An Interview with Leanne Morgan

Summary

Office Ladies: An Interview with Leanne Morgan
Hosted by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey
Release Date: July 30, 2025

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Introduction

In this special episode of Office Ladies, hosts Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey welcome comedian Leanne Morgan to the podcast. Known for her New York Times bestselling book and her engaging stand-up performances, Leanne shares her journey into comedy, her recent successes, and insights into her upcoming Netflix series.

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Meet Leanne Morgan

Jenna and Angela kick off the episode by introducing Leanne Morgan, highlighting her accomplishments and her burgeoning presence in the comedy scene.

Jenna Fischer [02:42]: "Yes, we love her. It is comedian Leanne Morgan."

They mention her Netflix stand-up special, Leanne Morgan: I'm Every Woman, and tease her new television comedy show, Leigh Ann, premiering on July 31st.

Angela Kinsey [02:56]: "Or you might have seen her live because she has been touring the standup circuit for years."

Leanne’s Comedy Journey

Leanne delves into her 25-year career in stand-up comedy, recounting her humble beginnings and the perseverance required to succeed in the industry.

Leanne Morgan [10:38]: "I've been doing stand up now for 25 years. I got started when my baby was 18 months old."

She shares personal anecdotes, such as her first paid gig at a Rotary Club event in Tennessee and her passion for storytelling inherited from her family.

Leanne Morgan [12:19]: "I remember thinking, I'm going to Hollywood. And then so I went through life, you know, but scared."

Challenges and Breakthroughs

Leanne discusses the ups and downs of her career, including the impact of the writer's strike on her first development deal and the resilience needed to keep performing despite setbacks.

Leanne Morgan [19:07]: "I had a call come in from Mike Clements, the producer, and he worked with Tom Warner that did Roseanne, all those shows."

Her perseverance during times when bookings were scarce is highlighted, emphasizing her commitment to staying on stage wherever possible.

Transition to Television

The conversation shifts to Leanne's transition from stand-up to television. She explains how her comedy attracted the attention of producers and led to opportunities in TV.

Leanne Morgan [25:28]: "I did a movie with Will Ferrell. Glory."

Leanne recounts her experiences on set with notable actors like Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell, sharing humorous behind-the-scenes stories.

Leanne Morgan [26:16]: "I call that doings and man's doings or somebody's doings."

Working on the New Show

Leanne provides an in-depth look at her new Netflix series, Leigh Ann. She describes the premise, inspired by personal experiences but fictionalized for authenticity and relatability.

Leanne Morgan [39:37]: "The premise is that my husband has walked off and left me for another woman after 34 years."

She discusses character development, casting decisions, and the emotional journey of portraying a woman in her late 50s navigating life's unexpected challenges.

Leanne Morgan [43:46]: "We needed something in there with conflict. And you and Chuck have been married all these years."

Personal Insights and Advice

Leanne shares heartfelt advice for aspiring comedians and creatives, emphasizing the importance of taking risks, persevering through failures, and embracing one's unique voice.

Leanne Morgan [42:32]: "You have to take risk. You have to persevere, whatever it is that you want to do in your life."

She reflects on how her work has inspired others, particularly women in midlife, to pursue their dreams and embrace new beginnings.

Leanne Morgan [42:32]: "Women would say on social media like, this has inspired me. If you can do this, if this can happen to you after all these years, then I can go back to school."

Call Sheet Questions

To wrap up the interview, Jenna and Angela engage Leanne in their signature "Call Sheet Questions," a fun segment where guests answer personal tidbits.

1. What was your first job in entertainment?

   Leanne Morgan [50:35]: "Does the rotary count for that $50 when I drop my baby off?"

2. Do you speak any other languages or play a musical instrument?

   Leanne Morgan [51:38]: "No and no. But I am going to try to learn the drums, and Fred Armisen from Saturday Night Live is trying to help me."

3. What's a place you've been to that you absolutely loved?

   Leanne Morgan [53:09]: "Greece. There was Mykonos. That was pretty nifty."

4. What do you like to do on the weekends?

   Leanne Morgan [53:29]: "I like to have these grandbabies over and cook what they want and let them go down this Costco roller coaster that I bought them."

5. What is your favorite midnight snack?

   Leanne Morgan [55:23]: "I do love a chip with cheese dip and finish it off with a dark chocolate with almonds."

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Closing Remarks

Jenna and Angela express their deep appreciation for Leanne, celebrating her achievements and the joy she brings through her comedy.

Angela Kinsey [57:22]: "Leanne, this was a joy. Thank you for making the time. You're so busy right now, and just know you got two gals who are just rooting for you."

Leanne reciprocates the gratitude, highlighting the supportive network that has enabled her success.

Leanne Morgan [58:13]: "You angel. We could do that."

The episode concludes with playful banter about potential future collaborations, leaving listeners excited for Leanne's upcoming projects.

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Quotes Highlight

• Leanne Morgan [10:38]: "I knew stand up was going to be my thing because before Chuck and I married, we went out to LA to visit my sister."

• Leanne Morgan [19:07]: "I had a call come in from Mike Clements, the producer, and he worked with Tom Warner that did Roseanne, all those shows."

• Leanne Morgan [42:32]: "You have to take risk. You have to persevere, whatever it is that you want to do in your life."

• Angela Kinsey [22:30]: "I think what you do is harder because you have to do the whole thing. Like, how do you do that?"

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Conclusion

This episode of Office Ladies offers an intimate glimpse into the life and career of Leanne Morgan. From her early days in stand-up comedy to her latest ventures in television, Leanne's story is one of resilience, passion, and the enduring power of laughter. Her insights provide valuable inspiration for anyone pursuing their creative dreams, especially those navigating life's unexpected turns.

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Stay Tuned: Don't miss Leanne Morgan's new Netflix series, Leigh Ann, premiering July 31st. And be sure to catch her live stand-up show, Just Getting Started, currently touring.

Subscribe to Office Ladies for more exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes stories, and favorite moments from The Office cast.

Transcript

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[Angela Kinsey]

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Hello. We have a hilarious lady joining us today on Office Lady 6.0.

[Jenna Fischer]

Yes, we love her. It is comedian Leanne Morgan.

[Angela Kinsey]

Now, you might know her from her New York Times bestselling book, what in the World? A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings.

[Jenna Fischer]

Or you might have seen her live because she has been touring the standup circuit for years. And now you can catch her very successful stand up show on Netflix called Leanne Morgan I'm Every Woman. It is worth a watch. And now you can see her in her new television comedy show, Leigh Ann. It is premiering July 31st on Netflix.

[Angela Kinsey]

And you know, Jen and I have both loved watching her stand up. And if you want to laugh at the everyday domestic craziness that we all struggle with, you need to follow her Instagram.

