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 asks, 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 lap 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? 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 4: We did so much research on this, and so to
Speaker 4: my understanding, and I feel like we should call Franny
Speaker 4: Lucido because she could probably describe this better than me.
Speaker 4: A lab diamond is a diamond. It is just not
Speaker 4: made by God, right, it's not. It's natural, but it
Speaker 4: is still a diamond. It is not a c z
Speaker 4: or moist snizing.
Speaker 3: Are they a lot cheaper? 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 4: But for people who say it's not a diamond, it
Speaker 4: is still a diamond. It's just not a from the
Speaker 4: 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: Honest, actually you need like one of those remember the
Speaker 1: candy back in the day, that's the ring, podcast tattoo
Speaker 1: or all right. I just wanted to know what people
Speaker 1: think about this, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Some people feel like if you get me a fake diamond,
Speaker 5: then you don't real quote unquote really loved me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not fake though they said this is not
Speaker 3: from the earth is fake.
Speaker 5: We went through this when when I was looking for
Speaker 5: rings with Sharill, we were having this conversation about do
Speaker 5: you want a lab grown or moistenite or real diamond
Speaker 5: because you're paying a lot of money for I guess
Speaker 5: just a symbol of your affection. And even though the
Speaker 5: 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. 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 Louo.
Speaker 6: Hi Joe, what's going on? Guys?
Speaker 2: How you doing? Joe?
Speaker 1: Tell me the whole lab grown versus you know the diamond,
Speaker 1: you know the real So is there such thing as
Speaker 1: called real diamond or what is it?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 6: They are bull diamonds. Diamond is the hardest inneral do
Speaker 6: demand and both of them have the same chemical properties
Speaker 6: as one another, so they are both forever. But what
Speaker 6: you guys are saying is completely right. It is almost
Speaker 6: impossible to tell. It's impossible to tell with the naked eye.
Speaker 6: You know, we have a machine that tests for them.
Speaker 2: And why why do people devalue labron?
Speaker 1: Though I I don't understand, Like why would Anna's friend
Speaker 1: say she wouldn't want that?
Speaker 2: You know, there's a.
Speaker 6: Lot of misconception out there, and there's a lot of
Speaker 6: different views on it. But the whole reason why a
Speaker 6: diamond is so valuable is because they're rare. And the
Speaker 6: more the higher the quality the diamond, the more rare
Speaker 6: they are, the larger the size, the more rare they are,
Speaker 6: the larger the knights of the quality and a larger size,
Speaker 6: even more rare. It is. So when lab grown diamonds
Speaker 6: became a thing, there was a value that was established
Speaker 6: and they get they were growing in labs. Well, as
Speaker 6: they kept getting better and better at growing these diamonds,
Speaker 6: they became less rare. So when something you know is
Speaker 6: more is less rare, I tell you he's gonna keep
Speaker 6: going down.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, but that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, 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?
Speaker 2: 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 growns
Speaker 1: and say, hey, why don't you look at this.
Speaker 6: One one hundred percent. We're here to educate our clients
Speaker 6: and we want them to have something that they're absolutely
Speaker 6: literally gonna love. And if it's a specific style and
Speaker 6: you know, a two carrot, you know elongated radiant is
Speaker 6: what they're looking for, and it's accessible. The price point
Speaker 6: that they want is successful with the lab stone, we're
Speaker 6: going to get it for them.
Speaker 5: Of course, give me a percentage real quick, of all
Speaker 5: the people that come in looking to get married or engaged.
Speaker 5: Give me a percentage between lab grown and real diamonds.
Speaker 5: What's the market dictating right now?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's uh, I'll give you a ballpark. I
Speaker 6: would say about half and half. Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 6: people think that long term. When you're coming in, if
Speaker 6: you're buying a five carrot diamond, a lab versus naturals,
Speaker 6: you're talking about one thousand dollars, two thousand dollars versus
Speaker 6: eighty thousand dollars much it's important or more, it's important
Speaker 6: to know that these lab grown diamonds, we don't know
Speaker 6: what the value is going to do. So as long
Speaker 6: as you're okay with losing that few thousand dollars that
Speaker 6: you're going to spend on that lab rown diamond if
Speaker 6: you want to trade it in in ten years or
Speaker 6: 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 in 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 6: Thank you to do so.
Speaker 2: All right, good man, that's.
Speaker 1: Wild to know all that, Katie, What do you think
Speaker 1: about and his friend being a little snarky towards her
Speaker 1: other friends' lab grown diamond?
