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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wakem It gets my day going, It makes me lab
I love it.
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Mac and Schmidty in the morning on Star one oh
five point.
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Seven, Morning to you.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Oh yeah, happy Saint Patrick's Day. Welcome into Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I promise to only do that than several more times.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
Oh think, what's was good?
Speaker 6 (00:23):
Welcome to it. I'm wearing green, you're rocking yours. Nobody's
pinching anybody today. But man, what a wild and fun
weekend across West Michigan. And what a perfect juxaposition of
two perfect days that encapsulate well.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Here in Michigan March. Here, Michigan March is what I'm
calling it. Because if you were out in a literal
tank top on Saturday, maybe at a patio or doing
things with the kids, and then you woke up yesterday
and we literally had snow sticking to the ground, I
don't know what to tell you except hopefully you use
it as a beautiful day to just rot on the
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couch and watch sports.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
That's what we did, movies, music, and all the gossip
in one place.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Well, the rumors have been flying for a little bit now,
and it sounds like Tom Cruise may indeed have a
new leading lady and his life actress on a d
Harmis now. They were spotted in London over the weekend,
photographed dressed casually but definitely looking like they were out
on a date night. They got out of a helicopter
at London's Heliport, huge smiles, looking a little lovey dovey.
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While there was no outward PDA, A lot of fans
have been wondering if the two are actually an item.
They had been seen last month grabbing dinner together around
Valentine's Day. They've been seen hanging out and trying to
keep things very secret. Neither team has confirmed either one
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of this. I believe on it. D Armis was with
Brad Pitt last relationships, so this would be very interesting.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Do we expect to see Tom Cruise jumping up on
down on maybe?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I think Tom's done jumping up and down on couch,
you see. I think we're good there.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
After Rachel Zegler finally asked about all the controversy surrounding
that new live action Snow White, which had its big
premiere over the weekend. She was at Lax on Friday,
caught up with photogs when she definitely didn't want to
chat about any of the bad stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, how's it feel to finally have it come out?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Feels wonderful, and that was it. She ditched out of
the way of any of the Papa Arroanzi did not
want to continue the conversation. Remember, I had talked last
week about how they really scaled back the premiere plans.
Disney was nervous because of so much controversy surrounding the film,
But honestly, if you look at reviews that came out yesterday,
they have been glowing. A variety writing Zegler is a
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shining super nova, beautifully embodying the graceful, gentle nature of
the og. Disney Princess gal Goodo, which was playing by
she played the evil queen, getting tons of positive reviews.
The two even very very friendly on the red carpet,
So it doesn't sound like any of the controversy ahead
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of time was really bothering anyone, and numbers were pretty
good for the weekend.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
I mean, is Disney the one who's kind of bombing
this movie on their own by just kind of diminishing
it in this way?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
No, I don't think they're diminishing it. I think they're
just backing off this. It was just a lot of
other actors and actresses talking about this movie. You remember
Peter Dinklage was not super down with how they did
the dwarves in this, But so far it doesn't look
to be hurting it. In a Blake Lively manner as well,
we'll say how hers kind of.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Finally, would you have the guts to let Chack GPT
roast you? Actress and singer Demi Lovado did, asking Ai
to throw its best burns her way while her fiance
read them out loud so that she could react in
real time. It's pretty solid, Okay, So I asked chat
GPT to roast me, and is going.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
To read it roast Demi Levado?
Speaker 8 (04:03):
Oh you mean the artist formerly known as Confident but
now more like confused. Demi Levado has had more rebrands
than a failing fat food chain. One minute they're pump rock,
the next they're singing pop ballads, and somewhere in between
their beating with.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The bros and young.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
It's pretty good stuff. I put the video up at
West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Oh chat GDP is ruthless.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Oh yeah, all of your celib scoop right there at
West Michigan Starbuck.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Sometimes I get a good.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Little something extra on your Monday morning. It's feeling good
on Starbinar Fine points seven, Mack and Smitty hanging out.
And this was just incredible to see as an East
Kentwood High School senior working a job like most high
school kids, trying to earn an extra buck, and while
she's doing it, just happen to save a life. Her
name is Natalie May again, goes to East Kentwood High School,
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and it was only a week ago that she became
sort of a CPR certified. She learned how to do
CPR as well as the Heimlich maneuver on a mannequin
as just part of the health curriculum there at East
Kentwood High School. Again, this just happened last week and
then flashed forward just a couple of days into the
new week. On Tuesday, she was there a brand steakhouse
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working and she was clearing off a table when all
of a sudden, a man in a booth near them
started choking. One of her coworkers, Christina Thrash, saw the
whole thing and described the scene to Fox seventeen, just wild.
Speaker 9 (05:31):
This guy was way way bigger than her, and the
lady at the table's wife couldn't even she's liked gere
her arms around to be able to do the Heimlich.
He was just saying, just the way she was putting
her thumbs right in under to like push it up out,
that's what saved his life. She was doing it just right.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
This is the middle of the dinner rushed brand steakhouse.
She is performing the Heimlich on this man, luckily dislodging
the food and likely saving his life. And she said,
you know, obviously so thankful that she had just had
this training, but she just reacted.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
It happened super fast. I didn't even like think about
it because there was no time to think, so I
just went ahead and started to do it. It is
a very emotional, I guess, shocking to me that I
was able to do that for someone, especially someone ten
times bigger than me.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I mean, so you just never know.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
But again big shout out Natalie may working over a
brand steakhouse, but the East Kentwood High School senior saving
a life definitely the waitress you want working with you.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Schmidding all right, so you may know her as the
dancing Jumbo Tron lady if you've ever gone to a
Michigan State men's basketball game. Her name is jan Ayleman,
and she doesn't really know how or when she became famous.
She's been part of the MSU community since nineteen seventy.
She's been teaching and tutoring in East Lansing for more
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than four decades, and she has attended almost every single
men's basketball game since the early seventies. You'll know her
the thick, black rimmed glasses, her signature red lipstick and
decked out and that spartan green head to toe. She
has formed a very special bond with head coach Tom Izzo,
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as well as fiercely loyal to her friends in the
Zone students section. But she's a big fan of Type A.
She actually calls herself a supporter of the Triple A academics, arts,
and athletics. She says she's got tough love, she enjoys
shaping young people's lives, and bleed green for her is
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at the bottom of everything she does.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Check this out.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
She is a scholar in the area of elementary social studies.
She has authored and co authored thirteen books, more than
one hundred articles, book chapters and reports, and she is
one of the prominent experts being taught in classrooms across
the country and and the world. Her philosophy, a playbook
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for life doesn't always exist, so you may.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Do with what you have.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
It's a really cool article about this incredible woman who
has gearing up for that NCAA tournament. I've got the
entire thing, including her fabulous fashion, linked at West Michigan
Star dot com.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Feeling Good always here to provide a little positivity for
your morning. We'll do it again coming up at nine
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Seven, Movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
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It's the Celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Well, it was another weekend of very cryptic posts from
Justin Bieber, the Peaches singer, writing about feeling like he
was drowning and unsafe. He's been sharing a lot of
these to his Instagram stories. The post ignited new fears
for the star and his mental health. He writes, I
was always told when I was a kid not to hate,
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but it made me feel like I wasn't allowed to
have it, and so I didn't tell anyone I've had it,
which made me feel like I've been drowning, feeling unsafe
to acknowledge it. I think we can only let hate
go by first acknowledging it's there. How couldn't we feel
hate from all of the hurt we have experienced. He
was out with his wife, Hayley at a theme park,
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a lot of fans thinking that maybe she's just kind
of doing the best that she can to try and
lift his spirits here. But this is not the first
time we've kind of heard him feel this almost sense
of dread with himself. He's written about feeling unworthy, feeling
like a fraud, feeling like he doesn't deserve what he has.
