215: #215 Etiquette with Leanne Morgan
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Today's episode of the Nate Land podcast is brought to you by True Nutrition, DraftKings, Aura Frames, and Helix Sleep. Hello, folks, and hey, bear. Welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate Bargetti, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, filling in for the wonderful, dusty Miss Leanne Morgan. Thank y'all. We put your high school photo up behind you.

Yeah, that's kind of... I kind of went through a Madonna thing. That kind of looks like... I did when I got to the University of Tennessee. Yeah. And was lost. Just a short...

Short haircut. Do you think you and Dusty would have been friends if y'all were the same age? Yes, we would have been friends and we would have smoked cigarettes and not gotten a thing done and probably failed out of school. I can tell people that I would have had too much fun with, you know, and people that I should have hung out with. But I think Dusty and I would have

Had a ball. Danced. I think we would have clubbed. Brian would have kept you on the straight and narrow. Brian probably would have. I know. Yeah. I'd be the kind of guy your parents would have tried to push you toward. Yeah. Not as fun, but straight and narrow. Kind of like Chuck Morgan. He's not fun. Mm-hmm. Yep. He did perfect in school. That's Leanne's husband, if you're listening. Perfect in school. Worked three jobs. Uh-huh. Did everything right. He really did. Uh-huh. And I was like, mm-hmm.

And he chased me. He chased me because I was exciting, you know? And then when he was trying to get me, he bought me cigarettes. And then he started saying, after we dated for a while, you smell bad. And I'm breaking up with you. That's what happens. I know. And then he begged me to come back. I was working at Lancome behind the makeup counter. He had dumped me, and I was devastated. Wow. And then he came back.

To be at the mall, he had bought a business and moved up to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and came back. I had been to Fort Lauderdale as a third wheel with a couple for spring break, got a tan. He saw me with a tan and wanted me back. I'm not kidding. He saw me with a tan, could not get his breath, and said, can I buy you a pair of tennis shoes? And I said, maybe. That's some tan. It was, and I'm pretty with a tan. And so...

Then I tell my children all the time, I go, y'all's lives are based on the fact your daddy saw me with a tan. Wow. Wow. All this is in the book, What in the World, by Lee Ann Morgan. That is in the book. There you go. About Chuck Morgan. Yeah. That whole thing. Did you get tennis shoes? I did. Yeah.

I've gotten several pairs since then. Why did he buy tennis shoes? I don't know. He always, well, I don't know why at the time. Maybe I said I need tennis shoes, you butthole. I don't know. But he's always bought me things and tried to woo me because he's not a words of affirmation kind of person, which is really what I need. Yeah. But that's okay. So his love language is acts of service. So he always does for me, like vacuuming out my car,

Take care of all that kind of stuff. Yeah, that's all the stuff you really need. And then it's good to have babies by somebody like that. And then also wants to buy and provide for me. He's a provider, so he wants to do for me, and he's always giving me beautiful gifts. Cigarettes. Well, cigarettes back then, I got off the cigarettes, boys, in the 80s. That was a good time to get out. Yeah, that was a good time to get out. And when he does that, you still don't think it's enough?

I feel like I just talked to Laura about it. I mean, if you saw this tan. The providing. He provides. And you're like, but still. I would like to be told I'm pretty. I would. Yeah. I would like to be told you've been a good mama, that kind of stuff. But he'll say, my family, we didn't do that. And I go, well, I get that. Have you gotten a tan lately? That's the real question. I did.

I do, Aaron. I get spray tans. I'm kidding. Because I'm 58. I don't want that sun damage. But I do get a spray tan. And I mean, it drives him wild. It does. This is a clean podcast for you. I know. But it's biblical. We're married. Mm-hmm.

But yeah, it sets him on fire, even though it ruins our sheets. And he's clean. You know, he's a clean person. Yeah. But anyway, I do, I talk about it in my book, What in the World That Almost Killed Me. I've worked on that book for over two years, and I'm proud of it, but it has been, that was a lot to do. But it was fun, but it was also...

emotional, like just remembering and going through and you know, the bottom line after I wrote that thing, I thought, man, I was stupid. I'm a stupid person. I've done some stupid mess. But then I kind of, then I read the audio part and I, and I've kind of forgiven that 17 to 25 year old. I had to let her, I had to give her grace, you know, and go, you know what girl, you did the best you could with what you had at the time. So it's been very cathartic. Yeah.

So now you're good. I think I'm okay. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. And now I go on a book tour and I'll talk about it. I'm kind of sick of talking about myself, but I've got to go and tell everybody all this again. What do you got to say on a book tour? You got to just be like, hey, here's the book. Yeah. It's almost like stand-up. Are you going to get interviewed? I do have a moderator at two of them, big events, one in –

in Knoxville and one in close one in Knoxville and one in Atlanta. And then the other ones like in Mount Juliet, I'll be here at the books a million. And I'm just, I think you can buy a book that I've signed and then we get our picture made. I think there's no talking and I'm certainly not doing a show. Yeah. I may say a few words like this is almost killed me, but I'm glad I did it. I always felt like I had a book in me. Do y'all feel like that?

No. Yeah. I always felt like I had it in me. Yeah, that's great. At some, but not now. I'm, yeah, I'm just getting started, I think, with some, with like what I want to do and stuff. So yeah, at some point. Because they told me that when they interview people that have written books that most people say, like, I knew I had one in me.

Yeah. And I always felt that tug. That's cool. Yeah. And I tried to years ago, I had some interest was, you know, somebody gave some interest in me doing one. And I wrote the first like chapter just for them to see my point of view. And Chuck Morgan went in and corrected it and put big red circles around it and said, how did you get in the University of Tennessee? I said, well, it was 1983.

three and you only had to have a 12 on your ACT. Did you? It was only a 12. I didn't get a 12, but I heard that some of the boys that play football, they only required them to have a 12. Maybe it was higher for little country girls, but I didn't have that low, but I had low. Dude, I was, I would have got in. Yeah. I got a 17, which was, it was not enough to get in.

You had to get an 18. You're so much younger than me. They had restricted it to... Yeah, to 18 by the time... I mean, 12, I would have been... I guess, I would have ran the school. I got a 17. I got, I don't know. I got an AP. There you go. Like, we ain't ever seen nobody like you before. I go, well, you know. Did you think to take it again? Was there anything in like, let's just keep trying to get to an 18? Or was that not even a goal? From what I remember...

I don't even know. I think that's why I took all remedial classes. So that's why I have no credits from college because I had to go like restart. So it was just 17. It was real bad. And I think maybe I did take it twice. And there's a chance some reason the number 16 pops in my head. Maybe I'm too sad to say that. But yeah, it just wasn't. What did you get?

I don't remember. Oh, you know it. You got a 30. Yeah. Did you get a 30? I got a 32, I think. Oh, my goodness. I took it a few times. Yeah. Some people are good at test taking. Some people accomplish things.

And it's, no, I'm joking. I don't know. I'm just trying to. Well, I took my ACT and my sister at Austin Peay. She was in Austin Peay. I went to her dorm, spent the night. I'm not saying this made it higher if this hadn't happened. But we didn't have cable in Adams, Tennessee yet.

So I watched Benny Hill all night. I'd never seen anything like it. And I was so thrilled. And then I was like half dead, went to the McDonald's, burned my tongue real bad on some coffee. And then I felt like I just went in there and just went. And nobody ever said to me, take it twice. But I'm 58 years old. My children, they had a coach. Like I had to hire somebody now and to go through all that. And they took it several times and everything.

You could have sued McDonald's. You could have been, that was probably before that lady. I know. I didn't know any lawyers. Yeah. Changed your career. I know. But let me tell y'all that my kids, when they want to know my ACT score, I've never told them. And I said, it'll go to my grave. And so when I get the flu and I'm like have high fever and I'm hallucinating, they go, what was that ACT score? Because they're trying to get it out of me, but they'll never get it. So it's not even in the book. But then let me tell you all this.

I got in 2012, I was honored that the University of Tennessee had me as alumni of the year. Oh, that's awesome. 2012. But just for arts and entertainment. There were like people there that had been in stuff and scientists and all that. But I was the arts and entertainment and we went to a big dinner and I was, the whole time I was sweating thinking they're going to tell my story.

And my GPA. I thought they're going to tell my, because I finally graduated. It took me nine years on and off because I quit. Went back and then finished. But I thought they're going to tell people my GPA. And I sat there next to Chuck Morgan who got an undergraduate and an MBA and made straight A's. And nobody gave him an award.

Imagine what they'd give you now, though. That was 2012? Yeah. I mean, now. When I couldn't get arrested, nobody cared. They wouldn't even ask me to be. I've never been at the parade of, you know, at homecoming. I've never done anything like that. They always get people that wrote Rocky Tops, kids or something. Yeah. But you were the grand marshal of the Knoxville parade, weren't you? Of the St. Patrick's. Oh, that's cool. I know. I had a ball. It was darling. Mm-hmm.

So you're never going to tell anybody. Does anybody know your ACT score? My choir, they band and choir speech and drama teacher because when he heard it, he yelled in front of the whole class, girl, you couldn't get into the Indiana School of the Blind. Why Indiana? That's a tougher one of the blind schools. He was dramatic. And he yelled that, but I thought it was funny. Did you take the SATs?

No, they didn't even tell us that in Adams. They didn't tell us either. I don't remember ever taking an SAT. Maybe we took one, because most people will go, what was your SAT score? And we didn't even take it. Yeah, in the South it was mostly ACT. But that's only if you're going to go out of state, right? No, I don't know. A lot of these schools now, they don't even look at test scores now. I didn't think the SAT, because if I do go to college, I know it's going to be in Tennessee. That's what I need.

Is now. A test score optionals? Yeah, where they don't look at it. They just go, they fill it out. They go, all right, I like this guy's vibe. Yeah, they've got grit. They've got some sense. Yeah. They shake your hand, look you in the eye and go, he's one of us. This guy feels like he's us. Yeah. She's not going to smoke a bunch of cigarettes. 36 to most you get. It's out of 36, yeah. Good night.

That's crazy. You just know everything, right? Well, not everything, but close. Yeah. Yeah. What was yours? Did y'all do rocks or something? I don't know. I think mine was a 20. Y'all had to move hay from one side of the field to the other?

