Mac and Shmitty June 3, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Wake up. It gets my day going.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
It makes me laugh.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
It Mac and Schmitty in the Morning on Star one
oh five point seven.

Speaker 4 (00:12):
Well, good morning, Smitty, Hey, good morning. I got a
task for everyone listening this morning. Who can, who's not
in their car right now, who's still at home, open
up all the doors and windows, get all the cold
air you can in the house, and then lock it
up and maybe just maybe you want have to crank
up your AC today.

Speaker 5 (00:29):
I'm not gonna be as positive upper eighties. I think
we're doing it, but we just got to get through today.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
You know.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
I think that's just maybe the kid and me who
grew up without AC. My end higher life than that
is what my dad would do. He would be up
every morning. Yeah, ah, you're bringing in the cold air, John,
You got to bring in the cold air, close the
windows and doors.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
Well me better in northern Michigan, though, I gotta tell
you my family and the up I think they're they're
usually sweat. And if it hits seventy two.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Movies, music and all the gossip in.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Place, it's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.

Speaker 5 (01:04):
No, Vanessa Bryant is not pregnant. The widow of NBA
star Kobe Bryant, squashing rumors that have been circulating online
the past few weeks that she is indeed expecting. Not
really sure how these rumors started, but she decided to
use Rihanna for little help. Sharing a meme of Rihanna
at a pool flashing her middle fingers, Vanessa took to

(01:27):
Instagram saying, not pregnant, me protecting my piece, not pregnant
and having fun all summer. She added a second meme
that simply stated, I'm not mean. I'm just not the
one out here trying to squash what people are talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
I think it's funny that you use Rihanna, who is
also currently sharing photos of herself trying to hide her
baby bump while she's in showing off some new Fenti
underwear or something.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
Oh really, because I was gonna say, which was at
the award shill last week? Her bump was everywhere. She
really wasn't a single piece of it hidden?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, jokes about it yesterday, all right Dayley.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
Joel Osmond is avoiding jail time after his public intoxication arrest.
A george has ordered him in A judge has ordered
him instead to a program to treat substance abuse. You'll
remember the actor was arrested just a few weeks ago
over public intoxication at the Mammoth Lakes ski mountain. According

(02:22):
to people, he was arraigned yesterday granted a one year
diversion program that means he has to attend three AA
meetings per week for the next six months and has
to meet with his therapist at least twice a week
as well. So kind of best case scenario because he
seems to be possibly going through some stuff right now.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, good to avoid.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
Jail and get And finally, John hamm is talking about
what it was truly like with all those drinks and
cigarettes on the set of mad Men in a special
mad Men panel the other night with his good friend
and former co star John Slattery. He said, listen, there
were a lot of cigarettes, but they weren't actually real cigarettes.
Somebody did a count and in the pilot alone, I

(03:03):
smoked seventy five of them. Of course they're fake cigarettes,
but that just means there's no nicotine in them. It
doesn't mean you're not actually burning something. He said. It
also didn't help they filmed in la which meant they
were mostly inside on sets, so the whole stage was
just constantly full of fake cigarette smoke. And if you
wondered how they did the martinis, well they're lifting the

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lid on that as well, saying that they were mostly
water but you would just pop a pearl onion in
it to make it look a little less clear. Think
about how people's breath smelled on that set. John Slattery joking. Yeah,
twenty six fake cigarettes and a pearl onion fake martini.
It's only nine thirty in the morning. We smelled great.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yeah, that sounds like a fun set. Why onions? Like,
I love onions, but couldn't you?

Speaker 1 (03:52):
They don't know them?

