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Wake up. It gets my daygoing and makes me laugh. It Mac
and Schmitty in the morning on Starone oh five point seven. Well,
good morning, Schmitting, Good morning, and happy Friday to those of you
that have the rest of the weekoff for the fourth of July. Ooh,
that is a good feeling, nodoubt about it. As we get
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ready for Fourth of July. Herein West Michigan, there's a ton going
on. I mean, obviously,of course, you get all the braids,
you get all the fireworks, youget all the fun. Schmitty,
I am ready for it. Itstarts today. I mean, the list
is massive. We've got it upat West Michigan Star dot com. I
know some communities are doing Jubilee celebrationsand stuff tonight tomorrow, Friday. Of
course, the Grand Rapids fireworks areSaturday. You have the opportunity to do
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something literally every single day this weekend. So that's gonna be a lot of
fun. Hey, anti fireworks queenover there. Yeah, I was it
last night. It's bad. Itwas bad last night. Yeah. Got
the anxiety mets out for the dogs. Big shout out to bridge His Animal
Hospital. By the way, ify'all are looking for a veterinarian. They're
an Ada. They're amazing. Iwas able to call them up and be
like hey, and they're like,yep, it'll be ready in fifteen everybody.
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But a good reminder too, ifyou have pets like that, A
lot of vets are going to beclosed for the holiday, So get in
there today because my dogs were definitelyhaving a hard time last night. Wise.
Words of course, when you're doingthose big Fourth of July celebrations,
those pets and our veterans who mighthave some issues with things like that,
definitely something that considered there too.Movies, music, and all the gossip
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in one place. It's the celebritiescoopon Star one oh five point seven.
President Biden is offering up an explanationfor his lackluster performance during that debate last
week on Thursday, saying his travelschedule had him running on fumes. He
was at a campaign fundraiser in Virginiayesterday, blaming his lack of energy on
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being absolutely exhausted from long trips inthe week before the presidential debate, telling
a room, I decided to travelaround the world a couple of times shortly
before the debate. I didn't listento my staff, and then I almost
fell asleep on stage. He wasdiscussing trips, including going to France the
first week of June for the eightiethcommemoration of D Day. He then flew
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to California for U fundraiser in Lathen spent a week preparing for the debate
at Camp David mixed reaction today issome people were like, okay, but
like, don't tell us that youalmost fell asleep. That's still maybe not
a super helpful thing. Meanwhile,Levanka Trump is addressing her father's felony conviction
for the very first time, sayingit's been very painful to watch former President
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Trump's daughter is on the Lex Friedmanpodcast. On a human level, it's
my father and I love him verymuch, so it's painful to experience,
but ultimately I wish it didn't haveto be this way. She does add
that eventually, love will win.I've got that full interview up for you
at West Michigan Star dot com.And finally, the really sad news yesterday,
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Hart has postponed the entire rest ofthe year for their Royal Flush tour.
The announcement was made that includes theirscheduled August twenty first stop at Vanandelerina,
and it's all due to a cancerdiagnosis. Ann Wilson announced the news
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on her Instagram yesterday, writing,dear friends, I recently underwent an operation
to remove something that, as itturns out, was cancerous. The operation
was successful and I'm feeling great,but my doctors are advising me to undergo
a course of preventative chemotherapy and I'vedecided to do it. So my doctors
are instructing me to take the restof the year away from the stage in
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order to fully recover. She thanksfans for their support, adding this is
mearly a pause. I've much moreto sing. They are asking fans to
hold onto those tickets because they fullyintend to continue this tour and make up
for the missed dates, but heartnot touring the rest of twenty twenty four.
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Man. Tough news right there,obviously for fans, but for Ann
Wilson, just hoping, you know, the smooth recovery and she continues to
get better, hopefully. I lovethat she wrote, I am feeling great.
I do have her full statement foryou with your scoop at West Michigan
Star dot com. Sometimes because Iget a good feeling, stilling on fine
points seven as we roll into fourthof July, hopefully aren't ready feeling good,
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getting ready for a little break here, however, somebody is feeling easy
and breezy here schmidty in Grand Rapids, because we got ourselves a powerball winner.
That's right. Congratulations to Lisa Cecilof Grand Rapids. Somebody who plays
the lottery regularly, She says,well, last month, she bought a
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tickets for the drawing on June twelfthand just starts screaming in the middle of
her night. Her fire. Herentire family found out when she won the
lottery, because she said she didn'tcheck her ticket until after midnight. I
saw I had three numbers, thenfour, and I thought to myself,
I think I just want some money. When I checked off the fifth number,
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I was in disbelief. I wokeup everyone in her house saying,
I think I just won one milliondollars. Family got to look over the
ticket and confirm that she's right.She bought it at the family fair over
on Northland Drive, by the wayin Plainfield Township. I've been there before,
and she plans on basically paying offthe house and sharing that money with
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family. Smart woman. Yeah,except for now we all know who she
is, so we're gonna have tohave to borrow some cash. But you
know, that time her account andwill have to tell her about that one.
But yeah, congratulations, Lisa's acessil of Grand Rapids million bucks.
All right. Something incredible happened yesterdayat the Kalamazoo County Jail a graduation ceremony.
I have spoken about this program before. I think it's incredible. It's
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called IGNITE. It stands for theInmate Growth Naturally and internationally through Education program
And in fact, there are onlyseventeen jails across the country that have this
program. The Kalamazoo County Jail oneof them, and very proud to be
one of them. It is atwelve week program that offers inmates positive reinforcement
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and educational resources while helping them developlife skills. The entire point once they're
released from jail, they are ona path to success. And for Ernest
Spencer, who was yesterday's oldest graduate, he feels very blessed. Before I
started this program, I had noconfidence in the criminal justice system. I've
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just looked at it as a systemthat wants to take your freedom and your
rights away. But when you havedeputies, officers, lieutenants that truly cares,
old that they really care, andthat are willing to put their reputations
on the line to prove that wecan be rehabilitated, then that's that's humans
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to me. It feels awesome.Fox seventeen was at the graduation ceremony.
They also spoke with James Harris,outreach manager for Urban Alliance, who said,
people make decisions, but decisions andwhat you went through shouldn't define you.
Encouraging these guys giving them hope absolutelypriceless. So congratulations to all of
the ignite grads at the Kalamazoo CountyJail. We are so thrilled for you.
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Movies, music, and all thegossip in one place. It's the
celebritiescoop on Star one oh five pointseven. It's been quite a few years
and clearly still weighs heavily on OprahWinfrey's mind the moment she was body shamed
by the late Joan Rivers while makingher first ever appearance on the Tonight show
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This Is Back. In nineteen eightyfive, Oprah just appeared on the Jamie
Kern lima show podcast, talking abouthow challenging it was and how long she
carried this for Joan was filling infor Johnny Carson. I have my first
appearance on the Tonight Show, andJohn Rivers turns to me and she says,
pretty girl single, you must losethe weight on national television. So
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we're supposed to be talking about thegreat success of this little talk show in
Chicago. That's beating Phil Donahue.And I don't know what to do with
that. I just didn't like Ijust oh, I just love potato chips.
