Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine, Hey bestie is today on the bright Side.
Speaker 1: We're joined by comedian and author Leanne Morgan. She's here
Speaker 1: to talk about her Appalachian roots, how investing in herself
Speaker 1: finally paid off, and how she talks to her kids
Speaker 1: about following their own dreams. Her new memoir What in
Speaker 1: the World is out now. It's Tuesday, October fifteenth.
Speaker 2: I'm Simone Boyce, I'm Danielle Robe and this is the
Speaker 2: bright Side from Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we
Speaker 2: come together to share women's stories, laugh, learn, and brighten
Speaker 2: your day. Our guest today has been touted as the
Speaker 2: Missus masl of Appalachia. Leanne Morgan is a stand up
Speaker 2: comedian and author who hails from rural Tennessee. Her relatable humor,
Speaker 2: her anecdotes about aging and family life, and honestly her
Speaker 2: southern charm has won the hearts of so many people,
Speaker 2: including me and Simone.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, my husband and I watched her debut Netflix
Speaker 1: special I'm every Woman, which came out last year, and
Speaker 1: we were just rolling laughing. She's such a hoot. What's
Speaker 1: really inspiring about Leanne too, is she really started from
Speaker 1: the bottom, y'all. I mean, she built a career most
Speaker 1: comedians can only dream of. So before her comedy career
Speaker 1: really took off, she was going door to door selling
Speaker 1: jewelry and testing out comedic material on her customers. And
Speaker 1: some of her first ever quote unquote shows were actually
Speaker 1: just Leanne making women laugh on their couches. It wasn't
Speaker 1: until Leanne was in her thirties and had three young
Speaker 1: children that she started performing stand up in comedy clubs.
Speaker 2: That is such a hard career path. Those comedy clubs
Speaker 2: are not easy places, especially for women, and look at
Speaker 2: her now. In her new memoir, Leanne talks about how
Speaker 2: unseen she felt by the comedy industry for decades and
Speaker 2: how grateful she is to have the success that she
Speaker 2: does today. I personally, simone, I know you feel the
Speaker 2: same way. We're just so excited to see her win.
Speaker 2: I cannot wait to dive into this episode.
Speaker 1: She's someone who is so easy to root for. And
Speaker 1: Leanne is actually on her just getting started tour right now,
Speaker 1: so she's making stops all across the country. We're talking
Speaker 1: to Indiana, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, and so many others. Danielle,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking maybe we should book an airbnb and go
Speaker 1: see one of these shows, thinking.
Speaker 2: Let's start doing Okay, well enough from us, let's bring
Speaker 2: her in.
Speaker 1: Leanne, welcome to the bright side.
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me, Samo, you do all. I'm
Speaker 3: tickled a bit here.
Speaker 1: Well, we are such big Leanne Morgan fangirls over here.
Speaker 1: And I know there are millions of others out there
Speaker 1: because your career is just exploding. I mean, you released
Speaker 1: a stand up special last year on Netflix. You've been
Speaker 1: cast in an upcoming movie with Will Ferrell, he Reese Witherspoon.
Speaker 1: You're starring in a scripted series for Netflix. You've got
Speaker 1: a new book, a memoir, officially out in the world,
Speaker 1: the world. You are killing it right now. Lynn, congratulations.
Speaker 4: Oh you don't thank you. I'm so thankful. But yes,
Speaker 4: I've been doing all this stand up cony for over
Speaker 4: twenty five years and then it blew up in the
Speaker 4: last few years.
Speaker 1: So is that surreal because I'm sure you never could
Speaker 1: have predicted all of this.
Speaker 4: I had television deals through the years, and then there
Speaker 4: were times I couldn't get booked.
Speaker 3: Nobody cared, but I was in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Speaker 4: I had three baby stories, and so I'd be so
Speaker 4: disappointed when a television show didn't make it, and it'd
Speaker 4: be with major networks like ABC and Warner Brothers and
Speaker 4: that kind of thing, and it wouldn't make it, and
Speaker 4: then I would be devastated, but I would still think, Oh,
Speaker 4: it's gonna come.
