Mac and Shmitty September 5, 2025

Mac and Shmitty September 5, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Bam. It gets my day going and makes me laugh
it Mac and Schmidty in the morning on Star one
O five point seven, Well, good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Smitten Yes, and happy Friday.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Oh tg if it is a good feeling. And you know,
we talked to the beginning of the week whether or
not this would be like, oh my gosh, it's already Friday.
They're like, finally it's Friday. I gotta say, I can't
believe it's already Friday. Yeah, a little bit. This was
a Normally I do feel like the short weeks, the
holiday weeks, they're long weeks. This week didn't feel super long.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Man.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I got we had something every single day, and I'm
just like, whooh, here we go into the weekend where
we have seventeen things to do. So I'm right there
with you, Mom and dad.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
That sounds about right today though, right now, starting down
a little bit wet in a lot of areas around
West Michigan, wan temperatures only in the mid fifties. Not
gonna get too much warmer today is the low sixties
is where we're gonna top out. It's the winds that
are gonna be a big deal today. At the lake shore,
you can expect those red flags to be flying as
parts of Lake Michigan, expecting like twenty foot ways.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, we're gonna go out there tonight. We're going to
watch it. I said something really funny. If you guys
don't follow Michigan storm chasers on Facebook, they were actually
talking about this last night because it is going to
get really really choppy out there, and they said, here
you go, you've got a little teaser of that awesome,
awesome winter coming. You're twenty four hour free trial to

(01:28):
the Gales of November begins. Now.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
I always think about those West Michigan surfers, like, is
this their time to shine? Are they thinking about this?
You see waves like this and you're like, oh, man,
I can't wait. God.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Chris lived with a surfer in college. We went out
and we would film him every single time the waves
were over ten.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, he loved it, only cooler and more athletic. I'd
be out there with you guys for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Movies, music and all the gossip in one place.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
A big laws in the fashion world. Georgio Armani, the
Italian designer who turned understated elegance into a multi billion
dollar fashion empire has died. His fashion house confirmed it
late yesterday morning. Ninety one years old, Armani died at home,
one of the most recognizable names and faces in the

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global fashion industry. There was some concern when he missed
Milan Fashion Week in June. It's the first time ever
he hadn't been there for the previews of the Spring
and Summer twenty twenty six men'swear collection, and he was
planning a major event to celebrate fifty years of his
signature Georgio Armani Fashion House. It was a very very

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cool story. It started with an unlined jacket, a simple
pair of pants and an urban palette Italian ready to
wear style that put him on the map starting in
the seventies, an absolute empire. The house and members of
his family tome talking about the indelible legacy he has left.
So again, ninety one years old, a pretty incredible life

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for Georgio Armani.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
I mean, when you think of high end fashion, I
don't think that there's a name more recognized around the world.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Perhaps to them our money, they're Sachi and like maybe yeah,
I would say he's in the top three for sure,
just really fantastic. Caitlin Clark is missing the rest of
this season due to a right groin injury. This is
not just bad news for the Indiana Fever, bad news
for the WNBA. In a statement yesterday, Clark said, I'd

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hoped to share a better update, but I will not
be returning to play this season. I've spent hours in
the gym every day with the singular goal of getting
back out there. Disappointed isn't a big enough word to
describe how I'm feeling. I want to thank everyone who
had my back through all the uncertainty. This has been
incredibly frustrating, but even in the bad, there's good. The
way the fans continue to show up for me and

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for the Fever brought me so much joy and very
important perspective. So Clark was actually injured in a July
fifteenth game and then later sustained a bone bruise. So
she's just done. She's got to work on herself. She said.
If I have any chance of coming back next season,
I've got to be done the rest of this season.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
So that's bummer. It's a huge bummer. As you said,
really bad news for the WNBA, as this effectively hurts
them into the tune of like hundreds of millions of dollars.
I've got to think in terms of the amount of
extra tickets. This was supposed to be cantling Clark's coronation season.
I mean, last year, a workie season, she finished like
fourth in the MVP. This year, everybody big expectations just

