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Speaker 1 (00:06):
It gets my day going and makes me laugh.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I of it. Mac and Schmitty in the Morning on
Star one of five point seven twelve.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Good morning, Smitty, Heay, good morning. Welcome into your Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Do you feel like you're more in Memorial Day weekend
mode or end of school year mode?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
End of school year mode?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, not even thinking about the weekend? No, not yet,
not there yet. I think a lot of people are
in there. I'm so busy. I feel like the end
of the school year hasn't kicked in. We've got the
rare triple threat tonight where your kids are supposed to
be in three different places at one time, but you
only have the two of you if you're lucky, and
just have to ship them all over the place in
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creative ways.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
So two kids in three different places we got going on.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We have one kid who's got a baseball game, one
kid who's got a softball practice, And this is our
last night of a book club that my son's been
a part of all year long, and it's the last
book club of the year, and the author is actually
come into the book club so the kids can ask
him questions and all this stuff, and so we can't
miss that either. So we're leaving early for the baseball game.
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I'm picking up afterwards, driving to softball practice. My wife
was going to go to the thing with my son.
We're we're in it. We're in it for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, growing up with the three brothers. That was our
lives for about twenty years.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So in the past, actor Shia Labuff has been known
for some of his bad boy behavior, but fans are
pointing out this new video scenes, so maybe he's turning
a new leaf and showing a lot of patience with fans,
but don't push him too much.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So he is in.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Can, France for the Big Can Film Festival, and he
was absolutely hounded by a group of fans trying to
get back to his hotel. He held on for a
bit before finally being like, all right, we're good.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Sorry, mwork, So what do you need? Doesn't ready good? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
So like he was pretty good. I watched the video and.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
He was definitely like okay, picture and picture and picture,
and then people started like trying to grab him, and
that's when he's like You guys know that I don't
handle myself very well in these situations.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
These are the kind of things that wind up making
headlines for me very much.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
By the way, he is supporting the documentary sloss In Wreck,
which is the rise and fall of a theater company
he launched. This is that big documentary got a two
minute standing ovation when it was shown the other night,
So that's.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Kind of wild.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I knew that he had signed off on this director,
filming everything and putting it out there as he saw it.
But now Shia they're helping promote it seems yep.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Post Malone maybe in the middle of a massive tour.
Of course him and Jelly Roll were just at Ford
Field Sunday night. But in his personal life he dealing
with serious baby mama drama. He wants an LA County
judge to hear the custody. Excuse me is baby mama
wants the custody for their child to be held in
an LA County courthouse. However, Post wants to file for
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custody in Utah and says that's where his three year
old daughter has been raised. And he says this entire
thing is just bs. The mom is Jamie Parks. She
filed legal docs in LA asking for soul physical custody
with only visitation going to Post. Post's lawyer, by the way,
Laura Wasser, So if you've heard that name, she is
the divorce queen who every major a lister goes with
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file documents asking the judge to dismiss the LA case.
They're arguing the kid lives with Post in Utah. They've
not left the state. Their nanny is in Utah, a
nanny that has had a very strong bond with Post's daughter,
and this entire thing is just smoke and mirrors to
make things so much harder. Post and Jamie actually split
last year, and he believes that after he was spotted
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with a potential new girlfriend. She is just trying to
make this as difficult as possible, which is really tough
considering it's.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
A three year old daughter and custody law is very
different between you Juah and California.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Finally, Rapper Drake is attempting to change the story following
that rough Game seven loss for the Toronto maple Leaves.
It's not his fault, it's Justin Bieber's fault. So the
Canadian singer and his wife Haley were actually at Scotiabank
Arena to catch his beloved Toronto team. Of course, Leafs
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lost in a six to one defeat, and now.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Drake is calling it the Bieber curse.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
So Drake actually placed a million dollar bets on the
Leafs to win in hopes of getting more than two
million dollar payout. He actually admitted that on his Instagram
story and then just wrote Bieber Curse. Believers find this
hysterical because it's Drake who's always known for kind of
jinxing teams. He backed Alabama in the twenty nineteen College
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Championship and the Crimson Tite fell in the worst loss
in Nick Saban's career. He rooted for Connor McGregor in
that big twenty eighteen fight that ended badly, and he
supported Serena Williams in the twenty fifteen US Open when
she suffered one of her most shocking losses in tennis history.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I also got beat pretty badly in his rat battle
with Kendrick Lamar's.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
All justin, don't come at him for the Toronto loss.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's all bebes, all of your celebscoop at West Michigan
Star dot Com.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Let's put a little positivity out there on this Tuesday morning.
It's Mack and Schinny with feeling good right now and
man Ultra. Marathon runners are a different breed altogether, but
when they can partner their passion for running with helping people,
it's really cool. And that's what we've got happening for
one West Michigan man who's about to go from the
bottom of the base of your hands right up through
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the top of your index finger basically because he is
trying to split the mitten. He is going to run
from the bottom of the Lower Peninsula all the way
to the top of the Lower Peninsula for hundred miles.
His name is Max Polkovich, and he's going to start
his run at Michigan's southern border in Michigana. Then he's
going to travel over fifty miles up north Grand Rapids,
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go to the White Pine Trail through Cadillac, and eventually
finish in Mackinaw City coming up on May thirtieth, and
why all to raise funds for Aya Youth, collective but
nonprofit serving teens and young adults facing homelessness. He told
Fox seventeen that as a mortgage lender by day helping people,
especially kids, find homes when they were in need, was
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a project he could easily get behind.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
You know, I'm helping people get into homes that they're
helping kids you know that are homeless or very close
to that get into a better living situation.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Just felt like it really aligned and what I do
on my day to day.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So this route is actually only three hundred and ninety
eight miles, he wants to go and even four hundred. Says,
I don't care how many people are waiting, I'm going
to run in circles until we hit four hundred miles. Incredibly,
though Max has only been running for about a year,
he was a college rugby player who, in until he
trained for his first Altar marathon back in March of
last year, had never run more than ten miles before.
