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Well pleasant, good evening everyone. It is Tuesday, May sixteenth, twenty
twenty three. I'm your host Jason Strayhorn, along with my co hosts Cheo
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too, man. How was your weekend? My weekend was great.
You know. I played a little golf on Friday, did the USFL game.
A nice Mother's Day celebration on Sunday, Yeah, you know, it
was very good. And then yesterday, you know, on Monday, you
know, I had George Blajas High Hopes Foundation golf tournament that I played in
and his golf out in there. You know, really good event. Really,
you know, great event. So I was excited about it so far,
so good man, what about you? No, it was a good
weekend, obviously Mother's Day. But like talk about the George blah I helps
golf out it. That's something that I'm taking typically in town for but usually
a lot of stars come out. It was usually a good crowd. Who
was there yesterday, Yeah, a lot of good people there. I you
know, played along in the group. George did this on purpose with an
old wolverine down the road, Hooper Terry Mills, you know, really good
dude. I had a chance to talk to him a little bit, had
a chance to talk to hang out, takes, take some pictures with Richard
rip Hamilton that go to work pison. You know, he had really you
know we were talking, you know, talking about state and he was a
man, you know, I'm really proud of aj Holgart. He's from my
hometown. And he said, great, he's gonna be something, you know,
so much better. And you know the funny thing that we're talking about,
and uh, you know, we're talking about the fact that Holguard put
his name in you know, for the NBA and stuff to see if if
he's gonna come back or not. And we got talking to like and he
and Rip looked at me. He's like, man, could you imagine if
we had NIL when we were in school? And he said, I would
have stayed four years if we had NFL. Really a yukon right. Yeah,
man, he was one hell of a player, I swear. I
mean that was a that's a good guy to be hanging out with playing a
little golf and it's always a good time out there. Where'd you guys play?
We played at of course in West Bloomfield, the country club out there.
Yes, okay, really really cool course and the greens are tricky,
tricky greens yesterday. But the thing is people should know only one ball the
whole day. Oh really, all that driving for show putting for you didn't
lose a ball. Not I didn't lose a ball, you know. And
don't get me wrong, I had I had a case full of them,
expecting to lose a few, but uh, you know, I got all
the bad stuff out on Friday and I was I was dialed in yesterday for
you man, I mean talking about you know, your game is under construction
a little bit, but there's also another construction project on campus. I don't
know if you're paying attention, there's a new football building on the construction that
looks to be opened up pretty soon. Here's a tour into the new football
facility. Just for an update for everyone Bard Nation. What's going on.
Darien Harris here with Trey Moseley's going to take you all through the new sixty
five thousand square foot renovation of the football building here in Michigan State's campus.
And it's gonna be a really exciting day for us. Ready to go,
Tray, Absolutely, let's do it right. Here's going to be a twenty
foot tall angle board. It's going to be as unique as it gets in
the country. Three trophy cases designated for our national Championship trophy, six of
them, by the way, being able to see the history and the team,
the legacy tradition in the elevate our game as well. So the space
we're standing in right now is going to be our gear lab. I mean
right here, you'll be able to hit the screen right here, pull up
all the different uniform combinations. There'll be actually a QR code that allows you
to kind of take a screenshot to your phone of what you decided in terms
of your favorite uniform combination of what we got. I'm gonna go green helmet,
white jersey, green hands. Yeah, like that green and white green
off set it. Yeah, that's my favorite. Then on the ground floor
here, Okay, what's called electrified glass. So the glass is gonna light
up, illuminate. It's gonna be like Iron Man, right, So you're
gonna be have an opportunity to actually virtually suit up all right, to really
visualize yourself, Okay, as a Michigan State's partner the Spartan dog Man.
Hey, you know that was cut short a bit, but I I just
want to give you a glimpse of what is going on. The going's on
over in east Land sing On Campus. It's gonna be a nice building,
isn't it. Yeah? It's absolutely is. It's gonna be a beautiful building.
It's gonna be a state of that aren't one of the best in the
country, And uh, that's the game. That's how college football is right
now. If you want to be able to compete and get these recruits,
you're gonna have to be modifying these buildings. Here. I get people from
the outside saying, well, why do we need all this? Didn't we
just do a renovation a few years ago. A few years ago. That's
in football years now, that's decades ago now. Because it's always something bigger
and better coming out. And if you want the top recruits to come in,
these are the things that matter to them. The comfortability of an athlete,
the wow factor of when they're on visit, when the parents are on
visits. You know, you have the dads that you know careers fell short
and they're living vicariously through their kids. If they can go on the electrified
board and what they would look like in the uniform, you know, that's
something that's really cool and I'm really excited with it. And talk to Darien
a little bit over, I believe on Thursday, and he said that the
locker room portions should be ready by August so that the players will be in
the facility for the locker room Astray. We talked about this with a couple
guys that chemistry. So this is huge for the Spartan nation. It's really
huge. As you said, I mean, this is something that is almost
something that's a necessity now in college sports. You look at this can stay
spending about sixty seventy million dollars for this new facility that is being built right
now. Look down the road Cincinnati, who is not a Big ten school.
