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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Wakem It gets my day going.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It makes me laugh.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I love it. Mac and Schmidty in the Morning on
Star one on five point seven, goot morning, say hey,
good morning, Welcome into your Thursday weekend eve as it were.
It's give me a next one too. Straight up sunshine
today with temps hovering right about eighty degrees, I mean,
pitch your esque kind of day, schmiddey.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I know we're getting so lucky with this second round
of summer.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I was gonna say, is this what they call this
is an Indian summer right where it comes later in
the year. Is that how this works? I never know either.
I thought that's how it was. But I know for
sure you're just not allowed to complain about the heat
right now.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm just excited for anybody with sports practices, we are
good to go. Excited for our White Cats to have
a stunning night tonight. I was on my way in
and I come southbound on one thirty one and the
park was lit up. Every light was on. I don't
know if they're doing some last minute cleaning or they're
just so excited they've got everything. But of course Lake
County in town tonight for Game two and With the
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white Caps win on Tuesday, they could wrap it up,
so this would be major for them to head onto
the next round of those playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
It's the celebrities Gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We continue to follow breaking news out of Utah this morning,
as conservative influencer and political activist Charlie Kirk has died
at thirty one after being shot while speaking at Utah
Valley University yesterday. The sports world stunned and devastated over this,
with major names taking to social media yesterday, including Dave
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portnoy CEO of Barstool Sports, calling it absolutely disgusting and disturbing,
saying anyone who is happy about this is a disgusting human.
Hall of Famer Brett Farv sharing his feelings, I am
at a loss for words. Only thing I can think
of is tragic. We saw, by part, we saw a
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bipartisan sport on this, with politicians including California governor a Democrat,
Gavin Newsom, as well as Vice President JD. Vans both
denouncing what transpired on that college campus. Kansas City chiefs
kicker Harrison Bucker sharing his condolences after the death was reported,
writing thank you for your strong witness for Christ. We
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are going to have more coming up in your West
Michigan wake up. But officials are still searching for a suspect.
There was a lot of mixed reports yesterday, but so
far no one is in custody over this shooting.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
That's the wildest part to me, with all the thousands
of witnesses that were on hand there and everything else,
that there is no suspecting.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Now, there's a lot that we'll be getting to. The
actor suing director Tyler Perry for sexual assault is now
on national television, doubling down on his claims against the billionaire,
recounting the very first alleged incident. Derek Dixon is his name.
He had a role on Tyler's long running TV show
The Oval. Doing a full length interview with ABC News's
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Lindsey Davis.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Can you explain that first alleged incident? I got into bed,
and then I noticed that he'd hunt into bed with
me as well and started rubbing my leg, and I
jumped up out of bed. Unless someone's been through something
where they have their control over their bodies taken away,
you don't really understand the kind of feelings that you
get in that moment.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah. Derek first filed these issues back in June, claiming
Tyler invited him back in twenty twenty to his Atlanta
home where the first incident went down, suing not just
Perry but also Tyler Perry Studios for two hundred and
sixty million dollars in damages. Meanwhile, Tyler's camp has ripped
the lawsuit as a total and complete scam.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Quarter billion dollar lawsuit though definitely going to get you.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Lawyer's working and Ed Sharon is clearing up some rumors,
setting the record straight on his plans to move him
and the family to the States. He was actually in
New York yesterday part of his big promotion for the album.
When speaking about what's happening, he said, you know what,
check my Instagram. In the post he said, it is
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way easier to clear up stuff on here. So here's
me setting the record straight. There is definitely a narrative
that people are trying to push that I want to
move out of the UK for some terrible reason. I'm
not moving. I'm going on tour with my family and
relocating to the continent. I'm touring on. Obviously I don't
want to commute from London to San Diego for every
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single show. Also, this is not a tax thing. It's
USA not UAE. I'll always pay taxes in the UK
because that's where I live. By the way, play out
Friday Goliska.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
So there you go. Built a zone like Shire property
in the UK. I'm making you a property all right.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
All of your celebscoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
He's on a fun point seven. It's Mack and Schmitty
with feeling good right now. And this one's all about
toys in tats schmidty tattoos because obviously you've seen them.
But as anybody in your house into the la booboo craze.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
No, we don't have the money for the labuboo crank.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It is insane. I'm with you, thankfully. Nobody in my
house is rocking them quite yet either. But they are
of course incredibly popular. If you don't know what laboo
boos are, they're part of the Monsters series that was
inspired by Nordic mythology, and then they've gone viral basically
over the last couple of years. Those little scary looking
monster things that have key chains, and kids put them
on their backpacks and then full grown adults collect them
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and go wild with them too, sort of like beanie
babies back in the day. Well, these fans have leveled
it up even more Schmidty, because there is now in
Grand Rapids a laboo boo tattoo artist who is tattooing
people's la booboos. Her name is Tristi Garland, and it's
become a big thing. She saw it on TikTok and
now it has become a steady stream of people coming
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in to get their laboo boos tattooed and then oftentimes
getting matching tattoos themselves. It's all pretty wild. She talked
to thirteen on your Side about how this just is
blown up. Then I was like, this would be kind
of cool, you know, let's try it out.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And then now I've just become the labouoo person, the
loo tattoo artists. I definitely find it fun.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
It's different, it helps kind of break things up a
little bit, and people really enjoy it and I like
making people happy.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yep. She said she has been booked like crazy with
people wanting to put arts on their laboo boos. Like
I said, twenty bucks a pop, and then your tattoo
will vary in price after that. But if you want
to check it out Brenda SU's tattoos on Caesary, Chavez
Boulevard and Grand Rapids, you can actually go get your
laboo boo tattooed.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
All right, Detroit is about to be called tree Troy
thanks to some kids in this city planting a sequoia
forest in Michigan, in the motor City. That's right, and
it's all thanks to the archangel Ancient Tree Archive teaming
up with our Boretum Detroit. They want to make Detroity
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global symbol of resilience, renewal, and hope for the planet.
Just ask the director David Malark, who is loving what
he's seeing with these kids.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
We're empowering the youth. Some of the inner city kids
don't have much of a chance. We're teaching them a
skill of how to help kield their area and have
a really important role in reversing some of the mistakes
that we made causing.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Us like a coo opportunity that we get to come
here and do this stuff for not just us, but
like the whole entire world.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Pretty amazing actually featured on NBC's Sunday Today. And get this,
a giant patch in the middle of Detroit in about
a hundred years could have giant sequoia trees and it's
all thanks to grade schoolers. What they're doing is pretty
incredible and other places are starting to consider doing it too.
