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

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Well, Hello and good evening,
good people. It is Tuesday, October

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tenth, two thousand and twenty three. Welcome to the Only show about Spartan

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Dogs hosted by Spartan Dogs. This
is Sparta MSU. I'm your host,

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Jason Strayhorn, along with my co
host Jayu Choot you Culchrek in the house.

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Ohis the boss is on assignment.
He's still icing his knees from the

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fantastic dancing performance he put on on
Friday. But more on that in a

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moment. For now, If this
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you let us know where you're watching
us from. Dang, how was your

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weekend? The bike bye week was
good? You know, relax a little

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bit. Uh? What did I
have to clean the garage on Sunday,

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you know, mowed the line.
Yeah, yeah, man, it was

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a kind of this weekend. Did
did you did you get a chance to

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watch some some sports? Yeah?
I watch a lot of college football on

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Saturday. They got an opportunity to
kick back a little bit, watch some

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college football, and then woke up
early to watch my Bills lay an egg

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in London. You know, when
they're playing Jacksonville so and people complaining,

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oh, this should have gone this
time and that time and the time the

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NFL, It's like, no,
it's on the team. They go there,

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they choose when they go. But
with Lateen Knights. And then I

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also saw for all you shout out
to all you Lions fans. You know,

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Lions are bawling right now. They
certainly are balling. You're looking real

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good. I mean even some of
them guys and players from down the road

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look awful good in that Honolulu blue. Uh. But man, more on

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those guys at a later date.
Let's get into the good stuff. And

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we have a Spartan player, a
dog that just bend the knee and got

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engaged. Jonathan Kim gets engaged too. Yeah, man, I wanted to

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give a shout out to my Jonathan. You know I've I've rapped with the

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Kickers from day one. You know, everyone you know know and a big

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kick even sent Jonathan from day one. I've always been a Jonathan Kim guy.

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Oh okay, uh, we recall
you not being a fan of Kickers,

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but they're not people. But this
one was always been a Kim as

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him. Johnny knows that miss him. Okay, I get it all right,

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So what's up? He got engaged? Talk about that. I think

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you were there. You helped put
it on. I was not. I'm

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not taking that man's shine. He
got. He got on bended knees like

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boys to men would say, and
uh, he popped the question. Congratulations

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to him. But all these these
kids getting engaged so young. But I

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guess if you know, you know, if you if you meet the one

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that captures your heart, you know, you gotta you gotta lock it up

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before someone else does. So it's
just for me, it's early to get

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engaged at that stage of your life. But if you know, you know,

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and you got to be with the
one that rocks with you, and

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he got her a rock while she's
rocking with him, and you know,

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congratulations to the new couple. Jonathan
Kim engaged, newly engaged, spartan dog

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and it don't hurt that he you
know, just coming off that Kennick Stadium

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record fifty eight yard field goal.
Yeah, you know that's He's a second

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player to get engaged within the last
month, month and a half here because

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Nate Carter he got engaged earlier on
in the season, and now Jonathan Kim's

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getting engaged. So who knows,
maybe our guests will be the next to

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get engaged. Our guests, We're
gonna get right into it because we got

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a special player and even a better
human being on the show joining us.

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Maleik Carr, tight end mischis safe
about joints, is sparted mesu. Welcome

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to the show, Malik. How
are you doing? Brother? Hey?

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What is he talking about? Yeah? He talking about you getting engaged.

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That's what you gotta talk about.
Maybe you guys are getting engaged young now

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said, maybe you next or something
not gonna happen no time soon. Yeah,

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gotta be a kid a little bit
well leek, So talk about man?

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How you been man like you?
The last time we saw you was

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in Iowa. You went six for
six man, like you're tearing up the

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field. I think he had forty
three yards and you had an injury,

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had to get out of the game. But how are you doing right now

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with this season and the things that
you have, because look, everybody wants

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to know about your gloves. You
went from no gloves to gloves, and

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things seem to like take a little
spike up. The game's gone up once

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he got the gloves. I've been
telling him to put gloves on. And

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let's make one thing clear. It's
the amount of targets that's that's that's obvious.

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The amount of targets have changed,
so the amount of catches have changed.

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They've got them to do a gloss. Okay, taking off. I'm

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forced to wear gloves right now because
of a certain situation. So uh yeah,

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you're forced. So you don't like
them, are you? Is it

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fair to say that you do not
like them? Even though you don't like

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them, you still don't like them. It feels weird. This whole game

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feels weird, don't it. But
like you've been able to change right from

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a receiver, you've morphed yourself into
a pro prospect the tight end at the

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tight end position, talk about that
evolution with Ted Gilmour, your position coach,

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and what you've been able to come
to terms with and learn from him

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as a player. Uh, I'm
not gonna lie to this date. At

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Uh had to be a receiver,
love receiver. Don't have to block as

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much, don't take as many years
off your career. That's my main thing

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with it. But I mean blocking
is not that hardest. Basically, are

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you willing to do it? Oh? Basically my wills to do it is

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changed, and that's really od.
It's really changed. As far as the

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boys came and tight end and receive
it, that's all it says. Yeah,

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you know, you're you're You're absolutely
right, Malik. I think you

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know blocking is a mindset if you
want to do it. You know,

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I was a guy that, you
know, all my career played tailback and

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then when I went to the next
level, I had to play full back.

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And it's majority of blocking instead of
what's that? Huh, what'd you

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say? None? But you know
the majority of that is it's blocking.

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So it is that mindset. You're
absolutely right, And I think I've seen

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that switch in your mindset this year. You know, you've become a better

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inline blocker than you were last season, and you know, I think you

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know you're credited to that mindset.
Pauls. There we go. See.

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See last year everybody kept talking about
my blocking. I was responsible for like

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seventy percent of our Russian touchdowns.
You can go back. I don't.

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I don't want. I don't want
to do that. I really, I

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really don't, like seriously, like
I went back after at the last he's

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after everybody said that, and I
looked at most of our touchdowns Russia.

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Who was in me? It was
either me a tea hunt or it was

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that together. But okay, so
where do you think that's coming from?

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So you said you think that you
got a bad rap of people are saying,

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oh, you got to improve your
blocking or is it? Is it?

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There's no credit, no validity to
it. Are you thinking that maybe

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worked on it or what? What? What is that? Where's that coming

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from? The outside world will see
like one or two plays and then just

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make their mind up and that's okay
for them. Thank go doing me though,

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So I'll just be living love.
I'm doing my job. One thing

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about you, Malik that I absolutely
love is like you you treat this as

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just what it is a game.
Every time I see you always have a

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smile on your face. You're out
enjoying yourself. And I was the same

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way. I was always smiling.
And you know, we talked about it

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in previous episodes about me and my
story and always like what, you know,

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what is it with the game of
football that brings you so much joy?

