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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Wake, wakem It gets my day going and makes me laugh.
It Mac and Schmitty in the morning on Star one
on five point seven. Good morning, SCHMITTI goo, good morning.
Did you beat that heat yesterday?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I mean I didn't do anything. I sat inside my
house and just seasoned in that ac.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Seasoned is a beautiful way to put that. I'm marinated
in the cool this.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, I got to man, we got another one today.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, you marinate in the ac. You marinate in your
own juices. It's your pack and we'll do It's like
you said again, today highs into the loads of mid nineties.
It feels like temperatures getting up even higher than that
is the thing that surprised me yesterday is something that
we could see today, and that's those pop up showers
just coming in. There was a maybe like a ten
minute period sitting where it just poured it my house,
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just a massive downfor.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Not a drop, still not a drop. Rockford's a desert, y'all.
If you live there, you know it's wild. Because I
was actually talking to my sister in law yesterday they
had flash flooding in Detroit, real flash flooding. They had
like an hour and a half of a constant down bar.
But now some of us are still looking at absolutely nothing.
But here's the good thing. We just got to really
get through today, guys, this is the end of that
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heat wave. Tomorrow we're back in the eighties. And I
love Storm teammate Chief meteorologist Ellen Baka. I think she's
just so funny Online. She showed the due point, which
is really what controls the humidity, and starting Wednesday, you
see it drop to just slightly humid, and then by
Thursday we're back to comfortable. And she wrote the single
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most beautiful nose dive I've seen in quite a while. So, honestly,
you make it through today, it is going to get
more comfy.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
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Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's the celebrities Goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
You know, it's not just a sad day for Chicago
Cubs fans, It's a sad day for Major League Baseball.
Hall of Famer Ryan Sandberg has passed away, Cubs announcing
the sad news in a post yesterday, saying he passed
away following a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. Sixty five
years old. Cubs executive Tomrickets said in a statement, Ryan
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Sandberg aka Rhino, was a hero to a generation of
Chicago Cubs fans and will be remembered as one of
the all time greats in nearly one hundred and fifty
years of this historic franchise. Taken in the twentieth round
of the nineteen seventy eight draft, it was his career
with the Cubs from nineteen eighty two to nineteen ninety seven.
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He will most be remembered for ten All Star teams,
winning an MVP Award, nabbing nine Gold Gloves, even won
a home run derby. In two thousand and five, he
was elected into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
The feeling k I've had since I got the call
as a feeling.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And I suspect will never go away. It's the highest
high you can imagine.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
This is my last big game, This is my last
big at bat, This is my last time.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Catching the final out. Thank you and go Cubs.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
The Cubs actually retiring his number twenty three. Samberg announced
back in January of last year he had prostate cancer,
but then in August he said treatment had cured him. Unfortunately,
this past December he revealed the cancer had returned. The
Cubs are planning to wear a Jersey patch to honor
the late superstar for the entire rest of the season.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I mean Rhino, an absolute legend who wins nine gold
gloves and a home run derby. Those things don't go
together normally.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
O Good fans will be able to pay their final
respects to Ozzy Osbourne as his body is brought back
to his hometown. The Black Sabbath Frontman's hearse will make
its way through Birmingham tomorrow, traveling alongside his family to
Broad Street, the City Council announcing these funeral plans. He'll
be accompanied by musicians who will stop at the Black
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Sabbath Bridge and the Black Sabbath Bench, where thousands of
fans have been gathering since the heavy metal icon passed
away last week. The event is expected to draw thousands
as fans gather to say goodbye. The Birmingham Mayor said
it is the farewell he deserves. They'll have lots of
extra security on hand, excuse me on hand, but are
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inviting the entire public to come out and show exactly
what Ozzie meant to them.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I did not know there was a Black Sabbath Bridge
or a black sabbath bench.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I think his entire hometown is just a black sabbath. Yeah,
it's pretty sweet. Finally, like I said, the Coldplay kiss
cam has struck again, but not nearly to the astronomer
CEO level. This has now become kind of a running
joke for Coldplay, and this time it is sports superstar
Lionel Messi captured yesterday during one of the big shows
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with none other than his wife alongside him. But it
was very very sweet. Chris Martin went a little off
script to the soccer legend.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Fine, thanks.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
To see us.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
That's very sweet video. Then him and his wife are
just stunningly gorgeous. All of your CELEBSCU but West Michigan.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Star dot com he's telling a five points seven good mode.
It's you. It's Mack and Schmitty looking to get the
day off to a great start for you and right nawshpitty.
You know, we talk about our Helen to Boss Children's
Hospital pretty frequently and the nick Q floor over there
packed with preemies, and how each and every year the
technology advances and they're able to do more and more
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treatments for younger and younger babies. Well, that's going on
all over the place. And I thought this story was
so cool because last July fifth, Nash Keen was born
at twenty one weeks on the nose, and that distinction
actually wound up making a big difference because one year
later he is He's just been officially recognized by the
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Guinness World Records as the world's most premature surviving baby.
One hundred and thirty three days early is what Nash
came and he was at the University of Iowa Health
Center Stead Family Children's Hospital, weighing only ten ounces measuring
just over nine inches long. His parents, Molly and Randall Keen,
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initially told he had a zero percent chance to live,
and they just wanted him to have an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I kind of felt numb almost. I didn't think he
was going to make it because he was just so young,
but we were so hopeful that, you know, we made
it to the twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
One weeks, and we just wanted to give Nasha.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Chance, just give him a chance, and that's exactly what
he had. And despite those odds, he spent six months
in the Neonato Intensive care unit before being healthy enough
to go home and just pretty unbelievable, describing her son
now as a cheerful baby with a big personnelity. He's
always smiling. And get this, when I mentioned that he
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was born at twenty one weeks on the dot, he
surpassed the previously held record by a baby born in
Alabama on the exact same day back in twenty twenty.
They both share that July fifth birthday, but that little
one was born in twenty one weeks and one day.
So Nash gets the gidness world record by exactly one
day but twenty one weeks old. And you know that
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record is going to keep being broken as amazing places
like our Hella DeVos Children's Hospital continue to do amazing work.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
All right, I thought this was kind of a bonus.
You guys will know the ui Stead Family Children's Hospital
as the Hawkeye Wave every single Iowa game. That is
when they turn around and wave to the kids in
the hospital. That is exactly where that kind of science
is happening. Let's get to a flight across the country
that took one grandma to absolute tears. Airline Captain Justin
Schertz learned his grandma was flying out to visit him
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and decided to pull his entire team together to see
if he could quite possibly stay quite the surprise being
her pilot for the ride. See she has been very
supportive of Justin, but has never gotten to fly with
her grandson. This was the big announcement.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
But afternoon, everyone, welcome on board American Airline's flight forty
three eighty three service over to Chicago. My name is
Justin and I will be your captain on today's flight.
This is a very special flight for me. A little
backstory about me. I would Borroy raised here in the
Memphis area, grew up here, so my grandparents raised me.
They've supported me, They've done everything they did to help
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me to get to where I am today. My grandma
plassed away earlier this year, so he never got the
opportunity to.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Fly with me.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
But this amazing crew that I'm flying with here today
was able to help me pull it off to where
my grandmother got the opportunity to apply to Chicago with
me today.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And I will be the captain.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That was very sweet. In fact, Grandma's not okay, I
love you.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
I love you do? Are you okay?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
So?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Are you okay?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Video is real real? Sweet you guys on our insta
at West Michigan.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
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Speaker 1 (09:08):
It's the celebrities Goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Well, it was a major announcement. At a press conference
in Boulder, Colorado, yesterday, Dion Sanders, the Colorado head coach
and former NFL and has and his medical team revealing
he's been dealing with bladder cancer. However, thankfully, according to
Sanders and his team, it has been cured. Alongside his
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doctor and trainer, Dion went into detail about what's been
keeping him away from the Buffaloes the last few months.
