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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Wakem It gets my day going and makes me laugh.
I of it. Mac and Schmitty in the Morning on
Star one oh five point seven. Good morning, Schmitty, Good morning,
welcome back. How was your wedding weekend in Chicago?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's good, It's good.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
They got married all things.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, they were already married. Yeah, they eloped. Like I
talked about last week, they loped, So this was just
a party to celebrate. However, barely made it home yesterday.
We're going to talk about that coming up at sevent ten,
because if you were like me, you had no phone yesterday,
and let me tell you, trying to make your way
through Chicago with not even GPS was quite a treat.
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So that's quite an interesting conversation. Had a little bit
of a freak out on the roads.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I can't blame here for that.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I mean, Chicago's a nightmare on its own when you
have full service doing it kind of in the modern
day dark. Yeah, I can't wait to hear about that.
Plus Schmitty, we got lots to get to. I mean,
it is October first, all right, and we have baseball
to watch today. Do you realize that the last time
the Tigers were in the playoffs. You had zero children,
I had one child, and you and I had never
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met each other.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Probably, Yeah, I was so focused on the Cubs winning
the World Series a few years ago. So I'm so
sorry you guys. Gus, you just can't help me.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Maria.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I guess it's a little.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
News, movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The news breaking yesterday afternoon, major League baseball legend Pete
Rose has passed away at the age of eighty three.
Pete's agent confirming the news, adding the family is asking
for privacy at this time. Nicknamed Charlie Hustle, unbelievable, one
of the greatest baseball players ever, seventeen All Star Game nods,
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three World Series titles, who was the nl MVP in
seventy three. No player in the history of the MLB
has had more. It's then Pete, accumulating four thousand, two
hundred and fifty six of them over his twenty four
season career. He led in games, played at bats, and
played appearances, but of course, marred by the betting controversy.
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Banned from baseball by the MLB, commissioner in eighty nine,
still not inducted into the Hall of Fame. And that's
what a lot of people had to say after the
MLB's official statement yesterday extending its deepest condolences to his
family and friends across the game and fans of his
hometown of Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Montreal and beyond who admired his greatness, grit,
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and determination on the field of play. Now, the cause
of Pete's death is still unclear. They will conduct an
autopsy this week. He passed yesterday morning, and Sunday afternoon
he was in Nashville doing a huge meet and greet
with fans, looking fantastic. He met some team mates, he
did a bunch of interviews. So we'll see. But Pete
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Rose gone at eighty three.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I mean, one of the most controversial punishments in sports.
And I know, I uh. He lived in Las Vegas
for a while and I got to play on a
softball team with his son, Tyler, and his son always said,
they're not gonna let my dad in until he passes away.
They're never gonna let my dad into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, so here's the deal, because betting is legal now
that for years people have been like, are you serious,
Like the rules have changed? Can we just But yeah,
it will probably be posthumously unfortunately. Beyonce gracing us with
a new fashionable project teaming up with Levi's. Of course,
she used the iconic song off of her album for
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a big video she dropped on her social yesterday, call.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
It pretty Little Day and to turn the money you
can conding on it all.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That was one of my favorite songs on the album.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh my Gosh. You see her in this laundromat she
takes her jeens off and then pours an entire bucket
of diamonds into the washing machine. It's very, very reminiscent
of that original Levi's ad from nineteen eighty five where
you heard Marvin Gaye heard it through the gravevine. She
recreated that then issuing a statement that says denhim on.
Denham has often been seen through a male lens, so
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this reimagining campaign, which celebrates the iconic female perspective is
very important to me. Fans are super excited about this
smart Finally, Netflix has lost millions of subscribers after their
boss officially backed Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidential election.
(04:47):
Check this out. It actually happened. Back in July, co
founder Reid Hastings, who still serves as the streaming giant's
chairman in the face of the company, said he was
backing Kamala Harrison the presidential electtion and admitted to donating
seven million dollars to the Democratic candidates campaign. Well, a
new study has come out. The numbers have dropped more
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than two million subscribers dropping Netflix within days of that announcement.
That's about two point eight percent of their customer base.
But just wild, like you gotta be careful these days.
All of your celebscoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Sometimes because I get a good feeling. Yeah, all right,
spending let's dive into some positivity this morning. Get you
feeling good right now and start one oh five points seven.
It's pretty incredible watching the Lions and all the fan
hype that is arounded this season. But it was very
strong last season, of course, as the Lions made the
playoffs for the very first time in a very long time,
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and one fan that went viral after their win over
the La Rams was known as Crying Lion Schmidty.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Do you remember him?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I do Yep.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
His name was Aaron Wick Areas and he had actually
lost his father when he was just a teenager. So
he was brought to tears by that emotional moment that
stirred up so much of his passion that he had
shared for the Lions with his late father. Well, people
reached out to him from all over the country were
so moved by his story that they gave him tickets
for the Tampa Bay game in the playoffs the very
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next weekend, and really had promised to give him tickets
for as long as the Lions were in the playoffs. Well,
this year came around and he decided he wanted to
pay it forward and do something for a fan that
needed the Lions sort of like he did. And so
he reached back out to WXYZ, who originally shared his story,
and they actually put out a call got some stories,
and that's how they went ahead and met a little
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girl named Mallory who had lost a mother figure in
her life when she was just six and a half
years old. Weill Aaron felt connected to her, and she
was connected to the Lions because she had actually been
going to a camp that was started by none other
than the Lions. Frank rag Now called Rags remembered. Ragnow
lost his own father back in twenty sixteen in the
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camps work with kids to help them get through grief.
So Mallory had been going there for two summers and
hanging with Frank Ragnow, and of course he is her
favorite player by far. So this full circle moment just
happened with w X y Z and Aaron showing up
to give Mallory quite the surprise.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
My name is Eron Mark Mark and you must be Mallory.
Do you know? Do you know who I am? The
cry baby on TV Crying Lion? Have you seen me before?
So I'm here today because I hear you're a big
Frank Ragnew fan. Is that true?
Speaker 7 (07:36):
It is?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
I love Frank Ragnew too, and I've heard that you've
probably gone through some similar things that I've gone through.
I lost my dad when I was little too, So
today I want to send you to the Thanksgiving Day
game to go see Frank Ragnew play into the Ford field.
How do you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You want to go?
Speaker 6 (07:53):
I got two tickets. You can bring whoever you want
you and whoever else.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
That's how you're gonna bring.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And I hope these tickets.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Keep that smile on your face.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, Malvery went and quickly pointed to her, Mamainika, Who's
going to be taking her to the game with a
brand new Frank rag now jersey. They will be sitting
in the second row right behind Frank and the offensive
line where they say Thanksgiving. So really cool to see
a Lions fan given back.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
All right, Hurricane Helene isn't going to stop a dad,
David Jones walking nearly thirty miles by foot through Hurricane
Helene storm damage to make his daughter's wedding on time.
This story is wild. So Jones weathered the hurricane at
his home in South Carolina, and after getting the generator
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going and making sure his wife was good to go,
he started the process of heading literally over a mountain
to get to the spot where his daughter was scheduled
to get married the next day. Seven hours and he
made it across the state line into Tennessee and found
the interstate completely shut down, law enforcement officers telling him
he couldn't go any further. There was just too much
damn image, So he got out of his car and
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decided to walk two a m He came across even
more damage as a bulldozer was trying to move mud.
He got on his hands and knees, crawling over debris
more than seven feet high. He got stuck in mud,
lost his shoes. At one point hand to dig those
out because figured he couldn't go any further on bare feet.
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By the time he came to a state trooper, he
rolled his window down and said, sir, are you the
one that's trying to get to your daughter's wedding? David said,
He laughed, and yeah, how would you know? He goes, boy,
everyone has been talking about you. Would you like a ride?
