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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Mojo in the morning, and phone numbers eight for
Mojo Live. The text is nine five five zero zero.
And if you should relate to what we're talking about
or have a story that might be something to add
to it, text call me and Lydia will actually call
you up to go on the air with us. Now,
(00:22):
don't pull any shenanigans in text call me just because
you want to say hi to Lydia. Some people have
done that on occasion, or thought that they were going
to win a contest that way. We don't do that.
We'll ban you for life.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
If we're doing a topic with Shannon, can we call
it shananigans shananigans exactly?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We can do that. You just think of that it
did is a good one. You know what topic you
should do is the please get rid of it already?
What is that?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
So I love nostalgia in general, but I love nostalgic
vintage Christmas decoration stuff that's been passed down, you know,
Like my favorite ornaments on my Christmas tree are either
the one the kids have made me or I have
ornaments that used to belong to Shanny's granny on my Christmas.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I love that stuff. So much.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
That being said, there are some things that I feel
like there comes a point when you just gotta either
throw them away or donate them already. And my mom
has one of those items. It is a Santa like
a plastic sanna. It's about the size of an American
girl doll and it sits on the counter and when
(01:29):
you make a noise in front of it, it starts
swinging its hips and sings jingle bell rock.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
This thing was a gift from my high school boyfriend
to me that I think he bought at like a
CVS or something when I was in ninth grade.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It's like so.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Chinsey and cheap, and for whatever reason, my mom still
puts it out every single Christmas.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
And do you think of your high school boyfriend every time?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Why?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
And it's one of those things where I'm like, this
is not a family heirloom. It's not the ornament from
Grandma or you know, something that the kids made in
their kindergarten class. It's this random drug store sanna from
my ex boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
But it's still in good shape.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's in perfect shape. But why do we need this thing?
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
So?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How do you say? How do you do the difference
between nostalgic and and tacky, Like what do you how
do you do that?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
It's just like it's something from an ex boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I don't necessarily, but it must mean something to your mother.
I mean that you still hasn't and she enjoys it.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Sound like you want.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I know. I'm the one that's been the grinch all morning.
Now I like that you're coming to my team. I
think this again.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Love all the family things. This one is just whenever
she puts it out on.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Really, something similar happened to my family. So my parents
had like this Santa that was almost as tall as
me that would go outside. It was a white Santa
to begin with, but because of the heat from the
light or whatever it was, every year progressively got darker
to the point where it is now a very dark
black Santa. My dad tried to get rid of it
(03:16):
one year and.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
The neighbors, why.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Is daddy throwing away black Sanda.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Well, we thought he was a bird to a Chris
And then the neighbors started calling my parents like where's
black Santa Santa? So, now Santa's back, but he almost
got kicked to the curve.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I remember going I remember my first radio remote was
at Southland Mall during Christmas time. I went to or
not my first, my first Christmas one in South la
and the added the black Santa there and I thought
it was the greatest thing ever because I never got
to see a black Sanna when I was a kid.
I like it. I low key.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I was the only Santa I saw that was And
where would where would he be? Also white Santa's out
there too? Yeah, like the Daycares instead he used to
have black black Sanda. White Santa was at north Lando
north Time Mall. Why did I say South Flame Mall?
That was Northland I was going to say.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I went to the stand at Southlame Mall. He was
definitely white.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
North north Land Mall there shout out to north Land
Mall now a Costco, I think right real quick to
go back to UH to Shannon with this uh the
hand me down ornaments that you had when you were
a kid and bring in there.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I love those.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So when you go into relationships and you get married
and stuff like that, in your spouse brings them, they're
not as nostalgic to the person that it doesn't belong to.
