Comedian Leanne Morgan: From Housewife to Fame at 57!

Really now, really.

Really now really hello, and welcome to really know really but Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden two old guys who respectfully ask you to subscribe to the show so they can make it big.

And that, by the way, is something that rarely happens in the entertainment business.

Notoriety and success, if it comes, often occurs early in a performer's life. It also often leads young stars to crushing downfalls, addiction, financial ruin, and other personal tragedies. That's why our guest today says it's better to become famous later in life when you have the wisdom and experience

It all skyrocketed when her first.

YouTube comedy special reached an audience with over fifty million views. Really, no, really, Today we'll talk about her brand of Southern inspired comedy and whether it's truly better hitting.

It big later in life. So get ready to laugh.

Here's Jason and Peter to introduce their new comedy Crush miss Lee and Morgan.

Yes, look at us, we're hearing you. Where would we be? Yeah, you're right? What are we doing? You like doing this though? Right? I do enjoy this, you do. I am fascinating people because of you and people.

And not only have I met fascinating people, You've gone out of your way to introduce me via this podcast to people I have been really excited to meet, and today we get to do that for you because you've been talking about our guest. This is someone who sort of jumped off the screen for you and really caught your attention. And I see why I've now you know what generally does. This is a really special comedian and you are, oh my god, people that can spend.

And having been around comedians and we've talked about a new Carl and John Rivers of course. Yeah. LeAnn Morgan. I watched her comedy special and she's Southern and when the specialist time I go, she's brilliant and you don't realize it brilliant because it doesn't look like she's working down for its. It's effortless. So I dying to have her on. And the really you know really here is she didn't really pop and make it, and so she was in her fifties and really fifty seven.

Yes, it's so it's a late blooming career. I'm not saying a late blooming talent, but a late blooming yah.

And she had opportunities. She'll tell you about that. Because what what the really know really for me is and I know we discussed this is all those people that you run across to go. You know, I'm so glad that I became big later in life, because early I wouldn't be knowing to have the wisdom later in life to handle it.

Because all right, Leanne, welcome to our show. First of all, thank you, and we are so happy to have you here. And I am no less enamored of you than my friend Peter. However, I will tell you what it is specifically about you that gets to him.

And then because he'll tear up if he does.

Peter considered his relationship with the late great Joan Rivers.

She was like another mother to him.

She has meant so much to him, and what he sees when he watches you perform is a very similar not in what you talk about or the style, but he sees a woman whose success has come at a really interesting time, with a similar work ethic, with an ease with people, who is just talking about real things in a real way and enjoying her audience, and.

All of the way you do.

What you do evokes for him such a strong connection and memory of Joan that he feels so warmly and so loving toward you, having never met you, that he's never been this silent in the history of our relationship.

Because it talked from the heart. And we're out of time, by the way, thanks for being with us, Me and Morgan. We're actually got a book. She's appearing at the tribal for tell Everybody, just in case somebody tuned in and lean Organ. She has the top comedy specials on Netflix. She's got tons of a billion views YouTube sensation that happened later in life, a book coming out, any book coming out. She's on and she's getting ready for yet another tour and she's as big as you can be

Thank you for all of your angel thank you, thanks a lot to make, and thank you all for heaving me.

We're thrilled. Oh don't be Oh, my.

Husband's not here.

I thought about that because he would be weird, and that weird, and I don't lean that. I'm in a hotel room in Kansas City, Missouri. I've got a show tonight and one tomorrow night, and then I can go to Minnesota.

And I wanted to have.

One a cute talk, stylish, stylish.

I do have someone now.

I do have someone now because I made a lot of missteps. I was on a budget, raising a bunch of kids with a tight husband, Chuck Morgan was so tight. But now I'm not making big purchases, Peter, I'm not. I'm not made the biggest purchase I've made since this happened to me. And they asked me on the Wall Street Journal. And it's a playground for my grand babies.

I bought and.

It's not that big a deal. It's just one of those things where it won't flanter.

You know. It's got for little children. It won't hurt them.

It's the night's time that they bring in their build in your yard.

I will just warn you if it's made at the plast stick stuff with the metal stuff, it's going to heat up like an inferno.

I've burned many a child on those things. So and by the way, in the South, you have stuff in your backyard that's intended to kill kids. You got trampoline, you got all kinds of stuff. You can go. Oh, nothing happens over opens unfed federal dogs. I know it's it's the nervous. So could you tell everybody just to get people listening up to speed, please, Okay.