Joan I jo says no, seriously, shame on you. Shame on
you. She said she carried thatshame for a very long time, also
saying that at one point Rivers holdher she could return to the Late Night
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show if she lost the weight,saying I'll let you come back if you
lose fifteen pounds, and Oprah said, I agreed, but didn't do it
that way. Instead, I atemy way to another ten. She also
talked about previously auditioning for nineteen eightyfive's The Color Purple and when she didn't
hear back at the time, sheassumed her oh weight issue was a reason
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she didn't initially get the rule.It is a very candid interview West Michigan
Star dot com. If you wantto hear more, I mean, if
you think about how sensitive is sensitiveall of us can be about our way
to imagine yourself on the Tonight showfor the very first time ever in your
career, in your life. Idon't care that you're Oprah at that time.
You're not Oprah yet. You knowshe was still a goo to Chicago
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on her tiny show and that wasjust demoralizing. Yeah. Ed Sharon pulland
out the stops for quite a surprise, showing up for the England soccer squad.
So England, of course getting readyfor its Euro twenty twenty four quarter
final in football, the four timeGrammy Award winner swung by the Three Lions
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training session and gave them quite acandid performance. Basyacy basting time. Now
the first time he's actually performed forthe squad. He showed up ahead of
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their final in twenty twenty. Hewas also at that game the other night.
Huge England fan, he says he'sready for that cup to come home.
Look, I would any Ed sheeranpersonalized concert right in front of you
is gonna be absolutely amazing. Thatbeing said, you're trying to hype up
a soccer team, ed and youchose to sing the song a team.
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Maybe they needed to calm themselves beforea heavy work. The BPM on an
Ed Sheeran is also not necessarily somethingI'd work out to. But bunch of
sing perfect too. They can allslow dance together. And Morgan Wallin the
latest artist to be plagued by aphone throw, but is no longer tolerating
this. The country singer pointedly threwthe phone off side stage. He was
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singing his hit Cowgirls when someone atMile High Stadium in Denver yesterday threw a
phone that nearly hit him in theface right in the middle of the song.
So you can hear that slight cheer. It's the moment the phone hits
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him right in his shoulder. Hetakes off mike for a second, picks
the phone up, and just chucksit to the side of the stage,
making sure that fan never gets thatphone back. But a lot of fans
pointing out, given his recent meltdowns, if you will handled it here,
he will never said anything to thefan, never point in anything to the
audience simply ditch the phone and keptsinging. To be honest, though,
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I figured, because this is MorganWallen and he seems like such a lightning
rod for trouble that he would innocentlychuck the phone into the audience. It
would smack some poor, defenseless personin the eye and the next thing,
you know, would be a lawsuit. The side stage is the way to
go. All of your celebsco butWest Michigan start off on can schwinny with
you on this Fourth of July eve? And nothing ruins a good holiday schmddy
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quite like a trip to the eoff. Well, but here's the thing,
Like I said, it feels likethe fourth of July is anything goes.
It could be wonderful. I've hadfriends get proposed to on the fourth
of July. I've had friends makebaby announcements on the fourth of July.
It feels like fireworks can be reallyreally awesome and really really terrible because I've
also had friends so for injuries dueto fireworks. And I know you must
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have either a crazy, funny ornightmarish Fourth of July story four five eight
one oh five seven Because we werejust talking about this the other day.
This was probably ten years ago.Now there's a friend in our group.
She is a doctor now. Sothis ended up being a very nice trial
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by fire. And her very firstnight in her er rotation in med school
was the fourth of July. Whata night? What like I said,
trial by fire? And I canremember because we all met up that following
weekend to hang out because that's whenshe finally was off and she goes,
oh my lord, she goes,you guys will not believe the very first
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case I was ever given. Firsttime, first night on my er rotation,
fourth of July night, I'd neverdone this before. A gentleman came
in that had been playing with fireworksand had injured himself. They couldn't really
tell. He's brought in by paramedicsbleeding quite a bit, so obviously rushed
to one of the triage curtains sothat they could figure it out. So
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she's like, this is great,this is exactly what I want to be
training for. This is what Iwant to do as an er doc.
So she's like watching everybody work,taking the vitals, making sure she's up
to speed on what's happening, andthen all of a sudden, one of
the doctors sends her back to theambulance bay. They're like, hey,
you need to go grab something forus. So she walks back there and
one of the paramedics hands her acooler. She's like, that's weird.
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She opens it up and half thedude's hand is in the cooler. I
wish it were flopping around the bableAnd she's like, oh, this is
truly hands on experience, because shetakes this cooler back to the tent area
and they're like, thank you,we're going to try to read this dude
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had blown half his hand off usinglike a mortar or something. Yep.
And she said, yeah, Andever since then, I have not come
across anything in my eight years ofpractice that has turned my stomach quite like
opening up an igloo cooler and findinghalf a human appendage in there. Uh
yeah, I can tell you what. That probably ruined some stomachs at the
barbecue for the July You know whatis worse than What's worse than being the
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nurse who has to see that,or the doctor in this case, yeah,
is being one of the friends orsignificant others who has to look around
and find the hand after it's blownoff because the other person's probably a little
busy. Yeah, like bad forthem, I guess, But boy,
does that prove some serious friendship.Because I don't know anyone in my life
I would be like Chris included myloving an adorable husband. I don't know
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if I would be on the groundhunting a piece of his body to make
sure that they could reattach things.That's a bond right there. I wouldn't
call it unbreakable bond because we've alreadyproven the explosion kind of to take care
of that part, but all thesame, it is a bond space.
I feel like this is also animportant time to thank all of our doctors
and nurses that will be working holidayhours tomorrow, because, as the meme
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says, tonight is the last nightsomeone is going to sleep with all ten
fingers and toes. Do you havea crazy Fourth of July story? Maybe
it's a good one, Maybe it'snot disgusting, Maybe it's wonderful. Six
one six, four, five eight, one oh five seven, And you're
very welcome for giving you that littletidbit over your cheerios this morning. It's
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gonna say, I think there's parentsstaring directly across at their children right now,
just lazy the ice you see.You see what can happen when you
mess around. Look, they savedthe screw it up. As a parent's
smile, it doesn't always make youfeel good, but hopefully you'll learn a
lesson or at least your kids do. Ah. Right, it's Mack and
Schmitty with you. And you knowI told you this weekend Schmitty, I
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had a graduation party up in HotonLake and it was trippy because it was
the first graduation party for someone Igraduated high school well whose child was graduating
one. Oh, it's stung realbad. But I went up there and
it was great to see a wholebunch of people. My kids went,
and so some of my friends whohadn't met my kids got to do that,
and it was really fun to justsee everybody. But it was at
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a park right there on Hoton Lake, which was really cool because it was
a gorgeous day on Saturday. Everybody'soutside. It's not a park with a
beach on it, it's just apark. And then there's a sea wall
that goes down to the water anda dock that goes out to into the
water for boats. So we're outthere and the kids are having all sorts
of fun horseshoes and bag toss andall that kind of stuff. But naturally,
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as any child will do. Mykids are nine and eleven. They
gravitated towards the dock at one point, and they're doing what all kids do,
which is fake push each other in. Right, you grab your sister
by the shoulders, you kind oflurch her forward a little bit right on
the edge of the dock. Thenyou pull her back and y'all laugh,
and doesn't you Oh yeah, yeah, Dad went out there, Dad,
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Dad. Michelle goes, hey,why don't you, you know, tell
the kids to knock it off.Yeah, So obviously that's what a very
responsible parent like myself does. Finneyand walk out out there and I'm like,
hey, guys, come on,quit screwing around on the dock,
blah blah. And we're walking back, and of course I grabbed my son
by the back and I do thesame thing to him. I make the
joke that I'm going to shove himin the water and then pull him back.
