Speaker 1: All right, it is Mojo in the morning, Mojo and Shannon.
Speaker 1: We've got keV and Lydia and Bianca and Zach, all
Speaker 1: of us here, Mike with us on Fridays, Daniel and
Speaker 1: Charlie during the week working hard in the background here
Speaker 1: and making sure everything's good on our stations and Grand
Speaker 1: Rapids and Toledo and of course all the great people
Speaker 1: the staff here. It's a sales day here at the station,
Speaker 1: So sales day. We got the sales department. You chosen, Shannon.
Speaker 1: This is an interesting one because when I read your
Speaker 1: topic about this, when you sent your topics in last night,
Speaker 1: I read your topic about this, and I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I wonder if people are doing this purposely.
Speaker 2: But also it would be tough to be a woman or.
Speaker 1: You know what, I should just send it right there
Speaker 1: and then I'll actually be in good graces with my wife.
Speaker 1: It would be tough to be a woman and go
Speaker 1: through a divorce and then figure out how to like
Speaker 1: changing your name back and all that stuff, which is
Speaker 1: interesting because some people never change their name, Like some
Speaker 1: people will just keep the same name.
Speaker 2: Whatever they got. Yeah, sit, you don't want me, you
Speaker 2: don't want this name.
Speaker 3: I feel kind of rude in what I'm having to
Speaker 3: do lately, and normally this would not bother me. I
Speaker 3: just feel like, I don't know, blame it on the
Speaker 3: irritability that comes with good old Perry muna pause, but
Speaker 3: it is starting to get on my nerves that that
Speaker 3: people are still using my ex husband's last name for
Speaker 3: my last name, which I had for a good junk
Speaker 3: of time. But I've been remarried now for almost two years,
Speaker 3: and so when I still see it on people's like
Speaker 3: phone contacts for me or like it just happened in
Speaker 3: an email. Somebody here at work did it. I can't
Speaker 3: tell you how many holiday cards I got this year,
Speaker 3: including from former in laws of mine, that had my
Speaker 3: old last name on them, And I'm like, okay.
Speaker 1: I know the actual Like the postage that that that
Speaker 1: your former and law said with their Christmas card to
Speaker 1: you said Shannon and your married name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my first married name. I've been married twice if
Speaker 3: you're new to the show, Okay, and I've been married
Speaker 3: and now.
Speaker 4: I've been in a second marriage for almost two years.
Speaker 4: And so it's like like the person who.
Speaker 3: Did it here at work, I was like, hey, I
Speaker 3: just wrote back, can you please change to Shannon Whitlam,
Speaker 3: which is my new last, you know, legal name, but
Speaker 3: like other people, it's I just feel kind of like
Speaker 3: weird if I send a text and be like, hey,
Speaker 3: I noticed I got a Christmas card from US yer,
Speaker 3: can you once change my name? I don't know why,
Speaker 3: it's like it feels weird to me, but also it's like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, I can't just expect people to know
Speaker 3: to change it.
Speaker 4: But when even in people the phone context, one drives
Speaker 4: me nutty too.
Speaker 2: Okay, so here, what do you have me as? Ready?
Speaker 3: But you could probably have me You could have me
Speaker 3: as Shannon Murphy and yeah, but on the air that
Speaker 3: legitimately is my maiden name.
Speaker 2: You know what you need to do.
Speaker 3: I'm totally fine with Murphy. I just don't want to
Speaker 3: use my ex husbands last name anymore.
Speaker 5: I am more understanding if you weren't remarried, like you're
Speaker 5: very publicly remarried. So I'm not understanding how they.
Speaker 4: Don't understand bug me.
Speaker 1: I will only change a person's contact name in my
Speaker 1: phone if they send me one of those things in
Speaker 1: the iPhone where you push it and it will change
Speaker 1: that thing for you. Otherwise, I'm not changing your your
Speaker 1: contact name like I'm You're always going to be that
Speaker 1: to me, whatever the deal is, even if you get married.
Speaker 1: Like I've got friends like my other Shannon friend, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is Shannon the radio friend.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what her married name is, and.
