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Now, This Sunday is Mother's Day, the day when Americans celebrate their moms with flowers and breakfast in bed, which, by the way, I never really understood. Yeah, I don't get why people like breakfast in bed. You know, it's just so magical to lie here and eat in the place. I've been farting for eight hours and then I'm gonna go back to sleep in the place I ate. Look, the point is it's a special day and for more on that day, let's talk to our senior mom correspondent,
Daisi Lidick. Happy Mother's Day to you, Deasi, And let me just say, I think it's one holiday that should be every day.
Well that's kind of dom Trevor. You can't have Mother's Day every day. I mean, the world would run out of roses and gift cards for massages that don't include the tip.
Yeah, I know, it was just the sentiment. You know, it doesn't matter. This Mother's Day, Deasi, should be more fun than the lost right because people have vaccinated. Places are reopening, so you know, moms can actually go out and have fun and feel safe.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I mean, honestly, It's a huge relief because this past year has been especially hard for moms. I mean, moms have taken on the biggest burden of the pandemic. Really, between juggling career, childcare, homeschooling. The only thing that's working harder than moms was our iPads. My kid is just as much Peppa Pig's son as my own.
I feel you, they're desime. I love that show. Actually, I actually got a pet turtle during quarantine and I have to feed it almost every day. And I mean, it's not the same, but it's kind of the same, right.
It's not the same.
It's not the same.
It's not the same.
It's not the same at all, Daisi. Moms have been through a lot, and hopefully you're going to get some amazing gifts from your kids.
Yeah, yeah, I can't wait for that coupon for free hugs. I feel you have so many of those at this point, I can buy around for everyone. You know, Trevor, do you know what would be really the best gift that America can get moms this Mother's Day?
I do, Daisy, America needs to give its moms universal childcare and paid parental leave. I feel you girl.
What No, I mean, yes, that would be great, But the best gifts this Mother's Day would be to just leave moms the fuck alone.
Wait, yeah, what are you saying moms want to spend Mother's Day on vacation from their kids?
Yes, or the kids can go on vacation, I don't care. Someone else can run around him on the beach and make sure he doesn't eat sand I will be at home in my bathtub and for the first time in a while, actually taking a bath in it instead of just getting in fully dressed and crying.
Wow. I mean, I've got to say, it does seem more doable. Universal childcare. Great.
Great, And and then this works out well because it doesn't just have to be for Mother's Day. Can be for Father's Day too.
Right, because dads deserve a vacation too, No dads.
No, I mean moms can be alone on Father's Day too, also a Memorial Day obviously, Independence Day, Labor Day, and you know the month of December.
Whoa, well, daisi, Desi, you're not going to spend Christmas Day with your family?
Okay, don't mom shame me, trevor Or, I'll take that precious little turtle of years and shove it up your manhole now, if you'll excuse me, I need to recharge my co parent.
Oh okay, good luck with that, Daisi, and Happy Mother's Day.
Happy Mother's Day?
What about it?
I got tonight.
He was the thirty ninth president of these United States. His new book is called A Remarkable Mother. Please welcome back to the show, President Jimmy Carter, Sir.
I have called it, no right, I don't. It's very nice to see you, sir, because you look great.
Uh.
The book is called A Remarkable Mother. I want to thank you, uh, mister president.
Uh.
I for Mother's Day, was going to get my mother maybe a card, maybe some flowers. Uh, thank you for making my gesture look incredibly pitiful.
Uh.
You've You've written an entire book in homage to your mom.
That's lovely, absolutely, and I hope everybody in America will about it for the Mother's Day.
Are so great.
That's why I did it to help people like.
You, you know, like you did it as an added bonus gift for mothers.
Exactly, yeah you should.
You know, Jewish mothers basically will see this and go, oh look. Jimmy Carter wrote a book for his mother. How interesting You didn't write a book and didn't even have time to call how interesting?
What?
What do you?
What do you feel like?
Is is the remarkas I think everybody feels to some extent their mother is remarkable, Their parents are remarkable. What in your mind, what sets her part?
Well?
