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Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine, Hey bestie is today on the bright Side.

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Speaker 1: We're joined by comedian and author Leanne Morgan. She's here

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Speaker 1: to talk about her Appalachian roots, how investing in herself

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Speaker 1: finally paid off, and how she talks to her kids

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Speaker 1: about following their own dreams. Her new memoir What in

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Speaker 1: the World is out now. It's Tuesday, October fifteenth.

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Speaker 2: I'm Simone Boyce, I'm Danielle Robe and this is the

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Speaker 2: bright Side from Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we

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Speaker 2: come together to share women's stories, laugh, learn, and brighten

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Speaker 2: your day. Our guest today has been touted as the

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Speaker 2: Missus masl of Appalachia. Leanne Morgan is a stand up

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Speaker 2: comedian and author who hails from rural Tennessee. Her relatable humor,

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Speaker 2: her anecdotes about aging and family life, and honestly her

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Speaker 2: southern charm has won the hearts of so many people,

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Speaker 2: including me and Simone.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, my husband and I watched her debut Netflix

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Speaker 1: special I'm every Woman, which came out last year, and

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Speaker 1: we were just rolling laughing. She's such a hoot. What's

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Speaker 1: really inspiring about Leanne too, is she really started from

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Speaker 1: the bottom, y'all. I mean, she built a career most

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Speaker 1: comedians can only dream of. So before her comedy career

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Speaker 1: really took off, she was going door to door selling

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Speaker 1: jewelry and testing out comedic material on her customers. And

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Speaker 1: some of her first ever quote unquote shows were actually

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Speaker 1: just Leanne making women laugh on their couches. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: until Leanne was in her thirties and had three young

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Speaker 1: children that she started performing stand up in comedy clubs.

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Speaker 2: That is such a hard career path. Those comedy clubs

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Speaker 2: are not easy places, especially for women, and look at

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Speaker 2: her now. In her new memoir, Leanne talks about how

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Speaker 2: unseen she felt by the comedy industry for decades and

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Speaker 2: how grateful she is to have the success that she

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Speaker 2: does today. I personally, simone, I know you feel the

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Speaker 2: same way. We're just so excited to see her win.

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Speaker 2: I cannot wait to dive into this episode.

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Speaker 1: She's someone who is so easy to root for. And

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Speaker 1: Leanne is actually on her just getting started tour right now,

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Speaker 1: so she's making stops all across the country. We're talking

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Speaker 1: to Indiana, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, and so many others. Danielle,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking maybe we should book an airbnb and go

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Speaker 1: see one of these shows, thinking.

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Speaker 2: Let's start doing Okay, well enough from us, let's bring

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Speaker 2: her in.

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Speaker 1: Leanne, welcome to the bright side.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me, Samo, you do all. I'm

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Speaker 3: tickled a bit here.

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Speaker 1: Well, we are such big Leanne Morgan fangirls over here.

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Speaker 1: And I know there are millions of others out there

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Speaker 1: because your career is just exploding. I mean, you released

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Speaker 1: a stand up special last year on Netflix. You've been

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Speaker 1: cast in an upcoming movie with Will Ferrell, he Reese Witherspoon.

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Speaker 1: You're starring in a scripted series for Netflix. You've got

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Speaker 1: a new book, a memoir, officially out in the world,

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Speaker 1: the world. You are killing it right now. Lynn, congratulations.

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Speaker 4: Oh you don't thank you. I'm so thankful. But yes,

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Speaker 4: I've been doing all this stand up cony for over

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Speaker 4: twenty five years and then it blew up in the

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Speaker 1: So is that surreal because I'm sure you never could

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Speaker 1: have predicted all of this.

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Speaker 4: I had television deals through the years, and then there

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Speaker 4: were times I couldn't get booked.

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Speaker 3: Nobody cared, but I was in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: I had three baby stories, and so I'd be so

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Speaker 4: disappointed when a television show didn't make it, and it'd

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Speaker 4: that kind of thing, and it wouldn't make it, and

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Speaker 4: then I would be devastated, but I would still think, Oh,

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Speaker 3: It's gonna come.

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Speaker 4: But I had it in my head that I would

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Speaker 4: be younger and thinner, and I had it in my head.

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Speaker 4: I know I'm gonna be a grand mama soon, and

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Speaker 4: stay with me. And then it blew up. And there

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Speaker 4: were some things that happened that I'm very thankful I did.

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Speaker 4: I had done a little special with dry Bar, which

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Speaker 4: Jim Gaffkin, all these people I admire. They have social

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Speaker 4: media people, and I don't know how to do social media.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna hire these It was two brothers out of Plano, Texas.

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Speaker 4: I hired these boys and I thought, I'll do it

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Speaker 4: three months and if nothing happens, that'll be a sign

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Speaker 4: I'll just bow out of this thing. And the first

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Speaker 4: old people going to concerts. I really wasn't performing. I

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Speaker 4: People started watching that then saying, well who is that?

