#627 - Leanne Morgan

Today's guest is a stand-up comedian. She's an actress. She's a writer. Her new special, unspeakable things is out now on Netflix, as well as her series, Leanne. I had a great time getting in-n-door and spend time with one of my favorites, Leanne Morgan. I'm just not here. I feel like my hair just got out of the dryer. You ever feel like that? Yeah, but you are stunning. I don't know if I want to be damn stunning. I'm not stunning. Maybe I'm stunning in like a, like if people are trapped in a mine or something, and I walk up, like, damn, who's that model? You know, if people have been trapped in like a mine for like a long time. And Kentucky. But no, I think I'm always on your beautiful. And I, you know that. I don't want to be beautiful, Leanne. That's insane. What do you mean handsome? Yeah, that's want to be a handsome guy. Yeah, guy looks healthy enough, right? But you've got that beautiful skin tone. Oh, well, that's, I will take that. Thank you, baby. I know. I'm so afraid, Diane. Thank you, baby girl. You're welcome. I appreciate that. Good to see you. What's going on today? Oh, my darling. I'm so tickled to be here. Thank you for having me. This is my Super Bowl. Is the young people's side. I mean, I really feel that way. All right. I don't know if you don't know this, but I saw you. Was that last comic stand in LA? Gary Marshall was one of the... Gary Marshall from the department store? Who are you talking about? Gary Marshall that did Laverne and Shirley. He was one of the judges. Gary Marshall, bring him up. He or you were a baby and you did last comic stand in. I saw you do a set in LA. It was on NBC. Okay. Gary Marshall. I don't know. You're right. That was last comic stand in right with April Macy was on there. Yep. She assimilated up a phallacio in her set. She did. You talked about your little deity being old when he had you and all of them. And I, you killed and I fell in love with you then. Well, you're an angel. And then I got to see you do a full set at the Hollywood improv. David Spade was on the show with you. He came out first and I love him. And then you, I had my daughters with me and we laughed until we were weak. You did a full plank on a stool for, I don't know, seven minutes. Yeah. And that's part of the ticket calls. I include that. And then you got an extra. Okay. And then we got to meet you and you remember their names and you were doing it. And there was a bunch of girls that looked maybe like porn girls that were wanting to talk to you. Oh, good. Mm-hmm. Had on high heels and tight breaches and. I'm so lonely, but go on. And they were beautiful girls around you. And God, I wish they were still here, but go on. And then, and then I always get all my friends or Zaini's and they get, and they always tell me they get to be with you and I don't get to be with you. Well, because I live in Knoxville or I'm out on the road working like a mule. That's what it is. Or living in Los Angeles. Well, when are you just going to settle down, Leanne? I don't know. I mean, I'm 60. Did you know I turned 60 in October? 60? Yes. I didn't say that in front of you. No, it's fine. Honey, I didn't even know 60 could be like that. God, I want to be 60 just for a half hour with you. You know my God. You know, I've got two grandbanks. You do? Don't even, I don't tell me that. Just tell me you're 60. I like that part. Do you do really? Yes. Well, yeah. I mean, congratulations, A, on having a family. Obviously, that's something that's super important to you. Thank you. I'm going to talk. I met him. Was that his name? He met Chuck Morgan where? Yes, I met him at the fricking with Morgan Wall. Oh, yeah, at the ball game. Yeah. At the ball game. Go balls. You know, I'm a ball for life. I know University of Tennessee. Oh, yes. Chuck Morgan was there. That's right. Chuck Morgan was playing her in a round. We met Peyton, Manning. And he's worried about Arch. He's having to tend to Arch. It tanks his. Who is beautiful and precious? I know his daddy, Cooper. I know Cooper. I never met Peyton. So I was tickled about that. And then I know Tony Vatilla were friends. Oh, he's great. Is he not darling? I know. He's great. I know that they're all going to miss him over there, but I know that they're all supportive of him. He's just the kind of guy you have to support as he makes those choices. But God, he is just a great guy. There's some great people over there. And yeah, and yeah, that was fun, though. Had you met Morgan before? Yes, honey. Morgan and I did a show together. And he got kicked off for the Vowlings. You told me that. That little thing was Moin. Had Moin equipment. And we got both God asked to do a charity thing. I think they paid us $200. If they paid us anything, I can't remember. And he sang. And we were in the back. And I promised him a casserole. Because I thought he was so sweet. And Durham and he goes, I'm going to try to make it in country music. And I thought, how's that little thing going to go? And not that I didn't think he was talented. No, of course. But there's just a sweetie that you would even consider making a casserole for him. Well, he's the age of my children, really. He's great. And Darlin. He is great. He does a good job. He's a smart guy. Yeah. He's a smart guy. He's competitive. And he does, he's really fine tuned on who he is. He's, you know, some people are willing to be this or that, but not Morgan as this is who I am. I know. And he doesn't care. I know. And that's a good place to be. You know, you don't care. And you do your own thing. But you've been working in comedy for how long have you been doing comedy for if you don't mind if I ask you? Oh, no, I don't mind you, Angel. I was 32 when I think, when my baby was 18 months old, the first time I ever opened it, Xanies, I'd been, I'd been fooling around like at the rotary. You know, like I'd take a baby to mom's day out, go and do a little something at the rotary, make $50. And now, were you doing with it? In East Tennessee. Okay. And I came. What county was that in? Hamlin County, more than a town. Uh-huh. Okay. And that's where you met Chuck Morgan. I met him at the University of Tennessee. Good. I knew it. And what was he doing over there? Is Lloyd or was he enrolled? I was probably the one Lordering. He was enrolled getting a master's in NBA. And I was trying to finish up a undergraduate that took me several years, Theo, because I drank. I want drinking. You want? I was smoking cigarettes. With dye, coke, and coffee. Oh, that's fun. And I was, and I was, I was not going to clients. I was having to flirt with people to get notes. I didn't care. And I wish I'd have cared. But I was doing stuff like that. And, and, and making out with people. Yeah. Oh, God. Like Italian boys, because I, I never seen one. Okay. So I was raised like right outside of Nashville in a town of 500 people, a farming community. So everybody was the same. So when I got to you two, I was like, oh, and I, you know, went to the gym. To the club. Oh, yeah. If you see something new, you got to put your lips on it. You know, that's the Hamlin County motto. I didn't. But then Chunk Morgan came in to get an NBA and then, and was going to horseback or something you saw him was he on a damn. He's a horse. What was he on? He was just on a damn big dots and wasn't he? Like, God, I think he's got a long one on him under him. Is dots in a dog? Docks in Zodong. I've had a docks and pudding. Pudding? Yeah. Oh. Bring up a pit, rubber. Look at pudding dots and she was a little bit of toy, little orange. Overweight had some thyroid issues. Love to cuss, UPS trucks, but darling. Ah, like another baby to me. That's a beagle. That's my beagle right now. That is beautiful. That's you. Look at that. Oh, Lord, that was addressed from Delans from the junior department that was two tiny on my back. You look at that. Honey, I look baby girl. I know I used to have shoes. I used to have shoes that weren't mine growing up. And out of the stuff, the fucking edges of it, I'd have to put a hand towel around each one of my feet and put them bitches on and go to school. Mine do. Look like a damn vaudeville character or something. That the thing. Fuck, it's like, I look like they used to call me Ronald McDonald's son, Lorani. It's a little Ronnie. Fuck it, shoes dude. It took me seven minutes to get off the bus from going down those stairs, dude. Cause if I got out ahead of those skis, baby, it was downhill, you know, it was just slope central. You killed me. Louisiana. Is that where you were raised? Yeah. What part of Louisiana over in St. Tammy, Paris, Louisiana. Okay. I just did train port and Baton Rouge. Is that over in the Hoopty-Doo part? Shree port and I'll say it out loud is definitely going downhill, which is interesting for a place that's flat land over there. Somehow it finally let it go down. I heard you said something about it when you got on stage. What'd you say? Everybody that looked like a damn missing person, if you meet anybody in the city, the city is vacant. It looks like a movie set. I know. Moofy, I mean, the buildings are empty and they tell me they go, do not leave this hotel. But I love that theater and they've got a little Elvis museum in it. You know, and Priscilla brought some breaches of little Elvis that you cannot get your toe in. He was so tiny. That's beautiful. Bring up a picture of a little Elvis. How little did he get? Before he got in bad hand. Have you ever been to Graceland? Yes, I have. And you've seen all those jumpsuits and they were his little waist. He was getting littlest. He got older. Look, there's little baby Elvis's. Look at little Elvis right there and they probably had him down singing already, probably 11 months old. They got him out there. I know. And his little Danny had written bandchinks just to connect here in their family. He couldn't help it. And he had dysplasia. That's how he got the hips going. You know that? No. Yeah, like an Australian shepherd. That's how it happened in the beginning. He didn't know what he was doing. He wasn't. He was like, he's a dancer. No, he ain't. We just got to loose back. Are you kidding, man? Because you know that I'm going boy. You can tell that about me. You can smell it. Honey. Honey bond. He had dysplasia. Baby girl. Junk him. Yeah, he had dysplasia. He had a damn fucking loose tailbone. Did he? He was missing a couple of joists on that thing. Yeah. And he just had that tick-talk in him. You know. You know, we had an Elvis impersonator in our neighborhood. He had the same thing. He had a thing this guy. He broke his leg, right? He had a couple of children. He kept him on an electric fence in our neighborhood. Because they were his prized possessions. And I actually respected that. The rest of the kids in our neighborhood got real. You know, you'd be out there and you're the elements we get you. You know, people smoke and are getting in trouble, drinking or people fucking catching and crores and fucking picking bugs off of them and shit, just fucking loose cannon-type stuff. Yeah. But this fella said, well, I got to take care of my kids. I'm going to give me a little electric fence, right? So we had that thing. And anyway, he kept people out. He kept people out and kept the kids in. He kept the kids in. Because my people had electric fence. And that'll keep you in. You don't want to get buzzed by that thing. Uh-uh. You turn into a fucking doorbell for a couple of hours, dude. That bitch, if you could hit by that bitch. We really were so born-worn little country kids that we would go and just stand on it to feel something. Oh, God. Yeah, honey. Oh, I remember one time I grabbed you on accident. I couldn't fucking close my mouth for fucking four days. I couldn't close my mouth for- Were you from Birmingham? You weren't from- you weren't rural, right? I couldn't- I couldn't finish a can of camels around that for half a week I couldn't. And it was daylight savings time too. So it was an extra hour I had to do. I was stuck like that. It was horrible. Dude, my sister, she stays- this is where I'm from. My sister and her boyfriend will stay up to watch daylight savings time. I'm like, what in the fuck are y'all doing? They'll stay up to watch daylight savings time. Yeah, they're like, it's 11.59 again. And then they're like, you know, they think it's great. I'm like, you idiot, it's the one night you get a- You get a free hour from God. It's God's- Oh, no. God's caring about you finally after all that year. When you feel good and you think, what happened? Oh, I got that extra hour. And they stay up and watch and I'm like, what are you watching? But that's who she is. Is she the one that's got the beautiful babies? The boys that I've seen you interview. Those and no, that's my brother has those two little boys. Those are good boys. My- I'll tell you this, my family makes beautiful children. Beautiful. They are beautiful. And that's why I call you beautiful thing. Oh, and you need to receive that. Gotcha. Thanks, girl. My best few houses are in person, huh? He's skipping right now up 12 sales. He knows every one of those girls and they all love him. Oh, he is a just- I met him the night they had- He's one of a kind. For free. I came in open for Lady Annabelleum. Oh, you did? Uh-huh. Edithaeng, Edithaeng. Yeah. Not a bridge stone. No. Edithaeng. She already found it. Under the bridge. Under the bridge. And he was in the bank with his shirt on button down his belly button with a fresh bright tan, hair extensions, and we fell in love that, you know. And so we've been good friends ever since. And now he's doing stand up. Oh, he's the female Michael Landon. That's what I call him. He's known in a lot of homoerotic circles as a ginger Michael Landon. He will fuck your book club up. I know that. Just with his sheer entertainment and volume and attitude. Uh-huh. And then he also can tell you how to do a table skate. But you asked me when I started doing comedy. I opened for Billy Gardell at Zainey's when my baby was 18 months old. She's out there. She's my makeup artist. She's about to turn 28. 10. 