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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Mojo in the morning. So what is up

(00:02):
with this craze that your kids are now into?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Shannon the jellycats. I've been talking about jellycats, I feel like,
for a very long time, but it has reached a
peak worldwide. And I'm not joking worldwide. Jelly Cats are
these like very soft, cute, stuffed animals, and they've been
around for a long time. In fact, Lucy had was
gifted jellycats when she was born, like a bunny and

(00:24):
a heady bear. They've been around probably even longer than that. Wow.
But now in the past I would say year or two,
they started making like tons and tons of different everything
from food to animals to they just launched an alien collection,
and it's like the only thing I can equate it to,
I guess is the beanie baby craze from when I

(00:46):
was Lucy and Smith's age, like elementary school, middle school. Yeah,
And it's also become I feel like, as as a
mom who wants to get them for her kids, I
think I'm more invested in this thing than they are.
Like you become a crazy parent, at least I do

(01:07):
when it comes to this sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
And Lucy and I you guys know this.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
We take a mommy daughter trip to New York City
the first weekend of every December, so it's already planned
for this year. And one of the things that she
really wants to do is go to They have a
Jellycat diner inside of the Fao Schwortz Toy store. So
you go in and they quote unquote cook your jelly
cats like the burger and the hot dog, and I

(01:31):
think they have a bagel or they make it. This
whole experience. It's totally free. I mean, you have to
buy the jelly cats, but it's totally free. To do
the experience, you have to get a reservation. So this
is where I get absolutely nuts. Where I had to
figure out, Okay, the reservations are released thirty days in
advance on the Monday of that week between three and
five pm. Okay, but they don't tell you when. So

(01:53):
on Monday of this week, it looked like I had
an FBI sting setup in my kitchen. Every ipay, we had,
every computer, we had, every cell phone that we had
was on this site from three to five pm with
me just constantly going around and refreshing, refreshing, refreshing, until
I could get a reservation.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
I'm like, what am I doing? Why am I doing? Heck,
yeah I did.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I got the last reservation of the day ten pm.
She's probably not even gonna be awake.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
We're going.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
I always wonder sometimes if they fill up the ten
pm reservations and the other ones are still there for
like people that they they know or something are good,
you know.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I mean on all of my devices, and when I
tell you, I refresh that thing so quickly. When the
reservations dropped and they made us wait almost the full
two hours before they finally like came live, and I
was still my very first device, which was Lucy's iPad
that I was on, I was still like six hundred
and ninety seven in line.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Is this the same thing as that American Girl Doll Store?
How they will let you eat with your dolls? Is
that what that whole thing is like you actually eat
real food?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
No, No, it's all fake.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Because this is actually kind of funny. It makes me
happy that we get to bring this up again. Do
you remember when Lydia went to Chicago and she, as
a grown ass adult, went to the American Girl Doll
Store to have lunch.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
I do it again.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yes, you when you go to the American Girl doll one,
do you eat yourself or does just your doll eat?

Speaker 5 (03:22):
We both eat together?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
That would be rude. So the Jelliicat thing, you don't
eat anything. There's no food.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
They call it a jelly cat diner, but it's just
a setup of all of the of all of the
stuffed animals they have. And then there's like the Fao
Schwartz employees fake cook whatever it is that you're buying,
and they box it up.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
The way that I does.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Rearranged my Monday for this thing, and the experience is
probably like five or ten minutes. She's so excited, but
she was even laughing at me as I was like,
do not nobody touch anything on this counter right now,
because I wanted to make sure that it went through.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
And Lydia, was it weird for you to be sitting
at a table with a doll?

Speaker 5 (04:02):
No, not at all, stuck.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
Everyone had the capability of doing it. I just picked
her up off the wall and put her in a
high chair.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
But like, do you fake feed her?

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (04:12):
They give you like a little mug for her, some
like little muffins that you can give her.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
Yeah, so I just pretend to put it.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Such a good mom.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
That is so weird. Say she put it in yours, I.