Speaker 5 (03:53):
Twehind mid Yeah, all of your celeb scoop at West
Michigan Star dot com.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
Stelling a fine point seven. Let's get the day off
to a great start. It's feeling good right now, Mack
and Schmidty with you. And last week and feeling good.
I told you about the story of a high school
graduate down in Georgia, eighteen year old Mikhail Baker from Dakola, Georgia. Well,
he graduated literally wearing his cap and gown. But he
had to go to work, you know, eighteen years old,

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had to get his butt over to Burger King and
start his shift, still wearing that graduation gear, even wearing
some of the medals that he'd received from his academic achievements.
And that's when a customer, Maria Mendoza, recorded the video
went viral. I told you that at that time they
had raised more than fifty thousand dollars for this young
man and his college dream. Schmidty, I just had to

(04:40):
do an update on this because the Internet is just
so stupid but sometimes stupidly wonderful. That GoFundMe is now
up to one hundred and eighty six thousand dollars with
over five thousand individual donations coming in from all over
the world, just to see this kid go out there
and reach his dreams after seeing him just obviously put

(05:01):
on a display of being a hard worker with good
work ethic too.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Just cool to see.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
Residents in an ipsilanty neighborhood are dealing with that pure
Michigan problem. It's not a pothole, it's a sinkhole that
has been in the neighborhood of Roosevelt Street and Cornell
for two years. So what do you do when you're
constantly staring at a really ugly bright orange barrel warning
people of a sinkhole. Well, you decorate it and it

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changes for every season and every holiday. Resident Laura Zev
doc ABC seven. She said, I love it. I've always
wanted to live in a neighborhood where people do quirky things,
and it's pretty quirky. I would say it's all thanks
to neighbor Breck crandall for the past two years. With
every holiday comes new decor for the orange barrel, and
it's pretty simple.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
I figured if I've got to look at it every day,
I may as well enjoy it. It's been fun doing
it because it's brought a lot of happiness.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
But he does point out we would really like to
get fixed because the fact of the matter is it's
pretty dangerous. We've had a sinkhole in our neighborhood for
two years now. It does look like he has gotten
the attention of some of the area legislators in the community.
Of course, it takes funding and moving budgets around with
roadwork and all that. So what happens if this finally

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does get fixed, Breck says, simple, I'm going to auction
off the decorated orange barrel and hopefully get money for
more storm water projects in our area.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
Sinkholes are scary. You know, you're just driving along. Next
thing you know, you're buried six feet deep underground.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
But the last thing you see is a Christmas tree
of Santa Claus on top. So you feel a little
better about it.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
That's true, feeling good coming at you a couple of
times that they always want to say about great things
happen out there.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
We'll do it again this morning at nine Swater.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Tho these music and all the gossip in one place.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
Well, this could be a potential bombshell to Blake Lively's
case against it ends with US director and co star
Justin Baldoni. Lively may end up withdrawing the part of
her lawsuit alleging emotional distress at the hands of Baldoni,
but his lawyers are claiming there's definitely a hold up.
The actor's legal team sent a letter to the judge

(07:16):
in the case yesterday claiming Blake is considering dropping her
emotional distress claim because she doesn't want to have to
hand over her medical records, which Baldoni's team has requested.
Baldoni's attorney says they've been in communication with Blake's side
about the records, but have reached an impasse. He says
Blake wants to withdraw the emotional distress claim without prejudice,

(07:38):
meaning she would be able to refile it later. Of course,
Baldoni's team wants it withdrawn with prejudice so she cannot
change her mind and refile. Baldoni's team is now asking
the judge to step in either make her hand over
all of the requested medical documents or agree to fully
dismiss those claims entirely with prejudice. I was watching this

(08:00):
story yesterday when it broke, and people in the comments
section have really turned on Blake Lively. Really, yes, this
is not a good look. This is showing us that
maybe you did not have the case that you thought
you did, and that he didn't really do much wrong here?

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Is it that?

Speaker 4 (08:14):
Or does it almost feel like and I'm not saying
Baldoni did any of this? This is like Lively is choosing,
but does it just seem like she has things in
her medical records that are private that she doesn't want
to share with data.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
But you would know that that would be requested. Like otherwise,
you don't probably have a great legal team to say, oh,
they they're going to ask for all of these things.
If you're going forward with this, it'll be interesting to
see if the judge steps in on that. The fourth
week of Ditty's trafficking trial kicked off yesterday with a
ton of a list names being dropped Nia this is

(08:45):
the pseudonym she's going by. Ditty's former personal assistant back
on the stand and brought up names like Mick Jagger,
Leonardo DiCaprio, and Madonna who have now been pulled into
the spotlight as she continues to be cross examined, and
the former assistant revealed that she was once propositioned by
the Rolling Stones frontman while in Paris, but ran away.

