Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I'm back with another book to our bonus
Speaker 1: episode of Next Question. Today we are headed to the
Speaker 1: Golden State, San Francisco, where I got to talk to
Speaker 1: everyone's favorite Instagram buddy, Leslie Jordan's. We had a blast
Speaker 1: and I think you will too. My next guest really
Speaker 1: needs no introduction, with all due respect to David Letterman.
Speaker 1: So we all got to know him during the early
Speaker 1: days of the pandemic. I thought his Instagram was so
Speaker 1: damn funny. I just had to meet him, albeit virtually,
Speaker 1: and let's just say we took a liking to each other.
Speaker 1: I've since learned about his incredible, unique life story and
Speaker 1: just how talented he really is. I mean, he can
Speaker 1: do it all. I am so excited for you all
Speaker 1: to get to know the wonderful Leslie Alan Jordan's. Thank
Speaker 1: you for having me. You are welcome. I am so
Speaker 1: happy you're here. Is it hot? In? Hearers at me?
Speaker 1: What is the deal with this theater? I am like,
Speaker 1: I've already gone through menopause. What the hell is happening?
Speaker 1: So I talk to us, Mr tell us what's going on? Well,
Speaker 1: what is going on? I'm doing a television show called
Speaker 1: Call Me Cat with my Ambiollic who you may know
Speaker 1: from how you know her from everything? She was blossom
Speaker 1: and she had the uh what's that with? Um? Jim
Speaker 1: Parsons the Big Bang Theory? She was amy on the
Speaker 1: Big Bang Theory for years. So I've got that going on.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be um. I've got this whole other career
Speaker 1: that I just fell into. I'm gonna be a rock
Speaker 1: singer or like a hymn singer. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna call. I've got an album called Company's Coming,
Speaker 1: and I make a list and I'm not a singer,
Speaker 1: but for some reason, hymns, just old Southern hymns I
Speaker 1: can sing. Oh, you wouldn't believe. In the church, they said,
Speaker 1: just sing out for the Lord, and so I would sing.
Speaker 1: But I came up with a list of everybody I
Speaker 1: thought I'd like to sing a hymn with and put
Speaker 1: together and every one of them said, yes, Dolly, pardon
Speaker 1: um uh oh everybody, yeah, everybody. And that's so exciting.
Speaker 1: And you well, we're going to talk about the better.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that in a minute. Got no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's totally fine. I got a clip because I want
Speaker 1: to show everyone how cute you look in your country outfit.
Speaker 1: I like your classes. Where did I get them? You
Speaker 1: got them in the lobby. I got them from you.
Speaker 1: Those are your Catius glasses from the going their tour.
Speaker 1: But let's talk Leslie. Let's talk first about this whole
Speaker 1: phenomenon that you created on Instagram. You during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: you started posting. You moved back to Chattanooga where you're from,
Speaker 1: stayed with your mama, and you started posting things on Instagram.
Speaker 1: We're going to take a look at one of them,
Speaker 1: and it's so random but so adorable. Let's let's watch
Speaker 1: Why are ship? What are you all day? It is awful?
Speaker 1: It's still March, many days in March. When is I
Speaker 1: We're gonna fucking get well? My mother holding up the steps?
Speaker 1: Ask me who I'm talking to? I'm talking come, my friend,
Speaker 1: mama bothering me? How much more were this gonna take?
Speaker 1: So you just did the sort of funny stream of
Speaker 1: consciousness videos and you ended up you you started, you
Speaker 1: had kind of maxed out at eighty thousand followers, and
Speaker 1: then you're You're like, you have six million followers now, Leslie,
Speaker 1: So why do you think why do you think so
Speaker 1: many people gravitated to your feed during the pandemic? What
Speaker 1: was going on there? Well, you know, my mother said
Speaker 1: to me, why why would you talk like that? In
Speaker 1: all those people you weren't raced to talk like that?
Speaker 1: Because I said, and I said, I bought you a condo.
Speaker 1: So but what hapever was I started? I was a
Speaker 1: marketing genius and I didn't even know it because I
Speaker 1: knew I didn't want to talk about politics, I didn't
Speaker 1: want to talk about religion, and I didn't want to
Speaker 1: sell anybody anything. So for I didn't even know what content.
