Mac & Shmitty October 31, 2023

Mac & Shmitty October 31, 2023

Episode Transcript

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Wake wake, um. It getsmy day going and makes me laugh.
I of it. Mac and Schmittyin the morning on Star one oh five
point seven. Well, good morning, Schmitty, Good morning. And if
you're just waking up, it's probablyabout time to prepare your kids for the
fact that no one is going toknow what they're going as tonight for Halloween,

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because every costume is going to becovered with a coat and snow pants.
You know what, even Spider Man, even I An Man, the
Incredible Hulk, they all need tobundle up from time to to Schmitty.
It's not like all that protective armorand the sweet suits are necessarily cold proof.
I've never thought that. Man,we are. We are seeing some
interesting numbers friends along the Lake shoreand north of Grand Rapids. Possible three

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to six by tonight. It's gonnareally ramp up this afternoon, So uh,
boots, hats, just just goup and say trick or treat,
I'm such and such and move aboutyour day. It's a good day to
buy stock and hot hands. Allyeah, he'll be chilly tonight. Movies,
music and all the gossip in oneplace. It's the celebrities goop.

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On Star one oh five point seven. Well, people had been waiting to
hear what those closest to Matthew Perryhad to say, and of course his
friends cast members couldn't be closer.They've finally broken their silence on the actor's
death. Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudro, Matt LeBlanc, and
David Schwimmer actually joined together in astatement saying we were more than just cast

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mates. We are a family.There is so much to say, but
right now we're going to take amoment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss.
For now, our thoughts and ourlove are with Mattie's family, his
friends, and everyone who loved himaround the world. We're starting to get
a few more details. Experts andinvestigators do not believe we will really have

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a cause of death for another fewweeks. But one thing that at least
some uns said was that he wasn'tquote unquote water logged. They don't think
he was in the hot tub forvery long at all, and there was
some very brief moment where he hadhis assistant run an errand and then when
she came back found him in thehot tub. So they're thinking This was
something that happened quite quickly, andhad she been there even a few minutes

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earlier, he might have still beenhere. Oh it's tough to hear.
Yeah, obviously for friends and family, and you know, you would want
all of those other actors who werewith him on friends. I feel like
putting out that joint statement together iskind of sweet. Yeah. Absolutely.
Channing Tatum and Zoe Kravits are reportedlyengaged. The couple, who have been

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dating for two years now, looklike they're taking the next step in their
relationship. They were spotted over theweekend. Zoe was dressed up as Rosemary
Woodhouse from the horror flick Rosemary's Baby, and then Channing went as a baby,
but it was everybody noticing that bigold rock on that important finger.
Sources tell People magazine that the tworeportedly got engaged very recently now. Zoe

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just finalized turn divorce back in twentytwenty one, and of course Channing has
been single since twenty nineteen. Thetwo very much in love. Friends say
they're super excited about this. Honestlycompletely forgot that they were a couple.
Yeah, they're actually very fun onsocial media. Great costume idea Rosemary and
Rosemary's baby. That's pretty fantastic.And finally, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey

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continue to be going very strong.In fact, after that devastating loss to
Denver, picture surfaced yesterday of Taylor'sprivate jet actually going to Kansas City to
spend some time with Travis. However, the Kelsey family is really struggling with
all this new found attention. It'sbecome very overwhelming, especially for immediate family
members like his mom Donna, hisdad Ed, even his brother Jason,

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who also plays in the NFL.They're not super thrilled about this. They're
getting their personal phones blown up,their social media has been locked down,
and they're kind of concerned about Travis'sefety. One source even says they had
no idea how fierce the Swifties arewith passion and do make them a little

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worried for Travis's safety despite his sizeand notoriety. They're saying that they're still
very happy for the couple. They'rejust trying to figure out how to kind
of traverse this new look, includingJason actually starting to hide his kids from
social media. I mean, thisis the tailor effect we are around the
most famous person in the world whilepeople start coming for the outliers, and

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you know, Taylor probably feels reallyterrible about this. She doesn't want any
of this at all. All right, all of your celib scoop at West
Michigan Star dot com pack SMITTI,Oh, we're gonna have some thriller coming
first. Don't you worry about it, guys. We got him some lined
up first, though, SHMIDI,I want to talk about something truly terrifying
though teenagers. Yeah, that's kindaHopefully neither one of us have it yet,