I really think my mother exemplifies the finest aspects of what American motherhood shought be. She was innovative, she was spirited, She was indomitable, She was very courageous. She would tackle the most difficult problems in the totality of society and try to change it. I lived on a farm, and I didn't have any white neighbors. My mother never acknowledged
the impact of racial segregation in the Deep South. She was probably the only one in our county that didn't, and so she continued this protection of black and poor and deprived people all of her life. When she was seventy years old, she was still she was in India and the peace She was in Indian Peace Corps. Yeah, and she was still dealing with poor people who were black and deprived. She was in effect and untouchable. She dealt with human fluids, which made her unacceptable in society.
So she did that all the way through, and she implanted in me a decision not to let, you know, public criticism deter me from what I thought was right. In fact, when she was seventy years old, she wrote in her dowry, and I quught it in the book that if I had one wish for my children, it was for them to do what they think is right, what's adventurous and challenging and unpredictable and gratifying, and not give a damn what anybody says about them. So that's one of the things.
I learned to find his arts. And she never let you get a big head.
No, she didn't. She made to stay humble.
It was at a great anecdote about somebody asked her, They said, are you proud of your son? And she said which one?
Yes, exactly that that was right after I walked down Pennsylvania Avenue. I was so proud of myself. And so when she the reporters asked her, aren't you proud of your son? I thought, this is finally my mom was going to say something good about me. And she said which one? And she always thought Billy was the most brillian a child, and the family.
And I can't and she would remind you about that.
Absolutely, and I can't dispute that. I think Billy was probably the.
Most brilliant and your sister as well, right.
I had two sisters, yeah, all of them, and my father died with pancreatic cancer. My mother died of cancer too. But so that was I had a good, good, solid, wonderful bring.
As you watch as you watch the candidates now going through, could you have become president in this media climate?
No, I don't think so. In the first place, I didn't have any money, and I was a very poor campaigner, but the way I won was sneaky.
Really probably the.
Other Candy, maybe you could have become president.
I would have been a good president afterwards. But but what happened was that I didn't have any money. We never stayed in the motel. We never stayed in the hotel. We couldn't afford it. But every Monday morning, I and my wife and three sons and my mother would go out on the campaign trail. Never campaign together. So mother would go to different parts of the country from where I was, and with her speaking ability and her exuberance and to forth, she gathered enough votes to help put
me in the White House. So and this and this, uh was a foregone conclusion. I had one hour and New Hampshire and Florida before the other candidates woke up to the fact that I had a remarkable mother.
Oh really, So she gets credit for the presidency as well?
Sure, because I won, I won by that much and it hadn't If it hadn't been from my mother, I wouldn't have been president.
And I imagine she mentioned that to you as well.
She should have a fail to you.
Well, maybe see, maybe Baptist and Jewish are not that different after all.
If you're wondering why I'm in bed having cold eggs, burnt bacon, and a pancake filled with jelly beans, then you've never celebrated Mother's Day. It's that special day each year when your husband gives you flowers he bought in a panic at the gas station and a CARDI wrote with his feet. So it looks like your dumbest kid did it. But societies have been honoring mothers since ancient times, including all the way back in ancient Egypt, where an
annual festival honored the mother of all pharaohs. Isis no not the one that you're thinking Isis was an Egyptian goddess and style inspo for every white girl at Coachella. The Greeks and Romans also had spring festivals celebrating the Great Mother. The Greeks called her Rehea, who's usually depicted with a mural crown seated in a chariot pulled by two lions, which is badass and carbon neutral. We should
bring that back. But what we know to me Mother's Day really traces back to eighteen fifty two and a woman named Anne Reeves Jarvis. She started something called Mother's Day work Clubs, where women in the community would help needy families buy medicine, get clean water, and practice safe sewage disposal, which is pretty intense as far as mom groups go. The one I'm in mostly just swaps hand
me down Almo Onesie's for weed. After Anne she Reads Jarvis died, her daughter Anna Jarvis, decided to honor her. In nineteen oh eight, she organized the first official Mother's Day celebration in Philadelphia with the help of department store owner John Wannamaker, handing out hundreds of white carnations because her mother loved them. Even though let's be honest, they're kind of the basic bitch of flowers. And because the day was so successful, Jarvis lobbied to have the holiday
