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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wake up. It gets my day going, It makes me
lab of it. Mac and Schmidty in the morning on
Star one oh five point seven, Welcome, good morning, Welcome
into your Thursday weekend eve. Unfortunately I'm not waking up
a billionaire, Schmitty.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Is anyone I didn't see if anybody matched numbers?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
No, that's good news, bad news. Nobody else did either, everyone,
so we still got a shot. Whether you played or
you didn't, you can win. One point seven billion dollars
is the new estament on Saturday night. That'll make it
the third largest hour ball in history. Schmide wouldn't be terrible.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Would be terrible, man, you know it's not terrible.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I hope you had a gorgeous afternoon and evening last night,
because I adored that rain. I don't know if there's
anything more relaxing and sitting in your living room, windows
open with a downpour, reading a book as we're like
feeling that slow slide into fall. I loved that yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, I literally did do it almost exactly that. I
did exactly what you said, only on my fort instead
of believer.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh my gosh, I posted about it. People were like,
thank you for giving me the opportunity to be lazy.
I said, anytime you need a doctor's note to do nothing,
you follow Schmiddy.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Well, today should be warm, or excuse me, should be dry,
but not warm. Temperature is only going to reach the
low sixties throughout most of West Michigan today. However, a
bit of sunshine coming with it too, So I'm not
going to be doo bad. As Schmitty said, maybe a
little bit of fall.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Feel for you, movies, music, and all the gossip in
one place.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It's the celebrity scoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well, we hope she's recovered soon.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Lady Gaga stunning fans in Miami last night, pulling the
plug on her Mayhem Ball show minutes before she was
set to hit the stage. She took to her Instagram
Stories to announce the cancelation. In a very lengthy post,
she said, I am really, so so sorry, but during
rehearsal last night, my vocal warm up tonight, my voice
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has been so strained. Both my doctor and vocal coach
have advised me not to go on. I want to
be hardcore and push through this for you, but I
also don't want to risk long term or permanent damage
on my vocal cords. She said, there is a significant
risk based on all of our combined experience with a
show like ours, and you know I sing live every night,
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even when it's hard agonizing, and this decision is just
what we have to do. I'm so sorry to let
you down. We are going to try to reschedule the
show as quickly as possible, and she hasn't spoken about
any future dates, so we're not sure how long she
might be working on We're fixing this voice.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, hopefully she made this smart move and pulled the
plug just in time to be able to get that
rush she needs so that she doesn't turn it into
a bigger problem.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I hope she can reschedule, though, I mean, she's got
a really tight schedule with this tour, so that would
be a bummer. The Internet losing its mind over the
rumored relationship of Harry Styles and actress Zoe kraviats I
have this story earlier in the week, but at least
according to sources close to the stars, this is simply
a friends with benefits type of arrangement. The A listers
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really don't consider themselves serious. They're not really using titles.
They're just focused on keeping it very fun for right now.
So a lot of people were wondering, Zoe obviously very
close with Taylor Swift, maybe Harry would be her plus
one for whenever that marriage might happen. But even that's
a little more serious, apparently than the two wanna be
so friends with benefits.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Famous friends with benefits? You know, you get me. I
guess this is what they're thinking of.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Was there trying to figure out what the age difference
is there? Okay, she's I thought Zoe was a little
older than thirty six.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Never mind, Sorry, Zoe.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
And finally, it is good news because rumors have been
flying that The Kelly Clarkson Show may be done.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's good to go. Cameras are ready to roll.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Production for the new season kicks off next week, and
Kelly has promised all new episodes drop Monday, September twenty ninth.
In fact, the entire premiere week for The Kelly Clarkson
Show will honor Texas Blood heroes with some very big
surprise moments. So we're really not sure exactly what else
she has planned. It has been quite a year, as
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you know, the loss of her ex husband she's planning
to return to the voice too, but her manager says
she is still going very very slowly as she gets
back into her professional life.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I mean, obviously all of those insanely big things happening
in your personal life, and she seems to also be
one of the busiest people in entertainment today while she still.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Has her Vegas residency right that hasn't wrapped yet.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I think it's in a pause at the moment. But yeah,
it just comes back. It goes on and off.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
All of your celebscoop at West Michigan Star dot Com.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Let's go. Let's kick off this Thursday with some positivity.
Feeling good right now on Startinar five points seven, It's
Mack and Schmiddi. And it's always crazy when you know
best friends or sisters wind up getting pregnant and give
birth on the same day. Always wild stories of those
identical twin sisters doing it though, identical twin sisters who
are both dermatologists in the same town of Katie, Texas
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giving birth on the same day in the same hospital
with the same doctor. This is wild. Rachel Schmidberger and
her sister Lindsay Denning, identical twins who actually found out
they were pregnant, not on the same day, because this
was actually going to be Lindsay's first child, while it
would be Rachel's seconds. And when Lindsay announced that she
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was pregnant at Christmas with all the family and friends
gathered around, Rachel thought that she might be but wanted
to give her sister her time to enjoy her moment
after announcing her first pregnancy just one day later, they
shared the news together and that they knew the kids
were going to be born very close well. Due to
some complications, Rachel had to be induced and it was
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only a few hours later that Lindsay and her family
were all gathered actually in Rachel's yard, and this happened,
as they explained a Good Morning America.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Actually in Rachel's backyard on Monday afternoons, water broke like
like on the movies, and one of my parents we
were just like right across the pop from each other.
We were like literally with each.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Other through every step of the pro five.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Like really really wasn't kind of like the way it
was supposed to.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Happen, that's right. Rachel delivered first at five thirty six am,
with Lindsey delivering at five thirty pm that very same day,
again with the same doctor in the same place. Not
planned completely, just unbelievable coincidence. And these identical twins fitty uh,
let's see here, they're not only cousins, they're also half
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genetic siblings. Because the girls are identical twins, the DNA magic.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Only one trip for Grandma Grandma. So there you go.
As a Chicago Cubs fan, I love this story.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
There's a new profile out from Black Club Chicago highlighting
a very gifted scuba diver who has recovered everything from
a thirty thousand dollar Rolex watch to wedding rings. The
thing is he's diving in Lake Michigan for these. His
name is yo Hey Yamada and said he was hired
by former Cup slugger Anthony Rizzo to get him out
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of the doghouse. Apparently, Rizzo was out on his boat
over the lake when he had washed his hands off.