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But when I did it, schmitty, he like lurched and reached out
and grabbed you like trips over hisown feet. My son's in the water
in three seconds flat. It's HoltonLake, so it's literally just over your
knee deep like so he falls in, he like rolls. It was the
most awkward landing possible. The entireparty looks over atis as my kid hits
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the water. My daughter's like lookingat me like a deer in headlights,
like, oh my god, didthis really just happen? My wife is
flat faced on the ground standing nextto one of my friends. Like she's
wearing sunglasses, but I can seeher eyes behind them in everything she can
to end you death, staring me, and I can't even see the eyeballs
and they're burning holes in me's titty. Wow. So I out my son
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up, I get him out ofthere, and he's like, he's like,
I can't believe you pushed me,And I'm like, I can't believe
you fell in. I'm like,what is going on? I didn't push
him in. It was his ownklutziness that made it happen. So we
came out and h obviously that wasa sore subject. Sure would have been
for me too. And then weget in there and I'll be honest with
you, I thought, you know, I had this. Probably give me
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the end of the day, We'reprobably going every We stayed for another two
hours. That kid was bone dryby the time we got out of their
FID movies, music and all thegossip in one place. It's the Celebrity
Scoop on Star one oh five pointseven. Well, yesterday morning in Scoop,
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I was talking about how disappointed andfans were that the new track off
his upcoming album was supposed to dropat midnight and then nothing. Maley yesterday
afternoon and finally did release the nexttrack from his upcoming album. It's called
Toby. It is going to beoff The Death of Slim Shady Coude Gras,
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which is going to be out onJuly twelfth. This new song features
Big Sean and Baby Tron. Here'sjust a piece of it that was clean
enough. I could play Toby McGuire, got youa bas Spider, but see
me it was a go. Ifyou want space, I hope you take
your helmet as soon as you getup to Venus and choke even while sleeping,
be thinking so woke White CARDI years. All I'm seeing is dope.
Ma Cidlay and I'm obi wan gota mission that past I just might be
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the hope. Yeah, so itis a nod to Spider Man actor Toby
McGuire. He's referenced throughout the songI Love I. Meanwhile, the cover
art pays homage to a very popularmeme. So it's got Eminem, Big
Sean and Baby Tron, who isalso on the song, pointing their fingers
if you've ever seen the three differentSpider Man's based on the Toby McGuire,
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Andrew Garfield and whoever else played.It's a good song. Fans are loving
it. But again that big newsto about the July twelfth release date for
M. Honestly, I'm just jealousof Tobey maguire right now, you guys
your own M and M song inhonor of yourself peace. It's pretty sweet.
Make me a big time for theNew Heights podcast today latest episode will
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drop. Travis and Jason Kelsey gavea little teaser yesterday and we will hear
from Travis about his very first onstage debut. Hi, Travis, we
gotta talk about it. Let's doit. We talked a little bit about
the London trip last week, buton night three, something magical happened.
I think everybody that is following yourlife would like to hear your viewpoint on
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and your commentary of what's that?Somehow you made your way onto the era
stage. That's it now. Thenew episode will drop later on the morning.
Everybody's really curious, like, howdid this happen? How did you
learn the choreography? Will this happenagain? Because she's got a lot of
stops left, so apparently he willbe addressing all of that on today's episode.
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I'm not saying never, but youknow, it's got to be a
long time. Don't become that guy, Travis. You're gonna lose the respect
you have real fast. Here.Finally, Bridgerton has no shortage of actors
willing to bear it all for seasonfour. The hit Netflix series got very
steamy in the most recent third season. Kelly Valentine Henry is the casting director
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for Bridgerton and revealed she is inundatedwith adult rated audition tapes. She was
on the Should I Delete That Podcastexplaining it's every day I get the most
unbelievable videos, completely unsolid, unsolicited. It's not actual intimacy, but quite
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punchy, as she says, it'snot Nudi pictures but not far off.
And every day I walk in andmy inbox is full. So this is
a lot of casting that's already startingfor season four, which will apparently focus
on the role of Sophie Beckett.She's trying to cast who will apparently captivate
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Benedict Bridgerton. Yeah, you knowwhen you're casting for that, it's not
dirty nude. It's like Renaissance nude. Schmidti. It's like, you know,
I'm into museums. That's not muchbetter. All of your celeb scoop
at West Michigan Star dot com.She's doing a fine point. Seeven it's
Mac and Schmidting. It is timeto throw down battle of the sexiest time
and it could be landing you forone incredible show tonight over at the Minor
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Gardens. Yeah, they're welcoming AmosLee. This is such a good show.
He's been to the gardens a fewtimes. Today's number one answer.
We've got four tickets for Amos tonight, doors at seven. If you can
head to the gardens. One hundredmen surveyed name something you might change a
lot through your life dame something youmight change. I hope you're underwear.
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I'm hoping you're doing that fairly regularly, done there once a week at least.
Yeah, six one six, fourfive eight one five seven collar seven,
first chance at the number one answerwhat one hundred men surveyed name something
you might change a lot throughout yourlife, and you and the friends could
be headed to amous Lee tonight atthe Meyer Gardens with Star Win O five
point seven? Good morning, Star? Who's this? I'm sorry? What's
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your name on? Sue? Let'stry and get you out for some fun
tonight. Yet for this, yeh, all right. One hundred guys,
we're asked to name something that you'llprobably change lots of times in your life.
What do you think? Their topanswer was there Sue your cell phone
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phone service. You know what.I've been using the same phone, the
same phone number for a long time. But you do change the phone often
enough. But no, that's noton there. I'm sorry, Sue.
Okay, thank you, Hi Star. Who's this Lindsay? Lindsay? Where
are you calling from today? Iam calling from Grand Rapids? All right,
Lindsay. I just got a greatguess from Sue. One hundred guys.
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Rest the name is something that aperson's gonna change lots of times throughout
their life. And Sue said,their phone. Yeah, you know,
every couple of years, you're duefor that upgrade. But no, phone
was not on the list. Sowhat do you think it is, Lindsay,
I'm going to say haircut or hairstyle. You're going to say hair.
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What was your most ridiculous lifetime haircut? Do you think you rocked there?
Lindsay, bangs all bangs? Yeah, you know what, I had a
feeling that that those words were gonnacome out of your mouth. Everyone's got
that terrible bang's photo at some pointin time, And did you poof it
out to you have any yearbook photoswhere the bangs are like extra poofy Oh,
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they were very thick, my momeven better. That's awesome. Well,
congratulations because hair was the top.You're going, You're gonna go see
Amos lead tonight over there at theFrederick Meyer Gardens. Awesome. Thank you.
Yeah, you're bringing friends too.We got four tickets for you,
Lindsey cool. You appreciate it.It's gonna be a great night over at
the gardens. And of course welove getting you hooked up? Be listing
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every day to win something awesome?Right here. Battle of the Sex is
eight fifteen on Star showing a finepoints, see a good morning, see
you. It's feel good variety atthe eighties till now, Good morning Mack
and spinning with you. And youknow, I didn't think this was a
controversial question at all, but apparentlyI struck a nerve as I mentioned,
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because I just asked, what dopeople think the going rate in twenty twenty
four, where everything costs so muchmore than it feels like it used to,
what's the going rate for an allowance? We're like a ten to twelve
year old kid. And the reasonI bring it up is because my kids
asked this summer if they could dosome things to make some of their own
money. This started basically because theyhave games they like to play that they
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can spend money on, like ina purchases, yes, in that purchases.