Speaker 3: It's gonna come.
Speaker 4: But I had it in my head that I would
Speaker 4: be younger and thinner, and I had it in my head.
Speaker 3: I thought I'll be in my.
Speaker 4: Forties, and then in my fifties early fifties, it was
Speaker 4: going so badly.
Speaker 3: That I thought I'm gonna bow out.
Speaker 4: I know I'm gonna be a grand mama soon, and
Speaker 4: being from the country, we take a big part in
Speaker 4: our grandchildren's lives. And I thought, I'll just start cooking
Speaker 4: pinto beans and I'll wear a house dress, and I'll
Speaker 4: let this little baby come up in the yard and
Speaker 4: stay with me. And then it blew up. And there
Speaker 4: were some things that happened that I'm very thankful I did.
Speaker 4: I had done a little special with dry Bar, which
Speaker 4: was a clean comedy online platform.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know how it worked.
Speaker 4: I did a special form. They pay me a couple
Speaker 4: of thousand dollars. I thought, I'll never see it again. Well,
Speaker 4: they put it online. It blew up and I got
Speaker 4: a little money from that, not a lot of money,
Speaker 4: but enough money that I thought, Nate burg Gate's in,
Speaker 4: Jim Gaffkin, all these people I admire. They have social
Speaker 4: media people, and I don't know how to do social media.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna hire these It was two brothers out of Plano, Texas.
Speaker 4: I hired these boys and I thought, I'll do it
Speaker 4: three months and if nothing happens, that'll be a sign
Speaker 4: I'll just bow out of this thing. And the first
Speaker 4: video they put out went viral and it was about
Speaker 4: old people going to concerts. I really wasn't performing. I
Speaker 4: shot at one time and I just happen to get it,
Speaker 4: and they thought it was funny.
Speaker 3: They put it on.
Speaker 4: People started watching that then saying, well who is that?
Speaker 4: It was just like it happened overnight. I'm not kidding out.
Speaker 3: It was like a month before.
Speaker 4: Clubs were turning me down, saying we like her, she's sweet,
Speaker 4: she doesn't get drunk in the parking lot, but she
Speaker 4: can't sell tickets. And the next month I was selling
Speaker 4: out all over the United States.
Speaker 1: All because you invested in yourself.
Speaker 4: And then COVID hit and I had the biggest tour announcement,
Speaker 4: I mean, the biggest thing ever happened to me.
Speaker 3: One hundred city tour and everything shut down.
Speaker 4: But in the middle of that, what a blessing it
Speaker 4: was because I would do videos and I would just
Speaker 4: be sitting on the bake porch and they'll make a
Speaker 4: bone during COVID saying I fixed my little mama Castro,
Speaker 4: got to have purad foods, or this is what I
Speaker 4: did today.
Speaker 3: I think I got the most following during that.
Speaker 4: And what I think it is is that I'm in
Speaker 4: a lane by myself, and I have got all this
Speaker 4: experience of being a mama, a grandmama, being a fifty
Speaker 4: eight year old woman, gone through men of pause, you know,
Speaker 4: been married to a man for over thirty years. All
Speaker 4: that knowledge and the stuff that I talk about has
Speaker 4: come out at the same time.
Speaker 3: All these other women have gone through the same thing
Speaker 3: I've gone through. They relate to it, and there's nobody
Speaker 3: else in my lane.
Speaker 1: Tell me more about this community of women that you
Speaker 1: have collected through this experience. Who is your audience.
Speaker 4: I know this sounds crazy because I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: not here, but when I see in the theater, it'll
Speaker 4: be a twenty five year old girl with her fifty
Speaker 4: year old mama, with their grandmama. So it's three generations
Speaker 4: of women. But it's also like ninety year old man.
Speaker 4: I'm a clean comedian. It's not hokey clean. I think
Speaker 4: it's very and there's any window it's clean enough you
Speaker 4: can take your grandmama and your daughter. It's like a
Speaker 4: family experience. People say to me all the time, my
Speaker 4: granddaddy loves you. He's ninety and he's come to a
Speaker 4: comedy club and never been to a comedy club before,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: And the comedy club people would say to me, we've
Speaker 3: never seen this before.
