Top 5 Stories August 8, 2025

We may have a new world's largest sunflower, a scooter that travels 50 miles per hour and if it's not a bear then what is it? Those stories and more on today's top 5!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome to West Michigan's morning News.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Steve, Kelly, Brett, Pikita, that's Adam road Show, Schmidtiback soon.
It's Friday, August date, twenty twenty five. Man Top five
time Brett, where do we start?

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Well, I think Tony Brooks had this earlier this week,
and now it's got even more legs. It's happened a
couple other times, and I'm talking about WNBA games in
adult toys being thrown out on the floor. While a
self described follow this guy's crypto enthusiast told ESPN yesterday
he's part of a group that orchestrated recent stunts that

(00:37):
have disrupted at least three WNBA games in the past
ten days. The man, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity over video conference on Wednesday, said that the stunts
were meant to market a crypto coin that is online
community created. The WNBA in all of its controversy, he said,

(00:58):
made the league a logical target, So they were looking
for attention basically because the Caitlin Clark stuff and everything
else that's going on. And I'm just concerned that will
more of this happen in sports and not just sports.
You know, big time events that are live because people
are just looking for that ten seconds of fame to

(01:19):
promote whatever they want to.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
But how this ties into crypt right?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Was there like a logo on fat I.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Mean, what a crazy But they've had these incidents and
they've all been similar adult toys and people talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
They're hitting players.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Yeah, so it's really Oh it's dangerous. Yeah, when they
were like walking up first, they're throwing.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Them out of the floor, which obviously anything can happen
there or slip on it, whatever the case might be,
or it hits you. So it's just but that it's
tied to crypto, it's a little.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Crazy, no doubt. Number four in the list.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
In Indiana, gardener said his sunflower plant is within a
foot of breaking a Guinness World record.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
It's still growing. So you have a.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Sunflower seed, grab your tape measure and listen. Wayne man
Alec Babbage's sunflowers surpassed the US record last week when it.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Reached twenty six feet eight inches tall. Whoa.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Babbage said his flower continued to grow and is now
a foot from the current Guinness World record, which is
thirty feet one inch. It was grown in Germany in
twenty fourteen. There's no other reason to do the story. Besides,
let's just wait and see.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
That guy's cheering for rain.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
We will follow this thing back up. I'm really proud.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I'm from Ukraine originally, you know, we immigrated back in
nineteen ninety one. We escape Chernobyl. Oh no, maybe that's yeah.
You think he's got a little radiation with him. Oh,
that's a horrible thing to bring up at him. But
I was thinking the same thing. I mean, at number
three on the list.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
At number three segue, the scooter company is releasing a
production scooter to the general public that can reach speeds
up to fifty.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Miles per hour.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
Now, they're just like the ones we see in downtown
Grand Rapids. Could you imagine went tearing through those downtown streets.
Now at fifty this thing goes from zero to thirty
and three point nine seconds.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Talk about skinning your knee right.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
For the low, low price of twenty seven hundred dollars,
you could commute eighty five miles at fifty miles an
hour on this thing.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Hey, it's all fun and danny, But getting the right lane,
that's all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well, until you hit the curb.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
What about dragging your ankle at fifty miles an hour
along city curb? Yeah, not interested. I saw some cat
go by me the other day cut me off. He
was turning left, you know how that works out, and
I thought he was going way too fast.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Number two on the list.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Rory McElroy is not playing this weekend. Guys, Wait a minute.
The FEDEXS Cup playoffs are underway in Memphis with the
first stop with the Saint Jude Championship. But yeah, seventy
players qualifying for the first round of the playoffs at
the FEDEXS Saint Jude Championship that started yesterday, but only
sixty nine were there in plane.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Scotti Scheffler was there.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
But the reason that Rory McRoy can yep the event
with the new rules setup, he finished second in the
points standings from the regular season. Therefore he's automatically qualified
for the Tour Championship. So he's going to take a
week off work on his game. He'll be in the
event next week, which will be the BMW before we
get to the Tour Championship. Yeah, PGA Tour officials saying

(04:19):
there's probably gonna be changes coming up for next year
because they don't want the players not to play these events.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Either of you see Happy Gilmore too yet? No, I'm waiting.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
I haven't seen others.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
You did?

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yes, and it's the same as the first one there.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh yeah, but Rory's in it too.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Everybody apparently is in this movie.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well, and that's the appeal.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
What's the one thing you hear about Happy Gilmore two
and they went for is the star power?

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:44):
They should have just stuck with the stars and not
the jokes. Finally, a number one on the list. Wildlife
experts said a mystery animal caught on camera in northeast
Kansas is not a bear, but they disagree on what
it might actually be.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
This picture was taken by a Shawne Heights resident this
past Saturday their driveway and quickly gained attention throughout Northeast Kansas.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Google Images told them it was likely a black bear,
But what are the odds of that?

Speaker 2 (05:07):
The Northern Carnivore keeper at the Topeka Zoo said, chances
are almost zero that there aren't black bears in Kansas,
just so you know, But it might be some sort of.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Dog.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Could be that you see the picture. It kind of
has that BlackBerry sort of look. You will find the
pictures online. You decide for yourself, Baby Sasquatch. It's not
it's probably not okay.