Speaker 1: You know, the wake up in the morning now and
Speaker 1: I think I gotta come up with some content, you know,
Speaker 1: I got to post something back then. I posted twice
Speaker 1: a day for eighty days, just whatever, you know? And
Speaker 1: what and how did people react? And you must have
Speaker 1: gotten so many d m since as you as I said,
Speaker 1: so many followers. What were they saying to you? You
Speaker 1: know they were they were wonderful because they were saying,
Speaker 1: you know, it's so tough right now. You know, people
Speaker 1: would come up to me in the grocery store and saying,
Speaker 1: I'm stuck at I was stuck at home with my
Speaker 1: husband and my kids, and I would just I just
Speaker 1: needed a dose of you every day. And I realized
Speaker 1: the power of comedy, you know, just pure comedy, just
Speaker 1: you know. And as I said, I didn't try to
Speaker 1: sell anybody. I'm rethinking that board. But it was you know,
Speaker 1: and and and stuck in Tennessee. And my phone rang
Speaker 1: early on because it jumped from like you said, twenty,
Speaker 1: I had twenty or thirty forty and then um, Megan
Speaker 1: Malally from my will and Grace day, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: back to me. Sorry that bit stole my thunder for
Speaker 1: eight years. So she's a dear friend about it. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Megan Malally reposted and I jumped to about you know,
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know eighty thousand, and I thought wow.
Speaker 1: And then I don't know what happened, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know how that works. But my friend called and said, Leslie, honey,
Speaker 1: you have gone viral. And I said, no, I'm in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: I don't have COVID, I'm he said, no, Internet viral.
Speaker 1: And it just well, people, I mean, you just spread
Speaker 1: so much joy and you do make people smile and laugh.
Speaker 1: And you know, I was talking to Orally Brown. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you heard our conversation, but she's just
Speaker 1: an amazing woman. Grew up in Mississippi, one of twelve kids,
Speaker 1: the daughter of sharecroppers, and I wanted to talk. I'm
Speaker 1: fascinated about people's childhoods and what makes them tick. You
Speaker 1: were you were born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. You
Speaker 1: have twin sisters, and sisters twenty two months. They're twins
Speaker 1: and twenty two months younger than me. So tell us
Speaker 1: a little bit about your childhood, Leslie. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: my my mother was nineteen when I was born. Daddy
Speaker 1: was twenty two. You think back, you think, my God,
Speaker 1: just babies raising babies. But we were never at home,
Speaker 1: you know. We were always on the go. Um My,
Speaker 1: uh my, my mother and my maternal grandmother, her mother,
Speaker 1: I think took one look at a little Leslie and
Speaker 1: thought he's gonna need some help because you know, I
Speaker 1: wasn't like the other boys. I didn't play I didn't
Speaker 1: like sports, you know, and they created they circle the wagons,
Speaker 1: as only good Southern mothers can do. They circle those
Speaker 1: wagons and created this amazing little secret garden where I
Speaker 1: could play with dolls. You know, I could twirl a baton,
Speaker 1: you know, I could do whatever I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: But then, you know, you just knew you don't tell daddy,
Speaker 1: you know, because I would. I was so doll close.
Speaker 1: I said, i'mnna show daddy. No, no, don't show daddy.
Speaker 1: It's just don't show daddy. And then, you know, my
Speaker 1: dad would come home. He was a lieutenant colonel in
Speaker 1: the army. I was not exactly the sun he envisioned,
Speaker 1: and so he would and I would be twirling a
Speaker 1: baton in the front yard, you know. And then but
Speaker 1: he adored me. He adored me, and and you lost
Speaker 1: him when you were just eleven years eleven. When he happened,
Speaker 1: he was flying, he was in the Army reserves by
Speaker 1: the end, and he was flying to Hattisburg, Mrs Hippy
Speaker 1: from Chattanooga, Tennessee. And this plane, there were ten men
Speaker 1: on it just undershot the runway. It was just but
Speaker 1: you know, a terrible time for a kid to lose
Speaker 1: his dad, you know, and especially and it's so funny
Speaker 1: because I thought that maybe I had been somewhat of
Speaker 1: a disappointment to him, and um, I mentioned that to
Speaker 1: my mother and she was a bergasted. She said, you're
Speaker 1: daddy adored you, you know, but it's just I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, I felt like because I wasn't good. And
Speaker 1: then she told me this crazy story. She said, you know,
Speaker 1: when you were little, we took you to a wedding
Speaker 1: and uh Alan, my dad kept saying, Peggy, he's not
Speaker 1: gonna sit still. I'm a very excitable boy. And they
Speaker 1: were right. I was up. I was down, and mother thought, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to take him out. And mother said,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the bride swept down the aisle,
Speaker 1: and she said, I just froze like a pointer dog
Speaker 1: like and I couldn't get that bright, and all I
Speaker 1: could talk about when I got home, and I made
Speaker 1: up a game called Bright and Gun, and I was
Speaker 1: the bright and I had an angel food cake pan
Speaker 1: on my head, and I'd taken mother's white tearcloth bathrobe
Speaker 1: and slipped it on backwards. It was Empire ways, it
Speaker 1: was beautiful, it was, and I had and I bank.
