WEBVTT 1 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:51.399 Wow, Wow, you gotta worry about you know, what's up everybody? 2 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:57.520 It is Tuesday, May twenty first, twenty and twenty. Well, welcome 3 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:02.159 to the Only show about Spartan Dogs, hosted by Spartan Dogs. This is 4 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:07.040 Sparta MSU. I'm your host, Jason Strayhorn my co host. Hey, 5 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.400 man, he just fell off the screen for a minute, but that's all 6 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:12.959 right, swerving A're going to be right back in a moment. But listen. 7 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:17.319 If this is your first time, we want to welcome to the show 8 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:22.760 and thank you for coming. But if this is not, we thank you 9 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:26.840 for your loyalty, you know, and all around just being who you are. 10 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.120 Thank you so much for being there. 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We're gonna 30 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:07.319 give it out to two people who are are Patreoon subscribers free charge. It's 31 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:10.599 gonna be, that's what it's gonna be. So we're looking forward to it 32 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:15.759 right now. We got lets go everybody, Okay, we got Austin in 33 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:23.000 the house. Okay, back in Austin after a beautiful weekend in Detroit in 34 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:27.759 two one six is definitely have mister Foster down there in Cleveland is the city 35 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:32.520 where we come from. So run run, man, guys. There's a 36 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:37.919 special day today and we have we gotta always call out birthdays, and we 37 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:43.680 have them. Okay, And today's birthday for Chuck Bradley. Happy birthday, 38 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:50.000 Chuck Brandley. There he is right there. You know. That's the corner 39 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:54.960 back, Chuck Charles Brandley out of Venice, Florida. It's his birthday today. 40 00:03:54.960 --> 00:04:00.639 I hope he's enjoying his time today and getting ready to get back into 41 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:03.479 that work, getting that gym, Chuck, were waiting for you, brother? 42 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:10.879 All right, all right, now do we have swerve back? I 43 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:19.279 think I think I hear him. Oh there there it goes. Come on, 44 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:24.160 swear. What's up? Man? And the glasses getting away? Technology? 45 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:29.079 Technology straight technology, man. I gotta go back to school, man. 46 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:31.199 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we gotta get you. You gotta get 47 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:34.600 you, gotta get you. And I'm home by myself. So something went 48 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.600 wrong this. I ain't touching nothing else on this computer, man, And 49 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:45.079 I don't know what I'm doing. Battle Creek, Penfield? What's Battle Creek? 50 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:47.639 Penfield in the house. I don't know Penfield. I know where battle 51 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:53.519 the Creek? I know Battle Creek. What's happening? Yeah? I know 52 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:57.600 Creek too, swear. We talked about at L. George's in the house. 53 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:00.879 Don is from at L. What's up with the a? Hey stay 54 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:06.720 down at L? Shouted man? You know de Troy got what up? 55 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:14.399 Though? New Orleans got edam mm hm, ATL got what up? Shouted 56 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:23.600 what it got? What's uping like? But we gotta have the gold teeth 57 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:28.120 man, you got life and go for Miami. Save It made me take 58 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:30.000 mine's eyes if I see him now, punch him in his faith. He 59 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:33.120 made you take him out. It's a long story about that man. He 60 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:36.839 told me to take about it. I took about mad That's what happened. 61 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:40.120 Man. We ain't got no dad in your life. Man, You know 62 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:43.480 that. Who can I go to? You know what I mean? Yeah, 63 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.000 that's true. I hear what you're saying with that, you know. 64 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.680 Yeah, yeah, Trevor's already in rare form already. Man, it just 65 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:53.720 just getting started. He saying, Happy birthdays. Stay away from the portal, 66 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:59.279 chop and you know Michael, Michael Beard a Beard. You know that 67 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:01.399 that's a good dude. Man, it's a good Christian dude. Man. 68 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:04.279 I met him through Facebook. I guess we met when I was playing. 69 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:12.120 I see somebody said it's Cedric's friend Michael Bart Barry Bike videos. Tell Mike, 70 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:14.279 I say, what's up? And during the show, Man, that's 71 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:18.319 a good Christian dude. Man. Love it back from Raleigh, Okay, 72 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:24.079 JJ and Christian. Hey, we always love them guys. Man, I 73 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:29.879 see my baby here, miss d I can't wait to get on the bus. 74 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:31.879 Baby, I gotta get on the bus. Were coming to get on 75 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:34.439 the bus. And you know who else on that bus, man, that's 76 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:40.720 your boy Obi. Man, he's doing this thing so ob ozon Barrassment MSU 77 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:46.240 Men's tennis singles. He advanced to the second round and today, man, 78 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:49.480 he did it even bigger today. Man, he punches tickets to the round 79 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:55.319 of sixteen. Ob is doing his thing for the Green and White with the 80 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:59.759 racket. Oh man. You know they had that situation with the Gulf going 81 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:03.040 on this weekend, right, and so it kind of distracted me away from 82 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:06.360 watching OB. But I got the chance to see the final of o B. 83 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:10.959 You see how you finished, like MJ like this, that's my guy. 84 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:14.199 But wait that work, get that feet work with him. Tray Ob 85 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:23.600 gonna be a mother, Yes, Ozon, Yes, what's up? I 86 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:26.600 mean we had I thought we had some video for him because today, I 87 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.680 mean, he closed it out against that boy from Stanford. And you know 88 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:31.720 how hard it is to beat Stanford in tennis, because that's like all they 89 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:36.920 do over there besides running the rock as your son does. They better feeding 90 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:46.600 the ball if you want to win. Put said in Hey we had I 91 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:49.720 don't know we had a video or not, but man, hey swear you 92 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:53.079 know we got one of our old teammates on him. Man, We're gonna 93 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:55.160 get to him in the moment. Man. But like, this is the 94 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:59.160 one thing that we have to talk about. Is something new that the MSU 95 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:03.920 Athletic Department is the one and this is the Spartan Iron Event. I think 96 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:07.360 we have a video loaded for that. Have you ever wanted to know what 97 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:09.560 it feels like to compete as a Spartan, Well, this is your chance, 98 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:28.439 introducing Spartan Iron eight stations to test your strength, speed, agility and 99 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:31.960 power. Free wims will be held in the Greg and Don Williams indoor facility, 100 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.360 while the championship rounds will be held in the Spartan Stadium. See if 101 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:41.240 you have what it takes to compete like a Spartan. The winners of each 102 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:50.519 group will be crowned Spartan Iron Champions. Oh why I sign up at twenty 103 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.159 five and up? I think you qualify. Man. First of all, 104 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:56.919 I'm definitely gonna beat her. You know, I don't care about Oh, 105 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.919 she's a girl, let a win. I'm trying to get a big grey. 106 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:05.039 I'm definitely gonna beat her in that Bowlhead dude, who's my teammate, 107 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:07.240 I'm definitely gonna beat him too, because he wear basketball. Now he probably 108 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:16.960 done got sought. Lorenzo Guess. When when Lorenzo Guess came in as a 109 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:20.159 freshman boy, he was like, Lebron, he can play football, he 110 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:24.200 can play basketball. I was like, whoa, what we got us one? 111 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:28.919 Yeah, he was that man coming out way down to play one sport 112 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:37.039 by you school. We can't do it like that. And it's only a 113 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:39.320 few guys that can do multiple I mean, I don't know if women do 114 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:43.320 it as well. People that can do multiple sports at the collegiate level and 115 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:46.759 beyond. It's special. But you know he is still doing it now. 116 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:50.519 He's still training kids on how to get to where he was at and beyond. 117 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:52.960 So you know, hats off to them, man, the people that 118 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:56.559 are gonna be doing that. Spartan Iron is a it's a new event aims 119 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:01.759 to unify the Spartan community through thrilling competition in Spartan stadium. But you know, 120 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:07.600 look, they're gonna be in the Greg and Don Williams football indoor practice 121 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:11.200 facility and we used to call it the weed swear. I don't know so. 122 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:16.200 And then the championship round's gonna be in the stadium with everybody that's that's 123 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:18.759 that's what's up. Man. That's a great event. Man. I wish 124 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:20.840 I can I can be there to see that, but I'm thinking I'm gonna 125 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.600 put my name in the hat and participate in it. You know what I 126 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:31.840 mean? How many pulled hamstrings do you think will be going on at that 127 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:35.080 event? Oh? Man? It depends sraight. If it's if it's if 128 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:41.080 it's if it's twenty people, and say twenty people out of seven of them 129 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:46.240 is thirty five and over those seven ain't gonna make it. Not even Steve 130 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:50.000 with the tight medium shirt. Steve's man, he ain't gonna make it neither. 