Speaker 1: It's Mojo in the Morning Show. I've been seeing this
Speaker 1: all over social media, and Shannon hates it. It's the
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen challenge, the twenty sixteen trend. What's going on, Shan?
Speaker 2: Why do you hate it so supposedly?
Speaker 3: Is I don't even understand the reason for this is
Speaker 3: I heard it's because people are saying twenty twenty six
Speaker 3: is the new twenty sixteen.
Speaker 4: I think it's just cause it's been time, which what.
Speaker 5: Does that even mean?
Speaker 6: That?
Speaker 3: Okay, that makes a lot more sense to me, Like, Okay,
Speaker 3: let's reflect on you know, what your life was like
Speaker 3: a decade ago. So everybody that I know has been
Speaker 3: posting photos and videos from twenty sixteen on Instagram, particularly.
Speaker 1: I think it's a way for everybody to show off
Speaker 1: when they didn't have wrinkles or they were because the
Speaker 1: only people that show it off, Shannon, are people that
Speaker 1: looked better in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yeah, I have not participated in this. If
Speaker 3: you follow me on Instagram, I'm at Cupcake Shannon, you
Speaker 3: know that I have not participated in this because twenty
Speaker 3: sixteen was probably one of the worst years of my
Speaker 3: whole entire life, and so the thought of even going
Speaker 3: back really and looking at pictures from twenty sixteen to
Speaker 3: try to decide on some for a post, like makes
Speaker 3: my stomach hurt so bad.
Speaker 2: What happened. I mean, obviously you don't want to remember.
Speaker 3: It, but like, well, it was the year that my
Speaker 3: first marriage completely unraveled, and I was struggling really really
Speaker 3: bad behind the scenes, and we weren't public with that,
Speaker 3: so I was just struggling silently and very few people
Speaker 3: know knew at the time. Mojo was actually one of
Speaker 3: the only people that knew in my family of course,
Speaker 3: and some of my closest friends, but just trying to
Speaker 3: keep that down and struggling with it when I got home.
Speaker 3: I mean, there were there were days that I didn't
Speaker 3: even want to get out of bed. I didn't even
Speaker 3: want to wake up. To be honest with you, that
Speaker 3: was my twenty sixteen. So I keep seeing people posts
Speaker 3: and I'm like, yeah, this is a trend. I just
Speaker 3: can't wait until way because I want to forget about
Speaker 3: the majority of twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: I can't believe it was twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: It's funny because of I will never forget, you know,
Speaker 1: certain moments that have happened in the lives of everybody,
Speaker 1: but then you forget what year it is, you know,
Speaker 1: so I didn't realize it was that long ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like I spent much of.
Speaker 3: Twenty sixteen like curled up in a ball on my
Speaker 3: laundry room floor, on my bathroom floor, in my bed,
Speaker 3: just not wanting to leave my house and.
Speaker 5: Waking up everyway.
Speaker 3: It was one of those years of waking up in
Speaker 3: the morning and going, this is not my life, you know, but.
Speaker 1: Don't be offended, but I'm posting pictures of you from
Speaker 1: twenty six y my, that was one of my skinny years.
Speaker 2: Did you already start posting?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: No, I haven't, okay.
Speaker 1: I was like, I looked actually not that bad in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. I was like, man, I was actually pretty good.
Speaker 5: No, you post away.
Speaker 2: I was like, got bags under her eyes and spending
Speaker 2: up all night. I'm blowing. I'm blowing.
Speaker 1: Actually, you know what, this is an interesting one because
Speaker 1: I don't know how people will feel about talking about this.
Speaker 2: But what was your bad year? Like, do you guys
Speaker 2: remember your bad year?
Speaker 1: Because I will never forget some of the years that
Speaker 1: Chelse and I struggled the most and one of the
Speaker 1: years was twenty nineteen was like one of our worst years.
Speaker 1: And then going into twenty twenty, as weird as it sounds,
Speaker 1: that was everybody seems like bad year, that was actually
Speaker 1: the year that got us to stay together. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was pretty crazy, but it was also a bad
Speaker 1: year early on because you know, health wise, it wasn't great.
Speaker 1: That's when I found out I had the hard stuff.
Speaker 1: But you guys have like a year like if they
Speaker 1: were going to do like a challenge. It's like, I'm out,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't have Thank god, I don't have a
Speaker 7: full year where I experienced some level of torment.
Speaker 2: But I do remember.
