All right, it's Mojo in the morning show. This is a really cool situation. And I told Shannon, this is like reminding me of that whole Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg movie where it was a step dads or something like that. Daddy's home. Is it Daddy's home? Daddy's home? I love, there's two of them, yeah. I love those movies. There's, this Wes is stepping up because Smith, his step son, is playing football and the coach quit at the last minute, I guess, right? Well, so Smith's playing flag football, which is so fun to watch, by the way. It's like my favorite thing to watch that he does. And they've had, his little team has had the same coach for the last three or four years maybe. And that coach is phenomenal, but he couldn't do it this season because I think he's coaching baseball and he's like swamped with doing that. And so the organizer of this flag football league was like, we need a coach for this team of second graders and nobody volunteered. No. I looked at Wes and I'm like, dude, you coach track, you love coaching. And he's like, I'm doing it. That's awesome. Coach Wes is now coach Wes of the second grade flag football team. Let's go Wes. Thank you. Can I tell you how much I love that? I love that because I know how much Wes loves to coach, but I love that because I know how great the relationship is that Wes has with Smith. Yeah, it'll be fun to watch. Is Smith excited about it? Smith's excited. Does Smith look at it as an opportunity? They just get a lot of playing time? Or what does he think? Wes is not like that. Wes is so fair because I see him coach Samantha and I saw him coach Kieran, his son, and he pulls no favoritism. Can I tell you something? I'm gonna tell you, Wes, if you're listening to Wes, I wanna tell you this and I'll call him and tell him this too. A very good friend of mine, John B. Lyne. Do you know who John B. Lyne is? John B. Lyne became friends of my John, who was the coach at the University of Michigan. He worked for the Pistons. Now he's back at Michigan. We, I was having a conversation one time with him and Tim McCormack, who played at Michigan. And Tim McCormack coached Kellen, his son, all the years. It's a long story, but I said, yeah, one of the biggest regrets I always had as a coach was that I don't think that I was really good to my kids. I was almost not fair in their disadvantage. And coach B. Lyne said, when you step up to coach your kids' teams, you get the added value, since you're not getting paid, of you can take care of your kids. And he actually believed that it's your opportunity to give your kid a little bit of special treatment. So the whole idea of your kid always playing shortstop or pitching when you are the coach. So make sure that he doesn't do it the opposite way of being too fair. But also, you know what Smith deserves it. Wes is putting the time in, Smith deserves that. And it's his payment for doing it. Well, and he is such a different stepdad than he is dad. What do you mean by that? He just parents differently. Like he's- In a good way. He's softer. He's way softer. Oh, really? Do his kids ever comment on that? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. How was the previous coach? Like what kind of coach? Great. Honest to God, such a great. I think, because he's a coach as well. Like I said, he's a coach at baseball. He is a middle school teacher, I think. So he was phenomenal. And his son is still on the team. Yeah, because some dads, they aren't like coaches. You know what I mean? They just step up. Yeah. And they just kind of play around. Oh, no, Wes is gonna have like a playbook if I know him. Well, that's what I'm saying. There's a difference. Which this other coach did too. Like it's very, it was very organized. I was impressed. This is exciting. Well, Smith excited when he found out? Yeah, Smith's excited. This season doesn't start for a couple of weeks, but yeah. I love this. I also, we were having this conversation yesterday on the air for a little bit, but then we talked more off the air, all of us did, about your vacation that you guys just recently took. And just how cool it was to see your kids and Wes's daughter just really come together and become not step brothers or step sister and you know, with step brothers and stuff. It was like, they were like siblings. They were really good with each other. Which they've always, they've always, yeah. See, I'm amazing. They've always like all gotten along, but the age difference is like we knew from the get go, we weren't gonna try to force anybody to be Westies. Like it's an eight year old, Lucy's gonna be 12 next week, Holy cow. An eight year old, a 12 year old and an almost 17 year old. You know what I mean? Like the age