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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wakem It gets my day going and makes me laugh.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I love it, Mac and Schmidty in the morning on
Star one oh five point seven, I'll go on in smitey.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Yeah, back at it.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Welcome into your Tuesday. Hopefully you're feeling nice and recharged,
refreshed after what was fingers crossed a long holiday weekend
for you.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Refreshed, Honey, I went to bed at six fifty two
pm last night. I'm barely hanging by a thread here
this morning, as is any parent that had any kind
of traveling.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, that's hopefully you went hard. Then you know why, Schmittie.
Actually I wanted to tell you this because I was
out yesterday and we have so many beautiful communities here
across West Michigan. One of the best parts about living here, right.
But I went kayaking yesterday morning in downtown Rockford. I
went kayaking yesterday from the Rockford Dam over to DNR
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Park about seven miles down the Rogue River. That was
one of the most fun little kayak trips I have
taken in the state of Michigan. There were so many
cool little rapids and there's fish everywhere. Yeah, we usually
get on it summer absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Did you hear us?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I don't know, but what I was.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Every day this week and we had no less than
fifty people at our house.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well awesome, thanks to the invite. I'll throw that out
right off the bat.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
But on top of that, like I just kept thinking,
like going through as I'm going through Rockford, Oh, so
many nice little restaurants and shops. What a cool community
you guys have up.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
There, because it's a lot of it's under construction. So
that was actually a big deal that you went. We
were at the Farmer's Market Saturday morning and I was like, man,
the garden Club is out there doing stuff. You've got
a new hotel going up. But no, we didn't, like,
we didn't go anywhere far. It was fantastic and for.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
As much dread as we put into what the weather
was supposed to be like for the weekend, I think
it turned out beautiful. If you were having people over,
it was perfect for this.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, I it could have been warmer for me. It
could have been warmer if you were up north. It
was cold rough. I heard it was pretty hard to
sit outside on the beach and see some sunsets near
Traverse City, but Honestly, I bonfired every night. We saw
loads of people, We had people visits. So so hopefully
that is how your weekend was. Maybe you did get
to sleep a little, maybe you got to spend some
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time with people you don't often get to see, and
just had a really, really nice time. Not setting an alarm. Thanks,
Here we go today.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, you may have been wrapping up your Memorial Day
weekend at last night it was the American Music Awards,
Billie Eilish, Beyonce and em and M a few of
the big winners, especially Billy, winning in all seven categories
where she was nominated, including Artists of the Year and
Album of the Year. Jennifer Lopez returning to host the
Ames for the first time in ten years, opening the
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night with a dance medley of twenty three of her
biggest hits. She was also on hand to give Janet
Jackson her flowers.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
There are moments in your journey as an artist when
you see someone take.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Things to a whole new level. For those big moments
came very early in my career.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
When I was picked to be in Janet Jackson's That's
the Way Love Goes video, Janet gave a lot of
young girls like me the blueprint for how to be
a strong.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Female artist in this business.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Nearly forty years ago, she took control of her own
creative destiny and she's become a leading force in our
rhythm nation.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, it was pretty cool she got the Icon awardees somewhat.
It was a really good performance. She looks incredible, by
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the way.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, it's pretty wild to think about how long Janet
Jackson has been doing her thing and is still out
there doing over forty years.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Former Disney star and singer Demi Lovado is officially a
married woman. I had the rumor a few weeks ago
it would go down over the weekend. Her and Jordan
Lud's officially tying the knot on Sunday afternoon, very special
ceremony in California, surrounded by family and friends, and the
couple's three dogs took part in the special day. There's
just a few pictures from the rehearsal dinner that I
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have seen kind of leak on social So far, they've
kept everything from the actual ceremony very very low key.
The two were engaged back in twenty twenty three, so
it's been a long time coming. And finally the weekend
was absolutely ruled by Disney's Leelo and Stitch. The global
box office Sensation had a record breaking one hundred eighty
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three million bucks domestically three hundred and forty one million worldwide.
Mind you, this was a one hundred million dollar budget.
Ticket sales overtook twenty twenty two's top Gun Maverick as
the biggest Memorial Day weekend debut in history. Leelo and
Stitch even secured the second largest start across any four
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day high holiday weekend in history, only behind Black Panther.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Does this put it bigger just barely than Minecraft? Right?
Who blew everybody away with how massive that movie was
in its big opening weekend?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I mean the day more, Yeah, I mean it's absolutely astonishing.
Disney execs are obviously thrilled because Snow White was a
pretty big bomb earlier this year, so yeah, this goal
will make up for that. All of your celebscoob at
West Michigan Star dot Com stelling a five points seven
Mack and Smitty look at it gets you feeling good?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Right, now, and I believe you said it last week's
Midi's we're headed into the weekend Memorial Day. It's not
happy Memorial Day. It's Memorial Day, a day of remembrance, a.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Day remembering, honoring.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Educating, exactly all of those things. And I saw a
lot of great stories locally here over the weekend about that,
and I thought this one was really cool because over
at Grand Rapids Community College, right there on their campus
is a memorial that honors World War II veterans from
the area. One of the names on that memorial is
David T. McMahon. And it's pretty neat because just the
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other week, one of his service medals was actually found,
of all places, in a scrapyard in Georgia. One of
his purple hearts was there. But thankfully somebody at the
scrapyard recognizing this is not some piece of trash that
should be finding its way into a landfill or having
its medals recycled. Instead, this should be with the family
of this hero. And that's exactly what wound up happening.
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As a professor down there, Steve questioned. Barry told Fox
seventeen that once he found out, he knew what he
had to do and was actually able to track down
this veterans living relatives gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
That works at the scrapyard junkyard. He ran across a
purple heart in a World War Two case that was
able to locate a niece and a nephew in California,
So nobody knows how it got to Georgia, including the
niece and nephew. And we thought, you know, if that
medal could talk.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
If that medal could talk, for sure one of our
World War Two veterans no longer with us, but honored
and remembered in that special away. And I thought that
was a really cool way of just sharing that this
Memorial Day. But arrangements are underway to get the metal
back to the family, so really cool.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's pretty impressive when you talk to someone who is
on a journey of sobriety, even more impressive when they've
discovered a way to help others dealing with addiction. That's
exactly what Nick Green has done, the founder of something
called Cuts for Recovery, Nick himself has been sober for
seven months and realized one of the biggest things you
can do to help your journey is some self care.
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So he regularly sets aside haircut appointments at his barber
shop in Fenwick, but that exact reason.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Took twenty four hour battle at a time. Now, in
the midst of my you know here addiction, I found
that our self care and our self worth is the
bare minimum. So, you know, I went to Bear River
Rehab rehab up in Moyne Falls.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I brought that Cuts for Recovery.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Thought about it a you know, this is one step
that can make people you know, feel good, you know,
about themselves.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
That's exactly Nick telling Wood TV. The idea came to
him while he was in a rehab facility fighting his
own demon, saying, I push for repairing dignity and self confidence,
and if a person comes and sits in my chair,
I lend an ear us men, we talked to our
barbers more than anything. If you'd like to kind of
learn more, maybe give him some business. Cuts for Recovery
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is actually a part of Outreach four nineteen, which is
in Moncom County and is a really really incredible movement
that's doing really incredible things.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Always looking to get you something good. We'll do feeling good.