I met Chuck Morgan at the University of Tennessee and we married and he made a bean station Tennessee in the foothills of Avalanche mount All the time though from the time I was a child, I wanted to be in show business, you know, but like kitchen, the teeth and you think maybe I'm crazy, you.

Know, I shouldn't think that or whatever. But I always had to bake. So we go to Think Station.

I get pregnant with my first baby, Charlie, who's now thirty, and I wanted to stay home with him a nurse and and that like.

Just spend money and that's not a stick. I'm not kidding, Chuck. I wanted to get my hair halighted. I wanted to buy Charlie an outfence.

So one of my girlfriends was selling jewelry in the Ashual, Tennessee, and she goes, it's like Mary Kay or tuber Land, and you'll make a little money and you can stay home with Charlie. And I started selling jewelry and women's houses. At night, we put they put a dip out or in a pan of brownie.

We beat deep.

And then I started like I developed an act. And I look back on it now and I think, oh my gosh. There were no comedy clubs for I heard, but I thought I had my own little comedy club every night, and these women thought I was funny.

Carmen Peede on a count.

She now works for my eye doctor at her We hold each other every time. I see her, I told her, I go, you don't understand, Carmen. It was a god thing you peed on that count. It gave me the courage to go. I think I can make it anyway.

Woman thought I was funny. They started booking my.

Parties like a year in advance, and then the company noticed and asked me to start speaking at their big things, and so I would do. I was supposed to be talking about booking parties, and I talked about breastfeed and hemorrhoids and all that, and women would come up.

To me and say, you need to be a stand up. So that gave me the courage.

And then I went to my first comedy club in Nashville to saying open for Billy Gardelle. And that was probably my baby was eighteen months old. She's twenty six.

So a lot of years of comedy.

Books, a lot of years, honey. And I remember Brian Dortan saying to me at Zane's, who is now one of my concert promoters, and I love him.

And he said, Lenn, you cannot You cannot do this.

In clumbs and be a like a stand up, like the regular path and raise these three children.

And he was right. I remember it made me mad, but he was right. So I just had to do when.

I could and do just a different I had to do a different path.

Yeah, jumping a bit of head social media wise, which is still the thing. I explained it to Jason, and I laughed as I start to talk about it. Is you talking about going to the Journey concert.

And if you forget any bits of the route and Peter can fill it in for you, well.

And that that's what turned everything around.

I'm not kidding.

I was about to quit.

I thought I'm gonna go to work at Target. And I knew I was having a grand baby, and I said, and I thought, if this doesn't hit, I paid these two little boys, I say little boys, they were in their twenties to do my social media.

I've been putting up pictures of docs.

And then I gave them a little bit of money, well a lot of money to me, a lot of money. And I thought, I'm gonna give it three months and he put out first clent was made taking Chuck Morgan to go see Death Leparding Journey. Okay, so what I say had one in the eighties when I went to the University of Tennessee where we went to see Death Leopard and Journey.

I was, this was the eighties.

I saw Tina Turner, Brod Stewart, John Cougar, Mellen Kane, Felton John, and I was so cute and tiny in my breeches, you know, I was. I had had a metabolism and my thyroid was functioning, and I didn't care about food.

You know. I eat a half a can of tuna and go, I'm full.

Well, the man Chuck Morgan go to Deth Liberty Journey. First of all, I thought we were gonna have a date night, and he goes, i' don't have time for that.

Land It was a it was a week night.

So he stopped at the gas station and got a tall Boy and an egg Sally sandwich and ate that on the way and then he burnt.

I had to smell that all night.

But anyway, we get to the Thomson Bowling Arena and everybody there was fifty and older, and everybody was at the snack bar. Journey was already on state. Nobody cares, nobody cared.

Everybody was at the snack bar, and I was too.

I was so hungry and I was getting a big thing a popcorn, like a big bucket, a popcorn and a everybody had a big old dik coke, and I love a dyk coat. I'm gonna get all but one. We were all sucking on those big dank coats. Finally get to the sea, and you know, Steve Perry's.

Not with Journey anymore, which I love. I loved him, yes.

But they something's happened, something's gone down. They've had a fallen down. They've hired some little man who is tiny from another country, who sings just like Stave Harry.

It's crazy. I mean, you shut your eyes with no one and you could tell that little thing is in good shape.

