Speaker 1: All right, it is the mojo in the morning show here.
Speaker 1: Good to have you with us. Kevin, you actually found
Speaker 1: something out interesting. You found out that you were and
Speaker 1: I know in your family it's you and Melinda. Yeah,
Speaker 1: should I smuck a luckage? But you found out that
Speaker 1: mom almost had another baby? Is that right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: My mom had a miscarriage and it was something I
Speaker 3: never knew before. I don't know if she buried it
Speaker 3: away or if it was something that just happened before
Speaker 3: I was born and it just never came up. But
Speaker 3: it recently came up where she told me that she
Speaker 3: had a miscarriage and she was meant to have a
Speaker 3: child before she had me. And it just made me
Speaker 3: start thinking of how my entire life would have been different.
Speaker 3: First Off, who knows if I would have been born.
Speaker 3: I mean maybe they stopped after one, maybe the timing
Speaker 3: would have been different, maybe they would have waited longer,
Speaker 3: whatever the case may be. Or if they did have me,
Speaker 3: what would my life be like with an older or
Speaker 3: an older sister, And how much would that have affected me?
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be the person I am. And it just
Speaker 3: got me thinking, like damn, Like, first off, whyden' this
Speaker 3: ever come up in conversation and then just start, you know,
Speaker 3: not trying to think too much about what my life
Speaker 3: would be, but understanding that it could, you know, be
Speaker 3: very different than what it is now.
Speaker 1: How did it come out in conversation?
Speaker 3: I think we were looking through yearbooks my mom. She
Speaker 3: my mom has every not yearbooks, but like what do
Speaker 3: you call those things like extra albums? Photo albums? Like
Speaker 3: my mom has a ton of photo albums. She was
Speaker 3: the person that always took pictures. She takes pictures to
Speaker 3: this day, and she sends me a lot of these pictures.
Speaker 3: So we're looking through photo albums, she sends me stuff
Speaker 3: for looking through. I'm like, okay, what's this time? What's
Speaker 3: this time? We're kind of just reminiscing, and I think
Speaker 3: I forgot what picture of what the picture was that
Speaker 3: brought it up. We were just talking about the time, like, man,
Speaker 3: when was this? And then that's when it That's when
Speaker 3: she told me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, Yeah, I think that that would be
Speaker 1: something that your mom would not want to bring up
Speaker 1: because she just doesn't want to keep yeah, keep remembering it.
Speaker 1: But my mom also had me carriage too, and my
Speaker 1: sister one time told me that that my mom was
Speaker 1: going to have a baby before us. And it's interesting because,
Speaker 1: like you just said, you may not have happened although
Speaker 1: your mom did have three children. My mom, I wonder
Speaker 1: if she would have stopped, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like I wonder if she would have stopped after the
Speaker 1: you know, but they ended up having another baby, which
Speaker 1: was me.
Speaker 4: Afterwards, How do you think you would it would have
Speaker 4: changed you personally if you did have a older sibling, Well, I.
Speaker 3: Think, you know, like my I don't know if you
Speaker 3: know this, but my dad went to jail when I
Speaker 3: was like in the third grade, like the eighth grade,
Speaker 3: so there wasn't a lot of I guess leadership so
Speaker 3: to speak. Like my mom and my grandmother were amazing leaders.
Speaker 3: But like, I don't know, I feel like I I
Speaker 3: had to step up in many aspects of my life.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if I would have had to do
Speaker 3: that or who would I've had to look up to,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? I would have had, so
Speaker 3: to speak, like it's snowing outside, maybe I would have
Speaker 3: had some footprints to walk game that would have made
Speaker 3: the road a bit easier.
Speaker 1: Interesting, would you have been as big a big mouth
Speaker 1: as you are right now, it would have been bigger.
Speaker 1: You never know, middle children, they usually are are more
Speaker 1: reserved than you are.
Speaker 3: I couldn't imagine.
Speaker 1: You're bold and brash and you're an oldest on that one.
Speaker 3: But I'll be interested to know how people found out
Speaker 3: they had a sibling though, Well how about people that
Speaker 3: found out that they had a yeah, sibling and their
Speaker 3: siblings still you know, is in the world too, Like
Speaker 3: I wonder, like that would be wild, Like I think
Speaker 3: when I hear those stories when some.
Speaker 1: People, do you know, do people still do twenty three
Speaker 1: and me? Or did you guys get wise to that
Speaker 1: and not give anybody your DNA?
Speaker 3: Is that still around you?
Speaker 1: I think so?
Speaker 5: Yeah, if they sold all the DNA, didn't they? I
Speaker 5: know that that was the thing. We were all dumb
Speaker 5: with our with our DNA. But I wonder for you
Speaker 5: when you look at up because I remember John Ivy,
Speaker 5: who's one of our big executives here and one of
Speaker 5: the smartest guys I've ever met in radio. I remember
Speaker 5: he found out that he had a sister. And while
Speaker 5: the thing was they lived in the same.
