Mac and Shmitty May 7, 2024

Mac and Shmitty May 7, 2024

Episode Transcript

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It gets my day going and makesme laugh. I love it. Mac
and Schmitty in the morning on Starone O five point seven, Good morning,
Schmitty, Well, good morning,Welcome into your Tuesday. And uh,
you know, after a pretty gorgeousnight last night, were like a
little dicey today, Schmitty might seesome severe thunderstorms rolling through West Michigan later
on this afternoon at the end ofthe evening, get the patio cushions put

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away. Anybody else have that?As a kid man, my mom was
so into saving all of the patiocushions that there was even the threat of
a slight sprinkle, it was alwayshard to get out there and get my
patio cushions and bring them inside,stack them up in the kitchen. I'm
just such a terrible person in thatI do that. Most of the time.
I get them in, but thenI always like, don't put them

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back out for like two three days. Oh no, man, rain wipes
my put into me. I takebring him inside and then as soon who
is the threat has ended their backout side. I was like, of
all the things that my parents havepassed down to me, making sure the
patio cushions are in good form seemsvery west mission. I gotta tell you
both myself now as a father,and my father would have been very proud

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of that child, like you wouldhave been on top of our man's movies,
music and all the gossip in oneplace. It's the celebritiescoop on Star
one oh five point seven. Well, trash me if you want. I
love the met Gala every year themassive party on the steps at the Metropolitan

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Museum of Art, fashion's biggest night, and it did not disappoint with tons
of celebrities showing up in New York. We saw Kim Kardashian, we saw
Ed Sheeran looking really fabulous, supermodels, music stars, every genre represented,
but there's always some of those gaspmoments. In One of them was singer

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Tyla literally having to be carried upthe stairs like a doll by her fashion
team because she actually couldn't move inher dress. So this year's theme was
Sleeping Beauty's Garden of Time, soa lot of people were in floral prints
and things like that. Tyler showedup in a sand textured dress that almost

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looked like paper mache to her bodyto the point where her legs couldn't really
move. It was an incredible moment. Even called the paparazzi off guard,
scrabbed right under her, Pitts,picked her up, carried her up the
stairs. We also saw Dojia Catthe singer with a very interesting fashion choice.

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She wore a soaking wet T shirtm hmm on brand, so very
very interesting. But one of thebiggest stars we look forward to every year
is Rihanna. She has become anabsolute staple at the met Gala, especially
for pushing the fashion envelope, andwas not there last night, and people,

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we're super bummed because even a fewhours before, some of her fashion
team was seen going into a hotelwith a bunch of jewelry and things like
that. She's got the flu.She got the flu and just couldn't make
it. So a ton of picturesand video from the incredible night at West
Michigan Star dot Com. Canadian JeffRoss is not feeling bad at all about

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that massage therapy joke he made duringthe Tom Brady Netflix joke on Sunday.
He was on The Rich Eisen Showyesterday, Rich asking him, did you
get some serious flack? Was Tomactually upset? When he stormed on stage
and said, hey, do notsay that again. Oh Ma, no
way, it's having fun. Okay, good fantastic Bud. You know,

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it's like that's his dad. Youknow, that's like Robert Kraft is like
a father figure to him. Youknow. He was just showing his love
for Robert Kraft, and Robert Kraftloved it. We had a great talk
afterwards. He was so happy thatI gave him a shout out the salute.
It was beautiful. Now, someonewho was reportedly not having a great

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time Tom Brady's ex wife, GiselleBunschen. According to sources, she is
deeply disappointed and feels super disrespected bythe roast show by the way she was
there. She was in the audienceand there are quite a few jokes made
about her new romance with Joaquin Valente, the supermodel of course, splitting from
time after thirteen years of marriage,and there were a couple jokes that had

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her pretty rattle. A source saysshe was actually left fuming at the special
and was deeply disappointed by the disrespectfulportrayal of her family. They say,
as always, it's Gizelle's priority tosupport her kids who are going to be
affected by the irresponsible content that wasbroadcast. You know, I think any
parents got a valid point to goahead and say that. At the same

