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. Good morning, Kevin. What happened at your mom's house? Nothing. She's an exaggerator. She's a bit dramatic. I love your mama. I love her too. My mom is amazing. And I wouldn't say she's a dramatic person. So this was a bit out of her character. Maybe she was just lonely and wanted somebody to come over. But a couple of days ago, it rained. Right? Like we knew it was going to rain. We were all aware of the thunderstorms and the potential tornado watch that was out. And she texted me yesterday and was like, Kevin, I need you to come over and like exclamation points. I was like, all right, what's going on? She's like, I'm stranded. Why? What are you talking about? You stranded. She was like, there's so much water in my driveway. It's like the rain or flood or something. I've already called the city sewage and have told them to come out. My entire driveway is blocked. I'm like, and this is like four text messages back. I'm like, all right, send me a picture. She sent me the picture. It felt like one of them little puddles that kids jump. Come on. They probably I'm telling I'm gonna see you the picture. Let me see. In the topics and it cracked me up when I saw it. Really? I'm always holding it in the topics. We like it. It's like it's like a little. Funny. It's like wait a second. Hold on. It is. Oh, she seems like what did her voice sound like when she said it? She text she text the whole. This is all like in the text messages. Okay. And she said she's not. Messages. She said I called the city. I can't get on my driveway 24. Oh my God. Can we please post? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me blow this up for a second. Look at the end of the drive. A puddle. Bro, wait, the man to the left though. Hold on a second. She's the man to the left shows like how big he how he's okay. But that shows like it's not a lot of water. No, he's right there. Where call your mom. Will you call your mom for a second? Yeah, I call. So you're not. So your mom what's out of the city that your mom live on the west side. So your mom is on the west side of the city. It rained so much that she said there was so much water in front of her house. She couldn't get out. The water looks like it would not even fill up a baby pool. It looks like one of those inflatable baby pools. Would not be ever be able to be. You on the radio right now just so you know. Here, put, put Eric, can we call her on ours so I can talk to her on this one? Because I got somebody that would. We'll call you. Here, hold on a second. Hold on. Hold on. All right. All right. Hold on a second. This is. She got people in the house. She does. Who the city? Oh, can you call that? Can you just randomly call the city? Like I live in West Bloomfield, but can I just call West Bloomfield and say, I'm stranded. I can't get out. Sure. They would send somebody right. Hi. Hi, mom. How are you? Oh, you got it? I want you. I'm good. I can't believe that Kevin wouldn't come with a boat to get you out of this place. I know. He's he was. Yeah, it was. It was a. Tell me. Tell me when you saw all that water on your driveway, how long did you think that you were going to be stranded there? I didn't know. I'm telling you, they were working on the corner on the street. And so there were people out there, but I didn't know how long it would take. I call the city and she got it. Long as they came out and she got Easter on the brain. Talk about Jesus sending the flood. Yes, that is right. Where's the art? I mean, there's a lot of water that was there. There was so much water there. We should call Channel 4. I know the news crew. Kevin's friends with Karen Drew over there. I say, I say, mom, you can drive out of it. I tell me about Kevin. Kevin showed us the picture. Did the water go way down by the time that you went out and took a picture because the water doesn't look like it's that bad. Yeah, it was going down. Okay. You just miss me. Oh, look who's I. So you know who we got on the phone right now for you to say hello to. This is actually former Detroit mayor. Mike Duggan is on the phone with us right now. How are you? How you doing? I saw you the last time I saw you. We were on liver noise. Yes. This is Kevin's. This is Kevin's mom. And I know that this has got to be something interesting. She was she had a little bit of water in front of her house. Like actually a little, little, little bit. She thought she was flooded in, Mike. I just want you to know if I was still mayor, I'd have been out there personally. Yeah. Dixie cup. You'd have been bailing her out, wouldn't you? I don't have a bucket. I had to take care of it. Mike, let me ask you when you were when you're mayor, where would you get calls