Speaker 1: Mojo in the Morning Show. Today is my wife's birthday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's the first birthday that she will have in
Speaker 1: all the years that we have been together, that she
Speaker 1: gets what she wants and not what she doesn't want,
Speaker 1: because I finally have been told what she doesn't like.
Speaker 1: I want to know if there are anybody else that
Speaker 1: can relate to this. Have you ever thought that there's
Speaker 1: somebody in your family that loved something that every single
Speaker 1: year you would buy it for them, or maybe they
Speaker 1: did it for you. They bought it for you, and
Speaker 1: every time they did, you'd go, why the hell did
Speaker 1: they buy into this? Chelsea's grandfather was a prime example
Speaker 1: of this. I would go to his house and he
Speaker 1: had penguins all over his house. Yeah, penguin little statues,
Speaker 1: penguin pictures, penguins all over the place. They were all over.
Speaker 1: Grandfather loved penguins all over the place. Finally, this guy
Speaker 1: named Tom comes into his granddaughter Chelsea's life. He's standing
Speaker 1: in his like I don't know, like entryway, and I
Speaker 1: go up to him and I go, Danny Manzel, I
Speaker 1: got a question to ask you. And he goes, what's that?
Speaker 1: I go, I see about one hundred and eighty penguins around. Harry,
Speaker 1: I go tell me the story of how you and
Speaker 1: penguins became friends. And he looked at me and he goes, Tommy,
Speaker 1: I hate the goddamn He just didn't have the heart
Speaker 1: to tell people he hated penguins. And guess what, the
Speaker 1: apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Because Chelsea does
Speaker 1: not like the things that I've been buying her for years.
Speaker 1: I have been buying her flowers every birthday. Every birthday
Speaker 1: I would have a thing of hydrangeas that would be
Speaker 1: brought to her because I know that she loves hydrangas.
Speaker 1: She likes hydrangeas in our.
Speaker 2: Front yard, ex on the kitchen coundar.
Speaker 1: She didn't want them. And so it came to a
Speaker 1: point where finally the other day, and I think a
Speaker 1: lot of it is, you know, with her recovering and
Speaker 1: after her hospital, we have gotten so many beautiful flowers
Speaker 1: that have been sent to our house. Shannon sent us,
Speaker 1: Shandon and West and the kids sent us beautiful flowers,
Speaker 1: gorgeous flowers, and she loves them. She loves them, she
Speaker 1: just doesn't love them for me. And so she finally
Speaker 1: said to me, she goes, hey, she goes this birthday,
Speaker 1: All I want is you to handwrite me something in
Speaker 1: a card or handwrite me a card. That's all she wants.
Speaker 1: This woman, by the way, not very high maintenance. All
Speaker 1: she wants is me to do that. So I had
Speaker 1: chat chepete. There you go. My gosh, No, I'm just kidding,
Speaker 1: that's ai r low. No. I wrote her a nice card.
Speaker 1: She actually wrote me something very special this morning. She
Speaker 1: thought that was awesome. I left it for her on
Speaker 1: her kitchen or bathroom counter, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I want to ask this question. I want to
Speaker 1: ask the question of people. Can anybody relate to this?
Speaker 1: Can you relate to this?
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 1: Really? Cupcakes with cupcakes?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I cupcakes?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So my Instagram name is cupcake Shannon. That kind of
Speaker 2: started as a joke. I mean I did go through
Speaker 2: a period where I really it was like there was
Speaker 2: like a cupcake era right when like cupcakes were a thing.
Speaker 2: And now anytime anyone sees something with cupcakes on it,
Speaker 2: they either send me a text or a d M
Speaker 2: or they buy it for me. And I like eating cupcakes.
Speaker 2: I don't need a house full of things with cupcake
Speaker 2: You know, we're going to call this and thank you
Speaker 2: if you've ever gotten me something with cupcakes. I just
Speaker 2: I like eating them.
Speaker 1: Shannon. We're going to call this hashtag Goddamn Pang cupcakes.
Speaker 1: This is actually funny, it's it's.
Speaker 2: Also I wish I could change my Instagram name, but
Speaker 2: I think it's too late.
Speaker 1: Now. I think I think you could do it. You
Speaker 1: could do the Shannon or something like that, the real,
Speaker 1: the real cut, the real cupcakes.
