Sunshine. Goodbye, winter blues. Hello, spring allergies. This is Mojo in the morning. I wish we had sunshine. All right, we're going to give you a chance to buy sunshine with $13,000. How about a vacation somewhere? Mojo's secret sound. You can do whatever you want with it. 13 grand, 13K. Thank you to... Jack can do the good though, yeah. I'm not going to lie. It does look nice. If I was a winner of this $13,000, I'd buy 8,000 of these jackets for every sports team. It's a starter Detroit Tigers jacket. You can get it in a team store at Coamerica Park. I look skinny in this thing. It makes me look good. It's very fitting. It's nice. And thank you, by the way, to the Tigers for this. $13,000 Mojo secret sound, DFCU financial, the cashback credit union is going to give you a chance to win. What is the sound? 844-665-6548, 844 Mojo Live. Mojo in the morning's dirty on the 30. All right, Lydia, just give me an idea. What stories are we doing in this dirty? So I'm going to go over Sydney, Sweden, HBO pulling a clip of her down. The Ticketmaster Live Nation. And then I'm also going to talk about the guy who's standing outside of the Lions training camp. Oh, good, okay. Are you going to do the cat me now? I am. Yeah, I want to throw that at the end if we had some time. All right, you got it. Go ahead. Let's go dirty. All right, I'm going to start off with Sydney, Sweeney though, because we already talked about that. So HBO has quietly altered a controversial trailer for Euphoria season three after backlash over a provocative scene featuring Sydney Sweeney. The original teaser included a brief shot of Cindy's character, Cassie, styled in a baby themed outfit, while posing sexually for what appears to be adult content storylines. Viewers quickly reacted online, calling the imagery disturbing and accusing the show of pushing shock value way too far. According to some reports, HBO has now removed the trailer and later re-uploaded an edited version with that specific moment shortened, changing following the backlash. The controversial scene is tied to a new arc in which Cassie turns to creating adult content as a source of income. Spoiler alert. But I did just read that series creator, Sam Levinson, has suggested the moment was intended to be exaggerated and surreal highlighting the character's desperation and distorted sense of identity, rather than serving purely as being provocative. It's provocative. It's the people going. Does the show just do too much sex though? Bro, yes sex is a piece of it, but that's not the entire show. They're a different story line. It's about drug abuse, I would say, is more prevalent in the show than even sex. There's interesting dynamics between brothers and sisters and mothers and daughters. There's more to it. Sex is something America gravitates to. So when there's sex, that's the only thing people focus on, but it's more than that. Will you tell Chelsea that and talk her into it? Oh my gosh, she wants to watch so bad. She's a dirty. Chelsea wants nothing to do with me binge watching Euphoria. We have not seen it yet. I feel like we're the only ones and I feel like it's time for us, you know? It's time. I also haven't seen this. You also can watch things on your own, you know. I don't know if you know this, but I can't. I tried to watch. Not that one. Yeah, I tried to watch Sex Lives by myself and it was, what's that? Now that one's all about sex. That's all about sex. But it is a good show. I said it too, it was a great show. Euphoria's where I draw the line though. Chelsea would be like, go in the bedroom and watch that. And then I felt even weirder that I was late in my day watching it. A federal jury has found that Live Nation and its ticketing arm, Ticketmaster, violated antitrust laws by maintaining an illegal monopoly over parts of the live entertainment and ticketing industry. Don't expect changes to your ticket prices quite yet. The judge will be determining remedies in a separate proceeding. So that could include money damages, structural changes to the business, or potentially even the breakup of Live Nation and Ticketmaster. Yeah, the verdict was reached in federal court yesterday following a case brought on by the US Department of Justice alongside multiple state attorney generals. Prosecutors argued that the companies use their combined control over venues, promotion and ticketing to limit, sorry, much, I know you. No, you know what's gotta stop? This is the thing that's gotta stop. And nobody talks about this. The thing that's gotta stop is not just the Ticketmaster and Live Nation are owned by the same people. The thing that's gotta stop is these sports teams and they do it in here in town that sell their tickets to brokers and then make more money off of their tickets. Explain it. So if you're a sports team and I'm not gonna name any of them specifically, but I know that they do this, they will allow brokers to buy a ton of tickets in the stadium and then the brokers will resell tickets like they're a regular fan reselling tickets and they'll charge you in exorbitant amount, way more than the price of the ticket. And then they split the profits with the brokers. So the sports teams are like, they are basically jacking the prices of their tickets up so they don't look bad to the fans, which they're already charging you at crazy amounts of money anyway. And then they're selling and reselling these tickets. I think that the old fashioned days of, you got season ticket holders have tickets and the season ticket holder can't go to a game or wants to make some money on tickets, let him resell, let that guy get some money. What happened was the teams realized they're, this is not fair that Joe from Auburn Hills is selling tickets and making all this money. Maybe we should get into this thing and that's what they're doing. So it bothers me. You're already charging us to watch your teams on apps. You know what I mean? Why not allow the fans to have a good price for a ticket so you start getting fans, regular guys into the game. You know what? To have like a dad, like Kevin, be able to take Josiah to a game or something like that and buy on a hot dog and all the rest of that stuff. He shouldn't have to pay. Yeah, take out a second mortgage. $300 for a ticket. I think that's a great point, man. Hopefully this is the beginning with this live nation ticket master thing and then potentially. You don't see it happening? No. Why not? I think that the big guys always win, you know? That's true. I thought it was strange though that the evidence showed that they were overcharging by $1.72 each. I feel like there's more to that. Like there had to be more than that per ticket. Those Taylor Swift tickets? Yeah. Oh my God. There were people that were spending $2,000 for a ticket to take their