Yeah.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Enough people didn't love it like you did, I think,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: because we could not keep a strong clientele in there.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Really? Well, it's just hard.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: And our big thing was it was supposed to be
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: like the Baskin-Robbins of soups, right?
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: So they were supposed to have 31 soups. And I'm like, dude,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: we don't have enough. If everybody came in here and
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: had two bowls of soup, they're like, well, maybe after
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the game everybody will come in and have a couple
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: bowls of soup.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: I'm like, there's not.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: There's only like seven parking spots, too. It didn't even
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: make any sense, dude. And I'd be back there just
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: damn stirring like a bouillabaisse or a fucking split pea.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, that shit would suck. Are there 31 soups
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: is what I'm wondering.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, of course there are. Bring up a list of
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: soups if you don't mind, brother. For the non-believers out here,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: for the Methodists as I'll call them, okay? Bring up
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: a list of decent soups. Put that on there. Tomato,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: French onion, that was an easy one. Cream of mushroom,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: that was pretty basic.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: We had that.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Butternut squash, we didn't do. Now, I've had that a
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: lot as an adult.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Do you like that, my darling? Because that's not a
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: go-to for me, butternut squash soup. It's a rich thing.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll be at a place where somebody will invite
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: me to something. We have to have all your clothes
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: on to eat. And hoop-de-doo. Okay, first of all, yeah.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: And there's nowhere to put your gum. So you have
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: to swallow it.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Do you get invited to a bunch of nifty things
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: because you're so cute and fun and everybody wants to
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: be with you and you're exhausted? Is that basically it?
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: No, I don't think that's true. I do like one
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: thing that was one thing that sometimes is neat. Like
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: my best friend went to Ole Miss. So I got
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: to go to Ole Miss. It was his birthday.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: So we went up to Ole Miss. And so I'd
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: met Lane Kiffin from podcasting with him. So I got
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: to like, take my best friend on like this walk
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: that they do at the beginning of the thing. But
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: if you'll see, Play that video. And I'll tell you
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: when to pause it in just a second.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Okay? Pause it.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Right behind me on the right is my best friend.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: So he loves SEC football. He loves Ole Miss. In fact,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I've only supported Ole Miss because he was an Ole
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Miss guy, and I love him. We've been friends since
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: we were children. His father convinced me to go do comedy.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: His father was a Jerry Clower fan and used to
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: put Jerry Clower on the radio. And on the CD.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: But little things like that are great. Like I know
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: you're doing, it's probably similar stuff. I know you're doing
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: the CMAs with Lainey Wilson, right? You're going to just
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: guest with her on there for a little bit, which
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: is amazing.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get to intro somebody, but I get to
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: be on stage with her for a little while. She
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: and I played each other in Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud. Uh-huh.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: She invited our family to play. Oh. And then I
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: did something else with her with CBS, so I love her.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: And she's the real deal. She's the best.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I went and saw her and Ella Langley play not
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: long ago, and that was beautiful.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: And Ella Langley. I got to meet her on the
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Today Show. Beautiful. Oh, yeah. Beautiful. Oh, yeah. Is she
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: dating anybody?
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Huh?
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Is she dating anybody? I don't know a thing. I
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: don't know anything. I mean... She's got beautiful bangs and legs.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Did you notice that? I....
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I know she is a great performer. She is a firecracker.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: I know that.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: She's just a, you know, confident young lady. So talented.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: She is so talented. But I don't know. I don't know.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: She, whoever she, whoever, if she's dating somebody, they're a lucky.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: They are very lucky because she's a doll, a living doll.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: She was with Riley Green and I got to meet him.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: He was darn. Look at her. That doll. Oh, beauty. Beauty.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Blaney's a beauty, too.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, she'll iron your fucking shirt with her stare, too. Look,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Ella will get something done. And Ella, where was she raised?
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Alabama?
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: I think in the Jungle Book. Have you seen that movie?
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: She is a wild one. And I mean that lovingly. Ella,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: she knows that. She is from Alabama. Hope Hole, Alabama.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: I know she just won a couple of Sea-Doos, I think,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: in a raffle down there. I saw her using them.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: They had a raffle down there at the hardware shop,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: and she won them. I remember my granddaddy, when we
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: were kids, would take us over there. He'd be like,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: let's go enter the raffles. It's raffle week. You go
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: enter them. And then he'd go over there to the
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: pool hall and smoke, and you'd have to sit out
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: in his truck or whatever.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. With a couple stuffed animals. I think we were
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: raised similar. A lot of people sitting smoking out in
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: a truck. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: And the men would go cry behind the wind, Dixie.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: If things weren't going well, they'd park back there and cry. Oh.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Good chicken, though. Yeah, they had great produce.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: My buddy Robbie Taylor worked over there for a long time.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: He was a steadfast employee there and went on to
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: create some businesses of his own. But, yeah, we'd go
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: up there and watch the fellas cry over there.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: There were people crying outside of the Winn-Dixie.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: In the back, not out front. If you were crying
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: out front, that's a gay guy. You know what I'm saying?
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: The real man parked and cried in the back. If
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: you were just up there having a little too much
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: trouble getting one of those big bags of ice out
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: of the icebox thing, that's just a fella that's afraid
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: to admit something to his wife.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: You know? Oh. Okay, I used to go back when
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: I was waiting tables and smoke with the line cooks.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: They're fun. They'd gotten out of jail, had fun stories.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: First of all, if you consider the people that work
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: at Winn-Dixie the line cooks.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: No, the restaurant that I worked at. Oh, sorry. Oh,
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: those boys, those line cooks that I worked with, pretty fun, criminals,
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: had a ball wanting to hear what they did.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Where was this first job at? So this was a restaurant?
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: This was a restaurant. And it was a real place.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: A real place where I met Chuck Morgan when he
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: came to get his MBA, and I was finishing up
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: that undergraduate that took me many years.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: And this is in Knoxville.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: In Knoxville, Tennessee, the restaurant where everybody wanted to work
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: because it stayed on a wait all day long. You
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: made big money. Oh, I like that.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Because, yeah, you seem like a woman that's probably slept
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: away to the top of a Marie Callender's.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? I'm not judging you. But
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: go on.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Anyway, sorry I shouldn't be talking while you're here. And
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: I'll say this. That place was nice. That fucking pie
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: aquarium they had at the front.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: That Marie Callender. You know, I've never been in– are
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: you talking about a real Marie Callender? There were restaurants. Yeah.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: Where were they? I've never been in one. I don't know.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: You know, they had– I think they had one up
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: there towards Missouri. They had one, and it was– I
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: think it was in the same town as they had.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: You ever place that Lambert's, the Throat Rolls? You ever
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: been in that place? Yes, I think I've been in
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: a Lambert's. Marie Callender's is based out of Mission Viejo, California. Oh,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: I did not see that coming.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, were you living in Los Angeles? When I saw
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: you do Last Comic Standing, were you out there living
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: as a young, young, young, young boy? Mm-hmm. Because, see,
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: I was a little mama out in the middle of
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: nowhere wanting to be with y'all. But, I mean, I
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: wanted to be one of the cool kids at the
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: comedy store, and I would, you know.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: And where were you at that time? That's when you
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: were working at that restaurant?
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: No, this was when I started doing Cap City Comedy
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Club and all that. Got it. And then Chuck got promoted,
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: and then we came back to Knoxville where the corporate
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: offices are. And that's when I.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I worked, but I, you know, nobody cared.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Well, honey, I don't even have fucking long socks. Look
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: what I'm wearing.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Cute. Very cute. Very Lane Kiffin. Your ankles look nice. Oh,
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: thank you. I got a spray tan for you. You did? Yeah.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: Somebody came to my home and did it. That's nice
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: of them. Um, yeah, but, uh, Yeah, I wanted to
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: be out at the comedy store and all that. I
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: wanted to be like you.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: But was there a thing, like, what was it like
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: really having the children and you're wanting to do this? Like,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: did you have to say, like, okay, I can't do
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: it these years. I can't do it this time of year.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Were there times you had to set off, or did
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: you not be able to do that? Because I know
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: sometimes it's like you get a week, you're like, that's
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: the week I'm working, you know? I mean, that's how
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: it was for me. Like, I didn't have, I had
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: friends for like 12 years that I was out there touring, but...
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I didn't see him that much.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: I was gone.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: If I met a girl, I'd start to get to
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: know where I was going. I came back in town
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: three weeks later. I didn't remember who she was. I
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: didn't know who I was.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: You know, just things were, it was hard to keep
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: things together. What was that like for you out there?
