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The following is a presentation of Playfly
Sports Properties in Michigan State Sports Properties.

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Good evening everybody and good people out
there. It is Thursday, February ninth,

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twenty twenty three. I'm your host, Jason Straight going along with my

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co host Otis Wiley. Yeah,
I love it. Thursday Bay. It's

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Thursday, baby, the weekend that
means weekends around right around the corner,

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Choo Chow is on assignment somewhere in
Phoenix. He's out there around the golf

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courses with the waste management PGA tournament
and also the super Bowl. So we're

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gonna get some feedback and some coverage
of the super Bowl from this part because

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we bring you everything football later look
at it and looking at it sucking a

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super Bowl, so we got Super
Bowl. I am here on excitement in

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Phoenix. It's sound like you sound
like you're in a tornado. Man,

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when it is is it cold out
there? It's a little if the sun

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goes down, gets a little chili. Yeah, there you go. He

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he made it, ladies, because
he doesn't want to miss hanging out with

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everybody. All. This is Sparta
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to the show. Well, well, well too. Chwo is on assignment.

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Man, Look you look at this
think I just had to mute him

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because that win was too much.
But I'll when he tossed, I'll mute.

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But he is too too. Mister
bowl man is on you. Man.

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It looks like you're in the desert. Man. I am in the

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desert, in the in the middle
of it right now. I'm actually at

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the you know, my company,
we're putting on the Phoenix Waste Management Open

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uh Wild Golf tournament here, so
out here, you know, taking in

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the sights, you know, being
productive, man, being productive. And

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uh later tonight, gonna go catch
up to some people at a Super Bowl

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party, take some pictures and send
it back. Hey, look like report

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live. It's too too you're looking
live. Phoenix, Arizona. It's like

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the family guy. It's like the
family guy. Man, it's raining cold,

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He's Wendy. Here's Wendy like chasing
storms out there. I love that.

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I love what guys do that.
Man. Speaking of Phoenix Arizona,

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there's an alumni, certain someone that
we all know near and dear in our

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hearts, who just was approved to
be the new Phoenix Suns owner in a

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vote. It's twenty nine to zero, which I think there's thirty teams in

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the NBA, but somehow he didn't
have a somebody voting against him, but

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there was only twenty nine that voted. I don't know what that's about.

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Not sure what that's about. But
nonetheless, on his first day on the

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job, Matt Eshba as you just
saw there swinging KD. Baby. Man,

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Listen, I think everybody went to
sleep last night, woke up and

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and you have never seen a trade
that happen. At one thirty six in

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the morning, am. And you
see the edits and the graphics of the

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new Big Three in Phoenix with Kevin
Durant, you know, Chris Paul.

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Honestly, I thought they was going
to try to get you know, shop

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Chris Paul around and they're ready to
get that championship now, like it's right

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me out, not later. Is
they are trying to win a championship and

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it's gonna be crazy if they do
get to the finals and then obviously win

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a championship with KD coming in and
you know, we talk about the sniper

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man. KD is the smooth criminal
brother. So him and d book that's

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dangerous. That is dangerous. And
we already know that Devin Booker gets buckets

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day in, day out. So
Matt making big money moves man. Not

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only he's the owner and has spent
that big bread. Now he is making

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money moves and not you know,
don't forget you got Phoenix Mercury too,

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which is a rock star of an
organization on the w NBA side. So

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man, Spartan dogs man, we're
doing big things. We got to Spartan

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Lungs and our owners of NBA teams
and three three actually, so Magic Johnson

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right with uh who we got Dan
Gilbert, We got Ma who was the

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third the Detroit Pistons. Tom Gorris, well, he's kind of affilly with

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the team down Road family wise,
Like I mean, they got some heavy

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ties with the family down team down
the Road. Who Gorris, doesn't he?

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No, no, no, no, This is a Spartan all day.

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Okay, Okay, you know he's
got a brother that went to Western

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He's a he's a he's a Bronco. But Tom Gorris is the guy.

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He's a he's a Spartan. We
gotta get him on the show too,

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don't. He's been quiet, he's
slaying sad in a while. We gotta

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get him back, get him involved
in things. Choot, you will find

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he's out. He's out on the
west side, you know, or something

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like that. Yeah, needs to
seek shelter. I know, I do

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feel like that family man here.
There's one day out here that's just blowing

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in my eyes. But I'm doing
it all further. This is Spartan family.

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We love it. We love it, man, We love the dedication

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that you have. Tom gorss So
anybody didn't know he worked as a janitor

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in the telemarketer and with the Michigan
State in nineteen eighty six, that's when

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he graduated as a Spartan with a
degree in construction management. Thank you Tony

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Castella for that. Look that's probably
because I wasn't born yet, So that's

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probably why man oh were talking about
age. Okay, he wasn't born in

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eighty six. Dang, I know, man oh boy, man you rocked

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the crazy You missed the Bears.
You missed that eighty five Bears team.

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I'm sorry you guys missed a treat
there. But in hockey, talking about

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MS you hockey, they had a
sweep against Notre Dame. Man, big,

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big, big win. Uh,
this is the opportunity to really finish

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the season strong. You know,
we got a chance to win straight.

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You got a chance to finally go
to a hockey game all for years being

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a Spartan alum. Yeah, see, this is the first time going to

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that game to see them play.
But we started to learn the points system,

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Like they started to give us that
full breakdown. Remember about the system

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of points, and you know,
over time you think of like, okay,

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the wins win, No, it's
really the points that is allowing us

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to get you know, good bids
into the n c A or c c

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h A, uh you know tournament. So we have team down the road

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coming to East Lansing tomorrow, and
you know we have to finish strong and

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shout out to United Dairy of Michigan
the ud I AM. They are the

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title sponsors, so milk means more. So they're gonna be handed out with

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chocolate milk after the end of the
game. And you know, I got

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two cases in my phrase right now. I'm at to send you some straight

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or for your boys and drinking chocolate
milk. But they love chocolate milk.

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Yeah, it's absolutely gras and proteain. Man. You know, I'm trying

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to get my games up to man
and misgiter say hockey will be on what

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they're gonna be yeah, yeah,
on Saturday, February eleventh, eight pm.

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So if anybody's in Detroit, go
catch them there. They're gonna play

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Michigan Little Love for sure, back
to back days month and then Little Season

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is gonna be a special weekend for
Michigan State hockey. Also other sports and

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other news. Michigan State gymnastics they
they've only beat Michigan knocked off Maryland,

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Penn State. I mean, this
is a this team's on a roll and

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they're gonna be at Iowa on Saturday. Yeah, man, this is a

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I've had a pleasure of having some
close friends that were some gymnast when we

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were playing together in Michigan State.
And you know, this is a big,

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huge program win. But also,
uh, the programs on the rise

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nationally spotlight wise. We've got great
coaching staff and you know, this is

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an opportunity to take the next step. And they're showing out last year.

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You know, they got into the
NCAA terms. You got Gabby right here.

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I mean, look at this,
man like this is something that my

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daughters, you know, look up
to. Man. So good opportunity to

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uh to see them and see them
really si seed and this is the opportunity

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for our athletic department to shed light
into our female sports that they're doing big,

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big, big great things for us. Gabby Steven boy, I tell

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you what, that's a n i
L opportunity if I've ever seen one.

