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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Mojoe in the morning. I would like to congratulate
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Jaliel and Jamie who got married over the weekend. Chelsea
and I went to the wedding. It was wonderful, most
beautiful bride. I have ever seen, the smiliest groom I've
ever seen, handsome guy. I have never seen a groom
smile the entire wedding like Jaliel did. You can tell
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that this guy was marrying his queenful and he was
so happy. He was standing up on the altar and
he was just having the time of his life.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Can I say something, because we talked about the suit
you like on a search for this suit that you
posted a photo on our Facebook and Instagram. That is
no joke, probably the best photo of you and Chelsea
that I ever seen. Well, Chelsea, you both looked awesome
than I was going to say beautiful, but that's weird
for you.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Chelsea's dress was so unbelievable that people stopped as we
were walking on the street and saw her dress and
we're like, I mean that.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Look at the photo on our Instagram. Thank you, Thank you, Shan.
That was very nice. We did look at it. We
had to get ready.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Early Okay, I'll be honest, I'm not modest. We had
to get ready early because Chelsea said, we are not
having the same thing happened to us that happened at
the last wedding we went to. The last wedding we
went to for my nephew. We showed up as the
bride was walking down the aisle. It was not a
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good situation. So she said, we were going to show
up to our Mother of God church in Southfield an
hour before the service started.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So that was the big thing.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
She said, I don't care if we have to sit
there in an empty church by ourselves or wait in
the parking lot and listen to music. We're getting there early.
So we got ready, got there. The wedding I think
was starting at like six thirty or something like that,
and we showed up at the church to our dismay
to the wedding already started early.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
The church was packed with cars.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Okay, I think every escalade, white escalade in the world
partson in this church party line that is, yeah, they're
all hanging out there. That Navigators for some reason, and
Porsches and Mercedes. They are the most unbelievable cars ever.
And I said Chelsea, Oh my god, what's going on.
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She's like, oh, no, hurry up, let's run up there.
And we run in too, go into the church and
walk in, and you know how when you go to
a wedding and you just know one side, like the
bride or the groom. You don't know everybody, so you
kind of are wondering who people are, you know, because
you think, oh, that must be somebody from the groom's family,
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because we didn't know Jalil and his family, although a
lot of them were actually listeners, which was really nice.
So we show up and we run up and we
don't know anybody, and we're looking for Jamie and her
family and everybody, and we don't see anybody. And then
it hits us. We are at the wrong wedding, the
right church, the wrong wedding. You know how the Keldeans
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do it. They have double the weddings. They had a
wedding I guess, right before their wedding, and then they
had her, Jamie's wedding right afterwards. So they butt him
right up against each other. Man, It's amazing. It was like,
aren't they long to No, they were great. It was
like an hour and in and out and bang in
a bang. They do a lot of signs of the Cross.
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I mean, I'm telling you, I think I signed to
the cross more times than I did in the entire
twelve years I was in Catholic school and and they
amazing homily. They by the way, every Keldian priest is
young and good looking. I'm looking at like this priest
that was their father, father.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Castle, and I talked about him.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I texted Lydia and I said to Lydia, I go, no,
wonder why it's hard for Keldyan girls to find a
good looking guy.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They all become.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Priests as guy and his homily was spectacular. So what
ended up happening was it was the wrong It was
the wedding just before. So we then got to be
there early enough to be able to be there and
see some family and then get to say hi to
some people. And we watched Jamie walk down the aisle,
which was wonderful. It was beautiful. But can we talk
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Keldy in weddings for a second. For those who don't
know what a Caldyan is, I'll reiterate it because I
know that there's some people that probably don't know they
are Iraqi Catholics prominent in the Detroit area and also
some parts of San Diego.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I don't know what. I always have to read.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
That's what Wikipedia says. They have amazing weddings. The most
beautiful flowers ever at a wedding. I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
We're tiny they We're talking like twenty thirty forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Really, I don't in the flowers.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I mean, I don't know what they but they were
gorgeous over the top.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I've only been to one Keldian wedding, and it was
like being at the Oscars. The way these women were
arriving in these dresses and accessories and bags and hair
and makeup. I mean, it is just an experience.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Everybody looks gorgeous. Yea, they all look great.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
The guys look great, they clean up nicely, they look awesome,
good looking, beautiful kids.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I mean, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So we get there and the thing that I totally
forgot and I cannot tell you, and.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You have to tell me what this is all about.