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but I am sweating that moment forsure. But we got to interesting
email from a mom out of Jennisonyesterday Schmiddy that definitely had people in their
feels about trick or treating. Soit said, Hey, guys, mind
helping to settle a little family dispute. My son is fifteen, over six
foot tall, has a job,a driver's permit, shave's almost as much
as my husband, and yet stillwants to go trick or treating. I

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told him it was totally fine,get dressed up, go hang out with
his friends, but that he wastoo old to go trick or treating.
He told me I was stealing hisyouth. I can hear a fifteen year
old screaming that at their mom,can't you? I heard it on TikTok.
It's not like he's taking his youngersiblings with him. He just wants
to go with a buddy on theireastcooterers to get a massive haul of candy.

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Is fifteen too old to steal?Be trick or treaty? And good
on you? This made me sosad, like, let him go trigg
or treating. I am never Inever see my kids asking to go trick
or treating and me saying no.And I get what she laid out here

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where she's like, he just wantsto go on an east scooter and get
a bunch of candy. He's fifteensix feet tall, he shaves right,
okay, but what about his buddyis there? Does his buddy still want
to go and is embarrassed and doesn'tknow someone to ask and feels close enough
to his friend to be like,hey man, I still want to go
and do this. There will neverbe someone too old on my front ports
that I'm not going to give themcandy. And I gotta think that the
truth is too schmitty that five orfifty somebody shows up on your ports dressed

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up, is smiling, is polite, and says trick or treat? Are
you not gonna book candy in theirbag? Because that seems like a super
awkward moment too, and it's socliche. I know a lot of people
will say this, but if you'reout trigg or treating, you're not doing
bad stuff elsewhere. And I'm goodwith that. Do whatever you'd like.
I'm never ever going to tell someoneyou're too old to go trick or treating.

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I think that's sad. I willplay Devil's ad kid just a little
bit here, because everybody, like, out of the hundreds of comments on
here, ninety nine percent of themmore, let them go trick or treating?
What are you insane? They're tooyou know, let them be young,
let them joy it, right,But overwhelmingly people would say that line,
well, he could They could beout doing so much worse things.

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They could be doing that, orthey could be causing crimes and they could
be smashing pumpkin. And I'm like, I'm like, you know, there
is a middle ground, right,Like it doesn't mean like, oh,
you didn't let him go trigger treating. Lock them up. He's gonna be
like, he's gonna be like,yeah, they could be out making poor
choices, putting themselves in danger,even if they don't realize they're doing that.
Mom, let him go. Idon't care if they're on any scooter

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or not. Let him go.Let him trigger treat. Out of the
people that said that fifteen was tooold, Nannette said, too old,
not fair to the younger kids.Buy him a bag of candy. I'm
more candy. Janette Carrie said,I hate it if they're taller than me,
even if I'm standing on the doorstop, but I usually give them something.
My kids stopped at thirteen. Theteens were the stopping point, like

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for you as a family. Idon't remember how late I went trigger treating,
but I'm I bet I was probablythirteen or fourteen. I was gonna
say, I can distinctly remember thelast time I went tri or treating,
and I was a fourteen year oldon my skateboard during the exact same thing,
trying to get a massive haul ofcandy in record time. I mean,
also, you never know what's goingto be a core memory, right,

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this could be it you're lucky.You remember your last year of trigger
treating. If this is his lastyear of trick or treating, isn't it
great that it's like I got togo out with my best friend on my
EA scooter and do trigger treating onelast time. I don't want I don't
want to rob my kids of that. I'm good with it. I think
most people kind of stepped it uplike Latsia did, who said, I'm
sure every parent has different views,but I'm going to encourage my littles to
stay young as long as they canbecause they'll have the rest of their lives

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to grind. To me, fifteenyears old is still a kid, no
matter how big or tall they are. Yes, we decide, here we
go. I like that doesn't matterif you're shaving and a hundred feet tall.
If you still feel like a kidand you still want to embrace that,
I'm all for it. I'm nightslike this When Will, for example,
schmid It gets to be fifteen yearold and Sofia's gonna be what twelve?
Around that time, is that youropportunity to go, like, you

