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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mojoe in the morning. Shannon, you were out last night.
I saw that you were at Greenfield Village. They had
a little Halloween fun going on.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You guys know, this is like my favorite favorite tradition
that my family has as we go to we do
Halloween at Greenfield Village, which if you've never been, it's
sold out I think for this year, so you got
to get in on it early. But the Christmas one
hasn't even gone up yet, and the Christmas one spectacular too,
But it is so fun. They do such a great
job and making it like spooky and fun making the village.
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You know, they turn it over for an old fashioned Halloween.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I love going.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So last night it was myself, my husband Wes, and
then my two kids, Lucy and Smith, and we all
bundled up and when and you go, you walk around
the village. And have you guys all been to Greenfield Village.
So there's a church in the village, the Martha Mary Chapel.
It's very famous, and there's like this spooky graveyard that's
next to it. So we always love like making the
little curve right there by the graveyard.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
I make it scary. They make that play scary.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Scary for kids.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Scary.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It's not like if you're going don't worry. It's not yeah,
if I'm fine going through, your kids are fine, going right.
But we were making the turn right there by the
graveyard and the Martha Mary Chapel, and Wes makes made
a comment about how I was supposed to get married there,
which is true. I was engaged way way way back
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in the day to a guy who that wedding never
came to fruition because I found out some things about
him that did not sit right with me, and so
I canceled that wedding. But we were going to get
married at Greenfield Village, at Lovett Hall, and so Wes
says this, and Lucy and Smith both look at me
and they're like, you and Dad were gonna get married
at Greenfield Village. And I give Wes like the dagger eyes,
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and I'm.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Like, well, no, not me and dad.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And they're like, you and mister Wes, we're gonna get
married at Greenfield Village. I'm like, no, no, not me
and Wes either. And so then I'm like and they're like, oh,
Lucy Goes your high school boyfriend Tom. I'm like no,
they don't know that I was engaged before their dad
but never ended up getting married to that guy, and
we were truly going to get married at Greenfield Village.
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So they found that out last night thanks to Wes's
big mouth.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And did they ask you questions about him?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Not really, because I kind of shut it down.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'm like, I don't I don't really feel like explaining
this on this like a really fun night. Oh, Lucy
for sure. Lucy for sure, eleven years old. She's so curious.
She does not let one thing slide. She will ask
for the full story at some point. Were probably today,
Oh yeah, they know I dated this guy. I just
don't think I ever said that I was gonna marry him,
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that we were engaged and I called it off because
that's a very long story.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You know that the probably did.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And did Wes not know that? They didn't know?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
As soon as he said it, he looked at you.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, did you feel like You're like, oh, crap, I
can't believe I just said that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I guaranteed I will pick up Lucy from school today
because they fell asleep in the car on the way home,
and that is the first thing she will ask me.
So you're going to get married before dad.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Wait till they find out that the guy was a
rock star. Yeah, and then the next one is.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
What did he do?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Like all that stuff, and then guests she'll find the
podcast on Mojo in the morning of the conversations and stuff.
It's so funny because I know that this is one
of those things where you look at your parents so differently,
and it's wild when you find out like secrets that
your parents weren't going to tell you. And I'd love
to know if any listeners have ever had this happen
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where you found out that your parent was keeping like
a secret from you or something about your parents past.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
You didn't find out until you were.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Older, yeah, or even like Lucy and Smith's age eight
four to four. Mojo Live is our number eight four
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is nine five five zero zero And if you have
a story, just text call me and Lydia will call you.
I told this story before on the air, but we
found out years after my dad had passed that my
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dad was married before he was married to my mom,
and they never told us about it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I wonder why was it yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, and he got it annulled and everything. He got
married in Catholic church. He was married in Cuba and
the Catholic Church. But my brother Bill went to Cuba
and he was visiting cousins and he was there with
them and they go, they go, yeah, and you know
your dad's wedding photos. We have still have some of them,
and they're thinking Bill was like going. My dad's family
never came to the United States unless they came over.
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And the ones that we knew that were cousins that
you know, went and left Cuba, probably on a raft, you.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Know what I mean, And they came over.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
But they showed Joe a picture of this woman and.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
My dad do you know what this woman is?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I have no idea, but remember I told the story
about I might have two sisters that are out there.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, and a lot of people. Yeah, it's why it's
wild when this happens.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
When you're you know, you find out that your parents
aren't your real not in your real parents, but not
the note the gems that yeah, what's up, Erica, how
you doing?