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Pretty incredible, he in order to split the Mitten, he's
going to run fifty miles a day with a crew
of around ten people riding along in an RV or
a tailcar as he goes through for eight straight days.
And he says, you know the pain is going to
be there. He's just hoping he can push through.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Like I know that pain caves come and I know
we're going back to there and it's going to be
waking up every day getting through it. I just want
to push myself to that extreme and I haven't found a.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Breaking point yet and I'm going to keep going until I.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Do lofty goal trying to raise fifty thousand dollars for
Aya Youth Collective.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
All Right, you might be a major league pitcher, but
you are also a dad. Matthew Boy the starting pitcher
for the Chicago Cubs, coming off a huge weekend as
they celebrated a sweep of the Chicago White Sox. But
it didn't matter at the press conference because two of
his four kids, Judah and Isaiah, had a little something
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to say with dad.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
So yeah, no, I'd say it was more like, go
when we're.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Going to.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
It's the cutest moment where you can see Dad trying
his best to keep things on the rails, but Isaiah
bending over Judah grabs the mic and continues to go hello, Hello, Hello.
They love the cameras getting their pictures taken. It just
goes to show we all have our day job and
then we have our full time job as a parent.
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Video at West Michigan Star dot.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Com Movies, Music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Man, it was a little dust up for Denzel Washington
on the red carpet at the can Film Festival last night,
appearing to get very heated with a photographer on the
red carpet. In fact, you can see actually in the
video him waving a finger, getting in the guy's face
and definitely looking aggressive with quite the warning. The tense
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exchange went down as the Hollywood superstar attended the world
premiere of his latest film, Spike Lee's Highest to Lowest.
It's clear from the back and forth this photographer did
something to really upset him, and then the guy grabbed
Denzel by the arm and that really infuriated the actor.
He was visibly irritated, kept shouting at the dude to stop.
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It looked like the photographer was like, no, hey man,
I'm here to do this, and this I get paid
for it. He finally had to walk away. It's not
the first time Donzel has had problems on the red carpet.
Remember it was the New York City Museum of Modern
Art in that last year where he very verbally and
loudly checked a group of paparazzi.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
But it was still a great night for Denzel.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
He was surprised with an honorary Paul Madere honor before that,
Spike Lee film premiere and Busy Guy. He is already
back in New York for another sold out show of
his Broadway Othellow show.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Kind of be honest, Denzel Washington is insanely talented and
also terrifying. If I could think of somebody that I
would want to get on, you know, like Jo would
never touched on L Washington would be absolutely terrified.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Man. This is bad news for business partners Woody Harrelson
and talk host Bill Maher. Their cannabis dispensary was burglarized,
and the smash and grab video has officially surfaced online.
Surveillance video shows masked burglars and hoodies getting out of
a car in front of the Weeds Weeho in West Hollywood.
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They shattered all the glass and the fill bags with
merchandise before jetting off. This does not look to be
a one off kind of thing. Elliot Lewis is actually
a neighboring cannabis shop owner. He says he was burglarized
over the weekend and says the same crew hit a
third shop in Santa Monica the next night. It's really
crazy stuff. This place has a ton of high end
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things as well. Woody and Bell opened this about three
years ago. It does look like law enforcement is involved,
but they're staying very tight lipped on the investigation.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I mean, you know, I'll break in unfortunate. I want
to know more about what got these two together. I
want to know about their business venture. I feel like
that's great podcast TV.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
You should watch interviews with them about it. They've got everything,
They've got specialty product, they have a bar that serves
THHC and fused drinks. Like they went all in on this,
and Woody Harrelson is really the man to talk to
when he comes street. Finally, it is the big announcement
we've been waiting for. The crew of Sesame Street is
staying on the street, but they.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Have found a new home.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
It was announced yesterday the program is headed to Netflix.
The big announcement came with a press relief release saying
now Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby Kadabbi and all their friends
are coming to Netflix later this year. Sesame Street's all
new reimagined fifty sixth season will be airing plus ninety
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nine zero hours of previous episodes. And this is very
cool available to audiences worldwide, so this won't be just
like a US or a UK kind of thing. The
news comes, of course, after HBO Max opted to not
renew its contract with the series. You will still be
able to watch Sesame Street on pds, but it will
be on demand with Netflix as well.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
That's what I was really curious about, because it's been
a lot of talk about, you know, funding for PBS.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
In other words, will remain on PBS as of right now.
All of your celeb scoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It's Mack and Schmidty. A little financial divide in your household, yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
And a little sore this morning. What is something you
would one hundred percent spend money on? And your partner's
always like not if we can do in ourselves. Because
I had unplanned yard work yesterday four hours worth. So
I woke up from my nap as is typical when
I get done with my shows, and I walked outside.
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Chris was finishing up mowing the lawn and we have
been working on our woods. You back up to some
woods that we're actually turning into like a hangout space.
We're creating paths, we're doing a huge bonfire area, like
an oasis. We're creating in this space, which is gonna
be really really cool, but it is a ton of
work because every person before us and all of our
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neighbors around us pretty much used it as a dumping
ground for things. So Chris was finishing up the lawn
and I was looking around and I thought, well, you
know what, I'm just gonna start raking. I might as
well because we got the chipper last weekend, so all
of the brush everything cleaned out in chips, so we
have this huge pile of wood chips. So I was like,
I might as well just start raking. So I'm starting
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to rak. Chris walks into the woods. He's like, I mean,
are we doing this? I said, well, I just figured
like maybe it can look a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It turns out in a happy way or a very
light Are we doing that?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
You just got done mowing our acre and a half
of lawn.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
He's like, we're doing this and I was like, well,
we can maybe make it look a little nicer, because
now it turns out. We're having about twenty people over
from Memorial Day weekend. So I said, this will be great.
