May 14, 2024 • 39 mins
Happy Mother's Day! We're celebrating women and all mothers at SmallTown this week. Find out how Mother's Day was created and how it strayed away from its original foundations. Grab your fanny pack, slip on your mom jeans, and give your ma' a call for pete's sake. Join Karmen and Jessica in this U-Turn episode and don't miss your exit!
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how are you. I am doinggood? I'm doing good. I wish
I had something else to say otherthan good, because I feel like I
always say I'm doing good. I'mdoing well, I'm doing good. I
mean that sounds just so boring.Every week when I say I'm doing good,
all you could say, oh mygod, you're not gonna believe the
week I've had. That's always abummer. When you ask somebody, hey,
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how's it going, I'm like,oh my god, Oh no,
that I was. Oh. Ididn't mean it, like, please don't
tell me. It's just the thingpeople say. I have a funny thing
I wanted to share with you.I had another brain paralysis moment. Uh
huh, oh good. Yeah,so I was. I bought this essential
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oil for you know, the atomizers. Oh yeah, yeah. So it's
a really great smell. It smellslike fresh cedar wood. It's just really
great. And the brand is ithad the brand on there. So I
was trying to figure out, Okay, where can I get this? I
was like, is it spa room? Is it spare room? It's s
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p A R O O M.And it wasn't until I started typing too.
I typed it into another online shopto see if I could buy it,
and I'm like, oh my god, it's a spaw room. Yeah,
but there's no space. So I'mlike, what a super room like
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for me? I think I reallyfeel like I have this. It's got
to be a thing where you mixup phrases, like, you know,
a bird in the hand is worthYeah. Yeah, So I might say
that, but I might accidentally saysomething similar and mix it together. You
know. One of the ones thatcomes to my mind because I can never
remember as soon as I'm done,but bouncing off the top of the walls.
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It was bouncing off the top ofthe like off the top of my
head and bouncing on the You know, I mix them up, and I
don't I do it all the timethat it's got to be a condition.
There was a character in I thinkthe book Generation X who did the same
thing. It was like a stitchin time is better than a stitch in
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the butt or something like that.It was I can't quote it, but
it was my mom does it too. My mom's like, uh, she
told me times. She was somad at me. Oh you know what
they say, you can't teach anold dog to change its spots? Really?
Yeah? Okay, Oh speaking tomom's Carmen. Yes, Mother's Day.
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Well, Mother's Day was upon us. How did your mother say?
Go? Well, you know,it went just as I probably wanted.
I went to yoga in the morning, and then I came home and just
took it easy. You know,Mother's Day is one of those things that
I think there's a lot of hype. I know, I know the intention
of the holiday, but you know, for people who have lost a child,
or people who have lost their mother, right, people who don't have
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a mom, people who have acrappy mom, all of those things,
you know, it could be areally sort of sad day. And we
my sister passed away years ago,a few years ago. It hasn't been
that long, so it was reallytough. And also, you know,
that was also a day that mysister and I would kind of have fun
together. But I made it throughanother Mother's Day. Yeah, yeah,
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I can. I know that there'ssome traditions out there that flowers have a
lot to do with Mother's Day,right, Everybody is either getting flowers or
there's a representation of flowers within Mother'sDay, and like people are buying carnations.
I think carnations are like the bigMother's Day flower. If they are,
they are, so if you havea mother who's still living, then
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you're wearing red red carnation. Ifyou have a mother who's passed you wear
white carnation. But you're right,like some people don't have mothers, or
maybe just didn't have a really goodexperience or now don't have a good relationship
with their mother, and it cansometimes be like this really hard time.
I definitely respect the holiday in someaspects where it is about celebrating women.
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I think in general that if Ican say anything about that, that I
think that's what it's supposed to be. Like, you know, hey,
they're the birthers of people. Withoutthem, we're not here. So I
like that aspect that, you know, we're celebrating women for that tough time
that they have, But it doesn'tnecessarily mean that somebody had to give birth
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to be a mother either, right, right, So I think all you
know, I think it's a dayfor women, and that's the way I
look at it as a celebration ofwomen, you know, And I do
celebrate my mom. I celebrate herall the time, so I don't need
a special day to do that.But it is a nice time to just
remember all of the women who havehad an impact or influence in my life
and the people who are motherly,like you don't necessarily have to be like
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I said, a mother, it'sthose who have had influence on you in
that way. One time, though, my neighbor I lived in this house
and it had a guesthouse, theydelivered red carnations my door for Mother's Day
and I was like, I knowthese aren't for me, because nobody I
know would send me carnations. Andnow that you said the carnation thing,
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that makes sense, like somebody knewa tradition that I didn't know. And
my mother actually loves carnations. Sheloves the way they smell. And they
are quite beautiful, they really are, and they last a long time,
I mean compared to other flowers,so it makes sense. But you know,
they always get kind of thrown aroundas the cheap flower because of course
they're more reasonable than roses, Iguess, but there are a lot more
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reasonable, yeah, than they have. But they have so many different colors
and you can do more things withthem, you know, there are some
interesting things that happen on Mother's Dayin the past. In nineteen fifty five,
the ge Wall refrigerator freezer made itsdebut. Wow that's impressive, right,
you know, just right in timefor moms in their kitchens. Yeah,
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I remember my mom got a Mother'sDay present. Yeah, and I
think I was a vacuum cleaner,an electrolux and it was a year.
I think it was the Olympics,Yeah, because it was sponsored by the
United States Olympics or I was asponsor of the United States Olympics. And
even as a child, I thoughtthat is a Mother's Day press And so
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as a refrigerator. If you askedyour mom in nineteen fifty seven what her
favorite song was, it'd probably beElvis's All Shook Up. Yeah, that's
still one of my favorite songs.And I wasn't even born then. It's
it tapped the charts on Mother's Dayin nineteen fifty seven, So I mean,
who doesn't like Elvis? Come on, I know one person, I
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know one person really. Yeah.In nineteen seventy three, Stevie Wonder gave
mom a theme song. Do youknow what song that was? I never
want a Mother's Day sunshine in mylife. Yeah, I can love that.
I love that song too. Yeah, it's always a good song when
that comes on. In nineteen ninetytwo, we mourned the end of Golden
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Girls on Mother's Day. Oh,that's the year that my daughter was born
and I became a mother. OhI still yeah, yeah, so I
still mourn the Golden Girls, butI am so grateful to be mother of
a beautiful girl. Two thousand andsix, Mom was allowed to finally get
on Facebook, and we have wehave regretted it ever since. Facebook used
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to be only there for individuals whowere a part of a college. I
don't know if you remember that partof it, but it actually was supposed
to only connect people who were incollege. You had to have a college
email and everything. You couldn't getinto Facebook. And two thousand and six
don't for everybody? Don't you meanthe Facebook? The Facebook? Right?
