Mac and Shmitty July 31, 2024

Mac and Shmitty July 31, 2024

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Wakem It gets my day going andmakes me laugh. Eleven Mac and Schmitty
in the Morning on Star one Ofive point seven, Good morning, Schmitty,
Good morning. Welcome into your Wednesday. And also while ran in final
thing, it's July already. Yeah, I kind of do like a quadruple
check yesterday as the thirty days.It's a thirty one days. All I

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know is I am being inundated withback to school sales. No Longust is
common. I you know. Iteased my son a little bit because we
were, you know, going throughthe months, and he had forgotten about
October, like he just forgot Octoberexisted, and he's like, oh,
September, November does that come?Like oh yeah, yeah yeah. But
then I realized that I have beenon this earth now for over forty years

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and still just like you can't rememberwhich months have thirty five. I never
learned the rhyme either. There's arun, there's like thirty No, I
don't know any of that. Buthey, July thirty first, So there
you go. I don't think we'realone in that. Uh, and here
we go. August means kiddos goingback to school before the end of the
month, we see the return offootball, of course, Minty and some

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hot hot days, movies, musicand all the gossip in one place.
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one ohfive point seven. Unbelievable action in the
gym yesterday as Simone Files earned herfifth Olympic gold medal and did it as
a team. Unbelievable alongside Jordan Childs, Jade Carrey and Sonny Lee taking home

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that coveted gold medal. And itwas vault and beam and uneven bars and
floor routines that blew away A packedstadium of celebrities, Nicole Kidman and Keith
Urban, Serena Williams, Natalie Portman, Bill Gates, Scottie Scheffler with his
wife and baby, even Spike Leeon hand to watch the greatest of all

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time. This is Simone right afterbeing given that gold medal. We've all
been through a lot, we allhave our own stories to talk about,
but most importantly, we got thejob done. We're super excited to go
and celebrate with our families and wecouldn't ask for any more from our performance
tonight. We showed them that wecan do it with the proper training,
Mentally, and physically, yeah,we did it. Speaking of families,

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Yes, indeed, Biles nfl HabbieJonathan Owens did make it to Paris right
in time. You know, Simone'sa competitor. She'll be proud of all
of these things. But I gottaimagine that getting the team gold is such
a significant thing for Herschmidty after lasttime getting the silver. But that's the
only time they got a silver medal. They've been calling this whole thing the

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Redemption Tour, the Redemption Tour withthem, and I gotta think that she
just feels so good to help herteammates get that. Well, wait until
you hear what their team name is. I'll have that coming up at seven
o'clock. All right. The highestpaid actor of all time is now Robert
Downey, Remember I had that surpriseat San Diego Comic Con over the weekend.

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He will be playing Doctor Doom inthe next two New Avengers movies and
get this, reportedly netting more thansixty two million bucks in a salary that
doesn't even include further payouts for performanceescalators as they're called, and he gets

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a share of box office revenue.Other perks for this contract include private jet
travel, dedicated security, and anentire trailer encampment for on set. This
sees him jumping over the salary ofBruce Willis in Six Sense, Tom Cruise
in the Top Gun reboot and WillSmith and Men in Black Cree highest paid

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movie actor of all time. Himean, and you get a piece of
box office revenues. Let you knowyou're the previous movies are the biggest movies
of all time. That's pretty solid. Speaking of a big payday, expect
that for Eminem just announced he'll beheadlining Saudi Arabia's SoundStorm Music Festival, the

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Detroit rapper making his debut performance inSaudi Arabia as the Middle East's biggest music
festival. Is set to take placeDecember twelfth to the fourteenth. No word
on an exact amount on this,but more than half a million people attended
last year's event, and this isonly going to lead to even bigger things

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because now it's being reported that bossesat Glastonbury are trying to persuade Eminem to
actually headline next year's Glastonbury Festival.Maybe we'll see all sorts of Saudi men
all of a sudden dye their verydark colored hair, completely bleach blocks.
You're interesting. All of your celebscoopat West Michigan Star dot com. Sometimes

