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Wakem it. It's my day goingand makes me laugh. I of it.
Mac and Schmitty in the Morning onStar one oh five point seven Bug
of Martin Schmitty, Way, goodmorning, Welcome into it. Let me
hear what is it? It isweekendy. Yes, that's just little silver
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lining that light at the end ofthe title that I get every Thursday from
you, and I appreciate it becausewe could use that. I feel like
this week it's been a long oneand it's about to take a little turn
for us weatherwise, because man,gorgeous night last night, Project Nightlights.
I was out my son at abaseball game. We were out. Oh,
it's just beautiful. Tell me allabout it. I had the stomach
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flu. So if y'all were wonderingwhere I was yesterday, I'd be so
cautious because, as all my girlshave told me, this is spreading around
in the school. So I hadtwenty four hours of fast and furious weight
loss is how I'll put it.You are not kidding, it is Well,
there's things going around. I knowmy kids are hit with like this
cold cough thing. Other people arehitting what you've got. It's nasty time.
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Yeah, movies music and all thegossip in one place. It's the
celebrities gup on Star one oh fivepoint seven. Well, she considers herself
a massive Swiftie, but was oneof Taylor's new songs off The Tortured Poets
Department actually about Gypsy Rose Blanchard.You've heard the name a ton after her
recent release from prison, and asfor Gypsy, she thinks Fresh Out the
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Slammer might be all about her andher December release. For those unfamiliar,
the songs about a woman getting outof prison and then taking off with her
lover, very similar to Gypsy,who moved in with her now a strange
husband, Ryan Anderson, after shewas released following seven years behind bars.
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Not the only similarity that Gypsy herselfspots. Apparently, she has told friends.
The line camera flashes welcome bashes alsopertains to the Papa Razzi having followed
her every move since her release,and the fact that her family threw her
a welcome home bash, now thefirst time we've seen this. Even Swifty's
Online believe the song was very GypsyRose centered. But as for Gypsy as
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a Swifty, she has not yeteven gotten the chance to meet Taylor I
mean, I'm sorry, but thisis just a case of like Carly Simon's
your sho vain. I bet youthink this song is about you. I
mean, it is ridiculous. CibaGutting Junior is firing back at allegations made
in the Rodney Jones lawsuit against pDidty and doing everything he can to distance
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himself from all of this drama.The actor was on the Patrick David Bett
podcast when the topic of Ditty cameup and Cuba's reaction to turning on the
Today Show and seeing his name hadbeen mentioned in the lawsuit. He claims
he had not even known Ditty backin the day. Only time will tell
who was involved, who been afrequent guest in these places and areas.
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I had never met him till probablytwenty nineteen twenty, just casually Claudine and
I. He invited his house thepandemic was starting to ease, and hadn't
seen him since that night. Wherethis guy with this this picture. It
says that I had my shoulder onhim and all this stuff it made it,
making it look sordid. While thatpicture everyone in the room, there's
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probably three hundred of us on thedeck of P Diddy's I'm Gonna show you
on P Diddy's boat New Year's Eve. So if you miss this part of
it, Rodney Jones is claiming didhe introduced him to Cuba Gooding Junior and
Cuba allegedly started touching and groping Jonesin an inappropriate way. Cuba is saying,
wow, I was on that yachtfor maybe an hour. It was
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New Year's Eve and I was yachthopping. I guess the celebrities do.
He said, I don't really evenremember meeting this guy, and I have
no part in any of these allegations. I mean, hopefully that should be
easy to prove if that's the case. That being said, this is the
first very similar allegation against Cuba GoodingJunior, which you could look at is
a reason to make it up,or you could look at like a pattern.
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And finally, Carti b is thinkinganyone who is offended over her not
being able to id the designer ofher met Gala dress is just faking outrage.
If you missed it, the bigfashion show Monday night outside the Metropolitan
Museum of Art saw Cardi forget whoactually designed her dress. It was put
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together by Chinese designer since a leeof Winsowen, but Carti was not able
to come up with the name inthat moment, just referred to them as
Asian and everything. She took toher insta yesterday to talk to people about
what was going on. I saidAsian designer because I know that the designer
was Asian, but I wasn't surewhat nationality the designer was. And I
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feel like it's offensive if I waslike, oh, some Chinese designer or
some Korean designer or Vietnamese designer,because I feel like I don't want to
get somebody's nationality mixed up. SoI said an Asian designer. Then I
say that to be offensive or toget your little hospitos in a bunch true
CARDI My only problem here is thatit is the MET Gala. The whole
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point of the MET Gala is toshow off this unbelievable fashion. Write it
down on an index card. Iguess you've got to know your desire.
Yes, I might have thought thefans had fake outrage. The designer probably
had real outrage. All right,all your celeb scoop at West Michigan Star
dot com. Sometimes because I geta good feeling. He's doing a fine
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point seven smack and she's mad toget your feeling good right now. And
if you're a Lions fan, thisshould make you feel really good about the
Lion's second round pick, if youweren't all already. I'm talking about Ennis
Rekestraw, junior from Missouri University,who the Lions selected sixty first overall in
the second round back on April twentysix. Well, he's a man of
his word. And I know thatbecause he just went viral over the last
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few days because he kept a promisethat he made over a decade ago when
he was just a fourth grader Schmidty. He wrote a letter to his fourth
grade teacher who he loved, namedmister Gammon. This is what he wrote,
Mister Gammon, you were the bestteacher ever. You always had and
have my back, and you giveme confidence. When my little brother had
a seizure, you gave me foodand snacks. I wish I didn't want
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to leave you, but I haveto. I hope you come see me
at Daniel please, and then wenton to say I miss you and I
hope you're alive because if I makeit as a professional football player. I
will talk about you, mister Gammon. Please give me your phone number before
I go. That was when hewas in fourth grade. The very sweet
letter, especially the way's handwritten.It's so cute it is. And guess
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what he is a man of hisword. He reconnected with that fourth grade
teacher and has gone viral for doingso. He got the letter framed and
everything. Mister Gannon even replying onX saying you put it out there at
ten years old and made it happen. I have no words for how proud
I am of you. Also,I'm telling everyone I played with that I
played with against you and threw multipletouchdowns to you and on you. Yes
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it was recess, but it's technicallytrue. Again, So proud, all
right. I know how many ofyou would love this. A wife throwing
a surprise party for her husband athis most favorite place on earth, Costco.
That's right. Emma Blevins posted avideo to Storyfall about her hardcore Costco
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fan Hubby, who was stunned whenshe pulled off a genius surprise party for
his twenty seventh birthday. She keptstaging run ins while he was on one
of his typical shopping trips, andit wasn't until the end when he saw
his mema that he realized something wasnot right. We come in, all
of the dag sends are up.We've seen everybody, and we've seen the
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Diagorsons. It's all hey, jand Tiffany from church. We've seen Jojo,
like five people from a church wayvat plan this Mama and Wheeler here
this, this doesn't make sense.It doesn't make sense. A memorable twenty
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seventh birthday for Clint. The entirecheckout line even got in on the birthday
song. As if his wife hadn'tdone enough. She even hired a clown
to join him in the food courtwhile he devoured his Costco sheet cake.
