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WKQI Detroit. WSNX Muskegon Grand Rapids. WVKS Toledo. Three great stations. One stupid show. this is mojo in the morning live hey mojo let me take y'all back to the beginning this is it all right are you ready you're listening to

mojo in the morning. You're a doo-doo

head.

It's showtime! We'll be right back.

Good morning and welcome to the Mojo in the Morning Show. This is an interesting morning, guys. It's our last Wednesday in this radio studio that we have here. Oh, my God. No, I think yes, after seeing our new studio. Yeah, we're moving. So we're moving. Our home is moving. and we are moving out of our broadcast facilities that we've been broadcasting live from since I think it's been 2004 maybe or something like that. I don't know. I have no idea. People always will say to me, they'll be like, how old are your kids? I'm like, I have no freaking idea. You know what I mean? I know when they're 16 because there are all these pains in the asses about wanting to get a car and a driver's license. All right, welcome to the Mojo in the Morning Show. It's nice to have you guys here with us. Yeah, we are. We are moving the studios, and today is the last Wednesday of this radio program coming to you from Farmington Hills, Michigan.

which does anybody know where farmington hills michigan is if you don't it's a fantastic town that's known for farming ton hills i don't know what do they what i have no idea like you know sometimes people will go well what is your town how do they get the name i go i have no idea

that's interesting no no let me google that it's probably some guy named farmington it sounds like

last name we're moving to uh our new studios in detroit so our studios iheart is moving the radio stations the iheart detroit stations to detroit which is kind of cool which uh to be quite honest with you i think is very historic uh that you will have the number one most listened to radio stations actually in the midwest we are not just number one radio stations in the detroit area but Actually, more people listen to our radio stations in the Midwest than any other radio stations or companies. And we're going back to the city, which is nice. We were studying up on equipment yesterday. If you guys could have only seen Shannon. It was me and Shannon and KP and Lydia and Zach. And we were hanging out there, Megan and Kev. You guys had stuff going on. Shannon was walking up intros of songs. She was DJ Shannon Shannon.

Let me tell you what that means in non-radio people terms. That means introing a song and stopping that intro before the artist actually starts singing, which I haven't done for probably 15 years.

I'm not going to lie to you guys. 15 years. I'm not joking when I say this to you. If Tony heard that, she would have an air shift on the station. That's why Tony's not going to hear it. Look. Believe me.

You can all hear it. Look. Look. I know it's tough to recreate the magic, but can we get a little Shannon? Before the end of the show Before the end of the show

We're all going to do it No, Mojo and I talked about this We're all going to do a little practice

But here's the story We were walking up song intros of songs that quite honestly we never played We were doing like WNIC songs Or whatever the station is in your market That plays Whitney Houston While we were doing it And we were doing it like stellarly I mean she was amazing So we'll go with that

Mojo went right back to his B96 Chicago

Oh my god I was like seriously I was rapping over C&C Music Factory It was amazing

Also an update too if you heard Mojo's Frustration I'll say I was going to say bitch fest But I'll be nice and say frustrations That were being vented last Friday About all of the Christmas decorations That had taken over our brand new studio That we haven't even started working in yet They're gone

Oh my god they were gone Thanks to Lydia. You should see. By the way, you know who Shannon turned into last night? Who was that? Shannon and Lydia, both of these guys, turned into Clark Griswold when he got angry about Christmas.

The Jelly of the Month Club.

Where do you think you're going? Nobody's leaving. Nobody's walking out on this fun old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We're all in this together. This is a full-blown four-alarm holiday emergency here. We're going to press on and we're going to have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap dance with Danny Finke. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney knife, he's going to find the jolliest bunch of holes this side of the nuthouse.

Do you want to know something crazy? I have always turned that movie off. I've never seen it. Are you serious?

Well.

Not good. You're lost. Not good. The only National Lampoon movie that is good in that series is Vegas Vacation.

Oh, you can't. First off. You can't watch Vegas Vacation without watching this one. This one's the creme de la creme of the bunch.

I've always turned it off.

It's like watching a Rocky movie without watching Rocky 1. You don't get the premise.

No, that's a terrible example. Rocky 4 is a standalone fantastic film.

Or Star Wars without watching Star Wars. You can't go down to the next generation without the generation. But with that said, to go back to what we were talking about, I've never seen Lydia and Shannon throw a Christmas tree so freaking far. It was Christmas tree throwing. That might be a contest, by the way.

Oh, my gosh, Lydia. That might be.

Throw a Christmas tree.

Do you think it's crazy that we had to clean up a mess we didn't make?

Well, we always seem to leave messes for people, so I don't know. It's kind of like back at you, so. No, I don't know. You know who the happiest person was in the entire thing? Tony the Tiger. Tony Beers, our engineer. He was so happy because he said he kept leaving our studio, going back to his home, and looking at himself in the mirror, brushing his teeth, and he would see glitter all over him like he had been at a strip club all day.

The glitter is really bad for the equipment. Okay, but at what point are we not going to have glitter in there? We're going to destroy the studio.

Way worse than glitter.

Actually, no, it would be coffee or spilled water or something.

Who's going to make the first spill?

Yeah. It was almost kind of like... Kev. By the way... Of course you say me.

You always have a beverage or honey in front of you.

There might be a DraftKings Over Under on that somewhere.

To be fair, I've only seen Mojo spill coffee.

That is true. I'll probably leave. I have no counter space on my side with all the equipment and stuff that we got with these instant replay machines, these 360 machines and our laptops and stuff. So I might not even have to, I'll have to have an IV hooked up to me with coffee. But Shannon looked like the Grinch that stole Christmas. But I understand that that's not the person in her house. That's the Grinch that stole Christmas.