It's really really tough to have this out in the
Spotlight two for him as well. He's clearly having a
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bit of a struggle right now.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
And it's just odd because it feels like he has been,
you know, overwhelmed at times by the amount of stardom
that he has and just always being in the public eye,
and then when you do things like this. It obviously
makes people gravity go what's wrong? What's wrong with you?
Justin what's wrong?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
So also, he's a new dad, and I feel like
there may be a lot of that here. He's going
to be tired, he's going to be overwhelmed with fatherhood.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Like I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I just I hope he's got some good people around him.
But the fans in the comments were very supportive, hoping
that he is finding some ground in a really supportive system.
Prince Harry's these a files are set to be made
public after claims he should never have been allowed into
the United States. This story was not really on my
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radar until over the weekend. A judge has ordered documents
relating to the Duke of Sussex's US visa application to
be released tomorrow. Here's the deal. It comes after ongoing
freedom of information requests made by something called the Heritage Foundation.
So Judge Carl Nichols is his name. He made the
ruling that Harry's redacted documents will have to be made public.
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These court papers were filed over the weekend. The data
of Two's battle over this visa was sparked thanks to
that book that he wrote where he got very candid
about taking certain drugs like cocaine, marijuana, and psychedelic mushrooms.
This is the stuff he wrote about in Spare, his memoir,
So it triggered apparently an investigation into how he was
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ever allowed to enter the US. In twenty twenty, they
are telling the Telegraph this Heritage Foundation, anyone who applies
to the US has to be truthful on their application,
and it is not clear that that is the case
with Prince Harry. So this will be interesting. These are
supposed to be out tomorrow. A judge previously ruled in
September they would remain private. This judge overturned that, so
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we'll see if they actually get released tomorrow. But I
thought that was a very interesting story.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Yeah, and how does the citizenship even work because he's
Megan mark Ole, Does she have both US and Canadian citizenship?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Duel citizenship?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I was just.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Curious as to what nationality he gets access to just
for being married to her, whether that's Canadian or US
or neither.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Might find out tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Finally, that Sharon has debuted a brand new song and
surprised fans in New Orleans with it over the weekend.
He just popped up out of nowhere on Saturday in
the historic French Quarter, carrying a portable amp and microphone.
He was joined by the Soul Rebels. That's a brass
band who you guys all saw a company Kendrick Lamar
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at the Super Bowl halftime show a.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Few weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
So this is a new single. I believe you say it, Azizam.
It's pretty funky fun yeah, he told all these surprised fans,
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I have never seen this live. This is the first time,
he said. The song is coming in a couple weeks.
Nobody's heard it. We're gonna play it once, walk down
the street, place and music with It're excited for all
of you to hear this entire thing.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I'm a sucker for horn sections.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
That sounds really good. I love it.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
His eighth studio album, by the Way, is do out
later this year, so this would probably be one of
the first singles off that got the video for you
with your scoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I'm one than two.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
It's back and Schmidi and maybe you'll cheers with a
few of your coworkers today for Saint Patty's death.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Well, we always hear the bad side of hanging out
with co workers outside the office. We've done so many
stories about that. We've had so many people call in
and be like, ooh, you know the boss or this
and that. But over the weekend I worked Irish off
I Own You because one of my sister stations is
one O four point five S and X that I
do a show on in the afternoon, and it was
the first time I'd gotten to hang with like a
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lot of our part timers and promotional people, and it
was so much fun, and I had multiple moments and
I don't know, I guess maybe I give off this vibe,
but I think a lot of times, especially if you
don't get a ton of interaction with who you work with,
you just assume you know what they're like.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
So I got a.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Lot of them that kept saying, I'm so surprised you're
out here even though you're a mom. I get that
all the time, all the time. I get that all
the time, and I'm exactly but it was just like,
oh my gosh, I thought you'd be like this, or
you're so cool, this is so much fun, Like thank
you so much for hanging out.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Or talking with me, and I'm like.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well, yeah, I mean, you're really lovely. And by the
end of the night, it felt like all of us
just had such a great time finally getting to be together,
especially in something as wild as a Saint Patrick's Day party.
But I was talking to my husband about it yesterday
when he asked, you know, how did everything go? I go,
I just really enjoy hanging out with people on a
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team that you don't get to see a lot of
and realizing, oh man, we are all just so cool
and get along so well. And I mean, I'm in
my mid I'm not going to say late thirties.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
I'm not there. Yeah, I'm and I'm hanging out.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
With twenty one year olds and it was so great,
And I just thought, there's got to be those moments
where you hang out with your coworkers and they end
up being some of your best friends. It's the first
comment we got on Facebook from Aaron. Yes, I've hung
out with my coworkers. They turned into some of my
best friends. None of us work there anymore, and we're
still super close.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
You know.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
I think it happens for people at a lot of
different jobs in their careers too, because you spend so
much time with these people at work, like you almost
forget how much of your life you commit to your
job and to all of those people being around you
that in a lot of ways, yeah, you see them
more than a lot of your family members.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, but it was different because I don't see them
a lot, right, Like, they are working very different hours
than I am, and you know where I'm based more
in the morning, They're doing stuff throughout the whole day.
And that's when I was just really thankful. I thought, man,
this is perfect. And we were all like hugging and
leaving at the end of the night.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
They were like, this was just so nice.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
You know why, I think it was really sminny because yeah,
you know, you have a few young team members that
are just awesome young people. It's because they saw you
get up on a stage and drop it down like
you are still.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Sorry, did you just say awesome young people?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Schmidty, I'm not pretending.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
That the first scene, Patrick st was grandpas.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You mean when we chased ye remember back then.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
We know the shamrock teaching that trinity was okay, but.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Human torch was denied at bangal over.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
All, right, let's bust into the week that nobody really
needs the news from, but we give it to you anyway,
and this week's best.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
A Virginia Zoo has responded to gorilla escape rumors by saying,
we don't have gorillas.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
I still don't know what's happening.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Social media lit up with reports of a gorilla on
the loose last week in the Granby Street area, and
the Virginia Zoo literally had to say, we don't We
don't have those. So what you've seen is is zoo
squatch is what they're calling it.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
A Swiss drive. I ever fined one hundred and ten
thousand dollars for tailgating. Yeah, rich guy in Switzerland got
fined over one hundred grand because he was too close
to the car in front of him for over an hour.
