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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm having the worst Starbucks luck these days, and I'll
have to I got a moment here.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm gonna explain it here real quick. It's Mojo in
the morning.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
So here's my Starbucks luck that I've had the last
twenty four hours. We're in Chicago right now, and I'm
a way home from Chicago. I always love to stop
off at Starbucks on my route. And for those that
don't know what the route is to get to Chicago
from the Metro to Trade Area, you take you know,
through ann Arbor M fourteen for me, and then you
(00:32):
get on ninety four.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You go ninety four the whole way.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
But you know you're Intel, just like Booty Bob. Yeah,
so I always stop off at the first exit on
ninety four, which is the zeb Road.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Eggs, you have made this Starbucks famous.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
At this point, it is my Starbucks because usually at
that point I've been in the car for forty five
minutes from my home, I have to pee and I
also want a coffee.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So Dan Campbell's got mapland Telegraph in Bloomfield got this.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I didn't even know that that I actually I've been
to the Dan Campbell one. Okay, so this is my
this is my place. Yesterday, Chelsea and I pull in
and I said to Chelsea, I go, oh my god,
it looks like they're doing a promotion out in front
of the place. And she goes, why is that. I go,
there's a bunch of people just standing out in front
of the road Starbucks. And I get out of the
car and all I hear is no contract, no coffee,
(01:23):
No contract, no coffee, no contract, no coffee, And I'm like.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
There were they Starbucks people were picketing, which, first off,
it was interesting that they're picketing. I didn't even know
they were union. I got no clue that there was
a Starbucks union.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I always thought Starbucks was an amazing company to work for.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, I kind of thought that too, But I also
honestly thought to myself, I don't know. I can't cross
a picket line. Like I sat there the whole time
going I was contemplating, I've come in here before, and
I go into that z broad By the way, if
there's anybody that's from that location, if you can call me,
I would love to talk to you. For a second,
I kept thinking to myself, huh, I got a dilemma here.
(02:05):
Usually when I go in to go get my coffee there,
we'll have a listener or too. That might be either
one of the people working behind the counters, or we
might have a listener that might be one of the customers.
So I will occasionally go in and they'll go, hey,
what you doing over on the side of town. You know,
they kind of realize that this is not my neighborhood normally,
and I'll be like, I'm driving to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I need to get my coffee. Well, I look at
Chelsea and I go, we got to get back in
the car. And she goes, why is that.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I go, I can't cross a picket line, and she goes,
what do you want? You gotta go to the bathroom,
And I go, I think I'm gonna have to go
Jimmy John's. Like I literally had went into Jimmy John's
and I ended up getting myself a little on wadge
or whatever. But I used the bathroom and had to
pee there. It came out and I'm like, and she goes, well,
why don't we go through the drive through? And I
looked at her and I go, Chelsea, I am not
(02:51):
a scab. I don't know if you know this, but
I am a member of the AFTRA, a union.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You are, yes, since when.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I started in radio, I started in radio in Chicago.
You had to join after a union to be part
of working at CBS.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It was I thought it was just for actors.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I know this was Radio two.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Okay, they did which, honestly, I I swear to god,
I don't think I've ever paid a like a do or.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Anything like that.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Okay, so let me guess what you did. You went
to the next exit that had a Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
No, let me explain this. I contemplated for a little bit.
I sat for a second and I thought, Okay, I'll
duck and i'll get because she's driving. Chelsea was driving
because I was sitting in the passenger seat and I
was kind of tired from the show. But I kind
of like like figured okay, and then I thought, oh,
I can't because if I duck and then all of
(03:42):
a sudden, I pop up or my order comes on
my app and the girl that's because here's the deal.
They've got union people that are striking, but the people
inside I don't know what that means, Like they could, Hey,
Mojo just ordered from us, you know, spit on his car?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Is your name saying mojo or does it say tom
on your app?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
This is don't make fun of me.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Wait, actually I'm going to look its Mojo.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It says Mojo. And the reason it says Mojo is
because I have a friend of mine works for Starbucks
that loads my card for me every now and again
with a nice you know, twenty five bucks every now.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
But I uh, I don't know. I know, it's kind
of a little it's a little ego.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No, don't you know who I am?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And so I know it's a little horrible, but they yeah,
so I so I did not cross the picket line.
