Top 5 Stories June 6, 2025

Wayne Gretzky learns about Gen Z, Joey Chesnut is at it again, and an otter chooses to be free. Those stories and more on today's top 5!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to West Michigan's morning news.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Steve Kelly, that's Adam a roadshow, Brett Pikita and Lauren Smith.
And it is writing June six, twenty twenty five. That
means top five times Schmidty, Where do we start.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
At number five? Even hockey legend Wayne Gretzky will admit
he's of an older age and doesn't always get things
about gen Z. The conversation went down during the Edmonton
Oilers overtime win over the Florida Panthers in Game one
of the Stanley Cup Finals the other night when they
were talking about the popular tune Pink Pony Club becoming

(00:32):
a locker room anthem.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
No one's giving details, nobody.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Yeah, that's why I was trying to ask a new
questions about it. Pink Pony Is that a band or
is that a song? It's a woman. She sends a song,
Pink Pony Club, and it's famous. It's on the radio,
and I think it's an American girl. But all of
a sudden it popped off. I believe she won a
few Grammys and now they're rocking in the locker room.
So I'm here, Tony think it's the new generation wa,
I gotta get that.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I might love that.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
I gotta get that on my ring tone, Wayne, you know,
buddy life catches up to all of us.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
So a team of researchers at number four in the
list in Australia published a paper about how a population
of well, I'll let the news reporter tell you.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
Sulfa crested cockatoos in western Sydney have been observed using
public drinking fountains, learning to twist the handles and drinking
from the bubblers.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Let me try to translate.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
There's a bird called a sulfur crested cockatoo, and apparently
the thing has figured out worth things how to use
a drinking fountain.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
So youw you guys know how badly I want a
pet cockatool.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
It's a major thing in my marriage. Shandy and I
got bit by one at a pet store.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Oh way, you have a cockatoon story.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
You were on our way to the bar, figure and
we went walked in the pet store just I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
We were dating for a couple of weeks and the
thing goes bitter in the arms.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I love them.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I don't know if it was so christ when we're not,
But either way, don't bring that up around her.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
She's gott a PTSD.

Speaker 6 (02:10):
Your husband, Chris, doesn't take you to the zoo, right, No,
go volunteer, ma'am.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Okay, just gives you idea. That's what I say, Chris.
I think if we put that idea, they're cute.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
I think they're cute.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Wow. How about this?

Speaker 6 (02:24):
Guess who came out of the darkness, or at least
that's usually where he is, Aaron Rodgers. He agreed to
terms on a one year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers,
the team announced yesterday, and the months of uncertainty around
his future and uniting the future Hall of Famer with
a club that desperately needs a quarterback, which is true
they do. But this comes more than eighty days since

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free agency started. He's forty one years old. He is
a four time MVP. But wow, and guess what it
gets even better?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Week one? Who do the Steelers open up with than.

Speaker 6 (02:56):
New York Yet his former team, the Jets, are probably like, hey,
let's push all our money into the table and bet
on ourselves because we know how bad this guy is.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
A Number two Joey Chestnuts add it again. The Syracuse
Mets invited him. They're a minor league baseball team for
a postgame chicken wing eating contest against three fans. They
took the three fans combined total against his and in
five minutes, Joey Chestnut down seventy nine boneless wings. The
three fans combined sixty seven.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
You kidd it, So you can't stop.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Three on one seventy nine wings.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
You can't even hope to contain him five minutes. I
couldn't do it. In a day. I could do it.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
I mean, if it's boneless, I.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Could do it. Yeah, I don't think so. Really, I
think for charity.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Challenge, except we need to do this, I'll bring him
into work.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Oh my gosh, can you imagine over twenty four hours?
I think shmany could do it. Table this conversation.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Boy, that Chris is a lucky guy in Nate. Oh,
I'm saying the cock a two nugget eating woman.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Better not be any boting. Next?

Speaker 6 (04:01):
Why why do we need to have the iHeartMedia Music
Festival coming up in September? We've been promoting Let's Get Smitten,
an all star on air talent team against Joey chestnutt
and from Vegas.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Finally at number one on the list.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
This is a follow up to a story and a
definitive We're going to close the book on this story.
A Wisconsin zoo announced it has called off the search
for an otter on the loose since March, explaining the
animal has, in their words and I quote, made the
decision to be a wild otter.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Are you sure it's not in Smitty's backyard?

Speaker 5 (04:40):
This is what I know.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
That's my other favorite cash. This top five has been
a good one.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
We got the plastic pool out already right.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh that Ophelia was recaptured and returned to the zoo
on April second.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Lowis has proved to be more elusive. Life finds a
way and there it is chusen to be a wild
Good luck, Louis. I'm done with this.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
It's because o'phelia left him and God knows the man
won't ask for directions.