Mac and Shmitty September 19, 2025

Mac and Shmitty September 19, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Wakem It gets my day going and makes me laugh.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
I of it.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Mac and Schmidty in the morning on Star one O
five point seven, Welcome.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
A good morning when it's a Friday.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Such a good morning, especially in a gorgeous week like this. Yeah,
it looks like we got another pretty nice day lined
up for us today and then it looks like chance
of rain for the next several days after that, which
with the drive patch we've been having, is gonna have
a whole lot of people saying, oh man, we can
really the dress.

Speaker 5 (00:32):
Yeah, tomorrow looks great. Sunday, do it all day. I
can't wait.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
I want to be.

Speaker 5 (00:37):
Cooped inside and clean and catch up and have no
temptation to go out.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
I hope it rains all day Sunday. I love it.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
You know what, the City of Grand Rapids does not
want that to happen. Okay, as we open our prize
and with with you tonight.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah, so the VIP sponsor party was last night.

Speaker 5 (00:55):
You got a little bit of a sneak peek if
you follow our prize on social media. But tonight is
the opening celebration, so everything starts later this afternoon Rosa
Park Circle. They're gonna have a lantern making workshop, tons
of family fun and then a big brass band, New
Orleans Style is marching you. Everyone's invited from Rosa Parks

(01:15):
Circle to the Pearl Street Bridge, giant beer garden, food trucks, music,
light show, massive fireworks performance. Yes, I will be your host.
I'm really excited. Just had another meeting yesterday with the
incredible folks putting this on. It is gonna be a
ton of fun. So if maybe you don't have football
tonight or come before football, there's such a long time

(01:36):
that all this stuff is happening that it's gonna be
an awesome, awesome idea for you and the kids. You
can get a look at everything and how it's laid out.
Our Borealis just had tickets opening for that massive installation.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
It's gonna be a really fun couple weeks, you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Honestly, you had me at beer garden schmidty.

Speaker 6 (01:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Than have everything, movies, music and all the gossip in
one place.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
It's the celebrities goop on staf are one oh five
point seven.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
Well well he or won't he be returning to the air.
Jimmy Kimmel still on pause as Sinclair the media company
that operates the largest group of ABC affiliates, has now
issued a list of demands in order for the late
night talk show to return, saying Sinclair will not lift
the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live until formal discussions are

(02:23):
held with ABC regarding the network's commitment to professionalism and accountability.
The TV giant also called for Kimmel himself to issue
a direct apology to Charlie Kirk's family. Furthermore, they're also
asking mister Kimmel to make a quote meaningful personal donation
to the Kirk family and turning Point USA. There's still

(02:46):
not been really a formal comment from Jimmy, but a
source told Deadline he is absolutely unwilling to do any
of this, and we are looking at further fallout right now.
As Jimmy Fallon pulled the plug on a schedule appearance
last night. It was Fast Company's Innovation Festival in New
York City. He was scheduled to join the Staying on

(03:07):
Brand panel, but just a couple hours before was listed
as no longer able to attend.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
According to Adweek, Yeah, and then this is really interesting
to watch. I mean, you're seeing the other late night
hosts all kind of band together. John Stewart, who will
usually only host on Monday.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
We going to have that coming up next hour in Scoop.
We're going to talk about some more because the FCC
is now threatening other.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Shows, so we'll see. This is a story.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
If you've been following, I had a bit of it
last week. His name is David Major, singer. He's the
one who had a decomposed body found in the trunk
of his tesla. Now the tesla was not on his property,
but the investigation has continued and it was discovered to
be fifteen year old Celeste Revus. And as this investigation continues,

(03:57):
it looks like David did, in need indeed know the girl.
Her mother did confirm that this was her, that the
two did know each other. And now David's music label, Innerscope,
is stopping everything about the singer's upcoming deluxe album as
well as all musical promotion as the LAPD continues to

(04:19):
investigate with this. Interscope's parent company is Sony. They've paused
promotional activities they set out of respect for the seriousness
of the situation. It was also confirmed that the property
the LAPD was investigating the other day was indeed the
La home of David. They were looking for things you
would look forward, traces of blood, evidence of perhaps a struggle,

(04:42):
something that went down. That tesla had been parked near
the house and was never listed as stolen.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
I mean everything about the absolutely Reeks. Everybody's in the
sit until proven guilty of this country. But you know what,
all of those things adding up together would be a
whole lot of coincidences for somebody who doesn't know anything
about this.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
So he is currently on tour.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
By the way, his show in Seattle's scheduled for Wednesday
night was axed, but his show at the La Greek
Theater for tomorrow night is as of right now still on. Finally,
Robert Erwin has sent fans into all of their fields
with a really cool tribute to his late dad, Steve Erwin.

