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Mojo of the Motor Show. I want to bring something up. So, uh, Luke, you know, had been home and I got a chance to kind of like, I guess, get them together again. So Luke has a, uh, he has a Jeep. Wait, see, here's the problem. When you're away at college, I feel like you get your, your, you know, you don't know exactly what your kids are doing when they get to this age where they're college age kids. Well, just wait. You remember what you did in college? Wait till you have to parent somebody like that. And then you start realizing that you were just like him. So he had his Jeep home. And so I decided that I was going to be the nice dad and I was going to get it cleaned because the damn thing hadn't been cleaned probably since we bought that thing. Can you do mine?

Imagine what was in this car.

Well, first off, let me just say this. When I went through his Jeep, I had to clean out every article of clothing I think this kid owns. Somebody needs to explain this to me. You know what this is if you have young kids? This is your kid's school locker at the end of the school year. you ever go to your kid's school for the end of the school year and you open up the locker and everything falls out and you're like there's the 12th lunchbox i've lost or you know there's his 20th pair of shoes that for some reason i've had to go to dicks and go buy new shoes for the kid i open up the back of the jeep and pop that thing open and i'm telling you i'm pulling everything out of this thing and i'll tell you the last but not least the thing that i was most interested in And, of course, I open it up, and what do I find? Zins, you know, because he's 19 years old. I find vapes, you know, so I go, oh, yeah.

Oh, I would be so mad.

Believe me, I was. I gave him the what fur. I gave him the what fur. I feel like that's what Gen Z stands for. It's Zin. Yeah. I found condoms. I was proud of him on the condoms. There we go. There we go.

He actually had condoms in the trunk of his car?

No, he had that in the center console of his car. New ones, right? Did you bring condoms? I actually, you know, and I was appropriate. I took the, I left the Zins. I'm okay with the Zins. I took the vapes. Yep. And I left the condoms. Yeah. Although took one for nostalgia purpose. Put it in your wallet? I put it in his scrapbook.

Oh, yeah.

So I made sure that was there.

That's the umbilical cord for haircut condoms.

Then I'm going through, and I find, what do I find in the car? I find my clothing and hats. What? So some of my golf hats and some of my like sweatshirts that I had, like some Michigan State sweatshirts that I got. Kids taking my crap.

Okay. Wait a second though.

Yeah.

Did you pause and go, we can wear the same size?

No, we're not the same size except for a hat.

But I'm saying your stuff is not.

Not so oversized anymore that he could actually steal it and wear it.

Believe me.

That's big.

I think, honestly, I think he probably took the wrong thing. And he grabbed it out of the laundry room and then took it with him, Shan. And I don't think he ever put it on. Or he put it on and he goes, oh, I'm swimming in this thing. I wish it was that way. But it was, no, he took my damn clothes and then took all this stuff. And I started thinking back to, I remember when I used to clean the kids' rooms. Or not clean, inspect the kids' rooms. I would do like a Law & Order SVU. I'd put the gloves on and go through. And see what kind of evidence I could find. I would put the tape out so they couldn't walk through there, the yellow tape that said, please, line, don't. And I wanted to ask this question. What did you, as a parent, or what did your parents find in your room or in your car if you were somebody that was like Luke who has a car? What did you find? And when you found it, what did you do with it? Because what I did, I took all the clothes and I threw them right in our front entryway of our house. but I made sure that I put every one of those vapes and things like that right up on the kitchen counter so that his mother could see it so that if he had you know some friends coming over he could see oh

look at that huh raspberry I thought you would have his back in this I don't know why I'm proud of you for this but I thought you would have his back I don't like the vape thing yeah that's the

only thing i was happy that he had condoms i did not want the vape the the the vapor i can see that

how bad did that car smell with all the clothes in it too you know how close like take on this

smell and they keep it in i had to have my neighbor john smith come over and john go and smell the car to figure out where the smell was coming from yeah he figured it out it was luke's g4 golf shoes that smelled like crap inside the car and it literally smelled like rotten a-hole yeah which I don't know what rotten a-hole smells like, but if I knew it, it was that. It was the shoe. Yeah, you do. It was. No, it was. It was. I've never done the smell thing, the smell test on my cell. But it was something surreal. And as a parent, I remember going through, I remember finding my son Joe's weed for the first time.

What was that like?

It was honestly, like, disappointing, but it wasn't surprising.

Yeah. Okay.

Half the time, the kid had glossy eyes. I knew something was going on.

