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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Wakemp. It gets my day going.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It makes me laugh.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I of it. Mac and Schmitty in the morning on
Star one oh five point seven, come over in SCHMITTI.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And welcome to Friday. Finally, my friend fifty.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Does feel so good. It's gonna be a warm and
windy one too, temperatures covering right around thirty degrees right now,
but we'll see hi's up close to fifty into the
upper forties today. Cloudy skies early on, but the wind
is what's going to be really driving today, SCHMITTI.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, I was seeing people could actually feel fifty mile
an hour, guys.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So unfortunately it might be that forty eight to fifty,
but it's probably not gonna feel like that when that
wind comes, rip it through your backyard.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I was a little bottom too, because I was thinking,
maybe the wind so get the clouds out of the way.
Because there's that planetary parade tonight where like seven planets
are all lined up together at once, and a bunch
of them you can even see with the naked eye,
which we've been actually treated to for a bunch this spring,
but all night, yeah, all lined up altogether done.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
That stuff happened at like two am, I've never seen
that it could be clearer, and I'm like, oh, I
mean I can see that when I'm dead.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So it's actually really cool because right now I think
it's Venus that you can see lit up, so well,
any night that's clear right now, like one of the
brightest times I've ever seen Venus.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
A couple times in the last two weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, it's been awesome out there, but tonight was the
big one. Another cloudy night.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
For US movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, we are lucky we got to see him last
week West Michigan because Justin Timberlake did not get to
finish his tour, canceling the final stop just hours before
he was due to take the stage in Ohio last night,
posting an apology to his Instagram to fans in Columbus,
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He's blaming the flu, he said, you guys, I am
heartbroken I have to cancel the show to I went
into sound check battling the flu and now it's gotten
the best of me. Kills me to disappoint you and
my team will work so hard to make this show happen.
I want to reassure you you will be getting refunds
for your tickets. I love you. All that tells me
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he is not planning to reschedule this at all. This
was his final stop on the North American leg of
his Forget Tomorrow World tour. While some fans were understanding, yes,
the flu is going around everywhere right now, other fans
were pretty ticked a that he canceled so close to
the start of the show. B this is the second time.
(02:36):
They were also in that swath of shows like us
that were canceled back in November, so this was already
a rescheduled show and Ohio just.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Never got to see justin m You know, it turns
you out there feeling that he was having was nause
yet pretty rough. But at the same time, at least
it happened to Columbus, Ohio. Couldn't it have happen to
your worst city? I'm fine with.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Courtney Kardashian, a queen of wellness if you follow a
lot of her brands on social was on the front
lines yesterday holding up a giant sign and walking the
line in a fight over a potential landfill being put
into her high end Calabasas neighborhood. Take a listen to
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a local news crew.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Don't you stay away, you die.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
We won't let our children die.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, you'll also remember The Girls next Door star Kendra Wilkinson.
She was also included in these locals. They're fighting against
a big push to dump Palisades fired debris and a
landfill just outside of their city limits. They think that
this is a huge health threat to residents. It's dangerously
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close to big elementary schools, and it was just I
guess it's interesting to see a Kartashian doing something like
this without a bunch of other things.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah. I know, if you let the Internet get hold
of this, there'll be a change dot org petition to
put all of the toxic in that neighborhood immediately.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Finally, I've got an update for you on the passing
of actress Michelle Trachtenberg. If you missed it, her mother
actually found her deceased in her New York City apartment
a couple days ago, only thirty nine years old. The
cause of death has officially been released ruled undetermined, the
New York's Office Chief Emmy confirming Jrachtenberg's family objected to
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an autopsy. The representative for her family has not spoken
further on this now. Families sometimes object to an autopsy
for religious reasons, and Emmy can only override a family's
decision if the death is considered suspicious or for health
or public safety reasons. None of that applies here, so
we might not ever actually know what Michelle passed.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
From, which is strange because it's obviously going to lead
to speculation obviously going forward from there.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan star.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Dot com sometimes because I get a good fee. Yeah,
let's getch you feeling the way you should be feeling
on a Friday. Let's go feeling good on Starlin a
fine point seven Mackashmitty with you. And gotta give a
big shout out to some of our local hockey players.
Fresh off a regional championship win against Byron Center, the
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Grandville Bulldogs and the varsity hockey team. Actually stopped by
Mary free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital late Tuesday night just to
go visit one young hockey player who has been battling
on the ice and now he's got a different battle.
Eleven year old Mason Madden. He actually plays for the
Grand Valley Stars youth hockey team, but he's been fighting
an incredibly difficult health journey. His dad, Mike Madden, told
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News eight his son actually had to play the last
three months of their last season with what wound up
being a broken femur, the biggest bone in your body
broken and he's playing hockey on it. But after going
to Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in December, doctors actually found
a tumor on Mason's spine and since then this guy's
been on just a wild journery three spinal surgeries, two
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brain surgeries, has had to relearn how to do almost everything,
but as of last week, once again able to walk
with his mobility aid. So the hockey players there to
cheer him up and to root him on as he
continues to get better and better every day. Grandville hockey
coach Joel A. Brazil actually serves as the director for
Mason's youth team. He was among the visitors and Mason's
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mom said that Mason was just over the moon. Coach
b make sure all his boys were loved that. Of course,
they ended the visit the way you break up any
good team. Visits. Mindy got it off nice, really cool
of the Grandville hockey team.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Love that be kind, love big. That's all the legacy
we get from a beautiful little girl taken far too soon,
and it's something that the Risly family thinks about often.
This month marks four years since seven year old Ruby
Risley lives in Jennison, passed away after being hit by
a car on her way home from s Her dad,
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Harry remembered her being absolutely amazing, just because she was
such a blessing to everyone. Naturally, that is so very
hard to lose. But because they are the incredible parents
that they are, they've taken their heartbreak and turned it
into hope for those experiencing homelessness in Kent and Ottawa County.
Be a Ruby was established back in twenty twenty one,
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providing monthly giveaways of food and clothes to people experiencing homelessness.
In fact, last year, the nonprofit helped about six hundred
people every single month. The organization well known for its
signature pink trailer and pink bags used in distribution. Ruby's
favorite color is all about her central attitude, be kind, love,
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beg Harry sat down with Fox seventeen, and he said,
while this is tough, it is healing.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
There's not a lot of joy that can come out
of our scenario. But to know that the her and
remembering her is there, it just it heals a little bit.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
We get people that jump for joy down there, We
get people that dance, we get people that just absolutely
love it. And to see that and to know that
Ruby is a reason for this, it's just, you know,
it just fills your heart with joy.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh can you imagine just being an incredible parent like that?
You can also be a part of this. They've got
a big fundraiser dinner coming up in April, so if
you want to check out some details, go ahead and
like be a Ruby on Facebook because they're doing really
powerful work and honor their daughter.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Be kind love big yeah, per Ruby, be you know,
simple and yet very poignant.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
And on Bord movies, music and all the gossip in
one place.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It's the Celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well an update to the story I had in scoop. Yesterday,
Attorney General Pam Bondi promised a first release of documents
surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein case and we got it yesterday
and it's meh. The release of the files related to
the financier did list some big names, including President Donald Trump.
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Flight logs did find Trump's name a total of seven times,
along with his then wife Marla Maples, their daughter at
the time, a nanny, and a few other members of
the family, but again that does not mean any wrongdoing.
Other big names in what the AG is calling phase
one of the release include Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Alec Baldwin,
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Naomi Campbell, Courtney Love, Tony Blair, and Ethel Kennedy, who
is the mom of Robert F. Kennedy Junior. There's some
other interesting parts of this though. There were more than
two hundred names on a list titled massuses that was
entirely redacted. In an interview with Fox News, ag Bondi
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said she is demanding that the FBI release everything immediately,
in fact giving them a deadline of eight am this morning,
so we'll see if we learn some more.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I mean, it's odd now because I feel like we
have just changed over all the department heads of all
these different places. So can't she just call her guy
cash but tell the new FBI director and be like, hey,
make this happen, release all.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It sounds like he is on board for that, and
I know that there were a couple of interviews yesterday
with lawyers for victims of Epstein that also do support
this because they feel that there are big names on
this list that are still getting away with behavior that
is illegal. However, they are trying to play it safe
where the victims are not named. So it's going to
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take a lot of time with how much document that
they have to make sure that the info we want
and need to see gets out while not completely upturning
once again victims' lives. So I will keep you updated
on that. It'll be quite a while before we get
the full story on actor Gene Hackman, his wife Betsy,
and their dogs. Very suspicious death because even with the
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initial autopsy, there are a lot of questions and investigators
are saying the final report could take weeks. We did
get the release of the nine one one call yesterday.
