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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mo Joe in the morning. Uh was Shannon Cheap? I
don't know. You got to hear this story? What have them?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So I went to a Christmas party and it was
a Christmas party that Lucy was invited to. Lucy and
like ten or eleven other girls from her class, and
the mom who threw this party, which was, honest to god,
the most insanely beautiful, detailed Christmas party I have ever
(00:28):
been to in my whole entire life. Props to her.
But the mom also invited the moms of the girls
to come to this party. So there were I think
twelve girls, twelve moms, I think is how you know?
It all shook out and the girls did a white
elephant gift exchange. So there were some you know, little
rules for the white elephant gift exchange, as there usually are,
and then the mom who through the party decided that, oh,
(00:50):
the mom should do a gift exchange as well, and
so the invitation said there were three gifts that each
mom had to bring. Okay, you had to bring an
artisan chocolate. Oh, you had to bring a your favor
it was favorite thing, so your favorite artist in chocolate,
your favorite beauty product trial size, and then you had
(01:12):
to bring your favorite kitchen gadget, and then everybody was
going to get to pick. Like you know, you're gonna
go home with three new things. Okay, love it.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, here's what I brought.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I don't cook. Y'all know this, so I'm thinking kitchen gadget.
I don't. I don't really know kitchen gadget. So I
went to my favorite kitchen store and bought a big
thing of olive oil and like some Santa Claus pasta.
I thought, okay, that's cute, wrapped it in cellophane. That
was one gift for my beauty product. Trial size I
bought is an aloe or a low the yoga brand. Oh,
I say, as the store downtown Alo. I go to
(01:45):
Alo and I bought the Alo like chapstick lip gloss thing.
I was like, okay, it's good, not drowsize, but like
it's teeny perfect for my artisan chocolate Anna. Actually you
helped me. I got Bonbon Bonds Detroit chocolate brand wanted
to represent. Those were my three things that I brought.
I get to this beautiful party. I have my gifts.
(02:06):
I'm so proud of how I wrapped them because I
love wrapping things. I take them out of the bag
and the mom's like, okay, we're there's three separate tables.
So you put your chocolate on this one, you put
your beauty gift on this one, you put your kitchen
gadget on this one. I stop in my tracks. I
go to the kitchen gadget table. These women brought full
(02:27):
on appliances.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
What appliances for the table that was of.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Kitchen things for kitchen gadget.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Kitchen gadget. An appliance is not a gadget. I'm talking.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yes, I'm talking like espresso espresso.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Makers, like a rice a Japanese rice cooker.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I will sound in the shopping bag that I have.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
At my olive oil Kevin.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
My armpit starts sweating.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I'm like, oh my god, I feel like the biggest
idiot in the whole world. I had no idea that
this is where it was going to go.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Pasta is not a gadget.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's not, but it was a kitchen thingy the olive
oil pot. I'm thinking the only one that I'm in
my head.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I'm thinking people are going to bring gadget.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
People are going to bring like a garlic peeler, or
like a kitchen shears, or somebody actually did bring a
milk frother, so I wasn't the only one that didn't
bring like an over the top gift.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
What are you thinking?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Do you think the beauty products were trial size?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No, everybody bought my full size?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
You go over?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So embarrassing?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Is that it was good for you? You made out
like a bandit probably sure did, but I felt stupid.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I thought she was cheap.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I felt so stupid.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
What are you thinking? Keats? The look on your partying
with the elite's just a very nice. If I'm invited
to a party and the words artists and chocolate are
in there, I'm thinking this might be a little boogie.
What what? Literally? What does artists in chocolate? What does
artists and chocolate mean?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I think it just.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Means not Hershey's.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Like a specialty.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So bon bon bon.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I thought perfect of chocolates?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Did they bring?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I don't know how to pronounce them?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
What are bon bon bonds? I've never tried that before.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Seriously, a great Detroit brand.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
There are a few stores like baby size chocolates, but
I want six of them.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
If you were to buy, if you were to buy
artists in chocolates. They all are wrapped up in little
like gold.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It looks like chocolate.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
It could be good divas it shows on here, although
good dive would probably be cheap for the sounds like
these guys.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Fine the beauty thing, okay, fine, Mine really was full size,
it was small whatever it was the kitchen gadget, the
kitchen gadget.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So what did you get? I want to know what
you want? What did you go home with?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I got a whole like knife in kitchen shears. Oh,
this is amazing. Wow, yeah, it is you person that
got my olive oil. You.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I think you'll be invited back next year.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Probably. It's one of those parties where I was like,
this is the most this is the best party you've
ever been.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I've been to white elephant parties before. In the white
elephant parties, I come home with like, you know, a
female love device or something like that. I'm like, what's
going on, Jennifer, what's happening?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Hey, Hi, what's happening in your phone? Kind of cut again?
