Mac & Shmitty November 27, 2023

Mac & Shmitty November 27, 2023

Episode Transcript

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Mack and Schmitty in the morning onWest Michigan's Christmas station, Star one oh
five point seven. Well, goodmorning, Schmitty, and good morning to
all of you that finally feel itis the Christmas music season. We welcome
you. We've been waiting a littlebit of that snow this morning. I'm

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sure set the vibe as well.Yeah, still coming down in some areas
out there a little bit. We'regonna see. High's right about freezing today
around most of West Michigan highs orit can excuse me, currently into the
upper twenties out there. But nota bad drive in No, not so
much here. If you're concerned lookingout your window, you know, I
got to tell you maybe those outlyingrural roads maybe closer to the lake shore

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a little bit slick because of thoselow tempts, But honestly, heading downtown
not bad at all. Jmitty,how was your Turkey day? Busy but
good. We did the coast tocoast to coast to coast, driving,
but very thankful. Got to seejust about everybody. That's awesome. I
was the host family came to town. I think everything went great, except
for you know, one minor tripto the emergency room on Thanksgiving A that's

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I'll bow yourself up or a turkey, you know, thankfully, not for
me, not for me. Allis well. But I'll tell you what
happened. Kevin up this morning atsix thirty movies, music and all the
gossip in one place. It's thecelebritiescoop. On Star one oh five point
seven, comedian and actress Tiffany Hattishup in front of a crowd, cracking

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jokes less than a day after gettingarrested for a duy. She was scheduled
to perform at the Laugh Factory inLong Beach on Friday, after she had
done a previous night in la andthen early Friday morning was busted in Beverly
Hills for the dui. Actually,one audience member Friday night did ask her
about what happened, and in trueTiffany fashion, she returned with a joke.

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Earlier now, Tiffany was alleged tohave been asleep at the wheel in
Beverly Hills, so cops found probablecost to take her in on suspicion of
dui. But outside of those jokes, she's not spoken publicly about this yet.
She's been having a rough couple ofyears. It seems like, I

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mean break this the breakup with commonother legal issues. I means she definitely
seems like she's not in a goodplace. Let's going through some things,
going through some things. This isvery interesting. Did he once again finding
himself in new legal trouble as athird woman has now made serious allegations against
the entrepreneur and rapper. And nowwe're hearing from Ditty's former security guard.

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Roger Bonds worked for Diddy for years, and he had been pictured with both
Diddy and Cassie at quite a fewdifferent events. I'll remember Diddy and Cassie
settled her lawsuit out of court.But in this new lawsuit, excuse me,
Roger is actually being named in it. He took to his Instagram,
writing, this is not meant tobe threats or snitching or anything like that

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against Cassie or Diddy or anyone else. This is me telling my truth as
I truly remember it. For tworeasons only. First, because I have
four daughters, so on all dudes, my truth as I see it,
saw it, and was involved withit for years. He said he's willing
to tell his truth because nothing elsematters but family. This is very interesting.
It's not clear if he's going togo further into this. He talks

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about this truth he's speaking, butthen didn't go really into any other allegation.
So fans are kind of wondering ifhe's kind of positioning himself to come
out with some real big bombshells tosave his own self from some of this
legal problem. Yeah, that andor sounds a little bit like extortion.
I feel like Diddy's about to gothrough a Oprah like car giveaway where it's

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you get a settlement and you geta settlement. It's interesting if you read
internet comments, because if he's doingit that way, he's got a lot
of people he's going to be needingto do that too, and a lot
of people that are claiming they're veryhappy this is all finally coming to light.
And I thought this was so fun. If you are a big fan
of the Hallmark Christmas specials, maybeyou saw the new one that premiered over

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the weekend Christmas and nodding Hill witha fun little nod to ted Lasso.
This is kind of that funny littlebeef I was talking about. If you
watched season three of ted Lasso,There's a point where Jason Sudeigus talks about
how inefensive someone might be, theycould be as good as a Hallmark Christmas
movie. That's when Roy Kent says, what is a Christmas movie on Hallmark?

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And he says, well, HallmarkChristmas movies are films that feature women
from the big city falling in lovewith their childhood crushes. It's usually some
fellas owns Christmas tree farm or something. Will Hallmark took that to heart and
this was the little Ted Lasso nodto that new movie over the weekend.
Oh the Roy knt of Newborn Dad'sbeen the old flight watching Ted Lasso.

