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Mack and Schmidty in the morning onWest Michigan's Christmas station, Star one oh
five point seven. Almost time tojust drown gravy. I am ready for
it. Good morning to you,Good morning, and happy Friday Field to
all of you that hopefully have tomorrowand Friday off. That should feel pretty
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good this morning. I know mykids are relishing in the fact that they
have today off of school. Yeah, I think pretty much all of West
Michigan is off today. Was thathow it was when we were kids?
I thought I remember doing like halfdays on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. But
you know who knows been I don'tknow what it's seventy sixty five, seventy
years somewhere in there. It feelslike since I had that opportunity. Yeah,
but they're loving it. That's formovies, music, and all the
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gossip in one place. It's thecelebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Well, actress Susan Sarandon is facingserious backlash over what many fans are
calling her pro Palestinian and anti Jewishcomments. This actually happened Friday at a
protest in New York City. Thereare a lot of people that are afraid,
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afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of
what it feels like to be aMuslim in this country, so often subjected
to violence. Well, someone whowants none of this drama. Her talent
agency, which just dropped her.The Oscar winning actress, is no longer
being represented by United Talent Agency,where tons of staffers were apparently very upset
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by her strong views on the IsraelHamas War. No word on whether another
talent agency is even close to consideringpicking her up. You know, she's
been involved in some obviously still somebig acting roles over the last few years.
There's money behind her, is allI mean by that, And she's
just always been somebody who's outspoken.I guess she took you that this was
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a possibility. Very vocal. JohnHamm, the mad Men actor and star
of Fargo season five, is revealinghis pierced nipples are fake. He plays
a sheriff in season five of theshow, which premiered on FX this week,
and a lot of viewers were verystartled to see him in a hot
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tub scene where it looked like hehad nipple rings. He had to talk
about it at a screening with apanel of other co stars, and according
to Variety, he said, no, this is all a fake. I
had to have some very blue latexput on my chest and then they cast
a resoundingly lifelike pair of nipples,which they then pierced and placed over my
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own. In fact, many peopledon't know this. There is a dedicated
nippleologist on staff. It's just science. Then I wonder if you go to
school for that, and if theirmom is round. I am going to
google how much you make as anippleologist? Please? Yeah. And finally,
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Martha Stewart says no, she isnot canceling Thanksgiving. Fans were pretty
shocked by what she said on theKelly Clarkson Show. She said, no,
she's just changing her plans. Sheshared an Instagram. It is not
true that I'm giving up Thanksgiving.What I canceled was the planned gathering at
my house due to guest cancelations andnew travel plans. Instead, I am
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busy prepping get this in true Marthaform, thirty different pies. I promised
to bring a stuffed and roasted twentypound organic heritage bird, and I will
also be working at a bunch ofother stuff. For her friend Stephen Sill's
buffet. She plans to bake lemontarts, cranberry tarts, chocolate, peacom
pies, peacan pies, pumpkin pies, and even made a fun pie chart
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to statistically show how many pies willbe coming out of her kitchen tomorrow.
I like that. This is MarthaStewart toning things down, I know,
and she'll still have time to havemade at least five reads for all of
the doors on her friend's home.Yeah, all of your celeb scoop a
West Michigan Star dot com. Alot of people going back to their hometowns,
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and I think it's also a reasonfor a lot of schools, a
lot of classes to do high schoolreunions over holiday weekends sometimes schmidtybayh you get
everybody back together. Well that's howI feel too. I asked this last
night. Our high school reunions obsoleteat this point because my wife went through,
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I don't know, up and downfive different stages of I'm going,
I'm not going, I'm going.I'm going to her twentieth high school reunion,
which is Saturday night in Detroit.I wouldn't even want to be reminded
it's been twenty years since I wasin high school. I am with you.
I blew off my five year,ten year, fifteen year, and
twenty year high school reunions and didnot even for a second think that I
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missed out on something. If anything, I would just see some of the
drama from my you know, highschool facebook pages, group pages and stuff
like that, people complaining about ticketprices and whether there you go. I'll
have social media, so the onlypeople you want to know about you already
know about well. And that's whatI wanted to get at too, is
I feel like the older you are, the more important these high school reunions
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are because a there's just more ofa chance that you aren't connected on social
media. But as you move forward, especially people around our age who were
in high school and college, asthe advent of social media sort of blew
up, Like what don't you knowabout classmates that you care about and think
about what You're not sure what theiroccupation is, it's written on their Facebook
page. You're not sure how manykids they have, Well, it's on
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their Facebook. My mom is sixtyseven, my dad is sixty eight.
They are super active on social media. They have reconnected with all of the
people from high school they wanted toso, like, I don't see any
point to a reunion period. Yeah, it's she has got it in her
head because she went to a highschool where she graduated with hundreds and hundreds
of kids. I think our graduatingclass was like over six hundred kids.
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Mine was like a hundred, andI knew everybody. I knew every one
of their names. I had knownmost of them. I did she want
to go? I think it's fomo. Actually, I think she's gonna have
fomo from high school. I thinkI think she believes that if she wasn't
there, a group of the peoplethat she hasn't seen in a long time
are all going to be there andthey're all going to have the greatest time
ever, and she'll have missed out. And in reality, what it's going
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to be is we're gonna get thereand she's gonna realize I don't remember any
of these people. I could seelike I would want to go if I
was rubbing my success in I'm like, I have started eight new companies.
Actually, it's weird. I didnot make the Forbes fifty this year,
but I was fifty one, somaybe next to your fingers crossed right,
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like if you're going that was like, that's some of the people I went
to high school with. That I'msure would come back and be like,
oh, I'm sorry, I flewin from Shanghai last night. I have
no desire. I'm good. That'sthe thing. I plan on fully embracing
my inner liar on this and romyand michelleing it. Yes, I want
to see how many people will believeI'm part of different career paths, Like
I want at least one group ofpeople to fully believe that I work for
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NASA and I'm working my butt offto to becoming ask everyone else is going
to be lying as well, doesanybody actually tell the truly how are you
doing? Oh? Well, Idon't know. It's hard to have four
kids and a husband, and they'regonna be like, I'm doing fantastic,
I started my own business, I'mbig online. Nobody's telling the truth that
a high school reunion. Well that'sthe other downfall though of social media.
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It wouldn't be very hard for themto figure out the absolutely full of it
too, Like there's that flip sideof it. But yeah, I don't
know that I care about going tohigh school reunions forever, because chances are
I still am connected with you.I probably knew what the last concert you
went to was, what you gotyour kids for Christmas already, and we
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get together and i'd ask you thingsabout your current life, even though I
haven't seen you in thirty years.Start or worse. You have the people
that are on Facebook, going doinglaundry, bought some shoes. How was
that? Did you wrap that up? That's who you're gonna get stuck to
next at the Spike punch Bowl.Sometimes because I get a good feeling,
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well, ye got some turkey tolook forward to. You got friends and
family that you're gonna see, oreven if you just have a couple of
days off of work, we're allthankful for that. But you know what,
we're here to get you feeling goodright now? On Star one'll five
point seven and man, there's anentire town and entire community who are very
thankful to an unassuming man named JeffreyHoltz. He was actually just a caretaker
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at a local mobile home park there, and you know, residents would see
him around town and he'd be wearingsort of tattered clothing riding his lawnmower.
