Muse

The first season of the X Games League is ending in New Orleans, and only one team walks away champion. July 24th through 26th at the Caesars Superdome, watch the world's best skaters, BMX riders, and moto athletes battle for the title. Plus, live performances from Metro Boomin', JID, Subtronics, and Bunt. Three days of sport and music. Get your tickets now at xgames.com.

Aging is real, and so are the benefits of new Vital Proteins Collagen Sparkling Water. Because around the age of 30, your body needs backup to keep your collagen up. So get your daily glow up, now in three fresh flavors. Strawberry blossom, lemon lime, and blood orange. Improved skin health in as little as 30 days thanks to collagen peptides? Cheers to that, so you can stay vital, stay you. Visit vitalproteins.com to learn more and where to buy.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

You never know what the week's going to throw at you. That's why you need to keep your engine ready with Pennzoil Platinum, the full synthetic motor oil that maximizes engine protection. And you can maximize your time, too, by scheduling a quick oil change at your local Walmart Auto Care Center. They'll get it done while you shop. Ask for Pennzoil Platinum, and you can receive a $25 virtual prepaid card. Pennzoil, long may we drive. Ends August 31st, 2026 at participating locations only. Terms and restrictions apply. See details at Pennzoil.com slash claim.

If data management is slowing down your business, you need the Intuit ERP. If one entity is here and one here and one here and one here, you need the Intuit ERP. If scaling your business feels like starting over, you need the Intuit ERP. Intuit Enterprise Suite is the AI-native ERP solution that consolidates, migrates, and automates all in one place learn more at intuit.com slash erp it's a mojo in the morning second date update

war of the roses shannon's dirty this is your home of all of those shannon's ex reached out to her and what shannon did next was it the right thing or the wrong thing we're gonna ask that question

shannon what's going on i can already tell you it was the wrong um this so this is the my the the ex that is what is i don't know if he still is i think was a musician um so the guy that i was engaged to which is so weird we were just talking about him because my stepson remember i told you the story is like oh i'm a i'm a fan of this band i'm like oh great like i had to tell him the whole story so I get a text message and first off this relationship ended in 2008 2009 I think was really like the last time I actually spoke to him so I thought I had his number blocked and actually his number might be blocked his number that he had this might be a new number I don't know the case or maybe I just deleted the number regardless I get a text message that says hi is this still

shannon so i think that's a spam one right i got one i'd be like delete jump then i am then i am

my 60 something year old mother because i write back and say hi who's this and then he writes his name with a little smiley face so i write back hi question mark and he writes just saying hello hope you're having a great day that is probably where zach is shaking his head that is where i should have just not said anything more stupid me right thanks so much i always hope you are doing well and he writes yay doing great love to your fam so i am like this is so weird why is he reaching out for this random reason i have not talked to him in years and years and years and years.

Wait, maybe I missed it. When did he say it was him?

Did I miss that? Right away. Like, is it Shannon? The second text.

When's the smiley face, guy?

So I-

Was it a hard smiley face or the hard eyes in the smiley face?

No, it is literally just the, I'm showing everybody, just the standard smiley face. I show this text to Wes.

Oh, God.

I thought you deleted it.

You just said you deleted his number. That goes away when you delete his number.

No, no, no. I'm saying a long time ago when we broke up, I either blocked him and this is a different number or deleted him. I don't even remember what was the case.

But I thought you deleted him this time, though, too.

Well, you're getting ahead of the story because you already know how this ends. Okay. So I show this to Wes and say, you are never going to guess who reached out to me. And Wes looks at it and he said, why did you respond after he said who he was?

Yeah.

i mean that's a great question i'm like f you are right this is totally my nature to just be like hope hope you're great hope everything's good with you and wes was like you do not need you do not owe him that you do not need to say that you should have just not responded at all so i so i did so he is blocked now i screenshotted this obviously because i had showed it to wes and stuff and eventually wanted to make it a topic because that's our life. But I, looking back, thought that I was being, quote, unquote, nice and really didn't even need to respond to it.

Let me add my wisdom to this.

Oh, I can't wait.

I'm going to add my wisdom. No, listen, I'm going to tell you this. You always get called the smartest person on the show. Oh, this was dumb. No, I think there's nothing wrong with you responding back to it. This guy was part of your history and you saying, hey, hope you're doing great. You know, move on. It's not like you're responding and sending them like, you know, you know, a nude or something like that. You're you're you're just sending it back. And honestly, I think that you just being honest and telling Wes right away, which I did, is the is the right thing to do. So I do find it very interesting. And you got to tell me the time frame of this one. Do you think he heard us talk on the air about how Wes's son was a listener or what was the, what's the timeline of when he reached out to you to when Wes is Wes's son and you brought up this story?