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time, it's a roast. Idon't know how I feel about this.
It's a roast of Tom, notGizelle, right, So your jokes at
Tom if she's there and she's youknow, being a friend amicable enough X.
I don't know I fake. She'sdefinitely called them across. Finally part
of it. All of your celebscoop at West Michigan Star dot Com sometimes

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because I get a good feel.Yeah, well, Spiddy, there's the
Super Bowl, of course, NBAChampionships, winning the Masters, the Indy
five hundred. They all fail incomparison. It's feeling good right now and
starting a five point seven Mac andSmitty with you. They all fall in
comparison to the Nathan's Hot Dog EatingContest. Smitty It, of course will

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be back this fourth of July,and you'll see familiar faces there like,
of course Joey Jaws Chestnut, thesixteen times champion, but maybe this year
you'll be in attendance as well becausethis Saturday, contestants get to compete to
see who could eat the most hotdogs in a contest that will go down
at LMCU Ballpark. And get this, the top male and female Smitty will

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be going to Nathan's famous Fourth ofJuly International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Cony
Island. So you know how likethere's races here that get you into the
Boston Marathon, this is something localthat gets you into a hot dog eating
contest, which is pretty much thesame thing. Of course, last year's
champion was Joey John's Chestnut. Thatwas his sixteenth title. The dude holds
the world record seventy six hot dogsin Bungemdty in ten minutes. It is

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so impressive and so disgusting all atthe same time. But you too have
your chance at history. If youwant to get in on this, visit
the Major League Eating a website forit. But you can sign up before
Saturday so you can take part afterthe Military Appreciation game for the white Caps
that's going on all right. Soyesterday was National Nurses Day and it's unbelievable.

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We're actually celebrating nurses all week longand everything that they do. Well.
The today's show lines up quite asurprise for three nurses that work at
the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center andthey work in pediatric oncology. Every day
they watch kids fight cancer and itwas really cool a reunion of three of
their patients who are now healthy,successful and about to graduate high school.

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Shannon O'Neill, Julie Rigeiro, andPriscilla Juarez were the three nurses and this
is what they had to say abouta career that chose them. There are
something super special about kittens. Forme, it's always their smile makes me
smile. It was always children forme. They just like roll with the
punches. Children are so resilient tobe able to just help them bring some

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normalcy to a life that's not normal. These are women that have worked in
this career for decades, and myfavorite part was the reunion between one nurse,
Priscilla and her patient, Lizzie.Lizzie was nine months old when she
got a cancer diagnosis. She isnow about to graduate high school and think

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about this moment for her goodness,Oh my god, it means so much,
because like I feel like there's noone, no one else I want
doing that. She's so sweet.Oh wow, your family tells me stories

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all the time because they were sofun. It's really incredible. I'll put
the video up. You can meall three of the patients see that reunion
at West Michigan Star dot com.We just can't think our nurses enough.
Absolutely, that's beautiful. Feeling goodcomes at you twice today. Always here
to give some shoutouts, to givesome praise to those amazing people that are
out there making our world a betterplace, just like those nurses. All

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right, we'll do it again foryou coming up this morning, nine twenty.
You're on Stamino five point seven,Movies, music and all the gossip
in one place. It's the Celebritiescoopon Star one oh five point seven.
Well, last night was fashion's biggestnight at the Met Gala in New York.
Tons of celebrities from pretty much everygenre, music, movies, TV

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and more. We're out and KimKardashian has become quite a staple on the
carpet. But boy, it seemslike every year she just stuns fans with
what she's wearing. Last night happenedagain. Did you see how tiny her
waist was in this gown? Shewore a John Galiano gown. It was
beautiful to be fair, very sparkly, shimmery, seemed to follow the whole

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garden theme. But I mean,looking at pictures and video, whatever course
that she had on was maybe twelveinches in radius, to the point where
fans online were writing things like,just how many ribs did Kim have to
get removed to fit in this thing? It's not surprising considering a couple of

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years ago she was very honest aboutdropping more than twenty pounds in a couple
weeks to fit into that Marilyn Monroedress. It's wild to see it,
though. I don't know how you'dbreathe proportionality, you know, it almost
like boggles the mind a little bitbecause it doesn't look like it should be
possible. And again she's going tobe facing a lot of that backlash from

