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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Wakem It gets my day going and makes me laugh
of it.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Mac and Schmitty in the morning on Star one O
five point seven.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Good morning, Schmitty. Oh, happy Friday, Happy happy Friday to you.
And coming off of the first day of the Mad
News the NCAA tournament going on, Schmitty, I am sitting
basically tied with a whole bunch of people from our
office workplace right now. But we're doing pretty good. Oh yeah,
that's so shabby. I was a little disappointed in the
basketball yesterday because it was all blowouts. There wasn't a
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lot of close games yesterday. It was a little bit
of a bummer. The best game, of course, it looked like,
was the Michigan game that I couldn't stay awake for.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Man, I don't think I watched a second of basketball yesterday.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Really, I left here.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I had a meeting, a meeting, an appointment, an event
downtown Grand Rapids Rise game. I don't think I saw
a second of basketball yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
The world just gives you what needs to give you,
an apology that I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It was a late night for me last night with
our rise at Van anddel But honestly, I gotta say,
best crowd of the season so far.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
I don't know if it was just.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
That there were a ton of kids there that got
to stay up away past bedtime, but it was absolutely
electric inside that arena last night.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
It was a good time.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
If you guys haven't gotten a chance to go check
out the Rise yet, you gotta do it. It's an
absolute blast of an atmosphere. The games move along at
such a good pace. It's so much fun to be
there at Vanadelerna watching it you know what and hanging
out and hearing the familiar voice at miss Video. There
isn't so bad.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It was a good time movies, music, and all the
gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Well, Kanye West's meltdowns on X could mean legal action
against at least one couple that he has targeted. That is,
Beyonce and jay Z reportedly considering taking this to court
after Kanye's very disturbing social media posts the other day
about their twins Roomy and Sir. If you didn't see these,
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Kanye used extremely offensive language to question the mental capacities
of their seven year old kids, talking.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
About how we don't really.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
See them very often because Blue tends to be out
with her parents quite a bit, while we haven't seen
the twins a whole ton. Now By and Jay are
discussing whether they want this to be privately or publicly handled.
They have not spoken publicly about this, but it is
really causing some serious problems. Kim, in fact, has said
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that she is appalled by the post, especially that he
would use that kind of language about anyone, let alone
when it comes to children, who most of Hollywood agrees
is off limits.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Now.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
As for Beyonce's mom, Tina, she's kind of speaking out
on this. She have done her Instagram with what a
lot of fans think was kind of a veiled shot
at Kanye.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Got a quartey Joe want to hear here go?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
So what happens when a snowman throws a tanjum?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
He has a mountain down? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
No best way?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, she writes in the caption. It's hard to remain
positive and classy in the face of ignorance and evil,
but I know that no weapon formed against me or
my family shall prosper.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I mean, the one thing that Kanye has been consistent
about is the kids in his life being a very
important important thing to him. So to think that you're
going to talk about somebody else's kids and they're not
going to respond, they're not going to react, or that
it's okay, seems so ridiculous to me to say.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I think I'd agree with that months ago. But I'm sorry,
you're putting you daughter on a track with Diddy. I
don't even know if he cares about his own kids anymore.
I want to agree, all right. UFC fighter Connor McGregor
has solidified his bid for Ireland's presidency. Yeah, the announcement
came yesterday. They promise to preserve his native country by
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tackling migration. This came days after meeting with President Trump
at the White House. By the way, I think that's
what they call immigration. McGregor has decided to campaign as
a leader in opposition to the European Migration Pact. He
wrote on x the next presidential election must take place
by November eleventh. Who else will stand up to government
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and oppose this bill? Any other presidential candidate that they
attempt to put forward will be of no resistance to them.
I will, he said, For clarity, he would put forth
a bill as referendum. He greatly opposes the pact and
says it is the people of Ireland's choice. He also
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had several photo opportunities with him and his child in
front of like a big plane of some kind. I
would assume it's like the Air Force one of Ireland.
But very interesting calls himself the only logical choice.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I mean, you know, he made money fighting people and
with Whiskey show, it feels like a very Irish stereotype
right on the nose.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Finally, have you ever wondered how many gorgeous gowns Vana
White has worn throughout her Wheel of Fortune career, Well
it might stun you. She was on the Drew Barrymore
Show yesterday talking about dressing down while she's at home.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Because we get dressed up to work. That's the last
thing we want to do when we're at home.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
But you're always like, I mean those gowns that you wear.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I have so amade worn over eight thousand gowns.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I don't get to keep them, but they do.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Let me borrow them, like for event, Yes.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Miammis or whatever.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Sanna said that she's worn eight thousand gowns.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That is over eight thousand.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Gown eight thousand.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It was a really cool segment by the way, she
was on with her son doing a cooking feature. But
that's pretty wild. I don't think I would have ever
guessed that number. I have never thought about it before.
But that is a rediculous amount of gowns. I think
it's insane to think. You like no repeats, right, no
television repeats. You can rerun an episode, but not a gown. Hey,
all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Sometimes because I get a good feeling.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, let's dive into feeling good right now, I'm starting,
oh five point seven. Put a little positivity out there,
and that's what this group has been doing for quite
some time now. Laurie's Voice, the West Michigan nonprofit out
of Ottawa County, added again as they gave away a
new wheelchair accessible van yesterday at Clock Mobility in Grand Rapids.
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It was eleven year old Vivian Gray who was there
to get a new set of wheels. Vivian's got brain
cancer and cerebral palsy along with visual and hearing impairments,
but the van means independence for her as well as
convenience for her family as they continue to deal with
the challenges as she grows. Vivian's dad speaking to Fox
seventeen about how appreciative, appreciative he is, but also so
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just how proud of his daughter he is. I couldnot
be more thrilled or more proud of everything she's been
able to accomplish. She not only is a miracle, but
she's the inspiration she has.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
She has the strength, courage and determination to be any
obstacle in her way, and she's proven that time and
time again.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And I could not be more proud of you. I mean,
just beautiful right there. The gift fully Equipped vehicle is
a continuation of a program they started back in twenty
twenty one to give free vans to families with kids
with special needs, but the organization actually founded fourteen years ago,
back in twenty eleven. It has helped hundreds of family
covering the cost of specialized medical equipment, vehicles, of course, therapies,
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home renovations, and many more things that are not covered
typically by insurance. They've given over three million dollars to
such families and served over seven hundred kids. Laurie's Voice
one of the good ones.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Out there and Laurie are two of the most fantastic
humans you will ever get the pleasure of meeting.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
I just adore them.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It might sound like a nightmare to most of us
parents getting separated from your kid on a flight, but
for Kayleeka Miller on TikTok, it turned out to be
her son's greatest flight ever. She posted to TikTok, my
son and I got separated and it turned out to
be his most favorite thing.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Cute video. Hear that? Get it? Get it?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Yeah, that's because her son ended up getting stuck between
two grandpas that played endless games including Rock paper scissors,
even helped him fill out his NC double A tournament bracket.
She says they left the flight best friends. He won
a two dollars bill and said he already misses them.