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How do I say this without sounding
bad? No? I know it

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just sounds a little bit, just
a little bit. I like just feeling

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like every time I stuff on the
field, I'm better than somebody that that's

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just personally like and as a person, I feel like you get a little

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joy out of that just knowing that
you can beat people up. Mm hmm,

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Like you could just beat people up, like over and over and over

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and over again. Yeah, there's
nothing bad about that. That's that's what

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you want. I want to go
to war with guys like that, go

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out on the field and have that
mindset as you as you just described there,

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because that's the game of football.
Stray. You know this from being

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an offensive lineman, me from a
running back. When you can impose your

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will on somebody time after time after
time, there is no better feeling than

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that. Uh So there's absolutely nothing
bad with with that. So let's let's

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talk about this. You know,
going into the season is a lot of

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hype and the season is not right
now, it's still a young season,

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it's not there's a lot of you
know, stuff that go on with coach

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Tucker and then you know where we
are in the season, Like what is

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the the mindset of the team,
because we saw that Iowa game. The

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team did not quit, they did
not have they were fighting through and through

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and that's the team that I that
I see on a day to day and

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that's what I tell people. So
you like, what's the mindset of the

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team. We got to fix the
mistakes, Like it's literally nothing else as

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far as like want two and skill
and talent, we got a lot of

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that. That's not a problem.
But like the mistakes kill us. We

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have drive killers every other drive,
we have drive givers every other drive.

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We're just giving people like a reset
of downs or we're backing ourselves up and

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that is hurting us as a team. But that's why our word of the

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year now is disciplined and we're staking
to that. I'm trying to fix that

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every day, Like we check the
penet the report every day in practice.

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If you don't like, if you
get a put it in practice, you

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got to go up in front of
the team and explain your penalty. You

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know what I'm saying, And we
do can push us in front of the

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those team. So we're big on
discipline right now and fixing all the little

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mistakes. So so we've been reading
about this, so coach Charlie Barnett has

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instituted a more accountability rules. So
in because they have rest there, they

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do throw faggs, but typically it
doesn't matter. But now because it's showing

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up in the games and it's costing
you wins literally from the turnovers penalties,

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this has been a point of emphasis
now for the team. That's just absolutely

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well, that's good to hear.
I'm sure that's refreshing. I see Pops

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is in the chat he said eleven
for eleven with gloves just saying I think

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that's yeah. I don't know,
yeah, I don't care about the gloves.

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So, like you talked about,
Coach Barnett, you know, holding

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the team more accountable and the the
you know going forward, the big themous

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discipline. We know Coach Barnett coach
Barnett coached. You know when I was

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playing, he was on the staff. Schrey knows him. He's a you

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know, remember he's been on the
show with us and we know the type

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of loth that he's cut from.
For the listeners and I'll don't really know

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Coach Bartnett like explain him to them, like what type of dude is Coach

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Bartnett? And what type of you
know leader is he stepping up to be?

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Right now? You know, Coach
Bartnett is like man is like really

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big on his faith. He makes
that very clear and very known every day

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day in the day up and you
can feel it in his field and just

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the way he walks around and uh, he's big on being like like he's

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lighthearted, but he's honest. He
gets things done, Like whatever needs to

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get done, We're gonna get it
done. Like he's just a real like

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hard working on this guy got fair. Do you think that you know his

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ability to because I mean, obviously
as former players, we're seeing you guys

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have the energy and the fight that
I've seen teams with that have less going

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on on not having situations like this? Is it the chemistry that strong and

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everybody talks about like, Okay,
the portal's gonna open up after you know,

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your coach gets fired, and you
know, the attrition of the team

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has not been to the level that
a lot of people would have thought.

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Uh, it seems that there's a
good nucleus leadership in that team and forty

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for you guys to be able to
play the way that you're playing. What

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do you trip it that to.
I think as a team, we weren't

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locked in to speifically a coach.
We were locked into each other and like

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helping each other succeed. I mean, yeah, the coaches are there and

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they're always going to be there,
but like coaches move on like this,

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players got to stay sometimes based on
situations. Once you transfer once it's like

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you're basically there. But I mean
just I think the players are bought into

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like what we can do as a
team, not as what coaches can do,

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which is critical. That's key because
you're a guy you try answered in

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from Purdue, product of Old Park
High and it came in from Purdue.

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So there's other players on this team
that have transferred in. Has that been

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kind of the rallying crowd, Like, look, there's no point in even

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looking at that right now. Let's
just let's just do what we have to

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do and control we can control right
now and put the best product on the

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field that you possibly can in order
for you to have whatever goals you have

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in your life for you come December
January of this coming year. Yeah,

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I mean, there's obviously no plan
in trying to do anything different. I

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mean, regardless even if you wanted
to leave, say you're a player that

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wants to leave, you need film. You got to go out there and

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play your ass off too. I
mean, this is just what it is.

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So everybody just bought in. Yeah, So you know what's that being

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said? It's are the guys there's
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you always said you got to keep
in mind too that at the end of

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the day, you guys are eighteen, nineteen, twenty year old, you

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know, young adults right now.
I'm not gonna say kids, because you're

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not kids. You're young adults.
You're making decisions and everything. And look,

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we talked about before, this is
still a game that we're playing at

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the end of the day. Is
the team are they having fun or is

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there like a lot of pressure on
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like as soon as the situation happened, you know, it was a lot

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of pressure and everybody stopped having fun
with the game. Like you can physically

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feel it in there. I mean
you've seen it that next week. But

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ever since then, like we've been
having more fun and seeing playing music,

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I practice, just trying to get
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You know what I'm saying. You're
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You're a catalyst to get people to
have some fun because I know every time

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I see you out there, I
mean you tap me on the shoulder and

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look the other way. You're always
lighthearted guy. Is that Do you feel

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like that's your role to keep things
like less tense on the team? Yeah,

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that's part of it. But I'm
I mean, I'm human. I

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have my days like I'm not gonna
lie most Tuesdays, I'm not gonna be

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as loud. It's just our heart
today. I just earlier in the morning,

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I'm trying to just go through practice, get what I need to do,

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and then like when hy Tuesday,
that's that's a lunch pail day.

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That's that's fair. They that lunch
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that mentality that, you know,
something that came up when coach Barnett was

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elevated to the interim head coach.
They also mentioned that coach Dantonio was gonna

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come in and be you know,
from what I've seen, I think coach

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D'Antoni has been doing a lot of
like the mentoring of coach Barnett or what

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have you seen with him, you
know, in the building and in practice?

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Is it is it that just a
mentoring of coach Barnett or is he

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getting involved with the ex And I
mean he's mostly a like mentor to coach

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Barnett. I mean obviously he's been
here, done this, you know what

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I'm saying. So I mean like
coach Barnett is just like getting to listen

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to hear or some advice when he
needs it. And as players, if

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you need to, you can go
talk to Dantonio. He'll tell you whatever,

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like however he feels. But yeah, there's a question in the chat

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that asked, you know, Malik, what would you say to a recruit

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about why they should still come to
MSU regardless of the coaching situation As far

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as our team goes, like we're
connected as the team. Any school you

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go to at the end of the
day, that coach can be gone in

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two seconds, as you can see. So I mean you need to come

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to the university in the place,
not the coaches. Come see your teammates,

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like, come see who's gonna be
a teammates. Don't worry about coaching,

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as always have in anyways, as
far as you're good goes and coaches

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they're cool. Yeah they can help, but like in reality, you're not

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going to spend most of your time
with them. Go see the strength class.