(05:25):
His debut performance, of course, on Dancing with the Stars,
he danced alongside partner Whitney Carson doing a pretty impressive
jive to one of my most favorite songs. It was

(05:45):
a like can you miss it moment where he hopped
over her, hit the ground and did the iconic Steve.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Erwin fist pump. It was really really cool.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
It's all over TikTok this morning, and he just thought
that feel good story was needed.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
It got it up.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Are you with your scoop at West Michigan Star dot
com stellt.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
A five point seven good moord into you. It's Mack
and Smithy. Look at it. Get you feeling good as
you head into these weekends on a Friday. I always
all feel good anyways, this is just really cool. Okay.
So a male stamp collector in Massachusetts decided to make
a purchase of a batch of old war envelopes on eBay.
Kind of cool. Well, in it, he found three unopened

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letters that were addressed to a family with the last
name of Morris. Well, it turns out, after little social
media digging, this guy found out the family was a
member of relative of World War two US Army soldier
Jimmy Morris, who was writing these letters to his parents,
but they never reached his family back in Pennsylvania. Well,
here we are. More than eighty years later, his kids,

(06:50):
Kathleen and John Morris finally got to receive and open
those letters from their dad for the very first time.
Pretty unbelove beievable too. As the letters came between May
and June of nineteen forty four, that's around the time
of D Day. So the notes included messages like back
in England now, hope to see you soon. Both siblings

(07:11):
said they got to recognize their dad's handwriting and it
brought them right back, as they shared with kWh their
local news, just how special all of this was.

Speaker 6 (07:20):
For them Back in England. Now, I don't know how
long I will stay, so but write me anyhow, your
loving son, Jimmy, hope to see you soon. Oh my gosh,
it's it's just incredible.

Speaker 7 (07:31):
You know.

Speaker 6 (07:31):
I feel like I feel like my dad's right here
with me when you look at the state of the
world today and some of the things that are happening, like, oh,
in a way, I'm glad Dad's not here to say it,
but this comes at a time when it just feel
like he's telling me it's going to be okay.

Speaker 8 (07:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Part of that special message is that these letters arrived
the same week that Jimmy would have turned one hundred
and one years old. He passed away in two thousand
and five, and get this, how ironic Jimmy came back
and spent his career as a mail carrier in Pennsylvania
making sure the people's mail arrived on time.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
All right, the whole point of this parade, you are
not battling alone. The halls were electric of University of
Michigan's matt Children's Hospital the other day as a massive
parade went across the oncology floor. Everything from U of
M cheerleaders to doctors, nurses and staff members loaded up
with balloons, a few floats, even Dash, the therapy dog,

(08:27):
which for eighteen month old Sophia Gynopolis, who is currently
battling leukemia. That was everything, and these patients telling ABC
seven knew it was something they didn't want to miss.

Speaker 9 (08:38):
When she saw Dash open the parade, she was so excited.
She's been doing really well all things considered. I mean,
everything that her body is going through is incredible. That
she still wakes up with a smile on her face.
And I don't know that I'd be able to do it.
What she's doing. Going through this journey can be very lonely,
and so when you have these moments where it's recognized,

(09:00):
it means a lot and it brings joy and smiles.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
I wanted to see what the prairie was all about.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
I was really excited.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
So I had my biopsy scheduled earlier so I could
be a part of.

Speaker 7 (09:10):
The parade, and I I'm glad I did that.

Speaker 9 (09:12):
To see the support from everybody here, not just at
MOP but the community and the teams and school is
so special.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
I feel like it.