Didn't have a car. First,he rode a bicycle for a while,
then he rode a lawnmower wherever heneeded to go. Sometimes he'd just be
sitting on the side of the roadon a bench reading the newspaper, watching
the cars go by. Did someodd jobs, but really just kind of
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kept to himself a little bit.Well. He passed away recently and the
townspeople were surprised to find out thatJeff was hiding a very big secret.
He was a secret millionaire who livedat the trailer home park, didn't have
a computer, didn't have a television, who didn't have any of the things
that you would think of as youknow, luxurize or money. Just a
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very frugal seeming guy who kind ofkept to himself, except with his best
friend, Edwin Smokey Smith, whosaid he was a different bird. For
sure. It was an interesting individual. He was very articulate, but he
did have some unusual characteristics or differentcharacteristics. I guess. He was not
one to miss work. He justshowed up and did what he had to.
But he didn't want the expense ofhaving a car, and when Jeff
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realized that he had a couple milliondollars in the bank. He didn't know
what he was going to do withit. The only parting thing I said
to him was remember the town ofHensdale, remember the town a Hensdale,
and that he did. Jeff passedaway just earlier this year Schmidty and left
the town of only about forty twohundred people three point eight million dollars.
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Can't wait to see what they dowith us three point eight million dollars.
They are looking at upgrading the infrastructure, giving it to online educational resources.
It's going to be all handled bya trust there in New Hampshire. But
of course, obviously the town notonly thrilled to be receiving this much needed
cash to help their local community,but shocked to find out that a local
staple who had been there forever theunassuming groundskeeper from the mobile home park,
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was actually a secret millionaire the wholetime. Never judge a book by its
cover, all right, there's somethingreally incredible going on this morning. It's
perfect if you've got time, maybethe day off, bring the kids along.
Operation Handshake starts at eight am atthe Gerald R. Ford International Airport,
making sure that veterans and active militarymembers get a warm welcome home.
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This is thanks to lots of membersof all different kinds of military affiliated groups
who plan to gather at the concourseto welcome both veterans in active military and
thank them for their service. They'llbe singing patriotic songs. A lot of
them will bring American flags and linethe concourse with that. The public is
invited to join. Phil Pocuiella,as captain of the Patriot Guard Riders of
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West Michigan, one of those groupshelping to organize this, saying to Wood
TV each year it is an honorto greet veterans in active military and see
the expressions on their faces. Weinvite the community to join us for operation
Handshake and thank the brave individuals whofight for our freedom. There's more here
as well. If you have aloved one that is veteran or active military
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who is flying into the Ford Airporttoday, contact them. Very easy to
find again, it's the Patriot GuardRiders, and give them flight info and
arrival time so they can make surethat a group of people are there ready
with a handshake. This is verycool. It's an ongoing partnership between them
and the Ford International Airport, whois so happy to host this every year.
So again, Operation Handshake starts ateight o'clock this morning at the Ford
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Airport. If you want any moreinfo, I just shared the event to
our Facebook at West Michigan Star.What a great idea that is. I
love that they do it every year. What a fun thing to take your
kids do here. Now I bringit up. I do it for feeling
good every single year on this day, so I want people to remember it
is a really great thing and ifyou can take the family out there.
Honestly, the facial expressions alone,when they're so shocked to see so many
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people there saying thank you, isso worth it, you know. Spreading
a little joy, that's what we'reall about, and we'd love to see
it out in our community too.Well. Thank you up again. Nine
to twenty this morning, Another roundof feeling good is right here on Star
one five pods, movies, musicand all the gossip in one place.
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one ohfive point seven. Well this is big.
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Adele has reportedly confirmed her marriage toher boyfriend of two years, Rich
Paul so Apparently the Grammy winner wasthat Alan Carr's comedy show in la back
over the weekend. Too. Differentfans who were also at the show informed
multiple outlets that Adele mentioned getting marriedin the show. So they were saying
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that Alan made some kind of jokeand he asked the crowd if anyone got
married. Adele apparently stood up andshouted I did, not thinking anyone would
really recognize who she was. Afterthose two fans spoke about it, a
third fan, who was completely independentof those two, said the exact same
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thing went down. Adele is married. I mean, I think it's awesome
that she's sort of been able tokeep it a secret, but it's like
this secret that she's been dropping massivehints for like a year four. I
mean, I feel like this one. What a better way to do it
than a comedy show. Brad Pittand his friends are slamming the quote frustrating
and depressing claims made by his adoptedson Pax. If you missed this earlier
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in the week, Packs put upan awful tyree about his dad. Actually
back in twenty twenty, for Father'sDay, he posted it to this private
section of his Instagram stories. Whereonly very close friends were able to see
it. But a couple days agothat was made public and it is nasty.
It is a picture of Brad Pittaccepting an oscar. Pax writes,
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Happy Father's Day to this world classbleephole. You time and time again prove
yourself to be a terrible and despicableperson. You've no consideration or empathy toward
your four youngest children, who tremblein fear when in your presence. You'll
never understand the damage you've done tomy family because you are incapable of doing
so. He goes on to say, you've made the lives of those closest
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to me a constant hell. Youmay tell yourself and the world whatever you
want, but the truth will cometo light someday. So Happy Father's Day,
you bleeping awful human being. Again, that was back in twenty twenty.
It was supposed to remain private.I assume somehow went public and now
brad It's friends are talking about itand saying it's been really really awful for
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him to find it very depressing tosee this dragged up once again. Talking
to the Sun. They say it'sreally frustrating he's being painted as a bad
person when it's the furthest thing fromthe truth. His great respect for each
of his kids, and they believeit speaks volumes that he has chosen to
keep a very dignified silence about thesituation. Yeah. I don't know what
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to think of this other than thatI will say, you know, Pax
spits Jolie Pitt is nineteen. Now, he was sixteen at the time he
posted that up, and you knowwhat, sixteen year olds have a lot
of emotions on social media. Andit's just a really hard thing because again
Brad is still estranged from all ofthose children. Here's a very fun bit
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of news if you're an Ace ofBass band get Ready, one of the
most iconic pop bands of the nineties, is officially reuniting for a TV documentary.
Ace of Base is planning to doa doc called All That She Wants
The Unbelievable Story of Ace of Bass. Now. I do not have an
official premiere date. It will airsometime next year, and it is going
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to recall some incredibly insane stories,including how some members encounter death threats from
right wing extremists, how sometimes theywere forced to perform in bulletproof vests and
had to enlist bodyguards during their globaltours, even a fan breaking into the
home of one of the singers andassaulting them. It is crazy enow.
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Of course, the band has notbeen together officially since I believe two thousand
and nine, but are super excitedabout this doc Okay, so apparently I
need to watch the documentary because Ihave no idea why anyone would be against
Ace of Base, Like, whatdid they do? Apparently contrastion of different
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things. So you'll have to watchagain. It's gonna air sometime next year.
I do have a little sneak peakfrom some of the pictures from it
with your scoop at West Michigan Stardot com. Year old is having a
very very interesting life lesson about howmuch things actually cost. If you listened.
