Mac & Shmitty November 29, 2023

Mac & Shmitty November 29, 2023

Episode Transcript

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Mack and Schmitty in the morning onWest Michigan's Christmas station, Star one oh
five point seven. So I wejust heard Lindsay Sterling a couple moments ago
there Schmidty and enjoyed the world.And of course, if we're still giving
away tickets for her show next Tuesdayover there, but men ben into arena.
My daughter has been listening to theChristmas tunes and that's the biggest takeaway

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this year. She loves Lindsay Sterling. Love Lindsay Sterling. I think she
saw a couple of YouTube videos wellnow and then then she was like,
Dad, how much your violins?And I'm that's not happening either this holiday
season. But like, if we'retransitioning from what she's been asking for,
yeah, which was a fertilized chickenegg, you're on a good path violins
and kind of an improvement. Bereal careful, be real careful. About

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six years ago, my best friendand I decided we were gonna start music
lessons together. She took the cello, I took the violin. Oh wow,
you forgot about it. So wepaid a rental on that baby for
like two years while it sat inmy closet because it turns out as an
adult. String instruments are much harderthan the brass instruments I learned in grade
school. Bands. I love howthey rent instruments to not only adults,

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but children too when they're when you'refirst getting into band and they say to
your your parents, they're like,you know, these are really expensive,
and kids don't always necessarily stick withthese things. You might just want to
rent this and give it back tous after they've you know, put it
under their bed, never to beseen again. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, that happens. For it, movies, music, and all
the gossip in one place. It'sthe celebrities scoop on Star one oh five

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point seven. If you have beenfollowing the legal battles over the will and
estate of Aretha Franklin, there wasa bank decision handed down awarding real estate
to the Late Stars sons. Thatmeans they cite that a hand written will
from twenty fourteen, this was theone found between the couch cushions is valid.

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The decision came months after a Detroitarea jury said the document was indeed
a valid will under Michigan law,despite all the scribbles and a lot of
the hard to read passages they saidFranklin had signed it, even put a
smiley face in the letter A thatis valid in binding. That means these
papers will override the handwritten will fromtwenty ten that was found at Franklin's suburban

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Detroit home. So one of hersons will get the property, which was
valued at one point one million backin twenty eighteen, now worth a ton
more. Another son who had favoredthe twenty ten will and was given a
house in Detroit, and then theestate sold out for three hundred grand.
Has this first son now requesting saleproceeds. Now, even though this part

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of things seems to have been decided, there is still a huge legal battle
over Aretha's music and all of thoseassets. Yeah, that's the real valuable
asset right there. But still Ihate to see this after the fact.
And isn't it strange to you thesearguments and these life changing decisions can come
down to something like a will foundin the couch cushion. Here is the

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message, have a living will,have a will, Go to an attorney,
go to someone legal that you trust. Because it is so tough,
and this tears families apart, justmake sure all of your goods go to
places you wanted to go to,because this is never a battle anyone wants
to wage. This is very interestingBeyonce's mom, Tina Noles, defending the

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star in the face of accusations thatshe lightened her skin and hair to look
more white. If you saw someof the pictures from that huge world premiere
of her new Renaissance movie, alot of the comments section was filled with
people going, oh, no,what are we doing here? Why are
you bleaching? Well, Tina wasnot here for that, posting a lengthy

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Instagram yesterday saying she does a filmcalled The Renaissance where the whole theme is
silver, silver hair, silver carpet, and suggested silver attire, and you
bozos decide that she's trying to bea white woman and bleaching her skin.
How sad is it that some ofher own people continue this stupid narrative with
hate and jealousy. Dush, shewore silver hair to match her silver dress

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as a fashion statement, you clowns. She went on to say, what's
really most disappointing is that some blackpeople, yes you bozos, on social
media, lying and faking and actinglike you're so ignorant that you don't understand
black women have worn platinum hair sincethe edit James Days. This was literally
like a four paragraph Part one,Part two post. Mama Tina was non

