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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mac and Schmitty in the morning on West Michigan's Christmas station,
Star one oh five point seven. Well, oh, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Schmitty, Good morning guys, and welcome back.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
That's right. Hopefully you had a phenomenal Thanksgiving, full of food, friends, family,
and of course lots of football too, Schmitty.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Weeah that it was quite a bit going on.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Man, huge weekend, of course, But now here we go
the winter weather. You know, we had nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing,
then finally some snow over our Thanksgiving breaking. It looks
like we're just getting warm back.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Oh man, I gotta be honest. You take advice from friends,
you expect it to be good. But singer Meghan Trainer
is saying, don't do the lip flip. She was on
the latest episode of the Working on It podcast admitting
she got too much botox and now she can't smile.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I got too much botox and I need help.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I messed up. Listen.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I've had botox like a handful of times, just a
few times just up here, just my forehead, and someone
convinced me with my little lips that if you did
a lip flip, you put phila right above your upper lip,
that you could have a beautiful flip on your upper
lip and I could have one for the first time
in my whole thirty years of living. 'twas not true, right,
And also I cannot smile anymore.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
She said, In fact, watch on YouTube. This is the
best I can smile. My mouth barely upturns. Don't do
this well.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
And that's the scary part of botox that everybody talks about, right,
frozen face like that, you're just gonna get stuck in
the like.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I really wanted to do a lip flip, and now
she's got me super scared because I do want a
nice lip. So thank you, Megan Trainer, taking one for
the team. Martha Stewart is admitting she's not blowing you off.
She has no idea how to check her DMS, barely
even knows what that is. So the lifestyle Guru if
you missed Talked stopped by Talk Shop Live. This is
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kind of a video platform that lets people buy and
sell products using things like Instagram Live. She joined Friday
night to talk about black Friday sales as well as
to promote her one hundredth published book.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And when the host was.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Explaining people could apply to have dns with offers sent
right to your account, Martha looked very confused and admitted
she has no clue how to check those.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
There's multiple ways of de baying today.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I can't wait to get into my office and look
up my dns. That might take you.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
You might have to a couple of hours go through
all of those.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah, she admits, Oh, you're telling me there might be
millions of people sitting in there right now.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And the host was like a hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Think of all those misconnections fitting. Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Finally, what a weekend for a Wicked raking it in
at the box office, officially becoming the highest grossing movie
based on a musical in US history. So according to Deadline,
through Friday, the movie's domestic gross hit two hundred and
fourteen point three million dollars that eclipsed the entire gross
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of Greece. And when you talk about nearly another fifty
million being made in the weekend over two hundred and sixty, again,
that's only domestic, with the world wide take pulling in
nearly an additional three hundred and sixty million bucks.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
This movie is huge now.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
It does still trail some big ones like Les Misz
and Grease and Mama Mia. But this thing has just
opened and absolutely every person I know has already seen it.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I honestly I can't wait to go see it. We
did not we did the Moana two over the weekend.
We're gonna go see Wicket.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I think this one I'm taking my son. My son
wants to go, and I'm like, yes, my little theater kid.
Oh of your celeb scoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Sometimes because I get a good feeling. Yeah, well it's
reading real quick. I just got to give a shout
out to a Meskegon woman living her best life. Seventy
year old Doreen Rnagan just want a national selfie competition.
This is kind of cool. She is a member of
the Spins Sisters cycling group and she entered a contest
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that was actually done for Humanna and Growing Boulders social
media pages and magazine where they asked senior sixty five
and up to share a selfie of them doing something
that they love, getting out and being active. And she
told Fox seventeen. They speak to my community. I feel
encouraged by them. It's all about people at my age
who are growing bolder and older in a healthy, fun way.
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And then when I saw they had a selfie contest,
I went wow, I'm a selfie queen. I love taking
pictures of me and my friends and telling stories about
what we're going to what we're doing out there. Well,
her selfie was the winner of this national selfie contest.
It's already been seen on Human and Growing Boulders social
media pages, get to be featured on Growing Boulders magazine,
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and already shown on the Big sixty five plus display
at the Grand Old Opry's ninety ninth birthday celebration.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
But just doing it up, Beesha's looking classic, all right.
We all heard about this last week and it was devastating.
Someone Tuesday night caught on surveillance camera causing significant damage
to the Christmas light show. We love Bill and his team,
and this was terrible. The Kent County Sheriff's Office believes
the man used heavy duty wirecutters. He broke at least
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one hundred lights. A quarter of the displays couldn't work,
and that meant that Bill and his team couldn't open
the Christmas Light Show Wednesday night, as they had been
planning to well leave it to West Michigan to step up.
Big Debree's Landscape knew they wanted to help. Dozens of
people showed up Friday morning to make sure that the
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show would go on, and Saturday night, Bill founder veteran
ninety five years young, was able to open the Christmas
Light Show and sitting down Fox seventeen, you can hear
how emotional he is about the dedication this community feels
for him.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
But there's another ten or twelve people here that friends
of mine, and they just stopped them to say, Hi, Belle,
we want to help. It's amazing, And how how dedicated
loyal they are.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Really tugs in your heartstring? Yeah tell you it does.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
And Bill, who started this in nineteen ninety eight, is
just an absolute gem of a human. So yes, the
Christmas Light Show at LMCU Ballpark is open and ready
through January fourth. And how cool would it be to
make us their biggest year yet big time?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
They deserve it. I mean, like you said, they work
so hard over there, and for some grinch to come
along and do this was so ridiculous. I did see
there's a VFW holl And Wyoming offering fifteen hundred bucks
in a.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Walker Legion post.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yeah, fifteen hundred dollars if anyone had any information on
this Scrooge, because everybody.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Wants them caught, loved to see them rebound like that.