[Jenna Fischer]

Oh, it's so true. So, like many of you, Angela and I share comedy clips back and forth with each other. And I would say, like two thirds of them are Leanne.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yeah. You know what? I actually want to play one to kick us off. That cracked me up. It's Leigh Ann doing stand up, and she's talking about her sister who was going to marry a country club man.

[Leanne Morgan]

Hear it? There was never alcohol in our house until my sister is a little bit older than me. And she was going to marry late in life, and she was going to marry this hoopty doo man, country club man. I had to explain to women in North Dakota what that was. Hoopty doo, you know, country club. Because I'm from a town of 500 people, farming people. We didn't know what we'd never seen anybody play tennis. I see somebody on TV and I'd think, oh, that's the queen and her people. So we didn't know anything about a country club. So she's gonna marry this country club man. And, you know, some country club people like to drink. So to get her married off, we all started drinking. My little mom and daddy never drank alcohol. My mom drank a glass and a half of wine and got out of my car and said, I can't feel my arms.

[Angela Kinsey]

It just cracked me up.

[Jenna Fischer]

I love her so much. You know, we have to share. Angela, one day you just, like, slid into her dms.

[Angela Kinsey]

I did.

[Jenna Fischer]

And you started messaging back and forth. You're just like, I am a fan of you.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yeah.

[Jenna Fischer]

And it turns out she is a fan of the Office. And here on Office Ladies, we are fans of highlighting funny women. So we said, do you wanna come on Office Ladies and just talk about your career in comedy. Talk about your new Netflix show. And we had such a ball talking with her and I'm so glad we did. Me too.

[Angela Kinsey]

And you know, we hear about her journey. Her quote, overnight success is about 25 years. She just has been out there putting her comedy up on stage year after year. And we're so happy for her.

[Jenna Fischer]

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[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, my darling girls, I love y' all both so much. Y' all don't know how much joy y' all have given me. And I tell ya, I'm on planes all the time. And I go to my office, honey, I go to the office and watch it on planes. It's just my comfort.

[Angela Kinsey]

Oh, that makes me so happy. Well, Leanne, I feel like we should share a little bit how we got here, which is, I don't know if you know this, we've been trading messages, but years ago, my niece and my sisters went to see you in Wichita Falls, Texas, because that's the big town near my small hometown. You know when people say you're going to town, you drive 26 miles to Wichita Falls and they saw you and they were like, ange, we know you love comedy. You're gonna love this gal. She's so funny. And I started following you on Instagram. And I was like, she is the real deal. So funny, so down to earth, so relatable. And I have been a fan ever since. And Jenna, same thing. Jenna, like, was like, oh, my gosh. We would trade messages.

[Jenna Fischer]

We trade your videos.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yes.

[Jenna Fischer]

Yes, y'.

[Leanne Morgan]

All.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yes.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, I just can't even believe it.

[Jenna Fischer]

I mean, you're saying, like, we keep you company on a plane, but, like, I just had the craziest morning with my kids. It was like, just all the insanity. The dog ate the turkey sandwich when my back was turned, and we couldn't find the drum key, and I'm getting a hot flash, and. And of course, it's all happening on the one morning I have something to do at a certain time. And that's what your comedy is about. When I listen to you, it's like you help me laugh at all the insanity. That was my morning. I love you.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yes.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank you, my angel.

[Jenna Fischer]

I can hear you in my head. I can hear you talking about my dog eating the sandwich. You would mind that for gold?

[Leanne Morgan]

Yes, I would. I may still do that. I may still do that. I've got to come up with a third hour for Netflix by 2027. Okay, well, if I may have to ye.

[Jenna Fischer]

You might borrow a little.

[Angela Kinsey]

We'll just DM you all the shenanigans that happen trying to get kids out the door, because you did that. You did that for years. And we'll just be a refresher course. Yes.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah. And then now I have two grandbabies, Two boys that are two and four that are yummy.

[Angela Kinsey]

I bet.

[Leanne Morgan]

But my. I feel like my best material was when I was yalls age, doing all that. That's. I feel like. And I can talk about menopause. That's good stuff, too.

[Angela Kinsey]

Y.

[Leanne Morgan]

That's good stuff.

[Angela Kinsey]

And. And I'm so glad menopause is kind of having a moment right now. People are finally talking about it.

[Jenna Fischer]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Over that.

[Angela Kinsey]

I know. I think of our poor grandmothers, you know, no one told them anything.

[Leanne Morgan]

And mine was in a house dress with a landline, and she would just twirl herself in it, cooking three meals a day. Little farm woman, and nobody helped her. And she looked 100 when she was 50, you know? And now everybody's so. Lord, Halle Berry, Honey has a lubricant. And she used to do it, you know, with people. It's a whole new world out there.

[Jenna Fischer]

That's right.

[Angela Kinsey]

It's a whole new world.

[Jenna Fischer]

Leanne, now, you are a household name. But I don't Know anything about you? I know your comedy. I'm a fan. But could you share? How did you get into comedy? Like, what was your path?

[Angela Kinsey]

It's been a long journey, isn't that right?

[Leanne Morgan]

It has. I've been doing stand up now for 25 years. I got started when my baby was 18 months old. I say that when I actually got paid $50 at the Rotary Club to do the luncheon in Morristown, Tennessee. But from the time I was little bitty all, I wanted to go to Hollyw. And I loved television. And I. My little mama, Lucille is so funny. And my dad's a good storyteller. My grandparents. I was raised in a farming community where my aunts and uncles and everybody was around, in and out all day long, every day, and they were all funny. And kindergarten, my mom, before the state of Tennessee changed it to where you had to be farm to go to kindergarten, I went at four because I was born in October and I needed a big nap still. And I probably had some accidents. And my mama would say, you're just. I shouldn't have sent you, even though you're smarter than everybody there, she said, which was a lie. But anyway, she would tell me that. But she said, let's. Does your tummy hurt? And I go, yeah, it does. And she'd say, well, let's watch Hollywood Squares and Match Game and not go to kindergarten. So I loved television, all that. And in my little mind, at 9 or 10 years old, I remember thinking, I'm going to Hollywood. And then so I went through life, you know, but scared. And I, you know, didn't have the guts at 18 to get in a car and go to LA with $60 in my pocket like people do. It didn't even dawn on me. I didn't even know that was a thing. And then I went on to college and did all that traditional stuff. Not well, not well. Flailed.

[Jenna Fischer]

What was your major in college? What'd you study?

[Leanne Morgan]

I ended up going back and. Because I dropped out. And then I went back and I got a degree in crisis intervention counseling under the Child and Family Human Ecology. And I loved it.

[Jenna Fischer]

I could see you being really good at that.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yeah, thank you.

