Top 5 Stories June 11, 2025

Italy combating counterfeit cheeses, a zebra airlifted out of Tennessee and Steve tells us to visit our grandparents. Those stories and more on today's top 5!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And this is West Michigan's Morning News, Steve, Kelly, Brett Pakita.
That is Adam Arocho Schmittyan Assignment today Wednesday, June eleventh,
twenty twenty five, and it is top five Top Adam,
where do we start?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Did you guys know that there's a thing is counterfeit
parmesan cheese? No? Yeah, So they're trying to get ahead
of this over in Italy. The Parmesano Reggiano Consortium, which
is an actual group that certifies parmesan cheese, is now
putting micro chips into the labels of certified cheeses to
make sure that people when they buy them are not

(00:35):
getting counterfeit products.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
What constitutes a counterfeit parma? I mean, what do we ease?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
I guess it's not made in the right region, it's
not made with the right aging, but people are putting
labels on it as if it is. And so now
they have to essentially put air tags in your cheese
to make sure it's not from the black market.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
That sounds standing.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Steve is a parmesan fan, yeah, and I guess the
same thing can be said for champagne. Right, there's sparkling
wine and then there's champagne made in the Champagne Reason France,
and they protect that. I don't know they're putting the
air tags in it or not number form the list.
Animal services officials in California City are asking residents to

(01:18):
report any cow sightings after someone set sixty cattle looks
what you imagine all the troubles that we've had in traffic.
Remember we had like ten horses. Weren't you there that
day on six?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
And then I remember we had a there's a cow
on the S Curve once. Wasn't there it had a cow.
We've had a horse in the S Curve.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, sixty of them in California, which is just barely
holding on in traffic. Just to let you know, there's
one hundred lanes and there's mass chaos. City of Antioch
Animal Services set on social media that officers responded to
report of cow's loose at about two am Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Thank heavens, they've since been rounded up.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Now, you know, football season is twelve months in the year.
We know that big announcement yesterday by ESPN coming down
because it's Lee Corso's final show for College Game Day.
They announced this past April he's eighty nine years old,
he's going to be ninety that he would retire after
the very first show. I didn't know he was kickoff

(02:19):
this year.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Lee Corso played at Florida State with Burt Reynolds back
in the day.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
They both played college football together. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
I didn't know that either.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
Well, I got some more stuff for you.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Lee Corso's final mascot headgear pick, which people love for
college Game Day.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
Right when he picks the winning team.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Will come at Ohio State, it's Texas Ohio State. And
the story behind this is why they picked it because
some people thought, well, he played at Florida State, Florida
State's playing Alabama Week one, that would be pretty good.
But his first pick where he did the head gear
came in nineteen ninety six, and he picked Brutus's Buckeye

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nuthead because he picked Ohio State at home against Penn
State that year. Now, the other thing I didn't know
about Lee Corso. College Game Day started way back in
nineteen eighty seven. He's the only current cast member on
that show that was there in the beginning.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
So, nineteen ninety six he picked Brutus wore the head
he did that because Kirk kirk Street's wife was a
former Ohio state cheerleader and she had access to the
mascot's head, not knowing that that would start a trend
that every week they would have to do a mascot pick.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
Isn't that cool?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Was she born in nineteen eighty seven?

Speaker 5 (03:39):
No, No, ninety six, ninety six? They when they first one?

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, gotcha? Add number two.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
After a week on the lamb, a missing pet zebra
has been rescued in Tennessee. The runaway zebra escaped and
was running on some highways. Eventually needed to get airlifted.
They strapped this thing to a helicopter and pulled it
out of the forest to return it back to its owner.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Either be terrifying for a zebra or anybody really, Well, yeah,
but we've at least seen pictures of helicopters.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Oh, I've seen the video of that airlift. It was crazy.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, it was kind of in a sitting position, which
makes it look even more awkward?

Speaker 5 (04:12):
Is that a zebra flight overhead?

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Finally, at number one on the list, a volunteer at
a Michigan library found a wedding photo from the nineteen
fifties inside a book, and the facility was able to
return the precious picture to the couple's granddaughter. This was
in Sterling Heights.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
I was very close with my grandparents, my whole family,
you know, my brother and cousins, and I have just
such fun memories of them growing up. We'd go over
to their house every Sunday for Sunday dinner and my
grandma was a great cook, and she would make her
homemade sauce and meatballs, and they were just the best
grandparents ever.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
I do this only for the power of grandparents.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
If you are a grandparent, just having kids over for dinner,
telling stories about the possibility of being airlifted by a helicopter,
just so you know it doesn't come up, you know
what I mean, Make a little sauce and some meatballs,
and there you go Today's top five.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Thank you all for playing along. Old