Okay. You guys came to my house on Saturday night. So you are very well aware that I am in the process of already decorating for Christmas. My, the entire outside of my house is covered in Christmas lights, which makes this topic even more interesting because when Wes and I were dating, even after we got engaged, he had this rule that didn't bother me because we didn't live together. So I did not have to abide by it in my home. Well, now that we're living together, he thinks that this rule should be in place. And the rule is absolutely no Christmas music before Thanksgiving. What? Well, guess what? No, that's not happening because the kids and I love listening to Christmas music. But truly, it happened last night. Samantha and I, my stepdaughter Samantha, she's a sophomore in high school, were listening to Christmas music. He comes in, turns it off, and just leaves the room and goes back to what he was doing. He refuses Christmas music. Wow. We got up in bed. And then he's on board? On Thanksgiving, we can start playing Christmas music. I go, Wesley, you could see our house from outer space at this point. There are so many Christmas lights.

It is, by the way, well lit.

Yeah, it is very well lit. And I'm starting to put out all of our holiday decorations. So what's the damn difference if this song's playing in the background?

Are there any listeners that are like Wes that think that Christmas can't be celebrated this early and that Christmas music is too early? 844-MOJO-LIVE, 844-665-6548, or others that think. I saw a thing this morning that says, when should you put your Christmas tree up? There was some latest poll that says, for this year, December 1st is the actual date because of the way December 1st throws.

So last year, I put mine up a little early, and we went and chopped down a real tree. Yeah. And that thing was dead. Christmas morning, the kids would pull a gift out, and all the needles would just fall all over the floor.

Now it's just a fire hazard.

I feel like there are extenuating, is that the right word? Circumstances? That's actually good. Okay. You like how I mumbled my way through that because I was not confident at all? But I think weather plays a role in this. And I think the first is just like, that's the last day that you can, or the first day you can do it, whatever. Wow, it has been a great morning for me talking wise. I'm so glad to be paid to do this for a living. But if the weather is cold like it is today, I feel like you get to start early.

I'm with you with, yeah, I'm already very much in the spirit. I lit a Christmas candle when I was getting ready for work this morning. I am in that mindset.

Right. If it snows or if it's cold, you can push that to an earlier date. That's what I meant to say.

Or if you just need a little happiness. Right.

Hi, Brandy. What's up?

Hey, I just wanted to say that I agree with Megan. National Lampoon Christmas Vacation sucks. Oh, stop. You shut your mouth.

What about, wait, what about Christmas music? What do you think about Christmas music?

Well, the town I live in switches over to Christmas music on the 1st, and I was a little like, oh, this is too early, but now I'm jamming out to it, so that's okay.

Are you in West Michigan right now? Christmas sucks. What's that? Are you in West Michigan?

Yeah, I'm in Kalamazoo.

Okay, so yeah. Star. Star is playing Christmas music right now. That is really early. I always feel like radio stations that switch their Christmas music are probably hurting in the ratings and they just need a little help. That's like their thing. But Allison, what's going on?

Good morning.

Good morning.

So I disagree with Les. I think Christmas is a whole season in itself. And when you're ready to listen to Christmas music and decorate, you listen to Christmas music. Amen.

Well, to defend Wes, he's not here.

My house is already done. Everything is done. Christmas music is playing. The kids are excited. We're all excited.

Allison, that's amazing. I got to defend Wes because he's not here. He didn't say Christmas music sucks. He just said it's not the season for it. Not time for it.

And also, think about it the wrong way. As people with children, you can use this as a threat now earlier.

Oh, that's true.

His kids are ready for him. My kids don't care.

By the way, to also defend Wes, he is Canadian, and they don't celebrate Thanksgiving at the same time we do either, so this might be a Canadian thing. What's going on, Lindsay?

Oh, my gosh. My husband is the Grinch. He always wants to wait.

until after Thanksgiving. It's no fun. It is no fun.

You know what you need to do? Divorce him.

Yeah.

Give him a real thing to cry about at Christmas time.

All right, sign the papers or we're putting up these Christmas lights.

He's going out of town next week for work for the entire week. And I said, wait until, just you wait until you come home. It's going to look like Christmas threw up

at our house. John, where are you from? I'm from Dundee, Scotland. Really? And you have a take on this whole Christmas thing. Yeah. When do you guys celebrate Christmas in Scotland? In Scotland?

Yeah, I didn't say that, son. You're near Scottish. Didn't make fun of the Scottish. I'll come over to the United States and kick it out. You want to know what's so funny, John?

I don't appear to just speak English.

Wes's entire family lives in Scotland, minus his four siblings. And so I'm going to use this and say, We had a Scottish dude call the show today, and he said y'all celebrate earlier anyway.

I'll tell you something, though. I'll tell you something. I've been back to Canada quite a few times, and I called the Riff one time a long time ago, right? Yeah. And they were testing me. I don't know how. They're bloody a bunch of clowns. You guys blow them away. So I don't know how they said this line. I don't know what it means, but if it's not Scottish, it's crap.

Hey, could you do me a favor? Can you say Merry Christmas in Scottish?

Mojo, I can't believe die for you. You're amazing.

Go ahead. What do you want me to say? Say Merry Christmas in Scottish. In Scottish.

I say Mojo, Merry Christmas, son. Oh, I can speak that language. You have to sound a different language.

Okay, I'm just making sure. I know, I'm just kidding.

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