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Speaker 1: This Mother's Day on Real America's Voice, we honor the

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Speaker 1: women who lead with conviction and courage, from Congresswoman Anna

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Speaker 1: Paulina Luna to Sam Sorbo to Palm Beach's own Sue

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Speaker 1: Belle Robbins. Their stories inspire us all. To all the

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Speaker 1: mothers today, we honor you, and we thank you for

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Speaker 1: making America great. The American Matriarch, with your host Bo Davidson,

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Speaker 1: starts right now.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to this very special presentation on Mother's Day right

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Speaker 2: here at Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host, Bo Davidson.

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Speaker 2: Today is the day that we celebrate mothers, motherhood and

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Speaker 2: maternal bonds, and the contributions mothers.

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Speaker 3: Have made to our society.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to start off by giving you a little

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Speaker 2: bit of history of Mother's Day. During the nineteenth century,

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Speaker 2: women's peace groups would meet, especially those mothers who had

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Speaker 2: sons who fought on both sides of the Civil War.

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Speaker 2: In eighteen sixty eight, Anne Jarvis organized a committee to

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Speaker 2: establish a Mother's Friendship Day to reunite families that had

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Speaker 2: been divided during the Civil War. Jarvis had been instrumental

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Speaker 2: in organizing Mother's Day work clubs to improve sanitation for

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Speaker 2: both Union and Confederate camps during typhoid outbreaks. She wanted

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Speaker 2: to expand this into an annual event for mothers, but

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Speaker 2: she died in nineteen oh five. Her daughter, Anna Jarvis,

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Speaker 2: would continue on her mother's efforts, and there were limited

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Speaker 2: observances in the eighteen seventies and eighteen eighties, but never

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Speaker 2: an observance was made in honor of Juliet Calhoun Blakeley,

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Speaker 2: who stepped up to complete her minister's sermon due to

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Speaker 2: to the point of drunkenness by an anti temperance group.

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Speaker 2: Blakely's sons were so moved at their mother's unselfish act

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Speaker 2: that they came back to Albion to honor her every

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Speaker 2: single year, which the Methodist Episcopalian Church of Albion set

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Speaker 2: aside the second Sunday in May each year to recognize

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Speaker 2: the contributions of mothers. At the University of Notre Dame Alum,

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Speaker 2: Frank Hering declared that throughout history, great men of the

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Speaker 3: Their credit for their achievements to their mothers.

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Speaker 2: He went on to be a vocal advocate for a

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Speaker 2: national Mother's Day for an entire decade. Now. Our present

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Speaker 2: day celebration of Mother's Day, however, comes from Anna Jarvis's

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Speaker 2: celebration of her mother, Anne that I mentioned earlier. She

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Speaker 2: held a small service on May twelfth, nineteen oh seven,

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Speaker 2: where Anne Jarvis had taught Sunday school. Jarviston campaigned to

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Speaker 2: the first to officially recognize the day, with other states

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Speaker 2: Representatives passed a resolution calling on all federal officials to

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Speaker 2: wear a white carnation following the following day in observance

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Speaker 2: of Mother's Day. On May eighth, nineteen fourteen, Congress passed

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Speaker 2: a law designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: On the very next day, President Woodrow Wilson made that

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Speaker 2: very proclamation. Now, in nineteen thirteen, Anna Jarvis trademarked the

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Speaker 2: She specifically noted that the spelling should be of a

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Speaker 2: singular possessive meaning moteer apostrophe s for each family to

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Speaker 2: all the mothers collectively. This spelling was also used by

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Speaker 2: President Wilson in his proclamation, and I actually find that

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Speaker 2: interesting because most people probably think today's a day to

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Speaker 2: celebrate all mothers at once, and sure, in some ways

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Speaker 2: it has become that, but Anna Jarvis's intention was that

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Speaker 2: we each honor our own mother individually to give her

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Speaker 2: Mother's Day is the third largest holiday for sending cards,

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Speaker 3: The day's traditions.

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Speaker 2: Include church going, which many of you moms may be

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Speaker 2: Anna Jarvis herself was very much against the commercialization of

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Speaker 2: But I think to honor what Anna Jarvis wanted was

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Speaker 2: bookmarks in our lives that were directly shaped by our mothers.

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Speaker 2: It might have been in where we chose to go

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Speaker 2: as well that a woman need not spawn biological children

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Speaker 3: We have matriarchs everywhere. There are step moms.

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Speaker 2: That are there're sisters out there that have been big influencers,

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Speaker 2: there's a certain special relationship that mothers and children have,

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Speaker 2: President JD. Vance, it's really compelling because JD's mom, a nurse,

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Speaker 4: You gotta take care of business. You've got to go

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Speaker 3: Almost the best in her class. What's the point If

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about a chance? You might not make it,

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Speaker 3: What do you even care what I do. I ain't

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Speaker 4: Who's gonna take care of this family when I'm gone?

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Speaker 4: I thought your mama was gonna be all right, be happy,

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Speaker 4: She'd just stop try it.

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Speaker 4: I could have done better, but you you got to decide.

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Speaker 3: That's so powerful. She says, I'm not gonna live forever.