Could be Grand Rapids. Got the story up for you at
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West Michigan Star.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Dot com, Moodies music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Well, the investigation is still on going into the shooting
death of conservative conservative influencer and political activist Charlie Kirk,
shot dead while speaking in front of students around noon
yesterday at a Utah University. This is really tragic news,
the thirty one year old passing away shortly after arriving
to a private hospital outside of Utah Valley University. It's
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about forty miles south of Salt Lake City, leaving behind
a wife and two children. A lot of Hollywood reacting,
including Stephen Colbert last night, who actually changed his opening monologue.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
After our scripts for tonight's show were finished. This afternoon,
we here at the late show learned that Charlie Kirk,
a prominent right wing activist, was killed at a speaking
engagement in Utah. Our condolences go out to his family
and all of his loved ones. I'm old enough to
personally remember the political violence of the nineteen sixties, and
I hope it is obvious to everyone in America. The
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political violence does not solve any of our political differences.
Political violence only leads to more political violence. And I
pray with all my heart that this is the aberent
action of a madman and not a sign of things
to come. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the show that
we had prepared for you.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Now, the investigation continues because the shooter is still at large.
Two different people were taken in as persons of interest yesterday.
There was a lot of mixed messaging around that, but
FBI Director Cash Pateel did say they were both released
after having been found that they had nothing to do
with this. So far. Authorities believe the shooter was wearing
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dark clothing and fired from a roof on campus some
distance away. But there's a lot of conversation, especially around
the security. There were more than three thousand students here.
Six police officers, there were no empts, there was no
ambulance on site. It was actually Kirk's personal bodyguards that
loaded him to an suv and took him to an
area hospital before he passed away. So there is a
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lot of activity and still a very very open investigation
this morning.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I cannot remember in my lifetime a such a public
shooting to take place and not have any idea who
did this.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You're coming up on like twenty four hours later on
this morning.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The Boston Marathon bombers were the closest thing I could
think of to things taking days to process or to
go out and catch the guy. And I'm just surprised. There's,
you know, not the headlines of man hunts happening underneath,
but they seem like they have no suspect right now.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Almost they do not. I mean that's what they're saying.
I'll have more for you in your next scoop. Prince
Harry has returned to the UK, coming face to face
with his estranged dad, King Charles the Third. This went
down at Clarence House yesterday, the first time the two
have seen each other in over a year. That a
lot of people are thinking me signally turning point the
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Duke of s It's us expulling up to his father's
London home around five twenty last night. Local time. Reports
say the two shared a private tea and it was
about fifty five minutes long. Harry is in the UK
hitting the well Child Awards as well as paying tribute
to grandmother Queen Elizabeth Second at her burial site it
is the anniversary of her death before heading to London.
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Of course, you'll remember King Charles's facing this cancer battle
and his two sons have been very open about supporting him.
We don't know what was talked about, but in reports
and some fautogs that caught Prince Serria coming on, he
said it was very good.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It's the British. We're meeting up for a.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Beer, right, like a little bigger if you haven't seen
your dad in more than a year. I think it's
a little bit bigger. Finally, woo Be Goldberg maybe sixty
nine years young, but she is not eyeing retirement. There's
been quite a few rumors that she had plans to
exit The View eighteen seasons she's been on the show,
but not the case. Why girlfriend can afford it?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
But who can afford to do that. Who can afford
to start? You know, if you don't marry, well, you
gotta keep working. I feelink you might be one of
the people that could afford it.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
No, not by now, not yet.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
She was very honest with it and said, listen, I've
had three marriages, They've all ended divorce. There's a lot
of I got a lot to pay for. I'm going
to be working for a good long time.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I sister Mary Clarence was still playing the bills.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
All right, all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan
start off on.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Come morning two weekend Eve here with us is Mack
and Schmidty. And you said you've changed up that time routine.
I'm working on itsky business.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, yesterday was really the tipping point, and I feel
like I can be very honest with you guys. I
am exhausted. Yesterday was the most exhausting day of interneting
I think I have ever had in my career. Between
the Charlie Kirk coverage and then having to tear away
to cover another high school shooting, I have never felt
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so in my gut exhausted by these things. I've been
working news for almost twenty years and so I'm used
to it. I watched the news every night. I get
my headlines before the next morning. Yesterday was just such
a point for me. People arguing online, people posting Instagram stories,
going after other people. I was like, this is terrible.
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It's terrible for your emotional wellbeing, it's terrible for your
mental wellbeing. And so right before I finished scrolling, because
I fully turned off my phone at six o'clock last
night off entirely, I've not done that in years, I
came across this mom blog, which generally I'm like, I'm
not always such a fan of the mom blogs. I
think they can be a little judgy, but I thought
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this was so interesting. It's a psychologist, a child psychologist
that just popped into my algorithm, and they were talking
about bedtimes and I was trying to figure out what
we were going to do last night, I was solo parenting,
Chris was gone, and it said, do you notice how
your kids suddenly turned into a little chatterbox right before bed?
This is not them delaying sleep. It's their way of
saying I'm safe, I'm ready to connect. Lights go out,
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their shield goes down, their mind slows. That's when the
real stuff comes out, the questions, the stories, the feelings.
We getted as parents were exhausted by this point. But
if you can even spend ten minutes of that random
bedtime rambling, it will completely change the next day for
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your kids. So here I am thinking, how are we
spending our evening? I'm absolutely cashed out, like everything that
I've had to take in for the last six seven hours,
what are we gonna do? Turned off my phone, grabbed
my kids. We walked downtown Rockford. We sat by the dam,
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we counted the ducks, We went over and turned the
fire pit on. We brought a couple of books. We
sat on the grass. That was another thing. I saw
a lot of people. They were like, hey, get off
the internet and touch grass, go outside. And I have
never had such a smooth bedtime in my life as
we did last night. No screens, no talking about stories,
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no questions being asked about the scary stuff they're seeing
on the news. We went and watched ducks, read a book,
walked about five miles round trip, and went to bed.
And I'm like, it seems so easy, but it was
a complete mental changer, And I knew I was walking
into this this morning. I knew we were going to
be talking about everything that had happened. I knew I
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was going to be reporting it on my other morning show.
I just needed two hours of nothing, and then I
went to bed. I didn't turn my phone back on.
It was amazing. And then my kids, I was putting
my sun to bed last night and he goes, that
was so fun, Mom, Can we do that again? That easy?
Oh my gosh, And I felt like I had to.
