Your Mum
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What is the premise of the Your Mum podcast and who are the guests today?
Hello, I'm Laura Smith and welcome to Your Mum, the series where we listen and we don't judge. Unlike our mums who don't listen and do judge. Every episode we invite two celebrity guests to discuss the effect their mum had on them. Were they scary? Larry? Harry? Secretly the tooth fairy? Were they eye rolling, rolling in at all hours? Was a rolling out the red carpet for guests while sweeping things under it? It's time to find out in Your Mum! My first guest is an acclaimed US-born comedian, writer, and podcaster. Her comedy covers everything from IVF to marriage, motherhood, friendships, and oversharing. She is fearless on and off stage with her fierce wit, brutal honesty, and barely any filter. Please welcome the brilliant Sarah Barron.
Hi, Laura. Did you like that? Yeah, it made me feel pretty good about myself. I wanted it to. Thank you. It's all true. My next guest is a razor sharp standard. Stand-up broadcaster and political comic known for his furious takes on the news, making existential dread very funny, and once chasing a Prime Minister's car down the street. He's become one of Britain's most distinctive comedy voices. It's Nish Kumar!
I wish you had just said and also niche.
And also Nish. It's like when an MC says, anything you want me to say, my name. And then they always say some stuff like they say you've been on Taskmaster. When you aim So on to your mothers.
How does Sara Barron describe her mum’s ‘main‑character energy’ and the mantra ‘we’re not like other girls’?
JD Salinger. Mm-hmm. Hello. Here we go. JD Salinger said, All mothers are slightly insane. So on a scale of one to WTF, how mad are your mums?
This is that's such an interesting question for you to start on because I feel like one of my big questions at this stage of my life, like in my forties with my mother inching her way toward 80, is actually how insane is my mom. Because they're the they're the ones who are just absolute like they they are properly crazy and maybe you weren't cared for or kept safe and like that's a that's a real, real crazy mom. And my mom is not that deal. But as I continue to reflect on some of the stuff that she's done I'm like she's not normal. No, no, no. Obviously my
mother's insane. Like not in any not in any uh damaging way. Not in a not in a way that like Kathy Burke's gonna play her in a serious film. Like not not in that kind of a way.
Uh uh
the one shot anecdote and I'm happy repeating this, when my nephew was born, the first thing my mother said to me, I said, Isn't it this is great? Wonderful news My mother said, That's another person I have to worry about dying.
Yeah, yeah.
That and at my fortieth birthday, my mother kept going up to groups of strangers, not introducing herself. Strangers to her, not introducing herself and saying all those stretch marks and for what? Nothing.
I mean that Well that did introduce her quite well. That is not lovely
to meet you. I'm his girlfriend. I was thinking w when I was like 10 or something like that, eleven. My mother who worked, so she was very like work it was a real like working mom energy to her. So she's driving me. I'm in the passenger seat. My little brother, who's like seven, is in the back seat. And I must have just been thinking about life and getting starting to understand things, whatever. And I remember saying to her, What would you do if Sam, my brother, what would you do if Sam and I both died? She didn't take a beat. She went, Well, your father and I would have to talk about it and then we'd probably kill ourselves.
It's it's cruel how much you love 'em and I do think there is even like the worst mums in the world, it all just comes from a little bit of madness, doesn't it? Because you y you love 'em so much it's cruel and you don't know how to separate yourself from them. My best mate says, she says, you know, sometimes you overcompensate for what you didn't get and then you make your own set of problems. Yeah, that's right. I mean that's right. My children are so indulged and have so many opinions and it's bizarre.
I've noticed like my son he tells too much. Like nothing is private for this kid. And he's getting into this thing now where it's like he'll be like, I need just I need a dad chat.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the premise of the Your Mum podcast and who are the guests today?
0:03–1:22
2
How does Sara Barron describe her mum’s ‘main‑character energy’ and the mantra ‘we’re not like other girls’?
1:22–5:59
3
What story does Nish Kumar share about his mum moving the family to England at age 15?
5:59–11:39
4
How do the hosts and guests explore the idea that all mothers are a little bit mad?
11:39–16:20
5
What are the most memorable anecdotes Sara tells about her mum’s boldness and humour?
16:20–23:52
6
What details does Nish reveal about his mum’s peripatetic childhood and bravery?
23:52–28:24