10. So she's beautiful. Thank you. Thank you. God. And she's my makeup artist on my television show and then she tours with me. And tells people she's my care and give her nail. Yeah. Yeah, and she doesn't want to be. She wants to date, you know, and meet man and it's hard with your 60 year old mother. Well, it's hard once your mother goes downhill early. That's what they call it. Going downhill early. Uh, yeah, you turn immediately like, and that's how to really as a parent, I think that's what you want to gauge. You want right when they get out of high school or college, you want to hit that downhill. So they have to take care of you. So they can tend to you. That's how it used to be. They shouldn't get those free 10 or 12 years of joy. They're mid 30s and that's when you start capping off. But you need to catch it. You just, you got to hit it right at the right time. So I like your strategy, really. I do like that. Thank you. I thought when I hit it big, I would be younger and thinner, but that's okay. Yeah. Tell me about some of that. So what was that like going through? Because you, when do you say you really start to kind of hit it big? And also, I love your show in Netflix. That was the thing that I started. Thank you. And you shared it. Thank you, my darling. Yeah. That's the thing I started watching. It's kind of like a reba in a sense that it's a Southern show. They hadn't had a good Southern show in a long time because Hollywood hates us. And so, but finally, they're like so desperate because they realize that, oh, we are human at least that we're going to put this great show on there and they chose you. And was that scary doing that? Had you done that before? And then when did your break start to come? Because it kind of came a little bit later than maybe you expected or wanted? Oh, yeah. It came in my early 50s and I was just about to quit. And then I was just about to quit. I was working a lot. I had done a dry bar and I, and my manager, and my manager at the time said, these Mormon people are doing these specials and he said, nobody will ever see it. They're going to pay you a couple of thousand dollars. You're going to fly an assault like city. We'll get some clips out of it where you can do more corporate. I was doing the Chamber of Commerce for Dubuco. Oh, God, I love it there. Dubuco's beautiful. You know, our Capone had a aunt. Yes, in that hotel. I love that place. Oh, no. And beautiful people. There's real pretty people in Dubuco. I was some of the best people in the world. Clear like I, have you been there? No. So good. It's where Buddy Holley and them where they took off from that plane out of the surf ballroom. Oh, murder. Remember hearing about that? Yes. You can still go there. It's perfectly. You can still go. You can still see the pay phone that they all called their family from before they took off out of there. Of course. I need to bring it down. But that is a beautiful place. If you ever get to go, there's a lot of beautiful places in Iowa. But go on. So you were in Dubuco. My career was in the toilet. And I thought, OK, I'll go and do this special. I did a bunch of old material that people ain't seen. I was rusty. I think I think it sucked. And I did that special and some things went viral in it. But I couldn't sell tickets from it. I was getting work from it, but it wasn't the work I wanted. Like, what do you mean? Were you getting what pressure washing or what kind of goods? Clothes. Because dude, I've seen, I've had somebody, some guy saw me at a comedy club. He's like, man, I love you, dude. I want you to come pressure wash at the house. And I'm like, well, fatting helps at me. He's like 200 bucks. I was like, I'll be over there. I'll damn spit really fast on that side. And if I have to, I don't own a pressure wash. I'm going to be a little baby. But yeah, I'm just like, little corporate. Things stuff that, you know, they pay you so much, but you got to pay your travel out of it. I'd get in the Uber with a man on marijuana, drive for two hours in stata at a motel on the side of the road. I think I was going to be murdered. I mean, it just was, and it was just not good. And I got very down. And I told Chuck Morgan, I said, I'm going to quint. And I'm opening up a hardware store. And because I always thought that would be fun. And he said, no, you're crazy. But so you really say that? Yeah, he goes, Lee, and that's crazy. It's fine. You're fine. And you're just keep going, little. And so I hired these little guys that did social media for me. These young guys who knew how to do all that stuff. I didn't know. And they put out the clamp where you showed that me and that tight dress from dealers from the junior's department. And I did a bit about, and I never done it before. I just had taken Chuck Morgan to go see Deaf Labriner and Journey. And Tom Sambolin and everybody looks sick and had Planner face shyness. All the people look bad. All the band members. All the band members. Oh, yeah. I definitely have a guy. I think he had a hard year. Way more than deaf, yeah. Tiny lings. Oh, God. Fan hair. Anyway, it must have resonated with people. And that went viral. And I started selling out all of the United States. In clubs that would not have had me. Yeah, wouldn't even answer your emails. What answer? No. And then, or they had had me. They were like, she's sweet. She doesn't get drunk and fight in the parking lot. But we're not having her back. She can't sell tickets. So I started selling out and then I got my first tour and then the big painting tour. And I was in the early 50s. And you were in your early 50s. And what was it? You remember the first place that you played at that it was sold out at? Oh, gosh. Like first comedy club where you're like, oh my God. Yeah, probably. Oh, like off the hook. In nightclub. Brian's club. Yeah. Oh, Captain Brian. Yeah, Captain Brian. You'll be, you'll be, you'll be, you're on stage and there's just a servant shrimp right up between your legs, dude. Big platters of shrimp. I thought it was a safe food restaurant. And I thought I'm in the wrong place. It is a sea food restaurant. A lot of clankin. But it was, but I liked that stage. And they were door-lin and I had a ball. Oh, no, it is a sea food restaurant. And you're in the right place. It's both of those things. And that's what's amazing about it. Oh, Captain Brian's done a great job over there of keeping common, off the hook comedy club. That's what it is. Yeah. Or Breaktown and Uncle Homa. All these places that it never had me before. But that was the first place that you went that it did. That was one of the first places. Yeah. Yeah, I was on, I was torn for probably 12 years, 13 years out there. Maybe I don't know if it's probably about that, you know, just getting in there, lucky to be a feature, hoping you'd, you finally get to headline, hoping you'd hit a bonus you wouldn't. So you read that kind of $1,200 a week mark, you know. Yes. And they give you three hundred for travel, but you had to decide if you were just wanted to drive 18 hours or spend another $300 to fly over there, you know. Yeah. I was hanging my food out when I remember Kansas City. I would, it was cold out there. So I got my groceries and I would put them in a bag and hang them out the window at night because there wasn't like a fridge in the room. I'd hang them out. I'd get them in the morning, let them thaw out and then have a little lunch a few hours later. And yeah, just little things you would figure out over time. But there were some clubs that always like, Ryan Dorfman at Zainey's in Nashville always let me play cap city in Austin. I consider that my home club, Chuck Morgan moved us to San Antonio for his job. So I worked the river center and cap city in Austin and they were really good to me. Wait in Austin or San Antonio? Oh, San Antonio, the river center and then L.O.A.L. and then cap city in Austin believed in me. And I would drive back and forth from San Antonio with little children. I had three babies, three, five and seven. And in San Antonio, I'd get up at the late show when everybody was home marijuana at midnight and talk about how somebody did it on a team all-fail because I was a mom. You know, I was different from all those boys. There was a lot of young boys doing Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonations. So I stood out. But that's not a lot of clubs wanting to book me. And I got to raise this children. I was raising children in Knoxville, Tennessee in Texas. And first of all, let me say this beautiful place, Knoxville. And also I think I think Knoxville probably best place to see a football game. I think the best place to see an SEC football game. I haven't seen a lot of football games outside of the SEC. But man, Neelan, there's something special about it. It is. I just got to go to Ole Miss and see their game. I saw that you were with Lane and did you all do hot yoga? Yeah, we did. He's been on a cleanse. I've said horrible things about Lane Kiffin on stage when I have, well, you know, he left us. So I said some crap. Oh, and daddy lead me. But I'm sorry for it now. Here we are right now. Because he's doing, he's, you know, he was cute and there was a lot of girls. Well, you can tell I was raised by a single mother to a towel where that towel, I'm going ahead and say that. That's why people are like, what are you doing? I'm like, what are you doing? Okay, with your dad. Okay. So you can tell that to I am. And those are some wonderful ladies there that were training. They were, I don't know if they were trainers or something. One of them, I think they were getting Facebook Marketplaces. I don't know what it, one of them was actually going about a cat off of Facebook Marketplace. And I said, honey, she's like, I'm driving a baits foot to get a cat off of Facebook Marketplace. And I said, baby girl, that's bad idea. Okay, shit, it's a $60 cat. I said, I'll give you $70 right now. Not to go. I said just to get you a little map or something, you know, just to watch cats on YouTube and get you a little shut up. Oh my lord. Because baby girl, she made it. Well, I hope she made it too. And, you know, who knows? You know, you can't follow up on everything. But you're so busy. You give them a little bit of advice, you know? If at that point she drives off to meet somebody off of them Facebook Marketplace. But a trailer where they're like, well, we're going to add an addition to the trailer. That is when I'm like, do not do it any time. And let me make this speech right now. And I'm going to put my head on to make this because I don't like my hair today. My god, I need a wife. But what I'm telling you is this, okay? If you meet someone and they're like, yeah, the trailer, we got the trailer. And then we're going to add on to it. You're like, that it doesn't work. It's not a realistic project. You can't just add on to a trailer with extra housing or quick creed or whatever they're using. It's all type of shit, you know? Did you know that Chuck Morgan is in the Mumble Home industry? I could imagine it. I didn't know that. And did he put you in one? Yes. I lived in a dumber one. He flipped it and he said to me, we're just going to be there temporarily. And it was big. You could ride a bicycle through it. Oh, yes. I was pregnant with my third baby. It was in the middle of nowhere. It was a hard time for me. Was it? There was a mom that lived behind us. She had a pot belly pink. It charged me all the time. It wasn't a big pig. But it was scary, you know, to have a little pig charging you while you're big pregnant, trying to get up in a dumber one when you don't have stamps. Yeah. It's kind of, yeah, definitely dude. You were in on the business and had stamps setting out in the field several and just forgot to bring stamps home. Oh, so I had to pitch two babies up in a dumber one. Then I ate my Lenga. Being pregnant. I mean, I had tensed that baby. I was pregnant with her. Yeah. And we lived on it and it was on a gravel road. And he said, I promise you I'm going to I'll make money. Oh, yeah, she got big hands. I saw. And so hell, you're not going to imagine that thing. You're not going to be able to open your balance on the way up a little. Oh, no. And then he did it. He flimped it. But yeah, Chuck Morgan still works in the mobile home industry. Oh, thank you. And I don't think I don't know. Maybe some people do try to build onto a mobile home, but I get when you're saying it. Yeah, it just when you could put a fire pit out in front, put it out. I don't know. Do not try to put it inside. That's what I'm saying. Do not do that. That's the thing, you know, we're going to take my sister was like, we're going to tear down this wall inside and we're going to, you know, you don't need a living room that has a bathroom in it like, you know, but no wall like, did you ever live in one? I didn't live in one. We lived in an apartment complex that was sinking. So we sit, I remember we'd sit there at night and watch unsolved mysteries of mom and stuff. And one part of the fucking apartment after about the second episode, once like, once like a full house came on, your fucking bottom was getting wet because it was just a few could the floor was sinking. There was like some sink in there, some sink in the living room. And people would steal or this was the worst part about our place. People would steal our, the wood from our balcony. I was even fine at pitch. I've talked about this for a, people would try to steal the, so people, there was a balcony up on that top. Yes, there was in the police were like, well, you have any pictures of it? Like officer, you don't think there was a balcony there? What do you think we just live with a witch or somebody who just travels on just propulsion or something or some woman on her period who can just levitate out like that? What do you, like he's like, well, we need to see some images or something. And I'm like, it was just, that was a nightmare. But people would steal that and they would use it to build something at their house. And then we go get it back and get it back installed. Because my mom was seeing a guy, we can vent him if he was drunk, we go get that wood back. And always be a little bit less of it every time he got it back, it was that sort of deal. Oh, you know, if you were running a small business or even thinking about one, December's a good time to get things lined up for the future. The end of the year shows you what worked and what didn't. 