Got him at least into a downtown area before there
was no more passable lanes of any kind. David got
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out of the car and kept walking. Can you believe this?
He made it to the daughter's wedding just two hours
before she was scheduled to walk down the aisle almost
thirty miles. This dad travel talking to WBR his daughter
had no idea this was happening.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Gone was doing his dad thing and taking every measure
he could to be there, But I had no idea.
He walked me down the aisle. Yeah, it meant the world,
because I'm really close with my dad. We're so similar
and he's always been there for me.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
At one point, David grabbed a reflector to carry with
him because he was nervous he might get hit, and
he gave that as a wedding gift at the ceremony, saying,
this is a reminder it always protect each other, even
in your darkest hours. That's when it's needed the most,
as it did for me and for both of you,
to continue to be a reflection of God's goodness. Isn't
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that incredible?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You got to see the video West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
It sounds like that dad did like a tough mutter
competition just to get to his daughter's webbing.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Sounds harder than a tough mutter. But you know what,
Like I said, nothing stops the.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Dad, movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
It's the celebrities goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Well, Rapert ditty once again. I'm trying to get himself
released on bond. Two weeks after his arrest, building a
powerhouse legal team to try and make this a reality.
New court documents show the rapper's lawyer filed an appeal
to the most recent order denying him bond. His third
formal attempt to secure his release, the Rappers added two
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more attorneys, Anthony Rico and Alexandra Shapiro.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
So.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Anthony's known as one of the best trial lawyers in
the entire country. Alexandra has been called one of the
best apple lawyers practicing today. This would be a very
big deal obviously, loads of money being thrown at this
as well as he is desperate, according to sources, to
get out of where he is being held right now. Again,
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as that bond continues to be denied.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You know, it's just interesting because usually I just refer
to the rich people's stance, like rich people can get
whatever they want in our legal system. And this is
going to show you either the evidence is that compounding
or they are saying I'm not happening here.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
All right, stop the rumors. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey
are doing fabulously despite the fact that she has been
absent from the last two Kansas City Chiefs games. So
Taylor is back on tour in a couple of weeks.
Apparently rehearsals are back in full blown mode. She is
working really hard to get this back on track here.
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She doesn't have time to make the game, and as
for Travis, it doesn't really bother him. So this interview
is actually from twenty sixteen, where he sat down in
an interview with Whosy to talk about different aspects of
his gameplay, admitting the wag doesn't always.
Speaker 10 (12:36):
Need to be there if you're dating a professional athlete.
I do not believe, at least for me, that you
have to go to all the games. I mean there's
eight home games, eight away games, plus playoffs. I don't
even expect my parents and my friends to make every
single game.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So that was Travis talking about his ex Maya Ben
Barry when he was promoting that old reality series Catching Kelsey.
But friends with the couple say, there is absolutely nothing
going on here. Aren't doing better than ever.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Meanwhile, the NFL is like, what do you mean we
need her at every game? Come on at her out here.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Finally, Anna Delvey is continuing her really nasty takedown of
her time on Dancing with the Stars. Remember she was
the first elimination last week. Now she's telling NBC News,
I feel the show so obviously used me to drive
up the ratings and they never had any plans to
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give me any chance to grow, only cared about exploiting
me for attention. Anna went on to say it was
predatory of them to try and make me feel inadequate
and stupid, all while I did get progressively better. Yet
they just completely chose to disregard that. Getting taken down
online pretty pretty nicely, with some people writing, would you
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say the network misled you, lied about things, perhaps made
it seem as though something was happening that wasn't. Of course,
if you know his background, she was charged and eventually
convicted of doing all sorts of nefarious activities and pretty
much stealing millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I'm surprised you didn't try and use Dancing with the
Stars as like community service, you know what I mean? Like,
is this count towards my provinments?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
All right, all of your celeb scoop, but West Michigan
start off that.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Come on and see you.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It's back in Schmidi And chances are, if you're a
Verizon customer, you might not have been feeling so good yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's interesting. So I posted this on our Facebook. Sixty
six percent of people said what outage had no idea.
Thirty four percent had a big time problem yesterday. In
I've had these before, Like there's been a couple, you know,
in the last few years, and I feel like it's
always a really welcome break. It's like, oh, can't text people,
can't email people. I don't care if I have a laptop.
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I'm going to pretend that I can't hear or see
anything to do with anyone. I don't have to post
social It feels like a nice break. Yeah, yesterday was
a nightmare because we left Chicago to come home and
we had no phones none. I had no GPS, I
had no calling, I had no text messaging. I had
no way to check the internet.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, it's a good thing then that Chicago is not
a wild, intricate web of weird roads that are some
told some some not something construction.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Those roads aren't even open right now.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
That's why, you guys.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I felt like such a pioneer, like I was Laura
Ingles Wilder. Yesterday. We left the hotel at about ten am,
and I hadn't even it was probably a like twenty
twenty five minutes before I like pulled my phone out
of my bag. Once we'd hit the road. I'm like,
SOS mode, what is that? And I had nothing, and
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I'm freaking out because I've had a really really bad
history with phones. If you've listened to the show, you know,
And I'm like, oh my gosh, my software has like
busted again. I'm gonna have to call Verizon. I'm gonna
have to get yet another new phone. I'm going to
lose everything that I had, because that's what happened last time.
Then I felt really bad because I get annoyed with
Sophia because she had been playing with my phone. And
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so we stop at a gas stage and Chris is like,
looking at this, He goes it almost looks like someone
deleted your SIM card, And I'm like, why we don't
play with phone? Like I am on the edge of
edge of tears because I know that I have an
absolutely packed email inbox. I had five clients texting me,
and I'm like, I had all of this stuff planned
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to do on our drive back so I wouldn't be
so behind for today. I had nothing, and then I'm like,
what would I do? Thankfully, Chris's phone was unaffected. He
was totally fine, And I said, honestly, honestly, if I
was driving right now, or it was just me and
the kids, I wouldn't have left the state of Illinois.
I really have because then we get to an oasis,
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and if you're not familiar, it's these giant kind of
rest area type things that are over the express way.
They've got restaurants, They've got all these different things. Not
once could you buy a paper map paper.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I went up.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I went up to the like Illinois tollway system. I
was like, do you and she just kind of looked
at me. I was like, no, of course you don't
have a paper map, and I'm realizing I am completely
lost without a phone, especially in an area that I
do not know how to traverse on my own. I
would have stayed there. I would have stayed there until
the phones came back. There's nothing else I could have done.
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I probably would have like pulled over to a I
don't know, McDonald's with a play place and just told
my kids, like, this is where we live on Silver
Eyes and fixes it.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
How about being pre two thousand and just walking into
a gas station and asking for directions. Would that have
been something that you would have ever get I'm doing If.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Someone could have done it, if I've been like, how
do I get back to Michigan. Everybody's helpless. Like think
of someone that would be at a gas station and
be like, do I take ninety? Do I take two ninety?
Should I take ninety four? I think they would have
been like, I only know how to get to my
exit and go home.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Well, I can tell you as a husband, I would
have been like, no, we're doing this. We're getting there.
I don't care if we wind up in Kentucky. We're
getting over to that.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Absolutely strawt over how dumb I felt without my phone.
But then I was talking to friends yesterday. My phone
finally came back at five o'clock last and everybody I'm
talking to is like, yup, I had no idea what
to do, zero idea how to do things, order things.
The fact that you couldn't google and figure out what
was going on. I'm like, this is how the aliens
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take over my Wife's so easy to do.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
My wife didn't believe me because we both have Verizon
phones on the same plan, and I had SOS from
about eleven am through almost seven pm last night, and
she never got as.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I have an iPhone, we both have the same phone.
