Nashville Music Minute: Is The World Ending?

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Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton are teaming up for a brand-new duet called “A Song to Sing”—and it drops this Friday! They teased it online with a retro heart graphic, but didn’t give much else away. Full-blown duet, not just a feature—because when two icons collide, you don’t do it halfway.

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Plot twist! Diddy is allegedly planning a women’s shelter for abuse survivors… while women are also lining up to party with him. I guess it’s equal-opportunity chaos now? He’s rebranding hard—with a docuseries, new music, and probably a candle line next. Stay tuned!

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The new Superman movie is here—and critics say it's about as inspiring as a soggy cape. Big on CGI, low on story. Turns out, flying fast and punching aliens doesn’t fix a weak script. Superhero burnout? Say it ain’t so!

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Big congrats to Sam Hunt and his wife—they’ve welcomed baby number three! A boy named Weyman Allen Hunt, born back in May. Their other kids are Lucy Louise and Lowry Lee. At this point, Sam’s basically touring with his own country band… of toddlers.

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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Sad news over the Fourth... Michael Madsen—yeah, the guy who made ear-cutting in Reservoir Dogs look like an art form—died Thursday from cardiac arrest at 67. And we also lost Julian McMahon—Nip/Tuck, Charmed, and Fantastic Four’s original Dr. Doom—gone at just 56 after a battle with cancer.

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Miranda Lambert isn’t just all about fringe and fire—it’s heart too. She and her MuttNation Foundation are teaming up with Kerrville Pets Alive to help both people and their fur-babies affected by the devastating Texas flash floods. Big country heart, big country help.

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Lainey Wilson says carving out time for her fiancé, Duck Hodges, is a must—even with a tour bus schedule! For their wedding? No country megastars—she wants jazz bands! And who’s gonna cry first? Lainey’s betting on Duck. She says, “He’ll be a mess.” Aww...Quackin' up already.

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Tom Cruise’s next movie, Deeper, just hit a big fat pause button—because it’s allegedly burning through a $275 million budget. Yeah... for a deep-sea space drama. Warner Bros. is sweating, Cruise is studio-shopping, and somewhere, Ana de Armas is wondering if she packed her wetsuit and her spacesuit.

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