Speaker 2: I loved reading about your early days when you were
Speaker 2: selling jewelry and using tupperware parties as an opportunity to
Speaker 2: develop that style of clean comedy that you have. How
Speaker 2: did that time in your life shape your comedic voice.
Speaker 4: I was in the foothills of the Appalachia Mountains. There
Speaker 4: was no comedy club. I bet there wasn't one one
Speaker 4: hundred miles from there, but I knew I had it
Speaker 4: in my heart. I want to be a stand up
Speaker 4: but I want to stay home and breastfait. Charlie, my oldest,
Speaker 4: and I started selling jewelry and I would go around
Speaker 4: to women's houses and sell that jewelry and eat brownies
Speaker 4: with them in chips, and I developed a stick. I
Speaker 4: was supposed to be talking about jewelry and like how
Speaker 4: to put a clip earring on a pump and change
Speaker 4: the look of your ship. I was instead talking about
Speaker 4: breastfeeding and hemorrhoids and how Chuck didn't hear the baby
Speaker 4: crying the night. So I had this whole baby shtick
Speaker 4: because I was pregnant through the whole thing. I look
Speaker 4: back on it, it was like having my own little comedy
Speaker 4: club with my own demographic. But I know that somebody
Speaker 4: truly urinated on a couch while I was doing my stick.
Speaker 1: She peed from laughter.
Speaker 3: She peed from laughter, Carman. Her name is Carmen.
Speaker 4: I've always thanked her every time I see her, because
Speaker 4: I'll see her around town. I go, Carmen, when you
Speaker 4: peed on that counch at Jane Williams house. That gave
Speaker 4: me the confidence to think I can make it in Hollywood.
Speaker 4: Honest to goodness, they were blotting the couch and everybody
Speaker 4: was dying, and I thought, in my heart, I thought, okay,
Speaker 4: all right, I got it.
Speaker 3: I got it.
Speaker 4: If I made Carmen peel on that couch, I've got something.
Speaker 4: I ain't try to make it. Being a mama was
Speaker 4: the number one thing for me, But in my mind
Speaker 4: I was always thinking, I'm going to Hollywood. I don't
Speaker 4: know how. I don't know when this gives me courage,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna try and open mic.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have to ask what Chuck Morgan thought about
Speaker 1: all of this, because your husband, he must be such
Speaker 1: a good sport, because you joke about your relationship all
Speaker 1: the time and it's hilarious. What was his reaction whenever
Speaker 1: you were like, Okay, I got this lady to be
Speaker 1: on a couch. I'm pretty funny. I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give this a shot, babe.
Speaker 3: I did say too.
Speaker 4: And we had three babies, and he was moving up
Speaker 4: in the company and doing really well. In no sin,
Speaker 4: I think I've got something. I think we need to
Speaker 4: sell everything we own. I'll cook on a hot plate.
Speaker 4: Let's move to LA And he said, we need health
Speaker 4: insurance and you've lost your run, and let me ting
Speaker 4: on that Chuck Morgan is just a very introverty quanet overachiever.
Speaker 3: Chuck Morgan did everything perfect, so in love with me.
Speaker 4: He's been supported through the whole time, Like he goes,
Speaker 4: I've got the kids, you go. He has really been
Speaker 4: supportive because he's just so quiet and not Hollywood kind
Speaker 4: of very just stable, like he's been saving for our
Speaker 4: retirement since he was twenty seven years old, so to
Speaker 4: be a risk taker and to be a dreamer.
Speaker 3: He's not a dreamer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm the dreamer, but he's never squelched that dream.
Speaker 4: And then now, I mean he's just in shock over
Speaker 4: things that's happened every day. I think he says, what
Speaker 4: in the world?
Speaker 3: And I think it took him a long time to
Speaker 3: figure out because he's not out on the beout and
Speaker 3: seeing my crowds and the audiences.