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Hey, good morning? Those topic resumes. I was in high
school and my grandpa, who had dementia at the time
brought up that my mom had been married before my dad,
and I kind of thought that he was just like
saying something crazy. And then my mom was like, yeah,
I was.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
Married before wowow.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
And it was just like a quick marriage.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Because why did she why did she not tell you?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I think it was she had thought it was like
a not a great relationship and it was a quick, quick,
I think, less funny Year's thing. But yeah, it was
just kind of like a bomb to learn about what
I was.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You know what I would have done at that moment, Erica,
I would have gone to my grandpa with dementia and
asked him a lot of questions because they say that
usually dementia recalls a lot of your early stories in
your life, early history.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
You know, what's up, Amelia, how you doing? And okay,
good morning, good morning, what's happening?
Speaker 8 (06:04):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
So I figured out in high school that my mom
dated my uncle before she dated my dad.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
My uncle, my dad's brother.
Speaker 9 (06:15):
There we go, and they don't know that I know that,
and we're.
Speaker 10 (06:19):
All really close, and I don't know if I'll ever
spill the beans. I don't know if I should ever
bring it up.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I would love I'd be so curious to know the
story too, of like when when did the switch happen
and what provoked that? Do it at Thanksgiving and tape
it and then send it to us.
Speaker 10 (06:36):
Hey, guess what I should tell my uncle's kids. I
told my cousins and they were like, oh my god,
they were shocked.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
How did you find out?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Just like clues, I don't know, just like my my
uncle is really close with us, and.
Speaker 10 (06:55):
You know, my mom was talked about how she dated
a guy.
Speaker 11 (06:57):
With a motorcycle, and then I knew that my uncle
had motorcycle, and I knew that my mom knew the
family before she knew my dad.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
So I was just like, that's investigation.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Shed my uncle, what do you what do you shopping
one of my other uncles and he said, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
What are you chopping back there?
Speaker 9 (07:12):
What is that I'm moving?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
So my bed frames in the back?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh, it's that's just the rattling in the back. Okay.
I thought you were like chopping onions or something the
first time, not the first time that bed frames or rattles. Uh, amber,
what's up? It's mojo in the morning this morning.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
So when I was about twenty seven, twenty eight, I
found out through my daughter's father, through my stepfather, that
my real father was not my father. Was a drunken
conversation I heard about it. I didn't know if it
was a traumatic experience because it was like this big
secret for for my whole life twenty seven years. Oh wow,
come to find out it was a truck driver who
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was dating my great my great aunt, and yeah, it was.
It was a big, big type type of thing.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
But years later, here I am, and.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
I actually contacted contacted my would be sister. I waited
till after she graduated, and that was about fifteen years
ago or so that I contacted her and offered the
DNA test and everything, and obviously she was, you know,
mentally not prepared for all of that, and haven't heard
from her since.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Man, these stories are unbelievable. Hold on, Kyle, what did
you find out?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (08:30):
I found out. So my parents have been divorced since
I was like five, But it wasn't until just about
two years ago. I found out the reason for their divorce,
and it was because my mom had started seeing my
stepdad behind my dad's back.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Oh, oh gosh, So you find out when the cheating
happens is always one of those things.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
How did you find out? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (08:57):
I was on a road trip back from Chicago with
my mom and I just just asked her. I don't know,
it always has been on my mind. So finally asked
her and then she explained, you know, everything that happened.
And then later I went and asked my dad how
it happened from you know, his perspective, and I really
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shed a new light on not only my mom and
my stepdad's marriage, but just like you know your mom
the reasons yeah, well my mom, and like the reasons
for some of my dad's decisions.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And like, yeah, was your dad getting blamed for a
lot of the stuff?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Oh yeah, Wow, that's tough. Do you wish you had
a new known sooner? Do you?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Are you kind of happy you were older when he
found out? Does that mean he's gone lily or what's
going on? I think he might have gone wow, I
don't know. Is it something you want to know like
early on? I guess maybe because you don't want your
dad to get a bad rap. That's uh, that's sad
u Uh, Samantha, what did you find out?
Speaker 8 (10:03):
I found out not long after I turned eighteen that
my old babysitters little brother was my half brother. Oh
my god, three months older than me.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Oh wow, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Wait the whole last thing. Your babysitter's little brother was
your half brother. So that means that your dad was
banging who oh yeah, baby.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
The lady that lived up the road from us.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
So baby banging her and not the babysitter, but then
using her daughter as the babysitter.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
No, okay, so she was a she was a toddler
at the time when this happened. We ended up living
next door to each other and my parents had divorced.
