Mac and Shmitty July 22, 2024

Mac and Shmitty July 22, 2024

Episode Transcript

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Wake. It gets my day going. It makes me laugh of it.
Mac and Schmitty in the morning onStar one oh five point seven. Well,
go on in Schmitty, Hello Monday, Yes, Hello Monday. You
know, if all these historical eventsgood stop interrupting our weekends every so often,

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Schmitty, it wouldn't be the worstthing. I don't know if we
have any room to complain. Yousee how many talking heads were out at
brunch Sunday morning and then an hourlater had to put the drinks down,
a business suit on and talk aboutthis breaking news. Yes, we are
going to have more updates this morningon the official statement that President Biden will
not be continuing his re election campaign. Hollywood is reacting. Former presidents are

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reacting. Of course, we hada former president in Grand Rapids over the
weekend, so Grand Rapids was alreadyacross the national and international news busy Monday,
movies, music, and all thegossip in one place. It's the
celebrities group on Star one five pointseven. Well, of course the news
will be dominated today with more updateson the big announcement from President Biden.

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He announced yesterday he will end hispresidential re election campaign, writing in part.
Over the past three and a halfyears, we have made great progress
as a nation. It has beenthe greatest honor of my life to serve
as your president. And while ithas been my intention to seek reelection,
I believe it is in the bestinterest of my party and the country for

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me to stand down and to focussolely on fulfilling my duties as president for
the remainder of my term. Hetells Americans he does plan to speak to
the nation later this week in moredetail about this decision. Shortly after that
was made public, he then threwhis full support behind his vice president Kamala
Harris. We saw a lot ofthe political people talking both sides about how

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they felt and in a state fromformer President Obama, some were a bit
surprised to not hear him immediately backKamala Harris, he writes, Joe Biden
has been one of America's most consequentialpresidents, as well as a dear friend
and partner to me. Today we'vealso been reminded again that he's a patriot
of the highest order. But readingthrough, former President Obama said, we

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will be navigating uncharted waters in thedays ahead, but I have extraordinary confidence
that the leaders of our party willbe able to create a process from which
an outstanding nominee emerges. A lotof people think that he may kind of
be possibly supporting that open nomination theywould do at the DNC. I mean,

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one thing is certain is that it'sjust'll be a mess. Absolutely.
I mean, I feel like we'rewatching a soap opera, like the Days
of Our Lives. World Earth shouldjust come up all because it's not that
we're watching a soap opera. We'rewatching the show VP dah. Yeah a
little bit, because that was everywhereyesterday with the Julia Louis drefa scene where
she says Potus is stepping down.I'm not. I'm running for president.

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Everyone's like it's either this or theSimpsons. But that's the world we're living
in, right. Richard Simmons teamis keeping his legacy alive, sharing the
post that the late star approved rightbefore his passing. This went out on
X on Saturday. His team writes, as you know, on the weekends,
Richard would share a photo with acaption. He always chose his photos

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and wrote his captions for the upcomingweekend by Friday, so we have the
post Richard planned to share with youlast Sunday and we thought you would want
to see it. It's a pictureof him in a NASA astronaut outfit and
it just read, let me flyyou to the moon so we can gaze
among the stars. Love Richard,And that would have been his last ever

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post. Unintentional but poetic, rightlike, that's pretty beautiful. And finally,
the big Kansas City Cheaps quarterback PatrickMahomes and his wife Brittany, of
course, announcing their ding baby numberthree over the weekend. They've kate fans
a big surprise look at their genderreveal party. You are gonna have a

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baby sissy. That's right. Theyplayed a game of blue and pink tic
tac toe and then daughter Sterling matchedall three pink exes, so it's gonna
be another baby girl awesome So thatthis will be their third or their fourth,
this is their third two girls,a boy and as I had last
week in scoop, Patrick said,they're good, done three and all fine,

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all of your celeb scoop, butWest Michigan Star dot Com Sometimes because
I get a good yeah, youknow what, we all need a little
extra juice, little extra gas,on a Monday morning. We're here to
provide it's feeling good on stone onfine points. You have a Mackagemitty with
you, and you know, Lionsfans are getting gassed out everywhere they look
right now as we go into oneof the most anticipated seasons and it has

