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 weat, to pull, 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 winter. Thyroid worked, and she wore
Speaker 1: itty bitty bridges. I adore her. I love her. I
Speaker 1: love her sense of humor. And she has a great
Speaker 1: backstory too. This Tennessee beauty felt the call of Hollywood
Speaker 1: when she was young, but it seemed out of reach
Speaker 1: for the country girl that she was, so she went
Speaker 1: off to college. She graduated, She got married. She moved
Speaker 1: to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains to Beanstation, 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 2: It was there that.
Speaker 1: People started saying, you need to do stand up, and
Speaker 1: so she did. When the family moved to San Antonio
Speaker 1: in two thousand and one, Leanne finally had access to
Speaker 1: comedy clubs, and that is when her career really got underway.
Speaker 1: We're going to catch up with Leanne Morgan today and
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Speaker 1: to Love Someone. Leanne y'all, Thank y'all for having me,
Speaker 1: Thank you for agreeing to do this. Oh my word,
Speaker 1: you are my leannmore again. 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 someone for saying that you angel, and you
Speaker 2: just describe what I do every night. I go at
Speaker 2: toabaya and then wake up in the middle of the
Speaker 2: night and think of all the things that I need
Speaker 2: 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 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 how freaking funny you are just talking
Speaker 1: about life.
Speaker 2: Thank you Delona 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 didn't. 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 coop, 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 Rhyme 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 breast. I'm just getting taller and bigger. And my
Speaker 2: hands were 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 boy 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 heaven.
Speaker 1: It's the yummy that I love.
Speaker 2: Yummy, yummy, yummy. And our little Billy Graham is what
Speaker 2: And I hate I've put that burden on him because
Speaker 2: he's had to pray over all of us. But he
Speaker 2: is also he has been like a little old man
Speaker 2: all 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, that has been magical.
Speaker 2: Gone, We've hit them all with those babies. And then
Speaker 2: my girls are twenty seven and twenty five.
Speaker 1: Now your has your daughter in law, because I heard
Speaker 1: one of your routines when she was pregnant with the
Speaker 1: first one talking about my baby. This was her baby.
Speaker 1: Has she realized yet that it's it's actually your you
Speaker 1: and your husband's baby and she just has the privilege
Speaker 1: 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 lay twenty
Speaker 2: minutes from Lamb and when I said that 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 what's up with that? Because I still have very
Speaker 1: young children. I tell people this, and it's true. My
Speaker 1: daughter has helped me be a much better parent. Watching
Speaker 1: her parent her kids, yes, watching how patient she is,
Speaker 1: I really feel like a men old hag.
Speaker 2: Okay that I just received that. And I am going
Speaker 2: through this thing where I watch my boy 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 1: I did, Yeah, patient's gone. It never I can't say
Speaker 1: it's gone. I 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 gone in my new hour. I'm working on my
Speaker 2: new hour, you know, on my new tour, a 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: tee 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 think Johnny Cash's going to
Speaker 2: go to Heaven hand gin or out spreading the gospel
Speaker 2: 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 besize in my pants. That'll do it, that'll do it,
Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 2: What what?
Speaker 1: Then I was grumpy again.
Speaker 2: Hunteen you want. I had a bikini wags yesterday because
Speaker 2: I'm going to the beach with my little grandchildren and
Speaker 2: I didn't want to frighten them, and I went and
Speaker 2: 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 now 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 is 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 about I'll be fifty eight in October. I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm shaped like those people from Whovill. I feel
Speaker 2: like that you remember in the Grinch. I've got like
Speaker 2: a stomach and then little bitty leggs. My legs they
Speaker 2: used to be so jiggly, and you know, if they all,
Speaker 2: they're getting smaller, and my stomach is getting bigger. And
Speaker 2: I say to my girls, I go, oh, no, mom,
Speaker 2: you look at your little legs. And I go, but
Speaker 2: is it like the people in whoval Well, I'm.
Speaker 1: An egg on stilts. I have always been an egg
Speaker 1: on stilts. I'm a very tall egg on stilts. That's
Speaker 1: my body type.
Speaker 2: Honey, I'm sorry, I'm gonna have steal veil.
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 a stelt.
