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back to the show. Well felas it was a very eventful Sunday that just
took place on campus. So talk a little bit about the spartan Sunday event
that a little loved campus, a little love. It was a lot of
love. Man. You know, we kind of started out with not even
me. We saw a flyer that popped up and actually Alicia had shared it
on our social and immediately I thought, well, let me contact the point
person to see what we could do. When I say we, it was
like play fly or in Michigan State Sports Properties, Athletics, all of our
corporate partners and lo and behold, Emily answered the phone and she kind of
gave me a full kind of breakdown of what she was thinking about this event.
And I said, well, let me see and reach out to our
one of our biggest partners in Mayer Food Stores, because they were looking to
support, you know, Michigan State and what transpired, what happened obviously on
campus with the tragedy, and so you know, Emily came through and you
know, what started out as a small event turned out to be one of
the biggest kind of hosted events that you know, student kind of ran,
but also university came back came into supporting them. And gave the stamp of
approval. And so what started out as a small event was you know,
thousands of thousands of people come together and just showing level on campus. So
I wanted to bring Emily on the show because she's been the celebrity rock star
starting out and support. Welcome, Emily, Welcome. I am excited to
be here. This is awesome. Yeah. Yeah, Emily welcome, and
on behalf of all of us, on, behalf of the crew. Everybody
at this is part of you. Thank you for what you did, you
know, thank you for spearheading you know that movement, you know seeing it,
you know, look at these pictures and you know seeing you know,
hearing from people. You know, it was a really cool thing to do,
really good for the community, really good for the students, and really
appreciate, really appreciate it. Yeah. I mean, it couldn't have been
done without not only five of my closest friends, but Otis was one of
the first people to reach out, and he kind of got the train rolling
on all this with getting the Myer sponsor and getting all these other huge corporations
involved. And I'm still speechless with how it turned out. I mean,
there were thousands and thousands of people there and it was just still wild even
experience. Yeah, it looked like you guys had a bunch of you know,
I had people reaching out to me saying, hey, you know,
we want to you know, be a part of how can we help out,
you know, can we make food to take it? You know and
all that stuff. People just wanted to give back, and you know,
that just shows the love that that people have for Michigan State, and you
know how it just impacts everybody you know in the MSU community there. Yeah,
definitely one of my favorite things that one of my friends said is you
sent out a call to Spartan nation and they answer, and they answer really
quickly too, because what turned out is one Instagram story post ended up with,
like I said earlier, tens of thousands of people with their dogs,
with mom hugs, with sibling hugs. Or my favorite was the toddler talk.
So I think three or four groups of parents brought like nine toddlers,
which is insane. I think that's that was the craziest part about the whole
event to me, and these toddlers just handed out little notes and gave hugs
and just crazy spartanation really just kind of wowed me with how giving and loving
they all were. Yeah, Emily, talk about the Venmo. You know
it started out with like hey, donations, and you know, talk about
how that constantly kept growing and the amount of trips you guys took to the
stores. Oh oh, oh my gosh. The thinking Venmo. So we
thought this was gonna be like twenty people. You guys like my girlfriends and
I were like, maybe our parents will come if they're feeling ready, and
like they want to give up a Sunday. So I was like, we'll
just use my personal Venmo. I'll just change my user name. And we
just told everyone if you can't make it on Sunday, just send me a
Venmo and we can go out to the store and get whatever you would like
us to get. So once it started blowing up, we were getting just
Venmo after Venmo after Venmo, and I was like, my poor phone is
going crazy. We were going to the store like Costco and Walmart and five
Blow and thought we were going to get kicked out because we were just getting
thousands of dollars worth of stuff. We ended up with twenty three thousand,
four hundred dollars worth of physical items. And then during the event, we
were out of gift cards and out of stuff, so I ran to od
it and I was like, can you please call Meyer, like we need
to go buy more gift cards, and then we bought another six thousand dollars
worth of gift cards. So in total, we raised just about thirty thousand
dollars in three days for just things to give to the students. Like people
were so giving with their money and we were able to do it, perhaps
usually because of that ven Mel And so you you guys all hear that they
were able to raise thirty thousand dollars. You know that it is the lucky
number thirty. You know, Emily, I think this is a great thing
here, you know, like you know, it's brilliant. You know,
the simplicity is brilliant because there was definitely a need for it. Are you
playing on any follow up events for students as they continue to process, you
guys, please? I so I am a speech pathology major, and I
was peach pologist through and through, and I am so glad I didn't go
into event planning or whatever, because I have never been more exhausted after this
event. In the best way possible. I've had people reach out to me
like what else can we do to give and things like that, and Otis
was mentioning we should do a second Spartan Sunday, and I was like,
if you want to do a second Spartan Sunday, then that is you,
well, I said, I said an annual event, because I was like,
man, like, since COVID, we kind of got all separated and
no one wanted to talk to another or hug or whatnot. And then this
happened. I mean you, like I told the guys, it's like you
just felt love all around the campus. Man. It was like the weather
was great, sun was out fifty degrees. It looked like a football Saturday,
right from a fall tail game. And you know, it was just,
you know, a vibe that everyone didn't have their own agendas. Everyone
was giving, giving, give, and so shout out to to Emily.