And you could tell he hasn't been eating white Farne sugar.

And he hasn't been doing dough.

You know, we hadn't been taken dough and sleeping with nasty women like all the old boys in Churny, can you know?

They all so that little fella is just going up and down that big stage and flipping and churning and squatting and don and then all those old boys in the back looks sick, and.

There in the back.

Just barely strumming a good tar.

And then but they were wonderful. Okay.

Then death Lepert comes out, that little man from Death Leppert, And I asked people in my bed, like, when's the last time y'all saw that man? But he comes out with legs that they're that big, tiny, little frail legs.

I've never seen legs. It's tiny on a man in my life.

And every once while he prop it up on the little stow, you know, it would just barely go.

And then he had hair down to here and it was singing. You could see through it, and I thought THYROI and I thyroid because.

I've had thyroid issue.

And then he starts singing, put some sugar on it, and that is Chuck Morgan's favorite song.

And my husband is very introverted and does not tall.

I've seen his teeth three times in thirty years.

And he fits up.

And it starts dancing, and then it's back day because his knees hurt.

You know, and joint pain.

And then the whole time that little man is singing put some sugar on it, I'm studying his little body, and I thought he's got a hunt right here up thunder here.

I thought, what is that hunt?

Now?

Old hernia.

He's got a herd in, because I know because I've had a hernia boys the same place right here. I was in my local dancing with the stores. I hain't to can tell you all that, because y'all are big time. I was in my local dancing with the stores, got a hernia popped out.

I had to have emergency surgery. Anyway, they did.

Put a mission mine, and I often I felt worried about that little man, the little deflivery man, and I often thought, I hope dury Covid that little thing had time to get a mash put in.

But anyway, they were wonderful.

We had a ball, and then all these fifteen older people start walking out of Thompson Bowling and everybody's just barely going because we've all got planter.

Facehin in our.

Feet, you know.

And the whole time I'm thinking, we got to get home. It's ten o'clock. What are we doing when let's get the car. So that's it. That's the ban.

It's brilliant.

When you were talking about, you know, you were a kid going I want to be in show business.

I want to be in show business.

Was this the dream or did you think Oh, I'd love to be an actress. I'd love to be in Hollywood, or I'd love to what were you hoping it would be? Versus what you are? The road you've taken.

I thought in my mind, probably at nine or ten years old, I want to be a movie star.

I thought movie stars.

But I was from a town of five hundred people, a little farming community.

My people farm, and I think rural kids.

Think of show businesses all movie star, right, But I loved sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms.

And that was the one.

By the time I started getting into comedy, and probably when I was in college, before I ever tried anything, I thought, I wish.

I could be a sitcom star, and that became my goal, you know. And I and when I got into.

The business, but people would ask me that, you know, mentored me, what do you want to do? And I said, I want to go all the way. I want to be a sitcom star. And then but I didn't. I mean, I don't even know why I even said that, because lord, I only took one improv class when I was in high school. My little country in high school, let us do improv, and I loved it, and then U t I didn't do anything. I tried to take a theater class and this woman with the tight bun on set

Yes, yes, yes, honey and real Ferrell. Oh, it blew my mind.

And I think little Reese Witherspoon did that for me. I met her years ago before Coke, before the pandemic, and she and I bunded. I could tell, and I think that little thing as somebody for me to do a table ringing.

They called me and said, do you want to do a table ring Now? Know what's a table ring?

And I flew out there and I thought I was going to die and Will was there all their next dole or all these people?

And I did it. And I don't even know how in the world, but I got that thing.

But and I ended up having a ball, and I really think that I'd like to do it again. By the time I got through with that, I thought, Okay, I kind of know how things work. It was hard for me at first because I really was insecure because I I'm used to get to laugh at right, you know, And so when everybody's on the set, nobody's saying anything that really tore me up and mess with me.

But by the end of it, I thought, Okay, I did it, and I know what's funny. I might not hit it every time, but I feel like I know what's funny.

And so everybody's saying, it's so cute and fun and it's gonna do way all day funny and I just have a bit part in it. I played Race Witherspoon's big sister, which is crazy because I outweighed her, weel everybody.

I I felt.

Like it was like one big breast was be size of little Grace Witherspoon's little head.

Leah, you are so funny, and I'm thinking you and I must might have some similar paths. When you were a kid, when you were younger, when you were a kid, did you know you were funny?

