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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mojo in the Morning Show. It's interesting the snow day
that we have today for many has not made a
lot of people happy, Shannon. It's trending on social media
right now that people are upset about this.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
There are a lot of parents that I don't think
we were prepared to or we were expecting to have
a snow day today. You know, like last week there
were a few days we're like, oh, yeah, Friday, we're
going to get called off because it's going to be
so darn cold. And so when the schools got called
last night, my friend Christy texted our group text and
she said, this doesn't make me mad. Snow day not
(00:33):
a right call snow day, because she's like, I Mondays
are my days to get all my stuff done. So
like I go to work and then I do like
my grocery shop, ring all the things. And she's like,
not a Monday, any other day, but a Monday. And
it was interesting to me as well, because you know
how the schools will post on social media the closing
(00:54):
or whatever like for the particular district, and so I
was looking at the comments for Smith's school and these
parents were like, this is ridiculous. This is absurd. I
looked outside, it stopped snowing. It's not even eight o'clock.
The plows and the salt trucks have plenty of time
to get out and get going and make the road
(01:15):
safe for everybody in the morning. I mean it was
it was a heated conversation.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I didn't understand the snow day. And I started seeing like,
I think one hundred or so come in to us.
And we even posted and great job beyond I was
a great post for all of our cities. If you
ever need snow day information, you can always go and
hit up us on Instagram, Facebook, Mojo in the morning
(01:43):
and we posted for people the snow days, and there
were about one hundred or so at like five o'clock
or six o'clock in the evening, and I was thinking
to myself, the snow had just started stopping. I'm like,
we have a long way to go until tomorrow. Yeah.
And then I drove in this morning and it was
one of the worst commutes that I think I've ever
done in my life. And so I understand and maybe
(02:05):
they anticipated that there weren't going to be plows and
saw trucks that were going to be outdoing anything, and
they didn't want the kids. Because here's the deal. Today's
the warmest day of the week. Today is really eighteen
degrees for a high temperature today. The rest of the
week is single digits, So you are probably going to
go out in sun tan today. The guys who wear
cargo shorts and the cold are wearing them days. God Josh,
(02:29):
he's gonna get out.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And I did love that a dad hopped on here
and was like, you know, I used to be a
hater and a doubter when it came to snow days.
But there are buses and bus stops. There are kids
that walk to school every house. All these different teachers
have a family, and not all teachers live within this district,
and sometimes they're in districts that are far away or
their kids school gets canceled. And then it like there's
(02:51):
so many different stair steps to it for people to understand.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You know. What I thought it was weird is that
they some of the schools that do virtual school, like
we were talking about New York schools, they have school
today even though they had the worst snow that they've
ever had. I think it was one of the biggest
snowstorms that that city has ever gotten. They're doing virtual schools.
Many of the teachers will show up at school to
do the virtual class from their class. So it makes
(03:17):
me wonder, is like, wait a second, why are these
guys going to school? A. But also if they're having
to go to class, let's just call it off, you
know what I mean, that's not ue to do it?
A four forur Mojo Live A four four six six
six five four eight. I've always wanted to know this
and we were blessed in our house that Chelsea was
able to be a stay at home mom and did
(03:39):
a phenomenal job of doing that. But how do families
where kids have to go to school because you have
no childcare? What do you do? Like, where are you
bringing your kids to when you have work still? And
what is the arrangements that you've made? Will you call
us up to and tell us eight four four Mojo Live. I've,
you know, know, seen so many times where people will
(04:02):
bring him to work. But at a certain point you
either got to take a day off and your work
has to understand that or it's going to become a
situation where you're not getting anything done because there's so
many different days that are being called Alex, what's up? Hi?
Good morning? How you doing well? Good?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
We're doing okay. We don't have a snow day today, Alex, Oh, I.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Wish we didn't. We weren't supposed to have a half
day in Garden City on Friday, and it got moved
to today, and now because we have a snow day again,
it's getting pushed you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Now in that what does that do for you with
work and all the stuff that you got going on.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Luckily, my schedule is really flexible, and I have a
great support group.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That is willing to take my kid. Yeah, I'm one
of the lucky ones. Yeah. I can't imagine that everybody
has it as lucky as you have it. Yeah, definitely
not so like how Shannon was reading some of the
people that were upset about that snow Are you at
a point now where you're like, oh, just let them
go to school?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yes, because I don't want to even do this half day.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, I mean a half day means none. I half
days stupid at that point, just don't even have it,
you know what I mean? Like I always thought the
half days. All the half day does is mess up
your ability to do pick up in drop.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Offs, and it cannot focus on a half day.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And I hate to say this, but you know, Shannon
mentioned the amount of people that take buses. I don't
know anybody that takes buses anymore. I feel like it's
very minimal compared to what it was probably for you
when you were or a parents when or me when
I was a kid. Nowadays, everybody drives their own kids
to school, it seems like, and I feel like that
is one of those things where it's like we all
(05:44):
worry about the buses. The buses are probably the least
amount of things that you have to worry about. You're worried
about the parents trying to get their kids in and
out of the school. What's up, Amy, How you doing? Hi?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Am good. I'm on my lay to work.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
How are you doing? Okay? Your kids have a school
day today.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
My son had a school dage today with my aunt.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So they're off. Okay. Do you get upset when this
happens or do your aunt and uncle get upset or
are they good with us?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
My aunt sometimes just upset because my son.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
He's talking them before, so he called you a hat.
