Top 5 Stories July 8, 2025

The gang's all here and we are back with the top 5 for Tuesday July 8, 2025. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to West Michigan's morning news. I see Laurence Smith
and Adam a road show. That's Brett Makita, It's Steve
Kelly Tuesday July eighth, twenty twenty five, and it is
top five times. Welcome back, Smiddy.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh, it's good to be back number five. I know
Wimbledon officially wrapped up over the weekend, but I couldn't
miss the opportunity for this world's number thirteen. Amanda Anissimova
was not too thrilled after right before a serve. This happened.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, if you could avoid opening
bosses of champagne when the players are about.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
To serve, Come on, I love that warm.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
It's the most Wimbledon warning you've ever heard. Really, pardon me,
ladies and gentlemen, if you could not pop your champagne
bottles ahead of a serve. And that's why I just
think we should all road trip to Wimbledon.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Does everybody get a bottle hold?

Speaker 4 (00:49):
Right?

Speaker 1 (00:50):
That's insane?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Do they ever like pop out onto the court?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I mean you could really hurt an ankle on a
nice cork of champagne.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Bot that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
I like how they're so polite, though, would that be
the way they would say it in America? I don't
think so.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Hey, would you put the dagga down please? It's dangerous.
Authorities in Ohio, at number four in the list, shared
photos of a deer spotted wandering with a bird feeder
stuck on its antlers, but officials said it does not
appear to be causing the animal any discomfort. Plus it
gets to see birds real up close. Mentor on the

(01:28):
Lake Police Department set on social media that the deer
has been spotted in an area around the Dollar General store.
I mean, who can stay away.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
The deals, right?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
I mean everybody wants something sometime. It is the Trey
style bird feeder hooked onto one of its antlers. And
I know they know you're wondering if I'm going to
suggest the Steve Kelly solution. But either way, don't aim
for the bird feeder. That's all they wanted to say
about that.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
People are fired up about Dusty May and Michigan basketball
with the transfer portal, how successful they were this year
after ending last year and had a great year. Michigan
Wolverines basketball new sophomore Ford Mores Johnson junior who played
for Illinois last year, let team USA over the weekend
to the PHOEBA U nineteen World Cup gold medal in Switzerland,

(02:16):
and he played well in doing so. USA defeated Germany
in the championship game Sunday one oh nine to seventy six.
Johnson had fifteen points and ten rebounds. He also was
a part of the gold medal team last year at
the FOEBA America's Championship. So get excited, Michigan fans six
nine two fifty five form mister Illinois Basketball Player of

(02:39):
the Year, and he still got two years of eligibility left.
He'll suit up for the Wolverines coming this coming winner.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Six nine, six nine. How crazy is that?

Speaker 4 (02:48):
And number two something I'm way too excited about. The
TSA announcing yesterday to all of its employees that starting
this Sunday, they're eliminating the requirement to take your shoes
off to go through General's six curity at airports. It's
not going to be at every airport right away. They're
starting with some of the bigger ones. But after twenty
three years of having to take your shoes off to
go through security and watching people apparently take their shoes

(03:11):
off for the first time ever in their lives. The
line might speed up a little bit.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I can't stand walking around somebody else's floor with my
shoes off.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, they're good with kids. I've never my kids have
never had to take their shoes.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Ye.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, that's really nice because I'm like, you want to
see a line stop by four year old going I
do it myself?

Speaker 1 (03:31):
What about the belt? I don't want to take my
belt copy because then you feel this crush to do
it all really fast once you get.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
A man's pants fall down. Oh Florida, Oh there you go.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Hey, Steve, don't wear a belt if you're going to
the airport. So I gotta wear a belt. Has to
match my shoes and my handbag. Finally, number one on the.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
List, fire crews in South Carolina were returning from a
call when they came across a new situation alligator in traffic.
This is South Carolina, not Florida. The Hoary County Fire
Rescue said crew was returning from a medical call when
they found the gator wondering on Old Reeves Ferry Road.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh yeah, I've seen him out there.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Firefighters redirected traffic away from the reptile while waiting for
a South Carolina Department of Natural Resources personnel to arride.
So that's who you call if you ever go to
South Carolina. Called the DNR down there and they apparently
somebody comes out. He alligated, was relocated to a more
suitable area.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
He's a bigot.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
And there you go. That's today's top five. Let's tear
off a little traffic and weather together. Thanks for coming
along for the ride.