See Chris did not, and his phone was like fabulous,
Yeah I don't, I do so madam on iPhone. So
I don't know. What do you guys feel like? Could
you go? Could you go a day without anything on
your phone? The amount of people that DMed me last
night telling me why didn't you just print the directions
off map quest? You can't.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
You couldn't.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
There was no way to get on the internet, Like
I was an absolute pioneer churning my own butter yesterday
four five eight, one oh five seven. Do you think
I am absolutely the most absurd person ever? Or were
you also? Like, listen, we've gotten to the point where
our entire lives are based on technology working. I would
have been in the same.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Boat you're riding your own Oregon trail and worried about
dynamic I was.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I would not. I'm honestly you guys, I'm not even
being dramatic. I don't think I would have been able
to leave Chicago if I hadn't been with Chris, who
had a working phone, I would have been rolling in
this morning like the things Up scene.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Smitty's so salty, yes she is, But you know what,
if you lie down on the council. Let her vent
a little bit. Things get easier. Schmidty, you just mentioned
some Michigan drivers and it was like a different language
to me.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
What would you say, they're not Michigan. That's the point.
We're amazing. Okay, have you not heard of phipps and fops?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Fing Indiana people fing, Ohio people fing and Illinois people.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I think you vaguely just triggered a memory for me,
but I don't. I don't remember using those terms ever
in my life.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Oh my, okay, well, I guess breaking news. There's a
large amount of people that will discuss other state drivers
by using a potty word ahead of where they reside.
For instance, we were not looking forward to having to
deal with phipps, effing Illinois people and anybody who lives
along the Lake shore noes. As soon as you see
that Illinois license plate in Michigan, you're like, well, this
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is going to be the longest drive of my life.
And it was bad. You know, the speed limits don't
make sense. No one uses signals. A lot of people
are on a Sunday stroll, even if it's Monday at
eight am. But I gotta tell you. What I was
shown over the weekend is quite possibly the worst drivers Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Really.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Let me introduce you to the cheese kurd state and
how badly they do everything. At one point, this gentleman
with a very proud Wisconsin plate was straddling two lanes
on the Dan Ryan. I just like, didn't know, wasn't
sure if you wanted to go the cash lane or
the ipass lane. Just did that for miles miles wide.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Choose you could take both.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Fifty five mile per hour speed limit, which is already
gonna upset any Michigan driver because we don't understand that
we're gonna go a cool thirty two cool thirty two
on an express way. We're gonna get into the express
lane and then realize we needed to be in the
local lane, and instead of just continuing on and having
your GPS redirect, we're going to cut over, knock two
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orange barrels down so that the rest of traffic has
to move around and be like it's cool, I'm from Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Life moves a little slower and risk.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Sorry, I gotta call you out across the lake. Y'all
need to take some drivers training, Like every year, shy
so stalky.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
All right, so one more time there, just because I
want to add this to my repertoire. What's the nickname
for Ohio drivers?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Fops?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And how about Illinois drivers and Indiana phipps? What are
we gonna call Wisconsin drivers?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
It's a word I can't even sleep on the air.
It came out a couple times in front of my kids,
and I'm not proud of it.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Ladies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Well, former NFL star Antonio Brown is no stranger to
very controversial posts, but now he's targeting Taylor Swift, questioning
her romance with Travis Kelcey and what fans are calling
a vile, misogynistic tweet. The thirty four year old singer,
of course, absent from the last two Kansas City Chiefs games,
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while sources say the pair are stronger than ever and
a lot of it has to do with the fact
that Taylor is back on tour in just a couple
weeks and rehearsals have been a big part of her life.
Antonio had a really nasty, nasty tweet saying Travis Kelcey
needs some black leep. Bro is washed, commenting on his
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relationship with Taylor I assume, saying if maybe he had
a black woman in his life, he would be playing better.
Swift fans and even some Kelsey fans as well, taking
to the comments, saying this is absolutely disgusting. Like I said,
if you take a look at Antonio Brown's ex he
said a lot of things. He tends to go pretty
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hard on social but I understand this was way.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Over the line. Yeah, this guy's off his rocker. I mean,
the last time we saw him on a football field,
I believe he ripped off his pads and Jersey got
shirtless and flipped off the entire crowd.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Nothing from Taylor, though she seems to be letting the
Internet take care of things. Britney spears back in action
on social media, once again, worrying fans one it's an
absolutely wild story of how she almost set herself on fire.
But they're also talking about the very bizarre British sounding
accent Britney seems to have adopted.
Speaker 11 (23:46):
I was in my room and I turned the fire on,
and all of a sudden it I blee love in
my face. But this time I just threw the whole
thing in there and it literally blew into my face
and it took all my eyelashes off my eyebrows. And
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see this baby hair, these baby bangs. This is from
basically six months ago. It's all my hair.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah. She shares that whoever was hanging out with her
at the time like slept through the whole thing and
she thought she might have to go to the emergency
room before telling fans that she just put some ice
on her face, dealt with the pain for about seven hours,
and popped three tile and all before going to bed.
No idea when this would have gone down. Fans aren't
really sure why she's sharing the story now, but you
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can hear too that that accent is very very odd.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
It is Madonna did a British accent.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Face you're read Madonna. Finally, it was a big night.
Of course, you've heard and seen the highlights. Jared goff
Lion's quarterback with an absolutely perfect game, completing eighteen for
eighteen passes. What was fun, though, is that he didn't
realize that it was happening. NBC caught up within after
the game where they said how does it feel? And
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he went, wow, how does that look you are? How
does that meet your standards?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
There you go, Yeah, it's good when the ball doesn'
hit the ground. It was a good day.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Now, do you know when you're throwing a perfect game?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
You know, I wasn't sure.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
I was trying to remember if I hadn't a complition,
I couldn't play tell, but I knew I had a chance.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
We're so excited were you when that play call came in?
Speaker 11 (25:25):
They called during up.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I was fired up.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
We've been cooking that thing for a long time. I
think it's my first career touchdown catch.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Ever, So yeah, parted up of course talking about that
in same play between him and Amen ros Saint Brown
where he ended up getting thrown a touchdown catch. This
is awesome. A new NFL record is the Lions beat
the Seahawks forty two to twenty nine and Monday Night Football.
But the other funny part of this is how bad
coach Dan Campbell feels because he didn't realize that Goff
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had had a perfect game until it was too late
and he had already awarded the game ball to wide
receiver Jamison William and safety Kirby Joseph. In his postgame interview,
Campbell said, I feel awful. I knew Golf played a
heck of a game, but I didn't realize it was
perfect and I just gave the game ball to somebody else.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, I'm sure he felt bad about it, but you
know what, golf, Golf has got to be on cloud nine.
