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Speaker 1 (00:00):
West Michigan's morning News Steve, Kelly, Brett, Keta, Lawrence Smith.
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to Michigan and the communities we serve.
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Online and what talked Now at Woodradio Dot how This
is the Trending Now report on Wood Radio.
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Willia is Thursday. We have a two for Thursday, Trump cut.
How's that?
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President Trump ordered the Pentagon on social media yesterday to
resume nuclear weapons testing. Speaking on board Air Force One,
we have.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
More nuclear weapons than anybody. We don't do testing, you know,
we've halted it years many years ago. But with others
doing testing, I think it's appropriate that we do.
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Also.
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President also called for denuclearization. Russia has claimed successfully tested
a nuclear powered and nuclear capable cruise missile.
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Now the second story.
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President and Trump heading back to the US after wrapping
up his highly anticipated meeting with the Chinese president.
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We have not too many major subbling blogs. We have
a deal. Now. Every year we'll renegotiate the deal, but
I think the deal will go in for a long time.
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More about that. Good news for farmers too. That's your
two for Thursday.
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Trump cut.
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US Agriculture Secretary Book Brook rawlins joining Fox's business networks Kudlo,
weighing in on the government shutdown and the battle on
Capitol Hill to keep Snap benefits for millions of struggling Americans.
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The American people are waking up to the fact that
one of every eight Americans gets a welfare check from
the government for food. That's the bad news. The good
news is, over the last six months since the president
was inaugurated, we have moved six hundred and forty five
thousand people off of Snap into the workforce.
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Those benefits end on Saturday.
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Also trending this morning, apologies to parents and teachers especially.
Six seven is going nowhere. It's been announced dictionary dot
com is making six to seven it's word of the
Year for twenty twenty five. Please, if you've heard it,
you said, don't get it. It's a jen aalfa word.
It comes off of a song from Scrilla that came
out last year. Steve Johnson is the director of Lexic
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Lexicography That Makes Sense. Yeah, I went to college for
Dictionary Media Group. He said, something you would have thought
would go away has just kept growing larger and larger
and snowballing. He said, I knew we had something really
interesting when I got a message from a friend of
mine who happens to be a middle school teacher that
simply said, whatever you do, do not make six seven
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word of the year.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Please. That's hilarious.
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There you go.
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That's what I'm saying. And just because it's in a
song doesn't necessarily mean it's a word.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
We know that.
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Oh my goodness, it's hit my last hit my house
two weeks ago and I was like, kids are how
Sophia doesn't get it? But well, he's got kids in
his second grade class that have older siblings. And he
came home and I said, I don't even remember what
I said. I think like, ooh, what's I'm gonna sit through?
Love into sixty seven? He goes six seven, and I
wanted to throw myself down the stairs.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
And the problem is the age range. I mean, Maddie
will use it to annoy me and she's sixteen, but
she does a lot of things to annoy me. But
I'm just saying that, you know, that's one of them
word of the year. The Detroit Lions have signed edge
rusher Aiden Hutchinson. Guys, did you see this big news
yesterday to a four year extension. As Steve mentioned earlier,
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well deserved. The deal is worth one hundred and eighty
million with wait for it, one hundred and forty one
million guaranteed. So if you live near Aiden Hutchinson for Halloween,
he's probably gonna have the full sized candy dots. Hutchinson's
forty five million average salary trails only Green Bay Packers
Micah Parsons forty six point five million among non quarterbacks
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in the end NFL, and the guarantee is the highest
among non quarterbacks according to Roster Management System with the NFL.
He's only twenty five years old, but he's proven himself
six sacks, twenty nine quarterback pressures, which is second in
the NFL. He's forced fumble, I mean, he does it all.
He's played after that injury ninety three percent of the snaps,
which is unheard of as a defensive.
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Lineman, notwithstanding a good dude off the field as well.
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Yes, well done, Aiden hutches And from Detroit