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I just wanted to make sure prepared. That's exactly what it's likes to play
professional football. Your coach is anAmerican football coach turned soccer coach, football
soccer coach no prior experience, whobakes biscuits and makes motivational signs, is
heavy on the folks each arm,and still doesn't know what offside is precisely
minus the mustache. Very cute.In fact, the senior VP of Development

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at Hallmark said, when we firstsaw t Lasso's Hallmark Christmas Movie reference,
we were actually in London filming thismovie where our male lead was a professional
football player. We couldn't let itpass, so we actually readid the entire
scene to make that to Lasso comments, Honestly, it's a great plug for
Hallmark. I feel like all theway around it is all of your celeb
Scoop at West Michiganstar dot com hopefullyhad a great Thanksgiving, wonderful Turkey Day

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sprint with friends and family. Andyou know, one rule abound family get
togethers in general, we try tokeep the hospital visits to a minimum smide
maybe zero, Like I had zerohospital visits for mine. You know,
there's a goal. There's a goalof zero. We did not meet that
these things because I did a hostthis year. I had my whole family
over. My little brother came overfrom Detroit, my dad was here,
my sister who lives here in town, my older brother out of town from

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Chicago. We're all there, allenjoying a big Thanksgiving feast that we had
cooked. And you know, wegot into the finishing time of the meal.
You eat early on Thanksgiving, right, so like five point thirty ish,
my sister is over there and she'syou know, working on seconds,
I think, and I just seeher start making faces. I'm like,
uh, everything tasted right over there. She's like, yeah, yeah,

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it's fine, Like she's just kindof quiet. And I look and my
sister is eight and a half monthspregnant. Many, yeah, that's exactly
where my mind jumped to. Yeah. Yeah, And pretty quickly she goes
all right. I wasn't sure,but I thought it was maybe food or
just upset. She's like, Ithink things are happening. Wow, it's
like I think that we need tocall a doctor. And my sister is

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a juggernautter right like she is.She will put up with pain till the
very end of time. She refuwxisto let people help her unless it's an
absolute necessity. Well, you don'twant to mess around with babies. And
she starts and she's a medical professionaltoo, so she should know better,
and she starts to panic a littlebit. I see it sort of wash
over her, like, oh mygod, this might be happening. She's

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not new until December eighth, however, Yeah, that's yeah, not too
far exactly, and not her first, right, not her first, this
is her third. She's got afive and a three year old with her
Thanksgiving this well, and you knowshe's single, and so she's like,
well, you know, what arewe doing? We're like, what do
you mean? What do you do? This is the perfect opportunity. All
your family is here to take careof you. Maybe we just welcome in
this next member tonight. I'm allthanks having up. Yeah, well you

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know, you know, so weuh, it comes down to the brothers.
The brothers take her to the emergencyroom over here at Spectrum to go
and excuse me, Core, well, Core, well, but go over
to Butterworth and we are fully preparedto go in on this. And she
winds up getting in there and theystart measuring contractions and that's sure enough what

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they are, and so they're like, hey, we might be having this
baby tonight. And no baby.Ah. We sat there for two hours.
Oh my brother and I sit therefor two hours, and my sister
had to have hated every second ofit because we were all giddy with gravy
delight and I just sat there makingjokes with every nurse and everything. I

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gotta be honest, I probably wouldhave preferred ubering I knowing my three brothers,
I would have been like, youknow what, I'm just gonna put
like a towel down on the seat. I'm gonna have a total stranger take
me, because that does sound justa little calmer. We are in the
We're in the room, sitting thereasking the nurse. I'm like, all
right, so you know, yousee these things happen all the time,
ma'am, what would you say thethe odds of this bean turkey gas are

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all right, and maybe a littlea little bit of green beans working their
way through your system a little gig. I mean, if you've been in
the car with family members after aThanksgiving feast, things happen literally the worst
possible person I could imagine that.We were wanting to take me to the
hospital, talking about perhaps changing themiddle name to to duck in. We
just feel like there's ways to commemoratean amazing Thanksgiving where you welcome new members

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to the family, your cornucopia grossmine all about it. But baby's doing
good, Mom's doing good. Wejust had a nice little after dinner.
I stay at the hospital. Bestthing about it though, in true pregnant
lady fashion, yeah, the nursesyou can go home, you know,
just get some rest. Keep aneye on this. If contractions continue or
get closer together, call us again. My sister's like, okay, we

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definitely will do. I can't waitto rest, so we nurse walks out.
She goes, we're going back toyour house. That cheesecake's not gonna
let's go that girl then the truemom sometimes because I get a good feeling.
Well, hopefully, lots of reasonsfor you to be thankful after.