131 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:54.799 He out in the ruber man, you know, he he, I 132 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:58.679 know he got all type of stories he over there. I bet if he's 133 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:05.919 in a was straight. He did not pack a T shirt? What shirtless? 134 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:11.759 If he do got it's a small tank time, real small when he 135 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:18.480 should be wearing a two eggs. If you want to follow Steve on his 136 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:22.360 uh Twitter slash x, he's all over social media and he's showing pictures of 137 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:26.000 what the sights are over there. And I saw he had like Michigan State. 138 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:28.960 He found Spartan helmet over there in the ruper, which is rare. 139 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:31.799 He saw he found us. He said, we worldwide. Baby. So 140 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:35.039 I want to see some videos. Fare. I want to see this tennis 141 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.960 video, Meca, I WoT. I want you to see my man backhand 142 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:48.279 that he got. Man watch his back hand. Oh we just got the 143 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:54.559 ending killing. You missed the set before that where he had the backhand. 144 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.000 But then that was him. That was an ace. Game over. He 145 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:07.279 came over for ob kiss the baby, ob baby lying man. So this 146 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:13.000 is the question everybody wants to know right now is which MSU logo is best, 147 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:16.519 because we got a few of them, so I think we got a 148 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:20.879 picture of her. You don't have a graphic ready for the ms U logo. 149 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:24.799 You got the Spartan helmet, you got the block S, and you 150 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:31.960 also have the gruff sparty. Which one of those do you like the best? 151 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:35.399 Sword Man, I'm gonna keep it with the S man. You either 152 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.919 gotta go with the S of the Spartan and two at the top, that 153 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:43.240 bottom one that's cartoon. I'm not going for that one. But that new 154 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:46.200 generation, I bet they'll pick that one. Keep it with the I like 155 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:50.080 to ask, keep that S on that on that I got it right here 156 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:54.960 straight, Keep on that hey, you know what I gotta go. I 157 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:58.559 love it S because it's staying for swerve and and stand for straight in my 158 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:05.360 you know. But that right there, you got you gotta go. And 159 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:09.279 Slipper says, all of them, all of them. If you do the 160 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:13.759 one behind you, that's worldwide. People see that and they know you know 161 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:18.120 what I'm saying, just like, yeah, but not the bottom. I 162 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:22.519 know we're in a new generation. We wear a little tight jeans and and 163 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:26.200 all that type of stuff. But nah, let's not. Let's keep it 164 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:31.159 up top with those two. I take either one of those two goes trever 165 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:33.559 again. I like gruff, I know, purlose like block ass saying likes 166 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:41.000 to Spartan logo. Lynn Lynn says, what's she saying? Love them all? 167 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:46.279 Love them all, love them all? Yeah, Linn, I love 168 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:52.039 them all. I love them No, I love the top two the class, 169 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:54.879 So I like them all. But s has to be top. That's 170 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:58.279 bear you boy and bear Mike. But now look at this picture for a 171 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.360 minute. Now look at number one. Look at that ass right there. 172 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:05.440 First of all, he looked good, he got good, try sells he's 173 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:09.559 been in the weight room. Now look at the bottom one with the spot. 174 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:13.440 It ain't up top. It just looked like, come on, somebody 175 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:18.480 playing around and the NAT's let's keep those two right there, switch, let's 176 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:22.840 keep it there. Do you think that the gruff might make the opponent come 177 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:26.240 harder against the Spartans? Is that what you're saying? I mean, if 178 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:30.519 I see that I'm one of those, I'll do that little roe bell smash 179 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:33.519 swing thing he used to have and just slapt out of whoever got that on 180 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:39.960 their head. Man the block ass is cold. Yeah, man, you 181 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:43.559 ain't lying, man. You know. Look, look, we gotta talk 182 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:46.720 about the preliminary sports. We gotta get into some football talk. Man, 183 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.480 we gotta talk about it with our teammate. There's a whole lot going on 184 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:54.759 in college football and college athletics overall. But before we do that, I 185 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:58.360 swear we got to talk about something, man. We got to talk about 186 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:03.320 charitable Gift America. Man, you got to. Yeah, your n I 187 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:07.120 L give charitable This is your chance to take control of your NIL contribution. 188 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:11.080 Direct them to the spartan athletic programs and your choice. This is part of 189 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:16.759 fun power by charitable get to America allows you to choose what support you to 190 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:22.039 support with your NIL donations. All donations are tax deductible, and all CGA 191 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:26.799 athletes donate five percent of their contract to a charitable organization of their choice. 192 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:33.440 Were all you gotta do is had the cg A Athletics dot org today. 193 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:37.840 That's what we are, simple as that, simple man, man, What 194 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:41.759 does the people got to do? Got to make sure they hit that that 195 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:45.919 yeah, hit that like and that subscribe button. Please do that, but 196 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:50.879 please, but when you do that, get on your phone, call a 197 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:54.200 friend at know a friend and tell them to like and subscribe. Put your 198 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:58.960 email in there, and let's get these numbers up. You know what, 199 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:03.240 I'm a challenge, Trevor. I'm gonna travelers d I'm gonna travel Mary, 200 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:10.440 call a friend, tell a friend to subscribe. Let's get these numbers up. 201 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:14.559 Matter of fact, I'm I'm on one hundred more members. What what 202 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:18.600 the members that right now? What number we had straight? Like twentyth right 203 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:22.799 now? Six something, twenty six, twenty something in that range. I 204 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:26.840 don't know. It's it's moving every day. Okay, everybody in the comment, 205 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:30.919 do me a favor. Make sure you get two to three people to 206 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:34.000 sign up, and we're gonna see if we got more numbers come Thursday. 207 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:38.320 That's right, and we're gonna hold everybody accountable. Right. Oh, we 208 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:42.440 get off right now. You gotta be pissed off because we gotta talk to 209 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:48.080 our teammate and uh, excellent spartan tight end. You're gonna hear about him 210 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:52.279 in a moment after these message from our friends over at our house and go 211 00:16:52.360 --> 00:17:02.159 these pancakes. Ocus rah, Well, let's still let's show us the night 212 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:11.519 shift is falling asleep on the jobstink humbers look great. Thank you. Come 213 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:15.720 feed your inner child and set your imaginary friends free with the menu inspired by 214 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.440 the all new movie If Only at I Hop Kids eat free four to ten 215 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:23.359 pm and see if Only in theaters May seventeen. Oh shut water suit. 216 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:29.759 Oh that was so cute. The little kids come in there this and and 217 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:32.480 then the guy come out. When he come out, he got the f 218 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:36.160 fro with the town. I'm not going to out hob with no town. 219 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.119 I'm going to I Hop like Steve with a tight shirt on, ready to 220 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:49.359 eat with my fingers and all. And I'm paying cake. You can't wait 221 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:53.640 to come because right now, without further adudes, well we got to bring 222 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:57.359 on the guy man right now. It's our tight end, not your tight 223 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:02.759 end, not my tight end, tight end. Third round draft pick of 224 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:08.240 the New York Jets just had a nine year NFL career. Chris Baker joins, 225 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:15.440 it's sparted m mass shoes. Chris, hold on, hold on straight, 226 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:15.880 hold on, hold on, I know that, I know, I 227 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:19.039 know that background. No, no, no, hold on, y'all listen 228 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:22.119 to me. You ain't bring him in right but now that you brought him 229 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:26.440 in, let me take my take this off, this over everybody. See 230 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:33.200 when you got a background like that, ooh ooh, he living good because 231 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:36.359 you know the background right there. Then he got his own pawn. I 232 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:38.319 ain't never been there, straight. I can just tell you he got his 233 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:41.359 own lady back there. You see the palm tree, you know much, 234 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:45.119 the poem tree, Coach Ray, Oh yeah, man, it's to the 235 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:48.240 point in Florida you can write them off best tax. That's a tax, 236 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.960 right. He got his own pawn. And then he got the command over 237 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:56.039 top. And then on this side. I ain't never been there. That's 238 00:18:56.079 --> 00:19:00.039 where he got his grill, his green egg. Oh, Chris Baker, 239 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:06.440 he's doing it. He's dressed. I said, the boy got his own 240 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:10.119 money. He got his own money. It's a trigger. Come on, 241 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:18.000 sir, I know I got me some rich teammates. Boy. When you 242 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:26.519 never hear rob bomb, I was good to Chris, no doubt, no 243 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:29.960 doubt about it. I sleep in the cook what they called it the combat 244 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:33.319 what's the ship that you lay on and it's hooked up to the thing cook 245 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:37.400 ham what dammit? See I can't even pronounced. I know you got one 246 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:41.960 of them. That's all I can speak. He ain't no balance over there. 