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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Wakem It gets my day going.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It makes me laugh of it.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Mac and Schmidty in the morning on Star one oh
five point seven.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Come on in sitting, Good morning, Welcome into your Wednesday,
and once again, happy first day of school a lot
today Cedar Springs, Forest Hills, Hudsonville, Jennison, Sparta, Wayland. I'll
headed back to school.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Heyme into that.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
First day for my two kiddos, fifth and seventh grade,
both going to new schools with that this.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Year too, full day or half a full day, nice.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Full day, which is great because that half first day
feels so just impossibly short and like, what did you
even do today?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Oh see, I'm like it's impossible for parents to figure
out right fifty eight am, honey, but this could be
great and good luck to everybody, all the teachers that
are back.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We have our big open house tonight.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
So even if you're not back to school yet, I
know those teachers are in their classrooms getting everything ready
to meet the new kids.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It's just a really, really busy next few days.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You know, my son Connor, who is uh it doesn't
fall far from the tree of the apple because he
doesn't shut up, and he went in yesterday to meet
his teacher for the very first time, and I swear
I couldn't get a word out of a kid. It's
like the first before we walk in. I'm like, remember,
you walk up, you introduce yourself, you shake their hand,
and uh, you know, and then just go from there.
(01:22):
It was like pulling teeth and I'm like, what's going
on right now? I'm like, I swear, this is the
quietest this kid's gonna be for you.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, we're really gone to an open house that it's
not mass chaos yet.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
So maybe that's the point. Because it's the primary grades.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
There's just a million kids saying Hi, Hi, Hi, look
at my backpack and a teacher that's like, we're gonna
have a great year.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, just put your markers over here. We're gonna have
a good time.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
It's the celebrity scoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Well it's good news because I know fans were pretty concerned,
but Kelly Clarkson will be returning to the Voice, deciding
to keep the show rolling the tragic death of her
ex husband Brandon Blackstock.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
We're told Kelly did.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Skip a taping for season twenty nine of NBC's Battle
of the Champions early there earlier this month, but that
was literally on the heels of that heartbreaking news. Jennifer
Hudson ended up stepping in for rehearsals during the Battle rounds,
but Kelly has decided working is what's best for her
right now. She'll be reuniting with fellow coaches Adam Lavigne
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and John Legend and the show is going to crank
out two cycles at the same time, which I think
is really interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So this is season twenty nine. We're talking about.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Season twenty eight, which premieres this fall, is the one
with bou Blaz, Nile Horn, Snoop Dogg, and Reba McIntyre
coming back, which is also interesting as this is RIBA's
steps on that just passed two.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
All of that is a lot of the voice. That's
what I took.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Now they must be thinken on it.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
We've got our Video Music Awards officially making a comeback
once again, and the big performance lineup is pretty good.
MTV announcing Sabrina Carpenter, Somber, Alex Warren, and j Balvin.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Featuring DJ Snake.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
For all my millennials, are already and set to perform.
Carpenter nominated for eight awards this year, including Video of
the Year. This will be Balvin's first time back on
stage since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
But get this.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
MTV is also announced Busta Rhymes is receiving the Rock
the Bells Visionary Award and Ricky Martin is going to
be recognized with the Latin Icon Award. Both are going
to be performing live at the show. Gaga leads the
nominations for this year's Mtvvmas twelve nominations, followed by Bruno
Mars and Kendrick Laher.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I still say think this sentence is weird. The twenty
twenty five MTVVMAS on CBS.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Still a thing.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Hell Cool Jay is set to host It's Going Down Sunday,
September seventh, And finally, I just thought this was so sweet.
You know what, Nike Kobe three Protro sneakers are about
to drop in just a couple of days, and the
shoe giant enlisted a very special person to show up
in the ad, the NBA Legend's daughter Natalia.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I'm looking for something special. Let me say you wo
you reach I teach? Maybe if he passes the tests. Sure,
how are you in the clutch? I'm pretty good under pressure,
highly polished.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Impuckable craftsmanship.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Definitely. If you haven't given that in the garden, of course.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
He might be ready.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah that was New York Knick star Jalen Brunson. That's
on that too. But a lot of fans are like, oh,
that's a really, really sweet move. The sneaker drops. August
twenty third, which is Kobe's birthday, all of your celeb
scoop at West Michigan start.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Off act well, let's get you feeling good. It's not
one on five point seven. Macka's fitty with you this morning.
And you know what, if you're a Red Wings fan,
so many of us for years have felt like they're
been a number in a name missing from the rafters
over in Detroit for the Red Wings, alongside Gordie Howe
and Ted Lindsay, sid Abel Steve Eiserman, how about Sergey Federof.
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It has been long overdue, but the Red Wings announcing
yesterday that Sergey's number ninety one is going to be
joining all those other legends, getting his number retired by
the Red Wings. Finally, after all these years, the Wings
shared a video online yesterday of convertible headed across different
landmarks in Detroit with the radio plan and talking about Serge.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
What people are.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Saying about retiring the number of Surgey Federovs and here
skates on ice.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
He was just flying a number ninety one hitting the
little Steers arena rafters.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Next, Yes it is. It's gonna go down against Carolina
Hurricanes on January twelfth of next year. Sergey finally gonna
have that number retired. After helping the Wings win three
Stanley Cup champions, won two Selk Trophies, is the lead
Best two Way Player MVP, as well as the Ted
Lindsay Award. I mean, inducted into the Hall of Fame
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in twenty fifteen and the International Hockey Hall of Fame
in twenty sixteen. This is long overdue, and I know
for all Wings fans hockey fans in general, especially you're
fans of the Russian five, for the Detroit Red Wings
as well, so happy to see Serge's name finally go up.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Well, this is the throwback we are here for a
local business trying to generate nostalgia while also giving memories
to new generations that may never have experienced this.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
We're getting a VHS store.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Mark and Abigail Ritsama are partnering with Rob Grimes to
open something called Bartertown Video in Wyoming. It's going to
provide VHS tapes and VCRs while also dropping HDMI adapter
so people can actually connect those VCRs to their TVs.
It's pretty cool. It's been a dream of Grimes for years.
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He had a storefront in Easttown before moving with family
to Cadillac, but it was always something he wanted to
do in his hometown and that's finally happening. Decades worth
of movies, music, and culture have shaped this dream. You
will be able to live your eighties and nineties once more.
