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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it's Mojo in the morning show Shannon Big
News Guys, Shannon now has an official title. What's your title?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I am an ordained minister?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
O wow, Hey, I'm We have a friend of our
family who's getting married next month, and she asked me
a while ago, like a good year ago, to perform
the ceremony for her. And I've never I know you've
you're ordained. You performed like two dozen weddings or something
(00:30):
crazy like that.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I used to call it the Church of Beer and Pizza,
but it's not. It's actually some church out of Modesto,
California that does it online.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Is where the heck is it? I hope I didn't
just delete the thing? Oh, mine is the Universal Life Church.
We are all children of the same universe.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Where's it? Where's their address? Look it up? I think
it's Modesto, California or something like that.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well I didn't opt to get No, it's San Jose.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Okay, So I got so when you did it, you
do it? Did we tell everybody how easy the process?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So that's what I So she The wedding's October tenth,
and the other night I'm sitting down. This is the
night before last, and I'm like, I better get on
this process, Like, oh crap, I actually have to get ordained,
because don't I have to do like a marriage certificate.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I know nothing about that.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
You've signed a marriage a license from the county.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Right, So I'm like, this has to be a process
where I have to be legit and this could take
a while.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I don't know. I've never done it before.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
So I reached out to my friend Dave, who I
know is ordained, and I said, Hey, what's the process
look like to do this? He sends me a website
over text. I click on the link, I go to
the website. It's like first name, last name, phone number,
email address boomed.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I am, that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And then they said, do you want us to send
you an official certificate?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Did you no to certificate?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I have mine framed and I have it next to
my high school diploma for free.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
By the way, free doesn't cost you a dying.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Yeah, I'm doing this. I'm gonna be ordained by the
end of the show. I did offer hard. I did
offer a donation to their church.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Though I did it, I think I gave like a
twenty five dollars donation or something.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You're nicer than me.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, so it's funny that you do this because you
know who hates this. The people that hated are the
actual real ministers. Because I wait a second, because I
used to say that. I used to say I was
an ordained minister and there they say, no, you're an officiant.
So yeah, so did when you sign that license? I
used to put minister on there? And I found out
(02:41):
that the county was telling people that was not a
you're not a minister of a church because I didn't
put so I had to put officiant.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Okay, So this is so funny because I'm reading the
email that they sent me to congratulate me that I'm
hashtag ordained is what it says. Congratulations, and it said
with your credentials in hand, you will be able to
expand your career as a okay or professional officiant efficient.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Do you know how much those people that do those
we did do weddings get paidet for free? So I did.
I did a promotion down in or We did a
promotion for the radio show and the winner was a
listener from Toledo, and I did their wedding and it
was an awesome wedding. We had a really, really nice time.
I had a woman come up to me that was
doing the wedding that was next to them at the hotel,
(03:27):
and she came up to me and she said, how
much do you charge?
Speaker 6 (03:29):
I want?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And I go, how much do I charge? I had
no idea what she was talking about. I thought for
a second, there I was me and the hooker from Taledo.
I was like, this is amazing. And she goes, she goes,
how much do you charge to do weddings? And I
said I don't it was a radio station thing. She goes,
you could charge they get paid like five hundred to
one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Okay, well, look I do not want to do this
any more than this wedding. I'm doing this because, like
I said, she's a family friend. Lucy and Smith are
in the wedding. I am terrified to do this. I
hope I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Screw with Bob.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And that's honestly, you know what it reminded me of.
I used to be a wedding DJ. I would mobile
wedding DJ before I got into radio, and that is pressure.
You don't want to screw up somebody's wedding, you'll feel
that same pressure. Yeah, Like, did you ever have you
ever done a reading at a funeral or a wedding.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I've done a reading at a funeral. I think I've
done a reading at a wedding before.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
To me, it's that's worse than being on the radio here.