Speaker 9 (09:21):
Gives her so much hope. It gives us so much
hope to know that we're not fighting this.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Alone, never fighting this alone. Well done, mot.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
Well, the host change up was announced mere hours before
the Daily Show took air last night, John Stewart stepping
back into the hosting chair in the wank of ABC
suspending Jimmy Kimmel's show indefinitely over comments the late night
comedian made about Charlie Kirk's killer. Now, the guest happened

(09:57):
to be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate Marie Ressa. All
of it seemed very planned, and Stuart wanted to be
at the helm. Here's just a piece of what he
had to say about everything going down.

Speaker 10 (10:09):
Our great administration has laid out very clear rules on
free speech. Now some Naysayers may argue that this administration's
speech concerns are merely a cynical ploy, a thin gruel
of a ruse, a smoke screen to obscure an unprecedented
consolidation of power and unitary intimidation principle lists, and coldly

(10:30):
antithetical to any experiment in a constitutional republic governance. Some
people would say that, not me, though, I think.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's great.

Speaker 5 (10:42):
Very John Stuart Lake not the only late night host
to be talking about this. David Letterman was actually at
an event last night, speaking at the Atlantic Festival in
New York, saying, this is misery. We see where this
is all going. Correct, it's managed media and it's no good.
It's ridiculous. And you can't go around firing somebody because

(11:03):
you're fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian,
criminal administration in the Oval Office. Now that being set
on the other side of the aisle, there is a
ton of support for this. So the divide continues. But
I think we're going to hear a lot more this
weekend as well.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
If you saw the.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
Report about some of the demands being made to Kimmel
to come back on the air, including a public apology
and donation to Turning Point USA. According to sources, he's
absolutely unwilling.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
To do that. I think it's incredible. Actually, then a
media company like Sinclair can dictate what ABC does. You
know what I mean just that they're the ABC affiliate.
I understand that, but at the same time, they are
two different companies and basically saying, you know what, we
don't care what ABC does. We're going to do this
no matter what if we get what we want.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
So here's the other side of it. They're saying, oh,
all of our advertisers have pulled out, so if you
don't want to make any money, and there's just so much,
many layers to this. We will see what happens going forward.
I think there is a lot more to come out
of this next hour. I'll tell you who the FCC
is potentially looking at.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Next.

Speaker 5 (12:10):
Halsey explaining why we have not gotten new music from
the hit singer songwriter She's not allowed to. She sat
down with zay Low yesterday saying I can't make an
album right now.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
I'm not allowed to. It's the reality, she said.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Her twenty twenty four album The Great Impersonator is the
reason why because it just didn't perform the way they
wanted to. She said her fifth studio album debuted at
number two on the Billboard two hundred charp, but added,
if I'm being honest with you, it's sold one hundred
thousand leap and copies first week, which is a pretty
big first week, especially for an artist who hasn't had
a hit in a long time. But they wanted manic

(12:49):
numbers from me and it just wasn't going to happen.
So she is blaming her label, saying I'm being kept
under wraps because they don't trust anything I do. Even
called out Columbia Records on this one.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
It's interesting just because it's you know, you're writing a
hand that Fiji.

Speaker 5 (13:05):
I guess hey, And this could be major, major news.
We've been hearing about this for the last year or so,
but now the Federal Trade Commission, along with a bipartisan
group of state attorneys, is suing Ticketmaster and its parent company,
saying they are forcing consumers to pay more to see
live events through a ton of illegal tactics. So the

(13:27):
FTC suing Ticketmaster and Live Nation. They say they have
deceived both artists and consumers by advertising lower ticket prices
than what consumers actually end up having to pay, and
falsely claim that they're imposing strict limits on the number
of tickets who can buy for an event. According to
the FTC, in reality, Ticketmaster has been coordinating with ticket

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brokers who bypass those limits. They set up fake accounts
to buy it millions of dollars worth of tickets and
then sell them at a substantial markup up on ticketmasters openm,
which of course means Ticketmaster benefits from additional fees it collects.
Considering they control more than eighty percent of major concert

(14:10):
venues across the US, this could be massive. The FTC
says they have spent more than eighty two billion dollars
with consumers taking that entire bill.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
I mean, it's insane too. The Live Nation CEO the
other day said on TV that ticket prices for concerts
are underpriced.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
With the at prices, Oh, I'm sure they feel that that.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Lunch price of seventy two dollars.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
Then you get to it and it's like fees, shipping, handling.
All of this early. But a great reminder, especially locally
here in West Michigan, all of our places have wonderful
box office is that you can walk right up to
all right, all of your scoop at West Michigan Star dot.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Com, come on in to you. It's Mack and SCHMIDI
and you just talked about life acts. All I want
to know is, yeah, are any of these going to
make me rich? Now?