And both Rob and Abigail sat down with Wood TV
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and said that is what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
There's a resurgence.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
People are starting to really like the idea of having
a movie that they own physically in their home.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
People really are looking to get back to that when
we are kids, that feeling of being in the video
store and it's very exciting and you know, we're going
to all get together as a family and we're going
to watch a movie and it's it's like the night
you look forward to all week long. We want to
recreate that among new families.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
That's such a good idea. Now the store itself is
already open, but they're huge. Grand opening in Wyoming is
going to come up on the twenty third, and I
just love the idea.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
When you think of VHS as schmidty, what's the first
one that pops.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Into your head?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Oh, Fox and the Hound though, that's a great one
right there. Actually, I remember that vividly on VHS at
my grandparents as well. For me, it was The Double Decker,
The Double Decker movies of the Sound of Music and Titanic,
both of them so long you needed two vs.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
All Switch to vs. Number two.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I'll put all the details up because if you are
like me and loving that nineties childhood feel, you're gonna
love this store West Michigan, Star dot Com.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I don't know if you have watched The Biggest Loser
Fit for TV documentary on Netflix about the hit reality.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Show on NBC.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
No, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I am two episodes in. It is juicying you guys,
and now it is leading to some legal drama. So
this is kind of a look at what the show
actually was. They talked to contestants that were on the
show and there are a lot of allegations coming up
about weight loss drugs being used, caffeine there doctor doctor
Heizen talking about how kind of disgusted he was with
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how the show runners were doing this series. And one
of the big people missing is trainer Jillian Michaels, who
is now coming out swinging, saying the documentary is a
giant lie and she is lawyered up. The celeb trainer
says she is meeting with a Powerhouse attorney to plot
her next move, which could include going after Netflix. Bob Harper,
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one of the other fitness trainers who is on the documentary,
and doctor Heising got in court. She actually called into
TMZ yesterday.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Honestly, it's just filled with so many lies, and of
course I have the emails and the text messages to
back all of this up. Right now, my team and
I are trying to figure out the best way of
going forward and dealing with this. You know, do we
pursue this legally? Do I just do a data dom.
But for the show's doctor to suggest that I never
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worked with him, for example, that's one of his lies.
There are I don't know, hundreds of emails going back
and forth between me and the show's talctor.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
So a couple of the things she's refuting. Number one,
that she never worked with him, she said, honestly, I
didn't love how he treated contestants, and I thought that
they should be meeting with specialists during this weight loss challenge.
Another thing she said is this drama surrounding caffeine pills.
She said, the caffeine pills were never banned. The show
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is now flip flopping about this, and she flat out
denies treating contestants with any of these secret Stacker two
pills that the documentary brings up. It's wild and it
is really worth a watch.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And to be honest too, Jillian Michaels is the only
one of these people that I feel like has any
continued name recognition, still has a career in entertainment that
she's trying to protect them.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Herbert still is pretty big. Yeah, he's got like gyms
to his names. He's huge with celebrities still. But it
is really gonna be Something to Watch. Actor Chris Pratt
is a big fan of Robert Kennedy Junior, and he
is very supportive of his now family. Of course, marrying
his wife makes RFK Junior his cousin in law. He
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sat down with Bill Maher for an interview.
Speaker 9 (11:10):
I've spent a number of occasions hanging with him, just
a strictly, you know, family dinner kind of vibe, and
I really got along with him. Well, I said, great,
I think he's great. I think he's funny, he's wonderful.
I like him. Yes, I love him, and I think that,
you know, politics, it's a nasty business. And when he
jumps in and I've seen and I'm not in politics obviously,
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but there's a certain as level to this in Hollywood.
I've seen how the person you are can be such
a contrast to the person that people are being told
that you are.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I always forget Chris Pratt is kind of like in
this political family now having.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Married Bruce Riiverer's daughter.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
But Chris did specify he does not talk politics with
him at family get together's dinners, nothing like this. All
of his defense is just in a personal family level,
and he loves his family and Finally, the new face
of a new Skims campaign, none other than cowboy post Malone.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Everybody's wearing skips.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Ooh, the internet is thirsty over this. The company of
corresponded by Kim Kardashian, is dropping their new signature skims,
cotton and heavyweight police fabrication in a real tree camo print.
Post Malone wowing fans with his weight loss, his body
in these teeny tiny little skim shorts. He's fishing, he's
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riding a horse. One person writing that camouflage is so
incredible even I can't see it.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh wait, are those just the abs?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
This is gonna be obviously another bestseller for Kim, and
post is thrilled to be on board for it.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Okay, I'm looking at these Photosmitty, and I'm like, what
abs this? This just looks like a dado. I would
say that you can see it. I'm gonna post up
the pictures for you. The commercial is actually really really good.
West Michigan Star dot Com Morning too. It's back and
SCHMIDI here on Star and you know what, I've seen
videos now, I've seen pictures last night.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
You know, I gotta tell you guys, something so completely
out of my comfort zone. We did a lip sync
competition to fundraise for two incredible organizations here in West Michigan,
our Grand Rapids Civic Theater and Broadway Grand Rapids. And
a lot of people don't know those are both nonprofits,
so they do a ton of community outreach. They do
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a lot with schools in our area, so a lot
of what they're able to do comes from things like fundraising.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So we were all given a team.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I co captained a team with the fabulous Mattie Jones,
who is an actress at the Civic Theater, and it
was a lip sync competition between Rock of Ages, which
is a performance coming to the Civic Theater, and then
and Julie, which is coming to Broadway gr So, if
you're unfamiliar with the shows, they Rock of Ages is
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all classic rock and then a Juliette is like boy
band stuff. So we started out big hair, big shoes,
big attitude. I got to do Areo Speedwagon. Can't fight
this feeling anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I mean I crawled across the.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Stage, I kicked my feet, I took my jean jacket off.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
That's a pro move. I can't fight.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
And if I could shout out my amazing co partner
Allie mag from B ninety three.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I forced to join my team with me. She was
on keyboard for that. It was so much much fun.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
And then we followed that up with Backstreet Boys Show Me.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
The Meaning of Being Lonely.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
And I gotta tell you, guys, I have never done
anything like this, and this is probably my first time
back on stage since college. I did theater in high
school and college, but I have not since then, and
it was so much fun. Here's a couple things I
learned though. Number One, I am of a certain age
and I kicked my leg way too high. So it's
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a very humbling experience when you get done doing something
like this, and then you have to call it chiropractor
three of us. Three of us were talking about that
last night. Always trust people that seem to be your
kind of person. I could not have been matched with
someone better than Maddie, Like she was so wonderful and
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our attitudes and just like perspectives matched. It was so
much fun.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
You guys really good.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, it was like so cool. And then finally, this
is my back to school advice. Always say yes, yeah,
always say yes if you get the opportunity to do
something that seems way out of your norm something no way,
I would be so nervous to do that.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Say yes and do it.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
It's so cliche to say, but the thing that you
never do that scares you is going to stretch a
muscle that you never knew existed. I'm so excited I
did that last night. It was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
We'll talk to my kids about that all the time.
When life hands you an opportunity to try something, try
it because you don't know the next time that you'll
get that chance to do it. Yeah, what's the harm?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Just I think a lot of times people think of
that like maybe it's like a job or something.
Speaker 10 (16:31):
No, no, no.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
If somebody comes up to you and says, hey, will
you wear leather pants and scream Areo Speedwagon? Say yes,
Oh you know what, I stump And it's exciting because
it's the first time I've gotten to use my crimper
in like two years. Still hold on, old, honey, This
hair will be big for the next seven days because
I hair washed on Sunday and I am absolutely not
doing that again. So it will be crimpy eighties big
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for at least the next five to seven business say
I'm here for you.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Can bring this back, Schmitdi. This could be the start
of some really.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Big thank you to the Grand Rapid Civic Theater and
broadwaygr it was an awesome idea. I will post some
pigs up to our Facebook if you want to see.