247 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:49.119 Don't nobody coming over there. He's got the type of neighbors. No, 248 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:53.079 if he got it, if he leave his door open, straight the 249 00:19:53.160 --> 00:19:59.400 neighbor come over and just close it for him. But you remember, I'm 250 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:02.319 from New York, so I ain't never leaving the door open. No. 251 00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:07.480 Oh, man, I forgot you from New York. So what's up? 252 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:17.000 What part of New York? You're from? Queens? Yeah? Yeah, 253 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:18.880 everybody think I'm from Michigan. I'm from Queens. I'm from Queen. I 254 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.279 was born in house. Give me one of the old Queens rapped real quick. 255 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:27.000 Let's say I couldn't wrap though, can't rap? Damn sure, can't 256 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:37.759 rap? But he cam roon? Yeah, yeah, who's Queens? Who's 257 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:41.599 a rap? Nos? Like, so fifty went to my my first high 258 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:44.079 school I went to. Fifty cent went to the same high school. I 259 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:48.039 was born in South Side, Jamaica or whatever, so fifty went there. 260 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:49.480 But like, I mean, come on, Queens, you can't. You 261 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:52.079 gotta be kidding. You got some of the best to ever come out on 262 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:56.559 Queens. Nos, Come on, man, you know I mean, see 263 00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:59.559 so Chris, who is your best? Who your best? Out of New 264 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:06.319 York? If you say the wrong name. I go through this. You 265 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:08.599 know, you know, I came up through the era. So like ninety 266 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:15.240 two, ninety three, Biggie was big. That's what you got to talk. 267 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:19.000 Let's no, no, he's in New York though, he's in New 268 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:22.519 York. I know, I know, I know. Yeah. So like 269 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:26.720 you know, Big obviously, Nas, obviously, Jay obviously later on. 270 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:30.720 Obviously fifty came along later. I mean, so, so you know you're 271 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:33.440 gonna need Jay the kids out of it. No, no, no, 272 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:34.640 no, of course not. No, I'm saying you're talking about I mean 273 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:37.839 New York. Listen, New York is the mecca. That's where you know, 274 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:41.319 that's where, that's where it all started. But I will say this, 275 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:45.599 the first time I heard Trick Daddy was up at Michigan State. You 276 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:49.160 know what I'm saying. You don't know now, you know what I'm saying. 277 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:52.319 Like, Herb was Herb was my roommate my freshman year. So so 278 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:57.119 soda, you're here for me. First, Herb was my roommate. Man, 279 00:21:57.319 --> 00:22:00.160 he was my first roommate. So you know what we got up. 280 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:02.720 I started listening, I'm like, okay that Florida, Okay, a little 281 00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:06.000 bit here and there or whatever. But you know, so yeah, man, 282 00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:07.759 So you know, but the first time I heard trick, I even 283 00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:12.000 heard the trick was up at Michigan State. So you know now that that's 284 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:17.599 when that came out that freshman year coming up there, you know, do 285 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:26.319 it like yeah, man, yeah, man, Man, Chris Man, 286 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:30.200 it's good to see you, brother, man. Like, so talk to 287 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:32.839 us a little bit about it, man, Like, so you from New 288 00:22:32.920 --> 00:22:37.079 York, Yeah, you came out of Salem when you at Michigan State. 289 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:38.960 But what was your track coming from New York to Michigan, Like, what 290 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:41.640 was the connection? How that talked to us? So? Yeah, So 291 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:45.440 basically what happened was my parents they were separated when I was young. They 292 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:49.119 separated. I was in like first grade, so I basically moved from I 293 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:53.240 was living with my dad in New York and I moved my in the middle 294 00:22:53.319 --> 00:22:57.119 of my sophomore year in high school, in tenth grade, I moved to 295 00:22:57.119 --> 00:23:00.519 Michigan. My mom that moved to Michigan at the time. And that's how 296 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:07.480 I ended up in Selene. And my story as far as like my journey 297 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:11.720 to get into Michigan State and getting to the NFL and all that like eventually 298 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:18.359 I write a book on it. But long story short. My first game 299 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:21.400 was my junior year of high school, after I got down to Salene or 300 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:26.759 whatever and baseball before that, I got hurt in the preseason, so I 301 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:29.880 played only played three games as a junior, and then I played my senior 302 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:33.680 year and kind of went crazy my senior year and that's how I ended up 303 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:37.680 at State. But I only played twelve career high school football games, so 304 00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:44.880 I messed twelve total. And on top of that, like in New York, 305 00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:47.119 So like in New York, my I have a November birthday, so 306 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:49.759 I have a late birthday. But I finished my high school career at sixteen 307 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:52.440 as well. On top of all that, so my first semester up at 308 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:56.720 State in ninety seven, I was seventeen years old the whole first semester. 309 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:00.480 But so my story is like to get to where I got, you know 310 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:06.960 what I mean, to get up there and everything is. Yeah. When 311 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:11.880 you write that book about yeah man, yeah, and you know it makes 312 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:15.279 sense that you was he was he was young, sixteen seventeen, because I 313 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:19.960 remember when you came in as a freshman, right, big dude, kind 314 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:23.680 of quiet, you know what, I'm saying, So I think you came 315 00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:30.519 in with Kerr. No, Kurt the he was you didn't know, but 316 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:33.599 he was a senior that year, my freshman year, he was a senior. 317 00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:40.920 Yeah, yeah, he had a chance to constract Kerr. Kerr was 318 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:45.240 a bad mother, you know what I'm saying, especially his senior year. 319 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:48.640 He knew it. He had he had the hands, he had the size, 320 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:52.599 he'll block whatever it is. And so the thing about me was when 321 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:56.839 I saw Chris, I'm like, okay, Chris next. And Chris had 322 00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:00.640 it. Chris already had the size, he was already smart, whatever it 323 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:03.240 was. So I just knew at that position as a running back, once 324 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:07.799 currently we got somebody to replace him, that's gonna be a dog. You 325 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:10.119 know. That's how I was thinking as a running back, because I'm thinking, 326 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:12.079 I need you, I need some dogs in front of me, you 327 00:25:12.079 --> 00:25:18.079 know what I'm saying. But what I knew he was young because not that 328 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:22.960 I tried to punk him, well, you know, it was little things 329 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:26.799 like you know, like like Chris, grab them socks over there for me. 330 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:29.559 You know what I mean, get the socks with no problem, you 331 00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:33.359 know what I mean. They just little little stuff you know, I let 332 00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:36.119 my shoulders out a little bit. Yeah, that was my man. But 333 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:38.480 one thing about it, Chris, and I said this to a lot of 334 00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:42.359 guys that I wasn't able to say back then because I didn't know because we're 335 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:45.119 all chasing a dream, you know what I mean, and I didn't know 336 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:49.480 the to Yeah, we tapped each other on the ass and we give each 337 00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:53.640 other dap, but I didn't know about giving flowers back then as a young 338 00:25:53.759 --> 00:25:57.119 kid. You know what I'm saying. But I give you your flowers because 339 00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:00.480 I was able to watch you once I left and then watch you in the 340 00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:03.720 pros and always say, you know what that was, that's my tight end, 341 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:07.319 you know what I mean. And after that, man, I just 342 00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:10.519 saw you the other day with your kids. Man, you on you out 343 00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:12.519 there fishing. I don't know if you really caught those fishes you bought. 344 00:26:17.559 --> 00:26:25.880 Okay, Okay, tell me. I don't give fuck by seeing the pictures 345 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:32.000 look at him now, Yeah, but I want to see the process of 346 00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:34.920 them catching that. I'm sorry, you know what I'm saying. But if 347 00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:38.400 you call it, you called it a lot of me. One thing I 348 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:45.119 want to say to your brother, I got so much respect for you and 349 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:49.519 your journey and even now after afterwards with you being a dad and me following 350 00:26:49.559 --> 00:26:52.440 you on Facebook and things like that, and you was a hell of a 351 00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:56.279 teammate. I wish this something I knew back then that I could have said, 352 00:26:56.359 --> 00:27:00.200 but I didn't because I was I was young. And then the Bible 353 00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:02.960 they tell us, you know, as a keyd you act as a kid. 354 00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:06.599 You know. When I become a man, I do man things. 