I don't know. Well, Leanne and I, even the way you say tennis shoes, I mean. I say tennis shoes. But like Ruth says sneakers. And we say tennis shoes. But we don't even say tennis shoes. We say tinny shoes. Tinny shoes. Tinny shoes. Yeah. Yeah, tennis shoes. I say tennis shoes. Yeah. Because you went to private school and two colleges and lived on the east and west coast. That is true. I am highfalutin. Culture. I call them kicks, dude.

Where were you raised? Alabama. I call them tennis shoes. You do? Yeah. You were raised in Alabama? Montgomery, yeah. Oh, I love Montgomery. Yeah, it's a good place to drive through. But is your book scandalous? No, I wanted it to be. I wanted, honest to goodness, I wanted to tell all of the horrible things I ever did.

And my literary agent, who is darling and so funny, he goes, honey, you're not Joan Crawford yet. He goes, let's wait to tell all that stuff. Because he goes, let's do a cookbook maybe next time. A little cookbook. And then the third one, you know, when you're an old, old woman.

Tell all the horrible, stupid things you did. I do have a lot of horrible, stupid things I did in this one, but it wasn't everything. Is this some of it? Well, that's not. It's a lead up to. Yeah. What about the third book is a mix of a cookbook and those stories? Yeah. Yeah. That's a great idea. Yeah.

What I ate during that sin. Yeah. Well, and I can tell y'all that I'm, I think I'm just at a point in my life where I don't care. Who knows? I don't care. I can tell it. I've been washed in the blood. I'm all right. You know, I know I'm okay. I've been forgiven. Cause I know. I don't care. I know for a fact you and Burt Reynolds had a moment. We did have a moment. Wait, what? Is that in the book? That'll be the third book. No, that's not in the book. Well, it should have been.

You're leaving a Burt Reynolds story out of the book. I can't wait to read what's in there. I'll tell you about little Burt Reynolds. Yeah. He did. This is crazy. He shot his last movie that he ever made called The Last Movie Star in Knoxville, Tennessee. And we don't, nothing shot up there. I mean, it used to be Food Network and Scripps and all that was up there. And there was a lot of production, but never movies or television.

My friend happened to work on it. It was crazy. And they did this movie, and I've watched it, and Burt Reynolds was out of this world in it. And he was in his late, early, late 80s. Okay. My friend invited me to the premiere, and little Burt Reynolds walked in, honey, on a cane with a velvet jacket and rose-colored glasses. Okay.

And I don't, that was, it was a perm. I don't know if it was a perm, a wig, what was sitting on that little thing's head. And we locked eyes. Because I feel like I still had my bloom. I mean, it's been a few years ago. And he looked at me. And I looked at him. I mean, it was like.

I could just tell he thought I was pretty. I just had a moment. I could tell he thought I was pretty. Was he, I mean, he was still a handsome guy. He was barely hanging on. Still a handsome guy at that age. Well, he'd gotten a little, you know, down on a cane, but still had that Burt Reynolds. Burt Reynolds was still in there, and he looked at me like, I know you're attracted to me right now with this cane and this wig on my head. And I was like... And I would have never, I'm saying I would never do anything unbiblical toward Chuck Morgan, but...

I mean, just had that thing. I mean, I know y'all are a lot younger than me, but when I was growing up, like Deliverance, and Deliverance was an unbelievable movie, but disturbing. Yeah, yeah. He was beautiful in it. I mean, and then I think about all those with Sally Field and the- Was Deliverance shot in Knoxville? No. Where was this shot at? I think Georgia. Wasn't it Georgia? I don't know where it was shot, but it was- Was it the Ocoee River? Or is that, what was shot at the Ocoee River? I don't know.

I thought there was something like that shot. Maybe. A River Wild or something? No, I don't know. But the Appalachian Mountains, you know, run from Georgia to Maine. Yeah. And so I... And I have lived in there. I have lived it. I've seen it. Maine doesn't ever take any...

any Appalachian credit. Yeah. Like they don't ever get thrown in. Oh, interesting. The mountains are in Maine and you want to go like, y'all got a little bit up here. Yeah, that's true. And they don't even. It's almost the last state you think of when you do that. And it's part of it. Yeah. Wow. It even goes into Canada. Does it? I think so. I think the Appalachian Trail they've extended now to Canada. As you touch your laptop. They're just moving it to unlock it. Oh, sorry. Doesn't recognize my thumbprint on there. There we go.

But Chuck Morgan, when we met at UT, bought a used mobile home business in Bean Station, Tennessee and moved me up there. And that's in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains where there were people who, I mean, it's beautiful up there and

stunning lakes and all that kind of stuff. But there are people he set up houses for that did not know who the president was. Really? There were still dirt floors and that kind of thing. But absolutely precious people. Precious, precious people. A little envious of that. I know. That kind of would be good. To just not even know who's the president. They're like, man, yeah, things are great out here. Yeah. Yeah. The Coyote River blood money.

Is this the movie you're thinking of? No. Okay. That's the only one I could find. No, no. It said a river wild. Yeah. It said like four of them. Oh. Yeah. Wait, where? When you go back to the beginning. Oh, the river wild without a paddle. Yeah. Oh, that's about rafting the Okoye River. Okay. Without a paddle might be it. That's a comedy. Yeah. Oh.

I was thinking. I don't know where to look. Have y'all ever gone down? I've gone down the Hawassi. We did the Kowe. So when we have a crazy story with the, we went and did it. It was when the Olympics were coming. So they were doing the rafting in the Kowe River for the Olympics. So they had the water was very high.

We shouldn't have been on this thing. And it was like a high school trip. So my brother's on it. He's on one of the rafts. And there was like... Because rocks... You know, the guys that... When they take you down, they know where the rocks are. But they were... The water was so high, a lot of the rocks were covered. So it was almost like they were like, we don't even know what this river... Now we don't know the parts of it. And Derek...

went over board and their raft flipped and he went down and then someone like grabbed him, had to yank him back in. Saved his life. But it was like, they were running on, you know, I don't know if there's a, if it's out of 10, they were running like eight or so. Cause they were, they already got it ready for the Olympics. So we were on just insane. Like they should have, they should have been like, we're not, you know, let's shut it down. Unless you're an Olympian, maybe sit this one out. Yeah. I did the grizzly of a rampage.

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All right. That's nifty. Yeah, that's cool. Last time you were on, you told me to go get my testosterone checked. And I did. You did. It was a little low. Was it low? Uh-huh. Was that, did the doctor just say that when you walk in? You go, do you do blood work? He goes, no, no, no. This was over the phone. Yeah, over the phone. He heard my voice. He is.

all right, go ahead. Low testosterone, man. You're like, he goes, ma'am. No, sorry. No, that's all right. That's pretty spot on. We had a pretty fun time with that. Yeah.

Um, but yeah, he, um, well, my doctor, I'm on Clomid now. You're what? Clomid. It's a, it's estrogen pill that helps women ovulate. But, um. You take that? Yep. Yep. Half a pill a day. What is it? They want you to ovulate? Well, it also helps, you know, bodybuilders who raise their testosterone. Oh, and maybe grow, I mean, or, um. I have hot flashes now, but. Oh, God. I'm joking. Yeah.

Do you feel more of a man? No, not really. But I mean, I'm just getting started. Do you have more? Oh, you just started taking it? Yeah. You have more energy. Why don't you take testosterone? I thought people take, that's the... Mine was right on the border of... Feminine? Lower night. And, you know, testosterone can be, you shouldn't take it if you don't have to.

But if you need it, it's good for energy. But it can also increase other health risks. Yeah, like heart. Red blood cells, all that stuff. Well, let me tell y'all that I went one time to get one of my girls a prom dress. And we were coming through a volleyball tournament or something. We stopped in Asheville, North Carolina. And the woman said,

and her husband were in there, and he looked half dead. And she said, "Girl, I've gotten on testosterone pellets." And I had worn him out, and he goes, "I own a Domino's pizza franchise, two stores." And he said, "I can barely work." 'Cause she was so tickled with him. Testosterone pellets in women. - Huh, all right, well.

She owned a prom store, kept that going, and almost killed that little man trying to run two dominoes. He said, she's killing me. Because it raises women if they put a pellet in. Yeah. Katie Bar the door. We don't need that. Yeah. You're going to have a baby to tend to. I know. You can't be doing all that. I know.

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Yep. Oh, how wonderful. Yeah. Come see them all. Yeah, you get Aaron's special that weekend, the Nicktoon. It's a big Nate Land weekend. Oh, my gosh. Mm-hmm. Oh, how wonderful. Yeah, it'll be great. I went to, I was at the Moline, Illinois, Fargo, Fargo Dome, two Unreal shows, but then also the Minnesota State Fair. Their fair is so big.

Is it outside amphitheater show? The fair? Yeah. Yeah, it's like the... Yeah, like almost like bleachers. It was like 14,000 people. And they're... It's... They're, you know, like... Almost like NASCAR seats. Like, you know, like the bleachers. Yeah. But it was... I mean, that fair is... They said...

It was like 2019, there was 2 million-something people went to it. There was 180,000, 200,000 people a day going to this fair. Yeah, 1.8 million last year. It's the second biggest in the country. Yeah, so they had state... Yeah, so the Texas is... But the Minnesota Fair, their record is like over 2 million. Wow. So it's... I mean, it was on... I was like, tell me... I was like, there's stop signs. Like, because you're just on streets. They just take over this whole...

Kind of thing. It was... I mean, unbelievable. Did you get any fair food while you were there? It looks like they got some good stuff. No, I didn't get any. We had boring Eric with us. So, just walking around. Couldn't get anything. I would have got a lot of stuff. But they're...

But it was like, it's just, I mean, it was just a crazy, that's a fair that you would, you could almost tell someone like, go fly and go to that fair. They have the gondola. They have the thing that goes over it. That's how big it is. Oh my gosh. Yeah. They had two of them. Yeah. That was the show. Yeah. So, I mean, that wasn't my show, but that's what the show looks like. Yeah. It was, it was just something else. It was, yeah. Very, very cool.