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the franchise and the Fever Pitchmitty.I think it's at all time highs.
It's at Cornstock highs as a matterof fact, right about now. If
you haven't seen the Dan Campbell cornmaze yet, it is fantastic. It
is up on our Facebook page inour stories right now at West Michigan Star.
But somebody made a corn maze outof the one and only motor City

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Dan Campbell that says grit on hishead, has a lion's mane around it.
One Pride and Go Lion's Best cornmaze in Williamston, Michigan. They
actually said, Little Snaffoo. It'sone of the farms that's near by them
that has this and they're going torelease info on it very soon. However,
this picture of the above aerial shotof at Schmitty is so incredible and

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I mean, looking at Dan Campbell, how'd you like to go get lost
in that mace. I know there'sa lot of women out there that like
to get lost in his eyes,so it's pretty close. Good joke.
I would say, as long asDaddy Dan can guide me through the Maine,
you can take as much money asyou'd like. There you go,
all right, SMITTI. But yes, the photo is up right now.
A's West Michigan Star. This isincredible and I cannot believe it's taken us

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this long to get here. AlisonFelix, eleven time Olympic medalist but more
importantly to her proud mom of two, has announced, for the first time
ever, a nursery is going tobe inside the Olympic Village. She's partnered
with Pampers. In fact, it'sset to debut at the heart of the
Athlete's Village, Plaza. Felix recentlyjoined the Athlete's Commission at the International Olympic

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Committee and said it is her chanceto be a voice for athlete moms,
explaining to CBS this morning what thisis going to look like. Just knew
how difficult it was to compete atthe top level after I had my daughter,
and some practical things were really hard. And so when I became on
the Athletes's Commission of the IOC,I really wanted to be that voice for

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athlete moms and just take away oneless thing for them to worry about,
you know, in the pressure ofcompetition. So this space is a place
where they can have playtime and feedtheir babies and get away from a lot
of the noise that happens at theOlympic Games. I think it really tells
women that you can choose motherhood andalso be at the top of your game
and not have to miss a beat, not have to miss a beat.

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It's pretty cool. The IOC releasedan announcement as well, saying the nursery
is going to be fully stopped withwipes, diapers, places to nurse,
even full spaces for playtime and familybonding. I think this is long overdue
and very cool. But at thesame time, Smid, I have questions,
Like you've seen the Olympic village photoswhere every athlete's bed is made out
of cardboard. Do they do thatfor like cribs for babies. I think

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that was just a COVID thing.No I've saw. I saw this year's
Paris village their beds again, madeout of cardboard who hosted twenty sixteen.
That stuff was nice. And whenyou've seen some of the pictures of this
nursery, like it is better thanthe ones my kids grew up with.
I'll put that on our Insta storiesat West Michigan Star. All right.
I always here to bring you somepositivity, tell you about something great going
on out there. Doing it againfor this morning, gopping up at nine

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to one, another round of feelinggood right here on starbtough five point seven,
movies, music and all the gossipin one place. It's the celebrities
gup on Star one oh five pointseven, the news everywhere this morning.
President Joe Biden announcing yesterday afternoon heis ending his presidential re election campaign,
in part, writing, it's beenthe greatest honor of my life to serve

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you as president. And while it'sbeen my intention to seek reelection, I
believe it's the best interest of myparty and the country for me to stand
down and focus solely on fulfilling myduties as president for the remainder of my
term. He's promised a speech tothe nation later this week in more detail
about the decision. Hollywood reacting withmany stars, thanking the president for being

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a patriot. Barbara Streissan tweeting,Joe Biden will go down in history as
a man who accomplished significant achievements inhis four year term. Cardi b just
tweeting, stop playing with me.Check the date I said it on June
thirtieth. Should have been the twentytwenty four candidate. By the way,
Vice President Kamala Harris has officially filedpaperwork to run for president, even Liza

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writing Wow, we truly are livingin unprecedented times. On the other side
of the isle, Pierce Morgan writingif Biden's unfit to stay in the presidential
race, then surely he's unfit toremain president too. For Barstool Sports founder
Dave Portnoy, he says there isno way Kamala would have been the nominee
if Joe Biden dropped out before theDemocratic primary and had to run versus other