This is a great place to put people. So we
just start a rake and he's like, all right, I'll
start spreading wood chips.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And what a mistake.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Uh fifteen yard bags later, Uh four hours of spreading
wood chips. Oh yeah, I'm sweaty, I'm sore, and I
just look at him and I go, you know, ooh,
and we still have something to do. I go, this
seems like such a great, great opportunity for some of
these young entrepreneurs in our neighborhood. Like we're in the
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neighborhood Facebook group and I feel like we're always seeing
posts like hey, if the summer's coming up, like me
and my brother as starting a yard business, or hey
I'm trying to like get gas money, or I'm saving
up for a car.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I was like, why didn't we just throw it out there?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
And I got like five boys will come over here
and do this, And Chris was disgusted. He was like,
I'm not gonna pay someone to do something we can do.
I was like, but I'm mad and sad and I hurt.
I don't want to do this anymore, and he rebuses
it's the same with plowing, shoveling, any kind of landscape work.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
He's just he's polish. I got to do it yourself.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I get that to an extent, but at some point
there are things that you just it's so much easier
for your life to just face.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
So what they allow you to do it.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
See, that's that's the difference.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Because in my house I do spend money on hobbies
that my wife would never spend money on. Like she
just doesn't do things like golf for play a lot
of poker like I do any of that kind.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Of stuff for her. The thing that she puts in bay.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Is the things that I would instantly spend money on,
which are what you just kind of talked about. But
like for us, it's plumbing issues or electrical issues or
something like that. In the house, I'm fine calling an expert.
I mean I like to get him as cheap as possible.
My wife will not, and it's something that she's developed.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
As we be coming.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Electrical, I will tell you you will spend money for.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
This so well, So well, Die Michelle is all about
trying to figure out the DIY do it yourself thing.
And honestly, Schmitty, this is something that has only happened
since becoming a homeowner, and I could not be more
attracted to my wife day. She does this because it
winds up save it us boatloads of money.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
And you've never shocked yourselves or set the house on fire.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I have shocked my shelf. I haven't done a lot
of electrotors since that time, but yeah, she's been pretty safe.
She'll f all right.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Six one six, four five, eight, one oh five seven.
I've got probably another two and a half hours of
yard work looking my way this afternoon. Would love to
know what you will spend money on that your partner
will not. And it's actually become a serious fight, like
there is a line in the sand. You will not
put any money towards this thing. You guys can totally
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do yourselves four eight one oh five seven or give
this talk back inside our iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
App it' smack and Schmitty. Let's get salty, Schmitty, so salty,
Yes she is. We all get salty sometimes, but she
gets a microphone in front of her face every day.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
What's going on? Schmitdey?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
All right?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So if you were just listening, I talked about how
my husband and I had unplanned yard work yesterday. We
ended up spending about four hours cleaning out a bunch
of our woods. And I have to complain for a second,
because it doesn't matter where you get a mire Low's
home depot. Those yard waste bags are the worst. How
do you open them?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I don't even use them.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I drag my leaves and stuff on a tarp over
there because but the yard work bag, the yard wasist
bags always look appealing to me because it was so organ.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
They're not I look like you got nice track.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I am walking around in the woods with my literal
whole body inside one of these, trying to pop out
all the paper bag sides.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It's the worst.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
They paper cut you on the top, and then you're
shoving all this stuff in and there's one rogue stick
that's like you think this paper bag's gonna hold me,
Bam shoots through and then all the leaves are like, well,
let's go, and then you rip the dang thing and
you've spent like seven bucks on a bunch of them. Oh,
yard waste bags. There's got to be a better design
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I'm just picturing the comedy of errors that is watching
you do this while simultaneously yelling at your husband we
could pay someone to And he's like, why are.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You in the bag now? And I was like, how
do you open it?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
She so salty? Seven to five point seven time two
battle Battle of this sex is looking to get you out,
maybe to go check out our Grand Rapid Civic Theater
at the Broadway hit waitress.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
All right, your question this morning?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
One hundred women surveyed if you were arrested, who would
be your one call?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh, it depends on how embarrassed I am about the
thing I got arrested.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Fortunately, See this is this is what I remember like
from school when you would get called down to the
principal's office. And I went to school at a place
where my mom taught, and I was always like, take
me to jail before letting her know.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I would much.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Rather take my good, take my risk with the cops
than my mom finding out I got called to the
principal's office.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Six one, six, four, five, eight, one oh five seven.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
One hundred women surveyed if you were arrested, who would
be your one call? You get that number one answer,
You're going to see Waitress with our Grand Rapid Civic theater.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Good morning star.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Who's this Sarah?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Sarah, let's put you in jail, okay. One hundred one
hundred women Sarah were asked if you're arrested and you
can only make your one phone call, who's it going to?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Sarah?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
If you give me the top answer, I'm going to
give you tits to go see Waitress with our Grand
rapid Civic theater.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I'm going to say my husband or significant other.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You're going to say your husband or significant other. Do
you feel like they'd be understanding to most of the
things that you would get arrested for. Yes, absolutely, more
so than having to call like your mom. Oh, that's
not even Yes, absolutely, that's not even a question.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
We'll take that secret to the grave. The two of us.
Spouse is the top answer. Congratulation.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, you've got tickets to go see Waitress with a
grand rapid Civic theater.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Should be a real cool show.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
You are not alone in that one spouse. The top answer.
