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. Is it okay to have friends work for you or is that a disaster in the making? I, by the way, want to say something about Anna Robb before she brings this topic up. I got a chance to be her plus one at one of her gigs that she was doing. Can I say something about Anna Robb? She's a freaking superstar. Oh, thank you. Do you understand that she's got, she's a bigger deal than I am? No, not true. No, no, less true. So Anna, for those that don't know this, obviously works on our show. You guys know her new to the show, but people know her because she's all over TikTok and social media. She does a lot of stuff, you know, with the tigers, the pistons, the lions, the red wings. And I got a chance to go to a tigers game with her where the tigers invited her. They gave her VIPP style, an extra P in that one. And they put her up. So let me tell you this. Oh, I saw your pictures and videos and let me tell you, I was slightly jealous. We walk into this room, which is the press box. We walk into the room, there's a bar there and they're like, would you guys like a cocktail? And I'm like, oh my God, like it's not like hair, we're pouring you a beer. Yeah. This is the, you know, big cup, you know, ice drink that they give you down outside a section 122. This is like a bartender making a drink. And then they sat us front row in this press area where we're watching the game and they're bringing out like courses, like food, like, like, like fancy food, like dining experience. And they all love her. Like I met the tigers person that does this stuff. Yeah. And like, you know, that's unbelievable. Thanks for being here. What free do you want? I'm like, That's fine. I don't know if you know this, but I've been on the radio in this town for a little bit. I've never had them offer me anything for free. I threw out the first one. I hear something funny. Yeah. I threw out the first pitch at a tigers game. What do you think? 10 years ago? Yeah, probably 10 years ago after I threw the first pitch, they said, well, have a great day. They didn't even let me stay in the game. This is true. They literally actually, I got it done. I think we all went and got conies or something. It was, yeah. I'm going to change that. People were seeing me walk out the exit and they're like, hey, you just threw the first pitch out and not throwing you out. All right. So, It's true. Yeah. But how did I do as your assistant? Mojo was honestly Much better than anyone I've had as a plus one because he understands the importance of content. He almost was like too good at it. Like everything he was like, let me get you get a video of you doing this. Let me get a video of this. Let me get a video of this. I'm like, okay, slow down on the content. I'll tell you when I need a video Mojo, but he wanted to get a video of everything. The only bad thing was Mojo is also very popular. So we're trying to get content and walk around America and everyone wants to stop this man and take pictures of him and talk to him. So that was my only complaint. They're all plants. But Talk about your, what you're looking for. So, um, on that note, I am starting to get invited to more and more events that I'm getting paid a decent amount of money for. So for example, I have a big brand deal with a liquor brand coming up and they want, they're hosting a party in Detroit. They want me to go there and essentially turn up with my friends, but also be capturing content of the liquor. I'm drinking stuff like that, which is so fun for me. But if I'm drinking and I'm partying, it's hard for me to capture content and I'm getting paid a lot of money to do this. You want to make sure it's good? Right. So I'm starting to be like, I need somebody to essentially help me capture this content. So I'm looking for like, I wouldn't say an intern. I can pay them a little bit of money, but this is not like a big role. So I posted something on Instagram looking for help, capturing content, going to events with me, things like that. I had so many of my friends reach out to me like, bro, why wouldn't you just ask me to do this? Well, first off, because when my friends are there, they're also turning up so the content is not good. So I don't think that would work. But also I had like my best friend's sister reach out to me. She is one of the best photographers in Detroit. She's worked with Cardi B, like all of these people. She's like, I would love to do it just to have fun with you. And she takes amazing pictures. But in my head, I'm like, I don't think that working with someone I know, a friend or even my best friend's sister will end up being good. I don't know if my friends would take me seriously. All right. I want to hear the pros and cons of hiring a friend for work. And in the cons, I think it'll be more fun to listen to this. I don't think I could yell at somebody I knew for real. This is very serious to me. It's my job. And I don't think that I could take it serious or they could. I don't know. 844-MOJO LIVE 844-665-6548. Have you ever had to work for family? Can I tell you something? I worked for my brother Tony for one summer. He owned a landscaping company. He owned a landscaping company. One summer didn't come fast enough. Because when you're working, you're different. I remember when Joe interned for the show for a little bit. I was hard on him. Harder on him than I was with the other interns. Did it affect your relationship? It was tough. It was tough. And then when Joe worked here, Joe was our boss. Because remember he was the APD of the station? Yeah. That was so