September 5, 2025 • 5 mins
An adult take on Gilligan's Island premiering on the East side of Michigan, a plane has to turn around because of a coffee spill, and a painful world recod. Those stories and more on today's top 5!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is West Michigan's Morning News. Steve Kelly, that's Adam
Rocho and Laurence Smith. Brett Pokina still works here somehow,
and it's time for today's Top five.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Lauren, where do we start?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
At number five, we all know Gilligan's Island, don't we.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh yeah, Well, it's about.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
To get a naughty little makeover at ham Trannick's Planet and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Over on the east Side.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Sorry, the Southern Castaways opens today. It will be raunchier,
more twisted, and funny in an adult way, very different
from the classic sixties sitcom, This musical parody not for
the kids. As Detroit playwright Sean Paravente says, he hopes
this will do for the sixties classic what Avenue Q
(00:44):
did for Sesame Street. Oh God, so I'm kind of intrigued.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I will shake it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Naughty Gilligan's Island sounds funny.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
The older I get, the more Missus Howell catches my eye.
There you go, right, come on and really leave it alone.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
That uh.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
At number four in the list, We're just going to
walk away from this. Yeah, we're about to get by
the way. Just for the record, Maryanne, Oh definitely Mary Yeah, so,
and then.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Missus Hot gonna say, I'm mister howarding that.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Mister four, mister four, number four authorities, I'm so discombobulated
authorities in North Carolina. Hot in the trail of the
unusual feathered fugitive. Another EMO is got now, this time
on Rocky Mount. Just so you know, the police department
there set on social media, Animal Services received a bunch
of calls about an EMU in the North Green area
(01:39):
of North Carolina. Police officers patrolling the area in an
attempt to locate the flightless bird, and investigators have identified
and made contact with the owner. If you see the
umu emu, they say, do not approach it. These things
look friendly on television, but couldn't be.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
They can peck the dickens out of you, and then
their back legs will put you on your can. What
is it about emo's picking locks and getting out all
of a sudden?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
All right?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
For number three, I got to ask you this. Have
you had a former employer that you still hold.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
A grudge with? Oh yeah, eld grudge with for a while.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I'm not supposed to. I'm supposed to let those things go.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I know, Steve right, Yeah, Well, how about this one,
and it's perfect after what we saw on Labor Day
night with the debaco. That was Bill Belichick in North Carolina,
North Carolina in first year coach Bill Belichick have banned
the New England Patriots staff from accessing.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
The Tar Hills program.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
When reached by ESPN, this is my favorite North Carolina
football general manager.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
They all have general managers now.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Michael Lombardi said good luck and then hung up the phone.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Lombardi and a Tar Hills representative.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Informed the Patriots that they would be banned from UNC
the day before one of their scouts was scheduled to
visit in August. According to ESPN, belichick'spin of course, twenty
four years of the coach the Patriots, a run that
ended after the twenty twenty three seas.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
He's still a little sore.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, second Sea.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Why yeah? At number two.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
A flight from Chicago to San Juan, Puerto Rico had
to be delayed for three hours because the pilot spilled
coffee all over the controls and the cockpit. It was
taxiing away.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's the last name, Bikita.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
It was taxiing away from the gate and then he
spilled the coffee. They had to turn it around three
hour delay to inspect all of the controls, just to
make sure everything was okay.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I think we've all spilled coffee at work.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
And at least for that guy or gal, they were
a movie, right, I mean, you know there's I just
totally just threw.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It on the board. There was.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It was at the beginning of the summer. There was
a catastrophic spill that from whatever it was directly emptied
into the control board here and over the course of
like an.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Hour, I just slowly gave up.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Eventually the city of Grand Rapids lost heating and cooling.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It was crazy, but like you, Steve, I've reformed.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
If we can get a video sometime, you can see
where my beverages are now.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Takes them over by the window, which is great. Finally,
at number one, unless a New Zealand woman showed the
strength of her souls when she ran barefoot over one
hundred meters.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Of loose lego bricks.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Oh so she did one hundred meters in twenty four seconds. Wow,
which is really not bad. But she did it over
thousands of little lego bricks. And hang on Nos's conditions
on the treck to die.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Child yeah, I can't. I mean, SBDI, you've talked about
it before. What it's brutal. You can't even get ten feet, It's.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Brutal, says she spent two entire months barefoot to build
callouses in preparation for her attempt, and shredded the dickens
out of her feet.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I oh, man, I've gotten better at the swearing, but
I do that mom thing where my face gets really
red and then I just go.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You pick them up in front.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Of a way.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I'm thrown out every single lego.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Box you've ever bought. So true, Maybe this is something
you could take a run at.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Literally, that's today's top five.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh it's terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
That's a world record. You just leave alone. I would,
yeah too.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Will can tell from a mile away. I'm sorry, Im Sorr,
I'm Tim Sor.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm so so yeah,
This is West Michigan's Morning News. Steve Kelly, that's Adam
Rocho and Laurence Smith. Brett Pokina still works here somehow,
and it's time for today's Top five.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Lauren, where do we start?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
At number five, we all know Gilligan's Island, don't we.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh yeah, Well, it's about.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
To get a naughty little makeover at ham Trannick's Planet and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Over on the east Side.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Sorry, the Southern Castaways opens today. It will be raunchier,
more twisted, and funny in an adult way, very different
from the classic sixties sitcom, This musical parody not for
the kids. As Detroit playwright Sean Paravente says, he hopes
this will do for the sixties classic what Avenue Q
(00:44):
did for Sesame Street. Oh God, so I'm kind of intrigued.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I will shake it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Naughty Gilligan's Island sounds funny.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
The older I get, the more Missus Howell catches my eye.
