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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Wake up. It gets my day going.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It makes me lab I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Mac In Chmitty in the morning on Star one oh
five point seven.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Good marn On Schmitty, Good morning. Welcome into Wednesday. And
I'm over uh looking at you across the board there,
and I'm like, this is how you start to day,
you know, just some tech problems the moment you sit
down basically to do your job and you're like, oh good,
none of my things are.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
It's interesting. I've been here for about two hours, didn't
have any issues till right this very moment when my
internet crashed. So awesome, y'all.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
We managed to the midwait, movies, music, and all the
gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Well, after more than a month of their bodies being unclaimed,
Academy Award winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy
Arakawa have been laid to rest. This is really nice news.
It was a private memorial ceremony held for the couple,
with family and close friends attending in Santa Fe. Remember,
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the New Mexico's Office of Medical Investigators said that they
had not been formally claimed for weeks. Hackman's three kids, Christopher, Elizabeth,
and Leslie, were reportedly at that recent private Santa Fe event,
which is good news to They seem to be amicable
because remember, there might be some legal problems over Jean's
will where this money is going to go. But the
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other part of the story this morning is that new
body cam footage has been released from officers that responded
to the scene, showing one of the dogs actually lying
next to a deceased Betsy and had been for days,
showing their unfailing loyalty and just confusion at what happened
to mom and dad. It's actually a very sweet video.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Actress Kate Blanchett says, no joke, she is ready to retire.
The Academy Award winner has had more than thirty years
in Hollywood. Talking in an interview with The Standard, the
Oscar winner says her family doesn't necessarily believe her, but
she insists she is dead serious about throwing in the towel.
There's a lot of other things that she still wants
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to do in life. And Kate gets very candid about
never really being comfortable as a celebrity. She says, anytime
I do a media interview, my quotes are always pulled
out and I talisized. It makes it seem all really loud,
and I'm just not that person. She also says it's
taken her a really long time to get used to
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being photographed. She's never really seen herself as someone that's
been in the know or in Hollywood. She's always felt
on the periphery of things. That's a surprise to me
when anyone thinks I really belong anywhere. I've always struggled
with expecting to be accepted or welcomed. I've just spent
my life getting comfortable with the feeling of being comfortable,
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and honestly, Hollywood's just not really my thing anymore. That'd
be crazy because Gatee Blanchett has.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Done everything I was gonna say, talk about some who's
been in a million, like yeah, eightier movies, being like,
I'm not still Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Like well, that she's uncomfortable with Hollywood, that she's not,
that she's kind of done with this part of her
life and the career has really taken a toll on her,
so it'll be interesting. Finally, Nickelodeon child star Amanda Bynes
is joining OnlyFans. She made the announcement to her fans
yesterday on her Instagram Stories. But get this, She's not
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going to use it the way most celebrities use it,
simply announcing I'm doing only fans to chat with my
fans through DM. I won't be posting any sleazy content
excited to join. However, fans will still have to fork
over fifty bucks a month if they wish to have
access to biines content.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I could never buy into it fully, I'd be like,
is this just Ai taking my money pretending to be
a man.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, I don't know what, like the only fans like
rules are on that way, But the blue check mark
is that you actually get for that if you were
celeb scoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Sometimes does I get a good feeling seven to five
points seven? Always look at brighton your day feeling good
right now? To do just that? It's Mack and Schmiddi
And this was so cool. I just want to shout
this out because, for the second year in a row,
hundreds hundreds of volunteers gathering in downtown Grand Rapids yesterday
to pack meals for disaster relief. This is really neat
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all part of Spartan Nash's annual Helping Hands Day. This year,
about eight hundred and fifty volunteers came over there. I
mean they had tons of kids. We're talking Calvin University
athletics programs. Folds of Honor was there in hundreds of
Spartan Nash employees as they put together meal kits and
loaded up trucks. They say they're donating one point seven
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million dollars worth of food and hygien kits this year
and they're packing about fifteen thousand meals that were getting
ready to feed families when they really need it when
disasters strike. Last year, these same boxes that were put
together right here in West Michigan went to help out
hurricane victims tornado relief efforts that were happening all over
the country. And then they're distributed by a great group
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called Convoy for Hope, a nonprofit that responds to disasters
all over the world. With these meal kids that are
going to be making their way to people. Ethan Foreheads,
the national spokesperson for Convoy of Help, catch it up
with Fox seventeen yesterday just talking about how this allows
them to respond so quickly they.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
So that win disaster strikes, and most of the time
you don't know when a disaster is going to strike.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Hurricane's the only one that we can see coming.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
But we're ready for this because of Spartan Ash, because
of all of these volunteers and employees coming out here
spending their time and energy to be ready to help
us help people during their time of meed.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So a big shout out to everybody. Parts of Helping
Hands Day yesterday got to make a big impacts.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
All right, let's talk about Chelsea, Michigan and the sweet
moment for this downtown community that came together in order
to help move a bookstore. The Book Brigade is what
they called themselves. The video has gone viral. Over three
hundred people stood in two lines running along sidewalks in
downtown Chelsea, passing each and every one of over nine
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thousand books from Serendipity Books as they moved from their
former location to a building right down the block on
the corner of Main Street. It is a very very
cute moment we're talking. It was a very practical way
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to move the book says Michelle Touklanned, the store's owner,
And she said, and as people passed the books along
they said, Oh I've not read this, or oh that's
a really good one. You should definitely pick that one up.
So it was great for business too. A lot of
buzz intown West Michigan Star dot com to see the
awesome video.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It's the Salt celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well, it's a bit of a bombshell when it comes
to the legal case for the movie. It ends with us,
and a lot of comments are saying this is a
win for director Justin Baldoni. A new interview just dropped
with Talia Spencer. She was a storyboard artist on It
Ends with Us and had everything to say about Justin
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and his incredible personality and work ethic, while not having
very kind things to say about Blake Lively. In fact, Talia,
sitting down with sixty Minutes Australia, said she doesn't believe
any of Blake's allegations.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I would say I felt more comfortable in being around
Justin than a lot of film directors in my experience.
I feel like maybe Blake smelled his kindness, mistook it
for weakness and tried to take advantage and take power.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
So yeah, she doubled down on those thoughts, agreeing that
Blake completely wrestled control of the film and according to Spencer,
the final version of It Ends with Us is absolutely
nothing like Justin's original plan. She said, I think there
was a massive compromise in terms of Justin's original vision
for the film. And she said, it is just way
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too hard for me to believe any of the allegations
Blake has to say. I've worked with Justin a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Is this Justin's card of his sleeve? Similar to what
Blake came out with and was like, I have several
other women who claim that they too were uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Difference is Justin isn't like putting these people out here.