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Speaker 2: She realizes her own mortality and recognizes that she could

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Speaker 2: But now she has another chance to instill ambition in

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Speaker 3: And I think that's really what moms do.

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Speaker 2: They instill life in us because they want us to

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Speaker 2: remember this, JD's mom is twenty years sober, and he

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Speaker 2: and as they say, get busy living or get busy dying.

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Speaker 2: Mamma knew that JD would repeat the pattern that so

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Speaker 2: They carried us for nine months, give or take. We

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Speaker 3: We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more of this Mother's Day

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Speaker 1: Special here on Real America's Voice. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Meil America's Voice and this Mother's Day Special.

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Speaker 2: The first mother that I want to feature in today's

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Speaker 2: special is someone I've known for quite a while, and

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Speaker 2: she will be familiar to you not just for her

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Speaker 2: on screen performances, but her active voice in advocating for parents,

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Speaker 2: parental choice, and even homeschooling. Her name is Sam Sorbo,

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Speaker 2: husband of Kevin Sorbo and mother to Braden, Shane and Octavia. Sam,

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Speaker 2: Happy Mother's Day to you, first and foremost.

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Speaker 6: You got me glowing because you mentioned my kids.

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Speaker 3: I did, I did, and I've met Brayden.

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Speaker 2: He's the one I think I probably know the best

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Speaker 2: that I've seen at various conferences. But Sam, one time,

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Speaker 2: I remember when I interviewed you might have been the

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Speaker 2: And once again that holds true today for the special So,

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Speaker 2: first of all, I've got to know what does Mother's

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Speaker 6: Well, sadly, not not very much. We never really celebrated

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Speaker 7: That's right, So we just have fun with it.

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Speaker 2: Well, Sam, you know, over time we've seen mothers have

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Speaker 6: Well, I kept him home from school. That's job number

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Speaker 6: Also because the education of a child is not relegated

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Speaker 2: Well, you've been a big advocate of homeschool and you've

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Speaker 2: I'm sure there's moms out there at homeschool, like you said,

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Speaker 6: Well, so, homeschooling has traditionally sort of been school at home,

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Speaker 7: So that's the big difference.

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Speaker 6: I go into more details in my book Parents' Guide

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Speaker 7: And so my.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned a phrase I really really liked just then,

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Speaker 3: I'm sure you did the same.

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Speaker 2: So if you could speak about the role that faith

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Speaker 6: To a child, well, I mean, that's the most important thing,

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Speaker 6: And that's the biggest difference. And when you start from

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Speaker 3: You will have done enough.

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Speaker 6: You will have done so much for them that so

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Speaker 6: if you just teach them how to read and set

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Speaker 7: Our children they want to know how.

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Speaker 2: I think about sam when I moved to Los Angeles,

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Speaker 6: Well, so I always go to the image that I

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Speaker 6: And I also I'm not much of a games player.

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Speaker 6: But you know, I have a different relationship with my kids,

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Speaker 3: Sam. You serve on the board of Moms for America.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Moms for America is just a fantastic organization that

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Speaker 6: home educated. I just want to say, we don't understand

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Speaker 3: Fight for their kids. And that's what we need.

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Speaker 6: We need people fighting for our kids, because you know,

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Speaker 2: Well, as we close up our time here, Sam, what

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Speaker 6: To mothers out there? So, first of all, my best

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Speaker 6: because what happens is when you devote yourself in that direction,

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Speaker 6: everything else comes back to you tenfold. Your child is

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Speaker 2: And thank you so much, Sam for your time and

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Speaker 2: also being a great mom three hundred and sixty five

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Sam.

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Speaker 7: Happy Mother's Day.

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Speaker 3: Happy Mother's Day to you.

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Speaker 2: Coming up, I continue speaking with impressive moms, including one

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Speaker 3: We'll be right back with Anna Pauline Alum.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more of this Mother's Day

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Speaker 1: special here on Real America's Voice. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to this Mother's Day special. As mothers have

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Speaker 2: when she votes and sponsors various pieces of legislation. For that,

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Speaker 2: I turned to Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida's thirteenth

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Speaker 7: Congresswoman, thank you for having me. Very happy to be here.

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Speaker 2: First of all, what has motherhood meant to you since

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Speaker 8: It's been one of the most incredible things I've done.

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Speaker 8: You know, you always hear from young parents, specifically younger women,

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Speaker 8: They put it off, put it off, And I would

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Speaker 8: quote unquote right time, and being a parent brings a

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Speaker 8: way different perspective and it really gives you a lot

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Speaker 8: to fight for in regards to not just this country,

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Speaker 8: but also to making a better world for future generations.

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Speaker 7: So I would tell people.

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Speaker 8: Encouraging young people to have families, not just because we're

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Speaker 8: facing a population decline, but again, it is an eye

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Speaker 8: opening experience.

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Speaker 7: And if you don't.

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Speaker 8: Believe in God, after you have a kid, you definitely will.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely And I can attest to what you're saying, Congressman,

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Speaker 2: because I just had a son myself.

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Speaker 3: He's fifteen months old, and you're right.