I think to be honest, like universities like we might do this annually,
just show like this is a community event. But all the partners that came
through, man without like I said, they're on the agenda saying hey,
I want some publicity or I want this. It was like there was none
of that. So one I have to give a shout out to Kathy Cooper
from Meyer. She was tremendous in like whatever we needed. I almost felt
like I was calling her too much. You say, keep calling, keep
calling, We'll do whatever it takes, target PEPSI col raising everybody coming through.
And I feel bad. I had to shut the grandma down from her
bake goods because we cannot perishable items, we can't give out. But it
seemed how still somebody still got in there and gave some stuff out. But
at the point where it was just we left everybody left field with love and
like we needed that man because we've had that dark stamp on our campus for
a couple of years now and then just that tragedy. We needed something and
so we just wanted to rally around Emily and we appreciate her heart forgiving and
then obviously us providing supporting whatever she needed. And she saw the madness that
goes well we got to play these football games and these big events. She
was like, I want no parts of it no more. So wait,
just what the most amazing thing is too is still seeing the posts from people
the communicator it lost her oh well, I know she was saying, there
you go. Oh sorry. What was so amazing is certain buildings were giving
out the same things that we were, like squish mellows and gift cards and
and things like that, and people were still drawing chalk on the sidewalk.
So that just mhmm, all good. But I think, I know obviously
like there's still stuff coming. They're still events, I think, to be
honest, like every day it's been people are out there doing what they need
to do to welcome back and make sure our students feel safe but also love.
And so I was excited to be a part of it. Man.
Didn't want my name any of it around it. Just wanted to make sure
we did it right, and it did it big. And what we say
is like they build it, they will come, and they definitely came and
fulled, full out drones. Man. So kudos to that. Yeah.
Man, Notice, you know, we gotta we gotta say the same thing
to you too, you know, thank you for you know, being a
part of that organized reaching out to the corporate sponsors, making sure, you
know, getting them on board. I'm sure it's an easy ask for them,
but you know, kudos to you putting that together and you know,
representing you know what it means to be a Spartan. Absolutely great. I
mean, Yeoman's worked this past week keeping everything together. You know, you
were in the middle of it more than any of us, being kind of
the bridge between a lot of different entities around surrounding the university. And there's
a great job by you. Proud of you and what you've been able to
do and continue to do in the leadership role. Now you've got to get
out there and cheer for those Spartans tonight. Know hey, it's just you
know, you know what happened. We went to Bloomington, right, so
boy boy, yeah, waunch yourself to get the bail money off for Odors.
But we're at home. We're at home, so we at home.
But we got to beat these guys. I don't like these guys at all,
these Hoosiers, man, we got to get them right, get them
out of here. I mean I'm hearing that the Hoosiers right are wearing Spartan
Strong. Yeah, wearing Spartan Strong warm ups kind of co brand it,
which is awesome. The show. You know, we got some stuff happening
now, Like during the game, you'll see. Uh you know, we're
gonna play our school song uh MSU shadows and then have a moment of silence
and we actually the marketing team have reserved basically eight spaces empty in the zone
behind the scores table to just give honor and respect to the victims. But
you know, people, the individuals who are still battling for their lives in
the hospital. So you know, we just want to make sure like yes,
it's it's athletics, things still kind of go and continue, but we
want to make sure that you know, we're they're not going to be missed
and their their lives are not in vain. So it will be emotional obviously
tonight, but it's going to be an opportunity to uh if we get the
w and the victory. Even if we don't, it's still an opportunity to
sow show our love for them and that their their families and our students be
coming back to campus. So yeah, all right, well, thank you.
Let's get out there, man, and you know, get those partners
together that you're on the Spartans with the Spartan Faithful that are at the Bresent
Center. Man, thank you, you know, you know Jay, you
and I take it from here because yeah, hey, yeah, if you
go, if you go to fifty four b ask for Judge Ball. He's
really good. You should know he was in there with your tickets trying to
get those things lifted us. So good I got. I got some money
in the bank where I could be like, hey, you know, here's
my bill money. So anybody who's listening, followers, just know that I
always got into a almost caught a case and bloom. Tell what a student.