They're coming ahead on their own. He has been very
very quiet with a lot of this, So we'll see
Jurassic Park stars. Sam Neil is having his get off
my lawn moment. He is over the self checkouts at
grocery stores. By the way, if you don't follow Sam
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Neil on Instagram, he is an absolute gem. He took
to his stories yesterday saying he gets that his old
school attitude might not be appreciated, but enough is enough.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Call me old fashioned, but I refuse to check out
my own groceries at a supermarket. I want a human
being to assist me. I don't think that's too much
to ask. And every time I check out something for myself,
you've got to think of this.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I'm doing someone out of a job.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
And if robots and self serving are going to do
all the work everywhere, who's going to be buying the
groceries at the checkout?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
It's very, very funny. As expected, the comments came pouring
in and for the most part, people were on his side,
like speak the truth, Sam, one person even going into
the annoyance of having to scan a QR code to
see a menu. He had the fifty and up crowd.
Rell riled up yesterday on the Instagram.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I made between his natural presence and that British accent simmittee.
I don't think I have ever heard a first word problem,
a first world problem explained so eloquently before in my life.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I would have a human interact with me at the
grocery store if they said things like the supermarket for
your groceries. Finally, Diego Luna actor as part of the
big and door. Star Wars series on Netflix is kind
of giving a warning be real careful with those Star
Wars props. He was on the last episode of Jimmy
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Kimmel and talked about being stopped at London's he throw
airport over his Star Wars blaster prop.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
Went to the airport and I said, I'm gonna take
it with me because if I send it down and
the work is so realistic, is so like meticulously like
real real from a galaxy far away. But I was
stopped in security in hetrow and the guys like, unwrap
the thing and they were like, oh what he is
not good And I was trying to grab it to
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say no.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
It's just a prop.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
And one guy recognizes me, but from Narcos, not from
Star Wars.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
The one guy recognized me from Narcos my other Netflix
showing went no, no, no, no, I know this guy.
This is sketchy at hack, he said. He was actually
pulled aside and it took forever for him to go
I promise this is not a this is a Star
Wars blaster. There's nothing in here. By the way, The
first three episodes of and Or season two will premiere
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on Disney Plus next week. And don't forget we've got
those tickets for our Grand Rapid Symphony doing Star Wars
coming up at seven thirty this morning. If you want
to see more of Diego's interview, it is just a
magical your celebscoop at West Michigan startup back.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It's pretty hanging out on your hump day and directionally challenged.
Where did you get lost?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Directionally impaired is what I prefer, because a lot of
people will make directions challenging on their own. But I
don't know if you have ever been to the City
of Grand Rapids building down here downtown is where you
go to like the tax office, property issues, any of
those things. Have you ever been in that building right
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on Colder PLUSA.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I think only one time, but it was literally to
meet somebody in the lobby. That's it.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I'm telling you if you've not experienced the maze that
is that building. I had paperwork to drop off yesterday
and I had a packed day, so I was like,
you know what, I'll run over and do this before
my eleven o'clock meeting, and I forget. I've gone three
times in that building and it is the worst because
you go into the parking garage and then you go
into the building, take the stairs to the main level,
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where then you find the shuttle elevator, which takes you,
I believe, to another floor that gets you to the
other elevators that will take you throughout the rest of
the buildings. But like every time I've been there, you've
been able to get to the elevators that take you
to other offices, apparently those are now locked down, okay,
And so then you have to go to a front
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desk which isn't labeled as a front desk, and then
they have to a buzz you to the floor. So
I am walking around aimlessly for probably ten minutes at
this point, trying to figure out how I get to
the floor floor and the office that I need to
simply drop off this paperwork. And I finally find a
woman who's like, well, I have to buzz you up, okay,
So she buzzes me up, No problem, I get there,
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the guy's lovely, We're all set. And then trying to
find my way back out of the building, I rode
the same elevator like nine times. People are getting on
and then getting off, and then the same people are
returning from what they just did. I'm still on the elevator.
I can't get back to the like the m floor,
which is what I need for the other shuttle elevator
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to get to my car. I am now going to
be late for my eleven o'clock And this poor guy,
this I think he was there to turn in his taxes.
And I don't know if anyone's listening from the City
of Grand Rap, but I'm not trying to talk trash.
I'm just saying I don't know how to use your facility,
and I'm just trying to pay you. I'm trying to
give you my monies. And he gets on the elevator
with me, and I have hit my limit, because that's
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what happens to those of us that are not great
with directions. I'm not mad, I'm I'm just done. I'm done.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Say.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
This guy gets on the elevator with me and I'm
pressing my button. I'm pressing it, pressing it, and he's
going to three and he just looks at me and
he said, I have no idea how to get out
of this bleeping building. And I start crying. Oh, I
had such a packed day yesterday. I knew everything had
to line up perfectly. I'm like, this is where I
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live now. I'm never leaving this elevator. Hopefully some delivery
driver can just bring me food and water. And this
poor guy, who was so nice, was just obviously uncomfortable,
and if he's listening right now, trust me, it was
even more uncomfy for me. And he's like, oh, well,
I think I'm just trying to go to three. All
of a sudden we popped down to a sub floor
(14:44):
I've never seen before and an employee comes up and
I just got off. I was like, I need to
get off here, and then the guy on the elevator
with me is like, you're free, and I was like,
I still don't know. And I walked aimlessly around that
floor which I knew I wasn't supposed to be on.
I found a door that Red Munroe lobby and I
just sprinted out when somehow found my car. I was
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in that building for no less than a half an
hour yesterday.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Oh I'm picchering just Andy Dufrain breaking breaking free from Shawshank,
standing in the road Freedom Lake.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Either this is set up very confusingly, or I'm really
really dumb. Oh but it's just that moment, like if
you ever had an embarrassing place you've gotten lost, because
I feel like saying city hall is an embarrassing place
to admit you've gotten completely lost.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Okay, honestly, I got lost in my kids' school where
I didn't know how to get out of hard because
everything just looks like a hallway with a ton of lockers.
It's all that same ugly off white baying it's locked,
and I get so confused about where my parking lot
was at. I actually brought up my walking GPS just
so that I could orient myself and walk to the
correct side of the building to get to my car.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Here's a great thing about Catholic schools. You have different
Saint statues that you can count as landmark. So I'm like,
all right, I came in by Saint Joseph, and my
car is to the left pass the smaller of the
two Virgin Mary's. And that's how I got through Sophia's
pre school.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I gotta go down to class over by Sant Francis's.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Real quick makes one six four five eight, one oh
five seven. What is an embarrassing Where is an embarrassing
place that you got lost. And again I'm not talking
trash city of gr but just make one elevator and
put everybody on the same floor.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I'm afraid to go into that building now, like I'm
a little.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Little Yeah, maybe I'm just dumb. I could be.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Five point seven. No perfect parents here, it's a matter
of fact. It's Josh Schmidty and I with another Hi Schminny.
