Speaker 1: What in the world happened? One minute, we're enjoying summer,
Speaker 1: and the next poof, it's September and it's all back
Speaker 1: to school this and back to routines that. Whoo this year,
Speaker 1: I was not ready. Well, okay, part of me was ready.
Speaker 1: The part that wanted board kids to stop pastering me
Speaker 1: was ready. The part that wanted to be able to
Speaker 1: go a day without the ac running at full tilt
Speaker 1: was ready. The part that wanted to feel fully hydrated
Speaker 1: again after months of parched lips and alligator skin. That
Speaker 1: part was ready. But the other part, the other part
Speaker 1: of me, wanted nothing to do with this new change
Speaker 1: in the weather. You know, the part that loves to
Speaker 1: sip a cup of iced tea on the porch at
Speaker 1: midnight while it's still warm outside. The part that wandered
Speaker 1: the gardens anytime of the day and found something to do,
Speaker 1: some weeds to pulls, something to pick, something to snack on.
Speaker 1: That was healthy. The part that watched my children crow
Speaker 1: over some new delight and grow right before my eyes.
Speaker 1: That part of me, that part of me was a
Speaker 1: little sad to see summer fading into the background and
Speaker 1: fall waiting eagerly in the wings to take its place.
Speaker 1: But change. Change is inevitable, isn't it. Today's guest knows that,
Speaker 1: and she knows how to find the humor in it all.
Speaker 1: After discovering her passion for stand up comedy later in
Speaker 1: life and finding the time and confidence to pursue her dream,
Speaker 1: Leanne Morgan has cemented herself as a must watch comedian.
Speaker 1: You've seen her write that tall, beautiful, blonde woman who's
Speaker 1: all over our social media feeds, talking in her little
Speaker 1: Southern drawl about marriage, menopause, the miracle of raising children,
Speaker 1: and throwing back to when he thyroid worked and she
Speaker 1: wore itty bitty bridges. I adore her, I love her.
Speaker 1: I love her sense of humor. And she has a
Speaker 1: great backstory too. This Tennessee beauty felt the call of
Speaker 1: Hollywood when she was young, but it seemed out of
Speaker 1: reach for the country girl that she was, so she
Speaker 1: went off to college. She graduated, She got married. She
Speaker 1: moved to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains to Bean Station, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: to start a family. To stay busy. After having her
Speaker 1: first baby, Leanne began selling jewelry at home parties. She
Speaker 1: was supposed to talk about the jewelry, but instead entertained
Speaker 1: her customers with banter about breastfeeding, hemorrhoids, and being a mama.
Speaker 1: They thought she was hilarious, and before she knew it,
Speaker 1: she was one popular jewelry party hostess who was booked
Speaker 1: a year in advance. The jewelry company saw what was
Speaker 1: happening and asked her to speak at their sales rallies.
Speaker 1: It was there that people started saying, you need to
Speaker 1: do stand up, and so she did. When the family
Speaker 1: moved to San Antonio in two thousand and one, Leanne
Speaker 1: finally had access to comedy clubs and that is when
Speaker 1: her career really got underway. We're going to catch up
Speaker 1: with Leanne Morgan today and I wore my big pennies,
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Speaker 1: Love Someone, Leanne Y, Thank y'all for having me, Thank
Speaker 1: you for agreeing to do this. Oh my word, you
Speaker 1: are my uh Leanne Morgan. Let me introduce you to
Speaker 1: our audience. First is with me on Love Someone Today,
Speaker 1: and you are the someone I love about three o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning. You know when when your body's like,
Speaker 1: I'm so tired, and your brain's like, oh no, there's
Speaker 1: something we must think about, and I'm like, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: shutting my brain off so that I can laugh. And
Speaker 1: I have been known to wake up other people in
Speaker 1: the house watching your videos, Leanne Morgan, cause you make
Speaker 1: me laugh.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for saying that. You angel, and
Speaker 2: you just describe what I do every night. I go
Speaker 2: at to bed and then wake up in the middle
Speaker 2: of the night and think of all the things that
Speaker 2: I need to do, could have done, should have done.
Speaker 1: Oh my word, you have burst upon the scene. I
Speaker 1: know you've been doing this for years because I've found
Speaker 1: videos from when your kids were younger, But it's like
Speaker 1: God has just smiled on you and the whole world
Speaker 1: is discovering how freaking funny you are. Just talking about life.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dela. Well. I started when my baby child
Speaker 2: was eighteen months old. I started calling myself a comedian.