Come again this morning at nine swater here.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
On stock movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It's the celebrities goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Well, it was a sad announcement over the weekend if
you were a fan of the A and E show
Duck Dynasty. The patriarch of the family, Phil Robertson, passing
away at seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Met the Robertson clan.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
They turned Duck Calls into a multimillion dollar impire, but
running a family business is tough when the family just
wants to run wild.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I actually adored this show. I watched like every single
episode from twenty thirteen twenty eighteen. I loved Duck Dynasty
Phil seventy nine. Several family members confirming it on social media,
his daughter in law Corey saying thank you for the
love and prayers of so many whose lives have been
impacted by his life, saved by grace, his bold faith,
and by his desire to tell everyone who would listen
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to the good news of Jesus. His son Jace also
writing about his father's passing on social media. They said
they knew it was kind of coming. He revealed his
father wasn't doing real well a few weeks ago he
had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But seventy nine, yeah, Mas, seventy nine years old. I
kind of feel like those Duck Dynasty guys were partially
responsible for the entire beer trend. I feel like those.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Guys call like the new age dzy toime.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Right before everybody just was like, you know what, I
think I'm gonna grow a giant beard on my face.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
This is really sad news. Singer Billy Joel has he
han sold all of his upcoming concerts after being diagnosed
with a brain disorder, so he made the announcement late
on Friday. It might have been lost during your weekend.
It includes the show that was scheduled for November fifteenth
at Ford Field in Detroit when he was going to
perform with Stevie Nicks. That is not happening. The Uptown
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Girls singer said he's diagnosed with something called normal pressure hydrocephalous,
so unfortunately concerts really worse in the condition, his doctors
told him he needed to stop performing entirely as he
deals with problems that include his hearing, his vision, and
his balance. Apparently, this is a rare disorder that happens
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when fluid builds up in the brain's ventricles and it
can actually cause extra fluid to lead to brain damage.
So there's a lot of treatment that comes into this.
Tickets for all of those canceled shows will be automatically refunded.
But we will not see him in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I'll be honest. It's just sad news all the way around.
And I hope that he gets to perform when he
will if he wants to.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
It. Kind of the announcement kind of sounds like, get ready, guys,
you might not ever see him live again.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
And that's so tough because when you think about Billy
Joel performing is what that guy is known for. I
mean all the hit songs, of course, but I mean
that run of Madison Square Gardens sold out shows will
probably never be equaled. I mean, that's an incredible and.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Last night was the American Music Awards. Billie Eilish a
massive winner. She took home all seven categories she was
nominated for, including Artist of the Year, Album of the Year,
Favorite Touring Artist, Favorite Female Pop Artist, and Favorite Pop Album.
Very moved.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Thank you to Amy's.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Thank you to the fans. I know you voted for this.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
This means the world to me. I am just so
lucky to be to get to do what I do
and to do it with you.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I love you Old so much.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Other big winners included eminem and also Beyonce picking up
Favorite Female Country Artist and Favorite Country Album for Cowboy Carter.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I got to ask you, Smidi, with Billy eil Win
in all those awards, do you feel like they give
them to whoever agrees to come to the show.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Because literally no one was there last night.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Well and yeah, sorry, but there was like this wasn't
even Billie Eilish's biggest year in music.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And she wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh she was.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
That was recording because Eminn took something. I mean, I
don't like. The literal presenters were influencers I've never even
heard of. Yeah, all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Start off on good morning to you. It's Mack and Smitty,
and coming off of Memorial Day weekend, you've discovered new
and amazing talents of your husband.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I certainly did. We had a packed weekend and we
knew it going in because we were planning to have
a ton of people over because coming up this week
is another spirit week for my son, and one of
the days is tide I Day, Oh tea day. So yeah,
for the letter to exactly. So, we had this idea
because we live around so many kids that go to
school with him. Really, why don't we have everybody over
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and we'll have a tie dyeing party. That way they
all have something to wear to school on Frinday.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
What a cool look at you?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Or yeah, well let me tell you. Let me tell you, Chris,
my husband is a tie dying machine.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
You know what that actually, now that you say this,
you might be surprised by that, but something that does
not surprise me.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Be honest, I don't think I've ever tied I in
my life. Oh girl Scout camp, fourth grade camp. No,
I don't think I did. I just it wasn't really
a thing. So we came up with this idea and
then like it blew up. I mean, he's told me,
he's like, oh, they're coming, there, coming there, coming in.
I'm doing the math. I'm like, okay, we're about to
have forty to fifty people in our backyard. It was amazing.
It was absolutely phenomenal. And he is just ripping this stuff.
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I was like, what colors you guys thinking that's great,
We'll less you that we currently have forty two shirts,
three pairs of socks, five kids shirts, and a bandana
on like six drying recks in our backyard on the deck.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
He was like living his best life. And then he
u he did like a red blue one. He was like,
Happy Birthday America. I was like, that's until July fourth,
he goes, and then they'll be ready wa say. It
was so funny, and I looked at me. I said,
you seem to have a really great time today. He goes, dude,
I only want to wear tid eye stuff. That's just
the greatest day of my life. Like all the kids
were super stoked. They were like, he said, uh, he
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did like a twisty action on this one shirt and
yeah yeah. And one of our neighbors was like that's
so sweet. He's like, let's try it the other way.
It was so hysterical and so now I'm sitting here
today wondering. I said, honey, you should like start an
Etsy or something. Goes, don't even joke. I might actually
be a part of the Rockford farmer's market. He has
all about tidye. We have fallen in love with a
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brand new gift, and that is the gift of tied die.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Honestly, that's a gift that will keep going giving in
very loud technicolor T shirt. Woh significant amount of time?
Did he get the you get the soundtrack? Right? Did
he just like bear it up here? Let me see?
I don't know if I can. Oh. I mean, I
feel like, if you're gonna do some tie die, throw some.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
The reggae we were doing more like a CCR vibe.
Yeahcr but there you go. If anybody is in need
of a tied eye something. We are never going to
wear through all of the things we tied eyed over
the weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
But you know what, on T Day during Spirit Week
at school, I mean, Will's going to be the cool
he should bring some for the rest of the class.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Like half the school was there, so they're all going
to be walking around in these similar designs by Chris.
So I was like, you guys didn't come up with
your own company name or something.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I'd like to know that. Did your significant other ever
surprise you with a secret talent of theirs that you
would have never guessed they had. We'd love to hear
that six one six, four five eight one five seven
so salty. I just like the explosions over Fourth of July.