Speaker 2: I thought people just know you as that, like people
Speaker 2: literally call me cupcake Shannon instead of just Sandon.
Speaker 1: I want to hear your stories. Eight four four Mojoe Live.
Speaker 1: What's up, Sarah? How you doing?
Speaker 4: I'm doing good?
Speaker 1: How are you fantastic? What's going on?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 5: My grandma is notorious for buying people things that they
Speaker 5: don't want.
Speaker 4: So if you say you like something, she's going to
Speaker 4: get it. So for example, my brother, he said he
Speaker 4: likes meatballs, and now she throws it at every event
Speaker 4: and he hates them.
Speaker 1: Now, no, not the meatballs, not the meat balls.
Speaker 5: And then my cousin he was like, I like Raymond noodles,
Speaker 5: and she bought him a whole case of Raymon noodles
Speaker 5: and Popps and pants.
Speaker 4: To go with it, and he's eight, He's like, why
Speaker 4: do I need poss and pants?
Speaker 1: You know what it is so interesting about the myth
Speaker 1: of the story behind the whole deal is it's usually
Speaker 1: the people that it goes to, like you know, your
Speaker 1: brother with his meatballs, Chelsea with the flowers, Shannon with
Speaker 1: the cupcakes, is you don't want to hurt other people's feelings,
Speaker 1: and what you want to do is you you see
Speaker 1: them happy, and those people are so good at faking
Speaker 1: being happy about these things. But it finally is like
Speaker 1: enough is enough?
Speaker 2: About how do you say to somebody like I actually
Speaker 2: really don't like cookcakes this much?
Speaker 1: Like you can't say anything to stop them. I'm like that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you did it perfectly. What's up, Jen? How you doing?
Speaker 4: Hello?
Speaker 1: Good? How are you fantastic? Jen? What's going on?
Speaker 6: So? I was just calling to let you know that
Speaker 6: my mother in law always buys us clothes that are
Speaker 6: like two sizes is too small for me, my husband,
Speaker 6: my kid, the kids that continuously grow, you know, so fast.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she just always buys the stuff that are too
Speaker 7: it's just too small.
Speaker 8: And it's so funny.
Speaker 7: I'm always she's always like, oh what happened to that sweatshirt?
Speaker 1: I gotcha. I'm like, well it was a medium. The
Speaker 1: opposite is me. They always buy them way too big,
Speaker 1: like I'll get like, I'm a holy crap man. They
Speaker 1: must think I'm a house.
Speaker 7: Like how fat do you think I am?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: Exactly? What's up? Nick? What's going on? Nick? Hey?
Speaker 4: What's up guy?
Speaker 8: The first time?
Speaker 1: Long time?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Nick, let's go. Yeah, So Mojo to your point a
Speaker 8: moment ago about the flowers. So, you know I would
Speaker 8: buy my flower I'd buy my wife flowers several times
Speaker 8: a year, and I would just like hand them to her,
Speaker 8: and she would be grateful and she would appreciate that
Speaker 8: and all those things. And then one day she finally said,
Speaker 8: She's like, hey, you know I like these and everything,
Speaker 8: but you know, like you don't go get the vase,
Speaker 8: you don't go cut the flowers, you don't go put
Speaker 8: them in anything. You just kind of hand it to
Speaker 8: me and then kind of take it from there. So
Speaker 8: I learned that actually create a little bit more work
Speaker 8: for her. She's grateful and everything, but I'm like, oh,
Speaker 8: maybe I should just you know, take this over the
Speaker 8: finders line as far as like, you know, making them presentable.
Speaker 1: That is actually interesting that sometimes it's more work for you,
Speaker 1: you know, to have to sit there and you know,
Speaker 1: a garden. You know, Tiffany, what's happening? How are you?
Speaker 6: Hi? So? My favorite color is pink, but I don't
Speaker 6: like to wear pink all the time.
Speaker 4: But dead's all.
Speaker 6: People like birthdays, Christias, I get pink everything, and I'm
Speaker 6: just like, where where am I?
Speaker 4: Where all this pink?
Speaker 5: I don't wear pink every day?
Speaker 4: It's for pink what pink shoes?