This is beyond brilliant. I'll putit in our Insta stories at West Michigan
Star. Oh well, I knowwhere I'm booking my next birthday party,
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Atchviitty. That's awesome. Feel likegood, always here to tell you about
something cool going on out there.I don't know if we could top Costco
birthday parties though, but we'll try. At nine to twenty here on Star
New these music and all the gossipin one place. It's the celebrity scoop
on Star one oh five point seven. Ooh. Garry Seinfeld feels a little
bad about what he said about HowardStern on a recent podcast, Hey,
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the Legendary stand up went on DavidSpade and Dana Carvey's pod Fly on the
Wall, talking about how popular podcastshad become these days, especially among comedians.
That's when Jerry chimed in, saying, well, Howard certainly deserves the
credit for inventing and kind of spearheadingthe model with his radio format back in
the day. He's not necessarily thebest. Howard is interesting. Howard is
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a great interviewer, but you know, comedy chops. I mean, can
we speak candidly? Sure? Well, he is the big part of how
all right, but yeah, let'sface it, he's been out flanked.
He said, I feel really badfor what I said about my friend Howard
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in a conversation with the guys talkingabout the glut of comedy podcasts. I
met to say he must feel surrounded, but I said outflanked, which sounded
terrible and super insulting. Of course, none of these little shows or any
threat to his giant show. Butit was bad, and I'm sorry.
Howie I still love you. Pleaseforgive me. Yeah, something tells me
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that Howard Stern and his ridiculously massiveradio contract, I'll be okay with you.
Oh flank not the right word,though, I mean I can see
that. Jason Kelsey not totally downwith the roast model him and brother Travis
dropped a new episode of the NewHeights podcast yesterday talking about Tom Brady's recent
live roast on Netflix and Jason's justnot there for it. That had me
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rolling because of how at everybody's neckpeople were going. I mean, it
was pure entertainment, and I'm reallyhappy they did it, but I do
not want I just do not getthe roast. I don't understand why people
do them, like because it's coming. Maybe I take myself too serious.
Listen, I'm in on all ofit. Travis added if he got to
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be roasted, he would want comedianslike Dave Chappelle and Kevin Hart to do
the honors, and said I wouldgo up there and just let them bleeping
rip me in half. Jason said, I'd pick people I'd have no problem
getting in a fistfight with. Ilove these guys so very much. Honestly,
I could see Travis doing a rowsome days, and finally the big
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TV news. All of my earlytwo thousands loves will know this. Paris
Hilton and Nicole Retche are teaming backup. The Darlings are set for a
whole new project. They're on boardfor a series they will both star in.
But it's not gonna be an exactreplica of the Simple Life. It's
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gonna be a little bit different.It's gonna be something with a brand new
name. It'll be just as hilarious. Production sources said they've been talking about
teaming up like this for months andkicking around some ideas on what to do.
They say it's still very early indevelopment. Nothing's officially been shot yet,
but this is going to be perfect. And they say it's going to
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have something to do with the girlsstill doing some work and throwing back to
the nostalgia of the Simple Life.But they won't say much more until they
find a home for it. Howmany times you think you're gonna hear the
words that's hot? Oh, Ithink she'll come up with something new.
It's coming up with something new.All of your celeb scoop at West Michigan
start dot com. It is nurseAppreciation Week. But that's that's not the
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only thing it is. It's teacherappreciation Week. And let me apologize for
both of us that it took untilThursday for us to bring that up.
I mean, I knew that wehad been doing stuff at my kids' school,
putting together gift baskets and a bunchof fun parties and things like that
to thank their teachers, but honestly, it had totally slited my mind that
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it was all week long, it'snurses Appreciation week, it is teacher appreciation
week. And we were talking aboutNurse's Day Earlier this week, I had
posted something to my Instagram and Igot a really interesting message back from my
friend Jessica, who is a nurse, and she said, interesting, nurses
Week and teachers Week. It's almostlike they just decided to get the two
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most thankless jobs out of the wayso we don't have to spend too much
time on them. Do feel thatway, and like, I can't even
laugh. That's so sad, thatis so sad to And I was like,
oh my gosh, you're absolutely right. There are just certain professions that
feel so thankless when in reality theyare Some of the most important and foundational
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careers in our society. And whenyou talk nurses and teachers, it just
nails it. And I feel reallyreally bad having to say that, and
so I wanted to look and kindof see what other thankless jobs are out
there. I found this list fromhigher edu and teachers. Not surprising no
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number two on the list. Policefire and ambulance dispatchers rounded out the top
ten, but also social workers that'sa big one, Farmers, garbage collectors,
military, oh yeah. And it'slike, ah, the honesty hurts,
because these careers shouldn't be so thankless, but they are. I mean,
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and you and I both being youknow, kids of teacher families,
we saw it all throughout our lives, of our moms just going the extra
mile, doing everything. They goextra one hundred miles, and then at
the end of it, sometimes notonly not getting to thank you, but
getting like criticized for not doing enough, and just feeling that constant weight of
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pushing, pushing forward and feeling allthat push. I have so many friends
of mine that are teachers and arejust feeling so burnt out isn't even the
word, because they love their kidsso much. But to deal with with
the bureaucracy, the red tape.I'm really sorry the parents. I just
I wanted to have this conversation sohopefully you'd feel very seen this morning because
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we talked about this off the air, and you know what, there are
a lot of thankless professions out there. But since it is nurse Appreciation Week
and teacher appreciation week, we'd loveif we had a nurse and a teacher
call in right now and we couldhook you up with free dinner. YEP,
it's the very least we can do. And maybe you can have a
bottle of wine all to yourself andjust remind yourself of how important and critical
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what you do is. So giveus a call six one six four five
eight one oh five seven. Ifwe've got a nurse and a teacher listening
right now. We want to showyou our love. You should get more
than a week, and you certainlyshouldn't have to share a week. You
are one hundred percent right, schmidty. Six one six four eight one oh
five seven. Teachers and nurses only, please, we want to shout you
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out, get you out for agreat dinner here, schmitty, and I
do want to say that you listeningright now, Can you know shout out
those nurses and teachers give them giftsin your life. You talked about wine.
Why is an acceptable teacher appreciation gift? Now it all made mugs.
I'm just gonna go out there forall of my teacher friends. We love
you, but we don't need yourkid to paint us another mug. It's
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okay. Cash is great. Cashis a really lovely thing that will show
your love star one oh five pointseven. It's Mack and Schmidty sending you
to Casey musk Graves. If youcan tell us what year was it.
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How long is this gonna take?I don't know, maybe twelve hours hopefully,
Lest I have to, I haveto find out what drives him.
We're gonna just go in there andbeat him with the phone books out him.
When I'm calling it a brain,I'm pretty sure it's where ideas come
from. TB. I don't havea brain. We've gotten along just fine
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without brains till now came in.Don't need brains. Frandsmit monster, the
sun ma bit. You don't needto study scaring you justn't do it.