This is the caretaker calling paramedics and you can tell
finding these bodies was super emotional for him.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Down at the house.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
I'll meet you over there. I'll meet him over there.
I'm the care care for the subdivision on them being
him up here. Okay, give me one. I go to
meet with the paramedic.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, yeah, very emotional.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
The new Mexico Emmy off Emmy's office says it's going
to take four to six weeks for toxicology and other
tests to come back. This is what's very puzzling. Betsy
was apparently found in the bathroom along with a space
heater and a ton of pills. She had apparently been
deceased for quite a while. Her body was in a
state of dcom and they had noticed mummification had already
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started on her hands and feet. Was interesting. The one
dog was dead, but two other dogs were alive. One
was outside, one was inside. They do not believe this
had anything to do with carbon monoxide poisoning. So they
definitely have more questions than answers right now and are
saying six to eight weeks before we might understand what
went down.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
That's interesting, and you know, by all means, take the time,
get the results you need. Why is it though, that
sometimes it feels like they can get those toxicology reports
in like twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I think it's all different kinds of things you're looking for. Yeah, Finally,
Zendaya's got her first big job in the animated world.
She's joining the cast of Shrek five. This is really
fun news, taking on the role of Shrek and Fiona's
daughter Felicia in the beloved animated series. Universal has already
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teased her appearance with a sneak peak that we got yesterday.
She looks very gen z as an ogre. I will
tell you that Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz are back
as Shrek and Fiona. Eddie Murphy is back as Donkey,
and I thought this was really cool. Zendea kind of
manifested this. She actually was in an interview back in
twenty seventeen and then posted about how she quote watched
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Shrek way too much as an adult, and now she's
going to be part of the franchise. So Shrek five
does not hit theaters until December twenty third of twenty
twenty six, so we have a little more than a
year and a half to wait and see it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
She was, like, by the way, like five years old
when the first truck.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It makes sense, she's a child, all right, all of
your celebscu but West Michigan start.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Off the good morning too, Up it's going great so far.
It's Mack and Schmidty hanging out. And you know, I
noticed when I pulled in this morning that you were
driving the Ram.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That you were giving Chris's truck. You're driving to.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Dodge today, and I'm actually, I don't forget.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Ram the ram. Ram gotta get my Ziggler friends a
heads out there.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I don't think I have ever seen you drive for
the truck.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh occasionally I do, yeah, usually when Chris is doing
things for my car, which is what's happening today because
I got to go get my tire figs. I had
the worst, the worst afternoon yesterday, the worst. I've never
in my life had a flat tire on my car.
Never happened to me. I will tell you that I
know how to change a tire like my dad taught me.
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Chris has gone over it with me. But really, if
you've ever tried to do that, I could not change
a tire. I don't have the strength for it, especially
you know on the car I'm driving.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Did you try standing? Did you try standing?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Because I'm not going to do it on the side
of an expressway. So yesterday is the nightmare. And if
you follow me, on social media. At Schmidt in the MIT,
I did two hours of commentary on this. So I
picked Sophia up from preschool yesterday at like twelve thirty,
and it's important to know exactly where this happened. I
pick her up. She goes to school right off of
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Plainfield in gr So I get on the Plane Field
entrance ramp to ninety six westbound. I can connect to
one thirty one north and home to Rockford.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I don't know what I ran over. It must have
been as I was turning on this entrance ramp, because
if it had happened five hundred feet sooner, I could
have pulled into like the Taco bell or a bank
or something. But all of a sudden, my tire pressure
light goes on and I hear a pop pop pop
pop pop, And I'm like, that's not just just slowly
kind of thing. My tire is done. I am on
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the side of ninety six westbound as people are speeding
past us, going anywhere from seventy to ninety. I have
Sophie in the car with me, and I'm like, oh
my gosh, what am I going to do? So I
get on my State Farm app and I request roadside
assistance that we have.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Did Jake just show up out of thin airline?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Well he did not. He did not. No, it was
pretty bad. So they were like, yep, got you, no worries.
State Farm answered right away and I got hooked up
with this company that was going to come and change
my flat for me. My first estimate was sixty to
ninety minutes that I'm going to be on this express
and I'm like, okay, I'm over as far as I can.
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I'm super nervous because I know if we get hit
by any one of these people were dead, they're going
that quick. And it's around a corner and I got
my flashes on. I'm trying to do everything I know
how to do, and my three year old's in the
back seat. I'm like, what am I going to do
to keep her occupied for an hour and a half.
Also worth pointing out, this is the only time in
about a year that Chris has had work up north
in Luddington, so he's not in town. I have no
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one to really call. So we're sitting there, we're doing
the thing, and it's like, okay, sixty to ninety minutes,
we'll do this, and then a state trooper pulls up.
He's like, hey, you guys all okay? Said yeah, we're
all right, just got a flat. He goes, okay, you
know what, we'll sit here with you put our flights
on because people are coming down the entrance ram pretty quick.
I said yeah, well, they had things to do. So
they were there for about four minutes and then they
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had to take off. And then I had a second
trooper and he just passed me because I assume at
this point they're radioing like this woman is a disaster.
That's the thought that So then I realized, and I've
called Chris. I called Chris eleven times throughout this saga.
I he's like, you're gonna need to get your spare,
and I go, where is my spare? He goes, well,
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it's in your trunk. Immediate color draining from my face.
Because if you've ever listened to the show, you follow
me on social media, I am a pack rat when
it comes to my car trunk.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
The twilight down, thanks, but they don't come out.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I have a sledge champagne flutes. There was a cast
iron skillet back there. So now now I'm on westbound
ninety six and I am pulling. I had five deck
chairs shone and Chris goes, I don't even know if
you're able to fit your stuff in the car, get
to pile it up on the side. Oh my goodness,
I'm weeping. I'm like, I don't know what to do.
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And so we've been sitting here. At one point my
daughter found a sucker, so she was eating that. We
had sustenance. I'm we are sitting there. We're sitting there
for an hour and twenty minutes, and I get a
follow up text from this toe company, Hey, ninety six minutes. Oh,
so now I'm like, we are going to be here
for over three hours. I don't know if I'm going
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to even make it back to pick Will up from
school at this point, and I don't know what to do.
I can't move forward anymore because the next exit is
one thirty one, which felt more dangerous, and I don't
think my tire would have taken me that far. And
I am freaking out. I am sitting with stuff loaded
from my floor to my ceiling from my trunk so
that they could get the spare out. I have no
idea how long this person's gonna take. I know I
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have very limited time before Sophia is like freaking out.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Oh yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Was my fear.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
You're already on the side of the road.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
All of a sudden, you guys, you guys, And I
hope you've stuck around long enough to hear this. I
adore the Michigan Department of Transportation because I had no
idea that this was a program. This white van pulls
up and it is called the Safety Service Portal.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Oh yeah, And they pull up.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
And they angle their vehicle and put their little arrow on.
So people are moving around me and Kelly and Gavin
Angels on Earth come up to my window and they're like, hey, everybody, okay.
I said, yeah, everything's good. I've got a flat and
they said, you called I go. I just got an
updated text two minutes ago that it's going to be
another hour and a half plus. And they were like, okay,
no worries. We're with the Safety Service Portal. We're gonna
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change out tar. You're I was gone in five minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
He was like, don't even get out of your car.
Is your spear in the trunk? Do you mine popping
the trunk for me? I said, yeah, I could not
believe it's happening. They like jack my car up, they
switch it out, they do everything. They put my tire
back in the trunk so I can hopefully get it
patched today, and then hand me this little postcard and
they were like, hey, we're the Safety Service Portal. It's
a totally free service. We're tax funded, so if you
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could just fill out a survey to keep this going.
And I was like, yeah, that Kelly, I would like
to hug you, and I sent I put on I
put my feedback in last night and let me tell you.
The first sentence was, dear MT people, this is a
savior of a service, and please keep it funded. I
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don't know how they found me. I'm not sure if
like the troopers called into this.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
There is somebody who put a light into the sky,
and it was just.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Did you call us?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Are you not sure how we were contacted? So I
don't know if this is a service you can call.
But the Safety Service Portal with m DOT saved my
life yesterday and I am telling literally everyone because it
was such a wonderful. I canceled the toe company. I
was back home in time to get will and it's
it's all Gavin and Kelly and the gorgeous people at
the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Okay, like, first off, insanity, how relief? Oh how much
relief did you deal with that?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I mean, I cried.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So my question is did you tip them?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I asked if? I asked if I could, and the
guy laughed. I said, I'm dead serious. We know we
can't do that, like, we can't take that. And I
was like, all right, well, if you change your mind,
like I'm up in Rockford, you find me because you
have saved my life. It's just so often I think
we trash on m DoD because of construction and the
things they have to do. They were so incredible yesterday,
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Safety service Portal. I love you.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Are you going to do now I'm changing your tire?
