Top 5 Stories December 8, 2025

What would Kevin's NYC adventure in Home Alone cost today? First responders at the right place at the right time, and an update on that 88 year old man working full-time at Meijer. Those stories and more on today's top 5!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is West Michigan's Morning newstee Kelly, Brent, Keita and
Lawrence Smith. By the way, if you notice a couple
of changes, Adam Rocho in the producers booth kind of
reworking the way the hour looks, and so far that
means less commercials and I think that's kind of cool. Yeah,
and more opportunities for us to interact, and that's kind

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of cool. But we're going to have to work some
bugs out here because we've kind of been using the
same clock we call it in our business for about
twenty some odd years fifteen with yours truly pressing the buttons.
So today could be this week could be weird. It
is five point thirty seven. Today's top five. Schmidty, where

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do we start?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
We're going to start at number five. It's going to
be real depressing. There's a new report out about what
Kevin McAllister would have spent in twenty twenty five if
Home Alone Too had been a thing. You guys ready
for this? Yes, that stay at the Plaza Hotel, which
in nineteen ninety two would have been eleven hundred dollars,
would now be sixty two hundred dollars with a four

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hundred and sixty eight percent increase. My gosh, that nine
hundred and sixty seven dollars room service bill would have
been over twenty two hundred dollars, and that ice cream
Sunday would have been not eighteen but twenty four dollars.
All in all, about twenty one hundred and nineteen ninety
two is going to cost you eighty five hundred and

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twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Five Full disclosure. We watched the end of Home Alone
two and I thought of Smitty when the dad was
yelling out the number on the bill, because she nailed
it good.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Six.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Seems like ice cream, though it's not that big a deal.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I guess that's where you're really going to go. Yeah,
there's your savings.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
A British Man with a love of motorized vehicles built
at number four in the list the world's fastest garden
shed storage structure, with the top speed of one hundred
and twenty three point four three miles an hour. But
what I asked, why now, why grand that would you
put shed on top of the car. And there's only
one sense finance you can give to a five year
old who's scared of the dark.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
And that used to get away from the big bad wolf.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
There you go. It didn't make any sense to me either.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
No, I just like the accent. Yeah. At number three,
how about the Bulldogs of Farris State and Tony Andese.
They're doing it again. Headed off to the Division two
National semi Final and impressive win at homes and now
fourteen to oh rank number one in the land. They
beat Minnesota State coach or No Coach, fifty two to
twenty nine. This past Saturday. Chase Carter their outstanding quarterback,

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although they have about three that they can play. Fifteen
to twenty four pass twe hundred and seventy five yards
two touchdowns through the air. He ran for another one
hundred and forty nine yards in two touchdowns out of Orlando, Florida.
Congrats to him, only a sophomore, and the Bulldogs will
host Newberry out of South Carolina in the semis. It's
going to be a noon kickoff ESPN Plus. We've the

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coverage eleven AM with the pregame. Remember we're carrying all
those games live. We'll do it again on my six
the game this Saturday.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
At number two, a house fire broke out in Windsor Township,
Pennsylvania last week, displacing a family. But the fire was
put out and everybody rescued by employees at the pizza
shop next door, Primo Pizza by Ryan employees, volunteer firefighters,
and it was right next door to the house fire,
so all of those first responders ran over, rescued the family,

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put out the fire, and are now accepting donations for
the displaced family.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Just never can tell when something that he's going to
be in the right place at the right time.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Right.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Speaking of which, at number one of the lists, Schmidty
brought us the story last week. Remember the story of
ed Bombas the eighty eight year old that was still
working at a grocery store in Brighton. That's when a
TikTok video spun some seven point seven million times and
this retiree from General Motors got a check for one

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point seven million dollars on Friday. His reaction was emotional
when he was able to speak, it.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Means a terrible murden that I have to find everybody
and say thank you.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Now that is today's five.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
He's so sweet.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I'm not sure if any of you helped to donate,
but that was a super happy ending. As well