March 28, 2025 • 27 mins
Special guest today! Lydia, Producer for Mojo in the Morning, stopped by to hang out and give us some inside comparisons between JJR and Mojo!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live across the world.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Right now, this is the John Jay and Rich radio program.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We have a guest in the studio, which I think
is really cool. So we have there's another show in Detroit, Mojo.
We've talked about Mojo show before. We go way back,
way way back, and it was cool because Lydia, you're
the producer of Mojo's show.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Yeah, right, so you do.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I mean, and he's got like, I mean, you're in Detroit,
so that's a big city.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
It's pretty big. Yeah, and then we're also in tele
don't Grime Repords.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Okay, so but we've known Mojo for almost twenty five years. Yeah, right,
so now it's kind of cool now, Like we hung
out in San Diego. That's where we met you, and
we all had dinner and stuff and it was really cool.
And then you're here in town partying or whatever. So
we decided to pop in. So I'm curious to get
your perspective on this show today versus the way because
you produce his show.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
So you're like Nick, right, yeah, so what are you
thinking here?
Speaker 6 (00:51):
Like what you're just like if you were a consultant, Like,
I want to know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
To Mojo, I would say, you guys have a lot
of song breaks. You guys have way more than we
do because we.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Only have one and we play one song an hour.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
No, just one in general, one six fifty in the
morning and that's it.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Really, because I'd listened to you guys sometimes in the morning,
I feel sometimes that I'm listening to three or four songs.
Don't you do like the five at five or something
like that or five I've had.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Six fifty five, but that's just five pop culture questions.
Oh okay, yeah, he does like a throwback throw it on.
So Fridays we play some more music, but it's just
a game amongst the show.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
She guys played one song in five hours.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Yeah, I only have one song break on our schedule.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Wow, that's amazing difference. Yeah, that'd be so great.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We used to be like that.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
We used to not have any songs, right, but everything
just shifts and stuff. Wow, I mean how.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Many songs we play about three an hour?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Oh wow, Well we got to go less than that.
We got to compete Mojo.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yes, she's like, what's all this music?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It's wild too, because, in my opinion, with three songs
that we're going one hundred miles an hour here still right,
we're making TikTok, So I gotta get on the treadmill.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
I was seeing you. Another thing is I was looking
at your show sheet. We have like probably like ten
to twelve topics a day, and we rotate them per
show member. But I was seeing that you guys only
have like a few topics here and there. But I
don't know what you guys do before and after. So
do you topics?
Speaker 7 (02:17):
Like what topics?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
I mean, I don't have the show sheet in front
of me on here we go, Yeah, so ours are?
I mean, I guess it's just different because like you
can see Peyton's predictions, But then I don't really see
who has what topic at what time if I'm looking
at this sheet.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
So like, how would you explain that, Like when you
say someone you mean like.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Like Kyle's three things you need to know Peyton's predictions.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I wouldn't see like John Jay got a cake from
a stalker. I wouldn't see like you know what I'm saying, Like,
I don't see like Rich blah blah blah. So that's
the only thing that I would see. You guys probably talk.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
About it like this is uh John Jay audio. We're
gonna talk about the audio that I played.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
She wasn't in our morning meeting.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yeah that might. Yeah, I'm not criticize you guys, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I want you to I want you to get like here,
I played some audio this. We had a meeting at
five point fifty and we played. I said, we're gonna
play this audio and we're going to talk about the
couple's podcasts that we're starting on Sunday. So we're gonna
play audio for that, and if we have time, we're
going to get into this cough. Which didn't get into
the cough. We might get into the cough at eight thirty.
(03:28):
And then here we're going to talk about the Johnny
swim thing and what caused traumas, Peyton's trauma, and if
we have time, we'll get to the cough.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Okay, So this is like a rough draft of it.
So I didn't see like these things. Yeah yeah, she
saw just an open flock. Yeah that's all I saw.
I saw it like without that.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
When we know something is for sure, we put it
in the it's all printed up in the in the stuff.
And then here's the stuff that we're going to do
and things might move.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Okay, right, so you guys want up a couple of points.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
She's like, how do you prepare the show?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Eight twenty? It's so we taped the call. I'm not
sure what's going to A twenty? What's this twenty? That's
the content I thought you should putting bakery called eight thirty,
but maybe it's maybe it is maybe, Yeah, twenty is
a bakery cality twenty Okay, oh yeah, Nick.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, if we're getting technical, the bakery call be at
A twenty. Typically we go bakery call and then we'll
go into a song, and then we'll go into a bit,
and then you'll transition from the bid into the game
that will play for the day for Jonas Brothers.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Did you hear say they get one song the whole show?
Did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
That's crazy.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
We gotta get it like way more stressing.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
It is very it's very stressful.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
So that means so if you're if you got all
these different topics and you're playing.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
One one person here to help with that.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Say that again, have one person here to help with this, right,
but they have one person less than us on their staff, right,
you have seven people?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, you have eight, So there's Shannon, Megan, Kevin, zach
lydia Bianca.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Right, so they're getting it handled with less people, So
who do we eliminate? So how so then how's that happening?
How could you look at us and say, let me
make this more efficient?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
I feel like you guys are pretty efficient. You're also
syndicated in more places than we are.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
But that doesn't change.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Doesn't that change certain things that you have to like
cut or record a little?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I mean you have to things have to be edited
for the different You're not involved in that.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
You don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Everything has to be edited everything.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh yeah, your stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You guys are live in those markets, right, all at
the same time. We used to be like that and
now we actually have three different versions of the show.
You got the live version show, you got a Portland
version of the show.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Four versions, You've got a Flagstaff version of the show,
and then you've got the rest of the affiliate version
of the show. So that's what you're doing back there
a lot, right Nick putting that.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Stuff in.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Definitely don't need an other person.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
There's a light over your face so I can't see
your face.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
It's a lot of stress, trying to understand what goes on.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
We're gonna give Nick shingles after this.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
We're trying to understand what goes on with your own show.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
What if you witnessed that you're like, well, that's kind
of weird. This person seems a little quirky.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I don't think I've realized or seen anything weird, if
I'm being quite honest, We all in radio's weird.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
I always say, like when you meet when you walk
into a radio station, everybody's like a fully functioning sitcom
character ready to go. Everybody's just like quirky. There's nobody
that's normal, at least not in this room.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
But we're still we're still you know, two hours left
of show you haven't even seen, Like we've still got
to do a TV hit, we still got to tape stuff,
we got to do whatever. So there's still a lot
going on on the show that you haven't seen yet.
