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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it is Mojo.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
In the morning, I saw this our new law that's
going into effect in Michigan. They're talking about this on
the news when I was driving in this morning, and
it's an interesting one. I didn't realize this was actually
a big problem, but I could see where it would be.
They are protecting people who are blind and their service animals,
(00:22):
where if you hit them with your car, you actually
could get a harsher penalty than if you just hit
a regular pedestrian because there are so many cases. I
guess assuming unless there's you know, just one particular person
that got hit, that has a good way of getting
to the legislature and change laws. And I guess a
(00:46):
lot of it is electric cars are becoming an issue
where people are driving their electric cars and people who
are blind and their service animals can't hear the actual
car coming. And if you are one of those people
driving those cars and you hit these people or hit
their dogs, the fine in the penalty could be harsher
for you.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
You know what else is an issue.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It's not only the evs, but it's also a lot
of our cars. I don't know if your cars do this,
but they will turn off at the stop light and
so then you can't hear them as well.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So it is a huge, huge issue.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, it's wild because a lot of the crosswalks, I know,
Rochester has the ones that make the noise. Weirmingham started
to do them, okay, like I'm noticing it more and
more in certain communities around Field did it.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And it was thanks to the Bernstein family and which
is the rich justice Burnsteeing that that is blind he was.
He actually would walk that area there right there off
of Maple Road and could not go through the walk
to get across the road because of that.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
I mean a lot of these and obviously I can
see in here, but a lot of these electric cars
are so quiet. Even I have trouble sometimes hearing it. Yeah,
I can only imagine, you know, if you can't hear
at all.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Well, I tell my kids and they like Smith loves
to rollerblade and skateboard, and Lucy's always riding her bike
or her scooter. I'm like, you guys have to be
aware in the street, even in our neighborhood, because people
aren't paying attention. They're looking at their phone until they
get out to the main road. And if you can't
hear them coming up from behind you or turning like
you have to be so so super cautious.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That's interesting of it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But I found it to be interesting that that when
I heard the story, I'm like, oh, we got to
talk about that that on the air.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Well, this is always so relatable to me because my
niece is blind.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Shout out to Navy, love the girl we were.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Actually I got to see her last night because my
sister we were all out for to celebrate Smith's birthday,
and so we went out to dinner. And so Navy
has an ultra rare genetic disorder called m cops twelve,
and part of her symptoms is that one of her
symptoms is that she is blind, and so she her
(03:01):
eyes are like partially open when she's awake, but you
you can tell she's like you can look at her
and go, Okay, she's blind. And last night something happened
and it was so funny to see my sister.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It's one of my.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Sister's biggest pet peeves where people will come up to
the table they see a baby because she's still very
very teeny tiny. So we were holding her and people
will come up and.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Go, oh, she's sleeping.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
And my sister's like, nope, she's actually wide awake. And
people say it to her all the time, and so
it happened twice excuse me during dinner last night, and
Jacqueline was finally like, you know what, I'm going to
make her a little T shirt that says I'm actually
effing awake. So people just stop doing it because it
drives my sister so crazy. You know that everybody just
(03:47):
assumes even though I feel like you can tell, but
she's like, I would rather people just come up and
ask questions, come up and you can tell.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
They're like, uh, that is.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Amazing that that happens more frequently than you would think
like that, that people would would come up and do.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
That and do the oh she's she's seeping.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
All of a sudden get really quiet and we're like, nope,
she is, she's wide away.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I feel like, walk around. I mean, they walk away
gotta be feeling like they gotta feel.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Unintentional.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Don't get me wrong, but my sister hears it all
day every day, and so she just last night was like.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You know, yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I see you you post uh navy on your social
media and anytime you post Navy on your social media.
I feel like myself and my wife like, we just
eat her up.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
She is so cute.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
She just got a new kick ass wheelchair, Okay, and
it's so cute.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
What is it? What has it done for your family?
And I know that it's got to be very much
tougher on your sister and your brother in law and
stuff like that, but what is it? How has it
changed the dynamic of your family?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
That's a really I mean, she we truly believe that
God picked our family for her, that she was given
to us very specifically. She is the most loved little girl.