Parent was the second answer, though mom or dad, you
might get that call lawyer, which is probably the correct answer.
What it should be is the top three there, congratulations,
and we'll do it again tomorrow, not the chance to
win eight to fifteen with Battle of the Sexes here
on Star.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Congrats, come on in too.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
It's Mack and Schmitty and I got to talk about
checkout lanes for a second, Schmitty, because I feel like,
we just do this.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
This is a species, this is society.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
We take a good idea and we just take it
to the extreme to where it's no longer a good idea, okay.
And the secret to life is moderation and choice. And
I was at a big box store, one of the
big home improvement stores, the blue one, not the orange one.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
But I got out and we had spent a bunch
of money. We're doing a bunch of yard projects this weekend.
We spent hundreds of dollars and had a bunch of
items full cart. I had hanging baskets hanging off the side,
tons of items in this cart.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Schmitty.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
And so we go to check out and all we
see is the self checkout lanes and I'm like, okay,
I'm looking around and I go, hey, excuse me, where
is the cat? Where is the register that has a cashier.
We got a lot of stuff. I don't want to
do self checkout with this entire cart. They only have
self checkout. Now, there is only self checkout. I love
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that I have to, so I am not anti self checkout.
I just think that there's a purpose for it, you know,
like when you have fifteen items or less, not when
you have tons of items, a bunch of heavy stuff
and a full shopping cart. Not to mention your kids
with you.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Well yeah, that's why you get out the little scanner gun.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well yeah, but I don't want to deal with the
scanner gun. Look, I love the scanner gun is fun
when you have one big thing that you're buying from there,
But when you have thirty forty items in your cart.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
No, this is what we're paying people to do for us.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
The part that was really frustrating was the lack of
not having an option for it, but that there are
three or four people just standing around helping people when
they inevitably screw up self checkout it, which is taking
way longer than just somebody who knows what they're doing. Smitty,
I can't stand the idea of not having that choice.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Would you want I'm.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
A professional self checker outer.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
If you saw me, if you saw me at these stores,
you guys would be like, wow, that girl. Like when
I was a kid, one of the things I wanted
to be when I grew up was a checkout like
a cashier.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I think it's so cool.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
But yeah, but if you go do an entire grocery
trip a worth of shocking.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I do it at Costco, but you don't.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
You do You can only have like fifteen items at
that self checkout at Costco, you can't have a hundred.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
They let me go a bolt cart through man, because
they look at me and they go, this woman knows
what's up. She is going to get out the scanner
gun and she's going to be quicker than anybody.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
So would you be fine with them just eliminating cashiers
from all stores whatsoever?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
No, because there's people like you.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Second, I am pro self check It's just that I
don't want people that.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Get jobs eliminated.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
But I love the option of a self checkout out
work everywhere.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
No one's job is eliminated because instead of them doing work,
they're all standing there watching you do the work that
they use.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
You just have a conversation and meet someone interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
This is my dream. I hate it even more Now
there's positivity to your day. I feel a good on
start one five point seven. What's going down?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Shane Well, I saw this interview the other day and
I was so moved by it. I work with an
organization that helps with foster youth and now Batman star
Christian Bail has started a new passion project his real
life mission to help kids in foster care. He is
helping to build something called Together California, a first of
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its kind home designed to keep orphaned siblings together. That
is not always the case. It can be really hard
to play siblings together, especially based on the number of
them when you're talking about foster home placement, and he
is very, very moved and hoping that this will eventually
spread around the world. He sat down with CBS to
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talk about the inspiration behind the project. He moved around
a lot as a kid, and while that probably had
a piece of it, it's really just about the fact
that every child deserves a safe, supportive and loving spot.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
I mean, look, I think it probably did, but I
don't think you have to have any connection to foster
care in your past. It's just about a basic understanding
that as a society, how can we not take care
of our children. So I don't think it requires a connection,
It just requires having a heart. You know, life can
be absolutely hideous and can also be absolutely beautiful and joyful,
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and they haven't seen so much of the latter, and
that's what we need to show them. We need to
show them no matter what they do, we love them
and we're going to be there for them.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Isn't that incredible? Together California, Like I said, first of
its kind, and they're hoping that this project catches on.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I mean, that is an incredible mission in an organization.
And he's an amazing kN actor and that is exponentially
true when you hear.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
How thick his accent is. I didn't even know the
Christian Bill had an accent like that. That's absolutely nuts.
It's a little different than the Gravelly Batman voice for sure.
Ch Betty. This is just a viral video that I know.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
If you watch the day, we'll put a smile on
your face because there's something about seeing and hearing somebody
else's pure joy that she just can't ignore. And that's
what we see in this video of a mother in
law who got her invitation to be in the delivery
room when her grandchild was born. I mean, if you're
a mom of boys, that's not necessarily a question you
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always think you're gonna get asked. But her daughter in
law Bailey made this moment extra special. It's really cool
the video. She's just sort of like writing something down,
not really paying attention to the conversation very much when
this happens.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Okay, well, I have a question for you.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
What do you want to be in the room when
the baby comes?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Freaking Are you serious?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh my god, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
For real?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
For real?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Wait my, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I know.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I was like, oh, oh, oh really across my.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Oh you could just hear the gutturalal joy coming from
this grandma to be happy Mama. She really is. The
video super sweet. We'll put it up for you West
Michigan Star dot com. Feeling good, always here to bring
yourself in positive. We'll do it tomorrow, six forty five
and nine twenty here on Star Mack and Schmidty in
the morning weekdays starting at six am on Star one
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oh five point seven
It gets my day going and makes me laugh.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I of it. Mac and Schmitty in the Morning on
Star one of five point seven twelve.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Good morning, Smitty, Heay, good morning. Welcome into your Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Do you feel like you're more in Memorial Day weekend
mode or end of school year mode?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
End of school year mode?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, not even thinking about the weekend? No, not yet,
not there yet. I think a lot of people are
in there. I'm so busy. I feel like the end
of the school year hasn't kicked in. We've got the
rare triple threat tonight where your kids are supposed to
be in three different places at one time, but you
only have the two of you if you're lucky, and
just have to ship them all over the place in
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creative ways.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
So two kids in three different places we got going on.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We have one kid who's got a baseball game, one
kid who's got a softball practice, And this is our
last night of a book club that my son's been
a part of all year long, and it's the last
book club of the year, and the author is actually
come into the book club so the kids can ask
him questions and all this stuff, and so we can't
miss that either. So we're leaving early for the baseball game.