I was so proud of myself for getting my son
Connor an awesome birthday gift. Yeah that he never saw
coming because he didn't ask for it and he had
never expressed any interest in learning it. But I got
him a guitar, an acoustic guitar, and it was all
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my idea. My wife gave me full credit. I was
so stoked to share this with my son because I thought,
either it will become like all the other toys, something
that collects dust in a corner somewhere, or could become
a lifelong passion. And that's what I was really hoping for.
And so far, so good. He's been doing his lessons,
and you know, we got it and it came with
a tuner and everything else. And so when I first
got it, my very very limited experience with guitar and
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a YouTube video got me through tuning it that very
first time, so I was able to show him how
to do it. But when it came time to tune
it again, which was just the other day, he came
to me and he's like, hey, Dad, my guitar sounds
a little weird. Do you want to try tuning it again?
I said, sure, you know, let me show you how
to do this, and so we sit down and of
course I bust out the YouTube video again because I'm helpless,
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and I start doing it and i go through the
first couple of strings and then I'm hitting like the
middle string and I'm thinking, I'm like, that still sounds off.
I tighten it a little more. Still sounds off. Yeah,
I was tightening a completely different string than the one
I was touching, and that bad boy snapped that.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Is like my biggest fear, oh guitars.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And it was like right next to us both. So
it's scared the living heck out of him right off
the jump, and it scared me too. I didn't expect
that I was about to break this string at all,
and so I'm like, oh, crap, buddy, and I'm like,
you know, broken string. It's not that big of a deal,
and he goes, are you serious? Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Dad?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
You broke my guitar. He goes, this is just like
the drone you got me for my love, Dad. Yes,
I gave him a drone and I broke it within
forty eight hours.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Here's the deal. There was no blood.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
No blood.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
My friend cut his chin on a broken guitar string,
so it could have been so much worse. And that's
what you carry with you.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I've been banned from touching the guitar that I bought. Shmitty.
This isn't fair.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Tedy's music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It's the celebrity scoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Well, it's been the talk the last couple of days
that all female Blue Origin Space crew that included celebrity
like Katie Perry, Laurence Sanchez and CBS Sunday CBS Morning's
Gail King, and all of the backlash they've gotten. I
talked about this yesterday, even others in Hollywood talking about
the amount of money spent on this, the fact that
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there is still so much to do right here on
Earth and now there's renewed criticism today from even those
in the aerospace field, saying this had nothing to do
about women in stem. They were just like, look at
me and my great makeup and good hair, once again
promoting that fact that as long as you're pretty enough,
you might make your way to space. Well, Gail King
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is clapping back once again. She caught up with photographers
outside of the CBS studios.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
I'm going to use the Mel Robbins theory of let them.
But I say, anybody that is criticizing this, and some
of them are people I know and like, so I'm
a little surprised. I say, you should go to Blue
Origin and see what they're doing. I was one of
those people in the beginning too. Space. Why are we
starting money space? We have so much to do here.
Space exploration is not an either or, it's a both and.
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And because you're doing something in space doesn't mean you're
taking anything away from what's happening in Earth. And so
once you educate yourself, when you see that, I really
resent that people are calling it a rye. We duplicated
the trajectory of Alan Shepherd's flight. Back in the day,
no one called that a ride. A ride sounds frivolous.
It sounds insignificant. This was a bonavide flight, It was
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a train.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Their newest criticism is the fact that they're calling themselves
astronauts and queen. A few people are going, you're not astronauts.
You didn't train like astronauts, you haven't gone through school
like astronauts, and you didn't do anything up there except
float around and hold flowers. Their word's not mine.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Honestly, that's a pretty good rep response. You shouldn't be
calling yourself astronauts. That being said, I liked Gail's response
about Alan Shepherd and taking that same trajectory. I think
that makes it kind of a cool tie into the past.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
All right.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
NFL star Travis Kelsey's quiet off season got a little
bit of publicity. The Chiefs tight end spotted out in
Georgia the other day getting in a training session with
none other than some high school football stars. The thirty
five year old has kepty pretty low profiles since that
Super Bowl, but he was out at Chambly Charter High School.
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Just so happens, NFL legend Jamal Lewis's son Jazz, happens
to go to school here. So Travis actually appeared, Ran
Routes did a bunch of drills. Everybody was having a
great time. In fact, Jazz spoke with photogs and said,
I got on some incredible work with Travis. I learned
a ton from this super Bowl legend. He stuck around
to work out with us, took pictures. No Taylor Swift
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not spotted anywhere in the vicinity. Just as a heads up,
but really cool for trev I.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Mean the really cool for all of those curs you
got to get to work out in.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
The Finally, I'm really excited about this. If you listen
to the smart List podcast, this is Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes,
and Will Arnett. One of the things that these three
longtime friends like to do is invite guests on the
podcast without telling the other two who it is. So
leave it to Sean Hayes to decide to bring on
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one of the most respected and well known comic actresses
of her time, Amy Poehler, who just happens to be
the ex wife of Will Arnett. So this is the
April twenty first episode, So this is going to drop
next Monday, but US Weekly got a little glimpse into
the episode and Amy is fantastic, they said, Obviously it's
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a surprise. The podcast opens and Will goes, oh, this
is a fun guest. My ex wife is here, Amy responding,
I just wanted to wait until you've done two hundred
and fifty episodes to see if this thing was real.
I usually give something five years until I try it.
The two apparently go back and forth. It is absolute
comic genius, by the way, perfect timing for Amy Pohler,
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who just launched her own podcast. Good hang, but I'm
really excited for this up to drop next week.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I mean, Amy Pohlar is just a comic genius all
the way around, and Will are not. I mean, it's
too bad that didn't work out, because that had to
be one of the funniest couples of all time.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah, all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan Star
dot com.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Selling a fine point seven. One of them's fluffy, the
other one sticks his hand up the back of the
shirts of his best friends all the time. Schmitding.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Okay, Jeff Dunham and Gabriely Iglecius at the Allegan County Fair,
We've got your tickets with Battle of the sex Is.
They're gonna be here in September. We're looking for today's
number one answer. One hundred women surveyed, Name and accessory
you got on your first day working at a factory?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
First day at a factory? You know, a meat I'm
thinking about meat factories. Why are they always wearing white?
Why is it when you ever see a video of
people working at a butcher thing like in the bag,
they can bleach it, I guess, but like can't you? Yeah,
but if you just did black, wouldn't you just want
black all the time?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I think you know what you're doing there, you know?
My friend on six one, six four or five eight
one oh five seven dollars seven one hundred women surveyed,
Name an accessory you got on your first day working
at a factory. You've got it right. We're sending you
to see Jeff Doneham and Gabriel Iglesias within Star one
O five point seven Holden Star.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Who's this Nicole coll where you calling from today?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
That'll creed?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
What do you do for a living, Nicole? I am
a healthkeeper housekeeper, so you you know they don't They
didn't give you any supplies when you started doing that?