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people going, man, this isjust not normal body standard. Stop being
an example of this. You wantto see pictures. I've got him up
at West Michigan Star dot com.Speaking of the Met Gala, editor in
chief of Vogue and Winteror, whohosts the Beautiful Bash every year, was
one on one with Jenna bush Hagerahead of the big event yesterday, talking

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about the things she has banned fromthe Big Party. It includes chibes,
onion and garlic not being allowed atall on the menu, as well as
her cell phone rule. Well,those are three three things I'm not particularly
fond of, and so yes,that's true. There's a cell phone band

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that you're a traditionalist when it comesto people actually sitting down at a tablen
and it's often wonderful to hear afterdinner people say, oh, we had
the most wonderful conversations, And sothat's that's the idea that your life can't
exist without a picture on your cellphone. I kind of love that. Looking

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at the gorgeous co chairs of lastnight's event and included j Lo, Bad
Bunnies and Daya and Chris Hensworth,who all looked incredible, Zendia actually had
two different outfit changes. Zendaya didlook phenomenal. You're not kidding, Yeah,
the I went through though every timeI hear her talk, I'm like,
you literally sound like a stereo typeof an extremely rich, rich social

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life. You should hear what shehad to say about her grandkids though,
I'll put it up at West MichiganStar dot com. And finally, the
Drake and Kendrick Lamar bey if you'vebeen following all of the disk tracks that
have been dropping between the two.The feud has been ignited over the last
couple of weeks, but now it'shitting go fund me to the point where

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GoFundMe has had to start watching forthese accounts to pop up so they can
immediately take them down. A tonof people have started creating go fundme campaigns
in the last twenty four hours,most of them at Drake's expense. Fans
tend to think that Kendrick Lamar haskind of won this rap battle. Some
of the bogus fundraisers are titled thingslike support Kendrick Lamar's studio, time for

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the Ultimate Diss Track, Join theLove fund for Drake's send off, even
rip Champagne Poppy fans unite in grief. GoFundMe had to issue a statement that
said, we can confirm we aremonitoring the platform for related fundraisers starts and
will remove any that have not beenauthorized by the recipient of the funds.

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Zero dollars has been raised so far. We have zero tolerance for the misuse
of our platform. Honestly, asarcastic A sarcastic version of these fund raisers
is pretty hilarious to use for I'vegot all your scoop at West Michigan Star
dot com. Good morning to you, Welcome to this Tuesday. It's Mack
and Schmitty with you, and youhave been banned from this activity with your

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hobby. Well, I'm sure hewishes he could ban me, but the
fact is we still live together,and if he's watching a movie, I'm
probably gonna find my way in there. My husband hates, hates with a
passion, watching movies with me.But I realized over the weekend when this
happened. It's very specific. It'seither brand new movies that have just been
released to streaming or really really oldmovies. For older movies that have been

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around for a while. If Ifind like a nice you know, something
that maybe was out five years ago, he can like handle it. But
here's the reason. I either haveno idea what's happening and neither does he,
or it's something that he loves andwatches all the time, and I
ruin it with questions. He waswatching The Matrix over the weekend, the
original. I've never seen that moviein my life, so good nineteen ninety

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nine is it, because I thinkit's the worst thing I've possibly ever watched
in my life. Right off thebat, I'm on Chris's side because you've
already you've already ruined a viewing experiencethat I haven't even part taken in right
now, So I'm he's I cuthome from working on Saturday night and he's
down in the basement. He's watchingThe Matrix and I was like, we
haven't gotten hanging a couple of nights. I like, pop down, I'm

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like, what are you watching?He goes to the Matrix. I said,
I've never understood this franchise. Igo, what is Like? Are
they in a video game? It'sjust like a real life Mortal Kombat.
And then I start to like reallypay attention to it. I've come in
halfway through, so I already don'tknow what's happening, and I'm like,
what is going on? Why isthat man hooked up? And then I
was like, you can die inthe game, and I was like,

