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All right. Mojo in the Morning Show, it's always a good comeback from the weekend when you can find out if somebody that we know and love from our show pooped a bed.

Do you love me?

Honestly, I would love you less if I knew that you pooped a bed. Not that I haven't had poop situations, which by the way, we have all, I believe on the show, have all admitted that we at one time or another have pooped ourselves. Yes.

Well, you just did. There's two people walking this earth. There's people that have pooped the bed and people that are lying and saying they've never pooped the bed.

Well, over the weekend, I took my five-year-old Smith for a little mom-son date night. And he has been so excited about this since I told him that we were doing it a couple of weeks ago. And so we just hung out in downtown Detroit, which, by the way, there is so much fun, free stuff to do down there. The Monroe Street Midway being one of them. just like a big outdoor winter carnival anyway so we did that we walked around and we saw the tree and we watched the ice skaters and then we had a little sleepover down there as well well my mom just the two of you guys just the two of us yep little quality quality mommy son time okay my mom had made these um chocolate chip cookies okay and it's her special recipe the secret ingredient i'll tell you it's vanilla pudding makes them very fluffy whoa and the chocolate creamier so real quick i know i know i know it's big

Oh, I love cookies.

You sounded for a second there like like that stone guy.

I'll bring some in for you. You'll have that same reaction. So I threw a bunch of them in a Ziploc bag and put them in my my duffel bag to bring with us. Just thinking like, oh, OK, you know, when we're in bed at night watching a movie or whatever, which we did end up doing. We watched Home Alone. We'll have a little snack. So I'm a pretty messy eater. Smith's a pretty messy eater. So we are, like, chowing down on these cookies, and we have chocolate all over our hands. It's all over my pajamas.

Cookies with the secret recipe of vanilla pudding.

Okay, you're going to remember this. You're going to remember this. Okay. So I fall asleep. Smith falls asleep. And in the morning, we wake up. We're getting ready to check out. And I always like to tidy up the room so it doesn't look like I'm a huge slab. Are you really that person? Oh, my God. Yes. No way. I, like, half make the bed. I clean up the room. I throw away all the garbage. You are a dream for a day. I'm sure there's no hair in the sink. You know, I just don't want to be able to slab. Because they do write notes on your accounts, by the way, at certain hotel chains. Oh, okay. If you didn't know this. I have a lot of friends that work in hospitality. They do. They keep track.

They got a long list for me. Okay.

So as I go to, like, throw the comforter over the sheets of the bed, I see that it looks like there are poop smears all over the sheets. Oh, no. But, like, legit. Like, it really doesn't look like it was chocolate. It looks like someone pooped the bed. And I'm like, great, because I did meet a lot of listeners who worked there. I'm like, I'm going to get labeled as the radio girl who pooped the bed when she stayed the night. It's going to be in your notes on your file. It's going to be in the notes. Beware, she poops. Now I'm paranoid about this.

So you want to go on record.

I did not poop the bed. It was chocolate chips from very delicious chocolate chip cookies.

Sounds like exactly what someone would say when they poofed the bed cup.

With the secret ingredient of vanilla pudding. What kind of pudding was it? Vanilla. Was it pudding in your pan? Vanilla pudding. No.

Vanilla pudding in my pan.

No, but I should have taken a picture of it because it was like, it was a disaster.

So, you know what's funny is one of my favorite topics that we can ever do on our show, and we did it so long ago, was when we asked the people who work in hotels, like maids or, you know, cleaning people, what did they find in the room? Like, what was the thing? The person from this room is going to call us up and say,

Shannon from Mojo in the Morning poops the bed.

There's a radio person. Actually, they already called our competitive station right now. Hello, David, Chuck the Freak. Hi, I just wanted to let you know that Shannon from the Mojo in the Morning show poop the bed this weekend oh my god that's funny so it wasn't poop it was just cookie it was it was chocolate chip it was just cookies but by the way by the way if you are uh if you are a maid at a at a hotel or if you've ever been a maid at a hotel you got to call us up and tell us the crazy crap that you guys find in the room literally get it matt matt what's going on matt do you believe that it really was the secret cookies, or the special cookies, or do you believe that Shannon might have had a duty problem?

Oh, she had a duty.

What's going on, buddy? What are you calling for?

Well, I heard poop, and I had to call. Oh, good, good. Well, I had a story. I was at work, and my stomach wasn't feeling the greatest, and I went to go let out a fart, and ended up being a shark.

Oh, no. At work? Wait, was this in front of, like, coworkers and a whole bunch of people?

There was a coworker there. He did not notice. I walked away. I looked at him. I go, oh, I got a family emergency. I got to go. Then I had to call my father-in-law, who's my boss, and drive an hour home from work with a shark.

By the way, there is nothing worse than when you lose that little bet that you have, that little run-in that you have. That's like the worst feeling in the world When that happens to you

Oh yeah I got some short stories I bet you You sound like

What's up Sue

Hi Mojo I've got a disaster story to tell you This happened back Probably like six months ago Me and my boyfriend

were visiting his son and we drove separately and i we drove home at the same time i said well i gotta stop at kroger and pick up a few things so he said okay i'm leaving a few minutes behind you and so i'm in line at kroger's i'm just like oh my stomach feels funny but i'm only five minutes away from home okay i can do it and i literally like walked out in the parking lot pulled out to the stoplight right by Kroger and like, oh, my God, oh, my God, I can't make it. So I pull into the speedway, which is right on the corner, and I'm pulling in. I'm like, oh, my God, I can't make it. I can't make it. And then right there and then in my car. Oh, no. Somebody made a stinky air.

Oh, my God. That's the worst. The worst is when you're trying to go to the gas station to go get it done, and then they tell you that their restroom's out of order.

Right. Right? So I'm driving home, and my boyfriend passes me, and he calls me. He's like, hey, how are you doing? I'm like, oh, my God, you've got to go home, lock the dogs up, because I get run in the house.

Oh, my God. Why do you need to lock the dogs up? Why do the dogs need to go?

They're going to jump all over me now. Oh, my God. I'm sure they were going to be like, what the hell? Yeah.

Right.

You told us we couldn't do that in the house.

Do you remember what you ate? Do you remember what it was?

It was just regular food. I just hit you wrong. It goes from zero to nothing in just a couple minutes.

By the way, the guy behind the glass at the Speedway, they know. They can tell by your face and the dance you're doing. They can just say, oh, yeah, it's out of order. Our restroom's not working because they know when they get one of those customers.

The convenience stores of Speedway. Let me go to Amanda. Are you there?

Yeah, I'm here.

Hey, Amanda, you're calling up with the mess in the hotel room story?

Oh, yeah, it was horrible. So I worked at a hotel in Chesterfield, and we actually had the MTV crew there filming for 16 and Pregnant. And me and another maid went in there to go clean the room, and they had weird frosty all on the walls, and there was condoms in the bathroom. And we literally had to leave a note on their hotel room, basically saying we couldn't clean their room until they had cleaned it before we got there.

Oh, wow. Okay, so Shannon says that you guys do make notes about the people that stay in the rooms, like when they're excessively dirty?

Yeah, we had to leave a note on there, and we had to send them a letter into their room, basically letting them know that we couldn't even enter there until they had cleaned it up because it was that loud. Wow, that's really bad.

What was the stuff smeared on the walls?

Frosty from Wendy's. They had literally taken it and smeared it on all the walls. What the heck? I have no idea, but we went in there, and they literally had to steam clean the walls and everything. The whole room was atrocious. It was bad.

I remember having to go down to the lobby. We were visiting Jacob in Chicago, and Luke and I ordered room service buffalo wings. And we ate them, and Luke was sitting on the bed, and the red got all over the comforter. And I wanted them to know it wasn't blood because I thought to myself, oh, my God, They're going to think that, like, somebody was murdered in there. Right. So I go downstairs and have a talk, and the guy behind the counter goes, this is no joke, he goes, can you bring it down to me? I'm like, I'm going to carry what looks like a blood-stained comforter down to you in a thing. I go, can you just have somebody come up and get it? And the guy's like, well, we're kind of short-staffed right now. So I carried what looked like a blood-stained Buffalo Wild Wings comforter.

That guy wanted you on camera carrying that. Oh, yeah?

I'm like, I'm the guy. I'm the guy that they're talking about. Oh, Laura. Laura, are you there?

Hi.

Hey, Laura. Did you work in a hotel? No. Or were you the guest?

I was a guest.

Oh, okay. What happened?

Well, this was over last winter, and I was living in the hotel, so I was waiting for my apartment to be out of it. So after working a 12-hour shift on medicaid, my daughter is just too, the next day, and I kind of had to clean it, so that's the whole night and all day. By the time I went to the hotel, the bathroom, I ended up clogging it. I called the hotel maintenance, and I told him, hey, my 8-year-old daughter clogged the toilet, and when I took my daughter to school, I had to call a different hotel, make reservations, so I didn't have to do the office.

I love how you blamed me on your 8-year-old daughter, too.

And it's funny, because the whole way to the I told her, hey, I'm going to make you pick the ball because I have to go back to the hotel after I got to the hospital.

Oh, man. I've done that as a parent. I have blamed my kids for my sins. What's going on, Julie? Hello. Hey, what's happening? What's up? What happened?

So, I worked at a hotel way back in my early 20s, and a really nice two gentlemen came in, and they were super nice, didn't take nothing of it. I went to go in their room the next day, and there was poop, literally poop smeared all over the wall.

Oh, no.

What were they doing?

Yeah.

Why? It's raining from the ceiling.

so i call my boss and i'm like look um they're like well you gotta get it clean

oh you drew this short straw julie i i did a phone scam once where i called a hotel front desk to apologize for pooping in the pool and i was so surprised by the nonchalant attitude it was like you know they have seen some blank they've seen some stuff because it doesn't even shock them anymore when you work at the front desk of a hotel. It seems like, oh, just another one Monday. By the way,

it just seems like such nice guys coming into the hotel room. Right? Who would have thought? How did it get so high? Animals, like throwing it or something like that. Oh, thank you for the call. We appreciate it. We went through 30 lines. We have not found the maid at the hotel that you and Smith stayed at this weekend. So they did not call. So they did not recognize. Maybe they

taste it do they taste it and go oh that's chocolate do you scratch and sniff i don't think

so i hope not that tastes like pudding uh people are eating breakfast right now

laugh it's mike's phone scam to help forget about the annoying people you'll see today it's this morning at 6 50 on mojo in the morning mojo in the morning show i found this to be

so fascinating and I brought it up to you guys off the air and when I did I think we all got the tingles you know it's the time of the year where you're probably getting more and more packages delivered to your house matter of fact they're probably coming in droves to you listen to this stat delivery fantasies for package delivery services this is the busiest time of the year which means that people are seeing more delivery drivers and it's not just packages that people are looking forward to 37 of americans have daydreamed about hooking up with the delivery

driver who brought it on their truck my amazon driver is hot really straight up he is very

attractive do you get the same amazon driver all the time not all of the time but he comes to my

neighborhood pretty regularly and what does he look like just tall dark and handsome he's really

does he wear the amazon blue outfit that they have yeah and he's got like long hair and he like

pulls it back into this like low kind of ponytail situation it's very muscular

all right so you're one of the 37 37 percent of americans who daydream listen to this 23 percent have attempted to seduce the delivery driver come on like by show by answering the

door and something man megan have you ever showy i would i would if i was there every time he pops up on my ring and i'm not there i'm like dang it come back do you ever go back and just watch the ring over and over again in slow motion all right here's here's the the question of questions

because i when i brought this up this morning i think we all got excited because we could picture a phone call like this coming through to us which by the way if you're somebody that has ever you know if you're hot for your delivery driver you can call us but if you've ever tried to seduce your delivery driver you got to call us too um has anybody ever hooked up with their delivery driver or any delivery drivers yes you're right we will voice disguise you we want the stories bad you can use a fake name whatever it takes 844 mojo live 844-665-6548 or text is 95500 you know what's funny about the people that come to our house chelsea knows every one of their names like she knows them by name she's a good person and they also know her too they'll say they'll say hey tell chelsea i said hi and i'm like you son of a and i i used to know our ups guy uh pat he was our our really good friend luke played baseball with uh pat's son and then patrick retired or or decided that you know he had you know decided that he had done enough lifting and moving around with ups for so many years now i got this young guy that comes to the house who i'm not kidding you when i say this to you it's a stud he looks like uh what's his name uh what's the miley's uh is it liam that she's married to chris hemsworth or chris hemsworth which one of the

The Hemsworth brothers are very good looking. Yeah.

I'm like, get this guy out of here. Bring Pat back. I knew Pat. I knew Pat wasn't going to, you know, seduce my wife. But this guy, I'll tell you, man, this good looking guy comes in his brown outfit. Mojo in the morning. Hello.

Hi there. So this was years ago, but when I went down to my grandparents' house for Christmas, my grandma had the total hot for the CPS driver. and my papa he was like yeah sir he's really hot and stuff so i was like i looked and i was like okay grandma like he has pup over here but this guy was like a freaking bodybuilder

do you think that he he was buff he was like i love that you're still fantasizing about him

Does Papa ever get jealous of this, or is he okay with Grandma?

No. So my Papa is one of those, like, older guys who, like, will, like, point out that, like, people are, like, looking at him and stuff, like, you know, that younger girls are looking at him and stuff.

Do you think your grandparents are secret swingers and we just don't know about it?

I don't know. But my grandma was super jealous that he said my name, the UPS driver, because, like, she's like i'll go offer him like the thing and so he's like well thank you and then just send my name and i was like grandma you said my name not here is he and he's closer to your age than he is to

grandma's age obviously right come on grandma thanks natalie take care of yourself what's up

stephanie hi what's going on stephanie uh so three years ago um i i actually left my i really just want to say it was a guy i was in a relationship with but i i left my husband for the upsk wow wait how did so okay how did this start like how did this little relationship start with the upsk okay well i have kind of an obsession with like really like cheesy old school porns you know like with the like like the like the porns that are like really cheesy like the delivery guy come into your house yes exactly i don't know i got a little in my head and i i don't he just i he kind of was that guy wow so who how did you make the first move i really it was kind of a joke i was just like oh is that package for me and you know um it just we just really hit it off and he i just

kept ordering stuff and would would you guys bang in your house while your husband was at work or

what would you do no no i i left him first you left him before you started fooling around

yeah i mean i i was married but was the ups guy married or is he single no he was single

and now you guys are are together yeah have you ever made him wear the brown in the bedroom oh

yeah i like it all started because she likes cheesy porn it was a cheesy really works i never in a million years thought that actually happened. It's amazing. Nicole actually says that her mom used to do the UPS guy. Is that right? Yeah, that's right. Oh, my God. Look at these guys.

I was like eight years old, so I really didn't know, but it all started. We'd wave to him when we saw him in the neighborhood, and they just would get to talking. Yeah, his name was Chuck, and yeah, they did for a couple years.

Wait, did you ever see Chuck, the UPS guy, walking out of your mom's bedroom as an 8-year-old?

No, no, she would have been super sneaky.

Oh, mom, you got to love it. Well, thank you for the call. All right, so it works.

Thanks, guys. Take care.

Megan, seduce the Amazon guy and see what happens.

Wow.

All right.

Those calls are amazing.

What you just said was, Megan, please buy more things off me. Yeah, exactly.

