Top 5 Stories July 9, 2025 Part 2

You don't want to miss our commentary on this bird they want to bring back...

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to West Michigan's Morning News.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Steve Kelly, that's Laurence Smith at Brett Pikita, there's Adam
Rocho and you Wednesday July ninth, twenty twenty five and
Top five times Schmidty, Where do we start?

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Number five?

Speaker 4 (00:12):
Are you ready for another extinct animal to potentially make
a comeback? The now extinct New Zealand bird called the moa.
It was announced yesterday by Colossal Biosciences. They're genetically engineering
living birds to resemble the South Island giant moa, which
once stood over twelve eet tall. And you know who's

(00:33):
super excited about this. Lord of the Rings director Peter
Jackson apparently has one of the largest fossil collections in
the world and has given fifteen million bucks in funding
to make this thing happen.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Is it flightless? I just did a Google search. Well,
I don't know if it's a moa. It looks like
as big a ostrich as you'll ever see a condor.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
It looks like a dinosaur osterri it. Yeah, and uh
we wingless, so probably can't fly right.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Unless it has some other propulsion.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
How that's a good point. A jet pack, that's a
good point.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Now, no fossils of the jet pack. Where do they
even get gas?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
They don't know, I don't. They became barely started fire.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Right, Oh my gosh, we could have them around.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Every week we have an ostricher and emu getting loose.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Imagine one of the size of a building. My god,
we'd be pecked to death. This is a horrible idea.
Get your congressman on the line.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Where was this bird on land and lost?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Don't get your congressman on the.

Speaker 5 (01:44):
Land stack and a slee stack swearing?

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Poor congressmanizing and getting mola calls?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Why do we even continue with today's top five when
we've uncovered this gem?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Number four in the lists.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
A message in a bottle launched by visitors in Newfoundland's
Bell Island found washed up in an Irish.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Speech thirteen years later.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
That's right, it completely crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Katie Gaye
said she was on the Dingle Peninsula, which she spotted
the wine bottle from a sheet of paper inside. Buy
at a dime for every Dingle Peninsula story of a
message in a bottle We got congratulation. It was from
a couple talking about their lovely vacation just so you.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
Know, I'm going to go college hockey here, and kind
of a double whammy if you're a Michigan State hockey fan.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I know Tony's a big fan. I am too.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
But Michigan State's expectation of having the reigning Hoby Baker
Award winner back for this season, which was their thought
for his senior season, Ford Isaac Howard signed an NHL
entry level contract with the Edmonton Oilers and he'll forego
his final season of eligibility. The reason they thought he
was going to come back and just happened yesterday evening
is because his rights. He was drafted with Tampa Bay,

(02:56):
but then they traded the rights. Edmonton goes ahead and says, well,
we're gonna sign him, and Isaac Coward takes the deal.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
He can't blame him.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
But on top of that, they were looking to try
to recruit Gavin McKenny, the projected number one pick of
the twenty twenty six NHL Draft, but he committed to
Penn State University yesterday. Ironically, at seventeen years of age,
Michigan State was one of his finalists.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
I'm a very sad man today, Sorry Tony at number two.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
Australian professional mountain biker will Lewis was riding through the
Canadian Rockies when suddenly a black bear showed up.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Nope, there we go.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 6 (03:36):
What oh? You could hear the bear breathing. And you
can hear the bear breathing. He was only a couple
feet away. And this guy, he's brave. He turned around
much too quickly. That more quicker than I would if
I saw bear.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well not if you had a pet moa, you'd just say, oh.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
You could ride the moa.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
And Larry would peck the bear.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
I give him credit though without seeing the video, but
just hearing Adam describe it in what Smittye talked about.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
He did the right thing. They always say, especially with
the black bear.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Grizzly you're not gonna win that battle, but a black bear,
you want to get as big as possible and make
noise and everything, and that's what he did.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
I'm so sorry. Can I take your number one moa
can run seventy miles an hour?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Get out? What there you go?

Speaker 7 (04:25):
You thought the s Curve had problems now and I
thought I had to worry about cheetahs and that is
today's Top five, and some chowder had once to re
create it.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Usain Bolt versus the Mala

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Jurassic Park would be like a kid's