And of course you want to get into the Christmas
Light Show. You can win a car pass for your
family right now, West Michigan Star dot com and we'll
be around for another round of positivity. Feeling good comes
your wake in at nine to twenty this morning. Here
on the Star one on five point.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Seven, movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's the celebrities scoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Well, it was a big evening last night at London's
Dominion Theater where Sir Elton John among the guests for
the red carpet launch of The Devilwaresprada the Musical. But
while on stage banking the cast, the crew, the amazing musicians,
he also took a moment to thank his husband by
making the surprising admission that he is nearly blind to my.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Husband, who's been my role because I haven't been able
to come to many of the previews because how do
you know, I've lost my eyesight?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
So is hard to be to say, oh, I love
to hear it and boy, soundly good tonight.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Now, we knew as of a couple months ago that
he had talked about an eye infection that was partially
affecting his site, but this makes it sound like he
has completely lost sight in at least one eye, if
it hasn't been affecting the other as well. He literally
had to be helped off stage by his husband because
he could not see where he was going.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It was really sad.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, he said he's been basically blind for about four
solid months now. The prognosis had getting a little bit better.
Does look okay, but he said he's been working on
actually a new album that he can't finish it all
right now just because the ability did not see it.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
That's it devastating.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
He was saying last night he doesn't know if we're
ever going to hear new music from him again. Wow,
So this I think may have taken a turn from
what he was originally telling us. There's also a new
documentary that will be coming out about his farewell to
the yellow Brick Road Tour coming. Hollywood Royalty has created
the perfect union. Get this, Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy
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are going to be in laws. Martin's daughter Jasmine officially
engaged over the weekend to Eddie's son Eric.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
She broke the news.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
The two got engaged back on the twenty seventh, which
a wonderful little Instagram video thanking all of the countless
vendors that made this entire thing look absolutely astonishing. Jasmine said,
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God truly blessed us with a love that feels like destiny.
We couldn't be more excited for this next chapter. Special
thank you to everyone who made this moment so beautiful
that you have been dating for a few years. They
were originally hooked up July two, thy twenty one. Thirty
five year old Eric met twenty eight year old Jasmine
through her uncle, and I guess dad and Dad will
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be having a lot of fun together.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I was gonna shay the loudest and the funniest Thanksgiving
table meals of all time. For sure. It reminds me
of the Scotty Pip and Michael Jordan kids getting together.
That was just weird too.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Ah yeah, and did not end very well.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Now finally Dune, the Rock Johnson spent a very heartfelt
day giving thanks to our troops in Hawaii. A very
successful opening weekend by the way from Mowana too, where
of course he voices Maui. The actor and former WWE
superstar also decided to visit Joint Bass Pearl Harbor Hickham
on Oahu Saturday to connect with members of the military community.
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Incredible photos that he shared, writing boundlessly grateful to all
our military men and women and their families for their service.
A great day to look you in your eyes and
shake your hands. I also loved all the depths, hugs,
tears and selfies too. God bless you, God bless your
families forever A proud patriot as our freedom is our
greatest privilege.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
The Rock is a good seems like a good dude
and definitely grate at pr at a minimum. He is
a phenomenal business with LUSA.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Did an incredible moment with Make a Wish Kids at
that Mohana to premiere as well. Got it all for
you with your scoop at West Michigan start off the.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Stelling a fine points you having West Michigan's Christmas station,
Good morning to you. And of course the holiday season
brings with it all sorts of family travel. Schmidty, I mean, we.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Were all over the place, it felt like, all over
the state, all good, good things.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
But can I please put out just a little feeler.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
There's got to be a scientist or an engineer or
someone in steam listening right now.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Give us a better way to hook those dang car
seats in, because.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I got to tell you, the hardest part of traveling
with kids is switching car seats between cars.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
We had to figure out.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
We had my mother in law watching the kids one
day while we were both working, and then she was
going to take them back to Lansing, so we had
to put the car seats into her car, and then
as soon as we got there, we had to switch
the car seats out of her car back into Chris's
trunch that we could go to my parents. And then
we were doing I mean, and if anyone has had
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those car seats, I mean, if you are not willing
to bruise different parts of your body, if you're not
willing to get stuck. I got stuck in my backseat
trying to put Will's in there. And then it's the
spouse difference. Like the way my husband is able to
put car seats in is so tight, which I know
it's what you're supposed to do. I then can't get
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them out. I am sitting in a McDonald's parking lot
in Portland as my mother in law is sitting in
the car seat to try and weigh it down enough
where I can all the little red thing out of
the anchor that's also buried so deep in the seat
your little fingers can't even grip it. And then after
all of this, I don't know if you've gone east
on ninety six. This billboard has been there for like
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ten years. And my six year old is learning to
read and he reads everything. And we passed that billboard
with the really suspicious looking baby, and Will just goes, are.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You sure I'm in the right car seat? I'm like,
don't bring right?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Like I have the weirdest bruise on like my outer
thigh trying to get.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Those things out.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
And I posted this video to our Instagram, and I'm like,
is there something more challenging with all of these travels
swapping cars different family than having to swap out car seats?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Honestly, Swittie we fairst off. What a great bondiing experience
between you and your mother in laws. I'm sure you
both sat there cursing the name of your husband and
her son.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
And everyone else driving on West Grand River in Portland.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So good. We actually used to keep a baseball bat
in my wife's trunk, and it wasn't for doing anything
baseball related. It was because we could slip the metal
bat through the loop on the car seat and that
was the only way we were both able to get
it tight enough in order to do it with le Bridge.
I mean, all my mind, oh insane, worst thing I
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feel for you on that one, And it's something that
after you get past that point, you forget how much
of a in your existence. It really was. Yeah, like
every parent is like, oh yeah, that was the worst.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
When you finally didn't have to deal with it anymore,
it was like the halleluja acchoir, oh you know starts singing,
the sky opens up and the sun starts shining. I mean,
it is a major milestones.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Cause I'm telling you.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I told my brother and sister in law, who have
a ten month old, I was like, hold on to
that infant seat as long as you can. The click
in and out is nothing compared to what you've got
to do to get your one to seven year old.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Say, dear, are the human torch was denied a bankal
overade goae. That's not the important news. It's the news
that you click on while you're wasting time at work.
This week's best headlines, what are you gone for? A
smitting with our very first.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Adye a cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought a piece of art
that was simply a banana duct taped to a wall
for six point two million dollars ate it in Hong Kong,
telling everyone and a press conference that covered him eating
so banana it tastes much better than other bananas.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Indeed quite good.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Badbye, Schmedde Potato cartel conspired to spike frozen potato prices.