Yeah, it was pretty obvious with him. As the stepmom of a teenage boy, I, and Wes will corroborate this story, I absolutely refuse to go through anything. There is a blanket downstairs, because his bedroom is downstairs in our basement, and there is a blanket that's like my favorite blanket in the whole entire world, and I can see it in his laundry. It's basically a pile. And you know in the cartoons where they would draw like the smell squiggles coming out? Like that's what it is at this point. but I told Wes I'm like I really want that blanket but I know I need to wash it and I am not touching it and he goes well I'm not touching it either I'm like well you need to be the one to go tell him go wash it and then I'm going to wash it again and then it will be usable

you just don't want it to be stuck together

but I looked everywhere for that

the crunchy one believe me as with boys don't ever touch socks don't grab socks

if something's missing I know it's down there but I'm not going down there I'd rather buy it new

the other thing the other thing with with kids is that you go through and you look at all their stuff and you look at everything that they got in there and then they complain they don't have money but they spent all that money on zins because i actually tried to buy some zins for myself a bunch of guys that i was going golfing with last summer all did zin so i'm like i'm gonna go get one that's a flavor i like because usually they give me their flavors and they're horrible and so i go to the shell station by my house to go buy them i'm like you believe how expensive those things are? How much are they? Are they really

better for you, by the way? It was like nine bucks or ten bucks for the thing. Absolutely not.

I don't know. It's better than putting something in your lungs, though. Yeah, but it's like

when people say, well, filtered cigarettes are better for you than unfiltered cigarettes. They're still cigarettes. What's up, Tim?

How you doing? Good. How you doing? Good. We're talking about finding stuff in your kids' rooms or your parents finding stuff in their rooms or cars. What's going on?

so I just want to tell the story about when I was 21 years old or 21 of the two and uh I borrowed a porn tape from my my buddy and he had like a large amount and it was titled Ghostbusters so I borrowed this tape for to spice things up with me and my girl so I had it hidden in my room and I know where it was hidden it was hidden in my dress drawer so my mom unknowingly to me she was snooping through my room and I come home one day and I'm walking in and my brother's there and his his new girlfriend's there and my mom's got this angry look on her face and i walk a little farther and my girlfriend's with me at the time too walk a little farther into the dining room and i see this bouquet of vhs tapes ripped out of the tape sitting on the kitchen table and i look and i said what is

this and she says you know damn well what that is i said i said that's ghostbusters i said that's not my tape that's my buddy calvin's tape oh you said so did mom pop that thing in and start watching ghostbusters oh yeah oh yeah and i know exactly the scene that she saw

I liked how they disguised it as Ghostbusters, though.

That was the perfect way.

That was actually great. Kat, what's going on? It's Mojo in the Morning. What did your mom find?

Yeah, so when I moved out, or when I was younger, I used to go party and have alcohol bottles and then have them, like, half full. And I'm like, well, I'm going to save this for the next party and would hide them in the garage. and then my mom ended up moving houses shortly after I left for college, cleaning out the garage, found all of my old half-empty liquor bottles kind of scattered throughout the garage, wrapped them up, and then gave them to me on my 21st birthday. Oh, that makes me so crazy. Wait, you didn't do the traditional tote bag wrapped up with old sweatshirts to keep the bottles from clanking together while you were trying to sneak out of the house? Well, we lived on a lake, so we used to just party down at the lake, So I just stashed in the garage so I could grab and go the next time I went down there.

That's the thing with Luke is it drives me crazy to just throw this crap out. You know what I mean? Like he just leaves all, and he leaves all the empties there. What's up, Whitney? How you doing?

I'm good. How are you guys?

Good. Whitney, we're talking about things that you or your parents found in your room or your car. What's going on?

I went into my son's room. He's 15. He's a good guy. I found a bag, and I was like, what is this? and it was his girlfriend's period cup oh my god you win oh why wow souvenirs okay well he come home i was like what is this why do you have this he's like well her parents don't want to lose her virginity because of a so her parents won't let her wear tampons or period cups or anything oh my god okay what is wrong with them i don't know or did she take it out when they so when she needs it she can have it i'm like you're such a man here's the thing though i would never be creative giving that to a man you know what i mean yeah uh what's going on

cody what's up cody cody hey how's it going what's up man your dad your dad found some stuff

in your where was it your room or car no it was in his car actually i used to drive and then he asked me about these uh marijuana seeds and i was like denied it like oh no that's not me then like months later this is like he ended up planning them and then he brought me out and he said hey remember those seeds i found he's like look what look what i got

that's funny that actually is a funny way to turn it around did you just did you smoke with

dad then eventually uh you know down the road yeah we you know as i got older i mean i was probably like 16 at this time so yeah yeah down the road i was you know like 20 we finally like you know i admitted to it and yeah it was yeah he didn't really smoke but i was like yeah you

really got me that time that's the greatest uh darren what's going on how you doing hey what's going on what's going on i by the way i give you credit i give you credit for calling up because We were talking about, you know, what your parents found in your room or in your car. What did your parents find?