There you go, right, come on and really leave it alone.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
That uh.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
At number four in the list, We're just going to
walk away from this. Yeah, we're about to get by
the way. Just for the record, Maryanne, Oh definitely Mary Yeah, so,
and then.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Missus Hot gonna say, I'm mister howarding that.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Mister four, mister four, number four authorities, I'm so discombobulated
authorities in North Carolina. Hot in the trail of the
unusual feathered fugitive. Another EMO is got now, this time
on Rocky Mount. Just so you know, the police department
there set on social media, Animal Services received a bunch
of calls about an EMU in the North Green area
(01:39):
of North Carolina. Police officers patrolling the area in an
attempt to locate the flightless bird, and investigators have identified
and made contact with the owner. If you see the
umu emu, they say, do not approach it. These things
look friendly on television, but couldn't be.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
They can peck the dickens out of you, and then
their back legs will put you on your can. What
is it about emo's picking locks and getting out all
of a sudden?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
All right?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
For number three, I got to ask you this. Have
you had a former employer that you still hold.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
A grudge with? Oh yeah, eld grudge with for a while.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I'm not supposed to. I'm supposed to let those things go.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I know, Steve right, Yeah, Well, how about this one,
and it's perfect after what we saw on Labor Day
night with the debaco. That was Bill Belichick in North Carolina,
North Carolina in first year coach Bill Belichick have banned
the New England Patriots staff from accessing.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
The Tar Hills program.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
When reached by ESPN, this is my favorite North Carolina
football general manager.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
They all have general managers now.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Michael Lombardi said good luck and then hung up the phone.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Lombardi and a Tar Hills representative.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Informed the Patriots that they would be banned from UNC
the day before one of their scouts was scheduled to
visit in August. According to ESPN, belichick'spin of course, twenty
four years of the coach the Patriots, a run that
ended after the twenty twenty three seas.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
He's still a little sore.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, second Sea.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Why yeah? At number two.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
A flight from Chicago to San Juan, Puerto Rico had
to be delayed for three hours because the pilot spilled
coffee all over the controls and the cockpit. It was
taxiing away.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's the last name, Bikita.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
It was taxiing away from the gate and then he
spilled the coffee. They had to turn it around three
hour delay to inspect all of the controls, just to
make sure everything was okay.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I think we've all spilled coffee at work.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
And at least for that guy or gal, they were
a movie, right, I mean, you know there's I just
totally just threw.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It on the board. There was.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It was at the beginning of the summer. There was
a catastrophic spill that from whatever it was directly emptied
into the control board here and over the course of
like an.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Hour, I just slowly gave up.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Eventually the city of Grand Rapids lost heating and cooling.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It was crazy, but like you, Steve, I've reformed.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
If we can get a video sometime, you can see
where my beverages are now.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Takes them over by the window, which is great. Finally,
at number one, unless a New Zealand woman showed the
strength of her souls when she ran barefoot over one
hundred meters.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Of loose lego bricks.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Oh so she did one hundred meters in twenty four seconds. Wow,
which is really not bad. But she did it over
thousands of little lego bricks. And hang on Nos's conditions
on the treck to die.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Child yeah, I can't. I mean, SBDI, you've talked about
it before. What it's brutal. You can't even get ten feet, It's.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Brutal, says she spent two entire months barefoot to build
callouses in preparation for her attempt, and shredded the dickens
out of her feet.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I oh, man, I've gotten better at the swearing, but
I do that mom thing where my face gets really
red and then I just go.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You pick them up in front.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Of a way.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I'm thrown out every single lego.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Box you've ever bought. So true, Maybe this is something
you could take a run at.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Literally, that's today's top five.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh it's terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
That's a world record. You just leave alone. I would,
yeah too.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Will can tell from a mile away. I'm sorry, Im Sorr,
I'm Tim Sor.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm so so yeah,
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