You know. I was gonna give him these hands? You heal me
these hands That wasn't gonna happen. Thank you. The strange strong arm straight
gave me that full out get right. Hey, fellas, have a great,
great show. Ill wish I could stay here with Noah, but definitely
have a great show. Love y'all. Man, all right, spec man
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everybody. Before you jump in, Chrey, let's give a Tom's story.
He's in a sunny Dominican. He just sent a message shout outs from the
sunny Dominican. He's listening to us out there. Oh yeah, right now,
I'm out there, so is col from my house. So look at
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turn that water on. You know what I'm talking about, Oky. But
without further ado, we want to bring Noah Kim to the show. Noel,
welcome to this ASPARTA. Yeah, thank you, thank you for having
me. What is going on, mister Kim? Yeah? Man, you
know, first of all, thank you for you know, jumping on with
us. I know we had your scheduled a couple of times and how to
push it back, you know, and everything like that. But glad you
you know you made time, you know to join us there. You know,
just the first thing is how are you. Yeah, I'm doing really
well, just getting after it in the weight room. Really, it's all
I've been doing with our workouts, with our meetings and everything that we're doing
right now. We're full head of steam going into this offseason. I'm going
into springball. Well, no, given you know, obviously everyone knows about
the traffic events of the current eight days go on campus. How has the
football leadership been in response to that for the players on the team, Yeah,
it's been great. You know, we we have a lot of help
with a lot of people on campus, with with with just people who are
offering their time to make sure that we're doing well. Our coaches have made
it a point where we did take last week off and we wanted to make
sure everybody was taken care of, just in terms of just mental health wise.
You know, a lot a lot of people handle adversity and and you
know, a perfect incident like this differently, and you know, with the
help of coaches, with the help of our teammates coming together, you know,
hanging out outside of the football building and stuff like that over this weekend
and just doing things like that. Really, I feel like freed a lot
of minds and allowed us to come back into the building starting yesterday to get
this week going. Yeah, definitely, definitely. You know something that you
got it adjust to move on the fly and everything. But let's jump into
it. Noah, you're a kid had some success in the DMV area there.
You went forty was it forty one and one as a starter in high
school? What was it that attracted you to Michigan State? Uh? You
know, actually, my my freshman basketball coach was is coach d'antonio's younger brother,
John D'Antonio. And you know I played with with coach D'Antonio my freshman
year of basketball, and he decided, you know, hey, you want
to go do a camp at Michigan State. I said, yeah, sure,
I'll do that. And when I got up here, I went through
the whole camp process, made with coast D'Antonio. You know, met a
few recruits on the way. And actually it was at the end of the
camp they brought us over to the stadium. We did a little seven on
seven tournament and they played a highlight video at the end, and after I
watched the highlight video. I was pretty much one hundred percent into Michigan State
and that was one of the dream schools I wanted to be at. And
I didn't get offered by Michigan State until my senior year of high school,
and I was committed to Virginia Tech beforehand, and uh, you know,
I really wanted to take a visit to Michigan State even though I was committed,
And once I took that visit, you know, I was one hundred
percent locked into that and I knew where I wanted to be. Nice,
what was it that drew you to that Virginia? Was it that I entered
Sandman entrance at Virginia Tech? Is that a lot of that give you one
of the reasons? Right? No? In all, Seriously, I'm sure
that's a great picture, you and the family right there, and you've seen
a picture circuitating around. I don't know if we have a Kirk cousin,
Brian Hoyer, Nick Foles, a lot of quarterbacks that ended up having a
lot of NFL success being in one quarterback room at Michigan State a few years
back, for your time, take us inside the quarterback room right now where
you have three cable players from according to what the media says, and seeing
you come in games along with Peyton as a starter in a backup role,
and seeing how you've been able to perform. What is the chemistry like inside
of that room? You know, honestly, I think the chemistry is great.
We all get along with each other and we all push each other to
be better every day, and you know that goes to a test to coach
the coaches. You know, the coaches have created an environment for all of
us to you know, compete and you know, compete compete for one spot,
but at the end of the day, we're making each other better.
