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The day when Americans celebrate their moms with flowers and breakfast in bed. Which, by the way, I never really understood. Yeah. I don't get why people like breakfast in bed, you know? It's just so magical to lie here and eat in the place I've been farting for eight hours, and then I'm gonna go back to sleep in the place I ate. Look, the point is, it's a special day. And for more on that day, let's talk to our senior mom correspondent, Desi Lydic.

Happy Mother's Day to you, Desi. And let me just say, I think it's one holiday that should be every day.

Well, that's kind of dumb, Trevor. You can't have Mother's Day every day. I mean, the world would run out of roses and gift cards for massages that don't include the tip. Yeah, I know. It was just the sentiment. Um, I was... You know what? It doesn't matter. Um, this Mother's Day, Desi, should be more fun than the last, right? Because people are vaccinated, places are reopening, so, you know, moms can actually go out and have fun and feel safe. Yeah, yeah.

Absolutely. I mean, honestly, it's a huge relief because this past year has been especially hard for moms. I mean, moms have taken on the biggest burden of the pandemic, really, between juggling career, child care, homeschooling. The only thing that's working harder than moms was our iPads.

My kid is just as much Peppa Pig's son as my own. I feel you there, Desi. Oh, I love that show. I actually got a pet turtle during quarantine, and I have to feed it almost every day. And I'm... I mean, it's not the same, but it's kind of the same, right? -It's not the same. -It's not the same. -It's not the same. -It's not the same at all. Um, Desi, moms have been through a lot.

And, um, and hopefully you're gonna get some amazing gifts from your kids. Yeah, yeah. I-I can't wait for that coupon for free hugs. You know? I feel like I have so many of those at this point, I can buy around for everyone. You know, Trevor, do you know what would be really the best gift that America can get moms this Mother's Day? I do, Desi. America needs to give its moms universal childcare and paid parental leave. I feel you, girl.

What? No. I mean, yes, that would be great, but the best gifts this Mother's Day would be to just leave moms the alone. -Wait. -Yeah. What? Are you saying moms want to spend Mother's Day on vacation from their kids? Yes!

Or the kids can go on vacation. I don't care. Someone else can run around him on the beach and make sure he doesn't eat sand. I will be at home in my bathtub and for the first time in a while, actually taking a bath in it instead of just getting in fully dressed and crying.

Wow. I mean, I got to say, it does seem more doable than universal childcare. Great. Great. And-and this works out well, because it doesn't just have to be for Mother's Day. It can be for Father's Day, too. Right. Because dads deserve a vacation, too. No, dads. No, I mean, moms can be alone on Father's Day, too. Also, uh, Memorial Day, obviously Independence Day, Labor Day, and, um, you know, the month of December. Whoa, whoa, Desi, Desi. You're not gonna spend Christmas Day with your family?

Okay, don't mom-shame me, Trevor, or I'll take that precious little turtle of yours and shove it up your manhole. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to recharge my co-parent. Oh, okay. Good luck with that, Desi. And happy Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day! What about my guests tonight?

He was the 39th president of these United States. His new book is called A Remarkable Mother. Please welcome back to the show President Jimmy Carter. Sir. Hello, sir. How you doing? It's very nice to see you, sir. You look great. The book is called A Remarkable Mother. I want to thank you, Mr. President.

I, for Mother's Day, was going to get my mother maybe a card, maybe some flowers. Thank you for making my gesture look incredibly pitiful. You've written an entire book in homage to your mom. That's lovely. Absolutely. And I hope everybody in America will buy that for the Mother's Day. It's so great. That's why I did it. To help people like you, you know, make a decision. You did it as an added bonus gift for mothers. Exactly. Yeah. You should, you know, Jewish mothers basically will see this and go, oh, look, Jimmy Carter wrote a book for his mother.