Speaker 2: She's twenty five. And I've done every horrible gig you
Speaker 2: can imagine. I've had good times and bad times and
Speaker 2: ups and downs, and then I was just about to
Speaker 2: let it go, and this thing blew up in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Boy, has it blown up. How does it feel to
Speaker 1: be a rising star that's on the tips of everybody's
Speaker 1: tongue while you're talking about the fact that your thyroid
Speaker 1: is kicked out?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's just crazy. It has been crazy.
Speaker 2: And every day I think, what in the world I
Speaker 2: really do? Every day is a blessing and a surprise
Speaker 2: and I just cannot believe it. And I always thought
Speaker 2: this would happen for me. I feel like God revealed
Speaker 2: that to me when I was a child. I know
Speaker 2: he did. I mean I would say to my mom
Speaker 2: and daddy and my grandmama and everybody, I go, I'm
Speaker 2: going to go to Hollywood. I'm going to be a
Speaker 2: movie star. I'm going to be in show business. And
Speaker 2: they would go, you know, And I was from the country,
Speaker 2: five hundred people, and they would just look at me.
Speaker 2: And I look back on it, and I know they thought,
Speaker 2: what that little kook.
Speaker 1: But anyway, you weren't exactly a little koop. Honey. How
Speaker 1: tall are you?
Speaker 2: Well? I'm five eight and I had a show last
Speaker 2: night at the rum And in Nashville, and somebody said
Speaker 2: to me, you ling, and you talk like you're a giant.
Speaker 2: You're over six feet tall and you're not. And I go,
Speaker 2: I know, but I'm always I feel like I've always
Speaker 2: got little women next to me coming right up under
Speaker 2: my brias. I'm just getting taller and bigger, and my
Speaker 2: hands are feet bigger.
Speaker 1: Our mom was over six feet tall. She was a giant,
Speaker 1: a true giant. Yeah, but she had a giant of
Speaker 1: a personality too. And I think that's what takes you
Speaker 1: from five eight to six eight, is you have such
Speaker 1: a big, fun personality.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you, my darling. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Tell us about your family. You got, you got babies
Speaker 1: that are growing or grown.
Speaker 2: I've got three children that my boys just turned thirty.
Speaker 1: And he's the one that, as you describe him, go
Speaker 1: ahead and tell our audience.
Speaker 2: He's an old soul from now Evan.
Speaker 1: It's the yummy that I love when.
Speaker 2: You yummy, yummy, yummy, and our little Billy Graham and
Speaker 2: I hate I've put that burden on him because he's
Speaker 2: had to pray over all of us. But she is
Speaker 2: also he has been like a little old man all
Speaker 2: his life. Has had a garden since Susan's sixth grade
Speaker 2: and from heaven. He's a wonderful danny and husband. He's
Speaker 2: got my two grand babies. I've got two grandsons that
Speaker 2: are a little over two and a half and a
Speaker 2: new baby that was born in May.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 2: That has been magical. Oh my gosh, we've had a
Speaker 2: ball with those babies. And then my girls are twenty
Speaker 2: seven and twenty five.
Speaker 1: Now has your daughter in law because I heard one
Speaker 1: of your routines when she was pregnant with the first
Speaker 1: one talking about my baby, this was her baby. Has
Speaker 1: she realized yet that it's actually your you and your
Speaker 1: husband's baby and she just has the privilege of raising it.
Speaker 2: Yes, she realizes that these are our babies. But let
Speaker 2: me tell you, she is thankful because we lave twenty
Speaker 2: minutes from Lamb and when I send that Netflix special,
Speaker 2: that was true. They just let those babies off in
Speaker 2: the yard and we get them anytime we want them,
Speaker 2: and we've got cribs and honey, we're on fire. I
Speaker 2: keep apple sauce pouches.
Speaker 1: I have a daughter that has four and she lives
Speaker 1: on my property, so she really does let them out
Speaker 1: in the yard. They just run over to Nana's house.
Speaker 1: But my biological daughter, she's like, she still believes they're hers, Like,
Speaker 1: what's up with that? Because I still have very young children.