Didn't realize, you know, he lost a little bit of weight,
shook him dry and off the wedding ring blew. Luckily,
Yohey has got quite a list of clients who gave
Rizzo his number. He said Rizzo even tipped him with
a few crisp hundred dollars bills, and he did it.
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He dove into Lake Michigan and found Rizzo's wedding ring.
Doesn't that sound near impossible? Not for Yamada, he said,
rings are the hardest to find, but phones are everywhere,
and I'll tell you they work after three days in
the water, so it's worth it. You give me one
hundred bucks, I'll suit up and find it for you.
It's a pretty great interview. I'll boast it up at
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West Michigan, Star dot com.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Moodies Music and all the gas up in one place.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It's the celebrities goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Well, we had a bit of the interview late yesterday morning,
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell joining The Today Show and obviously
asked the question a lot of us are wondering, will
Taylor Swift be this year's Super Bowl halftime performer? And
he was very open to it.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
We would always love to have Taylor play.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
She is a special, special talent and obviously she would
be welcome at any time.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Is it in the works.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
I can't tell you anything about that.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Is it a maybe?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's a maybe?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Okay, Okay, maybe it's a maybe. At what point can
we expect a decision to be announced? I'm waiting on
my friend jay Z to be able to it's in
his hands. I'm waiting for the smoke to come out.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Okay, good, But you're a swift tea. I'm definitely a
swift I.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Bet you're definitely a swifty considering the millions of dollars
she brought into the NFL last year. Yes, of course,
jay Z owner Rock Nation, who partners to put on
that Super Bowl halftime show every year.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So we will probably have to wait at least a
couple more months.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
It's generally when they make the big announcement about who
the performer will be. But I can also tell you
he was asked the question, will we ever get a
Super Bowl that we don't have to wake up the
next day for work at And according to Goodell, if
they were able to make the NFL schedule eighteen weeks,
then maybe, just maybe they would put a super Bowl
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on President's Weekend where we could turn off that Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Alarm gosh that I think he said it would have.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
To be an eighteen week schedule where there's really no
other way to do it, so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I don't think Taylor's doing it, by the way. I
think that it's interesting though that how many artists do
you think have a standing invitation to come do the
Super Bowl halftime?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I think Taylor's doing it.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You think she will?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I wouldn't surprise me at all. I think they just
have to figure out some giant way to announce it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
A big announcement.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yesterday, Dancing with the Stars is back, and everyone I've
seen says this is possibly the greatest cast we have
ever seen. Hilaria Baldwin, of course, Alec Baldwin's wife, Corey Feldman,
influencer Alex Earle, We're going to see Dylan efron Zucha
Fran's brother a Fifth Harmonies Laurence Roggy, which of course
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is perfect considering she was just on.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Stage with Joe Brose.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Elaine Hendrix, who I'm super excited about. She is the
soon to be stepmon from the Parent Trap. Oh, she's
fantastic Olympic gymnast Jordan Childs, and then of course boy
meets World star Danielle Fischel, Robert Erwin and comedian Andy
Richter kind of winded out secret lives of Mormon wives
Jen Affleck and Whitney Levitt, and then NBA All Star
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Baron Davis also going to be taking the floor packed
season season thirty four. By the way, Alfonso Ribeiro back
to host, and then Julian Huff joins him with judges
Carrie Ann Naba, Derrek Huff and Bruno. Of course, September sixteenth,
we get this on ABC.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Nothing would make me happier than Corey Feldman.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Look for him though, he's really crying.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Finally, Pope Leo almost looked more like a Hell's Angels
yesterday hopping on an all white motorcycle outside the Vatican
before signing it for charity. It was all thanks to
a meeting with the Jesus Bikers. It's an organization of
religious riders who traveled all the way from Germany to
Rome to meet with the Pope.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's pretty sweet.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
After taking a look at the nice ride, Pope couldn't
help himself. He wanted to hop on real quick. Oh
I gotta tell you Pope Leo and all of his
white pope NICs with like this really stark white ride.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It's pretty epic.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
This all goes to a charity that Jesus bikers are
donating to Missio Austria Children's Aid, which is doing some
big work in Madagascar.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
The internet and AI have been having a lot of
fun using that photo of the Pope on the motorcycle
to create other videos over forget.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
But I mean the regular actual photo is so good
you don't need anything else. I've got to post it
for you with your scoop at West Michigan Star dot.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Com pointe, I went and to you. It's Mack and Schmidty.
And as a parent Schmidty, I asked myself the question
that you just posed all the time.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Are you sheltering your kids in a bad way? And
I think it's really interesting. I saw this post and
the back and forth in the comments section really shows
you how torn parents are on this. There's a new
survey by the Harris Pole and it shows just how
sheltered and dependent many kids are today, and it has
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experts worried that this generation of kids literally will not
be able to function as adults.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And so they looked at eight to twelve.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Year olds, that's who we're talking about here, eight to
twelve year olds. Seventy one percent of them have never
used a sharp knife never okay fifty six of them
fifty six percent never talked to a neighbor alone.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Okay, So here, I'll back up, because both my kids
are in that agdriam. They have used sharp knives. They
have talked to neighbors on.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Their own alone without you that, yes, correct.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Sixty two percent have never walked or biked anywhere without
an adult.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
My kids have done that. As a matter of fact, recently,
my son did that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, that was like a first time, right, you said it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Was, and that was his first time.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Over one in four kids is not allowed to play alone,
even in their own front yard.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Well, they do that all the time. I constantly kicked
them out.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Forty five percent of kids have never walked alone down
the aisle of a store when their parent was in
a different aisle.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
God, my kids lived for Almost.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Half of kids eight to twelve years old have never
walked down a store aisle by themselves. Sixty one percent
of them have never made plans with a friend without
a parent helping. Sixty seven percent have never done work
they've been paid for, like shoveling snow or babies.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Wow, so your kids gotten jobs, Yet.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
My kids have done all of those things that you mentioned.
My daughter has babysat my son his house set before
for a neighbor just to wear watering plants and stuff
like that, And that was really cool because it was
the neighbor who took some initiative to like have him
do it, to say, hey, can I talk to Connor
about how he needs to take care of these plants
and all that stuff, because I do feel like my
our generation specifically of parents is coddling the living heck
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out of.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
These interesting Would you send your kids out to find
a job, not a neighbor coming to them, You going, hey,
hit all the hoods, hit all the houses, see if
you can shovel snow.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
It's really funny in my specific neighborhood on my streets. Yes,
if I was sending them to neighborhoods down off the street,
it would. I'd have to think about it for a
little bit. I really would.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Oh, it's interesting to look at the comments. I'm not
quite therey yet. I've got seven and four, but they
will go outside for six eight hours a day and
I don't know where they're I don't know where they are.