Speaker 5 (14:54):
No, No, we're not talking money. We're talking time, which
is actually more priceless to me. Jen Hamilton is her name.
She went on TikTok and asked for unhinged automated life hacks.
And some of these, to me, are absolutely brilliant. So
I thought I'd go through and figure out what ones

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we could actually do and what ones really aren't kind
of a hack at all. So the first woman said
at the same time. Every year, I tell my bank
I lost my credit card, so I get is shit
a new one? All the scammers, every subscription I signed
up for everything automatically declined, and I only resigned for
the ones I want.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Wow, that actually okay, So I might have to steal
that one.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
I that actually helped us get rid of a ton
of streaming services because we got hacked, and so I
immediately cut our you know, shut our card down. They
re issued a new one, and then we'd get the
emails like, oh, your payment didn't go through. I'm like,
you know what, I didn't notice. We don't need that.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
I am one of the really good, really dumb people
who got one of those apps that tells you all
the streaming services that you're paying for and got rid
of the ones. I didn't want it, but then forgot
to get rid of that app.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yeah, like that's not helpful to me. Oh there's another
good one. Our dishwasher texts are kids when it's done
and then shuts off their Wi Fi till it's empty.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
What do you got, Rosie the robot from the Jetsons.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
Every appliance you buy now is that there's no way
around it. There's no way around that dish washes. This
is so great. I love this. I have a holiday
baking spreadsheet. All of my different cookies and treat recipes
are programmed. So every November I figure out how many
people I'm baking for, I input the number of batches,

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and boom, it gives me every single thing I need,
how much of it? And I figured out it saves
me hundreds of dollars.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Wow, Get at organization. It's an efficiency.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
I wouldn't know how to use Excel if you paid me,
so I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Bake cookies.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
We've got another dishwasher a hack.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
I hate doing dishes and all my lights are smart bulbs,
so I just tell Alexa time to do the dishes.
The program dims my kitchen to fifty percent and plays
Celtic music, so I pretend to be a Scottish pub
owner cleaning up for the night.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
I thought that was really cute. I love it.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
I made if it works.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
I made an Apple shortcut that runs once a day
automatically showing me all the photos I took. It allows
me to clean up my photo album because every single
day it pops up and I delete all the ones
that I don't need.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Speaking of which, I have just purchased a seven ninety
nine a week app called Cleanup that literally is going
through my tens of thousands of photos. It's insane because
you only have to use it for like a week
and then you're done with it.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
I did I do this.

Speaker 5 (17:40):
I have my memory specifically programmed because I was paying
for extra Google storage, and I'm like, this is insane
because now I can't use drives like they're telling me
my email is gonna stop working, and I've probably taken
like twenty percent of my photos and deleted them already
from this.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Before I got this this app thing, my iCloud was
completely full because it's a family eye cloud, and my
phone just hadn't been backed up in like a year easily. Y.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
I just don't want to spend money on anything.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
These are great free hacks. There were some really good ones,
and I'm curious if you've got a life hack you've
discovered maybe goes with your kids, Maybe it has to
do with chores or something in your marriage that has
worked so beautifully. Four five eight, one oh five seven.
I'm gonna post this on our Facebook too, so you
can go through. There's some really good cooking ones, and
there's another awesome kid one that you're gonna love.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Honestly, I just feel like I need a dishwasher that
will text my children.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Now.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
That's all I mean by I'm telling you, like our
washer and dryer do it. And we're not high end people.
It's just everything comes with that built in.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Now, I wish when it texted the kids, it also
does like your dryer or your washer chime, you know
what I mean. So they get the text and it's like.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
Or it's like don't don't don't Internet.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Gone Mac and Schmidty in the morning on Star one
oh five point seven.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Time do spill into Tay Time spill the too, Sweetheart.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
I don't like it when anyone calls me sweetheart, but
I do like it when you guys sending us your drama.
Each and every Friday, we roll through tea time right
now where we'll keep you anonymous. If you want, just
send it in a right at West Michigan Star. This
one coming from a roommate who might just get an
incidental vacation out of this deal. Said, Hey, guys, my
roommate has been dating this girl for about three months