Speaker 1: Town, like John, John had moved from I think it
Speaker 1: was Nashville, or Lexington maybe I can't remember, some one
Speaker 1: of the southern cities or whatever. And he moved to
Speaker 1: LA was running things in LA, and he moved back
Speaker 1: to go to his old hometown or whatever and found
Speaker 1: out that she was still there. So that was pretty
Speaker 1: a while, Nicole, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Hi? Hi, I am the mom that had the miscarriage.
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that. I'm saying boy had it.
Speaker 6: But I would not.
Speaker 4: Have my daughter, who.
Speaker 6: Is the same most awesome little girl if I had
Speaker 6: hadn't had that miscarriage.
Speaker 7: And I also have a child of a Heaven interceded
Speaker 7: for me and my children.
Speaker 2: Is very comfortable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Nicole, do you mind me asking you a question
Speaker 1: about the miscarriage or no?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 1: Sure? How far along were you?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: I was really early. I was probably about eight weeks. Okay.
Speaker 1: My sister mayor Joe had a miscarriage almost at the
Speaker 1: time of birth.
Speaker 2: Oh my.
Speaker 1: And and that was uh And that was honestly one
Speaker 1: of the hardest things. And she actually the you know,
Speaker 1: her babies, you know, in a in a cemetery, and
Speaker 1: so it was such as it's so traumatic to think that,
Speaker 1: and it's wild because this woman has had so much
Speaker 1: trauma happening in her lives over the years. But that
Speaker 1: is one of those things where I thought it would
Speaker 1: cripple her, and it actually, you know, it's one of
Speaker 1: those things that made her stronger. She's a great mom,
Speaker 1: but that's that's such a tough thing to deal with. Samantha, Hello,
Speaker 1: good morning, good morning. What's going on?
Speaker 7: A little lighter note, My mom had sent her DNA
Speaker 7: and when she was five she was adopted out.
Speaker 4: So fifty years.
Speaker 7: Later she found two of her siblings plus her birth mother,
Speaker 7: and she got to reunite with her before she passed away.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Wow.
Speaker 7: She found her and exactly two months later she passed away.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's actually was waiting for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is wild.
Speaker 7: Yeah, look in fifty years and then she finally found there.
Speaker 1: What a story, man, that's an amazing story. Uh, Kirsten,
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 4: Hey? So mine's a little sad too. But when I
Speaker 4: was younger, I knew my father wasn't my real dad.
Speaker 4: So I knew, you know, the man raised me, it
Speaker 4: wasn't my dad. So later on in life, when I
Speaker 4: was twenty seven, I actually was pregnant with my third child.
Speaker 4: I had a still birth at nine months pregnant, and
Speaker 4: it really it changed my world. Right, So, I was
Speaker 4: going through this huge thing and I just wanted to
Speaker 4: figure out, like maybe maybe there was something in my
Speaker 4: genetics that was wrong, you know, and I wanted to
Speaker 4: know more about my family. So I did ancestry DNA.
Speaker 4: I told my mom and a couple of weeks or
Speaker 4: a couple months later and I'll get the results back,
Speaker 4: and my mom called me right away. Hey, so and so,
Speaker 4: you know the guy I told you wasn't your dad,
Speaker 4: you know, was your dad your whole life. He's not
Speaker 4: your dad, and this is actually your dad. Also, he
Speaker 4: passed away when he was you were fifteen, and you
Speaker 4: went to school high school with your brother and I'm like,
Speaker 4: so I go to find it out, and lo and behold,
Speaker 4: my cousin was best friends with my two brothers, and
Speaker 4: they used to hang out all the time, and it
Speaker 4: was just I knew of them. I just never met them,
Speaker 4: you know. I always hung out with my cousin when
Speaker 4: he wasn't with them.
Speaker 1: So finding my brothers when you called you, she was
Speaker 1: trying to call you before it came out from the ancestry.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, yeah, she had my I gave her my
Speaker 4: password and everything, and she she knew. So I have
Speaker 4: a feeling she probably knew ahead of time. A chance,
Speaker 4: but you know, she was really, I don't know how
Speaker 4: to say it, sad about it, you know, anxiety. She
Speaker 4: went through a lot of stuff when she was younger too,
Speaker 4: and I finally had to tell her like, Mom, you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's a long time ago, you know, don't worry
Speaker 4: about it. It is what it is. I'm glad, you know
Speaker 4: nothing happened. It would have been nice to know, you know.
Speaker 1: But what if your brother did.