A few weeks ago, we hadour very first visit from the tooth
Fairy. He lost his very firsttooth and was pretty excited about the fact
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that you get cold hard cash forit. Wish she comes and shows up
and she left him two dollars.So yesterday at school he lost his second
tooth and I picked him up fromschool. He was really really excited and
we talked and said, wow,it's super cool, dude. Like,
right before we leave for Grandma andGrandpa's a Thanksgiving, we'll make sure to
put the tooth out tonight. Thetooth fairy comes and he goes, yep,
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but but and here's what he toldme. How much were you hoping
to get for your for your tooth? Probably five takes seven because two dollars
just wasn't enough for the things thatyou want. Nope, ninety more dollars
set twice. I'm man, Ihear you, dude. Inflation is it's
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kicking everybody in the tush. Thosetwo dollars are just not buying him his
legos, you guys. So hefigures if it's five, six, seven
or eight eight dollars a tooth.Let me tell you, I mean,
the tooth fairy is also feeling inflation, and I'm sure there's no way you're
gonna eight dollars a tooth. Buddy, Well in his five year old head
too, I mean eight dollars,like, I mean, I get my
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legos, maybe get you car whileI'm at a too, Mom, i'mna
spread the wealth a little bit here. So I was like eight dollars huh.
And then he gets home. Isaid, hey, go tell go,
tell dad what you think the toothFairy should bring for your tooth.
And he says that and my husbandgoes, I don't know, Budy,
the tooth Fairy's pretty slammed this timeof year. And he goes, that's
okay, she should just team upwith Santa Claus and I looked at him
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and I was like, yeah,he goes, yeah, I bet Santa
has all the money. Have youseen all the stuff that he brings.
He has toys, and he hasvideos, and he has video games.
I bet if the tooth Fairy andSanta were fresh, they could both be
bucket fillers and give everybody exactly whatthey want. And that's eight dollars for
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my tooth. You know, itsounds perfectly logical. I mean, that
seems like a plan right there.Yeah, so we'll see what happens.
He put his tooth out last night. I'm not sure if the tooth theory
indeed is teaming up with Santa,But when you think about it, that
does feel like the superhero fighting forcewe've all been waiting for, does it
not? You know, one ofthem slipping stuff onder your pillow. One
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of them's coming down in chimney.It's basically the same things. I just
love that in my five year old'seyes, like Jeff Bezos has nothing on
Santa. That dude's rolling deep inserious dough. You know what, At
one point in time, Jeff Bezoswas just writing letters to the big Guy,
just like everybody else, and he'sjust tossing those. So good luck
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everybody else. If you've got somelost teeth coming your way, let the
tooth fairy know she just needs towring ling. Old Saint Nick, he
can help on out. You knowwhat. As a person with a December
birthday close to Christmas, I cantell you that com boeing holidays together,
comboing gifts dangerous to get a littlesomething bigger was always on my mind too.
So well done by your son there, Yeah, smart Wise beyond is
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years inflation's not getting to him.Good morning to you. It's Mack and
Smitty. Here we are Thanksgiving Eve, and I'm sure I'll screw it up
as a parent sometime over this holidayweekend. But I only look have to
look back as far as Halloween tothink of the last time I really did
it. Smitty, So Halloween,let's go back three weeks. Haven't had
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an opportunity to share one of myscrew ups since then, And this one,
well, my mom was a teacherfor thirty plus years. My wife
was a fourth grade and fifth gradeteacher for about fifteen years, and so
this really just like stabbed at thecore of inappropriate school behavior, Smitty,
Halloween. So you have your annualparade that my son gets to parade around
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the school in front of all ofhis teachers and peers and all of our
fellow parents who all come out towatch their kids. It's in their costume
supercure. Right. Well, Ilet my son this year be Homer Simpson
for Halloween. If you saw thepictures on our Facebook page. I did
all the makeup and he looked great. He had embodied Homer big time.
Was absolutely loving it. However,that particular day at school, my wife
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was having some car trouble, andso while she was getting that fixed,
a neighbor whose daughter happens to bein the same grade as my son,
took my son to school. Sohe went over there with part of his
Homer costume already on, ready togo, right, and then he went
to school, and my wife andI showed up to watch the parade,
and we are waiting for my sonto come around, and eventually we start
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to see him and I see inhis hand s Middy a beer and I'm
like, what is that? Ifyou watch The Simpsons, you know what
duff beer is. Duff Beer isthe brand of beer that Homer drinks all
the time. There's duff Man inthe show. It's all throughout the show.
My neighbor had a Simpsons zozi adeaf beer can coozy. And when
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my son went over there and toldme he was Homer, he was like,
ah, I got the perfect additionto your costume. Oh bold move
for what grade is your son?He is in third grade, s minty
yike, third grade and he isparading around the school holding beer paraphernalia as
my wife called it, yeah,in her hand. She was mortified.
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And I just remember being back inschool and like the co ed naked shirts
we weren't allowed to wear or anyof the other random brands of things.
And one of those things you werenever allowed to wear to school was anything
that mentioned alcohol, anything that mentionedtobacco, anything like that, say in
Catholic school. You would have foundyour booty on the pew outside the principal's
office, pulling the so is.My wife is mortified. I'm over here
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trying to justify it and give myneighbor a little cover and cover from my
son too. I'm like, it'sa fictional beer. It doesn't actually exist.
It's not a real thing. Schmitti. He thought it was hilarious.
He's walking around sipping out of thekoozie like he's doing it, and I'm
like, world the world's worst parents. Everyone is going to be it was
so embarrassing, SCHMITTI. But notfor my son. My son loved every
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second of it, honestly, Smitdia. It was the closest I felt like
that I was going to get calledto a principal's office in a very long
time. Maybe they're just waiting.Maybe it's still gonna happen. Movies,
music, and all the gossip inone place. It's the celebritiescoop. On
Star one oh five point seven,Well, Taylor Swift is reportedly so grateful
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to have her boyfriend Travis Kelcey asshe continues to mourn the loss of a
fan who died of her concert inBrazil over the weekend. A source tells
US Weekly that Taylor is so gratefulHe's been a huge support system for her
right now. They say her familyhas been there, but it's just different
to have a boyfriend to lean on. Swift is apparently still completely beside herself
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following the traumatic experience. It's evenbeen difficult for her to actually talk about.
If you missed the news, twentythree year old Anna Clara Benavitez Machado
died from cardiac arrest due to dehydrationinside a stadium in Rio de Janeiro before
Swift took the stage on Friday lastweek. Those temperatures were over one hundred
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degrees and she was only twenty three. A lot of her friends have been
saying this death has hit her veryvery hard, and I'm sure it has,
you know, and Taylor's got greatpeople around her, clearly that being
said, when you're doing shows forthirty fifty thousand people everywhere you go,
like bad things are bound to haveher first one personal like that. It's
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Taylor. I think I would havethe I don't know anybody who wouldn't be
so so sad about that, especiallyhaving it be your first one and to
know the circumstances were just so awful, It's going to be really hard for
her. Kim Kardashian is reportedly setto hit the big screen. After seeing
some serious success starring an American horrorstory Delicate on TV. The Kardashian star
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is reportedly set to star and producea new comedy film. It will apparently
be called The Fifth Wheel. Themovie is currently being pitched to several major
studios and it's being written by thetrend Saturday Night Live writer Paul la Pell,
who plans to co produce with Kardashianas well as a very big screenwriter.
The film is being called a femaledriven comedy, and Kim is apparently
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very very excited about this. I'msure she is. I don't know a
single person that was like, oh, Kim Kardashian on American Horror Story was
really My friends loved it really Yeah, yeah, I And honestly, if
you look at the internet comments,people were very blown away by her performance.
I would not be surprised if wesee a lot more of her in
Hollywood. Fifty Cent gave fans avery big surprise at his London stop.