I wriped this right off of wood TV. Four companies
that produced ninety seven percent of frozen potatoes in the
US generated a whole bunch of extra profit by teaming
up to rip off consumers, all in Idaho with no kiddy.
This is like the Idaho mafia. Basically, bad bye.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
This is an interesting way to ring in the new year.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
A Georgia city will blow up an old hotel to
greet twenty twenty five, the Make and Bid County Commission
approved a plan to implode a vacant sixteen story hotel
at midnight on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I'm sorry, that sounds way cooler than the lame buldrop Badbye.
Woman demands family signed code of conduct for holidays. Schmidty,
a thirty two year old woman, explained on Reddit that
her younger sister wants the family to sign a code
of contact that includes things like taking turn earns, talking
at the dinner table, a ban on political topics, a
dress code, and assigned seating.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I love all those things.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I was gonna say this is given off big sister vibes.
I'm not sure this is the little sister.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Finally, did you see our GBSU Lakers go viral over
the weekend pulling up to their D two playoff game
completely shirtless. Grand Valley took on hearting in Allendale, where,
if you didn't realize it snowing with a real feel
of ten degrees. Everyone, including SportsCenter, did a special on
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the guys. They tweeted out the cold sharpens the blade.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Well, apparently, not sharp enough.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's all right, but it's sell a great story.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Goodbye. KFC sells out of chicken wrapping paper, Schmidty. Yes,
KFC created lickable chicken flavored wrapping paper, the gift that
keeps on giving this holiday season. Would you lick it?
By the way, would you try?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
I put that in my code of conduct. Do you
show up with that wrapping paper under my tree and
have my kids lick it?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Mess on you?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Godbye's this week's best headlines. You see any great ones
out there, you can I always send them our way
Facebook and Instagram, A's West Michigan, Star.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
It's the celebrities goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Well, the pressure is on for Travis Kelce to pop
the question. So this all started back on Friday when
we got the big news that Buffalo Bill's quarterback Josh
Allen officially proposed to actress and musician Hailey Steinfeld. Really
cute pictures that Josh put up on Instagram and it
was flooded with comments from Hollywood, including kill a trav
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Travis Kelsey, who, unbelievable decided to write congratulations with a
couple of praise and claphand emojis. Well, the internet went wild,
things like you next, where are you at?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Trav?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
This is so cute? Wouldn't Taylor loves something like this? Wow, Travis,
you know what you need to do? Looks like the
timing's perfect, Travis. I mean thousands of comments with supporters,
all of them swifties, pushing Travis to finally pop that
question to Taylor?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Do you think schmddy that when that eventually, if that,
if that ever does happen, that we hear about it
within a week of it happening. What would you say,
within a week of it happening, or would be weeks
and weeks?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I don't think Taylor hides the ring walking into Arrowhead Stadium,
But if they do it outside of it, I think
it could be months. Honestly, I think they could keep
it that quiet.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I think they'll be married before any of us ever
find out they're engaged.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Jamie Fox, the actor and comedian, says he will speak
candidly about his recent life events. He is in big
promotion now for his upcoming special What had Happened on Netflix?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I said, if backing state Puny Box stay Alive.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
So it officially drops December tenth. But now there's another
layer to this. Fox said filming the special was like
going to church. He said, we celebrated life, second chances.
I cannot wait to talk all about this, and according
to sources, that will include this crazy rumor that his
health scare was because Diddy poisoned him.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah. Like, that's about at this point the only Wow
Show thing I expect to hear during this special because
I feel like, when did this even happen to Jamie Fox?
When did the health issue even.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Have this April of last year year, because.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
It feels like it was five years ago at this point.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
So there's a lot of people that have started talking
about this, including Joe Rogan bringing it up on his
podcast over the weekend that apparently we've heard maybe Jamie
Fox knew a lot of what's been going on with
the allegations against Diddy to the point where he needed
to be taken out as a problem. Like I said,
December tenth, we will hear all about this. That's when
that special drops on Netflix. Finally, Frankie Munez, the actor
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and now race car driver, says that his TV dad,
Brian Cranston is still pretty much.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
A real life dad to him.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Who's on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast,
revealing that they.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Are still super close.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Muna says that Cranston really was a father figure to
him since they were working so young together on Malcolm
in the Middle, saying, he still reaches out to me
every couple of weeks. He checks in on me. He
really cares about what I'm doing. He comes to my races,
if my band is playing, he comes to shows. Frankie
says that he feels Brian's really been an inspiration to
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him and now in turn he hopes to be that
same person for someone else someday.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
That was so cool.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I'm sure he's closer to Hal from Malcolm in the
Middle than he is to like Walter White, right, Like,
he's got to be a little bit different of a dad.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I think it depends, honestly, as any parent would tell
you what we're talking about here, right fair Fair, Oh
of your celeb scoop at West Michigan Star dot Com.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Stell F point seven, it's package Benny. Thanks for being
here this morning, and we would love to get you
into a very delicious event that's coming up. But you've
got to give us the top answer to today's Christmas
quiz question.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
So we're gonna send you to the Great Grand Rapids
Cookie Exchange Grcookieexchange dot com to learn all the info
if you have today's answer, what is something you start
doing December first?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Ooh, something that I start doing December first? Looking around
for the elf on the shelf. That's what I'll be doing.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
I think, Wow, mane on me, I'm stressing out, ba
I had so many Sundays scaries yesterday six one, six, four,
five eight, one oh five seven collar seven. Give us
that number one answer, what's something you start doing December first?
And I'll see you at the Grand Great Grand Rapits
Cookie Exchange with Star one.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Oh five point seven?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Good morning Star? Who's this?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
This is Don Don?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Where are you calling from today?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I'm going from Stanworth, Michigan.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Rah. How is your Thanksgiving weekend? Don?
