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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Mojo in the Morning is time now for
(00:02):
am I the A Hole? If you have an Am
I the A Hole? You can go to our talkback
mic on the iHeart Radio app. By the way, can
I also mention highlights. I don't know if you guys
have looked at them, but I have. If you go
on the iHeart Radio app, there's a thing that says highlights.
Scroll right over to it, click it and you'll see
all the videos of Austin Studio real. Yeah, go check
it out if you haven't checked it out yet, It's
(00:23):
on the iHeart Radio app. It's highlights and you can
do this with the Mojo in the Morning show. We actually,
believe it or not, are one of I think Bianca
what do they say, maybe seven shows or so that
are doing this. Yeah, I think there's only like six,
actually six shows that are doing this thing.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We're very honored to be part of this whole thing.
All right, Am I the A Hole?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hey guys, A little bit of a problem here.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'm trying to figure out I'm an a hole.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
My coworkers want me to work Christmas morning for them
so they could spend time with their families. But my
wife is saying that it's going to ruin our Christmas
for our one year old son, and I don't know
what to do.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Okay, So that you have a Nick Is on the
phone with us right now. Nick, you have a one
year old son, and you have coworkers that want you
to work for them, and you're thinking about doing that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I mean they have older coworker or they have older
you know kids and stuff like that. And my my
son's only one years old and he doesn't really know
what's going on, and so this is this.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
His first Christmas.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, it's his first Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
My wife is really upset with me because she's like,
we're gonna get photos and if you're not here, you're
gonna ruin the photos.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
But is one, what kind of job do you have
that you have to work on Christmas? I'm a nurse.
Gay for working on a holiday?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Actually the money is going to be
really nice if I work this shift, like something that
would be really beneficial for the family. And but also
like my co workers are really great and we all
like cover each other all the time, and they have older,
you know, sons and daughters that they spend Christmas morning
with and like my son, like I love him, don't
(02:05):
like he's I love my wife. I love my son,
but he's one. He's not really knowing what's going on.
And I'm like, hey, we could celebrate Christmas literally the.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Next day and he'll never know. Yeah, and he'll never know.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And then we also have a really nice paycheck coming
our way that you know, really help us. So like
I my wife is very upset with this idea, and
I'm I'm like, am I?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Am I a bad guy? All right? So is Nick
and ahole for wanting to do this eight four to
four O Joe Live eight four four sixty sixty five
six five four eight. It is really funny because when
your kids are like one or two years old or
even three years old, they don't even know what's inside
of the box. They just know that there's a box
that they're getting to rip around and stuff like that.
(02:48):
So if they're opening gifts and you're not there for
them opening gifts, you're right, they don't even know when
Christmas is, you know what I mean? He said they
can do it the next day. Yeah, but I think
it's more for his wife, Like his wife wants to
make the memory of this is our son's first Christmas. Yeah, man, Lisa,
what do you think is nick and a hole?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
No? I think that people asking him to do that
are the a holes.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Really, even though they're doing it, they want to do
it for their children.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
No, I'm my daughter is My daughter will be ten
on Monday, and I'm telling you we share custody, my
ex and I and get along great. By the way,
I've never missed a Christmas with her. He's never missed
a Christmas with her.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
You know, it's not so much that your one year
old's going to be like, hey, daddy wasn't here this morning.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
It's more for you and your wife and for in
the future when you talk to your kids about Christmas morning.
When you were one, his family and as child should
come first. And yes, the paycheck would be nice, But so.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So when you say he's not who talks about their facts. Yeah,
I want to say, I feel so bad. I don't
think I remember.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
When you met.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Like most people don't even remember their child's first Christmas.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I remember their first birthday. I remember, I remember the
first birthday is very vividly. But Christmas, I'm like, really, So,
she's saying that he's not an a whole. The coworkers
are an a whole. But he's also saying is she's saying,
don't work? What's up? Ali? High?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I just want to say, I don't think you're the
a hill. I also think that your coworkers are.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
I think.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
But let's focus on him. What if he works? Will
he be an ahole for working?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I don't think so. I mean, I think it's personal preference.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I think that if you have to work, you have to.
But I also think, yes, your son won't remember it,
but you will, And so I think it's really about
like how you feel.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We just all went around. I don't think that you will, Ben,
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
So he's got an opportunity to make some extra money
because when we don't have enough mone he has men.
Who's the fault. It's us.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
So he's got an opportunity to make extra money for
a one year old that wouldn't know Christmas. Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
She needs to give him a break. So give him
a break, all right, and work? Work for the money.
