Top 5 Stories November 14, 2025

A viral job application at a Jonas Brothers concert, a joy ride on a bus goes really well, and the Boston alligator has been caught. Those stories and more on today's top 5!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And this is West Michigan's Morning New Steve Kelly, Tony
Brooks in for Brett Pikita.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
That's Lauren Smith and Adam Our road Show.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
It is Friday, November fourteenth, twenty twenty five and Top
five times Schmidty, Where do we start?

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Can I give love really quick to my friend Hannah
who's listening right now. I have her daughter is number
one hundred and thirty one, who got sick from that
Caledonia school overnight last night, so I know she's up
and at it with us number five on the list.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Check this out.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
So this gentleman in upstate New York, his name is
Scott Kelly, went random on TikTok last week because his
boss or soon to be boss, was at a Jonas
Brothers concert looking over his resume. A fan behind him
notice said hey, Scott, rooting for you. Millions of views.
All the Jonas Brothers chimed in. They were on Fallin
last night. They actually hunted this guy down so he

(00:51):
could meet the Jonas Brothers. Check this out.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Canni, canuys here a real thing?

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Please? I had never heard of you before this, Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Talking about I didn't have Disney Channel growing up.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I didn't know. Nas.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Here's the really cool thing. He's a veteran and this
entire thing was actually reaching out to someone to join
his podcast so that he could help bring more veterans
into the workforce after their service. And it's blown up
and he's doing great things.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
That is awesome. There were form in the lists.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
A Swiss gruyere was crowned the twenty twenty five World
Cheese Champion yesterday, seeing off competition from more than five
thousand rivals from forty six countries. Now, I'm not going
to begin to say anything more about this story because
it goes deep in the cheese weeds and there are

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a lot of really long world words from the World
Cheese Awards in the Swiss capital of Burn.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
But I will tell you that I don't mind a
little gruyere.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, Beck Sandy has a mac and cheese recipe where
it's aded.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh, I would love that. But my favorite cheese is
Swiss schmitty pepper jack. Oh really, I love a Parmesan cheese.
I'll eat.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
Oh you don't want to see me with parmesan cheese?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
No, I don't, No, like a like a grated cheese.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
Oh yeah, like you When I eat spaghetti, it's more
cheese than.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Passia A love love man.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
I want to slice. I want a big slice of.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Cheese at number three, at number three this morning. Everyone
is looking for a side hack these days. Now, if
you happen to be a world class caliber sprinter, I
got just the job for you. Yahoo Sports reports that
the Atlanta Braves are looking for just that person to
serve as the Freeze. Now, if you get the job,
you'll be part of a between innings promotion that is

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a race around the warning track against some lucky fan.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well, just how fast you gotta be?

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Well, the original Freeze was a college sprinter named Nigel Tulton.
He was a member of the Braves ground crew, and
he ran the forty in four point.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Two eight seconds.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Boy, now, if you can do that, or better, get
a hold of the Atlanta Braves pronto, Your side hack
is waiting for you. Well, either that or you could
be the fastest door Dash or ever. But which one
do you think would be more fun?

Speaker 5 (03:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
I neither is what I'm thinking. I would blow a
hammy or roll up my achilles.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
No, but now I want something from door Dash to eat.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Too, involving cheet at number two.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
A man in Hamilton, Ontario, stole a city bus and
took passengers on a fifteen minute joy ride around town.
The passengers on the bus thought he was just a
new driver after the other driver went to take a break,
and when he started making wrong turns, they said, hey,
wait a minute, this is not the right guy. They
started directing him onto the appropriate route until police arrested him,

(03:40):
and police said he actually did a great job. Not
a scratch on the bus.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
That's terrifying.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yes, somebody's seen Speed.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh god, I love that movie. He's been over fifty five.
He exited the bus from a hatch right in the
middle of the bus.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Couldn't it gotten anywhere without Sandy?

Speaker 5 (03:56):
B uh.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Finally, a update from Boston, Massachusetts. An alligator spotted this
week and the Charles River in Boston was safely captured
by the owner of an animal education business.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
It's not something that's dangerous to the public, but it
is what the weather dangerous to the animal itself.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, he's more worried about the little gator who was tiny.
By the way.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
That's Joe Kenny, the owner of Joe's Crazy Credits. Oh boy, Yeah,
he was tucked into some reeds along the end of
the river, found by a jogger. So I just wanted
to point out safe to go back to Boston. And
that's today's Top five