Top 5 Stories November 20, 2025

Michigan hunters provide in a big way, an AI powered teddy bear recalled, and a seal jumps into a boat. Those stories and more on today's top 5!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is West Michigan's Morning New Steve Kelly, Brett, Keato,
Laurence Smith, Adam Aro Choe. Thursday November twentieth, twenty twenty
five Man Top five Time Schmidy, Where did we start?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Number five? You know we're in that giving mood. I
thought this was so cool because we've still got some
time left in firearm deer season.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Right.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well, we've just got numbers in from last year and
Michigan's Venison donation program, so hunters are able to donate
extra venison and it's actually taken to food banks all
across Michigan. More than five hundred and sixty thousand servings
of venison going to food banks last year. It is
set a new annual record for the Hunter's Feeding Michigan program. Now,

(00:39):
if you're not aware, hunters donate the deer and then
participating businesses take care of the processing, the packaging, and
the delivery. This is massive. They're thinking this year will
be even bigger.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
That's really cool.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
I think that's incredible.

Speaker 5 (00:52):
That's what my son wants to do and he gets
a deer.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's a great idea, isn't yet he has it.

Speaker 5 (00:56):
Yet, but he wants to donate it to veterans and
everything else.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
That's really cool.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Stepping up Nick at number four on the listen the
Frozen Edge of the World. Staying in practice as a
professional musician takes ingenuity, grit and a plastic instrument for
school children.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
It's beautiful and very inspiring. So I'll sit there by
the window and i will do my routine.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
And that's a Natalie Pine, a French horn player in
New Zealand's Navy who since October has been among twenty
one military members station in Antarctica. So she brought the
little plastic thing because the metal thing right to your face.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'm a horness and I can tell you that would
have been very challenging.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Really hornessed is the way you say that.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, I played my friends horn.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
I was worth it right there.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
You're welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's what I show up to do.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
Why is it always a tough act to follow? It
always is? At number three, it's been an historic season
as we know for the Grand Rapids Griffins and thanks
to their staff again helping us with turkey drop yesterday.
But the team was in action last night, making more
history in Rockford against Steve Kelly, the ice Hogs.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Now Griffin's on a first score, I'm gonna ask. Lombardi
goes in, pull the backcander and tucks it up over
the lost shoulder of the goaltender for Reznoi and Grand
Rapids has stinked themselves to a tune up in lead
seven forty nine into period number one. Griffins right now
making it look easy.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
They did Bob Kaser all night long. Is they get
to win five to one guys over Rockford. They're now
elevenho to one, so they continue their franchise best start.
Also their five to one on the road, which is
the best since two thousand and seven and eight. And
the Griffins, I didn't know this remain the last team

(02:51):
in professional hockey. That's NHL, HL, ECHL, SPHL, FPHL without
a loss in rag that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, I know, I do. There are so many here.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
I didn't need. I stopped at EHL.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
But it's safe to say that they smoked the Hogs.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
Yeah, exactly, nicely done.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
I waited.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
I waited at number two. A recall of an AI
powered Teddy Bear right now. It is a ninety nine
dollars Teddy Bear that is connected to an AI service
where kids can ask it questions and it wasn't given
any kind of a filter.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
The parent is buying that ninety nine bucks to begin
with that.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
The most appropriate thing I can share is that it
tells kids how to light matches.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Okay, so I got to tell you guys, my next
door neighbor still has an original Teddy ruckspin. Oh that
thing was really uncomfortable.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, the voice box has gone a bit, but he
tried to give it to one of my kids and
I was like, oh, I don't know, Doug. That looks
like something that even Chucky wouldn't mess with.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Doug did say anything about matches.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
It was a lot of stuff, Doug, have you seen Chucky?

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Come like, yeah, I think we've all hit days like this.
At number one on the list, A group of amateur
whale watchers off the coast of Washington's Camano Island captured
video when a seal jumped onto their boat to escape
a pod of killer whales. The eyes are sticking up
over the back seat as if he's checking out, like
am I am I better off here or down there?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
We're surrounded by wales.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
They got a ton of pictures of the whales of
the seal and the whales and it just had these big,
sort of puppy eyes and it was pretty jack to
be up on the boat. And then took a nap.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
So that's it.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah, I said I could jump into the boat if
I was the seal.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Something that probably won't happen to you fishing this summer
on Lake Michigan, but I thought it would be fun
to share.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
I've seen the National Geographic Channel, right, yeah, you and.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Me baby nothing but man, don't don't.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
I can sing the whole thing, and I've got a
dance