Trending News December 8, 2025

Our top trending stories for this Monday December 8, 2025. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is West Michigan's Morning New Steve, Kelly, Brant Pakita,
Lawrence Smith. I see Adam Rocho too. And it's Monday,
December eight, twenty twenty five. This trending segment brought to
you by Consumer's Energy, dedicated to Michigan and the communities.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
We serve what's not online.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
And what talked now at Woodradio dot how.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is the Trending Now report on Wood Radio.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Trump administration, let's start there. Finished another round of talks
with Ukrainian negotiators in Florida on Saturday, but no major
progress was made. Trump telling reporters at the Kennedy Center
he's disappointed with Ukraine's leader.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
President Zelinsky hasn't yet read the proposal that was as
of a few hours ago.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
His people love it, but he has it. Rushes fine
with it.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Later this morning, Jonathan Savage at six thirty six in
London will give us what he knows. With the holiday
season here, many continue shopping with economic concerns looming. Treasury
Secretary Scott Bessett.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
The economy has been better than we thought. We've had
the four percent GDP growth in a couple of quarters.
We're going to finish the year despite the Shumer shut down,
with three percent real GDP growth.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Consumers reportedly spent a record eleven point eight billion dollars
online for Black Friday, and tensions escalating between the US
and Venezuela as the Trump administration continues to strike alleged
drug boats. Senator Rick Scott of Florida.

Speaker 6 (01:30):
What he's done to the children of Venezuela where they
haven't had medicine and drugs, So what he's done to
the families people had to flee, the people he's put
in prison and tortured. I mean, there's no reason this
guy gets immunity. If he wants to leave, go to
some go to China, to go to Turkey and let
out the rest of his life.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
There's Morewoodradio dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Also turning this morning. The news came down after we
were off the air Friday. It's massive. Warner Brothers Discovery
announced it is going to sell its streaming and studio
assets to Netflix. This is an eighty two point seven
billion dollar deal. The one hundred and two year old
film studio as things like Dune, Barbie, but also classics

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like Casablanca and The Wizard of oz Oh Boy, which
means Netflix will now see things like the Harry Potter franchise,
Lord of the Rings, all of the Oceans movies, True
Detective Succession, all of the Game of Thrones properties. I
was actually on my Netflix last night already saw HBO
programming streaming on Netflix. You're not paying for HBO. Uh oh,

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it's pretty big stuff. We'll see. Netflix says, you will
see a ton of the programming being added in the
next few days, but your price will also be going up.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Ah, there's a little something you knew was coming right.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
What a college football weekend with the conference championship games.
I'll take you through those, then as we go through
the morning, will kind of lay out this college football
playoff what you do need to know from there. Notre
Dame did not get in the top twelve, so they
are out and then said I'm not going bowling. So
Notre Name took their ball and went home. They're not
gonna do that for this holiday season. But the Big

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Ten championship goes to number two Indiana. They beat Ohio State.
What a game, thirteen to ten Saturday night in Indy.
It's the first outright Big Ten title for the Hoosiers
since nineteen forty five, they get a bye. Their number one,
Ohio stead of course loses, but their number two in
the College Football playoff. Georgia won the SEC championship over
Alabama look good doing it twenty eight to seven, although

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the Crimson tied do get into the playoff. You also
had Texas Tech, the number four team in the country,
beat BYU in the Big twelve Championship thirty four to seven.
In the American Conference, Number twenty two Lane beat number
twenty four North Texas thirty four to twenty one. Two
Lane gets into the college football playoff also because he's
got his Bronco Giron and Ty Halleck and his son

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Tate of course play for Western Michigan. How about the
Broncos won the MAC Conference championship on Saturday they beat
miam of Ohio twenty three to thirteen. They're gonna go bowling,
so they're gonna play in the Myrtle Beach Bowl, which
would be Friday, December nineteenth against Kennesaw State. CMU Miyama
Mater is going to be at Ford Field in Detroit Friday,
December twenty sixth in the game above Sports Bowl. They'll

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take on Northwestern and Michigan will play Texas in the
Citrus Bowl.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Just some of the stories, good matchup we are following
for you