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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Wake wake him.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It gets my day going and makes me lab I it,
Mac and Schmitty in the morning on Star one O
five point seven.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Good morning, Schmitting, Good morning, Welcome into it. Happy Friday,
finally here. Actually I kind of spent last night like
I imagined Fridays. It went on a date last night,
which was kind of nice. No kids at my house
right now, they're all gone camping. So we went to
Jim gaff again.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, that's right. How was it?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And it was fantastic. He was phenomenal. I fell asleep
the first time I saw him. Not his fault, my fault,
but this time wide away. Great show and Schmitty. Maybe
the best part is we got there. Show started at
seven o'clock and we got there maybe like seven to ten,
so there was an opener on. Right go to a
comedy show, I usually expect to see like three openers,
two openers at least they go on for a few minutes.
(00:53):
Then ultimately, yeah, Jim gaffgin came on at seven point
thirty on the day. He did it for seventy five minutes,
that's right. And we were out of there at eight
forty five and ready to be tucked into bed. By
nine thirty.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
So have you ever listened to his CBS features. He
does an entire bit on that. He's like, oh no, no,
I don't uh. I am here to get in, get
out and have my heating pad on my back because
I'm a dad of five and I live for my sleep.
It's like one of the greatest parts of Jim Gaffigan.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh man, he was a phenomenal last night for sure,
So big shout out to all the start listeners got
to go to the show, but a great date actually,
just to get out and laugh at.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Me movies, music and all the gossip.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
In one place.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Well, this is a pretty major partnership announced yesterday, Dave
Portnoy and Barstool Sports will now be a part of
your college football coverage, joining Fox Sports in a huge partnership. Portnoy,
obviously the founder of Barstool, breaking the news yesterday hosting
an emergency press conference on his ex page. Not surprising,
(01:58):
a bit unhinged, but I figure you Michigan fans would
love this.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Question for you.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
What conference has ruled college football year at the year
at the year National champion after national champion. Answer the
Big Ten and what network covers the Big ten better
than anybody else?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Fox Sports.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
We have all the schools covered, but only one school
matters in that's Michigan. We've ruled that conference with an
iron fist for the past decade and now it will
continue in between the white lines and on the desk.
So all you people out there who think you got
the last word on Michigan, those days are over. Tune
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in Columbus Big Noon Kickoff. I'll be there with your
dysfunctional little national champion.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You can't pay us, and you know it. We'll see
you soon.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
So there is a lot that's part of this deal.
Portnoy will be a regular contributor on Big Noon Kickoff.
There's going to be tons of promised digital content as
part of this partnership with Fox Sports. And it's very
interesting because we had heard a few months ago Dave
was actually offered a government job in DC and said
no because he didn't want to step away from barstool Boom.
(03:10):
Turns out all of this was being talked about and
a massive contract was being signed.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So okay, let's talk about Dave Fortnoy and barstool Sports
for a second. The dude built it, sold it for
half a billion dollars, it went under, bought it back
for a dollar, signed a two billion dollar deal with
ESPN for their gambling site that went under, and now
signs a huge deal with their competitor, Fox Sports. I mean,
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the guy is on the ride of a lifetime financial.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Businessman for sure. I was surprised, but also overjoyed to
see this news because I think they're so dang cute.
Kate Bosworth and Justin Long are now parents, announcing they
just welcomed a baby girl. Had no idea. The couple,
who started dating in twenty twenty two and then tied
the not in twenty twenty three. Welcome to baby girl
(03:58):
via surrogate to page six. Justin had actually hinted at
wanting kids back in January of last year. He was
gushing over Kate, joking about their future kids one day,
writing sappy things about the lady love of his really
really cute stuff. No further details. They're very private people,
but I thought that was really fun.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
He always plays and seems like the lovable loser. I
root for that.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah. Finally, I had to do this because It caught
me off guard. I told you guys, fashion can be deadly.
Just ask actress Suki Waterhouse. She of course has a
child with Twilight star Robert Pattinson. That's who we're talking
about here, announcing to fans she suffered a hernia from
wearing pants that were too tight. This is wild. She
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actually tweeted from her hospital room. She was responding to
a fan that said, Suki, you never tweeted anymore, and
then she wrote, have you ever considered I wore pants
so tight six months ago? It caused a hernia and
I've been too scared to tell you all. She included
photos in these green pants they kind of look like
to me from one of her big festival performances earlier
(05:06):
this year. Do look tight, but I didn't realize hernia tight,
And I just felt like it was my responsibility to
warn all of you. Pants can give you a hernia.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
PSA for all of the tight pants wearers. Wow, it's
amazing we made it through the skinny gen revolution. Schmitty,
I move.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I guess all right, all of your celeb scoop at
West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Starlin A five points seven. It's Mack and Schmitty And
I've heard of flying nuns before singing nuns, of course,
not so much powerlifting nuns. But that's what I want
to tell you about feeling good on starting a five
points seven. It's Mack and Schmitty and Pat Ferrell. She's
a seventy two year old nun from San Francisco and
she is preparing to compete in her very first powerlifting
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competition this Saturday. Now, she trains at the yard in
San Francisco, and this is her first competition as a
seventy two year old. But she's been working out religiously
for a very long time. I'm gonna throw as many
of those puns in as I possibly can. But now
she is actually done this as sort of an inspiration
to her church community and saying to other people, like
her trainer, Josh cal it's inspiring. She's been easily one
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of the most outgoing, motivated people who have come into
the gym, and now she's ready to step up and
put it to the test. She is going to be
competing in the deadlift and bench press divisions, and she's
been working out like crazy in preparation. Her coach doesn't
want her to go too hard. But she was chatting
with her local TV station about this whole competition, and
she thinks nuns could probably pull off more. Some of
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them are runners, by the way, too, but not her.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I think the sisters are supportive and somewhat amused, probably too.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Because many of them wouldn't think about lifty.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
They would look at those weights and say, oh.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
My goodness, No, there's another sisters out there that run,
that do marathons, that jog.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I run for the bus. Yeah, not a runner. She's
more than happy though, to do this powerlifting and a
real inspiration, he says, just to show people that you
can do anything.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That we can do more than we think we can.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
We can do more than we think we can. Seventy
two year old powerlifted none.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Good luck tomorrow, all right, real quick, Another day, another
Michigan lottery winner. I love doing these because I would
never think to grab a lottery ticket while headed camping,
But luckily a sixty seven year old woman from Oakland
County did, buying a Fantasy five ticket from Meyer and
Galer there you go, ended up matching the game's five numbers,
hitting the jackpot of just shy eight hundred thousand dollars,
(07:24):
She said in a release. I went up north on
a camping trip for the Fourth of July weekend, bought
the ticket at the store. Next morning, I checked the
winning numbers. Was so excited when I found out I
won the big jackpot. I did tell some of the
people at the surrounding camp sites around me, so it
was really fun to celebrate with everybody. She plans to
use the jackpot to fix up her house, create a
(07:44):
college fund for her grandkids, and then take her family
to Disney.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
So there, yes, there, throw it into Disney, yp movies, music,
and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's the celebrities gooop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Okay, we're gonna start by breaking down a viral moment
that literally everyone is talking about. In fact, I cannot
remember the last time something happened that it felt was
a collective across the country gas. I first did see
this headline yesterday morning, and I thought it was fake.
This was so insane. So Coldplay laid a huge show
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in Boston at Jillette Stadium Wednesday night. Now, during Coldplay
shows I've seen them live, they do kind of a kisscam,
kind of thing where they find fans across the arena
and put them on the jumbo tron. Well, it was
a couple of fans that were caught in what looked
to be a very nefarious way. They were cuddling. As
soon as the jumbo tron hit them, they got really
(08:41):
really surprised, split up and hid their faces. This is
the moment that Coldplay frontman Chris Martin got really weirded
out by it.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
All Right, everyone doing either an affair or this gring
shut that's the best part.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
They're having an affair. So this is Astronomer CEO and
the byron who was at the show with his HR chief.