Why do they serve the meal so late?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I hadn't eaten since about noon that day. I got
home early from our broadcast that we had and I
got home like at one o'clock. I think it had
something to eat. I didn't eat dinner until they didn't
serve dinner until ten o'clock. Not even rolls on the
tables they have, Like well, they bring out something in
the beginning, but it was all glutenized. But I didn't
have but no, but I'm telling you, I don't think
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they even brought the rolls out until they start late lydia.
Is every Keldyan wedding this late? Oh yeah, it is
like a thing.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Why is that? Why is the food coming out?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Well, they got well, because you have to make everything
a big deal. So you have to make the entrance
a big deal, and then you have to make the
appetizers a big deal. So then you just sit around
and wait for the dinner.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It's unreal, Like that's why everybody gets so drunk. They
don't want you to leave because you're drinking well, but
you're not eating.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, it was, I mean it was definitely one that started.
I mean well, and it was great food. I mean
they go top end with the filets and the chicken
and they give you both options so you can eat
them both. But it took forever and I was like going,
oh gosh, are they gonna are we gonna sit down
at any point and just get ready to eat because
I was starting to get a little week, you know, weezy,
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like woozy.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Let me ask, it's back to these fifty thousand dollars flowers.
Do y'all take it? Don't take them away? Okay?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
The only reason I give out that number is I
have a friend who is getting married. She is Keldyan,
and I know how much she spent. Fifty are going
to spend on flowers?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Not fifty, but well, and I think that you, I
think you can probably at the end of the night
maybe take a centerpiece.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I take from every event I go, but i'm they
have the vendors come like they have vendors come out
and wrap the flowers so you can take them home.
That is a good idea off your table, or else
they throw them away.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Here's a question for you.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I wanted to throw out, what's have his anybody ever
a showed up at the wrong wedding? Have you ever
like literally gone to the wrong wedding? Because I can't
this is now the second time I've had this happen
to me. You guys might remember I showed up at
the wrong funeral. I remember that Keith James too, didn't you?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Just I don't know where Uncle Paul, No, no, Uncle
Poul still alive. Don't do that, Uncle Pole. Sorry, I
don't know who this man was. I I had to
show the picture my mom to the people at the
front and say, were he room?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I remember that it was.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It was funny because I try I always do this.
I try to like act that I know everybody, like
I don't want every I don't want anybody to think
I don't remember them. So I'm walking up to the
church and people are saying, hi to me, you saw
Lucy's teacher.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I did.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I saw Lucy's teacher at the end of at the end,
she was very sweet. She loves Lucy, by the way.
She actually says that. She says that Lucy is the
best kid ever. So I'm walking up and people are like, hey,
how you doing, how are you? And I'm going, hey, hey,
what's up? Man A it's good And Chelse's like, oh,
we're at the right one. I go, I don't think
so Chelse, I don't know, Like I like.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
I didn't know who anybody was man I got was
I want to go to a cowdy and win. I
went when I was younger, my boy mo Conza, but
I wasn't like I wasn't who I am right now,
I'm mentally I need to go so I can really experience.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It is the craziest, most beautiful, wild over the top night.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That it was crazy. Yeah, somebody just text in. This
is Jacob. He said, did Mojo fall down any stairs?
I'm not going to lie to you. I am like
Joe Biden walking up and downstairs.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I literally am holding I'm like I'm taking the short stairs.
I'm holding on to the rail like it's crazy, Like
I am not going to fall again. I'm making sure
that I don't doubly hurt myself out of this whole deal.
After that fall down the stairs at Harper's Howard to
dances at the wedding, well, they do the whole uh
what is it called lydia where they you know, they
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have like the sticks and then they're you know, putting
them in the air and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Boggia dance, and we also do is what they call it.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It's like like the hustle.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It's the Kaldian hustle like I like that, It's like
the Cupid shuffle.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
It was. It was so beautiful, by the way.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
The the the the first wedding that we attended, which
by the way, was the first wedding that was there,
the bride in the groom and the entire family had
a ton of people and I'm looking at I don't
know how that. How does the Mother of God or
any of these Chaldean churches, how do they get people
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in and out of there so fast?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
They don't.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
We had to like revamp Saint George's parking lot because
they fight, like people will get into car accidents in
the parking lot just to get in and out for
weddings and for masks.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I was going to say, when I've gone to church
at like Kensington Church, the big you know church that
they have here at big amphitheater type church, they have
to have the Troy Police doing directing of traffic and
I'm surprised if the south Field Police don't do that
for some of these weddings.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
What's up? Sam Hi?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (10:34):
So funny story this one time when I was like
eighteen hours You're going to factory job and one of
the buddies that I worked with. His dad had passed,
and growing up, my mom always ingrained in my head
how important was to like hill up for your friends
and everything. So going to doings is a big thing.