And in Switzerland tickets are based off of your income,
so he fought it but still had to pay for
it plus another fifteen grand in court costs.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Were they in the left lane Swiss style? Because out
of the way.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Badbine night at the bar earned a Michigan man a
record breaking six hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars in
lottery winnings.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
This happened over in Wade County.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
The dude said he just stopped into JP's trolley stop dot.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
What the heck?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Oh play club Keno, and his life was changed forever.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Something tells me that waitress probably had a pretty good
night too.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Adbine Schmidi Florida doctor takes a pe deal. Florida doctor
Giovanni Bulba confessed to dumping gallons of urine on the
front door of a competing medical practice. Yes, became a
you know, unhappy with the business relationship between the two
medical branches. Decided to do this just so you know,
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had to pay a huge fine twelve month medical program.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
But still gets to practice medicine in Florida.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Sbie, all right, this is your shocking pure Michigan find
Motel staff at the Pine River Motel in Sheboygan last
week walked into clean a guest's room and found an alligator.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
His name is Wally.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
They eventually got in touch with the owner, who'd been
in town conducting assemblies with elementary kids, and said, you know,
I lost Wally and I wasn't sure.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Where he was. Fedbi Schmitty Pie Day, of course, was
back there on Friday. In a British boy list two
hundred and eighty digits of pie from memory in one minute.
You see it was blindfolded two two one hundred and
eighty digits. Yet kid can't remember to pick up his dirty,
close weirdest thing.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Adbye. That's this week's lines.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
You see any great ones out there, you always got
to send tom ow Waife, Facebook and Instagram, A's West Michigan, Star.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Okay, So I had said this might be some of
the biggest drama we've seen yet from Kanye, which I
know is saying a lot. But on Saturday, the rapper
dropped a new song that seemingly features both Sean Ditty
Combs and his daughter north He took to his ex
to release the track, Lonely Rhoads Still Go to Sunshine.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
It's called he said.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
New song by Puff Daddy, featuring his son Kingcomb's my
daughter Northwest, and new yeezy artist from Chicago, Jasmine Williams.
The nearly five minute song opens with what appears to
be a phone conversation between Yay and Diddy, who, of
course is still in jail facing multiple charges, including trafficking.
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But it's then that Kanye he really like, unleashes on
this tirade about his fans and Kardashian fans and they
being the reason his parental rights have been stripped. In part,
he wrote, I don't want to just see my kids.
I need to raise them. I need to have a
say where they go to school, who their friends are,
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and whose houses they sleep over, Whether my daughters were
lipstick and perfume. All these rights have been taken from
me by the Kardashian mob, Hulu and Disney and the
bigger agenda to use the selectively bred black children to
be platforms to influence black people. Now, there's also rumor
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this morning that Kim actually attempted to take legal action
to keep whatever song this is.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
From being released as well.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
She should by the way, people did not take these
things from Kanye. Kanye took these things from himself right
by doing this and putting his family in such a
unsafe and unhealthy environment in the first place. You've got
your daughter on a track with these guys. Tell me
you're not exploiting her to be a provocateur. You know
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what I mean to get a headline to make something,
to make something noteworthy, like this is gross, Well.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
You want to talk provocative.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
He also allegedly put up the cover art for his
upcoming album that does feature some Nazi propaganda in it.
Unclear whether that's related to the Bully album that he
teased at the start of twenty twenty five, but common
section was not kind and I will leave it at that.
Fans are convinced that Taylor Swift was secretly involved in
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Lady Gaga's new album, So, of course, her highly anticipated
seventh studio album, Mayhem, dropped last week about a week ago,
but immediately after it did, listeners theorized that Taylor may
have helped write at least one of the tracks. Again,
these are the Swifties pointing out similarities that they see.
They're specifically talking about her tune how Bad do You
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Want Me? Now. Taylor is not listed as a writer
or given any credentials on the song, but tons of
Swifties flooding social saying my theory Taylor secretly wrote how
Bad do You Want Me? For Gaga, the production, the
vocal style, the lyrics, It's screaming twenty fourteen to twenty
nineteen Taylor So Bad, another person writing how bad do
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you Want Me So? Written by Taylor, produced by Jack Antonoff,
totally coded with a third person saying look me in
the eyes and tell me that does not sound like
a Taylor Swift song.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
I have not heard any rumor.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
About Taylor playing any kind of hand in Gaga's album.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
I mean, it's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I think you could honestly argue that maybe it does
sound like Taylor, because the both of them have just
this og sound right now from like back, you know,
when the millennials were hitting hard in two thousand and nine.
But I guess I could be proven wrong, but comes
out being true.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Ben Jack Antonov's got kind of his own sound and
sort of style that comes across for both those artists.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I feel like we'll see but man, Tiler Gaga collab
would probably make the world melt. Finally, Will Smith has
announced the date to his latest album, and he is
stoked after a twenty year hiatus. The actor rapper producer
sharing the news on Insta yesterday.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
It's official.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
My new album, based on a true Story drops on
March twenty eighth, two weeks hit that pre save been
working on this project. For a minute, and I am
itching to get it out to y'all. This sounds really cool.
It's a fourteen track album. It does reunite Smith with
DJ Jazzy Jack. It features collabs with Teyana Taylor and
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Jack Ross. We already heard what people think was a
single off this album called Beautiful Scars that features Detroit's
own Big Sean. People are really excited about this.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
It's just so odd to me, is he He's like,
what fifty two now? At least fifty three something like that.
That's I mean, heyuse you can still do it mid fifties.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
He's up there, he's fifty six, holy and getting it
with Dj Jazzy Jeffy. I've got some more details some
of the things he said about that album with your
scoop at West Michigan Star dot Com.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
It's time to battle. Let's do this Battle of the sexies.
Looking to get you in to see our Grand Rapids
Griffins coming up on April second. They're gonna take on
the Chicago Wolveshminty Big Rivalry.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
We've got your tickets.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
With today's number one answer, one hundred men surveyed name
someone whose job it is to make problems go away.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
I mean, this could be a lot of people, right,
Like I'm right off the bat, I'm like, well, the
my recycling people, my trash people, right, they make all
that stuff go away. For me, there's a problem going away.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I'm just saying six one, six, four, five, eight, one
oh five seven. One hundred men surveyed name someone whose
job it is to make problems go away? Number one
answer six one, six, four, five, eight, one oh five
seven callers seven, you could be headed to the Griffins,
Good morning star.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Who's this? Were you calling them this morning?
Speaker 6 (25:02):
I'm all right, leanne hundred guys were asked to name
someone whose job it is to make problems go away?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
The top answer is, well, I was torn between two.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
And my first thought was a hit man, but I'm
going to go with the age art department in your office?
Speaker 6 (25:23):
WHOA you went right to either murder or the person
that bless you for being late too many times to work?
Very different ends of the spectrum, however, neither is the
top answer.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I loved your guesses.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
I think you know what You're a You're a winner
today just for those answers.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Bye, Hi, Star. Who's this Hi?