funny. And he would come in and say, hey, you got to do this. I'd be like, you should go to your room. You were a thought in my head on a Saturday night. What are you talking about? What's going on, Calvin? How you doing? Good. How much help guys? Good. Good morning. Happy Monday. Anna's thinking about hiring a friend. What do you think about that? Well, as someone who, I ran a movie company for a couple of years and the worst decision I made was probably hiring my cousin. Love him to death. He's my best, like one of my best friends, but also my cousin. And just one of the days he ended up abandoning it, just like what she said earlier about taking people seriously. I told him that, like, you know, if he didn't take it more seriously, I guess he didn't take me more seriously. But he ended up abandoning the job. So I would just say stick with people who you don't have a track record with because if you know every little detail about those people, it's just going to be running around in your mind the whole time that you're working with them. Did he tell you why he quit? What if this? What if that? It just happened to be a girl. I mean, we were younger at the time, but I would say that that stature still holds true today. Would you, Anna, if you hired them and they called in sick, would you drive by their house knowing where they live? Probably. I checked their location. They're probably at the mall or something. Sam, what's going on? So I think, Anna, should 100% do a test run, try and run, take one person this time and just make your boundaries and your expectations super freaking clear. There's no reason to, like, think about it too much. Like at that point, I feel like it's becoming a job and not so much your fun. And you want them to be both, right? But you want to be able to do the content. So do a test run. That's a good idea. Okay, I'll take you here. I will tell you this. Having helped Anna that one time that I did, I felt weird leaving. Like I wanted to leave. I'm like, I want to leave. I'm Anna. I think I'm gonna leave. But I felt weird because I'm like, oh, this is actually like her work. Like she can't. She can't, you know, you have to go. I was actually going to ask you that question of how long did he end up saying because he's so famous for the Irish goodbye. He stayed until the last course, which was dessert. Which how far into the game was that? I think that was like seventh inning. I lasted a long time. I'm impressed. I just wanted to get out of the parking garage before the nightmare started. What's going on, Doug? What's going on? I had a comment about the, um, working with family. Yes. I think a lot of times when you're working with family, they don't take the job serious because they just show family. They're just going to be slackers. That's how I feel. See, uh, uh, Yeah, they're just going to slack off and not take it serious. And they ain't gonna make it seem like if it was like your boss and you don't know them, they're gonna take it serious because they want to impress them. They want to impress families like, oh, yeah, that's just my brother or that's just my sister. It ain't a big deal. It ain't a big deal. I agree, but my only hesitation or my difference of opinion is if the friend or family member, if what you're asking them to do is already their profession, then they've already proven that they take it serious. Agreed. So it's not like somebody that doesn't move. They're not a professional mover and you own a moving company and they're like, hey, I need a job. Like they don't like moving in the first place. So it probably was never going to work out. But if Anna's looking for a content capture and that's what they do, then I probably would like lend on them. But I still feel like she'll just be more comfortable telling me like, oh, I can't make it or say no to things where like I need someone that's more like aggressive and like, you know, what's up, Crystal? Hey, good morning. So this actually happened last week. We had a co-worker. We called her out and she was calling off too much and she was actually looking for a job while she was working and she all defriended every single one of us. She would say that we were listening to how bad the phone line is for the second there. But by the way, the phone system is run by a cousin of mine. He set us up with a great deal. I gotta have a conversation. So wait a second. So you had a girl that you work with. She's friends with you in your her boss. Correct. And what did she do? So she was kept calling off and then we also, she was on Facebook looking for jobs. She was at work. So we called her out and then she got mad and needed a mental health day and then she defriended every single employee on Facebook. By the way, my cousin just said that the phone line got fixed. I will tell you that you got to be careful if you do hire a family member or a friend, people automatically think that you're treating them different. Like I already get the people that think that I have favorites here and I treat everybody different here, which by the way, Kevin and I are also related to you guys. You couldn't tell. Disting cousins. Yeah, by marriage. But in this case, it's just her. So like there wouldn't be any of that but. Yeah. I think I'm going to test it out like that one college. Yeah, definitely. That's a good idea. Do one. All right. Mojo in the morning. No gloss, no filter, just stories, spoken without fear. A person 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 Bhachow on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Come for the honesty. Stay for the fire.