He said, following routine testing earlier this year, a scan
actually showed he had a tumor on his bladder. It
was subsequently surgically removed and the operation did red Sanders
of the disease. He feels very very thankful, however, admits
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his life has drastically changed. Not only has he lost
more than twenty five pounds, his bathroom habits are a
little different.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Bad been told like, it's a totally different life. I mean,
thank god, I'm now I depend don't depend you know,
if you know what I mean. I cannot control my bladder,
so I get up to go to the bathroom already
four or five times a night. Like my grandson were
in the same thing. We got the same problem right now,
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were going through the same child and tribulations. But I'm
making a joke out of it. But it's real, like
it is real. It is real. It is real. So
if you see poor the party on the sideline is real. Okay,
I'm just telling you right now, you go see it.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You're gonna see it. He's got a very different light
ahead of him. Although you heard him cracking numerous jokes
during that press conference, he used a moment to really
implore men everywhere to make sure they stay up to
date on those appointments and get checked regularly, because he
has been told if this was not caught, make no mistake,
he would not be here. So this is a really
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big deal. And this is also potentially shown us his
new relationship because in videos he's shared, do you remember
Carucci Tran of course, so this is Chris Brown's ex
not for any good reason. There was a lot of
assault and physical violence that was a part of this relationship. Well,
it looks like her and Dione Sanders are dating. She
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was actually right by him in the hospital room. You
can see videos where she is right there when he
gets the news about the cancer, when they talk about
the surgery. So it sounds like the two of them
are officially an item.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
That's random, it's to come in.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
But very supportive, he has said, very very supportive.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
It sounds like he is tackling it with the positive attitude,
which is good. But man, this guy has been battling
health issues for a while. It was early I think
in twenty twenty twenty one, he.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Had TOES twenty three.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, because of blood clots and things like that too.
It's really tough, all right.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Now, It's just some of that breaking news out of
New York last night. A shooter taking out four people
and critically wounding a fifth in Midtown Manhattan. This is
a shocking breaking story where the investigation is still ongoing.
There is still no real motive, but of those four
debt it included an off duty NYPD officer. However, the
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investigation does show that this alleged shooter had a note
bringing up the NFL and a CTE diagnosis. In fact,
he had asked about his brain being studied. He did
purposely head for the floors that house the NFL offices
in that midtown Manhattan office building last night, and now
we're hearing from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. He writes to
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his employees, as has been widely reported, a gunman did
commit an unspeakable act of violence and are building at
three forty five Park Avenue. One of our employees was
seriously injured in this attack. He is currently in the
hospital and in stable condition. NFL staff are at the
hospital and we are supporting his family. We said those
based in New York should work remotely today. It's understandable
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if you would prefer to take the day off entirely.
There will be increased security presence. Every one of you
is a valued member of the NFL family and we
will get through this together. But really, really terrifying footage
out this morning of other offices on other floors barricading
doors with furniture and desks, as they still are not
really sure this gentleman came from Nevada ended up turning
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the gun on himself, so that investigation is ongoing this morning. Finally,
this is a very very exciting moment if you are
a fan of Meet the Parents. Meet the Parents. Four
has officially been renamed Fokker in Law. That's right, we
knew that this was coming. Ben Stiller actually teased this
at the Tribeca Film Festival. Twenty five years after Meet
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the Parents hit theaters. We are back with Ben Stiller,
Robert de Niro, Blithe Danner, Terry Polo, and Owen Wilson
all joining. It was a really cool Instagram video yesterday, Joe,
but get this. Arianna Grande is joining the cast. This
is gonna be so good. We don't have a lot
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of plot details, but Ben Stiller did say what spurred
the idea, I'm the age, Bob was when we first
did the movie. I felt like a mirror where one
of my kids is now thinking about introducing his person
to the family. De Niro said he's read the screenplay
and just said the script is really fun. You're gonna
love it.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Honestly, I loved every one of these movies. I'm excited
to see it. Did Barbara, Streisan and Hoffman sign back
on for I.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Have not heard that. I'm not sure, but the instagram
says get thanks for Family. That will hit theaters Thanksgiving
twenty twenty six. All of your CELEBSCU but West Michigan.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Start a good morning to you. It's Mack and Schmidty.
Another hot and steamy day across West Michigan.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, it feels like it's been a hot summer. I
think we've said that the last couple but it feels
like this summer, there have been weeks in a time
time where it's like heat advisory, heat warning. Oh, we
haven't had rain in a while, so everything seems even
hotter and drier.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
If we were playing the drinking called a drinking game
called It's not the heat, It's the humidity, we'd all
be waiting.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah, so let's talk about what you had physically done
to beat the heat. And I'm not necessarily talking about
just staying inside in the ac because I thought this
was wild. Yesterday, we're sitting in the studio post show
and our ops manager, our big boss, Dave comes in
and you go, ooh clean.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Shaven, yeah, And he said always wears Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
He because he had, you know, like I wouldn't say
a bushy beard, but definitely enough facial hair that it
was super noticeable. And he said, oh yeah, man, I
couldn't do it this weekend. I could not do it.
It was just so hot and it felt so scratchy
and so annoying. I shaved it all off. Yeah gone,
And I thought, wow, he's had facial hair for as
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long as I can remember, and the heat. I finally
got to him where he said, I would rather break
people out and look like a different person than deal
with how hot it is. And then on this So
this would have been on Saturday for me. One of
my really good friends snapchatted me. She took all of
her hair off. She cut like twelve inches off of
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her hair. She's got a bob just below her ears,
and she said, I can't do it. I'm sick of
putting my hair up. I'm sick of my neck being sweaty.
The bob is very in right now, everybody's getting the bob.
So I went and I chopt my hair off because
it's just too dang hot.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
That's a drastic move that It's a massive one. But
you're right.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I think a lot of people are doing some physical
stuff to.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Try and be honestly. As a man who grows a
pathetic beard like a prepubescent teenager Schmidty, I have always
wondered how dudes, because over the last I don't know,
what do you say, decade or so growing? The massive
beard is, you know, the biggest thing. And I just
don't know how anybody can survive in a hot and
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humid ass with one of those monster beards hanging down
all the time, Like there would just be nothing I
could do that wouldn't make my neck so nasty and sweaty.
I don't know how those guys are, like ask our coworker.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I mean, Steve trimmed his right up and I'm like,
I gotta believe it's because it is so hot. So
have you done something literally physically to yourself or maybe
your environment because you thought, I can't. We live in Michigan.
It's not supposed to be a hundred degrees here. That's
down south, baby.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I was thinking about this and I was like, physically
done to myself? I don't think so. I mean, I've
ruined some frozen peas because I'm just leaving them on
my body for two longs.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Those are never ruined, by the way.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
There's good.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
But I thought this is great. Like Flora on our Facebook,
she goes we literally up and left for Canada to
go fishing, and you know she's not talking like Canada
by Michigan. She's up and like near the arctic, sir,
where maybe it's only a high of sixty.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
We went to Nova schools yat.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I mean, my my husband and my kids headed to
the up this morning for that reason. Like Chris has
a fishing tournament and then he goes, you know what,
it is going to be so hot these couple of days.