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just, I took any job I could
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: get and I tried to stay on stage when I could.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: And at times I would go on a little tour
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: with like two other female comedians because Blue Collar had
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: blown up. And so do you remember Etta Mae? A
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: comedian named Etta Mae. Yes. I toured with Karen Mills
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: and Etta Mae, and we called ourselves the Southern Fried Chicks. Oh, yeah.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: She plays a character. Etta Mae.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: She used to do the Funny Bone in Baton Rouge sometimes.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and she lived out in L.A. and was in
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: movies and stuff. Wow. I don't know if I ever
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: got to meet her. She's out there working theaters and
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: clubs still. Etta Mae. So funny. And who else? Karen Mills,
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: who is a good friend of mine who opens for
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: me when I tour. Oh, yeah. I got to get
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: to see that Etta Mae.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Because I remember, yeah, like just you see the flyers
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: at the clubs at the Funny Bone. That's who was
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: coming through. That's back when Baton Rouge had a Funny Bone,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: and they don't have one anymore. I don't think Louisiana
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: even has a comedy club anymore.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: Well, I know in Knoxville there were side splitters, but
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: you would come to the Tennessee Theater when I was
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: working the side splitters.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, by the time I got to Knoxville, I was
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: already doing outside.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: I know you were at the Tennessee Theater. I was
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: outside of clubs. That Tennessee Theater is awesome. Beautiful. But
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: I would work when I could. I did a lot
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: of private things. I did clubs when they'd have me.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: And I always had television deals, though, going. That's the thing. Oh,
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: you did? I had Hollywood after me.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Well, honey, shush.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: But they wouldn't make it. I mean, I had big
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: television deals, but they wouldn't make it. They weren't making
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: any of our shit, but at least you had the deal.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I did, and that kept me going. I'd get down,
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: and I'd think, well, something must be telling me to
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: keep going because I'd get a deal with ABC and
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Warner Brothers, and then I had one with Nick at Night,
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: and then Sony. So the one I had with Chuck Lorre,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: that was my fifth. For this new show? Uh-huh. And that,
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: I mean. For Leanne? Yeah. And this went, like, he
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: just said, we're doing it. And Netflix said, we'd love
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: for you to do it.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: And we got to, I got an unbelievable cast. Who
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: played your sister in it? Kristen Johnston from Third Rock
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: from the Sun and Righteous Gemstones. Y'all are so good.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: And she is brilliant. And she had to tell me
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: what all they were saying to me. I didn't know.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: I go, what is all this? And then Ryan Stiles
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: from Whose Line Is It Anyway? Brilliant. Oh, yeah. Celia
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Weston plays my mother. She played my mother in the
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: only movie I've been in with Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: You're cordially invited. She was my mother in that. Blake Clark,
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: who's in all the Adam Sandler movies, plays my dad.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: Blake Clark plays your dad? Yes. Oh, that's beautiful. And
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: he is darling. He's great. He was in The Waterboy.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: I thought he passed away. No, honey. He is my daddy.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: I swear to God, I went to this guy's funeral
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: online during COVID. Oh, my God. Good to see him alive.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: And he does great. I mean, he is— men love this show,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: and I think it's because of him and Ryan Stiles.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: And then my love interest on it is Tim Daly
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: from Wings. So I made out with Tim Daly. I
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: never watched Wings. And is he a gay fella or straight?
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: He's straight. He's married to Taya Leone, you know, that
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: beautiful actress. He is? Yes. Yes. He's married to Taya Leone? Yes,
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: they just got married. They've been together for like 14 years.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's wonderful. She is in my favorite movie ever,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Family Man, with Nicolas Cage.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. Okay, I loved her in Spanglish with
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: Adam Sandler. Wow. He plays Agent Andrew, my love interest,
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: because my husband, Ryan Stiles' character, has walked off and
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: left me after 33 years of marriage.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: You sure he wasn't just looking for something? Do you
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: have any clue?
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: Is there any.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: Has he called or anything?
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's still around. He is? Yeah. That's, yeah. That's
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: Blake Clark. We've got two grandbabies together in this. God.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: And has this, when it, when this started all, like, yeah,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: what were your, like? I cried every day. I was like,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: what the, what have I gotten myself into? It was
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: so scary. Yeah, when this finally happened, what was it like?
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, no. I've got to learn a
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: script every week, and I'm in every scene. I'd never
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: done that before. I was overwhelmed by that. That's a lot.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: It's a lot. You've got 250 people there staring at you.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Darling people that have worked for Chuck Lorre for years.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: They're counting on you. Yeah, they're counting on you. Not
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: to screw up.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and for people that don't know, the show starts
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: off where you just found out that your husband cheated
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: on you.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: That's where you girls are.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Spending so much time in the laying in the bed
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: together and kind of just getting through life. I remember that.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: We had 16 episodes and at first Netflix was going
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: to do, cause you know, they only do things in
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: eight or 10 episodes. So they were going to drop eight.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: And then my new Netflix special dropped November the 4th
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: and then we're going to drop another eight this coming spring.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: And then I got a wild hair and, and dropped
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: 16 at one time. First time in their history. Wow.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: So it all got dropped. And it did really well.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: I'm so thankful. I was scared to death. I thought,
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: is anybody going to? Because it's a multicam. And they
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: said to me at Netflix, we think you can bring
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: back the multicam. And I'm like, don't put that burden
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: on me. And then it did really well. And I
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: think people miss that format. I think people think of
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: it as comfort and comfort food, kind of.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: And people really liked it. I'm so thankful. On a streamer,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: you can be a little bit more edgy, right? You're
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: not as locked in as a lot of the cable laws.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: What things are allowed on streaming that aren't allowed on cable?
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Is there any information on that?
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: I think Ryan did say SHIT. Can you look that
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: up on Perplexity real quick? They wanted to probably cuss
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: a lot more, but, you know, I didn't want it.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Streaming services allow certain types of content that cable television cannot.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: Correct, right?
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Streaming platforms often feature uncensored profanity, explicit sexual content nudity.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: I was not nude. Okay.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: Graphic violence and mature themes that would not be allowed
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: on cable channels. There are fewer restrictions on the depiction
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: of drugs, controversial political topics, or socially sensitive material in
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: original programming produced for streaming. On streaming, creators are less
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: limited by requirements around content rating or time of broadcast
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: that apply to cable and especially broadcast TV.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: Um, Cool.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: Examples of content differences. Shows and movies on streaming may
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: include swearing, nudity, sexual situations, and violence without censorship, while
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: cable versions of the same content are often edited or
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: bleeped for language, blur nudity, and cut explicit scenes.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: I did carry a gun. You did? Well, that's fair.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: We thought somebody was breaking in.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: It's a Tennessee state law.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: You can't. Well, Ron Stiles said to me, I didn't
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: know how to hold one. And he goes, you know
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: how to hold them, Lynn. You're from Tennessee. I go,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: we're not just going around packing guns. My people call
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: it packing. And I said, I mean, I know people
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: that have them and hunt. But my daddy never did.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: And I don't know how to. I think people think
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: in Tennessee it's like the Wild West. Yeah.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, people think it's shoot them up out here. You
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? Like people are just like, yeah,
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: if it gets a little weird, you can shoot. But
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: I do like the fact that if somebody thinks they're
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: going to walk into a place and get a little weird,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: they're going to have to know that there's six or
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: seven men and women and people, you know, women in
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: the middle who are willing to pop.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Who are willing to pop. I know. In the movie theater.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: Shoot back immediately. I know. Yeah. There's some bad mamma
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: jammas taking care of business, which I like.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: The show is great and people are loving it. How many,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: what season are you guys on now?
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: Do what? You only have your first season? Yeah, I
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: go out. Are you going to do a second season? Uh-huh. Congratulations.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Thank you, my darling. I go out in January and
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: start again. And will Tess go out there with you?
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: Will your daughters go out there? She's about to get
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: her union, so she works on the set with me. Okay.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: And is my My makeup artist. And also, I mean,
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: it's just good to have family out there because Chuck
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: Morgan's still working a big job. And I don't want
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: to be out there by myself. It makes me feel
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: better to have, you know, one of my children with me.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: My oldest child's married and got my two grandbabies and working.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: And then my middle child lives in, I told you
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: that at the UT ballgame, the one that went to
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: Chipotle with Morgan Wallen. She lives in New York. And
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: works for the food bank. She's a non-profit. She's always
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: worked in non-profit. And this baby went to school for
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: makeup for television and film in Manhattan. That's beautiful. I know.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: So they get, you know, she takes care of me
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: while I'm out there. Because I need, I can't, I
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: got to learn all this stuff.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: Honey, you can't just be, yeah, just wandering around, just
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: wondering if your bra fits all right all day.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: Right. You ever been in a tight bra? Yeah. God.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: What's that like? Bad. Is it? Bad. Yeah. I don't
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: want to be so pitiful that I'm like Mariah Carey
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: and like men had to carry me around. Yeah. But
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: I do. I need people to tend to me now.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: I never thought I would get that way, but I mean,
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: I got to learn a lot. And my girlfriends back home,
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: they're like, just drink some wine at night. You got
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: so much on you. I go, I can't drink wine
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: and sweat in the bed all night and not be
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: able to learn a script the next day.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: I can't be drinking. And you wake up, yeah, and
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: your mouth is all dried out and stuff.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh. And it makes women's blood vessels expand and you
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: sweat in the night. I hate to even tell you that. God.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: When you get to a certain age, it's not girls
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: your age. They're not sweating. I don't know. They might
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: be beginning to sweat.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Some people are, yeah. People are losing water. I know that.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: People are losing water weight. And some are retaining it.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Well, people are losing weight, too. I mean, everybody's on
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: those GLPs or whatever, the XPBs or something. The BC, yeah.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: People are on all that shit. I mean, they busted
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: a lady selling Ozempic outside of a damn Vineyard Vines
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: out there, you know?
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: She was outside of the Vineyard Vines.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Selling it, yeah.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: Selling dope or selling GLP-1s? Selling Ozempic, baby. Yeah. And
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: all you can do is pray for her. I know.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: It's hard.
• 56:43
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• 56:44
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  Speaker 1: or did anything? Like, was there any, like, I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: Honey, there was a demon. Of course. The Bell Witch.
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  Speaker 1: The Bell Witch is from your town?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Oh, my gosh. You've heard of the Bell Witch?
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  Speaker 1: We had some ghost hunter children, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if something happened to them through the church or something.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't tell me everything that happened to them. We
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  Speaker 1: had two young fellas who were touched by the spirit
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  Speaker 1: and out there hunting. The Bell Witch? They went to
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• 59:51
  Speaker 2: And investigated.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: Investigated a witchcraft situation.
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  Speaker 2: Right, honey. That's where I'm from. Oh, those little boys.