Are you going to put this in like into like practice?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I ever wroutside assistance with your joy in distress, which
is why I adore and do.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Your chance right now to tell us what's going on
in your world, that dirt, that juicy gossip that you
got for us each and every Friday with tea time
six one six eight one oh five, cheven. I want
to hear from you with this week's one schmidte that
could make the workplace just a little bit awkward for
a night.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I would love to know, actually if this has ever
helped someone. It says, Hey, guys, I know you've talked
about this before on the show, but now it's happening
at my office. My co worker, who I'm also pretty
close friends with, accidentally got added to our team leader's
weekly email report this week. It listed to our top
five producers along with what they make. My coworker isn't
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mad about that, totally wants to anonymously release their salaries.
She thinks it helps the office. I think she'll get
fired if they find out who did it. Has anyone
had this happen and actually made your workplace better?
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
See? This one is kind of tricky because you know,
there's so much information that we don't have there. But
I'll just put it on the basic level of do
you want to know what all of your coworkers are making?
And should it be out there in transparent.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
It's weird because research says it's helpful and you should
be talking about this in the workplace.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
The thing I believe is that if you don't know
what it is, now that is going to be real uncomfortable,
with some hurt feelings and some anger at first, but
after all that subsides, it might ultimately become a good
thing that maybe evens the playing field a little bit.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, yeah, I posted this up on I posted this
on our Facebook last night and woke up this morning
to a talk back inside inside our iHeartRadio from Thomas.
And here's what I gotta say about this.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I say, no, that's going to cause ultimately dysfunction in
the workplace. I don't want people knowing how much money
I make. It's probably better off I don't know how
much money you make. I mean, it's just going to
cause problems. So I'm not I can't get behind that.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
That means Thomas makes a lot of money, you know,
That's what that means.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
And it kind of plays on the fact that we're
all hypocrites a little bit schmiddy like. The answer is this,
I don't want you to know what I make, but
I really want to know what you make.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Right.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Actually, I don't think I would mind if people here
knew what I made, because they'd probably take up a collection.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Gonna say they'd feel bad.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Six one, six, four five eight one oh five seven.
What do you think? Has have you ever worked in
a place where sharing salaries made things better? Give us
a call, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
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Speaker 3 (23:46):
Movies, Music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Well a big announcement yesterday as pop superstar Katie Perry
and former New US anchor Laurence Sanchez, along with CBS
this Morning anchor Gail King, planned to blast off into
space on board the Blue Origin this spring. This is
record breaking. They are among the celebrities set to fly
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to space on the first all women crew since nineteen
sixty three. We got a chance to meet everyone that
will be a board, including NASA rocket scientist Ayisha Bau,
civil rights activist Amanda Winn, and film producer Carrie Anne Flynn.
This is Gail making the announcement yesterday on CBS.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
I just thought, what a unique opportunity, and then yesterday
I met the crew. Where now the crew we're all
on a text chain together and their stories are so amazing.
When Ayisha was told your dreams are too big, somebody
else was.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Told women don't go into one.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Mom said her son when he was a little boy,
and she said she was going to space. His kids
at school said, you're a liar, because moms don't go
to space. And now she's going. Somebody else is a
sexual assault survivor. Katie Perry is just she's a different
kind of dude. She comes from a totally different Planet's
been her lifelong dream. Lauren Sanchez we all know, you know,
she flies helicopter pilots. She's a philanthropist, she's an author.
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We know of course that she's engaged to Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
So all these.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
People this has been their dream. This was never my dream.
Somebody said, well, maybe you need to have new dreams.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Gaie.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah, so apparently this will plan to take off this spring.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
When I saw the headline Gail King and Katy Perry
going up, I was like, yes, why why are we
doing this? But you know what to hear that it's
in all women crew who are going out there and
some of those other women, so you know, deserving in
such interesting story needs for this. It's really awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
This would be very interesting to see Newly's Morning. FBI
director Cash Battel wants his organization to prepare their agents,
and he wants to do that by partnering with the UFC.
According to her report from Reuter's, Bettel suggested this idea
in a video conference the other day with supervisors. In
the call, he proposed a sty xablishing a formal relationship
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with UFC CEO Dana White to fine tune agent's self
defense skills. Now, apparently a few agents, according to sources,
say this does seem a little wacky, but it could
definitely happen because if you weren't aware, Dana White has
been a big supporter and longtime personal friend of President
Donald Trump, So our agents could be getting in the ring.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Will it be a pay per view televised debate though?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Is that I'm entrepreneurs anyway to make some dough right. Finally,
I had to do this story because I saw this
piece of the podcast yesterday and I was absolutely sobbing.
You think you love your dog? Not as much as
comedian and author Chelsea Handler. She was not gonna lie
with Kylie Kelsey talking about the moment her dog Chunk Crest,
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and piece really showed his love.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Chunk was such a stud. Chunk Wentz jumped out of
a helicopter after me. I fell out of a helicopter
once by accident. I was tipsy at the time.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Boy'd on the ground.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
It was over the Hudson River, thankfully, so I fell
into the actual Hudson River. And I was making a
joke to my boyfriend at the time, and I stepped
out of the helicopter and I made this big gesture
and slipped fell off the helicopter in a peacoat and
knee high leather boots. And I was panicking because I
was like, you.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Know, it's so cold.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
It was November, and I'm hahah And I start swimming
and paddling in this big pea coat that I had,
and then my foot kicked the ground and I realized
I was only in two feet of water, swimming like
an hole. And then I look up and Chunk jumps
out of the helicopter after me into the Hudson River.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
That's true love.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
I mean when he did that, I was like, I'm
gonna marry a dog.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Is insane story.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I just like that t was struggling in the two
feet of water. There's nothing better than seeing someone who's
just kind of panicking and you guy, yeah, just stand up.
It's gonna be okay.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I don't think my dogs are jumping out of anything
for me. Check it out full interview with your scoop
at West Michigan.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Star dot com Chrismack and Spitty and it is time
to battle for your friend Morning Battle of the Sexist Time.
Look at it gets you to Monster Jam next weekend
rollingto Van Angelarena and you've got a chance at your
family's tickets for right now.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Give us today's number one answer that scores you the tickets.
One hundred men surveyed, Name something that works by spinning?
And I'm not sure why. I immediately went to my
crippling anxiety. I'm so spin have a good spiral.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I was thinking like a merry go round without the
go round part. It's you know, you're just standing there
and not very merry.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
No, all right? Six one six four five A one
oh five seven. One hundred men surveyed, Name something that
works by spinning? Number one answer, and your family is
headed to Monster Jam with Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Good morning Star. Who's this, hey, David? Where you call it?
From This morning man, David, let's get you hooked up
with Monster jam tickets. You just got to tell me.
When one hundred dudes were asked to name something that
works by spinning, what do you think they're top end or?
Was there, David? A windmill? Yeah, that's a great guess. However,
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not on the list of these top answers. I'm sorry, David,
Hi Star, who's this Sarah? We just got a great
guest from David. When one hundred guys were asked to
name something that works by spinning, David actually said a
great answer, which was a windmill. Yeah, I gotta have
that thing spinning if you want to work in However,
(29:26):
that was not on the list here. So what do
you think the top answer is? Uh? Ooh, a dradel
like a dradl or a top Yeah, top is the
number four most common answer.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
All right, thank you, You're very welcome.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I have a great day. Hi Star, who's this?
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
What's on Mac?
Speaker 6 (29:43):
This Thomas from Grand Rapids.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Hey, Thomas, I've got a couple of good guesses, but
not the top answer yet. So you got a chance here, sir,
You just got to tell me. But one hundred guys
were asked to name something that works by spinning. So far,
I've heard a top a dradl That was the number
one most common answer, and I heard a windmill. Definitely
a good guess, but was not on the list of
top answers. So would what do you think of?
Speaker 6 (30:04):
Okay, what about a hoop?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Hula hoop? Yeah, you gotta spin around those hips. But
now hula hoop is not on here, Thomas, I'm sorry,
all right, Thank you guys, thank you, Hi Star. Who's this? Hello? Hello?
Who's this?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
This is Amber?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Amber. I've gotten good guesses, but still haven't got the
top answer. One hundred guys were asked to name something
that works by spinning. I have heard wind mills, I
have heard just a moment ago, I heard a hula hoop,
and I also heard tops on there too. Tops was
the number four answer, but nobody's given it to me yet.