No, it was my ex-wife. She found the happy sock.

She found yours.

Happy sock.

So it's not even your parent. It was your ex-wife found your happy sock that we were talking about. Which, by the way, will you explain to Shannon that she should never pick up socks when she's got teenagers around the house?

Oh, I'm not touching anything. No, it was folded in half. Why are you an adult was one of those? Ask again. Why are you an adult? He's too grown for that.

He's an adult. Adult men can have a happy side. You can get a tissue box.

See, what happened was I was in the military and we were living in two different houses.

Yeah.

Okay.

Listen, it's okay, Darren. You don't have to explain yourself. Darren, I'm your attorney.

He does. Does that make you not an adult?

No. This man can fight for our country. you can put a sock around your wiener. I'm okay with it. Listen, you're willing to get on the front lines for us. You can do whatever you want. No, we

should trust these people to act more adult when they have access to those

weapons. Darren, Darren, did your ex-wife make fun of you for like years after that? Did that come up in the divorce? If I was her attorney, I'd go to trial on that one. LaBelle, what's up? It's Mojo in the morning.

My mom's talking to my bus driver right now. Hold on a second.

Hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait, real quick. Who is this on the phone? Are you a child?

Yeah.

You're a child? LaBelle?

So this is Eric. This is my son.

Oh, that's Eric. You put Eric.

Hold on, mom's driving. Eric wants to tell you. What's up? Eric wants to tell you what I found in his room when he was little.

Oh, wait a second. He sounds like he still is little. How old is Eric?

Eight.

Eight years old. What's up, Eric? Eric's now going to walk around going happy socks all day. Okay, Eric, what did your mom find in your room?

Yo, I had, like, when I would, like, eat in my room, I wanted to take them down stairs. So I would, like, leave the place up there and the candy wrappers and hide them under things. Oh. You sneaky sneak.

Bad, bad, bad boy. Eric, this is...

But, Mom, I found some place the other day, and Mom still hasn't found them yet.

Oh, you are cute. Eric, I want you to do me a favor. Do you like listening to Mojo in the morning?

Yeah.

Then you know that you've got to make a promise to us. Can you raise your right hand?

Yeah.

Say, I, Eric.

I, Eric.

Will never, ever vape.

Will never, ever vape.

I will never, ever do anything that my mommy tells me not to do.

i will never ever do anything my mommy tells me not to do and when my mommy tells me to go up to my room and clean my room i will pick it up when my mommy tells me to go upstairs and clean my room i will clean it up and i will do what she tells me to do and i will do what she tells me to do

One last thing. I will go into Mommy's purse.

I will go into Mommy's purse.

And take her Visa or MasterCard and send it to Mojo.

Go for the Amex.

And find her MagiCard.

So help me God. There you go. All right. I love it. You're an official Mojo in the Morning super fan. We love you, Eric. Yeah. Eric, you're the man.

She left it on her.

She left it on her. LaBelle, you did good, by the way. That's a cutie pie.

Thank you.

That is a cute kid. Thank you. We love you.

We got four other kids.

Yeah.

We got four other kids.

Yeah. Are you dropping him off in school in a couple minutes?

Well, I was meeting him at the bus stop, but the bus came and he wanted to be on the Mojo show, so now I'm going to go ahead and take him all the way to school. All right. I love you. I love it.

Hold on.

Let's have Eric. Eric, you ready? Let me hear you. This is the Mojo in the Morning Show.

This is your Mojo in the Morning Show.

I like it. You're too damn cute. All right, we love you. Take care of you guys. All right, you too. Zach, make sure that gets on a podcast so that mom can play it for everybody. All right, we'll talk to you later. What a cutie pie. And I usually hate kids, but that kid seems like he's a cute kid. I hate my own kids. I don't know why that. Dad? Sorry.

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