No gloss, no filter, just stories, spoken without fear. A person 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. Ah, there you go. Mojo in the morning show. Hannah told the story this morning. Did you ask your mom if it's okay to talk about this? She's fine. Are you sure? That means no. She's fine. This has been a whole thing my whole life. I have never met your mother or your father, and I've only talked on the phone to your grandfather. I don't know your family very well, but I'm going to let it be all on you. I love this story and I love this about my mom, so I'm not afraid to tell it. My mom was born with a deformity on the right side of her body, so her left arm is slightly shorter than her right arm, and she has what we call her little hand. Kevin, is it really like how much time? I wonder if I have a picture. It's a little hand. It only has two fingers. I think she was born with three fingers, but to try and make it more useful to her, they did surgery, so it's sort of like a claw, so she can go like this with it, but it's littler. Real quick before you tell the rest of the story, I'm fascinated. I, for some reason, and Shannon knows this, I am fascinated with people who have either missing digits, missing full-on legs or arms or, you know what I mean? Because you need to know the story. If you are ever out in public with him and he notices this about somebody, he'll ask about it. See, he's who my mom would play with. When we were growing up, I remember her telling like crazy stories. I want to play with your mom. We'd be on a boat and someone would be like, what happened to her arm and she'd be like, shark attack or something crazy. Nothing like that happened. That's not the story though. She has this little hand. I honestly totally forget that it's even there most of the time because she's just so normal to me. She holds things with it. It's just not even a thing. I got to take a picture. Look for a picture while you're telling me. She uses it to our advantage in the best way, and she did it this weekend. So I think we were trying to get her to park in one of my favorite parking lots downtown. And it was like $10. And sometimes she'll just slide it out the window as the parking attendants coming up. Or when she goes to shake someone's hand, she'll use both hands and shake someone's hand. Not asking for sympathy, but then we get things out of it. Like you're free. Yeah, so the parking attendant's like, oh $5 for you, not 10. Because they feel bad. Or when we're waiting in a long line, my mom can stand in line. She is fine. But like, she'll bring out the little hand. We'll be like, mom, show your little hand. Show your little hand. And next thing you know, we're in the front of the line. That's what I call a five-finger discount. Seven fingers. She'll be a seven. Hold on a sec. Somebody just texted me. They say, Mojo, you got to go get the clip from Scary Movie 2. That's what I just said, bruh. When him and the guy in the wheelchair go back and forth, it's like, my germs, my germs. It's my strong hand. It honestly is the best. Hold on a second. Let me see if I can find this thing. Hold on a second. Pops, if you're listening, call up and tell us, tell us how it was when she was growing up. Because I know, we also have had really bad stories. Like, I know. Kids probably were not nice to her. Hold on. Help! Help! Here, oh, take my hand. Ah, come on. You're not gonna fall unless you take my hand. No, give me your other hand. Oh, my other hand. Stop it now. It's like my little hand. No, get it away from me. Break it! Break it! By the way, this movie is hilarious. I want to know real quick, and Anna, I wish I'd met your mom before I said comments like this, because I don't know if this is good. You just said I want to play with your mom. I want to play with her mom. Absolutely. I want to know what's the craziest thing she's picked up with her hand. Ooh, that's a good one. I haven't seen her like, use it to pick things up, but whenever we would drive to school, she would balance her coffee cup on it. So she would drive with one hand. What? And she would just, yes, I swear, never spills. Don't ever let, don't ever let something hold you back. You do what you gotta do. Yeah, she was amazing at sports. Like, one of the best softball players my grandpa said he's ever seen. Like, people wouldn't even know, because she would have to do it all with one hand. She would take her mitt off and throw it. When I was in Little League, I think I played for the Rockies. Our catcher had one hand. Did he really? Bro, he used to be on. Jim Abbott. He used to, what is that? Jim Abbott was the famous, he played for Michigan, University of Michigan. He had one arm. Bro had, Bro had the hand with the, the arm with the hand he used to catch. So he had the glove on. So when people used to steal, or he would throw out people, he would catch the ball, drop, like, pull off the glove, sweep the hand. That's how Jim Abbott did it. It was the most impressive things I've ever seen. Hold on a second. I would, I want to get to this real quick, because it's interesting. I've talked about how Chelsea, for Chelsea, I call, I pull the cancer card sometimes to get like appointments and things. Like I've actually said, you know, my wife just recently had, I got diagnosed with cancer. It's amazing what that does for you. You look at your face. You want to get a reservation. Anywhere you can't get a reservation, you get it. Chelsea's car dealer, the car dealer, her car was broken. I called the owner of the car dealership Lee and I said, Lee, my wife just recently went through this. He got like, bring a car in. I'll take care of it. I will do anything for Chelsea. You know what? As they all should. Yes. Absolutely. Hold on a second. Alicia, what's up? Hi, Alicia. Hi, how are you? Good. What's going on? Nothing. So my daughter, she was born with 12 digits or 12 fingers. So she's got extra and actually runs in a family. Her dad was born with it. Her sister, her brother. Fingers or toes? Is it six and six or like seven and five? Six and six. So two pinkies on each hand. Does she have to wear mittens instead of gloves? She actually no longer has them. We did. We did have surgeries. Oh, you got it. Okay. Okay. Funny because my dad used to poke fun. We're just, we're a dark humor kind of family, but he would always say, well, you'll be, you'll be a good catcher in baseball, you know, that's right. You know what I would do if I was playing against her team, I would call out and say, I'm sorry, but I am not allowing this to happen. They have an advantage. I do not want it there. There is a distinct advantage there that you've got two extra fingers. Right. They had a mutant on 18. Seriously. What's up? Hey, Paris. Hi, Paris. Hey, I do a mojo. