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Uh-oh.

Oh, what happened?

I got a story I want to do. Actually, I want a couple stories. You mind if I get a couple stories in it real quick?

Yeah, okay. I feel like I have to, like, sit up straight in my chair. You just played the very official music.

Yes. Here's a story that is trending this morning that I think we can have a little discussion on this one and find out your thoughts. But what would you do if you walked into a McDonald's and the person behind the counter was 10 years old? Listen to this. An investigation of a McDonald's that is hiring 10-year-olds to work for them.

Three companies that run McDonald's restaurants in our area are accused of overworking young children, including letting 10-year-olds work in the kitchen. The U.S. Department of Labor investigated Louisville-based Bauer Food, the Bell Restaurant Group, and Archway's Richwood out of Walton. All three operate dozens of McDonald's in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Maryland. The agency found more than 300 children worked more than the legally permitted hours. Some of them passed 2 a.m. Two 10-year-olds worked in the kitchen without pay, one of them handling a deep fryer. All three companies are now facing civil penalties and totaling more than $212,000.

Wow.

Who are the kids? Were they somebody's kids that they couldn't find child care for and brought them into work? Or what was the situation? But why were they working? Why weren't they sitting in a booth?

No. Let me say this to you. Work. And I would like to hire them. because nobody can find anybody to work nowadays. Why not have a 10-year-old work behind the counter? Pay them, though. No, people want to work for a livable wage, okay? But McDonald's is paying $17 an hour right now, $18 an hour.

We don't want child labor in this country. What is wrong with you?

If a 10-year-old is doing that, he's not on his gaming system. Oh, my God.

Kids should be on their gaming system because it's the last time they're going to enjoy their life.

Listen, I'm going to say this to you right now. With the people that we've had come through here to try to be promotions assistants, we would hire... Shannon, is Smith doing anything this weekend? Would he like to set up a tent? He would be a very dedicated promotions team member. What's the soap store that you do stuff at? Buff City Soap. Buff City Soap.

I'll be there next in two weeks.

Yes. What do you think about this, Lydia? What do you think? Ten-year-olds working. Would you feel weird if you got served at a restaurant or whatever? or they handed you your McDonald's at a restaurant and they were 10 years old?

Yeah, that's completely inappropriate.

To be honest, I probably wouldn't think anything of it. I'd be like, oh, it must be take your kid to work day. You know, like I wouldn't, unless I went multiple times and saw a 10-year-old, but a 10-year-old working the deep fryer, I mean, that's super dangerous.

I want to know who's the youngest person that ever had a job. Like, what was the job that you had? And obviously, you know why they're not getting paid? And you say they're not getting paid. They are getting paid. They're getting paid under the table.

Or in French fries and nuggies.

Nuggies. And Happy Meal toys. All right. If the kid calls him nuggies, then he's not allowed to. I call him nuggies. He's not allowed to work there. You're not allowed to work there either.

Chicky nuggies. What do you call them?

Nuggets. They're not called nuggies. What do you, you really call them nuggies? Chicky nuggies.

Yes, ask my kid that time I order them.

Really?

You did not just pull out the NSYNC McDonald's thing.

I did.

I'm loving it.

There you go. Comments on that 844 Mojo Live Alright next story I want to bring up And I want to get comments on this one too I love this mom And I don't know why people would ever do this You know where they have to mom shame somebody

But a mom sent her three-year-old to school with a pack of Pringles as a snack and received a note on the leftover little plastic container that said, and it was from the teacher, that said that the snack was not appropriate. The mom showed the note to everybody that was on her social media, and the note said, please help us make healthy choices at school. This is not a healthy choice.

It's a pack of Pringles for a three-year-old kid. I would have so many thoughts about that if that showed up in Smith or Lucy's lunch bag when I got it back at the after school.

Listen, first off, sending it home, which is trash. Why are you sending the trash home?

And can I be honest with you? I love my kids to death. Packing lunches by the end of the school year is the death of me. oh my god whatever i have gets thrown into their lunch oh they do i mean teachers will say at the beginning of the year you know we try to make healthy choices and vote but i mean you i don't

did i ever tell you about how my dad pringles isn't even that unhealthy my dad when my mom died would make the lunches for us and he would never put the lunch food in proper like cellophane like

you know sandwich bags or whatever it was throw in a sandwich he would just throw the sandwich

right into the bag and as far as like the extras and stuff that you would get my dad would throw you know like a can of peanuts planters peanuts in there a big old can of them or do you remember those cheese balls that used to come in the little cylinder like the blue cylinder yes my dad would take they were like planters my dad would take the whole thing instead of putting some of them in a bag and putting them in there the whole thing and throw it in the bag oh my god i love it i was the hit uh mojo in the morning show sandy what's going on we're talking about uh these couple of stories here the mcdonald's hiring 10-year-olds and the mom getting shamed for sending pringles

with her three-year-old yeah i was um telling the girl who answered the phone i have read the article lydia okay sorry about that um i read the article on the mcdonald's thing and they were saying that at least one of the 10-year-olds i don't know if both 10-year-olds it was um the manager's child and she didn't have a sitter so she would just bring the child to work and put the

kid to work. Which I understand that I mean sometimes you do you're in a huge bind with child care and you don't know what to do so you bring your kids wherever you're going but the fact that she had them like work in the deep fryer like Megan said why not just put them in a booth and you know with some coloring books or an iPad or something. Have you seen some of the people that

do work the deep fryer these kids are probably more responsible. I thought I think that there's nothing wrong with that. Really? I'm just saying

if you're the manager, you know that that can get you in a lot

of trouble. Well, I understand. But the mom, here's the mom. The mom was right there probably with them, right? She was you know, there at work. It was during her

shift. Probably not. Listen. It doesn't really say that because it says that they were working the drive-thru, the register, the deep fryer. I mean, they were a full-on employee, but her reasoning was she didn't have a sitter. Right. Which I

understand and have empathy for. I just, I also understand why this is such a big story because, you know.

