Speaker 1: All right, it is Mojo in the morning.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Kev's son, Josiah is in seventh grade. All right, after
Speaker 1: we talk about hoes and I know that's crazy.
Speaker 3: Kev's son Josiah is in seventh grade, and he is
Speaker 3: one of the most talented kids that I have ever seen.
Speaker 3: And he, as well as all of those kids at
Speaker 3: his school, did a fabulous job last night. They kept
Speaker 3: me awake watching the Disney Descendants play that they had,
Speaker 3: their musical that they had yesterday at school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they did a great job.
Speaker 4: This is Josiah's first time, if you can believe it,
Speaker 4: ever being in a play or ever doing anything theater related.
Speaker 1: He's more of a drawer animator.
Speaker 4: He makes works of arts with his hands, and even
Speaker 4: though he likes doing voiceovers, he's never auditioned or did
Speaker 4: a play. So he's been really excited and really focused
Speaker 4: and really looking forward to this moment.
Speaker 1: So again, appreciate you and Chelse for pulling up.
Speaker 4: So once the play has concluded, after all two hours
Speaker 4: of it, they get done all.
Speaker 1: The can I stop you?
Speaker 3: B So Kevin texts Chelsea and I and he goes,
Speaker 3: you guys know this thing is going to be two hours,
Speaker 3: he texts because he's sitting in like the front rows
Speaker 3: with all the parents are and we're kind of in
Speaker 3: the back, and he goes, feel free to scoot if
Speaker 3: you want to.
Speaker 1: I said, this spit two hours. You all won't, so
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 3: I was willing to stay the whole time. Miss Chelsea
Speaker 3: was Chelousa was like Chelsea was like two hours. Which,
Speaker 3: by the way, it is weird to go and watch
Speaker 3: and you know one kid, like I know, usually that's
Speaker 3: what happens to you when you go see your kid
Speaker 3: and stuffing, but you at least know the other kids.
Speaker 3: So I'm sitting there the whole time, and the entire
Speaker 3: time I'm watching this thing going, Josiah is better than
Speaker 3: that kid, better.
Speaker 1: Than this kid. Like I was judging these other kids,
Speaker 1: I have no idea who they are a big role.
Speaker 1: I would say, he's not the main actor.
Speaker 5: He's he's supporting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he looks good though he's good At first I
Speaker 3: was growing up. Man, the kid does not look the same.
Speaker 3: In a year time, he went from being this little
Speaker 3: like I felt like the little kid who is just
Speaker 3: like so cute and innocent to now he's like a
Speaker 3: grown ass man's crazy.
Speaker 5: How did he do?
Speaker 4: I thought he did well? Yeah, thought he did well.
Speaker 4: I mean it's his first time. And then you know
Speaker 4: your child, so you know their tendencies so you can
Speaker 4: see them like, Okay, Joe's a little bit nervous, or
Speaker 4: he's not confident in this particular dance move, so you
Speaker 4: know that type of stuff. But he delivered all his
Speaker 4: lines well. I thought the inflection was great. But when
Speaker 4: he came off the stage, that was his question. Immediately
Speaker 4: he asked his mom. He was like, how did I do?
Speaker 4: And his mom said, oh my god, you did a
Speaker 4: great job. And Joe's like, no, give me the bad
Speaker 4: And then that's when I step in because I have
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, I have critiques. You want to know
Speaker 4: what you did wrong, I'm gonna tell you. So I
Speaker 4: started and he didn't do a lot of things incorrect.
Speaker 4: But one of the things that I paid attention to.
Speaker 4: And if you're a theater person, they call it blocking.
Speaker 4: It's your staging where you are on the stage, and
Speaker 4: like one of the golden rules is never turn your
Speaker 4: back to the audience. Cheat out, cheat out, cheat out,
Speaker 4: give yourself at a little stand so you can like
Speaker 4: halfway look at your character you're referring to at the time,
Speaker 4: and then the audience can see your physiology and all
Speaker 4: the things. Now, this particular scene, I don't know how
Speaker 4: he actually could have cheated out, but his whole back
Speaker 4: was to us, and that was gonna be my critique.
