For this special Mother's Day episode, our guest is none other than…our mom! Meet Jeanne Trespicio, the woman who is responsible for, well, all of this (waves hands around vaguely). Go behind the scenes of Boomer parenting, and Jeanne's largely laissez-faire approach to: movies, TV, play dates, real dates, and taking the train to Port Authority. Plus: Kim hates meatloaf, Terri hates Kim, and little Lori is sent to ski school with a 104 degree fever. Sounds right. Welcome to Generation Artax. Happy Mother's Day!

Also in this episode:

• A little background on Jeanne, and her family of origin.
• Our grandmother's scandalous courtship by state trooper Johnny Barone
• No one has ever seen our grandmother's wedding pictures because there are none, because she got married as an old crone at 29
• Why no one thought our mother was our mother.
• Roving bands of neighborhood kids in the 80s
• Kim drank Sprite like kids today drink water, and can't believe any of us have teeth
• Mom denies she made us sit at the table til we finished dinner
• Kim would rather die than eat meatloaf and to this day won't try it
• Mom's guiding philosophy for school: Do your job
• Mom to Kim: Life is a bore get used to it
• Growing up in a sport-free zone
• Dedicated phone lines = peace in the land
• Young Terri hates Kim so much she can barely speak
• Mom sends Lori off to Ski School with a 104 fever

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