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I'm picking up afterwards, driving to softball practice. My wife
was going to go to the thing with my son.
We're we're in it. We're in it for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, growing up with the three brothers. That was our
lives for about twenty years.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So in the past, actor Shia Labuff has been known
for some of his bad boy behavior, but fans are
pointing out this new video scenes, so maybe he's turning
a new leaf and showing a lot of patience with fans,
but don't push him too much.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So he is in.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Can, France for the Big Can Film Festival, and he
was absolutely hounded by a group of fans trying to
get back to his hotel. He held on for a
bit before finally being like, all right, we're good.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Sorry, mwork, So what do you need? Doesn't ready good? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
So like he was pretty good. I watched the video and.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
He was definitely like okay, picture and picture and picture,
and then people started like trying to grab him, and
that's when he's like You guys know that I don't
handle myself very well in these situations.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
These are the kind of things that wind up making
headlines for me very much.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
By the way, he is supporting the documentary sloss In Wreck,
which is the rise and fall of a theater company
he launched. This is that big documentary got a two
minute standing ovation when it was shown the other night,
So that's.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Kind of wild.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I knew that he had signed off on this director,
filming everything and putting it out there as he saw it.
But now Shia they're helping promote it seems yep.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Post Malone maybe in the middle of a massive tour.
Of course him and Jelly Roll were just at Ford
Field Sunday night. But in his personal life he dealing
with serious baby mama drama. He wants an LA County
judge to hear the custody. Excuse me is baby mama
wants the custody for their child to be held in
an LA County courthouse. However, Post wants to file for
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custody in Utah and says that's where his three year
old daughter has been raised. And he says this entire
thing is just bs. The mom is Jamie Parks. She
filed legal docs in LA asking for soul physical custody
with only visitation going to Post. Post's lawyer, by the way,
Laura Wasser, So if you've heard that name, she is
the divorce queen who every major a lister goes with
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file documents asking the judge to dismiss the LA case.
They're arguing the kid lives with Post in Utah. They've
not left the state. Their nanny is in Utah, a
nanny that has had a very strong bond with Post's daughter,
and this entire thing is just smoke and mirrors to
make things so much harder. Post and Jamie actually split
last year, and he believes that after he was spotted
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with a potential new girlfriend. She is just trying to
make this as difficult as possible, which is really tough
considering it's.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
A three year old daughter and custody law is very
different between you Juah and California.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Finally, Rapper Drake is attempting to change the story following
that rough Game seven loss for the Toronto maple Leaves.
It's not his fault, it's Justin Bieber's fault. So the
Canadian singer and his wife Haley were actually at Scotiabank
Arena to catch his beloved Toronto team. Of course, Leafs
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lost in a six to one defeat, and now.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Drake is calling it the Bieber curse.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
So Drake actually placed a million dollar bets on the
Leafs to win in hopes of getting more than two
million dollar payout. He actually admitted that on his Instagram
story and then just wrote Bieber Curse. Believers find this
hysterical because it's Drake who's always known for kind of
jinxing teams. He backed Alabama in the twenty nineteen College
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Championship and the Crimson Tite fell in the worst loss
in Nick Saban's career. He rooted for Connor McGregor in
that big twenty eighteen fight that ended badly, and he
supported Serena Williams in the twenty fifteen US Open when
she suffered one of her most shocking losses in tennis history.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I also got beat pretty badly in his rat battle
with Kendrick Lamar's.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
All justin, don't come at him for the Toronto loss.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's all bebes, all of your celebscoop at West Michigan
Star dot Com.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Let's put a little positivity out there on this Tuesday morning.
It's Mack and Schinny with feeling good right now and
man Ultra. Marathon runners are a different breed altogether, but
when they can partner their passion for running with helping people,
it's really cool. And that's what we've got happening for
one West Michigan man who's about to go from the
bottom of the base of your hands right up through
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the top of your index finger basically because he is
trying to split the mitten. He is going to run
from the bottom of the Lower Peninsula all the way
to the top of the Lower Peninsula for hundred miles.
His name is Max Polkovich, and he's going to start
his run at Michigan's southern border in Michigana. Then he's
going to travel over fifty miles up north Grand Rapids,
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go to the White Pine Trail through Cadillac, and eventually
finish in Mackinaw City coming up on May thirtieth, and
why all to raise funds for Aya Youth, collective but
nonprofit serving teens and young adults facing homelessness. He told
Fox seventeen that as a mortgage lender by day helping people,
especially kids, find homes when they were in need, was
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a project he could easily get behind.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
You know, I'm helping people get into homes that they're
helping kids you know that are homeless or very close
to that get into a better living situation.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Just felt like it really aligned and what I do
on my day to day.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So this route is actually only three hundred and ninety
eight miles, he wants to go and even four hundred. Says,
I don't care how many people are waiting, I'm going
to run in circles until we hit four hundred miles. Incredibly,
though Max has only been running for about a year,
he was a college rugby player who, in until he
trained for his first Altar marathon back in March of
last year, had never run more than ten miles before.