This actually happened before that. This happened a while ago, but I needed to, we needed to work through it before I brought it up on the air. That was real. Being truth, being very truthful about it. So this happened before the, the, hey, I'm a fan of this band.

conversation call me crazy first off i do think you entertain the foolishness so i'm kind of on west side but i could understand where you were coming from as well call me crazy though i feel like anybody that's from the past that's just trying to reach out not doing it out the goodness

of their heart and just trying to see what's that that's what west said and he was like the he's like i know that you weren't trying to like do anything shady which obviously is why i showed him the whole conversation but he's like him reaching out is not for no reason and he's like and you even responding is like that foot that you open the door keeps the door open just a little bit because he's like even the nice and he's right and i didn't see it that way in the moment and now looking back i do and i'm mad at myself and it is a lesson learned but that dress you had on at

The auto show popped up on his For You page, and he couldn't resist.

You think it was the auto show dress is the reason why? Shannon was looking cold that night. Okay. Well, the timing probably. If Shannon said that this has been a while that he reached out to you.

Foreshadowing.

Never mind.

What's up? Mark wants to make a comment. What's going on, Mark? Hi.

Hey, how are you?

Good, buddy.

What's up? Shannon, you are. Okay. How well? Relax. First of all, I don't think, I don't know how your relationship with this guy back then, like, ended out of the whole circumstance, but I think it was a casual, hey, how are you? Hope all is well. I mean, I do not think, you ignoring him would have been like, I mean, we're grown. Like, this is, come on. Like, there's, you did nothing wrong. So.

But what's the purpose of even entertaining him? like what's the purpose of this three second conversation well again i don't know the detail

and how long but the fact that he said you know love to the fam tells me he had a pretty close relationship with family so they could have had a couple year history and you know that's like that's like saying burn all your ex's pictures you just don't i don't know i disagree with that

i agree with you i think that that's apples and oranges i think that you don't need like i don't delete photos i think that that is all that's part you know part of your story but this is

i don't need this back in my present see i don't like that he said have a or what did he say have a great day or hope like enjoy your i don't know i thought that was little he could have said like hope all is well you know yeah he could have kept it a little more casual but i definitely don't think my wife talks to her exes and i still talk to mine we all get together i don't know we're

just not we're very i don't know i don't like i don't like emojis i don't like any of the emojis in there even if it's a smiley face emoji that's too that's too friendly but i do say this i agree with you in the fact that we're all grown adults if the guy sends you a text you're not it's not like you're opening up pandora's box by just saying hey all's good great thank you boom move on and

You don't have to do long text with them if it's a quick little text. If it's a long text and you're telling them your life story and explaining to them how, you know, everybody in the family is doing, then you're engaged more than just a quick text to, you know, make sure all is well.

So when you say we're all adults, are you saying that I'm not acting mature if I see the message and choose not to respond? That's not mature. That's not being an adult.

I think that if I think that if I were to if a client this is totally non-dating if a client from years ago that hasn't talked to Shannon in forever said hey Shannon just checking in how's it going and she found the need to answer him back there's no different she had less of a relationship with that client than she did with a man that she was going to marry I don't think

that it makes a difference two totally different situations and I'm a jealous guy if Chelsea's

exes started texting her and she was having long conversations I'd be horribly jealous but if she said hey so and so reached out to me today i answered him back and she showed me the text exchange and it was what your text exchange was i move on i go okay no problem uh carlis what's up it's mojo in the morning what do you think about this uh carlis yes i love you mojo but i'm with

west i am with west there's zero reason for communication and the high was one thing but Then the second reply was, I always hope you're doing well. That implies that she thinks of him. And we know that may not be the case, but just the wording of it. There's zero reason. Say that.

Okay, you're cutting out. Are you pushing buttons or hitting your cheeks, hitting the phone? Your cheeks. Carlos. Carlos is a, he is a Latin.

You just offended him.

you said he had fetched he's a latin man with uh with uh lots of jealousy all right go to mike uh next mike what's going on a lot of guys texting in with this i want to hear what the ladies have

to say too what's up mike how you doing doing good mojo how's going good what's going on comment on

this um so my wife is a lot like shannon she's just a super bubbly happy go lucky person um and she gets messages just like shannon's describing all the time from guys she hasn't talked to her exes from her past whatever and i have to agree with west 100 because of the examples that i i'm about to give is with the emojis in my opinion the emojis are a gateway to getting a d pic in the future unsolicited not anything you're encouraging but it happens i swear to god i swear to god my wife will respond just like you did shannon she'll be like oh nice to talk to you Hope you're doing well, too. And then that guy gets drunk one night, starts crying and getting at his feelings. And then you end up getting slammed with the D-Pick. And then you have to explain that to Wes. His number has been blocked.

Let the record show.

That, by the way, is the greatest. The emoji is the gateway to a D-Pick.

Starts with a smile, leads to a sack. You never know.