Speaker 1: My cousin Karen walked me around. She made her be
Speaker 1: the goon and walked me all around my house. And
Speaker 1: then for Christmas, I wanted a bride doll. That's what
Speaker 1: I wanted. And my daddy said to my mother, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna get him a bride doll, Piggy. I'm just not.
Speaker 1: You know, you're trying. We're talking the fifties, you know,
Speaker 1: we're talking the Rank ten fifties, and I'm wanting a
Speaker 1: bride doll. And so mother said, well, let's just don't
Speaker 1: mention again and maybe he'll forget about it, you know.
Speaker 1: But it's all I could talk about Christmas Eve. So
Speaker 1: mother said, well, I don't. I don't know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna say to him in the morning, Allen. But and
Speaker 1: so she heard the front door shut and my daddy
Speaker 1: went out. This would have been nineteen. Well, I was
Speaker 1: whatever and bought his twelve, his three year old son,
Speaker 1: the most beautiful bride doll. Mother said it was. It
Speaker 1: was in a box of cellophane. And she said, when
Speaker 1: I came down the steps and I saw her under
Speaker 1: the tree, I squatted in the floor and pee. I
Speaker 1: just paid all over the Thanks for sharing. So you
Speaker 1: have talked about the fact that if you hadn't lost
Speaker 1: your dad when you were eleven years old as a
Speaker 1: as a gay teenager, it you might not have come
Speaker 1: out or how would that affected sort of your journey
Speaker 1: and being open about your sexuality. You know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I told my mother. You know, people say, well, when
Speaker 1: did you come out? I sort of fell out of
Speaker 1: the womb and to her high heels. So you have
Speaker 1: to have been in and come out. And I don't
Speaker 1: know how I negotiated that, but I just you know,
Speaker 1: I remember in high school, i'd sit people down. I
Speaker 1: would say, listen, I have a secret. I need to
Speaker 1: tell you I'm gay. And they'd go and I was
Speaker 1: the secret, you're gay and you murdered somebody. It sounds
Speaker 1: like it sounds like your father was very supportive of
Speaker 1: He was supportive, and I just wonder, you know, I
Speaker 1: just wonder what it would have been like. You know,
Speaker 1: who knows he loved me, So I cannot imagine, you know,
Speaker 1: someone who bought their three year old son of bride doll,
Speaker 1: you know, being upset. You know, yeah, you're the one
Speaker 1: that bought me the bride dog. You made me this
Speaker 1: way more with the one and only Leslie Jordan's right
Speaker 1: after this, Well, let's talk about so it's so fascinating
Speaker 1: you grow up grow up in in Chattanooga and then
Speaker 1: you go to ut Knoxville and you take an acting
Speaker 1: class or you know, just kind of to fulfill some
Speaker 1: kind of requirement. And then I know you said it
Speaker 1: performing hit you like a drug. It was just I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be a journal journalist. I was a
Speaker 1: journalism major, and I took intro to theater for from
Speaker 1: my arts elective. And that afternoon I went to the
Speaker 1: head of the department. I said, what do I this?
Speaker 1: What what do I do? He said, well, first let's
Speaker 1: learn how to pronounce he's because it was I was saying, uh, theater. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a green theater. He goes, it's theater.
Speaker 1: I won't get me a degrade theater. And but but
Speaker 1: you obviously fell in love with acting. Got on a
Speaker 1: bus twelve hundred dollars that my mother sewed into my underpants.
Speaker 1: I had no fear. I had no fear back then.