Speaker 7 (25:47):
This is Mandy.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Mandy.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
I just had leanne On and when one hundred guys
were asked to name someone whose job it is to
make problems go away, she went a little out of
the box and she said either a hit man or
someone in the h R departments, which were phenomenal answers,
but not on the list.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
So you've got a chance here, Mandy, what do you
think the top.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Answer is, I'm thinking it's a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
You're thinking it's a lawyer.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Honestly, the only time I ever want to contact a
lawyer is when I've got some problem that needs some fixing.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Lawyers the top answer way to go.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
We got it.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Yeah, congratulations, you got some young helpers in the car there,
we do excellent. Well, you're all going to see our
grand Rapids Griffins here pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Awesome, Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
You are very welcome. Yes, it was lawyer, followed by
doctor and then dentists. You haven't got a problem with
the tooth. I guess the dentists still help out a
little bit. Congratulations, and we'll have more Griffins tickets all
this week.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
You're on Star Win five point seven.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Happy St. Patrick's Day, Schmidty. I mean, I am over here,
red hair, freckles.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
What's in the sun for longer than sixty two seconds?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
I'm obviously like at least a quarter full blood Lepricaun.
There's no debate about that, Schmitty. However, over thirty one
million Americans claimed to have some Irish ancestry, which is like,
by the way, twice the population of actual Ireland.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
I guess I thought the number would be higher than that.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Believe in a little thought. Yeah, I'm a little surprised too.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
But my family, as we were talking about it yesterday, Smitty,
have you ever done one of those like DNA tests?
We have twenty three and me now, we haven't either.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
My husband's a conspiracy theorist and things that gets you
put in a government database.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
You know, he's not wrong. I think that we're to
dig into my poem.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
I think Google could verify that. However, we haven't done
that either. So I've just, you know, sort of based
it off of our own family history. But mine's really
not that complex because my both of my grandmothers were
born of Irish immigrants, last names of Doyle and Burke.
I mean, couldn't have been more Irish. And then on
my grandfather's side, he was half Scottish and half Irish
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and so got a ton of that Celtic blood in us.
For sure. I have another grandfather who's Canadian. So my
kids were like, are we Scottish because my last name
is McLeod, And so I was like, well, actually, guys,
the way that it works is that your grandparents they
are combined, and then that goes down and it's cut
in half because obviously you're coming from two sets of parents.
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And I start going through how all of this are right,
You've already lost me exactly. And then so they're like, well,
so how much Irish are we? And I'm like, it's
just fractions, guys, We're about sixty percent Irish. The second
the word fractions came out of my mouth, smitting yeah,
my sixth grader and my fourth grader's eyes just malaised
into the back of their heads as they slowly started
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exiting the room, like it was like a Homer Simpson
just disappearing into the shrubs real fast.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Of like, oh it's school now, all.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Right, Happy Sam Patrick's day, Dad, believe you in your element?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Not good?
Speaker 4 (28:52):
My kids just figure they're German and Polish because every
time we go to any family gathering there's going to
be beer and PERROGI.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Some downes get a good feeling.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Now the sun is shining St. Patrick's days here. There's
a lot to be feeling good about this. We hit
a new week and we're about to bring you a
couple more great stories. What's going on, SINNI?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Yeah, so I get this quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
I saw you out at so and so, but I
just I was too embarrassed to come up and say Hi.
Don't ever feel that way, because I really really love
getting to meet people, getting to meet listeners, but eventually
considering you friends. And it happened over the weekend. I
was out hosting Irish off Ionia and called her Plaza
on Saturday, and I had this woman walk up to
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me with her daughter.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
They were both there together.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
And I will only use her first name, Chris, because
I hope she's okay with me sharing this.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
But she was out with her daughter.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
She came up, she realized who I was, and she
just said, I have to tell you. I love listening
to you. I listened to you every day and she said,
but I especially love listening to you talk about your kids,
and she said, I have listened to Radio Tion for
a few years, and so I know very well everything
that's gone down with your son. And she said, the
first time you shared your story about hospital stays and
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all that, she said, I was actually dealing with my
husband going through cancer.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
And she said it was.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Just so incredibly moving to feel as though somebody else
was also going through craziness, isolation, scared moments of life
with someone they love very much, and you were so
helpful to me, and I just think you're really wonderful,
and maybe somebody has not told you that before. And
like we're sitting there, we're having the hugs, we're tearing up,
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and she was just so incredibly wonderful and joyful, and
then we were talking about how my son's doing great now,
her husband is doing great in remission. It's fantastic. And
it was just a really great reminder that I think
we're very lucky to be in West Michigan, especially because
I think the majority of us are just like that,
just kind hearted, lovely, wonderful people that when they have
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the chance, just want to walk up to someone and go, hey,
I hope you know that your great. So if Chris
is listening right now, I hope you understand how much
that really made my entire weekend. And you know, when
I ever have weird feelings about this job that we
do and how tough it can be, sometimes that's such
a light. So she was an absolute delight and it
was probably my most favorite part of the weekend.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
She was wonderful, really sweet. Thank you Chris for listening.
We appreciate you. That's beautiful, Schminny. This was something you
got to see first and as well because we talked
about Irish on IONI and you.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Were out there.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Rocketed on the stage is one of our members of
our sister station one O four point five Best and
I actually do some work on it as well. And
we were there with a ice luge, right, What could
be more fun at a drinking event than having an
ice lose where people.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Are shout out Randy Finch ice guru.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
That's right, ice gurus dot com. As a matter of
fact is Randy Finch made this awesome ice luge for it, schmitty.
But about halfway through, you know what we weren't prepared
for was seventy degrees in Sonny just beaten down on
that thing as it started to actually come apart. About
way through our day, well that's when somebody showed up
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out of the blue. Not all heroes wear capes, and man,
was this cool because we had a mechanical engineer from
Notre Dame that was working at a bar who saw
us struggling to keep this thing together. And I don't
even know how she didn't what tools she used, but
all of a sudden she comes in with this two
by four built, elaborate setup that is meant to put
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structure to our ice sculpture and hold it up so
people can continue to use it. It was unbelievable and
it worked. So I want to shout out Emma Shimmick,
who plays for our Grand Rapids rugby team, the Growlers.
They were on site actually volunteering before their Growler season
kicks off here coming up on the weekend April fifth.
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But she's a mechanical engineer from Notre Dame, saw a struggle,
built this in a matter of like moments and saved
the day for everybody who's trying to do a little
booze and at Iowai with this on Saturday Show. It
was a very cool, so I wanted to shout her
out again. Emma Shimmick. She is a captain for your
Grand Rapids Growlers women's volleyball team and they see excuse me,
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I say volleyball rugby team and their season kicks off
April fifth over there at Highland Park.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Taken on Chicago. Really really cool.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
If you want to learn more, Grand Rapidswomen's Rugby dot com.
But Emma, thanks for saving the day. Feeling good coming
at you a couple times a day. I always want
to tell you about something great going on out there.
Let's do it tomorrow six forty five and nine to
twenty here on Star Mack
Speaker 2 (33:29):
And Schmidty in the morning weekday starting at six am
on Star one oh five point seven
Wakem It gets my day going, It makes me lab
I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Mac and Schmidty in the morning on Star one oh
five point.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Seven, Morning to you.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Oh yeah, happy Saint Patrick's Day. Welcome into Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I promise to only do that than several more times.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
Oh think, what's was good?