They got contact in phone, everything to stay in touch.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
A great now we Go video, lifelong airplane talkery, go
feeling good, coming Agie couple times a day. Always here
for a pick me up. Let's do it again today
at nine twenty.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It's the celebrities goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Oh boy, I'll go quick because what else is new.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Blake Lively, following the same game plan as her husband
Ryan Reynolds, officially asking a judge yesterday to cut her
out of Justin Baldoni's lawsuit. She filed the motion to
fully dismiss the suit, saying Justin is actually violating the
law by filing his lawsuit against her at all. It's
being done for revenge. She says that Baldoni only filed
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his defamation suit against her, Ryan and her publicist after
Blake filed her lawsuit alleging he had sexually harassed her
on the set of It Ends with Us and then
launched a smear campaign when she reported the alleged abuse
to the studio. Blake is saying under California law, Justin
is barred from suing her based on her accusing him
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of that harassment, which is why she wants the judge
to dismiss the suit against her.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Well.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Just hours later, Ryan Friedman, Valdoni's attorney, said Miss Lively's
recent motion to dismiss herself from the self concocted disaster
she initiated is one of the most abhorrent examples of
abusing our legal system. Friedman went on to say there
are stringent rules put into place to protect the innocent
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and allow individuals to rightly defend themselves. He says laws
are not meant to be twisted and curated by privileged
elites to fit their own personal egence.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
OO calling them privileged elites.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Is a fund big words, right. I thought this was
jaw dropping yesterday. Apple the company is losing more than
one billion dollars a year on their streaming service, Apple
tv Plus. According to a new report, the tech giant
has spent over five billion dollars a year on content
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since launching Apple tv Plus back in twenty nineteen. They
did trim that budget by about five hundred million last year,
but they still saw record breaking losses, a loss of
three one hundred and ninety one billion in fiscal year.
They're trying to absorb some of those losses. They say
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they're making slow but steady progress. They've got big hits
like The Morning Show. We know we're getting a fourth
season of ted Lasso. They also talk about shrinking and severance. However,
that all takes very big star power. They said that
they did have two million add additional subscribers in February,
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but it's just not helping them actually make money, and
rumor is that shareholders are not super stoked about this.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I'm just curious whether or not, Like you know, it
does help them sell phones and computers and all the
other stuff that they sell to with so many fingers
at different.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Piles, so a billion dollars worth, it is a big number.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Yes, finally, I am so excited.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
This is one of mine and my kid's most favorite
Disney movies.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Um, We're getting the zame all.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Disney and Pixar made the joint announcement yesterday on Instagram,
Coco Too is officially in the works. We are gonna
see more from the rivera family seven years. It's been
since Coco came out and had us a whole crying
at that remember Me scene.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
This is a big deal.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
While Disney Company CEO Bob Iger also making the announcement
at the company's annual shareholders meeting, saying, while the film
is just in the initial stages, we know it will
be full of humor, heart and adventure and we can't
wait to share more soon.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Honestly, I want to be excited about this, but I'm
not because I felt like Coco, what's that perfect movie?
And they're gonna go and it is.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
They're not gonna ruin it. I think it's gonna be
incredible music. I think they're gonna find such a wonderful storyline.
Coco is easily a top five for me. I love
this movie. You can see some of the rumored plotlines
with your scoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Come on in to you. It's Mack and SCHMITTI and
you know, I saw this article in this restaurant over
at the East Sad Schmitty, and I'm glad you're bringing
it up because this is really interesting.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
What would you do if you could have a date
night at a restaurant that provided childcare.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
I was so stunned.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
And I've been to this place because one of my
best friends actually lives in Utica. This is a suburb
right outside of Detroit and it's called host Utica. Michael
Evecove is the owner, and he came up with this
pno idea.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
That's what they do.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
They call it pinot Tuesday through Thursday, they offer childcare.
You can literally walk in. It's eight bucks for the
first hour and a half. Okay, if you want to
stay longer, they turn do you three dollars for every extra
half hour. It's open to kids who can sit up
on their own to the age of twelve. All they
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say is to call a day in advance to make
the reservation. They are CPR certified childcare professionals that work
on the second floor. They've got games you can play
for older kids, doodle pads, arts and crafts. I mean,
this seems absolutely incredible. The door is locked, so everything's secure.
There's security cameras everywhere. All they ask is that you
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leave a photo ID. You cannot leave the premises, but
otherwise they will watch your kids while you are on
date night and it's really cool. Michael actually talked with
ABC seven about this, and he said, there's so many
people that struggle because they lose connection after they have kids.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And the most humbling bands, like people come in and like,
we haven't.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Been on a date since we had kids.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
The divorce rare. It's fifty to fifty in the US
right now.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
And if I can help lower that a little bit
by low impairs they have a date and not like
be disconnected over the youth of their children, then you know,
that's what I can only hope for.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Isn't that such a good idea.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I'll be honest, it's ripe for abuse. I'm over here
saying to myself like, oh guys, yo, maybe I go
in for the lunch rush. And I'm just like, you
know what, I think, I'm just gonna work from here
for the next six hours. That'll only cost me like
forty bugs. It's cheaper than a babysitter, right, that's okay?
And oh yeah, I got free refills the whole time too.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Well, like you don't because you're you're not gonna have
a beer, You're not gonna have an appetizer, you're not
gonna have a dessert. I mean, I think it's I
think it is such an incredible idea. When they were
talking to parents around the Detroit area, there are people
that drive like an hour to this restaurant, an hour
plus to have a date night with their spouse and
have their kids watch.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I do think it's genius because my wife and I
talked about you know, and you're living this world right
now because you still got a really real young one
is just not being able to ever go out without
spending like a couple hundred dollars like a movie and
dinner becomes like you're going out. You're spending eighty bucks
on dinner, and then you go to a movie and
you're spending another sixty bucks, and then you're spending another
sixty bucks on the babysitter. Before you know it, you
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went to dinner, in a movie and spend two hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Please tell me what babysitter you have for sixty bucks
right right right there way, I'm telling you these days,
you want a couple hours out and you are well
over a one hundred at least for a sitter for
two kids. I mean, it's it's really I think what
stops a lot of couples? Yeah, and eight bucks plus
three bucks per half hour, and I'm gonna put all
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that savings into your business.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Michael, I am.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
I just think this is so cool and I don't
really see a downside to it. I don't know if
anybody's ever had experience where they found a restaurant like this.
But I'm also thinking, like, man, this is I'm being
a really good parent because I'm giving my children social interaction,
which is so important to development.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Maybe I want to open up my restaurant right next
to a trampoline park and do for like a two
for one sort of special guard cool.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I don't know if there's other restaurants that are doing this.
If you've heard of one, or you've gone and done
something like this, I would love to hear about it.
Six one six, four five eight one oh five seven
Date night at a restaurant outside Detroit was built in childcare.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Okay, so I'm tipping the server for sure, But what
about the babysitter? Do I gotta tip the babysitters? All right?
All right?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Anyone that puts up with my aris daughter is getting
tipped as much as I possibly can. By the way,
I'll post this story to our Facebook so you can
check it out at West Michigan Star.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Package Schmidty in the morning on Star one oh five
point seven.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Tea time, Spill and Sea take Time.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Let's bill the two sweete Let's do this Friday means
another tea time, your opportunity to tell us about the
juicy gasp going on in your life? All right, what's
happening to schimiddy?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You know, we got this message and I'm surprised it's
our first time hearing about this because I can see
how it would go very sideways if your office does
a hypothetical MC double a bracket. Okay, I got the message.