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didn't get a chance.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
So I will point out the WNBA did say the
league had a record attendance this season, even with her
missing more than half of it. They still showed up.
They still showed up. Finally, this is going to be
legend against legend. Two of the greatest boxers of all
time have agreed to a fight. Mike Tyson and Floyd
Mayweather have officially signed a deal to square off a

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ast one another. The match is going to be put
on by CSI Sports and Fight Sports. No official date,
but it's currently scheduled for some time in the spring
of next year. Of course, Floyd Mayweather, from right here
in Grand Rapids, who is as surprised as everyone else.
He says this fight is something neither the world nor
I ever thought would or could happen. However, boxing has

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entered a new era of the unpredictable, and this fight
is as unpredictable as it.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yes, well whatever, I'm sorry. I think these are terrible
in the sense. These guys are over the hill. There
is nothing about this that sounds entertaining other than their names.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
To me, schmitdi it's must must have somebody thinking they're
going to make a bunch of money. Got all your
scoop at West Michigan Star dot com.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Well it's Friday. Let's get rolling into the weekend. Feeling
good right now? I'm STARVEO five fourty seven is Mack
and schmitty and Schmitty. I gotta tell you. If you
thoughts pigmy hippos were cute, wait till you see a
tiny take me hippo. Very cute and even tiny or
tiny hippo has been born at the John Ball's Zoo.
Uh Penelope, the pigmy hippie hippo over there just birth

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the calf on Wednesday. Now. The unnamed baby was eleven pounds.
That is the first pigmy hippo ever born at the zoo.
As that incredible exhibit over there just opened back in
June to twenty twenty three, on a social media statement
the zoo saying pigmy hippos are an endangered species with
fewer than twenty five hundred estimated in the wild, so
each birth is a vital step for conservation. Our animal

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care team is keeping a close eye on mom and
baby as they bond behind the scenes, and both are
doing well now. The pregnancy was actually announced back in July.
You're gonna learn some things about pigmy hippos right here.
Typically it takes between six and seven months to birth
the baby. Pigmy hippos can have babies starting at age
two and can carry calves all the way up to

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age thirty, with an average lifespan of the fifty years
old sh bitby all right, a little tiny hippo like that?
A fifty year old hippo. That's crazy, all right.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
If you are ready for some new art to hit
West Michigan, you need to take a trip to Kalamazoo.
This is so incredible. Multiple murals being painted all around
the downtown this weekend a new event called Brush the Block.
It's the first time something like this has ever happened.
Multiple locations like the stamped Robin Farmer's Alley, the Haymarket

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Building is going to be doused in color. It's all
thanks to the ideas behind artists Heidi Weiss and Chaf Hensley,
who said we just needed some more color downtown.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
I think we have so many artists, hundreds of really
talented and wonderful people that are making things of all
voices and create moments of color and happiness and something
that's normally pretty hard edged.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah hard edged, no more, Chafe Tael Slack seventeen. We're
missing a real abundance of public art and we are
about to change that in Alamazoo. So they're actually going
to be painting through Sunday, and then you can go
and see all of the incredible murals. A few of
them all post up on our Instagram at West Michigan Star.
They are stunning and I love public art.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Are you an artist at all, Sminy King?

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Not even a little bit. That's why I love to
look at it and think beautiful people like my friend
Hannah at Lions and Rabbits.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
I am with you on that one, all right, feeling
good coming at you a couple times a day. I
always want to spread a little positivity for your morning.
We'll do it again coming up at nine twenty here
on Star.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Movies, Music and all the gossip in one place.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
It's the celebrities gooop on Star one oh five point seven.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, we knew that the world is in love with
Taylor Swift and that was on display yesterday as Travis
Kelcey spoke further on his engagement to the pop star.
The Chiefs tight end alongside his quarterback Patrick Mahomes met
with South Paulo reporters in Brazil to freeview tonight's international
matchup against the LA Chargers, and of course Swift did

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come up. Kelsey questioned about how his life has changed
since the big proposal and into true Travis form, he
did start with a little bit of a joke about
that new ring.