When he's tossed by my house, does the Amazon driver think, this house again?

You can just leave it at the door. This is Mojo in the Morning.

All right, Mojo in the Morning. Time now for Taylor Swiftmas. Giving you a chance to win Taylor Swift tickets. It's going to be at Ford Field in June. Text Taylor, T-A-Y-L-O-R, to 95500 for a shot to win. You could be going to see Taylor Swift from Mojo in the Morning.

We have very important business to get to. We have a breaking and entering Christmas wish. And let's go live to Mike first and check in. Mike, everybody in place out there? Yeah, we got the whole Red Robin crew here. We are ready to go. Yeah, thank you so much, by the way, to Red Robin, who not only made a huge...

donation of $30,000 this Christmas to help us with our wishes. But if you visit any Metro Detroit Red Robin tomorrow, they're going to donate 20% of the proceeds to break and entering Christmas wish. They continue the giving all season. It's insane. So thank you to those guys. And they came out to help us deliver today because we have a very special family. Mike, are you with Mackenzie?

uh no i'm with uh the mother-in-law dina mother dina mother dina oh i got to speak to dina when

i was doing the christmas shopping for this family hi dina she said you called she said you called her diner yeah there was a typo on my list i was uh struggling to meet everybody for the first time as i was getting more details about this family and getting to learn a little bit about them um so this is a little differently we have a letter here that was sent to us by a neighbor and Shannon is going to read that letter and then we're going to surprise the family here with breaking under Christmas wish and by the way you can watch this is it Facebook live Megan you can watch this wish unfold live on the mojo in the morning Facebook okay we got to get Latasha on the phone first do we have her keeping yeah let's uh as soon as okay as soon as she gets that line ringing so you could pick that up there oh we might have lost it we'll get her back again. It's okay. This happens every break and end and Christmas wish because the element of surprise is the most important and it's live radio and we can't call them ahead of time or let them know that we're going to call. So KP is dialing mom

again. Okay, here we go. You can put it up, Joe.

Hi, Latasha. Who is this? This is the Mojo on the Morning Show. My name is Spike and along with Mojo, Shannon and the entire crew here, we're on the radio and we got an important letter about you and do you have a second we can talk to you about it uh yeah okay um we got a great letter from a woman named mackenzie one of your neighbors and she wrote us talking about how your family is in need and we need to help can we read that letter to you

uh yeah here you go dear mojo in the morning my name is mackenzie and i'd like to nominate my neighbors Latasha and Devin for breaking and entering Christmas. Latasha and Devin are parents of two small children soon to be three children in May. Latasha works more than 85 hours a week trying to support their family. They can't afford to have anybody watch the kids so Devin stays at home with little Chase and Addie. Recently Latasha suffered a bad injury at work which means the family is currently living off of $400 a week from her workman's comp. Their rent takes up the majority of the monthly income. There's no room for anything else. No clothes. They can barely afford food. And anything for their sweet kids for Christmas is completely out of the question. They are behind on most of their bills and I fear that they are going to end up losing their home any day now. They've also started pawning some of their belongings to pay bills and make sure the kids are fed. To make matters worse, they recently had a leak in their bedroom, so the entire family is sleeping in the living room with no beds. Tasha also recently got into a car accident and now the only vehicle this family has is on its last leg. This mom and dad would do anything for these kids and it breaks my heart that I know they're struggling so badly, but they're too proud to ask for help. They act like everything's okay so they don't worry the kids. Please, Mojo, Please help this family have a Christmas this year. They truly deserve it. Sincerely, Mackenzie.

You have amazing neighbors, but they all tell us the same thing, that you're amazing, LaTosha. And you've been doing so much, from what I understand, working more than 85 hours a week to support your family?

uh yeah well right now actually i'm not working at all because of the work injury but prior to that yeah i was working like 85 hours a week every week yeah and we've been getting so many letters

and doing so many christmas wishes of families that are battling illness or facing tragedies like a house fire and even covet has really set back a lot of families but the one thing mojo was really focused on this year was making sure that we don't lose sight of so many families that just get lost in the bills and with the finances and how the economy is going right now and how many people are struggling with inflation and something so simple as an injury at work that can keep you forgetting those hours can really put you behind in keeping the roof over your head and putting food on the table yeah and uh as we understand it with

your injury at work you can't really care for a four-year-old and a two-year-old running around and uh so that's and you've got a baby in your tummy and a baby in your tummy but that's where devin comes in so he's got to help take care of the kids while you guys try to get back on your feet here and that's where it's easy to get lost and we don't want you to get lost latasha and

that's why we're calling you this morning so i need you to do me a favor okay okay can you walk over to your front door because there are some people that are on the other side of that door that are waiting for you.

We're breaking and entering right now.

There they are. Merry Christmas! Hello, hi, little ones. LaTosha, that is Mike from the Mojo in the Morning Show. And he's got some of your family members and some of your friends. And we, oh, by the way, and dozens and dozens and dozens of gifts that they're going to be bringing in. And we are bringing some Christmas magic into your home and to your family this year.

Holy cow. We heard that you guys could use a good Christmas this year. And maybe even just a little bit of a break. So I don't know if you see all these gifts we have lying by your door right now, but is it all right if we bring these in here? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah? Who's this little guy right here? Chase, how are you? Good. What's your favorite toy in the whole wide world? Oh, cool. A remote-controlled car? Well, guess what? We got to do a remote-controlled car in that bag. You want to open it up? Yeah, you do? All right. Let's bring some presents in. He's dressed. Oh, no.

LaTosha, with everything going on and you're working so much and you're so focused on just staying in your home and making ends meet so that your kids are fed, I mean, was Christmas even going to happen this year?

Sort of, not really. More or less from his grandparents, we were able to scavenge a few things for them.

Yeah. And we spoke to your mom and to Devin's mom, and they had such a care for making sure that the kids can get a Christmas. But obviously, even that is a struggle because at the same time, they see the leak and the damage done to the house, and they want to make sure that your bills are paid and the house is fixed. And it's that balance of what comes first and what's most important and sadly the christmas gifts are usually not the priority right so we want to

take care of that for you this morning so we have gifts for everybody in your family and including you lots of warm clothes um for everybody lots of toys for chase and and and little addy um we even have some stuff for the new baby on the way um like clothes and diapers and toys and books to read to that little baby. Pots and pans. We got to bedding. We know that even just buying gas is a huge struggle for a lot of people right now. So we're going to give you hundreds and hundreds of dollars in gas cards. And we've got restaurant and movie gift cards so you can enjoy some nights

out. And we'll give you the Kroger gift card so we could put some food on the table this holiday too with $500 from Kroger. Latasha, people are looking out for you. Well, people are looking out for you they love you and we don't want you to be struggling this holiday and not being able to have a christmas dinner with those beautiful children thank you so much also make sure i was

gonna say mike mike you've got something else for her right yeah do we know if uh we got a a boy or a girl on the way a boy do we have a name yet cameron cameron i love it Yeah, there are more things We were thinking I think you mentioned this, Shannon You mentioned the new clothes for the baby, right? And the new toys for them That's super exciting that you got a little one on the way

And Addie made her first baby doll Addie didn't have her baby doll So we got her all kinds of dolls and Barbies and all that But LaTosha More important than any of the toys is making sure that you don't fall behind on the bills. And we want to make sure that you can get the home repairs done you so desperately need and that the bills are paid while you're out of work with the injury.

So we, Mike has a check for you for $2,500 to make sure those bills are paid.

Devin? Speakless right now. We just told her that we're giving you guys a check for $2,500 to help take care of whatever you need. Bells. Merry Christmas.

Can we talk to Devin for a second? Yeah, Devin, come on over.

It's kind of overwhelming when all of these people you don't know are bringing gifts into your home. I know, I know, but Latasha and Devin, can you guys describe the look on your kids' faces as this is all happening?

and addy she's just trying to get into everything

i'm not hearing devon on the phone there if you can get him a little closer there you are you there devon yep your mom was telling us what an amazing dad you are and the same with latasha can you talk to us about latasha and how before the injury how many hours she was putting in to make sure that the family was supported yeah she was just picking up uh every shift working as much

as she could just trying to progress further and i'm speechless well that's a good thing we like

to make people speechless with breaking entering christmas wish how about you don't do the talking we do the partying we're going to play some christmas music and let all the elves bring in the toys and the gifts and take care of this family for christmas it was so nice to meet you and thank you for letting us in your home devin and latasha mike you want to start the party

absolutely all right everybody brad rob and the whole crew that are here right now if you don't mind i know it's super early but can i get the loudest merry christmas chase i see you opening that the remote control car can you give me a loud merry christmas

this is a special christmas edition of the senseless survey mr bob dabalina is taking a little vacation spike who is filling in for mr bob dabalina it's yukon cornelius remember him from rudolph the red-nosed reindeer let's hope that they don't remember him it's time for an

Official government survey. It's Mojo in the Morning's senseless survey.

Here's me.

This is Yukon Cornelius calling from the U.S. Senseless Bureau. Just a couple quick questions and a 30-second survey for your country. Starting off with, are you done your Christmas shopping yet? Yes. Have you mailed your packages early so that your post office can lose them in time for Christmas? No. And since she has some time in the off-season, would you like to see Mrs. Claus on Dancing with the Stars?

No.

How would one go about getting bloodstains out of a Christmas sweater?

Cold water.

Have you asked Santa for an official Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot range model air rifle?

Yes. Good. I had one. You did have one. Yeah. Did you shoot your eye out? No, I shut the streetlights out.

Do you know what the nog in eggnog is? No. It's actually egg yolks, cottage cheese, and feet, I believe. Do you like it? Do you ever drink it?

Oh, eggnog's excellent.

You do like it?

Eggs and, of course, some rum.

I prefer my alcoholic drinks without the curdled milk and Elmer's glue in it.

Hmm.

Do you think Santa is jolly because he knows where all the naughty girls live? He should be if he isn't. Would you date a girl whose nickname in college was the Nutcracker?

I would date her first.

Do you think Frosty the Snowman has private parts? Oh, absolutely. Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, are you the Charlie Brownest? No. And aside from Rudolph, which was your favorite reindeer? Prancer. You like Prancer better than Nixon and Dancer, Vomit, and Stupid?

Oh, yeah. Tucker and Wolf Blitzen? Let us not forget Wolf Blitzen now.

Would you go to a dentist if his name was Hermie and you found out he used to be an elf that didn't want to make toys? Probably. Do you think the song White Christmas is racist?

Oh, absolutely.

Did you ever secretly wish Cindy Lou Who would just kick the Grinch right in a scrotum? That's right. Would you play Jeopardy against the three wise men?

Yeah.

Because, I mean, if they were so wise, I guess why didn't they have GPS? And the truth? If I said ho, ho, ho, would you say what, what, what?

No.

Do you think people who are afraid of Santa are claustrophobic? Probably.

Ever slide down someone's chimney?

Oh, of course.

Ever stub your mistletoe?

Ooh.

Ever hang your G-string by the chimney with care?

No.

What's more offensive, bah humbug or go f*** yourself? Ain't that sad?

F*** you.

Ooh.

Wow. By the way, greatest voice in the world. I know. I thought that was the Grinch for a second. Man.

We knew you wouldn't hang up. Oh, man. You must have no life. It's the Sistahs Survey on Mojo in the Morning.

It's Mojo in the Morning.

Sweet.

Five lies to tell your mama. Yo, what's going on? Oh, you want to put your mother in the grave, don't you?

I, I'm afraid I'm going to do that, but I'm ready. You don't even understand. All for a prize for her.

I'm afraid she's going to be in the grave. Five lies to tell your mom. Let's do it. Lie number one, you're going to say, Mom, I've been dating a girl from work.

Yeah, that's actually the thing. That's the case.

Oh, really? You are dating a girl from work, so that's not really a lie.

No. That helps us get to the other lies.

Lie number two.

Say, we are moving in together next month.

All right. Lie number three. Because she's pregnant.

There you go.

How old are you, Mo?

I'm 18.

Oh, jeez.

How old's your girlfriend? Well, she's, well, we're not dating right now. It's kind of like a friend of a benefit type thing, but she's 24.

Oh, jeez. Does your mom know about her?

Yeah, I told her about her in the past, and she was kind of like, What? You're with a 24-year-old woman? I was like, no, no, it's not like that. We're just kind of talking. This is great.

All right, lie number four. I'm dropping out of school. All right. And lie number five. I want to get help with the baby and her two other kids. All right, we're calling her.

hello hey mom hi why are you calling me restricted that's my cousin's phone like the same as yours oh okay listen yeah you remember that uh remember that girl the waitress i was telling you about oh that you said she was pretty and everything huh when you said was pretty yeah well you know we've been dating for a couple months um listen uh she she asked me to she asked me to move in she asked me to move in together you know she wants to move she wants me to move in with her you've got to be kidding me mom well honestly just please don't don't get mad all right don't mom don't get mad please she uh she called me earlier this morning and she told me that she's um she told me that she's pregnant, and I don't know what to do.

You have nothing to do with this bitch until it's proven, whatever it is proven. I can't believe you got yourself in this situation. I cannot believe it. I've been telling you about this forever. I've been telling you a forever.

I mean, I should just take a little break from school for a little bit and just work right now, I'll make enough money as I can right now.

How old is this girl? She's 24. OK, because first thing you're going to do, you're not going to have anything to do with this . You're not going to have anything to do with her. You're not moving in with her? No.

Mom, you know that, you know.

I don't know what kind of around with an 18-year-old kid.

I don't know, Mom. I mean, I just think I need to take a break from school right now and just focus on work, get enough money as I can.

No, that's not what you're going to do. That's not what you're going to do. What do you think? You're telling me you're going to f***ing go back and be a baby, be some lady's f***ing father?

Mom, listen, I'm going to need help. I mean, she's already, she's got two kids.

You've got to be f***ing kidding me, man. I can't believe you did this to your life.

I can't believe. Mom, listen, I'm going to kill this. I'm going to need help, Mom. Mom, I need to help, you know, with this, you know, helping her raise her kids and mine.

Um, first of all, nobody knows yet if it's true or not.

I think it's mine, Mom.

Well, we're not going to know yet.

Uh, I don't know. We got a slight problem here, Mom. What's up? A lot of people know about it, Mom. Who?

Like, maybe a couple million people. Huh?

Mom, everybody knows about it because Mo and you are on Mojo in the Morning's Five Lies to Tell Your Mom.

You gotta be f***ing.

You're kidding me, right? Oh, my God. I can't believe that. Why would you do that to me?

I don't know. Why would Mo do that to his own mother?

That is not funny. You, and I'm going to deal with you later. We get a prize, though. We get a prize. Oh, man. Yeah, she did not sound like she thought it was funny. Oh, I'm loving to say no. This better be a good prize.

You're never too old for an ass-whooping.

No, no, no. Let's see if she even answers our phone call.

Oh, she's going to call me.

Hello?

Mom, you're not at least happy that it's not true?

But I know I raised you better than that. I can't believe that you put me in that kind of a shock. That's not anything that you joke around about. You could have joked about anything but that.

Mom, Mo was just doing this to try to win you a prize. Well, what did he win me? He won you dinner and a limo ride to dinner, courtesy of the Mojo in the Morning Show.

Okay, well, when I get my legs back, maybe we'll kill. What kind of punishment are we talking here? I mean, he's 18, and he's already on his own, so the only punishment I can do is ignore him.

