THANKSGIVING SPECIAL: Some Grandmas You Should Meet!

Part-Time Genius

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This week Will and Mango celebrate their own wonderful grandmas by paying tribute to a whole world of awesome grandmothers. From a cuddly graffiti gang in Europe, to a group of grandmas who advanced our understanding of marine science, to a few celebrities who never would have gotten where they were if it weren't for their Mamaws, here's to all the grandmothers and grandmother-figures we're so lucky to have in our lives.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Part-Time Genius, the production of kaleidoscope and IHeart Radio.
0:11.5	Guess what, Mango?
0:12.7	What's that, Will?
0:13.7	So I was thinking about Carol Burnett the other day, and actually, you know I think about her often.
0:18.1	I admitted before the episode, she was one of my first crushes, which might come as a surprise
0:23.6	to many, but she was just so fun.
0:25.1	And we used to love watching her show, the Carol Burnett Show, in the evenings.
0:28.5	But anyway, one of the things I was thinking about recently was how she used to tug her ear
0:33.1	to say hi to her grandmother on air.
0:35.6	Now, actually, did you watch the Carol Burnett show?
0:37.9	Yeah, it's actually one of my earliest memories of TV, like watching that and also the Muppet show,
0:42.9	because my parents love both of those.
0:45.2	Also, have you watched Palm Royale?
0:47.0	I have not yet, no.
0:48.0	It is so fun.
0:50.0	It's, like, soapy, but she's in a coma, and somehow she's still funny.
0:54.0	Like, she's funny even but she's in a coma. And somehow she's still funny. Like, she's funny
0:54.6	even when she's in a coma. Like, do these minor little actions and stuff, she can still get
0:59.4	a laugh. It's incredible. She's the best of the best. But I was thinking about this whole ear
1:04.4	tugging story, and I decided to look into it a little bit more. And apparently the first time
1:09.4	she was on TV in New York, her grandmother
1:11.6	says to her, why don't you just turn to the camera and say hello to me when you're on TV?
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