I've also heard people calling her chief people Officer Kristin Cabot.
That is not his wife. The allegend couple immediately trying
to hide when they realized they were on full display.
(09:19):
So this clip went up late Wednesday night and has
wrecked millions of views, and obviously the Internet has done
some slew thing. It turns out the CEO is indeed
married to someone else. I really feel for her. His
wife has now taken all of her social media down.
It was reported yesterday that she had originally taken her
married name off of Facebook as soon as this video
(09:39):
started going viral. There is rumor that Cabot, the HR chief,
is also married. One thing I want to get to
that is kind of some breaking news here. There was
a statement going around yesterday supposedly from Andy Byron himself.
It said, I want to acknowledge the moment that's been
circulating online. What was supposed to be a night music
(10:00):
and enjoyed turned into a deeply personal mistake playing out
on a very public stage. This is not who I
want to be or I want to represent the company
I helped build. I'm taking time to reflect, take accountability,
figure out the next steps. I also want to express
how troubling it is that what should have been a
private moment became public without my consent. I respect artists
(10:21):
and entertainers, but I hope we can all think more
deeply about the impact of turning someone else's life into
a spectacle that fired up the internet. Going hold on,
are you blaming Coldplay for outing you.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Know who the RECTI is here? Me the Jeter.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
That statement is entirely one hundred percent fake. That is
not true. It came from a parody account listed as
a Peter eniscbs P. This is not true. This is
a fake. I've seen a lot of people reporting that
this morning. It is not real, that it's fully fake.
Adds for reps with Andy and Kristen. Neither one of
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them have officially spoken out about this this morning. We're
also learning the brunette next to them with this like
giant smile on her face while this is going down
is another employee at Astronomer, and now reports are saying
she was actually hired and given a raise as hush
money because she knew this relationship was ongoing. There's a
lot here, so we'll have more coming up. I know
(11:19):
we're going to talk about this at eight forty five
this morning, because, as it happens, my best friend actually
knows this woman, really best woman who was involved this person,
we were actually talking about this last night, and so
I've got some I've got some some deeper dives into
how bad this could really be, not just for them personally,
(11:42):
but professionally.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, really really wild stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I mean, if they'd have just not freaked out, none
of this would have ever come to light, right.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
That's what everybody's saying.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
If they would have just cuddling, they could and nobody
would have even thought about it, outside of maybe the
close people that we're there with them in the company's all.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I feel really really bad for the spouses. I do
I have the kids. I think he does have kids.
With the life two boys, it looks like, oh my gosh.
Let's move on to another major announcement. It is done
for Stephen Colbert and the Late Show, CBS announcing the
show is officially coming to an end in May of
(12:22):
twenty twenty six. Stephen himself did not find out until
two nights ago, and then broke the news to his
audience live last night.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Before we start the show, I want to let you
know something that I found out just last night. Next
year will be our last season. The network will be
ending the Late Show in May. And yeah, I share
(12:51):
your feelings. It's not just the end of our show,
but it's the end of the Late Show on CBS.
I'm not being replaced. This is all just going away.
And I do want to say I do want to
say that the folks at CBS have been great partners.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
So the Late Show franchise period is done.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
The Cotterman's legacy that hurts.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
The company, calling the move purely a financial decision against
a challenging backdrop in Late Night. It is not related
in any way to the show's performance, content or other
matters happening at Paramount. Because a lot of people think
this was politically motivated after the lawsuit with Trump and Paramount,
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which is obviously the parent company of CBS.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Well and a major merger that has to be approved by.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
The administration, so they're saying that's not the case whatsoever. Finally,
Felix Bombgartner, if you don't recognize the name, this is
the Austrian base jumper and skydiver who has gone viral
for some of his stunts, including setting a world record
back in twenty twelve as the first person to jump
from the stratosphere back down to Earth. You remember that video.
He has died any really tragic paragliding accident in Italy,
(14:03):
so according to a local news agency, he became ill
and lost control of his aircraft, ended up crashing into
a hotel swimming pool. Actually injured a woman who was
a hotel employee. She sustained, thankfully, non life threatening injuries,
but after crashing, the report says he reportedly lost consciousness
and then went into cardiac arrest. So he is now deceased.
(14:24):
As of this morning, he was only fifty six. So
it's like, really, really, Santouz, all of your celeb scoop
at West Michigan.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Start off, huh hike, Smitty. You threw me off right
there because you said pet passing and then you said
it was hilarious. And I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
And I feel bad, but I got permission to talk
about this from my neighbor and friend because it's a
tragic passing, but what they did was just so funny.
So I was having a glass of wine with my
neighbor on the deck last night. Her kids came over
to play, and she started talking to me about this
pet story, and I said, I've got to stop you.
(15:01):
Is this what I heard the other night? Because I
heard singing coming from your backyard. Our backyard's back up
to each other. And she goes, oh my gosh, my husband. Yes,
so they have two beta fit they had to beta fish.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Oh okay, all right, now I don't feel So.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Here's the deal. She's like, I don't know what happened,
but they passed within hours of each other last week,
and she thinks she really truly thinks their air conditioning broke,
and she thinks the change in temperature of the house
heating up because it was like ninety eight degrees last
week and then trying to cool it down with some
window units and then opening. She thinks that, like the
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temperature change killed the beta fish makes sense. And she's like,
I feel so bad. I would never have guessed this.
And of course she's got two daughters. They were like, well,
we don't want to flush them. We need to have
a full on funeral. And so what I heard was
them burying the fish in their backyard while her husband
saying on eagles wings.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And I.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Said, I know, I think that's wind beneath my wing,
talking like every Catholic funeral and Eastern Mass on eagles wings.
And I said, I was like, girl, I heard, She goes.
I was trying so hard not to laugh. And then
my daughters were getting so upset because they were like,
we are making sure Jesus knows our beita fish are
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heading to him. And I was like, that is so
tragic and hilarious, and she goes, but you know what,
I feel so much better because she said when she
told her coworker this, she goes, well, you're a lot
better than I am. We got the kids some hamsters
for Christmas, and I thought it would be cute to
have the gifts by the fireplace. We roasted them.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
So my kids opened a Christmas gift to.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Sleeping probably smelled a little, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I feel so bad. But as a parent, pet passings
is some of the most hysterical story I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I mean, I'm sorry, but you had me as a
as an old school Catholic kid who heard that song
over and over.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
And I was like, I heard it for a long time.
She goes, He's sang five verses with every single chorus.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So if you are looking for someone to really hit
like a vibrato operatic feel for your pet's funeral, my
neighbor has got some pipes.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Follow that up a little Gloria and then Ava Maria,
and we got ourselves a real concert sort of funeral here.
Schmidzh oh.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Just know, if you are dealing with any kind of
pet passing this summer, you know there might be a
comedic relief lining about it.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
That's a core memory. When your dad's in the backyard
going and I will raise you up.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Like that to come through the woods. I was like
him on Broadway Grand Rapids.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
You're right, that was That was the.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Best thing tragedy hilarious.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
That I could ever hear that.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Mac and Schmidty in the morning on Star one five
point seven.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Times spilling tea tay time, spill the too, sweetheart. That's
what we're doing, spilling your teach and every week we
like your drama right and keep sending it to us
at West Michigan Star on Facebook and Instagram, like this
letter that we got today, Schmidty. My wife's fortieth birthday
party was supposed to be a great party with family
and friends. About an hour in her younger sister arrived
wearing a new engagement ring. My mother in law noticed
(18:24):
it immediately and the room erupted in cheers. First, I
don't think much of it until I saw my wife's face.
Every husband knows that look. She pulled her sister aside
and said something like you thought my birthday party was
the right time to announce this. That set off the
full blown argument, tears, yelling, the works. The fight ruined
the party, her birthday, her sister's announcement as well. Now
(18:46):
my wife is torn between anger at her sister for
quote unquote hijacking her moment and guilt for letting it
all spiral. Personally, I think the timing was fine, but
there's no way I'm saying that out loud. First things first,
smart man on that one. Yeah, definitely keep your mouth shut, sir.