I'm just going to take the kids with me and
they can go hang on the farm where the high
is only seventy two.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And get people up there will be like, oh, can
you believe that it's so hot?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Wild? Give us a call six one six four five
eight one oh five seven. Have you or maybe somebody
you know changed something about you physically to beat the heat?
Has somebody done the chop? I've had two friends chopped
their hair in the last three days.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I was going to ask you, Smidi, how hot does
it need to get for you to chop off.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Your hair every week? I never I have thick hair.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
How short have you ever gotten it before?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I've had aw the ears? Really yeah, I'm not I'm
not a bob person. I think they are so cute,
but I have very, very thick hair. So with this
heat and humidity, it would be even worse for everyone involved.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
How long ago was the short hair for you?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I had it while I was here for a bit.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Really, I'm trying to think. I'm like, I'm imagining you.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
You're a man, so you're not gonna know anything about haircut.
I could walk in here with seventeen inches missing and
you'd be like new shirt, like any man.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
What.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I respect that. I respect that salty, Yeah, but we
give her an opportunity of the vent that seems to
alleviate things at least for a little while. Salty, sweaty
right now, And you just said beating the heat and
the worst part for ladies. And I feel like you're
about to tell me reason four nine and seventy two
why I'm happy I'm a guy.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, for sure, because you don't have to blow dry
your hair. Oh yes, oh you guys. I am in
it today because I thought I thought I had my
hair washing schedule down to a tee where I would
avoid having to wash my hair during the hot days
because it is the worst. And there's some gifted women
out there that can take a shower and then just
let their hair air dry, and it's beautiful. It's beachy
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wavy and it's so nice. I'm not that person. I
let my hair air dry and it looks like I
accidentally walked into a power socket.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Us to say it's that beachy wavy, it's more like
Hurricane sooner.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You're gonna come from friends in the Bahamas for anyone
that gets that reference. So it happened. I've got a
few big meetings this week and I went, ah, I
have to wash my hair. So wash my hair last night.
I know it's gonna have to blow dry it. And
there's nothing worse than getting done it with a shower
and washing all of the day off of you and
all the sweat and all the grossness, only to blow
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dry your hair and be even sweatier than when you
started the shower. So I'm just out here on a prayer, like,
please Lord, can we say goodbye to this humidity for
a couple days? Sitt be so salky?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Okay, I just have to ask, who's an ignorant dude?
Isn't it the flip side though? In the winter, don't
you get to bask in the glory of that hot
air as it's coming your way? In one of our
frig win.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Give it to you the balance, get done and you're cold.
I mean, just holding the hair dryer over your you know,
chili bits doesn't do enough.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
There's no please salty.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Schmiss any at all, Ted's.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
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It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
So I've kind of been watching this for a couple
of days now. I first saw it starting to trend
over the weekend. American Eagle's new Great Genes advertising campaign
has been met with a ton of controversy, with lots
of people accusing the clothing company of racial undertones in
its messaging. So here's the deal. Actress Sidney Sweeney, you
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would know her best from Euphoria and the White Lotus,
is the star of the clothing retailer's new denim focused
fall campaign. The tagline Sidney Sweeney has Great Genes. But
a few of these new clips released by the retailer
on Instagram are using genes and genes kind of intertwined.
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Here's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Jans are passed on from parents to offspring, often determining
traits like high color, person leave an eye color.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
My chains are blue Sydney's Tweeny has great keenes.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah. So if you look through the comments section, there
are a lot of people that are accusing American Eagle
of promoting things like eugenics, white supremacy. They're calling this
really awful propaganda. It has gotten so bad that some
of these videos have actually been taken off of their
social platform, and a rep for Sweeney has not commented
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on the backlash. Neither American Eagle or Sydney have spoken
since yesterday.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I think this is ridiculous. I think this is just
people reaching for something that they want to find and
be offended by anywhere that they look. Sidney Sweeney is literally,
at this moment in time, the it girl, right she is.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I will tell you the first time I saw this,
I went, oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I did almost immediately go I'm surprised that made it
through the planning board. Will I will tell you I
figured it did not surprise me that people immediately went oh, It's.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Clear to me that I don't think whoever the marketing
whiz behind this campaign for American Eagle thought about that.
To me, they clearly didn't think it at all. And
now they're like, oh, my god, Oh my.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
God, Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Oh it's not looking good when suddenly you can't find
some of these yes, come.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
On with another one with somebody else who's a different
ethnicity or whatever.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So that's interesting because if you check their Instagram today,
they did that yesterday and that didn't help much either,
because now people are like, oh, okay, so now we'll
just flunt it with the other end of the space.
It's very very interesting. I've got it posted up if
you want to see it, see some of the comments
of what people think. Like I said, neither sending your
American Eagle has made any comment yet. Pete Davidson sharing
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his excitement over expecting his very first child with girlfriend
Elsie Hewittt. He joined the Today Show yesterday alongside Now
there's an Eddie Murphy who had some really solid parenting advice.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
I'm just excited to take care of something, and you know,
I don't know much about fatherhood my first time, but
be there for it and also get out of my
own head, like it's not about me.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, you got a couple of parents here. Did they
give you any advice or.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
The best advice was no advice? You can't tell someone
not a parent.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
It's no effort in it. You just you're wired to
do the right thing by your child.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Well that was very sweet. You are wired to do
the right thing by your child, Eddie Murphy out here
being such a good dad.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
It helps if you can also be a beloved multiple
beloved children's characters, and then use those voices and talk
to your children. I gotta feeling that.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Helps, all right. Finally, I could not do this story.
The Vatican is hosting quote unquote hot priests influencers to
spread the word of God in order to try and
draw in younger faithful to the congregation. Do it so,
the Vatican is set to host influencers and missionaries discuss
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spreading the Church's message through social media. This is nothing new.
In fact, it was tried a couple of years ago
with this same kind of idea, but now they're using
hot priests. So over a thousand priests and friars came
to Rome yesterday to start meeting about advancing efforts to
reach a younger generation of would be worshippers. The Church
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has been very honest. Congregation numbers are declining. Somethings. Priests, y'all,
let me just use this line. These are not the
priests that I had at my Catholic school, I will
say that. Let me just use this line from the
New York Post. One of them is Father Gisep Bassari,
a body building silver fox from Brescia, Italy, who has
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more than sixty thousand Instagram followers, some of whom are
thirsty for more than just communion wine.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Okay, all I know is that calendar you get every
year at churches about to look Well, that's so interesting.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
You say that because they did a calendar back in
twenty twenty two calling them the gorgeous men of God.
We will see. But if you would like to take
a look at some of these very handsome clergy members,
I will post it up for you.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
They're not available.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
At Westmichiganstar dot com. I just I'm thinking they probably
have some really good homilies, and they're now in the Vatican.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I've never heard the word it a dirty too.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I told you. I'm telling you this becuse guy's half
a million followers. Goodness, all right, your celeb scoop West
Michigan Star.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Dot com doing smitty battle of the sexist time here
unstabinal five point seven it's back and Smitty with you
and trying to get you hooked up with This is
a really cool show combining two different Disney shows. Maybe
your kids are into like mine, Descendants and Zombie Schmitty.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
All right, it's called the World's Collide Tour. It is
coming to Detroit on Sunday, August seventeenth. We've got Battle
of the Sexes. Took your family up with tickets. One
hundred women surveyed. Name something you wish airports had during
a long.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Layover Wish Airport. I'll tell you what, Since I lived
in Las Vegas for a long time, people sure do
seem to love the slot machines being there during your layover.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
I just wish I was classy enough to be allowed
in the lounge. That's always wondered what that life is.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Like, Never been able to get beyond the velvet rope.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
SCHMITTI alright, six one six, four five, eight one oh
five seven caller seven. We've got one hundred women surveyed
names something you wish airports had during a long layover.