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Speaker 4: It was just like it happened overnight. I'm not kidding out.

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Speaker 3: It was like a month before.

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Speaker 4: Clubs were turning me down, saying we like her, she's sweet,

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Speaker 4: can't sell tickets. And the next month I was selling

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Speaker 1: All because you invested in yourself.

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Speaker 4: And then COVID hit and I had the biggest tour announcement,

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Speaker 4: I mean, the biggest thing ever happened to me.

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Speaker 3: One hundred city tour and everything shut down.

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Speaker 4: But in the middle of that, what a blessing it

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Speaker 4: bone during COVID saying I fixed my little mama Castro,

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Speaker 4: got to have purad foods, or this is what I

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Speaker 3: I think I got the most following during that.

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Speaker 4: And what I think it is is that I'm in

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Speaker 4: a lane by myself, and I have got all this

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Speaker 4: experience of being a mama, a grandmama, being a fifty

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Speaker 4: eight year old woman, gone through men of pause, you know,

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Speaker 4: been married to a man for over thirty years. All

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Speaker 4: that knowledge and the stuff that I talk about has

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Speaker 3: All these other women have gone through the same thing

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Speaker 3: I've gone through. They relate to it, and there's nobody

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Speaker 1: Tell me more about this community of women that you

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Speaker 4: I know this sounds crazy because I feel like I'm

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Speaker 4: of women. But it's also like ninety year old man.

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Speaker 4: I'm a clean comedian. It's not hokey clean. I think

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Speaker 4: it's very and there's any window it's clean enough you

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Speaker 4: can take your grandmama and your daughter. It's like a

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Speaker 4: family experience. People say to me all the time, my

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Speaker 4: granddaddy loves you. He's ninety and he's come to a

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Speaker 3: And the comedy club people would say to me, we've

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Speaker 2: I loved reading about your early days when you were

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Speaker 2: selling jewelry and using tupperware parties as an opportunity to

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Speaker 2: develop that style of clean comedy that you have. How

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Speaker 4: I was in the foothills of the Appalachia Mountains. There

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Speaker 4: but I want to stay home and breastfait. Charlie, my oldest,

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Speaker 4: and I started selling jewelry and I would go around

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Speaker 4: was supposed to be talking about jewelry and like how

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Speaker 4: truly urinated on a couch while I was doing my stick.

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Speaker 3: She peed from laughter, Carman. Her name is Carmen.

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Speaker 4: I've always thanked her every time I see her, because

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Speaker 4: Honest to goodness, they were blotting the couch and everybody

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Speaker 4: all right, I got it.

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Speaker 4: If I made Carmen peel on that couch, I've got something.

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Speaker 4: I ain't try to make it. Being a mama was

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Speaker 1: Okay, I have to ask what Chuck Morgan thought about

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Speaker 1: all of this, because your husband, he must be such

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Speaker 1: a good sport, because you joke about your relationship all

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Speaker 1: the time and it's hilarious. What was his reaction whenever

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Speaker 3: I did say too.

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Speaker 4: And we had three babies, and he was moving up

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Speaker 4: I think I've got something. I think we need to

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Speaker 4: sell everything we own. I'll cook on a hot plate.

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Speaker 4: Let's move to LA And he said, we need health

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Speaker 4: insurance and you've lost your run, and let me ting

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Speaker 4: on that Chuck Morgan is just a very introverty quanet overachiever.

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Speaker 3: Chuck Morgan did everything perfect, so in love with me.

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Speaker 4: He's been supported through the whole time, Like he goes,

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Speaker 4: I've got the kids, you go. He has really been

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Speaker 4: of very just stable, like he's been saving for our

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Speaker 3: He's not a dreamer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm the dreamer, but he's never squelched that dream.

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Speaker 4: And then now, I mean he's just in shock over

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Speaker 4: things that's happened every day. I think he says, what

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Speaker 3: And I think it took him a long time to

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Speaker 3: seeing my crowds and the audiences.

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Speaker 4: So because he doesn't travel with me or anything, because

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Speaker 4: he's got a big jaw. So when he sees things

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Speaker 1: Leanne, I want to talk a little bit about your

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Speaker 4: Women in Hollywood are I mean young, and they don't

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Speaker 3: They're the consumer. They make decisions about that.

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Speaker 4: And I think they stereotype people in Appalachia or in

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Speaker 1: And it's just not true. Yeah, it's just not true.

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Speaker 3: This is who I am. And I think that's why

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Speaker 2: Speaking of your mama, you sold out the grand Old Opry.

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Speaker 2: I can't even imagine what that feels like. But your

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Speaker 4: Okay, my low Cel is eighty years old now and

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Speaker 3: I'm shaming to you all that. But when I was

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Speaker 3: So when they booked me there, first of all Lucille.