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  Speaker 2: They look like they... Love a ghost.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Sam and Colby. Yeah, Sam and Colby.
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  Speaker 2: Sam and Colby. Great guys. But, yeah, so that was
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  Speaker 2: your area. That's where I'm from. And I was raised, yes,
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  Speaker 2: with a demon. They talked about it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: If there was a Fourth of July picnic, they put
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  Speaker 2: a dummy in a coffin and said, that's the witch.
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  Speaker 2: That's Kate Batts.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: So that was big lore around y'all.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. And the Vanderbilt football team fraternities would come down,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: torment each other. Beat the windows out of our church.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: Everybody had to pass money around to put more windows
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: in the church. Oh, that's an HVAC issue. Graveyard dogs
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: that had bullet holes that couldn't explain why they're still walking. Crows.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: She comes in the form of a black dog, a
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: black crow. Crazy mess. And I was raised in it.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she just showed up dressed like Chris Robinson.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was great. And people come from all over.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: They still come. And during October is the Bellwitch play,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: and it sold out. And I went. My sister got
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: me tickets a couple of years ago, and I sat
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: by a guy that works at Warner Brothers on the pit. Wow.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: And shrinking. He came to see it. He was shrinking?
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: Shrinking with Harrison Ford, that television show.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, got it.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: Shrinking on Apple. Does he? A Warner Brothers executive. I'm sorry.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: Is it worth going to see that? Yeah. I think
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: if you, do you want to be around a demon?
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: I don't. But do you want to go, do you
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: like scary mess? I would like. I know you've got
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit and that probably bumps you.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: I think it doesn't make me feel great, but I
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: do like to go over there and just every now
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: and then make sure that the devil's still out and
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: about so I know that the path I'm on is
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: what I'm supposed to be doing. Right.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: I get that. I get that because the devil is
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: at work. Okay. There's a cave. You can go in
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: the cave and there's, Native American bones. There's animal bones.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: The witch is in there. People come from all over
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: to go through that cave. I've never been through it.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to go. And my daddy didn't want
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: me to go in it. Oh, my God. And what
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: town is that in that's over in Adams? That's in Adams, Tennessee,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: on the Kentucky-Tennessee border in Roberson County. Wow. There's been
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: movies written about it, books. See, children that grew up
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: in Tennessee used to have to do a book report
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: on it, but now nobody, I don't think they make
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: them do it.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: The Bell Witch Cave story is one of America's most
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: famous stories. Mysterious events experienced by the Bell family in Adams,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Tennessee between 1817 and 1821. The haunting began when John Bell,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: the family patriarch, encountered a bizarre creature resembling a dog
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: with a rabbit's head on the property.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: A dog with a rabbit's head? I haven't heard that one.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: It sounds like a hormone issue, but I don't know
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: a lot.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: See, Betsy must have been beautiful. And then John... Because
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: what does it say, Betsy? Let me see. Oh, disturbances
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: escalated to eerie... Sorry to interrupt you. No, that's all right, Angel.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: Disturbances escalated to eerie noises, objects moved by unseen forces,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: bed sheets pulled away, and this could have just been
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: a pervert, and violence towards the family, especially daughter Betsy Bell,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: who experienced beatings and fainting spells.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: Dang. I know the real story. You do know the
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: real story? I do.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: Then set us straight.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: Okay. First of all, let me say that Before Nashville
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: became the capital of Tennessee, it was going to be
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: Adams because of our rich, dark-fired tobacco crops. We grow
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: tobacco for Copenhagen and Skoll, but because it was so
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: rich in the land for tobacco, it was going to
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: be the capital, but then for some reason they made
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: it Nashville. John Bell ran for president at one time
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: with the Whig Party, so they were a very prominent family.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: Lucy must have been a beauty. A man came through town,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: was in love with her. Lucy or Betsy? Lucy. Okay. Wait, Lucy. Wait, Leah,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: Lucy's the daughter. Betsy was the mom. Okay. John's. Okay.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: So Lucy, she did not want that man. And so
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: to torment her, he could throw his voice. They said
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: he was a ventriloquist. I know what you're going to
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: do with that. I got like Frank Caliendo. Hey, I'm
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: John Gruden. You need an exorcism, Betsy. Go on. Hey, Lucy.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: But they blamed it on a slave. God love him.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: And it wasn't him. It was this man. It was
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: never the slave. Every time the slave was like, what
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: did I do? This was a man that could throw
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: his voice. He was a mathematician, a ventriloquist, and he
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: fooled them all. And then poisoned John Bell and killed him.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: And then Lucy didn't know it. And I think Lucy
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: ended up marrying him. That's how it works. That's how
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: it works.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: Hey, they say shooters shoot. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: And women are attracted to twisted. Are they? Yeah. And trauma.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: And you want to fix people because we're nurturing. So anyway,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: and that is the Bell Witch and the whole thing.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: And it's always on the front of USA Today. It's
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: one of the oldest ghost stories. It's part of Tennessee history,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: like you said. But that's what I was raised in.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: That's what we're known for. Now, maybe they're known kind
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: of for me. Maybe. Oh, yeah. I think so. Me
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: and a witch.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: I think she's beaten me. I think it depends how
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: many tickets do they sell every year to that event.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: I sell more. Let's go.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: Let's just say I sell a few more tickets than
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: the Bell Witch.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: They sell quite a few tickets. But I'm, you know... Yes,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: I know you do. I did some small arenas this year.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, you did. And I'm just joking.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: You know that.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: I know, but that is popular. And, you know, people
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: that love ghosts love ghosts. Oh, yeah. And people are
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: speaking and, you know, channeling the Beatles and all that
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: kind of crap down there. But I don't like all that.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: I believe in demons. I don't like all that.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, this is one thing that we just
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: did talk about when Sam and Colby were here, these
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: ghost hunter children.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm not saying we're victims of sexual crime.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know what their lives were like. Some of
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: that's alleged. I'm not saying that. I read that somewhere.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: What I am saying is that, yeah, they said, well,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: we talked about how it's just like if you summon something,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: it'll show up. It's like having faith, asking God to
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: show up in your life. If you sit out there
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: and ask for it to come, it'll be there. And
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: that's sometimes why I think the devil's winning because you
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: have people that are spending more time summoning the devil
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: and you have people that are sitting here asking God
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: to show up.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: But. See, and there's the thing about the Bell Witch,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: and growing up, my cousins would do it, and it
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: would scare me to death that they'd go, say her
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: name three times, turn around, and she'll appear. Okay, I
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: was at the Stardome. In Birmingham. In Birmingham doing.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: I finally got to do that place. I'd emailed them 11,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: 12 years, and then finally, one day, it just came
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: up on the schedule. Now you're going to be at
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: the Stardome.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: And I bet you killed. I was so excited. Well,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: I was in the back. You know, they have several little,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: I guess a little theater and the big theater, a
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: big room. And there was the girl that you've seen
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: in a million posters that go around to comedy clubs
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: and talk to dead people. I mean, she talks to
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: dead people and she says in the audience who, you know,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: your uncle so-and-so's here. She was in the green room
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: at the Stardome and she said, and she was a doll,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: and she said, oh, yeah, they're in here right now,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: dead people. And I thought, surely to goodness, our sweep, Lord,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: would not, if I die, I don't have to be
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: in the green room. Yeah. In a comedy club with
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: a half a bottle of mustard.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: With, you know, something on TBS on the TV. Surely,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be stuck in a green room,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: you know? Yeah. Surely, he'll let me walk somewhere fun.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: Not where... You know, the pillows don't match on the sofa.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: That hard-ass sofa in there a lot of times. God, this, oh,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: green rooms are crazy. And then sometimes, like, this is
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: a green room. I'm like, this is a bathroom. It
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: doesn't have a toilet in it. I'm like, you're like,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: sometimes the green room is crazy. Sometimes it's just a curtain.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: People don't, like, oh, there's nothing like that. All the
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: clubs over the years are coming up. All the places
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: you go do, you know. But I think it's like
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: that about everything. You think like backstage then is going
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: to be amazing once you get to certain levels. And
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: then sometimes backstage, you're just hiding behind the edge of
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: the stage waiting to walk out there.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: You know, it's all exciting.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: But it's always just about putting the show on, making
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: sure that it looks good out there. Backstage is never,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: there's not a lot of money spent backstage.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: It's kind of dusty. Yeah. But isn't it thrilling, though?
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: I've watched you in big places and women yelling and
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: all that. I mean, do you?
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: Some of those are men with long hair, but yeah.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: Those are men that have had sex changes, but happy
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: they're there. We did have a guy peeing a woman's
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: hair one night out there in Colorado, and we had
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: to give her a free shirt.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: Because somebody peed in her hair? Yeah. Just drunk and crazy,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: or what was it? I don't know. She wanted a hoodie, too.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: I'm like, baby girl. Okay. You know, the shirt. They're
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: pretty good shirts. I know. Probably $ 65. Oh, we don't. Yeah,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: we actually sell pretty cheap on the road. You do? Yeah,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: we don't sell like super expensive. See, my people don't
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: want a big hot hoodie, but I've got women in
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: menopause and their husbands. I do skew a little bit
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: younger now. Yeah. But I don't know. I love a hoodie,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: and I think a hoodie's cute. And I can see
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: where one of your hoodies would be darling. But I
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: got to go with a V-neck. Everybody's sweating. Yeah.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you start, the fire starts to have to
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: get out, you know? The heat starts to pop out
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: after a while.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: And I don't even, somebody does the... Merch now, that's
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: like a ghost. I never see them. I don't know.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: I can't even get a hold of my own shirt.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: People are like, can you get me a shirt? I'm like,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: I don't even. I just go online and order and
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: pay for it and buy it.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: But it is kind of interesting once you get to
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: certain spots or certain parts of your career, if you're
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: fortunate enough to have.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: Some of those moments.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what an exciting ride that you've had. Because did
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: you ever feel like women don't get the appreciation that
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: men did?