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He was at the O two Arena, part of the rapper's final lap tour
when he had a very special guestto join him. I want to see
everybody. Oh yes, David.So what you're hearing is a really cool
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part where fans were very confused.They could hear the music, but they
couldn't see anything. And then allof a sudden, this was there.
There was a giant digital box inthe center of the path to the stage.
It slowly started to rise and therewas Ed Sheeran absolutely shredding on his
guitar. He did a couple ofdifferent songs with fifty. They were super
super stoked. The video has wrackedmillions of views. Fans were so excited.
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Do you think the homeboy Eminem isactually matchmaker in this one? Because
I mean Ed Eminem. We're hangingout for their respective shows, and Fifty's
brought Eminem on stage, but he'sbrought Buster rhymes on stage. He's had
a really really solid lineup of camp. You want to see the video I've
gotten for you with your scoop atWest Michigan Star dot Com. It's time
to throw down Battle of the Sexes. Here we go. It is your
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chance, right as we head intoa turkey day to get a little Christmas
magic going for you too, becausethe Christmas Lights show at LMCU Ballpark starts
tonight officially opens tonight, So ifyou're thinking of taking the kids or you
have family coming into town early,it would be something really really cool to
treat them to and you'll score acar pass with today's number one answer.
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One hundred men surveyed. Name aspecific job you have the same person do
each year on Thanksgiving. You knowthis is not on the list, but
it should be. It really shouldbe because my job as a kid that
I love that now I have passeddown to my own immature son, is
removing the neck and the giblets frominside of that turkey. Absolutely nice.
Every year, I don't care aboutthe wishbone. I want to take out
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the giblets day I will not touchthe bird, and my parents and brothers
have the best time teasing me aboutthat. That's a hard pass. Six
one, six, four, five, eight, one five seven. One
hundred men surveyed. Name a specificjob you have the same person do each
year on Thanksgiving. Caller seven firstchances at the number one answer, and
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you can be headed to the ChristmasLight Show, opening tonight at LMCU Ballpark
with Star one O five point seven. Good morning, Star. Who's this
Sarah? Sarah? What all right? Sar? Are you excited for Thanksgiving?
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I am? Yes? Are you? Are you going to somebody else's
place or are you hosting? I'mhosting just for our family as five?
Nice? Nice? So what isyour favorite item on that on the Thanksgiving
menu? I look forward to stuffingevery year? Yeah? No, I
you know, I'm not a Idon't love stuffing in general, but my
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family's Thanksgiving stuffing recipe for whatever reason, I can't get enough of it.
I love it. We make waytoo much of it, so eat leftovers
of it for like three four dayseasily. It's awesome. Oh it's one
of those things you only eat oncea year, So right, maybe that's
it. All right, Well,let's see if we can get you this
Christmas Light Show passed, Sarah.I got to tell me one hundred guys,
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we're asked on Thanksgiving Day, namea specific job that you have the
same person do each year. I'mgonna say carving the turkey. You know,
I am hosting this year and everytime I host I am the one
who carves the turkey, and Ihandle this almost like I handle repair jobs
in my house or with my car. I YouTube the optimal way to carve
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a turkey, and I like followthe video, get the instructions from Google,
because you know, having a perfectcarve is quite the accomplishment, and
that's why I usually assign it tothe same person every year. Carve of
the Turkey's the top answer. Welldone, Sarah Way, thank you.
Yeah, it was carve the turkey, do the cooking, set the table,
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and then saying grace, Yes,Sanny, grace for the family.
Thanksgiving is a big one too,for sure, But well done. You
have got your car pass for theChristmas Light Show up at LMCU Ballpark,
Sarah, Wow, thank you somuch. Yeah, they're open tonight right
on through the entire Christmas season,right up through the new year, so
you've got a chance to get overthere to LMCU Ballpark and enjoy the over
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one million lights in Christmas magic.Again. If you want your tickets,
to save five bucks online at orgo to just Christmas Lightshow dot com.
Remember light is spelled LTE. ButSarah, you got your car pass all
taken care of. So congrats andhappy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Thank you too, sometimes because Iget a good feeling, yeah, like
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how you feel when you'll wake upafter that Thanksgiving nap. Feeling good.
Right now, I'm styling on finefour and seven. It's maackas manny.
I love this and even as aspartan, I can give mad respect to
this kind of beautiful full giving back. Michigan running back Blake Koram decided to
use his nil money to purchase sixhundred turkeys and give them away to those
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in need. Not just that thisis the third year he has done this
and has kept it pretty secret.So this actually went down on Sunday,
but I wanted to save it becauseI thought it would be perfect for a
Thanksgiving story. Running back Korum saidthat his money is going towards this community
because that's what it's important to him. Here's video of him actually going door
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to door in Ipsilani over on theEast Side on Sunday, delivering each and
every turkey personally to neighbors in need. His dad says even though the twenty
two year old is projected to bein the NFL next year, he plans
to keep it going even after histime at u of M comes to an
end. He tells them live,this is my purpose, man, just
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getting my mind sometimes away from football, away from stress and anxiety.
Football does a lot. Being ableto step away and just be part of
the community and see people smile andbe out here is the true blessing.
So well done, Blake. That'sincredible. Yeah, big time. I
mean, one of the best Michiganrunning backs to ever play for the team,
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and this actually this is his firsttime getting to play against Ohio State
Healthy. He was out last year, got hurt in the game right before
the big game. Healthy I pantedout six hundred turkeys. So I am
pretty impressed regardless of who he playsfor. Yeah, it was really really
cool to see Schmennie. We've beenfollowing this closely. The Jennison Marching Band
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of course in New York City rightnow, gearing up for the biggest performance
ever for the band, the giganticMacy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. And while they're
they're getting to do some New YorkCity style things. They were performing in
Central Park just yesterday and at leastone student's got the thrill of a Lifetime
Last Night too. Her name issam Holtzklaw and since she was in the
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fifth grade and got to play therole of Jojo in Susical the musical Well,
she has been in love with theaterand whilst in New York City,
what does one do you go toa Broadway show? The entire band got
treated to go into a check outa Broadway show. They saw Back to
the Future just last night at theWinter Garden Theater there in New York City,
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and she said it was really justa wow moment for her. It's
always been a dream of mine togo to Broadway just see shows and whatnot.
So experience of the dream, it'slike we're going to the big leagues.
And afterwards, you could tell whilethe performance did not let her down,
telling Wood TV eight, the showwas absolutely incredible to Wick after the
movie was just the soul mindful wayalmost it really felt like you were like
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watching the real movie, and justthe atmosphere of this whole theater really just
brought my dream to life. Imean you could hear the excitement in her
voice. SCHMITTI and I just thinkit's so cool that while on this incredible,
you know, experien of getting togo perform in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade tomorrow. These students are alsogetting a whole lot of culture and experience
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in going to New York City,I'm sure for most of them for the
very first time. One of theirfellow band members turned eighteen two days ago.
So how cool would be to haveyour eighteenth birthday in New York City
with some of your best friends.Yeah, shout out to Teresa Weekly.
She's doing a great job with thatlive blog and we can't wait to see
them tomorrow. Of course, you'reJennison Marching Band in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade. That parade kicks off ateight thirty tomorrow morning, if you want
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to check it out. And ofcourse we're always here to pick you up
and get you feeling good. We'rethankful that you join us for it each
and every morning. We'll be backwith more stories to pick you up.