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If anybody's listening out there, definitely
uh something that people need to go check

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out. That's another thing I haven't
seen otis we got to go check out

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at gymnastics meet. Hey, man, you just say the word man,

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and uh, you know you got
they gotta match March I things March fourth

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and fifth. Okay, back at
home, and so we should check it

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out. Man, if you're here, but I know you over there in

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the best West Coast, man,
But you know I always be in my

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second home, East Lansing. Uh
if you if you call on me,

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I'll beat at you. Wrestling for
MSU. They also have Senior Night Tomorrow

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night, which is Friday at home
versus Indiana. Yeah. Man, this

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is a program too that has kind
of been under the radar for the longest

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of times. And you've seen the
big big powerhouses, uh, you know

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and with the IOWA with Penn State, and you know, we've always been

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kind of a low low tier.
And for this season, you know,

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not say they came out of the
out of the woodworks and start to have

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some studs, but I think this
team has truly shown we have some all

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stars wrestlers this year. And so, uh, if you've ever been there,

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man, Jennison's rocking with with gymnastics
with wrestling, and you know,

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back in the last season, you
know, to a couple of seasons ago.

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Volleyball was obviously playing there too,
but they moved over to Bresling to

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play their matches. But you know, that is a good atmosphere that is

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really really family friendly, but also
a good opportunity to showcase and support them

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as well. Yeah, for some
reason, I think we lost Ju because

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I was going to definitely bring him
in all his wrestling, because he loves

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talking about wrestling. He's a w
w E professional. But speaking of wrestling,

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we're gonna take a step back,
go to the high school ranks and

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we're going to talk about j W. Sexton High School District champs after a

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thirty one year drought. Our guy, Jeff Howard, we call him Rev.

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Been in the broadcast with me and
George and in the booth for a

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long time, even when you were
doing sideline reporting right over the day.

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Yeah, man, he's the head
coach of j DUB. They bring you

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home, man, Rev. Man. Look to be honest when you said

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Jeff Howard, totally forgot about Rev's
name. The full name is always who

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is Jeff Howard? I knew Jeff, I knew his name, but he

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was like, man, Jeff Howard. We got a new guest Jeffery Rashad

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Howard. That's our guy. Man. We also called him the snack man.

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So if you know a little little
backstore, you know, Rev is

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always in the booth during football season. Used to obviously travel when Stray was

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living here. With travel and and
help out. You can help out.

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And uh, guy is a work
he's a wealthy knowledge, but he's been

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a community guy through and through and
really paving the way and building up our

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young men in the city of Lancing. So Man, congrats Rev Man.

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That is a huge feat to do
that for the first time ever in the

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school history. And uh, you
see these kind of the happiness you see

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in that picture, and we're just
hoping we got some guys coming to Michigan

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State through a pipeline there. But
look at that happiness. Man, it's

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great to see young men enjoy wins
Man Oh thirty years Man a long time

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coming head wrestling coach and golf coach. Yeah yeah, I still haven't seen

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red golf though. Man, I've
been talking to He got this smooth,

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he's moved, got that swing man, he got a fade, he got

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the fade. How to do that? I'm more of a draw guy or

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a snap hook guy, but whatever
you're gonna call it, we like to

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go out there and have fun on
the course, nonetheless. Man. Yeah,

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speaking of other sports, MSU women's
basketball, Susie Merchant gives a statement

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and she's having some health trouble,
but she's talking and she she it was

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good to hear from her as she
talked to the fans. Yeah. Man,

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one been praying for for Susie and
her health. And you know,

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with the one car accident, you
know, it's one of those things that

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you know, it's one of you
take time to heal and you know,

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usually you know, I think with
society, we always want to jump right

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back into something when you have kind
of a setback, and so I know

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it took a lot for her to
really sit down and rest and get well

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so she can come back and coach
the girls and lead the team. But

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the girls, the team and Dean
coach Dean has really rallied around her to

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support her. And then you know, finally getting a big win. I

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mean that was a huge win where
you know, put they put it,

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they put them on, it came
back. Kamario Daniels man, Like I

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mean, if you saw the highlights. Man, she was money from the

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three point range last night, and
so you know it's trying to find it

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was on Big ten plus. But
you know I'm not I'm not saying I'm

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cheap, but I also gonna be
playing plus money, you know. So

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I was listening. I was listening
to our boy, Dalton Shelter on a

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radio play by play, which he
did a phenomenal job as he always does.

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What you know, the team is
really pulling it, pulling it through

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to get the get a dog finally. Yeah, good to hear that.

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You know that Susie's on the men
and the team is doing well without her,

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looking forward to her coming back when
she's ready. Don't rush whenever you're

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ready. We're here for you,
Susie. Prayers with you, continued prayers

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going on to the m s U
football team. Another transfer comes in.

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We just got word. It's a
punter, Michael Osha Hennessy starter from Ohio

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State. O say, oh Henderson, don't try to mess with me now,

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listen. I'm sorry, oh shot, See, I thought you meant

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best straight. You mean that.
Uh, you know it's a big,

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big, big shoes to feel.
You know, we've we've had bearing Behringer,

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bearing ger Bearringer. Always get that
messed up, but George always corrects

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me. It's bearing bearing Gerr.
You know, we got some huge shoes

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to feel and you know we use
the punter as a weapon, and so

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coming over to this side, you
know, it's always it's always weird to

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me when you go to an opponent
within the conference, when you transfer and

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then you go right and play right
away. It's always weird to me on

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that. But this is what the
day we live in, the age we

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live in. But you know,
he has a good skill set. I

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mean in order to be a five
star punter, Like I'm pretty sure there's

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a lot of evaluation goes into that. Fully, you just don't get that,

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you earn that. And so uh
one, great for us, great

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grab. Let's see if he can
really uh fulfill the shoes of our guy

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that is balling will be drafted this
year. We'll see how he does.

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Yeah, So we have a punter
from Ohio State and a long snapper.

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Now, so they've got some chemistry
coming from Columbus, not only the same

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conference with the same division, the
East Division just coming up the road a

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few hours to east Lands and so
welcome. You know, this is also

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kind of like it's weird, man, We're in a rock and hard place,

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Like are they coming here because we
know we punt a lot or or

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or they really see an opportunity,
But like it's kind of weird, man,

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Like you know, we're getting these
specialists and you know, I know

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we punted a lot last season.
I hope we don't have that same case,

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but you know, we'll see.
But it is weird, like we're

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celebrating them, but we really don't
want to celebrate them. We want to

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score touchdowns, right Doug, So
we don't want us to punt too much.

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And Steve says, you know,
let you to coach up the kickers

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and punters. That'll be something.
And you know, thoughts are on that

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to a fake them, he'll fake
punts all day long, trust me on

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the on his own ten yard line, right yeah. Absolutely. Also in

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Michigan State, defensive back graduate assistant
Garon Douhart leaves Michigan State. Yeah,

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this is one of those things where
you don't you don't know the reason why.

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I guess I won't focus on why. But it's one of those where

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I've seen him do work. I've
seen him really really connect with our guys

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and really changed the narrative of our
defensive backs where you know, we had

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the no fly zone and we were
locked down. We were ranked numbers,

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you know, you know, always
top five ranked in the defensive passing and

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then you know, you think about
from a standpoint of maybe this is you

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know, that opportunity to get another
opportunity to another program, or you know,

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maybe it was stuff where he wasn't
able to do what he was supposed

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to do. In this standpoint,
I really haven't. I don't see gas

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leaving the middle of their their their
term, you know, I mean,

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you get a masters right, like, you don't really leave between them.