I think my first job, I was 14 and barely knew what I was doing at 14 to handle the public and stuff, it felt like. So, yeah, it's crazy.

By the way, we also hire children on this radio show, just so you know that.

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Have a great morning, everyone. You've got to be careful. She's listening right now. If she's listening right now, she's going to make you pay her. Hi, Lucy.

What's up, Rachel?

Okay, so, Mojo, I totally agree with you. One, because somewhere in there, the parents of these 10-year-olds had to have known that they were working. And two, this is teaching them work ethic, and it's teaching them how to cook. It's teaching them how to stay out of the street. And like you said, teaching them to stay off the electronics. Yeah.

Listen, how many times do your kids say, Mom, what are you making me for dinner? And you've been like, go make yourself something yourself. Well, guess what? These kids never scream for their mom to make them something for dinner.

Did we first get about child labor laws?

And yet you wear stuff you buy from Amazon all the time that is made by little hands.

You want to get into this? What's your phone, man? Where did your battery come from? I have no problem

I have no problem with it

You are a terrible human being

What's up Morgan hi it's Mojo in the Morning

Good morning

Hi

Age 12 to 17, I worked at carnival food trailers at different fairs and festivals all over Michigan.

Is it because your family owned, like, the different, like, the elephant ear truck and stuff like that? Or you were a runaway.

Definitely not a runaway. It was a family friend that my grandma worked for, and I wanted a summer job to save up for my first car, so that was my job.

You know, you're probably a better person for doing it, right? You probably learned a lot.

I learned responsibility a lot faster.

Yeah, I bet. Did you make elephant ears and dip them into the vat?

I did. I was in the elephant ear trailer for four years.

See that? And you never burned your hands off, did you?

I had a few burns.

Okay, thank you for the call. Nice to talk to you. I appreciate it. Have a great day, Morgan.

You too.

What's up, Felipe?

Hey, how's it going?

It's going good, buddy. What's going on?

Good. Nothing. From like around like 13 and 14, I used to spend my summers in Columbus, and I would roof with family and do like some concrete work. You would what?

And it was family business?

uh yeah well it's not my family but i'm related to them so i would just go to there for my summers and like we would uh do roof repairs and then um you would make you would they would get put you as a 13 year old on the roof of a of a home oh yeah i'd put uh shingles up i'd carry shingles

up there and everything osha we've never heard of her megan needs a tree trimmer would you like to climb and cut her trees no not at all megan that's what you need maybe you need like a 10 year old neighborhood kid to come by and uh and do that for you this is so wild that we're putting

children in dangerous situations and being like it put hair on my chest and also could have killed

children what is wrong with you people listen i'm telling you these kids these days i'm telling you

they need this discipline believe me i've raised three of them the family the family business ones feel different to me like yeah like they're all in it together like they understand you know they're all in this together we're all in this i just immediately think of high school it's your yeah i don't know if that's very different to me than like family best you know most of my

chaldean friends and lydia you know this your dad you know probably brought you to work and made you do stuff for him from time to time right my dad worked in a liquor store at nine years old

See that?

And now he owns 12,000 liquor stores. He's an entrepreneur. What's up, Jake?

Yeah, so long story short, my mom passed when I was 11. My dad left for different states when he was 12. My brother was 21 at the time. He took over custody of us, and we needed some way to keep up the house. So at 11 years old, I went down to the gas station down the street and was stocking beer in the back cooler at the gas station.

See that? That is like a sad, happy, and funny story, all in the same one.

I mean, every time I tell people my first job, they always get a good laugh out of it.

I mean, honestly, there's a lot of families that deal with mom raising the kids by herself, and sometimes mom needs to put the kids to work. I get that, and that's cool that you as a kid, you weren't opposed to it, right? You were okay with doing it?

Oh, no. My brother had Down syndrome, so, I mean, there was anything we could do to keep the three brothers together, we did anything we could.

Go ahead, Megan. Say something negative about this. Call O'Shawn him. You want to call O'Shawn him?

Go ahead. No, that makes me so sad that there are so many kids out there that have to work because they have to pay the bills. That doesn't break your heart. It does? That doesn't make me go, oh, I'm so glad for their work ethic. It makes me go, what a horrific situation you had to grow up in.

Hey, let me tell you what. I have probably the best work ethic of anybody that I work with now because of the, you know, situation that I went through.

Which is great, but I'm sorry that you had to go through that situation. My heart breaks for you.

Quick question.

Well, I appreciate it.

What are you doing this weekend? Would you like to set up a tent at Buff City Soap?

I would love to for you guys. I would do anything for you guys.

Don't confuse people. Thanks, buddy. I appreciate you, Jake. Take care of yourself. No problem.

It is the 19th.

No, my favorite is yesterday. I went out to lunch with Cody and what the hell, Crystal from our marketing department. And they were talking to me about, you know, trying to find promo people and how the promo people are there few and far between, man. Nobody wants to be, you know, a radio for their lives out there. And let me say this to you. If you start off as a promo person, you can be on the radio.

You were a promo person, right, KP?

I started as a promo person. Same here. Yeah.

So it's your foot in the door. So if you want a job and you want to do it, seriously do it. But we were talking about that yesterday, and I was like, do you remember the days when literally it was like you turned away hundreds of people that wanted to? Now we make 10-year-olds. Do it.

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