My mom needed a babysitter, so she asked her and
her little brother would come over with her all the
time and we would play together and hang out, and
we all became friends. We grew up together. And then
the mom or somebody was kind of like making jokes
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about my dad being the dad, and he didn't want
us to find out from somebody else, so then he
told us himself.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Oh my god, that's crazy.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
My aunt and uncle got divorced and remarried and nobody
was supposed to ever talk about it either.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
I found that out when I was like.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Twenty Wow, did you end up having a relationship with
your have brother?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
You're asking these questions. I go to the call. I'm
hanging up on this.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I'm not going to say anything else, No, no, no, here,
I'm definitely going to say other stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Do me a favor, do me a favor, making hold.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
A hand up or something? Yeah, I got it, hom
I got one more. My timing has been bad. Just
one bet.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Harry asked that question. I'll answer me too. Oh do
you still hang out with your hal brother at all?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I have no idea because I don't know their story.
All right, next caller here, Lydia. There's twenty people on
the phones here. I want you to tell me with stars.
Who are the best of them all, aside from the
serial killer one that I'm going to get.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Now, Gary, what's up? Gary?
Speaker 9 (11:48):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (11:48):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Guys? How you doing? Buddy?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I got to tell this story is wild because anybody
that's related to a serial killer. But you found out
that your parents and family were keeping from you that
you were related to a serial killer.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Yeah, absolutely, you gotta you gotta.
Speaker 12 (12:05):
Excuse me though, I am at the bank trying to
send money up in here.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
But wait, you're gonna be ei there, You're gonna be
talking well, the people at the bank will be like, yeah,
so I'm related.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
To a serial No.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
We're sitting there at Christmas one year and Grandma was.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
Like, oh sorry, hold on, yes, I just need to
deposit please, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Go ahead, tell your story now.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Any banks that still have life people thank you.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 11 (12:30):
No. So we're sitting there at Christmas and Grandma's talking
about court dates and stuff like that, and.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
We're fifteen, sixteen years old looking at her like what
the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 9 (12:39):
And Grandma finally.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Pulled aside and was drunk, telling us that we're related
to Judas Neely.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Yat right now, she's a serial killer.
Speaker 12 (12:50):
Judas Neely and her husband Alvin kidnapped and tortured a
couple people in front of their kids.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Oh my god, my god. Wow. Oh yeah, that flakes.
She'll come in.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
Soon, dud.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
But we're sitting there at dinner looking at her like,
uh what, wow.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
What do you this is a this is a TV movie?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
What it's a all of a sudden, at the bank,
go you're related to JD. You are not getting your
deposit right.
Speaker 12 (13:18):
Now, you know, I'm gonna blame you guys.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
She would inject her victims with drain cleaner before torturing
that allegedly or.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
No, oh no, that's not alleged, that's fact.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Kevi.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Any questions you'd like to ask the next time I
get off this circular one?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Hold on? Uh, Hannah, what's up?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
We're talking about the secrets you found out about your
families later in life.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Hi.
Speaker 12 (13:47):
So, my parents divorced when I was seven years old,
and I've just found out, maybe two years ago I'm
twenty six now, that they were actually dating and sleepy
together until I was nineteen.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Oh my goodness, Wow, how did you find that out?
Speaker 12 (14:06):
My mom eventually told me, because I just I was
just asking a bunch of questions about that, about the
relationship when I was older, just trying to.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You know, but yet they were still still divorced. That's wild,
does it? They make you happy to know that they
still had somewhat love for each other, or at least
enjoyed having sex with each other.
Speaker 12 (14:26):
I mean, my first I told him, like, oh, that's
a lot, that's a lot of information.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
She goes, I mean, you know it happens.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I was like ex sex all right, Yeah, all right, mom,
that's wild. Hold on, Jen found out that herd going
back to the serial killer thing. What did you find
out Jen about your dad?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
I found out my mom told me that one time
my dad was driving and he hit a guy that
was crossing ninety four and killed him. Oh my god. Yeah,
we were never told about it. He actually doesn't even
know that I'm But then come to find out the
guy was actually running, he had committed a crime. I
don't remember if it was like burglary or I don't remember,
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but he was running from a crime he had committed
and then tried to cross ninety four and my dad
hit him with this car.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
But it was an accident.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Yeah, it was an accident.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Was charged and yeah, okay, did he get reward money
for hitting the criminal?
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I don't know. I have no idea. Hey, he doesn't
know that I know. And my mom told me. I
don't even remember how old I was. I was probably
in my twenties. But yeah, I don't even know why
she told me.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But it's got to be a tough thing for your
dad to live with that he killed somebody for a while.
Although I did talk about that. If you see somebody
committing a crime, would you hit him with your car?
And everybody faith?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
So yeah, yeah, he has a strong faith, so I
think he knows that God forgives him. It was an accident.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Absolutely. Yeah. Hold on, Vinnie, what's up, Vinnie?
