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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Wake it.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's my day going.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
It makes me laugh of it.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Mac and Schmidty in the morning on Star one oh
five point seven.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Oh, I'm so happy to be able to say good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, it feels good to be back. Guys. Might have
a few bug bites in a little burn, but it
was so worth it to have some of that nice
Fourth of July time off.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
All right, you went up to the Up, and I
have been dying to ask you.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
No major wildlife, no bears, no, fortunately had her eyes peeled.
But it was hot up there, and I think, just
like every other animal kind of dealing with this weirdly
warm weather that we've got a break from the last
couple of days, it feels like not the case up there. Man,
it was hot for the Up.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, then you didn't miss much but down here because
that's basically what we were dealing with. But it was
a great weekend all in all. But we're so happy
that you're back. I'm bummed that you didn't see a bear, though.
I was really hoping that between you just being at
the Up in general and then your husband going to
check out some bare infested property like we talked about
out there, that I was going to get some pictures
of black bears and she's made me up a tree.
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Maybe I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Unfortunately not But still tons of stories to get to
this morning from our travels.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, obviously the news has been made public for days
now that Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom have officially ended
their relationship. But when I said, rich people doing rich
people things, no worries. They figured out how to somehow
co parent peacefully aboard a mega yacht off Italy's a
Mulfi coast. As one does, as one does. This is
probably just the best parenting out there. Yes, Indeed, pictures
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surfacing yesterday of the Pirates of the Caribbean Star and
Katie on a short break after wrapping up the Australian
part of her lifetimes tour on board this mega yacht
with their daughter Daisy Dove, along with Bloom's fourteen year
old son Flynn with his previous relationship. Even better Hurries
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez then also joined them for
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a few I guess.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
How did they all fit on the yacht. Is there
enough room for use?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It's okay. I think that they bud They probably bunked,
but yeah, just so you know, the Orlando Bloom Katy
Perry co parenting is going quite well.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You know what I want to do right after I
got married, Smitty, I want to hang out with a
couple who's just gone through a very public separation.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Sound nobody?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I want to hang out with more.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Doesn't that sound like you want to pour them wine
and get emotional? Yeah. Actress Scarlett Johansson just passed some
of her fellow MCU co stars as the highest grossing
lead actor ever. Good for her, Yes, The forty year
old actress accomplished the impressive victory over this fourth of
July holiday weekend with that monstrous debut of her new film,
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Jurassic Park Rebirth. Check this out. So now, Johansson's worldwide
total for leading roles fourteen point six one billion dollars.
She surpassed Samuel L. Jackson at only fourteen point six
and Robert Downey Junior at fourteen point three. Even more impressive,
Johansen did that in just thirty six movies that she
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lead starred in. Jackson took seventy one movies to get
to his point. Robert Downey Junior took forty five. This
is a very big deal, especially after a lot of
interviews during this Jurassic World press tour where Scarlett said
she really fought her way out of being cast in
movies as just a sex symbol.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And was successfully So I mean she started her I
mean in her own franchises with the Black Widow spinoffs.
I mean she has got everything going on.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I'm really excited to see that movie. By the way.
And finally, big baby news. Tim Tebow and his Missy
Universe wife have welcomed their first child together. The thirty
seven year old and his model wife, Demi Lee Nell
Peters announced the news in a very emotional Instagram post yesterday, saying,
our daughter is here. We could not be more grateful
for the blessing and gift of this new little life.
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Grateful to the whole medical team that assisted us in
the best way possible during my labor and delivery. They
shared a few photos saying thank you to everyone who's
been praying with us over her arrival. Daphne Rain Tebow
Daphne a name that's been close to mama's heart. She said.
It's my mom's mother, but also her sister who stepped
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in as a big figure to me. And Rain is
a name that holds so much meaning. The family says,
more than anything, her name reminds us that when you're
adopted into God's family, you become a child of the King.
You are made to rule and reign, not in power,
but in purpose, love, and identity. They call Daphne Rain
their answer prayer. I thought that was very, very sweet.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That is sweet. It was. Any of the photos shared
was Tim down on one knee doing the tea bow
with the baby, because I feel like that's got to happen.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Well, he was not. He's a married man now and
he knows better than to pull stuff like that in
the middle of a life.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Wife's rew and every day.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
All right, all of you are celeb scoop but West
Michigan start dot.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Com total five points. Yeah, good morning to you. It's
Mack and Schmidty. And you know, there's very little to
feel good about these tragic floods that have claimed the
lives of Beny down in Texas. Schmidty. But as things
like this happen, we are reminded of that mister Rogers quote,
the Fred Rodgers quote about always looking for the helpers,
always finding the helpers, and that's what Petty Officer third
(05:24):
Class Scott Ruskin is a twenty six year old Coastguard
rescue swimmer from New Jersey, being hailed a hero now
after leading a rescue operation that directly helped us save
one hundred and sixty five people during these flash floods
in Central Texas. This was his very first mission. He
acted as the only triage coordinator while actively participating in
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the rescues, particularly at Camp Mystic, a Christian girls camp
that you've heard so much of the stories revolving around
a flooding that became the focus of their operation. Ruskin
and his team actually spotted nearly two hundred people stranded
at that campsite from the air and immediately shifted all
rescue efforts to get them to safety. Once on the ground,
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Ruskin tended to the frightened and exhausted campers, many of
whom had fled bunks in the middle of the night
with little more than the clothes on their backs, and
while comforting the survivors, he was also still coordinating rescue
efforts with helicopters, including MH sixty five's in Army Blackhawks,
directing them to groups in need of evacuation. He wound
up coordinating multiple helicopter rescues and giving support to those survivors.
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He just joined the Coast Guard in twenty twenty one,
had just finished up his training at Corpus Christi, and
now on his very first mission, helps to save these people.
Homeland Security Director Christy Nome saying on x that US
Coast Guard rescue swimmer and petty officer Scott Ruskin directly
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saved in astonishing one hundred and sixty five victims from
this devastating flooding in central Texas. This was the first
rescue mission of his career and he was the only
treage coordinator at the scene. Scott Ruskin is an American hero.
His selflessness courage embodies the spirit and mission of the
US Coast Guard. Just an unbelievable thing to have in
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a h again, for lack of a better word, just
an unimaginable tragedy that's had an.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Incredible interview he did with the Today Show yesterday talking
about it. He didn't take a single piece of credit,
He said, no, no, this is all of my brothers
and sisters and arms out here figuring out where to
touch down, how to grab as many kids as possible.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
It was powerful and still working. He says. We are
not done yet.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
All right.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Some people maybe not super stoked about doing the lawn
cutting every other day in the summer, or at least
that's what it feels like. But for Stu McAllister, it's
bringing back the neighborly feel. You might recognize the name.
He has been a stand up comedian for years in
West Michigan, but also a stand up guy. He's using
his free time to mow law for free. He said, listen,
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it's easy. I've got the mower, I've got the time.
This is what we do. He's actually popped into a
Facebook group called pay it Forward Grand Rapids and simply wrote,
if you need help mowing your lawn, elderly broken mower,
landlord is a bum lazy kids. I'll mow it for Freddy,
just shoot me a message. And he has been doing
that for years. He tells Fox seventeen to my professional landscaper, No,
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but you sure can't beat the price, because the price
is totally free. And in fact, his inspiration comes from
being a Bills fan. He grew up in Buffalo, and
he said he gave the speech talking about Josh Allen,
that MVP quarterback, and said, do good, be good, God bless.