So it's interesting. Is there anything you saw so far
in the show that you go, oh, maybe we can
use that to help us be more efficient.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
No.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Absolutely, there's such a different dynamic because like right now,
we wouldn't be able to just cut into a podcast
mid show right, like we're just we're constantly like moving
on to the next topic, next topic, next topic. And
I was telling Pan, I'm like, I die for a
bathroom break sometimes because we're the only time I can
do that is during a commercial break.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Right, And I was telling Lydia, I was like, yeah,
I feel like I get like twenty minutes here and
there to get all.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
This because we're running a lot of taped stuff. Yeah, right,
Like when you do War of the Roses, is that taped?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
It is? But then we take live calls, So I
like to sit there and listen to it a second
time around versus when it's taped.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Because when you're running it taped, people are calling in
to participation.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Yeah, and then you're getting those calls.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Ready and will they hold oh yeah, they have no
problem holding the comments one. So you run in the
tape War the Roses taking live calls. Yeah, well that's
that's sweet.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
I think the difference is like we like in our downtime,
we're usually taping stuff and then we run it and
then we have breaks to tape a podcast or calls.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Total you know where we learned that different?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
But remember we learned that from Go On Big d
and Bubba. Oh yeah, remember that we were a long
time with this country show. We sat down with these
guys and they said they do everything. Everything on their
show is tape. Nothing's live, and as they're running something,
they're taping the next thing cable and I was I
remember going.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
How the hell is that? Well, they were on that
pretty much what we do.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Now.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
They're like on seventy different stations too, so it's like
for them, it's like customization and all that. Yeah, and
that's a different format, so they got to chop everything up.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
So can I ask you guys a question? Yeah, when
do you guys get out of here? Like when do
you leave? What time?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I think it's the doctor's appointment clock, So I.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Try to leave some time between uh ten fifteen and
ten thirty eight. I can't leave any later in ten
thirty eight or my appointments late.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I don't think anyone leaves at the same time.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Yeah. Usually everyone just kind of leaves when you have
your stuff done, and sometimes some days there's more to
do and some days there's.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Less to do.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
What about you?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I leave about one o'clock when I both walk out together.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, he's there till one o'clock.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah, he edits. He does. He does all all editing
himself except to the podcast uploading.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Does he does he on box pro or something or what?
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Ye?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Wow, Yeah, I can't do that.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
I was going to say, you do edit, you get
in the you cannot hear At ten thirty, I was
just saying, I think it comes in ebbs and flows,
like sometimes you're all about wanting to edit, and then
other times you want to hop on your treadmill.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And do well.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Sometimes I can hear the edit and I want to
edit it, but it's also it's so time consumed. I
think that maybe it's the virgo in me where when
I start editing it, I want to edit every single thing.
Except for yesterday I couldn't. It was pressed for time
because we had guess that we had the band. Yeah Nick,
where you say.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Something, well, I have a question lydiot.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Then so so you guys leave it one and then
do you stay that long so that like work is
done and then when you leave work you're kind of
like you can live your life.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I think maybe even Nick could probably attest to this.
As a producer, it's always like go go go. Yeah,
I don't even feel like my work is done when
I walk out at one o'clock because then I'm like, oh,
I have a client.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Meeting, and then I because that's how I feel like
we leave it sometimes like sometimes like I'll even like today,
I leave it ten, like Fridays, I help teach art
at my kids school. But then I know I'm probably
gonna have to come back and do a spot for
so and so who hasn't set the copy yet, and
like you know what I mean. So it's like, you know,
it's always when I believe it's not done along.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Those lines too, because when I leave, because I have
my standing appointment at eleven, but if something goes down, A,
I can push it or move it or B.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I'll come back at one o'clock.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I could be back anywhere at one o'clock from meetings,
so I usually will come back if there's and that's
happened a lot in the last couple of months at
one o'clock. But that's so interesting. I think it's so
neat that Mojo stays there till till one. I can't.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You're like, you're like, I gotta get my steps thick.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Really, I what time does it get in five thirty,
I get thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
She's not coming for your tec A competition.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
What time you get five o'clock?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Okay, all right, I think it's just so interest Do
you think one of us if we ever went to
Detroit we could sit in and watch.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I think all of you should come in and.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
You did, like this is all I know, Like this
station is the only station that's it started here, and
I've grown here and I've just stayed here.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I think it'd be fast, you guys, No, I'm saying, but.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Like this reminds me of like the Disney Channel crossover
episodes where you would get pandam on, Tanne on Sweet Life,
and Zack and Cody like you gotta do John Day
and Ridge and Mojo in the morning.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I get up in the morning and I will put
you guys on. I used to listen to another show
just because they're East Coast, so I thought, I wonder
I would listen to this break and I'd go, Okay,
if they talk about that and they're in New York,
then it must be relevant for us to talk about
in entertainment news. And then I would punch over to
you guys and start listening to you guys and go
(11:38):
if they're talking about it and New York's talking about it,
then maybe we need to bring it up, right, So
so then I would look at like entertainment stuff Kyle
brings up for Peyton brings up, and I'm like, well,
I heard this in New York and I heard this
in Detroit. We should definitely bring it up. But now
what's happened is and the Detroit show your show. That's
all I listened to now when it's so much more relevant,
I think than the other show I know to me
(11:59):
and I told like, you guys have a you.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Have a great show.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
And now that that you're you guys are on vacation,
Like I don't like it.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Why is it because your entertainment is just down?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It's no, it's just not it's not the players. I know,
Like it doesn't sound right, Like now I know what
it sounds like. I feel like a listener of our show.
So that's why when we go on vacation we get hammer,
but we also try to make it seem like you
can't tell we're on vacation because it sounds different, like
I'm listening no offense anybody on the show, but Kevin
opening the brakes or coming out.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I'm like, that doesn't sound right.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
So that's something you're not used to the other.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
The other girl doing the doing the entertainment news Megan, Yeah,
like it, Like who's the one that does Shannon, She's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Like she's really she's really good. Like I think her
and Kyle will best friends.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I love her.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Oh have you met her?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
You?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
And I don't know if I've I don't know if
I've actually met her, but I follow her on social
media and just have like followed her career and I
just think she's like a beautiful person.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
She like insight it out.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Yeah, And I don't know, Like I'm like, I've never
met her.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
But I'm I'm a fan.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
She has the same name as my cousin, like Shannon Murphy,
Like I feel like we might be related.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Look with your you never know you might.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Hello, good morning, John j Rich. Hello.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Hello anyway, So are you back to answering the phones
all the time on your show? Yeah, it's always you
answering the phone always.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Wow, I like have an attachment to those phones.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
So what if you have to like do your producer duties.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
And hello, smright, I'm calling to see if I could
play for Jonah's brother's tickets. If you guys are doing
a game, give us.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Or we're gonna do a call back in like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
John Jay what? I love you guys more than anything.
