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Nashville Music Minute: Jason Aldean buys a Barbie truck

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The List for Monday, April 25th 2022

Welcome to The List,

Mile Marker 66.6 in New Jersey, Bat Cave North Carolina, even as recent at 420 Ave…these are some of the most stolen popular street signs in America…it’s not uncommon that some towns proud of their famous people like to tell new commers that they are the home of…let’s say Carly Pearce…and the sign or signs in this case get stolen!! "Wow! I didn’t know that the other one was stolen as well. If this is a super fan and I hope that they hear this, just DM me that you want tickets to a show. “Adding…that it’s not affecting HER…it’s affecting her TOWN…and she’d like to see it stop.

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Legendary music mogul/producer/rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs is going to host AND executive produce the 2022 Billboard Music Awards.  This year the celebration will air live coast-to-coast from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas at 7 p.m. CT on NBC; it will also stream on the Peacock service.

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Elle King tells CheatSheet.com that when she and Miranda go on tour they never go “out in public” Not that they wouldn’t WANT to!  it’s just that, well she says they’ve only kina of been on tour and Miranda brings her own bar…a literal bar that’s in a trailer everywhere they go!!

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DreamWorks animated feature “The Bad Guys” Starring the voices of Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron and Anthony Ramos as a group of criminal animals who, upon being caught, pretend to attempt to reform themselves as model citizens.  Was number ONE at the box office over the weekend earning a cool $24 million.  Followed by ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2” and “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” rounding out the top three.  ‘The Bad Guys’ will be streaming on Peacock around June 6th

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Here's a trivia question that's timely.  Do you remember the country music video that featured Amber Heard?’ Need a hint?  She played the grown daughter who "headed off to the West Coast" . . . breaking her dad's heart in the process.  Yep, it was Kenny Chesney’s "There Goes My Life" video, which came out in 2003.

While we're on the subject.  Old Dominion did a pop-up show last week in Tampa, Florida . . . and at one point Kenny joined them to perform his song, "Save It for a Rainy Day".  It was co-written by a couple of guys in Old Dominion.

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The dress worn by Judy Garland in ''The Wizard of Oz'' is going to be auctioned off in May. The blue and white dress is expected to sell for as much as $1.2 million.  The dress was as found in a shoebox on top of mailboxes in the Drama Department at The Catholic University of America in Washington DC. You can see it on Tuesday’s episode of the Today Show on NBC

You can catch The List, weekdays at 2:20 and 4:20 on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1

 
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Nashville Music Minute: Kenny Chesney makes a surprise appearance

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The List for Friday, April 22nd 2022

Welcome to The List,

Mike Tyson punched a man on a JetBlue flight on Wednesday night. The man and his friend were talking to Mike when they asked for a selfie. Mike took one and then became annoyed because he wouldn't stop talking to him. In the end, the man ended up with a headache, and all ears were accounted for….

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One place you will never find Eric Church and that’s on social media. “I never pay attention to it.  I’ve never been on social media. I’ve never tweeted, I don’t know how to tweet. I don’t get on Instagram I have no way to get on any of this.”

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The Latest ‘Lightyear’ trailer is out and reveals the ‘Toy Story’ spin-off’s plot and villain.  In the second and more in-depth look at the upcoming animated film, Buzz (voiced by Chris Evans) and his team are seen stranded on a hostile planet more than 4 million light-years from Earth. ‘Lightyear’ will fly into theaters on June 17th. Check out the latest trailer below -

https://youtu.be/wHBBoUtJHhA

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Kacey Musgraves has a great story about the time her grandpa played poker with Willie Nelson and beat him.  But the ‘Buy in’ was $300 cash “So, I went to an ATM I got out some money when I got home I handed Pop a wad of cash and I said Merry Christmas and he said what’s this for. I said this is your buy in for Willie Nelsons poker game tomorrow. He loses all of his money eventually wins it all back and gets up and says well I gotta go.” At least he ended on a HIGH note..no pun intended….