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We have four children and I'm the second one. So we had a older brother, two younger sisters. What about you? I have an older sister. You do? What's she like? We were pretty big day all in Adams to say a 500 pay phone. Yeah. We were tall, blonde, a plate's born. She twirled. She twirled. She's a major aunt and boys used to call and breathe into the phone. That's Florton, Mom, prom. Oh, she's beautiful. Thank you. She was National Simmacaque calendar. You're dressed like an ambitious set we have when I was a kid. That was at the ombre. God, that's great. Oh, my Lord. We both have an unrealistic hair color right there. We both got some dimensions since then. Yeah, a lot of your photos. You kind of look like an Asian woman that's died to her hair to look American in some ways. I'm like, you're my eyes. Do you think my eyes? No, I just feel like you are a beautiful lady. A lot of these pictures I don't see you in them for some reason. But they look great. I'm just saying that's a, and maybe I've seen a lot to I'm been on too many sites with Asians on them or something. But go back. I want to talk about your sister for a second. What's her name? Beth. Beth. Oh, she's beautiful. And so what was it like having a sister like her? She was a major aunt, you said. She was a major aunt and, you know, five eleven and she was in Miss Tennessee. Of course she was, dude. Any tall girl they just, they will get it all. If you just happen to be fucking tall, I don't care for whatever reason or something. There wasn't a lot of gravity in the home or whatever, but whatever happened and you got to be tall. They were like, she's beautiful. You remember that? Uh huh. And we, you know, when you're in, I graduated 42 people. So I think she graduated with 20 something. Okay. So easier for her to do well. Yeah. And she was very, and still has very premium, proper and she went to Austin Pay. She was homecoming queen and she was a national Simmachon calendar on the, yeah. And then I went to you, and I went on and I'm a mess. A mess. A mess. I was flailing around. Where were you dating women to? Are you okay? No. Okay. I mean, I just didn't know how bad it is. I love me. I love them. I don't know how weird it got. No, I didn't go through that yet. Yeah. And were you knocked up outside of wedlock or not? No. Oh, she did. You know, but, but they know I did get, I dropped out and I got married the first time that wasn't Chuck Morgan. Mm hmm. I have a past. Who was it? It was a guy that was older than me. He went to you, too. He graduated. Good guy. Well, I think so. I think so. It just didn't work out. He had problems. It was banned. And I don't think he could help it. Oh my God. I hope he's all right. Is he alive? No. God. Oh, I said. I'm sorry. But thank you for telling us about him. Oh, my darling. But you know, it made me who I am today. It's okay. It's okay. Yeah. And he was a beautiful, talented, talented and all that, but it was banned. And I was dumb in 21. And then we're talking in the late 80s. I still probably had some big hair. And were you listening to any type of music? Any Linux. Okay. Prince, Billy Arnold, Rick James, Rick and the AST Rick James. Okay. So you guys were partying a little. I mean, I was dancing and smoking cigarettes, but I was not a drinker. I didn't care about drinking and I didn't. I never did drugs because I'm scared of things. That is you, huh? I was, that's me 17, a junior in Huskirt. This looks like you kind of, uh-huh. Beautiful ladies. Oh my God. And who was that? My, my, my sister. Oh, I thought that was two of the Von Erick's. You ever seen those kids? The wrestlers? Yeah. Bring them up. Yes. Didn't you interview? Kevin Von Erick, we did. Honey, after that, I looked him up because it was so fascinating. As children, they were fascinating. They are fascinating. Great guy. But yes, some of the, that picture room, I thought it was two of them. Yeah, we were little blonde-headed children. And our family owned the little grocery store in our town. Oh, I could ease. Is that all those wrestling boys? Yeah. The daddy sat in there, did he wrestle or? He did. He wrestled too. Where were they raised? Uh-huh. Maybe East Texas. That's Kevin. And there a little moment you can tell she cooked. Oh, definitely. And she tended to them and got them casseroles. She did not have a choice to cook. I can't believe you get more going to casserole. What calm was it? I didn't, I never got to fix a little Morgan. He, now he did take my Maggie, my middle child on a couple of dates. Oh, that's beautiful. Mm-hmm. But she said, I think he likes wild girls that like to key cars. Oh, well. That's right. And see, my children went to a Christian's go and were told not to. But she said, I just, she thought it was darling. And she said, I think he likes wild. This was a long time ago. This four-headed big. He was, you know, he liked girls that liked to fight in the yard. Yeah, dude. I could see that. I mean, yes. Yeah. And that's okay. There's pretty girls in pale. They were all from pale Tennessee. Yeah. And he wants to see a good... He's a baseball player in mode. A free fight. Yeah. Yeah. And especially if he just mode the yard. Yeah. Somebody needs to throw down in it. You know what I'm saying? I know. And see my sister and my kid, we don't like to fight. We're not fighters. No. No, no. Son, 32. He's not a fighter. No, no. We're lovers then. We're lovers. I interrupt you though. So he owned a car dealership, you said. What were you saying before I interrupt you? My little mom and daddy. No, I told you. Oh, I knew. We were talking about, oh, the two little kids, go back to them as children. And sorry, I interrupt you. You took you on this crazy thing. I compared you to look like... With the wrestlers. Yeah, I'm very sorry. But now here we have two beautiful children. Yes, that's me and my sister. And I think that was taken in the back of our... I think people could get their picture made in our grocery store. Oh, lovely. My family owned the little grocery store. Thank you. And we're farmers. We have land. We still have farm and... In outside of Knoxville? To back of farm in Middleton, say here outside of Nashville. On the Kentucky Tennessee border near 101st Airborne Fort Campbell. Clarksville. That's where I was raised. Oh, beautiful. But I went to university in Tennessee and then married a bunch of men up there. But so we had... We had grocery store. And then my little daddy opened a meat processing plant. And he did everybody's beef, deer, and hogs and all that. And you don't do nuggets too or anything like that? No. God. It's kind of like now these fancy people that do grassfiend. My people were doing that a long time ago. Yeah, while she was on the... They saw a cow eating grass. You know, like it was feed only back then. You know, if you saw some grass, you're like, look at this thing bitch having a salad. You know, it would be like, it was a different time. I worked at a place called Soup Galore. I worked over there. I love soup. Yeah, enough people didn't love it like you did, I think. Because we could not keep a strong clientele in there. Really? Well, it's just hard. And our big thing was it was supposed to be like the Basque and Robin of Soups, right? Yeah. So they were supposed to have 31 soups. And I'm like, dude, we don't have enough... If everybody came in here and had two bowls of soup, they're like, well maybe after the game, everybody will come in and have a couple bowls of soup. I'm like, there's not... That, there's only like seven parking spots too. It was like, we didn't even make any sense, dude. And I'd be back there just damn stirring like a bouillet base or a fucking split pea. I mean, that shit would sit... Are there 31 soups? Is what I'm wondering? Oh, of course there are. Bring up a list of soups if you don't mind, brother. For the non-believers out here, for the Methodists, as I'll call them, okay? Bring up a list of decent soups. Put that on there. To make a French onion, that was an easy one. Cream a mushroom, that was pretty basic. We had that butter nut squash we didn't do. Now I've had that a lot as an adult. Yeah. Did you like that, Aunt? My darling, because that's not what I go to for me, butter nut squash. It's a rich thing. Like, sometimes I'll be at a place where somebody would invite me to something. We have to have all your clothes on the eat. And hope to do. Yeah. Okay. And there's nowhere to put your gum. See if the swallow it. Do you get invited to a bunch of naifty things because you're so cute and fun and everybody wants to be with you? And you're exhausted. Is that bicycline yet? No. I don't think that's true. One thing that sometimes is neat, my best friend went to Ole Miss. So I got to go to Ole Miss. It was his birthday, right? So we went up to Ole Miss. And so I met Lane Kiffin from podcast with him. So I got to like take my best friend on like this walk that they do at the beginning of the thing. But if you'll see, play that video. And I'll tell you when to pause it in just a second. Okay. Pause it. Right? Behind me on the right is my best friend. So he loves SEC football. He loves Ole Miss. I've never, in fact, I've only supported Ole Miss because he was an Ole Miss guy. And I love him. He's just my, we've been friends for children. And his father commits me to go do comedy. His father was a Jerry Klawer fan. And he used to put Jerry Klawer on the radio and on the CD. But little things like that are great. Like I know you're doing, but it's probably similar stuff. I know you're doing the CMAs with Laney Wilson, right? You're gonna just guess with her on there for a little bit, which is amazing. Yeah, and we're, I get to, I get to intro somebody, but I get to be on stage with her for a little while. She and I played each other in family feeds, celebrity family feeds. She did. Uh-huh. She invited our family to play. Oh. And then I did something else with her with CBS. So I love her. And she's the real deal. She's the best. I went and saw her in Ella Langley play not long ago. And that was beautiful. And Ella Langley, I got to meet her on the today show. Beautiful. Beautiful. Oh, y'all. Is she dating anybody? Huh? Is she dating anybody? I don't know her thing. I don't know anything. I mean, she's got beautiful bangs and legs. Did you notice that? I did. I, I, I, I, I know she is a great performer. She is a firecracker. I knew that. Uh, she just, you know, confident young lady so talented. She is so talented. But I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Whoever she, whoever, if she's dating somebody, they're lucky. They are very lucky because she's a doll, a living doll. She was a rally green. And I got to meet him. I mean, he was darn, look at her. That doll. Oh. Mm-hmm. Beauty. Beauty. Yes. Yeah. She is a beauty too. Oh, she'll iron your fucking shirt with her stare too. She could put, look, that Ella will get something done. And Ella, where was she raised? Ella Bama. I think in the jungle book, if you see that, maybe she is a wild one. And I mean that lovingly. Ella, she knows that. She is from Ella Bama. Hope whole Ella Bama. Hope whole Ella Bama. I know she just want to come see dudes. I think in a raffle down there. I saw her using them. They had a raffle down there at the hardware shop and she wanted them. I remember my granddaddy when we were kids, it would take us over there. We would go in her the raffles. It's raffle week. You go in her room. And then he'd go over there to the pool on smoking. You have to sit out in his truck or whatever. Yeah. With a couple of stuff. I think we were race similar. A lot of people sat and smoking out in the truck. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And the men would go cry behind the wind dixie if things weren't going well. They'd park back there and cry. Oh. Good chicken though. Yeah. Very great produce. My buddy Robbie Taylor worked over there for a long time. He was a steadfast employee there and went on to create some businesses of his own. But yeah, we'd go up down and watch the fellas cry over there. There were people crying outside of the wind dixie. In the back, not out front. If you were crying out front, that's a gay guy. You know what I'm saying? The real man parked and cried in the back. If you were just up there having a little too much trouble getting one of those big bags of ice out of the ice box thing. That's just a fella that's afraid to admit something to his wife. You know? Oh. Okay. I used to go back when I was waiting tables and smoked with the line cooks. They're fun. They got not a jail. Head fun story. First of all, if you consider the people that work at Wind dixie, the line cooks. No, the restaurant that I've worked at. Oh, sorry. Those boys, those line cooks that I worked with, pretty fun. Criminals. Had a ball. Yeah. Want to hear what they did. What was his first job? So this was a restaurant. This was a restaurant. And it was a real place. A real place where I met Chuck Morgan when he came to get his MBA. And I was finishing up that undergraduate that took me many years. And this is a Knoxville. In Knoxville, Tennessee, the restaurant where everybody wanted to work. Because it stayed on a weight all day long. He made big money. Oh, I like that. Because you seem like a woman that's probably slept the way to the top of a Marie calendar. So you know what I'm saying? I'm not judging you. But go on. Anyway, sorry, I shouldn't be talking while you're here. And I'll say this. That place was nice. That fucking pie aquarium they had at the front. Marie calendar. You know, I've never been in. Are you talking about a real Marie calendar? There were restaurants. Yeah. Where were they? I've never been in one. I don't know. You know, they had, I think they had one up there towards Missouri. They had one. And it was, I think it was in the same town as they had. Have you ever placed that Lambert's the Throde Rolls? Have you ever been in that place? That was up there. Yes. I think I've been in the Lambert's. Marie calendar is based out of Mission Viejo, California. Oh, I did not see that coming. Okay. Were you living in Los Angeles when I saw you do the last comic stand and were you out there living as a young, young, young, young boy? Because I say I was a little mama at the middle of nowhere. You know, you're kids out there with y'all. Oh, I mean, but I mean, I wanted, you know, I wanted to be one of the cool kids. That the comedy store and I would, you know, and where were you at that time? As soon as you were working that restaurant? No, this was when I started doing Cap City Comedy Club and all that. And then he got, Chuck got promoted and then we came back to Knoxville where the corporate offices are. And that's when, well, I mean, I worked, but I, you know, nobody cared. Well, honey, I don't even have fucking long sock. Look