And for the Lions, I didn't realize this. That's the
first time they beat Seattle, Schmidty since twenty and twelve.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, there's a really cool video I can post up
of Montgomery actually walking back in the locker room after
that first win over Seattle, and the way that Campbell
greets him is really cool. It's all with your scoop
at West Michigan Star dot.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Com point seven. It's Mac and Schmidty and it is
time to battle.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Battle of the.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Sex is looking at get you into the home opener
for our Grand Rapids Griffins and a whole new season
of hockey.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Even cooler, it's coming up next Friday the eleventh. They're
playing Milwaukee. It is one of our biggest rivals. You
want tickets to see our Griffins, give us the number
one answer. One hundred women surveyed what part of the
body should be people stop tattooing.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Okay, it's not on the list, so I don't feel
bad saying it, But like writing words on your fingers
creeps me out, like when you do it across like
the knuckles.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Michelle has a.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Cousin across the knuckles.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Michelle is a cousin that has love and hate tattooed
on their fingers across each hand. And I just I
can't stop staring it at every every time I see
is this a cousin the.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Family actually claims?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Or so much? I don't want to get into.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
That six one, six, four, five, eight, one oh five
seven Battle of the Sexes one hundred women surveyed, what
part of the body should people stop tattooing? Give us
a call, Caller seven, gonna get the chance at that
number one answer and you're going to the Grand Rapids
Griffins home opener next Friday with Star one oh.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Five point seven points seven Mac and Spinning in the
morning playing Battle of the Sexes to get into the
Griffins home opener coming up on next Friday, the eleventh,
And we are looking for that coloring number seven. I
already got a couple of wrong guesses. I heard from
and Portage who When one hundred women were asked to
tell me a part of the body you think people
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should definitely stop getting tattoos on, he said the one
I think we were all thinking at first the face,
But the face was the number.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Two most common answer. And then I had Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Jennifer made the guess of the lower back a specific
type of stamp if you will. However, that was the
number three most common answer. Now I got young Olivia,
eight year old Olivia on the line here, now, Olivia,
one hundred women were asked name a part of the
body that you wish people would stop tattooing. And it's
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not face, and it's not the lower back. What do
you and mom think it is? Today?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Olivia?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Awesome, I'm Olivia and Mom. Congrats guys, Olivia. How excited
are you to go to a Griffins game? Heck yes,
it's gonna be a blast. Kingrats you guys, We're gonna
do it again tomorrow. Give somebody else a chance to
get into the very first Griffins game of the season
coming up next Friday. Four tickets for you and your
crew coming tomorrow morning, eight fifteen with Battle of the
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sexes here on Star. Congratulations Olivia, you are so welcome.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
You guys are gonna have a blast.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
And for the record, it was your your neck, followed
by face, then your lower back and chest, rounding out
those top answers. The only way Mom's going to approve
is if it well, it's the one that says mother.
I guess we'll do it again tomorrow eight fifteen. Here
on Star, good morning to you. It's Mack and Schmidty.
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And I know your car, SCHMITTI I know your trunk.
It's full of just randomness. Oh yeah, absolute randomness. You
have a mom of two young kids. But what's that
random item that you almost always have with you that
comes in super handy sometimes because I'm not kidding, yesterday, Schmitty,
I made two people's days so much better and honestly,
it made my day that much better too. In the
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back of my car, I have kept four quite some
time now. A mini air compressor. Yeah, I have a
tiny and it's because I have a slow leak in
one of my tires and I can't stand it when
the stupid check engine light comes on all because my
tire pressure went below thirty six ps. High drives me nuts,
so I have this thing in here so I can
always fill it back up to what it needs to be.
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Yesterday I was at d and w over off A
twenty eighth street and happened to notice somebody who was
getting ready to change a tire, and I stop and
I'm like, hey, do you you know I don't know
if there's a hole in that one or if it's
you know, just leaking air. I have a little air
compressor if you want to use it. Boom. They did
have a nail in it, but it wasn't leaking fast
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enough that they couldn't drive it someplace as long as
I gave them some juice fill it right up.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
So they were like trying to put their donut on.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
They were about and they were about to change the tire,
and I'm like, hey, if this will just load up
with some air and you can drive it someplace, let's
do that. The guy ecstatic, just ecstatic, and this the
whole thing took me ten minutes, and I'm like, oh,
that's my good deed for the day.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Flash forward.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I'm at football practice for my son last night and
one of the moms has her tire go flat while
She's sitting there for an hour and a half watching
her son, and I'm like, well, it just so happens
that I have an air compressor. I've never done this ever,
not one time in my life. If I ever use
it on somebody else's vehicle, and then twice in the
same day, I get it admitted.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Am I a terrible person probably to be like I
don't want to do that, because then if something happened,
they'd sue me. I want to be a good Samaritan,
you guys, I do, but I'd be so nervous that,
like two weeks from now would be like, remember that
red Toyota Corolla, Well my tire blue, and I'm suing
you for a billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Sometime because I get a good feeling, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
It's Tuesday, but you know what, every weekdays an opportunity
to get something positive in the system and bring with
you into the rest of your day. Feeling good right
now and stopping on five point seven, what'd you guess?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Well, it was an incredible game to watch for our
Detroit Lions, that big win over Seattle yesterday with Jared
Goff throwing a perfect game. I want to talk about halftime,
because while it was not televised, something pretty incredible happened
the Lions inducting Calvin Johnson aka Megatron, into the Pride
of the Lion's Ring of Honor. It was a really
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moving moment, an incredible video with all of the Lions' greats,
including Barry Sanders praising him and coach Dan Campbell, who
got to play with him in the league.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
I wish what everybody knew about Callan was what an
unbelievable teammate he was and the amount of work that
he put into it and the unselfishness that he had
as a player. Everybody sees the production, the talent, all that,
but it's those things that man, you never forget and
made you really want to play for the guy.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
And so many people had such kind things today to say. Johnson,
the number two pick back in two thousand and seven,
the Lions franchise leader in receptions, receiving yards, receiving touchdowns
a nine year career. He was introduced by Lions owner
Sheila hamp who said Calvin Johnson defined an era of
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Lions football. In doing so, he established himself as the
greatest wide receiver in Lions history. But when Calvin stepped
up to the mic, he had mostly the fans to thank.
Speaker 9 (33:15):
I thank God, I thank God for my family, I
thank God for his organization. I thank God for you,
the fans that held us accountable from a sixteen to
where we are today. And most importantly, I thank God
for my beautiful wife and.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
Family for keeping me here in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
With you guys right now.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Really incredible moment. Of course, he went on to say,
let's get this win tonight, and that's exactly what the
Lions did.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Really awesome, shitty, especially when considered. Part of this Lion's
resurgence that we've seen over the last few years included
welcoming Calvin back into the Lions family.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
A little bit of drama there for a few years,
but now he is a staple at these games in
a face you will see a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
More as he'd be. That's awesome, all right, schmidty. This
is just the story of finders keepers. Well, maybe not
so fast, especially when you know it's not the right
thing to do. Van Ha in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts had just
gotten home from her weekly trip to the grocery store
the market Basket there in Shrewsbury, and she realized she
was missing something that was pretty dang important, an envelope
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with twelve thousand dollars cash. Schmidty, Imagine how absolutely mortified
you would be finding out that you were missing it.
Well panicked, She called her nephew, Trong who and the
two of them hurried back to the grocery store hoping
to recover at the envelope, and the store manager was
really great about it. He met them in the parking
lot even offered to review surveillance footage. Unfortunately, though, it
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didn't show her dropping the envelope, so all they could
do is, you know, leave their name and number and
pray that the money was going to somehow get back
to them. It was only a few minutes later we
and a gentleman named Skip was standing up at the
customer service line. Sure enough, he's got an envelope with
twelve thousand dollars, no identifying information whatsoever, just cash that
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he saw sitting on the ground and immediately walked up
to turn it in. Of course, they were actually able
to get the family back to the store immediately reunite.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Them with their twelve thousand bucks cash.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
They actually were so grateful Trong, telling the local news
that they needed this money, that it was crucial for
supporting their family, and adding that in some cultures and
generations it's common to carry large sums of cash as well,
so this was absolutely massive for their entire family. They
actually gave Skip three hundred bucks for his act of
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generosity returning this cash to him, which I think that's
a deal, right, good karma, definitely good Kari. You should
buy some lotto tickets. Feeling good comes at you couple
times a day. I always want to tell you about
people doing good out there when we can, and we'll
do it again for you tomorrow, six forty five and
nine twenty here on Starminar five point seven. Mack and
Schmidty in the morning weekdays starting at six am on
Star one oh five point seven
Wakem It gets my day going and makes me laugh.