Did you think of yourself as being a funny person?

I did you did?

See I did you strike me as someone who people said, you know you're funny? And you went, I am I'm surprised, so like, how did you know you were funny as a little kid?

We're were were you the family delight? I was?

I was.

I was raised around all my grandparents and aunts and uncles and and they just thought I was so kide and fun and they would tell me and I was a ham and I And let me tell you why, I'm embarrassed to even say that, aunt, because I've been looking through pictures that I'm going to include in my book.

In every picture, I'm going duh. I mean, I'm a little kid doing it, and I'm like, somebody should have slat much everything was?

You know, I was trying to tap and I didn't know how to tap because I didn't get to take tamp lessons.

We were that rural.

But but yeah, I would be funny at school.

The teachers would say, lamb, will you m see this? A aunt? Will you do the announcements?

I always I found any way I could. And I know I was cling. I talked too much?

What's so interesting to me about that? And I don't There are two things I'm about to do, and I don't mean any of them in the wrong way. I'm going to make a comment about there are two things I'm about to do, and I don't mean any of them in the wrong way. I'm going to make a comment about how you look, and I'm going to make a general comment about women.

You are a beautiful woman.

I think by anybody's definition, you are a beautiful, attractive woman. It was it's unusual for young women of our age, because you're just a little younger than me. I always found that the really beautiful girls were afraid to put out a sense of humor, thinking that it would expose them in some way as being goofy or silly.

Or somehow crack the attractiveness.

But it seems like you were either unaware of being attractive or had nothing on it.

Well, my mama would say, oh, you're the movie star. You're gonna be a movie star.

And I felt pretty too, And but I did worry. I did worry at times that if I was really funny, I wouldn't be as pretty, Like if I made sad faces or whatever. I make a lot of faces, and I but now, I mean good night.

Now I'm fifty eight. I ended un't bother me at all.

But I think when I was in clumbs in front of an audience that really weren't fans of mine.

They were drunk. It was a lot of men. It would make me.

Feel weird, and it would and I probably didn't emote and use expression like I would now. I think I did kind of dumb it not dumb it down. What would it be, you know, just not be I mean I wanted to be pretty too.

Yeah. The other thing that you do that that's really something is your clean as clean. So when you do Chuck Morgan, by the way, I love that you use his full name every time you say his name, Chuck, that already is a homine. But when you say Chuck would do this, I think we're telling me about five love languages. And if he did it right, then I would do dirty unmentioned both things.

To unspeakable, unspeakable or vulgar or you know, something a stata hamm.

If he buys me something, and then I'm guessing I'm forced to do something vulgar to him, and the entire audience goes nuts because they insert insert what you're thinking there, which is worse than anything you can make. I think you said in the phrases you use when your kids left home, I took to the bed. I mean that's far into me. My family never talked that way, but I got it. Order Jimmy John with your beagles pushing his butt, his butthole up to your head. Everybody has it.

It was a shock, which I've always known he was ballsy.

Yeah, he was at hung during the pandemic and he is a real Yeah when I say, he really put a kink in things when he traveled all of our married life with his company and then these kids and I.

Had a ball but that's the truth. You know, we ate hot dogs and went to Sonic at night.

So, and how does Ski relate to your too? You're doing one hundred You did one hundred dates on the Panties Tour.

Big Panty, so you're gone a lot.

That must throw the equilibrium of the relationship off quite a bit because then he's used to being home. Now you're a star, all the attention for yet chuck, Yeah, they don't want to talk to your Chuck Morgan's me, how does that impact the relationship at this point?

Well, he has been a wonderful rent winner. And I think also it took him a long time to figure out what was happening, because I kept saying, something's happening in Chuck, and he'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, had you closed a brage don't work?

You know, he didn't even understand what was happening.

And and the Big Panty Tour the whole time it's on hundred cities, was very successful, and he was like, well it could end more. We don't need to be spending money or we don't need to do because it could end the mark. Well, then I got my second tour.

I'm on that right now called just getting started to her, and and.

Then I've got a movie, and then I got a booked and then you know, and I'm like, Chuck, it's happening.

But but let me.

I think he's finally caught up, but he's at first he was saying we're out of dog food.

And I remember one day just saying, Chuck, I'm sorry, but you're the mom now, like you're gonna have you gonna get this done food because I can't do all. I did everything. I did everything, and I wanted to.

I loved being a mama and then stay at home mom, and I love taking care of him.