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know what, guys, mom anddad are just getting set up here at
home base we're gonna hang out righthere. You guys go do your thing
like That's how I grew up.My dad always took us out. My
mom was the candy at home base. And I will do it forever because
they want my kids to stay littlefor as long as pobs. Sometimes because
I get a good feeling, well, let's put something brighton's sunny and warm

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into your Halloween. We need thattoday for sure. It's feeling good right
now in starving a five point sevenmackach Fitty with you and Holland. Christian's
football team took a win back onOctober twenty at forty nine to twenty over
Unity Christian. It was the endof their season though they didn't qualify for
the playoffs, but all the same, it was still a very successful season
for their kicker, Caden van Heiss. This is really cool. He's quite
the kicker. As matter of fact, he is a four star rated high

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school kicker, already taking official visitsto CMU to Michigan State as the played
against Michigan at Spartan Stadium earlier thisyear. Really talented kid and he's been
doing it for quite some time.And he said, I know I've got
some gifts that I've been blessed with, and some people don't have the same
thing. So I was trying tofind a way to help God's kingdom with
the gifts I've been given. Well, what he decided to do was partner

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up with an organization called Alex's LemonadeStan Schmidty. They're an organization that tries
to raise money for childhood cancer awarenessand they've got a specific program. It's
called the Kick At Program. Iwas actually started by a kid in middle
school who played football who also gotdiagnosed with cancer at one point in time,
and Cayden thought it sounded pretty cool, so he started finding sponsors,

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whether local businesses, local individuals whowere willing to either donate or donate on
a per point basis for all thefield goals that he was going to kick
during the season. Well, WZZMcaught up with Caden and it was a
very successful year. This is socool. For every point scored I raise
a certain amount of money towards thisfoundation. I was able to score thirty

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six points in this season and raisedfour forty six dollars for this cause.
It was cool to look back onhow my community has given to me,
and I was able to obviously usemy gifts to honor others, help my
community. It's a lot of fieldgoes through the uprights there but four forty
six dollars going to kids battling cancer. Schmitty nice definitely got a great head

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on his shoulders. All right,I found the sweetest trigger treaters and it
was all caught on ring camera.Ring actually shared this to their Instagram a
couple days ago, and it wasfrom a woman named Ashley. She said,
my husband put out a sign thatread take all you want from the
bowl of candy, just not thestarbursts. My wife loves them with a
smiley face. He meant it asa joke, but two boys that came

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up to our front porch to triggertreat took it very seriously. And what
happens next is so kind. Areas many as you want. I'm not
starvers. I'm many tips for starvers. You know what I got some starboards.

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I take the starboards I'm taking.That's right. They reached into their
own trigger treat bags. They reachedinto their own hall of candy. They
had already gotten and picked out everysingle starbarst and put it into the bowl
for the woman, Ashley said,I don't know who your parents are,

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but they deserve to know how sweetYouTube boys are. Happy Halloween. Man.
Kids here are generous when they've gotpillowcases full of candy, just so
beautiful. I'm gonna put this ringCamp video up for you, West Michigan.
Star Love that stories. Bringing asmile to your face. That's our
specialty. We'll do it again thismorning at nine twenty movies, music and

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all the in one place. It'sthe Celebrities group on Star one oh five
point seven. Well, the Castof Friends has finally issued an official statement
over the passing of their beloved MatthewPerry, and they did it all together.
Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, LisaKudro, Matt LeBlanc, and David
Schwimmer provided a joint statement to Peoplemagazine, saying we were more than just

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cast mates. We are a family. There is so much to say,
but right now we're going to takea moment to grieve and process this unfathomable
loss. They add, For now, our thoughts and our love are with
Mattie's family, his friends, andeveryone who loved him around the world,
which is quite a few people.If you check out the numbers that have
just exploded for Matthew in the lasttwo days. According to stats from big

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streaming services, the Friends theme songI'll Be There for You by the Rembrands
had over one point three million streamsin just the past forty eight hours.
Matthew's memoir, which came out last, has been flying off the shelves number
one for hardcovers on Amazon right now. Other books about Matthew are flying off

