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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kevin on the show is a great dad. You know,
we heard all this stuff going on this year with you,
and you know what, we're happy that you got Josiah.
That's awesome in the craziness of what happened in your
relationship over the last couple of years brought you closer
to Josiah's mom, which is a beautiful thing, right, I mean,
you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
An interesting way of phrasing it, but yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Right, you guys have like a nice relationship with each other.
Guess what these guys are going to do for the holidays?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
No, man, Sorry, we're taking family pictures though.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Are you really?
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Are?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I love that I do too.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I think you know, tis the season.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
You you go on Facebook, you go on Instagram, wherever
you're at, and people are taking family pictures.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And I don't want the lack.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Of relationship between Josiah's mom and I to be the
deciding factor and what memories and experiences Josiah is allowed
to be a part of as he starts to grow up.
And when you look around and like, even I have
like family pictures and stuff like that, or pictures at
least when I was a child with my family Josiah
doesn't have that. Like all the pictures of Josiah and
(01:10):
his mom and I are like with five other people
in the background, you know what I mean, Like at
a graduation or at his play for example, Like we
don't have a lot of pictures like that.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And I thought, I'm like, man, like, how dope would
it be if we went to like J. C. Pennies.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It took like silly type of pictures though, Like those
type of pictures.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Like like the cheesy, over the top.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I letus all dress the same, take weird poses.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And what a give for Josiah to show his family
later in life, you know, to say, heyre's my mom
and dad.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
This is grandma and grandpa.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Not even that.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
I just think it's so cool for kids who have
divorced parents to have those photos. It doesn't even have
to be a professional photo. But even if it's like
you know, the school Christmas show, to have a photo
with mom and dad, because even if mom and dad
get remarried, that's still their family, do you know what
I mean?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And I don't want to. I don't want Like.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Many parts in my life growing up having Josiah, I
was very selfish and I'm sure his mom could admit
in some moments she was selfish as well. And because
we were selfish, we didn't give Josiah the best opportunity
to like be happy at times that would have his
happiness could have come from him being a part of
a unified front. And it's just at a point now
(02:27):
where it's like dog like, why the reason Josiah doesn't
have family pictures?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Because we are being stupid.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Like that, that can't be the reason why he doesn't
have family pictures.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
So this makes me feel like happy. I don't know,
I'm happy about this. Are there any other families that
take family photos and they're not married to, you know,
their babies mom or dad.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He brought this up you I did, and she was totally.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I was a little reluctant at first.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I was like, I don't know how she gonna feel
about this, but she was like, all right, sounds cool.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It was.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It was man can Uncle Mojo, Aunt Shannon and Anna,
Aunt Bianca, aunt Lydia, Uncle Zach.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I'll be part of the photos on his second go around.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Look at all those white people hanging out and that
ain't Santa Claus. Ah, this is awesome. I love this.
What's up, Amanda? What do you think? Amanda?
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Hey, I had texted in and I has said that
I think keV and her just need to get back
together already.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I think that's his soulmate, and I think they're going
to end up.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Together anyway, So at this point, just just get back
together a drawn again.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Put the pencils down, Ladies. Can I say something I
was gonna say? Kevin?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Kevin, he has ruled that out, Amanda. I don't know
if it's soul mate, but I think that they have
the beauty of making a wonderful child together. And I
think it's cool that they can have a friendship with
each other. Good friend it is.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
It's very cool, and it's very cool to see on
the radio and show a lot of people that it's
possible to do that.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
So it is very cool.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
But I do think they need to give that together.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
He's not giving up, right, although if there was fighting
between the two of them, that would bring good radio too,
Like that would be like, you know, she's taking you
back to court or something.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Like you feel like this is a bad idea, Like
obviously it feels good, but do you in the sense
of like false hope.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well, you've said that with the idea of having another
child together, that you would be giving Josiah false hope.
Some people may say the pictures would give him false
but Josiah.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Is also he's thirteen years old.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
He's he's a very intelligent kid.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Did you think he understands at this age that like
we're that you guys are just co parenting very well together,
that you're not going to get back together?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Or do you think it's money?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I think I don't like to make children feel older
than where they are, and I think sometimes in society
we make kids grow up faster and we say, oh,
you're thirteen, you're smart enough. Like he's smart enough in
some regards, but as touchy and emotional of a topic
as this is, I'm not sure if we take family
pictures if it doesn't somewhere in his heart feel like,
(05:14):
oh my god, like this is this is my real wish?
Speaker 8 (05:17):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Oh Angelica, Hello.
Speaker 9 (05:21):
Hi, how are you guys?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Good? What are your thoughts on this one? Actually?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You have your ax right ex? Baby Daddy? Do you
call him baby daddy?
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Yeah? We do sometimes?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Okay, do you guys do this.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
We Yeah, we haven't been together since my son was
just over one years old. He's seven now, but we
still take family photos together, Like we'll go out and
do things together as like a family. Even with his
new girlfriend and their child. We'll all just have a
great time together. And that's what good co parenting does
(05:55):
for you. I guess.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, do you really like his his girlfriend?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (06:00):
Isn't that I like her? In the beginning, I hated her,
absolutely hated her, But then we just have to grow
up and realize, like, it's not about you, it's about
the kids.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
What brought you around.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
So it absolutely loved her.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Did you guys have like a little one on one
moment with each other where you guys got to air
some things out.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
No, it was never never got to that point.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah. I think that it's good that you do this. Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I think the kids see the tension or feel the tension,
and if they're feeling the tension sometimes and they're not
in a situation where they feel like when they leave
one house to go to the other house, they're not
leaving a sad parent. They're leaving a parent that's happy
and joyful and then coming back to that joy and stuff.