(07:07):
Pretty incredible, he in order to split the Mitten, he's
going to run fifty miles a day with a crew
of around ten people riding along in an RV or
a tailcar as he goes through for eight straight days.
And he says, you know the pain is going to
be there. He's just hoping he can push through.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Like I know that pain caves come and I know
we're going back to there and it's going to be
waking up every day getting through it. I just want
to push myself to that extreme and I haven't found a.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Breaking point yet and I'm going to keep going until I.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Do lofty goal trying to raise fifty thousand dollars for
Aya Youth Collective.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
All Right, you might be a major league pitcher, but
you are also a dad. Matthew Boy the starting pitcher
for the Chicago Cubs, coming off a huge weekend as
they celebrated a sweep of the Chicago White Sox. But
it didn't matter at the press conference because two of
his four kids, Judah and Isaiah, had a little something
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to say with dad.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
So yeah, no, I'd say it was more like, go
when we're.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Going to.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
It's the cutest moment where you can see Dad trying
his best to keep things on the rails, but Isaiah
bending over Judah grabs the mic and continues to go hello, Hello, Hello.
They love the cameras getting their pictures taken. It just
goes to show we all have our day job and
then we have our full time job as a parent.
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Video at West Michigan Star dot.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Com Movies, Music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Man, it was a little dust up for Denzel Washington
on the red carpet at the can Film Festival last night,
appearing to get very heated with a photographer on the
red carpet. In fact, you can see actually in the
video him waving a finger, getting in the guy's face
and definitely looking aggressive with quite the warning. The tense
(09:04):
exchange went down as the Hollywood superstar attended the world
premiere of his latest film, Spike Lee's Highest to Lowest.
It's clear from the back and forth this photographer did
something to really upset him, and then the guy grabbed
Denzel by the arm and that really infuriated the actor.
He was visibly irritated, kept shouting at the dude to stop.
(09:27):
It looked like the photographer was like, no, hey man,
I'm here to do this, and this I get paid
for it. He finally had to walk away. It's not
the first time Donzel has had problems on the red carpet.
Remember it was the New York City Museum of Modern
Art in that last year where he very verbally and
loudly checked a group of paparazzi.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
But it was still a great night for Denzel.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
He was surprised with an honorary Paul Madere honor before that,
Spike Lee film premiere and Busy Guy. He is already
back in New York for another sold out show of
his Broadway Othellow show.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Kind of be honest, Denzel Washington is insanely talented and
also terrifying. If I could think of somebody that I
would want to get on, you know, like Jo would
never touched on L Washington would be absolutely terrified.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Man. This is bad news for business partners Woody Harrelson
and talk host Bill Maher. Their cannabis dispensary was burglarized,
and the smash and grab video has officially surfaced online.
Surveillance video shows masked burglars and hoodies getting out of
a car in front of the Weeds Weeho in West Hollywood.
(10:37):
They shattered all the glass and the fill bags with
merchandise before jetting off. This does not look to be
a one off kind of thing. Elliot Lewis is actually
a neighboring cannabis shop owner. He says he was burglarized
over the weekend and says the same crew hit a
third shop in Santa Monica the next night. It's really
crazy stuff. This place has a ton of high end
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things as well. Woody and Bell opened this about three
years ago. It does look like law enforcement is involved,
but they're staying very tight lipped on the investigation.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I mean, you know, I'll break in unfortunate. I want
to know more about what got these two together. I
want to know about their business venture. I feel like
that's great podcast TV.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
You should watch interviews with them about it. They've got everything,
They've got specialty product, they have a bar that serves
THHC and fused drinks. Like they went all in on this,
and Woody Harrelson is really the man to talk to
when he comes street. Finally, it is the big announcement
we've been waiting for. The crew of Sesame Street is
staying on the street, but they.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Have found a new home.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
It was announced yesterday the program is headed to Netflix.
The big announcement came with a press relief release saying
now Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby Kadabbi and all their friends
are coming to Netflix later this year. Sesame Street's all
new reimagined fifty sixth season will be airing plus ninety
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nine zero hours of previous episodes. And this is very
cool available to audiences worldwide, so this won't be just
like a US or a UK kind of thing. The
news comes, of course, after HBO Max opted to not
renew its contract with the series. You will still be
able to watch Sesame Street on pds, but it will
be on demand with Netflix as well.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
That's what I was really curious about, because it's been
a lot of talk about, you know, funding for PBS.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
In other words, will remain on PBS as of right now.
All of your celeb scoop at West Michigan Star dot com.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It's Mack and Schmidty. A little financial divide in your household, yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
And a little sore this morning. What is something you
would one hundred percent spend money on? And your partner's
always like not if we can do in ourselves. Because
I had unplanned yard work yesterday four hours worth. So
I woke up from my nap as is typical when
I get done with my shows, and I walked outside.
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Chris was finishing up mowing the lawn and we have
been working on our woods. You back up to some
woods that we're actually turning into like a hangout space.
We're creating paths, we're doing a huge bonfire area, like
an oasis. We're creating in this space, which is gonna
be really really cool, but it is a ton of
work because every person before us and all of our
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neighbors around us pretty much used it as a dumping
ground for things. So Chris was finishing up the lawn
and I was looking around and I thought, well, you
know what, I'm just gonna start raking. I might as
well because we got the chipper last weekend, so all
of the brush everything cleaned out in chips, so we
have this huge pile of wood chips. So I was like,
I might as well just start raking. So I'm starting
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to rak. Chris walks into the woods. He's like, I mean,
are we doing this? I said, well, I just figured
like maybe it can look a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It turns out in a happy way or a very
light Are we doing that?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
You just got done mowing our acre and a half
of lawn.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
He's like, we're doing this and I was like, well,
we can maybe make it look a little nicer, because
now it turns out. We're having about twenty people over
from Memorial Day weekend. So I said, this will be great.