honoring mothers added to the national calendar. She led a letter writing campaign to newspapers, politicians, and the governors of every state. Now this was before Twitter, so she couldn't do that thing where you just tag a bunch of important people and retweet yourself. It didn't work, by the way. After years of pushing and fighting and writing, Jarvis's dream was realized when President Woodrow Wilson finally made Mother's Day
a national holiday in nineteen fourteen. It was the best thing to happen to mothers until the invention of white Zinfidel. But guess what Once Mother's Day became an official holiday,
Anna Jarvis I hated it. She thought her sincere holiday had become a commercialized racket and called the florist and greeting card manufacturers Charlatan's bandits, pirates, racketeers, kidnappers, and termites that would undermine with their greed one of the finest, noblest and truest movements and celebrations, which basically sounds like how William Shakespeare would give a one star Yelp review. Jarvis hated the holidays so much that it soon became
her life's work. To undo her life's work, she went door to door collecting petitions to take Mother's Day off the calendar. She threatened people who use the phrase Mother's Day with copyright infringement. She got in a fight with Eleanor Roosevelt for using Mother's Day to raise money for charity, and one time, when a waitress told her to enjoy her Mother's Day salad, Jarvis threw the salad on the ground. It's true you can google it, although don't search for
mother Tassa's salad. Those are not the results you want. I'm trying to get it off the dark web. Oh you saw it, Yeah, thank you. But basically, Anna Jarvis brought Mother's Day into this world and ever since it was an endless source of disappointment and frustration in her life, which ironically is a pretty perfect metaphor for motherhood anyway, that is why we celebrate Mother's Day. Now, if you don't mind, I'm gonna try to enjoy this abomination of a breakfast hm hm, licorice, jelly bean.
Yah, Welcome back to the Day Show. My guest tonight is best selling autha Angela Gobbis. She's here to talk about her new book, Essential Labor, which reflects on the state of caregiving in America and explores mothering as a means of social change. So please welcome Angela Gobbisco people.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you, Thank you Trevor for having me.
Are you kidding me? Thank you for writing one of the most fascinating books on a topic that I love delving into because I feel like it is the roots of everything, and that is mothering.
Yes, and I'm glad that you see that we share vibe people write.
But let's start with with the you know, the title of the book, Essential Labor. You wrote this book, you know, based on an article that got a claim from everyone. I mean mother's all over the country read it. Some people around the world read it. Even people like Melinda Gates and Elizabeth Warren chimed in and said, yeah, this is this is spot on. What do you think people have been missing about mothering for so long?
Sure, I mean I wrote this book, you know, part of it came out of the grief and loss that I felt at the start of the pandemic as a writer, I had sort of nebulous deadlines and I didn't get a regular paycheck or health insurance. But my husban and job gave us that, so I basically stopped writing. And because childcare centers closed, I was taking care of my kids, and I knew that that was the most important work I could be doing, but it also I felt like
I wasn't getting any recognition for it. We were hearing about essential workers, healthcare workers, sanitation workers, who are yes, essential, but we were never hearing about parents who were working twenty four to seven, trying to take care of their families, trying to keep communities safe. And that's really where like this is like what I know you understand is that domestic work, mothering. We do it to ourselves every day,
feeding ourselves, taking a shower without care. Work and domestic labor, you know, this is the work that makes all other work possible. The idea that domestic labor is somehow less valuable than quote unquote professional work, I just think it's a myth.
You know what, what you tap into in this book is so powerful because it even goes to let's say, somebody is like a rampant capital listening now, they go like the country needs to make money. We got to get people out there, we got to get and yet they don't want the policies that support mothers in doing that. So you see mothers, you know, you talk about in the book where they have to choose do am I going to be a mom? Or am I going to find somebody to be a mom to my child who I can't afford them?
This is so many you know, we talk about this care crisis that was exposed in the pandemic. Right when childcare centers and schools closed down, we were lost. People didn't know what to do. But many of us have always known that, you know, until your child is age six in America, you're really on your own. And there are many people who are choosing between should I put my child in daycare or should I work? Because it's really about the same amount of money, right right, But
so studies have been done. So ox FAM has a study that if women in America were paid minimum wage for the amount of domestic labor that they do unpaid right now, it would be worth one point nine trillion dollars per year.