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candidates. The people who controlled Joealso control Kamala and just subverted democracy with
pure election fraud and theft. Isay that because gear up, ladies and
gentlemen, this is the next whattwo three months of our lives. Probably
best to just put your head inthe sand, if you've figured out how
you feel. I mean, it'salready a insane election cycle, and just

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like, let's just make it evenmore crazy, literally all the breath I'm
giving it. Next up, Adidasis in deep with supermodel bellahadied and apologizing
over an advertising campaign people are sayingwas a big anti Semitic mistake. Here's
what happened. Adidas made Bella theface of a new marketing plan for a

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retro Adidas sneaker that they are dropping, and referenced the nineteen seventy two Munich
Olympics. Unfortunately, as we know, that's the games where Palestinian terrorists murdered
eleven members of Israel's Olympic team aftertaking them hostage. Bella is a Palestinian
American model who has been a veryvocal critic of Israel amid the war in

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Gaza. This did not sit well, especially with the American Jewish Committee calling
out Adidas for what it termed anegregious error, saying for Adidas to pick
a vocal anti Israel model to recallthis dark Olympics is either a massive oversight
or intentionally inflammatory. Neither is acceptable. Since then, Adidas has issued two

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for apologies, saying that they havepulled the campaign and will be redoing everything.
As for Bella Hadid, she isnow seeking possible litigation against the company,
retaining a lawyer to take action fortheir lack of public accountability. Sources
say Bella is upset the company wouldput out a campaign that would associate anyone

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with a tragedy like the Munich massacreat the seventy two Olympics. She's still
under contract with the Didas, butapparently is saying I signed on, I
had no idea this is what theywere gonna do until it was already out
and is hurting my public image aswell. Yeah, because I'm sure for
the casual viewer of this entire controversy, they're like, of course she knew

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what was going on, Like whywouldn't she? She says, she's you
know, she's very vocal about her. Yeah. Finally, the biggest movie
in America over the weekend, Twisters, bringing in a massive eighty plus million
bucks. I saw it on Friday. It is that good. But as
for Lee Glenn Powell, he maybe the it man in Hollywood right now,

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that doesn't mean he's not ready togo back to school. He announced
he is indeed enrolling at the Universityof Texas at Austin, where he will
finally finish his degree in Radio,Television and Film. Well, no,
I was just about to say,that's how we know he's successful in Hollywood,
because anybody would tell you a communicationsdegree is definitely not going to buy
you a house. Flenn he actuallywas caught up with in New York,

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where he explains a lot of thisis for him, but also for his
parents. Means a lot to myparents. I want to finish what I
started. It's one semester. We'realmost there. Oh way, that's nothing
that would yeah, all of yourceleb scoop. But West Michigan Star dot
Com with you on this Monday morningafter a wild weekends here at the USh

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Midi, where we're just happy tohear the term unpres atended times over and
over and over again. That's gonnabe the only time we say that,
right, Oh my gosh, SoI thought it would be really fun yesterday
afternoon, amidst all of my doomstrolling posting, talking with my coworkers on
the news station about what we're doing. We need to lighten this up a
bit, so who would you nominatefor president that had absolutely no political affiliation

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whatsoever. Because I'm sitting outside andmy daughter is with me, and I'm
firing off texts and emails, andI'm phone calling with my co host and
she's asking me, you know,ma, what are you doing? And
I was like, well, thepresident just ended his re election campaign,
so I'm figuring out, you know, how we're going to cover this.
And then Will gets home from campingand he's asking me all of this,

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and I go, well, youknow, the president blab blah blah,
and he goes, you know,who should be President's Bluey? And I
thought, honestly, you're one hundredpercent right. At this juncture, I
would trust a six year old Australiancartoon character over most of what we're being
offered. Plus they're Auzie Shepherds,and those are smart, working dogs and
they made great Every episode is alife lesson. They all get along.