Smitty's ready to blow up. It's salty Smitty times.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
That was weird. Actually, I had no fireworks this weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You had no fireworks, had none, so surprisingly nobody did
it on like Sunday into Memorial Day. Everybody around me
was lighting them off on fry.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
No, we didn't have any. So honestly, my saltiness resides
in traffic. I'm your traffic girl, so I figure it's
a very important time.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It's a traffic by the way, it's in yourself with Greta.
You're not just the traffic girl, you are a traffic EXTRAORDINAI.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
So we are getting into lists three months of summer,
right and I'm well aware. I know I live off
of one thirty one North Found It's going to be
a mess as everyone goes up north every week, and
it's what we love about being in Michigan. But here's
two things I would like to remind you of. If
you are towing a camper or a boat, the right
lane is your home. That is where you should live.
I know that you think that you are able to
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pass the person in front of you, but I promise
most likely not. And second you're gonna want to go
ahead and make sure that that is literally attached to
your vehicle. Two boats I saw on the side of
one thirty one this weekends there fell right off.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Anything more terrifying than seeing that boat or that trailer
just like hit a big pot way.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Honestly, I'd rather take a logging truck final destination style.
All right, So there you go.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
You're welcome, go Stalky, these music and all the gossip
in one place.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Well, the video has gone everywhere with millions of views.
It looks very awkward for the first couple of France.
French President Emanuel Macron's Southeast Asia tour got off to
a pretty rough start as he was beginning to depart
from a plane in Vietnam over the weekend. A clip
shows the aircraft door opening. Macron is in the doorway
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and then just a few seconds later you can see
he's literally being pushed in the face by his wife.
He's initially pretty stunned and then realizes the plane door
is open. And the entire worldwide press can see this,
and then kind of regains his composure waves to the press.
Then the couple leave the aircraft. Macron offers an arm
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to his wife, she refuses to accept it, and then
walks down together. It is one of the the most
awkward videos I've ever seen. While they are now talking
about that. Initially, officials in France denied the entire incident
until they realized how good the video was y and
now they're saying it was a moment when the president
and his wife were unwinding one last time before the
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trip began playfully teasing each other. Speaking to reporters in
Hanoi yesterday, Macrome breaking his silence on the incident, just
down playing the entire thing. He said, there's a video
showing me joking and teasing my wife, and somehow that
becomes a sort of geoplanetary catastrophe, with people even coming
up with theories to explain it. He said, the videos
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are all real, and yes, sometimes people tamper, but this
is all kinds of nonsense and we have much more
important things to worry about.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I don't know, like I can see it being a
complete misunderstanding. I can see it being a complete normal
like she slapped you man. But the freease part about
it to me was just how he looked at the camera.
I felt like I was watching a movie smitty.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Like, which is why it didn't see joky. To me,
I was like, ooh, girlfriend, like just found out you
did something like that was what the hit looked like
to me. You can see the video and decide for yourself.
West Michigan Star dot com. The American Music Awards went
down last night with some big winners like Beyonce and
Billie Eilish, but it was also EMM and M's night,
winning his first AMA in fifteen years, her Favorite Male
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hip Hop Artist, and Favorite hip Hop album for the
Death of Slim Shady the Koud de Gras.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I think it's been twenty three years since I won
my first AMA.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
And I'm twenty four years old.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
That's crazy, seriously, man, Thank you to the fans, Thank
you to everybody who voted for me.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I appreciate y'all. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
It was also not at the award shoe.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Why does everything with em and them have to make
me feel old?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Many ever, we're just out here.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Come on.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Finally, singer Billy Joel, this is some really sad news
has canceled all of his upcoming concerts after being diagnosed
with something called no normal pressure hydrocephalus. Concerts unfortunately exasperate
this condition. It's giving him problems with hearing, vision and balance.
Apparently it's a rare disorder that actually causes fluid to
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build up in the brain's ventricles. It can even lead
to brain damage. So his doctors have said, listen, you
got to take a break while we work on treatment
for this. He told fans over the weekend. I'm sincerely
sorry to disappoint our audience. Thank you so much for understanding.
All seventeen shows, including his big Ford Field show with
Stevie Nicks, have been canceled and those shows will automatically
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be refunded. Just hoping we actually get a chance to
see him live again.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Really, I mean, if nothing else is TV special or something,
you know, he wants to perform. He doesn't want this
to be the end for him for fans.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
All right, all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan
Star dot Com.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Let's do a battle of the sexist time it gets
you out to the Frederick Meyer Gardens as we welcome
our summer concert.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Series and Shaka Con one of the first ones. That's
a way to kick it off. We've got one hundred
men surveyed this morning. What's a place a college student
might fall asleep?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Ooh, don't make it the party because things will be
drawn on your Facebook.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Well I do love doing that. It's my own Irish accent.
I will lay down on a couch and just peace
right out while people are hanging out around me.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Dangerous in a college party, for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
All right? Six one, six, four five eight, one oh five.
Seven hundred men surveyed what's a place a college student
might fall asleep? Number one answer? You are going to
see Shaka Khan at Frederick Meyer Gardens four five, eight,
one oh five seven.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Come morning, start. Who's this Chris and Burrodi? How's your
Memorial Day weekend? Gentlemen? Pretty good? Nice? Nice? Well let's
see if we can get the week off to a
great start too, Honor. Guys were asked to name a
place a college student might fall asleep. And guys, I'm
gonna tell you a big hint right here. Okay, don't
overthink this. That's what I got for you. What do
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you think it is? Wear class? Falling asleep in the classroom?
You are one percent right, you can expect to see
college students pass it out in class, but that, unfortunately,
is the number two most common answer. Guys, I'm sorry,
all right, thank you, thank you, Hi star. Who's this? Jennifer.
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I just got a great guess when a hundred guys
were asked name a place where you're going to see
a college student fall asleep, and I gave a big
hint that was do not overthink this. But my last
guess said what I would imagine a lot of people think,
falling asleep in class sounds about right, But that's actually
the number two most common answers. So, Jennifer, what do
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you think it is?
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Boy, again, don't overthink it?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
At home?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
At home where I'm a couch at home on the
couch is the number five most common answer. I'm sorry, Jennifer,
thank you, thank you, Hi star. Who's this?
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Miss Allison?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Alison, I've had a couple of good guesses, but not
the top answer yet. One hundred guys were asked to
name a place where a college student it's likely to
fall asleep, and so far heard class which was the
number two most common answer, and the couch at home,
which was the number five most common answer and was
very close. Here is my hint to you, Alison, It's
a big hint. Don't overthink this. What do you think?
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The top answers their bed. Yeah, seems like a pretty
good place to go to sleep. You know, if you
could go to play a bed anywhere, I suppose maybe
the bed might be a good place to do it.
That's the top answer. Congratulations, Alison. You're going to see
Shaka Khan over at the Frederick Meyer Gardens part of
the Summer Concerts series. Oh fun, i'stelling a fine points.