Really, I think there's a littlemore to it than that all right,
Schmitty calling number seven went ahead andhung up right after she answered here,
So I don't have her, butI know that Jennifer gave us the year
here, Schmitty, what did youthink it was? By the way,
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just off the top of your head, I mean, I figured it was
twenty thirteen because that it was aMonster's Inc. Wasn't it? Monsters University?
There it is? Yeah, Yeah, my kids just discovered that sequel,
so it's all that's playing on ourDisney Plus account. That's right.
Congratulations Jennifer picking up those tickets togo check out Casey Musgraves September eleventh over
there at Van Anzel Arena when she'sin town, and we will be hooking
you up again every Thursday. Wethrow it back. What year was it?
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Here? On Start one oh fivepoint seven Monty's music and all the
gossip in one place. It's thecelebrity scoop on Star one oh five point
seven. Oh, Travis Kelcey hasno idea who Janna Kramer is and says
she is simply Chasen for some cloutthe Big Story. Yesterday, Jana had
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characterized Travis in a not too niceway in a podcast calling him a party
animal who is always drunk and thinkswould be a very bad influence for Taylor's
swift. But as for Travis,sources say, ain't no thing he didn't
know who she is, obviously mostfamous from her One Tree Hill Days.
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Sources say Travis believes Jenna's blowing hotair to get attention for her podcast,
which if you take a look inthe past, is kind of par for
the course. Janna has a bitof a history of doing some public name
dropping and dragging celebs in order togarner up some attention, so clearly not
concerning Travis and obviously not concerning Taylor. Yeah, I mean, I can
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see how if you just looked ata glance at their very public episodes together,
you could see drinking being a partof it. Well, maybe it's
because Taylor's always been super private.She's probably been doing this whole time.
She's in her mid thirties, y'allwere trying to get through it anyway we
can. Jelly Roll is ready todo another five K after losing almost seventy
pounds in training. So remember Itold you this was the five k put
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on by Bert Krascher and Tom Segurato comedians who are also best friends.
Went down in Pasadena and Jelly Rollwas invited to join, which he did,
got in crazy awesome shape for it, and following the race admitted he's
down to clown for the next one, especially if Booze is involved. Man,
it was huge, Man, Ifeel almost emotional. Man, it
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was crazy. Man. I losta little bit of weight trying to do
this. I've never thought of Forthree and a half miles all the way
up around this thing, I feelgreat, thought so really really really good.
I was watching listen. This isthe coolest thing out there. I
know I would have done way morefive ks if I knew people tailgated in
the parking lot and the eight hotdogs and drank beer before him. This
has been the coolest experience having.I felt like I was coming to a
letter of Skinner show. Not quitesure if it'll feel totally like a Leonard
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Skinner show on Saturday for the MWARiverbank run, but I do know they
have beer afterwards. It's a verygreat way to rehydrate. Yeah, not
all five k's, but the bestfive k's And finally, Peacock, it's
happening officially ordering the new comedy mocumentaryset as The Office. This is going
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to be really good. The announcementalso gave us the first official details about
the premise of this sequel spinoff.Not really sure yet. The documentary crew
that immortalized dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch isin search of a news subject when they
discover a dying historic Midwestern newspaper andthe publisher trying to revive it with volunteer
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reporters. Interesting. Maybe it's goingto be really good. So it's like
a new story essentially, but thatinvolves some familiar things that we all know
from Love in the Office. Yes, still no official word on a premiere
day, but exciting that Peacock hasgreenlit it, which means it's happening all
of your slip scoop at West MichiganStar dot Com. Let's do it Battle
of the Sexist Time. It's Mackand Schmidtey trying to get you out for
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one incredible concerts man. It's Stixand Foreigner and we get to start it
kicking out the Renegades and jukebox Heroestour at Thenandle. In just about a
month, you have today's number oneanswer, and you are going. One
hundred women's surveyed, Name something youfind in your bathtub? Something I find
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in my bathtub, Well, it'sbathnight. What I find is my kids
lying there until every drop of watergoes down the drain. I'll take that
all day. Legos. I haveliterally stepped on legos getting into the shower.
That's on me. I'm a parent. I should look before I step
six one, six, four,five, eight to one oh five seven.
One hundred women's survey, Name somethingyou find in your bathtub? Caller
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seven, first chance at the numberone answer, and we could be sending
you to Stix and Foreigner on StarWin five point seven Morning Star. Who's
this? I'm sorry one more timewith your name? Marita? Yes,
hi Marita. Where are you comingfrom this morning? All right, Marita,
rub a dub dub. Let's talkabout the tub. One hundred women
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were asked to name something you mightfind in a bathtub. What do you
think? Their top answer was,well, this kind of girls, But
I was going to go with mildew. Ooh, mildew. Yeah, that's
not a tub any of us wantto soak in? No mildew. Not
on the Liz. Good try Marita, thank you, thank you, Hi
Star, who's this, Renee?I just got a great guess from Marita.
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When one hundred women were asked toname something you might find in a
bathtub, she said the nasty partout loud and said mildew. But mildew
not on the list here, Soyou got a chance for day. What
do you think it is? We'regonna go with hair? Going with hair,
Yeah, you're definitely going to findsomebody the drain when that water runs
out. But nope, not onthe list either. Sorry, Renee,
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Thanks, Hi Star, who's thisBrenda? I'm gonna give you a really
good hint. Okay, yeah,one hundred women rast to name something you
might find in a bathtub. Sofar I heard a couple of kind of
gross guesses. Mildew nobody wants tosoak, and mildew and hair definitely something
we see in the tub from timeto time. However, those were not
the top answer, and I'll justtell you it is a very obvious answer.
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Ooh sand yeah, after beach daysin the tub. But no,
that's not it either. I'm sorry, all right, Hi Star, who's
this? Mike? And Mike andHudson. You know what, I've had
three good guesses, guys, butnot the top answer yet. And I
have a feeling my three guessers aregoing to be kicking themselves after they find
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out the top answer here, becauseI will give you the same hint that
I just gave another one of ourcallers. But so far, when one
hundred women rest to name something youmight find in a bathtub, I heard
mildew, I heard hair, andI heard sands. You know, I
get done with the beach, youfind that sand chilling in the bottom of
the bathtub. But none of thosewere even on the list of top answers
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here. So I gotta tell you, Mike and Hudson, the answer is
so obvious. It's going to stingall of those previous guessers just a little
bit so obvious. Name something youmight find in a bathtub? Water?
Then it's gotta be water. Thenwhat else could be the top answer there?
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Water? Who is the top answertoo obvious that it be actually difficult
to guess that one. Congrats Mikeand Hudson. I do not know.
Yeah, you're welcome, guys.You're going dead. You're going to check
out sticks and foreigner. Oh fantastic, good heck, yes, and Hudson,
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I don't know. You gotta gethim ice cream or something. Is
He definitely played a part in thiswin. Congratulations. It was water,
followed by soap, then rubber duckand shampoo and bubbles rounding out those top
answers. Congratulations, guys. Thanks, We appreciate you. Great job.