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Like I saw the best week yesterdayfrom somebody that said, we are living
in the hardest part of somebody's twentyfifty three ap go exam like it's just
insane. So I posted this upon Facebook because I knew. I knew
there'd be other parents out there thathad fun kids like mine, And I
said, cannot be a politician ofany kind. Who are you nominating for

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president? And it was brilliant.Linda thinks Walter from Jeff Dunham's Puppets,
the really grounchy old Man, wouldbe perfect. I feel like that's kind
of what we've we've heard. Also, I feel like maybe that's a lot
of Congress. Yeah, yeah,I do enjoy Allison, give Me Dolly,
Reba twenty twenty four. That's whereI'm at because you know what I
say, both those names. Youhave no idea what side of the spectrum

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those two are on. You don't. You wouldn't know whether they were running
as Republicans or Democrats. And Ilove that about them. I just like
Reba's theme song, like, oh, working mom who works too, who
loves their kids? Like give methat as your walkout music. Interesting,
Amy said, the CEO of Chickfil as a really good one. Things
would be organized and get done fast. I like that. That's thinking outside

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of the box. Yeah, Lri. I'd really like to say Luis Belcher,
but she's a little young. Anybodywatched bobs Burger. That would be
so hilarious. We got a coupleSpongebobs Elsie the cow Kim. I'm not
I'm not aware. I don't knowif my kids have found that cartoon yet,
but a cow yes all day please. I don't know who would you

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nominate to be president? That's nota political figure at all. See,
I took this a different way.I didn't even take it the kid Rouchmitty
In my head. I immediately wentto a voice Americans can trust, because
while this person might have their ownpolitical views, maybe even some controversial ones,
not about that at all. Ionly looked at it from that perspective
of a voice you trust. Aman who was Nelson Mandela, a man

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who is the president three times,and also he was God Morgan Freeman.
You'd listened, though he does lovehim and I love you, Morgan.
He's a little up there. Iget nervous. I'd get nervous. Not
that not that I want to notthat I wanted to wish that upon you,
Morgan, but like, this isa full four years and you've had

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such a full life as it is, it's a lot of stress. You're
right, I didn't think about thatparch Maite. That's an oversight on mind.
I thought you were going Martin Sheenwest Wing style. I really did.
Yeah, that wouldn't be a badone either. My best friend every
fall does a west Wing rewatch andshe goes, it's better to live in
imaginary world than reality. It's good, Jade. Well, the major headlines

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are just too depressing. You justfind yourself going to that clickbait we do
every week. It is a freshbatch of a fine new footage of baby
Bigfoot caught wandering the woods is insanelycreepy. Baby Bigfoot, Baby Bigfoot.
Honestly, it's a grainy photo,which a lot of people pointed out in
twenty twenty four. We have betterphones, and if this is like a

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kid dressed up in a Bigfoot costume, it's cute. If not, you
need to move out of that areaimmediately. Florida mom denies starting scaringating rink
riot. Smitty, I don't knowif you saw this story, but a
Florida mom insists she had nothing todo with instigating a five hundred person riot
at a skating rink all because herdaughter's birthday party was canceled. She told

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her daughter's friends to quote unquote tearthis bleeper upo. They arrested twenty three
miners and six adults. Damage wasdone to five nearby businesses in this five
hundred person right, you know what, you don't cancel somebody's chance to couple
skates. Minty, it's not allright, ay rare daytime fireball spotted as

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a meteor fell to earth over NewYork City. You see this that happened
back on the sixteenth and made sucha loud sonic boom. They got calls
from New York, New Jersey,Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Rhode
Island. No worries, NASA said, it was still like forty five miles
above earth. That doesn't make mefeel any better. You get to the

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lake shore in forty five miles,all right, Indian Man, I did
an elevator for forty two hours.I actually talked about this on Friday a
little bit. Indian Man went tohis doctor's office on Friday. Couldn't get
out of the elevator until Monday.That's why I don't come to work on
the weekend. Some dudes will doanything to get away from their family for
a weekend. Good Bye. Finally, a driver got stuck on a Utah

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mountain because of a Google shortcut.Oh yeah, he was only identified as
a twenty three year old man.He refused to let him announce his name
for good reason. He became stuckon a Utah mountain for hours. It
took over three hours from search andrescue to get him down. Google had
to issue a statement saying, weworked to provide our drivers with the best

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routes possible and that's why generally westick to paved only road at Bite Schmide.
Did you see naked kayaker rescued inLake Erie last week? Coastguard picks
up a naked kayaker who was strandedin the water. They pulled him out.
They do not know why he wasnaked. I actually I don't even
care about that. I just wantto know if he had suns Green Schmitty.