Yeah, well, don't do that. He's your son. You've got to love him, right?

Yeah, I do. I love him.

Thank God. It's Mojo in the Morning.

Sweet.

Five lies to tell your mom. Yeah. That's a very fun, festive, upbeat music bed there. I like that. I haven't played that one ever. Mojo in the Morning, hello. Welcome to the Mojo in the Morning show. Home of the phone scams, War of the Roses, Dirty on the 30. So Chelsea, my wife, was invited to a housewarming party for some friends that she grew up with in Arizona. And yesterday I saw in the kitchen counter, I saw the invitation. And I snagged it for a chance to read it and possibly get an interesting topic out of it. Tell me if you guys think that this is tacky. So she's invited to go to this party, a housewarming party, and I've never heard of this before. They registered at Bed, Bath, and Beyond for over 100 items. And if you look through the items that are on there, there are only about 5 to 10 that are less than $50. Some things that they registered for, it's kind of interesting. This is a housewarming party, not a bridal shower or anything like that. They registered for a $349.95 Mixmaster, a $349 vacuum cleaner. Oh, I'm sorry. It's not a vacuum. It is a Dyson vacuum cleaner. It ain't just a vacuum. It's a Dyson, which you know those names are on there. It's expensive. They registered for their bedding, which their bedding was like $150 to $200. And they even registered for, this is the craziest thing that they registered for, so if people would like to group by, they registered for an outdoor sectional.

Oh, my gosh. I have a question. Is this a young couple moving to their first home, or is this an older couple that's just moving that has had?

No, this is a new couple. So they're not married? No, they're not married. And they actually, it's funny because they write in the invitation, since we are going to be lifelong partners but not do what you guys all did by getting married, we decided that we were going to register. And then they put on here, and I thought this was interesting, they put, and don't be surprised if we do all the fun things that people do at bridal showers, and they suggested a 50-50 raffle at the party.

Oh, gosh. I'm all for the housewarming gift registry. I think that's great, and I appreciate that because it makes it easier to buy stuff they actually want for their new home. But it's a little tacky to not be price conscious and realize you don't have anything on there that's affordable. Like, not everybody's going to buy a $100 gift and that kind of stuff. And plus those little raffles and stuff. I think that's tacky, too. Well, that's way tacky. Yeah, a lot of people still do those. I just think. Do they do that? They do that bridal stuff, don't they? Bridal showers and baby showers. I've never been to one where there's like a, what do you mean, a raffle? They don't do a 50-50 chance or they do. A 50-50 where you have to pay? What's the thing where you dollar, there's a thing with the dollar diaper thing too. I can't think of how it goes. Yeah. I've heard.

I've never been to a shower where I had to pay to buy a 50-50 ticket.

No.

You have?

Have you ever been to it where they tried to actually get extra money, though, like for diapers, like Spike was saying? Like there was like a diaper thing?

So, like, I was just invited to another diaper party next month, and they told me, don't even bring diapers, just bring a Target gift card. Yeah. Really? They actually told you specifically? Yeah, and there's going to be a 50-50 raffle at that thing, too.

Now, of course, it's— You get invited to, didn't you go to a beers and diapers thing?

Diapers and, I forget what they call them. Diapers and brew? Something like that, yeah.

So this couple blatantly says on there, like, they're never going to get married, so this is kind of going to be in lieu of ever having a wedding or a shower or anything like that.

Yeah, they're actually...

See, to me, that makes it better. I don't know. It's more acceptable then because I'm like, okay, well, if they were getting married and they don't care to get married and that is completely fine and up to them, like they want help from their friends and family to start their life and start their home, it's not as bad to me.

I don't know. I'm thinking- I don't know.

Is that weird that I think that way?

No, because that's how I thought about it too. I'm like, listen-

They're 40-year-old people though. Think about this. They're 40-year-old people starting their life.

What I'm saying is-

Oh, see, I asked if it was a young couple because I figured if they're just getting their life started and they've never owned a home, then they need everything.

They're 40-year-old people that have never been married and never had a home.

But if they were going to choose to get married and make it official, you'd be buying them a gift like this anyway.

You know what I mean?

Well, they're 40 years old and they never had a home. Were they living in their parents' basement?

No, they lived in apartments and condos and things like that. They never owned a home. It's their first owning of a home.

Yeah. See, I'm all fine with it. It takes a village. If you get a new home, you need to furnish it. It's just you have to have some cheaper options so people don't feel awkward because there's older family members on a budget and stuff that might not have a lot of money and you don't want them to not come to the party just because they can't afford a gift

Deshaun knows the difference between tacky and not tacky right Deshaun

hey y'all good early morning how y'all doing

good Deshaun tacky or not what do you think

I think it's absolutely tacky I mean I'm going to be real with you I'm a very giving person I love people weddings cool house warmings hell no I'm not with that Buy your own stuff. Buy your own stuff. That's right. I'm sorry. Everything, when I got married, me and my wife, you know, we got a home. We already had everything, you know, so we didn't even ask for anything, you know. You know, give what you're going to give. But come on now. Backyard furniture? Who the hell are these people?

I agree. I'm with you on that one here. You know what? You can buy your own stuff. If you have enough money to buy a house, you should save for the furniture.

Absolutely. Tell Chessie, don't even go. As a matter of fact, Mojo, put your football and say, Chelsea, hell no.

But you don't have to go to the party. Deshaun, you know me. Do you think I'm ever going to tell Chelsea what to do? Not a chance.

I already know that because I wouldn't do that to my wife either. That's right.

Our wives, they're their own women, right?

Absolutely.

And we're our own women, too. You can say it. They're the boss. They're the boss.

Boy, you, Mojo, you your own woman. I'm going to be that.

Thank you, Deshaun. What's going on, Mike?

Well, I was going to say they're bums. They're mooches. They should, at 40 years old, have their life together, you know, and have money and not be trying.

Well, listen, I've got to be honest with you. If they haven't been married and divorced, they probably do have their life together. They decided not to do it, and they're not going to get married. Maybe they're the smart ones in this whole thing. Think of the money they saved.

Yeah, but they shouldn't be trying to get, like, sectionals and stuff like that, couches off their friends or whatever. You know, I don't know.

Part of me wonders how much of this is a joke and how much of it is not.

Yeah, I don't know. But if they ever did get married, I wouldn't get them anything. Dinner's on you at that point.

Right. The only thing I took from that is we're supposed to have our lives together at 40. I know.

I'm in a full panic mode. Right.

Amber, what's happening?

Hey, some of the things that they asked for I feel like are a little on the tacky side. but i'm only 28 and i wish i had thought of that because we just bought our first home and i refused to get married and that would have helped out so much because it was so expensive to get started especially we have three dogs so we had to do the house redo some of the stuff in the house

to accommodate that do you feel like you got screwed because you did not get married and you didn't get all the things that come with marriage like the bridal showers and you know all that

stuff i i feel like i get screwed a lot because i refuse to do any of that and i don't have kids and i see the tax breaks that my sister gets i don't have the patience to have kids though and i won't do that yeah no it's I spend probably as much on my dogs as a lot of people do on their kids. I actually did the math one time, and so that's where it was just like, well, dang.

You need to have a doggie shower. You need to do something to raise money for taking care of your dog. Neela, what's up?

I found it hard to find items for my bridal register under $50.

Well, they're at Bath and Body Works. There's a million things there you can do. No, Bad Bath and Beyond.

Bad Bath and Beyond, I mean, yeah. That's actually kind of true.

It is kind of true. Like, the stuff that you need isn't going to be, like, $20.

I mean, even one of those, like, wooden salad bowls is, like, $50. It's hard to find stuff under $50.

I mean, the sectional's a little nuts, but.

I agree. I agree.

But it's a really nice sectional. Is it?

Are you going to buy it?

No, we're not buying it. What's going on, Brooke?

Hey, so I think an appropriate gift, especially for, like, a housewarming party, would be more of like a bottle of booze or like a fun doormat or just like something of decoration not an expensive gift especially if it's coming from friends so I agree with you because that's

normally what I would do but the reason I feel like this case is different is because they are they very specifically said we're never getting married this is our first home we're trying to get everything we need so in my in my brain I'd be like okay I'm definitely more willing more willing to spend some more money here because I'm never going to be buying a wedding gift for

this couple and if you don't if you don't want to buy the expensive items you already know they're going to bed bath and beyond just you get a 30 gift card to bed bath and beyond what if they're sneaky though and they up and get married and they create a new registry then they're not

getting a gift by the way 30 gift card what's that going to get them at bed bath and beyond there are plenty of things the items that are on the front register dude you're talking to a guy

goes there every month with my little blue and white coupon no now i know not to invite you to You can get candles, you can get utensils, you can get a million things.

Snaffling. When you laugh so hard, you snort. You might do that as Spike's folks can. It's this morning at 7.50 on Mojo in the Morning. Mojo in the Morning Show. Anytime we talk about nostalgia, it seems like it becomes such a big deal because it's such a huge thing now. People are really into nostalgic things. I mean, it starts, obviously, nostalgic music has become a big deal.

you know stuff from the past nostalgic last week we're talking about menu items at fast food

restaurants that we miss you got a good one for us to bring up this morning yeah so the most

nostalgic christmas items and this came to mind because i was at my friend andrea's house the other night and she's very italian and if you don't know this my mom's family is 100 italian but my friend had this huge bowl of all different nuts like with their shells still on all different nuts on her kitchen counter along with some like silver nutcrackers the real simple ones in it my grandma grace used to do the same thing around the holidays and so us kids would just sit in like my grandma's lap put my nuts on your table no she i knew you're gonna make a nut joke as soon as i like said this out loud i'm like here come the nut jokes the ball jokes whatever but she would crack nuts for all the grandkids i think it's like an italian thing yeah see i hadn't seen it she died my senior year of high school and i thought oh gosh i i need to do that because it reminds me so much of my grandma and just my family getting together for christmas eve

in my grandma's basement in allen park i have no idea what it was i don't even like walnuts but the idea of pulling out that freaking metal thing and that metal cracker yeah cracking those

you know what the number one selling christmas item is on amazon huh those nostalgic throwback ceramic tabletop Christmas trees. It's like painted green and it has the little lights that look like light brights.

They have them at Target. They have big ones and mini ones at Target.

Millennials and Gen Z, they're all going back and buying that old fashion tabletop decoration.

That reminds me of my grandma too.

I went to a thrift shop because there's a bunch of them in Hudsonville. I went to a thrift shop and they're selling for like a couple hundred bucks.

Target has them for like 30 bucks.

If you get one of the original old ones, They're going for hundreds.

Yeah. It just really got me thinking like that same grandma used to always have the rainbow candy canes hanging from her tree, not just the red and white ones. And then Shani's granny, who, you know, if you listen to our show for, you know, forever, God rest her soul. But she used to take white shoe polish and she would dot her like big, huge window in the front of her house to make it look like snow every year. and it was just so cozy to be at her house around Christmas time because she had all the windows dotted with this shoe polish.

My grandmother did that one year and then she wouldn't do it anymore because we all wrote dirty words in the snow with our fingers. My parents always had the electric candles that plugged in and would sit on the windowsills in each bedroom. You'd have windows. So when you looked at the house from the outside, it was gorgeous. It looked like every window had candles.

in it but yet from the inside it looked gaudy and ugly because there were seven extension cords going to each window there was a burn hole in the shade or the blinds because they always were on all night and just left a little black mark so yeah i always remember that i just always remember being fearful of going to sleep with that thing on like it's going to start a fire in my house

yeah i think that's what everybody should do everybody should do like a nostalgic christmas

this year you know just do something that brings back a good memory i might do this in my house i

It might bring back a good memory. We could not in our house. I should call my sister, Pat, and see if she's up this early.

Oh, yes, please do. I love talking to Pat.

We could not in my house open up the gifts until my dad sang Feliz Navidad to the entire family. Because my dad was a, oh, yeah.

Do you have a video of him doing that?

You know what? Somewhere? I don't think so.

Somewhere in our archives, or maybe it was before we computerized our archives. But we have him, we recorded him singing it on the air one year. Really? Yeah. That's going back like at least 15, 18 years.

My dad, so we would, it was like, you could not go to, you know, you could not open gifts, you couldn't do anything until my dad played Feliz Navidad, and my dad would dance. He would put, he had a rock. Pat. Did I wake you up? Did I wake you up? Yeah, but that's so. I'm sorry. Pat, do you remember when we were kids and Dad would play Feliz Navidad at Christmas and then he would get the maracas out and he would like, and we had to like do that at the house?

Yeah. He was doing with the maracas and the harmonica.

Yeah.

Oh, and the harmonica.

And that was like, that was the little kids would all sit there and be like, oh, Dad with the freaking Feliz Navidad again. But it was such a cool I wish I could go back to those days Don't you have dad doing that

Yeah

I'm thinking about doing

He only had two sets of maracas And we used to fight over Being able to shake maracas That's right

And the funny thing was that When dad would do this whole thing He'd have a pipe sticking out of his mouth Because my dad was a pipe smoker And he would sit there and do the whole maracas thing And it was kind of like I'm thinking about doing that with the kids. What do you think about that for a tradition I start with those guys?

Me? Are you talking to me about that? Yeah.

Yeah. Did I wait? What's that?

Don't start smoking.

Oh.

Well, he'll just have the pipe. You won't light it.

Who got dad's pipes when he died?

His pipes?

Yeah.

I don't know. I didn't get anything with dad's.

I know. I didn't get anything with dad's. Yeah, screw this. Screw it. Why are we doing anything to stay except for his arthritis? Why are we doing anything of dad's when the guy died and left us nothing? He left us dick.

You guys.

Yeah.

All I got was because of arthritis.

That's right. I know you said that a couple of times. She ain't joking, by the way. I don't know. Somebody's calling me on the other line. It might be one of my siblings. Hold on a second. I'm calling up here. Oh, no. Is it that spam call you get every time? It's that spam call every single morning.

Well, you mean I wasn't your first phone call?

No, no, no, no. You were always my first phone call, Pat. I love you.

Because I'm the only one who remembers anything.

Exactly. Pat shows me pictures all the time. Hold on. What was the last? Oh, Pat sent me my college ID the other day. How did you have my college ID?

I don't know. When Tracy was cleaning the house, she was on a bunch of gift cards and stuff.

Yeah.

And it was inside. She put them all in one container, and John and I were looking for the olive oil. Oh, my gosh.

Look at you.

My college ID. Wow.

Your ID was in there, and I'm going to save it. I'll give it to you.

Okay. Thank you.

Yeah, you look so cute.

Feliz Navidad. Prospero año y felicidad.

I'll have to look for a picture. I think I know exactly I have a picture of Dad doing that. Please, do that. Oh, yes.

Do it so we can post it for this, okay?

Y'all have to look for it

That picture could be our morning show Christmas card photo That we send out to everybody

My dad was really The funny thing is he only knew Feliz Navidad As far as Christmas songs go Because he was Cuban What's going on? Pat, I'll let you go Go back to bed, I love you

Okay, you guys have a good day Bye, Pat

Bye What's up, Shane?

Hi, Mojo at the Christmas trees you guys were just talking about. I actually have one of the original first ones made from my grandparents before they passed away. Wow.

Hang on to that thing.