Speaker 6 (09:12):
Yeah, exactly, I got one more ring from it.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
I would say.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Two of four.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
Come the first super Bowl, I would say, uh, you know,
I've ever since I've been Dan, Taylor's life has been fun.
You know, it's been exciting.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Obviously a lot more eyes and.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
I accept that, but it's just, uh, it's a I'm
living living life, you know, living on a high.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
I guess, yeah, it's a dream, which is very cute.
He was also asked, this is the final year on
the contract with marriage and potential family impending. Are we
done this to dance for who?

Speaker 7 (09:49):
For me?

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Man?

Speaker 6 (09:50):
It's the last one on the contract right now. But
I'll tell you what, I'm feeling young and I'm feeling
ready to rock baby. I mean, look, and this thing
was a little tighter last year.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
It was actually a really fun press conference. I've got
to say, Brazil knows how.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
To do it. There was a point at which basically
Patrick Mahomes accused him of not knowing where Brazil was
on a map. When Travis broke into a Kermit the
Frog slash. Patrick Mahomes's voice that was dead on. He
could nail that impressions.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
I've got it up for you at West Michigan Star
dot com. Well less than twenty four hours after announcing
a surprise on its way, Justin Bieber has released a
second surprise album for the summer. Swag two dropped just
a few hours ago. The follow up to his surprise
album that dropped in July, called Swag twenty three new

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songs on the record, guest appearances from Will Be the Car, Hurricane,
Chris and Eddie Benjamin. It was a little weird. So
a lot of billboards popped up around London and West
Hollywood yesterday, very similar to the Swag reveal, and everyone
was told midnight and then midnight came, we didn't have anything,
and then one am came then and actually, if you

(10:59):
look at Ver's Instagram this morning, he's sharing text messages
with his GM, with his agent with the production company,
and he's like, listen, guys, it's coming. Sorry for the wait,
keep clicking refreshed, I promise, not really sure what's going on,
but it's coming. It did finally drop early early this morning,
and so far I haven't gotten a chance to listen
to a whole ton of it, but fans are loving it.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Good. Well, I was gonna say, because that first, the
first Spag drop, I didn't think there was very many
like biaber bangers on there.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I liked the slower Biber though, which I do like Daisies.
And it did premiere at number two on the Billboard charts,
so I'm sure it's going to be a monster weekend
for Beabs again this weekend. Finally, fans of our favorite
blue heel that dog as my kids say it, because
they don't realize it's Australian. This is happening. The Blue
Movie has unveiled an official release date yesterday. No doubt

(11:52):
you saw at least your parent friends sharing this with
a big post reading hooray the all new feature length
Blue Movie coming to Cinema's August sixth, twenty twenty seven.
So we still have about a two year wait. Very
very excited Disney and BBC Studios teaming up on this,
expecting it to be positively massive.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
We had an excited grandfather Colleen earlier talking about this
very same thing, and he was like, why does it
take two years to put a cartoon out?

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Because they've got the camp tour, they've got the cookbook,
they've got Bluey everything in between. Then and now, all right,
your selip scoop at West Michigan.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Start alcohol I F one point seven. It's Mack and Schmidty.
And you just said this would make me move. What happened?

Speaker 2 (12:38):
This is wild. So one of my very very best
friends lives over in the Detroit area. Specifically, she lives
in Sterling Heights. And that's important to know because the
neighborhoods are all close together. The houses are very close together,
as are most of the suburbs of Detroit. So she
comes home from work yesterday and she's got a level home,

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so her kitchen's kind of a little like half underground,
and then she's got these big beautiful windows that are
kind of at like ground level. So she comes home
there is glass all over her kitchen everywhere, and she's like, immediately,
what's going on? Have I been broken into? She's trying

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to figure out because it's just sprayed across her kitchen,
and then she looks over to where it came from.
There is a bullet hole in her glass. There is
like she sent me pictures of this. There is a
like decent sized looking bullet hole in her glass. And
she's like, oh my gosh, what what do I do?