(09:09):
She also talked about Leonardo DiCaprio trying to take pictures
with the phone and Ditty getting really upset about that,
being like this Titanic guy, I make tons more than
he does. Then she brings up the fact that Madonna
was actually the person that kind of saved her career,
hiring her after she was let go by Ditty, even

(09:30):
though she had been quote unquote blacklisted in Hollywood because
of the things that he had said. It's really interesting stuff.
Once again, we're hearing from a lot of these stars,
including Ditty's or DiCaprio's reps. Excuse me saying, once again, guys,
a lot of this stuff was at Ditty's Black and
White party. Everybody went to those. They had nothing to do,
no connection here whatsoever with any wrongdoing.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yeah, I mean the guy was literally one of the
biggest people in music.

Speaker 5 (09:55):
That's got to break you out if you are someone
that has your name brought up in this trial. Hearing
more and more of that.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
How do you think Madonna feels about it though? Do
you think Madonna's like, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
I kind of she had really problem things to say. Finally,
Gray's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo is recalling being stopped by
TSA and investigated by a bomb squad over a pricey
item she was hearing boarding a flight, sunflower seeds. She
opened up about the incident in an interview with Travel

(10:25):
and Leisure, saying she was headed through airport security a
few months ago when she was flagged for an expensive snack,
a bag of sunflower seeds from herouan. I'm not sure
where that is, but she said it was simply a
bag of sunflower seats, organic sunflower seeds. I guess now
I'm learning the most expensive sunflower seeds money can buy.

(10:46):
They literally held me for over an hour. They brought
in the bomb squad. I was like, is this a joke?
Ellen explained she'd been informed it was likely due to
a chemical on the packaging of the super expensive, face
fancy organic sunflower seeds, and she's going, this is just
my protein on the plane. It's the only reason I

(11:06):
brought these. And she ended up almost missing her flight
because of it.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
What sort of chemical explosive chemical is this, sir? That's
cool rand seasoning.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Not just want to kill you know, rich people problems?
All right, all of your celeb scoop a West Michigan start.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Off at good morning to you and yes, what's old
is new specifically to your children.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Oh my gosh, this was so fun. We got a
surprise visit the other night from a couple of friends
I went to college with. They were in town for
a wedding, so they came over and ended up spending
like three hours hanging out. Nice and one of my
really good friends has bought a polaroid camera, and they're
the really cool ones like Fujifilm makes themody. You can
get them at like Target and Myer and stuff. You

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come in all different colors, and so she takes it
everywhere she goes and it's a really cool idea because
we've been at parties and receptions and stuff and she's
got this cute polaroid camera. And my kids have never
seen one of those. They've never even seen like, they
don't know how a digital camera even works. The fact
that you'd have to put something on a computer or
print pictures off that is absolutely foreign to them, let

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alone the fact that you can snap a picture that
doesn't have a screen. By the way, these polaroid cameras
do not have a screen, and then all of a
sudden the picture pops out. They were losing their minds.
I actually ended up giving her money because I think
they took two roles worth of pictures and they were
just so overwhelmed with it. Will was like, this is
the coolest thing I've ever seen, Dad, have you seen this?

(12:31):
And in the back of my mind, I'm like, this
is actually how people used to only be able to
take pictures bud our refrigerator is full of polaroids.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Now.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
She took pictures of like the dogs themselves are my friends.
Then we got pictures of plants, the fireplace, the chair
because and then we taught them how to shake it
like a polaroid picture to play the Outcast song. And
I'm sitting there. I'm always so enamored with what my
kids find to be super cool, and it ends up
being technology that's fifty plus year years old.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
One hundred percent of the time. My kids do love it,
specifically for the shake it. My daughter got one of
those for Christmas one year, and that was their favorite part.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
I'll be honest.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
I think we replaced the photos twice and then since
then it's been at the bottom of like a toy thing,
sitting there without any polaroid replacement.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
So I got to get on that.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
But the thing for us is the old computers. We
actually saw one of those. Do you remember the Apple
computers from the nineties that when they finally got colored computers, iMac,
the iMac Like, my son saw one of those, and
he's like, that.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Must be like the most powerful computer ever.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
It's bigger than all of them, and I'm like, actually, son,
my phone right here has actually got more computer.