[Leanne Morgan]

I wanted to be a therapist, a family therapist, if I didn't make it in Hollywood. And I think I've used that in my comedy. I like studying people and I just observe and I get details, you know, and then I can. As a storyteller, I like to have details when I'm telling something. But I married Chuck Morgan and He moved me to the foothills of the appalachian mountains, and I started selling jewelry. I never used my degr. I got pregnant with my first baby, Charlie, who's 31, who's got my grandbabies, and I started selling jewelry. And I don't even care about jewelry like women sell Mary kay and tupperware. And I was in women's living rooms two or three nights a week slapping this jewelry around, eating, you know, damp and having a ball. And I was talking about breastfeeding and hemorrhoids and all that stuff. And people thought I was funny. And I look back on it, and I had my own little comedy club because I was up in the. It is in the foothills of the Appalachian mountain, so I didn't have a comedy club, but I was. I knew stand up was going to be my thing because before Chuck and I married, we went out to l. A. To visit my sister. She was living in California. And he took me to the comedy store. I wanted to go to the comedy store, and I wanted to go in that hearst on that ghost tour and watch where people have been murdered in Hollywood. And Chuck Morgan said, that's the most morbid, twisted thing I've ever heard. And how do you know about fatty arbuncle, who was a comedian, you know, who fell on a woman and burst her bladder? Oh, my lord, yes. You can google that.

[Angela Kinsey]

You know who would know that is Kate Flannery. Kate flannery, who played Meredith, knows everything about old hollywood. She's just like a walking encyclopedia, and she'll throw something like that out there, and you're like, what, the bladder burst? Huh?

[Leanne Morgan]

I love that stuff, too. I'm right there with her. Bugsy Siegel or Sal mineo got stabbed in an alleyway. But I went to the comedy store and I came alive, and I had this. I mean, I just thought, I can do that. I. I can do it. Anyway, I had my first baby, and then I'm schlepping this jewelry, and the jewelry company noticed and started getting me to ask to not perform. I was supposed to be doing a speech about how to get booked far in advance, because I was booking about a year in advance, these jewelry parties.

[Angela Kinsey]

Because people loved you.

[Jenna Fischer]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

And we'd have a ball, you know, and they could buy a pair of earrings for 1999, you know.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

A little gold on. Change your look. So that kind of gave me the courage there, because I was in front of all these women, and they, you know, and I was talking about breastfeeding again, and that gave Me the courage. And then my husband sold his business that we had and we moved to San Antonio, Texas for him to work for a big company. And I had a comedy club and I started doing open mic. I went from open mic to they let me open and then they put me up at midnight. I had three little children by then. And they put me up at midnight when everybody's home. Marijuana.

[Angela Kinsey]

No.

[Leanne Morgan]

And I would be talking about somebody do, do it on a T ball field or going to Weight Watchers.

[Angela Kinsey]

How did the marijuana crowd like that?

[Leanne Morgan]

Some of them liked it, some of them didn't. But I said this the other day, my comedy, I think if you've ever been in a family, if you've had a mama, a grandmama, you know, you kind of relate, you know, to what I'm saying, which is, I'm lucky for that. But anyway, that and then I just. From there I became a stand up. But I raised my children. I got to raise my children. And we moved back to Knoxville for my husband's job at corporate. And I just tried to do what I could, y', all, to stay on stage. And there was some bad times and there were some good times. Hollywood would come around, they'd want a development deal, wouldn't make it. I'd take to the band overeat. Then I couldn't get booked. Then I'd get booked. I mean, I'd have consistent work and I mean, it was very up and down. I got a lot of no's, but I just stayed on stage wherever I could. A lot of those were corporate, private, horrible things and fundraisers. I was your fundraiser girl. But I did clubs throughout when I could. But it was hard with three little children. And then really and truly, y', all, this did not blow up until I was about to quit and was so discouraged. I was in my early 50s and I said, because I'll be. I can't even say it. I'll be 60 in October. I'm really having a hard time.

[Angela Kinsey]

Come on now. You're looking awesome. You're crushing it. You're seriously. Everybody I know is talking about you, so Bring it on. 60. Come on.

[Leanne Morgan]

Were you angel? Well, I had my premiere the other night for my television series. It's dropping. And my face, I've never seen myself like that. I thought, where did my chin go? And then Kristen Johnson, who plays my sister, said, don't let that get in your head, Leanne. It's about being funny. Think of Carol Burnett making faces. You know, you cannot worry about that. But at first, the shock was a lot, but I saw that premiere the other night, and every expression. I feel like I'm doing that I'm just twisted up. But I was also so scared, I couldn't even. I mean, I'm sure that was fright and 59 years old, but anyway, I don't know how I got off on that tangent.

[Jenna Fischer]

This is Office Ladies. We love a tangent here, Leanne. It's what we do.

[Angela Kinsey]

We're ladies. We're gonna talk about a scene between Dwight and Michael, and next thing you know, we're talking about the fact that I had one boob that made more milk than the other. I don't know how we got there, but we get there.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, y', all, that is my kind of talk. I love talking about breast milk, and I love talking about Michael, and I love all of that. Oh, my gosh.

[Angela Kinsey]

Well, you know what? Jenna and I have talked a lot about just our journey to get here. You know, we're not from Hollywood. You know, I'm from a small town. My family's from Texas and Louisiana. Jenna is a St. Louis gal. You know, no one in our family's ever did anything like this. The thought of, like, going across the country to California. Are you crazy? So we know what it takes to just keep at a dream that people around you kind of question. But do you remember the moment that you were like, oh, my gosh, this is like the turning point. Like, I can actually maybe have a career in this.

[Leanne Morgan]

Was there a moment in stand up or television or just stand up? When I got my first development deal, it was with Warner Brothers and abc, and it was right before that first writer strike. Do y' all remember that first writer strike? That was awful. But I had a call come in from Mike Clements, the producer, and he worked with Tom Warner that did Roseanne, all those shows.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

And he said, we think we can. We know we can build a sitcom around you. And I had done my first 45 minutes. I had. You know, back then, it took 10 years to get your first 45 minutes for standups before social media and all that. And I had done. You know, I had done a few little touring things and. And gotten some attention. But when they called and said, we know we can build a sitcom around you, I thought, okay, I'm not crazy. I'm not one of those little children on American Idol that thinks they can sing. You know, it took something like that to validate. Now, it did not make it. That writers strike hit, and it was over in seconds. And I was devastated. But then I had them after that. And it would be times when I just could not get booked and. And. Or I could get booked, but it wasn't what I'm doing now or anything like that. And. But there would be some little something come along that would give me the hope to keep going.

[Jenna Fischer]

I talk to, like, aspiring actors a lot. I go to universities or classes, and. And it's a hard thing to explain to your family at home because they only see the milestones that actually end up on television or end up on stage. But there are so many of those moments, like a development deal, but that actually doesn't happen. But it is still a turning point, and it is the thing that keeps you in it. I had so many roles I didn't get, but maybe it was like a callback to a level of producers that I hadn't gotten to before, and that was the validation that I needed to not give up.