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What is this right? And it looks like someone had
shopped through her window, and so she's freaking out. She's
like considering calling the police. And then she texts her
neighbor that lives behind her and is like, hey, just
a heads up, are you guys okay? This name comes
running over and he is absolutely mortified. He's like, I'm

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so sorry. I was hunting squirrels and I don't know
where the bullet went.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Are you kidding me. That's when I called the cops, stunned.
Did you have kids?

Speaker 2 (14:20):
No? But this is not she knows about this. This
is something she had figured out months and months ago
because last winter, every time the snow would melt, she
kept finding squirrel carcasses in her backyard and she couldn't
figure out why. She thought that she had like poisoned grass.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Wait, okay, my dad kills squirrels. Now they think about
is it a pellet gun?

Speaker 2 (14:40):
I don't know. So my husband said the same thing
because I I showed him this, and I'm like, it's
got to be a pellet gun, because I can't imagine
you would you would fire something, but that can still
end you, That could end you. And I'm like, the
way it was in the window, I'm like, girl, had
you been sitting at your kid which and table, that

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would have hit your head. Like that's the way her
house is laid out, right. So he comes running over.
He's like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. I didn't
know where it went. I had no idea. Like me,
let me, I'm gonna pay for the window, whatever you
need on the house, invoice me for everything. I'm really,
really sorry, I'd like, that's very like, he's a super
kind neighbor. She knows him very well. But I'm looking

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at her, and then she calls me, and I'm like, babe,
I don't know if I wouldn't say, hey, how about
we stop trying to end the squirrel's life because you
almost ended mine?

Speaker 1 (15:34):
I mean, if that isn't that insane? I think it's
absolutely nuts. I probably would have called the cops right
then and there. I don't even the fact that, even
if I know the neighbor, especially if it was a
real bullet, like if they were firing out.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
No, it's not, it's not he it's a pellet gun.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
She just she figured that out. He came over. He's like,
I'm so sorry here it is so I don't know
if you're supposed to I don't know if that's illegal.
I guess I have no idea. I'm not really some
I'm not a hunter of squirrels.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
I can tell you that if it goes into somebody
else's house and breaks their property, that part's illegal. That
parts again, I.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Wonder what a cop would do. Man, if we have
a police officer listening, I'd be really curious as to like,
what you do in this situation other than say, well,
he's promising to pay for the damaged property. So because
I'm thinking he's been doing this for months and she's like, gosh,
that feels weird, and now that it's come through her window,
I'm like, girl, you need you need to take that.

(16:24):
Guess take that, Pelly.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
The second crime is if you if she was finding
the squirrel carcasses. Yeah, after that in the winter, like
he's wasting the meat, he's not even eating. Girl.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
No, that was an entire six month investigation within our
friend group trying to figure out where the dead squirrels
were coming from. And then she realized her neighbor has
been hunting them because it's become such a problem in
his yard. Yeah, but through the kitchen windows.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
I don't think I want them. I don't think I
want that neighbor behind me anymore.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
I'm interested, like, does this cause you to move or
is there someone, maybe a law enforcement that knows how
you would handle something like this? Six one six four
five eight one oh five seven.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
That's intent.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
I told you it was crazy. I was absolutely gobsmacked
last night when she.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Called, Because you're right, you're not thinking pellet gun for
a for a minute, for a hot minute, you are like,
somebody fired a bullet into my home. Like that's scary.
Mack and Schmidty in the morning on Star one oh
five point seven.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
Time does spilling sea?

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Take time?