Speaker 1: Got me think it getting old is weird because our
Speaker 1: spirits never age. Our spirits are eternal, they never atee.
Speaker 1: And my personality has never matured.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I think I peaked at tenth grade. Ninth or tenth
Speaker 1: 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 lot of tists us from.
Speaker 2: But it's also made him be a good huntering gatherer.
Speaker 2: It really hangs. You know, he's competitive, And thank the
Speaker 2: Lord for him because he took care of us so
Speaker 2: that I could get out here and try 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 them. 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 bind. It came art and
Speaker 2: that you know, it's not leveled to the ground. We
Speaker 2: bought that. That's our big purchase we've made. But now
Speaker 2: we have not gone anywhere nifty. He'll go with me
Speaker 2: if I'm at with the wind in Las Vegas or
Speaker 2: somewhere like that. But he's still working a big job
Speaker 2: and is really kind of what's happening in my career
Speaker 2: is kind of what's happened in his career. He is
Speaker 2: running president of a huge division that it's just crazy.
Speaker 2: It's kind of the same thing that's happened in my career.
Speaker 2: And he is at the top, and he's very busy,
Speaker 2: and I'm so proud of him. And it's good because
Speaker 2: he's not used to me being gone. He's used to
Speaker 2: me being the mama. I took care of everything.
Speaker 1: Is he at home with the dogs? Is he taking
Speaker 1: care of the.
Speaker 2: Dogs with the dogs, He's traveling some but he's at
Speaker 2: home with the dogs. And he said the other day,
Speaker 2: we need dog food. And I said, I'm not the
Speaker 2: mama anymore. You got to go get the dog food.
Speaker 2: I'm kind 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 They'll bring it right to
Speaker 1: your door.
Speaker 2: Well, they do the fresh pitt kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know about that, because.
Speaker 2: We get we get the hord Dull food, but Mono
Speaker 2: picky minor bangles and they've got an eight in disorder Dalala,
Speaker 2: So they like to have a little fresh.
Speaker 1: Well, I may, I live on a farm, so mine
Speaker 1: get fresh eggs. And yesterday I froze twelve bags of
Speaker 1: four cups each of shredded zucchini so that in the
Speaker 1: winter we can have zucchini bread or zucchini muffins. And
Speaker 1: you know, I gutted them and you take the seeds
Speaker 1: out of the middle. So I just fried that up
Speaker 1: in some bacon fat. And that's what my dogs had
Speaker 1: with their kibbles last night. So they're a little spoiled ella.
Speaker 2: You're running a farm and you've got chickens and you've
Speaker 2: been growing zucchini, and your painting and making stuff out
Speaker 2: of paper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and doing a little radio show. That's why. That's
Speaker 1: why I say I make messes wherever I go, because
Speaker 1: I'll 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, my 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: fought 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, Delillah, you and my bowie would
Speaker 2: be best friends. We're so you're farming, you don't have
Speaker 2: to tell me your location. But you know, my people
Speaker 2: are farming people. And my mama had a garden all
Speaker 2: my life. We killed her own beef, My family had
Speaker 2: their own we ran a meat processing plant. We did
Speaker 2: everybody's home killing.
Speaker 1: So you would fit right in at my farm. When
Speaker 1: you're finished being beyond you gotta come and hang out
Speaker 1: 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 tramp. 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 canceled 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 at 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 lot.
Speaker 2: And you got Can's little children still at home and
Speaker 2: 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 alone. Remember the Jarratol commercials
Speaker 1: they used to do. Remember when what was the what
Speaker 1: was the talk show host Larry King when he was
Speaker 1: 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 these best touring teams that they know
Speaker 2: that I'm fifty eight years old. I term 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 hunger and you know,
Speaker 2: eat my emotions. But they're adding so many shows because
Speaker 2: I'm selling well, Thank the Lord. Then I get to
Speaker 2: stay in a city longer and so I can rist 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, Delana.
Speaker 1: It is been 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 my.
Speaker 2: 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: Isn't that wonderful to have that big belly lamp? 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 went through your depression,
Speaker 1: when your baby's left home. I go through that, and
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 2: artist and she travels with me, and she deserves to
Speaker 2: have her own life and I know by it.