And when I came into my relationship with Chelsea. I
came in with a couple of things that were like
from the Christmas tree, and it was funny how the
first years of our marriage those things would end up
(04:43):
on the tree in the front of the tree, and
then as the marriage would go on and those were
not as nostalgic to Chelsea, didn't have the memories to Chelsea,
they would end up on the back of the tree.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And that is so funny that you bring that because
we just decorated our tree with all of those kind
of ornaments. And so Wes had some stuff from when
he was a baby or that belonged to his late
mom that you know, obviously are so special.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And then Samantha and.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Kieran had ornaments from when they were little, and it
is kind of funny because some of them are pictures
of them when they were little, and not that I
have a feeling about it because they're special to them,
but part of me is like, it is slightly weird,
right that it was like. And then we started finding
ornaments in their boxes that belonged to their mom and
so Samantha, my stepdaughter, was like, I'm going to put
(05:29):
these in a separate pile to bring to mama's house.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'm like, yeah, probably a good idea.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Like that was an interesting hour of my life going
through all the bins of stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
If Samantha or you know or Karen had like a
like a picture of them with their mom in West
together as like a family, like a family picture, would
it be weird for you to hang that on the
Christmas tree?
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I'm all for them having that stuff like that would
be a bedroom tree thing. Yeah, not of not our
family living room trees.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
How would it go over if you had one with
you Lucy and Smith and their dad.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
It probably wouldn't even survive.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It wouldn't to me. It's the kids memories and stuff,
you know what I mean? So I look at it
as Okay, it's the kids, you know whatever. Yeah, it
can go on the.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Bottom like the sentimental ornaments.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
We I have all the sentimental ornaments, excuse me, from
all four kids on the tree. Like whatever they wanted
to put up, we put up. But yeah, there are
definitely some that were like, Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You wants to ask you a question, would you want
to say, Brie.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Hi, I just Shannon, why don't you just buy your
mom a.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
New Santa.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, I think, Yeah, I guess the way, she could
still have it, but it means something more to her
since it came from her daughter.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, that's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Would you would you just steal the ex boyfriend Santa missing?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And not, by the.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Way, not that I have any ill will towards this
ex boyfriend, like he's a really nice Yeah, he's a
nice guy, but it's it's weird.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, I uh. By the way, I like the topic
of this because I like the idea of decorations and
things that mean something to some people but don't mean
anything to other people, you know, like to me. You know,
it didn't mean much to me when our tree was
all fancy and decorative and look everything matched each other
and stuff like that. That's not how my tree was
when I was grown up. My tree growing up was
(07:23):
disheveled and you know, just crappy.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Really.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
The kids protested last year because I always had like
the tree that we did gifts around was a nice
esthetically a pleasing tree. And last year they said to me,
we want colored lights, we want over the time, kind
of tacky. And so this year that's what we did.
We had garland colored lights, tinsil. This t has ribbons.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It is so as a kid growing up, that was
how our tree, and it was our tree because honestly,
my mom had no energy to do like the fancy
and nice, so she would literally let us just decorate
tree by ourselves. Well, we were a bunch of idiots,
had no style at all, and so that was the
tree that we had. So when I got into, you know,
(08:07):
being married to Chelsea, who's very meticulous with things, I
sat there and I looked and I go, this doesn't
feel like Christmas, you know what I mean? Like mine
was like And this year we got a Charlie Brown tree,
which I love. It's honestly my favorite tree ever. It's
like literally like a Charlie Brown tree and it's and
it's not the crazy monstrosity you know of you did.
Always we had a big tree and we have it,
(08:30):
but it's in a you know, a Christmas bag or
something like that out in the garage. Hey, what's up
in Jela? What's up?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
And so I know you guys are talking about black Santas,
But this year I went and bought the black Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Oh really, I've not seen that?
Speaker 6 (08:52):
What do you decorated with I'm just I did it
with rid and silver. But the thing is is you
can see every detail on the ornaments.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And when you take a.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Picture of it. You know, the green tree, when you
take a picture it's all blurry because of the lights
and all that. With the black Christmas tree, there's no blur.
You can see everything. It's it's just something out the box.
I mean, I am half black, but that has nothing
to do with it. I want it's something different. And
then my grandkids were like, oh, we can do Halloween too,
(09:27):
so we're going to decorate the tree for Halloween also,
So okay, we'll get our use out of it. But yeah,
I went out the box. It's fun to go out.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The box a little bit. There's nothing else, all right,
you know what they say.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
And you guys looked all beautiful at the jingle ball.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
You know what they say about big Christmas trees. Once
you go black, bigger the present, the bigger the present.
Hey there you go exactly.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Ry Christmas, guys, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Merry Christmas to you. H bye.
