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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it is Mojo in the morning show. So
yesterday I did something that I haven't done in a
long time. I ate dinner and I went right to bed,
and I'm talking my dinner ain't like a late dinner.
I ate dinner at like six thirty, and then I
really was dying and I crashed. And I think that
it's gotten to a point where it's not that I
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was tired, and I did work out yesterday, so I'm
gonna do a little you know, I don't show like
pictures of me in the gym like some people do.
I just tell you about it on the radio because
I want more people to hear it. But I did
work out yesterday, and I was tired afterwards, and I
ate dinner and then I just went to bed, and
then I started thinking about it when I woke up
this morning and I was talking to Lydia about this.
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I think that since the clocks changed, and since it
started getting darker at an earlier time, like it started
like five thirty and then it's been like five twenty
and now five fifteen. Now it's honestly five. I really
feel like at five o'clock it's done. Oh yeah, And
It's gotten to a point where I drive to work
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and it's dark, and I feel like I don't get
home and get like in mode of wanting to be
able to go and do anything because I have so
many appointments during the day that I'm driving home in
the dark. And I don't know if any of you
else are feeling the same way, if you're a listener
that works middle of the night and then goes to
another job afterwards. But this whole thing has really gotten
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to me. And I have never seen any other year
get to me like this year has gotten to me.
I've never really had seasonal depression. Matter of fact, honestly,
I pooh pooed anybody that had it. And now I'm
feeling like I might need to go and you know,
talk to a therapist about this or figure something.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
One of those lights. Have you ever seen the people
that waited in the morning and they do the light?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Did you do that?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's a hatch alarm clock and it emulates a sunrise
every morning.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So I have that too.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
But I'm talking about some people have like like a
red light therapy, like.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Not no, it's I think it's not red light. I
I think it literally is a seasonal depression light, Yes,
where it lights up your room to a point where
it makes you feel like you are outside in the sun.
I had a neighbor that had that, and honestly I
thought that they were grown weed. But I will tell
you this that I, in all the years that I
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have been on this earth, have never in my life
ever felt more affected by the fact that it gets
darker earlier than I have this year.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
That was a foreign term to me, maybe five or
six years ago. I had never heard up until that
point seasonal depression, had never experienced it, had never heard
anybody actually articulated. But the more and more I guess
I live, you start to hear more and more people
that just feel completely different. They feel down, they feel dejected,
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they feel removed in like a lack of enthusiasm in
their life because they're experiencing seasonal depression.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I don't know what the reasoning is of why we
don't change, to just go solid with the way it
is in the summertime.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
No daylight saving.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, like i'd I know, they say, Well, kids would
go to the bus stop. No kid goes to a
bus anymore. Like these kids, their parents are all dropping
them off at drop off lanes and stuff. And honestly, listen,
nobody's going to a bus. How many parents are taking
Even the kids have that have buses as services, their
parents still take them because the kid doesn't want to
get on a bus. I feel like these excuses don't
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weigh anymore. And I feel like, honestly, more people are
affected by this than aren't affected by this. And there's
some kind of a thing. I think that maybe it's
the drug companies want us to be taking zoloft or whatever.
I think they know. I think they want us to take.
But here's hey, no shame, because definitely we medicate, but
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I feel like, honestly, we may not need the medication
if we had more son. What's going on, Nicole? How
you doing not bad?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
How are you good?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
You feel in the same way? Huh?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I do so. As a result, I always look up
and find out when the winter So.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Is my birthday December twenty first?
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Really, what does that mean? Shortest day of the year?
That is?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Yep, that sure is so. Therefore would it be the
shortest day of the year. That's what I look forward to,
because then the days will just start getting longer.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Wait, so the shortest day of the year on the
twenty first, then day afterwards in the twenty second, the
days will get longer at that more sunlight.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Oh, we'll start longer.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So we're inching towards that. But until then, I don't
know if I can survive nicolet w and worse. I
think I'm going to be really are Do you get
affected by sun as much as as much as I
have been getting affected this year?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Yeah, when the sun's down, I'm down. When the sun's up,
I'm up.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah. It's weird my house, my house. I feel like
I'm sitting there and you know, one thing I'm watching.
I always joking with the Jelsey. I go all of
a sudden, I'm watching Current Affair and then it's dark,
you know what I mean, or whatever the show is
that's on. You know, they run some kind of show
that's on TV here, the Kelly Clarkson Show, and it's like,
I can't watch the Kelly Clarkson Show any dark time.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
For me, it's not even trouble for having all the
lights on in my house.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh yeah, it's not even depression as much as it is.
I don't want to do anything once it gets dark,
like I have work. Then I caught the kids around
to all their stuff and by the time I get home,
I'm like, oh, well it's dark, I might as well
just put my pajamas on, and you know, hang hang,
like I'm not motivated to get anything done. Then I
need to get done.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Just more sleepy ones. It's start. Yeah, Nicole, thanks for
the call. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah, the first time, for your first time, long time.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
We love you, Nicole. See that it's the first time
I called. She's sad there was a sun and also,
what's going on?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Eve?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Hi, it's Mojo in the morning.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
So yeah, absolutely, I'm right there with you. I mean,
I finished dinner, I go to sit on the couch
and watch the show. In three minutes, I'm out. It's
like I work in a doctor's office. I don't get
to see the sun. I go in and it's dark.