I love taking care of our house all there. And I just said, Chuck, I can't. I mean, I can't do it. I got to be out here to do it.

But I tell people this because they do worry about him, and they go, is Chuck all right with on this? He wants me to work like a mule, all these children, everybody, all of his life, he's a worker. He's type A everybody ought to be working and suffering. And you know he's fuck an old time dad. You know everybody ought to be driving old cars. All that on Netflix, and

And he goes.

My agent, that's so true.

And my agent said, lin In, go over there to that range Rover in Knoxville and just get something. And I and I'm thinking, oh lord, I can't do that. I mean, I got an okay car right now, I'm fine, but I mean we just don't even live like that. And I said to him, I go truck. I think I'm not gonna be living this neighborhood. I'm living in the house that I raised my ChIL man. And there's already been people like come up in the yard that know who I am, you know, like some Myxander is.

But you know, Len, this is a bit. This is a big thing. Now.

I was lucky enough that my success came in stages and I was able to more or less a job. I mean, Seinfeld was a big jump, and it turned my head around for a while too. You know, that put me in therapy for a good number of years. But but it was incremental throughout my teens and twenties and thirties and forties. Your life has taken a huge shift. So it's clear to me you're dealing with it beautifully.

Everybody is still on a lagging behind.

I mean, I'm in Knoxville, Tennessee, you know, with a bunch of darling friends who love me no matter what.

I'm very lucky.

Rice Witherspoon would say on say it every day to our little sister, played, our little sister, Meredith Hager.

You, she said, Blane got to raise her own children.

You, Meredith, you need to get somewhere and raise your children and get out of the Hollywood saying you need community.

And I didn't have community until I moved in off to Nashville, is what brief said.

And it may it dawned on me how what they really meant all by that I got to have a normal life. I have normal friends. They love me no matter what. They don't care, they don't. I really am lucky about that.

People have expectations of what fame is going to look like and feel like and how they're going to be different, and is it is it shaping up to be something you hoped it would be or is it different?

How does it feel for you?

It feels weird, and I think I really had a hard time when it hit. I really went I probably should have been in therapy. I had a lot of imposture syndrome. I thought, I don't deserve this, and I can't even though I've been doing this forever, and I you know, I've had television deals that didn't make it, and I've had ups and downs.

Times I couldn't get arrested.

Times when I was on top of the world, it felt like I was getting booked. I was on tours, not like I am now, But and then other times there nobody cared. And so I know, I'm I know I'm supposed to be here. I know, I mean, I put in work. I know then, but I felt like an imposture at first. It really messed with my head. And I wish I journaled because I I put little

I said and said, I don't know about this. What I mean, does that suck?

I suck?

Was that?

I mean this material due? But She's like, no, it's not.

So.

I went through a law during the beginning of it, and now it kind of settled into it, and I feel like I do get nervous, like Netflix is a joke.

I'll be in that past that'll probably mess.

With me because that's Bill Burd, Chris Rock, all these people, and I'll think book and now all subjectson.

I'm the only fifty eight year old grandmama in this bunch, you know.

I mean, when you think about the women in comedy, Chelsea handle Work, Amy Schimer, all those kind of Wanda says, I mean, there's nobody that's a grandmama at fifty eight talking about menopause.

You know.

I'm and I think I'm lucky that way because they ain't talking about anything.

It doesn't bother me. You know. I don't feel like I need to be a Hollywood.

Starlet in home, but the fame part of it, I think, I guess it's good to have the money that I know we can give to our children and everybody doesn't have to worry and all.

But did I think I mean, I thought it was going to be make me happier than this. I guess.

I think I'm just getting to an age Gary just doesn't matter to me. You know, I used to when I was forty, I used to dream of having a big house with like nine commodes. Now I'm thinking I don't need all those codes.

I don't ye So that's a toilet has really started. That kind of defines it. How many toilets does the star have? Is the user? I'm curious about the material because when you get bigger, too, the what happens is you write material based on what you know. When you're doing one hundred city tour and then you're doing a movie, and then you're doing a book, you're not living a life that you lived when you were coming up with all that material and that quiet and could be introspective.

Not so far?

But I think it's because I have had this full line with a bun of kids. I've got green babies now two grandsons. I've got Chuck Morgan and Chuck Morgan's peculiar and he gives me stuff every day.

But I also like my kids will go mom.