what I'm wearing. We're close about. Very cute. Very lame kids. Nice. Oh, thank you. I got a spray tan for you. You did? Yeah. I'm on it. Somebody came to my home and did it. Mm-hmm. That's nice of them. Um, yeah, but, uh, yeah, I wanted to be out at the comedy store and all that wanted to be like you. But was there a thing like, was it, what was it like like really having the children and you're wanting to do this? Like, did you have to say like, okay, I can't do it these years. I can't do it this time of year where there are times you had to set off or did you not be able to do that because I know sometimes it's like you get a week. You're like, that's the week I'm working, you know, I mean, that's how it was for me. Like, I didn't have, I had friends for like 12 years that I was out there touring, but I didn't see him that much. I was gone. If I met a girl, I'd start to get to know where I was going. I came back in town three weeks late. I didn't remember who she was. I didn't know who I was. Yeah. You know, just things were, it was hard to keep things together. What was that like for you out there? I mean, I just, I took any job I could get and I tried to stay on stage when I could. And at times I would go on a little tour with like two other female comedians because Blue Collar had blown up. And so do you remember Edamay, a comedian named Edamay? Yes. I toured with Karen Mills and Edamay and we called ourselves the Southern Front Chicks. Oh, yes. She plays a character. Edamay, she used to be the funny bone and baton ruse sometimes. Yeah. She lived out in LA for it was in movies and stuff. Wow. I don't know if I ever got to meet her. She's out there working theaters and clubs. Stingle. Edamay. So funny. And who else? Karen Mills, who is a good friend of mine who opens for me on when I tour. Oh, yeah. I got to get to spend, see that Edamay because I remember, yeah, like just, you see the flyers at the clubs at the funny bone. That's who was coming through. That's back on baton ruse. Had a funny bone and they don't have one anymore. I don't think Louisiana even has a comedy club anymore. Well, I know in Knoxville, there were science blitters, but you would come to the Tennessee theater when I was working the science blitters. Yeah, by the time I get to Knoxville, I was already doing the BG or I know you were at the Tennessee theater. I was outside of clubs. That Tennessee theater is awesome. Beautiful. Yeah. But I would do, I would work when I could. I did a lot of private things. I did clubs when they had had me and and I always had television deals don't go in. That's the thing. Oh, you did. I was just a good actor. Well, honey, you had them. But they wouldn't make it. I mean, I had big television deals, but they wouldn't make it. They weren't making any of our shit, but at least you had the deal. I did. And that kept me going. You know, I'd get down and I think, well, something must be telling me to keep going because I would have a, you know, I'd get a deal with ABC and Warner Brothers. And then I had one with Nick at night and then Sony. And then so the one I had with Chuck Laurie, that was my, the yes. For this new show. And that, that, I mean, this, yeah. And this went like he just said, we're doing it. And Netflix said, we'd love for you to do it. And we got to, I got a unbelievable cast and, you know, who put your sister in it? Kristen Johnston from Thard Rock from the Sun and, and right, your stem stones. Y'all are so good. And she is brilliant. And she had to tell me what all they were saying to me. I didn't know I go, what is all this? And then Ron Stiles from whose line is anyway brilliant. Silya West and plays my mother. She played my mother in the only movie I've been in with Reese Witherspoon and Will Farrell. Your cordially invited. She was my mother in that. Blake Clark, who's in all that, I'm saying their movies plays my diet. Blake Clark plays your dad. Yes. Oh, that's beautiful. And he is darling. He's great. He was in the water. But I thought he passed away. No, honey. He is my daddy. I sort of got to want to this guy's funeral on one during COVID. Oh my God. Good to see him alive. And he does great. I mean, he is, me and love this show. And I think it's because of him and Ron Stiles. And then my love interest on it is Tim Daly from wings. So I made out with Tim Daly. I never watched wings. And is he gay? Fellas straight. He's straight. He's married to Taya Leoni. Oh, that's wonderful. She is. Is in my favorite movie ever, family man, with Nicholas Cage. Oh my gosh. Okay. I loved her in Spanish with Adam Sandler. Wow. He plays Agent Andrew. My love interest because my husband, Ron Stiles character, has walked off and left me after 33 years of marriage. She sure he won't just look at for something. Do you have any, is there any, has he called or anything? Yeah, he's still around. He is. Yeah. That's, yeah. That's what we've got two grand babies together in the us and God. And has this, when it, when this started all, like, yeah, what were you like? I cried every day. I was like, what the, what have I gotten myself into? It was so scary. Yeah, when this finally happened, what was it like? It was like, oh no. I've got to learn a script every wink. And I'm in every scene. I'd never done that before. I was overwhelmed by that. It's a lot. It's a lot. You got 250 people there staring at you. A say at a, a darling people that have worked for Chuck Laurie for years. They're counting on you. Yeah, they're counting on you. Not to screw up. And for, yeah, and for people that own, the show starts off for you to just found out that your husband cheated on you. That's where you girls are spending so much time in the lane and the bed together and kind of just getting through life. I remember that. We had 16 episodes. And at first Netflix was going to do, because you only only do things in eight or 10 episodes. So they were going to drop eight. And then my new Netflix special dropped November the fourth. And then we're going to drop another eight. This is coming spring. And then they got a wild hair and dropped 16 at one time, first time in their history. Wow. Yeah. And it, and it did really well. I'm so thankful. I was scared to death. I thought is anybody go, because it's a multi-cam and they send to me at Netflix. We think you can bring back the multi-cam and I'm like, don't put that burden on me. Yeah. And then, and then it did really well. And I think people miss that format. I think people think of it as comfort and comfort food kind of. And people really liked it. Well, I think, I'm so thankful on a stream. You can be a little bit more edgy, right? You're not as like locked in as to like a lot of the cable laws. What things are allowed on streaming that aren't allowed on cable? Can you find, is there any information on that? Can you look up on? I think Ryan did say, say, try to. Can you look at it on perplexity real quick? They wanted to probably cuss a lot more, but let me see. You know, I didn't want it. Streaming services allow certain types of content that cable television cannot. Correct, right? Streaming platforms often feature uncensored profanity, explicit sexual content nudity. I was not nude. Okay. Graphic violence and mature themes would not be allowed on cable channels. There are fewer restrictions on the depiction of drugs, controversial political topics, or socially sensitive material in original programming produced for streaming. On streaming creators are less limited by requirements around content rating or time of broadcast that apply to cable and especially broadcast TV. Cool examples of content versus shows and movies on streaming may include swearing nudity sexual situations and violence without censorship while cable versions of the same content are often edited or bleeped for language blur nudity and cut explicit scenes. I did carry a gun. You did? Well, that's fair. And also, it goes, I was breaking in. It's a Tennessee. It's state law. You can. Well, Ryan style said to me, I didn't know how to hold one. And he goes, you know how to hold him again. You're from Tennessee. I go, we're not just going around, packing guns. My people call it, packing. And I said, I mean, I know people that have them in hot, but my daddy never did it. And I don't know how to, I think people think in Tennessee, it's like a wild wind. Yeah. Oh, people think it's shoot them up out here. You know what I'm saying? Like people are just like, yeah, if it gets a little weird, you can shoot. But I do like the fact that if somebody thinks they're going to walk into a place and get a little weird, they're going to have to know that there's six or seven men and women and people, you know, women in the middle who are willing to pop or willing to pop in the movie theater immediately. I know. Yeah. There's some bad mammoth jambas taking care of business, which I like. The show is great and people are loving it. How many, what's he's new guys on now? Do what? You only have your first season? Yeah. I go out. Are you going to do a second season? I go out and thank you, my darling. I go out in January and start again. And we'll task up there with you with your daughter's daughter's daughter. She's about to get her union. So she works on the sand with me. Okay. And it's my makeup artist. And also, I mean, it's just good to have family out there because more you still working a big job. And I don't want to be out there by myself. It makes me feel better to have, you know, my, one of my children with me. Oh, yeah. My oldest child's married and got my two grand babies and working and then my middle child, a lives in, I tell you that the YouTube all game, the one that went to Chipotle with Morgan Wallen. She lives in New York and works for the food bank. She's a nonprofit. She's always worked in nonprofit. And this baby went to school for makeup for television and film and Manhattan. That's beautiful. Oh, no. So I get, so they get, you know, she takes care of me while I'm out there because I need, I can't, I got to learn all this stuff. Honey, you can't just be, yeah. Just wandering around is wondering if your bra fits. All right. Right. And then I've been in a tight bra. Yeah. God. What's that like? Bion. Is it? Bion? Yeah. I don't want to be so pitiful that I'm like Mariah Carey and like me and had to carry me around. Yeah. But I do. I need people to tend to me now. I never thought I would get that way, but I mean, I got to learn a lot. And my girlfriends back home, they're like, just drink some wine at night. You got so much on you. I can't drink wine and sweat in the bed all night and not be able to learn a script the next day. Yeah. I can't be drinking. And you wake up, yeah, and your mouth is all dried out and stuff. Uh-huh. And it makes women's blood vessels expand and you sweat in the night. I hate to even tell you that. God. When you get to search age, it's not girls. You're age. They're not sweating. I don't know. They might be beginning to sweat. Some people are, yeah, people are losing water. I know that. People are losing water. Instead of retaining it. People are losing weight too. Every time there's GLP's or whatever, the XPB's or the BC, yeah, people are on all that shit. They busted a lady selling ozemic outside of an M Vineyard Bonds out there. You know? She was outside of the Vineyard Bonds. Selling it. 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If you're ready for the last website you'll ever need head to modify.com slash TH-E-O. For 50% off your build out cost. That's M-O-D-I-P-H-Y dot com slash TH-E-O. They don't f around. What was your town like? Like was there any like lore in your town like any famous people that came to visit or did anything like was there any like a, I'm trying to think of some interesting that happened earlier? Honey, there was a Damon. Of course. The Bell Witch. The Bell Witches from your town? Yes. Oh my gosh. You heard of the Bell Witch. We had some ghost hunter children and I don't know if something happened to them through the church or something. They didn't tell me everything and it happened to them. We had two young fellas who were touched by the spirit and out there hunting the Bell Witch. The Bell Witch. The only time that the government got involved in an investigated witchcraft situation. Right. That's where I'm from. Oh, those little boys. They look like they love a ghost. Sam and Colby. Yes. Sam and Colby. Sam and Colby. Great guys. But yes. Oh, so that was your name? That's where I'm from and I was raised. Yes. With the demon. They talked about it all the time. If there was a fourth of July picnic, they put a dummy in a, in a coffin and said that's the witch. That's Kate Bance. Hmm. So that was big lore around y'all. Oh, yeah. I just built football team for attorneys would come down, torment each other, beat the windows out of our church. That had to everybody had to pass money around to put more windows in the church. Oh, that's a nice back. You're making a shit. Dogs that had bullet holes that couldn't explain why they're still walking. Crows comes in. She comes in the, she comes in the, in the form of a black dog, a black crow. Crazy man. And I was raised in it. Yeah. She just drove dressed like Chris Robinson. Yeah. It was great. And people come from all over. They still come. And during October is the bellwitch play and it sold out. And I was, I went, my sister got me tickets a couple of years ago and I sent my guy that works at Warner Brothers on the pet. Wow. Was it drinking? He came to see it. He was drinking. Shrinking with Harrison Ford. That's television show. Oh, God. Shrinking on Apple. Does he, uh, Warner Brothers executive, I'm sorry. Is it worth going to see that? Yeah. I think if you, do you want to be around the Damon? I don't, but do you want to go? Do you like scary, man? I would like it. I know you've got the Holy Spirit and that probably bumps you. I think it doesn't make me feel great, but I do like to go over there and just every now and then make sure that the devil's still out and about. So I know that the path I'm on is what I'm supposed to be doing. Right. I get that. I get that because the devil is at work. Okay. There's a cave. You can go in the cave and there's Native American bones. There's animal bones. The witch is in there. People come from all over to go through that cave. I've never been through it. I didn't want to go with my daddy didn't want me to go in it. Oh, my God. And what town is that? And that's