It's Mojo in the morning, and phone numbers eight for
Mojo Live. The text is nine five five zero zero.
And if you should relate to what we're talking about
or have a story that might be something to add
to it, text call me and Lydia will actually call
you up to go on the air with us. Now,
(00:22):
don't pull any shenanigans in text call me just because
you want to say hi to Lydia. Some people have
done that on occasion, or thought that they were going
to win a contest that way. We don't do that.
We'll ban you for life.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
If we're doing a topic with Shannon, can we call
it shananigans shananigans exactly?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We can do that. You just think of that it
did is a good one. You know what topic you
should do is the please get rid of it already?
What is that?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
So I love nostalgia in general, but I love nostalgic
vintage Christmas decoration stuff that's been passed down, you know,
Like my favorite ornaments on my Christmas tree are either
the one the kids have made me or I have
ornaments that used to belong to Shanny's granny on my Christmas.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I love that stuff. So much.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
That being said, there are some things that I feel
like there comes a point when you just gotta either
throw them away or donate them already. And my mom
has one of those items. It is a Santa like
a plastic sanna. It's about the size of an American
girl doll and it sits on the counter and when
(01:29):
you make a noise in front of it, it starts
swinging its hips and sings jingle bell rock.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
This thing was a gift from my high school boyfriend
to me that I think he bought at like a
CVS or something when I was in ninth grade.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It's like so.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Chinsey and cheap, and for whatever reason, my mom still
puts it out every single Christmas.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
And do you think of your high school boyfriend every time?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Why?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
And it's one of those things where I'm like, this
is not a family heirloom. It's not the ornament from
Grandma or you know, something that the kids made in
their kindergarten class. It's this random drug store sanna from
my ex boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
But it's still in good shape.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's in perfect shape. But why do we need this thing?
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
So?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How do you say? How do you do the difference
between nostalgic and and tacky, Like what do you how
do you do that?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
It's just like it's something from an ex boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I don't necessarily, but it must mean something to your mother.
I mean that you still hasn't and she enjoys it.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Sound like you want.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I know. I'm the one that's been the grinch all morning.
Now I like that you're coming to my team. I
think this again.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Love all the family things. This one is just whenever
she puts it out on.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Really, something similar happened to my family. So my parents
had like this Santa that was almost as tall as
me that would go outside. It was a white Santa
to begin with, but because of the heat from the
light or whatever it was, every year progressively got darker
to the point where it is now a very dark
black Santa. My dad tried to get rid of it
(03:16):
one year and.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
The neighbors, why.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Is daddy throwing away black Sanda.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Well, we thought he was a bird to a Chris
And then the neighbors started calling my parents like where's
black Santa Santa? So, now Santa's back, but he almost
got kicked to the curve.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I remember going I remember my first radio remote was
at Southland Mall during Christmas time. I went to or
not my first, my first Christmas one in South la
and the added the black Santa there and I thought
it was the greatest thing ever because I never got
to see a black Sanna when I was a kid.
I like it. I low key.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I was the only Santa I saw that was And
where would where would he be? Also white Santa's out
there too? Yeah, like the Daycares instead he used to
have black black Sanda. White Santa was at north Lando
north Time Mall. Why did I say South Flame Mall?
That was Northland I was going to say.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I went to the stand at Southlame Mall. He was
definitely white.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
North north Land Mall there shout out to north Land
Mall now a Costco, I think right real quick to
go back to UH to Shannon with this uh the
hand me down ornaments that you had when you were
a kid and bring in there.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I love those.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So when you go into relationships and you get married
and stuff like that, in your spouse brings them, they're
not as nostalgic to the person that it doesn't belong to.