Oh that's right. Thank you for that little bratt.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I know, he has a brat.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
He can be a real hyper So, like Jesus, I'm
so I.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Credits because we also live with them so they're kind
of used to them.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
But thank god though, right, I mean thank god you
have that. Yeah, that's because I.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Do homecare so people like depend on me to be there.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well yeah, like the home care meaning like nursing for
people and stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I'm a home outlaid for visiting angels.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, because that would be one of those jobs where
I would wonder with the people you're doing, don't care
for be okay? With you bringing your son? You know?
Have you ever done that?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Actually I have not because I would get.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Fired really because of the whole medical hip. Yeah wow,
I could see that. Plus the kid would call him
at doo dooohead. What's going on, Liz? How you doing good? Good?
What's happening? Are you tired of the snow days?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
My daughter had a week full of them last week.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
So we're quietly back.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh today, yeah they did.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
We're on the west side.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So yeah today, By the way, everything every one of
our grand rapids listeners on one oh four point five
S and X. You guys have had probably the best
winter that you've ever had. You guys, this is normal
for you to have the weather that everybody in detroit
has been having.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Of course, now Toledo's got Wait you said.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Not one single day did those kids go to school
last week?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
He does, correctly, because of the cold. Yeah, they took,
they took. I think, honestly, I think it's better to
be off for the cold than it is to be
off for the snow. And I know that that may
sound weird with the travel and stuff, but the cold,
to me is scarier the kids getting in and out
(08:20):
and trying to go. I mean, you see the kid
in Michigan, yeah, and turned out missing and died. That
the woman in Pontiac last week, though, Yes, I mean
it's like, that's scary when you think about you know,
there are those that try to walk to and from things.
I mean, you're like, how are you getting around?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
How are you able to give him the college campuses? Like,
I know there's a Michigan State student in my household,
and he said he usually walks on average like twenty
five thirty minutes to each class. I'm like, dude, that's insanity.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, Luke, went to classes and did all that stuff,
you know, on Friday, and he said that it was
really wild to see and he said it didn't really
feel like it was that, you know, that cold, but
it was. He said it was wild to see everybody
walking more in groups because they were all trying to
keep each other warm.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
The buses have too many kids on them. Yeah, so
a lot of times you can't even get the bus.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
But jesse Go was up.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So I am an ur practitioner and I don't get
snowa days. I worked in urgent care and you'd be
shocked how many people were coming out in that snow.
Yesterday I worked in an eight hour shift and I
saw them with forty people.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
What's a practitioner? What is that?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
So I am like, you know what a physician assistant is.
I'm like the nursing version of that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh okay, oh you're talking about like, is are you
at an urgent care or a hospital or where are you?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I'm an urgent care. Yeah, and it's insane. People were
still coming in droves yesterday. And my husband's a nurse
and he had to work, and so luckily my parents
don't watch my kids. Like if it was today and
one of us. He's home, but my parents are his
Seattle have to come watch them with there in their
seventies and we don't want them driving. Oh yeah, people
(10:01):
need to stay home when it's though.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, well, I mean I think that the problem is
I think that this has been also a bad cold
and flu season too, so I think a lot of
people are Yeah, but you're right though. If you're a
nurse practitioner and you werek urging care at a hospital
or something, you can't you do anything with your kids.
I mean, at that point right there, it's like you
definitely need to have somebody there to take care of him,
(10:25):
and that person will be Zach. Bring him down to
the radio station. We did that one year at one time.
Remember Fletch was here with us back then. You never
remember Fletch. Fletch was actually, honestly a guy that probably
shouldn't have been around kids, but not because he was
like a pedophile. He was not. He was actually excellent
with kids. My kids loved him because he would teach
him how to dip. Back in the day before Zen's
(10:48):
Fletch should be dipping. And I'll never forget Luke coming
in going hey, Dad, can I dip? And I like,
where'd you know about dipping? Flesh Fletch taught him about dipping,
so that was amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Bay, get all those boots and make them snow angels.