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Speaker 2: I push it off and push it off and push

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Speaker 2: it off, but there is no right time. It will

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Speaker 2: work itself out. And you know, work life balance is

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Speaker 2: a very real thing for you. And you brought Henry

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Speaker 2: on the house floor at times. Now I imagine that when

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Speaker 2: tensions are high on the house floor, Henry probably brings

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Speaker 2: a level of calm and levity, does he not.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, And it's actually really interesting because you have a

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Speaker 8: lot of members that it's funny they say that for

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Speaker 8: members like myself that are in our thirties, War of

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Speaker 8: birthing age, which is really funny to hear that perspective,

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Speaker 8: but again, if you look at the actual age different

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Speaker 8: that exists. You know, I'm one of the youngest members

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Speaker 8: of Congress, and there's not a lot of young people.

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Speaker 8: And I think that this goes into really how Congress

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Speaker 8: seets to change a we need term limits, but be

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Speaker 8: also getting younger people involved that have skin in the game,

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Speaker 8: have the drive, have the passion, and frankly aren't corrupt.

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Speaker 8: But again going back to kind of those tension tension

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Speaker 8: to fill times, you know, having children on the floor

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Speaker 8: does bring temperatures down a little bit. And actually, my

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Speaker 8: husband always tells people that, you know, during a lot

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Speaker 8: of what happened when.

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Speaker 7: I was first selected.

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Speaker 8: Obviously you remember the Speaker's fight with Kevin McCarthy, but

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Speaker 8: there's been other times, especially when we've brought Henry, when

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Speaker 8: other things have happened.

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Speaker 7: So it is kind of interesting.

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Speaker 8: You know, there's a lot of grandparents here on the hill,

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Speaker 8: and so they see a little baby, they want to

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Speaker 8: hold them.

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Speaker 2: Of course, well, how difficult has it been, Congressman to

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Speaker 2: nurse him, to feed him, and to spend time with

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Speaker 2: them all while you are balancing this role as a

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Speaker 2: member of Congress.

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Speaker 7: It's definitely time management.

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Speaker 8: But I share a perspective that many working Americans have,

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Speaker 8: and not all people have the luxury of, you know,

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Speaker 8: being stay at home parents, which I would encourage if

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Speaker 8: you can. But again, you know, in Washington, I've gotten commentary, well,

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Speaker 8: why don't you just put your son in childcare? Well,

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Speaker 8: the fact is that, as you know, Congress doesn't have

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Speaker 8: a normal nine to five schedule. In fact, there's many

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Speaker 8: nights that we are doing late night votes, and so

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Speaker 8: my husband will actually travel up here with my son.

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Speaker 7: He comes with us, and that's because.

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Speaker 8: I want to make sure that I'm here for those

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Speaker 8: very short years that he's a child. Remember you're going

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Speaker 8: to know your child for much of their adult life,

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Speaker 8: but there's only a short window and opportunity for childhood.

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Speaker 7: And it's equally important to have the father in the

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Speaker 7: picture as well as the mother.

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Speaker 8: So I always tell people it's kind of funny, but

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Speaker 8: no kidding. My son a couple of weeks ago, you

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Speaker 8: know how most kids will do high fives, and he

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Speaker 8: can do that too, But he reached his hand out.

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Speaker 7: To me and I was like, is he's trying to

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Speaker 7: shake my hand, and he.

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Speaker 8: Does so, he actually shakes hands and he's not even two.

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Speaker 7: Years old yet.

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Speaker 3: Wow, he's already learning that the trades have crazy sing

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Speaker 3: mom and dad.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, well, speaking of Congress itself, now, I read that

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Speaker 2: you were only the twelfth woman to give birth while

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Speaker 2: serving as a member of Congress, and you asked how

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Speaker 2: you could vote after delivering your son, and you were

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Speaker 2: told there were no options to vote by proxy. So

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Speaker 2: you and Congress and Sarah Jacobs introduced a bipartisan bill

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Speaker 2: for mothers just like yourself who want to vote but

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Speaker 2: maybe even be dealing with postpartum things like you dealt with,

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Speaker 2: such as preeclampsia. Tell me about this bill and if

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Speaker 2: it's gaining traction within the House.

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Speaker 8: Well, yeah, so this was introduced, the one with Sarah

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Speaker 8: Jacobs was introduced in the last Congress, and that was

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Speaker 8: specifically just for young women. And at the time, the

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Speaker 8: speaker it actually told me that he would work with

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Speaker 8: us on it, and then, as you saw, he did not,

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Speaker 8: and that's why we did the discharge petition, of which

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Speaker 8: was successful. But I was actually really happy to see

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Speaker 8: President Trump come out in support of young parents, specifically

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Speaker 8: young female members. Remember it's not all four hundred and

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Speaker 8: thirty five members. And I think the most uninformed, unintelligent

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Speaker 8: argument I saw is that people thought.

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Speaker 7: I was just trying to work from home, which was

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Speaker 7: not the case.

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Speaker 8: You know, when you are a member of Congress and

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Speaker 8: you are recovering from childbirth, any woman will tell you

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Speaker 8: after you deliver in the hospital, you're not home right away.