Please let me be the condition.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
What's your name?
Speaker 9 (13:43):
I'm Julia. I'm from Fusan. I've listened to you guys
since the beginning. Yes, I visited the studio when you
guys had y cliff in. So this is just I'm
a Jonahs brother's band because of you guys. So I
really really really want to play.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Well, it's Kyle's game.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
I feel like she should play.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Okay, okay, you can play. Okay, but are you going
to hold for ten minutes or you want to call
you back?
Speaker 9 (14:08):
Absolutely, I'm going to hold it if you want.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Yeah, cool, I can't do you guys have a glare
Nick's face at all?
Speaker 5 (14:15):
No, I have the light.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
That light. This light is.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Right on your face and it's a handsome face. Can
we can can? Can she be architestant?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Okay, you needed me to take my shirt off.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Hold on, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, Lydia,
is that something that you would do would you let
that person play?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
You wouldn't know. Oh, come, I'm kind of with you.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
For me, it's like not a fair thing, like you
didn't already solicit for it yet, and we are to
do it in fifteen minutes. I mean maybe you.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Did, but maybe we don't solicit and we just say that.
She called up and she expressed that I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
That's cool. I like that.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
He says, No, you're doing it wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I know, because but then you hear what a super
fan she is, so you get guilty. And that's when
you need a strong phone screener, right, because when you're
the host and you pick it up. Now, I'm a
jerk if I say no, you know what I'm saying
for real, think about it, right.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
I would have just been like, yeah, we'll call back,
just call back right.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
As the phone screener, you could say that, but as
the host, I look like a bad guy.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
No. Mojo would probably be like no, I feel like
John j would end up being the bad guy.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
I always end up being you.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Look like answer the phone, because I would argue most
of the time.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Hey, who's back there?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I can see it, Claire, I know, but what are
your guys names, who's back there?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I'm I'm gamma.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Hello there, got arm back?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Yeah, coming in to come watch the show? Do you
guys get that? No, you don't let him in the building.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Yeah? We have those every Friday. Oh really Friday?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Let anybody anybody show up or they how do they
get in questions?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Oh, that's that's what we do, get backstage passes to
auctions or like charities and stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Okay, so then what so so how do they when
they come in? Do you give them food? How do
you handle it? Just coming in to watch set in,
watch the show, and you handle all that.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I coordinate it, and then we have our audio producer
who just brings them in and out because honestly, that
responsibility for me is too much.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Right, No, I know, I think Nick can relate to that.
No fense armor anyway, That was cool. Any other questions
for lending you guys, any questions for us all. I'm
fascinated by how other shows were. Like I used to
talk to Tommy Sublan from Jeff and Jerr all the time,
and I went in and watched them do a show.
(16:35):
Do you know they are? They were the ones on stage?
They got a big award at the boot Camp. Oh, okay,
the guy had an eye patch.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Okay, let's bring.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
And Rich was a producer for a rock show for
a long time and for Kid Kratik.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Oh you know what. Nick was telling me that I
was really impressed by that.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You would think that, you know, Rich would like help
share some of his skills with people on the show.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
But do you guys want to listen?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Are there any other shows you sat.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
In and watched Joe Show? So Monday and Tuesday I
watched Joe Show and that was my first other radio
show I've ever gotten to see Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
What do you mean Monday and Tuesday?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
I was just there this past Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Oh, is that the first time you've seen him? Because
he came up from your show show.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
I've ever seen another live radio show?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Oh really?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (17:18):
You know, for me, it's weird when we do the conferences,
and I've been going since I've been eighteen to these
things pretty much every year. It is weird when you
see another show that kind of looks like your show
and feels like your show, but it's not your show.
It's almost like slipping into a new dimension. Yeah, like
oh yeah, well they do this, but we kind of
do that. It's bizarre.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
When I was watching Nick produce, I was like, oh
my god. I was like, you guys do things so
much different, not in a bad way.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So you see him on his laptop doing stuff? Yeah,
because I don't ever see what's he's.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Doing back there?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Everything together?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Is he like can you tell for sure? For real?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I don't know. I don't know what anyone's ever been
back there. It's just the phones, no, so much.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
It is not just the fun comes together.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
We lost the contestant that was gonna hope, hope she'll
call back, but so is everybody else. So you's gonna
have to find Unlessnick out her number.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
So you see him, when were you asking him questions?
What are you doing right now? Like what?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
So?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
What did you say?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
He was working on some things the next gen? And
then I was asking him if he was uploading the
podcast because we do that right away and I think
every show should do that. Is that what you guys?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yea, yeah, he.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Said yeah, he was doing that.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Oh yeah, so what else? So he was uploading the
podcast and here's the other guy.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
He was just doing some busy work. I didn't great,
that's like busy.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Grant's job is to uh top of governments, and I
think find job.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Work. I just heard the mouse clicking a lot.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Side.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
If you guys found out that Grant was like a
c I a operative, anybody be surprised you topple that
government got it down?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Show you you know when Mojo, I don't know if
you guys know this, but he had he had some
heart issues, right you talked about in the air, right yep.
And there was a do you ever see the video
I made for him? No, so we had to make
some of us made videos for him when he's going
into surgery. And I texted him and I told him
made the video, And now I was he was the
guy I've talked about on the air before, where like
(19:26):
if he did die, I was hoping my text was
the last text with him so that that screenshot would
go viral and okay, anyway, he didn't die. I was
just thinking of my I'm just going through my head
all this stuff with Mojo.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
He was always so good us. He was always so kind,
that was always so nice.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Every time I've ever like come encounter with him, He's
always just been nothing but kind.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
He'll be missed something he died.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
He was always so kind to us.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Man, Joja have you seen that trend where it's like
people are like recording their moms and they're telling them
that these like iconic celebrities died and they like reaction.
I love that someone would need to do that with you.
For Mojo, Mojo died or something or like or some
type of thing.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I would I would be really sad because because I
now know his son, and I know I know him
more because somebody else died recently.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I'm like, Oh, it sucks, but moved on.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Because you're dead inside anyway.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
All right, Well that's cool to you. Thanks man, think.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Thanks for having me. I love being here.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
How long is the flight to Detroit?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
About three and a half to four hours.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Okay, while you're thinking about going.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
There, one of us, we should send somebody to go
learn it.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
I can't go there because their studio is really nice.