Speaker 4: So because he doesn't travel with me or anything, because
Speaker 4: he's got a big jaw. So when he sees things
Speaker 4: coming through or a movie with Rhys Witherspoon and all that,
Speaker 4: I mean, everybody, my kids, everybody's just like what. And
Speaker 4: I try to prepare him like it's a big deal.
Speaker 4: It's a big deal. Big things are happening.
Speaker 2: My mom calls it the rock in the butterfly. She
Speaker 2: says that one person has to be the stable rock
Speaker 2: and the other person could be the butterfly and they
Speaker 2: go together. But you can't have two butterflies.
Speaker 4: Right or somebody's not going to pay the bill in
Speaker 4: a car and gets reposed.
Speaker 3: Exactly Okay, is I'm going to use that.
Speaker 4: Tell your little mama, I've got to use that it
Speaker 4: That is exactly what it's been.
Speaker 3: Hey, is the wrong hold?
Speaker 1: On bright side?
Speaker 2: Besties, We'll be right back. Stick with us, and we're
Speaker 2: back with comedian and author Leanne Morgan.
Speaker 1: Leanne, I want to talk a little bit about your
Speaker 1: experience as an Appalachian woman in comedy and also an
Speaker 1: Appalachian woman at your age and comedy like you truly,
Speaker 1: like you said, you are carving out your own lane.
Speaker 1: And in an interview with NPR, you told them that
Speaker 1: you think that Hollywood forgets us. What did you mean
Speaker 1: by that?
Speaker 4: Women in Hollywood are I mean young, and they don't
Speaker 4: just have much about women going through menopols, midlife, if
Speaker 4: you've gotten a divorce, if you're trying to make a
Speaker 4: living for you and your children. But they realize now
Speaker 4: that my demographic are the people who make decisions about
Speaker 4: a show can buy the tickets, yes, have got the money,
Speaker 4: buy every product in their house for their family.
Speaker 3: They're the consumer. They make decisions about that.
Speaker 4: And I think they stereotype people in Appalachia or in
Speaker 4: the country in the South too, where they think, you know,
Speaker 4: we don't know what we're doing, and we're pitiful, and
Speaker 4: everybody doesn't have shoes, and we don't know who the
Speaker 4: president is, and I just feel like we feel unseen.
Speaker 1: They flatten you to this one dimensional kind of stereotype.
Speaker 3: M h.
Speaker 1: And it's just not true. Yeah, it's just not true.
Speaker 1: There's so many layers to everyone. I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: beauty of humanity. Did anyone ever pressure you to lose
Speaker 1: your accent to kind of mainstream you? And if so,
Speaker 1: how did you handle that?
Speaker 4: My first husband, I was married really young, and I
Speaker 4: talk about it in the book, and it was very painful.
Speaker 4: It was a bad marriage and I got divorced at
Speaker 4: twenty three. My first husband said, everybody's making fun of you.
Speaker 3: You need diction lessons.
Speaker 4: People think you're stupid, and y'all, I got to tell you,
Speaker 4: this is one of those moments where I'm pat myself
Speaker 4: on the back, and I don't know how I felt
Speaker 4: that way, but because other things he said stuck with me.
Speaker 4: But I remember thinking, no, I'm fine, don't worry about me.
Speaker 4: I'm fine. But I tell y'all, I'm proud of where
Speaker 4: I came from. I'm informing people on both sides generation's back,
Speaker 4: and they're good people, and they're smart, and they're decent people.
Speaker 4: And I just was never ashamed of where I came from,
Speaker 4: and I'm not ashamed of my accent. Plus now I'm
Speaker 4: getting to an age where I think I'm too tired
Speaker 4: to change things. I sound like my mama and she's
Speaker 4: a doll of seal and y'all would squeeze her in
Speaker 4: two and people through the years would say, is that
Speaker 4: really your accent? And people on social media go, she's
Speaker 4: faking it, And I'm like whatever, I feel like I'm authentic.
Speaker 3: This is who I am. And I think that's why
Speaker 3: these women out here feel close to me.
Speaker 2: Speaking of your mama, you sold out the grand Old Opry.