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Speaker 8: And so what I will tell you is up until

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Speaker 8: really a month, that child can't travel either. And then

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Speaker 8: if you do have complications, which many women do experience,

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Speaker 8: there's an issue for actually coming up in physically be

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Speaker 8: present voting. So we actually did it in line with

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Speaker 8: the Constitution. This is not just like willy nilly vote

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Speaker 8: by proxy. But the irony in all this, and going

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Speaker 8: back to really I think a lot of the disingenuine

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Speaker 8: arguments were that, you know, the people that were most

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Speaker 8: vocal against it were the ones that were actually voting

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Speaker 8: by proxy. I never have and we are still looking

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Speaker 8: for solutions for younger parents. But again, President Trump really

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Speaker 8: weighing into support this was a huge deal. And as

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Speaker 8: you're seeing, President Trump has been leading this country, not

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Speaker 8: just with the Maha movement, which is pro family, but

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Speaker 8: also he has some of the youngest cabinet picks in

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Speaker 8: US history. So Jadie Vance bringing his kids to work,

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Speaker 8: Caroline Lovett bringing her young son to work, and she's

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Speaker 8: doing an incredible job as our youngest press secretary. And

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Speaker 8: then obviously you're seeing people like myself bringing our kids

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Speaker 8: to the hell.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a lot of young women and young

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Speaker 2: mothers will be inspired to see you and Caroline bringing

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Speaker 2: your children on the hill.

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Speaker 3: I think that's important.

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Speaker 2: It's important for Americans to see real Americans doing exactly

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Speaker 2: what you're talking about. And I also know that you

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Speaker 2: had a tough life growing up in a low income

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Speaker 2: neighborhood of southern California, with your're spending time in jail

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Speaker 2: and your mom being a single mother. I'm sure there

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Speaker 2: are many single moms out there watching today who may

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Speaker 2: find themselves in that circumstance. So I'd love for you

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Speaker 2: to provide some hope and maybe some advice to those

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Speaker 2: struggling moms who have a tough task.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I will say, you know, being a working parent

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Speaker 8: is difficult, but being a single parent is even more difficult.

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Speaker 8: And I have the utmost respect for young single moms

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Speaker 8: and dads frankly that are really having to pull the

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Speaker 8: job of both parents providing and then also to not

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Speaker 8: just being you know, emotionally guiding and more support for

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Speaker 8: the child, but also the single soul financial hold on that.

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Speaker 8: And so I am actually looking forward to sponsoring President Trump,

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Speaker 8: as you know, wants to introduce for every birth of

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Speaker 8: a child five thousand dollars back, which I would actually

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Speaker 8: think help incentivize people to have children, but then also

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Speaker 8: to really reinforcing his tax cuts for families obviously, you know,

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Speaker 8: he wants to put forward and codify things on childcare.

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Speaker 7: And then also looking forward at.

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Speaker 8: Really how we can help enable people and encourage people

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Speaker 8: if they are working, how do you protect them from

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Speaker 8: actually being able to have their jobs when they get back.

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Speaker 7: And so you know that federal.

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Speaker 8: Workers are covered under FMLA, that was something that was

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Speaker 8: largely championed by Ivanka Trump. But for other Fortune publicly

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Speaker 8: trade Fortune five five hundred companies and publicly traded companies.

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Speaker 8: You know, I'm not trying to force small businesses to

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Speaker 8: pay for maternity leave, but I do think that they

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Speaker 8: should not just small business, but just these publicly traded companies,

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Speaker 8: they should actually hold people's jobs open if they so

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Speaker 8: choose to go on maternity and so we're talking about

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Speaker 8: that right now, again, not forcing small businesses to pay

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Speaker 8: for it, but at least enabling and encouraging a pro

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Speaker 8: family environment to where you know, if you can save

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Speaker 8: up for it and you can take it that you

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Speaker 8: should at least be able to have your job when

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Speaker 8: you get back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, Congress, when women, you know, have a unique role

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Speaker 2: in our society, and because you can help shape the

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Speaker 2: future for mothers and their children, what kind of change

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Speaker 2: do you want to create.

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Speaker 3: For them as a legislator.

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Speaker 8: Well, first and foremost, we've been publicly championing what RFK

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Speaker 8: has been doing since the past Congress.

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Speaker 7: So really before RFK.

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Speaker 8: Joined the cabinet and really joined the campaign trail with

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Speaker 8: the President, we were actually focused on codifying removing some

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Speaker 8: of these toxic guys and additives to our food and

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Speaker 8: health products. We've also been on the forefront on the

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Speaker 8: fight against fluoride and then also to removing toxic toxic

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Speaker 8: additives from everything from baby products to also focusing on

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Speaker 8: female hygiene products.

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Speaker 7: But it doesn't just stop there.