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impressed. No, she went offright there. Mama definitely took some serious
offense to it, and rightfully so. Beyonce has been nothing but a proud
black woman throughout her career, raisingthe voices of other people up in that
community too. Show well, that'spart of this whole thing as well.
She even calls TMZ, I've gotit all posted up for you at West

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Michigan Star dot com. And finallyI had the bombshell news yesterday after ten
years plus sixteen seasons, Mark Cubanbidding farewell to the show Shark Tank,
and he says his ideal successor billionaireEmma Gred, the co founder of the

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Kardashians Empire. She is the onethat co founded Skins with Kim Kardashian.
She also co founded Good American alongsideChloe. You're thinking a few Kardashians might
be involved in Shark Tank, Marksays it would be amazing. He said
the forty one year old is abrilliant entrepreneur. She also has an extraordinary
knack for helping companies grow thanks toher experience. Andy says he's very impressed

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with her natural ability to connect withothers and says she has fabulous television charisma,
but does point out that as ofyet, auditions to find his replacement
for the show have not even started. There is no replacement for the Cubes.
Sorry, you can't. You can'ttake the best part of a show
away, he says. I'm agreat Jenny says, get ready for some
Kardashians on that show. All ofyour celeb scoop but West Michigan Star dot

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com. If you're a pet parents, well you know this is coming.
Yeah, Christmas is pretty hard ifyou're trying to do the decorating with any
of those furry friends, I've gotto ask how do you keep them out
of the tree? And when Iposted this picture on our Facebook, I
was really surprised at the other peoplethat are like, yes, same.
Chris is like, we just gota new puppy. Love to hear some

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suggestions. Mickey goes we got anew kitten. Just popping in to see
if anybody has advice on how wecan still be merry and bright without ruining
our tree every year. So Ihad my brother and sister in law over
this weekend, and they have acat, Mick, we love, but
they have not had an actual Christmastree in five years. They get just

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a little tabletop one because without fail, Mick loves climbing their tree and it
topples over ornament's break. Plus likethey're afraid it could be a fire hazard.
Right, you know, you don'tknow what that tree could be popping
over on top of or what couldhappen when the lights are on it.
My sister in law was so excited, she said, we're gonna get getting
an actual tree this year. We'regonna go tree hunting. I said,

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that's fantastic. What happened? Shegoes, I saw it on TikTok.
Of course, she said, you'vegot to get a cat tunnel. And
I said a cat tunnel, Andshe said, I found all of these
people that had been posting about thisgame changer. The cat tunnels you're used
to seeing they have the little openingand then the cats can just like run
around inside of it. As longas it's big enough and fluffed enough,

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you put it around their tree ay, they can't get to the stem of
the tree to climb it, andbe they're distracted by the cat tunnel,
they'll just run around the tree.She said, all of these people millions
of views on cat TikTok about justputting a cat tunnel underneath your tree.
And she tried it, and shesaid, Mick hasn't touched anything on the
tree. Honestly, I sa,I just googled this, yeah, to

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get the images, and it lookshilarious. It looks awesome like your cat
would be just doing laps on thebottom of your think at festive ones they've
put on the TikTok shop that arespecifically Christmas themes. So it honestly looks
like a tree skirt underneath your Christmastree. And she swears by this,
and I was like, do youthink it works for other animals too?

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And she said, well, Isent this TikTok to a friend of ours
that has a new little Yorky tinytiny guy and she said, yep,
loves the tunnel. They cut acouple extra holes in it, but they
put toys in there. He actslike it's his little house. Never touches
the Christmas tree. Huh. Nevertouches the Christmas tree. I'm just looking
at it and going there is aboutthere's about a five second window before my

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kids are inside of this chid.Well that's just it. They should man
too, because if you find theright size tunnel, because I thought the
same thing, I'm like, well, I mean, I've got a toddler
who's going to fit herself into anything. You find that perfect size, they
can't. It is a win winbecause when I was looking at some of
our comments on Facebook, it wasbrilliant. Sarah said, my cat doesn't

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like climbing the tree, but shewon't push the presence out of the way
so she can lay under it,to which I said, oh, your
cat and my kids have that incommon. But with this cat tunnel,
you can put the gifts inside thetunnel. Ooh, like a barrier you
get your you have they built incat dog toddler barrier, you guys,
And it seems so simple. Thesethings are like ten to twenty bucks online.

