Shannon Didn't Get Their Christmas Cards

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it's Mojo in the Morning Show, Shannon. First off,
are you sending out like beautiful Christmas cards for I don't.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Send Christmas cards. Remember, I do Valentine's cards just because
it's way too crazy at this.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Time of the year. Here's a family that looks like
yours that I get so many cards.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
See, that's why I don't do Christmas cards, because they
just get lost in the shuffle too.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
I get Christmas cards sent to me, and when I
get Christmas cards sent to me, nine out of ten
times I have to ask Chelsea who the hell it is.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'm like, who are these people? Are our friends?

Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's funny. I love, love, love getting holiday cards. I
just don't do it because this time of the year,
like I am, tapped out and stressed out, and so
to me, it just makes more sense to have like
a family photo taken in January and then I send
them out for Valentine's Day and that's what I do instide.
But it's interesting that you brought up Christmas cards.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Can I borrow your family from my Christmas cards? Use
the kids. They're gonna be like stunt.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
They would love it. Yeah, pay them with Coca Cola.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
You're good.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, I yesterday, this just happened.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
I'm part of a big group text with a bunch
of girls that I love so much, but unfortunately, for
several reasons, I'm just not as close to them as
I used to be. We are all still friends, but
it's a group of women that I mostly hung out
with when I was married, like my first marriage, and
so I still just adore all of these moms. But

(01:22):
since I'm not married to my ex husband anymore, I
just I'm not around them as much. I don't hang
out with them as much. No, they really didn't, to
be honest, they didn't really choose either of us. We
just I mean, I guess I would say they still
chose me because we still will hang out and I'm
still on this group text. But yesterday the group text

(01:43):
was about arranging time to spend together, like quality time
to spend together. But one of the girls in the group,
and so smart for saying this, was like, let's do
a brunch or something after the holiday in January when
everybody's schedule is a little bit less crazy, And I
was like, yes, I'm in. This is such a great idea,
and she followed it up with It's been so great
to get everybody's Christmas cards and the mail and see

(02:05):
all your faces. And I'm going it like, oh to you.
I have not gotten one holiday card really from any
person in this group. Want Tokay, I get it, like
things change when you know, marriages end and whatever. But
it does. It does mean a lot to me, and
so that's why my feelings are kind of hurt.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
I love getting them. Don't don't please, don't take this
wrong web like. It makes me happy when I get them,
but I don't expect them from people like I feel
like you can just post a family photo up on Instagram.
Let me give it a like, don't pay for the postage.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
So I expect them if I've gotten them from those
people in the past.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Okay, yeah right, so.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
And so tonight, like I'm looking through this list of
like the people in this text and I'm like, oh,
I'm going from her and then going from her, and
again I'm trying to go on. It's okay. They like
relationships evolve, you know.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
And act big purpose didn't or do what do you think? Oversight?
I don't, So you know what you should do is
you should answer.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Bad I am not answering, although I mean I'm talking
about it.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
But it's well, you already brought it up on the air,
so it's this is more passive aggressive than if you
answered back.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
And see, by the.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Way, I'm not meaning to be passive aggressive by any means.
I mean, I'm talking about it just because I'm saying
my feelings are hurt.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, I think honestly, just for that, can you send
your company Christmas card or I'm not company, your home,
your family Christmas card to us here at the radio station.
Send it to Shannon. Yeah, iHeart radio.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
I don't I don't need a pity card. I don't know.
I want to say, how many people do this, Shannon?

Speaker 1 (03:43):
iHeart Radio two five two nine or Lean Street Detroit
four A two o seven, and send us your And
then what we're gonna do is everybody that sends their
family's holiday card, we're gonna post them all in the
studio here.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
We're gonna be to hang them up with been in.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Every doorway and right over Shannon when she does the dirties,
and you'll see it all the time, like the War
of the Roses, your family, the War of the Roses
that you only got like over a week. Okay, you
only got a little over a week to send it
to us.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
This is a big metal door, right, Yeah, we can
get a little magnets and just hang them up on
our studio.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
I would do it, KP. Make a post for this.
Shannon's Shannon wants your holiday card. We're going to post
them in the studio. Send it to us and then
put the address up there and then we'll post it
up on social media and stuff.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
He has to write a thank you for every single n.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
You don't know, come on, why are you making it hard? No,
her thank you will be the that It will be
a you know, put up in the studio. Divorce sucks
into the things that sometimes that happen in divorce, Like
I always feel bad when you hear stories, Like instantly
I thought to myself, I'm like, oh, they must have chose,
you know, the kids did.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
It's so weird. Like this holiday season. Sorry, I feel
like I'm getting like all choked up. This holiday season
is very different for me, and it's like hitting me hard.
And this was like a kind of a carry on
top where I feel like everything has.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Changed this year.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Your routines have changed.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
So much.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Has taken.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, And it's been extraordinarily hard, right.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
I have kept you guys all know this behind the scenes,
have kept a lot of it in.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
But it is, it is going to be.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's been a very hard couple of months.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
It's gonna be very very hard. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, I thought you've handled it well though. Honestly I
got it. I'd be honest with you. You've handed it
so gracefully.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Is it about this hour that we this is yesterday?