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Speaker 8: Do you remember that infant formula crisis that happened under

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Speaker 8: Biden and how they recalled all that infant formula. Okay,

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Speaker 8: So I was actually questioning the FDA at the time,

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Speaker 8: and it turned out that they had not been inspecting

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Speaker 8: the facilities due to COVID nineteen, and as a result

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Speaker 8: of that, there was a toxic bacteria that infected the

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Speaker 8: infant formula. So they recalled the formula after faulty inspection times,

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Speaker 8: which left which I think the stats were there was

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Speaker 8: a percentage of children that were exposed to this bactery,

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Speaker 8: infants that would have died, and I do think that

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Speaker 8: those numbers were largely swept under the rug due to

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Speaker 8: COVID nineteen misreporting of numbers.

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Speaker 7: As a result of that, the Biden.

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Speaker 8: Administration took the formula off the market. Then they're telling parents,

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Speaker 8: don't make your own formula, which was also false.

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Speaker 7: Why would you tell parents not to try to provide

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Speaker 7: for their children.

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Speaker 8: But then you know they sent this infected, tainted formula

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Speaker 8: to the border facilities where they were housing migrant children.

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Speaker 8: So I know everyone watching this show obviously you know

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Speaker 8: that I'm a border hawk, but I don't think that

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Speaker 8: infected formula needs to be going to children.

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Speaker 7: I don't care if they're you know, illegals or not.

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Speaker 8: And I think many people would agree with that sentiment

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Speaker 8: and so being able to provide oversight to the FDN

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Speaker 8: and holding people accountable.

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Speaker 7: But it's really awful that that even happened.

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Speaker 8: I frankly, I don't like the FDA because of what

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Speaker 8: I've learned and how things work in Washington, and so

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Speaker 8: I am self focusing on codifying that Maha agenda.

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Speaker 2: That's great, that's great, excellent to hear, and I think

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Speaker 2: you're a hundred percent right. Formula deserves to be free

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Speaker 2: of any sort of bacterial problems or you know it formally,

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Speaker 2: just got it's got to be right for our kids. Well, finally,

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Speaker 2: you touched on this earlier about faith, and I know

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Speaker 2: that you've identified as Messianic Jewish before, which is interesting

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Speaker 2: to me because I'm in a movie right now written

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Speaker 2: by Messianic Jews about the life of Jesus. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's amazing, and so I read about this. It's called

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Speaker 2: Mendel's Messiah. It's about how a Jewish man gets to

665
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Speaker 2: go back in time and see Jesus in his life

666
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Speaker 2: and realize that he is the Messiah. So it's and

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Speaker 2: it's written by two Messianics use a couple, and it's

668
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Speaker 2: a wonderful piece of music and a wonderful, wonderful film.

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Speaker 2: How important, since you did touch on this earlier, has

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Speaker 2: faith been to you as a mother and what is

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Speaker 2: it you want to instill in Henry?

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Speaker 8: Well, you know, my dad raised me as a Messianic

673
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Speaker 8: Jew and then my mom raised me Catholic, so I

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Speaker 8: have exposure to both.

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Speaker 7: And what I will tell you is I.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely believe in God, you know, especially on the whole

677
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Speaker 8: topic of life and then having children. Obviously it's pretty

678
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Speaker 8: clear in the Bible that perspective. But you know, it's

679
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Speaker 8: been interesting, you know, when you believe in God and

680
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Speaker 8: you kind of just trusting God to follow the process

681
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Speaker 8: and you look for those quantum breadcrumbs or God wings

682
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Speaker 8: as they say, the things really do open up the

683
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Speaker 8: right doors or.

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Speaker 7: Open the wrong ones, we'll be shut.

685
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Speaker 8: And what I will say is, you know, politics, you're

686
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Speaker 8: constantly being attacked. And it's interesting actually that you bring

687
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Speaker 8: that up, because when I first got elected to Congress,

688
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Speaker 8: I was actually in a Washington Post article that tried

689
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Speaker 8: to take my background and perverted everything I said and

690
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Speaker 8: try to make me look like a liar, and they

691
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Speaker 8: actually took the whole Messianic Judaism thing, and I was

692
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 8: being called, you know, from one side that you know,

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Speaker 8: they're obviously making like really nasty comments about Jewish right,

694
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Speaker 8: and then on another side you said that people are saying, well,

695
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Speaker 8: she's not really Jewish, She's a Messianic jew which is

696
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Speaker 8: basically Evangelical Christianity. And I would argue that Messianic Judaism

697
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Speaker 8: is actually what Jesus would have been, and I think

698
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Speaker 8: the foundation of what Christianity is today, and it really

699
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Speaker 8: upholds the traditions of what the tour had and then

700
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Speaker 8: also acknowledges Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. But

701
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Speaker 8: the whole point in that just saying that things happen.

702
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Speaker 7: For a reason.

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Speaker 8: Had that article not come out, then Time magazine would

704
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Speaker 8: never have investigated and as a result named me Time

705
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 8: Magazine's top one hundred most influential people in the world

706
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 8: are next one hundred.

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Speaker 7: And that was because it was a negative. I was

708
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Speaker 7: under attack.

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Speaker 8: And then I think God mused it for good purpose

710
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 8: and the truth is out there and now people are

711
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Speaker 8: looking at what Messiyana Judaism is I think there's a

712
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Speaker 8: resurgence of Christianity.

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Speaker 7: I was actually just in Romania.