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Speaker 2: You know, Like I just was so shocked by it all.

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Speaker 3: Is there something you wish you would have known.

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Speaker 4: I'm honest to goodness, I wish that I had understood.

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Speaker 3: And I know this sounds arrogant. I don't mean to it,

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Speaker 4: I didn't realize how smart I was. I didn't realize

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Speaker 4: I've basically built this myself, and I look back on

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Speaker 3: But I understand. I think I've got a high emotional

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Speaker 4: I have watched what other people have done, people that

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Speaker 3: Can y'all believe it? I just started to get a

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Speaker 4: Tell everybody that everything's going to be all right Land,

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Speaker 1: It's time for another quick break. We'll be right back

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Speaker 1: Leanne Morgan. Leanne, you're very open about aging and your material,

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Speaker 1: and it's honestly, it's some of my favorite parts of

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Speaker 1: your comedy, Like when you say you'd like to dance

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Speaker 1: but not too hard because you don't want people to

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Speaker 1: see you jiggle. What are the funniest parts of growing older?

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Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know if you'd call it funny. I'm

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Speaker 4: telling you things you start happening to you and you're like,

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Speaker 4: what in the world. And my girls are twenty six

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Speaker 4: and twenty eight and they're my best friends and they

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Speaker 4: will ride with me and they're like, mom, I don't

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Speaker 4: think you can drive well anymore?

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Speaker 3: Can you say? I go no, one can't say.

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Speaker 4: And people would tell me years ago, they go, just

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Speaker 3: You're gonna have so much material.

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Speaker 4: And I just felt like that was four hundred years

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Speaker 4: then I thought, oh, I'll be able to I could

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Speaker 4: have fifteen kids, and I'll be able to get pregnant

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Speaker 4: for the rest of my life. I always just thought

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Speaker 4: of myself as Mother Earth. And then they told me

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Speaker 4: I did I populate in my fifties. I got to

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Speaker 4: tell ye old Land, and I was very proud of that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Leanne, how open are you with your daughters about

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Speaker 2: all of the changes? And I'm asking because my mom

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Speaker 2: will call me to tell me updates on any change

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Speaker 2: that's happening with her. Sometimes things I don't want to

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Speaker 2: hear about, but she says to me that I have

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Speaker 2: to listen because one day it's going to happen to me,

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Speaker 2: and she's preparing me.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and been thankful baby, because nobody told us, nobody

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Speaker 4: told us, nobody talked about it. Yes, I tell them

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Speaker 4: every horrible thing and then my and my baby channel

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Speaker 4: travels with me as my professional make award is.

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Speaker 3: She'll just say, and I hate to even say this

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Speaker 3: in rental omis do you smell like hey? And I'm like.

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Speaker 1: Hey.

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Speaker 3: She goes, yeah, girl, you smell all like hey. And

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Speaker 3: then we just bust out laughing what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 3: I mean, what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 2: But we are so.

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Speaker 4: Close and travel and tour and she's with me all

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Speaker 4: the time, and they're Daddy, you know, doesn't like to

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Speaker 4: spend money, and he's always in my ear. I can

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Speaker 4: hear him when I'm traveling and saying, eat the Continental breakfast,

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Speaker 4: don't go to Panera and spend money.

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Speaker 3: And so I make her stay in the room with me.

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Speaker 4: And she's twenty six years old, and we try to

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Speaker 4: get queens. Sometimes we have just won a king and

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Speaker 4: then we spun.

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Speaker 2: Have a question about your girls. They have seen all

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Speaker 2: of this. They were young when you started your career,

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Speaker 2: and now they're all grown up. They've seen every iteration

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Speaker 2: of this. How do you talk to them about following

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Speaker 2: their dreams?

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Speaker 4: I tell my girls and I tell my boy, I go,

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Speaker 4: you get one time on this earth, and whatever you

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Speaker 4: dreamed of when you were little, whatever you loved when

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Speaker 4: you were little. I believe this whatever sets you on

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Speaker 4: fire and gained you that that you wanted to follow that.

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Speaker 3: I agree. I don't know what that is. Y'all got

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Speaker 3: to find that. I out, but I go. Don't let

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Speaker 3: people kill your dreams.

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Speaker 4: And I tell them that lately all the time you

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Speaker 4: get one time around this thing, Let's give it everything

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Speaker 4: we've got.

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Speaker 3: I want you to live your best life. I want

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Speaker 3: you to live your best best life.

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Speaker 2: All right, Leanne, thank you so much for bringing your

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Speaker 2: realness and your hilarity to the right side.

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Speaker 3: Oh my darling, thank you for having me. Y'all are

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Speaker 3: both precious.

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Speaker 1: Leanne Morgan is a comedian and author. Her book What

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Speaker 1: in the World is out now, and you can watch

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Speaker 1: her special I'm every Woman on Netflix.

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