Speaker 1: This is Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews podcast
Speaker 1: War What You Hear weekday afternoons on the Drive.
Speaker 2: Sean Appears is America's best selling female comedian of all time.
Speaker 2: A Platinum certified, an Emmy nominated artist, she spent nearly
Speaker 2: three decades honing her craft, combining music, humor, and Southern
Speaker 2: storytelling into her own form of family friendly entertainment. She's
Speaker 2: in a new movie called Roll with It, and it
Speaker 2: has nothing to do with the hit song roll with It? Baby?
Speaker 3: What else? Yeah, we love roll with It. I love
Speaker 3: Steve Winwood. It's the opening song. You know, it plays
Speaker 3: in there a few times. Yes, it's a big deal.
Speaker 3: It's a big deal. And Roll with It was a
Speaker 3: big deal for me. I'm just a you know, a
Speaker 3: small town girl. And the cute thing is we got
Speaker 3: to record it in my hometown in Tennessee, and it,
Speaker 3: you know, the whole town is so excited that today
Speaker 3: it's dropping, you know for streaming and DVD and all
Speaker 3: that stuff. So we're having a little party down here
Speaker 3: in the South.
Speaker 2: We love it. And you play a single mother who
Speaker 2: falls in into an unusual situation.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know, I lose my house because I hadn't
Speaker 3: paid my taxes in a long time. My husband died,
Speaker 3: and I guess it just slipped under the radar. But
Speaker 3: it's really interesting. My husband and I wrote the original
Speaker 3: script many years ago, and Chris Dowling took it and
Speaker 3: updated it and directed it and did an incredible job.
Speaker 3: But my husband even wrote the part where I talked
Speaker 3: to my dead husband and now he's gone. That could be.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not going to write you into a
Speaker 3: movie because you may not live that long. But all
Speaker 3: that to say, what a thrill and a fun thing
Speaker 3: to get to do. And it's just a good, fun
Speaker 3: family movie.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I think it's something you could do besides watching the debates.
Speaker 2: Are you suggesting we're gonna.
Speaker 3: Need an alternative We're gonna need an alternative post.
Speaker 2: And it's out now, Roll with it? Is the film
Speaker 2: Love Lost Karaoke? Uh so does your character fall in
Speaker 2: love with karaoke? Oh?
Speaker 3: I've always been in love with karaoke?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: I live in Nashville, where everybody, you know, the waitress
Speaker 3: at McDonald's did sing rings around anybody, So just getting
Speaker 3: to sing, you know, it's a big deal. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I love karaoke. It's if you got nothing that didn't
Speaker 3: go to a karaoke bar and just wait for people
Speaker 3: to get drunk and sing.
Speaker 2: Yeah and belt it out. What's one of your what's
Speaker 2: one of your signature numbers?
Speaker 3: Well, I've always gone with uh with I Will survive.
Speaker 3: But I rewrote the words myself many years ago about
Speaker 3: trying to lose weight. So and I still never lost way,
Speaker 3: but the song was still funny. Everybody tries to sing
Speaker 3: Whitney Houston, and you know they shouldn't.
Speaker 2: No, it could not. If you've never sang gospel in
Speaker 2: your life, don't try to sing Whitney Houston, oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Journey. Everybody thinks they can sing, but I'm like, please, please, please,
Speaker 3: you know, chickens fall over dead and dogs, yeah they sing.
Speaker 2: Terrio is terrible, and I'm more of the standards guy.
Speaker 2: I'm the one doing the Sinatra and the Bobby Darren
Speaker 2: and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you'll remember this name, but I
Speaker 3: love to sing Juice Newton's.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're real, gutsy, real, you know, really heartfelt.
Speaker 2: I love those.
Speaker 3: But I it's not that I am inebriated. But I
Speaker 3: have a hard time singing anything in a bar with
Speaker 3: the fear that my mother's gonna come drag me out
Speaker 3: of there. Even at my.
Speaker 2: Juice, Newton hadn't heard that in a long time. She
Speaker 2: took the least breaking gently to a whole new level.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's when all the time.
Speaker 3: I love a good old tier jerk and song.
Speaker 2: John de Pierce, America's best selling female comedian of all time,
Speaker 2: author of autobiographies and children's book, a regular on the
Speaker 2: Grand Old Opry as well in her new movie is
Speaker 2: Roll with It, Love, Loss and Karaoke. Uh what does what? What? What?
Speaker 2: What are your some of your audience members, what are
Speaker 2: the some of the anecdotes They come up to you
Speaker 2: after you finish the show and talk to.
Speaker 3: You about you know a lot of it, and it's fun.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's just because my show is Weirdly, I get
Speaker 3: a lot of comments about, you know, women's online dating,
Speaker 3: you know problems, but lately, especially being open and honest
Speaker 3: and talking about widowhood. My favorite joke that I get
Speaker 3: to talk about is losing my husband twice because we
Speaker 3: lost the marker in the in the cemetery, so we
Speaker 3: didn't know where he was for a little while.
Speaker 1: That's the truth.
Speaker 2: Did you couldn't just.
Speaker 3: Open up people's you know, heart to just talk about
Speaker 3: you know, some of the If you can laugh about that,
Speaker 3: you're gonna be okay. You know I'm talking to widows. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I talked to widows all the time about the stupid
Speaker 3: things people say to you. And you're a widow, like
Speaker 3: the red cardinal is supposed to me, and your husband's
Speaker 3: thinking of you from heaven. Well, I don't think my
Speaker 3: husband's coming back as a bird.
Speaker 2: No fork. So when you lost them in the cemetery,
Speaker 2: when you lost them in the cemetery, did you call
Speaker 2: the cemetery and say y'all been moving them headstones around
Speaker 2: because I can't find it.
Speaker 3: I lost my husband again, and because I buried him
Speaker 3: out here on my farm, and so I knew it
Speaker 3: was like about ten feet from this tree and a
Speaker 3: little to the left, you know, of the bushes, and
Speaker 3: it's like, I don't know, so they have a big
Speaker 3: giant metal. It wound up being the best bit I
Speaker 3: have written it so long.
Speaker 2: And I did you're riding, Well, yeah, I've I haven't experienced.
Speaker 2: My mother was a widow and I was raised by
Speaker 2: a single parent as that was a widow all her life,
Speaker 2: and the things that people say does start to irk you,
Speaker 2: like he's in a far better place, really better than
Speaker 2: being right here with me.
Speaker 3: Come on, well he's better off and I want to go.
Speaker 3: Are you talking about my cookie?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Or you know?
Speaker 3: Or sex?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Wealth was pretty decent if yes.
Speaker 2: Roll with It is the new movie Chonda Pears. You
Speaker 2: can hear the enthusiasm in her voice. Love Loss in
Speaker 2: karaoke and it's out now everywhere you get your your
Speaker 2: movies and what what are you on tour right now?
Speaker 2: Are you gonna be coming through town? I am I,
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 3: I hit it hard in September, I take this summer
Speaker 3: in the winter off or exciting, exciting things just like this.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'll be coming through your way. And go
Speaker 3: to Shonda dot Argie or just Shonda Peers on Facebook
Speaker 3: and you can get more information than you could possibly need.
Speaker 2: It's a great laugh and a great family film. Love
Speaker 2: Lost Karaoke, Roll with It out now and Shonda Pierce
Speaker 2: is the star. Thank you for joining.
Speaker 3: Us, Thank you very much.
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