Radiotopia Presents: My Mother Made Me
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Radiotopia
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Coming up next on Radiotopia Presents: My Mother Made Me.
My Mother Made Me is a series from Radiotopia Presents, where writer Jason Reynolds and his mother, Isabell, explore their shared history, how she raised him, and what they’re teaching each other. It’s a love letter to their connection, an homage to parent-child friendship, and a testament to how growth can be perpetual, despite age or circumstance. Across four episodes, Jason and Isabell go deep – into birth, death and spirituality… but they also keep it light: pushing a cart through Costco, birthday lunches, and hitting the casino together. That’s just how they do.
My Mother Made Me is a production of PRX’s Radiotopia and part of Radiotopia Presents, a podcast feed that debuts limited-run, artist-owned series from new and original voices. It is written and narrated by Jason Reynolds with his mother, Isabell Reynolds. The series is produced by Mark Pagán and edited by Julie Shapiro, with production support from Yooree Losordo. Julie Shapiro and Audrey Mardavich are Executive Producers for Radiotopia Presents. Special thanks to LeVar Burton. Cover art by Jason Griffin. Theme song by Christian Reynolds. Mixing, sound design and additional original music is by Ian Coss.
Learn more about My Mother Made Me at radiotopiapresents.fm and discover more shows from across the Radiotopia network at radiotopia.fm.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jason Reynolds and this is my mom. |
| 0:04.0 | So when is this podcast going to happen? |
| 0:07.0 | I'm mostly known for my writing. |
| 0:11.0 | I've published a pile of books and they seem to have struck |
| 0:14.4 | a chord with a wide audience of readers young and old which I'm grateful for. I've |
| 0:20.3 | won some prizes and seen the top of the New York Times bestsellers list a few times. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm also the Library of Congress's Ambassador for Young People's Literature. |
| 0:30.0 | But this podcast ain't about none of that. |
| 0:35.0 | So that's you talking. Well, it's all, it's us. |
| 0:37.0 | I think you'll like it. |
| 0:38.0 | Oh, I'm sure I will. |
| 0:46.8 | My mother made me is a four episode series from Radiotopia presents where my mother and I talk about our shared history, our family, how she raised me, how we both live our lives now, and what we're teaching each other. |
| 0:56.0 | I think it'll be an interesting take and look at our relationship and |
| 1:00.0 | at our family dynamics at the things that I've learned, the things you've learned. |
| 1:04.8 | We go deep, you know, birth, death, spirituality, but we also keep it light. |
| 1:10.8 | Oh, Costco, your favorite place favorite place pushing a cart through Costco |
| 1:14.6 | birthday lunches and hitting a casino together it's just how we do. |
| 1:20.8 | You've got 290 it it took 25 old, Maxxburg, |
| 1:24.5 | Now, we need to take a selfie. |
| 1:26.6 | What do I do? |
| 1:27.3 | What do I do? What do you think I'm going to turn you into? |
| 1:29.1 | A monster. |
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