Wow, So that's talk.
About putting you know, a value on that, like that is part of our economy and that's a thing that we just have not reckoned with in this country. Our country, American capitalism relies just as much on the labor that happens in the home as any other labor that happens in the office or on a job site.
And other countries have done that in many ways. You know, you see countries like Sweden, countries like Switzerland, et cetera. They've got different methods of doing it, but they will say this is so valuable to the country, Yes, that we will pay a mother, will make sure that the government is supporting a mother, because you know, you talk about this in the book, and it's really fascinating to
get into. Is like everything that we struggle with in society, whether it's crime, you know, whether it's poverty, whether it's mental issues, etc. You can link so many of those things absolutely to mothering.
Yes, when you invest so I believe that raising children. You know, it's a choice that people make to have kids or to not have kids, and I think we should all Unfortunately, this is not guaranteed in our country. Right, we should all be allowed to make that choice for ourselves, right, But whether or not you have children, you know, raising kids is a social responsibility. And when we invest like no one gets to adulthood without someone taking care of them,
and that's their parents. It's also beloved aunties, it's a preschool teacher, it's a teacher. Right, There's so many people who are part of that. And when we invest in children and families and mothers, it's investing in public health. It's investing in the very future and health of our society.
When is my mom going to be on the show? Never?
Here's the thing with my mom.
Two things. One, she has no interest in television or any of these things that I do. She just loves the fact that I can pay the rent, and she loves me for who I am. She genuinely does not care for.
All of these things.
And I'll give you an example. This is how, this is how not interested in it. My mom is, right, my mom. Two and a half years ago, I met Lionel Richie for the first time, and growing up, Lionel Richie was the soundtrack to me and my mom's lives. Right, So like Sunday Morning, she'd be playing Sunday Morning, the two of us will be there, We'll be dancing together, play all of Lionel Richie's song would be sick them in the house together. And then I meet Lionel Richie. So I'm like, this is amazing.
Lionel Richie.
My mom and I used to dance to your music when I was a kids. Can I take a picture? I'm gonna send it to my mom. I don't mo. Mom doesn't care about any celebrity, so I'm like, this is the one time Mom's gonna be like, wow, you met Lionel Richie. So I took the picture and I sent it to my mom and then emailed it. So I was like, Mom, look, huh what do you think? And then she replied She's like, wow, you're getting fat. I was like, okay, but uh, okay, let's move over that.
First of all, the camera adds twenty pounds m but let's talk about the other person in the picture, Linel Richie. And then she was like, oh, yes, oh that's nice. And I was like, oh okay, oh wow, okay, that was the thing she like, she just genuinely. And then like four or five days ago, I guess she was
on the internet, which she doesn't regularly do. She goes emails and then she's done, and she was on the internet and then my brother like was going through the pictures of me or something, and then she was.
Like, hey, I saw a picture of you and Linel Richie.
When did that happen.
I was like, it happened when I sent you the picture two and a half years ago. And then she was like which picture. She's like, oh, the picture where you are fat. Then I'm like ah. Earlier today I spoke with Congresswoman Lucy McBeth of Georgia. We talked about her state's importance in this election and how losing her son to gun violence motivated her to become the lawmaker that she is today. Congresswoman macbeth, Welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show.
Well, thank you, Trevor. I'm so excited to be with you, and I have to be honest with you. My youngest sister is your biggest fan, and my family has always said, you know, where are you going to be on a show. Once you're on a show, You've really made it so wow for validating me.
Wow.
I like how they've got shifted priorities because in my world, becoming a congresswoman and living the life that you have lived and how you got that. Many people know of your story, but for those who don't, you started your story from a place that I feel many people should start in polic and that is a personal place. You were a flight attendant for most of your life. You lost your son to gun violence, and you didn't just mourn his passing. You decided to step up and do
something about it. And so you ran to change not just his world, but the world and how America sees guns. So in my world, you have made it, and we're going to talk about all of that today. So thank you so much for joining us on the show. Let's start first talking about Georgia, because that's what's really in the news right now. Georgia has become what many people
thought it would never a battleground states. When you look at what has happened in Georgia, do you think that this is Georgia changing or do you think that this is Georgia responding to Donald Trump.