I plan on it. I actually leave it up all year round because... It reminds me of Christmas with them. I just lost them like five years ago, I think it was. And then I just had my very first son, and when I light it up, he starts freaking out because he likes to see the lights come on.

You know what? I swear to you, Rebecca Rosen one time told me that when I listen to the Christmas station and I hear Feliz Navidad that my dad's sending me a message, I wonder if your dad's sending or your grandma's sending you a message through your child being all kind of excited about that. Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah.

Feliz Navidad.

Shane, come on, sing with me.

Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad. Yeah. Feliz Navidad. Keep going. Feliz Navidad. I don't know the rest of the words.

I want to wish you a man. Feliz Navidad.

Feliz Navidad.

I'm inviting you, Shane, over for Christmas when I start this tradition. They're going to be like, who is this guy? I'm going to go, it's Shane.

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas Come on, Shane I want to wish you a Merry Christmas I want to wish you a Merry Christmas Perfect I want to wish you a Merry Christmas

I feel like Shane's on a delay, don't you think? Merry Christmas Merry Christmas, Shane

You want to know what I'm getting for Christmas? Fat I'm getting fat

Merry Christmas from Mojo in the Morning. It's Mojo in the Morning show. Getting ready for the holidays is always fun. I want to bring Reese in for this next topic here. Reese has a question to ask about the holidays. And what is that question, Reese?

So, my sister always makes an Amazon wish list every single year for Christmas. I personally love it because she has three kids that are under three, and I never know what to buy them. And I'm one of those people that always buys gift cards for everybody like everyone so i i really do appreciate these wish lists but my mom despises these wish lists grandma doesn't like it huh grandma does not like the wish list whatsoever she thinks it's very snobby and very um tacky yeah i don't know but does she buy things off the wish list does she utilize it she kind of does she'll get the idea from the wish list but she won't actually buy the specific thing if that makes sense okay she'll let my sister know that like she kind of looked at it but like she didn't take it too seriously wow so so it's um

grandma wants to just be able to buy for her granddaughter right whatever she have you guys

have what a niece and in um one nephew two nieces okay so all under three all right your niece

though is your favorite out of all of them right i mean that's the only one that gets in pictures with you right um but um this is uh this interesting grandma doesn't like this but it is you know the thing the way to i guess to go nowadays i love it personally i mean they're

always changing clothes and sizes and interests and all that stuff so yeah it makes it a lot

easier do you yeah do um does she need to to buy off of that can't you just go and buy whatever

she wants to buy or does that upset your sister it doesn't really upset her but i feel like she does really hope that everyone's gonna go off this list it's funny because it's the opposite

of my family situation my the grandparents always demand lists they want lists so much they want lists because they want to get the kids what they want it's me that i like uh okay how can i sensitively put this here we've talked about this before and it's caused family quabbles squabbles i get lists uh my sister sent me lists unsolicited for her this year this year yeah It's happened many times.

Reese, I'm sorry. We're going to have to back burner your question here. No, no, no. No, because Spike's sister's famous, infamous on this radio show, Reese. I just want you to know that.

Oh, snap. Well, it's funny because, you know, this year I actually – I didn't ask for it.

What did she have on the list?

I didn't ask for it. I just got it. But I do appreciate it this year because when I was married, Chris would do all the shopping for the kids and stuff. So I'm a little more clueless. You know, I don't really pay as close attention. So as the kids grow, they get different interests. So I guess in the end, it was good that I had this list that I didn't ask for at all. Do you always buy your nieces and nephews gifts? We get them a little something because we're spending time. We're going to be at their house on Christmas Day. Yeah. So it's nice to give them something to open. But what's funniest about the list is my sister always sends a list and then shops off the list and then puts notes. I bought this, I bought that, I bought this. And you're like, well, then why did you put it on the list?

Why are you sending it to me? Spike, please, there's got to be something interesting on that list that you can share with us.

I'm not sharing anything on the list out of respect for-

Why are you so worried about that?

Because I have to sleep.

there in two weeks but in years past you've never been worried about insulting your sister

i will say because you opened your big mouth when the day i asked you not to you said something so she heard it and she got really offended and it lasted a whole year okay so i'm trying to i apologize patty i'm trying to be respectful because i know my nephew listens every morning

and this is going to get back to tell him to just shut his trap the the funniest thing about the

list is that she provides the exact link to Amazon with very specific instructions. It has to be this size, this color, she doesn't like this, which, again, now I find it helpful

because... Is there anything that's unusual on the list, though? You can at least

say hi. I won't make a comment. Well, they're teenagers, so everything's unusual. Yeah. But...

He wants her so bad. I wish you could see his face. He's struggling with what to say.

Okay. I'll just say this. No, I can't I'll get in a fight with my sister I don't want to embarrass my niece So I won't say it There's just an item that if I saw this item on the list I would have bought it that day If my daughter asked for it, I would have bought it that day for her Really?

It's not like an outfit or a toy Here's an example

I keep bugging my daughters for lists for their grandparents I said, if you don't give me a list They're going to buy something silly and cringey That your grandparents don't understand what you like so my daughter put a list together and she said i need allegra allergy medicine i said what wait what and natalie's like well you know she spends a lot of money on this up at school tell grandma on the gift for you i'm like babe i'll get you allergy medicine you can't ask for

that for christmas so there's like there's stuff like that on your sister's list like that that

is oh no like something that i would have just said oh my god just go buy it i'll venmo you today just if you need allergy medicine just go get it like things that things that a mom

necessities. And dad should buy, not aunt and uncle buying you a fun Christmas gift.

Yes. So, when I saw that on the list, I'm like, just go buy it for your kid. What are you making her wait three weeks for somebody, for an aunt to get this? Poor thing.

We had an aunt that one time, she would always buy us gifts, and one time she bought us, you could tell that she didn't get to the store. She went to like Walgreens. And so everybody got something from Walgreens.

Guys, sometimes they've got good stuff there. I'm not gonna

My sister got, like, potholders. My other sister got toilet paper, which was the funniest thing of all.

But remember last year, Mike stopped at the truck stop on the way to our last show of the year, and he bought everybody's gifts at the truck stop? That still might be one of my favorite gifts I got last year was the little baby Yoda doll that he found. It was, like, an awesome find.

Hey, Danielle, what's up? It's Mojo in the morning.

Hi, Mojo. Hi, Shannon. Hi, everyone. Good morning. Good morning. um so you guys are talking about the christmas list and i think it's um like fine with like children but i had my my dad and his girlfriend like out of nowhere group texting my siblings their amazon wish list for christmas and i thought that was very strange well we talked about adult

lists this week and mojo said he'd welcome them i do for like my wife yeah and i actually i don't mind like but but when reese talks about his family i'm okay with anybody give me some ideas Because I want to get something you like.

Unsolicited, though, sending it when you guys normally don't buy gifts for them?

See, that's a different story. Yeah, it was totally unsolicited. And normally we just, like, do quick, like, gift card exchanges, you know, just like normal people do. And then out of nowhere there was just a whole lift full of, like, snorkeling gear, pants, like, GoPro accessories. And I was like, what the hell?

Yeah, that's expensive stuff. I would just get them an Amazon gift card for a small dollar amount.

I think I'm going to. I still haven't gotten them anything, so I'll just get them the Amazon gift card in here. Put it on your own wish list, whatever.

I would never send a list to anyone who didn't ask for it.

Yeah, that's weird. You know what we should do, though? We should just randomly one day all send out to our email list our wish list and see what responses we get from people.

Because our boss, Paul, would probably buy us each something. Yeah.

Ah, Christmas time. When I send the Merry Christmas text and the response is, who is this? I don't have this number saved.

Merry Christmas from Mojo in the Morning. Mojo in the Morning show. Uh-oh. We got Trouble in Paradise here. Spike and his girlfriend in a little bit of an argument. Is this okay to talk about on the radio?

I'm going to because I don't think she's listening right now. But Megan's not the jealous type. um listen my girlfriend will see me looking at hot bikini models on instagram and she's she'll be like oh who's that she's hot or you know like if i point out a hot girl in public she'll be like nice or you know

Really? When you point out a hot girl in public, she actually will?

Yeah, I told you about the bartender once. She's like, not if I get her first. She's totally not the jealous type. She's playful and fun, and I enjoy that. There's no jealousy. But I found the limit last week, and it was about food. I cannot compliment another woman's cooking. And I hit a hot button. What do you mean? What happened? Well, all I did was say, oh, remember that woman at the charity event who gave us a key lime pie? Like, that was her thing. She baked pies. That was like the best pie ever. That set Megan off. How dare I compliment another woman's dessert? What did she do? She got so offended. Well, then she got real competitive. So Meg ended up making me a key lime pie last weekend during the holidays to make sure I knew that she makes better pies than that woman.

Was it better?

Oh, yeah, it was.

Honestly, was it better?

Well, the other one was a year ago. I don't remember. It was a year ago, and all I did was, I mean, it was obviously good because I remember it was good, but this one was so good. I'm telling you, Meg makes a better pie.

I remember that lady because that lady made a gluten-free key lime pie that was supposed to be for moi.

It's my favorite pie. I hosted a charity event for her. It was very nice. She's the wife of a dentist in Rochester, and her side hustle is she makes pies, and they were delicious pies. And she had some as gifts for people that were working the charity event.

I want to find that woman's That lady's name Because I'm going to ask her If she will make A blind taste test I want to have her make a key lime pie

If you're not a long time listener of this show Last year she sent me home With a pie for Mojo I got stuck in traffic I didn't eat during the whole charity event Because I was doing announcing And I was working the microphone So I pulled over on the ride home And ate Mojo's pie I've never made it to Mojo

I'm going to get her number here Gina, she's a friend of Gina, my friend And I'm going to find out If she can make us a key lime pie And then Megan Your girlfriend has to make a key lime pie

Oh, but I'm not judging, you're not starting that No, no, no, no, no Here's what we're going to do

It's like the Coke Pepsi challenge We're going to have a blind taste test With you

Yeah.

Oh. You're blind taste testing it.

I'm not doing it. I will call in sick that day. I was trying to help you. You can eat all the pies you want. I already know my girlfriend makes a better pie than any other woman. I just said it on record, and that's it. I'm sticking to it.

Okay, but honestly, that day that you said that to her before you realized that she had a little bit of a food jealousy.

Yeah.

Then-

Well, I hadn't had- I'd never had Meg's pie before, so I couldn't tell you if she made a good pie. She proved me right.

Can we go back to, do you think that she really doesn't get jealous over those things? Or you guys are just so new in the relationship that she pretends like she doesn't get jealous?

We've been dating a year and a half. We've been dating a year and a half. We live together. We're pretty, like, she's not going to tell, she's going to tell me if she's got a problem. No, she doesn't get that way. But with cooking, because that's her love language. Like, Meg cooks for me. She loves making me, I mean.

I have never seen anybody post more pictures or videos of their significant other in the kitchen than you do now.

Well, I've never, like, had this before where you, like, she enjoys, I don't enjoy cooking. It makes me miserable. It's something I have to do to survive. And she loves it. And I look at her like crazy, like, how do you like spending six hours in the kitchen for something I'm going to eat for 10 minutes?

And she's, like, so happy when she cooks, too. She's got a glass of wine, and she's, like, stirring over the stove. That's how I wish I was I feel like I'm watching food porn

Yeah

I never saw someone that actually enjoys it so much That doesn't have a TV show Because I'm like I'll eat it in 15 minutes And then she'll clean up the dishes And I'm like what You just did all that work I should do the dishes No go do your radio work

Look how many listeners want to blind taste test some pies with us

Yes Come on yes we can make a charity event and uh raise money anyone wants to have some pie oh my gosh she made four desserts for me for like every time i came home i had a new idea i'm like you know it'd be really good we haven't had in a while tiramisu she's like oh i make a good tiramisu and then one time i just texted her somebody at work mentioned pumpkin cheesecake you know how to make pumpkin cheesecake and it was like i had desserts tourettes because i would I would just text her random desserts and be like, every day. And so she would actually keep adding them to the list. And she made so many things for me.

How are you not plumper?

I, I.

I started a new – I'm watching what I eat starting yesterday. I started being real healthy. I downloaded the app to keep control of what I'm eating. But you've gained a little weight, haven't you, since she started dating her? Absolutely, I have. Yeah.

Because you can't help yourself.

I've only gained eight pounds, but I feel like you could see all eight pounds in my face.

Do you think that she's trying to purposely have you gain weight so that you keep your focus at home?

I don't know. It's a possibility. And not on some other lady's key lime pie? I mean, you can ask her if you want

By the way, can I tell you that I'm in search of this lady Because I've got to find her Because I know you wouldn't do it unless I can get it But when I find this lady The Eastside Pie Lady I'm going to have you Because she had a gluten-free place That made it or something

Your name is Trisha Is that what it is? No, I think so Hang on, I'll look Because she's on my Instagram

You're going to get yourself in even more trouble You understand that By the fact that you remembered her name

She was very kind Yeah, here she is

Got a number?

No, well maybe, let me look at my phone

Jason, what's going on? Hey guys, how you doing this morning? We're good, what do you think about this little Squabble going on In Spike's relationship over his Love affair with another woman's pie

I think Complimenting another woman's Cooking is the same thing as when Allie said another man was funnier than Mike. Yes.

That's what it reminds me of. Don't crawl.

I feel for you now, man. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I jumped around about it before. I apologize. I'm serious. So it's basically, it's, you know. Now you got me curious if she's trying to get me fat. Because, actually, no, I know that's not true. She's been making little comments about me. I could drive you. I'll go to the gym with you. So I think she's actually getting sick of me being fat. What, you held up, Meg? Here, you want to call her?

Okay.

Now I just really want key lime pie.

A little bit, yeah.

No, like a lot of it. It's my favorite.

Do you have that lady's number, too? It's not in my phone. Let me see if I have her email.

What did you say, Meg? It's mine, too. Is it? Sorry, did you hear me say Meg?

Yeah.

As soon as you said Meg, it's cool. Hi, Meg. Hi, Meg. Who are we talking to?

Spikes, Megan. Are you there?

Yeah.

You're on the radio. Are you listening to us?

Oh, great. Hi, guys. Hi.

Are you listening to what our conversation's about?

No, I'm not. I'm working. I'm being productive.

We're talking about Spike's love affair with another woman's pie.

Yeah, yeah. That, you know, that really hurt me. So we have an idea.

We have a proposition.

No, they have an idea. Not we. I have nothing to do with this.

We think we're going to have her make her key lime pie, and you make your key lime pie, and we're going to do a blind taste test.

Oh, boy. I said I will put your pie up against anybody else's. That was the best key line pie I've ever had.

But he won't know whose pie is whose pie.

No, I'm not doing the blind taste test. Oh, yes, you are. No, I am in a very happy relationship, and I don't want to change that.

What do you think? Let's try it.

I'm not scared. I'm in.

Ah, she wants the challenge. I like this. This is going to be good. We're trying to figure out. I can't find.

I don't even think I have that.

We're trying to figure out the lady that made that pie, and we're going to get her to make one, and then you have to make one. We'll bring it in, and we'll do a little taste test here.

All right, all right. Let's ignore the fact that her pies go to charity, but I'm in.

Okay. I like it. Maybe what we'll do is maybe this is a deal that, Spike, we'll have to throw in a little charity aspect to this whole thing. We'll donate to that lady's charity for bringing in a pie. There you go. Because she has a charity pie.