You know they're going to be in the Big twelve soon. One hundred
and thirty four million dollar facility they're building down there in Cincinnati, the bear
Cats. And then you look down the road to the east of US Penn
State is in the beginning stations of a seven hundred million dollars of grade.
I mean, the investment in college athletics is incredible right now, and you
know, it's just it's it's wonderful to see for the athlete side, but
it's something that you know, I think as a whole Spartan nation just needs
to understand and be educated on, because look, keeping up with the Joneses
is a lot different than it used to be. Exactly what I mean exactly
you can't just while a kid with jerseys anymore. It's the facilities, you
know, It's it's that, it's the it's the environment that they're going to
be in, you know, seventy percent of the time as their student athletes
there. So they have to be comfortable. They have to be able to
feel at home in those environments there. So that's the big thing that it
takes, you know, and you know it's not what it was, and
we have to learn to move with the times and get ready because it's only
going to get bigger and better. Right, So you know playing in the
NFL as long as you did. You know what being in the facility isn't
just for comfort, like being in there a long time. And I've talked
to the strength and conditioning guys. They say, you know, in order
to get the most out of athlete, they need more than an hour every
other day with the guys. They need a holistic approach, right, I
mean being there for the treatment and stretching and cold and hot tubs and watching
film and doing your class work that you need to do, like being in
an environment where you can kind of get it all done while working on your
body just makes you a better version of you as that player, right,
yeah, it absolutely does. And you know, also to the mental aspect
of it. Know, if you're in a mentally good space, you know,
you're gonna you're gonna be able to compete at the highest level, You're
gonna be comfortable, you're gonna be ready to go. But if you're not,
if it's you know, raggedy, you know, weight machines and raggedy
locker rooms and everything like that, what happens is it develops a mindset of
you know, everything here is raggedy, is old, and people you start
thinking that and then you're like, man, and what the what happens with
that? Mentally starts weighing on your game now because you look around, you
see on Instagram, social media, all these other programs that are building these
things. And you talk about coaches every single day they have to recruit within
their own program. These are factors that's that's coming into play as well,
the facilities and the environment that's provided for these kids, that the nutritionists,
the strength and conditioning staff, the coaches, the position coaches, the head
coaches, the player development guy. All those people under one roof helps elevate
the game and makes the player a more well rounded athlete. Eight mm well
said that, you I mean, you know, and again everyone and you
know, Otis is on assignment right now doing God's work. That's all we're
gonna say about what he's doing. Special announcement's coming to and we also have
a great announcement coming at the end of this show, because Chu Chu promised
you last week. He promised and that's coming. But before we get to
that, let's talk about the Nike shoe auction that's been going on here,
you talk about. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary for Title nine, each Michigan
state head coach wore customized Nike Air Force one shoe that showcased the Title nine
legislation. Yeah, man, these are these shoes are sick. You know,
they're all around. Like really, if you're a Spartan fan, you
know it's worth the support for this, but also the bigger cause of it,
that Title nine, you know, aspect of it there you know,
we all, we all, you know benefit from that, you know,
if you know the inclusion of women in sports and the affordability and providing them.
Those opportunities only makes sports overall a lot better. And we saw that
with the NCAA tournament this year. The women outshine the men's you know,
this year. So you know, kudles to that, and koodles to Michigan
State. Kodles to everyone that's a part of this, you know, providing
you know, funds and making this a cool experience, making it not just
a one off thing and we forget about it, continuing to live that legacy
through and through. Well, can you put that back up? Produce a
pete in the background. I just want to see that one more time.
Michigan State Athletics is off schaing off a pair of these exclusive customized shoes with
the proceeds benefiting the thirty seven Word Campaign. Shoes are size eleven and a
half for men's thirteen for women's. The thirty seven Word Campaign, through the
Spartan Fund, was created and advance to advance the mission of Title nine at
MSU and enhance quality and equity efforts for Spartan student athletes. Auction ins Thursday,
June fifteenth at seven pm Eastern. Make sure everyone's aware of that.
Get you a pair of those nice Air Force one the ones. Man the
kids would say, copy a pair, cop a pair. So man,
like moving on into the track. In the field, we got a record
setting performance. Man, and I know you're gonna want to talk about this.