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Go see who's going to spend most
of your time with. Go see

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the academic people, Go see the
campus, Go see the type of people

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you want to be around. You
know what I'm saying that that's that's a

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great point. And and you know, I feel you know those sentiments one

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hundred percent because I feel the same
way. And uh, you know,

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so like what do you know you're
in it now with NIL and you know

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all that stuff. What are your
thoughts on NIL or are you one of

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those guys that's thinking the long game
about you know, NFL? I mean,

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I'm thinking the NFL, but I
mean, and that is still money,

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you know, what I'm saying,
we like, we like athletes for

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generations on generations been waiting for this, so of course we're excited, like

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we're just but it's hard to like
manage as far as like it's not that

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many like it's too many Lucians,
as far as ioas in my opinion,

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like it's no contracts, it's no
like real contracts. A coach can promise

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you whatever you want before you get
to that school and don't got to give

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you nothing when you get there.
You got people on certain teams, it's

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like people that's not playing getting paid, and people that's playing it's not getting

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paid. People that's making plays it's
not getting paid. And there's people that's

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just on the field just getting paid. And I mean, I just feel

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like it should be a different way
to go about stuff. But as far

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as money goes, I think people
should be heavy like I have personally,

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like I'm happy with just a little
I get, so I'm gonna gave it

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up. Speaking of that, I
mean, those are those are great points

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you brought up, because it is
you know, when you I'm sure in

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this era you have friends all over
the country that at different universities and you

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hear good, the bad, the
ugly, You hear everything. You know

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when you look at you, there's
a there's an nil deal that that's been

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highly publicized for you that ju I
know can bring some color to is the

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w w E situation that you have
where there's a few select players who have

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been selected by the World Wrestling what
is it called WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment,

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Entertainment not not w w F back
in the day, the federation.

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So so you know, like talk
about how that deal came about, and

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like what does it mean to you? What do you what is it?

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What do you have to do there? It is Bell is gonna come out

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that makes you feel good? You
and I already had this talk. We

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already have this talk. So you're
gonna be doing the same thing. I'm

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better though, but uh, I've
been in the ring. That's okay,

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You've been on TV. Yeah,
I need to see it. Yeah,

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I'm gonna need to I'm gonna to
see that the league match this. Yeah,

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we can do that. How that, how that deal? How they

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approach you with that? I actually
approached them through influencer, So on influencer

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we are but like everybody has access
to certain certain organizations that reach out or

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like just want to be a part
of the university and help with certain players.

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So like they were already looking into
me before I reached out. So

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it just helped that I reached out, I guess, and I got the

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deal. I really don't know what
else went into that. I'm not gonnae

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tell you. They said they were
looking for a big personality. I kind

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of got that, but you know, yeah, and you know, like

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you and I talked about, that's
way after. That's years from like you

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said, when we're at and I
allowed me, and that's when i'm your

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age said, but not after you're
done. But you know, like I

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said, I used to do when
I played in the league. I used

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to in the off season. I
used to go and train, you know,

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with WWE like training wrestling because it
helps you, you know, one,

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your endurance one, it helps you
it teaches you like little things on

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how to fall, how to protect
yourself when you fall, and those types

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of things. So I think it's
it's really cool. It's a great opportunity

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for you and congraticate you on that
because it's something that's bigger and bigger,

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and especially with the you know new
expansion that you know endeavor, you know,

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buying WWE now and at the end
of the day, it's a way

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to prolong your athletic career and you
can make a ton of money still when

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you're done playing, you know through
that. So congratulations to you, my

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man, on that you planning on
go Bette, no ringside, I just

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go to shows and watch you.
Yeah, you're gonna be one of those

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guys come off the top rope.
You afraid of that? Or you can

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do it. He's athletic, he
could do it. Look, I could

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do it. What it take for
me to do it? It's like how

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many zeros? Yeah, yeah,
little heights, a little scared heights.

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Yeah, here's you know, Rashade
Howard. Once you've wrestled, everything else

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is easier. True statement. Yeah, man, So look, you you

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got the wrestling n il going on. You got this season, Like when

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you're looking at Rutgers in the preparation
for it, you know, you lost

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two games in a round, obviously
three games in a row, but the

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last two games you had those guys
statistically beating every category but the penalties and

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obviously turnovers and points. What what's
the team's attitude right now, are they

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do they feel everybody's in a good
like mental space to go out to Piscataway,

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New Jersey. Man, we're trying
to kill them. I ain't even

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good times. I don't like losing, and like I'm a really sore loser,

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Like like, I hate losing more
than I like when you know,

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you know what I'm saying. So
like, no, we're coming out to

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kill them. I don't even want
to waste some more time thinking about none

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know some kind of way. Hey, maybe we need to soften that blow

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so it doesn't end up on the
blue the bore. But I love the

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attitude. I love that, you
know, look two yeah, say about

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that. No, I'm all in
for that. Dog men talent a lot.

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It makes a better plane right home, you know, after a win.

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But I know, Malik, you
gotta go. You got athletes in

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action coming up at eight thirty,
right, so I'm already here now.

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It's your birthday coming up, My
birthday tomorrow? Oh okay, happy birthday?

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Yeah? Happy? Yeah? How
twenty two? Does I see you?

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Douces? Okay? Yeah, I
don't know how I feel about that

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one yet. I don't know for
the very young man. Yeah. Another,

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what are the plans for the birthday? You're gonna get something to eat?

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Like? Good? Yeah, I
knows every year in my family.

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Yeah, that's a smile. What
what what's your order? Brother? The

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splash from meadow for me steak a
shrimp double right, got to have it?

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Yeah, that right is good?
With that, young young sauce.

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Why are you get so excited?
Just I mean, he believe you're getting

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a lot of birthday wishes here.
Man. Look, we want you to

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get have the best birthday tomorrow and
you know, a joyous plane ride home

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man after the game, and for
scataway this weekend against Rutgers. You know,

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I know you got stuff we got
to do with athletes in action,

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and you got your birthday plans to
do that. Cheo choo. And I

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thank you for coming on the show
and spending some time with us to day

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man to get people to know the
real elite car Man. Appreciate it.

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Look forward to having you back on
sometime soon. I'm alik, we'll see

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you. We'll see you this week
and we'll see Friday on the time rope.

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Please elk car tight end for Michigan
State University too. Hey, man,

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Hey, he just keeps you light. You know. Yeah, he's

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an absolutely great dude. One of
my favorites. You know, every time

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I go around, the team go
around, he's a guy that, like

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you said, always coming up to
us and you know, greeting us,

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you know, have a smile on
his face. You know, we talked

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about his athletic ability, but he's
also an even better person than he is

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an athlete. So you know,
everything that's gonna be coming to him,

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he is gonna be well earned and
well deserved, you know, on his

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part there. So hopefully you know, he can really you know, put

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on a show on Saturday against Rutgers. Yeah, I'm believing it. I

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think so. He said they're gonna
kill him, so I think that we

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can do that. We don't do
what Malik said. Okay, how about

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that. You know, look,
we're gonna be back in a moment,

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man, Like, we have to
get these message. But look right now,

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we gotta let people know where they're
watching us from you. They're watching

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us in Canada again, what's going
on in Canada? Yeah? Yeah,

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yesterday it was Canadian Thanksgiving, so
you know we had a little celebration.