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Wonderful. That's a family and food was great?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Oh yeah, so all the all thes throwing some football
and some fun. We got them all in there. Right,
let's do this, Don, let's start. You are December off
on a great note. You got to tell me. One
hundred adults were asked what's something you might start doing
on December one? Do you think their top answer was
They're done.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I want to say sending out Christmas cards.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Sending out Christmas cards, you know what, that is a
great answer for responsible folks that get their cards out
in a timely fashion. We're not talking to one of
those people, however, that's the NU number. That is the
number three most common answer, but not the top one.
I'm sorry, Don, you have a great day. You do Bye,
Hi star. Who's this? Tim? I just got a great
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guest from Don. When one hundred adults were asked to
name something you might start doing on December first, she
said sending out your Christmas cards, which was a great guess,
but not the top answer. It was actually the number
three most common answer. So what do you think it is?
Get a Christmas tree? Get a Christmas tree? You know
a lot a lot of people, you know, they eat
their turkey and then the trees gotta go up. Christmas
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tree is the top answer.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Here to go.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, you're picking up tickets to go check out the
Great Grand Rapids Cookie Exchange. It is going to be
a delicious and absolute blast. Congrats him.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Oh, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You are very welcome. We'll be doing it again tomorrow.
Another chance to win coming at eight fifteen with your
Christmas quiz. Or you can win a pair of tickets
for the Great Grand Rapids Cookie Exchange right now, West
Michigan Star dot com. Good morning to you. It's Mack
and Schmitty and I don't want to talk about a
blue Christmas, so I got to talk about a blue
Thanksgiving Schmitty because I'm still bitter and sad at the
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lack of my Thanksgiving leftovers. I am so disappointed. I
actually had no idea how much it was going to
impact me. We did Christmas at my in laws, and
it was really great because we combined both families for
the first time effort. On Thanksgiving this year, my dad
and my sister were both in town, so they came
over with my niece and we had a great Thanksgiving
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at Michelle's parents' house. It was awesome. The food was delicious,
and we went home with some things. But I did
not realize that we went home in terms of Thanksgiving
leftovers that I would consider necessary part of Thanksgiving. The turkey,
the stuffing, the cranberry, all of those things. We went
home with none of it, and on Friday I got
so deep in my feelings about it. All I could
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think about all day long was how I wanted to
be eating like a leftover turkey sandwich on sour dough bread.
How I wanted to be eating leftover green bean cast
role because it's even better as leftovers than it is
hot and fresht zero leftovers.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
We had none. We planned it so perfectly. I guess that,
like all eighteen people at our house, like, we came
home with nothing.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Ye see, you know, in my head, I do the
lie where I'm like, I don't want to come home
with the whole pumpkin part. Of course, I want to
come home with a whole pumpkin pie without a doubt,
but I also need to come home with those leftovers.
And we had nothing, and I hated every second of it.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I'll say, just real quick, three to four days, so
let's not be eating that for your work lunch today.
Otherwise that work bathroom is going to see some action.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Get a well. I always could use a little extra
push on a Monday. That's what we bring to you.
Feeling good every morning here on STARWINAR five point seven,
What's Happening.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
To manne Well?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I got to tell you, nothing felt better than seeing
Broadway Grand Rapids bring Mama Mia to Devas Performance Hall.
It had a six day run over this past holiday weekend.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I saw it opening night and it was absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
But even cooler was the return of a Michigan native
who finally got to perform in front of his family.
Blake Price has been traveling all across the country for
the musical tour of Mama Mia and finally found his
way back home for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
This is really cool.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
He attended East Kentwood, he studied theater at Western but
him and his wife Kat now live in New York,
where he's been a full time actor for more than
a decade.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Not only is it the.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Music of Abba that he loves, but the themes that
he tells me what TV were really important at this
holiday season.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Being able to come back and do a show that's
not only this fun but also just needed right now
to bring some joy back into difficult times for people,
and just bringing family back into the mix and bringing
people together has been really special.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Not only that, but the fact that he got to
spend the holiday with his family born and raised in
Grand Rapids. He does not take that for granted and
loves it.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Here me being up to see my family see me
at on stage doing the thing I love to do.
Many of them not, some of them not even seeing
me perform professionally. Last thing they saw me do was
Sweeney Todd at eas Kentwood High School way back in
twenty twelve. So for them to get to see me
do this at this level, it just I could see
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it on their faces, just what it meant to them,
And I can't even put into wards what it meant
to me.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Parents must have been so proud and Blake, you were
absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
That show was so good, all right, Schmidty. You know,
as I found this story, all I kept hearing in
my head was perhaps the most famous line ever uttered
on this show WKRP in Cincinnati, Schmidty, as God is
my witness, I thought turkeys could fly, and they can
fly apparently up in Alaska anyways. And we're talking way
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up in Alaska Rule Alaska where Esther Sanderlin has lived
her whole life, but she knows how difficult it can
be to reach some of those backwoods rule places that
you can't even get to buy car. Sometimes by snowmobile
or by horse or four wheelers the only way to
get to some of these super super rule spots in Alaska.
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But she had something that neighbors used to do for
her as a kid, and when she heard some of
her neighbors talking about what they were going to have
on Thanksgiving, she knew what she could do to help
them out.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
Listen to this one weekend and I was visiting our
newest neighbor and they were talking about splitting a squirrel
three ways for dinner and how that didn't really go
very far. And I just had a thought at that moment,
you know what, I'm gonna drop them a turkey for
Thanksgiving because I recently rebuilt my first airplane with my dad,
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and so I could.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Do that really easily.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
My vision with this is to reach farther parts of
Alaska because there are so many families that live rual
that live off the grid.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
That's right, She's dropping turkeys from a plane smite.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Frozen hilly birds.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Frozen turkeys that she lands, no parachutes necessary because they
land in such deep snow that the birds are totally okay.