Georgia is changing, Trevor, As I've been saying for years now, that this is the new South, and I think the resistance that we've seen is just that the resistance to the new South and just the amazing movement building that's been done, the strategizing that's been done, a grassroots organizing that's been done. I knew we were going to be a top tier battleground state, and so I'd been telling people all along, please invest in Georgia. You know, the
best is yet to come. And we've shown that. You know, we made President Trump a one term president, and we've actually been able to be a deciding state for you know, President elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. So, yes, the South is changing and I'm glad that this Peach State has the ability to be on the front lines of that.
Reading your memoir, I mean it's inspiring and it's heartbreaking at the same time, because you read this tale of a woman who goes through the gripping experience of losing her son. Your son was shot by a man who felt like his friend was playing the music too loud in the car. That was it, and then try to use stand your ground laws to defend what he had done in taking his life. You then use this and that's become part of the title of your book is
standing Our Ground? What do you think it is about the coalition of mothers that you for around the country that has moved the idea of gun advocacy forward.
Well as mothers. As women, we're the central focus of our homes. Oftentimes we're the protectors, we're often providers, and we want to make sure that when we send our family out the door, when we send our children out the door, that they come home safely. We do everything that we can, and so building this grassroots coalition of mothers and also survivors is really indicative of what we need to do, what we'll have to do to make sure that we are providing safe spaces for our children
and our families in our own communities. And that's what we've been doing. And you know, over ninety percent of the Americans across the country believe in you know, gun safety legislation, common sense legislation that really will provide safety nets for our families and also making sure that all law abiding gun owners are using their guns in a way that is providing a safety net as well when they're using those guns.
A lot of people in your position would have become a single issue candidates, A lot of people in your position would have gone all I'm here to talk about is guns. But you're actually looking to improve healthcare, to improve gun reform, to improve veterans healthcare, you know, and then the support that veterans get. And you've rarely been fighting for a lot of these issues, which surprisingly as a Democrat, you've gotten signed by Donald Trump not once,
not twice, but three times. So the magic question then is how have you managed to work laws or create ideas that have gotten a sign off from Republicans who have shown the ability to block so many different ideas.
I've always reached across the aisle to find some common ground with my Republican colleagues that we could work upon, because when we don't work together, and we end up in the mess that we've been in it in, you know, for so long now, because we've not been working together for the sake of our constituents that are really depending on aess in Washington every single day to create value
for them. Our constituents all have the same needs and wants, and let's work together to provide the best of what America says they deserve.
Representative Jim Kleiburn said something interesting, and this was after the results started coming in and it was apparent that Joe Biden had won, but down ballot Democrats seem to have taken a beating, and he said, there is no denying that defund the police and abolish the police and socialism hurt the Democrats message. As somebody who is elected in a state that is really moderate and very close,
how do you communicate some of these ideas. Is there a different way that you communicate progressive ideas without isolating Republican or moderate voters.
I mean, I wish, of course we'd been able to pick up more seats for the House, but you know, we have to find what work within your own community. That's what I have said to my colleagues all the time, is that what I say or what I represent to my community might be completely different from another community, another from another one of my colleagues. I would love love for us to be able to hold on to some
of the states. Some of my colleagues that came in with me in my freshman colleagues, I was very pained by the fact that, you know, they won't be returning with us. But there again, I think that each of us has been able to just really speak very candidly to our own constituents, all of our demographics are different, but as I said, you know, there are a lot of different voices in this caucus, and that that's what makes us so unique.
I'll be honest, I think that's one of the things that makes you unique is that not only are you a symbol of that, but you articulated so well to everybody who takes the time to listen. Thank you so much for sharing your story in the book. Thank you so much by for coming on the show. And thank you to your family who think that I am the thing that means you've made it. I don't agree, but I appreciate them. So thank you so much to your
younger sister, because between me and her, she's right. She's not right, but between me and her, she's very right. So thank you very much.
Well, thank you, Vin. I just want to say this, thank you so much for having such a deep conversation with me because it reminds me of all the conversations she used to have at the kitchen table with Jordan. So thank you for that.