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You know, you know we did
it here as a family here for Canadian

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Thanksgiving. You know, did some
turkey, you know, the traditional Thanksgiving

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stuff, you know, Shout out
to my peeps in Canada. You know

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the Thanksgiving celebrate it for it's the
end of harvest season. Given thanks for

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the harvest. You know, you
get your collect your harvest before the frost

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comes on the land. So shout
out. They also watch us over in

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Botswana. The ain't no frost coming
over there in Botswana. No, not

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at all. The Millican Republic is
watching. This is Sparday, mishu,

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already had the Michigan State Basketball Media
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and is a He's like, look,

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this is one of the team.
This is one of the closest teams he's

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they all brought to my attention was
it seems like a pretty close knit together

407
00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:22.759
team. Everybody talks about that.
Everybody has a family everybody, but you

408
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:26.240
know, the only way you get
that is that's earned through time. And

409
00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:30.440
you know, I've got some fourth
and fifth year guys. I've got some

410
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.680
guys that have been successful. I've
been had some guys that have failed and

411
00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:37.799
had to you know, relook at
things. I've had some tough losses in

412
00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:41.559
the NCAA tournament. I have some
big wins in the NCAA tournament, So

413
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.880
I think they understand the difference between
winning and losing. Then last year,

414
00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:51.119
coming you know, within an overtime
win of maybe getting to another Final four,

415
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:55.720
I think that left some hungers.
So the best thing I look for

416
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:59.359
now is togetherness in your team.
Is the chemistry good, especially when you

417
00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:02.240
bring in a good class of freshmen
and yet you got some upper classmen.

418
00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:07.279
Is it a player coach team that
those upper classmen, you know, kind

419
00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:14.799
of help coach those freshmen. And
do we have leadership? Words from hit

420
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:20.799
basketball coach Tom Izzo talking about the
togetherness of this team tooo, Yeah,

421
00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:23.640
you know, anytime you can have
a team you know that's together and have

422
00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:30.279
that camaraderie and that social cohesiveness.
It's gonna go a long ways on the

423
00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:32.599
court because they're gonna be able to
you know, basketball is a game where

424
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:37.680
it's it's a game off feel as
well. You're gonna feel where your teammate's

425
00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:40.200
gonna be and you're gonna throw those
passes. You're gonna make those you know,

426
00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:45.640
someone in here said aj so Mini
Magic. You know Magic playedoff you

427
00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:49.400
know, his game was played off
field, and knowing where his teammates are

428
00:32:49.400 --> 00:32:52.200
going to be, and the closer
you are as a team, you can

429
00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:57.319
think, you know exactly like your
teammate would be thinking. So it's exciting.

430
00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:01.240
I can't wait for the at you
know, for basketball season. But

431
00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:06.079
I have to say this, and
I talked about this in the production meeting.

432
00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:10.720
One thing I absolutely hate, hate, hate. I hated as a

433
00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:16.079
player growing up, you know,
at Michigan State, and you know,

434
00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:20.200
if you're not having the best of
season and then the fans are like,

435
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:22.319
oh, I can't wait for round
ball season. Thank god, basketball season

436
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:25.920
is coming on the way. We'll
chair basketball when they're deep in their season.

437
00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:30.759
Right now, my focus is playing
as Rutgers and this season and these

438
00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:34.839
young men on this football team.
That's where my focus is right now.

439
00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:44.960
So let's get back to football.
We are smackedab in the middle of football

440
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.720
season. We will never forget football
season. We just had a football player

441
00:33:47.759 --> 00:33:53.640
on the show, lots of play
football players. But listen, we got

442
00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:58.480
to give love to the other sports
too. And it was big ten media

443
00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:01.200
days, and so I agree,
we're not hurning the page. We're just

444
00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:07.199
paying how much I call it homage, homage however you want to pronounce that.

445
00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:10.519
I just think that you're talking about
the great time Izzo and everything that

446
00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:15.280
he's been able to do in on
the court and off the court from Michigan

447
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:19.800
State. You just gotta gotta prepare
and listen. Come on, man,

448
00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:23.039
this team you got. We got
Midnight Madness, right, that's coming upong

449
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:30.639
on Friday Friday the thirteenth. Are
you that type of are you a scary

450
00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:32.320
movie? Got Friday the third?
This is like the kids said, this

451
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:36.480
is spooky season. You know,
I used to be before I was married,

452
00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:38.679
and my wife isn't endto that,
so I'm just not into it anymore.

453
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:43.719
But I used to be Jason Friday
thirty to come on like that that

454
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:46.239
was a thing. What's so?
Yeah, I can't have the whole house

455
00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:50.000
being afraid and you know the chat, I can't have that, so we

456
00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:55.079
just we just move on. I'm
just not the Saw. The Saw movie,

457
00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:59.440
Oh man, that's the one that
killed it. I think that was

458
00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:02.239
the movie killed it right there,
because it's a little too rare. It's

459
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:06.599
like, you know, at least
just like if somebody can think of this,

460
00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:10.599
you can really do it. I'm
like, well, I mean,

461
00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:15.280
I guess you've got a point.
There's very right, right, I am

462
00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:19.639
so uh yeah, yeah, you
know, yeah. I don't know why

463
00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:22.159
we like to get scared. It
just gets to our adrenaline, just like

464
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:24.679
why we watched football games. Right, It's real life happening in front of

465
00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:28.719
you. Just don't know what's gonna
happen next. Yeah, but I'm gonna

466
00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:30.000
I'm definitely gonna be one of those
guys. I don't know if I will

467
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:35.039
go to the theater to see Saw
ten. Ten? Is that where we're

468
00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:37.280
at now? You're at ten?
But the crazy thing about it is straight,

469
00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:43.440
let's let's like hear this out like
they like somehow tie it back to

470
00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:45.800
sol war it's like it gets like, damn, how they think, you

471
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:50.719
know, like what the like the
times evolved, we just kill everybody.

472
00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:52.760
Yeah, go back to the beginning. Yeah, it takes it back,

473
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:58.159
but I love it. I love
all the sauce I will see in a

474
00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:01.559
big you know, like Jay and
you know, I watched it Halloween,

475
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:06.920
Michael Myers into that. I liked
it, but it was like, you

476
00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:13.880
know, I like the Texas Chainsaw
massacre. Oh yeah that was yeahzy leather

477
00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:23.079
face, give me a great sports
underdog movie right there, right, that's

478
00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:28.039
my wife. That's what she's telling
you. See. I think my wife

479
00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:31.519
scary movies, sports, you know, all that good stuff. I love

480
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:35.760
key that. You know, you
don't what I'm excited about. Well,

481
00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:40.000
key, I'm one of those like
I always give my wife grief for watching

482
00:36:40.039 --> 00:36:46.920
it, but I'm low key a
Hallmark movie and they were getting Hallmark movie.