Speaker 5 (13:48):
Yeah, I remember playing bug Dum. It was the first
game that ever came out on an Imax.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
We were only allowed to have those computers in our
newspaper room because it was only for the people that
were editing the yearbook in the newspaper.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Everybody else had to deal with regular PCs.

Speaker 5 (14:01):
I think I got an iMac when I was in
second grade. All right, I hate third grade. Yeah, it
was like the computer I learned on, which is wild
because now, like that's not a thing. You don't have
a screen separate from a keyboard. Even my kids, you know,
everybody's sound like an iPad or something at school.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
Nothing makes me happier than when I watch a kid
go up to a regular screen and just start touching it.
I just love wat that happen over again, Like, what
is wrong with this thing? Why isn't it doing what
I'm poking it to do?

Speaker 5 (14:29):
Did you ever have to take typing classes?

Speaker 1 (14:32):
I should have? I did not.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
I blew that off because I got my requirement through
a programming class. But I'm not a good typer now
and I hate it.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
Sorry again, in second grade We had typing class and
we had something called Alpha Smarts. Someone out there must
remember Alpha Smart. It was just simply a keyboard with
a little gray screen on it, and we would have
tests every other day where you would have to look
at the teacher and type out. And I can probably
do oh, I don't even know. I can do an

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entire paragraph without looking at my keyboard. I hate, but
I also have aim to take for that.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
It's like a superpower man.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
It really is six one six, four five eight one
oh five seven. What is old school tech that absolutely
blows your kids' minds. Mine are very into record players
right now as well, because that was my Christmas gift.
And Will thinks it's super cool that he shows us
how carefully he is when he puts the record on.
The shows us. Then he's like, I'm being caught careful

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with the needle.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
Mom.

Speaker 5 (15:30):
I'm like, it's a big deal. I don't want to
have to spend another two dollars on that vinyl.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
You brought up the keyboard. Schmittian typing is that something
that's just going to completely disappear? Is that the next
generations thing that like kids will look back on, like people,
what did they.

Speaker 5 (15:43):
Do with these, I don't think so. Because they're they're phones.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
That's well, but you don't type on your phone like that.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
I think it's I think it's the same with your thumbs,
though I can type a text message out in about
two seconds. I was ten ninety. I was ready to
roll you guys. It's really so salty.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Yes she is, and it is your weekly opportunity to
bend salty. Schmeidde here on Star one on five point seven.
And man, you I feel like it's almost always in
the car or involving driving. You have got to be
such a road ranger behind the wheel. I wish I
had a recording device email.

Speaker 5 (16:17):
I don't think I am. I actually think I'm really
patient considering the fact that I think Michigan has some
of the worst drivers in the entire country.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Okay, I coclate with that.

Speaker 5 (16:26):
Here's the deal. I just get really, really irritated with
the sense of entitlement, like I forgot your rusted out
beater of a vehicle is the only thing on the
road and we're just supposed to work around you. And
here's what irritates me, because there's like a couple of
intersections where I see it happen all the time if
there are intersections clearly marked two right turn lanes. We

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all went to drivers Z. Correct, you go into the
lane closest. So if you are taking a right in
the far let right, you get into the far right.
You don't decide halfway through this isn't where I want
to go. Other people don't matter. And then cut me off.
And it happened yesterday pulling into the Rockford Myre because

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it is a what again everyone a two left turn
turn lane, which means if you're in the far left,
you turn into the far left. And this jerk, I
mean he almost took my front end off then had
the audacity to act like it was my fault.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Do you get the bird?

Speaker 5 (17:30):
See you bet that? Oh? What happens next? We catch
up to each other at the stop sign at myer
and I rolled my windows down and I said, hello, sir,
driver's Z would be a great opportunity for you, smitty.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
So sulky Smitty, I gotta ask, did he there look
at you or did he just stare straight forward at
ten and two?

Speaker 1 (17:53):
He's just scared out.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
Of his mind because he could feel my mom eye.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, the rage put everyone.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
In danger at Where's seat belt?

