Trending News November 20, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And this is West Michigan's Morning News Steve Kelly, Brett Kata,
Lawrence Smith. It's Thursday, November twentieth, twenty twenty five. Our
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
This is the Trending Now report on Wood Radio. The
wrong thing in front of me. There we go. The
fifty ninth Annual CMA Awards were held last night. Singer
songwriter Vince Gill was given the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award.

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There's just a little moment of levity that I thought
I would share because sometimes levity is a great way
to start the day. Here's Vince Gill last night reflecting
on the award. That list of people is astounding, and
I'm pretty confident I'm the only one that's ever won

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this award that's never smoked any bead.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Meanwhile, singer songwriter Lady Wilson Entertainer of the Year, Album
of the Year, and Female Vocalist of the Year. Singer
Cody Johnson won the Male Vocalist of the year now
at and t handed over former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's
personal cell phone records to then Special Council Jack Smith
during the investigation into the January sixth Capitol riots. Ohio

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Congressman Jim Jordan on Hannity yesterday, it was.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
From election day twenty sixteen till January eighth, twenty seven,
excuse me, twenty twenty to twenty twenty one. So that's
unbelievable two months for the top Republican.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
And the Trump administration looking to modernize air traffic control.
Here is Secretary Duffy.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
That's the hardware of radios and voice switches and radar,
and we're going to rebuild a whole telecom system, build
a whole new software system to control the airspace.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Transportation Secretary also is announcing a civility campaign six thirty
six this morning. Tanya Jay Powers on that story.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Also trending this morning. It is going to be a
packed summer next year for the Acrasher Amphitheater. And now
our official headliner for the grand opening show has been announced.
Lionel Ritchie is coming May fifteenth. It was a big
announcement yesterday. He actually appeared on video during the press

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conference saying he is honored to be the headliner that
will be opening the Amphitheater. Ten shows have now been announced.
It includes Russell Dickerson and Parker McCollum. Those are two
country acts. MGK and Meghan Trainer are coming, Weird Al Yankovic,
Jack Johnson, five Seconds of Summer, Leonard Skinnard and Foreigner.

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Oh Yeah, and the return of the Carnival of Sin's
Motley Crue.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Oh boy, wait for it. What a feeling man, Alan.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
A lot of those tickets are already on sale. Lionel Richie,
we'll go on sale tomorrow for that May fifteenth show.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I wanted to play something big from the Commodoores. This
is my favorite song. It's so good. But Lionel Richie
did not sing lead on this song with the Commodors
just it's like one of the only tell me he
did the ugh maybe that's him, Lionel.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
We'd love to have to sing lead, but we need.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
You the ough.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Wait, okay, you can go.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Bro Repsolutes going out galore because we have teams in
the area questing for a state championship in girls volleyball
today Division one best of luck. Byron Center at thirty
seven to five and two will take on farmer Gen
Hills Mercy from the Detroit area. That'll be four to
thirty down a kilong arena in Battle Creek, followed by

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at six thirty Bloomfield Hills at forty two six and
one will take on Rockford. The Rams have it a year.
They're forty six one and one, so that'll be six thirty.
We could have a Byron Center Rockford state championship they
both win. Then also an area team and Division four
still live men did at thirty seven six and one.
They'll take on Ubbly from the Thumb two o'clock this afternoon.

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Then we have Division two and Division three to Mile
Grind Rapids. Christian will be one of those in action.
And just a reminder, we've got high school football semi
final action semi final Saturday. We've got a handful of
teams still alive our coverage though Division six unbeaten Kent
City it's a noon kickoff now they moved it up
in Cadillac taking on Kingsley. That'll be eleven thirty. Pre

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game on one oh seven mus the Moose, and then
our game on ninety six to one. The game from
Caledonia High School Division four Unity Christian taking on kind
of the Cinderella story in Vicksburg