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: Did you feel that in comedy? No, I always hear
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: women talk about that. And I don't know, everybody was
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: always good to me. And I never, if I didn't
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: get something, I thought, I didn't think of it as
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: man-woman kind of thing. I just thought I'm not ready
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: or I'm not edgy enough. You know, Comedy Central was big.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: I would always audition for stuff, didn't get it. Just
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: for laughs, didn't get it. Until later. And I never
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: thought of it as a man-woman thing. I just thought
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: it's not my time or I got to get better.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: I don't have that whole man-woman thing. I just don't.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, I always, I know there's a lot more
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: male comics and all that, but I did not feel anything.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: Nobody was like disrespectful to me or that I didn't
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: deserve something or I just didn't get that. I don't
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: know if people didn't want to bully– I don't– because
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: I'm a mom. I don't know.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: I have thought that some people don't– people are used
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: to seeing men be the jesters, right? And there is
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: something– I think it used to be more this way.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: because I don't think it's this way anymore, that it
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: used to feel like the jester is supposed to.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: Be a male.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: You don't want to see a woman, you know, it's
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: like you want to, you don't want to see a woman,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: like imagine if it's something that's kind of vulgar or
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: something like that, you know, that there's, it's not as
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: popular of a view of women.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: So I think it took some of it.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: I think it took time for the view of that
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: to be more possible.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: Does that make any sense?
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that does make a lot of sense. That makes
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of sense. Now it's like, yeah, you're like, oh,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: that chick's hilarious, you know. But I think there was probably,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: I could see there being like, you know, a generation
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: or two ago where people were more like, oh, I
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: can't believe she's saying that.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: Or I think also they want a woman to be
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: pretty and not making faces where she's not as attractive
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: or something. I fought with that. Like I wanted to
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: be pretty, but I didn't want to look stupid. And
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: when I was younger. Right. Now, I mean. Whatever we
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: can do. Whatever we can do. And Christian Johnson would
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: say to me, because when I first saw myself on TV,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: I thought, oh, my gosh, where's my chin? And I
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: need to get a face left. And, you know, Hollywood,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: how that does that mess to you. And then she goes, Lynn,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: think about the funny. Think about Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: Mary Tyler Moore. And, you know, instead of just fixating
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: on trying to be. youthful and the prettiest and all that.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: And I do think that's wonderful that this is happening
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: to me at my age because I don't have that
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: pressure of somebody. I mean, you look at Nikki Glacier's legs.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: She is stunning. You know, she is a beauty. Oh, yeah.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: Like a couple of dams. She's got some Charleston shoes
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: on her, baby. Things are nice.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: Yes. All these young girls that are, you know, so pretty.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: And I think I feel like that even puts more
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: pressure on them, that I don't feel that pressure anymore.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: I used to feel that pressure. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: So it really kind of, everything kind of happened at
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: the most perfect time, you feel like?
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, I know it did. Right.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: And it's kind of a silly question because it's, to me,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: it's all on God's time. And what else am I
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: going to do about it?
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: I know. And you think about, I always think if
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: those television deals have made it, these children would not
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: be who they are, my kids.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: Was there any real tough moments with your kids where
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: they kind of held it against you that that was
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: more of a thing or something like that?
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: No, no. And really, I wasn't, I was not working.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, I was working. But I was always there
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: for them, and I never had to hire anybody. Nobody
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: ever resented me for anything. I did miss a few
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: things as they were growing up. But not bad, not bad.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: I got to be there with them. And when I
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: did that movie with Reese Witherspoon, she said to me
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: every day on that set, you got to raise your
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: own children, Lynn.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: She did.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: And I did.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: I just saw her the other day. I just met
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: her first time.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: Beautiful. Is she not beautiful and smart? Connor. I met
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: her kid, Cullen. Cullen? She had two boys with her, Cullen.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, Tennessee's the baby. Cullen and Tennessee. Those are their names.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: I just met her the other day. Yep, beautiful, nice, friendly.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: Beautiful children. We chatted for a little while. Actually, I
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: told her I would check in and just say hey
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: to her. Yeah, I got to say hello.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: She's smart.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: Ava Deacon in Tennessee.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: Deacon. You saw Deacon, and I was trying to think
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: of that baby's name. And he's stunning. No, she has
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: two little ones, though. Tennessee's the baby. She had the
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: first two behind that Felipe boy. Okay.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: Ryan Felipe, yeah.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then this baby, I got to meet, well,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: I met all of them.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: Maybe his friend was there.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: I thought it was. Oh, I did. He probably had
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: a little friend with him. He might have had a
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: damn friend. And then I met. And she said he
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: loves living in Nashville. He gets out and plays in
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: the neighborhood and does all that.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: They were joyful children. I mean, yeah, I met them
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: at the Vanderbilt game. Yeah, that would be the tough part.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: I wonder, was it tough balancing any of that?
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: Is it tough? It wasn't tough. I need to tell people.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: It was not tough because I had Chuck Morgan that
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: was an executive that made good money. So Chuck could
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: help provide everything.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: I didn't have to. I mean, I took horrible gigs.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: I did horrible gigs like everybody, but I wasn't sleeping
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: in a Ford Festiva. Right.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my mother had a Ford Festiva, actually, and we
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: used to have to make jewelry in the trunk in
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: there at night.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: Making jewelry.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: We'd sit in there and make little earrings and stuff
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: like that and bracelets and stuff.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: Well, I sold jewelry when I started. That's how I
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: got into comedy. Chuck Morgan moved me to Bean Station, Tennessee,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. And I sold
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: jewelry like women sell Mary Kay in Tupperware because I'd
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: had my first baby and I wanted to stay home
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: with him. And I was supposed to be talking about
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: jewelry in these women's living rooms and I would You know,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: I started some of my first material there, talking about
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: breastfeeding or hemorrhoids or whatever. Got laughs. Women would book
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: me far in advance. And then that gave me the
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: confidence to do comedy club. By the time I got
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: to San Antonio, I had a comedy club. And I
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: did open mic and all that. But I sold jewelry.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: I wasn't making it in the back of a Ford Festiva, though,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: my darling.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we would just do it in there because
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: it was quiet in there.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: It was a kind of loud. And you need quiet
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: to make jewelry. Right.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just peaceful in there, kind of, you know.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: We'd go sit out in the car a lot at night.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: I would.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: I'd go sleep out there sometimes. My mom had these boxes.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: She used to deliver cookies. My mom mostly did delivering.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: So she was always boxes of some shit at our house.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: Boxes it is.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: Like Little Dambies? Or what are we talking?
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, she worked for this cookie company for a while
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: called Vortman Cookies, I remember. And I'd go sleep out there.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: And that Ford Festiva, that bitch would barely go, dude.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: That thing was.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: Probably had about 400 pounds of cookies in that bitch.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: Car only weighed 80 pounds, dude. Dude, if you drop
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: something near the car, you could pick it up and
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: look under there for it. It was so easy. Look
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: at that car. Yeah, that one right there. Yep, that
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: was it. Ours was gray, though. That thing was small, brother.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: And my mom could beat all of us while she
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: was driving, play us like a damn drum set in
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: there while she.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: Was driving, dude.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: And my long neck brother hit his symbol ass. But
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: she could pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. We're
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: misbehaving in that little car. But, yeah, there was never
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: any peace in the area. But I'd go out there
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: at night sometimes and spend a little bit of time.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: I'd go lay on those boxes of cookies. They smelled
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: so good. They had gingerbread cookies, too, around Christmas.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: I'd go lay on.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: There and just smell that gingerbread and just pretend I
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: lived in England or something.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, my darn life. I loved that.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: And my mom had a big rug in her room,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: and it was a cow. I don't know what it was.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: It was an animal that had died.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: Real? Hyde? Real Hyde.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: I think it was an animal. Hell, it could have
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: been a damn Doberman. I don't know what it was,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: but it was big. You know what I'm saying? It
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: was pretty big and it looked like somebody milked it.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: And you laid on that? Oh, I'd lay on that
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: thing and just smell that animal and just think of
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: like being out on like the prairie or something or
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: being like a cowboy or something like that. I remember that. Well,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: your imagination, honey. It was fun.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: But yeah, the damn apartment was sinking and people would
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: steal that wood. I just want to finish the love
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: life here. So Chuck Morgan... You meet him over there
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: in Knoxville, and he walks into where and sees you?
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: At the restaurant that I was working. And what were
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: you doing there working?
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: I was waiting tables, and I was standing waiting for
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: my table to get served. seated. And he came through
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: with a training group, and he's 6'4. And I said,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: you're tall as a tree. And he said, sorry. And
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: I thought, another butthole's come to work at Grady's. And
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: I thought, stay away from him. He's not fun. And
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: he just would, like, stand next to me, you know,
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: and kind of lurk. And provide shade, you mean. I
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: love how you can't see the positive in it, Leanne.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: Go on. And then we would have shift meetings, and
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: I'd be eating a baked potato with some sour cream
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: and butter on it. And maybe cheese. And I remember
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: the second thing he said to me was, you don't
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: need to eat all that fat on your baked potato.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: And I thought, man, what a butthole. I mean, he
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: doesn't need to sit by me. Leave me alone. The
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: next time... I think I said on the back there
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: doing catch-ups or something, I said to one of the
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: girls working, I love your Dooney and Burke purse, girl.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: The next day, he brought me a Dooney and Burke
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: purse in a big box with a bow on it.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: And then started doing all my side work. And if
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: I had a test, he would say, I'll take your shift.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: I'll give you the money. And started like pursuing me,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: wooing me. And see, I had been through a divorce
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: at 23. I was divorced at 23, which how redneck
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: is that? Were you living in a group home? Where
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: were you living? Where were y'all living? Well, I roomed
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: with two boys that were in the basement. I was
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: working behind a clinic counter.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: Honey, that's a group home. I think it's a halfway house.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: Go home, though. And they said there's these new apartments
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: opening up. Did y'all have a wreath or not?