I think it makes for a well rounded thing. I
(06:46):
used to wish my parents got divorced. I wanted more
Christmases and birthdays and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
We had to start being more communicating around Christmas times.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I saw it was getting over. He was getting on
too much.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Down.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, two separate lists.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
But I will tell you that when I see relationships,
I would never want to have a relationship if God
forbid my wife and I were ever a divorce. I
want to have what you have with Jasmine. I think
it's wonderful that you guys get along like you guys do.
What's up, Ashley?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
What's up?
Speaker 7 (07:15):
So?
Speaker 8 (07:15):
Yeah, I was married for eleven years and got divorced,
and we had three small children together, and then got
in a new relationship and I have two small children
with my niece bouse, and we still all get together
for Thanksgiving Christmases. In fact, my ex husband and I
have a daughter that was born January fifteenth, and my
current husband and I have a daughter that was born
(07:36):
in fourteenth. Oh wow, So for their birthdays, we're going
to Calahari for the weekend. Oh God, okay, all of
us together. My ex husband will take my oldest, my
four year old, from this recurrent relationship, and he'll go
do things with her.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And this amazing. That's cool.
Speaker 9 (07:51):
Yeah, we totally co pan very very well with each other.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's about the kids. You know.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
I grew up in a divorced family.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You shut that door? What do you go?
Speaker 9 (07:59):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
What's that being being? What's that bbing? Ashley? The door
press is.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
My car because I'm pulling up my house.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Okay, all right, all right baby, higher pressure light is
going off for whatever you do.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Ashley, get over to Bell Tire. You tell me which
one you want to go to. I'll get your firstuff
on the list. Okay, No, all my.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
Tires are good. It's just because of the cold. And
I went through a car wash yesterday after not for
a couple of days. In the center.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
We'll help you out. They'll get your car winter ready. There.
Oh there is driving me crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Hold on, what do you think about Kevin and Jasmine
doing one of those photos where Kevin's got his arms
around her like prom like yeah, like a and then
Josiah's kind of off to the side or something.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
No, I want I.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Want Kevin and Jasmine back to back with their arms
crossed and Josiah in the middle.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
We gotta do like one of those or my faces
on the floor.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
On top, yes, and your hands are around your head.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Alison wants to pooh pooh on this idea.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Why, Alice, I'm sorry, I'll just think it's odd. I'm mean,
if you are all don't have any, like any plans
on getting back together or trying to make it work.
I just I don't see the point of taking family photos.
I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I don't get it well.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And I guess my reasoning is is so that Josiah
can have happy memories of his family together, like tangible memories.
He can grow older and look at a photo book
and say, you know, even though my parents weren't together,
they put aside their differences and got together so I
could have a great moment in my life.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
I mean, I guess I don't. I mean, I just
don't see the point in doing it. I don't. I
feel like that's giving false hope of communication, like because
I'm just speaking as a as a civil mom, as what.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
They call it, baby mom.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
In the back of our heads, we want to be
with our child's father, especially if he's a good father.
Like you seem to be so for you to go
and take family photos, maybe not right now or this year.
She's not saying, oh I want to be back with
Kevin or I want to have a family. But down
the line, it's gonna be like, oh, look at us,
and these photos we did look nice. Maybe we should
and maybe she'll be on one thing and then you
(10:07):
will be on another whole disent level. So I just
think it's getting mixed emotions false.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Hope that.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
You never said the child in that situation. You only
said she, And that's what I'm saying. It's not about us,
it's about the child.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Right again, I guess I don't see.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
The point in it, but you're just you're just yeah,
well listen, I uh I do all right, Well, thank
you for the call. I appreciated h I loved the
texture here. Where was the one texture that said that
they were crying? I just saw it a second ago, Lydia,
(10:44):
there was one texture that said, oh god, where was
I said, I'm literally crying. I read it a second ago,
and then Allison is a hater and threw me off.
I ain't gonna say that, Oh, this is such a
beautiful thing. I'm listening to the show and hearing Kevin
talk about this. You are truly an amazing dad, and
(11:06):
Jasmine is an amazing mom. And I am crying in
my car thinking of the two of you doing this
for Josiah.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
How beautiful. So that is beautiful. I wonder she let
me post.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Them though, right funny, I feel like she'll be used
one of.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Those emojis over her face. Hold on, Kelly, Kelly's got
a great question. What's up, Kelly?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
I do have a really good question.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Also.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
The caller before, I just want to say, Kevin, I'm
happy you.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Said you see how you didn't mention the kid because
her whole point of view was more focus on what
the adults think, not what the child thinks. And I
like that Kevin just said what he said about you
didn't mention the kids. She's too focused on what the
mom is gonna think if we take pictures. But anyway,
I'm curious to know what Kevin think or Kevin would
do if he was in a relationship. Would he still
(11:51):
consider taking family pictures?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Good questions and all of this.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
If he was in like not not just dating, but
let's say he was in a committed relationship, would he
still choose to do this.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It definitely would have to be a conversation I would
have with my wife before I even brought it up
to Jasmine. And then hopefully my wife would understand the
reason why I'm doing it as well. And there could
be some photos that I take with just jazzmin or Josiah,
but then obviously we would have photos where everyone is apart.
Take that photo with that family, and then the larger
family as well. So hopefully we could just all be
(12:22):
a good question.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
And if the person opposed, if let's say, if your
a girlfriend opposed it, would you take.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
That as boundaries or would you take that as.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
She just is an understanding if she had a great
reason why that, I could understand the boundaries.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
If it was Alison that last caller, he ain't taking
photos