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I don't even want to call it a hack because
it's literally like eighties and nineties parenting before phones, And.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It brought you back to your center, which is your kids,
which is your family, which is which.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Is nobody else on the internet or around me or
coworkers or email or.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Whatever that space between it.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I've got a pack day to day. There's a lot
of stressful things happening today. But if that is you
and you're as tired as I am, go outside, touch
grass and do something slow and mindful. It's so much
easier said than done, I know, but literally, if it's
just sitting in a hammock with a book that has
nothing to do with.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Reality honestly coming from you, go touch grass. Sound so
much more appealing than it does for most of the
Internet bros there out.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
There, grass I just it's nice. Take your shoes off,
it's going to be eighty today. Find something to do
that's not getting in a fight with someone, or listen
to your kids. Weirdly enough, I've learned a lot of
them see that odd things.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
That was the part with the child psychologist I wasn't
so sure about because my kids, I don't feel like
it's when their shields come down. Feel like it's when
the stalling starts.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Who listen close, see if there's something in there, it's
good advice and it's not something I was going to
gatekeep so good.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Luck, movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
It's the celebrities group on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
We are still following the investigation out of Utah as
conservative influencer and political activist Charlie Kirk has been shot
dead at thirty one while speaking to a group of
students yesterday shortly before noon at a university in Utah.
Lots of Hollywood reaction as the father of two leaves
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behind both those small children and his wife. A single
gunshot fired around twelve twenty pm and they are still
on the manhunt. Two different people brought in as people
of interest, they were cleared and there is still an
ongoing investigation. Arnold Schwarzenegger saying politics has become a disease
in this country and it is deadly. But don't listen
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to the pessimists who say there is no cure. There
is a cure. It's inside of us, and we must
find our better angles to walk back and actually listen.
Rosy O'Donnell. We saw bipartisan people speaking out about this.
Do not become the murderer. This is wrong on every
single level. Jimmy Kimmel, Instead of the angry finger pointing,
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can we just for one day agree that it is
horrible and monstrous to shoot another human on behalf of
my family. We send love to the Kirks and to
all the children, parents, and innocence who fall victim to
senseless gun violence. Authorities did issue a statement yesterday night
they believe the shooter wore dark clothing and did fire
from a roof on campus some distance away, but so
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far no one official has been brought in or arrested.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I mean, obviously that is going to be a manhunt
that consumes the government of the officials in that area
completely until this thing is sorted out some way or another.
So this is far from done.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Travis Kelcey owning up to his major role his words
in the Kansas City's Kansas City Cheaps week one loss
to the Chargers. New episode of the New Heights podcast
dropping yesterday, where he specifically talks about that collision that
took out one of his own players, Xavier Worthy now
on the injured list.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
That's on us as leaders, and I'll take the most
accountability myself. I wasn't ready that first drive. I ran
into one of my guys and often out of the game.
That's one of the most frustrating parts. And it's hard
to get your juices back going knowing you just heard
a guy. Yeah, it's frustrating for me. I just got
to be better.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Man.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
I'm thirteen years in the league. There's no excuse for
me running into my own guys like that.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You know a lot of talk of the you know
Taylor Swift engagement in what NFL games is she going
to be at? But let's not forget, like he said,
thirteen years in the league, this is the final year
for tra contract with the chief so he is working
hard to look his best so that there is no
question about him returning. Meanwhile, Chiefs coach Andy Reid did
have some good news about Worthy. A dislocated shoulder should
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not keep him out too long, just in case he
was on your fantasy team.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
You know, I don't know if I can think of
another time where I heard a football player take responsibility
for a teammate's injury.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Question, do you like Travis when it comes to that
sort of thing? He is a leader.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
That accountability was really cool to see.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Singer I Spice says she learned so much when she
was working with Taylor Swift on her Airs tour back
a couple of years ago. She said, not only spending
time on stage with Taylor singing with her understanding how
much work goes into your craft, but she said the
advice she has carried with her ever since. She tells
Nylon Magazine, the thing about Taylor is that she keeps
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it so real, not even kidding. One of the biggest
things that I always think about that Taylor said, as
long as you keep making music, everything is going to
be fine. I says that she is now passing that
advice to any one and everyone. She is mentoring all
of those new artists. It's just amazing. And Taylor is
one of those people that every time we were hanging out,
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she was not just giving me advice, she was helping
me through whatever was going on in the moment, whether
it was things on social media, whether it was something
going on with my own singing. I don't know someone
who is more supportive of other artists than Taylor Swift's
a really sweet interview.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
It is. And maybe it's because they fear for their
lives since, you know, because the Swifties. I don't know,
but I'm.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Just saying I Spice and Taylor are actually be fss.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I haven't actually heard of an artist, outside of very
little feuds that had nothing to do with music, that
doesn't have positive things to say about Taylor.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh wow, all of your celevsco but West Michigan Star dot.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Com sell little fun points seven. It's Mack and Schmitty
in playoff baseball, something we have in hand in West
Michigan since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Schmitty and now it is here. Tonight, Game two against
the Lake County Captains goes down at LMCU Ballpark. We've
got a four pack tickets so your family can be
there for the action. Today's Battle of the Sex is
question one hundred men surveyed. Name something you'd climb a
tree to get something.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I'd climb a tree to get my frisbee for the
eight hundred and seventy fourth time with.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Kids everything six one, six, four, five, eight, one oh
five seven Caller seven. We've got one hundred men surveyed.
Name something you'd climb a tree to get? Number one answer,
and you are going to playoff action with our West
Michigan white Caps.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
The Morning Star. Who's it, Jim?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Jim?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Where are calling from today? All right, Jim, let's see
if we can get you these tickets to the white
Caps tonight. I gotta tell me. One hundred guys, we're
asked to name something you might climb a tree to
go get. What's the top answer? Jim? Let's say a cat,
your cat who has climbed the tree. Yeah, cats do
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wind their way up there, but that is the number
two most common answer. I'm sorry, Jem. Thanks sank you,
Hi Star. Who's the and from Spring Lake? Let's get
you to Grand Rapids to see our white calves tonight.
You gotta tell me. When a hundred guys were asked
to name something you might climb a tree to get,
what is the top answer? Cat? By the way, it
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was Jim's guest, and that was the number two most
common answers. So not a cat.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Oh that's what I was.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
A kid, A kid. I have actually had to climb
trees to get a kid out of a tree before,
but that is not on the list. I'm sorry, Okay,
thank you, Hi Star. Who's this?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
This?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Drew and Ada. I've had a couple of good guesses,
but not the top one yet, Drew. One hundred guys
were asked to name something you might climb a tree
to get. So far I heard cat, which was the
number two most common answer, and kid, which was not
on the list. No kids to climb and go get
something that's gonna be up in the tree much very commonly.