Hey, we appreciate you. Listen, and we're gonna hook it up again
tomorrow. Last chance to win thesetickets eight fifteen with Battle of the Sexes
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here on stuff, good on ittoo. It's Mack and Schmidty, And
it's true. I feel like foreverybody there is something, probably at your
home, maybe at work, butthere is something in your life that you
just have way too much of orway too many of Schmidty. Everybody's got
that thing. And for me rightnow, there's a lot of different things.
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I mean all the different reusable bagsand plastic bags. Everybody's got that
kind of stuff. And I knowa lot of parents will feel this too.
I am so tired of the numberof stuffed animals that my daughter has.
It has reached a point of ridiculousnessthat I didn't think we would get
to because she has them all organizedand she's very sensitive about all of them.
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She's got several of them that sheis you know, they're top tier,
top tier stuffies. Really quick.None of her friends are listening right
now, right they're all in school. Okay, they're all in school.
I just want to make sure notthat you're not making breaking the dad rules.
She would own it. She's veryproud of all of these stuffies,
and I know that because her andher friends are all trying to get them
all the time. That's the partthat actually bothers me though, because she's
got her hardcore ones. But shekeeps adding to this collection. And the
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other day she literally put them allon her bed because a mander cleaner room,
and she put them all in herbed. She counted them. She
has two hundred and thirty four stuffedanimals currently at her bed. Oh no,
I'm not kidding. How is thatpossible. She living in like a
California king So a lot of themare time. She's lives in a full
it's just a full size mattress.But the she a lot of them are
like little tiny squish mellows. Someof our tiny teddy bears. Some of
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them are massive, though, andshe's one hundred and thirty four shut one
hundred and thirty four stuffed animals.And here's the thing before you're like,
why did you let her do that? As a parent, I didn't,
okay, because I have not boughtmy daughter a stuffed animal, and I
don't know years three four years.She gets them from other people. She
uses her own money. Sometimes she'llsucker her mother into allowing her to get
them, and we can't get herto get rid of a single one.
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I tried to guilt her. I'mlike, think of all the kids that
could use these stuffed animals, andthe animals I'm like going to toy story
mode. They want to play withchildren too, and non event So I
guess I say two hundred and thirtyfour because you haven't snuck in and gotten
rid of them. This is whereI'm going. I've done. This is
where I'm goney I got. I'vegot a six year old in the three
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year old, and trust me,I'm probably into double digit amount of times
when I wait for them to beat school and then I pop in there
and they're gone, and guess whatnot? Once have they noticed I swear
it one time. I swear toGod. I think my daughter probably has
names for each and every one ofthese things, and if I removed one,
she's like where snow? I amputting one hundred dollars down on the
fact you could remove one hundred andfifty of the two hundred and thirty four
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and she would not have a chanceto notice they were gone. What is
it that you just have way toomany, too much of I don't disagree
with you, it's all you getin there. I feel like there's gonna
be an A and E show aboutus here pretty soon. Well, but
you know what a big one wasthat I saw online so many people tumblers
and cuffs? Oh my goodness,how many of you collected? If there's
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too many of those? If Igot coublic space, y'all my wine tumblers
are making their way in there.Join the conversation on Facebook ads West Michigan
Star sometime does get a good feelingalways here to shed a little positivity into
your day. Let's do it feelinggood on stylin on five point seven Mackagemitty
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with you. So this is verycool. There's going to be a new
charity partner. You will notice onSaturday morning at the Amway River Bank Run
the forty seventh year, that thebiggest twenty five k in the country will
go down right here in Grand Rapids. It's called No Surrender and it's a
running club and the newest charity partner. This is incredible. Maria Pertrero never
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thought that she would become a wrestler, let alone make it to nationals with
a college club team, which isexactly what's happening for her at Grand Valley.
See. She recruited herself for wrestlingwhen she was a sophomore at Northview,
all because of the confidence she gotfrom a running group. She joined,
excuse me, a running group shejoined in middle school, No Surrender
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Running Club. This is incredible.Megan Lopez is the executive director. Her
and Maria talked about how this isso much more than a sport. There's
also perceived barriers, such as feelinglike I'm not strong enough to run,
I'm not fast enough. I don'tlook like a runner. No one who's
running looks like me. I toldher once when we were on a run,
I was like, I can't dothis. I can't do this.
She goes, yes, you can, you can do it, and she
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talked me through the entire and entirerace, and so I like to say
that no surrender and her for likea huge part of me, like growing
as a person. The group meetstwice a week. They help members of
all ages learn about the sport ofrunning, which has led to such bigger
things. The club is totally freeto join. It provides members with shoes
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and other running tools. It's runby volunteers. It's incredible and as Megan
points out, it has shown themthat getting the confidence in running will lead
to confidence of so many other things, including like Maria, trying every single
thing you're interested in, despite hownervous you are about it. So just
think about that when you're cheering onthe thousands of people that will be descending
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on grand rapid Saturday morning. Becausethere is so much work, time and
dedication that goes into this race everyyear, it's powerful to hear these stories
all right, Spinny portage of course, no shortage of athletes who have just
gone on to do big things,talking like NASCAR racer Carson Hosa Bar You've
got Oakland A's infield, Max Schunmanand Arizona Diamond, Bax Pitcher, Tommy
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Henry. But Tommy graduated Portage Northern. He went to the University of Michigan,
helped them get all the way tothe College World Series. But just
like so many of us, eventhough he's on the road right now with
the Triple A Reno aces, hewoke up yesterday morning to those devastating pictures
and everything else that shocked us allas those tornadoes ripped through Portage. But
I didn't really know that there wasgoing to be like true tornadoes, like
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life threatening conditions type of stuff untilI woke up this morning to a bunch
of texts, like pictures of youknow, some of the stuff that's happened.
Obviously, with the damage that's there, he was concerned about all those
friends and family members that he stillhas there in Portage and just says,
you know, that community he willrecover because, unlike other places, that
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community always steps up in times ofneed. To be honest, I'm grateful
for that. You know. Iloved every second I was there. To
me, it's it's just the perfectyou know, it was the perfect time
to grow up, and I thinkit shaped me in you know, so
many ways. I think that thebeauty of Portage and why I loved it
so much growing up there is thesense of community as you see the community
come together, you see people andI each other, You see people help
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each other out, and to me, I think that's what makes you know
people. But city's great and itis just you know, speaks to what
Portage is. That's right. Well, Tommy will be coming back to Portage,
his hometown this summer as he plansto get married here in Michigan with
many of his friends right there fromPortage, but sending his love to that
community right now as they try andrecover from those tornadoes. By the way,
lots of ways you can help WestMichigan. Star dot com feeling Good
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coming at you a couple times aday to tell you about something good going
on out there. We'll do itagain for you tomorrow, six forty five
and nine twenty. Come and joinus here on Star one to five point
seven Mack and Schmidty in the morningweekday starting at six am on Star one
oh five point seven
Wakem it. It's my day goingand makes me laugh. I of it.