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I was like, I don't knowthis might be done to talk about,
but I feel like I've got topass this tackle log because my sister
in law is literally so overjoyed theycan finally have like this smell of pine
in their house. It's so muchfun searching for the tree and their can't
get and get at it. It'shonestly not that much different than what my
older brother has to do with theirnew puppy who's a big dog. And
I told you we got our Christmastree earlier than ever. We got it

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right before yeah, Thanksgiving there,and so it was at the house when
everybody was there. And their dogis still a puppy, but he's massive,
and so what I call nut runs, they call zoomies. So of
course we're bringing the tree into thehouse and the dog just starts freaking out.
He's doing circles like a tornado aroundthe couch. Next thing we know,
the tree is standing up. It'snot in the stand yet, but
we've propped against the wall and thedog's us moving so fast on our wood

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floors. Kareem's directly into the tree, knocks the thing over, and he's
like, you got that baby gatein the basement, still hounting because we're
gonna need to put that bad boyaround our tree. Lot of bravery bring
in a tree in with a packedhouse six one six, four five eight
one oh five seven. I wouldlove to hear your Christmas tree hacks for
the furry friends? How do youkeep your beloved pets out of the Christmas

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tree? Four? Five eight oneoh five seven? And come back because
I've got a really really good pieceof advice that i just got from a
listener starting a five point seven.It's back and Schmidty and we were just
talking about ways you can save thetree from those pat smitty, oh,
the furry friends that love climbing it. Give us your advice. Hey,
Star, who's this? Hey it'sCindy. Hey, Sidney, how are
you this morning? All right?Where are you calling from? Well?

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Glenn Rappers Katia? All right,Cindy, give us the advice. How
do you keep those pets out ofthe Christmas tree? We are a pack
and plush. You put a treein a pack and plush, oh pet
in the pack and play all right? All right, that's actually a really
good idea because the walls are higherthan a baby gate, right, so
they can't get and the kids can'twait it either, And you can just

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put the presents in there. They'reprotected from everybody. It's like fortnight ago.
I just thought about that, Siddy. Thanks so much for the call.
Oh you're welcome. So I lovethe pack and play idea. And
Chris is actually on our Facebook pageand said, we tie our tree to
the wall and we put oranges aroundit. Six cats in our house.

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Never had a problem oranges. Yeah, I have never heard of oranges.
Maybe isn't a cucumbers get out,but apparently oranges as well. So there
you go. He had a babygate surrounded by cucumbers. What is happening?
No, we just got cats.No big gip sometime because I get
a good feeling, Yeah, therewe go, Benny putting a little light

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into this Wednesday morning. What dayof the week is it feeling good?
Right now? On starlin A fivepoints evidence Mack and Schmidty and of course
yesterday and giving Tuesday, people givingback any way that they can and following
Thanksgiving, maybe you were counting yourblessings. Well, one little girl definitely
was Reagan Hernandez is only six yearsold, but she decided she wanted to

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give to others in a big way. So she has been collecting popcns for
weeks and weeks now with hopes ofhelping other people have a great Thanksgiving and
only six years old. She hada mission when she started out, telling
Fox seventeen why she wanted to helppeople and make sure that they had a
great Thanksgiving too. Half bellys makesure everybody has Thanksgiving dinner. I mean

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super cute of course, but alsowith some substance. She raised a whole
bunch of cash minty nine hundred andtwenty dollars. It's a lot of can
this little six year old collected incans. Also that she could help other
people have that great Thanksgiving, Shepresented a nine hundred and twenty dollars check
to Mission for Area people in MuskeganHeights, the money going to help families

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over fifty of them with their Thanksgivingmeals this year, according to one of
the representatives of the organization, saying, we have families whose food stamps were
cut and so they're not receiving asmuch as that we're in the past.
Everything has gotten so expensive that peopleare having a hard time eating healthy.
Reagan's donation again helping more than fiftyfamilies have a great Thanksgiving meal. All
right? Have you heard about theSilent Fanta. It is a movement that

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has gained serious traction. Its biggestyear yet and it helps children with autism
get a chance to meet the bigGuy. Obviously, this is that very
important year for kids, this timeof year when you want to make sure
you're on the nice list, butmore importantly, you want to make sure
you get a one on one withSanta. He knows exactly what you want.

