Speaker 1: All right, it is a mojo in the morning. Almost
Speaker 1: the weekend, busy weekend in store for everybody. We were
Speaker 1: talking earlier this morning a little bit about that cav
Speaker 1: You got a weekend in store. You're actually planning, and
Speaker 1: this is cool. You're planning something big that's going to
Speaker 1: be happening this summer. Yeah, and this weekend you're getting
Speaker 1: some of the final pieces together for this. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So a group of friends shut up, my boy Kuwaiku
Speaker 2: and my boy JG. Back in twenty eighteen, we threw
Speaker 2: a kind of like a small ish music festival in
Speaker 2: a place called idle Wild, Michigan, which is up north,
Speaker 2: maybe about two and a half hours from where we are,
Speaker 2: and some things happen whatever. But this year we are
Speaker 2: bringing it back. So we're doing the return of idlewa
Speaker 2: and we've been planning this adult retreat slash music festival.
Speaker 2: It'll have like water sports, it'll have like real estate opportunity,
Speaker 2: it'll have music, games, fun all the and we've been
Speaker 2: planning it for I would say about four or five
Speaker 2: months at this point, and it's taking place in July.
Speaker 2: I believe it's July twenty six through whatever. That Sunday
Speaker 2: is so a Thursday to Sunday thing theme?
Speaker 1: Is this just a group of guys getting together and
Speaker 1: doing something or is it like an event that people
Speaker 1: buy them theirselves into.
Speaker 2: Absolutely so, it'll be an event that people can matter. Yeah,
Speaker 2: people are going to be able to buy tickets. So
Speaker 2: be able to buy tickets, and it's like a weekend.
Speaker 2: I mean you can either buy like a day pass
Speaker 2: and come up if you just want to hit the
Speaker 2: concert and buy about with the vendors and the food
Speaker 2: and alcohol and the weed and all of that.
Speaker 3: And I know I'm not the only one thinking it
Speaker 3: it's Giving Fire festival.
Speaker 4: Why would it be Giving Fire.
Speaker 3: I don't know, just a concert put on by some
Speaker 3: Not that nothing's wrong with you, Kevin, but like it's
Speaker 3: not a big corporation or a backed company putting this on.
Speaker 2: Well that's said that you got to be a big
Speaker 2: back corporation in order for people to believe in you.
Speaker 2: But hopefully people don't hear this and immediately turn their
Speaker 2: nose to it because it's not sponsored by boost Mobi
Speaker 2: or miss you Bishi in the morning.
Speaker 1: Every but it could be sponsored by them if yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, absolutely so.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you want to go look at the website.
Speaker 2: It's return of Idelwild dot Com. We ain't even like
Speaker 2: really yeah, I mean, we ain't even really put it
Speaker 2: out out yet, but the website is up. So I mean,
Speaker 2: if y'all want to go look, y'all can go check
Speaker 2: it out. Turn how do you sell id I D
Speaker 2: L E W I L D. So what does idlewild mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, words have loud. I don't know if I
Speaker 2: to define it. It's like detrait, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's a city. This is legit the city. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: city is out of wold. And that's why I said
Speaker 2: it's an Idlewild Michigan.
Speaker 3: I take back the Fire Festival. You already have more
Speaker 3: done than them on this website.
Speaker 2: It's okay, knowledge helps I get it. But yeah, so
Speaker 2: we it's gonna happen in July. But so this weekend,
Speaker 2: when I leave the show, I'm going up there because
Speaker 2: we're you know, doing our walk throughs of our locations
Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff, getting everything finalizing in order.
Speaker 2: But the festival again isn't until July. So of course
Speaker 2: I was gonna put my time in because that week
Speaker 2: of the festival I'm gonna be up there getting everything,
Speaker 2: you know together on the actual grounds. But all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, I get an email request from our wonderful
Speaker 2: Chris Carson who says that one of our biggest events
Speaker 2: of the year up in Gordon's Chevrolet, when we do
Speaker 2: Mojo's Cars Cash and Gas giveaway, is the very Friday
Speaker 2: that I need to be up in Idawa. So immediately
Speaker 2: I'm like, dog, how terrible of timing is that the
Speaker 2: one weekend of the year I'm throwing this festival is
Speaker 2: the same weekend we having this event. So I guess
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to figure something out man and drive
Speaker 2: back so I can be present Friday morning and in
Speaker 2: drive back up to idlewhile so I can end the
Speaker 2: weekend the right way.
Speaker 3: That's dedication.
Speaker 1: We'll get this site. This is a This is way
Speaker 1: better than Firefight. Why would you say that there is
Speaker 1: even fire festival when you see this thing. This is
Speaker 1: like when you talk about a professional thing, very professional.
Speaker 1: You're actually one of the people that that will be
Speaker 1: sponsoring this and putting it on.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I'm part of the team.
Speaker 2: My boy JG and Kuwaiku round out the three of
Speaker 2: us that are putting this together.
Speaker 3: And tickets are not expensive. It says like twenty eight dollars,
Speaker 3: twenty dollars fifty cents.