Mac and Schmitty in the Morning onStar one oh five point seven Bug
of Martin Schmitty, Way, goodmorning, Welcome into it. Let me
hear what is it? It isweekendy. Yes, that's just little silver
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lining that light at the end ofthe title that I get every Thursday from
you, and I appreciate it becausewe could use that. I feel like
this week it's been a long oneand it's about to take a little turn
for us weatherwise, because man,gorgeous night last night, Project Nightlights.
I was out my son at abaseball game. We were out. Oh,
it's just beautiful. Tell me allabout it. I had the stomach
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flu. So if y'all were wonderingwhere I was yesterday, I'd be so
cautious because, as all my girlshave told me, this is spreading around
in the school. So I hadtwenty four hours of fast and furious weight
loss is how I'll put it.You are not kidding, it is Well,
there's things going around. I knowmy kids are hit with like this
cold cough thing. Other people arehitting what you've got. It's nasty time.
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Yeah, movies music and all thegossip in one place. It's the
celebrities gup on Star one oh fivepoint seven. Well, she considers herself
a massive Swiftie, but was oneof Taylor's new songs off The Tortured Poets
Department actually about Gypsy Rose Blanchard.You've heard the name a ton after her
recent release from prison, and asfor Gypsy, she thinks Fresh Out the
(01:30):
Slammer might be all about her andher December release. For those unfamiliar,
the songs about a woman getting outof prison and then taking off with her
lover, very similar to Gypsy,who moved in with her now a strange
husband, Ryan Anderson, after shewas released following seven years behind bars.
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Not the only similarity that Gypsy herselfspots. Apparently, she has told friends.
The line camera flashes welcome bashes alsopertains to the Papa Razzi having followed
her every move since her release,and the fact that her family threw her
a welcome home bash, now thefirst time we've seen this. Even Swifty's
Online believe the song was very GypsyRose centered. But as for Gypsy as
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a Swifty, she has not yeteven gotten the chance to meet Taylor I
mean, I'm sorry, but thisis just a case of like Carly Simon's
your sho vain. I bet youthink this song is about you. I
mean, it is ridiculous. CibaGutting Junior is firing back at allegations made
in the Rodney Jones lawsuit against pDidty and doing everything he can to distance
(02:38):
himself from all of this drama.The actor was on the Patrick David Bett
podcast when the topic of Ditty cameup and Cuba's reaction to turning on the
Today Show and seeing his name hadbeen mentioned in the lawsuit. He claims
he had not even known Ditty backin the day. Only time will tell
who was involved, who been afrequent guest in these places and areas.
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I had never met him till probablytwenty nineteen twenty, just casually Claudine and
I. He invited his house thepandemic was starting to ease, and hadn't
seen him since that night. Wherethis guy with this this picture. It
says that I had my shoulder onhim and all this stuff it made it,
making it look sordid. While thatpicture everyone in the room, there's
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probably three hundred of us on thedeck of P Diddy's I'm Gonna show you
on P Diddy's boat New Year's Eve. So if you miss this part of
it, Rodney Jones is claiming didhe introduced him to Cuba Gooding Junior and
Cuba allegedly started touching and groping Jonesin an inappropriate way. Cuba is saying,
wow, I was on that yachtfor maybe an hour. It was
(03:51):
New Year's Eve and I was yachthopping. I guess the celebrities do.
He said, I don't really evenremember meeting this guy, and I have
no part in any of these allegations. I mean, hopefully that should be
easy to prove if that's the case. That being said, this is the
first very similar allegation against Cuba GoodingJunior, which you could look at is
a reason to make it up,or you could look at like a pattern.
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And finally, Carti b is thinkinganyone who is offended over her not
being able to id the designer ofher met Gala dress is just faking outrage.
If you missed it, the bigfashion show Monday night outside the Metropolitan
Museum of Art saw Cardi forget whoactually designed her dress. It was put
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together by Chinese designer since a leeof Winsowen, but Carti was not able
to come up with the name inthat moment, just referred to them as
Asian and everything. She took toher insta yesterday to talk to people about
what was going on. I saidAsian designer because I know that the designer
was Asian, but I wasn't surewhat nationality the designer was. And I
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feel like it's offensive if I waslike, oh, some Chinese designer or
some Korean designer or Vietnamese designer,because I feel like I don't want to
get somebody's nationality mixed up. SoI said an Asian designer. Then I
say that to be offensive or toget your little hospitos in a bunch true
CARDI My only problem here is thatit is the MET Gala. The whole
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point of the MET Gala is toshow off this unbelievable fashion. Write it
down on an index card. Iguess you've got to know your desire.
Yes, I might have thought thefans had fake outrage. The designer probably
had real outrage. All right,all your celeb scoop at West Michigan Star
dot com. Sometimes because I geta good feeling. He's doing a fine
(05:36):
point seven smack and she's mad toget your feeling good right now. And
if you're a Lions fan, thisshould make you feel really good about the
Lion's second round pick, if youweren't all already. I'm talking about Ennis
Rekestraw, junior from Missouri University,who the Lions selected sixty first overall in
the second round back on April twentysix. Well, he's a man of
his word. And I know thatbecause he just went viral over the last
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few days because he kept a promisethat he made over a decade ago when
he was just a fourth grader Schmidty. He wrote a letter to his fourth
grade teacher who he loved, namedmister Gammon. This is what he wrote,
Mister Gammon, you were the bestteacher ever. You always had and
have my back, and you giveme confidence. When my little brother had
a seizure, you gave me foodand snacks. I wish I didn't want
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to leave you, but I haveto. I hope you come see me
at Daniel please, and then wenton to say I miss you and I
hope you're alive because if I makeit as a professional football player. I
will talk about you, mister Gammon. Please give me your phone number before
I go. That was when hewas in fourth grade. The very sweet
letter, especially the way's handwritten.It's so cute it is. And guess
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what he is a man of hisword. He reconnected with that fourth grade
teacher and has gone viral for doingso. He got the letter framed and
everything. Mister Gannon even replying onX saying you put it out there at
ten years old and made it happen. I have no words for how proud
I am of you. Also,I'm telling everyone I played with that I
played with against you and threw multipletouchdowns to you and on you. Yes
(07:09):
it was recess, but it's technicallytrue. Again, So proud, all
right. I know how many ofyou would love this. A wife throwing
a surprise party for her husband athis most favorite place on earth, Costco.
That's right. Emma Blevins posted avideo to Storyfall about her hardcore Costco
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fan Hubby, who was stunned whenshe pulled off a genius surprise party for
his twenty seventh birthday. She keptstaging run ins while he was on one
of his typical shopping trips, andit wasn't until the end when he saw
his mema that he realized something wasnot right. We come in, all
of the dag sends are up.We've seen everybody, and we've seen the
(07:53):
Diagorsons. It's all hey, jand Tiffany from church. We've seen Jojo,
like five people from a church wayvat plan this Mama and Wheeler here
this, this doesn't make sense.It doesn't make sense. A memorable twenty
(08:20):
seventh birthday for Clint. The entirecheckout line even got in on the birthday
song. As if his wife hadn'tdone enough. She even hired a clown
to join him in the food courtwhile he devoured his Costco sheet cake.
