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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Mojo in the morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Lydia, who is the executive producer of the show, is
not very feeling very loved right now by a family member,
which she's going to explain right now, because a family
member has chosen to go into Lydia's occupation, actually all
of our occupations, and did not reach out to Lydia
(00:23):
at all.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
What's going on, Lydia?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
So, I mean, I guess Anna, since you're new to
the show, I'm going to tell you right now, I
do not talk to my sister. So for those of
you who don't know, I have a half sister. My
dad was previously married before he married my mom, and
he had two kids. So my half brother and my
half sister.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
So my sister, do you talk to your brother real quick? Right?
So you and brother, I know are close.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Me and my brother are very close.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
But your sister and you have had a struggle, which
we talked about before on the show.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
So who's going into to radio?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
So my sister's daughter, who I also have not had
a relationship with, is going into the broadcasting field. So
she just started her first semester at Ohio State. Okay,
congrats to her.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
How national champs.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, However, my sister nor my niece, who I can't
blame for this because we don't speak. She's going into
broadcasting and she wants to be a sports reporter.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Very cool, and I was it's cool, But I'm a
little hurt.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
By it because I feel like that could have been
the open door for my sister to start her relationship
with me all over again. I've never had a chance
to really explore that relationship with her because she doesn't
want to make an effort or try. And that's at
no fault to my niece, but it just kind of sucks.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
How did you find out about this?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Lyddy on Instagram?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So I did some digging and it came up on
my people you may know, and it was my niece,
So of course I clicked on it and I saw
that she put Ohio State Broadcasting in her bio.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Oh and then I did you follow her? No? Why not?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Because I feel like that's weird.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Like I'm an aunt who does talk to her mom
and I've never really spoken to her.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I've only met her once.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
She's only met her one time.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I only met he at my brother's wedding. That was
the first time I met my sister too.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Would it be weird or bad?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Because I can't remember the situation and please forgive me,
But would it be weird or bad for you to
reach out to your niece?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I feel like that for you to break the ice,
is that weird if I don't have a relationship with
her mom to be like, hey, I'm your long lost aunt.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I kind of feel like it's overstepping and like you
should I don't know, ask build a relationship with her
mom first.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
See I say build a relationship with her with your
niece first, because you guys now have something in common
and hopefully that it will have the trickle effect up
to your sister.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Have you talked to your brother about this?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Uh, we've spoken about it a little bit because there
were some schools that she applied to and he was like,
she didn't get into these and she really wanted to.
And I was telling her about how I would be
willing to extend an olive branch for a broadcast and
he's like, I think she's okay, Like she's good.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh, your brother kind of made it seem like it
wouldn't go over well if you did.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, and he likes to separate like the two of us, Like,
he doesn't like to get involved with either of us
being in this.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Awkward state, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Like he likes to just have his individual relationship with
me and her separately.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
He doesn't feel that your sister. That he probably knows
his sister well enough to know how she would react
to this.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, oh yeah, my sister doesn't seem too friendly. What's
your dad's take on all of this? My dad's hurt.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Like he's just bothered in general because he wants all
of his kids to have a good relationship, and he
wants a relationship with all of his kids because I mean,
we're all, you know, siblings, But it just feels weird.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
Yeah, I could understand your trepidation, your hesitation just reaching
out to your niece. Obviously you and your sister got
y'all on isshoes. But I do see this as an
opportunity for the family to be unified.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
But I do, now that I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
I don't know if you need to have a full
conversation with your sister, but it could be nice to
give her a heads up and say, hey, I saw
what's your niece name.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh you ain't gotta say that.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Hey, I saw my niece just got accepted and she's
in Da Da Da Da. I would love to reach
out to her. So that's what I'm gonna do, just
letting you know, like something like that.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I think my family dynamics are always so interesting, especially
family dynamics like in this case where there was a
divorce or there was you know this, you know, little
drama with Lydia's dad and their dad. I think that
Kev's right. I think if you did that, that would
at least be you trying and see how she takes that.
(04:45):
Because as a parent, you want what's best for your kid,
and if you have the ability to maybe know somebody
that could help your child, how do you turn that down?
And if she turns it down, then she turns it down,
then she's still not ready to heal there. She doesn't
want to doesn't want a relationship. CALV, what's up, listener, listener, CALV,
what's up?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
How you doing? I just want to say, I think
she's just take the time and try to build a
relationship with her sister just because she got nieces. You
know what I'm saying that her sister has. I think
if there's nothing too tragic to where, like you guys
didn't fight or have a big upro or anything, anything
could be fixed.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
And I'm saying, it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
You ain't got a whole that, you know, just just
build a relationship.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
You got a nieces, so just just build a relationship.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Forget it. I wasn't talk to my mom for like
thirteen years. I moved with my granddad when I was
straight in high school.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
I I ain't talked to.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
My mom until I was twenty five years old. You know,
some some stuff just just let go.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
How long had your mom been out of your life?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
I was in high school. I graduated high school in sixteen.
I probably left her when I was in twenty twelve.
I talk to her until twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So okay, So there was a there was a decade
or so of of you guys not not being together.
That's tough when it's your mom always that What was listener,
cav What was that all over?