The Tennessee State Fair set an attendance record this year. Oh, really? Like 800 and something thousand, which is a ton. Oh, wow. Until you see that. That's crazy. Yeah. That's a lot for that. Tennessee State Fair is not... I went to it the first Saturday. Yeah, because it's not a big... I mean, it's a big fair, but it's... Not as big as this one. I mean, they can't hand... I mean, 800,000 people is a lot. Yeah. They need to...

You know, they got one road basically into the Tennessee State Fair. I don't know how many days that last. Tennessee State Fair lasts like 10 days. Yeah, I think it's 10. Yeah. They start school after. So every little child can go. Yeah, our school is going. Yeah. When I was a kid, we started after Labor Day. We did too. Started school after Labor Day? Yeah. Yeah. I would never even remember that. How do you remember that?

I'll tell you why I remember when we started my senior year of high school. They called the seniors in, or the kids that were going to become seniors, and they said, we're going to let you make a choice. Next school year, do you want to start school a week early, July 31st, or do you want to add 10 minutes on to every day for the whole year? And they let us vote on that.

And we picked to start a week early. We started in July, July 31st. So you would just be like, so instead of 310, you get a 320 every day. You don't keep adding 10 minutes. No, no. It's just every day all year you get out 10 minutes later than you would. Eventually it's 930 p.m. Golly. I didn't think this through. Why would you vote to start early?

I think I would have too. Because I think we're like, yeah, dude, that first week is whatever. And then all year you're going to be like, dude, I would already, those last 10 minutes are going to feel awful every day. Cause like we could be out. I would, I would, I would do is I bet you would do the 10 minutes. Cause you're going to think let's wait the teachers out. They also have to stay that 10 minutes.

They don't want to do that. So there's a chance they just go like, nevermind. Like, and they switch it, but they already grabbed you for that week. Then there's nothing you can do. Can't go back on. Can't go back on that. But that's a good point. We weren't thinking about how to manipulate the people around us, but you know, if you put it on them and go, this ain't about us. Right. Y'all want you, these teachers don't want to be there 10 minutes more. So you think, I mean, they're eventually going to be just annoyed with it. Yeah. And yeah. Yeah.

Was it a close vote or an overwhelming? No, I think we was pretty much a consensus. Yeah. Yeah. But I remember thinking July's early to start school.

That is early. That's crazy. They got to run all that air conditioning. Yeah, that's true. That's what Chuck Morgan says. Why do they, that's stupid. They should wait until after Labor Day when it can cool down some, and then you don't have to run all that air conditioning. That's what he's always thinking. Yeah. You know, the bottom line. Yeah. But my little children would always start on August 19th because that was Charlie's birthday, my oldest.

So Chuck is weird about, is he weird about like the AC in the house and stuff too? Uh-huh. Yeah. But now I have a little power. There you go. And yeah, I run it all day long. Yeah. Well, it's at night. I do. I just say, Chuck, this is, I've got to have this. If you want me to keep working like a mule. Yeah. I've got to be able to sleep. Yeah. So I'm putting it down to 62. 62. Yes. I love it. I love it. It's minimal. I would like ours lower.

I'll go to 70, but Laura doesn't. Because I'll go, and Laura will be not under the covers. I'm like, what the point? It should be cold enough that you want under the covers. Yeah, yeah, exactly. She doesn't have any body fat. Yeah.

She needs to eat some Reese's Cups and then get under the covers and y'all turn it down real low. You sleep better when it's cold. I like it. I want it cold. A hotel, though, I'll go down. Low 60s, dude. I do, too. But do you feel like they do something to where they put it back up in the middle of the night? Sometimes. I think so. And these smart thermostats are, I can't figure out what it is. It's like you can't control them. They go, oh, we'll change it back.

at 3 a.m. You're like, well, that's not the point of this. We had our hotel this weekend in Minnesota. Fire alarm goes off 2.50 in the morning. Telling everybody to go down. And I'm on like the 30th floor. So, you know, you're not supposed to use elevators or all this stuff. And so, I did not go down. But I'm looking... Because then I called... Well, it was weird because I called...

Travis is next to me And I'm like where are you at He was like he walked down the stairs So he was like I'm on the 10th floor And you know it's like With fire alarms you just think You kind of think you're like I don't know if I believe this And so I was like let me see what happens And then I got word there was a Flooding On like the 29th or 28th floor Like right below us

And the only floor didn't get wet. No. Yeah. Well, what's crazy. So they have it. The fire alarm goes off because then, you know, there's a bunch of comics and we're all different floors. So we text like I text like a whole thread. And I mean, three of us were the only ones that knew the alarm was going off. The other ones had no idea. They go, I don't know what you're talking about. And there's no alarm was going off on their floor and they didn't even hear it.

So then it was like, all right, well, they're not even making everybody leave. They're only making these two. There was a water break or something. And so they only made these people leave. But then some of those other guys just woke up and their floors were wet. And they were like, they didn't know what it was. And then Travis had to walk all the way down. And then the elevator wasn't working. So they're like, well, you can go back up. It's 30 flights of stairs at 4 in the morning. So you're, you know, he's like, I'll just wait. Everybody's kind of like, we're just going to wait for the elevators.

Isn't it, you hear a fire alarm, your first thought is, this is a mistake? Yeah. You never think, you hear a car alarm, you never think, oh, a car's getting broken into. It's just like somebody's car alarm went off. You gotta fix that. Yeah, I mean, I was looking out the window, I was trying to see what was going on, you know, to see if I could see some stuff. I was a little nervous because, like, there was cops...

downtown like blocking off roads and i think it was you know there's like uh you know a lot of party and a lot of people out and stuff and so then in my head i'm like man they're blocking these roads off kind of near the hotel so i'm like is there a threat at this hotel and then i'm just staying up here uh no but i mean i didn't in 30 flights of steps man yeah

Imagine going back up 30 flights of steps. No. Just in the middle of the night. No. Got Eric with you. He wants you to carry some weight. Sleep in the lobby. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I had that happen to me in Florida at a Marriott, and it started going off and just loud, horrible noise. I get up, put on my pants, grab my purse. I have on a, you know, I don't know if I had a gown on. I think I got dressed because I thought,

I'm, you know, I've still got dexterity. I can get dressed, go down this thing. Women came out. It was a scrapbooking convention going on. Nobody had on a bra. And you were just there for the... I was there. I had a show. I can't remember where it was. It wasn't Sarasota. Somewhere I'd done a show. Are you like Elvis to them?

I kind of was. I kind of was. I'd hate to say that to y'all, but yeah, it's kind of my demo. Well, little women that I guess thought something bad was wrong, it was the laundry room, something, a dryer sheet, something was wrong, but not bad. But I thought, I'm going to put on my underpannings. I'm not going to come out here with no underwear on. Everybody else came out.

Out of bed, no purse, nothing. Everybody, I just sat down there and had a ball. I met more people. But people, women, you could see through their gowns. It was awful. The first thing I thought was everybody needs to go and buy new clothes.

Sleepwear. Yeah. Everybody looked terrible. And then, I mean, they weren't terrible. They're close. You could see everything. And then some of them had on those sweatshirts that said, what stays, what happens in scrapbooking stays in scrapbooking. A lot of them had that t-shirt on. No bra. That's kind of the opposite of scrapbooking. What does that even mean? Scrapbooking.

- Scrapbooking is, no, no, it's all gonna be in scrapbooking. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all-- - But I think they may get to a Marriott and let loose, I think. I mean, they looked like they were having a ball. But this was in the middle of the night, and then I went back upstairs, and then it happened again. And we all had to go back down. But the fire chief came, all that came, it was exciting. It was balmy outside. We had a ball. I talked to more people about Ace Hardware, I remember.

Anyway, you know me. I talk to a pole. But yeah, I kind of, that's a big deal. In front of that fountain at the Marriott. I had a fire alarm go off during my show this weekend. And I noticed two people took advantage of the opportunity to leave. They didn't come back out. Where was it, Brian? It was in Atlanta and it was at a warehouse. And it was one of those clearly just something, whatever. But I saw one couple were like, all right, we got a chance.

And they didn't come back after? No, I think they came back, but they at least had a chance to leave. Yeah. Did y'all ever work side splitters in Knoxville when that was open? I did, yeah. Did the fire alarm ever go off? No, I just did. I did a guest set there one week. I never worked it. I was there. They had a lot of grease on the kitchen floor. And there would, every time I ever did a week, it was the fire department had to come every time.

And everybody would get out because they knew it was crazy. Yeah. Slide around on it. Where were you, Aaron? Why'd it close?

Where was I? Dallas. Plano, Texas. Oh, yeah. House of Comedy. I'd never done that club before. Very nice. Great crowds. I want to shout out a couple people. Cindy and her family. This is Thursday night. I said Montgomery, Alabama, and a table wooed in the front. And they said, we went to MA, which is like the rich school in Montgomery. Yeah. So I made fun of them for a second. And then she handed me.

While I'm kind of trashing her, she handed me a hand knitted baby blanket that she had brought to the show. Wow. Like the sweetest gift anybody's ever given me while I'm kind of trashing him. I was like, wow, I'm sorry. That's a lesson right there. Maybe don't go in on people. But, uh, so they were very nice. I also met, this is what was cool. I met high level Southwest airlines executive came to the show. Oh really? He, he,

Changing the boarding policy, it was his brainchild. It was his project that he'd been working on for years. And he finally got it approved. So we talked about that for a long time. I mean, can you tell us anything about it? Just that he's like... Was he like a fan? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he knows us and stuff. And he was saying they just ran so many analytics. They interviewed so many customers. This is the best thing for... He kind of...

Because I was not nervous about it, but I was a little annoyed by it because I've gamed the system to work to my advantage now. And he's like, you'll be able to game the new system too. He's like, that's how we want it to work is you'll find a way to get what you want out of it. But he made me feel better about everything. What something's changing? You know, in Knoxville, I don't have Southwest. Southwest is open seating. That's the way it's been for 50 years. Yeah, I've flown it some. They're switching to assigned seating.

They are. They're abandoning a 50-year tradition. Yeah, but it comes at years and years of analyzing all the data in the world. And this is the guy. This was his project. Is the plane going to be the same? It's going to change a little bit, I think. Yeah. Is there first class seats? There's not going to be like a first class or anything now. So what? You can just pick your seat? Mm-hmm. You just pay extra for like the...