Speaker 6 (04:23):
Put it in hers, and then yeah, she put it
in mine.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh my god, say it again.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
No, you said you're gonna buy a jelly care.

Speaker 7 (04:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
They're kind of expensive though, there's so.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
How much are they?

Speaker 5 (04:34):
I mean they range from like twenty five to sixty dollars.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
So, uh, when you were little kids, when you guys
were little kids, were you into stuff like this, like
how your kids are in this? Like did you have it?

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Was beanie babies?

Speaker 2 (04:46):
And I talked to my sister Jacqueline today because I
was telling her about this whole reservation thing and now
she's kind of invested too for her daughter. And I
was like, why are we like this that we will
go to the ends of the earth to get these
stupid stuffed in animals? And she said, because Mom was
this way with beanie babies for us.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
She would get a rumor.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
That Sue's Hallmark was going to get the you know,
elephant in and her butt would be waiting in line
at five am, the.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
Sort of opens webkins. Oh, I loved it. Yes, that
was our generation. For sure, Cho doesn't even know what
a webkin is.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
We gave way webkins on the air. Remember it was
like a big like stuffed animals.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
But then they had codes to like a virtual world.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, it was. It was a cult.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
I used to throw birthday parties from my webcins. Yeah,
I had birthday cakes, have all my webkins in a circle,
we'd all hang out.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, it was legit. The girls that were my age
were all in the cabbage patch dos that was cabbage
patch styles were the things. And then for I remember
when Joey was younger, it was tickle Me Elmo. I
had to I remember going to get a bunch of
tickle Me elmos for promotion that we were given away
and having the like sneak one out for Joey for

(06:01):
his Christmas so that Santa could give him one because
you could not get them anywhere. Yeah, and I was
going to my car with the tickle me almost to
put them in my car, and people were following me
in the parking lot because they were trying to see
if I would sell it to them in the parking lot.

Speaker 6 (06:15):
There's a TikTok trend right now that if you go
on TikTok and type your name with the word jellykit.
It'll tell you what your jellykit is.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh, we're doing it.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Nobody do it for me because I don't have TikTok.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
So are there any ways to make money off of things? Like?
Because I would bet if this is the case, there
are those guys out there, like the you know, the
guys that line up for celebrity autographs that just try
to sell them, and they're all like creepy old dudes.
I bet you there are, like some creepy dudes.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Tell you this is true because when Wes and I
went out of town a couple of weeks ago, I
knew there was a store that sold them where we were,
and so I waited. I randomly got to the store
like ten minutes before it opened, and there were a
bunch of like grown older men waiting in line for
the store to open, and they went back to the
jellycat section. So I was like, Okay, you're not doing
unless they were doing it didn't even look like they

(07:00):
were like Grandpa's or dad's.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Doesn't that make you think weird things Like when you're
standing in line and there's a smelly dude wearing a
freaking Champion dirty sweatshirt and he's like trying to get
himself these things. Quick question for you on the jelly
Cats and stuff like this. What stores sell them? You
said there's a store that sells them, but you said,
Fao Schwartz, there's any stores.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, there's a few, a lot of so paper Sore
sells them, which I think is like one of the
only it's like a card shop.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
But then it's a lot. They try to support.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
A lot of local businesses, so like the apothecary and
Holland on the west side of the state, I know
sells them. I'm trying to think, girls, there's a place
in Birmingham Found Objects that sells them, like some of
these little like one off local businesses. Jelly Cat tries
to support those.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
First Courtney, what's up? It's Mojo on the morning?

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Hi God morning. That's like trying to plan a trip
to Disney. It's absolutely miserab because you have to get
on at a certain time to get the restaurant, to
get a reservation, the fast passes. It's like you feel
like you're in this race and it's like why are
you even doing this?

Speaker 1 (08:12):
That is that is true. If you do go on
one of those trips to wherever Universal Disney, you can't
get reservations to these places. It makes no sense, you
know that it's so hard to get reservations because people
will jump on, like you said, in the middle of
the night to try to get them. What's up, Nicole,
Hey there, I.