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what is all of this gratuitous gunviolence and using? And he just finally
like slow turns to me and he'slike, are you like tired? Do
you just want to like go tobed, and he hates. He hates
when I'm watching older movies with himthat he loves. He's like, I
love the Matrix, and I postedon my Instagram I said, I have

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no idea, idea what is happening? This is the dumbest movie I've ever
watched. Oh oh the comments thatI got for that. But he also
won't watch brand new movies with mebecause then I sit there and I'm like,
oh my gosh, who's that?What's gonna happen? And he's finally
like, I don't know. Thismovie came out two months ago. I
also haven't seen it, Babe.I just cannot TV shows that I haven't.
I tried watching The Wire with him. Didn't get that. I tried

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watching The Sopranos. He just I'mnot someone he likes to watch anything with
because I can't handle myself. Honestly, though, it's the he just nailed
it, because there are so manypeople nodding their heads right now in a
grants that there's a person they watchmovies with that will sit down together.
I do this with my wife andwe start a movie together that the other
person is very aware I've never seenbefore. So then when you start asking

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questions about the movie that you andI share the exact same amount of information
about. Yeah, why are youasking me a question that is unknowable?
So just henore me. All I'mdoing is speaking into the ether or any
way imbut asking. I'm not askingfor an answer. Imagine bitterly talk for
a living Babe, you knew this. So all I'm gonna do is talk

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through the movie. Being in atheater and somebody is just asking random questions
while the movie is going on aboutincompletely what Chris doesn't go to the theater
with me? I can't imagine whathe doesn't. It's none of those things.
Art, What have you just notbeen able to do with your partner?
I know people that cannot cook together. I know people who refuse to
drive together. It has just gottento the point where they're like, if

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I needed you to tell me whatto do, i'd ask or are you
the navigator or not? Like it'sso funny, And I think it gets
to a certain point in marriage whereyou have a really healthy relationship because you
can look at that person and say, I hate everything about you when it
comes to this, because that's mewith brand new movies or old movies,

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and I feel like my therapist isjust nobbing the boiler alert. The nineteen
ninety nine matrix is still terrible.Don't waste your time. I didn't even
The last thing I saw was theywere falling through a wall. I said,
how they get into a wall ifthey're hooked up to a cable of
all the movies coming in in themiddle of the matrix and wondering why you
don't understand what's going on is peakridiculousness. The thing Keanu Reeves I preferred

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you in The Time Traveler's Wife,Schmitty is so salty. Time to let
the steam out of the bag.Salty shitty right now your opportunity to avenge
spitty. What's going on? Well, I think a lot of parents are
probably dealing with this right now becauseit's springtime, which means all the bugs
are coming out. And we've noticedat our new house we've got a bit
of an ant hill situation in ourbackyard and a lot of those ants are

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finding their way into our house.And like, I don't hate ants,
don't bother, but they're annoying,Like you don't want them, you know,
finding food or like making little whateverhouses they can make inside your You're
just trying to get rid of them. Yeah, and I found a few
in the last week or so.But what is so frustrating is when my
kids see them first, and thenyou're not allowed to kill them. So

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the other day there was like adecent sized aunt on our countertop and I
was like, gonna go just kindof paper towel it. And I'm sorry,
you guys, I'm not saying Francisof a CC. I'm not putting
them back out on the breast.I apologize about that, but yes,
percent So I see this thing andI start to do it. My six
year old comes running in. Hegoes, Mom, is that an aunt?

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And I was like yeah, buthe goes, what are you gonna
do with it? And I saidI was going to relocate him, and
he goes, so you can't killhim. God made it? And I
was like, oh, that's yeah. Yeah. And have you ever seen
A Bug's Life, which is theDisney movie they have I'm obsessed with.