I mean you basically have to go up there to
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get them. Okay, I'm gonna go with ball sort of
ball football, maybe a ball of football sort of like
my frisbee getting stuck up there. Yeah, ball is the
number three most commons. All right, sorry man, Hi Star,
who's this, but Hi, who's this? I'm you got a
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chance here. I've had a lot of guesses here, Emma,
So we've ruled out, as a matter of fact, we've
ruled out a couple of the top answers one hundred guys.
Where As to name something you might climb a tree
to get, It's not a cat, it's not a ball,
it's not a kid. What do you think? The top
answer is.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
What fruit?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Would it be? Fruits? Let's see here. Apples are up there,
peaches are up there, cherries are up there. Yeah, fruit
the top answer. Way to go, Emma. Yeah, you're going
to our West Michigan White Cabs. You excited to go
root them on in the playoffs tonight? Yes, excellent, We'll
have a blast at the White Cabs. It's Mack and
SCHMITTI and I'm gonna talk about awkward moments that we
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find ourselves in in regular situations, Like, for example, I
find talking to dental hygienis to be incredibly awkward.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh, mine's really good at it.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I'm mine. I don't even I know. They vary in
their skill quality of carrying a conversation while they've got
their fingers in your mouth. I just can't feel not
awkward when that's happening.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
She is great. She clears her fingers and tools like
we've had full conversations. Shout out to my girl, Brook.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I go very good, Brook. Maybe I need to go
see Brook. But just regular life scenarios that you find
to be odd. And I always think it's true when
you have people in your home who are doing work,
but regular life is happening while they're there. Right. So
at my house, we have been going through this oven
debacle where we had to finally get our oven hood
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up yesterday, and we had two guys named Eric at
our house putting up this new oven hood and running
the ventilation all the way through my attic and out
to the other side of my house. And so they're
there and my daughter comes home, and my wife happens
to find this event coming up for dock diving dogs,
and my dogs are both frisbee It's the only thing
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I know how to do with my dogs is training
them how to catch a frisbee. And my dog Juno
loves water. So she was like, oh, we should go
to this, we should let her give it a try,
and all this stuff. Cue my daughter, who immediately says Dad,
I'm taking Juno to the river. We live one house
away from the Thornapple River. And then I'm like, no,
we're not. It's six pm. You're not going to the
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river right now to go have the dog go swimming?
Not happening? Why because it's six o'clock and I don't
want to have to deal with the wet dog, won't
you won't deal with the wet dog. I'll take care
of the wet dog. No, Charlotte, it's six o'clock. We're already.
It's past time. We could do that this weekend or
a different day. But the dog does not need to
go practice dock diving right now. Why this is all
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happening as two.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Guys are there at six pm? Yes, oh they were.
They were there until they were there until like seven o'clock.
To go, Charlotte, you have now asked me five times
the same question. The answer is no, it is not
time to take the dog to the river. It takes
hours to dry this hairy dog. It is not something
I want to deal with right now. I wind up
having to like, Charlotte, do not ask me again if
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we can take the And all I keep thinking is like, man,
these guys gotta think I'm the biggest jer.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
These guys hear this every single day. You think, so
every single day. I can guarantee you, because I'll take
that over my wonderful Cameron installing my California closet two
weeks ago while my daughter has no pants on, yelling
I need help wiping, and I hear him laughing. I'm like,
I am so sorry. He goes. I have a three
year old at home, so I'm already living this life,
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he goes, And let me tell you, the things we
hear in homes are so wild. At this point, we
can tune everything out. There is no need to feel
weird about anything.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Stalling a fine point seven itt smack and Sminny bringing
a little extra sunshine to your morning right now? Feeling good?
What's going on? Schminning?
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah, you know, we hear from a ton of our
miracle families about the kind of sunshine and good news
that doctor Marcus Haw brings a congenital cardiac surgeon at
Helen de Vas. So many of our Radiothon families know
him and know him well for making their miracles happen. Well.
Doctor had just finished a pretty amazing achievement the Mongol
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grit Usa. This is a grueling one hundred and seventy
five mile bike race across pavement and gravel, and he
did it all to raise funds for the Carl and
Patricia Betts Congenital Heart Center. Doctor Haw has been at
this for over thirty years and the race was not
just a personal challenge for him. It was a tribute
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to the resilience of the patients and families he serves
every single day. So his original target of twenty five
hundred dollars for the amazing Center absolutely smashed because checking
this morning, he is at fifty five hundred dollars raised,
more impressed of two hundred and sixteen percent of his goal,
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and he is all about it. This is for the families,
the amazing heart Warriors, and you are going to hear
more stories like this when you join us for our
radiothon this of coming December. Congratulations, doctor Haw, We are
so proud and so happy to have you in West Michigan.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
All right, jiddy, this follow up to a story that
you've likely heard about, but now it is finally ready
for you to go and enjoy a full scale replica
of the mastodon that was discovered right here in West
Michigan back in twenty twenty two was unveiled yesterday at
the Grand Rapids Public Museum. Starting today, you can actually
go see the replica of the clap Family Mastadon, named
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after the family who owns the land where those bones
were discovered. Back in August of twenty twenty two, and
a road crew in Ken County was replacing a culvert
on twenty two mile road in Ken City when they
found a three foot long mastodon femur, and that's when
the identification and next evation began. They found over one
hundred and thirty bones from this skeleton, very unique, very
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very well maintained, and actually for the last three years
now those bones have been drying out. Several of those
real bones are now on display right there next to
what that full scale replica of the mastadon would have
looked like, so you can actually see the difference between
a wooly mammoth and a mastadon, which I didn't know
really the difference of. However, we've got incredible people just
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like Corey Redman, the science curator at GRPM, telling you
all about this incredible discovery.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
Mass Don's went extinct twelve thousand years ago at the
end of the Last Ice Age. If you picture an
Asian elephant with more hair, you're probably pretty close about
picturing what Masdon looked like. So you're talking about a
very big mammal at rome to Michigan and all of
North America for a long time, and it's just super
exciting to be able to share it and see it in.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
This full glory and back here in West Michigan on
display over at the Grand Rapids Public Museum.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Actually interviewed doctor Redman yesterday and he has some really
cool things about the archaeological dig for this, So I'll
make sure to put it up at West Michigan Star
dot com Mack
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And Schmidty in the morning weekday, starting at six am
on Star one oh five point seven
Wakem It gets my day going.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It makes me laugh.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I love it. Mac and Schmidty in the Morning on
Star one on five point seven, goot morning, say hey,
good morning, Welcome into your Thursday weekend eve as it were.
