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Like Your Parents · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: Let's get to our mama's question. Dear mama's, do you
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  Speaker 1: do you find you agree with the progressive commercials about
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  Speaker 1: becoming your parents more and more? Or is it just me?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mama's.
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  Speaker 3: Mamma mama, she said, and joining us Now we're American
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  Speaker 3: mama's Terry Ediville and Kimberly Burlison.
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  Speaker 1: I have a little bit of a confession to make.
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  Speaker 2: What is it.
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  Speaker 1: I currently have a beard because there was a day
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  Speaker 1: when I looked in the mirror and I went, oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, I'm my father. Now I've looked kind of
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  Speaker 1: like my father my whole life. Yes, but it was
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  Speaker 1: it was more and then I had to go, okay,
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  Speaker 1: but I can't have the beard too long because then
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  Speaker 1: I'll look like my uncle and we can't have that either.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like trying to run like a fine line
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  Speaker 1: just so I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Or you know, no, the second you're with your dad,
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  Speaker 4: it's so like we stand the same you are exact
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  Speaker 4: same person.
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  Speaker 1: There's a picture of us from several years awesome, well,
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  Speaker 1: yes he is, thank you so much. There's a picture
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  Speaker 1: of us standing at the beach. We're both standing at
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  Speaker 1: the beach staring out and it's from the behind and
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  Speaker 1: we're standing the.
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  Speaker 2: Exact same way.
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  Speaker 1: Funny. The only way you can tell us a part
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  Speaker 1: is by hair color. I mean that's the only that's
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  Speaker 1: the only way. So, yes, I have I am my
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  Speaker 1: I am my father.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I feel like I was a lot like mom myself.
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  Speaker 4: I have found myself the older I've gotten. You know
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  Speaker 4: those progressive commercials where they they say, are you acting
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  Speaker 4: like your parents? They have like a counselor yes, I
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  Speaker 4: now get it. I am that you were like more,
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  Speaker 4: I get it. One of my girlfriends was telling me
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  Speaker 4: that she has just joined there's this new incredible senior
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  Speaker 4: activity place that's near us and it's like over fifty
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  Speaker 4: five and older can go. And my girlfriend, who's like sixty,
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  Speaker 4: she said, I love it, she said, But Kimberly, all
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  Speaker 4: of these people want to talk to me. She goes,
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  Speaker 4: I can't sit by myself without an old man coming
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  Speaker 4: around and saying, are you a mathematician? You know, like
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  Speaker 4: just asking random questions?
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  Speaker 5: Or another guy goes, are.
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  Speaker 6: You a history buff?
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 6: And just she said, you're on a treadmill. They want
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  Speaker 6: to stop by and ask you, like, does that go
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  Speaker 6: pretty fast. She's like, they try to fill the air,
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  Speaker 6: and she said, it's so frustrating. So then the other
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  Speaker 6: day I went to an estate sale and it's just
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  Speaker 6: myself and this other older lady and we're like looking
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  Speaker 6: at stuff, and I said, estate sales make me so sad.
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  Speaker 4: And she looked at me and she.
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  Speaker 5: Said, then don't go to them. And I went, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 5: But I realize it's me. I'm just talking, just talking
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  Speaker 5: to talk because we're in the same room. I just
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  Speaker 5: feel like I have to fill the air with the conversation.
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  Speaker 5: Shut she shut out down.
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  Speaker 7: You know there's something too that I can just see
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  Speaker 7: your face. There's something to.
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  Speaker 2: Being that age when there's no filter. No, it's gotta
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  Speaker 2: be freeing. Come then, little heifer, like, why why are
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  Speaker 2: you here? But the day that I knew that you were,
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  Speaker 2: that you had gone over that heel was when you
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  Speaker 2: called and said, oh my god.
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  Speaker 7: I love looking at birds. I love bird figurines. I
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  Speaker 7: love love birds.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought, oh my god, and now I love birds.
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  Speaker 2: I have a bird feeder outside of my kitchen window.
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  Speaker 2: I show I bring my I keep my grandson three
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  Speaker 2: days a week and I hold him like look at
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  Speaker 2: that red bird.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I'm so.
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  Speaker 2: Right always always.
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  Speaker 1: You know that they have that the Progressive commercial where
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  Speaker 1: they're in a grocery store and they just start talking
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  Speaker 1: to people in the grocery store, and the council of like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what are we doing in a grocery store? And I've
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  Speaker 1: been I'm like, I have been talking to people, random
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  Speaker 1: people and grocery stores since I was a teenager.
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  Speaker 4: Life.
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  Speaker 1: I've just been you know, if we get to start
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  Speaker 1: a conversation, we're in the same place, same time, where
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're both creating the image of God. How's
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  Speaker 1: your day going? Oh man, I love that kind of
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  Speaker 1: that you're putting in your card. I've had that. I've
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  Speaker 1: never tried that before. Should I have some of that?
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  Speaker 7: I think.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of that is social graces, of course,
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  Speaker 2: and I love that. That's a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 2: the South. The other thing is I think that the
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  Speaker 2: elderly they miss engaging with people, they miss talking to people.
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  Speaker 2: And I have a dear friend who's ninety and I
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  Speaker 2: will call him every now and then just to check in.
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  Speaker 2: His wife died five years ago, and we will talk
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  Speaker 2: and I'll you know, I'll tell Lindsay and Kimblelly. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we talked for an hour or two. Sure, it's the
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  Speaker 2: same stories every single time we talk. I even took
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  Speaker 2: him to supper one night. Same stories, and I act
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  Speaker 2: like I've heard it for the very first time, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the usual Oh my gosh, really you were, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a soda jerk at the right And I've what i've
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  Speaker 2: Because there's there's that part of you that's like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't have I've heard this so many times. I don't really,
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  Speaker 2: And then there's that other part of me that's like, deary,
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  Speaker 2: he has no one else, and if he wants to
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  Speaker 2: relive the golden years of his life, and you've got
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  Speaker 2: time on your hands, your driving or whatever, then just listen.
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  Speaker 2: Just listen to them, you know, like I think about people.
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  Speaker 2: I had this idea a long time ago. My mom
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  Speaker 2: was like, you should go for it. I didn't. I said,
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  Speaker 2: I really, there's a part of me that wants to
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  Speaker 2: go into nursing homes with my notepad and pen and
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  Speaker 2: get their life story, yeah, and then give it to
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  Speaker 2: their family once they pass away. I never did it.
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  Speaker 2: I swear My next book's going to be called Good Intentions.
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  Speaker 2: I have so many good intentions that I don't follow
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  Speaker 2: through with, and that's why are.
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  Speaker 1: You ever going to write that book?
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  Speaker 5: Good intentions I should Exactly.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I've got good intentions to do it too. Yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So yes, we do become more and more parents,
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  Speaker 1: and I end up talking back to those commercials. I'm like, hey, look,
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  Speaker 1: that's not a bad thing. They're criticizing them, they're just being.
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  Speaker 2: So just be nice, just being nice.
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  Speaker 1: If feel like desker, American Mama's a question, all you
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  Speaker 1: gotta do is just pick up the call the phone
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  Speaker 1: called Terry. She'll talk to you for that, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Or just send us a go to our website American
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much,