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You have a good morning to you. It's Mack and
Schmidty hoping that all of your more Memorial Day festivities
went smoothly, whether it was the boats, the beach, the barbecue,
all of the above. It was a great weekend, and honestly,
I still had fun, even though our party had kind
of an unwelcome surprise for us many because we had
a bunch of people over. My dad and his wife
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were down here, so my sister and her kids came by,
my wife's sister, brother, brother in law, mom and dad.
Everybody was over at our house with our kids for
a little Sunday Memorial Day weekend barbecue action. And I'm
doing burgers and brats out of the grill and we're
all having a great time. It's been a few hours
and everybody's having some cocktails and having some fun. And
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I am literally in the process of just about to
pull everything off of the grill, when all of a sudden,
I hear my wife going grabbed towels, grabbels. No, our
basement bathroom flooded. Yeah, oh dear, and my dad had
come upstairs going, I didn't do anything. I didn't do.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Any I was guessing bathroom or broken garbage disposal.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
So it's there. It's the bathroom. And thankfully whatever was
in the toilet went down the toilet. And then when
the tank was filling back up, something with our plumbing,
you know, pump switch not turning on. I guess, all
of a sudden, the bottom like we've got water coming
out of the the drainage thing next to the bathroom.
It's coming up out from the bottom of the toilet.
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It is clogged on the top, and you know, there
are kids running around like crazy, and I was seconds
from taking the food off of yeah real, and I
don't know what to do. I'm sitting here like with
a spatchel in my hand, like back and forth, like
just you.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You know, Chris would have taken the Brotzenburgers.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I did that.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I said to myself, like, you know what, the toilet's
going to be there, this food.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Is not you know what your husband and I. I
think that's just the right thought process for a meat
emergency like this. So I did I waited while Michelle's
down there like literally sopping up all this bowl.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Or did you also get a lovely emergency visit?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I didn't want to stop the whole party to figure
it out, right, like, I just wanted to clean it up.
But meanwhile I got my four year old defut JJ,
who is obsessed with the word poop right now, is
sitting there because I mean it were like, I'm like,
oh great, is there poop water everywhere? And my Dad's
like no, no, I swear John. Everything went down. He's like, look,
look I get it. I get it. But this was
not some like big project of mine. Okay, that's not
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what we're dealing with.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Well, they had also lost my appetite for those burgers
and Bronz. You're about to pull off the grill.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
The rest of the day, my nephew is just running
around going like you foull that. It's poopy. It's poopy, mommy,
it's h wow. Yeah. It was the theme for the
remainder of the evening so yes dinner table talk during
that time period, it was a little bit in the
toilet seven five point seven. It's package smitty. I always
looking to make the day a little bit brighter. Let's
do it right now? Which you gotten feeling good? Schitty?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Well, you know it's probably bittersweet is the right word
for it, because if you enjoyed your long weekend, you
knew what the weekend was about, and it was those
family members who did not get to celebrate with certain
members because they paid that ultimate sacrifice. And for one
West Michigander, he is continuing his promise to a childhood
friend who did not make it home. For more than
a decade, Billy Haynes a Vietnam veterans and has traveled
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across West Michigan and the entire country displaying a rolling
memorial he built to honor those who didn't make it
home and the inspiration behind this is none other than
his childhood friend Roger Ward. The two grew up down
the street from each other in Spring Lake, hanging out
all the time riding a ton, and that was their dream.
As soon as we get out of high school, we're
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going to buy motorcycles and travel the country. While Ward
was drafted right out of high school, Haines called up
not long after, and unfortunately, in April of nineteen sixty eight,
Ward was killed in action. So a promise kept for
more than fifty years, Billy has adorned this very special
motorcycle more than a dozen three dozen artifacts. He has
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collected and creatively positioned his best friend's dog tags right
underneath that license plate, and it serves as a reminder
that we get to live the life that we do
for some very important work. The thing is, he needs
some help keeping this rolling memorial going. Him and his
wife Lynette have started to go fundme page. They've met
other veterans that find this to just be an incredible thing,
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and he knows that in and of itself is very healing.
Speaker 8 (28:10):
That's why I built that bike, and I've got him
tags and stuff with his name on it, so every
time I swing my leg over in that bike. I'm
kind of helping to fulfilling his dream.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
He's with me wherever I go. And according to this
wonderful veteran, all you need to do. Every Vietnam vet
needs a welcome home, a thank you, and a welcome home.
It's a really powerful tribute. I'll put the video up.
You like to learn some more at West Michigan Star
dot com.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
What an incredible friend? Yeah, that's awesome, all right, j Beinny.
Today mark's the beginning of one of my favorite competitions
of the year, even though I can't spell it. The
Script's National Spelling Bee kicks off today and we've got
several kids from Michigan going to be a part of
it this year, including two from pretty close by. Let's
start with Josiah Lachry from Kalamba Zoo, eleven year old,
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Grade five. And this kid is not only an incredible speller,
but that's what I want to highlight. With both of
these kids. It says that they do a lot more
than just spell twenty four hours a day. They caught
up with Fox seventeen and this is what Josiah loves
to do. I love playing sports like basketball, baseball, and soccer.
I also play piano and the bass. I also a
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serving at my church and bringing in by book. I
mean what a parent's dream right there for the answer,
Alone wants to win this big cash prize and start
building his mansion down in Florida, he said. But the
winning word that got him there schmiddy always like knowing these.
My winning word was equivalent e q U I V
A L E n T. I mean that one might
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have gotten me tricky, but I feel like I could
do that one.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
For what I can't do in math, I kick booty
out in spelling.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Next up, it was Elliott Covell. She is a fourteen
year old in eighth grader who goes to Northern Hills
Middle School, and she too is a very busy young woman.
I have Odyssey the Mind Worlds.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I've been doing soccer since I was three and it's
a lot of fun. I'm also doing voice lessons, so
I'm singing every week.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I don't sleep like at all.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
It's it's a problem.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Yeah. Part of that sleeping issue might be because she
also reads four books every week too. And what was
Elliott's winning word? This one be tougher smitty haggiographer. It's
like a saint thing about the study of saints or something. Yeah,
she might not know exactly what it is, but she
could spell it. It got her to Washington, d C.
For the Spelling Bee, and she's just happy to get there.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Thrilling, really scary too, but I'm excited to meet everyone there.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, the scripts National Spelling Bee does start today. However,
starting tomorrow on Ion, you can watch it at nine pm,
and then the finals are set for this Thursday at
nine am that you can watch.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
All Right, good luck, all right.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Feeling good coming at you a couple times day. Always
want to tell you about great things happening out there.