Speaker 11 (15:50):
He mojo was going on?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Man, Nothing much, buddy. We're talking about the secrets that
you have that you're found out later about your parents.
Speaker 11 (15:57):
Yeah, all right. When I was in a high school,
my mom she got shot over, she got carjacked. So
so we went up always Detroit. We from Flint, so
I didn't know about Detroit, but she drove herself to
the hospital she got shot, and we think she got
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carjacked and all this kind of stuff and about I said.
A couple of months before she died, she calls me up.
She tells me, you know when I got shot. I said, yeah,
I remember. I said, yeah, that was crazy. She said yeah.
It was a prince from Africa that shot me. He
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married me and he wanted me to go with him,
but I had to leave all y'all behind and I
couldn't do it, so he shot me.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Wait a second, was mom like telling a true story
or was mom like going through a schizophrenic episode.
Speaker 11 (16:56):
No, she's telling the true stories.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
So the prince from Africa came over to the came
over to Flint or Detroit, and wanted to get your
mom to move back with him, and she wouldn't move back,
so he tried to shoot her.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
He shot her.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah, he shot her. So did anybody ever get charged
with the shooting?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
No?
Speaker 11 (17:16):
Because she said it was a carjacking.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
And she lied, wow to protect the prince story.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Did you ever look up this prince?
Speaker 9 (17:24):
No?
Speaker 11 (17:25):
She never told me what his name was. She just
told me one day, like she was telling me all
her confessions because she's she's dying.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Do we believe the story? Is this guy making this up?
Speaker 9 (17:35):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I believe the story, but the mom might have been
making it up.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Really, this is a hell of a story. Really, Okay,
that's the guy.
Speaker 11 (17:43):
She was making it up?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
All right?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Well, I mean, as I got in the blue, my
mom was shot by a carjacker, but she really was
shot by the Prince of Africa. Is it like the
guy that Eddie Murphy played in the movie.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, one last one. These calls are too good.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I honestly, we haven't had a topic that's been this
good since I asked you what you name your car?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Kelsey? What's going on? Kelsey?
Speaker 10 (18:10):
Hi, good morning guys, home.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Good morning. What's going on?
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Not much?
Speaker 10 (18:16):
This story is kind of crazy. So my grandmother had
Alzheimer's and my sister and I were at the nursing
home visiting her and who were surprised that she had
one of her very lucid moments. So we were just
kind of asking her about how she grew up and everything,
and she was talking about how like this really really
dark moment in her life where she had to go
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live with a friend's house the rest of her life.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
We're like, why she.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
Goes because dad did something really bad in Chicago, Like, oh, what.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Do you do?
Speaker 10 (18:44):
She goes, he had to be the ghetaway driver for
his friend. We're like, who's his friend? She was like Capone, Come.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
On now, this has got to be a made up story.
Who is there to God?
Speaker 11 (18:55):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Is that your grandpa?
Speaker 10 (18:59):
My grandfather was the legit ghetaway driver for al Capone.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
St.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
Valentine's Day Massac.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Where's his name?
Speaker 10 (19:07):
I believe his last name might have been Bishop Walter Bishop.
That's that she had.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, so the Valentine's Days massacre. Your great grandpa was
the getaway driver. Man, that's great. And so he guy
had to get out of Chicago. He came to Detroit.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
No, we live.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
I live in Port Clinton. She lived in Sandusky.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I understand, well Sandusky.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
After that, she never call her dad again the massacre.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Oh really, so dad, and now she never saw him. Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I wonder where he went, Like he had to go
like Arizona. He went the same place Jimmy hoffaway.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
No.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
I at the time, like when she was telling me this,
I'm like, so wait, my grand my great grandfather is
not my great grandfather another guy.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (19:56):
I was like, oh, okay, this is crazy.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I wonder if you can go to Chicago and get
discounts on anything there because you're related to a Capone.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I wouldn't go find out Chicago. Amazing, that's amazing. So
that's a wild story, all right. Out of all these stories,
which one is the craziest one the grandpa's and uh,
you know Capone the serial killer was my cousin.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Some of these ones of finding out that your parents,
you know, had kids with other people.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The Prince, the ones to me of like you're thirty
years old and you find out your dad's not your dad.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, Or that your dad birth the babysitter, you know
what I mean. Or birth the person that's now like
your neighbor, or something I always wonder, like how that
happens Where the dad goes and gets neighbor pregnant and
nobody in the neighborhood realizes is that dad's blinking the neighbor.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
It all starts with high dranges. Is that what it is?
Mojoe in the morning. Shannon, you were out last night.