355 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:10.319 And now that I'm an apple man, she I'm able to tell you, 356 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:14.119 brother, I got some much respect for you, and I love what you're 357 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:18.359 doing, and I love watching you when you were with the Jets and everything, 358 00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:19.920 and you was the hell of a dude. Man, I appreciate all 359 00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:22.960 your your blood, sweat and tears to get me to be one of the 360 00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:26.559 best. I am the best running back ever in Michigan state history, and 361 00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:30.240 I thank you. It'scray and all the other guys. So I appreciate your 362 00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:33.880 brother. I appreciate that, man. I really do you know, like 363 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:40.240 and listen, we you think you grew, man, I'm telling you I've 364 00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:42.960 grown. And I've grown a lot lately over like the last like five to 365 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:48.000 seven years, like as far as just growing into like understanding like a lot, 366 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:51.359 I'll put it that way. And so like I you know, I 367 00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:52.799 really appreciate that because, like you know, when I got there, I 368 00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:55.720 looked up to y'all you know what I mean. That's how it is, 369 00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:59.880 like you get so like I was saying about my journey getting there, I 370 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:03.319 did not expect to get to Michigan State. Like when I truth be told, 371 00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:06.240 when I came down, I started playing football and all that. I 372 00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:08.000 was just playing I like, you know, like my like when I say 373 00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:12.160 my journey was different. I had no intention of like, yeah, Okay, 374 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:15.119 I'm gonna go to college. I'm gonna do this. Like that was 375 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:17.559 not you know, because that's not coming from New York, coming from the 376 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:19.319 city, that's not something you see. You know, you don't see like 377 00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:22.680 it's not a lot of football players coming out of there and all that. 378 00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.640 You see basketball players things like that. But so like when I got there, 379 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:29.519 man, I was just like excited to be there. And another thing 380 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:32.160 with you you were talking about Curt how he had it and everything like that. 381 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:33.920 The other thing is too in high school, I played receiver, so 382 00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:37.839 I wasn't blocking nobody, you know what I'm saying like that, that was 383 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:41.279 my learning code going from outside out there. You know, I was touring 384 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:45.240 in thirty five pounds receiver in high school to going down there and mixing it 385 00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:49.839 up with you know, everybody we had out there, Robert and everybody else 386 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:52.599 who came through the underwood or all. You know what I mean. Like 387 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:56.519 that was like my learning code curve that year. And I also got hurt 388 00:28:56.759 --> 00:29:00.559 like that my freshman year as well. But just watching those guys, watching 389 00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:03.680 y'all, you know what I'm saying, Watching how y'all became. You know, 390 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.200 like watching how y'all did everything, like the work, it took, 391 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:10.559 the dedication, because truth be told, I didn't learn that in high school. 392 00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:12.359 I was just better than everybody, just off natural ability, you know 393 00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:15.440 what I'm saying. Like again, like I said, I played twelve games, 394 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:18.759 but I like set school records in my senior year and all that, 395 00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:22.319 and that was just off natural talent. When I got up there, I 396 00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:25.079 got around coach many, I got around y'all, just like to see how 397 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:27.759 it went and how it's supposed to go, you know what I'm saying. 398 00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:32.000 That's what built me into who I became. And then I tried to pass 399 00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:34.279 that down the line. You know what I'm saying, because you know it's 400 00:29:34.359 --> 00:29:37.720 I mean, y'all know what it is. Y'all know what it is to 401 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:41.559 go through that program and to like to make it, you know, like 402 00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:44.599 to become a part of it, and then your responsibility that you have. 403 00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:47.400 So you know, that was like the biggest name for me. So like 404 00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:49.039 I always try I always try to represent that, and I always try to 405 00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:52.480 represent that when I was there in the league. You can ask any of 406 00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:56.400 my teammates I ever played with, they always seen something. It was always 407 00:29:56.440 --> 00:29:59.039 something on Michigan State. When it came to me, he was betting on 408 00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:02.519 it or we it didn't matter what was going on. I was in New 409 00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:04.720 England in two thousand and nine. I'm beting with Joey Galloway on the Ohio 410 00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:07.920 State Michigan take game. You know what I'm saying. All that, like 411 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:12.559 like it never stops, you know what I'm saying. So like it's once 412 00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:15.559 it's in you, as in you when you're a dog, You're a dog, 413 00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:21.039 you know what I'm saying. So damn right, Yeah, that's why 414 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:23.359 I'm trying to tell them young dudes that it went over and down the street. 415 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:29.640 Once you're a dog, you stay a dog and it needs something to 416 00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:32.680 you. No, you don't take your ads down the street, no doubt, 417 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:34.640 no doubt, no matter, no matter what the situation. But you 418 00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:37.680 know, listen, the thing at the end of the day, we're in 419 00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:41.440 a totally new era. We're in a totally new day and age. So 420 00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:45.640 again, you don't get that. You don't get that, you don't get 421 00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:51.200 that to clean that until you truly are that, So you know what I 422 00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:53.240 mean, and then truth be told, that really gets bestowed upon you. 423 00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:57.079 That's not something that you get to really truly clean for yourself. So you 424 00:30:57.119 --> 00:31:00.200 know, I mean, it's a different day and age, but it is 425 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:04.359 what it is. Hey, uh, just just watching those pictures, you 426 00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:07.920 don't think you should go back down to the load. You're gonna keep that 427 00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:15.039 fro me So you can't hate on because he can. Yeah. So so 428 00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:17.440 that you got all that money, you can do what you want to do. 429 00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:21.519 But I'm just you got pumped. You got pumped too on right now, 430 00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:23.319 I don't know what's on the other side. Now look now, now 431 00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:27.000 it's the hair is twofold. I'm gonna I'll tell you about it first of 432 00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:30.559 all I had. I hadn't grown my hair since I was in high school, 433 00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:33.119 since I came down from New York truly, right, I always stay 434 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:36.920 with a low cut. So so my thirty years and like obviously we had 435 00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:38.880 the pandemic, so we was in the pandemic. Nobody's going to the you 436 00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:41.960 know or whatever. So I just obviously I let my hair grow and I 437 00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:45.279 just kind of like started to connect with it. Man, And like so 438 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:49.160 now now now like it's the connection with that. But like I'm real, 439 00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:52.519 I'm real big in the nature now, you know what I'm saying. So 440 00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:55.519 like if you can't, I'm like real big into growing my own food. 441 00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:57.519 Growing said, if you come by here, you're gonna see some mango trees. 442 00:31:57.519 --> 00:32:00.839 You're gonna be like, yo, Like I got stuff you ain't never 443 00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:05.759 seen before. You got kind of greens, bro, I got the biggest 444 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:13.319 colla greens you've ever seen. I took you over right now, I'll take 445 00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:17.160 you. But yeah, so I like to say, like, but it's 446 00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:20.559 also like my hair has become like kind of like my connection. Like when 447 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:23.559 I'm outside, I feel like that connection with the you know, the earth, 448 00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:25.920 like with the sun, like we're all that you know what I'm saying. 449 00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:29.960 So it's not just yeah, you know what I mean you you connected 450 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:31.839 with the earth, with the earth, I mean the earth, the earth, 451 00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:39.559 the earth, the stuff, fish, all that. I can't make 452 00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:50.519 that get down there all that. So yeah, colors and making mine no 453 00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:52.759 double truth be told, like I mean like that that, like I learned 454 00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:55.200 a lot. And then also I also went back and finished my degree as 455 00:32:55.240 --> 00:33:00.720 well, and so like that kind of I finished I walked in December twenty 456 00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:06.519 twenty one, and but just getting back into school and like getting that that 457 00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:08.880 focus and that studying and all that. Like once I got my degree and 458 00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:12.599 all that stuff like that, then I've kind of like taken that and going 459 00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:15.640 forward with that with like with food and and and and like just like all 460 00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:19.240 the natural stuff that's on the earth that's for us and everything like that. 461 00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:22.599 So like like I said, I've grown a lot over like the last five 462 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:25.400 seven years or whatever. So that's what's up, man, that's big. 463 00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:29.519 That's that's what's up. I can't wait to get back in that backyard. 