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We enjoyed a nice long holiday weekend. But gotta say, if you're a
a high school football fan here inWest Michigan, definitely even more to be
thankful for. As we've got threestate champions to talk about here, Schmidty,
this is so cool. First,I'll start Division five powerhouse. Congratulations
Grand Rapids Catholic Central getting the jobdone, state champs yet again, twenty

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one to seven over Coruna. AtFord Field head coach Todd Colster saying it's
kind of like the one moment thatyou can sit back and look at these
guys and enjoy them and what they'vejust accomplished. He said that because he's
never in the group photos, theman stays out of all the team photos
so that he can stare at histeam and just let that all sink in.

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He's a very proud coach, veryproud coach. Also proud head coach
Big Reds head coach Shane Fairfield becauseWithskegan getting it done for Division two state
champions over Warren De la Sal thirtythree to twenty one there at ford Field,
Shane Fairfield saying everyone has wanted usto give up and quit and not

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here. People want us to fallapart, people want us to break,
and I said, we will notbe broken. Today. They had finished
runner up not only last year,but seven times since twenty twelve. They
have always had a really good team, but two state champions now in the
last seven years, and then finallyfor the first time in their school's history,
Schmidty, Forest Hills Central is yourDivision three state champions, beating Mason

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twenty seven to ten, and headcoach Tim Rodgers announcing right after the game
at the press conference that he isretiring, going out on top after twelve
years at Forest Hills Central, saying, I think that we put together a
program that we can be proud ofand it's time to pass it on to
somebody else and I'm happy to bewalking away the way we with we are

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with the men that I'm walking awaywith not only our players, but our
coaching staff. And shout out tothe parents that did all that driving on
your holiday weekend. This was suchan incredibly video that has been viewed millions
of times. Imagine having your Thanksgivingdinner on a New York City subway train.

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That's exactly what happened on one ofthe L trains on Thursday. This
video is from TikToker It Girl Jadagot you a plate. That's right.

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They hopped on the train to findfolding tables in the aisleways full of everything
turkey, corn stuffing, green beancasserole, corn bread, all of the
amazing things you would expect at aThanksgiving dinner just being served on a New
York City subway system. We stilldon't know who was behind this. There
were just lots of people passing outplates to go, plates, drinks.

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It was incredible and not the firsttime this has happened. Video has been
brought up from last year of asimilar L train in New York. Once
again just feeding hundreds of people asthey're on wherever they're going in their journey,
and it is so incredibly cool.I'm going to post this up for
you on our Insta stories at WestMichigan Star. That's beautiful, Schmitty.

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Normally I have a personal life rulenever to eat anything you find on a
subway, but you know I makeany not when you see these boots,
very cool, feeling good, alwayshere to point out amazing things going on
out in our world. And we'lldo it again for you. Nine's wanting
this morning on starbtar fon on pointseven, West Michigan's Christmas stoff, movies,
music and all the gossip in oneplace. It's the celebritiescoop on Star

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one oh five point seven. Idon't know take this as a gift or
not, It's up to you,but Kim Kardashian is officially getting into movies.
The news broke yesterday. Remember Itold you that there was a comedy
that was being shopped around to differentstudios following all of the resolution with the
sag Aftra and it looks like yes, indeed, Kim Kardashian will be starring

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in a new movie called The FifthWheel for who Netflix. That's right,
The rights were just sold to Netflixin a huge bidding war. Remember the
film is not shot yet Kim aswell as two co writers actually came up
with the concept that includes Saturday NightLive alum Paula pl and Janine Brito selling

