No gloss, no filter, just stories, spoken without fear. Varsan, who is not generous, cannot be an artist. The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers. Listen to my weekly podcast, the puja bhajjo on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Come for the honesty, stay for the fire. All right, it's Mojo in the morning show. It was Kevin's birthday over the weekend, guys. And I feel like we... Let's celebrate today. Did you get the video we sent you? No. I was wondering why you didn't respond. That's okay. Kevin didn't respond to my happy birthday and I said... I didn't respond. I said happy birthday, love her, and Kevin's like... Yeah, nah. Yeah, he gets mad. My whole house hold did a video for you singing you happy birthday. Let me see. I got a lot of messages. Not to sound like that, but like... I'm sorry if I didn't see. Did you have a good birthday? Was it a happy birthday? Yes. Let me say that I am grateful. I am thankful. You run into them people and be like, hey, you're getting up there in age. And at first I was like, you know, you kind of never want to hear that. But at a certain point you realize like that's the goal. Like if you're not growing in age and you're probably dead and that's the opposite of what I want to be. So very grateful, very thankful. In my spirit, I knew that for some reason I didn't want to do a lot this birthday and I'm never a birthday planner. So when I'm feeling it, I'm feeling it. And then when I'm not, I'm kind of just, you know, it's another day. And this birthday in particular, I just felt like, nah, I didn't really want to do anything. Like people were hitting me up to go out with my friends like, hey, this is what's going on. But I kind of wanted to just sit at home and do nothing. And that's what I did. I took my mom to the movies on Friday because my mom likes to do the birthday thing. I took her to the movies. We did that. That was cool. She wanted me to like take her to go get my cake. And I was like, I'm not doing that. Like I'm not like, I don't want to take you to go get the cake. You should already have the cake. So we got into a little thing about that. I'm like, that's weird. Like why would you even ask me to go do that? But neither her nor there. Saturday woke up. Saturday was my actual birthday. Woke up, had my shift here, 8 to 8 to noon. So did that and just spent the day with Josiah. And Josiah was very grateful. He was like, I love you so much. I just wanted you to choose to spend your birthday with me. So like that was cool. But afterwards going into Sunday, I was like, man, I kind of feel like, yes, I did exactly what I wanted to do, but it didn't feel like it was enough. Like there was a piece of me that was like, where's the turn of, what did you do? You have had some good birthdays. I've had some tremendous birthday. I mean, I've, I've in my short life with you have gone to some parties that are some of the nicest parties I've ever been to. A quiet birthday like this. Is it enjoyable or do you like the hoopla's of the people traveling in from out of town and all that stuff? There are two sides to me. Yeah, I'm either hot or cold. It's rare that I'm like living in the gray area, living in the middle. And I can thrive in both areas. And I thought that I wanted the chill version of me to exist for this birthday. So that's what I set out to accomplish. Did accomplish it. But now I'm like, I don't know if it's like, you know, they had an angel and one on his shoulder. The other one is like, no, we want to turn out. Like that other side is like at me. Where it feels like I got it. You wanted to chill one because you've sort of been on a chill vibe for the last 40 days. Like you haven't really been partying or I would think that it would be the opposite. Like, you know what I mean? Like this would be like a reason to come outside. Maybe you got used to the calm and you thought you liked it. No, that thought never crossed my mind. Um, you know what my problem is in my life? And tell me my problem in my life is. I sometimes don't live in the moment and enjoy the moment. I always think what the moment should be while I'm in the moment. And so where I get what you're saying, you wanted to chill birthday, you wanted to chill and then you're there going, this is really depressing. I, I would like to have the, you know, fun craziness. Yeah. And I, and I hate to say this, but I feel like that's kind of, you know, social media has kind of done that to me where I'll look at other people's things and I compare everything that I have where it sounds like it would be an amazing birthday to be able to spend with your best buddy in the world, Josiah and your son pouring it, you know, out everything. But then you sit there and go, I should have done something. Yeah. And for me, it's complete opposite to what you were saying in terms of social media. Like I didn't go on social and say, I wish I was outside or wish I was in clubs. It wasn't any of that. It was, and forgive me if I didn't clarify or overemphasize. I loved spending time with Josiah. Like I got exactly what I wanted. I enjoyed it. But towards the end of the night, I was like, man, it just doesn't feel like enough right now. Like I kind of feel like I want to have a different version of what I experienced that day. Still thankful and grateful, but maybe you should have a redo. Maybe this week is a redo. We, you know, yeah, maybe I should do a redo. What do you think? I think I should go to a golden corral. No, that's a birthday. If you had, if you did a redo, an exact opposite of that, would you throw like a, would it be a guy party with a bunch of dudes? Like, no, I mean, I mean, going to a club or something like that, or would it be like you being out with, you know, bringing a girl over to the house or what? I'm not the clubby person. Like I can, I can go out and have a great time, but I'm not a let's go to the club to the person. Like that's not where I have my greatest times. I