464 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:32.319 I'm telling you. You know what I mean, I got my cigar, 465 00:33:32.440 --> 00:33:39.880 but I know you got your and all that done and where you had the 466 00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:45.720 neck bones done them. I bring them from the store, from the from 467 00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:58.279 the y'all both leave that pork alone. Man, better get you man. 468 00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:00.720 I'm trying to help you. Man, trying to help Chris. You can't 469 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:04.559 help me. I eat the ass of a pig. I'm sorry, brother, 470 00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:12.199 I love you you, my man, fifty grand I'm gonna eat me 471 00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:15.719 a port chop sandwich. I won't give him up with you say I'm trying 472 00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:19.280 trying to help you off. Man. No, no, ain't no help. 473 00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:22.000 Ain't no help, ain't no. But that's where we go the line. 474 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:28.559 You know what I mean? My port chop salmer before I get to 475 00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:30.960 your house. That's all I'm listening. It's not religious, it's just health 476 00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:34.360 wise. Man, It's just it's this whole yeah, yeah, you know 477 00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:37.440 what I'm saying. That's all right, right, right, somebody here, 478 00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:43.639 don't eat the swing. Y'all gonna say what you want to say. I 479 00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:47.280 grew up on it so that I I did too. I did too, 480 00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:52.679 Chris. I'm not knocking it. I mean that what you rich people do? 481 00:34:55.400 --> 00:35:00.559 You growing your food? You doing now? I'm still going to the 482 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:07.559 coast. Don't getting we I feel okay, all right, all right, 483 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:12.360 all right, hey, hey there's some graduation pictures right there. Yeah, 484 00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:15.519 yeah, that was big man. That was big to come back and get 485 00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:17.760 that twenty one. You know, So what does it mean for you to 486 00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:22.480 be able to go back and get that degree after spending not nine years in 487 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:28.360 the NFL? Man going back get your finisher degree at So I always intended 488 00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:30.960 on going back to get my degree. And like I mean, like when 489 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:32.679 I left school, I left with one hundred and nine credits. It wasn't 490 00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:36.719 like I was that fall, you know, like but like my senior year, 491 00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:40.000 I got laser focused on the NFL, and so it was always my 492 00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:44.599 intention. But obviously I'm playing, and you know, I'm growing, and 493 00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:46.519 you know, then I get married, have started family and all that stuff 494 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:50.280 like that. So then everything is just kind of like then I then I 495 00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:52.679 retire, and then I decided to settle down here in Florida. I moved 496 00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:55.119 once I retired. I stayed in New York for a year and then I 497 00:35:55.199 --> 00:36:00.159 came down to I came on down to Florida and I've been down here every 498 00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:04.119 since. I've been having here twelve years now. And so basically, I 499 00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:07.679 like, I just I kind of was just kind of finding my groove and 500 00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:12.119 kind of figuring out what I wanted to do. And then I was like, 501 00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:14.519 you know, it's time to go back to school. And so that's 502 00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:16.960 basically what ended up happening. I ended up just going back and during the 503 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:21.199 pandemic fortunately, so I didn't actually have to be up in ease lands and 504 00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:23.159 and everything else. And it just kind of went from there. Man. 505 00:36:23.239 --> 00:36:25.639 And but it was something I was told my mom. I was, you 506 00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:28.559 know, I told I would go back and get my degree, But I 507 00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:30.320 was for myself more than anything. Like I put all that work in, 508 00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:34.119 you know, and to put all that time and working and all that effort 509 00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:36.679 to leave it sure, you know. So it was great the fact that 510 00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:38.760 my kids got to see it and they got to see me doing the work. 511 00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:42.519 They would see me, you know, studying and doing all the stuff 512 00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:45.159 and going through it and you know, just to put that out, put 513 00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:46.320 that there for them at the end at the end of the day, it 514 00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:49.960 was like a you know, it's a nice exclamation point on my time at 515 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:53.280 Michigan State. Hey, Chris, listen, man, you man, Like 516 00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:57.360 I said, I got love for you, and you learn I'm gonna steal 517 00:36:57.360 --> 00:37:01.800 eat my poor I don't care what you say. I don't care. I'm 518 00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:05.519 gonna tell you this, man, and you, my man, I'm telling 519 00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:07.719 we went the war together, we shared the locker room together. Man. 520 00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:19.079 I'm so glad your kids took out your wife. Yeah yeah, listen, 521 00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:22.320 man, look they got the good. They got what they needed from me, 522 00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:23.920 and they got what they needed from her. I'll put it. I'm 523 00:37:23.960 --> 00:37:28.119 glad they got. They look nah and you pretty. I mean you hands 524 00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:30.840 some I ain't. I ain't yet I should say you have, but boy, 525 00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:36.760 I'm so glad they look like they mama ain't, no doubt about it. 526 00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:38.400 And they both look like her. So I'm all good with that. 527 00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:42.519 I'm all good with that. But no, I'm proud of you too. 528 00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:45.320 Man. It feels good for me too to go back, man. But 529 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:49.880 mine was at mine was at Alabama, and and to walk across that stage 530 00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:52.800 because this time I really had to do the work. That was the difference. 531 00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:55.320 But my kid was too young. They probably went to care anyway because 532 00:37:55.320 --> 00:37:59.840 we already they already, like, you know, I showed them videos they 533 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:05.199 oh dad, look at that. Yeah, you know what I mean. 534 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:07.719 But it felt so good to walk across that straight stage, man, and 535 00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:10.320 they hit them, people cheer. I'm like, they ain't even I ain't 536 00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:14.320 think nobody knew me. You know how you walk across and you got all 537 00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:16.800 these people, I'm like, I'm not from Alabama. When they mentioned my 538 00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:21.199 name and people screaming, I'm like, oh shit, yeah, yeah, 539 00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:23.679 yeah, yeah. It's so good man. But once again, I'm glad 540 00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:30.360 your kids look like they mom man, you know, swear like they talk 541 00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:34.519 about he's gonna bring up his his graduate you So, so, Chris, 542 00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:38.559 talk about right now what's going on? Because you kind of hinted to it, 543 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:43.079 like it's a lot of different world right now. It's a big difference 544 00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:46.320 in what we played in versus what guys are going through right now. So 545 00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:52.079 you got the transfer portal, right and the nil all those things, And 546 00:38:52.199 --> 00:38:54.840 you know, you're a guy who spent nine years in the NFL. What 547 00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:59.119 is it to you when you look at where things are now? If you 548 00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:02.559 can give advice to the players today, what kind of advice would you give 549 00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:07.760 them? Oh? Man, it's tough to give them advice right now. 550 00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:10.880 Man. To be honest with you, because I was actually just talking about 551 00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:16.239 this earlier. Guys can make wood in the portal or in their four to 552 00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:21.679 five years in college by using the portal, right with what a lot of 553 00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:27.800 guys can make in their career in the NFL. So it's it's tough because 554 00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:30.960 it's like you, I can only imagine if I was in that position. 555 00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:32.760 If I'm happy, I'm starting, I'm getting, you know, getting paid 556 00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:36.639 or whatever, I'm not going anywhere. But it's tough to tell a kid 557 00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:39.679 like that's a four or five star recruit that's sitting on the bench that can 558 00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:44.320 go and get, you know, possibly secure their own future, their family's 559 00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:46.840 future at nineteen or twenty years old, that they shouldn't leave. You get 560 00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:51.360 what I'm saying. So like it's really a gift in the curse, you 561 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:53.480 know, to be honest, it makes it tougher to like go somewhere and 562 00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:58.039 be there for four or five years and develop as a player and get to 563 00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:01.559 the NFL. But it's so much money that they're giving these guys now. 564 00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:06.440 So I mean what I would say, as a player, it really just 565 00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:10.880 depends on what your focus is. Do you want to go somewhere. Are 566 00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:15.559 you going to the school for the school for the for the program for the 567 00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:19.559 you know, for the the atmosphere and all that stuff, or are you 568 00:40:19.639 --> 00:40:22.519 going for the money and and and you know, and also like if you 569 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:24.960 are you going for do you plan on going there to graduate and try and 570 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:30.440 springboard into another career outside of football whatever. So it's so many variables right 571 00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:34.079 now where it becomes hard to say, well you should do this or do 572 00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:39.000 that. It's really dependent on your situation, you know. I mean listen, 573 00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:42.679 being out here in Florida, I go to a lot of things. 574 00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:44.599 I see a lot of guys, you know, and I see like the 575 00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:47.360 situations that people are coming from. You got to get it how you live, 576 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:51.239 you know what I'm saying. Sometimes, So it's it's really it is 577 00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:57.519 really dependent on your situation and what you're looking to accomplish. And my the 578 00:40:57.559 --> 00:40:59.559 way I would tell guys, you know, you got to do it in 579 00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:05.960 your best interest now in these times to me man, because you know, 580 00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:09.199 there's a whole lot of things. It's very loaded when you think about what 581 00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:19.119 guys are happening to decide in college football nowadays. Today, there's a big 582 00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:22.400 story that broke. It had nothing to do with Michigan State, but it 583 00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:27.719 does have something to do with college football specifically, we're talking about the former 584 00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:38.039 Miami commit slash Florida commit slash Arizona state quarterback now at Georgia Schools Florida because 585 00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:45.599 he was promised was at thirteen million dollars to go from the nine million dollars 586 00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:51.320 at Miami to go to Florida, and Florida flat out renigged on them, 587 00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:55.880 didn't pay him a time or whatever. You know, what are your thoughts 588 00:41:55.960 --> 00:42:00.079 on something like that? Because you just talked about, Hey, you know 589 00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:01.400 there's a lot of money out there, you can secure your future, you 590 00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:06.440 know, but what like Swerve, I'm gonna ask you, Swerve, what 591 00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:09.639 do you think about Jaden rashot it? This is the quarterback that I think 592 00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:14.079 they just had this contract details there. You know, what, what do 593 00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:16.239 you think about that? Five hundred thousand up front, two fifty a month 594 00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:21.400 as a freshman, two ninety one, sixty sixty as a sophomore, three 595 00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:27.159 seventy five a month as a junior? What what do you think about that? 596 00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:30.559 And then the fact that you know, schools offer that and then pulled 597 00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:44.079 it away. See you see my head straight. First of all, you 598 00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:46.199 know, if you look at the draft right the draft, the slaughter. 