Speaker 6 (00:23):
Welcome to it. I'm wearing green, you're rocking yours. Nobody's
pinching anybody today. But man, what a wild and fun
weekend across West Michigan. And what a perfect juxaposition of
two perfect days that encapsulate well.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Here in Michigan March. Here, Michigan March is what I'm
calling it. Because if you were out in a literal
tank top on Saturday, maybe at a patio or doing
things with the kids, and then you woke up yesterday
and we literally had snow sticking to the ground, I
don't know what to tell you except hopefully you use
it as a beautiful day to just rot on the
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couch and watch sports.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
That's what we did, movies, music, and all the gossip
in one place.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Well, the rumors have been flying for a little bit now,
and it sounds like Tom Cruise may indeed have a
new leading lady and his life actress on a d
Harmis now. They were spotted in London over the weekend,
photographed dressed casually but definitely looking like they were out
on a date night. They got out of a helicopter
at London's Heliport, huge smiles, looking a little lovey dovey.
(01:32):
While there was no outward PDA, A lot of fans
have been wondering if the two are actually an item.
They had been seen last month grabbing dinner together around
Valentine's Day. They've been seen hanging out and trying to
keep things very secret. Neither team has confirmed either one
(01:52):
of this. I believe on it. D Armis was with
Brad Pitt last relationships, so this would be very interesting.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Do we expect to see Tom Cruise jumping up on
down on maybe?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I think Tom's done jumping up and down on couch,
you see. I think we're good there.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
After Rachel Zegler finally asked about all the controversy surrounding
that new live action Snow White, which had its big
premiere over the weekend. She was at Lax on Friday,
caught up with photogs when she definitely didn't want to
chat about any of the bad stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, how's it feel to finally have it come out?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Feels wonderful, and that was it. She ditched out of
the way of any of the Papa Arroanzi did not
want to continue the conversation. Remember, I had talked last
week about how they really scaled back the premiere plans.
Disney was nervous because of so much controversy surrounding the film,
But honestly, if you look at reviews that came out yesterday,
they have been glowing. A variety writing Zegler is a
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shining super nova, beautifully embodying the graceful, gentle nature of
the og. Disney Princess gal Goodo, which was playing by
she played the evil queen, getting tons of positive reviews.
The two even very very friendly on the red carpet,
So it doesn't sound like any of the controversy ahead
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of time was really bothering anyone, and numbers were pretty
good for the weekend.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
I mean, is Disney the one who's kind of bombing
this movie on their own by just kind of diminishing
it in this way?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
No, I don't think they're diminishing it. I think they're
just backing off this. It was just a lot of
other actors and actresses talking about this movie. You remember
Peter Dinklage was not super down with how they did
the dwarves in this, But so far it doesn't look
to be hurting it. In a Blake Lively manner as well,
we'll say how hers kind of.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Finally, would you have the guts to let Chack GPT
roast you? Actress and singer Demi Lovado did, asking Ai
to throw its best burns her way while her fiance
read them out loud so that she could react in
real time. It's pretty solid, Okay, So I asked chat
GPT to roast me, and is going.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
To read it roast Demi Levado?
Speaker 8 (04:03):
Oh you mean the artist formerly known as Confident but
now more like confused. Demi Levado has had more rebrands
than a failing fat food chain. One minute they're pump rock,
the next they're singing pop ballads, and somewhere in between
their beating with.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The bros and young.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
It's pretty good stuff. I put the video up at
West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Oh chat GDP is ruthless.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Oh yeah, all of your celib scoop right there at
West Michigan Starbuck.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Sometimes I get a good.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Little something extra on your Monday morning. It's feeling good
on Starbinar Fine points seven, Mack and Smitty hanging out.
And this was just incredible to see as an East
Kentwood High School senior working a job like most high
school kids, trying to earn an extra buck, and while
she's doing it, just happen to save a life. Her
name is Natalie May again, goes to East Kentwood High School,
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and it was only a week ago that she became
sort of a CPR certified. She learned how to do
CPR as well as the Heimlich maneuver on a mannequin
as just part of the health curriculum there at East
Kentwood High School. Again, this just happened last week and
then flashed forward just a couple of days into the
new week. On Tuesday, she was there a brand steakhouse
(05:18):
working and she was clearing off a table when all
of a sudden, a man in a booth near them
started choking. One of her coworkers, Christina Thrash, saw the
whole thing and described the scene to Fox seventeen, just wild.
Speaker 9 (05:31):
This guy was way way bigger than her, and the
lady at the table's wife couldn't even she's liked gere
her arms around to be able to do the Heimlich.
He was just saying, just the way she was putting
her thumbs right in under to like push it up out,
that's what saved his life. She was doing it just right.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
This is the middle of the dinner rushed brand steakhouse.
She is performing the Heimlich on this man, luckily dislodging
the food and likely saving his life. And she said,
you know, obviously so thankful that she had just had
this training, but she just reacted.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
It happened super fast. I didn't even like think about
it because there was no time to think, so I
just went ahead and started to do it. It is
a very emotional, I guess, shocking to me that I
was able to do that for someone, especially someone ten
times bigger than me.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I mean, so you just never know.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
But again big shout out Natalie may working over a
brand steakhouse, but the East Kentwood High School senior saving
a life definitely the waitress you want working with you.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Schmidding all right, so you may know her as the
dancing Jumbo Tron lady if you've ever gone to a
Michigan State men's basketball game. Her name is jan Ayleman,
and she doesn't really know how or when she became famous.
She's been part of the MSU community since nineteen seventy.
She's been teaching and tutoring in East Lansing for more
(06:56):
than four decades, and she has attended almost every single
men's basketball game since the early seventies. You'll know her
the thick, black rimmed glasses, her signature red lipstick and
decked out and that spartan green head to toe. She
has formed a very special bond with head coach Tom Izzo,
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as well as fiercely loyal to her friends in the
Zone students section. But she's a big fan of Type A.
She actually calls herself a supporter of the Triple A academics, arts,
and athletics. She says she's got tough love, she enjoys
shaping young people's lives, and bleed green for her is
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at the bottom of everything she does.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Check this out.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
She is a scholar in the area of elementary social studies.
She has authored and co authored thirteen books, more than
one hundred articles, book chapters and reports, and she is
one of the prominent experts being taught in classrooms across
the country and and the world. Her philosophy, a playbook
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for life doesn't always exist, so you may.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Do with what you have.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
It's a really cool article about this incredible woman who
has gearing up for that NCAA tournament. I've got the
entire thing, including her fabulous fashion, linked at West Michigan
Star dot com.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Feeling Good always here to provide a little positivity for
your morning. We'll do it again coming up at nine
to twenty.
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Mack and Schmidt.