I of it. Mac and Schmitty in the Morning on
Star one oh five point seven. Good morning, Schmitty, Good morning,
welcome back. How was your wedding weekend in Chicago?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's good, It's good.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
They got married all things.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, they were already married. Yeah, they eloped. Like I
talked about last week, they loped, So this was just
a party to celebrate. However, barely made it home yesterday.
We're going to talk about that coming up at sevent ten,
because if you were like me, you had no phone yesterday,
and let me tell you, trying to make your way
through Chicago with not even GPS was quite a treat.
(00:42):
So that's quite an interesting conversation. Had a little bit
of a freak out on the roads.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I can't blame here for that.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I mean, Chicago's a nightmare on its own when you
have full service doing it kind of in the modern
day dark. Yeah, I can't wait to hear about that.
Plus Schmitty, we got lots to get to. I mean,
it is October first, all right, and we have baseball
to watch today. Do you realize that the last time
the Tigers were in the playoffs. You had zero children,
I had one child, and you and I had never
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met each other.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Probably, Yeah, I was so focused on the Cubs winning
the World Series a few years ago. So I'm so
sorry you guys. Gus, you just can't help me.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Maria.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I guess it's a little.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
News, movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The news breaking yesterday afternoon, major League baseball legend Pete
Rose has passed away at the age of eighty three.
Pete's agent confirming the news, adding the family is asking
for privacy at this time. Nicknamed Charlie Hustle, unbelievable, one
of the greatest baseball players ever, seventeen All Star Game nods,
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three World Series titles, who was the nl MVP in
seventy three. No player in the history of the MLB
has had more. It's then Pete, accumulating four thousand, two
hundred and fifty six of them over his twenty four
season career. He led in games, played at bats, and
played appearances, but of course, marred by the betting controversy.
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Banned from baseball by the MLB, commissioner in eighty nine,
still not inducted into the Hall of Fame. And that's
what a lot of people had to say after the
MLB's official statement yesterday extending its deepest condolences to his
family and friends across the game and fans of his
hometown of Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Montreal and beyond who admired his greatness, grit,
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and determination on the field of play. Now, the cause
of Pete's death is still unclear. They will conduct an
autopsy this week. He passed yesterday morning, and Sunday afternoon
he was in Nashville doing a huge meet and greet
with fans, looking fantastic. He met some team mates, he
did a bunch of interviews. So we'll see. But Pete
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Rose gone at eighty three.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I mean, one of the most controversial punishments in sports.
And I know, I uh. He lived in Las Vegas
for a while and I got to play on a
softball team with his son, Tyler, and his son always said,
they're not gonna let my dad in until he passes away.
They're never gonna let my dad into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, so here's the deal, because betting is legal now
that for years people have been like, are you serious,
Like the rules have changed? Can we just But yeah,
it will probably be posthumously unfortunately. Beyonce gracing us with
a new fashionable project teaming up with Levi's. Of course,
she used the iconic song off of her album for
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a big video she dropped on her social yesterday, call.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
It pretty Little Day and to turn the money you
can conding on it all.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That was one of my favorite songs on the album.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh my Gosh. You see her in this laundromat she
takes her jeens off and then pours an entire bucket
of diamonds into the washing machine. It's very, very reminiscent
of that original Levi's ad from nineteen eighty five where
you heard Marvin Gaye heard it through the gravevine. She
recreated that then issuing a statement that says denhim on.
Denham has often been seen through a male lens, so
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this reimagining campaign, which celebrates the iconic female perspective is
very important to me. Fans are super excited about this
smart Finally, Netflix has lost millions of subscribers after their
boss officially backed Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidential election.
(04:47):
Check this out. It actually happened. Back in July, co
founder Reid Hastings, who still serves as the streaming giant's
chairman in the face of the company, said he was
backing Kamala Harrison the presidential electtion and admitted to donating
seven million dollars to the Democratic candidates campaign. Well, a
new study has come out. The numbers have dropped more
(05:08):
than two million subscribers dropping Netflix within days of that announcement.
That's about two point eight percent of their customer base.
But just wild, like you gotta be careful these days.
All of your celebscoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Sometimes because I get a good feeling. Yeah, all right,
spending let's dive into some positivity this morning. Get you
feeling good right now and start one oh five points seven.
It's pretty incredible watching the Lions and all the fan
hype that is arounded this season. But it was very
strong last season, of course, as the Lions made the
playoffs for the very first time in a very long time,
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and one fan that went viral after their win over
the La Rams was known as Crying Lion Schmidty.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Do you remember him?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I do Yep.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
His name was Aaron Wick Areas and he had actually
lost his father when he was just a teenager. So
he was brought to tears by that emotional moment that
stirred up so much of his passion that he had
shared for the Lions with his late father. Well, people
reached out to him from all over the country were
so moved by his story that they gave him tickets
for the Tampa Bay game in the playoffs the very
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next weekend, and really had promised to give him tickets
for as long as the Lions were in the playoffs. Well,
this year came around and he decided he wanted to
pay it forward and do something for a fan that
needed the Lions sort of like he did. And so
he reached back out to WXYZ, who originally shared his story,
and they actually put out a call got some stories,
and that's how they went ahead and met a little
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girl named Mallory who had lost a mother figure in
her life when she was just six and a half
years old. Weill Aaron felt connected to her, and she
was connected to the Lions because she had actually been
going to a camp that was started by none other
than the Lions. Frank rag Now called Rags remembered. Ragnow
lost his own father back in twenty sixteen in the
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camps work with kids to help them get through grief.
So Mallory had been going there for two summers and
hanging with Frank Ragnow, and of course he is her
favorite player by far. So this full circle moment just
happened with w X y Z and Aaron showing up
to give Mallory quite the surprise.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
My name is Eron Mark Mark and you must be Mallory.
Do you know? Do you know who I am? The
cry baby on TV Crying Lion? Have you seen me before?
So I'm here today because I hear you're a big
Frank Ragnew fan. Is that true?
Speaker 7 (07:36):
It is?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
I love Frank Ragnew too, and I've heard that you've
probably gone through some similar things that I've gone through.
I lost my dad when I was little too, So
today I want to send you to the Thanksgiving Day
game to go see Frank Ragnew play into the Ford field.
How do you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You want to go?
Speaker 6 (07:53):
I got two tickets. You can bring whoever you want
you and whoever else.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
That's how you're gonna bring.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And I hope these tickets.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Keep that smile on your face.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, Malvery went and quickly pointed to her, Mamainika, Who's
going to be taking her to the game with a
brand new Frank rag now jersey. They will be sitting
in the second row right behind Frank and the offensive
line where they say Thanksgiving. So really cool to see
a Lions fan given back.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
All right, Hurricane Helene isn't going to stop a dad,
David Jones walking nearly thirty miles by foot through Hurricane
Helene storm damage to make his daughter's wedding on time.
This story is wild. So Jones weathered the hurricane at
his home in South Carolina, and after getting the generator
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going and making sure his wife was good to go,
he started the process of heading literally over a mountain
to get to the spot where his daughter was scheduled
to get married the next day. Seven hours and he
made it across the state line into Tennessee and found
the interstate completely shut down, law enforcement officers telling him
he couldn't go any further. There was just too much
damn image, So he got out of his car and
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decided to walk two a m He came across even
more damage as a bulldozer was trying to move mud.
He got on his hands and knees, crawling over debris
more than seven feet high. He got stuck in mud,
lost his shoes. At one point hand to dig those
out because figured he couldn't go any further on bare feet.
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By the time he came to a state trooper, he
rolled his window down and said, sir, are you the
one that's trying to get to your daughter's wedding? David said,
He laughed, and yeah, how would you know? He goes, boy,
everyone has been talking about you. Would you like a ride?
Got him at least into a downtown area before there
was no more passable lanes of any kind. David got
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out of the car and kept walking. Can you believe this?