If you get the number one answer, we're sending you
to the Descendants Zombies Worlds Collide Tour with star Win
oh five point seven, Good morning star.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Who's this?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Who's going to make this is Thomas from Grand Rappids.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Thomas from Grand Rapids. Let's get you hooked up with
these tickets. Thomas. You gotta give me the top answer
to today's Battle of the Sexes question. All right, Thomas.
One hundred women were asked to name something you wish
was at the airport on a if you have a long,
long layover to deal with? Was that? I would say
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a bed? A bed. You know, I don't always love
using the bathroom, even at the airport. How comfortable would
you be lying down on a bed at the airport, Thomas?
I mean, you know, might have to put a good
sheet over in a couple of sheets, you know, you know, yeah,
you know you bring your own, You bring your own,
betting you're more than happy to lie down. I wouldn't
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blame you. I would love to just take a nice
long nap rather than sit and stare at my phone
for three four hours during a layover. That's the top answer, Thomas. Congratulations, Now,
oh my god? Why yes? You are going to Descendants
and Zombies Worlds collide to her over at Little Caesar's Arena, Thomas.
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Your kids watch these shows on Disney Channel.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
They definitely do.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
And my daughter's birthday is on the eighteenth, so that
just took care of her birthday present.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yes, that works out perfectly well. Actually, we've got your tickets,
top I must that we're going to have a four
pack for hopefully your family. If you're listening right now
again tomorrow zu'd battle again. Battle of the Section is
eight fifteen here on start one on five points seven.
Good morning, see you. It's back in Smitty, and let's
talk about something that you really thought was going to
be an enjoyable physical activity and instead you were sort
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of put in your place and humbled a little bit
Schmitty because, let's face it, on a physical journey throughout
our lives, right, you get to a peak, and for
most people that's going to be in your teens, twenties
or thirties, and then at some points, like all peaks,
everything just goes downhill from there.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
But it's what proves to you it started to go downhill.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
That hurts, It really does. And I think I may
have reached that point in my life. I didn't want
to admit it. I was still thinking I could get
into shape in my forties, but that's I don't know
if that's going to happen. This weekend we were in Wisconsin.
We were at one of those jelly Stone Parks or
whatever campe with kids, and they have North America's largest
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on the water up course.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It was one of the things that you know, absolutely
had my kids just jacked to go to, right, and
I thought it looked sweet too. There was never a
doubt in my mind that I was going to want
to do this. And then when we got there, they
asked all the adults, you know, who's going to do
the obstacle course with the kids? Who's doing it? And
I was one of like four out of thirty some
adults who agreed to do this, And I was like,
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that's weird. This looks like a blast. Why are you
guys not doing this? That includes my brother and my
sister in law, who I knew had done this before,
and they were like, no, no, no, no, we're retired
from the obstacle course.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And so maybe that should have been my first warning
as to what I was getting myself into. But I
like doing these kinds of things with my kids. We
go ropes, courses, do things like that, and I feel like,
you know, I can handle all of these things. My
butt was above my head more times than I could
count on this thing.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Here's the problem. Your brain thinks you can handle it.
Your body's like, honey.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
No, you know I have I have, you know, some
upper body strength. It turns out, though, that I just
have more upper body than I had had in the past,
and therefore, for that reason.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
The lower body that's hurting your upper body. Oh my god,
gravity car.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I kept on trying to like my kids, uh, you know,
they normally count on me to be able to do
these things and then help them on it. I was
able to help them, but once it was once it
was over, it was like a movie where a parent
has to say goodbye to their child because they realized
they're slowing them down and they're not gonna make it.
And it was like, no, no, honey, I'll boost you up,
but I'm gonna swim around this obstacle. This one's not
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to go over.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I was so sore. I pulled so many muscles, I
twisted an ankle, and all I have to show for
it is my wife and my brother and sister sharing
videos of me looking so unathletic and pathetic, Schmidty, I'll
be haunted by it for the rest of my days.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I did absolutely nothing physical. I couldn't get out of
my car. So you know how the drivers see has
all of the control specific to you. My passenger seat,
which I almost never sit in, is just kind of
a bucket seat. So Chris was driving, and when we
stopped for gas, I tried to get out of my car,
and I'm telling you it was a beached whale, frantic
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to get back to water.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Sliding to your back down the seat to let ground.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Can you use the O shoe candle? And I still
had a hard time getting my body to swing itself
up and out. That is so awful.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Oh yeah, I asked it on Facebook. Paul can feel you,
he said, at this stage in my life, just walking.
But this is the one that got me because I
think parents have, especially when you're younger kids, and they
go start doing these things schmiddy, the foam pit at
the trampoline part, trying to get out of that. Boy,
never again, just leave me here. I'm trapped forever. Let's
do this. Let's push your day into a more positive place.
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Every day it's feeling good on starting on five point seven.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Is there anything better for a moodlifter than Ozzy Osbourne's
Crazy Train. The tributes continue to pour in for the
legendary rocker, but this one was especially sweet. They call
themselves the Louisville Leopard Percussionists. It is a nonprofit that
takes kids of any skill level in second through twelfth
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grade and joins them together to learn about music. It's
everyone in the community. It's a great way to help
out kids, and they have become a nationally acclaimed music group. Well,
this video has gone viral yet again back in twenty eighteen,
as he actually traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to get surprised
with his very own Crazy Train rendition. It's so good.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (34:06):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
That was awesome, Absolutely awesome.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
On a scale of one to ten, what do you
rate the kids t I was gonna say twenty.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
I mean true Ozzie at the end there, But it's
a really incredible video when you see how many kids
are a part of this, and the fact that the
Osbourne family reshared that as well. Very cool.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
When you can make the xylophone rock that hard, schmeddy amazing,
pretty impressive. This is real quick. I just thought, what
a blast from the past. Do you remember it, SCHMDTI
dollar ninety nine a gallon gasoline?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I guess maybe.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
What a dream and what a fever dream it must
have been on Sunday morning in Southfield, because over on
the east side, people were greeted by yeah, that's right,
dollar ninety nine a gallon gasoline And it was all
just to say thank you to the BP gas station
there in Southfield's loyal customers. The owner bay Don explains
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that they had three months of just heavy, heavy road
construction going on by that BP station and it didn't
drop business at all, something that was absolutely shocking to
him and his family, who worked really really hard to
make sure that their customers feel like their station is
a part of the community. So they just decided to
do this awesome give back to their customers. As he
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explained to WXYZ over Detroit.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Same amount of business throughout the construction. Our numbers did
not go down, so that shows you the loyalty of
our service and our customers. This is our way, me
and my family's way to show our support back and
to give back to this community.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Charging only a dollar ninety nine for gas. People were
coming from communities all over the East Side to take
advantage of this, and I've did it today, maybe to
inspire some West Michigan gas stations who are of course
dealing with all sorts of road construction as well. I
think this is a great way to say thank you guys,
community member, just throwing it out there. Failing good Kevin
ash you a couple of times. They always want to
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tell you about great things happening out in our world.
We'll do it tomorrow as well, six forty five and
nine twenty here on Star Mack and Schmidty in the
morning weekday, starting at six am on Star one oh
five point seven
Wake, wakem It gets my day going and makes me laugh.
It Mac and Schmitty in the morning on Star one
on five point seven. Good morning, SCHMITTI goo, good morning.