over in Adams. That's in Adams, Tennessee on the Kentucky Tennessee border in Robertson County. Wow. There's been movies written about it, books, see children that grew up in Tennessee. You just have to do a book report on it. But now nobody, I don't think they make them do it. The bellwitch cave story is one of America's most famous. Mysteries events experienced by the bell family in Adams, Tennessee between 1817 and 1821. The haunting began when John Bell, the family patriarch encountered a bizarre creature resembling a dog with a rabbit's head on the property. A dog with a rabbit's head. I haven't heard that one. It sounds like a hormone issue, but I don't know a lot. See, Betsy must have been beautiful. And then John, there was a Betsy. Let me see. Disturbances escalated to Erie. Sorry to interrupt you. No, that's all right, Angel. Disturbances escalated to Erie noises, objects moved by unseen forces, bed sheets pulled away. And this could have just been a pervert and violence towards the family, especially daughter Betsy Bell, who experienced beatings and fainting spells day. John Bell. On the real story. You do another real story? Okay. Okay. Okay. First of all, let me say that before Nashville became the capital of Tennessee, it was going to be Adams because of our rich, dark, fired tobacco crops that grow. We grow tobacco for Copenhagen and Skull, but because it was so rich in the land for tobacco, it was going to be the capital. But then for some reason they made it Nashville. John Bell ran for president at one time with the wig party. So they were very prominent family. Lucy must have been a beauty. A man came through town was in love with her. Lucy or Betsy? Lucy. Wait, Lucy, wait, Leah, Lucy's the daughter. Betsy was the mom. Okay. John's okay. So Lucy, she did not want that man. And so to torment her, he could throw his voice. They said he was a ventriloquist. I know what you're going to do with that. I got like Frank Callianda. Yes. Hey, I'm John Groot. You need an exorcism, Betsy. Go on. Hey, Lucy. But they like blamed it on a slave. God love him. And it wasn't him. It was this man that got the slave. Every time I see, he was like, what did I do? This was a man that could throw his voice. He was a mathematician, a ventriloquist, and he filled them all. And then Poison John Bell and killed him. And then she didn't lose. She didn't know it. And I think Lucy ended up marrying him. That's how it works. That's how it works. They say shooters shoot. And women are tranked and twisted. Are they? Yeah. Oh, God. And trauma. And you know, you want to fix people because we're nurturing. So anyway, and that is the Bellwitch. And the whole thing, and people come, and it's always on the front of USA today. It's one of the oldest ghost stories. And it's part of Tennessee history, like you say it. But that's what I was raised. And that's what we're known for. Now, maybe they're known kind of for me, maybe. Oh, yeah. I think so. Me in a witch. I think she's beating me. I think it depends how many tickets do they sell every year to that event? I sell more. Let's go. Let's just say I sell a few more tickets than the Bellwitch. They sell quite a few tickets. But not, but I'm, you know, I did some small arenas this year. And I'm just joking. You know that. I know, but that is popular. And you know, people that love ghosts, love ghosts. Oh, yeah. And people are speaking and, you know, channeling the Beatles and all that kind of crap down there. But I don't like all that. I believe in demons. I don't like all that. Well, you know, we talk. This is one thing that we just did talk about when Sam and Colby were here. These ghosts, Hunter or children, who I'm not saying we're victims of sexual crime is certain. I have no idea. I don't know what their lives were like. That's a legend. I'm not saying that. I read that somewhere. What I am saying is that, yeah, they are. They said, well, we talked about how it's just like if you summon something, it'll show up. It's like having faith asking God to show up in your life. If you sit out there and ask for it to come, it'll be there. And that's what sometimes I think the devil's winning them because you have people that are spending more time summoning the devil. And you have people that are sitting here asking God to show up. But. Seeing there's the thing about the Bellwitch and I'm growing up. My cousins would do it. And it was scary me today. I have to think I'll say your name three times, turn around and she'll appear. Okay. I was at the start home in Birmingham. In Birmingham doing. I finally got to that place. I'd emailed them 11, 12 years. And then finally one day it just came up on the schedule. Now you're going to be at the start. And I bet you killed. I was so excited. Well, I was in the back. You know, they have several little, I guess a little theater in the big, I guess, a little theater in the big theater, what a big room. There was the girl that you've seen in a million posters that go around to comedy clubs and talk to dead people. I mean, she talks to dead people and she says in the audience who, you know, your uncle so-and-so's here. She was in the green room at the start home and she said, and she was at all. And she said, oh, yeah, there's, they're in here right now, dead people. And I thought surely the goodness, our sweet Lord would not, if I die, I would not be in the green room in a comedy club with a half a bottle of mustard with, you know, something on TBS on the TV. I'm surely I'm not going to be stuck in a green room, you know. Yeah. I don't, surely he'll let me walk somewhere fun, not where, you know, the pillars don't match on my sofa. But Horde has sofa there a lot of times. God, this, oh, green rooms are crazy. And then sometimes like this is a green room, like this is a bathroom. It doesn't have a toilet in it. I'm like, you're like, sometimes the green room is, okay, someone's just a curtain. People don't like, oh, there's nothing like that, that all the clubs over the years that coming up, all the places you go do, you know. But I think it's like that about everything. You think like backstage is going to be amazing once you get to certain levels. And then sometimes backstage is you're just hiding behind the edge of the stage, waiting to walk out there. You know, it's all exciting, but it's always just about putting the show on. Make sure that it looks good out there. The backstage is never, it's not like a money spent backstage. It's kind of dusty. Yeah. But isn't it thrilling though? I've watched you in big places and women yelling and all that. I mean, do you, do some of those remain with long hair. Yeah, those are man that have had sex changes, but happy they're there. We did have a got paying a woman's hair one night out there in Colorado. And we gave, we had to give her a free shirt. Because somebody paid in her hire. Yeah. Just drunk and crazy or what was it? I don't know if she wanted a hoodie too. I'm like, maybe girl, okay, you know, they're pretty good shirts. Oh no. Probably $65. Oh, we don't see. Yeah, we actually sell pretty cheap on the road. You do? Yeah, we don't sell like super expensive. Same my people don't want a big hot hoodie, but I've got women in menopause and their husbands. I do skew a little bit younger now. Yeah. But I don't know. I love a hoodie and I think hoodies cute. And I can say we're one of your hoodies would be darling, but I got to go with a V-neck, everybody's sweating. Yeah. Yeah, we used to have the fire starts to have to get out, you know. The heat starts to pop out after a while. And I don't even, somebody does the merch now. It's like a ghost. I never seen him. I don't know. I know I can't even get a hold of my own shirt. People are like, can you get me shirt? I'm like, I don't even know. I just go online and order and pay for it and buy it. Yeah, I can. But it is kind of interesting once it, you know, you get to certain spots or certain parts of your career if you're fortunate enough to have some of those moments. Yeah, what an exciting ride that you've had because did you ever feel like women don't get the appreciation that man did? Did you feel that in comedy? No, I always hear women talk about that and I don't know. Everybody was always good to me. And I never, if I didn't get something, I thought I didn't think of it as man, woman and kind of thing. I just thought I'm not ready or, or I'm not edgy enough, you know, comedy central was big. I would always audition for stuff, didn't get it just for laughs, didn't get it until later. And I never thought of as an a man, woman thing. I just thought, it's not my time or I got to get better or I don't have that whole man, woman thing. I just don't. Yeah. I mean, I always, I know there's a lot more male comics and all that, but I did not feel anything. Nobody was like disrespectful to me or that I didn't deserve something or I just didn't get that. I don't know if people didn't want to bully. I don't, because I'm a mom. I don't know. I have thought that some people don't, people are used to seeing men be the gestures, right? And there is something, or I think it used to be more this way because I don't think it's this way anymore that it used to feel like the gesture is supposed to be a male. You don't want to see a woman like imagine if it's something that's kind of vulgar, or something like that, you know that there's, it's not as popular of a view of women. So I think it took some of it, I think it took time for the view of that to be more possible. Does that make any sense to think at all? That does make a lot of sense. That makes a lot of sense. Now it's like, yeah, you're like, oh, that's exhalerious, you know? But I think there was probably, I could see there being like, you know, a generation or two ago where people were more like, oh, I can't believe she's saying that. Or I think also they want a woman to be pretty and not making faces where she's not as attractive or something. I thought with that like I wanted to be pretty, but I didn't want to look steep. And when I was younger, male, I mean, whatever we can do. Whatever we can do. And Christian Johnson was saying to me, because when I first saw myself on TV, I thought, oh my gosh, where's my chin? And I need to get a facelift and you know, holy wood, now that does that mess to you. And then she goes lean, think about the funny, think about Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore. And you know, instead of just fixating on trying to be youthful and the prettiest and all that. And I do think that's wonderful that this is having to me at my age because I don't have that pressure of somebody. I mean, you look at Nikki Glacier's legs. She is stunning. You know, she is a beauty. Oh, yeah. Like a couple of damn, she got some Charleston shoes on her bedding. Things are nice. But yes, all these young girls that are, you know, so pretty. And I think I feel like that even puts more pressure on them that I don't feel that pressure anymore. I used to feel that pressure. Yeah. So it really kind of, everything kind of happened at the most perfect time you feel like. Oh, I know it, Dean. Right. And it's kind of a silly question because it's, to me, it's all on God's time. And what else am I going to do about it? I know. And you think about it. If I always think if those television deals have made it, these children would not be who they are. My kids. The real tough moments with your kids were they kind of held it against you that that was a more of a thing or something like that. No. No. No. And really, I wasn't, I was not working. I mean, I was working. But I was always there for them. And I never had to hire anybody that nobody ever resented me for anything. I did miss a few things. Did you touch it? Because I was growing up. Yeah. But not by and not by and. I got to be there with them. And when I did that movie with Reese Witherspoon, she said to me every day on that saying it, you got to raise your own children. Like in. He did. I just saw her the other day. I just met her first time. Beautiful. Is she not beautiful and smart? Connor, I met her kid Colin. She had two boys with her Colin. Um, I remember the other two. Oh, Tennessee's the biome. Colin and Tennessee, those are the names. Yeah, I just met her the other day. Yep, beautiful, nice friendly. Beautiful, we chatter for a little while. Actually, I told her I would check in and just say, hey, yeah, I got a say hello, but she's smart. I'm a deacon in Tennessee. Deacon, you saw Deacon and I was trying to think of that baby's not and he's stunning. No, she has two little ones though. That Tennessee's the baby. She had the first two by that Felipe boy. Okay. Ryan Felipe. Yeah. And then this baby, I got to meet, um, well, I met all of them, but maybe his friend was there. I thought it was. Oh, I did. He probably had a little friend with him. He might have had a damn friend. And then I met him. And she said he loves living in Nashville and gets out in place in the neighborhood and does all that. They were joyful children. I mean, yeah, I met them at the Vanderbilt game. Um, yeah, that would be the tough part. I wonder was it tough balancing any of that? Is it tough? Uh, it wasn't tough. I need to tell people it was not tough because I had Chuck Morgan. That was an executive that made good money. So Chuck could help provide everything. Uh huh. I didn't have to, I mean, I took horrible gigs. I did horrible gigs like everybody, but I wasn't sleeping in a Fort Fest, David. Right. And we, yeah, my mother had a Fort Fest, actually. And we used to make jewelry in the trunk in there at night, making jewelry. We sit in there and make loweer rings and stuff like that and bracelets and stuff. Well, I sold jewelry when I started. That's how I got into comedy is I, Chuck Morgan moved me to bean station, Tennessee, and the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. And I sold jewelry like women sell Mary Kaye and Tupperware because I had my first baby and I wanted to stay home with him. And I would, I was supposed to be talking about jewelry and these women's living rooms. And I would, you know, I started some of my first material there talking about breast fein or hemorrhoids or whatever, got laughs. Women would book me foreign advance. And then that gave me the confidence to do comedy club. By the time I got to San Antonio, I had a comedy club and I did open my icon and all that. But I sold jewelry. I wasn't making it in the back of a Fort