Exit row. I think so, and there's going to be ways for the people that have status to pick their seats first and stuff. So it's going to be different, but I think it'll be good in the long run after talking to that guy. Look at the tone has changed. You go meet one guy, and you're now...

I mean, you were so mad about it. Well, yeah, because I spent a long time trying to work that system to my advantage. And then I got it. And then they go, we're dismantling the system. Yeah. But it was cool to meet the guys. Like, this was my, I'm the guy that did this. Yeah. And he was really proud of it. Well, yeah, it's a big thing. Wow. A great weekend in the greater Dallas area. Thank you to everybody who came. Yeah. Oh. Mm-hmm.

- Darling. - Were you on the road, Leigh Ann? - No, my darling. I have been at home for three weeks and felt like I didn't have a career and thought, should I go to Publix and just see if anybody knows who I am? Twisted, very twisted. 'Cause you know, I've been touring heavy. I'm now into my, I think, into my third 100, well, what am I in?

I did over 100 shows for Big Panty. Then I'm still in the Just Getting Started tour, and I've now gone into 200 shows, I think. But I took off so that I could be with my family and my babies before I moved to Los Angeles temporarily. Really?

You're moving out to L.A. temporarily? Mm-hmm. To do a television series. Wow. That's exciting. It's very exciting. Have you talked about that on here before? No. That's news to us. A Chuck Lorre show on Netflix. Oh, that's right. Okay. I heard about that. That's awesome. I didn't know. Thank you, my darling. And I'm thrilled. I'm tickled. I'm scared. I'm scared. I'll just tell y'all I'm scared. I've never done anything like that, and I'm scared.

But he was darling. He flew to my house in Knoxville and met my family and held my grandbabies. And he's precious to me, darling. And we've got the writing staff and all that. And so they've written the pilot. And then I'm the writer on it. So I rewrite what I think needs punching up or whatever, what I would say, what I wouldn't say. And then they're casting now. They've casted most.

of the parts. And then, um, so I go out there, I have to be out there to shoot the first pilot in October. Wow. It's coming up. And I've got my book tour in September. So we're just going to try to throw some suitcases in a yard in LA and,

throw our panties in a drawer and then take off for the book tour and then I'll come back and shoot that but it's 16 episodes two seasons we're gonna and they're gonna do it in seven months but I'll come back in fourth and I told Nate I'll be on the road some doing you know to stay on stage and to be able to work but mostly out west so that I can shoot it my next Netflix special is um

I'm gonna shoot it in June. I think I'm gonna shoot it in Wilmington, North Carolina. - Oh yeah. - Awesome. - I know, I'm tickled. I wanted to, I thought Dallas is a good place for me and I wanted to do Majestic, but they're working on that theater, doing something, shutting it down. But I thought Wilmington, North Carolina would be darling, but that's in June next year, so.

I hope I can. You've got a busy year coming up. When's your movie coming out? January the 30th on Amazon Prime. Yeah, you're going to be everywhere. When are you running for office? It feels like you've got to have either. That's the last thing left, it feels like. Lord, I couldn't do that. But I play Reese Witherspoon's big sister, Gwyneth. And you're cordially invited with Will Ferrell. Wow.

I know. It was so fun and crazy and darling. And everybody wanted me to win. Everybody was precious. Nick Stoller directed who did Saving Sarah Marshall. Uh-huh.

So he was a doll. And so, yeah, that comes out. I think it got pushed further away because of the SAG-AFTRA. Okay, the strike. Yeah. How did you like filming the movie? Was it fun? I liked it. It's a lot of hurry up and wait. And I got, you know, you get bored out of your mind. But I was sitting there talking to Jack McBrayer and all these darling people. I had a ball with the cast. But it's a lot of waiting around, and I'm not used to that.

But, and I was scared. I was scared to death at first. And I was scared through the whole thing. But once you realize how things work, sweet fortune beamster said to me, Lynn, there's a piece of tape on the floor. Go stand on it and say your line. That's how little I knew.

Oh, yeah. So she helped me. Everybody would give me pointers. Jack McBrayer behind the camera and like energy laying out. I mean, everybody was precious to me. Yeah. I was scared to death looking in Will Ferrell's eyes to say I had one line. I had one word in a scene where I had to say so. And I looked in his eyes and forgot it. I forgot. So I look and I was like.

Got a horrible feeling. I thought, what? And then it dawned on me. I went, so? So they're pros. I know why they're pros. Yeah.

Little Reese said to me, because I said, how am I going to learn lines? I get too nervous, and then I got to say a line. And she goes, there's an app. You can study your lines and do that kind of stuff. But they told me this television show is going to be more like a play. It's more like a play. It's a multi-cam? Multi-cam in front of a live audience. That would be like stand-up, because you get laughs from the jokes. Yeah. So you know how to do that.

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Uh, let's read some of you guys' comments. Uh, Chase Newman, on a scale of 1 to 10 of best Nate Land guest, Lee and Morgan is a Greg Warren.

That's a compliment. Is it? Greg's everybody's favorite. Well, I told Nate, I just got to have breakfast with Greg Warren driving through. He did a gig in Knoxville that I didn't even know about that you've done, haven't you? Allie Ray's. Yeah, yeah. We both have. Allie Ray's. And then he said, oh gosh, Leanne, I'm in Knoxville. I said, please let me see you. I love him. I love him. I love him. He's the best. He's the best. I know. I want him to have a baby.

Okay, well, that is a wonderful compliment. Thank you all for that.

Mandy Schaub. I'm a neuroscientist at UT Dallas working on finishing my PhD. I listen to you guys while I do my experiments. Some of the stuff y'all say is aggressively wrong, but always brings joy and laughs. Thank you, Mandy. Yeah. Well, what have we talked about that's even in Mandy's field of expertise? Have we got into neuroscience on here? I don't know. Is that brain science? Yeah, brain stuff. Mandy says she came to your show this weekend, so...

I didn't put that part in, but I just wanted you to know before. If you trashed her. Did she go to that fancy school in Montgomery? You remember the whole audience? That sold pretty well, actually. It was actually a good weekend. You go, okay, yeah, I got her. Mandy. Blue shirt. Second row. Tequila. Bates watches everybody. I know everybody by name.

You remember going to Tuesday in Wichita? Teresa Dorough. Daru Dorough. My nine-year-old and I just watched The Greatest Average American again the night before this came out, and I told her that Nate was in her corner supporting her with her peanut allergy. She could not stop smiling the entire time that segment was on. Keep up the great work, fellas. All right. All right. Sweet. Yeah.

People got these peanut problems. The ones that want it. It's the adults. Mm-hmm. Let's let go of peanuts. Yeah. I don't even like them. Yeah. You know? Alan Cup. Me and my two adult sons had the pleasure of seeing Aaron perform in Dayton, Kentucky. Mm-hmm.

He crushed it. Great set. Very fun night. During Aaron's set, I think he could do a pretty good impersonation of both George W. Bush and Forrest Gump. There were moments when I could catch a vibe of both. Two great Americans. Yep. Thank you, Alan. Do you agree with that? No, I don't really. I mean, the Forrest Gump is... No, I can't hear that at all. Yeah. I forgot. I haven't heard Bush talk in so long. I forgot how that guy sounds. Turr. Turr.

Yeah, there you go. Jenny. I know. Yeah. It's tough. I'll workshop it. Brian Bingham. When I married my wife, I learned that her family were big fans of storytelling. Since then, we've been to storytelling festivals across the country, and I've grown to love it as well. From an outsider perspective, there seems to be some similarities between stand-up and storytelling.

Just curious if any of you have ever been to a storytelling festival. If so, what do you see as the similarities and differences? I've never been to a storytelling festival. Have y'all? I didn't know that this kind of thing existed. Though I feel like this is a lot of what Leanne and Nate, you're both, do you tell stories on stage? I've been to one in Jonesboro, Tennessee.

Because my little children went to a Christian school in Knoxville, and they have a field trip every year to go to that storytelling festival when you're in fifth grade. And I went every year, and it is fascinating. I know Paul Strickland. You do too, Nate. Oh, yeah. There's a lot of women there that let their hair grow on their legs, and they can't.

Which I've always said, you know, if God wanted me to homeschool, but he never called me to do that because he knew I couldn't. But it's a lot of Donald Davis. Donald Davis was at that. And let me tell you all, he killed. And I tell you what he did it on. This story was, you know, growing up in church when you're in a little church and they have the nativity play.

And he talked about like having to, he went through the whole thing of the nativity play and you couldn't get your breath. And he was talking about how he had to wear his, like his mother's lingerie gown, like you as a, as a, um,

Like a wise man or shepherd? Yeah, a wise man. And he took his dad's crown royal bag that his whiskey had been in, and that was to give to the baby Jesus. And went through this whole detail, unbelievable detail, and everybody died. And that little man's still doing that. That's been how my children are grown. Are they all funny? No, some of them are like telling a story about... A tit story?

The what? Intense. Oh, I thought you said intense. Intense.

They tell them in tents. Or like from a cultural, like different cultures and experiences, you know, maybe being raised in the islands or something. Like very animated. And there's a, there is a, it's a gift. Be honest, though. These are easy crowds, though. These are easy. Well, these are some girls who've been homeschooling. They're home. Yeah, they like to get out, have some ice cream. But you would kill on this festival, right? You ever think? Yeah.

I think it would feel too much like an act. They're doing, yeah, it's a different thing. Compared to what they're doing. Yeah, it's a different thing. Look at Pep Gillette. Wonder what he's talking about. Yeah. Look at him, cute.

I bet he's telling a Western story. Yeah. I want to go to this. I might pivot into this. I got to tell y'all, I enjoyed it. And it's also in Jonesboro, Tennessee is a very historical town. And so there's like men, you know, playing guitar and from the, you know, acting like they're from the 1800s on the side of the. I think it's the oldest city in Tennessee. Is it? Really? I wonder how, how's that?

Went to be other cities. Yeah. Did they settle there first? Yeah, they settled there first. But Charlie Morgan, my oldest, was majored in history and loves history. And so he loved it. He loved the whole thing. By the time Tess went, she's bougie. She was like, do we have to go to this? Can we just skip? But I loved it. I really did. It was fascinating. How long did they talk? Look at that schedule. Yeah. Yeah. How long are these? How long are the stories? I can't remember that, y'all, but.