Speaker 2: I can't even imagine what that feels like. But your
Speaker 2: mom came on stage, and I know you've referenced her
Speaker 2: as the funniest person that you know, So can you
Speaker 2: take me through that moment and what that meant to you.
Speaker 4: Okay, my low Cel is eighty years old now and
Speaker 4: she had a stroke five years ago and it was
Speaker 4: a bad one and she's been handicapped ever since. But
Speaker 4: she is so darling and such a sunshine kind of
Speaker 4: person and has never complained and has been the best
Speaker 4: mama in the world. Always would tell me you're going Hollywood,
Speaker 4: Yes you are, and she would let me, honeystay out
Speaker 4: of school.
Speaker 3: I'm shaming to you all that. But when I was
Speaker 3: in kindergarten, she goes, your stunning Curt and I go in.
Speaker 3: She go, Okay, stay on.
Speaker 4: And we would watch and we would watch Hollywood Squares
Speaker 4: and stuff. But anyway, we were raised right outside of Nashville,
Speaker 4: and my little mom and daddy had a meat processing
Speaker 4: plant in a farm, and so the people that rang
Speaker 4: the grando Omprey they would do their beef every year
Speaker 4: and they would give us tickets and we were just
Speaker 4: like what And I remember going when I was little
Speaker 4: and I would say Porter Wagner and Dolly Pardon and
Speaker 4: George Jones and being raised near Dan, I mean, we
Speaker 4: were just in all of it. In the grando Oprey,
Speaker 4: which for Tennisons. We look at that and that's the
Speaker 4: big time for us. You know, that's a big deal.
Speaker 4: It's a huge history, unbelievable, you know who's walked on
Speaker 4: that stage.
Speaker 3: So when they booked me there, first of all Lucille.
Speaker 4: It was close enough for her to come with me,
Speaker 4: and my sister brought her my daddy, and she was
Speaker 4: so proud of me, and it was her birthday, and
Speaker 4: so we got her a cake and all that, and
Speaker 4: I thought, we've got to take her out on stage
Speaker 4: and sing Heavy Birthday to her. We rolled her out
Speaker 4: in a whelchair and then people sang Heavy Birthday to
Speaker 4: her and she let up.
Speaker 3: She loved it. But I think what was supposed to special.
Speaker 4: My audience has been watching her journey from having a stroke,
Speaker 4: and when all this was going on during COVID and
Speaker 4: all that, people were praying for her. People would send
Speaker 4: me blankets for her. So I swear it was like
Speaker 4: everybody had known Lucille all their lives. It was crazy.
Speaker 4: And I watched that video and I could bowl my
Speaker 4: eyes down. I wish that she could go everywhere with me,
Speaker 4: because she would die over what I'd get to see
Speaker 4: and do.
Speaker 3: But I always tell her everything. I mean, I make
Speaker 3: sure she knows everything everywhere I am.
Speaker 2: I moved from Chicago to LA in twenty thirteen. I
Speaker 2: was from a suburb and I just remember feeling like
Speaker 2: I must have come from the middle of nowhere, because
Speaker 2: like everything was so shocking to me, from the way
Speaker 2: that people did business to like both good and bad.
Speaker 2: You know, Like I just was so shocked by it all.
Speaker 2: You didn't have a mentor you didn't have a track,
Speaker 2: like you just muscled all of this. And I'm wondering
Speaker 2: now if there's a piece of advice that you wish
Speaker 2: you would have heard when you first started out.
Speaker 3: Is there something you wish you would have known.
Speaker 4: I'm honest to goodness, I wish that I had understood.
Speaker 3: And I know this sounds arrogant. I don't mean to it,
Speaker 3: but I think it's in I think people women need
Speaker 3: to hear it.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize how smart I was. I didn't realize
Speaker 4: how I knew what I was doing.
Speaker 3: I built this.
Speaker 4: I've basically built this myself, and I look back on
Speaker 4: it now and I think I wish I could tell
Speaker 4: my seventeen year old self, you are smart, you can
Speaker 4: do this, you can you do anything you want to.