Speaker 7: Well, it happened to me too, so it's crazy at
Speaker 7: to sound. So I got engaged in twenty twenty married
Speaker 7: in twenty twenty two. My friend got engaged but been
Speaker 7: there and got married after me. And we were talking
Speaker 7: about it, and her brother proposed with a lab grown
Speaker 7: diamond that was bigger than hers that she got hers,
Speaker 7: the real diamond. So we were having this conversation. She
Speaker 7: was complaining about how this ring was bigger than hers,
Speaker 7: her brother had gotten it for his fiance and hers
Speaker 7: is real, so it's better. And I was like, well,
Speaker 7: mine's a lab grown and I don't think she knew
Speaker 7: because she amusic was like uh uh oh, well, I
Speaker 7: mean I mean that's fine. Well no, babe, like your
Speaker 7: 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.
Speaker 7: Right, No, And I mean she looked at before.
Speaker 6: I love your ring. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well that's crazy.
Speaker 3: What things?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 7: Because it was grown in a lab and not in
Speaker 7: the ground in the dirt.
Speaker 2: What's the difference.
Speaker 6: 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 8: Hello, first time, long time on the phone. I just
Speaker 8: my opinion on it is that it's nobody else's, uh opinion.
Speaker 8: And I see like a lot of girls that are
Speaker 8: judging it that I have never been engaged before.
Speaker 2: What do you have? You have a ring?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yeah, we got married. We got engaged in September and
Speaker 8: I went on a work trip and this girl was
Speaker 8: asking me to see it. So I show it to
Speaker 8: her and she's like, well, is it real? I was like, well, yeah,
Speaker 8: it's real, and She's like showing me this diamond that
Speaker 8: she has.
Speaker 3: Picked out for her boyfriend.
Speaker 8: But I was just like, she kept calling it kind
Speaker 8: of like fake and stuff because it was lab drones.
Speaker 8: I was like, Okay, well that's your opinion. I guess
Speaker 8: you could keep it to yourself, but they're real. And
Speaker 8: I come from farm backgrounds, so like, if you think
Speaker 8: about how plants are grown, you have like genetically modified organisms, yeah,
Speaker 8: like in the seats, and then you have like organic stuff.
Speaker 8: I'll think of it like that, you know.
Speaker 2: What I do.
Speaker 1: I look at that and then I look at her
Speaker 1: breasts and I say those.
Speaker 2: What's going on, Megan, how you doing?
Speaker 8: Good morning?
Speaker 2: Good morning? What's up?
Speaker 9: Well, first of all, my son was in the car
Speaker 9: when I first called, and he wanted me to tell
Speaker 9: you guys to have a good Day's name.
Speaker 2: We'll say hi to him and then you can play
Speaker 2: on the podcast. Brandon A mom is a hottie. Thanks
Speaker 2: for being on on this, Megan. What's going on?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 9: My wedding ring is not lab grown or grown in
Speaker 9: the dirt. It was grown at Pandora and I picked
Speaker 9: out my own ring.
Speaker 6: And that was my choice.
Speaker 9: It wasn't like my husband's choice. If it was to him,
Speaker 9: he would have paid thousands of dollars for a ring.
Speaker 9: But I'm too much of a klutz, So my green
Speaker 9: would have fallen off one day and I would have
Speaker 9: lost it, and then I would feel so guilty for
Speaker 9: losing my wedding ring. That comes thousands of dollars because
Speaker 9: I've seen those stories of like people losing their wedding
Speaker 9: rings and I could only imagine the weight that they
Speaker 9: feel because it's such an expensive, sentimental piece of jewelry,
Speaker 9: and I'm like, I could never live with myself if
Speaker 9: 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 to.
Speaker 2: Be like you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, 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 a lady we did. I
Speaker 2: want to hear from a lady where the ring matters, like.
Speaker 5: We're the ladies that who say the line, sir, we're
Speaker 5: the real or nothing ladies.
Speaker 4: I did not care, yes, but.
Speaker 2: I would say that either way.
Speaker 4: It's really like we literally sat at Lucido and really
Speaker 4: like explored all options. You cannot tell the dang difference
Speaker 4: at all. I liked this particular diamond, but yeah, to me,
Speaker 4: and truly it would not matter to me whatsoever to
Speaker 4: me hover to me, I sit there and I look
Speaker 4: at it, and I think about the ring that I
Speaker 4: 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 stayed 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 gonna depend, if you're gonna sit
Speaker 1: 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 sudden,
Speaker 1: you're gonna sit there and pull.
Speaker 2: The eyeball thing out. They look at it. Do we
Speaker 2: have anybody on the phone line that says the ring matters?
Speaker 8: 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. What does
Speaker 2: she say in the text? What was her text? She said,
Speaker 2: the ring does matter, but I can't talk.
Speaker 5: Wow, c A can't say it with h chess.
Speaker 1: Where's her area code? See six one six. It's West Michigan, right,
Speaker 1: Grand Rabbits. It matters out in Grand Rapids, all right,