483
00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:50.480
I try to act like I don't
like it, but then I'm like

484
00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:53.440
I'm getting mustled in there, and
I'm like, okay, you know what's

485
00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:59.360
gonna happen. But it's still it
still captivates you. Yeah. So is

486
00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:01.039
that the one where the men are
always bad? You know? Is that

487
00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:05.719
is that those movies. No,
that's what it seems like it well those

488
00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:09.960
movies, it was it Lifetime,
Yeah, Lifetime time is where the men

489
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:15.719
are always bad. But it's like, you know, the local kid you

490
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:19.719
know, moves to the big city
and starts this new job and then they

491
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.480
go home for you know, Christmas
and run into their acts. But they're

492
00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:27.800
dating someone back in the big city
and their company want who acquire the little

493
00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:30.000
bakery, And then this ex is
trying to save it. And then this

494
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:34.679
person give up their five hundred thousand
dollars a year job to move back to

495
00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:37.400
this little ass town and work at
this bakery. But it's still it gets

496
00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:47.280
you hooked. Sounds like Spartan Athletics
in some form, but anyway, like

497
00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:55.840
I watch the Truth is Stranger than
Fiction, I subscribe to that. Jared,

498
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.719
speaking of the let's talk about other
sports. Yes, let's get it.

499
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:06.320
Let's go to the Spartan Athletics update, and we're gonna have a little

500
00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:15.960
pre recorded video for you right here. The much anticipated MSU hockey team was

501
00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:19.920
back on the ice over the weekend, sweeping the series versus Lake Superior State

502
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.199
to start their season two and zero
for the first time since two thousand and

503
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:28.800
nine. Leah Johnson's volleyball team lost
a hard fobattle the Northwestern on Saturday despite

504
00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:32.079
a career high twenty kills from Grace
Kelly. MSU is back in action for

505
00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:37.440
back to back road games on Friday
and Saturday against Nebraska and Iowa. The

506
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:40.960
women's soccer squad took down fourteenth ranks
Michigan three to two on Saturday night,

507
00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:45.320
a win that bumped MSU up to
seventeenth in the Top drawer national ranking.

508
00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:50.840
Midfielder Reagan Dalton earned Big Ten Defensive
Player of the Week honers after nottching two

509
00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:54.360
assists in Saturday's matchup. MSU is
back on the pitch Thursday night to take

510
00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:59.239
on Indiana, and three goals in
the first half of the Spartans was too

511
00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:01.599
much for the Badgers to overcome,
as Michigan State got the winning Madison,

512
00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:07.840
Jeremy Sharp, Seawan Kerrigan, and
Jonathan Stout all scored for Sparti. As

513
00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:09.760
ms U now looks to take down
the school down the road tonight in an

514
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:17.599
arbor that was your spar and athletics
updates and as always go Green Brendan d

515
00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:28.679
revised yay after it yeah, great
job for you know, he trying to

516
00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:35.480
take our job straight. He is, he is soon enough, Hey,

517
00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:40.599
graduations come around the corner. Look, Michigan versus Michigan State versus Michigan soccer

518
00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:45.440
right now is at zero zero.
Thanks for the update, Uh, Mary

519
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:47.480
Lou Moore crazy ms lady, thanks
for that. And we just want to

520
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:52.840
know where they are. And that's
where they are. Here's collection plate collection

521
00:39:52.960 --> 00:40:00.559
plate time hanging on. He asked
you you sound like a big fan of

522
00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:04.920
Hope Floats. No, don't,
you don't haven't watched Hope Floats. But

523
00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:07.719
you know what I am gonna.
We're gonna the wife and I are gonna

524
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:12.199
neustle up and finish the last episode
of Virgin River. Uh tonight. So

525
00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:22.840
man, I don't know, I
don't know. What's the coach? What's

526
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:27.400
my man over in Illinois right now? He used to be a Wisconsin Brett

527
00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:30.760
Bielma. Yeah, you just haven't
just like him just right there, if

528
00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:38.119
you know, you know, But
Cal Sarah here, he just sends up

529
00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:42.000
another it was nineteen ninety nine,
a collection play, and he just says,

530
00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:45.320
Boo, we can't answer that,
Cal, We can't answer boo.

531
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:47.360
We'll just say what you said,
boo, cow's a fan of Virgin River.

532
00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:51.920
Don't let him try to fool you. Oh is he that's what it

533
00:40:52.039 --> 00:41:01.400
is? Yeah? He yes.
Oh she said I knew taken a turn

534
00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:06.519
here. She said, I knew
was a closet. Old white lady,

535
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:19.679
Harriet. You're exactly right. Country
music love the lifetime. The people are

536
00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:22.960
flaming up for Virgin River right now. People like, hey, Virgin River

537
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:28.800
is fire. Yeah yeah, okay, listen, I need to get on

538
00:41:28.840 --> 00:41:32.440
it. Is this something I need
to do? Yes, Virgin River?

539
00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:43.800
Yes, she doesn't. She has
the Virgin River flannel. Okay, yeah,

540
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:47.320
I was basic today when I went
to work. I had the flannel,

541
00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:51.880
I had boots on. All I
was missing was a pumpkin spice Lotte.

542
00:41:52.239 --> 00:42:04.360
But uh, pure Michigan. Yeah, let's be where are we going?

543
00:42:04.400 --> 00:42:06.400
Now? Where are we going?
I mean, people who are listening

544
00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:08.280
to this are probably like, what
are you guys even talking about? I

545
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:14.920
want to know about the sports.
Here's the sports. Michigan State versus Michigan

546
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:19.639
will be on NBC and it will
be a night game. How about that?

547
00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:24.599
Everybody? Seven thirty kickoff on October
twenty first. Talking to me,

548
00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:30.639
Yeah, man, what atmosphere.
It's gonna be a rocking atmosphere. I

549
00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:32.719
hope it's a rocking atmosphere, you
know, I hope a lot of the

550
00:42:32.719 --> 00:42:37.639
Spartan fans aren't losing hope in the
in the team right now. You know

551
00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:42.440
what's gonna be huge is you know, getting that win, you know this

552
00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:45.639
week coming up and you know,
building momentum and start going from there and

553
00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:49.639
building that momentum. That's gonna be
really big right now. But that game

554
00:42:49.880 --> 00:42:53.079
at seven point thirty, that's prime
time under the lights. A lot of

555
00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:58.440
eyeballs will be on NBC for that
game. They're gonna bring the NBC set

556
00:42:58.519 --> 00:43:01.360
here and uh, you know it's
gonna be you know, it's a big

557
00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:06.159
deal, you know, and rightfully
so, because this is a big rivalry

558
00:43:06.280 --> 00:43:08.920
game. It's for a rivalry trophy. It's one of the ones when the

559
00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:13.840
new you know, big ten merger
and the schedules came out. This is

560
00:43:13.880 --> 00:43:17.599
a protective rivalry game that's still gonna
be on the schedule every year. So

561
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:22.239
this is gonna be something big.
And there's a lot especially after last year's

562
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:28.119
game with the tunnel gate, the
suspensions, you know, all those things,

563
00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:30.039
the feelings. You know, these
two teams don't like each other,

564
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:34.199
you know, so they're gonna go
out there and Coach Barnett leading this guy

565
00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:38.079
a true Spartan throw and through who's
played in this game, who's actually played

566
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:43.000
in this game, is gonna be
leading. That week is gonna be a

567
00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:46.320
fiery week there. I can't wait
for that, And I think we're right.