It's been one of the things that I've been very
proud to take part in here in West Michigan. And
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it's just mowing lawns.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
We all want to be neighborly, or we should want
to be in ahrily. It's weird how in the last
several years we've lost that, I guess, and so if
we can do something as simple again, it's just helping
people out. We should everybody.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Should, one yard at a time.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well done, stew come mo myln anytime, feeling good coming
at you a couple times. They always want to share
something positive with you. We'll do it again coming up
this morning at nine's one.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well, it's obviously been very emotional for the country to
watch the devastating effects of that flash flooding in Texas,
especially so for those with personal connections. And we've talked
a lot about Camp Mystic that is the Girls Christian
Camp specially hit hard by the flooding, and yesterday, in
the third hour of The Today Show, host Jenna bush
(09:39):
Hager revealed a very close family connection, in fact, her
mom worked there, getting very emotional talking about how important
these camps are to the Texas way of life.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
You have a special connection to the special place your mom.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Your mom worked as a chancellor.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
My mom was a counselor there. But also so many
of my friends were raised at this camp. You know
Texas camps, our institutions, were many family members generations. This
camp was one hundred years old, so grandmother's mother's kids
have all gone there. My mom was a drama counselor there,
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but many of my friends were there, had their kids
there last week. And the stories that I heard over
the last couple of days were beautiful and heartbreaking. And
Texas has a type of resilience that where they're generous people,
where people want to reach out and.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Help, and we've been hearing a lot of those stories.
As of this morning, that death toll stands at one
hundred and four. Kirk County, Texas the hardest hit as
the search and hopefully rescue efforts continue They are supposed
to get some more rain possible storms today and tomorrow,
but are looking forward to sunny weather on Thursday and
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Friday and hopefully know for their threat of flood. Blake
Lively is facing another moment of legal battle between Justin
Baldoni and herself because we have learned she'll be sitting
in a deposition very soon. A source says Baldoni's legal
team plans to depose Blake next Thursday in New York,
but this is being kept very secret. The exact location
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has not even been determined, nor will it be made public.
If they have it their way, it'll just beat Blake
and her legal team in the room. Her husband, Ryan Reynolds,
is not expected to be a part of these deposition proceedings,
but Blake is ready, says she's been ready for a while,
insists her story has never changed. This does mark one
of the bigger moments in this ongoing legal drama, since
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remember Baldoni's four hundred million dollar countersuit was tossed last month.
Just Inside originally claimed they were going to amend the
dismissed suit, but then changed course and said our client
will be pursuing additional legal options that are available to
us that will be a huge part of this deposition.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Just didn't see what they try and pull. I also
just I'm waiting for the big, you know, breakthrough in
this where they're like, we shuttled, we shuttled, we realized
we're all doing super damage to our careers, and everyone
does is over this completely. I don't know. I feel
like it's never going to see that. March of twenty
twenty six, Grid, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I'll be interested to see if anybody gives in. Finally,
it is a nearly fifty year old Michigan mystery, but
a Detroit journalist and an ex prosecutor claim they've solved
it and they have found Jimmy Hoffup. Investigative reporter Scott Bernstein,
and retired federal prosecutor Richard Convertino, as well as a
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former mobster turned informant named Novetco, say they are planning
to reveal their bombshell findings at a presentation at July
twenty third at McComb Community College. So Burstine's a longtime
Detroit journalist and a crime historian. The event's website says
the three of them will host an eighty minute presentation
that will include the actual name of the person who
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killed Jimmy Hoffa, as well as never before seen photos
from FBI investigative files, and then follow up with a
forty minute Q and A session. When the Detroit News
asked Bernstein why he had not alerted the FBI with
his new info, he told them, oh, the agency already
knows quote. They might not come out and say it,
but the FBI has come to the same conclusion we have,
(13:24):
So I guess we will all find out July twenty third.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I mean an eighty minute presentation. Are you kidding me?
That's like a college class, forty minute question and answer afterwards.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Well, tickets are only thirty bucks. It's still available.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Is this is Scorsese style mob movie or something wet?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
No, but I find this so intriguing. All of your
celeb scoop at West Michigan.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Starttive Seminal five points seven. It's Mack and Schmidty And
like so many folks that did a little travel it
over that fourth at July weekend there Schmitty. As a
matter of fact, that you know, because Triple A can
never not sled a record number of travelers hit the
road for the holiday weekend, and you were one of them.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, actually not bad, though I'm not sure. We left
last week a couple of days before the fourth and
then we came back super late at night, which gotta
tell you is such a hack because we did not
have any traffic issues we were up in the up
It's one of our big trips now where we go
and visit some of my husband's family, and it's interesting
every year when we go that my kids get older
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and get more just excited and intrigued by the things
we don't have down here, and that we don't see
a lot down here. One of the biggest things that
we love up there is we go to our cousin's
boyfriend's house. His parents live on the Saint Mary's River,
and you literally swim with freighters. I mean they come
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in because they come right in and it's a really
really narrow part of the Saint Mary's River, so you're
literally out like floating on your floating and I mean in.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
A massive boat rolls and then.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Like it kicks up huge waves. My kids are obsessed
with freighters. That sounds awesome, It's really really cool. It's
just one of those things like, Man, there's not a
lot of places you'll get memories like that.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Was that messing with you is like a parent though,
where you like, are we sure they're not getting sucked into?
Speaker 7 (15:06):
It?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Was far enough And I've been out there enough to
know because the first time it rolls through and like
blows that horn, you're you're.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Thinking, pool was Will sitting up, I'm gonna make the news.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, And sometimes they're just so kind. If they can
spot you, they'll do it. And a lot of some
of the crew will come on board and wave to.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You, especially when your husband's out there doing it too.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah. So it was funny because we were talking on
the way home about your favorite parts, and Will especially
was talking about all the new jobs he thinks exist
as jobs because of what all of it looked like
to him. So he wants to be a freight driver.
Now it's a job, but not because of how cool
the job itself is and how important it is. He
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just realized how high up you are when you're the
driver and you can see all the way to Canada.
Because we took the kids on a boat cruise and
and we went between it. It was so cute. We
took it right. We took well were we were in
the Sioux, so we were technically in international waters. And
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Chris turned und He's like, you guys, secondly, you know
we're in Canadian water now, and will goes man. If
I drove that big boat, I could probably see all
the way to the Canada Man's house. I just thought
that was so cute. They also want to be boat
refuelers because we took them to Lyme Island, which is
now kind of a Danar State park, but it used
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to be where freighters could come and get refueled before
they continued on. So these massive, massive drums where the
oil was held, and like all the old school booy's
have kind of been made into like a playground now,
so they just figured when people were refueling boats, they
just got to play around all day. Yeah, well, they
want to be boat refuelers. They also would like to
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open a restaurant, because we went to the Cozy Corners
if you guys are familiar in Barbo, right next to
the Sioux, and then you got to eat French fries
and shoot off your own fireworks. What that's where we
watched our fireworks over the Saint Mary's River.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
You got to eat burgers and let off your own fireworks.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, well, I mean not my kids. My kids only
eat the fries. But they figured if you're able to
own a restaurant and you can eat all the fries
you want and shoot off fireworks, that's got to be amazing.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
And then the final job they want is to change
the Christmas lights on the mac and Oubridge.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I told you, they want my job. They want the
job that I too, dreamed about being forever. When I
thought that that guy made a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I just thought it was so cute because they kept
calling them Christmas lights because if you've driven the bridge
at night, it's all different colors. It's like red, green, yellow,
all of that. So we came back and I told them,
you know, you can do any of these jobs. You
have to go to certain things and do school, to
which I got, oh, never mind. So they will not
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be bat macin Aubridge, Christmas tree changers, light changers. They
will not be boat refuelers. But we had such a
blast and it was so cool. It's the first time
I felt like I got to see things through my
kid's eyes in a way that made sense. It was
really cool. But honestly, when the when the boat captain
waved and beaped his horn, that was like, I think
that'll be a core memory. Bibs get.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
That, yeah, man, and the bridge changer of the Christmas bulbs,
Thank god, those aren't like Christmas lights. Can you imagine
if you had to check everyone every single time one
of them by them?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Like they're huge? I mean that is so you know,
youuper jobs just hit different. If you guys get the
chance to go up there, Boy, will you notice that I'm.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Still thinking about getting all you can eat French fries
and lighting off my own fireworks. Man, throw a beer
into that mix, and I'm having a great day.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
The dream Jimitty's so salty.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I mean somehow even after she comes back from vanc
I want to find points seven. It is back and Smitty,
what's got you salty? Today?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
And I said it right. Anybody who I feel like
has traveled north of Big Rapids for like the fourth
of July long break will understand this. Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
The deer flies you're talking those are like the huge,
the big ones, right, you.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Know, And I think they're big down here. I think
they are submarine sized in the Up. It was easily
the only downside to our trip. And I don't know,
I just I don't get bit like that here. And
they love you. It's like they feast on the trolls.