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and he's planned a taker to Cancun for a vacation.
Sounds great, right, but here's the catch. He found this
deal that includes a four hour time share presentation. The
resort is a really nice and he wouldn't stay there
if it weren't for the deal. Normally, I wouldn't think
that would be an issue. Smart actually, but his girlfriend
is what I would call quote unquote time maintenance. She

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comes from money as designer, everything, etc. And my buddy
has been paying for everything since they started dating to
impress her. Now he's worried that if he brings her
along for this deal, she might think he's being cheap,
and then it's a bad move for their relationship. I
can see where he's coming from, but I told him
that if she makes an issue out of it, that
should be a major red flag and he should cut

(20:04):
her loose. Who knows this might turn into a boy's
trip to Cancun. Yeah, I mean I would have told her, Yeah,
I think that's all you gotta do, right, Like, because
I want.

Speaker 5 (20:14):
To say, it's only four hours. I know a lot
of friends that have done these only four hours. But
also if that's like four hours in the middle of
your Saturday where you could be scuba diving, tell her
and like, if she's not done with it, it's only
three months, see you later.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, I was gonna say, you've been paying for everything,
so and this girl comes from money. I think I
know a lot of guys who act like that. It
never ends well for you because at some point you
just gotta be real.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
Or he says it to her and she goes, oh,
no problem. I find it more interesting than roommate's like
she's home maintenance. I'm like, bro, are you nervous about
losing a roommate?

Speaker 2 (20:44):
That's possible? H Jerry on Facebook set. He definitely needs
to be honest with her. Relationship should be based on
trust and if he's trying to be something he's not
just to impress her. I can't see how this will last.
So I'm kind of with that one too. Six one
six four five eight one five seven. I got Rebecca
on the line. What do you think, Rebecca? Should he
tell her? Should he go on this trip? What's the deal?

Speaker 7 (21:06):
Can they let us know where it is? Because I'll go.
I think one hundred percent he should go. I mean,
who's gonna turn down a free vacation. I've done them before.
They're like really painful for like an hour or two,
and then it's amazing and you get a free vacation.
And I think it's really funny. I think it's a
good task to see if she's has a sense of
humor and is good with.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Money, exactly like you're gonna you're gonna basically throw dish
out there to her, and her reaction is going to
tell you a lot about whether or not she likes you, Right,
I don't think so, Craig listing right now in Rockford.
What do you think, Craig. If that's the case, you know,
I would still do it.

Speaker 7 (21:41):
I think it's worth it for the free chirp.

Speaker 11 (21:43):
You know, you know, how often do you get to
take someone like that?

Speaker 7 (21:47):
You know, can't coon on a resort like that, So
I say do it.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, I mean it's can't kuon, let's go right work
in radio.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
If it's free, give it to us.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
All right, let's listen to what more? Sarah listing right
now in dooor What do you think, Sarah? I think
it's too big a risk if you don't how the
other persons can react.

Speaker 7 (22:01):
They could be really bored.

Speaker 8 (22:02):
And then I hold against you.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Now you're like stuck all weekend and they're developing a grudge.

Speaker 11 (22:06):
You're really taking a risk.

Speaker 8 (22:08):
I say, don't do it.

Speaker 7 (22:09):
I say, just like go out.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
A count even twenty minutes for like a first trip.
You know what, I can deal with a lot if
I'm in a tropical location. Sorry, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
You can join the combo on Facebook. We don't know
for you right now at West Michigan Star, the same
place you gotta send your drama to us each shit
every week, tea time here on.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Star, Smoothies Music, and all the gossip in one place.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
Well, a ton of conversations surrounding the surprising move from
ABC to pause the Jimmy Kimmel Show following his comments
about the Charlie Kirk assassination. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr may
have just issued a bit of a warning at another show,
talking on the Scott Jennings radio show Yes Yesterday and

(23:00):
bringing up the view while explaining equal time.