And one of the one of the things Coach Tuck emphasizes is, uh,
don't compare yourself to other people, especially in the in the building. We're
all teammates at the end of the day. But if you focus on yourself,
you know, at the end of the day, that's gonna be that's
gonna make you the best you. And so that's kind of the mindset I
take into it. But definitely, the competitive side within our room is growing
every single day. We're all getting better, we're all learning, we're all
getting bigger, faster, stronger, and you know, that's something that you
want in a program. You want a highly competitive room, and that's that's
what we have here. Yeah, so what is that you know, what's
your mindset? You know, going into this off season after the disappointing season
last year, what's your mindset and what's the mindset of the team. You
know now you guys are back doing workouts and everything right. Well, for
me personally, I'm going into this off season to really hone in on myself.
I really don't want to compare myself to anybody else on the team,
and so you know, my whole focus is getting myself as big as I
can, as strong as I can, as fast as I can, you
know, and and know the playbook inside and out, which I feel comfortable
doing right now, but there's always stuff to learn. And so if I
for me, I feel like that's the best approach that I could take for
myself. But as a team, you know, coming off of you know,
honestly a disappointing season for us, you know, it really fuels our
fire and it's something that we don't ever want to feel again. We don't
want to see that again. We don't want to showcase that again and so
you know, we're taking this to a different level with this team this year.
And uh, you know, there's a lot of things that the Spartan
fans should be looking forward to this this fall outstanding man. I mean,
when when I think about Noah Kin, let's let's get to know Noah a
little better. Like so for you, you are from Virginia. I see
Mama Hall says, hey Noah in the chat. She she knows you.
So you got some connectivity there from back home. What Okay, when did
you start playing football? Number one? But I have a follow up question
after that. Okay, yeah, I started it. Uh. I played
flag football from when I was like four years old, but I didn't start
tackling until about third grade. And you know, once I always played quarterback,
played a little safety back in my youth days, but nothing in nothing
after youth, I pretty much knew I was a quarterback. And yeah,
I think my love for football really started when I played tackle for my first
year. My mom wasn't too excited about it, but that's something I really
fell in love with, and uh, you know took that. I worked
with my QB coach Barry Thompson, started in the second grade actually before I
started playing and worked with him ever since, and you know, yeah,
my love, my love for football just grew every year from that from there
on, Greg Thompson, So you have a you know, very great reputation
and for you, how many I can ask people in the chat too.
Instruments do you play? I haven't played. I haven't played this in a
while, but uh, I think I started off with the you know,
the old basic recorder going out through elementary school. But I got into playing
like the violin, the saxophone, the bassoon, played a bunch of I
played a few percussion instruments in our band and then moved on to playing the
guitar for a little bit. Wish I kind of kept sticking with that,
but then actually, just recently I bought a ukulele. I've been watching YouTube
videos on how to play that. But yeah, that's pretty much some of
my instruments sounds. All right, are you that guy at the at the
campfire that will break out the guitar and start playing try to win the chicks
over? Oh no, no, I don't know. I'm not that good,
but I got like, I got like one or two songs and me
and the guitar and that's it, all right. So from what I hear
though, like i've you know, throughout the past couple of years, I've
you know, had the opportunity to you know, follow you on social media,
follow your family on social media. Now your brother, your is your
sister the most athletic one in the family. My mom and dad say so.
But you know me, I'm a competitor. I'll never oh man.
So go ahead. The word on the street is you know a little bit
about tekwon do? Yeah, a little bit? A little bit. I
started, uh I think I was like three years old, and I did
it until I think just before high school or eighth grade or something like that.
And uh, I, you know, I competed at a fairly high
level than for my age division whatever. I was on the Junior Olympic teams
and stuff like that, and I would travel to Florida, Texas just to
do some sparring competitions and stuff. And you know, that was actually my
first and favorite sport. And that's something that you know, I love for
a long time. But once football came in, I kind of threw that
to the side. Would you like most about it? I think just the
competitiveness I think there. I think, you know, honestly, fighting is
one of the most competitive things that anybody can do, other than you know,
going to war or whatever. But I think the one on one fighting
is just really you focus on yourself and at the end of the day,
you just don't want another man to beat you, and so it's just man
on man who's gonna win. And that's that's what I really loved about it
is just I didn't like the the forums and all the flashy stuff. I
just like to get to it and uh, you know, see who's better.