Monday morning, six forty five andnine twenty here on Star onear five point
seven, Mack and Schmidty in themorning weekday starting at six am on Star
one oh five point seven
Mack and Schmidty in the morning onWest Michigan's Christmas station, Star one oh
five point seven. Almost time tojust drown gravy. I am ready for
it. Good morning to you,Good morning, and happy Friday Field to
all of you that hopefully have tomorrowand Friday off. That should feel pretty
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good this morning. I know mykids are relishing in the fact that they
have today off of school. Yeah, I think pretty much all of West
Michigan is off today. Was thathow it was when we were kids?
I thought I remember doing like halfdays on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. But
you know who knows been I don'tknow what it's seventy sixty five, seventy
years somewhere in there. It feelslike since I had that opportunity. Yeah,
but they're loving it. That's formovies, music, and all the
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gossip in one place. It's thecelebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Well, actress Susan Sarandon is facingserious backlash over what many fans are
calling her pro Palestinian and anti Jewishcomments. This actually happened Friday at a
protest in New York City. Thereare a lot of people that are afraid,
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afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of
what it feels like to be aMuslim in this country, so often subjected
to violence. Well, someone whowants none of this drama. Her talent
agency, which just dropped her.The Oscar winning actress, is no longer
being represented by United Talent Agency,where tons of staffers were apparently very upset
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by her strong views on the IsraelHamas War. No word on whether another
talent agency is even close to consideringpicking her up. You know, she's
been involved in some obviously still somebig acting roles over the last few years.
There's money behind her, is allI mean by that, And she's
just always been somebody who's outspoken.I guess she took you that this was
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a possibility. Very vocal. JohnHamm, the mad Men actor and star
of Fargo season five, is revealinghis pierced nipples are fake. He plays
a sheriff in season five of theshow, which premiered on FX this week,
and a lot of viewers were verystartled to see him in a hot
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tub scene where it looked like hehad nipple rings. He had to talk
about it at a screening with apanel of other co stars, and according
to Variety, he said, no, this is all a fake. I
had to have some very blue latexput on my chest and then they cast
a resoundingly lifelike pair of nipples,which they then pierced and placed over my
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own. In fact, many peopledon't know this. There is a dedicated
nippleologist on staff. It's just science. Then I wonder if you go to
school for that, and if theirmom is round. I am going to
google how much you make as anippleologist? Please? Yeah. And finally,
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Martha Stewart says no, she isnot canceling Thanksgiving. Fans were pretty
shocked by what she said on theKelly Clarkson Show. She said, no,
she's just changing her plans. Sheshared an Instagram. It is not
true that I'm giving up Thanksgiving.What I canceled was the planned gathering at
my house due to guest cancelations andnew travel plans. Instead, I am
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busy prepping get this in true Marthaform, thirty different pies. I promised
to bring a stuffed and roasted twentypound organic heritage bird, and I will
also be working at a bunch ofother stuff. For her friend Stephen Sill's
buffet. She plans to bake lemontarts, cranberry tarts, chocolate, peacom
pies, peacan pies, pumpkin pies, and even made a fun pie chart
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to statistically show how many pies willbe coming out of her kitchen tomorrow.
I like that. This is MarthaStewart toning things down, I know,
and she'll still have time to havemade at least five reads for all of
the doors on her friend's home.Yeah, all of your celeb scoop a
West Michigan Star dot com. Alot of people going back to their hometowns,
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and I think it's also a reasonfor a lot of schools, a
lot of classes to do high schoolreunions over holiday weekends sometimes schmidtybayh you get
everybody back together. Well that's howI feel too. I asked this last
night. Our high school reunions obsoleteat this point because my wife went through,
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I don't know, up and downfive different stages of I'm going,
I'm not going, I'm going.I'm going to her twentieth high school reunion,
which is Saturday night in Detroit.I wouldn't even want to be reminded
it's been twenty years since I wasin high school. I am with you.
I blew off my five year,ten year, fifteen year, and
twenty year high school reunions and didnot even for a second think that I
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missed out on something. If anything, I would just see some of the
drama from my you know, highschool facebook pages, group pages and stuff
like that, people complaining about ticketprices and whether there you go. I'll
have social media, so the onlypeople you want to know about you already
know about well. And that's whatI wanted to get at too, is
I feel like the older you are, the more important these high school reunions
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are because a there's just more ofa chance that you aren't connected on social
media. But as you move forward, especially people around our age who were
in high school and college, asthe advent of social media sort of blew
up, Like what don't you knowabout classmates that you care about and think
about what You're not sure what theiroccupation is, it's written on their Facebook
page. You're not sure how manykids they have, Well, it's on
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their Facebook. My mom is sixtyseven, my dad is sixty eight.
They are super active on social media. They have reconnected with all of the
people from high school they wanted toso, like, I don't see any
point to a reunion period. Yeah, it's she has got it in her
head because she went to a highschool where she graduated with hundreds and hundreds
of kids. I think our graduatingclass was like over six hundred kids.
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Mine was like a hundred, andI knew everybody. I knew every one
of their names. I had knownmost of them. I did she want
to go? I think it's fomo. Actually, I think she's gonna have
fomo from high school. I thinkI think she believes that if she wasn't
there, a group of the peoplethat she hasn't seen in a long time
are all going to be there andthey're all going to have the greatest time
ever, and she'll have missed out. And in reality, what it's going
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to be is we're gonna get thereand she's gonna realize I don't remember any
of these people. I could seelike I would want to go if I
was rubbing my success in I'm like, I have started eight new companies.
Actually, it's weird. I didnot make the Forbes fifty this year,
but I was fifty one, somaybe next to your fingers crossed right,
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like if you're going that was like, that's some of the people I went
to high school with. That I'msure would come back and be like,
oh, I'm sorry, I flewin from Shanghai last night. I have
no desire. I'm good. That'sthe thing. I plan on fully embracing
my inner liar on this and romyand michelleing it. Yes, I want
to see how many people will believeI'm part of different career paths, Like
I want at least one group ofpeople to fully believe that I work for
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NASA and I'm working my butt offto to becoming ask everyone else is going
to be lying as well, doesanybody actually tell the truly how are you
doing? Oh? Well, Idon't know. It's hard to have four
kids and a husband, and they'regonna be like, I'm doing fantastic,
I started my own business, I'mbig online. Nobody's telling the truth that
a high school reunion. Well that'sthe other downfall though of social media.
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It wouldn't be very hard for themto figure out the absolutely full of it
too, Like there's that flip sideof it. But yeah, I don't
know that I care about going tohigh school reunions forever, because chances are
I still am connected with you.I probably knew what the last concert you
went to was, what you gotyour kids for Christmas already, and we
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get together and i'd ask you thingsabout your current life, even though I
haven't seen you in thirty years.Start or worse. You have the people
that are on Facebook, going doinglaundry, bought some shoes. How was
that? Did you wrap that up? That's who you're gonna get stuck to
next at the Spike punch Bowl.Sometimes because I get a good feeling,
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well, ye got some turkey tolook forward to. You got friends and
family that you're gonna see, oreven if you just have a couple of
days off of work, we're allthankful for that. But you know what,
we're here to get you feeling goodright now? On Star one'll five
point seven and man, there's anentire town and entire community who are very
thankful to an unassuming man named JeffreyHoltz. He was actually just a caretaker
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at a local mobile home park there, and you know, residents would see
him around town and he'd be wearingsort of tattered clothing riding his lawnmower.
