Dirty: Wireless Festival Cancelled Amidst Kanye Controversy

Mojo in the morning's dirty on the 30. I said we're clearing the phone lines. I like that. I like it a lot. Fresh 95. Fresh 95. Let's get into some dirty. So to catch you up to speed, we're going to talk Kanye to start off this dirty. Now the wireless festival announced a few, I guess a month ago, maybe a few weeks ago, that Kanye would be headlining the three day event. Shortly thereafter, Pepsi announced they would no longer be sponsoring. Pepsi was the leading sponsor and that set off a whole list of other companies to follow suit. PayPal dropped out. Brand called Diego's a liquor brand owned Johnny Walker. They own Captain Morgan and a host of other maybe smaller brands. Jack Daniels. Jack Daniels, I believe is one of them. And since then, Kanye has been denied entry from the UK. And yesterday, wireless festival put out a memo saying that they are canceling the entire festival at this point. But again, this all started because Pepsi pulled its sponsorship. So the question on everybody's mind is, well, did Pepsi not know that Kanye was the headliner or how did all of that happen? Here's Melvin Ben, who's wireless festivals organizer talking about just that. We did with Pepsi, for instance, our lead sponsor, and they signed off and approved it, for example. And perhaps we should have done that. Really? That's fascinating. Sorry to interrupt again, but that's fascinating. So Pepsi, who pulled out now, haven't they? Originally, we're quite happy for him to come. Correct. Yes, we are. They're a headline sponsor. We asked them and asked them to sign off on it and they did. So Pepsi knew that Kanye was going to headline. They signed off and then something happens. Yeah. Do you know? Do you have any like inkling of like what would have hit or why? We may never know. Now, obviously they're, you know, based on Kanye's behavior and things that he said over the past couple of years, it points directly to that. But again, Pepsi knew he said all of these things when wireless announced that he was going to be headlining and confirm with them prior to announcing to the world. So I don't know if it was public pressure or what made Pepsi eventually, you know, do a 180 and say we're no longer going to sponsor. But after canceling yesterday, wireless festival put out a note that said we're going to refund everybody's tickets. So everybody's going to get their money back and everything will go there. So what do you think about them canceling and not finding another performer? I think it's very difficult to find an artist on the level of a Kanye West. Yeah. Last year, they had Drake headline three straight and this was coming. This was like Drake's first big tour. He did some concerts in Australia post the Kendrick Lamar situation, but this was like his first really, really big festival coming out party. So you have Drake last year, you announced Kanye this year. It's like, where do you kind of go after buying tickets to see Kanye? Yeah. And then you probably would have to go through a whole refunding if, say, for example, no shade, but you announced Olivia Rodrigo and maybe the people who already purchased don't want to go. Yeah, they may be fans, but they don't want to go to London. So yeah, more on that later. Yesterday, President Trump tweeted that a whole civilization would die last night. And luckily that didn't happen. The White House announced that following talks with Pakistan's leadership contingent on Iran agreeing to immediately reopen the Strait of Hamas. We have a ceasefire in place for at least two weeks. So that is good. Switching gears, the WNBA has a new collective bargaining agreement and the women are making more money than they ever have. An emoji is going to be happy. One woman in particular is getting paid. Caitlin Clark, her salary will jump from roughly 80, $85,000 last season to $528,000 this season. I mean, that's amazing. And it's amazing. However, shouldn't it be just a little more? Definitely agree. But I think going from 85 to 528, that's pretty huge. That wouldn't be complaining. But definitely agree. And maybe with, you know, more eyes and more sponsors, maybe Pepsi, since, you know, they're not doing why. Maybe they are already on cash. She's laying around really quick on WNBA. Didn't Mojo's favorite WNBA star get traded? No, no, no, that would be my favorite. I know. Shout out to Angel Reese, newest acquisition to the Atlanta Dream. Last story, we're going with the alliteration here. Atlanta Angel Reese. We're going to talk about actress Aubrey Plaza. May know her from Parks and Recreations or White Lotus. Some good news. Aubrey Plaza announced that she's pregnant. So shout out to Aubrey and her boyfriend. What's his name? Chris Abbott. This comes a year after Aubrey's husband, unfortunately, passed away. And she's moved on and now she's expecting a baby. Some say that's fast. I say it's amazing. So congratulations to Aubrey and her boyfriend. That's that's your dirt. Good dirty dirty. Miss something in the dirty on the 30. Listen on our podcast now at MojoInTheMorning.com.