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Maybe he got it and he was
like, look, I'm gonna go somewhere

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and get a full time job.
But one when you read that letter,

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you say, you hear nothing but
respect, and you hear nothing but love

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for the guys, and that we're
in a good spot where our coaches are

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leading our team and you know we're
gonna miss you obviously, coach, and

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uh, obviously we're paying for the
next step where you're at and obviously stay

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connected. Always is spartan to off
for life man without question. He talked

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to the recruits, the players who
you know come on campus, the defensive

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back guys. When they at you
ask them, you know, who is

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it on the staff that you talk
to the most and who you like?

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They always bring up new Heart's name. You know, it's a guy who

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they He doesn't go on the road
to recruit, but he does do a

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lot of calling, texting and when
they come to campus. You know,

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he's younger, so he can relate
to him and obviously his technique, whatever

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he's allowed to do within the rules, he does a great job of it.

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And the players really respect him.
So best the luck to him.

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I'm sure he's going to be successful
wherever he goes. And you know they're

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always looking for good defensive back coaches
all over the country. So hats off

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to him and continue success. You
know, you know I'm available, Yeah,

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you know your little coach. Now, look, I'll give my I'll

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give my, my, my,
my guest knowledge, all my knowledge come

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from coach Barnett. So we straight
you know, you know he's there.

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Still, he's there, so they
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and a picture from a great one. I'll tell you that. You know,

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we've had players on the show.
We've talked about nil deals, We've

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had all kinds of involvement. We
even had a guy who had Michigan State

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as his top three as a twenty
four recruit. We now are going to

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talk to a twenty four commitment,
twenty and twenty four commitment right now.

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He's he's finishing up a basketball game
in Toledo. But his mother, Mama

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Tron, we're talking about Nick Megatron
Marsh and his mother, Mama Tron,

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joins the show. Right now.
We're going to talk to Mama Tron and

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hey, hey, hey, hey, what's going on? Mother? Nothing

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much, doing good always always,
you know, we see those tweets,

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you know, like you know,
we got Mama Hall doing her thing.

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Yeah, you know, talk about
your the involvement in like with with with

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Michigan State and the recruiting process for
Nick, as that journey has started with

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you and you've already made your decision. Talk about how that started and uh

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where you are now. So in
the beginning, Nick was like, you

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know, I'm already feeling a certain
type of way, like it's so much

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love when I go there. The
coaches, the staff, the fans,

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like everybody really made him feel at
home. So when he did decide to

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commit, I wasn't there, but
he literally, they said he stepped out

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the room and he called me.
He was like, I got that feeling

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again, and he was like,
this is it and I know my son.

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So I wasn't percent agree with them
and a lone this entire journey.

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When I say, it's always just
that when we go there is just nothing

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but love and the coaches you don't
even want to say coaches and staff is

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family, like literally family, and
that's something that we hadn't got anywhere else.

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So I'm pretty sure that's what made
Nick make it his decision, and

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overall that's what persuaded me. So
I'm go green man. That's that is

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one. Every time we bring a
mother on, he gives us flashbacks for

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like our moms and you know,
we didn't have the this. I guess

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our moms had this access, but
it wasn't as much where it was so

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inviting involved. They knew like mama
does know best and she's going to decision,

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make it right. But you know, I think talk about just the

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relationship with your son and growing up
when he started playing ball. You know,

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we talk about mothers allowing their sons
to play a physical sport and just

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talk about when he started and kind
of how he grew. You see him

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grow into what he is now,
is a stud on the football field.

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Just talk about from start to now. Okay, Nick is probably super athletic

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because his mama was athletic. I
was a basketball player and I played ball

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the entire nine months pregnant with him
and his sisters. He has three sisters

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and he's the second oldest, and
so it's probably already in his DNA.

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But I started noticing maybe about five
or six, like just playing football in

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the park, like this boy could
throw, he could catch, and he

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was huge for his age. Like
even at six years old. They was

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like, oh, is he eight. I'm like, no, he's just

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six. So I knew then that
he was gonna be something and Nick has

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a what oh he was a Wolverine
little little popword. Yeah, yes,

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yes, yes, that was the
that was So that was the first team

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that he was actually on in the
little League. One of the coaches seen

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him and he was like, that's
a pretty big kid, like can he

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do this? Can he do that? And he was six and when they

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got him to the field, it
was just instant like he could get his

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hands were so big and sick,
so he could catch, he could throw,

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he could do all of that.
And just watching him over time not

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only have that natural talent, but
just become a beast, like I've been

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like super proud. I'm his biggest
fan, I'm his biggest cheerleader. Like

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just seeing him go through this entire
process has been a blessing. And on

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top of that, he's a great
kid. Yeah, nothing but good things

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about him. What position did you
play in basketball? Small ford? Oh,

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okay, where'd you play? So? I played for Osbourne, But

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by the time I got ready to
graduate, I was having his oldest sisters.

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So I sat down for a while
and then I was like, I

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can't give it up, Like I
love ball, So I stopped playing maybe

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about two summers ago because Nick would
drag me out still, so we would

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like go to the courts and and
run games or to the gym, and

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that that alone created our buy because
me and Nick will we'll go to any

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court and we'll play and they'll be
like, oh, you brought your sister.

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He's like, no, it's my
mom balling just just like you just

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started. Is that what you stopped
talked about two I stopped about two years

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ago. And then it's the competitiveness
with me and Nick, Like he'll be

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like, you know what, They're
gonna say, you washed up. They're

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gonna say you done out here preparing
for the trash talk. So I'm like,

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all right, I'm like get a
ball, like, let's go,

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let's get out here, and I'll
run a couple of games with him.

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But yeah, he's he's trying to
coax me lately. But you know now,

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I'm all my inkle is messed up. So I'm making excuses right now,

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excuses. We had. We had
a guest, doctor Baker. So

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doctor Baker is ahead of our d
and I for Michigan State Athletics, and

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when she was coming up in the
ranks, she did a dissertation about you

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know, basically mothers and recruiting and
how you can educate them and you know

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sometimes they get left out, but
they are the ones, right and so

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can you can you kind of take
the take us behind the curtain on the

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recruiting trail and kind of the education
of what were you and Nick going to

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these programs to not just us,
but anywhere in the country of what were

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y'all asking, what we're all requiring? What were all truly looking for in

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a place where he's going to be
able to spend his future. Okay,

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that's a good one. So I
was totally new to the entire experience,

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even with recruiting, because I'm like, why are these people calling my phone?

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Like they email with me, they're
looking for me. I'm like,

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I don't know what's going on.
So I had no idea. I think

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up until last year, I got
familiar with some of the football moves.

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So in the recruiting process, it
was more of the camps at first.

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So he was doing camps and I
even drove I drove him down to Alabama

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for that camp. So it was
just like getting familiar with the camps and

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what they were requiring. But my
number one thing for Nick was education.

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First. It's like me and him
talk about that number one because from here

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and beyond, you still have to
have your education, and he wants to

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be an engineer or anything dealing with
computer science. So education was number one.

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And then a little bit about distance, but because I don't want to

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be too far from my baby.
But at the same time, like wherever

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he felt comfortable and mostly about their
standards. And what we found with Michigan

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State was the brotherhood Spartan dogs,
like the alumni is super super supportive,

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and that's where I wanted him to
be somewhere where you know, he can

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have that framework not only as a
good player, but as a good person

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and build more character as a man. So that's that's the majority of what

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we were looking for. You hear
what she said, Spartan. You heard

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what she said. It was the
brotherhood. It was the Spartan way.

