West Michigan Wakeup November 13, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Star one oh five point seven. Good morning, the news
you need to start your day. It's the West Michigan
Wake Up, powered by Minards on Star one oh five
point seven.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Well, the open sign is on President Trump signing a
government funding bill to officially and the longest shutdown in
history after forty three days.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Congratulations to you and to john and to everybody on
a very big victory. We're opening up our country.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
The Senate voting earlier this week sixty to forty to
pass a bill that was eventually passed in the House
and went to the President's desk. Now we may see
some more contentious moments because right after this, Speaker Mike
Johnson announced he would put a bill compelling the release
of all of the Justice Departments Jeffrey Epstein case files

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to a vote on the House floor next week. That's
earlier than expected. We didn't think that this would see
a vote until at least December. The Speaker says, we're
going to put that on the floor for a full
vote when we get back next week. In the meantime,
I'll remind everybody the House over Site Committee has been
working around the clock on its own investigation. Well, rest

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in power, to the penny after more than two hundred
and thirty years, yesterday the final penny officially minted. That
is two hundred and thirty two years to be exact.
The one cent coin will have its production ended. Treasurer
Brandon Beach said, God bless America, and we're going to

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save the taxpayers fifty six million dollars. This was that
the US mint in Philadelphia. The then hit a button
to strike the very last penny. But I can tell
you that my son in second grade is still learning
money and the scent remains.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
I don't know how long They gave maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
A whole bunch of different timelines and when we might
see the final penny, but I think it's going to
take years. Let's get into sports. We have a packed
sports this morning. The NCAA putting Michigan States football program
on three years of probation and penalizing the school thirty
thousand dollars on top of one point five percent of
the team's budget after they agreed former staff members under

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coach Mel Tucker broke rules regarding recruitment, inducements and benefits,
as well as recruitment, communication and unofficial visit expenses. MSU
announcing it had reached a negotiated resolution with the NCAA
due to the participation of three ineligible players, victories from

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the twenty twenty two through twenty twenty four seasons would
be vacated, and those restrictions have now been placed on
recruiting for three years. Let's take a look at our Tigers.
For the first time in a quarter century, an American
League pitcher has won back to back Cy Young Awards,
and that is Terrek Scooble, repeating the feat. He beat

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out Boston's Garrett Crochet and Houston Hunter Brown the voting
announced last night. Schooble is the first ever repeat al
Cy Young winner since Pedro Martinez in ninety nine and
two thousand and he owns joins Denny McLain as the
only Tiger to win multiple Cy Youngs with Detroit.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
A big congratulations.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I'm ready for this. The season will be kicking off
in just a couple months. Grand Rapids Rise head coach
Kathy George is sticking around West Michigan, the team announced yesterday. George,
who is also VP of volleyball Operations, has signed a
two year contract extension, which means she is leading that
team through the twenty twenty seven Major League Volleyball season,

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and in Hoope's action, Paul Reid had twenty eight points
and thirteen rebounds as the Pistons continued their win streak,
taking a victory in their eighth straight game, beating the
Chicago Bulls one twenty four to one thirteen. We've got
some big sports coming up tonight as well, MSU hoops
versus San Jose. You can hear that on Big one

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O one point three, and are Red Wings in action
against Anaheim.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
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