I'd rather be on the show.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, you guys have heard me say this.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I do not like being in situations where like when
we go on stage for a jingle Ball or the
iHeartRadio Music Festival something. I am absolutely freaking terrified in
this studio. I could if anything in public, Like I
get really nervous still, which is weird, but so this
I'm I'm nervous.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's their wedding.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
See, I kind of look at it as their friends
and family are there and this is their biggest moment
of their life.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I don't know anybody in her family except for her mom,
and I know not I know nobody else in her family.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Hey, Rachel, Hey, hey, I want I wanted to share
that my husband is or Day through the Church of
the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Real thing.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
It is a real thing. He is an atheist. I'm Catholic,
but he's an atheist and his sister got married a
couple of years ago asked him to be the minister,
and he got ordained through that it's actually like a
real church because the guy's argument who founded it is that,
you know, God shouldn't be taught in schools, and that
if God is taught, that the flying spaghetti monster should
(05:28):
also be taught in schools.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So that's how he started, Wow, do you get a
or I don't know, Yeah, yeah, you definitely not get
into heaven.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
And he got like a sticker, he got all sorts
of stuff. You he paid at fifty bucks and then he.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Got ordained you don't get into heaven, but you get
a good table at booka to Beppo. I know still around,
by the way, I don't think so, Mark, what's having
in good morning?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Does?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
We're going on?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Funny story twenty seven years ago when after a year
of meeting my wife, we were we got actually got married,
but her mother did not like me at all. So
the cool part is twenty five years later, which was
two years ago, we got back connected and I wanted
(06:21):
to make sure that she approved of us being married.
Didn't because our lives had changed and we grew up.
Actually I grew up. And she went and got ordained
and married her daughter.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
To me, that's great. So so she went to the
same place that Channon probably did right and did the
U thirty.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Went on wine and got ordained. I think it was
the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That's honestly, that's sweet. That's a sweet way of being
able to say. Now you actually do like me, Patrese,
Are you an actual minister?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Hello? Every word? Good morning, actual, good morning. I am
an actual minister. At preached my first sermon in my
early thirties twenties, and I think it's kind of jinky
people just literally go online and get their license because
I just live to live like you know.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
What I mean.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
I don't drink it, don't smoke it, don't fornicate, So
I'm a literal minister. It's not easy.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Shannon doesn't drink or fornicade either, I don't think, but
she's marry so.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
But yeah, it's it's not easy, minister.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
For listen, I will say that, are you upset because
Shannon's getting paid ten thousand dollars to do this wedding
and you haven't gotten that.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Absolutely, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Pressure though for trees, like, I hope that I because
obviously you have to follow like somewhat of a little
not necessarily a script, but what is it like a
you know, yeah, program?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But I'm hoping that I can call.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
The serviceding so that you can tell him great for
it's going to be great for this.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
But I'm hoping that I can offer some sort of
good I think will be advice. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I sat down to write some of it last night
and yeah, Patrice, can you email me?
Speaker 8 (08:09):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Hold on Morgan is a minister and disagrees with Patrice.
What'd you want to say, Morgan?
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Wow, Hey, I disagree.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
I'm sorry for teres.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
Weddings take a lot of prep work. You have to
meet with the couples, you have to talk to them,
and a lot of times there are people that are
truly just looking for a minister to marry them because
they need somebody to sign the line. They have no
intention of ever being in your congregation, sitting in your pews,
participating in your services at all. And you're spending a
(08:42):
lot of time with these people.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
And so if.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
Somebody wants to go online and get ordained, that knows
them well and can add personal touches to the wedding.
Have at it like take the time.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Well, I just you know, I just don't think it's fair, Like,
for instance, if you want that cycle study who go
to veyus to just because one that you know what
I mean. But in all honesty, like I take it seriously.
I'm one on the cruise for the first time in
my life at the end of this month with my
god daughter. I am eat. I'm having a problem just
to happen to drink of wine. She's like, mah, I
have a drink with me. I'm like, oh God, I
(09:14):
don't want. I don't drink. Use cenful stuff like that.
When I say I walk this walk.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
Yeah, you know I can.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I say something Patrice, Patrice Chelsea and I got married
thirty two years ago or something like that.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
And we got married by a priest and the man
had never been married ever before in his life. And honestly,
I would almost rather have And this is no offense
to I'm Catholic, and I believe that, you know, Uh,
I believe priests in our Mond Senior time that married
us was a great guy. But I want somebody like
that has been married that can say well, yes, yeah,
(09:53):
that was actually joke, thinking it's gonna work on third,
but I don't think that's happening.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
This one's for life.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
But I actually, like, I had somebody that I married
not that long ago, and they thought that I did
wedding counts or marriage counseling and they came to my
house and it was a It was friends of Chelsea
and I' kids, and they came over to our house
and they just go, hey, we just want some advice.
And honestly, it was wild because Chelsea and I just
gave them some advice, like literally, and we were not
(10:19):
going through great times at that time, but they actually
they said it helped them, and so I actually think
it's good. I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
If you want to differently start a group you teach
people to write way, and I might, you know, be
your first student. Because during this topic, now I'm more Dane.
