It's almost Mother's Day, and in honor of Mother's Day, we wanted to do something really
special for one mom.
Cuz you're never sure what quite to get your mom, and you wanna get her something unique,
and so we wanted to help someone give their mom something that you couldn't just go out
and buy at Amazon, you know?
And so we came up with "Mother's Day Soliloquy with Mike Donehey from Tenth Avenue North,"
cuz he's a very prolific writer.
He's a great musician, and I would assume a poet cuz that's all a musician is is a poet
when you take away the music.
And so Barbara, how are you today?
I'm doing great!
How are you?
Good! Now you have entered our contest.
Tell us a little about your mom Carol, please.
My mom, Carol LaFont, is just--I know other people who entered the contest would probably
disagree with this--she's the best mom in the world.
They all disagreed with that, actually, yes.
I'm sure they all think theirs is!
She's wonderful.
She has raised 4 daughters, this year she'll be celebrating her 60th anniversary, she's
got 16 grandkids, 5 great-grandkids, yeah.
That's a lot.
What's a great memory of your mom?
One of my best memories, we went to a ladies retreat at my sister's church, and they're
big pranksters, and we didn't have anything planned.
And mom came up with the idea that we should get a thing of hand soap and replace it with
tomato soup.
I like where she's going with that.
She's a forward thinker.
We got there and swapped it out in the house in one of the bathrooms, and all weekend long,
people were just washing their hands going, "There's something wrong with this soap!
What is....This just smells awful.
I wonder who bought this."
I think that's really great.
That's like a continuous joke where you just giggle and let it go.
That's fantastic.
You also mentioned that your mom is like a rock, and she does Sodoku, and all these other
great things about her.
Here's what I'd like to do.
Hey, Mike, from Tenth Avenue North, are you there?
Yo, I'm here, buddy!
Hey, how are you?
Say hi to Barbara!
Hey, Barbara!
Well, Barbara, I got some great news for you.
You are our winner today for our Mom's Day contest.
So what that means is Mike has been listening this whole time, and he's been jotting down
some notes, and he is going to do a poem for your mom.
He's gonna compose it right here right now for your mom, and then you can give it to
her for Mother's Day!
How 'bout that?
Perfect!
Alright, I'm gonna give you like 10 minutes to work something up, and then we're gonna
come back and we're gonna do this for real, and you're gonna bust out a poem for Carol,
Barbara's mom, in honor of Mother's Day.
You good with that?
I can do that.
I can do that!!
Queue the music!
And away we go.
Make with the Mother's Day Soliliquy by Mike Donehey for Carol.
Barbara, I have penned a poem, and it is entitled, "Oh, Carol."
Here we go.
Carol, oh Carol, most generous of mothers, your love is evergreen.
Not just for Christmas singing time, your song is all year sweet.
Carol, oh Carol, under your shade, our formidable family tree, 4, then 16 grand, great 5, these
babies all belong to thee.
Carol, against you, no one is gambling.
Intimidating prankster, soup soap Sodoku champion.
Carol, our rock, sneaky funny provider.
Your roots grow deep.
Your branches shelter.
Carol, a mother unlike another, though words fail, this poem a reminder: that we your children
stand in awe how unshakeably tendered true, strong, compassionate, loyal love, no mother
compares to you.
Nice., Mikey!
That's awesome.
Thank you!
Woo!
I like that you had some alliteration in there, and you even went with the King James "Thee."
Unto thee.That's some nice work there.
You gotta have a "thee" in a poem, man.
Alright, Carol, so are you gonna share this with your mother for Mother's Day?
Oh, absolutely I will, yeah.
That's exciting.
I love it.
Are you gonna return the other gift you already got her?
Sure?
I would if I were you.
You say it like I already got her one.
That's how certain Barbara was that she was gonna win this.
She's like, "I'm putting all my eggs in this basket."
That's it.
Aw, man.
Well, Mike Donehey, Tenth Avenue North, dude, thank you so much for helping us out with
our Mother's Day Soliliquey, and Barbara, I hope you and Carol have a lovely, wonderful,
happy Mother's Day together.
Thanks, Wally.
Thank you, Mike!
You're absolutely welcome.
I'm gonna try to repurpose this poem for my mom, but I don't think she's gonna get it.
Yeah, she's like, "I never did anything with soup or soap, Mike.
What is this?"
"Yeah, and my name is not Carol!!"