Speaker 1: I just think back on it just makes me tired.
Speaker 1: I got on a bus pinning my underpants, my degree
Speaker 1: in theater, and a tiny suitcase, and I got off
Speaker 1: at the corner of Hollywood and Vine, which so you're
Speaker 1: twenty two years old at the time. No, I was
Speaker 1: older than that by then, I think, yeah, and you
Speaker 1: got there, you got to Hollywood, and I know your
Speaker 1: mom said, if it doesn't work out, you can come home,
Speaker 1: she said, and you'll have a standing ovation. That's so sweet.
Speaker 1: And and so what was it like when you first
Speaker 1: got to Hollywood trying to break into the business, because
Speaker 1: you know, well, it was interesting because it was very
Speaker 1: wink wink, because you would go out at night to
Speaker 1: the gay bars and you would dance and this and that,
Speaker 1: and you would see everybody would see producers, you would
Speaker 1: see actors and this and that. But in the daytime,
Speaker 1: you know, very wink wink, you know. And I had representation,
Speaker 1: uh that were gay. My agent was gay. Everybody was gay.
Speaker 1: They told me. Now. They would call me up and say, now, listen,
Speaker 1: feed on the ground. Put your voice in your lower register.
Speaker 1: You know, la la la, don't go in there. Take
Speaker 1: it down, you know, take it down a not right.
Speaker 1: I wore cowboy boots and I had a mustache. And
Speaker 1: you're mazing you. My friend looked back, because who does
Speaker 1: she think she's fooling? But that you also had you
Speaker 1: struggled back in those days, Leslie, you had some pretty
Speaker 1: dark days. You had problems with substance abuse, you ended
Speaker 1: up in jail. Um, I mean, what do you think
Speaker 1: major life unravel once you got to Hollywood. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just think I really I've I've always you know,
Speaker 1: around the rooms of recovery, they talk of this gene,
Speaker 1: you know, that addictive people have. And I think I
Speaker 1: used to think, oh, bullshit, you're infantile. Is I'm just
Speaker 1: need to grow up? No, there's something, as I see
Speaker 1: it in my family, you know, with one twin who
Speaker 1: who we've had the dark twin. You know, she's had props.
Speaker 1: And I think I don't know, I don't know what
Speaker 1: it was. I do think that once I got sober,
Speaker 1: I was forty two years old, and I remember thinking,
Speaker 1: my friends said to me, you're a and this is
Speaker 1: a terrible thing to say, but he said, you're a
Speaker 1: fag hating fag honey. And I said, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: And he said, you you have so much self hatred,
Speaker 1: you know. So a lot of that was internal homophobia,
Speaker 1: That's just what it was. It was the shame, you know,
Speaker 1: having been brought up in the church. Also, I've been
Speaker 1: baptized forteen times. We're not gonna go down that road.
Speaker 1: But anyway, but just accepting something that I knew, you know,
Speaker 1: was me. I was born this way, and so anyway.
Speaker 1: It took years and years and years of UM. I'm
Speaker 1: glad I got into recovery because they you don't go
Speaker 1: over your problems. You don't go under your problems. You
Speaker 1: go through and and um, and you're doing well. Now.
Speaker 1: I'll tell a really funny story that when I first
Speaker 1: got into recovery, my spiritual advisor said, your greatest fearlessly
Speaker 1: and fear is what drives us to drink and drug.
Speaker 1: Your greatest fear is heterosexual men. I said, well, no, ship,
Speaker 1: it wasn't exactly a picnic on the playground, you know.
Speaker 1: And he said, well, I want you to join a
Speaker 1: stag recovery group all men. And I said, I was
Speaker 1: scared to death. I don't know why. So I went
Speaker 1: and joined this recovery group. There were fifty of the
Speaker 1: butchers men you've ever seen. And my, my, my buser
Speaker 1: said I want you to walk right up to the
Speaker 1: podium and I want you to tell them I am
Speaker 1: scared to death of you man. And so right before
Speaker 1: the meeting started I called him and I said, do
Speaker 1: you think I should just tell him that I'm gay,
Speaker 1: just right off the bat, he goes, Honey, you got
Speaker 1: to walk to the podium. They're gonna know you. You
Speaker 1: know what, what I think is so interested to that,
Speaker 1: while you're in the throes of some of your really
Speaker 1: tough days, you were ministering to to AIDS victims because
Speaker 1: you were in California at the height of the crisis.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious what motivated you to do that and
Speaker 1: what you learned from that experience. You know what happened
Speaker 1: was and it's it's when when the pandemic started, I
Speaker 1: remember thinking of myself, I've been through this on some scale.