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
It's the celebrities goop on Star one oh five point seven.

Speaker 5 (18:11):
Well, this is certainly a wild story. Jonathan Joss is
his name. He has passed away at the age of
fifty nine after being shot and killed by a neighbor.
If the name doesn't sound familiar, the face definitely does.
He played John Redcorn. He voiced him in King of
the Hill. He was also Ken Hote on Parks and

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rec I.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Do not like the way you went back on your
deal with councilwoman.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
Nope, it reminds me of what the settlers of Pawnee
did to my ancestors, taking their lend without permission.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
He really plays white people like a fiddle.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Wow, that's amazing to watch.

Speaker 5 (18:47):
There are a lot of details still coming out about this.
The actor killed on Sunday in San Antonio. According to police,
authorities were dispatched to a shooting in progress around seven
o'clock at night when they found Joss lying near the roadway.
Despite attempting life saving measures while waiting for ems, paramedics
arrived and pronounced him dead at the scene. Officers quickly

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found and detained a suspect, fifty six year old Credo
Alvarez Kajum, who had fled the scene. He was confirmed
to be this suspect and a neighbor of Joss. They
are now investigating this murder. It sounds like there's a
lot of things going on here. So Joss had actually
lost his home back in January to a fire. Him
and his husband were actually there to get a few

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belongings a fire refund check. There is word that they
were exceptionally upset because they had lost all three of
their dogs in the fire. When they got there, there
were some remains that they had seen. There's also been
reports that Jos had years long issues with this neighbor.
According to his husband, he believes they were targeted and

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that this is a hate crime. Police say so far
they haven't found evidence of that, but this neighbor was
booked on a two hundred thousand dollars bond and just
a really shocking thing. Offerman, who is one of his
cast mates on Parks and rec issuing a statement last night.
The cast has been texting together about it all day
and we are just heartbroken. Jonathan was such a sweet guy,

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and we loved having him as our chief. Can hotate
a terrible tragedy?

Speaker 4 (20:15):
It sounds like it, And I mean, I don't know
if he was involved in it. And I know King
of the Hill is going through a revival. They're going
to do a new season on Hulu.

Speaker 5 (20:23):
Was he was not And actually most recently he talked
about that in a podcast I think a couple of
weeks ago. He was really upset about the fact that
he hadn't been back. He talked about his mental health
issues stemming from that house fire he was going through.
It sounds like a pretty rough time. But this is
just really unbelievable, and like I said, police are still
investigating this. Median Jamie Fox has been keeping his distance

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from Diddy but no more, getting very vocal about the
now embattled rapper and mogul during a surprise appearance at
the Comedy Store. So video has just surfaced of him
on stage the other night talking about every concerning the trial.
It's cool, but people like a hero.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
The jer.

Speaker 5 (21:20):
Yeah, that was his daughter Krin that was actually on
stage with him. He went over everything. He went over
some of the alleged escorts, he went over some of
the behavior that's been talked about and just kept calling
him a nasty, nasty guy that used to be a
hero to his people but no longer.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
But did he accuse him of poisoning him? That's what
I want to know, straight out of Jerry Fox's mouth.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
Finally, it's been reported that Dolly Pardon reportedly snubbed Meghan
Markle after turning down an invite to appear on the
Actresses Netflix series With Love Megan. So this is a
celebrity commentator on a recent podcast with a woman named
Maureen Callahan. It's worth pointing out I have seen a
lot of her work. She is constantly trashing Meghan. But

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according to this celebrity commentator, Parton's team was livid. They
said they didn't want to risk Dolly's reputation or her
popularity by associating with Meghan Markel. They knew that they
knew this and asked that it was just for clout.
They said, giving Megan Markell credibility in this lifestyle space
is something that Dolly wanted nothing to do with. Dolly

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is not only incredibly popular and loved by the general public,
but she's also somebody who can float around within these
different places and they wanted absolutely nothing to do with this.
That's the report.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
I mean, that doesn't sound like Dolly.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
She might not have wanted to do it or might
not have been available to do it, but I doubt
she put as much thought into that person.