Speaker 1: I'm just like, oh my god, I'm not a Barbie.
Speaker 1: It's it's eventually we have to speak up for ourselves. Ashley,
Speaker 1: what's up? Hi?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: It's actually my thirteen year old son. When he was little,
Speaker 7: we used to go to Olive Garden with my mom
Speaker 7: and those Andy's mints that you'd get with yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well she thought that he.
Speaker 7: Like, absolutely loved these, so for every like Halloween, Birthday, Christmas,
Speaker 7: she would buy him these giant bags of Andy's Mint.
Speaker 7: So finally, like a year or two ago, he was like, mom,
Speaker 7: I absolutely hate these, Like, can you please tell Grandma
Speaker 7: without making her fio bad? I've just had it with these.
Speaker 1: It's so cutie doesn't want to hurt Grandma didn't like
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: He's like, no, you do it, Mom, she won't.
Speaker 6: You know, you do it, you know.
Speaker 2: And it's such a testament to the person, by the way,
Speaker 2: who's giving, because they make it a point to put
Speaker 2: it on their you know list, or make a mental note.
Speaker 1: To go get said thing to give to you.
Speaker 2: But it's like, that's why I think it makes it
Speaker 2: so hard to say, like, I don't even like these mints.
Speaker 1: Hold on, Amanda, what's it for you that everybody buys
Speaker 1: you that you really don't like?
Speaker 4: Mojo is basket balls. I used to play basketball when
Speaker 4: I was younger. Yeah, and literally every birthday, every Christmas
Speaker 4: five six people would buy me a basketball. So I
Speaker 4: had all these basketballs around my room, my backyard. Everywhere
Speaker 4: I turned there was a basketball. So probably when I
Speaker 4: was like seventeen, I had to tell them, can you
Speaker 4: guys just stop buying me basketball? Stop buying me basketball?
Speaker 1: Enough with the basketballs. I like that, but I also
Speaker 1: like this one. Kimberly, what is it for you?
Speaker 3: It's slops for me?
Speaker 1: Slots slots, yep.
Speaker 3: I have no idea how it started. I tell you,
Speaker 3: Like a former one, and it just kind of blew
Speaker 3: out from there. I have probably you know, like eight
Speaker 3: to ten stuffed animals forcakes.
Speaker 1: Are bad, are cute.
Speaker 2: But I say that, I just mean sloths are cute.
Speaker 1: Do not buy me? What's up, Dawn? How you doing?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 8: Mojo?
Speaker 4: Can you say birthday?
Speaker 1: Birthday?
Speaker 4: You said it a couple of times and it's only
Speaker 4: you saying birthday.
Speaker 1: Birthday, birthday, It's birthday. I don't know being there, Joe's
Speaker 1: got Yeah. My favorite, My favorite is when people call
Speaker 1: it a birthday, birthday. I say birthday.
Speaker 2: My friend Whitney said birthday.
Speaker 1: By birth Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way, here's one that every teacher can relate to,
Speaker 1: and I'll take it as the last one because this
Speaker 1: is a public service announcement for every teacher. What is it, Hayley?
Speaker 6: Do not buy.
Speaker 5: Teachers daties that are there seam in their classrooms. Now,
Speaker 5: Like if a teacher has like an owl boarder or
Speaker 5: pine apples or apples or whatever, they get gifted things
Speaker 5: that have all of those things on them, and there's
Speaker 5: really not a whole lot you can do other than
Speaker 5: put it in your classroom.
Speaker 1: You know what teachers want? Gift cards to target. That's
Speaker 1: what they want, right, Yes, gift cards.
Speaker 5: To target things off their Amazon wish lists.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anything that they My sister Pat is a former teacher.
Speaker 1: She was a third grade teacher and she said if
Speaker 1: she got another apple, she was going to lose her mind.
Speaker 1: It's like NonStop apples in her voice. So people actually
Speaker 1: gave teachers apples. They that was like the thing, like
Speaker 1: everybody would always give a teacher like Apple gifts, Like
Speaker 1: they'd go to a Hallmark store and buy the same
Speaker 1: Apple gift. Pat one time returned the same gift too.
Speaker 1: I think it was a Hallmark store and it was
Speaker 1: like nine or ten of them from nine or ten gifts.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know how many glass apples she wanted.