differences, they're all just doing their own thing. Can I say something real quick? That I think is more important than, you know, Wes being a great step dad. It's fourth down in five. Oh my God, I don't know. Are you asking me? Trivia? Is he gonna kick the field goal and take the points? Is he Dan Campbell or is he gonna ruin our entire season by going for it on every fourth down? Holy crap. I mean, that's all I care about. I don't want any raising it. Dan Campbell this year doesn't start kicking field goals, guys. I am personally going on a mission to make sure that Dan Campbell doesn't get to have a choice on that anymore. But when he doesn't kick the field goals and it goes our way, everyone wants to praise him. But it doesn't go our way as much as it goes. It doesn't go our way. It screws us up. It screws us up. I don't know. I feel like we're all done. Are you drunk? So do you step up now, Shannon? As like you had your mom robe and now you coach his wife. I'm gonna sit in my chair and cheer as loud as I do. You gotta bring them orange. That's what I was gonna say. You gotta step up, Shannon. Dude, if I brought orange slices, those kids would be like, what? You gotta have like a- Snacks now, different ball games. What's the snack bar of these days? I mean, you gotta have some options. There's a snack and a drink. It's not just, they're like fruit. This is the middle of the game. Fruit, what? Do you feel that since Wes is doing this now, you have to like step up a little bit more, not with a team, but step up yourself. Like you have to, you know, like anything Wes wants, Wes should get. Like this is actually a big deal. I didn't force him to say yes to this. He very quickly said, I'm down, I'm in. He's showing you that how much he loves your kid by doing this thing. You better like, and Wes, I don't know. I'm sure you guys all have your fun. You talk all the time, Shannon, about all the craziness you guys have with each other. But this will be an opportunity for you to really show him. Coach's gift at the end of the year needs to be a good gift. Talk about tight ends. Did I ever tell you the coach's gift that I got one year? Oh my God. One of the, one of the years. A parent got to? Picture of all the moms. They gave me a picture of all the moms. Is that true? No. Oh, that's weird. Wouldn't that be the greatest? A calendar. So I have to tell you guys. That's really weird. I have to tell you guys, in all fairness, one of the funniest stories ever of coaching. So we were having a conversation once with one of Joe's basketball coaches that he had. And I asked him a question. I said, so let me ask you this. What is your deciding factor when you're picking team? Like, how do you decide? Like, if you have a kid that's really, really talented, but you have too many big guys and you need some smaller guys, what do you do? And he goes, honestly? I said, yeah, he goes, I look at the moms. Oh. And he goes, I look at the moms and I try to decide, all right, who's got the hottest mom? Because you're going to see the moms as much as you're going to see the kid. And honestly. That is wrong. I don't think it's wrong. I guarantee you there are some dads listening out. Yeah. Probably have show of favoritism based on the mom. Absolutely. You should have seen, remember Hot Dad? Or the hot, no, the hot coach. The hot coach that we had, Chelsea's Brandon. Was that baseball? Baseball. Yeah. Chelsea and, you know, all the other moms that were there. Didn't we interview him? Didn't we have him on the air? Oh, we talked about him on the air. We had, yeah. He was a dad. There was a coach that coached Luke and base, baseball. Chelsea had the hots for him. All the moms had the hots for him. They all thought that he was, he was a hottie. So we used to call him hot coach. What's going on? Actually, we used to send him out with a scorecard at the beginning of the game. So he had to walk up to home plate to the umpire. So all the moms from the other team saw him. Distract him. Yeah. See what you're doing. What's up, Matt? How you doing? Hey, what's going on? So I am a step parent as well. And I coach my stepson's baseball team. Now, the crazy part is, is we don't get along very well with my wife's ex-husband. Oh, God. So I feel like we, I am under the scrutiny all the time of being watched, being judged, comments, and everything that goes back to my stepson. It's like, why do you do this? Why do you do that? And it is a nightmare sometimes, but I would not trade it for the world because I feel like I have a huge impact on all of these kids. That's awesome. And it's phenomenal. But, but to be fair and honest with you, he's a dickhead for doing that, right? You think? I mean, you said it, not me. I mean, that's