Did you have to bring your own stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
No, they autified everything.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Okay, good. So what was something they gave you on
your first day?
Speaker 9 (24:42):
On my first day, I got a name bag.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Ooh interesting. One hundred one hundred women were asked to
name an accessory you might be given on your first
day working at a factory. What do you think their
top answer was there? I'm gonna because between two, but
I'm gonna say safety glasses. You're gonna say safety glasses.
Which was the other one? You were gonna go within
bade you were gonna go with name badge is your
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other one? Yeah? You know what. I'm just feeling. I'm
feeling generous today because the top two answers are literally
safety glasses and name tag. They were They were not
in the right order. You should have went with name
tag first. You had it all set up in your head,
but it was name tag top answer followed my safety glasses.
You know what for the double for the double guess
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being the top two answers, I'm giving this one to
you today. You're going to check out Jeff Dunoman, Gabriel Iuglacias.
You are so welcome. Have a blast at that, have
a good day at work while you're added to and
so you know it was name tag followed by safety glasses,
then a hard hat and gloves rounding out those top answers.
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So yeah, you were all over it. We'll do it
again tomorrow another chance to win eight fifteen with Battle
and the Sexes here on Star. Good morning for you.
I bet Benson Boone didn't wait too late to do
his tax is schmitty, because well he's got people to
do that. But I did. My wife and I we
finished him up last night. Deadline is midnight. We got
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ours in just after nine pm last night.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
That makes my chest hurt to hear that.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, it wasn't great. It wasn't great, and you know,
and putting off you're doing your taxes. I know that
I'm not unique in doing that. There's a lot of
people that do. It's a bad habit. But I want
to know the other things in your life that you
really are just a terrible procrastinator on, because the taxes
is just a reminder of the things that I have
just wasted so much time by letting it sit there.
Whether it be something that you want to do for
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your car, for your garage. I know for my wife
and I it is definitely finishing the home projects that
we start. We have currently a vanity in our bathroom
that has not been connected to the wall for almost
two years. Now, come on there. It looks like it's
connected almost, but it has never been cacked. The ceiling
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are just sitting right there. Everything else in the bathroom
was done except for the most important part, which is
just fastening in the dang vanity.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
So what is your personality type like? Because you and
I then are very different people, I could not look
at that would actually live in my anxious self. I
have to do that. I could not sit two years
with that not done.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
See, I think what's weird to me is I don't
think I could do it if it were any other
bathroom in my house other than our master bathroom. Because
it's the we Michelle and I are basically the only
people besides my kids that are going to go into it.
And so for that reason, and because it doesn't cause
any daily annoyance, like right, it doesn't. There's nothing about
it that changes its functionality. So it's just one of
those things that we know will be a semi big
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undertaking that neither one of us is very good at.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Every time. I walked in, I would be like, oh,
you know what I've just said, Okay, someone to do it.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
That's where we're probably gonna get there.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I just get it done.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I am just so thankful that my wife is also
procrastinated on this so badly, because I expected that reaction
after about three months of this. I was waiting for
the like, Hey, when is this gonna be taught? Why
are we gonna finish? And instead I think we're just
playing a little procrastinator's chicken and we're just gonna see
how long this can go without us actually finishing the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
That's how I feel about my picture gallery wall in
our living room, and I actually am not gonna have
anyone over until it's done. Really, that's what I'm setting.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, but is all of your family members the people
in the photos? Because I've still got a stock photo
hanging in my bedroom somewhere.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Yikes, do get.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
A yes on five point seven? I always looking to
make your day a little bit brighter. Let's do it
right now. Feeling good at what's going on? Schminni Well.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
I had the story a couple of weeks ago. Our
phenomenal chef Jenna just a remarkable human in West Michigan
doing so much good. Besides being the chief chef and
owner of a Moray in Grand Rapids Delicious, she's also
running a nonprofit called Food Hugs, and she was chosen
as the twenty twenty five Remarkable Women of the Year
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with our friends at WOOTV eight. Now with that came
a one thousand dollars donation to her nonprofit, Food Hugs,
as well as a trip to la to meet with
other remarkable women from across the country. Well check this out.
Those remarkable women found themselves on the Jennifer Hudson Show
the other day, and if you watch the show, you
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know all about the Spirit Tunnel. It's now Jennifer and
her entire crew welcomes guests tour show every day and
that included front and center start of the line, Chef Jenna,
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dressed in her signature pink cape with her fabulous pink hair.
Chef Jenna posting to Facebook saying, the Spirit Tunnel is
a place of complete joy and lifting spirits. If you
want to see the remarkable video of our remarkable woman,
I'm posting it to our Facebook right now.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So well deserved. I love that all right, Schmiddy. This
reminded me of so many stories we hear in West
Michigan of the Helen de Vast Children's Hospital, but this
one was for a little girl from Florida. Meg and
Bill Launery. We're told their newborn daughter. We're told their
newborn daughter wasn't going to make it after she was
born with a severe brain disorder back in August of
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twenty twenty three called alobar holopro sa fally. The condition
so serious the doctors actually expected her to pass away
within days, but instead, her parents brought her home, put
her on hospice care, and prayed for a different outcome.
And their prayers were answered in the form of doctor
Brandon Crawford, who's a neurologist from Austin, Texas. He had
this innovative non invasive therapy and he looked at Millie
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scans and saw possible potential that others had missed with
this treatment. Under his care, Billy started those treatments and
that sparked some amazing progress. She started smiling, responding to voices,
even saying mom and dad, and just as began she
began to thrive. That was when they hit with more
bad news. They could no longer afford the treatments and
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insurance was not going to cover it. Doctor Crawford, to
his credit, said just keep bringing her and they prayed
for a solution. Once again, those prayers were answered when
within a few hours, an anonymous former patient of doctor
Crawford's donated the entire outstanding balance for their treatment forty
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seven thousand dollars to help this family. Talking with their
local news, both parents, both Bill and Meg, just describing
what an unbelievable act of generosity this was.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
It's just impossible to understand that level of generosity, I
mean from a stranger. We have to pursue this treatment,
but it's not covered by insurance, so we're just doing
what or we can to make it work. And every
time we've been here, we've seen big improvements in her
function and in her interactions.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
And they don't just feel that that was coincidence. They
definitely feel this was all the work of God in
her strength.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I truly believe that, like Jesus, doctor d saved Millie's life.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
She's going to continue and currently thriving with a condition
that less than one percent make past their one birthday.
Unbelievable feeling good coming at you a couple times a day.
I want to share amazing stories with you anytime that
we can, or highlight great people doing amazing things out there.