It's really worth it. Maddy wore a body suit. Yes, yes,
she's got some serious I mean that's like a twelve pack.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
She did ario right.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
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More big thank you to Tony BLACKI one of our wonderful,
wonderful listeners who came out last night sat front row.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It was super exciting to see him and his wife.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
He did say he goes yeah, we got front row seats,
so I hope they give you a poncho, Toby. Why,
what's going awesome? Good morning too. It's Mack and Schmidty
and just a couple of parents trying to figure things out,
just like you are, and occasionally we will we mess up.
So we share those experiences each and every week it
is time for another bi smitty. Obviously you like to embarrass.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Your kids, Sure, that's part of the job.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, I mean I'd love that, but sometimes they embarrass you.
And I got to give some props to my ten
year old son Connor because he went shopping with my
wife Michelle for a birthday gift for my now five
year old nephew JJ. So, ten year old boy see
something at the store that he knows a five year
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old boy would like a lot, smitty. Why, Well, because
it's a fart blaster.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Oh nice?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh yeah, this is from Despicable Before. There is a
fart blaster in the movie, and this is the mini
fart blaster that he got. And he's like, oh, JJ's kid,
I love this.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I think Will got that last year, right, awesome funny
to it, right, so hilarious.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Well, then we're going through Meyer and my son is
walking behind people, turning his back to them, Schmidty, while
my wife is walking down the aisle.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yep, you can't not You're not going to take full
advantage of that opportunity.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
And he is dead panning it. Yes, so good. She
told me. She's like, he's not making he's just grinning
ear to ear while he doesn't look at the person
at all. Meanwhile, I'm faced with making eye contact with
this person that just heard fart's going off behind them.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Gotta be honest, ex kud as a kid, when your
grown husband does it, it gets a little weird.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Has I been there?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I can tell you right now. If I was there, Smitty,
there is zero chance we would have left that store
for another hour minimum. Yeah. She told me that the
cashier really didn't appreciate Connor's fart humor, Schmitty, but that
the bag boy absolutely look so he found his audience.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
These music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
It's the Celebrities Goop. On Star one oh five point.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Seven, actress Aubrey Plaza is opening up about the heartache
of losing her husband, Jeff Baina. This is the first
time she's kind of gone public about this, discussing the
daily struggle of facing life after such a tragic loss.
She joined her Parks and rec co star Amy Poehler
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on Amy's Good Hang podcast yesterday, and when asked how
she was doing, fans are really praising her example of grief.
She points to a movie starring Miles Teller called The Gorge.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
In the movie, there's like a cliff on one side,
and then there's like a cliff on the other side,
and then there's like gorge in between, and it's like
filled with all these like monster people that are trying
to get them, and like, I swear when I watched it,
I was like, that is like feels like what my
grief is like, or what grief could be like, where
it's like at all times there's like a giant ocean
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of just awfulness that's like right there, and I can
like see it, and like sometimes I just want to
like just dive into it and just like be in it,
and then sometimes I just like look at it, and
then sometimes I'm like I just try to get away
from it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
But it's always there. It's just always there.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yeah, her husband passing away back in January, a lot
of people going, wow, that is just so well, said
about what grief.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Can feel like and what an absolutely insane amount of emotions.
This has to be here because obviously they were separated
beforehand too, so I'm sure all of those thoughts and
guilts and what could I have done and what didn't
I see and all that stuff that weighs on anybody's
got to be with her.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Remember she talked to him the night before he called her.
So it's actually a really powerful interview. I've got it
linked at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
No, they are not Splitsville.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Kylie Jenner and actor to the Chalo May are still
going strong. There have been rumors swirling for weeks since
the pair haven't really been seen together, but thanks to
some baristas in Budapest, we can now put those rumors
to rest. A very small coffee shop in Budapest posted
a picture yesterday of two employees with the celebs, claiming
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Jenner and Chalomey walked into their absolute surprise.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
They said, Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
We were so confused we could barely concentrate, but I
think you can tell from the look on our face.
They were super nice, super kind and really awesome to
let us take a picture with them. So apparently Timothy
is over there filming, so it would make sense.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Who do you think gets spotted first?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
With one hundred percent?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I think I read once that day the Kardashians are
more recognizable than like the presidents.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I'm sure. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Finally, Taylor Swift, speaking of recognizable, showing off some serious
bling on the cover of her new album, Life of
a Showgirl. But just how much bling? How about nine
one hundred and twenty thousand dollars worth? So last week
the big announcement came down that also showed fans the
album cover for Life of a show Girl.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
On her wrist.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Taylor is wearing a thirty two thousand dollars vintage bracelet
by Stephanie Gottlieb, which contains four diamond strands stacked together.
She was seen in an eight those Maria ruby drop earrings.
Those are thirty eight almost thirty nine carrots.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Other big parts of her jewelry collection multiple pieces by
different designers, sculptural drop earrings, a pavet diamond cuff, a
bold pink pearl ring, and a sapphire and diamond bracelet.
Lorraine Schwartz did a bunch of custom for this almost
a million dollars that woman was wearing on the cover
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of that album.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
It's interesting because I don't feel like Taylor's swift is
ever really embrace that side of I don't know, fashion
or whatever you want to call it. She's always been
much more low key.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
I feel.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
If you watch Thure walking into the different NFL games
this season, she was dripping in a lot of stuff.
She might just not be over the top open about it. Yeah,
but you can see for yourself. They are some beautiful pieces.
I've got it for you with your scoop at West
Michigan Star dot.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Com Time Tea, Battle, Battle Love, there's sexies right now,
and you're shot to go have something with the kids,
who have fun with the kids. Checking out such a
cool exhibit at our Grand Rapids Public Museum.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
You guys, it is such a gem. We're very, very
lucky to have it here. And they've gone over the
top with this Shark's exhibit. There is still time to
get there. Okay, the exhibit goes until August thirty first,
but that's it. So if you get today's number one answer,
we're going to hook you up with passes for this
awesome time and you can take the whole family, all right.
Today's question one hundred women surveyed, what is something you'll
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see on a children's playground?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
You know, there's so many staples of the playground, but
I have learned of the Year of Our Lord twenty
twenty five, that there's got to be a goga ball
pit on every playground. It's still a thing, still a thing.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
If you're on the playgrounds where the goga ball bet
is gone, I think maybe it's past.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
There's two at my kids' school now they doubled the
gogup all pins.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
This isn't something you see, but I guarantee all of
us have heard. If it's like a primary level playground,
the word friends. Oh friends, we don't hit friends. We
keep the ball inside the fence. Okay, friends, let's take
a breather. Six one six, four, five, eight, one oh
five seven. One hundred women surveyed what's something you'll see
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on a children's playground? Caller seven number one answer, We're
sending you to the Grand Rapids Public Museum.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
With star seven A five points seven. It's back and
Shamane Battler at the sexiest time. Hi, who's this?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
What's going on? Maxus Is Thomas from Grand Rappids.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Thomas from Grand Rapids. How are you today, sir?
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Well?
Speaker 10 (25:41):
How are you there?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Good? Are your kids back in school already or han't
gone back yet?