I come out and it's dark. Yeah, and I'm just
waiting for February seconds since I feel like a groundhog,
I don't see the sun.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, it's so true. I now give me Groundhog's Day
and let me see my shadow. For gosh sake, it's
not the cold too. I know a lot of people
will say that it's the cold. It's not. It hasn't
been that cold. It's just been dark. And that's the
thing I don't. I don't like it. It's weird. Uh, Samantha,
what's going on, Samantha?
Speaker 8 (06:33):
How are you guys?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
We're well, obviously we're not very up plasting right now.
But you want to you really want to know how
I'm doing? Not well, but go ahead, what's going on
with you?
Speaker 9 (06:43):
No?
Speaker 8 (06:43):
I get see the whole depression all the time. And
I work at like a drive through, and so I
have to go in and out of the building, and
I'm used to once to get stark to being able
to like, oh it's almost time to close, and now
I see it gets dark and it's like I still
got five.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Hours left of work. You know that's true. That is
why the one time.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
I was driving my daughter to preschool and she looked
outside and she goes, Mommy, I don't like this time
of year. Everything just looks dead. And I'm like, that
is the perfect description.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
This time of year from the mouth of babes. You
know what. They're so honest when it comes to that,
and honest, I guess I'm okay. I don't know. Some
people want to have like it is now where the
light is out. I don't mind it. In the morning,
it doesn't make me sad. I'm drinking a cup of coffee.
I'm okay with it. But at night I want to
have a later night. Yeah, Shannon, what's up? Shannon?
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Hey, Mojoe.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
I am a person that's seasonally depressed, just like you.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You're not alone.
Speaker 9 (07:40):
I was listening to you talk about maybe going to
see a therapist. I don't see a therapist for seasonal depression.
So if you come up with someone that you think
is great, please let us know.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah. I think I'm just gonna go to a guy
that I normally go to. I think this would be
one I just talked to that because I don't want
to start somebody new. I hate going to new therapist
because then I got to tell my whole life all
over again.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
You know, Yeah, you're not wrong.
Speaker 9 (08:01):
Yeah, I hope so it gets better for all of us.
At this point, I'm just coming home from working, curling
up in the corner of the couch with my fleet blanket.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It's just terrible.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
I don't have any energy to do anything anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So, yeah, I'm going to put on the Winter fifteen
because of all I want to do is eat bowls
of cereal. For some reason, that's my thing now, well
it's not. It's the healthy kind. It's checks or honey cherios.
I'm a little raisin bran over here, bangs bran. It's
like old people. Serious. Yeah, I was a child grandmama.
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What's up, Melissa High.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
You're you're not lying about this whole It's so much
worse this year. It just keeps getting earlier and earlier.
And the craziest thing that happened to me is that
I work all day too, and when I get home
I usually try to take my kids outside for a
little bit. And we tried to take a walk in
our neighborhood and everything, I mean, nobody was outside.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
It felt like it was.
Speaker 10 (09:03):
Like ten o'clock at night. And there was one house
where there was a dad that his sons were outside
playing in the leaves in the front of their house.
He had this huge light he was shining on them,
and he must have been worried because you really couldn't
see anything, Like if we were, we wouldn't have been
able to see them. At all, So I don't know
if it was because he was kind of worried.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You know, like, what time of day was this again?
Speaker 9 (09:22):
Do you never anything?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
It was like five thirty.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It was like, clearly we used to do this in
my family. It used to be you don't come home
until the street lights come on. They're coming on it.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Serious.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
Yeah, it looked like it was like it looked like
it was like three in the morning, and like every
I didn't see anybody outside, and my kids were like, mom,
it feels so crazy. And these kids were just playing
in their leaves, but you couldn't even see them. He
had to literally kind of light on them. It was
so depressing.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
That is so wild. By the way, somebody just said
I should go Tanning. Could you imagine me at a
Tanning move.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Cancer?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You know, it would be fun, me and sixteen year
old girls hanging out at a Tanning Boothy, right, Miss
VN Tony, what's going on? Tony?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Hey, good morning family.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
How y'all doing is depressed? Listen to you guys.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
The bluetooth, No, it's the bluetooth. It really is in
my car. Yeah, my bluetooth is like really dynamic, so
it makes me sound way more louder than I really
actually am. But anyway I did, I did get a
lesson in in a cordialness.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
So from who? From Lydia? Yes, when you're screaming all
the time, you were hype the last like.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
I am not putting you on the air if you're
going to be as animated as you always are.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Okay, well, Tony, I want you to still be Tony.
But I couldn't understand you last time you were eating
the phone. Uh, what's going on? Tony?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Winter is my favorite season. You guys should not be
depressed whatsoever. It is an amazing time the half sex
cuddle up through all the things.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Maybe that's the problem. Will you called Chelsea for me?
Say hey Chelsea?
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Yeah, Mojo, come on man, your name is Mojo.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Gotta work, yo, Mojo. I tried to try.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
You.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Gotta slide in her DM today and be like, yo, baby,
what you're doing?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
You know what I'm saying, creativity, Mojo.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna I'm gonna go. Last year,
she asked me for a massage last night, and you
heard me talk about that. I can't do a massage
without getting you know, a little frisky, and to be
quite honest with you, she like turned me down after
the first like rub, and then I was like, oh okay,
so all right, Tony, I'm gonna slide in her DMS.
I appreciate it because I am mojo