That sounds good.

Is there anything else? Because Spike says that you don't get jealous if he looks at another woman or makes a comment about another woman or if he's looking online at stuff. But this, for some reason, set you off.

Yeah, you know, his Instagram models that he follows, that's fine by me. That's not my arena. My arena is cooking and baking.

And that's it. What if you came home one day and he was in bed with another pie? How would that make you feel?

Yeah, I mean, that's a deal breaker.

Well, we also know she would have to remake the bed.

Yeah.

Okay, I just found her phone number. I was going to say, I didn't have it in my phone. I didn't have it anywhere, but it's in my Instagram messages. Uh-oh. From when I hosted.

Oh, you've been DMing her.

No, I had to go back a full year.

Megan, the man is DMing the pie lady. You better be careful.

oh boy I haven't tasted her pie since

One attack, one attack, one attack, one attack.

Make some noise. Make some noise.

Make some noise.

For Mojo, Mike Shannon. For Mojo, he's the ball.

All right, Mojo in the Morning Show. So, Megan, you guys may not, like, celebrate Christmas or may not do, like, a gift at home.

Here's the thing. I don't know if I'm being a brat or not. And by the fact that I brought that up, probably. But we were discussing as a family My dad, my brother and I What our plans were for this Christmas And I feel like I was outnumbered And that I was going to come off like a brat So I don't know if I necessarily made my feelings Well known to the group But they don't want to do a holiday gift exchange this year

Which is interesting Because a lot of people are doing that this year They're saying they don't want to spend the money on the holidays Because it's so crazy right now

Well, first of all, just a little prerequisite. I don't trust my dad that he won't get us stuff, and if I show up empty-handed, it will make me feel like a terrible daughter. I know he loves us. I know he wants to spoil us when he can, but it does make you feel bad as an adult when you show up to something and your dad gets you a gift and you didn't give him one. You're like, ugh, that feels bad. But my brother is very adamant that we should not be doing a gift exchange this year. They want to do something else instead, whether that's a donation or volunteer work or something other than a gift exchange. Because we are all adults who don't need anything or really want anything this year. And I felt like I was the only one in the group that was like, I want Christmas presents that we talk about. But I couldn't say that because I was outnumbered and it made me feel like I was, I don't know, being materialistic. And I just, it's Christmas. It's Christmas. And I want to do something nice For the community and get a gift Is that too much to ask for?

I like that

I think that's totally fair

I always say that whenever Chelsea and I Will say nobody's We're not going to do gifts this year We're just going to do the kids I always feel like there's an ulterior motive In there like she's Going to get me something and I'm going to look bad or whatever And we never end up agreeing to do The non-gifts like we always end up doing something for each other and i think in this case with your family i could see where your dad will probably buy you guys something because he's just a great guy yeah your brother's not buying you crap i mean that's 100 correct john's saying john's saying oh great i'm not i'm not buying anything at all but um but i don't know are there families that are doing this where they're doing the uh whole we're not going to give gifts thing and does it ever work out that way or does it Cause fights?

I don't do gifts with my dad and my stepmom. We do.

You guys do experiences?

We do. We will like do an Airbnb or stay at one of my friends' houses like up north or something in the summer. And that's what we put our money toward instead is like spending a weekend together. And I have to tell you, it's amazing because that's one of my favorite weekends of the year. You know, is getting to spend time with my dad and my stepmom and the kids.

Do you guys, when you do it Like if it's in the middle of summertime Do you guys dress up in Christmas clothes Just to remind yourselves that that's what it came from

No

You guys should do that Wear the Christmas pajamas And everybody will be like, why are we wearing them

So normally my sisters and I don't do gifts For each other either We'll go get our nails done or something around Christmas time But I said to my younger sister Jacqueline The other night when I was at her house I kind of want to do gifts this year Exactly what Megan said I'm like I don't know Wes and I aren't doing gifts

Oh my gosh really You guys are newly dating

We're taking a little vacation So we're putting our money toward that Instead of doing gifts

Well I'm doing that too But don't you have anything in exchange

We'll do stockings Because that was his tradition growing up His mom only had enough money to get the kids a stocking

What's in the stocking? It's not just an empty stocking

Well, I can't say in case he's listening.

No, I know, but what kind of stuff would be in this document?

Oh, I'll put little things in there.

Like, what's little in your world?

Like, a pair of pajama pants. Oh. I don't know.

Treats. Like, clothes. Like, what I get for Father's Day. That's not like the gifts that I got. He loves to read, so I'll get him a book. Always sucks.

Yeah.

underwear. Actually, I'll be honest with you. I will not get him underwear. I love underwear. I do because the underwear I wear is nice underwear. I like the Tommy John stuff. What's going on, Julie?

Yeah. My family, the spouses and stuff still, you know, adults still exchange, but we decided as a group that we weren't going to do gifts anymore because we took so much time unwrapping them and we were like, well, we'll just do for the kids and we're all adults. We don't need it anyway, so if we're going to want something, we buy it for ourselves. So we don't do gift exchange with adults, and we spend the whole day eating and playing card games like Cards Against Humanity and stuff. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, but I feel like Christmas magic is gone. When you grow up. Yeah. But we're still all together, and we all give kind of gifts throughout the year, like, hey, I was thinking about you and picked this up and stuff, and then we do big stuff for birthdays.

But what's happening in your situation and Shannon and Megan Like, we all complained about how Halloween's not Halloween anymore because nobody goes trick-or-treating. They do a quick trunk-or-treat and kids don't want candy. Well, we're slowly moving away from those old Christmas traditions, too. It's like, if we're not going to exchange gifts on Christmas, then it's kind of changing the whole vibe and the feel of what you did Christmas morning.

I don't have Christmas spirit because of this.

My husband and I still exchange gifts.

Yeah.

But I don't have a significant other thing for reminding me.

Exchange it with your husband, Megan. Exchange it with your husband.

If my family don't get me gifts, I don't get gifts.

Hey, Andrew, there's a bah humbug moment here for Megan. What do you guys do, Andrew?

Hello?

Hello. Would you like to be Megan's husband? Go ahead. I'm sorry. You have a wife. What were you going to say?

So my wife is just trying to be a minimalist this year, and she don't want any gifts for even the kids. She don't want any toys, no thing, unless it's absolutely necessary, like maybe clothes. But she would rather just maybe spend time, like, on a vacation or something, make it a memory, not just putting something out.

Are your kids little, or are they older?

I do. My son just turned two years old, and my daughter just turned seven.

Oh, you've got to do toys.

Yeah, you've got to do something. You've got to do toys. We had experiences, though, with the kids when they were little. I mean, we did a couple toys, too, but we did, like, Grand Rampic Public Museum, like, a gift card for the year. Yes, I love all that. But you threw some toys under the tree.

Nah, kids want toys. I'm sorry.

No offense, but you can't explain to them that we're just going to have an experience next month.

You've got to give them toys.

Well, you can talk to my wife because I'm anti-herdecision. Yeah, we'll go. If I'm anti-herdecision, we'll call her.

I've got to call your wife. I gotta call Scott and Sean I gotta call all these people and tell them Come on, you gotta at least do something Kids Kids want toys You know, adults can do Experiences

Yeah, but experiences don't have to be like vacations They could be like a gift card for the year To the trampoline park Or anything else, you know, museum

A zoo membership

It's called having kids and living all year, right? You can do all those things, but kids don't understand like that's part of the Christmas gift you just do it to me I will never forget unwrapping that

Hot Wheels racetrack as a kid and not being able to put it all together but I know but but that was like the coolest thing ever yeah you know and then like I like we would get like stocking stuff for things where like McDonald's those gift coupon books like those were kind of cool until my dad said to my mom aren't we trying to help him lose weight like you know it was one of those type of things but i don't know i just think that i think that as for megan and scott and sean maybe you guys do like one gift for each person like one little simple gift and it'd be like uh get something nice and small because megan really wants something can you just tell them to please show me some love this holiday season megan i feel bad because we're doing a gift exchange here at our show where we all pick names and stuff like that maybe we all should buy megan and a bunch of gifts. No, please don't do that. What do you guys think? If you listen to the More Mojo podcast, I think that she really would want us to buy it.

Let's put all the attention on Megan

because that's what she loves. Go listen to that More Mojo podcast to understand why. I'm so mad right now. Merry Christmas. No.

Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Happy holidays. Whatever the hell I'm supposed to say. Have a good day. This is Mojo in the Morning.

It is the Mojo in the Morning show. No, I'm butting up against a possible guest here in a second So I'm trying to time this out

I'm laughing because Spike's stomach is so loud Oh, really? My stomach growled, you could hear it from a mile away I'm glad that you're getting made fun of for the noises. I have been having such bad gas lately that it's at the point now where I'll walk and fart at the same time.

Is it something different?

Is it something different you're eating?

I can't believe I'm asking you this.

I was just telling Ellen this a second ago because we had Bar Verona in here. I'm having a hard time with spicy foods since I had COVID. Oh, really? Yeah, I never had any issues with spicy foods, but spicy foods now are giving me, I get like, you know, my stomach bothers me every now and again when I get it. Yeah. I guess it's good. It's a good thing to stay away from.

Is that why it's so cold in here? Did someone leave the air blasting because you're smelling up the joint?

No, you know, it's weird. I swear to my family members this. They don't smell. They're not, and they say.

They're just like air farts.

It's weird. I have, like, lots of air, maybe, yes, in my system. But they truly don't smell.

That's impossible.

My family doesn't believe it. They won't stick around and see.

No, there are those. Yeah. There are those. They exist.

Like, I always believe that the only time that a fart smells is when you really have to go to the bathroom. You know what I mean?

Because the gas is caused by what you eat. It's not just because there's something in there.

No, it's because the air is passing by levels of duty.

passing gas of bacteria and getting rid of stuff that you i swear to you no it's not just because

you got duty hold on call the call michigan medicine they have that be one of my questions this week for the michigan medicine on michigananswers.com i want to ask one of their professional doctors does a fart smell because it passes by duty gas here it is here's

the answer from healthline.com gases various farts smell bad tiny amounts of hydrogen carbon dioxide and methane combined with hydrogen sulfide and ammonia all passed by the food you eat yes that's what i mean he's right it no it's not no it's not because you could have nothing in the chamber you could have cleared out and pooped it's caught the large intestine gives the gas it smell it's i gotta poo it's the gases in your large intestine they smell when they're coming out whether or not now it could change the smell if you're also if you're adding to the bouquet if

your potpourri in there is call call up uh uh lee and tell lee uh ellen from our sales department it's his account tell him that michigan medicine needs to answer that question for me i'll let you make that call i come on it's just a simple it's just a simple one i just want to i want to have that they do this michigananswers.com and uh they'll answer any of these questions they'll have like their professionals out there and i've had them answer or ask you know and answers some of these most interesting questions like i thought the one that was good was uh can having a uh a dog actually like lower your blood pressure and do all the rest of that stuff and uh but uh i just

reminded that we had dr oz on the show to answer this question for 10 minutes one time he did yes i didn't realize yeah we used to have him on regularly and one of the but i didn't realize we asked this question yeah poop but not that because somebody made a stinky just clicked on his website and he's answering it and it reminded me of the conversation we had about our farts but he says uh there's many opportunities there's many reasons you're get your body releases gas some intestinal gas comes from air you swallow or chewing gum or drinking through a straw or smoking yeah others when your body breaks down the bacteria in the colon breaking down food but all the different gases and chemicals are what gives it different smells 734 says mojo

should get another covid test if he can't smell his farts i can smell everything else i just can't for some reason my farts don't smell sophistication intellect culture engaging discussion you won't find any of that here that last conversation proves it this is mojo in the morning it's the Mojo in the Morning Show, your home of the phone scams, the War of the Roses, and the Dirty on the 30, and we got them all for you. So thank you for listening. Mike, isn't it fun to be a parent right now because you make the decisions that were decisions you couldn't make when you were a kid, right?

Yeah, yeah. So I remember as a kid, my favorite thing in the world, even today, is those Christmas tree Little Debbie snacks. You know, the cupcakes. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, my gosh, with the little green lines and the little red dots.

yes yes um and it feels like christmas tree anything christmas tree shaped anything is really good but specifically those and my parents would never get those for or if they did get them they would get like the the generic version like i don't even i don't remember what they were even called but it was never the same thing and it was always the off brand of it and um and or they wouldn't get it. They would just get healthy snacks.

And so when I got to be an adult, like, I ate a bunch of them. Like, in college and after college, like, I ate a bunch of them. But as an adult now with kids, my daughter's never even had one before. I have them. She's just never tried one before. And she likes healthy stuff, too. And we kind of portion how much sugar stuff she eats. But I'm very, very excited to give her. Oh, you haven't given it to her yet? I haven't given it. She hasn't tried it yet. When are you going to do it? Probably over Christmas break. Like, I'm kind of waiting.

Or you should sneak one in her lunch and surprise her. Ooh, I like that, too. Because that was the best when you would open your lunch, and I would be like, oh, my God, this is the best day ever.

Yeah. When you had one of those. Mike's mom didn't do that, though, did she? No. No. But what did you have in your lunch?

It was like, it was, I'd get, like, Swiss cake rolls, but they weren't Swiss cake rolls.

They were like, they were like the dollar store brand or something like that?

Yeah, yeah. And then, like, we had a place called Save-A-Lot. I don't know if it's still around. Yeah, it does. Oh, they're Save-A-Lots. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, like, it was the versions of those. And their Christmas tree shapes never looked like Christmas trees because they couldn't, for the money that they were charging for them, they looked like a blob.

Like a blob.

A blob.

Most of them, if they did get them, which it wasn't ever the Little Debbie, they were all smushed. Every single one of them was smushed.

You know what you got to be careful of? And you're good about doing this. You're smarter than I am at this. So when I became a parent, it was always, I'm going to give you everything I didn't get when I was a kid. And so we could never have sugary cereals in our house. Like we were always, we always had to have Rice Krispies or Corn Flakes, you know, or Raisin Bran. I'm like, Dad, you know, you're always complaining that you're going to the bathroom every five minutes. It's because you're eating Raisin Bran. So when I became a parent, I went out and bought Captain Crunch, Apple Jacks, Fruit Lubes, Cinnamon Toast Crunch. But the problem was I got so crazy with it that now I don't even like it anymore because I did it so much. So you got to make sure it's moderation, right? So you got to make sure that you don't overdo it.

Went overboard in college when I finally was like buying my own groceries and stuff. It was all those little snacks, Little Debbie's, Twinkies, everything my parents would never let in the house.

You guys, I can't stop thinking about it. We have to go to Kroger right now across the street and get some.

Some Little Debbie's snack cakes. You know what's funny also? Could you have pop in your house, Mike?

No. Well, my mom drank Mountain Dew, but it was her Mountain Dew. You couldn't have it. You couldn't touch her Mountain Dew. That's brutal. She doesn't today, but she did back then.

We never had pop in our house. And now we have pop. We have regular Coke and that really super sweet, like my kids love it, the Mexican Coke. Those are the best.

But you can only have like half of one of those and then you want to throw up.

Half of one? You ever see Luke? The kid's like guzzling it like a professional athlete guzzles Gatorade on a sideline. It's crazy. But, yes, we never could have that in our house. And if it ever was in our house, it was, like you said, hidden, and it was only that mom and dad drank it, and they would mix it with alcohol or something, you know? Dad would make a Captain and Coke or something. But what was it when you were a kid that you couldn't have, but you as an adult now can have, and you're doing it for your kids?