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the idea Kim is going to playthe lead in this among an unsemble of
female actresses. You know, thereare a lot of big names and big
movies that come on to Netflix andall the other big streamers these days.
That being said, a movie starin Kim Kardashian going straight to streaming does
feel uh, does feel right reallywell of comedy. I'm actually I'll say

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it. I'm excited to see it. I love what Paula pal has done
in the past. She is theone behind a bunch of the Amy Poehler
and Tina Fey movies. I thinkit's gonna be funny and whatever. I
think Kim could actually become on Didyou see the amazing, amazing reunion Over
the weekend, Destiny's Child officially backto as Beyonce had the huge world premiere

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of her new Renaissance movie, andman, did Beyonce look absolutely incredible.
It was a chrome carpet, sothat's very cool. Everybody had to show
up in black or silver. Bayactually hosting the debut at the Samuel Goldwyn
Theater in Beverly Hills. Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams showed up, along with
founding members LaToya Luckett and LaTavia RobinsonRobertson. So it was really cool.

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We saw Lizzo, Gabrielle Union,Hallie Bailey, Tina Knowles, Tyler Perry,
Chris Jenner, Andrew Day, justto name a few. However,
fans did point out Taylor Swift didnot show up. You'll remember Beyonce was
at Taylor's Aristour film premiere. Taylorjust had a really really crazy schedule of

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making up for some of those showsin Brazil. Couldn't fly home. I
was gonna say, and I won'tbe surprised at all when Taylor does something
special for Beyonce. You know,I actually thought we would have seen a
video lead that she would have shared. But I'm sure she'll call it ten
to it. It is supposed tobe an absolutely incredible film. Finally,
Twilight fans have some interesting things tosay about this. How would you feel

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about Wednesdays? Jenna Ortega and jacobAileroyd making a perfect Bella Swan and Edward
Cullen. Yeah, that's apparently whatdirector and author Katherine Hardwick wants to see
when Twilight is redone. So they'recelebrating the fifteenth anniversary of this movie with
a watch along on the Happy,Sad, Confused podcast, and she brought

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up her picks to take over forKristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, Jenna and
Jacob. To most of the Internet'sOkay, I'll be honest, middy,
there are new levels of feeling oldthat have been unlocked with this because I
felt too old to watch the firstTwilight movies. Now you're telling me,

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yes, give me a breather.And now that Jenna has backed out of
the new Scream movie, she'll haveplenty of time. All of your celeb
scoop at West Michigan start dot com. It's back, and of course they're
the gift that always keeps on givingyour kids, especially my too. Boy,
oh boy, I'm certain that Christmasis very alive and well in your
home, especially now that we're pastThanksgiving and with the snow yesterday. My

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kids make sure to point out,oh my goodness, sand it's gonna be
coming soon because there's the snow.So apparently that means we can just break
things and Santa will bring them.Uh. If you follow me on TikTok
at Schmidt in the mitt, yousaw me post this video yesterday and it
went huge. I just I couldn'tbelieve it because so many people were like,
oh, that's exactly how it works. In my house and my daughter

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and son, we're playing in mydaughter's room yesterday, and all of a
sudden we hear this crash and shehas broken her lamp, the lamp we
got for her big girl room,very cute, like come on, and
I hear the crash, and thenI hear Sophia go oh oh, and
then I hear will go good timingfee, Santa will just bring you another
one. And here I am ahard working mother, full time job,

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trying to watch the debt ratio,thinking no, no, no, no
no, that is not how Santaworks. We do not just break things
and then write Santa let her goingoop. Sorry, I threw a Lego
transformer and broke my daughter's lamp,but I'm sure my sister's lamb. I'm
sure you'll be able to fix that. So I posted this up and I
got so many people that were like, oh, so it's not just my

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house. Kim is listening right now, She said, my son who says,
as he's adding thousands of dollars tohis Amazon wish list, I didn't
think Santa hadna budget. It makessense. So now I'm wondering, like,
how do we flip this little lifelesson to understand? Because we went
out and got our Christmas tree.Over the weekend, went to Lendering Farms

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in Belmont, such a cool spot. Sannah was there and even then my
son was so sweet. Really,do you know what you're gonna ask Santa
for? He said, I thinka Pokemon watch and a Pokemon binder.
And then he got up there andhe only asked for the watch, And
so what happened? Buddy? Andhe goes. I just thought maybe only
one gift from Santa would be enough. He has so many kids to see.
He's playing right long, not twentyfour hours later from busting furniture,