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How well you've paved all year long, Well, that can be really
really intense for child with autism.Lines, loud noises, lights, a
lot of attention and busyness can makethings extremely difficult for parents to have that
match moment with their children. Andsince they are special, a lot of
people have decided to come up witha special way to do it, and
that is silent Santa. This ishappening in communities across the country where parents

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are actually able to schedule fifteen tothirty minute personal appointment times. There's no
lines, there's no music, there'sno noise, and their child is able
to get that one on one withSanta in a calming environment even cooler,
when Santa is ready in any wayto meet that child. It might be
getting right down on the floor tohear about that Christmas list. It might

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be a high five instead of onthe lap, and as one of Santa's
helpers points out, telling thirteen Newsin West Virginia, the magic is unmatched.
And to see these parents and youknow how much work and how hard
it is for them, but howmuch love you feel from these parents for

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these wonderful, wonderful children. Itjust touches my heart. Yeah, I
think it touches all of ours aswell. You want to see some videos
of these kids' faces just lighting up, most of them. This is the
first time they've gotten to talk toSanta. I'll post them up at West
Michigan Star dot com. People outthere spreading joy. That's what you heard

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today and often what we feature everymorning. We're feeling good, We'll give
you another round of it coming upat nine to twenty this morning. You're
on Star Movies, Music and allthe gossip in one place. It's the
Celebritiescoop on Star one oh five pointseven. Well, we've been talking about
this in quite a few different scoops. Serious legal issues facing Diddy, and
he is not about to let thosetake down the success in his professional life,

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making the difficult decision yesterday to temporarilystep aside from his role as chairman
at his media company, Revolt.Sources say he decided last week to make
the move. His goal was tonot allow these accusations from different women distract
from Rebolt's mission or success. It'scurrently celebrating its ten year anniversaryen he has

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been doing very well under the leadershipof the CEO and Chief brand officer,
neither of which is Diddy, andhe is not involved in the company's day
to day Now. He did quicklysettle that lawsuit brought by his ex girlfriend
Cassie, but now he has twomore women accusing him of serious abuse,
to the point where his rep hasaddressed the two additional lawsuits by saying the

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claims involving alleged misconduct from over thirtyyears ago and filed at the last minute
are all completely denied and rejected byhim, recognizing this as a money grab,
but nonetheless has left a big partof his professional career. Uh money
grab, Yes or no? Itcan definitely do damage deservedly so or n
Yeah, I was going to sayso being a member of that board,

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especially when you're not part of theday to day operations, you're not the
CEO. Yeah, you better getout of there. Well. Also,
let's talk about the conversations probably beinghad, which was, hey, you
gotta step aside just to start thingsout with smart business moves. This is
interesting. Remember he told you onMonday about this bombshell new book about the
royals, and it's called this uhend Game. Well, apparently, in

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at least one of the translated versions, author Omed Scobie named the two people
that asked Prince Harry and Meghan Markleabout their child's skin color. Do you
remember that bombshell from the Oprah interview? While things have gotten very serious,
the author is now blaming a translationerror. Apparently a specific passage showed up

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in the Dutch language version of thebook which appeared to name the person who
questioned what color Harry and Meghan's sonArchie would be, and then gives very
strong evidence of the second person involvedin this conversation. Now the author is
saying, whoa, whoa, whoawhoa. I had no part of this.
The book is in several languages.Unfortunately I don't speak Dutch, so

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if there were translation errors, thepublishers will have it under control. I
wrote and edited the English version.There's never been a version that I've produced
that has had names in it,he said, because of libel issues and
possible lawsuits, he would never havenamed the person. But last night all
of those books were pulled from shelvesin the Netherlands. Too little, too