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: Wreath or no wreath?
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: No wreath. Yeah. And they said, one of them worked
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: in the shoes and one of them worked in security.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: And they said, there's a new apartment complex being built
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: in the fort by UT campus. Lou, they called me Lou.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: They go, do you want to share an apartment with us?
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: We'll keep you safe. We'll be in the basement. There's
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: two down below the steps. There were two bedrooms up.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: We didn't have a fourth roommate. Except one time this
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: little boy moved in there for a little while that
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: wanted to be a weatherman. He did not have it. Oh, yeah.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: Sometimes that's a gay guy, too.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: He was gay and darling, and we did each other's
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: hair and had a ball. Yeah, yeah. Okay, but— And smoked.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: 200% chance of sunshine, I'll tell you that.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: He had a little bitty robe, and he'd walk around in,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: and he had a big pompadour, and he wanted to
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: do the weather. But, you know, some people just don't
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: have the support behind them. Oh, God. I don't think
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: he ever got to do the weather. But anyway, I
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: don't know how he came in. But anyway, I took
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: care of these boys. They were dating and doing, and
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: I was kind of like the— not the mom. I was
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: 23 years old, but I made a good Rotel dip.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: I liked to make over them. They'd have their girlfriends over.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: They'd have their guy friends, fraternity boys. And so it
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: was something to help me get over this divorce and
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: have— You know, and have friends and all that. And
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: it turns out Chuck Morgan was in their fraternity and
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: was in MBA school with one of them. We made
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: that connection later. But by then, I had been through
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: a horrible divorce. I'd cut all my hair off. I
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: had short hair. Shaved it off? Not shaved, but short.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: Were you going to join the Air Force, that type
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: of shit?
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: If I had had the guts, yeah. But I didn't.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: I'm sissy. But I... But I didn't want anything to
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: do with men because I was so hurt and all that.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: And then Chuck Morgan just would not take no for
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: an answer and wooed and wooed and wooed me and
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: bought me gifts and paid my rent. And, you know,
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: later now in interviews, he brings it up and acts
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: like he resents it. I had to pay a rent.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: I go, nobody asked you to.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: First thing he told me. I had to pay. He
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: had a damn invoice written up on his phone. He said,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: I'll email it to you.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: I said, look, but I'm. He probably kept that receipt. Oh.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: But did you finally– was there a moment you realized
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: you loved him kind of or did it just kind.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: Of– Yes, I fell in love with him. And then– But.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: Was there a moment you did or did it just
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: kind of slowly build up?
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: It slowly built because I did not– I always had
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: trust issues because I had been through something terrible. And
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: I told him, I've been through something terrible. Don't woo me.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: And he does not take no for an answer because
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: he's a mobile home salesman. Oh, yeah. They've got a
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: lot of testosterone. They're very dominant. And the first thing
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: you tell them is no. Yeah.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: And they don't take no for an answer. They can sell.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's been successful. He does not take no
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: for an answer. He still doesn't.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, you're slinging mohos, dude. That shit's fucking, you got to,
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: you got to.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: It's lucrative.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: You can't give up.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Warren Buffett Company, Berkshire Hathaway. Anyway, yeah,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: he would not leave me alone. And then he said,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: when I get a job after MBA school, we'll get married.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: And then I was cocktailing. He was bartending by then.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: And he broke up with me. What? Yeah, he broke
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: up with me for no reason. What? No reason? Well,
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: he said that I smelled from the cigarettes and he
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: could not take any more. But I don't think that
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: was the main reason. I did smell. Marlboro Lights. Oh, yeah,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: they're good. They're good. Loved them. I wish they were healthy. Yeah,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: they're good. Anyway, I don't know what he was going through,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: but he broke up with me, and then he bought
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: a used mobile home business up in Bean Station, Tennessee,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: where there's no women his age. I think that was
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: also a factor. He gets up there. There's women working
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: at the bank in their 40s, had a hard time. Okay,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: so then I'm down finishing up my degree. Here we go.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: I went to Fort Lauderdale on spring break, got a tan.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: I was a third wheel with another couple. Don't matter, bitch.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: The sun hit everybody.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And he had never seen me with a tan.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: By then I was working behind another counter. I had
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: like four jobs, you know, trying to make it. And, um,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: and he saw me with a tan and then said,
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: can I buy you a pair of tennis shoes? And
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: I was like, maybe. And, um, and then I took
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: him back. He bought me a pair of Asics. Oh God.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: They were nice. They were pretty nice. They were nice. Yeah. And, um, Yeah,
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: and he wanted me back. I'd been dating a long-haired
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: boy that was an artist who was poor. And I
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: do like a man with health insurance. I got to
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: tell you, I like a man that when he takes
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: you to Costco, he buys the toilet paper. He doesn't say,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: let's split it. Yeah. I don't like that. Yeah. So
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: this was a long-haired artist, and one of my roommates said,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: either Lou's got a date or we're being robbed. And
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: he did kind of look like my sister. But anyway,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: Chuck found out. Sister's good looking, though. Yeah. He was
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: a pretty guy. He was pretty, but he had a bicycle.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: He didn't own a car. He could make mayonnaise from scratch,
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: and that was pretty nifty. Oh, my God.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: And that was considered also a hair. People would put
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: it on their hair back then. Remember that?
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: People put it on their hair. To deep condition. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: And he also, I thought about this the other day
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: because it was fall. He made pumpkin cheesecake. He said,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: I'm going to. This was, Lord, what was this, the
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: early 90s? And he goes, you know what? I think pumpkin,
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: canned pumpkin would be good in a cheesecake. And I
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: remember thinking, I don't even know what you're saying. Who
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: was this fruit wizard over here?
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, who was this fucking Halloween fruit wizard doing that
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: crazy shit? I mean, that was considered damn experimental at
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: the time.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: I know. He really was, you know, kind of a savant.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: So then he said to me.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: He was in over his head at a damn Marie Callender's.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that. That's for sure. And he rode
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: a bicycle and the bicycle had a sticker on the
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: back of it that said burn fat, not oil. And
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: I was driving a Toyota Corolla. Oh, those are nice.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: That my little daddy bought me because I had been
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: driving after a divorce. My granddaddy's Impala that was beige that.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: When I drove through a parking lot, people threw dope
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: out of the window thinking I was the FBI or
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: the police.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: They'd have one of those lights on the outside of it.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: Remember those sometimes? You get those police vehicles. People would
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: at an auction. That was the big thing in our town.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: Somebody get them a damn auction vehicle and bitches.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: Go on, though. And so the long-haired boy said to me,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: if we marry, I want to stay home with the
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: children and you be the breadwinner. And I broke up
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: with him that day. And I was like, I don't
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: have any earning potential, and I need somebody who's a
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: hunter and a gatherer like Chuck Morgan. I've never had
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: to worry about Chuck Morgan. Whatever happens, if the world's
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: coming to an end, Chuck Morgan will get out there
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: and dig ditches or drive a truck or do whatever.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: He'll be fine.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: He'll be fine. He can make it off a flat rock.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: He can make a living off a flat rock. Amen. So, yeah,
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: so we married, and then that's when he took me
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: up into Appalachias.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: Because, yeah, once you get something good, you go hide
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: it near the mountain. You got to hide it somewhere
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: if he's a man. So he put you over there.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: He put me up in those mountains. Bean Station, Tennessee.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: Bean Station, Tennessee. Pull that up. I want to see
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: that beautiful joint. And it's beautiful looking at the mountains
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 2: and the lake, but we didn't have that. We didn't
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: have that kind of view. Very tiny town. There was
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: an IGA grocery store. Oh, I remember those. Uh-huh, and
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: I liked it. They were good. And there was a
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: post office, and his business was right behind the post office.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: And he had that business at 27. He bought that
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: business and was running and had employees. Was it a
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: car wash, or what was it? Used mobile home refurbishing business. Oh,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: I like that. And I worked for him a few weeks,
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: and we don't work well together. And honest to goodness,
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: I know that that helped start my comedy career because
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: I saw things you've never. I saw a family drive
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: up in a Gremlin with the wind out and a
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: nine-year-old smoking a cigarette looking for a single wife. And
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: they came in the office and the grandmama said, or
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: the baby said, give me a light, mamaw. She lit
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: her cigarette off of that, her grandmama. She was nine.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: And I thought, okay, I need to go home. I
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: need to go home, get pregnant. Oh, yeah. Because I
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: can't take this. I mean, it was a lot. Oh, yeah.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: I want something to come out, climb out of my
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: body and start smoking.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, it was, my husband is very
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: loving and giving, and there would be, like if a
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: family didn't have a home, there was a little old
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: woman that didn't have a, that wanted a house, and
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: he said, she said, I can make you blankets. And
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: so he took a blanket that she would make every
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: few months, and that was her payment. So Chuck Morgan
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: also had a mobile home park. And bought all the
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: children their Christmas. He would come home and say, we've
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: got to get a Justin Bieber doll ASAP. And I'd
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: be like, okay. So then Chuck went to work for
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: a big company because he would give everything he had
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 2: away to everybody. And he still does. He still is
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: very giving and loving. Not to his own family. No.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: Not at all.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: He captured you and put you in the hills.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: Or tells me that I don't need to be flying
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: first class on tour. Because all these boys have these
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: big buses and stuff. These comedians have. I am in
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: a Mitsubishi rental car. Yeah. This baby and I share
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 2: a hotel room. I talk about that in this new
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: special on Netflix that dropped. That's the truth. If people
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: watch this, Chuck Morgan wants us to share a hotel room.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: She's going to be 28 years old. We are sleeping
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: butt to butt in a King. God. Yeah. Yeah. And
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: he prefers us to eat the free continental breakfast.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: I will say this. The ones at Hampton Inn got better.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: They did an upgrade about nine years ago that I respected.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: You could start to see it. They put pictures inside
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: of the elevator, and I was like, okay.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: Okay. And they had that little omelet you could get