Didn't have a car. First,he rode a bicycle for a while,
then he rode a lawnmower wherever heneeded to go. Sometimes he'd just be
sitting on the side of the roadon a bench reading the newspaper, watching
the cars go by. Did someodd jobs, but really just kind of
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kept to himself a little bit.Well. He passed away recently and the
townspeople were surprised to find out thatJeff was hiding a very big secret.
He was a secret millionaire who livedat the trailer home park, didn't have
a computer, didn't have a television, who didn't have any of the things
that you would think of as youknow, luxurize or money. Just a
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very frugal seeming guy who kind ofkept to himself, except with his best
friend, Edwin Smokey Smith, whosaid he was a different bird. For
sure. It was an interesting individual. He was very articulate, but he
did have some unusual characteristics or differentcharacteristics. I guess. He was not
one to miss work. He justshowed up and did what he had to.
But he didn't want the expense ofhaving a car, and when Jeff
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realized that he had a couple milliondollars in the bank. He didn't know
what he was going to do withit. The only parting thing I said
to him was remember the town ofHensdale, remember the town a Hensdale,
and that he did. Jeff passedaway just earlier this year Schmidty and left
the town of only about forty twohundred people three point eight million dollars.
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Can't wait to see what they dowith us three point eight million dollars.
They are looking at upgrading the infrastructure, giving it to online educational resources.
It's going to be all handled bya trust there in New Hampshire. But
of course, obviously the town notonly thrilled to be receiving this much needed
cash to help their local community,but shocked to find out that a local
staple who had been there forever theunassuming groundskeeper from the mobile home park,
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was actually a secret millionaire the wholetime. Never judge a book by its
cover, all right, there's somethingreally incredible going on this morning. It's
perfect if you've got time, maybethe day off, bring the kids along.
Operation Handshake starts at eight am atthe Gerald R. Ford International Airport,
making sure that veterans and active militarymembers get a warm welcome home.
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This is thanks to lots of membersof all different kinds of military affiliated groups
who plan to gather at the concourseto welcome both veterans in active military and
thank them for their service. They'llbe singing patriotic songs. A lot of
them will bring American flags and linethe concourse with that. The public is
invited to join. Phil Pocuiella,as captain of the Patriot Guard Riders of
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West Michigan, one of those groupshelping to organize this, saying to Wood
TV each year it is an honorto greet veterans in active military and see
the expressions on their faces. Weinvite the community to join us for operation
Handshake and thank the brave individuals whofight for our freedom. There's more here
as well. If you have aloved one that is veteran or active military
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who is flying into the Ford Airporttoday, contact them. Very easy to
find again, it's the Patriot GuardRiders, and give them flight info and
arrival time so they can make surethat a group of people are there ready
with a handshake. This is verycool. It's an ongoing partnership between them
and the Ford International Airport, whois so happy to host this every year.
So again, Operation Handshake starts ateight o'clock this morning at the Ford
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Airport. If you want any moreinfo, I just shared the event to
our Facebook at West Michigan Star.What a great idea that is. I
love that they do it every year. What a fun thing to take your
kids do here. Now I bringit up. I do it for feeling
good every single year on this day, so I want people to remember it
is a really great thing and ifyou can take the family out there.
Honestly, the facial expressions alone,when they're so shocked to see so many
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people there saying thank you, isso worth it, you know. Spreading
a little joy, that's what we'reall about, and we'd love to see
it out in our community too.Well. Thank you up again. Nine
to twenty this morning, Another roundof feeling good is right here on Star
one five pods, movies, musicand all the gossip in one place.
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one ohfive point seven. Well this is big.
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Adele has reportedly confirmed her marriage toher boyfriend of two years, Rich
Paul so Apparently the Grammy winner wasthat Alan Carr's comedy show in la back
over the weekend. Too. Differentfans who were also at the show informed
multiple outlets that Adele mentioned getting marriedin the show. So they were saying
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that Alan made some kind of jokeand he asked the crowd if anyone got
married. Adele apparently stood up andshouted I did, not thinking anyone would
really recognize who she was. Afterthose two fans spoke about it, a
third fan, who was completely independentof those two, said the exact same
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thing went down. Adele is married. I mean, I think it's awesome
that she's sort of been able tokeep it a secret, but it's like
this secret that she's been dropping massivehints for like a year four. I
mean, I feel like this one. What a better way to do it
than a comedy show. Brad Pittand his friends are slamming the quote frustrating
and depressing claims made by his adoptedson Pax. If you missed this earlier
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in the week, Packs put upan awful tyree about his dad. Actually
back in twenty twenty, for Father'sDay, he posted it to this private
section of his Instagram stories. Whereonly very close friends were able to see
it. But a couple days agothat was made public and it is nasty.
It is a picture of Brad Pittaccepting an oscar. Pax writes,
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Happy Father's Day to this world classbleephole. You time and time again prove
yourself to be a terrible and despicableperson. You've no consideration or empathy toward
your four youngest children, who tremblein fear when in your presence. You'll
never understand the damage you've done tomy family because you are incapable of doing
so. He goes on to say, you've made the lives of those closest
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to me a constant hell. Youmay tell yourself and the world whatever you
want, but the truth will cometo light someday. So Happy Father's Day,
you bleeping awful human being. Again, that was back in twenty twenty.
It was supposed to remain private.I assume somehow went public and now
brad It's friends are talking about itand saying it's been really really awful for
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him to find it very depressing tosee this dragged up once again. Talking
to the Sun. They say it'sreally frustrating he's being painted as a bad
person when it's the furthest thing fromthe truth. His great respect for each
of his kids, and they believeit speaks volumes that he has chosen to
keep a very dignified silence about thesituation. Yeah. I don't know what
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to think of this other than thatI will say, you know, Pax
spits Jolie Pitt is nineteen. Now, he was sixteen at the time he
posted that up, and you knowwhat, sixteen year olds have a lot
of emotions on social media. Andit's just a really hard thing because again
Brad is still estranged from all ofthose children. Here's a very fun bit
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of news if you're an Ace ofBass band get Ready, one of the
most iconic pop bands of the nineties, is officially reuniting for a TV documentary.
Ace of Base is planning to doa doc called All That She Wants
The Unbelievable Story of Ace of Bass. Now. I do not have an
official premiere date. It will airsometime next year, and it is going
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to recall some incredibly insane stories,including how some members encounter death threats from
right wing extremists, how sometimes theywere forced to perform in bulletproof vests and
had to enlist bodyguards during their globaltours, even a fan breaking into the
home of one of the singers andassaulting them. It is crazy enow.
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Of course, the band has notbeen together officially since I believe two thousand
and nine, but are super excitedabout this doc Okay, so apparently I
need to watch the documentary because Ihave no idea why anyone would be against
Ace of Base, Like, whatdid they do? Apparently contrastion of different
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things. So you'll have to watchagain. It's gonna air sometime next year.
I do have a little sneak peakfrom some of the pictures from it
with your scoop at West Michigan Stardot com. Year old is having a
very very interesting life lesson about howmuch things actually cost. If you listened.