They know they see you come off the bridge and
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they're like, hah, this person has no idea. And oh
my gosh, the tapestry of profanity I weaved in front
of my children when one got me on the back
of the like right on the inside where your knee is.
And I gotta tell you you this, this has turned
me off. I'm so sorry to ever camping in the Up.
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One of our very good friends was camping in a
rustic location about an hour and a half from where
we were in the Up. Literally tied ferns around his face,
found ground covering from the woods to put around his
face because he heard on that somehow that would mean
the mosquitoes, horseflies and deer flies wouldn't attack you.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Honestly, if that worked better than dates, I would do
it too. I would dress myself up as camel fern
man just to get out of visor.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You can talk to me about God's country, I dig it.
But those deer flies have no place in our creation.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Be so stalky. So if you're Noah, deer flies are
not getting on the boat, you're not just not going
to allow it.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Not this time.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Guys, D's music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Well, the investigation is over, and if you believe the
Justice Department in the FBI, there is no evidence, zero
evidence whatsoever that disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey
Epstein had a client list or se he blackmailed prominent
associates because of it. The conclusions included in a two
page memo outlining the exhaustive review the department conducted of
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the Epstein files that had in its possession. The memo
also states, after a thorough investigation, the FBI did find
that Epstein died by suicide, which aligns with previous department conclusions.
This is Caroline Levett, White House Press Secretary.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
They put out a memo in conclusion of that review.
There was material they did not release because frankly, it
was incredibly graphic and it contained child pornography, which is
not something that's appropriate for public consumption. But they committed
to an exhaustive investigation. That's what they did, and they
provided the results of that.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Naturally, a lot of people do not believe that this
is maybe true. There's going to be a lot of
conspiracy around this. I did think that it was very interesting.
I was reading some rumor yesterday. Remember when Amy Roeback
worked for ABC News. I believe she at one point
had some of these Epstein files in her possession and
was going to do a story about it, and then
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was subsequently shut down and was very upset about that.
And now people are wondering if perhaps she will be
addressing this on her podcast, which is of course on
her iHeart.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
App Obviously, this has been something that's been in the
public sphere for a while now, and I think it's
absolutely fascinating and a lot of other adjectives that two
of the biggest people that were promoting a list and
that there were things being hidden in stuff like that
by our government, Cash Battel, the current director of the FBI,
and Dan Bongino, the current assistant director of the FBI,
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who both now are out there going like Nope, no list,
definitely suicide, totally fine, And I think that that is
driving the conspiracy. Theori is crazy that they are prominent
leads who were finally going to get the answers were like, well,
it turns out there wasn't any answers.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Also, the documentary sphere that has proven for the last
one hundred years of government there's been major secrets kept.
This was quite a moment. It actually went down on
Sunday at Wrigley Field, and I got to tell you
as a Cubs fan, and there were a lot of
fans not too thrilled about it. Call her daddy. Host
Alex Cooper loudly booed after quote, making a mockery of
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her seventh inning stretch. This is her singing, take me
out to the ball game.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You've never seen something like this before, A one on two,
on three, Well to the ball, a game to the crown,
Mommy's MP.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
She's Hallie crax. Sheos friends holding.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Her un Okay, they thought I was giving.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah the cup pies.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
If they don't win, it's a shame.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Went on.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Jock John Brown at the field.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
You maybe thought it was gonna be hilarious. Not the case.
With backlash online people writing absolutely horrendous, Another user saying
the seventh inning stretches for the fans. Alex made it
all about herself. Even someone saying you have the opportunity
to do something really exciting and memorable at a historical ballpark,
and this is what you do. Oh my god, Alex,
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and no I respond to any of them as pretty rough.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Congratulations Alex Cooper, you are now a white Sox fan.
Got root for the socks now.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
And finally a lot of travelers will be thrilled at this.
The TSA is rolling back one of its most hated
airport security rules. You will no longer have to take
your shoes onjah Yeah, as of yesterday, according to an
internal memo, So the TSA themselves is still not fully
confirming this. The memo reports that numerous travel industry sources
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saying passengers will no longer be required to remove their
shoes at agency checkpoints. The document sites technological advancements and
a reevaluation of potential threats as deciding factors in the
shoe reversal. There are still some rules, though. You have
to be in possession of an approved now required real
(25:06):
I D. You must not require any special screening, and
then you can keep your shoes off.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I never believe that a change with the TSA is
gonna make things more convenient for me. I read something
like this, and the skeptic of me is like, but
what I gotta take out my laces? You're gonna tell
me I gotta take out my laces now right.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
My coworker was mad. He's like, I hate taking my
bell talk ye, it's the belt that gets me. I
can do my shoes faster than my.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Belt, hold up my pants, and raise my arms at
the same time. I can only do one, sir.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
All right, all of you are celeb scoop at West
Michigan Star.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Dot Com Battle of Sex. She's gonna send you over
to our Frederick your gardens and Sculpship Park four tickets.
Get over there and have some fun and check out
all the incredible art to just the amazing, amazing displays
they have over there. Honestly, I'm always surprised by how
long I can stay there. Schmitty.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Oh it's Lena Children, the Lalina's Children Garden for me. Yeah,
I mean, oh my gosh, the tree house, the incredible
Great Lakes, splash pad area, the tram My kids adore
this place and you could experience it for yourself with
today's number one answer. One hundred women surveyed name of
food you'll never put in the microwave without covering it?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Oh, speaking of my children, all of them, all of them, schmiddi.
They will not put a single cover over their food
in the microwave. Ever, It's just going to explode.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
That's probably the biggest part of my marriage problems. I
am that person.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Oh, it's youth.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I don't cover anything. I'm like, what real clean it? Later?
Six one, six, four, five eight one.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Good morning star? Who's this?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
This is Edwin?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Edwin.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Where are you calling from today? Man? I am calling
from Holland, Michigan.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
H Edwin.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Let's see if we can get to these tickets to
the Frederick Meyer Gardens and Sculpshire Park. Just gotta tell me.
When one hundred women were asked to name a specific
food that you never would put in the microwave without
covering it, what was their top answer, Edwin.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I wouldn't put my ramen noodles.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
You know what, it doesn't It wouldn't make sense to
not cover the ramen noodles. It needs the cover. But sadly,
ramen noodles is not on this list ed, but I'm sorry,
my friend man. Thank you, Hi star. Who's this? Chelsea? Chelsea?