Did you beat that heat yesterday?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I mean I didn't do anything. I sat inside my
house and just seasoned in that ac.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Seasoned is a beautiful way to put that. I'm marinated
in the cool this.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, I got to man, we got another one today.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, you marinate in the ac. You marinate in your
own juices. It's your pack and we'll do It's like
you said again, today highs into the loads of mid nineties.
It feels like temperatures getting up even higher than that
is the thing that surprised me yesterday is something that
we could see today, and that's those pop up showers
just coming in. There was a maybe like a ten
minute period sitting where it just poured it my house,
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just a massive downfor.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Not a drop, still not a drop. Rockford's a desert, y'all.
If you live there, you know it's wild. Because I
was actually talking to my sister in law yesterday they
had flash flooding in Detroit, real flash flooding. They had
like an hour and a half of a constant down bar.
But now some of us are still looking at absolutely nothing.
But here's the good thing. We just got to really
get through today, guys, this is the end of that
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heat wave. Tomorrow we're back in the eighties. And I
love Storm teammate Chief meteorologist Ellen Baka. I think she's
just so funny Online. She showed the due point, which
is really what controls the humidity, and starting Wednesday, you
see it drop to just slightly humid, and then by
Thursday we're back to comfortable. And she wrote the single
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most beautiful nose dive I've seen in quite a while. So, honestly,
you make it through today, it is going to get
more comfy.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's the celebrities Goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
You know, it's not just a sad day for Chicago
Cubs fans, It's a sad day for Major League Baseball.
Hall of Famer Ryan Sandberg has passed away, Cubs announcing
the sad news in a post yesterday, saying he passed
away following a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. Sixty five
years old. Cubs executive Tomrickets said in a statement, Ryan
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Sandberg aka Rhino, was a hero to a generation of
Chicago Cubs fans and will be remembered as one of
the all time greats in nearly one hundred and fifty
years of this historic franchise. Taken in the twentieth round
of the nineteen seventy eight draft, it was his career
with the Cubs from nineteen eighty two to nineteen ninety seven.
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He will most be remembered for ten All Star teams,
winning an MVP Award, nabbing nine Gold Gloves, even won
a home run derby. In two thousand and five, he
was elected into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
The feeling k I've had since I got the call
as a feeling.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And I suspect will never go away. It's the highest
high you can imagine.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
This is my last big game, This is my last
big at bat, This is my last time.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Catching the final out. Thank you and go Cubs.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
The Cubs actually retiring his number twenty three. Samberg announced
back in January of last year he had prostate cancer,
but then in August he said treatment had cured him. Unfortunately,
this past December he revealed the cancer had returned. The
Cubs are planning to wear a Jersey patch to honor
the late superstar for the entire rest of the season.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I mean Rhino, an absolute legend who wins nine gold
gloves and a home run derby. Those things don't go
together normally.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
O Good fans will be able to pay their final
respects to Ozzy Osbourne as his body is brought back
to his hometown. The Black Sabbath Frontman's hearse will make
its way through Birmingham tomorrow, traveling alongside his family to
Broad Street, the City Council announcing these funeral plans. He'll
be accompanied by musicians who will stop at the Black
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Sabbath Bridge and the Black Sabbath Bench, where thousands of
fans have been gathering since the heavy metal icon passed
away last week. The event is expected to draw thousands
as fans gather to say goodbye. The Birmingham Mayor said
it is the farewell he deserves. They'll have lots of
extra security on hand, excuse me on hand, but are
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inviting the entire public to come out and show exactly
what Ozzie meant to them.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I did not know there was a Black Sabbath Bridge
or a black sabbath bench.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I think his entire hometown is just a black sabbath. Yeah,
it's pretty sweet. Finally, like I said, the Coldplay kiss
cam has struck again, but not nearly to the astronomer
CEO level. This has now become kind of a running
joke for Coldplay, and this time it is sports superstar
Lionel Messi captured yesterday during one of the big shows
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with none other than his wife alongside him. But it
was very very sweet. Chris Martin went a little off
script to the soccer legend.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Fine, thanks.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
To see us.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
That's very sweet video. Then him and his wife are
just stunningly gorgeous. All of your CELEBSCU but West Michigan.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Star dot com he's telling a five points seven good mode.
It's you. It's Mack and Schmitty looking to get the
day off to a great start for you and right nawshpitty.
You know, we talk about our Helen to Boss Children's
Hospital pretty frequently and the nick Q floor over there
packed with preemies, and how each and every year the
technology advances and they're able to do more and more
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treatments for younger and younger babies. Well, that's going on
all over the place. And I thought this story was
so cool because last July fifth, Nash Keen was born
at twenty one weeks on the nose, and that distinction
actually wound up making a big difference because one year
later he is He's just been officially recognized by the
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Guinness World Records as the world's most premature surviving baby.
One hundred and thirty three days early is what Nash
came and he was at the University of Iowa Health
Center Stead Family Children's Hospital, weighing only ten ounces measuring
just over nine inches long. His parents, Molly and Randall Keen,
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initially told he had a zero percent chance to live,
and they just wanted him to have an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I kind of felt numb almost. I didn't think he
was going to make it because he was just so young,
but we were so hopeful that, you know, we made
it to the twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
One weeks, and we just wanted to give Nasha.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Chance, just give him a chance, and that's exactly what
he had. And despite those odds, he spent six months
in the Neonato Intensive care unit before being healthy enough
to go home and just pretty unbelievable, describing her son
now as a cheerful baby with a big personnelity. He's
always smiling. And get this, when I mentioned that he
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was born at twenty one weeks on the dot, he
surpassed the previously held record by a baby born in
Alabama on the exact same day back in twenty twenty.
They both share that July fifth birthday, but that little
one was born in twenty one weeks and one day.
So Nash gets the gidness world record by exactly one
day but twenty one weeks old. And you know that
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record is going to keep being broken as amazing places
like our Hella DeVos Children's Hospital continue to do amazing work.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
All right, I thought this was kind of a bonus.
You guys will know the ui Stead Family Children's Hospital
as the Hawkeye Wave every single Iowa game. That is
when they turn around and wave to the kids in
the hospital. That is exactly where that kind of science
is happening. Let's get to a flight across the country
that took one grandma to absolute tears. Airline Captain Justin
Schertz learned his grandma was flying out to visit him
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and decided to pull his entire team together to see
if he could quite possibly stay quite the surprise being
her pilot for the ride. See she has been very
supportive of Justin, but has never gotten to fly with
her grandson. This was the big announcement.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
But afternoon, everyone, welcome on board American Airline's flight forty
three eighty three service over to Chicago. My name is
Justin and I will be your captain on today's flight.
This is a very special flight for me. A little
backstory about me. I would Borroy raised here in the
Memphis area, grew up here, so my grandparents raised me.
They've supported me, They've done everything they did to help
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me to get to where I am today. My grandma
plassed away earlier this year, so he never got the
opportunity to.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Fly with me.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
But this amazing crew that I'm flying with here today
was able to help me pull it off to where
my grandmother got the opportunity to apply to Chicago with
me today.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And I will be the captain.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That was very sweet. In fact, Grandma's not okay, I
love you.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
I love you do? Are you okay?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
So?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Are you okay?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Video is real real? Sweet you guys on our insta
at West Michigan.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Star Movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It's the celebrities Goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Well, it was a major announcement. At a press conference
in Boulder, Colorado, yesterday, Dion Sanders, the Colorado head coach
and former NFL and has and his medical team revealing
he's been dealing with bladder cancer. However, thankfully, according to
Sanders and his team, it has been cured. Alongside his
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doctor and trainer, Dion went into detail about what's been
keeping him away from the Buffaloes the last few months.