Speaker 7: I believe it was twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 7: somewhere around that time. This is way before Jasmine and
Speaker 7: I have the relationship we had now, And I took
Speaker 7: Josiah to Florida. He was eight years old somewhere around then,
Speaker 7: and I didn't do any of the work that he
Speaker 7: had to do for school that week. And Jasmine is
Speaker 7: a very organized person. Granted was like second or third grade,
Speaker 7: so I didn't think it mattered that much, but it
Speaker 7: mattered to her. And there were some other things that
Speaker 7: took place. But long story short, I didn't see Josiah
Speaker 7: for like three months, wow, like three months, man, And
Speaker 7: we had to because I mean, she she had her reasons,
Speaker 7: you know, from her point of view, but that's why
Speaker 7: we had to go to the court system. I had to, like,
Speaker 7: you know, I fight to get my time back and
Speaker 7: all of that. But I just remember going that long
Speaker 7: without being able to see Josiah oh that way. And
Speaker 7: one of the worst moments of my life is when
Speaker 7: after everything, you know, it was finalized with the courts,
Speaker 7: he had to meet him at the police station so
Speaker 7: we could make the exchange, and he didn't want to
Speaker 7: go with me, Like he literally did not want to
Speaker 7: get out the car and go with me. He was
Speaker 7: accustomed to, he was accustomed heard. It broke my fa heart.
Speaker 7: Oh it's a terrible It broke my heart. But you know,
Speaker 7: we back, we went through it. But that was man.
Speaker 7: I'll never forget that moment.
Speaker 2: In that year.
Speaker 4: Quite the opposite of you. I had, Like you said,
Speaker 4: you barely had a year. I had like four years
Speaker 4: that I just want to delete from my memory. I
Speaker 4: actually did, Like I deleted all my Snapchat memories. I
Speaker 4: deleted all the pictures I have no remembrance of like well,
Speaker 4: I mean I remember it, but no documentation of like
Speaker 4: twenty seventeen to maybe like twenty twenty, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 7: Yeah we did some kick it off or was it
Speaker 7: just like one thing after Maybe it was right after.
Speaker 4: Uh it was I was going through the breakup with
Speaker 4: my high school boyfriend and then moving out of my parents'
Speaker 4: house and just like finding myself and realizing what I
Speaker 4: did and didn't like about how I was raised. And
Speaker 4: I was, yeah, going through a bad drinking a lot,
Speaker 4: like making bad decisions.
Speaker 2: And it lasted long, and last year I was like
Speaker 2: four years.
Speaker 1: So it's you know, how I know where I was
Speaker 1: in my life in years because years to me, like
Speaker 1: even when Shannon just brought that up, I'm like going, wow,
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, that's wild. But is when I go in
Speaker 1: my iPhone in the photos and I go to the years,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my god, that was then, like
Speaker 1: I because I can't remember the actual years. But then
Speaker 1: you go back and look and when Shannon had said
Speaker 1: this about twenty sixteen, I'm looking back at some of
Speaker 1: these photos and I'm going, wow, it brings back to yesterday,
Speaker 1: like when things happened. So did you, Shannon before the
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen when you started seeing people post in the
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen challenge, I knew that it was.
Speaker 2: Already Yeah, you already knew it.
Speaker 5: It's that year.
Speaker 3: And obviously pieces of years that followed, but like that year,
Speaker 3: I just was struggling with a lot of stuff in general.
Speaker 3: And so even when I favorite certain photos or your
Speaker 3: iPhone comes up with like you know, your featured photos
Speaker 3: for the day or whatever, and when something comes up
Speaker 3: from that year, and I don't know if you guys
Speaker 3: can relate to this, I get this feeling in the
Speaker 3: pit of my stomach. It brings me right back to
Speaker 3: me that moment and how I felt.
Speaker 7: Yeah, No, I feel I had asked still because I
Speaker 7: got pictures of Sharill and Journey still on my phone.
Speaker 7: Because I just I'm terrible at the lead and stuff.
Speaker 7: So sometimes those will pop up into memories or like
Speaker 7: you say, on this day like that type of stuff.
Speaker 2: So then it hits you like, you know, hey, what's up, Clarence,
Speaker 2: how you doing.
Speaker 6: Doing good?
Speaker 2: How are you good? What's going on?
Speaker 6: Nah?
Speaker 8: That just to go on the worst year, it would
Speaker 8: be twenty sixteen, just like actually starting August twenty fifth
Speaker 8: of twenty sixteen started the worst year.
Speaker 2: Why August twenty fifth, that was the.
Speaker 8: Day that my mom decided to stop demo and to
Speaker 8: go on hospice.