Will is allowed to ride his bike all over the
neighborhood we've given him, you know, restrictions. Sophia out so much,
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but it turns out she does. She knows more neighbors
than we do.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
But when you look through the.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Comments section on this post, the first comment, well, my
child has one hundred percent never been abducted. Another one,
when kids stop getting shot at for playing ding dog ditch,
maybe we'll ease up a little bit. And another one
this is exactly what we're talking about. Maybe statistics now
showing the dangers for kids versus the eighties and nineties
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where we didn't know any of this information has made
parents a bit more nervous. But then you have another
mom writing every parent on here who's like Mike Kaid's
getting abducted. Your child will not function as an adult.
They will live with you forever. They will not be
able to get a job, they will not be able
to do things for themselves. Where are you ad on this?
I think it is really interesting And the biggest thing
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I see is when I meet new parents or try
to make friends with new parents and find out how
different the parenting is. Yeah, I have been shamed where
they're like you let them just oh okay, So you're.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
That kind of mom. I've had that set to me.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So it's interesting and you say that because when I
did tell you about that, my son and my daughter
bike down to their school playground. It's about a half
mile away from our house, and it was the first
time that my son had done that without any adult
with them at all, and he was with his big sister,
so a twelve year old and a ten year old
playing on the school playground. Our friends brought their kids
to the school while they were there, and we got
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text messages from them going like, oh, it's so cool
that Connor and Charlotte were up here that we got
to see them. I'm still too nervous to let our
daughter walk to the bus stop on her own. I
still get too nervous about that. And while that sounds
like I probally bus stop, my wife still walks our
kids to the bus because right now they have a
chance to actually cross the road and get on their bus,
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like twenty minutes later than.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I also want to make sure the bus is dropping
my kid off in the right spot, because apparently there's
been some issues with that in the new school year.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
But I have told her I'm like, stop doing that.
They're ten and twelve. They need to be able to
cross the road on their own. They need to know
that when you have to catch a bus, you have
to be there on time. There's no safety net to
make sure you're there. Like I just I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
If I'm there yet because I know cars are not
watching for that, especially the road especially.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
But like man, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I see people going down, especially where you're at sometimes
Cascade Busy Road five seventy splat.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
What do you guys think about this? Do you think
you are over sheltering your kid? I have this post
on Facebook so you can see some of the different
percentages of kids eight to twelve that still have not
done some of these things. Six one six four or
five eight one oh five seven? Are we being safe
parents or are we being helicopter parents?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Give us a call.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
It's the celebrities goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Oh Travis Kelce Just Love Love. New episode of the
New Heights podcast dropped yesterday. First time we've really gotten
to talk to Travis post engagement, because he proposed last
week but had already recorded an episode for the pod,
and he is just so excited. Even had some really
good advice for other people considering popping the question and
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talking to his brother Jason, he admits saying fiance is
so strange.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I felt that at the game.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Actually it was my first time introducing Taylor as my
fiance to a few of my teammates.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Don't you get giddy saying it?
Speaker 8 (18:26):
I did?
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Yeah, I still get giddy. It's exciting times.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Do we have any advice to other nine jub percenters
that might be popping the question?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
You gotta know your gal. You gotta know your gal
or your significant other. You got to know him and
it's got it. You can't let how somebody else does
it make you feel like you need to do it
that way? I would just say no, you know your partner, no,
know who you're doing it for, and do it for
the right reasons, baby. Everything else would be be beautiful.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Oh that was really good advice obviously, though didn't really
go into whether wedding planning is underway or when we
might see the wedding.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I think that is all going to be very very hush.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Hush, introducing your significant other as your Fielce is an
interesting experience doing it with perhaps the most eligible bachelorette
in mankind probably a different feeling.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Well, American Eagle is really celebrating Sydney Sweeney despite all
the drama over her Sydney Sweeney has Great Genes campaign.
The company announced yesterday it was its best advertising to date,
helping the brand absolutely smash Wall Street expectations. In the
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second quarter, earnings per share more than doubled what was predicted,
revenue hit more than one point two billion dollars, and
foot traffic into the company's brick and mortar stores jumped
more than five percent. The day after Sydney's campaign went
live in mid excuse me, Denham has sold out her
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custom Sydney Jean Gone in a day that included online sales.
So despite all the noise and backlashover at, American Eagles
CEO praised the campaign for driving stronger customer awareness, engagement,
and comparable sales, and they said they signed up seven
hundred thousand new customers to their online specials.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I mean it, honestly, it doesn't surprise me because like
that campaign or hate that campaign, you heard more about
American Eagles. You're talking about that time, heard than in
fifteen years probably.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
And finally I have the story yesterday a very interesting
spot on the Shean website.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
This is the.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Online fast fashion retailer, and it looked like Luigi Mangioni,
the alleged United Healthcare CEO shooter, advertising and modeling some
of Shean's fashion. Well, that product is no longer listed,
discovering a third party vendor was using Luigi's likeness to
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try and move merchandise. According to Shean, this was completely
against policy. Now it is unclear how the image was created.
Users have speculated it may have been AI. A rep
for Shean did not say how they believed the image
was created, but it was removed immediately upon discovery. They say,
we have very stringent standards for our listings on the platform,
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and we are conducting a thorough investigation while strengthening our
monitoring processes, and do plan to take appropriate action against
the vendor in question.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We were just talking about Sidney Sweeney and it was
kind of that old adage of no publicity is bad
publicity in this case right here, you would think that
having that guy with your shirt on would be a
bad thing. Instead, what did you say yesterday coch.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Sold out to shirt.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, I've got all that for
you with your scoop at West Michigan Star dot Com.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Seven o'con points seven. Let's do this time to battle.
Battle of the Sex is looking to land you over
at Van Andel Arena, cheering on our Grand Rapids Griffins
and our Detroit red Wing SCHMITTI.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Don't forget about those superstars like Mickey Redman and Patrick
Kin that are going to be in town. It's the
red and White game and we've got your tickets with
today's number one answer, Battle of the Sex is. One
hundred men surveyed name a reason you would not live
on a houseboat.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I don't have a reason because I want to live on.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
That same person. I'm like, don't call in and ask
for my advice.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Absolute dream is to get one of those really cool
floating houses in Saga talk if you've ever seen them?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh so cool?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
The morning Star? Who's this?
