Michael Dennis Starbuck

Happy Independence Day everyone! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

1 day ago | [YT] | 0

Michael Dennis Starbuck

Never thought I'd record both a severe thunderstorm and a fireworks show in the same day, but here we are. YouTube video I make is going to be a good one. Lol 😂

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2 days ago | [YT] | 0

Michael Dennis Starbuck

I usually try to be an early bird when it comes to arriving in South Haven on a day they do their fireworks to try and get a decent spot for parking and all. But my word, you would think considering they were expecting a crap ton more people to show up for this firework show this year than the previous years, you'd think they would do better about the parking situations. They had half the roads throughout the nearby neighborhoods to where you couldn't park on the side of the road making it even harder to find good parking and making it to where people have to walk further.

It's not the walking part that I have an issue with by any means, I love a good walk here and there. But my word, South Haven, I love you, but you would think this town would have more options for parking on a day like today.

2 days ago | [YT] | 0

Michael Dennis Starbuck

Was out and about yesterday and thought the one guy in this painting looked like modern day Eminem. 😂

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3 days ago | [YT] | 0

Michael Dennis Starbuck

I have finally put my June 10/June 11 storms video together as of last night. Just gotta look at the video and make sure there are no mistakes made, then it'll go up hopefully tonight. This video will also include a little tribute to my cousin and great who passed away recently as they both passed on June 10, which I'll also do a tribute for them in another video as well. But yeah, like I said, this video should hopefully go up tonight.

6 days ago | [YT] | 0

Michael Dennis Starbuck

I would so do this. 😂

Ok, maybe not, but this is one of my favorite ‪@LanceStewartVlogs‬ videos of all time. 😂 https://youtu.be/1aZO3mz9eWc?is=wTrOT...

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

Michael Dennis Starbuck

Gonna be a hot week next week. Shout-out to ‪@MIStormChasers‬ for this forecast.

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

Michael Dennis Starbuck

‪@NatalieStarbuck-jd2lu‬ I could see you, Kyndra, and some of your other friends doing this. 😂
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1 week ago | [YT] | 1

Michael Dennis Starbuck

My cousin's funeral was today. I was thankfully able to make it and be there for some of my other family who was suffering the loss of my cousin Zach, who had passed away on Wednesday of June 10th, 2026.

As I said in one of my previous posts and in a video I made talking about his passing and also my great aunt's passing, Zach And I weren't all that close. About the only time we really ever saw each other, was that a family gathering and maybe occasionally when we ran into each other at certain places. But when we did see each other, we definitely had our good talks, we made jokes together, played some board games together, I would tell him about some of the travels I've been on and the things that I enjoy doing in my downtime, and he would tell me the same.

For those of you who don't know and probably haven't seen some of the posts I made or the video I made talking about his passing and my great aunt's passing, he had unfortunately been dealing with heart related problems and unfortunately they had gotten worse over the past few years. As a result, he had unfortunately passed away on June 10th. He was unfortunately only 27 years old. He was born just 7 months after I was born. When he was really young, he started having many different issues that led to him having heart problems. The doctors didn't believe that he would live long. As a matter of fact, they thought that he wouldn't live for more than a few years at most. The doctors were amazed when he was able to pull out of it after having a few surgeries.

Unfortunately, there were other times where he was in a pretty bad way and the doctors thought that he wouldn't make it then. 2014 for an example, his heart problems got pretty severe to where he had done undergo quite a bit of treatment and more surgeries. He was in such a bad way to where it looked like he had cancer. He would then recover after a while and he was pretty well healthy and was able to push through and make it just fine for a while. In late 2023 or early 2024, he started to have more problems develop. While they weren't rapidly getting worse, some of his abilities were starting to get affected and weren't getting better. He was able to push through with little to no issues throughout most of 2024, up until November of that year. Where he wasn't doing so well again and the doctor saw it at that point that he wouldn't be around for more than a few weeks. Thankfully, God showed signs that he would be able to push through and he made it. Unfortunately though, throughout most of 2025, his energy wasn't the best, he wasn't able to move as quick as he used to be able to, and there's a few other things that happened, but I'll leave it at that. At a family gathering in early August of 2025, yeah, he seemed like he was doing okay, but he wasn't moving around the quickest and sounded like he was just running out of breath. I saw him again in December of 2025 while doing some work on a house for my great aunt and great uncle over in the Gobles area and he sounded the same then as well. I didn't think he was completely in a bad way by any means at that point, but didn't. I also believe he didn't sound the best either at that point. Unfortunately, that was the last time I saw him. My cousin Zach. I didn't hear much about what was going on with him and how he was doing, but it's something that I was thinking about on and off for a little while because I was a bit concerned for him. I unfortunately did not see him at an Easter family gathering. The day before is passing, I would receive news that he wasn't doing so well and he was being held at Plainwell Pines Nursing Home between Plainwell and Kalamazoo. Then on June 10th about a few hours after I got done recording a bad thunderstorm that came through, I would receive a call from one of my other cousins that my cousin Zach had unfortunately passed away.