What's up, Teresa? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yes, he is not an hay hole. I hope that
his wife realizes that it's a hospital. And if he
does not work this holiday, he will work next.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Christmas, because that's how they work.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You have to rotate your holiday.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That's actually a really good point. If you're going to
work any Christmas, work the one now, don't work the
one in a year or two years from now. What's
up daja?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Hi, guys, I think he is a little bit to
a hole, not like anything harsh or anything, but the
first Christmases for kids are for the memories of the
parents and to share, you know, with the family, and
it's about making that magic happen and just being able
to share as an additional member if you guys have
an additional member of the family. Yeah, So it's creating
(05:59):
new Christmas memories and special traditions, I think.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And by the way, thank you for the call. I
appreciate it. But I wonder, Nick, is there any people
that are there that don't have young kids that maybe
they can work instead of the ones that have because
you still have kids, you still have young kids. Maybe
there's some people that have you know, older than teenagers
and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Honestly, the department that I work in, it's a lot
of like newer people and younger people like myself. So
a lot of them have like five to ten year olds.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Okay, it's a sweet spot for Christmas Morning. Jason, you
say he is an a hole.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Yeah. Absolutely. The thought shouldn't have even come across his mind.
He should have thought about it his family first. The
first time, you know, I saw my daughter, I knew
everything was going to change at that point. And I
get making extra money, but sometimes it's just not about
the money. It's about sticking to your guns and sticking
to your family.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well, I will tell you this in the future, Nick,
you got to understand that there will be time where
you will choose work over your family and you will
regret it. And I regret a lot of those times.
This one. I don't know if it is one of them, because,
like we all said, we don't remember our kids first Christmas.
And I also like the idea that maybe you celebrate
on Christmas Eve or on the twenty sixth. What's up, Heather?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Hi. My husband was a pilot for a major airline
and he had to work Christmases, so he would celebrate
Christmas two days before sometimes and we would call it
Christmas Morning and was a big family event. We had
all the pictures. She didn't know the difference.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
That's interesting. Did you guys ever jump on the plane
with him and go with him wherever he was going?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
No, we couldn't do that, but it wasn't every Christmas
when he did.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Have to work.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yeah, we made it work, Yes, because he's going to
have to work someday and if he does somebody a
favor now, they'll do the favor when he wants it when.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
They're four or five and six hopefully. Yeah, that's what
you want. Yeah, well you know that right out.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
They don't know, but when when the kids are older,
they'll know, and then they'll miss daddy.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So when you look at pictures from Christmas, it doesn't
time stamp it and not on Christmas.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Woh, it looks like Christmas morning everybody. It was just
we would just do the same thing on the twenty third,
and it was to them it was Stannah Kane last
night and they never knew they were little one, two
and three.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, Keita, you're having to deal with this this year,
Is that right, Keta?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yes, that's right. Oh, that's my first time calling it.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Nothing much? How are you?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Moga? I'm fantastic. Keita's great having you on. Thank you
for finally calling us.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Absolutely, I'm glad to get through. I wanted to comment
on Mack. He's not an AO right now. It's financially
messed up for a lot of people. It's some people
who would love to work on Christmas. I'm actually getting
ready to lose my jobs with night year old Indonesian
because my company decided to, you know, outsource this.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, so I December thirty.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
First is my last day. But what we did for
my daughter. My daughter's dad worked on the train line,
so we got up her up at like three o'clock
in the morning, which she was cool with because we
got to sleep in the rest of the day and
just celebrate Christmas that morning before he goes to work.
It just depends on what time he goes to work.
Like these guys that have to be there till seven,
get up, get the baby up at four him and
you guys just have a magical moment for a couple
(09:28):
hours until he has to.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Go to work.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah. I like that. I mean there are times where
you got to do what you gotta do. There's a
lot of people, you know, whether it be in your
case here where dad was working the railroad you said?
Is that what you said?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Or police, firefighters, nurses, doctors. Although I got this text
here it says seven three four, It says Mojo, Please
tell the guy that's on for am I the a
hole right now that he is not an a hole
for working? But give him one thought. For years, my husband,
who was a police officer, had to work on his
(10:04):
Christmas Day and because he was out there serving and protecting.
Now my daughter calls another man dad. Oh lord, I'm
just kidding. What you know that I made it up?
When I can read it better than when I read it. Yeah, hey, Nick,
(10:29):
if you want another man to be called dad, enjoy
your holiday in the hospital.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Gosh, okay, well now that's making me rethink things.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
No, I'm just kidding, Nick. Merry Christmas to you, buddy,
and thank you because I know that nobody wants to
to work shifts on Christmas. But when you hurt yourself
over Christmas and you have to bring your family or
yourself into the hospital, we need at least somebody there.