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I was like yeah, and he'slike, so, like, you're just
gonna put it outside with its family, right? I was like yeah,
So I take the paper towel,and I walk my tush down the eighteen
steps of our deck and put itout in the woods. And the worst
part is now he's like on antpatrol. He'll see one or like here
one somehow and he'll be like,you're not gonna kill it, are you?
I was like, I wouldn't dare. I love living with all these

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wonderful pieces of God's creation. SoSulky, Well, you know it's manny,
that Catholic guilt. It starts youngand it stays with you. I
still feel bad. So what's yourbucks? Beaty's music and all the gossip
in one place. It's the celebritiesgoop on Star one oh five point seven

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well tons of celebrities taking to thefashionable red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York last night Fashion'sbiggest night. It was the met Gala,
and we saw a ton of celebs, including a surprise performance from Ariana
Grande. Lana del Rey was there, all of the Kardashians, but someone
who was not Katie Perry. Despitemultiple pictures being shared across multiple platforms,

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it was surprising. I saw theseearly on in the evening, but it
was all a I photos of thesinger that placed her at the high fashion
event began circulating, with a coupleusers throwing different shots into the mix.
It was actually a really gorgeous one, the one I think looks the most
genuine of her with her hair downand this long flowing white dress covered in

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flowers, because of course it wasthe garden theme. But everything was fake.
Now some fans started to notice whenthey realized she was being placed on
a red carpet last night. Itwas actually a bluish green carpet, but
it still had more than nine millionviews, hundreds of thousands of shares,

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just to show you how crazy thisdeep fake has become. I mean,
and you're not wrong. I wouldhave never even thought twice about it.
Yeah, would have just moved onthinking like, oh yeah, that's a
cool dress, and wouldn't have thoughtany different than any other photo that you
saw from last night, not her, if you see any of those circulating
online still this morning, Britney Spearsis denying that she had a breakdown.

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Remember I had that story that shehad quite an interesting night at the Chateau
Marmont last week, an alleged altercationwith her supposed boyfriend Paul Salice. She
is now saying none of that happened. She posted on her Instagram yesterday bringing
up that ugly incident. Even paramedicshad to be called, writing, I
honestly wish my life was as wildas it had been portrayed. Either way,

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something actually has happened to my footand I might have to get surgery
fingers crossed hopefully not. But Ifeel that I was harassed and gas lit
and tricked into going out onto thestreet when my car was supposed to be
there. I was in my pajamasand I'd only been crying because I hurt
my foot. There was no breakdown. I'm just a grown woman who's actually
very naive in most situations. I'mjust mostly embarrassed they got me in my

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dang pjs. I don't feel loved, I feel mistreated, So I'm going
to treat myself this week. Shethen posted a very interesting video of her
on some kind of horse farm.What's your an answer? So like,
she posts these things and then sheputs up a video and fans are like,
I don't know how, We're notsupposed to be concerned, hear Brittany,

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Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, like you can say that it
was just a big misunderstanding. Atthe same time, it was multiple calls
to nine one saying you're screaming andswearing and crying and fighting. By the
way, that boyfriend, quote unquotePaul Salise. They've been doing some stories
about him. Real gem of aman, apparently a deadbeat dad that hasn't

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paid a lick of child support forthe nine possibly ten kids that he has.
All Right, ben a Flag hadheads turning a bit during the Tom
Brady roast that premiered on Netflix overthe weekend, with a lot of people
wondering if we haven't seen him verymuch because he's undergone a facelift, have
you seen his bit? So hedid a bit of a joke about Tom's

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time in the NFL. Tom,you should have seen the corner back when
you threw that pick six in theSuper Bowl against Atlanta. Actually you should
have said that was that was terrible. You should have There was no excuse
to that, and it probably wouldhave been good except people were like,
what happened to your face? Whilesources are now saying he has not gone
under the knife, it was simplythe fact that he was freshly shaven and

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had had had had had recent botox. They went on to say no filler,
definitely no surgery, and fans alsonoticed he was not with j Loo,
who was one of the co chairsfor last night's gala. Sources also
saying that's simply because he's filming somethingin La and could not make the trip
to the East coast. It doeslook a little weird. I'll you know,

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it might be the beer. I'llgive you a botox. I guess
if it was very very like thatafternoon, which, guys, we gotta
be careful. You can't be doingthat right before a bit bet. You
gotta give yourself a couple davies.I got pictures up for you with your
scoop at West Michigan Star dot Com. Battle of the Sexiest Time It's Mac
and schmidteen and it's your shot tobe at one awesome concert June eleventh,
Van Andelerena. It's Sticks and Foreigner, the Renegades and juke Box Heroes Tour.