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and Will's going moves. Dude,I'll just put that in a sleigh.
You know what I would I commendyour son a for understanding the nuances of
Christmas to the m degree, becausenot only did I hear that he is
going to bat for his little sisterlike, Hey, I know this might
be upsetting to you right now,but don't stress. Santa's got you covered.
Great timing, and then be knowingthat when you're talking to the big

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guy, you don't want to comeoff as over eager or greedy. You're
not some spoiled kid like the oneson the Naughty lishmitting Oh no, no,
no, no, Yeah, you'reletting Santa know that. You know,
I'll just ask for one gift forme so that all the boys and
girls across the cost. Is thatwhat it is? So ramp He's like,
couldn't possibly have been me. Iwas the one on the left saying
I only needed one gift. Youknow. The only other member of the

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family that can pull that move iswhen your husband's speciously knocks over the television
screen just a couple of weeks beforeChristmas and holiday football and everything else.
Santa fix that. You know,that's a solid move that Santa's got a
fix. Wow, maybe it's aChristmas mirror. Hey, what are your
kids saying around Christmas? Are theypulling moves like this? And they said
something really funny, something they're expectingfrom Sanna that You're like huh six one

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six, four five eight, oneoh five seven. Full blown Christmas in
our house, how about you?Four five eight one o five seven.
I've had to continually remind my daughterthat Sanna doesn't like to do live animals.
She is not only asking for adog, but the weirdest item on
my Christmas list this year is definitelya fertilized chicken egg. Still going hard
with the chickens in my house,Smitty, Oh, I think Sanna needs

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to know you're not even allowed todo that in your neighborhood. The human
torch was denied a bankload. Gotmine. Now let's start your week out
with the news. Well that you'lltalk about, but you don't really need
drop it. Forest A Saudi princebought airplane seats for all eighty eight zero

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of his Falcons. Oh so okay, so she'll love that flight. Can't
they just follow the plane? Can'tthey just do a single engine? Says
none? Just say hey, boys, follow me and they all have their
screens on, which I thought wasthe cutest part of the whole thing.
Sad bie us many police find hairsticking out of trunk. New Zealand woman
experiencing call from police officers concerned ascitizens saw clumps of hair sticking out the

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back of her vehicle. Yeah,it turns out she was a hairdresser.
That was a mannequin's head. Butwe all watched way too many crime docs
to not call the cops on thatone. A plane was forced to return
after a horse escaped its cargo hold. Yeah. The seven forty seven was
headed to Belgium from New York.The horse got out. That's not good,

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and they had to return to JFKAirport. I honestly, honestly didn't
know you could travel with horses anda cargo plane. Yeah, no,
I what you thoughts so either becausethere's other animals, didn't know that you
could have something choppling around down there. You're gonna get the seat belt on
that thing. North Carolina picked amayor via coin toss. Yea in the
town of Monroe, North Carolina.Five candidates ran, two of them tied

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with nine and seventy votes apiece,So they just went to the coin toss.
I think actually a lot of placesdo, though. I don't like
that. This is the greatest democracyin the history of the earth, and
you're telling me we don't even doa game of skill like I don't know,
rock paper scissors, something like that. I love this. Brenda Lee
breaking out rocking around the Christmas treeon the plane intercom. She still got

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it, folks. Yes, shewas on a recent flight, asked if
she could hop on the plane intercomand did the entire thing too. I
will report the delight of passenger,to be honest, you know you're traveling.
Stories this week are the best betweenFelton's horses and Brenda Lee. I
told you I was showing up withmy egg games, all right, spitty,
And now I'm gonna tear down yourentire generation. All right, Millennials

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have figured out the secret to happiness. How much money can buy happiness?
Well, according to millennials, it'sfive hundred and twenty five thousand dollars per
year. Schmitty, Yeah, actuallyI would say five to seventy five,
five seventy five for you, thisis crazy. So millennials five hundred and
twenty five thousand, Gen Z onehundred and twenty eight, jen X one
hundred and thirty, and the greatestgeneration, the Boomers, one hundred and

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twenty four thousand dollars a year.Smitty, But millennials five times as much.
Our back's hurt from carrying everybody.Okay, Nedbine, You know,
Smitty, your grandparents used to behappy when they'd get an orange for Christmas.
All right, y'all out here askingfor a half a million year Look
at you. You're like, getoff my lawn and you're coming on forty,
aren't you. Oh? Stop movies, music and all the gossip in

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one place. It's the celebritiescoop onStar one oh five point seven. Well,
Paris Hilton has yet another big thingto be thankful for. She is
now the mom of two, surprisingthe world with the news over the holiday
weekend the arrival of her second child, a daughter named London. Now.