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That's all I want to know.That's this week's headlines. You see
any great ones out there, youalways got to send them our way.
At West Michigan Stock movies, musicand all the gossip in one place.
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one ohfive point seven. Well News continues this
morning after the major announcement yesterday fromPresident Joe Biden that he will be dropping

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out from the twenty twenty four presidentialelection, and while that news apparently shocked
the world, it also shocked somemembers of his own staff. According to
a new report from Politico, Theycite an anonymous Democrat who they spoke to
shortly after the President made his announcementyesterday afternoon. That official said, we're

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all finding out by tweet. Noneof us understand what is happening. It
is a shocking revelation because one ofthe biggest concerns with so many people asking
for the President to end his reelectionbid was to have a concrete plan in
place. So if this news thatWhite House aids were even shocked by the
news, it almost sounds like thetransition plan wasn't fully done yet and possibly

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President Biden made a bit of asnap decision yesterday. It's interesting. Senior
White House advisor Anita Dunn said theyheld an all staff comms call after the
announcement, and an aide told Politicoshe reassured everyone who'd been out front saying
this wasn't happening that they were correct, because the decision came down so late,
which makes it sound like even she, as an advisor, was a

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bit blindsided by this. Is itthat or did they anonymously interview the one
White House intern that was like,you know what, nobody tells me anything.
I'm so angry you guys. Yeah, all right. Kylie Kelsey is
calling out people who report about pregnancybefore the parents make the announcement. She
herself has had months of speculation thatshe is pregnant, of course, already

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has three daughters with husband former NFLstar Jason Kelsey, and is condemning those
reports while also admitting to pregnancy lossof her own. She posted this to
TikTok. I have kept my mouthshut on this for quite some time now,
and my lack of filter is kickingin and we're just gonna knep this
in the bud. I have hada number of articles written about me since

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the middle of last football season statingthat I am pregnant. I'm not.
I haven't been pregnant since I gavebirth to Benny and she is almost a
year and a half alled. Icannot stand people writing such insensitive articles about
such a sensitive topic. Really lightsmy fire. I had a miscarriage before

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Wyatt. I went in for mythirteen leeku wlish sound, there was no
heartbeat and I had to have aDNA a few days later. So I
do not take getting pregnant or tryingto get pregnant lightly, And I think
that this we need to just bein agreement that this is not a topic
that anyone needs to be first onreporting. She added, let the parents
say it when they're good and ready, which is entirely true. But you

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know whose fault this is, Schmitty, It's Taylor Swift's fault. Aws you
even said it even started around thatsame time period when all of their lives
got up ended. Seventy seven MonroeCenter, Suite ten, courtesy John McLeod.
Speaking of Taylor Swift, Oh thoseSwifties were so excited. Of course,
her Tortured Poet's Department album has beensitting atop the Billboard two hundred chart

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for twelve straight weeks, and everyonewas hoping Taylor loves that lucky number thirteen.
But oh not the case guests whopops her out of that top spot.
Eminem's a brand new album, TheDeath of Slim Shady Cudagra, released
back on July twelfth, his eleventhExcuse Me, his amazing studio album,

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took out TTPD during its possible thirteenthweek. The latest project from m plocks
the Rappers el number one album attying him with Bruce Springsteen, Barbara Streisand
and Kanye for the fifth most numberone album rankings of all time. I
like anything that links Barber, strivesin and eminem together. That's it.