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I get a good feeling. Let'sdo it putting some positivity into this Wednesday
morning right now. And this isjust so cool. At the Summer Games
in Parish, of course, skateboardingis back for its second Summer Games in
a row, and there's going tobe a skateboarder riding that course today from
Metro Detroit's but he is not competingin this year's Games. Instead, he's

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there to spread a message, andthat's that adaptive skateboarding is a thing too.
His name is Nick Mullins from theDetroit area, and he is a
completely blind skateboarder. It's an unbelievablestory. See he's had a board under
his feet since he was about tenyears old. But Nick, when he
was eighteen, fell while skateboarding,got a road rash, very common injury

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to get while you fall, Butthen it turned into a staff infection,
which led to a month and ahalf long a coma and him losing complete
use of his eyes. His retinashad been completely detached and he would be
blind for life. He found outas an eighteen year old. He said,
you know, he was very upset. He blames God, didn't understand

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what was going on, and ittook him a long time to get over
that. He had to relearn howto walk, how to do everything without
the ability to use his site.It was nine months before he decided just
grab the skateboard and mess around.And he said, as soon as he
stepped on the board, that washis meditation. He knew that that was
something that was going to help himand his ability to recover. And that's

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what he's been doing ever since.He will blow you away with how great
of a skateboarder he is well notbeing able to see anything. He's talking
about it with WXYZ about what hesees when he's on a course skateboarding.
A way that I see in mymind is I hear everything around me,
but my brain is making up likea three D world of what's around me

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inside of my head, which isjust insane. To think about skateboarding,
such a tough sport to do,no matter what, doing it completely visionless
sounds insane to me. Today he'sgoing to be joined by about ten five
to ten other adaptive skateboarders. Isthey're going to get to fly around the
official Olympic Park there in Paris,all to show off adaptive skateboarding, and
that this is something that could beadded to things like the Paralympic Games,

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maybe the X Games, because thereare lots of athletes that are out there
doing it. And he says,you know, there's not disability with being
blind, that the only disability comesfrom something else. You don't know what
you're really capable of until you putyourself there and try, you know,
and you can do some very incrediblethings. You just got to got to
get out there and try and doit. The only disability is having a

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bad attitude. But Nick Mullen's maninspiration for sure, all right. Van
Buren County Deputies have added a newcanine to its force, and in a
very beautiful move, have named itafter a fallen Paw Paw firefighter. Lieutenant
Ethan Quillen, passed away back inFebruary while responding to an ice storm when
official see a tree snapped, causinga power line to fall. Well.

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The new canine at the Van BurenCounty Sheriff's Office has officially been named Quillen
in his eyes, how cool isthis? Sheriff Daniel E. Abbott said,
upon surprising the family today and gettingtheir blessing to name Canine Quillen and
Ethan's honor. I was advised bythe family that is a young kid,
Ethan wanted to someday be a caninehandler at a law enforcement office. The

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public may not be aware, butEthan was getting ready to approach me to
sponsor him through an academy to workhere. And it goes without saying I
absolutely would have a new canine,a mix between a Belgian melanoy and a
German shepherd born just under two yearsago. Deputy Eric Calhoun will proudly serve

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as Canine Quillen's handler. That's apretty sweet Trila right there. I like
that. Failing Good is always hereto point out people doing amazing things out
in our world, the things thatlift you up. They give you a
little bit of guess so we canhelp you get through your day a little
easier. We'll do it again comingup nine twenty this morning, right here
on Star one oh five point sevenmusic and all the gossip in one place.
It's the celebrities gup on Star oneoh five point seven. Well a

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pretty wild day yesterday in Olympic action, especially for our women, like our
women's rugby seven grabbing a bronze withan unbelievable finish that is the first ever
women's rugby medal. We'll talk aboutKatie Ledecki in the pool, a huge
qualifier for the fifteen hundred freestyle,finishing almost a full twenty seconds out of

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the closest competitor, and of courseteam USA Women's gymnastics taking home that team
gold after silver four years ago.People the sort about the team gold in
a good two tents team finals OlympicGames. Of course we knew that.