It's bracket time. My office is obviously doing one for
all my coworkers, but we have a certain gentleman in
the office that loves to be the one in charge
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of organizing it, and my coworkers think he's been cheating,
keeping some money for himself not paying out the first, second,
and third place accordingly. But with so many of us
in the office, it's hard to prove.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Hi, this person that sent me the message happen to
know he does keep a bit of the money for
himself as a kind of service fee for running the bracket.
People are now refusing to pay their way in until
someone else takes over. Do I narc I also don't
want to get fired, and I feel like once this
blows up, corporate is going to have something less than
ideal to say. By the way, I'm not even a
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part of this thing.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
H You know, so you said you're not sure what
you would do. I think this is such an easy
one because the answer is already in a statement that
she asked, Do I nark, No, you have nothing to
do with it. Just keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Really yes, because aren't they technically.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Illegal exactly, which is why you who are not participating
that and doesn't have anything to do with it, knows
about it.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
So then as soon as they do figure it out,
and that person goes, oh, well they knew too, and
you're fired.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
All right? All right? What do you guys think?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Six one six, four five eight one oh five seven?
Because I got to tell you I'm very sketched out.
Tony is on our Facebook. He thinks you've got to
disclose it, he said. Golf league secretaries often get their
golf for free, kind of the same thing, but it
needs to be disclosed to everyone before the event. Then
they can decide to participate or not. I know who
we work with, and there ain't nobody disclosing them.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
You know what I've heard from Tony there. I'm like,
wait a second, if I'm the secretary for a golf laber,
I could play for free.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Any tea time that I want.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I think it's really interesting.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I dig get a message from Ashley who is listening
en Byron Center, and she I agree.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Whether to nark or not to knarc.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
I'm gonna say nark.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
You know like we need to could keep the level
of integrity throughout the office and whether it's a competition
and there's something that has to do with the business.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
But come on, h r, dude, See Ashley like me
is a goody two shoes and we're afraid of authority.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I just like how she put in so Shakespeare into.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Or girl you tell so that you don't lose your job?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
What do you think six one, six four or five
eight one oh five seven? We've got bracket drama in
the office, and I don't know if your job's on
the line for it.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
It could get sketchy de time.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I meant it. Every Friday. You got some good drama
going on in your life, make sure you hit this
up at West Michigan Star.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Movies, Music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Well, it is another legal bombshell that the University of
Michigan football program is facing as a former U of
M football coach Matthew Weiss is facing twenty four criminal
charges for alleged identity theft. The Attorney's Office for the
Eastern District of Michigan announced the charges yesterday. The forty
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two year old was the co offensive coordinator and quarterback
coach for the Wolverines. Fired back in January of twenty
twenty three, after the federal investigation was first opened. So
prosecutors say, Weise gained unauthorized access to student athlete databases
of more than one hundred colleges and universities that were
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maintained by a third party vendor. That's how he was
able to do it, and then downloaded personal info and
medical data of more than one hundred and fifty thousand
athletes from there. Why he was allegedly downloaded personal intimate
digital photographs and videos that were never intended to be
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shared beyond intimate partners. This is really horrific stuff. He
was able to obtain access to social media, email, cloud
storage accounts of more than two thousand targeted athletes leads.
He is facing fourteen counts of unauthorized access to computers
ten counts of aggravated identity theft. If convicted, he faces
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a maximum of five years in prison on each count.
Weiss worked for more than a decade as an assistant
coach with the Baltimore Ravens before he was hired by
Jim Harbaugh in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I mean, absolutely gross stuff with this guy was doing.
And you know, you hope that the victims or whatever
at least feel like, hey, the guy is responding, got caught,
is going to be held responsible, and hopefully they were
able to contain that data and that info it's so.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Sensitive and hopefully nobody was covering this up. Yeah, I mean,
my gosh, Kelly Clarkson is sparking some concern with a
very cryptic comment she made after finally returning to her
talk show, The forty two year old getting emotional on
the one thousandth episode. Quite a milestone after missing the
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last ten episodes due to a quote unquote private matter.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
For one thousand episodes, we have laughed together. We have
cried together with beautiful stories, sang together with some people,
dance together, celebrated and competed together. I've lost alone a lot,
and along it's okay. And along the way we found
comfort in one another. And looking back, we are all
incredibly proud of what we built and the community we've created.
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I'm super proud of my whole crew.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
My band, everybody has been such an incredible job.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
It was a really moving moment, but fans are noticing.
She also reflected on her own life, personal matters she's
been dealing with lately, admitting I've had a lot of
ups and a lot of downs personally. She talks about
some issues that she's had within family and overall.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
I've watched the video, people think she.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Just seems very downtrodden and sad. You know, for a
thousandth episode, I think people were expecting her to be
super Kelly Clark's and hype, and again we're not sure
what that private matter was.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
She does seem a little a little down.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It sounded even like she was just kind of going
through the motions for like, yeah, a thousand episodes, pretty
wild thing, right right.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I do have the video for you at West Michigan
Star dot com. Finally, Danny McBride could be in for
quite a gross surprise. The Righteous Gemstones a huge hit
on HBO.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
He's a part of the cast.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Adam Devine, John Goodman, Well Peta is getting involved. The
organization is threatening to send McBride fake monkey business after
spotting what they claim is a real capuchin monkey in
the show's trailer. They claim they've been firing off emails
to McBride's reps as well as HBO bosses, demanding Primates
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be left completely out of the show, but haven't heard back,
so the animal rights group says they're going to watch
the upcoming episode on Sunday and if a live monkey appears,
they are mailing the pile of fake duty straight to
McBride's production company's front tour.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Do they not know who Danny McBride is? Do they
not understand that Kenny Powers is going to welcome that
package and think it's hilarious like a.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Picture of what they's it's a lot.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
You can go ahead and uh maybe not look at
that over your breakfast your celeb scoop at West Michigan.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
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crew over to our Grand Rapids Griffins as they welcome
the Chicago Wolves on April second.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
This is a big one. We've got today's battle question.
That number one answer scores you in the family tickets.
One hundred men surveyed.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Name a place you might be waited on hand and foot.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Does at home when you're a sick kid? Count because
I swear nobody gets more spa like treatment than my
children when they have a little bit of a sniffle.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I'm just thinking an all inclusive resort, and I'm throwing
that out into the universe in case someone just happens
to have one to give to me. Manifest six one six, four, eight,
one oh five seven. One hundred men and surveyed name
a place you might be waited on hand and foot
dollar seven.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
You've got the number one answer.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
You're going to see our grand Rapids Griffins with Star,
Good morning Star.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Who's this? Drew and Aida? All right?
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Drew?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Is it Drew and Ada or Drew in Ada? Drew
in Ada? Okay, just making sure we didn't have an
Ada sitting shotgun with you right now? All right? Uh,
let's see here, Drew. One hundred gentlemen were asked to
name a place where you might be waited on hand
and looks. What do you think? Their top answer was.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh, man, the barber shop.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Oh, the barbershop. You know what. There's some barber shop
now where you can like go have a beer while
they cut your hair.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
And all that.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
You know, you put the hot towel on. Oh man,
I love a good steam towel on there. That's a
great guess, but it is not on there. The barbershop
not on the list. I'm sorry, not get the square
all right? Thanks Drew right, Hi Star, who's this Jennifer, Jennifer,
I just I got a great guess. One hundred guys
were asked to dame a place you might be waited
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on hand and foot, and I just heard the barber shop,
which was not on this list of answers here. So
you got a chance, Jennifer, what do you think The
top answer is?