I just got a great guess from Edwin when one
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hundred women rasd to name a specific food that you
had never put in the microwave without covering it first,
he said what every college student should say, which is
ramen noodles. However, that was not on the list of
top answers, so you got a chance here. What do
you think it is?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I think it's an egg.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
You think it's an egg. Not only you know what,
you gotta cover it so it doesn't explode. But honestly,
don't do that at work. I've got coworkers who do
that and it just makes the whole place smell like
farts for a while. I just can't stand. But you
gotta cover those eggs. Eggs is the top answer. Where
congrats you're going to the Frederick Clark Gardens Sculpture Park
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with four tickets.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Awesome, Thank you, you are.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
So welcome, and we're looking to do it all week long.
By the way, it was eggs, spaghetti, soup, and chili
rounding out those top answers. By the ways, is chili
a soup? I'm not sure. I think there's a crossover there,
but all the same, Chelsea, congratulations and we'll do it
again tomorrow eight fifteen. Battle of the Sexes right here
on Star come holding to you. It's feel good variety
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of the eighties still now Mac and Schmitty hanging out.
And I was accused of a crime. Schmitty, Okay, yeah,
this is interesting. I want to know when you've been
accused of something that you definitely did not do and
what came of it. Because I told you before you
left for vacation, Smitty, that I got into a little
fender bender.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, it was awful. It was no good, and it
was my fault because I was the one who rear
ended somebody else. The way that happened, though, was we
were on just a twenty five mile an hour road
and a third car involved. Of course, they did not
get any damage whatsoever, slammed on their break to turn
into a tight driveway. So the car in front of
me slammed on their brakes. I slam on my brakes, YadA, YadA, YadA.
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I slam into the back of them, maybe going fifteen
twenty miles an hour, damages both vehicles, but my cards.
You know, it's just mostly on the bumper, you know,
some dense by the lights. The front pushed in just
a little bit, but you know, it stinks enough that
I'm going to have that. I had to file it
as an insurance claimer. Right, yeah, yeah, it's aboutmers. I
think everything's regular routine and I'm just going to find
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out how much my you know, they're going to fix
my bumper and some of my front grill. And I
get a call from the gentleman who's working on my
car and he says, hey, there's some things here that
aren't adding up, and I need you to come down
here so that you can put eyes on what I'm seeing.
I'm super confused. So I go in there and he
shows me my car and all the front's been taken
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off and all this other stuff, and he's like, this
is why I wanted to bring you in. I don't
see how what you have described as this accident could
be respect reponsible for all of these things.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
And I'm like, what are you talking about? And he's like, well,
if you'll notice, your steel bumper right here is still
just intact, but everything above it is smashed in so
hard that you have wrecked your radiator, your cool and shield,
it is moved your engine block and hit your get
and hit your oil tank causing a spill there. So
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what you're saying is that this happened in like a
fifteen to twenty mile an hour.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
That's what I was gonna say, senderbender.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
And I'm like, I'm not saying it. It's what happened.
I get it that. With your job and you're fixing
cars through insurance companies all day long, You've probably get
a lot of people that want their car fixed for
something that's wrong for free, and they're trying to, you know,
work it over on their insurance. This is not that
I thought I was bringing you my car because of
a little fender bender. What you're telling me now is
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all news to me and insane. Ps. I'm not a
car guy. I can't I can't tell you things about
how these things can happen and move around in a
car that's literally what you guys are paid for. And
he's like, well, I don't know how I'm gonna be
able to explain it to your insurance company, and I'm like,
I don't care how you explained it, because this is
what happened.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
This is why I go to a family mechanic. This
is why I go to a family friend and I
say something fell off. I don't know, I'll pay whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Thankfully, they were eventually able to figure it out based
on the timestamps of when all the check engine lights
went off on my vehicle, which kind of proved my
old timeline, and they were like, okay, I guess it
makes sense. I was ready to bust out security camera
footage of my car the day of the accident. SHMITTI,
this is so wow. I was going through all of
these things in my head about like how I was
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going to fight the man that was accusing me of
a crime. SHMITTI. I couldn't believe.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
I had to deal with it all right, So if
you can beat that, I guess six one six four
or five eight one oh five? Seven?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
What were you accused of that you didn't do? We've
also got to go it on Facebook at West Michigan Star. Well,
let's do this trying to bring a little positivity to
your morning each day. It's feeling good on stylein fine
point seven. What's up.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
So we just got back from our trip to the
up and I thought This was such a cool moment.
We were in the Sioux waiting for some dinner from Clydes.
That's up such a fantastic place if you go to
the Upa to eat and it is right there by
the locks. And this massive, massive freighter came through and
I noticed that there was this whole, huge crowd of
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people that had posters and homemade flags and all these things.
At first I thought it was a protest. Okay, I
thought that's interesting. What could they be protesting? And I
didn't recognize anything. They were like homemade symbols even, and
I thought that is so interesting. And then all of
a sudden I saw a bunch of men on the
freighter come running out, and then my mother in law
actually asked one of the women, and it was the
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entire family and a bunch of friends of one of
the sailors on the James R. Barker. No, it was
so cool. It's one of the I think there's only
six thousand foot freighters that come through a lot one
thousand feet. There's only six of those boats. Yeah, yeah,
thousand feet long. It was built in the seventies. And
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I put this up on my TikTok and someone said, oh,
that's the most famous foghorn on the lakes, So they
sound this fog horn. All the kids are going wild,
and then we find out that this family, this is
the only time they get to see their son because
these sailors are on board for they do eleven weeks on,
three weeks off, so their son has gone for almost
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three months at a time, and they get to see
him whenever he's passing through the locks. They run all
together and it was just so cool. They had all
these really cute posters. Somebody had had a baby and
announced the name to him. I don't know, it was
such a moving moment cause I thought, you know, we
have cell phones, we have all this high tech way
to get a hold of people. But that was just
such an incredibly cool moment, and so I posted it
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on my TikTok and it was really it's just exploded.
People were so so excited to.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
See that technology is great to connect with people, but
there's nothing that can replace the idea of somebody that
you love making the effort to physically come and see you.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Like, oh my gosh. And his mom had a giant
poster that read I'm so proud of you. Oh, it's
so cute. It was so cute. Love all right.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Speaking of cute, schmitty, this one's quick. The Miller family
down in Orlando, Florida, gather to celebrate wife Rachel's birthday
and Ben Miller's parents, his grandparents all gathered there and
they were ready to sing Happy Birthday to Rachel. But
when the cake came down, they saw that happy birthday
wasn't actually written on the cake. Instead, it was a
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big pregnancy announcement. Surprised, do you.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Hap me?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
That's when Graham starts realizing what's going Pretty soon, Grandpa's
Paul in his eyes out schmitty, so cool. This video
definitely gonna put a smile on your face. The family
completely unaware that the pregnancy was coming at rachel sand
My heart was racing at such a life changing event.
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I knew everybody would be excited. And the video is awesome.
I'll get it up for you. A's West Michigan Star
and I always here to provide a little something to
make you smile feeling good each day at six forty
five and again at Nine's Oney Mack
Speaker 4 (35:33):
And Schmidty in the morning weekday, starting at six am
on Star one oh five point seven
Wake it.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's my day going.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
It makes me laugh of it.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Mac and Schmidty in the morning on Star one oh
five point seven.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Oh, I'm so happy to be able to say good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, it feels good to be back. Guys. Might have
a few bug bites in a little burn, but it
was so worth it to have some of that nice
Fourth of July time off.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
All right, you went up to the Up, and I
have been dying to ask you.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
No major wildlife, no bears, no, fortunately had her eyes peeled.