Plus they're frozen, but she just last week dropped between
thirty and frozen turkeys, and as she said, she just
wants to see it continue to grow so she can
help you and more families during the holidays. Nice, pretty
unbelievable feeling good comes at you two times a day
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to tell you about great things happening out in our world,
to give you some positivity to take with you in
your day. We'll do it again tomorrow six forty five
and nine twenty here on Start one oh five point
seven Mack and Schmidty in the morning weekday starting at
six am on Star one oh five point seven
Mac and Schmitty in the morning on West Michigan's Christmas station,
Star one oh five point seven. Well, oh, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Schmitty, Good morning guys, and welcome back.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
That's right. Hopefully you had a phenomenal Thanksgiving, full of food, friends, family,
and of course lots of football too, Schmitty.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Weeah that it was quite a bit going on.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Man, huge weekend, of course, But now here we go
the winter weather. You know, we had nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing,
then finally some snow over our Thanksgiving breaking. It looks
like we're just getting warm back.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Oh man, I gotta be honest. You take advice from friends,
you expect it to be good. But singer Meghan Trainer
is saying, don't do the lip flip. She was on
the latest episode of the Working on It podcast admitting
she got too much botox and now she can't smile.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I got too much botox and I need help.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I messed up. Listen.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I've had botox like a handful of times, just a
few times just up here, just my forehead, and someone
convinced me with my little lips that if you did
a lip flip, you put phila right above your upper lip,
that you could have a beautiful flip on your upper
lip and I could have one for the first time
in my whole thirty years of living. 'twas not true, right,
And also I cannot smile anymore.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
She said, In fact, watch on YouTube. This is the
best I can smile. My mouth barely upturns. Don't do
this well.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
And that's the scary part of botox that everybody talks about, right,
frozen face like that, you're just gonna get stuck in
the like.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I really wanted to do a lip flip, and now
she's got me super scared because I do want a
nice lip. So thank you, Megan Trainer, taking one for
the team. Martha Stewart is admitting she's not blowing you off.
She has no idea how to check her DMS, barely
even knows what that is. So the lifestyle Guru if
you missed Talked stopped by Talk Shop Live. This is
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kind of a video platform that lets people buy and
sell products using things like Instagram Live. She joined Friday
night to talk about black Friday sales as well as
to promote her one hundredth published book.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And when the host was.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Explaining people could apply to have dns with offers sent
right to your account, Martha looked very confused and admitted
she has no clue how to check those.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
There's multiple ways of de baying today.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I can't wait to get into my office and look
up my dns. That might take you.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
You might have to a couple of hours go through
all of those.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah, she admits, Oh, you're telling me there might be
millions of people sitting in there right now.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And the host was like a hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Think of all those misconnections fitting. Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Finally, what a weekend for a Wicked raking it in
at the box office, officially becoming the highest grossing movie
based on a musical in US history. So according to Deadline,
through Friday, the movie's domestic gross hit two hundred and
fourteen point three million dollars that eclipsed the entire gross
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of Greece. And when you talk about nearly another fifty
million being made in the weekend over two hundred and sixty, again,
that's only domestic, with the world wide take pulling in
nearly an additional three hundred and sixty million bucks.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
This movie is huge now.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
It does still trail some big ones like Les Misz
and Grease and Mama Mia. But this thing has just
opened and absolutely every person I know has already seen it.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I honestly I can't wait to go see it. We
did not we did the Moana two over the weekend.
We're gonna go see Wicket.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I think this one I'm taking my son. My son
wants to go, and I'm like, yes, my little theater kid.
Oh of your celeb scoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Sometimes because I get a good feeling. Yeah, well it's
reading real quick. I just got to give a shout
out to a Meskegon woman living her best life. Seventy
year old Doreen Rnagan just want a national selfie competition.
This is kind of cool. She is a member of
the Spins Sisters cycling group and she entered a contest
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that was actually done for Humanna and Growing Boulders social
media pages and magazine where they asked senior sixty five
and up to share a selfie of them doing something
that they love, getting out and being active. And she
told Fox seventeen. They speak to my community. I feel
encouraged by them. It's all about people at my age
who are growing bolder and older in a healthy, fun way.
(04:44):
And then when I saw they had a selfie contest,
I went wow, I'm a selfie queen. I love taking
pictures of me and my friends and telling stories about
what we're going to what we're doing out there. Well,
her selfie was the winner of this national selfie contest.
It's already been seen on Human and Growing Boulders social
media pages, get to be featured on Growing Boulders magazine,
(05:05):
and already shown on the Big sixty five plus display
at the Grand Old Opry's ninety ninth birthday celebration.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
But just doing it up, Beesha's looking classic, all right.
We all heard about this last week and it was devastating.
Someone Tuesday night caught on surveillance camera causing significant damage
to the Christmas light show. We love Bill and his team,
and this was terrible. The Kent County Sheriff's Office believes
the man used heavy duty wirecutters. He broke at least
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one hundred lights. A quarter of the displays couldn't work,
and that meant that Bill and his team couldn't open
the Christmas Light Show Wednesday night, as they had been
planning to well leave it to West Michigan to step up.
Big Debree's Landscape knew they wanted to help. Dozens of
people showed up Friday morning to make sure that the
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show would go on, and Saturday night, Bill founder veteran
ninety five years young, was able to open the Christmas
Light Show and sitting down Fox seventeen, you can hear
how emotional he is about the dedication this community feels
for him.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
But there's another ten or twelve people here that friends
of mine, and they just stopped them to say, Hi, Belle,
we want to help. It's amazing, And how how dedicated
loyal they are.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Really tugs in your heartstring? Yeah tell you it does.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
And Bill, who started this in nineteen ninety eight, is
just an absolute gem of a human. So yes, the
Christmas Light Show at LMCU Ballpark is open and ready
through January fourth. And how cool would it be to
make us their biggest year yet big time?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
They deserve it. I mean, like you said, they work
so hard over there, and for some grinch to come
along and do this was so ridiculous. I did see
there's a VFW holl And Wyoming offering fifteen hundred bucks
in a.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Walker Legion post.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yeah, fifteen hundred dollars if anyone had any information on
this Scrooge, because everybody.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Wants them caught, loved to see them rebound like that.