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In the past. There have beensome really great names like nineteen ninety six
is the Magnificent seven London and twentytwelve with the Fierce Five, even the
Final five in Rio. So buthave Jordan Childs, Simone Biles, Sunny
Lee, Hesley Rivera and Jade Careyname themselves. At first, ESPN commentator

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and former Olympic gymnast Ali Raceman saidit was faffo, which most of you
will know with f around and findout. But a few hours after teasing
fans with that name, Simone tookto X saying okay. On the real
though, the official team name isGolden Girls because we are the oldest Olympic
team, shouting out her personal coachCecil for some help on the name,

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which I love. That's a prettygreat name for it. And you know,
I'd like to think of them asBlanche and Sophia and everybody else too.
Tick one for h right jimage ooh. Bill Maher is not going to
be loved by the Swifties after gettingvery controversial in a new episode of his
Club Random podcast. He was talkingwith Hailey Welsh akad Hawk to a girl

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and they started talking about loving Taylora bit more in her country era versus
right now. When Bill had thisto say about her relationship. Look,
I'm sure she's a lovely person,but the whole thing with the football player,
just like, I just felt likethirty five was a little old to
be. Like, my boyfriend's afootball player and I wear his jersey to

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the game with his number on it, right, I mean, come on,
he's gonna dump her though, youknow that. I mean, with
her, it's like it's like theGator Rated at the Super Bowl. You
know you're gonna get dumped. Youjust don't know when. The Swifties were
pretty swift in their online reaction tothat. Yeah, maybe Bill Maher trying
to step a foot in a poolthat he doesn't really have any business bean

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in. For the most part ishe's also Bill Maher. Yeah. And
speaking of Taylor, her boyfriend TravisKelsey, along with brother Jason, are
looking to cash in big on theoff field success of their New Heights podcast.
Get This. According to The WallStreet Journal, the future Pro Football
Hall of Famers have I've been incontact with a couple different companies to lock

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up more than one hundred million dollaragreement for their weekly podcast. It's not
clear what the length of the contractmight look like or how many episodes would
be guaranteed, but according to sources, the brothers have a real good shot
at getting their reported demands. Notsurprising, New Heights, which is on
our iHeartRadio app ranks fourth in podcastsby audience of anything out there. I

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mean, we don't know how manyyears or anything. When you throw around
numbers out like one hundred million dollars, all I keep thinking about is these
guys who are on TV, likeTom Brady and his what is it three
hundred million for ten years of doinga very you know, heavy low job
like being the head NFL analyst forthe NFL. Meanwhile, these guys are
doing a once a week podcast andtalking about one hundred million dollars together,

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having a great time, fabulous guests. It would not surprise me all of
your celebscoop at West Michigan Star dotcom too. It's Mack and Schmidty,
And you know you just brought upthings that you don't think should ever be
done virtually because it seems like everythingis right more and more. I'm here
for it too, Schmideer. SoI'm interested to see what you don't want
to be virtually if it gets meout of meetings here, let's take everything

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virtual. That mute button, bythe way, use that so much?
Just go ahead and shh. ButI think there's a few things that maybe
would be less awkward if it wasstill done in person, if only because
I think some of the virtual thingmeans it can happen at any time.
There's no more nine to five.It's like, okay, this is virtual.

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You can hop on your camera.And that's when it got really awkward
the other night. And I'm notgoing to say the mortgage company, because
I know tons of them do this. Now almost every single one of them
are going towards a virtual setup becauseit allows them to do more business in
the day because they don't have thosehours of a business needing to be open.
So we recently finished up a REFIon our house, and we get

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the confirmation documents and then it says, okay, all of your signing is
going to be done virtual, whichis really nice if you've ever done e
docs or done that kind of electronicsigning. Beautiful, But then it told
us that there was going to bea human being that needed to notarize everything
and we were going to need tomeet with that person. Now doesn't have
to be actually physically present. Theycan be a notary virtually. They can

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do it virtually world you do likea teams meeting. So we got all
of our stuff and then we're waitingand we're waiting and we're waiting, and
eventually this notary pops up. Andsince I'm ready to start the meeting,
it is ten to nine. It'salmost nine o'clock at night. So I
have a six year old and athree year old, which means we are