Speaker 6 (22:38):
TJ?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
TJ? Where you coming from today?
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Man?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
All right, let's see if we can get hooked up.
One hundred dudes were asked to name a reason you
would not want to live on a houseboat. TJ, what
do you think your top answer was choppy weather, choppy water.
My dear it, what what do you think might happen
in choppy water? TJ?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Get sea sick?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Capsuleys d get seasick. Yeah, being capsizing would be worse,
No doubt about a little drama. Mean might clear up
your seasickness. But getting seasick is the top answer.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Congrats, sweet it's get seasick, followed by afraid of water.
Then your house might sink. There's your capsizing, and uh,
then just being too small, too tiny of them usually
just get a bigger boat. I guess like it's Jaws
or something. All right, TJ, you are going to check
out the Red and White game, featuring both our Grand
Rapids Griffins and the Detroit Red Wings as they get
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ready to gear up for new seasons for both teams.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah, it's gonna be a great time, and we're looking
to get you in as well. We'll do it again tomorrow,
same time, eight fifteen. Battle of the Sexes every weekday
here on Star. Good morning too. It's mack and spitty
and uh. I think most of us like weird stuff, right,
like seeing something odd or unusual.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I respect it.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Porky thing, yeah, and when it's in somebody's house, in
their living space, you feel like, well, that's got to
be a story, right, There's got to be something behind that.
So I wanted to know what the weird thing in
your house was or in your house growing up that
you kind of had to explain to people six one, six,
four eight one on five seven. I bring this up
because before I went on vacation, I stopped up north
at my dad's house and I had a couple of
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buddies over that I hadn't seen in a while, and
we were just still sort of chilling in my basement
and one of my friends said, you know, like, oh,
your dad's got a lot of weird stuff. He has
things from Vietnam and uh, all all through Europe and
stuff where he was in the service. Well, so does
my uncle. And one of the things was this lamp.
And I said, hey, do you know what that lamp is? No, like,
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that is a camel testical lamp. Oh, it is a
hand painted lamp that my entire life has been in
my house and I didn't know what it was for
probably twenty.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Is it an important room? Are we talking like a
side room.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Well it's now in it's now in my family room
where like the TV and stuff is. However, there was
parts of my life that it was in my older
brother's room. Then it was my night light smitty for years.
That's really uncomfort and I had no idea. I just
knew that it was my uncles and that he brought
it back from Uh he brought it back from somewhere
in Europe when he was back backing through there in
the seventies. While it turns out it was from the
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Middle East and I had and once I found out
it was a camel testicle, I have told people this
shmitty and now I have to come clean about something.
So I found out this video at mac does Mornings
or whatever of me seeing this and schmidty, Uh, this
is what I said in the video, which I just
I hate myself sometimes. Is a camel testical lamp? One
more time, camel testical hand painted lamp. It's a thing.
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Google it. So I hate myself because I said it's
a thing. Google it, and I think that's so annoying
when people do stuff like that, and then it's even
worse to know that I did Google it. Schmitty and
this entire time. First off, if you google hand painted cambell,
it'll come up. A picture of that thing will come
right up for you. Basically, it's not a testing, it's
a bladder.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
That makes way.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
More sense more like everybody, I'm sure it was from
like the olden days. That's how hunters, gatherers, shepherds.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
We had things forty five plus years now chilling in
my house. In this entire time, my father's been telling
everybody that it's a testing, and instead I did google
it and it's a bladderschmitty. So that's been rocky. So well,
your kids starts.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
School already this morning and learning that from their science
teachers who are far more you know, capable of that
than us. It's just so perfect and it really makes
us all feel good. We're in this together as parents.
Hunter Renfro is an NFL star with the Panthers. But see,
his contract was up last season, so he's been waiting
all summer to see if they're going to end up
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re signing him. Well, the call came down and it
was ignored and ignored some more and actually ignored ten
times because Hunter's a dad and his kids were watching
Bluie and.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
My daughter's running the Carl.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I guess I had like ten minute phone calls from
Dan David, my agent, and they were all just ignored
my daughter's watching Blue or so. Yes, it turns out
Hunter has resigned with the Carolina Panthers, but of course
not after losing out to Blue, which every mom, dad, grandma,
grandpa listening right now gets all too well.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
That's awesome, all right, Benny. This is just a little wild.
Jim Clawson and his partner Marianna, they started with a
phone call ringing off the hook back in January this year,
and it was because they were getting phone calls asking
questions about one of North America's top grill companies. This
is pretty wild. So basically they were able to get
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phone calls because of a mix up between Google and
the company that was putting this together, and so without
them realizing it, they started actually getting calls from Napoleon
grill customers about how do they fix it, troubleshooting issues,
things about warranties, and at first the couple was just
kind of baffled. They figured everything out, but that's when
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they started just answering the questions as they were Polyan
grill owners themselves. As they explained to their local news,
he didn't hang up.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
He actually talked to him. She says, like, well, what
is it that you're looking for? He kind of started
becoming like a without knowing it, just his personality started
becoming a customer rep.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
That was in January, and then there was.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
Another phone call a couple days later, but hundreds, We
screened hundreds and hundreds of calls.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It was second nature to help out.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
This became like their thing, getting calls sometimes as early
as four o'clock in the morning, at his late as
nine o'clock at night, because it was the entire customer
service line for North America for ending Napoleon Grill owner. Well,
word eventually reached them in Napoleon Grills and they were
just blown away.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Jim and Marianna took it upon themselves to answer some
questions as they are Napoleon Grill owners.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
We didn't ask them to do this, but they jumped
right in and did it anyway.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
And because of that, they gave them a three thousand
dollars grill and named them honorary Customer Service Ambassadors the grill.
What an odd thing to do to pick up the
phone and be like, you know what, you don't need
to call anybody else. I think I can handle this one.
Feeling good coming at you a couple times a day.