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Seven, Movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It's the Celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Well, it was another weekend of very cryptic posts from
Justin Bieber, the Peaches singer, writing about feeling like he
was drowning and unsafe. He's been sharing a lot of
these to his Instagram stories. The post ignited new fears
for the star and his mental health. He writes, I
was always told when I was a kid not to hate,
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but it made me feel like I wasn't allowed to
have it, and so I didn't tell anyone I've had it,
which made me feel like I've been drowning, feeling unsafe
to acknowledge it. I think we can only let hate
go by first acknowledging it's there. How couldn't we feel
hate from all of the hurt we have experienced. He
was out with his wife, Hayley at a theme park,
(09:23):
a lot of fans thinking that maybe she's just kind
of doing the best that she can to try and
lift his spirits here. But this is not the first
time we've kind of heard him feel this almost sense
of dread with himself. He's written about feeling unworthy, feeling
like a fraud, feeling like he doesn't deserve what he has.
It's really really tough to have this out in the
Spotlight two for him as well. He's clearly having a
(09:45):
bit of a struggle right now.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
And it's just odd because it feels like he has been,
you know, overwhelmed at times by the amount of stardom
that he has and just always being in the public eye,
and then when you do things like this. It obviously
makes people gravity go what's wrong? What's wrong with you?
Justin what's wrong?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
So also, he's a new dad, and I feel like
there may be a lot of that here. He's going
to be tired, he's going to be overwhelmed with fatherhood.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Like I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I just I hope he's got some good people around him.
But the fans in the comments were very supportive, hoping
that he is finding some ground in a really supportive system.
Prince Harry's these a files are set to be made
public after claims he should never have been allowed into
the United States. This story was not really on my
(10:31):
radar until over the weekend. A judge has ordered documents
relating to the Duke of Sussex's US visa application to
be released tomorrow. Here's the deal. It comes after ongoing
freedom of information requests made by something called the Heritage Foundation.
So Judge Carl Nichols is his name. He made the
ruling that Harry's redacted documents will have to be made public.
(10:55):
These court papers were filed over the weekend. The data
of Two's battle over this visa was sparked thanks to
that book that he wrote where he got very candid
about taking certain drugs like cocaine, marijuana, and psychedelic mushrooms.
This is the stuff he wrote about in Spare, his memoir,
So it triggered apparently an investigation into how he was
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ever allowed to enter the US. In twenty twenty, they
are telling the Telegraph this Heritage Foundation, anyone who applies
to the US has to be truthful on their application,
and it is not clear that that is the case
with Prince Harry. So this will be interesting. These are
supposed to be out tomorrow. A judge previously ruled in
September they would remain private. This judge overturned that, so
(11:39):
we'll see if they actually get released tomorrow. But I
thought that was a very interesting story.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Yeah, and how does the citizenship even work because he's
Megan mark Ole, Does she have both US and Canadian citizenship?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Duel citizenship?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I was just.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Curious as to what nationality he gets access to just
for being married to her, whether that's Canadian or US
or neither.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Might find out tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Finally, that Sharon has debuted a brand new song and
surprised fans in New Orleans with it over the weekend.
He just popped up out of nowhere on Saturday in
the historic French Quarter, carrying a portable amp and microphone.
He was joined by the Soul Rebels. That's a brass
band who you guys all saw a company Kendrick Lamar
(12:20):
at the Super Bowl halftime show a.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Few weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
So this is a new single. I believe you say it, Azizam.
It's pretty funky fun yeah, he told all these surprised fans,
(12:49):
I have never seen this live. This is the first time,
he said. The song is coming in a couple weeks.
Nobody's heard it. We're gonna play it once, walk down
the street, place and music with It're excited for all
of you to hear this entire thing.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I'm a sucker for horn sections.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
That sounds really good. I love it.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
His eighth studio album, by the Way, is do out
later this year, so this would probably be one of
the first singles off that got the video for you
with your scoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I'm one than two.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
It's back and Schmidi and maybe you'll cheers with a
few of your coworkers today for Saint Patty's death.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Well, we always hear the bad side of hanging out
with co workers outside the office. We've done so many
stories about that. We've had so many people call in
and be like, ooh, you know the boss or this
and that. But over the weekend I worked Irish off
I Own You because one of my sister stations is
one O four point five S and X that I
do a show on in the afternoon, and it was
the first time I'd gotten to hang with like a
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lot of our part timers and promotional people, and it
was so much fun, and I had multiple moments and
I don't know, I guess maybe I give off this vibe,
but I think a lot of times, especially if you
don't get a ton of interaction with who you work with,
you just assume you know what they're like.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
So I got a.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Lot of them that kept saying, I'm so surprised you're
out here even though you're a mom. I get that
all the time, all the time. I get that all
the time, and I'm exactly but it was just like,
oh my gosh, I thought you'd be like this, or
you're so cool, this is so much fun, Like thank
you so much for hanging out.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Or talking with me, and I'm like.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well, yeah, I mean, you're really lovely. And by the
end of the night, it felt like all of us
just had such a great time finally getting to be together,
especially in something as wild as a Saint Patrick's Day party.
But I was talking to my husband about it yesterday
when he asked, you know, how did everything go? I go,
I just really enjoy hanging out with people on a
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team that you don't get to see a lot of
and realizing, oh man, we are all just so cool
and get along so well. And I mean, I'm in
my mid I'm not going to say late thirties.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
I'm not there. Yeah, I'm and I'm hanging out.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
With twenty one year olds and it was so great,
And I just thought, there's got to be those moments
where you hang out with your coworkers and they end
up being some of your best friends. It's the first
comment we got on Facebook from Aaron. Yes, I've hung
out with my coworkers. They turned into some of my
best friends. None of us work there anymore, and we're
still super close.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
You know.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
I think it happens for people at a lot of
different jobs in their careers too, because you spend so
much time with these people at work, like you almost
forget how much of your life you commit to your
job and to all of those people being around you
that in a lot of ways, yeah, you see them
more than a lot of your family members.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, but it was different because I don't see them
a lot, right, Like, they are working very different hours
than I am, and you know where I'm based more
in the morning, They're doing stuff throughout the whole day.
And that's when I was just really thankful. I thought, man,
this is perfect. And we were all like hugging and
leaving at the end of the night.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
They were like, this was just so nice.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
You know why, I think it was really sminny because yeah,
you know, you have a few young team members that
are just awesome young people. It's because they saw you
get up on a stage and drop it down like
you are still.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Sorry, did you just say awesome young people?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Schmidty, I'm not pretending.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
That the first scene, Patrick st was grandpas.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You mean when we chased ye remember back then.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
We know the shamrock teaching that trinity was okay, but.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Human torch was denied at bangal over.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
All, right, let's bust into the week that nobody really
needs the news from, but we give it to you anyway,
and this week's best.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
A Virginia Zoo has responded to gorilla escape rumors by saying,
we don't have gorillas.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
I still don't know what's happening.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Social media lit up with reports of a gorilla on
the loose last week in the Granby Street area, and
the Virginia Zoo literally had to say, we don't We
don't have those. So what you've seen is is zoo
squatch is what they're calling it.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
A Swiss drive. I ever fined one hundred and ten
thousand dollars for tailgating. Yeah, rich guy in Switzerland got
fined over one hundred grand because he was too close
to the car in front of him for over an hour.