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Speaker 8: You know that Romania is an Orthodox Christian country, and

715
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Speaker 8: George Simoon, who's going to be the next president, is

716
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Speaker 8: definitely a believer, and he's projected to win that presidential

717
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Speaker 8: So you're seeing this happen all over the world. You're

718
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Speaker 8: seeing now the new election of a pope, and so

719
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Speaker 8: I heavily worl out of my faith. I've actually done

720
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Speaker 8: a deep dive into the Ethiopian Orthodox text. I don't

721
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Speaker 8: know if you know any bit about that, but I

722
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Speaker 8: will say that Jesus is real.

723
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Speaker 7: I've been to Israel.

724
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Speaker 8: I've seen where Jesus was crucified on the cross, and

725
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Speaker 8: I pray every day.

726
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Speaker 7: I hope I do the right thing.

727
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Speaker 8: This is not a long term plan for me, but

728
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Speaker 8: I do want to make sure that I get into

729
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Speaker 8: Heaven at the end of the day, so I do

730
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Speaker 8: the right thing when I'm up here.

731
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, don't we all.

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Speaker 2: But I think what you said earlier is and I

733
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Speaker 2: know this now and being a parent, but anyone who

734
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Speaker 2: sees the birth of a child, I don't see how

735
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Speaker 2: you couldn't believe in God at that point. It's just

736
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 2: it's too miraculous of a thing. And I was worried

737
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 2: about myself. I worried about the blood and everything. I

738
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 2: was stellar in the delivery room. I'm so proud of

739
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 2: myself about that because I was like, I can do

740
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Speaker 2: this and get in the stream. Well, Congressman, thank you

741
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 2: so much for taking your time to share your thoughts

742
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 2: on on motherhood what it means to be a strong

743
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 2: working woman in today's society, because I think a lot

744
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 2: of women look up to you and need to see that.

745
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 3: So thank you so much.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you guy should do a special atomist on what

747
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 8: MESSI anic judaism as.

748
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Speaker 7: I think a lot of people are going to be like,

749
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Speaker 7: what is that?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely And because I'm in a show right now that

751
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 2: talks about that, you're one hundred percent right.

752
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 3: Well, we'll be back in touch with you on now.

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Speaker 7: One perfect thank you.

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Speaker 2: Congress might appreciate it, and coming up, I speak with

755
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 2: a woman who has no biological children of her own,

756
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,399
Speaker 2: but she's been an influential matriarch in her own right.

757
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 3: I'll speak with Palm Beach's own insta, Queen Suebell. When

758
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:37,320
Speaker 3: we return.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more of this Mother's Day

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Speaker 1: special here on Real America's Voice. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: American matriarch. Right here on Real America's.

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Speaker 2: Voice, Welcome back to this Mother's Day special. Another stellar

763
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 2: woman I'd like to feature in today's special is Suebelle Robbins.

764
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 2: She's been a runway and print model for Talbot's and

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Speaker 2: Jay Gill. She's been a spokesperson and now is quite

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00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 2: the fixture in Palm Beach, Florida. And many of you

767
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 2: ladies may have seen her on Instagram with her zesti

768
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 2: personality and styling the krem de la creme of Palm Beach.

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00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 2: In many ways, she has been a matriarch figure throughout

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Speaker 2: her life and I think you will enjoy our chat.

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Speaker 3: Well. First of all, Subell, thank you so much for

772
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 3: inviting me into your home. It's beautiful.

773
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Speaker 2: It's absolutely stunning here in Palm Beach. And because it

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Speaker 2: is a Mother's Day special, I'd love for you to

775
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 2: share some memories of your mother, who no doubt had

776
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Speaker 2: an impact on your life.

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00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:42,919
Speaker 3: Oh she did, for sure.

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Speaker 5: I guess one of the things that really stands out

779
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 5: is my mother was from Rhode Island. She loved her island,

780
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 5: and because my father's job, she had to live in Texas.

781
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Speaker 3: She hated Texas.

782
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 5: Say, she was serving her sentence in Texas, and every

783
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 5: the day school was over, she would put four kids

784
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Speaker 5: and sometimes even a Collie dog and she would drive

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00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 5: to Rhode Island or to upstate New York Oneida, where

786
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Speaker 5: my uh my father's family was from. And I marvel,

787
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 5: that's a pretty long trip.

788
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Speaker 3: And we would uh.

789
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 5: One of those trips, one of us got the momps

790
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 5: and we were all licking a light bob, so everybody

791
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:42,319
Speaker 5: got the momps and she and one time the hood

792
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 5: the hood of the car hit the windshield and we

793
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 5: had to spend like two days in a little town

794
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 5: in Pennsylvania waiting for a new hood or something. She

795
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 5: just dealt with everything, and we would move quite a bit.

796
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 5: Once we would move, she would find another school system

797
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 5: that was a little bit better, so we would move to, say, Austin.

798
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 5: But when we were in Austin, she would find another

799
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 5: school district and we would would move to that suburb.

800
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 5: And she always moved by herself. You know, you came

801
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 5: home from school and your new house was all set up,

802
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 5: and it was just amazing what she accomplished well.