I saw that you were at Greenfield Village. They had
a little Halloween fun going on.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You guys know, this is like my favorite favorite tradition
that my family has as we go to we do
Halloween at Greenfield Village, which if you've never been, it's
sold out I think for this year, so you got
to get in on it early. But the Christmas one
hasn't even gone up yet, and the Christmas one spectacular too,
But it is so fun. They do such a great
job and making it like spooky and fun making the village.
(00:26):
You know, they turn it over for an old fashioned Halloween.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I love going.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So last night it was myself, my husband Wes, and
then my two kids, Lucy and Smith, and we all
bundled up and when and you go, you walk around
the village. And have you guys all been to Greenfield Village.
So there's a church in the village, the Martha Mary Chapel.
It's very famous, and there's like this spooky graveyard that's
next to it. So we always love like making the
little curve right there by the graveyard.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
I make it scary. They make that play scary.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Scary for kids.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Scary.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It's not like if you're going don't worry. It's not yeah,
if I'm fine going through, your kids are fine, going right.
But we were making the turn right there by the
graveyard and the Martha Mary Chapel, and Wes makes made
a comment about how I was supposed to get married there,
which is true. I was engaged way way way back
(01:18):
in the day to a guy who that wedding never
came to fruition because I found out some things about
him that did not sit right with me, and so
I canceled that wedding. But we were going to get
married at Greenfield Village, at Lovett Hall, and so Wes
says this, and Lucy and Smith both look at me
and they're like, you and Dad were gonna get married
at Greenfield Village. And I give Wes like the dagger eyes,
(01:43):
and I'm.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Like, well, no, not me and dad.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And they're like, you and mister Wes, we're gonna get
married at Greenfield Village. I'm like, no, no, not me
and Wes either. And so then I'm like and they're like, oh,
Lucy Goes your high school boyfriend Tom. I'm like no,
they don't know that I was engaged before their dad
but never ended up getting married to that guy, and
we were truly going to get married at Greenfield Village.
(02:09):
So they found that out last night thanks to Wes's
big mouth.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And did they ask you questions about him?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Not really, because I kind of shut it down.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'm like, I don't I don't really feel like explaining
this on this like a really fun night. Oh, Lucy
for sure. Lucy for sure, eleven years old. She's so curious.
She does not let one thing slide. She will ask
for the full story at some point. Were probably today,
Oh yeah, they know I dated this guy. I just
don't think I ever said that I was gonna marry him,
(02:37):
that we were engaged and I called it off because
that's a very long story.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You know that the probably did.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And did Wes not know that? They didn't know?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
As soon as he said it, he looked at you.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, did you feel like You're like, oh, crap, I
can't believe I just said that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I guaranteed I will pick up Lucy from school today
because they fell asleep in the car on the way home,
and that is the first thing she will ask me.
So you're going to get married before dad.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Wait till they find out that the guy was a
rock star. Yeah, and then the next one is.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
What did he do?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Like all that stuff, and then guests she'll find the
podcast on Mojo in the morning of the conversations and stuff.
It's so funny because I know that this is one
of those things where you look at your parents so differently,
and it's wild when you find out like secrets that
your parents weren't going to tell you. And I'd love
to know if any listeners have ever had this happen
(03:31):
where you found out that your parent was keeping like
a secret from you or something about your parents past.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
You didn't find out until you were.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Older, yeah, or even like Lucy and Smith's age eight
four to four. Mojo Live is our number eight four
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a story, just text call me and Lydia will call you.
I told this story before on the air, but we
found out years after my dad had passed that my
(03:59):
dad was married before he was married to my mom,
and they never told us about it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I wonder why was it yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, and he got it annulled and everything. He got
married in Catholic church. He was married in Cuba and
the Catholic Church. But my brother Bill went to Cuba
and he was visiting cousins and he was there with
them and they go, they go, yeah, and you know
your dad's wedding photos. We have still have some of them,
and they're thinking Bill was like going. My dad's family
never came to the United States unless they came over.
(04:28):
And the ones that we knew that were cousins that
you know, went and left Cuba, probably on a raft, you.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Know what I mean, And they came over.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
But they showed Joe a picture of this woman and.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
My dad do you know what this woman is?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I have no idea, but remember I told the story
about I might have two sisters that are out there.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, and a lot of people. Yeah, it's why it's
wild when this happens.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
When you're you know, you find out that your parents
aren't your real not in your real parents, but not
the note the gems that yeah, what's up, Erica, how
you doing?