And in Switzerland tickets are based off of your income,
so he fought it but still had to pay for
it plus another fifteen grand in court costs.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Were they in the left lane Swiss style? Because out
of the way.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Badbine night at the bar earned a Michigan man a
record breaking six hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars in
lottery winnings.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
This happened over in Wade County.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
The dude said he just stopped into JP's trolley stop dot.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
What the heck?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Oh play club Keno, and his life was changed forever.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Something tells me that waitress probably had a pretty good
night too.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Adbine Schmidi Florida doctor takes a pe deal. Florida doctor
Giovanni Bulba confessed to dumping gallons of urine on the
front door of a competing medical practice. Yes, became a
you know, unhappy with the business relationship between the two
medical branches. Decided to do this just so you know,
(18:07):
had to pay a huge fine twelve month medical program.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
But still gets to practice medicine in Florida.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Sbie, all right, this is your shocking pure Michigan find
Motel staff at the Pine River Motel in Sheboygan last
week walked into clean a guest's room and found an alligator.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
His name is Wally.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
They eventually got in touch with the owner, who'd been
in town conducting assemblies with elementary kids, and said, you know,
I lost Wally and I wasn't sure.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Where he was. Fedbi Schmitty Pie Day, of course, was
back there on Friday. In a British boy list two
hundred and eighty digits of pie from memory in one minute.
You see it was blindfolded two two one hundred and
eighty digits. Yet kid can't remember to pick up his dirty,
close weirdest thing.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Adbye. That's this week's lines.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
You see any great ones out there, you always got
to send tom ow Waife, Facebook and Instagram, A's West Michigan, Star.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Okay, So I had said this might be some of
the biggest drama we've seen yet from Kanye, which I
know is saying a lot. But on Saturday, the rapper
dropped a new song that seemingly features both Sean Ditty
Combs and his daughter north He took to his ex
to release the track, Lonely Rhoads Still Go to Sunshine.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
It's called he said.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
New song by Puff Daddy, featuring his son Kingcomb's my
daughter Northwest, and new yeezy artist from Chicago, Jasmine Williams.
The nearly five minute song opens with what appears to
be a phone conversation between Yay and Diddy, who, of
course is still in jail facing multiple charges, including trafficking.
(19:57):
But it's then that Kanye he really like, unleashes on
this tirade about his fans and Kardashian fans and they
being the reason his parental rights have been stripped. In part,
he wrote, I don't want to just see my kids.
I need to raise them. I need to have a
say where they go to school, who their friends are,
(20:18):
and whose houses they sleep over, Whether my daughters were
lipstick and perfume. All these rights have been taken from
me by the Kardashian mob, Hulu and Disney and the
bigger agenda to use the selectively bred black children to
be platforms to influence black people. Now, there's also rumor
(20:38):
this morning that Kim actually attempted to take legal action
to keep whatever song this is.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
From being released as well.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
She should by the way, people did not take these
things from Kanye. Kanye took these things from himself right
by doing this and putting his family in such a
unsafe and unhealthy environment in the first place. You've got
your daughter on a track with these guys. Tell me
you're not exploiting her to be a provocateur. You know
(21:08):
what I mean to get a headline to make something,
to make something noteworthy, like this is gross, Well.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
You want to talk provocative.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
He also allegedly put up the cover art for his
upcoming album that does feature some Nazi propaganda in it.
Unclear whether that's related to the Bully album that he
teased at the start of twenty twenty five, but common
section was not kind and I will leave it at that.
Fans are convinced that Taylor Swift was secretly involved in
(21:39):
Lady Gaga's new album, So, of course, her highly anticipated
seventh studio album, Mayhem, dropped last week about a week ago,
but immediately after it did, listeners theorized that Taylor may
have helped write at least one of the tracks. Again,
these are the Swifties pointing out similarities that they see.
They're specifically talking about her tune how Bad do You
(22:02):
Want Me? Now. Taylor is not listed as a writer
or given any credentials on the song, but tons of
Swifties flooding social saying my theory Taylor secretly wrote how
Bad do You Want Me? For Gaga, the production, the
vocal style, the lyrics, It's screaming twenty fourteen to twenty
nineteen Taylor So Bad, another person writing how bad do
(22:24):
you Want Me So? Written by Taylor, produced by Jack Antonoff,
totally coded with a third person saying look me in
the eyes and tell me that does not sound like
a Taylor Swift song.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
I have not heard any rumor.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
About Taylor playing any kind of hand in Gaga's album.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
I mean, it's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I think you could honestly argue that maybe it does
sound like Taylor, because the both of them have just
this og sound right now from like back, you know,
when the millennials were hitting hard in two thousand and nine.
But I guess I could be proven wrong, but comes
out being true.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Ben Jack Antonov's got kind of his own sound and
sort of style that comes across for both those artists.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I feel like we'll see but man, Tiler Gaga collab
would probably make the world melt. Finally, Will Smith has
announced the date to his latest album, and he is
stoked after a twenty year hiatus. The actor rapper producer
sharing the news on Insta yesterday.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
It's official.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
My new album, based on a true Story drops on
March twenty eighth, two weeks hit that pre save been
working on this project. For a minute, and I am
itching to get it out to y'all. This sounds really cool.
It's a fourteen track album. It does reunite Smith with
DJ Jazzy Jack. It features collabs with Teyana Taylor and
(23:40):
Jack Ross. We already heard what people think was a
single off this album called Beautiful Scars that features Detroit's
own Big Sean. People are really excited about this.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
It's just so odd to me, is he He's like,
what fifty two now? At least fifty three something like that.
That's I mean, heyuse you can still do it mid fifties.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
He's up there, he's fifty six, holy and getting it
with Dj Jazzy Jeffy. I've got some more details some
of the things he said about that album with your
scoop at West Michigan Star dot Com.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
It's time to battle. Let's do this Battle of the sexies.
Looking to get you in to see our Grand Rapids
Griffins coming up on April second. They're gonna take on
the Chicago Wolveshminty Big Rivalry.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
We've got your tickets.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
With today's number one answer, one hundred men surveyed name
someone whose job it is to make problems go away.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
I mean, this could be a lot of people, right,
Like I'm right off the bat, I'm like, well, the
my recycling people, my trash people, right, they make all
that stuff go away. For me, there's a problem going away.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I'm just saying six one, six, four, five, eight, one
oh five seven. One hundred men surveyed name someone whose
job it is to make problems go away? Number one
answer six one, six, four, five, eight, one oh five
seven callers seven, you could be headed to the Griffins,
Good morning star.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Who's this? Were you calling them this morning?
Speaker 6 (25:02):
I'm all right, leanne hundred guys were asked to name
someone whose job it is to make problems go away?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
The top answer is, well, I was torn between two.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
And my first thought was a hit man, but I'm
going to go with the age art department in your office?
Speaker 6 (25:23):
WHOA you went right to either murder or the person
that bless you for being late too many times to work?
Very different ends of the spectrum, however, neither is the
top answer.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I loved your guesses.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
I think you know what You're a You're a winner
today just for those answers.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Bye, Hi, Star. Who's this Hi?