I always want to share something alsome out there. Let's
do it again Tomorrow six forty five and nine twenty
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on Star Mack and Schmidty in the morning weekday starting
at six am on Star one oh five point seven
Wake up. It gets my day going, It makes me
lab of it. Mac and Schmidty in the morning on
Star one oh five point seven, Welcome, good morning, Welcome
into your Thursday weekend eve. Unfortunately I'm not waking up
a billionaire, Schmitty.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Is anyone I didn't see if anybody matched numbers?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
No, that's good news, bad news. Nobody else did either, everyone,
so we still got a shot. Whether you played or
you didn't, you can win. One point seven billion dollars
is the new estament on Saturday night. That'll make it
the third largest hour ball in history. Schmide wouldn't be terrible.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Would be terrible, man, you know it's not terrible.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I hope you had a gorgeous afternoon and evening last night,
because I adored that rain. I don't know if there's
anything more relaxing and sitting in your living room, windows
open with a downpour, reading a book as we're like
feeling that slow slide into fall. I loved that yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, I literally did do it almost exactly that. I
did exactly what you said, only on my fort instead
of believer.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh my gosh, I posted about it. People were like,
thank you for giving me the opportunity to be lazy.
I said, anytime you need a doctor's note to do nothing,
you follow Schmiddy.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Well, today should be warm, or excuse me, should be dry,
but not warm. Temperature is only going to reach the
low sixties throughout most of West Michigan today. However, a
bit of sunshine coming with it too, So I'm not
going to be doo bad. As Schmitty said, maybe a
little bit of fall.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Feel for you, movies, music, and all the gossip in
one place.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It's the celebrity scoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well, we hope she's recovered soon.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Lady Gaga stunning fans in Miami last night, pulling the
plug on her Mayhem Ball show minutes before she was
set to hit the stage. She took to her Instagram
Stories to announce the cancelation. In a very lengthy post,
she said, I am really, so so sorry, but during
rehearsal last night, my vocal warm up tonight, my voice
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has been so strained. Both my doctor and vocal coach
have advised me not to go on. I want to
be hardcore and push through this for you, but I
also don't want to risk long term or permanent damage
on my vocal cords. She said, there is a significant
risk based on all of our combined experience with a
show like ours, and you know I sing live every night,
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even when it's hard agonizing, and this decision is just
what we have to do. I'm so sorry to let
you down. We are going to try to reschedule the
show as quickly as possible, and she hasn't spoken about
any future dates, so we're not sure how long she
might be working on We're fixing this voice.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, hopefully she made this smart move and pulled the
plug just in time to be able to get that
rush she needs so that she doesn't turn it into
a bigger problem.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I hope she can reschedule, though, I mean, she's got
a really tight schedule with this tour, so that would
be a bummer. The Internet losing its mind over the
rumored relationship of Harry Styles and actress Zoe kraviats I
have this story earlier in the week, but at least
according to sources close to the stars, this is simply
a friends with benefits type of arrangement. The A listers
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really don't consider themselves serious. They're not really using titles.
They're just focused on keeping it very fun for right now.
So a lot of people were wondering, Zoe obviously very
close with Taylor Swift, maybe Harry would be her plus
one for whenever that marriage might happen. But even that's
a little more serious, apparently than the two wanna be
so friends with benefits.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Famous friends with benefits? You know, you get me. I
guess this is what they're thinking of.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Was there trying to figure out what the age difference
is there? Okay, she's I thought Zoe was a little
older than thirty six.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Never mind, Sorry, Zoe.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
And finally, it is good news because rumors have been
flying that The Kelly Clarkson Show may be done.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's good to go. Cameras are ready to roll.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Production for the new season kicks off next week, and
Kelly has promised all new episodes drop Monday, September twenty ninth.
In fact, the entire premiere week for The Kelly Clarkson
Show will honor Texas Blood heroes with some very big
surprise moments. So we're really not sure exactly what else
she has planned. It has been quite a year, as
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you know, the loss of her ex husband she's planning
to return to the voice too, but her manager says
she is still going very very slowly as she gets
back into her professional life.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I mean, obviously all of those insanely big things happening
in your personal life, and she seems to also be
one of the busiest people in entertainment today while she still.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Has her Vegas residency right that hasn't wrapped yet.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I think it's in a pause at the moment. But yeah,
it just comes back. It goes on and off.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
All of your celebscoop at West Michigan Star dot Com.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Let's go. Let's kick off this Thursday with some positivity.
Feeling good right now on Startinar five points seven, It's
Mack and Schmiddi. And it's always crazy when you know
best friends or sisters wind up getting pregnant and give
birth on the same day. Always wild stories of those
identical twin sisters doing it though, identical twin sisters who
are both dermatologists in the same town of Katie, Texas
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giving birth on the same day in the same hospital
with the same doctor. This is wild. Rachel Schmidberger and
her sister Lindsay Denning, identical twins who actually found out
they were pregnant, not on the same day, because this
was actually going to be Lindsay's first child, while it
would be Rachel's seconds. And when Lindsay announced that she
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was pregnant at Christmas with all the family and friends
gathered around, Rachel thought that she might be but wanted
to give her sister her time to enjoy her moment
after announcing her first pregnancy just one day later, they
shared the news together and that they knew the kids
were going to be born very close well. Due to
some complications, Rachel had to be induced and it was
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only a few hours later that Lindsay and her family
were all gathered actually in Rachel's yard, and this happened,
as they explained a Good Morning America.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Actually in Rachel's backyard on Monday afternoons, water broke like
like on the movies, and one of my parents we
were just like right across the pop from each other.
We were like literally with each.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Other through every step of the pro five.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Like really really wasn't kind of like the way it
was supposed to.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Happen, that's right. Rachel delivered first at five thirty six am,
with Lindsey delivering at five thirty pm that very same day,
again with the same doctor in the same place. Not
planned completely, just unbelievable coincidence. And these identical twins fitty uh,
let's see here, they're not only cousins, they're also half
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genetic siblings. Because the girls are identical twins, the DNA magic.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Only one trip for Grandma Grandma. So there you go.
As a Chicago Cubs fan, I love this story.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
There's a new profile out from Black Club Chicago highlighting
a very gifted scuba diver who has recovered everything from
a thirty thousand dollar Rolex watch to wedding rings. The
thing is he's diving in Lake Michigan for these. His
name is yo Hey Yamada and said he was hired
by former Cup slugger Anthony Rizzo to get him out
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of the doghouse. Apparently, Rizzo was out on his boat
over the lake when he had washed his hands off.