How interesting. You didn't write a book and didn't even have time to call. How interesting. What do you feel like is the remark? Because I think everybody feels to some extent their mother is remarkable, their parents are remarkable. In your mind, what sets her apart? Well, I really think my mother exemplifies the finest aspects of what American motherhood should be. She was innovative. She was spirited. She was indomitable. She was very courageous and

She would tackle the most difficult problems in the totality of society and try to change it. I lived on a farm, and I didn't have any white neighbors. My mother never acknowledged the impact of racial segregation in the Deep South. She was probably the only one in our county that didn't. And so she continued this protection of black and poor and deprived people all of her life when she was 70 years old.

She was still, she was in India. - She joined the Peace Corps, right, in '70? - She was in India in the Peace Corps, yeah. And she was still dealing with poor people who were black and deprived. She was, in effect, an untouchable. She dealt with human fluids, which made her unacceptable in society. So she did that all the way through, and she implanted in me a decision not to let public criticism deter me from what I thought was right. In fact, when she was 70 years old,

She wrote in her diary, and I quote it in the book, that if I had one wish for my children, it was for them to do what they think is right, what's adventurous and challenging and unpredictable and gratifying, and not give a damn what anybody says about them. So that's one of the things I learned from her. That's fine advice. And she never let you get a big head. No, she didn't. She made you stay humble. A great anecdote about somebody asked her, they said, are you proud of...

your son and she said, "Which one?" Yes, exactly. That was right after I walked down Pennsylvania Avenue. I was so proud of myself. And so she, when she, the reporters asked her, "Aren't you proud of your son?" I thought, this is, finally my mom is going to say something good about me. And she said, "Which one?" And she always thought Billy was the most brilliant child in the family. And I can't... And she would remind you about that. Absolutely. And I can't dispute that. I think Billy was probably the most brilliant. And your sister as well, right?

I had two sisters. All of them and my father died with pancreatic cancer. My mother died with cancer too. So I had a good, solid, wonderful upbringing. As you watch the candidates now going through, could you have become president in this media climate? No, I don't think so. In the first place, I didn't have any money and I was a very poor campaigner. But the way I won was sneaky.

Really. While the other candidate... Then maybe you could have become president. 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 left.

and 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. 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. Hmm.

After Ann Reeves Jarvis died, her daughter Anna Jarvis decided to honor her. In 1908, she organized the first official Mother's Day celebration in Philadelphia with the help of department store owner John Wanamaker, handing out hundreds of white carnations because her mother loved them. Even though, let's be honest, they're kind of the basic bitch of flowers.

And because the day was so successful, Jarvis lobbied to have the holiday honoring mothers added to the national calendar. She led a letter-writing campaign to newspapers, politicians, and the governors of every state. Now, this was before Twitter, so she couldn't do that thing where you just tag a bunch of important people and retweet yourself. It didn't work, by the way.

After years of pushing and fighting and writing, Jarvis' dream was realized when President Woodrow Wilson finally made Mother's Day a national holiday in 1914. It was the best thing to happen to mothers. Until the invention of White Zinfandel.

But guess what? Once Mother's Day became an official holiday, Anna Jarvis hated it. She thought her sincere holiday had become a commercialized racket and called the florist and greeting card manufacturers charlatans, bandits, pirates, racketeers, kidnappers, and termites that would undermine with their greed one of the finest, noblest, and truest movements and celebrations. Which basically sounds like how William Shakespeare would give a one-star Yelp review.

Jarvis hated the holidays so much that it soon became her life's work to undo her life's work. She went door-to-door collecting petitions to take Mother's Day off the calendar. She threatened people who used the phrase "Mother's Day" with copyright infringement. She got in a fight with Eleanor Roosevelt for using Mother's Day to raise money for charity. And one time when a waitress told her to enjoy her Mother's Day salad, Jarvis threw the salad on the ground. It's true. You can Google it.

Although don't search for mother tosses salad. Those are not the results you want. I'm trying to get it off the dark web. Oh, you saw it? Yeah. Thank you.

But basically, Anna Jarvis brought Mother's Day into this world, and ever since, it was an endless source of disappointment and frustration in her life. Which, ironically, is a pretty perfect metaphor for motherhood. Anyway, that is why the f*** we celebrate Mother's Day. Now, if you don't mind, I'm gonna try to enjoy this abomination of a breakfast. Mmm. Mmm. That licorice jelly bean. Yum.