Although I get to be honest with you, I was
willing to. I was so needing of coffee. And I
don't want like my UAW friends because I got a
lot of people that work in the autos, you know,
and my UAW friends. When you guys are out picketing
and stuff, I get, I you know, I want you
(04:45):
have all the fair treatment in the world. Even though
I think ered I heard we when's the last time
we've ever had a a negotiation or anything like that.
We don't We're I don't think we're a union, so
we don't get any union representation at all. We were
a union, would we who would be our union representative
in the on the show?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
On the show, I got this, guys, No, it would.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Be a push.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It would be we would have the way got Lydia
be going in there and negotiating for us. Yeah, no, no,
no radio, no rhyme. What would be our chant that
we would have? Would you question? Would you have crossed
the picket line if you were If you were me
and you really wanted your coffee? Got to answer and
(05:30):
answer this honestly, don't answer this like a politician.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I probably would you would have. Yeah, would you walk
right past me? But you had to? I would have
gone through the drive through. I would have gone through
the drive through, impede somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah. How about you, Zach? Would you have crossed the
picket line if you're me? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I would probably tried to find like a twenty twenty
mask and put it on so I had my face,
But yeah, I would probably do it.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You would have.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah. I kind of figured that you guys are both scabs.
Guys you guessed you guys are both like you know,
you could care less about this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
As you order Starbucks for this entire radio this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, this is the craziest.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
We just got some people from the Fred Show some
coffee for helping us out this morning. But here here's
the interesting thing that the part that is so interesting
to me is that I did go to the next Starbucks,
which I think was Kalamazoo or I don't even know
where it was.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It was. It was a while before we got to
a next Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
But I sat there and I thought, how good am
I helping out the people on zeb when I'm going
to the next Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And obviously these people aren't union.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
But right, Texter here says, bless you, Mojo, thank you
for not crossing.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Oh that's Kenyetta. Kenyetta's like that, don't get mad.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
She's gonna text me.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Now, ken Yetta, you'd call out Shenon she'd crossed that line.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
And I wouldn't. I wouldn't for auto workers, but for coffee.
You would for coffee?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
How dare you?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I would? Just being honest, she had.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Those egg bites, and the egg bites I know exactly.
For Bianca and Lydia, they'd do it in a second.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
For w union's porn star union that he was an electrician.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Tim Murphy, what is it, by the way, the porn
stars Union.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I'm sure, I'm sure. I'm sure they're after Yeah, Screen
Actors Guild or something.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Do you think so? Because they're acting, we're in the
same union. I would love to go to those meetings,
all right. I want to hear from some union people
on this one here. Would you cross the line for coffee?
I mean, quite honest with you, no offense to anybody.
I can't do duncan for coffee. I don't like it.
I really don't like it. I apologize. I know you
(07:41):
guys like it.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
All right? It is Mojo in the Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Hold on a second, here, I was talking about talking
about crossing the picket line for coffee. Oh.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I already got a text from Kenyetta. She said, you
and Zach are on my spit list.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Kenetta, I'm sorry, but it's Starbucks for gods.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Come on, Kenetta, we love our Starbucks. Is this Gucci?
Who is this on the phone with us? My name
is Skiechee s GEECHI, Hi, Geechee, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Hi? No?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
I just text in about my worst Starbucks experience. My
husband and I were in Chicago for Lalla and it
was super busy, and the two baristas behind the counter
they were fighting the entire time. They were just holding
up all the orders, just screaming at each other, and
then they made my drink wrong.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
How dare they? What were they fighting about? Did you
ever find out.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
They were just screaming at each other about one wasn't
doing something and they were just like super frustrated And
it was way too early in the morning for all that.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
And that sets the mood for your day, your Starbucks experience,
or your coffee experience, wherever you go. It really does
set the mood for your day. So if your order's wrong,
the whole rest of the.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Day is my order was wrong today in Chicago, this
day of all day, on a fifty dollars order. Let
me just tell you this. I got to be honest
with you. I need to join your union to be
able to afford Starbucks. I will also say this to you.