Speaker 10 (25:46):
My house is empty?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, congratulations dad? Nice? Well, Thomas, let's see if we
can get you out for some fun with the kids
here too. You just got to tell me. One hundred
women were asked to name something you might see and
children's playground. What do you think? The top answer.
Speaker 10 (26:03):
Is, Thomas, It's got to be a swing set.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Gotta be a swing set. I mean, when you're a kid,
you're either getting as high as you can so you
can jump off that bad boy, or you're sitting and
spinning in a circle just so that when it unwinds
you spin like a top. What were you doing on
that swing set?
Speaker 10 (26:18):
Yeah, I mean I was trying to pretty much rep
the swing around the you know the bar there, and oh.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You wanted to go you wanted to do the impossible flip,
go all the way over.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
The top exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
That's the dream for any kid that's ever tried to
go as high as they can on a swing set.
For sure. Swing sets The top answer Thomas.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Oh, my god.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, four tickets for the Grand Rapids pub the museum
and then Awo New Sharks exhibit going on through the
end of the month.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
I am excited.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Yeah, I think my favorite dark is the Great White,
so I'm excited to see you.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Oh yes, it was by the way swing sets followed
by monkey bars, Merry Go rounds, and the slide rounding
out those top answers and all of them hopefully gonna
make your kid's recess a whole lot of fun this
year too. While we're at it, Welcome back to school
for a lot of kids cross West Michigan. More schools
going back every single day this week, basically next week too,
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even after Labor Day. But I think this is kind
of weird smiddy. My daughter starts school today and the
very first day is picture day.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I don't like that, because I'm already stressed about going
to a new school.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I don't want to look sweaty in a pick.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I feel the same way about that as you do.
The only saving grace I will save for this is
that at least you know the kids are going to
be kind of dressed up right, like you're gonna wear
your first day of school. Clothes, so you're more likely
to take a photo that you like. Right that being said,
my wife and daughter are getting ready. My daughter is
entering seventh grade. Dear god, I'm two years from high school,
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and I'm just absolutely terrified.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
That's okay, it starts already.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It is. That's what I'm getting that I showed you
the picture of her. My daughter's got a little bit
of makeup on her hair. Resolved one, U.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
This is junior high. Dude is killing very big deal.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So last night they're like starting to do the whole
hair process and stuff, and they're in the bathroom together
and I'm listening to my wife talk to Charlotte and say,
you know, like oh and make sure you tick your
chin down like this or you turn it this, And
I'm like, what are we doing? She's like, I'm just
you know, doing the tips and tricks for photos.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Good poses?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Do you have go to moves like every every single
girl does?
Speaker 8 (28:19):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Is what if I saved tiktoks.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I have three to five minute videos of like standing poses,
sitting poses, crawling poses, like crisscross apple sauce poses.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
I have an entire library of ways to pose for
good pictures.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You have Chris Cross Apple Sauce poses.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Because I'm not a photogenic person. I really can't stand pictures.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
So every time I come across tips and tricks video,
I'm like, saved.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
See I disagree that you're not a photogenic person and
I but I understand that everybody feels that way about
themselves and hates photos of themselves a lot of time.
So my wife does this. We actually just got back
from vacation and she's doing like the the foot forward
hip thing, Christine to the side over and over again,
and she's like, yeah, you don't have like things that
you do in a photo. I'm like, we heard boys,
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we're not gonna do anything. You know what my son's
advice was, I was like, hold still and listen to
the photographer like that that is my go to move.
Stop moving your hands and look at the camera. Outside
of that, it's just whatever happens happened.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Well, it's hard because school pictures you're sitting and it's
only from like mid chest up. So my best advice
would be shoulders back, great pasture, chin down, and try
to kind of suck your mouth.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Then yeah, I was lost a good pasture right off
the bat, I'm like, oh for how long?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I'm telling you, If you can make it through school
day pictures with braces on, you're ready to take on
the world.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You guys feeling good on starbar five points. Yeah, it's
Mack and Schmidty and what's going on?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I love it?
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Have you heard of the Chubby Mermaids self named it's
a group of West Michigan athletes that were all born
thanks to their love of swimming. The Chubby Mermaids ard
back in twenty twenty one when a group of friends
decided to swim around Mackinaw Island.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
After they did that, they said this was super fun,
and they.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Have now gone on to accomplish tons of endurance swims
and have broken the barriers of what an athlete should
look like. They call themselves the Chubby Athletes, the Chubby Mermaids,
and now a few of those Mermaids, Tracy, Liz and
Liza are a part of this epic Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim.
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We've been talking about this. It's been almost a month.
Seventy swimmers undertaking a four hundred and eleven mile relay
starting at the point of the Shipwreck and Lake Superior
and then ending in a week in Detroit. So this
is a very cool They actually joined Wood TV to
talk about their leg of the race, and the Chubby
Mermaids said, this was a real showstopper.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
I just keep saying the word amazing over and over again.
I don't have the vocabulary. I don't think to.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Brick feeling.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
It was. Yeah, it was like a high, you know,
people came out and cheered for us. It was very supportive.
I mean, the swim community has always been very supportive
and very close knit, even if you don't know someone
your new best friend, and so it just it was
like that on steroids. It was amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Of course, this swim marks the fiftieth anniversary of the
sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the race is not
done yet. They are still swimming as we speak. They
are hoping to be pulling in to Detroit August twenty seven,
so they still have a week to go. But the
Chubby Mermaids were a big part of it.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Man, And during swimmers blow my mind. Just thinking of
the idea of swimming eight miles around mckinaw Island is nuts. Yeah,
all right, Betty. You know, normally just sharing criminal stories
does not make me feel good. Sometimes though, hearing a
dumb criminal get their comeuppance is all I need for
the day, and this is one of them. Of course
it's Florida, because like I said, of course it's Florida.
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A guy was stealing smoke Key Bear signs from the
state forests and then selling them online get this for
almost two thousand bucks a pop. They were those smoky
bear signs that are marking private forest reminding people to
clean up anything they put out, leave no trace, and
of course prevent forest fires. Well. The Florida Agricultural Commission
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said that the suspect was traveling from Pensacola to Orlando,
swiping the signs from protected forest areas and then selling them,
like I said, for almost two thousand bucks on Facebook marketplace.
So they set up a sting operation Schmidty with Smokey
the Bear. Smokey the Bear showed up as the police
were putting this guy in cuffs. They took photos, putting
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it all up on social media and said what happens
when dumb criminals poke the bear. Big thank you to
Smokey Bear for personally assisting in this arrest. I mean, honestly,
only in Florida.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I'm curious misdemeanor or felony stealing Smokey the Bear signs like, hey, kiss.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Let's not do that.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
It's over. I mean for almost two thousand dollars. If
that's the way, that's brother, Wow, all right, feeling good
coming at you a couple of times to day. Always
want to share crazy stuff, amazing things that are happening
out in our world, and we find them for you.
