Road Trip With My Mom with Writer Caleb Bacon
Story Worthy
Story Worthy Media
4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2013
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Writer Caleb Bacon (Sullivan and Son, Man School) made his way across America to move to Los Angeles. He was driving an old Hyundai, hobbling on a pair of crutches, and had an unexpected travel companion... his mom.
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| 0:19.3 | Now, let's get on with it. |
| 0:20.6 | Hey, it's Caleb Bacon from Man School. |
| 0:22.3 | You're listening in a Storyworthy. |
| 0:33.9 | Welcome to the Storyworthy podcast. |
| 0:37.4 | Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannes Finney. |
| 0:49.8 | Welcome to Storyworthy. |
| 0:51.2 | My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hannes Finney, and we are in Bodheartsburg, Germany, which is mayor my mother was from, and now we are visiting her gravesite. Oh, my gosh. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Our topic tonight is on the road with mom. Right. So we have to go on, we have to go all the way to Germany. Oh, I thought it was end of the road with mom. No, it's on the road. Oh, it's on the road. |
| 1:14.8 | Okay. on the road with mom right so we have to go on we have to go all the way to oh i thought it was end |
| 1:11.4 | of the road with mom no it's on the road oh it's on the road okay in that case we're in milwaukee |
| 1:17.3 | uh where my mother lived for 35 years are you lying to me right now did you know we're no we're in our |
| 1:22.6 | magical bus studio no i get the storyworthy bus truth, but my point is you seriously thought the topic |
| 1:28.8 | tonight was the end of the road with mom? No, I'm just, I'm yes-ending. Oh, okay, good. Oh, wait, that was no, no, I'm nodding. Okay, whatever, it was bad improv. That's what I'm saying. It's about mom. It's about traveling on the road with mom, and haven't we all done that? Did your mom, she drove, right Honest? Yeah, we didn't, yeah, she drove. |
| 1:44.9 | We, we, we, I spent a lot more time traveling with my mom than I think other people did because, |
| 1:51.0 | so she was from Germany, she would go back and forth and sometimes I would go with her. And then |
| 1:54.5 | eventually she remarried and moved back there, which meant there was a lot of time of like, |
| 2:00.3 | I'm going to go for two weeks and be with mom in Germany where I don't really speak very good German. |
| 2:07.1 | So I only have my mother to talk to. |
| 2:09.2 | That puts a lot of strain. |
| 2:11.8 | And you're conversing with mom eight hours a day. |
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