There's still time to order flowers, but you're going to have to move fast. It's Mother's Day! Trevor Noah and Desi Lydic discuss the best ways to celebrate Mother's Day (by leaving moms alone). Jon Stewart sits down with former president Jimmy Carter to talk about his book A Remarkable Mother. Desi dives back in to unpack the history of why we celebrate Mother's Day. Author Angela Garbes joins Trevor to discuss her book Essential Labor. Between the scenes, Trevor explains why his mother will never be on the show. Congresswoman Lucy McBath joins to discuss her book Standing our Ground: A Mother's Story and how losing her son motivated her to run for change. John Leguizamo's mom comes on to spill the beans on his childhood. Finally, Trevor shares memories of his beloved grandmother, Frances Noah. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How do Trevor Noah and Desi Lydic suggest celebrating Mother's Day?
I would have been a good president afterwards. But what happened was that I didn't have any money. We never stayed in a motel. We never stayed in a hotel. We couldn't afford it. But every Monday morning, I and my wife and three sons and my mother would go out on the campaign trail. Never campaigned together. So mother would go to different parts of the country from where I was.
And with her speaking ability and her exuberance and so forth, she gathered enough votes to help put me in the White House. And this was a foregone conclusion. I had one hour in New Hampshire and Florida before the other candidates woke up to the fact that I had a remarkable mother.
Oh, really?
So she gets credit for the presidency as well. Sure, because I won by that much, and if it hadn't been for my mother, I wouldn't have been president. And I imagine she mentioned that to you as well. Oh, she never failed to. All right.
Well, maybe, see, maybe Baptist and Jewish are not that different after all.
If you're wondering why I'm in bed having cold eggs, burnt bacon, and a pancake filled with jelly beans, then you've never celebrated Mother's Day. It's that special day each year when your husband gives you flowers he bought in a panic at the gas station and a card he wrote with his feet so it looks like your dumbest kid did it.
But societies have been honoring mothers since ancient times, including all the way back in ancient Egypt, where an annual festival honored the mother of all pharaohs, Isis. No, not the one that you're thinking. Isis was an Egyptian goddess and style inspo for every white girl at Coachella. The Greeks and Romans also had spring festivals celebrating the Great Mother.
The Greeks called her Rhea, who's usually depicted with a mural crown seated in a chariot pulled by two lions, which is badass and carbon neutral. We should bring that back. But what we know to be Mother's Day really traces back to 1852 and a woman named Ann Reeves Jarvis.
She started something called Mother's Day Work Clubs, where women in the community would help needy families buy medicine, get clean water, and practice safe sewage disposal. which is pretty intense as far as mom groups go. The one I'm in mostly just swaps hand-me-down Elmo onesies for weed. After Ann Reeves Jarvis died, her daughter Anna Jarvis decided to honor her.
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