You're right, the Facebook. Iwas on the Facebook today. I was
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on the Facebook and I saw that. In twenty twelve, the most given
Mother's Day gift was the book FiftyShades of Gray? Gross? Are people
so gross? Do you remember theoffice where uh Phyllis Phyllis was listening to
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books on tape and she was listeningto fifty Shades of Gray? And she
was like, really do it?And I told Ma and he was like,
would you please tell Phyllis to stopmasturbating? Okay? The last fact.
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Anyways, in twenty seventeen, thatyear was the comeback of what what
do you think? It's a fashionchoice. By the way, something mom
related made a comb jeans. Yeah, Mom jeans, Yeah, mommys it's
finally deemed cool again. Mom jeans. Did you ever see that that skit
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on Saturday Night Live? Oh mygod, yes, that's the best.
That is the best, git.Yeah, what defines mom jeans? Like?
What makes it? Mom? Theyhave a lot of room for your
pupa. I guess that's stuck cheese. Oh my god, what it's well
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true? I just was not whatSo they do have a lot of room
for that. Yeah, they do. When you down, you look like
you have the opposite of a woman, you know, because they have a
lot of room. They have areal lot of room for a really long
bottom, a long backside or ora wide backside, which right right,
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and then usually the belt the beltis a big a belt, high waisted.
But you know what, I it'sfunny because even though mom jeans made
a comeback, they didn't increase thepocket size to what they should have been
like previously. You know how womenhave very small pockets compared to men,
like in general. Oh yeah,guys can just fit everything they need in
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like one pocket on their jeans.We have these tiny little half pockets in
the front, some big pockets inthe back. But mom jee's in the
past actually have large pockets. Youknow, you could put everything in there
because you had to put like apacifier. Yeah, you had to do
it. But but but now thatthey came back, it's like, here's
your mom jeans. But they don't. They didn't bring back the pocket size.
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I think that's a big mistake.And well that's why the fanny pat
came back. Use a fanny pack. Oh yeah, I used one.
Now. Yeah, I don't putit over my fanny. I put it
over my shoulder kind of som like. I'm just not totally okay with the
fanny pack yet, But I couldutilize it because it's easy. Wear it
as a belt on your mom jeans. Oh yeah, we're good with that.
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Yeah yeah, that was choice.Excellent day. And wear it with
a nice chunky card again, tarlneck sweater. Okay, Caravin, So
I've got a few trivia questions foryou about Mother's Day or Mother's in general.
Okay, okay, let's go.I'm gonna knock it out of the
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pocket. You are gonna knock itout of the park. Okay, the
first thing I think you're gonna getbecause we already talked aout. What flower
is associated with Mother's Day? Carnation? And I'm not going to do that
every time. By the way,what month does Mother's Day take place in
Canada, Australia and the US andMay? What country was the first to
celebrate Mother's Day as an official holiday? The United States? England? England?
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Oh, okay, what was Mother'sDay known in England? As It's
not called Mother's Day, it's calledsomething now similar. Do you know day
have the mom It's called mothering Sunday? Yep? And which month has the
highest birth rates in the United States? Oh, let's see. So what
do you think August? Yes?How did you know August? What month?
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Do you think? Everybody is gettinglate in December? Because it's cold?
Everybody's like squishing up and I justsit the countdown? You did?
Yeah? What what are the oddsof a woman giving birth to twins?
Oh? God? What in tenthousand? It's shocking. Actually, one
in one hundred, last, onein fifty one, in thirty three Ooh,
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I could have had tweens. Youknow what. My mom's a twin
and I dated a twin in highschool, and we always thought like,
man, if we have kids,they're gonna be twins. What day of
the week has the highest birth ratesin the US. I think, let's
say Tuesday. It is Tuesday.Hurry getting this right, because well,
I'm gonna tell you, because Ijust the law of averages. People are
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gonna push it out on the weekend. They're gonna part you know, They're
gonna do what they have to do. So I say Tuesday. Tuesdays when
there is a mucus plug flings outin your water breaks at the grocery store.
So, yeah, Tuesday, Itold you I was gonna knock this
out of the You did I?Actually I would not have get I would
have no idea. Okay. Inthe popular TV show Game of Thrones,
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who is known as the Mother ofDragons. Oh, Callisi Daniia Targarian.
There you go, Targarian. Yeah, so Queen of the Angles and the
First Men, Lady of dragon Stone, Khalisi of the Great Grass Sea.
She girls known as Pelissi. Soher real name is that, but it
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is your rights Kalisi and I'm gonnatell you those little dragons were so dank
you. I know, I know, I want one. I want one
so bad. That's just like alittle dragon in your hand. Oh my
god, you're gonna get this one, which Swedish pop group is known for
their hit song Mamma mia Abba.Yes, yeah, okay, this is
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really shocking too. The oldest firsttime first time mother. The oldest first
time mother gave birth in twenty nineteen. How old was she? Sixty two?
Higher? No? Yeah, yes, higher, seventy higher seventy five,
seventy four, seventy four years oldand she was the first time hurdle.
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That's shocking for real, Like,and was the baby Okay, I
didn't look that far, So goodfor her kidding it in a seventy four?
Does she know who the father is? I hope. I'm still getting
it in when I'm seventy four.Okay. What is the highest number of
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children born to one mother? Asit's also shocking? One person? Thirty
three higher, seventy sixty nine,go figure, sixty nine sixty nine kids
one person one mother, not afather, father would be more believable,
but one one mother, God canyou imagine her uterus is probably the god.
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I mean, it's probably we're allof it just sliding out. What
is the average number of diaper changesa mother makes in the first year of
a baby's life? Okay, soone hundred thousand? Too high? Too
high? Think thousands, Think thousands, I have think thousands. Okay,
seven thousand, two thousand, twohundred. It's a lot lower than I
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thought. But I guess if youdo the math, a couple of day
times three and sixty five a couplea day. So if you do,
I was seeing it, five aday is yeah, eighteen hundred. So
and I don't know where I gotone hundred thousand. It feels like may
the high nine children? Yeah,oh god, yeah. What is the
mammal native to Africa that gives birthwhile standing up? A giraffe? Yes,
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oh my gosh, you're good.Carbon. No, I've seen a
giraffe and they have to fall likesix feet to the ground. Little babies
to little Yeah, I've seen it, and I think it's supposed to help
them though, correct. I guessit's like nature spanking them on the fanny.
What do you think the weight ofthe heaviest baby ever born was it's
really twenty three pounds, so closeone pound less, twenty two pounds,
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twenty two pounds baby what baby?Yeah? I had a ten pound six
ouncer. That is still too big. I mean that is way too big,
ten pound six ounces. She wastwenty one and a half inches long,
twenty two pounds. I really hopeshe had a sea section. I
really hope it was a sea section, because, oh my god, how
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many phone calls are made in Mother'sDay cheer? You think, oh god,
like a billion, not a billion, but one hundred and twenty two
million, one hundred and twenty twomillion, quite a bit. I think
every mom probably secretly wishes, I'mnot maybe not so secretly wishes that their
kids would call more, but theylook forward to those calls. And also,
if you're from like a big family, being the first one to make
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the call, oh yeah, yougotta check in like, hey, did
anybody else call you yet? Ohyeah? The first one? Just be
like I'm the best one. Wetalked about carnations, right, I feel
like I should eat a carnation becausemy breath is kicking like Dan damn.