Speaker 1: I still have her listed as Shannon and her maiden
Speaker 1: name files too, like I with you. I asked this
Speaker 1: question because I have a buddy of mine who's divorced
Speaker 1: and his he has no kids with his ex wife.
Speaker 1: It's this it's his second it was his second marriage
Speaker 1: and her second marriage, and she refuses to change her
Speaker 1: name from his name because she claims it is such
Speaker 1: a pain in the ass to change all the stuff.
Speaker 1: And he claims he comes from a very you know,
Speaker 1: good family, like a prominent family, and he thinks that
Speaker 1: she's doing it on purpose because her kids' names are
Speaker 1: the first dad's name.
Speaker 2: So's if you.
Speaker 4: Which is which is Yah? Which is my situation as.
Speaker 2: Well, exactly.
Speaker 1: But it's funny because she changed that name right away
Speaker 1: to his name because when she married him, his you know,
Speaker 1: family was kind of a well known family and is
Speaker 1: a well known family in the Detroit area. Ye, so
Speaker 1: he actually goes. He goes, Yeah, she will not change
Speaker 1: the name, and he says the reason he doesn't is
Speaker 1: because when she makes reservations at places, everybody all thinks
Speaker 1: like if she goes and makes a reservation at Capitol,
Speaker 1: Guerrilla or whatever, Yeah, they all all know the family,
Speaker 1: so they're like, yes, we got a table for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which you're By the way, your ex has a very
Speaker 1: prominent name. I would like to change my name to
Speaker 1: his name. Would he be okay with Mojo and then
Speaker 1: his last name?
Speaker 3: For the preservations are funny because I feel like if
Speaker 3: I use Shannon Murphy, that's me being like, you know,
Speaker 3: Shannon from Mojo in the Morning.
Speaker 4: So I don't like doing that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Hey, somebody asked me the other day in radio why
Speaker 1: I never changed my name legally to Mojo, And I said,
Speaker 1: because my dad would never forgive me, like it was
Speaker 1: a nickname and it was one of those things wherever.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, if I changed my name, my dad
Speaker 1: would never forgive me. But they said, wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: easier because there's another couple of radio people that used
Speaker 1: to work here in Detroit that legally changed their names.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, is that all I don't know. I will
Speaker 1: not call you by your maiden name. I will call
Speaker 1: you yes.
Speaker 3: No, you could call me by my name. My maiden
Speaker 3: name is cool. My my married right now name is cool.
Speaker 3: It's just like my ex husband's.
Speaker 2: Last name is omen.
Speaker 4: People, I never came to my wedding.
Speaker 1: I never changed your name from Murphy. Do you think
Speaker 1: I'm the reason?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 4: No, because that's the name I use here on the show.
Speaker 3: No, I know, but I never You're lazy with And
Speaker 3: I think that's probably what it was for holiday cards too,
Speaker 3: is people have their minted list or shut or FLA
Speaker 3: or whatever, and they just click click click click click
Speaker 3: the same list from the year before and send it out.
Speaker 2: You know, nia, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 6: Yeah? So I got married, like I got married October
Speaker 6: twenty twenty four, and then I finally see my name
Speaker 6: like May twenty twenty five, and so it just gets
Speaker 6: really annoying when there's stuff that's still my maiden name,
Speaker 6: like like sometime I'll get mail and it still has
Speaker 6: my old name, or even the college I go to,
Speaker 6: Like they're so confused, Like some stuff says my main name,
Speaker 6: some things says.
Speaker 2: My new name.
Speaker 6: It's just really annoying. And also, my husband has a
Speaker 6: hyphena name, so everybody is always like mixing up with
Speaker 6: named those first and is this your middle name? And
Speaker 6: is the other one your last name?
Speaker 3: And it's just really annoying.
Speaker 2: Oh. I bet it's got to be tough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and when the hyphenated names in North's got to
Speaker 1: make it very Yeah.
Speaker 2: What's up, Scott? Are you doing?
Speaker 7: Hello?
Speaker 2: What's happening?
Speaker 7: Are you talking with me?
Speaker 2: That you? Are you Scott right? Oh? Sorry, yeah, I'm Scott.
Speaker 7: Sorry.