And I think we, I mean, my sister and my
brother in law, Jacqueline and Ryan are rock stars. I
look at them because they had no indication that we
(05:24):
were getting Navy, that that they were going to get
a child with very severe special needs. Because when she
was born, there was no indication on her ultrasound or
her testing, nothing that showed that there was an abnormality,
that there was a genetic mutation. And so they were
prepared to have a quote unquote normal baby girl, right,
(05:44):
And so their life totally shifted in those moments of
finding out that they are going we as a family
are going to be caring for her for her entire life.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
And but she you know you, she's such a gift.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
And I think you hear a lot of families that
have a fear member with special needs as a part
of their family, and you, like you, life is so precious,
and she teaches you that even the littlest things. My
sister has really bad allergies right now, this is a
great example. So she's constantly blowing her nose and the
sound of her blowing, of mom blowing her nose to
(06:18):
Navy makes her laugh to the point where she.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Almost can't breathe, if she can't catch her breath. And
you're like, we take everything for granted.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, And for her it's the little things that are
the big things that make her so genuinely happy. And
you can't help but just be so joyful around her
because she's so happy all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's great, that's sweet, Jenny. What's up. It's Mojo in
the morning.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
I Hi, how are you guys doing.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
We're good? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Good?
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Yeah, my daughter, she's three. She was born blind as well,
and it used to irritate the crap.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Out of me.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
When people would say, oh, she's sleeping, and they still
actually say that to me, And now I just blatantly
said no, she's blind, and people normally.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Are like, oh, oh, I'm.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Sorry, and I'm like, no, it's okay, it's just you know,
she's not sweeping.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
So it's so similar to what Shannon's sister has to
deal with.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That's yeah.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
So I feel for her sister.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It is annoying, it's amazing. Well what's your what's your
cuties name?
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Her name is Brayline.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I appreciate you, Jenny, thanks.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
For She was born with optic nerve hyperplasia, so just
another genetic condition.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
And how old is she?
Speaker 8 (07:29):
She's three?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Wow, Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, take care of yourself. I
appreciate you.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Thank you too.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yep, Leah, what's up. It's Mojoe on the morning.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Hi, Hi, good morning. How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (07:45):
So my sister in law, she's severely handicapped. She has
three bo palsy and kin and I just I got
the chills when you were talking about Navy. She is
so sweet. And my mother in law says the same
thing about my my sister in law that you know,
she wanted God to bless her with a child, and
if that child had special needs, she would obviously take
(08:05):
care of her. And it's just so special when you
have a family that is so just obviously it's a child,
you're happy, but when you have a child with special needs,
it's different. And I also wanted to say for your
other niece. You know, my husband and his brother, I
feel like they have a different sense of compassion because
of their sister, and that was one of the reasons
why I fell in love with him. So I think
(08:26):
it's also amazing for your other niece to see how
she'll grow up. And with a sister with special needs,
it's it's different. You get looked at my sister and
mom makes loud noises. It's the way she expresses herself.
So and now having a son like I want to
make sure that when he grows up, he sees, you know,
there are people who are different in the world and
that's okay. Everyone's unique.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So that's that's cute though, that that actually is the
reason why you fell in love with your husband, that
you saw the compassion that he had.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
That's great. Thank you for the call. Thank you Sarah,
what's up, Sarah, Hi, I just.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Want to say it really warmed my heart too hearing
what she had to say about her niece.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
I have two kids less than a year a part
in age. They both have level three autism, which is
the most severe, and they're nonverbal. So like, just still
how often things are taken for granted by parents. I
mean I just by anyone, you know, like the littlest
(09:25):
things for my kids.
Speaker 9 (09:26):
There are such big things, and I just get a
lot of idiotic comments towards my kids and a lot
of you know, weird looks and misunderstanding, and it's just
really nice to hear.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It's amazing to me when you know, and I could
hear your him in the background, right, he's right.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
There, my daughter and I got my daughter back.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But it is amazing that that we all live in
a world.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And I guess we almost have to give grace to
some people because they just don't know sometimes and then
may but maybe your child is one of the people
that will open up their uh, their eyes and their
hearts to you know, what what it's like to to
be autistic, you know what I mean, Like I think
there's sometimes you hear somebody like making noises or do anything,
and your first thing is like, oh, why is that
(10:16):
kid acting that way? And then you don't understand that
this is, you know, something that they can't control.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Yeah, I actually I wear a tee shirt all the time.
That says because my daughter she does vocal stems switcher.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Yeah, that's happening. It is there. You know, it's her expression.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
Of excitement of joy, and it says, you know, if
you hear these sounds, you're one of the lucky ones.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh I love that. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Well, thanks Sarah. I appreciate you.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Thank you, Love you guys, appreciate you.