568
00:43:46.519 --> 00:43:51.639
We might break out those black Unis
under the lights in Spartan Stadium.

569
00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:54.519
That has to be rocking. But
I'm really excited about it. It's a

570
00:43:54.599 --> 00:43:59.519
night game, so I know how
some people feel about night games, you

571
00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:01.599
know this, And it's a long
day, you know, get out of

572
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:06.519
here for this time. That's why
you come to Michigan State so you can

573
00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:10.920
play in primetime games like this all
day long. And yeah, are you

574
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:15.280
kidding me? Them black Unions is
coming out? What you're saving them for?

575
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:20.480
What the hell would we be saving
the black Unis for except for a

576
00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:23.079
night game against the school down the
road at home. I mean, this

577
00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:34.400
is all setting up for a phenomenal
atmosphere and those Bevy sales. Yeah,

578
00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:37.119
yeah, I'm a straight hit it
on the head there. It's like a

579
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:39.760
different team shows up you can throw
records out the window when it comes to

580
00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:44.760
this game. It doesn't matter what
your records are. No, you're gonna

581
00:44:44.760 --> 00:44:46.480
come. These teams are gonna come
out and they're gonna draw the best out

582
00:44:46.519 --> 00:44:50.599
of each other. This is like, let's call it what it is.

583
00:44:50.679 --> 00:44:53.599
Right now, it looks like Michigan
is clicking on all cylinders and defeated.

584
00:44:53.599 --> 00:44:57.880
They're number two ranked. I mean, this is beautiful. You know,

585
00:44:57.920 --> 00:45:01.119
Michigan State should go on the road
this weekend and could get back to five

586
00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:06.000
hundred if you pull off the win
against Rutgers, and now we'd be three

587
00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:10.599
and three facing potentially another six and
oher a Michigan team coming into the Spartan

588
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:14.280
or what would they be seven to
Oh, I'm not sure. I'm not

589
00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:17.039
sure. I'm not following the Michigan
team that closely, nor should I.

590
00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:22.519
So look, I think that that
game. Look the players, you know,

591
00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:24.800
the a couple of players that we've
talked to that you and I have,

592
00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:29.920
you know, had conversations with.
You know, they're not supposed to

593
00:45:29.960 --> 00:45:34.719
look down the road. But believe
me, that one it's a red letter

594
00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:36.960
game. That's what they say back
in the day, and that's one of

595
00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:38.480
those ones you look on the calendar, you circle it with a red ink.

596
00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:43.519
You know that every day you do
something to prepare for that game.

597
00:45:43.559 --> 00:45:45.800
And it's going to be an exciting
one. There was some talk that maybe

598
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:51.039
wouldn't be a night game. It
was then it wasn't. Now it is,

599
00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:54.079
and we're all happy for it.
Yeah, she's going to be in

600
00:45:54.559 --> 00:46:00.360
prime condition down there on that sideline, and we're going to get some behind

601
00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:04.800
the scenes footage of let's go you
know, you know, you know,

602
00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:07.239
you know how two is down there
on the goal line. We're going to

603
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:09.679
see a lot of that celebration going
on. I'm just scarous. I'm curious

604
00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:14.360
to see how they're gonna I'm curious
to see how they're gonna man the tunnel,

605
00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:16.320
you know, going in and out, and you know, are they

606
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:20.480
gonna have shifts? You know,
can one one team has to come out

607
00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:22.519
to warm up a different time or
you know, what are they gonna do

608
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:28.800
just so you know, to protect
you know, everything for that tunnel.

609
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:32.679
You know, Otis brought this up
during the whole tunnel gate situation last year.

610
00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:37.519
We do a phenomenal job of Michigan
State keeping things separate, you know,

611
00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:42.480
We don't allow for teams to have
players running all off in between the

612
00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:45.119
other team. We don't do that
in Michigan State. So I have full

613
00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:53.119
confidence in our administration staff and support
all the way around Michigan State's campus that

614
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:59.400
there won't be a tunnel incident on
Rancho State's campus. Right, I agree.

615
00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:02.280
I agree with that. You know, Alan Haller's got that under control

616
00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:07.079
from the tip all the way down. We got it locked. So look,

617
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:09.199
I'm excited for that one. You
know, we got to cover some

618
00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:13.880
other news obviously. You know,
there was news that running back Jordan Simmons

619
00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:17.920
did hit the transfer portal. You
know, hey, that's a guy who

620
00:47:19.079 --> 00:47:22.599
had some depth. He provided depth
at the running back position. As we

621
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:25.320
know that Nick Carter is the guy
there, but he decides to keep his

622
00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:29.840
red shirt options open and go into
the transfer portal too. Yeah. You

623
00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:32.199
know, Jordan Simmons is a guy
that when he first came to Michigan State,

624
00:47:32.280 --> 00:47:35.679
I had very high hopes for it. After he could have been one

625
00:47:35.719 --> 00:47:40.920
of those big bruising backs that can
come in and make a statement for himself,

626
00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:45.920
you know, in at that position, I didn't know if he was

627
00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:49.320
going to be a featured back,
but he could have definitely been a role

628
00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:52.719
player, you know, within the
within the squad, especially with the way

629
00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:58.519
that the running back, the running
game is turning in football itself, not

630
00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:01.639
just in college football or Michigan State, in the entire the landscape of running

631
00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:05.840
backs, the way that it's turning. And uh, I want to say,

632
00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:09.639
you know, good luck to Jordan, and my advice to him no

633
00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:15.159
matter where he goes. Play within
your game, you know, and embrace

634
00:48:15.199 --> 00:48:17.840
and embody the fact that you're a
big back. Play like that and you're

635
00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:22.719
gonna you're gonna go a lot further. You don't ask a running back if

636
00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:24.440
you do that. If you're a
big guy and you try to do things

637
00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:30.039
that's outside of your game, it
doesn't really work and you never really formulate

638
00:48:30.079 --> 00:48:31.599
to be who you are. But
if you stay this, stay the course,

639
00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:36.519
and play within yourself and play like
a big back, you're gonna be

640
00:48:36.519 --> 00:48:38.800
fine no matter where you go.
Good luck to Jordan. I appreciate all

641
00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:42.440
the time and all the work that
he put in, you know, wearing

642
00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:46.559
that green and white. Good Luck
in your future endeavors. Very well said

643
00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:50.440
bout you there. You know,
as from running back to running back.