Speaker 1: I kept thinking, and it hit me like ino, here
Speaker 1: we were gay men were dropping like flies. We couldn't
Speaker 1: get help from anyone. The government was not really helping us,
Speaker 1: and we had I remember looking at one another and saying,
Speaker 1: we're going to have to take care of our own.
Speaker 1: And so all these you know, groups started, and UM,
Speaker 1: I got very involved with an organization called Project night Light,
Speaker 1: which was all we did was sit with men who
Speaker 1: were in hospice near the end and UM and so
Speaker 1: all of that was happening. On top of it was
Speaker 1: a very tumultuous time. But I look back and I
Speaker 1: don't I'm not. It wasn't a sad time for me.
Speaker 1: You know, we galvanized. And I'm hoping kind of that
Speaker 1: the same thing is going to happen as we come
Speaker 1: through this pandemic, because what happened was after it was
Speaker 1: all over the gay community, were we were strong, we
Speaker 1: were more apt to reach out to one another, to
Speaker 1: help another. We've all been through it together. I'm hoping
Speaker 1: maybe with this pandemic that will come out the other
Speaker 1: end and as because this doesn't know, you know, gay, straight, white,
Speaker 1: black all over the world. You know, maybe we can
Speaker 1: come through this and uh be kinder, you know, be
Speaker 1: more willing to wouldn't that be nice? Then the pulpit.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I write in my book about
Speaker 1: how you know, first of all, your big break came
Speaker 1: in Will and Grace when you played Beverly Leslie. And
Speaker 1: it was a role originally for Joan Collins, but it
Speaker 1: landed in your lap somehow, Leslie. I mean, and and
Speaker 1: and I write a lot in my book about how
Speaker 1: much change we've actually witnessed when it comes to gay rights.
Speaker 1: You know, I covered Matthew Shepard, that darling boy who
Speaker 1: was beaten to death and waoming, and talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: all kinds of issues facing the gay community. Then I,
Speaker 1: you know, fast forward seventeen years. I interviewed Jim oh
Speaker 1: burgha fell, the plaintiff in the same sex marriage ruling
Speaker 1: by the Supreme Court. And when you look at the
Speaker 1: strides that have made been made and granted, not everywhere
Speaker 1: in the country, but in general, do you feel heartened
Speaker 1: by that? And and and did you ever think in
Speaker 1: your lifetime, growing up as a little boy in Chattanooga, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: that we would see a culture where there's much more acceptance.
Speaker 1: I thought I was only queer on the planet. I
Speaker 1: thought I was the only one. I mean, what would
Speaker 1: I what would I know? I was in an elevator
Speaker 1: in Denver one time and there was a lady, a
Speaker 1: little lady there, and she said, I love your work.
Speaker 1: I said, oh, thank you. You're not what really paying attention,
Speaker 1: And she said, my name's Judy Shepard. And I burst
Speaker 1: into tears, and we got off the elevator and talked
Speaker 1: in depth about all that. But you know, to have
Speaker 1: been on the forefront of all of this, you know,
Speaker 1: um and I'm very proud. You know. Sometimes it's funny.
Speaker 1: I saw two guys sitting side by side holding hands
Speaker 1: not too long ago, and I walked by the table.
Speaker 1: I said, I just love this. I said, I hope
Speaker 1: you kids realize you know what we went through there,
Speaker 1: like uh huh yeah anyway, And I thought, oh, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be that one. You know that all
Speaker 1: we red there the war. You have no idea. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear it. You know, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: their own thing. And but you know, I'm proud. I'm
Speaker 1: proud to have been a part of all that. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back. You are got to have so much
Speaker 1: going on, as you were talking about, You've got this
Speaker 1: show with me, uh my embolic AND's just doing Jeopardy.
Speaker 1: She's doing a great job to anything. And you've got
Speaker 1: this country album, which was you you write, You recorded
Speaker 1: these songs that you were mentioning with all these famous
Speaker 1: country artists, and you look so cute in your outfit.
