Mother Knows Beth (feat Kate's mom)
Be There in Five
Kate Kennedy
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2024
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
Three hours, two legal pads of notes, and one millennial whose mom read her book and is now ready to talk about it. After six years, Kate’s mom finally graces us with her presence on the Be There in Five podcast main feed.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody welcome back to the beat-ar and five. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. Today I have a very special guest for the first time on the main feed that I know many of you will be excited to hear from because she's I guess technically the Bethiest Beth of all given |
| 0:26.7 | she birthed me the original Beth and I'm so happy to welcome her here. |
| 0:32.6 | You know, I'm a little nervous because, |
| 0:34.9 | listen, we've got two legal pads filled to the brim |
| 0:37.9 | with notes. |
| 0:39.3 | Questions, quotes, things that I skimmed through |
| 0:41.6 | and I thought, I don't know. |
| 0:42.6 | Let me have my mom on, let me have her interview me. |
| 0:45.2 | Because as a lot of you are, you know, your parents, I'm sure it would be a weird experience |
| 0:49.9 | for you to read personal essays that are semi-memois style from your own offspring and detail |
| 0:56.9 | their life from their inner world that in many cases was different from the one you observed. |
| 1:02.2 | And I thought it would be interesting for us all to talk |
| 1:03.8 | through it together and please welcome to the Be There in Five Podcast, my mom Colleen. |
| 1:09.1 | Thank you for that inter objection. I was scared to have you read it, Mom. |
| 1:15.0 | Didn't I not let you for a long time? |
| 1:17.0 | Oh, right, I know. |
| 1:19.0 | At first I was like, did she look at one of my pages of notes and reject it? I didn't know. |
| 1:25.5 | Because we were supposed to do this over Christmas and then I kind of decided not to. |
| 1:29.0 | No that was just because I was tired because I was traveling with the baby. Oh yeah, no, oh no, I understand and trust me. |
| 1:34.8 | I thank you for having me. |
| 1:36.8 | It's nice to be able to talk about this because I think we've talked before that it's very different from my |
| 1:46.1 | perspective as your as your mom and I think throughout your whole career especially in |
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