But it was hot up there, and I think, just
like every other animal kind of dealing with this weirdly
warm weather that we've got a break from the last
couple of days, it feels like not the case up there. Man,
it was hot for the Up.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, then you didn't miss much but down here because
that's basically what we were dealing with. But it was
a great weekend all in all. But we're so happy
that you're back. I'm bummed that you didn't see a bear, though.
I was really hoping that between you just being at
the Up in general and then your husband going to
check out some bare infested property like we talked about
out there, that I was going to get some pictures
of black bears and she's made me up a tree.
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Maybe I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Unfortunately not But still tons of stories to get to
this morning from our travels.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, obviously the news has been made public for days
now that Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom have officially ended
their relationship. But when I said, rich people doing rich
people things, no worries. They figured out how to somehow
co parent peacefully aboard a mega yacht off Italy's a
Mulfi coast. As one does, as one does. This is
probably just the best parenting out there. Yes, Indeed, pictures
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surfacing yesterday of the Pirates of the Caribbean Star and
Katie on a short break after wrapping up the Australian
part of her lifetimes tour on board this mega yacht
with their daughter Daisy Dove, along with Bloom's fourteen year
old son Flynn with his previous relationship. Even better Hurries
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez then also joined them for
(02:08):
a few I guess.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
How did they all fit on the yacht. Is there
enough room for use?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It's okay. I think that they bud They probably bunked,
but yeah, just so you know, the Orlando Bloom Katy
Perry co parenting is going quite well.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You know what I want to do right after I
got married, Smitty, I want to hang out with a
couple who's just gone through a very public separation.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Sound nobody?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I want to hang out with more.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Doesn't that sound like you want to pour them wine
and get emotional? Yeah. Actress Scarlett Johansson just passed some
of her fellow MCU co stars as the highest grossing
lead actor ever. Good for her, Yes, The forty year
old actress accomplished the impressive victory over this fourth of
July holiday weekend with that monstrous debut of her new film,
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Jurassic Park Rebirth. Check this out. So now, Johansson's worldwide
total for leading roles fourteen point six one billion dollars.
She surpassed Samuel L. Jackson at only fourteen point six
and Robert Downey Junior at fourteen point three. Even more impressive,
Johansen did that in just thirty six movies that she
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lead starred in. Jackson took seventy one movies to get
to his point. Robert Downey Junior took forty five. This
is a very big deal, especially after a lot of
interviews during this Jurassic World press tour where Scarlett said
she really fought her way out of being cast in
movies as just a sex symbol.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And was successfully So I mean she started her I
mean in her own franchises with the Black Widow spinoffs.
I mean she has got everything going on.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I'm really excited to see that movie. By the way.
And finally, big baby news. Tim Tebow and his Missy
Universe wife have welcomed their first child together. The thirty
seven year old and his model wife, Demi Lee Nell
Peters announced the news in a very emotional Instagram post yesterday, saying,
our daughter is here. We could not be more grateful
for the blessing and gift of this new little life.
(04:08):
Grateful to the whole medical team that assisted us in
the best way possible during my labor and delivery. They
shared a few photos saying thank you to everyone who's
been praying with us over her arrival. Daphne Rain Tebow
Daphne a name that's been close to mama's heart. She said.
It's my mom's mother, but also her sister who stepped
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in as a big figure to me. And Rain is
a name that holds so much meaning. The family says,
more than anything, her name reminds us that when you're
adopted into God's family, you become a child of the King.
You are made to rule and reign, not in power,
but in purpose, love, and identity. They call Daphne Rain
their answer prayer. I thought that was very, very sweet.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That is sweet. It was. Any of the photos shared
was Tim down on one knee doing the tea bow
with the baby, because I feel like that's got to happen.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Well, he was not. He's a married man now and
he knows better than to pull stuff like that in
the middle of a life.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Wife's rew and every day.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
All right, all of you are celeb scoop but West
Michigan start dot.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Com total five points. Yeah, good morning to you. It's
Mack and Schmidty. And you know, there's very little to
feel good about these tragic floods that have claimed the
lives of Beny down in Texas. Schmidty. But as things
like this happen, we are reminded of that mister Rogers quote,
the Fred Rodgers quote about always looking for the helpers,
always finding the helpers, and that's what Petty Officer third
(05:24):
Class Scott Ruskin is a twenty six year old Coastguard
rescue swimmer from New Jersey, being hailed a hero now
after leading a rescue operation that directly helped us save
one hundred and sixty five people during these flash floods
in Central Texas. This was his very first mission. He
acted as the only triage coordinator while actively participating in
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the rescues, particularly at Camp Mystic, a Christian girls camp
that you've heard so much of the stories revolving around
a flooding that became the focus of their operation. Ruskin
and his team actually spotted nearly two hundred people stranded
at that campsite from the air and immediately shifted all
rescue efforts to get them to safety. Once on the ground,
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Ruskin tended to the frightened and exhausted campers, many of
whom had fled bunks in the middle of the night
with little more than the clothes on their backs, and
while comforting the survivors, he was also still coordinating rescue
efforts with helicopters, including MH sixty five's in Army Blackhawks,
directing them to groups in need of evacuation. He wound
up coordinating multiple helicopter rescues and giving support to those survivors.
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He just joined the Coast Guard in twenty twenty one,
had just finished up his training at Corpus Christi, and
now on his very first mission, helps to save these people.
Homeland Security Director Christy Nome saying on x that US
Coast Guard rescue swimmer and petty officer Scott Ruskin directly
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saved in astonishing one hundred and sixty five victims from
this devastating flooding in central Texas. This was the first
rescue mission of his career and he was the only
treage coordinator at the scene. Scott Ruskin is an American hero.
His selflessness courage embodies the spirit and mission of the
US Coast Guard. Just an unbelievable thing to have in
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a h again, for lack of a better word, just
an unimaginable tragedy that's had an.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Incredible interview he did with the Today Show yesterday talking
about it. He didn't take a single piece of credit,
He said, no, no, this is all of my brothers
and sisters and arms out here figuring out where to
touch down, how to grab as many kids as possible.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
It was powerful and still working. He says. We are
not done yet.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
All right.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Some people maybe not super stoked about doing the lawn
cutting every other day in the summer, or at least
that's what it feels like. But for Stu McAllister, it's
bringing back the neighborly feel. You might recognize the name.
He has been a stand up comedian for years in
West Michigan, but also a stand up guy. He's using
his free time to mow law for free. He said, listen,
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it's easy. I've got the mower, I've got the time.
This is what we do. He's actually popped into a
Facebook group called pay it Forward Grand Rapids and simply wrote,
if you need help mowing your lawn, elderly broken mower,
landlord is a bum lazy kids. I'll mow it for Freddy,
just shoot me a message. And he has been doing
that for years. He tells Fox seventeen to my professional landscaper, No,
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but you sure can't beat the price, because the price
is totally free. And in fact, his inspiration comes from
being a Bills fan. He grew up in Buffalo, and
he said he gave the speech talking about Josh Allen,
that MVP quarterback, and said, do good, be good, God bless.