And my wife and I obviously refuseto spend any money on those things
whatsoever. Nor won't we let ourkids spend like birthday money or stuff like
that on those things like virtual stuff. We're not into it. But when
they brought this, they did itin a nice way. They were like,
what other extra jobs can we doaround the house to earn some money?
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And I thought that was all right. So my wife started putting together
like this list of chores they coulddo extra stuff, and it involved like
vacuuming, going on cleaning more thanjust their own bathroom, but some of
the other bathrooms in the house twicea week. Like they had some good
chores on there that weren't part ofwhat they already have to do. But
when I put this up online,man, people freaked out. Smitty,
I never had an allowance. Younever had like at any point in time
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your parents said if you do X, Y and z every day, we
will give you no cash. Icame from the og household that was like,
oh, do you have new clothes? Do you have food? Do
you have a roof over your head? However, I started babysitting at twelve,
right, that's true for a lot, I was making most of months
of cash. Neither of my kidsare quite yet there yet. My daughter's
eleven, my son is just nine. So when we put this all together,
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we started thinking of what it wouldbe, and my wife originally said
ten dollars per week, and thatsounds like ten dollars per week, no
big deal. Two kids twenty bucksa week one month is eighty dollars.
I'm telling him, like, I'msorry, Like, I guess I'll figure
out another way. I don't knowif i'd get my kids an allowance.
I am not paying eighty dollars.That I can tell you right off the
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bat, because again, obviously theyhave all of those you know, needs
and that extra stuff met in theirlives. This was specifically like picking up
extra chores on it. But I'mnot paying that much. So we settled
on five bucks five bucks to doabout forty five minutes of chores per day
maybe, and they get five dollarsa week, which turns into forty dollars
per month, which I felt likeis much more reasonable. But I'm still
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sitting here going that's three times asmuch as Netflix. To my kids,
chores off me as much value asthe entire Netflix platform. I'm not sure
about that. We do let ourkids use birthday money on stuff because we're
like, like Will is learning avery very hard life lesson on how much
legos cost. So I'm like,here's some money you got for your birthday
buddy, and he's like, well, I want that to go. That's
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all of your birthday money, andthen he decides he doesn't want to buy
it. Yeah. See, andI'm hoping that that's what they get to
because my kids, they we stickall their stuff in savings for the most
part. However, with this,I am hoping that they see how absolutely
pointless it is to buy this stupidcrap on their video games that like you
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get no enjoyment. Maybe, butthere's a lot of adults that haven't discovered
that's unfortunately way too true. Buthe joined this conversation, what do you
think a good allowance for like aten year old kid should be in twenty
twenty four right now at West MichiganStar Sometimes because I get a good feeling.
Yeah, well, hopefully you're staringdown the barrel of a nice long
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holiday weekend and getting ready to celebrateforth that July. Lots of reasons be
feeling good. Here's a couple more. It's Mack and Schmidia on Starminal fin
point seven. Man A huge congratulationsto doctor Brian Huffman. He's an ophthalmologist
in Holland and just swam across LakeErie. This is incredible Doctor Huffman completing
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the twenty six point seven miles swimas part of a year's long effort to
raise funds for scholarships that will goto the Holland Aquatic Center swimming instruction programs.
This is very near endeared to doctorHuffman. When he was a freshman
at U of M, he volunteeredin the emergency room and he witnessed first
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hand a family's grief after their youngson died of an accidental drowning. Since
then, he has been championing thevalue of comprehensive swim instruction, making sure
your kids are water safe, andhe's been doing marathon swims to do it.
Back in twenty twenty two, heswam from England to France across the
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English Channel. He has attempted aLake Michigan crossing and the only reason he
was stopped was a mechanical failure onhis support boat. But later that year
he decided to swim twenty eight anda half miles around the island of Manhattan.
He says that the Lake Erie swimwas a great adventure. I think
anyone who goes on this type ofswim comes away a bit changed. He
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has raised so many different funds ofmoney for all sorts of different swimming instruction.
The Holland Aquatic Center giving him abig congrats on their Facebook page.
He's not done yet. Later thissummer, he continues his scholarship efforts.
Doctor Huffman's going to cross the CatalinaChannel, which separates Santa Catalina Island from
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the southern tip of California. Prettyincredible if you want to check out more
Holland Aquatic dot org and click onBrian's Big Swim if you want to check
it out. Honestly, endurance swimmersblow my mind. Insane, It's just
nuts, all right, jiddy thisthis is another great fundraiser by somebody you've
probably seen on social media before becausehe's huge. Do you know of the
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sb mowing channel, Schmidty. Thisis the gentleman who's got almost ninety five
million followers on TikTok alone that goesaround taking households that have lawn cares or
lawn that is just way overgrown.Landscape doesn't tell free too. I get
trapped into these videos all the time. I love watching them before and afterwards.
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Well, I love this story evenmore because Spencer from SB mowing.
He was in Corpus Christi documenting hiswork for again that ninety four plus million
followers when faint happened. As hewas clearing up some overgrown lawn, Spencer
discovered a severely injured cat hidden inthe grass. As he described in his
video, Oh I saw her justlaying there and she was letting petter and
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everything. It wasn't moving, butI think she's got a wound kind of
underneath her leg. I'm not reallysure what happened, but seems like she's
kind of hurting, so I'm notreally sure what to do well. He
actually called several different rescues at animalhospitals, nobody willing to take the cat
in until he called Edgar and Ivy'sCat Sanctuary, where they specialize in the
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care of injured cats, and hebrought it in and the owner slash worker
there, Anissa Beale, took thecat in, who was in pretty rough
shape. He was holding the catin a box. I kind of was
looking at the cat and the cat'sleg was very swollen, the abscess was
pretty bad, and he was kindof weak and in rough shape. But
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not only did they take the catin they nursed the cat back to health
keeping. Spencer updated the whole time, and he just wanted to do something
to return and said, well,maybe I can shout out the sanctuary on
my social media. Maybe it'll makesome money. He said, maybe I
can get you ten thousand dollars orsomething, and I went, that would
be life changing. We've been doingthis for four years and every week,
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you know, we were just fightto make payroll and to give the cats
everything they need. Yeah, theywere about to close. She said she
was looking for a sign to keepthe sanctuary open because she could no longer
afford it, spending half of herown income to do just that. Ten
thousand dollars wasn't what they got,though, Schmitty. Instead, over one
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hundred and eighty six thousand dollars wasraised through the GoFundMe as of this point,
plus within two days, four truckloadsof Amazon trucks had come to actually
give the shelter supplies and everything theywould need to keep going. Of course,
both of them just blown away.I just feel like it was a
miracle, and it makes me emotionalto think that so many people could care
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about us and about this cat.And what we're doing, I mean,
just unbelievable. TikTok does good,love it, Feeling good comes at you.
