July 28, 2025 • 5 mins
Turns out Mario and Princess Peach are not romantically involved, a mascot arrested at work, and we finally find out why we haven't heard from a serial record-breaker. Those stories and more on today's top 5!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And this is West Michigan's Morning News. That's Laurence Smith
and Brett Kata Adam Arote Show. I'm Steve Kelly and
it's Monday, July twenty eighth, twenty twenty five, bolding onto Julyshmitty, Where.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Do we start?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Hey? At number five, I felt like some love news
was important today. Nintendo has officially confirmed Mario and Princess
Peach are just really good friends. I'm sure had no
idea this had been something that had been such a
journey for gamers. Sharing on their app, the statement explains
Mario and Peach simply help each other out whenever they can,
(00:36):
despite years of implied romance through cheek kisses and Mario
repeatedly risking his life to save her. Nintendo fans pretty
sad this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So my friends with benefits sounds.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Not even they say Mario is officially a bachelor.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Did we just have to clarify a video game?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Number four The a tortoise who escaped from her family's
home in England, was found more than two weeks later
outside an ice cream parlor nearly three miles from home. Shelley,
a twenty year old leopard tortoise escaped from outside her
family's home in Schillingford, Abbot that's near Exeter, Oh, right
(01:22):
on July ninth. The tortoise was spotted sixteen days later
outside of field, outside of an ice cream store. She
was spotted by the farmer. Thought it was a big rock.
That's how they disguised themselves. Nothing to see here, just
a big rock. Now if I can just get to
that ice cream, she says. She suspects the ice cream
(01:45):
is not the only snack Shelley enjoyed while on the loose.
They left a bunch of food out for it to
try to get it to come back home to no avail.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Is it me?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Or is there any like less sense of urgency like
compared to your dog right away, because you could probably
give the tortoise a couple of days and still track it.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, it's not going to get too far. But I
mean if you're used to, you know, like snuggling with
it at night, you're gonna miss it.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
An interesting choice, yeah, right.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Sungly with a rock. Okay, at number three. We had
history in the making yesterday and it came through in
the end. It took double overtime. It took a rain delay.
But here's what happened in NASCAR. If you missed it,
twenty boards.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Out was a twenty three baggot.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
They were both some time.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Here they come off the turnfoar.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The brickyard belongs to Bubba Wallace.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, hell, he's gone to the.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Thirty one year old Bubba Wallace became the first black
driver yesterday win a major race at Indianapolis Motors Speedway.
You know they have all different forms of racing there,
but he wins the Brickyard four hundred and his number
twenty three car. Michael Jordan, one of the co owners,
very happy about it. Wallis had overcome, as I mentioned,
an eighteen minute rain delay, then two overtimes and had
(03:08):
to defeat and hold off last year's champion Kyle Larson
to do it. Congratulations to Bubble Wiles, Well.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Done to him at number two.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
As if getting arrested at work isn't embarrassing enough, how
about getting arrested while wearing your works mascot costume. A
Tallahassee man working at a Chuck E. Cheese was arrested
for credit card fraud while dressed up as the mouse
in front of a children's birthday party day. The photos
are hilarious because they took his helmet off and put
(03:36):
it on top of the police cruiser while they were
putting him in the vaccine.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Those kids, can you imagine?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I mean, I still don't think that's as bad as
having to watch the animatronic Chucky Cheese.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, give me a.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Credit card, fraudulent real person over whatever wear machinery they're
using on the stage back in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, that is weird and a daylight today age being
inside a mascot. Finally, at number one on the list,
serial Guinness World record breaker, David Rush unofficially broke a
record when he and a friend, a very good friend,
popped ten balloons between their bodies and seven point five seconds.
(04:19):
So it's been a while since we've heard from David Rush.
People have kind of wondered he's raising awareness for STEM
education and stuff I should probably remember off the top
of my head. But he has been sort of missing
because he used to do it like a video a week.