I didn't know how I felt about this, because I
think if you do it at somebody's wedding or something
(19:08):
like that, that that's a bigger deal. That's a once
in a lifetime thing. I feel like a fortieth birthday
party with a bunch of friends and family around, eh.
I don't think that's it.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I wish I knew how close the sisters are. I
agree with Jennifer, she said this is I disagree her
saying ranks up there with announcing a pregnancy at a wedding.
That to me is an entirely different thing, but boils
down to how good of a relationship the sisters have.
I went to my best friend's wedding and she celebrated
her sister's birthday at it. It fell on the same day.
I'm not sure if it's really that big of a
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deal of the fortieth birthday and if they are really close.
I bet she was. I mean, obviously she wasn't thrilled
if she said this, But I don't know if it
was any kind of malicious behavior.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Six one six, four five eight one five seven. If
you want to weigh in, do you think the fact
that it was the Big four oh shmitty might have
made things a little bit emotion.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I would like that better. Please do not focus on
the fact that I'm entering my fourth decade of life.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
That's an interesting one. Jen on the phone from Grandville.
What do you think, Jen? Was this over the top?
Who's in the wrong here?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
No?
Speaker 7 (20:07):
I don't think she overreacted. It was her moment. She's
been planning for this party. It was probably all her
people there. That was her moment. Her sister stole it
from her. That's so rude. You never take someone's moment
away from them, if it's a wedding, a birthday, whatever. Like,
just because people are all there and together doesn't mean
that you should announce something. How's your own party for that?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Or talk to your sister? I guess beforehand.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, I can, I can see that. I mean that's
the other part, like, how long did you know did
it happen like the night before where you're holding on
to this waiting to break it at the party? That
could be interesting too, Leslie on the line from Holland,
What do you think, Leslie?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Yeah, I think she should apologize. I mean, it's her birthday. Great,
but that's such a great birthday. Get your sister's getting married. Yeah,
this would be a happy time for her sister. She
should be happy for her. It's not there's no bare
place for her have announced this to engagement with their
friends and Stanley all in the same room. I don't
think there was anything done to take way attention from her.
(21:09):
She's still her cake, right, So that's right.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I think here's what it comes down to for me.
Is this worth holding on to and not being close
with family anymore? Or do you get over it and
say it's cool it was my birthday but I'm excited
for you? Which which side do I be in?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I was just saying I wouldn't expect maybe my big
sister to be my maid of honor. Perhaps after this
move debacle, but yeah, not good way in yourself. We
got to go out on Facebook right now at West
Michigan Star where you can also hit us up with
your drama each and every week for tea time you're
on Star, it's this celebrity scoop on Star one oh
five point seven.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Oh boy, it is the talk of the internet. This morning,
astronomer CEO Andy Byron caught cheating at a cold Play show.
This is the video you have seen viral. So Coldplay
was performing in Boston on Wednesday night when they did
kind of a mootron kisscam kind of thing and found
this CEO snuggling up what most people thought was his wife.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
All right, affair or this great shot.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Because as soon as they realized they were on the JumboTron,
they split apart. They both hid their faces. It looked
very awkward, and it turns out they were having an
affair that was not the CEO's wife. That was his
HR chief Kristin Abbottabits. Ironically, Yeah, she's better known as
the Chief People Officer. That's what the website has her
(22:39):
listed as. The couple has now gone viral over this,
but there is a lot of fake news going around.
So if you saw a statement released yesterday from that CEO,
Andy Byron, that was not real, that was from a
parody account. Fully faked. Neither one of them have officially
spoken about this, but the Internet did their slew thing,
(22:59):
and it turned out Andy's wife, Megan Carrie and Byron
had removed her married name on her Facebook page before
completely disabling all of her social media yesterday afternoon. We're
also learning that Kristen Cabot just recently got divorced, so
she is not married. If you've watched the viral video,
you also noticed a brunette looks to be with them
(23:22):
at this show, just absolutely stunned by it. Reportedly that's
Alyssa Stoddard, Astronomer's senior director of People, who is reportedly
just recently promoted like last week by Cabot. And there
are some that say this is to keep her quiet,
that she had figured out this affair, that this was
(23:43):
kind of a hush money kind of situation. She's not
speaking out about this either, but I gotta tell you
the memes that have popped up from this. For instance,
Eric mathony on X, Coldplay hasn't made a single in years.
Last night they made too, A couple of my other
pretty good, Thanks Good, a couple of my other favorites.
(24:04):
Coldplay should out people at every concert and say you've
just been cold played and my most favorite, the chances
of your marriage and career being destroyed at a cold
Play concert are extremely low, but never zero. We are
noticing this morning as well both the CEO and Chief
People Officer, so this is both Andy and Kristen have
(24:25):
completely scrubbed each other from their linkedins.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
A very interesting I think the follow up about whether
or not this other girl to go Yeah took a
hush money job. I mean that title. I get it.
You're the Chief People Officer, the CPO, but she is
the SDP, the senior director of people. If I have
ever heard of a made up title before, it's the
senior director of People.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
This is something you, guys, we have not heard the
end of it.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
The fact that he said they might be having an
affair is the greatest thing that makes this video so good.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I saw someone post woo CEOs. Hate to see Chris
Martin coming next up. Other bombshell news that broke late
last night, It is over for Stephen Colbert and the
Late Show officially coming to an end. The end marked
for May of next year. CBS actually only told him
(25:18):
two nights ago, and then he let his audience know
last night.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Before we start the show, I want to let you
know something that I found out just last night. Next
year will be our last season. The network will be
ending the Late Show in May. And yeah, I share
your feelings. It's not just the end of our show,
(25:42):
but it's the end of the late show on CBS.
I'm not being replaced, this is all just going away.
And I do want to say I do want to
say that the folks at CBS have been great partners.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Now that's very interesting because the company made the announcement
calling this a purely financial decision against a challenging backdrop
in late night. They say it's not related in any
way to the show's performance, the content, or other matters
happening at Paramount. Some people think this might be politically motivated.
Of course, we see President Trump in the middle of
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this acquisition with Paramount, of course CBS's parent company. But
it's worth pointing out this is the second late night
show CBS is canceled. After Midnight with Taylor Tomplinson did
not last long. They did not renew after her second season.
We also saw the Late Late Show being boxed out
as well. So I think a lot of what CBS
has been trying to tell people they're moving to a
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more's digital platform. There's just not anyone watching live late
night television.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I think there's a lot to it, but I'd tell
you what bums me out the most that I think
of that show as David Letterman's legacy to some extent,
the thing that he built from the ground up when
he was denied the Late Show. And I think that
that or the Tonight Show.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Tonight Show. Yeah, excuse yeah, the Lates Show franchise is done,
done forever. Yeah, it is done. Finally, This weekend is
the All Star weekend for our WNBA, and it will
be without its biggest star, Caitlin Clark, announcing she's not
going to be competing. The Indiana Fever Guard confirmed news yesterday.
She was really stoked for her hometown to host all
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of the events, and while she is sad and disappointed
to say she can't participate in either the Three Point
Contest or the All Star Game, she has to rest
her body. She suffered ooh, it looked like a pretty
nasty groin injury Tuesday night with their win over the
Connecticut Sun. She did not play Wednesday, so she's out
a huge bummer for fans because a lot of those
ticket sales where to see her.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
It's in her hometown. She's the biggest entity in your game.
The WNBA has got to be sick to their stomach
over the bodies.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan Star
dot com The.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Battle of the sexist time. We're going to land you
over at our Frederick Meyer Gardens and Sculpture Park with
tickets with a.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Whole fan all right, here we go. One hundred women's
surveyed Named the unusual pet that a Hollywood star would have.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Let's see, let's go through them, right, like Tyson had
the tigers? Right? Didn't Justin Bieber have a monkey at
one point in time? Can you think of any o?