A few weeks ago, we hadour very first visit from the tooth
Fairy. He lost his very firsttooth and was pretty excited about the fact
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that you get cold hard cash forit. Wish she comes and shows up
and she left him two dollars.So yesterday at school he lost his second
tooth and I picked him up fromschool. He was really really excited and
we talked and said, wow,it's super cool, dude. Like,
right before we leave for Grandma andGrandpa's a Thanksgiving, we'll make sure to
put the tooth out tonight. Thetooth fairy comes and he goes, yep,
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but but and here's what he toldme. How much were you hoping
to get for your for your tooth? Probably five takes seven because two dollars
just wasn't enough for the things thatyou want. Nope, ninety more dollars
set twice. I'm man, Ihear you, dude. Inflation is it's
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kicking everybody in the tush. Thosetwo dollars are just not buying him his
legos, you guys. So hefigures if it's five, six, seven
or eight eight dollars a tooth.Let me tell you, I mean,
the tooth fairy is also feeling inflation, and I'm sure there's no way you're
gonna eight dollars a tooth. Buddy, Well in his five year old head
too, I mean eight dollars,like, I mean, I get my
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legos, maybe get you car whileI'm at a too, Mom, i'mna
spread the wealth a little bit here. So I was like eight dollars huh.
And then he gets home. Isaid, hey, go tell go,
tell dad what you think the toothFairy should bring for your tooth.
And he says that and my husbandgoes, I don't know, Budy,
the tooth Fairy's pretty slammed this timeof year. And he goes, that's
okay, she should just team upwith Santa Claus and I looked at him
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and I was like, yeah,he goes, yeah, I bet Santa
has all the money. Have youseen all the stuff that he brings.
He has toys, and he hasvideos, and he has video games.
I bet if the tooth Fairy andSanta were fresh, they could both be
bucket fillers and give everybody exactly whatthey want. And that's eight dollars for
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my tooth. You know, itsounds perfectly logical. I mean, that
seems like a plan right there.Yeah, so we'll see what happens.
He put his tooth out last night. I'm not sure if the tooth theory
indeed is teaming up with Santa,But when you think about it, that
does feel like the superhero fighting forcewe've all been waiting for, does it
not? You know, one ofthem slipping stuff onder your pillow. One
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of them's coming down in chimney.It's basically the same things. I just
love that in my five year old'seyes, like Jeff Bezos has nothing on
Santa. That dude's rolling deep inserious dough. You know what, At
one point in time, Jeff Bezoswas just writing letters to the big Guy,
just like everybody else, and he'sjust tossing those. So good luck
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everybody else. If you've got somelost teeth coming your way, let the
tooth fairy know she just needs towring ling. Old Saint Nick, he
can help on out. You knowwhat. As a person with a December
birthday close to Christmas, I cantell you that com boeing holidays together,
comboing gifts dangerous to get a littlesomething bigger was always on my mind too.
So well done by your son there, Yeah, smart Wise beyond is
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years inflation's not getting to him.Good morning to you. It's Mack and
Smitty. Here we are Thanksgiving Eve, and I'm sure I'll screw it up
as a parent sometime over this holidayweekend. But I only look have to
look back as far as Halloween tothink of the last time I really did
it. Smitty, So Halloween,let's go back three weeks. Haven't had
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an opportunity to share one of myscrew ups since then, And this one,
well, my mom was a teacherfor thirty plus years. My wife
was a fourth grade and fifth gradeteacher for about fifteen years, and so
this really just like stabbed at thecore of inappropriate school behavior, Smitty,
Halloween. So you have your annualparade that my son gets to parade around
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the school in front of all ofhis teachers and peers and all of our
fellow parents who all come out towatch their kids. It's in their costume
supercure. Right. Well, Ilet my son this year be Homer Simpson
for Halloween. If you saw thepictures on our Facebook page. I did
all the makeup and he looked great. He had embodied Homer big time.
Was absolutely loving it. However,that particular day at school, my wife
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was having some car trouble, andso while she was getting that fixed,
a neighbor whose daughter happens to bein the same grade as my son,
took my son to school. Sohe went over there with part of his
Homer costume already on, ready togo, right, and then he went
to school, and my wife andI showed up to watch the parade,
and we are waiting for my sonto come around, and eventually we start
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to see him and I see inhis hand s Middy a beer and I'm
like, what is that? Ifyou watch The Simpsons, you know what
duff beer is. Duff Beer isthe brand of beer that Homer drinks all
the time. There's duff Man inthe show. It's all throughout the show.
My neighbor had a Simpsons zozi adeaf beer can coozy. And when
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my son went over there and toldme he was Homer, he was like,
ah, I got the perfect additionto your costume. Oh bold move
for what grade is your son?He is in third grade, s minty
yike, third grade and he isparading around the school holding beer paraphernalia as
my wife called it, yeah,in her hand. She was mortified.
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And I just remember being back inschool and like the co ed naked shirts
we weren't allowed to wear or anyof the other random brands of things.
And one of those things you werenever allowed to wear to school was anything
that mentioned alcohol, anything that mentionedtobacco, anything like that, say in
Catholic school. You would have foundyour booty on the pew outside the principal's
office, pulling the so is.My wife is mortified. I'm over here
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trying to justify it and give myneighbor a little cover and cover from my
son too. I'm like, it'sa fictional beer. It doesn't actually exist.
It's not a real thing. Schmitti. He thought it was hilarious.
He's walking around sipping out of thekoozie like he's doing it, and I'm
like, world the world's worst parents. Everyone is going to be it was
so embarrassing, SCHMITTI. But notfor my son. My son loved every
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second of it, honestly, Smitdia. It was the closest I felt like
that I was going to get calledto a principal's office in a very long
time. Maybe they're just waiting.Maybe it's still gonna happen. Movies,
music, and all the gossip inone place. It's the celebritiescoop. On
Star one oh five point seven,Well, Taylor Swift is reportedly so grateful
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to have her boyfriend Travis Kelcey asshe continues to mourn the loss of a
fan who died of her concert inBrazil over the weekend. A source tells
US Weekly that Taylor is so gratefulHe's been a huge support system for her
right now. They say her familyhas been there, but it's just different
to have a boyfriend to lean on. Swift is apparently still completely beside herself
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following the traumatic experience. It's evenbeen difficult for her to actually talk about.
If you missed the news, twentythree year old Anna Clara Benavitez Machado
died from cardiac arrest due to dehydrationinside a stadium in Rio de Janeiro before
Swift took the stage on Friday lastweek. Those temperatures were over one hundred
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degrees and she was only twenty three. A lot of her friends have been
saying this death has hit her veryvery hard, and I'm sure it has,
you know, and Taylor's got greatpeople around her, clearly that being
said, when you're doing shows forthirty fifty thousand people everywhere you go,
like bad things are bound to haveher first one personal like that. It's
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Taylor. I think I would havethe I don't know anybody who wouldn't be
so so sad about that, especiallyhaving it be your first one and to
know the circumstances were just so awful, It's going to be really hard for
her. Kim Kardashian is reportedly setto hit the big screen. After seeing
some serious success starring an American horrorstory Delicate on TV. The Kardashian star
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is reportedly set to star and producea new comedy film. It will apparently
be called The Fifth Wheel. Themovie is currently being pitched to several major
studios and it's being written by thetrend Saturday Night Live writer Paul la Pell,
who plans to co produce with Kardashianas well as a very big screenwriter.
The film is being called a femaledriven comedy, and Kim is apparently
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very very excited about this. I'msure she is. I don't know a
single person that was like, oh, Kim Kardashian on American Horror Story was
really My friends loved it really Yeah, yeah, I And honestly, if
you look at the internet comments,people were very blown away by her performance.
I would not be surprised if wesee a lot more of her in
Hollywood. Fifty Cent gave fans avery big surprise at his London stop.