Every day six forty five and nine twenty on Star
Mack and Schmidty in the morning weekday starting at six
am on Star one oh five point seven
Wakem It gets my day going.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It makes me laugh of it.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Come on in sitting, Good morning, Welcome into your Wednesday,
and once again, happy first day of school a lot
today Cedar Springs, Forest Hills, Hudsonville, Jennison, Sparta, Wayland. I'll
headed back to school.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Heyme into that.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
First day for my two kiddos, fifth and seventh grade,
both going to new schools with that this.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Year too, full day or half a full day, nice.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Full day, which is great because that half first day
feels so just impossibly short and like, what did you
even do today?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Oh see, I'm like it's impossible for parents to figure
out right fifty eight am, honey, but this could be
great and good luck to everybody, all the teachers that
are back.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We have our big open house tonight.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
So even if you're not back to school yet, I
know those teachers are in their classrooms getting everything ready
to meet the new kids.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It's just a really, really busy next few days.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You know, my son Connor, who is uh it doesn't
fall far from the tree of the apple because he
doesn't shut up, and he went in yesterday to meet
his teacher for the very first time, and I swear
I couldn't get a word out of a kid. It's
like the first before we walk in. I'm like, remember,
you walk up, you introduce yourself, you shake their hand,
and uh, you know, and then just go from there.
(01:22):
It was like pulling teeth and I'm like, what's going
on right now? I'm like, I swear, this is the
quietest this kid's gonna be for you.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, we're really gone to an open house that it's
not mass chaos yet.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
So maybe that's the point. Because it's the primary grades.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
There's just a million kids saying Hi, Hi, Hi, look
at my backpack and a teacher that's like, we're gonna
have a great year.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, just put your markers over here. We're gonna have
a good time.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
It's the celebrity scoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Well it's good news because I know fans were pretty concerned,
but Kelly Clarkson will be returning to the Voice, deciding
to keep the show rolling the tragic death of her
ex husband Brandon Blackstock.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
We're told Kelly did.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Skip a taping for season twenty nine of NBC's Battle
of the Champions early there earlier this month, but that
was literally on the heels of that heartbreaking news. Jennifer
Hudson ended up stepping in for rehearsals during the Battle rounds,
but Kelly has decided working is what's best for her
right now. She'll be reuniting with fellow coaches Adam Lavigne
(02:26):
and John Legend and the show is going to crank
out two cycles at the same time, which I think
is really interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So this is season twenty nine. We're talking about.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Season twenty eight, which premieres this fall, is the one
with bou Blaz, Nile Horn, Snoop Dogg, and Reba McIntyre
coming back, which is also interesting as this is RIBA's
steps on that just passed two.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
All of that is a lot of the voice. That's
what I took.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Now they must be thinken on it.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
We've got our Video Music Awards officially making a comeback
once again, and the big performance lineup is pretty good.
MTV announcing Sabrina Carpenter, Somber, Alex Warren, and j Balvin.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Featuring DJ Snake.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
For all my millennials, are already and set to perform.
Carpenter nominated for eight awards this year, including Video of
the Year. This will be Balvin's first time back on
stage since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
But get this.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
MTV is also announced Busta Rhymes is receiving the Rock
the Bells Visionary Award and Ricky Martin is going to
be recognized with the Latin Icon Award. Both are going
to be performing live at the show. Gaga leads the
nominations for this year's Mtvvmas twelve nominations, followed by Bruno
Mars and Kendrick Laher.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I still say think this sentence is weird. The twenty
twenty five MTVVMAS on CBS.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Still a thing.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Hell Cool Jay is set to host It's Going Down Sunday,
September seventh, And finally, I just thought this was so sweet.
You know what, Nike Kobe three Protro sneakers are about
to drop in just a couple of days, and the
shoe giant enlisted a very special person to show up
in the ad, the NBA Legend's daughter Natalia.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I'm looking for something special. Let me say you wo
you reach I teach? Maybe if he passes the tests. Sure,
how are you in the clutch? I'm pretty good under pressure,
highly polished.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Impuckable craftsmanship.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Definitely. If you haven't given that in the garden, of course.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
He might be ready.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah that was New York Knick star Jalen Brunson. That's
on that too. But a lot of fans are like, oh,
that's a really, really sweet move. The sneaker drops. August
twenty third, which is Kobe's birthday, all of your celeb
scoop at West Michigan start.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Off act well, let's get you feeling good. It's not
one on five point seven. Macka's fitty with you this morning.
And you know what, if you're a Red Wings fan,
so many of us for years have felt like they're
been a number in a name missing from the rafters
over in Detroit for the Red Wings, alongside Gordie Howe
and Ted Lindsay, sid Abel Steve Eiserman, how about Sergey Federof.
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It has been long overdue, but the Red Wings announcing
yesterday that Sergey's number ninety one is going to be
joining all those other legends, getting his number retired by
the Red Wings. Finally, after all these years, the Wings
shared a video online yesterday of convertible headed across different
landmarks in Detroit with the radio plan and talking about Serge.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
What people are.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Saying about retiring the number of Surgey Federovs and here
skates on ice.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
He was just flying a number ninety one hitting the
little Steers arena rafters.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Next, Yes it is. It's gonna go down against Carolina
Hurricanes on January twelfth of next year. Sergey finally gonna
have that number retired. After helping the Wings win three
Stanley Cup champions, won two Selk Trophies, is the lead
Best two Way Player MVP, as well as the Ted
Lindsay Award. I mean, inducted into the Hall of Fame
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in twenty fifteen and the International Hockey Hall of Fame
in twenty sixteen. This is long overdue, and I know
for all Wings fans hockey fans in general, especially you're
fans of the Russian five, for the Detroit Red Wings
as well, so happy to see Serge's name finally go up.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Well, this is the throwback we are here for a
local business trying to generate nostalgia while also giving memories
to new generations that may never have experienced this.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
We're getting a VHS store.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Mark and Abigail Ritsama are partnering with Rob Grimes to
open something called Bartertown Video in Wyoming. It's going to
provide VHS tapes and VCRs while also dropping HDMI adapter
so people can actually connect those VCRs to their TVs.
It's pretty cool. It's been a dream of Grimes for years.
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He had a storefront in Easttown before moving with family
to Cadillac, but it was always something he wanted to
do in his hometown and that's finally happening. Decades worth
of movies, music, and culture have shaped this dream. You
will be able to live your eighties and nineties once more.
And both Rob and Abigail sat down with Wood TV
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and said that is what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
There's a resurgence.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
People are starting to really like the idea of having
a movie that they own physically in their home.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
People really are looking to get back to that when
we are kids, that feeling of being in the video
store and it's very exciting and you know, we're going
to all get together as a family and we're going
to watch a movie and it's it's like the night
you look forward to all week long. We want to
recreate that among new families.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
That's such a good idea. Now the store itself is
already open, but they're huge. Grand opening in Wyoming is
going to come up on the twenty third, and I
just love the idea.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
When you think of VHS as schmidty, what's the first
one that pops.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Into your head?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Oh, Fox and the Hound though, that's a great one
right there. Actually, I remember that vividly on VHS at
my grandparents as well. For me, it was The Double Decker,
The Double Decker movies of the Sound of Music and Titanic,
both of them so long you needed two vs.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
All Switch to vs. Number two.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I'll put all the details up because if you are
like me and loving that nineties childhood feel, you're gonna
love this store West Michigan, Star dot Com.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I don't know if you have watched The Biggest Loser
Fit for TV documentary on Netflix about the hit reality.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Show on NBC.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
No, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I am two episodes in. It is juicying you guys,
and now it is leading to some legal drama. So
this is kind of a look at what the show
actually was. They talked to contestants that were on the
show and there are a lot of allegations coming up
about weight loss drugs being used, caffeine there doctor doctor
Heizen talking about how kind of disgusted he was with
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how the show runners were doing this series. And one
of the big people missing is trainer Jillian Michaels, who
is now coming out swinging, saying the documentary is a
giant lie and she is lawyered up. The celeb trainer
says she is meeting with a Powerhouse attorney to plot
her next move, which could include going after Netflix. Bob Harper,
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one of the other fitness trainers who is on the documentary,
and doctor Heising got in court. She actually called into
TMZ yesterday.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Honestly, it's just filled with so many lies, and of
course I have the emails and the text messages to
back all of this up. Right now, my team and
I are trying to figure out the best way of
going forward and dealing with this. You know, do we
pursue this legally? Do I just do a data dom.