We talked about carnations and that theyactually wrap Mother's Day, and that's kind
of like the flower of Mother's Day. But what do they represent? Like
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why what would be your guess?What would be the reason for carnations?
A carnation because they are like aneverlasting flower, an everlasting bloom, to
match the everlasting love of a mother. Yeah, you're so right, it's
really yeah. I mean, youmade it much more beautiful than what it
says here just says a mother's love. You know, but you did,
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you kicked but on this We're goingfor trivia night next time, like where
I'm bringing you, I will kicksome fanny and trivia as long as I
don't get brain paralysis. Well,Jessica, I want to tell you,
I think you are probably one ofthe sweetest mommies. You're very dedicated and
very sweet to your child, andyou can tell because she's smart and vibrant
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and bouncy. Being a mother isnot about taking a break from or not
having a break. I guess maybepeople think, you know, and it's
true, you might don't really havea break from motherhood. But I think
that's the point, Like, youchoose to be a mother because you know,
light least most people do. Noteverybody chooses to be a mom.
I guess I'm wrong saying that,but when you are a mother, it
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doesn't just leave you on one day, you know, like especially the day
that's like four mothers. You know. I like to be with people,
with either fellow mothers or with mydaughter or both on a Mother's Day to
be able to celebrate that, LikeI said, it's a celebration of women,
and show my daughter that this isa happy thing. It's a thing
to be proud of. And Iwant her to have that same feeling,
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you know, someday if she choosesto be a mother too. Throughout my
whole life with her, hopefully shelooks at me and goes, I want
to be like my mom. I'msure she will, because you are definitely
somebody to be admired, and Ithink you are too. I mean,
you have this very successful daughter.You know, we've never formally met,
but I always hear the stories ofand you're always very so proud of your
daughter, and I'm very proud ofher. But she's living and I'm very
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successful and happy life, you know, and so you have a lot to
be thankful and for and also bevery proud of yourself. Well, you
know what, I don't feel likeI can take credit for that. I
feel like I'm very thankful that sheis the person she is. One thing
that I just realized and I feellike we could take away for Mother's Day
is that it does take a village. And when I was bringing up my
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daughter, I'm so thankful that Ihad my mom and my Aunt Pat and
my sister to help me and tokind of show me the way and sometimes
show me what is not the wayor whatever the case maybe, but you
know, it's it doesn't come naturalto everybody. It's it's terrifying. There's
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so many things that you are neverprepared for and then it happens. You're
like, what the what? Butyou know, I think that Mother's Day,
you know, again, as atime to celebrate women and all of
the women that have been influential inmy life, whether they were in my
family or not. You know,women I've worked with, women who I've
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admired, women who are in thepublic eye that I've admired. And I
think my mom, my sister,and my aunt Pat, everybody, all
of the women in my family forforming me and helping me with my daughter
when she was little. It doestake a village to raise a child or
kids in general. You know,I have more than one. So I
just hope that everybody who's listening hasloving people around them to support them,
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whether they be men or women.I read this thing, Jessica, and
it touched me so deeply. Thewoman was on a plane with her baby.
She had like a two year oldand then a little baby. And
you know, I don't just beingon a plane with a two year old.
Yeah, I was like, ohmy god. But to have like
a baby crying and a two yearolds like wanting some more goldfish crackers,
and you know, not understanding whyall of a sudden, there's this thing
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in your arms, and why aren'tyou holding me? I want you to
old me. And this woman was, you know, everybody on the plane
is just pissed because old kids arecrying. And it was a man,
a man who stood up and walkedover and said, can I help you?
And he took the baby and rockedthe baby to sleep so she could
take care of the two year old. I was like, oh my god,
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Like I love stories like that's somuch. I love stories like that
so much. So there was anexample of a man who was being nurturing
and kind and compassionate and helping amother out. And I love that story
so much. Day Mother's Day,Carmen, You're Maccarine too, my Parnia
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And now a little small town historyof Mother's Day. Celebrations of mothers and
motherhood can be traced back to theancient Greeks and Romans, who held festivals
in honor of the mother goddesses Rayand Sybil. But the clearest modern president
for Mother's Day is the early Christianfestival known as Mothering Sunday, Once a
major tradition in the United Kingdom andparts of Europe. This celebration fell on
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the fourth Sunday Inlent and was originallyseen as a time when the faithful wo
returned to their mother church, themain church of the vicinity of their home,
for a special service. Over time, the Mothering Sunday tradition shifted into
a more secular holiday, and childrenwould present their mothers with flowers and other
tokens of appreciation. This cust eventuallyfaded in popularity before merging with the American
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Mother's Day in the nineteen thirties andnineteen forties. Did you know that more
phone calls are made on Mother's Daythan any other day of the year.
These holiday chats with Mom often causedphone traffic to spike by as much as
thirty seven percent. In eighteen sixtyone, as the Civil War broke out,
Anne Marie Jarvis and her husband wereliving in Grafton, West Virginia,
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a small town perched right next tothe border of North and South. Throughout
the war, soldiers from North andSouth came through town on the major railway
lines that ran through itmated ten thousandtroops were encamped around Grafton, many of
them in a field right across fromJarvis's home. For Amerie's community, the
conflict was even more complex because itwas not unusual for neighbors and even close
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relatives to have sons fighting on differentsides. In the midst of crisis.
Anne Marie, herself a mother ofeleven children, only four of whom lived
to adulthood, led woman's friendship clubsof fellow mothers who pledged to help every
soldier, whether they're blue or gray, and saved thousands of lives by nursing
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wounded troops and by teaching sanitation techniqueswhich were still very new at that time.
After the war, Anne Marie againstepped up to lead her community in
a special day long service to honorsoldiers and their families from both sides.
Another precursor to Mother's Day came froman abolitionist, Julia Ward how In eighteen
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seventy, Howe wrote the Mother's DayProclamation, a call to action that asked
mothers to un night in promoting worldpeace. In eighteen seventy three, Howe
campaigned for a Mother's Peace Day tobe celebrated every June second. Other early
Mother's Day pioneers included Juliette Calhound Blakeney, a temperance activist who inspired a local
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Mother's Day in Albion, Michigan inthe eighteen seventies. The duo of Mary
Towell's Sassine and Frank Hearing both workedto organize a Mother's Day in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Someeven call her the father of Mother's Day.