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Oh boy, that's I mean a restaurant.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
A restaurant, Yes, fancy restaurant is the number three most
common answer. Sorry, Jennifer, thank you, thank you, Hi Star.
Who's this? THEREESA A couple of good guesses so far,
but not the top answer. One hundred guys were asked
to name a place where you might be waited on
hand and foot. I heard the barber shop, good guess,
but not on there. And I just heard a fancy restaurant,
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which was the number three most common answer. So what
do you think it is, Teresa?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I would say a high end resort.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
A high end resort. That's what Smitty said in all
inclusive vacation. Honestly, I was thinking like the hospital, because
when you're all laid up at the hospital, they I mean,
you push a button and somebody's got to come serve
you whatever. You But I don't know, maybe I'm weird.
That wasn't on the list either, But you know what
was resorts congratulations top answer way to go alcome yes,
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resort vacation, followed by spa selon, then fancy restaurant, rounding
out those top three answers. Congratulations. You are going to
see the Grand Rapids Griffins in action. Awesome, Thank yes,
gonna be a great time April second, Griffin's going to
be taking on the Chicago Wolves. You will be there
and we will be looking to get you tickets as well.
You can win Griffin's tickets right now as a matter
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of fact, over at West Michigan star dot com. And
of course we battle every weekday eight fifteen here on
star Win on five point seven Starmino Fine points seven.
Good morning to you. It's Mac and Smitty and I
feel like we all absorb maybe some old timey phrases
from our grandparents or our parents or just I don't know,
the oldest person you hang out with consistently schmitty, But
(28:53):
I always love a good old person term. However, my
son is adopted one that I never used ever growing up.
Actually know where he heard it, but now he won't
stop describing any vehicle that he perceives as beat up
or even semi old. Is a GALOPPI.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Yeah, I don't think I've ever used that word.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I don't think I've really hardly ever used the word.
Obviously I knew what it was, but like he will
not stop referring to it. Is like, oh, you see
all the rust on that old galopi? And I'm like,
do you have a Werther's Original in your pocket right now?
Young man? Like? What what doing? I'm like, He's like,
oh yeah, there's another old jalape over there. I'm like, sir,
(29:34):
that's a Pontiac Sunfire and everybody wanted one of those.
It's not an old jar, it's GILOPPI like crazy, and honestly,
I'm kind of here for it. I kind of feel
like I'm gonna start using it more, just because it
makes me smile every time it comes out of his little,
tiny face.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I feel like whenever I'm in one of our cold studios.
I always say who I could really use an afghan,
like the term for blanket specifically. Remember my grandmother always
having a half gan on the Davenport.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Remember Davenport? Why where is that a couch name?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Oh? Man, So my grandfather always used to call the
bathroom the lavatory, and when I was when I was
a kid, I thought he was saying laboratory. So I
was calling every bathroom a laboratory because I was like, oh, yeah,
where I go in there and I make my secret,
my secret concoctions.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
But then when it was lavatory, I started using that,
and almost nobody would have a clue as to what
I was saying.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Because you're not on a plane.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Where's where's the lavatory? I'm sorry? What did I have?
What's a lavatory? Where's the bathroom? I'm sorry? Did you
call it a lavatory? I don't know. My eighty plus
year old grandfather was even I get that might have
been an old term even for him. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
You're fine, man, I'm over here like begging someone for
a lap blanket.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
By the way, you're into crochet now too. I know
that that's something you're getting into. You cannot I can crochet.
That's what I'm saying. You gotta be holding one and
be like, well, this is the one I'm working on,
and this is the one I'm wearing right now.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Sign me up for Porter Hills right now, please.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
I asked the question on Facebook too, at West Michigan
Star on Facebook, at Instagram, and I got, oh, my stars,
Oh my stars. That one's it's kind of old, but
I liked what the Dickens. Oh yeah, what the Dickens
is definitely something people used to say all the time,
and now I feel like I would say it. My
son would go, what did you say? You know what
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Dickens and Charles Dickens like, read a book hit.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Do you know what I said to Ali Mack the
other day? Shut on cute pants and I say, girl,
your gams look good. Oh I just had that popp
into my head.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
I'm a gam you're jams.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Sometimes because I get a good.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Let's jump into it for your Friday morning feeling good
on star Win O five point seven? What's you bring in?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Well?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Have you ever heard of a Massa, Michigan's up kind
of on the western end of the Up. It's a
town of two hundred and fifty people, one of our
smaller ones. But without a Massa Michigan, you would not
have a basketball court for March Madness. If you did
not know, every single tournament game you will watch over
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the next few weeks is thanks to a Massa Michigan.
See the two hundred and fifty person town that is
about four square miles headquarters Connor Sports, which does all
of the basketball flooring for the NBA college high schools.
Since two thousand and six, they've been the official court
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of March Madness.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
This I little company in the up constructs, installs, and
paints every single basketball court used in the tournament, which
I thought was so cool.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I think that's nuts. I remember learning about this a
couple of years ago, and it just blew me away
that a place that's just tucked into the middle of
nowhere seemingly is the place where all these major NBA
teams and everybody else, all the college teams go to
get these specialized courts. And now courts are more intricate
than ever. They got great ones and green ones and
all sorts.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Of the rain time lapse video that I'm gonna put up,
which is just incredible. Rumor has it that MSU actually
bought the floor from them when they won the national championship.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
In two thousand.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
It'd be a cool move, Yeah, very cool. I like that,
all right, chminty. This is just a fun cap, a
little cherry on top of winner, if you will. Because
they have named all the snow plows in Battle Creek.
They actually held a contest back in early February, and
then they narrowed down the names a little bit and
they weren't going to announce these, which would make sense
by the end of February, but all the snow had
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already melted in Battle Creek, so then they said, we're
not gonna announce the winners still fall and it makes
more sense then earlier this week, the first day of spring,
it snowed in Battle Creek, and they said, ah, that's
Mother Nature's give it us a sign. So the top
ten of them here, schmidty. I'm gonna run through a
few of my favorites. First, I thought of you, and
I saw this. Feeling salty today? All right, feeling salty today?
(34:12):
Number ten? This one for your husband, snowby one plan
ob plow Nobi.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
That's a pretty decent one.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Does it rolls? Off the tongue snow by one plow
Noby blade runner. That's nice. One Austin Plowers.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
I liked that.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Austin Plowers, Sir plows a lot yep, Blizzard of Oz
timely with wicked going on. I gotta say though, the
first one cleverly done. My favorite number one vote getter
him a lay in salt him A lay in salt
him hyphen u hyphen layon saw trucks.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Well done.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
That's whatever right there for sure, So just in time
for it to finally warm up, we have the names
for the plows that will be used across Battle Creek
next winter. But just something fun for your Friday morning
feeling good. Always here to provide a little something uplifting
for you to take with you into the rest of
your day. Let's do it on Monday six forty five
and nine twenty here on Star
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Mack and Schmidty in the morning weekday, starting at six
am on Star one oh five point seven
Wakem It gets my day going and makes me laugh
of it.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Mac and Schmitty in the morning on Star one O
five point seven.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Good morning, Schmitty. Oh, happy Friday, Happy happy Friday to you.