Thank you very much. Thank you. That means the world for me.
Myself.
I'm john like hosting the Daily Show and that's your phone.
Mom.
You have to wake up now, Okay, and I have a very special guest that she just blew it because her phone went off. But my mom is here with us, and uh, I want to ask you a couple of questions. I want to show the people at home what it's like when we're at home. I mean, we don't live in the same place anymore. Thank God for you, because I will tell the audience how big a pain in
that g I was. It's your chance to get off your chest now up at dinner next week or the week after a Christmas or thanks like you have a whole fan me around your witnesses.
Yeah.
Well, since you were.
Tiny, tiny, a toddler, it was a little demon running everywhere, had so much energy it was it was almost impossible too, but.
I kept you then you did. Yeah, because hyperchild is a good thing. People don't realize we bring a lot of benefits of parents. So, maam, you saw the Daily Show last night? What did you think? What? What's your review? Your critique?
Oh?
I think you always got notes.
I think yes, I think that you look great and you were funny, and that I also loved very much when you talked to Anna.
Oh yeah, Anna's a bomb.
It was amazing and you my friend, and all my friends said, oh, fantastic or beautiful, he's great, Oh my god, my god, it was was not.
You have some criticisms though, Did I miss up something that I miss for you?
No?
I did not have criticisms because I was happy see you.
Like when you come to my Broadway shows.
You always have notes, Yes, but because they are longer. I mean, you know, it's so two hours.
And what did I tell you about notes?
Sometimes you take them.
Sometimes you say, please don't tell me.
That's mostly it's mostly please don't tell me. Yes, yes, you're not a director, Yes you don't. You're not part of the DGEs, not inequity.
Yes, you tell me all those things.
Yeah, you know I keep them. Yes, that's the best way. I love that. It tells the story like a good funny story growing up, telling the story about when you were dating that Egyptian guy.
Oh my god, parents.
Got divorced and then my mom, you know, it's a single mom.
So I went to a luncheon of bunkers and I meet this guy that is supposedly because the.
Friend tak ninety seconds. Okay, this guy was There was too much backstory.
Just let's get to that I met this guy that was Egyptian and my friend told me he's very rich. The guy came up up to me and said, oh, you are very nice. I could you'd like to have dinner with you? Would you like to have dinner with me?
You got to get to the that's the pre amble even to the story, and before you started dating.
Okay, okay, So I said, need his biography.
Okay.
He asked me for dinner, and I said all right, and he says, I said, he said when he's good.
I said, Saturday night.
So I was living in Queens and so he said, I'll pick you up at seventy. So it happens that he probably came seven that night.
This is the Tollstoy version of it, right, this is gonna be the warm piece Crime and Punishment version.
So it happens that he comes before.
And so I mean the bathroom and I'm taking a shower.
When my guy, you're gonna come to the whole shower. Come on, so tell me the house.
Let's get yeah, okay, the guy.
The guy comes to the house, brings the bell. Jance opens and I had told the guy please wait for me at the car. Just let me know that you are there, and go and wait for.
Me at the car. But the car guy comes.
And John opens and Jane says. The guy says to Jan, he didn't know that I have two children.
I didn't tell him, so they left that out. I left that out.
You know, you got nobody wants to date somebody with children with two.
Boys that were the little dangerous. So Jan Jane says to him instead of saying, yeah, she will come out in ten minutes or whatever, he's please come in.
He invites him in.
Well, you told us not to go leave our rooms. Yeah, and not to talk to the man sign out to talk to the man my mom to try to wreck the date.
Yes, So, so what happened since they they invite him in?
He comes in and he.
Told yes, he told me, he said, your son after he found out that you were my sons.
He said, each one sat on each side, and he said, when I started talking, I think your older son started and said it to me with my same accents, and then your other son was laughing, you know, laughing, here's my stooge.
Yeah, and so there he says, I was at the beginning. I said, is he if he's marking me or or it's my you know, but so he he said.
I kept talking to them, and Jane kept answering to me, I mean your sorry, kept answering to me with my accent.
You know what.
The guy took me to the dinner. He sent me. He didn't come back to Queens.
He sent me with the driver and I never heard of him anymore.
