Top 5 Stories November 18, 2025

Soon you might be able to buy a Ford on Amazon, a chimp breaks out of the Indianapolis Zoo and a man tried to smuggle birds across the border. Those stories and more on today's top 5!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome to West Michigan's Morning New Steve Kelly, Brent Kata,
Lawrence Smith, Adam a road show. My gosh, that's a
lot of people. It's Tuesday, November eighteenth, twenty twenty five.
Where don't we start Today's top five?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well, number five, this could be very interesting. Ford has
announced you will now be able to buy their used
cars on Amazon Amazon Amazon. They have partnered up with
the e commerce platform. The Michigan based automaker said the
deal will allow customers to browse local dealers, pre owned
vehicle selections, and something they're calling Amazon Autos. They can

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even complete their paperwork online and schedule financing.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
They said.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
The only thing they won't be able to do is
get prime delivery.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
So far, this is only going to be offered in
La Seattle in Dallas, but they say twenty major cities
have already signed up to be the next ones.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
What about with those drones they were trying to deliver
stuff with.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
I don't know, we do trust that I'm so sketch
style by someone, and that's a big purchase on Amazon.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
I mean I get dresses for like twenty bucks.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Not quite ready, that's quite a commit what's the difference
between a drone and a helicopter to deliver one of
those cars?

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, right, okay, the full chinook.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Either way, something's making the news.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
At number four of the list, visitors to the Indianapolis
Zoo on Friday morning, we're asked to shelter in place
after a chimpanzee got loose from its enclosure for an
adventure around the park.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Most definitely rolled my windows up, as they said, and
kind of waited and was most definitely had my head
on a swivel.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Female chimp spot it outside it's enclosure. About ten o'clock,
they locked the zoo down. Everybody's safe, and the chimp
is back telling stories. Even got a little uh tranquilizer
dart to tell her friends about when she got back
in her include.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Far with them, by the way, chimp's strong.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
I mean they're tough, little boy. Yeah, I don't want
to mess with them, not that i've you know, I
have fought Ray Bentley, but not a chimpanzee.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
That's enough.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
State Farm Champions Classic tonight, major event to kind of
really tip off men's college basketball. I know we've been
playing for a few weeks, but when you get Duke Kansas, Kentucky,
and Michigan State together at Madison Square Garden. It's pretty special.
And by the way, this is the fifteenth anniversary of
this event the ESPN Events created back in twenty eleven.

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And when you look at the talent that'll be on
display again tonight and what they've had all time records
in the State Farm Champions Classic, We're hoping to change
that tonight for Spartan fans. Duke at eight and five,
Kansas eight and five, Kentucky five and eight, Michigan State
five and eight. The good news is Kentucky and Michigan
State played each other, so someone's got to get to
six wins. But they've had a total of sixteen to
nine NBA First Round Draft selections that have played in

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this event.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Wow over its fifteen years.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Six point thirty tonight for Michigan State and Kentucky and ESPN,
followed by at nine o'clock Kansas in two.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
I'm gonna miss that one. It's nice to see an
actual real time for a sporting event.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
AD number two. A man has been arrested at the
Mexico US border at American citizen trying to sneak two
orange fronted parakeets into the United States. Border Patrol agents
noticed his pants were a little lumpier than they should
have been, and so they had him, you know, get
it examined and found the two birds. He now faces
up to twenty years in prison and a two hundred

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and fifty thousand dollars fine.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Good lords around. I guess, Oh my gosh, did you
have to have any of your stuff checked coming back
from Europe?

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, there's a lot of bad I had inappropriate shaped
pasta and that was a very awkward conversation.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
You bought inappropriate shaped pasta buried the lead in Italy?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, yeah, still got it. It's shaped like it's anatomically correct.
We'll say that.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Oh would have been more made me take it.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Out and show them, and I was like, oh no,
this was supposed to be a gag gift.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Had been more appropriate on a can or a barbie.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
It would be more appropriate on a can. Oh god,
it was Italy. It was very fancy stuff.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Did they pull you aside because you're lumpy pants? That's
what I want to know.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh that's okay, fascinating, okay, Jackie. Finally, yeah, they don't
do that in America. We got more attorneys here exactly.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
I just had to seez reacts.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Finally, number one on the list, a prisoner is challenging
an Australian states ban on inmates eating, a claiming the
court is withholding the polarizing yeast based spread that most
of the nation reveres as an unfairly malign culinary icon

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breaching his human right to enjoy his culture as an Australian.
That sounds like something that was written by an inmate
who took enough law classes to get in trouble. So
Andre McKechnie is in prison for murder and they don't
serve vegamites in Australia, though they say more than eighty

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percent of Australian households have the stuff. We'll let you
know because the lawsuit's not scheduled until next I did
it just for this smile.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Give me this sandwich.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
I like that now that you've heard.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
It one oh so I thought that was a bit
of a bite of my sandwich.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
So thank you for clearing that up yep and singing
that wrong my whole life. You're welcome