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Hey, good morning? Those topic resumes. I was in high
school and my grandpa, who had dementia at the time
brought up that my mom had been married before my dad,
and I kind of thought that he was just like
saying something crazy. And then my mom was like, yeah,
I was.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
Married before wowow.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
And it was just like a quick marriage.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Because why did she why did she not tell you?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I think it was she had thought it was like
a not a great relationship and it was a quick, quick,
I think, less funny Year's thing. But yeah, it was
just kind of like a bomb to learn about what
I was.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You know what I would have done at that moment, Erica,
I would have gone to my grandpa with dementia and
asked him a lot of questions because they say that
usually dementia recalls a lot of your early stories in
your life, early history.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
You know, what's up, Amelia, how you doing? And okay,
good morning, good morning, what's happening?
Speaker 8 (06:04):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
So I figured out in high school that my mom
dated my uncle before she dated my dad.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
My uncle, my dad's brother.
Speaker 9 (06:15):
There we go, and they don't know that I know that,
and we're.
Speaker 10 (06:19):
All really close, and I don't know if I'll ever
spill the beans. I don't know if I should ever
bring it up.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I would love I'd be so curious to know the
story too, of like when when did the switch happen
and what provoked that? Do it at Thanksgiving and tape
it and then send it to us.
Speaker 10 (06:36):
Hey, guess what I should tell my uncle's kids. I
told my cousins and they were like, oh my god,
they were shocked.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
How did you find out?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Just like clues, I don't know, just like my my
uncle is really close with us, and.
Speaker 10 (06:55):
You know, my mom was talked about how she dated
a guy.
Speaker 11 (06:57):
With a motorcycle, and then I knew that my uncle
had motorcycle, and I knew that my mom knew the
family before she knew my dad.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
So I was just like, that's investigation.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Shed my uncle, what do you what do you shopping
one of my other uncles and he said, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
What are you chopping back there?
Speaker 9 (07:12):
What is that I'm moving?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
So my bed frames in the back?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh, it's that's just the rattling in the back. Okay.
I thought you were like chopping onions or something the
first time, not the first time that bed frames or rattles. Uh, amber,
what's up? It's mojo in the morning this morning.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
So when I was about twenty seven, twenty eight, I
found out through my daughter's father, through my stepfather, that
my real father was not my father. Was a drunken
conversation I heard about it. I didn't know if it
was a traumatic experience because it was like this big
secret for for my whole life twenty seven years. Oh wow,
come to find out it was a truck driver who
(07:55):
was dating my great my great aunt, and yeah, it was.
It was a big, big type type of thing.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
But years later, here I am, and.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
I actually contacted contacted my would be sister. I waited
till after she graduated, and that was about fifteen years
ago or so that I contacted her and offered the
DNA test and everything, and obviously she was, you know,
mentally not prepared for all of that, and haven't heard
from her since.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Man, these stories are unbelievable. Hold on, Kyle, what did
you find out?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (08:30):
I found out. So my parents have been divorced since
I was like five, But it wasn't until just about
two years ago. I found out the reason for their divorce,
and it was because my mom had started seeing my
stepdad behind my dad's back.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Oh, oh gosh, So you find out when the cheating
happens is always one of those things.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
How did you find out? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (08:57):
I was on a road trip back from Chicago with
my mom and I just just asked her. I don't know,
it always has been on my mind. So finally asked
her and then she explained, you know, everything that happened.
And then later I went and asked my dad how
it happened from you know, his perspective, and I really
(09:19):
shed a new light on not only my mom and
my stepdad's marriage, but just like you know your mom
the reasons yeah, well my mom, and like the reasons
for some of my dad's decisions.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And like, yeah, was your dad getting blamed for a
lot of the stuff?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Oh yeah, Wow, that's tough. Do you wish you had
a new known sooner? Do you?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Are you kind of happy you were older when he
found out? Does that mean he's gone lily or what's
going on? I think he might have gone wow, I
don't know. Is it something you want to know like
early on? I guess maybe because you don't want your
dad to get a bad rap. That's uh, that's sad
u Uh, Samantha, what did you find out?
Speaker 8 (10:03):
I found out not long after I turned eighteen that
my old babysitters little brother was my half brother. Oh
my god, three months older than me.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Oh wow, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Wait the whole last thing. Your babysitter's little brother was
your half brother. So that means that your dad was
banging who oh yeah, baby.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
The lady that lived up the road from us.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
So baby banging her and not the babysitter, but then
using her daughter as the babysitter.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
No, okay, so she was a she was a toddler
at the time when this happened. We ended up living
next door to each other and my parents had divorced.