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh? I said good morning, good morning morning. So Shannon,
before you got to the appliance part I was thinking,
how could Shannon not think of a wine opener, because honestly,
I thought everybody would do that to me that I
was that was like the easy, like go to and
of course I would have done something like that, but
I was like, oh, I'm going to be creative and thinking,
(05:46):
I was like, how did you not think about wine open.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I went favorite.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I literally went to my favorite kitchen storehouse called the
Good Day. It's like a home store and got like nice.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
St world Crow Amazon, it's a whole new world. I
wouldn't know what they want to do somebody inviting artisans, though,
I will tell you what's the store that's in the
mall is at Williams and Oma. I walked by that store,
you know that the one. I walked by that store
all the time thinking they're gonna have free samples and
they never do. But I get mesmerized by specialists.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I failed this gift exchange so bad?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Do you think, Jennifer, they're judging Shannon today? Absolutely seeing
the group check.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh for sure for sure, but like there was no
there's no context to it.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Did you see her?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
It was.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Do they know? Do you so? Because I hate when
you go to a party and everybody knows who it
was that that gave the stock.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yes, you had to go up.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
And explain why you.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Because because it was a favorite thing's gift exchange that
you say about. I said, as my pits were sweating
through the past that I wore. I got up and
I was like, I do this for a living, but
I get very nervous speaking in these situations. I also
do not cook, so I did not know what to
(07:09):
bring for a kitchen gadget. So I said, I went
to my favorite store I and you know, this is
what we use at home. It is one of my
favorite things. Yes, keV is basically what I said. Lucy
was with the girls in another room.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
What was the look on the mom's faces?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They were all so honestly, I was so gracious, like okay,
stupid it actually wasn't, actually wasn't. I think my beauty
product was the last gift picked. But that's not your fault.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
So my wonder is what was the what was literally
the best thing that was there? Like what was the
one thing that you were like, oh my god, of
which category of any of the categories, like, which one
was what was the one thing where you're like, oh
my god, that's the one thing I'm going to get
and I'm gonna be gifted or what.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I'm actually going to shout out my kids stepmom, because
she was at the party as well, and her beauty
gift was a package of all of these amazing products
from like a local med spa, like stuff that I
love and use. So I had no shame marching right
up there and grabbing her gifts.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I'm taking it, I did. I think this is so
funny because we've all been to like parties, like white
elephant parties and things like that. This is obviously not
a white elephant party, but we've all been there and
we don't want our gift judged, you know what I mean,
Like and we've had them on our show and stuff,
but I was judged. Nothing to me would be more
(08:39):
like I at that point right there, I'd be like
fake sick, like I would go, I'm sorry, I got
to go, and I would take my name off the
olive oil.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
You know what I did, Yeah, chuk chuk Chuck, Chuck, Chuck,
chuck chuck.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Start drinking, Yeah, just start drinking an entire White elephants
where I picked my own gift because I didn't like
anyone else's I was like, you did the best. Well then, Jim,
what's up opportunity? What you should have brought the cotton candy?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Great facts, Jim, Jim, I love.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Great By the way, Are these are these all people
that Lucy goes to school with?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah? And I don't like this was an opportunity for
me to make friends, right, to make mom friends? And
I just think I made zero mom friends.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
No, it was really fun, but I was I was
really embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
They're talking about her in the pickup line today meeting
I actually, can I tell you the funniest was I
remember when we when Luke went to we went to
a white Elephant party and it was the first year
that Luke had been in school, and it was I
will never forget that. Uh. It was at the Bartis's house.
It was the thing that propelled the friendships of so
(09:53):
many of us the very first time that we went
to it. And I will never forget like going to
that party, and I don't remember some of the items,
but some of the items were just funny as hell.
And your kids in a Catholic school with all these
parents thinking dirty things with whatever the white elephant party
thing is so hopefully this makes a friendship for everybody.
I'm no, Now you actually can supply your entire kitchen.
(10:16):
Guess what, you could becoming now a cook because you
will now have the items to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I mean, that's never going to happen.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Was there a kitchen aid mixer in there? Because that's
like the thing everybody wants. Okay, because you imagine that
one of those kitchen Have you ever seen one of
those kitchen aids? This kitchen Google kitchen aid mixers. For
some reason, every year at Christmas time, this is the
thing that women fight over. The mix do mix It
does a lot of things. Looks really pretty sitting on
(10:44):
my exactly seen this light blue them before. Yeah, nobody
ever uses it more than once a year. I think
I'm an air frier guy. That's it, bangs air You
get those air friers all right, I'm banging my airfires.
My new thing.