I'm good to have equipment.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Oh, you would be good person because you'd be like I.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Want to be like what you got buttons that work.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
You'd be taking all the things and notes on the
equipment and stuff. Oh yeah, order some new board do
you guys have next gym over there?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
We do?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
All right? Is that a thing everyone has.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
A lot of people in radio they does?
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Does yours like have whatit arts does, which is like
intermediate turning off?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Oh yeah, we still have that at our new okay
in the middle.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Have you seen similar problems with this show in your show?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Especially with next Shan because I was hearing Nick saying
he was dealing with the freezing of it. He's like,
it's frozen, and so when Mojo's middle of the show,
he's like, oh damn it, Next Sun's doing that thing
again and it just won't work.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
You know, when you guys do entertainment news and let's
say you're talking about Selena Gomez and then a Sleein
Gomez song plays underneath it. When you're doing it or
you're talking about anything, it's always seems you're prepped and
stuff like that. Is that Mojo just doing it? Or
do you guys know we're gonna do these stories, We're
gonna play these songs? Did you play their songs?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
So Shannon sometimes chooses the songs, but Mojo when he
chooses a story, I think he'll throw his own song
or his bed under it.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
But if Shannon's talking about Selena Gomez, you'll hear and
then sooner Gomez mentioned just you'll hear underneath you know,
like calm down whatever.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah, that'll be like that's probably Shannon.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
But then does she have any kind of controls because
the levels low and then and it goes right to
the next story, the next song star.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
No, So she has like a whiteboard that she'll hold
up for Mojo, so he knows, Oh wow, Mojo's running
the entire show like he runs the board, he runs
the mics, he does it all.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Well, so do you rich? Yeah, but not so smooth.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah. I like to see.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
What I like to do is bring this back to Mojo.
I like to let things breathe. So some people would
call that dead air, I call it.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Hey, Nick, did you get her number? Okay?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Good, good, Okay, we can tell her she's the contestant
that shouldn't be a contestant because Lydia has said, now.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Girl, she's standing down with that took toes.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Remember we're talking about that dog the other day that
was like a Corgie and a German shepherd. Some lady
mess he said, she has she has one, so she
sent me. She sent me pictures.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
It's got to be the cutest dog ever, right.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
You would think so, But it's not.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
It's she doesn't look like a shepherd.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
No, it looks like it looks like a freaking daisy.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
What is daisy got dun in her?
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yeah, he's a Wiener Cock Cocker Spaniel.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
That was really called I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
So John Jay had her litter with Love pub and
that's what they called them, the Wiener Cocks. And so
when he talked about it on the air, my my daughter,
who was three at the time, was like, Mommy, can
we please go see the Wiener Cox.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Those are the things.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I have this in my mind of your daughter playing
with the puppies, and I remember her voice.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Hi puppy, Hi puppy, over and over again. It was
a cute.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Yeah, her voice it's changed a little now, like it's
still adorable, but like when I watch videos of her
at that age, it's like the cutest voice ever. And
it's probably just because it's my kid, but I also
thought it was a really cute voice.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
No, I was not married. I live with my parents,
no single, no kids. I like how.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
You're the perfect producer.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Oh, yeah, yeah, that shows my life. I love it
that way.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Though.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Did you grow up in Detroit so you grew up
listening to Mojo?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (24:11):
My mom is like a die hard. She was a
diehard Mojo fan since day one. So she raised me
on Mojo and then when I started working there, she
still stayed a die hard fan and it's still obsessed
with Mojo. I worked in promotions. Okay, yeah, his former
producer Ellen, she goes excellent. She got a new job
and she lives out of state now, out of Detroit.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
And who taught her how to be a producer?
Speaker 5 (24:34):
There was another producer prior to her who taught that person.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Oh my god, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
I'm assuming before them.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Do you guys think that stuff is cool?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Though?
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Like being able to like, I don't know, I think
that's cool. Like I grew up listening to you guys,
so I think, like that's cool to be in here,
and so for you, Lydia, is it the same, Like
I feel starstruck every time I walk in here.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
No, you don't, yes, I do. I think you feel
annoyed when you want on the day it starts trying.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Now, I grew up listening to us too.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Than Actually that comment sounds crazy, but it's the truth
because I lived it.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Because you are still not grown up.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
That's funny because would say I felt I felt so
mature the last couple of days. Yeah, but that's cool.
I think that's cool. Pain that you grew up listening.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
To me, I did too. I just wanted to remind you.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Guys, No, I remember because your dad was in my
house and you facetimed him, and I remember your reaction
to me saying hi to you. You would not, did
I Yeah, you really did. Like now, like I don't
know it. You know, it's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
It is a big deal.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
So does your mom want to always come in for
stuff or like she.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
She does, Like she'll be like, we didn't do a top,
we haven't done a topic in a long time, And
I'm like, well, that's not your show.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
So have you ever gotten home pissed off about at
Mojo and told your parents and it made them sour
a little bit on Mojo because that happens here all
the time.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I've never been pissed off at Mojo actually, believe it
or not, I've known him what like five years, never
been pissed off. Why how come he's the only person
on that show that's not not pissed me off?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Why so does he How does he ask you to
do stuff without you getting upset or it.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Needs stuff done? I think I'm the producer, but what.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
If it doesn't get done? Right? Does he ever get
upset with you?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Yeah? Like he's been upset a couple of times where
he's been upset with me, and I've had like a
bad day about it. But I understand where he's coming
from and it just makes me grow as a producer.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
But she's good, good? Could you?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Oh, look, we have a contestant already? Where are we
in the show?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
We got two minutes?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
You held up four fingers and said, we got two minutes?
You see? Did you see that? Did you guys see that?
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Yeah? But like that's the amazing thing about Richie.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
He does that a lot.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Because we're taping something earlier and you said how much
time you have? He said five minutes? And then like
two minutes that, you said, how much time do we have?
Speaker 7 (27:01):
Any? Hell of.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Wow? All right, Well, I'm glad you're here, Lydia. Is
it cool the podcasts?
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:08):
We can label some so like really inside inside inside information.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
I hope Mojo doesn't die.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah, yeah, where do we get to add this as
a separate either There are afterwards afterwards.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
It's up to Nick. What do you What do you
want to what do you Oh.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Sure, whatever you guys want.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
That's fine, whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
You want, yeah, okay, after a podcast. All right, that's
Lydia from The Mojo Show, Big Fans,
Broadcasting live across the world.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Right now, this is the John Jay and Rich radio program.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We have a guest in the studio, which I think
is really cool. So we have there's another show in Detroit, Mojo.
