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Mojo on the Morning Show. Met a listener of ours. I got to shout out two names for one person. Are you okay with this? So I went to Somerset yesterday, and I was hanging out at the Nordstroms, where I ended up running across a girl that was there. Her name is Giselle, and I want to wish her a hey. You don't know her as Giselle. she's not Giselle at Nordstrom's she's actually Jennifer that was what her name tag said because she said hey will you say hi to me and I said absolutely and I said let me write this down I'm like Jennifer and she goes no actually say hi to Giselle and I said why am I saying hi to Giselle and I thought this was actually kind of funny she said she uses the name Jennifer on her name tag because creepy guys will come in and they will look her up on Instagram to follow her and then they'll hit her up in the DMs because they'll see her name Giselle and it's a very unique name.

That's smart. I mean, she's protecting herself. I think that's really smart. Good for her.

She's got a creepy guy alias, which was, like, to me, the most awesome thing ever because I was thinking that would be a funny topic to bring up and ask other women. And I don't know if you or Megan or KP, Lydia, have ever used an alias. Like, I remember back in the day when girls would go to clubs, they would always have club names. And they would use names when they went to the club, and they would all know each other's club name. So that when guys would come up and ask them what their name was, they would give them a fake name. 844-MOJO-LIVE, 844-665-6548 is our telephone number. That is a smart thing, though.

So smart. Especially with a very unique name like that. And with how easy it is to find people nowadays. Also, what a creep. I know.

How fast has that ever happened? Has that ever happened to any of you two? Where you meet a guy, and a guy just, as soon as you meet him, he starts friend requesting you on Instagram.

The immediate DM within the hour is like, all right, we got it, dude. Like, cool.

It's almost like so thirsty that you got to say, man, that's creepy. It's really creepy. Yeah. 844-MOJO-LIVE, 844-665-6548. Hey, Mojo in the morning, how are you?

Hi, how are you? I want to say, I do that. I have done it over the radio, and I do that with my basic name. My actual name is LaQuisha, but when they ask me, like, at a restaurant, what can we put your name up under, I always say Taylor.

Why? Wait.

Why? Why Taylor? And guess what? Guess who this is? This is Miss Smith.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, hi. I got different names. Hi, hi.

How many different names you got? Hammer.

Hey, whatever name I want to come up with. I don't know.

I like that you come up with, like, the most basic name ever in Taylor as your name. Yeah. They see you coming in, and they're like, this ain't a Taylor. Why are you Taylor today?

Yeah. No, no, no. That's awesome. Because my name is LaQuisha, and nobody can ever pronounce it, so I just tell them my last name versus my first name.

I love it.

I love it.

Thank you for the call, LaQuisha Taylor Smith. What's going on, Jennifer?

hey good morning so I was never allowed to change my name on my name tag but I always want

I worked at CVS in the pharmacy, and they used to make us wear our full names on our name tags, and I would have creepy old guys, like, sending me on Facebook and, like, sending me messages, and it was horrible. And they would never let me just, like, shorten my name to, like, just Jen or anything like that. Like, they would make me and everybody else wear our full first and last name on our name tag.

Oh, my God.

That's really dangerous.

Yeah. Yeah. That is very scary. Thanks for the call. I appreciate it. What's going on, Raquel? How are you? Or Rachel. Raquel, I just made you. I made you like a porn star by changing your name from Rachel to Raquel.

A Latina. Yeah, you're changing my name. Did you like that at all? I do. Yeah, actually, I used to be called that sometimes. That's funny. I'm going to get Rachel here. Don't ever use my first. I don't ever use my first and last name on any social media. I actually have opted to use my middle name as my last name, so it's harder for people to find me because there's so many creeps out there. They know my first and last name. They can find everything. Right. So I've always just opted out to use my middle name as my last name.

Be careful. Yeah, you've got to be careful. What do you do for a living?

I actually sell billboards.

Oh, wow. That's pretty cool. Get us a Mojo in the Morning billboard.

Yeah.

I would love to. I'll reach out to your marketing team.

Yeah, talk to them. Tell them. We want to be up on a billboard. What's going on, Delanda?

Delanda rhymes with Amanda.

Delanda rhymes with Amanda. What's going on?

Okay, so my themes feel with the name. So on social, not social media, but the dating app a while ago, I was kind of ashamed to be on there. So I will always use another name. On top of the fact that people always mispronounce my name.

Yeah.

So I'm bartending, and this guy walks up, and he's like, you know, hey, such and such. And I'm looking like, who are you talking to, and who are you talking about? Like, that's not my name. And he pulled up my profile and everything. I was like, oh, my God.

That's crazy. He actually was, you came up. Did he swipe right on you?

Yeah, and we had talked and everything. But because I was going under another name, I just didn't put two and two together. And he had came because I was working in a club. He was like, yeah, you know, you look so familiar. Is your name this? And I said, no, it's not. And, yeah, it almost got a little heated because it's like, you're not going to call me out of my name. And then he pulled that profile up. I was like, ooh. That's hilarious.

Ban on with us right now. You must be Chaldean with a name like Ban.

Yes, and that's the whole point is when I was a hottie toddie going to the bars back in the day, my bar name was Gina.

Why?

Because I didn't want anyone to know I was Chaldean.

Oh, really? Well, how they couldn't tell? What, did they think you were, like, Italian or something?

Yeah, yeah. I used to pass more for an Italian, so I had an Italian name. I was Gina.

Did you ever put on the accent, too?

No.

No? Do, like, a little Italian accent?

She's like, oh, dang it, I should have.

Yeah. I'm from Clinton Township. That's me, Gina.

Which is why I didn't want to be identified as the Keldean girl.

i love it honestly italian girl but you that could you date outside being a chaldean or no

in secrecy yeah yeah i'm telling you they all do this was back in the day too this was like

you know i'm 50 now so this was bad that's all right we love you thank you monica what's going

on well um three different situations for alias you know the retail job with the name tag i didn't like people approaching me calling me by my name thinking that you know do i know you and then the other thing is i work at a collection agency and then we have to wear our badges for our jobs and if you're out and about and people see that you don't want to come across the wrong person and then social media the last thing is my full name is not on any social media ever wow can i ask you

question are you like right now collecting right now because it sounds like there's people working

behind you well i'm not um collecting i'm actually like in the legal department so i i'm not everyone assumes that you're you know in collections when they see the bad collection because you can hear

people in the background like listen to them talking and working and stuff you're in a call

center or something right now that's actually you oh oh now i'm a little crazy all right well

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