I just signed up
All right, it's Mojo in the morning show Shannon Big
News Guys, Shannon now has an official title. What's your title?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I am an ordained minister?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
O wow, Hey, I'm We have a friend of our
family who's getting married next month, and she asked me
a while ago, like a good year ago, to perform
the ceremony for her. And I've never I know you've
you're ordained. You performed like two dozen weddings or something
(00:30):
crazy like that.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I used to call it the Church of Beer and Pizza,
but it's not. It's actually some church out of Modesto,
California that does it online.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Is where the heck is it? I hope I didn't
just delete the thing? Oh, mine is the Universal Life Church.
We are all children of the same universe.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Where's it? Where's their address? Look it up? I think
it's Modesto, California or something like that.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well I didn't opt to get No, it's San Jose.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Okay, So I got so when you did it, you
do it? Did we tell everybody how easy the process?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So that's what I So she The wedding's October tenth,
and the other night I'm sitting down. This is the
night before last, and I'm like, I better get on
this process, Like, oh crap, I actually have to get ordained,
because don't I have to do like a marriage certificate.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I know nothing about that.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
You've signed a marriage a license from the county.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Right, So I'm like, this has to be a process
where I have to be legit and this could take
a while.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I don't know. I've never done it before.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
So I reached out to my friend Dave, who I
know is ordained, and I said, Hey, what's the process
look like to do this? He sends me a website
over text. I click on the link, I go to
the website. It's like first name, last name, phone number,
email address boomed.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I am, that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And then they said, do you want us to send
you an official certificate?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Did you no to certificate?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I have mine framed and I have it next to
my high school diploma for free.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
By the way, free doesn't cost you a dying.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Yeah, I'm doing this. I'm gonna be ordained by the
end of the show. I did offer hard. I did
offer a donation to their church.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Though I did it, I think I gave like a
twenty five dollars donation or something.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You're nicer than me.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, so it's funny that you do this because you
know who hates this. The people that hated are the
actual real ministers. Because I wait a second, because I
used to say that. I used to say I was
an ordained minister and there they say, no, you're an officiant.
So yeah, so did when you sign that license? I
used to put minister on there? And I found out
(02:41):
that the county was telling people that was not a
you're not a minister of a church because I didn't
put so I had to put officiant.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Okay, So this is so funny because I'm reading the
email that they sent me to congratulate me that I'm
hashtag ordained is what it says. Congratulations, and it said
with your credentials in hand, you will be able to
expand your career as a okay or professional officiant efficient.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Do you know how much those people that do those
we did do weddings get paidet for free? So I did.
I did a promotion down in or We did a
promotion for the radio show and the winner was a
listener from Toledo, and I did their wedding and it
was an awesome wedding. We had a really, really nice time.
I had a woman come up to me that was
doing the wedding that was next to them at the hotel,
(03:27):
and she came up to me and she said, how
much do you charge?
Speaker 6 (03:29):
I want?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And I go, how much do I charge? I had
no idea what she was talking about. I thought for
a second, there I was me and the hooker from Taledo.
I was like, this is amazing. And she goes, she goes,
how much do you charge to do weddings? And I
said I don't it was a radio station thing. She goes,
you could charge they get paid like five hundred to
one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Okay, well, look I do not want to do this
any more than this wedding. I'm doing this because, like
I said, she's a family friend. Lucy and Smith are
in the wedding. I am terrified to do this. I
hope I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Screw with Bob.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And that's honestly, you know what it reminded me of.
I used to be a wedding DJ. I would mobile
wedding DJ before I got into radio, and that is pressure.
You don't want to screw up somebody's wedding, you'll feel
that same pressure. Yeah, Like, did you ever have you
ever done a reading at a funeral or a wedding.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I've done a reading at a funeral. I think I've
done a reading at a wedding before.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
To me, it's that's worse than being on the radio here.