We'll do it tomorrow six forty five and nine twenty
here on Star Mac and Schmidty in the morning day
starting at six am on Star one oh five point
seven
Wakem It gets my day going and makes me laugh.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I love it, Mac and Schmidty in the morning on
Star one oh five point seven, I'll go on in smitey.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Yeah, back at it.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Welcome into your Tuesday. Hopefully you're feeling nice and recharged,
refreshed after what was fingers crossed a long holiday weekend
for you.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Refreshed, Honey, I went to bed at six fifty two
pm last night. I'm barely hanging by a thread here
this morning, as is any parent that had any kind
of traveling.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, that's hopefully you went hard. Then you know why, Schmittie.
Actually I wanted to tell you this because I was
out yesterday and we have so many beautiful communities here
across West Michigan. One of the best parts about living here, right.
But I went kayaking yesterday morning in downtown Rockford. I
went kayaking yesterday from the Rockford Dam over to DNR
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Park about seven miles down the Rogue River. That was
one of the most fun little kayak trips I have
taken in the state of Michigan. There were so many
cool little rapids and there's fish everywhere. Yeah, we usually
get on it summer absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Did you hear us?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I don't know, but what I was.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Every day this week and we had no less than
fifty people at our house.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well awesome, thanks to the invite. I'll throw that out
right off the bat.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
But on top of that, like I just kept thinking,
like going through as I'm going through Rockford, Oh, so
many nice little restaurants and shops. What a cool community
you guys have up.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
There, because it's a lot of it's under construction. So
that was actually a big deal that you went. We
were at the Farmer's Market Saturday morning and I was like, man,
the garden Club is out there doing stuff. You've got
a new hotel going up. But no, we didn't, like,
we didn't go anywhere far. It was fantastic and for.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
As much dread as we put into what the weather
was supposed to be like for the weekend, I think
it turned out beautiful. If you were having people over,
it was perfect for this.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, I it could have been warmer for me. It
could have been warmer if you were up north. It
was cold rough. I heard it was pretty hard to
sit outside on the beach and see some sunsets near
Traverse City, but Honestly, I bonfired every night. We saw
loads of people, We had people visits. So so hopefully
that is how your weekend was. Maybe you did get
to sleep a little, maybe you got to spend some
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time with people you don't often get to see, and
just had a really, really nice time. Not setting an alarm. Thanks,
Here we go today.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It's the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, you may have been wrapping up your Memorial Day
weekend at last night it was the American Music Awards,
Billie Eilish, Beyonce and em and M a few of
the big winners, especially Billy, winning in all seven categories
where she was nominated, including Artists of the Year and
Album of the Year. Jennifer Lopez returning to host the
Ames for the first time in ten years, opening the
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night with a dance medley of twenty three of her
biggest hits. She was also on hand to give Janet
Jackson her flowers.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
There are moments in your journey as an artist when
you see someone take.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Things to a whole new level. For those big moments
came very early in my career.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
When I was picked to be in Janet Jackson's That's
the Way Love Goes video, Janet gave a lot of
young girls like me the blueprint for how to be
a strong.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Female artist in this business.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Nearly forty years ago, she took control of her own
creative destiny and she's become a leading force in our
rhythm nation.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, it was pretty cool she got the Icon awardees somewhat.
It was a really good performance. She looks incredible, by
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the way.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, it's pretty wild to think about how long Janet
Jackson has been doing her thing and is still out
there doing over forty years.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Former Disney star and singer Demi Lovado is officially a
married woman. I had the rumor a few weeks ago
it would go down over the weekend. Her and Jordan
Lud's officially tying the knot on Sunday afternoon, very special
ceremony in California, surrounded by family and friends, and the
couple's three dogs took part in the special day. There's
just a few pictures from the rehearsal dinner that I
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have seen kind of leak on social So far, they've
kept everything from the actual ceremony very very low key.
The two were engaged back in twenty twenty three, so
it's been a long time coming. And finally the weekend
was absolutely ruled by Disney's Leelo and Stitch. The global
box office Sensation had a record breaking one hundred eighty
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three million bucks domestically three hundred and forty one million worldwide.
Mind you, this was a one hundred million dollar budget.
Ticket sales overtook twenty twenty two's top Gun Maverick as
the biggest Memorial Day weekend debut in history. Leelo and
Stitch even secured the second largest start across any four
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day high holiday weekend in history, only behind Black Panther.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Does this put it bigger just barely than Minecraft? Right?
Who blew everybody away with how massive that movie was
in its big opening weekend?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I mean the day more, Yeah, I mean it's absolutely astonishing.
Disney execs are obviously thrilled because Snow White was a
pretty big bomb earlier this year, so yeah, this goal
will make up for that. All of your celebscoob at
West Michigan Star dot Com stelling a five points seven
Mack and Smitty look at it gets you feeling good?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Right, now, and I believe you said it last week's
Midi's we're headed into the weekend Memorial Day. It's not
happy Memorial Day. It's Memorial Day, a day of remembrance, a.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Day remembering, honoring.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Educating, exactly all of those things. And I saw a
lot of great stories locally here over the weekend about that,
and I thought this one was really cool because over
at Grand Rapids Community College, right there on their campus
is a memorial that honors World War II veterans from
the area. One of the names on that memorial is
David T. McMahon. And it's pretty neat because just the
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other week, one of his service medals was actually found,
of all places, in a scrapyard in Georgia. One of
his purple hearts was there. But thankfully somebody at the
scrapyard recognizing this is not some piece of trash that
should be finding its way into a landfill or having
its medals recycled. Instead, this should be with the family
of this hero. And that's exactly what wound up happening.
(06:23):
As a professor down there, Steve questioned. Barry told Fox
seventeen that once he found out, he knew what he
had to do and was actually able to track down
this veterans living relatives gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
That works at the scrapyard junkyard. He ran across a
purple heart in a World War Two case that was
able to locate a niece and a nephew in California,
So nobody knows how it got to Georgia, including the
niece and nephew. And we thought, you know, if that
medal could talk.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
If that medal could talk, for sure one of our
World War Two veterans no longer with us, but honored
and remembered in that special away. And I thought that
was a really cool way of just sharing that this
Memorial Day. But arrangements are underway to get the metal
back to the family, so really cool.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's pretty impressive when you talk to someone who is
on a journey of sobriety, even more impressive when they've
discovered a way to help others dealing with addiction. That's
exactly what Nick Green has done, the founder of something
called Cuts for Recovery, Nick himself has been sober for
seven months and realized one of the biggest things you
can do to help your journey is some self care.
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So he regularly sets aside haircut appointments at his barber
shop in Fenwick, but that exact reason.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Took twenty four hour battle at a time. Now, in
the midst of my you know here addiction, I found
that our self care and our self worth is the
bare minimum. So, you know, I went to Bear River
Rehab rehab up in Moyne Falls.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I brought that Cuts for Recovery.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Thought about it a you know, this is one step
that can make people you know, feel good, you know,
about themselves.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
That's exactly Nick telling Wood TV. The idea came to
him while he was in a rehab facility fighting his
own demon, saying, I push for repairing dignity and self confidence,
and if a person comes and sits in my chair,
I lend an ear us men, we talked to our
barbers more than anything. If you'd like to kind of
learn more, maybe give him some business. Cuts for Recovery
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is actually a part of Outreach four nineteen, which is
in Moncom County and is a really really incredible movement
that's doing really incredible things.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Always looking to get you something good. We'll do feeling good.