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He was at the O two Arena, part of the rapper's final lap tour
when he had a very special guestto join him. I want to see
everybody. Oh yes, David.So what you're hearing is a really cool
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part where fans were very confused.They could hear the music, but they
couldn't see anything. And then allof a sudden, this was there.
There was a giant digital box inthe center of the path to the stage.
It slowly started to rise and therewas Ed Sheeran absolutely shredding on his
guitar. He did a couple ofdifferent songs with fifty. They were super
super stoked. The video has wrackedmillions of views. Fans were so excited.
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Do you think the homeboy Eminem isactually matchmaker in this one? Because
I mean Ed Eminem. We're hangingout for their respective shows, and Fifty's
brought Eminem on stage, but he'sbrought Buster rhymes on stage. He's had
a really really solid lineup of camp. You want to see the video I've
gotten for you with your scoop atWest Michigan Star dot Com. It's time
to throw down Battle of the Sexes. Here we go. It is your
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chance, right as we head intoa turkey day to get a little Christmas
magic going for you too, becausethe Christmas Lights show at LMCU Ballpark starts
tonight officially opens tonight, So ifyou're thinking of taking the kids or you
have family coming into town early,it would be something really really cool to
treat them to and you'll score acar pass with today's number one answer.
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One hundred men surveyed. Name aspecific job you have the same person do
each year on Thanksgiving. You knowthis is not on the list, but
it should be. It really shouldbe because my job as a kid that
I love that now I have passeddown to my own immature son, is
removing the neck and the giblets frominside of that turkey. Absolutely nice.
Every year, I don't care aboutthe wishbone. I want to take out
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the giblets day I will not touchthe bird, and my parents and brothers
have the best time teasing me aboutthat. That's a hard pass. Six
one, six, four, five, eight, one five seven. One
hundred men surveyed. Name a specificjob you have the same person do each
year on Thanksgiving. Caller seven firstchances at the number one answer, and
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you can be headed to the ChristmasLight Show, opening tonight at LMCU Ballpark
with Star one O five point seven. Good morning, Star. Who's this
Sarah? Sarah? What all right? Sar? Are you excited for Thanksgiving?
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I am? Yes? Are you? Are you going to somebody else's
place or are you hosting? I'mhosting just for our family as five?
Nice? Nice? So what isyour favorite item on that on the Thanksgiving
menu? I look forward to stuffingevery year? Yeah? No, I
you know, I'm not a Idon't love stuffing in general, but my
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family's Thanksgiving stuffing recipe for whatever reason, I can't get enough of it.
I love it. We make waytoo much of it, so eat leftovers
of it for like three four dayseasily. It's awesome. Oh it's one
of those things you only eat oncea year, So right, maybe that's
it. All right, Well,let's see if we can get you this
Christmas Light Show passed, Sarah.I got to tell me one hundred guys,
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we're asked on Thanksgiving Day, namea specific job that you have the
same person do each year. I'mgonna say carving the turkey. You know,
I am hosting this year and everytime I host I am the one
who carves the turkey, and Ihandle this almost like I handle repair jobs
in my house or with my car. I YouTube the optimal way to carve
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a turkey, and I like followthe video, get the instructions from Google,
because you know, having a perfectcarve is quite the accomplishment, and
that's why I usually assign it tothe same person every year. Carve of
the Turkey's the top answer. Welldone, Sarah Way, thank you.
Yeah, it was carve the turkey, do the cooking, set the table,
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and then saying grace, Yes,Sanny, grace for the family.
Thanksgiving is a big one too,for sure, But well done. You
have got your car pass for theChristmas Light Show up at LMCU Ballpark,
Sarah, Wow, thank you somuch. Yeah, they're open tonight right
on through the entire Christmas season,right up through the new year, so
you've got a chance to get overthere to LMCU Ballpark and enjoy the over
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one million lights in Christmas magic.Again. If you want your tickets,
to save five bucks online at orgo to just Christmas Lightshow dot com.
Remember light is spelled LTE. ButSarah, you got your car pass all
taken care of. So congrats andhappy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Thank you too, sometimes because Iget a good feeling, yeah, like
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how you feel when you'll wake upafter that Thanksgiving nap. Feeling good.
Right now, I'm styling on finefour and seven. It's maackas manny.
I love this and even as aspartan, I can give mad respect to
this kind of beautiful full giving back. Michigan running back Blake Koram decided to
use his nil money to purchase sixhundred turkeys and give them away to those
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in need. Not just that thisis the third year he has done this
and has kept it pretty secret.So this actually went down on Sunday,
but I wanted to save it becauseI thought it would be perfect for a
Thanksgiving story. Running back Korum saidthat his money is going towards this community
because that's what it's important to him. Here's video of him actually going door
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to door in Ipsilani over on theEast Side on Sunday, delivering each and
every turkey personally to neighbors in need. His dad says even though the twenty
two year old is projected to bein the NFL next year, he plans
to keep it going even after histime at u of M comes to an
end. He tells them live,this is my purpose, man, just
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getting my mind sometimes away from football, away from stress and anxiety.
Football does a lot. Being ableto step away and just be part of
the community and see people smile andbe out here is the true blessing.
So well done, Blake. That'sincredible. Yeah, big time. I
mean, one of the best Michiganrunning backs to ever play for the team,
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and this actually this is his firsttime getting to play against Ohio State
Healthy. He was out last year, got hurt in the game right before
the big game. Healthy I pantedout six hundred turkeys. So I am
pretty impressed regardless of who he playsfor. Yeah, it was really really
cool to see Schmennie. We've beenfollowing this closely. The Jennison Marching Band
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of course in New York City rightnow, gearing up for the biggest performance
ever for the band, the giganticMacy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. And while they're
they're getting to do some New YorkCity style things. They were performing in
Central Park just yesterday and at leastone student's got the thrill of a Lifetime
Last Night too. Her name issam Holtzklaw and since she was in the
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fifth grade and got to play therole of Jojo in Susical the musical Well,
she has been in love with theaterand whilst in New York City,
what does one do you go toa Broadway show? The entire band got
treated to go into a check outa Broadway show. They saw Back to
the Future just last night at theWinter Garden Theater there in New York City,
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and she said it was really justa wow moment for her. It's
always been a dream of mine togo to Broadway just see shows and whatnot.
So experience of the dream, it'slike we're going to the big leagues.
And afterwards, you could tell whilethe performance did not let her down,
telling Wood TV eight, the showwas absolutely incredible to Wick after the
movie was just the soul mindful wayalmost it really felt like you were like
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watching the real movie, and justthe atmosphere of this whole theater really just
brought my dream to life. Imean you could hear the excitement in her
voice. SCHMITTI and I just thinkit's so cool that while on this incredible,
you know, experien of getting togo perform in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade tomorrow. These students are alsogetting a whole lot of culture and experience
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in going to New York City,I'm sure for most of them for the
very first time. One of theirfellow band members turned eighteen two days ago.
So how cool would be to haveyour eighteenth birthday in New York City
with some of your best friends.Yeah, shout out to Teresa Weekly.
She's doing a great job with thatlive blog and we can't wait to see
them tomorrow. Of course, you'reJennison Marching Band in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade. That parade kicks off ateight thirty tomorrow morning, if you want
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to check it out. And ofcourse we're always here to pick you up
and get you feeling good. We'rethankful that you join us for it each
and every morning. We'll be backwith more stories to pick you up.
Monday morning, six forty five andnine twenty here on Star onear five point
seven, Mack and Schmidty in themorning weekday starting at six am on Star
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