Speaker 1: I tell people this, and it's true. My daughter has
Speaker 1: helped me be a much better parent watching her parent
Speaker 1: her kids, Yes, watching how patient she is. I really
Speaker 1: feel like a menial hag.
Speaker 2: Okay that I just received that. And I am going
Speaker 2: through this thing where I watch my boie and his
Speaker 2: wife parent and they are doing such a wonderful job
Speaker 2: and they are so patient, and I feel like, did
Speaker 2: me and Chuck Morgan just run through the house screaming
Speaker 2: I did? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Patience gone it? Never I can't say it's gone. I
Speaker 1: never had it.
Speaker 2: I never had it. Well, I feel like I was
Speaker 2: such a good mama. And then I look at them
Speaker 2: and I apologize to all of them all the time.
Speaker 2: I go, I am what did I say? Because now
Speaker 2: I've got in my new hour. I'm working on my
Speaker 2: new hour, you know, on my new tour, one hundred
Speaker 2: city tour, because I did the Big Penny Tour, and
Speaker 2: then I shot the Netflix special and now I have another.
Speaker 2: And I talk about the things I said to my
Speaker 2: little children that I shouldn't have said, like judgmental things
Speaker 2: about people, talk about people, honey. Well, and I'll just
Speaker 2: tell you what it was. My mental child. She would
Speaker 2: ask me about she was worried about people's salvation. And
Speaker 2: she said, Mommy, when she was a little bitty thing, Mommy,
Speaker 2: do you think Johnny Cash is going to Heaven? And
Speaker 2: I go, yes, I do. I think Johnny Cash's gonna
Speaker 2: go to have a hand gin or out spreading the
Speaker 2: gospel with Billy Grant. Then she asked me about Jane Love,
Speaker 2: and I think I said, to a little innocent child,
Speaker 2: you know what, I think she could mature spiritually, I
Speaker 2: really tell And I think I was going through a
Speaker 2: hard time myself and I was judging beautiful Jane Low
Speaker 2: and I think what it was is I had gone
Speaker 2: up a size in my pants. That'll do it, that'll
Speaker 2: do it, that'll do it.
Speaker 1: I felt so good yesterday, and I was being so
Speaker 1: sweet in the morning because I put on some shorts
Speaker 1: I hadn't been able to wear in a long time,
Speaker 1: and I was so proud of myself. And then I
Speaker 1: used the restroom and I looked at the size in them,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what what? Then I was grumpy again.
Speaker 2: I did you want? I had a bikini wax yesterday
Speaker 2: because I'm going to the beach with my little grandchildren
Speaker 2: and I didn't want to frighten them, and I went
Speaker 2: and got a bikini wag and a young girl. I thought,
Speaker 2: that little thing is not going to be able to
Speaker 2: go on. And I said, isn't there like a paper
Speaker 2: pair of pennies or a thong? Because not just take
Speaker 2: everything off from the waist down and get on that table.
Speaker 2: It was like surgical lights. I mean it was a sight.
Speaker 2: I've never felt so vulnerable in all of my life.
Speaker 2: And I thought, what has happened to me? There was
Speaker 2: a mirror in there. I thought, what has happened to me?
Speaker 2: I tell you what, I think My body has changed again.
Speaker 2: You know it changes all the time, but now at
Speaker 2: fifty I'll be fifty eight in October. I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm shaped like those people from Whovill. I feel like that,
Speaker 2: you remember in the Grinch. I've got like a stomach
Speaker 2: and then little bitty wags my legs. They used to
Speaker 2: be so jiggly, and you know at they all they're
Speaker 2: getting smaller, and my stomach is getting bigger. And I
Speaker 2: say to my girl girls, I go, oh, no, mom,
Speaker 2: you look at your little eggs, And I go, but
Speaker 2: is it like the people in Whovale.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm an egg on stilts. I have always been
Speaker 1: an egg on stilts. I'm a very tall egg on stilts.
Speaker 1: That's my body's hype.
Speaker 2: Honey, I'm sorry, I'm not steel vail.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's all yours.
Speaker 2: That's funny. Well, I had a big fanny. I guess
Speaker 2: it's still big. I don't know, but I don't know what.
Speaker 2: I don't know what my shape. I need to come
Speaker 2: up with something that's similar to egg on the stealt
Speaker 2: got me think it.