Mojo in the Morning Show. It's interesting the snow day
that we have today for many has not made a
lot of people happy, Shannon. It's trending on social media
right now that people are upset about this.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
There are a lot of parents that I don't think
we were prepared to or we were expecting to have
a snow day today. You know, like last week there
were a few days we're like, oh, yeah, Friday, we're
going to get called off because it's going to be
so darn cold. And so when the schools got called
last night, my friend Christy texted our group text and
she said, this doesn't make me mad. Snow day not
(00:33):
a right call snow day, because she's like, I Mondays
are my days to get all my stuff done. So
like I go to work and then I do like
my grocery shop, ring all the things. And she's like,
not a Monday, any other day, but a Monday. And
it was interesting to me as well, because you know
how the schools will post on social media the closing
(00:54):
or whatever like for the particular district, and so I
was looking at the comments for Smith's school and these
parents were like, this is ridiculous. This is absurd. I
looked outside, it stopped snowing. It's not even eight o'clock.
The plows and the salt trucks have plenty of time
to get out and get going and make the road
(01:15):
safe for everybody in the morning. I mean it was
it was a heated conversation.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I didn't understand the snow day. And I started seeing like,
I think one hundred or so come in to us.
And we even posted and great job beyond I was
a great post for all of our cities. If you
ever need snow day information, you can always go and
hit up us on Instagram, Facebook, Mojo in the morning
(01:43):
and we posted for people the snow days, and there
were about one hundred or so at like five o'clock
or six o'clock in the evening, and I was thinking
to myself, the snow had just started stopping. I'm like,
we have a long way to go until tomorrow. Yeah.
And then I drove in this morning and it was
one of the worst commutes that I think I've ever
done in my life. And so I understand and maybe
(02:05):
they anticipated that there weren't going to be plows and
saw trucks that were going to be outdoing anything, and
they didn't want the kids. Because here's the deal. Today's
the warmest day of the week. Today is really eighteen
degrees for a high temperature today. The rest of the
week is single digits, So you are probably going to
go out in sun tan today. The guys who wear
cargo shorts and the cold are wearing them days. God Josh,
(02:29):
he's gonna get out.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And I did love that a dad hopped on here
and was like, you know, I used to be a
hater and a doubter when it came to snow days.
But there are buses and bus stops. There are kids
that walk to school every house. All these different teachers
have a family, and not all teachers live within this district,
and sometimes they're in districts that are far away or
their kids school gets canceled. And then it like there's
(02:51):
so many different stair steps to it for people to understand.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You know. What I thought it was weird is that
they some of the schools that do virtual school, like
we were talking about New York schools, they have school
today even though they had the worst snow that they've
ever had. I think it was one of the biggest
snowstorms that that city has ever gotten. They're doing virtual schools.
Many of the teachers will show up at school to
do the virtual class from their class. So it makes
(03:17):
me wonder, is like, wait a second, why are these
guys going to school? A. But also if they're having
to go to class, let's just call it off, you
know what I mean, that's not ue to do it?
A four forur Mojo Live A four four six six
six five four eight. I've always wanted to know this
and we were blessed in our house that Chelsea was
able to be a stay at home mom and did
(03:39):
a phenomenal job of doing that. But how do families
where kids have to go to school because you have
no childcare? What do you do? Like, where are you
bringing your kids to when you have work still? And
what is the arrangements that you've made? Will you call
us up to and tell us eight four four Mojo Live. I've,
you know, know, seen so many times where people will
(04:02):
bring him to work. But at a certain point you
either got to take a day off and your work
has to understand that or it's going to become a
situation where you're not getting anything done because there's so
many different days that are being called Alex, what's up? Hi?
Good morning? How you doing well? Good?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
We're doing okay. We don't have a snow day today, Alex, Oh, I.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Wish we didn't. We weren't supposed to have a half
day in Garden City on Friday, and it got moved
to today, and now because we have a snow day again,
it's getting pushed you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Now in that what does that do for you with
work and all the stuff that you got going on.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Luckily, my schedule is really flexible, and I have a
great support group.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That is willing to take my kid. Yeah, I'm one
of the lucky ones. Yeah. I can't imagine that everybody
has it as lucky as you have it. Yeah, definitely
not so like how Shannon was reading some of the
people that were upset about that snow Are you at
a point now where you're like, oh, just let them
go to school?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yes, because I don't want to even do this half day.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, I mean a half day means none. I half
days stupid at that point, just don't even have it,
you know what I mean? Like I always thought the
half days. All the half day does is mess up
your ability to do pick up in drop.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Offs, and it cannot focus on a half day.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And I hate to say this, but you know, Shannon
mentioned the amount of people that take buses. I don't
know anybody that takes buses anymore. I feel like it's
very minimal compared to what it was probably for you
when you were or a parents when or me when
I was a kid. Nowadays, everybody drives their own kids
to school, it seems like, and I feel like that
is one of those things where it's like we all
(05:44):
worry about the buses. The buses are probably the least
amount of things that you have to worry about. You're worried
about the parents trying to get their kids in and
out of the school. What's up, Amy, How you doing? Hi?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Am good. I'm on my lay to work.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
How are you doing? Okay? Your kids have a school
day today.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
My son had a school dage today with my aunt.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So they're off. Okay. Do you get upset when this
happens or do your aunt and uncle get upset or
are they good with us?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
My aunt sometimes just upset because my son.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
He's talking them before, so he called you a hat.