So what do you think it is? Amber?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
The wheel?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
The wheels? Yeah, I can't actually believe it took what
four guesses to get the thing that spins right underneath
most of the people who are listening to this right now.
Wheels is the top answer. Way to go?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Are you periods? We called yesterday and my daughter Sadie,
but you're pronounced it Katie. Sadi guests the number two
answer yesterday, and we've been calling since November.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Decided to win something.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
This is so cool.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Heck yes, congratulations guys. Well, I love that your persistence
paid off. What's your daughter's name, Badie? Sadie. I'm sorry
I called you Katie, but I'm glad that I got
you Monster Jam tickets. It seems like a fair trade.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
We say say, hi, Hi, Sadie.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Are you off to school? Ye? Yep.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
We call every morning on our way to school. We're
in Meskegan.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I love it. Well, I'm so glad we could get
you guys hooked up. Have a blast today at school, Sadie,
but even more importantly, have a blasted Monster Jam next week.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Oh my god, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
You are so welcome. We'll do it again next week too,
more chances to win right here on startar five point seven,
starting a five point seven feel good variety of the
eighties till now. Thanks for hanging out on your Friday morning.
And maybe there's a solution for the egg crisis if
you think outside of the box, or I guess outside
of the coop in this case, schmitty, because I was
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literally yesterday was the first time in my life this
had ever been put in front of me. I did
not know you can rent backyard chickens.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
So I have a friend of mine she has been
raising backyard chickens with her girls for I think going
on four years now. Yeah, and she rents them out.
She reads, she started a couple months ago when this
egg crisis began.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
When I first heard it in my head, I thought, like,
you know, I go to a farm and I say,
those two chickens are mine. I want to rent them
and take their eggs. And I'm thinking, like, you do
all the work and I take the eggs. But no,
it is literally you get a book on how to
raise chickens, all the materials you need to build your coop,
everything with this that you would need to raise your chickens,
and you literally take them home with you. You go
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rent your own chickens.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
She like helps people like build their coops. She makes
sure that it's going to be like a you know,
good humane system. But oh yeah, it's been very lucrative,
she said.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
This woman goes by homestead heather and if you're interested
in that it's rent at the chicken dot com. I'm
not even getting rented chicken dot com. Really interesting, but Shinney,
this got me down a rabbit hole of interesting things
you can rent, and these are some odd ones in here.
For sure. You can rent wedding guests, bride bridesmaids for
hire dot com. You can rent people to be standing
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party you don't have friends, well kind of like if
you need guests to fill up one side of an aisle, maybe,
like the groom's got a bunch of buddies, but the
brides more of a loner. Like you can even thinks
out that way. Uh how you can rent, of course goats,
but not for the reason you think we're not doing
yoga for targeted grazing.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Oh yep, had a buddy do that too, targeted grazes,
solar panel fields, they do that.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Oh, interesting line sitters. I have always thought that, you know,
back in the day, especially where we had to go
and get uh you know, in line to get some ticket,
that you really wanted to pay somebody to stand there
for hours on end for you, that's kind of genius.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
We've looked at swimply. You can actually rent oh the backyard.
You know, are just two very different people. I clearly
can't afford anything, so I know literally every item you
can rent in the world. Okay, well, then here's one
was shocking to me.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
This one shocked me. Shmidi because I think I want
to use it, if for no other reason than just
to separate myself from anger. You can rent someone to
apologize for you. You can rent an apologist if you
need to, which sometimes they will quit for you. See,
that's not I don't see that part. I want to
do myself. I want to take my showing apologizing to
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my wife through a third party when I've done something
that's really got me in the doghouse. I don't know
that it would actually do much good for me. That's
not a help, but I really wouldn't I wouldn't mind
not having to see her face. Yeah, well I'm making
the apology. That's pretty awesome. What is the strangest thing
you've ever rented before? Hit us up on Facebook and
Instagram at West Michigan Star sometime because I get a
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good bee no little five point seven. It's Mack and
Schmidia and we always tell you it's just easier to
feel good on a Friday. But it's really easy when
you know you've got one of the coolest things that
happens every springtime here in West Michigan to look forward
to and for the very first time tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, so this is a really beautiful Friday because tomorrow
the butterflies officially bloom at Frederick Meyer Gardens. John vander
Hagen actually in studio feeling good today with us, and
this is one of our favorite things every year, and
you guys are so.
Speaker 8 (35:29):
Ready, Yeah, we are, and same for me. You know,
it's a sure sign of spring. When West Michigan gets
a little gray, little cold, you know, it's really the
sign that things are starting to warm up and spring
is almost here. So we are thrilled to be able
to launch the thirtieth fred and Dorothy Victor. Butterflies are
blooming at Meyer Gardens.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
The thirtieth year of this, which is so cool. Now.
I know, some of our friends and me got to
your little sneak peak yesterday and all each of them
kept telling me was that the butterflies are out and
they are super active, and that they couldn't stop them
from like land all over them. We spoke with Brandu
shaid and landed on her microphone. People were having such
a good time. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 8 (36:05):
You know, we kind of ramp up so that the
first two weeks of February we're getting things ready, so
that tomorrow March first, the official launch, we are full
of butterflies. There will be hundreds flying around, in thousands
throughout the course of the exhibition. So just a truly
unique thing to see all these tropical butterflies in a
place where they're not going to be gathered together anywhere
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else in the world. In the beauty of the humid,
the warm being and myotropic conservatory. So on days like
this where it's maybe forty degrees gray outside, it's just
a true true staycation and a great place to get
a glimpse of the tropics.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
I love what you said. Nowhere else in the world
will all these butterflies be together like this. How many
species are we talking?
Speaker 8 (36:45):
Yeah, So each year we have a list, kind of
a wish list, so some of it depends on what
our suppliers can give us, but we've got around sixty
different species, so again groupings that you'll never see together.
These are non native species, so that's why we have
kind of that airlock system when you come in go
because these are non native to Michigan, so a great
way to see these things up close that you might
have to travel to Africa or Europe or Asia to
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see in the wild.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
You know. And if you mentioned it, if you're sticking
around here for spring break, you but you need a
little eighties in humidity.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
It's a great way to pretend you are lying on
a beach somewhere. We've got the sound of the of
the waterfall behind us. Again, it's eighty five or so
degrees in there. It's eighty percent humidity. So you'll come
out of their sweating feeling like you just got off vacation.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
So John Vanderhagen is the director of communications for Frederick
Meyer Gardens and this is a bonus feeling good because
you guys deserve another congratulations.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
I've heard a year in a row number one sculpture
park in America.
Speaker 8 (37:40):
Yeah, you know, just tremendous. We really appreciate the sport
of the community for that. It's a great honor to
be recognized even on the list from USA Today and
then they turn it over to us for to get
some votes from the community. So third year in a row,
like you mentioned, just tremendous support from folks who come
out and enjoy Meyer Gardens. So we are very proud
of this award.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
All right. I can't let you get out of here
without asking you this because we get asked about it
all the time. Everybody gets so excited. I know what's coming,
The Frederick Meyer Garden Summer Concert Series will return. When
do you think we're going to start here?
Speaker 8 (38:12):
In some of the groups and accius, Yeah, So we
are deep into planning on that. It's been an interesting
kind of shift. Usually we would wait until the new
year start throwing out offers, but this has really become
a year round planning process now. So we were in
conversations even at the tail end of last season. But
we are targeting an April tenth release for our lineup announcement.
Putting together the final details now and we'll have another
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thirty to thirty five great shows to announce here in
mid April. Tickets go on sale to members of Frederick
Meyer Gardens and Sculpture Park on April nineteenth, and then
the public a week later. So coming it's right around
the corner in the middle of Butterflies. We'll be talking
concerts and I'd love to come back and give you,
guys the first first sneak peek of that lineup a
couple of.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Days after my birthday. So thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
You're happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
That's such a gift.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah, she's the Angle.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
No, I do love that series.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
You know that we will have your tickets for those
summer concerts all season long. But can't tell you enough.