Didn't realize, you know, he lost a little bit of weight,
shook him dry and off the wedding ring blew. Luckily,
Yohey has got quite a list of clients who gave
Rizzo his number. He said Rizzo even tipped him with
a few crisp hundred dollars bills, and he did it.
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He dove into Lake Michigan and found Rizzo's wedding ring.
Doesn't that sound near impossible? Not for Yamada, he said,
rings are the hardest to find, but phones are everywhere,
and I'll tell you they work after three days in
the water, so it's worth it. You give me one
hundred bucks, I'll suit up and find it for you.
It's a pretty great interview. I'll boast it up at
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West Michigan, Star dot com.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Moodies Music and all the gas up in one place.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It's the celebrities goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Well, we had a bit of the interview late yesterday morning,
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell joining The Today Show and obviously
asked the question a lot of us are wondering, will
Taylor Swift be this year's Super Bowl halftime performer? And
he was very open to it.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
We would always love to have Taylor play.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
She is a special, special talent and obviously she would
be welcome at any time.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Is it in the works.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
I can't tell you anything about that.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Is it a maybe?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's a maybe?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Okay, Okay, maybe it's a maybe. At what point can
we expect a decision to be announced? I'm waiting on
my friend jay Z to be able to it's in
his hands. I'm waiting for the smoke to come out.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Okay, good, But you're a swift tea. I'm definitely a
swift I.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Bet you're definitely a swifty considering the millions of dollars
she brought into the NFL last year. Yes, of course,
jay Z owner Rock Nation, who partners to put on
that Super Bowl halftime show every year.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So we will probably have to wait at least a
couple more months.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
It's generally when they make the big announcement about who
the performer will be. But I can also tell you
he was asked the question, will we ever get a
Super Bowl that we don't have to wake up the
next day for work at And according to Goodell, if
they were able to make the NFL schedule eighteen weeks,
then maybe, just maybe they would put a super Bowl
(09:30):
on President's Weekend where we could turn off that Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Alarm gosh that I think he said it would have.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
To be an eighteen week schedule where there's really no
other way to do it, so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I don't think Taylor's doing it, by the way. I
think that it's interesting though that how many artists do
you think have a standing invitation to come do the
Super Bowl halftime?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I think Taylor's doing it.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You think she will?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I wouldn't surprise me at all. I think they just
have to figure out some giant way to announce it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
A big announcement.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yesterday, Dancing with the Stars is back, and everyone I've
seen says this is possibly the greatest cast we have
ever seen. Hilaria Baldwin, of course, Alec Baldwin's wife, Corey Feldman,
influencer Alex Earle, We're going to see Dylan efron Zucha
Fran's brother a Fifth Harmonies Laurence Roggy, which of course
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is perfect considering she was just on.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Stage with Joe Brose.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Elaine Hendrix, who I'm super excited about. She is the
soon to be stepmon from the Parent Trap. Oh, she's
fantastic Olympic gymnast Jordan Childs, and then of course boy
meets World star Danielle Fischel, Robert Erwin and comedian Andy
Richter kind of winded out secret lives of Mormon wives
Jen Affleck and Whitney Levitt, and then NBA All Star
(10:45):
Baron Davis also going to be taking the floor packed
season season thirty four. By the way, Alfonso Ribeiro back
to host, and then Julian Huff joins him with judges
Carrie Ann Naba, Derrek Huff and Bruno. Of course, September sixteenth,
we get this on ABC.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Nothing would make me happier than Corey Feldman.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Look for him though, he's really crying.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Finally, Pope Leo almost looked more like a Hell's Angels
yesterday hopping on an all white motorcycle outside the Vatican
before signing it for charity. It was all thanks to
a meeting with the Jesus Bikers. It's an organization of
religious riders who traveled all the way from Germany to
Rome to meet with the Pope.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's pretty sweet.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
After taking a look at the nice ride, Pope couldn't
help himself. He wanted to hop on real quick. Oh
I gotta tell you Pope Leo and all of his
white pope NICs with like this really stark white ride.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It's pretty epic.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
This all goes to a charity that Jesus bikers are
donating to Missio Austria Children's Aid, which is doing some
big work in Madagascar.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
The internet and AI have been having a lot of
fun using that photo of the Pope on the motorcycle
to create other videos over forget.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
But I mean the regular actual photo is so good
you don't need anything else. I've got to post it
for you with your scoop at West Michigan Star dot.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Com pointe, I went and to you. It's Mack and Schmidty.
And as a parent Schmidty, I asked myself the question
that you just posed all the time.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Are you sheltering your kids in a bad way? And
I think it's really interesting. I saw this post and
the back and forth in the comments section really shows
you how torn parents are on this. There's a new
survey by the Harris Pole and it shows just how
sheltered and dependent many kids are today, and it has
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experts worried that this generation of kids literally will not
be able to function as adults.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And so they looked at eight to twelve.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Year olds, that's who we're talking about here, eight to
twelve year olds. Seventy one percent of them have never
used a sharp knife never okay fifty six of them
fifty six percent never talked to a neighbor alone.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Okay, So here, I'll back up, because both my kids
are in that agdriam. They have used sharp knives. They
have talked to neighbors on.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Their own alone without you that, yes, correct.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Sixty two percent have never walked or biked anywhere without
an adult.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
My kids have done that. As a matter of fact, recently,
my son did that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, that was like a first time, right, you said it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Was, and that was his first time.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Over one in four kids is not allowed to play alone,
even in their own front yard.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Well, they do that all the time. I constantly kicked
them out.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Forty five percent of kids have never walked alone down
the aisle of a store when their parent was in
a different aisle.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
God, my kids lived for Almost.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Half of kids eight to twelve years old have never
walked down a store aisle by themselves. Sixty one percent
of them have never made plans with a friend without
a parent helping. Sixty seven percent have never done work
they've been paid for, like shoveling snow or babies.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Wow, so your kids gotten jobs, Yet.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
My kids have done all of those things that you mentioned.
My daughter has babysat my son his house set before
for a neighbor just to wear watering plants and stuff
like that, And that was really cool because it was
the neighbor who took some initiative to like have him
do it, to say, hey, can I talk to Connor
about how he needs to take care of these plants
and all that stuff, because I do feel like my
our generation specifically of parents is coddling the living heck
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out of.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
These interesting Would you send your kids out to find
a job, not a neighbor coming to them, You going, hey,
hit all the hoods, hit all the houses, see if
you can shovel snow.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
It's really funny in my specific neighborhood on my streets. Yes,
if I was sending them to neighborhoods down off the street,
it would. I'd have to think about it for a
little bit. I really would.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Oh, it's interesting to look at the comments. I'm not
quite therey yet. I've got seven and four, but they
will go outside for six eight hours a day and
I don't know where they're I don't know where they are.