You know what our very own Delilahshviddy, who's on Azebra, right,
zebra named zena.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Zebra's what I would go with?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Six one six, four five, eight, one oh five seven,
collar seven. One hundred women surveyed Name the unusual pet
a Hollywood star would have? Number one answer and the
family is going to the Frederick Meyer Gardens and Sculpture
Park with star one O five point seven.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Good morning, Starry, Susan. Let's try and get to these tickets,
all right. You gotta tell me when one hundred women
were asked to name an unusual pet you might expect
the Hollywood star to own, what do you think the
top answer was there, Susan, Oh god.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
I'm gonna go with a poodle dog.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
A poodle a dog, yet not on the list. They're
looking for a little weirder animals than that. Sorry, Susan.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Thank you. Hi star, who's this?
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Jennifer?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Jennifer, I just got a guess from Susan. One hundred
women ask name an unusual pet you'd expect the Hollywood
star to own, and Susan said, like a poodle or dog,
But no dogs and cats. They're not weird enough for
this list. You got to give me the odd pet
that you might expect a Hollywood star to have.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
I want to go with a monkey.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
If I was a Hollywood star, I'd have a monkey.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
You would have a monkey. So if you just all
the shudden woke up with you know, a billion dollars,
you're definitely gonna have your own personal monkey running around
with you all. I would, honestly, after watching Aladdin as
a youth, all I wanted was a magic carpet and
a monkey to call my own. Monkey's the top answer, congratulations,
thank youll heck, yes it was monkey, followed by Tyson's tiger,
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then snakes, lions, pigs and alligators, rounding out those top
answers and Jennifer. It's not a zoo, but it does
have some incredible sculptures of amazing animals. I'm talking the
Frederick Weer Gardens and Sculpture Park. You're going, thank you,
you are very welcome. We battle every weekday eight fifteen
right here on Starman All five point seven. Good morning
to you. It's Mac and and you said it earlier.
(30:02):
I don't know if the country has had a collective
gasp at something like this in quite some time, but
if you were somehow under a rock the last twenty
four hours, uh, the most public cheating situation where you
got caught red handed that I have ever witnessed, I
feel like SCHMITTI.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Minimum in a very very long time. Astronomer CEO his
name is Andy Byron, was at the cold Play concert
on Wednesday night in Boston. Their kiss cam caught him
snuggling a woman and as soon as they realized they
were on this kiss cam, they broke apart and shielded their.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Faces, freaked out, drew so much attention to themselves.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
And it turns out that's because married Andy Byron was
not with his wife. He was snuggling with his chief
people officer, Kristin.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Cabot, THEHR lady who probably should have known better.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
And it's this huge alleged affair that has been uncovered.
Everyone's talking about this, how you got caught cheating? What's
happening here? And I had posted a bunch less night
night when I had saw some more details coming out
about this. And one of my very very best friends
from high school happens to be a chief people officer
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first startup in San Francisco, and she knows this woman.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Like how well, Like they directed some conferences together.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Conferences together, they're in a couple of networks together. They've
had conversations one on one like they have a relationship.
Because this woman, I believe with astronomer, she's only been
in this position with this company for a pretty brief time.
My friend has known her through other jobs as well,
And I was like what, and she said, this has
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been the absolute chatter of our entire CPO. They're wild,
she said, because this woman was so super wildly respected
in our network, it is absolutely insane that something like
this would happen. And she said, the thing with CEOs
and CPOs, we share all of our secrets, and it's
the only relationship in a company where we literally tell
(32:02):
each other everything. That's the way this hierarchy is set up.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
It's like confession amongst other professionals.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
It just becomes a very personal thing. And she goes, so,
if your personal life is not in a great spot
in your marriage, this is where weaknesses like this happen.
But she said, the idea of doing something with your
CEO is so like sinful to this job.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
It's literally the way you preach to everybody else.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
And she's like, this woman has gone off the grid.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
As she's like, you said, I'm off the red. Neither
one of them are going to have a job in
a week, not to say that they won't be financially set.
They're both gonna make a couple million off of the drama.
I don't think he steps down, he stepping away to.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I'm sure you don't. I think I don't think we
see any actual serious repercussions from this. I feel bad
his wife has taken herself completely off of social media.
People noticed before her Facebook went dark that she took
her name off of Facebook.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I feel terrible for that, but I just think it's.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Really fascinating how people cheat and it comes back up again.
How does this happen, especially when you're talking about coworkers,
And my friend specifically said, honestly, getting together with my
twenty nine year old CEO makes me want to barf.
But I guess that's not everybody's same situation.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Uh. My craziest cheating story that I ever heard of
happened to one of my mom's best friends back in
the day and very close personal friends with the family,
and her and her husband were together for twenty plus
years when in a medical emergency happened while he was
with his secret family. He had a whole family, He
had a whole double life and family. This is pre
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social media days, and literally this family that we had
known my entire life. I was babysit by this woman overnight,
completely flipped upside down because this guy had three kids
with somebody else. His wife had no idea.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Find yourself in front of my car and I'm not going.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
To break just insanity right.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
You can check out the article West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You should get good feels, especially on a Friday as
we go into a summer weekend here in West Michigan.
Mack and she's been getting your feeling good right now?
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Well, I know we both talk about this all the time. Adopt,
don't shop. We do a ton with the Bisseo Pet
Foundation to bring awareness to the need of animals and
shelters across the country. And for one animal shelter worker,
he has gone viral over his absolute hype up of
dogs that have found there forever home. It was shared
(34:28):
on TikTok by met Dan Animals and you can just
tell this guy an angel on Earth is meant to
do exactly what he's doing. They came back, they said,
you're the one.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Let's go, Sweety, You've ben adante. You enjoy your new life, sweetie.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
You deserve this. I'm not walking by you this time.
This sords for you. This look's for you.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
You're a load to be adopted, sweetie. You've got yourself
for forever family.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
They're gonna be here tomorrow and then they're gonna take
you home, and then then you've got yourself a home.
You do many times have I walked past you?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
How many times have I walked past you? Not this time, sweetie,
Now this time, this one's for you.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I think that's probably my favorite because you can literally
hear the dog in the background jumping up like, no
way did someone pick me? And this guy just posts
all of these videos in an effort to bring that awareness.
These shelter animals are so ready for love, they're so
deserving of love. And the way that he meets these
families and brings out these puffs that I'm this together,
(35:33):
they're smiling, They're literally smiling. I only gave you a
blip of this most recent video. It's really really worth watching.
I'll go ahead and share it on our Instagram.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I mean, that guy is so cool. I love what
he's doing. But honestly, if you put anything to Christina
Perry's one thousand Years, it's gonna get you in your feels.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Oh, I guess you adopt an animal, because there we go.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
All right, schwitty, you brought up a lot of winter
right here in Michigan. Earlier, I brought this one up
because it was one of our fantastic educators. Over in
New Jersey, though, where a New Jersey teacher won a
half a million dollars off a scratch off ticket that
was given to her as an end of school year
gift from one of her students. Schmitty nice. How awesome
would that be? End of the school year? You know
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you're getting the gift cards, maybe some Starbucks or something
like that. I think scratchers is a amazing gift for teachers,
and I didn't even think to ever do that. But
imagine like you're just changing the life of a teacher
because they happen to win like this woman did half
a million dollars. She said it was in a stack
of thank you gifts and had sat in her car
for weeks before being checked, telling the lotto commission it
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probably wasn't smart of me. I've been driving around with
my puppy. He could have eaten them at any time.