[Angela Kinsey]

I had a big audition. This is before the office. It was for a movie, and I couldn't even believe I had the audition, and I didn't get it. On my way there, they called me, and I had prepared and prepared and said, you know what? The offer went out to Jennifer Aniston, and she took it. So I didn't even audition. And I called my mom. I was so heartbroken because I had worked so hard, and I was like, mom, they offered it to Jennifer Aniston, and she said, oh, honey, your disappointments are getting bigger. That's a good sign. What? My. My disappointments? I was like, okay, I know.

[Leanne Morgan]

I do, too. Good night. Jennifer Aniston. I mean, that was a big deal.

[Angela Kinsey]

I know. I didn't even know you could offer something to people, you know, I was so green. I was like, what? That just happens? But, yeah. And I was like, okay. All right, mom, you're right. Next.

[Leanne Morgan]

I don't know how y' all done what y' all done. I see I've auditioned just for a few things, and I know I'm good at that. My baby child, who's 27, had to do it under a ring light here in the dining room, and she tried not to roll her eyes while I did it, but I don't know how y' all done it. I think y' all got the hardest job in the world. I don't. Stand up's hard, but I. I don't know. I think what y' all do is harder.

[Jenna Fischer]

Really. I think what you do is harder because you. Somebody else writes all the words for me. Like, I. I don't have to come up with the material. I just have to deliver it. That's what's so fascinating to me about standup comedy, is, like, you have to do the whole thing. Like, how do you do that?

[Leanne Morgan]

But, Jana, if you did the turkey sandwich and the baby turned their back, the dog ate the turkey sandwich, you lived it. You saw it, you could write it, and then you could say it, and you'd remember it. When I got the television series, I was calling home and crying and saying, I cannot learn this script. What in the world? And people go, but you do your act. Hour and 20 minutes every night. I go, yeah, but I lived it. I wrote it. I know it. And I talk out of my butt sometimes and change it up.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

And they said to me, you'll build this muscle. It's a. It's a muscle. And I was like, no. And they're right, though. You do. You kind of build that memory muscle of learning lines. By the end of it, I thought, okay, I know there's a rhythm and a way to do this. And they did hire a woman who was from heaven to help me. Then we worked like, Nils.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yeah. It's so helpful to have someone to run lines with you. And, you know, I have to say, my husband says that he can tell, like, if I get an audition and now everything. You have to set up a camera at home and, you know, do it. I'm like, what am I doing now? I'm running a casting session. Are you kidding? You know, and I think that's. It is sometimes harder to learn lines that are not a natural way to speak or a natural cadence. And, like, I always joke, I could never be on er. Now, that's great writing, but I couldn't say pulmonary. Get the tube. Cardiac code 49. I don't know. Like, no one would believe that I'm never getting cast on that show. But I. I hear you.

[Jenna Fischer]

It is.

[Angela Kinsey]

It is. Like, it's a challenge sometimes to. To learn these lines, but it's a lot easier when they're your lines that you already know are funny.

[Leanne Morgan]

Mm. And sweet. People on my show are trying to learn how Southern people speak. Oh. But, you know, they just don't know. They just. They can't help it. They've never lived in the south, but they were sweet about saying, lynn, would you say it a different way? Let us know. You know, and so I would rewrite a little bit. And those writers, you know, say things in such a flowery way that I'm just So country. I just don't say that in that way, but they would be very sweet and it would help me if I could change a little bit, you know? But the movie that I, you know, I've only done one movie.

[Angela Kinsey]

It's a huge movie. So many big movie stars.

[Leanne Morgan]

I know. Can you believe that, y'?

[Jenna Fischer]

All? I know on Office Ladies, we love a behind the scenes tidbit. Do you have a behind the scenes tidbit of working with Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell? I did a movie with Will Ferrell. Glory.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yes. Yes. Oh, my gosh.

[Leanne Morgan]

I said somebody the other day, they go, what do you want? What would you want to do? And they were talking about Nona's. How successful. Nona's the show. They had so much heart and women of a certain age on it with Vince Vaughn, and they thought that might be something in the vein I'd want to do. And I said, yes, that with. With Blades of Glory or Talladega Nights. Could I do that with Nona's? Because those are some of my favorites. But, yeah, Will Fer. Carol was a doll.

[Angela Kinsey]

It was a sweetheart.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, sweet. And we just walk on set and there was one thing where they wanted me to say something nasty about a man's parts. And I call that doings and man's doings or somebody's doings.

[Angela Kinsey]

We call it business. Some ladies and your lady business. I don't think about your man business.

[Leanne Morgan]

Well, I don't know how I started calling it doings. Like lady doings. I could say men's doings, and Will would walk on set and just go, leanne doings. At me. But let me tell you, little Reese Witherspoon is one of the smartest people I've ever met in my life. And everything she's ever said to me, it was right. So she tells me, do something. I do it. And that little thing, you know, tiny. And would. And she'd look up at me. And at first I said, it's like you're like looking at Elvis. She goes, still. I go, yeah. And then by the end of it, we were talking about, how much magnesium are you taking at night? Can you. I can't. Can she poop? What she take? And she doubled her magnesium. I mean, we were all talking about the same stuff, but that Nick Stoller was from heaven and just let me riff, and I just loved it. And I wish I could do that again. And I was so scared and freaked out, but, you know, just nervous. But I wish that I could do that all over again because I think I could do it better. I didn't know how things worked. Little Fortune Feinster, the comedian, looked at me and said, there's a piece of tape on the floor. Land. Go stand on it. That's your mark.

[Angela Kinsey]

I love Fortune.

[Leanne Morgan]

But everybody there was so helpful to me. But let me tell you all that. When they called me and said, reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell want you to do a table read for a movie, I went, what's a table read? And I was getting off a stage. I was doing a casino in Pennsylvania that Janet Jackson had just been to, which thrilled me. And they said, you got to get on a plane. We'll switch your plane flight and go do this table read. And I was scared to death, but I did it. And I had a ball and everybody was there. I didn't know how all that worked. And then I got had to get. This is comedy. What the. One minute you've got your foot in the back of an Uber and a baby's diaper. Some little mama's riding, driving Uber, and you've got your foot in a Burger King sack or a dirty diaper. The next minute you're doing a table read with Will Ferrel, Reese Witherspoon. And then the next day, you fly to Georgia to do hey Hira, Georgia. I don't know what that fundraiser was, but I got on a plane and. And I sat next to Machine Gun Kelly. So I'm on the plane, Little Machine Gun Kelly. And I said to my kids, I got Machine Gun Kelly sitting next to me. And they go, he would be flying private mama. There's no way. And I go, well, he's 6 foot 7. He's got a size 15 shoe, he's got on a bunny hat that bloody looking. It wasn't real blood. It just looked made to look like blood. And I said, there's some things hanging out of his eyebrows. And they go, okay, that's probably Machine Gun Kelly. And I said, normally I don't talk to people. I promise I don't. But I went, megan, you know he's had that volatile relationship with me.

