Top 5 Stories October 9, 2025

Today's top 5 featuring a shark attack and an update on Dolly Parton's health. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome into your Thursday edition of West Michigan's Morning News.
It is Schmidty and for Steve Kelly this morning. Brett
Beikita is here. Adam Rocha as well. And you know
it's five thirty six. It is Top five time. Oh,
we didn't talk about the line. I guess I'll begin
at number five. No, you begin at number five. Yeah,
let's do math is hard at this point.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'll go five, you go four, I'll go three. How
about that number five? Bro ochoe in there somewhere?

Speaker 3 (00:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, you know what, We've already had a ton of
college football firings, I think so early in the year.
And now a report is coming out from twenty four
to seven and also backed by Pat Welter of WRALTV
and Raleigh that things aren't so kosher with Bill Belichick
and North Carolina and Chapa Hill after hiring him, of

(00:47):
course in December of last year. They're two and three,
zero to one, and acc play. They got embarrassed in
a thirty eight to ten home loss to the Clemson Tigers,
let alone their home opener. Remember where after they scored
the first touchdown, it was all downhill after that well.
In a story published Tuesday of this week, Andrew Jones
of twenty four to seven reported North Carolina has had

(01:09):
quote unquote potential exit strategy discussions regarding Belichick, and then
Pat Welter of Raleigh TV revealed new information about what's
going on behind closed doors, which could give the program
more grounds. I guess there was some fighting going on
amongst players, not necessarily a great place to be. They
called it toxic, so we will have to wait and see.

(01:32):
But a lot of people didn't think this was going
to go well. Anyways, we're not even into year one complete.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Say right, he hasn't had a full new scene. Number
four on the list. Sign me up. Chilli's you know.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
The restaurant has officially announced they're bringing back the viral
mots Mates Halloween costume Who wants.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
To dresses a Mozzarella stick with me?

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
So they first premiered these last year based off of
their very famous triple Dipper appetizer. The costumes sold out
in twenty minutes online.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
They're bringing it back.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
It's a two person outfit that shows off the iconic
cheese pole and when you guys see this, it is really,
really good. I'm gonna be out at add these on Ottawa.
So if someone's curious and interested, I will buy this outfit.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
If you will do the other half with me.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
I'm mad, done, serious, I love manza El since.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Who doesn't like it?

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I could eat them right now, right now.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Number three on the lost at number three.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Let's switch over and do a little college basketball on
the men's side because a Big Ten preseason poll came
out and this is not from the Big Ten networker
from the conference. They don't do that, but the Columbus
Dispatch and the Indianapolis Star have gotten together and they
do it every year and they kind of pull the
reporters that follow the teams at the different universities. Well,
this is what they came up with. Perdue is picked

(02:52):
to be this year's Big Ten champion, getting twenty five
apostle twenty eight first place votes. Michigan, who people are
really high on, especially they did in the transfer portal,
got three first place boats. So their number two, UCLA three,
Illinois four, Oregon five. Are we missing anyone there? Michigan
State comes into defending Big Team champs, by the way,

(03:12):
and they finished at seventeen to three year Ago at
number six. Then you've got Wisconsin seven, eyeway to Ohio
state nine in Indiana founding out the top ten.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Wow, number two on the list.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
We always talk about how Australians are built differently, but
this guy is on another level. A surfer in Australia
was bitten by a shark not once, but twice while
he was out in the water, and then he drove
himself to the hospital. Upon arriving to the hospital, he
had non life threatening injuries and is expected to be
just fine. But honestly, if I'm getting bit twice by

(03:45):
a shark, I think we're just calling it.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
No.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Not in Australia, man.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
My kids love those net Geo docs and it's always
the shark encounters. It's always Australia, and they're like, yeah,
you know, you feel a thing, you just pop it
in the mouth and move on.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Like, I actually think that's of the herd uge about you.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I don't choose to swim where it's like shark infested waters.
The most in the world.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Invested Number one on the list. Everybody take a deep breath,
She's okay. Fans were freaking out after Dolly Parton's little
sister asked everyone for prayers for Dolly, dealing with some
kind of serious medical battle. There were rumors going around
that she was going to be passing away. It got
so bad Dolly had to take to Instagram yesterday.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
More day's October the eighth, and obviously I'm here doing
some commercials for the Grandola Lobbry Writish one. I'm grish,
kind of like a country Western girl.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
She's I'm on the live, you guys, I'm not dead yet.
I'm not going anywhere. I've had a bit of a
medical battle, but please. The sister then had to come
out and say I didn't mean to make anyone think
she was dying.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
I just loved the power of prayer. People were losing
their minds. They're like, no, we lost Betty White. We
can't handle Dolly. Not this year, not this year.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
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