This is beyond brilliant. I'll putit in our Insta stories at West Michigan
Star. Oh well, I knowwhere I'm booking my next birthday party,
(08:41):
Atchviitty. That's awesome. Feel likegood, always here to tell you about
something cool going on out there.I don't know if we could top Costco
birthday parties though, but we'll try. At nine to twenty here on Star
New these music and all the gossipin one place. It's the celebrity scoop
on Star one oh five point seven. Ooh. Garry Seinfeld feels a little
bad about what he said about HowardStern on a recent podcast, Hey,
(09:07):
the Legendary stand up went on DavidSpade and Dana Carvey's pod Fly on the
Wall, talking about how popular podcastshad become these days, especially among comedians.
That's when Jerry chimed in, saying, well, Howard certainly deserves the
credit for inventing and kind of spearheadingthe model with his radio format back in
the day. He's not necessarily thebest. Howard is interesting. Howard is
(09:33):
a great interviewer, but you know, comedy chops. I mean, can
we speak candidly? Sure? Well, he is the big part of how
all right, but yeah, let'sface it, he's been out flanked.
He said, I feel really badfor what I said about my friend Howard
(09:54):
in a conversation with the guys talkingabout the glut of comedy podcasts. I
met to say he must feel surrounded, but I said outflanked, which sounded
terrible and super insulting. Of course, none of these little shows or any
threat to his giant show. Butit was bad, and I'm sorry.
Howie I still love you. Pleaseforgive me. Yeah, something tells me
(10:15):
that Howard Stern and his ridiculously massiveradio contract, I'll be okay with you.
Oh flank not the right word,though, I mean I can see
that. Jason Kelsey not totally downwith the roast model him and brother Travis
dropped a new episode of the NewHeights podcast yesterday talking about Tom Brady's recent
live roast on Netflix and Jason's justnot there for it. That had me
(10:41):
rolling because of how at everybody's neckpeople were going. I mean, it
was pure entertainment, and I'm reallyhappy they did it, but I do
not want I just do not getthe roast. I don't understand why people
do them, like because it's coming. Maybe I take myself too serious.
Listen, I'm in on all ofit. Travis added if he got to
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be roasted, he would want comedianslike Dave Chappelle and Kevin Hart to do
the honors, and said I wouldgo up there and just let them bleeping
rip me in half. Jason said, I'd pick people I'd have no problem
getting in a fistfight with. Ilove these guys so very much. Honestly,
I could see Travis doing a rowsome days, and finally the big
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TV news. All of my earlytwo thousands loves will know this. Paris
Hilton and Nicole Retche are teaming backup. The Darlings are set for a
whole new project. They're on boardfor a series they will both star in.
But it's not gonna be an exactreplica of the Simple Life. It's
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gonna be a little bit different.It's gonna be something with a brand new
name. It'll be just as hilarious. Production sources said they've been talking about
teaming up like this for months andkicking around some ideas on what to do.
They say it's still very early indevelopment. Nothing's officially been shot yet,
but this is going to be perfect. And they say it's going to
(12:09):
have something to do with the girlsstill doing some work and throwing back to
the nostalgia of the Simple Life.But they won't say much more until they
find a home for it. Howmany times you think you're gonna hear the
words that's hot? Oh, Ithink she'll come up with something new.
It's coming up with something new.All of your celeb scoop at West Michigan
start dot com. It is nurseAppreciation Week. But that's that's not the
(12:31):
only thing it is. It's teacherappreciation Week. And let me apologize for
both of us that it took untilThursday for us to bring that up.
I mean, I knew that wehad been doing stuff at my kids' school,
putting together gift baskets and a bunchof fun parties and things like that
to thank their teachers, but honestly, it had totally slited my mind that
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it was all week long, it'snurses Appreciation week, it is teacher appreciation
week. And we were talking aboutNurse's Day Earlier this week, I had
posted something to my Instagram and Igot a really interesting message back from my
friend Jessica, who is a nurse, and she said, interesting, nurses
Week and teachers Week. It's almostlike they just decided to get the two
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most thankless jobs out of the wayso we don't have to spend too much
time on them. Do feel thatway, and like, I can't even
laugh. That's so sad, thatis so sad to And I was like,
oh my gosh, you're absolutely right. There are just certain professions that
feel so thankless when in reality theyare Some of the most important and foundational
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careers in our society. And whenyou talk nurses and teachers, it just
nails it. And I feel reallyreally bad having to say that, and
so I wanted to look and kindof see what other thankless jobs are out
there. I found this list fromhigher edu and teachers. Not surprising no
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number two on the list. Policefire and ambulance dispatchers rounded out the top
ten, but also social workers that'sa big one, Farmers, garbage collectors,
military, oh yeah. And it'slike, ah, the honesty hurts,
because these careers shouldn't be so thankless, but they are. I mean,
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and you and I both being youknow, kids of teacher families,
we saw it all throughout our lives, of our moms just going the extra
mile, doing everything. They goextra one hundred miles, and then at
the end of it, sometimes notonly not getting to thank you, but
getting like criticized for not doing enough, and just feeling that constant weight of
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pushing, pushing forward and feeling allthat push. I have so many friends
of mine that are teachers and arejust feeling so burnt out isn't even the
word, because they love their kidsso much. But to deal with with
the bureaucracy, the red tape.I'm really sorry the parents. I just
I wanted to have this conversation sohopefully you'd feel very seen this morning because
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we talked about this off the air, and you know what, there are
a lot of thankless professions out there. But since it is nurse Appreciation Week
and teacher appreciation week, we'd loveif we had a nurse and a teacher
call in right now and we couldhook you up with free dinner. YEP,
it's the very least we can do. And maybe you can have a
bottle of wine all to yourself andjust remind yourself of how important and critical
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what you do is. So giveus a call six one six four five
eight one oh five seven. Ifwe've got a nurse and a teacher listening
right now. We want to showyou our love. You should get more
than a week, and you certainlyshouldn't have to share a week. You
are one hundred percent right, schmidty. Six one six four eight one oh
five seven. Teachers and nurses only, please, we want to shout you
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out, get you out for agreat dinner here, schmitty, and I
do want to say that you listeningright now, Can you know shout out
those nurses and teachers give them giftsin your life. You talked about wine.
Why is an acceptable teacher appreciation gift? Now it all made mugs.
I'm just gonna go out there forall of my teacher friends. We love
you, but we don't need yourkid to paint us another mug. It's
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okay. Cash is great. Cashis a really lovely thing that will show
your love star one oh five pointseven. It's Mack and Schmidty sending you
to Casey musk Graves. If youcan tell us what year was it.
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How long is this gonna take?I don't know, maybe twelve hours hopefully,
Lest I have to, I haveto find out what drives him.
We're gonna just go in there andbeat him with the phone books out him.
When I'm calling it a brain,I'm pretty sure it's where ideas come
from. TB. I don't havea brain. We've gotten along just fine
(16:59):
without brains till now came in.Don't need brains. Frandsmit monster, the
sun ma bit. You don't needto study scaring you justn't do it.