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shelves as well, to biographies thatwere written are becoming best sellers. Even
a friend's coloring book on Amazon hassold out. Plus TV TV networks have
planned big memorials for Matthew. TBSis doing a best of Chandler marathon tomorrow
Thursday, Friday through the weekend,and HBO Max is adding an in Memory

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of Matthew Perry nineteen sixty nine totwenty twenty three slide to the beginning of
every single Friends episode. You know, there's been a lot of great sitcoms
over the year. You don't seereactions quite like this when somebody you know
passes away. This is just suchan iconic show, an iconic person that
was glad to know that it wasfoundational for everybody else as well. Mylow

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vent Emilia This is Us star secretlygot married. Sources have confirmed the actor
tying the knot with model Jarra Marianoin a very secret ceremony. Milo and
Jarro were actually watching a Rugby WorldSeries match on Saturday at a restaurant in
LA when picture surfaced showing both ofthem wearing wedding bands. It's very interesting

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the two have not spoken about thisat all. Apparently the secret wedding went
down earlier this year in a privateceremony that only had family and close close
friends, but they wanted to continueto fly under the radar with this and
are still not confirming it even now. Yeah, Jack, I don't know
what we're dating. Wow. I'malways impressed when you can say his last
name, because every time I triedto just a mush of words coming.

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I've been a Milo fans and skillmoregirls. I've had a lot of practice
and finally Britney Spears is just likethe rest of us, getting pulled over
for a ticket and claiming I justhad to go to the bathroom. Yeah,
there is new dash cam footage fromthe California Highway patrol officers that pulled
Britney over back just a couple ofweeks ago near her home in Thousand Oaks.

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Do you know you can't pass onthe double yellows? Okay, yeah.
The reason for that is there's privatedriveways, so people are pulling in
and out. Okay, I'm sosorry, I have to use the bathroom.
It's about to come out right now. I'm so sorry. I wonder
how many times in a month officershere some version of that? Have you

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ever done it many? Because Ihave, I'll own it. I have
pulled that extra. No, I'veonly been pulled over once in my whole
life. Of course I was.I rolled to a stop sign and I
was like, I'm so sorry.I was headed to the gym. I've
never used the bathroom excuse. Butpretty funny that she did. And even
funnier this same officer is the onethat pulled her over back like a few
weeks before this September, and hewas like, hey, you haven't gotten

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your license. Yeah, He's like, I I pulled you over the last
time, and you could just seein this video She's like, yeah,
shoop to Brittany, but you're makingit. He'll be really bad, all
of your celebs. Scoop West MichiganStar dot com. Happy Halloween to you.
It's Mack and Schmidt. He's superexcited to go and enjoy the scary
holiday. But we got to talkabout this genius Christmas idea. You hear

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these sleigh bells in the background.Yeah. I had to call her out
because I actually saw this post yesterdaybecause obviously everybody's talking. They're like,
well, I mean, as assoon as the pumpkins are put away tonight,
I don't care. It's going uptomorrow. The Christmas tree is going
up, the garland's going up,the wreath is up. So this mom
actually puts her Christmas tree up atthe end of the summer. Okay,
So she puts it up in lateSeptember, and she's gone viral because you

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know the white filuffiest stuff that peopleuse for spider webs with Halloween decorations,
Yeah, they make it look likecobwebs. So she actually puts white twinkle
lights in that, drapes it overthis Christmas tree and then puts two eyes
in a mouth hole and makes ita ghost for Halloween. Oh my goodness,

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what have we been doing? Thiswhole time. And it's the only
way, she said in this viralTikTok, that she gets away with this
and her husband allows her to start. Chris was decorating that early, and
when you see it, everybody wascommenting, They're like, I would actually
do this, regardless of whether Iput my Christmas stuff up or not.
It looked that cool. It's likea fourteen foot tall ghost. And she

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said, as soon as November onekicks off, the cobwebs come off,
the twinkle lights go on, andit's my Christmas tree. That's my kind
of person right there. And Ikeep it up for like four months.
And ps, how much better wouldthat be for the studio to be able
to have that, like the ghostsitting in here instead of Christmas tree that
early? We could have b sidedecorated. Who's doing all this work for