For me, it was any fast food. My parents would never let it. So my grandparents would visit in the summer, and they would always drive me to McDonald's but make me swear to secrecy. Never tell my parents that they would take me to McDonald's every Thursday.

You know what McDonald's was for us? It was the, you just did the play at school, or you just got on the honor roll. Do you know what I mean? It was like, can we go to McDonald's? Maybe birthday. And that was it. And we never, yeah, and we'd have our birthday parties at McDonald's with the high C orange.

Yes, and the cookies.

I still will never forget, I still will never forget when my mom, from one of my birthdays, I think it was, honestly, I think it was like my seventh or eighth birthday, got that big cooler from McDonald's. Did they still do that? Remember they?

They don't do it anymore, but I know exactly what you're talking about.

They gave you a cooler and you brought it home and it was filled with that orange pop.

Orange drink, it was called. Yes. Orange drink. They couldn't call it pop, they couldn't call it juice It was like legalities It was orange drink With fructose corn syrup

It's all made with powder How much fructose corn syrup Do you think there is in Debbie's Little Debbie's pancakes We have to go get them I wonder if we just bought fructose corn syrup And ate it Or drank it It would be like oh this is so good

I sprinkled on all the cereals that they now made healthy and crappy On my dad's Raisin Bran

This is so funny because my family was totally the opposite. My mom is a huge junk food eater, which I think is where I get it from. So we only had.

sugar cereal we only had pop we you were the cool all the cookies and candy but then it was so funny because when i like got into high school and went away to college i was the one that was like raisin bran because i was so sick of all the sugary crap what's wrong with her grape nuts yes that was great nuts chewing on gravel what's up alissa hello how are you today

we're great what's going on we're reminiscing a little bit about our our child our horrible

childhoods we had so my family uh moon pies were the hot commodity in my house um and my my parents would hide them in like specific cabinets in the house up in bowls so we wouldn't find them and we got one one a year but my dad would always find his and you'd go around the corner and he's like mouth full of what are you guys doing I'm going to be great but I still like make myself a moose pie once a year when I find them

that is so funny if we did that with our kids they would literally probably beat us up physically or something it's great for real

I would bring all the junk here to work and store it like my Girl Scout cookies things I did not want to share With my children

My favorite thing too Is when I was a little kid You talk about The little Debbie's things I liked Which one Were they Zingers or Ho-Ho's The ones that were Like longer I think there was

No those are Suzy Q's

Are those Suzy Q's

Trust me I know

And the way I would Eat them was I would You would separate I would unroll them

Oh no you're talking About Ho-Ho's

Yeah Ho-Ho's Yeah the ones That look rolled

Or ding-dongs

I would That's what I was Wondering

No ding-dongs Look like hockey pucks

Yes Or ring-dings It was

No

Ding-dongs or ring-dings

And then the snowballs.

Oh, I love snowballs. I did not like those.

You didn't like the snowballs? Those are the coconut ones, right? I love coconut.

Or the cupcakes with the little curlicue.

Oh, my God.

And my grandma would buy, Shani's granny would buy the orange ones, like the yellowy ones.

Chelsea craved that for Joe's pregnancy, and I would have to go to the store and buy boxes upon that, and then I would come home and I'd go, I'd go, hey, where are the cupcakes at? I know! She would cry because she would eat the cupcakes

because that was her craving. Or the zebra cakes, which had their white with the chocolate stripes on them.

What's going on, Stacey? Hi. Hey, what was it that you couldn't have in your house?

So we used to buy two liters, and my mom would hide them in the basement. And it was one of the times that they were wanting to win the cars on the cap. And we opened it a year later and won the car, but the contest was over. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

Because your mom was hiding it from you guys.

Yes. She lost out. It would never let us open them.

Oh, my God. I can't believe it. You guys won the car but couldn't get it.

She was so mad. Guess what? We could always open them from then on.

That's one way. People are saying the Swiss rolls. They were talking about that. Oh, is that what you were talking about? I think they might have been Swiss rolls. Yeah. Those things were so good.

I grew up in Philadelphia where the Tasty Cake factories were. Ooh, Tasty Cake. And you could literally go. They had Tasty Cake stores, and that's all they sold was stuff that was made that day. Wow.

It was incredible. Did you see, I saw it on the news this morning, the huge pot brownie that that company was doing? They made the world's largest edible. It was like monstrous. I mean, it could feed like a town.

They used like 1,400 eggs.

It was crazy. How much weed was in it?

I think it was like 220,000 milligrams or something. Oh, my gosh.

It was crazy. It was like people, and you know what? There's going to be one person that's going to eat way too much of that and that's going to get themselves in trouble. How am I supposed to live, laugh, and love in these conditions? This is Mojo in the Morning. I'm going to introduce the Mojo in the Morning show. I'm all over it, G. Now. All right, Mojo in the Morning. Time now for Taylor Swiftmas. Win tickets to the hardest-to-get ticket. Taylor Swift coming to Ford Field in June. text the word hero right now to 95500 that's hero H-E-R-O to 95500 and you can win Taylor Swift tickets it's Taylor Swiftmas right here with Mojo in the Morning we're going to go out live Mojo in the Morning is breaking and entering Christmas Wish special thanks to everybody that has helped with our Christmas wishes this year thank you to our friends at the Imagine Theaters Clean View Auto Wash and Red Robin for all the great support that they have given us. Special thanks to everyone across all of our listening areas of Detroit, Toledo, and Grand Rapids for all the great letters. This morning we're granting a wish in Grand Rapids, Mike, in your hometown. And I understand you have a special visitor that came with you today to do this wish. Mike?

Yeah.

we're here are you there okay yeah yeah the fan the fam's hanging out with you today too

yeah my daughter saslu's here plus the iheart family the sales team tim fagan hi how are you awesome hey we need to be quiet this is yeah that's right who who was that was that kate

who was that we had kate arnold here was that kate who yeah who yelled though who's the yeller

there. You know that with Kate. Come on. That's right. I knew that with her. Oh, my

God. When we're told that you actually have to be quiet on this one, we should have probably had Kate like a blocker or so away just so that we didn't get busted.

Right? Come on now.

Come on now. I know. Mike, we also are joined by Amy. Is Amy with us too? Grandma?

Yes. Hi, Amy. How you doing? Are you excited for today?

I'm thrilled. I'm nervous. I'm really excited.

I know you are. I know. I had to talk you through a few things last week, but that's okay. We're going to be good, all right? I promise you.

Oh, I know. I'll be all good. I promise you.

I promise you. Your grandbabies are going to be okay this Christmas.

I'm just amazed and very thankful and grateful for all of you people.

Oh, we love you. We love you. All right. So here's what we're going to do.

Oh, my God.

Hold on, Mike. Put Mike back on here. Mike, are you there? this is a this has turned into a to a fun little adventure in grand rapids yeah we're here

oh here we go here we go here we go all right

hello hi hi oh my god what oh my god can you go to the front door for me yeah oh my god

Oh, my God.

She knew exactly who I was. She's going to the front door right now. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. We're moving back to the front door now.

Mike gets, by the way, you get some steps in, don't you, doing this?

Oh, yeah, absolutely. At least 12,000 a day. She's coming. I see the light. I see the light.

good morning you guys i shut the door and i thought you were just some random guy i was like at first they open it i'm like and then i close i was like oh my god

good morning why is i here is it what i think it is hold on one second we'll explain that

all right mojo go ahead hey good morning how are you marie i'm so good mojo marie how are you i'm doing great and i'm so happy that this morning we're gonna be talking to you and your beautiful family we received a letter for our mojo in the morning breaking and entering christmas wish program about you and i i want to play for you this letter because your beautiful mom and your of course proud grandma read this letter and was struggling and was was making all of us cry because she just wants to grant a wish for you guys this holiday season she's so proud of you Take a listen Alright, here you go, take a listen

Dear Mojo in the morning My name is Amy and I'm writing to you about my daughter Marie Marie is an incredible mom To my five beautiful grandchildren David, Kelly, Electa, Laidreona, and Broly Me and the kids have had a rough goal of it Marie was in some severely Extremely toxic relationship And I'm going to cry

I know you are, that's okay We're crying with you

I'm sorry

kind of a family plan you know i listen i feel like i'm part of the family i'm crying with you

okay thanks uh she dedicated her time to working for her family and being the best mom that she could be my granddaughter adriana was born at 23 weeks she was in the nICU for five minutes straight we was there every day that caused a lot of emotional and financial tension in the house that time and that's when she started struggling and she she was no longer working because she needed to be with that baby my grandson bro he also has health problems and uh we were trying to take care of him and she was also trying to protect her children from a man that was she was in a relationship at the time oh they were finally able to get away however he took everything and pretty much destroyed or sold everything he could he's in prison at this time i watched marie working hard to pick up the pieces and she never gives up she's a real fighter and i admire her for that she's a very hard-working single mom and she's trying to do it on her own she's had to live in shelters in the past and she's lived with friends and recently she just got a small apartment which is really very cool for her and her kids. It's not much, but they make it work, and they're just grateful they can be together. at that point. She donates plasma to get extra money to buy groceries and the kids are needing some clothing at this time. I just wish this would give her a little light at the end of her tunnel and I believe it will. Mojo, I just want them to have a Christmas to remember. I want to see my daughter smile again and I wish she smiles, but smile a little more. Thank you guys. Love you. Sincerely, Amy Norris.

Amy, you did great. Thank you. Wow. Isn't that beautiful?

Mom, can you come here? Did I have a friend? I know. I'm a friend. Hey, Glenn. Hi, guys. Mom, thank you. I, like when I saw it, I'm like a soul of huge fan of you guys.

Thank you. Hey, I want you to know, Marie, that Marie, there are no greater words that could come out of a mouth of anybody than to hear your parents talk about how proud they are of you.

I know. It really is. Thank you, Mom.

And the struggles that you have been through to not give up and to keep it together for those beautiful children has honestly been an inspiration for us this holiday season because I got to tell you, there are so many of our listeners going through what you're going through right now.

I know there's a lot of people struggling I just you guys thank you so much for coming I don't know but thank you

We're not done yet

I'm just like shaking like I am I don't know I love you guys like seriously the fact that you do this for families like us When we're in a time of need like that's such a beautiful thing Thank you guys

Well Mike do you want to tell Marie Everything that we have in store For her this morning

Marie, I don't know if you've seen The front porch here yet But we have full of gifts For you and your family

Go, come on guys

Come check it out These are all for you Including for mom A $200 gift card to Target A blender Kitchen set

I know.

Then where is, is it Calais?

Calais.

Calais. All right, Calais. We have for you, how old are you, 12?

Yeah.

You're 12 years old. I hear you want an iPad. Yeah? Yeah. And we got an iPad just for you. Oh, my God. Thank you. You are so welcome. Merry Christmas. Merry, early Christmas. That's right. Oh, my God. And where's David? Right here. David, you're 14? Yeah. Let's get you something too How about a brand new TV Where's that TV Tim Fagan's holding the TV right now

Tim our boss

That is for you

David we heard that you want your own TV You would like to have your own TV You have to fight for TV time So we want to make sure you have that On top of that We want to make sure that you have everything To keep you guys warm Through the Christmas holidays And the winter So we want to make sure we're clothing you guys with all the hats and the gloves and, you know, the red coats that keep you warm in the West Michigan weather. But we also want you guys to have fun. And, Mike, we keep going because there's a lot of kids here today.

Is it elect? Am I saying that correctly? Yes? Okay. Let's get you. How about an Amazon Fire Tablet? Does that sound pretty good? The last piece of this. And Aldriana? Aldriana. That is such a pretty name. How old are you? Yeah. If you could pick one present, your favorite present, anything from Santa, what would you ask him for? A tablet. A tablet?

We got that. We'll get that for you. You bet. Absolutely, we got that. Yeah. And I understand, Eldriana, that you're also a Barbie fan. Is that true? Are you a Barbie? You like Barbie? Yeah. We did some fun shopping, actually made sure that you had everything you needed Barbie-wise, so we're going to make sure that you've got your Barbie club playset, your Barbie fantasy hair doll.

Yeah. What do you think, Mom? Thank you.

Oh, my God. And, Marie, we didn't forget about Sweet Broly. How's Broly doing, by the way?

He's great, dear. He's doing okay. He actually just got out of the hospital the other day.

Yeah.

So, yeah. He's doing...

Look at those curls.

I know. Curls for the girls.

Well, Amy, for you and the whole family, we got everybody new coats, hats, gloves.

new pillows all the things you need for the house and even a christmas tree because we want to make sure you celebrate the happiness i love christmas mojo hey can i ask you i'm like a

christmas fanatic i haven't been able to do it yeah yeah can i ask you with being a christmas

fanatic what were the plans for this christmas what were you going to try to do if you didn't

here for this Christmas I was not going to be able to get my ticket Christmas so thank you very much

well we want you to have this Christmas and we also want you to have everything that you need for your house and it's through help of great people like our friends over at Comcast Xfinity who want to provide you and your family with a computer to keep your family connected so that you guys are always there connected and uh making sure that the digital divide doesn't happen that you guys are actually always uh online and i don't know what financially you got going on but i can just assume that it's not great right now yeah it's been hard breaking and entering christmas wish is going to write you a check for three thousand five hundred dollars to put into your bank account so that you can do whatever you want with that oh my god mojo thank you so much

And thank you guys so much. Seriously, thank you. This is such a blessing. God is so good. Like, I have been praying about this. I promise you not. Like, praying, what am I going to do for Christmas? What am I going to do for Christmas? And I just like, I don't know.

When you came to the door, you said, you're such a fan. I'm such a fan of you guys. We're a fan of you. Well, thank you. What you've been through and what you did for your family, like your parents said, we're proud of you for your mom to say that because anybody can find themselves in an abusive domestic situation. It can happen to anyone, but you're not alone. You deserve to be safe. You deserve to be happy. And you made some really tough choices to break that cycle and protect your kids. and we just are here to say you did the right thing and we want to help you get back on your feet and make sure those kids have an amazing christmas that they deserve you are strong thank

you again so much spike hey kids are you excited is this christmas that's come early

this is amazing like seriously we're like i'm just sitting here like i'm i don't know what to do you know like i don't know how to react i wasn't expecting you guys to hear this morning You're doing just fine.

You're doing great.

Everybody, I'm like, are you ready for school? And then by a door, bang, bang, bang. I'm like, what's going on?

Yeah, sorry for the nap. No, no, no. The nap.

Mike, can we get a little Christmas celebration going just so that the entire apartment complex will know that Mojo in the Morning is out at their home today?

Absolutely. We're going to wake your neighbors again. Cecily, Cecily, why don't you do me a favor? Why don't you start off the Merry Christmas for me, okay? Everybody say Merry Christmas. We're going to count down. Will you count down to 3, 2, 1 for me, and we'll say Merry Christmas?

Okay. 3, 2, 1. Merry Christmas! Thank you to you guys so much.

Merry Christmas. We love you so much. God bless you guys.

This is Mojo in the Morning.