And coming off of the first day of the Mad
News the NCAA tournament going on, Schmitty, I am sitting
basically tied with a whole bunch of people from our
office workplace right now. But we're doing pretty good. Oh yeah,
that's so shabby. I was a little disappointed in the
basketball yesterday because it was all blowouts. There wasn't a
(00:36):
lot of close games yesterday. It was a little bit
of a bummer. The best game, of course, it looked like,
was the Michigan game that I couldn't stay awake for.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Man, I don't think I watched a second of basketball yesterday.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Really, I left here.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I had a meeting, a meeting, an appointment, an event
downtown Grand Rapids Rise game. I don't think I saw
a second of basketball yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
The world just gives you what needs to give you,
an apology that I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It was a late night for me last night with
our rise at Van anddel But honestly, I gotta say,
best crowd of the season so far.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
I don't know if it was just.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
That there were a ton of kids there that got
to stay up away past bedtime, but it was absolutely
electric inside that arena last night.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
It was a good time.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
If you guys haven't gotten a chance to go check
out the Rise yet, you gotta do it. It's an
absolute blast of an atmosphere. The games move along at
such a good pace. It's so much fun to be
there at Vanadelerna watching it you know what and hanging
out and hearing the familiar voice at miss Video. There
isn't so bad.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It was a good time movies, music, and all the
gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Well, Kanye West's meltdowns on X could mean legal action
against at least one couple that he has targeted. That is,
Beyonce and jay Z reportedly considering taking this to court
after Kanye's very disturbing social media posts the other day
about their twins Roomy and Sir. If you didn't see these,
(02:08):
Kanye used extremely offensive language to question the mental capacities
of their seven year old kids, talking.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
About how we don't really.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
See them very often because Blue tends to be out
with her parents quite a bit, while we haven't seen
the twins a whole ton. Now By and Jay are
discussing whether they want this to be privately or publicly handled.
They have not spoken publicly about this, but it is
really causing some serious problems. Kim, in fact, has said
(02:40):
that she is appalled by the post, especially that he
would use that kind of language about anyone, let alone
when it comes to children, who most of Hollywood agrees
is off limits.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Now.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
As for Beyonce's mom, Tina, she's kind of speaking out
on this. She have done her Instagram with what a
lot of fans think was kind of a veiled shot
at Kanye.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Got a quartey Joe want to hear here go?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
So what happens when a snowman throws a tanjum?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
He has a mountain down? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
No best way?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, she writes in the caption. It's hard to remain
positive and classy in the face of ignorance and evil,
but I know that no weapon formed against me or
my family shall prosper.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I mean, the one thing that Kanye has been consistent
about is the kids in his life being a very
important important thing to him. So to think that you're
going to talk about somebody else's kids and they're not
going to respond, they're not going to react, or that
it's okay, seems so ridiculous to me to say.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I think I'd agree with that months ago. But I'm sorry,
you're putting you daughter on a track with Diddy. I
don't even know if he cares about his own kids anymore.
I want to agree, all right. UFC fighter Connor McGregor
has solidified his bid for Ireland's presidency. Yeah, the announcement
came yesterday. They promise to preserve his native country by
(04:04):
tackling migration. This came days after meeting with President Trump
at the White House. By the way, I think that's
what they call immigration. McGregor has decided to campaign as
a leader in opposition to the European Migration Pact. He
wrote on x the next presidential election must take place
by November eleventh. Who else will stand up to government
(04:26):
and oppose this bill? Any other presidential candidate that they
attempt to put forward will be of no resistance to them.
I will, he said, For clarity, he would put forth
a bill as referendum. He greatly opposes the pact and
says it is the people of Ireland's choice. He also
(04:47):
had several photo opportunities with him and his child in
front of like a big plane of some kind. I
would assume it's like the Air Force one of Ireland.
But very interesting calls himself the only logical choice.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I mean, you know, he made money fighting people and
with Whiskey show, it feels like a very Irish stereotype
right on the nose.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Finally, have you ever wondered how many gorgeous gowns Vana
White has worn throughout her Wheel of Fortune career, Well
it might stun you. She was on the Drew Barrymore
Show yesterday talking about dressing down while she's at home.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Because we get dressed up to work. That's the last
thing we want to do when we're at home.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
But you're always like, I mean those gowns that you wear.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I have so amade worn over eight thousand gowns.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I don't get to keep them, but they do.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Let me borrow them, like for event, Yes.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Miammis or whatever.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Sanna said that she's worn eight thousand gowns.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That is over eight thousand.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Gown eight thousand.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It was a really cool segment by the way, she
was on with her son doing a cooking feature. But
that's pretty wild. I don't think I would have ever
guessed that number. I have never thought about it before.
But that is a rediculous amount of gowns. I think
it's insane to think. You like no repeats, right, no
television repeats. You can rerun an episode, but not a gown. Hey,
all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Sometimes because I get a good feeling.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, let's dive into feeling good right now, I'm starting,
oh five point seven. Put a little positivity out there,
and that's what this group has been doing for quite
some time now. Laurie's Voice, the West Michigan nonprofit out
of Ottawa County, added again as they gave away a
new wheelchair accessible van yesterday at Clock Mobility in Grand Rapids.
(06:37):
It was eleven year old Vivian Gray who was there
to get a new set of wheels. Vivian's got brain
cancer and cerebral palsy along with visual and hearing impairments,
but the van means independence for her as well as
convenience for her family as they continue to deal with
the challenges as she grows. Vivian's dad speaking to Fox
seventeen about how appreciative, appreciative he is, but also so
(07:00):
just how proud of his daughter he is. I couldnot
be more thrilled or more proud of everything she's been
able to accomplish. She not only is a miracle, but
she's the inspiration she has.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
She has the strength, courage and determination to be any
obstacle in her way, and she's proven that time and
time again.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And I could not be more proud of you. I mean,
just beautiful right there. The gift fully Equipped vehicle is
a continuation of a program they started back in twenty
twenty one to give free vans to families with kids
with special needs, but the organization actually founded fourteen years ago,
back in twenty eleven. It has helped hundreds of family
covering the cost of specialized medical equipment, vehicles, of course, therapies,
(07:40):
home renovations, and many more things that are not covered
typically by insurance. They've given over three million dollars to
such families and served over seven hundred kids. Laurie's Voice
one of the good ones.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Out there and Laurie are two of the most fantastic
humans you will ever get the pleasure of meeting.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
I just adore them.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It might sound like a nightmare to most of us
parents getting separated from your kid on a flight, but
for Kayleeka Miller on TikTok, it turned out to be
her son's greatest flight ever. She posted to TikTok, my
son and I got separated and it turned out to
be his most favorite thing.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Cute video. Hear that? Get it? Get it?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Yeah, that's because her son ended up getting stuck between
two grandpas that played endless games including Rock paper scissors,
even helped him fill out his NC double A tournament bracket.
She says they left the flight best friends. He won
a two dollars bill and said he already misses them.
