Top 5 Stories November 5, 2025

Tom Brady cloned his dog, thieves steal over $80.000 of whipped cream, and the man with the world's longest name. Those stories and more on today's top 5!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is West Michigan's Morning News. Steve Kelly, Brett, Mekita,
Lawrence Smith, Adam road Show. It's Wednesday, No. Twenty five.
That means top five times Schmidty. Where do we start
at number five?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
This feels like a very Tom Brady move to me.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
He's revealed his dog Juny, is actually a clone of
his late dog Lua. So before Lua passed back in
twenty twenty three, Tom's vett drew a small blood sample
to preserve her DNA, and then a biotech team at
Colossal Biosciences, which Tom Brady happens to be a major
investor in horse, created a genetic makeup for Lua, who

(00:38):
will be an exact clone Juny, who will be a
clone of Lua.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Do we know what's that run? We've done those stories
and I've always thought, because we've had a couple of dogs,
and I'm like, you know what, this is the standard
of dog moving forward. But there's no way I.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Would even I don't know what that cost would be.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
He's kept it very secret and they say, listen, it's
still its own animal with its own person.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Can we go around the room real quick. I'm just
curious because he's one of these high personality celebrity people,
and I'll start, I'll throw myself out there.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Tom Brady weird, he eats tree Bart weird old.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, so it's weird or not weird? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, just I mean your thoughts on Tom Brady.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
I just think he's weird. He needs to eat a sandwich.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
You see have you seen him lightly pretty skinny?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Adam's sound the weird? Yeah, I think he needs to
eat a sandwich. How can you be that rich and
not fat?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
And don't ask me?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah? Good talk table that conversation.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
Fifty grand Clona dog by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah? I thought it was bio because I think his
is more.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
This is a very specialized No, no, this is very specialized.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
This is like regular people don't have access.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
You got to be left handed.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
If he's part owner of the company, right, exactly, you've
probably got a coupon.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Weird number four in The Sheriff's deputies in Colorado said
they resolved a barricade situation involving a large bruin that
found its way into a red Its vehicle and then
became trapped inside very large bear in.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
The in the in the front seats.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Yes, Stark okay, very large.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, piece, I'm going to be on tight way.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
We're hoping he is relogged.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I think this is unfortunate.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Wait for it.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Oh yeah, he looks pissed.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah me.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Neil tied a rope around the door handle and opened
it and the bear took off. And the bear was
very patient, but he ripping the dickens out of the
inside of that car.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Good music choice on that.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
I don't know how that happened.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
I know it's a little early for this, but then again,
people are planning their spring breaks coming up right for
this year and for the staycationers. How about this kind
of cool? So the Tigers will open their season, it
was announced a while back in San Diego, and then
they go to Arizona and it starts March twenty six.
But their first home opener series is a cool one.

(02:58):
It's the Saint Louis Cardinals, so interly, and they've announced
because Friday is technically always a Tiger's home opener, big
deal in the afternoon. But Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are
all going to be like one thirty to one forty starts.
So if you're sticking around for spring break, that's the
first weekend of spring break, at least for Kent County, right,
it's always the first full week in April. There you

(03:18):
go get some tickets Tigers and Cardinals for the home
opener weekend and they're all afternoon games.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
That's good to know.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
Officials are on the lookout for a semi truck that
was stolen from Ontario in Canada that contained eighty thousand
dollars worth of whipped cream. The thieves rolled up in
their own truck, detached it from the rig that it
was on, and just drove away with it. The current
theory is that there's no real motive here. They were
just taking whatever tractor they could and this one just

(03:45):
happened to be full with eighty thousand in whip.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Oh. I thought maybe it was gold bars and they
got whipped cream. I'm going to redo that herb Elbert album. Yeah,
schmid ye.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
I know exactly what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Me that grandparents had that and spend some time studying that. Finally,
a number one on the list, Man who's nuttier than
Tom Brady, an Australian man, now has the world's longest name,
and he read the entire thing out, featuring more than

(04:19):
two thousand middle names, and it took it more than
an hour to accomplish. We have some of that very
boring audio.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
Lawrence Alonlois Alivisius Page Alam.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Hell, I'm gonna do some editing here, Alexander yemb let's
get out of the ambrosious. There's the end.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
Out of him.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Watkins Watkins. That was my full name.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yeah, two thousand, two hundred and fifty three names. H.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Watkins is the last name.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Those are always the people I got stuck next to
him by the lockers because I was bottom of the alphabet.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh boy, two thousand, two hundred and fifty one middle names.
Uh yeah, exactly all right. If you get a chance
to see a picture of that cat, make it happen.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
There was an Aloisious ana Ganye remember him, that played
for Michigan State basketball.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Absolutely, that's probably where he got the idea. That's today's
top five