Oh that's right. Thank you for that little bratt.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I know, he has a brat.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
He can be a real hyper So, like Jesus, I'm
so I.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Credits because we also live with them so they're kind
of used to them.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
But thank god though, right, I mean thank god you
have that. Yeah, that's because I.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Do homecare so people like depend on me to be there.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well yeah, like the home care meaning like nursing for
people and stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I'm a home outlaid for visiting angels.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, because that would be one of those jobs where
I would wonder with the people you're doing, don't care
for be okay? With you bringing your son? You know?
Have you ever done that?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Actually I have not because I would get.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Fired really because of the whole medical hip. Yeah wow,
I could see that. Plus the kid would call him
at doo dooohead. What's going on, Liz? How you doing good? Good?
What's happening? Are you tired of the snow days?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
My daughter had a week full of them last week.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
So we're quietly back.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh today, yeah they did.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
We're on the west side.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So yeah today, By the way, everything every one of
our grand rapids listeners on one oh four point five
S and X. You guys have had probably the best
winter that you've ever had. You guys, this is normal
for you to have the weather that everybody in detroit
has been having.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Of course, now Toledo's got Wait you said.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Not one single day did those kids go to school
last week?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
He does, correctly, because of the cold. Yeah, they took,
they took. I think, honestly, I think it's better to
be off for the cold than it is to be
off for the snow. And I know that that may
sound weird with the travel and stuff, but the cold,
to me is scarier the kids getting in and out
(08:20):
and trying to go. I mean, you see the kid
in Michigan, yeah, and turned out missing and died. That
the woman in Pontiac last week, though, Yes, I mean
it's like, that's scary when you think about you know,
there are those that try to walk to and from things.
I mean, you're like, how are you getting around?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
How are you able to give him the college campuses? Like,
I know there's a Michigan State student in my household,
and he said he usually walks on average like twenty
five thirty minutes to each class. I'm like, dude, that's insanity.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, Luke, went to classes and did all that stuff,
you know, on Friday, and he said that it was
really wild to see and he said it didn't really
feel like it was that, you know, that cold, but
it was. He said it was wild to see everybody
walking more in groups because they were all trying to
keep each other warm.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
The buses have too many kids on them. Yeah, so
a lot of times you can't even get the bus.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
But jesse Go was up.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So I am an ur practitioner and I don't get
snowa days. I worked in urgent care and you'd be
shocked how many people were coming out in that snow.
Yesterday I worked in an eight hour shift and I
saw them with forty people.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
What's a practitioner? What is that?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
So I am like, you know what a physician assistant is.
I'm like the nursing version of that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh okay, oh you're talking about like, is are you
at an urgent care or a hospital or where are you?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I'm an urgent care. Yeah, and it's insane. People were
still coming in droves yesterday. And my husband's a nurse
and he had to work, and so luckily my parents
don't watch my kids. Like if it was today and
one of us. He's home, but my parents are his
Seattle have to come watch them with there in their
seventies and we don't want them driving. Oh yeah, people
(10:01):
need to stay home when it's though.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, well, I mean I think that the problem is
I think that this has been also a bad cold
and flu season too, so I think a lot of
people are Yeah, but you're right though. If you're a
nurse practitioner and you werek urging care at a hospital
or something, you can't you do anything with your kids.
I mean, at that point right there, it's like you
definitely need to have somebody there to take care of him,
(10:25):
and that person will be Zach. Bring him down to
the radio station. We did that one year at one time.
Remember Fletch was here with us back then. You never
remember Fletch. Fletch was actually, honestly a guy that probably
shouldn't have been around kids, but not because he was
like a pedophile. He was not. He was actually excellent
with kids. My kids loved him because he would teach
him how to dip. Back in the day before Zen's
(10:48):
Fletch should be dipping. And I'll never forget Luke coming
in going hey, Dad, can I dip? And I like,
where'd you know about dipping? Flesh Fletch taught him about dipping,
so that was amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Bay, get all those boots and make them snow angels.
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