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 it's Kev's son.
Speaker 3: Josiah is in seventh grade, and he is one of
Speaker 3: the most talented kids that I have ever seen. And he,
Speaker 3: as well as all of those kids at his school,
Speaker 3: did a fabulous job last night. They kept me awake
Speaker 3: watching the Disney Descendants play that they had, their musical
Speaker 3: that they had yesterday at school. Yeah, so they did
Speaker 3: 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 draw 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: They're really looking forward to this moment. So again, appreciate
Speaker 4: you and Chelse for pulling out. So once the play
Speaker 4: has concluded, after all two hours of it, they get
Speaker 4: done all.
Speaker 1: The can I stop you? Bro?
Speaker 3: So Kevin texts Chelsea and I and he goes, you,
Speaker 3: guys know this thing is going to be two hours
Speaker 3: he tags 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. I said, this spit two hours. You
Speaker 3: all won't, so I'm not gonna lie to you. I
Speaker 3: was willing to stay the whole time. Miss Chelsea was
Speaker 3: Chelsea was like Chelsea was like two hours. Which, by
Speaker 3: the way, it is weird to go and watch and
Speaker 3: you know one kid, like I know. Usually that's what
Speaker 3: happens to you when you go see your kid and stuffing,
Speaker 3: but you at least know the other kids. So I'm
Speaker 3: sitting there the whole time and the entire time I'm
Speaker 3: watching this thing going just sigh.
Speaker 1: Is better than that kid? You better than this kid?
Speaker 1: Like I was judging these other kids, I have no
Speaker 1: idea who they are. A big role. I would say,
Speaker 1: he's not the main actor.
Speaker 5: He's done, 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.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. How did he do? I thought he did well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: though 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. You can see
Speaker 4: them like, Okay, Joe's a little bit nervous, or he's
Speaker 4: not confident in this particular dance move, so you know
Speaker 4: that type of stuff. But he delivered all his lines well.
Speaker 4: I thought the inflection was great. But when he came
Speaker 4: off the stage, that was his question. Immediately he asked
Speaker 4: his mom. He was like, how did I do? And
Speaker 4: his mom said, oh my god, you did a great job.
Speaker 4: And Joe's like, no, give me the bad And then
Speaker 4: that's when I step in because I have what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: I have critiques. You want to know what you did wrong,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you. So I started, and he didn't
Speaker 4: do a lot of things incorrect. But one of the
Speaker 4: things that I paid attention to. And if you're a
Speaker 4: theater person, they call it blocking. It's your staging where
Speaker 4: you are on the stage, and like one of the
Speaker 4: golden rules is never turn your back to the audience.
Speaker 1: Cheat out, cheat out, cheat out, give.
Speaker 4: Yourself at a little stand so you can like halfway,
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 4: fact like sometimes parents could be so involved that it
Speaker 4: can strip your child of enjoying the activity and they
Speaker 4: never want to do it again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you suck the spirit right out of them.
Speaker 3: By the way, he was tom Izzo man, he was
Speaker 3: yelling at him in the loft. Can I tell you
Speaker 3: a piece of advice from coaching that I got from
Speaker 3: Tim McCormick, tim NBA player, great guy. Tim McCormick told
Speaker 3: me that after the event that you go to like
Speaker 3: so after the game, he said, never talked about the
Speaker 3: game or talk about the event afterwards. And I know
Speaker 3: 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 you 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 onto the car and crank
Speaker 3: up music and laugh and oh my god, what's going on?
Speaker 3: You know, And he wouldn't even talk about the game.
Speaker 3: But with a play it might be different.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I thought Josiah did great.
Speaker 3: Can I tell you what I was most impressed with
Speaker 3: with Joe because they had their sound system was bad.
Speaker 3: They had a broken sound system, which I felt bad
Speaker 3: for the whoever the teacher was that puts the play
Speaker 3: on because he had to come out and explain. He
Speaker 3: said that whole thing, which, by the way, I ain't
Speaker 3: a cheap school. That sound system. Somebody needs to donate
Speaker 3: a better sound system. That tell Mitt Romney to donate
Speaker 3: some more money. That's cool. So, long story short. Josiah
Speaker 3: inflected when his mic wasn't working so I could hear
Speaker 3: 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 and that so I thought
Speaker 3: that was pretty That was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I just I don't know. So they have
Speaker 1: 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, that's 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 had 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 in that special guy Boys Girl.
Speaker 3: He was in uh 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 that you.
Speaker 5: Say boys in theaters? 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.
Speaker 1: To do sports.
Speaker 3: He's like, as a dad, how do you feel because
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of times where dad's you know,
Speaker 3: with boys, you want your kid to be a sports
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 1: Or Tim Hardaway, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: But early you want to put Josia in baseball and
Speaker 4: like T ball, and he was really good. Josiah is
Speaker 4: incredibly athletic. He's like faster than most kids and have
Speaker 4: always been. And he was performing really well, but he
Speaker 4: wasn't really in it. And then I told his mom
Speaker 4: to take him to like some Halloween thing and she
Speaker 4: was in the car.
Speaker 1: He was crying.
Speaker 4: She was like, he won't get out 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.
Speaker 1: You do what I 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 you to go to swim today?
Speaker 7: And he like has a meltdown when I tell him, yeah,
Speaker 7: today's day and he's like.
Speaker 5: You and Dad didn't even ask me.
Speaker 1: If I wanted to do it. 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 8: Hey?
Speaker 2: 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?