keV talked the other day about the remember the pizza
people that were fighting when he went and got his pizza. Yes,
I know Kevi didn't like the altercation. You don't like
(09:14):
that altercation. I love when people are fighting because you're.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Nosy and you stand there and watch and listen or
pull out your phone.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I would have liked two of those people that were
striking at zeb road yesterday to be arguing with each
other so I could sneak past them and they wouldn't
notice me walking right by. But all right, well thanks
for the the cause. Oh I got it. Hold on
a second, this is I feel like a scale, you
know what. I'm dumping this coffee out. Hold on, nobody
can see me right now, right
I'm having the worst Starbucks luck these days, and I'll
have to I got a moment here.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm gonna explain it here real quick. It's Mojo in
the morning.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
So here's my Starbucks luck that I've had the last
twenty four hours. We're in Chicago right now, and I'm
a way home from Chicago. I always love to stop
off at Starbucks on my route. And for those that
don't know what the route is to get to Chicago
from the Metro to Trade Area, you take you know,
through ann Arbor M fourteen for me, and then you
(00:32):
get on ninety four.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You go ninety four the whole way.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
But you know you're Intel, just like Booty Bob. Yeah,
so I always stop off at the first exit on
ninety four, which is the zeb Road.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Eggs, you have made this Starbucks famous.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
At this point, it is my Starbucks because usually at
that point I've been in the car for forty five
minutes from my home, I have to pee and I
also want a coffee.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So Dan Campbell's got mapland Telegraph in Bloomfield got this.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I didn't even know that that I actually I've been
to the Dan Campbell one. Okay, so this is my
this is my place. Yesterday, Chelsea and I pull in
and I said to Chelsea, I go, oh my god,
it looks like they're doing a promotion out in front
of the place. And she goes, why is that. I go,
there's a bunch of people just standing out in front
of the road Starbucks. And I get out of the
car and all I hear is no contract, no coffee,
(01:23):
No contract, no coffee, no contract, no coffee, And I'm like.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
There were they Starbucks people were picketing, which, first off,
it was interesting that they're picketing. I didn't even know
they were union. I got no clue that there was
a Starbucks union.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I always thought Starbucks was an amazing company to work for.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, I kind of thought that too, But I also
honestly thought to myself, I don't know. I can't cross
a picket line. Like I sat there the whole time
going I was contemplating, I've come in here before, and
I go into that z broad By the way, if
there's anybody that's from that location, if you can call me,
I would love to talk to you. For a second,
I kept thinking to myself, huh, I got a dilemma here.
(02:05):
Usually when I go in to go get my coffee there,
we'll have a listener or too. That might be either
one of the people working behind the counters, or we
might have a listener that might be one of the customers.
So I will occasionally go in and they'll go, hey,
what you doing over on the side of town. You know,
they kind of realize that this is not my neighborhood normally,
and I'll be like, I'm driving to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I need to get my coffee. Well, I look at
Chelsea and I go, we got to get back in
the car. And she goes, why is that.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I go, I can't cross a picket line, and she goes,
what do you want? You gotta go to the bathroom,
And I go, I think I'm gonna have to go
Jimmy John's. Like I literally had went into Jimmy John's
and I ended up getting myself a little on wadge
or whatever. But I used the bathroom and had to
pee there. It came out and I'm like, and she goes, well,
why don't we go through the drive through? And I
looked at her and I go, Chelsea, I am not
(02:51):
a scab. I don't know if you know this, but
I am a member of the AFTRA, a union.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You are, yes, since when.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I started in radio, I started in radio in Chicago.
You had to join after a union to be part
of working at CBS.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It was I thought it was just for actors.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I know this was Radio two.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Okay, they did which, honestly, I I swear to god,
I don't think I've ever paid a like a do or.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Anything like that.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Okay, so let me guess what you did. You went
to the next exit that had a Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
No, let me explain this. I contemplated for a little bit.
I sat for a second and I thought, Okay, I'll
duck and i'll get because she's driving. Chelsea was driving
because I was sitting in the passenger seat and I
was kind of tired from the show. But I kind
of like like figured okay, and then I thought, oh,
I can't because if I duck and then all of
(03:42):
a sudden, I pop up or my order comes on
my app and the girl that's because here's the deal.
They've got union people that are striking, but the people
inside I don't know what that means, Like they could, Hey,
Mojo just ordered from us, you know, spit on his car?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Is your name saying mojo or does it say tom
on your app?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
This is don't make fun of me.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Wait, actually I'm going to look its Mojo.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It says Mojo. And the reason it says Mojo is
because I have a friend of mine works for Starbucks
that loads my card for me every now and again
with a nice you know, twenty five bucks every now.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
But I uh, I don't know. I know, it's kind
of a little it's a little ego.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No, don't you know who I am?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And so I know it's a little horrible, but they yeah,
so I so I did not cross the picket line.