We've talked about Mojo show before. We go way back,
way way back, and it was cool because Lydia, you're
the producer of Mojo's show.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Yeah, right, so you do.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I mean, and he's got like, I mean, you're in Detroit,
so that's a big city.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
It's pretty big. Yeah, and then we're also in tele
don't Grime Repords.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Okay, so but we've known Mojo for almost twenty five years. Yeah, right,
so now it's kind of cool now, Like we hung
out in San Diego. That's where we met you, and
we all had dinner and stuff and it was really cool.
And then you're here in town partying or whatever. So
we decided to pop in. So I'm curious to get
your perspective on this show today versus the way because
you produce his show.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
So you're like Nick, right, yeah, so what are you
thinking here?
Speaker 6 (00:51):
Like what you're just like if you were a consultant, Like,
I want to know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
To Mojo, I would say, you guys have a lot
of song breaks. You guys have way more than we
do because we.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Only have one and we play one song an hour.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
No, just one in general, one six fifty in the
morning and that's it.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Really, because I'd listened to you guys sometimes in the morning,
I feel sometimes that I'm listening to three or four songs.
Don't you do like the five at five or something
like that or five I've had.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Six fifty five, but that's just five pop culture questions.
Oh okay, yeah, he does like a throwback throw it on.
So Fridays we play some more music, but it's just
a game amongst the show.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
She guys played one song in five hours.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Yeah, I only have one song break on our schedule.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Wow, that's amazing difference. Yeah, that'd be so great.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We used to be like that.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
We used to not have any songs, right, but everything
just shifts and stuff. Wow, I mean how.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Many songs we play about three an hour?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Oh wow, Well we got to go less than that.
We got to compete Mojo.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yes, she's like, what's all this music?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It's wild too, because, in my opinion, with three songs
that we're going one hundred miles an hour here still right,
we're making TikTok, So I gotta get on the treadmill.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
I was seeing you. Another thing is I was looking
at your show sheet. We have like probably like ten
to twelve topics a day, and we rotate them per
show member. But I was seeing that you guys only
have like a few topics here and there. But I
don't know what you guys do before and after. So
do you topics?
Speaker 7 (02:17):
Like what topics?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
I mean, I don't have the show sheet in front
of me on here we go, Yeah, so ours are?
I mean, I guess it's just different because like you
can see Peyton's predictions, But then I don't really see
who has what topic at what time if I'm looking
at this sheet.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
So like, how would you explain that, Like when you
say someone you mean like.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Like Kyle's three things you need to know Peyton's predictions.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I wouldn't see like John Jay got a cake from
a stalker. I wouldn't see like you know what I'm saying, Like,
I don't see like Rich blah blah blah. So that's
the only thing that I would see. You guys probably talk.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
About it like this is uh John Jay audio. We're
gonna talk about the audio that I played.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
She wasn't in our morning meeting.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yeah that might. Yeah, I'm not criticize you guys, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I want you to I want you to get like here,
I played some audio this. We had a meeting at
five point fifty and we played. I said, we're gonna
play this audio and we're going to talk about the
couple's podcasts that we're starting on Sunday. So we're gonna
play audio for that, and if we have time, we're
going to get into this cough. Which didn't get into
the cough. We might get into the cough at eight thirty.
(03:28):
And then here we're going to talk about the Johnny
swim thing and what caused traumas, Peyton's trauma, and if
we have time, we'll get to the cough.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Okay, So this is like a rough draft of it.
So I didn't see like these things. Yeah yeah, she
saw just an open flock. Yeah that's all I saw.
I saw it like without that.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
When we know something is for sure, we put it
in the it's all printed up in the in the stuff.
And then here's the stuff that we're going to do
and things might move.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Okay, right, so you guys want up a couple of points.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
She's like, how do you prepare the show?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Eight twenty? It's so we taped the call. I'm not
sure what's going to A twenty? What's this twenty? That's
the content I thought you should putting bakery called eight thirty,
but maybe it's maybe it is maybe, Yeah, twenty is
a bakery cality twenty Okay, oh yeah, Nick.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, if we're getting technical, the bakery call be at
A twenty. Typically we go bakery call and then we'll
go into a song, and then we'll go into a bit,
and then you'll transition from the bid into the game
that will play for the day for Jonas Brothers.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Did you hear say they get one song the whole show?
Did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
That's crazy.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
We gotta get it like way more stressing.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
It is very it's very stressful.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
So that means so if you're if you got all
these different topics and you're playing.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
One one person here to help with that.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Say that again, have one person here to help with this, right,
but they have one person less than us on their staff, right,
you have seven people?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, you have eight, So there's Shannon, Megan, Kevin, zach
lydia Bianca.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Right, so they're getting it handled with less people, So
who do we eliminate? So how so then how's that happening?
How could you look at us and say, let me
make this more efficient?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
I feel like you guys are pretty efficient. You're also
syndicated in more places than we are.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
But that doesn't change.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Doesn't that change certain things that you have to like
cut or record a little?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I mean you have to things have to be edited
for the different You're not involved in that.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
You don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Everything has to be edited everything.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh yeah, your stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You guys are live in those markets, right, all at
the same time. We used to be like that and
now we actually have three different versions of the show.
You got the live version show, you got a Portland
version of the show.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Four versions, You've got a Flagstaff version of the show,
and then you've got the rest of the affiliate version
of the show. So that's what you're doing back there
a lot, right Nick putting that.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Stuff in.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Definitely don't need an other person.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
There's a light over your face so I can't see
your face.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
It's a lot of stress, trying to understand what goes on.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
We're gonna give Nick shingles after this.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
We're trying to understand what goes on with your own show.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
What if you witnessed that you're like, well, that's kind
of weird. This person seems a little quirky.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I don't think I've realized or seen anything weird, if
I'm being quite honest, We all in radio's weird.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
I always say, like when you meet when you walk
into a radio station, everybody's like a fully functioning sitcom
character ready to go. Everybody's just like quirky. There's nobody
that's normal, at least not in this room.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
But we're still we're still you know, two hours left
of show you haven't even seen, Like we've still got
to do a TV hit, we still got to tape stuff,
we got to do whatever. So there's still a lot
going on on the show that you haven't seen yet.