644
00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:55.679
That means a lot. So Jordan
Simmons, hats off for the time that

645
00:48:55.719 --> 00:49:00.840
you served here in Michigan State and
best of luck to you and your endeavors

646
00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:04.119
as you move forward. As you
said, it was, I can't can't

647
00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:09.800
top that. Look. Also,
for this week, you have head coach

648
00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:20.199
Harlan Barnett talking about the quarterback position
for Rutgers. It looks like there's a

649
00:49:20.280 --> 00:49:27.400
open competition this week. We're still
evaluating it. It's a good competition going

650
00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:30.719
on, and uh, you know, I'm doing my Belichick again a little

651
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:36.159
bit right now, but we we
you know it's gonna it's it's gonna be

652
00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:38.719
good. Guys know where they stand, what's gonna happen. And uh,

653
00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:44.760
and so what's leave it that you
know the quarterback to because you're reluctance to

654
00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:47.039
name one because you don't want anyone
to know, or because you really don't

655
00:49:47.079 --> 00:49:52.719
know because you don't want anyone to
know, you know what I mean.

656
00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:55.400
But we're gonna, we're gonna,
you know, we know what we're gonna

657
00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:59.639
do, and we feel good about
it. And so uh, you're still

658
00:49:59.800 --> 00:50:07.039
say, oh, that's why something
I saw that one and I read it

659
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:10.400
didn't see it, I get a
different vibe when I hear it from the

660
00:50:10.440 --> 00:50:14.239
man himself. What do you think? Yeah, you know, it's it's

661
00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:17.639
uh, it's great gamesmanship. You
know. For one, I think I

662
00:50:17.840 --> 00:50:23.239
know what's what's gonna happen. I
think you know what's gonna happen. But

663
00:50:24.079 --> 00:50:29.320
no matter who comes out there,
we have to be supportive of that person

664
00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:32.519
as a quarterback. My question is, no matter who it is, how

665
00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:38.920
long or how short will that leachh
be on that person? And the second

666
00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:45.000
question is do you now start experimenting, maybe with a two quarterback system to

667
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:52.119
point figure out, you know,
situationally now what their strengths are. Because

668
00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:57.559
both these guys have different strengths and
weaknesses. So do you do you play

669
00:50:57.599 --> 00:51:02.159
into this strength of E're in a
situation where you know you need this,

670
00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:05.960
you put this quarterback in, or
if you need that, you put the

671
00:51:06.039 --> 00:51:08.039
other quarterback in. So those are
some of the things, and it also

672
00:51:08.159 --> 00:51:14.639
gives Rutgers something else to prepare for. They have to go and watch film

673
00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:19.000
of both quarterbacks to see who will
be the guy and prepare for that person.

674
00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:22.000
Hmm. That's a good point.
You know. I think that there

675
00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:27.960
are three quality quarterbacks in that quarterback
room. So you know, I don't

676
00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:30.840
know about two guys. There's there's
three guys that they got to prepare for

677
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:35.360
in my opinion, But you know, we have to get through this mindset

678
00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:39.800
that typically happens with quarterbacks. If
you have two, then that means if

679
00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:43.639
you have two or more, that
means you have none. That's what everybody

680
00:51:43.679 --> 00:51:49.000
says, right, that's a conventional
wisdom. But as you said, I

681
00:51:49.039 --> 00:51:53.719
think that the strengths and weaknesses of
the players in that room do compliment one

682
00:51:53.719 --> 00:51:58.719
another. So yeah, there's there's
a there's a lot of good things that

683
00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:01.239
Noah Kim does. There's a lot
of great things that Kateen Howzard brings to

684
00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:07.559
the table, and Sam Levitt all
the above. Everybody in that in that

685
00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:15.480
building over there wants to win.
That's what it is. Yeah, everybody

686
00:52:15.519 --> 00:52:17.119
wants to win. And at the
end of the day, you have to

687
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:21.960
put your best eleven out there.
It might not be your best eleven four

688
00:52:22.440 --> 00:52:24.639
next week, but you have to
put your best eleven four right now,

689
00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:29.079
and you have to put your best
eleven for this play. You know,

690
00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:31.239
that's what you have to do.
That's why you have personnels that go in

691
00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:36.039
the game, because hey, when
we run this play, the best eleven

692
00:52:36.119 --> 00:52:38.280
people that can run this It might
be twenty two personnel, you know,

693
00:52:38.360 --> 00:52:42.679
two tight ends and you know you
go in there run that play, or

694
00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:45.360
it could be eleven personnel. You
have four wide receivers, one running back.

695
00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:51.039
That's what you have to do.
You have to put the best eleven

696
00:52:51.159 --> 00:52:53.039
on the field. And I think
this is what coach Barnett's doing. You

697
00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:57.239
got to keep in mind too,
Coach, he's not throwing in a towel.

698
00:52:57.239 --> 00:53:00.360
He's not giving up. There's all
the talks outside about who will be

699
00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:04.719
the next head coach at Michigan State. What if this guy turns it around?

700
00:53:04.719 --> 00:53:07.119
What if he goes on a win
streak here and maintain these guys?

701
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:10.679
Is he in the you know,
is he in the consideration? Those are

702
00:53:10.719 --> 00:53:15.079
the thoughts for the coaches as well. These coaches are not throwing into towel

703
00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:19.800
because they're coaching for their jobs.
They're coaching for their family, their livelihood.

704
00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:24.559
And these players our coaching are playing
for their their goals, their next

705
00:53:24.559 --> 00:53:28.079
steps, whatever it is that they
want to do. If they want to

706
00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:30.880
stay and be a big time player
and get that nil money or if they

707
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:34.960
want to go to the next level
and play in the NFL. They're putting

708
00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:37.679
they want to put the best film
on that they can. And just like

709
00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:40.840
Malik said, you if you're even
going to transfer, even if you're transferring,

710
00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:44.280
you know you're going to put the
best tape out there. So you

711
00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:49.599
have some tape. So it's it's
it's uh, you know, this quarterback

712
00:53:49.639 --> 00:53:53.320
put battle here. Let's just see
who the best guy is. And us

713
00:53:53.360 --> 00:53:58.159
as fans, who's not playing a
down, who's not making a single throw,

714
00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:01.000
who's not making a read or handing
the ball off. Let's just support

715
00:54:01.079 --> 00:54:06.199
the guy in green and white that's
out there. Hey, to look,

716
00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:10.840
I'm with you. I think that
you have a coaching staff as a whole,

717
00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:14.679
obviously led by Harlan Barnett who's the
head coach, and you know,

718
00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:19.519
supported by coach D'Antonio with an all
time winning this coach in Michigan state football

719
00:54:19.559 --> 00:54:23.559
history here there. Well, the
last thing these guys want to do is

720
00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:29.679
lose. And I know that.
You know, the fan base is always

721
00:54:29.719 --> 00:54:32.880
I don't care what fan base it
is, they're always the backup quarterback is

722
00:54:32.920 --> 00:54:37.800
always the most popular guy, right, you know, You have a situation

723
00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:43.880
here where you don't have coaches posturing
with you know, ten year deals,

724
00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:46.000
eight years left on a deal.
You don't have any of that stuff.