Yeah, So let's go back to the football and on the field there
I saw you play. You know, the opportunity that you got this year
to get in the game, and from watching you play, especially from the
sideline, you were just you know, there was one game you came the
first player came in cold and they let you loose. You rip the ball
down the field and uh, like you have that mindset of just sling it
and what happens happens. I know, you go through your progression and your
reads and everything like that, but you have that kind of like fearless mentality
and fearless mindset who do you like mimic as a you know, a professional
or college quarterback, who do you say your game most represents. Man,
That's that's a tough one to say. You know, I kind of take
bits and pieces from different people. You know, you you as a quarterback,
you want to be just a leader, uh in a field generals as
people say like Peyton Manning, you want to make. You want to be
clutch and stuff like that. Like Tom Brady. You want to have the
athleticism of you know, these athletic quarterbacks are that are in the NFL.
And you know, I try not to just be like one specific quarterback and
I try to figure out what I what I'm really good at and kind of
showcase that on the field and you know, build everything else up on the
way. Yeah. I think the comparison part is it is hard to answer.
I can't name one person, but definitely bits a piece from everybody else
and see see what works and see what doesn't works and kind of add that
to my game. So no, I'm going to ask this because you know,
in this era you grow up that you're playing in right now, it's
it's a transfer portal nil era. There's a lot of movement going around the
country. I mean you've seen teammates come and go obviously, what is it
that in your mind? Like, how do you approach that ability? Because
you see some guys just don't want to stick anywhere. They just want to
move and try to get that you know, their spot right or wrong.
People do do this, they make that decision to move on or to transfer.
What how do you approach that at Michigan State given that you know,
you're back up right now, but you've had success coming into games as a
backup, so like you're there every day, how do you process that?
Yeah, one of the hardest things for you know, just college athletes is
just the adversity of not being the guy right away. You know, you
go through high school and a lot of these Division one athletes, you know,
they're the guy on their team and so it's been that way for a
few years while they're coming up through high school. And then you get to
a college, especially a Big ten school like Michigan State, who you know,
strives to be the best school in the country every year, and you
know, when a lot of people don't see that playing time or that attention
or that love right away, you know, it is. It is hard
for athletes to kind of stay mentally locked in on themselves and you know,
push and you know, keep getting better and you know, earning that spot.
And so it's it is tough to to not be the guy from day
one, But at the same time, it's it's a learning lesson and something
that kind of pushes me in, kind of keeps the you know, keeps
the weight on my back. Where I know, I have to at every
school in the country, there's gonna be competition, there's gonna be players at
every school in the country, and so I have to earn my spot anywhere
I go to. And so while I'm here, I know this stuff,
I know what I'm doing, I know the playbook, I know my guys,
I have great relationships with the coaches. So why not try to earn
my spot here? And you know, at the end of the day,
because it's all belief in yourself, and you know, I believe in myself
almost more than anybody does. Yeah. Absolutely, man. And what I
can what I can add to that is, you know, I say,
stay the course. We had a lot of good guys. You got a
guy like Drew Stanton, he came in and he sat, you know for
a year or two. You know, Brian Horrier he sat as well.
So it doesn't have to be that instant gratification thing like you know everyone thinks
it should be. But you know, straight mentioned that you know, transfer
portal, Nils stuff there, and I'm going to go to more of the
NIL side of things. And you know, as the backup quarterback in any
league in high school actually will go pee wee high school, college pros anywhere.
Everyone loves the backup quarterback, the backup quarterbacks that guy. Then they
want to nippick everything that he does. So in the NIL age, when
all these people are yelling Noah Kim is him? Have you thought about capitalizing,
you know, on that trademarking, that getting that you know, n
I l you know so something. I mean, you know that the NIL
stuff looks you know, really great for for these for us as athletes.
You know, it's money, right, and who doesn't want money, especially
as an athlete, especially as a college student. But my approach, you
know, you know, I think my parents for this, you know,
they kind of you know, they stay in my ear about just staying humble,
just just keep your head down, keep working, and uh, the
NILS is something that something that I want, but not something that I need
right now. What I need right now is to just keep doing what I'm
doing and focusing and you know, eventually working my way up to being on
that field, and you know, if that's God's plan. But yeah,
it looks good and it looks you know, and it's something that is right
there and something that you know I can dabble into, but that's not something
that I'm really focusing on right now. And you know, I feel like,
you know, once that time comes, if I do get on that
field, that you know that that NIL stuff will come with it. And
yeah, I don't I don't want to spend too much time on focusing on
n I L and what I could be earning when I have a lot to
prove onto the field. First, speaking of that, what do you think
that you need to work on in order to have that? Like where do
you feel like, because we've seen as as observers of the game, calls
the game to use some sideline there, I mean, your pinpoint accurate,
you make good decisions, you can tell you going through professions. What is
in your mind do you need to improve on in order to have a shot.
