Tuesday 31st March 2026

Pack the Back Holiday Edition: Emily Holm

Pack the Backpack Holiday Edition, presented by Central Office Supply, a division of Minuteman, generous employees at Lenox in Marshalltwon and Kix 101.1! Each Wednesday in December, we will be awarding $101 to a Kix Country classroom to help out with supplies this holiday season. You can listen to each new winner on Wednesday at 8:30a on the Morning Kix Start.

Our 1st Pack the Backpack Holiday Edition winner is Emily Holm, Kindergarten Teacher at Central Elementary in Nevada. Take a listen to our surprise phone call to Emily below!

Nominate your Kix Country class by submitting a letter to us at backpack@kixweb.com.

 

 

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The List for Friday, March 27th 2026

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Carrie Underwood says her boys can sing, but she is not handing out tiny little record deals just because Mom can hit a note. Her oldest is already a mini-Carrie, super into music, but she says the music business can wait until he is older and knows who he is. One minute Mom is on stage in sequins, next minute she is making dinner like nothing happened. Country queen by night, casserole ninja by six.

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Morgan Wallen says he is done hiding behind excuses, and that might be the most grown-up sentence he has ever said out loud. He told CMT that back then, there was always something to blame when things went sideways. Now he says if he messes up, it is on him. Accountability..

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Netflix just raised prices again, and at this point your streaming bill is starting to look like a car payment. The ad plan is now $8.99, standard is $19.99, and premium jumps to $26.99. Remember when cutting the cord was supposed to save money? Now we are all just paying cable prices with extra steps. Congrats, we played ourselves.

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The iHeartRadio Music Awards wrapped up last night, and if you are guessing who won everything, go ahead and say it with me. Taylor Swift. Again. Save everybody a few hours. Show up, wave, collect hardware, repeat.

You can catch The List, weekday afternoons at 4:20 with Jonathan Knight. Only on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1

 
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