Liz, what's going on, Liz? Hi. Hello, Liz.

oh sorry hi hey what's going on first time long time so when i got married uh good how are you guys doing fantastic go ahead tell us what your story is go ahead so three years ago when i got married um all within a year i got a flood a text from exes from past admirers uh did not entertain them whatsoever um my husband told me at some point he just didn't even want to know about it so uh my stance on it is i just feel like an ex is an ex for a reason unless we stayed in contact that entire time i don't see a reason to engage whatsoever i don't trust the intention of you reaching out after all of these years when we haven't stayed in touch. Um, and to be honest, I'm perfectly happy right now. You know, um, I, I would not want to engage or do anything that I personally wouldn't feel comfortable with my

husband doing. Yeah. Oh yeah. So do you think that this guy should just be blocked and be blessed

and moved on? Um, I mean, I don't know if you necessarily need to block them, but I wouldn't have responded. Clearly he is definitely thinking about you, Shannon. Um, I think it's probably a little bit more situational i think the algorithm probably brought him over back to you somehow um do i think he needs to be blocked he doesn't seem like he needs to be but if he reaches out

again i would block and move on yeah and by the way algorithm is that also code for uh uh dpix about to come to um anna you there anna hi anna hi anna doesn't agree with you shannon uh

what do you want to say um i don't agree at all i'm sorry shannon um once you found out um who it was i feel like um you should have just been like um okay i don't need to talk to you i'm blocking

you yeah you're right looking back you are right i was wrong i just think we're all grown people why do we have to be that way why does grown doesn't have to look and go ahead i'm sorry I don't want to interrupt you.

Oh, that's okay. The thing is, why is he reaching out? And even if it's, like, something small, he's going to say, like, oh, you know, I just thought of you. But for what reason are you thinking that we're going to have more conversations, more texts after this? Like, what's the purpose?

I just feel like he was part of her history. And if Shannon's gone through countless, you know, days since their relationship, there's no feelings for him. And I know that this has been a person that Shannon, I know, has probably gotten over, definitely gotten over through therapy. Why not be able to go, hey, you know what, man? I hope you're doing okay. I'm doing great. I found a great man. I've got two wonderful children. And you know what? My life couldn't be better.

Are you working with this man?

No.

Whose side are you on? Look, all history doesn't have to be revisited. And being an adult, quote unquote, doesn't look a certain way or in one direction. You can be an adult and be elevated if you want to and reach out and have no feelings, or you can be an adult and say, this is my past and that's where I'm going to leave it.

But I also think, too, that I think that it shows Wes that Shannon can have a past without the past coming back and being part of her present by just going, you know what, that's my, hey, good luck to you. We're all, you know, Shannon's a Christian, right? You know, if you saw him sitting on the side of the road, what do you do? You run over him?

It's not the same situation. Don't try to move the goalposts.

I'm not moving goalposts.

If you saw him on the side of the road, stop playing.

You know what, Mr. I am now a single man after this thing? I can't wait for all the booty ex-sex that you end up having.

Listen, I told you. I ain't exploded since July. Okay. Oh, my God.

You're going to. All right. You sit there and you preach a good game. wait until the Monday morning when he comes in and goes, you're never going to believe what the hell happened to me this weekend. And I'm going to go, oh, let's go back to January 27th, 2025, Monday morning, 831, the year of the Lord.

I'm going to say they were on the side of the road.

They've taken over cities before, but this July, They're bringing the X Games League Championship home to New Orleans. July 24th through 26th at the Superdome. Over 100 elite athletes competing for the first ever league title. Plus, Metro Boomin, JID, Subtronics, and Bunt performing live. New Orleans doesn't just host the moment. New Orleans is the moment. Get your tickets now at xgames.com.

The World Cup is underway and it's been incredible. On our podcast The Away End with Daniel Alarcon and John Green, we're talking about the games that have delighted us, the teams that have inspired us, what we're loving and what surprised us, all through the lens of being massive fans of the world's most beautiful game.

Daniel, this tournament has been magical so far. There's so much to love and I can hardly believe the drama that the group stage brought us. And now it's time for us to talk about the teams that are left as the field is whittled down to one World Cup champion on July 19th.

Listen to The Weigh In with Aniel Alarcon and John Green on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Here at the Happiness Lab, we're serving up some hot takes for the summer. Big ideas that just might reshape how you think about your well-being. Like the radical notion that we should get rid of small talk completely.

We talk about current events. We talk about what you do for a living. But not, do you love what you do for a living? Is this your dream job?

For more surprising ideas backed by psychological science, check out our new series, Happiness Hot Takes. Listen to the Happiness Lab with me, Dr. Laurie Santos, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

At Reynolds Lake Oconee, life moves at your pace. On the course, on the water, and everywhere in between. Here and only here, members enjoy a way of living shaped by views that stretch for miles. and friends you'll know for years. Get away for a weekend or settle into something that lasts a lifetime. Explore membership and real estate opportunities by booking a lifestyle visit at reynoldslakeoconey.com slash discover.