We'll do it again tomorrow six's forty five and nine
twenty on Star Mack
Speaker 3 (32:37):
And Schmidty in the morning weekdays starting at six am
on Star one oh five point seven
Wake up. It gets my day going.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It makes me lab I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Mac In Chmitty in the morning on Star one oh
five point seven.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Good marn On Schmitty, Good morning. Welcome into Wednesday. And
I'm over uh looking at you across the board there,
and I'm like, this is how you start to day,
you know, just some tech problems the moment you sit
down basically to do your job and you're like, oh good,
none of my things are.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
It's interesting. I've been here for about two hours, didn't
have any issues till right this very moment when my
internet crashed. So awesome, y'all.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
We managed to the midwait, movies, music, and all the
gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Well, after more than a month of their bodies being unclaimed,
Academy Award winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy
Arakawa have been laid to rest. This is really nice news.
It was a private memorial ceremony held for the couple,
with family and close friends attending in Santa Fe. Remember,
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the New Mexico's Office of Medical Investigators said that they
had not been formally claimed for weeks. Hackman's three kids, Christopher, Elizabeth,
and Leslie, were reportedly at that recent private Santa Fe event,
which is good news to They seem to be amicable
because remember, there might be some legal problems over Jean's
will where this money is going to go. But the
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other part of the story this morning is that new
body cam footage has been released from officers that responded
to the scene, showing one of the dogs actually lying
next to a deceased Betsy and had been for days,
showing their unfailing loyalty and just confusion at what happened
to mom and dad. It's actually a very sweet video.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Actress Kate Blanchett says, no joke, she is ready to retire.
The Academy Award winner has had more than thirty years
in Hollywood. Talking in an interview with The Standard, the
Oscar winner says her family doesn't necessarily believe her, but
she insists she is dead serious about throwing in the towel.
There's a lot of other things that she still wants
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to do in life. And Kate gets very candid about
never really being comfortable as a celebrity. She says, anytime
I do a media interview, my quotes are always pulled
out and I talisized. It makes it seem all really loud,
and I'm just not that person. She also says it's
taken her a really long time to get used to
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being photographed. She's never really seen herself as someone that's
been in the know or in Hollywood. She's always felt
on the periphery of things. That's a surprise to me
when anyone thinks I really belong anywhere. I've always struggled
with expecting to be accepted or welcomed. I've just spent
my life getting comfortable with the feeling of being comfortable,
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and honestly, Hollywood's just not really my thing anymore. That'd
be crazy because Gatee Blanchett has.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Done everything I was gonna say, talk about some who's
been in a million, like yeah, eightier movies, being like,
I'm not still Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Like well, that she's uncomfortable with Hollywood, that she's not,
that she's kind of done with this part of her
life and the career has really taken a toll on her,
so it'll be interesting. Finally, Nickelodeon child star Amanda Bynes
is joining OnlyFans. She made the announcement to her fans
yesterday on her Instagram Stories. But get this, She's not
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going to use it the way most celebrities use it,
simply announcing I'm doing only fans to chat with my
fans through DM. I won't be posting any sleazy content
excited to join. However, fans will still have to fork
over fifty bucks a month if they wish to have
access to biines content.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I could never buy into it fully, I'd be like,
is this just Ai taking my money pretending to be
a man.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, I don't know what, like the only fans like
rules are on that way, But the blue check mark
is that you actually get for that if you were
celeb scoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Sometimes does I get a good feeling seven to five
points seven? Always look at brighton your day feeling good
right now? To do just that? It's Mack and Schmiddi
And this was so cool. I just want to shout
this out because, for the second year in a row,
hundreds hundreds of volunteers gathering in downtown Grand Rapids yesterday
to pack meals for disaster relief. This is really neat
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all part of Spartan Nash's annual Helping Hands Day. This year,
about eight hundred and fifty volunteers came over there. I
mean they had tons of kids. We're talking Calvin University
athletics programs. Folds of Honor was there in hundreds of
Spartan Nash employees as they put together meal kits and
loaded up trucks. They say they're donating one point seven
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million dollars worth of food and hygien kits this year
and they're packing about fifteen thousand meals that were getting
ready to feed families when they really need it when
disasters strike. Last year, these same boxes that were put
together right here in West Michigan went to help out
hurricane victims tornado relief efforts that were happening all over
the country. And then they're distributed by a great group
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called Convoy for Hope, a nonprofit that responds to disasters
all over the world. With these meal kids that are
going to be making their way to people. Ethan Foreheads,
the national spokesperson for Convoy of Help, catch it up
with Fox seventeen yesterday just talking about how this allows
them to respond so quickly they.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
So that win disaster strikes, and most of the time
you don't know when a disaster is going to strike.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Hurricane's the only one that we can see coming.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
But we're ready for this because of Spartan Ash, because
of all of these volunteers and employees coming out here
spending their time and energy to be ready to help
us help people during their time of meed.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So a big shout out to everybody. Parts of Helping
Hands Day yesterday got to make a big impacts.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
All right, let's talk about Chelsea, Michigan and the sweet
moment for this downtown community that came together in order
to help move a bookstore. The Book Brigade is what
they called themselves. The video has gone viral. Over three
hundred people stood in two lines running along sidewalks in
downtown Chelsea, passing each and every one of over nine
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thousand books from Serendipity Books as they moved from their
former location to a building right down the block on
the corner of Main Street. It is a very very
cute moment we're talking. It was a very practical way
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to move the book says Michelle Touklanned, the store's owner,
And she said, and as people passed the books along
they said, Oh I've not read this, or oh that's
a really good one. You should definitely pick that one up.
So it was great for business too. A lot of
buzz intown West Michigan Star dot com to see the
awesome video.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It's the Salt celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well, it's a bit of a bombshell when it comes
to the legal case for the movie. It ends with us,
and a lot of comments are saying this is a
win for director Justin Baldoni. A new interview just dropped
with Talia Spencer. She was a storyboard artist on It
Ends with Us and had everything to say about Justin
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and his incredible personality and work ethic, while not having
very kind things to say about Blake Lively. In fact, Talia,
sitting down with sixty Minutes Australia, said she doesn't believe
any of Blake's allegations.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I would say I felt more comfortable in being around
Justin than a lot of film directors in my experience.
I feel like maybe Blake smelled his kindness, mistook it
for weakness and tried to take advantage and take power.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
So yeah, she doubled down on those thoughts, agreeing that
Blake completely wrestled control of the film and according to Spencer,
the final version of It Ends with Us is absolutely
nothing like Justin's original plan. She said, I think there
was a massive compromise in terms of Justin's original vision
for the film. And she said, it is just way
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too hard for me to believe any of the allegations
Blake has to say. I've worked with Justin a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Is this Justin's card of his sleeve? Similar to what
Blake came out with and was like, I have several
other women who claim that they too were uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Difference is Justin isn't like putting these people out here.
