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<v Speaker 1>This is Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews podcast

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<v Speaker 1>War What You Hear weekday afternoons on the Drive.

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<v Speaker 2>Sean Appears is America's best selling female comedian of all time.

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<v Speaker 2>A Platinum certified, an Emmy nominated artist, she spent nearly

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<v Speaker 2>three decades honing her craft, combining music, humor, and Southern

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<v Speaker 2>storytelling into her own form of family friendly entertainment. She's

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<v Speaker 2>in a new movie called Roll with It, and it

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<v Speaker 2>has nothing to do with the hit song roll with It? Baby?

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<v Speaker 3>What else? Yeah, we love roll with It. I love

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<v Speaker 3>Steve Winwood. It's the opening song. You know, it plays

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<v Speaker 3>in there a few times. Yes, it's a big deal.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a big deal. And Roll with It was a

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<v Speaker 3>big deal for me. I'm just a you know, a

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<v Speaker 3>small town girl. And the cute thing is we got

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<v Speaker 3>to record it in my hometown in Tennessee, and it,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, the whole town is so excited that today

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<v Speaker 3>it's dropping, you know for streaming and DVD and all

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<v Speaker 3>that stuff. So we're having a little party down here

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<v Speaker 3>in the South.

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<v Speaker 2>We love it. And you play a single mother who

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<v Speaker 2>falls in into an unusual situation.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, you know, I lose my house because I hadn't

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<v Speaker 3>paid my taxes in a long time. My husband died,

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<v Speaker 3>and I guess it just slipped under the radar. But

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<v Speaker 3>it's really interesting. My husband and I wrote the original

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<v Speaker 3>script many years ago, and Chris Dowling took it and

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<v Speaker 3>updated it and directed it and did an incredible job.

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<v Speaker 3>But my husband even wrote the part where I talked

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<v Speaker 3>to my dead husband and now he's gone. That could be.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, I'm not going to write you into a

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<v Speaker 3>movie because you may not live that long. But all

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<v Speaker 3>that to say, what a thrill and a fun thing

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<v Speaker 3>to get to do. And it's just a good, fun

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<v Speaker 3>family movie.

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<v Speaker 2>You know.

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<v Speaker 3>I think it's something you could do besides watching the debates.

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<v Speaker 2>Are you suggesting we're gonna.

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<v Speaker 3>Need an alternative We're gonna need an alternative post.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's out now, Roll with it? Is the film

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<v Speaker 2>Love Lost Karaoke? Uh so does your character fall in

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<v Speaker 2>love with karaoke? Oh?

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<v Speaker 3>I've always been in love with karaoke?

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<v Speaker 1>Are you kidding me?

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<v Speaker 3>I live in Nashville, where everybody, you know, the waitress

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<v Speaker 3>at McDonald's did sing rings around anybody, So just getting

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<v Speaker 3>to sing, you know, it's a big deal. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>I love karaoke. It's if you got nothing that didn't

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<v Speaker 3>go to a karaoke bar and just wait for people

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<v Speaker 3>to get drunk and sing.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah and belt it out. What's one of your what's

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<v Speaker 2>one of your signature numbers?

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<v Speaker 3>Well, I've always gone with uh with I Will survive.

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<v Speaker 3>But I rewrote the words myself many years ago about

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<v Speaker 3>trying to lose weight. So and I still never lost way,

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<v Speaker 3>but the song was still funny. Everybody tries to sing

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<v Speaker 3>Whitney Houston, and you know they shouldn't.

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<v Speaker 2>No, it could not. If you've never sang gospel in

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<v Speaker 2>your life, don't try to sing Whitney Houston, oh.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and Journey. Everybody thinks they can sing, but I'm like, please, please, please,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, chickens fall over dead and dogs, yeah they sing.

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<v Speaker 2>Terrio is terrible, and I'm more of the standards guy.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm the one doing the Sinatra and the Bobby Darren

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<v Speaker 2>and that kind of stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know if you'll remember this name, but I

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<v Speaker 3>love to sing Juice Newton's.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they're real, gutsy, real, you know, really heartfelt.

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<v Speaker 2>I love those.