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And that's why I chose Mississan State
through and through and I got strong ties

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with that team down the road,
got family who played basketball there and football

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there, and you know, I
decided to change the narrative for myself.

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But more so like at Flintstone Connection, I couldn't. I couldn't disrespect the

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Flintstone connection and not go to Michigan. But but yeah, that's a good,

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good answer, and MISSU is the
best for engineers, which is a

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great choice. I got a roommate
from college who is an engineer and great

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program. I know it requires a
lot, but I know he's up for

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the task. But that's good that
he knows what he wants to do already,

409
00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:56.240
which is great. And I got
I got a fact for you.

410
00:30:57.079 --> 00:31:03.880
So since Nick played and the League
with the Wolverines, that was his dream,

411
00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:06.160
like that was the school down the
road. He was like, that's

412
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:10.200
what I'm gonna do. And then
to get this far and have that experience

413
00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:17.799
there and it's just like, Nope, that's not it. So yeah,

414
00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:19.759
I was gonna ask, can you
expand it? I mean, as comfortable

415
00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:26.960
you are to expand what you mean? Yeah, expand expand on the difference

416
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:33.720
between them and then us. So
I can I can give my view on

417
00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:36.200
it. I can't really speak for
Nick. I would have to let him

418
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:41.880
an answer that in his way for
it, But for me it was it

419
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:48.319
wasn't as inviting as in uh family
type of feeling. I didn't get that

420
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.880
feeling. It wasn't like, you
know, it wasn't close knit. It

421
00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:55.759
was more like, okay, that's
Nick Marsh, we want him to play

422
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:59.640
for us, you know. So
it was never a connection on a personal

423
00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:02.440
level. It was more like a
meet and greet. And that's with more

424
00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:07.079
than one visit. You know,
you can you can go up to Michigan

425
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:10.480
State and everybody knows what's on a
first name basis. They know Nick's sisters,

426
00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:15.720
they know the history, they know
everything up until you know. Now,

427
00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:20.799
if you go to the school down
the road, you know, they

428
00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:25.039
can say he's Nick Marsh before a
star receiver. That's it. So Michigan

429
00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:30.240
State went a little deeper. Yeah, more close knit, more some more

430
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:35.640
authentic relationship. And that's exactly it
it was. It was more authentic,

431
00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:40.440
more of who is Nick Marsh instead
of that's just Nick Marsh. You know.

432
00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:45.680
Yeah. I saw him on the
sideline so I was coming. I

433
00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:49.960
totally forgot which game it was,
and I remember leading up to him.

434
00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:52.960
I was like, ah, I
said, you decided to come here yet

435
00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:59.240
he was like I'm close. I'm
close. I was like, oh,

436
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:00.359
that's a good answer. Is I
want to be like yeah, I'm coming

437
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:04.000
up. You know, it's good. But as a young man, he's

438
00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:07.440
like, I'm close. I'm still
thinking about I'm close though, I'm close,

439
00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:10.519
and those relationships matter, you know, each one of the coaches,

440
00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:16.680
the staff, those relationships and building
is ultimately what made him have that decision

441
00:33:16.759 --> 00:33:22.440
to commit. He felt comfortable,
wow, because you talk about it.

442
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:25.519
He committed early in the recruiting cycle
because he's a class of twenty twenty four

443
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:30.039
and you see a lot of players
now, a lot of a lot of

444
00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:34.279
high school athletes, they want to
wait maybe until that summer, like the

445
00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:37.519
summer that you're getting ready to come
into to go on all the official visits.

446
00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:40.039
Did you think about that? Did
you say, like I might want

447
00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:43.559
to go on a couple of visits. Is that something that you may still

448
00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:51.640
be looking into. So again,
like Nick and me, I support whatever

449
00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:54.119
he does, but I'm also that
that voice in his earl like, hey

450
00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:59.279
son, you know, think about
this, this this, But I trust

451
00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:04.000
his judgment because at the same time, Nick literally made this decision on his

452
00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:07.000
own. I wasn't there, his
father wasn't there. So this is something

453
00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:09.400
he came to on his own.
And that's one of the most authentic parts

454
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:14.800
about it. And you know,
as far as him not taking any other

455
00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:19.719
visits or wanting to, who wouldn't
want to have those experiences. He knows

456
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:23.000
where he wants to be in his
heart, and as his mother, I

457
00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:25.559
want to make sure I'm guiding him
in the right direction. As far as

458
00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:29.480
yes, this is decision that you
want to make. If you do want

459
00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:31.400
to do those visits, do those
visits. You know where you're committed to,

460
00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:35.519
you know what you want to do. But they still have to have

461
00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:40.000
those experiences. Yeah, yeah,
I don't see why not. You know

462
00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:43.039
what I mean? You know,
I can't wait. So Nick right now,

463
00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:45.039
just so everybody knows, he's playing
a basketball game in Toledo. Who's

464
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:49.840
he playing against? Yes, Toledo, don't give me, don't give me

465
00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:59.119
fibbs. I don't know. Yeah, so he loves basketball. I'm sure

466
00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:02.480
he's two sported ass. So that
is that is amazing to me because this

467
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:07.000
is a kid like Nick. Since
he's my only boy, I wanted at

468
00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:10.199
least somebody to pick up my sports
because the girls were like no way.

469
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:15.039
And so when Nick I had him
in football, but it was a point

470
00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:19.519
where he stopped playing football and it
was like break or whatever. And so

471
00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:22.800
I got him into basketball. Nick
would not go play. He would fake

472
00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:27.960
like he was sick if I wasn't
home and not go to practice he had

473
00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:30.960
the flu. Then he really got
the flu because I would take him to

474
00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:34.880
the court with me and I would, you know, let him watch me

475
00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:37.760
play, and then I would insert
him like you know, son, like

476
00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:38.400
you got to learn this. He's
like, no, that's your thing.

477
00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:43.920
And then turn around he finally got
it. And then two three years later,

478
00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:45.599
I'm like, what is it?
Did I create this? Like this

479
00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:49.519
dude? Just he was in a
game the other day twenty nine points and

480
00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:52.480
shot eight threes back to back.
I was like, I said, so

481
00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:55.559
you still don't like basketball. He's
like, yeah, I'm better than you.