I'd rather be on the show.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, you guys have heard me say this.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I do not like being in situations where like when
we go on stage for a jingle Ball or the
iHeartRadio Music Festival something. I am absolutely freaking terrified in
this studio. I could if anything in public, Like I
get really nervous still, which is weird, but so this
I'm I'm nervous.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's their wedding.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
See, I kind of look at it as their friends
and family are there and this is their biggest moment
of their life.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I don't know anybody in her family except for her mom,
and I know not I know nobody else in her family.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Hey, Rachel, Hey, hey, I want I wanted to share
that my husband is or Day through the Church of
the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Real thing.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
It is a real thing. He is an atheist. I'm Catholic,
but he's an atheist and his sister got married a
couple of years ago asked him to be the minister,
and he got ordained through that it's actually like a
real church because the guy's argument who founded it is that,
you know, God shouldn't be taught in schools, and that
if God is taught, that the flying spaghetti monster should
(05:28):
also be taught in schools.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So that's how he started, Wow, do you get a
or I don't know, Yeah, yeah, you definitely not get
into heaven.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
And he got like a sticker, he got all sorts
of stuff. You he paid at fifty bucks and then he.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Got ordained you don't get into heaven, but you get
a good table at booka to Beppo. I know still around,
by the way, I don't think so, Mark, what's having
in good morning?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Does?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
We're going on?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Funny story twenty seven years ago when after a year
of meeting my wife, we were we got actually got married,
but her mother did not like me at all. So
the cool part is twenty five years later, which was
two years ago, we got back connected and I wanted
(06:21):
to make sure that she approved of us being married.
Didn't because our lives had changed and we grew up.
Actually I grew up. And she went and got ordained
and married her daughter.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
To me, that's great. So so she went to the
same place that Channon probably did right and did the
U thirty.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Went on wine and got ordained. I think it was
the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That's honestly, that's sweet. That's a sweet way of being
able to say. Now you actually do like me, Patrese,
Are you an actual minister?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Hello? Every word? Good morning, actual, good morning. I am
an actual minister. At preached my first sermon in my
early thirties twenties, and I think it's kind of jinky
people just literally go online and get their license because
I just live to live like you know.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
What I mean.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
I don't drink it, don't smoke it, don't fornicate, So
I'm a literal minister. It's not easy.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Shannon doesn't drink or fornicade either, I don't think, but
she's marry so.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
But yeah, it's it's not easy, minister.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
For listen, I will say that, are you upset because
Shannon's getting paid ten thousand dollars to do this wedding
and you haven't gotten that.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Absolutely, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Pressure though for trees, like, I hope that I because
obviously you have to follow like somewhat of a little
not necessarily a script, but what is it like a
you know, yeah, program?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But I'm hoping that I can call.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
The serviceding so that you can tell him great for
it's going to be great for this.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
But I'm hoping that I can offer some sort of
good I think will be advice. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I sat down to write some of it last night
and yeah, Patrice, can you email me?
Speaker 8 (08:09):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Hold on Morgan is a minister and disagrees with Patrice.
What'd you want to say, Morgan?
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Wow, Hey, I disagree.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
I'm sorry for teres.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
Weddings take a lot of prep work. You have to
meet with the couples, you have to talk to them,
and a lot of times there are people that are
truly just looking for a minister to marry them because
they need somebody to sign the line. They have no
intention of ever being in your congregation, sitting in your pews,
participating in your services at all. And you're spending a
(08:42):
lot of time with these people.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
And so if.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
Somebody wants to go online and get ordained, that knows
them well and can add personal touches to the wedding.
Have at it like take the time.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Well, I just you know, I just don't think it's fair, Like,
for instance, if you want that cycle study who go
to veyus to just because one that you know what
I mean. But in all honesty, like I take it seriously.
I'm one on the cruise for the first time in
my life at the end of this month with my
god daughter. I am eat. I'm having a problem just
to happen to drink of wine. She's like, mah, I
have a drink with me. I'm like, oh God, I
(09:14):
don't want. I don't drink. Use cenful stuff like that.
When I say I walk this walk.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
Yeah, you know I can.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I say something Patrice, Patrice Chelsea and I got married
thirty two years ago or something like that.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
And we got married by a priest and the man
had never been married ever before in his life. And honestly,
I would almost rather have And this is no offense
to I'm Catholic, and I believe that, you know, Uh,
I believe priests in our Mond Senior time that married
us was a great guy. But I want somebody like
that has been married that can say well, yes, yeah,
(09:53):
that was actually joke, thinking it's gonna work on third,
but I don't think that's happening.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
This one's for life.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
But I actually, like, I had somebody that I married
not that long ago, and they thought that I did
wedding counts or marriage counseling and they came to my
house and it was a It was friends of Chelsea
and I' kids, and they came over to our house
and they just go, hey, we just want some advice.
And honestly, it was wild because Chelsea and I just
gave them some advice, like literally, and we were not
(10:19):
going through great times at that time, but they actually
they said it helped them, and so I actually think
it's good. I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
If you want to differently start a group you teach
people to write way, and I might, you know, be
your first student. Because during this topic, now I'm more Dane.
I just signed up
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