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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Wakemp.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It gets my day going, It makes me laugh.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I love it. MC and Schmitty in the morning on
Star one on five point seven on in Schmitty, good morning,
Welcome into a Wednesday, and thanks for doing it with us,
Mack and SCHMITTI here on Starlito five points yeven and
we got a beautiful day on deg forest temps out there,
little chili right now into the mid twenties around West Michigan,
but mid forties and a bunch of sunshine today finally,
and not as wendy as yesterday too, so you can
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get out there and enjoy it. Yesterday though, SCHMITTI, you
got out did something a little bit different. You went
to an escape room.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Right I did.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Yeah, so you know that I have done a ton
of work with my friends from Abandoned Acres. They have
the spookiest spot in West Michigan come Halloween time. But
they also have an escape room that is now in
downtown Sparta. I should say rooms plural. There's actually six
different themed rooms. We did Jurassic Park, okay, yesterday with
a bunch of co workers.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So right up your own.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I love the movies and it was.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Really really cool. I gotta tell you a little better
than management. We went with our boss and I was like,
hey man, step back Alie Mac from B ninety three.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
And I got this one. I was curious, that's what
I wanted to know. So first off, did you guys
complete the room? Yeah, you did get it done in
the amount of well did you you got more than
one done?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So the Jurassic Park was three different rooms?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Okay, okay, so you had to go through. I just met.
Did you complete the challenge? Did you get out in
one hour?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
See?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That's one hour four minutes?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
So were you four minutes over? Did they tell you like, I.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Think we got a little bit special treatment because we
got some, you know, a little It's.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
A brand new room.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
It's only been open two weeks, so they did a
lot of it was really really cool though.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
But I'm telling you, guys, if you're.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Looking for birthday party ideas, they're fabulous people. They have
put their heart and soul into this thing. They've got
a Jurassic Park themed room in Indiana, Jones themed.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Room, Beach Town Shipwrecked. I mean, it's a cool spot.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So if you're there on sound Both State Street in Sparta,
it's not too far from gr It was a really
interesting time. I love being in an escape room because
it really.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Tells you a lot about the people you're with.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Are you a deep thinker?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And I will leave it at that, respectfully.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's really fun.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It's the celebrities gooop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Well, Lady Gaga's massive Mayhem album may have just dropped,
but she is already being dragged to court by a
company claiming she stole their logo for the new album.
Lost International is a surfboard brand suing Gaga for trademark
infringement for her Mayhem album, claiming they own the rights
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to the term and have used it in the surf
company's distinctive logo since twenty fifteen. They're saying Gaga one
hundred percent ripped off the design. They included a side
by side look in the court documents and I have
to be honest, it is very very similar. Here's what
Lost says. They actually voiced their concerns to Gaga before
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all this came out. They're saying she refused to stop
the use, so now they are suing. They're going after
her to block the use of the logo. The company
also wants damages, including any profits she's made off the
use of the Mayhem logo, which could be big because
she had quite a bit of merch drop up with
this album.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It's interesting. While I don't feel like they should be
able to own the word Mayhem, the logos are close,
Like you said.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Very similar.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I've got it up at West Michigan Star dot com
if you want to take a look. Kim Kardashian is
headed to court more than a decade. At almost a decade,
excuse me? After that Parisian jewelry heist. Do you remember this?
It was back in twenty sixteen that Kim was bound
and gagged at gunpoint while armed robbers forced their way
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into the Paris apartment she had rented out for fashion week.
Remember she was held hostage for hours. They made off
with more than ten million dollars in jewelry, including a
ring worth four million. Well, French officials have actually been
investigating the case for five years. I know when I
saw this story, I went I thought this had been
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taken care of. They finally ordered the case to trial
back in twenty twenty one, and the trial date was
just set to start in May. According to sources, Kim
is one hundred percent planning to take the stand. She's
going to testify in front of a jury, which means
we will probably hear even more than what she's already
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released about what she will say was the most nightmarish
experience of her life.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
To this day, I actually still can't believe it even happened,
just because she's such a public person, you know what
I mean, literally one of the most famous humans on
the planet, and so you would just think that if
she were in, you know, out of the picture, even
for just a few hours, that there would be people going,
wait a second, I can't get a hold of Kim
or any of her people. What's going well.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Remember her security guards were even overtaken, Like the whole
thing was very well planned. They are going after a
Parisian underground gang, their alleging was behind this. Finally, it
may have been about a month and a half ago,
but we are finally getting those complaints in and made
public about the Super Bowl halftime show, of course starring
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Kendrick Lamar. Some viewers, of course having complaints about inappropriate lyrics,
raunchy dance moves, but the reason I'm doing the story
Team Drake.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
People complaining that he should not have been so mean.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
If you did not watch the super Bowl halftime show,
you know that this song right here, Not Like Us
does have quite a few different moments where he refers
to his ongoing beef with Rapper Drake. At least ten complaints,
specifically upset about Kendrick using his platform to go after
his arch nemesis, one complaint even saying it was just
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not kind to use this huge moment and huge stage
to focus on a personal.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Dentda I mean, who would have thought that a rap
battle wouldn't be kind? Schmitty? I mean, I actually I
prefer my rap battles to bring a little kind.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I mean, I think it's interesting that, like all of
Kendrick's team told him not to do this, and then
he went out there and said, I'm about to do
this for those of you interested. He did see he
was seen by one hundred and thirty three point five
million people, one hundred and twenty five complaints, So not bad.
Rihanna's show brought in just over a hundred complaints. Honestly,
the big one when Jennifer Lopez and Shakira did a
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halftime show thirteen hundred.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Complaints too much gyration. I guess all.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Right, all of your celebscoo, but West Michigan start.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Back out.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Sometime does get a good feeling starting a five points,
you haven't always looking to share sith in austion with you.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And that's what we do each morning, feeling good. Right now,
it's Mack and Schmidty and this this is just such
an insane office bracket challenge Schmitty and alone and behold
it's from one of the rich people on the planet,
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. Well, of course, Berthshire Hathaway a
massive financial institution, so they own a ton of different businesses,
but they all get a chance to participate in a
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bracket challenge just probably similar to the one you do
at your office, only this one's not for ten bucks. Instead,
they put up millions of dollars for this thing. But
nobody has actually ever claimed the top prize. They started
it back in twenty sixteen, and at first it was
a million dollars for anybody who could correctly guess the
Sweet sixteen. Well, nobody won for years, so they made
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the rules easier in twenty twenty four and then again
for this year, requiring thirty correct picks in the first round. Well,
twelve employees hit that mark, so that for the first
time in nearly a decade. Check this out. They awarded
a million dollars to one of them, a worker remaining
anonymous from Flight Safety International, and then gave the other
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eleven employees, who also guessed thirty one of thirty two
games correctly, one hundred thousand dollars a piece. So over
two million dollars given out in their bracket party. And
I hope, I hope SCHWINDI that it wasn't a rich
person given more money to rich people. I hope it
was the custodian. I hope it was the receptions.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
I like this more if they were giving it to charity, right,
I feel like it went from one rich person to another.
Cost boy, all right, So this is a proud popa moment.