It's give me a next one too. Straight up sunshine
today with temps hovering right about eighty degrees, I mean,
pitch your esque kind of day, schmiddey.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I know we're getting so lucky with this second round
of summer.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I was gonna say, is this what they call this
is an Indian summer right where it comes later in
the year. Is that how this works? I never know either.
I thought that's how it was. But I know for
sure you're just not allowed to complain about the heat
right now.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm just excited for anybody with sports practices, we are
good to go. Excited for our White Cats to have
a stunning night tonight. I was on my way in
and I come southbound on one thirty one and the
park was lit up. Every light was on. I don't
know if they're doing some last minute cleaning or they're
just so excited they've got everything. But of course Lake
County in town tonight for Game two and With the
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white Caps win on Tuesday, they could wrap it up,
so this would be major for them to head onto
the next round of those playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
It's the celebrities Gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We continue to follow breaking news out of Utah this morning,
as conservative influencer and political activist Charlie Kirk has died
at thirty one after being shot while speaking at Utah
Valley University yesterday. The sports world stunned and devastated over this,
with major names taking to social media yesterday, including Dave
(01:39):
portnoy CEO of Barstool Sports, calling it absolutely disgusting and disturbing,
saying anyone who is happy about this is a disgusting human.
Hall of Famer Brett Farv sharing his feelings, I am
at a loss for words. Only thing I can think
of is tragic. We saw, by part, we saw a
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bipartisan sport on this, with politicians including California governor a Democrat,
Gavin Newsom, as well as Vice President JD. Vans both
denouncing what transpired on that college campus. Kansas City chiefs
kicker Harrison Bucker sharing his condolences after the death was reported,
writing thank you for your strong witness for Christ. We
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are going to have more coming up in your West
Michigan wake up. But officials are still searching for a suspect.
There was a lot of mixed reports yesterday, but so
far no one is in custody over this shooting.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
That's the wildest part to me, with all the thousands
of witnesses that were on hand there and everything else,
that there is no suspecting.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Now, there's a lot that we'll be getting to. The
actor suing director Tyler Perry for sexual assault is now
on national television, doubling down on his claims against the billionaire,
recounting the very first alleged incident. Derek Dixon is his name.
He had a role on Tyler's long running TV show
The Oval. Doing a full length interview with ABC News's
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Lindsey Davis.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Can you explain that first alleged incident? I got into bed,
and then I noticed that he'd hunt into bed with
me as well and started rubbing my leg, and I
jumped up out of bed. Unless someone's been through something
where they have their control over their bodies taken away,
you don't really understand the kind of feelings that you
get in that moment.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah. Derek first filed these issues back in June, claiming
Tyler invited him back in twenty twenty to his Atlanta
home where the first incident went down, suing not just
Perry but also Tyler Perry Studios for two hundred and
sixty million dollars in damages. Meanwhile, Tyler's camp has ripped
the lawsuit as a total and complete scam.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Quarter billion dollar lawsuit though definitely going to get you.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Lawyer's working and Ed Sharon is clearing up some rumors,
setting the record straight on his plans to move him
and the family to the States. He was actually in
New York yesterday part of his big promotion for the album.
When speaking about what's happening, he said, you know what,
check my Instagram. In the post he said, it is
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way easier to clear up stuff on here. So here's
me setting the record straight. There is definitely a narrative
that people are trying to push that I want to
move out of the UK for some terrible reason. I'm
not moving. I'm going on tour with my family and
relocating to the continent. I'm touring on. Obviously I don't
want to commute from London to San Diego for every
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single show. Also, this is not a tax thing. It's
USA not UAE. I'll always pay taxes in the UK
because that's where I live. By the way, play out
Friday Goliska.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
So there you go. Built a zone like Shire property
in the UK. I'm making you a property all right.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
All of your celebscoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
He's on a fun point seven. It's Mack and Schmitty
with feeling good right now. And this one's all about
toys in tats schmidty tattoos because obviously you've seen them.
But as anybody in your house into the la booboo craze.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
No, we don't have the money for the labuboo crank.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It is insane. I'm with you, thankfully. Nobody in my
house is rocking them quite yet either. But they are
of course incredibly popular. If you don't know what laboo
boos are, they're part of the Monsters series that was
inspired by Nordic mythology, and then they've gone viral basically
over the last couple of years. Those little scary looking
monster things that have key chains, and kids put them
on their backpacks and then full grown adults collect them
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and go wild with them too, sort of like beanie
babies back in the day. Well, these fans have leveled
it up even more Schmidty, because there is now in
Grand Rapids a laboo boo tattoo artist who is tattooing
people's la booboos. Her name is Tristi Garland, and it's
become a big thing. She saw it on TikTok and
now it has become a steady stream of people coming
(06:00):
in to get their laboo boos tattooed and then oftentimes
getting matching tattoos themselves. It's all pretty wild. She talked
to thirteen on your Side about how this just is
blown up. Then I was like, this would be kind
of cool, you know, let's try it out.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And then now I've just become the labouoo person, the
loo tattoo artists. I definitely find it fun.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
It's different, it helps kind of break things up a
little bit, and people really enjoy it and I like
making people happy.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yep. She said she has been booked like crazy with
people wanting to put arts on their laboo boos. Like
I said, twenty bucks a pop, and then your tattoo
will vary in price after that. But if you want
to check it out Brenda SU's tattoos on Caesary, Chavez
Boulevard and Grand Rapids, you can actually go get your
laboo boo tattooed.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
All right, Detroit is about to be called tree Troy
thanks to some kids in this city planting a sequoia
forest in Michigan, in the motor City. That's right, and
it's all thanks to the archangel Ancient Tree Archive teaming
up with our Boretum Detroit. They want to make Detroity
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global symbol of resilience, renewal, and hope for the planet.
Just ask the director David Malark, who is loving what
he's seeing with these kids.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
We're empowering the youth. Some of the inner city kids
don't have much of a chance. We're teaching them a
skill of how to help kield their area and have
a really important role in reversing some of the mistakes
that we made causing.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Us like a coo opportunity that we get to come
here and do this stuff for not just us, but
like the whole entire world.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Pretty amazing actually featured on NBC's Sunday Today. And get this,
a giant patch in the middle of Detroit in about
a hundred years could have giant sequoia trees and it's
all thanks to grade schoolers. What they're doing is pretty
incredible and other places are starting to consider doing it too.