803
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 2: I read that she kind of inspired you in an

804
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 2: unconventional way, and that she didn't wear makeup or high heels,

805
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 2: and that kind of inspired you to have.

806
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 3: Your own sense of individual styles. If you could speak

807
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 3: to that.

808
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 5: Women in Texas have big hair, and we love our makeup,

809
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 5: and the women like you'd go to the grocery store

810
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 5: and a woman probably would often have a little Chihuahua

811
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 5: dog with her and be wearing high heels and makeup,

812
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 5: and my mother thought that was just disgusting, where I

813
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,839
Speaker 5: thought it was fabulous, and I would get upset with

814
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 5: her because she was very beautiful, but she was very

815
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 5: New England and she didn't didn't wear makeup or do

816
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 5: much with her hair.

817
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 3: She had great hair, but.

818
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Speaker 5: She just wasn't a girly girl, and that made me

819
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 5: Texas is filled with girly girls. I guess the South

820
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 5: in general, women are a little more feminine, you know.

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Speaker 2: I read that you taught first grade at Saint Aggas

822
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 2: in Arlington, Massachusetts. Yes, my mom in Memphis, Tennessee, was

823
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 2: a school teacher for forty years, and I think subell

824
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 2: that teachers don't get enough credit for what they deserve

825
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 2: for passing on legacies to children because it's like having

826
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Speaker 2: their own child, so to speak. If you would describe

827
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Speaker 2: what your experience was like as a teacher in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I just loved it. You would be at your

829
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 5: desk and a kid would come up and he'd be

830
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 5: leaning over talking to you, and he put his arm

831
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 5: around your neck and it was so sweet, and they

832
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 5: I have a little bit of an actress, so it

833
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 5: was like you had your own audience. They just hung

834
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 5: on to every word. And you know, you could have

835
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 5: some problems, boyfriend problems, money problems, and the second you

836
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 5: got to your classroom, you forgot everything. It was just

837
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 5: all about the kids and they were hysterical.

838
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Speaker 3: They made me laugh. It was really fun.

839
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 2: You've been a stepmother too, so even though you haven't

840
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 2: had any biological children, you have been a stepmom. I

841
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 2: think a lot of people around here and throughout your

842
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 2: life have considered you a matriarch in many ways, the

843
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 2: matriarch of Palm Beach due to your style, your charisma,

844
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 2: your individuality, so kind of on that same playing field,

845
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 2: what would your advice be to women out there who

846
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 2: would like to acquire some of the same confidence and

847
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 2: style and charisma that you have throughout your entire career.

848
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Speaker 3: I guess.

849
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 5: The bottom line should always be you are enough, Okay.

850
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 5: You don't have to please anybody but yourself and do

851
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,879
Speaker 5: the half full thing. Your cup isn't half empty, it's

852
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 5: half full, and you're going to work hard and make

853
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 5: it to the brim.

854
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:22,879
Speaker 3: Well see all.

855
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 2: To wrap up our interview, I understand that you are

856
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,399
Speaker 2: going to be writing a memoir, and in fact, as

857
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 2: we sit here, your autobiographer is actually sitting in the

858
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 2: next room, which I think is so interesting. So I

859
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 2: hope you can give us just a glimpse or hint

860
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 2: of what you may talk about in this autobiography and memoir.

861
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 5: Just the different experiences I've had, from being very insecure

862
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 5: and was I good enough to running up and kissing

863
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 5: President Reagan at the White House. You know, I've had

864
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 5: ups and downs, and many more ups than downs, and

865
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Speaker 5: I think it's a mine and said, you know again,

866
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 5: half full and knowing I am enough and I'm going

867
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:08,720
Speaker 5: to be okay.

868
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Speaker 2: And what's it been like becoming in such a social

869
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 2: media sensation over the past several years.

870
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 5: It's been two years in April, and I'm almost I'm

871
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 5: a little over half a million followers, and I'm still amazed.

872
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 5: The one thing people tell me is I'm authentic, So

873
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 5: I'm not even really sure what that means, but I

874
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 5: just try to be myself.

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00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 2: I think you're just being authentically you, and that's what

876
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 2: I've seen today.

877
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Speaker 3: So Sue Bell, thank you so much for your time, your.

878
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 2: Talent, and the authenticity that you bring and letting everyone

879
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 2: out there know moms, those who are stepmom's matriarchs, that

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Speaker 2: you are enough.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, she Bill, thank you.

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00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 5: I had fun with you.

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00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 3: I did too.

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00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 2: Make sure you follow Sue Belle on Instagram, where you

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00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 2: will be treated to her impeccable style and sense of humor.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, I'll close out today special with

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Speaker 2: some final thoughts on the importance of Mother's Day and

888
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 2: a song I composed specifically for all the moms out there.

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Speaker 3: We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more of this Mother's Day

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Speaker 1: Special here on Real America's Voice. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: American Matriarch right here on Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to this Mother's Day Special on Real America's Voice. Well,

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00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 2: you've heard from mother's and matriarchs today about what motherhood means.