Mount Saint Mary's Mountaineers head coach for men's basketball, Donnie Lynn,
has been quite the story this year thanks to his
nine year old son, Silas, who's been alongside him for
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most of the season, whether that's warming up a players
pre game or sitting on the bench at home games. Unfortunately,
last weekend, the Mountaineers were eliminated in a loss to
the top seeded Duke Blue Devils.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
But it was the.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Post game press conference where head coach Lynd got so
emotional talking about the unbelievable ride and getting to do
it alongside his family, where people said, man, oh man,
this is what it's all about.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
It's amazing. You know, this is a hard business for fathers,
very difficult, and so to be able to bring him
with me, my wife and my daughter are here too,
it's been it's been a blast to be able to,
you know, have these guys you know, along the along
for this ride, and to be a part of it
and just be having so much fun. You know, I
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got the best job in the world, share it with
the people I love the most, my family, and shoot
those guys in that locker room has been unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
The greatest part when he takes his microphone and gives
it to nine year old Silas.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
These have been the best few weeks in my life,
and I hope we have many, many more of them.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Isn't that incredible?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah, just like ultimate dad, this is what masculinity looks
like it's getting so much praise online.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's a really beautiful.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Video, as it should. That hit me all in the
fields right there, as soon as his nine year old
start to talk movies.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Well, their divorce was finalized last month, and now Ben
Affleck is opening up about his divorce from Jennifer Lopez,
stating there's really no big scandal or soap opera moment
that landed them in splitsville, and he still has a
ton of respect for his ex wife. If anything, the
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entire thing has just been really embarrassing. It's a very
candid interview with GQ, Ben describing their situation as two
people just trying to figure out their lives and relationships,
probably in desperate need of couple's therapy, but said he
just felt really embarrassed and vulnerable about it, which is
why he kept the details of their split very private
until now. He wanted to set a few things straight.
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First of all, the twenty twenty four documentary The Greatest
Love Story Never Told, in which fans were constantly berating Ben,
saying he looked absolutely miserable with j Lo Ben saying
that absolutely did not contribute to their break up up.
He only got involved in the doc to support Jennifer.
He also said that he gave her big props for
handling the spotlight much better than he did. He owned
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up to what he knew was going on in the
relationship and said it was a very interesting examination deciding
to do the documentary thing, especially because we were already
having problems. Ben says he was totally fine talking about
his personal life as long as his real feelings came across,
and he said his real feelings that he really respected
Jen for being able to do all the things that
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she did. He said it did take about five months
before they could work out all their community property and
everything like that, but he still has the utmost amount
of respect for his ex.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Well, I mean, I'm glad that things are amicable there.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
But I'm sayin that was embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
A documentary called The Greatest Love Story Never Told, and
it ended what less than six months later?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
All Right, So Miley Cyrus drops a brand new album
called Something Beautiful, But following that album announcement, a trailer
for a movie that will be coming out with it.
This sounds so cool. So the album is going to
have thirteen brand new tracks, and they say the movie
is what is going to be supporting those tracks. Here's
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just a piece of the trailer, so we get a
little bit of a tease of what we might hear
on the album. At the end, Cyberus says, if I
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break away any bodies between us, would you promise I'm
enough if I give you all my love? So the
upcoming movie set to premiere in June, shortly after Something
Beautiful is expected to drop on May thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
This is like a movie that'll be dropping online? Is it?
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Is?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
She putting it in everything I'm reading? Is this is
going to be in theaters?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
True?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
So yeah, finally, Nellie the Country Grammar rapper is looking
back at his very short lived wrap beef with eminem
and going, oh, that was on me.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I really messed that up.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
The star sat down on the bootleg heav podcasting he
seriously misinterpreted something and had said when they were both
on TRL together and definitely had to profusely apologize.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
This was the thing.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
I misinterpreted something when I was really really new, and
you know, I wanted to apologize to m You know
what I mean. But I was at a time where
you know, I'm coming in, I'm the new guy. Anybody talking,
you know from the.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Lou What was it that you miss that you misunderstood?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Well, somehow I misinterpreted that he had something to say.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
About what we were doing. What we were doing.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Yeah, and when I went on MTV, I made some
comments because you know, I'm I'm still fresh from from
the Loup.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I'm ready. It's up like where you at.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, this was more than twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
He's talking like two thousand and two when he realized
I was borken up the wrong tree.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
When I met em.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Backstage, and he said that they actually found a ton
of common ground together. Him and friends were big Eminem fans.
Eminem told him his daughter Haley Jade, was a huge
fan of Nelly, and so the two are all good.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
But he's like, man, be careful where you pick your beefs.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, one guy, you don't want to take any wrap
shot set for sure.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Really great interview I've got up for you with your
scoop at West Michigan Star Dot.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Martin's here. It's Mack and Schmidty and you just brought
up a scam.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Schmidty unbelievable. Did you read through this story? I posted
it to our Facebook.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
We're talking about the Oxford.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
This is a woman in Oxford, over on the east
side of the state, who was scammed out of almost
half a million dollars her entire life savings by someone
who is pretending to be ncis actor Mark Harmon. This
is just gut wrenching, and I wanted to talk about
it this morning because I think a lot of us
are really really nervous, not necessarily about ourselves falling for
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a scam, but parents. So Sandy Sealvin is her name.
She said she sold her car and her home as
almost a five hundred thousand dollars was stolen from her.
She said that it started last April when she began
talking to this guy online that told her he was
actor Mark Harmon act like he lived down in LA
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And the big thing was that he said his money
was tied up in California and he just needed to
be loaned a couple hundred thousand dollars to pay his
crew off, get home, and then get access to his
own money. He told Sandy he'd then be able to
come and live with her and her adult son who
she cares for, and he had more than enough money
to take care of both of them. So as soon
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as she hit that nearly five hundred thousand dollars mark,
he said, Okay, I'm boarding a flight, see you soon.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Boom, account disappeared. Money is gone.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
And like, this is an older woman, she's like everything
everything I worked for, everything I had poof. I mean,
she's sick to her stomach over.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
This, and she should be. I know there's people listening
right now that are like, you thought you were talking
to a Hollywood actor and gave somebody a half a
million dollars that you had never met before. You know,
there's a part of you that has to take some
responsibility on this.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
But so she spoke to this guy for almost a year.
That is That is how much work this scammer put
into it. She's like, I agree. I was always one
of those people that was like I would never come on,
she goes, But sometimes they are just that good and
they I know XYZ did this story over on the
East Side. They talked to Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard,
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and he said, romance scams are unbelievable, and they are
on the rise. Twenty twenty two, seventy thousand people reported
being a victim of one that is insane to me.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
There was the one that was just last year of
bad of a Brad Pit impersonator getting somebody to give
them eight hundred thousand dollars. I suppose if you can
be you know, a foreign print somewhere who just needs
some cash to get by for a little bit, and
I'll totally hook you up. I meant, that's what we think.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
We think, Oh the Prince of Jordan. You know we're
not gonna fall for those. That's not what they're doing anymore.
And I don't think I would ever fall for any
of these, only because I'm a millennial. I don't pick
up my phone anyway. I don't like talking to people.
I really enjoy fun. If somebody pointed that out. Rachel
pointed that out online when I posted this story to
our Facebook. She said, it's really nice our phones now
tell you like potential scam. But honestly, I think about
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my parents and I get very very nervous because I
do think that sometimes things can just sound so legitimate,
or if they come we hear tax scams all the time,
or you suddenly give your infoto what you thought was
the irs and it's a scammer. You hear stories about
people that give over personal information and then they don't
capture the fact that they've stolen all of their credit
card info until you are thousands and thousands of dollars
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in debt. And I wondered if you've ever fallen victim
to this, and we got Oh my gosh. Kathy just
wrote the saddest story on our Facebook. She said, my
heart actually really goes out to this woman. I totally
feel her pain. I was scammed out of my life
savings by someone impersonating a friend of mine on Facebook
with a cryptocurrency scam. A friend in cybersecurity did track
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it down to the source, but police can't really do
anything at all. I'm just out my life saving.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It's so insane, especially when these scammers are overseas or
in places where there's just no course of you know,
of action that you can take to get your money.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That's what the Oakland County Sheriff was saying.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
He's like, unfortunately a lot of times these are based
in countries we don't have treaties with we don't have
extradition problems. You know, we can't get to them. They
have just taken your money and go. And I don't
know if you've ever been a victim of a scam
and if you maybe have some good advice four eight
one oh five seven.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I just thought this story was so crazy we had
to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
It is insane. I mean, Mark Carbon from Ncis that
you thought you were having a phone conversation with for
over a year leads to you losing a half a
million dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well, then you hear from the celebrities.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Remember Brad Pitt made us statement and he's like, I
am so sorry to this woman, but there's nothing I
can do that wasn't me. And I'm feel for you.