The official Mother's Day holiday arose inthe nineteen hundreds as a result of
the efforts of Anna Jarvis, daughterof Anne Reeves Jarvis. Following her mother's
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nineteen oh five death. Anna Jarvisconceived of Mother's Day as a way of
honoring the sacrifices mothers made for theirchildren. After gaining financial backing from the
Philadelphia department store owner named John Wanamaker. In May nineteen oh eight, she
organized the first official Mother's Day celebrationat a Methodist church in Grafton, West
Virginia. That same day also sawthousands of people attend a Mother's Day event
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at one of Wannamaker's retail stores inPhiladelphia. Following the success of her first
Mother's Day, Jarvis, who remainedunmarried and childless her whole life, resolved
to see her holiday added to thenational calendar, Arguing that American holidays were
biased towards male achievements. She starteda massive letter writing campaign to newspapers and
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prominent politicians urging the adoption of thespecial holiday honoring motherhood. By nineteen twelve,
many States towns and churches had adoptedMother's Day as an annual holiday,
and Jarvis had established the Mother's DateInternational Association to help promote her cause.
Her persistance paid off in nineteen fourteen, when President Woodrow Wilson signed a measure
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officially establishing the second Sunday in Mayas Mother's Day. Nowadays, Mother's Day
is a bonanza for retailers. Americansspend at least an estimated of two point
six billion on flowers and sixty eightmillion on cards. According to the National
Restaurant Association, Mother's Day is themost popular day of the year to eat
out. For Anna Jarvis, however, and for many other women activists and
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the turn of the century, thiscommercialization would have been a disappointment. As
early as eighteen seventy, the poetJulia Ward Howe, who also wrote the
famous Battle Hymn of the Republic,proclaimed that Mother's Day should be a time
for women to solemnly take counsel witheach other, as to a means whereby
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the great human family can live inpeace. Anna Jarvis, who lived in
nineteen forty eight, spent the lastyears of her life railing. I wanted
it to be a day, shesaid, of sentiment, not profit.
So, parents, if you're planningto head out for brunch this Mother's Day,
we certainly wouldn't urge you to cancel, but in the spirit of Mother's
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Day, we hope you'll encourage yourchildren to stop and take appreciative note of
everything moms do. Handmade gifts andcards are especially good ways for kids to
slow down and celebrate. This isalso a wonderful time to honor the many
mothers who have come before hours,leaving a legacy of love, hope,
and courage. As Supreme Court Justiceand poet Oliver Wendell Holmes himself was survivor
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one that celebrates Mother's Day. Thereare many Mother's Day traditions served around the
whole world. In Peru, theycelebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday in
May, just as we do inthe US. They also give Mom flowers,
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cards, and gifts in honor ofthat day. But here's the twist,
proving families often gather in cemeteries onMother's Day to honor the mothers,
aunts, and grandmothers who have passedaway. The visits are far from solemn.
They actually socialize, enjoy food anddrinks before cleaning the grave sites and
decorating them with balloons, heart shapedsigns and flowers. In Japan, children
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celebrate Mom with pictures. The versionof Mother's Day is almost an exact replica
in the United States is on thesecond Sunday of May, and they're usually
given gifts of flowers or red carnationsand roses, and home cooked meals.
Hopefully the mothers are not the onescooking. Additionally, some children draw pictures
of their moms during a classroom activity, which they would then enter into an
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art contest. It's reflective of thetradition that started back in the nineteen fifties
where children would enter pictures of theirmothers into an art contest every four years
for a chance to have their artworkshown across the world. In Australia,
it's also very similar to the UnitedStates. In this country, moms are
honored on the second Sunday of Mayand flowers are usually a person's gift of
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choice. However, carnations and chrysanthemumsare the most popular. The chrysanthemum is
the choice of flower because Mom inAustralia is called Mom in Mexico. Every
year, Mother's Day is celebrated onMay tenth. It's one of the largest
and busiest holidays regardless of the dayof the week that it falls on,
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and just like the US, flowersare a big part of Mother's Day,
but there are some unique traditions,and one is that children usually make it
a priority to be in the homeon Mother's Day Eve. Other unique traditions
is that on the morning of Mother'sDay on May tenth, mothers are often
serenaded by a mariachi band with thesong Las Nanitas. Now in Thailand they
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celebrate Mother's Day on August twelfth,and it's actually the birthday of Her Majesty,
Queen Syraicate I think that's how it'spronounced, and she also is known
as the Queen Mother. As aresult, the festive day has two purposes,
to honor the nation's symbolic mother andto also honor all mothers. The
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holiday includes public firework displays, candlelighting, ceremonies, and traditionally, Thai children
recognize their moms with a gift ofjasmine flowers, which symbolize the purity of
a mother's love. Many mothers visittheir children's schools where each child kneels before
their mother's feet as a sign ofrespect. Haitians in Haiti celebrate Mother's Day
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on the last Sunday in May.The celebration includes extended church services filled with
prayer and songs to honor the sacrificesof mothers. Everyone wears a flower in
honor of their mother. If yourmother is alive, you wear a red
flower, but if she has recentlypassed away, you wear a white flower.
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And if you you lost your mothermany years ago, you wear a
lavender flower. In the United Kingdomthey observe as the fourth Sunday of Lent
the weeks leading up to Easter,and it's called Mothering Sunday. Although the
day celebration have become similar to thoseof the American Mother's Day, the UK
holiday has a distinctly different origin.Mothering Sunday began as a way for Christians
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to honor the Virgin Mary many centuriesago. The day also became a part
of the tradition for servants and apprenticesto return each year to their home or
mother church for a visit. Itwas customary to bring your mom a symnal
cake, a light fruit cake layeredwith marzapam as a part of the visit.
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Today, flowers, candy, andcards are more typical Mothering Sunday gifts.
In Germany, mutter tag muttertog buttertag I'm not quite sure, also
falls on the second Sunday of May, which is Mother's Day, unless the
Pentecost falls on the same day.In that case, Mother's Day is celebrated
on the first Sunday in May.A popular German tradition today is to hand
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out Mother's Day cards, flowers,and other gifts, but back during World
War II, traditions had more ofa political significance as they focused on recognizing
women for producing children for their fatherland. In fact, women were even awarded
medals based on how many children theyhad in their homes. The official Russian
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Mother's Day is held the last Sundayof November. According to a proclamation signed
in nineteen ninety eight by the PresidentBoris Yeltsen, the holiday's purpose is to
maintain the tradition of careful attitude tothe woman and to consolidate the foundations of
the family. However, in SovietRussia, many people honored moms on International
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Women's Day, so some of theMother's Day gift giving still happens in March.
The Philippines celebrate Mother's Day December,and although many Filipinos celebrate Mother's Day
in May, just as Americans do, that official date has been a bit
of a political football game back andforth over the years. In nineteen eighty,
former President Ferdinand Marcos declared the firstMonday of December as both Mother's Day
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and Father's Day. However, PresidentCory Aquino changed Mother's Day to the second
Sunday in May and Father's Day tothe third Sunday of June. Then the
next leader, President Joseph Estrada,changed the holiday back to December in nineteen
ninety eight. Filipinos think of mothersas the and I'm going to say this
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very wrong, Ela ningtahanan, thelight of the home, typically honor their
mothers with flowers, chocolates, andsmall gifts. In France, Mother's Day
is typically the fourth Sunday in May, unless the fourth Sunday overlaps with the
Pentecost. When this happened, Mother'sDay celebrations are delayed by one week.
