Monday 19th May 2025
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Time” Magazine’s 2023 Person of the Year Is . . . Exactly Who You Think it Is Taylor Swift and she has a message for her enemies: Quote, “Trash takes itself out every single time” Taylor is the first entertainer to be named Person of the Year, unless you count Bono, who was named in 2005 as a “Good Samaritan” along with Bill and Melinda Gates.
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Jon Pardi released an animated video for “Beer for Santa“. He says, quote, “It just feels old school and classic like how you used to watch ‘Rudolph’, but with a new and slightly more mature twist on it.”
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Ryan Reynolds is politely asking people to STOP posting photos from the “Deadpool 3” set. Quote, “Surprises are part of the magic of theatrical movies . . . Telephoto lenses continue to spoil surprises and create a difficult situation for everyone . . “Deadpool 3” hits theaters July 26th.
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Life & Style Weekly says Maren Morris is ready to date just two months after filing for a divorce from Ryan Hurd. A source tells the magazine, She is already asking friends to set her up on dates.
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“Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan is suing Cole Hauser . . . one of the stars of the show . . . over coffee. Sheridan owns a ranch in Texas called Bosque Ranch. And Hauser recently launched his own coffee brand called Free Rein. He says the logo’s are to similar so it’s a copy right infringement. Also, Taylors ranch sells coffee. Cole plays Rip on “Yellowstone”. The show’s ending after the second half of Season 5, which debuts next November.
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An AI-generated Jimmy Stewart can lull you to sleep with his telling of “It’s a Wonderful Sleep Story” on the Calm app. It’s a new holiday story in the style of “It’s a Wonderful Life”.
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Well, this is unexpected. Steve Perry and Willie Nelson just teamed up to re-record Journey’s “Faithfully.” That’s right—two legends, one power ballad, and a whole lotta “What decade is it?” It’s all to celebrate 40 years of Farm Aid. So cry, sing, and hug a tractor. It’s what they would’ve wanted.
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Hold my popcorn. Word is Blake Lively threatened to leak Taylor Swift’s private texts unless Tay backed her in a feud with Justin Baldoni. A source says Taylor is panicking, spiraling, and basically curled up in a pile of cardigans. Blake’s legal team? They say this is all a lie and quote, “untethered from reality.” Which ironically sounds like Taylor’s next album title.
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Jelly Roll thought his criminal past might keep him from performing in the UK on Post Malone’s Big Butt—I mean Big [Beep] World Tour. But plot twist—he got the green light! That’s right, Jelly’s headed to England for the first time ever. Tottenham Stadium, get ready... America’s favorite reformed bad boy is bringin' the southern fried chaos overseas.
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Prince Harry’s apparently put on a few... and Meghan Markle’s not having it. A source says she wants him off the chips and on the celery—less beer belly, more yoga mat. She hikes, she juices, she probably hasn’t had a carb since Suits. Meanwhile, Harry’s somewhere with a bag of crisps like, “What’s wrong with a little salt?” Oh, marriage.
You can catch The List, weekday at 4:20 with Jonathan Knight. Only on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.