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Spill the too, sweetheart, It is time to spill it.
But it is your tea, all right, your drama. We
take it each shit every week in tea time, and
then we want you to weigh in six one six, four, five,
eight one five seven. This one actually coming from a
dad up in your neck of the woods in Rockford. Schmidty,
uh San, Mac and Schmidty. So, my wife is in
a bit of a jam with back to school stuff.
We've got a neighborhood carpool going, but now one of

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our neighbors wants to add their son. The problem. Our
son thinks this kid is really mean and doesn't want
him in the carpool. He got pretty upset about it
and said the kid used to bully him on the
bus last year. Personally, I think we should just give
it a shot and address it if an issue comes up.
But I can see my wife stressing over it. She
doesn't want to exclude the kid, but She also doesn't

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want to put our son in an uncomfortable situation, and
she doesn't want to make things awkward with a neighbor either.
She's the one who drives in the pool, so I'm
just here to support her as we figure out the
best way to handle this without causing any more drama.
First off, prompts to the dad who's holding everything at
arms distance, like, Hey, it's on you.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Whatever you do, because I don't want to have to
drive them A.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Little bit on that one. That was the vibe I
was getting. I kind of agree with the dad though,
I think, like, yes, bullying is a serious thing, but
maybe spending time with an adult present right there is
what it would take to solve it. I don't know,
it's a neighbor.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
You ever been in a carpool? No drivers up front,
have no idea what chaos is happening in the bag.
I carpooled with six kids.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
It has to be a bus though. A bus is
a wild place.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
I gotta tell you, not really, not from my experience,
but you know what, what doesn't kill you makes it stronger.
We had a very interesting year of carpooling, and it
gave me some great stories to use later in life
in my care.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
There you go, all right six one six, four five,
eight one five seven. We've got Becky in grand Rapids list,
and what do you think Becky should uh she picked
the kid up, give him a ride or what I mean?

Speaker 8 (19:11):
Always family like I would. I would not betray my
son that way, because then he won't trust me in
the future. Like I would go to the neighbor and say, hey,
my you know your son mistreats my son. If we
can address that, then maybe in the future, but for now.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
No, Yeah, I mean I guess if it's if it's
bad enough, I can see going.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Together to make it awkward with the neighbor.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
You really do.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Right now, there's I'd like to know why he's not
on the bus this year.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Well maybe it's a carpool that like they just decided
to all get into and wants to avoid the bus.
I don't know. That's what I would think you would do,
but I don't know. We got Mark from Grandville on here.
What do you think Mark, would you want to pick
up the bully?

Speaker 7 (19:44):
I would say, you know what, give him a ride
to school? Like start giving this kid rides to school,
and pretty soon he's going to have to stop being
a bully. Yeah, because that's the best way to change
a bully, because if he's in the car with everyone,
then you know they're all going to end up being friends,
I think, and she's not really going to feel like

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bullying anybody after that.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Again, I had a very different experience.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
What was there enemies in your car?

Speaker 9 (20:11):
RL?

Speaker 2 (20:11):
I want to hear more like Sally on Facebook? We
talk in young kids are ready to graduate, young child
might be taught better. Older kids got to accept the consequences.
Like what what age group are we talking here?

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah? But whatever age group in ish MIDDI do you
want your kids to have to face things like that
or just be like no, no, no, no, we won't even
expose you to it.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
I don't know. I mean it's I think again, if
the kid is a bully and it isn't getting better,
I don't think you want to be involved with those
parents at all, because that's where it comes down, all right,
six one six four eight, one oh five seven? A
bully in the carpool? What are you doing about it?

Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's right? And we'll take your drama to t time
eat you every Friday. Go ahead and send us. We'll
keep you anonymous if you like, so send us that
dirt you've got all right at West Michigan, Star.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
Moti's Music and all the gossip in one place.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's the celebrities group on Star one oh five point seven.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Well, we're gonna be talking a lot about the impending
Taylor and Travis wedding, But how about this legendary band,
Foreigner has officially asked to be their wedding band. That's right,
the rock group hoping to be a big part of
the couple's big day. Writing on Instagram, Dear Taylor Swift

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and Travis Kelsey, we know what love is. We spent
forty years figuring it out, and now you guys have
to please accept this as our formal offer to be
your wedding band. The comments went crazy, with a lot
of people saying, listen, this could be really, really fun.
We still don't have too many details about it. It