Speaker 1: Getting old is weird because our spirits never age. Our
Speaker 1: spirits are eternal, they never atee And my personality is
Speaker 1: never matured. You know, I think I peaked at tenth grade.
Speaker 1: Ninth or tenth grade is when I peaked emotionally.
Speaker 2: Oh, my darling near fun. That's what you are. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm doing for fun? I get a spray tanging.
Speaker 2: We would like that. I was telling somebody last night,
Speaker 2: I go he's still got a luttists on shrum and
Speaker 2: but it's it also made him be a good hunter
Speaker 2: and gatherer. It really has you know, he's competitive and
Speaker 2: thanked the Lord for him because he took care of
Speaker 2: us so that I could get out here and try
Speaker 2: to make it.
Speaker 1: And now do you get to take care of him?
Speaker 1: Have you like gone on a cruise or anything fun?
Speaker 1: Have you spoiled him after your Netflix special?
Speaker 2: Not yet. We bought a I've been too busy. We
Speaker 2: bought these babies grand babies, a big playground, one of
Speaker 2: those nice ones where they as somebody actually puts it
Speaker 2: up for you. You don't buy it kmart and that you
Speaker 2: know is not leveled to the ground. We bought that.
Speaker 2: That's our big purchase we've made. But now we have
Speaker 2: not gone anywhere. Nifty. He'll go with me if I'm
Speaker 2: with the win in Las Vegas or somewhere like that.
Speaker 2: But he's still working a big job and is really
Speaker 2: kind of what's happening in my career is kind of
Speaker 2: what's happened in his career. He is running president of
Speaker 2: a huge division that it's just crazy. It's kind of
Speaker 2: the same thing that's happened in my career and at
Speaker 2: the top. And he's very busy, and I'm so proud
Speaker 2: of him. And it's good because he's not used to
Speaker 2: me being gone. He's used to me being the mama.
Speaker 2: I took care of everything.
Speaker 1: Is he at home with the dogs? Is he taking
Speaker 1: care of the dolls.
Speaker 2: With the dogs? He's traveling some, but he's at home
Speaker 2: with the dogs. And he said the other day, we
Speaker 2: need dog food. And I said, I'm not the mama anymore.
Speaker 2: You got to go get the dog food. I'm kind
Speaker 2: of Beyonce Chuck.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you a secret is Amazon delivers. You
Speaker 1: just put it on on once a month. The dog
Speaker 1: food shows up at the door. You don't have to
Speaker 1: pick it up. It's not the bringer right to your door.
Speaker 2: Well, they do the fresh pet kind of stuff. Oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know about that, because we get the we
Speaker 2: get the Hord dog food, but mine or Picky Minor
Speaker 2: bgeles and they've got to eat in disorder Delilah. So
Speaker 2: they like to have a little fresh well, I may.
Speaker 1: I live on a farm, so I get fresh eggs.
Speaker 1: And yesterday I froze twelve bags of four cups each
Speaker 1: of shredded zucchini so that in the winter we can
Speaker 1: have zucchini bread or zucchini muffins. And you know, I
Speaker 1: gutted them and you take the seeds out of the middle.
Speaker 1: So I just fried that up in some bacon fat.
Speaker 1: And that's what my dogs had with their kibbles last night.
Speaker 1: So they're a little spoiled.
Speaker 2: You're running a farm and you've got chickens, and you've
Speaker 2: been growing zucchini, and you're painting and making stuff out
Speaker 2: of paper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and doing a little radio show. That's that's why
Speaker 1: I say I make messes wherever I go, because I'll
Speaker 1: be doing one thing. I'll be out yesterday picking cucumbers,
Speaker 1: picking zucchinis, and then all of a sudden, my son
Speaker 1: comes running out and says, mom, Mom, I forgot to
Speaker 1: tell you we have an open house because school's starting,
Speaker 1: you know. And here I am in my what I
Speaker 1: thought were size twelve shorts, but clearly worse. So I
Speaker 1: had to run in and change real quick, because you know,
Speaker 1: you can't go to the school with your breeches open
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh my lord, Delilah, you and my boy would
Speaker 2: be best friends. Where are so you're farming? I don't know.
Speaker 2: You don't have to tell me your location. But you know,
Speaker 2: my people are farming people. And my mama had a
Speaker 2: garden all my life. We killed her own beef. My
Speaker 2: family had their own well, we ran a meat processing plant.