My mom needed a babysitter, so she asked her and
her little brother would come over with her all the
time and we would play together and hang out, and
we all became friends. We grew up together. And then
the mom or somebody was kind of like making jokes
(10:50):
about my dad being the dad, and he didn't want
us to find out from somebody else, so then he
told us himself.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Oh my god, that's crazy.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
My aunt and uncle got divorced and remarried and nobody
was supposed to ever talk about it either.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
I found that out when I was like.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Twenty Wow, did you end up having a relationship with
your have brother?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
You're asking these questions. I go to the call. I'm
hanging up on this.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I'm not going to say anything else, No, no, no, here,
I'm definitely going to say other stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Do me a favor, do me a favor, making hold.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
A hand up or something? Yeah, I got it, hom
I got one more. My timing has been bad. Just
one bet.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Harry asked that question. I'll answer me too. Oh do
you still hang out with your hal brother at all?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I have no idea because I don't know their story.
All right, next caller here, Lydia. There's twenty people on
the phones here. I want you to tell me with stars.
Who are the best of them all, aside from the
serial killer one that I'm going to get.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Now, Gary, what's up? Gary?
Speaker 9 (11:48):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (11:48):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Guys? How you doing? Buddy?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I got to tell this story is wild because anybody
that's related to a serial killer. But you found out
that your parents and family were keeping from you that
you were related to a serial killer.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Yeah, absolutely, you gotta you gotta.
Speaker 12 (12:05):
Excuse me though, I am at the bank trying to
send money up in here.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
But wait, you're gonna be ei there, You're gonna be
talking well, the people at the bank will be like, yeah,
so I'm related.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
To a serial No.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
We're sitting there at Christmas one year and Grandma was.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
Like, oh sorry, hold on, yes, I just need to
deposit please, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Go ahead, tell your story now.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Any banks that still have life people thank you.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 11 (12:30):
No. So we're sitting there at Christmas and Grandma's talking
about court dates and stuff like that, and.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
We're fifteen, sixteen years old looking at her like what
the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 9 (12:39):
And Grandma finally.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Pulled aside and was drunk, telling us that we're related
to Judas Neely.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Yat right now, she's a serial killer.
Speaker 12 (12:50):
Judas Neely and her husband Alvin kidnapped and tortured a
couple people in front of their kids.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Oh my god, my god. Wow. Oh yeah, that flakes.
She'll come in.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
Soon, dud.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
But we're sitting there at dinner looking at her like,
uh what, wow.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
What do you this is a this is a TV movie?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
What it's a all of a sudden, at the bank,
go you're related to JD. You are not getting your
deposit right.
Speaker 12 (13:18):
Now, you know, I'm gonna blame you guys.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
She would inject her victims with drain cleaner before torturing
that allegedly or.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
No, oh no, that's not alleged, that's fact.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Kevi.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Any questions you'd like to ask the next time I
get off this circular one?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Hold on? Uh, Hannah, what's up?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
We're talking about the secrets you found out about your
families later in life.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Hi.
Speaker 12 (13:47):
So, my parents divorced when I was seven years old,
and I've just found out, maybe two years ago I'm
twenty six now, that they were actually dating and sleepy
together until I was nineteen.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Oh my goodness, Wow, how did you find that out?
Speaker 12 (14:06):
My mom eventually told me, because I just I was
just asking a bunch of questions about that, about the
relationship when I was older, just trying to.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You know, but yet they were still still divorced. That's wild,
does it? They make you happy to know that they
still had somewhat love for each other, or at least
enjoyed having sex with each other.
Speaker 12 (14:26):
I mean, my first I told him, like, oh, that's
a lot, that's a lot of information.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
She goes, I mean, you know it happens.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I was like ex sex all right, Yeah, all right, mom,
that's wild. Hold on, Jen found out that herd going
back to the serial killer thing. What did you find
out Jen about your dad?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
I found out my mom told me that one time
my dad was driving and he hit a guy that
was crossing ninety four and killed him. Oh my god. Yeah,
we were never told about it. He actually doesn't even
know that I'm But then come to find out the
guy was actually running, he had committed a crime. I
don't remember if it was like burglary or I don't remember,
(15:08):
but he was running from a crime he had committed
and then tried to cross ninety four and my dad
hit him with this car.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
But it was an accident.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Yeah, it was an accident.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Was charged and yeah, okay, did he get reward money
for hitting the criminal?
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I don't know. I have no idea. Hey, he doesn't
know that I know. And my mom told me. I
don't even remember how old I was. I was probably
in my twenties. But yeah, I don't even know why
she told me.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But it's got to be a tough thing for your
dad to live with that he killed somebody for a while.
Although I did talk about that. If you see somebody
committing a crime, would you hit him with your car?
And everybody faith?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
So yeah, yeah, he has a strong faith, so I
think he knows that God forgives him. It was an accident.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Absolutely. Yeah. Hold on, Vinnie, what's up, Vinnie?