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us? Yes, our beautiful promotionsdirector got it. But that would be
awesome in such a great way,to just make that switch into Christmas mood.
Yeah. Yeah, And speaking ofwhich, do you think we ought
to do this? I feel likewe ought to do this. No,
No, let's just do it.Just go for her dad, guys,

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I'm sorry. No, I'm fun. Ok, you gotta give me tonight.
I brought it up. Halloween islike one of my most favorite holidays.
I apologize to everybody that just drovetheir car off the road or forgot
all about getting their kids ready forschool. You are gonna have to wait
a little bit longer, but notmuch longer, that's right. Like one

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more sleep, that's it. That'sit, one more sleep till Santa's coming
to town. Get the alarms ready, wake up with us starting at six
am tomorrow because we are gonna havea pretty packed morning, that's right.
We are gonna be flipping over tobe West Michigan's Christmas station yet again.
And of course, Schmitty, youknow how we roll. We can't start

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Christmas without starting with some presents too. Oh man, are we going to
have so many tomorrow. We're gonnaget you in to the hip hop Nutcracker.
We are going to get you toLindsey Sterling. She's becoming like Penatonics
level Christmas faith. We have TransSiberian Orchestra tickets. It's a staple.
You gotta check out Trans Siberian Orchestra. You know you're gonna be hearing them

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like crazy too. I cannot believetomorrow. Are you sure? You don't
want to just you don't, justknow you're not into this right now.
We can't just start it. Ihave spent so much time hanging skeletons and
pumpkins, and we still have tocarve with the kids. I just can't
quite yet. Also, for allyou parents that do have your kids listening
right now, I'm really sorry becauseif they're like my five year old and

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hear the word Christmas, I knowfor the next two full months you're gonna
go is it tomorrow morning? Butis it tomorrow morning? It is Inna
coming the next day, Ina comingthe day after that. So I'm trying
to hold off as long as possiblebecause Will started asking me when Santa was
coming a month and a half ago. Well, he's gonna be very excited
and for us, he is comingtomorrow. But until then, I won't
play anymore. Mariah, We'll keepit more. See it's come on.

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I get it though, I getit. Mother Nature clearly heard we were
becoming West Michigan's Christmas station tomorrow anddecided to blanket us with a little bit
of the white stuff. It's awhite Christmas, it does fit. But
tomorrow morning, make sure you're hereand follow us at West Michigan Star because
we're gonna be doing a bunch oflives and you know, Santa is very
tech savvy now, so the kidsmight want to make sure they've got their

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eyes maybe glued to our Instagram andFacebook before school tomorrow. So salty and
I have absolutely no idea. Whywho would be salty on a day like
this, a day of absolute fantasticfun where you get loads of candy,

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you get to dress up and havea good time. Yeah, you're out
there in costumes. Have you takena picture of yourself yet? Was this
your boo disguise? This was mydisguise when I went bullied. Can't believe
you got caught. I mean,this is foolproof. There is no way
you would recognize me. It's sortof like that Superman Clark Kent. I
currently have on maybe the world's greatestmustache. Uh huh, A nose that's

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really not that much different than myown. I was good. Yeah,
it's actually just large and bum belike my regular one is. And then
uh, the glasses that sort ofmake everything I'm doing right now feel a
little tipsy. You look like,where's Waldo? If he didn't shave?
I look like, el Where's Waldoif he had? But you'll be able
to get away with that and atleast have a piece of your costume.

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I'm salty that it has to snowtonight. I mean, I'm okay with
it being chillier. I understand it'slate October in West Michigan, but the
fact that it has to snow becausemy kids, my son especially, has
been so excited about his Halloween costumeand the devast station on his face last
night when I said, I'm justnot sure we're going to be able to

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wear the costume unless it's under acoat and snow pants made me so bitter.
Is his costume pretty tight already?I was going to say, like,
how many pairs of long John's cana five year old dude? I
mean, we sized up. BecauseI'm always I'm that mom that knows,
that always knows. The past fewyears have been fairly nice for Halloween.
Like I look back at pictures sinceWill was born, it's been pretty okay.