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late. Those names are going tobe on the internet if they're not already
sitting there. Smithy, Yeah,I haven't seen them this morning. They
have had this on lockdown. I'mnot saying that it won't be coming out
sooner or later, however, Andhow would you feel about sending your child
to Harvard University to take a courseabout Taylor Swift, including a deep dive

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of her relationships. Well, that'sexactly what's happening. One of Harvard's English
professors, Stephanie Bert, is discussingthe class that she is going to head
up next semester, called Taylor Swiftand Her World, which she made very
clear will put an emphasis on theliterary merit behind Taylor Swift's art, but
says there will also be a lotof talk about the fandom, her personal

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life, and including her relationships.While Professor Burt says she is as swiftye
it's not the reason that she's teachingthe course, although she has gotten some
very interesting commentary about this. Yeah, for scholarships for Swifties, and how
angry would you be if you're aparent who's paying the tuition for your child
much for the Taylor Swift class.This is not the first Taylor Swift class

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we've seen. There's been some othersat the ivy leagues, but it's been
more business oriented, not necessarily literarymerit oriented, but I think it's very
fascinating. All Right, everyone,I'd like you to go home and read
about the Jake Gillenhall period in Taylor'slife. All of your celeb scoop at
West Michigan Star dot com. Goodmorning to you. It's Mack and Schmitty.
Maybe your bundles of joy are inthe car right now, maybe your

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kids are there, and of courseyou wouldn't change that for the world.
But there is one person, Smittywho is clearly not excited about children.
A model named Ellie Gonzalvez put upa list of the one hundred and seventeen
reasons why she does not plan onhaving children after getting tired of just always
having to tell people as a thirtytwo year old model and actress, you

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know, she got tired of hearingthe question when are you going to have
kids? For reasons to remain childfree, and this list, of course,
when you're gonna touch a hot buttonissue like parenting, went Banana Schmidty's
first off, She's got one pointtwo million followers, so it was bound
to get some legs. But sheput on their you know, reasons that
were half kind of joking and thenhalf serious reasons on there too, but

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people went nuts with it. Someof her reasons though, were like,
they are your responsibility until the dayyou die. That's pretty much accurate.
This state would say at least tilleighteen. Constantly worry about their troubles.
Kids can turn into psychopaths, terribletwos, postpartum hair loss, or the
scientific fact that in fact your babycan go to the bathroom inside of you

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while in utero. Yeah, thathappens. It's interesting. So she's did
this follow up on her Instagram whereshe has the list scrolling, and she
said, wow, I've addressed thisbefore, but since I posted it,
there's been a ton of discussion,and she said, now listen, some
of these things on my list aren'tclearly satirical, but many of them are
serious and factual. I'm someone who'sbeen in a fifteen year relationship. It's

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the most frequent question I get.I understand my opinions and views may offend
you, but I think a lotof people are having this conversation. We
were talking about this yesterday, andI would say at least a quarter of
my friends will remain child free.And that shocks me. Not because you
know, I think that there's anythingwrong with not wanting kids. That's perfectly

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understandable. I just don't hardly knowanyone who feels that way. I have
one guy friend, one guy friendout of dozens and dozens that doesn't have
kids or want kids, and he'sthe kid. He's a guy who I
thought would love having kids. Well, here's the deal. So it's interesting
you frame it like that because allof my child free friends adore children.
Yeah, they love them. Theysend my kids Christmas gifts. They're the

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fun and the fun uncle. They'rethe first to jump at the chance to
watch my kids, care for mykids. They were the ones that usually
were the first to step up afterhaving one of my kids and saying,
why you guys, go like fora couple hours, have a little date,
have a little lunch whatever, I'llwatch them. They just do not
want children of their own. AndI have heard different reasons, especially from

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one of my best friends that said, I just I don't think i'm unselfish
enough, and I think it's it'sfair to say that I love loving on
my friend's kids. I just don'twant them for myself. Man, and
the Internet went hard at her forhaving that take, saying that she was
self centered, that she was goingto regret it when she was old and
lonely, people calling her horrible andbroken on their schmidty. Meanwhile, she