So it's interesting. Is there anything you saw so far
in the show that you go, oh, maybe we can
use that to help us be more efficient.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
No.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Absolutely, there's such a different dynamic because like right now,
we wouldn't be able to just cut into a podcast
mid show right, like we're just we're constantly like moving
on to the next topic, next topic, next topic. And
I was telling Pan, I'm like, I die for a
bathroom break sometimes because we're the only time I can
do that is during a commercial break.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Right, And I was telling Lydia, I was like, yeah,
I feel like I get like twenty minutes here and
there to get all.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
This because we're running a lot of taped stuff. Yeah, right,
Like when you do War of the Roses, is that taped?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
It is? But then we take live calls, So I
like to sit there and listen to it a second
time around versus when it's taped.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Because when you're running it taped, people are calling in
to participation.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Yeah, and then you're getting those calls.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Ready and will they hold oh yeah, they have no
problem holding the comments one. So you run in the
tape War the Roses taking live calls. Yeah, well that's
that's sweet.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
I think the difference is like we like in our downtime,
we're usually taping stuff and then we run it and
then we have breaks to tape a podcast or calls.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Total you know where we learned that different?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
But remember we learned that from Go On Big d
and Bubba. Oh yeah, remember that we were a long
time with this country show. We sat down with these
guys and they said they do everything. Everything on their
show is tape. Nothing's live, and as they're running something,
they're taping the next thing cable and I was I
remember going.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
How the hell is that? Well, they were on that
pretty much what we do.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Now.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
They're like on seventy different stations too, so it's like
for them, it's like customization and all that. Yeah, and
that's a different format, so they got to chop everything up.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
So can I ask you guys a question? Yeah, when
do you guys get out of here? Like when do
you leave? What time?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I think it's the doctor's appointment clock, So I.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Try to leave some time between uh ten fifteen and
ten thirty eight. I can't leave any later in ten
thirty eight or my appointments late.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I don't think anyone leaves at the same time.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Yeah. Usually everyone just kind of leaves when you have
your stuff done, and sometimes some days there's more to
do and some days there's.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Less to do.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
What about you?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I leave about one o'clock when I both walk out together.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, he's there till one o'clock.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah, he edits. He does. He does all all editing
himself except to the podcast uploading.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Does he does he on box pro or something or what?
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Ye?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Wow, Yeah, I can't do that.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
I was going to say, you do edit, you get
in the you cannot hear At ten thirty, I was
just saying, I think it comes in ebbs and flows,
like sometimes you're all about wanting to edit, and then
other times you want to hop on your treadmill.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And do well.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Sometimes I can hear the edit and I want to
edit it, but it's also it's so time consumed. I
think that maybe it's the virgo in me where when
I start editing it, I want to edit every single thing.
Except for yesterday I couldn't. It was pressed for time
because we had guess that we had the band. Yeah Nick,
where you say.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Something, well, I have a question lydiot.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Then so so you guys leave it one and then
do you stay that long so that like work is
done and then when you leave work you're kind of
like you can live your life.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I think maybe even Nick could probably attest to this.
As a producer, it's always like go go go. Yeah,
I don't even feel like my work is done when
I walk out at one o'clock because then I'm like, oh,
I have a client.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Meeting, and then I because that's how I feel like
we leave it sometimes like sometimes like I'll even like today,
I leave it ten, like Fridays, I help teach art
at my kids school. But then I know I'm probably
gonna have to come back and do a spot for
so and so who hasn't set the copy yet, and
like you know what I mean. So it's like, you know,
it's always when I believe it's not done along.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Those lines too, because when I leave, because I have
my standing appointment at eleven, but if something goes down, A,
I can push it or move it or B.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I'll come back at one o'clock.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I could be back anywhere at one o'clock from meetings,
so I usually will come back if there's and that's
happened a lot in the last couple of months at
one o'clock. But that's so interesting. I think it's so
neat that Mojo stays there till till one. I can't.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You're like, you're like, I gotta get my steps thick.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Really, I what time does it get in five thirty,
I get thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
She's not coming for your tec A competition.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
What time you get five o'clock?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Okay, all right, I think it's just so interest Do
you think one of us if we ever went to
Detroit we could sit in and watch.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I think all of you should come in and.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
You did, like this is all I know, Like this
station is the only station that's it started here, and
I've grown here and I've just stayed here.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I think it'd be fast, you guys, No, I'm saying, but.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Like this reminds me of like the Disney Channel crossover
episodes where you would get pandam on, Tanne on Sweet Life,
and Zack and Cody like you gotta do John Day
and Ridge and Mojo in the morning.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I get up in the morning and I will put
you guys on. I used to listen to another show
just because they're East Coast, so I thought, I wonder
I would listen to this break and I'd go, Okay,
if they talk about that and they're in New York,
then it must be relevant for us to talk about
in entertainment news. And then I would punch over to
you guys and start listening to you guys and go
(11:38):
if they're talking about it and New York's talking about it,
then maybe we need to bring it up, right, So
so then I would look at like entertainment stuff Kyle
brings up for Peyton brings up, and I'm like, well,
I heard this in New York and I heard this
in Detroit. We should definitely bring it up. But now
what's happened is and the Detroit show your show. That's
all I listened to now when it's so much more relevant,
I think than the other show I know to me
(11:59):
and I told like, you guys have a you.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Have a great show.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
And now that that you're you guys are on vacation,
Like I don't like it.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Why is it because your entertainment is just down?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It's no, it's just not it's not the players. I know,
Like it doesn't sound right, Like now I know what
it sounds like. I feel like a listener of our show.
So that's why when we go on vacation we get hammer,
but we also try to make it seem like you
can't tell we're on vacation because it sounds different, like
I'm listening no offense anybody on the show, but Kevin
opening the brakes or coming out.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I'm like, that doesn't sound right.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
So that's something you're not used to the other.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
The other girl doing the doing the entertainment news Megan, Yeah,
like it, Like who's the one that does Shannon, She's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Like she's really she's really good. Like I think her
and Kyle will best friends.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I love her.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Oh have you met her?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
You?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
And I don't know if I've I don't know if
I've actually met her, but I follow her on social
media and just have like followed her career and I
just think she's like a beautiful person.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
She like insight it out.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Yeah, And I don't know, Like I'm like, I've never
met her.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
But I'm I'm a fan.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
She has the same name as my cousin, like Shannon Murphy,
Like I feel like we might be related.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Look with your you never know you might.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Hello, good morning, John j Rich. Hello.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Hello anyway, So are you back to answering the phones
all the time on your show? Yeah, it's always you
answering the phone always.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Wow, I like have an attachment to those phones.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
So what if you have to like do your producer duties.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
And hello, smright, I'm calling to see if I could
play for Jonah's brother's tickets. If you guys are doing
a game, give us.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Or we're gonna do a call back in like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
John Jay what? I love you guys more than anything.
