Cussing | Leanne Morgan | Are We Gonna Eat Anything?

My baby child is so different than the other two, because I was so tired. By the time I got around to her I was beat down, and I was tired. And I let her do whatever she wanted to. And I've heard old women say, four, five, and six raise themselves. I bet they do. I bet they do. 'Cause I've let her do whatever she wanted to. I was so on top on my game with those first two. I was like flash cards. You're gonna make 100 on that spelling test. And I was up in school, I was room mom, and I was taking

yogurt and muffins, and I was all up in everything. That third one came along and I was like, "Can she read?" Let me tell you all that my people are down in the middle of Tennessee, I told you all, farming people. And I was raised old time-y Methodist. And my people are kind of superstitious. And there was like no gambling. You could play Rook. There was no alcohol in our house, never had alcohol until my sister, until we were trying to get her married off. And she married this hoopty-doo man t

hat owned part of a winery, and so we all started drinking. And my little mama had never had alcohol, and she drank a glass of wine, and got out of my car, and she goes, "I can't feel my arms." But there was no cussing in my family. They didn't want any ugly language, so I brought that into my marriage. And my husband's people say ugly words. So I said to him, "We're not gonna have any cussing in this house." And I said, "These children," I go, "Nobody's gonna say anything ugly. You can't even s

ay stupid. You can't call anybody stupid, you can't say butt. If you do you're gonna be in deep doo-doo." And they listen to me. Those first two did exactly like I told them. Well, that baby, that baby come along, and it started out with spell cussing. She'd come in a room and say, "What the H?" And then it went on to, "What's up, mo-fos?" My husband's name is Chuck. She's go, "Chuck, you a-hole." And my husband gets so tickled, and just gets so, and he'd go, "Oh my, you know it, you know it." A

nd my oldest two would be like, "What? She just said what?" "I know, we let her do whatever." Oh, all right, you all. 'Cause we are taping this. I'm trying to get in different material and I'm trying to do new, and I'm out of my mind, 'cause I'm in brain fog. So you all bear with me, I'm trying to switch it back and forth. Okay, I got to tell you all that with me and husband being just me and him, we probably need to go to retreat. And learn how to communicate again. He traveled, he's always had

a big job, he's an executive with a big company, and stayed gone. And we wanted him to. I'd be like, "You're daddy's coming home! Clean up your room! Clean up your room, everybody!" I mean, we had a ball when he was gone, honey. My husband, smart man, anal retentive, type A, a hunter and a gatherer, you know? Can kick a door in. I like that. Very introverted, very quiet, but very, very smart. And I- - [Digital Voice] Request for specific information. But now, what is usually defined . - Is that

Alexis? Are we boarding a plane? It sounds like we're boarding a plane! Is something taking off? If it is, we need to all wash our hands. What was I saying? Oh, my husband, okay. So he has always been, uh-uh-uh-uh. Like he worked for Burger King when he was 14, they gave him a key. And he was getting an MBA at UT when I met him, and he's a little bit younger than me. And he'd already been out four years, worked, and then went back to get an MBA. I was just finishing up my undergraduate, because

I'm fun. So it has been a tumultuous, because if you all saw my purse, you'd all be like, "Her life is out of control." And he is just like that. But anyway, now, it's just me and him. And if I could give you young people any advice, I know you hadn't asked me for it. But you need to go on date nights, and you need to nurture that. And I know everybody's driving in a car, and everybody's fighting, and everybody's got something in a Crockpot. But you need to do that with your husband. 'Cause one

day it's just gonna be you and him, and you're gonna look at him and go, "Who are you? And what do you want from me?" So I try to do fun things. And people say to me all the time, they go, "Do you let your husband travel with you?" And I say, "No." The main thing is he's got to keep working. We need health insurance, you know? Everybody's getting their eyebrows waxed, we need to keep this going. We want him to work as long as he can. The other reason is, he loves a hotel. You know, men love a h

otel. And I got to work. I got to put on makeup and get on Spanx. I'll take him to a hotel and he gets a glazed look over his eyes. And I find myself doing this. And it doesn't have to be a nice hotel. It could be a Scottish Inn. And there could be a bloody spot on the carpet. - Ew. - Oh. - Where there's been a murder. It wouldn't bother him. But anyway, I don't let him do that. So around Knoxville I try to do things for me and him to do together, and I bought him tickets to go see Def Leppard a

