Trending News November 14, 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is West Michigan's morning News.

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Steve Kelly, bred Pakita is on vacation, Tony Brooks's and
that's Laurence Smith. Friday, November fourteenth, twenty twenty five. This
Trending segment brought to you by Consumers Energy, dedicated to
Michigan and the communities we serve what's not.

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Online and what's talked now at Wood radiohow.

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This is the Trending Now report on Wood Radio.

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Later in the seven o'clock hour, we'll talk to Consumers
Energy about the foundation's attempts to help feed folks in
the middle of uncertainty when it comes to food with
the government shutdown.

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So that's seven forty five.

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Let's start with the Department of Justice joining California Republican
Party's lawsuit against California's controversial Proposition fifty, which redrew the
state's congressional districts to give Democrats five more House seats.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi.

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Trying to create seats based on race, and they can't
do it, and we're going to hold them accountable just
like any other state. I mean, they've very publicly said, Sean,
what they're trying to do and it's illegal germandering. They
cannot do it.

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VP jd Vance on Hannity yesterday asked about his run
for president.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
We're gonna win the midterms. We're going to do everything
that we can to win the midterms. And then after that,
I'm gonna sit down with the President of United States
and talk to him about it. But let's focus on
the now, because we've got well over a year to
do as much as we can for the American people.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
President Trump proposed the VP run alongside Secretary of State
Marco Rubio if he decided to seek office in twenty
twenty eight and the shutdowns over the recovery begins. White
House National Economic Council Director Kevin has.

Speaker 6 (01:47):
It, We'll pick up some of it, but some of
it is like permanent destruction. So again, if you think
about all the business travel that didn't happen and so on,
a lot of those are things that like people do
every quarter and now that quarter's gone.

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Morewoodradio dot Com.

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This morning, Campbell's is out with the annual State of
the Sides Report, So we're talking Thanksgiving dinner coming up.
They released this report every year. Although Turkey is obviously
the centerpiece According to this report, half of Americans say
they'd be happy with having a meal just with the sides.
Sixty six percent of they enjoy the sides more than

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the turkey. So what are those top sides? Stuffing dressing
has overtaken the number one spot, moving mashed potatoes to
number two on the list, sweet potatoes at number three,
But in a big move, mac and cheese has jumped
into that number four spot, which overtook green bean casserole.

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Campbell's report calls it the official number one side for
gen Z. Interesting here in Michigan, stuffing dressing that is
our number one.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
We've never had mac and cheese as part.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Of Thanksgiving really, See, I don't think we really have
very often either, And I would love that stuffing can kickrocks.
I think it's so gross.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (03:03):
The texture is weird, It doesn't taste that good. Usually
gravy can fix a lot for me, stuffings beyond form.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, the wine used to fix a lot of stuff
for me, but then it didn't. Tony.

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More stories we're following here on Wood Radio. High school
football regional championships are this weekend. Tonight in Division three,
Lowell hosts Zealand West. We'll have that for you over
on Big one to one point three. And in Division
four Unity Christian plays Big Rapids at Hudsonville High School.
That game will be on one oh seven m us
the Moose. Both games pregame covered starts at six thirty,

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kickoff at seven And remember you can listen to anywhere
you go with the iHeartRadio app now. Tomorrow in Division one,
Hudsonville hosts East Kentwood at one pm. In Division six,
Kent City hosts Montrose at one pm. And in Division seven,
Shelby plays in the up at me Nominee kickoff at noon.
Oh and also Martin and Montabella playing in the eight

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player Division one semifinals tomorrow. Should they both win, they'll
face each other in the state final next weekend. I'll
put the Euperdome in Marquette and in eight player Division
two Portland Saint Patrick's in the semifinals tomorrow. Of course,
we'll update those stories for you Monday morning here on
Wood Radio.

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And those are some of the stories we are following
for you to day.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
I put a job up in in Menominee. Yeah, not
a lot of people there. Did you get a No,
it was a job for seven different positions, one person who.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Knew you'd end up having that job. Here, let's get
back to traffic and weather.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Good morning,