Speaker 2: We did everybody's home killing.
Speaker 1: So you would fit right in at my farm. When
Speaker 1: you're finished being Beyonce, you got to come and hang
Speaker 1: out at my farm.
Speaker 2: I would love to.
Speaker 1: We got a dozen chickens. We got a butcher in
Speaker 1: the next few weeks.
Speaker 2: Oh my lord, let me ask real quick, Delilah, how
Speaker 2: do you have this energy? My darling? I know that
Speaker 2: you're not on dough or Dexa trim. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: But my sister and my mom and I were on that,
Speaker 1: just like you and your mom were. No. No, my
Speaker 1: energy comes from the fact that I believe. You know,
Speaker 1: I said, our souls are eternal, our spirits are eternal,
Speaker 1: and I just refuse to believe that my body is aging.
Speaker 1: I refuse it. I cancel that out. I try not
Speaker 1: to have any well lit mirrors. The secrets of feeling
Speaker 1: good is don't look at the side, cut the tags
Speaker 1: out of your clothes so you don't see the size,
Speaker 1: and don't have any well lit mirrors, you know, in
Speaker 1: the bedroom of the bathroom, and you feel much younger.
Speaker 2: Well okay, but it just seems like you're doing a
Speaker 2: lot and you got canst little children still at home
Speaker 2: and going to school.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. My oldest bio son turns thirty nine this month,
Speaker 1: but my youngest, my youngest is going into second grade.
Speaker 1: I will be working forever the lull Remember the jarraitoal
Speaker 1: commercials they used to do. Remember when what was the
Speaker 1: what was the talk show host Larry King when he
Speaker 1: was doing the squatty potty commercials.
Speaker 2: I need a squatty potty, but I can't take that
Speaker 2: on tour.
Speaker 1: Do you take a tour bus on your tour or
Speaker 1: do you just go to airport after airport, after airport,
Speaker 1: go to.
Speaker 2: Airport after airport after airport. We've looked at a bus,
Speaker 2: but I've got the best touring team that they know
Speaker 2: that I'm fifty eight years old, about to turn fifty eight,
Speaker 2: and they really try to rout me to where it's
Speaker 2: not hard. It's not as hard, and I don't need
Speaker 2: a bus, and you know, it just doesn't make sense
Speaker 2: for me right now, but it sounds nifty. And I
Speaker 2: would love to have a toilet and a little refrigerator
Speaker 2: and maybe somebody could put some food in it that
Speaker 2: I could feel better on instead of me getting out
Speaker 2: here and eat white flower and hungar and you know,
Speaker 2: eat my emotions. But they're adding so many shows because
Speaker 2: I'm selling Wale. Thank the Lord, I get to stay
Speaker 2: in a city longer and so I can rest more.
Speaker 1: We need to get you a residency in Vegas where
Speaker 1: you can stay for like a month or two and
Speaker 1: folks can come to you. That's what we need to do,
Speaker 1: because you are freaking hysterical. Leanne Morgan. Anybody who has
Speaker 1: not seen her look her up. You can. You're on
Speaker 1: every social media platform now. You're brilliant.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Delaana.
Speaker 1: It is in a blandly You just take everyday life
Speaker 1: and you shine a light on the stuff that most
Speaker 1: of us are embarrassed to openly. Well, I'm not because
Speaker 1: I'm not embarrassed about anything. I have no filter. You
Speaker 1: may have noticed that, but other people in.
Speaker 2: My life and I get it, honey, and I dig it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because clearly I've seen your big panty tour. You
Speaker 1: got no filter. I love that. But you make me smile,
Speaker 1: you make me laugh out loud.
Speaker 2: Is that wonderful to have that big belly laugh? And
Speaker 2: thank you for saying that. If you're getting that from me,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: You give me big bell when you talk about your
Speaker 1: dogs up on your bed, when you're when you went
Speaker 1: through your depression, when your baby's left home.
Speaker 2: I go through that.
Speaker 1: And my darling daughter lives thirty minutes away, forty minutes away,
Speaker 1: and I miss her like she's in Istanbul.
Speaker 2: I know, I know it is. I took to the
Speaker 2: bed every time somebody went off to college and they
Speaker 2: all live near me. And my baby as a makeup artist,
Speaker 2: and she travels with me, and she deserves to have
Speaker 2: her own life, and I know that.