[Angela Kinsey]

Oh, no.

[Leanne Morgan]

I said, you're not going to believe this, but she's from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, right where I've raised my children. He went, what? That's effing sex. So anyway, I sat and bonded with Machine Gun Kelly and had a ball. But it was like four days of just crazy mess happened.

[Angela Kinsey]

And you're like, what is my life right now?

[Leanne Morgan]

What Is my life.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yes. Jenna and I text each other that. Cause these moments happen where it's like, one day, you know, you're just trying to find the shoes for camp at Walmart that everyone wants, and you can't find them, and your cart's got the weird wheel and all the stuff. And then the next day, it's like, okay, I just sat in first class next to Alicia Keys. Do I say hi to her? What do I do? Does she watch the Office? I don't know what to do. And also, I forgot all my comfortable underwear. And I'm going to land in New York with no underwear. Like, these are your lives. It's just wild, isn't it?

[Leanne Morgan]

It's wild. And that's why I wrote a book that almost killed me. And I named it what in the World? Because I feel like every day I go, what in the world? What in the world?

[Angela Kinsey]

And now I know. Leanne. And by the way, my sister actually took a photo of her reading that book by the pool and texted it to me. I'm telling you, the Kinsey women, they are. They are going to your shows. They are buying your stuff. They love you so much, and they can't believe I'm talking to you today. They're just so tickled about it. So it's wedding season, kind of, right? I don't know about you, but we have a few family members, like cousins getting married, and we're all traveling, all five of us, for a wedding coming up in a few weeks. And we got an Airbnb because we're like, you know what? We want a kitchen.

[Jenna Fischer]

We want snacks. Yes. Well, it's also great for the host family because they're getting to make some extra money on the side. This is also summertime, time of summer travel. So, yeah, while you're away, your home could be an Airbnb.

[Angela Kinsey]

It's a great opportunity you might not even be aware of.

[Jenna Fischer]

I would be happy to have more people become host families, because that just gives me more options. I might come stay in your house.

[Angela Kinsey]

Especially if you're someone who travels frequently so your home is available more. It's true. And it's a little extra money. Some side money.

[Jenna Fischer]

Who doesn't like side money?

[Angela Kinsey]

You know what Oscar calls it? He calls it side scratch. Little side scratch. Yeah.

[Jenna Fischer]

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[Angela Kinsey]

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[Jenna Fischer]

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[Angela Kinsey]

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[Angela Kinsey]

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[Angela Kinsey]

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[Angela Kinsey]

I know how much Jenna's friendship meant to me through all of it because now we started we were not famous. You know, we didn't think the office was going to make it. We didn't even stop our other jobs after the pilot because we didn't know what was going to happen. And so much of the fame part a red carpet A table read? What do you wear? How do you stand? Where do you put your hands? Do you do the smile so you look constipated, or do you show your teeth like we. I found all of that together. We failed together. We had little triumphs together. But I couldn't imagine doing it without her. Do you have your core group that kind of. Is it a group of gals? Is it Chuck?

[Leanne Morgan]

Is it a combo in stand up? I've got. I call her Little K. But Karen Mills and I have traveled together on and off since 2004, and she has been my ride or die. If I had a horrible gig and called her on the way home and said, I think I need to quit, she would talk me out of it. Then she called me the next week and say, I'm going to quit, and I'd talk her out of it. And if I didn't have a gig, like, if she did a booking, she'd say, you need to get Liam Morgan next. And I would do that for her. And we kept each other going. And I call her and I'll go, what do you think about this material? And when you look at my Netflix special, both Sets, and see which one, you know, what material you like out of both, she is my stand up. And then now that this is my TV series, which, you know, I'm scared that it comes out July 31st. And I know how y' all gotta help me through that because I just. I want people to love it and I don't know. And, you know, there's the uncertainty of it all, and I'm hysterical. But Kristen Johnston plays my sister, and we had immediate chemistry. And, you know, Lord, she's been on every sitcom mom and Third Rock from the sun and Righteous Gemstones and in movies and, you know, and she has helped me so much. She taught me. I didn't know all this camera blocking and all this stuff. And they'd say something and I'd go, hold on, That's a Hollywood word. What does that mean? And she would tell me and tell me how things should work and encouraged me. So she's been sent from heaven. And I couldn't have done that if I hadn't had her on this 16 episodes. I told her in our press junket. I had a press junket for the first time. I've never been so tired in my life. I felt like I had the flu when it was over.

[Angela Kinsey]

Oh, yeah, you're just mentally, like, tapped out by the end of them. I was like, I don't know. If anything I said made sense, Did I say words? I don't know.

[Leanne Morgan]

We were all just crazy.

[Jenna Fischer]

You know what? You know, Melora, who plays Jan on the Office, she has been an actress since she was a kid. She was on Little House on the Prairie, and her mom and dad are both actors. And so of anyone in our cast, she was truly the most seasoned. And I remember I did my first kind of press junket for a movie, and it was over the weekend that we were shooting the Office, and she said, you look so beat up this morning. And I said, oh, I had this press junket. And I was describing it to her because, you know, they. They take you to a hotel, and you sit in a chair in front of a poster of your thing, your movie or TV show, and then just one after the other, different reporters come in and ask you almost the same questions. But you have to be fresh and funny and interesting and delightful and sound.

[Angela Kinsey]

Like you've never said it before.

[Jenna Fischer]

And you do that for two days, and it makes you feel a little bit like you're in a dream state. Like, am I talking? Is that my voice? What is happening? Well, Melora, she was like, well, didn't they get you the hotel room at the hotel so that you could take a nap and be by yourself during lunch? And I said, no. She goes, oh, Jenna. She goes, they won't get it for you, but if you ask for it, they will. So she started coaching me on all these ways that I could ask for space and, like, self care. She was like, you have to have that lunch break completely alone. No one in the room with you. Lay in a bed in the dark, or you're gonna go crazy. You're gonna go crazy. So I was so grateful that we had Melora.

[Angela Kinsey]

She really helped us.

[Jenna Fischer]

Great.

[Angela Kinsey]

She was like, understand that it's okay to have boundaries and to take care of yourself and that you can only be your best self if you have had rest or even water or, you know, things that I was like, oh, we can ask for a chair. I didn't know that. You know, while you're waiting in the.

[Jenna Fischer]

Wings, and when you're just starting out, you're just so eager to please, you know, And I think, especially as women, too, you don't want to be branded as difficult. And so it's like there's all these ways that you can kind of just get, I don't know, maybe even a little taken advantage of.