Mo Joe in the morning. Uh was Shannon Cheap? I
don't know. You got to hear this story? What have them?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So I went to a Christmas party and it was
a Christmas party that Lucy was invited to. Lucy and
like ten or eleven other girls from her class, and
the mom who threw this party, which was, honest to god,
the most insanely beautiful, detailed Christmas party I have ever
(00:28):
been to in my whole entire life. Props to her.
But the mom also invited the moms of the girls
to come to this party. So there were I think
twelve girls, twelve moms, I think is how you know?
It all shook out and the girls did a white
elephant gift exchange. So there were some you know, little
rules for the white elephant gift exchange, as there usually are,
and then the mom who through the party decided that, oh,
(00:50):
the mom should do a gift exchange as well, and
so the invitation said there were three gifts that each
mom had to bring. Okay, you had to bring an
artisan chocolate. Oh, you had to bring a your favor
it was favorite thing, so your favorite artist in chocolate,
your favorite beauty product trial size, and then you had
(01:12):
to bring your favorite kitchen gadget, and then everybody was
going to get to pick. Like you know, you're gonna
go home with three new things. Okay, love it.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, here's what I brought.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I don't cook. Y'all know this, so I'm thinking kitchen gadget.
I don't. I don't really know kitchen gadget. So I
went to my favorite kitchen store and bought a big
thing of olive oil and like some Santa Claus pasta.
I thought, okay, that's cute, wrapped it in cellophane. That
was one gift for my beauty product. Trial size I
bought is an aloe or a low the yoga brand. Oh,
I say, as the store downtown Alo. I go to
(01:45):
Alo and I bought the Alo like chapstick lip gloss thing.
I was like, okay, it's good, not drowsize, but like
it's teeny perfect for my artisan chocolate Anna. Actually you
helped me. I got Bonbon Bonds Detroit chocolate brand wanted
to represent. Those were my three things that I brought.
I get to this beautiful party. I have my gifts.
(02:06):
I'm so proud of how I wrapped them because I
love wrapping things. I take them out of the bag
and the mom's like, okay, we're there's three separate tables.
So you put your chocolate on this one, you put
your beauty gift on this one, you put your kitchen
gadget on this one. I stop in my tracks. I
go to the kitchen gadget table. These women brought full
(02:27):
on appliances.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
What appliances for the table that was of.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Kitchen things for kitchen gadget.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Kitchen gadget. An appliance is not a gadget. I'm talking.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yes, I'm talking like espresso espresso.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Makers, like a rice a Japanese rice cooker.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I will sound in the shopping bag that I have.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
At my olive oil Kevin.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
My armpit starts sweating.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I'm like, oh my god, I feel like the biggest
idiot in the whole world. I had no idea that
this is where it was going to go.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Pasta is not a gadget.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's not, but it was a kitchen thingy the olive
oil pot. I'm thinking the only one that I'm in
my head.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I'm thinking people are going to bring gadget.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
People are going to bring like a garlic peeler, or
like a kitchen shears, or somebody actually did bring a
milk frother, so I wasn't the only one that didn't
bring like an over the top gift.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
What are you thinking?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Do you think the beauty products were trial size?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No, everybody bought my full size?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
You go over?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So embarrassing?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Is that it was good for you? You made out
like a bandit probably sure did, but I felt stupid.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I thought she was cheap.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I felt so stupid.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
What are you thinking? Keats? The look on your partying
with the elite's just a very nice. If I'm invited
to a party and the words artists and chocolate are
in there, I'm thinking this might be a little boogie.
What what? Literally? What does artists in chocolate? What does
artists and chocolate mean?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I think it just.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Means not Hershey's.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Like a specialty.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So bon bon bon.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I thought perfect of chocolates?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Did they bring?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I don't know how to pronounce them?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
What are bon bon bonds? I've never tried that before.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Seriously, a great Detroit brand.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
There are a few stores like baby size chocolates, but
I want six of them.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
If you were to buy, if you were to buy
artists in chocolates. They all are wrapped up in little
like gold.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It looks like chocolate.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
It could be good divas it shows on here, although
good dive would probably be cheap for the sounds like
these guys.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Fine the beauty thing, okay, fine, Mine really was full size,
it was small whatever it was the kitchen gadget, the
kitchen gadget.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So what did you get? I want to know what
you want? What did you go home with?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I got a whole like knife in kitchen shears. Oh,
this is amazing. Wow, yeah, it is you person that
got my olive oil. You.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I think you'll be invited back next year.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Probably. It's one of those parties where I was like,
this is the most this is the best party you've
ever been.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I've been to white elephant parties before. In the white
elephant parties, I come home with like, you know, a
female love device or something like that. I'm like, what's
going on, Jennifer, what's happening?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Hey, Hi, what's happening in your phone? Kind of cut again?