Speaker 2: The food looks good if well, I mean, depending upon
Speaker 2: what package you have. So we want to provide a
Speaker 2: camping experience, so to speak. So people can either buy
Speaker 2: a tint and you know it'll have your your seat,
Speaker 2: your betting area in there. You don't got to bring
Speaker 2: away cuts and all that kind of stuff. So it's
Speaker 2: a it's a weekend. If you buy a weekend pass,
Speaker 2: it got food included, you get your drinks and flooded
Speaker 2: that whole thing, all the concert, water sports, all that.
Speaker 1: Come. Look at you in the tent. There's a picture
Speaker 1: of you in the tent, and we're looking at it
Speaker 1: right now. So wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on a second.
Speaker 1: I'll got to ask this question. Am I not invited
Speaker 1: to something like that? If you want to, I've just
Speaker 1: put it. Well, no, I'm looking you're trying to sleep now,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the pictures. There's not a white guy
Speaker 1: in this place.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you go most country clubs, is
Speaker 4: probably not a black guy in there. Sure they'll take you.
Speaker 2: I'm just wondering though, I come to it absolutely, if
Speaker 2: you pay, If you pay your money pull up right.
Speaker 1: So wait, so you said this is the same week
Speaker 1: as the Cars, Cash and Gas Finale. Yeah, So would
Speaker 1: that mean that when we play, because we always do
Speaker 1: a throwback throw down at the end, would it be
Speaker 1: that Tony would have to fill in for you, kind
Speaker 1: of like how he did for Mike last year.
Speaker 2: No, well, I mean I don't want to miss it,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like I said, this is
Speaker 2: one of the bigger moments of our show throughout the year,
Speaker 2: and I feel like, you know, attendance, you know isn't mandatory,
Speaker 2: but it's you know, cordially required. So it's one of
Speaker 2: them things I definitely don't want to miss and I
Speaker 2: want to pull up for I'm just have to do
Speaker 2: what I can to make it here and then make
Speaker 2: it back in time to fulfill those obligations as well.
Speaker 1: How long is Idle Wild from Uh, it's a half hours.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's coming. You don't have to do that,
Speaker 1: that's no, no, no no. But I'm what I'm saying
Speaker 1: is like, you know, can't we move the date of
Speaker 1: the Gordon Chevrolet Grand Finale, Lydia? Can we move it
Speaker 1: like a week or something.
Speaker 3: I can talk to the team and see if we can.
Speaker 4: That would be great.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, I would rather that HAVEV
Speaker 1: not you know, ruining his big moment here. But also,
Speaker 1: this is kind of a little vacation for you too, right,
Speaker 1: this is like you're taking vacation time.
Speaker 2: Yes, but I mean I'm treat Yeah, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to be relaxing so much like you know, I'm not
Speaker 2: a participant. I'm gonna be up there trying to make
Speaker 2: sure that the people who paid they money to come
Speaker 2: are are the ones that's relaxing.
Speaker 1: I did not know. Idle Wild, Michigan is a is
Speaker 1: a It says here. What does it say? It says
Speaker 1: historic Black resort town. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So back in the nineteen early nineteen hundred, specifically like
Speaker 2: around nineteen twelve, when black people didn't have a lot
Speaker 2: of spaces to go to and feel welcomed and appreciated, Idawua,
Speaker 2: Michigan was that place, specifically Idlewild, this beach resort and
Speaker 2: Paradise Paradise area. Aretha Franklin, James Brown, the BDB, the
Speaker 2: voice like a bunch of people will go up there
Speaker 2: and this will be their opportunity to feel love, seeing
Speaker 2: appreciated and community.
Speaker 4: I love seeing and respected them. So how did we
Speaker 4: want to bring that back?
Speaker 3: Get the idea to do this? Like, truly, I had
Speaker 3: no idea that it was this put together? This is amazing.
Speaker 3: What made you guys want to do this?
Speaker 2: I think I think your dad might have said yesterday,
Speaker 2: like if you want to arm somebody with something, arm
Speaker 2: them with knowledge. And I think once we started to
Speaker 2: understand what Idlewow was, because we had to educate ourselves.
Speaker 2: It's not something that was in the books, not something
Speaker 2: that was taught, you know, to us. I'll cast did
Speaker 2: a movie called Idlewow and it was kind of ish
Speaker 2: made on this, but it wasn't at all shot at Idlewow.
Speaker 2: And then just starting to understand more of you know,
Speaker 2: our history and what we're connected to. It was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: not only am my knowledgeable about this new area, but
Speaker 2: how can I be a part of this new area.
Speaker 2: How can we celebrate this new area and enlighten other
Speaker 2: people to come up there, purchase property and become aware
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: I like this and I think we should move our date.
Speaker 1: I call for you know how they do resolutions I
Speaker 1: would like to call for a vote on this. I
Speaker 1: would like to.
Speaker 3: Would you like us to do a life broadcast for
Speaker 3: mital while.
Speaker 2: Do we have do we have the capabilities to even
Speaker 2: do it at co America.
