Mojo In The Morning

Dirty 1: Space Shuttle on It's Way to The Moon

10 min
Apr 2, 2026about 2 months ago
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Summary

Mojo in the Morning covers NASA's Artemis II mission launch with four astronauts bound for the moon, including Grand Rapids native Christina Cook, plus celebrity news about Zendaya and Tom Holland, Megan Thee Stallion's Broadway health scare, and Costco's viral 10-pound $140 Easter bunny.

Insights
  • Historic space missions are becoming mainstream entertainment topics on morning radio, reflecting broader public interest in space exploration
  • Representation in STEM fields (first Black astronaut, female astronauts) is generating significant cultural conversation and inspiring younger generations
  • Luxury novelty food products (like the $140 chocolate bunny) create viral marketing moments through unusual consumption instructions and price points
  • Local pride and community connection drive engagement when hometown figures achieve national recognition
Trends
Increased mainstream media coverage of NASA space missions as cultural eventsGrowing emphasis on diversity and representation in aerospace and STEM fieldsViral marketing through novelty food products with unusual presentation methodsCelebrity privacy becoming a newsworthy topic as public figures set boundariesWellness awareness in entertainment industry regarding performer exhaustion and health
Topics
NASA Artemis II Moon MissionAstronaut Diversity and RepresentationSpace Exploration TechnologyCelebrity Privacy and Personal BoundariesPerformer Health and Exhaustion in BroadwayLuxury Food Products and Viral MarketingSTEM Education and InspirationDeep Space Testing and Life Support Systems
Companies
NASA
Artemis II space mission launching four astronauts toward the moon for deep space testing
Costco
Selling a 10-pound $140 chocolate Easter bunny with viral instructions for consumption
People
Christina Cook
Grand Rapids native selected for Artemis II moon mission crew
Victor Glover
First Black astronaut to travel to space on Artemis II mission
Reid Wiseman
Artemis II crew member bound for the moon
Jeremy Hansen
Artemis II crew member on historic deep space test flight
Quotes
"I also hope we are pushing the other direction that one day we don't have to talk about these first, that one day this is just human history. It's the story of humanity, not black history, not women's history, but that it becomes human history."
Victor GloverMid-episode
"I try my best to be able to have things for myself and for him as well."
Zendaya (referenced)Celebrity news segment
"The incident was a wake-up call about pushing herself just too hard."
Megan Thee Stallion (referenced)Broadway health segment
Full Transcript
We're gonna give you a chance to win seven grand now. Hmm. Mojo's secret sound is the sound that we debuted last week, so it's been a week since we've had this sound. What is it? It's a secret sound. It's a secret sound. It's a secret sound. It's a secret sound. 844-665-6548-844-Mojo Live. What do you think that sound is for $7,000? DFCU Financial is sponsoring this whole thing. It's a secret sound. Mojo in the morning's dirty on the 30. All right, Shannon, what's going on in the dirty on the 30? Well, our latest space mission is now officially underway for astronauts have successfully launched toward the moon on a historic deep space test flight. RS-25 engines, wait, four, three, two, one, booster ignition, and lift off the crew of Artemis II, now bound for the moon. Humanity's next mission. Little later than planned yesterday after some technical difficulties, but the Artemis II is now in space, including Grand Rapids' very own Christina Cook. Now, this isn't a landing mission, and we talked about this briefly yesterday, but the goal here is to test NASA's new spacecraft with an actual crew on board. So everything from the life support systems to navigation, to how astronauts handle being that far from Earth. So this is the key step before NASA will actually send people back to land on the moon. So this trip is expected to last about 10 days total, four days traveling to the moon, a flyby around the lunar surface of the moon, and then the return trip to Earth will take another four days. What is the, do you have all the astronauts' names at all? I don't, but I can get them for you. Okay, so there's the one astronaut that's up there too is making history, the first black astronaut to go up in space, which is such a cool sign. Time to play a real. Hold on a second here, let me, yeah. He had a great response to the question of how it felt to make history. His name's Victor Glover, so shout out VG. Also read Wiseman, Jeremy Hansen, and then I mentioned Christina Hammett Cook. All right, let me, hold on, let me see if I got this one. A big question, and I want to highlight, I guess maybe one facet of this is the tension, I call it. I live in this dichotomy between happiness that a young woman can look at Christina and just physicalize her passion or her interests, or even if it's not something she wants to do, she can just be like girl power, and that's awesome. And that young brown boys and girls can look at me and go, hey, he looks like me and he's doing what? And that's great, I love that. But I also hope we are pushing the other direction that one day we don't have to talk about these first, that one day this is just, and I listen to this, that this is the human history. It's about human history. It's the story of humanity, not black history, not women's history, but that it becomes human history. I loved that, and I loved, have you seen somebody posted the whole 90s trend of the Goo Goo Dalles Iris with these guys? So they took their walking onto the Artemis, you know, space shuttle or whatever it is, they took that video of them going in there and then they did the whole, let's look back at their childhood, and you see pictures of all three of them from when they were kids, and it just looked so cool to see how space aviation, how their love