
Honey 2/17/2026

Alex Hayden, Turn Announcer with MRN joined the Morning Kix Start with Brandon Lewis on Tuesday to preview the Dayton 500 this weekend.
Prior to joining MRN as a turn announcer in 1997, Alex Hayden worked as an actor at Universal Studios Florida and even landed an appearance on the WB network hit show “One Tree Hill.” His path to racing started growing up not far from Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Muncie, IN. His dad was a photographer and Alex would tag along on his racing assignments. A love for racing grew in Alex to include many of its forms, from Indycar, to local dirt track racing, to traveling with his family to Michigan International Speedway for NASCAR races.
The Daytona 500 is set for this Sunday at 1:30p. Catch the race on Kix 101.1, with the pre-race show starting at 12:30p.




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Luke Combs just committed the ultimate sports betrayal…he wore a Jacksonville Jaguars hat. Panthers fans immediately grabbed their pitchforks and pumpkin spice lattes and accused him of treason. One fan called him fake. Luke fired back saying, yeah, maybe he should have worn Panthers gear while playing in the Jaguars stadium…his bad. This man gave us “Beer Never Broke My Heart,” not “I Pledge Allegiance to Your Fantasy Football Team.”
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Miranda Lambert kicked off the Daytona 500 in front of more than 100,000 screaming NASCAR fans. She admitted the massive crowd made her nervous, which is relatable, because the only thing scarier than that many people is that many people who drove there aggressively. She said it already felt like a concert thanks to the tailgating.
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Hollywood officially ran out of ideas sometime around 2007, and now Charlie’s Angels is getting rebooted…again. Sony is already working on it, with the Crazy Rich Asians writer attached, and Drew Barrymore possibly involved behind the scenes. So yes, prepare for dramatic slow-motion walking, explosions that defy physics, and a plot nobody remembers. That’s Hollywood innovation….rebooting a reboot of a reboot of a reboot.
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If you were waiting for The Simpsons to end, I have terrible news…you’ll be waiting forever. The showrunner says it will never have a real finale because the characters live in permanent cartoon Groundhog Day. They already did a fake ending just to mess with us. At this point, three things will survive the apocalypse: cockroaches, Twinkies, and Homer Simpson.
Get details on these stories at 4:20 this afternoon on The List, with Jonathan Knight. Only on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1