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I know you've been wanting to getinto this just based on our DMS.
Here's your chance. Number one answertoday is going to score you those
tickets. One hundred women surveyed namesomeone you go to for advice? Why
would I need to go to someonewhen I have all the unsolicited opinions of
strangers waiting for me on the interneteveryday? True, I gotta say,
I go to my not sugarcoated friend. Every woman has it. Every woman

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has the friend that's kind, thefriend that's funny, and the friend that's
gonna tell it to you like itis, no matter how brutal that sounds.
That's where I go. And ithurts a lot of times. It
hurts six one, six, four, five eight, one oh five seven
collar seven, first chance at thenumber one answer. One hundred women surveyed,
name someone you go to for advice? And worse, send you to

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sticks in Foreigner on star win ohfive point seven, Good morning star.
Who's this? Hey? This isTony, Hey, Tony, where are
you coming from today? Sir Montreal? All right, Tony, let's see
if we can get you hooked upwith These tickets were sticks and foreigner,
Gotta tell me Tony. One hundredwomen were asked to name somebody you might
go to for advice? What doyou think? Their top answer was,

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I think it'd be appropriate to saytheir mother. Oh, with Mother's Day
on Sunday, it would be criminalnot to accept that answer as parents is
the top answer. Congratulations, Tony, Oh did heck? Yes? It
was parents, followed by your partner, spouse, then your best friends,
and your boss and manager and yourrelatives rounding out those top answers. But

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Tony, sending people to your mom, that's just wisdom, That is,
you know, ageless. All right, Congratulations, We're getting you hooked up
with those foreigner and sticks tickets andwe will be doing it again tomorrow.
Battle of the Sexes each Weekday eightyfifteen here on star WINAR five point seven.
Well done, Tony, Thanks Mane, Smack and Schmidty. I want

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to know, Schmitty, what wouldpeople be surprised to know you don't own
at all? Because for me thisis just a dumb one. My brother
and his friend actually came to townover the weekend to go to a concert
on Saturday night and they crashed atour place, and in our basement.
It's kind of like a chill basement, right, It's where people go to
hang out. There's a bar downthere, you know, there's video games

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and rooms to hang out in there. And uh, there's also a big
ping pong table like a lot ofpeople, you know, rockets ping pong
down there. Well, my brotherand his friend were down there by the
bar having some pops on Saturday night, and all of a sudden, he
jd from downstairs and I go downthere and they're like, hey, uh,
where are your where your ping pongpaddles? At He said, Actually,

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I don't own any ping pong paddles. You gn't really play ping pong.
Like, what do you mean youdon't own any? And they're like,
there's like a dozen balls over there. The ping pong table is set
up. It's taken up like sixtypercent of this entire room. You don't
have any paddles. I go.I have had paddles, that's not the
issue. But when my dog wasa puppy, he ate a couple used

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to have six paddles. Then mykids would do that thing that everybody every
young kid does to their ping pongpaddles, which is they peel back just
a little bit and then it's alittle flappy and then they peel it.
Whatever the material is that on theping pong. Yeah, the little grippy
pad things that are I'm not ahuge ping pong player. I didn't know
that was even possible. Over andover, Oh yeah, you just peel
it off and then it just startsflapping and they think it's hilarious because it

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sounds like it's clapping, and thenthey wind up ripping it off. So
I haven't had ping pong paddles fori'd say going on now two and a
half years. And my little brotherand his friend are maybe just the latest
in a string of at least adozen people who have come to my home
and go, oh, let's playsome ping pong, and I'm like,
h I would really like to,but I have only been to Meyer about
six hundred and forty seven times withthe opportunity to buy new paddles, and

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yet have still managed to not dothat. At least you've got a ping
pong table. We don't, butwe do have three drawers of ping pong
balls that my kids ask about allthe time. And my husband's like,
for some reason, all the movingwe did, those traveled with us from
college, and they go, whatdid you do with those in college?
And we go, We'll tell youwhen you are a whole heck of a
lot older, Oh why weld justyou know, fill them up with some
water schmidty and just set those out. Get your kids got a bang bond