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smag dab in the middle of bedtimebattle. I have just gotten out of
the shower, so all of asudden, this camera pops and I mean,
like things need to get done.These documents like expire at the end
of the night. He's got aline of people. I'm sure he's trying
to get through. So there Iam in my bath robe talking to some

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stranger. I don't nowhere, andwe have to do this thing where we
have to raise our right hand anddo like a Bible swearing that everything we're
saying via camera is legally binding,and this and that. Did you have
the option of committing perjury in aship in a towel? At you really
do? Ladies in jail idea.I'm sitting there like my hair's wet.

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I'm like, this is so weird. And then my kids keep coming in
and they're like, can I havea snack? Can I have this?
We're just doing the mom I rightlike on the phone, and this guy
is super lovely and understanding. He'slike, oh, it's a bedtime and
I'm like, yes, Charles,it's nine o'clock at night and I have
a toddler in a first grade isright now? Buddy, and so then

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we do the swearing in process andyou can't leave the camera. Well that's
what I was wondering. Do theylike record you, Are you on video
at a towel somewhere? I documenti'mwhere someone has that footage because they have
to make sure that you are likepresent and of sound mind. And we
finally get Will to bed and Sophia'smost favorite thing ever are people on a

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FaceTime. So now she's coming upand going Hi, Hi, Hi,
because she thinks it's like one ofour family members that she can talk to.
And I'm like, no, honey, you don't know anything about this.
We're getting through, We're doing allthis stuff. I have to show
another form of identification because of thePatriot Act or something, and I'm just
like, honestly, it did seemmore convenient in the fact we didn't have

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to drive somewhere. But not ina million years would I have guessed that
nine pm on a Monday night,I would be in a bathrobe with my
kid clinging to my wet thigh whileI'm signing documents on a refive. You
know, it's all about multitasking thesedays, Schmitty. Think about all the
extra things you're getting done because you'rewilling to do those things from home virtually

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now, I mean, the possibilitiesare actually made like harder. I was
like, we all could have beenin bed a while ago. Let's be
honest, if that guy knocked onyour door while you were in a bathroobe
at ten to nine on the Tuesdaynight, Smitty, I don't think you're
answering whether he got documents to signor not. And then I'm wondering to
myself, what has this guy seen? I mean thinking about it if you
are just popping in and going,yeah, we got to get this done,

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and you know it's the end ofthe month, so they're super crowded
with a bunch of people trying toget in on a rate. I'm like,
this man has some stories, andI kind of wish I'd gotten his
contact to bring him on the show. Good morning to you. It's Mack
and Schmitty and OW Wednesdays. Wejust try and make you feel better his
parents by owning our own fails.So it's a time for another confess.

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Nichemitty. I know you're watching Olympicswith your kids right every day every day?
So are we in my household bykids have actually been obsessed with the
Olympics, which has been great.But yesterday they had some friends over are
playing outside in the afternoon, andafter I got home from work, of
course, I turned down the Olympics, and you know, I'm watching some
of the swimming, some of thethree on three basketball and enjoying all that.

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And then you know, we goabout our day. Well, come
time for the evening schmitty, andyou know how it is, the stuff
that was airing live during the afternoonis now kind of packaged for the evening
primetime hours. Paris in primetime,Paris in primetime, where they're showing everything.
Well, my kids were outside,and so Michelle's downstairs watching a bachelor

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or Bachelorette, whichever one's on rightnow from back on Monday, and the
kids and I are upstairs watching theOlympics, and we're watching some of the
swimming, and we get to thewomen's one hundred meter backstroke that I had
watched earlier in the day, andmy son's like watching the American who's one
of the favorites, Reagan Smith isher name, if you've been watching,
and he's like, oh, Ithink she's gonna win. They're saying she's

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the best, she's got the worldrecord, all the stuff, and I
was like, I don't know,buddy, I really think it's the Australian's
year. Oh man, I thinkit's the oustin Brillion's here. And he's
like, no, no, no, no. The Americans her favorite.
And I'm like, would you liketo bet on it? And he's like
he's like yeah. So we beginbetting on Olympic sports that I already know
the outcome to and Chwiddie. Ihustled him so hard where I knew the