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Again, genesight.com for more information and to move forward on your journey to mental wellness. Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is best-selling author Angela Garbus. She's here to talk about her new book, Essential Labor, which reflects on the state of caregiving in America and explores mothering as a means of social change. So please welcome Angela Garbus. Welcome. Thank you.

Welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you, Trevor, for having me. Are you kidding me? Thank you for writing one of the most fascinating books on a topic that I love delving into because I feel like it is the root of everything. Yes. And that is mothering. Yes. I'm glad that you see that. We share a vibe. Right. But let's start with the title of the book, Essential Labor.

You wrote this book, you know, based on an article that got acclaim from everyone. I mean, mothers all over the country read it. Some people around the world read it. Even people like Melinda Gates and Elizabeth Warren chimed in and said, yeah, this is spot on. What do you think people have been missing about mothering for so long? Sure. I mean, I wrote this book...

- You know, part of it came out of the grief and loss that I felt at the start of the pandemic. As a writer, I had sort of nebulous deadlines and I didn't get a regular paycheck or health insurance, but my husband's job gave us that. So I basically stopped writing and because childcare centers closed, I was taking care of my kids and I knew that that was the most important work I could be doing. But it also,

I felt like I wasn't getting any recognition for it. We were hearing about essential workers, healthcare workers, sanitation workers who are, yes, essential, but we were never hearing about parents who were working 24/7 trying to take care of their families, trying to keep communities safe. And that's really where, like, this is what I'm-- like, what I know you understand is that

Domestic work, mothering, we do it to ourselves every day, feeding ourselves, taking a shower. -Right. -Without care work and domestic labor, you know, this is the work that makes all other work possible. The idea that domestic labor is somehow less valuable than "professional work,"

I just think it's a myth. You know what you tap into in this book is so powerful because it even goes to, let's say somebody's like a rampant capitalist. Sure. They go like, oh, the country needs to make money. We got to get people out there. And yet they don't want the policies that support mothers in doing that. So you see mothers, you know, you talk about in the book where they have to choose. Am I going to be a mom or am I going to find somebody to be a mom to my child who I can't afford them?

This is so many... You know, we talk about this care crisis that was exposed in the pandemic, right? When child care centers and schools closed down, we were lost. People didn't know what to do. But many of us have always known that, you know, until your child is age six, in America, you're really on your own. And there are many people who are choosing between, should I put my child in daycare or should I work? Because it's really about the same amount of money. Right. Right? But so studies have been done. So Oxfam has a study that if...

Women in America were paid minimum wage for the amount of domestic labor that they do unpaid right now. It would be worth $1.9 trillion per year. Wow. So talk about putting a value on that. That is part of our economy. And that's a thing that we just have not reckoned with in this country.

Our country, American capitalism, relies just as much on the labor that happens in the home as any other labor that happens in the office or on a job site. And other countries have done that in many ways. You know, you see countries like Sweden, countries like Switzerland, et cetera. They've got different methods of doing it. But they'll say, this is so valuable to the country that we will pay a mother. We'll make sure that the government is supporting a mother because...

You know, you talk about this in the book, and it's really fascinating to get into, is, like, everything that we struggle with in society, whether it's crime, you know, whether it's poverty, whether it's mental issues, et cetera, you can link so many of those things... Absolutely. ...to mothering. Yes. When you invest... So, I believe that raising children, you know, it's a choice that people make to have kids or to not have kids. And I think we should all... Unfortunately, this is not guaranteed in our country. Right. We should all be allowed to make that choice for ourselves, right? Mm-hmm.

Whether or not you have children, you know, raising kids is a social responsibility. And when we invest-- Like, no one gets to adulthood without someone taking care of them. -Mm-hmm. -And that's their parents. It's also beloved aunties. It's a preschool teacher. It's a teacher. Right? There's so many people who are part of that. And when we invest in children and families and mothers, it's investing in public health. It's investing in the very future and health of our society. When is my mom gonna be on the show? Never.