Speaker 1: But but she's your baby and she needs to travel
Speaker 1: with you and be with you.
Speaker 2: Yes, she's got other opportunities, and I just go I
Speaker 2: still pull her back.
Speaker 1: Yeah. She halla's turning twenty nine, and at least once
Speaker 1: or twice a month, I say when are you coming home?
Speaker 1: She's like, mom, I have a family, you know, a fiance,
Speaker 1: is brother in law, two kids, a dog, two cats.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I know, but you need to come home.
Speaker 2: Oh I know, I know. I've talked to mine girls
Speaker 2: several times this morning, But are they not the best
Speaker 2: friends that you've ever hang in?
Speaker 1: Yes? I heard people say it, but I couldn't really
Speaker 1: understand how awesome it is to have your children grow
Speaker 1: up and you fall in love with the adults they are.
Speaker 1: I mean, when they're kids, you love them because they're
Speaker 1: so dang cute and you just love them. But when
Speaker 1: they're young adults and their personalities and their values and
Speaker 1: their snarky sense of humor and all that comes out,
Speaker 1: I'm like, how is it that I ended up with
Speaker 1: the most amazing human beings being my children?
Speaker 2: I know I feel the same way. And we're we're
Speaker 2: going to go to the beach together and that's the
Speaker 2: best thing, or the mountains or wherever we go, and
Speaker 2: we just sit around and we cook and we laugh,
Speaker 2: and I really enjoy them. I'm enjoying this time in
Speaker 2: my life with them.
Speaker 1: Are they loving having a mom that's a superstar?
Speaker 2: They are really enjoying it. And it took them a
Speaker 2: while to figure out what was going on, and people
Speaker 2: have interviewed them and they all say, well, you know
Speaker 2: when she was before this all happened, but I've always
Speaker 2: done comedy and been a stand up and they said
Speaker 2: she always put us first, and we knew she was
Speaker 2: doing that, but it just didn't you know. She always
Speaker 2: had us at school and did all of that, and
Speaker 2: really I was doing gigs but they weren't that demanding.
Speaker 2: But anyway, now, I mean they're like, they just think
Speaker 2: it's so fun. A lot of them travel with me,
Speaker 2: you know, back and forth, and if there's somebody they
Speaker 2: want to meet, they get to meet them, and they
Speaker 2: are really enjoying it. And they know I'm tired, and
Speaker 2: they go, girl, you're gonna have to exercise and take
Speaker 2: care of the staff. They tell me what today, but
Speaker 2: I need them to tell me today. But their Danny
Speaker 2: was the one that was It took him longer to
Speaker 2: figure out what was going on, and he kept saying, well,
Speaker 2: this could end tomorrow. Well, this could end tomorrow, don't
Speaker 2: you know. Don't do anything.
Speaker 1: Crazy, don't do anything crazy, don't order don't order a
Speaker 1: swing with that place at because this could end tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to end tomorrow, Lane Morgan.
Speaker 1: I think your star is rising. But I think that
Speaker 1: amazing things are going to happen because you just you
Speaker 1: bring laughter and light and love to a lot of us.
Speaker 1: And I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Oh Bella, Well, thank you for saying that, you angel,
Speaker 2: thank you. Well, there's one you know. Every day it's
Speaker 2: like I say, it's something wonderful happening and I can't
Speaker 2: even believe it, but I'm having them all.
Speaker 1: So who's the most famous person that you had no
Speaker 1: idea that they were up at three am like me
Speaker 1: watching your videos laughing out loud, like have you met
Speaker 1: anybody that you just thought the world of? And then
Speaker 1: they're like, oh my god, I love your routines, I
Speaker 1: love your Netflix special.
Speaker 2: Oh the head. Well, Tricia Earwood is coming to my
Speaker 2: show tonight. I've never met her, and they said she's
Speaker 2: a huge frien.
Speaker 1: I love her well.
Speaker 2: I had a bit about her about her chicken pacata.
Speaker 2: I think her cook book was the best cookbook I've
Speaker 2: ever had, her first cookbook. My children love chicken pacotta,
Speaker 2: Trisha Earwoods. And then they'll say, can I have that
Speaker 2: for my birthday? And I make it and I did
Speaker 2: a bit about that, and I think somebody must have
Speaker 2: sent that to her. So I'm excited about meeting her tonight.
