483: Peggy Rowe—Mother's Day with Mom… LIVE!
5/8/20261 hr 5 min
In this special LIVE edition of Coffee with Mome, Mike heads home for Mother's Day and sits down with the woman who taught him everything worth knowing — his mom, Peggy Rowe. Recorded in front of a live audience at the place Peggy refers to as The Home, this episode is filled with the warmth, wit, and wonderfully sharp observations fans have come to expect from America's Grandmother.
From family stories and hard-earned wisdom to laughter that only comes from decades of shared history, Mike and Peggy talk about motherhood, growing older disgracefully, and the strange adventure of becoming a beloved public figure later in life. It's funny, heartfelt, occasionally mischievous, and exactly the kind of conversation you'd hope to overhear around the kitchen table on Mother's Day.
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First 90 secondsMike Rowe· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, friends. It's me, Mike Rowe. And what we have here is a very special episode of The Way I Heard It, a bonus episode just in time for Mother's Day, starring, of course, my mother. Uh, Chuck is not with us for this particular conversation because it took place back in Baltimore a couple of weeks ago. I was back there on business, and if you follow me on Facebook, you know my mom has been dealing with some, uh, health issues here in the beginning of the year. She's through it all now, thank God, and was just starting to feel like her normal self again when, uh, this guy Tom, who runs marketing over at Erickson Senior Living, invited her to speak at their annual event, which they were having in Baltimore. You know, administrators come from all over from these different facilities. And he invited my mom to speak to the group. And, uh, then he heard I was in town, and he said, "Hey, you know, if you wanna join your mom, that'd be fun." And I said, "Well, if you record it so I can use it on my podcast, that'd be great." And he said, "Sure." Now, truth is, I'd have done it anyway, but they had cameras, so they set 'em up, and they [laughs] recorded the whole thing, and I'm so glad they did because this is a very funny conversation. I'm gonna post the whole thing on YouTube as well. But we also have the podcast for you today because Mother's Day is right around the corner and because my mom, my mom's a, a delight. You know, this is one of the best crowds I've been in front of in years. And for a while there, I, you know, I just kinda thought it was me 'cause I'm, you know, sort