The winning card a ten dollars ticket turns into a
half a million bucks for deserving educator.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
No, we love seeing teachers win.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Feeling good coming at you a couple of times a day,
always looking to share something awesome with you. Let's do
it on Monday six forty five and nine to twenty
on Stuff, Mack
Speaker 2 (37:00):
And Schmidty in the morning weekday, starting at six am
on Star one oh five point seven
Wake wake him.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It gets my day going and makes me lab I it,
Mac and Schmitty in the morning on Star one O
five point seven.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Good morning, Schmitting, Good morning, Welcome into it. Happy Friday,
finally here. Actually I kind of spent last night like
I imagined Fridays. It went on a date last night,
which was kind of nice. No kids at my house
right now, they're all gone camping. So we went to
Jim gaff again.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, that's right. How was it?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And it was fantastic. He was phenomenal. I fell asleep
the first time I saw him. Not his fault, my fault,
but this time wide away. Great show and Schmitty. Maybe
the best part is we got there. Show started at
seven o'clock and we got there maybe like seven to ten,
so there was an opener on. Right go to a
comedy show, I usually expect to see like three openers,
two openers at least they go on for a few minutes.
(00:53):
Then ultimately, yeah, Jim gaffgin came on at seven point
thirty on the day. He did it for seventy five minutes,
that's right. And we were out of there at eight
forty five and ready to be tucked into bed. By
nine thirty.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
So have you ever listened to his CBS features. He
does an entire bit on that. He's like, oh no, no,
I don't uh. I am here to get in, get
out and have my heating pad on my back because
I'm a dad of five and I live for my sleep.
It's like one of the greatest parts of Jim Gaffigan.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh man, he was a phenomenal last night for sure,
So big shout out to all the start listeners got
to go to the show, but a great date actually,
just to get out and laugh at.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Me movies, music and all the gossip.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
In one place.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Well, this is a pretty major partnership announced yesterday, Dave
Portnoy and Barstool Sports will now be a part of
your college football coverage, joining Fox Sports in a huge partnership. Portnoy,
obviously the founder of Barstool, breaking the news yesterday hosting
an emergency press conference on his ex page. Not surprising,
(01:58):
a bit unhinged, but I figure you Michigan fans would
love this.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Question for you.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
What conference has ruled college football year at the year
at the year National champion after national champion. Answer the
Big Ten and what network covers the Big ten better
than anybody else?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Fox Sports.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
We have all the schools covered, but only one school
matters in that's Michigan. We've ruled that conference with an
iron fist for the past decade and now it will
continue in between the white lines and on the desk.
So all you people out there who think you got
the last word on Michigan, those days are over. Tune
(02:38):
in Columbus Big Noon Kickoff. I'll be there with your
dysfunctional little national champion.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You can't pay us, and you know it. We'll see
you soon.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
So there is a lot that's part of this deal.
Portnoy will be a regular contributor on Big Noon Kickoff.
There's going to be tons of promised digital content as
part of this partnership with Fox Sports. And it's very
interesting because we had heard a few months ago Dave
was actually offered a government job in DC and said
no because he didn't want to step away from barstool Boom.
(03:10):
Turns out all of this was being talked about and
a massive contract was being signed.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So okay, let's talk about Dave Fortnoy and barstool Sports
for a second. The dude built it, sold it for
half a billion dollars, it went under, bought it back
for a dollar, signed a two billion dollar deal with
ESPN for their gambling site that went under, and now
signs a huge deal with their competitor, Fox Sports. I mean,
(03:35):
the guy is on the ride of a lifetime financial.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Businessman for sure. I was surprised, but also overjoyed to
see this news because I think they're so dang cute.
Kate Bosworth and Justin Long are now parents, announcing they
just welcomed a baby girl. Had no idea. The couple,
who started dating in twenty twenty two and then tied
the not in twenty twenty three. Welcome to baby girl
(03:58):
via surrogate to page six. Justin had actually hinted at
wanting kids back in January of last year. He was
gushing over Kate, joking about their future kids one day,
writing sappy things about the lady love of his really
really cute stuff. No further details. They're very private people,
but I thought that was really fun.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
He always plays and seems like the lovable loser. I
root for that.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah. Finally, I had to do this because It caught
me off guard. I told you guys, fashion can be deadly.
Just ask actress Suki Waterhouse. She of course has a
child with Twilight star Robert Pattinson. That's who we're talking
about here, announcing to fans she suffered a hernia from
wearing pants that were too tight. This is wild. She
(04:42):
actually tweeted from her hospital room. She was responding to
a fan that said, Suki, you never tweeted anymore, and
then she wrote, have you ever considered I wore pants
so tight six months ago? It caused a hernia and
I've been too scared to tell you all. She included
photos in these green pants they kind of look like
to me from one of her big festival performances earlier
(05:06):
this year. Do look tight, but I didn't realize hernia tight,
And I just felt like it was my responsibility to
warn all of you. Pants can give you a hernia.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
PSA for all of the tight pants wearers. Wow, it's
amazing we made it through the skinny gen revolution. Schmitty,
I move.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I guess all right, all of your celeb scoop at
West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Starlin A five points seven. It's Mack and Schmitty And
I've heard of flying nuns before singing nuns, of course,
not so much powerlifting nuns. But that's what I want
to tell you about feeling good on starting a five
points seven. It's Mack and Schmitty and Pat Ferrell. She's
a seventy two year old nun from San Francisco and
she is preparing to compete in her very first powerlifting
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competition this Saturday. Now, she trains at the yard in
San Francisco, and this is her first competition as a
seventy two year old. But she's been working out religiously
for a very long time. I'm gonna throw as many
of those puns in as I possibly can. But now
she is actually done this as sort of an inspiration
to her church community and saying to other people, like
her trainer, Josh cal it's inspiring. She's been easily one
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of the most outgoing, motivated people who have come into
the gym, and now she's ready to step up and
put it to the test. She is going to be
competing in the deadlift and bench press divisions, and she's
been working out like crazy in preparation. Her coach doesn't
want her to go too hard. But she was chatting
with her local TV station about this whole competition, and
she thinks nuns could probably pull off more. Some of
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them are runners, by the way, too, but not her.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I think the sisters are supportive and somewhat amused, probably too.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Because many of them wouldn't think about lifty.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
They would look at those weights and say, oh.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
My goodness, No, there's another sisters out there that run,
that do marathons, that jog.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I run for the bus. Yeah, not a runner. She's
more than happy though, to do this powerlifting and a
real inspiration, he says, just to show people that you
can do anything.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That we can do more than we think we can.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
We can do more than we think we can. Seventy
two year old powerlifted none.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Good luck tomorrow, all right, real quick, Another day, another
Michigan lottery winner. I love doing these because I would
never think to grab a lottery ticket while headed camping,
But luckily a sixty seven year old woman from Oakland
County did, buying a Fantasy five ticket from Meyer and
Galer there you go, ended up matching the game's five numbers,
hitting the jackpot of just shy eight hundred thousand dollars,
(07:24):
She said in a release. I went up north on
a camping trip for the Fourth of July weekend, bought
the ticket at the store. Next morning, I checked the
winning numbers. Was so excited when I found out I
won the big jackpot. I did tell some of the
people at the surrounding camp sites around me, so it
was really fun to celebrate with everybody. She plans to
use the jackpot to fix up her house, create a
(07:44):
college fund for her grandkids, and then take her family
to Disney.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
So there, yes, there, throw it into Disney, yp movies, music,
and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's the celebrities gooop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Okay, we're gonna start by breaking down a viral moment
that literally everyone is talking about. In fact, I cannot
remember the last time something happened that it felt was
a collective across the country gas. I first did see
this headline yesterday morning, and I thought it was fake.
This was so insane. So Coldplay laid a huge show
(08:20):
in Boston at Jillette Stadium Wednesday night. Now, during Coldplay
shows I've seen them live, they do kind of a kisscam,
kind of thing where they find fans across the arena
and put them on the jumbo tron. Well, it was
a couple of fans that were caught in what looked
to be a very nefarious way. They were cuddling. As
soon as the jumbo tron hit them, they got really
(08:41):
really surprised, split up and hid their faces. This is
the moment that Coldplay frontman Chris Martin got really weirded
out by it.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
All Right, everyone doing either an affair or this gring
shut that's the best part.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
They're having an affair. So this is Astronomer CEO and
the byron who was at the show with his HR chief.
I've also heard people calling her chief people Officer Kristin Cabot.