Please let me be the condition.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
What's your name?
Speaker 9 (13:43):
I'm Julia. I'm from Fusan. I've listened to you guys
since the beginning. Yes, I visited the studio when you
guys had y cliff in. So this is just I'm
a Jonahs brother's band because of you guys. So I
really really really want to play.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Well, it's Kyle's game.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
I feel like she should play.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Okay, okay, you can play. Okay, but are you going
to hold for ten minutes or you want to call
you back?
Speaker 9 (14:08):
Absolutely, I'm going to hold it if you want.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Yeah, cool, I can't do you guys have a glare
Nick's face at all?
Speaker 5 (14:15):
No, I have the light.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
That light. This light is.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Right on your face and it's a handsome face. Can
we can can? Can she be architestant?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Okay, you needed me to take my shirt off.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Hold on, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, Lydia,
is that something that you would do would you let
that person play?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
You wouldn't know. Oh, come, I'm kind of with you.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
For me, it's like not a fair thing, like you
didn't already solicit for it yet, and we are to
do it in fifteen minutes. I mean maybe you.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Did, but maybe we don't solicit and we just say that.
She called up and she expressed that I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
That's cool. I like that.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
He says, No, you're doing it wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I know, because but then you hear what a super
fan she is, so you get guilty. And that's when
you need a strong phone screener, right, because when you're
the host and you pick it up. Now, I'm a
jerk if I say no, you know what I'm saying
for real, think about it, right.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
I would have just been like, yeah, we'll call back,
just call back right.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
As the phone screener, you could say that, but as
the host, I look like a bad guy.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
No. Mojo would probably be like no, I feel like
John j would end up being the bad guy.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
I always end up being you.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Look like answer the phone, because I would argue most
of the time.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Hey, who's back there?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I can see it, Claire, I know, but what are
your guys names, who's back there?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I'm I'm gamma.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Hello there, got arm back?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Yeah, coming in to come watch the show? Do you
guys get that? No, you don't let him in the building.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Yeah? We have those every Friday. Oh really Friday?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Let anybody anybody show up or they how do they
get in questions?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Oh, that's that's what we do, get backstage passes to
auctions or like charities and stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Okay, so then what so so how do they when
they come in? Do you give them food? How do
you handle it? Just coming in to watch set in,
watch the show, and you handle all that.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I coordinate it, and then we have our audio producer
who just brings them in and out because honestly, that
responsibility for me is too much.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Right, No, I know, I think Nick can relate to that.
No fense armor anyway, That was cool. Any other questions
for lending you guys, any questions for us all. I'm
fascinated by how other shows were. Like I used to
talk to Tommy Sublan from Jeff and Jerr all the time,
and I went in and watched them do a show.
(16:35):
Do you know they are? They were the ones on stage?
They got a big award at the boot Camp. Oh, okay,
the guy had an eye patch.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Okay, let's bring.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
And Rich was a producer for a rock show for
a long time and for Kid Kratik.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Oh you know what. Nick was telling me that I
was really impressed by that.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You would think that, you know, Rich would like help
share some of his skills with people on the show.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
But do you guys want to listen?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Are there any other shows you sat.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
In and watched Joe Show? So Monday and Tuesday I
watched Joe Show and that was my first other radio
show I've ever gotten to see Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
What do you mean Monday and Tuesday?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
I was just there this past Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Oh, is that the first time you've seen him? Because
he came up from your show show.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
I've ever seen another live radio show?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Oh really?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (17:18):
You know, for me, it's weird when we do the conferences,
and I've been going since I've been eighteen to these
things pretty much every year. It is weird when you
see another show that kind of looks like your show
and feels like your show, but it's not your show.
It's almost like slipping into a new dimension. Yeah, like
oh yeah, well they do this, but we kind of
do that. It's bizarre.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
When I was watching Nick produce, I was like, oh
my god. I was like, you guys do things so
much different, not in a bad way.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So you see him on his laptop doing stuff? Yeah,
because I don't ever see what's he's.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Doing back there?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Everything together?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Is he like can you tell for sure? For real?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I don't know. I don't know what anyone's ever been
back there. It's just the phones, no, so much.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
It is not just the fun comes together.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
We lost the contestant that was gonna hope, hope she'll
call back, but so is everybody else. So you's gonna
have to find Unlessnick out her number.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
So you see him, when were you asking him questions?
What are you doing right now? Like what?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
So?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
What did you say?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
He was working on some things the next gen? And
then I was asking him if he was uploading the
podcast because we do that right away and I think
every show should do that. Is that what you guys?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yea, yeah, he.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Said yeah, he was doing that.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Oh yeah, so what else? So he was uploading the
podcast and here's the other guy.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
He was just doing some busy work. I didn't great,
that's like busy.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Grant's job is to uh top of governments, and I
think find job.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Work. I just heard the mouse clicking a lot.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Side.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
If you guys found out that Grant was like a
c I a operative, anybody be surprised you topple that
government got it down?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Show you you know when Mojo, I don't know if
you guys know this, but he had he had some
heart issues, right you talked about in the air, right yep.
And there was a do you ever see the video
I made for him? No, so we had to make
some of us made videos for him when he's going
into surgery. And I texted him and I told him
made the video, And now I was he was the
guy I've talked about on the air before, where like
(19:26):
if he did die, I was hoping my text was
the last text with him so that that screenshot would
go viral and okay, anyway, he didn't die. I was
just thinking of my I'm just going through my head
all this stuff with Mojo.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
He was always so good us. He was always so kind,
that was always so nice.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Every time I've ever like come encounter with him, He's
always just been nothing but kind.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
He'll be missed something he died.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
He was always so kind to us.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Man, Joja have you seen that trend where it's like
people are like recording their moms and they're telling them
that these like iconic celebrities died and they like reaction.
I love that someone would need to do that with you.
For Mojo, Mojo died or something or like or some
type of thing.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I would I would be really sad because because I
now know his son, and I know I know him
more because somebody else died recently.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I'm like, Oh, it sucks, but moved on.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Because you're dead inside anyway.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
All right, Well that's cool to you. Thanks man, think.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Thanks for having me. I love being here.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
How long is the flight to Detroit?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
About three and a half to four hours.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Okay, while you're thinking about going.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
There, one of us, we should send somebody to go
learn it.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
I can't go there because their studio is really nice.