Speaker 11 (23:04):
When you look at these other TV shows, what's interesting
is the SEC does have a rule, all the equal
opportunity rule, which means, for instance, if you're in the
rub to an election you have one partisan elected official on,
you have to give equal time equal opportunity to the
opposing But there's an exception to that rule, all the
bonafide news exception, which means if you are a bonafide

(23:25):
news program, you don't have to abide by the equal
opportunity rule. And over the years, the SEC has developed
a body of case law on that and has suggested
that most of these late night shows other than SNL
are bonified news programs, and potentially I would assume you
could make the argument that the View is a bonified
news show, but I'm not so sure about that, and
I think it's worthwhile to have the SCC look into

(23:47):
whether the View some of the other programs that you
have still qualify as bonified news programs and therefore exempt
from the equal opportunity regime that Congress is put in place.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
I mean, he even makes it sound like could be
changes coming for this. Equal time has been a huge
part of my career because I've worked in news for
almost twenty years and we always are very very specific
to that you have one person on, you have to
at least reach out to their opposing person to get
their view on the as well. But talking about certain
shows no longer falling under that bona fide rule could

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mean we see even more of this kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Happening, which is ridiculous. This is television, all right. I
honestly just I don't care what side of the aisle
of you fall on. I don't want my government telling
me what I can and cannot watch, and that has
been an American staple forever.

Speaker 5 (24:37):
The I think the streaming services are going to be
thrilled by this, because I bet you see a ton
of these go okay, piece out Big three. I'm going
over where the FCC can't touch me. This could be
very interesting. Nina Dobrev, who had the shocking news last
week that she split from fiance Olympic snowboarder Shawn White,
maybe turning to zac Efron. A lot of pictures and

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video servicing yesterday of a yacht vacation that included Gossip
Girl star Chase Crawford, as well as Miles Teller with
his wife Kelly, and Nina with zach Efron. If you
believe witnesses in the area, they were very, very handsy
and a little PDA filled. Of course, the two stars
could also just be hanging out while she is dealing

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with a broken engagement. But if you want to believe
some of what people have been videoing on TikTok, these
two could beelers.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Look what an attractive company.

Speaker 7 (25:32):
I say.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
I'm in support of my fellow red haired man in
Shawn White. That being said to move from the Flying
Tomato to zach Evron is a move I think a
lot of women would like to make.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Finally, Taylor Swift is prepping to return to movie theaters.
Multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the superstar is
set to do something in theaters that will have a
connection to her upcoming album, The Life of a show Girl.
The content of this event is on clear, it's being
kept super duper secret. All we know is that it

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will be tied to that album, which drops Friday, October third.
Multiple sources say the theatrical event will also go down.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
That weekend, but we really don't know anything else.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
It's possible that Swift may actually be directing whatever This
is based on some of her work with Disney Plus,
but that's it. We just know probably that weekend. Even
comments to major theater chains like AMC have been very secreted.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
They're like, what I don't know, can't comment.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
All I can hear in my head is the sound
of cash register schmitty.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
It'd be interesting to see like what it is though.
Are we getting a behind the scenes look? Is there
going to be some kind of live action things?

Speaker 2 (26:39):
What about like a cool performance of all the new songs,
like done on video where.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
She's there's what we've done right? She did that with
the Aristour she did that with her folklore. As soon
as I know you will, we got all your scoop
at West Michigan Star dot Com.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
She's having a fine points see have it a smack
and Schmidty and it is our time to battle Battle
of the Sexiest for your Friday morning. I'm looking to
get you out for some laughs.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
Oh, Kathleen Madigan is good. Well, I have tickets for
her April show GLC Live at twenty Monroe. If you've
got today's number one answer one hundred women surveyed, if
you could be any animal, what would it be?

Speaker 2 (27:13):
News flash? We already are animals, but two dolphin because
he you know the intelligence factors there, But they always
seem like they're having a good time.

Speaker 7 (27:20):
You know.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
Me just had a story on my other show about
drunk chimpanzees.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
Are you using somehow? I feel like I would be
weirdly good at that.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
Yeah, there's like some scientific study that the reason we
drink now is because our evolutionary ancestors eight fermented berries.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
You could double fist it with one in your hand
and one in your foot. Smitty.

