West Michigan Wakeup October 23, 2025

Episode Transcript

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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. All right, we're gonna start with
some good news as your traffic girl. After months of
detours and those orange barrels, we are about to catch
some relief in Walker. The fruit Ridge Bridge set to

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reopen next week, offering a very welcome relief for those
who've been dealing with the construction all summer. The Fruitridge
Bridge was completely demolished and rebuilt. Construction began in late March.
That's a long we've been dealing with this A. City
officials say the upgrades reflect Walker's growth with new businesses
and having your traffic near the highway, but the seven

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month closure has definitely been challenging. The upgrade will be
worth it, according to m DOT. A spokesperson said Cruise
are putting on the final touches. Expect the bridge to
open sometime Monday. I feel like we need Oh, yep,
I got it here. Hold on, Oh it's getting close,

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it's getting close. Of next up, this is a very
interesting move. Yesterday, the city of Detroit officially voted to
ban smokeless tobacco usage at all stadiums and sports arenas
in the city, voting seven to two in favor of
the ordinance. According to this ordinance, smokeless tobacco, alternative nicotine products,

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and other tobacco products will be fully banned. This includes fans,
players and coaches. Now there will be a first warning
before violators are fined. More than half of the MLB
parks have a very similar ordinance, but that includes all
of them. So we're talking Ford Field, We're talking Comerica Park,

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Little Caesars Arena. Things like zins you just pop in
your gums. Not really able to regulate things like that,
and people are going to get a lot sneakier, is
what one city councilor said, But I agree this is
something that can move the city forward. The NFL not
considering dropping Bad Bunny as its Super Bowl halftime Performer
Commissioner Roger Goodell, issuing a statement yesterday reaffirming a decision

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to put the Grammy winning Puerto Rican artist on the
league's biggest stage, he said it is carefully thought through.
I'm not sure we've ever selected an artist where we
didn't have some blowback or criticism. It's pretty hard to
do when you have literally hundreds of millions of people
that are watching, we are confident it's going to be
a great show. He understands the platform that he's on,

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and I think it's going to be an exciting and
united moment heading into sports. OO was not a great
start for the Pistons, unfortunately, blowing quite a lead twenty
three points. They were ahead of the Chicago Bulls last night,
but ended up losing one hundred and fifteen to one
hundred eleven at their opener, and a very very rough

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time for fans who were so excited about the NBA
back in session and tonight we will have the Red
Wings in action. They are taken on New York. You
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