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And it was none other than Napoleonwho declared a special day to recognize mothers
of large families in eighteen oh six. In nineteen fifty, Mother's Dave was
officially declared a holiday, and sinceits inception, traditions have also very much
mimicked that of the United States.For example, children tend to volunteer or
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complete certain chores for mom, andgifts such as flowers and chocolates are usually
given. Too bad for those smallfamily moms. Thanks everyone for joining us
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I wanted to share with you.I had another brain paralysis moment. Uh
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a really great smell. It smellslike fresh cedar wood. It's just really
great. And the brand is ithad the brand on there. So I
was trying to figure out, Okay, where can I get this? I
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for me? I think I reallyfeel like I have this. It's got
to be a thing where you mixup phrases, like, you know,
a bird in the hand is worthYeah. Yeah, So I might say
that, but I might accidentally saysomething similar and mix it together. You
know. One of the ones thatcomes to my mind because I can never
remember as soon as I'm done,but bouncing off the top of the walls.
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It was bouncing off the top ofthe like off the top of my
head and bouncing on the You know, I mix them up, and I
don't I do it all the timethat it's got to be a condition.
There was a character in I thinkthe book Generation X who did the same
thing. It was like a stitchin time is better than a stitch in
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the butt or something like that.It was I can't quote it, but
it was my mom does it too. My mom's like, uh, she
told me times. She was somad at me. Oh you know what
they say, you can't teach anold dog to change its spots? Really?
Yeah? Okay, Oh speaking tomom's Carmen. Yes, Mother's Day.
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Well, Mother's Day was upon us. How did your mother say?
Go? Well, you know,it went just as I probably wanted.
I went to yoga in the morning, and then I came home and just
took it easy. You know,Mother's Day is one of those things that
I think there's a lot of hype. I know, I know the intention
of the holiday, but you know, for people who have lost a child,
or people who have lost their mother, right, people who don't have
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a mom, people who have acrappy mom, all of those things,
you know, it could be areally sort of sad day. And we
my sister passed away years ago,a few years ago. It hasn't been
that long, so it was reallytough. And also, you know,
that was also a day that mysister and I would kind of have fun
together. But I made it throughanother Mother's Day. Yeah, yeah,
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I can. I know that there'ssome traditions out there that flowers have a
lot to do with Mother's Day,right, Everybody is either getting flowers or
there's a representation of flowers within Mother'sDay, and like people are buying carnations.
I think carnations are like the bigMother's Day flower. If they are,
they are, so if you havea mother who's still living, then
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you're wearing red red carnation. Ifyou have a mother who's passed you wear
white carnation. But you're right,like some people don't have mothers, or
maybe just didn't have a really goodexperience or now don't have a good relationship
with their mother, and it cansometimes be like this really hard time.
I definitely respect the holiday in someaspects where it is about celebrating women.
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I think in general that if Ican say anything about that, that I
think that's what it's supposed to be. Like, you know, hey,
they're the birthers of people. Withoutthem, we're not here. So I
like that aspect that, you know, we're celebrating women for that tough time
that they have, But it doesn'tnecessarily mean that somebody had to give birth
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to be a mother either, right, right, So I think all you
know, I think it's a dayfor women, and that's the way I
look at it as a celebration ofwomen, you know, And I do
celebrate my mom. I celebrate herall the time, so I don't need
a special day to do that.But it is a nice time to just
remember all of the women who havehad an impact or influence in my life
and the people who are motherly,like you don't necessarily have to be like
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I said, a mother, it'sthose who have had influence on you in
that way. One time, though, my neighbor I lived in this house
and it had a guesthouse, theydelivered red carnations my door for Mother's Day
and I was like, I knowthese aren't for me, because nobody I
know would send me carnations. Andnow that you said the carnation thing,
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that makes sense, like somebody knewa tradition that I didn't know. And
my mother actually loves carnations. Sheloves the way they smell. And they
are quite beautiful, they really are, and they last a long time,
I mean compared to other flowers,so it makes sense. But you know,
they always get kind of thrown aroundas the cheap flower because of course
they're more reasonable than roses, Iguess, but there are a lot more
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reasonable, yeah, than they have. But they have so many different colors
and you can do more things withthem, you know, there are some
interesting things that happen on Mother's Dayin the past. In nineteen fifty five,
the ge Wall refrigerator freezer made itsdebut. Wow that's impressive, right,
you know, just right in timefor moms in their kitchens. Yeah,
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I remember my mom got a Mother'sDay present. Yeah, and I
think I was a vacuum cleaner,an electrolux and it was a year.
I think it was the Olympics,Yeah, because it was sponsored by the
United States Olympics or I was asponsor of the United States Olympics. And
even as a child, I thoughtthat is a Mother's Day press And so
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as a refrigerator. If you askedyour mom in nineteen fifty seven what her
favorite song was, it'd probably beElvis's All Shook Up. Yeah, that's
still one of my favorite songs.And I wasn't even born then. It's
it tapped the charts on Mother's Dayin nineteen fifty seven, So I mean,
who doesn't like Elvis? Come on, I know one person, I
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know one person really. Yeah.In nineteen seventy three, Stevie Wonder gave
mom a theme song. Do youknow what song that was? I never
want a Mother's Day sunshine in mylife. Yeah, I can love that.
I love that song too. Yeah, it's always a good song when
that comes on. In nineteen ninetytwo, we mourned the end of Golden
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Girls on Mother's Day. Oh,that's the year that my daughter was born
and I became a mother. OhI still yeah, yeah, so I
still mourn the Golden Girls, butI am so grateful to be mother of
a beautiful girl. Two thousand andsix, Mom was allowed to finally get
on Facebook, and we have wehave regretted it ever since. Facebook used
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to be only there for individuals whowere a part of a college. I
don't know if you remember that partof it, but it actually was supposed
to only connect people who were incollege. You had to have a college
email and everything. You couldn't getinto Facebook. And two thousand and six
don't for everybody? Don't you meanthe Facebook? The Facebook? Right?
You're right, the Facebook. Iwas on the Facebook today. I was
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on the Facebook and I saw that. In twenty twelve, the most given
Mother's Day gift was the book FiftyShades of Gray? Gross? Are people
so gross? Do you remember theoffice where uh Phyllis Phyllis was listening to
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books on tape and she was listeningto fifty Shades of Gray? And she
was like, really do it?And I told Ma and he was like,
would you please tell Phyllis to stopmasturbating? Okay? The last fact.
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Anyways, in twenty seventeen, thatyear was the comeback of what what
do you think? It's a fashionchoice. By the way, something mom
related made a comb jeans. Yeah, Mom jeans, Yeah, mommys it's
finally deemed cool again. Mom jeans. Did you ever see that that skit
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on Saturday Night Live? Oh mygod, yes, that's the best.