Will is allowed to ride his bike all over the
neighborhood we've given him, you know, restrictions. Sophia out so much,
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but it turns out she does. She knows more neighbors
than we do.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
But when you look through the.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Comments section on this post, the first comment, well, my
child has one hundred percent never been abducted. Another one,
when kids stop getting shot at for playing ding dog ditch,
maybe we'll ease up a little bit. And another one
this is exactly what we're talking about. Maybe statistics now
showing the dangers for kids versus the eighties and nineties
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where we didn't know any of this information has made
parents a bit more nervous. But then you have another
mom writing every parent on here who's like Mike Kaid's
getting abducted. Your child will not function as an adult.
They will live with you forever. They will not be
able to get a job, they will not be able
to do things for themselves. Where are you ad on this?
I think it is really interesting And the biggest thing
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I see is when I meet new parents or try
to make friends with new parents and find out how
different the parenting is. Yeah, I have been shamed where
they're like you let them just oh okay, So you're.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
That kind of mom. I've had that set to me.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So it's interesting and you say that because when I
did tell you about that, my son and my daughter
bike down to their school playground. It's about a half
mile away from our house, and it was the first
time that my son had done that without any adult
with them at all, and he was with his big sister,
so a twelve year old and a ten year old
playing on the school playground. Our friends brought their kids
to the school while they were there, and we got
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text messages from them going like, oh, it's so cool
that Connor and Charlotte were up here that we got
to see them. I'm still too nervous to let our
daughter walk to the bus stop on her own. I
still get too nervous about that. And while that sounds
like I probally bus stop, my wife still walks our
kids to the bus because right now they have a
chance to actually cross the road and get on their bus,
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like twenty minutes later than.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I also want to make sure the bus is dropping
my kid off in the right spot, because apparently there's
been some issues with that in the new school year.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
But I have told her I'm like, stop doing that.
They're ten and twelve. They need to be able to
cross the road on their own. They need to know
that when you have to catch a bus, you have
to be there on time. There's no safety net to
make sure you're there. Like I just I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
If I'm there yet because I know cars are not
watching for that, especially the road especially.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
But like man, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I see people going down, especially where you're at sometimes
Cascade Busy Road five seventy splat.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
What do you guys think about this? Do you think
you are over sheltering your kid? I have this post
on Facebook so you can see some of the different
percentages of kids eight to twelve that still have not
done some of these things. Six one six four or
five eight one oh five seven? Are we being safe
parents or are we being helicopter parents?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Give us a call.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
It's the celebrities goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Oh Travis Kelce Just Love Love. New episode of the
New Heights podcast dropped yesterday. First time we've really gotten
to talk to Travis post engagement, because he proposed last
week but had already recorded an episode for the pod,
and he is just so excited. Even had some really
good advice for other people considering popping the question and
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talking to his brother Jason, he admits saying fiance is
so strange.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I felt that at the game.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Actually it was my first time introducing Taylor as my
fiance to a few of my teammates.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Don't you get giddy saying it?
Speaker 8 (18:26):
I did?
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Yeah, I still get giddy. It's exciting times.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Do we have any advice to other nine jub percenters
that might be popping the question?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
You gotta know your gal. You gotta know your gal
or your significant other. You got to know him and
it's got it. You can't let how somebody else does
it make you feel like you need to do it
that way? I would just say no, you know your partner, no,
know who you're doing it for, and do it for
the right reasons, baby. Everything else would be be beautiful.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Oh that was really good advice obviously, though didn't really
go into whether wedding planning is underway or when we
might see the wedding.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I think that is all going to be very very hush.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Hush, introducing your significant other as your Fielce is an
interesting experience doing it with perhaps the most eligible bachelorette
in mankind probably a different feeling.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Well, American Eagle is really celebrating Sydney Sweeney despite all
the drama over her Sydney Sweeney has Great Genes campaign.
The company announced yesterday it was its best advertising to date,
helping the brand absolutely smash Wall Street expectations. In the
(19:41):
second quarter, earnings per share more than doubled what was predicted,
revenue hit more than one point two billion dollars, and
foot traffic into the company's brick and mortar stores jumped
more than five percent. The day after Sydney's campaign went
live in mid excuse me, Denham has sold out her
(20:03):
custom Sydney Jean Gone in a day that included online sales.
So despite all the noise and backlashover at, American Eagles
CEO praised the campaign for driving stronger customer awareness, engagement,
and comparable sales, and they said they signed up seven
hundred thousand new customers to their online specials.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I mean it, honestly, it doesn't surprise me because like
that campaign or hate that campaign, you heard more about
American Eagles. You're talking about that time, heard than in
fifteen years probably.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
And finally I have the story yesterday a very interesting
spot on the Shean website.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
This is the.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Online fast fashion retailer, and it looked like Luigi Mangioni,
the alleged United Healthcare CEO shooter, advertising and modeling some
of Shean's fashion. Well, that product is no longer listed,
discovering a third party vendor was using Luigi's likeness to
(21:06):
try and move merchandise. According to Shean, this was completely
against policy. Now it is unclear how the image was created.
Users have speculated it may have been AI. A rep
for Shean did not say how they believed the image
was created, but it was removed immediately upon discovery. They say,
we have very stringent standards for our listings on the platform,
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and we are conducting a thorough investigation while strengthening our
monitoring processes, and do plan to take appropriate action against
the vendor in question.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We were just talking about Sidney Sweeney and it was
kind of that old adage of no publicity is bad
publicity in this case right here, you would think that
having that guy with your shirt on would be a
bad thing. Instead, what did you say yesterday coch.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Sold out to shirt.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, I've got all that for
you with your scoop at West Michigan Star dot Com.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Seven o'con points seven. Let's do this time to battle.
Battle of the Sex is looking to land you over
at Van Andel Arena, cheering on our Grand Rapids Griffins
and our Detroit red Wing SCHMITTI.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Don't forget about those superstars like Mickey Redman and Patrick
Kin that are going to be in town. It's the
red and White game and we've got your tickets with
today's number one answer, Battle of the Sex is. One
hundred men surveyed name a reason you would not live
on a houseboat.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I don't have a reason because I want to live on.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
That same person. I'm like, don't call in and ask
for my advice.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Absolute dream is to get one of those really cool
floating houses in Saga talk if you've ever seen them?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh so cool?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
The morning Star? Who's this?