And of course you want to get into the Christmas
Light Show. You can win a car pass for your
family right now, West Michigan Star dot com and we'll
be around for another round of positivity. Feeling good comes
your wake in at nine to twenty this morning. Here
on the Star one on five point.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Seven, movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's the celebrities scoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Well, it was a big evening last night at London's
Dominion Theater where Sir Elton John among the guests for
the red carpet launch of The Devilwaresprada the Musical. But
while on stage banking the cast, the crew, the amazing musicians,
he also took a moment to thank his husband by
making the surprising admission that he is nearly blind to my.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Husband, who's been my role because I haven't been able
to come to many of the previews because how do
you know, I've lost my eyesight?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
So is hard to be to say, oh, I love
to hear it and boy, soundly good tonight.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Now, we knew as of a couple months ago that
he had talked about an eye infection that was partially
affecting his site, but this makes it sound like he
has completely lost sight in at least one eye, if
it hasn't been affecting the other as well. He literally
had to be helped off stage by his husband because
he could not see where he was going.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It was really sad.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, he said he's been basically blind for about four
solid months now. The prognosis had getting a little bit better.
Does look okay, but he said he's been working on
actually a new album that he can't finish it all
right now just because the ability did not see it.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
That's it devastating.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
He was saying last night he doesn't know if we're
ever going to hear new music from him again. Wow,
So this I think may have taken a turn from
what he was originally telling us. There's also a new
documentary that will be coming out about his farewell to
the yellow Brick Road Tour coming. Hollywood Royalty has created
the perfect union. Get this, Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy
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are going to be in laws. Martin's daughter Jasmine officially
engaged over the weekend to Eddie's son Eric.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
She broke the news.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
The two got engaged back on the twenty seventh, which
a wonderful little Instagram video thanking all of the countless
vendors that made this entire thing look absolutely astonishing. Jasmine said,
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God truly blessed us with a love that feels like destiny.
We couldn't be more excited for this next chapter. Special
thank you to everyone who made this moment so beautiful
that you have been dating for a few years. They
were originally hooked up July two, thy twenty one. Thirty
five year old Eric met twenty eight year old Jasmine
through her uncle, and I guess dad and Dad will
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be having a lot of fun together.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I was gonna shay the loudest and the funniest Thanksgiving
table meals of all time. For sure. It reminds me
of the Scotty Pip and Michael Jordan kids getting together.
That was just weird too.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Ah yeah, and did not end very well.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Now finally Dune, the Rock Johnson spent a very heartfelt
day giving thanks to our troops in Hawaii. A very
successful opening weekend by the way from Mowana too, where
of course he voices Maui. The actor and former WWE
superstar also decided to visit Joint Bass Pearl Harbor Hickham
on Oahu Saturday to connect with members of the military community.
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Incredible photos that he shared, writing boundlessly grateful to all
our military men and women and their families for their service.
A great day to look you in your eyes and
shake your hands. I also loved all the depths, hugs,
tears and selfies too. God bless you, God bless your
families forever A proud patriot as our freedom is our
greatest privilege.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
The Rock is a good seems like a good dude
and definitely grate at pr at a minimum. He is
a phenomenal business with LUSA.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Did an incredible moment with Make a Wish Kids at
that Mohana to premiere as well. Got it all for
you with your scoop at West Michigan start off the.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Stelling a fine points you having West Michigan's Christmas station,
Good morning to you. And of course the holiday season
brings with it all sorts of family travel. Schmidty, I mean, we.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Were all over the place, it felt like, all over
the state, all good, good things.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
But can I please put out just a little feeler.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
There's got to be a scientist or an engineer or
someone in steam listening right now.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Give us a better way to hook those dang car
seats in, because.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I got to tell you, the hardest part of traveling
with kids is switching car seats between cars.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
We had to figure out.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
We had my mother in law watching the kids one
day while we were both working, and then she was
going to take them back to Lansing, so we had
to put the car seats into her car, and then
as soon as we got there, we had to switch
the car seats out of her car back into Chris's
trunch that we could go to my parents. And then
we were doing I mean, and if anyone has had
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those car seats, I mean, if you are not willing
to bruise different parts of your body, if you're not
willing to get stuck. I got stuck in my backseat
trying to put Will's in there. And then it's the
spouse difference. Like the way my husband is able to
put car seats in is so tight, which I know
it's what you're supposed to do. I then can't get
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them out. I am sitting in a McDonald's parking lot
in Portland as my mother in law is sitting in
the car seat to try and weigh it down enough
where I can all the little red thing out of
the anchor that's also buried so deep in the seat
your little fingers can't even grip it. And then after
all of this, I don't know if you've gone east
on ninety six. This billboard has been there for like
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ten years. And my six year old is learning to
read and he reads everything. And we passed that billboard
with the really suspicious looking baby, and Will just goes, are.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You sure I'm in the right car seat? I'm like,
don't bring right?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Like I have the weirdest bruise on like my outer
thigh trying to get.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Those things out.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
And I posted this video to our Instagram, and I'm like,
is there something more challenging with all of these travels
swapping cars different family than having to swap out car seats?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Honestly, Swittie we fairst off. What a great bondiing experience
between you and your mother in laws. I'm sure you
both sat there cursing the name of your husband and
her son.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
And everyone else driving on West Grand River in Portland.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So good. We actually used to keep a baseball bat
in my wife's trunk, and it wasn't for doing anything
baseball related. It was because we could slip the metal
bat through the loop on the car seat and that
was the only way we were both able to get
it tight enough in order to do it with le Bridge.
I mean, all my mind, oh insane, worst thing I
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feel for you on that one, And it's something that
after you get past that point, you forget how much
of a in your existence. It really was. Yeah, like
every parent is like, oh yeah, that was the worst.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
When you finally didn't have to deal with it anymore,
it was like the halleluja acchoir, oh you know starts singing,
the sky opens up and the sun starts shining. I mean,
it is a major milestones.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Cause I'm telling you.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I told my brother and sister in law, who have
a ten month old, I was like, hold on to
that infant seat as long as you can. The click
in and out is nothing compared to what you've got
to do to get your one to seven year old.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Say, dear, are the human torch was denied a bankal
overade goae. That's not the important news. It's the news
that you click on while you're wasting time at work.
This week's best headlines, what are you gone for? A
smitting with our very first.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Adye a cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought a piece of art
that was simply a banana duct taped to a wall
for six point two million dollars ate it in Hong Kong,
telling everyone and a press conference that covered him eating
so banana it tastes much better than other bananas.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Indeed quite good.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Badbye, Schmedde Potato cartel conspired to spike frozen potato prices.