kid to that concert. Nosebleeds. $1.72. A former Eastern Michigan football player is going viral as he's tried to land a shot with the Detroit Lions. Freddie McGee, the third, has been standing outside the team's practice facility doing everything he can to get noticed and earn a tryout. That's a great story. And they did this on that CBS evening show. This guy's actually not a bad guy. A test of the true meaning of grit and a challenge to the Detroit Lions, a team that's built its entire NFL program around that word. Meet Freddie McGee, the third, an undersized, overlooked football player from Canton, Michigan. With no scholarship offers out of high school, he walked on at Eastern Michigan University. And then, with no NFL offers, he fought his way into the Arena Football League. And now at 27, this is him this week, trying to open one more door for himself. Standing outside the Lions practice facility cleats around his neck and a sign reading, this is grit. No agent need one shot. I've been told no, plenty of times, been counted out overlooked. And I'm still here, man. So for you, grit is what got you to this moment? Absolutely. It's got me through a lot of things, just, you know, that not listening to the naysayers and not looking at the odds of everything, but just kind of betting on myself and trusting the process. The Detroit Lions are not just any team here. Coach Dan Campbell has put the word grit on the stadium itself. And he said he's looking for players who embody it. I can't tell you if Freddie McGee can play football in the NFL, but he sure believes he can. And if grit is what the Lions are looking for, it's currently standing just outside their door. What a good report. Shout out to Eric Woodier too. He's a beat writer for the Lions. He helped break this story. He took the picture of the guy outside the sun and all that stuff. Do we know if the Lions will give him a tryout? So he has not yet been offered a tryout. Wow, well. If they give him one, then everyone's gonna be out there. That's what comments were saying. But I do love that he's doing it. First in, they'll let him have it. That's what I think. Let him just try. And if you can't put him on the practice squad and let him get his brains beaten in by... Oh my gosh. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? I don't know what you mean. Why are we going that far? I was always a practice player, so I used to get beat up all the time. Brains beaten. Moja, do I have time for one more story? One more story, because this is a great story. You gotta do it. Air traffic controllers at Ronald Reagan of Washington National Airport are investigating an unusual and unprofessional radio frequency incident after pilots were heard making animal sounds over an emergency aviation channel. These guys, listen to this. These guys were barking and meowing over the FAA signal. Like the one that's like, we're gonna land this plane. Listen to this. Meow. Meow. You guys, you need to be professional player. Meow, meow, meow, meow. Ah, ah. This is why you still play an RJ. Wow. What did he say at that? He said this is why you're flying an RJ, like a smaller plane. They gotta be below, bro. Yeah, that's crazy. This is the same airport. They had that helicopter hit that plane. And now we know why, allegedly. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. They gotta get suspended. I wanna try. Well, aviation officials say the behavior has raised concerns and now the Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing the incident to determine whether any regulations were violated and if they need any further actions. When I first got into radio, I used to run what was called the God Squad, which was Sunday morning programming. Okay, God Squad. And so me and Jimmy Lawson, Jim Lawson would run this thing. And Jim Lawson used to, when it was his week, he would say hi to his girlfriend Trish, who he's now married to over the radio. So you'd hear like the interviews going on and you'd hear, I love you Trish. I love you Trish. And he would just like, kind of like instead of the meow, he would do it. And he'd wait for a spot in there when they would stop and, you know, talk. And he would go, I love you Trish. I love you. So it was like the weirdest thing ever. Our boss was driving in one morning to go to like some thing at the radio station, walks into the studio and goes, what the hell is that? Freaked out on him for doing that. Did he stop at that point? Oh, luckily he's not fired. Jim actually became like a VP for one of the big companies too. Thank you God Squad. Thank you Mojo for letting me do the dirty today. Wow, why do you thank me? I thank you. Because this is a really good opportunity for me to just try something new and I love it. I love it. I guess what Lydia? She did a great job. You do it again tomorrow baby! Yeah! Celebrity Dirt. Directly from the source, is Mojo and the Morning's Dirty on the 30. Eight is time now for Mojo's Secret Sound. Where we're gonna give you a chance to win $13,000. We're getting closer. Today's guesses have been good. Mojo's Secret Sound. Lots of clues that we have been trying to help you with by just listening to this thing and listening to the podcast of the Secret Sounds so that you can kind of guess where people are going and what our reaction is to it. Please welcome from Macomb, Tamika is gonna play now. Hey Tamika. Hi! What are you doing Tamika? I'm actually on my way to work. Tell me Tamika what you would do with $13,000. If I said to you, you're a winner! Here's $13,000. What are you doing with it? First of all, first time long time. Oh yeah! Thank you for telling us. Thank you for listening. Yes! Every time I go on my yard, I see shingles flying and shingles and flew off my roof and I am desperate need of a roof. All right, we'll get you a roof. That's what I would do. All right, well let's get you a roof. Here we go. We're gonna help you with a roof here. Tamika from Macomb. Come on. Yeah. Oh Joe's secret sound. Yeah. I'm gonna say, I see those water bottles on her station and I'm gonna say the squeezing of the water bottles. So you know that it's somewhere in... So then I clashed it up and down, up and down. Yeah, somewhere in Lydia's studio, you got an idea that there's the secret sound. We gave you that clue. You think it's the water bottles and the sound of the water bottles being squeezed? Yes. It is not. Oh man. Oh lord. Everyone's seeing that water bottle. No, that was kind of the focus. Not the right answer Tamika. So it's coming back tomorrow morning again and we're gonna play again at 6.30 a.m. So be listening at 6.30 a.m. and keep looking and keep thinking about this, okay? I sure will. We wish you well on your roof. We love you for listening. Thank you Tamika. Love you too. Thank you. Bye bye.