It's been one of the things that I've been very
proud to take part in here in West Michigan. And
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it's just mowing lawns.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
We all want to be neighborly, or we should want
to be in ahrily. It's weird how in the last
several years we've lost that, I guess, and so if
we can do something as simple again, it's just helping
people out. We should everybody.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Should, one yard at a time.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well done, stew come mo myln anytime, feeling good coming
at you a couple times. They always want to share
something positive with you. We'll do it again coming up
this morning at nine's one.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well, it's obviously been very emotional for the country to
watch the devastating effects of that flash flooding in Texas,
especially so for those with personal connections. And we've talked
a lot about Camp Mystic that is the Girls Christian
Camp specially hit hard by the flooding, and yesterday, in
the third hour of The Today Show, host Jenna bush
(09:39):
Hager revealed a very close family connection, in fact, her
mom worked there, getting very emotional talking about how important
these camps are to the Texas way of life.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
You have a special connection to the special place your mom.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Your mom worked as a chancellor.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
My mom was a counselor there. But also so many
of my friends were raised at this camp. You know
Texas camps, our institutions, were many family members generations. This
camp was one hundred years old, so grandmother's mother's kids
have all gone there. My mom was a drama counselor there,
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but many of my friends were there, had their kids
there last week. And the stories that I heard over
the last couple of days were beautiful and heartbreaking. And
Texas has a type of resilience that where they're generous people,
where people want to reach out and.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Help, and we've been hearing a lot of those stories.
As of this morning, that death toll stands at one
hundred and four. Kirk County, Texas the hardest hit as
the search and hopefully rescue efforts continue They are supposed
to get some more rain possible storms today and tomorrow,
but are looking forward to sunny weather on Thursday and
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Friday and hopefully know for their threat of flood. Blake
Lively is facing another moment of legal battle between Justin
Baldoni and herself because we have learned she'll be sitting
in a deposition very soon. A source says Baldoni's legal
team plans to depose Blake next Thursday in New York,
but this is being kept very secret. The exact location
(11:20):
has not even been determined, nor will it be made public.
If they have it their way, it'll just beat Blake
and her legal team in the room. Her husband, Ryan Reynolds,
is not expected to be a part of these deposition proceedings,
but Blake is ready, says she's been ready for a while,
insists her story has never changed. This does mark one
of the bigger moments in this ongoing legal drama, since
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remember Baldoni's four hundred million dollar countersuit was tossed last month.
Just Inside originally claimed they were going to amend the
dismissed suit, but then changed course and said our client
will be pursuing additional legal options that are available to
us that will be a huge part of this deposition.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Just didn't see what they try and pull. I also
just I'm waiting for the big, you know, breakthrough in
this where they're like, we shuttled, we shuttled, we realized
we're all doing super damage to our careers, and everyone
does is over this completely. I don't know. I feel
like it's never going to see that. March of twenty
twenty six, Grid, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I'll be interested to see if anybody gives in. Finally,
it is a nearly fifty year old Michigan mystery, but
a Detroit journalist and an ex prosecutor claim they've solved
it and they have found Jimmy Hoffup. Investigative reporter Scott Bernstein,
and retired federal prosecutor Richard Convertino, as well as a
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former mobster turned informant named Novetco, say they are planning
to reveal their bombshell findings at a presentation at July
twenty third at McComb Community College. So Burstine's a longtime
Detroit journalist and a crime historian. The event's website says
the three of them will host an eighty minute presentation
that will include the actual name of the person who
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killed Jimmy Hoffa, as well as never before seen photos
from FBI investigative files, and then follow up with a
forty minute Q and A session. When the Detroit News
asked Bernstein why he had not alerted the FBI with
his new info, he told them, oh, the agency already
knows quote. They might not come out and say it,
but the FBI has come to the same conclusion we have,
(13:24):
So I guess we will all find out July twenty third.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I mean an eighty minute presentation. Are you kidding me?
That's like a college class, forty minute question and answer afterwards.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Well, tickets are only thirty bucks. It's still available.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Is this is Scorsese style mob movie or something wet?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
No, but I find this so intriguing. All of your
celeb scoop at West Michigan.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Starttive Seminal five points seven. It's Mack and Schmidty And
like so many folks that did a little travel it
over that fourth at July weekend there Schmitty. As a
matter of fact, that you know, because Triple A can
never not sled a record number of travelers hit the
road for the holiday weekend, and you were one of them.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, actually not bad, though I'm not sure. We left
last week a couple of days before the fourth and
then we came back super late at night, which gotta
tell you is such a hack because we did not
have any traffic issues we were up in the up
It's one of our big trips now where we go
and visit some of my husband's family, and it's interesting
every year when we go that my kids get older
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and get more just excited and intrigued by the things
we don't have down here, and that we don't see
a lot down here. One of the biggest things that
we love up there is we go to our cousin's
boyfriend's house. His parents live on the Saint Mary's River,
and you literally swim with freighters. I mean they come
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in because they come right in and it's a really
really narrow part of the Saint Mary's River, so you're
literally out like floating on your floating and I mean in.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
A massive boat rolls and then.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Like it kicks up huge waves. My kids are obsessed
with freighters. That sounds awesome, It's really really cool. It's
just one of those things like, Man, there's not a
lot of places you'll get memories like that.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Was that messing with you is like a parent though,
where you like, are we sure they're not getting sucked into?
Speaker 7 (15:06):
It?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Was far enough And I've been out there enough to
know because the first time it rolls through and like
blows that horn, you're you're.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Thinking, pool was Will sitting up, I'm gonna make the news.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, And sometimes they're just so kind. If they can
spot you, they'll do it. And a lot of some
of the crew will come on board and wave to.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You, especially when your husband's out there doing it too.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah. So it was funny because we were talking on
the way home about your favorite parts, and Will especially
was talking about all the new jobs he thinks exist
as jobs because of what all of it looked like
to him. So he wants to be a freight driver.
Now it's a job, but not because of how cool
the job itself is and how important it is. He
(15:51):
just realized how high up you are when you're the
driver and you can see all the way to Canada.
Because we took the kids on a boat cruise and
and we went between it. It was so cute. We
took it right. We took well were we were in
the Sioux, so we were technically in international waters. And
(16:11):
Chris turned und He's like, you guys, secondly, you know
we're in Canadian water now, and will goes man. If
I drove that big boat, I could probably see all
the way to the Canada Man's house. I just thought
that was so cute. They also want to be boat
refuelers because we took them to Lyme Island, which is
now kind of a Danar State park, but it used
(16:32):
to be where freighters could come and get refueled before
they continued on. So these massive, massive drums where the
oil was held, and like all the old school booy's
have kind of been made into like a playground now,
so they just figured when people were refueling boats, they
just got to play around all day. Yeah, well, they
want to be boat refuelers. They also would like to
(16:53):
open a restaurant, because we went to the Cozy Corners
if you guys are familiar in Barbo, right next to
the Sioux, and then you got to eat French fries
and shoot off your own fireworks. What that's where we
watched our fireworks over the Saint Mary's River.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
You got to eat burgers and let off your own fireworks.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, well, I mean not my kids. My kids only
eat the fries. But they figured if you're able to
own a restaurant and you can eat all the fries
you want and shoot off fireworks, that's got to be amazing.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
And then the final job they want is to change
the Christmas lights on the mac and Oubridge.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I told you, they want my job. They want the
job that I too, dreamed about being forever. When I
thought that that guy made a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I just thought it was so cute because they kept
calling them Christmas lights because if you've driven the bridge
at night, it's all different colors. It's like red, green, yellow,
all of that. So we came back and I told them,
you know, you can do any of these jobs. You
have to go to certain things and do school, to
which I got, oh, never mind. So they will not
(17:48):
be bat macin Aubridge, Christmas tree changers, light changers. They
will not be boat refuelers. But we had such a
blast and it was so cool. It's the first time
I felt like I got to see things through my
kid's eyes in a way that made sense. It was
really cool. But honestly, when the when the boat captain
waved and beaped his horn, that was like, I think
that'll be a core memory. Bibs get.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
That, yeah, man, and the bridge changer of the Christmas bulbs,
Thank god, those aren't like Christmas lights. Can you imagine
if you had to check everyone every single time one
of them by them?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Like they're huge? I mean that is so you know,
youuper jobs just hit different. If you guys get the
chance to go up there, Boy, will you notice that I'm.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Still thinking about getting all you can eat French fries
and lighting off my own fireworks. Man, throw a beer
into that mix, and I'm having a great day.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
The dream Jimitty's so salty.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I mean somehow even after she comes back from vanc
I want to find points seven. It is back and Smitty,
what's got you salty? Today?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
And I said it right. Anybody who I feel like
has traveled north of Big Rapids for like the fourth
of July long break will understand this. Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
The deer flies you're talking those are like the huge,
the big ones, right, you.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Know, And I think they're big down here. I think
they are submarine sized in the Up. It was easily
the only downside to our trip. And I don't know,
I just I don't get bit like that here. And
they love you. It's like they feast on the trolls.