This is a great place to put people. So we
just start a rake and he's like, all right, I'll
start spreading wood chips.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And what a mistake.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Uh fifteen yard bags later, Uh four hours of spreading
wood chips. Oh yeah, I'm sweaty, I'm sore, and I
just look at him and I go, you know, ooh,
and we still have something to do. I go, this
seems like such a great, great opportunity for some of
these young entrepreneurs in our neighborhood. Like we're in the
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neighborhood Facebook group and I feel like we're always seeing
posts like hey, if the summer's coming up, like me
and my brother as starting a yard business, or hey
I'm trying to like get gas money, or I'm saving
up for a car.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I was like, why didn't we just throw it out there?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
And I got like five boys will come over here
and do this, And Chris was disgusted. He was like,
I'm not gonna pay someone to do something we can do.
I was like, but I'm mad and sad and I hurt.
I don't want to do this anymore, and he rebuses
it's the same with plowing, shoveling, any kind of landscape work.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
He's just he's polish. I got to do it yourself.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I get that to an extent, but at some point
there are things that you just it's so much easier
for your life to just face.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
So what they allow you to do it.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
See, that's that's the difference.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Because in my house I do spend money on hobbies
that my wife would never spend money on. Like she
just doesn't do things like golf for play a lot
of poker like I do any of that kind.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Of stuff for her. The thing that she puts in bay.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Is the things that I would instantly spend money on,
which are what you just kind of talked about. But
like for us, it's plumbing issues or electrical issues or
something like that. In the house, I'm fine calling an expert.
I mean I like to get him as cheap as possible.
My wife will not, and it's something that she's developed.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
As we be coming.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Electrical, I will tell you you will spend money for.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
This so well, So well, Die Michelle is all about
trying to figure out the DIY do it yourself thing.
And honestly, Schmitty, this is something that has only happened
since becoming a homeowner, and I could not be more
attracted to my wife day. She does this because it
winds up save it us boatloads of money.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
And you've never shocked yourselves or set the house on fire.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I have shocked my shelf. I haven't done a lot
of electrotors since that time, but yeah, she's been pretty safe.
She'll f all right.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Six one six, four five, eight, one oh five seven.
I've got probably another two and a half hours of
yard work looking my way this afternoon. Would love to
know what you will spend money on that your partner
will not. And it's actually become a serious fight, like
there is a line in the sand. You will not
put any money towards this thing. You guys can totally
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do yourselves four eight one oh five seven or give
this talk back inside our iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
App it' smack and Schmitty. Let's get salty, Schmitty, so salty,
Yes she is. We all get salty sometimes, but she
gets a microphone in front of her face every day.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
What's going on? Schmitdey?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
All right?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So if you were just listening, I talked about how
my husband and I had unplanned yard work yesterday. We
ended up spending about four hours cleaning out a bunch
of our woods. And I have to complain for a second,
because it doesn't matter where you get a mire Low's
home depot. Those yard waste bags are the worst. How
do you open them?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I don't even use them.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I drag my leaves and stuff on a tarp over
there because but the yard work bag, the yard wasist
bags always look appealing to me because it was so organ.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
They're not I look like you got nice track.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I am walking around in the woods with my literal
whole body inside one of these, trying to pop out
all the paper bag sides.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It's the worst.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
They paper cut you on the top, and then you're
shoving all this stuff in and there's one rogue stick
that's like you think this paper bag's gonna hold me,
Bam shoots through and then all the leaves are like, well,
let's go, and then you rip the dang thing and
you've spent like seven bucks on a bunch of them. Oh,
yard waste bags. There's got to be a better design
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I'm just picturing the comedy of errors that is watching
you do this while simultaneously yelling at your husband we
could pay someone to And he's like, why are.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You in the bag now? And I was like, how
do you open it?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
She so salty? Seven to five point seven time two
battle Battle of this sex is looking to get you out,
maybe to go check out our Grand Rapid Civic Theater
at the Broadway hit waitress.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
All right, your question this morning?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
One hundred women surveyed if you were arrested, who would
be your one call?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh, it depends on how embarrassed I am about the
thing I got arrested.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Fortunately, See this is this is what I remember like
from school when you would get called down to the
principal's office. And I went to school at a place
where my mom taught, and I was always like, take
me to jail before letting her know.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I would much.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Rather take my good, take my risk with the cops
than my mom finding out I got called to the
principal's office.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Six one, six, four, five, eight, one oh five seven.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
One hundred women surveyed if you were arrested, who would
be your one call? You get that number one answer,
You're going to see Waitress with our Grand Rapid Civic theater.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Good morning star.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Who's this Sarah?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Sarah, let's put you in jail, okay. One hundred one
hundred women Sarah were asked if you're arrested and you
can only make your one phone call, who's it going to?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Sarah?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
If you give me the top answer, I'm going to
give you tits to go see Waitress with our Grand
rapid Civic theater.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I'm going to say my husband or significant other.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You're going to say your husband or significant other. Do
you feel like they'd be understanding to most of the
things that you would get arrested for. Yes, absolutely, more
so than having to call like your mom. Oh, that's
not even Yes, absolutely, that's not even a question.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
We'll take that secret to the grave. The two of us.
Spouse is the top answer. Congratulation.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, you've got tickets to go see Waitress with a
grand rapid Civic theater.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Should be a real cool show.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
You are not alone in that one spouse. The top answer.