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is being rumored that they will tie the knot at
Taylor's Rhode Island mansion, which just happens to be undergoing
about a seven million dollar renovation as we speak.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
You know, I think it's I think a publicist for
Foreigner thought they had themselves a genius day. Everybody brilliant marketing.
At the same time, I feel like Taylor's probably got
a few really good friends that might be a little
higher on the marquee than.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
What you want to perform at your friend's wedding. I
would want to dance to foreigner at a friend's wedding.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
That wouldn't be terrible. I gotta think though, that Taylor's wedding.
Whoever performs, it's like the Super Bowl. You don't get paid,
you just get the exposure. Uh.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Philadelphia defensive tackled Jalen Carter apologizing after that shock move
last night, the very first game of Week one in
the NFL, with the Eagles taking on the Cowboys, Carter
ejected before the game even started for spitting on Dallas
quarterback Dak Prescott moments after the coin flip. Carter tossed

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for unsportsmanlike conduct. This was six seconds into the start
of the opener. Now here's what's interesting. Did Dak spit first?
There is some new video that has been released and
it looks like that may have been the case. So
here's the deal. You could see very clearly during the
NBC broadcast Carter spitting on Prescott's jersey before backing away,

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Prescott motioning to an official who threw the flag and
obviously ejected Carter Dak then saying, I simply spit straight ahead,
as I do all the time. The saliva landed in
an area near Carter, and apparently Carter then took that
as a slight to him and said, are you trying
to spit on me? That's what went down. This was

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Carter after the game, talking to reporters.

Speaker 10 (23:38):
It was intense for me, and you know, I wanted
to be out there with the god so bad and
just to support and help, even just then on the sideline.
But you know, things went how I went. You know,
we just got to move on. I've made a promise
to them boys, it won't happen again.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
But Jack, say anything or was there anything that just
made you walk over there?

Speaker 10 (23:54):
And I don't know, you know, when things started to
come out and you started seeing anything, you can go
off that, but I don't got none to say it.
I trying to a teen strape.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah, talking to ESPN on that. A lot of fans
wondering this morning why there wasn't maybe some more video
replay in the event that he did think he had
been spit on first who both guys deserve some kind
of punishment here. It's very interesting Philly ended up taking
it last night twenty four.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Over twenty Yeah, you spit on another grown man. You
could expect some feelings to come from that, Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
And finally, Miss Rachel is making every mom and dad
feel so much better about screen time because even her
own kids prefer mom on YouTube versus mom in real life.
Her and the fam just got back from a trip
and she posted this to her Instagram yesterday.

Speaker 8 (24:41):
I have a confession.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
This is embarrassing to admit.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
We took the kids on a three and a half
hour plane ride.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
I sang so many songs to Susie for two hours. Okay,
I did the Miss Rachel Live show for two hours.
I had to put on the real show.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
Yeah, I had to put on baby learning from my
own baby on the plane and she liked it much
better than the live show.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Your kid likes Miss Rachel better than the actual mom,
Miss Rachel.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
She said.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
The best part was the woman who did not know
who she was sitting next to them went, Wow, your
daughter really loves that show. Wow.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
You're an insane person. I'm so happy to sit next
to you.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
All right, all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan
Star dot.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Com five point seven. Let's throw down on this Friday
morning battle at the sexiest time and looking to get
you into the red and white game to see our
Detroit Red Wings and our Grand Rapids Griffins hit the ice.
Some legends coming to town for this schmitting gay time.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
And you know, we were talking to one of the
GM's there and he said, we are hockeytown West. So
if you have not got a chance to really experience this,
it is so cool. It's coming up Sunday, September twenty
first Battle of the Sexes is getting you in the
family in one hundred women survey, name a famous extinct.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Animal you know, be hard, I can tell you anything.
Saber tooth, I mean outside of Walris's you see like
those hanging tuests. Imagining a tiger with like big giant ones.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Please you won't have to imagine. If science is making
it happen, we are Jurassic parking our way through all
of the extinct animals.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
You guys, Life finds a way, all right.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
What is that number one answer, though one hundred women
surveyed name a famous extinct animal six one, six, four
five eight, one oh five seven Caller seven, you got
the number one answer, and you are going to the
Red and White game with Star Win oh five point
seven Star.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Who's this?