They know they see you come off the bridge and
(19:23):
they're like, hah, this person has no idea. And oh
my gosh, the tapestry of profanity I weaved in front
of my children when one got me on the back
of the like right on the inside where your knee is.
And I gotta tell you you this, this has turned
me off. I'm so sorry to ever camping in the Up.
(19:44):
One of our very good friends was camping in a
rustic location about an hour and a half from where
we were in the Up. Literally tied ferns around his face,
found ground covering from the woods to put around his
face because he heard on that somehow that would mean
the mosquitoes, horseflies and deer flies wouldn't attack you.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Honestly, if that worked better than dates, I would do
it too. I would dress myself up as camel fern
man just to get out of visor.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You can talk to me about God's country, I dig it.
But those deer flies have no place in our creation.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Be so stalky. So if you're Noah, deer flies are
not getting on the boat, you're not just not going
to allow it.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Not this time.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Guys, D's music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Well, the investigation is over, and if you believe the
Justice Department in the FBI, there is no evidence, zero
evidence whatsoever that disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey
Epstein had a client list or se he blackmailed prominent
associates because of it. The conclusions included in a two
page memo outlining the exhaustive review the department conducted of
(21:05):
the Epstein files that had in its possession. The memo
also states, after a thorough investigation, the FBI did find
that Epstein died by suicide, which aligns with previous department conclusions.
This is Caroline Levett, White House Press Secretary.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
They put out a memo in conclusion of that review.
There was material they did not release because frankly, it
was incredibly graphic and it contained child pornography, which is
not something that's appropriate for public consumption. But they committed
to an exhaustive investigation. That's what they did, and they
provided the results of that.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Naturally, a lot of people do not believe that this
is maybe true. There's going to be a lot of
conspiracy around this. I did think that it was very interesting.
I was reading some rumor yesterday. Remember when Amy Roeback
worked for ABC News. I believe she at one point
had some of these Epstein files in her possession and
was going to do a story about it, and then
(22:01):
was subsequently shut down and was very upset about that.
And now people are wondering if perhaps she will be
addressing this on her podcast, which is of course on
her iHeart.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
App Obviously, this has been something that's been in the
public sphere for a while now, and I think it's
absolutely fascinating and a lot of other adjectives that two
of the biggest people that were promoting a list and
that there were things being hidden in stuff like that
by our government, Cash Battel, the current director of the FBI,
and Dan Bongino, the current assistant director of the FBI,
(22:32):
who both now are out there going like Nope, no list,
definitely suicide, totally fine, And I think that that is
driving the conspiracy. Theori is crazy that they are prominent
leads who were finally going to get the answers were like, well,
it turns out there wasn't any answers.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Also, the documentary sphere that has proven for the last
one hundred years of government there's been major secrets kept.
This was quite a moment. It actually went down on
Sunday at Wrigley Field, and I got to tell you
as a Cubs fan, and there were a lot of
fans not too thrilled about it. Call her daddy. Host
Alex Cooper loudly booed after quote, making a mockery of
(23:09):
her seventh inning stretch. This is her singing, take me
out to the ball game.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You've never seen something like this before, A one on two,
on three, Well to the ball, a game to the crown,
Mommy's MP.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
She's Hallie crax. Sheos friends holding.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Her un Okay, they thought I was giving.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah the cup pies.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
If they don't win, it's a shame.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Went on.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Jock John Brown at the field.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
You maybe thought it was gonna be hilarious. Not the case.
With backlash online people writing absolutely horrendous, Another user saying
the seventh inning stretches for the fans. Alex made it
all about herself. Even someone saying you have the opportunity
to do something really exciting and memorable at a historical ballpark,
and this is what you do. Oh my god, Alex,
(24:16):
and no I respond to any of them as pretty rough.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Congratulations Alex Cooper, you are now a white Sox fan.
Got root for the socks now.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
And finally a lot of travelers will be thrilled at this.
The TSA is rolling back one of its most hated
airport security rules. You will no longer have to take
your shoes onjah Yeah, as of yesterday, according to an
internal memo, So the TSA themselves is still not fully
confirming this. The memo reports that numerous travel industry sources
(24:46):
saying passengers will no longer be required to remove their
shoes at agency checkpoints. The document sites technological advancements and
a reevaluation of potential threats as deciding factors in the
shoe reversal. There are still some rules, though. You have
to be in possession of an approved now required real
(25:06):
I D. You must not require any special screening, and
then you can keep your shoes off.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I never believe that a change with the TSA is
gonna make things more convenient for me. I read something
like this, and the skeptic of me is like, but
what I gotta take out my laces? You're gonna tell
me I gotta take out my laces now right.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
My coworker was mad. He's like, I hate taking my
bell talk ye, it's the belt that gets me. I
can do my shoes faster than my.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Belt, hold up my pants, and raise my arms at
the same time. I can only do one, sir.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
All right, all of you are celeb scoop at West
Michigan Star.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Dot Com Battle of Sex. She's gonna send you over
to our Frederick your gardens and Sculpship Park four tickets.
Get over there and have some fun and check out
all the incredible art to just the amazing, amazing displays
they have over there. Honestly, I'm always surprised by how
long I can stay there. Schmitty.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Oh it's Lena Children, the Lalina's Children Garden for me. Yeah,
I mean, oh my gosh, the tree house, the incredible
Great Lakes, splash pad area, the tram My kids adore
this place and you could experience it for yourself with
today's number one answer. One hundred women surveyed name of
food you'll never put in the microwave without covering it?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Oh, speaking of my children, all of them, all of them, schmiddi.
They will not put a single cover over their food
in the microwave. Ever, It's just going to explode.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
That's probably the biggest part of my marriage problems. I
am that person.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Oh, it's youth.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I don't cover anything. I'm like, what real clean it? Later?
Six one, six, four, five eight one.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Good morning star? Who's this?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
This is Edwin?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Edwin.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Where are you calling from today? Man? I am calling
from Holland, Michigan.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
H Edwin.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Let's see if we can get to these tickets to
the Frederick Meyer Gardens and Sculpshire Park. Just gotta tell me.
When one hundred women were asked to name a specific
food that you never would put in the microwave without
covering it, what was their top answer, Edwin.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I wouldn't put my ramen noodles.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
You know what, it doesn't It wouldn't make sense to
not cover the ramen noodles. It needs the cover. But sadly,
ramen noodles is not on this list ed, but I'm sorry,
my friend man. Thank you, Hi star. Who's this? Chelsea? Chelsea?
