Mom's Taxi, Teen's Thoughts
Climb into 'Mom's Taxi' for the real, unfiltered conversations that happen on the way to school. Join a working mom and her teenager as they navigate everything from the questions about life, friendships, and the future, to the daily chaos of homework, pop culture, background music and consistent disagreement. No experts, no scripts—just honest talks in the one place we're all a captive audience: the car. It's a podcast for parents and teens who know the morning drive is about more than just getting from point A to point B
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On the Way to School" Series, Season 2 Episode 27
Join a working mom and her teenager for the real, unfiltered conversations that happen on the way to school. as they navigate everything from the big questions about life, friendships, and the future, to the daily chaos of homework, pop culture, Background music and constant disagreement . No experts, no scripts—just honest talks in the one place we're all a captive audience: the car. It's a podcast for parents and teens who know the morning drive is about more than just getting from point A to point B
Oh, this smells very small.
SPEAKER_01Sorry, I only smell melon right now. Oh, maybe that's your melon spot. This tastes exactly like the melon ice cream you used to buy in the good or bad. I like the ice cream. Ah yes, we we buy the melon ice cream in the US.
SPEAKER_05In US, the living cost though is lower.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, our house is also much cheaper.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but it's in the middle of nowhere, it's not as well to make something like fried food. And the housing is taken and cheaper, and also in US, in US the portion of the food are much bigger. So single amount of money, your portion is a good thing. But it's been getting hard to oh yeah, recently also it's getting quiet.
SPEAKER_04Because it's super sweet or what?
SPEAKER_01Because it's super artificial. Why are you like it? I like artificial stuff sometimes. I don't. Oh my god, I need to tell you what happened today in school. What happened today in school? So there's these two guys from the 10C that I hate because um they came up to us one day and break randomly and started talking to us. Weird, I don't like them. Anyway, there's this girl in my class that I to the side called also called Leah. The one that hated me in the beginning because of my name, right? So she has the snap of one of the guys, and the other guy that she doesn't have the snap of had a birthday today. So on Insta, normally when someone has a birthday, their friends post like photos of them, like embarrassing photos, because it's their birthday with like happy birthday and stuff. She goes on the guys that she has the snap of, you know. His name's Ben, I'm just gonna call him Ben. Goes on his Insta story because he did one of those things for Tom, his friend, the other guy. There was a photo of him, like Tom, and Ben in boxers, like with only boxers on. She makes a screenshot of that and sends it to one of her friends. So fucking weird. First of all, why would you post that for everyone to see? I would cry if someone posted me in my underwear for everyone to see. Second of all, why would you make a screenshot and send it to one of your friends in the middle of class? With me beside you. I feel like that is another.
SPEAKER_02I have to say, I think that teenagers are not very unmature. You're not one of them.
SPEAKER_01Okay, uh to be fair, I felt nothing except for disgust when seeing them in the boxers. God, I hate them so much, you have no idea. Also, who's born in February? Can we talk about that? What's wrong with born in February? It's just look, look, February is the second month. February is the second month of the year. Yeah. 2 minus 12 equals minus 10. Yeah. Which means they got pregnant in the 10th month of the year. Which means they were pregnant.
SPEAKER_03Is that not true? Yeah, you have to go twice back. It's 12 minus 8. Because uh two, it's uh January, February, you take it out, and then from you can't believe from last year. Last year is from December. December and minus eight is April. So if you give birth in February, you actually uh get pregnant in April.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I don't remember.
SPEAKER_01April? Who gets pregnant in April? What about the month of April? Makes you feel like hmm, it's raining all the time and it's barely sunny. Let's go to your bedroom. That's just not it. I also don't like the guy. Mom, I just don't like the guy. Just let me hate all the guy, please. Yeah, I think that's the reason. I can show you a photo. Yeah, I would. Just not because he was born in November, it's different. Okay, since you're driving straight right now, um, it's the blonde guy up here. Okay. Yeah, you see him? And that's the photo of them in boxers I don't want to see again. No one. I don't want to see any of my classmates photoing. He's not my classmate, he's in a grade above me, and I still don't want to see him.
SPEAKER_02I don't want to see anybody from my school. Yeah, that's my point. Me either.
SPEAKER_01Okay, that's the only part of the song I like, so we'll want anything. I can be naked uh no, it's okay. At home, you know. Just at home in your room. Whatever. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I actually also don't feel like if anybody post I make a photo anywhere will make me feel humiliating. You're in it. Yeah, because uh it's not my fault, it's their fault. So I should not be punished by somebody else. So I will I can I can ignore or I can overcome, I don't mind. And uh but I don't want to see that. That's you don't want to see that. Basically, I don't want to see that in in public or anybody. I don't eh.
SPEAKER_01No, I'd be pretty uh insulted. I wouldn't I don't have any photos of me naked, though there's no way I would have anything. You have when you're four years old. You have when I'm four years old. Yeah. There's a difference.
SPEAKER_02You're not posting that anymore. No, and also it's only the back side, not the front side. Okay, fair enough.
SPEAKER_01Yes, anyway. I'd be pretty upset actually. I probably just hit the the person. I know violence is everything else, but my feeling this is a pretty good place to do it. 515, when do you want to have dinner? It's too 6 30. 7 6 30. 6 37, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And you put makeup on your face, so I decided to also put makeup on my face when I have windows. Yeah, sure.
SPEAKER_01I can take the makeup out. That's right. Maybe not makeup, maybe I just put my fake eyelash as well. Yes, you can be fake eyelash, but you I was pretty scared that they'd like fall off or something. And they didn't, right? They stick pretty well. Yes. For what you did, uh you need glue, right? Yeah. But also I only did um two at the end. I didn't do my entire eye.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly. For the people who have the beautiful eyes like you.
SPEAKER_01And you. I like your rest.
SPEAKER_00She does not seem convinced. No. I don't know. I'm I'm at this tip point that uh I start to feel like I'm getting old.
SPEAKER_01I feel uh muss such as my I don't think getting older is a bad thing, honestly. I mean you're getting closer to that, but yes, we don't feel that that's very normal.
SPEAKER_02I also don't feel that when I was 15, to be honest.
SPEAKER_01No, no, I mean like I mean like the whole process is aging. Like I get the thing like you get wrinkles of and it's like blah blah blah. But it's a kind of poetic beauty to it if you think about it.
SPEAKER_04Yes, it's not about uh close to dead, it's about your like my arm gets hurt, uh, and uh all of these things comes with that don't feel as nice as before. Um I start to have this feeling recently in the last uh one to two years. I think it's your shoulder one. Yeah, including the aging thing.
SPEAKER_01It's okay. Um I will love you even if you're a wrinkled potato.
SPEAKER_04I appreciate that a lot very well.