I'm good to have equipment.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Oh, you would be good person because you'd be like I.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Want to be like what you got buttons that work.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
You'd be taking all the things and notes on the
equipment and stuff. Oh yeah, order some new board do
you guys have next gym over there?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
We do?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
All right? Is that a thing everyone has.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
A lot of people in radio they does?
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Does yours like have whatit arts does, which is like
intermediate turning off?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Oh yeah, we still have that at our new okay
in the middle.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Have you seen similar problems with this show in your show?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Especially with next Shan because I was hearing Nick saying
he was dealing with the freezing of it. He's like,
it's frozen, and so when Mojo's middle of the show,
he's like, oh damn it, Next Sun's doing that thing
again and it just won't work.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
You know, when you guys do entertainment news and let's
say you're talking about Selena Gomez and then a Sleein
Gomez song plays underneath it. When you're doing it or
you're talking about anything, it's always seems you're prepped and
stuff like that. Is that Mojo just doing it? Or
do you guys know we're gonna do these stories, We're
gonna play these songs? Did you play their songs?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
So Shannon sometimes chooses the songs, but Mojo when he
chooses a story, I think he'll throw his own song
or his bed under it.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
But if Shannon's talking about Selena Gomez, you'll hear and
then sooner Gomez mentioned just you'll hear underneath you know,
like calm down whatever.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah, that'll be like that's probably Shannon.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
But then does she have any kind of controls because
the levels low and then and it goes right to
the next story, the next song star.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
No, So she has like a whiteboard that she'll hold
up for Mojo, so he knows, Oh wow, Mojo's running
the entire show like he runs the board, he runs
the mics, he does it all.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Well, so do you rich? Yeah, but not so smooth.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah. I like to see.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
What I like to do is bring this back to Mojo.
I like to let things breathe. So some people would
call that dead air, I call it.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Hey, Nick, did you get her number? Okay?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Good, good, Okay, we can tell her she's the contestant
that shouldn't be a contestant because Lydia has said, now.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Girl, she's standing down with that took toes.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Remember we're talking about that dog the other day that
was like a Corgie and a German shepherd. Some lady
mess he said, she has she has one, so she
sent me. She sent me pictures.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
It's got to be the cutest dog ever, right.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
You would think so, But it's not.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
It's she doesn't look like a shepherd.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
No, it looks like it looks like a freaking daisy.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
What is daisy got dun in her?
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yeah, he's a Wiener Cock Cocker Spaniel.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
That was really called I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
So John Jay had her litter with Love pub and
that's what they called them, the Wiener Cocks. And so
when he talked about it on the air, my my daughter,
who was three at the time, was like, Mommy, can
we please go see the Wiener Cox.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Those are the things.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I have this in my mind of your daughter playing
with the puppies, and I remember her voice.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Hi puppy, Hi puppy, over and over again. It was
a cute.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Yeah, her voice it's changed a little now, like it's
still adorable, but like when I watch videos of her
at that age, it's like the cutest voice ever. And
it's probably just because it's my kid, but I also
thought it was a really cute voice.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
No, I was not married. I live with my parents,
no single, no kids. I like how.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
You're the perfect producer.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Oh, yeah, yeah, that shows my life. I love it
that way.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Though.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Did you grow up in Detroit so you grew up
listening to Mojo?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (24:11):
My mom is like a die hard. She was a
diehard Mojo fan since day one. So she raised me
on Mojo and then when I started working there, she
still stayed a die hard fan and it's still obsessed
with Mojo. I worked in promotions. Okay, yeah, his former
producer Ellen, she goes excellent. She got a new job
and she lives out of state now, out of Detroit.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
And who taught her how to be a producer?
Speaker 5 (24:34):
There was another producer prior to her who taught that person.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Oh my god, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
I'm assuming before them.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Do you guys think that stuff is cool?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Though?
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Like being able to like, I don't know, I think
that's cool. Like I grew up listening to you guys,
so I think, like that's cool to be in here,
and so for you, Lydia, is it the same, Like
I feel starstruck every time I walk in here.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
No, you don't, yes, I do. I think you feel
annoyed when you want on the day it starts trying.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Now, I grew up listening to us too.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Than Actually that comment sounds crazy, but it's the truth
because I lived it.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Because you are still not grown up.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
That's funny because would say I felt I felt so
mature the last couple of days. Yeah, but that's cool.
I think that's cool. Pain that you grew up listening.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
To me, I did too. I just wanted to remind you.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Guys, No, I remember because your dad was in my
house and you facetimed him, and I remember your reaction
to me saying hi to you. You would not, did
I Yeah, you really did. Like now, like I don't
know it. You know, it's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
It is a big deal.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
So does your mom want to always come in for
stuff or like she.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
She does, Like she'll be like, we didn't do a top,
we haven't done a topic in a long time, And
I'm like, well, that's not your show.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
So have you ever gotten home pissed off about at
Mojo and told your parents and it made them sour
a little bit on Mojo because that happens here all
the time.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I've never been pissed off at Mojo actually, believe it
or not, I've known him what like five years, never
been pissed off. Why how come he's the only person
on that show that's not not pissed me off?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Why so does he How does he ask you to
do stuff without you getting upset or it.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Needs stuff done? I think I'm the producer, but what.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
If it doesn't get done? Right? Does he ever get
upset with you?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Yeah? Like he's been upset a couple of times where
he's been upset with me, and I've had like a
bad day about it. But I understand where he's coming
from and it just makes me grow as a producer.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
But she's good, good? Could you?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Oh, look, we have a contestant already? Where are we
in the show?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
We got two minutes?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
You held up four fingers and said, we got two minutes?
You see? Did you see that? Did you guys see that?
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Yeah? But like that's the amazing thing about Richie.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
He does that a lot.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Because we're taping something earlier and you said how much
time you have? He said five minutes? And then like
two minutes that, you said, how much time do we have?
Speaker 7 (27:01):
Any? Hell of.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Wow? All right, Well, I'm glad you're here, Lydia. Is
it cool the podcasts?
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:08):
We can label some so like really inside inside inside information.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
I hope Mojo doesn't die.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah, yeah, where do we get to add this as
a separate either There are afterwards afterwards.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
It's up to Nick. What do you What do you
want to what do you Oh.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Sure, whatever you guys want.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
That's fine, whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
You want, yeah, okay, after a podcast. All right, that's
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