Speaker 4: I I thought it was crazy, which is one of
Speaker 4: my best friends was best he's still best friends with them,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, what, like, even I've met my brothers
Speaker 4: now we've kind of pashed it all out, kind of
Speaker 4: told him everything, and they were like, yeah, that was
Speaker 4: a close call.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, oh, yeah, wow, I actually.
Speaker 4: Have I actually have six brothers. And then I found
Speaker 4: out they have I have twelve ants and uncles. Oh
Speaker 4: my god, I have twelve uncles and one ant. Holy
Speaker 4: ca So I mean so I guess thirteen total.
Speaker 2: Dad.
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving, it was very difficult at that table that you
Speaker 1: have I can't imagine that that you went to school
Speaker 1: with your your brothers. Nikki, what's up?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 6: Good morning. So I'll try to make this as quick
Speaker 6: as I can. But I was around twelve years old
Speaker 6: and going through my dad's wallet, like the pictures of
Speaker 6: us when we were like little or whatever, and came
Speaker 6: across like a picture underneath the picture and it was.
Speaker 4: Some girl and I asked my dad, I said, who
Speaker 4: is this.
Speaker 6: And he just kind of looked down and looked like, uh,
Speaker 6: that's just sipped her. And I'm like what He's like, Yeah,
Speaker 6: I had it before I met your mom.
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 6: Long story short, Like I said, I grow up, I
Speaker 6: have my first child, cut my own family. I go back,
Speaker 6: you know Olin Mills. I had my son's first pictures
Speaker 6: done there. Once it came out to go pick up
Speaker 6: my Olin Mills pictures of my son, and they hold
Speaker 6: me a packet of some little girls pictures and I
Speaker 6: was like, oh, no, this isn't mine, and they're like
Speaker 6: they repeated my last name and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 6: that's my last name, but these aren't mine. I have
Speaker 6: a little boy. And she was like, oh you're not.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to say her name in case she
Speaker 6: was because it's awkward. But she's like, that's not and
Speaker 6: I was like, oh my god, that's my sister. I'm like,
Speaker 6: hold on a minute, and I'm like, can I please
Speaker 6: get her informationally? Like no, I can get fix trouble anyway.
Speaker 6: I like begged it, begged and begged, and she ended
Speaker 6: up like studying the information down in front of me
Speaker 6: and then like walked away.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I was like, thank you grabbed the number. I reached
Speaker 6: out to my set sister. She said she knew about me,
Speaker 6: my brother, my sister, my dad.
Speaker 4: She I grew up in like a park. She grew
Speaker 4: up in Taylor, so literally like neighbors. You guys were
Speaker 4: cruising Eureka next to each other.
Speaker 6: That is exactly, Oh my god, at the same place.
Speaker 1: That is so crazy.
Speaker 4: After we're going to her and I just left it
Speaker 4: open for her to reach back out because.
Speaker 6: I felt like she was the one who was abandoned,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 4: I didn't want to be pushy and she never back.
Speaker 6: Out, but that's fine, but whatever. Yeah, So, yeah, I
Speaker 6: have a sister, and I talked to my cousins about
Speaker 6: it that were her age and they're like, yeah, we
Speaker 6: went to school with her. I'm like, nobody told me,
Speaker 6: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: That's wild though, that your dad carried the picture all
Speaker 1: around and took just looking at that picture for you
Speaker 1: to realize what was going on. John, what's up?
Speaker 2: Good morning, Mojo, Hi, first time, long time.
Speaker 4: Big jay.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: So, fourteen wonderful years ago, we were told that we
Speaker 2: were going to have a miscarriage and we had to
Speaker 2: come back for.
Speaker 4: The evac and when we went back, we found.
Speaker 2: Out that there was another baby there, my daughter, Nala,
Speaker 2: we believe you know. Sometimes she's sweet and sour, so
Speaker 2: when you're speaking to her, you're like looking at her
Speaker 2: like man, am I talking to your sister, am I
Speaker 2: talking to you. But we had we had twins and
Speaker 2: we didn't know it, but we lost one.
Speaker 1: So what that is wild? So one survived and that's Nala,
Speaker 1: who's with us right now. And what do you what
Speaker 1: happens in that case?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Do you have to wait then until the birth of
Speaker 1: Nalah for anything?
Speaker 2: Or what they said that they said that she absorbed her.
Speaker 2: That basically that's wild. They became one.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 4: It happened.
Speaker 2: It happened so early one early on in the pregnancy
Speaker 2: that they just they said, she just absorbed her.
Speaker 1: That's so really like sweet and sour.
Speaker 3: You joke about that, but yeah, that's kind of technically true.
Speaker 2: I believe man.
Speaker 1: That is an amazing story. Thank you for the call, Buddy,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks for sharing that with you.
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