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Good morning. I have, they called me well, Nemo, because I have my dad's ear on my left and my mom's ear on my right. So every time I put on like sunglasses or whatever, I was always like, why is my glasses always crooked? So I have one little ear and one ear is kind of a big size. So it's kind of a thing, but you know, I'm used to it now. That's the cutest name and the best analogy. That's crazy. Do people ever walk up to you and want to fix your glasses? Because they're kind of crooked or no? No, they'll look at me and they turn their head like, why is your glass always crooked? I never knew to like five years ago, my damn, I have a little ear and a big ear. I look at myself in the mirror and I'm like, wow. Oh my goodness. You know what's funny? What's funny about that too is if I was looking at you, I'd probably turn my head a little bit. You know what I mean? What's up Kelly? How you doing? Hi. Hi. I was calling because I went to go for a job interview at a Texas road house and the manager only had like two fingers and a thumb and like half of a hand. And at the end of the interview, he went to go shake my hand and he put that hand out and I didn't know what to do. So I just grabbed the whole thing. Yeah. Shake it all. Shake it all. Shake it like a Polaroid picture. I'm trying to wrap my brain around that. Hold on. Pops is on the phone with us right now. What up Pops? Anna's grandpa. What's going on? How you doing Pops? Hey, first time caller. Hey Pops. Wait a second. You've been on with us before? We called you. But I didn't call. Oh, you called us out. Okay. That's true. That's true. Pops. Pops. Pops. Pops. Pops. Pops. Pops. Pops. Pops. That's true. Pops is on with us right now. We're talking in this is obviously Pops's daughter. This is your mom. We're talking about your daughter. Hold on. Your mom's on the phone too. Oh, it's a family reunion. Anna's mom. Mama Rob. Do I call it? Do I? Do we call her Mama Rob or her name is Dawn? Which one? What do we call you Mama Rob? How are you mom? Good morning. I'm good. How are you? Good. Now I really want to meet you. I want to get a chance to meet you after Anna telling the story. Are you okay with her telling the story on the radio? I want to make sure. I absolutely am Mojo and I will play with you and Chelsea. Anything you want. Thank you. I love it. Hey mom, we're all playing. Who died? You drink of a mosa this morning. Kevin, you do not want. Kevin's going to have more hand jokes. I just wanted you to know that. Oh, geez. My God. Listen, I heard them all and yes, growing up with a little bit more difficult because children are so cruel and can make fun of you, but not anymore. That's awesome. You know what? That is actually a great thing to talk about because, you know, we're here. We are that call her just a couple of minutes ago talking about her daughter. It's when you're a kid, it had to be tough and pops. You probably protected the hell out of her. If anybody looked at her differently, you probably beat the hell out of them. Didn't you? I did. If I can just say a couple of things. Sure. Don was born with the affliction exactly the same as Jim Abbott. Yes. And don played three, don played three sports and in basketball, she would always fake to the right. She couldn't go right, but they would take the fake right around them to the left and score. That's amazing. Yeah. Oh my God. Phenomenal, phenomenal athlete. Can I say this real quick? Because Kevin didn't know who Jim Abbott was. Look up Jim Abbott and look up videos of the way that he pitched. Yeah. The guy was fricking unbelievable. Go blue. So, um, all right. Well, Dawn, when are we coming over for a barbecue? Anytime. Oh my gosh. Anytime. Anytime. My husband would love to barbecue for you guys. All right. No promises on if it's going to be burnt or not. We're going to, uh, we're going to come over anytime that, by the way, Anna's done a phenomenal job. How excited are you? How proud are you of your daughter? Listen, I am so proud. We have listened to you in the car for so many years, decades. We love you guys. Hey, can we talk about the sassiness that she has? She's a little sassy today. I was, you know, she kind of like has gotten comfortable. I, I can sense that she's ready to go. She's all, she's, you know, already given it back to me. I like that. Let me tell you something. Yeah. Let me tell you something Dawn said to me a couple of days ago. What's that? She said, am I glad I'm listening to the program. I'm finding out things about my daughter I never knew. Yeah. Right. That's what happens. Just you wait. Just you wait mom. Mama Rob is Kev says. All right. Listen, thank you guys so much for, for joining us. Appreciate it and look forward to getting a chance to meet you guys face to face. All right. Hey, we love you. Love you, mom. Love you, pops. Love you. Bye bye. No gloss, no filter, just stories, spoken without fear. A person 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.