Fest, David though my darling. Well, yeah, we would just do it in there because it was quiet in there. It was a kind of like, And you need quiet to make jewelry. Yeah, I was just peaceful in there. Connie, you know, we go sit out in the car a lot at night. I would, I'd go sleep out there sometimes. My mom had these boxes. She used to deliver cookies. My mom mostly did delivering. So she was always boxes of some shit at our house boxes. It is like little dambies or what are we talking? All she worked for this cookie company for a while called Vortman Cookies. I remember and I'd go sleep out there in that Fort Fest, David, that bitch of barely go do that thing was probably about 400 pounds of cookies in that bitch. Car only weighed 80 pounds, dude. You could, dude, if you drop something near the car, you could pick it up and look under there for it. It was so easy. Look at that car. Yeah, that one right there. Yep, that was it. ours was gray though. That thing was some mall brother. And my mom could beat all of us and watch. She was driving, play us like a damn drum set. And that's what she was driving. And my long neck brother hit his symbol. I was like, I'm not gonna lie us. But she could, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We're misbehaving in that little car. But yeah, there was never any peace in the area. But I'd go out there at night sometimes and spend a little bit of time. I go lay on those boxes of cookies. They smell so good. They had gingerbread cookies to it around Christmas. I go lay on there and just smell that gingerbread and just pretend I lived in England or something. Oh my, don't worry. I love that. And my mom had a big rug in her room and it was all. It was a cow. I don't know what it was. It was an animal that had died. Real? Yeah. Real hard. I think it was an animal hell. It could have been a damn doberman. I don't know what it was, but it was big. It was pretty big and it looked like somebody milked it. But, uh, and you laid on that. I lay on that thing and just smell that animal and just think of like being out on like the prairie or something or being like a cowboy or something like that. I remember that. Well, you're a imagination, honey, with. It was fun, but yeah, the damn apartment was sinking and people would steal that wood. I just want to finish the love life here. So you so chuck Morgan, you meet him over there in Knoxville and he walks in the wear and sees you at the restaurant that I was working. And what were you doing there working? What was your I was waiting tables and I was standing waiting for my table to get, um, seated and he came through with a training group and he's six foot forward. And I said, your tall is a tree and he said, sorry. And I thought, another buttolls come to work at Grady's. Yeah. And I thought, stay away from him. He's not fun. And he just would like stand next to me, you know, and kind of lurk. And then we'd be in the shade. You mean, I love you. You can't see the positive in it. Lee and go home. And then we would have shift meetings and I'd be eating a bike, batina with some sour cream and butter on it. And maybe cheese. And he would, I remember the second thing he said to me was, you don't need to eat all that fat on your bike, batina. And I thought, man, what a buttoll. I mean, he doesn't need to sit by me. Leave me alone. The next time I think I've said on the back there doing catch ups or something, I said to one of the girls working, I love your Denny and Burke purse girl. The next day he brought me a Denny and Burke purse in a big box with a bow on it. And then started doing all my sidewalk. And if I, if I need, had a TST would say, I'll take your shift, I'll give you the money and started like pursuing me, wooing me. And see, I'd been through a divorce at 23. I was divorced at 23, which how redneck is that? Were you living in a group home where were you living? No, I, well, I've run with two boys that were in the basement. They, I was working at behind a clinic counter. Only that's a group home. I think it's a halfway house goal. No. And they said there's these new apartments. The other wreath or not, wreath or no wreath. No wreath. Yeah. And they say, and one of them worked in the shoes and one of them worked in security. And they said, there's a new apartment complex being built in the fort by UT campus. If you, they call me low, they go, do you want to share an apartment with us? We'll keep you safe. We'll be in the basement. There's two down below the steps. You can have the, there were two bedrooms up. We didn't have a fourth roommate, except one time this little boy moved in there for a little while. It wanted to be a weather man. He did not have it. Oh, yeah. Sometimes it's a guy too. He was gay and darling and we did each other's hair and had a ball. Yeah. Okay, but and some of them, she had a little bitty robe and he had a big pompadot or any wanted to do the weather. But you know, some people just don't have that, that the support behind them. Oh, God. I don't think he ever got to do the weather. But anyway, I don't know how he came in the, but anyway, I took care of these boys. They were dating and doing and and I was kind of like the, not the mall. I was 23 years old, but I made a, I made a good hotel down. I like to make over them. They'd have their girlfriends over. They'd have their boyfriend and guy friends fraternity boys. And so it was something to help me get over this divorce and have, you know, and have friends and all that and turns out, Chuck Morgan was in their fraternity and was in NBA school with one of them. We made that connection later. But by the end, I had, I had been through a horrible divorce. I cut all my hair off. I had a short hair. I had not shaved, but short. I could be. I could be able to join the Air Force at type of shit. If I had had the guts, yeah, but I didn't, I'm CSE. But I didn't want anything to do with me and because I was so hurt and all that and then Chuck Morgan just would not take no for an answer and would and would and would me and bought me gifts and paid my rent and, you know, later now in interviews, he brings it up and acts like he resents it. I had to pay a rent. I go out and nobody asked you to. First thing he told me, I had to pay a hit of them. And boys were written up in his phone. He said, oh, he'll tell you. I said, look, but I'm, he probably kept that receipt. But did you finally, was there a moment you realized you loved him kind of or did you just kind of? Yes, I'm feeling love with him and then, but was there a moment you did or just kind of slowly build up? It slowly built because I did not, I was entrusted. She's because I had been through something terrible. And I told him I've been through something terrible. Don't worry me. And he does not take no for an answer because he's a mobile home salesman. Oh, yeah. They got a lot of testosterone. Oh, they're very dominant. And the first thing you tell him is no. Yeah. And they don't take no for an answer. They can sell. I mean, he's been successful. He does not take no for an answer. He still does. Oh, you're slaying a mojo's, dude. That shit's fucking you got a, you got a lucrative. You can't give up. Oh, yeah. Yeah. More and Buffett company, Berkshire Hathaway. Anyway. Yeah. He would not leave me alone. And then he said, when I get a job after NBA school, we'll get married. And then I was cocktail and he was bartending by the end. And he broke up with me. Um, and he's what? Yeah, he broke up with me for no reason. What? No reason? Well, he said that I smelled from the cigarettes and he could not take anymore. But I don't think that was the main reason. I did smell. Marble lights. Oh, yeah. They're good. They're good. Well, I wish they were healthy. Yeah, they're good. Anyway, I just, I don't know. He was going through, but he broke up with me. And then he bought a used mobile home business up in bean station to the seat where there's no women his age. I think that was also a fan. Oh, he said, there there's women working at the bank, you know, in their four days, had a hard time. Okay. So then I'm down finishing up my degree. I went to Fort Lauderdale on spring break, got a tan. I was a third wheel with another company. Got a matter of bitches son hitting their body. Yeah. And he had never seen me with a tan by the end I was working behind another counter. I had like four jobs, you know, trying to make it. And he saw me with a tan and then saying, can I buy you a pair of tennis shoes? And I was like, maybe. And then I took him back. He bought me a pair of A6. Oh, God, they were nice. They were pretty nice. I thought I was nice. Yeah. Yeah. And he wanted me back. I'd been dating a long-haired boy that was an artist who was poor. Poor. And I do like a man with health insurance. I got a tea. I like a man that when he takes you to Costco, he buys the toilet paper. He doesn't say, let's split it. Yeah. I don't like that. Yeah. So this was a long-haired artist. And one of my roommates said either, lose got a date or were being robbed. And he did kind of look like my sister. But anyway, Charles found out. That's good looking though. Yeah. He was a pretty guy. He was pretty, but he had a bicycle he didn't own a car. He could make mayonnaise from scratch. And that was pretty nifty. Oh my God. And that was considered also a hair. People put in their hair back then, remember that? Yeah. People put in their hair condition. Yeah. And he also, I thought about this the other day because it was fall. He made pumpkin cheesecake. He said, I'm going to, this was lowered. What was this? The early 90s and he goes, you know what? I think pumpkin, can pumpkin would be good in a cheesecake. And I remember thinking, I don't even know what you're saying. Who was this fruit wizard over here? Yeah. Who was this fucking Halloween fruit wizard doing that crazy shit? I mean, that was considered damn experimental at the time. Oh no. He really was kind of a savant. So then he said to me, he was in over his head. And then Marie counters, I'll tell you that. That's for sure. Uh, and he wrote a bicycle. And the bicycle had a sticker on the bank of it said burn fat, not all. And I was driving a Toyota Corolla. Oh, those are nice. Mm-hmm. That my little daddy bought me because I had been driving after a divorce. My granddaddies in Palla that was beige that when I drove through a parking lot, people threw dope out of the window thinking I was the FBI or the police. Did it have one of those lights on the outside of it? Remember those? Sometimes you get those police vehicles. People with that auction. That was the big thing in our town. Somebody to get them a damn auction vehicle and bitches. Go on though. So, um, and so, uh, the, uh, the long hair boy sent to me out. And when, if we marry, I want to stay home with the children and you be the bread winner and, and I broke up with him that day. And I was like, I'm not, I don't have any earning potential. And I need somebody who's a hunter and a gatherer like Chuck Morgan. I've never had to worry about Chuck Morgan. If, whatever happens, if the world's coming to an end, Chuck Morgan will get out there and dig ditches or drop a trunk or do whatever he does. He'll be fine. He'll be fine. He can make it off a flat rock. I love it. He can make a living off a flat rock. Amen. So, um, yeah, so that, that, we married and then that's when he took me up into Appalaches. It's because yeah, once you get something good, you go hide in near the mountain. You got, you got to hide it somewhere if you're a man. So he put you over there. He put me up in those mountains. It's been, been station Tennessee. Beans station Tennessee. Pull that up. I want to see that beautiful joint. That's, and it's beautiful looking at the mountains and the lake, but we didn't have that. We didn't have that kind of view. Every tiny town, there wasn't IGA grocery store. I remember those. Uh, huh, I liked it. It was good. And there was a post office and his business was right behind the post office and he had that business at 27. And he bought that business and was running and employees. Is car washer? What was it? He used mobile home refurbishing business. Oh, I like that. And I worked for him a few weeks and I, and we don't work well together. And I honest to goodness, I know that that helped start my comedy career because I saw all things you've never, I saw a family drive up in a Gremlin with the wind out and nine year old smoking a cigarette looking for a single wide. And they came in the office and the grandma was saying, um, or the baby saying, give me a light, mamma. She led her cigarette off of that, um, her grandma. Oh, she was nine and I thought, okay, I need to go home. I need to go home, get pregnant. Oh, yeah. Nothing. I mean, take things. I mean, it was a lot. Oh, yeah. I want something to, I want something to come out of climb out of my body and start smoking. Yeah. But I, um, yeah, it was, um, my husband is very, um, loving and giving and there would be like if a family didn't have a home. There was a little, a woman that didn't have a, that, and then wanted to house and he said, she said, I can make you blankets. And so he took a blanket that she would make every few mods and that was her payment. So Chuck Morgan also had a mobile home park and bought all the children and their Christmas. He would come home and say, we've got to get a Justin Bieber doll. I say up. I'd be like, okay. So then Chuck went to work for a big company because he, he would give everything he had away to everybody and he still does. He still is very giving and loving, not to his own family. No. Not at all. He kept you in putting the heels. He tells me that I don't need to be flying first clients on tour. So because all these boys have these big buses and stuff, these comedians have, I am in a Mitsubishi rental car. Yeah. Oh, yeah. This baby and I share a hotel room. I talk about that in this new special on Netflix that dropped. That's the truth. If people watch this, Chuck Morgan wants us to share a hotel room. He's going to be 28 years old. We are sleeping butt to butt in the king. God. Yeah. Oh. And he prefers us to eat the free continental breakfast. Some of them, now I went, I will say this, the ones that hampton in got better. They did an upgrade about nine years ago. Yeah. That I respected. You could start to see if they put like pictures inside of the elevator and I was like, okay. Okay. Okay baby. And they had that little omelette