I cannot believe what you must be going through right now.
But I would never ask someone for money on the internet.
That would just never happen. And then half the time
these celebrities are like, I don't even have social media, right,
I'm not on Instagram, I'm not on Facebook, video TikTok, Like,
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oh my goodness, have you ever been victim of any
kind of scam? And maybe you have some really helpful
advice give us a call six one six four five
eight one oh five seven, or if you'd prefer, you
just drop a talk back inside our iHeartRadio app because
that was the other part of this story. They actually
think there's hundreds of thousands of more victims, but people
are so embarrassed they don't report it.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Again.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
That story's on our Facebook at West Michigan Star.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Thanks for waking up on a Wednesday with us and parents.
You know, if you feel like you're not doing the
perfect job, you're not. But that's okay because none of
us are.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Honestly, I could probably use a little advice here because
I am not very good at explaining naughty words to
my kids that don't know they're bad words.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Okay, So here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I've been doing a ton of reading with Will lately,
and we have been reading because of Wind Dixie, which
is such a good book.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, my daughter read it too long ago.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
So you know that the R word is used in
there like three times. And usually I try to read
ahead a bit to see if I can catch those.
I learned that from the Adventures of Huckleberry. Finn learned
that lesson and so, and I didn't read ahead to
catch this word and ended up reading it out loud.
And it's a very jarring word. I hate it, never
have used it. And I did that kind of oh,
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and Will was like, oh what is it? And I go, well,
that's just that's not a kind word. We don't use
that word. And so he's seven. Of course he's going
to be like, well why to go Well, because it's
it describes people in a way that is not very complimentary,
is not the way we describe wonderful people.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
He goes, well, what does it mean?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
And so he's and I'm sitting there like, well, so
you know, we're friends with everyone, and this just don't sad.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
It's a bad word.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
It guess like really upset.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
And I'm sitting there feeling really bad because then he
thinks he did something wrong. I said, I'm sorry, buddy,
I'm just I'm not going at explaining the schools. Well,
it's not the S word, it's not the D word,
it's not the G word. And he's like, right, going
through all of the bad words that he knows, and
I go, I know, honey, it is just not a
word our family feels like we should use. And then
this entire time I realized, my little parrot of a
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three year old is sitting behind the couch where I
can't see her. And so as soon as I feel
like I've settled things with Will, she pops up and goes,
what that what?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You gotta be careful with that too, because, yeah, my
shun when he find when he found out that crud
wasn't technically a swear word, it's the only word that
came out of his mouth.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
It's in our house, movies, music, and all the gossip
in one place.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Well, we know that pop's superstar Taylor Swift is just
about everywhere, but meetings on US national security I didn't
see coming. Swift was name dropped yesterday in a Senate
intelligence hearing about global threats and American allies. Intelligence officials
are facing extra scrutiny after that bombshell report about an
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Atlantic magazine journalist accidentally added to a signal group chat
which had defense officials, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth,
talking about a Yemen attack. It was crazy stuff, and
in hearing yesterday, Virginia Senator Mark Warner was pressing Director
of National Intelligence Tulci Gabbard bringing up the fact that
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we can't be alone in our security efforts.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
I agree that we just got to put America's priorities first.
But America first cannot mean America alone. The intelligence we
gather to keep American safe depends on a lot of
allies around the world. We have access to sources we
don't have. That's sharing of information saves lives, and it's
not hypothetical. We all remember because it was declassified last
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year when Austria worked with our community to expose a
plot against Taylor Swift in Vienna that could have killed
literally hundreds of individuals.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Don't you want to see, like Capitol Hill Taylor Swift
like she's a Barbie or something like on the steps in.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Her business suit.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I was actually hoping that you were going to say
that somehow Taylor got name dropped in that signal conversation
that they were discussing war plans and whether or not
the time we've seen it all yet.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
She could have she could have all right, Next.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
This is a really really sad story. Brooke Mueller, you
probably recognize the name. This is Charlie Sheen's ex wife.
She's opening up about her struggles with substance abuse in
a new interview with People Magazine, admitting she is stuck
in a cycle of getting sober and relap, saying, quote,
when we're at stage four, it typically means that cycle
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where you just have these relapses no matter how well
you get, no matter how many years, it is just
a matter of time.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
And that's what I'm stuck in.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
She says she's being very honest about her addiction issues
because honestly, if I try to sugarcoat it, I'm just
lying to myself. Brook says every so often she convinces
herself that she needs things like prescription drugs and then
goes through a bottle of pills in thirty six hours.
She says Charlie is always her first call when she
needs help for her addiction, and she says that he's
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better at avoiding his vices than she is. But says
the biggest tragedy of all of this her two kids
with Charlie, saying they're doing really well, but she understands
fully that they have been through a lot, and she
adds the sad reality of my life right now is
they are used to it. Mommy's going to relapse again
one day. Isn't that awful?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
It is awful, and I'm you know, I think it's
is it almost self defeating to be in that mindset.
It's so tough because I know that she has worked
so hard on these addiction struggles.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I don't know, and I think there are probably quite
a few people listening to us this morning that are
facing their own journey of sobriety and addiction. I do
applaud her for being so open about this because a
lot of times you do hear celebrities that are like
I did it, and she's like, I did it, and
then I fell off, and I did it again and
then I fell off, and her saying, you know, I've
got to be talking to myself in these ways. So
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I'm ever vigilant about the fact that there is this
thing that is constantly in my mind just waiting to
come out again. And I just it's a really powerful interview.
I did put it up at West Michigan Star dot Com. Finally,
Bluwie fans, be honest, the big movie announced for a
release in twenty twenty seven might score an Academy Award.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I'm not the only.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
One saying it Melanie's and Nettie is the voice of
Chili Hila and she joined The Big down.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Under podcast yesterday.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Asked if she thinks the Bluey movie could snag an
Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Host of the podcast that
I'll be honest, I think it is going to be
the biggest movie of the year, if not more.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Ah well, Bluey related, m hm. Who knows what this
movie is going to do? I would say We're open
to everything. Oh and for me personally, it's really about
working on excellent scripts, great people with great vision.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
It's really cool. Also very interesting. She has said that
after all these years, we will discover who voices Bluey
and Bingo in the show, because if you're not aware,
Australia has very strict laws about child actors and you
are not legally allowed to release their names.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
So interesting, so you.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Actually don't have any idea who any of the kids
in that show are.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Well, let's think about it then, so we could get
Oscars for you know, Best Animated Features. How about best
foreign films since Australia.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
If Muffin does.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Not get her du her flowers, best supporting acrosstof heads
will roll all right, all of your celeb scoop at
West Michigan.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Star dot Com hotday Nights, Grand Rapids Rise, welcoming the
Columbus Fury, our professional women's volleyball team. Get to be
putting it on over there at Van Angel Arena, and
if you want to be there, got to give us
the top answer.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yeap match kicks off at seven pm. Super awesome with
the kids since they've got no school the next morning.