599 00:42:47.239 --> 00:42:51.840 Right, So if you know, if you're going number five in the draft, 600 00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:53.639 you know you're gonna sign a four year deer or such and such a 601 00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:59.400 money as already slotted, right, So you mean to tell me you're gonna 602 00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:02.760 pay me three three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars a month, right, 603 00:43:04.519 --> 00:43:07.760 And when I leave high school, those teachers are telling me we got to 604 00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:10.960 go to college, the ejectives to go to college to get a degree so 605 00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:15.239 you can get a better job. So now you're giving me three hundred and 606 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:19.679 seventy five thousand a month. I ain't passed now, of course yet, 607 00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:27.639 not just that I make more than the teacher that's teaching me. What what? 608 00:43:28.199 --> 00:43:31.800 What what do you want me to do? Not just then on top 609 00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:37.599 of that, you do damn that making more than your position coach? Yeah, 610 00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:42.239 oh damn that. Wait wait wait three seventy five a month. You 611 00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:45.599 are making more in your position, coach. So my thing is who I 612 00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:52.119 got to listen to? So so so so so, babe. You know, 613 00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:55.039 when you see those kind of numbers right there being thrown out there, 614 00:43:55.559 --> 00:44:00.639 how is a player? You know when you see a you know, I 615 00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:05.719 know this is Miami Florida. But a kid like Jadeen Manga. This is 616 00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:08.480 a guy who was at Michigan State. His brother. I don't know what 617 00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:13.280 happened with his brother. He goes into the portal, but then Jayden into 618 00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:19.440 going to Michigan. If if it was money, I don't We don't know. 619 00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:22.519 We don't know what the situation was. But like, how do you 620 00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:25.360 how do you navigate through these waters right now? Because I know there's a 621 00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:30.719 lot of heat coming down on players because they're going to schools that people like 622 00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:35.400 us, we say, ain't a way we should go to. No, 623 00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:39.280 damn Michigan down the road. But like you know, you see what's what's 624 00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:42.880 going on here? What's your thoughts on that? Yeah, I mean, 625 00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:45.719 listen, dude, with us, there was first of all, we couldn't 626 00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:49.840 even transfer within if we transferred, we had to sit out and you couldn't 627 00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:52.719 transfer within the conference and all that stuff like that. So we even if 628 00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:55.039 we had but even if we had that option, that's an option that we 629 00:44:55.039 --> 00:45:01.440 would never take. But my only thing is we really can't even it's a 630 00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:05.039 different landscape, you know what I'm saying, So like would it being a 631 00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:07.840 different landscape, Yeah, we can be critical of the kid and everything like 632 00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:09.760 that, but at the end of the day, he can do it, 633 00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:15.519 and you know, it's just so like I look at it, like it's 634 00:45:15.599 --> 00:45:19.599 just it's do business as business business is being done in this day and age. 635 00:45:20.119 --> 00:45:22.599 That's not something I would ever do, obviously, that's something that none 636 00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:27.199 of us would even consider. But at the end of the day, they're 637 00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:30.840 allowed to do it, and it you know, like that's just what it 638 00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:32.039 is. That's just the way the landscape is right now. So you got 639 00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:37.480 to kind of just because we also did sign somebody from from there as well. 640 00:45:38.079 --> 00:45:40.199 You know, like it's just that's just what it is now. Like 641 00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:44.199 I mean, it's it's crazy, but I mean who else, who the 642 00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:47.320 hell thought UCLA and USC would be in the big ten. So you know 643 00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:50.639 what I'm saying, like, this is just the landscape that we're in right 644 00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:53.320 now. But right here, Beer Ranking Show, right, it's part of 645 00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:58.280 growing up. I make more than my manager at work, but I still 646 00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:02.000 got to be professional. The amount of money you make shouldn't justify you being 647 00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:07.840 an asshole. But check this out, Bill Ranking Show. You haven't coached 648 00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:12.599 high school football. You haven't coached these kids. That's coming from these, 649 00:46:12.920 --> 00:46:17.159 from these projects, from these one parent home, from the kids that's raising 650 00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:22.280 theirself. Some of these are street kids. You get that kid that much 651 00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:27.639 out of money, right that it is no respect, it's no it's no 652 00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:30.239 discipline, it's no structure. That's why, if anything I would, I 653 00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:37.280 would give kids work, work to earn. That's the thing I'm talking about. 654 00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:40.639 You. I coached football. I coach football with these four and five 655 00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:45.519 star kids, and that's all on they mind. It's not on their mind 656 00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:47.400 that hey, I'm gonna go to college, I'm gonna get bigger and stronger. 657 00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:51.199 I'm gonna go there and work my ass off and then boom boom going 658 00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:54.719 to the league. Shit, I'm already getting league money. You see. 659 00:46:55.760 --> 00:47:00.559 Let's take women basketball. Them girls took a pay, had to go to 660 00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:04.400 the w NBA. Yep, you see what I'm saying. So at the 661 00:47:04.519 --> 00:47:08.039 end of the day, what I'm saying is if you gonna pay me more 662 00:47:08.119 --> 00:47:13.159 money than my professor, and you won't you want me to do my homework, 663 00:47:14.079 --> 00:47:17.840 Shit, I ain't doing I ain't doing it. I'm sorry, call 664 00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:22.239 me roll mode or whatever. What what I'm doing? I got three five? 665 00:47:25.239 --> 00:47:29.360 I mean, this is like The money they're getting is life changing money. 666 00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:31.639 It's life I mean, like you can literally set yourself up for life 667 00:47:32.039 --> 00:47:36.400 coming out of college, like you don't even have to go. I mean, 668 00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:40.599 so it's my biggest thing is with all these kids. I mean, 669 00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:45.000 I know it's not happening, but my biggest thing is they need to be 670 00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:49.880 able to make that money last because it's I mean, like you said, 671 00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:52.280 you got kids coming out of the projects, You got kids coming I mean 672 00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:55.000 even kids that are coming out of the gated communities. You give them a 673 00:47:55.039 --> 00:48:00.119 certain amount of money and they don't have any responsibility. They're gonna blow all 674 00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:02.760 that money. So that's the one thing that I hope that they can try 675 00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:06.400 and get on, not only say get under control, because I don't know 676 00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:08.400 what's what the state of it is, but I already know just being in 677 00:48:08.440 --> 00:48:13.760 the NFL locker room and everything else. They really need to like guide these 678 00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:15.239 kids, and they really has to start in high school because they're getting that 679 00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:17.719 money. As soon as they walk in the door for visits, they're getting 680 00:48:17.719 --> 00:48:22.000 this type of money. So they really need to start training these kids because 681 00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:23.960 the type of money they're getting could set them up for life. They don't 682 00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:27.960 you know, like they can set up their entire life or they can ruin 683 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:37.880 their life too. It's funny Merlone said about the uh, the financial literacy 684 00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:42.320 part that need to be set up, because you know what I found out. 685 00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:45.440 Former kids of mine that I that I keep in contact with, called 686 00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:49.679 me and say, cool, they tell me I got to pay eight thousand 687 00:48:49.679 --> 00:48:52.639 dollars of taxes. They ain't tell me that. When I came in, 688 00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:58.519 I say, yeah, you got to pay that new people's giving you. 689 00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:02.320 New people gave you eighteen thousand dollars a month. You gotta pay taxes on 690 00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:05.400 that. Brother, Man, they ain't tell me that. When I came 691 00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:07.679 here, man, hoping I'm up for the transfer, I said, Okay, 692 00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:09.719 wherever you transfer and they give you money, you're gonna have to pay 693 00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:14.079 taxes there too. Brother, You know what I mean? But like he 694 00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:19.400 said, the eighteen he was getting, she he was spending it. He 695 00:49:19.519 --> 00:49:23.159 sending his mother five, he sending his homeboard. Two. He going out 696 00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:27.480 buying the c with the CDs. Kristen, do you what it is? 697 00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:30.719 The loan along the CD's shoes. You know they going to get the hell 698 00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:35.440 cats and all this type of stuff and krips are not telling them this. 699 00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:38.280 You know what I'm saying. He called me. I said, first of 700 00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:40.639 all, I'm gonna put you on the phone with somebody else to help you 701 00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:45.320 out. But I can't help you. I said, They're gonna give you 702 00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:47.480 another eighteen next month, take the aid out of that, and pay your 703 00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:52.079 taxes. That's all I can tell you. The thing about it is, 704 00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:57.239 this is what happens in NFL locker rooms. Yeah, to them four years 705 00:49:57.280 --> 00:50:00.599 earlier or five years earlier, as teen year old kids, what do you 706 00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:04.199 think is, who do you think they're gonna do? They're gonna go month 707 00:50:04.239 --> 00:50:07.239 to month and spend that money because they don't understand that. Like, like 708 00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:10.840 I said, even the kids that are coming out of places that where they 709 00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:14.920 have, you would think they have some kind of financial literacy, they're not. 710 00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:16.760 They're just getting money. And so like when they get that type of 711 00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:20.599 money, if you don't help them out, if they're not trained, that 712 00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:23.079 money is going to be gone and they're gonna be again. It happens in 713 00:50:23.159 --> 00:50:27.039 the NFL, happens in the NBA, happens in all these different spots. 