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My kids have Halloween might not havebeen last year, but the year
before where they were in t shirts. Well, it was like sixty four
or something like that, and Ijust we sized up. I was always
ready for it. But it's justgonna be so cold tonight. There's no
way around the fact that you're gonnahave to layer on the outside. And
he is so sad that no oneis gonna know that he's a spooky,
scary skeleton. He looks at meand he goes, I mean, would

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you at least let me unzip mycold And I'm like, probably not because
it's gonna be so stinking cold andsnowy, and I'm just I'm bitter about
it. And then my daughter,who finally understands things this year, is
going to be one super calming personto tell they cannot wear their mini mouse

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dress on the outside of a wintercoat because it won't fit. The good
thing for her is is those earsare a dead giveaway between the cuteness factor
and the ears. The ears don'tfit over the hatch, I know,
and I feel like at Halloween failures. So you know what, snow You've
made me salty? Shalt be sosalky. Movies, music, and all
the gossip in one place. It'sthe celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point

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seven. We've heard a lot,especially in interviews prior to his death,
that Matthew Perry wanted to leave behinda lasting legacy far beyond his fame as
Chandler Bang and now we're learning thatit was going to be in the form
of a foundation. Source is sayingthe months leading up to his death,
Matthew was in the early stages ofcreating the foundation, very similar to what
Betty Ford did with her foundation inPalm Springs. Now, while Matthew has

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passed, his loved ones and thoseclose to him still want to pursue the
foundation in his honor, and theyare planning to move forward to get it
up and running. I mean,great way to leave a lasting legacy,
the one he's already gonna have too. We're going to hear more and more
about, you know, the remembranceof Matthew. I was just thinking though,
how amazing would it be. AndI'm sure that his family and friends
are gonna have roles in it too, But to see all the cast members

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be like his Paul bearers or something. And I actually do see that happening
because they're just all still so incrediblyclose. I can see that happening.
Selena Gomez is expressing concern that BFFTaylor Swift's relationship with Travis Kelsey is a
little too much. Now. Thisis not coming from Selena, Worth pointing
out that a friend quote unquote ofhers is talking to page six saying the

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Star believes Taylor's behavior in this newrelationship is very very odd concerning her past.
This insider says Selena thinks Taylor goingto games and gallivanting through New York
immediately after just meeting Travis is somethingthat's very unlike her. Historically, Taylor's
always been super private about everything,and now with this relationship, she's so
open about it that it just isvery odd for Selena. They go on

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to say that regardless, Selena wascaught a bit off guard to see that
Taylor had been hanging out with Travis'sparents in the luxury box and getting so
much attention from the NFL, butis still very excited for this relationship.
Just really hopes that there's going tobe a good end here because this is
just something she hasn't seen in aTaylor relationship before, which a lot of

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people are saying, Yeah, Imean, I think everybody's pointed out how
much more public this is than otherones. I wonder if it gets to
be a bunch and then it shutsdown a little bit, and all of
a sudden at NFL games, we'rejust looking like, where's waldo for Taylor
Swift in the audience all they getout meto and stuff. It kind of
reminds me of her relationship with TomHittlesten that was really really public. You
remember he was wearing T shirts thatsaid I love TS. That's creepy.

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Yeah. Finally, it was abig night last night as the Lions took
on the Las Vegas Raiders at FordField and a few celebs on hand,
including Hudsonville's own Taylor Lautner, whowas at Ford Field talking about how deep
his fandom goes. It started,yeah a while ago. Like I'll put

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it this way, the last timeI saw a Lions game was in the
Silver Dome. Wow. Yeah,So we went through a couple of those
rough years, but no, rightfully, so you know, this team's getting
the respect at desserts. Couple ofthose rough decades were like a couple of
those rough decades. Yeah. Talkingwith w x y Z on the field,
there was also a really cool momentwhere Aiden Hutchinson actually rolled up to
the game last night in a SharkBoy costume. Now, the Twilight Star

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was also Shark Boy in that movie, and Taylor somebody saw pictures. He
was totally dumbfounded. Dude. Iwas so excited. We were in the
car on the way here and mywife showed it to me and I was
like, Okay, that's cool,pas, and we're here tonight with him
and his family. We've become friendsover the last few months. So yeah,
but he did not They kept thatsurprise from me. He did not