That is not his wife. The allegend couple immediately trying
to hide when they realized they were on full display.
(09:19):
So this clip went up late Wednesday night and has
wrecked millions of views, and obviously the Internet has done
some slew thing. It turns out the CEO is indeed
married to someone else. I really feel for her. His
wife has now taken all of her social media down.
It was reported yesterday that she had originally taken her
married name off of Facebook as soon as this video
(09:39):
started going viral. There is rumor that Cabot, the HR chief,
is also married. One thing I want to get to
that is kind of some breaking news here. There was
a statement going around yesterday supposedly from Andy Byron himself.
It said, I want to acknowledge the moment that's been
circulating online. What was supposed to be a night music
(10:00):
and enjoyed turned into a deeply personal mistake playing out
on a very public stage. This is not who I
want to be or I want to represent the company
I helped build. I'm taking time to reflect, take accountability,
figure out the next steps. I also want to express
how troubling it is that what should have been a
private moment became public without my consent. I respect artists
(10:21):
and entertainers, but I hope we can all think more
deeply about the impact of turning someone else's life into
a spectacle that fired up the internet. Going hold on,
are you blaming Coldplay for outing you.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Know who the RECTI is here? Me the Jeter.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
That statement is entirely one hundred percent fake. That is
not true. It came from a parody account listed as
a Peter eniscbs P. This is not true. This is
a fake. I've seen a lot of people reporting that
this morning. It is not real, that it's fully fake.
Adds for reps with Andy and Kristen. Neither one of
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them have officially spoken out about this this morning. We're
also learning the brunette next to them with this like
giant smile on her face while this is going down
is another employee at Astronomer, and now reports are saying
she was actually hired and given a raise as hush
money because she knew this relationship was ongoing. There's a
lot here, so we'll have more coming up. I know
(11:19):
we're going to talk about this at eight forty five
this morning, because, as it happens, my best friend actually
knows this woman, really best woman who was involved this person,
we were actually talking about this last night, and so
I've got some I've got some some deeper dives into
how bad this could really be, not just for them personally,
(11:42):
but professionally.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, really really wild stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I mean, if they'd have just not freaked out, none
of this would have ever come to light, right.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
That's what everybody's saying.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
If they would have just cuddling, they could and nobody
would have even thought about it, outside of maybe the
close people that we're there with them in the company's all.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I feel really really bad for the spouses. I do
I have the kids. I think he does have kids.
With the life two boys, it looks like, oh my gosh.
Let's move on to another major announcement. It is done
for Stephen Colbert and the Late Show, CBS announcing the
show is officially coming to an end in May of
(12:22):
twenty twenty six. Stephen himself did not find out until
two nights ago, and then broke the news to his
audience live last night.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Before we start the show, I want to let you
know something that I found out just last night. Next
year will be our last season. The network will be
ending the Late Show in May. And yeah, I share
(12:51):
your feelings. It's not just the end of our show,
but it's the end of the Late Show on CBS.
I'm not being replaced. This is all just going away.
And I do want to say I do want to
say that the folks at CBS have been great partners.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
So the Late Show franchise period is done.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
The Cotterman's legacy that hurts.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
The company, calling the move purely a financial decision against
a challenging backdrop in Late Night. It is not related
in any way to the show's performance, content or other
matters happening at Paramount. Because a lot of people think
this was politically motivated after the lawsuit with Trump and Paramount,
(13:34):
which is obviously the parent company of CBS.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Well and a major merger that has to be approved by.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
The administration, so they're saying that's not the case whatsoever. Finally,
Felix Bombgartner, if you don't recognize the name, this is
the Austrian base jumper and skydiver who has gone viral
for some of his stunts, including setting a world record
back in twenty twelve as the first person to jump
from the stratosphere back down to Earth. You remember that video.
He has died any really tragic paragliding accident in Italy,
(14:03):
so according to a local news agency, he became ill
and lost control of his aircraft, ended up crashing into
a hotel swimming pool. Actually injured a woman who was
a hotel employee. She sustained, thankfully, non life threatening injuries,
but after crashing, the report says he reportedly lost consciousness
and then went into cardiac arrest. So he is now deceased.
(14:24):
As of this morning, he was only fifty six. So
it's like, really, really, Santouz, all of your celeb scoop
at West Michigan.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Start off, huh hike, Smitty. You threw me off right
there because you said pet passing and then you said
it was hilarious. And I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
And I feel bad, but I got permission to talk
about this from my neighbor and friend because it's a
tragic passing, but what they did was just so funny.
So I was having a glass of wine with my
neighbor on the deck last night. Her kids came over
to play, and she started talking to me about this
pet story, and I said, I've got to stop you.
(15:01):
Is this what I heard the other night? Because I
heard singing coming from your backyard. Our backyard's back up
to each other. And she goes, oh my gosh, my husband. Yes,
so they have two beta fit they had to beta fish.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Oh okay, all right, now I don't feel So.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Here's the deal. She's like, I don't know what happened,
but they passed within hours of each other last week,
and she thinks she really truly thinks their air conditioning broke,
and she thinks the change in temperature of the house
heating up because it was like ninety eight degrees last
week and then trying to cool it down with some
window units and then opening. She thinks that, like the
(15:42):
temperature change killed the beta fish makes sense. And she's like,
I feel so bad. I would never have guessed this.
And of course she's got two daughters. They were like, well,
we don't want to flush them. We need to have
a full on funeral. And so what I heard was
them burying the fish in their backyard while her husband
saying on eagles wings.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And I.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Said, I know, I think that's wind beneath my wing,
talking like every Catholic funeral and Eastern Mass on eagles wings.
And I said, I was like, girl, I heard, She goes.
I was trying so hard not to laugh. And then
my daughters were getting so upset because they were like,
we are making sure Jesus knows our beita fish are
(16:28):
heading to him. And I was like, that is so
tragic and hilarious, and she goes, but you know what,
I feel so much better because she said when she
told her coworker this, she goes, well, you're a lot
better than I am. We got the kids some hamsters
for Christmas, and I thought it would be cute to
have the gifts by the fireplace. We roasted them.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
So my kids opened a Christmas gift to.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Sleeping probably smelled a little, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I feel so bad. But as a parent, pet passings
is some of the most hysterical story I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I mean, I'm sorry, but you had me as a
as an old school Catholic kid who heard that song
over and over.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
And I was like, I heard it for a long time.
She goes, He's sang five verses with every single chorus.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So if you are looking for someone to really hit
like a vibrato operatic feel for your pet's funeral, my
neighbor has got some pipes.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Follow that up a little Gloria and then Ava Maria,
and we got ourselves a real concert sort of funeral here.
Schmidzh oh.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Just know, if you are dealing with any kind of
pet passing this summer, you know there might be a
comedic relief lining about it.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
That's a core memory. When your dad's in the backyard
going and I will raise you up.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Like that to come through the woods. I was like
him on Broadway Grand Rapids.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
You're right, that was That was the.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Best thing tragedy hilarious.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
That I could ever hear that.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Mac and Schmidty in the morning on Star one five
point seven.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Times spilling tea tay time, spill the too, sweetheart. That's
what we're doing, spilling your teach and every week we
like your drama right and keep sending it to us
at West Michigan Star on Facebook and Instagram, like this
letter that we got today, Schmidty. My wife's fortieth birthday
party was supposed to be a great party with family
and friends. About an hour in her younger sister arrived
wearing a new engagement ring. My mother in law noticed
(18:24):
it immediately and the room erupted in cheers. First, I
don't think much of it until I saw my wife's face.
Every husband knows that look. She pulled her sister aside
and said something like you thought my birthday party was
the right time to announce this. That set off the
full blown argument, tears, yelling, the works. The fight ruined
the party, her birthday, her sister's announcement as well. Now
(18:46):
my wife is torn between anger at her sister for
quote unquote hijacking her moment and guilt for letting it
all spiral. Personally, I think the timing was fine, but
there's no way I'm saying that out loud. First things first,
smart man on that one. Yeah, definitely keep your mouth shut, sir.