can have a great time there, but I'm not there every time I want to go. I do want to go out of town because I really like going to Denver last year and experiencing something new. So if I did go out of town, I will want to experience something different. And my idea of vacation slash paradise has changed over the years. I feel like typically people think it's like beaches and all inclusive bars and swim up and going to Denver was a complete reversal. Like I'm starting to get more into him with like nature and being outside and like mountains and seeing things that had nature. So I feel like that's what I would want to do. I got the perfect place for you. Here you go. Las Vegas. Oh my gosh, he wants to go. That's what it's all about. Yeah. I got a perfect one. Play a little trip for yourself. Don't let that be your birthday gift. I might do that. My civic Northwest. I think, have you been down lately? You seem like you're down. Yeah. I feel like I just been tired lately. Okay. So you say that I'm glad you said that because on Friday before we left and we were all like, what are you doing for your birthday? And you just, it was almost like you didn't want to talk about it. And I thought the same thing. I'm like, I wonder if you're, if something's going on behind the scenes that you haven't shared because normally the day you got hired, you came into the studio and you were like, just so you all know my birthday is April 11th. Like you, and so I was like, oh, he's a birthday guy. Yeah. Well, I mean, I just explained it. I'm either zero or a hundred. Right. So it's like some, some years I'm like, yes, this is what's about to happen. I'm extremely excited. And at the time I'm kind of just like, like this year for my birthday, it's not a big birthday. I didn't care. I just want to just at home and do nothing. So I do get that. It's just not. Yeah. You know, when was the last time you had a chill birthday? Probably two birthdays ago. So not last year was Denver. The year before that was a bigger party. And the year before that, I probably just didn't do anything. Did you feel the same way after that? I don't, I can't remember. I was like three years ago. I can't remember, but like historically I've never been the big birthday person. It's just certain years. It's kind of like, okay, yeah, I'm feeling this. Hey, Jessica, what's up? Hey, so every year for my birthday is the only time when I actually get live. Like I try to make it fun for everybody else, but I totally relate with wanting to stay in and not do a lot of stuff most of the time of the year. But birthday is when I like actually try and go out and have a lot of fun. Yeah. Well, you sound like it. That sounds like it. Was it just, was it just, was it just your birthday and you're exhausted? You sound tired today. I don't know. Jess. No, I just dropped my daughter off at work. Okay. No, I, and I live stream late at night. Oh, can I, can I tell you, by the way, I think that that is a good idea. I think it's, I love Kevin's thing where it's like we, we're not guaranteed birthdays. You know what I mean? That's a fact, bro. And we see so many, so much tragedy in this world with people getting cancer or, you know, dying and car accidents or whatever, you know, it's, so it's one of those things where it's like, we got to make sure that we're celebrating that. So in honor of that, we're having a redo birthday. Shotsky. You need to do me a favor though. What? You need to go pick your cake up. I think you want me to do what? No. Your mom is the sweetest, but she doesn't have a ride to go get it. She has a car. What do you mean? She'll go ride. Remember the driveway is flooded. Right. If she can't get out. The driveway is good. There's an ocean there. What about the tree? Happy birthday to you. This is for you, Kevin. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear love. Happy birthday, dear love. Happy birthday, dear love. Happy birthday, dear love. Happy birthday, dear love. Happy birthday, dear love. birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Oh, and Kayla wants to say something to you, Kev. What's that, Kayla? Hey, how are you? Good. All right. I just want to say, because I was listening and, you know, I tried to call her this morning, but I tuned back in and you guys were talking about birthdays and I kind of feel them, you know, some years I'm feeling it, some years I'm not. But this year, I'll be 26. I just had my baby in November and I'm feeling it this year. Yes. What are we doing for it? Yeah. I'm kind of flip floppy with it, but, you know, this year, I'm totally feeling it. This year is definitely for me and my family and I'm excited for my birthday this year. Good for you. And no kid birthday. Let's have a mom gets to go out and have fun birthday, right, Kayla? Yes. I did want to ask him though, since he's flip floppy with his birthday, what's your favorite cake, cupcake cookie? What do you do for your birthday? I'm not a cake person. I mean, if I had to have a cake, what I've been thinking of though is like, if you have ever seen the movie Matilda, like one of them big fat triple German chocolate type of boys. Well, you're my twin. You're my only one. And through what I want for my birthday this year is a chocolate ganache cake like Matilda. I'll eat your cake. You let me know where to be. I might have to show up with one for your birthday. Oh my God. Hold on a second. I think now we got a smile on the camera. We're talking about the same cake. We're going to eat some cake. You want some Anna? Oh God. All right. I should have broke it before that call. No gloss. No filter. Just stories. Spoken without fear. Boston, who's not generous, cannot be an artist. The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers. Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Bhavani. Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Bhachon on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Come for the honesty. Stay for the fire.