Speaker 4: But as I'm critiquing him, I start to see his
Speaker 4: posture kind of start to slump, and I could kind
Speaker 4: of see me giving him a critique is kind of
Speaker 4: being met with sadness almost like he's not like engaged,
Speaker 4: like okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's kind of taking it
Speaker 4: to heart. And in that moment, I quickly pivot and
Speaker 4: I'm like, man, but you did so then I went
Speaker 4: to the things you did great. I'm like, man, when
Speaker 4: you deliver this one line, it was incredible, Like how
Speaker 4: excited you got The crowd was laughing, Like I tried
Speaker 4: to pivot, and I'm like, man, like how do parents
Speaker 4: give their children critiques? And then also like how do
Speaker 4: those critique change your child? Because I know for a fact,
Speaker 4: like sometimes parents can be so involved that it can
Speaker 4: strip your child of enjoying the activity and they never
Speaker 4: want to do it again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you suck. The spirit right out of.
Speaker 3: Them, by the way, he was tom Izzo man, he
Speaker 3: was yelling at him in the lot. Can I tell
Speaker 3: you a piece of advice from coaching that I got
Speaker 3: from Tim McCormick, tim NBA player, great guy. Tim McCormick
Speaker 3: told me that after the event that you go to
Speaker 3: like so after the game, he said, never talked about
Speaker 3: the game or talk about the event afterwards. And I
Speaker 3: know Josiah asked you for advice, he said, he would say,
Speaker 3: don't even if you have a critique or criticism, don't
Speaker 3: talk about it right after the game, because after the
Speaker 3: game is the last time in the world that they
Speaker 3: should know about what they did and did wrong the
Speaker 3: next day when when you're doing it, and only because
Speaker 3: what happens is they just got done with this high
Speaker 3: of playing the game or low if they lost. And
Speaker 3: he would say that the comment that you're going to
Speaker 3: make to them is only going to make them feel worse,
Speaker 3: not better.
Speaker 1: So he would always say so.
Speaker 3: He would always turn music on in the car and
Speaker 3: crank up music and laugh and oh my god, what's
Speaker 3: going on? You know, and you wouldn't even talk about
Speaker 3: the game. But with a play it might be different.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I thought Josiah did great.
Speaker 3: Can I tell you what I was most impressed with,
Speaker 3: which Joe, because they had their sound system was bad.
Speaker 1: They had a broken sound system, which I.
Speaker 3: Felt bad for whoever the teacher was that puts the
Speaker 3: play on because he had to come out and explain.
Speaker 3: He said that whole thing, which, by the way, ain't
Speaker 3: a cheap school. That sound system. Somebody needs to donate
Speaker 3: a better sound system. That tell Mitt Romney, donate some
Speaker 3: more money.
Speaker 1: That's cool. So long story short.
Speaker 3: Josiah inflected when his mic wasn't working so I could
Speaker 3: hear him in the back like he did a good job.
Speaker 3: He knew that his mic maybe wasn't the best, and
Speaker 3: I thought I could hear him. He's got a lot
Speaker 3: of his dad in him in that. So I thought
Speaker 3: that was pretty That was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: But I just don't know. So they have two more today.
Speaker 4: They're doing a one pm show, which was always like
Speaker 4: my favorite when you do the play for the students
Speaker 4: like you do it for your school. Yeah, as always
Speaker 4: the name. He's got one later today at seven. Are
Speaker 4: you going to all three shows?
Speaker 6: Hell?
Speaker 4: No, I don't even think I'm allowed to go to
Speaker 4: the one at one, but I'll be back at the
Speaker 4: one tonight, so you're going to both those shows.
Speaker 1: The show quick question.
Speaker 3: I got to ask you with this with him doing
Speaker 3: theater and stuff as a guy, because I had one
Speaker 3: theater kid, so I actually Luke was a choir kid.
Speaker 1: Though this was that was pretty interesting. I'm thinking about that.
Speaker 5: It wasn't me in that special Guy Boys Grow.
Speaker 3: He was in h yeah, oh god, the uh the
Speaker 3: no is Notre Dame Prep. They called it The Irishman. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: they were the Irishman. As a dad, do you do
Speaker 3: you want and I know he's not a sports kid
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. He's taken after you though, as
Speaker 3: being a theatrical and stuff.
Speaker 1: Do you do you like.
Speaker 5: That you see boys in theaters?
Speaker 2: Nerdy?
Speaker 3: No, I'm just saying that, I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 3: I was kind of bummed that Jacob didn't want to
Speaker 3: do sports.
Speaker 5: He's like, as a dad, how do you feel.
Speaker 3: Because I think there's a lot of times where dad's
Speaker 3: you know, with boys, you want your kid to be
Speaker 3: a sports kid man.
Speaker 4: So I mean originally, of course, like my favorite sport
Speaker 4: is basketball. Would I like to I always envision myself
Speaker 4: being on March madness when they show to college parents
Speaker 4: and they're wearing their team shirts. So you're tim hardaway, Yeah,
Speaker 4: for sure, but early you want to put Josia in
Speaker 4: baseball and like t ball, and he was really good.