482
00:35:55.880 --> 00:35:59.960
And so we really had a we
had a debate. I said,

483
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:01.199
you know what, I said,
that's that's my shot you got now that

484
00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:07.559
I'm retired, you know, I
gave you the handles. He got it

485
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:13.000
from his mama for sure, but
he diss in me. Now literally,

486
00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:16.800
what was it? Junior day we
went up to Michigan State and we had

487
00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:20.519
a whole debate, like all day, like we were trash talking each other

488
00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:22.440
and He's just like, yeah,
you know, you don't want to do

489
00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:24.239
this. That's the Oh we can
go live on Twitter, like take it

490
00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:29.719
out through there. So when I
held up y'all, y'all got a live

491
00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:34.800
game coming because I got to protect
We're gonna be there, play by playing

492
00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:42.119
commentating for sure. Yeah out there. Yeah, look, I got a

493
00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:45.559
question. So when look, we
all know the nickname Mega Tron. We

494
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:51.639
already know Calvin Johnson and what he
did for the Lions. Do you know

495
00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:57.280
which play that he'd had where people
were like, oh, he playing like

496
00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:00.199
Calvin Johnson Megatron. When did the
nickname come about? And what play was

497
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:05.159
like, that's that's that's Calvin johnsh
Megatron right there. So I think it

498
00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:09.039
might have made, if I'm not
mistaken, the one uh the one play

499
00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:14.079
it made. I think it made
the Free Press. Charlie Squizzle is their

500
00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:20.400
school's photographer and he literally that's who
caught the picture. And I think it

501
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:23.639
might have been with one hand either
behind or front. I know it was

502
00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:28.840
wild, but Charlie Squizzle showed out
to Charlie Squizzle, he is the one

503
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:34.000
who coined the phrase and the hashtag
marsh and when he shot that picture and

504
00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:37.039
then went to the Free Press.
That's who even gave me the rights to

505
00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:40.639
that picture. And that's how Marsh
was created. So from that picture and

506
00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:44.440
that catch, I was just up
one night and I'm like, man,

507
00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:46.239
like, Nick looked like he's he's
making an H, like his body was

508
00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:50.239
making an H. And that's exactly
what I did. So I took that

509
00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:55.360
picture and I literally turned that into
Marsh. Mmm. Wow, So that's

510
00:37:55.480 --> 00:38:01.559
is that a brand? And that's
him in his own photo? Like that's

511
00:38:01.639 --> 00:38:06.519
him? Oh? Man. See, that's what I love about this era.

512
00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:08.719
Now you can brand yourself at an
early age, and you know,

513
00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:12.599
you don't have to wait till you
you know, Michael Jordan's and already going

514
00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:15.360
to the pros, right, you
could be in high school brand yourself and

515
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:22.119
then get recognized by these companies.
About that is I always create things for

516
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:28.360
all my friends or make designs for
everybody else. And I made that design

517
00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:32.480
and I found out that not even
a week after I created it, that's

518
00:38:32.519 --> 00:38:36.960
when they had just said, like, you know, nil and all of

519
00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:39.480
that. So that was just right
on time where I created the brand.

520
00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:47.840
I had no idea. That's incredible. You're clairvoyant as we call that blessed.

521
00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:54.239
Yeah, Like you know, we
think about like what what you know,

522
00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:59.679
mothers and parents go through in this
recruiting process. You know, I

523
00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:02.360
know that you talk about the coaching
staff as more family, but there's also

524
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:07.440
the players families. Like right now
you have Kean Coleman's mother Ravens on this

525
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:10.960
chat. I don't know if you
know her, but yeah, receiver,

526
00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:16.119
Yeah, I have the same position. Yeah. Did y'all see that play?

527
00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:22.159
Right? Yeah? So I mean
that's something I think she said something

528
00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:23.599
in the chat a second ago.
I don't know if you guys put it

529
00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:25.280
back up there, but she said, hey, you know, you guys

530
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:30.719
can share notes about this whole recruiting
process as somebody another four star athlete too,

531
00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:36.440
sport athlete absolutely same position. That's
Nick. Nick reminds me of so

532
00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:45.159
bad. Like see, yes,
like this Mama Hall is just amazing,

533
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:50.559
Like her spirit o MG, and
her support level, like it's so inspiring

534
00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:54.679
and it's it's like where do you
see that at? Like she bring a

535
00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:59.480
whole, a whole new thing to
this And that's what kind of inspired me

536
00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:06.119
to even the act of more because
they need that absolutely, and you got

537
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:10.119
to know that what you're doing does
attract more players and parents to come,

538
00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:13.519
you know, to be a part
of this. That's what we're doing it

539
00:40:13.559 --> 00:40:15.800
for. We love this platform,
for you, for Nick, and for

540
00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:28.480
any players that are going to that's
our production crew backstage. Listen, it's

541
00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:32.320
gonna shout out to the defensive back
who's now going to be telling that story

542
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:40.599
for the rest of his life.
On him, On him too, I

543
00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:44.800
don't know, but he did it
twice in that game. I believe man,

544
00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:46.960
my man is gonna be like man, look, I got boss twice.

545
00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:57.119
Marsh. You know, we have
a clip that we want to share

546
00:40:57.199 --> 00:41:00.000
with obviously our followers, but you
know, we talking about Mama Hall.

547
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:05.360
I feel like you got you coming
with the same vibes that Mama Hall gives

548
00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:09.840
in the relationship from mother to son. We have a clip of Jordan's that

549
00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:15.280
was posted today about you know him
leading right. We talk about young leaders,

550
00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:20.280
young man like you don't have to
wait to lead hang and it shows

551
00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:23.239
right here with Jordan's really talking to
the group. They're in a workout right

552
00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:25.920
now. Check this out with excuses. It's a quote I want you to

553
00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:29.840
and I got to memorize. I
just want your to know is excuses are

554
00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:32.639
tools. Are the incompetent used to
build monuments and nothingness. Those who specialize

555
00:41:32.679 --> 00:41:37.119
in this former disterceptions suddenly announts to
anything at all. So basically some of

556
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:39.519
that up. That just means man, every excuse it comes from nothing.

557
00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:43.480
It means nothing. So each day
that you come here, everybody got everybody

558
00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:45.840
got something that they got to deal
without the overcompany. You gotta ignormally you

559
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:47.440
come in here and get ready to
work. I feel me family on one

560
00:41:47.559 --> 00:41:55.079
one family. That's the leader.
See like shout out, that's the leader

561
00:41:55.159 --> 00:42:00.480
right there. Like I got tials
like you think about like we're in a

562
00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:05.679
good spot man, like bad you
up? These two classes twenty three and

563
00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:10.920
twenty four, is finna hit so
different? Talk about the brotherhood all of

564
00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:15.000
that, Like it's gonna hit so
different, much different. Speaking of different,

565
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:20.159
we got a different player joining us. Now, your son, Nicky

566
00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:31.599
like trying Marsh joins the show.
What's up? You go somewhere quiet?

567
00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:36.880
Yeah, you gonna have to go
somewhere a little bit. You have to

568
00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:44.079
go somewhere a little bit quiet you. Yeah, we can hear you.

569
00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:54.159
Who won the game was a score? Yeah? We got breaking telling bring

570
00:42:54.239 --> 00:43:01.599
the phone up. I got I
got my head, my head barely.

571
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:14.719
All right, I'm talking. I'm
talking to you. Yeah. Well we

572
00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:17.480
end up winning the game. I
think seventy three to sixty four. Okay,

573
00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:30.400
I like how you said, I
think like that? Is this is

574
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:34.159
this today? Oh? No?
This this was last game? This last

575
00:43:34.199 --> 00:43:43.760
game? Okay? Is this came? Woh? Smike, boy, look

576
00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:49.199
look shoot leth right there. Oh
yeah, yeah, so your mother told

577
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:51.639
us that, you know, she's
the reason that you got that shot.

578
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:57.039
Yeah, I can say that.
Yeah, a little bit, a little

579
00:43:57.039 --> 00:44:09.199
bit. Yeah, you're outside a
little bit there. We Hey, he's

580
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:13.519
on location. You're getting him coming
right out of a gym right here.

