Speaker 1: It's Mojo in the Morning show. Congratulations to anybody that
Speaker 1: got engaged. Does it really matter though what the ring
Speaker 1: is and has got a story behind this?
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 3: So some of my mutuals are getting engaged, especially around
Speaker 3: the holidays. I had a couple friends get engaged and
Speaker 3: one of the rings was like the most gorgeous ring
Speaker 3: that I ever saw. So I sent it to my
Speaker 3: best friend group chat and I was like, look at
Speaker 3: this ring, like if I'm ever in a position where
Speaker 3: I want to get married, And a guy asked, you
Speaker 3: tell him I want this ring and my friends were like, no,
Speaker 3: you don't. We heard that's a lab grown diamond. I'm like,
Speaker 3: a lab grown diamond? What's wrong with that? And they're like,
Speaker 3: it's not the same thing. It's not the same thing.
Speaker 3: And they were just basically giving this girl crap because
Speaker 3: her ring was not a real diamond. But is lab
Speaker 3: grown not real? Like, I'm confused.
Speaker 2: Moist night, No, it's not even that night. So it
Speaker 2: used to be, you know, people would always go, is
Speaker 2: that a cubic?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: And they would because that was like that was a
Speaker 1: pubic pubic, not a pubic, but it was like fake
Speaker 1: but a lab grown is an actual thing that's worth
Speaker 1: It's worth money.
Speaker 2: It's actually worth money, but it's the price difference.
Speaker 5: We did so much research on this, and so to
Speaker 5: my understanding, and I feel like we should call Franny
Speaker 5: Lucido because she could probably describe this better than me.
Speaker 5: A lab diamond is a diamond. It is just not
Speaker 5: made by God, right, it's not it's natural, but it
Speaker 5: is still a diamond. It is not a c z
Speaker 5: or moist snizing.
Speaker 3: Are they a lot cheaper?
Speaker 2: Like what's the there thinks?
Speaker 1: So they're still worth money though they're still worth decent money.
Speaker 1: They still cost money.
Speaker 5: But for people who say it's not a diamond, it
Speaker 5: is still a diamond. It's just not a from the
Speaker 5: earth diamond. It's how it's described.
Speaker 2: So you brought this up real quick.
Speaker 1: You brought this up and Lydia and you were having
Speaker 1: a conversation on this one. Lydia, I want to ask
Speaker 1: you a question. Okay, if you should have get to
Speaker 1: a ring from that good looking man, Andy gas station guy,
Speaker 1: and he got you a lab grown, would you be upset? No,
Speaker 1: not at all, you would not be upset. Okay, good
Speaker 1: I thought you. I thought you were gonna say yes, Bianca,
Speaker 1: would you want a lab grown or a real groan?
Speaker 2: Man, I don't even care. I'm so clumsy, I'm going
Speaker 2: to break the ring regardless.
Speaker 1: Honestly, actually you need like one of those remember the
Speaker 1: candy back in the day that the ring podcast tattoo.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to know what people think about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some people feel like if you get me a
Speaker 4: fake diamond, then you don't real quote unquote really loved me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not fake though.
Speaker 2: They said this is not from the earth is fake.
Speaker 4: We went through this when when I was looking for
Speaker 4: rings with Sharill, we were having this conversation about do
Speaker 4: you want a lab grown or moisten ight or real
Speaker 4: diamond because you're paying a lot of money for I
Speaker 4: guess just a symbol of your affection. And even though
Speaker 4: the quote unquote lab grown, you literally are almost identical.
Speaker 2: Like you put two and two together, they look better.
Speaker 1: Sometimes, So you're I mean with the sounds of Anna's
Speaker 1: friend that said this, Oh you don't want that's a
Speaker 1: lab grown.
Speaker 2: That's a petty girl. Where's she from? She's from? Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: she's an open County girl.
Speaker 6: That's why diamond.
Speaker 1: Hey, hold on, a second, real quick on the phone
Speaker 1: with us from Lucido Fine Jewelry, Joe, lou.
Speaker 7: Hi, Joe, what's going on?
Speaker 2: Guys? How you doing? Joe?
Speaker 1: Tell me with the whole lab grown versus you know
Speaker 1: the diamond, you know the real So is there such
Speaker 1: thing as called real diamond or what is it?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 7: They are both diamonds. Diamond is the hardest mineral known
Speaker 7: demand and both of them have the same chemical properties
Speaker 7: as one another, so they are both forever. But what
Speaker 7: you guys are saying is completely right. It is almost
Speaker 7: impossible to tell. It's impossible to tell with the naked eye.
Speaker 7: You know, we have a machine that tests for them.
Speaker 1: And why why do people devalue lab grown though? I
Speaker 1: don't understand, Like why would Anna's friend say she wouldn't
Speaker 1: want that?