Today, a funeral was held for him at St. Jude Mission Parish in Gobles and we laid him to rest at Kendall cemetery, just east of Gobles.

Today was definitely a very emotional day for me. But not just for me, there were so many people in my family that were pretty devastated as well. His parents, his brother and sister, his niece and nephew, and some of his other closer family were super devastated. Keeping my emotions under control was definitely a struggle at times, but I handled it the best I could. At one point when I was coming home from the funeral, I had to pull off somewhere because My emotions got the best of me. But I was there for a lot of my other family that were more affected by my cousin's passing than I was. I hugged them, gave out my condolences, and was there for them, even though I struggled with my emotions at times.

As I did State in a video and in one of my previous posts, yeah I also lost a great aunt to cancer the same exact day I lost my cousin. From what I understand, there was a private burial that was going on for her according to her obituary and from what one of my other cousins and my great uncle that was married to her was telling me. As far as I know, a celebration of life will be held for her sometime in mid-july.

I may have said it a few times, but I'll say it again. Heart problems, cancer, or anything else like that is not something that I would ever in my lifetime wish to happen to anybody, regardless of how I feel about that specific person. As someone who has had some people, both in person and online, wish quite a few negative things on me before, it's not something that I wish to happen to anybody nor would I ever want to wish it on anybody. Yeah, I've had my share of judgment and some negativity towards certain people online in the past, but that is something that I have learned to better steer myself away from regardless of how that person feels about me. We all say things or do things in our life that we may not regret at first, but maybe a few days, few weeks, months, years, decades, etc. later down the road and sometimes, that's just how life works. But if possible, the best thing to do is learn from it and not make a decision doing it again.

That being said, this isn't about me, this is about my cousin Zach.

One thing I will add though is to anybody out there with a big family. If there's ever talk of family gatherings, and you have a chance to make it to one, take the chance and go to it. You never know when that gathering could be the last gathering that you see someone or maybe a few people. I have unfortunately learn that the hard way in the past a few times. But I try and make it to each and every family gathering that I can on my dad's side of the family, my the mom's side of the family, and even my stepmom's side of the family. I tried to keep some contact with even my stepdad's and the family, but unfortunately a lot of them have cut ties with my brothers and I after my stepdad and my mom divorced and early 2018. But that doesn't mean that I don't miss them. But that part being said, don't ever let a family member passing away. Lead the next gathering. If you have your chances to make it to a family gathering, don't miss that chance. Even though my cousin Zach couldn't make it to some of the family gatherings in the past few years, he tried to show up when he could. The last one he went to was back in August of 2025, but because of the issues he was having between early August of last summer and June 10th, I understand why he couldn't make it. It. But still, missing family gatherings is not something that I would recommend.

With all that being said, I do apologize for the super long post. I know I'm horrible when it comes to making posts on YouTube, but I just wanted to put this out there.

Zach, I am really sorry that you had to go through what you had to go through in your life. It is sad and again, it's not something I would ever wish to happen to anybody. You didn't deserve that. I love you dude and I will miss you deeply. My heart absolutely aches for my great aunt, my great uncle, my other cousins who were brother and sister, and everybody else that was even closer to you than I was.

R.I.P. to my cousin Zachary John Paul Happel! 😢😭💔

1 week ago | [YT] | 5

Michael Dennis Starbuck

Might start doing weekend vlog videos for my channel. Make it to where if I do quite a few things during the weekend and I do a bunch of recording for it, put it into a weekend vlog and start putting those out.

Obviously, I still will continue with the longer vlogs, even though I am trying to find ways to make it to where those don't turn out to be super long, but those will definitely keep coming, especially one that I have planned to upload sometime after Independence Day.

But yeah, I think I'll start doing weekend vlogs. I already have videos from last weekend and this weekend I was going to put together for weekend vlogs. Not 100% sure exactly when I'll put together videos from last weekend until we can vlog, but it's definitely something I'm going to start doing.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 1