581
00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:20.239
This is this is the prime time, man, I mean basketball. Yeah,

582
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:25.440
it's live. So we how many
offerses you have coming out of you

583
00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:32.039
know, out of out of the
river roofs scholarship offers? Da? Can

584
00:44:32.119 --> 00:44:37.599
you hear? I think he's walking
all the way to the back of the

585
00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:39.559
US. Yeah. I am walking
all the way to the back. All

586
00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:45.360
right, all right, I'm in
the back. Then we're on a bus

587
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:49.800
ride. I said, I how
many offices you have the scholarship offers?

588
00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:57.599
Thirty four thirty? What was that
process like you know, to s through,

589
00:44:57.920 --> 00:45:00.840
you know, it was. It
was a pretty see process for me,

590
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.920
you know, coming in ninth grade
year, you know, are coming

591
00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:06.559
in Yeah, coming in ninth grade
year, already had like three offers and

592
00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:08.519
you know, it was a blessing
you know to start my recruiting process.

593
00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:13.000
And then you know, just to
start a freshman year. You know,

594
00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:15.760
I had seniors able to you know, do the job on the field to

595
00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:19.800
get me in the game, you
know, get filmed early. So that's

596
00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:22.960
a that's a blessing right there,
and that's how my recruitming really started.

597
00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:27.760
I was able to get offers and
going to camps like summer spring, and

598
00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:30.800
you know, just getting all those
camps up, you know the mega camps,

599
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:35.599
Fair Estate, you know, just
put my name out there. Yeah

600
00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:38.400
what what which camp that really kind
of sets you apart? Can you think

601
00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:42.320
about which one that was really like
one put you on the map? Put

602
00:45:42.360 --> 00:45:45.199
you on the map, because I
know for me, you know it was

603
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:47.480
for that school down the road.
It really you know, I started balling

604
00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:52.599
out and you had a bunch of
bunch of schools that were coaches that were

605
00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:55.039
there, and they started coming like
wildfire. But what was that camp for

606
00:45:55.119 --> 00:46:00.519
you that you truly say you bought
out in that started flowing. I would

607
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:05.239
say that the Fair State Camp.
Fair State Camp. Hit up the Fair

608
00:46:05.320 --> 00:46:08.320
State Camp and the last thing I
know, I got like plus fifteen offers.

609
00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:14.280
You know, I hit up like
another camp, Northwestern Camp. You

610
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:16.920
know, a few more offers rolled
in the office, like really rolling in

611
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:21.320
like during school time. You know, I got called down to the office

612
00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:23.920
almost you know every day you know
such just such it's here to see you

613
00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:28.679
or you know such such in the
building. And you know that's that's how

614
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:31.480
most of most of my offers came. Or you know it's a real phone

615
00:46:31.519 --> 00:46:37.480
call. But mainly, you know, just going to that Fair State camp.

616
00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:40.159
Really, you know, put me
on the map and talk talk to

617
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:45.440
us about when when the Green and
White spartan dogs, like talk to us

618
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:49.599
A to Z what happened like who
there first in the school? Then when

619
00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:55.199
you give us that full full story. So so, Michigan State they offered

620
00:46:55.239 --> 00:47:02.360
me, uh after after the States
that meship game one. I had some

621
00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:07.559
great film during that game, and
you know they offered me them Michigan and

622
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:10.320
a couple of other schools they had
offered and you know, I made that

623
00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:13.800
trip up to Michigan State, and
you know, I was like it just

624
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:17.199
felt familiar. And I had a
few camps up there, you know,

625
00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:22.320
just dominating, and you know I
grew up liking to the school. So

626
00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:24.199
that's how that really started with Michigan
State. You know, I started to

627
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:29.079
build a relationship with coach Tuck and
then you know, I started to build

628
00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:34.639
that relationship with coach Hawk. You
know, that became really good. So

629
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:37.760
who which coach so you talk?
Who do you talk to the most?

630
00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:43.880
I talked to coach Tucker the most. Coach Hawkins. Hawkins, Yeah,

631
00:47:46.119 --> 00:47:50.800
yeah, yeah, that's another form
of spotted dog man. I mean it's

632
00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:53.679
still a spartan dog once one always
won, played in the NFL, and

633
00:47:53.760 --> 00:48:00.000
he's producing some good receivers. Yeah
yeah, yeah definitely. So you so

634
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:05.639
you talk to them and they offered
you who is it? Are you talking

635
00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:07.639
to any current players? You have
a relationship with any guys on the team

636
00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:12.519
right now? Trey Mosley, you
know, I've been in contact with Trey,

637
00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:16.679
Tonio Gates, some of my guys
there. Uh, you know just

638
00:48:16.920 --> 00:48:20.880
this, you know, former students
or students that's there. Now I'm in

639
00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:23.079
contact with them, you know,
just getting more familiar with the area.

640
00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:25.840
I've been talking to you know,
the recruiter a lot of leak. You

641
00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:30.480
know, you grew up from where
I'm from, so you know that's my

642
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:35.280
guy. We kind of chopping up
here. And now he said, he

643
00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:39.159
said, Malik, Yeah, okay, yeah, man, tell us about

644
00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:43.639
coach Hawk. Man, Like,
we already know, we already know who

645
00:48:43.639 --> 00:48:46.440
you're doing. What are you doing? Yeah, we already know his DNA

646
00:48:46.519 --> 00:48:51.519
and who he is. But tell
us, tell us, let's relationship with

647
00:48:51.599 --> 00:48:53.639
Coach Talk is just you know,
it's phenomenal. You know, it's it's

648
00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:59.360
all love and stuff like that.
But Coach Talk is the coach. I

649
00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:00.880
think that would be to take me
to the next level. I think he

650
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:05.440
can put a lot of focus into
me and uh you know, you know,

651
00:49:05.679 --> 00:49:07.719
just keep you know, putting in, putting in and me buying in.

652
00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:10.119
So I think he'd be the coach
to take me to the next level.

653
00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:14.480
And so far, you know,
he's been trying to give me to

654
00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:16.880
do other things like working on speed
for work, you know that right there,

655
00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:20.800
to show how how much love it
is and the relationship we have.

656
00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:25.239
Yeah, what what do he uh
you know, we talked about we asked,

657
00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:29.199
we asked our current players, like
we asked Trey Moseley. We had

658
00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:32.079
him on, We had Kean on
and you know, we asked him,

659
00:49:32.079 --> 00:49:36.679
what what do you need to work
on? Uh in the off season and

660
00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:38.039
you know you got one a year, but what do you need to work

661
00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:40.480
on? What has Coach Hawk told
you that you need to work on and

662
00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:45.480
for yourself to get on campus and
and ball out, just you know,

663
00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:49.760
getting out of routes, you know, uh, my breakdown running routes and

664
00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:52.079
just getting faster. You know,
I got the side to let the hands,

665
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:55.440
you know, I got the speed, but you know it's always better

666
00:49:55.480 --> 00:50:00.400
to get faster, you know,
just just finishing up top. Yeah,

667
00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:04.679
she had we see you're breaking some
tackles now, love you know you know

668
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:08.559
you're not afraid of content, right, yeah, definite content. Now what's

669
00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:12.559
up? I'm gonna test you on
this, man? What is Coach hawks

670
00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:16.960
Number one number one rule as a
receiver? Don't wait on number one?

671
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:23.639
Okay, my time? Number one
number one? What must you do?

672
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:28.119
What must you do to get the
rock? Oh? You got a block?