Come again this morning at nine swater here.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
On stock movies, music, and all the gossip in one place.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It's the celebrities goop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Well, it was a sad announcement over the weekend if
you were a fan of the A and E show
Duck Dynasty. The patriarch of the family, Phil Robertson, passing
away at seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Met the Robertson clan.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
They turned Duck Calls into a multimillion dollar impire, but
running a family business is tough when the family just
wants to run wild.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I actually adored this show. I watched like every single
episode from twenty thirteen twenty eighteen. I loved Duck Dynasty
Phil seventy nine. Several family members confirming it on social media,
his daughter in law Corey saying thank you for the
love and prayers of so many whose lives have been
impacted by his life, saved by grace, his bold faith,
and by his desire to tell everyone who would listen
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to the good news of Jesus. His son Jace also
writing about his father's passing on social media. They said
they knew it was kind of coming. He revealed his
father wasn't doing real well a few weeks ago he
had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But seventy nine, yeah, Mas, seventy nine years old. I
kind of feel like those Duck Dynasty guys were partially
responsible for the entire beer trend. I feel like those.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Guys call like the new age dzy toime.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Right before everybody just was like, you know what, I
think I'm gonna grow a giant beard on my face.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
This is really sad news. Singer Billy Joel has he
han sold all of his upcoming concerts after being diagnosed
with a brain disorder, so he made the announcement late
on Friday. It might have been lost during your weekend.
It includes the show that was scheduled for November fifteenth
at Ford Field in Detroit when he was going to
perform with Stevie Nicks. That is not happening. The Uptown
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Girls singer said he's diagnosed with something called normal pressure hydrocephalous,
so unfortunately concerts really worse in the condition, his doctors
told him he needed to stop performing entirely as he
deals with problems that include his hearing, his vision, and
his balance. Apparently, this is a rare disorder that happens
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when fluid builds up in the brain's ventricles and it
can actually cause extra fluid to lead to brain damage.
So there's a lot of treatment that comes into this.
Tickets for all of those canceled shows will be automatically refunded.
But we will not see him in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I'll be honest. It's just sad news all the way around.
And I hope that he gets to perform when he
will if he wants to.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
It. Kind of the announcement kind of sounds like, get ready, guys,
you might not ever see him live again.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
And that's so tough because when you think about Billy
Joel performing is what that guy is known for. I
mean all the hit songs, of course, but I mean
that run of Madison Square Gardens sold out shows will
probably never be equaled. I mean, that's an incredible and.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Last night was the American Music Awards. Billie Eilish a
massive winner. She took home all seven categories she was
nominated for, including Artist of the Year, Album of the Year,
Favorite Touring Artist, Favorite Female Pop Artist, and Favorite Pop Album.
Very moved.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Thank you to Amy's.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Thank you to the fans. I know you voted for this.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
This means the world to me. I am just so
lucky to be to get to do what I do
and to do it with you.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I love you Old so much.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Other big winners included eminem and also Beyonce picking up
Favorite Female Country Artist and Favorite Country Album for Cowboy Carter.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I got to ask you, Smidi, with Billy eil Win
in all those awards, do you feel like they give
them to whoever agrees to come to the show.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Because literally no one was there last night.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Well and yeah, sorry, but there was like this wasn't
even Billie Eilish's biggest year in music.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And she wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh she was.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
That was recording because Eminn took something. I mean, I
don't like. The literal presenters were influencers I've never even
heard of. Yeah, all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Start off on good morning to you. It's Mack and Smitty,
and coming off of Memorial Day weekend, you've discovered new
and amazing talents of your husband.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I certainly did. We had a packed weekend and we
knew it going in because we were planning to have
a ton of people over because coming up this week
is another spirit week for my son, and one of
the days is tide I Day, Oh tea day. So yeah,
for the letter to exactly. So, we had this idea
because we live around so many kids that go to
school with him. Really, why don't we have everybody over
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and we'll have a tie dyeing party. That way they
all have something to wear to school on Frinday.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
What a cool look at you?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Or yeah, well let me tell you. Let me tell you, Chris,
my husband is a tie dying machine.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
You know what that actually, now that you say this,
you might be surprised by that, but something that does
not surprise me.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Be honest, I don't think I've ever tied I in
my life. Oh girl Scout camp, fourth grade camp. No,
I don't think I did. I just it wasn't really
a thing. So we came up with this idea and
then like it blew up. I mean, he's told me,
he's like, oh, they're coming, there, coming there, coming in.
I'm doing the math. I'm like, okay, we're about to
have forty to fifty people in our backyard. It was amazing.
It was absolutely phenomenal. And he is just ripping this stuff.
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I was like, what colors you guys thinking that's great,
We'll less you that we currently have forty two shirts,
three pairs of socks, five kids shirts, and a bandana
on like six drying recks in our backyard on the deck.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
He was like living his best life. And then he
u he did like a red blue one. He was like,
Happy Birthday America. I was like, that's until July fourth,
he goes, and then they'll be ready wa say. It
was so funny, and I looked at me. I said,
you seem to have a really great time today. He goes, dude,
I only want to wear tid eye stuff. That's just
the greatest day of my life. Like all the kids
were super stoked. They were like, he said, uh, he
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did like a twisty action on this one shirt and
yeah yeah. And one of our neighbors was like that's
so sweet. He's like, let's try it the other way.
It was so hysterical and so now I'm sitting here
today wondering. I said, honey, you should like start an
Etsy or something. Goes, don't even joke. I might actually
be a part of the Rockford farmer's market. He has
all about tidye. We have fallen in love with a
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brand new gift, and that is the gift of tied die.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Honestly, that's a gift that will keep going giving in
very loud technicolor T shirt. Woh significant amount of time?
Did he get the you get the soundtrack? Right? Did
he just like bear it up here? Let me see?
I don't know if I can. Oh. I mean, I
feel like, if you're gonna do some tie die, throw some.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
The reggae we were doing more like a CCR vibe.
Yeahcr but there you go. If anybody is in need
of a tied eye something. We are never going to
wear through all of the things we tied eyed over
the weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
But you know what, on T Day during Spirit Week
at school, I mean, Will's going to be the cool
he should bring some for the rest of the class.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Like half the school was there, so they're all going
to be walking around in these similar designs by Chris.
So I was like, you guys didn't come up with
your own company name or something.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I'd like to know that. Did your significant other ever
surprise you with a secret talent of theirs that you
would have never guessed they had. We'd love to hear
that six one six, four five eight one five seven
so salty. I just like the explosions over Fourth of July.