Well, I think, uh one, the one thing that you know,
especially in the back of position, that I have to start with is
being the guy without being the guy first. So kind of what I mean
by that is, you know, I have to kind of have that presence
in the room, in the on the practice field, in the meeting room,
even off the field. I have to have the presence that I am
the guy, and I have to act in a way where I want that.
You know, I have to act in a way that shows that,
you know, I'm serious about being the guy and that this is what I
want. And so, you know, if I can take the steps necessary
to be to be a leader, you know, to show everybody what hard
work is, you know, a lot of things like leading by example,
you know, taking command of my team and things like that. You know,
it is what's going to get me to that spot. I think playing
wise, all of us court, us, us guys in the in the
QB room can all play. You know, we can all make throws,
we can all make the reads, we all know the playbook. But at
the end of the day, it's going to be who has control of the
team, who has who does the team have you know, their back and
things like that, and I think that's something that I'm going to do and
what's going to get me onto the field that that's a great question, great
answer, No, I really you know, but on this show we kind
of it's like, uh, you know, barbershop style, locker room style
there. And you know from a running back, you know, especially a
running back that played in a two back rotating system there. So when you
know, I was on the field and I'll come off and the defenses on
Javon will be like, hey, what do you see out there? What's
happening? Are they hitting? You know, and you're tell it giving that
information. So I want you to give our listeners what is it like to
be, you know, on game day a backup quarterback. You're the eyes,
you know, off the quarterback from a different side, from a different
view, different angle. So when you know, this past year, when
Peyton comes off the field, what do you guys talk about? Yeah?
Right, you know, actually being the backup quarterback is you know one of
the is a very important role, not just for me but for the team.
You know, I have to be locked in on what the defense is
doing, so that you know, at any given moment, you know,
I'm ready to go. But at the same time, I can't hide any
information from my teammates. And so when Peyton comes off the field, let's
say it's a three and out or something like that, and he asked me,
what what what I saw, you know, just from a different angle,
if I saw anything different from him. So we compare things that you
know, what he might what me what he may have saw, and what
I see things that you know, what they're doing, like little tendencies here
and there. And that goes along with the conversation with coach Johnson upstairs as
well. He'll call down sometimes and ask me what I'm seeing and if we're
seeing the same things, and yeah, it's really just relaying information within our
little circle of QB. Interesting, you know, Noah. You know,
so we've had some of your teammates on the defensive side of the ball on
the show and they said that, you know, some of the reasons in
their minds for last year's lack of success, For a better way of putting
whatever, it was due to a lack of chemistry between new players coming in
and guys who have been there before. As an offensive player and leader,
as a quarterback, do you what do you see as a tributary to not
having the success that you think that you should have obviously going five and seven
a year ago. Yeah, you know, a lot of guys are different
on the team, and you know, it's it's it's tough to really pinpoint
on why our season went in such a way that it did. I wouldn't
say it's all on the team chemistry. I feel like we do have team
chemistry. You know, we all shared the same struggle in and out the
building. You know, we go through the same workouts, we go through
the same struggles, we all have bad practices, and you know, one
of the best things for you know, team bonding is shared experience and shared
struggles, and so we did do a lot of that going into the season,
and you know, throughout the whole season, we we never we never
broke and that was something that you know, we we could be proud of.
We never we never really broke mentally. You know, we didn't get
the wins that we wanted, but you know, at the end of the
day, we went out there and we we put one hundred percent effort into
winning every single game. But something that we we started doing this year that
we didn't do it as much last year. Is just kind of unit like
events. So the whole offense went bowling, the whole defense went bowling.
We got a trivia night coming up next Monday that we're doing as an offense,
and you know, just wrinkling in things here and there, just to
keep the guys together. It's something that we're doing moving forward to see if
that can help us in any sort of way. Yeah. Absolutely, and
that that chemistry aspect is huge. You know, you talked to we had
you know, a former you know Spartan dog from a Spartan still a Spartan
dog, Will Goldstan on the show and he talked about, you know,
that chemistry, how much it means to to be you know, to get
you to that next level. So when you get out on the field,
you know, you play for each other, you have that love for each
other, no tell us, you know what is it like? You know
that Spartan walk and then being in the locker room on game day to running
out the tunnel because I equated to you know, so I played you know,
five years in the league and running out of the tunnel in the NFL.
You know, probably ten twenty times out of one hundred, you know,
the hairs from the back of your neck will stand up. But running
out of Spartan Stadium, one hundred out of one hundred times that hairs from
the back of your neck standup. What is that feeling like, you know
for a player, Yeah, it's a it's a it's a great feeling.
