445: Coffee with Mom—They Had Their Way with My Right Hip
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
America's Grandmother stops by to discuss the haunting melody of Adagio for Strings, dropping one's phone in the toilet, and Peggy's handsy masseuse.
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| 0:00.0 | A cup of coffee with my mom. |
| 0:07.0 | Ah, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. |
| 0:11.0 | It's like you've never done this before, right? |
| 0:14.0 | That was a maniacal laugh. |
| 0:16.0 | I thought so. |
| 0:17.0 | Is there any other kind really? |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, I think there are a lot of different kinds. |
| 0:22.0 | If you were an alien here on the planet trying to make sense of the species and you heard a laugh, any laugh, any kind of laugh from any person in any circumstance, you would conclude they were having some kind of failure, right? I mean, |
| 0:38.5 | I mean, you don't think aliens have a sense of humor. You don't think they have that same |
| 0:42.6 | sort of thing? Legal ones, sure. You can't leave that. You've just got an eye roll. You cannot leave that. |
| 0:55.1 | I'm sure illegal aliens have a sense of humor as well. |
| 0:58.9 | I've just never seen them laughing at anything. |
| 1:01.6 | And I'm surrounded by him. |
| 1:03.1 | Well, I guess they don't have much to laugh at these days. |
| 1:06.3 | I think it depends on the state. |
| 1:08.4 | Out here in California, you know, I don't like the way this is starting at all. |
| 1:14.9 | So here we all are ready to start the podcast. |
| 1:21.7 | You would be hard-pressed to find a greater proponent of the old adage. |
| 1:25.2 | If it ain't broke, don't fix it than yours. Truly. |
| 1:28.9 | I'm all for hanging on to your appliances to the bitter end, but maybe not your cell phone. |
| 1:35.7 | The thing is, your battery life fades, right, a little more and more with every passing week, day, |
| 1:40.9 | month, whatever. The processors can't keep up. You know, you drop it into the toilet |
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