[Leanne Morgan]

I can see that. And I didn't. And everybody was wonderful to me, but you're Right.

[Angela Kinsey]

Well, Leigh Ann, can you tell us about your show? We're so excited. We want our listeners to hear all about it. It's called Leigh Ann, and it's going to be on Netflix. It's a half hour comedy. Is that.

[Leanne Morgan]

I think these episodes are really around 17 to 20 minutes, my darling. You know, because there's no commercials, they're going to drop all 16 the same day.

[Angela Kinsey]

Okay.

[Jenna Fischer]

Ooh. So we can binge it.

[Leanne Morgan]

Binge it. Please binge it. Yes, everybody binge it. They said tell everybody to binge it. And then I'm telling everybody on stage every night that I have have a live show. I go, please run it while you're vacuuming in the background or while you're putting something in a crock pot.

[Angela Kinsey]

I'll just turn it on when we leave for the day and just let it. And then recycle. Yes.

[Jenna Fischer]

Every day. I mean, that's how people watch the Office, honestly.

[Leanne Morgan]

Because it's so comforting. It is, my friend.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yes. Tell us about the actors on it and what's sort of like the premise of it.

[Leanne Morgan]

Okay. The premise is that my husband has walked off and left me for another woman after 34 years. And I am in my, you know, late 50s, and I'm a mother and a grandmother. I'm taking care of elderly parents, trying to launch children. And then this is happening, like, now. What in the world's going to happen to me now? And I think what Chuck Lorre was thinking, I thought I didn't want it to be based on my real life, because that would be weird. You know, me and Chuck Morgan are still married.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yes.

[Leanne Morgan]

But my fans went crazy, y', all, as soon as they told what the premise was, people were going, chuck Morgan can't deal with her success. That's what's happening. Oh, no.

[Jenna Fischer]

People blurred the line.

[Leanne Morgan]

My Little Daddy, who's 85, one of his friends, who is 90, called him and said, I'm so sorry, Jimmy, that Leanne's getting a divorce. And Daddy said, do something. And I go, daddy. It's like Beverly Hillbillies. You know that was not true. Right? But anyway, Chuck Lorre just said Leanne, because I had a bit in my Netflix special talking about if I had to get out and date again because I've got a friend who had to date. And in the Netflix special, I say, or my other friend, when we were talking about dating, she said, I think I could show somebody my left breast. But anyway, he said, I think that's a common thing, not just like if somebody got divorced. But starting over.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yes.

[Leanne Morgan]

You know, everybody. Things happen in life and kicks you in the teeth, and everybody has to start over doing something. If it's another career or whatever. Y', all, I've got to tell you, I don't mean to be sappy, but when this blew up and I started getting big tours and all that in my 50s, women would say on social media like, this has inspired me. If you can do this, if this can happen to you after all these years, then I can go back to school. I can start a business. I've always. I can start a nonprofit. So my very first tour, the Big Panty Tour, Vanity Fair panties, did a thing with me on tour where women could submit what they like if they wanted to see money for a business or to go back to school or whatever. They gave five women the money to do whatever they want to do in midlife to start over again.

[Angela Kinsey]

That's wonderful.

[Leanne Morgan]

And so Chuck Lori knew all that.

[Jenna Fischer]

Leanne, I'm getting choked up.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

And I'm telling y', all, I should have gotten a therapist. When all this started happening to me, it was so much bigger than comedy. Women would say to me, you got me through a divorce. I watch you at night. I'm going through chemo. I've lost my parents or whatever. And I would just. It would be so hard to receive that I think I'm not worthy. I would think I'm not good enough for these precious people. I would get out on stage, I would not even say a word. They would stand up and blow kisses at me and do a standing ovation forever. Said a word. And what I think it was is that I think that my demographic has been ignored. I think that Hollywood kind of ignores them. I think that there's no other comedians in my lane. I hit a niche where it's just a bunch of darling, fun women out in the middle of the United States and their precious husbands in a half zip golf pull up. Who just want to talk about normal life. So anyway, Chuck Lori just said, I think, Lynn, it would be. We need something in there with conflict. And you and Chuck have been married all these years. Y' all are still together. Your kids are intact. They're doing well.

[Angela Kinsey]

You've done a good job, lady.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, yeah. But he said, we need some, you know, everybody's got to be flaw. And my. You know, we're flawed, but you know what I mean. So then he said, I think this premise, and it kind of fought it. I kind of just thought, I don't know about that. I don't know. It doesn't feel authentic to me. And then I. I thought, well, that's crazy. I don't want it to be based on my real children. You know, that would be terrible for them. So we went with it. And Ron Stiles plays my husband who has left me. But he is so lovable in this and we wanted him to be. I wanted there to be redemption and forgiveness.

[Angela Kinsey]

Ryan is so funny too. I'm so thankful that you're surrounded by these good people.

[Leanne Morgan]

I know. Well, honey, they put a bunch of pros around me because they knew I was green, didn't know what I was doing. And I wanted. Because I am a church going girl and I do Zumba and I've done jazzercise many a time in a Presbyterian gym.

[Angela Kinsey]

That's right.

[Leanne Morgan]

So we've got a lot of those kind of scenes that I wanted to be authentic for, like real church scenes. And so jama and there's all these women, like, there's a book club scene. But anyway, it's. It's really based on real life and, you know, some of my comedy, my sensibility, but I think it's got heart. But I think it's something people can relate to. But I. But I think it's funny. I think it's funny and it's different than anything I've ever seen before. And Liang and the character liying and explores the idea of maybe dating again. Oh, hey, can you imagine if you had to?

[Angela Kinsey]

No, no, no, I can't imagine.

[Leanne Morgan]

No. So a lot of that. Yes. And I feel like if I do get another season, I can be more equipped to be because I am a writer on it and executive producer. I feel like I can give more now that I've been through this first rodeo.

[Angela Kinsey]

And you know what? All of the firsts are done. You know, fortune telling you where to stand on the tape. That's done. It's like a learning curve and you're getting it. And it was the same for Jenna and I.

[Jenna Fischer]

We're all still learning.