Here's the thing with my mom, two things. One, she has no interest in television or any of these things that I do. She just loves the fact that I can pay the rent and she loves me for who I am. She genuinely does not care for all of these things. And I'll give you an example. This is how not interested in it my mom is, right? My mom...

Two and a half years ago, I met Lionel Richie for the first time. And growing up, Lionel Richie was the soundtrack to me and my mom's lives, right? So like Sunday morning, she'd be playing Sunday morning, the two of us, we'd be there, we'd be dancing together, play all of Lionel Richie's songs, we'd be singing them in the house together. And then I meet Lionel Richie. So I'm like, this is amazing, Lionel Richie, my mom and I, we used to dance to your music when I was a kid. Can I take a picture? I'm going to send it to my mom. My mom doesn't care about any celebrity, so I'm like, this is the one time mom's going to be like...

"Wow, you met Lionel Richie." So I took the picture and I sent it to my mom and then emailed it to her. I was like, "Mom, look, huh? What do you think?" And then she replied, she's like, "Wow, you're getting fat." And I was like, "Okay, but, okay, let's move over that. First of all, the camera adds 20 pounds. But let's talk about the other person in the picture, Lionel Richie." And then she was like, "Oh yes, oh, that's nice." And I was like, "Oh, okay."

Oh, wow, okay, that was the thing. She just genuinely... And then, like, four or five days ago, I guess she was on the internet, which she doesn't regularly do. She goes emails and then she's done. And she was on the internet. And then my brother was going through pictures of me or something. And then she was like, hey, I saw a picture of you and Lionel Richie. When did that happen? I was like, it happened when I sent you the picture two and a half years ago. And then she was like, which picture? Then she was like, oh, the picture where you were fat. Then I'm like, ah!

Earlier today, I spoke with Congresswoman Lucy McBath of Georgia. We talked about her state's importance in this election and how losing her son to gun violence motivated her to become the lawmaker that she is today. Congresswoman McBath, welcome to The Daily Social Distancing Show.

Well, thank you, Trevor. I'm so excited to be with you. And I have to be honest with you. Uh, my youngest sister is your biggest fan, and my family has always said, you know, "When are you gonna be on a show?" Once you're on a show, you've really made it. -Wow. -So thank you for validating me. -With my family. -Wow. I like how they've got shifted priorities, because in my world, becoming a congresswoman, uh, and-and living the life that you have lived and how you got there-- many people know of your story, but for those who don't,

You started your story from a place that I feel many people should start in politics, and that is a personal place. You were a flight attendant for most of your life. You lost your son to gun violence,

you didn't just mourn his passing. You decided to step up and do something about it. And so you ran to change not just his world, but the world and how America sees guns. So in my world, you have made it. And we're gonna talk about all of that today. So thank you so much for joining us on the show. Let's start first talking about Georgia, because that's what's really in the news right now.

Georgia has become what many people thought it would never, a battleground state. When you look at what has happened in Georgia, do you think that this is Georgia changing, or do you think that this is Georgia responding to Donald Trump? Georgia is changing. Uh, Trevor, as I've been seeing for years now, that this is the new South. And I think the resistance that we've seen is just that, the resistance to the new South.

And just the amazing movement building that's been done, the strategizing that's been done, the grassroots organizing that's been done. I knew we were going to be a top tier battleground state. And so I'd been telling people all along, please invest in Georgia. You know, the best is yet to come. And we've we've shown that, you know, we made President Trump a one term president. And we've actually been able to be a deciding state for, you know, president elect Trump.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. So, yes, the South is changing, and I'm glad that this peach state has the ability to be, um, on the front lines of that. Reading your memoir, I mean, it's inspiring and it's-it's heartbreaking at the same time, because you read this tale of a woman who goes through the gripping experience

of losing her son. Your son was shot by a man who felt like his friend was playing the music too loud in the car. That was it. And then try to use stand-your-ground laws to defend what he had done in taking his life. You then use this, and-and that's become part of the title of your book, is Standing Our Ground. What do you think it is about the coalition of mothers that you've formed around the country that has moved the idea of gun advocacy forward?