They're coming ahead on their own. He has been very
very quiet with a lot of this, So we'll see
Jurassic Park stars. Sam Neil is having his get off
my lawn moment. He is over the self checkouts at
grocery stores. By the way, if you don't follow Sam
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Neil on Instagram, he is an absolute gem. He took
to his stories yesterday saying he gets that his old
school attitude might not be appreciated, but enough is enough.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Call me old fashioned, but I refuse to check out
my own groceries at a supermarket. I want a human
being to assist me. I don't think that's too much
to ask. And every time I check out something for myself,
you've got to think of this.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I'm doing someone out of a job.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
And if robots and self serving are going to do
all the work everywhere, who's going to be buying the
groceries at the checkout?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
It's very, very funny. As expected, the comments came pouring
in and for the most part, people were on his side,
like speak the truth, Sam, one person even going into
the annoyance of having to scan a QR code to
see a menu. He had the fifty and up crowd.
Rell riled up yesterday on the Instagram.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I made between his natural presence and that British accent simmittee.
I don't think I have ever heard a first word problem,
a first world problem explained so eloquently before in my life.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I would have a human interact with me at the
grocery store if they said things like the supermarket for
your groceries. Finally, Diego Luna actor as part of the
big and door. Star Wars series on Netflix is kind
of giving a warning be real careful with those Star
Wars props. He was on the last episode of Jimmy
(10:18):
Kimmel and talked about being stopped at London's he throw
airport over his Star Wars blaster prop.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
Went to the airport and I said, I'm gonna take
it with me because if I send it down and
the work is so realistic, is so like meticulously like
real real from a galaxy far away. But I was
stopped in security in hetrow and the guys like, unwrap
the thing and they were like, oh what he is
not good And I was trying to grab it to
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say no.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
It's just a prop.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
And one guy recognizes me, but from Narcos, not from
Star Wars.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
The one guy recognized me from Narcos my other Netflix
showing went no, no, no, no, I know this guy.
This is sketchy at hack, he said. He was actually
pulled aside and it took forever for him to go
I promise this is not a this is a Star
Wars blaster. There's nothing in here. By the way, The
first three episodes of and Or season two will premiere
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on Disney Plus next week. And don't forget we've got
those tickets for our Grand Rapid Symphony doing Star Wars
coming up at seven thirty this morning. If you want
to see more of Diego's interview, it is just a
magical your celebscoop at West Michigan startup back.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It's pretty hanging out on your hump day and directionally challenged.
Where did you get lost?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Directionally impaired is what I prefer, because a lot of
people will make directions challenging on their own. But I
don't know if you have ever been to the City
of Grand Rapids building down here downtown is where you
go to like the tax office, property issues, any of
those things. Have you ever been in that building right
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on Colder PLUSA.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I think only one time, but it was literally to
meet somebody in the lobby. That's it.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I'm telling you if you've not experienced the maze that
is that building. I had paperwork to drop off yesterday
and I had a packed day, so I was like,
you know what, I'll run over and do this before
my eleven o'clock meeting, and I forget. I've gone three
times in that building and it is the worst because
you go into the parking garage and then you go
into the building, take the stairs to the main level,
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where then you find the shuttle elevator, which takes you,
I believe, to another floor that gets you to the
other elevators that will take you throughout the rest of
the buildings. But like every time I've been there, you've
been able to get to the elevators that take you
to other offices, apparently those are now locked down, okay,
And so then you have to go to a front
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desk which isn't labeled as a front desk, and then
they have to a buzz you to the floor. So
I am walking around aimlessly for probably ten minutes at
this point, trying to figure out how I get to
the floor floor and the office that I need to
simply drop off this paperwork. And I finally find a
woman who's like, well, I have to buzz you up, okay,
So she buzzes me up, No problem, I get there,
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the guy's lovely, We're all set. And then trying to
find my way back out of the building, I rode
the same elevator like nine times. People are getting on
and then getting off, and then the same people are
returning from what they just did. I'm still on the elevator.
I can't get back to the like the m floor,
which is what I need for the other shuttle elevator
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to get to my car. I am now going to
be late for my eleven o'clock And this poor guy,
this I think he was there to turn in his taxes.
And I don't know if anyone's listening from the City
of Grand Rap, but I'm not trying to talk trash.
I'm just saying I don't know how to use your facility,
and I'm just trying to pay you. I'm trying to
give you my monies. And he gets on the elevator
with me, and I have hit my limit, because that's
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what happens to those of us that are not great
with directions. I'm not mad, I'm I'm just done. I'm done.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Say.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
This guy gets on the elevator with me and I'm
pressing my button. I'm pressing it, pressing it, and he's
going to three and he just looks at me and
he said, I have no idea how to get out
of this bleeping building. And I start crying. Oh, I
had such a packed day yesterday. I knew everything had
to line up perfectly. I'm like, this is where I
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live now. I'm never leaving this elevator. Hopefully some delivery
driver can just bring me food and water. And this
poor guy, who was so nice, was just obviously uncomfortable,
and if he's listening right now, trust me, it was
even more uncomfy for me. And he's like, oh, well,
I think I'm just trying to go to three. All
of a sudden we popped down to a sub floor
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I've never seen before and an employee comes up and
I just got off. I was like, I need to
get off here, and then the guy on the elevator
with me is like, you're free, and I was like,
I still don't know. And I walked aimlessly around that
floor which I knew I wasn't supposed to be on.
I found a door that Red Munroe lobby and I
just sprinted out when somehow found my car. I was
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in that building for no less than a half an
hour yesterday.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Oh I'm picchering just Andy Dufrain breaking breaking free from Shawshank,
standing in the road Freedom Lake.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Either this is set up very confusingly, or I'm really
really dumb. Oh but it's just that moment, like if
you ever had an embarrassing place you've gotten lost, because
I feel like saying city hall is an embarrassing place
to admit you've gotten completely lost.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Okay, honestly, I got lost in my kids' school where
I didn't know how to get out of hard because
everything just looks like a hallway with a ton of lockers.
It's all that same ugly off white baying it's locked,
and I get so confused about where my parking lot
was at. I actually brought up my walking GPS just
so that I could orient myself and walk to the
correct side of the building to get to my car.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Here's a great thing about Catholic schools. You have different
Saint statues that you can count as landmark. So I'm like,
all right, I came in by Saint Joseph, and my
car is to the left pass the smaller of the
two Virgin Mary's. And that's how I got through Sophia's
pre school.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I gotta go down to class over by Sant Francis's.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Real quick makes one six four five eight, one oh
five seven. What is an embarrassing Where is an embarrassing
place that you got lost. And again I'm not talking
trash city of gr but just make one elevator and
put everybody on the same floor.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I'm afraid to go into that building now, like I'm
a little.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Little Yeah, maybe I'm just dumb. I could be.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Five point seven. No perfect parents here, it's a matter
of fact. It's Josh Schmidty and I with another Hi Schminny.
I was so proud of myself for getting my son
Connor an awesome birthday gift. Yeah that he never saw
coming because he didn't ask for it and he had
never expressed any interest in learning it. But I got
him a guitar, an acoustic guitar, and it was all
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my idea. My wife gave me full credit. I was
so stoked to share this with my son because I thought,
either it will become like all the other toys, something
that collects dust in a corner somewhere, or could become
a lifelong passion. And that's what I was really hoping for.