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: with cheese in it. That was good. And they started
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: to get that thing, waffle maker. Yeah.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: But then somebody fucking leaves it on. You have to
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: turn it over. It's very hard to use. I watch somebody,
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: you'll see somebody get burned. There's a lot of issues.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: I wonder if they're still keeping those. But Hampton Inn.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: But they make a good waffle, those things.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: They've done a great job.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. And you know a Hampton Inn's clean, you know.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: Of course, man.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, those are the days, you know.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm still in them. I'm still in them. But,
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: you know. But that's love. He was not used to this. Like,
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: I didn't make money for years. I mean, I'd make
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: a little bit of money and get my children Santa Claus.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: Get everybody a haircut, not save for taxes. He'd be
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: real mad, you know, come April. But then when this
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: started happening, you know, he's just not used to it.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: It takes your family a while to figure out what's happening.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 2: The baby knew what was happening because she's out there
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: with me. He's like, this could end tomorrow.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he just, yeah, he's just looking at the balance sheet.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: When you guys get home, it's never great, you know.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: Who spent $ 60 at a damn Wendy's, you know? And
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: it's just like, well, you know.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: Or in an airport, one of those, you know, you
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: got to have some magnesium for stress. Those kiosks, yeah.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 2: And how long have you guys been married now? It'll
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: be 34 in April. Oh, that's beautiful.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: And three babies and two grandbabies. And everyone asks, what's
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: the secret to 33 years of marriage? I say it's
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of praying in the bathtub.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: It's hard. Tornado prayers kind of. Yeah. It is. It's hard. Yeah.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: And you just got to fight the big battles, not
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: the little ones. You know, just let things roll off
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: your back because it's a lot to live with somebody.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 2: And it's not easy. It's not easy. And Chuck Moore
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: and I are both very opposite. He's very introverted, very
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: anal retentive. Everything's got to be in its place. I'm
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: an artist, Theo. Yeah. My junk drawer is pretty bad
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: in my kitchen. But I've raised these children, and they're fun.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: He's very well-educated and loves school. If he had been
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 2: at home with them, I've always said, if he went traveling,
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 2: they would end up in Harvard with a nervous tick.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: But they had me, and we went to the zoo,
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: and we went to Dollywood. I didn't let them skip school,
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: but we had a good time. I love that. And
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: they want to be with me now. course they do
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: you know they're fun and they want to be with
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: me but they're not over there they do great but
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: they're not he's an overachiever not us never enough never
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: enough driven driven i realize now i'm kind of driven
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: income in my stand-up i i want things to be
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: like this special coming out i worried my i told
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: you at the ut ball game i'm worried sick I just,
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 2: you know, it's just, it's never good enough for me.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: I don't, you know, I wish I could do it
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: a hundred times more. Even though I don't, because it'll
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: give me the shingles. I don't want to do it again,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: because it'll give me the shingles.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: Unspeakable thing that just came out on Netflix. Congratulations, your
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: second one.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you, my darling. My second one. And it
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: went to number one on Netflix. And then, you know,
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 2: in my mind, I'm thinking, oh, nothing else came out
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: that week. Raw Wrestling will be out Monday. That'll knock
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: it out. Yeah. And then the Squid Games, the little
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: children who were... I don't even know what that is.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: But my... Okay, my television show had to compete with...
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: That went to number two. That had to compete with
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: those girls that were killing those boars in their panties. Oh,
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I saw that. Was that... Hunting Wives.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, I haven't seen Hunting Wives.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 2: Is it good? It is kind of... It's nasty. If
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 2: you like a good nasty... There's some... Lesbian going zone. Oh,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: I've heard about this. And they're killing boars in their panties.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: People are watching Mormon Wives right now. I've heard it
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: is fascinating. Shit, I'll take either one of them. I'll
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: take it. I got to get a dang wife. I
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: think I could handle a hunting wife.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: Whoever made that show I don't think cares for Republican
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 2: people in Texas because it's about Republican people that are
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: shooting boars in their panties. Mm-hmm. And that was number one.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 2: I never got to number one with my television show
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 2: because I could not compete with that. Who could? Who could?
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, honey, you got to number two, and that's great.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I think that's perfect. Thank you. Yeah, that's love.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: So you got Chuck Morgan. You've had a nice life
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: so far, Leanne.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: I do. I do, you angel.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: Lou, they call you Lou.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: In college, everybody called me Lou in high school.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: Were you a tomboy kind of? Mm-hmm.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: And I love sports. And then I love boys. And
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 2: I got real boy crazy. And I still played sports,
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 2: but I didn't care as much. And then I projected
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: onto my children and made my kids play all these
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: sports because I knew I didn't do as much as
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: I should have. I love that, though. You have to
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 2: do that as a parent. Yeah, they played club volleyball.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: My girls played all over the United States. Travel. Yeah.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, my kids are going to play shit that I
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: never got to do.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 2: Whether they wanted it or not. You look athletic. Did
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: you play ball? I played high school basketball.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: I smoked also at the same time, but they let
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: me play. I was pretty good. I was the only
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: kid that would smoke. I was an active smoker. I
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: remember one time I was out there smoking and one
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: of the assistant coaches was out there smoking, so nobody
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: could say shit. But I was pretty good for somebody
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: out there that had a— That didn't have your full
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: lung capacity. Yeah, I was good in spurts. That was
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: my nickname.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: Good in spurts well they made me play everything because
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 2: i went to this little bitty tiny country school and
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: they need i was tall so i played softball.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: The model basketball the model she's basketball everything meet up
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: at her if we're in a field and people are
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: lost meet up at her the tall person always gets
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: all that all of all the action they're the lighthouse
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: of the fucking world when you're tall those are the
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: days especially in a small community yeah tall one i.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: Miss that though i miss like.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: I wonder where I'd like to live one day whenever
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: I get a family and stuff, maybe in a small place.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 2: There's small little towns around Middle Tennessee that are darling.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: Do you think you'd want to stay in Tennessee?
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: I think so. I want to spend time back in
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: Louisiana when I can, but I've enjoyed it here. I
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: miss my home. I miss a lot of the people,
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: but I go back and see them. Every time I'm home,
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: I spend most of my time home traveling and seeing
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: teachers that Taught me when I was a kid. I'm
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: still close with a lot of, like, people from my childhood.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: You had to have been very smart and bright, and
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: they knew it. I don't know what I was like.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 2: Because you're so quick-witted.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: I do all right, I guess. What was I like?
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know what I was like.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: I bet you were a yummy little kid, and they thought,
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: that kid's got it. Like Elvis and J-Lo and Michael Jackson.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: You know, when somebody's got it, they've got it. And
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 2: you can't manufacture it. And you haven't. Well, that's a
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: sweet thought. But, Theo, it's true, my darling. And then
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: you're bright and you're quick-witted, so they knew you were smart.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: And then, you know, people are fun back then that
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 2: used to smoke. That's fun. That's a fun kid. Wrong.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 2: Nobody needs to be smoking now. Let's say that. Nobody
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: needs to be smoking now. But it is fun to
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: watch a kid smoke. You know what I'm saying? When
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: that nine-year-old pulled up in your store to buy that
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 2: double wide. That was a little girl. That was a
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: little girl. Look, she's getting a discount. We had a
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: smoking porch at my school. Everybody smoked on that porch.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: I didn't smoke then. I waited until I got to UT,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 2: and I started at like 19. Because all these girls
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 2: that were waiting tables and had Louis Vuitton purses. I
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 2: wanted to be like them. Yeah, of course. And they
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 2: were like, let's go smoke in the bathroom. Screw that manager.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, dude, I remember the first time. Yeah, I definitely
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: smoked and then finally got a little bit of cocaine.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: Who gave you cocaine? I don't remember. I just remember
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: I'd been.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: There was cocaine in a little town in Louisiana. Not
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: a lot. Not a lot. Not a lot, but somebody
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: had it.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: Enough to keep you up.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: See, I didn't even know what in the world. We
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: didn't know what. There was a couple of boys that
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: they'd be like, they like to do dope. But we
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 2: stayed away from them. We were scared of them. Because
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: they were all these farming kids that had Future Farmers
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 2: of America jackets. So we stayed away from that. But
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 2: we couldn't write a paper either. You know, we weren't
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: ready for college. But it wasn't a wild. It was
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 2: insulated from farming people. Oh, yeah.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: Well, that was more when I got to college. In
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: our town, we never had– yeah, you'd have people smoking.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, so it was college. Yeah.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, in our town, you did have people smoking,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: but it was like weed. Yeah, we're smoking dope. Yeah,
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: like those kids smoked dope. That's when they would say dope.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 2: Dope.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: You didn't really see like pills and stuff back then.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: It would just be people got high on weed, and
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: it was kind of an issue.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 2: But I don't know. I miss it.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: I miss just being in our neighborhood. You know, that guy,
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: the Elvis impersonator who put that fence up.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: He had broken his leg, and so somebody said it.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: In cement, right? Save money from going to the hospital
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: or whatever. So they set that bitch in cement. And
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: it must have been fine, right? Seven weeks or whatever,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: they take the cast off. They broke the cast off.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: They broke it with a... The hammer was too big
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: that they broke it with. And it broke his hip
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: when they beat the... Are you kidding me? No, I'm
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: not kidding at all. When they hit the thing with
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: the hammer, it cracked his hip.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: So now... His shit's rebroken up at his hip.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: And he ended up getting that kind of tick tock
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: in him like that. And he got into Elvis impersonating,
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: which is so wild.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: But that helped him when he generated. Well, that's what
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. He was.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was built like it was just about to
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: be noon. You know what I'm saying? He was built like,
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm saying another 60 ticks. And it was time,
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: you know, it was lunch break. You know what I'm saying?