of science played a part, because they had pictures of them at the science fairs that they were at. All little kids are like, I wanna be a police officer, a firefighter, or an astronaut, and you're like, oh, okay, as mom, you're like, oh, all right, I'm an astronaut. When I was a kid, do you know that those were always the biggest Halloween costumes? Astronaut was like everybody's costume, so that's cool. Zendaya has been very tight-lipped about whether she's already married to actor Tom Holland, even though fans are dying to know if the rumors are true, myself included, but she has been wearing a wedding band lately, but she will not confirm nor deny for a good reason. I really do understand that, and I don't wanna dismiss that, like stay out of my business or whatever, but in a lot of ways, I also am a very private person, and I try my best to be able to have things for myself and for him as well. Megan Thee Stallion canceled two performances of Mulan Rouge, the musical on Broadway, after a health scare, but she says she will be back very soon. Told you yesterday she was rushed to the hospital after falling ill in the middle of one of her performances on Broadway, she actually just made her debut. She felt so terrible, an understudy had to step in so the production could continue while she went to the hospital to get checked out, and doctors say basically it was extreme exhaustion, dehydration, and overall overexertion. It wasn't any sort of long-term condition. She didn't have anything that was gonna be like detrimental long-term to her health, thankfully, so she was treated, released, and she said to her fans that the incident was a wake-up call about pushing herself just too hard. And Costco's giant Easter Bunny is getting lots of attention this morning, not just for its size, but for its price and how you're supposed to eat it. Have you guys seen this thing? It's huge. It weighs 10 pounds, the price tag $140, okay? This is at Costco. And shoppers are split on whether or not it's worth it. Some say it's a really fun centerpiece, others are like, who would actually spend that money and you can't even eat that much chocolate. So what's really turning heads here is the instructions on how to eat it. Instead of biting into it, which we all do when we hit chocolate bunnies or if you get a chocolate bunny, you're told if you buy it to wrap it in a towel, smash it with like a hammer or a rolling pin and eat it that way, eat chunks that way, or carefully slice it with a heated knife into slices like bread. Mm. And that's how you're supposed to eat this thing. I think we should buy one. Right, Char? 140 bucks. I actually have to go to Costco. If they have one, I'm not buying 140 dollars. Well, no, they're reimbursing, it may take four weeks. It may take them next Easter for you to get your... Jesus came back, dude. Jesus came back faster than that. If you also get a towel and a hammer too while you're there, we're going to need that. They suggest a mallet. Hey, if you miss anything from today, so you can always catch up on the podcast on that iHeart radio app. Hey, hey, hey, go see your love. Celebrity Dirt, directly from the source. It's Mojo and the Morning's Dirty on the 30. It is time. Promote your secret sound. Oh, that's too much. It's early. You don't want to wake the neighbors. All right, Mojo secret sound brought to you by DFCU Financial, the Cashback Credit Union. Although I'll tell you what, if Noah from Roseville wins, I'm going to get crazy here right now and wake up the entire neighborhood. Hi, Noah. Hey, how's it going? Good, buddy. $7,000 be a lot of money to have fun with. What would you do? I'd pay up some debt, take my family on a vacation. I like it. I like it. Would you go, Noah, with the remaining money after paying off that debt? Not sure yet. I got two, 20-year-old, almost two-year-old. So somewhere that they can have a little bit of fun. Calahari. I loved going there. Actually, speaking of chocolate, we were just talking about that big bunny at Costco. They have a chocolate candy store at the lobby of Calahari. That's like that Rocky Mountain. Rocky Mountain chocolate. Chocolate factory that they have in the mall. I love that place. Take them to the Salem Witch Museum. Where's that at? I don't know. Salem, Massachusetts. Yeah. What brought that out of them? I don't know. Let's have some fun. Oh, look at those eyes in them. Noah, don't listen to this guy. He broke a kid's heart yesterday with an April Fools joke there. I love it. All right. All right, let's not break Noah's heart. Let's get him a win for $7,000. What is Mojo's secret sound? A blender? Whoa. Well, you think that's a blender? No guess is a bad guess. But, hmm. Oh, you know what? I could hear that, like a blender mixing ice or something in there. Like neutral bone. Like a mole section on a blender. Like my daiquiri, my strawberry daiquiri inside there. It is not a blender, unfortunately. Kid's playing in the backyard is something. Turn the sprinkler on. Ain't no Kallahar today. Noah. Great memories. Noah, he's chirping the people here. This kid. And I'm the guy that's the bad guy here. I just want you to know this. Noah, I hope he repents for his sins today. And be nice. Holy Thursday. Get him on roadblocks. Noah, please do us a favor. Yeah. Don't give up on us. Guess again next hour, OK? OK, well done. All right, I appreciate you so much, man. Seven grand is still up for grabs. Parks are free. Listen to this. You know, how would you like if I just said, you know what? I'm not giving you this. What do you mean? I don't know. That's what you're basically doing. Noah, I'm not. Noah, what do you have to say to Kevin? Hey, I mean, Easter's coming up this weekend. So yeah, be nice, right? Totally weak. Right. Yeah. I hope he gets nothing in his Easter basket this year. God is love. I hope you know. No chocolate bunnies this year. Exactly. Sorry you got caught cheating by not deleting those techs you meant to delete. Another War of the Roses is after 7. On Mojo in the morning.