And when I came into my relationship with Chelsea. I
came in with a couple of things that were like
from the Christmas tree, and it was funny how the
first years of our marriage those things would end up
(04:43):
on the tree in the front of the tree, and
then as the marriage would go on and those were
not as nostalgic to Chelsea, didn't have the memories to Chelsea,
they would end up on the back of the tree.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And that is so funny that you bring that because
we just decorated our tree with all of those kind
of ornaments. And so Wes had some stuff from when
he was a baby or that belonged to his late
mom that you know, obviously are so special.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And then Samantha and.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Kieran had ornaments from when they were little, and it
is kind of funny because some of them are pictures
of them when they were little, and not that I
have a feeling about it because they're special to them,
but part of me is like, it is slightly weird,
right that it was like. And then we started finding
ornaments in their boxes that belonged to their mom and
so Samantha, my stepdaughter, was like, I'm going to put
(05:29):
these in a separate pile to bring to mama's house.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'm like, yeah, probably a good idea.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Like that was an interesting hour of my life going
through all the bins of stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
If Samantha or you know or Karen had like a
like a picture of them with their mom in West
together as like a family, like a family picture, would
it be weird for you to hang that on the
Christmas tree?
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I'm all for them having that stuff like that would
be a bedroom tree thing. Yeah, not of not our
family living room trees.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
How would it go over if you had one with
you Lucy and Smith and their dad.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
It probably wouldn't even survive.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It wouldn't to me. It's the kids memories and stuff,
you know what I mean? So I look at it
as Okay, it's the kids, you know whatever. Yeah, it
can go on the.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Bottom like the sentimental ornaments.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
We I have all the sentimental ornaments, excuse me, from
all four kids on the tree. Like whatever they wanted
to put up, we put up. But yeah, there are
definitely some that were like, Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You wants to ask you a question, would you want
to say, Brie.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Hi, I just Shannon, why don't you just buy your
mom a.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
New Santa.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, I think, Yeah, I guess the way, she could
still have it, but it means something more to her
since it came from her daughter.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, that's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Would you would you just steal the ex boyfriend Santa missing?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And not, by the.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Way, not that I have any ill will towards this
ex boyfriend, like he's a really nice Yeah, he's a
nice guy, but it's it's weird.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, I uh. By the way, I like the topic
of this because I like the idea of decorations and
things that mean something to some people but don't mean
anything to other people, you know, like to me. You know,
it didn't mean much to me when our tree was
all fancy and decorative and look everything matched each other
and stuff like that. That's not how my tree was
when I was grown up. My tree growing up was
(07:23):
disheveled and you know, just crappy.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Really.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
The kids protested last year because I always had like
the tree that we did gifts around was a nice
esthetically a pleasing tree. And last year they said to me,
we want colored lights, we want over the time, kind
of tacky. And so this year that's what we did.
We had garland colored lights, tinsil. This t has ribbons.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It is so as a kid growing up, that was
how our tree, and it was our tree because honestly,
my mom had no energy to do like the fancy
and nice, so she would literally let us just decorate
tree by ourselves. Well, we were a bunch of idiots,
had no style at all, and so that was the
tree that we had. So when I got into, you know,
(08:07):
being married to Chelsea, who's very meticulous with things, I
sat there and I looked and I go, this doesn't
feel like Christmas, you know what I mean? Like mine
was like And this year we got a Charlie Brown tree,
which I love. It's honestly my favorite tree ever. It's
like literally like a Charlie Brown tree and it's and
it's not the crazy monstrosity you know of you did.
Always we had a big tree and we have it,
(08:30):
but it's in a you know, a Christmas bag or
something like that out in the garage. Hey, what's up
in Jela? What's up?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
And so I know you guys are talking about black Santas,
But this year I went and bought the black Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Oh really, I've not seen that?
Speaker 6 (08:52):
What do you decorated with I'm just I did it
with rid and silver. But the thing is is you
can see every detail on the ornaments.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And when you take a.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Picture of it. You know, the green tree, when you
take a picture it's all blurry because of the lights
and all that. With the black Christmas tree, there's no blur.
You can see everything. It's it's just something out the box.
I mean, I am half black, but that has nothing
to do with it. I want it's something different. And
then my grandkids were like, oh, we can do Halloween too,
(09:27):
so we're going to decorate the tree for Halloween also,
So okay, we'll get our use out of it. But yeah,
I went out the box. It's fun to go out.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The box a little bit. There's nothing else, all right,
you know what they say.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
And you guys looked all beautiful at the jingle ball.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
You know what they say about big Christmas trees. Once
you go black, bigger the present, the bigger the present.
Hey there you go exactly.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Ry Christmas, guys, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Merry Christmas to you. H bye.
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