Smitty's ready to blow up. It's salty Smitty times.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
That was weird. Actually, I had no fireworks this weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You had no fireworks, had none, so surprisingly nobody did
it on like Sunday into Memorial Day. Everybody around me
was lighting them off on fry.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
No, we didn't have any. So honestly, my saltiness resides
in traffic. I'm your traffic girl, so I figure it's
a very important time.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It's a traffic by the way, it's in yourself with Greta.
You're not just the traffic girl, you are a traffic EXTRAORDINAI.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
So we are getting into lists three months of summer,
right and I'm well aware. I know I live off
of one thirty one North Found It's going to be
a mess as everyone goes up north every week, and
it's what we love about being in Michigan. But here's
two things I would like to remind you of. If
you are towing a camper or a boat, the right
lane is your home. That is where you should live.
I know that you think that you are able to
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pass the person in front of you, but I promise
most likely not. And second you're gonna want to go
ahead and make sure that that is literally attached to
your vehicle. Two boats I saw on the side of
one thirty one this weekends there fell right off.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Anything more terrifying than seeing that boat or that trailer
just like hit a big pot way.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Honestly, I'd rather take a logging truck final destination style.
All right, So there you go.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
You're welcome, go Stalky, these music and all the gossip
in one place.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It's the celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Well, the video has gone everywhere with millions of views.
It looks very awkward for the first couple of France.
French President Emanuel Macron's Southeast Asia tour got off to
a pretty rough start as he was beginning to depart
from a plane in Vietnam over the weekend. A clip
shows the aircraft door opening. Macron is in the doorway
(17:33):
and then just a few seconds later you can see
he's literally being pushed in the face by his wife.
He's initially pretty stunned and then realizes the plane door
is open. And the entire worldwide press can see this,
and then kind of regains his composure waves to the press.
Then the couple leave the aircraft. Macron offers an arm
(17:54):
to his wife, she refuses to accept it, and then
walks down together. It is one of the the most
awkward videos I've ever seen. While they are now talking
about that. Initially, officials in France denied the entire incident
until they realized how good the video was y and
now they're saying it was a moment when the president
and his wife were unwinding one last time before the
(18:17):
trip began playfully teasing each other. Speaking to reporters in
Hanoi yesterday, Macrome breaking his silence on the incident, just
down playing the entire thing. He said, there's a video
showing me joking and teasing my wife, and somehow that
becomes a sort of geoplanetary catastrophe, with people even coming
up with theories to explain it. He said, the videos
(18:38):
are all real, and yes, sometimes people tamper, but this
is all kinds of nonsense and we have much more
important things to worry about.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I don't know, like I can see it being a
complete misunderstanding. I can see it being a complete normal
like she slapped you man. But the freease part about
it to me was just how he looked at the camera.
I felt like I was watching a movie smitty.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Like, which is why it didn't see joky. To me,
I was like, ooh, girlfriend, like just found out you
did something like that was what the hit looked like
to me. You can see the video and decide for yourself.
West Michigan Star dot com. The American Music Awards went
down last night with some big winners like Beyonce and
Billie Eilish, but it was also EMM and M's night,
winning his first AMA in fifteen years, her Favorite Male
(19:23):
hip Hop Artist, and Favorite hip Hop album for the
Death of Slim Shady the Koud de Gras.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I think it's been twenty three years since I won
my first AMA.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
And I'm twenty four years old.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
That's crazy, seriously, man, Thank you to the fans, Thank
you to everybody who voted for me.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I appreciate y'all. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
It was also not at the award shoe.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Why does everything with em and them have to make
me feel old?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Many ever, we're just out here.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Come on.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Finally, singer Billy Joel, this is some really sad news
has canceled all of his upcoming concerts after being diagnosed
with something called no normal pressure hydrocephalus. Concerts unfortunately exasperate
this condition. It's giving him problems with hearing, vision and balance.
Apparently it's a rare disorder that actually causes fluid to
(20:13):
build up in the brain's ventricles. It can even lead
to brain damage. So his doctors have said, listen, you
got to take a break while we work on treatment
for this. He told fans over the weekend. I'm sincerely
sorry to disappoint our audience. Thank you so much for understanding.
All seventeen shows, including his big Ford Field show with
Stevie Nicks, have been canceled and those shows will automatically
(20:35):
be refunded. Just hoping we actually get a chance to
see him live again.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Really, I mean, if nothing else is TV special or something,
you know, he wants to perform. He doesn't want this
to be the end for him for fans.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
All right, all of your celeb scoop at West Michigan
Star dot Com.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Let's do a battle of the sexist time it gets
you out to the Frederick Meyer Gardens as we welcome
our summer concert.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Series and Shaka Con one of the first ones. That's
a way to kick it off. We've got one hundred
men surveyed this morning. What's a place a college student
might fall asleep?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Ooh, don't make it the party because things will be
drawn on your Facebook.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Well I do love doing that. It's my own Irish accent.
I will lay down on a couch and just peace
right out while people are hanging out around me.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Dangerous in a college party, for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
All right? Six one, six, four five eight, one oh five.
Seven hundred men surveyed what's a place a college student
might fall asleep? Number one answer? You are going to
see Shaka Khan at Frederick Meyer Gardens four five, eight,
one oh five seven.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Come morning, start. Who's this Chris and Burrodi? How's your
Memorial Day weekend? Gentlemen? Pretty good? Nice? Nice? Well let's
see if we can get the week off to a
great start too, Honor. Guys were asked to name a
place a college student might fall asleep. And guys, I'm
gonna tell you a big hint right here. Okay, don't
overthink this. That's what I got for you. What do
(21:54):
you think it is? Wear class? Falling asleep in the classroom?
You are one percent right, you can expect to see
college students pass it out in class, but that, unfortunately,
is the number two most common answer. Guys, I'm sorry,
all right, thank you, thank you, Hi star. Who's this? Jennifer.
(22:14):
I just got a great guess when a hundred guys
were asked name a place where you're going to see
a college student fall asleep, and I gave a big
hint that was do not overthink this. But my last
guess said what I would imagine a lot of people think,
falling asleep in class sounds about right, But that's actually
the number two most common answers. So, Jennifer, what do
(22:37):
you think it is?
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Boy, again, don't overthink it?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
At home?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
At home where I'm a couch at home on the
couch is the number five most common answer. I'm sorry, Jennifer,
thank you, thank you, Hi star. Who's this?
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Miss Allison?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Alison, I've had a couple of good guesses, but not
the top answer yet. One hundred guys were asked to
name a place where a college student it's likely to
fall asleep, and so far heard class which was the
number two most common answer, and the couch at home,
which was the number five most common answer and was
very close. Here is my hint to you, Alison, It's
a big hint. Don't overthink this. What do you think?
(23:22):
The top answers their bed. Yeah, seems like a pretty
good place to go to sleep. You know, if you
could go to play a bed anywhere, I suppose maybe
the bed might be a good place to do it.
That's the top answer. Congratulations, Alison. You're going to see
Shaka Khan over at the Frederick Meyer Gardens part of
the Summer Concerts series. Oh fun, i'stelling a fine points.
