Thursday 19th February 2026
Welcome to The List,
Brett Young is opening on Sam Hunt’s current tour . . . and I think it’s safe to say they’re NOT partying like crazy. Unless the parties feature balloons, cake, and Squishmallows. Brett and Sam are both girl dads, and you can relate if you’re a girl dad. Have THEY bonded over that? “Yeah, it really softens you as a dude, you know, you kind of think when you’re doing well in life, you think you’re all that. That’s the cliché expression, but you have little girls, and they remind you that you’re not.”
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Garth Brooks did it with Takamine now Miranda Lambert has collaborated with Gibson to create a custom version of their Hummingbird acoustic guitar. Her model is called the Miranda Lambert Bluebird, and it features a cool, “bluebonnet lacquer finish,” and a bluebird pickguard. You can find them at Gibson.com for just under $5,000.
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William Shatner is being inducted into the San Diego Air and Space Museum’s International Hall of Fame. His induction is the result of him being the oldest person to go into space NOT because he is the original Captain Kirk. William and several others hovered above Earth on October 13, 2021 aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket.
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Jon Pardi tells People magazine that he loves the interactions he’s had with his country music heroes. Saying he got to workout with Tim McGraw…had a beer with Alan Jackson and talked to George Strait a couple times. Just a few of his heroes that he’s been listening to since he was a kid.
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Sinead O’Connor’s memorial service and burial took place yesterday in Ireland. U2 stars Bono and The Edge attended the funeral Hundreds of fans lined the streets in Sinead’s hometown to get a glimpse of the hearse carrying her remains.
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And lastly, Barbie fans are getting foot tattoos that read JAPAN. Barbie dolls from the 1960s had the word stamped across the bottom of their right foot. Now, fans of the new movie are doing the same. Some are adjusting the tattoo to read “Made in ____ .” (Country they are from)
You can catch The List, weekdays at 2:20 and 4:20 on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1
Welcome to The List,
Shia LaBeouf went full Mardi Gras meltdown in New Orleans, getting arrested after a fight outside a bar and charged with simple battery. Paramedics showed up, Shia went to the hospital, and locals claimed he’d been “terrorizing the city.” But plot twist, after getting released, he was spotted dancing on Bourbon Street with his release papers in his mouth like it was a receipt from a wild night at Walgreens.
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Miley Cyrus is dusting off the blonde wig for the Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special hitting Disney+ March 24th. They’re recreating the original sets, showing never-before-seen footage, Miley says Hannah will always be part of her, which makes sense, because that show launched her career and funded about half her wardrobe during the foam finger era. Somewhere Billy Ray just whispered, “Best of both worlds… and residual checks.”
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Carrie Underwood might look like a country music superhero on stage, but at home she’s basically your Midwest grandma with better hair. She says she crochets, birdwatches, makes sourdough, brews kombucha, and even ferments her own hot sauce. Carrie says real life isn’t glam, it’s cleaning toilets, gardening, and doing laundry. So yes, America’s sweetheart could win a Grammy in the morning and yell at you in the afternoon for not using a coaster.
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Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO just announced they’ve found a surrogate and are preparing to grow their family. Bunnie says after years of healing and getting stable, they’re ready to raise kids surrounded by love and give them everything they didn’t have growing up. Which means those kids will have emotional support, life wisdom, and probably the coolest bedtime stories ever told by a guy named Jelly Roll.
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