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<v Speaker 3>But I it's not that I am inebriated. But I

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<v Speaker 3>have a hard time singing anything in a bar with

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<v Speaker 3>the fear that my mother's gonna come drag me out

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<v Speaker 3>of there. Even at my.

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<v Speaker 2>Juice, Newton hadn't heard that in a long time. She

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<v Speaker 2>took the least breaking gently to a whole new level.

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<v Speaker 2>That's it. That's when all the time.

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<v Speaker 3>I love a good old tier jerk and song.

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<v Speaker 2>John de Pierce, America's best selling female comedian of all time,

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<v Speaker 2>author of autobiographies and children's book, a regular on the

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<v Speaker 2>Grand Old Opry as well in her new movie is

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<v Speaker 2>Roll with It, Love, Loss and Karaoke. Uh what does what? What? What?

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<v Speaker 2>What are your some of your audience members, what are

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<v Speaker 2>the some of the anecdotes They come up to you

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<v Speaker 2>after you finish the show and talk to.

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<v Speaker 3>You about you know a lot of it, and it's fun.

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe it's just because my show is Weirdly, I get

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of comments about, you know, women's online dating,

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<v Speaker 3>you know problems, but lately, especially being open and honest

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<v Speaker 3>and talking about widowhood. My favorite joke that I get

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<v Speaker 3>to talk about is losing my husband twice because we

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<v Speaker 3>lost the marker in the in the cemetery, so we

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<v Speaker 3>didn't know where he was for a little while.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the truth.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you couldn't just.

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<v Speaker 3>Open up people's you know, heart to just talk about

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<v Speaker 3>you know, some of the If you can laugh about that,

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<v Speaker 3>you're gonna be okay. You know I'm talking to widows. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>I talked to widows all the time about the stupid

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<v Speaker 3>things people say to you. And you're a widow, like

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<v Speaker 3>the red cardinal is supposed to me, and your husband's

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<v Speaker 3>thinking of you from heaven. Well, I don't think my

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<v Speaker 3>husband's coming back as a bird.

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<v Speaker 2>No fork. So when you lost them in the cemetery,

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<v Speaker 2>when you lost them in the cemetery, did you call

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<v Speaker 2>the cemetery and say y'all been moving them headstones around

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<v Speaker 2>because I can't find it.

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<v Speaker 3>I lost my husband again, and because I buried him

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<v Speaker 3>out here on my farm, and so I knew it

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<v Speaker 3>was like about ten feet from this tree and a

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<v Speaker 3>little to the left, you know, of the bushes, and

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<v Speaker 3>it's like, I don't know, so they have a big

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<v Speaker 3>giant metal. It wound up being the best bit I

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<v Speaker 3>have written it so long.

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<v Speaker 2>And I did you're riding, Well, yeah, I've I haven't experienced.

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<v Speaker 2>My mother was a widow and I was raised by

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<v Speaker 2>a single parent as that was a widow all her life,

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<v Speaker 2>and the things that people say does start to irk you,

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<v Speaker 2>like he's in a far better place, really better than

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<v Speaker 2>being right here with me.

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<v Speaker 3>Come on, well he's better off and I want to go.

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<v Speaker 3>Are you talking about my cookie?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Or you know?

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<v Speaker 3>Or sex?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 3>Wealth was pretty decent if yes.

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<v Speaker 2>Roll with It is the new movie Chonda Pears. You

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<v Speaker 2>can hear the enthusiasm in her voice. Love Loss in

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<v Speaker 2>karaoke and it's out now everywhere you get your your

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<v Speaker 2>movies and what what are you on tour right now?

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<v Speaker 2>Are you gonna be coming through town? I am I,

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<v Speaker 2>I am.

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<v Speaker 3>I hit it hard in September, I take this summer

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<v Speaker 3>in the winter off or exciting, exciting things just like this.

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<v Speaker 3>But yeah, I'll be coming through your way. And go

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<v Speaker 3>to Shonda dot Argie or just Shonda Peers on Facebook

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<v Speaker 3>and you can get more information than you could possibly need.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a great laugh and a great family film. Love

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<v Speaker 2>Lost Karaoke, Roll with It out now and Shonda Pierce

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<v Speaker 2>is the star. Thank you for joining.

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<v Speaker 3>Us, Thank you very much.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee

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