Opel Jackson sets the shot put record. Let's take a look. You
so there a long time too long ago that was going perfect form on the
spin. You know, some people are spin guys, some people are glide
and she's a spin Get that power, low hips, explode those hips and
get it out there and just love to share excitement because you know, track
and field, you work so hard, you know, to be an elite,
you know, athlete in track and field especially, you know if you're
a thrower in the power sports, that the thrower side of things, and
you just you just see the hard works wet in tears, and you see
how excited her coach was for her because you know, going and you have
all these goals and you know, if you have operations that left and left
quad, man, right, that's serious, now that's some work. Yeah,
oh man, coming around on that like you got to be in that
balance, stay tucked and then explode at the front of the ring and you
don't foul all that eleven. Yeah, you were talking. That's fifty five
feet eleven and over a half inch for those keeping track. That's congratulations you
miss Jackson. Congrats mus Jackson. Oh that's outstanding. Congratulates the shot putting
records. I mean, you're you're a state champ. In state champ.
You know, she's a record holder, she's a record holder. I have
a dinner at lunch with her. Talk to her about a little technique,
right, little little shot put talk shop talk. Also in track and field,
Big ten champion in the pole vault Trevor Stevenson, second attempt for Stevenson
up Michigan, State of the polar Yeah, I think, how great is
that? That is awesome? And I can see, like, kudos to
the pole vaulters man your life on that one pole there, you know,
like could you see my big ass trying to I think we could get some
bend on that thing. But I don't know about the catapult over the bar.
Oh my goodness. Yeah, that would be almost kind of like like
a comic Cozi style mindset to do this really really Yeah, it's it's scary,
run into it's great to watch. It's like poetry emotion. You know,
everything has to be right, your placement of it, and you know
you have to time it right, your run, your you mark your steps
and everything. It's it's complete poetry motion. And you know, kudos to
them, and congratulations to mister Stevenson, big time forever a pole vault,
big ten champion ever. That's awesome, you know, look at it.
So we got a shot put record holder and now big ten champ in the
poleva the fields taking the taking, and then we're gonna go to the golf
course where the women are now regional champs in the NCAA tournament. Tickets punched.
Yeah, man, that's great. You know they're you know, good
champs. You know, now they're going to to the to the big dance
now where where like you know, really counts there. So uh, congratulations
to them. We all know everyone that's played golf. Golf is the most
humbling sport that you can place straight. You know, you're gonna hit good
shots and then you turn around, you hit a great drive, you turn
around and you you duff it with your iron and you end up three four
putting. You know, but when everything's on, you know like it is
for these women right now, and the hard work is paying off and they
get this attention and I'm just glad we get to provide we have a platform
to promote them and their sport because you know, obviously it's not talked about
it enough throughout you know, the country, but we had to inspire the
ms you believe, you know, it's an important you know, spot for
them and give them the platform for it. Coach Stacy Slavnik does it again.
Didn't get the Big ten championship this year, She's got a ton of
those, but a regional championship and now being able to go on to the
NCAA's in Scottsdale, Arizona at Great Hawk Country Club. It's going to be
a great event. And you know, Mischiss State looks to make some noise
in the nation. I mean, this is a school who has a very
story tradition in the women's golf area, and it looked much success for them
going forward, and I think they got they got a shot, So maybe
I don't know. Look, you've been out the Phoenix out of Gulf Alley.
It was a tournament, yeah, waste Management, Yeah, the Phoenix
Waste Management went Phoenix Waste Management Open. Yeah. Man you signed it.
You know you were really locked in when you were out there. Oh yeah,
it was. It was great. You know, great call weather,
Arizona provides that great courses out there, So these ladies are going to have
a great time there and while competing for a national title. Yeah, you
know, I love to do a show from there if you like. From
the sixty year old have a little fun out there with you too, man,
you know, like going to the football side of things for a second.
Bryce Banger, he signs his contract with the Patriots four years, four
point oh one. Don't forget the old one me, Dallas. You know
that is great. Congratulations to him. You know, his hard work is
paying off. You know, he get that. He had one of those
roller coasters careers in college. You know, at one point he wasn't even
a part of the team. At one point he was the video guy and
just continue to be persistent and work his way, and when his moment came,
he took advantage of that moment and became the best punter there in the
country. I said, damn shame he didn't win that Ray Guy Award as
he should have. But now he's just showing, you know, by his
performance at the Pro Day and at the Combine and then leading to him being
drafted and now getting this big payday. Congratulations to Bryce. So we got
two trophy people that we have a right with, obviously the Heisman for K
nine in Old one in twenty one and then the Ray Guy people. So
we got we gotta figure this out. You know, they gotta write the
ship. Maybe we got some more players coming up in the future on those
lists, and you know they can do the right thing. But just terrible
that he didn't win it. You're right, But congratulations to him getting his
deal signed. You know these deals are normally slotted, but getting the agents
in there and getting it done is a big thing. So now he doesn't
have to worry about the business side of things. Just get out there.