[Angela Kinsey]

And that's the thing Jenna and I talk about is that you're never too old to be curious. Like, you don't age out of being curious, you know? And I think a lot of your standup, it does speak to people who are like, maybe a little part of them that they dreamed they tucked away and you're just like, no, no, no. Those dreams, they can live and they can come to fruition. And I just think it's so inspiring.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank you My darling. Well, and people ask me all the time about all of that, and I do say. I mean, you have to take risk. You have to persevere. You know, I went through a whole stage during standup when it was big Comedy Central, and that's. I was not what they wanted. You know, I was a mama with a pair of kitten heels on, with capris, with birds on them. I tell people I was not Comedy Central, but you have to persevere, whatever it is that you want to do in your life. And I also think you only get one time around this world. Why not give it? I mean, you know, what do you got to lose if it doesn't work out? It doesn't work out. I tell y', all, who inspires me. I watch him all the time on Instagram or whatever it comes up on. Steve Harvey. Steve Harvey talks about being homeless, but you got to jump off that cliff. There's a bunch of things he talks about, but you gotta. If you do take that leap, you are gonna get bruised and bloodied and all that, and there's gonna be a bunch of no's and a bunch of. But you're not gonna know until you jump off of that. And one day, it's gonna work, and it's gonna go. And I just. You know, I. Yes. I'm 59. I'm worried that I look like I don't have a chance. And I'm telling y', all, my fanny was pretty big on that screen. I. I knew I had a big fanny. I didn't know it was. I mean, I thought you could set a cafeteria tray on my fanny.

[Jenna Fischer]

This is the hard part. I think about our industry, which is that when you're just at home and you're being a mom and you're taking care of people, you're not, like, looking in the mirror all the time. I remember I went through this big stretch where Angela and I were just podcasting. We're not on camera. It's just our voices. It was, like, five years, the pandemic. And then I got this part in Mean Girls, the movie musical. I sat down in the hair and makeup trailer, and I had not looked at myself in a mirror for 90 minutes straight in five years. I couldn't believe what I was looking at. I was like, what is that vein on my neck? Has that been there? Is anyone else worried about it? I did not know that vein was bulging like that. Can you cover that with makeup? I don't know. Every wrinkle, every sag was suddenly and I thought, oh, this is. Yeah, this is because I have not looked in a mirror for a long period of time or if I'm taking a selfie, I just throw a filter on it. My skincare routine is a filter. My skincare routine is soap and some oil of Olay. That is my moisturizer. And it doesn't even have. It's not even regenerist. It doesn't even have a hydroxy whatever in it or the retinol. It has none of that. It's like the mildest whatever I got at Walgreens. That is my.

[Angela Kinsey]

You were going there to get other things.

[Jenna Fischer]

You know what? Honestly, you know what my face cleanser is? Most of the time it's leftover baby shampoo because I have run out of whatever cleanser I bought once and now I'm scrounging around under the cabinets in the bathroom and I found some old, like, honest baby shampoo. And that is literally what I'm washing my face with right now. And then oil of Olay.

[Angela Kinsey]

And put your arm as high as it will go when you take that picture. If you not. Not me, don't reach to your ear. Reach well above your head and you take that picture.

[Jenna Fischer]

And then. I told you, Leanne, for the picture we took, you just set your chin on your hands.

[Angela Kinsey]

Oh, that's a good one. Maybe we should do. Wait, Cassie, can you take another one?

[Leanne Morgan]

Here we go.

[Angela Kinsey]

One, two, three. That was amazing.

[Jenna Fischer]

See, it's great. It solves all the problems.

[Angela Kinsey]

We know you've got to go. You're a busy lady. But we end our interviews with the thing that was on our call sheets. It's called the call sheet questions. There's just five questions. Okay, here we go. Number one, what was your first job in entertainment?

[Leanne Morgan]

Does the rotary count for that $50 when I drop my baby off?

[Jenna Fischer]

Yeah, I think it does.

[Leanne Morgan]

Okay. The first time, really, I got paid doing stand up a little man that owned a sandwich shop who saw me emcee for free for somebody in my Sunday school class at the Kiwanis Capers. Leanne, can you come induce comedy at my sandwich shop? And I'll give you the door money and I'll make money off the beer. That's the first time I ever got paid. That was my first job in show.

[Angela Kinsey]

Business at the sandwich shop at the.

[Leanne Morgan]

Sandwich shop for Mike. Sweet. Mike gave me a shot and I was. I still fear that somebody typed it and it'll come out because I got. He goes, can you do an hour? And I go, oh, yeah. I got up there and talked out of my butt for an hour, and it's no telling what I said. I don't know what I said. But anyway, that was the first time I got money.

[Angela Kinsey]

Okay.

[Leanne Morgan]

Okay.

[Jenna Fischer]

All right. Our second question is, do you speak any other languages or do you play a musical instrument?

[Leanne Morgan]

No and no. Now, I went to a big, little, tiny country school that was big in Future Farmers of America and Home ec. I do know how to make a bank to Alaska. But I played basketball, and Spanish was during basketball practice, and they just told me I didn't have to take it because I was tall, and they needed.

[Angela Kinsey]

To take it, and they wanted you on that basketball team.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah. So, yeah, I don't have that. But I am going to try to learn the drums, and Fred Armisen from Saturday Night Live is trying to help me learn how to play the drums.

[Jenna Fischer]

Fred is a close friend of mine.

[Leanne Morgan]

He is from heaven.

[Jenna Fischer]

From heaven, truly.

[Leanne Morgan]

And he messaged me and was so precious about, you know, I like your stuff and all. That was so sweet. And I got to meet he and his wife behind the John Mulaney Show. But I said, I'm going to be 60 in October. Is it too hard for me to learn the drums? He went, no. I said, I've always loved Sheila E. And Prince. And he's a big Prince fan. He made a video for me to start, like, on a pad. So hopefully the next time I'm on with y', all, I can say, yes, I'm a drummer.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yes. I love that. That's.

[Jenna Fischer]

I love it.

[Angela Kinsey]

Okay, next question. What's a place you've been to that you absolutely loved?

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, my gosh. I go so many places that I absolutely loved, y'. All. I've been so many. Let me think. Greece. There was Mykonos. That was pretty nifty. That's the only place I've been over Europe was Greece.

[Angela Kinsey]

That sounds lovely, though. I've never been to Greece.

[Leanne Morgan]

It was the islands and, yeah, Mykonos. It was beautiful and did not look real. Oh. But I could say Alaska, too. Alaska was beautiful. Didn't look real. You know, it looked like a picture book.

[Jenna Fischer]

All right, next question. What do you like to do on the weekends?

[Leanne Morgan]

I like to have these grandbabies over and cook what they want and let them go down this Costco rollers coaster that I bought them.

[Jenna Fischer]

Costco roller coaster? Wait, I've seen that. I have seen that. You can buy a roller coaster for your backyard. I've seen clips of that online, and I kind of didn't know it was real. That's real.

[Angela Kinsey]

Oh, it's like for little kids.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, it's like probably a little above your waist.

[Jenna Fischer]

It's like a little.

[Leanne Morgan]

And then your baby.

[Jenna Fischer]

Yeah, like a train thing.

[Leanne Morgan]

And they love it. And it's got a little red car on it. And my son will push and I mean, they will go all the way to the other end of our property and they go nuts.

[Angela Kinsey]

Nuts.

