For Mother’s Day, Classic Mom-isms
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Hello? Hi, Mom. Hi, honey. How are you? I'm good. How are you?
Fine, thank you. What's going on? Um, I told you we're doing this Mother's Day episode, right? Yes, you did. OK, so the idea for it is that we've been collecting all of these expressions that moms say, like mom mantras, we're sort of calling them little bits of advice that moms repeat over time. Oh, isn't that cute? Yes. Can you guess what I've told people yours is? No, I can't. Really? No, I can't. What is it? These are the good old days. Oh, of course. Right, yes. Of course. Which, you mean it, like, regardless of whatever's happening, no matter how old you are, you're always going to look back at, like, this moment as the good old days, right? Yes, because we look back at things and we say... oh, this was so wonderful, but we don't appreciate them when they're happening.
And if you look at things as you would look at them from the future, then you can see how precious they are much more easily. Where did this even come from, this phrase? Did you make it up? Um... I don't think I made it up, but, um... it's just from experience it's like i look at that photo and i thought at the time i looked so this and so that it's like wow looking at that time years later i looked so wonderful i wish i could have appreciated it then and i don't know how many decades it took me to finally realize it you know but i did want to pass that on to you before it was too late and i'm so happy it took Okay, Mom, I have one more question for you. Since this is a Mother's Day show, will you help me do the billboard for it?
What does that mean? You know what the billboard of the show is? No. The billboard is the thing where it's like, from the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams. This is The Daily. Okay. So you start out by saying, from the New York Times, I'm, and then you say your name. So can you say that? Okay. You want to practice? Yeah. From the New York Times, I'm Alice Chesler Abrams. Excellent. And now you say, this is the Sunday Daily. This is the Sunday Daily. Can you try to sell me on it, Mom? Okay. From the New York Times, I'm Alice Chesler Abrams, and this is the Daily. The Sunday Daily. From the New York Times, I'm Alice Chesler Abrams, and this is the Sunday Daily. I'll do the next part. Okay. Today, we partnered with The Well Desk here to do a call-out to readers for your mom mantras.
And you sent us voice memos, so many voice memos, about the expressions that your moms used all the time that have stuck with you and that imparted some important wisdom about life. It's Sunday, May 10th. Actually, Mom, you want to say that? It's Sunday, May 10th. Okay. It's Sunday, May 10th.
How does Rachel's mom define 'the good old days'?
And we'll be right back with your mom mantras. Wait, what do I say now? We'll be right back. We'll be right back with your mom mantras.
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