Really, I think there's a littlemore to it than that all right,
Schmitty calling number seven went ahead andhung up right after she answered here,
So I don't have her, butI know that Jennifer gave us the year
here, Schmitty, what did youthink it was? By the way,
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just off the top of your head, I mean, I figured it was
twenty thirteen because that it was aMonster's Inc. Wasn't it? Monsters University?
There it is? Yeah, Yeah, my kids just discovered that sequel,
so it's all that's playing on ourDisney Plus account. That's right.
Congratulations Jennifer picking up those tickets togo check out Casey Musgraves September eleventh over
there at Van Anzel Arena when she'sin town, and we will be hooking
you up again every Thursday. Wethrow it back. What year was it?
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Here? On Start one oh fivepoint seven Monty's music and all the
gossip in one place. It's thecelebrity scoop on Star one oh five point
seven. Oh, Travis Kelcey hasno idea who Janna Kramer is and says
she is simply Chasen for some cloutthe Big Story. Yesterday, Jana had
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characterized Travis in a not too niceway in a podcast calling him a party
animal who is always drunk and thinkswould be a very bad influence for Taylor's
swift. But as for Travis,sources say, ain't no thing he didn't
know who she is, obviously mostfamous from her One Tree Hill Days.
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Sources say Travis believes Jenna's blowing hotair to get attention for her podcast,
which if you take a look inthe past, is kind of par for
the course. Janna has a bitof a history of doing some public name
dropping and dragging celebs in order togarner up some attention, so clearly not
concerning Travis and obviously not concerning Taylor. Yeah, I mean, I can
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see how if you just looked ata glance at their very public episodes together,
you could see drinking being a partof it. Well, maybe it's
because Taylor's always been super private.She's probably been doing this whole time.
She's in her mid thirties, y'allwere trying to get through it anyway we
can. Jelly Roll is ready todo another five K after losing almost seventy
pounds in training. So remember Itold you this was the five k put
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on by Bert Krascher and Tom Segurato comedians who are also best friends.
Went down in Pasadena and Jelly Rollwas invited to join, which he did,
got in crazy awesome shape for it, and following the race admitted he's
down to clown for the next one, especially if Booze is involved. Man,
it was huge, Man, Ifeel almost emotional. Man, it
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was crazy. Man. I losta little bit of weight trying to do
this. I've never thought of Forthree and a half miles all the way
up around this thing, I feelgreat, thought so really really really good.
I was watching listen. This isthe coolest thing out there. I
know I would have done way morefive ks if I knew people tailgated in
the parking lot and the eight hotdogs and drank beer before him. This
has been the coolest experience having.I felt like I was coming to a
letter of Skinner show. Not quitesure if it'll feel totally like a Leonard
(20:00):
Skinner show on Saturday for the MWARiverbank run, but I do know they
have beer afterwards. It's a verygreat way to rehydrate. Yeah, not
all five k's, but the bestfive k's And finally, Peacock, it's
happening officially ordering the new comedy mocumentaryset as The Office. This is going
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to be really good. The announcementalso gave us the first official details about
the premise of this sequel spinoff.Not really sure yet. The documentary crew
that immortalized dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch isin search of a news subject when they
discover a dying historic Midwestern newspaper andthe publisher trying to revive it with volunteer
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reporters. Interesting. Maybe it's goingto be really good. So it's like
a new story essentially, but thatinvolves some familiar things that we all know
from Love in the Office. Yes, still no official word on a premiere
day, but exciting that Peacock hasgreenlit it, which means it's happening all
of your slip scoop at West MichiganStar dot Com. Let's do it Battle
of the Sexist Time. It's Mackand Schmidtey trying to get you out for
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one incredible concerts man. It's Stixand Foreigner and we get to start it
kicking out the Renegades and jukebox Heroestour at Thenandle. In just about a
month, you have today's number oneanswer, and you are going. One
hundred women's surveyed, Name something youfind in your bathtub? Something I find
(21:32):
in my bathtub, Well, it'sbathnight. What I find is my kids
lying there until every drop of watergoes down the drain. I'll take that
all day. Legos. I haveliterally stepped on legos getting into the shower.
That's on me. I'm a parent. I should look before I step
six one, six, four,five, eight to one oh five seven.
One hundred women's survey, Name somethingyou find in your bathtub? Caller
(21:55):
seven, first chance at the numberone answer, and we could be sending
you to Stix and Foreigner on StarWin five point seven Morning Star. Who's
this? I'm sorry one more timewith your name? Marita? Yes,
hi Marita. Where are you comingfrom this morning? All right, Marita,
rub a dub dub. Let's talkabout the tub. One hundred women
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were asked to name something you mightfind in a bathtub. What do you
think? Their top answer was,well, this kind of girls, But
I was going to go with mildew. Ooh, mildew. Yeah, that's
not a tub any of us wantto soak in? No mildew. Not
on the Liz. Good try Marita, thank you, thank you, Hi
Star, who's this, Renee?I just got a great guess from Marita.
(22:38):
When one hundred women were asked toname something you might find in a
bathtub, she said the nasty partout loud and said mildew. But mildew
not on the list here, Soyou got a chance for day. What
do you think it is? We'regonna go with hair? Going with hair,
Yeah, you're definitely going to findsomebody the drain when that water runs
out. But nope, not onthe list either. Sorry, Renee,
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Thanks, Hi Star, who's thisBrenda? I'm gonna give you a really
good hint. Okay, yeah,one hundred women rast to name something you
might find in a bathtub. Sofar I heard a couple of kind of
gross guesses. Mildew nobody wants tosoak, and mildew and hair definitely something
we see in the tub from timeto time. However, those were not
the top answer, and I'll justtell you it is a very obvious answer.
(23:26):
Ooh sand yeah, after beach daysin the tub. But no,
that's not it either. I'm sorry, all right, Hi Star, who's
this? Mike? And Mike andHudson. You know what, I've had
three good guesses, guys, butnot the top answer yet. And I
have a feeling my three guessers aregoing to be kicking themselves after they find
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out the top answer here, becauseI will give you the same hint that
I just gave another one of ourcallers. But so far, when one
hundred women rest to name something youmight find in a bathtub, I heard
mildew, I heard hair, andI heard sands. You know, I
get done with the beach, youfind that sand chilling in the bottom of
the bathtub. But none of thosewere even on the list of top answers
(24:10):
here. So I gotta tell you, Mike and Hudson, the answer is
so obvious. It's going to stingall of those previous guessers just a little
bit so obvious. Name something youmight find in a bathtub? Water?
Then it's gotta be water. Thenwhat else could be the top answer there?
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Water? Who is the top answertoo obvious that it be actually difficult
to guess that one. Congrats Mikeand Hudson. I do not know.
Yeah, you're welcome, guys.You're going dead. You're going to check
out sticks and foreigner. Oh fantastic, good heck, yes, and Hudson,
(24:57):
I don't know. You gotta gethim ice cream or something. Is
He definitely played a part in thiswin. Congratulations. It was water,
followed by soap, then rubber duckand shampoo and bubbles rounding out those top
answers. Congratulations, guys. Thanks, We appreciate you. Great job.