Speaker 5 (27:39):
See the more you know you learn with Schmidty on
this show, one hundred women surveyed if you could be
any animal, what would it be?

Speaker 9 (27:45):
Six?

Speaker 5 (27:46):
One, six four or five eight? One oh five seven?
Looking for number one answer? You're checking out Kathleen Madigan
with star one oh five point seven, Good morning star.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Who's this Lapino? Where are you calling from today? All right, Lapida,
let's get you hooked up here. One hundred women were
asked if you could be any animal, which one would
you be? Chita cheetah? You know, Wow, that's a really
good guess right there. Why a cheetah for you? Oh?

(28:18):
The Prince would put you know. I would have thought
it was speed, but you're more of a style person, Holopita.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
All right, well I can go for that. And it's
super weird because the top answer today is cat, and
I'm pretty sure they didn't mean cheetah, but frankly, frankly,
I'm the one who decides whether or not that's the
right answer, and a cheetah is a cat. It's just
a really big one that happens to not go to
the bathroom in a litter box. But I'm counting it.

(28:45):
Here you go, you're going to comedian Kathleen Madigan. All right,
Oh she is fantastic. It's coming up in April of
next year over at JLCE Live at twenty minut a
row and you have got your tickets already and you
can win more over West Michigan dot com. By the way,
the top answers were cat, followed by dog Bird and

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then Unicorn, which I guess I got to tell people
that I'm sorry to burst your bubble. Not a real
animal yet, No, thanks, Lpita, have a great weekend. Thank you, you,
thank you so much, and we'll battle again on Monday.
Battle of the Sexies eight fifteen. Here on stuff. You know,
it's Mack and Schmidty and here we go. Art Prize

(29:26):
is here. Big celebration going on tonight with yourself over there, Schmitty.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
Yeah, really excited. Rosa Park Circle to the Pearl Street Bridge.
They've got a light show, fireworks plan.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
It's gonna be awesome.

Speaker 11 (29:36):
See here.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
All the time, arts is in the eye of the beholder, right,
and anything really can be arts. Whether it's some gorgeous,
amazing portrait or somebody taped a banana to a white
canvas and sold it for millions of dollars, that's real art.
But I wanted to know what you feel like your
own personal art form is and how you express yourself

(29:57):
Schmidti because I talked a little bit about this before,
but if I had to pick one for me, it
would either be done on the grill or I think
I am going to become the next Edward scissor Hands
because my hedging is getting advanced. I have basically got
the perfect circle down now, and I am looking to
level this up. I'm thinking by next year I maybe
have like hearts. If I get real thing, maybe I

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can get into a dinosaur in my front yard. I
want people to drive by and ask themselves, is that
a volociraptor carved into that?

Speaker 4 (30:27):
I want to see?

Speaker 5 (30:27):
With bon size skills the bonds, I will really humble someone.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
The interesting thing is is that I cannot draw, I
cannot paint, I cannot do any of these normal artistic
forms at all. So I look for opportunities to find
ways that make me feel like I have any artability.
What's going over?

Speaker 4 (30:44):
My husband is obsessed with his skills.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
In our launch Oh yeah no, he triple mos back
and forth. Yes, our backyard, I'm not kidding you, guys.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Looks like Brinkleyfield When I double mood when I double
motion MIDI I feel so accomplished.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
It's lyes like.

Speaker 5 (31:01):
Honestly, I'm like, I can tell you worked in landscape
in college. It is absolutely showstopping.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
When you see somebody with those crisscross lines on a lawn,
there's no there's no doubt in your mind that you're.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
And I'm like, oh, we couldn't afford that, But people.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Do it with all sorts of things. I feel like,
do you have one personally that you would say, I mean,
your your your words are your art form. I yeah,
I heard a microphone, but.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
I'm just saying they are a lot of people are
pretty sick of I know what's.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Your art form is SHMITTI and you're just missing it
because you're.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
Gonna call me out for my sandwich making.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
No, no, no, I do have.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
The Mayo Master shirt from Jimmy John's.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
I can put together and eleven two was sixteen and
under twenty three seconds.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
But no, I don't lead with that on my resume.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Honestly, I did say, like subway artist, sub subway workers
are sandwich artists. You were the Mayo master at Jimmy John's.
I think that's great, But I was gonna say that
your art form is the bun.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
Oh oh yeah, all right.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Bush said, it's like if Leonardo then she had long hair,
he would look to you for inspiration. I feel like Smitty,
that is a barn.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
You know what's really exciting too.