Could be Grand Rapids. Got the story up for you at
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West Michigan Star.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Dot com, Moodies music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Well, the investigation is still on going into the shooting
death of conservative conservative influencer and political activist Charlie Kirk,
shot dead while speaking in front of students around noon
yesterday at a Utah University. This is really tragic news,
the thirty one year old passing away shortly after arriving
to a private hospital outside of Utah Valley University. It's
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about forty miles south of Salt Lake City, leaving behind
a wife and two children. A lot of Hollywood reacting,
including Stephen Colbert last night, who actually changed his opening monologue.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
After our scripts for tonight's show were finished. This afternoon,
we here at the late show learned that Charlie Kirk,
a prominent right wing activist, was killed at a speaking
engagement in Utah. Our condolences go out to his family
and all of his loved ones. I'm old enough to
personally remember the political violence of the nineteen sixties, and
I hope it is obvious to everyone in America. The
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political violence does not solve any of our political differences.
Political violence only leads to more political violence. And I
pray with all my heart that this is the aberent
action of a madman and not a sign of things
to come. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the show that
we had prepared for you.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Now, the investigation continues because the shooter is still at large.
Two different people were taken in as persons of interest yesterday.
There was a lot of mixed messaging around that, but
FBI Director Cash Pateel did say they were both released
after having been found that they had nothing to do
with this. So far. Authorities believe the shooter was wearing
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dark clothing and fired from a roof on campus some
distance away. But there's a lot of conversation, especially around
the security. There were more than three thousand students here.
Six police officers, there were no empts, there was no
ambulance on site. It was actually Kirk's personal bodyguards that
loaded him to an suv and took him to an
area hospital before he passed away. So there is a
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lot of activity and still a very very open investigation
this morning.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I cannot remember in my lifetime a such a public
shooting to take place and not have any idea who
did this.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You're coming up on like twenty four hours later on
this morning.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The Boston Marathon bombers were the closest thing I could
think of to things taking days to process or to
go out and catch the guy. And I'm just surprised. There's,
you know, not the headlines of man hunts happening underneath,
but they seem like they have no suspect right now.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Almost they do not. I mean that's what they're saying.
I'll have more for you in your next scoop. Prince
Harry has returned to the UK, coming face to face
with his estranged dad, King Charles the Third. This went
down at Clarence House yesterday, the first time the two
have seen each other in over a year. That a
lot of people are thinking me signally turning point the
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Duke of s It's us expulling up to his father's
London home around five twenty last night. Local time. Reports
say the two shared a private tea and it was
about fifty five minutes long. Harry is in the UK
hitting the well Child Awards as well as paying tribute
to grandmother Queen Elizabeth Second at her burial site it
is the anniversary of her death before heading to London.
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Of course, you'll remember King Charles's facing this cancer battle
and his two sons have been very open about supporting him.
We don't know what was talked about, but in reports
and some fautogs that caught Prince Serria coming on, he
said it was very good.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It's the British. We're meeting up for a.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Beer, right, like a little bigger if you haven't seen
your dad in more than a year. I think it's
a little bit bigger. Finally, woo Be Goldberg maybe sixty
nine years young, but she is not eyeing retirement. There's
been quite a few rumors that she had plans to
exit The View eighteen seasons she's been on the show,
but not the case. Why girlfriend can afford it?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
But who can afford to do that. Who can afford
to start? You know, if you don't marry, well, you
gotta keep working. I feelink you might be one of
the people that could afford it.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
No, not by now, not yet.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
She was very honest with it and said, listen, I've
had three marriages, They've all ended divorce. There's a lot
of I got a lot to pay for. I'm going
to be working for a good long time.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I sister Mary Clarence was still playing the bills.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
All right, all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan
start off on.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Come morning two weekend Eve here with us is Mack
and Schmidty. And you said you've changed up that time routine.
I'm working on itsky business.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, yesterday was really the tipping point, and I feel
like I can be very honest with you guys. I
am exhausted. Yesterday was the most exhausting day of interneting
I think I have ever had in my career. Between
the Charlie Kirk coverage and then having to tear away
to cover another high school shooting, I have never felt
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so in my gut exhausted by these things. I've been
working news for almost twenty years and so I'm used
to it. I watched the news every night. I get
my headlines before the next morning. Yesterday was just such
a point for me. People arguing online, people posting Instagram stories,
going after other people. I was like, this is terrible.
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It's terrible for your emotional wellbeing, it's terrible for your
mental wellbeing. And so right before I finished scrolling, because
I fully turned off my phone at six o'clock last
night off entirely, I've not done that in years, I
came across this mom blog, which generally I'm like, I'm
not always such a fan of the mom blogs. I
think they can be a little judgy, but I thought
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this was so interesting. It's a psychologist, a child psychologist
that just popped into my algorithm, and they were talking
about bedtimes and I was trying to figure out what
we were going to do last night, I was solo parenting,
Chris was gone, and it said, do you notice how
your kids suddenly turned into a little chatterbox right before bed?
This is not them delaying sleep. It's their way of
saying I'm safe, I'm ready to connect. Lights go out,
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their shield goes down, their mind slows. That's when the
real stuff comes out, the questions, the stories, the feelings.
We getted as parents were exhausted by this point. But
if you can even spend ten minutes of that random
bedtime rambling, it will completely change the next day for
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your kids. So here I am thinking, how are we
spending our evening? I'm absolutely cashed out, like everything that
I've had to take in for the last six seven hours,
what are we gonna do? Turned off my phone, grabbed
my kids. We walked downtown Rockford. We sat by the dam,
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we counted the ducks, We went over and turned the
fire pit on. We brought a couple of books. We
sat on the grass. That was another thing. I saw
a lot of people. They were like, hey, get off
the internet and touch grass, go outside. And I have
never had such a smooth bedtime in my life as
we did last night. No screens, no talking about stories,
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no questions being asked about the scary stuff they're seeing
on the news. We went and watched ducks, read a book,
walked about five miles round trip, and went to bed.
And I'm like, it seems so easy, but it was
a complete mental changer, And I knew I was walking
into this this morning. I knew we were going to
be talking about everything that had happened. I knew I
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was going to be reporting it on my other morning show.
I just needed two hours of nothing, and then I
went to bed. I didn't turn my phone back on.
It was amazing. And then my kids, I was putting
my sun to bed last night and he goes, that
was so fun, Mom, Can we do that again? That easy?
Oh my gosh, And I felt like I had to.