Hey, we appreciate you. Listen, and we're gonna hook it up again
tomorrow. Last chance to win thesetickets eight fifteen with Battle of the Sexes
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here on stuff, good on ittoo. It's Mack and Schmidty, And
it's true. I feel like foreverybody there is something, probably at your
home, maybe at work, butthere is something in your life that you
just have way too much of orway too many of Schmidty. Everybody's got
that thing. And for me rightnow, there's a lot of different things.
(25:41):
I mean all the different reusable bagsand plastic bags. Everybody's got that
kind of stuff. And I knowa lot of parents will feel this too.
I am so tired of the numberof stuffed animals that my daughter has.
It has reached a point of ridiculousnessthat I didn't think we would get
to because she has them all organizedand she's very sensitive about all of them.
(26:03):
She's got several of them that sheis you know, they're top tier,
top tier stuffies. Really quick.None of her friends are listening right
now, right they're all in school. Okay, they're all in school.
I just want to make sure notthat you're not making breaking the dad rules.
She would own it. She's veryproud of all of these stuffies,
and I know that because her andher friends are all trying to get them
all the time. That's the partthat actually bothers me though, because she's
got her hardcore ones. But shekeeps adding to this collection. And the
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other day she literally put them allon her bed because a mander cleaner room,
and she put them all in herbed. She counted them. She
has two hundred and thirty four stuffedanimals currently at her bed. Oh no,
I'm not kidding. How is thatpossible. She living in like a
California king So a lot of themare time. She's lives in a full
it's just a full size mattress.But the she a lot of them are
like little tiny squish mellows. Someof our tiny teddy bears. Some of
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them are massive, though, andshe's one hundred and thirty four shut one
hundred and thirty four stuffed animals.And here's the thing before you're like,
why did you let her do that? As a parent, I didn't,
okay, because I have not boughtmy daughter a stuffed animal, and I
don't know years three four years.She gets them from other people. She
uses her own money. Sometimes she'llsucker her mother into allowing her to get
them, and we can't get herto get rid of a single one.
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I tried to guilt her. I'mlike, think of all the kids that
could use these stuffed animals, andthe animals I'm like going to toy story
mode. They want to play withchildren too, and non event So I
guess I say two hundred and thirtyfour because you haven't snuck in and gotten
rid of them. This is whereI'm going. I've done. This is
where I'm goney I got. I'vegot a six year old in the three
(27:33):
year old, and trust me,I'm probably into double digit amount of times
when I wait for them to beat school and then I pop in there
and they're gone, and guess whatnot? Once have they noticed I swear
it one time. I swear toGod. I think my daughter probably has
names for each and every one ofthese things, and if I removed one,
she's like where snow? I amputting one hundred dollars down on the
fact you could remove one hundred andfifty of the two hundred and thirty four
(27:57):
and she would not have a chanceto notice they were gone. What is
it that you just have way toomany, too much of I don't disagree
with you, it's all you getin there. I feel like there's gonna
be an A and E show aboutus here pretty soon. Well, but
you know what a big one wasthat I saw online so many people tumblers
and cuffs? Oh my goodness,how many of you collected? If there's
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too many of those? If Igot coublic space, y'all my wine tumblers
are making their way in there.Join the conversation on Facebook ads West Michigan
Star sometime does get a good feelingalways here to shed a little positivity into
your day. Let's do it feelinggood on stylin on five point seven Mackagemitty
(28:38):
with you. So this is verycool. There's going to be a new
charity partner. You will notice onSaturday morning at the Amway River Bank Run
the forty seventh year, that thebiggest twenty five k in the country will
go down right here in Grand Rapids. It's called No Surrender and it's a
running club and the newest charity partner. This is incredible. Maria Pertrero never
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thought that she would become a wrestler, let alone make it to nationals with
a college club team, which isexactly what's happening for her at Grand Valley.
See. She recruited herself for wrestlingwhen she was a sophomore at Northview,
all because of the confidence she gotfrom a running group. She joined,
excuse me, a running group shejoined in middle school, No Surrender
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Running Club. This is incredible.Megan Lopez is the executive director. Her
and Maria talked about how this isso much more than a sport. There's
also perceived barriers, such as feelinglike I'm not strong enough to run,
I'm not fast enough. I don'tlook like a runner. No one who's
running looks like me. I toldher once when we were on a run,
I was like, I can't dothis. I can't do this.
She goes, yes, you can, you can do it, and she
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talked me through the entire and entirerace, and so I like to say
that no surrender and her for likea huge part of me, like growing
as a person. The group meetstwice a week. They help members of
all ages learn about the sport ofrunning, which has led to such bigger
things. The club is totally freeto join. It provides members with shoes
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and other running tools. It's runby volunteers. It's incredible and as Megan
points out, it has shown themthat getting the confidence in running will lead
to confidence of so many other things, including like Maria, trying every single
thing you're interested in, despite hownervous you are about it. So just
think about that when you're cheering onthe thousands of people that will be descending
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on grand rapid Saturday morning. Becausethere is so much work, time and
dedication that goes into this race everyyear, it's powerful to hear these stories
all right, Spinny portage of course, no shortage of athletes who have just
gone on to do big things,talking like NASCAR racer Carson Hosa Bar You've
got Oakland A's infield, Max Schunmanand Arizona Diamond, Bax Pitcher, Tommy
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Henry. But Tommy graduated Portage Northern. He went to the University of Michigan,
helped them get all the way tothe College World Series. But just
like so many of us, eventhough he's on the road right now with
the Triple A Reno aces, hewoke up yesterday morning to those devastating pictures
and everything else that shocked us allas those tornadoes ripped through Portage. But
I didn't really know that there wasgoing to be like true tornadoes, like
(31:11):
life threatening conditions type of stuff untilI woke up this morning to a bunch
of texts, like pictures of youknow, some of the stuff that's happened.
Obviously, with the damage that's there, he was concerned about all those
friends and family members that he stillhas there in Portage and just says,
you know, that community he willrecover because, unlike other places, that
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community always steps up in times ofneed. To be honest, I'm grateful
for that. You know. Iloved every second I was there. To
me, it's it's just the perfectyou know, it was the perfect time
to grow up, and I thinkit shaped me in you know, so
many ways. I think that thebeauty of Portage and why I loved it
so much growing up there is thesense of community as you see the community
come together, you see people andI each other, You see people help
(31:56):
each other out, and to me, I think that's what makes you know
people. But city's great and itis just you know, speaks to what
Portage is. That's right. Well, Tommy will be coming back to Portage,
his hometown this summer as he plansto get married here in Michigan with
many of his friends right there fromPortage, but sending his love to that
community right now as they try andrecover from those tornadoes. By the way,
lots of ways you can help WestMichigan. Star dot com feeling Good
(32:20):
coming at you a couple times aday to tell you about something good going
on out there. We'll do itagain for you tomorrow, six forty five
and nine twenty. Come and joinus here on Star one to five point
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