725
00:54:46.039 --> 00:54:50.559
You have guys that are in the
same position as you know. You and

726
00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:52.679
I are on the couch right watching
these games. Let's say for us,

727
00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:58.159
I guess we're actively working these games. But I'm putting myself in the mind

728
00:54:58.199 --> 00:55:00.679
of a fan because I was a
fan of this past weekend, just like

729
00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:04.039
you were. White football for my
couch, like for the first time in

730
00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:08.360
a long time. Shout out to
Keyon Coleman and Florida State Seminoles huh thing

731
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:12.920
down there. Happy for him.
Shoot, hey and Peyton took them to

732
00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:16.159
the wire down against Georgia. You
know. But look, I'm happy for

733
00:55:16.199 --> 00:55:20.360
all the guys who come here and
where the green and white and understand the

734
00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:24.480
the trials, the triumphs, all
those things that we go through as players.

735
00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:29.519
And walking on the campus of East
Lanson is a big deal. Listen,

736
00:55:29.559 --> 00:55:34.599
man, I do think that we
will get a chance to see what

737
00:55:34.800 --> 00:55:37.039
it's like like if you want to
be that armchair quarterback, like this is

738
00:55:37.239 --> 00:55:39.639
this is this is that season,
this is that team, and what you

739
00:55:39.679 --> 00:55:43.199
said, How great is it going
to be if this team could turn it

740
00:55:43.239 --> 00:55:47.480
around? And we are already outlined
last week the path to Bowl eligibility.

741
00:55:47.840 --> 00:55:52.280
And don't forget those three other teams, the big ones. You know,

742
00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:54.920
you got four teams that are we
need four games, four wins in order

743
00:55:54.960 --> 00:56:00.159
to be Bowl eligible. You know, that's the team that we described for.

744
00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:01.880
But then there's the other big ones, right the Michigan, Ohio State,

745
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:07.199
and obviously PennState. If Michigan stated, listen, all of their goals

746
00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:09.639
are in front of them. That's
all I can say to you. You

747
00:56:09.639 --> 00:56:12.599
know, I don't want to try
to, you know, get all caught

748
00:56:12.679 --> 00:56:15.159
up in the fire and all that. But man, I'm telling you this

749
00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:20.519
team has the talent and the coaching
to be able to pull off some of

750
00:56:20.559 --> 00:56:22.519
the grade just gotta stab their own
way. As Malik said, who was

751
00:56:22.519 --> 00:56:24.920
on our show just a minute ago. Malik said, we just got to

752
00:56:24.960 --> 00:56:31.079
stop penalties and stop little self inflicted
wounds. We talk about you get a

753
00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:37.440
good drive going, then fall start
or you know, holding here and there.

754
00:56:37.960 --> 00:56:43.239
You just have to limit the self
inflicted wounds, protect ours and take

755
00:56:43.360 --> 00:56:45.760
theirs. When I say that,
I mean in the turnover battle. We

756
00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:49.639
got to protect the football and we
got to take it away from them.

757
00:56:50.079 --> 00:56:52.599
It's gonna be the you know,
Rutgers. We're gonna talk and take a

758
00:56:52.639 --> 00:56:54.840
deep dive into it on Thursday,
but they're gonna come out fired up,

759
00:56:54.960 --> 00:56:59.920
ready to go. I know that
guy Shiano down that's coaching them there.

760
00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:01.599
I know the type of coach that
he is. I know what he's going

761
00:57:01.679 --> 00:57:07.639
to be saying to those guys.
Yeah, it's not gonna be easy over

762
00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:09.840
there in Piscataway, New Jersey.
We're going to all be there Friday night

763
00:57:09.920 --> 00:57:13.960
going into Saturday. It's going to
be an early kickoff at noon. Don't

764
00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:17.440
forget to tune in to us,
you know, for the pregame show starting

765
00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:22.440
at ten thirty on Saturday Eastern time. You know, before we go to

766
00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:25.880
you know, they have to talk
about a sad moment. You know,

767
00:57:27.039 --> 00:57:31.840
legendary coach, wrestling coach in Michigan
and all around the country. As a

768
00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:37.559
matter of fact, Mike Kraus lost
his life this past week. And you

769
00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:42.719
know, he's a guy, He's
a Spartan number one And I was introduced

770
00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:47.119
to him areas right here by my
best friend in the world. Rashad Jeff

771
00:57:47.159 --> 00:57:50.800
Howard, you know, and he
told me, hey, you got the

772
00:57:50.840 --> 00:57:54.280
best coach in America living fifteen minutes. That's my boys right there. They

773
00:57:54.400 --> 00:57:59.480
used to be little right there,
yeah, you know, back in the

774
00:57:59.559 --> 00:58:00.920
day, the wrestler when they were
five, all the way up. So

775
00:58:01.559 --> 00:58:05.679
and he said, you gotta go
see him in the life lessons that he

776
00:58:05.840 --> 00:58:10.760
taught. His energy. It was
unbelievable, unbelievable, And there's so many

777
00:58:10.760 --> 00:58:15.079
people who are you know, sending
out there well wishes, and I wanted

778
00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:17.480
to make sure that we were able
to do that on this platform for him

779
00:58:17.480 --> 00:58:22.559
and his his his four children and
his uh you know that he leaves behind.

780
00:58:22.760 --> 00:58:25.800
And you know, we're gonna put
up some information on our socials to

781
00:58:25.800 --> 00:58:30.440
be able to help his family.
Fifty four just too young, Great dude,

782
00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:34.719
great man. Yes, stright.
I remember when you got into the

783
00:58:34.800 --> 00:58:37.039
news and you and I were talking
on the phone and how devastated you were.

784
00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:40.079
And then I saw, you know, through social media. I didn't

785
00:58:40.119 --> 00:58:45.400
personally know coach, but I saw, you know the amount of people that

786
00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:49.559
were just coming and you know,
you know, giving this guy his flowers

787
00:58:49.599 --> 00:58:52.239
and you know, tell you know, talking about how great of a mentor

788
00:58:52.599 --> 00:58:55.280
that he was to the youth and
you know, to the world of wrestling,

789
00:58:57.400 --> 00:59:01.480
you know, So condolences to his
family, hope nothing but the best

790
00:59:01.559 --> 00:59:06.679
for them. And like you hit
it exactly right, stray you know he's

791
00:59:07.119 --> 00:59:13.679
it was too young to grow his
wings much too young. So you know,

792
00:59:13.880 --> 00:59:17.119
funeral arrangements will be will post those
things as well. But you know,

793
00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:24.280
Mike Krause, legendary coach. Look
Chew. That'll be the end of

794
00:59:24.320 --> 00:59:29.239
this particular show right here. Don't
forget to go to our social media,

795
00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:32.559
our link in our bios to get
to any of the Sparta. This is

796
00:59:32.599 --> 00:59:38.960
Sparta merch. We gotta cover Otis
in his dance scene that he did on

797
00:59:39.039 --> 00:59:44.840
Friday night when he comes back on
Thursday. We saved that for then,

798
00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:47.320
so we're gonna play the whole video
for you. Otis did his thing as

799
00:59:47.360 --> 00:59:52.599
he always does. Chew. You
know, this is a rap of this

800
00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:59.800
one. We will see everybody on
Thursday at eight o'clock for Choo Choo.

801
01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:02.880
I'm Jason Strayhorn. This is part
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802
01:00:04.079 --> 01:00:08.280
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803
01:00:08.400 --> 01:00:15.119
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804
01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:21.760
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805
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807
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810
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