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just said, as an old lady, I'm gonna be enjoying life with a
mark in my hand, going withon my hot girl, walks with my
beautiful husband, four hundred Pomeranians,and gossiping with all of the old biddies
about their kids. So I willtell you one of my friends that is
child free is forty eight years oldand not once. So she regretted it.
Well, bo okay, So I'mI'm happy for your friend, and

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I'm sure that she is. Buthow would we know any different, Because
once you've gotten to that age,I doubt that the person who has made
a very personal decision and has heldon to it for their you know,
mostly child bearing years. Is goingto say, no, I totally regretted
everyone. You were all right,Well, I have friends that are say
that child that are like, ah, you know what, now I'm wondering

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if maybe, but the majority ofmine that are still child free you are
like, yeah, I've really neverlooked back. I think it's an interesting
conversation because it doesn't matter like whatside you think you're on. If you
have kids, you're always going tobe like you're missing out their absolute blessings,
right, And if you don't havekids, you're gonna say, I
appreciate respect you. I like takingvacations whenever I want. And if you

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put a list like this on theinternet, people are going to tee off
on you. That's awesome. Tellia, most of our listeners are clearly very
happy blessed parents, because we gotquite a conversation going on our Facebook about
this. Yeah, go ahead andjoin us at West Michigan Star on there
if you ought to wagy in andcheck out that list, we'll have it
up again at West Michigan Stars.The holidays, well, they just offer

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up even more opportunities to screw upas a parent. So a couple of
weeks ago, I had the privilegeof going and seeing Jean Stofer's holiday open
house. She's an interior designer righthere in West Michigan, gorgeous, gorgeous
home in the East Hills area ofHeritage Hill. And as a little token

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of her appreciation and kind of amerry Christmas, she gave us all these
really beautiful candles that smell amazing.But you're not supposed to eat them,
all right, weird, Yeah,but my two and a half year old
did not want to follow that ruleat all. If you follow me at
SCHM in the mid I posted thisvideo up on my Facebook on my Instagram
last night. I thought it'd bereally cute to take a video of us

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smelling the candle, because when Ibrought it home, She's like, oh,
mom, bom, smell good,and I was like, nice,
bob. Right. So we lookat this last night and I have her
smell it again, and I hearher go yum, and I dart from
the kitchen to find her eating thecandle. And I will tell you that

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I did have to call poison control. The woman laughed and said'tis the
season. You're about our ninetieth calltoday? What are the ingredients? I
read them out? It was justsoy or something. She goes, Nope,
it's perfectly fine. She's just gonnaprobably have a mouth that smells like
that candle for the next two days. Sophia, go ahead, finish the
candle. It's fine. The poisonlady says, it's okay. So like
the musk smell that is holiday wreakingeverywhere, that's just my daughter. That

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ate the beautiful candle that I gotfor Christmas. Confession, all right,
let's not judge people who perhaps eatodd Christmas items, because I'm pretty sure
I've eaten several fifteen to twenty yearold candy canes that were been for decorative
purposes. All right, movies,music, and all the gossip in one

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place. It's the celebrities, scoopon Star one oh five point seven.
Well, it's official. I toldyou yesterday that Eglid's Swifties had possibly noticed
that Taylor's private jet was leaving Brazil, maybe headed for Kansas City. She
has indeed touchdown back in the States, reportedly ready to spend the rest of
the holidays with boyfriend Travis Kelcey.Now she has officially wrapped on her twenty

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twenty three Eras tour. She doesnot have dates now starting until after the
first of the year. And getthis, she has landed in Kansas City
to relentedly move into the ultra privatesix million dollar Kansas City mansion for the
next few weeks, taking a breakfrom the tour and spending all the way

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through Christmas living with the bia.I mean, that's a big step right
there. The first holidays, you'reliving together for a month or two.
I thought, right, they dipthe toe in the pond, right,
It's an easy way for the parentsto meet each other. Because remember that
didn't happen before the game last week, so it's not surprising. I do
think she'll probably still be popping backto her New York apartment. But very