One hundred men surveyed when you don't frame a photo,
where do you put it?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
When I don't frame a photo, it goes back into
the container I just took it out of and then
into a drawer. Well, it will remain for at least several.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Years six one, six, four or five eight one oh
five seven. One hundred men surveyed.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
When you don't.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Frame a photo, where do you put it? Number one answer?
You're joining me at our Grand.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Rapids Walks this Friday, which start one of five point.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Seven start points seven. It's Battle of the Sexiest Time. Hi,
who's this Matt? That's where you're going from. It's a nuts.
One hundred guys were asked when you don't frame a photograph,
where do you put it?
Speaker 8 (28:08):
I don't know if guys would answer this, but I
would say on a refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I don't know if guys would say that either, but
I will tell you that that's one hundred percent where
a lot of the photos wind up going, and they
stay there for until I get a photo of my
niece or my nephew or whoever else that replaces the
previous photo that was on the refrigerator.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
It's the order of things. I want to give you
this because you're just so dead right, but that is
not the top answer. I'm sorry that all right? Thank you?
Yep by hi star. Who's this?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Sarah?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Sarah, I got a great guest from a net when
one hundred guys were asked to name or excuse me,
one hundred guys were asked, when you don't frame a photograph,
where do you put it? She said what I was thinking,
which was the refrigerator, of course. But it is a
good guest. But it was not the top answer. It
wasn't even on the list of answers. So what do
you think it is?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
All right?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I've got my daughter, Amelia, who's going to tell you
what we think.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
Our answer is, all.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Right, Amelia let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
You aware, yes, say storage?
Speaker 9 (29:12):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Is storage box? Sid gets put in there and then
goes into the ether and disappears until somebody drags it
out years later. No, storage box is not the top answer.
I'm sorry, guys, thank you, thank you, Hi Star. Who's
this Sarah? Sarah, I just got a good guess from
Amelia and when one hundred guys were asked, when you
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don't frame a photograph, where do you put it? And
so far I have heard on the refrigerator, which I
thought was a great guest, and back into storage in
like a box to go away for a long time,
which is what I was thinking originally too. But Sarah,
those are not on the list of answers. So what
do you think it is?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
The album?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Does it go go into a photo album? Yeah? You
know what if it's not frameworthy, but you like it
enough to have it printed, it's going in the album
albums A top hands way ago awesome. Yes, it was
a photo album followed by wallets. I was waiting since
it was one hundred guys, I was almost expecting somebody
to say wallet in there, but not on a congratulations
(30:18):
you are going to the Grand Rapids rise Friday night.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Awesome, Thank you, you are so.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Welcome, and we'll do it again tomorrow another chance to
win eight to fifteen Battle of the Sexes. Here on start,
it's telling a fine point seven. Good morning to you.
It's Mac and Schmidty, and I wanted to ask you
about this specifically, Schmidty, because you've been a fast food
aficionado at different points in time throughout your life.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It's not a compliment.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
It's not not a complimenting all right, but I did
want to ask you if there is a specific thing
about your typical fast food order, one that you placed
fairly often, that they always seem to get raw.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
No, And I'm telling you you've got to start using
the apps. I have never used the incredible they don't
get it.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Wrong, Okay, I guarantee you they would still get this wrong.
Because that's actually the part that makes me just ridiculously
angry for no reason because I don't care about this.
But any parent who goes to a McDonald's knows that
they have delicious French fries and b that if your
kids get a chicken McNugget happy meal, they're gonna ask
you what kind of sauce you want for them, and
(31:22):
then they're not going to put it in the happy meal. Ever,
almost one hundred percent of the time, I'm always sauced up.
I have to be. I have to be vigilant on
it because I've been burned so many times on this
that I now like inspect the boxes before I pull away,
because once you're out of there, you know you're not
going back for barbecue sauce. It's not happening. Schminny. And
(31:44):
I had to do this just the other day, and
my kids are like, why are you mad? We're going
home we have barbecue sauce.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
That's true, but.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
I will tell you that like fast food places, their
sauces are so much better.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
For some reason.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
It is different, so little different. But I I just
I figured with your your top gobell exploits that anything
that there would be something that they would get wrong
consistently for you.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Nope, na, even you can even put on your little
customized part of the app. I would like some extra BBQ.
And there I am with four or five containers in
my bag.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Okay, I don't look look all right. Chick fil A,
the sauce kings, they never forget your sauces. I'm sorry.
I guarantee you more people who have experienced chicken McNugget
happy Meals in their life would say, if you don't
check for barbecue sauce.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
I'm not hating on the happy meals. I've always had McDonald's.
I've always had a wonderful experience.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
You're just hanging here.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You gotta use the app.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Sometimes because I get a good feel.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Ye all right, this is going out to my trivia
nerds and family game night geeks.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
There is a new.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Trivia board game that is all about Michigan. I adore this.
It's called Upers and Trolls. It's created by Holland resident
Luke Stein just hit shelves. He sat down with ABC
thirteen and said it was very simple. He asked for
a Christmas gift from his daughters back.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
In twenty twenty.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
It was actually the Christmas of twenty twenty. My two
daughters had asked me, you know what I wanted for Christmas?
And I said, well, try to find like a Michigan
trivia game for me. And they reported back they couldn't
find one.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Don't worry, because Luke had an idea three years worth
of work and he created his own Michigan trivia board
game Uoper's and trolls fairly simple. The board features both
an Upper and Lower Peninsula hand split into a grid.
Next to it the Mackinaw Bridge, where players have to
try and be the first to get their car across.
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All of the trivia is across the board, says Luke.
There's lots of different things and questions that you can answer,
everything from entertainment to history, to sports to geography. But
everything has one thing in common that is Michigan.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
But then I didn't want it to be just playing trivia.
I wanted to have some variety and mix it up
a little bit. So I thought one thing that's unique
to Michigan is pointing on your hand where locations are.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
That's a huge part of the game too.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Upersantrolls dot com if you want to get your hands
on the newest trivia game from the greatest state in
the country.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
All right, chmiddy, this story is making its rounds all
over the place. We goods. It's so dang cute too
a little break today. It starting to put a smile
on your face. You're definitely gonna want to go watch
the video from the new zoo in Adventure Park located
in the Green Bay area over in Wisconsin, where two
North American river rodders, Louis and Ophelia escapes. Yeah, they
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went through this little small hole that they made bigger
in a buried fence. And even though the you know,
the escape was noticed by the zoo keepers pretty quickly.
They have now been on the lamb for almost a
week and they have been spotted out several times. The
best part is is they've been spotted on security cam
footage and these two otter Schmidty are living their best
like so cute. They are sliding around in the snow.