As mothers, as women, we're the central focus of our homes oftentimes. We're the protectors. We're often providers. And we want to make sure that when we send our family out the door, when we send our children out the door, that they come home safely. We do everything that we can. And so building this grassroots coalition of mothers and also survivors is really important.

indicative of what we need to do, what we'll have to do to make sure that we are providing safe spaces for our children and our families in our own communities. And that's what we've been doing. And, you know, over 90 percent of the Americans across the country believe in, you know, gun safety legislation, common sense legislation that really will provide safety nets

for our families and also making sure that law-abiding gun owners are using their guns in a way that is providing a safety net as well when they're using those guns.

A lot of people in your position would have become a single-issue candidate. A lot of people in your position would have gone, "All I'm here to talk about is guns," but you're actually looking to improve health care, to improve gun reform, to improve veterans' health care, you know, and the support that veterans get. And you've really been fighting for a lot of these issues, which, surprisingly, as a Democrat, you've gotten signed by Donald Trump not once, not twice, but three times.

So the magic question then is, how have you managed to work laws or create ideas that have gotten a sign-off from Republicans who have shown the ability to block so many different ideas? I've always reached across the aisle to find some common ground with my Republican colleagues that we could work upon. Um, because when we don't work together, we-we end up in the mess that we've been in, you know, for so long now.

because we've not been working together for the sake of our constituents that are really depending on us in Washington every single day to create value for them. Our constituents all have the same needs and wants, and let's work together to provide the best of what America says they deserve. - Representative Jim Clyburn said something interesting, and this was after the results started coming in, and it was apparent that Joe Biden had won, but down ballot, Democrats seem to have taken a beating.

And he said there is no denying that defund the police and abolish the police and socialism hurt the Democrats' message. As somebody who is elected in a state that is really moderate and very close, how do you communicate some of these ideas? Like, is there a different way that you communicate progressive ideas without isolating Republican or moderate voters?

I wish, of course, we'd been able to pick up more seats for the House. But, you know, you have to find what works within your own community. That's what I have said to my colleagues all the time is that what I say or what I represent to my community might be completely different from another community. Right.

from another one of my colleagues. I would love for us to be able to hold on to some of the seats. Some of my colleagues that came in with me, my freshman colleagues, I was very pained by the fact that they won't be returning with us. But there again, I think that each of us has been able to just really speak very candidly to our own constituents. All of our demographics are different. But as I said, there are a lot of different voices in this caucus and that's what makes us so unique.

I'll be honest, I think that's one of the things that makes you unique, is that not only are you a symbol of that, but you articulate it so well to everybody who takes the time to listen. Thank you so much for sharing your story in the book. Thank you so much by... for coming on the show. And thank you to your family who think that I am the thing that means you've made it.

I don't agree, but I appreciate them. So thank you so much to your younger sister because between me and her, she's right. She's not right, but between me and her, she's very right. So thank you very much. Well, thank you, Trevor. And I just want to say this. Thank you so much for having such a deep conversation with me because it reminds me of all the conversations I used to have at the kitchen table with Jordan. So thank you for that. Thank you very much. Thank you. That means the world to me. Introducing Instagram teen accounts.

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What's up, I'm John Leguizamo, hosting The Daily Show. And that's your phone, Mom. Yes. You have to wake up now. Okay, and I have a very special guest that she just blew it because her phone went off. But my mom is here with us, and I want to ask you a couple questions. I want to show the people at home what it's like when we're at home. I mean, we don't live in the same place anymore. Thank God for you. Tell the audience how big a pain in the neck I was.

This is your chance to get off your chest, because if you don't say now, don't bring it up at dinner next week or the week after or at Christmas or Thanksgiving when you have a whole family around you and witnesses. Yeah. Well, since you were tiny, tiny, a toddler, it was a little demon running everywhere, had so much energy, it was almost impossible to... But I kept you thin.