He made it to the daughter's wedding just two hours
before she was scheduled to walk down the aisle almost
thirty miles. This dad travel talking to WBR his daughter
had no idea this was happening.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Gone was doing his dad thing and taking every measure
he could to be there, But I had no idea.
He walked me down the aisle. Yeah, it meant the world,
because I'm really close with my dad. We're so similar
and he's always been there for me.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
At one point, David grabbed a reflector to carry with
him because he was nervous he might get hit, and
he gave that as a wedding gift at the ceremony, saying,
this is a reminder it always protect each other, even
in your darkest hours. That's when it's needed the most,
as it did for me and for both of you,
to continue to be a reflection of God's goodness. Isn't
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that incredible?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You got to see the video West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
It sounds like that dad did like a tough mutter
competition just to get to his daughter's webbing.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Sounds harder than a tough mutter. But you know what,
Like I said, nothing stops the.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Dad, movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
It's the celebrities goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Well, Rapert ditty once again. I'm trying to get himself
released on bond. Two weeks after his arrest, building a
powerhouse legal team to try and make this a reality.
New court documents show the rapper's lawyer filed an appeal
to the most recent order denying him bond. His third
formal attempt to secure his release, the Rappers added two
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more attorneys, Anthony Rico and Alexandra Shapiro.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
So.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Anthony's known as one of the best trial lawyers in
the entire country. Alexandra has been called one of the
best apple lawyers practicing today. This would be a very
big deal obviously, loads of money being thrown at this
as well as he is desperate, according to sources, to
get out of where he is being held right now. Again,
(11:45):
as that bond continues to be denied.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You know, it's just interesting because usually I just refer
to the rich people's stance, like rich people can get
whatever they want in our legal system. And this is
going to show you either the evidence is that compounding
or they are saying I'm not happening here.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
All right, stop the rumors. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey
are doing fabulously despite the fact that she has been
absent from the last two Kansas City Chiefs games. So
Taylor is back on tour in a couple of weeks.
Apparently rehearsals are back in full blown mode. She is
working really hard to get this back on track here.
(12:21):
She doesn't have time to make the game, and as
for Travis, it doesn't really bother him. So this interview
is actually from twenty sixteen, where he sat down in
an interview with Whosy to talk about different aspects of
his gameplay, admitting the wag doesn't always.
Speaker 10 (12:36):
Need to be there if you're dating a professional athlete.
I do not believe, at least for me, that you
have to go to all the games. I mean there's
eight home games, eight away games, plus playoffs. I don't
even expect my parents and my friends to make every
single game.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So that was Travis talking about his ex Maya Ben
Barry when he was promoting that old reality series Catching Kelsey.
But friends with the couple say, there is absolutely nothing
going on here. Aren't doing better than ever.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Meanwhile, the NFL is like, what do you mean we
need her at every game? Come on at her out here.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Finally, Anna Delvey is continuing her really nasty takedown of
her time on Dancing with the Stars. Remember she was
the first elimination last week. Now she's telling NBC News,
I feel the show so obviously used me to drive
up the ratings and they never had any plans to
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give me any chance to grow, only cared about exploiting
me for attention. Anna went on to say it was
predatory of them to try and make me feel inadequate
and stupid, all while I did get progressively better. Yet
they just completely chose to disregard that. Getting taken down
online pretty pretty nicely, with some people writing, would you
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say the network misled you, lied about things, perhaps made
it seem as though something was happening that wasn't. Of course,
if you know his background, she was charged and eventually
convicted of doing all sorts of nefarious activities and pretty
much stealing millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I'm surprised you didn't try and use Dancing with the
Stars as like community service, you know what I mean? Like,
is this count towards my provinments?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
All right, all of your celeb scoop, but West Michigan
start off that.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Come on and see you.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It's back in Schmidi And chances are, if you're a
Verizon customer, you might not have been feeling so good yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's interesting. So I posted this on our Facebook. Sixty
six percent of people said what outage had no idea.
Thirty four percent had a big time problem yesterday. In
I've had these before, Like there's been a couple, you know,
in the last few years, and I feel like it's
always a really welcome break. It's like, oh, can't text people,
can't email people. I don't care if I have a laptop.
(14:46):
I'm going to pretend that I can't hear or see
anything to do with anyone. I don't have to post
social It feels like a nice break. Yeah, yesterday was
a nightmare because we left Chicago to come home and
we had no phones none. I had no GPS, I
had no calling, I had no text messaging. I had
no way to check the internet.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, it's a good thing then that Chicago is not
a wild, intricate web of weird roads that are some
told some some not something construction.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Those roads aren't even open right now.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
That's why, you guys.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I felt like such a pioneer, like I was Laura
Ingles Wilder. Yesterday. We left the hotel at about ten am,
and I hadn't even it was probably a like twenty
twenty five minutes before I like pulled my phone out
of my bag. Once we'd hit the road. I'm like,
SOS mode, what is that? And I had nothing, and
(15:39):
I'm freaking out because I've had a really really bad
history with phones. If you've listened to the show, you know,
And I'm like, oh my gosh, my software has like
busted again. I'm gonna have to call Verizon. I'm gonna
have to get yet another new phone. I'm going to
lose everything that I had, because that's what happened last time.
Then I felt really bad because I get annoyed with
Sophia because she had been playing with my phone. And
(16:00):
so we stop at a gas stage and Chris is like,
looking at this, He goes it almost looks like someone
deleted your SIM card, And I'm like, why we don't
play with phone? Like I am on the edge of
edge of tears because I know that I have an
absolutely packed email inbox. I had five clients texting me,
and I'm like, I had all of this stuff planned
(16:20):
to do on our drive back so I wouldn't be
so behind for today. I had nothing, and then I'm like,
what would I do? Thankfully, Chris's phone was unaffected. He
was totally fine, And I said, honestly, honestly, if I
was driving right now, or it was just me and
the kids, I wouldn't have left the state of Illinois.
I really have because then we get to an oasis,
(16:43):
and if you're not familiar, it's these giant kind of
rest area type things that are over the express way.
They've got restaurants, They've got all these different things. Not
once could you buy a paper map paper.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I went up.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I went up to the like Illinois tollway system. I
was like, do you and she just kind of looked
at me. I was like, no, of course you don't
have a paper map, and I'm realizing I am completely
lost without a phone, especially in an area that I
do not know how to traverse on my own. I
would have stayed there. I would have stayed there until
the phones came back. There's nothing else I could have done.
(17:19):
I probably would have like pulled over to a I
don't know, McDonald's with a play place and just told
my kids, like, this is where we live on Silver
Eyes and fixes it.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
How about being pre two thousand and just walking into
a gas station and asking for directions. Would that have
been something that you would have ever get I'm doing If.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Someone could have done it, if I've been like, how
do I get back to Michigan. Everybody's helpless. Like think
of someone that would be at a gas station and
be like, do I take ninety? Do I take two ninety?
Should I take ninety four? I think they would have
been like, I only know how to get to my
exit and go home.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Well, I can tell you as a husband, I would
have been like, no, we're doing this. We're getting there.
I don't care if we wind up in Kentucky. We're
getting over to that.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Absolutely strawt over how dumb I felt without my phone.
But then I was talking to friends yesterday. My phone
finally came back at five o'clock last and everybody I'm
talking to is like, yup, I had no idea what
to do, zero idea how to do things, order things.
The fact that you couldn't google and figure out what
was going on. I'm like, this is how the aliens
(18:18):
take over my Wife's so easy to do.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
My wife didn't believe me because we both have Verizon
phones on the same plan, and I had SOS from
about eleven am through almost seven pm last night, and
she never got as.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I have an iPhone, we both have the same phone.