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outcome of the three on three basketballgame where the US lost fourteen to twenty
two yesterday, and I specifically lostthat one on purpose to him to hook
line and sinker him in even ohso magnificent. Uh So, all of
a sudden, Michelle comes upstairs afterwatching a bachelor and I have got my
daughter massaging my feet with the massagegun. My son is scooping me a

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bowl of ice cream, and she'slike that's parenting, and I'm like,
hey, honey, come on over. Let's see whether or not the women
win gold today. Who knows what'sgonna happen this isn't bad. I gotta
tell you it's a life lesson worthlearning because my husband still gets me an.
NFL replaces movies, music, andall the gossip in one place.

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It's the celebrities gup on Star oneoh five point seven. Well, I
told you I had a little Olympicteam to serve. After a phenomenal run
for an Olympic gold for the teamin US women's gymnastics, you may have
seen Simone Biles insta post last nightshowing a picture of the team, but
it was the caption that said lackof talent lazy Olympic champions, a clear

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call out to former teammate Mikaylas Skinner. She was a member of the twenty
twenty Olympic team and in the runup to the Games had some pretty harsh
commentary for this year's US team.Besides Simone, I feel like the talent
and the depth just isn't like whatit used to be. I mean,

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obviously a lot of girls don't workas hard. The girls just don't have
the work ethic like and it's hardto because of safe sport, like coaches
can't get on athletes and they hadto be really careful what they say,
which in some ways really good,but at the same time, to get
to where you need to be ingymnastics, you do have to be I
feel like a little aggressive and alittle intent. That was off of Mikayla's
YouTube channel, which led to animmediate clapback from Bios, writing on threads

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hmm, not everyone needs a micand a platform. Eventually, that video
was deleted and Skinner apologized for hercomments, but clearly still sitting pretty deep
with Simone. It's interesting too whenyou look through the comments some of the
other Olympians, like Mikayla Schiffrin postinga hand over the mouth emoji with an
all caps never a doubt. Youknow, it's a pretty awesome clapback when

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you can do it with a goldmedal on your neck. Ozzie is trying
to make things right with Britney Spearsafter roasting her for those Instagram dance videos.
The rocker dropped his apology on thelatest episode of the Osbourne's podcast.
He almost goes there, can weapologize to Britney Space? Oh yeah,

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Brittany, I really are your apology. I'm so sorry for a common However,
it would be better if you didn'tdo the same don't every day every
day chine a few movements. Yeah, Kelly tried to save it by saying,
Okay, well I was gonna say, keepon dancing, Brittany, I

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love it, which Oz's like metoo, just I mean, it's the
same thing every day now that Brittany'snecessarily paying attention at this point. Big
partnership was just announced yesterday with yetthis Welcome Skateboards. They're gonna be launching
a line of Britney merch that willinclude skateboards, T shirts, hoodies,

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caps and bottles with special Britney releasescoming from the company. That's an odd
partnership for Britney Spears. But whatever, keep dancing, Brittany, I would
Kelly go for it. And finally, Eminem versus Marshall Mathers. Remember M's
new album Death of Slim Shady Qudgramade it a point to have a funeral

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for his controversial alter ego. Well, yesterday, Complex dropped a fourteen minute
scripted interview between Eminem and the bleachedblonde, younger version of himself created by
AI. It's actually like a prettydeep sit down. At one point they're
talking about the therapy that M hasdone since his early days. We both

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made Eminem. He's the best atboth of us, and really it's not
about me or you. It's abouthim and the fans. I don't even
want to admit it. But Choop'sright, dude, don't stress out,
man. I've done a lot ofwork on myself while you were gone.
Awareness together, baby, Let thetherapy float through you. Let that therapy
float through you. EM talks abouthis sixteen years of sobriety. But here