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table. Why is it that youthink people would be surprised that you don't
know own We got some great answerson our Facebook page. Bobby Joe Dieter
from Muskegan Smidty Makeup doesn't own anymakings. Oh that means you're naturally beautiful
and I'm jealous. I like that. Kim from Battle Creek a scale,
not even a scale in the house. I don't know whether that's like a

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really smart idea. I don't wantto scale denial. You don't know a
scale. We do not own ascale, now that I think about it.
We got rid of the two thatwe had when we moved. Very
I do I need to see thatin the morning. Cool. What a
great way to wake up the conversationon Facebook at Swest Michigan Star sometimes get
a right put a little positivity intothis Tuesday, shall we? It's feeling

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good right now and starting on foindseven mackage many with you well. Another
mid Michigan honor flight is set totake off this morning carrying our beloved veterans
to Washington, DC. For mostof them the first time they'll be able
to see those monuments to the warsthey fought in to protect our freedom.
As we speak, veterans are showingup to the Gerald R. Ford International

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Airport ahead of takeoff this morning,and that includes the very first visitor,
one hundred and six year old WorldWar Two veteran Robert holt Wood TV was
on scene, Yo med as well. Thank you for it's incredible. Also,

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I see mister Hole, you lookincredible to that's one of the veterans
that will be leaving Grand Rapids thismorning for a stay in DC. Remember
they will be back tomorrow. Andof course, our bewtiful people at mid
Michigan Honor Flight always looking for thosevolunteers to line the hallways and say goodbye,
as well as welcome them back withsalutes, handshakes, American flags and

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signs. It is truly an incredibleexperience. If you can make it out
to the Ford this morning or tomorrowto witness this and just say thank you
for your service, it's really cool. Spinning my daughter and her girl Scout
troupe, that was what they justgot. Their big Bronze Award, which
is you know what you can getat that level of girl Scouts. They're
going to be there tomorrow night doingthat walking them back. They've got signs,

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they wrote them, some letters,all sorts of stuff. Got all
the details for you mid Michigan onorflight dot org. All right, this
is just really cool. A groupof Byron Center High School students are on
their way to New York City.They're part of the school's jazz orchestra and
they just got a major recognition thatwill allow them to coats And what their
band director, Mark Townley says,is like the super Bowl of jazz events

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for high schoolers. And this isnot for anybody who hasn't put a whole
lot of work into the music ofjazz legend Duke Ellington. It's called essentially
Ellington, and it's specifically for hismusic to play there in New York City.
And like I said, Mark Townleysays, you've got to be really
good to even have a chance atgetting to this event. The expectation is

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on the highest levels of the music. There's nothing high school about this.
You are truly expected to play likeDuke Ellington. Yeah, expectancation level.
Expectation level is extremely high for thesestudents, but they have been practicing all
year long. And the cool partis is this is a blind audition,
so they entered completely blind, soit's entirely based on merit. This is

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the seventh time that the Byron CenterHigh School Jazz Ensemble has been invited,
the second year in a row,and a great chance to get back on
that stage. As Levi Green ontrombone and Cydy Law who's on guitar,
told w zz M, there's justno other place like it. A truly
amazing experience. You know, nothingreally compares, at least in high school,

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especially right with just the opportunity togo to New York City of all
things. But the truth is whenyou're with the band on stage and off
the stage, that's when the memoriesare made. Being on the stage at
Allington, like the stage is solive and you're playing for a bunch of
people. It's really an amazing feelinggetting to go to New York with this
jazz band. It's really I'll neverforget big finish. Thank congrats to those

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kids. They are actually flying toNew York City tomorrow, going to be
participating three days competition workshops and jamsessions with their fellow musicians too. Feel
like it comes at you twice today. I always want to point out those
great things going on out there.Let's do it tomorrow, six forty five
and nine twenty here on Star Mackand Schmidty in the morning weekday, starting
at six am on Star one ohfive point seven