You never told the story about the outfit that dad brought you to the hospital when I was born.

And I'm like, oh kih. So they all kind of help. And I have lived a full life.

So I can say, you know, go back to and pull mine from me because I have you know, I am a mom and uh and I am going to menopause.

Did they allow you to talk about them or or do they get really upset in their because I think there was a story about your son where she said, never talk about me again on stage. Were you embarrassed him or something about his hair?

Well, when he was thirteen and I started, I was on the radio innxvill Tennessee, and the he was, uh, it's cool already, and I was talking about him going through puberty and and I think I said, he sounds like Johnny Cage his voice, and he and one hair.

He's got one hair under this arm and nothing under this arm.

And but durned if some little boy went to school with it's had an orthodonis appointment and heard it on the whitest school and Charlie said, don't ever.

So middle school they said, did not speak my name made mouth, and I didn't. I did. I got they got real, you know, and I understood that.

And there was one time Chuck Morgan said, years ago, when I first got started.

I said something about it.

I wanted to get my breas done because I bradsped all these children.

But it's been a bad mobile home year.

And he said, because he sells mobile homes in the mobile home industry.

And he goes saying that, you.

Know that I'm a good finder and I could write a check for your breast right.

Now, you know what, You're great. The last question that you can get and then we'll let you escape is I've heard so often we've heard off from the left. You know, I'm so glad that my success happened later in life, because when I was young, I would not have been able to deal with it. And I'm curious, do you have he was at or you were saying screw that. Yes, yes, one hundred percent.

Yes, I would have been an idiot. I was already an idiot. I was an idiot in my twenties.

Y'all would to have h I mean, I dated people. Y'all wouldn't want your feet up horrible.

In the eighties, I was in and Chuck Morgan swooped in and saved me. I guess, but oh, if I had had money and I've been around, it's no telling what would happen to me. I did not have any sense until I had my first baby, and then it was just like okay, and then I feel like I woke up.

But oh no, I couldn't. You know what I see these young girls.

And guys that have got specials that have hit on Netflix and their touring. They've got the same people I've got, and I think, help to think that you've got to sustain that, you know, those ticket sales, all that kind of stuff for forty I mean twenty twenty thirty years. I mean, I don't think they're strong. They could probably do it. I just don't think I could do it. I think this is the best thing, best timing at fifty.

Well, congratulations you are You've hit it huge. You deserve it, and you should watch your specially. I'm telling you, guys, I haven't seen anything that good. And I've been around. We've been around a lot of comtiings, We've worked with a lot of comedians. The top meetings and I haven't seen anything that good that's funny, and I'm a fan.

But if anything happens to Chuck Morgan, here's your There's I'm the Magic.

Have a wonderful performance tonight and a wonderful.

Tour lifted me up. Thank you.

The books should be a huge success, you darling, Thank you.

Come by calm all right, bye bye, bye bye.

What's so great about someone like that is you see them on stage and go, well, this is the persona that she's developed, and she's you know, this is how he was thing And maybe she pushes the voice a little bit and you go, no, that's who she is. She's telling you the truth, and I think that's why she scores so hi. As you know she's telling.

You, you get it and.

You know what's interesting about her, So you know, she's another performer who's sort of hit late in life.

And just you know, to.

Amuse myself, I started to look at the number of people who we think.

Have always had a career, who didn't have it, who started.

On my Sean Seinfeld Barney Martin, who played Jerry's dad, was a wonderful film and television. He was a New York City cop until he was in his late forties, all of a sudden made the switch. Melissa McCarthy was forty one years old when she did Bridesmaids.

Wow, Jane Lynch forty nine.

Years old when she did Glee, Leslie Jones forty seven years old when she got SNL.

Christoph Waltz fifty three.

Years years old when he got Glorious Bastards, Morgan Freeman fifty when he got the movie Street Smart, and that was the one that begins but in.

An eight thousand movies, so they've all been from fifteen on.

And Larry David how old was Larry when when we started saying eighty he was forty two?

He had really kind of struggled to that.

Point, right, he had not he was he was he was a stand up but you know he was I mean, I don't want to say he wasn't in demand, but you know I had heard of.

Him, but he wasn't the biggest. He wasn't doing with Jerry. That was amazing, sir. Jerry was already a thing when this happened. Jerry sort of hit out of the fact that Jerry knew how good Larry was. Yes, well, he wasn't that that level, you would think, why is he bringing him one? Does he need him? David? Was that good for you? Did you enjoy Leanne? I did? I did.

