Trending News May 8, 2025

Our top trending stories for this Thursday May 8, 2025. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And this is West Michigan's Morning News Thursday May eight,
twenty twenty five. Laurence Smith, Brett Pikita, Steve Kelly. Our
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Michigan and the communities. We serve what's.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Talk online and what's talked now at Wood Radio dotaw.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
This is the Trending Now report on Wood Radio. President
Trump expected to announce a new trade deal with a
highly respected country that in quotes today Missouri Republican Senator
Josh Hawley, praising the President on Hannity yesterday.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
We've been getting ripped off by these countries, including our
so called allies. We have had our jobs taken from us,
We've had our technology stolen from us. China cheats every
day of the week and twice on Sundays, and now
you have a president who is holding them to account
and is getting deal.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Federal Reserve made a decision you heard Tony Allen on
interest rates following Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The Central
Bank left rates the same level, by the way, and
on that Jerome Powell yesterday, the committee decided to maintain
the target range for the Federal funds rate at four
and a quarter to four and a half.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Percent, and to continue reducing the size of the balance sheet.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
And he is the FED chair. Do you think he
knows any jokes. It's always just so calculated about money.
I guess we want that guy in that spot. Secretary
Marco Rubio receiving a Lifetime Leadership award from the Congressional
Hispanic Leadership Institute yesterday.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
For example, they said, one of the things we want
you to look at is consolidation. Can you take, for example,
what today are four jobs and just give them all
to one person? And I said, that sounds like a
great idea. Let's just do it all across the government.
Little did I know they just met Mimmy.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
That was a joke. The State Secretary also sorry, Secretary
of State, also the National Security Advisor after Mike Walls
was nominated as US ambassador, as well as the Active
Archivist enacting Administrator of US aid. Those are the four
jobs that he has. More at wood Radio dot com.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Also trending this morning, you just heard the breaking news.
A second vote has brought black smoke at the Vatican,
meaning still no official vote on a pope. Two more
votes expected today the next one after a lunch break
for the cardinals. But it's the papal seagulls that are
going viral.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
We have seagulls.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
We have seagulls. So every possible news outlet in the
world has a camera and live stream trained on that
Sixteene Chapel smokestack right getting ready for it. Well, the
seagulls have loved it. In fact, people are starting to
call it the Year of the Seagull. Conclave live stream
of the historic event has shown a fluffy seagull that

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first popped up on Wednesday, only flying away after the
black smoke started pouring out. People on x writing shout
out to that one seagull locked in on the conclave
proceedings life site Case Catholic writing, these seagulls are every
one of us right now and my favorite, OMG, one
of the conclave seagulls brought a baby. So now when

(03:09):
you're going to be watching this live coverage, keep an
eye on those conclave seagulls.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Man, there's a website for everything.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Just don't feed them with bread cumbs. Oh, don't do it.
There'll be more of them, they'll be more of them. Well,
the Utah Hockey Club and its fans in the NHL
have waited for over a year. They did something different.
They've got now a nickname they've voted on a few
different times. And let me just tell you, as I
lead into this intro video, a new ice age has

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dawned in.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Utah, very dramatic.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Paras Utah and now they ll get tusks up.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
It's the Utah Man. That's right, Mammoth.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
It's a cool looking logo.

Speaker 6 (04:04):
They used the snow peaks and the colors and then
they've got the tusks going up. Did you know that
mammoth can run twenty five miles per hour back in
the day, and they say that's as fast as skaters
in the NHL. Some of the fastest skaters can go
twenty five miles pro They did their research on this,
did it did? I'm still disappointed though, And of course

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they've found mammoth bones and everything in Utah makes sense
tying in there but Utah. Yet he had a nice
ring too.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
It did well there. Some of the stories we are
following for you