I wriped this right off of wood TV. Four companies
that produced ninety seven percent of frozen potatoes in the
US generated a whole bunch of extra profit by teaming
up to rip off consumers, all in Idaho with no kiddy.
This is like the Idaho mafia. Basically, bad bye.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
This is an interesting way to ring in the new year.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
A Georgia city will blow up an old hotel to
greet twenty twenty five, the Make and Bid County Commission
approved a plan to implode a vacant sixteen story hotel
at midnight on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I'm sorry, that sounds way cooler than the lame buldrop Badbye.
Woman demands family signed code of conduct for holidays. Schmidty,
a thirty two year old woman, explained on Reddit that
her younger sister wants the family to sign a code
of contact that includes things like taking turn earns, talking
at the dinner table, a ban on political topics, a
dress code, and assigned seating.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I love all those things.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I was gonna say this is given off big sister vibes.
I'm not sure this is the little sister.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Finally, did you see our GBSU Lakers go viral over
the weekend pulling up to their D two playoff game
completely shirtless. Grand Valley took on hearting in Allendale, where,
if you didn't realize it snowing with a real feel
of ten degrees. Everyone, including SportsCenter, did a special on
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the guys. They tweeted out the cold sharpens the blade.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Well, apparently, not sharp enough.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's all right, but it's sell a great story.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Goodbye. KFC sells out of chicken wrapping paper, Schmidty. Yes,
KFC created lickable chicken flavored wrapping paper, the gift that
keeps on giving this holiday season. Would you lick it?
By the way, would you try?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
I put that in my code of conduct. Do you
show up with that wrapping paper under my tree and
have my kids lick it?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Mess on you?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Godbye's this week's best headlines. You see any great ones
out there, you can I always send them our way
Facebook and Instagram, A's West Michigan, Star.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
It's the celebrities goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Well, the pressure is on for Travis Kelce to pop
the question. So this all started back on Friday when
we got the big news that Buffalo Bill's quarterback Josh
Allen officially proposed to actress and musician Hailey Steinfeld. Really
cute pictures that Josh put up on Instagram and it
was flooded with comments from Hollywood, including kill a trav
(17:43):
Travis Kelsey, who, unbelievable decided to write congratulations with a
couple of praise and claphand emojis. Well, the internet went wild,
things like you next, where are you at?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Trav?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
This is so cute? Wouldn't Taylor loves something like this? Wow, Travis,
you know what you need to do? Looks like the
timing's perfect, Travis. I mean thousands of comments with supporters,
all of them swifties, pushing Travis to finally pop that
question to Taylor?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Do you think schmddy that when that eventually, if that,
if that ever does happen, that we hear about it
within a week of it happening. What would you say,
within a week of it happening, or would be weeks
and weeks?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I don't think Taylor hides the ring walking into Arrowhead Stadium,
But if they do it outside of it, I think
it could be months. Honestly, I think they could keep
it that quiet.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I think they'll be married before any of us ever
find out they're engaged.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Jamie Fox, the actor and comedian, says he will speak
candidly about his recent life events. He is in big
promotion now for his upcoming special What had Happened on Netflix?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I said, if backing state Puny Box stay Alive.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
So it officially drops December tenth. But now there's another
layer to this. Fox said filming the special was like
going to church. He said, we celebrated life, second chances.
I cannot wait to talk all about this, and according
to sources, that will include this crazy rumor that his
health scare was because Diddy poisoned him.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah. Like, that's about at this point the only Wow
Show thing I expect to hear during this special because
I feel like, when did this even happen to Jamie Fox?
When did the health issue even.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Have this April of last year year, because.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
It feels like it was five years ago at this point.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
So there's a lot of people that have started talking
about this, including Joe Rogan bringing it up on his
podcast over the weekend that apparently we've heard maybe Jamie
Fox knew a lot of what's been going on with
the allegations against Diddy to the point where he needed
to be taken out as a problem. Like I said,
December tenth, we will hear all about this. That's when
that special drops on Netflix. Finally, Frankie Munez, the actor
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and now race car driver, says that his TV dad,
Brian Cranston is still pretty much.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
A real life dad to him.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Who's on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast,
revealing that they.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Are still super close.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Muna says that Cranston really was a father figure to
him since they were working so young together on Malcolm
in the Middle, saying, he still reaches out to me
every couple of weeks. He checks in on me. He
really cares about what I'm doing. He comes to my races,
if my band is playing, he comes to shows. Frankie
says that he feels Brian's really been an inspiration to
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him and now in turn he hopes to be that
same person for someone else someday.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
That was so cool.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I'm sure he's closer to Hal from Malcolm in the
Middle than he is to like Walter White, right, Like,
he's got to be a little bit different of a dad.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I think it depends, honestly, as any parent would tell
you what we're talking about here, right fair Fair, Oh
of your celeb scoop at West Michigan Star dot Com.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Stell F point seven, it's package Benny. Thanks for being
here this morning, and we would love to get you
into a very delicious event that's coming up. But you've
got to give us the top answer to today's Christmas
quiz question.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
So we're gonna send you to the Great Grand Rapids
Cookie Exchange Grcookieexchange dot com to learn all the info
if you have today's answer, what is something you start
doing December first?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Ooh, something that I start doing December first? Looking around
for the elf on the shelf. That's what I'll be doing.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
I think, Wow, mane on me, I'm stressing out, ba
I had so many Sundays scaries yesterday six one, six, four,
five eight, one oh five seven collar seven. Give us
that number one answer, what's something you start doing December first?
And I'll see you at the Grand Great Grand Rapits
Cookie Exchange with Star one.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Oh five point seven?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Good morning Star? Who's this?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
This is Don Don?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Where are you calling from today?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I'm going from Stanworth, Michigan.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Rah. How is your Thanksgiving weekend? Don?
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Wonderful. That's a family and food was great?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Oh yeah, so all the all thes throwing some football
and some fun. We got them all in there. Right,
let's do this, Don, let's start. You are December off
on a great note. You got to tell me. One
hundred adults were asked what's something you might start doing
on December one? Do you think their top answer was
They're done.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I want to say sending out Christmas cards.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Sending out Christmas cards, you know what, that is a
great answer for responsible folks that get their cards out
in a timely fashion. We're not talking to one of
those people, however, that's the NU number. That is the
number three most common answer, but not the top one.