And so far, so good. He's been doing his lessons,
and you know, we got it and it came with
a tuner and everything else. And so when I first
got it, my very very limited experience with guitar and
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a YouTube video got me through tuning it that very
first time, so I was able to show him how
to do it. But when it came time to tune
it again, which was just the other day, he came
to me and he's like, hey, Dad, my guitar sounds
a little weird. Do you want to try tuning it again?
I said, sure, you know, let me show you how
to do this, and so we sit down and of
course I bust out the YouTube video again because I'm helpless,
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and I start doing it and i go through the
first couple of strings and then I'm hitting like the
middle string and I'm thinking, I'm like, that still sounds off.
I tighten it a little more. Still sounds off. Yeah,
I was tightening a completely different string than the one
I was touching, and that bad boy snapped that.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Is like my biggest fear, oh guitars.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And it was like right next to us both. So
it's scared the living heck out of him right off
the jump, and it scared me too. I didn't expect
that I was about to break this string at all,
and so I'm like, oh, crap, buddy, and I'm like,
you know, broken string. It's not that big of a deal,
and he goes, are you serious? Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Dad?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
You broke my guitar. He goes, this is just like
the drone you got me for my love, Dad. Yes,
I gave him a drone and I broke it within
forty eight hours.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Here's the deal. There was no blood.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
No blood.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
My friend cut his chin on a broken guitar string,
so it could have been so much worse. And that's
what you carry with you.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I've been banned from touching the guitar that I bought. Shmitty.
This isn't fair.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Tedy's music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It's the celebrity scoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Well, it's been the talk the last couple of days
that all female Blue Origin Space crew that included celebrity
like Katie Perry, Laurence Sanchez and CBS Sunday CBS Morning's
Gail King, and all of the backlash they've gotten. I
talked about this yesterday, even others in Hollywood talking about
the amount of money spent on this, the fact that
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there is still so much to do right here on
Earth and now there's renewed criticism today from even those
in the aerospace field, saying this had nothing to do
about women in stem. They were just like, look at
me and my great makeup and good hair, once again
promoting that fact that as long as you're pretty enough,
you might make your way to space. Well, Gail King
(19:38):
is clapping back once again. She caught up with photographers
outside of the CBS studios.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
I'm going to use the Mel Robbins theory of let them.
But I say, anybody that is criticizing this, and some
of them are people I know and like, so I'm
a little surprised. I say, you should go to Blue
Origin and see what they're doing. I was one of
those people in the beginning too. Space. Why are we
starting money space? We have so much to do here.
Space exploration is not an either or, it's a both and.
(20:06):
And because you're doing something in space doesn't mean you're
taking anything away from what's happening in Earth. And so
once you educate yourself, when you see that, I really
resent that people are calling it a rye. We duplicated
the trajectory of Alan Shepherd's flight. Back in the day,
no one called that a ride. A ride sounds frivolous.
It sounds insignificant. This was a bonavide flight, It was
(20:30):
a train.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Their newest criticism is the fact that they're calling themselves
astronauts and queen. A few people are going, you're not astronauts.
You didn't train like astronauts, you haven't gone through school
like astronauts, and you didn't do anything up there except
float around and hold flowers. Their word's not mine.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Honestly, that's a pretty good rep response. You shouldn't be
calling yourself astronauts. That being said, I liked Gail's response
about Alan Shepherd and taking that same trajectory. I think
that makes it kind of a cool tie into the past.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
All right.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
NFL star Travis Kelsey's quiet off season got a little
bit of publicity. The Chiefs tight end spotted out in
Georgia the other day getting in a training session with
none other than some high school football stars. The thirty
five year old has kepty pretty low profiles since that
Super Bowl, but he was out at Chambly Charter High School.
(21:24):
Just so happens, NFL legend Jamal Lewis's son Jazz, happens
to go to school here. So Travis actually appeared, Ran
Routes did a bunch of drills. Everybody was having a
great time. In fact, Jazz spoke with photogs and said,
I got on some incredible work with Travis. I learned
a ton from this super Bowl legend. He stuck around
to work out with us, took pictures. No Taylor Swift
(21:48):
not spotted anywhere in the vicinity. Just as a heads up,
but really cool for trev I.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Mean the really cool for all of those curs you
got to get to work out in.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
The Finally, I'm really excited about this. If you listen
to the smart List podcast, this is Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes,
and Will Arnett. One of the things that these three
longtime friends like to do is invite guests on the
podcast without telling the other two who it is. So
leave it to Sean Hayes to decide to bring on
(22:19):
one of the most respected and well known comic actresses
of her time, Amy Poehler, who just happens to be
the ex wife of Will Arnett. So this is the
April twenty first episode, So this is going to drop
next Monday, but US Weekly got a little glimpse into
the episode and Amy is fantastic, they said, Obviously it's
(22:41):
a surprise. The podcast opens and Will goes, oh, this
is a fun guest. My ex wife is here, Amy responding,
I just wanted to wait until you've done two hundred
and fifty episodes to see if this thing was real.
I usually give something five years until I try it.
The two apparently go back and forth. It is absolute
comic genius, by the way, perfect timing for Amy Pohler,
(23:04):
who just launched her own podcast. Good hang, but I'm
really excited for this up to drop next week.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I mean, Amy Pohlar is just a comic genius all
the way around, and Will are not. I mean, it's
too bad that didn't work out, because that had to
be one of the funniest couples of all time.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah, all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan Star
dot com.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Selling a fine point seven. One of them's fluffy, the
other one sticks his hand up the back of the
shirts of his best friends all the time. Schmitding.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Okay, Jeff Dunham and Gabriely Iglecius at the Allegan County Fair,
We've got your tickets with Battle of the sex Is.
They're gonna be here in September. We're looking for today's
number one answer. One hundred women surveyed, Name and accessory
you got on your first day working at a factory?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
First day at a factory? You know, a meat I'm
thinking about meat factories. Why are they always wearing white?
Why is it when you ever see a video of
people working at a butcher thing like in the bag,
they can bleach it, I guess, but like can't you? Yeah,
but if you just did black, wouldn't you just want
black all the time?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I think you know what you're doing there, you know?
My friend on six one, six four or five eight
one oh five seven dollars seven one hundred women surveyed,
Name an accessory you got on your first day working
at a factory. You've got it right. We're sending you
to see Jeff Doneham and Gabriel Iglesias within Star one
O five point seven Holden Star.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Who's this Nicole coll where you calling from today?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
That'll creed?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
What do you do for a living, Nicole? I am
a healthkeeper housekeeper, so you you know they don't They
didn't give you any supplies when you started doing that?
Did you have to bring your own stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
No, they autified everything.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Okay, good. So what was something they gave you on
your first day?