Speaker 8 (08:33):
Was just wondering, does anybody remember the online neopets Neo pats?

Speaker 1 (08:38):
I remember that? Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
Neo pets were sick.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (08:44):
Did your Oh they were so much fun.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Did you have neo pets?

Speaker 6 (08:48):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (08:49):
I sure did.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Did your parents do what like Shannon's doing, Like, did
your mom stand in line in the middle of the
night and do all that stuff?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
No?

Speaker 7 (08:58):
No, not at all. It's you're pretty much closed in
at home.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
So it's amazing.

Speaker 7 (09:03):
Definitely have my online world.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
It's amazing to think of like the parents that do
it versus the parents that won't do it at all,
that don't want to be part of the whole thing.
But I always believe, I always believe you try to
give your kid something that you didn't have. In your case,
you said you did have this like where I think.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
That's where I learned it. From now. It's like a
personal mission mission.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
For me to do this. Wow. I wonder if there's
anybody that listens to us, they can get you a
better time than ten o'clock at night.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
I'm good, I'm greatful.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Why do they want kids out at ten o'clock at night?
That's nuts? What's up, Marcy? How you doing Hi?

Speaker 7 (09:40):
The reason I remember it very partipidly, the reason that
Tickle Me Elmo sold out was Rosie o'donald. Yes, when
it came out, Rosie o'donnald had a talk show and
she was playing with it on her program and she
was like, oh my god, I love this, Oh my god,
I love it.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah. She was like the hypemaster of Tickle me Elmo
at the time. I remember that too. Yeah. Those were actually, uh,
those were hugely popular. It's funny how big she was too.
Her show was always like the big show in the afternoon.
What's up, Molly? How you doing good? How are you good? Molly?
What do you do?

Speaker 8 (10:17):
I sell jelly cats. I have a store and I
sell them.

Speaker 7 (10:20):
In my store.

Speaker 8 (10:22):
Michon's eyes shout it out, the little seedling.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
Seed.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Do you have any jelly cats that Shannon can get
her hands on.

Speaker 8 (10:33):
Absolutely, you can go to my website and order them.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Oh wow, what's the rarest? What's the rarest? Jelly Cat?

Speaker 8 (10:41):
Well, they've got tons of discontinued ones, so, like you know,
I mean, there's hundreds of them. And what cracks me
up is sometimes when they release them, people will buy them,
sell them on the eBay for triple what they're worth,
and they're still sitting in my store. So search before
you pay more than retail. But somebody mentioned that they're

(11:04):
twenty to sixty dollars. They're actually about twenty to one
thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Oh my Goshmungo ones.

Speaker 8 (11:11):
Okay, well, yeah, we have a couple of Yeah, we
have a couple of them in our store that are
a thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
What's your website?

Speaker 8 (11:19):
The Little Seedling dot com?

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Hey, quick question. Do you ever run across those smelly
old dudes that are just trying to buy them? This
ell them?

Speaker 8 (11:28):
No, not the vast majority of the Well, there's tons
of college students in Arbor's college town.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Really, yeah, with.

Speaker 8 (11:35):
Tons of college students. Yeah, college students come in all
day long to buy them. Last year, during the holidays,
we had entire Michigan sports teams doing jellycat exchanges, like
the women's swimming team and the women's.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
Track and field teams.

Speaker 8 (11:47):
That was like their secret Fanta. Yeah. And then of
course kids, we're more mostly you know, a baby kids
store and so, you know, parents life.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Your store is adorable. I'm looking at it online.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
I keep thinking, if Luke and asks Jews are like
hanging out on campus with jelly kids kids, is it
only girls or the boys that are playing with.

Speaker 8 (12:09):
It's Some of the sweetest things is when little like
you know, fourteen fifteen year old boys come in and
they're buying them for their first girlfriends.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Oh okay me really cute. All right, Well, thanks for
the call, Molly, appreciate it. Well to check you out one,
take care of yourself.
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