Top 5 Stories December 4, 2025

A record for longest dog tongue, painted Christmas trees, and no good deed goes unpunished. Those stories and more on today's top 5!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Man. This is West Michigan's morning news.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Steve Kelly, Brett, Bikita, Lauren Smith getting ready to kick
off twenty six Animal Radio thon for Helen de Vos
Children's Hospital.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
That's Adam a road show.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's Thursday, December fourth, twenty twenty five and Top five time.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Adam, Where do we start?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
We start off asking a question did we really need this?
A New Jersey Christmas tree farm is under fire right
now for selling spray painted Christmas trees that are colored
in nine different colors. The farm is claiming that the
paint is fireproof and non toxic, but when people bring
these things home, all the paint is just shaking right

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off and all over people's floors and furniture. So my
question again is did we really need that?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Kind of thing doesn't happen here in West Michigan. We
grow natural trees that last longer than other ones.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
That's right, that are normal colors?

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yeah, green, That reminds me, I got a water my
tree when I get home.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Smart, at number four on the list of an Oklahoma family's
dog earned a Guinness World Record when hiss Top, which
usually hangs out of the sound of his mouth, was
measured at seven point eighty three inches long. Carefully, I'm Angelina,
this is Ozzy, and Ozzy is a new record holder

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for the longest tunnel a living dog.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
So living. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Wanted to point that out that if you have any
other kind of dog, the tongue doesn't count.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
So yeah, I wanted to make that important distinction if
you're running down the hall right now with a ruler
living dog living.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
At number three, we had the early signing day for
high school football recruits going to colleges and making their choices.
Both Michigan and Michigan States still have some work to do.
Some players are kind of hanging out seeing what other
offers are out there, but some big names to keep
an eye on as far as Michigan is concerned. Four
star edge rusher we kind of heard this going into yesterday,

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Julian Walker, who's from South Carolina really getting pitched tarred
by the game Cocks. So will he stay in state
or go to Michigan? And five star running back Savion
Hider has not signed yet, so keep an eye on that.
That has the Michigan class at number twelve right now
in the rivals on three dot Com rankings and for
Michigan State, seventeen of their twenty total commits signed yesterday,

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including four star quarterback Kay Kaufman out of East Kentwood,
but they're still waiting on offensive lineman Colin Campbell, who's
a four star six seven two seventy out of Arizona,
and four star wide receiver Samson Gash from Division one
state champion Detroit Catholic Central. He's been looking at Alabama
and other schools since this whole thing with Jonathan Smith.
But when you look at the rankings, USC right now
sits as the top recruiting class for twenty twenty six.

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Notre Dame is number two, Oregon three, Georgia four, Ohio
State five, Michigan State right now with the transition of
the head coach sitting at number forty six.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I had two skinny high school girls and they ate
me out of house and home. Can you imagine six
seven to seventy exactly?

Speaker 4 (02:57):
That's why you want him on the offensive line.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Oh add number two. They say, no good deed goes unpunished.
At Georgia, man discovered an injured raccoon on the side
of the road and decided to wrap it up in
his coat and take it to an animal hospital. Well,
that raccoon decided to attack him while he was driving,
and to make matters worse, it then tested positive for rabies.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
He got the rabies. He got the rabies.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
So now he has to go through the whole rabies
vaccination process, which I had a friend to go through that.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
It is no picnic.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
I don't know about the raby shot thing. It Oh listen,
Oh boy, there's a lot of lore behind this thing.
If there's a doctor listening, I want to know what
the whole rabies thing is. This is like that guy
that says he has a girlfriend in Canada, right I
everybody has somebody that went through the raby shot thing
and it was a needle the size of a tennis ball.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Can that goes in your eye.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
You know. We've also established in the top five, especially
what he gets more opportunities like today, Adam really has
a thing for raccoon I do.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
I mean, there's always raccoon stories.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
I actually read a story the other day. They're starting
to become tosticated.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
And you have a pet one, okay, you started this, Brett,
this is your Yeah, that'd be great.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Have your pet bite you and give you Rabies.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Finally, at number one on the list, a New Zealand
news reporter filming a segment outside when she was struck
in the face by a low flying bird. Enter seagulls.
Yeah yeah, there was bleeding everything. The seagull's gonna be okay.

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She may have a little scar And that's today's top five.
Don't shore the movie birds yeah, no kidding, and nothing
more about seagulls.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
They can group, and don't feed them for what do
you do it