Speaker 1: Park for over That would be fun though, That would honestly,
Speaker 1: that would be a really fun thing. Although I don't
Speaker 1: know how much of you I would even have time
Speaker 1: to do something like that. If you're putting a whole
Speaker 1: event on and you're the main guy. What'd you want
Speaker 1: to say? Antoinette, Hey, I just.
Speaker 5: Wanted to say what a great job Kevin is doing.
Speaker 5: Idlewild is such an important part of Black history and
Speaker 5: there's so many many of us trying to bring it back,
Speaker 5: just spread knowledge about it. And I think, you know,
Speaker 5: providing art is a way of educating, in a way
Speaker 5: of getting people together and spreading knowledge.
Speaker 3: So I'm just really.
Speaker 5: Proud of you, Kevin. I love the idea. I will
Speaker 5: definitely be getting a group together to come and support.
Speaker 5: And I'm a local politician, so I definitely want to
Speaker 5: bring more knowledge to the event.
Speaker 1: What do you do you where are your politician?
Speaker 5: Macome County. I'm a county commissioner.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool and your name is Antoinette.
Speaker 5: Yep, that's what at Wallace. I'm one of the first
Speaker 5: black female county commissioners.
Speaker 2: Hang hang on the line real quick Lydia. If you can't,
Speaker 2: can you get information from me? Connect with you when
Speaker 2: we get out. Yeah, kind of appreciate you.
Speaker 6: Thank you guys. Have a great day you too.
Speaker 1: Take care hold one secon. Jessica, do you remember when
Speaker 1: we would do the trips to Canadian Lakes where we
Speaker 1: would give away We gave away Mojo's lakehouse up at
Speaker 1: Canadian Lakes. It was like a couple like summer or
Speaker 1: so ago. Jessica from there says. Idle Wild is literally
Speaker 1: in our Canadian Lakes neck of the woods. And Kevin welcome.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have some fun if you want to come
Speaker 1: over towards us. Okay, I like it, So that's cool.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Skip is on the phone with us
Speaker 1: right now. What's going on?
Speaker 4: Skip?
Speaker 1: What's going on? How you doing? Bud?
Speaker 6: Good?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 6: You've touched on it a little bit, but I was
Speaker 6: looking at the website when you guys was talking about it.
Speaker 4: Cav can a season cracker like myself.
Speaker 1: Pull up there.
Speaker 3: Season.
Speaker 4: As long as you got some.
Speaker 1: I'm white, but I'm not that white.
Speaker 4: As long as you got some season bro, come.
Speaker 1: On, Oh I'm seasoned. It looks fun, doesn't it. Did
Speaker 1: you do at that website? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I was looking at the website because an it was like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's talking about the fire things.
Speaker 1: I was like, let me check this out. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: look at keV. I was like and instantly I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I was like, this is heaven for me.
Speaker 4: Come on, broll, we'll be announcing heart is soon.
Speaker 1: That's cool. Hold on, mo, what's up?
Speaker 3: Mo?
Speaker 1: Hi?
Speaker 6: Mo?
Speaker 3: Yo?
Speaker 1: What up?
Speaker 6: Though? Good morning?
Speaker 4: What's going on? Not much?
Speaker 1: Nothing much.
Speaker 6: I just wanted to call the teale keV. Great job.
Speaker 6: I've been going up to Idlewild, Michigan since like nineteen
Speaker 6: eighty six doing deer hunting season. Okay, so we got
Speaker 6: a crib up there in over forty acres, So, keV,
Speaker 6: I'd definitely be up there. This is more unique.
Speaker 1: I'll definitely be up.
Speaker 6: There in July.
Speaker 2: More unique, my man, July twenty third through the twenty six.
Speaker 2: And I see you there the website.
Speaker 1: No doubt.
Speaker 6: I shot you at DM two.
Speaker 4: Okay, Ben.
Speaker 1: The website is no doctor, but the.
Speaker 6: Great work, y'all. S all, y'all at the Mojo in
Speaker 6: the Morning show, Beyon here Lydia Shinnon mojo Ah, y'all.
Speaker 1: Turn of idlewild dot com, Return of Idylwild dot Com.
Speaker 1: And I, because I have naming rights of Mojo in
Speaker 1: the Morning, I say we move the event date. So
Speaker 1: come on, let's just move it. Are you good with that?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know you got to talk to Mike Angel and
Speaker 4: get some things going.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we can. Please, let's do it. Because I
Speaker 1: didn't realize this, and actually we when we planned the dates,
Speaker 1: do we I don't even remember did we say as
Speaker 1: everybody got a free moment? We probably should have done
Speaker 1: that off the air, but that's we Uh. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: don't even realize it. But it's funny because I know
Speaker 1: exactly Cav's feeling, because like, my son's getting married at
Speaker 1: the end of the year, and all I keep thinking
Speaker 1: of is conflicts with the break, honoring Christmas wish and
Speaker 1: all the rest of that stuff. So but we have lives,
Speaker 1: and I think our lives should play priority over you know,
Speaker 1: certain things that we have at the radio station. Right,
Speaker 1: So this is cool and it it is grabbing onto
Speaker 1: a lot of people, a lot of people going to
Speaker 1: that site.