nd Journey. - Whoo! - Whoo! - Oh, you all. Going to a concert's very different when you're 54. I went to the school at UT, and I used to go to all the concerts. I saw Tina Turner, John Cougar Mellencamp, Rod Stewart, I don't know where I got the money. But in the '80s honey, I went, Nick I was so cute. I had on little bitty britches. My thyroid was functioning. I didn't care about food. I'd eat a 1/2 can of tuna and I'd be like, "I'm full." But anyway, so I got us tickets. And my husband, I thou

ght, oh, we're gonna have a date night. And he goes, "I can't get there in time to go out to eat, we'll just, I'll meet you at the concert." So he had bought a Tall Boy, and a egg salad sandwich at the gas station. - Oh. - Oh. - I know, I had to smell that all night. So anyway I was hungry. And everybody at that concert was my age or older. And everybody's worried about the snack bar. And I was too. Journey was already on stage, nobody cared. Everybody was at the snack bar. But anyway, a little

Journey, we all go to watch little Journey. Journey does not have little Steve Perry anymore. 'Cause he had to get a hip replacement. And I loved him. They've hired this little bitty man, who is yummy. And he's taking care of himself. And he's got little bitty britches on. And he hadn't eaten white flour and sugar. And I don't think he's done dope. And I don't think he's slept with nasty women. So he's hopping, and doing, and squatting and doing. And all the old boys in the back look sick and bl

oated. And they're going. But anyway, they were good, and we watched them. Then little Def Leppard came out. Have you all seen Def Leppard? - Yeah. - Still can sing like nobody's business. That little man came out. Oh, that little man came out. And his little hair was down to here, and you could see through it. And I took one look at him and I thought, thyroid, thyroid. 'Cause I've got it too. My hair's thinning, too. And that little bitty thing's legs were that big. I've never seen legs that ti

ny on a man. Frail, and he propped it up on a little... And he'd do. And then I noticed there was a hump right here, and I thought, what's that hump? Oh, hernia. He's got a hernia. And I know, 'cause I've had one. And he hadn't had time to get a mesh put in it. I've got a mesh, anyway. He started singing "Put Some Sugar on It." And my very quiet, very introverted husband stood up. And then sat back down. We had a ball, they were wonderful. And then we walked out of Thompson Boling Arena, and eve

rybody was walking like this. Because everybody's got plantar fascitis. I've had it, yeah, inflammation. Inflammation in our feet, you all know what causes that. White flour and sugar. Let me tell you all, about two months after that, I got us tickets in Nashville to go see Heart and Joan Jett. - Wow. - Whoa. - I know, little Joan Jett. It was probably about 100 degrees, and it was outside and it was hot, and sweaty and humid. Little Joan Jett comes out in leather. And let me tell you all, she's

the size of this glass. Joan Jett. But she rocked it. She has filler, a lot of filler. And it looks good, it looks good. And I've never wanted it until now. And I think, should I get my lips plumped up? Because what happened to my lips? My lips just sucked up into my body. I used to have lips! Anyway. So she came out, she was wonderful. And then Nancy, and sweet Ann and Nancy came out, the sisters, Heart. Ann's the oldest one, you know, the dark-headed one. She came out in a big pair of orthope

dic tennis shoes. That's how she looked. You could tell she was hot, and didn't feel good. And she was pissed. She had on a long-sleeved dress. And I get it, I don't want to show my arms, either. She had a long-sleeved dress, it was 100 in Nashville. At night, humid, sweaty. She had on pantyhose with those big orthopedic, I know, and I thought, what in the world? And then I thought, compression, she's got on compression hose. But she sang like a bird. And then Nancy, sweet Nancy's doing okay. Yo

u know, Nancy's a little bit younger. She could still jump. But they were wonderful. Anyway, we try to do stuff like that. And I told him, I said, "We need to build intimacy." And not you're kind of intimacy. 'Cause he, you know, everything just means grabbing my breast. Even if he hasn't spoken to me that day. And I said, "I need you to speak to me. And I need you to listen to me. And I need to be able to share with you things. And then the nasty stuff can happen if you listen to me." He goes,

"What do you want to tell me?" And I said, "I got tell you something's going on with my bladder." He said, "I don't want to know. I don't want to know." And I thought, that's odd, because I've had your children. And I went through a lot. I had three babies, two different ways. And that first baby was an emergency C-section. And I remember being in the operating room, and scared, and young. And my husband looked at me, and he was sitting there watching it. And he said, "Oh my gosh, they've taken

your uterus out, and set it on your chest." And I was like. He said, "It looks like a Cornish hen."