All right. It's Mojo in the Morning, Channel 955 in Detroit, 104.5 SNX in Grand Rapids. and 92.5 KISS FM plus the iHeartRadio app. If you're listening to us on that app and you want to participate in the show, I know it's difficult just to make a phone call, so why not just text, don't interrupt your stream that you're listening to, so text 95500, and we'll either read your comment or possibly even call you up and try to get you on the air with us. Spike encountered somebody that you thought was in a very festive mood, But in reality, they probably were not. What happened?

You know those people who decorate their cars for Christmas? Yes.

Yes.

They must be cheerful, joyful humans, right? Absolutely.

Wrong.

I was pulling into a parking space, and this lady did the thing where she was going to pull ahead through the parking spot instead of reversing out. So, like, I'm going in one aisle into a parking space. She's in the next aisle over pulling in facing me. Oh, yeah. So she was going to, I think she was going to try and pull all the way through and take the same spot that I was pulling into instead of just stopping in her side. She almost hit me as I was, like, pulling into park. And then she started honking and giving me the finger. But her car had reindeer antlers, a red nose, tinsel, and Christmas lights. How dare her? She's supposed to be fessing.

So much for joy to the world. I mean, first of all, who are these people that decorate their cars for Christmas? I'm all about it. Listen, I understand. Today's world, we need any sort of happiness and joyfulness. But you can't have road rage while you're driving Santa's sleigh.

Don't you think, though, that the people that decorate their cars for Christmas might have a little thing off in their life?

I'm not going to make a blanket statement like that, but yes. I mean, your car has Rudolph's nose on it. Obviously, you can be a happy person if you want to be.

I feel like you should just have a genuine smile on your face if you've got the antlers and the red nose. Right?

Right? I mean, and the thing is...

And blasting Christmas music from your car.

I wasn't driving erratically. I wasn't doing anything to endanger her life. She was just mad I was taking the spot she wanted that was not hers to take.

She was driving all the way through both spots. I've done that before where I've tried to pull through only to upset somebody that you're trying to pull in there.

And then you give the polite wave, sorry, back up.

Or have you ever almost gotten into an accident that way? Because I have so many times by doing that.

Yeah.

Like the person doesn't see you and you almost hit them head on.

Don't run into the Grinch because I found her. I had the thing where I pulled through and the person got mad at me. So I'm like, all right, I'm going to back up. And then somebody took the spot behind me. It was like, what am I going to do at that moment? But I experienced a little bit of Christmas rage. And maybe you can share with yours at Target when I was in the Christmas card aisle. You know how they have that first aisle there where all their Christmas cards are? And I'm trying to look for cards, and this lady was like, she would have been a great rebounder for the Detroit Pistons, because she was boxing me out and would not let me get to the Christmas cards. So I said, excuse me, can I just grab this? And she looks and says, oh, you can't wait. And I'm like, oh, I'm sorry.

Merry Christmas to you, too.

I'll go get my deodorant, and then I'll come back to this one. But it's funny, how do you have a decorated car for Christmas or look for Christmas cards and it doesn't make you festive? It makes me happier when I see stuff like that. Like, you know what I mean? I don't know. Why do people get so angry? Like, I've never seen an angry person in a Hallmark store. Nobody gets angry in Hallmark stores.

Because they're all over the age of 80. That's true.

Yeah, that's true.

But if you decorated your car, you're trying to spread joy to other drivers. Like, you want to be seen as the happy person. Right. She did not succeed.

All right. Who experienced a little Christmas rage? 844-MOJO-LIVE, 844-665-6548. We want to hear your story, or you can text us at 95500 if you got a good one of where you experienced this. Text her here says, Spike experienced the same exact thing from a Christmas-decorated car at the Walmart off of Pontiac Trail. That's the Walmart that I will go to. Walmart off of Pontiac Trail. A Christmas car gave me the finger as I cut them off trying to turn down one of the lanes. Maybe they were just telling you that they wanted you to have a nice Christmas or something. I don't know. And then 616 says the people who decorate their cars are certifiably insane, period. Figure. Okay.

But it's funny, you mentioned in the Target Christmas aisle, the elbows come up, too, when you're at Christmas shop, and people get very territorial of their space and of grabbing the last item. And there is no Jesus is the reason for the season once you get in that shopping mall either.

Especially people who have kids, and they're yelling at their kids. I witnessed at that same Target visit a mom screaming at her kids. That's the worst. And all I wanted to walk over and say is, I've been there before.

But also, kids remember that. For some reason, I can still remember being in the aisle at Sears and my mom yelling at me while Bing Crosby was singing White Christmas. Like, I could picture what was around me, and I was probably, like, seven years old.

Threatening to take away all of Christmas.

Hey, Nicole, what's up?

Good morning. I actually have reindeer antlers on my car and a personalized license plate. So I was telling my husband recently, I can't do anything anywhere because those two things will make me recognizable.

Yes. So you got to be careful. You can't get rage at all. You don't, you know, you shouldn't be, don't honk that horn unless that horn starts playing jingle bells.

Exactly.

What does your license plate say? The customized personalized plate?

It is an MSU license plate and it says PR grad.

Oh, okay. I thought it was Christmas related. I was going to ask you what your opinion was on the text message saying everybody's certifiably insane. Period.

What's going on, Erin? Hi.

Hey there. So I was at a Walmart and I was walking down the Christmas ornament aisle.

There was a lady who had a cart, and she would not move it out of the way. And I was like, hey, I'm just trying to get by you, whatever. And she was just grumpy the whole time. I'm like, I love Christmas ornaments. How are you not happy right now?

Right? You're in the Christmas aisle. Smile.

Yeah.

So did you say that to her?

No, but I, like, tried to push her cart out of the way, and she's like, um, excuse me. And I'm like, yeah, excuse me.

I'm just trying to get by.

Yeah, but you can't say it out loud because people get violent in a Walmart.

Rose, what's up? It's Mojo in the Morning.

Good morning. I was just calling to tell you, I had a funny story. I have Buddy the Elf on my back windshield, and my wiper is his hand waving. And I may have, like, kind of cut someone off the other day. He got right up on my tail, and I was like, oh, I didn't really mean to. So I just waved at him with my buddy hand.

You can't even be mad at that.

Yeah, I hope we got a little laugh out of it. It was an accident. I didn't mean it. Wait, I have not seen the Buddy the Elf thing.

That's so funny. One of those window stickers.

Awesome, I love it. Yeah.

What's up, Brent? Brent?

Yes, hi. Can you hear me?

Yes, I got you. What's up?

Well, I have my little antlers and my reindeer nose on. I'm very festive, so don't make blanket statement. We're not all crazy. Well, we are, but that's not why we're okay. So enjoy the holidays. Be happy. Everyone has bad moments every now and then. That's right. That's very true. Yep. Let's just be happy all the time. Let's be the best medicine, I guess.

Let me hear you say- Have a great show. Let me hear you say, ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas. Really love.

Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas.

Very nice.

You put some honks behind that, and she sounds angry.

What's up, Voiceless Guy Sam? Sam, you're a security guard at a retailer?

Yes. Oh, I used to be security. And let me tell you, these people in these stores are violent.

They're nuts.

They are. I've had to detain somebody before for throwing a big temper tantrum inside the store and then wanting to attack me and attack other customers. And I'm like, oh, no, this ain't happening. And it's always the holidays. And then after the holidays, these people calm down.

Did you ever figure out, like, what it was that they were shopping for? Like, if they were shopping for, like, fun Christmas-y type stuff, like, why would they be so angry?

They were actually in the toy aisle, and then I had somebody in the alcohol aisle.

Well, there's... Make sure that the toy guy goes to the alcohol aisle, too. Yeah, people get a little crazy this time of the year.

It's another Mojo in the Morning holiday shopping safety tip. Be careful confronting the a-hole that stole the parking spot that drives a truck that's all jacked up with big tires. He has a big problem with his manhood and is probably packing heat. It's Mojo in the Morning. Five, two, three, four, five.

Sweet.

Five lies to tell your mom.

Yo, what's going on? Oh, you want to put your mother in the grave, don't you?

I, I'm afraid I'm going to do that, but I'm ready. You don't even understand. All for a prize for her.

I'm afraid you can't be in the grave. Five lies to tell your mom. Let's do it. Lie number one, you're going to say, Mom, I've been dating a girl from work.

Yeah, that's actually the thing. That's the case.

Oh, really? You are dating a girl from work, so that's not really a lie.

No. That helps us get to the other lies.

Lie number two.

Say, we are moving in together next month.

All right. Lie number three.

Because she's pregnant. There you go.

How old are you, Mo?

I'm 18.

Oh, jeez.

How old's your girlfriend? Well, we're not dating right now. It's kind of like a friend of a benefit type thing, but she's 24.

Oh, geez. Does your mom know about her?

Yeah, I told her about her in the past, and she was kind of like, what? You're with a 24-year-old woman? I was like, no, no, it's not like that. We're just kind of talking. But, like, she was like, you know, I kind of like that. This is great.

All right, lie number four.

I'm dropping out of school.

All right. And lie number five. I want to get help with the baby and her two other kids. all right we're calling her

hello hey mom hi why are you calling me restricted that's my cousin's phone like the same as yours oh okay listen uh you remember that uh remember that girl the waitress i was telling you about

I don't think you said she was pretty and everything?

Huh?

The one you said was pretty?

Yeah. Well, you know, we've been dating for a couple months. Um, so now she...

She asked me to, she asked me to move in. She asked me to move in together. You know, she wants me to move in with her.

You've got to be kidding me.

Mom, honestly, just please don't, don't get mad. All right?

Don't tell me this girl's pregnant.

Don't, mom, don't get mad, please. You're telling me this girl's pregnant? She, she called me earlier this morning and she told me that she's, she told me that she's pregnant. And I don't, I don't know, I don't know what to do.

You have nothing to do with this bitch until it's proven, whatever it is proven. I can't believe you got yourself in this situation. I cannot believe it. I've been telling you about this forever. I've been telling you forever.

I mean, I should just take a little break from school for a little bit and just, you know, work right now, make as much money as I can right now.

How old does this girl?

She's 24.

Okay, because, um, first thing you're going to do, you're not going to have anything to do with this s***, b***h. You're not going to have anything to do with her. You're not moving in with her? I don't know what kind of s*** the s*** is wrong with an 18-year-old kid.

I don't know, mom. I mean, I just think I need to take a break from school right now and just focus on work, get enough money as I can.

No, that's not what you're going to do. That's not what you're going to do. What do you think? You're telling me you're going to f***ing go back and be a baby, be some lady's f***ing father?

Mom, listen, I'm going to need help. I mean, she's already, she's got two kids.

Oh, you've got to be f***ing kidding me, man. I can't believe you did this to your life.

I can't believe. Mom, listen, I'm going to kill this. I'm going to need help, Mom. I'm going to need help, you know, with this, you know, helping her raise her kids and mine.

Um, first of all, nobody knows yet

If it's true or not I think it's mine, Mom

Well, we're not going to know yet

I don't know We got a slight problem here, Mom What's wrong? A lot of people know about it, Mom

Who? Like, maybe a couple million people Huh?

Mom, everybody knows about it because Mo and you are on Mojo in the Morning's Five Lies to Tell Your Mom.

You've got to be f***ing kidding me. Oh, my God. I can't believe that. Why would you do that to me?

I want to know why would Mo do that to his own mother.

That is not funny. F*** you. And I'm going to deal with you later.

We get a prize, though. We get a prize.

Oh, man.

Yeah, she did not sound like she thought it was funny.

Oh, I'm loving to say no. This better be a good prize. You're never too old for an ass-whooping. No, no.

Let's see if she even answers our phone call.

Oh, she's going to call me.

Hello?

Mom, you're not at least happy that it's not true?

But I know I raised you better than that. I can't believe that you put me in that kind of a shock. That's not anything that you joke around about. You could have joked about anything but that.

Mom, Moe was just doing this to try to win you a prize. Well, what did he win me? He won you dinner and a limo ride to dinner, courtesy of the Mojo in the Morning Show.

Okay, well, when I get my legs back, maybe we'll go.

What kind of punishment are we talking here?

I mean, he's 18, and he's already on his own, so the only punishment I can do is ignore him.

Yeah, well, don't do that. He's your son. You've got to love him, right?

Yeah, I do. I love him.

Thank God. It's Mojo in the Morning.

Sweet.

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This is Mojo in the Morning. Mojo in the Morning, Shao. This is really funny. So how Shannon's friend is trying to get the gift that she wants for Christmas this year.

She had the best point, and now I've got to pull up the – because she sent me, like, this little meme deal. And it said, hang on a second. I don't know you're doing this right now. And, of course, our internet is slower than slow.

That's all right. Here, I'm going to tease what we're going to talk about and see if any listeners have it too. Have you had to, like, drop hints to whoever that you wanted a certain gift? And what was the funniest way that you tried to drop a hint as to what you wanted for a gift for Christmas? And did it work?

Because I think wives do this or girlfriends do this all the time with their guys because we're just dumb. Like, we don't get it. And the funny thing is, sometimes they're so obvious that we think that we're, like, creative in what we got because, oh, she talked about it once. But little do we realize.

Or even if you do this with your parents. So, my friend said, holiday tip, when you walk past your partner's cell phone, yell out what you want for Christmas, and soon Facebook and Instagram will send them pop-up ads.

Oh, my gosh. Genius.

Right?

So give an example.

Well, so Ellen and I were talking about this this morning, and she said that, like, trending on TikTok right now, there are girls just grabbing their, like, boyfriend's cell phones and yelling, engagement ring, engagement ring, diamond ring, diamond ring. Really? Wedding, wedding, wedding. So that, actually, I just did it into my phone, and that's going to be really awkward all weekend. But, and then that's, those are the ads that pop up.

Yeah, it's no coincidence. Your phone is always listening. It's targeting you with ads. I mean, we all agree to it without realizing it. So that's amazing.

It's a great idea.

And it works, huh?

People have actually bought it because they saw it on a Facebook ad? Listen, hey, kids, while your parents are in the shower, take their phone and start talking to it.

And I'm sure some of these guys are like, duh, this must be my sign that it's time to propose.

844-MOJO-LIVE 844-665-6548 844-MOJO-LIVE The telephone number I'm going to do that to Chelsea's

Is there something you really want this year?

Oral sex Oral sex Can I do that in there? I don't know if Instagram will bring up any I think so It's not going to work for you What's up, Mojo in the Morning? Have you done this? No, I haven't Has your girl done it, though? No

What the heck are you calling for?

Oh, okay Oral sex he was calling for I'm sorry about that What's going on? Mojo in the morning Angela?

Hey, good morning guys, how are you?

Good, have you done this?

Well, actually my husband had asked me what I wanted for Christmas one year And I told him that I wanted a Victoria's Secret pink robe Just like the brand pink And he got me like a cool pink robe

Sometimes, you know, guys are dumb. You have to be more specific. I guess he just assumed that he would know there was a brand called Pink. You know what, though?

That's really sweet. I mean, he paid attention, kind of.

Exactly. Yeah. He did. Here's a little bit. But you should try this this year. What do you want this year?

I don't even know.

Really? You don't have anything on your list? Because I was going to say, you should try this. And then you should call us and tell us if he says anything to you, you know, or does anything kind of weird over the weekend, like where you can see him, like maybe going to make a purchase.

He's actually probably listening right now.

Oh, it's all right. That's better than saying it in your Instagram. Tell him right now. What do you want? Tell him you want something big.