Speaker 4: Back then, I don't know what I was thinking. I thought,
Speaker 4: I've got to have a manion. I've got it, and
Speaker 4: I wanted to man and get married and all that,
Speaker 4: but I just didn't have confidence in myself. And when
Speaker 4: I say smart, I mean people smart, like I don't
Speaker 4: mean book smart.
Speaker 3: But I understand. I think I've got a high emotional
Speaker 3: I que.
Speaker 4: I have watched what other people have done, people that
Speaker 4: are successful, people that are not successful in this business.
Speaker 4: And I've networked and I've made relationships with people that
Speaker 4: have helped me, and I'm go, can you give me
Speaker 4: your advice? And they felt like they were kind of
Speaker 4: on this ride with me and they wanted to help me.
Speaker 4: And I tell my kids all the time, because I
Speaker 4: think their generation, they don't want to ask for help
Speaker 4: or they're embarrassed, and I say, you've got to ask
Speaker 4: people and listen to what people are saying and learn
Speaker 4: from people.
Speaker 1: We've got to talk about the person who connected all
Speaker 1: of us, and that is Reese Witherspoon, the founder of
Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine, also the executive producer and star of the
Speaker 1: new film You're Cordially invited, and she actually asked you
Speaker 1: to play her older sister in the film. First of all,
Speaker 1: I got to hear your reaction to that. That must
Speaker 1: have been so mind blowing. And then what's your favorite
Speaker 1: memory on set with her?
Speaker 3: Can y'all believe it? I just started to get a
Speaker 3: little tracks. And after that video went viral and my
Speaker 3: friend Hugh, who's good friends with Rees, took me to
Speaker 3: an after CMA's party with Reba McIntyre and all these
Speaker 3: big stars. Nobody knew who I was, and I was.
Speaker 4: In an uncomfortable shoe and I fluffed up my hair
Speaker 4: and tried to act like somebody in Little Rece Witherspoon.
Speaker 4: He introduced me to her and I said, I was
Speaker 4: very intimidated. Her little big eyes looked up at me
Speaker 4: and I said, my mama was sick and mama just
Speaker 4: gotten sick.
Speaker 3: And she goes, what what is happened?
Speaker 4: And she held on to me and looked into my eyes,
Speaker 4: made eye contact with me and wanted to know how
Speaker 4: my mama was doing.
Speaker 3: And I just thought that was so sweet. Then during
Speaker 3: COVID all that hit, she started following me a message
Speaker 3: of me and she would say, when you.
Speaker 4: Tell everybody that everything's going to be all right Land,
Speaker 4: it's helping people keep doing it.
Speaker 3: So she started encouraging.
Speaker 1: Me doing that.
Speaker 4: Not my heart and beat out in my body every
Speaker 4: time I opened up a message from her.
Speaker 3: But that little thing did that for me and wanted
Speaker 3: me to have that.
Speaker 4: And so I was on tour and I was in
Speaker 4: Pennsylvania doing a casino that Janny Jackson had just gone.
Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of Janny Jameson, and I got
Speaker 4: a call and they said, Reese, Witherspoon and Wilfarell want
Speaker 4: you to do a table read. And I said, what's
Speaker 4: a table read? I had no idea, and so I thought, well,
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm gonna get the part on
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. And then I got it,
Speaker 4: and I was like, what in the world. And then
Speaker 4: I got on that set. I had no idea what
Speaker 4: was happening. That little thing wanted to see me when
Speaker 4: everybody on that set then, but I was standing next
Speaker 4: to her, you know, a star, and I just couldn't
Speaker 4: even believe it. And then by the end of it,
Speaker 4: we would be standing next to each other and I'd say,
Speaker 4: you know, I can't poop and she said, you.
Speaker 3: Need to up your magnesium. Lame in.
Speaker 4: How much magnesium are you taking? I go, I'm taking
Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty milligrads. Well you've got to double it.
Speaker 4: I doubled my magnesium. I've been fine ever since. So anyway,
Speaker 4: we just all and get lay uped and giggled and
Speaker 4: had a ball, and then I got to tell y'all after.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was the best experience I've ever had.
Speaker 3: And I had a ball.