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 fiances,
Speaker 1: brother in law, two kids, a dog, two cats. I'm like,
Speaker 1: 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 hangd Yes?
Speaker 1: I heard people say it, but I couldn't really understand
Speaker 1: how awesome it is to have your children grow up
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 2: Being my children? I know I feel the same way.
Speaker 2: And we're going to go to the beach together and
Speaker 2: that's the best thing, or the mountains or wherever we go,
Speaker 2: and 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 going to have to exercise and
Speaker 2: take care of the staff. They tell me what today,
Speaker 2: but I need them to tell me what today. But
Speaker 2: their daddy was the one that was It took him
Speaker 2: longer to figure out what was going on, and he
Speaker 2: kept saying, well, this could end tomorrow. Well, this could
Speaker 2: end tomorrow, don't 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 act because this could end tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to end tomorrow, Lenn 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 Belln, 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 a ball.
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 their head. Well, Tricia Yearwood is coming to my
Speaker 2: show tonight. I've never met her, and they said she's
Speaker 2: a huge fan.
Speaker 1: I love her well.
Speaker 2: I had a bit about her about her chicken pacanda.
Speaker 2: I think her cookbook was the best cookbook I've ever had.
Speaker 2: Her first cookbook. My children love chicken pakada try as
Speaker 2: she here would. And then they'll say, can I have
Speaker 2: that for my birthday? And I make it? And I
Speaker 2: did a bit about that, and I think somebody must
Speaker 2: have sent that to her. So I'm excited about meeting
Speaker 2: her tonight. But did you know that I did a
Speaker 2: movie with Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell When Where it'll
Speaker 2: come out in about a year. It wrapped before all
Speaker 2: that sag after a strike happened, and honey, that you
Speaker 2: talking about something coming out of the heavens and going
Speaker 2: what in the world. Rece Witherspoon and I met right
Speaker 2: before COVID and she started following me during the pandemic,
Speaker 2: and I was doing back porch videos with no makeup
Speaker 2: bone I looked like a pig chay bird. And I
Speaker 2: was just talking about making jello, selling for my little
Speaker 2: mom and Danny and Chicken cash role. And she would
Speaker 2: message me and say, because I would always end up
Speaker 2: with saying everything's gonna 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: Breese with spoin and then Honey, that little things from
Speaker 2: Tennessee and wants to lift up women, and I guess,
Speaker 2: lift up Tennessee girls. And she I think she was
Speaker 2: the one that said I want her to read from
Speaker 2: my big sister. And I did a table read and
Speaker 2: Los Angeles thought I was gonna faint. Had never done
Speaker 2: anything like that before in my life. When they said
Speaker 2: they want you to do a table read, I go,
Speaker 2: what's a table read? I had no idea. And anyway,
Speaker 2: I got that part and we wrapped that thing this summer,
Speaker 2: this early summer before that strike happened, and it'll come
Speaker 2: out in a year.
Speaker 1: What's it called. What's it called?
Speaker 2: It's called You're cordially invaded how fine a wacky like
Speaker 2: just a wacky movie, and we laughed, and I mean
Speaker 2: we had a ball. We laughed until we were weak
Speaker 2: all day long, every day and it was so Will
Speaker 2: Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon. I'm like what I mean. That
Speaker 2: has been crazy. There's been several people that I thought
Speaker 2: they know who I am. I tell you because I've
Speaker 2: never felt like one of the cool kids in the
Speaker 2: comedy industry because I was raising three babies and a
Speaker 2: kitten heel in Knoxville, Tennessee, and I was not in
Speaker 2: La or New York, and I never felt like I
Speaker 2: was part of you know, Comedy Central and all that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. And to hear like other comedians in
Speaker 2: the business that like John Mullaney say I loved your special,
Speaker 2: I'm like what, Mike Birbiglea, Tom Papa, all those people,
Speaker 2: Jim Gaffick and all those people I've always admired, to
Speaker 2: get messages from them, I mean, that has been you know,
Speaker 2: validating as a comedian. As a stand up you want
Speaker 2: people to, you know, to say she's legit. That's been
Speaker 2: important for me, and people have said that because I
Speaker 2: was out there. You know, my husband had a job,
Speaker 2: a big job in Knoxville and was providing for us,
Speaker 2: and I was trying to do gigs wherever I could
Speaker 2: and raise three babies. And so it's important for me
Speaker 2: for people to think that, you know, I've got the
Speaker 2: chops and that I can do it because I've done
Speaker 2: this a long time, and then for this to happen
Speaker 2: for me at this age, I mean, in this point
Speaker 2: in my life, it could not have been any more
Speaker 2: perfect time.