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Uh? It was just it was just a lot of
a lot of uh disagreements, miscommunication. And I figured, I figured,
if I didn't want any more of that to just
separate myself.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
And then twenty twenty three came around, and I was like, oh,
let me.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Try to you know, because I got I got I got.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Great nieces, and you know what I'm saying, I got brothers,
So I try. I said, try to let me, let's
let's try to touch it. And everything went well.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
So if nothing too tragic happened, I think you should
go ahead and a beauty relationship just because you have nieces
and maybe nephews, so it's not gonna hurt happy for you.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Medina, what's up, Jay?
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Good morning you.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
I was just calling because I have a brother. It's
my only biological brother.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
From my mom's side.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
I have eighteen brothers and sisters on my dad's pad.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You can't go over it. Your dad sewed his seed
all over the place.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
My dad was Muslim, so I have a lot of
family overseas.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
He had four lives that all the time.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I don't think I've got times in my life.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
That children definitely don't do it. Modude.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I'm doing all right.
Speaker 9 (07:12):
So my only blood brother from my mom that's here.
Him and I don't have a relationship, and he has
four kids that after my mother passed away, just completely
like disregarded me because of him and his actions. And
when I reached out to two of them, they've they've
been receptive, but one of the others who have not
(07:33):
been receptive, which I get it, like my brother definitely
let have left a bad.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Past in everybody's mouth.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
But definitely I would reach out to the niece personally.
I wouldn't even reach out to the mom because there's
probably feelings of like resentment. I don't know the household dynamic,
like did you have mom and dad in the house
and where was there's just a mom's household for the stepsister,
because I feel like that plays a huge role in
the relationship as well.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, and I think there's a lot of herd.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It sounds like, Lydia, the herd probably on your on
your sister's case is that your dad and you know
her mom didn't stay together and then your dad kind
of went off and stuff. So I think she's putting
the blame on you.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It seems like.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I think you're gonna have to be careful though, Lydia,
because I know how you. You're a kind person, but boy,
you can get a little feisty sometimes, and I think
that I think that your sister is is going to
if you do reach out to her, I think she's
gonna probably say some things that she's not gonna make
you feel good with. And I think you almost have
to understand that it's not her saying that to you,
(08:40):
it's her hurd on your dad.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, but I shouldn't take the hit for that.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Well, I understand that.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
But I think if you want a relationship with her,
or more importantly, if you want a relationship with your knees,
I think sometimes you gotta let those hits come in
and then let her get it out of her system
and then say to her, Okay, now that you got
that out, let's, you know, try to have a conversation
here instead of fighting back, Because I know that you'll
fight back and you'll and you'll defend your dad, and
(09:06):
I think that that's going to be something that is
going to end up making it even worse. And I
think if you really do want a relationship with this
niece of yours, which I think that would be wonderful,
that would be really cool. Who knows maybe that Who
thinks who would think that broadcasting can bring back a
family together. But I think if you really play this right,
I think this could be the thing that could be
the olive branch.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
What's up, Rachel?
Speaker 8 (09:29):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Everyone, this is like one of the first times I've
ever agreed with Kevin.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
He's absolutely.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Just reach out. Just reach out.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
Like what Mojo said, whatever happens might happen, but you'll
get through it.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And the most important thing that.
Speaker 9 (09:48):
Will happen is that you'll have a relationship started in
an open door.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well and you get it off your chest and not
make yourself feel guilty for not trying.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
You know.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
And I feel like breaking the ice is the hardest part,
you know, that's.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
The hard Definitely. I grew up the same way I have.
My dad's got so many kids I can.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
My mom used to say, you can drive to Florida
and way that every park along the way.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
And you'll probably.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I talk to it is. It is so interesting. Family
dynamics are so interesting. But if you put yourself into
people's shoes, you kind of see where the pain and
the herd can be. And it's got to definitely really,
you know, wear on your dad, Lydia And George is
such a nice guy, but does he have a relationship
(10:45):
with her.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Does he ever talk to her?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
No, He's tried, but then when we like just talk
about like nice things and his previous marriage, he like
tears up and he starts to cry, and then he'll
be like, my eyes are watering.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, you know, if you play this right, And I'm
just saying, this could be the biggest long shot in
the world if you play this right. Wouldn't it be
wonderful if you can develop a relationship for your dad
with his daughter again, That's what.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I would I want.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Like, I've thought about it so many times where I'm like,
what if I just text her and say, like, you know,
let's just give it one more chance. But my sister
isn't very much so a forgiving person. But that doesn't
mean that I can't keep putting like the right foot forward.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, gotta pray, gotta pray, pray, pray. I'm telling you
that's it. Sometimes I really do think that you know
that families in the dynamics, they they happen in due time,
and it's moments like this, you know that could could
bring everything back together. Anybody else good on this phone
(11:46):
line here? Or am I am? I?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Good lady?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I think you're good, Am I good, Lydia. Lyddy gets
very nervous when we talk about her situation.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Specifically I do.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
If your sister is listening and she would like to
be an exclusive guest on Mojo in the Morning, tild
will accept her as an interview.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
She can call me and set the interview up.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Can you imagine that Lydia has to set up an
interview with her sister who she does not talk to.
That would be a tough one. In all fairness too,
you can have one of my sisters. They're needy.