But for the show's doctor to suggest that I never
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worked with him, for example, that's one of his lies.
There are I don't know, hundreds of emails going back
and forth between me and the show's talctor.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
So a couple of the things she's refuting. Number one,
that she never worked with him, she said, honestly, I
didn't love how he treated contestants, and I thought that
they should be meeting with specialists during this weight loss challenge.
Another thing she said is this drama surrounding caffeine pills.
She said, the caffeine pills were never banned. The show
(10:24):
is now flip flopping about this, and she flat out
denies treating contestants with any of these secret Stacker two
pills that the documentary brings up. It's wild and it
is really worth a watch.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And to be honest too, Jillian Michaels is the only
one of these people that I feel like has any
continued name recognition, still has a career in entertainment that
she's trying to protect them.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Herbert still is pretty big. Yeah, he's got like gyms
to his names. He's huge with celebrities still. But it
is really gonna be Something to Watch. Actor Chris Pratt
is a big fan of Robert Kennedy Junior, and he
is very supportive of his now family. Of course, marrying
his wife makes RFK Junior his cousin in law. He
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sat down with Bill Maher for an interview.
Speaker 9 (11:10):
I've spent a number of occasions hanging with him, just
a strictly, you know, family dinner kind of vibe, and
I really got along with him. Well, I said, great,
I think he's great. I think he's funny, he's wonderful.
I like him. Yes, I love him, and I think that,
you know, politics, it's a nasty business. And when he
jumps in and I've seen and I'm not in politics obviously,
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but there's a certain as level to this in Hollywood.
I've seen how the person you are can be such
a contrast to the person that people are being told
that you are.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I always forget Chris Pratt is kind of like in
this political family now having.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Married Bruce Riiverer's daughter.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
But Chris did specify he does not talk politics with
him at family get together's dinners, nothing like this. All
of his defense is just in a personal family level,
and he loves his family and Finally, the new face
of a new Skims campaign, none other than cowboy post Malone.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Everybody's wearing skips.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Ooh, the internet is thirsty over this. The company of
corresponded by Kim Kardashian, is dropping their new signature skims,
cotton and heavyweight police fabrication in a real tree camo print.
Post Malone wowing fans with his weight loss, his body
in these teeny tiny little skim shorts. He's fishing, he's
(12:40):
riding a horse. One person writing that camouflage is so
incredible even I can't see it.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh wait, are those just the abs?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
This is gonna be obviously another bestseller for Kim, and
post is thrilled to be on board for it.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Okay, I'm looking at these Photosmitty, and I'm like, what
abs this? This just looks like a dado. I would
say that you can see it. I'm gonna post up
the pictures for you. The commercial is actually really really good.
West Michigan Star dot Com Morning too. It's back and
SCHMIDI here on Star and you know what, I've seen
videos now, I've seen pictures last night.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
You know, I gotta tell you guys, something so completely
out of my comfort zone. We did a lip sync
competition to fundraise for two incredible organizations here in West Michigan,
our Grand Rapids Civic Theater and Broadway Grand Rapids. And
a lot of people don't know those are both nonprofits,
so they do a ton of community outreach. They do
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a lot with schools in our area, so a lot
of what they're able to do comes from things like fundraising.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So we were all given a team.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I co captained a team with the fabulous Mattie Jones,
who is an actress at the Civic Theater, and it
was a lip sync competition between Rock of Ages, which
is a performance coming to the Civic Theater, and then
and Julie, which is coming to Broadway gr So, if
you're unfamiliar with the shows, they Rock of Ages is
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all classic rock and then a Juliette is like boy
band stuff. So we started out big hair, big shoes,
big attitude. I got to do Areo Speedwagon. Can't fight
this feeling anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I mean I crawled across the.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Stage, I kicked my feet, I took my jean jacket off.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
That's a pro move. I can't fight.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
And if I could shout out my amazing co partner
Allie mag from B ninety three.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I forced to join my team with me. She was
on keyboard for that. It was so much much fun.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
And then we followed that up with Backstreet Boys Show Me.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
The Meaning of Being Lonely.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
And I gotta tell you, guys, I have never done
anything like this, and this is probably my first time
back on stage since college. I did theater in high
school and college, but I have not since then, and
it was so much fun. Here's a couple things I
learned though. Number One, I am of a certain age
and I kicked my leg way too high. So it's
(15:27):
a very humbling experience when you get done doing something
like this, and then you have to call it chiropractor
three of us. Three of us were talking about that
last night. Always trust people that seem to be your
kind of person. I could not have been matched with
someone better than Maddie, Like she was so wonderful and
(15:48):
our attitudes and just like perspectives matched. It was so
much fun.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
You guys really good.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, it was like so cool. And then finally, this
is my back to school advice. Always say yes, yeah,
always say yes if you get the opportunity to do
something that seems way out of your norm something no way,
I would be so nervous to do that.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Say yes and do it.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
It's so cliche to say, but the thing that you
never do that scares you is going to stretch a
muscle that you never knew existed. I'm so excited I
did that last night. It was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
We'll talk to my kids about that all the time.
When life hands you an opportunity to try something, try
it because you don't know the next time that you'll
get that chance to do it. Yeah, what's the harm?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Just I think a lot of times people think of
that like maybe it's like a job or something.
Speaker 10 (16:31):
No, no, no.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
If somebody comes up to you and says, hey, will
you wear leather pants and scream Areo Speedwagon? Say yes,
Oh you know what, I stump And it's exciting because
it's the first time I've gotten to use my crimper
in like two years. Still hold on, old, honey, This
hair will be big for the next seven days because
I hair washed on Sunday and I am absolutely not
doing that again. So it will be crimpy eighties big
(16:53):
for at least the next five to seven business say
I'm here for you.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Can bring this back, Schmitdi. This could be the start
of some really.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Big thank you to the Grand Rapid Civic Theater and
broadwaygr it was an awesome idea. I will post some
pigs up to our Facebook if you want to see.
It's really worth it. Maddy wore a body suit. Yes, yes,
she's got some serious I mean that's like a twelve pack.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
She did ario right.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Western Michigan Star dot Com. Let's take a look at
your traffic right now. We do have a crash in
Cedar Springs Shaner Avenue at fifteen mile. Second crash on
one thirty one southbound right after Anne Street. We are
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between ten mile and Pine Island. You're running about a
half hour behind right now. If you see a traffic
tie up, call our Star Traffic tip line six one
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six four five eight one oh five seven oh one.