crazy that he's like, why did he do this? Why did he do that? You know, I was jealous. I mean, there's, there's times where like, I'll schedule a practice and he's with his dad and his dad like, we're not going to practice. And I'm like, it's a mandatory practice. You need to show up. Like, and I'm there because I love the kids, but it's like, come on, dude, get with the program. It's not about you. It's about the kid at this point. You know what I mean? Stop taking your hatred. Take, stop taking your hatred for me out on him. Yeah. Come to practice. X, Y or Z. Do you, if, if, if your step kid has like a really amazing game, do you give him a huge hug and look over in the stands and go, F you? You know, there's times because I coached third base. There's times when he does something and I will just kind of give him that little glance and say, ha, I did it. I will tell you this. Yeah. Go ahead. No, I will say this. It would be really hard for me as a dad of three boys. If I was divorced from Chelsea and her, you know, new husband was coaching my kid, but I would step up and say, I want to help out. You know what I mean? Instead of sitting there and complaining about it, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Cause that's exactly what I did. Cause my son's team originally didn't have a baseball coach. Yeah. And my, I stepped dad always the guy that has to step up. That jackass needs to step up. Right. So, so I'll tell you this in our household. So we're a blended family of six. So I have two to a previous, she has three to a previous and we have one together. So the only steps we consider in our house are the steps that go upstairs and downstairs. You know, man, that's awesome. So, I mean, I love this guy. I want to meet this guy. We kind of, we kind of left it up to our, to our son to say, well, if you want me to coach, I'll coach. If you don't, if you want me to sit in the stands and cheer, I'll sit in the stands and cheer. Whatever you want. So we left it up to him and he's like, no, will you coach? I'm like, are you sure this is what you want? And he says, yeah. So I did it and now I'm in my fourth season. Real quick. I wouldn't trade it for the world. Coach Matt, I want you to say hi to coach Wes. Who's on the phone with us? What up? What's up, Wes? Hey, what's going on? You guys think I'm nice. This is actually payback. This is, this is not me being a good step. Wait, wait, hold on. What do you mean? Well, so Shannon, when we were in Mexico, what happened at the end of the year? What happened at the airport? What do you mean? Do you remember at Vegas? Oh, I was lined me up and kicked me in the neck. Oh, yeah. Hard drop. Why? And so the next day, this coaching opportunity came up and I've been around the block a couple of times with my kids. This is going to be up down. That's incredible. That's the best. Hold on real quick. It's also on our party line here. Just make a comment. What'd you want to say, Amanda? So Shannon, as a, you know, a special little thank you so much for doing this for. Oh, we lost you as a special thing for doing this for Smith. What did you want to say? Get off. Get off the man. Yeah. Can you hear me? Yeah. Say it again. Say what happened? Shannon needs to get a referee costume with a whistle and do a little special. Oh, they have, you know what? The league supplies their own referees. No, she's staying in the bedroom. Blow the whistle. Oh, are you crazy? Are you crazy? We'll bring the whistle. What do you know what I mean? What do you think about that, Matt? No. Coach Matt, you like that idea? So I'll tell you this. My wife has, at first, she didn't want to embrace the coach's wife role. But now she's fully involved. She's in my dugout. He is doing my she's writing my lineup down on the board for me. I mean, she's fully, fully involved in it. Like slowly, slowly. Now she will say she will say sometimes when I mean, because when I when I'm there on the field, I'm coached when I get into the car, I take my hat off. That's it. I'm no longer coached. I'm dad. And when I told it when my son has an issue, he was like, man, my coach was this or that today. And she's like, don't worry. I'll have a talk with your coach tonight. This is great. Wes, be honest. What are your expectations for Shannon this season? Oh, she's fully involved. They better be high. Play. They better be high. And though every play, she's going to be practicing on the lawn. She's going to be the center. Wes is going to be the quarterback. And they'll never be in the shotgun. Oh, my God. All right. I love it. Can. Hey, good job. Both you guys, Wes and Matt, way to, way, way to be good. I mean, you guys already are good guys, but way to step up for these kids. That's awesome.