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: He was just a damn pentameter walking around town. That's
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: all he was. He was one of those things where
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: the thing goes back and forth, you know, when you
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: pull the ball and you let it go. And then
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: this one goes and it's like that.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: That was him.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: He was just tick tock my gutter right there. And
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: he was just cruising around. But, yeah, he had a
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: couple of kids, kept him in the yard. And I
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: don't know what that story was about.
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: Kept them in the yard.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: And that was the electric fence that he got. I
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: don't remember how well that started.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: All right, let me ask you, how far is St. Francisville?
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: Is that anywhere near where you were raised?
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: That's about two and a half hours from me. You
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: know who it was from there that you're making me
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: think of?
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: John Morgan, the raging Cajun.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: Raging Cajun. I opened for him. You did? I've opened
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 2: for him. Bring him up.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: He was a good storyteller, and he still is.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 2: And he could get a crowd going. God, he could.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: Very high energy.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: John Morgan, the raging Cajun.
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: That was at the Stardome. I opened for him or
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: featured for him at the Stardome and then in San Antonio.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: Play a clip of his real quick if we can
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: or just... Is he still doing it on one day?
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. God, there was nobody like him
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: and he had adopted. 30 years of being together, you.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 3: Make love and you move on. You get up and
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 3: you move on. You ask the right questions. You want
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 3: some nut butters and milk?
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 2: I love him man he was.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 3: The best when i was starting out i mean he's
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 3: a great comedian there's a lot of comedians that people.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 2: That you know.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: That don't get some of the acclaim maybe in some.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 2: I know. Do you remember little Mark Ryan? Mark Ryan
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 2: was a good storyteller, too, that was kind of like him.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 2: He was a writer, wasn't he? And he was from Louisiana.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: Mark Ryan. No, I do remember Mark Ryan.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: A little blonde-headed. Yeah, that boy. Oh, wait. You know what?
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I remember him. I worked with him.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 2: That's cool. Yeah. It's hard to know. He yelled a lot.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 2: I probably did. He yelled... Yeah, I mean, like, you know,
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: high energy, like John Morgan.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, dude, John Morgan. But John Morgan lived in St. Francisville,
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: I believe, and he had a little Asian daughter. They
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: adopted a daughter, I believe. And he had this, he
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: would tell some stories about her. He was, he's one
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: of the best storytellers that I've ever heard. He kind
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: of reminded me of that Jerry Clower in some ways,
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: you know. But, yeah, there he is right there.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: John Morgan. Yeah, he's a sweet guy. He stayed in
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: touch with me. Yeah, he was darling. Raging Cajun, John Morgan. Well,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 2: one of my good friends owns, I ask you that
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 2: because one of my friends owns an inn in St.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 2: Francisville that is beautiful, and I go there sometimes. And
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 2: I just didn't realize how, and I did the shows
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, and I thought, Louisiana is fascinating.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 2: People in Louisiana are fun and wild. And darling, I
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: had a ball there.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: Which one of the reasons I think there's not a
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: lot of comedy clothes there because you can have just
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: as good a time talking to somebody, anybody. Everybody there
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: is an entertainer. Everybody there is a comedian. Everybody there,
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: they're going to open their mouth and you're going to
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: hear something that's going to make you smile or think
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: or question. They're entertaining. It's an entertaining state. It's one
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: of the most native states where people are born there
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: that never leave. I think like per capita, it's the
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: number one. Where people are born that never even leave
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: the state. They're born and then die right there. I
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: think because they just got everything they need over there.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 2: You know? Yeah.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: It's a special place. You're a special person, Leanne Morgan.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 2: Hey, oh, my darling. Thanks for coming and hanging out.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 2: You don't need me to vacuum or anything. I feel
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 2: like I need to do something for you for letting
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 2: me be on here. Because you're so darling. You know
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 2: what you can do for me?
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: What? Really honestly? Come back next year, will you? You
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: promise you will?
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: Do you mean it?
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I've just had so much fun. This has
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: been a gift of my whole life. It's just like, yeah,
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: the past like week, like I went, I did Joe
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: Rogan's podcast yesterday. And it's like, sometimes it's like, you know,
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: it's like, I think sometimes I live in a place
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: where it's like, there's so much of me out there,
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: like just online. And some of this could be like
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: paranoia or ego stuff. I don't know. But it's still
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: something that I think about sometimes that I just get like,
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I've just felt like nervous the past
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: few weeks. So to be able to sit down in
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: a conversation that is easy and it's fun. You know,
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: Joe is like he knows a lot of information. So
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: it's like you're having to learn a lot. And, like,
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: sometimes I think I feel like I don't– it's hard
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: for me to, like, chime in because I don't really
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: know about stuff. And this is just two people that
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: don't know a lot. And we can just– which is
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: what I love.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, you angel. When I watch you, I think– and
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 2: I'm not blowing smoke up your butthole. When I want you,
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 2: I think, oh, my God.
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for that also.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 2: I think when I want you, I think he's got
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 2: the sweetest spirit. You've got a sweet spirit. Oh, thank you.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 2: You really do. And I feel like God gave me
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 2: that discernment. I know he did. And I've said to
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 2: John Crist and to Hugh and people that know you,
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 2: and they go, he's got the sweetest spirit. They think
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 2: it too. And just so bright. You're such a bright light.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 2: When I think of you planking and then talking about
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: those hamster bones. Oh, yeah. And we were crying, laughing
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 2: so hard. There's just nobody like you. And, you know,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 2: in this business, I mean, you're just so unique. There's
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 2: just nobody like you. And I hope you know that.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 2: And you give so much joy. When I told people
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 2: I was doing this, they said, please tell him hello
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 2: from me. My stylist, who's from Australia, who dresses Oprah Winfrey.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: And Maria Shriver said, I love him. She goes, I
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 2: would marry him. Everybody wants to have a baby with you.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 2: I just want you to know that. I would have
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 2: carried one for you. I think Chuck would have let me.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: I was very fertile at one time. I could have
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 2: done it. I'm very healthy. I'm from farming people. We
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 2: killed our own beef. I could have done it. And
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 2: I would have done it because you've got to have
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 2: some children. You are so beautiful and fun and your
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 2: teeth are pretty.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate it.
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: I want to have kids. I want to have a
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: family and stuff. It's just been like, you know, it's tough.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: It's like you got to meet the right person.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know.
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: I met somebody that was kind of neat the other day.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: And so that was kind of cool because it made
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: me think like, okay, this is still possible, right? Whether
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: or not that ends up, like if there were ever
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: anything there, like, because sometimes you start to be like,
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: you know, you get in this space where just something
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: doesn't kind of click for a long time. You know,
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: like you meet people when you go on dates and
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: like you have people that you just kind of like
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: are flinging with or philandering with. But when you're like, oh,
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: this is the partner that I want. And I think like,
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: are there something about this person just that would keep
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: me interested for a long time? You know, just something
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: about them. I don't know what it is. Maybe they got,
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: you know, it could be a damn mole or something
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: or they're missing a fucking vertebra or whatever. One of
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: them bitches is awful little, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: Like they got a, like just like.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 2: But you want a girl that wants to have babies.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would like to have a woman that likes
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: to have a, that wants to be a good mother.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: That's super important to me. That's hard working. You know,
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: I'd like to have, I want an attractive woman but
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: that that's not the most important thing to her. You know, like,
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: you know, you can be attractive, but if that's the
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: most important thing to you, that's, that's okay. But that's
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: not really what I need. I need somebody, you know,
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: like a, just like a teammate. Uh, but here's the thing.
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: It's like, I don't, it's, it's just always hard to
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: figure out. But then once you start trying to figure
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: everything out, that ruins everything. So, you know what? God's
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: made it perfect for me that, uh, I got to
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: do all this work. You know, I got to go
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: to and do all these fun things and live out
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: like a lot of my dreams you know I know
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: you know you're living them out I know it's crazy
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: you're living them out I'm living them out I could
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: see this I knew this as a child did you
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: know it as a child no I knew something was
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: wrong I didn't.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: Know what it was you didn't because I've heard Steve
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 2: Harvey say to his teacher when she said what do
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 2: you want to be when you grow up because I'm
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 2: going to be on television at 10 and she said
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 2: no you're not made fun of it All right, and
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 2: then I heard Eddie Murphy in an interview on Today Show.
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 2: He said, I knew I was going to be famous.
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 2: I feel like in Adams, Tennessee, at 9 or 10
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 2: years old, I thought, is something wrong with me? Because
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 2: that's all I could think about is I wanted to
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: be in movies and in television. And I thought, is
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 2: something wrong? Because nobody else is talking about this. But
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: I just knew it in my heart. But then I
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 2: went to school and got divorced and all this crap.