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00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 2: It doesn't always mean having a biological child. Motherhood is

896
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 2: far more complex and influential than we can imagine, and

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00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 2: because each one of us has a mother, we are

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00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 2: all products of those mothers, whether it's in how we speak,

899
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 2: how we act, maybe even our sense of humor. They

900
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 2: gave us our first breath when they brought us into

901
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:51,720
Speaker 2: this world and cried out in pain.

902
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 3: They can read us like a book. The truth is,

903
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 3: we are going to make mistakes.

904
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 2: We will disappoint our moms and likely hurt their feelings

905
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 2: and ways they won't eat, even let on. But there's

906
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 2: nothing we could do that would separate their love for us.

907
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 3: It is truly unconditional.

908
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 2: We've all had scrape knees and they've been right there

909
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 2: to console us when we went through that bad breakup

910
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 2: or divorce. Their mom was to listen to us and

911
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:18,240
Speaker 2: offer us advice. Many moms have opened up their homes

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00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 2: again to us after college or in between jobs, because

913
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 2: even though they know we are adults, they also don't

914
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 2: want to see us hurt, and they know what we

915
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 2: need sometimes to get us up back on our feet again.

916
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 2: They saw us off on our first day of school.

917
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 2: And you know your mom was crying because her child

918
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 2: was growing up, but at the same time, they were

919
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 2: tears of joy because she knows she has molded you

920
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 2: and wants you to become independent.

921
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Speaker 3: And the mom's out there watching.

922
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll attest to this when I say that

923
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 2: they wait by their phones for their kids to call,

924
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 2: whether they were freshmen in college or in their fifties.

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Speaker 3: They love hearing from you.

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Speaker 2: And all these things are really the basis for a

927
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 2: song I recently wrote for this special that encompassed my thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Because moms are exactly what you'll need even if you

929
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 2: think you don't. They'll be the hand to hold even

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00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 2: if we think we won't need it. Moms are the

931
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 2: answer to our prayers, and God gave us just this one.

932
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Speaker 3: She's certainly not like any other. She's your mother.

933
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Speaker 2: That was the chorus that I came up with and

934
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 2: the best representation I felt could sum up what mothers

935
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Speaker 2: are to us. And in the last chorus, I sing

936
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 2: that there will come a day when we need to

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00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 2: hold her hand the way she held ours, even when

938
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Speaker 2: we think we won't ever have to do that. Those

939
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 2: who have had to help their elderly mothers or those

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00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 2: with Alzheimer's or Parkinson's know exactly what I'm talking about.

941
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Speaker 2: I watched my mom care for my grandmother who had dementia,

942
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Speaker 2: and you never think that you will have to care

943
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 2: for the person who once cared for you, But all

944
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 2: over this country and all over this world, this scenario

945
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 2: was happening. So I also want to recognize the children

946
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 2: who are taking care of their mothers and grandmothers or

947
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:52,240
Speaker 2: even great grandmothers. They deserve the care that they once

948
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 2: gave you, and if they are in a nursing home,

949
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,240
Speaker 2: make sure you pay them visits often. So to close

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Speaker 2: out this special I want to premiere this song that

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00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 2: I wrote. I hope that it means as much to

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00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 2: you as it did to me in composing it. For me,

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00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 2: music is a way of putting my thoughts into one

954
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 2: succinct place, and if you enjoy it, I hope you

955
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 2: will share it with your own mothers today and if

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00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 2: it touches you and helps celebrate your mom today.

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Speaker 3: So with that, here is my song, She's My Mother.

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Speaker 9: There's a woman out there who gave you your first breath,

959
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 9: she carried you for months, and she loves you to death.

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00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,760
Speaker 9: There's not one single thing that could separate a love.

961
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 3: Even when you make mistakes a few, she's moves proud of.

962
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 2: She's exactly what you need, even if you think you don't.

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00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 3: She'll be the handle hold even when you think you won't.

964
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 9: She's the answer to your prayers, and God gave you one.

965
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 3: She's not like any other.

966
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:33,760
Speaker 9: She's my mother. She sent you off to school.

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Speaker 3: On your very first day.

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Speaker 9: She cried tears of joy, and she walked your tears away.

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00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 9: And when you scraped your knee, when your heart got broke,

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00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 9: she was always dead to get back.

971
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 3: She's exactly what you need, even if you think you don't.

972
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 9: Should be in the handle of old, even when you

973
00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 9: think you won't.

974
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:00,840
Speaker 3: She the answer to your prayers.

975
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 8: And you've got only one and you'll.

976
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:05,919
Speaker 3: Never have another.

977
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Speaker 1: She's my mother.

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00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 9: She waits for you to call as the days pass on, Bob, but.

979
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:25,760
Speaker 3: Not a day goes on. She don't think about her child.

980
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 9: Other people know about the name she's had all.

981
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 3: But the one she wants is when you call her mom.

982
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 9: She's exactly what you need, even if you think you don't.

983
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:48,760
Speaker 3: You need to hold her.

984
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 9: Hand, even when you think you won't.

985
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 3: She's the answer to your prayers.

986
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 9: Thank God, you've got this one and you'll never have another.

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00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 9: She's my mother.