you could get with cheese in it. That was good. I started to get that thing waffle maker. But then somebody fucking leaves it on it. You have to turn it over. It's very hard to use. I watched somebody, you'll see somebody get burned. There's a lot of issues. I wonder if they're still keeping those. But hampton in there. But they make a good waffle, those things. It's got a great job. Yeah. And you know what hampton ends clean. Clean, you know. Of course, man. Yeah, those are the days, you know. Well, I was still in. I'm still in. I'm. But, you know. But that's love. This one, he was not used to this. Like, I didn't make money for a year. I mean, I'd make a little bit of money and get my children's Santa Claus, get everybody a haircut, not save for taxes. That he'd be real mad, you know, come able. But then when this started happening, you know, he's just not used to it. Takes your family while to figure out what's happening. The baby knew what was happening because she's out there with me. He's like, this could end tomorrow. Yeah, he just, yeah. He's just looking at the balance sheet when you guys get home. It's never great, you know, who spent $60 at a day of windies, you know. And it's just like, well, you know, or in an airport, one of those, you know, you got to have some magnesium for strides. So, you know, it asks you, yeah. And how long have you guys been married now? It'll be 34 and I'm almost beautiful. And three babies and two grand babies. And everyone asks, what's the secret to 33 years of marriage? I say it's a lot of praying in the bathtub. It's hard. Tornado prayer is kind of. Yeah. It is, it's hard. And you just gotta fight the big battles, not the little ones, you know, just let things roll off your back because it's a lot to live with somebody. And it's not, it's not easy. It's not easy. And Chuck Moreiner, both very opposite. He's very introverted, very anal retinive. Everything's gotta be in its place. I'm an artist. They go. Yeah. My, my junk drawer is pretty bad in my kitchen. But I've raised these children, they're fun. Like if I, he's very well educated and love school. If he had been at home with them, I'm always saying it. If he went traveling, they would end up in Harvard with a nervous tick. But they had me and we went to the zoo and we went to Dollywood. I didn't let them skip school, but we had a good time. I love that. And they want to be with me now. Of course they do. You know, they're fun and they want to be with me. But they're not over, they're, they did great, but they're not, he's an overachiever. Not us. Never enough, never enough driven driven. I'd realize now I'm kind of driven in my stand up. I want things to be like the special coming out. I worried, I told you at the UT Ball Game, I'm worried sick. I just, you know, it's just, it's never good enough for me. I don't, you know, I wish I could do it a hundred times more. Even though I don't, because it'll give me the shingles. I don't want to do it again, because it'll give me the shingles. Unspeakable thing that just came out on Netflix. Congratulations, you're second one. Yes, thank you, my darling, my second one. And it went to number one. Oh, Netflix. And then, you know, in my mind, I'm thinking, oh, nothing else came out that week. Raw wrestling will be out Monday. That'll knock it out. And then the squid games, the little children who are, I don't even know what that is. But my, okay, my television show had to compete with, that went to number two. Then had to compete with those girls that were killing those boars in their panties. Oh, I don't know if I saw that. Was that- Honeywaves? Oh, I haven't seen honeywaves as good. It is kind of, it's nasty. If you like a good nasty, there's some lesbian going zone. Oh, I've heard about this. And they're killing boars in their panties. People are watching Mormon wives right now. I've heard it is fascinating. Shit, I'll take either one of them. I'll take it. I got to get a dang wife. I think I can handle a hunt and wife. Whoever made that show, I don't think cares for Republican people in Texas, because it's about Republican people that are shooting boars in their panties. And that was number one. I never got to number one with my television show because I could not compete with that. Who could? Who could? Honey, you got to number two, and that's great. I think that's perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, that's love. So you got Chuck Morgan. You got your, you've had a nice life so far, Lee and- I do. I do. I do. They call you Lou. I do. In college, everybody called me Lou in Costco. Were you a tomboy kind of? And I love sports. And then I'm, you know, then I love boys. And I got real boy crazy. And I still played sports, but I didn't care as much. And then I projected on to my children and my kids play all these sports, because I knew I didn't do as much as I should. I love that though. You have to do that as a parent. Yeah, they play club volleyball. My girls play it all over the United States. Travel. Yeah, oh, my kids, my kids are going to play shit that I never got to do. Whether they wonder. Are you looking at the lead? Did you play ball? I played high school basketball. I smoked also at the same time, but they let me play. I was pretty good for- I was the only kid that was smoke. It was an active smoker. Yeah. Like I remember one time I was out there smoking in the- One of the assistant coaches out there smoking. So nobody could say shit. But I was pretty good for somebody out there that was that had a- They didn't have your full lung capacity. Yeah, I had a- Yeah, I was good in spirts. That was my nickname. I was good in spirts. Well, they may play everything because I went to this little bitty town in country school and they made- I was tall. So I played softball. Yeah, the model. Basketball. Basketball. Basketball, everything. Meet up at her for in the field and people are lost and meet up at her. The tall person always gets all the action. The lighthouse of the fucking world when you're tall. Those are the days, especially in a small community. Yeah. In tall one. I miss that though. I miss like- Yeah, there's something I wonder where I'd like to live one day whenever I get a family and stuff, maybe in a small place. There's small little towns around middle Tennessee that are darling. Do you think you'd want to stay in Tennessee? I think so, you know. I want to spend time back in Louisiana when I can, but I do. I've enjoyed it. I miss my home. I miss a lot of the people, but I go back and see them. Every time I'm home, I spend most of my time home traveling and seeing teachers that taught me when I was a kid. I feel close to the lot of people from my childhood. You've had to have been very smart and bright and they knew it. I don't know what I was. Because you're so quick-witted. I do all right. I guess what was all like? I don't know what I was like. I bet you were a yummy little kid and they thought that kid's got it. Like Elvis and JLo and Michael Jackson. You know, when somebody's got it, they've got it and you can't manufacture it and you haven't. Well, that's a sweet thought. They know it's true in my darling lane. And then you're bright and you're quick-witted. So I knew you were smart. And then, you know, people are fun. They used to bank them that used to smoke. That's fun. That's a fun kid. Wrong. Nobody needs to be smoking now. Let's say they had nobody needs to be smoking now. But it is fun to watch a kid smoke. You know what I'm saying? When that nine-year-old pulled up in your store to buy that double-wide and he's a little girl. That's a little girl. Look, she's getting a discount. We had a smoking porch at my school. Everybody smoked on that porch. I didn't smoke then. I waited until I got to UT and I started like 19 because all these girls at White and Taples had Louis Vuitton purses. I wanted to be like them. Yeah, of course. And they were like, let's go smoke in the bathroom, screw that manager. Oh, dude, I remember her first time. Yeah, I never, like, yeah, I definitely smoked and then finally got a little bit of cocaine. And then, who gave you cocaine? I don't remember. I just remember I'd been... There was cocaine in a little town in Louisiana. Not a lot. Not a lot. Not a lot, but somebody had it. Enough to keep you up. And I didn't even know what in the world. We didn't know what... There was a couple of boys that they'd be like, they ain't lying to me, dope. But we stayed away from, we were scared of them because they were all these farming kids that have future farmers of America, Jenkins. So we stayed away from that, but we couldn't write a paper either. You know, we were... We weren't ready for college, but we weren't. We weren't in a wild. It was insulated from farming people. Oh, yeah. Well, that was more when I got to college in our town. We never had. Yeah, you'd have people smoking... Oh, so it was college. Yeah. But yeah, in our town, you did have people smoking, but it was like, we, yeah, we're smoking dope. Yeah, like those kids smoked dope. That's when they would say dope, you didn't really see like pills and stuff back then. It would just be people got high on weed and it was kind of an issue. But I don't know. I miss it. I miss this being in our neighborhood. You know that guy. They all was impersonating who put that fence up. Yeah. He broke in his leg and so somebody said it in cement, right? Say money from going to the hospital or whatever. So they set that bitch in cement and it must have been fine, right? Seven weeks or whatever they take that cast off, they broke the cast off. They broke it with a... The hammer was too big that they broke it with and it broke his hip when they beat the... Are you kidding me? No, I'm not kidding at all. When they hit the thing with the hammer, it cracked his hip. So now he is shit's rebroken up at his hip and he ended up getting that kind of tick talk and him like that. And he got into Elvis impersonating, which is so wild. But then he helped him when he John rated. Well that's what I'm saying. Yeah. He was built like it was just about to be noon. He was built like, you know what I'm saying? Another 60 ticks and it was time, you know, it was lunch break, you know what I'm saying? He was just a damn pentameter walking around town. That's all he was. All those things were the thing goes back and forth, you know. When you pull the ball and you let it go and then this one goes and it's like that. That was him. He was just ticked, my gutter right there and he was just cruising around. But yeah, he had a couple kids, kept him in the yard and I don't even know what that story was about. He kept them in the yard. And that was the electric fantasy guy. I don't remember how that hole started. All right. Let me ask you, how far is St. Francisville? Is that anywhere near where you were right? That's about two and a half hours from me. You know who it was from there that you're making me think of. John Morgan, the raging, raging, raging, I open for him. You did? I've opened for him. Yeah. Bring him up. He was a good storyteller and he still is. And he could get a crowd going. God, he could. Very high energy. John Morgan, the raging, cajun. That was at the stardome. I opened for him, our feature for him at the stardome and then in San Antonio. Play a clip is okay, but he can't or just, is he still doing it? I wonder. Yeah, I think so. God, there was nobody like him. The doctorate of the years of being together, you make love and you move on. You get up and you move on. You ask the right questions. You want some nut buns and milk? No. I ain't going to lie, nut buns, I'm going to lie. I'm going to lie. Would have left the whole milk, sheen. You know what? You can ask me, you want to fuck or you want another one to make milk. Let's whole milk. Poor that glass. I love him, man. He was the best when I was starting out. I mean, he's a great comedian. There's a lot of comedians that people that don't get some of the acclaim maybe in some time. I know. Do you remember little Mark Ryan? Mark Ryan was a good storyteller, a tune that was kind of like him and he was right again. Mark Ryan. No, I do remember Mark Ryan. A little blonde hit it. Yeah. That boy. Oh, wait, you know what? I don't know if I remember him. I'm working for a thing. That's cool. Yeah. And hard to know. I probably did. He yelled. Yeah. I mean, like, you know, high energy like John Morgan. Oh, dude, John Morgan, but John Morgan lived in St. Francisville. I believe in he had a little Asian daughter. They adopted a daughter. I believe. And he had this. He would tell some stories about her. He was, he's one of the best storytellers out of her. He kind of reminded me of that Jerry clout in some ways, you know, but yeah, there he is right there. John. Yeah, he's a sweet guy. He's staying touch with me. Yeah. He was darling, raging cage and John Morgan. Well, one of my good friends owns, I ask you that because one of my friends owns an in in St. Francisville that is beautiful. And I go there sometimes. And I just didn't realize how and I did the shows in Baton Rouge and Treeport. And I thought Louisiana is fascinating. People in Louisiana are fun and wild and darling. I had a ball. Which one of the reasons I think they there's not a lot of comedy clothes there because you can have just a good time talking to somebody. Anybody. Anybody there is an entertainer. Everybody there is a comedian. Everybody is going to open their mouth and you're going to hear something that's going to make you smile or think or question. They're entertaining. An entertaining state. It's one of the most native states where people are born there that never leave. I think like per capita, it's the number one where people are born that never even leave the state. They're born and then die right there. I think because they just got everything they need over there. You know, so it's a special place. You're a special person, Lee Ann Morgan. Thank you so much. Yo, my Jordan. You don't need me to thank you, Marini. I feel like I need to do something. I'm for you for letting me be on here because you're so darling. You know what you can do for me? Really honestly? Come back next year, will you? I'm a darling. Do you mean it? Yeah, because I've just had so much fun. This has been a gift of my whole life. It's just like, yeah, the past week, I did Joe Rogan's podcast yesterday and it's like sometimes it's like, you know, it's like, I think sometimes I live in a