714 00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:29.840 So what do you think is gonna happen when you're doing it with college kids. 715 00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:34.360 They have no kind of they have no chance if we don't get them 716 00:50:34.400 --> 00:50:37.039 right. So you know what I told my kids, I said, when 717 00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:44.559 you get your money, just send it to me. Hey, Chris, 718 00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:47.400 let me ask you this man, Well, what was your best memories of 719 00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:53.239 best game in college and in the pros? College? Man? And you 720 00:50:53.360 --> 00:50:58.159 missed it because you know, but my favorite memory was the Citus ball. 721 00:50:59.280 --> 00:51:01.280 That was my favorite Like that, I mean because just that year, that 722 00:51:01.440 --> 00:51:05.440 year was just that was saving that just left he just you know and everything, 723 00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:07.679 and you know, that was the year that well we finally put it 724 00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:12.559 together, you know, like we finally put it together, and you know, 725 00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:15.760 just I mean that that straight was you in that year? No, 726 00:51:16.760 --> 00:51:20.440 you left the year two the year before, right, yeah, yeah, 727 00:51:20.639 --> 00:51:22.639 no, that was that was the year because as a matter of fact, 728 00:51:22.639 --> 00:51:24.639 if I remember, right, yeah, it was the year before. That's 729 00:51:24.679 --> 00:51:28.599 when we beat Ohio State when they were number one, and like no, 730 00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:34.480 no, no, we beat Yeah. But that's what I'm saying though, 731 00:51:34.559 --> 00:51:37.840 like that but we were just starting, like we were just figuring it out 732 00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:39.079 then, you know what I'm saying, Like that's when it was like okay, 733 00:51:39.559 --> 00:51:42.800 there goes I remember ninety seven, Like I said, I read shirt. 734 00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:45.000 In ninety seven, ninety eight we kind of scuffled and we didn't go 735 00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:47.760 to the bowgo you know, we didn't even make the bowl game. And 736 00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:52.239 then in ninety nine is like when everything just was there, you know what 737 00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:53.920 I'm saying, and like we put it together and it was like so that 738 00:51:54.159 --> 00:51:58.119 like the culmination of that in the bowl game, after saving that left and 739 00:51:58.159 --> 00:52:00.440 all that. So that was like just the we you know, we're playing 740 00:52:00.519 --> 00:52:05.880 Florida in in the middle in Florida and all the all that just all that 741 00:52:06.199 --> 00:52:07.920 that came together and just getting that done. So that was my favorite. 742 00:52:08.119 --> 00:52:10.360 I mean the Michigan games they were great too, don't get me wrong, 743 00:52:10.440 --> 00:52:15.199 Like the old one Michigan game that was great. But that was just you 744 00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:20.440 know, the Bowl game was a culmination. And then the pros. Oh 745 00:52:20.599 --> 00:52:27.480 man, man, I mean that's a tough one, man like, because 746 00:52:27.519 --> 00:52:30.679 I mean I had had some you know, some pretty big big hides in 747 00:52:30.039 --> 00:52:34.960 the Pros and things like that. I mean, I can't really pick one, 748 00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:36.559 to be honest with you, you know what I mean, Like I 749 00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:40.599 had you know, I'm gonna answer this question, so so you you you 750 00:52:40.719 --> 00:52:45.440 played a long time with the New York Jacks and he went on to New 751 00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:50.039 England. So you got a chance to flavor Tom Brady from school down the 752 00:52:50.159 --> 00:52:52.960 road. What was it like? You know, so everybody knows of him 753 00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:54.920 as being the goat. He just got roasted a couple of weeks ago, 754 00:52:55.039 --> 00:53:00.559 maybe like two weeks ago, ye on Netflix. What was it like playing 755 00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:05.760 with a guy who has that prestige that he has right now? So you 756 00:53:05.800 --> 00:53:12.079 gotta remember, I played with Brady and O nine, So he wasn't this 757 00:53:12.599 --> 00:53:15.159 at the time. He had won three titles at the time. But early 758 00:53:15.239 --> 00:53:21.119 on in Brady's career he was not. He was he was like barely a 759 00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:22.199 pro bowler at the time, you know, like I mean, I want 760 00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:24.719 he wasn't like a game manager per se, but he was. He was 761 00:53:24.800 --> 00:53:28.639 not even a pro Bowl. He was just he would perform like crazy in 762 00:53:28.679 --> 00:53:31.159 the playoffs and like whatever. So he wasn't this. He was highly regarded, 763 00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:34.519 but he wasn't. Oh he's the gold, you know what I'm saying. 764 00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:39.119 So all have to say. We talked Michigan, Michigan State, back 765 00:53:39.159 --> 00:53:42.159 and forth. You know what I'm saying. Same like I said, I 766 00:53:42.239 --> 00:53:45.599 don't like we you know, we talked about it, We talked about the 767 00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:47.760 game in O one and everything. Tom was super cool, like he was 768 00:53:49.320 --> 00:53:51.519 like to say, Tom was one of the guys. He was one of 769 00:53:51.599 --> 00:53:54.079 the guys. I mean, I was on plenty of teams where guys thought 770 00:53:54.119 --> 00:53:57.760 they were whatever, this, this, and that. Tom was one of 771 00:53:57.840 --> 00:54:00.400 the guys. Like he did. He was no different than anybody else in 772 00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:02.480 the locker room. So that was the That was the biggest thing I can 773 00:54:02.519 --> 00:54:06.400 say about him. He was He was not He was not like what you 774 00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:09.079 would what you would have fought with his you know, with his accomplishment. 775 00:54:09.159 --> 00:54:15.039 I'll put it that way. That's what's up. That's what's up. Mhm 776 00:54:17.239 --> 00:54:22.960 right, oh yeah, sir. So now, Chris, you know, 777 00:54:22.039 --> 00:54:24.960 before we get you out of here, man, we definitely appreciate you coming 778 00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:30.199 on, man, because the background already went from the little light that was 779 00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:34.519 back there because I can't even see them, uh five thousand dollars palm trees 780 00:54:34.559 --> 00:54:37.920 anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know how it is. Everything 781 00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:40.159 else f in the light up now is on a timer. I know how 782 00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:43.920 you rich people do. I got a lot of rich friends something like that. 783 00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:46.480 Yeah yeah, yeah, So now before we get you out of here. 784 00:54:46.559 --> 00:54:49.920 Brother? Man? What what? What? What? What do Chris 785 00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:54.400 do now? So basically, man, I'm like when I retired, I'm 786 00:54:54.480 --> 00:54:59.480 fully I was fully retired. I retired back and after the My last year 787 00:54:59.559 --> 00:55:04.000 was in ce So the year that was Peak How's first year out there, 788 00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:06.960 of the year that Marshawn had that big run in the playoffs or whatever, 789 00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:10.400 that was my last year. So I was out there that year and after 790 00:55:10.480 --> 00:55:15.239 that I retired. So the way my career ended, I fractured my hip. 791 00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:17.679 So the week before that we played we had to play the Rams to 792 00:55:17.719 --> 00:55:21.719 get into the playoffs. It was winner take you know, winners and losers 793 00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:23.119 out. So we got in the playoffs at seven and nine. I don't 794 00:55:23.360 --> 00:55:28.320 know if you remember that. So I was on that team. So anyway, 795 00:55:28.360 --> 00:55:30.559 we won that game. So I fractured my hip in the second quarter. 796 00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:32.719 I didn't know my hip was fractured. I played the rest of the 797 00:55:32.760 --> 00:55:39.400 game. I played the whole game whatever, man, listen. I wish 798 00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:42.480 I'd have known it at the time because out of the SAT mands down. 799 00:55:42.559 --> 00:55:45.639 But I finished the game or whatever. But that was basically the in for 800 00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:50.960 me. So then after that I went back to New York retired and since 801 00:55:51.000 --> 00:55:52.079 then I've been fully retired. Man, Like I stayed in New York for 802 00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:54.119 a year. I did a lot of fish in that year. Like in 803 00:55:54.199 --> 00:55:57.440 New York, you know, I'm always on the water. So my crib, 804 00:55:57.559 --> 00:56:00.159 I had the boat in the backyard. I'd go out fish every day 805 00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:02.039 and all that stuff. I did that for a little bit, and I 806 00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:05.719 just got tired of being in cold weather. Man to truth be told, 807 00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:08.119 And I always wanted to get a spot down in Florida every time, you 808 00:56:08.159 --> 00:56:09.840 know, I was with the Jets, I was with the Patriots. We 809 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:14.599 come down here in December, it's not eighty five degrees out and I'm going 810 00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:17.039 back up in this ten degrees outside. So we ended up coming down here 811 00:56:17.039 --> 00:56:22.039 in twenty twelve. And my son started kindergarten here. He's he's in eleventh 812 00:56:22.079 --> 00:56:25.039 grade. He's going to his her senior year next year. Wow. My 813 00:56:25.239 --> 00:56:29.639 daughter she was once she turned one down here. She was born in New 814 00:56:29.679 --> 00:56:35.480 York. Who came down And I mean basically I dedicate myself to to them, 815 00:56:35.679 --> 00:56:37.599 you know, like I focus on whatever that they need me for or 816 00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:40.679 whatever it is. You know. My wife, she works, she works 817 00:56:40.719 --> 00:56:44.960 at the school with them and everything. So like I just been to that. 818 00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:50.559 Yeah, but so so what happened was though, like I said, 819 00:56:50.599 --> 00:56:52.239 during the pandemic is kind of when like the light bulbs started turning on that 820 00:56:52.280 --> 00:56:54.800 I need to like, you know, And after I finished my degree, 821 00:56:55.360 --> 00:56:59.480 I started I started like I needed something else to like fiel the time, 822 00:56:59.519 --> 00:57:00.599 you know what I mean. And that's when, like I said, that's 823 00:57:00.639 --> 00:57:04.880 when I kind of got passionate about learning how to grow my own food, 824 00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:07.840 learning how to like you know, just all the different stuff. So that's 825 00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:10.320 what I really focus on now. Man, Like I'm like super passionate about 826 00:57:12.199 --> 00:57:15.119 food, medicinal growing, you know, all that type of stuff. And 827 00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:17.760 down in Florida where we're at, all that stuff grows down here. So 828 00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:22.320 like that's I mean, I'm always all I'm doing is studying how to grow 829 00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:24.800 this, how to graft this, how to do whatever. So that's that's 830 00:57:24.840 --> 00:57:30.480 what feels my day. That and my kids in the family. Man, 831 00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:34.079 gotta love it. Gotta love it man, and Chris, you know, 832 00:57:35.079 --> 00:57:38.800 seeing what you've been able to accomplish with your you know, football career and 833 00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:44.400 more importantly your family is what everybody wants to see, you know, that's 834 00:57:44.440 --> 00:57:46.920 what we love as Spartans. I mean, Swerve loves it. He loves 835 00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:51.800 the palm trees back then, the colleague greens that you're growing in your yard, 836 00:57:52.440 --> 00:57:55.039 and you know, the recruits. The guys is coming after us, 837 00:57:57.000 --> 00:58:00.000 they're watching too, And you know, we really appreciate you coming on here 838 00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:05.920 man and been sharing a little bit of your career with all of Spartan nation. 