335: Coffee with Mom—Poetry Gets a Bad Rap with Peggy Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

From Shakespeare to Frost and Madras to Nantucket, the three-time bestselling author and her son trade raps and reminisce about recitations. There's also talk of sushi and rainwater, ancient mariners, nicking butter and cream, room-service cart ethics, barnacles on the sea of life, hot-tub lifeguarding, and Chuck's Hitlerian youth. Yup, it's coffee with mom.

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0:00.0	A cup of coffee with my mom.
0:07.0	Michael, what is that you've got in your hand, hon? Are you drinking metamusal or is it insure?
0:16.0	Well, she's coming in hot. You are of a certain age. It's not coffee, which is, I guess, in some sort of violation of this segment.
0:26.3	Instead of a cup of coffee with my mom, this is a cup of lemon, apple, cider, vinegar, turmeric, ginger, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, collagen, honey, and water. Wow, it sounds really good. And it looks an
0:41.7	awful lot like a urine sample, but it's awful. It's awful, but I've been drinking them now for a
0:47.0	couple of weeks. A cup of lemon, apple, cider, vinegar, turmeric, ginger, simmering, cayenne,
0:53.1	cayenne, collagen, honey, and water with my mom.
0:57.4	Not quite as catchy, but I like it.
0:59.2	It's not as catchy.
1:00.1	It's water here, hunt.
1:01.7	I mean, it's coffee here.
1:02.8	Is it real coffee?
1:04.5	You want to know the truth?
1:06.3	Yeah.
1:06.8	It's water.
1:10.4	Same here. Seriously? But I like a cup of water. Same here.
1:11.8	But I like a cup of water.
1:13.9	Seriously, it is.
1:15.0	I only drink coffee at breakfast and dinner.
1:18.2	And this is neither.
1:20.4	I try to stay hydrated.
1:22.4	Good.
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