place where it's like, there's so much of me out there, like just online. And some of this could be like paranoia or ego stuff. I don't know. But it's still something that I think about sometimes that I just get, I don't know. I've just felt like nervous the past few weeks. So to be able to sit down in a conversation that is easy and it's fun. You know, Joe is like, he knows a lot of information. So it's like, you're having to learn a lot. And like sometimes I think I feel like I don't, it's hard for me to like chime in because I don't really know about stuff. And this is just two people don't know what a lot. And we can just, which is what I love. Oh, you angel. When I want you, I think, and I'm not blowing smoke up your bottle. When I want you, I think, I'm also, I think when I launch you, I think he's got the sweetest spirit. You've got a sweet spirit. Oh, thank you. You really do. And I feel like God gave me that discernment. I know we're doing it. And I've always, and I've said to John Crest and to he and people that know you and they go, he's got the sweetest spirit. They think it too. And just so bright, you're such a bright light. When I think of you planking and then talking about those hamster bones. Oh, yeah. And we were crying, laughing so hard. There's just nobody like you. And that's, and you know, in this business, I mean, you're just so unique. There's just nobody like you. And I hope you know that and you give so much joy. When I told people I was doing this, they said, please tell him hello from me. My stylist who's from Australia, who dresses Oprah Winfrey and Maria Schrover said, I love him. She goes, I would marry him. Everybody wants to have a baby with you. I just want you to know that I would have carried you one for you. I think Chuck would have left me. I was very fertile at one time. I could have done it. I'm very healthy. I'm a farm in people. We killed our own beef. Yeah. I could have done it. And I would have done it because you've got to have some children. You are so beautiful and fun and your teeth are pretty. Well, thank you. Yeah, I appreciate it. I want to have kids. I want to have a family and stuff. It's been like, you know, it's tough. It's like you got to meet the right person. You know, I don't know. I met somebody that was kind of neat the other day. And so that was kind of cool because it made me think like, okay, this is still possible, right? Or not that ends up, like if there were ever anything there. Like, because sometimes you start to be like, you know, you get in this space where just something doesn't kind of click for a long time, you know, like you meet people. When you go on dates, I'm like, you have people you just kind of like are flinging with or flandering with. But when you're like, oh, this is the partner that I want. I think like, are there something about this person? Just that would keep me interested for a long time, you know, just something about them. I don't know what it is. Maybe they got, you know, it could be a damn mole or something or they're missing a fucking birdabour or whatever. One of them bitches is off a little, you know what I'm saying? Like, they got a vert like this. But you want a girl that wants to have baby. Yeah, I would like to have a woman that likes to have a, that wants to be a good mother. That's super important to me. That's hard working. You know, I'd like to have a, I want an attractive woman, but that's not the most important thing to her, you know, like, you know, you could be attractive, but if that's the most important thing to you, that's, that's okay, but that's not really what I need. I need somebody, you know, like, just like a teammate. But here's the thing, it's like, it's, it's just always hard to figure out, but then once you start trying to figure everything out, that ruins everything. So, you know what? God's made it perfect for me that I got to do all this work, you know, I got to go to and do all these fun things and live out like a lot of my dreams, you know? I know. You know, you're living them out. I know. It's crazy. I'm out. I'm leaving them out. I could say this. I knew this as a child. Did you know it as a child? No. I knew something was wrong. I didn't know what it was. You didn't because I'm her stay. Mark stay Harvey say to this teacher. When she said, what do you want to be when you grow up because I'm gonna be on television at 10 and she said, no, you're not. It might find out. All right. And then I heard any Murphy in an interview on today's show. He said, I knew I was gonna be famous. I feel like in Adamson, say at nine or 10 years, I thought it's something wrong with me because that's all I could think about it as I wanted to be in movies and in television. And I thought it's something wrong because nobody else is talking about things, but I just knew it in my heart. But then I, you know, I went to school and got divorced and all this crap. And then this happens to me at this time in my life, but I could say it. I didn't know it was gonna be this unbelievable. It's bigger and sweeter than I ever dreamed of. But I could say, I could say this happened in for me. And I just wondered if you felt that way. You didn't know? I knew, you know, at one time I got voted most likely to either be on TV or succeed. You know what? I loved laughing with my friends. I just loved it. I loved making people laugh. I just loved it. You know what it was? It made me think that it gave me some sense of worth, you know? I was like, you know, I don't even know if I wanted to be joking around all the time, but I felt like it was the only way that I knew that I had some kind of a value as a kid. If that's kind of crazy, you know? And not to make like a sad thing, but I think it makes sense as a kid. You're like, oh, well, this is, if I do this thing, whatever it is, you know, if it's a trick of a hot-mott legs behind my neck, whatever, you know what I'm saying? Or do that, you know, do, you know, some weird shit or something. And like, tuck my eyes in and whatever it is. Then like people think it's fun. You know, I didn't do any of those things, but if I say certain stuff, it's entertaining to people, you know? So it's like, well, I gotta just do that, you know? I don't know. Did I ever see it? I don't think so. I didn't go to a comedy club, I was in college. I didn't really know it existed. I'd seen like Chris Rock and I knew he was very, you know, he was just so funny in the way he sounded and just him, you know? But I'd never felt like I was close to that. I didn't know about comedy club. I watched, I would watch, you know, David Letterman and Jay Leno and all that. But I was more like, I wanted to be like Lucille Ball, Carabiner, and I didn't know there was, I thought I didn't know how to get there, but then I came into the comedy store, Chuck Morgan took me to the comedy store and we were dating. And we came out to LA and I said, I wanna go on that herst. I wanna go in there and see where people have been murdered in LA. That was beautiful. Oh, it was fun. And then I wanna go to the comedy store in Little Dom Arrera was up there. Oh, yeah. And I had my heart beat out of my body and I thought, okay, that's it. I think I can do that yet. And I wanna do that. But I didn't know how to know. But you just start and then that's the thing. You know what somebody said one day they said, you kinda start this job and then comedy chooses you. It's like, does your life work out enough for it? There's so many great comics that, you know, John Morgan might have had to raise his daughters and stuff like that and your or his family. And you know, he, he, his, he had a beautiful wife. I'm not sure if they still remember, but I remember. They are and she's like a detective or an investigator or something because she was in a documentary about a murder in Louisiana. God, I love that. And that's every woman's dream. But no, he had a beautiful wife. He just had such a great life that it's like, at a certain point, like, well, shit, this life's so great here. They're, you know, I'm not saying, but that, but it's like, somebody said, at a certain point, it kinda chooses you. Can you still do this? You know, I didn't like any commitment. So I didn't like, so that was one thing that was perfect for me. It was like, oh, I have a chance to leave. I wanna go. If, oh, I can say bye, I wanna go. Whatever it is, I have somewhere else I have to be. I don't have to be right here. So it's been good, you know? It's given me so many unique things. I mean, now it's like more, it's fun because you get to have like unique experiences and like, you know, like you go places and they'll let you be on a sideline. Sometimes it feels a bit extravagant for me. And I wish that some of the things, it was a little more normal. Some of the popularity part, I do not like about today. A lot of that's from social media and stuff. I'm not saying boo-hoo or anything, but some of it's uncomfortable. You know, some of you wanna just be like in a place where you're sitting there with everybody else, just kind of enjoying the deal, you know? That's the first time I went on the field, was it at UT? And you did great when you came out there and weighed all like she's a pro. Thank you. I was very nervous and that didn't feel real to me like I deserved to be. I don't know, I just thought, what in the world? What are they doing? I love my school. I don't want anybody to know my GPA. I mean, I barely got out of there. And they're so good to me. They're so good to me, because I'm the only comedian that came out of there. And I guess, but that made me feel special, but I thought, what am I even, what am I doing? But it was wonderful and Chuck Morgan enjoyed it, no? I'm glad he did. Well, you know what, and you're inspiring young women to do comedy and inspiring young Southern women, and we need that. We need like the South to stay alive through storytelling, you know, it's like we need that. I would love to eventually get back to just telling stories from home, like just stories from growing up and locking it down, more really getting in and like writing some tales from growing up. I hope that that's something that's part of my future. Can you tell the best stories from growing up? Well, I love them. And it's something, you know, it's like, but it's like, yeah, it's just important. And it's so good that you're doing it. And you know, one thing I forgot about my wife, I want a funny gal. Some of the funniest girls I think are from Philadelphia and New Jersey. I'll say that for now. I'm glad you're funny. They are funny. And I'll Laura Pake. I mean, she's from Tennessee. She's great. She's married. We got her in. I know she opened for me a lot. And she would tell me that she'd be out on the road with you. She'd be out there with you. We had so much fun. She's very funny. She's the best. When you have a show in town, you're going to have to invite me. I'm going to, I think we're going to finish up and here's why because I'd rather you come back sometime when we get to do it again. It's been so much fun. Oh my, I don't think you're funny. I'll make you a cancero. Yeah, you promised Morgan one. Look, you make me one, I'll give it to Morgan. I'm going to see him tomorrow at Bible study, actually. So you will see him at Bibles. I think he's going to end up preaching. That little thing, you know, I have no idea. I just know, yeah, I don't know. He's an inspiring guy. He's just, he's an internet. Morgan is, he is him, you know, he is him. Authentic. He is. But you're authentic. We have to show him. And you're in a Bibles study. Is it a Beth Moore? What are you all studying? I mean, it's, I mean, tomorrow, I think we're watching a movie, but it is a, it is Bible study. That's so sweet. They all gone. I'm not sure what you have to wrong. I shouldn't even have said that because I'm not in one right now. I used to be in one. I was growing up raising my children, but I don't, I'm not in one. And I need to be disciplined to do it on my own. Well, that's when you need the lower the most of when you're raising those little henchwomen. And man, but no, I'll tell him you said, hey, and that was fun. Even just to get to see you guys next to each other when I saw you all at the game and talking to each other, like little moments like that, like bring me so much joy when there's like two people that you think are like, all these people are so interesting and they get to meet each other or get to spend time around each other, you know, watching stuff like that is fun. All right, Leon Morgan, unspeakable things. Yeah. It's out now. You're second special. It's on Netflix. You guys can go and watch it. And you're going to be touring again. At some point, no, you're going to do the second season here show. I'll do the second and we'll wrap. I think in April and I'll start touring again. If I can come up with another hour hunting, I'm working on that. You'll be fine. Willa. I think just have to talk Morgan tell you the truth about yourself. I know. Yeah. It'll hurt, but it's taken. Yeah. We're taking what I eat. And if I'm eating too much, fat, Lord, he does give me a lot of material he does. He does. See, that's a blessing. Yeah. I think yeah, you got so many. And when you marry and have babies, that's a whole another you're going to have to work for another 30 years hunting because you're going to be so prolific overall. Really? Oh, yeah. I think that was my best. I'm ready for something. I got a prayer. I got a spend more time in prayer. I think you know, but it's okay. Everything is fine. Everything is wonderful. Look at your skin tone. Thank you. I just said my hair is. And you got that full in air. You didn't have to go over to talk. It's over the time of year. You know, I don't know what that is. I'm up to call a few houses. Yeah. You all know. Tell me what it killed you to teach your hair, Lian. Let me get back there. See if you put a little conditioner in it or nothing. A root left. Yeah. Maybe he'll just help me get a root lift. I, uh, I think for him and the sweet angel from heaven. Oh my God. You're the best. Uh, Leanne Morgan. Thank you so much. Um, the pride of Tennessee. Here she is. And uh, grateful to spend time with you today. Go balls. Go balls, my darling. I'm just floating on the breeze. And I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be. Corner stone. But when I reach that ground, I'll share this piece of mind. I found I can't feed it in my bones. So it's going to take.