Speaker 5 (22:44):
All right, all of you were celebt scoop at West
Michigan Star dot Com.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
Time to battle. Battle of the Sex is looking to
get the family out for some fun.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
It is Kids Bop Live. Oh you know you don't
want to miss that. Come into Devas performance all this August.
Today's number one answer is going to score you tickets.
One hundred men surveyed name something people usually go in feet.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
First, something people go in two feet You gotta put
your socks on first, feet first, miniyek did get into
your socks without going back?

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Good morning Star? Who's this? Well, Melissa? Where are you
calling from it today?

Speaker 5 (23:18):
G rappers?

Speaker 4 (23:19):
All right, Melissa and gr gotta tell me. One hundred
men were asked to name something you enter feet first.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (23:27):
Their top answer was their pan? Ooh, their pants. Yeah,
you're right online with me where I was with the
whole socks thing. But pants somehow not on the list
of the top four answers.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
I'm sorry, okay, thanks.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
Hi Star. Who's this Michelle? I just got a good
guess from Melissa. One hundred guys were asked to name
something you enter feet first, and Michelle was thinking sort
of like I was thinking, and she said pants. Gotta
put your pants on one leg at a time. My
legs start with my feet usually, but that was not

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on the list of top answers.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
So what do you think it is?

Speaker 5 (24:03):
I'm thinking like a lake or a pool?

Speaker 4 (24:06):
A lake or a pool? Man, you were thinking right
along the right lines. The swimming pool is the number two.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Most common answer, Michelle. I'm sorry, all right, thank you,
thank you, Hi Star. Who's this? Hi, Alyssa.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
I've got a couple of good guesses, but not the
top answer yet, so you got a chance to win.
All right, okay, cool, where are you calling from today?
All right, let's see Alyssa. One hundred guys were asked
to name something you enter feet first, and so far
I heard pants because you put those one leg at
a time, and I just heard swimming pool or lake,
and swimming pool was the number two most common answer.

(24:43):
That was a really good one, but it was not
the top one. However, I'm gonna give you a big
hint here, Alyssa. It does involve water.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
It does involve water.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
It does involve water, but it's not the swimming pool
or the lake the bat. Have you ever heard of
somebody getting into their bath head first? No, maybe my
kids when they were toddlers, but that's about it.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
But bath is the top answer when a girl.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
I landed a wee one too, it was bath followed
by swimming pool and then car. Yeah, if you think
about it, get into your car feet first, and then shoes. Shoes.
They were thinking it socks running out those top ones. Congratulations,
you're bringing the kiddos to Kids Bop Live over a
DeVos performance hall.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh my gosh, they're gonna be so excited.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Good morning too.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
It's Mack and Schmitty and I want to talk about
the rich and famous Schmitty bad really just the rich,
not famous.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
But it's about what you always associated with being rich.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
You know. Maybe it was when you were a kid,
maybe still feel that way now, but just something that
always triggered for you.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Man, those people got some money.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
A refrigerator that gives out ice and water.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
Oh yeah, I never had one of those until I
was in my late twenties before I had a refrige
over the ditch.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
We have one, but the waterline has been disconnected for
a reason, so it doesn't do any of those things.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
But I bring this up because sch middy, I am
being prevented from buying a plant because of my wife
Michelle's hang up about something she's always associated.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
With being rich.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Okay, so you've been to my house. We've got the
garage in the front of the house, you know what
I mean, on the side, and I want cemetery. I
want a uniform look, and so I've been looking at
different plants to put on both sides of the garage
right to even it out, sort of frame it a
little bit. And I've been looking at like evergreens, pine trees,

(26:30):
and I found the perfect ones. And I think that
this would be so cool looking. She disagrees. Have you
ever seen those spiral pine trees? Have you ever seen
the like little four footers spiral pine trees. I think
they would look great. I think they would look awesome.
Michelle is hung up on it because she thinks that's
what rich people in the nineties used to do, Like

(26:52):
we were all Edward scissors. She's like, you can't do topieri.
She's like, there is no way we're wealthy enough to
do topiary in our front our f will.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
There are you ready to put the work in? That's
something you've got to do, like so much.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
You have no idea.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
This kid start a whole conversation about how excited I
am for my portable headge trimmer that is coming on Friday.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
I'm about to go nuts.