He said, following routine testing earlier this year, a scan
actually showed he had a tumor on his bladder. It
was subsequently surgically removed and the operation did red Sanders
of the disease. He feels very very thankful, however, admits
(09:54):
his life has drastically changed. Not only has he lost
more than twenty five pounds, his bathroom habits are a
little different.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Bad been told like, it's a totally different life. I mean,
thank god, I'm now I depend don't depend you know,
if you know what I mean. I cannot control my bladder,
so I get up to go to the bathroom already
four or five times a night. Like my grandson were
in the same thing. We got the same problem right now,
(10:25):
were going through the same child and tribulations. But I'm
making a joke out of it. But it's real, like
it is real. It is real. It is real. So
if you see poor the party on the sideline is real. Okay,
I'm just telling you right now, you go see it.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You're gonna see it. He's got a very different light
ahead of him. Although you heard him cracking numerous jokes
during that press conference, he used a moment to really
implore men everywhere to make sure they stay up to
date on those appointments and get checked regularly, because he
has been told if this was not caught, make no mistake,
he would not be here. So this is a really
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big deal. And this is also potentially shown us his
new relationship because in videos he's shared, do you remember
Carucci Tran of course, so this is Chris Brown's ex
not for any good reason. There was a lot of
assault and physical violence that was a part of this relationship. Well,
it looks like her and Dione Sanders are dating. She
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was actually right by him in the hospital room. You
can see videos where she is right there when he
gets the news about the cancer, when they talk about
the surgery. So it sounds like the two of them
are officially an item.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
That's random, it's to come in.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
But very supportive, he has said, very very supportive.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
It sounds like he is tackling it with the positive attitude,
which is good. But man, this guy has been battling
health issues for a while. It was early I think
in twenty twenty twenty one, he.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Had TOES twenty three.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, because of blood clots and things like that too.
It's really tough, all right.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Now, It's just some of that breaking news out of
New York last night. A shooter taking out four people
and critically wounding a fifth in Midtown Manhattan. This is
a shocking breaking story where the investigation is still ongoing.
There is still no real motive, but of those four
debt it included an off duty NYPD officer. However, the
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investigation does show that this alleged shooter had a note
bringing up the NFL and a CTE diagnosis. In fact,
he had asked about his brain being studied. He did
purposely head for the floors that house the NFL offices
in that midtown Manhattan office building last night, and now
we're hearing from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. He writes to
(12:40):
his employees, as has been widely reported, a gunman did
commit an unspeakable act of violence and are building at
three forty five Park Avenue. One of our employees was
seriously injured in this attack. He is currently in the
hospital and in stable condition. NFL staff are at the
hospital and we are supporting his family. We said those
based in New York should work remotely today. It's understandable
(13:03):
if you would prefer to take the day off entirely.
There will be increased security presence. Every one of you
is a valued member of the NFL family and we
will get through this together. But really, really terrifying footage
out this morning of other offices on other floors barricading
doors with furniture and desks, as they still are not
really sure this gentleman came from Nevada ended up turning
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the gun on himself, so that investigation is ongoing this morning. Finally,
this is a very very exciting moment if you are
a fan of Meet the Parents. Meet the Parents. Four
has officially been renamed Fokker in Law. That's right, we
knew that this was coming. Ben Stiller actually teased this
at the Tribeca Film Festival. Twenty five years after Meet
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the Parents hit theaters. We are back with Ben Stiller,
Robert de Niro, Blithe Danner, Terry Polo, and Owen Wilson
all joining. It was a really cool Instagram video yesterday, Joe,
but get this. Arianna Grande is joining the cast. This
is gonna be so good. We don't have a lot
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of plot details, but Ben Stiller did say what spurred
the idea, I'm the age, Bob was when we first
did the movie. I felt like a mirror where one
of my kids is now thinking about introducing his person
to the family. De Niro said he's read the screenplay
and just said the script is really fun. You're gonna
love it.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Honestly, I loved every one of these movies. I'm excited
to see it. Did Barbara, Streisan and Hoffman sign back
on for I.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Have not heard that. I'm not sure, but the instagram
says get thanks for Family. That will hit theaters Thanksgiving
twenty twenty six. All of your CELEBSCU but West Michigan.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Start a good morning to you. It's Mack and Schmidty.
Another hot and steamy day across West Michigan.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, it feels like it's been a hot summer. I
think we've said that the last couple but it feels
like this summer, there have been weeks in a time
time where it's like heat advisory, heat warning. Oh, we
haven't had rain in a while, so everything seems even
hotter and drier.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
If we were playing the drinking called a drinking game
called It's not the heat, It's the humidity, we'd all
be waiting.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah, so let's talk about what you had physically done
to beat the heat. And I'm not necessarily talking about
just staying inside in the ac because I thought this
was wild. Yesterday, we're sitting in the studio post show
and our ops manager, our big boss, Dave comes in
and you go, ooh clean.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Shaven, yeah, And he said always wears Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
He because he had, you know, like I wouldn't say
a bushy beard, but definitely enough facial hair that it
was super noticeable. And he said, oh yeah, man, I
couldn't do it this weekend. I could not do it.
It was just so hot and it felt so scratchy
and so annoying. I shaved it all off. Yeah gone,
And I thought, wow, he's had facial hair for as
(15:57):
long as I can remember, and the heat. I finally
got to him where he said, I would rather break
people out and look like a different person than deal
with how hot it is. And then on this So
this would have been on Saturday for me. One of
my really good friends snapchatted me. She took all of
her hair off. She cut like twelve inches off of
(16:19):
her hair. She's got a bob just below her ears,
and she said, I can't do it. I'm sick of
putting my hair up. I'm sick of my neck being sweaty.
The bob is very in right now, everybody's getting the bob.
So I went and I chopt my hair off because
it's just too dang hot.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
That's a drastic move that It's a massive one. But
you're right.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I think a lot of people are doing some physical
stuff to.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Try and be honestly. As a man who grows a
pathetic beard like a prepubescent teenager Schmidty, I have always
wondered how dudes, because over the last I don't know,
what do you say, decade or so growing? The massive
beard is, you know, the biggest thing. And I just
don't know how anybody can survive in a hot and
(17:00):
humid ass with one of those monster beards hanging down
all the time, Like there would just be nothing I
could do that wouldn't make my neck so nasty and sweaty.
I don't know how those guys are, like ask our coworker.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I mean, Steve trimmed his right up and I'm like,
I gotta believe it's because it is so hot. So
have you done something literally physically to yourself or maybe
your environment because you thought, I can't. We live in Michigan.
It's not supposed to be a hundred degrees here. That's
down south, baby.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I was thinking about this and I was like, physically
done to myself? I don't think so. I mean, I've
ruined some frozen peas because I'm just leaving them on
my body for two longs.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Those are never ruined, by the way.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
There's good.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
But I thought this is great. Like Flora on our Facebook,
she goes we literally up and left for Canada to
go fishing, and you know she's not talking like Canada
by Michigan. She's up and like near the arctic, sir,
where maybe it's only a high of sixty.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
We went to Nova schools yat.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I mean, my my husband and my kids headed to
the up this morning for that reason. Like Chris has
a fishing tournament and then he goes, you know what,
it is going to be so hot these couple of days.
I'm just going to take the kids with me and
they can go hang on the farm where the high
is only seventy two.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And get people up there will be like, oh, can
you believe that it's so hot?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Wild? Give us a call six one six four five
eight one oh five seven. Have you or maybe somebody
you know changed something about you physically to beat the heat?