You did? Yeah, because a hyper child is a good thing. People don't realize that. We bring a lot of benefits to parents. So, Mom, you saw The Daily Show last night. What did you think? What's your review, your critique? Oh, I think that you... Because you always got notes. Yes, I think that you look great and you were funny and that I also love very much...

when you talked to Ana. Oh, yeah, Ana's a bomb. It was amazing. But you liked her better than me, right? And all my friends said, oh, fantastic, oh, beautiful. He's great. Oh, my God, my God. It was...

But did you have notes or did you have some criticisms though? Did I miss up something? Did I miss for you? No, I did not have criticisms because I was happy seeing you there. Like when you come see my Broadway shows, you always have notes. Yes, but because they are longer. I mean, you know, it's two hours. And what did I tell you about notes? Sometimes you take them. Sometimes you say, please don't tell me.

That's mostly, it's mostly please don't tell me. Yes, yes. You're not a director. Yes. You don't, you're not part of the DGA. Yes. You're not an equity. Yes, you tell me all those things. Yeah, yeah, no, no. So I keep them to myself. Yes, that's the best way. I love that. Now tell us a story, like a good funny story growing up. Tell me the story about when you were dating that Egyptian guy. Oh my God.

My parents got divorced and then my mom, you know, is a single mom. Yeah. So I went to a luncheon of bankers and I meet this guy that is supposedly because the friend who invited me to the luncheon. This is for TikTok, 90 seconds or less. Otherwise the poor editors, I don't know how they're going to edit this. You gave us too much backstory. Just get to the story. I met this guy that was Egyptian.

and my friend told me he's very rich. The guy came up to me and said, "Oh, you are very nice. I would like to have dinner with you. Would you like to have dinner with me?" You gotta get to the... That's the preamble. We're not even to the story yet.

That's even before you started dating. Okay, okay, so I said... You don't need his biography. Okay, he asked me for dinner and I said, "All right." He says, "When is good?" I said, "Saturday night." Right. So I was living in Queens and so he said, "I'll pick you up at 7:30." So it happens that he probably came 7:00 that night. My God, this is the Tolstoy version of it. Right. This is going to be the war and peace, crime and punishment version.

So it happens that he comes before. Yeah. And so I'm in the bathroom and I'm taking a shower. Oh my God, you're going to go through the whole shower? Come on. So the guy comes to the house. Let's get to the date. The guy comes to the house, rings the bell, Jans opens.

And I had told the guy, please wait for me at the car. Just let me know that you are there and wait for me at the car. But the cab guy comes and John opens and John says, the guy says to John, he didn't know that I have two children. I didn't tell him.

Conveniently left that out. I left that out. You know, you got it. Nobody wants to date somebody with children. Right. With two boys that were a little dangerous. So Jan says to him, instead of saying, yeah, she will come out in ten minutes or whatever, he says, please come in. He invites him in. Well, you told us not to go and leave our rooms. No.

- Yeah. - And not to talk to the man. - Exactly. - So I came out to talk to the man, dating my mom, to try to wreck the date. - Yes. - That was 13 or whatever. - So what happens is they invite him in, he comes in, and he told me after-- - And then my brother and I sat on either side of the guy. - Yes, he told me-- - To question him. - He said, after he found out that you were my sons, he said, "Each one sat on each side." And he said, "When I started talking,

I think your older son started answering to me with my same accent. And then your older son was laughing. You know, Sergio was laughing. He was my stooge. Yeah. My sidekick. At the beginning, I said, is he mocking me or is my...

uh you know but so he he said i kept talking to them and jan kept answering to me i mean your son kept answering to me with my accent you know what the guy took me to the dinner he sent me he didn't come back to queens he sent me with the driver and i never heard of him anymore well good we got rid of him that was just a test that was the story thank you ladies and gentlemen for joining us next week we'll go into another very long in-depth

Story brought to you by the Leguizamos. Do you still hold that hope that someday I'm going to get a real job? Well, I wasn't when I saw your first when you invited me to that school that you were... Pierce 122 downtown. No, no, no. When you were already taking...