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They're playing all over the place. And they said that
the otters should be fine because they're not gonna go
very far. They're territorial animals, and there's all sorts of
ponds and streams nearby where these two can probably set
up shop and make do for quite some time. However,
they have hired a tracker, they've got motion activated cameras,
and they're asking the public for their help too to
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send in photos and video sting to the critters. And honestly,
if they're just gonna be out there playing like this
and having so much fun. Just leave them there, just
let them be. I would love to see that.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
I totally wouldn't take them and domesticate them for my
own personal pets, because river otters are my most favorite animal.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
If you need a moment today to just sneak away
and give yourself something that's going to make you feel good,
go watch the video. It's up right now in our
stories West Michigan STA on Facebook. Feeling good, Always here
to pick you up. We'll do it again tomorrow at
six forty five. Mack and Schmidty in the morning weekdays
starting at six am on Star one oh five point
seven
Wakemp.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It gets my day going, It makes me laugh.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I love it. MC and Schmitty in the morning on
Star one on five point seven on in Schmitty, good morning,
Welcome into a Wednesday, and thanks for doing it with us,
Mack and SCHMITTI here on Starlito five points yeven and
we got a beautiful day on deg forest temps out there,
little chili right now into the mid twenties around West Michigan,
but mid forties and a bunch of sunshine today finally,
and not as wendy as yesterday too, so you can
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get out there and enjoy it. Yesterday though, SCHMITTI, you
got out did something a little bit different. You went
to an escape room.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Right I did.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Yeah, so you know that I have done a ton
of work with my friends from Abandoned Acres. They have
the spookiest spot in West Michigan come Halloween time. But
they also have an escape room that is now in
downtown Sparta. I should say rooms plural. There's actually six
different themed rooms. We did Jurassic Park, okay, yesterday with
a bunch of co workers.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So right up your own.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I love the movies and it was.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Really really cool. I gotta tell you a little better
than management. We went with our boss and I was like,
hey man, step back Alie Mac from B ninety three.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
And I got this one. I was curious, that's what
I wanted to know. So first off, did you guys
complete the room? Yeah, you did get it done in
the amount of well did you you got more than
one done?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So the Jurassic Park was three different rooms?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Okay, okay, so you had to go through. I just met.
Did you complete the challenge? Did you get out in
one hour?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
See?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That's one hour four minutes?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
So were you four minutes over? Did they tell you like, I.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Think we got a little bit special treatment because we
got some, you know, a little It's.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
A brand new room.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
It's only been open two weeks, so they did a
lot of it was really really cool though.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
But I'm telling you, guys, if you're.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Looking for birthday party ideas, they're fabulous people. They have
put their heart and soul into this thing. They've got
a Jurassic Park themed room in Indiana, Jones themed.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Room, Beach Town Shipwrecked. I mean, it's a cool spot.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So if you're there on sound Both State Street in Sparta,
it's not too far from gr It was a really
interesting time. I love being in an escape room because
it really.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Tells you a lot about the people you're with.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Are you a deep thinker?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And I will leave it at that, respectfully.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's really fun.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Movies, music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It's the celebrities gooop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Well, Lady Gaga's massive Mayhem album may have just dropped,
but she is already being dragged to court by a
company claiming she stole their logo for the new album.
Lost International is a surfboard brand suing Gaga for trademark
infringement for her Mayhem album, claiming they own the rights
(02:45):
to the term and have used it in the surf
company's distinctive logo since twenty fifteen. They're saying Gaga one
hundred percent ripped off the design. They included a side
by side look in the court documents and I have
to be honest, it is very very similar. Here's what
Lost says. They actually voiced their concerns to Gaga before
(03:07):
all this came out. They're saying she refused to stop
the use, so now they are suing. They're going after
her to block the use of the logo. The company
also wants damages, including any profits she's made off the
use of the Mayhem logo, which could be big because
she had quite a bit of merch drop up with
this album.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It's interesting. While I don't feel like they should be
able to own the word Mayhem, the logos are close,
Like you said.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Very similar.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I've got it up at West Michigan Star dot com
if you want to take a look. Kim Kardashian is
headed to court more than a decade. At almost a decade,
excuse me? After that Parisian jewelry heist. Do you remember this?
It was back in twenty sixteen that Kim was bound
and gagged at gunpoint while armed robbers forced their way
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into the Paris apartment she had rented out for fashion week.
Remember she was held hostage for hours. They made off
with more than ten million dollars in jewelry, including a
ring worth four million. Well, French officials have actually been
investigating the case for five years. I know when I
saw this story, I went I thought this had been
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taken care of. They finally ordered the case to trial
back in twenty twenty one, and the trial date was
just set to start in May. According to sources, Kim
is one hundred percent planning to take the stand. She's
going to testify in front of a jury, which means
we will probably hear even more than what she's already
(04:36):
released about what she will say was the most nightmarish
experience of her life.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
To this day, I actually still can't believe it even happened,
just because she's such a public person, you know what
I mean, literally one of the most famous humans on
the planet, and so you would just think that if
she were in, you know, out of the picture, even
for just a few hours, that there would be people going,
wait a second, I can't get a hold of Kim
or any of her people. What's going well.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Remember her security guards were even overtaken, Like the whole
thing was very well planned. They are going after a
Parisian underground gang, their alleging was behind this. Finally, it
may have been about a month and a half ago,
but we are finally getting those complaints in and made
public about the Super Bowl halftime show, of course starring
(05:21):
Kendrick Lamar. Some viewers, of course having complaints about inappropriate lyrics,
raunchy dance moves, but the reason I'm doing the story
Team Drake.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
People complaining that he should not have been so mean.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
If you did not watch the super Bowl halftime show,
you know that this song right here, Not Like Us
does have quite a few different moments where he refers
to his ongoing beef with Rapper Drake. At least ten complaints,
specifically upset about Kendrick using his platform to go after
his arch nemesis, one complaint even saying it was just
(05:58):
not kind to use this huge moment and huge stage
to focus on a personal.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Dentda I mean, who would have thought that a rap
battle wouldn't be kind? Schmitty? I mean, I actually I
prefer my rap battles to bring a little kind.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I mean, I think it's interesting that, like all of
Kendrick's team told him not to do this, and then
he went out there and said, I'm about to do
this for those of you interested. He did see he
was seen by one hundred and thirty three point five
million people, one hundred and twenty five complaints, So not bad.
Rihanna's show brought in just over a hundred complaints. Honestly,
the big one when Jennifer Lopez and Shakira did a
(06:33):
halftime show thirteen hundred.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Complaints too much gyration. I guess all.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Right, all of your celebscoo, but West Michigan start.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Back out.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Sometime does get a good feeling starting a five points,
you haven't always looking to share sith in austion with you.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And that's what we do each morning, feeling good. Right now,
it's Mack and Schmidty and this this is just such
an insane office bracket challenge Schmitty and alone and behold
it's from one of the rich people on the planet,
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. Well, of course, Berthshire Hathaway a
massive financial institution, so they own a ton of different businesses,
but they all get a chance to participate in a
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bracket challenge just probably similar to the one you do
at your office, only this one's not for ten bucks. Instead,
they put up millions of dollars for this thing. But
nobody has actually ever claimed the top prize. They started
it back in twenty sixteen, and at first it was
a million dollars for anybody who could correctly guess the
Sweet sixteen. Well, nobody won for years, so they made
(07:34):
the rules easier in twenty twenty four and then again
for this year, requiring thirty correct picks in the first round. Well,
twelve employees hit that mark, so that for the first
time in nearly a decade. Check this out. They awarded
a million dollars to one of them, a worker remaining
anonymous from Flight Safety International, and then gave the other
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eleven employees, who also guessed thirty one of thirty two
games correctly, one hundred thousand dollars a piece. So over
two million dollars given out in their bracket party. And
I hope, I hope SCHWINDI that it wasn't a rich
person given more money to rich people. I hope it
was the custodian. I hope it was the receptions.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
I like this more if they were giving it to charity, right,
I feel like it went from one rich person to another.
Cost boy, all right, So this is a proud popa moment.