Get out and go and enjoy the thirtieth annual Butterflies
are blooming right now at Frederick Meyer Gardens. John Weger
Evander Hagen, director of Communications over there, thanks so much
for joining us, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 8 (39:15):
Always a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Guys, Mack and Schmidty in the morning weekdays, starting at
six am on Star one oh five point seven
Wakemp. It gets my day going.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It makes me laugh.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I of it. Mac and Schmitty in the morning on
Star one oh five point seven, come over in SCHMITTI.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And welcome to Friday. Finally, my friend fifty.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Does feel so good. It's gonna be a warm and
windy one too, temperatures covering right around thirty degrees right now,
but we'll see hi's up close to fifty into the
upper forties today. Cloudy skies early on, but the wind
is what's going to be really driving today, SCHMITTI.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, I was seeing people could actually feel fifty mile
an hour, guys.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So unfortunately it might be that forty eight to fifty,
but it's probably not gonna feel like that when that
wind comes, rip it through your backyard.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I was a little bottom too, because I was thinking,
maybe the wind so get the clouds out of the way.
Because there's that planetary parade tonight where like seven planets
are all lined up together at once, and a bunch
of them you can even see with the naked eye,
which we've been actually treated to for a bunch this spring,
but all night, yeah, all lined up altogether done.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
That stuff happened at like two am, I've never seen
that it could be clearer, and I'm like, oh, I
mean I can see that when I'm dead.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So it's actually really cool because right now I think
it's Venus that you can see lit up, so well,
any night that's clear right now, like one of the
brightest times I've ever seen Venus.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
A couple times in the last two weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, it's been awesome out there, but tonight was the
big one. Another cloudy night.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
For US movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, we are lucky we got to see him last
week West Michigan because Justin Timberlake did not get to
finish his tour, canceling the final stop just hours before
he was due to take the stage in Ohio last night,
posting an apology to his Instagram to fans in Columbus,
(01:54):
He's blaming the flu, he said, you guys, I am
heartbroken I have to cancel the show to I went
into sound check battling the flu and now it's gotten
the best of me. Kills me to disappoint you and
my team will work so hard to make this show happen.
I want to reassure you you will be getting refunds
for your tickets. I love you. All that tells me
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he is not planning to reschedule this at all. This
was his final stop on the North American leg of
his Forget Tomorrow World tour. While some fans were understanding, yes,
the flu is going around everywhere right now, other fans
were pretty ticked a that he canceled so close to
the start of the show. B this is the second time.
(02:36):
They were also in that swath of shows like us
that were canceled back in November, so this was already
a rescheduled show and Ohio just.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Never got to see justin m You know, it turns
you out there feeling that he was having was nause
yet pretty rough. But at the same time, at least
it happened to Columbus, Ohio. Couldn't it have happen to
your worst city? I'm fine with.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Courtney Kardashian, a queen of wellness if you follow a
lot of her brands on social was on the front
lines yesterday holding up a giant sign and walking the
line in a fight over a potential landfill being put
into her high end Calabasas neighborhood. Take a listen to
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a local news crew.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Don't you stay away, you die.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
We won't let our children die.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, you'll also remember The Girls next Door star Kendra Wilkinson.
She was also included in these locals. They're fighting against
a big push to dump Palisades fired debris and a
landfill just outside of their city limits. They think that
this is a huge health threat to residents. It's dangerously
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close to big elementary schools, and it was just I
guess it's interesting to see a Kartashian doing something like
this without a bunch of other things.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah. I know, if you let the Internet get hold
of this, there'll be a change dot org petition to
put all of the toxic in that neighborhood immediately.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Finally, I've got an update for you on the passing
of actress Michelle Trachtenberg. If you missed it, her mother
actually found her deceased in her New York City apartment
a couple days ago, only thirty nine years old. The
cause of death has officially been released ruled undetermined, the
New York's Office Chief Emmy confirming Jrachtenberg's family objected to
(04:24):
an autopsy. The representative for her family has not spoken
further on this now. Families sometimes object to an autopsy
for religious reasons, and Emmy can only override a family's
decision if the death is considered suspicious or for health
or public safety reasons. None of that applies here, so
we might not ever actually know what Michelle passed.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
From, which is strange because it's obviously going to lead
to speculation obviously going forward from there.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan star.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Dot com sometimes because I get a good fee. Yeah,
let's getch you feeling the way you should be feeling
on a Friday. Let's go feeling good on Starlin a
fine point seven Mackashmitty with you. And gotta give a
big shout out to some of our local hockey players.
Fresh off a regional championship win against Byron Center, the
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Grandville Bulldogs and the varsity hockey team. Actually stopped by
Mary free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital late Tuesday night just to
go visit one young hockey player who has been battling
on the ice and now he's got a different battle.
Eleven year old Mason Madden. He actually plays for the
Grand Valley Stars youth hockey team, but he's been fighting
an incredibly difficult health journey. His dad, Mike Madden, told
(05:39):
News eight his son actually had to play the last
three months of their last season with what wound up
being a broken femur, the biggest bone in your body
broken and he's playing hockey on it. But after going
to Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in December, doctors actually found
a tumor on Mason's spine and since then this guy's
been on just a wild journery three spinal surgeries, two
(06:01):
brain surgeries, has had to relearn how to do almost everything,
but as of last week, once again able to walk
with his mobility aid. So the hockey players there to
cheer him up and to root him on as he
continues to get better and better every day. Grandville hockey
coach Joel A. Brazil actually serves as the director for
Mason's youth team. He was among the visitors and Mason's
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mom said that Mason was just over the moon. Coach
b make sure all his boys were loved that. Of course,
they ended the visit the way you break up any
good team. Visits. Mindy got it off nice, really cool
of the Grandville hockey team.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Love that be kind, love big. That's all the legacy
we get from a beautiful little girl taken far too soon,
and it's something that the Risly family thinks about often.
This month marks four years since seven year old Ruby
Risley lives in Jennison, passed away after being hit by
a car on her way home from s Her dad,
(07:01):
Harry remembered her being absolutely amazing, just because she was
such a blessing to everyone. Naturally, that is so very
hard to lose. But because they are the incredible parents
that they are, they've taken their heartbreak and turned it
into hope for those experiencing homelessness in Kent and Ottawa County.
Be a Ruby was established back in twenty twenty one,
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providing monthly giveaways of food and clothes to people experiencing homelessness.
In fact, last year, the nonprofit helped about six hundred
people every single month. The organization well known for its
signature pink trailer and pink bags used in distribution. Ruby's
favorite color is all about her central attitude, be kind, love,
(07:48):
beg Harry sat down with Fox seventeen, and he said,
while this is tough, it is healing.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
There's not a lot of joy that can come out
of our scenario. But to know that the her and
remembering her is there, it just it heals a little bit.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
We get people that jump for joy down there, We
get people that dance, we get people that just absolutely
love it. And to see that and to know that
Ruby is a reason for this, it's just, you know,
it just fills your heart with joy.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh can you imagine just being an incredible parent like that?
You can also be a part of this. They've got
a big fundraiser dinner coming up in April, so if
you want to check out some details, go ahead and
like be a Ruby on Facebook because they're doing really
powerful work and honor their daughter.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Be kind love big yeah, per Ruby, be you know,
simple and yet very poignant.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
And on Bord movies, music and all the gossip in
one place.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It's the Celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well an update to the story I had in scoop. Yesterday,
Attorney General Pam Bondi promised a first release of documents
surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein case and we got it yesterday
and it's meh. The release of the files related to
the financier did list some big names, including President Donald Trump.
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Flight logs did find Trump's name a total of seven times,
along with his then wife Marla Maples, their daughter at
the time, a nanny, and a few other members of
the family, but again that does not mean any wrongdoing.
Other big names in what the AG is calling phase
one of the release include Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Alec Baldwin,
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Naomi Campbell, Courtney Love, Tony Blair, and Ethel Kennedy, who
is the mom of Robert F. Kennedy Junior. There's some
other interesting parts of this though. There were more than
two hundred names on a list titled massuses that was
entirely redacted. In an interview with Fox News, ag Bondi
(09:59):
said she is demanding that the FBI release everything immediately,
in fact giving them a deadline of eight am this morning,
so we'll see if we learn some more.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I mean, it's odd now because I feel like we
have just changed over all the department heads of all
these different places. So can't she just call her guy
cash but tell the new FBI director and be like, hey,
make this happen, release all.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It sounds like he is on board for that, and
I know that there were a couple of interviews yesterday
with lawyers for victims of Epstein that also do support
this because they feel that there are big names on
this list that are still getting away with behavior that
is illegal. However, they are trying to play it safe
where the victims are not named. So it's going to
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take a lot of time with how much document that
they have to make sure that the info we want
and need to see gets out while not completely upturning
once again victims' lives. So I will keep you updated
on that. It'll be quite a while before we get
the full story on actor Gene Hackman, his wife Betsy,
and their dogs. Very suspicious death because even with the
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initial autopsy, there are a lot of questions and investigators
are saying the final report could take weeks. We did
get the release of the nine one one call yesterday.