I didn't know how I felt about this, because I
think if you do it at somebody's wedding or something
(19:08):
like that, that that's a bigger deal. That's a once
in a lifetime thing. I feel like a fortieth birthday
party with a bunch of friends and family around, eh.
I don't think that's it.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I wish I knew how close the sisters are. I
agree with Jennifer, she said this is I disagree her
saying ranks up there with announcing a pregnancy at a wedding.
That to me is an entirely different thing, but boils
down to how good of a relationship the sisters have.
I went to my best friend's wedding and she celebrated
her sister's birthday at it. It fell on the same day.
I'm not sure if it's really that big of a
(19:38):
deal of the fortieth birthday and if they are really close.
I bet she was. I mean, obviously she wasn't thrilled
if she said this, But I don't know if it
was any kind of malicious behavior.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Six one six, four five eight one five seven. If
you want to weigh in, do you think the fact
that it was the Big four oh shmitty might have
made things a little bit emotion.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I would like that better. Please do not focus on
the fact that I'm entering my fourth decade of life.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
That's an interesting one. Jen on the phone from Grandville.
What do you think, Jen? Was this over the top?
Who's in the wrong here?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
No?
Speaker 7 (20:07):
I don't think she overreacted. It was her moment. She's
been planning for this party. It was probably all her
people there. That was her moment. Her sister stole it
from her. That's so rude. You never take someone's moment
away from them, if it's a wedding, a birthday, whatever. Like,
just because people are all there and together doesn't mean
that you should announce something. How's your own party for that?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Or talk to your sister? I guess beforehand.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, I can, I can see that. I mean that's
the other part, like, how long did you know did
it happen like the night before where you're holding on
to this waiting to break it at the party? That
could be interesting too, Leslie on the line from Holland,
What do you think, Leslie?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Yeah, I think she should apologize. I mean, it's her birthday. Great,
but that's such a great birthday. Get your sister's getting married. Yeah,
this would be a happy time for her sister. She
should be happy for her. It's not there's no bare
place for her have announced this to engagement with their
friends and Stanley all in the same room. I don't
think there was anything done to take way attention from her.
(21:09):
She's still her cake, right, So that's right.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I think here's what it comes down to for me.
Is this worth holding on to and not being close
with family anymore? Or do you get over it and
say it's cool it was my birthday but I'm excited
for you? Which which side do I be in?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I was just saying I wouldn't expect maybe my big
sister to be my maid of honor. Perhaps after this
move debacle, but yeah, not good way in yourself. We
got to go out on Facebook right now at West
Michigan Star where you can also hit us up with
your drama each and every week for tea time you're
on Star, it's this celebrity scoop on Star one oh
five point seven.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Oh boy, it is the talk of the internet. This morning,
astronomer CEO Andy Byron caught cheating at a cold Play show.
This is the video you have seen viral. So Coldplay
was performing in Boston on Wednesday night when they did
kind of a mootron kisscam kind of thing and found
this CEO snuggling up what most people thought was his wife.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
All right, affair or this great shot.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Because as soon as they realized they were on the JumboTron,
they split apart. They both hid their faces. It looked
very awkward, and it turns out they were having an
affair that was not the CEO's wife. That was his
HR chief Kristin Abbottabits. Ironically, Yeah, she's better known as
the Chief People Officer. That's what the website has her
(22:39):
listed as. The couple has now gone viral over this,
but there is a lot of fake news going around.
So if you saw a statement released yesterday from that CEO,
Andy Byron, that was not real, that was from a
parody account. Fully faked. Neither one of them have officially
spoken about this, but the Internet did their slew thing,
(22:59):
and it turned out Andy's wife, Megan Carrie and Byron
had removed her married name on her Facebook page before
completely disabling all of her social media yesterday afternoon. We're
also learning that Kristen Cabot just recently got divorced, so
she is not married. If you've watched the viral video,
you also noticed a brunette looks to be with them
(23:22):
at this show, just absolutely stunned by it. Reportedly that's
Alyssa Stoddard, Astronomer's senior director of People, who is reportedly
just recently promoted like last week by Cabot. And there
are some that say this is to keep her quiet,
that she had figured out this affair, that this was
(23:43):
kind of a hush money kind of situation. She's not
speaking out about this either, but I gotta tell you
the memes that have popped up from this. For instance,
Eric mathony on X, Coldplay hasn't made a single in years.
Last night they made too, A couple of my other
pretty good, Thanks Good, a couple of my other favorites.
(24:04):
Coldplay should out people at every concert and say you've
just been cold played and my most favorite, the chances
of your marriage and career being destroyed at a cold
Play concert are extremely low, but never zero. We are
noticing this morning as well both the CEO and Chief
People Officer, so this is both Andy and Kristen have
(24:25):
completely scrubbed each other from their linkedins.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
A very interesting I think the follow up about whether
or not this other girl to go Yeah took a
hush money job. I mean that title. I get it.
You're the Chief People Officer, the CPO, but she is
the SDP, the senior director of people. If I have
ever heard of a made up title before, it's the
senior director of People.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
This is something you, guys, we have not heard the
end of it.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
The fact that he said they might be having an
affair is the greatest thing that makes this video so good.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I saw someone post woo CEOs. Hate to see Chris
Martin coming next up. Other bombshell news that broke late
last night, It is over for Stephen Colbert and the
Late Show officially coming to an end. The end marked
for May of next year. CBS actually only told him
(25:18):
two nights ago, and then he let his audience know
last night.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Before we start the show, I want to let you
know something that I found out just last night. Next
year will be our last season. The network will be
ending the Late Show in May. And yeah, I share
your feelings. It's not just the end of our show,
(25:42):
but it's the end of the late show on CBS.
I'm not being replaced, this is all just going away.
And I do want to say I do want to
say that the folks at CBS have been great partners.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Now that's very interesting because the company made the announcement
calling this a purely financial decision against a challenging backdrop
in late night. They say it's not related in any
way to the show's performance, the content, or other matters
happening at Paramount. Some people think this might be politically motivated.
Of course, we see President Trump in the middle of
(26:15):
this acquisition with Paramount, of course CBS's parent company. But
it's worth pointing out this is the second late night
show CBS is canceled. After Midnight with Taylor Tomplinson did
not last long. They did not renew after her second season.
We also saw the Late Late Show being boxed out
as well. So I think a lot of what CBS
has been trying to tell people they're moving to a
(26:37):
more's digital platform. There's just not anyone watching live late
night television.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I think there's a lot to it, but I'd tell
you what bums me out the most that I think
of that show as David Letterman's legacy to some extent,
the thing that he built from the ground up when
he was denied the Late Show. And I think that
that or the Tonight Show.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Tonight Show. Yeah, excuse yeah, the Lates Show franchise is done,
done forever. Yeah, it is done. Finally, This weekend is
the All Star weekend for our WNBA, and it will
be without its biggest star, Caitlin Clark, announcing she's not
going to be competing. The Indiana Fever Guard confirmed news yesterday.
She was really stoked for her hometown to host all
(27:17):
of the events, and while she is sad and disappointed
to say she can't participate in either the Three Point
Contest or the All Star Game, she has to rest
her body. She suffered ooh, it looked like a pretty
nasty groin injury Tuesday night with their win over the
Connecticut Sun. She did not play Wednesday, so she's out
a huge bummer for fans because a lot of those
ticket sales where to see her.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
It's in her hometown. She's the biggest entity in your game.
The WNBA has got to be sick to their stomach
over the bodies.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan Star
dot com The.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Battle of the sexist time. We're going to land you
over at our Frederick Meyer Gardens and Sculpture Park with
tickets with a.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Whole fan all right, here we go. One hundred women's
surveyed Named the unusual pet that a Hollywood star would have.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Let's see, let's go through them, right, like Tyson had
the tigers? Right? Didn't Justin Bieber have a monkey at
one point in time? Can you think of any o?