Twice a day. I want totell you about amazing stories just like
that one. We'll do it againtomorrow, six forty five and nine to
twenty every weekday on Star one.On five point seven, Mac and Schmidty
in the morning weekday starting at sixam on Star five point seven
Wake up. It gets my daygoing and makes me laugh. It Mac
and Schmitty in the morning on Starone oh five point seven. Well,
good morning, Schmitting, Good morning, and happy Friday to those of you
that have the rest of the weekoff for the fourth of July. Ooh,
that is a good feeling, nodoubt about it. As we get
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ready for Fourth of July. Herein West Michigan, there's a ton going
on. I mean, obviously,of course, you get all the braids,
you get all the fireworks, youget all the fun. Schmitty,
I am ready for it. Itstarts today. I mean, the list
is massive. We've got it upat West Michigan Star dot com. I
know some communities are doing Jubilee celebrationsand stuff tonight tomorrow, Friday. Of
course, the Grand Rapids fireworks areSaturday. You have the opportunity to do
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something literally every single day this weekend. So that's gonna be a lot of
fun. Hey, anti fireworks queenover there. Yeah, I was it
last night. It's bad. Itwas bad last night. Yeah. Got
the anxiety mets out for the dogs. Big shout out to bridge His Animal
Hospital. By the way, ify'all are looking for a veterinarian. They're
an Ada. They're amazing. Iwas able to call them up and be
like hey, and they're like,yep, it'll be ready in fifteen everybody.
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But a good reminder too, ifyou have pets like that, A
lot of vets are going to beclosed for the holiday, So get in
there today because my dogs were definitelyhaving a hard time last night. Wise.
Words of course, when you're doingthose big Fourth of July celebrations,
those pets and our veterans who mighthave some issues with things like that,
definitely something that considered there too.Movies, music, and all the gossip
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in one place. It's the celebritiescoopon Star one oh five point seven.
President Biden is offering up an explanationfor his lackluster performance during that debate last
week on Thursday, saying his travelschedule had him running on fumes. He
was at a campaign fundraiser in Virginiayesterday, blaming his lack of energy on
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being absolutely exhausted from long trips inthe week before the presidential debate, telling
a room, I decided to travelaround the world a couple of times shortly
before the debate. I didn't listento my staff, and then I almost
fell asleep on stage. He wasdiscussing trips, including going to France the
first week of June for the eightiethcommemoration of D Day. He then flew
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to California for U fundraiser in Lathen spent a week preparing for the debate
at Camp David mixed reaction today issome people were like, okay, but
like, don't tell us that youalmost fell asleep. That's still maybe not
a super helpful thing. Meanwhile,Levanka Trump is addressing her father's felony conviction
for the very first time, sayingit's been very painful to watch former President
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Trump's daughter is on the Lex Friedmanpodcast. On a human level, it's
my father and I love him verymuch, so it's painful to experience,
but ultimately I wish it didn't haveto be this way. She does add
that eventually, love will win.I've got that full interview up for you
at West Michigan Star dot com.And finally, the really sad news yesterday,
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Hart has postponed the entire rest ofthe year for their Royal Flush tour.
The announcement was made that includes theirscheduled August twenty first stop at Vanandelerina,
and it's all due to a cancerdiagnosis. Ann Wilson announced the news
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on her Instagram yesterday, writing,dear friends, I recently underwent an operation
to remove something that, as itturns out, was cancerous. The operation
was successful and I'm feeling great,but my doctors are advising me to undergo
a course of preventative chemotherapy and I'vedecided to do it. So my doctors
are instructing me to take the restof the year away from the stage in
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order to fully recover. She thanksfans for their support, adding this is
mearly a pause. I've much moreto sing. They are asking fans to
hold onto those tickets because they fullyintend to continue this tour and make up
for the missed dates, but heartnot touring the rest of twenty twenty four.
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Man. Tough news right there,obviously for fans, but for Ann
Wilson, just hoping, you know, the smooth recovery and she continues to
get better, hopefully. I lovethat she wrote, I am feeling great.
I do have her full statement foryou with your scoop at West Michigan
Star dot com. Sometimes because Iget a good feeling, stilling on fine
points seven as we roll into fourthof July, hopefully aren't ready feeling good,
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getting ready for a little break here, however, somebody is feeling easy
and breezy here schmidty in Grand Rapids, because we got ourselves a powerball winner.
That's right. Congratulations to Lisa Cecilof Grand Rapids. Somebody who plays
the lottery regularly, She says,well, last month, she bought a
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tickets for the drawing on June twelfthand just starts screaming in the middle of
her night. Her fire. Herentire family found out when she won the
lottery, because she said she didn'tcheck her ticket until after midnight. I
saw I had three numbers, thenfour, and I thought to myself,
I think I just want some money. When I checked off the fifth number,
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I was in disbelief. I wokeup everyone in her house saying,
I think I just won one milliondollars. Family got to look over the
ticket and confirm that she's right.She bought it at the family fair over
on Northland Drive, by the wayin Plainfield Township. I've been there before,
and she plans on basically paying offthe house and sharing that money with
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family. Smart woman. Yeah,except for now we all know who she
is, so we're gonna have tohave to borrow some cash. But you
know, that time her account andwill have to tell her about that one.
But yeah, congratulations, Lisa's acessil of Grand Rapids million bucks.
All right. Something incredible happened yesterdayat the Kalamazoo County Jail a graduation ceremony.
I have spoken about this program before. I think it's incredible. It's
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called IGNITE. It stands for theInmate Growth Naturally and internationally through Education program
And in fact, there are onlyseventeen jails across the country that have this
program. The Kalamazoo County Jail oneof them, and very proud to be
one of them. It is atwelve week program that offers inmates positive reinforcement
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and educational resources while helping them developlife skills. The entire point once they're
released from jail, they are ona path to success. And for Ernest
Spencer, who was yesterday's oldest graduate, he feels very blessed. Before I
started this program, I had noconfidence in the criminal justice system. I've
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just looked at it as a systemthat wants to take your freedom and your
rights away. But when you havedeputies, officers, lieutenants that truly cares,
old that they really care, andthat are willing to put their reputations
on the line to prove that wecan be rehabilitated, then that's that's humans
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to me. It feels awesome.Fox seventeen was at the graduation ceremony.
They also spoke with James Harris,outreach manager for Urban Alliance, who said,
people make decisions, but decisions andwhat you went through shouldn't define you.
Encouraging these guys giving them hope absolutelypriceless. So congratulations to all of
the ignite grads at the Kalamazoo CountyJail. We are so thrilled for you.
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Movies, music, and all thegossip in one place. It's the
celebritiescoop on Star one oh five pointseven. It's been quite a few years
and clearly still weighs heavily on OprahWinfrey's mind the moment she was body shamed
by the late Joan Rivers while makingher first ever appearance on the Tonight show
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This Is Back. In nineteen eightyfive, Oprah just appeared on the Jamie
Kern lima show podcast, talking abouthow challenging it was and how long she
carried this for Joan was filling infor Johnny Carson. I have my first
appearance on the Tonight Show, andJohn Rivers turns to me and she says,
pretty girl single, you must losethe weight on national television. So
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we're supposed to be talking about thegreat success of this little talk show in
Chicago. That's beating Phil Donahue.And I don't know what to do with
that. I just didn't like Ijust oh, I just love potato chips.