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big move. This is good newseverybody that was like, wait a minute,
we might not get to visit thehouse from a Christmas story, It
did not sell to a private owner. After all, the group that manages
the pad, which has now beenturned into a museum, did indeed sell
it to one of their own.The property currently operates as a tourist attraction
in Cleveland. People have the chanceto tour it. They can even stay

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overnight, and the company did announcelast year that they planned to sell it.
But luckily that new person is amember of the group. There was
interest from a group of the actorsin the film to kind of keep ticket
sales going and snap it up.And although there was some drama and the
deal did fall through, no worries. Current CEO of a Christmas Story House,

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Joshua Dickerson, is the new ownerand plans to keep it exactly as
it is. I hope. Idon't know for sure, but I'd be
shocked if it wasn't. That leglamp better be proudly displayed right in that
front window at a three hundred andsixty five days a year man. Love
it. And speaking of houses,did you see what happened at the White
House yesterday? Ooh, A prettystrong gust of wind hit around two pm

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yesterday, toppling over the National ChristmasTree. This is intense. You knew
that we've been seeing a lot ofthose blustery conditions. The National Weather Service
recorded winds as strong as forty milesan hour. The National Park Service said
one of those big old gusts hityesterday afternoon and toppled it over. The
park's agency said the immediately ad cruiseon hand to kind of pull it back

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up. They had the use ofa crane and they are hopeful that the
lighting event can still go on asplanned. There were a few lights that
had to be replaced. It wascrazy pictures that you saw come up yesterday.
You know it stinks too, becauseyou know when you have a tree
that's that big all the way around, it's not like when it falls at
your house and you're like, well, let's just spin this around so that
the backside is yeah, now,yes, see it all. And speaking

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of tree lightings, just a headsup that Rockefeller Center Christmas tree Lighting in
New York is live tonight on bothNBC and their streaming service Peacock. All
of your celeb scoop at West MichiganStar dot Com one Points seven, its
back and Schmidty and at these timeto battle. Battle of the Sex is
getting you onto LMCU Bomb Park thisholiday season where you get to see over

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a million lines, all the displays, lots of new stuff. But the
Christmas light show, Oh my gosh. We were driving on one thirty one
the other day and my kids spottedit and they were like, oh,
it's back. It is back,and we're gonna play Battle of the Sexes
for your shot at a car pass. One hundred men surveyed this morning,
what's something you'd skip if you werelate to work? I mean, I

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drive to work very early in themorning, and I would not say that.
All red lights are mandatory, andsome of them I feel like,
are you know? I'd skip ared light before I skip coffee, And
I'm perfectly fine admitting that right onthis show six one, six, four,
five eight, one oh five seven. One hundred men surveyed, what's
something you'd skip if you were lateto work? Caller seven, first chance
at that number one answer, andyou were headed to the Christmas Light show

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with the family on Star one ohfive point seven. Good morning, Star.
Who's this bro? Coldia ten?Ten? So does that make you
a fourth grader? I'm a fifthgrader, fifth grader, very very cool,
Well, Brook, I'm gonna hopefullysend you to MCU Ballpark to go
check out all those sweet Christmas lights. Yeap for that? Yeah, all

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right. Well, while not officiallypart of the workforce yet, I'm hoping
you can get the right answer tothis question here, Brook. One hundred
men were asked to, uh,name something you would skip if you were
going to be late for work.What do you think? The top answer
is broke, save it. You'regoing with shaving? Yeah? Is your

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dad in the car with you rightnow? Your mom? My mom?
Your mom? And she said,well, it's one hundred guys, so
they might skip the shaving part rightYeah, and your mom's a smart lady.
That's the top answer. Congratulations,Brook, I love it. It's
Brook. It was shaving, followedby taking a shower, then breakfast,

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her coffee, and finally brushing teeth, which is nasty, but you know
what, it depends on how lateyou are. I guess, hey,
Brook, have you ever skipped brushingyour teeth before going to school? No?
Liar. Congratulations guys. Enjoy thelights at LMCU Ballpark. Thank you.
You are very welcome. We doit every morning. Battle of the