Speaker 7: You know, there's a lot of misconception out there, and
Speaker 7: there's a lot of different views on it. But the
Speaker 7: whole reason why a diamond is so valuable is because
Speaker 7: they're rare. And the more the higher the quality the diamond,
Speaker 7: the more rare they are, the larger the size, the
Speaker 7: more rare they are, the larger, the nighter the quality,
Speaker 7: and a larger size even more rare it is. So
Speaker 7: when lab grown diamonds became a thing, there was a
Speaker 7: value that was established and they get they were grown
Speaker 7: in labs. Well, as they kept getting better and better
Speaker 7: at growing these diamonds, they became less rare. So when
Speaker 7: something you know is more is less rare, man, I
Speaker 7: tell you it's gonna keep going down.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, yeah, but that makes sense. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing I don't understand because to me,
Speaker 1: if it's beautiful, it's beautiful, and you know there are
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that this is the case with
Speaker 1: I guess with designer clothing or designer handbags and things
Speaker 1: like that. If the thing looks great, does anybody really care? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And if if you go out and you're you know,
Speaker 1: hanging out with your friends and wearing it on a
Speaker 1: daily basis, does it really matter? Like if somebody comes
Speaker 1: into Lucido Fine Jewelry and they're looking at rings and
Speaker 1: their budget is five thousand dollars and that doesn't get
Speaker 1: them whatever the bigger diamond that they want to get
Speaker 1: in real but they can get them a lab grown.
Speaker 1: Do you guys then turn them towards the lab grons
Speaker 1: and say, hey, why don't you look at this.
Speaker 7: One one hundred percent. We're here to educate our clients
Speaker 7: and we want them to have something that they're absolutely
Speaker 7: literally gonna love. And if it's a specific style and
Speaker 7: you know, a two carrot, you know elongated radiant is
Speaker 7: what they're looking for, and it's accessible. The price point
Speaker 7: that they want is successful with the lab stone, we're
Speaker 7: going to get it for them.
Speaker 4: Of course, give me a percentage real quick, of all
Speaker 4: the people that come in looking to get married or engage.
Speaker 4: Give me a percentage between lab grown and real diamonds.
Speaker 4: What's the mark you dictating right now?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's uh, I'll give you a ballpark. I
Speaker 7: would say about half and half. Yeah, A lot of
Speaker 7: people think that long term. When you're coming in, if
Speaker 7: you're buying a five carrot diamond, a lab versus naturals,
Speaker 7: you're talking about one thousand dollars, two thousand dollars versus
Speaker 7: eighty thousand dollars much it's important or more, it's important
Speaker 7: to know that these lab grown diamonds, we don't know
Speaker 7: what the value is going to do. So as long
Speaker 7: as you're okay with losing that few thousand dollars that
Speaker 7: you're going to spend on that lab rown diamond if
Speaker 7: you want to trade it in in ten years or
Speaker 7: something like that, then it's okay.
Speaker 1: You know what I would do. I take the difference
Speaker 1: of the money put it in an ira.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just Joe. That's pretty cool. That's cool.
Speaker 1: Now, thank you for going on with us, buddy. We
Speaker 1: appreciate you so much. Joe Lucido shout out, Joe. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to you soon about it.
Speaker 2: Thank you to do so. All right, man, that's wild
Speaker 2: to know all that.
Speaker 1: Katie, what do you think about and his friend being
Speaker 1: a little snarky towards her other friends' lab grown diamond?
Speaker 8: Well, it happened to me too, so it's crazy at
Speaker 8: to sound. So I got engaged in twenty twenty married
Speaker 8: in twenty twenty two. My friend got engaged queen there
Speaker 8: and got married after me, and we were talking about it,
Speaker 8: and her brother proposed with a lab grown diamond that
Speaker 8: was bigger than hers that she got. Hers is the
Speaker 8: real diamond. So we were having this conversation. She was
Speaker 8: complaining about how this ring was bigger than hers. Her
Speaker 8: brother had gotten it for his fiance and hers is real,
Speaker 8: so it's better. And I was like, well, mine's a
Speaker 8: lab grown and I don't think she knew because she
Speaker 8: a music.
Speaker 1: Was like oh uh.
Speaker 8: Oh, well, I mean I mean that's fine. Well no, babe,
Speaker 8: like your your opinion was different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but she wouldn't have been able to tell if
Speaker 3: you didn't tell her, right right, No, And I mean she.
Speaker 8: Looked at before. I love your ring. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well that's crazy. What things?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 8: Because it was grown in a lab and not in
Speaker 8: the ground in the dirt.
Speaker 2: What's the difference. Man?
Speaker 1: If I was the guy marrying her, I would quickly
Speaker 1: start thinking about that person I'm marrying if she's that Patty.
Speaker 2: What's up Abby?
Speaker 7: Hello?
Speaker 9: First time, long time. I just my opinion on it
Speaker 9: is that it's nobody else's uh opinion. And I see
Speaker 9: like a lot of girls that are judging it that
Speaker 9: I have never been engaged before.