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is a very interesting possible bombshell.At one point, they discuss m's former
rival MGK Machine Gun Kelly apparently hookingup with his mom Debbie. Yep,
so I'm looking more into that.But it's it's a very interesting back and
forth and really worth watch. Iwas gonna say, out of ways you
could do a new interview with EMand M. This is pretty unique and

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really cool. Yeah. I gotit up for you with your scoop at
West Michigan Star dot Com. Timeto battle Battle of the Sex is here
on Star and your opportunity to getto the Girlrati show on Earth. We're
talking both the Ringling brothers in Barnumand Bailey with a vanandal stop totally revamped
show this October. You give ustoday's number one answer. We've got your
tickets for the fam. One hundredwomen surveyed, ooh, name a place

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you don't want to spill your coffee. I can't speak for everyone else,
but I'm surrounded by thousands of buttons. It feels like an electrical equipment,
and so I'm guaranteed to spill mycoffee over here at least twice. I
just think anywhere say spilled coffee isjust quite possibly the worst start to a
morning. Six one six, four, one oh five seven caller seven,

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first chance at the number one answer. One hundred women surveyed, Name well
place you don't want to spill yourcoffee? You could be headed to the
greatest show on Earth with Star Win. Oh five point seven, Good morning
Star. Who's this? Nicki?You said? Nicki or Vicki? Nicki?
Where are you calling from today?I am in tell them a zoo.
You already have some coffee this morning? I did. Oh, you

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got to it's how you start theday, But you got to tell me
when one hundred women Nikki were askedto name a place you really would not
want to spill your coffee. Whatdo you think? Their top answer was,
I think on their clothes, ontheir clothes. Unfortunately, that's the
number four answer. I'm sorry,Nick, thank you? Right all right?

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Bye, bye, Hi star.Who's this David? David? Where
are you calling from today? Man? All right, David. One hundred
women were asked to name a placeyou would not want to spill your coffee,
and NICKI just said on your clothes. Yes, I always love to
get coffee stains on my stuff asI'm on my way to work. However,
that was the number one four answers. You got a chance, what

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do you think The top answer wasthere, David, in your car?
In the car, yeah, that'susually where I wind up spilling it all
over. And you know, whenyou're driving with one hand, you've got
your coffee in the other one,it's scolding hot. You hit one of
our famous potholes here in Michigan.The next thing you know, you've got
coffee on your face, on yourhand, on your lap and you're still

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in you know, at the wheelof a two ton vehicle. It's not
a good time. And that's whyit's the top answer. David. Congrats,
man, you know to regular mailingright on. Yes, it was
in the car, followed by yourlap, then on a computer, and
then you're clothes, rounding out thosetop four answers. Kingrats David. All

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right, well, I hope yourcoffee's hot today, and just be ready
to battle again tomorrow. Battle ofthe Sex is eight fifteen every weekday here
on stock So morning too. It'sMack and Schmidty, and every parents experiences
it over and over and over againat different ages, the love of your
children and how fleeting it can be. Schmittye. I had to capture those

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moments, you really do, andI talked to you about it yesterday.
My heart, oh, it wasit was so full. The other night
my daughter was going to a sleepover. It was it was just actually on
Monday night and she was going toa birthday party and then was going directly
to a sleepover afterwards, and soI wasn't going to see her at all
from basically when I sent her tobed Sunday night until yesterday. And you

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know, no big deal. Wasn'tthe end of the world. But at
the same time, the person thatshe was staying at was a neighbor who
was right behind us, and shegoes, hey, Dad, since I
won't see you at all tomorrow,do you think maybe you could walk ace
past their house, past our friend'shouses, and you know, just say
hi for a second so I cangive you a hug so I can see
you the fall. And I'm like, ab absolutely, I was so happy.

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I went over there. I gaveher a hug. It was the
sweetest thing ever. I was soexcited to see her yesterday when I got
home from work. She was homefrom the birthday party. You're about to
get home and she comes home andI see her and she's she can tell
she's a bit tired, you know, sleep Oh yeah. So then I
noticed that she's wearing her bathing suitagain. I was like, oh,
you guys, go swimming again,and she goes, no. When it
started raining, we put soap.We put dish soap all over the trampoline.