All right, it is Mojo.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
In the morning, I saw this our new law that's
going into effect in Michigan. They're talking about this on
the news when I was driving in this morning, and
it's an interesting one. I didn't realize this was actually
a big problem, but I could see where it would be.
They are protecting people who are blind and their service animals,
(00:22):
where if you hit them with your car, you actually
could get a harsher penalty than if you just hit
a regular pedestrian because there are so many cases. I
guess assuming unless there's you know, just one particular person
that got hit, that has a good way of getting
to the legislature and change laws. And I guess a
(00:46):
lot of it is electric cars are becoming an issue
where people are driving their electric cars and people who
are blind and their service animals can't hear the actual
car coming. And if you are one of those people
driving those cars and you hit these people or hit
their dogs, the fine in the penalty could be harsher
for you.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
You know what else is an issue.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It's not only the evs, but it's also a lot
of our cars. I don't know if your cars do this,
but they will turn off at the stop light and
so then you can't hear them as well.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So it is a huge, huge issue.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, it's wild because a lot of the crosswalks, I know,
Rochester has the ones that make the noise. Weirmingham started
to do them, okay, like I'm noticing it more and
more in certain communities around Field did it.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And it was thanks to the Bernstein family and which
is the rich justice Burnsteeing that that is blind he was.
He actually would walk that area there right there off
of Maple Road and could not go through the walk
to get across the road because of that.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
I mean a lot of these and obviously I can
see in here, but a lot of these electric cars
are so quiet. Even I have trouble sometimes hearing it. Yeah,
I can only imagine, you know, if you can't hear
at all.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Well, I tell my kids and they like Smith loves
to rollerblade and skateboard, and Lucy's always riding her bike
or her scooter. I'm like, you guys have to be
aware in the street, even in our neighborhood, because people
aren't paying attention. They're looking at their phone until they
get out to the main road. And if you can't
hear them coming up from behind you or turning like
you have to be so so super cautious.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That's interesting of it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But I found it to be interesting that that when
I heard the story, I'm like, oh, we got to
talk about that that on the air.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Well, this is always so relatable to me because my
niece is blind.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Shout out to Navy, love the girl we were.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Actually I got to see her last night because my
sister we were all out for to celebrate Smith's birthday,
and so we went out to dinner. And so Navy
has an ultra rare genetic disorder called m cops twelve,
and part of her symptoms is that one of her
symptoms is that she is blind, and so she her
(03:01):
eyes are like partially open when she's awake, but you
you can tell she's like you can look at her
and go, Okay, she's blind. And last night something happened
and it was so funny to see my sister.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It's one of my.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Sister's biggest pet peeves where people will come up to
the table they see a baby because she's still very
very teeny tiny. So we were holding her and people
will come up and.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Go, oh, she's sleeping.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
And my sister's like, nope, she's actually wide awake. And
people say it to her all the time, and so
it happened twice excuse me during dinner last night, and
Jacqueline was finally like, you know what, I'm going to
make her a little T shirt that says I'm actually
effing awake. So people just stop doing it because it
drives my sister so crazy. You know that everybody just
(03:47):
assumes even though I feel like you can tell, but
she's like, I would rather people just come up and
ask questions, come up and you can tell.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
They're like, uh, that is.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Amazing that that happens more frequently than you would think
like that, that people would would come up and do.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
That and do the oh she's she's seeping.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
All of a sudden get really quiet and we're like, nope,
she is, she's wide away.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I feel like, walk around. I mean, they walk away
gotta be feeling like they gotta feel.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Unintentional.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Don't get me wrong, but my sister hears it all
day every day, and so she just last night was like.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You know, yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I see you you post uh navy on your social
media and anytime you post Navy on your social media.
I feel like myself and my wife like, we just
eat her up.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
She is so cute.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
She just got a new kick ass wheelchair, Okay, and
it's so cute.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
What is it? What has it done for your family?
And I know that it's got to be very much
tougher on your sister and your brother in law and
stuff like that, but what is it? How has it
changed the dynamic of your family?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
That's a really I mean, she we truly believe that
God picked our family for her, that she was given
to us very specifically. She is the most loved little girl.