Speaker 8 (26:31):
Mary?

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Very happy Friday to you, Mary, Yes, Friday, Thank you.
Where are you calling from today?

Speaker 7 (26:37):
All right now, I'm in Georgetown.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
All right, Well, let's see if we can get to
these tickets for the Red and Wide game with our
Griffins and Red Wings. Mary, just gotta tell me what
one hundred women were asked to name a famous extinct animal.
What do you think their top answer was? Mary? And
I'm just gonna give you a hint that I think
most people's top answer is not going to be the
right one. But go right ahead, tell me what you

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think it is.

Speaker 8 (27:01):
I'm going to guess what I'm wrong and say a dinosaur.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
That's what I thought people would guess in dinosaur is
actually the number four most common answer. Somehow, I know it.
I know it. That's why I said it. I'm sorry, Mary,
I'm sorry that have a good day you Bye bye, Hi, Star.
Who's this? Who is it? Brin Bryn, Hi, brin, Happy Friday.

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Are you excited for a weekend?

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, me too? Hold are you briny? Alrightighty? So does
that make you a third grader? A fourth grader? Man,
the big fourth grade? Shout out your school. There we go,
Shout out to the kids and Papa. There Brynn, trying
to get the win for Battle of the Sex is
one hundred women. Brynn were asked to name a famous

(27:50):
extinct animal. And I got to give you a big
hint here, Brynn, because Mary just called and she guessed
what I think a lot of people would guess, which
is dinosaurs. Dinosaurs was the number four most common answer,
So it's gonna be something else. What do you think
it is? You know what unicorns lived long ago in

(28:13):
the magical times, but I don't know if they're officially
an extinct animal. So I'm gonna give you one more
guest because that one was too.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Cute, Willie Mammoth.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
There we go. It just took a little help from
Mom to get that one. Congratulations, guys, you going to
the Red and White game with our Griffins at Red Wings.
You are so welcome. Brand You have an awesome day
at school today. A great weekend and even better time
when you get to go see our Detroit Red Wings
and our Grand Rapids Griffins in the Red and White game. Okay,

(28:43):
thank good, on it to you. It's magic, spitty and schmitty.
One point seven billion dollars gets any and all of
us fantasizing about what that kind of ridiculous about every time,
But my kids are obsessed with it this time around.
They have been since Monday's drawing. Basically every single day.

(29:05):
There have been multiple conversations about what's gonna happen when
we win the power ball.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
I respect the manifesting I do, and they are taking
it in two completely different directions because my daughter is
just adding things to her list the things that we
would get.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Can I have this if we win the power ball,
we win the lotto, and it is everything from horses
and goats and farms to a very specific type of
bunny called a Holland lopper. That is apparently the only
things she wants so she can get a billion her
hands on a billion dollars. What would it mean? While
I'd have a super cute bunny at home, got it

(29:41):
big time. My son just can't get over the math
behind the whole thing. He was blown away when it
was one point three million dollars, and I was like, well, actually, buddy,
when that's all said and done, you probably wind up
with about three hundred and.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Fififty three billion. Yeah, one two million dollar winners in
Michigan last time.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah. Yeah, when you done with the lump sum payment
and then the taxes that you really have to wind
up with like three hundred and fifty million dollars.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Think he said five eighty nine for the one point
three billion, Yes.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
For a lump sum, and then forty percent of that
has gone to taxes right away. That's how that works,
because you can either take it over thirty ars.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Which you should never do.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Everybody says, yeah, so you just take it and then
the government takes their forty percent. He was blown away
by that, like it was the thing that killed his
soul the most. He's like, wait a second, so you
only get like not even a half of your mind.
He was so upset at the idea that like, you
win one point three billion dollars, what do you really

(30:38):
get a little over three hundred million?