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I don't even want to call it a hack because
it's literally like eighties and nineties parenting before phones, And.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It brought you back to your center, which is your kids,
which is your family, which is which.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Is nobody else on the internet or around me or
coworkers or email or.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Whatever that space between it.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I've got a pack day to day. There's a lot
of stressful things happening today. But if that is you
and you're as tired as I am, go outside, touch
grass and do something slow and mindful. It's so much
easier said than done, I know, but literally, if it's
just sitting in a hammock with a book that has
nothing to do with.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Reality honestly coming from you, go touch grass. Sound so
much more appealing than it does for most of the
Internet bros there out.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
There, grass I just it's nice. Take your shoes off,
it's going to be eighty today. Find something to do
that's not getting in a fight with someone, or listen
to your kids. Weirdly enough, I've learned a lot of
them see that odd things.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
That was the part with the child psychologist I wasn't
so sure about because my kids, I don't feel like
it's when their shields come down. Feel like it's when
the stalling starts.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Who listen close, see if there's something in there, it's
good advice and it's not something I was going to
gatekeep so good.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Luck, movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
It's the celebrities group on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
We are still following the investigation out of Utah as
conservative influencer and political activist Charlie Kirk has been shot
dead at thirty one while speaking to a group of
students yesterday shortly before noon at a university in Utah.
Lots of Hollywood reaction as the father of two leaves
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behind both those small children and his wife. A single
gunshot fired around twelve twenty pm and they are still
on the manhunt. Two different people brought in as people
of interest, they were cleared and there is still an
ongoing investigation. Arnold Schwarzenegger saying politics has become a disease
in this country and it is deadly. But don't listen
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to the pessimists who say there is no cure. There
is a cure. It's inside of us, and we must
find our better angles to walk back and actually listen.
Rosy O'Donnell. We saw bipartisan people speaking out about this.
Do not become the murderer. This is wrong on every
single level. Jimmy Kimmel, Instead of the angry finger pointing,
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can we just for one day agree that it is
horrible and monstrous to shoot another human on behalf of
my family. We send love to the Kirks and to
all the children, parents, and innocence who fall victim to
senseless gun violence. Authorities did issue a statement yesterday night
they believe the shooter wore dark clothing and did fire
from a roof on campus some distance away, but so
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far no one official has been brought in or arrested.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I mean, obviously that is going to be a manhunt
that consumes the government of the officials in that area
completely until this thing is sorted out some way or another.
So this is far from done.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Travis Kelcey owning up to his major role his words
in the Kansas City's Kansas City Cheaps week one loss
to the Chargers. New episode of the New Heights podcast
dropping yesterday, where he specifically talks about that collision that
took out one of his own players, Xavier Worthy now
on the injured list.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
That's on us as leaders, and I'll take the most
accountability myself. I wasn't ready that first drive. I ran
into one of my guys and often out of the game.
That's one of the most frustrating parts. And it's hard
to get your juices back going knowing you just heard
a guy. Yeah, it's frustrating for me. I just got
to be better.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Man.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
I'm thirteen years in the league. There's no excuse for
me running into my own guys like that.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You know a lot of talk of the you know
Taylor Swift engagement in what NFL games is she going
to be at? But let's not forget, like he said,
thirteen years in the league, this is the final year
for tra contract with the chief so he is working
hard to look his best so that there is no
question about him returning. Meanwhile, Chiefs coach Andy Reid did
have some good news about Worthy. A dislocated shoulder should
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not keep him out too long, just in case he
was on your fantasy team.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
You know, I don't know if I can think of
another time where I heard a football player take responsibility
for a teammate's injury.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Question, do you like Travis when it comes to that
sort of thing? He is a leader.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
That accountability was really cool to see.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Singer I Spice says she learned so much when she
was working with Taylor Swift on her Airs tour back
a couple of years ago. She said, not only spending
time on stage with Taylor singing with her understanding how
much work goes into your craft, but she said the
advice she has carried with her ever since. She tells
Nylon Magazine, the thing about Taylor is that she keeps
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it so real, not even kidding. One of the biggest
things that I always think about that Taylor said, as
long as you keep making music, everything is going to
be fine. I says that she is now passing that
advice to any one and everyone. She is mentoring all
of those new artists. It's just amazing. And Taylor is
one of those people that every time we were hanging out,
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she was not just giving me advice, she was helping
me through whatever was going on in the moment, whether
it was things on social media, whether it was something
going on with my own singing. I don't know someone
who is more supportive of other artists than Taylor Swift's
a really sweet interview.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
It is. And maybe it's because they fear for their
lives since, you know, because the Swifties. I don't know,
but I'm.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Just saying I Spice and Taylor are actually be fss.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I haven't actually heard of an artist, outside of very
little feuds that had nothing to do with music, that
doesn't have positive things to say about Taylor.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh wow, all of your celevsco but West Michigan Star dot.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Com sell little fun points seven. It's Mack and Schmitty
in playoff baseball, something we have in hand in West
Michigan since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Schmitty and now it is here. Tonight, Game two against
the Lake County Captains goes down at LMCU Ballpark. We've
got a four pack tickets so your family can be
there for the action. Today's Battle of the Sex is
question one hundred men surveyed. Name something you'd climb a
tree to get something.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I'd climb a tree to get my frisbee for the
eight hundred and seventy fourth time with.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Kids everything six one, six, four, five, eight, one oh
five seven Caller seven. We've got one hundred men surveyed.
Name something you'd climb a tree to get? Number one answer,
and you are going to playoff action with our West
Michigan white Caps.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
The Morning Star. Who's it, Jim?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Jim?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Where are calling from today? All right, Jim, let's see
if we can get you these tickets to the white
Caps tonight. I gotta tell me. One hundred guys, we're
asked to name something you might climb a tree to
go get. What's the top answer? Jim? Let's say a cat,
your cat who has climbed the tree. Yeah, cats do
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wind their way up there, but that is the number
two most common answer. I'm sorry, Jem. Thanks sank you,
Hi Star. Who's the and from Spring Lake? Let's get
you to Grand Rapids to see our white calves tonight.
You gotta tell me. When a hundred guys were asked
to name something you might climb a tree to get,
what is the top answer? Cat? By the way, it
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was Jim's guest, and that was the number two most
common answers. So not a cat.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Oh that's what I was.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
A kid, A kid. I have actually had to climb
trees to get a kid out of a tree before,
but that is not on the list. I'm sorry, Okay,
thank you, Hi Star. Who's this?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
This?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Drew and Ada. I've had a couple of good guesses,
but not the top one yet, Drew. One hundred guys
were asked to name something you might climb a tree
to get. So far I heard cat, which was the
number two most common answer, and kid, which was not
on the list. No kids to climb and go get
something that's gonna be up in the tree much very commonly.