Speaker 7 (25:47):
This is Mandy.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Mandy.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
I just had leanne On and when one hundred guys
were asked to name someone whose job it is to
make problems go away, she went a little out of
the box and she said either a hit man or
someone in the h R departments, which were phenomenal answers,
but not on the list.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
So you've got a chance here, Mandy, what do you
think the top.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Answer is, I'm thinking it's a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
You're thinking it's a lawyer.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Honestly, the only time I ever want to contact a
lawyer is when I've got some problem that needs some fixing.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Lawyers the top answer way to go.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
We got it.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Yeah, congratulations, you got some young helpers in the car there,
we do excellent. Well, you're all going to see our
grand Rapids Griffins here pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Awesome, Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
You are very welcome. Yes, it was lawyer, followed by
doctor and then dentists. You haven't got a problem with
the tooth. I guess the dentists still help out a
little bit. Congratulations, and we'll have more Griffins tickets all
this week.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
You're on Star Win five point seven.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Happy St. Patrick's Day, Schmidty. I mean, I am over here,
red hair, freckles.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
What's in the sun for longer than sixty two seconds?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
I'm obviously like at least a quarter full blood Lepricaun.
There's no debate about that, Schmitty. However, over thirty one
million Americans claimed to have some Irish ancestry, which is like,
by the way, twice the population of actual Ireland.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
I guess I thought the number would be higher than that.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Believe in a little thought. Yeah, I'm a little surprised too.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
But my family, as we were talking about it yesterday, Smitty,
have you ever done one of those like DNA tests?
We have twenty three and me now, we haven't either.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
My husband's a conspiracy theorist and things that gets you
put in a government database.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
You know, he's not wrong. I think that we're to
dig into my poem.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
I think Google could verify that. However, we haven't done
that either. So I've just, you know, sort of based
it off of our own family history. But mine's really
not that complex because my both of my grandmothers were
born of Irish immigrants, last names of Doyle and Burke.
I mean, couldn't have been more Irish. And then on
my grandfather's side, he was half Scottish and half Irish
(27:55):
and so got a ton of that Celtic blood in us.
For sure. I have another grandfather who's Canadian. So my
kids were like, are we Scottish because my last name
is McLeod, And so I was like, well, actually, guys,
the way that it works is that your grandparents they
are combined, and then that goes down and it's cut
in half because obviously you're coming from two sets of parents.
(28:17):
And I start going through how all of this are right,
You've already lost me exactly. And then so they're like, well,
so how much Irish are we? And I'm like, it's
just fractions, guys, We're about sixty percent Irish. The second
the word fractions came out of my mouth, smitting yeah,
my sixth grader and my fourth grader's eyes just malaised
into the back of their heads as they slowly started
(28:40):
exiting the room, like it was like a Homer Simpson
just disappearing into the shrubs real fast.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Of like, oh it's school now, all.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Right, Happy Sam Patrick's day, Dad, believe you in your element?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Not good?
Speaker 4 (28:52):
My kids just figure they're German and Polish because every
time we go to any family gathering there's going to
be beer and PERROGI.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Some downes get a good feeling.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Now the sun is shining St. Patrick's days here. There's
a lot to be feeling good about this. We hit
a new week and we're about to bring you a
couple more great stories. What's going on, SINNI?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Yeah, so I get this quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
I saw you out at so and so, but I
just I was too embarrassed to come up and say Hi.
Don't ever feel that way, because I really really love
getting to meet people, getting to meet listeners, but eventually
considering you friends. And it happened over the weekend. I
was out hosting Irish off Ionia and called her Plaza
on Saturday, and I had this woman walk up to
(29:39):
me with her daughter.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
They were both there together.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
And I will only use her first name, Chris, because
I hope she's okay with me sharing this.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
But she was out with her daughter.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
She came up, she realized who I was, and she
just said, I have to tell you. I love listening
to you. I listened to you every day and she said,
but I especially love listening to you talk about your kids,
and she said, I have listened to Radio Tion for
a few years, and so I know very well everything
that's gone down with your son. And she said, the
first time you shared your story about hospital stays and
(30:06):
all that, she said, I was actually dealing with my
husband going through cancer.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
And she said it was.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Just so incredibly moving to feel as though somebody else
was also going through craziness, isolation, scared moments of life
with someone they love very much, and you were so
helpful to me, and I just think you're really wonderful,
and maybe somebody has not told you that before. And
like we're sitting there, we're having the hugs, we're tearing up,
(30:33):
and she was just so incredibly wonderful and joyful, and
then we were talking about how my son's doing great now,
her husband is doing great in remission. It's fantastic. And
it was just a really great reminder that I think
we're very lucky to be in West Michigan, especially because
I think the majority of us are just like that,
just kind hearted, lovely, wonderful people that when they have
(30:56):
the chance, just want to walk up to someone and go, hey,
I hope you know that your great. So if Chris
is listening right now, I hope you understand how much
that really made my entire weekend. And you know, when
I ever have weird feelings about this job that we
do and how tough it can be, sometimes that's such
a light. So she was an absolute delight and it
was probably my most favorite part of the weekend.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
She was wonderful, really sweet. Thank you Chris for listening.
We appreciate you. That's beautiful, Schminny. This was something you
got to see first and as well because we talked
about Irish on IONI and you.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Were out there.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Rocketed on the stage is one of our members of
our sister station one O four point five Best and
I actually do some work on it as well. And
we were there with a ice luge, right, What could
be more fun at a drinking event than having an
ice lose where people.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Are shout out Randy Finch ice guru.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
That's right, ice gurus dot com. As a matter of
fact is Randy Finch made this awesome ice luge for it, schmitty.
But about halfway through, you know what we weren't prepared
for was seventy degrees in Sonny just beaten down on
that thing as it started to actually come apart. About
way through our day, well that's when somebody showed up
(32:04):
out of the blue. Not all heroes wear capes, and man,
was this cool because we had a mechanical engineer from
Notre Dame that was working at a bar who saw
us struggling to keep this thing together. And I don't
even know how she didn't what tools she used, but
all of a sudden she comes in with this two
by four built, elaborate setup that is meant to put
(32:25):
structure to our ice sculpture and hold it up so
people can continue to use it. It was unbelievable and
it worked. So I want to shout out Emma Shimmick,
who plays for our Grand Rapids rugby team, the Growlers.
They were on site actually volunteering before their Growler season
kicks off here coming up on the weekend April fifth.
(32:46):
But she's a mechanical engineer from Notre Dame, saw a struggle,
built this in a matter of like moments and saved
the day for everybody who's trying to do a little
booze and at Iowai with this on Saturday Show. It
was a very cool, so I wanted to shout her
out again. Emma Shimmick. She is a captain for your
Grand Rapids Growlers women's volleyball team and they see excuse me,
(33:08):
I say volleyball rugby team and their season kicks off
April fifth over there at Highland Park.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Taken on Chicago. Really really cool.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
If you want to learn more, Grand Rapidswomen's Rugby dot com.
But Emma, thanks for saving the day. Feeling good coming
at you a couple times a day. I always want
to tell you about something great going on out there.
Let's do it tomorrow six forty five and nine to
twenty here on Star Mack
Speaker 2 (33:29):
And Schmidty in the morning weekday starting at six am
on Star one oh five point seven
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