Joan I jo says no, seriously, shame on you. Shame on
you. She said she carried thatshame for a very long time, also
saying that at one point Rivers holdher she could return to the Late Night
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show if she lost the weight,saying I'll let you come back if you
lose fifteen pounds, and Oprah said, I agreed, but didn't do it
that way. Instead, I atemy way to another ten. She also
talked about previously auditioning for nineteen eightyfive's The Color Purple and when she didn't
hear back at the time, sheassumed her oh weight issue was a reason
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she didn't initially get the rule.It is a very candid interview West Michigan
Star dot com. If you wantto hear more, I mean, if
you think about how sensitive is sensitiveall of us can be about our way
to imagine yourself on the Tonight showfor the very first time ever in your
career, in your life. Idon't care that you're Oprah at that time.
You're not Oprah yet. You knowshe was still a goo to Chicago
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on her tiny show and that wasjust demoralizing. Yeah. Ed Sharon pulland
out the stops for quite a surprise, showing up for the England soccer squad.
So England, of course getting readyfor its Euro twenty twenty four quarter
final in football, the four timeGrammy Award winner swung by the Three Lions
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training session and gave them quite acandid performance. Basyacy basting time. Now
the first time he's actually performed forthe squad. He showed up ahead of
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their final in twenty twenty. Hewas also at that game the other night.
Huge England fan, he says he'sready for that cup to come home.
Look, I would any Ed sheeranpersonalized concert right in front of you
is gonna be absolutely amazing. Thatbeing said, you're trying to hype up
a soccer team, ed and youchose to sing the song a team.
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Maybe they needed to calm themselves beforea heavy work. The BPM on an
Ed Sheeran is also not necessarily somethingI'd work out to. But bunch of
sing perfect too. They can allslow dance together. And Morgan Wallin the
latest artist to be plagued by aphone throw, but is no longer tolerating
this. The country singer pointedly threwthe phone off side stage. He was
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singing his hit Cowgirls when someone atMile High Stadium in Denver yesterday threw a
phone that nearly hit him in theface right in the middle of the song.
So you can hear that slight cheer. It's the moment the phone hits
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him right in his shoulder. Hetakes off mike for a second, picks
the phone up, and just chucksit to the side of the stage,
making sure that fan never gets thatphone back. But a lot of fans
pointing out, given his recent meltdowns, if you will handled it here,
he will never said anything to thefan, never point in anything to the
audience simply ditch the phone and keptsinging. To be honest, though,
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I figured, because this is MorganWallen and he seems like such a lightning
rod for trouble that he would innocentlychuck the phone into the audience. It
would smack some poor, defenseless personin the eye and the next thing,
you know, would be a lawsuit. The side stage is the way to
go. All of your celebsco butWest Michigan start off on can schwinny with
you on this Fourth of July eve? And nothing ruins a good holiday schmddy
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quite like a trip to the eoff. Well, but here's the thing,
Like I said, it feels likethe fourth of July is anything goes.
It could be wonderful. I've hadfriends get proposed to on the fourth
of July. I've had friends makebaby announcements on the fourth of July.
It feels like fireworks can be reallyreally awesome and really really terrible because I've
also had friends so for injuries dueto fireworks. And I know you must
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have either a crazy, funny ornightmarish Fourth of July story four five eight
one oh five seven Because we werejust talking about this the other day.
This was probably ten years ago.Now there's a friend in our group.
She is a doctor now. Sothis ended up being a very nice trial
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by fire. And her very firstnight in her er rotation in med school
was the fourth of July. Whata night? What like I said,
trial by fire? And I canremember because we all met up that following
weekend to hang out because that's whenshe finally was off and she goes,
oh my lord, she goes,you guys will not believe the very first
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case I was ever given. Firsttime, first night on my er rotation,
fourth of July night, I'd neverdone this before. A gentleman came
in that had been playing with fireworksand had injured himself. They couldn't really
tell. He's brought in by paramedicsbleeding quite a bit, so obviously rushed
to one of the triage curtains sothat they could figure it out. So
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she's like, this is great,this is exactly what I want to be
training for. This is what Iwant to do as an er doc.
So she's like watching everybody work,taking the vitals, making sure she's up
to speed on what's happening, andthen all of a sudden, one of
the doctors sends her back to theambulance bay. They're like, hey,
you need to go grab something forus. So she walks back there and
one of the paramedics hands her acooler. She's like, that's weird.
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She opens it up and half thedude's hand is in the cooler. I
wish it were flopping around the bableAnd she's like, oh, this is
truly hands on experience, because shetakes this cooler back to the tent area
and they're like, thank you,we're going to try to read this dude
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had blown half his hand off usinglike a mortar or something. Yep.
And she said, yeah, Andever since then, I have not come
across anything in my eight years ofpractice that has turned my stomach quite like
opening up an igloo cooler and findinghalf a human appendage in there. Uh
yeah, I can tell you what. That probably ruined some stomachs at the
barbecue for the July You know whatis worse than What's worse than being the
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nurse who has to see that,or the doctor in this case, yeah,
is being one of the friends orsignificant others who has to look around
and find the hand after it's blownoff because the other person's probably a little
busy. Yeah, like bad forthem, I guess, But boy,
does that prove some serious friendship.Because I don't know anyone in my life
I would be like Chris included myloving an adorable husband. I don't know
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if I would be on the groundhunting a piece of his body to make
sure that they could reattach things.That's a bond right there. I wouldn't
call it unbreakable bond because we've alreadyproven the explosion kind of to take care
of that part, but all thesame, it is a bond space.
I feel like this is also animportant time to thank all of our doctors
and nurses that will be working holidayhours tomorrow, because, as the meme
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says, tonight is the last nightsomeone is going to sleep with all ten
fingers and toes. Do you havea crazy Fourth of July story? Maybe
it's a good one, Maybe it'snot disgusting, Maybe it's wonderful. Six
one six, four, five eight, one oh five seven, And you're
very welcome for giving you that littletidbit over your cheerios this morning. It's
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gonna say, I think there's parentsstaring directly across at their children right now,
just lazy the ice you see.You see what can happen when you
mess around. Look, they savedthe screw it up. As a parent's
smile, it doesn't always make youfeel good, but hopefully you'll learn a
lesson or at least your kids do. Ah. Right, it's Mack and
Schmitty with you. And you knowI told you this weekend Schmitty, I
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had a graduation party up in HotonLake and it was trippy because it was
the first graduation party for someone Igraduated high school well whose child was graduating
one. Oh, it's stung realbad. But I went up there and
it was great to see a wholebunch of people. My kids went,
and so some of my friends whohadn't met my kids got to do that,
and it was really fun to justsee everybody. But it was at
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a park right there on Hoton Lake, which was really cool because it was
a gorgeous day on Saturday. Everybody'soutside. It's not a park with a
beach on it, it's just apark. And then there's a sea wall
that goes down to the water anda dock that goes out to into the
water for boats. So we're outthere and the kids are having all sorts
of fun horseshoes and bag toss andall that kind of stuff. But naturally,
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as any child will do. Mykids are nine and eleven. They
gravitated towards the dock at one point, and they're doing what all kids do,
which is fake push each other in. Right, you grab your sister
by the shoulders, you kind oflurch her forward a little bit right on
the edge of the dock. Thenyou pull her back and y'all laugh,
and doesn't you Oh yeah, yeah, Dad went out there, Dad,
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Dad. Michelle goes, hey,why don't you, you know, tell
the kids to knock it off.Yeah, So obviously that's what a very
responsible parent like myself does. Finneyand walk out out there and I'm like,
hey, guys, come on,quit screwing around on the dock,
blah blah. And we're walking back, and of course I grabbed my son
by the back and I do thesame thing to him. I make the
joke that I'm going to shove himin the water and then pull him back.