[Leanne Morgan]

And love it. And I also like to put out right now, you know, it's hotter than Hades. I just got something from Target probably that I put the hose in and water squirts up and I put on a swim trunks and go and play in that water. And I like to have toys out there that, you know, like lizards and stuff that they can put in there. And I also bought them some riding toys for the yard. So I always have those. But if I'm not on the road, which most time I'm on the road. But if I'm at home, I like to have all my kids there. I like to go and buy a bunch of good stuff to eat. And I like to everybody cook and do and be together. That's my favorite thing. And watch these babies play. I think I can pick out good toys.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yeah, that sounds wonderful.

[Leanne Morgan]

And as a grandmother, you know, as a grandmother now I can. You know, it's like we were on such a budget. Like, they got Christmas and, you know, they had toys, of course. But now I can like go, I'm going to the Costco to go get the roller coaster and everybody kiss my foot. We're done with it. We're done with it.

[Angela Kinsey]

You know what? You work hard. You work hard. You should be able to enjoy that hard work with your family.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank you. My daughter.

[Angela Kinsey]

Nothing wrong with that. Last question. What is your favorite midnight snack?

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, y', all, I do love salty and sweet. Can I say that I would like to start out with something salty. So I do love a chip. I don't have lick a sense of a tortilla chip with cheese dip. I do like guacamole. I like salsa. But I do love a cheese dip with like a little rotel. But I've gotta finish it off with a dark chocolate with almonds. And if I'm really lucky, I might have a Cadbury Fruit Nut bar, near which I want everybody to have at my funeral. I've always said to my children, for my celebration of life, I want everybody to come in and get a big size Cadbury Fruit Nut Bar. Have y' all ever had one. You'll lose your mind. You'll lose your mind. Now, somebody told me they're better. They're made in England. If you can get them in Canada, they don't have all this waxy stuff on them. I don't notice the wax. I get mine at Walgreens. If you're Jenna, if you're going in there to try to get you to.

[Jenna Fischer]

Get my Oil of Olay.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yes. Go to the candy aisle and get the big bar of Cadbury Fruit Nut. Now, that's a milk chocolate. I'm a connoisseur of chocolate, but I love that milk chocolate. It's got a fruit and a nut in it. And just. Just let it melt in your mouth. You will lose your mind. I don't know if I should even told y' all that because I don't want y' all to get hooked on it, but I do love a sweet and salty. And I do love. It is fun to eat at night and watch a show.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yeah. Have a little treat. I love it.

[Jenna Fischer]

Yes. I think everyone listening needs to go get the Cadbury Fruit Nut and watch Leigh Anne on Netflix. This is it.

[Angela Kinsey]

We are not sponsored by Cadbury, but, you know, know, feel free to call us.

[Leanne Morgan]

I know we're probably going to sell a lot of fruit nut bars.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yeah. Leanne, this was a joy. Thank you for making the time. You're so busy right now, and just know you got two gals who are just rooting for you, and we're here for you, and we cannot wait to just cheer you on.

[Leanne Morgan]

You angel.

[Jenna Fischer]

And thank you for getting me through menopause. Thank you for letting me laugh at that. That new thing. That is the hot flash.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, my darling.

[Jenna Fischer]

So much. I laughed so hard. I sent it to my husband and I was like, babe, look, I feel seen.

[Angela Kinsey]

Yes.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, my. I'm so glad, Jenna. And tell me, is somebody doing your bioidentical hormones? You got somebody.

[Jenna Fischer]

I have all the doctors helping me through. My big thing is acupuncture. Acupuncture for hot flashes.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, good.

[Jenna Fischer]

Yeah, it's working. It's great. Oh, wonderful. And a fan that blows on me at night, as you know about the fan.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, y' all are so yummy and precious and as yummy as y' all weren't giving us all this joy all this time. Thank y' all so much. I've had a ball.

[Angela Kinsey]

Thank you so much.

[Jenna Fischer]

All right, well, we'll be in touch. I want to meet you in person sometime, Leanne.

[Leanne Morgan]

I would love that.

[Angela Kinsey]

We're going to go for a walk. We'll do a walk and talk. Next time you're in town.

[Leanne Morgan]

Walk and talk and maybe even find a church basement. Zumba or jazz or something. We could do that.

[Jenna Fischer]

There is a Zumba class within walking distance of my house.

[Leanne Morgan]

Okay.

[Jenna Fischer]

So I'm just throwing it out there.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, my Lord. Okay, y'. All.

[Jenna Fischer]

So it can happen.

[Angela Kinsey]

It can happen.

[Leanne Morgan]

Okay. I would love that.

[Angela Kinsey]

Oh, my gosh. If the three of us walked into that Zumba class, I would just love it.

[Jenna Fischer]

People would lose their minds, I think.

[Angela Kinsey]

I mean, how fun. I love her and I seriously, I want us to do a Zumba class together.

[Jenna Fischer]

Lady, I have been wanting to do the Zumba class and I was going to ask you if you want to do it, but I think the three of us need to do it.

[Angela Kinsey]

I'm serious. I want to do Zumba with you and Leanne. I want to make it happen.

[Jenna Fischer]

I'm here for it. Listen, a big thank you to Leanne for joining us on Office Ladies and for helping us laugh at everyday life.

[Angela Kinsey]

You can catch Leanne on tour right now in her Just Getting Started stand up show. We'll put a link in stories for her show dates. And of course, check out her new TV show, Leanne, starting July 31 on Netflix.

[Jenna Fischer]

So listen, everyone, before we go, we are off next Wednesday. We're going to be revisiting our interview with Billie Eilish. But be sure to tune in on Friday, August 8, for a little surprise. In fact, every Friday In August, starting August 8th, we're going to have a little something extra for you.

[Angela Kinsey]

I'd really like to give you a hint, but I can't. Can I do rhymes with. Yeah, do rhymes with a little bit of schmaper?

[Jenna Fischer]

Yeah, it has to do with schmaper. Oh, okay, lady, I have to get packed for Chicago. And you have a family vacation to get to.

[Angela Kinsey]

I do. I'm going to Iceland and I'm gonna go to that penis museum.

[Jenna Fischer]

Oh, I can't wait to hear about that. All right, everyone, thanks for listening.

[Angela Kinsey]

We hope you have a good one.

[Jenna Fischer]

Thank you for listening to Office Ladies.

[Angela Kinsey]

Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey.

[Jenna Fischer]

Our executive producer is Cassie Jerkins, our audio engineer is Sam Kiefer, and our associate producer is Ainslie Bubico.

[Angela Kinsey]

Odyssey's executive producer is Leah Reese Dennis.

[Jenna Fischer]

Office Ladies was mixed and mastered by Bill Schultz.

[Angela Kinsey]

Our theme song is Rubber Tree by Creed Bratton.

[Jenna Fischer]

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[Angela Kinsey]

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[Jenna Fischer]

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[Angela Kinsey]

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[Jenna Fischer]

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