More big thank you to Tony BLACKI one of our wonderful,
wonderful listeners who came out last night sat front row.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It was super exciting to see him and his wife.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
He did say he goes yeah, we got front row seats,
so I hope they give you a poncho, Toby. Why,
what's going awesome? Good morning too. It's Mack and Schmidty
and just a couple of parents trying to figure things out,
just like you are, and occasionally we will we mess up.
So we share those experiences each and every week it
is time for another bi smitty. Obviously you like to embarrass.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Your kids, Sure, that's part of the job.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, I mean I'd love that, but sometimes they embarrass you.
And I got to give some props to my ten
year old son Connor because he went shopping with my
wife Michelle for a birthday gift for my now five
year old nephew JJ. So, ten year old boy see
something at the store that he knows a five year
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old boy would like a lot, smitty. Why, Well, because
it's a fart blaster.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Oh nice?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh yeah, this is from Despicable Before. There is a
fart blaster in the movie, and this is the mini
fart blaster that he got. And he's like, oh, JJ's kid,
I love this.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I think Will got that last year, right, awesome funny
to it, right, so hilarious.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Well, then we're going through Meyer and my son is
walking behind people, turning his back to them, Schmidty, while
my wife is walking down the aisle.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yep, you can't not You're not going to take full
advantage of that opportunity.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
And he is dead panning it. Yes, so good. She
told me. She's like, he's not making he's just grinning
ear to ear while he doesn't look at the person
at all. Meanwhile, I'm faced with making eye contact with
this person that just heard fart's going off behind them.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Gotta be honest, ex kud as a kid, when your
grown husband does it, it gets a little weird.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Has I been there?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I can tell you right now. If I was there, Smitty,
there is zero chance we would have left that store
for another hour minimum. Yeah. She told me that the
cashier really didn't appreciate Connor's fart humor, Schmitty, but that
the bag boy absolutely look so he found his audience.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
These music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
It's the Celebrities Goop. On Star one oh five point.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Seven, actress Aubrey Plaza is opening up about the heartache
of losing her husband, Jeff Baina. This is the first
time she's kind of gone public about this, discussing the
daily struggle of facing life after such a tragic loss.
She joined her Parks and rec co star Amy Poehler
(20:29):
on Amy's Good Hang podcast yesterday, and when asked how
she was doing, fans are really praising her example of grief.
She points to a movie starring Miles Teller called The Gorge.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
In the movie, there's like a cliff on one side,
and then there's like a cliff on the other side,
and then there's like gorge in between, and it's like
filled with all these like monster people that are trying
to get them, and like, I swear when I watched it,
I was like, that is like feels like what my
grief is like, or what grief could be like, where
it's like at all times there's like a giant ocean
(21:05):
of just awfulness that's like right there, and I can
like see it, and like sometimes I just want to
like just dive into it and just like be in it,
and then sometimes I just like look at it, and
then sometimes I'm like I just try to get away
from it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
But it's always there. It's just always there.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yeah, her husband passing away back in January, a lot
of people going, wow, that is just so well, said
about what grief.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Can feel like and what an absolutely insane amount of emotions.
This has to be here because obviously they were separated
beforehand too, so I'm sure all of those thoughts and
guilts and what could I have done and what didn't
I see and all that stuff that weighs on anybody's
got to be with her.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Remember she talked to him the night before he called her.
So it's actually a really powerful interview. I've got it
linked at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
No, they are not Splitsville.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Kylie Jenner and actor to the Chalo May are still
going strong. There have been rumors swirling for weeks since
the pair haven't really been seen together, but thanks to
some baristas in Budapest, we can now put those rumors
to rest. A very small coffee shop in Budapest posted
a picture yesterday of two employees with the celebs, claiming
(22:19):
Jenner and Chalomey walked into their absolute surprise.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
They said, Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
We were so confused we could barely concentrate, but I
think you can tell from the look on our face.
They were super nice, super kind and really awesome to
let us take a picture with them. So apparently Timothy
is over there filming, so it would make sense.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Who do you think gets spotted first?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
With one hundred percent?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I think I read once that day the Kardashians are
more recognizable than like the presidents.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I'm sure. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Finally, Taylor Swift, speaking of recognizable, showing off some serious
bling on the cover of her new album, Life of
a Showgirl. But just how much bling? How about nine
one hundred and twenty thousand dollars worth? So last week
the big announcement came down that also showed fans the
album cover for Life of a show Girl.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
On her wrist.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Taylor is wearing a thirty two thousand dollars vintage bracelet
by Stephanie Gottlieb, which contains four diamond strands stacked together.
She was seen in an eight those Maria ruby drop earrings.
Those are thirty eight almost thirty nine carrots.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Other big parts of her jewelry collection multiple pieces by
different designers, sculptural drop earrings, a pavet diamond cuff, a
bold pink pearl ring, and a sapphire and diamond bracelet.
Lorraine Schwartz did a bunch of custom for this almost
a million dollars that woman was wearing on the cover
(23:47):
of that album.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
It's interesting because I don't feel like Taylor's swift is
ever really embrace that side of I don't know, fashion
or whatever you want to call it. She's always been
much more low key.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
I feel.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
If you watch Thure walking into the different NFL games
this season, she was dripping in a lot of stuff.
She might just not be over the top open about it. Yeah,
but you can see for yourself. They are some beautiful pieces.
I've got it for you with your scoop at West
Michigan Star dot.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Com Time Tea, Battle, Battle Love, there's sexies right now,
and you're shot to go have something with the kids,
who have fun with the kids. Checking out such a
cool exhibit at our Grand Rapids Public Museum.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
You guys, it is such a gem. We're very, very
lucky to have it here. And they've gone over the
top with this Shark's exhibit. There is still time to
get there. Okay, the exhibit goes until August thirty first,
but that's it. So if you get today's number one answer,
we're going to hook you up with passes for this
awesome time and you can take the whole family, all right.
Today's question one hundred women surveyed, what is something you'll
(24:44):
see on a children's playground?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
You know, there's so many staples of the playground, but
I have learned of the Year of Our Lord twenty
twenty five, that there's got to be a goga ball
pit on every playground. It's still a thing, still a thing.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
If you're on the playgrounds where the goga ball bet
is gone, I think maybe it's past.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
There's two at my kids' school now they doubled the
gogup all pins.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
This isn't something you see, but I guarantee all of
us have heard. If it's like a primary level playground,
the word friends. Oh friends, we don't hit friends. We
keep the ball inside the fence. Okay, friends, let's take
a breather. Six one six, four, five, eight, one oh
five seven. One hundred women surveyed what's something you'll see
(25:24):
on a children's playground? Caller seven number one answer, We're
sending you to the Grand Rapids Public Museum.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
With star seven A five points seven. It's back and
Shamane Battler at the sexiest time. Hi, who's this?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
What's going on? Maxus Is Thomas from Grand Rappids.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Thomas from Grand Rapids. How are you today, sir?
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Well?