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Very excited. You should take a video of his first paycheck.
I love those when the kids open them and they're like, well,
wait a minute, I just worked nineteen hours last week.
It's like, sweetheart, you have a lot of other things
you now paid for too.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
He gets off the bus yesterday when he's you know,
he founds out that it's at one point seven and
he's like, Dad, He's like, what do you get now?
Like four hundred and fifty million dollars? That's it? And
I go, buddy, if you think of four hundred and
fifty million dollars is a small amount of money, this
is over for us. Buddy.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
By the way, shout out today that party World on Alpine.
That's where to go for your lottery tickets. People.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Hey, good luck to you if you're playing the power ball,
and please remember your favorite radio host. Okay, let's do this.
We want to roll into the weekend with some positivity
pushing you forward. All right, feeling good right now? And
start with I'll five four seven. What's all right?

Speaker 2 (31:26):
As a mom, let's keep this viral trend going. Megan
Cannon is a mom in Oklahoma and shared a video
to TikTok that has amassed millions of views. Because every
start to the school year it's a tradition for freshmen
to kiss their mom. That's right at drop off. The

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entire school is outside with signs chanting kiss your mom,
Kiss your mom. And when it finally happens, they are
the sweetest group of videos. You guys, These freshmen in
high school, who you know would typically ask you to

(32:08):
drop them off seven blocks away so people don't think
they're even slightly related to you, are driving right up
to that front door and giving their mom a goodbye kiss.
And I was an absolute mess. It is the sweetest thing.
Canon says. They have been doing this for years at
the school and it's just a really positive way to
start the year.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
That is the funniest freshman tradition I have ever heard
of in my life.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Fabulous. I've got those videos up on our Instagram at
West Michigan Star.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
All right, too good, h Schmimi. Of course, you know
with these fall fields we got out there, it's corn
maze season. Well there's one in particular that is sane,
Thank you to two very deserving health groups, and that
is Crane or Shirts. And it might look like a
normal corn maze, but from up above, what you actually
see is there's a tribute to the Shriners Children's Hospital

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in Philadelphia as well as our very own Merry Free
Bed Rehab Hospital. See Trevor, He's one of the owners
there and his family wanted to send this message because
of the care of the Shriners provided in Philadelphia after
his son Arlow Guy, diagnosed with herbs palsy shortly after
his born. Treffor's wife Taitlan actually told thirteen on Your
Side that he end up having a nerve transfer surgery

(33:18):
where they took nerves from inside his armpit and moved
them up to where his spinal cord is. As you
can imagine, a very intense surgery. So not only did
that miraculous hearing healing story happen to the Crane family,
but back in twenty fifteen, Trevor's brother Taylor was in
a dirt byte crash that gave him serious injuries, including
brain injuries, but with the help of Mary Free Bed,

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he was able to recover way faster than doctors initially anticipated.
They say that is all because of the incredible people
there at Mary FREEBD, and he just talked about how
appreciative he was for these two organizations.

Speaker 9 (33:54):
They can really tell everybody that works there is doing
it because they truly really love what they do, you know,
even though it's such a tough situation to put yourself in.
So I just I always very grateful for that.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
I think a lot of people have been affected by
Shriners and Mary free Bed, so something that I wanted
to do, not just for myself. It directly affected us,
but like I know, there's a lot of people out
there that this affected.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yeah, a lot of people that they affected. Of course
in a way to say thank you too, as they
went ahead and actually put up QR code so that
people could donate to those organizations as they went through.
So again, Crane Orchards and Fennville. That maze is now opened,
by the way, if.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
You want to check it out, if you want to
do more, you can join me November eighth at the
gala for Mary free Bed. They are wonderful people and
they are doing wonderfully cool things in West Michigan.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
That's right. Feeling good, Kevin at you a couple times today.
I always want to tell you about those that are
doing amazing things out there. Let's do it on Monday
six forty five and nine twenty here on Star Mack
and Schmidty in the morning weekdays, starting at six am
on Star one oh five point seven