This is the caretaker calling paramedics and you can tell
finding these bodies was super emotional for him.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Down at the house.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
I'll meet you over there. I'll meet him over there.
I'm the care care for the subdivision on them being
him up here. Okay, give me one. I go to
meet with the paramedic.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, yeah, very emotional.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
The new Mexico Emmy off Emmy's office says it's going
to take four to six weeks for toxicology and other
tests to come back. This is what's very puzzling. Betsy
was apparently found in the bathroom along with a space
heater and a ton of pills. She had apparently been
deceased for quite a while. Her body was in a
state of dcom and they had noticed mummification had already
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started on her hands and feet. Was interesting. The one
dog was dead, but two other dogs were alive. One
was outside, one was inside. They do not believe this
had anything to do with carbon monoxide poisoning. So they
definitely have more questions than answers right now and are
saying six to eight weeks before we might understand what
went down.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
That's interesting, and you know, by all means, take the time,
get the results you need. Why is it though, that
sometimes it feels like they can get those toxicology reports
in like twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I think it's all different kinds of things you're looking for. Yeah, Finally,
Zendaya's got her first big job in the animated world.
She's joining the cast of Shrek five. This is really
fun news, taking on the role of Shrek and Fiona's
daughter Felicia in the beloved animated series. Universal has already
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teased her appearance with a sneak peak that we got yesterday.
She looks very gen z as an ogre. I will
tell you that Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz are back
as Shrek and Fiona. Eddie Murphy is back as Donkey,
and I thought this was really cool. Zendea kind of
manifested this. She actually was in an interview back in
twenty seventeen and then posted about how she quote watched
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Shrek way too much as an adult, and now she's
going to be part of the franchise. So Shrek five
does not hit theaters until December twenty third of twenty
twenty six, so we have a little more than a
year and a half to wait and see it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
She was, like, by the way, like five years old
when the first truck.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It makes sense, she's a child, all right, all of
your celebscu but West Michigan start.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Off the good morning too, Up it's going great so far.
It's Mack and Schmidty hanging out. And you know, I
noticed when I pulled in this morning that you were
driving the Ram.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That you were giving Chris's truck. You're driving to.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Dodge today, and I'm actually, I don't forget.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Ram the ram. Ram gotta get my Ziggler friends a
heads out there.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I don't think I have ever seen you drive for
the truck.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh occasionally I do, yeah, usually when Chris is doing
things for my car, which is what's happening today because
I got to go get my tire figs. I had
the worst, the worst afternoon yesterday, the worst. I've never
in my life had a flat tire on my car.
Never happened to me. I will tell you that I
know how to change a tire like my dad taught me.
(14:19):
Chris has gone over it with me. But really, if
you've ever tried to do that, I could not change
a tire. I don't have the strength for it, especially
you know on the car I'm driving.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Did you try standing? Did you try standing?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Because I'm not going to do it on the side
of an expressway. So yesterday is the nightmare. And if
you follow me, on social media. At Schmidt in the MIT,
I did two hours of commentary on this. So I
picked Sophia up from preschool yesterday at like twelve thirty,
and it's important to know exactly where this happened. I
pick her up. She goes to school right off of
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Plainfield in gr So I get on the Plane Field
entrance ramp to ninety six westbound. I can connect to
one thirty one north and home to Rockford.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I don't know what I ran over. It must have
been as I was turning on this entrance ramp, because
if it had happened five hundred feet sooner, I could
have pulled into like the Taco bell or a bank
or something. But all of a sudden, my tire pressure
light goes on and I hear a pop pop pop
pop pop, And I'm like, that's not just just slowly
kind of thing. My tire is done. I am on
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the side of ninety six westbound as people are speeding
past us, going anywhere from seventy to ninety. I have
Sophie in the car with me, and I'm like, oh
my gosh, what am I going to do? So I
get on my State Farm app and I request roadside
assistance that we have.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Did Jake just show up out of thin airline?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Well he did not. He did not. No, it was
pretty bad. So they were like, yep, got you, no worries.
State Farm answered right away and I got hooked up
with this company that was going to come and change
my flat for me. My first estimate was sixty to
ninety minutes that I'm going to be on this express
and I'm like, okay, I'm over as far as I can.
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I'm super nervous because I know if we get hit
by any one of these people were dead, they're going
that quick. And it's around a corner and I got
my flashes on. I'm trying to do everything I know
how to do, and my three year old's in the
back seat. I'm like, what am I going to do
to keep her occupied for an hour and a half.
Also worth pointing out, this is the only time in
about a year that Chris has had work up north
in Luddington, so he's not in town. I have no
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one to really call. So we're sitting there, we're doing
the thing, and it's like, okay, sixty to ninety minutes,
we'll do this, and then a state trooper pulls up.
He's like, hey, you guys all okay? Said yeah, we're
all right, just got a flat. He goes, okay, you
know what, we'll sit here with you put our flights
on because people are coming down the entrance ram pretty quick.
I said yeah, well, they had things to do. So
they were there for about four minutes and then they
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had to take off. And then I had a second
trooper and he just passed me because I assume at
this point they're radioing like this woman is a disaster.
That's the thought that So then I realized, and I've
called Chris. I called Chris eleven times throughout this saga.
I he's like, you're gonna need to get your spare,
and I go, where is my spare? He goes, well,
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it's in your trunk. Immediate color draining from my face.
Because if you've ever listened to the show, you follow
me on social media, I am a pack rat when
it comes to my car trunk.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
The twilight down, thanks, but they don't come out.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I have a sledge champagne flutes. There was a cast
iron skillet back there. So now now I'm on westbound
ninety six and I am pulling. I had five deck
chairs shone and Chris goes, I don't even know if
you're able to fit your stuff in the car, get
to pile it up on the side. Oh my goodness,
I'm weeping. I'm like, I don't know what to do.
(17:41):
And so we've been sitting here. At one point my
daughter found a sucker, so she was eating that. We
had sustenance. I'm we are sitting there. We're sitting there
for an hour and twenty minutes, and I get a
follow up text from this toe company, Hey, ninety six minutes. Oh,
so now I'm like, we are going to be here
for over three hours. I don't know if I'm going
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to even make it back to pick Will up from
school at this point, and I don't know what to do.
I can't move forward anymore because the next exit is
one thirty one, which felt more dangerous, and I don't
think my tire would have taken me that far. And
I am freaking out. I am sitting with stuff loaded
from my floor to my ceiling from my trunk so
that they could get the spare out. I have no
idea how long this person's gonna take. I know I
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have very limited time before Sophia is like freaking out.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Oh yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Was my fear.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
You're already on the side of the road.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
All of a sudden, you guys, you guys, And I
hope you've stuck around long enough to hear this. I
adore the Michigan Department of Transportation because I had no
idea that this was a program. This white van pulls
up and it is called the Safety Service Portal.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Oh yeah, And they pull up.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
And they angle their vehicle and put their little arrow on.
So people are moving around me and Kelly and Gavin
Angels on Earth come up to my window and they're like, hey, everybody, okay.
I said, yeah, everything's good. I've got a flat and
they said, you called I go. I just got an
updated text two minutes ago that it's going to be
another hour and a half plus. And they were like, okay,
no worries. We're with the Safety Service Portal. We're gonna
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change out tar. You're I was gone in five minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
He was like, don't even get out of your car.
Is your spear in the trunk? Do you mine popping
the trunk for me? I said, yeah, I could not
believe it's happening. They like jack my car up, they
switch it out, they do everything. They put my tire
back in the trunk so I can hopefully get it
patched today, and then hand me this little postcard and
they were like, hey, we're the Safety Service Portal. It's
a totally free service. We're tax funded, so if you
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could just fill out a survey to keep this going.
And I was like, yeah, that Kelly, I would like
to hug you, and I sent I put on I
put my feedback in last night and let me tell you.
The first sentence was, dear MT people, this is a
savior of a service, and please keep it funded. I
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don't know how they found me. I'm not sure if
like the troopers called into this.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
There is somebody who put a light into the sky,
and it was just.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Did you call us?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Are you not sure how we were contacted? So I
don't know if this is a service you can call.
But the Safety Service Portal with m DOT saved my
life yesterday and I am telling literally everyone because it
was such a wonderful. I canceled the toe company. I
was back home in time to get will and it's
it's all Gavin and Kelly and the gorgeous people at
the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Okay, like, first off, insanity, how relief? Oh how much
relief did you deal with that?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I mean, I cried.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So my question is did you tip them?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I asked if? I asked if I could, and the
guy laughed. I said, I'm dead serious. We know we
can't do that, like, we can't take that. And I
was like, all right, well, if you change your mind,
like I'm up in Rockford, you find me because you
have saved my life. It's just so often I think
we trash on m DoD because of construction and the
things they have to do. They were so incredible yesterday,
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Safety service Portal. I love you.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Are you going to do now I'm changing your tire?