Speaker 1: I wanted to show a video of you singing with
Speaker 1: Vince Gill. I think we cued that up, and you
Speaker 1: guys rolled that. You put my life We're going to
Speaker 1: We's it's a holy oh great, you're just having a ball.
Speaker 1: I am so it's so great. I mean, it's so
Speaker 1: great to see you just being discovered by so many people,
Speaker 1: and you're having so much fun less Lee doing all
Speaker 1: these things. You wrote a book, You've got an album,
Speaker 1: You've got this show. Do you sometimes say you want
Speaker 1: to pinch yourself? Every night I lay in bed and
Speaker 1: I just think, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. And
Speaker 1: you know this was I'm a Tennessee boy, so to
Speaker 1: be doing the Rheyman, you know, the Rheyman Theater, it
Speaker 1: was just beyond anything. Yes, I've got a new one.
Speaker 1: I from doing the Rheman again on the of November,
Speaker 1: and I've got a brand new outfit. Good Before we go,
Speaker 1: we got a quick lightning round Leslie Jordan's Can we
Speaker 1: do It? Okay, here we go. What's your favorite country
Speaker 1: artists or who's your favorite country artist? Dolly Parton? Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: mine are the chicks. Okay? What is your what is
Speaker 1: your favorite home cook meal? Uh, beef stew, my mother's
Speaker 1: my mother's beef stew. Okay, I like a garden's chicken. Okay.
Speaker 1: What's your go to karaoke song um um uh oh,
Speaker 1: the one about I remember it all fancy. I remember
Speaker 1: it all very well just because I know the words
Speaker 1: with Rayba McIntyre. But say I was a big fan
Speaker 1: of um Bobby Gentry, who wrote I remember it all
Speaker 1: very well looking back as a summer returned eighteen. It's
Speaker 1: a girl thing that any way, Mine is crazy by
Speaker 1: Patsy k Oh. I love that. Okay, what's the What
Speaker 1: would be your dream job if you weren't doing what
Speaker 1: you're doing? Something to do with horses? Really? Yeah, I'm back.
Speaker 1: I rode my whole life and I'm back riding sixty
Speaker 1: six years old. And I went over to the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Equestrian Center and I said, um, and I just
Speaker 1: walked into a barn. But it was a barn that
Speaker 1: handles show horses. Saddle breads always rode like hunter jumpers.
Speaker 1: But these you sit back and you look pretty, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start showing horses. Are yes, good for you? Okay?
Speaker 1: Mine would be cabaret singer. Okay, what's your happy place?
Speaker 1: On ambient I read several awful things. I took a
Speaker 1: n Ambian one time and I woke up and um,
Speaker 1: I had ordered uh I had. I thought I got
Speaker 1: too fat at Christmas and I had ordered a slim
Speaker 1: fast and they sent me boxes of food for slim fasts,
Speaker 1: and I had about I think there were sixty eight desserts,
Speaker 1: and I took an Ambian and eight all sixty eight desserts.
Speaker 1: You you that happens, you sleep, you eat, that can happen.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that again. Okay, um, all right,
Speaker 1: what we got two more? What's your favorite movie? My
Speaker 1: favorite movie is Coal Miner's Daughter. Oh I love that,
Speaker 1: love that movie Space and Levon Ham was in it.
Speaker 1: Who I've loved him with the anyway, Leavon Halm, y'all
Speaker 1: know who that is. Some of Levon Halm played her
Speaker 1: daddy in the movie. But he started a group called
Speaker 1: the Band I pulled into Nasre. Just course that's Levon Ham.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we of course, of course, alright, but night
Speaker 1: they drove Old Dixie down. That's yeah, I loved him.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't understand who you're saying. Okay, and
Speaker 1: what are you most excited about now that you're such
Speaker 1: a big deal, Leslie Jordan's I think that I'm excited that. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm at a place in my life. I'm sixty six
Speaker 1: years old. I've pretty much accomplished what I set out
Speaker 1: to do, and so everything it just seems like it's
Speaker 1: gravy now. So I have no big thoughts, Oh I
Speaker 1: want to do this, I want to do that. I've
Speaker 1: done it all and so there's something you know, they
Speaker 1: always tell you just live it one day at a time. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not easy, but but I'm trying to do that
Speaker 1: and you're just having fun. I'm having a ball. Well,
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