I don't know, like 15, 20 minutes maybe. Oh, okay. Two to three, that's an hour. Yeah, they got openers, you know. Yeah, that's an hour, dude. I mean, that's like a long time to tell. Yeah. I guess you're telling your story maybe? Whatever story you want to tell. Mm-hmm. That's interesting. It's a whole world I knew. I knew nothing about that.

Yeah. Yeah. A lot of homeschoolers. A lot of people. That who goes to it. Who goes to it. I really do. I think a lot of little mamas and campers are going, set the camper up, don't shave. Which is, I think, fun. To not shave? Yeah, and to not wear deodorant and take your kids. I think there's something sweet about that. But eventually get back to it. Because I was always taking mine to get their hair highlighted. You know, and that probably wasn't the best thing either.

But, yeah, it's a – but I would say to Brian, yes, Brian, it's very different, but wonderful. Yeah, I think we just have – yeah.

Yeah, I think it's like, stand-up, you just get no real grace. Yeah. Like, from the time. Like, you go up there and it's like, you're expected to. Yeah, more than 10 seconds. Is there more act-outs in storytelling? I don't remember that. I just remember, like, that guy was really funny about going to that, doing that nativity and what all happened. But there were other ones that it's more of educational. Like, taking you back in time to...

experience this story that may have happened, you know, during the 1800s. And so everything's not to get a laugh. We have to get a laugh. We have to, you know, there has to be details that are funny and we want a solution. Brandy Koi. Imagine me, what? Imagine me fighting to put on a good poker face due to shock when my cousin walked down the aisle to I will always love you.

Dolly is incredible. The song is classic, but that title is really misleading. The song is about parting ways. We were talking about Leigh-Anne. Nate says he never listens to lyrics to songs, so he has no idea what some of his favorite songs are about. I mean, I always love you. That was Dolly and Porter Wagner. Yeah, she left him. Mm-hmm.

Not romantically, but his show. And he had brought her up and she had to break off and become Dolly Parton. And she, yeah. I met him one time at Rivergate Mall. Oh, really? He had on full sequined jacket, a little cowboy hat propped up on his little palm. And he wanted me to share ice cream with him and it was a chocolate covered banana. I look back on it and I think,

It was odd. Yeah. The whole thing sounds weird. Yeah. But I enjoyed meeting him, you know. I was 15. Oh, gosh. Rivergate Mall? This keeps getting weirder. Yeah, same time for your third book. Yeah. I also met Ricky Skaggs at Sherwin-Williams. What was that? There was a big warehouse that used to be in Goodlandsville, and you could go and get, like, discount things. What was that called? You'd see, like, a professional wrestler every once in a while.

But I was trying to find the bathroom and Ricky's case was like, no autographs, okay? I'm looking for a fishing pole. And I was like 14 and I was like scared and I went, I'm sorry. Which I wish I had the guts, you know, that I have now I would have said,

I'm going to the bathroom. But anyway, those are two memories. I'm sorry I brought those out. Well, it needed to be said. It needed to be said. But lyrics, I don't listen to lyrics ever really. I feel like if you start that song at the end, then that's fine. Just start it at that point. That's the part everybody cares about. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Scott Nazarianus. Nazarianus.

Do you all think individuals who frequently rant and vent about everyday annoyances have a natural advantage in stand-up comedy, given their knack for expressing frustration? Yeah, I think stand-up is all built on we get annoyed at very pointless things. Do you have frustrations? Do I have frustrations? No, I don't. I'm easygoing.

Yeah, we get very frustrated at like... I'm sitting next to one. Annoying. Yeah, I think that's why we can't probably let stuff go. I think you and Dusty are both really good at that. And then you channel it and make it a fun joke where you end up being kind of self-deprecating. Like fights with your wife or whatever. You filter it so it's not harsh but still funny.

Yeah. You want to be, you don't want to be mean, but it's tough when you're right and everybody's wrong. Would that be like Sebastian? Sebastian Monskalko kind of rants? Yeah. And he does it in a good way where it's about like him walking around. It's like just the frustration that he's dealing with, you know, and it's a mix of how do you do it? Do you do it? I think I, yeah, I try to bring it back into me.

Being like, it's ridiculous that I'm this frustrated with this thing. But yeah. Jordan Doust. I bet that's it. You don't think it's Doust? No. I bet it's it. I nailed it. I'd love to get your thoughts on the importance of the pauses in your comedy. In music, they often talk about the importance of the space between the notes being just as important as the notes you're playing. How much do you think about the pauses in between words or sentences in your acting?

Yeah, I mean, that's all timing. Because it's like music. I think it's like a song. So you're playing. Your pauses are determined by the setting that you are in. I think I talked about it, like George Washington's sketch on the SNL.

When it didn't work in the table read is because I wasn't giving any time for pauses because there's not a lot of laughs because we're reading it. So it's not just the same thing. But when I performed it in front of a real crowd, I paused a lot because I'm now playing off that. So your timing is all completely on the crowd. And your timing can change. So each show, you know, shows that can be super fun are the ones that you're getting to kind of sit and, you know, like let it kind of settle for a second. I'm actually kind of trying to work on that.

I did it last night in Fargo. I was trying to, you know, it's like, I don't want to go too long, but it's, you know, just like maybe just see where you can sit for a second and let them like kind of regather themselves, especially you get a big joke and his big laughs. And it was like, maybe it's a bunch of them in a row and then kind of let them regather. It's different too in the size rooms that y'all two are doing. Yeah. A pause is so different. Yeah. Yeah. It's harder. Yeah.

Yeah, it's harder in a club. Yeah. Or it's not hard, it's just different. You would do it, you would do it. I didn't do it then. Yeah, I mean, I was very, like, rapid. Like, you're always just kind of trying to get to it. But your timing is really based on the crowd. So it's...

It's just completely up to the crowd. If you feel like they're chatty, are you going to lose them? Maybe you're a little bit quicker because you just think, I can't let them kind of get on their own because if they get on their own, they're going to start talking and whatever. So you kind of got to stay with them a little bit. You just kind of go stay on. It's like a song. I mean, it's just like a song. Do you feel like in big arenas it's even harder?

It's just, I love it. I mean, last night we were in, it's,

You're just playing a bigger instrument. Do they always have your face? You always have a big screen? Yeah, I play to the cameras too. So I know when the camera's going to get on. So I'll hit a joke and be looking right at the camera. I'll time it out because I'm making a circle. And so it's very fun. It's a real... It feels like real... It's a play in a sense. It's like you're up there talking. That's why I'm not like...

I'm not always the best at coming out of my act. I don't, you know, it's like, and I feel like sometimes I can, because I'll go on stage and I just kind of get into it. I try to have some real moment up at the top, but I'm not the best at it because I just want to perform. So I'm just very excited to...

You know, I mean, all this stuff is like, you're just like, let me just get it, like, let me get it going. And then you're, and then now we're off and we're just boom, boom, boom. You're just hitting everything. And then I'm looking at the camera. It's the best. It's, it's, it's just a, it's like a play. I love, I mean, I love it. So you're talking about that, that camera that's in the back. Like if you're at, I've got Rupp Arena coming up. Yeah, I did Rupp.

Okay, there's that bottom floor. There's a camera at the back with all the audio. You're at the end stage, right? Are you in the middle or the end stage? I'm probably at the end. So yeah, the camera will be there. And so you just kind of can be looking, but then maybe when you hit your punch or whenever, it's kind of like come back to that.

middle camera. Oh, that's a wonderful team. Because it's like, because, you know, a lot of people are having to watch on the screens. The screens are really great. I mean, it feels, it's, you know, take advantage of it. I've never, it's changed my opinion on screen because I used to always think that when you go to concert, I'm just watching the screen. I'm not even watching the person. You can't see the person anyway. Like if you were in a,

I mean, you would need to be in a 100-seat club to actually see someone's real facial expressions and all this kind of stuff. Even in the back of Zany's, you can't see the comic's face. No, and that's, yeah, 300 seats. And no matter what, so if you've got this screen there, what you're doing is you're paying for...

the experience of being there together. And you do see it. You kind of look up and then you look down, you get a piece of it, then you look at the camera and then you, you know, and then, you know, the ones sitting up front are kind of going, they can see where you're sitting, can see closer. And, but it's, it's the ride is you're all in this ride together. It's like, you're, it's, you're paying to be a part of a group. I think even with concerts. Well, and I, I had a show on this tour that I was in a small arena and,

the screens did not work. Yeah. And for me, because I feel like I'm more, you have to see me and my expressions. Yeah.

And I felt horrible because I knew that there were people back up in there that had no idea what was, I was like a speck. And I felt terrible. So I love a screen. I need a screen. I feel like people need to watch my expression. And they asked me if I wanted to be at Phoenix, and I know you love it, celebrity, and go in the circle. And I've done it once, but I said, is there any way there could be screens up? That's a little bit better, though, because that venue is not super deep.

Cause you're in the middle. That's like one of my favorite places ever to perform. And you need to tell me how to do it because I feel like I was, my back was to people. It is. You just kind of, you just move the whole time. You just kind of move. You don't like really have to talk about it. It makes you move more. It makes you be more animated and it makes you, you're kind of just, I think it gets people into your rhythm of just like walking around. Like since I've not been really going out a ton when I was doing all the dates and

and I was in the round, I was, I got very slow. Like I was able to like kind of really go slow and I could tell myself I was this, this, this one, I'm a little faster just cause I'm not in the rhythm that, you know, cause your, your tendencies is to kind of like make quick laps and you just got to kind of go slower. And I try to, I have like, I'm always working on it. Like last night I was working on trying to be a little more open. And cause you think about it, if I'm looking to one side, I'm seeing, I'm only, my back is too, uh,

of this kind of circle. And so if I just keep going, you can kind of always be looking and just try to be very open. And then when you hit the joke, look at the camera. And that's when you can feel everybody's just very engaged. And when it's an act too, that's when they're engaged. When it's not an act is when you lose them.

That's when it's not a performance. And if you're doing the big places, it needs to be a performance. You can't keep the club can be there. You can get a club back and get people back on your side. It's too many people in an arena. It needs to be a performance. Harlem Globetrotters have an act they go do. And you're talking about don't don't get away from that.