Well, good, we got better him. That was a test. That was the story. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen for joining us. Next week we'll go into another very long, in depth story brought to you by the Lezamas. You still hold that hope that someday when I get a real job.
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Sylvia was really showcased.
Yeah, that was in school, acting school, the acting in school.
When you know, before that I saw, I thought, maybe you know, he's going to be at this for a couple of months and then he was going to do something else. But when I when I saw that show, I said, oh my god, he is going to be an actor.
He was ten minutes it.
Was I got it like that, I got it. I was always it was.
Amazing and I said, oh my, I said, be an actor.
So I said.
To me, I need to help the conversation. I need to help do there's a Christmas parties and thanks. We all talk at the same cross conversations and hear each other.
Right before I.
Got divorced, I got a a fair coat. And one day I came home and he was with my fair coat, uh, being like a.
Pimp, like a pimp. I don't think this is for mass concerns.
I was laughing. Oh my god.
I thought that it was so funny because he was really acting like a pimp. He had had my fair coat.
All right, thank you? You were moving on loose leg, was wasama.
How's my grandmother doing? Oh she's fantastic man, ninety one years old and ten months. Yeah, she makes me count the years and months as well. Now it's a new thing. She's she's did she cook for me? No, she's too old. Oh no, no, no, she she even says to me. I was like, what do you do?
Go?
She's like, oh me, She's like, I just enjoy being a life.
And then all she does is she we're ready.
Yeah.
All she does is she she chills at home like she's got a like her squad of granny's and they all just come and hang out and she it's like it's like it's like a weird team of like superheroes where they've all got their specialties. And then hers is that her memory is bulletproof. So all her friends ask her about things they've forgotten about in life. But I'm like, like, she's got a better memory than me and my mom everyone. She can tell you what your thing happened, what month, everything.
And so her friends come over and they'll be and they'll ask like random questions. They'll be like, no, my Lisa, like where where did I meet my husband? And then she'd be like, oh, you met it?
And then she like tell.
Stories and why it's amazing to watch. Yeah, And so all she does all day she just she loves writing. That's what she does. And I asked her why and she said, she says.
To be ninety one and know how to still read and write, Oh, I'm so blessed, But.
That's what she does. Yeah, my grandmother says it's the best. She says, you know what Trevor in life. There are butterflies and there are flowers. The butterfly's job is to fly around and come back and tell the flower what it seemed. You are a butterfly. Your mother is a flower. You and your grandmother, Oh yeah, she was great. She was really fun. She still doesn't get what we were doing because she doesn't watch have you said it? But then, you know what's great is that she doesn't care. That's
what I love. So my grand just goes. He's Trevor. That's why I like him. So I don't want her love to be determined by what I do or don't do in my work world.
I had to be my grandmother for the Daily Show and she like, does not know what I do, how I do it, why I do it? People tell her and she's just like when they say we saw your grandson on the Daily Show, she thinks that means like somewhere, like they saw me somewhere. And she'd be like, oh, my friend saw you at Daily Show and I'm like on the Daily Show.
He was like, yeah, whatever, coolgle have you ever have you ever watched The Daily Show? No? True?
And you can mind and look shooting okayrd STV outside it's just for fun.
My grandsaid she doesn't watch my show because sometimes the electricity cuts out, which is a very plausible excuse and a nice way to let your grandson down.
No, it's not letting my grandson down. We had no activity.
No, I hear you Google this is I didn't expect that answer to It's a good answer.
Go go.
So I must make sure that you have a generator so you can watch my.
Show, and then you fit your generator.
Who fits the generator? Okay? So I must get someone to fit the generator also, I think okay, and I looked, I look you, and then I must also fix the cable. Okay. I feel like I've been tricked into doing a lot of things for you to watch my TV show. Go go.
As Boget's place, I go in a banga.
So I can't convince you to come and see that I manage white people.
No, I don't even wish. I only take you as my cranson, and that is all.
I appreciate that. Thank you for having us go go, and thank you for letting me bring these cameras, and thank you for sharing these stories with my friends, and thank you for being amazing You've throw so many friends. I've brought too many friends called you guys must leave. Now you guys will go bye bye.
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