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That's a beautiful thing. I'm sosorry today all of your celebscoop at West
Michigan Star dot Com stelling a finepoint Seevin. It's back in Schmidty,
and you know what. This isa classic that has been going on for
over one hundred year, Schmitty.But it's gonna look brand new for the
first time ever. We're talking aboutthe Circus coming to Van Andel Arena this
fall. Yeah, the Wringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey. Greatest Show on

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Earth makes this stop October twenty fifthto the twenty seventh. We've got tickets
for family to check out this revampedcircus with Battle of the Sexist. Today's
question one hundred men surveyed, it'sbe interesting. Tell us something your partner
wastes money on. I am goingto bite my tongue because Michelle didn't spend
any money she wants. Because ifthere's somebody who's wasting it in our household,

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it's this guy right here, Siasteal a look at the clocking.
Oh, she's definitely up and listening. Six one, six, four,
five eight, one oh five seven. One hundred men surveyed. Tell us
something your partner wastes money on,and you tell us if you're still gonna
take them to the circus when youwin six one six, four five eight
one o five seven collars seven FirstChance with Star, Good morna and Star.

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Who's this? This is Mark?Mark? Where you come from today?
Sir Caledonia? All right? Mark? One hundred gentlemen like yourself for
us to name something that your partnerwaste money on? What do you think?
Their top answer was, Mark,let's call coffee or Starbucks. Oh,

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coffee's a good one. Nothing likea nice seven dollars coffee every day
to drain your bank account a littlebit that's not on there though. I'm
sorry, man, Okay, thankyou, thank you, Hi Star,
Hi Star. Who's this? Goodmorning on Bill? Bill? Where are
you coming from today? Sir,all Bill a one hundred eyes were asked
to tell me something that your partnerwastes money on, and I just started

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a great one from Mark. Hesaid, your Starbucks. Order the coffee
you're getting every day. That'll addup fast. But that was not on
the list. So what do youthink it is? Bill? I would
pay electricity? Ooh, electricity.You know what. You're a dad,
aren't you? Bill? Yeah?I know that because dads, dads will
one hundred percent be the guy who'slike, why are there so many lights

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on in this house? Who's payingthis? Bill? You know what?
That just it triggers right in there. You know what? Light's thermostat is
the number one answer, getting gradusis ready to go? Bill? You
know what this was? This wasdefinitely the guy's answer on this. They
could have specifically said dads, andI think it would have been even easier
well done it was. It wasThermo's stat electricity fell by shoes and clothes

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and video games rounding out the topanswers there. But Bill, you are
taking those kiddos to the circus.You're gonna go check out Bart and Bailey
Wringling Brother's Greatest Show on Earth.Are you kidding me? Yeah, I
never went. I never went.I just like called this number. I'm
like, no, it not.I won't win. That's how it happens
every morning, and we'll do itagain tomorrow. Battle of the Sexes every

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weekday here on Star one oh fivepoint seven. Good morning too, Welcome
into Monday. It's Mack and Schmitty. Hoping he had a great weekend.
I did, Schmitty. I hada weekend where I went to Michelle's family's
first family reunion since twenty eighteen.Oh nice, first time. Like forty
family members all got together over theweekend over on the East Side. And

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while I was there, I discoveredone of her cousin's midlife crisis crises,
I guess, and it amazed me. All right, So I wanted to
know what is the most outlandish,ridiculous thing you have heard someone do or
buy in the midst of what wouldbe described as midlife crisis, Because I
am talking about a tenured professor atthe University of South Carolina who is just

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a huge nerd in the best possibleway. He and his brother were always
like super super science geeks, andnow of course they run the world and
he's got this incredible career, butnot in a million years because this guy
never, to my knowledge, youknow, I think the only sport I
ever heard about him playing was likeultimate frisbee. Never anything very athletic in
his life. He looks like anerd. He's got the glasses on,

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he's super skinny. And I sawhim and I was like, hey,
man, what's doing exciting? Howhave you been? What's happening? He
goes, oh, I have toshow you this because I know you were
a skateboarder when you were young.I was like yeah, and he goes,
I am skateboarding now. He's fortyfive years old and has begun skateboarding
now. In his lift movie coveringhimself in past, he is covering himself

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in pads. But here's the insanepart about it. To me, he
has built a halfpipe in his garage. Oh yeah, you gotta go big
or go home? Are you kidding? He's forty five years old living the
thirteen year old me fantasy schmiddy.He's like, yeah, I don't know
what it was, watching YouTube videos, watching Instagram like I was just like,
I think I want to dry skateboarding. I'm like, no, forty