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Her son, Phoenix, who isalmost eleven months old, is the same
as her daughter, conceived via surrogate, and the family actually posted this very
sweet video to their Instagram. Phoenix, We're about to surprise everyone and tell
them that you have a sister.Wow, They're going to fall out of
their chairs. Isn't that exciting?I love you kid? Remember the only

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world of the Kuchie Crew is weall have to be good human being still
and if so, we get toplay with pink and holographic stuff all day
long. Now, the pink isvery important. Obviously. It told everyone
that she had a girl and herdaughter's name is London. I'm good for
her. Anyone in baby talk isjust so awkward to me. That whole

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thing they'd do. Cute video though, I'll post it up for you.
Billy Joel is revealing that he earnedserious cool dad points after taking his two
daughters to see none other than TaylorSwift during her Era's tour stop in Florida
earlier this year. He was talkingwith People Magazine at the Long Island Music
and Entertainment Hall of Fame over theweekend when he gushed about the performance,

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saying, Oh, she is great, like really really good. In fact,
we're probably going to go see heragain now. Billy Joel SHARE's daughters,
Della Rose who's eight, and RemyAnn, who is six, with
his wife Alexis, said the girlswere over the moon about it. Meanwhile,
Taylor had a very special moment atone of her Brazil stops over the

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weekend in South Polo, actually invitingthe family of Anna Clara Benavidez Machado,
that fan that died unfortunately due tosoaring temperatures at one of her shows,
she invited them backstage, met withthem and actually did a very very special
something. She hasn't said exactly whatthat is, but pictures were shared.
The family was very very grateful forthat. You know, a tragic thing

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that Taylor not responsible for in anyway, but obviously took it so close
to heart. Yeah, and finally, did you see the halftime show during
the Detroit Lions game none other thanJack Harlowe? The ones that had me
to most, just like you tellingme what that means? Make a slick
common to see what that brains.I've seen it go down. We can
reenact things. Yeah, it wasso bad. People are ripping it online.

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Between the very weird set, thefact that nobody really understood who was
signing in the background, the entirething just looked really bad. Some comments
include they said Jack Harlowe's halftime performancelooked like it was from Frozen if it
had gotten toilet papered. Dolly.The one that made it worse was that

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Dolly Parton's halftime show was so incrediblygood. Yeah. Another user writing,
wow, my next door neighbors hada bigger budget for their Nativity scene than
Jack Harlow did for his entire halftimeshow, even jack Harlow posting a picture
of himself after the performance with nocaption whatsoever, which a lot of people
thought that that was definitely a digat Detroy, going this is what you

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set me up with. I mean, it did not look good for us,
tasted really bad with the loss thatcame along with it too. Just
not the look we wanted for us. Yeah, all of your celeb scoop
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How is your turkey day? Oh? Good? Good? Nice?
So here we go full blown Christmasmode now and Alex, I'm hopefully going
to get you to the Christmas LightShow when you give me the top answer.

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Today. One hundred women were askedto name something kids look forward to
most in wintertime. What do youthink the top answer is there? Alex
Ah, All right? Can yousay the question one more time? Yup?
Not a problem? Name something kidslook forward to the most in winter?