That is the best, git.Yeah, what defines mom jeans? Like?
What makes it? Mom? Theyhave a lot of room for your
pupa. I guess that's stuck cheese. Oh my god, what it's well
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true? I just was not whatSo they do have a lot of room
for that. Yeah, they do. When you down, you look like
you have the opposite of a woman, you know, because they have a
lot of room. They have areal lot of room for a really long
bottom, a long backside or ora wide backside, which right right,
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and then usually the belt the beltis a big a belt, high waisted.
But you know what, I it'sfunny because even though mom jeans made
a comeback, they didn't increase thepocket size to what they should have been
like previously. You know how womenhave very small pockets compared to men,
like in general. Oh yeah,guys can just fit everything they need in
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like one pocket on their jeans.We have these tiny little half pockets in
the front, some big pockets inthe back. But mom jee's in the
past actually have large pockets. Youknow, you could put everything in there
because you had to put like apacifier. Yeah, you had to do
it. But but but now thatthey came back, it's like, here's
your mom jeans. But they don't. They didn't bring back the pocket size.
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I think that's a big mistake.And well that's why the fanny pat
came back. Use a fanny pack. Oh yeah, I used one.
Now. Yeah, I don't putit over my fanny. I put it
over my shoulder kind of som like. I'm just not totally okay with the
fanny pack yet, But I couldutilize it because it's easy. Wear it
as a belt on your mom jeans. Oh yeah, we're good with that.
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Yeah yeah, that was choice.Excellent day. And wear it with
a nice chunky card again, tarlneck sweater. Okay, Caravin, So
I've got a few trivia questions foryou about Mother's Day or Mother's in general.
Okay, okay, let's go.I'm gonna knock it out of the
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pocket. You are gonna knock itout of the park. Okay, the
first thing I think you're gonna getbecause we already talked aout. What flower
is associated with Mother's Day? Carnation? And I'm not going to do that
every time. By the way,what month does Mother's Day take place in
Canada, Australia and the US andMay? What country was the first to
celebrate Mother's Day as an official holiday? The United States? England? England?
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Oh, okay, what was Mother'sDay known in England? As It's
not called Mother's Day, it's calledsomething now similar. Do you know day
have the mom It's called mothering Sunday? Yep? And which month has the
highest birth rates in the United States? Oh, let's see. So what
do you think August? Yes?How did you know August? What month?
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Do you think? Everybody is gettinglate in December? Because it's cold?
Everybody's like squishing up and I justsit the countdown? You did?
Yeah? What what are the oddsof a woman giving birth to twins?
Oh? God? What in tenthousand? It's shocking. Actually, one
in one hundred, last, onein fifty one, in thirty three Ooh,
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I could have had tweens. Youknow what. My mom's a twin
and I dated a twin in highschool, and we always thought like,
man, if we have kids,they're gonna be twins. What day of
the week has the highest birth ratesin the US. I think, let's
say Tuesday. It is Tuesday.Hurry getting this right, because well,
I'm gonna tell you, because Ijust the law of averages. People are
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gonna push it out on the weekend. They're gonna part you know, They're
gonna do what they have to do. So I say Tuesday. Tuesdays when
there is a mucus plug flings outin your water breaks at the grocery store.
So, yeah, Tuesday, Itold you I was gonna knock this
out of the You did I?Actually I would not have get I would
have no idea. Okay. Inthe popular TV show Game of Thrones,
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who is known as the Mother ofDragons. Oh, Callisi Daniia Targarian.
There you go, Targarian. Yeah, so Queen of the Angles and the
First Men, Lady of dragon Stone, Khalisi of the Great Grass Sea.
She girls known as Pelissi. Soher real name is that, but it
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is your rights Kalisi and I'm gonnatell you those little dragons were so dank
you. I know, I know, I want one. I want one
so bad. That's just like alittle dragon in your hand. Oh my
god, you're gonna get this one, which Swedish pop group is known for
their hit song Mamma mia Abba.Yes, yeah, okay, this is
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really shocking too. The oldest firsttime first time mother. The oldest first
time mother gave birth in twenty nineteen. How old was she? Sixty two?
Higher? No? Yeah, yes, higher, seventy higher seventy five,
seventy four, seventy four years oldand she was the first time hurdle.
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That's shocking for real, Like,and was the baby Okay, I
didn't look that far, So goodfor her kidding it in a seventy four?
Does she know who the father is? I hope. I'm still getting
it in when I'm seventy four.Okay. What is the highest number of
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children born to one mother? Asit's also shocking? One person? Thirty
three higher, seventy sixty nine,go figure, sixty nine sixty nine kids
one person one mother, not afather, father would be more believable,
but one one mother, God canyou imagine her uterus is probably the god.
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I mean, it's probably we're allof it just sliding out. What
is the average number of diaper changesa mother makes in the first year of
a baby's life? Okay, soone hundred thousand? Too high? Too
high? Think thousands, Think thousands, I have think thousands. Okay,
seven thousand, two thousand, twohundred. It's a lot lower than I
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thought. But I guess if youdo the math, a couple of day
times three and sixty five a couplea day. So if you do,
I was seeing it, five aday is yeah, eighteen hundred. So
and I don't know where I gotone hundred thousand. It feels like may
the high nine children? Yeah,oh god, yeah. What is the
mammal native to Africa that gives birthwhile standing up? A giraffe? Yes,
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oh my gosh, you're good.Carbon. No, I've seen a
giraffe and they have to fall likesix feet to the ground. Little babies
to little Yeah, I've seen it, and I think it's supposed to help
them though, correct. I guessit's like nature spanking them on the fanny.
What do you think the weight ofthe heaviest baby ever born was it's
really twenty three pounds, so closeone pound less, twenty two pounds,
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twenty two pounds baby what baby?Yeah? I had a ten pound six
ouncer. That is still too big. I mean that is way too big,
ten pound six ounces. She wastwenty one and a half inches long,
twenty two pounds. I really hopeshe had a sea section. I
really hope it was a sea section, because, oh my god, how
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many phone calls are made in Mother'sDay cheer? You think, oh god,
like a billion, not a billion, but one hundred and twenty two
million, one hundred and twenty twomillion, quite a bit. I think
every mom probably secretly wishes, I'mnot maybe not so secretly wishes that their
kids would call more, but theylook forward to those calls. And also,
if you're from like a big family, being the first one to make
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the call, oh yeah, yougotta check in like, hey, did
anybody else call you yet? Ohyeah? The first one? Just be
like I'm the best one. Wetalked about carnations, right, I feel
like I should eat a carnation becausemy breath is kicking like Dan damn.
We talked about carnations and that theyactually wrap Mother's Day, and that's kind
of like the flower of Mother's Day. But what do they represent? Like
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why what would be your guess?What would be the reason for carnations?