Mount Saint Mary's Mountaineers head coach for men's basketball, Donnie Lynn,
has been quite the story this year thanks to his
nine year old son, Silas, who's been alongside him for
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most of the season, whether that's warming up a players
pre game or sitting on the bench at home games. Unfortunately,
last weekend, the Mountaineers were eliminated in a loss to
the top seeded Duke Blue Devils.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
But it was the.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Post game press conference where head coach Lynd got so
emotional talking about the unbelievable ride and getting to do
it alongside his family, where people said, man, oh man,
this is what it's all about.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
It's amazing. You know, this is a hard business for fathers,
very difficult, and so to be able to bring him
with me, my wife and my daughter are here too,
it's been it's been a blast to be able to,
you know, have these guys you know, along the along
for this ride, and to be a part of it
and just be having so much fun. You know, I
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got the best job in the world, share it with
the people I love the most, my family, and shoot
those guys in that locker room has been unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
The greatest part when he takes his microphone and gives
it to nine year old Silas.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
These have been the best few weeks in my life,
and I hope we have many, many more of them.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Isn't that incredible?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah, just like ultimate dad, this is what masculinity looks
like it's getting so much praise online.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's a really beautiful.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Video, as it should. That hit me all in the
fields right there, as soon as his nine year old
start to talk movies.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Music and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Well, their divorce was finalized last month, and now Ben
Affleck is opening up about his divorce from Jennifer Lopez,
stating there's really no big scandal or soap opera moment
that landed them in splitsville, and he still has a
ton of respect for his ex wife. If anything, the
(10:23):
entire thing has just been really embarrassing. It's a very
candid interview with GQ, Ben describing their situation as two
people just trying to figure out their lives and relationships,
probably in desperate need of couple's therapy, but said he
just felt really embarrassed and vulnerable about it, which is
why he kept the details of their split very private
until now. He wanted to set a few things straight.
(10:45):
First of all, the twenty twenty four documentary The Greatest
Love Story Never Told, in which fans were constantly berating Ben,
saying he looked absolutely miserable with j Lo Ben saying
that absolutely did not contribute to their break up up.
He only got involved in the doc to support Jennifer.
He also said that he gave her big props for
handling the spotlight much better than he did. He owned
(11:09):
up to what he knew was going on in the
relationship and said it was a very interesting examination deciding
to do the documentary thing, especially because we were already
having problems. Ben says he was totally fine talking about
his personal life as long as his real feelings came across,
and he said his real feelings that he really respected
Jen for being able to do all the things that
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she did. He said it did take about five months
before they could work out all their community property and
everything like that, but he still has the utmost amount
of respect for his ex.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Well, I mean, I'm glad that things are amicable there.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
But I'm sayin that was embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
A documentary called The Greatest Love Story Never Told, and
it ended what less than six months later?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
All Right, So Miley Cyrus drops a brand new album
called Something Beautiful, But following that album announcement, a trailer
for a movie that will be coming out with it.
This sounds so cool. So the album is going to
have thirteen brand new tracks, and they say the movie
is what is going to be supporting those tracks. Here's
(12:13):
just a piece of the trailer, so we get a
little bit of a tease of what we might hear
on the album. At the end, Cyberus says, if I
(12:36):
break away any bodies between us, would you promise I'm
enough if I give you all my love? So the
upcoming movie set to premiere in June, shortly after Something
Beautiful is expected to drop on May thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
This is like a movie that'll be dropping online? Is it?
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Is?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
She putting it in everything I'm reading? Is this is
going to be in theaters?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
True?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
So yeah, finally, Nellie the Country Grammar rapper is looking
back at his very short lived wrap beef with eminem
and going, oh, that was on me.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I really messed that up.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
The star sat down on the bootleg heav podcasting he
seriously misinterpreted something and had said when they were both
on TRL together and definitely had to profusely apologize.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
This was the thing.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
I misinterpreted something when I was really really new, and
you know, I wanted to apologize to m You know
what I mean. But I was at a time where
you know, I'm coming in, I'm the new guy. Anybody talking,
you know from the.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Lou What was it that you miss that you misunderstood?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Well, somehow I misinterpreted that he had something to say.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
About what we were doing. What we were doing.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Yeah, and when I went on MTV, I made some
comments because you know, I'm I'm still fresh from from
the Loup.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I'm ready. It's up like where you at.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, this was more than twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
He's talking like two thousand and two when he realized
I was borken up the wrong tree.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
When I met em.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Backstage, and he said that they actually found a ton
of common ground together. Him and friends were big Eminem fans.
Eminem told him his daughter Haley Jade, was a huge
fan of Nelly, and so the two are all good.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
But he's like, man, be careful where you pick your beefs.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, one guy, you don't want to take any wrap
shot set for sure.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Really great interview I've got up for you with your
scoop at West Michigan Star Dot.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Martin's here. It's Mack and Schmidty and you just brought
up a scam.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Schmidty unbelievable. Did you read through this story? I posted
it to our Facebook.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
We're talking about the Oxford.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
This is a woman in Oxford, over on the east
side of the state, who was scammed out of almost
half a million dollars her entire life savings by someone
who is pretending to be ncis actor Mark Harmon. This
is just gut wrenching, and I wanted to talk about
it this morning because I think a lot of us
are really really nervous, not necessarily about ourselves falling for
(14:58):
a scam, but parents. So Sandy Sealvin is her name.
She said she sold her car and her home as
almost a five hundred thousand dollars was stolen from her.
She said that it started last April when she began
talking to this guy online that told her he was
actor Mark Harmon act like he lived down in LA
(15:19):
And the big thing was that he said his money
was tied up in California and he just needed to
be loaned a couple hundred thousand dollars to pay his
crew off, get home, and then get access to his
own money. He told Sandy he'd then be able to
come and live with her and her adult son who
she cares for, and he had more than enough money
to take care of both of them. So as soon
(15:40):
as she hit that nearly five hundred thousand dollars mark,
he said, Okay, I'm boarding a flight, see you soon.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Boom, account disappeared. Money is gone.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
And like, this is an older woman, she's like everything
everything I worked for, everything I had poof. I mean,
she's sick to her stomach over.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
This, and she should be. I know there's people listening
right now that are like, you thought you were talking
to a Hollywood actor and gave somebody a half a
million dollars that you had never met before. You know,
there's a part of you that has to take some
responsibility on this.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
But so she spoke to this guy for almost a year.
That is That is how much work this scammer put
into it. She's like, I agree. I was always one
of those people that was like I would never come on,
she goes, But sometimes they are just that good and
they I know XYZ did this story over on the
East Side. They talked to Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard,
(16:32):
and he said, romance scams are unbelievable, and they are
on the rise. Twenty twenty two, seventy thousand people reported
being a victim of one that is insane to me.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
There was the one that was just last year of
bad of a Brad Pit impersonator getting somebody to give
them eight hundred thousand dollars. I suppose if you can
be you know, a foreign print somewhere who just needs
some cash to get by for a little bit, and
I'll totally hook you up. I meant, that's what we think.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
We think, Oh the Prince of Jordan. You know we're
not gonna fall for those. That's not what they're doing anymore.
And I don't think I would ever fall for any
of these, only because I'm a millennial. I don't pick
up my phone anyway. I don't like talking to people.
I really enjoy fun. If somebody pointed that out. Rachel
pointed that out online when I posted this story to
our Facebook. She said, it's really nice our phones now
tell you like potential scam. But honestly, I think about
(17:30):
my parents and I get very very nervous because I
do think that sometimes things can just sound so legitimate,
or if they come we hear tax scams all the time,
or you suddenly give your infoto what you thought was
the irs and it's a scammer. You hear stories about
people that give over personal information and then they don't
capture the fact that they've stolen all of their credit
card info until you are thousands and thousands of dollars
(17:51):
in debt. And I wondered if you've ever fallen victim
to this, and we got Oh my gosh. Kathy just
wrote the saddest story on our Facebook. She said, my
heart actually really goes out to this woman. I totally
feel her pain. I was scammed out of my life
savings by someone impersonating a friend of mine on Facebook
with a cryptocurrency scam. A friend in cybersecurity did track
(18:16):
it down to the source, but police can't really do
anything at all. I'm just out my life saving.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It's so insane, especially when these scammers are overseas or
in places where there's just no course of you know,
of action that you can take to get your money.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That's what the Oakland County Sheriff was saying.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
He's like, unfortunately a lot of times these are based
in countries we don't have treaties with we don't have
extradition problems. You know, we can't get to them. They
have just taken your money and go. And I don't
know if you've ever been a victim of a scam
and if you maybe have some good advice four eight
one oh five seven.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I just thought this story was so crazy we had
to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
It is insane. I mean, Mark Carbon from Ncis that
you thought you were having a phone conversation with for
over a year leads to you losing a half a
million dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well, then you hear from the celebrities.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Remember Brad Pitt made us statement and he's like, I
am so sorry to this woman, but there's nothing I
can do that wasn't me. And I'm feel for you.