So thank you for doing that.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Absolutely all right, thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Guys,
All right, Mojo in the Morning is time now for
(00:02):
am I the A Hole? If you have an Am
I the A Hole? You can go to our talkback
mic on the iHeart Radio app. By the way, can
I also mention highlights. I don't know if you guys
have looked at them, but I have. If you go
on the iHeart Radio app, there's a thing that says highlights.
Scroll right over to it, click it and you'll see
all the videos of Austin Studio real. Yeah, go check
it out if you haven't checked it out yet, It's
(00:23):
on the iHeart Radio app. It's highlights and you can
do this with the Mojo in the Morning show. We actually,
believe it or not, are one of I think Bianca
what do they say, maybe seven shows or so that
are doing this. Yeah, I think there's only like six,
actually six shows that are doing this thing.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We're very honored to be part of this whole thing.
All right, Am I the A Hole?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hey guys, A little bit of a problem here.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'm trying to figure out I'm an a hole.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
My coworkers want me to work Christmas morning for them
so they could spend time with their families. But my
wife is saying that it's going to ruin our Christmas
for our one year old son, and I don't know
what to do.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Okay, So that you have a Nick Is on the
phone with us right now. Nick, you have a one
year old son, and you have coworkers that want you
to work for them, and you're thinking about doing that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I mean they have older coworker or they have older
you know kids and stuff like that. And my my
son's only one years old and he doesn't really know
what's going on, and so this is this.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
His first Christmas.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, it's his first Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
My wife is really upset with me because she's like,
we're gonna get photos and if you're not here, you're
gonna ruin the photos.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
But is one, what kind of job do you have
that you have to work on Christmas? I'm a nurse.
Gay for working on a holiday?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Actually the money is going to be
really nice if I work this shift, like something that
would be really beneficial for the family. And but also
like my co workers are really great and we all
like cover each other all the time, and they have older,
you know, sons and daughters that they spend Christmas morning
with and like my son, like I love him, don't
(02:05):
like he's I love my wife. I love my son,
but he's one. He's not really knowing what's going on.
And I'm like, hey, we could celebrate Christmas literally the.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Next day and he'll never know. Yeah, and he'll never know.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And then we also have a really nice paycheck coming
our way that you know, really help us. So like
I my wife is very upset with this idea, and
I'm I'm like, am I?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Am I a bad guy? All right? So is Nick
and ahole for wanting to do this eight four to
four O Joe Live eight four four sixty sixty five
six five four eight. It is really funny because when
your kids are like one or two years old or
even three years old, they don't even know what's inside
of the box. They just know that there's a box
that they're getting to rip around and stuff like that.
(02:48):
So if they're opening gifts and you're not there for
them opening gifts, you're right, they don't even know when
Christmas is, you know what I mean? He said they
can do it the next day. Yeah, but I think
it's more for his wife, Like his wife wants to
make the memory of this is our son's first Christmas. Yeah, man, Lisa,
what do you think is nick and a hole?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
No? I think that people asking him to do that
are the a holes.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Really, even though they're doing it, they want to do
it for their children.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
No, I'm my daughter is My daughter will be ten
on Monday, and I'm telling you we share custody, my
ex and I and get along great. By the way,
I've never missed a Christmas with her. He's never missed
a Christmas with her.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
You know, it's not so much that your one year
old's going to be like, hey, daddy wasn't here this morning.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
It's more for you and your wife and for in
the future when you talk to your kids about Christmas morning.
When you were one, his family and as child should
come first. And yes, the paycheck would be nice, But so.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So when you say he's not who talks about their facts. Yeah,
I want to say, I feel so bad. I don't
think I remember.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
When you met.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Like most people don't even remember their child's first Christmas.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I remember their first birthday. I remember, I remember the
first birthday is very vividly. But Christmas, I'm like, really, So,
she's saying that he's not an a whole. The coworkers
are an a whole. But he's also saying is she's saying,
don't work? What's up? Ali? High?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I just want to say, I don't think you're the
a hill. I also think that your coworkers are.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
I think.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
But let's focus on him. What if he works? Will
he be an ahole for working?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I don't think so. I mean, I think it's personal preference.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I think that if you have to work, you have to.
But I also think, yes, your son won't remember it,
but you will, And so I think it's really about
like how you feel.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We just all went around. I don't think that you will, Ben,
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
So he's got an opportunity to make some extra money
because when we don't have enough mone he has men.
Who's the fault. It's us.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
So he's got an opportunity to make extra money for
a one year old that wouldn't know Christmas. Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
She needs to give him a break. So give him
a break, all right, and work? Work for the money.