Parent was the second answer, though mom or dad, you
might get that call lawyer, which is probably the correct answer.
What it should be is the top three there, congratulations,
and we'll do it again tomorrow, not the chance to
win eight to fifteen with Battle of the Sexes here
on Star.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Congrats, come on in too.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
It's Mack and Schmitty and I got to talk about
checkout lanes for a second, Schmitty, because I feel like,
we just do this.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
This is a species, this is society.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
We take a good idea and we just take it
to the extreme to where it's no longer a good idea, okay.
And the secret to life is moderation and choice. And
I was at a big box store, one of the
big home improvement stores, the blue one, not the orange one.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
But I got out and we had spent a bunch
of money. We're doing a bunch of yard projects this weekend.
We spent hundreds of dollars and had a bunch of
items full cart. I had hanging baskets hanging off the side,
tons of items in this cart.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Schmitty.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
And so we go to check out and all we
see is the self checkout lanes and I'm like, okay,
I'm looking around and I go, hey, excuse me, where
is the cat? Where is the register that has a cashier.
We got a lot of stuff. I don't want to
do self checkout with this entire cart. They only have
self checkout. Now, there is only self checkout. I love
(21:21):
that I have to, so I am not anti self checkout.
I just think that there's a purpose for it, you know,
like when you have fifteen items or less, not when
you have tons of items, a bunch of heavy stuff
and a full shopping cart. Not to mention your kids
with you.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Well yeah, that's why you get out the little scanner gun.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well yeah, but I don't want to deal with the
scanner gun. Look, I love the scanner gun is fun
when you have one big thing that you're buying from there,
But when you have thirty forty items in your cart.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
No, this is what we're paying people to do for us.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
The part that was really frustrating was the lack of
not having an option for it, but that there are
three or four people just standing around helping people when
they inevitably screw up self checkout it, which is taking
way longer than just somebody who knows what they're doing. Smitty,
I can't stand the idea of not having that choice.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Would you want I'm.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
A professional self checker outer.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
If you saw me, if you saw me at these stores,
you guys would be like, wow, that girl. Like when
I was a kid, one of the things I wanted
to be when I grew up was a checkout like
a cashier.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I think it's so cool.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
But yeah, but if you go do an entire grocery
trip a worth of shocking.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I do it at Costco, but you don't.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
You do You can only have like fifteen items at
that self checkout at Costco, you can't have a hundred.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
They let me go a bolt cart through man, because
they look at me and they go, this woman knows
what's up. She is going to get out the scanner
gun and she's going to be quicker than anybody.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
So would you be fine with them just eliminating cashiers
from all stores whatsoever?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
No, because there's people like you.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Second, I am pro self check It's just that I
don't want people that.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Get jobs eliminated.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
But I love the option of a self checkout out
work everywhere.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
No one's job is eliminated because instead of them doing work,
they're all standing there watching you do the work that
they use.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
You just have a conversation and meet someone interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
This is my dream. I hate it even more Now
there's positivity to your day. I feel a good on
start one five point seven. What's going down?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Shane Well, I saw this interview the other day and
I was so moved by it. I work with an
organization that helps with foster youth and now Batman star
Christian Bail has started a new passion project his real
life mission to help kids in foster care. He is
helping to build something called Together California, a first of
(23:44):
its kind home designed to keep orphaned siblings together. That
is not always the case. It can be really hard
to play siblings together, especially based on the number of
them when you're talking about foster home placement, and he
is very, very moved and hoping that this will eventually
spread around the world. He sat down with CBS to
(24:04):
talk about the inspiration behind the project. He moved around
a lot as a kid, and while that probably had
a piece of it, it's really just about the fact
that every child deserves a safe, supportive and loving spot.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
I mean, look, I think it probably did, but I
don't think you have to have any connection to foster
care in your past. It's just about a basic understanding
that as a society, how can we not take care
of our children. So I don't think it requires a connection,
It just requires having a heart. You know, life can
be absolutely hideous and can also be absolutely beautiful and joyful,
(24:39):
and they haven't seen so much of the latter, and
that's what we need to show them. We need to
show them no matter what they do, we love them
and we're going to be there for them.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Isn't that incredible? Together California, Like I said, first of
its kind, and they're hoping that this project catches on.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I mean, that is an incredible mission in an organization.
And he's an amazing kN actor and that is exponentially
true when you hear.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
How thick his accent is. I didn't even know the
Christian Bill had an accent like that. That's absolutely nuts.
It's a little different than the Gravelly Batman voice for sure.
Ch Betty. This is just a viral video that I know.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
If you watch the day, we'll put a smile on
your face because there's something about seeing and hearing somebody
else's pure joy that she just can't ignore. And that's
what we see in this video of a mother in
law who got her invitation to be in the delivery
room when her grandchild was born. I mean, if you're
a mom of boys, that's not necessarily a question you
(25:38):
always think you're gonna get asked. But her daughter in
law Bailey made this moment extra special. It's really cool
the video. She's just sort of like writing something down,
not really paying attention to the conversation very much when
this happens.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Okay, well, I have a question for you.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
What do you want to be in the room when
the baby comes?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Freaking Are you serious?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh my god, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
For real?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
For real?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Wait my, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I know.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I was like, oh, oh, oh really across my.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Oh you could just hear the gutturalal joy coming from
this grandma to be happy Mama. She really is. The
video super sweet. We'll put it up for you West
Michigan Star dot com. Feeling good, always here to bring
yourself in positive. We'll do it tomorrow, six forty five
and nine twenty here on Star Mack and Schmidty in
the morning weekdays starting at six am on Star one
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