I cannot believe what you must be going through right now.
But I would never ask someone for money on the internet.
That would just never happen. And then half the time
these celebrities are like, I don't even have social media, right,
I'm not on Instagram, I'm not on Facebook, video TikTok, Like,
(19:22):
oh my goodness, have you ever been victim of any
kind of scam? And maybe you have some really helpful
advice give us a call six one six four five
eight one oh five seven, or if you'd prefer, you
just drop a talk back inside our iHeartRadio app because
that was the other part of this story. They actually
think there's hundreds of thousands of more victims, but people
are so embarrassed they don't report it.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Again.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
That story's on our Facebook at West Michigan Star.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Thanks for waking up on a Wednesday with us and parents.
You know, if you feel like you're not doing the
perfect job, you're not. But that's okay because none of
us are.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Honestly, I could probably use a little advice here because
I am not very good at explaining naughty words to
my kids that don't know they're bad words.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Okay, So here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I've been doing a ton of reading with Will lately,
and we have been reading because of Wind Dixie, which
is such a good book.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, my daughter read it too long ago.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
So you know that the R word is used in
there like three times. And usually I try to read
ahead a bit to see if I can catch those.
I learned that from the Adventures of Huckleberry. Finn learned
that lesson and so, and I didn't read ahead to
catch this word and ended up reading it out loud.
And it's a very jarring word. I hate it, never
have used it. And I did that kind of oh,
(20:38):
and Will was like, oh what is it? And I go, well,
that's just that's not a kind word. We don't use
that word. And so he's seven. Of course he's going
to be like, well why to go Well, because it's
it describes people in a way that is not very complimentary,
is not the way we describe wonderful people.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
He goes, well, what does it mean?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
And so he's and I'm sitting there like, well, so
you know, we're friends with everyone, and this just don't sad.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
It's a bad word.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
It guess like really upset.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
And I'm sitting there feeling really bad because then he
thinks he did something wrong. I said, I'm sorry, buddy,
I'm just I'm not going at explaining the schools. Well,
it's not the S word, it's not the D word,
it's not the G word. And he's like, right, going
through all of the bad words that he knows, and
I go, I know, honey, it is just not a
word our family feels like we should use. And then
this entire time I realized, my little parrot of a
(21:30):
three year old is sitting behind the couch where I
can't see her. And so as soon as I feel
like I've settled things with Will, she pops up and goes,
what that what?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You gotta be careful with that too, because, yeah, my
shun when he find when he found out that crud
wasn't technically a swear word, it's the only word that
came out of his mouth.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
It's in our house, movies, music, and all the gossip
in one place.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Well, we know that pop's superstar Taylor Swift is just
about everywhere, but meetings on US national security I didn't
see coming. Swift was name dropped yesterday in a Senate
intelligence hearing about global threats and American allies. Intelligence officials
are facing extra scrutiny after that bombshell report about an
(22:26):
Atlantic magazine journalist accidentally added to a signal group chat
which had defense officials, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth,
talking about a Yemen attack. It was crazy stuff, and
in hearing yesterday, Virginia Senator Mark Warner was pressing Director
of National Intelligence Tulci Gabbard bringing up the fact that
(22:50):
we can't be alone in our security efforts.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
I agree that we just got to put America's priorities first.
But America first cannot mean America alone. The intelligence we
gather to keep American safe depends on a lot of
allies around the world. We have access to sources we
don't have. That's sharing of information saves lives, and it's
not hypothetical. We all remember because it was declassified last
(23:14):
year when Austria worked with our community to expose a
plot against Taylor Swift in Vienna that could have killed
literally hundreds of individuals.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Don't you want to see, like Capitol Hill Taylor Swift
like she's a Barbie or something like on the steps in.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Her business suit.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I was actually hoping that you were going to say
that somehow Taylor got name dropped in that signal conversation
that they were discussing war plans and whether or not
the time we've seen it all yet.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
She could have she could have all right, Next.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
This is a really really sad story. Brooke Mueller, you
probably recognize the name. This is Charlie Sheen's ex wife.
She's opening up about her struggles with substance abuse in
a new interview with People Magazine, admitting she is stuck
in a cycle of getting sober and relap, saying, quote,
when we're at stage four, it typically means that cycle
(24:05):
where you just have these relapses no matter how well
you get, no matter how many years, it is just
a matter of time.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
And that's what I'm stuck in.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
She says she's being very honest about her addiction issues
because honestly, if I try to sugarcoat it, I'm just
lying to myself. Brook says every so often she convinces
herself that she needs things like prescription drugs and then
goes through a bottle of pills in thirty six hours.
She says Charlie is always her first call when she
needs help for her addiction, and she says that he's
(24:37):
better at avoiding his vices than she is. But says
the biggest tragedy of all of this her two kids
with Charlie, saying they're doing really well, but she understands
fully that they have been through a lot, and she
adds the sad reality of my life right now is
they are used to it. Mommy's going to relapse again
one day. Isn't that awful?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
It is awful, and I'm you know, I think it's
is it almost self defeating to be in that mindset.
It's so tough because I know that she has worked
so hard on these addiction struggles.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I don't know, and I think there are probably quite
a few people listening to us this morning that are
facing their own journey of sobriety and addiction. I do
applaud her for being so open about this because a
lot of times you do hear celebrities that are like
I did it, and she's like, I did it, and
then I fell off, and I did it again and
then I fell off, and her saying, you know, I've
got to be talking to myself in these ways. So
(25:30):
I'm ever vigilant about the fact that there is this
thing that is constantly in my mind just waiting to
come out again. And I just it's a really powerful interview.
I did put it up at West Michigan Star dot Com. Finally,
Bluwie fans, be honest, the big movie announced for a
release in twenty twenty seven might score an Academy Award.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I'm not the only.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
One saying it Melanie's and Nettie is the voice of
Chili Hila and she joined The Big down.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Under podcast yesterday.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Asked if she thinks the Bluey movie could snag an
Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Host of the podcast that
I'll be honest, I think it is going to be
the biggest movie of the year, if not more.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Ah well, Bluey related, m hm. Who knows what this
movie is going to do? I would say We're open
to everything. Oh and for me personally, it's really about
working on excellent scripts, great people with great vision.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
It's really cool. Also very interesting. She has said that
after all these years, we will discover who voices Bluey
and Bingo in the show, because if you're not aware,
Australia has very strict laws about child actors and you
are not legally allowed to release their names.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
So interesting, so you.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Actually don't have any idea who any of the kids
in that show are.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Well, let's think about it then, so we could get
Oscars for you know, Best Animated Features. How about best
foreign films since Australia.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
If Muffin does.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Not get her du her flowers, best supporting acrosstof heads
will roll all right, all of your celeb scoop at
West Michigan.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Star dot Com hotday Nights, Grand Rapids Rise, welcoming the
Columbus Fury, our professional women's volleyball team. Get to be
putting it on over there at Van Angel Arena, and
if you want to be there, got to give us
the top answer.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yeap match kicks off at seven pm. Super awesome with
the kids since they've got no school the next morning.