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year olds do this. This isnot a thing unless it's like longboarding going
down hills just standing there. Youdon't pick up skateboarding late in life.
Tony Hawk is becoming a real herois the older gin I do? But
not only that. To take itto the nth degree, he is showing
me this like amazingly nice halfpipe inhis garage that he is out on all

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the time. His wife, Igo, how did this happen? And
she her eyes like roll back intoher head. She's like, don't even
get me started on this. Heis outside on this thing in in when
it's winter time, all fall along. He has been on this thing like
almost a year at least, Ithink about a year and a half.
Flt at himself. He did allof this. That's insane to me.

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No more do I want to doyour four one k to do it?
Have the best midlife crisis ever?You know, I was just gonna get
a tattoo maybe you know, bya motorcycle and right across country Smidia.
I didn't know I could building projectsin my garage for midlife crisis. That's
just awesome right there. What doyou think is the strangest thing you've seen
someone do for midlife crisis. Wegot this going on Facebook at West Michigan

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stock some down. Does that geta good feeling? I'm sure we've all
thought about it. I mean,if you are a nineties love like me,
what would you do if you actuallygot the chance to not just meet,
but dance with a Spice Girl?Then it's exactly what happened for the
so lucky Pamela nis Bet. Sheis a flight attendant for west Jet.

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She lives in Canada and also aself proclaimed Spice Girls super fan. So
what happened when she noticed mel Con her walkway aka Sporty Spice Well,
the two obviously did the stop RightNow dance, which has gone viral on
TikTok. This is Pamela talking aboutthe unbelievable moment to CBC how she had

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a hyperself up. I got todance with Melc and do the stop Right
Now Dan's which has been my goto song on a bad day for almost
fifteen years. So when she walkeddown the gateway and I saw her,
I first into tears. I hadgiven myself a pep talk and I was
like, com we're going to beprofessional we're going to We're going to represent

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this airline in a professional way.And then she walked down the gateway and
I burst into tears. So Iwould have had the exact same reaction.
Girlfriend nailed the moves. By theway, video is up on our insta
at West Michigan Star and you've gotthe choreography down. That's super fan mode
right there. Any Supergirls, superSpice Girl fan with I like this,
Sidi. I know that maybe adaunting thing for maybe some teachers to hear

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or kids to hear, but yes, back to school, we'll be upon
us before you know it. Mostkids going to be back in less than
a month now. Well down inFlorida and Lee Acres, Florida, a
first grade teacher was gearing up forthis new school year. Her name is
Emma Vinceand and she was at Targetshopping for school supplies and links so many
fantastic teachers out there. She oftenbuys extra backpacks, lunchboxes, pencils,

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pens, folders, everything to makesure her students are taken care of.
And she was planning to pay forthis cartload of stuff out of her own
pocket, and she had filled itwith eight hundred dollars worth of school supplies.
Well, while she was in thecheckout there had target a man standing
behind her asked her if she wasa teacher, and then made the offer

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to pay the entire bill. SHMITTI. She recounted the story to Fox four
there in Florida. Huge, huge, huge weight lifted off of my shoulders.
I honestly was asking him, areyou sure, like, do you
just want to get like a twentydollars gift card? Because I was sort
of in disbelief that he wanted topurchase everything in my cart for my class.
Yeah, in disbelief because again itwas eight hundred dollars worth of stuff.

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He refused to tell Emily his name. He said, I'm not doing
it because I want credit. I'mjust doing it because it's the right thing
to do. Thank thank you forwhat you do for kids in our community.
Well, she didn't let it die. She went ahead and contacted the
local news just to make sure andshout out from the mountaintops that there was
somebody out there, a stranger whowas stepping up for the kids, in
hopes that it inspires others to helpmake sure their classrooms are all taken care

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of. And that every kid isready for another school year. Oh I
love our teachers, just love seeingthat failing good comes at you twice today,
always here to point out the positive. We do it again tomorrow,
six forty five and nine twenty hereon Start one oh five point seven Mack
and Schmidty in the morning weekday,starting at six am on Star one oh
five point seven