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Rapper Snoop Dogg seems to be on EVERYONES recordings…but, it comes at a price…. In a recent interview, Snoop revealed that he charges $250,000 for a feature.  . and that'll get you about 16 bars. If you want Snoop to appear in the video, that's ANOTHER $250,000 So for the full package, he's banking half-a-mil. Oh, and he's not gonna sit around all day waiting for your director to get the lighting and blocking right.  He says, quote, "You only got an hour, so get to filming."

You can catch The List, weekdays at 2:20 and 4:20 on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1

 
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Nolan Hanson Fundraiser Saturday April 23rd

A fundraising event tomorrow starting at 10am all donations go to Nolan Hanson and his family to help pay for his medical bills. Doris chatted with Jeff about the event! More info can be found here

 

 

 

 

 
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Nashville Music Minute: Dan + Shay facing lawsuit

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At The Movies for Thursday, April 21st 2022

Welcome to ‘At the Movies’ Brought to You by North Grand Cinema in Ames….

In Theaters this Friday "The Northman"

An action-packed epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father’s murder

"The Northman" Rated R  and Staring Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman and Ethan Hawke

https://youtu.be/oMSdFM12hOw

 Get showtimes and information on private screenings at northgrandcinema.com.

‘At the Movies’, Brought to you by North Grand Cinema, in Ames. Listen tomorrow during the Morning Kickstart to win a Family Four Pack of tickets to a movie of your choice from North Grand Cinema and Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1.

I’m Jonathan Knight and we’ll see YOU ‘At the Movies’

‘At the Movies’ Thursday’s at 5:40 on Iowa's BEST Country KIX 101.1

 
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The List for Thursday, April 21st 2022

Welcome to The List,

Elle King has found that when the iron strikes…it strikes.  Speaking about her number one hit with Miranda Lambert…she NEVER thought it would make the mark it has…."Never in a million years would I have ever thought that a song that I wrote when I was about 24 years old would ever have the life that it has.  But for that song to go to number one means absolutely everything in the world to me.  Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. I love you. I’m not going anywhere. I’m in country Elle King’s here to stay."

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The latest on  JLo and Ben Affleck getting married because like ME I’m sure you’re on the edge of your seat about this…Heat magazine claims Jennifer has turned into a bridezilla! She’s taken this Diva thing to new heights and it’s non-stop…She presented with countless options, for  super luxury honeymoon packages. But it's not enough. She changes her mind constantly about everything and rings up the planners at all hours of the night. she's driving everyone up the wall."

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Here’s something that might curl in your noodle…When Mitchell Tenpenny was young, he played drums in a hardcore Metal band.  His mother supported him, because . . . moms.  And then he grew up.  In college he focused on acoustic guitar and songwriting.   Mom didn't have to pretend about liking that.  The first time he played her one of his songs she started tearing up and crying, tears of joy of course because he wasn’t playing all that screaming Metal music.

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Alec Baldwin's ill-fated movie "Rust" was hit Wednesday with the maximum possible fine by state safety officials in New Mexico for violations on the set that contributed to the death of a cinematographer.

Sighting "plain indifference" by the production and noted they "willfully violated" known industry safety protocols and imposed a $137,000 fine for firearms safety failures.

As for the guy that pointed the gun and pulled the trigger?  Well, he’s being sued civilly by the victim’s family.

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Luke Combs took to social media this morning to announce his new CD and single…and the album art!  The new album is called ‘Grown Up’  it’ll have twelve songs that will be available June 24th…The FIRST single called “Tomorrow Me” is out tomorrow…

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Talk about beating a dead horse…Pop Culture magazine says Fast and the Furious 10 is going to be called ''Fast X.'  who robbed the brain trust on that one….. and if you haven’t watched the Netflix documentary ''The Tinder Swindler'' it’s become the platforms most watched with Over 166 million hours  streamed.

You can catch The List, weekdays at 2:20 and 4:20 on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1

 
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Doris chats with Country Music Artist Dustin Collins

Kentucky native Dustin Collins, singer song writer and veteran traveled to KIX Country making four stops in three days. One stop is a fundraiser for 2 1/2 year old Nolan at Hawk Heaven 10-1pm. Get to know Dustin!

https://dustincollinsofficial.com/

 
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Nashville Music Minute: Taco Bell brings back pizza for Dolly?

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