One hundred men surveyed when you don't frame a photo,
where do you put it?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
When I don't frame a photo, it goes back into
the container I just took it out of and then
into a drawer. Well, it will remain for at least several.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Years six one, six, four or five eight one oh
five seven. One hundred men surveyed.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
When you don't.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Frame a photo, where do you put it? Number one answer?
You're joining me at our Grand.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Rapids Walks this Friday, which start one of five point.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Seven start points seven. It's Battle of the Sexiest Time. Hi,
who's this Matt? That's where you're going from. It's a nuts.
One hundred guys were asked when you don't frame a photograph,
where do you put it?
Speaker 8 (28:08):
I don't know if guys would answer this, but I
would say on a refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I don't know if guys would say that either, but
I will tell you that that's one hundred percent where
a lot of the photos wind up going, and they
stay there for until I get a photo of my
niece or my nephew or whoever else that replaces the
previous photo that was on the refrigerator.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
It's the order of things. I want to give you
this because you're just so dead right, but that is
not the top answer. I'm sorry that all right? Thank you?
Yep by hi star. Who's this?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Sarah?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Sarah, I got a great guest from a net when
one hundred guys were asked to name or excuse me,
one hundred guys were asked, when you don't frame a photograph,
where do you put it? She said what I was thinking,
which was the refrigerator, of course. But it is a
good guest. But it was not the top answer. It
wasn't even on the list of answers. So what do
you think it is?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
All right?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I've got my daughter, Amelia, who's going to tell you
what we think.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
Our answer is, all.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Right, Amelia let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
You aware, yes, say storage?
Speaker 9 (29:12):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Is storage box? Sid gets put in there and then
goes into the ether and disappears until somebody drags it
out years later. No, storage box is not the top answer.
I'm sorry, guys, thank you, thank you, Hi Star. Who's
this Sarah? Sarah, I just got a good guess from
Amelia and when one hundred guys were asked, when you
(29:35):
don't frame a photograph, where do you put it? And
so far I have heard on the refrigerator, which I
thought was a great guest, and back into storage in
like a box to go away for a long time,
which is what I was thinking originally too. But Sarah,
those are not on the list of answers. So what
do you think it is?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
The album?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Does it go go into a photo album? Yeah? You
know what if it's not frameworthy, but you like it
enough to have it printed, it's going in the album
albums A top hands way ago awesome. Yes, it was
a photo album followed by wallets. I was waiting since
it was one hundred guys, I was almost expecting somebody
to say wallet in there, but not on a congratulations
(30:18):
you are going to the Grand Rapids rise Friday night.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Awesome, Thank you, you are so.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Welcome, and we'll do it again tomorrow another chance to
win eight to fifteen Battle of the Sexes. Here on start,
it's telling a fine point seven. Good morning to you.
It's Mac and Schmidty, and I wanted to ask you
about this specifically, Schmidty, because you've been a fast food
aficionado at different points in time throughout your life.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It's not a compliment.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
It's not not a complimenting all right, but I did
want to ask you if there is a specific thing
about your typical fast food order, one that you placed
fairly often, that they always seem to get raw.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
No, And I'm telling you you've got to start using
the apps. I have never used the incredible they don't
get it.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Wrong, Okay, I guarantee you they would still get this wrong.
Because that's actually the part that makes me just ridiculously
angry for no reason because I don't care about this.
But any parent who goes to a McDonald's knows that
they have delicious French fries and b that if your
kids get a chicken McNugget happy meal, they're gonna ask
you what kind of sauce you want for them, and
(31:22):
then they're not going to put it in the happy meal. Ever,
almost one hundred percent of the time, I'm always sauced up.
I have to be. I have to be vigilant on
it because I've been burned so many times on this
that I now like inspect the boxes before I pull away,
because once you're out of there, you know you're not
going back for barbecue sauce. It's not happening. Schminny. And
(31:44):
I had to do this just the other day, and
my kids are like, why are you mad? We're going
home we have barbecue sauce.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
That's true, but.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
I will tell you that like fast food places, their
sauces are so much better.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
For some reason.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
It is different, so little different. But I I just
I figured with your your top gobell exploits that anything
that there would be something that they would get wrong
consistently for you.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Nope, na, even you can even put on your little
customized part of the app. I would like some extra BBQ.
And there I am with four or five containers in
my bag.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Okay, I don't look look all right. Chick fil A,
the sauce kings, they never forget your sauces. I'm sorry.
I guarantee you more people who have experienced chicken McNugget
happy Meals in their life would say, if you don't
check for barbecue sauce.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
I'm not hating on the happy meals. I've always had McDonald's.
I've always had a wonderful experience.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
You're just hanging here.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You gotta use the app.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Sometimes because I get a good feel.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Ye all right, this is going out to my trivia
nerds and family game night geeks.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
There is a new.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Trivia board game that is all about Michigan. I adore this.
It's called Upers and Trolls. It's created by Holland resident
Luke Stein just hit shelves. He sat down with ABC
thirteen and said it was very simple. He asked for
a Christmas gift from his daughters back.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
In twenty twenty.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
It was actually the Christmas of twenty twenty. My two
daughters had asked me, you know what I wanted for Christmas?
And I said, well, try to find like a Michigan
trivia game for me. And they reported back they couldn't
find one.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Don't worry, because Luke had an idea three years worth
of work and he created his own Michigan trivia board
game Uoper's and trolls fairly simple. The board features both
an Upper and Lower Peninsula hand split into a grid.
Next to it the Mackinaw Bridge, where players have to
try and be the first to get their car across.
(33:44):
All of the trivia is across the board, says Luke.
There's lots of different things and questions that you can answer,
everything from entertainment to history, to sports to geography. But
everything has one thing in common that is Michigan.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
But then I didn't want it to be just playing trivia.
I wanted to have some variety and mix it up
a little bit. So I thought one thing that's unique
to Michigan is pointing on your hand where locations are.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
That's a huge part of the game too.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Upersantrolls dot com if you want to get your hands
on the newest trivia game from the greatest state in
the country.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
All right, chmiddy, this story is making its rounds all
over the place. We goods. It's so dang cute too
a little break today. It starting to put a smile
on your face. You're definitely gonna want to go watch
the video from the new zoo in Adventure Park located
in the Green Bay area over in Wisconsin, where two
North American river rodders, Louis and Ophelia escapes. Yeah, they
(34:40):
went through this little small hole that they made bigger
in a buried fence. And even though the you know,
the escape was noticed by the zoo keepers pretty quickly.
They have now been on the lamb for almost a
week and they have been spotted out several times. The
best part is is they've been spotted on security cam
footage and these two otter Schmidty are living their best
like so cute. They are sliding around in the snow.
(35:04):
They're playing all over the place. And they said that
the otters should be fine because they're not gonna go
very far. They're territorial animals, and there's all sorts of
ponds and streams nearby where these two can probably set
up shop and make do for quite some time. However,
they have hired a tracker, they've got motion activated cameras,
and they're asking the public for their help too to
(35:24):
send in photos and video sting to the critters. And honestly,
if they're just gonna be out there playing like this
and having so much fun. Just leave them there, just
let them be. I would love to see that.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
I totally wouldn't take them and domesticate them for my
own personal pets, because river otters are my most favorite animal.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
If you need a moment today to just sneak away
and give yourself something that's going to make you feel good,
go watch the video. It's up right now in our
stories West Michigan STA on Facebook. Feeling good, Always here
to pick you up. We'll do it again tomorrow at
six forty five. Mack and Schmidty in the morning weekdays
starting at six am on Star one oh five point
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