They got contact in phone, everything to stay in touch.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
A great now we Go video, lifelong airplane talkery, go
feeling good, coming Agie couple times a day. Always here
for a pick me up. Let's do it again today
at nine twenty.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It's the celebrities goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Oh boy, I'll go quick because what else is new.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Blake Lively, following the same game plan as her husband
Ryan Reynolds, officially asking a judge yesterday to cut her
out of Justin Baldoni's lawsuit. She filed the motion to
fully dismiss the suit, saying Justin is actually violating the
law by filing his lawsuit against her at all. It's
being done for revenge. She says that Baldoni only filed
(09:34):
his defamation suit against her, Ryan and her publicist after
Blake filed her lawsuit alleging he had sexually harassed her
on the set of It Ends with Us and then
launched a smear campaign when she reported the alleged abuse
to the studio. Blake is saying under California law, Justin
is barred from suing her based on her accusing him
(09:56):
of that harassment, which is why she wants the judge
to dismiss the suit against her.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Well.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Just hours later, Ryan Friedman, Valdoni's attorney, said Miss Lively's
recent motion to dismiss herself from the self concocted disaster
she initiated is one of the most abhorrent examples of
abusing our legal system. Friedman went on to say there
are stringent rules put into place to protect the innocent
(10:23):
and allow individuals to rightly defend themselves. He says laws
are not meant to be twisted and curated by privileged
elites to fit their own personal egence.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
OO calling them privileged elites.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Is a fund big words, right. I thought this was
jaw dropping yesterday. Apple the company is losing more than
one billion dollars a year on their streaming service, Apple
tv Plus. According to a new report, the tech giant
has spent over five billion dollars a year on content
(11:00):
since launching Apple tv Plus back in twenty nineteen. They
did trim that budget by about five hundred million last year,
but they still saw record breaking losses, a loss of
three one hundred and ninety one billion in fiscal year.
They're trying to absorb some of those losses. They say
(11:20):
they're making slow but steady progress. They've got big hits
like The Morning Show. We know we're getting a fourth
season of ted Lasso. They also talk about shrinking and severance. However,
that all takes very big star power. They said that
they did have two million add additional subscribers in February,
(11:40):
but it's just not helping them actually make money, and
rumor is that shareholders are not super stoked about this.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I'm just curious whether or not, Like you know, it
does help them sell phones and computers and all the
other stuff that they sell to with so many fingers
at different.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Piles, so a billion dollars worth, it is a big number.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Yes, finally, I am so excited.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
This is one of mine and my kid's most favorite
Disney movies.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Um, We're getting the zame all.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Disney and Pixar made the joint announcement yesterday on Instagram,
Coco Too is officially in the works. We are gonna
see more from the rivera family seven years. It's been
since Coco came out and had us a whole crying
at that remember Me scene.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
This is a big deal.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
While Disney Company CEO Bob Iger also making the announcement
at the company's annual shareholders meeting, saying, while the film
is just in the initial stages, we know it will
be full of humor, heart and adventure and we can't
wait to share more soon.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Honestly, I want to be excited about this, but I'm
not because I felt like Coco, what's that perfect movie?
And they're gonna go and it is.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
They're not gonna ruin it. I think it's gonna be
incredible music. I think they're gonna find such a wonderful storyline.
Coco is easily a top five for me. I love
this movie. You can see some of the rumored plotlines
with your scoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Come on in to you. It's Mack and SCHMITTI and
you know, I saw this article in this restaurant over
at the East Sad Schmitty, and I'm glad you're bringing
it up because this is really interesting.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
What would you do if you could have a date
night at a restaurant that provided childcare.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
I was so stunned.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
And I've been to this place because one of my
best friends actually lives in Utica. This is a suburb
right outside of Detroit and it's called host Utica. Michael
Evecove is the owner, and he came up with this
pno idea.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
That's what they do.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
They call it pinot Tuesday through Thursday, they offer childcare.
You can literally walk in. It's eight bucks for the
first hour and a half. Okay, if you want to
stay longer, they turn do you three dollars for every extra
half hour. It's open to kids who can sit up
on their own to the age of twelve. All they
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say is to call a day in advance to make
the reservation. They are CPR certified childcare professionals that work
on the second floor. They've got games you can play
for older kids, doodle pads, arts and crafts. I mean,
this seems absolutely incredible. The door is locked, so everything's secure.
There's security cameras everywhere. All they ask is that you
(14:29):
leave a photo ID. You cannot leave the premises, but
otherwise they will watch your kids while you are on
date night and it's really cool. Michael actually talked with
ABC seven about this, and he said, there's so many
people that struggle because they lose connection after they have kids.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And the most humbling bands, like people come in and like,
we haven't.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Been on a date since we had kids.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
The divorce rare. It's fifty to fifty in the US
right now.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
And if I can help lower that a little bit
by low impairs they have a date and not like
be disconnected over the youth of their children, then you know,
that's what I can only hope for.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Isn't that such a good idea.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I'll be honest, it's ripe for abuse. I'm over here
saying to myself like, oh guys, yo, maybe I go
in for the lunch rush. And I'm just like, you
know what, I think, I'm just gonna work from here
for the next six hours. That'll only cost me like
forty bugs. It's cheaper than a babysitter, right, that's okay?
And oh yeah, I got free refills the whole time too.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Well, like you don't because you're you're not gonna have
a beer, You're not gonna have an appetizer, you're not
gonna have a dessert. I mean, I think it's I
think it is such an incredible idea. When they were
talking to parents around the Detroit area, there are people
that drive like an hour to this restaurant, an hour
plus to have a date night with their spouse and
have their kids watch.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I do think it's genius because my wife and I
talked about you know, and you're living this world right
now because you still got a really real young one
is just not being able to ever go out without
spending like a couple hundred dollars like a movie and
dinner becomes like you're going out. You're spending eighty bucks
on dinner, and then you go to a movie and
you're spending another sixty bucks, and then you're spending another
sixty bucks on the babysitter. Before you know it, you
(16:09):
went to dinner, in a movie and spend two hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Please tell me what babysitter you have for sixty bucks
right right right there way, I'm telling you these days,
you want a couple hours out and you are well
over a one hundred at least for a sitter for
two kids. I mean, it's it's really I think what
stops a lot of couples? Yeah, and eight bucks plus
three bucks per half hour, and I'm gonna put all
(16:31):
that savings into your business.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Michael, I am.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
I just think this is so cool and I don't
really see a downside to it. I don't know if
anybody's ever had experience where they found a restaurant like this.
But I'm also thinking, like, man, this is I'm being
a really good parent because I'm giving my children social interaction,
which is so important to development.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Maybe I want to open up my restaurant right next
to a trampoline park and do for like a two
for one sort of special guard cool.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I don't know if there's other restaurants that are doing this.
If you've heard of one, or you've gone and done
something like this, I would love to hear about it.
Six one six, four five eight one oh five seven
Date night at a restaurant outside Detroit was built in childcare.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Okay, so I'm tipping the server for sure, But what
about the babysitter? Do I gotta tip the babysitters? All right?
All right?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Anyone that puts up with my aris daughter is getting
tipped as much as I possibly can. By the way,
I'll post this story to our Facebook so you can
check it out at West Michigan Star.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Package Schmidty in the morning on Star one oh five
point seven.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Tea time, Spill and Sea take Time.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Let's bill the two sweete Let's do this Friday means
another tea time, your opportunity to tell us about the
juicy gasp going on in your life? All right, what's
happening to schimiddy?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You know, we got this message and I'm surprised it's
our first time hearing about this because I can see
how it would go very sideways if your office does
a hypothetical MC double a bracket. Okay, I got the message.