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sell you that was gonna know.No. We were talking with his family
all today and they're very good atkeeping surprises. Yeah, Taylor getting to
see a victory as well. Andanother big announcement, Jack Harlowe is going
to be the performer for the Thanksgivinghalftime show when the Lions take on the
Packers. Nice. You know,as I was watching this the game last

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night, did you happen to seewhen hutch all now watched the singles?
I went to bed at seven fiftythey did the Thriller dance in the end
zone. They busted into the Dillerto our Instagram stories at West Michigan Star.
You'll get that with all your scooptoo. West Michigan Star dot Com
coving a five point son Let's throwdown for your Tuesday morning battle of the
Sexiest Time, and it's yours shotto go and enjoy the SIPs, the

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taste, and a whole lot offun with our Grand Rapids International Wine,
Beer and Food Festival coming up.Yeah, Oh my gosh, there's so
many incredible places. I know.We got to taste some from Michigan Moonshine
last week and it's going to beincredible coming up in just a couple of
weeks. You get today's number oneanswer, we'll have your passes. One
hundred women surveyed. This is perfectfor today. Name something you can do

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with a pumpkin once Halloween is over. You know, I know you talked
about the youths smashing pumpkins and that'snot fun. But I have my back
porch goes down to a big dropoff, so it's like the deck and
then it drops like I don't know, twenty five feet or something like that,
and it is the best. Thepumpkin toss and we just whip them
over the side of the house,actually them don't. I don't know.

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I don't think this is baiting,but like, my neighbors always take our
pumpkins after we're done to use intheir property up north before hunting season.
They ask you first, right,It's like, were there last year?
They did not, now that I'mthinking about it, they were just kind
of like, hey, we askedthat one time, so thank you so
much. Those boards are ours?Right with those six one, six,
four, five, eight, oneoh five seven callers seven first shot at

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the number one answer. One hundredwomen surveyed, name something we can do
with the pumpkin ones Halloween? Yougo with it's not an actual wine?
Here? Keep that? Good morningstar? Who's this? Well? Well,

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where you come from today? Allright? Mel you're getting dressed out
for Halloween today or what not?Really? Well, you know it' tis
the season. Hopefully at least didyou guys get some pumpkins this year?
Man, you're like that you're theScrooge of Halloween all right out there.

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Well, hopefully your pumpkin trivia isbetter than your pumpkin skills this year,
because you've got to tell me.When one hundred women were asked to name
something you can do with the pumpkinonce Halloween is over? What do you
think? Their top answer was there, Mel tops them like the toss it,
smash it away. That is actuallythe number two most common answer.

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I'm sorry, thank you, thanksMel, Hi Star. Who's this?
Renee? What's your level of participationfor Halloween? Renee? Are you getting
dressed up tonight? I am not. I am afraid those days are beyond
me. Never too old. Wetalked about that earlier. How about the
kiddos? What are they going forthis year? The kidos is going for

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Well, my granddaughter is going asa shark, going as it is should
be? Is she baby shark?Well it kind of looks like a baby
shark, So I'm gonna go withthe yacht. She comes with her own
theme music. I like it,Renee, you gotta tell me. One
hundred women were asked to name somethingyou can do with a pumpkin once Halloween
is over. I just got agood guest from Mel. She said smash

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it and that was the number twomost common answer, but not the top
one. So what do you thinkit is. I'm going to go with
like cooking it up, like youknow, the pumpkin seeds. You know
how you bake those and put salton it and that kind of stuff.
I am waiting to go home todayto eat my garlic, my garlic pumpkin

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seeds. They're cinnamon, sugar ones, some cayenne, little spicy ones.
I love pumpkin seeds. And toastthe seeds is the top answers, Yeah,
you got it. It was thoseseeds, followed by smash it.
Then it was make a pie alittle early for the pumpkin pie on my
end, but and then make soup. You gotta be really crappy to do

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some pumpkin soup, I think.But Renee, you're going to the Grand
Rapids International Wine, Beer and FoodFestival. Congrats. Oh thanks so much.
You're very welcome, and be listeningas we battle again tomorrow eight fifteen
here on stock sometime. Because Iget a good feeling. Well, Lions