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh? I said good morning, good morning morning. So Shannon,
before you got to the appliance part I was thinking,
how could Shannon not think of a wine opener, because honestly,
I thought everybody would do that to me that I
was that was like the easy, like go to and
of course I would have done something like that, but
I was like, oh, I'm going to be creative and thinking,
(05:46):
I was like, how did you not think about wine open.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I went favorite.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I literally went to my favorite kitchen storehouse called the
Good Day. It's like a home store and got like nice.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
St world Crow Amazon, it's a whole new world. I
wouldn't know what they want to do somebody inviting artisans, though,
I will tell you what's the store that's in the
mall is at Williams and Oma. I walked by that store,
you know that the one. I walked by that store
all the time thinking they're gonna have free samples and
they never do. But I get mesmerized by specialists.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I failed this gift exchange so bad?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Do you think, Jennifer, they're judging Shannon today? Absolutely seeing
the group check.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh for sure for sure, but like there was no
there's no context to it.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Did you see her?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
It was.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Do they know? Do you so? Because I hate when
you go to a party and everybody knows who it
was that that gave the stock.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yes, you had to go up.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
And explain why you.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Because because it was a favorite thing's gift exchange that
you say about. I said, as my pits were sweating
through the past that I wore. I got up and
I was like, I do this for a living, but
I get very nervous speaking in these situations. I also
do not cook, so I did not know what to
(07:09):
bring for a kitchen gadget. So I said, I went
to my favorite store I and you know, this is
what we use at home. It is one of my
favorite things. Yes, keV is basically what I said. Lucy
was with the girls in another room.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
What was the look on the mom's faces?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They were all so honestly, I was so gracious, like okay,
stupid it actually wasn't, actually wasn't. I think my beauty
product was the last gift picked. But that's not your fault.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
So my wonder is what was the what was literally
the best thing that was there? Like what was the
one thing that you were like, oh my god, of
which category of any of the categories, like, which one
was what was the one thing where you're like, oh
my god, that's the one thing I'm going to get
and I'm gonna be gifted or what.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I'm actually going to shout out my kids stepmom, because
she was at the party as well, and her beauty
gift was a package of all of these amazing products
from like a local med spa, like stuff that I
love and use. So I had no shame marching right
up there and grabbing her gifts.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I'm taking it, I did. I think this is so
funny because we've all been to like parties, like white
elephant parties and things like that. This is obviously not
a white elephant party, but we've all been there and
we don't want our gift judged, you know what I mean,
Like and we've had them on our show and stuff,
but I was judged. Nothing to me would be more
(08:39):
like I at that point right there, I'd be like
fake sick, like I would go, I'm sorry, I got
to go, and I would take my name off the
olive oil.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
You know what I did, Yeah, chuk chuk Chuck, Chuck, Chuck,
chuck chuck.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Start drinking, Yeah, just start drinking an entire White elephants
where I picked my own gift because I didn't like
anyone else's I was like, you did the best. Well then, Jim,
what's up opportunity? What you should have brought the cotton candy?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Great facts, Jim, Jim, I love.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Great By the way, Are these are these all people
that Lucy goes to school with?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah? And I don't like this was an opportunity for
me to make friends, right, to make mom friends? And
I just think I made zero mom friends.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
No, it was really fun, but I was I was
really embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
They're talking about her in the pickup line today meeting
I actually, can I tell you the funniest was I
remember when we when Luke went to we went to
a white Elephant party and it was the first year
that Luke had been in school, and it was I
will never forget that. Uh. It was at the Bartis's house.
It was the thing that propelled the friendships of so
(09:53):
many of us the very first time that we went
to it. And I will never forget like going to
that party, and I don't remember some of the items,
but some of the items were just funny as hell.
And your kids in a Catholic school with all these
parents thinking dirty things with whatever the white elephant party
thing is so hopefully this makes a friendship for everybody.
I'm no, Now you actually can supply your entire kitchen.
(10:16):
Guess what, you could becoming now a cook because you
will now have the items to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I mean, that's never going to happen.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Was there a kitchen aid mixer in there? Because that's
like the thing everybody wants. Okay, because you imagine that
one of those kitchen Have you ever seen one of
those kitchen aids? This kitchen Google kitchen aid mixers. For
some reason, every year at Christmas time, this is the
thing that women fight over. The mix do mix It
does a lot of things. Looks really pretty sitting on
(10:44):
my exactly seen this light blue them before. Yeah, nobody
ever uses it more than once a year. I think
I'm an air frier guy. That's it, bangs air You
get those air friers all right, I'm banging my airfires.
My new thing.
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