What's up, Teresa? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yes, he is not an hay hole. I hope that
his wife realizes that it's a hospital. And if he
does not work this holiday, he will work next.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Christmas, because that's how they work.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You have to rotate your holiday.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That's actually a really good point. If you're going to
work any Christmas, work the one now, don't work the
one in a year or two years from now. What's
up daja?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Hi, guys, I think he is a little bit to
a hole, not like anything harsh or anything, but the
first Christmases for kids are for the memories of the
parents and to share, you know, with the family, and
it's about making that magic happen and just being able
to share as an additional member if you guys have
an additional member of the family. Yeah, So it's creating
(05:59):
new Christmas memories and special traditions, I think.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And by the way, thank you for the call. I
appreciate it. But I wonder, Nick, is there any people
that are there that don't have young kids that maybe
they can work instead of the ones that have because
you still have kids, you still have young kids. Maybe
there's some people that have you know, older than teenagers
and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Honestly, the department that I work in, it's a lot
of like newer people and younger people like myself. So
a lot of them have like five to ten year olds.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Okay, it's a sweet spot for Christmas Morning. Jason, you
say he is an a hole.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Yeah. Absolutely. The thought shouldn't have even come across his mind.
He should have thought about it his family first. The
first time, you know, I saw my daughter, I knew
everything was going to change at that point. And I
get making extra money, but sometimes it's just not about
the money. It's about sticking to your guns and sticking
to your family.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well, I will tell you this in the future, Nick,
you got to understand that there will be time where
you will choose work over your family and you will
regret it. And I regret a lot of those times.
This one. I don't know if it is one of them, because,
like we all said, we don't remember our kids first Christmas.
And I also like the idea that maybe you celebrate
on Christmas Eve or on the twenty sixth. What's up, Heather?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Hi. My husband was a pilot for a major airline
and he had to work Christmases, so he would celebrate
Christmas two days before sometimes and we would call it
Christmas Morning and was a big family event. We had
all the pictures. She didn't know the difference.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
That's interesting. Did you guys ever jump on the plane
with him and go with him wherever he was going?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
No, we couldn't do that, but it wasn't every Christmas
when he did.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Have to work.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yeah, we made it work, Yes, because he's going to
have to work someday and if he does somebody a
favor now, they'll do the favor when he wants it when.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
They're four or five and six hopefully. Yeah, that's what
you want. Yeah, well you know that right out.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
They don't know, but when when the kids are older,
they'll know, and then they'll miss daddy.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So when you look at pictures from Christmas, it doesn't
time stamp it and not on Christmas.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Woh, it looks like Christmas morning everybody. It was just
we would just do the same thing on the twenty third,
and it was to them it was Stannah Kane last
night and they never knew they were little one, two
and three.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, Keita, you're having to deal with this this year,
Is that right, Keta?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yes, that's right. Oh, that's my first time calling it.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Nothing much? How are you?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Moga? I'm fantastic. Keita's great having you on. Thank you
for finally calling us.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Absolutely, I'm glad to get through. I wanted to comment
on Mack. He's not an AO right now. It's financially
messed up for a lot of people. It's some people
who would love to work on Christmas. I'm actually getting
ready to lose my jobs with night year old Indonesian
because my company decided to, you know, outsource this.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, so I December thirty.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
First is my last day. But what we did for
my daughter. My daughter's dad worked on the train line,
so we got up her up at like three o'clock
in the morning, which she was cool with because we
got to sleep in the rest of the day and
just celebrate Christmas that morning before he goes to work.
It just depends on what time he goes to work.
Like these guys that have to be there till seven,
get up, get the baby up at four him and
you guys just have a magical moment for a couple
(09:28):
hours until he has to.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Go to work.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah. I like that. I mean there are times where
you got to do what you gotta do. There's a
lot of people, you know, whether it be in your
case here where dad was working the railroad you said?
Is that what you said?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Or police, firefighters, nurses, doctors. Although I got this text
here it says seven three four, It says Mojo, Please
tell the guy that's on for am I the a
hole right now that he is not an a hole
for working? But give him one thought. For years, my husband,
who was a police officer, had to work on his
(10:04):
Christmas Day and because he was out there serving and protecting.
Now my daughter calls another man dad. Oh lord, I'm
just kidding. What you know that I made it up?
When I can read it better than when I read it. Yeah, hey, Nick,
(10:29):
if you want another man to be called dad, enjoy
your holiday in the hospital.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Gosh, okay, well now that's making me rethink things.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
No, I'm just kidding, Nick. Merry Christmas to you, buddy,
and thank you because I know that nobody wants to
to work shifts on Christmas. But when you hurt yourself
over Christmas and you have to bring your family or
yourself into the hospital, we need at least somebody there.
So thank you for doing that.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Absolutely all right, thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Guys,
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!