Speaker 2: What do you have? You have a ring?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, we got married. We got engaged in September and
Speaker 9: I went on a work trip and this girl was
Speaker 9: asking me to see it. So I show it to
Speaker 9: her and she's like, well, is it real? I was like, well, yeah,
Speaker 9: it's real, and she's like showing me this diamond that
Speaker 9: she has picked out her boyfriend. But I was just like,
Speaker 9: she kept calling it kind of like fake and stuff
Speaker 9: because it was lab drones. I was like, Okay, well
Speaker 9: that's your opinion. I guess you could keep it to yourself,
Speaker 9: but they're real and I come from farm backgrounds, so like,
Speaker 9: if you think about how plants are grown, you have
Speaker 9: like genetically modified organisms like in the seats, and then
Speaker 9: you have like organic stuff.
Speaker 2: I was think of it like that, you know what
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: I look at that and then I look at her
Speaker 1: breasts and I say, THO, what's going on? Megan?
Speaker 2: How you doing?
Speaker 9: Good morning?
Speaker 2: Good morning? What's up?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 9: First of all, my.
Speaker 6: Son was in the car when I first called. He
Speaker 6: wanted me to tell you guys to have a good day.
Speaker 2: We'll say hi to him and then you can play
Speaker 2: on the podcast. Hi, Brandon, a mom is a hottie.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being on with those, Megan, what's going on?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 10: My wedding ring.
Speaker 6: Is not lab grown or grown in the dirt. It
Speaker 6: was grown at Pandora and I picked out my own
Speaker 6: ring and that was my choice. It wasn't like my
Speaker 6: husband's choice if it was to him he would have
Speaker 6: paid thousands of dollars for a ring, but I'm too
Speaker 6: much of a klutz, So my grain would have fallen
Speaker 6: off one day and I would have lost it, and
Speaker 6: then I would feel so.
Speaker 10: Guilty for losing my wedding ring that came.
Speaker 6: Thousands of dollars because I've seen those stories of.
Speaker 10: Like people losing their wedding ring and I could only
Speaker 10: imagine the weight that they feel because it's such an expensive,
Speaker 10: sentimental piece of jewelry, and I'm like, I could never
Speaker 10: live with myself if I lost mine.
Speaker 1: Well, the other thing too, is that you you know,
Speaker 1: you think about this that if it gets stolen or
Speaker 1: something bad happens to it, Now you got to worry
Speaker 1: about how much you're paying an assurance for this. If
Speaker 1: you don't ensure your ring, you're probably not very smart,
Speaker 1: especially if you spend a ton of money on it.
Speaker 1: But then secondly, if you're that if you're somebody getting
Speaker 1: married and the person is that petty about what their
Speaker 1: ring is, I'm worried about what our lives are going.
Speaker 2: To be like you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Ye difference in the money and I would buy myself
Speaker 1: a house with it or put it towards something like that.
Speaker 2: I want to hear from all people we did. I
Speaker 2: want to hear from a lady where the ring matters, like,
Speaker 2: we're the ladies that who say the phone line sir,
Speaker 2: We're the real or nothing ladies.
Speaker 5: I did not care, yes, but I would say that
Speaker 5: either way. It's really like we literally sat at Lucido
Speaker 5: and really like explored all options. You cannot tell the
Speaker 5: dang difference at all. I liked this particular diamond, but
Speaker 5: yeah to me, and truly it would not matter to
Speaker 5: me whatsoever to me.
Speaker 1: To me, I sit there and I look at it,
Speaker 1: and I think about the ring that I got engaged with.
Speaker 2: We don't even have it anymore.
Speaker 1: Supposedly, Chelsea, supposedly it got stolen or lost or something
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: It was an insurance claim.
Speaker 1: Shout out, shout out the Stade Farm and the guy
Speaker 1: with the khakis.
Speaker 2: But it was it was literally all I could afford.
Speaker 2: It was. It was.
Speaker 1: I bought it a k Jewelers, and I bought it
Speaker 1: with my severance check from the radio station. And it
Speaker 1: was honestly one of the ugliest rings I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: But it was beautiful to Chelsea, and she loved it,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to say this to you. It's not
Speaker 1: the ring that she has right now. And they guess what.
Speaker 1: I think that if you're married long enough, then you
Speaker 1: work your way towards whatever the ring that you're gonna
Speaker 1: that you're gonna want. And I will say that again,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're going to depend, if you're going
Speaker 1: to sit there and as a girl, say to your friend, oh,
Speaker 1: that ring is not as beautiful. It was beautiful in
Speaker 1: the picture at the beginning, and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you're gonna sit there and pull the eyeball thing
Speaker 1: out the look at it. Do we have anybody on
Speaker 1: the phone line that says the ring matters?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: And then there was one who texted him. But she
Speaker 2: doesn't want to talk to me, she doesn't want What
Speaker 2: did she say in the text? What was her text?
Speaker 2: She said, the ring does matter, but I can't talk. Wow,
Speaker 2: can't say it with a chase.
Speaker 1: Where's her area Code's see where six one six It's
Speaker 1: West Michigan right Grand Rapids