Speaker 1: And oh my word, I am loving spending time with
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Speaker 1: It is God's perfect timing because your children will never
Speaker 1: resent your career. You were there for them. You were
Speaker 1: there a hundred percent. I can tell by your routines
Speaker 1: and talking about the pickup line. Oh, I hate the
Speaker 1: pickup line. I hate the pick up and drop off lines.
Speaker 1: And you know I've got eleven more, twelve more years
Speaker 1: of that. But you were there for them, and now
Speaker 1: it's your time to shine. And I think in our
Speaker 1: culture and our society for years, if you're you know,
Speaker 1: over thirty, you're considered washed up as a woman in
Speaker 1: entertainment and that's changing. That's changed a lot the last
Speaker 1: few years. And I love that.
Speaker 2: I do too. And you know, I've got the fifty
Speaker 2: over fifty for Forums magazine and they were you know,
Speaker 2: there's a list of women. And when you read that
Speaker 2: list of women, then you realize, I mean a lot.
Speaker 2: It is time for women. It is our time.
Speaker 1: It is our time to shine.
Speaker 2: And I do think and I've always done, you know,
Speaker 2: material about my family, but there's something about at this
Speaker 2: point how it resonated with people. I think going through
Speaker 2: menopauls and your children leaving home and launching children and
Speaker 2: taking care of elderly parents. When I during the pandemic,
Speaker 2: when I would talk because I stayed with my parents
Speaker 2: a lot and helped them. My mom had had a stroke,
Speaker 2: it was just something that was perfect time and for
Speaker 2: that to come together. And people are all going through that,
Speaker 2: you know, everybody goes through all those things, and it
Speaker 2: is resonated with paople.
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, you angel,
Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us today.
Speaker 1: Leanne, tell me about your book you got coming out.
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 choln family studies crisis intervention counseling,
Speaker 2: and during the pandemic I should have gotten a master's Instead,
Speaker 2: I was eating. But my literary agent, who is Darling Albert,
Speaker 2: who was raised in Harlan, Kentucky, said ling in, I'd
Speaker 2: love to hear about your sin in the eighties. But
Speaker 2: 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 Tolilah, 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 in 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, Delala. I think you're one of the
Speaker 2: smartest people in the world, and so I received that,
Speaker 2: and I think you you know what you're talking about,
Speaker 2: because you're delallah, thank you.
Speaker 1: Aren't you so glad they didn't have cell phones goad,
Speaker 1: 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 Lenannmorgan dot com. And I've got all that
Speaker 2: social media voo doo also, But let me tell you
Speaker 2: that I'm about to announce if they don't see their city,
Speaker 2: I'm about to announce January through June of twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four and where they're going to be. All new dates coming.
Speaker 2: But I've got a big fall. I might be somewhere
Speaker 2: 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 works 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
Speaker 1: Nicket Knight's Funniest Mom. When she's not on the road,
Speaker 1: Leanne cherishes spending time at home in Knoxville, Tennessee, with
Speaker 1: her husband Chuck, her three grown children, her grandbaby, and
Speaker 1: her two beagles. You want to find out more information
Speaker 1: on Leanne Morgan, visit her website TRIPLEW dot Leannmorgan dot com,
Speaker 1: www dot Leannmorgan dot com. You can also keep tabs
Speaker 1: on her by visiting her social media pages on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
Speaker 1: and YouTube. Her Just Getting Started tour is currently underway.
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
Speaker 1: all of it is the best survival tactic. I am
Speaker 1: feeling much better after spending time with Lee, and I
Speaker 1: hope you are too. Follows on the way, folks, Let's
Speaker 1: embrace everything it dishes out.
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