673
00:50:28.519 --> 00:50:35.440
Yeah? Oh yeah, oh yeah, I definitely blocked. Man put

674
00:50:35.519 --> 00:50:39.800
boys on their back that Oh you
don't mind putting your hands off up?

675
00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:44.599
Oh no, I love I'm a
christive receiver. I like getting physical walk

676
00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:49.119
of mine. You want to touch
me? Hey, what's up? That's

677
00:50:49.159 --> 00:50:52.239
what I'm talking about? Man,
Hey, Nick, So I wanted to

678
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:54.760
ask you because you know, there
was an article that came out. I

679
00:50:54.880 --> 00:51:00.280
know you wanted to talk about this
some on three articles that something I I'm

680
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:02.159
you know, I don't know if
we have that article just so we can

681
00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:07.679
address it. And it said you're
planning to visit other schools. And I

682
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:12.239
guess some people took it the wrong
way this and that because they like thought

683
00:51:12.280 --> 00:51:15.599
that meant you weren't committed or whatever. So Mama t was goin to turn

684
00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:23.400
into Mama far My. Meaning that
is, you know, I'm still pretty

685
00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:25.159
young. You know, I got
another year left, and you know,

686
00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:29.400
I just want to go have fun, you know, just being in recruit

687
00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:31.039
you know, four star recruit at
that, you know, some blessings,

688
00:51:31.079 --> 00:51:35.039
so you know, just take the
opportunity that you can to like really explore

689
00:51:35.079 --> 00:51:37.440
the world. You know. That
was one of my main main points about

690
00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:40.639
that that quote right there, and
I just want to explore, you know,

691
00:51:42.880 --> 00:51:45.000
I'm still in the Michigan you know, before I settled down for It's

692
00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:50.400
just a lot more that I want
to go see. Yeah. See,

693
00:51:50.519 --> 00:51:54.320
there's nothing wrong with that, going
taking some trips, you know, see

694
00:51:54.360 --> 00:52:00.159
what you can see, eat the
food, you know. Yeah, in

695
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:06.079
sights, experience and the culture.
But Nick did so well with that.

696
00:52:06.280 --> 00:52:14.679
He was calling me like, yeah, no Twitter today because I was getting

697
00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:19.079
caught up in Twitter all night.
To me one o'clock in the morning,

698
00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:23.440
did you see what they said on
Twitter. I'm knocked out. I'm trying

699
00:52:23.480 --> 00:52:30.960
to school. But sure, I
like that. Yeah. So so your

700
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:34.079
mom, your mom told us when
you before you jumped on a you know,

701
00:52:34.199 --> 00:52:36.480
you want to be an engineer or
you want to do something with computer

702
00:52:36.599 --> 00:52:38.679
science. So talk about what to
talk about when you fell in love with

703
00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:44.000
that and why you want to do
that. During school, like we work

704
00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:47.079
on like making robots and stuff,
you know, programming, doing a lot

705
00:52:47.119 --> 00:52:51.239
of computer science. And I was
I had a really good connection with my

706
00:52:51.320 --> 00:52:53.360
teacher and we talked about it a
lot, and I told him this would

707
00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:55.559
be one of the things I would
want to do in college and pursue,

708
00:52:55.840 --> 00:52:59.840
you know, after high school.
The engineering. You know, they'll make

709
00:52:59.880 --> 00:53:01.239
a lot of money, and you
know, I would like to build something.

710
00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:05.719
You know, I grew up watching
movies where you know, they always

711
00:53:05.800 --> 00:53:08.119
building treahouses and you know, just
just doing stuff. You know, I

712
00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:10.960
would like to build something, probably
a house. You know. It's just

713
00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:15.440
just the skill work is pretty handy, and you know, that's that's why

714
00:53:15.480 --> 00:53:21.559
I want to be an engineering.
For the most part, I think computer

715
00:53:21.639 --> 00:53:24.159
science. I think I'm not really
too short, but I think they both.

716
00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:30.039
Well, I'm gonna link you up
with Ross Weaver, who is an

717
00:53:30.199 --> 00:53:36.559
engineer right now. I'm a former
dog was my roommate. I never I

718
00:53:36.679 --> 00:53:39.000
never saw him in the apartment.
He was always in the engineering school.

719
00:53:39.320 --> 00:53:45.199
So no, that's great ambition,
man, to get out there and be

720
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:49.480
an engineer, community science. You
want to build something, so I mean

721
00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:52.400
that speaks to the education you've gotten
so far and exposure that your mother has

722
00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:55.800
has put you on, which is
great man, in my opinion. You

723
00:53:55.880 --> 00:54:00.000
know, you know, how many
more games do you have having basketball this

724
00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:05.840
season? I think I believe we
have three more before the playoffs. Okay,

725
00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:12.840
yeah, you guys got a shout. Yeah, I think we're going

726
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:17.480
all the way. I think so
much adversity this whole year. You know,

727
00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:21.079
it's like our third coach in three
years, so you know, we

728
00:54:21.159 --> 00:54:22.800
had a new coach every year,
but you know, got the same guys.

729
00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:25.719
Chemistry is pretty good. You know, we fought through adversity. So

730
00:54:25.880 --> 00:54:30.280
you know, I think this team
can take it all the way. You

731
00:54:30.360 --> 00:54:34.280
gotta let us know, you gotta
let us know the game. So I'm

732
00:54:34.280 --> 00:54:36.400
gonna come. I'm gonna come check
it. I'm living hear me and you

733
00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:38.559
in here, and it's straight come
in like, let us know when when

734
00:54:38.679 --> 00:54:43.119
when the next game. Man,
We're gonna come check you out to support

735
00:54:43.159 --> 00:54:45.760
you. I'm gonna make sure I
send down my schedule on Twitter. Yes,

736
00:54:47.400 --> 00:54:52.320
we'd like to see a lot of
green and white. There's there's socials

737
00:54:52.360 --> 00:54:58.119
everyone Nick marsh un the score eleven. I love the uniformity in that.

738
00:54:59.039 --> 00:55:06.559
Yeah, listen, man, always
about that other otis is out there,

739
00:55:06.679 --> 00:55:10.480
man, like I ain't somebody else
got twenty one. Somebody got O t

740
00:55:10.639 --> 00:55:16.519
Wyley. It was O t Wyley. Wow, you know that's with you?

741
00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:22.880
No, Yeah, definitely follow Nick. Everybody smart, show him a

742
00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:24.760
lot of love. Follow. I'm
gonna trying. I don't know if we

743
00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:28.760
have her socials. Yeah, I'm
trying. What's your social We'll type it

744
00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:31.960
up here. So I'm so not
good with Snapchat or nothing like that.

745
00:55:32.239 --> 00:55:37.760
No, no, no, just
Twitter, inst Instagram. So our Instagram

746
00:55:37.920 --> 00:55:45.199
is Marshed Apparel under Sports Underscore twenty
one. Is it for Mark? Because

747
00:55:45.199 --> 00:55:47.639
I have Marke in there. I'm
gonna trying on Twitter. I'm gonna try

748
00:55:47.639 --> 00:55:51.679
it on twel Okay, well we'll
post it. We'll post it out on

749
00:55:51.800 --> 00:55:54.239
our social. We got I'm gonna
straight horn the back. We'll make sure

750
00:55:54.280 --> 00:56:00.159
she get it right for us too. There we go trying, Yeah,

751
00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:05.199
here we go. No man,
hey love, hey man, congratulates on

752
00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:08.480
the win. You know, it's
great talking with you. I'm trying for

753
00:56:08.559 --> 00:56:13.559
sure. Just wanted to give you
guys an introduction to the Spartan nation.