A carnation because they are like aneverlasting flower, an everlasting bloom, to
match the everlasting love of a mother. Yeah, you're so right, it's
really yeah. I mean, youmade it much more beautiful than what it
says here just says a mother's love. You know, but you did,
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you kicked but on this We're goingfor trivia night next time, like where
I'm bringing you, I will kicksome fanny and trivia as long as I
don't get brain paralysis. Well,Jessica, I want to tell you,
I think you are probably one ofthe sweetest mommies. You're very dedicated and
very sweet to your child, andyou can tell because she's smart and vibrant
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and bouncy. Being a mother isnot about taking a break from or not
having a break. I guess maybepeople think, you know, and it's
true, you might don't really havea break from motherhood. But I think
that's the point, Like, youchoose to be a mother because you know,
light least most people do. Noteverybody chooses to be a mom.
I guess I'm wrong saying that,but when you are a mother, it
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doesn't just leave you on one day, you know, like especially the day
that's like four mothers. You know. I like to be with people,
with either fellow mothers or with mydaughter or both on a Mother's Day to
be able to celebrate that, LikeI said, it's a celebration of women,
and show my daughter that this isa happy thing. It's a thing
to be proud of. And Iwant her to have that same feeling,
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you know, someday if she choosesto be a mother too. Throughout my
whole life with her, hopefully shelooks at me and goes, I want
to be like my mom. I'msure she will, because you are definitely
somebody to be admired, and Ithink you are too. I mean,
you have this very successful daughter.You know, we've never formally met,
but I always hear the stories ofand you're always very so proud of your
daughter, and I'm very proud ofher. But she's living and I'm very
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successful and happy life, you know, and so you have a lot to
be thankful and for and also bevery proud of yourself. Well, you
know what, I don't feel likeI can take credit for that. I
feel like I'm very thankful that sheis the person she is. One thing
that I just realized and I feellike we could take away for Mother's Day
is that it does take a village. And when I was bringing up my
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daughter, I'm so thankful that Ihad my mom and my Aunt Pat and
my sister to help me and tokind of show me the way and sometimes
show me what is not the wayor whatever the case maybe, but you
know, it's it doesn't come naturalto everybody. It's it's terrifying. There's
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so many things that you are neverprepared for and then it happens. You're
like, what the what? Butyou know, I think that Mother's Day,
you know, again, as atime to celebrate women and all of
the women that have been influential inmy life, whether they were in my
family or not. You know,women I've worked with, women who I've
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admired, women who are in thepublic eye that I've admired. And I
think my mom, my sister,and my aunt Pat, everybody, all
of the women in my family forforming me and helping me with my daughter
when she was little. It doestake a village to raise a child or
kids in general. You know,I have more than one. So I
just hope that everybody who's listening hasloving people around them to support them,
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whether they be men or women.I read this thing, Jessica, and
it touched me so deeply. Thewoman was on a plane with her baby.
She had like a two year oldand then a little baby. And
you know, I don't just beingon a plane with a two year old.
Yeah, I was like, ohmy god. But to have like
a baby crying and a two yearolds like wanting some more goldfish crackers,
and you know, not understanding whyall of a sudden, there's this thing
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in your arms, and why aren'tyou holding me? I want you to
old me. And this woman was, you know, everybody on the plane
is just pissed because old kids arecrying. And it was a man,
a man who stood up and walkedover and said, can I help you?
And he took the baby and rockedthe baby to sleep so she could
take care of the two year old. I was like, oh my god,
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Like I love stories like that's somuch. I love stories like that
so much. So there was anexample of a man who was being nurturing
and kind and compassionate and helping amother out. And I love that story
so much. Day Mother's Day,Carmen, You're Maccarine too, my Parnia
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And now a little small town historyof Mother's Day. Celebrations of mothers and
motherhood can be traced back to theancient Greeks and Romans, who held festivals
in honor of the mother goddesses Rayand Sybil. But the clearest modern president
for Mother's Day is the early Christianfestival known as Mothering Sunday, Once a
major tradition in the United Kingdom andparts of Europe. This celebration fell on
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the fourth Sunday Inlent and was originallyseen as a time when the faithful wo
returned to their mother church, themain church of the vicinity of their home,
for a special service. Over time, the Mothering Sunday tradition shifted into
a more secular holiday, and childrenwould present their mothers with flowers and other
tokens of appreciation. This cust eventuallyfaded in popularity before merging with the American
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Mother's Day in the nineteen thirties andnineteen forties. Did you know that more
phone calls are made on Mother's Daythan any other day of the year.
These holiday chats with Mom often causedphone traffic to spike by as much as
thirty seven percent. In eighteen sixtyone, as the Civil War broke out,
Anne Marie Jarvis and her husband wereliving in Grafton, West Virginia,
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a small town perched right next tothe border of North and South. Throughout
the war, soldiers from North andSouth came through town on the major railway
lines that ran through itmated ten thousandtroops were encamped around Grafton, many of
them in a field right across fromJarvis's home. For Amerie's community, the
conflict was even more complex because itwas not unusual for neighbors and even close
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relatives to have sons fighting on differentsides. In the midst of crisis.
Anne Marie, herself a mother ofeleven children, only four of whom lived
to adulthood, led woman's friendship clubsof fellow mothers who pledged to help every
soldier, whether they're blue or gray, and saved thousands of lives by nursing
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wounded troops and by teaching sanitation techniqueswhich were still very new at that time.
After the war, Anne Marie againstepped up to lead her community in
a special day long service to honorsoldiers and their families from both sides.
Another precursor to Mother's Day came froman abolitionist, Julia Ward how In eighteen
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seventy, Howe wrote the Mother's DayProclamation, a call to action that asked
mothers to un night in promoting worldpeace. In eighteen seventy three, Howe
campaigned for a Mother's Peace Day tobe celebrated every June second. Other early
Mother's Day pioneers included Juliette Calhound Blakeney, a temperance activist who inspired a local
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Mother's Day in Albion, Michigan inthe eighteen seventies. The duo of Mary
Towell's Sassine and Frank Hearing both workedto organize a Mother's Day in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Someeven call her the father of Mother's Day.
The official Mother's Day holiday arose inthe nineteen hundreds as a result of
the efforts of Anna Jarvis, daughterof Anne Reeves Jarvis. Following her mother's
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nineteen oh five death. Anna Jarvisconceived of Mother's Day as a way of
honoring the sacrifices mothers made for theirchildren. After gaining financial backing from the
Philadelphia department store owner named John Wanamaker. In May nineteen oh eight, she
organized the first official Mother's Day celebrationat a Methodist church in Grafton, West
Virginia. That same day also sawthousands of people attend a Mother's Day event
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at one of Wannamaker's retail stores inPhiladelphia. Following the success of her first
Mother's Day, Jarvis, who remainedunmarried and childless her whole life, resolved
to see her holiday added to thenational calendar, Arguing that American holidays were
biased towards male achievements. She starteda massive letter writing campaign to newspapers and
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prominent politicians urging the adoption of thespecial holiday honoring motherhood. By nineteen twelve,
many States towns and churches had adoptedMother's Day as an annual holiday,
and Jarvis had established the Mother's DateInternational Association to help promote her cause.