You know, you wake up Saturday morning or Saturday at whatever time the game
is on Saturday, you wake up that morning, you get your suit and
tie. You know, you look good, you feel good, You're ready
to go, and then you get to Spartan Statue and you know, you
walk through the crowds of people and they're all chanting, they're all screaming,
cheering and all that kind of stuff, and you know, it's it's really
exciting to just kind of see the support that we have here at Michigan State.
And you know, it's great that even though we finished five and seven,
we did have fans lined up all the way to the stadium cheering us
on because they want to see us get a win. And that's something that
something that one of the reasons why we play so hard is because we have
so much great support. And then you know, going into the locker room,
you know it's it's very quiet. We're not playing music out loud.
Everybody's kind of in their own headspace. Guys have their headphones on or stretching
or whatever it is, and go out for warm ups and do that whole
deal. But once you line up for the for the when you run out
the tunnel, it's it's go time, and everybody is laser focused. Everybody
is pumped, you know, they're they're all juiced up and ready to go.
And then as soon as you run out the crowd and you know,
everybody screaming, roaring. You know, it's something that you know, you
that I will never forget, something that nobody you know, it's a once
in a lifetime kind of thing, and you know, not everybody gets to
do it. So we all, none of us take that for granted,
and we're all grateful for the experience that we are getting. M No,
before we let you go, you know, like you're a man after my
own heart, because you know what people don't know is because this is something
I reserve mostly for my guys in the trenches. But you're a foodie,
you like to eat. I was just gonna go into that. Yeah,
so what I understand. So, like, you know your quarterback, you
know your your SVELTZ guy, you're in shape, you know what is your
favorite what's your go to food wise? Man, Definitely my dad's cooking.
I think my dad's watching right now, so dad, But uh, definitely
my dad's cooking. You know, he he's a master at the grill and
uh, you know, honestly, I I it's it's changed over the years.
I used to be I used to like the ribs that he would make
and then steaks. But I think for me now it might be his brisket,
brisket tacos and pull por tacos and some of those taco things that he's
added to his Yeah. Yeah, so mister Kim very much. I'd be
following his stories. He'd be on the smoker, he'd be on the grill.
He'd be getting after it. And don't leave me out spring game,
regular season games. I want like brisket. I don't need any sides.
I don't need just meat meat. I don't need any sides or anything but
some tough hidden questions coming at you know you like seafood, right, I
love seafood. You're from a d m V area, it's blue crab overrated?
Yes or no? Yes? Yes, because there's not no meting out.
Are you? Are you king dungeness crab legs or snow crab legs kind
of guy snow crab? What kind of what kind of flavor on there when
you get the ball bag? Uh? You know, honestly, I mix
whatever, all the flavors are mixed together, whatever that flavor is on whatever
seafood restaurant menu that is. I go to the Ocean Crab right down here
and uh like ten minutes from campus here, and it's one of the best
seafood I've ever had. Surprising because it's in Michigan. But hold on,
would you say, what's the name on that place? Ocean Crab? That's
the n I L. We got to talk to him. Get the ball
bagall bag. I might I might be their number one customer, but for
that we need to have a cook off. Yeah, the moms, we
ain't just doing just dance. I'm already tested. I'm notting on that.
Judge, No game day. What do you what's in your headsets? What
are you listening to? Are you a music person? I am a music
person. But Game day, I listened to old school rap. I'll listen
to like some Tupac Biggie, I listened to some nas. I'll listened to
a little jay Z here and there more more old school for me. It
just kind of gets me in my zone. Give give me your top five
rappers, top five rap in no particular order. Top five rappers. Yeah,
uh, I don't know. One and two can be either or but
I think Tupac and Biggie number one too, you know, honestly a new
school rapper right now, a little baby yah man, I don't know.
Yeah, many that, Yeah, it's it's hard, it's hard, but
I think jay Z's in there of course. And uh, I don't know,
but that's that's what I listened to. But you know, all time
list, I don't know. It can go on for days, man,
hey, And we can go on for days with you, no man,
we really this this has been like eye opening. Follow Noah Kim on the
social media. There's his handles right there, Twitter at Noah Underscore Kim twelve
and on his Instagram at Noah Kim. Noah, we appreciate the time,
brother, man, Hey, good best of luck the rest of the season.
We're gonna come to see you in the spring, man, see your
spring, spring practice, spring ball will be there. Definitely appreciate you coming
on. Uh, stay, stay humble, stay true to yourself, stay
true to the roots that your family brought you. Seem like you come from
a great family. You know. Quick story. When we were in Maryland
for the game, I brought my my niece and nephew you know, at
the team hotel. Hell there. It was their first time, you know,
going to a football game first. And you were, you know,
one of the guys you know, came, took a picture with them.