Although I get to be honest with you, I was
willing to. I was so needing of coffee. And I
don't want like my UAW friends because I got a
lot of people that work in the autos, you know,
and my UAW friends. When you guys are out picketing
and stuff, I get, I you know, I want you
(04:45):
have all the fair treatment in the world. Even though
I think ered I heard we when's the last time
we've ever had a a negotiation or anything like that.
We don't We're I don't think we're a union, so
we don't get any union representation at all. We were
a union, would we who would be our union representative
in the on the show?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
On the show, I got this, guys, No, it would.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Be a push.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It would be we would have the way got Lydia
be going in there and negotiating for us. Yeah, no, no,
no radio, no rhyme. What would be our chant that
we would have? Would you question? Would you have crossed
the picket line if you were If you were me
and you really wanted your coffee? Got to answer and
(05:30):
answer this honestly, don't answer this like a politician.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I probably would you would have. Yeah, would you walk
right past me? But you had to? I would have
gone through the drive through. I would have gone through
the drive through, impede somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah. How about you, Zach? Would you have crossed the
picket line if you're me? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I would probably tried to find like a twenty twenty
mask and put it on so I had my face,
But yeah, I would probably do it.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You would have.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah. I kind of figured that you guys are both scabs.
Guys you guessed you guys are both like you know,
you could care less about this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
As you order Starbucks for this entire radio this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, this is the craziest.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
We just got some people from the Fred Show some
coffee for helping us out this morning. But here here's
the interesting thing that the part that is so interesting
to me is that I did go to the next Starbucks,
which I think was Kalamazoo or I don't even know
where it was.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It was. It was a while before we got to
a next Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
But I sat there and I thought, how good am
I helping out the people on zeb when I'm going
to the next Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And obviously these people aren't union.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
But right, Texter here says, bless you, Mojo, thank you
for not crossing.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Oh that's Kenyetta. Kenyetta's like that, don't get mad.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
She's gonna text me.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Now, ken Yetta, you'd call out Shenon she'd crossed that line.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
And I wouldn't. I wouldn't for auto workers, but for coffee.
You would for coffee?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
How dare you?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I would? Just being honest, she had.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Those egg bites, and the egg bites I know exactly.
For Bianca and Lydia, they'd do it in a second.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
For w union's porn star union that he was an electrician.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Tim Murphy, what is it, by the way, the porn
stars Union.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I'm sure, I'm sure. I'm sure they're after Yeah, Screen
Actors Guild or something.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Do you think so? Because they're acting, we're in the
same union. I would love to go to those meetings,
all right. I want to hear from some union people
on this one here. Would you cross the line for coffee?
I mean, quite honest with you, no offense to anybody.
I can't do duncan for coffee. I don't like it.
I really don't like it. I apologize. I know you
(07:41):
guys like it.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
All right? It is Mojo in the Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Hold on a second, here, I was talking about talking
about crossing the picket line for coffee. Oh.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I already got a text from Kenyetta. She said, you
and Zach are on my spit list.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Kenetta, I'm sorry, but it's Starbucks for gods.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Come on, Kenetta, we love our Starbucks. Is this Gucci?
Who is this on the phone with us? My name
is Skiechee s GEECHI, Hi, Geechee, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Hi? No?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
I just text in about my worst Starbucks experience. My
husband and I were in Chicago for Lalla and it
was super busy, and the two baristas behind the counter
they were fighting the entire time. They were just holding
up all the orders, just screaming at each other, and
then they made my drink wrong.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
How dare they? What were they fighting about? Did you
ever find out.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
They were just screaming at each other about one wasn't
doing something and they were just like super frustrated And
it was way too early in the morning for all that.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
And that sets the mood for your day, your Starbucks experience,
or your coffee experience, wherever you go. It really does
set the mood for your day. So if your order's wrong,
the whole rest of the.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Day is my order was wrong today in Chicago, this
day of all day, on a fifty dollars order. Let
me just tell you this. I got to be honest
with you. I need to join your union to be
able to afford Starbucks. I will also say this to you.
keV talked the other day about the remember the pizza
people that were fighting when he went and got his pizza. Yes,
I know Kevi didn't like the altercation. You don't like
(09:14):
that altercation. I love when people are fighting because you're.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Nosy and you stand there and watch and listen or
pull out your phone.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I would have liked two of those people that were
striking at zeb road yesterday to be arguing with each
other so I could sneak past them and they wouldn't
notice me walking right by. But all right, well thanks
for the the cause. Oh I got it. Hold on
a second, this is I feel like a scale, you
know what. I'm dumping this coffee out. Hold on, nobody
can see me right now, right
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