839 00:58:06.079 --> 00:58:07.639 Brother, don't be a strange man. When do you get back? 840 00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:12.320 Do you get back up to some games? Ever? So, so that's 841 00:58:12.360 --> 00:58:15.599 the thing, Like I'm real settled into being in Florida, so I really, 842 00:58:16.559 --> 00:58:20.679 I mean, I'm just I very rarely go back up to New York. 843 00:58:21.119 --> 00:58:22.280 So the last last time I've been up to these lansing was for the 844 00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:27.599 for the graduation, and before that I came back for I forgot what game 845 00:58:27.639 --> 00:58:30.400 I came back. I came back. Every time I come back for homecoming, 846 00:58:30.440 --> 00:58:32.920 it's always in in like October, and it's always cold and raining, 847 00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:37.239 like it's like thirty five degrees in raining every time I come back. So 848 00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:39.800 but I do plan on getting back up. I'm not sure If'm gonna get 849 00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:43.320 up this year, but I come back here and there you know what I 850 00:58:43.400 --> 00:58:45.480 mean, Like I kind of pop in because my mom still lives up there 851 00:58:45.559 --> 00:58:47.960 in Michigan, so I go and see her and everything like that. But 852 00:58:49.119 --> 00:58:51.480 I'm not really trying to be up there in the winter time, like I'm 853 00:58:51.599 --> 00:58:55.000 just they do have games in September, by the way, just just just 854 00:58:55.079 --> 00:58:58.159 for the record, so that that's what I'm saying. Like, the only 855 00:58:58.199 --> 00:59:00.480 way I'm gonna really get up there is if it's something like that. But 856 00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:01.599 I did go to I went to hard rock. I went to the one 857 00:59:01.639 --> 00:59:05.719 down here when we came down here, and I represent it, you know 858 00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:08.239 what I'm saying. So but yeah, man, yeah, yeah, we 859 00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:12.920 gotta swear, we gotta get him up for a game and in the something 860 00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:16.360 in the early or the late fall or was the early fall? Late Yeah, 861 00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:20.679 once we go down past fifty, I'm done. It's a rap. 862 00:59:21.159 --> 00:59:22.679 Yeah, And you know you already know because you I mean, I used 863 00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:24.159 to make fun of it. I used to make fun of her. I 864 00:59:24.239 --> 00:59:28.000 used to make fun of everybody from down here because nobody wanted to go to 865 00:59:28.079 --> 00:59:30.000 class when it was when it hit thirty degrees, when it hit twenty degrees, 866 00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:36.280 ain't no long ago didn't go didn't go. So that's what I'm saying. 867 00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:38.320 For me now, I'm kind of like, I get it. I 868 00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:42.760 get it because every every day I look up, it's I mean, it's 869 00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:47.719 eighty five ninety degrees every single day. So yeah, yeah, it's got 870 00:59:47.800 --> 00:59:51.880 some old sitting. Oh yeah this year. But man, you know, 871 00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:55.440 we really appreciate you coming on the show Man and here's that. Here's that 872 00:59:55.679 --> 01:00:00.719 all editor. I had to go make sure it went through. You're gonna 873 01:00:00.719 --> 01:00:02.360 see me run through. That's here. I come right there, I go, 874 01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:12.719 old Bobby Williams. Yeah. Yeah. Also, actually I got to 875 01:00:12.760 --> 01:00:16.000 go back with one more thing. One other game that was my he goes 876 01:00:16.079 --> 01:00:19.960 up there with the Citters Bowl. Was that upset over Ohio State? Because 877 01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:22.199 that one that was that was also one of them that goes up there too. 878 01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:28.719 That that's one in one name and y'all both there for that one too, 879 01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:34.440 was there for that one? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's beautiful 880 01:00:34.519 --> 01:00:36.880 coming out. That was my coming out game there, man, because that 881 01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:38.199 was like before that I was kind of like and then you know, that 882 01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:42.559 was like my big, my big first game early in my career. So 883 01:00:42.840 --> 01:00:47.239 yeah, yeah, yes, sir Chris Man, don't be a stranger. 884 01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:51.880 We love it, man. That that was an awesome uh time spending with 885 01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:59.599 you, learning about New York Queens, Celeen to east Land scene, New 886 01:00:59.719 --> 01:01:02.039 York and beyond. Brother, down there with the palm trees in Florida? 887 01:01:02.119 --> 01:01:05.840 Right now? What city? What city are you in in Florida? I'm 888 01:01:05.880 --> 01:01:15.400 in parking. I'm in parking, man. I tell them, when you 889 01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:20.079 when you, when you, when you building, you making your own food 890 01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:24.960 and stuff that comes with it. The I mean that my cigarette. I 891 01:01:25.039 --> 01:01:30.000 can't wait to get down there, Chris. Where are you at? You 892 01:01:30.119 --> 01:01:32.960 not down here? I just moved to Atlanta, but I'm back and forth. 893 01:01:34.039 --> 01:01:37.079 Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I got down there, 894 01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:43.360 okay, door, But and do me a favor, though. The 895 01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:45.840 next time y'all catch those fish, make so somebody recorded, because I want 896 01:01:45.880 --> 01:01:49.400 to believe it all. Oh yeah, no doubt. And I done took 897 01:01:49.440 --> 01:01:51.480 a lot of pictures with fish. No, I don't do that. I 898 01:01:51.519 --> 01:01:55.920 got caught him, and I ain't catch not now one. I ain't never 899 01:01:55.960 --> 01:02:00.079 doing that. And look at that fish bigger than you, Chris. It 900 01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:04.920 never happened it that looked like some good eating right there, bro Man. 901 01:02:05.039 --> 01:02:07.039 Look Snapperoper. They don't get no better than that. No, it does 902 01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:13.519 not. No, that's not Yeah. Hold on, can you from New 903 01:02:13.599 --> 01:02:19.960 York you put mustard on your fish? Listen, I'm from New York, 904 01:02:20.039 --> 01:02:22.119 but my mom is from Mississippi, so I got it. I'm suthering when 905 01:02:22.159 --> 01:02:25.360 it comes to it. You know what I'm saying, like, yeah, 906 01:02:27.519 --> 01:02:30.440 you did even fish with the head on it. When I go to the 907 01:02:30.519 --> 01:02:37.480 Islands, I knew it was somebody it one day that we were just dog 908 01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:42.639 skin. I just I knew it was somebody. I'm coming to Parkview. 909 01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:46.320 My mom is from Mississippi, so I'm getting Just let him know. I 910 01:02:46.440 --> 01:02:50.000 come in peace. I ain't got nothing. They got to pull me over. 911 01:02:50.719 --> 01:02:52.960 I know. You know. I ain't Tray Bond none of that. 912 01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:55.639 I ain't got no hoody on. I'm gonna take this off everything I want 913 01:02:55.800 --> 01:03:00.599 to see Chris Baker shoot. Yeah, yeah, it ain't too many us 914 01:03:00.679 --> 01:03:04.360 over there. That wasn't living good. But that's not true. That's not 915 01:03:04.480 --> 01:03:07.480 true. I'm coming. I'm coming true we over here, trust me. 916 01:03:08.639 --> 01:03:14.639 Yeah, Hey, Chris, appreciate your brother, no doubt anytime, anytime, 917 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:21.039 all right, for sure, Chris thinking man man man tighten. Hey 918 01:03:21.119 --> 01:03:24.039 man, that was a great interview. Swerve and j Chris Man, Chris 919 01:03:24.199 --> 01:03:27.960 doing good for himself. Hey man, we got to give a shot to 920 01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:31.159 baseball too. I know we felled short straight, but they had a hell 921 01:03:31.199 --> 01:03:36.239 of a year Man on the show. You know, he had a few 922 01:03:36.320 --> 01:03:38.119 home runs, you know, but we fell short of the other dance. 923 01:03:38.199 --> 01:03:42.440 But you know that, right, it's always next ship, you know. 924 01:03:43.239 --> 01:03:46.079 Yeah, baseball is always in our heart. They closed our hearts because you 925 01:03:46.119 --> 01:03:51.079 know, you know, football players are baseball players. Baseball players and football 926 01:03:51.119 --> 01:03:54.239 and basketball, so we all were all in this thing together in hockey too. 927 01:03:54.880 --> 01:04:00.239 Oh man. I heard the story of how Kirk Gibson played baseball just 928 01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:06.199 this last week at this Atlanta MSU golf party. His roommate was a picture 929 01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:12.440 he was walking by and he yelled. He was a junior. He yelled 930 01:04:12.480 --> 01:04:14.920 and said, hey, can I get a Can I get a couple of 931 01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:16.920 hits off the picture? Whatever the picture thing was. They're like, yeah, 932 01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:19.800 come on, we're gonna give you ten. And out of the ten 933 01:04:19.920 --> 01:04:25.760 pictures his roommate through, he hit eight of them out of that park. 934 01:04:26.480 --> 01:04:30.800 What that coach called down on the phone saying, who is that ding up, 935 01:04:30.880 --> 01:04:32.360 damn ball? Who is that? Boom boom? And the guy was 936 01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:34.480 like the coach like, oh, I'm sorry. You know then I'm gonna 937 01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:38.280 get him out of here right now. Don't get him out, get him 938 01:04:38.280 --> 01:04:41.639 a uniform. We need him on our team. He played his junior year. 939 01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:45.400 Yeah, that's an awesome story right there. I come believe that story, 940 01:04:45.559 --> 01:04:48.039 man, I know, I mean there's a lot of stories we can't 941 01:04:48.079 --> 01:04:53.320 believe. But man, that was a great interview by you and Chris Baker 942 01:04:53.800 --> 01:04:57.880 and Swerve, Red Cuffs and all were about to close this thing out. 943 01:04:58.199 --> 01:05:00.159 We got some stuff going on we got to talk about. Man, there's 944 01:05:00.159 --> 01:05:03.960 some there's a big thing coming up. It's a big thing looming on Thursday. 945 01:05:04.519 --> 01:05:10.199 So it's a n c a A and what the landscape is gonna be 946 01:05:10.440 --> 01:05:14.760 for college athletics. So we're gonna see we're gonna talk about that on Thursday 947 01:05:14.840 --> 01:05:18.719 night show. So swerve hold on, let me clear this up. The 948 01:05:18.880 --> 01:05:24.400 mustard hot sauce go together on the fry fish. I'm letting y'all know that. 949 01:05:24.599 --> 01:05:28.559 Trust me. You know what I'm saying. Somebody's saying, must you 950 01:05:28.679 --> 01:05:30.800 put it that? I think, yeah, you put a little musty. 951 01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:32.440 Put a little hot sauce on there. You know what I mean, You 952 01:05:32.639 --> 01:05:35.280 rubbing around boom boom, and you cut it on up and you eat it. 953 01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:38.800 You put it good, a slice of bread. We gotta we gotta 954 01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:41.679 show, we gotta you gotta show. Bring it, bring it in sho. 955 01:05:42.039 --> 01:05:44.800 You know they don't know. You can't talk about it. Be about 956 01:05:44.840 --> 01:05:48.320 it next time, all right, swave you know, But Cedric GIRVD, 957 01:05:48.320 --> 01:05:51.440 I'm Jason stre This is part of M s U. Everybody, have a 958 01:05:51.480 --> 01:06:06.199 good night, God bless you and go bring go White. Yeah, Lon 959 01:06:06.559 --> 01:06:09.920 lond I got you, I got you, I got you.