Speaker 2: But did you know that I did a movie with
Speaker 2: Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell When Where It'll come out
Speaker 2: in about a year. It wrapped before that all that
Speaker 2: sag after a strike happened, and Honey, that you talking
Speaker 2: about something coming out of the heavens and going what
Speaker 2: in the world. Reese Weathers and I met right before
Speaker 2: COVID and she started following me during the pandemic and
Speaker 2: I was doing back porch videos with no makeup bone.
Speaker 2: I looked like a pi chay bird and I was
Speaker 2: just talking about making jello, selling for my little mom
Speaker 2: and Danny and Chicken cash role. And she would message
Speaker 2: me and say, because I would always end up with
Speaker 2: saying everything's going to be all right, and she said,
Speaker 2: you're helping land, You're helping people. Keep doing that, and
Speaker 2: my heart beat out of my body. I think little
Speaker 2: Breeese Withspoon and then Honey, that little things from Tennessee
Speaker 2: and wants to lift up women, and I guess lift
Speaker 2: up Tennessee girls. And she I think she was the
Speaker 2: one that said I want her to read from my
Speaker 2: big sister. And I did a table read and Los
Speaker 2: Angeles thought I was gonna faint. Had never done anything
Speaker 2: like that before in my life. When they said they
Speaker 2: want you to do a table read, I go, what's
Speaker 2: a table read? I had no idea? And anyway, I
Speaker 2: got that part. And we wrapped that thing this early
Speaker 2: summer before that strike happened, and it'll come out in
Speaker 2: a year.
Speaker 1: What's it called. What's it called?
Speaker 2: It's called You're cordially Invited?
Speaker 1: How fine?
Speaker 2: A wacky like just a wacky movie. And we laughed,
Speaker 2: and I mean we had a ball. We laughed until
Speaker 2: we were weak all day long, every day and it
Speaker 2: was so Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon. I'm like, what
Speaker 2: I mean? That has been crazy. There's been several people
Speaker 2: that I thought they know who I am. I tell
Speaker 2: you because I've never felt like one of the cool
Speaker 2: kids in the comedy industry because I was raising three
Speaker 2: babies and a kittenhell in Knoxville, Tennessee, and I was
Speaker 2: not in LA or New York, and I never felt
Speaker 2: like I was part of you know, Comedy Central and
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. And to hear like other
Speaker 2: comedians in the business that like John Mulaney say I
Speaker 2: loved your special. I'm like what my verbig Leia, Tom Paupa,
Speaker 2: all those people, Jim Gaffick and all those people I've
Speaker 2: always admired. To get messages from them, I mean, that
Speaker 2: has been you know, validating as a comedian. As a
Speaker 2: stand up you want people to, you know, to say
Speaker 2: she's legit. That's been important for me, and people have
Speaker 2: said that because I was out there. You know, my
Speaker 2: husband had a job, a big job in Knoxville and
Speaker 2: was providing for us, and I was trying to do
Speaker 2: gigs wherever I could and raise three babies. And so
Speaker 2: it's important for me for people to think that, you know,
Speaker 2: I've got the chops and that I can do it
Speaker 2: because I've done this a long time. And then for
Speaker 2: this to happen for me at this age, I mean,
Speaker 2: in this point in my life, it could not have
Speaker 2: been any more perfect. Timing.
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Speaker 2: And I do think I and I've always done, you know,
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Speaker 2: taking care of elderly parents. When I during the pandemic,
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Speaker 1: Your honesty and your transparency is what resonates with people.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter what you're talking about. It doesn't matter, so
Speaker 1: if you're talking about your dogs or whatever. Just you
Speaker 1: have a very wonderful way of taking the mundane and
Speaker 1: pointing out the absurdity in it and making us laugh
Speaker 1: at ourselves and we've all got stuff we're going through.
Speaker 1: So thank you for that.
Speaker 2: Oh well, thank you for telling me that, Angel.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us today. Leanne. Tell me
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Speaker 2: Oh my, Darling, It's called What in the World? Because
Speaker 2: every day I go what in the world? And I'll
Speaker 2: just tell you. I wanted to tell all the horrible,
Speaker 2: sinful things I did in the eighties because if I
Speaker 2: had not been a comedian, I wanted to be a therapist.