Speaker 5: Oh goodness.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that I can remember every detail. I go through
Speaker 8: it every year, the lack of sleep, like twenty sixteen
Speaker 8: with a crappy air.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the call Clearance. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Ryan for you man, Jason, you can also relate to
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen not being a great year.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I wanted to say to Shannon that I know that
Speaker 8: twenty sixteen may have been terrible, but it it helps
Speaker 8: form who you are now and lead you to where
Speaker 8: you are now, you know. And that's yeah, that's how
Speaker 8: you to me. That's how you kind of have to
Speaker 8: look at the rough times. Is it helps form form
Speaker 8: who you are, who you become, you know, and hopefully
Speaker 8: you you learned from from them from those times, yeah,
Speaker 8: and can move on.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I really appreciate that comment, and that that is always
Speaker 3: how I.
Speaker 5: Frame it in my head.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's fun though it's weird to say this, but I
Speaker 1: go back to years that I wish I could go
Speaker 1: back to, Like Chelsea always says, I live in the
Speaker 1: past a lot.
Speaker 5: Like the good years, you mean, your favorite years.
Speaker 1: Like certain years where I'm like I remember everything, not
Speaker 1: being like there's only a couple of years where I'm
Speaker 1: like that year was really bad, But I go back
Speaker 1: all that, Like Chelsea always said, if I was going
Speaker 1: to go back to anything, I'd go back to eighth grade.
Speaker 3: Okay, So it's so funny you say this because we
Speaker 3: were when I was with my family on Friday night,
Speaker 3: we were all at dinner and we were talking about
Speaker 3: this twenty sixteen thing, how much I hate it. My
Speaker 3: sister's like, what was your you know, your favorite ear?
Speaker 3: And I said, oh, probably thirty was like a really good,
Speaker 3: exciting year, you know whatnot. And my brother in law goes,
Speaker 3: I'd go back to when I was fifteen, Like high school.
Speaker 3: That's the year you go back.
Speaker 2: Look, no bills, no real world stress.
Speaker 5: Taken, no just as eighth grade.
Speaker 1: Eighth grade. I mean, I'm telling you, it was the
Speaker 1: best year ever. I'll never forget. Thriller came out in
Speaker 1: that year. It was like one of my favorite girl is,
Speaker 1: Oh what it's Erica? How you doing I'm doing.
Speaker 8: I was not having such a good morning. I was
Speaker 8: kind of irritable this morning.
Speaker 7: And Mojo, when you said twenty sixteen was my best year.
Speaker 8: I was skinny. I'm gonna post. I'll just laugh.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 7: I said, this man could get a laugh out of
Speaker 7: me when I am not feeling like even being bothered.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it gets better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be a good day, Erica day.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Take take care of yourself. What's up, Katie?
Speaker 1: You want to share in the fact that we were
Speaker 1: hating on twenty sixteen?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 6: I was coniserating with Shannon because I also went through
Speaker 6: divorce in twenty sixteen, had to move to my parents
Speaker 6: and go back to work after being a stay at
Speaker 6: home mom for four years, and the year before that,
Speaker 6: I had cancer.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, I'm good now though.
Speaker 2: It good. We love We love you, Katie.
Speaker 6: I love you guy too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Stay strong, that's that's awesome. And don't worry if you
Speaker 1: if you have a bad day, it's okay. Call us
Speaker 1: up and tell us, Joshua, what's up?
Speaker 5: Modrill just talk about his skinniest years and makes it better.
Speaker 2: I'll give you.
Speaker 1: In eighth grade, that was not a skinny year, though
Speaker 1: I was not skinny in eighth grade.
Speaker 2: What's going on, Joshua, Just like you. Twenty nineteen was
Speaker 2: my worst year ever.
Speaker 8: Filed for divorce that year, but thank god, COVID fix
Speaker 8: that forced me to get a job to work in
Speaker 8: town and not travel all the time, and then it
Speaker 8: fixed my marriage.
Speaker 5: So that's an incredible story.
Speaker 2: We did that as a topic.
Speaker 1: COVID saved my marriage, and it was amazing, Joshua, how
Speaker 1: many people experienced the same thing. It was the fact
Speaker 1: that everybody had to be with each other, and then
Speaker 1: you started realizing that it was the distance that was
Speaker 1: causing a lot more of the issues because you couldn't
Speaker 1: tackle thought.
Speaker 8: I was actually on the radio that thanks.
Speaker 1: Joshua, thank you for the call, buddy. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you all right, take care of yourself, all right,
Speaker 1: Mojo in the morning.