Speaker 5 (27:14):
Because I married a man that thought he could handle bonds.
I see, and it turns out, no.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
It's not calling it stressful.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
It's also a ton of work to keep your bond's
eye looking good and alive.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
But I can I can sort of see where she's
coming from, because in my head, the only people that
ever had those fancy hedges that were in shapes were
rich people. Let's be honest, they didn't they didn't cut
their own grass, Let's put it that way.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
That's how I feel about that. Now. I would be.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
But she can't get over this mental hang up because
she's just like, dude, we're just not living in that lifestyle.
We're not topiary people. I think she's gonna come around.
I think this might be my new passion project.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
Interesting, interesting flex All right, what is you got anything
in particular that your kids or you think of is
just like man, people got my kids think anyone with
a hot tub.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
I agreed, Yeah, that swimming pools have always been like, yeah,
you've got a swimming pool, dude.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
See we live next door to a really nice swimming pool.
So my kids just grow up knowing, like you find
friends with the that was my maid one in my backyard.
But there's as gorgeous.

Speaker 4 (28:16):
She had a swimming pool growing up, and like she
looks at lakes like that. We're second class citizens over here, Like,
oh yeah, it's like mine.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
You're a lake over a pool. Any day, let's do it.

Speaker 4 (28:27):
Let's kick out this Tuesday with a little something positive
for you. It's Mack and Shitty was feeling good right now.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
It was a very special homecoming for one Michigander, thirty
sixty year old Michael Service. He returned home to Detroit
after traveling four hundred and ninety nine days visiting every
single country in the world. That sets a brand new
world record as the person to do it the fastest.

(28:54):
But that wasn't it for Michael. Besides his big passion
of life.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
I mean, I've always been a throw.

Speaker 5 (29:00):
He has a very special project, he tells Channel seven.
It's called the Project Cosmos. He literally traveled all around
the world to ask people one simple question.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
What is the happiest moment of your life?

Speaker 4 (29:14):
When I first realized that I was in love?

Speaker 1 (29:16):
What is the happiest moment of your life?

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Meeting my family when we separated for litiq.

Speaker 5 (29:21):
Sunger's time, it was such a cool moment. He got
all of these incredible people together. If you've been following
him on TikTok and Instagram, he is from Northville on
the East Side, and it is now all culminating in
a passion project of his that he's turning into a book.
So big shout out to Michael not only setting that
world record for the fastest time visiting every country in

(29:45):
the world, but showcasing the incredible people we find in
humankind all around that world.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
Dude, I would love to do something similar to that.
Four hundred and ninety nine days. By the way, I
feel like that's totally a beatable record. I don't know
why I felt like that. Coul go fasterway.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
It's about two.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Hundred and thirty five somewhere in there. Yeah, all right,
spending the guys back at it. An undergraduate class in Massachusetts,
about thirty miles south of Boston, just gifted one thousand
dollars as they walked across the stage he graduation. If
this sounds familiar, it's because you've heard it before. Billionaire
Robert Hale Junior gifting over a million dollars at Bridgewater

(30:23):
State University just about a week and a half ago.
Hail's the founder and CEO of Granite Telecommunications, which means,
blah blah blah, he's rich. Five point eight billion dollars
is his net worth, apparently, and until those graduates get ready,
the cash is coming in. Right now, every one of
you is getting one thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Now.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
The coolest part about that another thousand dollars is that
the stipulation he gives students, they have five hundred bucks
that can spend on themselves and five hundred bucks that
they have to use for somebody who's less fortunate than them.
And this is the same thing that this gentleman has
done at several other colleges. Back in twenty twenty four,

(31:08):
he did it at Massachusetts Dartmouth in twenty twenty one.
He did it at Quincy College class of twenty twenty one,
all getting that same thousand dollars with the stipulation you
got to use half of it to make somebody else's
life better.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
That's probably my favorite part of that whole story, really
is cool.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
Feeling good comes at you a couple of times to day.
I always want to tell you about great things happen
out there. We'll do it again tomorrow six forty five
and nine twenty on Star Mack

Speaker 3 (31:30):
And Schmidty in the morning weekday starting at six am
on Star one oh five point seven