Yeah, you can have some stuff. I mean, look, stuff happens, but you, it's, you know, it's just such the stakes are the highest they can be. And so just be, just do your act that you would do. And you're going to be able to pause because the laughs will be bigger and there's more people and there's all this stuff and you just kind of be in it and just go and just, you know, I don't know. It's like a beautiful, it's like a, I love it. Yeah.

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That would be wonderful. I should do that for my little mom and Danny and put my grandbabies in there. They're great. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's good for that. Jane Jaworski. Many, many times while visiting a hotel with complimentary breakfast, people come to breakfast in their pajamas. The last time an entire family came to breakfast, the hair is all messed up, rubbing their eyes, wearing matching flannel PJs and slippers. Mom, dad, grown children, grandchildren, all of them.

Thoughts on that? Yeah, I don't like it. I don't like it. It's a great question because today's topic is etiquette. So that's a good way to get into it. It's kind of like that fire that happened in the Marriott. You see everybody's... Yeah, and that's... I still think they should have got together, put together even for that. That was... I agree with you. It's a little inappropriate. Throw a shirt on. Well, I mean, it's crazy to... You know, it's just like... It's so funny to be... When you're in a hotel, you're in...

your most vulnerable state of being asleep and most comfortable at home. And then you open the door and you're just around strangers and everybody's fine with that. I think, yeah, people are a little too loose. Like this be a little professional. That's not, I don't need to see your, I'm not your dad. I'm not your brother. I'm not, you know, like I don't need to see. This depends on the hotel too, right? Some hotels is going to, it makes sense. Yeah.

No, not wearing that. Dude, I mean, just throw on, you don't have a pair of jeans and a t-shirt? Yeah. Flannel PJs is crazy, but I get like shorts and a t-shirt and then slip in slides. I understand that too, but attire is going down, it's going backwards. People are wearing stuff that's so, like, you know, and you can wear whatever you want to wear, but like there's no thought into it. I think that's the problem. It's not saying...

Yeah. What is demure? That's like a word, right? That's the new hot word I learned. Why are people saying that? It's a TikTok that went viral. Oh, I don't even know what it means. Yeah. It doesn't matter. And then... So...

You want thought into it. Even if you're wearing shorts. Yeah. You can wear shorts and a t-shirt and tennis shoes. And if I can tell that you're like, oh, you chose that, that's better than just someone that walked out wearing, like they just grabbed stuff randomly off the floor. But I'm not walking out. I'm walking downstairs to get breakfast. Yeah, but you're around other people. Have respect for the other people. Like you're not, who are you? What are we, in your world?

That we have to deal with your nonsense? Like, you don't own the hotel. I know, but you don't own... It's not... You're going in to be respectful to other... Like, there's a family down there. It's my responsibility to raise the bar of the Hampton Inn I'm in? If you have...

Maybe the bar wouldn't be low if you weren't a bunch of yous walking down there with Walmart slippers and acting like you're not embarrassed at all about the way you look. Well, that's the problem is none of y'all are. You're not embarrassed. No one gets embarrassed. Everybody's just fine with being just this. You know, it's like, just show me some. Just be an eye buddy. I shouldn't notice you.

That's what I think. I should not notice you. You shouldn't walk down there and everybody goes, huh, and they see you. That shouldn't happen. We should be eating breakfast. We're down there just trying to be like, yeah, we're all trying to do this. We're not going to be annoying. We're not going to be just wear whatever would make you unnoticed. That's what you should wear. Okay. You can curly in.

Yeah. I mean, well, I don't mean more. I'm worried about girls coming down with no bra on. I mean, that kind of stuff with a pajama. Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy because there it's there's a weird comfort. I'm a grandmother. You know, yeah, there's a weird comfort in this with, uh,

you know, kind of dressings. I, I, look, it's the, I wear a lot of golf stuff. I wear a lot of, there's so many clothes that you can wear that are, you can sleep in golf pants if you want to. That's athletics. I mean, yeah, that leisure, you could, you can honestly, they're pajamas now. You can wear them and it's accepted. Just throw that out where the bars are. Like it's, we're not asking you to do a suit. Yeah.

It's just like... Look intentional. Just don't be... You have to know you look like a slut, or you have to go down there, and you look like it's crazy. Is it like pajamas with bears on them? That kind of thing? No.

I don't even own stuff. I think I would maybe feel better if it was even, even if it was flannel pajamas, at least if it was put together pajamas. What about Christmas morning? You know what I mean? You're going to the hotel lobby on Christmas morning? Again, if you... You're at a Hampton Inn on Christmas? Yeah, you chose... I've had some sad Christmases like that. Yeah. I have too. Yeah, Waffle House. You chose to be...

out in that hotel that doesn't mean it goes hey everybody do whatever they want you don't know these people these are strangers like they're it's it's very weird and it's crazy yeah like you know just put something i don't know just put something try just a little try a robe or something i mean people don't wear man they wear stuff we're no one dresses up anymore to anything

And I got to tell you, I don't enjoy a continental breakfast anymore. Oh, really? All that digging and doing and people in front of you. And it's kind of like being on a cruise. Yeah. It just gives me the willies now. I've eaten in a month for years. Right, right. Doing comedy for over 20 years. And I would have Chuck Morgan in my ear going, do not go to Panera.

Don't spend that money. Eat that continental breakfast. Get a boiled egg, Lynn. So I would think we're going to lose everything if I don't go to the continent. And I would not go to Panera. I'm a room follower. Yes.

So I would go to that, and it's just all that gob going on, and then people are in their pajamas too. It's just a lot. And I tell you, most of the time I would be going because we had girls play travel volleyball. We were constantly in a Hilton Garden Inn, a Hampton Inn or something, with a bunch of volleyball kids and their siblings. We probably tormented people. The continental breakfast is a very overrated breakfast.

They throw that around, man. Like, they're just like... But it's free. I'd rather just... Let me just pay for my... I think it's... I've never liked a continental breakfast. I go down there and I'm always like, this is the worst. It's nice on the way out of the hotel. Grab an apple. Grab a banana. You know what I mean? Grab some bacon. I feel like I can grab an apple banana everywhere on Earth. I don't think they have bacon at continental breakfast. They do. Most of these do. I don't know. They don't have eggs and bacon. Yeah. Scrambled eggs and bacon, usually. And then, like, some... I don't know. Some...

I thought it was like, I thought it's all stuff that, it's nothing cooked. Sometimes it's like that, but a lot of them have the silver trays with basic breakfast meat. Well, that's not, I don't think that's continental. I think that's continental. I think continental is implied to be like, you know, we pulled it, we get done with it, we roll it in the refrigerator. And then roll it back out. And then roll it back out the next morning. Well, most of it's like that. Yeah. Yeah.

breads. Yeah. Breads and fruits. I mean, look, a muffin's not, yeah, muffin's good. I get that it is free. But you're paying, I mean, you're paying for the hotel. It's not,

It's the experience. It's factored in. Yeah. Well, Adrian found this book, Complete Book of Etiquette. I think it was last, I think I saw update 1995. So some things have changed since this book came out as far as tipping. Yeah, no one even does it anymore. And does what anymore? Etiquette. Etiquette.

As a whole, this is, she should have had etiquette and not made this book. I agree. That's crazy. 700 pages. Amy Vanderbilt, was that a Vanderbilt? I don't know. Was that Anderson Cooper's mom? Amy Vanderbilt was an American authority on etiquette. 1952 was the first edition of Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette.

She is the ancestor of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Yep. 19th century railroad magnate. They would know it. They would know him. Yeah. This is the world that she grew up in was all this prim and proper. I think I like etiquette, even though I think there is, I think I do. I think I like, I do like the mix. Like there is some, it's a mix. I like the, uh,

I don't know what to say. I don't know if I want etiquette, but it's like I like it, but I like that there's some rules. Like there's at least some tradition maybe I like. I agree. And this is something Lucy and I are talking about a lot now because we were both raised very differently when it comes to this stuff. So we're talking about how we want our kid to act. I was always yes, sir, no, sir, yes, ma'am.

Does that with me. My mom would stand in front of the door and wait for me to open it for her. Stuff like that. Where Lucy's family does not do that kind of stuff. So we're trying to find the right... Now, I think we were right. Yeah. But that's where you have to do it as a dad. I have to remind myself sometimes, dude. Because I was raised that way too, but it's like... I mean, kids are just...

Harper will do, you know, I mean, you're just trying to get them to say yes now. Yeah. Because they just go, yeah, yeah. So you're just like, just say yes. But it's, yes, man, she'll do it to, they do it outwardly, I think, when you raise kids right. They're going to do it to strangers and they're going to do it very politely. You know, because you always get just, sometimes I think with kids, you just be like, your kid is the nicest. And you're like, she talks to me like a, you know, just some chump. Like, yeah.

I think that's how, I think that's what parenting is. We're teaching Eleanor to say please. Oh, yeah. And she still does the sign language because, you know, babies learn sign language for certain words. So there's certain things she'll still put in the sign language with it. So whenever she says please, she always. This is what please is? Yeah. Oh, yeah. So very cute. So Leanne, etiquette on an airplane.

Are you a window seat person or aisle seat person? I like an aisle, my darling. I switched. Were you window and now you're aisle? I was window and now I like an aisle. And do you think, well, I was going to say as far as deplaning, but when's the last time you and Nate had anybody in front of you besides the pilot? But it's crazy how people, even up there,

Just rush to go out and don't let you get your stuff down and everybody. And I know you're in a hurry. Like if you've got to, I always connect because I'm out of Knoxville. I have to connect everywhere and I have to get off that thing as quick as I can. But I'm just amazed at how people just mull over women in line when you're going in line to get on the plane. And it's your number has been called. If you're in group one, group two, whatever it is, people just go right in front of you.

You're standing there. You know, I'm not an aggressive person. I think that's rude. I know that men don't have to always let women go first, but I'm in line and people will go ahead of me. I think they should. And get in there. I let women go first. Yeah.

Yeah, I think they should. I think that's sweet. And I know we're not talking about this right now, but just for later, I don't think men ought to cuss in front of women. Okay, let's go back to airplanes. But I do think... Unless she cusses first, then it's all bets are off, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

If she gives you a cussing first. But I do. I think people are so quick that they just bring like suitcases down, almost knock you in the head. I mean, I just try to, you know, stay cool and let everybody get off.