Speaker 1: It's time for another quick break. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: with Leanne Morgan, and we're back to our conversation with
Speaker 1: Leanne Morgan. Leanne, you're very open about aging and your material,
Speaker 1: and it's honestly, it's some of my favorite parts of
Speaker 1: your comedy, Like when you say you'd like to dance
Speaker 1: but not too hard because you don't want people to
Speaker 1: see you jiggle. What are the funniest parts of growing older?
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know if you'd call it funny. I'm
Speaker 4: telling you things you start happening to you and you're like,
Speaker 4: what in the world. And my girls are twenty six
Speaker 4: and twenty eight and they're my best friends and they
Speaker 4: will ride with me and they're like, mom, I don't
Speaker 4: think you can drive well anymore?
Speaker 3: Can you say? I go no, one can't say.
Speaker 4: And people would tell me years ago, they go, just
Speaker 4: wait till you go through menopause.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have so much material.
Speaker 4: And I just felt like that was four hundred years
Speaker 4: away and it was never gonna happen to me. And
Speaker 4: then I thought, oh, I'll be able to I could
Speaker 4: have fifteen kids, and I'll be able to get pregnant
Speaker 4: for the rest of my life. I always just thought
Speaker 4: of myself as Mother Earth. And then they told me
Speaker 4: I did I populate in my fifties. I got to
Speaker 4: tell ye old Land, and I was very proud of that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Leanne, how open are you with your daughters about
Speaker 2: all of the changes? And I'm asking because my mom
Speaker 2: will call me to tell me updates on any change
Speaker 2: that's happening with her. Sometimes things I don't want to
Speaker 2: hear about, but she says to me that I have
Speaker 2: to listen because one day it's going to happen to me,
Speaker 2: and she's preparing me.
Speaker 4: Yes, and been thankful baby, because nobody told us, nobody
Speaker 4: told us, nobody talked about it. Yes, I tell them
Speaker 4: every horrible thing and then my and my baby channel
Speaker 4: travels with me as my professional make award is.
Speaker 3: She'll just say, and I hate to even say this
Speaker 3: in rental omis do you smell like hey? And I'm like.
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 3: She goes, yeah, girl, you smell all like hey. And
Speaker 3: then we just bust out laughing what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: I mean, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: But we are so.
Speaker 4: Close and travel and tour and she's with me all
Speaker 4: the time, and they're Daddy, you know, doesn't like to
Speaker 4: spend money, and he's always in my ear. I can
Speaker 4: hear him when I'm traveling and saying, eat the Continental breakfast,
Speaker 4: don't go to Panera and spend money.
Speaker 3: And so I make her stay in the room with me.
Speaker 4: And she's twenty six years old, and we try to
Speaker 4: get queens. Sometimes we have just won a king and
Speaker 4: then we spun.
Speaker 2: Have a question about your girls. They have seen all
Speaker 2: of this. They were young when you started your career,
Speaker 2: and now they're all grown up. They've seen every iteration
Speaker 2: of this. How do you talk to them about following
Speaker 2: their dreams?
Speaker 4: I tell my girls and I tell my boy, I go,
Speaker 4: you get one time on this earth, and whatever you
Speaker 4: dreamed of when you were little, whatever you loved when
Speaker 4: you were little. I believe this whatever sets you on
Speaker 4: fire and gained you that that you wanted to follow that.
Speaker 3: I agree. I don't know what that is. Y'all got
Speaker 3: to find that. I out, but I go. Don't let
Speaker 3: people kill your dreams.
Speaker 4: And I tell them that lately all the time you
Speaker 4: get one time around this thing, Let's give it everything
Speaker 4: we've got.
Speaker 3: I want you to live your best life. I want
Speaker 3: you to live your best best life.
Speaker 2: All right, Leanne, thank you so much for bringing your
Speaker 2: realness and your hilarity to the right side.
Speaker 3: Oh my darling, thank you for having me. Y'all are
Speaker 3: both precious.
Speaker 1: Leanne Morgan is a comedian and author. Her book What
Speaker 1: in the World is out now, and you can watch
Speaker 1: her special I'm every Woman on Netflix.
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