Are you going to put this in like into like practice?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I ever wroutside assistance with your joy in distress, which
is why I adore and do.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Your chance right now to tell us what's going on
in your world, that dirt, that juicy gossip that you
got for us each and every Friday with tea time
six one six eight one oh five, cheven. I want
to hear from you with this week's one schmidte that
could make the workplace just a little bit awkward for
a night.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I would love to know, actually if this has ever
helped someone. It says, Hey, guys, I know you've talked
about this before on the show, but now it's happening
at my office. My co worker, who I'm also pretty
close friends with, accidentally got added to our team leader's
weekly email report this week. It listed to our top
five producers along with what they make. My coworker isn't
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mad about that, totally wants to anonymously release their salaries.
She thinks it helps the office. I think she'll get
fired if they find out who did it. Has anyone
had this happen and actually made your workplace better?
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
See? This one is kind of tricky because you know,
there's so much information that we don't have there. But
I'll just put it on the basic level of do
you want to know what all of your coworkers are making?
And should it be out there in transparent.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
It's weird because research says it's helpful and you should
be talking about this in the workplace.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
The thing I believe is that if you don't know
what it is, now that is going to be real uncomfortable,
with some hurt feelings and some anger at first, but
after all that subsides, it might ultimately become a good
thing that maybe evens the playing field a little bit.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, yeah, I posted this up on I posted this
on our Facebook last night and woke up this morning
to a talk back inside inside our iHeartRadio from Thomas.
And here's what I gotta say about this.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I say, no, that's going to cause ultimately dysfunction in
the workplace. I don't want people knowing how much money
I make. It's probably better off I don't know how
much money you make. I mean, it's just going to
cause problems. So I'm not I can't get behind that.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
That means Thomas makes a lot of money, you know,
That's what that means.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
And it kind of plays on the fact that we're
all hypocrites a little bit schmiddy like. The answer is this,
I don't want you to know what I make, but
I really want to know what you make.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Right.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Actually, I don't think I would mind if people here
knew what I made, because they'd probably take up a collection.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Gonna say they'd feel bad.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Six one, six, four five eight one oh five seven.
What do you think? Has have you ever worked in
a place where sharing salaries made things better? Give us
a call, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Tea time every Friday. You got some good use for us,
Go ahead and send it our way each and every
week at West Michigan, Star.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Movies, Music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Well a big announcement yesterday as pop superstar Katie Perry
and former New US anchor Laurence Sanchez, along with CBS
this Morning anchor Gail King, planned to blast off into
space on board the Blue Origin this spring. This is
record breaking. They are among the celebrities set to fly
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to space on the first all women crew since nineteen
sixty three. We got a chance to meet everyone that
will be a board, including NASA rocket scientist Ayisha Bau,
civil rights activist Amanda Winn, and film producer Carrie Anne Flynn.
This is Gail making the announcement yesterday on CBS.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
I just thought, what a unique opportunity, and then yesterday
I met the crew. Where now the crew we're all
on a text chain together and their stories are so amazing.
When Ayisha was told your dreams are too big, somebody
else was.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Told women don't go into one.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Mom said her son when he was a little boy,
and she said she was going to space. His kids
at school said, you're a liar, because moms don't go
to space. And now she's going. Somebody else is a
sexual assault survivor. Katie Perry is just she's a different
kind of dude. She comes from a totally different Planet's
been her lifelong dream. Lauren Sanchez we all know, you know,
she flies helicopter pilots. She's a philanthropist, she's an author.
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We know of course that she's engaged to Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
So all these.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
People this has been their dream. This was never my dream.
Somebody said, well, maybe you need to have new dreams.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Gaie.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah, so apparently this will plan to take off this spring.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
When I saw the headline Gail King and Katy Perry
going up, I was like, yes, why why are we
doing this? But you know what to hear that it's
in all women crew who are going out there and
some of those other women, so you know, deserving in
such interesting story needs for this. It's really awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
This would be very interesting to see Newly's Morning. FBI
director Cash Battel wants his organization to prepare their agents,
and he wants to do that by partnering with the UFC.
According to her report from Reuter's, Bettel suggested this idea
in a video conference the other day with supervisors. In
the call, he proposed a sty xablishing a formal relationship
(26:02):
with UFC CEO Dana White to fine tune agent's self
defense skills. Now, apparently a few agents, according to sources,
say this does seem a little wacky, but it could
definitely happen because if you weren't aware, Dana White has
been a big supporter and longtime personal friend of President
Donald Trump, So our agents could be getting in the ring.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Will it be a pay per view televised debate though?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Is that I'm entrepreneurs anyway to make some dough right. Finally,
I had to do this story because I saw this
piece of the podcast yesterday and I was absolutely sobbing.
You think you love your dog? Not as much as
comedian and author Chelsea Handler. She was not gonna lie
with Kylie Kelsey talking about the moment her dog Chunk Crest,
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and piece really showed his love.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Chunk was such a stud. Chunk Wentz jumped out of
a helicopter after me. I fell out of a helicopter
once by accident. I was tipsy at the time.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Boy'd on the ground.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
It was over the Hudson River, thankfully, so I fell
into the actual Hudson River. And I was making a
joke to my boyfriend at the time, and I stepped
out of the helicopter and I made this big gesture
and slipped fell off the helicopter in a peacoat and
knee high leather boots. And I was panicking because I
was like, you.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Know, it's so cold.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
It was November, and I'm hahah And I start swimming
and paddling in this big pea coat that I had,
and then my foot kicked the ground and I realized
I was only in two feet of water, swimming like
an hole. And then I look up and Chunk jumps
out of the helicopter after me into the Hudson River.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
That's true love.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
I mean when he did that, I was like, I'm
gonna marry a dog.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Is insane story.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I just like that t was struggling in the two
feet of water. There's nothing better than seeing someone who's
just kind of panicking and you guy, yeah, just stand up.
It's gonna be okay.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I don't think my dogs are jumping out of anything
for me. Check it out full interview with your scoop
at West Michigan.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Star dot com Chrismack and Spitty and it is time
to battle for your friend Morning Battle of the Sexist Time.
Look at it gets you to Monster Jam next weekend
rollingto Van Angelarena and you've got a chance at your
family's tickets for right now.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Give us today's number one answer that scores you the tickets.
One hundred men surveyed, Name something that works by spinning?
And I'm not sure why. I immediately went to my
crippling anxiety. I'm so spin have a good spiral.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I was thinking like a merry go round without the
go round part. It's you know, you're just standing there
and not very merry.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
No, all right? Six one six four five A one
oh five seven. One hundred men surveyed, Name something that
works by spinning? Number one answer, and your family is
headed to Monster Jam with Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Good morning Star. Who's this, hey, David? Where you call it?
From This morning man, David, let's get you hooked up
with Monster jam tickets. You just got to tell me.
When one hundred dudes were asked to name something that
works by spinning, what do you think they're top end or?
Was there, David? A windmill? Yeah, that's a great guess. However,
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not on the list of these top answers. I'm sorry, David,
Hi Star, who's this Sarah? We just got a great
guest from David. When one hundred guys were asked to
name something that works by spinning, David actually said a
great answer, which was a windmill. Yeah, I gotta have
that thing spinning if you want to work in However,
(29:26):
that was not on the list here. So what do
you think the top answer is? Uh? Ooh, a dradel
like a dradl or a top Yeah, top is the
number four most common answer.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
All right, thank you, You're very welcome.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I have a great day. Hi Star, who's this?
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
What's on Mac?
Speaker 6 (29:43):
This Thomas from Grand Rapids.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Hey, Thomas, I've got a couple of good guesses, but
not the top answer yet. So you got a chance here, sir,
You just got to tell me. But one hundred guys
were asked to name something that works by spinning. So far,
I've heard a top a dradl That was the number
one most common answer, and I heard a windmill. Definitely
a good guess, but was not on the list of
top answers. So would what do you think of?
Speaker 6 (30:04):
Okay, what about a hoop?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Hula hoop? Yeah, you gotta spin around those hips. But
now hula hoop is not on here, Thomas, I'm sorry,
all right, Thank you guys, thank you, Hi Star. Who's this? Hello? Hello?