Speaker 1 (05:40):
I feel you this is the crying hour, just just
for that. I don't even have family at home right now,
just Chelsea, me and the two dogs I hate. I'm
going to get a picture of me with them today.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Dude, I'm literally doing this.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
I was like, for j C.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Penny has any openings and I'll just go by myself
and all your outfit.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
I feel so dumb.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's not the holiday cards, It's just a lot.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
And that was like, what's going on? Justin yo, yo,
your ear? Would you want to say justin oh?

Speaker 6 (06:13):
I was just saying, maybe they didn't send the Christmas
card because they don't want to bring up memories, because you.

Speaker 7 (06:19):
Know, they would have to send both of you guys.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yes, that's a bright spot of it. Yeah, maybe it's
they just don't want to bring up.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
I don't know. But she's still is going to see
them and go out on a you know, Pial.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
And I think the worst part of it all was
like you just didn't have to put it in the
group chat, like you could have even sent them to
But I.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Don't and I don't.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Think that it was They probably don't know, correct, correct,
it was not malicious, Angela, what's up?

Speaker 6 (06:48):
Hey, Hey, I don't I don't think it was malicious either.
I think a lot of people base their Christmas card
list on the Christmas cards that they receive, and that's
how they get their addresses.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Might be.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
So I'm not a Christmas.

Speaker 6 (07:01):
Card sender either, so I don't get a lot of
Christmas cards.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, Shannon sends them Valentine's cards. You still send all
those ladies Valentine.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, so that's their favorite part.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Like literally, it's the only time I checked my mail
is around Valentine's Day because I I.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Just know that it's coming.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Lisa, what's up?

Speaker 2 (07:18):
It was July last day?

Speaker 3 (07:19):
My bad.

Speaker 7 (07:21):
I was just gonna say that.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
I don't send cards.

Speaker 6 (07:26):
I stopped sending cards to people who don't send cards
to me, and so I feel like that's maybe more what.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
It's about them. But Shannon sends them Valentine's cards. Yeah,
but she doesn't send them Christmas card.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
I understand that, but but they're still they're still on
the same address plan. I would say that that would
be the case, you know, if it wasn't that she
still keeps in correspondence.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
What's up, Melinda?

Speaker 7 (07:50):
Okay, good morning, y'all.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
What's going on?

Speaker 6 (07:53):
Sannon?

Speaker 7 (07:54):
I am going through the exact same thing you are.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
I have my daughter just turned eight yesterday, myself is ten,
and my divorce was final a month ago, and it
is the hardest thing I've ever went through, even though
I know it's the right decision. And so I just
wanted to send you.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
A big hug because it sucks.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
I feel like such a cry baby because this I
got to for so many years ago. You know, this
isn't like a fresh thing, but it's it's just year
after year. It is very interesting to me how much
still changes, right, and this year has just been a
lot of change. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (08:33):
Well, I'm sending you a hug because thank you. We
first separated four years ago, and even though like you know,
you know, everything is the right decision, like everything changing
is so hard to swallow, like not like my kids
leaving my house on Thanksgiving to go with their dad
crushed me so big hugs.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
You're amazing, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Can you also send a Christmas card tour of your
family minus the guy you're divorced?

Speaker 5 (09:01):
All right, love you have a great day, y'all.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
By the way, I wanted to see those people that
when they get divorced, but they got divorced.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
And they already made their Christmas cards.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Like during the summertime, do you photo shop the a
hole that you divorced out of the things I got
a really good picture in like Florida or something vacation, Like.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
It's just an X, like a sharpy X. Like you
didn't even photoshop them out or put the effort in.
You just scribbled it out.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Make them look like a snowman or