- PS1, 2. - Drama lessons. Sylvia was the-- - Sylvia Lee Showcase Theater. That wasn't a school, oh, acting school. - The acting school. Before that, I thought maybe he's going to be at this for a couple of months and then he was going to do something else. But when I saw that show, I said, "Oh my God, he is going to be an actor."

He was 10 minutes, it was a 10- I got it like that. I do, I got it. I was always- It was amazing to me. Doing voices and parties. And I said, oh my, I said my son is going to be an actor. Imitating people. So I said to myself- Man, people can talk at the same time and hear the conversation. I need to help him. I do this at Christmas parties and Thanksgiving. We all talk at the same cross conversations and hear each other, right? Yeah. Before I got divorced, I got a fur coat.

And one day I came home and he was with my fur coat being like a... Pimp. Like a pimp. I don't think this is for mass consumption. I was laughing. Oh my God, I thought that it was so funny because he was really acting like a pimp. He had a hat, my fur coat. All right, thank you everybody. We're moving on. Luz Leguizamo.

How's my grandmother doing? Oh, she's fantastic, man. 91 years old and 10 months. Yeah, she makes me count the years and months as well now. It's a new thing. Did she cook for me? No, she's too old. Oh, no, no, no. She even says to me, I was like, what do you do, Gogo? She's like, oh, me. She's like, I just enjoy being alive. And then all she does is she, we ready? Yeah, all she does is she chills at home. Like, she's got like her squad of grannies.

And they all just come and hang out. And she, it's like a weird team of superheroes where they've all got their specialties, and then hers is that her memory is bulletproof. So all her friends ask her about things they've forgotten about in life. But she's got a better memory than me, my mom, everybody. She can tell you what year a thing happened, what month, everything. And so her friends come over, and they'll ask random questions. They'll be like, "No, Marliso." "Where did I meet my husband?"

And then she'd be like, oh, you met her. And then she'd like tell stories and what. It's amazing to watch, yeah. And so all she does all day, she just, she loves writing. That's what she does. And I asked her why. And she said, she says to be 91 and know how to still read and write. Oh, I'm so blessed. So that's all she does. Yeah.

My grandmother says it the best. She says, "You know what, Trevor? "In life, there are butterflies and there are flowers. "The butterfly's job is to fly around "and come back and tell the flower what it's seen. "You are a butterfly. Your mother is a flower." You and your grandmother. Oh, yeah, she was great. She was really fun. She still doesn't get what we were doing.

'cause she doesn't watch The Daily Show. - Does she know what you do? Have you sent her tapes or anything? - No, no, but, and you know what's great is that she doesn't care. That's what I love. So my gran just goes, "He's Trevor, that's why I like him." So I don't want her love of me to be determined by what I do or don't do in my work world. I interviewed my grandmother for The Daily Show, and she does not know what I do, how I do it, why I do it. People tell her, and she's just like, when they say, "We saw your grandson on The Daily Show," she thinks that means like somewhere, like they saw me somewhere.

And she'd be like, "Oh, my friend saw you at Daily Show." And I'm like, "On the Daily Show?" And he's like, "Yeah, whatever." Koko, have you ever watched the Daily Show? No. My gran said she doesn't watch my show because sometimes the electricity cuts out.

Which is a very plausible excuse and a nice way to let your grandson down. No, it's not letting my grandson down. Even yesterday we had no electricity. No, I hear you, Gogo. I didn't expect that answer. It's a good answer, Gogo. So I must make sure that you have a generator so you can watch my show. And then if it is from a low generator. Who fits the generator? Okay, so I must get someone to fit the generator also. I think so. Okay.

And I look, I look the park is locked up with the TV. Oh and then I must also fix the cable. Okay. I feel like I've been tricked into doing a lot of things for you to watch my TV show. A bogus place. So I can't convince you to come and see that I manage white people? No. I don't even wish.

I only take you as my grandson and that is all. I appreciate that, Gogo. Thank you for having us, Gogo. And thank you for letting me bring these cameras. And thank you for sharing these stories with my friends. And thank you for being amazing. You've brought so many friends. I've brought too many friends, Gogo. You guys must leave now. You guys must go. Bye-bye.

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