Has somebody done the chop? I've had two friends chopped
their hair in the last three days.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I was going to ask you, Smidi, how hot does
it need to get for you to chop off.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Your hair every week? I never I have thick hair.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
How short have you ever gotten it before?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I've had aw the ears? Really yeah, I'm not I'm
not a bob person. I think they are so cute,
but I have very, very thick hair. So with this
heat and humidity, it would be even worse for everyone involved.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
How long ago was the short hair for you?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I had it while I was here for a bit.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Really, I'm trying to think. I'm like, I'm imagining you.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
You're a man, so you're not gonna know anything about haircut.
I could walk in here with seventeen inches missing and
you'd be like new shirt, like any man.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
What.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I respect that. I respect that salty, Yeah, but we
give her an opportunity of the vent that seems to
alleviate things at least for a little while. Salty, sweaty
right now, And you just said beating the heat and
the worst part for ladies. And I feel like you're
about to tell me reason four nine and seventy two
why I'm happy I'm a guy.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, for sure, because you don't have to blow dry
your hair. Oh yes, oh you guys. I am in
it today because I thought I thought I had my
hair washing schedule down to a tee where I would
avoid having to wash my hair during the hot days
because it is the worst. And there's some gifted women
out there that can take a shower and then just
let their hair air dry, and it's beautiful. It's beachy
(19:55):
wavy and it's so nice. I'm not that person. I
let my hair air dry and it looks like I
accidentally walked into a power socket.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Us to say it's that beachy wavy, it's more like
Hurricane sooner.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You're gonna come from friends in the Bahamas for anyone
that gets that reference. So it happened. I've got a
few big meetings this week and I went, ah, I
have to wash my hair. So wash my hair last night.
I know it's gonna have to blow dry it. And
there's nothing worse than getting done it with a shower
and washing all of the day off of you and
all the sweat and all the grossness, only to blow
(20:28):
dry your hair and be even sweatier than when you
started the shower. So I'm just out here on a prayer, like,
please Lord, can we say goodbye to this humidity for
a couple days? Sitt be so salky?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Okay, I just have to ask, who's an ignorant dude?
Isn't it the flip side though? In the winter, don't
you get to bask in the glory of that hot
air as it's coming your way? In one of our
frig win.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Give it to you the balance, get done and you're cold.
I mean, just holding the hair dryer over your you know,
chili bits doesn't do enough.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
There's no please salty.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Schmiss any at all, Ted's.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
So I've kind of been watching this for a couple
of days now. I first saw it starting to trend
over the weekend. American Eagle's new Great Genes advertising campaign
has been met with a ton of controversy, with lots
of people accusing the clothing company of racial undertones in
its messaging. So here's the deal. Actress Sidney Sweeney, you
(21:33):
would know her best from Euphoria and the White Lotus,
is the star of the clothing retailer's new denim focused
fall campaign. The tagline Sidney Sweeney has Great Genes. But
a few of these new clips released by the retailer
on Instagram are using genes and genes kind of intertwined.
(21:53):
Here's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Jans are passed on from parents to offspring, often determining
traits like high color, person leave an eye color.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
My chains are blue Sydney's Tweeny has great keenes.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah. So if you look through the comments section, there
are a lot of people that are accusing American Eagle
of promoting things like eugenics, white supremacy. They're calling this
really awful propaganda. It has gotten so bad that some
of these videos have actually been taken off of their
social platform, and a rep for Sweeney has not commented
(22:28):
on the backlash. Neither American Eagle or Sydney have spoken
since yesterday.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I think this is ridiculous. I think this is just
people reaching for something that they want to find and
be offended by anywhere that they look. Sidney Sweeney is literally,
at this moment in time, the it girl, right she is.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I will tell you the first time I saw this,
I went, oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I did almost immediately go I'm surprised that made it
through the planning board. Will I will tell you I
figured it did not surprise me that people immediately went oh, It's.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Clear to me that I don't think whoever the marketing
whiz behind this campaign for American Eagle thought about that.
To me, they clearly didn't think it at all. And
now they're like, oh, my god, Oh my.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
God, Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Oh it's not looking good when suddenly you can't find
some of these yes, come.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
On with another one with somebody else who's a different
ethnicity or whatever.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So that's interesting because if you check their Instagram today,
they did that yesterday and that didn't help much either,
because now people are like, oh, okay, so now we'll
just flunt it with the other end of the space.
It's very very interesting. I've got it posted up if
you want to see it, see some of the comments
of what people think. Like I said, neither sending your
American Eagle has made any comment yet. Pete Davidson sharing
(23:47):
his excitement over expecting his very first child with girlfriend
Elsie Hewittt. He joined the Today Show yesterday alongside Now
there's an Eddie Murphy who had some really solid parenting advice.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
I'm just excited to take care of something, and you know,
I don't know much about fatherhood my first time, but
be there for it and also get out of my
own head, like it's not about me.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, you got a couple of parents here. Did they
give you any advice or.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
The best advice was no advice? You can't tell someone
not a parent.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
It's no effort in it. You just you're wired to
do the right thing by your child.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Well that was very sweet. You are wired to do
the right thing by your child, Eddie Murphy out here
being such a good dad.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
It helps if you can also be a beloved multiple
beloved children's characters, and then use those voices and talk
to your children. I gotta feeling that.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Helps, all right. Finally, I could not do this story.
The Vatican is hosting quote unquote hot priests influencers to
spread the word of God in order to try and
draw in younger faithful to the congregation. Do it so,
the Vatican is set to host influencers and missionaries discuss
(25:00):
spreading the Church's message through social media. This is nothing new.
In fact, it was tried a couple of years ago
with this same kind of idea, but now they're using
hot priests. So over a thousand priests and friars came
to Rome yesterday to start meeting about advancing efforts to
reach a younger generation of would be worshippers. The Church
(25:23):
has been very honest. Congregation numbers are declining. Somethings. Priests, y'all,
let me just use this line. These are not the
priests that I had at my Catholic school, I will
say that. Let me just use this line from the
New York Post. One of them is Father Gisep Bassari,
a body building silver fox from Brescia, Italy, who has
(25:45):
more than sixty thousand Instagram followers, some of whom are
thirsty for more than just communion wine.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Okay, all I know is that calendar you get every
year at churches about to look Well, that's so interesting.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
You say that because they did a calendar back in
twenty twenty two calling them the gorgeous men of God.
We will see. But if you would like to take
a look at some of these very handsome clergy members,
I will post it up for you.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
They're not available.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
At Westmichiganstar dot com. I just I'm thinking they probably
have some really good homilies, and they're now in the Vatican.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I've never heard the word it a dirty too.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I told you. I'm telling you this becuse guy's half
a million followers. Goodness, all right, your celeb scoop West
Michigan Star.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Dot com doing smitty battle of the sexist time here
unstabinal five point seven it's back and Smitty with you
and trying to get you hooked up with This is
a really cool show combining two different Disney shows. Maybe
your kids are into like mine, Descendants and Zombie Schmitty.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
All right, it's called the World's Collide Tour. It is
coming to Detroit on Sunday, August seventeenth. We've got Battle
of the Sexes. Took your family up with tickets. One
hundred women surveyed. Name something you wish airports had during
a long.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Layover Wish Airport. I'll tell you what, Since I lived
in Las Vegas for a long time, people sure do
seem to love the slot machines being there during your layover.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
I just wish I was classy enough to be allowed
in the lounge. That's always wondered what that life is.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Like, Never been able to get beyond the velvet rope.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
SCHMITTI alright, six one six, four five, eight one oh
five seven caller seven. We've got one hundred women surveyed
names something you wish airports had during a long layover.
