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Today we continue our Labor Day look at some of your favorite country star FIRST jobs…today Eric Church talks about one of his worst jobs Selling Knives ...  “my worst one was when I first came to Nashville. I got a job at the Shop at Home Network.  I worked midnight, graveyard, midnight to eight, and I sold knives from midnight to 7 or 8am. And, anytime somebody calls you at 3 or 4am and needs 200 knives for $19.95, it’s automatically an alarming situation."

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Jon Pardi’s worst job in the end just made him bored “The worst job I ever had was at Hometown Grocery Store. I didn’t want to work, I was 15, and I did not want to work at the grocery store. Bagging was fun, but they sent me down the aisles to pull up cans and turn ‘em around and face ‘em, and I would just get so bored!”

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Tyra Banks and American Idol judge Lionel Richie have teamed up to create their own ice cream brand called Smize. One flavor is named after Lionel's 1983 hit 'All Night Long (All Night)'.  The ice cream is available for sale online…and the Kraft Mac and Cheese ice cream is back on the Van Leeuwen website also for $12/pint

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Actress Cameron Diaz has gotten into the wine business and The Drinks Business website says she should stay OUT of it…her new white wine is terrible. earning a D-rating in a new survey of 400 households. It was voted the least favorite of all celebrity white wines. Mark Oldman, the author of "Celebrity White Wine Showdown," says, "Almost everyone (88%) agreed that celebrities should not call themselves winemakers — that is a title best left to trained professionals."

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

Welcome to The List,

With Labor Day creepin up on us we take a look at FIRST jobs from some of your favorite country music singers…let’s start off with Billy Currington on HIS first job. “Actually, a bass player that was playin in the church, I was singin and he played in a country club actually invited me in there.  I was only 17 or 18 at the time,  They got me up to sing one song and then I got a call the next day to join the band so that became my job.” Now, THAT’S slick…

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Sometimes you just get a bad job …Carrie Underwood would disagree…"I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad job. I’ve had hard jobs. I’ve had jobs that worked random hours. My first job was at a gas station, and that was a lot of fun actually. While I was working at the gas station, I took another job at a hotel down the street.” That was the job she got ONE DAY of training before the lady that trained her THE ONLY OTHER EMPLOYEE QUIT the next day and Carrie was now in-charge….

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Simon Cowell was on with Kelly Clarkson and she asked what are the HARDEST acts on ‘America’s Got Talent” and this is what he said “When a comedian goes wrong,  I mean it feels like it feels like it’s going on for hours..it’s horrific.  So, there’s nothing you can do about it.  Those are the hardest ones.”  You can watch ‘America’s Got Talent’ tonight at 7pm on NBC

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Jeopardy! may not be the only long-running game show looking for a new host. fellow game show Wheel of Fortune could possibly be losing host Pat Sajak and letter turner Vanna White.  Sajak first joined the syndicated version of Wheel of Fortune in December 1981, followed by White just a year later.  Hollywood reporter says they will be with the show through 2022 but there has been no discussion of contract renewals.

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