See Chris did not, and his phone was like fabulous,
Yeah I don't, I do so madam on iPhone. So
I don't know. What do you guys feel like? Could
you go? Could you go a day without anything on
your phone? The amount of people that DMed me last
night telling me why didn't you just print the directions
off map quest? You can't.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
You couldn't.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
There was no way to get on the internet, Like
I was an absolute pioneer churning my own butter yesterday
four five eight, one oh five seven. Do you think
I am absolutely the most absurd person ever? Or were
you also? Like, listen, we've gotten to the point where
our entire lives are based on technology working. I would
have been in the same.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Boat you're riding your own Oregon trail and worried about
dynamic I was.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I would not. I'm honestly you guys, I'm not even
being dramatic. I don't think I would have been able
to leave Chicago if I hadn't been with Chris, who
had a working phone, I would have been rolling in
this morning like the things Up scene.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Smitty's so salty, yes she is, But you know what,
if you lie down on the council. Let her vent
a little bit. Things get easier. Schmidty, you just mentioned
some Michigan drivers and it was like a different language
to me.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
What would you say, they're not Michigan. That's the point.
We're amazing. Okay, have you not heard of phipps and fops?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Fing Indiana people fing, Ohio people fing and Illinois people.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I think you vaguely just triggered a memory for me,
but I don't. I don't remember using those terms ever
in my life.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Oh my, okay, well, I guess breaking news. There's a
large amount of people that will discuss other state drivers
by using a potty word ahead of where they reside.
For instance, we were not looking forward to having to
deal with phipps, effing Illinois people and anybody who lives
along the Lake shore noes. As soon as you see
that Illinois license plate in Michigan, you're like, well, this
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is going to be the longest drive of my life.
And it was bad. You know, the speed limits don't
make sense. No one uses signals. A lot of people
are on a Sunday stroll, even if it's Monday at
eight am. But I gotta tell you. What I was
shown over the weekend is quite possibly the worst drivers Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Really.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Let me introduce you to the cheese kurd state and
how badly they do everything. At one point, this gentleman
with a very proud Wisconsin plate was straddling two lanes
on the Dan Ryan. I just like, didn't know, wasn't
sure if you wanted to go the cash lane or
the ipass lane. Just did that for miles miles wide.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Choose you could take both.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Fifty five mile per hour speed limit, which is already
gonna upset any Michigan driver because we don't understand that
we're gonna go a cool thirty two cool thirty two
on an express way. We're gonna get into the express
lane and then realize we needed to be in the
local lane, and instead of just continuing on and having
your GPS redirect, we're going to cut over, knock two
(21:24):
orange barrels down so that the rest of traffic has
to move around and be like it's cool, I'm from Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Life moves a little slower and risk.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Sorry, I gotta call you out across the lake. Y'all
need to take some drivers training, Like every year, shy
so stalky.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
All right, so one more time there, just because I
want to add this to my repertoire. What's the nickname
for Ohio drivers?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Fops?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And how about Illinois drivers and Indiana phipps? What are
we gonna call Wisconsin drivers?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
It's a word I can't even sleep on the air.
It came out a couple times in front of my kids,
and I'm not proud of it.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Ladies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Well, former NFL star Antonio Brown is no stranger to
very controversial posts, but now he's targeting Taylor Swift, questioning
her romance with Travis Kelcey and what fans are calling
a vile, misogynistic tweet. The thirty four year old singer,
of course, absent from the last two Kansas City Chiefs games,
(22:28):
while sources say the pair are stronger than ever and
a lot of it has to do with the fact
that Taylor is back on tour in just a couple
weeks and rehearsals have been a big part of her life.
Antonio had a really nasty, nasty tweet saying Travis Kelcey
needs some black leep. Bro is washed, commenting on his
(22:51):
relationship with Taylor I assume, saying if maybe he had
a black woman in his life, he would be playing better.
Swift fans and even some Kelsey fans as well, taking
to the comments, saying this is absolutely disgusting. Like I said,
if you take a look at Antonio Brown's ex he
said a lot of things. He tends to go pretty
(23:12):
hard on social but I understand this was way.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Over the line. Yeah, this guy's off his rocker. I mean,
the last time we saw him on a football field,
I believe he ripped off his pads and Jersey got
shirtless and flipped off the entire crowd.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Nothing from Taylor, though she seems to be letting the
Internet take care of things. Britney spears back in action
on social media, once again, worrying fans one it's an
absolutely wild story of how she almost set herself on fire.
But they're also talking about the very bizarre British sounding
accent Britney seems to have adopted.
Speaker 11 (23:46):
I was in my room and I turned the fire on,
and all of a sudden it I blee love in
my face. But this time I just threw the whole
thing in there and it literally blew into my face
and it took all my eyelashes off my eyebrows. And
(24:09):
see this baby hair, these baby bangs. This is from
basically six months ago. It's all my hair.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah. She shares that whoever was hanging out with her
at the time like slept through the whole thing and
she thought she might have to go to the emergency
room before telling fans that she just put some ice
on her face, dealt with the pain for about seven hours,
and popped three tile and all before going to bed.
No idea when this would have gone down. Fans aren't
really sure why she's sharing the story now, but you
(24:38):
can hear too that that accent is very very odd.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
It is Madonna did a British accent.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Face you're read Madonna. Finally, it was a big night.
Of course, you've heard and seen the highlights. Jared goff
Lion's quarterback with an absolutely perfect game, completing eighteen for
eighteen passes. What was fun, though, is that he didn't
realize that it was happening. NBC caught up within after
the game where they said how does it feel? And
(25:04):
he went, wow, how does that look you are? How
does that meet your standards?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
There you go, Yeah, it's good when the ball doesn'
hit the ground. It was a good day.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Now, do you know when you're throwing a perfect game?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
You know, I wasn't sure.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
I was trying to remember if I hadn't a complition,
I couldn't play tell, but I knew I had a chance.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
We're so excited were you when that play call came in?
Speaker 11 (25:25):
They called during up.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I was fired up.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
We've been cooking that thing for a long time. I
think it's my first career touchdown catch.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Ever, So yeah, parted up of course talking about that
in same play between him and Amen ros Saint Brown
where he ended up getting thrown a touchdown catch. This
is awesome. A new NFL record is the Lions beat
the Seahawks forty two to twenty nine and Monday Night Football.
But the other funny part of this is how bad
coach Dan Campbell feels because he didn't realize that Goff
(25:52):
had had a perfect game until it was too late
and he had already awarded the game ball to wide
receiver Jamison William and safety Kirby Joseph. In his postgame interview,
Campbell said, I feel awful. I knew Golf played a
heck of a game, but I didn't realize it was
perfect and I just gave the game ball to somebody else.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, I'm sure he felt bad about it, but you
know what, golf, Golf has got to be on cloud nine.