It's bracket time. My office is obviously doing one for
all my coworkers, but we have a certain gentleman in
the office that loves to be the one in charge
(18:07):
of organizing it, and my coworkers think he's been cheating,
keeping some money for himself not paying out the first, second,
and third place accordingly. But with so many of us
in the office, it's hard to prove.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Hi, this person that sent me the message happen to
know he does keep a bit of the money for
himself as a kind of service fee for running the bracket.
People are now refusing to pay their way in until
someone else takes over. Do I narc I also don't
want to get fired, and I feel like once this
blows up, corporate is going to have something less than
ideal to say. By the way, I'm not even a
(18:41):
part of this thing.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
H You know, so you said you're not sure what
you would do. I think this is such an easy
one because the answer is already in a statement that
she asked, Do I nark, No, you have nothing to
do with it. Just keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Really yes, because aren't they technically.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Illegal exactly, which is why you who are not participating
that and doesn't have anything to do with it, knows
about it.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
So then as soon as they do figure it out,
and that person goes, oh, well they knew too, and
you're fired.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
All right? All right? What do you guys think?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Six one six, four five eight one oh five seven?
Because I got to tell you I'm very sketched out.
Tony is on our Facebook. He thinks you've got to
disclose it, he said. Golf league secretaries often get their
golf for free, kind of the same thing, but it
needs to be disclosed to everyone before the event. Then
they can decide to participate or not. I know who
we work with, and there ain't nobody disclosing them.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
You know what I've heard from Tony there. I'm like,
wait a second, if I'm the secretary for a golf laber,
I could play for free.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Any tea time that I want.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I think it's really interesting.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I dig get a message from Ashley who is listening
en Byron Center, and she I agree.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Whether to nark or not to knarc.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
I'm gonna say nark.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
You know like we need to could keep the level
of integrity throughout the office and whether it's a competition
and there's something that has to do with the business.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
But come on, h r, dude, See Ashley like me
is a goody two shoes and we're afraid of authority.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I just like how she put in so Shakespeare into.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Or girl you tell so that you don't lose your job?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
What do you think six one, six four or five
eight one oh five seven? We've got bracket drama in
the office, and I don't know if your job's on
the line for it.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
It could get sketchy de time.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I meant it. Every Friday. You got some good drama
going on in your life, make sure you hit this
up at West Michigan Star.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Movies, Music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Well, it is another legal bombshell that the University of
Michigan football program is facing as a former U of
M football coach Matthew Weiss is facing twenty four criminal
charges for alleged identity theft. The Attorney's Office for the
Eastern District of Michigan announced the charges yesterday. The forty
(21:04):
two year old was the co offensive coordinator and quarterback
coach for the Wolverines. Fired back in January of twenty
twenty three, after the federal investigation was first opened. So
prosecutors say, Weise gained unauthorized access to student athlete databases
of more than one hundred colleges and universities that were
(21:25):
maintained by a third party vendor. That's how he was
able to do it, and then downloaded personal info and
medical data of more than one hundred and fifty thousand
athletes from there. Why he was allegedly downloaded personal intimate
digital photographs and videos that were never intended to be
(21:46):
shared beyond intimate partners. This is really horrific stuff. He
was able to obtain access to social media, email, cloud
storage accounts of more than two thousand targeted athletes leads.
He is facing fourteen counts of unauthorized access to computers
ten counts of aggravated identity theft. If convicted, he faces
(22:09):
a maximum of five years in prison on each count.
Weiss worked for more than a decade as an assistant
coach with the Baltimore Ravens before he was hired by
Jim Harbaugh in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I mean, absolutely gross stuff with this guy was doing.
And you know, you hope that the victims or whatever
at least feel like, hey, the guy is responding, got caught,
is going to be held responsible, and hopefully they were
able to contain that data and that info it's so.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Sensitive and hopefully nobody was covering this up. Yeah, I mean,
my gosh, Kelly Clarkson is sparking some concern with a
very cryptic comment she made after finally returning to her
talk show, The forty two year old getting emotional on
the one thousandth episode. Quite a milestone after missing the
(22:55):
last ten episodes due to a quote unquote private matter.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
For one thousand episodes, we have laughed together. We have
cried together with beautiful stories, sang together with some people,
dance together, celebrated and competed together. I've lost alone a lot,
and along it's okay. And along the way we found
comfort in one another. And looking back, we are all
incredibly proud of what we built and the community we've created.
(23:21):
I'm super proud of my whole crew.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
My band, everybody has been such an incredible job.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
It was a really moving moment, but fans are noticing.
She also reflected on her own life, personal matters she's
been dealing with lately, admitting I've had a lot of
ups and a lot of downs personally. She talks about
some issues that she's had within family and overall.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
I've watched the video, people think she.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Just seems very downtrodden and sad. You know, for a
thousandth episode, I think people were expecting her to be
super Kelly Clark's and hype, and again we're not sure
what that private matter was.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
She does seem a little a little down.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It sounded even like she was just kind of going
through the motions for like, yeah, a thousand episodes, pretty
wild thing, right right.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I do have the video for you at West Michigan
Star dot com. Finally, Danny McBride could be in for
quite a gross surprise. The Righteous Gemstones a huge hit
on HBO.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
He's a part of the cast.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Adam Devine, John Goodman, Well Peta is getting involved. The
organization is threatening to send McBride fake monkey business after
spotting what they claim is a real capuchin monkey in
the show's trailer. They claim they've been firing off emails
to McBride's reps as well as HBO bosses, demanding Primates
(24:44):
be left completely out of the show, but haven't heard back,
so the animal rights group says they're going to watch
the upcoming episode on Sunday and if a live monkey appears,
they are mailing the pile of fake duty straight to
McBride's production company's front tour.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Do they not know who Danny McBride is? Do they
not understand that Kenny Powers is going to welcome that
package and think it's hilarious like a.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Picture of what they's it's a lot.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
You can go ahead and uh maybe not look at
that over your breakfast your celeb scoop at West Michigan.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Star dot com. Let's battle on your Friday morning. Battle
of the Sex is looking to get you and the
crew over to our Grand Rapids Griffins as they welcome
the Chicago Wolves on April second.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
This is a big one. We've got today's battle question.
That number one answer scores you in the family tickets.
One hundred men surveyed.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Name a place you might be waited on hand and foot.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Does at home when you're a sick kid? Count because
I swear nobody gets more spa like treatment than my
children when they have a little bit of a sniffle.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I'm just thinking an all inclusive resort, and I'm throwing
that out into the universe in case someone just happens
to have one to give to me. Manifest six one six, four, eight,
one oh five seven. One hundred men and surveyed name
a place you might be waited on hand and foot
dollar seven.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
You've got the number one answer.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
You're going to see our grand Rapids Griffins with Star,
Good morning Star.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Who's this? Drew and Aida? All right?
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Drew?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Is it Drew and Ada or Drew in Ada? Drew
in Ada? Okay, just making sure we didn't have an
Ada sitting shotgun with you right now? All right? Uh,
let's see here, Drew. One hundred gentlemen were asked to
name a place where you might be waited on hand
and looks. What do you think? Their top answer was.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh, man, the barber shop.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Oh, the barbershop. You know what. There's some barber shop
now where you can like go have a beer while
they cut your hair.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
And all that.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
You know, you put the hot towel on. Oh man,
I love a good steam towel on there. That's a
great guess, but it is not on there. The barbershop
not on the list. I'm sorry, not get the square
all right? Thanks Drew right, Hi Star, who's this Jennifer, Jennifer,
I just I got a great guess. One hundred guys
were asked to dame a place you might be waited
(27:03):
on hand and foot, and I just heard the barber shop,
which was not on this list of answers here. So
you got a chance, Jennifer, what do you think The
top answer is?