I wasn't familiar here before you. You fell in love with her, so so yeah, I think we're all learning so much about her. And she's just a joy and I love I used to spend my summers in Tennessee, so I love that.

Actually yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a great sound, isn't it?

Just you know, her natural musicality is just fun to listen.

Also, I got sick, so I lie down is not as good as I took to.

The bed, the bed calling her husband Chuck Morgan, fantastic, Chuck Morren, Check Moore, Look who's here, Chuck Moore?

So David, what what do we got?

Leanne of course came out of the gate later on in life, having this renaissance period in her life, and so I started to think about, you know, older people and how to age well.

And I was looking into that and that's really really boring. So I want to focus.

On the top ten things you shouldn't do if.

You don't want to look old. Okay, here we go.

Okay, So number ten, if your back in the day. Story has absolutely no relevance to the conversation that's going on.

Don't tell it, good smart yep.

Number nine, No one wants your chain, and figure out your coupons before you get in line.

My wife, by the way, my wife, which drives me crazy, and I love her, so when I talk about her, there's no negative. And this is also protective protection. Right now, litten me, I'm in the line, and I it's like, hold on, let me get I have the perfect tank. I go no one, don't, don't start, don't care, And now everybody behind me is looking like they want to kill me, and she's searching for the perfect rank.

Well, my mother went to the grave with books full of s an age green stand.

They just want you to okay, yeah, it happens, It happens.

Number eight, you don't have to answer the phone, And for God's sakes, if you do answer the phone, don't give them any money.

Yes, yes, yes.

Number seven, nobody wants your personal checks either. Number six, stop paying for that damn landline.

You know what, you know what? Everybody makes fun of my line, except when I pick up the cell phone her home and hear every fourth word. Why would I get rid of a phone that has quarity that the people hear me when my cell phone doesn't work. Well, Now, yeah, I don't know what it is. I can't. I can't cut that line. I can't do it. Yeah, yours is sick. Your's is all mansioned minus because you can't hear me. So yeah, mine is the sickness. Yeah, okay, you're right.

Number five, Relax with the checking the mail thing.

Every day. Got to check the mail.

Check the mail. That's another thing I do.

I have a mask lot, nothing of it.

No one writes a letter if it's.

I've got coupas, I've got catalogs, I've got flyers.

That's what I've got. And most of my mail says residents. What else?

Number four, of course, on the mail topic, never click on the email.

You don't click on the email.

And also, is broom them out a thing my wife has I am not getting now. She did a big cleanup and she has now three hundred and fifty six emails in her email, and I go, that's that's madness. That's madness. If I have over twenty, I go.

I gotta get it out. I gotta get out. I'll just get rid of them. Unread right every time? Yes, true, all right.

On Number three, figure out your GPS program before you're too old to figure.

Out yep, yep, very good.

Yep, you're going to get lost at some point to use it. Number two, get off the Facebook.

You don't need to be on the face.

Touch it, don't touch it.

And number one and I think we're all going to agree on this one. Stop leaving voicemails.

Why what's wrong with voicemail? You know what I disagreed. I'll tell you why. In business, don't teach you. I know you too. No, no, I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. If you want to learn, David, would you like to learn something? I would like to first rule of business is if I call and have but I heard, I trust me. He's going to pay for that. That that erminal check. Oh yes, come in a little late, a little late this month. So here's the deal. When

What's wrong with them wrong, wrong.

I will say till till I put two feet in the grave.

Ask the guys in the in the thing, in the booth.

That's all I'm saying. Come on, guys, the booth. Anybody they're everything that there is, thirty or under a thing and maybe they're a little over. Anybody did the booth? Yes, don't leave voicemail, you leave voice mail. Yes, nobody's because you know what they're looking right. Fine, Fine, I don't call you, you don't call me. That's your marriage. And what we found out was communication. What we found out is better to be big, big star later in life. They did a big later in life based on what I

Leanne Morgan.

Have a great show tonight. We'll see in Itgan.

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Who is the most successful female comic or comic actress ever? Well, if you go buy awards for work, the top of the list would be Whoopy Goldberg with fifty nine wins and a bona fide egot winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. Tina Fey has fifty six wins, as does Julia Luis Dreyfus. Melissa McCarthy has thirty nine wins,

Twenty five million. Congratulations to all of them on all their success.

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