Speaker 9 (24:42):
On my first day, I got a name bag.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Ooh interesting. One hundred one hundred women were asked to
name an accessory you might be given on your first
day working at a factory. What do you think their
top answer was there? I'm gonna because between two, but
I'm gonna say safety glasses. You're gonna say safety glasses.
Which was the other one? You were gonna go within
bade you were gonna go with name badge is your
(25:07):
other one? Yeah? You know what. I'm just feeling. I'm
feeling generous today because the top two answers are literally
safety glasses and name tag. They were They were not
in the right order. You should have went with name
tag first. You had it all set up in your head,
but it was name tag top answer followed my safety glasses.
You know what for the double for the double guess
(25:29):
being the top two answers, I'm giving this one to
you today. You're going to check out Jeff Dunoman, Gabriel Iuglacias.
You are so welcome. Have a blast at that, have
a good day at work while you're added to and
so you know it was name tag followed by safety glasses,
then a hard hat and gloves rounding out those top answers.
(25:49):
So yeah, you were all over it. We'll do it
again tomorrow another chance to win eight fifteen with Battle
and the Sexes here on Star. Good morning for you.
I bet Benson Boone didn't wait too late to do
his tax is schmitty, because well he's got people to
do that. But I did. My wife and I we
finished him up last night. Deadline is midnight. We got
(26:11):
ours in just after nine pm last night.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
That makes my chest hurt to hear that.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, it wasn't great. It wasn't great, and you know,
and putting off you're doing your taxes. I know that
I'm not unique in doing that. There's a lot of
people that do. It's a bad habit. But I want
to know the other things in your life that you
really are just a terrible procrastinator on, because the taxes
is just a reminder of the things that I have
just wasted so much time by letting it sit there.
Whether it be something that you want to do for
(26:37):
your car, for your garage. I know for my wife
and I it is definitely finishing the home projects that
we start. We have currently a vanity in our bathroom
that has not been connected to the wall for almost
two years. Now, come on there. It looks like it's
connected almost, but it has never been cacked. The ceiling
(27:00):
are just sitting right there. Everything else in the bathroom
was done except for the most important part, which is
just fastening in the dang vanity.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
So what is your personality type like? Because you and
I then are very different people, I could not look
at that would actually live in my anxious self. I
have to do that. I could not sit two years
with that not done.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
See, I think what's weird to me is I don't
think I could do it if it were any other
bathroom in my house other than our master bathroom. Because
it's the we Michelle and I are basically the only
people besides my kids that are going to go into it.
And so for that reason, and because it doesn't cause
any daily annoyance, like right, it doesn't. There's nothing about
it that changes its functionality. So it's just one of
those things that we know will be a semi big
(27:42):
undertaking that neither one of us is very good at.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Every time. I walked in, I would be like, oh,
you know what I've just said, Okay, someone to do it.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
That's where we're probably gonna get there.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I just get it done.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I am just so thankful that my wife is also
procrastinated on this so badly, because I expected that reaction
after about three months of this. I was waiting for
the like, Hey, when is this gonna be taught? Why
are we gonna finish? And instead I think we're just
playing a little procrastinator's chicken and we're just gonna see
how long this can go without us actually finishing the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
That's how I feel about my picture gallery wall in
our living room, and I actually am not gonna have
anyone over until it's done. Really, that's what I'm setting.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, but is all of your family members the people
in the photos? Because I've still got a stock photo
hanging in my bedroom somewhere.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Yikes, do get.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
A yes on five point seven? I always looking to
make your day a little bit brighter. Let's do it
right now. Feeling good at what's going on? Schminni Well.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
I had the story a couple of weeks ago. Our
phenomenal chef Jenna just a remarkable human in West Michigan
doing so much good. Besides being the chief chef and
owner of a Moray in Grand Rapids Delicious, she's also
running a nonprofit called Food Hugs, and she was chosen
as the twenty twenty five Remarkable Women of the Year
(29:03):
with our friends at WOOTV eight. Now with that came
a one thousand dollars donation to her nonprofit, Food Hugs,
as well as a trip to la to meet with
other remarkable women from across the country. Well check this out.
Those remarkable women found themselves on the Jennifer Hudson Show
the other day, and if you watch the show, you
(29:23):
know all about the Spirit Tunnel. It's now Jennifer and
her entire crew welcomes guests tour show every day and
that included front and center start of the line, Chef Jenna,
(29:53):
dressed in her signature pink cape with her fabulous pink hair.
Chef Jenna posting to Facebook saying, the Spirit Tunnel is
a place of complete joy and lifting spirits. If you
want to see the remarkable video of our remarkable woman,
I'm posting it to our Facebook right now.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So well deserved. I love that all right, Schmiddy. This
reminded me of so many stories we hear in West
Michigan of the Helen de Vast Children's Hospital, but this
one was for a little girl from Florida. Meg and
Bill Launery. We're told their newborn daughter. We're told their
newborn daughter wasn't going to make it after she was
born with a severe brain disorder back in August of
(30:32):
twenty twenty three called alobar holopro sa fally. The condition
so serious the doctors actually expected her to pass away
within days, but instead, her parents brought her home, put
her on hospice care, and prayed for a different outcome.
And their prayers were answered in the form of doctor
Brandon Crawford, who's a neurologist from Austin, Texas. He had
this innovative non invasive therapy and he looked at Millie
(30:55):
scans and saw possible potential that others had missed with
this treatment. Under his care, Billy started those treatments and
that sparked some amazing progress. She started smiling, responding to voices,
even saying mom and dad, and just as began she
began to thrive. That was when they hit with more
bad news. They could no longer afford the treatments and
(31:15):
insurance was not going to cover it. Doctor Crawford, to
his credit, said just keep bringing her and they prayed
for a solution. Once again, those prayers were answered when
within a few hours, an anonymous former patient of doctor
Crawford's donated the entire outstanding balance for their treatment forty
(31:36):
seven thousand dollars to help this family. Talking with their
local news, both parents, both Bill and Meg, just describing
what an unbelievable act of generosity this was.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
It's just impossible to understand that level of generosity, I
mean from a stranger. We have to pursue this treatment,
but it's not covered by insurance, so we're just doing
what or we can to make it work. And every
time we've been here, we've seen big improvements in her
function and in her interactions.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
And they don't just feel that that was coincidence. They
definitely feel this was all the work of God in
her strength.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I truly believe that, like Jesus, doctor d saved Millie's life.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
She's going to continue and currently thriving with a condition
that less than one percent make past their one birthday.
Unbelievable feeling good coming at you a couple times a day.
I want to share amazing stories with you anytime that
we can, or highlight great people doing amazing things out there.
We'll do it again tomorrow six's forty five and nine
twenty on Star Mack
Speaker 3 (32:37):
And Schmidty in the morning weekdays starting at six am
on Star one oh five point seven
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