Speaker 11 (15:50):
He mojo was going on?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Man, Nothing much, buddy. We're talking about the secrets that
you have that you're found out later about your parents.
Speaker 11 (15:57):
Yeah, all right. When I was in a high school,
my mom she got shot over, she got carjacked. So
so we went up always Detroit. We from Flint, so
I didn't know about Detroit, but she drove herself to
the hospital she got shot, and we think she got
(16:19):
carjacked and all this kind of stuff and about I said.
A couple of months before she died, she calls me up.
She tells me, you know when I got shot. I said, yeah,
I remember. I said, yeah, that was crazy. She said yeah.
It was a prince from Africa that shot me. He
(16:40):
married me and he wanted me to go with him,
but I had to leave all y'all behind and I
couldn't do it, so he shot me.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Wait a second, was mom like telling a true story
or was mom like going through a schizophrenic episode.
Speaker 11 (16:56):
No, she's telling the true stories.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
So the prince from Africa came over to the came
over to Flint or Detroit, and wanted to get your
mom to move back with him, and she wouldn't move back,
so he tried to shoot her.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
He shot her.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah, he shot her. So did anybody ever get charged
with the shooting?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
No?
Speaker 11 (17:16):
Because she said it was a carjacking.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
And she lied, wow to protect the prince story.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Did you ever look up this prince?
Speaker 9 (17:24):
No?
Speaker 11 (17:25):
She never told me what his name was. She just
told me one day, like she was telling me all
her confessions because she's she's dying.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Do we believe the story? Is this guy making this up?
Speaker 9 (17:35):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I believe the story, but the mom might have been
making it up.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Really, this is a hell of a story. Really, Okay,
that's the guy.
Speaker 11 (17:43):
She was making it up?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
All right?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Well, I mean, as I got in the blue, my
mom was shot by a carjacker, but she really was
shot by the Prince of Africa. Is it like the
guy that Eddie Murphy played in the movie.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, one last one. These calls are too good.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I honestly, we haven't had a topic that's been this
good since I asked you what you name your car?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Kelsey? What's going on? Kelsey?
Speaker 10 (18:10):
Hi, good morning guys, home.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Good morning. What's going on?
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Not much?
Speaker 10 (18:16):
This story is kind of crazy. So my grandmother had
Alzheimer's and my sister and I were at the nursing
home visiting her and who were surprised that she had
one of her very lucid moments. So we were just
kind of asking her about how she grew up and everything,
and she was talking about how like this really really
dark moment in her life where she had to go
(18:37):
live with a friend's house the rest of her life.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
We're like, why she.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
Goes because dad did something really bad in Chicago, Like, oh, what.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Do you do?
Speaker 10 (18:44):
She goes, he had to be the ghetaway driver for
his friend. We're like, who's his friend? She was like Capone, Come.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
On now, this has got to be a made up story.
Who is there to God?
Speaker 11 (18:55):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Is that your grandpa?
Speaker 10 (18:59):
My grandfather was the legit ghetaway driver for al Capone.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
St.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
Valentine's Day Massac.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Where's his name?
Speaker 10 (19:07):
I believe his last name might have been Bishop Walter Bishop.
That's that she had.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, so the Valentine's Days massacre. Your great grandpa was
the getaway driver. Man, that's great. And so he guy
had to get out of Chicago. He came to Detroit.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
No, we live.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
I live in Port Clinton. She lived in Sandusky.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I understand, well Sandusky.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
After that, she never call her dad again the massacre.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Oh really, so dad, and now she never saw him. Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I wonder where he went, Like he had to go
like Arizona. He went the same place Jimmy hoffaway.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
No.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
I at the time, like when she was telling me this,
I'm like, so wait, my grand my great grandfather is
not my great grandfather another guy.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (19:56):
I was like, oh, okay, this is crazy.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I wonder if you can go to Chicago and get
discounts on anything there because you're related to a Capone.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I wouldn't go find out Chicago. Amazing, that's amazing. So
that's a wild story, all right. Out of all these stories,
which one is the craziest one the grandpa's and uh,
you know Capone the serial killer was my cousin.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Some of these ones of finding out that your parents,
you know, had kids with other people.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The Prince, the ones to me of like you're thirty
years old and you find out your dad's not your dad.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, Or that your dad birth the babysitter, you know
what I mean. Or birth the person that's now like
your neighbor, or something I always wonder, like how that
happens Where the dad goes and gets neighbor pregnant and
nobody in the neighborhood realizes is that dad's blinking the neighbor.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
It all starts with high dranges. Is that what it is?
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