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But when I did it, schmitty, he like lurched and reached out
and grabbed you like trips over hisown feet. My son's in the water
in three seconds flat. It's HoltonLake, so it's literally just over your
knee deep like so he falls in, he like rolls. It was the
most awkward landing possible. The entireparty looks over atis as my kid hits
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the water. My daughter's like lookingat me like a deer in headlights,
like, oh my god, didthis really just happen? My wife is
flat faced on the ground standing nextto one of my friends. Like she's
wearing sunglasses, but I can seeher eyes behind them in everything she can
to end you death, staring me, and I can't even see the eyeballs
and they're burning holes in me's titty. Wow. So I out my son
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up, I get him out ofthere, and he's like, he's like,
I can't believe you pushed me,And I'm like, I can't believe
you fell in. I'm like,what is going on? I didn't push
him in. It was his ownklutziness that made it happen. So we
came out and h obviously that wasa sore subject. Sure would have been
for me too. And then weget in there and I'll be honest with
you, I thought, you know, I had this. Probably give me
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the end of the day, We'reprobably going every We stayed for another two
hours. That kid was bone dryby the time we got out of their
FID movies, music and all thegossip in one place. It's the Celebrity
Scoop on Star one oh five pointseven. Well, yesterday morning in Scoop,
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I was talking about how disappointed andfans were that the new track off
his upcoming album was supposed to dropat midnight and then nothing. Maley yesterday
afternoon and finally did release the nexttrack from his upcoming album. It's called
Toby. It is going to beoff The Death of Slim Shady Coude Gras,
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which is going to be out onJuly twelfth. This new song features
Big Sean and Baby Tron. Here'sjust a piece of it that was clean
enough. I could play Toby McGuire, got youa bas Spider, but see
me it was a go. Ifyou want space, I hope you take
your helmet as soon as you getup to Venus and choke even while sleeping,
be thinking so woke White CARDI years. All I'm seeing is dope.
Ma Cidlay and I'm obi wan gota mission that past I just might be
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the hope. Yeah, so itis a nod to Spider Man actor Toby
McGuire. He's referenced throughout the songI Love I. Meanwhile, the cover
art pays homage to a very popularmeme. So it's got Eminem, Big
Sean and Baby Tron, who isalso on the song, pointing their fingers
if you've ever seen the three differentSpider Man's based on the Toby McGuire,
(20:03):
Andrew Garfield and whoever else played.It's a good song. Fans are loving
it. But again that big newsto about the July twelfth release date for
M. Honestly, I'm just jealousof Tobey maguire right now, you guys
your own M and M song inhonor of yourself peace. It's pretty sweet.
Make me a big time for theNew Heights podcast today latest episode will
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drop. Travis and Jason Kelsey gavea little teaser yesterday and we will hear
from Travis about his very first onstage debut. Hi, Travis, we
gotta talk about it. Let's doit. We talked a little bit about
the London trip last week, buton night three, something magical happened.
I think everybody that is following yourlife would like to hear your viewpoint on
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and your commentary of what's that?Somehow you made your way onto the era
stage. That's it now. Thenew episode will drop later on the morning.
Everybody's really curious, like, howdid this happen? How did you
learn the choreography? Will this happenagain? Because she's got a lot of
stops left, so apparently he willbe addressing all of that on today's episode.
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I'm not saying never, but youknow, it's got to be a
long time. Don't become that guy, Travis. You're gonna lose the respect
you have real fast. Here.Finally, Bridgerton has no shortage of actors
willing to bear it all for seasonfour. The hit Netflix series got very
steamy in the most recent third season. Kelly Valentine Henry is the casting director
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for Bridgerton and revealed she is inundatedwith adult rated audition tapes. She was
on the Should I Delete That Podcastexplaining it's every day I get the most
unbelievable videos, completely unsolid, unsolicited. It's not actual intimacy, but quite
(22:00):
punchy, as she says, it'snot Nudi pictures but not far off.
And every day I walk in andmy inbox is full. So this is
a lot of casting that's already startingfor season four, which will apparently focus
on the role of Sophie Beckett.She's trying to cast who will apparently captivate
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Benedict Bridgerton. Yeah, you knowwhen you're casting for that, it's not
dirty nude. It's like Renaissance nude. Schmidti. It's like, you know,
I'm into museums. That's not muchbetter. All of your celeb scoop
at West Michigan Star dot com.She's doing a fine point. Seeven it's
Mac and Schmidting. It is timeto throw down battle of the sexiest time
and it could be landing you forone incredible show tonight over at the Minor
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Gardens. Yeah, they're welcoming AmosLee. This is such a good show.
He's been to the gardens a fewtimes. Today's number one answer.
We've got four tickets for Amos tonight, doors at seven. If you can
head to the gardens. One hundredmen surveyed name something you might change a
lot through your life dame something youmight change. I hope you're underwear.
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I'm hoping you're doing that fairly regularly, done there once a week at least.
Yeah, six one six, fourfive eight one five seven collar seven,
first chance at the number one answerwhat one hundred men surveyed name something
you might change a lot throughout yourlife, and you and the friends could
be headed to amous Lee tonight atthe Meyer Gardens with Star Win O five
point seven? Good morning, Star? Who's this? I'm sorry? What's
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your name on? Sue? Let'stry and get you out for some fun
tonight. Yet for this, yeh, all right. One hundred guys,
we're asked to name something that you'llprobably change lots of times in your life.
What do you think? Their topanswer was there Sue your cell phone
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phone service. You know what.I've been using the same phone, the
same phone number for a long time. But you do change the phone often
enough. But no, that's noton there. I'm sorry, Sue.
Okay, thank you, Hi Star. Who's this Lindsay? Lindsay? Where
are you calling from today? Iam calling from Grand Rapids? All right,
Lindsay. I just got a greatguess from Sue. One hundred guys.
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Rest the name is something that aperson's gonna change lots of times throughout
their life. And Sue said,their phone. Yeah, you know,
every couple of years, you're duefor that upgrade. But no, phone
was not on the list. Sowhat do you think it is, Lindsay,
I'm going to say haircut or hairstyle. You're going to say hair.
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What was your most ridiculous lifetime haircut? Do you think you rocked there?
Lindsay, bangs all bangs? Yeah, you know what, I had a
feeling that that those words were gonnacome out of your mouth. Everyone's got
that terrible bang's photo at some pointin time, And did you poof it
out to you have any yearbook photoswhere the bangs are like extra poofy Oh,
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they were very thick, my momeven better. That's awesome. Well,
congratulations because hair was the top.You're going, You're gonna go see
Amos lead tonight over there at theFrederick Meyer Gardens. Awesome. Thank you.
Yeah, you're bringing friends too.We got four tickets for you,
Lindsey cool. You appreciate it.It's gonna be a great night over at
the gardens. And of course welove getting you hooked up? Be listing
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every day to win something awesome?Right here. Battle of the Sex is
eight fifteen on Star showing a finepoints, see a good morning, see
you. It's feel good variety atthe eighties till now, Good morning Mack
and spinning with you. And youknow, I didn't think this was a
controversial question at all, but apparentlyI struck a nerve as I mentioned,
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because I just asked, what dopeople think the going rate in twenty twenty
four, where everything costs so muchmore than it feels like it used to,
what's the going rate for an allowance? We're like a ten to twelve
year old kid. And the reasonI bring it up is because my kids
asked this summer if they could dosome things to make some of their own
money. This started basically because theyhave games they like to play that they
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can spend money on, like ina purchases, yes, in that purchases.