You know what our very own Delilahshviddy, who's on Azebra, right,
zebra named zena.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Zebra's what I would go with?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Six one six, four five, eight, one oh five seven,
collar seven. One hundred women surveyed Name the unusual pet
a Hollywood star would have? Number one answer and the
family is going to the Frederick Meyer Gardens and Sculpture
Park with star one O five point seven.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Good morning, Starry, Susan. Let's try and get to these tickets,
all right. You gotta tell me when one hundred women
were asked to name an unusual pet you might expect
the Hollywood star to own, what do you think the
top answer was there, Susan, Oh god.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
I'm gonna go with a poodle dog.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
A poodle a dog, yet not on the list. They're
looking for a little weirder animals than that. Sorry, Susan.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Thank you. Hi star, who's this?
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Jennifer?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Jennifer, I just got a guess from Susan. One hundred
women ask name an unusual pet you'd expect the Hollywood
star to own, and Susan said, like a poodle or dog,
But no dogs and cats. They're not weird enough for
this list. You got to give me the odd pet
that you might expect a Hollywood star to have.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
I want to go with a monkey.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
If I was a Hollywood star, I'd have a monkey.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
You would have a monkey. So if you just all
the shudden woke up with you know, a billion dollars,
you're definitely gonna have your own personal monkey running around
with you all. I would, honestly, after watching Aladdin as
a youth, all I wanted was a magic carpet and
a monkey to call my own. Monkey's the top answer, congratulations,
thank youll heck, yes it was monkey, followed by Tyson's tiger,
(29:39):
then snakes, lions, pigs and alligators, rounding out those top
answers and Jennifer. It's not a zoo, but it does
have some incredible sculptures of amazing animals. I'm talking the
Frederick Weer Gardens and Sculpture Park. You're going, thank you,
you are very welcome. We battle every weekday eight fifteen
right here on Starman All five point seven. Good morning
to you. It's Mac and and you said it earlier.
(30:02):
I don't know if the country has had a collective
gasp at something like this in quite some time, but
if you were somehow under a rock the last twenty
four hours, uh, the most public cheating situation where you
got caught red handed that I have ever witnessed, I
feel like SCHMITTI.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Minimum in a very very long time. Astronomer CEO his
name is Andy Byron, was at the cold Play concert
on Wednesday night in Boston. Their kiss cam caught him
snuggling a woman and as soon as they realized they
were on this kiss cam, they broke apart and shielded their.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Faces, freaked out, drew so much attention to themselves.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
And it turns out that's because married Andy Byron was
not with his wife. He was snuggling with his chief
people officer, Kristin.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Cabot, THEHR lady who probably should have known better.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
And it's this huge alleged affair that has been uncovered.
Everyone's talking about this, how you got caught cheating? What's
happening here? And I had posted a bunch less night
night when I had saw some more details coming out
about this. And one of my very very best friends
from high school happens to be a chief people officer
(31:10):
first startup in San Francisco, and she knows this woman.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Like how well, Like they directed some conferences together.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Conferences together, they're in a couple of networks together. They've
had conversations one on one like they have a relationship.
Because this woman, I believe with astronomer, she's only been
in this position with this company for a pretty brief time.
My friend has known her through other jobs as well,
And I was like what, and she said, this has
(31:40):
been the absolute chatter of our entire CPO. They're wild,
she said, because this woman was so super wildly respected
in our network, it is absolutely insane that something like
this would happen. And she said, the thing with CEOs
and CPOs, we share all of our secrets, and it's
the only relationship in a company where we literally tell
(32:02):
each other everything. That's the way this hierarchy is set up.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
It's like confession amongst other professionals.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
It just becomes a very personal thing. And she goes, so,
if your personal life is not in a great spot
in your marriage, this is where weaknesses like this happen.
But she said, the idea of doing something with your
CEO is so like sinful to this job.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
It's literally the way you preach to everybody else.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
And she's like, this woman has gone off the grid.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
As she's like, you said, I'm off the red. Neither
one of them are going to have a job in
a week, not to say that they won't be financially set.
They're both gonna make a couple million off of the drama.
I don't think he steps down, he stepping away to.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I'm sure you don't. I think I don't think we
see any actual serious repercussions from this. I feel bad
his wife has taken herself completely off of social media.
People noticed before her Facebook went dark that she took
her name off of Facebook.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I feel terrible for that, but I just think it's.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Really fascinating how people cheat and it comes back up again.
How does this happen, especially when you're talking about coworkers,
And my friend specifically said, honestly, getting together with my
twenty nine year old CEO makes me want to barf.
But I guess that's not everybody's same situation.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Uh. My craziest cheating story that I ever heard of
happened to one of my mom's best friends back in
the day and very close personal friends with the family,
and her and her husband were together for twenty plus
years when in a medical emergency happened while he was
with his secret family. He had a whole family, He
had a whole double life and family. This is pre
(33:38):
social media days, and literally this family that we had
known my entire life. I was babysit by this woman overnight,
completely flipped upside down because this guy had three kids
with somebody else. His wife had no idea.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Find yourself in front of my car and I'm not going.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
To break just insanity right.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
You can check out the article West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You should get good feels, especially on a Friday as
we go into a summer weekend here in West Michigan.
Mack and she's been getting your feeling good right now?
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Well, I know we both talk about this all the time. Adopt,
don't shop. We do a ton with the Bisseo Pet
Foundation to bring awareness to the need of animals and
shelters across the country. And for one animal shelter worker,
he has gone viral over his absolute hype up of
dogs that have found there forever home. It was shared
(34:28):
on TikTok by met Dan Animals and you can just
tell this guy an angel on Earth is meant to
do exactly what he's doing. They came back, they said,
you're the one.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Let's go, Sweety, You've ben adante. You enjoy your new life, sweetie.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
You deserve this. I'm not walking by you this time.
This sords for you. This look's for you.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
You're a load to be adopted, sweetie. You've got yourself
for forever family.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
They're gonna be here tomorrow and then they're gonna take
you home, and then then you've got yourself a home.
You do many times have I walked past you?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
How many times have I walked past you? Not this time, sweetie,
Now this time, this one's for you.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I think that's probably my favorite because you can literally
hear the dog in the background jumping up like, no
way did someone pick me? And this guy just posts
all of these videos in an effort to bring that awareness.
These shelter animals are so ready for love, they're so
deserving of love. And the way that he meets these
families and brings out these puffs that I'm this together,
(35:33):
they're smiling, They're literally smiling. I only gave you a
blip of this most recent video. It's really really worth watching.
I'll go ahead and share it on our Instagram.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I mean, that guy is so cool. I love what
he's doing. But honestly, if you put anything to Christina
Perry's one thousand Years, it's gonna get you in your feels.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Oh, I guess you adopt an animal, because there we go.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
All right, schwitty, you brought up a lot of winter
right here in Michigan. Earlier, I brought this one up
because it was one of our fantastic educators. Over in
New Jersey, though, where a New Jersey teacher won a
half a million dollars off a scratch off ticket that
was given to her as an end of school year
gift from one of her students. Schmitty nice. How awesome
would that be? End of the school year? You know
(36:19):
you're getting the gift cards, maybe some Starbucks or something
like that. I think scratchers is a amazing gift for teachers,
and I didn't even think to ever do that. But
imagine like you're just changing the life of a teacher
because they happen to win like this woman did half
a million dollars. She said it was in a stack
of thank you gifts and had sat in her car
for weeks before being checked, telling the lotto commission it
(36:40):
probably wasn't smart of me. I've been driving around with
my puppy. He could have eaten them at any time.
The winning card a ten dollars ticket turns into a
half a million bucks for deserving educator.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
No, we love seeing teachers win.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Feeling good coming at you a couple of times a day,
always looking to share something awesome with you. Let's do
it on Monday six forty five and nine to twenty
on Stuff, Mack
Speaker 2 (37:00):
And Schmidty in the morning weekday, starting at six am
on Star one oh five point seven
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