Who's this?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
This is Amber?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Amber. I've gotten good guesses, but still haven't got the
top answer. One hundred guys were asked to name something
that works by spinning. I have heard wind mills, I
have heard just a moment ago, I heard a hula hoop,
and I also heard tops on there too. Tops was
the number four answer, but nobody's given it to me yet.
So what do you think it is? Amber?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
The wheel?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
The wheels? Yeah, I can't actually believe it took what
four guesses to get the thing that spins right underneath
most of the people who are listening to this right now.
Wheels is the top answer. Way to go?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Are you periods? We called yesterday and my daughter Sadie,
but you're pronounced it Katie. Sadi guests the number two
answer yesterday, and we've been calling since November.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Decided to win something.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
This is so cool.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Heck yes, congratulations guys. Well, I love that your persistence
paid off. What's your daughter's name, Badie? Sadie. I'm sorry
I called you Katie, but I'm glad that I got
you Monster Jam tickets. It seems like a fair trade.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
We say say, hi, Hi, Sadie.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Are you off to school? Ye? Yep.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
We call every morning on our way to school. We're
in Meskegan.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I love it. Well, I'm so glad we could get
you guys hooked up. Have a blast today at school, Sadie,
but even more importantly, have a blasted Monster Jam next week.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Oh my god, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
You are so welcome. We'll do it again next week too,
more chances to win right here on startar five point seven,
starting a five point seven feel good variety of the
eighties till now. Thanks for hanging out on your Friday morning.
And maybe there's a solution for the egg crisis if
you think outside of the box, or I guess outside
of the coop in this case, schmitty, because I was
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literally yesterday was the first time in my life this
had ever been put in front of me. I did
not know you can rent backyard chickens.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
So I have a friend of mine she has been
raising backyard chickens with her girls for I think going
on four years now. Yeah, and she rents them out.
She reads, she started a couple months ago when this
egg crisis began.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
When I first heard it in my head, I thought, like,
you know, I go to a farm and I say,
those two chickens are mine. I want to rent them
and take their eggs. And I'm thinking, like, you do
all the work and I take the eggs. But no,
it is literally you get a book on how to
raise chickens, all the materials you need to build your coop,
everything with this that you would need to raise your chickens,
and you literally take them home with you. You go
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rent your own chickens.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
She like helps people like build their coops. She makes
sure that it's going to be like a you know,
good humane system. But oh yeah, it's been very lucrative,
she said.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
This woman goes by homestead heather and if you're interested
in that it's rent at the chicken dot com. I'm
not even getting rented chicken dot com. Really interesting, but Shinney,
this got me down a rabbit hole of interesting things
you can rent, and these are some odd ones in here.
For sure. You can rent wedding guests, bride bridesmaids for
hire dot com. You can rent people to be standing
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party you don't have friends, well kind of like if
you need guests to fill up one side of an aisle, maybe,
like the groom's got a bunch of buddies, but the
brides more of a loner. Like you can even thinks
out that way. Uh how you can rent, of course goats,
but not for the reason you think we're not doing
yoga for targeted grazing.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Oh yep, had a buddy do that too, targeted grazes,
solar panel fields, they do that.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Oh, interesting line sitters. I have always thought that, you know,
back in the day, especially where we had to go
and get uh you know, in line to get some ticket,
that you really wanted to pay somebody to stand there
for hours on end for you, that's kind of genius.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
We've looked at swimply. You can actually rent oh the backyard.
You know, are just two very different people. I clearly
can't afford anything, so I know literally every item you
can rent in the world. Okay, well, then here's one
was shocking to me.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
This one shocked me. Shmidi because I think I want
to use it, if for no other reason than just
to separate myself from anger. You can rent someone to
apologize for you. You can rent an apologist if you
need to, which sometimes they will quit for you. See,
that's not I don't see that part. I want to
do myself. I want to take my showing apologizing to
(34:33):
my wife through a third party when I've done something
that's really got me in the doghouse. I don't know
that it would actually do much good for me. That's
not a help, but I really wouldn't I wouldn't mind
not having to see her face. Yeah, well I'm making
the apology. That's pretty awesome. What is the strangest thing
you've ever rented before? Hit us up on Facebook and
Instagram at West Michigan Star sometime because I get a
(34:59):
good bee no little five point seven. It's Mack and
Schmidia and we always tell you it's just easier to
feel good on a Friday. But it's really easy when
you know you've got one of the coolest things that
happens every springtime here in West Michigan to look forward
to and for the very first time tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, so this is a really beautiful Friday because tomorrow
the butterflies officially bloom at Frederick Meyer Gardens. John vander
Hagen actually in studio feeling good today with us, and
this is one of our favorite things every year, and
you guys are so.
Speaker 8 (35:29):
Ready, Yeah, we are, and same for me. You know,
it's a sure sign of spring. When West Michigan gets
a little gray, little cold, you know, it's really the
sign that things are starting to warm up and spring
is almost here. So we are thrilled to be able
to launch the thirtieth fred and Dorothy Victor. Butterflies are
blooming at Meyer Gardens.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
The thirtieth year of this, which is so cool. Now.
I know, some of our friends and me got to
your little sneak peak yesterday and all each of them
kept telling me was that the butterflies are out and
they are super active, and that they couldn't stop them
from like land all over them. We spoke with Brandu
shaid and landed on her microphone. People were having such
a good time. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 8 (36:05):
You know, we kind of ramp up so that the
first two weeks of February we're getting things ready, so
that tomorrow March first, the official launch, we are full
of butterflies. There will be hundreds flying around, in thousands
throughout the course of the exhibition. So just a truly
unique thing to see all these tropical butterflies in a
place where they're not going to be gathered together anywhere
(36:26):
else in the world. In the beauty of the humid,
the warm being and myotropic conservatory. So on days like
this where it's maybe forty degrees gray outside, it's just
a true true staycation and a great place to get
a glimpse of the tropics.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
I love what you said. Nowhere else in the world
will all these butterflies be together like this. How many
species are we talking?
Speaker 8 (36:45):
Yeah, So each year we have a list, kind of
a wish list, so some of it depends on what
our suppliers can give us, but we've got around sixty
different species, so again groupings that you'll never see together.
These are non native species, so that's why we have
kind of that airlock system when you come in go
because these are non native to Michigan, so a great
way to see these things up close that you might
have to travel to Africa or Europe or Asia to
(37:08):
see in the wild.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
You know. And if you mentioned it, if you're sticking
around here for spring break, you but you need a
little eighties in humidity.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
It's a great way to pretend you are lying on
a beach somewhere. We've got the sound of the of
the waterfall behind us. Again, it's eighty five or so
degrees in there. It's eighty percent humidity. So you'll come
out of their sweating feeling like you just got off vacation.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
So John Vanderhagen is the director of communications for Frederick
Meyer Gardens and this is a bonus feeling good because
you guys deserve another congratulations.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
I've heard a year in a row number one sculpture
park in America.
Speaker 8 (37:40):
Yeah, you know, just tremendous. We really appreciate the sport
of the community for that. It's a great honor to
be recognized even on the list from USA Today and
then they turn it over to us for to get
some votes from the community. So third year in a row,
like you mentioned, just tremendous support from folks who come
out and enjoy Meyer Gardens. So we are very proud
of this award.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
All right. I can't let you get out of here
without asking you this because we get asked about it
all the time. Everybody gets so excited. I know what's coming,
The Frederick Meyer Garden Summer Concert Series will return. When
do you think we're going to start here?
Speaker 8 (38:12):
In some of the groups and accius, Yeah, So we
are deep into planning on that. It's been an interesting
kind of shift. Usually we would wait until the new
year start throwing out offers, but this has really become
a year round planning process now. So we were in
conversations even at the tail end of last season. But
we are targeting an April tenth release for our lineup announcement.
Putting together the final details now and we'll have another
(38:34):
thirty to thirty five great shows to announce here in
mid April. Tickets go on sale to members of Frederick
Meyer Gardens and Sculpture Park on April nineteenth, and then
the public a week later. So coming it's right around
the corner in the middle of Butterflies. We'll be talking
concerts and I'd love to come back and give you,
guys the first first sneak peek of that lineup a
couple of.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Days after my birthday. So thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
You're happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
That's such a gift.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah, she's the Angle.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
No, I do love that series.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
You know that we will have your tickets for those
summer concerts all season long. But can't tell you enough.
Get out and go and enjoy the thirtieth annual Butterflies
are blooming right now at Frederick Meyer Gardens. John Weger
Evander Hagen, director of Communications over there, thanks so much
for joining us, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 8 (39:15):
Always a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Guys, Mack and Schmidty in the morning weekdays, starting at
six am on Star one oh five point seven
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