I just got a great guess from Edwin when one
(27:23):
hundred women rasd to name a specific food that you
had never put in the microwave without covering it first,
he said what every college student should say, which is
ramen noodles. However, that was not on the list of
top answers, so you got a chance here. What do
you think it is?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I think it's an egg.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
You think it's an egg. Not only you know what,
you gotta cover it so it doesn't explode. But honestly,
don't do that at work. I've got coworkers who do
that and it just makes the whole place smell like
farts for a while. I just can't stand. But you
gotta cover those eggs. Eggs is the top answer. Where
congrats you're going to the Frederick Clark Gardens Sculpture Park
(28:00):
with four tickets.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Awesome, Thank you, you are.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
So welcome, and we're looking to do it all week long.
By the way, it was eggs, spaghetti, soup, and chili
rounding out those top answers. By the ways, is chili
a soup? I'm not sure. I think there's a crossover there,
but all the same, Chelsea, congratulations and we'll do it
again tomorrow eight fifteen. Battle of the Sexes right here
on Star come holding to you. It's feel good variety
(28:28):
of the eighties still now Mac and Schmitty hanging out.
And I was accused of a crime. Schmitty, Okay, yeah,
this is interesting. I want to know when you've been
accused of something that you definitely did not do and
what came of it. Because I told you before you
left for vacation, Smitty, that I got into a little
fender bender.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, it was awful. It was no good, and it
was my fault because I was the one who rear
ended somebody else. The way that happened, though, was we
were on just a twenty five mile an hour road
and a third car involved. Of course, they did not
get any damage whatsoever, slammed on their break to turn
into a tight driveway. So the car in front of
me slammed on their brakes. I slam on my brakes, YadA, YadA, YadA.
(29:06):
I slam into the back of them, maybe going fifteen
twenty miles an hour, damages both vehicles, but my cards.
You know, it's just mostly on the bumper, you know,
some dense by the lights. The front pushed in just
a little bit, but you know, it stinks enough that
I'm going to have that. I had to file it
as an insurance claimer. Right, yeah, yeah, it's aboutmers. I
think everything's regular routine and I'm just going to find
(29:27):
out how much my you know, they're going to fix
my bumper and some of my front grill. And I
get a call from the gentleman who's working on my
car and he says, hey, there's some things here that
aren't adding up, and I need you to come down
here so that you can put eyes on what I'm seeing.
I'm super confused. So I go in there and he
shows me my car and all the front's been taken
(29:49):
off and all this other stuff, and he's like, this
is why I wanted to bring you in. I don't
see how what you have described as this accident could
be respect reponsible for all of these things.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
And I'm like, what are you talking about? And he's like, well,
if you'll notice, your steel bumper right here is still
just intact, but everything above it is smashed in so
hard that you have wrecked your radiator, your cool and shield,
it is moved your engine block and hit your get
and hit your oil tank causing a spill there. So
(30:25):
what you're saying is that this happened in like a
fifteen to twenty mile an hour.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
That's what I was gonna say, senderbender.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
And I'm like, I'm not saying it. It's what happened.
I get it that. With your job and you're fixing
cars through insurance companies all day long, You've probably get
a lot of people that want their car fixed for
something that's wrong for free, and they're trying to, you know,
work it over on their insurance. This is not that
I thought I was bringing you my car because of
a little fender bender. What you're telling me now is
(30:54):
all news to me and insane. Ps. I'm not a
car guy. I can't I can't tell you things about
how these things can happen and move around in a
car that's literally what you guys are paid for. And
he's like, well, I don't know how I'm gonna be
able to explain it to your insurance company, and I'm like,
I don't care how you explained it, because this is
what happened.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
This is why I go to a family mechanic. This
is why I go to a family friend and I
say something fell off. I don't know, I'll pay whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Thankfully, they were eventually able to figure it out based
on the timestamps of when all the check engine lights
went off on my vehicle, which kind of proved my
old timeline, and they were like, okay, I guess it
makes sense. I was ready to bust out security camera
footage of my car the day of the accident. SHMITTI,
this is so wow. I was going through all of
these things in my head about like how I was
(31:43):
going to fight the man that was accusing me of
a crime. SHMITTI. I couldn't believe.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
I had to deal with it all right, So if
you can beat that, I guess six one six four
or five eight one oh five? Seven?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
What were you accused of that you didn't do? We've
also got to go it on Facebook at West Michigan Star. Well,
let's do this trying to bring a little positivity to
your morning each day. It's feeling good on stylein fine
point seven. What's up.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
So we just got back from our trip to the
up and I thought This was such a cool moment.
We were in the Sioux waiting for some dinner from Clydes.
That's up such a fantastic place if you go to
the Upa to eat and it is right there by
the locks. And this massive, massive freighter came through and
I noticed that there was this whole, huge crowd of
(32:25):
people that had posters and homemade flags and all these things.
At first I thought it was a protest. Okay, I
thought that's interesting. What could they be protesting? And I
didn't recognize anything. They were like homemade symbols even, and
I thought that is so interesting. And then all of
a sudden I saw a bunch of men on the
freighter come running out, and then my mother in law
actually asked one of the women, and it was the
(32:48):
entire family and a bunch of friends of one of
the sailors on the James R. Barker. No, it was
so cool. It's one of the I think there's only
six thousand foot freighters that come through a lot one
thousand feet. There's only six of those boats. Yeah, yeah,
thousand feet long. It was built in the seventies. And
(33:11):
I put this up on my TikTok and someone said, oh,
that's the most famous foghorn on the lakes, So they
sound this fog horn. All the kids are going wild,
and then we find out that this family, this is
the only time they get to see their son because
these sailors are on board for they do eleven weeks on,
three weeks off, so their son has gone for almost
(33:32):
three months at a time, and they get to see
him whenever he's passing through the locks. They run all
together and it was just so cool. They had all
these really cute posters. Somebody had had a baby and
announced the name to him. I don't know, it was
such a moving moment cause I thought, you know, we
have cell phones, we have all this high tech way
to get a hold of people. But that was just
such an incredibly cool moment, and so I posted it
(33:54):
on my TikTok and it was really it's just exploded.
People were so so excited to.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
See that technology is great to connect with people, but
there's nothing that can replace the idea of somebody that
you love making the effort to physically come and see you.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Like, oh my gosh. And his mom had a giant
poster that read I'm so proud of you. Oh, it's
so cute. It was so cute. Love all right.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Speaking of cute, schmitty, this one's quick. The Miller family
down in Orlando, Florida, gather to celebrate wife Rachel's birthday
and Ben Miller's parents, his grandparents all gathered there and
they were ready to sing Happy Birthday to Rachel. But
when the cake came down, they saw that happy birthday
wasn't actually written on the cake. Instead, it was a
(34:39):
big pregnancy announcement. Surprised, do you.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Hap me?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
That's when Graham starts realizing what's going Pretty soon, Grandpa's
Paul in his eyes out schmitty, so cool. This video
definitely gonna put a smile on your face. The family
completely unaware that the pregnancy was coming at rachel sand
My heart was racing at such a life changing event.
(35:21):
I knew everybody would be excited. And the video is awesome.
I'll get it up for you. A's West Michigan Star
and I always here to provide a little something to
make you smile feeling good each day at six forty
five and again at Nine's Oney Mack
Speaker 4 (35:33):
And Schmidty in the morning weekday, starting at six am
on Star one oh five point seven
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