Speaker 2: I didn't hear you. I didn't know if I scarbed
Speaker 2: your name? What's going on?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: So, you know, like when I was growing up, a
Speaker 7: lot of people still mailed my mom stuff with my
Speaker 7: last name because she remarried, but the kids still have
Speaker 7: my last name, so it just probably felt more comfortable
Speaker 7: thinking that.
Speaker 2: Maybe, so we didn't think anything.
Speaker 7: Because my stepdad wanted not me, but he didn't, so
Speaker 7: I still had my dad's last name.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's an interesting thing for kids, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: with the idea of changing your name, uh in having
Speaker 1: a new you know, parent coming, especially if you're like Chelsea's.
Speaker 1: Chelsea was adopted by her dad, who is now her dad,
Speaker 1: but he's not the biological and they changed the name
Speaker 1: right away. And I said to Chelsea, I go your
Speaker 1: dad ever bother you that they changed the name, and
Speaker 1: she was like, no, I didn't want my dad's name,
Speaker 1: so she wanted you know, her conserve biological father was
Speaker 1: not part of her life.
Speaker 2: Is it weird when you go into.
Speaker 1: Your kid's school because your kids have their dad's name,
Speaker 1: Like when like do people call you missus?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think it gets really confusing.
Speaker 3: Like if there's ever any anything, I'll write in parentheses
Speaker 3: like Lucy's mom or Smith's mom, just so that people.
Speaker 4: Are aware, they know what's going on.
Speaker 3: But like, this just happened to me the other day
Speaker 3: where someone was I was volunteering at Lucy's school and
Speaker 3: I said, oh, I'm here with Lucy and they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I met her mom and I was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm her mom. Oh because her stepmom now has her
Speaker 3: same last name, god you know. And Lucy goes, please
Speaker 3: tell me mom that you didn't say because I was no, I'm.
Speaker 2: Her mom, right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Has it has it ever been where they called out
Speaker 1: the name and it was meant for you not to No,
Speaker 1: that hasn't happened.
Speaker 4: And let me make it very clear.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying this because I dislike my ex husband
Speaker 3: by any means. It's just I've been married now for
Speaker 3: two years, so I I want I want to use
Speaker 3: my my married my husband's last name.
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's confusing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the deal. I would like naming rights. Uh.
Speaker 1: I would like you to be called Shannon from Mojo
Speaker 1: in the Morning, and that that's the legal thing. Hence, Kevin.
Speaker 1: You're a very proud guy. You got a lot of
Speaker 1: in you, you know. I like that. If you met
Speaker 1: a girl and the girl said, I ain't taken that
Speaker 1: last name Irwin, all right, that's that's a way of thinking.
Speaker 2: I don't care as long as you love me yourself whatever,
Speaker 2: you would bother the hell you're a liar.
Speaker 1: You met a girl and the girl said, I mean,
Speaker 1: we would have a conversation. I would like to identify why,
Speaker 1: and if our reasons were sound, then let's go.
Speaker 5: I frequently think about this because I'm like, the we
Speaker 5: only have girls in my family, and my sister's already married.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, my last name is it's Dunzo. Once
Speaker 5: I get married, so I would either keep mine or hyphenated.
Speaker 1: I think I wouldn't. I wouldn't even visit your family
Speaker 1: on Christmas? What are you talking about? It should be like,
Speaker 1: I'll give up my name right now. I don't want
Speaker 1: it to be known as that. What if you married
Speaker 1: Kevin and wanted Kevin, let's even say that, to take
Speaker 1: your last name ken.
Speaker 5: I don't even like how that sounds.
Speaker 1: I wonder if we should we should do this as
Speaker 1: another topic someday who didn't want to take their spouse's
Speaker 1: name because the name sucked?
Speaker 2: Like that would be a great well.
Speaker 3: Remember I just played you that story in The Dirty
Speaker 3: of the girl who's last name what was it? It
Speaker 3: was like crazy, Her last name was like Hyman, and
Speaker 3: then she got married to a guy whose last name
Speaker 3: was Cox.
Speaker 4: Remember there was something like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, was.
Speaker 4: Getting the names wrong, but they were both just bad names.
Speaker 1: Was Hymen's anybody in the family named busta joke?