And I think we, I mean, my sister and my
brother in law, Jacqueline and Ryan are rock stars. I
look at them because they had no indication that we
(05:24):
were getting Navy, that that they were going to get
a child with very severe special needs. Because when she
was born, there was no indication on her ultrasound or
her testing, nothing that showed that there was an abnormality,
that there was a genetic mutation. And so they were
prepared to have a quote unquote normal baby girl, right,
(05:44):
And so their life totally shifted in those moments of
finding out that they are going we as a family
are going to be caring for her for her entire life.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
And but she you know you, she's such a gift.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
And I think you hear a lot of families that
have a fear member with special needs as a part
of their family, and you, like you, life is so precious,
and she teaches you that even the littlest things. My
sister has really bad allergies right now, this is a
great example. So she's constantly blowing her nose and the
sound of her blowing, of mom blowing her nose to
(06:18):
Navy makes her laugh to the point where she.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Almost can't breathe, if she can't catch her breath. And
you're like, we take everything for granted.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, And for her it's the little things that are
the big things that make her so genuinely happy. And
you can't help but just be so joyful around her
because she's so happy all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's great, that's sweet, Jenny. What's up. It's Mojo in
the morning.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
I Hi, how are you guys doing.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
We're good? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Good?
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Yeah, my daughter, she's three. She was born blind as well,
and it used to irritate the crap.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Out of me.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
When people would say, oh, she's sleeping, and they still
actually say that to me, And now I just blatantly
said no, she's blind, and people normally.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Are like, oh, oh, I'm.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Sorry, and I'm like, no, it's okay, it's just you know,
she's not sweeping.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
So it's so similar to what Shannon's sister has to
deal with.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That's yeah.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
So I feel for her sister.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It is annoying, it's amazing. Well what's your what's your
cuties name?
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Her name is Brayline.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I appreciate you, Jenny, thanks.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
For She was born with optic nerve hyperplasia, so just
another genetic condition.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
And how old is she?
Speaker 8 (07:29):
She's three?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Wow, Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, take care of yourself. I
appreciate you.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Thank you too.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yep, Leah, what's up. It's Mojoe on the morning.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Hi, Hi, good morning. How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (07:45):
So my sister in law, she's severely handicapped. She has
three bo palsy and kin and I just I got
the chills when you were talking about Navy. She is
so sweet. And my mother in law says the same
thing about my my sister in law that you know,
she wanted God to bless her with a child, and
if that child had special needs, she would obviously take
(08:05):
care of her. And it's just so special when you
have a family that is so just obviously it's a child,
you're happy, but when you have a child with special needs,
it's different. And I also wanted to say for your
other niece. You know, my husband and his brother, I
feel like they have a different sense of compassion because
of their sister, and that was one of the reasons
why I fell in love with him. So I think
(08:26):
it's also amazing for your other niece to see how
she'll grow up. And with a sister with special needs,
it's it's different. You get looked at my sister and
mom makes loud noises. It's the way she expresses herself.
So and now having a son like I want to
make sure that when he grows up, he sees, you know,
there are people who are different in the world and
that's okay. Everyone's unique.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So that's that's cute though, that that actually is the
reason why you fell in love with your husband, that
you saw the compassion that he had.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
That's great. Thank you for the call. Thank you Sarah,
what's up, Sarah, Hi, I just.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Want to say it really warmed my heart too hearing
what she had to say about her niece.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
I have two kids less than a year a part
in age. They both have level three autism, which is
the most severe, and they're nonverbal. So like, just still
how often things are taken for granted by parents. I
mean I just by anyone, you know, like the littlest
(09:25):
things for my kids.
Speaker 9 (09:26):
There are such big things, and I just get a
lot of idiotic comments towards my kids and a lot
of you know, weird looks and misunderstanding, and it's just
really nice to hear.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It's amazing to me when you know, and I could
hear your him in the background, right, he's right.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
There, my daughter and I got my daughter back.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But it is amazing that that we all live in
a world.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And I guess we almost have to give grace to
some people because they just don't know sometimes and then
may but maybe your child is one of the people
that will open up their uh, their eyes and their
hearts to you know, what what it's like to to
be autistic, you know what I mean, Like I think
there's sometimes you hear somebody like making noises or do anything,
and your first thing is like, oh, why is that
(10:16):
kid acting that way? And then you don't understand that
this is, you know, something that they can't control.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Yeah, I actually I wear a tee shirt all the time.
That says because my daughter she does vocal stems switcher.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Yeah, that's happening. It is there. You know, it's her expression.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
Of excitement of joy, and it says, you know, if
you hear these sounds, you're one of the lucky ones.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh I love that. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Well, thanks Sarah. I appreciate you.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Thank you, Love you guys, appreciate you.
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