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Sexes eight point fifteen. Looking toget your family hooked up at those Christmas
light show passes again tomorrow You're onStars sometime because I'd get a good feeling
well the holiday spirit, or justto lift your spirits. We're here to
get you feeling good right now andstart five point seven. Oh this is

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all about the holiday spirit, becausean absolute tradition in northern Michigan was once
again launched for another year of magic, the Glen Lake Christmas Tree Boat.
That's right, if you find yourselfin leland O County anytime for the next
month, you will know exactly whatI'm talking about. Branks Upgirl launches a

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cute little fishing boat decked out witha gorgeously lit Christmas tree that lives on
Glen Lake for the whole season,lighting up both the sea and the skies
and when above and beyond. Thisyear, the Christmas Tree Boat can be
seen from the Narrows Bridge over GlenLake if you're familiar. They went even

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bigger this year, more lights,more decorations. Frank and his kids have
been building the Christmas Tree Boat togetherfor almost a decade and they see every
year it gets bigger and bigger,and they love what it does for the
community. Talking to WPBN saying they'renot stopping anytime soon. You know,
I think it's just something that helpslight up the day for everyone who's driving

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by in the dark. There's alot of dark skies out here in Northern
Michigan this time of year, andhaving this little light floating on out in
the Lake of cheers people up quitea bit. And we really love seeing
how the community has reacted to this, and our family loves it and something
we'll keep doing for a while.Oh yes, Frank says, the holiday
seasoned spirit is what really drives themto do it every year. He admits,
we love decorating our home for Christmas, but this gives us something we

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can do out in the yard thatwe can then share with the community.
And it's very important as well.Because Frank also points out that Santa knows
the Christmas tree boat. He letthe kids know, Hey, I always
know how to find you because Ilook for the Christmas tree boat. So
make sure your dad's got the boatlit up and I'll we all set.
So if you find yourself in NorthernMichigan and you're over in the Glen Arbor

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area, make sure to check outthe Christmas tree boat on Glen Lake.
Really cute pictures I'll put on ourInstagram at West Michigan Star. How cool
is that they're looking just floating inthe middle of the lake. This gorgeous
Christmas tree all in really cool.We've seen it a couple times and the
kids always freak when we drive by. Awesome to see in the holiday season.
This is becoming a tradition too.For a school in California winning their

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second Division two state championship. I'mtalking about the California School for the Deaf
in Riverside Bay. We talked aboutthese guys last year. This is a
football team comprised of entirely deaf studentswho will not let that limit them in
any way, shape or form.For the second year in a row,
winning the state championship there, culminatinga fourteen excuse me, a fourteen to

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zero deficit early in the game,but up coming all the way back and
winning fifty four to forty two withsome miraculus plays in the fourth quarter.
Coach Keith Adams called the back toback wins rare and extremely difficult. They
lost a lot of their players fromlast year's state championship team to graduation and
had several key injuries and setbacks thisyear. But he didn't let it stop

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them. And that's what he thinksabout his team is they're not going to
let anything stop them. Talking tok kt LA in California, this is
what coach Keith Adams had to saythrough an interpreter, The Jeff people can
do anything. That CSDR is theright place for deaf students. This is
where they thrive. We are deafright, We've already gone through that adversity,

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that pain, and so there's thatlike minded attitude. Right, we've
been there. We're able to upliftour students and and you know, raise
them to that level of athleticism.If you're thinking this sounds like an unbelievable
story made for a movie or anythinglike that, you're probably not wrong.
They have already actually been the subjectof a book that came out by New

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York Times writer Thomas Fuller just afew months ago, called the Boys of
Riverside a deaf football team and aquest for glory. But it's just pretty
incredible, great story. Feeling goodcomes at you twice today. I always
want to show you amazing things goingon out there. We'll do it again
tomorrow six forty five and nine twentyon Star Win five point seven Mack and
Schmidty in the morning weekday starting atsix am on Star one oh five point seven