754
00:56:13.800 --> 00:56:15.679
And look, we're gonna continue to
recruit your glove on you. I don't

755
00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:19.639
care where you go, go see
the world. They come on back home

756
00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:25.039
this time. You know you're gonna
be right there. Yeah, yeah,

757
00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:29.000
you're gonna be an early enrollly are
you gonna come in? Oh yeah yeah.

758
00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:34.079
I actually just got switch so I
can graduated early. So yeah for

759
00:56:34.280 --> 00:56:37.639
today. Oh yeah, that's great. You gotta take advantage of it.

760
00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:42.679
I love it. I love it. Well, love man. We appreciate

761
00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:45.079
y'all. Thank you so much because
I know it's Thursday night. We had

762
00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:47.960
a game and mama trying is on
there, so I appreciate y'all taking time

763
00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:52.599
this dedication. He's on the bus, everybody on the bus coming out of

764
00:56:52.679 --> 00:56:55.159
the game. Mama trying to be
thirty five in a couple of hours.

765
00:56:55.840 --> 00:57:07.000
Oh, a couple of hours.
A couple of hours, aquarious season.

766
00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:15.519
All right, well, happy birthday. Everybody got to get her happy birthday,

767
00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:23.559
right, alright, appreciate you.
Oh man, hey, great family.

768
00:57:24.519 --> 00:57:29.239
My goodness, that's a great kid. And it's mother's an athlete.

769
00:57:29.360 --> 00:57:31.840
How about that. Yeah, that's
how that's how it starts. You know,

770
00:57:32.639 --> 00:57:36.199
you know, at least she doesn't
give her so credit, but she

771
00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:39.719
got some of the talent for your
boys and your girls. So oh yeah,

772
00:57:40.079 --> 00:57:43.639
yeah, man, you know,
doesn't happened by accident, guys,

773
00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:46.960
definitely. You know, it's crazy
straight man, Like we haven't had a

774
00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:51.960
bad apple Man yet, which is
clearly clearly showing the vetting process. Like

775
00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:54.559
I always say this, the vetting
process of getting the quality guys and going

776
00:57:54.639 --> 00:58:00.679
after character guys. You know this
is gonna be a great opportunity man to

777
00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:04.159
bring him on add to this other
class that we got just right now.

778
00:58:04.360 --> 00:58:07.599
So uh that man, look that
basketball You got a smooth stroke, didn't

779
00:58:07.599 --> 00:58:12.599
he like coming off? Just yeah? Six four? Yeah? Man,

780
00:58:12.679 --> 00:58:17.400
look he just the one on the
sleeve. Yeah yeah, down the court.

781
00:58:17.480 --> 00:58:23.840
Man, look like a man amongst
boys are here. Just easy oh

782
00:58:24.079 --> 00:58:27.639
man, Yeah, this is gonna
be a This is gonna be a good

783
00:58:27.639 --> 00:58:30.800
add And I coach talked, Man, that was from deep Yeah, Coach

784
00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:35.400
Hawkin's got man. Look honestly,
man like, that's our strongest suit is

785
00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:37.880
the receiving corps. Man. So
all we gotta do is get the connection

786
00:58:38.039 --> 00:58:43.119
right, and you know it's gonna
be a It's gonna be lights out,

787
00:58:43.400 --> 00:58:47.320
lights out, man. We're doing
a phenomenal job receiving and linebackers. But

788
00:58:47.480 --> 00:58:52.840
receivers, I mean, man,
they are stacked athletically. It ain't easy

789
00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:54.679
to get a scholarship offer as a
receiver in Michigan State. I can tell

790
00:58:54.679 --> 00:59:00.760
you that much. Man. Selective, and you gotta be selective. They're

791
00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:04.119
looking for Chu Chuo right now.
You don't know where he's at. He's

792
00:59:04.159 --> 00:59:07.440
on the golf course in the desert. Great next thing, you know,

793
00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:12.199
he disappeared somebody, Hey man,
mister bum man. Look he loves ch

794
00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:15.320
Chuo. Man, look at him. Man, look somebody find you to

795
00:59:17.079 --> 00:59:22.000
tell chu to find himself. We
know he Yeah, he needs to be

796
00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:24.639
found, that's for sure. Look
at him. He's on choot Choo Island.

797
00:59:25.199 --> 00:59:30.159
Kickers not welcome. Don't forget that, man. So yeah, man,

798
00:59:30.199 --> 00:59:34.440
that was the jam packed show.
Guys. You know, any final

799
00:59:34.599 --> 00:59:37.920
thoughts, I mean, we had
a lot we covered heroes. Man.

800
00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:43.400
I think it's one it's showing.
I love that we highlighted everything around athletics

801
00:59:43.440 --> 00:59:47.920
and our teams because you know,
it's not just obviously football or basketball,

802
00:59:47.960 --> 00:59:53.119
but we have some outstanding teams that
are really winning and winning not only in

803
00:59:53.199 --> 00:59:57.239
the competitive space, but off the
field too, and so you know we're

804
00:59:57.280 --> 01:00:00.519
going to continuously highlight them just as
much as we highlight our football and our

805
01:00:00.559 --> 01:00:06.400
basketball. But you know, one, it's good to obviously see our future

806
01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:12.960
spartans and the mother's son connection is
very strong in our in our space.

807
01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:16.000
Man. So that's just the top
highlight of showcasing that we are for real.

808
01:00:16.079 --> 01:00:20.000
But what we talk about we just
don't you know, walk it we

809
01:00:20.119 --> 01:00:22.840
talk it man, So good kudos
to you straight man of obviously putting this

810
01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:28.679
together of tonight's show along with our
other folks man and behind the scenes.

811
01:00:28.760 --> 01:00:30.920
And I'm just blessed to be here
man, blessed to be a catalyst of

812
01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:35.960
a good conversation every night on Tuesdays
and Thursdays. Baby, we love it,

813
01:00:36.079 --> 01:00:38.119
man, We love it, We
love the chat, We love everything

814
01:00:38.159 --> 01:00:44.320
about this And thank you all for
continue to allow this platform to grow.

815
01:00:44.679 --> 01:00:49.679
You guys are doing a good job. It goes heavily noticed by us.

816
01:00:49.840 --> 01:00:52.599
Thank you guys for tuning in.
Hey, five hundred down here, five

817
01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:55.719
hundred. Yeah, we got to
get a thousand. Baby, we have

818
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five fibers and counter man, I'm
coming, keep him coming, and thank

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you Otis and Jayu you know wherever
he is. Thank him for tuning in

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for a quick minute from the waistman
in the golf tournament there in Phoenix,

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Arizona in Super Bowl. He's got
some festivities to go to, you know,

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so we can't blame him. So
that puts a bow on today's show

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for Otis Wiley ju who's on assignment. I'm Jason Strayhorn. This is Sparta,

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Have a good night, God blessed
in Go Green, Go Like.

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This is part of MSU as a
combine presentation of Playfly Sports Properties in Michigan

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State Sports Properties. The show is
produced by Pete Manez with additional support from

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Tony Costella Operations and Social media support
is provided by Alicia Straehorn with support from

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Cecily Max Brown on location. Technical
support is provided by Good Fruit Video.

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Be sure to follow our hosts Jason
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