So where's he been.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You haven't seen me in a while, and I'll tell
you why. It's because I took a new job in tech.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Wait a minute, I'm back in the normal workforce. Yeah,
Stiel breaking records. So we've always said, who has time
for these things? Yeah, well he doesn't because he had
to get a job. So that's the the whole reason
I did the story. Is there you go, kids, be
less of that popping balloons. Yeah, get a.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Job popping balloons and get a job.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
That's today's top follow shoe
And this is West Michigan's Morning News. That's Laurence Smith
and Brett Kata Adam Arote Show. I'm Steve Kelly and
it's Monday, July twenty eighth, twenty twenty five, bolding onto Julyshmitty, Where.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Do we start?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Hey? At number five, I felt like some love news
was important today. Nintendo has officially confirmed Mario and Princess
Peach are just really good friends. I'm sure had no
idea this had been something that had been such a
journey for gamers. Sharing on their app, the statement explains
Mario and Peach simply help each other out whenever they can,
(00:36):
despite years of implied romance through cheek kisses and Mario
repeatedly risking his life to save her. Nintendo fans pretty
sad this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So my friends with benefits sounds.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Not even they say Mario is officially a bachelor.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Did we just have to clarify a video game?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Number four The a tortoise who escaped from her family's
home in England, was found more than two weeks later
outside an ice cream parlor nearly three miles from home. Shelley,
a twenty year old leopard tortoise escaped from outside her
family's home in Schillingford, Abbot that's near Exeter, Oh, right
(01:22):
on July ninth. The tortoise was spotted sixteen days later
outside of field, outside of an ice cream store. She
was spotted by the farmer. Thought it was a big rock.
That's how they disguised themselves. Nothing to see here, just
a big rock. Now if I can just get to
that ice cream, she says. She suspects the ice cream
(01:45):
is not the only snack Shelley enjoyed while on the loose.
They left a bunch of food out for it to
try to get it to come back home to no avail.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Is it me?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Or is there any like less sense of urgency like
compared to your dog right away, because you could probably
give the tortoise a couple of days and still track it.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, it's not going to get too far. But I
mean if you're used to, you know, like snuggling with
it at night, you're gonna miss it.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
An interesting choice, yeah, right.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Sungly with a rock. Okay, at number three. We had
history in the making yesterday and it came through in
the end. It took double overtime. It took a rain delay.
But here's what happened in NASCAR. If you missed it,
twenty boards.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Out was a twenty three baggot.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
They were both some time.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Here they come off the turnfoar.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The brickyard belongs to Bubba Wallace.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, hell, he's gone to the.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Thirty one year old Bubba Wallace became the first black
driver yesterday win a major race at Indianapolis Motors Speedway.
You know they have all different forms of racing there,
but he wins the Brickyard four hundred and his number
twenty three car. Michael Jordan, one of the co owners,
very happy about it. Wallis had overcome, as I mentioned,
an eighteen minute rain delay, then two overtimes and had
(03:08):
to defeat and hold off last year's champion Kyle Larson
to do it. Congratulations to Bubble Wiles, Well.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Done to him at number two.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
As if getting arrested at work isn't embarrassing enough, how
about getting arrested while wearing your works mascot costume. A
Tallahassee man working at a Chuck E. Cheese was arrested
for credit card fraud while dressed up as the mouse
in front of a children's birthday party day. The photos
are hilarious because they took his helmet off and put
(03:36):
it on top of the police cruiser while they were
putting him in the vaccine.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Those kids, can you imagine?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I mean, I still don't think that's as bad as
having to watch the animatronic Chucky Cheese.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, give me a.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Credit card, fraudulent real person over whatever wear machinery they're
using on the stage back in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, that is weird and a daylight today age being
inside a mascot. Finally, at number one on the list,
serial Guinness World record breaker, David Rush unofficially broke a
record when he and a friend, a very good friend,
popped ten balloons between their bodies and seven point five seconds.
(04:19):
So it's been a while since we've heard from David Rush.
People have kind of wondered he's raising awareness for STEM
education and stuff I should probably remember off the top
of my head. But he has been sort of missing
because he used to do it like a video a week.
So where's he been.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You haven't seen me in a while, and I'll tell
you why. It's because I took a new job in tech.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Wait a minute, I'm back in the normal workforce. Yeah,
Stiel breaking records. So we've always said, who has time
for these things? Yeah, well he doesn't because he had
to get a job. So that's the the whole reason
I did the story. Is there you go, kids, be
less of that popping balloons. Yeah, get a.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Job popping balloons and get a job.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
That's today's top follow shoe
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