Speaker 2: I got my degree in child family studies christis intervention counseling,
Speaker 2: and during the pandemic I should have gotten a master's Instead,
Speaker 2: I was eating. But uh, my literary agent, who is
Speaker 2: Darling Albert, who was raised in Harlan, Kentucky, said, ling In,
Speaker 2: I'd love to hear about your sin in the eighties.
Speaker 2: But he said, honey, you're not John Crawford. Gent He goes,
Speaker 2: why don't we do the first book be about funny
Speaker 2: essays and we can intro you to the world. And
Speaker 2: I go, okay, So we took out a lot of
Speaker 2: the sin. Delilah, and it is funny essays about me
Speaker 2: and these kids and they're daddy and how my story
Speaker 2: and I've had a ball doing it. Now I have
Speaker 2: said and thought I was stupid. Well i've gone through
Speaker 2: this book, I thought, you know what I really was
Speaker 2: a thing doing. But anyway, that's okay. You know, I've
Speaker 2: been washed in the blood and I'm okay. But this
Speaker 2: book is funny essays about my little children and my
Speaker 2: life and my breeches and my husband and the footheels
Speaker 2: of the Appalachia Mountains. And it's called What in the World.
Speaker 2: And I do hope that people love it and find
Speaker 2: it funny. But I also hope that they realize keep dreaming,
Speaker 2: keep doing, don't stop. You know that it's never too late.
Speaker 1: It's never too late.
Speaker 2: It's never too late.
Speaker 1: And I think in probably twenty thirty years, when you
Speaker 1: are still kicking butt and still you know, selling out shows,
Speaker 1: you'll have another message that resonates with us because you,
Speaker 1: like I said, you haven't even you're not even at
Speaker 1: the top of your game, yet your star is rising.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you to Long And I think you're one
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Speaker 1: Thank you, aren't you so glad they didn't have cell phones.
Speaker 1: Goad oh technology back when we were teenagers.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so thankful. I was an idiot. I was
Speaker 2: always up perking on somebody's property.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, ah God, I love you well, good luck,
Speaker 1: have a wonderful time on the rest of your tour.
Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out if you're going
Speaker 1: to be close to them?
Speaker 2: Go to Lynn Morgan dot com. And I've got all
Speaker 2: that social media voo doo also, But let me tell
Speaker 2: you that I'm about to announce if they don't see
Speaker 2: their city, I'm about to announce January through June of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four and where they're going to be. All
Speaker 2: new dates coming. But I've got a big fall. I
Speaker 2: might be somewhere near them this fall. But Lenmorgan dot.
Speaker 1: Com, Okay, we'll send folks there so they can come
Speaker 1: and see you and have a good belly laugh and
Speaker 1: feel so good about their little quirks because you make
Speaker 1: everything okay. It is gonna be okay.
Speaker 2: God, bless you, Thank you, God bless you you Angel
Speaker 2: and get I know, I don't know how you're getting
Speaker 2: out there with all that zucchini, but I'm Imprayance.
Speaker 1: Love You. Leanne's comedy has landed her at the prestigious
Speaker 1: Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and has brought her
Speaker 1: development deals for her own sitcom. She's garnered over two
Speaker 1: point five million followers across social media, and her popular
Speaker 1: online stand up specials So Yummy, reached over fifty million
Speaker 1: views on YouTube. Her fan base continues to grow as
Speaker 1: her oh So relatable material is about everything from being
Speaker 1: a housewife, raising children, and our changing bodies. Maybe you
Speaker 1: saw her on the Kelly Clarkson Show, The View or
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Speaker 1: Leanne cherishes spending time at home in Knoxville, Tennessee, with
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Speaker 1: And if I were you and she was coming to
Speaker 1: my town, al anywhere near my town. I'd grab a ticket,
Speaker 1: take your spouse, take your best friends, your grown up kids.
Speaker 1: I promise you will laugh yourself silly. You'll also come
Speaker 1: away from the experience with the realization that we are
Speaker 1: all in this together. There are two sides to every coin,
Speaker 1: that life is both magical and mundane and everything in between,
Speaker 1: vibrant at any age, and that finding the humor in
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Speaker 1: I hope you are too. Follows on the way, folks,
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