And my wife and I obviously refuseto spend any money on those things
whatsoever. Nor won't we let ourkids spend like birthday money or stuff like
that on those things like virtual stuff. We're not into it. But when
they brought this, they did itin a nice way. They were like,
what other extra jobs can we doaround the house to earn some money?
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And I thought that was all right. So my wife started putting together
like this list of chores they coulddo extra stuff, and it involved like
vacuuming, going on cleaning more thanjust their own bathroom, but some of
the other bathrooms in the house twicea week. Like they had some good
chores on there that weren't part ofwhat they already have to do. But
when I put this up online,man, people freaked out. Smitty,
I never had an allowance. Younever had like at any point in time
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your parents said if you do X, Y and z every day, we
will give you no cash. Icame from the og household that was like,
oh, do you have new clothes? Do you have food? Do
you have a roof over your head? However, I started babysitting at twelve,
right, that's true for a lot, I was making most of months
of cash. Neither of my kidsare quite yet there yet. My daughter's
eleven, my son is just nine. So when we put this all together,
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we started thinking of what it wouldbe, and my wife originally said
ten dollars per week, and thatsounds like ten dollars per week, no
big deal. Two kids twenty bucksa week one month is eighty dollars.
I'm telling him, like, I'msorry, Like, I guess I'll figure
out another way. I don't knowif i'd get my kids an allowance.
I am not paying eighty dollars.That I can tell you right off the
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bat, because again, obviously theyhave all of those you know, needs
and that extra stuff met in theirlives. This was specifically like picking up
extra chores on it. But I'mnot paying that much. So we settled
on five bucks five bucks to doabout forty five minutes of chores per day
maybe, and they get five dollarsa week, which turns into forty dollars
per month, which I felt likeis much more reasonable. But I'm still
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sitting here going that's three times asmuch as Netflix. To my kids,
chores off me as much value asthe entire Netflix platform. I'm not sure
about that. We do let ourkids use birthday money on stuff because we're
like, like Will is learning avery very hard life lesson on how much
legos cost. So I'm like,here's some money you got for your birthday
buddy, and he's like, well, I want that to go. That's
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all of your birthday money, andthen he decides he doesn't want to buy
it. Yeah. See, andI'm hoping that that's what they get to
because my kids, they we stickall their stuff in savings for the most
part. However, with this,I am hoping that they see how absolutely
pointless it is to buy this stupidcrap on their video games that like you
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get no enjoyment. Maybe, butthere's a lot of adults that haven't discovered
that's unfortunately way too true. Buthe joined this conversation, what do you
think a good allowance for like aten year old kid should be in twenty
twenty four right now at West MichiganStar Sometimes because I get a good feeling.
Yeah, well, hopefully you're staringdown the barrel of a nice long
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holiday weekend and getting ready to celebrateforth that July. Lots of reasons be
feeling good. Here's a couple more. It's Mack and Schmidia on Starminal fin
point seven. Man A huge congratulationsto doctor Brian Huffman. He's an ophthalmologist
in Holland and just swam across LakeErie. This is incredible Doctor Huffman completing
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the twenty six point seven miles swimas part of a year's long effort to
raise funds for scholarships that will goto the Holland Aquatic Center swimming instruction programs.
This is very near endeared to doctorHuffman. When he was a freshman
at U of M, he volunteeredin the emergency room and he witnessed first
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hand a family's grief after their youngson died of an accidental drowning. Since
then, he has been championing thevalue of comprehensive swim instruction, making sure
your kids are water safe, andhe's been doing marathon swims to do it.
Back in twenty twenty two, heswam from England to France across the
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English Channel. He has attempted aLake Michigan crossing and the only reason he
was stopped was a mechanical failure onhis support boat. But later that year
he decided to swim twenty eight anda half miles around the island of Manhattan.
He says that the Lake Erie swimwas a great adventure. I think
anyone who goes on this type ofswim comes away a bit changed. He
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has raised so many different funds ofmoney for all sorts of different swimming instruction.
The Holland Aquatic Center giving him abig congrats on their Facebook page.
He's not done yet. Later thissummer, he continues his scholarship efforts.
Doctor Huffman's going to cross the CatalinaChannel, which separates Santa Catalina Island from
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the southern tip of California. Prettyincredible if you want to check out more
Holland Aquatic dot org and click onBrian's Big Swim if you want to check
it out. Honestly, endurance swimmersblow my mind. Insane, It's just
nuts, all right, jiddy thisthis is another great fundraiser by somebody you've
probably seen on social media before becausehe's huge. Do you know of the
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sb mowing channel, Schmidty. Thisis the gentleman who's got almost ninety five
million followers on TikTok alone that goesaround taking households that have lawn cares or
lawn that is just way overgrown.Landscape doesn't tell free too. I get
trapped into these videos all the time. I love watching them before and afterwards.
(31:26):
Well, I love this story evenmore because Spencer from SB mowing.
He was in Corpus Christi documenting hiswork for again that ninety four plus million
followers when faint happened. As hewas clearing up some overgrown lawn, Spencer
discovered a severely injured cat hidden inthe grass. As he described in his
video, Oh I saw her justlaying there and she was letting petter and
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everything. It wasn't moving, butI think she's got a wound kind of
underneath her leg. I'm not reallysure what happened, but seems like she's
kind of hurting, so I'm notreally sure what to do well. He
actually called several different rescues at animalhospitals, nobody willing to take the cat
in until he called Edgar and Ivy'sCat Sanctuary, where they specialize in the
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care of injured cats, and hebrought it in and the owner slash worker
there, Anissa Beale, took thecat in, who was in pretty rough
shape. He was holding the catin a box. I kind of was
looking at the cat and the cat'sleg was very swollen, the abscess was
pretty bad, and he was kindof weak and in rough shape. But
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not only did they take the catin they nursed the cat back to health
keeping. Spencer updated the whole time, and he just wanted to do something
to return and said, well,maybe I can shout out the sanctuary on
my social media. Maybe it'll makesome money. He said, maybe I
can get you ten thousand dollars orsomething, and I went, that would
be life changing. We've been doingthis for four years and every week,
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you know, we were just fightto make payroll and to give the cats
everything they need. Yeah, theywere about to close. She said she
was looking for a sign to keepthe sanctuary open because she could no longer
afford it, spending half of herown income to do just that. Ten
thousand dollars wasn't what they got,though, Schmitty. Instead, over one
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hundred and eighty six thousand dollars wasraised through the GoFundMe as of this point,
plus within two days, four truckloadsof Amazon trucks had come to actually
give the shelter supplies and everything theywould need to keep going. Of course,
both of them just blown away.I just feel like it was a
miracle, and it makes me emotionalto think that so many people could care
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about us and about this cat.And what we're doing, I mean,
just unbelievable. TikTok does good,love it, Feeling good comes at you.
Twice a day. I want totell you about amazing stories just like
that one. We'll do it againtomorrow, six forty five and nine to
twenty every weekday on Star one.On five point seven, Mac and Schmidty
in the morning weekday starting at sixam on Star five point seven
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