Trending News October 8, 2025

Our top trending stories for this Wednesday October 8, 2025. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is West Michigan's morning News. Steve Kelly, Brett, Kada,
Lawrence Smith. Wednesday, October eighth, twenty twenty five. Our Trending
segment is brought to you by a Consumer's Energy dedicated
to Michigan and the communities.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
We serve what's not online and what's talked now at
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
This is the Trending Now report on Wood Radio. A
group of nine lawmakers phone records were monitored during the
January sixth investigation led by Special Counsel Jack Smith in
an operation called Arctic Frost. On Fox's Hannity, FBI Director
Cash Betel accuses the Biden administration of weaponizing the government

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against Democrats political opponents.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
When we got in there, and when I got in
as the FBI director, from my experience as rushing Gate,
I knew where to look and what rooms to open
and what doors to kick down. And that's what we did.
We found this information to expose to politicization by Jacksmith
and the prior Department of Justice.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Homeland Security Secretary Mary Christi Nome traveling to Portland yesterday
where she visited ICE, an ICE officer in the wake
of ongoing demonstrations protesting law enforcement officials presence. Here's Portland
Police Chief Bob Day telling the press that local officials
aren't fully aligned with the secretary, but will do what

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they have to do. We continue to be professionals, then
we continue to strive for a shared value of safety.
And nearly a week end of the government shut down,
the Senate GOP has made a little progress in winning
over votes from Democrats. House Speaker Mike Johnson telling the
press yesterday that lawmakers across the aisle are using the

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shutdown for lever.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Real pain is being felt by real people around this
country because Chuck Schumer and the Democrats over here are
playing political games.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Three Democrats on board with the group's spending legislation. Will
keep you posted when we know more.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Also trending this morning, let's take a roundtable here. How
do we feel is Detroit I ain't the worst drivers
in the state?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Geeah? Yeah, there, that's hands down.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah. It's a new wallet up report that actually ranks
Detroit as the sixth worst US city to drive in.
So they compared the one hundred most populous cities in
the country four categories, cost of ownership and maintenance, that's
always been ruff in Michigan traffic and infrastructure safety and
then access to vehicles. Detroit did not do well, coming

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in at number ninety four out of a hundred. Yeah.
Best place, friendliest place, safest place. Corpus Christi Texas really yeah,
quite a wallet hub.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
It's not great Texas. So I got nothing to say
about that. I like Detroit. I'm not saying that I don't.
I like great people.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I just think you've got to be ready to not
show your best Christian self as soon as you pass
that four ninety six exit.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, I would know I'm talking about if I had
a railroad tie on each bumper, I'd feel better.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
My hometown, Like the ninety three B exit is where
i'd get off, and right past that, everybody goes to
one hundred and fifty. Fingers start flying and nobody cares
about lives.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
I always prepared myself when I passed the outlet mall
at howl Who and you'd kind of turn that corner
at Bright and you're like, okay, Andy, five hundred, it's
coming up.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
I think the term is gird. You're loins.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah, you just add about twenty miles. My wife's looking
at me, like what are you doing as we go
to a game?

Speaker 1 (03:24):
And I'm like, stop talking, everybody, do you.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Want to be run over? Okay, I'm gonna increase.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Stop talking is real, that's real.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
High School football Week seven, the final third of the
regular season. We've got great matchups coming away. Kettle Hills
at Coopersville is our ninety six to one the game
game of the week courtesy of LMCU, and then Mona
Shores at Forest Hill's Northern over on one oh seven.
M us the moose. But I bring this up. I
always love it when the big ten teams are in
the AP Top twenty five rankings near the top. Same

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thing could be said for the high school Top twenty
five that came out this week with the Massy ratings.
In the state of Michigan, Detroit Catholic Centrals of Powerhouse,
the Shamrocks are number one at six to oh but
then right behind that Hutsonville, who we just watched beat
Rockford on Friday night is number two, Orchard Lake Saint
Mary's number three, then Eastkentwood, who plays Hutsonville this week,

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is number four at five and one, and Rockford right
out of the top five at four and two Unity
Christians in the top ten as well. They're six to
Ohero at number seven, and then as you go down
the list, Muskegan and Granville at sixteen and seventeen ground
up as Catholic Central at number twenty.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well, those are some of the stories we are following
for you today