Her persistance paid off in nineteen fourteen, when President Woodrow Wilson signed a measure
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officially establishing the second Sunday in Mayas Mother's Day. Nowadays, Mother's Day
is a bonanza for retailers. Americansspend at least an estimated of two point
six billion on flowers and sixty eightmillion on cards. According to the National
Restaurant Association, Mother's Day is themost popular day of the year to eat
out. For Anna Jarvis, however, and for many other women activists and
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the turn of the century, thiscommercialization would have been a disappointment. As
early as eighteen seventy, the poetJulia Ward Howe, who also wrote the
famous Battle Hymn of the Republic,proclaimed that Mother's Day should be a time
for women to solemnly take counsel witheach other, as to a means whereby
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the great human family can live inpeace. Anna Jarvis, who lived in
nineteen forty eight, spent the lastyears of her life railing. I wanted
it to be a day, shesaid, of sentiment, not profit.
So, parents, if you're planningto head out for brunch this Mother's Day,
we certainly wouldn't urge you to cancel, but in the spirit of Mother's
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Day, we hope you'll encourage yourchildren to stop and take appreciative note of
everything moms do. Handmade gifts andcards are especially good ways for kids to
slow down and celebrate. This isalso a wonderful time to honor the many
mothers who have come before hours,leaving a legacy of love, hope,
and courage. As Supreme Court Justiceand poet Oliver Wendell Holmes himself was survivor
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one that celebrates Mother's Day. Thereare many Mother's Day traditions served around the
whole world. In Peru, theycelebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday in
May, just as we do inthe US. They also give Mom flowers,
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cards, and gifts in honor ofthat day. But here's the twist,
proving families often gather in cemeteries onMother's Day to honor the mothers,
aunts, and grandmothers who have passedaway. The visits are far from solemn.
They actually socialize, enjoy food anddrinks before cleaning the grave sites and
decorating them with balloons, heart shapedsigns and flowers. In Japan, children
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celebrate Mom with pictures. The versionof Mother's Day is almost an exact replica
in the United States is on thesecond Sunday of May, and they're usually
given gifts of flowers or red carnationsand roses, and home cooked meals.
Hopefully the mothers are not the onescooking. Additionally, some children draw pictures
of their moms during a classroom activity, which they would then enter into an
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art contest. It's reflective of thetradition that started back in the nineteen fifties
where children would enter pictures of theirmothers into an art contest every four years
for a chance to have their artworkshown across the world. In Australia,
it's also very similar to the UnitedStates. In this country, moms are
honored on the second Sunday of Mayand flowers are usually a person's gift of
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choice. However, carnations and chrysanthemumsare the most popular. The chrysanthemum is
the choice of flower because Mom inAustralia is called Mom in Mexico. Every
year, Mother's Day is celebrated onMay tenth. It's one of the largest
and busiest holidays regardless of the dayof the week that it falls on,
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and just like the US, flowersare a big part of Mother's Day,
but there are some unique traditions,and one is that children usually make it
a priority to be in the homeon Mother's Day Eve. Other unique traditions
is that on the morning of Mother'sDay on May tenth, mothers are often
serenaded by a mariachi band with thesong Las Nanitas. Now in Thailand they
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celebrate Mother's Day on August twelfth,and it's actually the birthday of Her Majesty,
Queen Syraicate I think that's how it'spronounced, and she also is known
as the Queen Mother. As aresult, the festive day has two purposes,
to honor the nation's symbolic mother andto also honor all mothers. The
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holiday includes public firework displays, candlelighting, ceremonies, and traditionally, Thai children
recognize their moms with a gift ofjasmine flowers, which symbolize the purity of
a mother's love. Many mothers visittheir children's schools where each child kneels before
their mother's feet as a sign ofrespect. Haitians in Haiti celebrate Mother's Day
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on the last Sunday in May.The celebration includes extended church services filled with
prayer and songs to honor the sacrificesof mothers. Everyone wears a flower in
honor of their mother. If yourmother is alive, you wear a red
flower, but if she has recentlypassed away, you wear a white flower.
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And if you you lost your mothermany years ago, you wear a
lavender flower. In the United Kingdomthey observe as the fourth Sunday of Lent
the weeks leading up to Easter,and it's called Mothering Sunday. Although the
day celebration have become similar to thoseof the American Mother's Day, the UK
holiday has a distinctly different origin.Mothering Sunday began as a way for Christians
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to honor the Virgin Mary many centuriesago. The day also became a part
of the tradition for servants and apprenticesto return each year to their home or
mother church for a visit. Itwas customary to bring your mom a symnal
cake, a light fruit cake layeredwith marzapam as a part of the visit.
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Today, flowers, candy, andcards are more typical Mothering Sunday gifts.
In Germany, mutter tag muttertog buttertag I'm not quite sure, also
falls on the second Sunday of May, which is Mother's Day, unless the
Pentecost falls on the same day.In that case, Mother's Day is celebrated
on the first Sunday in May.A popular German tradition today is to hand
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out Mother's Day cards, flowers,and other gifts, but back during World
War II, traditions had more ofa political significance as they focused on recognizing
women for producing children for their fatherland. In fact, women were even awarded
medals based on how many children theyhad in their homes. The official Russian
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Mother's Day is held the last Sundayof November. According to a proclamation signed
in nineteen ninety eight by the PresidentBoris Yeltsen, the holiday's purpose is to
maintain the tradition of careful attitude tothe woman and to consolidate the foundations of
the family. However, in SovietRussia, many people honored moms on International
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Women's Day, so some of theMother's Day gift giving still happens in March.
The Philippines celebrate Mother's Day December,and although many Filipinos celebrate Mother's Day
in May, just as Americans do, that official date has been a bit
of a political football game back andforth over the years. In nineteen eighty,
former President Ferdinand Marcos declared the firstMonday of December as both Mother's Day
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and Father's Day. However, PresidentCory Aquino changed Mother's Day to the second
Sunday in May and Father's Day tothe third Sunday of June. Then the
next leader, President Joseph Estrada,changed the holiday back to December in nineteen
ninety eight. Filipinos think of mothersas the and I'm going to say this
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very wrong, Ela ningtahanan, thelight of the home, typically honor their
mothers with flowers, chocolates, andsmall gifts. In France, Mother's Day
is typically the fourth Sunday in May, unless the fourth Sunday overlaps with the
Pentecost. When this happened, Mother'sDay celebrations are delayed by one week.
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And it was none other than Napoleonwho declared a special day to recognize mothers
of large families in eighteen oh six. In nineteen fifty, Mother's Dave was
officially declared a holiday, and sinceits inception, traditions have also very much
mimicked that of the United States.For example, children tend to volunteer or
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complete certain chores for mom, andgifts such as flowers and chocolates are usually
given. Too bad for those smallfamily moms. Thanks everyone for joining us
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