(23:46):
You have a good morning to you. It's Mack and
Schmidty hoping that all of your more Memorial Day festivities
went smoothly, whether it was the boats, the beach, the barbecue,
all of the above. It was a great weekend, and honestly,
I still had fun, even though our party had kind
of an unwelcome surprise for us many because we had
a bunch of people over. My dad and his wife
(24:06):
were down here, so my sister and her kids came by,
my wife's sister, brother, brother in law, mom and dad.
Everybody was over at our house with our kids for
a little Sunday Memorial Day weekend barbecue action. And I'm
doing burgers and brats out of the grill and we're
all having a great time. It's been a few hours
and everybody's having some cocktails and having some fun. And
(24:27):
I am literally in the process of just about to
pull everything off of the grill, when all of a sudden,
I hear my wife going grabbed towels, grabbels. No, our
basement bathroom flooded. Yeah, oh dear, and my dad had
come upstairs going, I didn't do anything. I didn't do.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Any I was guessing bathroom or broken garbage disposal.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
So it's there. It's the bathroom. And thankfully whatever was
in the toilet went down the toilet. And then when
the tank was filling back up, something with our plumbing,
you know, pump switch not turning on. I guess, all
of a sudden, the bottom like we've got water coming
out of the the drainage thing next to the bathroom.
It's coming up out from the bottom of the toilet.
(25:13):
It is clogged on the top, and you know, there
are kids running around like crazy, and I was seconds
from taking the food off of yeah real, and I
don't know what to do. I'm sitting here like with
a spatchel in my hand, like back and forth, like
just you.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You know, Chris would have taken the Brotzenburgers.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I did that.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I said to myself, like, you know what, the toilet's
going to be there, this food.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Is not you know what your husband and I. I
think that's just the right thought process for a meat
emergency like this. So I did I waited while Michelle's
down there like literally sopping up all this bowl.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Or did you also get a lovely emergency visit?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I didn't want to stop the whole party to figure
it out, right, like, I just wanted to clean it up.
But meanwhile I got my four year old defut JJ,
who is obsessed with the word poop right now, is
sitting there because I mean it were like, I'm like,
oh great, is there poop water everywhere? And my Dad's
like no, no, I swear John. Everything went down. He's like, look,
look I get it. I get it. But this was
not some like big project of mine. Okay, that's not
(26:10):
what we're dealing with.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Well, they had also lost my appetite for those burgers
and Bronz. You're about to pull off the grill.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
The rest of the day, my nephew is just running
around going like you foull that. It's poopy. It's poopy, mommy,
it's h wow. Yeah. It was the theme for the
remainder of the evening so yes dinner table talk during
that time period, it was a little bit in the
toilet seven five point seven. It's package smitty. I always
looking to make the day a little bit brighter. Let's
do it right now? Which you gotten feeling good? Schitty?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Well, you know it's probably bittersweet is the right word
for it, because if you enjoyed your long weekend, you
knew what the weekend was about, and it was those
family members who did not get to celebrate with certain
members because they paid that ultimate sacrifice. And for one
West Michigander, he is continuing his promise to a childhood
friend who did not make it home. For more than
a decade, Billy Haynes a Vietnam veterans and has traveled
(27:00):
across West Michigan and the entire country displaying a rolling
memorial he built to honor those who didn't make it
home and the inspiration behind this is none other than
his childhood friend Roger Ward. The two grew up down
the street from each other in Spring Lake, hanging out
all the time riding a ton, and that was their dream.
As soon as we get out of high school, we're
(27:21):
going to buy motorcycles and travel the country. While Ward
was drafted right out of high school, Haines called up
not long after, and unfortunately, in April of nineteen sixty eight,
Ward was killed in action. So a promise kept for
more than fifty years, Billy has adorned this very special
motorcycle more than a dozen three dozen artifacts. He has
(27:43):
collected and creatively positioned his best friend's dog tags right
underneath that license plate, and it serves as a reminder
that we get to live the life that we do
for some very important work. The thing is, he needs
some help keeping this rolling memorial going. Him and his
wife Lynette have started to go fundme page. They've met
other veterans that find this to just be an incredible thing,
(28:06):
and he knows that in and of itself is very healing.
Speaker 8 (28:10):
That's why I built that bike, and I've got him
tags and stuff with his name on it, so every
time I swing my leg over in that bike. I'm
kind of helping to fulfilling his dream.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
He's with me wherever I go. And according to this
wonderful veteran, all you need to do. Every Vietnam vet
needs a welcome home, a thank you, and a welcome home.
It's a really powerful tribute. I'll put the video up.
You like to learn some more at West Michigan Star
dot com.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
What an incredible friend? Yeah, that's awesome, all right, j Beinny.
Today mark's the beginning of one of my favorite competitions
of the year, even though I can't spell it. The
Script's National Spelling Bee kicks off today and we've got
several kids from Michigan going to be a part of
it this year, including two from pretty close by. Let's
start with Josiah Lachry from Kalamba Zoo, eleven year old,
(29:00):
Grade five. And this kid is not only an incredible speller,
but that's what I want to highlight. With both of
these kids. It says that they do a lot more
than just spell twenty four hours a day. They caught
up with Fox seventeen and this is what Josiah loves
to do. I love playing sports like basketball, baseball, and soccer.
I also play piano and the bass. I also a
(29:20):
serving at my church and bringing in by book. I
mean what a parent's dream right there for the answer,
Alone wants to win this big cash prize and start
building his mansion down in Florida, he said. But the
winning word that got him there schmiddy always like knowing these.
My winning word was equivalent e q U I V
A L E n T. I mean that one might
(29:41):
have gotten me tricky, but I feel like I could
do that one.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
For what I can't do in math, I kick booty
out in spelling.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Next up, it was Elliott Covell. She is a fourteen
year old in eighth grader who goes to Northern Hills
Middle School, and she too is a very busy young woman.
I have Odyssey the Mind Worlds.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I've been doing soccer since I was three and it's
a lot of fun. I'm also doing voice lessons, so
I'm singing every week.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I don't sleep like at all.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
It's it's a problem.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Yeah. Part of that sleeping issue might be because she
also reads four books every week too. And what was
Elliott's winning word? This one be tougher smitty haggiographer. It's
like a saint thing about the study of saints or something. Yeah,
she might not know exactly what it is, but she
could spell it. It got her to Washington, d C.
For the Spelling Bee, and she's just happy to get there.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Thrilling, really scary too, but I'm excited to meet everyone there.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, the scripts National Spelling Bee does start today. However,
starting tomorrow on Ion, you can watch it at nine pm,
and then the finals are set for this Thursday at
nine am that you can watch.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
All Right, good luck, all right.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Feeling good coming at you a couple times day. Always
want to tell you about great things happening out there.
We'll do it tomorrow six forty five and nine twenty
here on Star Mac and Schmidty in the morning day
starting at six am on Star one oh five point
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