And for the Lions, I didn't realize this. That's the
first time they beat Seattle, Schmidty since twenty and twelve.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, there's a really cool video I can post up
of Montgomery actually walking back in the locker room after
that first win over Seattle, and the way that Campbell
greets him is really cool. It's all with your scoop
at West Michigan Star dot.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Com point seven. It's Mac and Schmidty and it is
time to battle.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Battle of the.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Sex is looking at get you into the home opener
for our Grand Rapids Griffins and a whole new season
of hockey.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Even cooler, it's coming up next Friday the eleventh. They're
playing Milwaukee. It is one of our biggest rivals. You
want tickets to see our Griffins, give us the number
one answer. One hundred women surveyed what part of the
body should be people stop tattooing.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Okay, it's not on the list, so I don't feel
bad saying it, But like writing words on your fingers
creeps me out, like when you do it across like
the knuckles.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Michelle has a.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Cousin across the knuckles.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Michelle is a cousin that has love and hate tattooed
on their fingers across each hand. And I just I
can't stop staring it at every every time I see
is this a cousin the.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Family actually claims?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Or so much? I don't want to get into.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
That six one, six, four, five, eight, one oh five
seven Battle of the Sexes one hundred women surveyed, what
part of the body should people stop tattooing? Give us
a call, Caller seven, gonna get the chance at that
number one answer and you're going to the Grand Rapids
Griffins home opener next Friday with Star one oh.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Five point seven points seven Mac and Spinning in the
morning playing Battle of the Sexes to get into the
Griffins home opener coming up on next Friday, the eleventh,
And we are looking for that coloring number seven. I
already got a couple of wrong guesses. I heard from
and Portage who When one hundred women were asked to
tell me a part of the body you think people
(28:04):
should definitely stop getting tattoos on, he said the one
I think we were all thinking at first the face,
But the face was the number.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Two most common answer. And then I had Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Jennifer made the guess of the lower back a specific
type of stamp if you will. However, that was the
number three most common answer. Now I got young Olivia,
eight year old Olivia on the line here, now, Olivia,
one hundred women were asked name a part of the
body that you wish people would stop tattooing. And it's
(28:34):
not face, and it's not the lower back. What do
you and mom think it is? Today?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Olivia?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Awesome, I'm Olivia and Mom. Congrats guys, Olivia. How excited
are you to go to a Griffins game? Heck yes,
it's gonna be a blast. Kingrats you guys, We're gonna
do it again tomorrow. Give somebody else a chance to
get into the very first Griffins game of the season
coming up next Friday. Four tickets for you and your
crew coming tomorrow morning, eight fifteen with Battle of the
(29:03):
sexes here on Star. Congratulations Olivia, you are so welcome.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
You guys are gonna have a blast.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
And for the record, it was your your neck, followed
by face, then your lower back and chest, rounding out
those top answers. The only way Mom's going to approve
is if it well, it's the one that says mother.
I guess we'll do it again tomorrow eight fifteen. Here
on Star, good morning to you. It's Mack and Schmidty.
(29:30):
And I know your car, SCHMITTI I know your trunk.
It's full of just randomness. Oh yeah, absolute randomness. You
have a mom of two young kids. But what's that
random item that you almost always have with you that
comes in super handy sometimes because I'm not kidding, yesterday, Schmitty,
I made two people's days so much better and honestly,
it made my day that much better too. In the
(29:52):
back of my car, I have kept four quite some
time now. A mini air compressor. Yeah, I have a
tiny and it's because I have a slow leak in
one of my tires and I can't stand it when
the stupid check engine light comes on all because my
tire pressure went below thirty six ps. High drives me nuts,
so I have this thing in here so I can
always fill it back up to what it needs to be.
(30:14):
Yesterday I was at d and w over off A
twenty eighth street and happened to notice somebody who was
getting ready to change a tire, and I stop and
I'm like, hey, do you you know I don't know
if there's a hole in that one or if it's
you know, just leaking air. I have a little air
compressor if you want to use it. Boom. They did
have a nail in it, but it wasn't leaking fast
(30:35):
enough that they couldn't drive it someplace as long as
I gave them some juice fill it right up.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
So they were like trying to put their donut on.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
They were about and they were about to change the tire,
and I'm like, hey, if this will just load up
with some air and you can drive it someplace, let's
do that. The guy ecstatic, just ecstatic, and this the
whole thing took me ten minutes, and I'm like, oh,
that's my good deed for the day.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Flash forward.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I'm at football practice for my son last night and
one of the moms has her tire go flat while
She's sitting there for an hour and a half watching
her son, and I'm like, well, it just so happens
that I have an air compressor. I've never done this ever,
not one time in my life. If I ever use
it on somebody else's vehicle, and then twice in the
same day, I get it admitted.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Am I a terrible person probably to be like I
don't want to do that, because then if something happened,
they'd sue me. I want to be a good Samaritan,
you guys, I do, but I'd be so nervous that,
like two weeks from now would be like, remember that
red Toyota Corolla, Well my tire blue, and I'm suing
you for a billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Sometime because I get a good feeling, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
It's Tuesday, but you know what, every weekdays an opportunity
to get something positive in the system and bring with
you into the rest of your day. Feeling good right
now and stopping on five point seven, what'd you guess?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Well, it was an incredible game to watch for our
Detroit Lions, that big win over Seattle yesterday with Jared
Goff throwing a perfect game. I want to talk about halftime,
because while it was not televised, something pretty incredible happened
the Lions inducting Calvin Johnson aka Megatron, into the Pride
of the Lion's Ring of Honor. It was a really
(32:16):
moving moment, an incredible video with all of the Lions' greats,
including Barry Sanders praising him and coach Dan Campbell, who
got to play with him in the league.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
I wish what everybody knew about Callan was what an
unbelievable teammate he was and the amount of work that
he put into it and the unselfishness that he had
as a player. Everybody sees the production, the talent, all that,
but it's those things that man, you never forget and
made you really want to play for the guy.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
And so many people had such kind things today to say. Johnson,
the number two pick back in two thousand and seven,
the Lions franchise leader in receptions, receiving yards, receiving touchdowns
a nine year career. He was introduced by Lions owner
Sheila hamp who said Calvin Johnson defined an era of
(33:04):
Lions football. In doing so, he established himself as the
greatest wide receiver in Lions history. But when Calvin stepped
up to the mic, he had mostly the fans to thank.
Speaker 9 (33:15):
I thank God, I thank God for my family, I
thank God for his organization. I thank God for you,
the fans that held us accountable from a sixteen to
where we are today. And most importantly, I thank God
for my beautiful wife and.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
Family for keeping me here in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
With you guys right now.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Really incredible moment. Of course, he went on to say,
let's get this win tonight, and that's exactly what the
Lions did.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Really awesome, shitty, especially when considered. Part of this Lion's
resurgence that we've seen over the last few years included
welcoming Calvin back into the Lions family.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
A little bit of drama there for a few years,
but now he is a staple at these games in
a face you will see a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
More as he'd be. That's awesome, all right, schmidty. This
is just the story of finders keepers. Well, maybe not
so fast, especially when you know it's not the right
thing to do. Van Ha in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts had just
gotten home from her weekly trip to the grocery store
the market Basket there in Shrewsbury, and she realized she
was missing something that was pretty dang important, an envelope
(34:22):
with twelve thousand dollars cash. Schmidty, Imagine how absolutely mortified
you would be finding out that you were missing it.
Well panicked, She called her nephew, Trong who and the
two of them hurried back to the grocery store hoping
to recover at the envelope, and the store manager was
really great about it. He met them in the parking
lot even offered to review surveillance footage. Unfortunately, though, it
(34:44):
didn't show her dropping the envelope, so all they could
do is, you know, leave their name and number and
pray that the money was going to somehow get back
to them. It was only a few minutes later we
and a gentleman named Skip was standing up at the
customer service line. Sure enough, he's got an envelope with
twelve thousand dollars, no identifying information whatsoever, just cash that
(35:08):
he saw sitting on the ground and immediately walked up
to turn it in. Of course, they were actually able
to get the family back to the store immediately reunite.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Them with their twelve thousand bucks cash.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
They actually were so grateful Trong, telling the local news
that they needed this money, that it was crucial for
supporting their family, and adding that in some cultures and
generations it's common to carry large sums of cash as well,
so this was absolutely massive for their entire family. They
actually gave Skip three hundred bucks for his act of
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generosity returning this cash to him, which I think that's
a deal, right, good karma, definitely good Kari. You should
buy some lotto tickets. Feeling good comes at you couple
times a day. I always want to tell you about
people doing good out there when we can, and we'll
do it again for you tomorrow, six forty five and
nine twenty here on Starminar five point seven. Mack and
Schmidty in the morning weekdays starting at six am on
Star one oh five point seven
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