Speaker 5 (32:07):
With my daughter just starting dance a couple of weeks ago,
she needs a bun and literally I ran into the
living room.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
With all of my tools. I was like, I've been
training for this.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Starting a found points.

Speaker 8 (32:19):
Vin.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Let's start the day and hopefully carry it into the
weekend in a positive mood. All Right, we're spreading those
vibes right now with feeling good here on Star. What's
going on, Spinney?

Speaker 5 (32:27):
All right, let's talk about it one more time, because
you never get tired of saying it. Our Midwest League
champion West Michigan white Caps, and I thought this was
one of the sweetest things to hear someone say about
their locker room. We actually got a chance to speak
with white Caps manager Tony Cappacilli yesterday on Wood Radio,
and he talked about this very unique group of guys

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who he has grown to love so very much.

Speaker 8 (32:54):
It was unbelievable. I mean, I've never had a group
of players like this. You know, you have a great
group of baseball players, but they're such a good group
of dudes. And there, they're so close. It's such a
tight knit group in the clubhouse that the NonStop Shenanigans
and there are hilarious if you're seeing it was like
a fly on the wall. I've never seen a group
that was this close, so it was incredible.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
I mean, I can't think of better words to be
said about such a wonderful team. So, following a six
and a half hour bus ride back from Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
after that big w how does Tony plan to spend
the off season.

Speaker 8 (33:30):
I'm gonna fly home to Las Vegas. I'm gona pick
up my daughter at about five o'clock and then we're
gonna go watch Malana two and Frozen on repeat until
spring train. But that's my off season.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
Isn't that the sweetest?

Speaker 5 (33:41):
Milana too and Frozen on repeat in the off season.
I love a coach, I love a dad even one.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Yeah, way to go our West Michigan and white Caps champs.
Love it all right, Spenny. This one comes to us
from Arizona, where a cow escaped from a slaughterhouse in
Santan Valley and video footage of her running down the
road actually, of course, went viral throughout the area, and
one of the people's attention who had caught was Amy Taka,

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who's the founder of Amy's Farm Animal Sanctuary there nearby,
and she recognized Mootilda, which is what she has named
this cow. Moutilda's determination to escape the fate of the slaughterhouse,
and she decided she wanted to rescue the frightened animal.
She talked about it with their local news where are
you going?

Speaker 6 (34:30):
I saw a video clip of an extraordinary cow, scared
out of her wits, running down the street. She had
escaped a slaughterhouse.

Speaker 11 (34:36):
I take a lot that are born different, maybe missing
a limb and they need a prosthetic, or maybe they
have some kind of deformity and aren't wanted here.

Speaker 4 (34:45):
Their differences are celebrated.

Speaker 7 (34:47):
When I first saw the video, I said, I can
take her here.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Yeah, I can take her here. The thing is is
that that slaughterhouse, well, they wanted some cash for that cow.
They gave her twenty four hours to raise twenty five
hundred dollars to pay for the purchase of that cow,
and it only took half of that because more than
sixty donors stepped up, just like Susan Lombardo, who said
when she saw the video, she knew she had to help.

Speaker 6 (35:13):
I was a no brainer from me when I saw
that cow escape slat or come on running trying to
be free.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
I mean that cow had a will to live, That's right.
So they raised the twenty five hundred bucks quickly. Now
moup Tilda is settled at Amy's Farm Sanctuary and join
the life among all those other rescued animals. Now feeling
good coming at you a couple times today. I always
want to share fun stuff happening out in our world
when we can, and we'll do it again for you
next week Monday. Join us at six forty five and

(35:43):
nine twenty here on Star Mack

Speaker 3 (35:45):
And Schmidty in the morning weekdays starting at six am
on Star one oh five point seven