There you go. I think you're going to have to be more specific or he's going to be back in Kohl's. What's up, Mark?

Yo. What's going on? So I yelled. I don't know how familiar anybody is with a gaming PC. But, you know, secretly I would say in the microphone, gaming PC, gaming PC, HyperX, HyperX, you know, just for it to recognize. And guess what showed up at my door Wednesday morning, and I had no idea. Wow. A gaming PC. Nice.

Wow.

So it works. So it works, yeah. Yeah, that's cool.

That's really cool.

And are you opening your gifts early? Well, how could you not? It was a box that said NZXT on it. Oh, it was foils.

Thanks for the call.

It's Christmas. If I send Christmas cards, you'd totally be on my list.

Merry Christmas from Mojo in the morning.

Oh, I want to bring this up. So I went to the mall, and yes, I valeted when I went to the mall. I know people get...

Oh, you fancy.

People get crazy whenever you tell them that you use the mall valet. They're like, you can't go get your own parking spot.

Wait, your mall has a valet?

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah. Why? They don't have the valet?

Shockingly enough, no.

They do, but it's called a bus stop. They got the valet at your mall.

I went to the mall yesterday. They don't have valet at my mall. 12 Oaks has a valet. 12 Oaks has a valet? Yes. Where? Oh, over at the new fancy side.

No. The cheesecake factory. where the cheesecake factory is so i valeted at the mall just to do a quick in and out i had to return something and then i needed to go get uh get luke something and so i said you know i couldn't find a parking spot the malls are actually very crowded i don't know if you've been to the mall

lately but so when I came out after the valet was done or after I was done I'm sorry I go towards the valet and it was mass chaos there were tons of people there that are waiting for their cars and they're getting very irate with each other so one of the valet guys kind of comes over towards me and uh and he looks because he saw that I had my ticket in my hand and um and I said wow this is crazy he goes yeah yeah yeah we're gonna get you know we're you know working hard and I go hey Hold on a second. I reach into my pocket. I grab a $10 bill, and I hand it to him, and I said, hey, thanks so much for getting in my car. And he goes, it will be right up. He, like, looked at me, grabbed the money. Oh, so you were in. Look, it will be right up. He then went on break. I saw him. No. I saw him walking away with my $10. He's, like, probably thought to himself, good, now I can go to the food court and go get myself some lunch. And I waited then for more than 30 minutes for my Tahoe to get pulled up. So then you got to tip again, right? Well, that's the thing. I never paid the actual valet because I gave that guy the $10. Oh, my gosh. And I was intending on probably paying a little bit more. Like I was intending, okay, maybe I'll give another $5 or whatever it is when they pulled the car up. because I figured, you know, to not have to sit there and wait through the craziness that was going on. So I'm waiting for 30 minutes. I see him coming back with some food.

From break? He was done with his break by that time.

He broke and came back from his break at the time that, you know, my car was being pulled up. And I sat there and I thought to myself with my toe tapping. You ever do that? You know, that's your thinking thing with your toe tapping. I'm thinking, could I ask him for my tip back? I know. It did not accomplish what I thought it was going to accomplish. And I thought to myself, I'm like going, you know what? That just serves me right. Serves me right for trying to sneak ahead of all these other poor people that are trying to get themselves their cars from the valet. While I'm trying to sneak ahead thinking that my $10 was going to make me more important than everybody else that was here.

I mean at that rate You could have parked Across the street And just walked And die in your car faster

I know what you're saying You valet Don't you sometimes When you go to the mall You do

I never have actually But Andrew always used to Oh you're so full of it No I never have You never have Ever

I swear to God On a stack of bottles

I forgot mine even had a valet I never have But Andrew has And so we always used to When we were married We would valet a lot

Okay

Yeah

Tell Mark My computer's My computer's not working Okay will you ask him To come in and fix it

I like parking far a lot of times and walking. I'm that weird person. The engineering version of Valet.

That's the engineering. Oh, you're talking about it. Tell Mark I got a $10. He's got a $10. Come on. I'm the guy. Listen, I am the guy that will not park to the end of it. Even if the parking spot at the very, very end is open, wide open, I will circle the lot.

You're my mom.

10 to 15 times to find one of the top five parking spots that are inside of the store only do it

in a certain row outside of the macy's at southland mall she is such a creature of habit she will not park in front of any other store or in any other area she has her spot and she will circle that macy's parking lot until something wait for it to come and you know

the thing that's driven me crazy with this you know whole thing about curbside pickups they've taken all the good parking spots so all that stuff like it's it's all uh you know curbside pickups for every everywhere target how target took like 10 times the amount of good parking spots now so that they could you know you could do the drive-up which i've done the drive-up thing and i love it but you don't have to take all my good parking spots matter of fact they should put it further in the back and make the employees walk out what yeah how fired up he is i'm very fired up you want ten dollars i want make your day better listen i'm gonna tell you i'm gonna tell you something that i i am one of those people that i uh i don't know i get fired up and uh and want to know exactly what the heck is going mark our engineer just walked in to fix our computer mark do you ever valet are you So you never valet? No. That big old pickup truck of yours, you don't ever valet that thing? Never once. What's the story? Why is that? I'm old school, I guess. Really? You like parking yourself? Isn't that kind of boring to park yourself? I drive a car with a stick. You drive a car with a stick? Nobody drives a car with a stick. What do they call those, manual cars? Yeah.

It's a beautiful thing. Nobody valets at the mall, I think is what you meant to say.

Everybody carries cash to tip the valet at the mall. That's a big thing. I never have cash on me.

Is valeting like really a bougie thing to do? Yes. Come on.

They have literally 12,000 parking spaces surrounding that place.

But still, though, it's the convenience.

Were you at 12 Oaks or were you at Somerset?

I was at Somerset at this one. Okay.

This is what I've learned there, though.

Somerset is our very nice mall. It's a very, very fancy mall.

They will move your car to the other side. There are two sides to the mall that goes over a busy street.

So if I park at one side, they'll move the car to the other side?

You can call them and say, can I get my car? And they'll bring it to the other side.

Wow. Will it take less than 30 minutes? I could have got, that's what I should have done. I should have went over to the other side because it was probably less crowded over on the other side and they would have brought my car to me. I didn't realize that there wasn't a valet spot at most malls. I thought most malls had valet spots because our 12 Oaks down the street from us here, which is the kind of middle, actually, it's a nice mall. I wouldn't say it's middle of the road, but it's maybe one step below the fanciness of the Somerset. But yeah, they've got valet there.

You know what I love, though? I do have a girlfriend, my friend Deanna. You guys all know Deanna. She used to work for the show. And if there is a valet anywhere, if we're at a road, anywhere we go, she will valet. Even to the, I went out to dinner with her one time. She valeted our car and there was literally a parking space 20 feet away. It would take less time for us to park right there and just walk into the front door.

I won't do it. I can't, I can't stand waiting. If I have to stand there and wait for my car when I can see it, it's like, forget it.

Chelsea actually gives me crap all the time Because I get angry when I walk out Of certain restaurants And I valet my car And I see all those fancy cars That sometimes they'll park right up towards the front Like on the curb and stuff They'll be really, really nice cars Like, I don't know Mercedes and BMWs and stuff And I gotta wait there Yours is in the parking garage

I'm like, oh

I gotta sit there I'm not fancy enough for these guys

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Yeah.

I thought you weren't going to answer me. I was going to say, wow, she's not in.

Usually you just start, I don't want to talk over you.

Oh, no.

I was being polite. You're so nice.

Thank you.

Sometimes you also take Megan callers and you don't say listen to Megan. And then I talk. That's true. And I go, oh, what's that?

Well, we can't see each other. People don't realize this because, you know, you're in Toledo. Mike's in Grand Rapids, and the rest of us are all in the Detroit area.

I think people are actually shocked that we don't see each other. I know. It's wild. A really long telephone call every day.

We listen like you listen. So he was shoveling with what?

Okay. So I'm genuinely surprised that the McJeans have not caused us all to just die of stupidity. And I say that so lovingly towards my father. But really, could I not have gotten some better genes? Some no acne in my adulthood would be appreciated, but I digress. I was looking out the window during that big snowstorm that we've been having over the past couple of days. Have I been taking care of my driveway? No, I'm a lady. I don't do that.

Eventually, it will melt, right?

I know. Yes. And until then, I'm going to fall on the ice no matter if I take care of it or not. So why put in the effort? It's not going to change the fact that I'm going to fall on my ass. But I did look out the window to see my brother shoveling my driveway because he is the only good member of our family. And I did notice something very interesting because the man was wearing snow pants. And I was like, oh, that's good. And then I looked down at his feet, and here's where the genetics play into this. He was decidedly wearing Crocs while shoveling my driveway. Oh, my gosh. And I thought, well, at least he's got them in sport mode. So safety first. Safety first. And they're bright orange, fluorescent orange, so when he falls into the snow pile, I'll be able to find his feet. It's great. It's great. But on his top half, he was wearing the thinnest white undershirt I had ever seen in my entire life. And it was five degrees outside. Why do guys?

wear t-shirts and shorts in the snow did you have a talk with chelsea my wife over the weekend

because i i came inside from taking the dogs out and i and i walk in and i go i just it's horrible i just can't stand this cold it's so so awful and she looks at my feet and i have slides on and she goes um hey genius why are you wearing slides okay to play into the fact that it's

amazing that we're all still alive. My brother's go-to choice for footwear in the winter is a different pair of Crocs. Now, these are his formal Crocs because they don't have holes in them. They're made out of fabric. They're what? They're hemp. He's like, I'm all about the earth, Mother Nature, yes, queen, god. He bought them in his vegan phase, so if that reminds you of any place where his head was, that's where it was. But he melted the bottom of these shoes at a bonfire, so they have zero traction. It's like a dolphin under there, just slick and he knows these are my winter shoes but but wait so they but they do have cloth so they're keeping his feet warm well they get soaked yeah i was gonna say they absorb a lot of the

water hold on i'm googling this right now uh and i should just call your dad because your dad will be able to tell me do they have winter crocs i'm looking it up right now to see boots do they have

They have Crocs boots, don't they? They do. Because I feel like I've seen them with kids.

Oh, yeah, look at this. Crocs classic boots. They look like the moon boots I used to wear when I was a kid in school. They're called Neon Puff. Is it Puff? Yeah, P-U-F-F. Puff? Puff. Oh, Puff. Oh, Puff. Puff. Wow. They're called Neon...

Let's never mix Mojo's jeans and my family's jeans. He's screwed.

Hi, family

You need to get these for him

And ready for this? They come in black, white Oh, God Or canary

Yeah, look at the hot pink ones

They're as ugly as the Uggs boots That became I know, don't you dare

Say anything bad about Uggs I still have the same pair From when I was in college

Oh, they must smell lovely

I don't even care I love them Also, no traction Zero

They used to have a Crocs store at 12 Oaks.

I know, you made me go in there.

Remember, that was a great store. It was a great experience for you.

I don't know if I'd say it's a great store. It exists. I don't think they have it, though, here anymore, do they? It's over by the food court.

Yeah. I'll have to see if they're still there. I'm going to go in and I'm going to get Sean a pair of Crocs boots.

No, thank you. Yeah, it's still there. We have enough Crocs in our house.

Crocs at 12 Oaks opens in 18 minutes, everybody.

All right, we've got to find that out.

No, no, no, no, no.

My son yesterday ripped on me when I had to go take him to get his phone fixed at Apple. We had to wait a little bit, so we're walking around, and I walked into the, is it Echo store? What's the shoe store?

The E-C-C-O. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm afraid now to pronounce anything after.

Do they sell poofs?

And we walked in there, and he leans over to me as I'm looking at the shoes, and I'm going, oh, these are really nice. This is really nice. And he goes, these are old people shoes. They are.

I always think they are, aren't they?

But they're so comfortable, though. It's like Crocs. Crocs are, well, Crocs really aren't old people's shoes, Sean.

Yes, no, they are.

Your brother's a young man. They're just a disappointment.

He's old.

Very old. He's old, yeah.

Yeah, he's appreciating this right now.

So I always look at that story and go, how do they stay in business and pay rent in the mall? And then I realized they're selling a 16-cent chunk of plastic for $40. There you go. Of course they can pay the rent in the mall.

Do you want to know how much of the McFamily contributes to that business? Too much. Too much.

Yeah. Do you get the gibbets for the winter crops or just for the summer crops?

You don't think that my dad's stocking stuffers this year were gibbets?

Damn, the size of my snow angel is more proof that I need to get to Planet Fitness more often.

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Mojo in the Morning. It's one of my favorite phone scams of all time. I know I say that a lot because I love pretty much all of Spike's phone scams. But this one is truly a great phone scam. This is a classic Mojo in the Morning phone scam. Rob worked at a nursery, and Spike had a complaint about his Christmas tree that he bought from them. This phone scam has people literally imitating it after it plays. So you just watch yourself because you're going to actually start doing an imitation of Spike after you hear the Screaming Tree Smites phone scam.

We will, we will scam you. Sorry, it's a catchy song. It's your home of phone scams.

Mojo in the morning. Nursery where you can get 30% off every day. This is Robert. Can I help you?

Wow.

Hello?

All I can say is wow.

Can I help you?

Yeah, you can help me. I'm a loose cannon here. Do you know what you did?

Uh, no.

Oh, you guys should be held responsible. You should be strung up.

Uh, what's the problem, sir?

I bought a Christmas tree from your store, and it was infected with screaming tree smites.

With what?

Screaming tree smites! Little buggers, they're all over my house now. My wife's itching, my cat's got little smite bites all over her body, and my son Robin had to jump in the pool because they were all over him. You know how cold it is in the pool?

I'm sorry, sir. Can you tell me once again what the tree has?

They are all over my children's hair and clothes and toys. Screaming tree smites. Jiminy, Christmas.

Tree mites?

Smites. You should put a little sign over your store that says Greenhouse of Death.

I've never heard of smites in a tree before.

Oh, you work in a nursery and you never heard of tree smites.

Well, we're pretty familiar.

My wife bent over to decorate the tree and she heard them making the noise and she heard the screaming tree smites and they started biting her neck and ankles and belly and earlobes and teeth. It's a lobster in the ointment this holiday season.

You know that this is a nursery, right?

Yeah, I know. I got the receipt and she's got these little bites all over her body and she's a bleeder.

Tree smites.

Tree smites.

You're saying they make sounds. They make noises.

They make a clicking sound. They go, kick it, kick it, kick it, kick it, like that. You hear that? You know it's over, baby. Write a ticket.

Sir, if you could just hang on for one second so I could just talk to some of the other employees. Oh, gee. Hang on one second. Hang on. Hang on. Hurry up.

Hello?

Hello?

Yes, yes, sir.

Save it for your coffee break, mister. I got an infestation here like flies on...

Sir, sir, you know what we decided to do here? Bring the tree back down here. Bring the tree to us so we can examine the tree.

Oh, yeah, and put it in my car, and I'm calling the EPSA and turning your ass in. The Environmental Phone Scam Association.

Because you've just been the victim of a phone scam. You're on Mojo in the Morning Show? What? Yeah.

We're just calling to wish you a happy holidays and do a little phone scam on it. You know. We will, we will scam you. If I could say anything I wanted to, I'd say that was f***ing funny s*** right there. I don't care who you are. It's the home of the world-famous phone scams. Mojo in the Morning.

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