Speaker 4: Josiah is incredibly athletic. He's like faster than most kids
Speaker 4: and have always been. And he was performing really well,
Speaker 4: but he wasn't really in it. And then I told
Speaker 4: his mom to take him to like some Halloween thing
Speaker 4: and she was in the car.
Speaker 1: He was crying.
Speaker 4: She was like, he won't get out of the car, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, Josiah, I need you get out the car.
Speaker 4: He was like, you didn't ask me if I wanted
Speaker 4: to go the same way. You didn't ask me if
Speaker 4: I wanted to play baseball. And I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: from now on, I'm just going to support where you're
Speaker 4: at it, not trying to make you do what I
Speaker 4: want to do.
Speaker 7: Have I literally had the same discussion with Smith in
Speaker 7: the car yesterday because every day when I pick him
Speaker 7: up from school, he's.
Speaker 5: Like, do I go to swim today? And he like
Speaker 5: has a.
Speaker 7: Meltdown when I tell him, yeah, today's day, and he's
Speaker 7: like you and Dad didn't even ask me if I
Speaker 7: wanted to do it.
Speaker 5: That's such a thing.
Speaker 1: It's funny.
Speaker 3: It hit me and it hurt me when Jacob at
Speaker 3: first because he was our best athlete in the family,
Speaker 3: when because he was such a good soccer player. But
Speaker 3: then I started seeing what happens in his life now
Speaker 3: and to look back on it, going, God, I was
Speaker 3: so petty with Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wanted it for me, not for him. What's up, Austin?
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 8: Good morning you lovely people.
Speaker 1: What's up.
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 6: So keV you were talking about, like how do you
Speaker 6: give criticism? One of the things that I've learned through
Speaker 6: just like my work and social work and everything, is
Speaker 6: you have.
Speaker 8: To get the compliment sandwich.
Speaker 6: You basically like you start with, hey, this is something
Speaker 6: you did really well, and then you give that criticism
Speaker 6: of like hey, like maybe we could work on this,
Speaker 6: and then you finish it up with another compliment and
Speaker 6: then just encourage him to keep practicing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, compliments that before.
Speaker 7: But even as an adult and somebody compliment sandwich is me,
Speaker 7: all I can focus on is the middle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then I wonder if the other compliments were
Speaker 2: like sincere or they just in there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they didn't just want to say the bad stuff.
Speaker 1: Hey Riley, what's happening?
Speaker 2: Good morning? Hi? How are you guys doing?
Speaker 1: We're good? What's going on?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 9: So I just wanted to comment.
Speaker 2: One thing that I personally heard and like I feel
Speaker 2: like I try and pass on is that you know,
Speaker 2: when your kid asks you how they did, you ask
Speaker 2: them how they sorry, you asked them how they think
Speaker 2: they did? And then you know, you can feed off
Speaker 2: that because you end up teaching them inner acceptance opposed
Speaker 2: to you know, the outer acceptance from other people.
Speaker 1: What are you do in a situation where your child
Speaker 1: just like I did?
Speaker 9: Okay, I think that's I think that's okay to accept
Speaker 9: So I think it's good to you know, judge yourself
Speaker 9: somewhat and.
Speaker 2: Say, okay, well, like what can we do better from
Speaker 2: that situation? And teach them you know, there's always room
Speaker 2: for improvement. It's only a failure if you don't learn
Speaker 2: from what you fail at.
Speaker 1: Gotcha, Riley? What's your background with this? You have kids?
Speaker 1: Are you a teacher? What are you?
Speaker 2: I do have a kid, but he's very young, he's
Speaker 2: only he's about the eighteen months but I do have
Speaker 2: a lot of nieces and nephews so and very close
Speaker 2: to them. So I definitely try and learn, learn as
Speaker 2: much as I can and pass that on because I
Speaker 2: know I feel like we all try to get that
Speaker 2: outer acceptance and that's not Well.
Speaker 3: Do you look at your eighteen month old and say
Speaker 3: you are the greatest drooler I have ever seen it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, I do praise him. I mean he's crazy, wicked, smart.
Speaker 2: I'm a little scared, but but I do think that
Speaker 2: eventually is something I hope I stick with. And I
Speaker 2: mean it's hard because I've been our initial reaction is
Speaker 2: always like you did such a good job, you know,
Speaker 2: But I think it's an important tool to teach your kids.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I do think though it's actually good to
Speaker 3: hear to tell the kids, you know what, I've seen
Speaker 3: you guys play better, but that's okay, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, you got it next time, because I think
Speaker 3: kids honestly do call bs sometimes.