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 2: And then this happens to me at this time in
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 2: my life. But I could see it. I didn't know
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 2: it was going to be this unbelievable. It's bigger and
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 2: sweeter than I ever dreamed of. But I could see
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 2: this happening for me. And I just wondered if you
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 2: felt that way. You didn't know?
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: One time I got voted most likely to either be
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: on TV or succeed.
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: I loved laughing with my friends. I just loved it.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: I loved making people laugh. I just loved it.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 2: You know what it was?
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: It made me think that it gave me some sense
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: of worth. You know, it was like, you know, I
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: don't even know if I wanted to be joking around
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: all the time, but I felt like it was the
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: only way that I knew that I had some kind
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: of a value as a kid, if that's kind of crazy,
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: you know, and not to make like a sad thing.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: But I think it makes sense as a kid. You're like, oh, well,
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: this is if I do this thing, whatever it is,
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: you know, if it's a trick, if I hide my
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: legs behind my neck or whatever, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: Or do that, you know, do, you know, some weird
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: shit or something or like tuck my eyelids and whatever
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: it is, then like people think it's, you know, I
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: didn't do any of those things. But if I say
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: certain stuff, it's entertaining to people, you know? So I
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: was like, well, I got to just do that, you know?
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: Did I ever see it? I don't think so. I
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: didn't go to a comedy club until I was in college.
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: I didn't really know it existed. I'd seen like Chris
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: Rock and I knew he was very, you know, he
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: was just so funny in the way he sounded and
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: just him, you know, but I never felt like I
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: was close to that.
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 2: I didn't know about comedy club. I watched, I would watch,
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 2: you know, David Letterman and Jay Leno and all that
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 2: and But I was more like, I wanted to be
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 2: like Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett. But I didn't know there was,
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 2: I thought, I didn't know how to get there. But
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 2: then I came to the comedy store. Chuck Morgan took
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 2: me to the comedy store when we were dating. And
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 2: we came out to L.A. and I said, I want
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 2: to go on that hearst. I want to go in
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 2: there and see where people have been murdered in L.A.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, it was beautiful.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, it was fun. And then I want to go
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: to the comedy store. And little Dom Herrera was up there. Oh, yeah.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: One of the greats.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 2: My heart beat out of my body, and I thought, okay,
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 2: that's it. I think I can do that, and I
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 2: want to do that. But I didn't know how. But
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 2: you just start, and then that's the thing. You know
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 2: what somebody said one day? They said, you kind of
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 2: start this job, and then comedy chooses you. It's like,
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 2: does your life work out enough for it, right? There's
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 2: so many great comics that, you know, John Morgan might
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 2: have had to raise his daughters and stuff like that,
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 2: or his family, and, you know, he– He had a
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 2: beautiful wife.
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they're still married.
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 2: They are, and she's like a detective or an investigator
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 2: or something because she was in a documentary about a
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 2: murder in Louisiana.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: God, I love that. And that's every woman's dream. But, no,
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: he had a beautiful wife. He just had such a
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: great life that it's like at a certain point you're like, well, shit,
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: this life's so great here. I'm not saying– but it's
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: like– somebody said at a certain point, it kind of
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: chooses you. Can you still do this? You know, I
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: didn't like any commitment. So I didn't like, so that
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: was one thing that was perfect for me. It was like, Oh,
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: I have a chance to leave.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 2: I want to go.
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: If I can say bye, I want to go, whatever
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: it is. I have somewhere else I have to be.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: I don't have to be right here. So it's been good.
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: You know, it's given me so many unique things. I mean,
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: now it's like more, it's fun. Cause you get to
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: have like unique experiences and like, you know, like you
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: go places and they'll let you be on a sideline.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a, feels a bit extravagant for me. And
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: I wish that some of the things, it was a
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: little more normal. Um, some of the popularity part I
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: do not like about today. Um, a lot of that's
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: from social media and stuff. I'm not saying boohoo or anything,
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: but some of it's uncomfortable. You know, sometimes you want
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: to just be like in a place where you're sitting
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: there with everybody else, just kind of enjoying the deal,
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: you know? Um, That's the first time I went on
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: the field was at UT. You did great when you
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: came out there and waved. I was like, she's a pro.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I was very nervous, and that didn't feel
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 2: real to me like I deserved to be. I don't know.
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 2: I just thought, what in the world? What are they doing?
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 2: I love my school. I don't want anybody to know
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 2: my GPA. I mean, I barely got out of there.
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 2: And they're so good to me. They're so good to
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 2: me because I'm the only comedian that came out of there.
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 2: And I guess, but... That made me feel special. But
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 2: I thought, what am I even, what am I doing?
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 2: But it was wonderful. And Chuck Morgan enjoyed it and
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 2: all that. I'm glad he did. Well, you know what?
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: And you're inspiring young women to do comedy and inspiring
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: young Southern women.
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 2: We need that.
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: We need like the South to stay alive through storytelling.
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: You know, it's like we need that. I would love
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: to eventually get back to just telling stories from home,
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: like just stories from growing up. And locking it down
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: more and really getting in and, like, writing some tales
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: from growing up. And I hope that that's something that's
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: part of my future.
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 2: You tell the best stories from growing up.
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: Well, I love them. And it's something, you know, it's like,
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: but it's like, yeah, it's just important. And it's so
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: good that you're doing it. And, you know, one thing
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: I forgot about my wife, I want a funny gal.
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: Some of the funniest girls, I think, are from Philadelphia
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: and New Jersey. I'll say that flat out. They are funny.
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 2: They are funny. Oh, Laura Peek. I mean, she's from Tennessee.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 2: She's great. She's married. We've got her in. I know.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 2: She opened for me a lot, and she would tell
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 2: me that she'd be out on the road with you.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 2: She loved being out there with you. We had so
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 2: much fun. She's very funny. She's the best.
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: When you have a show in town, you're going to
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: have to invite me. I think we're going to finish up, Leanne,
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: and here's why. Because I'd rather you come back sometime
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: and we get to do it again.
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 2: It's been so much fun. Oh, my angel, honey. I'll
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 2: make you a casserole. Yeah, you promised Morgan one. Look,
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 2: you make me one.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: I'll give it to Morgan. I'm going to see him
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: tomorrow at Bible study, actually, so.
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 2: You will see him at Bible study. I think he's
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 2: going to end up preaching. That little thing. You know,
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: I just know, yeah, I don't know. He's an inspiring guy.
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: He's just, he's an interesting, Morgan is, he is him,
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: you know. He is him.
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 2: Authentic. He is. But you're authentic, too, my darling. Yeah,
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 2: for sure. And y'all are in a Bible study. Is
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 2: it a Beth Moore? What are y'all studying?
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, tomorrow I think we're watching a movie, but
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: it is Bible.
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 2: Study, y'all. That's so sweet, Theo Vaughn.
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what chapter we're on. I shouldn't even
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: have said that.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not in one right now. I used to be
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 2: in one when I was raising my children, but I'm
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 2: not in one. And I need to be disciplined to
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 2: do it on my own.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: Well, that's when you need the Lord the most, when
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: you're raising those little henchwomen and men. But, no, I'll
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: tell them you said hey. And that was fun, even
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: just to get to see you guys next to each
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: other when I saw you all at the game and
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: talking to each other. Like little moments like that bring
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: me so much joy when there's like, two people that
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: you think are like, oh, these people are so interesting
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: and they get to meet each other or get to
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: spend time around each other, you know? Watching stuff like
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: that is fun. All right.
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 2: Leigh-Anne Morgan, Unspeakable Things. Yeah. It's out now.
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: Your second special. It's on Netflix. You guys can go
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: and watch it. And you're going to be touring again
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  Speaker 1: at some point? No, you're going to do the second
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: season of your show.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do the second and we'll wrap, I think, in
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 2: April and I'll start touring again. Okay. If I can
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 2: come up with another hour, honey, I'm working on that.
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 2: You'll be fine. Will I?
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  Speaker 1: I think just have Chuck Morgan tell you the truth
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  Speaker 1: about yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I know. Yeah. It'll hurt, but. Critiquing. Yeah. Critiquing what
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  Speaker 2: I eat and if I'm eating too much fat. Lord.
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  Speaker 2: He does give me a lot of material. He does.
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 2: He does. See, that's a blessing. Yeah. I think, yeah,
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 2: you got somebody. And when you marry and have babies,
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 2: that's a whole nother, you're going to have to work
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 2: for another 30 years, honey, because you're going to be
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 2: so prolific over all that. Really? Oh, yeah. I think
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 2: that was my best.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready for some of that. I've got to spend
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: more time in prayer, I think, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But it's okay. Everything's fine. Everything is wonderful. Look at
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 2: your skin tone. Thank you. And you've got that full
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 2: head of hair. You didn't have to go over to Turkey.
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 2: It's so flat this time of year. You know, I
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 2: don't know what that is. I'm going to have to
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 2: call Hugh Houser. Yeah, he'll know. Because he'll say to me,
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 2: would it kill you to tease your hair, Len? Yeah.
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 2: Let me get back there.
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: See if he'll put a little conditioner in it or nothing.
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 2: A root lift. Yeah, maybe he'll just help me get
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 2: a root lift. Thank you for having me, you sweet
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 2: angel from heaven. Oh, my God, you're the best.
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: Leanne Morgan, thank you so much. The pride of Tennessee,
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: here she is, and grateful to spend time with you today.
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  Speaker 2: Go Vols. Go Vols, my darling. Cornerstone Oh, but when
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  Speaker 2: I reach that ground I'll share this peace of mind
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  Speaker 2: I found I can feel it in my bones