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So we've been bouncing around and Iwas like, okay, cool buddy,
we'll go ahead and go in andshower. I don't want to show
it right now. Well I know, but you got you got soap all
over you, and you were playingoutside and you've just done a sleepover.
So I know you'd in shower lastnight after the pool. I'm like,
gotta go inside and shower. Idon't want to shower right now. I'll
do it later. No, we'renot gonna do it later. We're gonna

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do it now. It's time togo. I don't want to go in
and show turns into a huge thingwhere I'm being screamed at, told I'm
the worst. I can't do anythingabout it. And I'm like, remember
yesterday when you were begging me tocome over just so you can get a
hug. I'm like, can wego back in time and go back to
that, because all I'm asking youto do is go shower, And all
of a sudden, I'm the worsthuman being on the planet. I'm like,

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my my mind, how quickly thischanges? My daughter's only three,
and she only hugs me for snacks. Honestly, when they're three, it's
a whole different scenario. Right.It's like your drunk friend. They can
both love you and hate you allin the same ten second period. Sometime,
does I get a good feeling,Well, the sun is shineing,

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We're trying to make it a greatWednesday and adding to it. Right now,
feeling good and starting five four seven, what's going on? Its Reddie?
I cannot get over all of theincredible moments we've already seen an Olympic
play, especially when it's our hometownheroes that are a part of it.
And Olympic history made yesterday with TeamUSA women's rugby sevens pulling out a last

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minute win for a bronze medal atthe Paris Olympics. Sedric Spiff Cedric So
why Sedric? Uh? Barbara thefifty, the Phony, She's gonna take
it all the way? That trickfor the you yes say? Unbelievable.
Down twelve to seven with only aminute and a half left, team USA

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clinched a win over a sobbing Australia, followed by that game winning goal giving
them ay bronze medal, the firstever women's rugby medal for Team USA,
and jeez, can we give ashout out to Caledonia who gave us the
phenomenal Elena Olsen talking with Jack Doles, we surprised, ourseld like, I

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don't know what just happened. Itdoesn't seem realizing. It's like we knew
we could do it, but ohgod, I'm sorry I have nothing off.
We we just did it. That'sit. We does a moment by
Homa. We took it and allour values chying through. I think she
had the best thing to say.We defied every single odd So cool to

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see I'm gonna walk off win ina sports you've never claimed a medal in
ever. Caledonia's pretty proud this morning, like the of Michigan. Very cool,
all right. I just got togive a quick shout out smiddy to
john Ball Zoo and the folks showverthere because you know, as we think
about the zoo, primarily it's togo and see all of the incredible animals
and wildlife that they have there,but they're also working behind the scenes so

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hard on conservation, from big animalsright down to the little tiniest ones.
So I want to shout them outbecause they just released more than twelve hundred
extremely endangered butterflies back into their naturalhabitats, many of which were right here
in Michigan. I'm talking about thepow is Chik skipperling. It's a tiny
species of butterfly. It was oncereally common across the Midwest, but its

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numbers have gone down so much justsince the early two thousands that it's now
considered possibly the rarest butterfly in theworld, certainly one of them. As
of just last year, conservations thoughtthat there were only a few hundred left
in the wild. So that's whenthe conservation teams went to work, including
teaming up with the Hadad Lab atMichigan State, Minnesota Zoo, and the

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US Fish and Wildlife Service. Thosenumbers are finally coming back because of these
conservation efforts. John Ball Zoo andthe Minnesota Zoo actually share this program giving
eggs to each other, trying todiversify the genetics of this different butterfly species.
So they are trying to do everythingthey can and working together to bring

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back an animal that was just onthe brink of extinction as soon as just
last year. Now nothing excites mykids more than pointing out butterflies. It's
very very cool, So big shoutout to john Ball Zoo and their conservation
efforts. Always love to see that, and I always love to point out
people doing great things out in ourworld. Every single day for you,
that's what we do and feeling good, we'll do it again tomorrow six forty
five and nine twenty Every weekday hereon Star Mack and Schmidty in the morning

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weekday, starting at six am onStar one oh five point seven