Speaker 10 (25:41):
How are you there?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Good? Are your kids back in school already or han't
gone back yet?
Speaker 10 (25:46):
My house is empty?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, congratulations dad? Nice? Well, Thomas, let's see if we
can get you out for some fun with the kids
here too. You just got to tell me. One hundred
women were asked to name something you might see and
children's playground. What do you think? The top answer.
Speaker 10 (26:03):
Is, Thomas, It's got to be a swing set.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Gotta be a swing set. I mean, when you're a kid,
you're either getting as high as you can so you
can jump off that bad boy, or you're sitting and
spinning in a circle just so that when it unwinds
you spin like a top. What were you doing on
that swing set?
Speaker 10 (26:18):
Yeah, I mean I was trying to pretty much rep
the swing around the you know the bar there, and oh.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You wanted to go you wanted to do the impossible flip,
go all the way over.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
The top exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
That's the dream for any kid that's ever tried to
go as high as they can on a swing set.
For sure. Swing sets The top answer Thomas.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Oh, my god.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, four tickets for the Grand Rapids pub the museum
and then Awo New Sharks exhibit going on through the
end of the month.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
I am excited.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Yeah, I think my favorite dark is the Great White,
so I'm excited to see you.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Oh yes, it was by the way swing sets followed
by monkey bars, Merry Go rounds, and the slide rounding
out those top answers and all of them hopefully gonna
make your kid's recess a whole lot of fun this
year too. While we're at it, Welcome back to school
for a lot of kids cross West Michigan. More schools
going back every single day this week, basically next week too,
(27:09):
even after Labor Day. But I think this is kind
of weird smiddy. My daughter starts school today and the
very first day is picture day.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I don't like that, because I'm already stressed about going
to a new school.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I don't want to look sweaty in a pick.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I feel the same way about that as you do.
The only saving grace I will save for this is
that at least you know the kids are going to
be kind of dressed up right, like you're gonna wear
your first day of school. Clothes, so you're more likely
to take a photo that you like. Right that being said,
my wife and daughter are getting ready. My daughter is
entering seventh grade. Dear god, I'm two years from high school,
(27:42):
and I'm just absolutely terrified.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
That's okay, it starts already.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It is. That's what I'm getting that I showed you
the picture of her. My daughter's got a little bit
of makeup on her hair. Resolved one, U.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
This is junior high. Dude is killing very big deal.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So last night they're like starting to do the whole
hair process and stuff, and they're in the bathroom together
and I'm listening to my wife talk to Charlotte and say,
you know, like oh and make sure you tick your
chin down like this or you turn it this, And
I'm like, what are we doing? She's like, I'm just
you know, doing the tips and tricks for photos.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Good poses?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Do you have go to moves like every every single
girl does?
Speaker 8 (28:19):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Is what if I saved tiktoks.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I have three to five minute videos of like standing poses,
sitting poses, crawling poses, like crisscross apple sauce poses.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
I have an entire library of ways to pose for
good pictures.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You have Chris Cross Apple Sauce poses.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Because I'm not a photogenic person. I really can't stand pictures.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
So every time I come across tips and tricks video,
I'm like, saved.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
See I disagree that you're not a photogenic person and
I but I understand that everybody feels that way about
themselves and hates photos of themselves a lot of time.
So my wife does this. We actually just got back
from vacation and she's doing like the the foot forward
hip thing, Christine to the side over and over again,
and she's like, yeah, you don't have like things that
you do in a photo. I'm like, we heard boys,
(29:07):
we're not gonna do anything. You know what my son's
advice was, I was like, hold still and listen to
the photographer like that that is my go to move.
Stop moving your hands and look at the camera. Outside
of that, it's just whatever happens happened.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Well, it's hard because school pictures you're sitting and it's
only from like mid chest up. So my best advice
would be shoulders back, great pasture, chin down, and try
to kind of suck your mouth.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Then yeah, I was lost a good pasture right off
the bat, I'm like, oh for how long?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I'm telling you, If you can make it through school
day pictures with braces on, you're ready to take on
the world.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You guys feeling good on starbar five points. Yeah, it's
Mack and Schmidty and what's going on?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I love it?
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Have you heard of the Chubby Mermaids self named it's
a group of West Michigan athletes that were all born
thanks to their love of swimming. The Chubby Mermaids ard
back in twenty twenty one when a group of friends
decided to swim around Mackinaw Island.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
After they did that, they said this was super fun,
and they.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Have now gone on to accomplish tons of endurance swims
and have broken the barriers of what an athlete should
look like. They call themselves the Chubby Athletes, the Chubby Mermaids,
and now a few of those Mermaids, Tracy, Liz and
Liza are a part of this epic Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim.
(30:29):
We've been talking about this. It's been almost a month.
Seventy swimmers undertaking a four hundred and eleven mile relay
starting at the point of the Shipwreck and Lake Superior
and then ending in a week in Detroit. So this
is a very cool They actually joined Wood TV to
talk about their leg of the race, and the Chubby
Mermaids said, this was a real showstopper.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
I just keep saying the word amazing over and over again.
I don't have the vocabulary. I don't think to.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Brick feeling.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
It was. Yeah, it was like a high, you know,
people came out and cheered for us. It was very supportive.
I mean, the swim community has always been very supportive
and very close knit, even if you don't know someone
your new best friend, and so it just it was
like that on steroids. It was amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Of course, this swim marks the fiftieth anniversary of the
sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the race is not
done yet. They are still swimming as we speak. They
are hoping to be pulling in to Detroit August twenty seven,
so they still have a week to go. But the
Chubby Mermaids were a big part of it.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Man, And during swimmers blow my mind. Just thinking of
the idea of swimming eight miles around mckinaw Island is nuts. Yeah,
all right, Betty. You know, normally just sharing criminal stories
does not make me feel good. Sometimes though, hearing a
dumb criminal get their comeuppance is all I need for
the day, and this is one of them. Of course
it's Florida, because like I said, of course it's Florida.
(31:57):
A guy was stealing smoke Key Bear signs from the
state forests and then selling them online get this for
almost two thousand bucks a pop. They were those smoky
bear signs that are marking private forest reminding people to
clean up anything they put out, leave no trace, and
of course prevent forest fires. Well. The Florida Agricultural Commission
(32:20):
said that the suspect was traveling from Pensacola to Orlando,
swiping the signs from protected forest areas and then selling them,
like I said, for almost two thousand bucks on Facebook marketplace.
So they set up a sting operation Schmidty with Smokey
the Bear. Smokey the Bear showed up as the police
were putting this guy in cuffs. They took photos, putting
(32:42):
it all up on social media and said what happens
when dumb criminals poke the bear. Big thank you to
Smokey Bear for personally assisting in this arrest. I mean, honestly,
only in Florida.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I'm curious misdemeanor or felony stealing Smokey the Bear signs like, hey, kiss.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Let's not do that.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
It's over. I mean for almost two thousand dollars. If
that's the way, that's brother, Wow, all right, feeling good
coming at you a couple of times to day. Always
want to share crazy stuff, amazing things that are happening
out in our world, and we find them for you.
Every day six forty five and nine twenty on Star
Mack and Schmidty in the morning weekday starting at six
am on Star one oh five point seven
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