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Oh boy, that's I mean a restaurant.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
A restaurant, Yes, fancy restaurant is the number three most
common answer. Sorry, Jennifer, thank you, thank you, Hi Star.
Who's this? THEREESA A couple of good guesses so far,
but not the top answer. One hundred guys were asked
to name a place where you might be waited on
hand and foot. I heard the barber shop, good guess,
but not on there. And I just heard a fancy restaurant,
(27:40):
which was the number three most common answer. So what
do you think it is, Teresa?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I would say a high end resort.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
A high end resort. That's what Smitty said in all
inclusive vacation. Honestly, I was thinking like the hospital, because
when you're all laid up at the hospital, they I mean,
you push a button and somebody's got to come serve
you whatever. You But I don't know, maybe I'm weird.
That wasn't on the list either, But you know what
was resorts congratulations top answer way to go alcome yes,
(28:10):
resort vacation, followed by spa selon, then fancy restaurant, rounding
out those top three answers. Congratulations. You are going to
see the Grand Rapids Griffins in action. Awesome, Thank yes,
gonna be a great time April second, Griffin's going to
be taking on the Chicago Wolves. You will be there
and we will be looking to get you tickets as well.
You can win Griffin's tickets right now as a matter
(28:31):
of fact, over at West Michigan star dot com. And
of course we battle every weekday eight fifteen here on
star Win on five point seven Starmino Fine points seven.
Good morning to you. It's Mac and Smitty and I
feel like we all absorb maybe some old timey phrases
from our grandparents or our parents or just I don't know,
the oldest person you hang out with consistently schmitty, But
(28:53):
I always love a good old person term. However, my
son is adopted one that I never used ever growing up.
Actually know where he heard it, but now he won't
stop describing any vehicle that he perceives as beat up
or even semi old. Is a GALOPPI.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Yeah, I don't think I've ever used that word.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I don't think I've really hardly ever used the word.
Obviously I knew what it was, but like he will
not stop referring to it. Is like, oh, you see
all the rust on that old galopi? And I'm like,
do you have a Werther's Original in your pocket right now?
Young man? Like? What what doing? I'm like, He's like,
oh yeah, there's another old jalape over there. I'm like, sir,
(29:34):
that's a Pontiac Sunfire and everybody wanted one of those.
It's not an old jar, it's GILOPPI like crazy, and honestly,
I'm kind of here for it. I kind of feel
like I'm gonna start using it more, just because it
makes me smile every time it comes out of his little,
tiny face.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I feel like whenever I'm in one of our cold studios.
I always say who I could really use an afghan,
like the term for blanket specifically. Remember my grandmother always
having a half gan on the Davenport.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Remember Davenport? Why where is that a couch name?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Oh? Man, So my grandfather always used to call the
bathroom the lavatory, and when I was when I was
a kid, I thought he was saying laboratory. So I
was calling every bathroom a laboratory because I was like, oh, yeah,
where I go in there and I make my secret,
my secret concoctions.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
But then when it was lavatory, I started using that,
and almost nobody would have a clue as to what
I was saying.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Because you're not on a plane.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Where's where's the lavatory? I'm sorry? What did I have?
What's a lavatory? Where's the bathroom? I'm sorry? Did you
call it a lavatory? I don't know. My eighty plus
year old grandfather was even I get that might have
been an old term even for him. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
You're fine, man, I'm over here like begging someone for
a lap blanket.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
By the way, you're into crochet now too. I know
that that's something you're getting into. You cannot I can crochet.
That's what I'm saying. You gotta be holding one and
be like, well, this is the one I'm working on,
and this is the one I'm wearing right now.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Sign me up for Porter Hills right now, please.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
I asked the question on Facebook too, at West Michigan
Star on Facebook, at Instagram, and I got, oh, my stars,
Oh my stars. That one's it's kind of old, but
I liked what the Dickens. Oh yeah, what the Dickens
is definitely something people used to say all the time,
and now I feel like I would say it. My
son would go, what did you say? You know what
(31:33):
Dickens and Charles Dickens like, read a book hit.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Do you know what I said to Ali Mack the
other day? Shut on cute pants and I say, girl,
your gams look good. Oh I just had that popp
into my head.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
I'm a gam you're jams.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Sometimes because I get a good.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Let's jump into it for your Friday morning feeling good
on star Win O five point seven? What's you bring in?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Well?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Have you ever heard of a Massa, Michigan's up kind
of on the western end of the Up. It's a
town of two hundred and fifty people, one of our
smaller ones. But without a Massa Michigan, you would not
have a basketball court for March Madness. If you did
not know, every single tournament game you will watch over
(32:24):
the next few weeks is thanks to a Massa Michigan.
See the two hundred and fifty person town that is
about four square miles headquarters Connor Sports, which does all
of the basketball flooring for the NBA college high schools.
Since two thousand and six, they've been the official court
(32:44):
of March Madness.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
This I little company in the up constructs, installs, and
paints every single basketball court used in the tournament, which
I thought was so cool.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I think that's nuts. I remember learning about this a
couple of years ago, and it just blew me away
that a place that's just tucked into the middle of
nowhere seemingly is the place where all these major NBA
teams and everybody else, all the college teams go to
get these specialized courts. And now courts are more intricate
than ever. They got great ones and green ones and
all sorts.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Of the rain time lapse video that I'm gonna put up,
which is just incredible. Rumor has it that MSU actually
bought the floor from them when they won the national championship.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
In two thousand.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
It'd be a cool move, Yeah, very cool. I like that,
all right, chminty. This is just a fun cap, a
little cherry on top of winner, if you will. Because
they have named all the snow plows in Battle Creek.
They actually held a contest back in early February, and
then they narrowed down the names a little bit and
they weren't going to announce these, which would make sense
by the end of February, but all the snow had
(33:50):
already melted in Battle Creek, so then they said, we're
not gonna announce the winners still fall and it makes
more sense then earlier this week, the first day of spring,
it snowed in Battle Creek, and they said, ah, that's
Mother Nature's give it us a sign. So the top
ten of them here, schmidty. I'm gonna run through a
few of my favorites. First, I thought of you, and
I saw this. Feeling salty today? All right, feeling salty today?
(34:12):
Number ten? This one for your husband, snowby one plan
ob plow Nobi.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
That's a pretty decent one.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Does it rolls? Off the tongue snow by one plow
Noby blade runner. That's nice. One Austin Plowers.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
I liked that.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Austin Plowers, Sir plows a lot yep, Blizzard of Oz
timely with wicked going on. I gotta say though, the
first one cleverly done. My favorite number one vote getter
him a lay in salt him A lay in salt
him hyphen u hyphen layon saw trucks.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Well done.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
That's whatever right there for sure, So just in time
for it to finally warm up, we have the names
for the plows that will be used across Battle Creek
next winter. But just something fun for your Friday morning
feeling good. Always here to provide a little something uplifting
for you to take with you into the rest of
your day. Let's do it on Monday six forty five
and nine twenty here on Star
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Mack and Schmidty in the morning weekday, starting at six
am on Star one oh five point seven
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