I'm sorry, Don, you have a great day. You do Bye,
Hi star. Who's this? Tim? I just got a great
(22:49):
guest from Don. When one hundred adults were asked to
name something you might start doing on December first, she
said sending out your Christmas cards, which was a great guess,
but not the top answer. It was actually the number
three most common answer. So what do you think it is?
Get a Christmas tree? Get a Christmas tree? You know
a lot a lot of people, you know, they eat
their turkey and then the trees gotta go up. Christmas
(23:11):
tree is the top answer.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Here to go.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, you're picking up tickets to go check out the
Great Grand Rapids Cookie Exchange. It is going to be
a delicious and absolute blast. Congrats him.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Oh, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You are very welcome. We'll be doing it again tomorrow.
Another chance to win coming at eight fifteen with your
Christmas quiz. Or you can win a pair of tickets
for the Great Grand Rapids Cookie Exchange right now, West
Michigan Star dot com. Good morning to you. It's Mack
and Schmitty and I don't want to talk about a
blue Christmas, so I got to talk about a blue
Thanksgiving Schmitty because I'm still bitter and sad at the
(23:46):
lack of my Thanksgiving leftovers. I am so disappointed. I
actually had no idea how much it was going to
impact me. We did Christmas at my in laws, and
it was really great because we combined both families for
the first time effort. On Thanksgiving this year, my dad
and my sister were both in town, so they came
over with my niece and we had a great Thanksgiving
(24:07):
at Michelle's parents' house. It was awesome. The food was delicious,
and we went home with some things. But I did
not realize that we went home in terms of Thanksgiving
leftovers that I would consider necessary part of Thanksgiving. The turkey,
the stuffing, the cranberry, all of those things. We went
home with none of it, and on Friday I got
so deep in my feelings about it. All I could
(24:30):
think about all day long was how I wanted to
be eating like a leftover turkey sandwich on sour dough bread.
How I wanted to be eating leftover green bean cast
role because it's even better as leftovers than it is
hot and fresht zero leftovers.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
We had none. We planned it so perfectly. I guess that,
like all eighteen people at our house, like, we came
home with nothing.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Ye see, you know, in my head, I do the
lie where I'm like, I don't want to come home
with the whole pumpkin part. Of course, I want to
come home with a whole pumpkin pie without a doubt,
but I also need to come home with those leftovers.
And we had nothing, and I hated every second of it.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I'll say, just real quick, three to four days, so
let's not be eating that for your work lunch today.
Otherwise that work bathroom is going to see some action.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Get a well. I always could use a little extra
push on a Monday. That's what we bring to you.
Feeling good every morning here on STARWINAR five point seven,
What's Happening.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
To manne Well?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I got to tell you, nothing felt better than seeing
Broadway Grand Rapids bring Mama Mia to Devas Performance Hall.
It had a six day run over this past holiday weekend.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I saw it opening night and it was absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
But even cooler was the return of a Michigan native
who finally got to perform in front of his family.
Blake Price has been traveling all across the country for
the musical tour of Mama Mia and finally found his
way back home for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
This is really cool.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
He attended East Kentwood, he studied theater at Western but
him and his wife Kat now live in New York,
where he's been a full time actor for more than
a decade.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Not only is it the.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Music of Abba that he loves, but the themes that
he tells me what TV were really important at this
holiday season.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Being able to come back and do a show that's
not only this fun but also just needed right now
to bring some joy back into difficult times for people,
and just bringing family back into the mix and bringing
people together has been really special.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Not only that, but the fact that he got to
spend the holiday with his family born and raised in
Grand Rapids. He does not take that for granted and
loves it.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Here me being up to see my family see me
at on stage doing the thing I love to do.
Many of them not, some of them not even seeing
me perform professionally. Last thing they saw me do was
Sweeney Todd at eas Kentwood High School way back in
twenty twelve. So for them to get to see me
do this at this level, it just I could see
(27:05):
it on their faces, just what it meant to them,
And I can't even put into wards what it meant
to me.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Parents must have been so proud and Blake, you were
absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
That show was so good, all right, Schmidty. You know,
as I found this story, all I kept hearing in
my head was perhaps the most famous line ever uttered
on this show WKRP in Cincinnati, Schmidty, as God is
my witness, I thought turkeys could fly, and they can
fly apparently up in Alaska anyways. And we're talking way
(27:36):
up in Alaska Rule Alaska where Esther Sanderlin has lived
her whole life, but she knows how difficult it can
be to reach some of those backwoods rule places that
you can't even get to buy car. Sometimes by snowmobile
or by horse or four wheelers the only way to
get to some of these super super rule spots in Alaska.
(27:57):
But she had something that neighbors used to do for
her as a kid, and when she heard some of
her neighbors talking about what they were going to have
on Thanksgiving, she knew what she could do to help
them out.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
Listen to this one weekend and I was visiting our
newest neighbor and they were talking about splitting a squirrel
three ways for dinner and how that didn't really go
very far. And I just had a thought at that moment,
you know what, I'm gonna drop them a turkey for
Thanksgiving because I recently rebuilt my first airplane with my dad,
(28:29):
and so I could.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Do that really easily.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
My vision with this is to reach farther parts of
Alaska because there are so many families that live rual
that live off the grid.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
That's right, She's dropping turkeys from a plane smite.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Frozen hilly birds.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Frozen turkeys that she lands, no parachutes necessary because they
land in such deep snow that the birds are totally okay.
Plus they're frozen, but she just last week dropped between
thirty and frozen turkeys, and as she said, she just
wants to see it continue to grow so she can
help you and more families during the holidays. Nice, pretty
unbelievable feeling good comes at you two times a day
(29:05):
to tell you about great things happening out in our world,
to give you some positivity to take with you in
your day. We'll do it again tomorrow six forty five
and nine twenty here on Start one oh five point
seven Mack and Schmidty in the morning weekday starting at
six am on Star one oh five point seven
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