Speaker 2: One of the things that I've learned through just like
Speaker 2: my work and social work and everything, is you have
Speaker 2: to give the compliment sandwich.
Speaker 1: You basically like you start with, hey, this is something
Speaker 1: you did really well, and then you give that.
Speaker 9: Criticism of like hey, like maybe we could work on this,
Speaker 9: and then you finish.
Speaker 2: It up with another compliment and then just encourage them
Speaker 2: 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 8: Yeah, And then I wonder if the other compliments were
Speaker 8: like sincere or they just in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't just want to say the best stuff. Hey, Riley,
Speaker 1: what's happening?
Speaker 9: Good morning?
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 9: How are you guys doing?
Speaker 1: We're good? What's going on?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 10: So I just wanted to comment.
Speaker 9: One thing that I personally heard and like I feel
Speaker 9: like I try and pass on, is that you know,
Speaker 9: when your kid asks you how they did, you ask
Speaker 9: them how they sorry, you asked them how they think
Speaker 9: they did, And then you know, you can feed off
Speaker 9: that because you end up teaching them inner acceptance opposed to,
Speaker 9: you know, the outer acceptance from other people.
Speaker 1: What do you do in a situation where your child
Speaker 1: just like I did?
Speaker 10: Okay, I think that's I think that's okay to accept
Speaker 10: So I think it's good to, you know, judge yourself
Speaker 10: somewhat and say, okay, well.
Speaker 9: Like, what can we do better from that situation? And
Speaker 9: teach them you know, there's always room for improvement. It's
Speaker 9: only a failure if you don't learn from what you fail.
Speaker 1: That gotcha, Riley, what's your background with this? You have kids?
Speaker 1: Are you a teacher? What are you? I?
Speaker 6: You have a kid, but he's very young, he's only
Speaker 6: he's about the eighteen months. But I do have a
Speaker 6: lot of nieces and nephews so and very close to them,
Speaker 6: So I definitely try and learn as much as I
Speaker 6: can and pass that on because I know I feel
Speaker 6: like we all try to get that outer acceptance and
Speaker 6: that's not what do.
Speaker 3: You look at your eighteen month old and say you
Speaker 3: are the greatest drooler I have ever seen it?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yes, I do praise him. I mean he's crazy, wicked, smart.
Speaker 6: I'm a little scared, but but I do think that
Speaker 6: eventually something I really hope I stick with. And I
Speaker 6: mean it's hard because I think our initial reaction is
Speaker 6: always like you did such a good job, you know,
Speaker 6: 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 7: Yeah, when they reach the finish line, And I feel
Speaker 7: like that's a good question. Because it forces them to
Speaker 7: reflect on what they were capable of 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 there?
Speaker 2: You areds te kind of like the first color dude.
Speaker 2: I know sentence that she hates the compliment sandwich, But
Speaker 2: I usually try to I'm a first off, I'm a
Speaker 2: gym teacher, so I do with this a lot. I
Speaker 2: make them play competitively, and I get I get them
Speaker 2: a good feedback first, and then try to sprinkle in
Speaker 2: a negative feedback with let's work on this, let's work
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah like that, Let's work on yeah like that. Hey,
Speaker 3: as a gym teacher, do you pick on the fat
Speaker 3: kids like my gym teachers used to do with me
Speaker 3: all the time?
Speaker 1: I do not, mo Joe, do you make.
Speaker 3: Kids climb ropes, like I used to have to climb ropes,
Speaker 3: and as a big kid in school, I can never climb.
Speaker 2: The rope have a rope. But I know these kids,
Speaker 2: some of them are going to make it to the top,
Speaker 2: and I'm worried about one of them falling rock hard
Speaker 2: gym floor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember we used to climb.
Speaker 2: 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 cards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would make us wash his car. It was crazy.
Speaker 1: Can I give a critique of the play from last night, Well,
Speaker 1: you got to start with a compliment, you know, give
Speaker 1: me the sandwich.
Speaker 3: I'll give you a compliment that, uh, the temperature was
Speaker 3: nice inside the theater. Here's my complaint. They did not
Speaker 3: have any refreshments for me to I wanted to. I
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: I was looking all over, like where the hell of
Speaker 3: the refreshments across the hall.
Speaker 1: They had some type of cod cod. They have some
Speaker 1: trouble cookies.
Speaker 4: They had a bunch of stuff I saw, but that
Speaker 4: looked like a private party. I didn't know because some
Speaker 4: people I knew when in there for tends all you
Speaker 4: 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?
Speaker 1: Can I play? Okay? This was This is actually pretty funny.
Speaker 1: Hold on a second, let me see if I can
Speaker 1: play this for you guys.
Speaker 3: Josiah left us a voicemail message, uh for for Chelsea.
Speaker 1: And I just like his dad does.
Speaker 3: Really seriously honestly spitting of him. Okay, so here you go,
Speaker 3: hold on.
Speaker 8: Some Mojoe Joe and I just made him.
Speaker 4: On the spot.
Speaker 8: It's just how cool I am. But today today was
Speaker 8: my play day. I'm pretty sure you was were there, right, Dack.
Speaker 8: I'm really happy that you guys were able to come,
Speaker 8: and I'm just really thanks thank you guys for being
Speaker 8: for taking the time out of your day to come
Speaker 8: and uh lo y'all.
Speaker 1: Oh, my god, kid, it's amazing. That's such a cute kid.
Speaker 1: I appreciate God. He takes after his mother.
Speaker 3: By the way, Jasmine looks like she's like fourteen years old.
Speaker 1: She's so young, big ass. She's all right.