Speaker 6 (22:38):
TJ?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
TJ? Where you coming from today?
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Man?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
All right, let's see if we can get hooked up.
One hundred dudes were asked to name a reason you
would not want to live on a houseboat. TJ, what
do you think your top answer was choppy weather, choppy water.
My dear it, what what do you think might happen
in choppy water? TJ?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Get sea sick?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Capsuleys d get seasick. Yeah, being capsizing would be worse,
No doubt about a little drama. Mean might clear up
your seasickness. But getting seasick is the top answer.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Congrats, sweet it's get seasick, followed by afraid of water.
Then your house might sink. There's your capsizing, and uh,
then just being too small, too tiny of them usually
just get a bigger boat. I guess like it's Jaws
or something. All right, TJ, you are going to check
out the Red and White game, featuring both our Grand
Rapids Griffins and the Detroit Red Wings as they get
(23:31):
ready to gear up for new seasons for both teams.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah, it's gonna be a great time, and we're looking
to get you in as well. We'll do it again tomorrow,
same time, eight fifteen. Battle of the Sexes every weekday
here on Star. Good morning too. It's mack and spitty
and uh. I think most of us like weird stuff, right,
like seeing something odd or unusual.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I respect it.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Porky thing, yeah, and when it's in somebody's house, in
their living space, you feel like, well, that's got to
be a story, right, There's got to be something behind that.
So I wanted to know what the weird thing in
your house was or in your house growing up that
you kind of had to explain to people six one, six,
four eight one on five seven. I bring this up
because before I went on vacation, I stopped up north
at my dad's house and I had a couple of
(24:11):
buddies over that I hadn't seen in a while, and
we were just still sort of chilling in my basement
and one of my friends said, you know, like, oh,
your dad's got a lot of weird stuff. He has
things from Vietnam and uh, all all through Europe and
stuff where he was in the service. Well, so does
my uncle. And one of the things was this lamp.
And I said, hey, do you know what that lamp is? No, like,
(24:33):
that is a camel testical lamp. Oh, it is a
hand painted lamp that my entire life has been in
my house and I didn't know what it was for
probably twenty.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Is it an important room? Are we talking like a
side room.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Well it's now in it's now in my family room
where like the TV and stuff is. However, there was
parts of my life that it was in my older
brother's room. Then it was my night light smitty for years.
That's really uncomfort and I had no idea. I just
knew that it was my uncles and that he brought
it back from Uh he brought it back from somewhere
in Europe when he was back backing through there in
the seventies. While it turns out it was from the
(25:09):
Middle East and I had and once I found out
it was a camel testicle, I have told people this
shmitty and now I have to come clean about something.
So I found out this video at mac does Mornings
or whatever of me seeing this and schmidty, Uh, this
is what I said in the video, which I just
I hate myself sometimes. Is a camel testical lamp? One
more time, camel testical hand painted lamp. It's a thing.
(25:31):
Google it. So I hate myself because I said it's
a thing. Google it, and I think that's so annoying
when people do stuff like that, and then it's even
worse to know that I did Google it. Schmitty and
this entire time. First off, if you google hand painted cambell,
it'll come up. A picture of that thing will come
right up for you. Basically, it's not a testing, it's
a bladder.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
That makes way.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
More sense more like everybody, I'm sure it was from
like the olden days. That's how hunters, gatherers, shepherds.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
We had things forty five plus years now chilling in
my house. In this entire time, my father's been telling
everybody that it's a testing, and instead I did google
it and it's a bladderschmitty. So that's been rocky. So well,
your kids starts.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
School already this morning and learning that from their science
teachers who are far more you know, capable of that
than us. It's just so perfect and it really makes
us all feel good. We're in this together as parents.
Hunter Renfro is an NFL star with the Panthers. But see,
his contract was up last season, so he's been waiting
all summer to see if they're going to end up
(26:36):
re signing him. Well, the call came down and it
was ignored and ignored some more and actually ignored ten
times because Hunter's a dad and his kids were watching
Bluie and.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
My daughter's running the Carl.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I guess I had like ten minute phone calls from
Dan David, my agent, and they were all just ignored
my daughter's watching Blue or so. Yes, it turns out
Hunter has resigned with the Carolina Panthers, but of course
not after losing out to Blue, which every mom, dad, grandma,
grandpa listening right now gets all too well.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
That's awesome, all right, Benny. This is just a little wild.
Jim Clawson and his partner Marianna, they started with a
phone call ringing off the hook back in January this year,
and it was because they were getting phone calls asking
questions about one of North America's top grill companies. This
is pretty wild. So basically they were able to get
(27:35):
phone calls because of a mix up between Google and
the company that was putting this together, and so without
them realizing it, they started actually getting calls from Napoleon
grill customers about how do they fix it, troubleshooting issues,
things about warranties, and at first the couple was just
kind of baffled. They figured everything out, but that's when
(27:57):
they started just answering the questions as they were Polyan
grill owners themselves. As they explained to their local news,
he didn't hang up.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
He actually talked to him. She says, like, well, what
is it that you're looking for? He kind of started
becoming like a without knowing it, just his personality started
becoming a customer rep.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
That was in January, and then there was.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
Another phone call a couple days later, but hundreds, We
screened hundreds and hundreds of calls.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It was second nature to help out.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
This became like their thing, getting calls sometimes as early
as four o'clock in the morning, at his late as
nine o'clock at night, because it was the entire customer
service line for North America for ending Napoleon Grill owner. Well,
word eventually reached them in Napoleon Grills and they were
just blown away.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Jim and Marianna took it upon themselves to answer some
questions as they are Napoleon Grill owners.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
We didn't ask them to do this, but they jumped
right in and did it anyway.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
And because of that, they gave them a three thousand
dollars grill and named them honorary Customer Service Ambassadors the grill.
What an odd thing to do to pick up the
phone and be like, you know what, you don't need
to call anybody else. I think I can handle this one.
Feeling good coming at you a couple times a day.
I always want to share something alsome out there. Let's
do it again Tomorrow six forty five and nine twenty
(29:12):
on Star Mack and Schmidty in the morning weekday starting
at six am on Star one oh five point seven
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