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All right? My god, mykids says Christmas? Your kid says
Christmas? And you know what,I would have one thousand percent gone with
what your what your kid did towhat's your what's your kid's name? And
Marie, Anne, Marie has hassteered you in the right direction in the
past. I know that's true,Alex. However, today she was off
Christmas is the number two answer.It wasn't the first thing that came to

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mind when these when these moms wereasked this question. I'm sorry, guys,
all right, thank you, noproblem, have a great day,
you too, Hi Star. Who'sthis? Ashley? Young Anne? Marie
and her dad Alex just gave mea great guest. When one hundred women
were asked to name something kids lookforward to the most in winter, she
went with what I would have wentwith, which was Christmas. Makes sense,

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but they were thinking more about wintertime in something that kids specifically look
forward to happening. What do youthink that top answer is, Ashley?
I think it's snow days. Youthink it's snow days. I mean,
you gotta sleep with your pajamas insideout, in that spoon underneath your pillow.
You make those things happen. Anddear Lord, does it feel like

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the greatest thing ever when your momtells you, Nope, stay in bed,
it's a snow day. Yeah,snow day's top answer. Congratulations,
thank you. Yeah, you've gottickets to go check out. You've got
a car pass to go and enjoythe over one million lights at LMCU Ballpark
with the Christmas light show. Congrats, thanks so much. It was snow
days followed by Christmas, then sleddingand a winter vacation rounding out those top

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answers. Well done, and we'lldo it again tomorrow. More passes all
season long. The Battle the Sexeseight fifteen. Here on Stars sometime,
let's put some pause at the endof this Monday morning for you. Feeling
good on STARLEITL five point seven?What's going on? TRIDDI, Oh,

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this is just so cool. I'mpersonally a huge fan of the Macy's Thanksgiving
Day parade. Me and the familywatched it on Thursday. I know a
ton of people actually went to America'sThanksgiving Day parade in Detroit, but I
don't think any of those compare tothe huge balloon parade at Helen de Boss
Children's Hospital. That's right. Thisvery cool partnership between Blue Glass Studios,

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which is their in house station.They produce a bunch of live programming for
the kids that has then streamed toevery single hospital room on TV. Along
with Child and Family Life, decidedto bring in fifty five balloons for an
epic balloon parade. You can seeand hear in the video that they posted

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that this was exactly what the kidswere so excited to see. Buzz light
Year, Super Mario, Elmo,Paw Patrol and I'm talking those massive balloons
from the likes of Party City.It's really really cool And I had the
funnest time this morning because actually oneof our coworkers door dashed one of those
balloons from Party City and when hesaw the video, he went, oh,

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my gosh, how cool that itwas used for that. So just
another huge shout out to Child andFamily Life at Helen de Oz because it
was such a good idea. That'sjust a awesome way to do the parade
on, you know, just asmaller level where it's even cooler for those
I'd small fifty five huge balloons throughthe different rooms and halls of that hospital.

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This was a pretty big undertaking.I'll post that video up on our
Instagram if you want to see it. All right, Schmitty, of course,
I'm living on cloud nine today likeevery other Michigan football fan out there
after them watching them beat their rivalsfrom Ohio yet again this year. However,
at the end of the game,I thought this was so cool back
in twenty twenty one when the Wolverinesfinally got over the hump, finally beat

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Ohio State for the first time inforever. Well. It was with Jim
brandstat Er doing the the play byplay on Michigan radio networks, including our
very own right here Schmidy, yourstation that you also frequent on on wood
Radio thirteen six nine FM, homeof Michigan Football. But he retired after
that season in twenty twenty one,and taking his place was Doug car Swell.

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At the end of the game,Jim was there at the broadcast booth,
so Doug took off the headphones andhanded the microphone over to his predecessor
one more time. Thanks and gentlemen, I stand what I mean. We'll
win this one. I'm going tolove this. Put Amick cut Championship.

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Let me look, I'm getting twentyone. We look and cut it to
the store and they two twenty four. J. J. Mccurt go on
the knee twenty five seconds flows takethem up, hands it back right there.

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Two good friends and co workers foryears and years, as Doug was
the former sideline reporter while Jim wasthe play by play man. Well now
retired, he just wrote on Twitterbrandstead of writing thank you Doug for a
very classy and generous act. Iwas thrilled for the opportunity more than you'll
know. Thank you also, John, as you're a member of a great
team in the booth. You areboth rock stars. Now bring home three

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more. That is a video youneed to post as well, because to
see the look on his face whenthat microphone gets passed is really incredibly respectful.
I loved it all right at WestMichigan Star and always here to pick
you up for something assoup going onout there. Let's do it again tomorrow
six forty five and nine twenty hereon starwinar five point seven Mack and Schmidty
in the morning weekday starting at sixam on Star one oh five point seven