If you get the number one answer, we're sending you
to the Descendants Zombies Worlds Collide Tour with star Win
oh five point seven, Good morning star.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Who's this?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Who's going to make this is Thomas from Grand Rappids.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Thomas from Grand Rapids. Let's get you hooked up with
these tickets. Thomas. You gotta give me the top answer
to today's Battle of the Sexes question. All right, Thomas.
One hundred women were asked to name something you wish
was at the airport on a if you have a long,
long layover to deal with? Was that? I would say
(28:02):
a bed? A bed. You know, I don't always love
using the bathroom, even at the airport. How comfortable would
you be lying down on a bed at the airport, Thomas?
I mean, you know, might have to put a good
sheet over in a couple of sheets, you know, you know, yeah,
you know you bring your own, You bring your own,
betting you're more than happy to lie down. I wouldn't
(28:24):
blame you. I would love to just take a nice
long nap rather than sit and stare at my phone
for three four hours during a layover. That's the top answer, Thomas. Congratulations, Now,
oh my god? Why yes? You are going to Descendants
and Zombies Worlds collide to her over at Little Caesar's Arena, Thomas.
(28:45):
Your kids watch these shows on Disney Channel.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
They definitely do.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
And my daughter's birthday is on the eighteenth, so that
just took care of her birthday present.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yes, that works out perfectly well. Actually, we've got your tickets,
top I must that we're going to have a four
pack for hopefully your family. If you're listening right now
again tomorrow zu'd battle again. Battle of the Section is
eight fifteen here on start one on five points seven.
Good morning, see you. It's back in Smitty, and let's
talk about something that you really thought was going to
be an enjoyable physical activity and instead you were sort
(29:20):
of put in your place and humbled a little bit
Schmitty because, let's face it, on a physical journey throughout
our lives, right, you get to a peak, and for
most people that's going to be in your teens, twenties
or thirties, and then at some points, like all peaks,
everything just goes downhill from there.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
But it's what proves to you it started to go downhill.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
That hurts, It really does. And I think I may
have reached that point in my life. I didn't want
to admit it. I was still thinking I could get
into shape in my forties, but that's I don't know
if that's going to happen. This weekend we were in Wisconsin.
We were at one of those jelly Stone Parks or
whatever campe with kids, and they have North America's largest
(29:58):
on the water up course.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It was one of the things that you know, absolutely
had my kids just jacked to go to, right, and
I thought it looked sweet too. There was never a
doubt in my mind that I was going to want
to do this. And then when we got there, they
asked all the adults, you know, who's going to do
the obstacle course with the kids? Who's doing it? And
I was one of like four out of thirty some
adults who agreed to do this, And I was like,
(30:25):
that's weird. This looks like a blast. Why are you
guys not doing this? That includes my brother and my
sister in law, who I knew had done this before,
and they were like, no, no, no, no, we're retired
from the obstacle course.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And so maybe that should have been my first warning
as to what I was getting myself into. But I
like doing these kinds of things with my kids. We
go ropes, courses, do things like that, and I feel like,
you know, I can handle all of these things. My
butt was above my head more times than I could
count on this thing.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Here's the problem. Your brain thinks you can handle it.
Your body's like, honey.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
No, you know I have I have, you know, some
upper body strength. It turns out, though, that I just
have more upper body than I had had in the past,
and therefore, for that reason.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
The lower body that's hurting your upper body. Oh my god,
gravity car.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I kept on trying to like my kids, uh, you know,
they normally count on me to be able to do
these things and then help them on it. I was
able to help them, but once it was once it
was over, it was like a movie where a parent
has to say goodbye to their child because they realized
they're slowing them down and they're not gonna make it.
And it was like, no, no, honey, I'll boost you up,
but I'm gonna swim around this obstacle. This one's not
(31:37):
to go over.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I was so sore. I pulled so many muscles, I
twisted an ankle, and all I have to show for
it is my wife and my brother and sister sharing
videos of me looking so unathletic and pathetic, Schmidty, I'll
be haunted by it for the rest of my days.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I did absolutely nothing physical. I couldn't get out of
my car. So you know how the drivers see has
all of the control specific to you. My passenger seat,
which I almost never sit in, is just kind of
a bucket seat. So Chris was driving, and when we
stopped for gas, I tried to get out of my car,
and I'm telling you it was a beached whale, frantic
(32:13):
to get back to water.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Sliding to your back down the seat to let ground.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Can you use the O shoe candle? And I still
had a hard time getting my body to swing itself
up and out. That is so awful.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Oh yeah, I asked it on Facebook. Paul can feel you,
he said, at this stage in my life, just walking.
But this is the one that got me because I
think parents have, especially when you're younger kids, and they
go start doing these things schmiddy, the foam pit at
the trampoline part, trying to get out of that. Boy,
never again, just leave me here. I'm trapped forever. Let's
do this. Let's push your day into a more positive place.
(32:45):
Every day it's feeling good on starting on five point seven.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Is there anything better for a moodlifter than Ozzy Osbourne's
Crazy Train. The tributes continue to pour in for the
legendary rocker, but this one was especially sweet. They call
themselves the Louisville Leopard Percussionists. It is a nonprofit that
takes kids of any skill level in second through twelfth
(33:10):
grade and joins them together to learn about music. It's
everyone in the community. It's a great way to help
out kids, and they have become a nationally acclaimed music group. Well,
this video has gone viral yet again back in twenty eighteen,
as he actually traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to get surprised
with his very own Crazy Train rendition. It's so good.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (34:06):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
That was awesome, Absolutely awesome.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
On a scale of one to ten, what do you
rate the kids t I was gonna say twenty.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
I mean true Ozzie at the end there, But it's
a really incredible video when you see how many kids
are a part of this, and the fact that the
Osbourne family reshared that as well. Very cool.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
When you can make the xylophone rock that hard, schmeddy amazing,
pretty impressive. This is real quick. I just thought, what
a blast from the past. Do you remember it, SCHMDTI
dollar ninety nine a gallon gasoline?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I guess maybe.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
What a dream and what a fever dream it must
have been on Sunday morning in Southfield, because over on
the east side, people were greeted by yeah, that's right,
dollar ninety nine a gallon gasoline And it was all
just to say thank you to the BP gas station
there in Southfield's loyal customers. The owner bay Don explains
(35:01):
that they had three months of just heavy, heavy road
construction going on by that BP station and it didn't
drop business at all, something that was absolutely shocking to
him and his family, who worked really really hard to
make sure that their customers feel like their station is
a part of the community. So they just decided to
do this awesome give back to their customers. As he
(35:24):
explained to WXYZ over Detroit.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Same amount of business throughout the construction. Our numbers did
not go down, so that shows you the loyalty of
our service and our customers. This is our way, me
and my family's way to show our support back and
to give back to this community.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Charging only a dollar ninety nine for gas. People were
coming from communities all over the East Side to take
advantage of this, and I've did it today, maybe to
inspire some West Michigan gas stations who are of course
dealing with all sorts of road construction as well. I
think this is a great way to say thank you guys,
community member, just throwing it out there. Failing good Kevin
ash you a couple of times. They always want to
(36:00):
tell you about great things happening out in our world.
We'll do it tomorrow as well, six forty five and
nine twenty here on Star Mack and Schmidty in the
morning weekday, starting at six am on Star one oh
five point seven
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