I think people are just in a hurry. People don't look at people as humans. It's just like we're not all a person. And so it's just like I'm trying to get out of this situation, and they just grab the stuff and they go. But even if I see someone being where they're going to be trying to force someone through, sometimes you just let that person be that person, and you just let them go, and then you don't have to deal with it. Some people act like they're in cars.

When they're just walking with people. Yeah. You know what I mean? You know how like. In personal. You are. With the car next to you. Yeah. They're like that. With just. Standing next to somebody. And you have to think. That they're. That they're. Going through life like that.

That makes it easier. But just everything's, yeah. I mean, you know, we used to wear a suit to fly on an airplane because it was just such a new thing that it was like crazy that you were even getting to go. And now it's just such an obtainable thing that, that, you know, that's, it's not that exciting. Kids are just, they're flying their babies in their own planes. And, you know, you like never, I didn't fly. We flew one time when I was,

five for a funeral that I barely remember it's not even a fun trip it's never yeah it's always something like we had to but that was it and then I didn't fly again until you know probably my senior year in high school like it never flew that's crazy you know like it's kind of crazy to think how much you fly now to be like you just go flew once from being born to senior year in high school yeah I think what's rude is

on an airplane is when they say you are connecting and people have got flights to get to. And they say, can, if you don't have anywhere else to go, can you let the people go that need to catch these? Cause I'm always one of those people trying to, and people won't let people, you can just tell they don't do it. They get up, stand, look at their, you know, watch and you know, people have got little babies or whatever, trying to get somewhere to get to another flight and everybody's out of shape and can't get there. Everybody's running. Yeah.

I feel like they got to... That airline has to be more direct. There's no one... No one's direct anymore. So they kind of vaguely say this kind of thing where you can't tell, well, who needs to get... Like, they need to go...

all right, who's connecting? Raise your hand. And then, you know, you got to kind of talk to people like that. And they're like, all right, let these people go because their flights are not going to make it. The rest of you just let them go through. And then if someone doesn't want to do that, like you can clearly see that person's a maniac, but you have to be more direct. They're not direct. You know, what about reclining your, your chair? It worries me. It makes me feel bad. I do. If I do it,

I don't like go all the way back and then somebody can't even put their laptop on. I can't stand that. But in a long flight, I mean, when you have to sleep or something, I just, I try not to go all the way because I think that just is, you know, so hard on the people behind you. It worries me. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I think you're allowed to do whatever the chair does. But I don't. Yeah, I don't do it because I'm uncomfortable with it. But I'm annoyed that I have to feel uncomfortable with it. I think you should be allowed to do what the chair does with the chair. They put where they're going to stop it. And I think it's the person behind you is insane for being like, you're not allowed to do that.

I think just have a conversation with the person behind you. That's also crazy too, but you could, what is it? Yeah. Is that cool? You know what I mean? Just have a little moment with them.

You could have a bounce where you maybe don't go all the way back, but it's just like, if someone leans back into my space, that's what their chair does. So they're not breaking the chair to try to do this. They're not doing anything like that. You know what? If I go back in my chair, then I have the same amount of room. Yeah, and then it messes up the person behind you, and then the whole plane's going to do it. I'm saying just don't slam it back into me and not even acknowledge that I'm back there, man.

there like look around and go i mean i just give me a look i i don't think people owe people you know it's like uh we're not owed any of this stuff you're you're not owed everybody dressing up at the hotel i don't ask for it yeah well yeah i mean i think they should that's all i'm saying no you think you're owed it because you go yeah 32 on his act walks in because i don't even need i could fly this plane if i wanted to

This travel etiquette person said you should do what Aaron just said. Before you lean back, look back at the person, see if they have their laptop or their food or their table open, just say, hey. Yeah, you could ruin somebody's lunch. Now, that's what I do. I don't really lean back because I feel uncomfortable. But I would never go all the way back. But I'll go, I'm not really comfortable when it's all over my life. If you had your lunch set up and then it just slammed into you and you spilled your lunch, you just go, ah, it's what the chair does. I think you have a little bit of righteous anger there. Ooh.

And I think it's righteous. What does that mean? I think you have a right to be annoyed about that. Oh. Yeah. I don't know. I don't... I feel like that's... It doesn't... You would just go up. I would just be like... Such is the world. I would have learned... No, I would learn to not do that. I mean, I would be watching... I watch them...

Too, like, I'm too aware of, like, so if I feel like they're about to do something, then I'm, like, already kind of prepared for it. Okay. And, like, I'm just, I'm just basically, like, I'm very, like, what is it, like, self, like, I'm just, like, I'll control me, and then I'll, like, I can't, you know, it's like...

That guy, it's not... He can... If he wants to lean his team back, he's allowed to lean them back. So I just got to be ready for whatever that gets. I see. It's very polite and nice. I do it. I would lean back. You got to lean back and you're like, sorry. And then you... Yes, you do. That's the... That would be the way... You're right. That's the way you should do it. Yeah. It's nice to do it that way. But I don't think they...

have to do that. I mean, if they don't, I don't, I'm not like mad at them for doing that. I'm like, that guy just does it that way. It's on me to fix. If I want to be comfortable, I think everything's on me. If I want to be, if I don't want to sit in the back of the plane, that's on me. That's no one else's fault.

Where I want to sit, what I want to do, that's all on me. That's how I've always thought. If you're flying on a plane, I'm sitting in the middle flying to...

Kuwait, that's on me. That's not on, you know. And that one, a guy, I put my seat back and a guy hit it in the back. It's very frustrating. But if I don't want to deal with that, then I have to get out of the situation where I'm not going to have to deal with that. And then, you know, and you just kind of, and that's what like, that's where my, half my goals are just not even career goals. Their goal is to go, I don't want to sit in that middle seat in the back. Because how do I get out of this seat?

And then I just, my goals are to work to where I don't have to be. How do I get off this corner? Barking for the show. It's always been that. Like, I don't, because I think, I don't like this. Why do I want to live in a world of frustration and yell at this guy and have to be like, everybody needs to do exactly what I think they need to do. Look, and I think that a lot. I know that I think everybody should do what I think they should do. I'm not saying I don't have those feelings. I have those feelings. I have all those thoughts.

But I just try to go while being in control. I always thought that with everything. Like it was – you know, I never liked splitting checks. I was always embarrassed by it. I didn't like it. And you do it and you got to split it because I waited tables and I don't know if it – I never cared if someone split checks when I was waiting tables. But if I feel like the person is going to be mad they're doing it, I always just was like I want to –

I don't want to split checks. I don't want to ask anybody for anything. I just want one of them was I want when we go out to eat, I will pay for the table.

And then that's all I wanted to do was like, just let me get to like, what's the easiest it's control. Yeah. But it's the easiest that I got. I just need to get to the point that we go out to eat. I pay for it. I don't even need a big thank you. I don't need all this stuff. I just want to be like, we're not talking about it. I don't want to deal with it. I don't want to go, you know, talk about money or any of that stuff. You're, you know, I feel like you just, we just talked about money. Your whole life is just,

You don't have any money. You don't have anything. You don't do, you know. And so you're just like, I just want to go here. I'll pay for it. Let's be done. And I think because you waited tables, because I did too, at Applebee's, which I just remembered, you're in my book talking about how

Am I? Uh-huh, because he waited tables at Applebee's. Yeah. And I did too. Weren't you at the Bearden store in Knoxville? Did you ever work up there? I did for a second. Okay. Yeah. Okay, good, because that's factual. Oh, good. It's in my book. But anyway, I think when you've waited tables, you don't want somebody to have to split and do. And I feel that way too. I want to be the least...

So like I, and I don't mind someone being a problem because then there's a weird thing. It's like you're, I want to be the least problem. And so even if they are a problem, I don't want them to feel like a problem to me. Yeah. So then, because that means, because if I act like they're a problem to me, then I'm now a problem. So I need to be the least unnoticed. And whatever it is, you're just kind of like,

I'll do whatever you want to make this go. Have y'all ever been at a lunch or a dinner when you're with somebody who's being a nightmare or super rude to the server? And like, how do you handle that?

I would, how I think, how I would handle it is I would take, I would pay for the whole meal and say, I got this and I would probably just order more and I would make that, I'd probably order, I'd take the ordering out of that person's hands and I would just say, bring a lot for the table, bring a lot of this. I mean, I used to always, I mean, when we first got on the road and like, I remember

Big J they would be like they'd get appetizers and they're like yeah just get like five appetizers bring us whatever and I was like man that's crazy because it was it was you know we grew up we weren't we had water weren't allowed to get soda because it was it cost two three dollars

And not mad about it. No one had money. So does how they get you. Yeah. That's what I doubt. Yeah, so they go, so we'd have a water. You'd eat a kid's meal. You're eating somewhere where kids eat free. It's like everything was so money conscious to be that. I think I always, that's, you know, I just want to...

I don't want to... The decisions... I don't want to have 500 decisions at a table that we're just trying to eat. Like, you know, now when we go on the road, Travis, a lot of times it's like just order stuff for everybody. And I love it because it's just like just have it out there, order it. We pay for it. We get up. We leave. And it's, you know, it's like no one's having to go...

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Just a couple more airplane ones that this etiquette coach said. If you're in the middle seat, you get access to both armrests. Yeah, I agree with that. Oh, okay. I've always tried to do it that way. And then if you're in the window seat, the shade...

you should consult with your fellow people in your row as far as open or shut. That I feel is uncomfortable because you're like, and I got to, you know, it just, some of it just feels like, what are we doing? Like, so now I got to sit down and talk to everybody and be like, hey, do you guys mind if I open or close? Now, if it's like super bright and maybe people are sleeping, yes, I could understand that. But in general, when it's like, you know, it's the middle of the day and you're flying, it's like, you know, don't do it. You just do what the plane's doing.

That's what I... You do what everybody's doing. Again, try to be unnoticed. Right. Try to be... I don't want to... You don't even know I was even in this world. That's how you should be. Low footprint. Low footprint. Tipping. That's obviously a...