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fans are running hi this morning feelinggood after watching the Lions get the victory
last night. But that's not theonly Lions oriented thing that'll make you feel
good. This is so cool andthey've been known to do this. If
you are aware of Aiden Hutchinson onthe Detroit Lions, he comes with a
pretty amazing family, and one ofhis sisters, Mia, along with his
mom Melissa, shared an Facebook andInstagram reel about something they did while they

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were driving around They're cute little townaka right outside of Detroit the other day
and I were driving around our cutehistoric town all day decorated for Halloween.
We noticed there was a skeleton insomeone's front yard with a ninety seven jersey
on. So we went to CBSand I grabbed a little boo bag and
of course the best Halloween candy everboo and we saw Lions fan there,

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so we had to have him sayhi. Then we started assembling our boo
bag. They actually surprised this familywhen they see a skeleton with the ninety
seven jersey on. It was oneof those like sixteen foot home depost skeletons
decked out in Aiden Hutchinson's number.It's really cool. They ended up creeping
over leaving it on the doorstep,knocking and running. But here's a great

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follow up. I saw this videoa couple days ago and knew I wanted
to talk about it for Halloween,and then I just went back and checked
and actually the family that had happenedto popped into the comments on their Instagram.
Jeff Wagner said, thank you somuch for the boo bag. That
was an amazing surprise and it totallymade our day. Mia responded, well,

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that made our day. It wasI'm so clever. Sorry, we
were creeping around your house for awhile in case you saw us two weirdos
out the window, and Jeff said, no problem at all. Totally worth
it. And I just love tosee NFL families that are so all in
on this, especially when it's theDetroit Lions. I mean, plus,
having that massive skeleton with a Hutchjersey on is pretty fantastic for Halloween to

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core. Oh yeah, I putthe video up on our instack at West
Michigan Star. All right, speakingof haunted houses and haunted time, Schmidty
over in Royal Oak, little Jackson, amic eleven year old, Well,
he is putting out one incredible hauntedhouse for all the neighborhood kids. They're
on Mountain Vernon Boulevard. They're inRoyal Oak. In October, they take
over you. Hear screams all thetime because this is an elaborate, huge

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haunted house that takes up their entirefront yard and it's a work of passion
and Jackson he's been doing this sincetwenty nineteen, but it did have to
take a little hiatus in twenty twentybecause he was diagnosed with leukemia at that
time and during his month battle,he thought about Halloween and bringing it back
and all the different things he couldadd into it. Watching YouTube videos and

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together with his dad Thomb, theydecided they were going to turn their haunted
house into something a little bit morespecial. So what they wanted to do
was they were going to sell aspecial special sweatshirts that would provide funds for
one hundred special chemo shirts for kidsat Royal Oak Beaumont Hospital. Of course,
Jackson had to experience this himself,said the chemo shirts were uncomfortable and

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just a kind of a One ofthe not so nice parts about fighting leukemia
all the time was having to dealwith this and how it made him feel.
So he wanted to give back.They were trying to raise two thousand
dollars and again doing it all forother kids going through something similar to what
he went through. This is Jacksonand his dad Thomb talking to WXYZ in
Detroit. I mean, it justit makes you feel uncomfortable kind of.

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The patient can then pull a flapdown if you will, from the shirt
so they still remain fully clothed,and then the doctors or the nurses cannects
their port right from there. Ijust love seeing the children being happy and
just walking through this, even thoughthe first time they get scared, and
they know it's meant to be fun. And if everyone gets scared a little,
that's okay, but it's joy.Yeah, bring in some joy to

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some neighborhood kids and providing some helpto some kids going through something similar to
him. Best news of all,Jackson is completely cancer fazing there it is,
but when the stories end like thatand having a wonderful Halloween, so
certainly hoping that that fundraiser continues tokick butt and then he gets to have
some fun with all those kids inhis neighborhood too. Feel like it comes
at you twice a day, alwayshere to lift your spirits. With something

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great going on out there, Let'sdo it again tomorrow six forty five and
nine twenty on startin a five pointseven Mack and Schmidty in the morning weekdays
starting at six am on Star oneoh five point seven