from like elderly ladies that would call up and ask you for for things like that you could help out there? My mommy. Oh, absolutely. If I stopped and filled my car up with gas in the city cause I was doing myself, somebody would immediately come over and they'd hug me. They get their picture taken. Then they show me a picture of the dead tree in front of their house and ask when I was going to get it down. But people knew they could come up to me and I would immediately have somebody deal with it. But that's what you do. Yeah. When you're a mayor and I'm confident if Mayor Sheffield knows she'll deal with it too. Absolutely. I bet you mayor Sheffield is listening or her people are listening to this mom and I bet you that they'll make sure that everything is okay there that you're good. Well, I've got a tree that it's falling in my back. It's like we got to find you a new house. I got to tell you if that's the case in Detroit, I'm moving to the city of Detroit if they'll just randomly do landscaping for me. The city will do the trees between the sidewalk and the street. Those are the public trees. The backyard. You got to call Kevin. You know what though Mike Kevin is amazing. So you know Kevin works on our show works at Michigan State during basketball season. He's the in stadium announcer there works for the Pistons in stadium announcer there and there have been times where he has worked you know 7-8 days in a row and he'll actually know that the snow falls and mom what does he do? He comes over and does what? He does. Mike I know you're running for governor. Do you have a Lieutenant governor picked if you win this election because Kevin would be an incredible Lieutenant governor. Well, we'll put him on the shortlist. I have until August to make a decision and I'm meeting qualified people all over the state. So I haven't made up my mind Kevin, but we'll we'll schedule you for an interview. Look, I already got my slogan. Okay. My full name is Kevin Irwin the second. I got this from my dad. You win with Irwin. And I got my thumbs pointed at myself. You're a lock. Hey real quick Mike are you going to the Tigers game there? Are you going to be at opening day? Oh, of course. I haven't missed an opening day since the mid 1970s. So I started taking my son when he was three years old and now my son that is my campaign manager at 35 and I'm taking him today. That is so cool. Yeah. Is it weird to work with your son? Cause it's weird for me still to work with Joe and get a chance to spend time with him. It's wild to see the little boy that goes to the game now all of a sudden, you know, being somebody that you're looking to for advice, right? Well, you know, since it became the campaign manager, he thinks he gets to tell me what to do all the time. So I don't use the joy. Tell him that he, you know how to run a campaign for God's sakes. I mean, I've never seen anybody win an election off of a write-in like that. But all right. So here's the deal, Mike, if we can't get Mayor Sheffield on the phone, I know you got her direct line. We're going to have you call for Kev's mom here and see if you can help out. Okay. Hey, seriously, text me the address and I'll get Gary Brown at the water department to deal with it, but you ought to give Mayor Sheffield first shot. But if not, I can get to the water department. Although it sounds like the water department may already be out. Yeah. What do you wish? I wish he could see a picture. He's way too kind. Honestly, Kevin, describe it. You literally could clean this out with an ice tray. So much. I don't know who out there. This is like a bird bath. You send a couple pigeons over there. They'll soak it up. That was a distance. That was a distance picture. Okay. It's like a barrage. Things appear closer. Have you ever cleaned it up yesterday? Have you ever cleaned it up yet? Have you ever known your mom to be an over exaggerator sometimes, Kevin? Um, she kind of like you. I ain't gonna lie. She might put a love in an extra on there. There's some love to that story. I love it. Are we serious? You think that I over exaggerate? You know, by the way, let's go on Chelsea. Let's get a party live one. I knew that I loved you. I just want you to know that. All great people, right? All good people. Kevin needs to listen to us, right? He needs to understand what's going on here. All right, guys. We'll talk to you. Well, you might talk to you later. Mike, thanks. Thanks, buddy. I appreciate you. I'll see you on the ballot, Mike. We'll talk to you, Mike. Thank you. Take care of yourself. Go Tigers! Let's go Tigers! 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 Bhachu on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Come for the honesty. Stay for the fire.