Big thing now, as far as everywhere tipping the screen, it says it's okay to change it to custom tipping. Cause when they flip it around, it's usually going to be what? 20%, 22%, 25% or 15, 20, something like that. 15, 18, 20. And they'll usually have it set on 20. Oh, often. Yeah. So you would have to go on it, but it says you can also custom tip and that's,

That's okay etiquette. Yeah, tipping. I thought there was a story recently in a paper about tipping. Our tipping is... Because tipping in America is really getting out of control. I think there was. It's like, all right, this is insanity.

I mean, it's 20, 25, 30%. I mean, it's stupid. And in Knoxville, Tennessee, where you and Phil Fulmer are the two celebrities, you're under a microscope, Leanne. So if you don't tip right, word's going to get out. Right? I didn't think of me and Phil being that. You're the Knoxville Tribune. There you go. Yeah. Well, I love Phil Fulmer. And, you know, I rode on a plane with him one time, and he told me secrets.

about the University of Tennessee and coaching decisions. And honest to goodness, y'all, I forgot them. And Chuck Morgan wanted to know what they were, and I felt terrible. I go, I don't remember what he's saying. I remember a little bit about Lane Kiffin. Oh, yeah. But I have also talked about Lane Kiffin all over the United States when I needed a good

Quick SEC football joke. Yeah, yeah. And I have since apologized in person. I mean, not in person, in crowds and said, if anybody knows Lane. Because I think he's trying to do better. Yeah, yeah. And he went through a cleanse. He did, yeah. Working for Nick Saban for a few years. I don't do that. Yeah, and he's doing well, I think, you know. Yeah.

Probably still a player, if you know what I mean. Joey Freshwater. That's a great name. As far as tipping, Cash, it still says servers, probably prefer Cash. They don't have to put it on the books if they don't want. Venmo's fine, but don't be yelling across a bar, hey, what's your Venmo, and holding everybody up. That's rude to everybody. I never have Cash. I have Cash. You do? You carry it all the time?

I think women don't. Does Laura? I think women don't. We never have any money. No, no, yeah. Yeah. I just, yeah.

It's for tipping. Here's one that you guys probably have to deal with a lot that they say is rude. Don't ever go up to someone and say, do you remember me? Do you remember where we met? Oh, yeah. It's crazy. Unless it's obvious, go up and reintroduce yourself. Say, hey, I'm so-and-so. We met in so-and-so. Don't put that person on the spot. Do you remember me? Because then you feel bad. Yeah.

Yes. And I've read that before to just, when you can't remember their name too, that's a good way to go. I'm Leigh-Anne Morgan. And they go, oh yeah, Leigh-Anne, I'm so-and-so. The real move is to bring in a third, if you can't remember somebody's name, you bring in a third person. Hi, this is my friend Brian. And then y'all introduce, and then I got your name. Yeah, it's brutal though when they go like, hey, nice to meet you, Brian. And then they just get going. Yeah. Yeah.

Like, God, man. I can't remember people's names. I'm terrible at it. Yeah. So I say, I try to say, I'm the man. Well, you see so many people out of context. We see them, it's just, you don't know where you see them, and it's just out of nowhere. You're like, you know, what's going on? Leigh Ann, I got some book signing etiquette for you. This is mostly for your people. So when they come to your book signing, only bring the book.

If it's a, if it's an autograph signing thing, don't bring a bunch of memorabilia and have you can hold up the line with you signing multiple things. What about signing your body? Is that tactless? Didn't mention it, but I'm going to say yes. Okay. It told, it said, if you have an unusual name, especially write out your name on a post-it note and put it there on the book. So the author doesn't have to say, now, how do you spell that? Oh, that makes sense. And don't, are you doing a Q and a?

I will in two of the stops. It said don't. This is, again, for the people. Is it the other one you refuse to talk to? Yeah. Mount Juliet. Yeah.

Mount Juliet? Leanne. You're already too big for Mount Juliet? No. And I want to talk to everybody. I just don't know if that... The other... The big ones where I do have a moderator is at big churches. Yeah, yeah. Because they didn't want to confuse people thinking I was going to do a show in a theater. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they're having them in huge churches. And then the other ones are like at Books a Million or Barnes & Noble and that kind of thing. What if you tell the moderator and he asks you a question and you go, I don't want to talk? Yeah.

Next question. None of your business. None of your business. Yeah. Well, it said, ask an actual question. Don't go on a rambling long comment that has no question at the end. That's what people tend to do. They just want to make a statement. They just want to talk to you. Yeah. Yeah. And then they might end it with, what do you think? Yeah. You know what? I was thinking, never go, we'll get to that later. I never like when someone says that. I don't like it in an act. Well, I don't like it in an act. I don't like it in anything. When someone's...

you know, brings up something like, I was at the store the other day. Don't worry, we'll get to that later. You're like, how long is this going to, it makes me just immediately think, how long is this going to be? That, when are you going to get to that?

Like, is it like 45 minutes later? Like, now I think about time. I wasn't thinking of time. And now I think about time. I wasn't thinking about how long the story was going to be until you're putting bookmarks in this. Yeah, yeah. You can call attention to something because if you're going to reference it later, you can do that in a more... You can do it in a way that's not... In a more tactful way, yeah. Yeah, it's just a way that makes it...

Yeah, you could say, yeah, I don't know. There's ways to say it. I actually thought of a joke. I thought of something, and I thought of it saying the thing that I don't like. And then I was like, well, I don't like that. So then I had to figure out another way to do it. You stuck to your guns, though. You didn't break your rule. What? Oh, yeah. Well, you're just saying if you didn't like the way you said it. Yeah, I don't like it, so I don't want to do it.

Yeah. TV and radio appearance. This is near and dear to me because I've been on both sides working in local television. Arrive on time. I definitely had people that showed up. It's one thing if you're making the rounds, you just get behind. But I've had guests show up because they were on the golf course and got there late. Dress appropriate. When I worked in TV news, we had comics show up just in shorts and shorts.

you know well comics are crazy because they they yeah they're they're nobody you're like they there's a flip where you go who's doing who the favor exactly yeah and you're like that's when it you know you're absolutely right because sometimes they would reach out to the tv station they're nobody we're doing them a favor and then a lot of times if they're big enough they're doing us a favor by coming on the tv so it says do your research i definitely um

I would go out on the road with Henry Cho, and they wouldn't know how to say his last name. Was it Henry Chow? Oh, that's the most... That happens. As you imagine, Henry took that well. Yeah. That happens all the time. I mean, it's less and less, but it's... Last year, it was just something they go, you just tell you on the radio, and they're like, so what's your act about?

And then you're like, I don't know. What do you do again? We talked about when you made, cracked at a list of the best sketches from last year. And it was, and you were, I think George Washington's sketch was number one. You're number one on the list. And it said Nick Bargetzi. Yeah. So you're like, all right. Even if you're number one on the list, you're still going to get it. Because there's just too many. Because we're all nobody. There's not enough people that want to work. So these people...

find these tricks and jobs. And that's kind of what it is. And so they're like, that person's a writer on a thing. And, you know, and they're just like, I got to put this together. And the professionalism, it's gone. Well, I've got a lot of flaws. I really do. But I would not make a TV station wait on me. I would die before I do that. I've always been on time with that kind of thing. Knowing that it starts at a certain time and it's going to keep, you're going to ruin the whole, what are people, animals?

I would not do that.

And I saw a video of a comic recently on a local TV station, and he was saying shocking things just to get a shock out of it. And for my TV days, that drives me crazy because it's just bad for – why would you ever want to have a comic on again if they're going to say something disrespectful that's just – And they kind of stopped in San Antonio when I was coming up. They kind of stopped having comics on locally there because people said crazy mess. Yeah.

So I think there was a time in radio they were like, well, you're not going to get on here and say the word. We're like, no. You mess it up for the next guy. They think we're wild cards. That's right. There are a lot of wild cards in the comedy business. I think we're

Wrapped up. You're being etiquette to Leanne's time. And I want y'all to know that I tip like drivers and I want everybody knowing the people that take my luggage up and all that, but somebody else hands some money. My baby, my baby child has. She takes care. She gets cash for where we go. Is it so you can give them quarters? No, I promise it's not. I promise it's not. But I don't have cash. As the door shuts, you go, you gave them quarters again? And it's all an act. They got to think as...

but i really i waited tables for years i really did not think about giving cash so they didn't have to report that i feel like dirt ball now i i think you you do it on a credit card it doesn't you still like you're like i'm not involved in your tax career yeah like you're it's it's a tip's a tip i'm not you know we're not uh whatever uh all right yeah well that was great uh

I don't know where I'm at, but... I've got to have a list of all the discounts y'all are getting because I need an aura thing. I need to take a quiz on a mattress. Well, we're here because... And I need some creatine. You have your book come out? September the 24th! What in the world? What in the world? Mmm.

The movie coming out. Special. Special. Yeah. Well, the movie, then the TV show. TV show. So Leanne's going to be, you're going to be out there. Too much, maybe. Too much. People are going to get tired of this old girl. Leanne Fatigue.

With a stomach. So last time we were able to get you for this podcast. Menopause. Big old women. Menopause. That should be the name of the TV series. Big old women with menopause. They go, oh, what's that about? No, it's go check out everything. As always, we love you. I love y'all. Y'all are my boyfriends and y'all know that. I love y'all.

Well, I want to mention this weekend I'm at the St. Louis Funny Bone, St. Charles Funny Bone in St. Louis. It's Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Woo! September 15th at the Tempe Improv in Tempe, Arizona. I got my show here at the Lab at Zany September 17th and September 26th at Louisville Comedy Club in Louisville, Kentucky. Wow.

September 5th, we added a show here at Nashville. This is Aaron Weber speaking at the Lab at Zany's. We added a show Thursday night. And then the added show in St. Louis, September 15th, is almost sold out. There's still a few tickets left at that. So, AaronWeberComedy.com. Can I tell y'all, I do have Appleton, Wisconsin and Milwaukee tickets.

September the 13th and 14th, and then Rupp Arena, October the 5th. Amazing. All right. I just forgot one. Go back to me. September 22nd, Dayton, Kentucky at Commonwealth Sanctuary. That's basically Cincinnati, right? It is Cincinnati. It's an all-ages show. It's a 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon show, all ages, so come to a clean, family-friendly show. Great. All right.

All right. All right. All right. Well, hope you have a great week. Love you. Thank you, boys. See you next week. Great job. Thank you. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife, Laura, on the Audioboom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nateland Podcast.

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