So I was gonna explain on going to the viewing.
I even like right after work, paint my clothes in
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the parking lot and walking in like obviously I don't
know anybody to somebody from work. And when I walked in,
you know, they had this picture of a lady, and
I knew it was this guy's dad that had classed.
So I saw the picture this lady, Well, I just
thought it was somebody important to like the funeral home
or whatever it was. And uh, they walk into like
the actual room that the viewing was in.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah, and it was.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Definitely a lady, and I knew I was zip for
his dad. So I literally booked it out of there,
trying not to look at absolutely anybody.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Isn't it funny?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
I go back to my car and look at the obituary. Well,
it was the same name of the funeral home, but
different town.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Oh that's the worst.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
That's the worst, because the same people own the same
funeral homes in multiple places.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
That happened to me.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
When I went to Keith's mom's funeral, it was the
wrong funeral home, so I ended up having to do
a little drive. Then that the Chaldean weddings with how
they bought them up back to back and stuff. Sometimes
I wonder if people get invited to the same wedding.
Does that ever happen Lydia, We're oh, yeah, like you
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have to hop over so you could be invited to
two weddings in one night.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Uh huh, that's happened to us before, except for we
just drove to the other location. We had one at
Penna's and one at s Shenanoa. So I'll just go
half and half.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
You can't not go to both weddings because if they
see you at one of the weddings, it makes you
look like you only liked one of the families.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Right, But how do you choose which wedding to go
to first.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
The one that you're less closer to? So if it's
my first cousin getting married, I'm gonna go to that one,
probably second, because you want to be at the dinner
and the dancing, and yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I'm going to the littust one. Last are if I
like you to meet you less like that? Have you
got to go?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I want to go, Lydia, Kazi any Coaldy and listener,
I fucking pull up, let me come.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I was such a bad date for Chelsea too, because
if my shoulder has been killing me, so I can't
take pain medicine before this this surgery, so I was
in so much pain the entire time. Chelsea dance and
oh she loves dance, and Caldeann's love to slap you
on the back when they hug you. So I'm like
getting slapped on the back by everybody. What's going on, Gloria, Hi, Hey, Mac,
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how are you? I'm great?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Hey? I love you guys and listen every morning. So
funny story. My uncle sends me a picture and goes, Gloria,
who am I sitting next to right now?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
And I'm like, that's more.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Joe and Chelse me, oh my god, I love it.
At the church in church, well that was nice to them.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
By the way, you guys make the sign of you
guys make the sign of the cross a lot. I know,
every five seconds, I'm like, man, oh man, you're blessed today.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
I was like, I was talking about finding a suit
for the wedding.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yes, and you look, you look.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
You guys are gorgeous, by the way, Thank you tell
people gorgeous. And I was like, I got to call
the show and tell them. Then, you know you talked
to my uncle Paul and my cousin Gyell.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, it's great. By the way, it's funny. I known
Danielle h and uh in the family for a while
and it was great seeing Paul and he's got such
a great smile, good man, and I kept bumping in.
I kept bumping in him the whole night, even when
I was sneaking out early, and I was like, don't
say a word. I'm like, you know what I mean,
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Like I tried to pull an Irish goodbye and leave,
and the worst is when you try to pull an
Irish creep goodbye and somebody goes. I'm telling so well,
tell tell them. We said Hi, it was good seeing them,
I will Yeah, we had a good time. It was
actually really fun. I wish I wish I wasn't in
the pain that I was in, because I would have
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sat there and enjoyed it and drank more. Because we
were sitting next to our old babysitters and their husbands
all want me, wanted me to like drink Hennessy and
whiskey and all that stuff, and I was like, I
can't drink.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Right now, let's drink today, single mind.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Now, I'm done drinking until I get this shoulders fixed.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Oh Dan, I am a boring date. No all right
to take care of yourself in the market, and I
don't worry