Really appreciate you. No, you're you're you're You're one of Chu Choo's favorites.
And I'm gonna continue to, uh, you know, carry that flag
for you, my man. You know, stay true to yourself, keep
keep grinding, keep your nose to the grindstone, and keep and stay humble
and hungry. Yes, sir, thank you so much, Thank for yourself.
To you, he's one of this is spot of Msh's favorites. I
think I speak for myself and the rest all right in our in our in
our world. Man. He appreciate it. No, uh, and look
forward to following and keeping up with your success in the future. Man,
thank you for coming. Yeah, thank you for having me appreciate it all
straight. Who's your? What like blown away for like everybody that we've had
on all these players, you know, you're just blown away by the maturation
process. You know that they bring to the table. And I always,
you know, take a step back and be like, man, when I
was, was I like that? You know? No, I'll tell you
right now, no, like, yeah, we did not have this many
good kids on the team. It's different now. I mean, which is
a good thing? I think you love you? Love you? How's your
who's your top five? Top five rappers of all time? It doesn't have
to be in particular order. Just I mean, I say, look,
come on, man, he just did he just he did it. He
tupa you know, he said Biggie jay Z. You know. For me,
man, like, look, look, I do like Nas, I'm
not really that kind of I'm not a huge NAS guy like that too much
for Nas. I respect little baby. I do. I think he's you
know, a brand new guy. But I mean, so what is that
now? I got four? Yeah? And then uh, I mean,
who do I listen to all the time. Man asked Mom, straight man,
I'll tell you. I'll tell you my top five in no particular order.
It goes Biggie Jay z Oh, yeah, so Biggie a couple of
days ago. Yeah, lo Wayne, oh Weezy I and t I.
We're watching that championship game with Yeah. You know you know Mom stray Astley,
Yes, true story. Absolutely, he sat next to us eating pizza.
I didn't eat t I. Oh, you know, he got to
get that thing with Bootsy figured out he's got a little beef going on with
Bootsy from what I was beefing with everybody. You an't think I knew that,
did you? I think? You know? In other news, guys,
other news, you know, there's Tony Mandris, Jason Strayhorn, and
Jared Horse. What do they have in common? All number seventy nine,
Jared Horse, number one pick today in the us f L unbelievable Jared Horse.
That is great. You know, congratulations to this young man. You
know, he had a rocky, you know, to be blunt, to
be honest, he had a rocky, you know, career at Michigan State.
You know, like transfer from Arkansas State came here, had some you
know issues how to figure it out. He took some time away from the
team that came back this year, didn't automatically start and got into some games.
But you know, you can never knock a guy, you know,
going out and continue to play the game that we all love, you know,
everyone, if we can make money playing this game and go on to
you know the next step of our career playing this, you know, good,
you know, good for him, and congratulations to that young man.
God bless Jared Horse. Now which team picked him up? Which? Which?
Which team? Was it? The Michigan Panthers. Michigan Panthers and they
will be playing their games at Ford Field? Yeah this year. That's right,
that's right. Looking forward to seeing old Jared Horrise in Detroit. Man.
They look great show today. You know, the the Spartan Sunday deal
that Emily was able to bring on the Domin along with what Otis was able
to do with his team and Playfly was outstanding. Definitely what I was just
laughing, I'm looking at the comments and said, only cap Us love Boozy.
That is so true. That is so true. Man, Drake,
Come on, now, Drake is not Drake is someone cry. He's a
cry baby man, Drake, I don't even consider Drake a rapper. You're
gonna get a light scan rapping some love too. What this right? We
gotta Drake hey man, he sold the most albums all time, rap,
always crying, always whining about something. He's Canadian man, M Like,
I can't, I can't believe you're going against the Canucks like that. No,
you know you know the best, the best, the best Canadian musician.
It goes justin Bieber rapper. You can't, I'm saying musician. Okay,
the Beabs, Celine Dion, Ryan Adams, the Weekend, Ben Drake,
He's not even in the top five. Oh man, Let's get these
people out of here to go watch the game straight. Let's get into the
game. That's right. The Spartan's taking on Indiana in the Bresln Center in
just a few minutes. So we're gonna let you get to watch that because
we want to watch it too. We appreciate everybody joining the show today to
watch us, and you think special things goes out to know Kim and Emily
Domin four. Jay, you call corect choot you. This is Jason Straehorn
for this is Sparta. Have a good night, God blessed, and go
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