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I'm Ali Mack. Here are three things you should know today.
University of Michigan has hired Chicago based law firm Generan Block,
who they have worked with before, but this time to
investigate the athletic department after Michigan football coach Sharon Moore
was fired and arrested. This is adding to a growing
list of scandals across multiple sports programs at u of
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M in recent years. The firm previously investigated U of
M President Mark Schlissel. The probe could cost the university
hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, and now some
regents are calling for full public transparency of the findings.
Nick Reiner, the son of filmmaker Rob Reiner and Michelsinger Reiner,
has been arrested and booked on suspicion of murdering his parents.
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He's being held without bail. Investigators are looking into reports
of a heated argument between Nick and his parents at
a holiday party Conan's Holiday Party, the night before their deaths.
Grand Haven City Council set to vote on a plan
that would open the city's historic lighthouse to the public
the first time ever. This would include a completely renovated
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new experience in the Lighthouse Interpretive Center, and they're talking
about putting a gift shop at the end of the pier.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I love it. I would love it if it was
a bar too, But yeah, a gift shop is probably
more practically.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
We might get there. We might get there. If approved
the project more than a decade in the making, they
kept that kind of quiet. Could see a soft opening
this summer. Full operations planned by summer of twenty twenty seven.
That's three things you should know today. Here's one you
probably should.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
This one's been a choose your own adventure. Would you
rather hear about the best the most loved Christmas movie?
Or where porch pirates are going to strike? What cities
porch pirates are going to strike in? Ooh?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Is Grand Rapids on the list?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Okay? Then best Christmas movie?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Okay. When it comes to holiday movies, a new YUGA
poll finds that the classic Christmas films remain a big
part of how Americans celebrate the season. Alabama was number one,
by the way, on that list. The poach pirate thing.
They'll go to Alabama all right?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
According to the survey, nearly nine and ten US adults,
eighty nine percent say they've seen Home Alone, making it
the most widely viewed Christmas movie in the country, right
behind Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Charlie Brown Christmas, and
Frosty the Snowman. Other personal favorites like The Grinch a
Christmas Carol. Which Grinch though, that's the next question. Are
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we talking the original cartoon version Grinch? Are we talking
Jim Carrey's Grinch? Or are we talking the new updated
cartoon Grinch?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Ooh?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Because all great, all great, But I feel like I
have a favorite for me and I grew up on
the original cartoon one, but I still have a favorite
that's not that one, the Jim Carrey g I go
with that one. Yeah, yeah, every time I would. Yeah,
I don't think the new one is that great.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
We watched the Jim Carrey Grinch this past weekend. Yeah,
and you know what Jimmy told me. What he said
that the like makeup and like all of the costuming
that Jim Carrey had to go through. They had to
bring in like a CIA level torture expert because it
was so crueling for him to sit in the makeup,
and like the costume is yak hair, so it was
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just so incredibly uncomfortable for him that they had to
bring in a CI level torture expert to get him
through filming of that movie.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Blew my mind. Yeah, I've watched that. I've watched the
same interview, and he's like, I had to punch You're
supposed to punch your own leg. You're supposed to change
your behavior or whatever you're doing. Smoke cigarettes, which I
don't recommend, but that's what he said he had to do.
He's like, then, I was just sitting over in the
corner and all this costume just smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, it doesn't translate into the film. I mean, he
nailed the performance, but I never knew that.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, yeah, I would imagine it. It's gotta be because
not only the costume, but he's got to put those
contacts in. Yeah, every bit of them is like trapped
inside of this thing.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Well, well, we appreciate his sacrifice because it is a classic.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I guess he kept sayings for the kids. It's for
the kids. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
B ninety three sports.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Pistons beat the Celtics one twelve to one oh five.
In college basketball, MSU plays Toledo today five thirty pm.
You can hear that on our sister station Big one
on one point three. And then the Red Wings versus
the Islanders six forty five pm, ninety six to one,
the game for them
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