I mean you basically have to go up there to
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get them. Okay, I'm gonna go with ball sort of
ball football, maybe a ball of football sort of like
my frisbee getting stuck up there. Yeah, ball is the
number three most commons. All right, sorry man, Hi Star,
who's this, but Hi, who's this? I'm you got a
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chance here. I've had a lot of guesses here, Emma,
So we've ruled out, as a matter of fact, we've
ruled out a couple of the top answers one hundred guys.
Where As to name something you might climb a tree
to get, It's not a cat, it's not a ball,
it's not a kid. What do you think? The top
answer is.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
What fruit?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Would it be? Fruits? Let's see here. Apples are up there,
peaches are up there, cherries are up there. Yeah, fruit
the top answer. Way to go, Emma. Yeah, you're going
to our West Michigan White Cabs. You excited to go
root them on in the playoffs tonight? Yes, excellent, We'll
have a blast at the White Cabs. It's Mack and
SCHMITTI and I'm gonna talk about awkward moments that we
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find ourselves in in regular situations, Like, for example, I
find talking to dental hygienis to be incredibly awkward.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh, mine's really good at it.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I'm mine. I don't even I know. They vary in
their skill quality of carrying a conversation while they've got
their fingers in your mouth. I just can't feel not
awkward when that's happening.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
She is great. She clears her fingers and tools like
we've had full conversations. Shout out to my girl, Brook.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I go very good, Brook. Maybe I need to go
see Brook. But just regular life scenarios that you find
to be odd. And I always think it's true when
you have people in your home who are doing work,
but regular life is happening while they're there. Right. So
at my house, we have been going through this oven
debacle where we had to finally get our oven hood
(25:46):
up yesterday, and we had two guys named Eric at
our house putting up this new oven hood and running
the ventilation all the way through my attic and out
to the other side of my house. And so they're
there and my daughter comes home, and my wife happens
to find this event coming up for dock diving dogs,
and my dogs are both frisbee It's the only thing
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I know how to do with my dogs is training
them how to catch a frisbee. And my dog Juno
loves water. So she was like, oh, we should go
to this, we should let her give it a try,
and all this stuff. Cue my daughter, who immediately says Dad,
I'm taking Juno to the river. We live one house
away from the Thornapple River. And then I'm like, no,
we're not. It's six pm. You're not going to the
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river right now to go have the dog go swimming?
Not happening? Why because it's six o'clock and I don't
want to have to deal with the wet dog, won't
you won't deal with the wet dog. I'll take care
of the wet dog. No, Charlotte, it's six o'clock. We're already.
It's past time. We could do that this weekend or
a different day. But the dog does not need to
go practice dock diving right now. Why this is all
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happening as two.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Guys are there at six pm? Yes, oh they were.
They were there until they were there until like seven o'clock.
To go, Charlotte, you have now asked me five times
the same question. The answer is no, it is not
time to take the dog to the river. It takes
hours to dry this hairy dog. It is not something
I want to deal with right now. I wind up
having to like, Charlotte, do not ask me again if
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we can take the And all I keep thinking is like, man,
these guys gotta think I'm the biggest jer.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
These guys hear this every single day. You think, so
every single day. I can guarantee you, because I'll take
that over my wonderful Cameron installing my California closet two
weeks ago while my daughter has no pants on, yelling
I need help wiping, and I hear him laughing. I'm like,
I am so sorry. He goes. I have a three
year old at home, so I'm already living this life,
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he goes, And let me tell you, the things we
hear in homes are so wild. At this point, we
can tune everything out. There is no need to feel
weird about anything.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Stalling a fine point seven itt smack and Sminny bringing
a little extra sunshine to your morning right now? Feeling good?
What's going on? Schminning?
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah, you know, we hear from a ton of our
miracle families about the kind of sunshine and good news
that doctor Marcus Haw brings a congenital cardiac surgeon at
Helen de Vas. So many of our Radiothon families know
him and know him well for making their miracles happen. Well.
Doctor had just finished a pretty amazing achievement the Mongol
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grit Usa. This is a grueling one hundred and seventy
five mile bike race across pavement and gravel, and he
did it all to raise funds for the Carl and
Patricia Betts Congenital Heart Center. Doctor Haw has been at
this for over thirty years and the race was not
just a personal challenge for him. It was a tribute
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to the resilience of the patients and families he serves
every single day. So his original target of twenty five
hundred dollars for the amazing Center absolutely smashed because checking
this morning, he is at fifty five hundred dollars raised,
more impressed of two hundred and sixteen percent of his goal,
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and he is all about it. This is for the families,
the amazing heart Warriors, and you are going to hear
more stories like this when you join us for our
radiothon this of coming December. Congratulations, doctor Haw, We are
so proud and so happy to have you in West Michigan.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
All right, jiddy, this follow up to a story that
you've likely heard about, but now it is finally ready
for you to go and enjoy a full scale replica
of the mastodon that was discovered right here in West
Michigan back in twenty twenty two was unveiled yesterday at
the Grand Rapids Public Museum. Starting today, you can actually
go see the replica of the clap Family Mastadon, named
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after the family who owns the land where those bones
were discovered. Back in August of twenty twenty two, and
a road crew in Ken County was replacing a culvert
on twenty two mile road in Ken City when they
found a three foot long mastodon femur, and that's when
the identification and next evation began. They found over one
hundred and thirty bones from this skeleton, very unique, very
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very well maintained, and actually for the last three years
now those bones have been drying out. Several of those
real bones are now on display right there next to
what that full scale replica of the mastadon would have
looked like, so you can actually see the difference between
a wooly mammoth and a mastadon, which I didn't know
really the difference of. However, we've got incredible people just
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like Corey Redman, the science curator at GRPM, telling you
all about this incredible discovery.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
Mass Don's went extinct twelve thousand years ago at the
end of the Last Ice Age. If you picture an
Asian elephant with more hair, you're probably pretty close about
picturing what Masdon looked like. So you're talking about a
very big mammal at rome to Michigan and all of
North America for a long time, and it's just super
exciting to be able to share it and see it in.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
This full glory and back here in West Michigan on
display over at the Grand Rapids Public Museum.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Actually interviewed doctor Redman yesterday and he has some really
cool things about the archaeological dig for this, So I'll
make sure to put it up at West Michigan Star
dot com Mack
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And Schmidty in the morning weekday, starting at six am
on Star one oh five point seven
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