Speaker 7: I always hear Wes, who is a track coach, ask kids,
Speaker 7: do you feel like you had more?
Speaker 5: You had more left in the tank?
Speaker 1: Yeah, when they reach the finish line.
Speaker 7: And I feel like that's a good question because It
Speaker 7: forces them to reflect on what they were capable of
Speaker 7: versus how they did.
Speaker 3: You know, I always hated when my kids would come
Speaker 3: back and they would they would bitch and moan and
Speaker 3: complain about the other kids that were playing there, because
Speaker 3: I always felt like it wasn't being a team player.
Speaker 3: So I was there and go I would like defend
Speaker 3: these other kids and they would get so mad at me,
Speaker 3: be like, you know what, don't worry about them, worry
Speaker 3: about you and how you did.
Speaker 1: What's up? Justin how you doing.
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 8: You areds TV kind of like the first caller, Dude,
Speaker 8: I know sentence that she hates the compliment sandwich, but
Speaker 8: I usually try to I'm a first off, I'm a
Speaker 8: gym teacher, so I do with this a lot. I
Speaker 8: make them play competitively, and I get I get them
Speaker 8: a good feedback first, and then try to sprinkle in
Speaker 8: a negative feedback with let's work on this, let's work
Speaker 8: on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah like that, Let's work on yeah. I like that.
Speaker 3: Hey, as a gym teacher, do you pick on the
Speaker 3: fat kids like my gym teachers used to do with
Speaker 3: me all the time?
Speaker 1: I do not, mo Joe, do you.
Speaker 3: Make kids climb ropes like I used to have to
Speaker 3: climb ropes, and as a big kid in school, I
Speaker 3: can never climb the rope.
Speaker 8: Of a rope. But I know these kids, some of
Speaker 8: them are going to make it to the top, and
Speaker 8: I'm worried about one of them falling on that rock
Speaker 8: hard gym floor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember we used to climb. We did.
Speaker 3: We did stuff that I guarantee you nowadays they don't
Speaker 3: do in school anymore. In gym class Like, I'm like,
Speaker 3: we used to actually wash our gym teacher's car.
Speaker 1: You did, mister, Yeah, it would make us wash his car.
Speaker 1: It was crazy.
Speaker 3: Can I give a critique of of the play from
Speaker 3: last night.
Speaker 1: Well, you got to start with a compliment, you know,
Speaker 1: give me the sandwich.
Speaker 3: I'll give you a compliment that, uh, the temperature was
Speaker 3: nice inside the theater. Okay, here's my complaint. They did
Speaker 3: not have any refreshments for me to I wanted to.
Speaker 3: I wanted like, uh, popcorn and candy and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: And they could be selling it for a fundraiser or something.
Speaker 3: I said to Chelsea. We were hungry going in, and
Speaker 3: I said to I, go, I guarantee you a school
Speaker 3: like this has to have like a refreshment stand or something.
Speaker 1: I walked around that place. I was looking all over.
Speaker 1: I'm like, where the hell of the refreshment across the hall?
Speaker 1: They had some type of cod cod. They have some
Speaker 1: trumble cookies.
Speaker 3: They had a bunch of stuff I saw, but that
Speaker 3: looked like a private party.
Speaker 4: I didn't know because some people I knew when in
Speaker 4: there for tends you can eat.
Speaker 3: They had all tell me a fish fry going on
Speaker 3: or something. Huh, all right, Josiah was awesome. Tell Josiah,
Speaker 3: by the way, can I play? Can I play this?
Speaker 2: Was?
Speaker 1: This was actually pretty funny. Hold on a second, let
Speaker 1: me see if I can play this for you guys.
Speaker 3: Josiah left us a voicemail message, uh for for Chelsea
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 1: I just like his dad does.
Speaker 3: Really seriously honestly spitting of him. Okay, so here you go.
Speaker 10: Hold on, so Mojoe mo joke and I just made
Speaker 10: him from the spot. It's just how cool I am.
Speaker 10: But today today was my play day. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 10: you's were there, right deck. I'm really happy that you
Speaker 10: guys were able to come.
Speaker 2: Uh and I'm just really.
Speaker 10: Thanks thank you guys for being for taking the time
Speaker 10: out of your day to come and.
Speaker 1: Uh, oh my god, that kid, it's amazing. That's such
Speaker 1: a cute kid. Appreciate God. He takes after his mother.
Speaker 3: By the way, Jasmin looks like she's like fourteen years old.
Speaker 1: She's so young. Big ass