He's in rookie minicant now, I'm sure, and uh, just time to
work on his craft. Wearing a different color out there in Gillette Stadium and
with the Evil Empire. The Evil Empire, right, Belichick loves sparks.
But I'll tell you what you know, we will come back to you with
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here, Championship appearances, the XFL by our Michigan State's owned Shakur Brown and
Jacob Panashut. Yeah, you know, these these two guys had an opportunity
to square off for the championship you know this week here and Shakira Brown his
team, the Arlington Renegades. They were able to pull that off and won.
You know, giving Bob Stoops, you know, their their coach,
another piece of hardware to add to his collection. But you know it was
great. You don't having too, you know, two Spartans in the final
game. It just shows the level of football that's played at Michigan State that
these guys can compete on any level. Love question and then talking about guys
competing on a high level in the XFL. Two all XFL candidates and former
Spartans, and that's Mike panachugen Drew Beasley. Yeah, you know, both
great Spartans when they were you know, here wearing the green and white,
and they'd get to go on and you know, showcase those skills you know
in the XFL. You know, great for them, you know, taking
advantage of that opportunity and running with it. Mike put was a the defensive
lineman at Michigan State along with his brother Jacob Convert a little bit because he,
you know, seemed to be a pretty outstanding athletic guy on the offensive
side of the ball playing center, got himself a combine and not a combine
actually invite to the Steelers. Yeah, you know, he's gonna have the
opportunity to go on to mining camp and showcase his ability and have a chance
to play on Sundays. And he's a guy that I think he's ahead of
the curve there because what they're looking for, what coach Tomlin looked for.
He's a hard nosed coach. You know, he's gonna you know, put
the players through the Ringers. He doesn't care if these guys, you know
how much money you make your professional athlete, he's gonna The toughest training camps
are the Pittsburgh Steelers training camp. You can ask anybody around the league that
if you're in the Steeler training camp, be ready to hit every single day.
And that's that mental aspect of it, because once you you don that
black and gold, you have to have that blue collar mentality. You have
to have that mentality if you're going to go out there and puncture opponent in
the mouth every single time. And like coach coach Tomlin would always say,
the standard is the standard, so you're gonna have to live up to it.
And I think he's gonna have the opportunity to do that. I think
he's gonna perform well in camp. Yeah, it looks like a guy who
I mean prototypical size for the center position. You know, maybe a step
slower, maybe a little bit not as not as heavy as you'd like as
a three technique type of defensive lineman, and maybe you know, doesn't have
that explosiveness. But on the offensive side of the ball, I mean,
he's Taylor may to be a great offensive lineman and just being able to pick
it up and be comfortable in a position that is completely counterintuitive to everything even
as a human being your entire life, you know, So stop people from
running forward at you by being back standing up right and catching them but then
putting them on the ground at the same time. It just it's it's all
over place two of that. Who understands offensiveignment but other offensive linement. So
you know, look too, like when we talk about these opportunities for players
in the XFL, you you're covering what's going on in the USFL for the
Michigan Athers. It's been great to see more opportunities now for guys to get
camp opportunities to the NFL where they otherwise didn't have that prior to the World
Bowl. Yeah, you know, you're a hundred percent right, because back
in two thousand, I believe, was the last season of the NFL Europe
and where those players have the opportunity to be kind of the NFL teams owned
their rights to the players and then we'll go to these different teams throughout Europe
and play. But since then, there hasn't been an opportunity for these guys
basketball. There's the G League that the guys can development in their baseball.
There's the minor leagues football. For over a decade a few decades now,
it was you made it to the NFL or you didn't, you know,
and you had guys who would spend their entire time that you know, training
to get an opportunity to work out for a team. But now they have
the opportunity to one get paid, make money and to showcase their talents because
they know when they're the season is in the spring. So now when they're
done, they have the opportunity to go be invited like Panashue was to a
camp, you know, coming up here for the NFL. And it's the
same thing with the USFL. It is it's really really cool to see because
you look through the roster. You got guys that bounce around four different NFL
teams. Where you got a guy like in the USFL Michigan Panthers Josh Butler,
he didn't have the opportunity for a combine because of COVID, you know,
so he couldn't showcase his talents. There he's a guy that you know,
he's just been training and getting ready. You're talking to these guys they
had nine to five jobs and now they have the opportunity to continue to live
out their dreams. So it's right. You know, people might you know
who who on the XFL or the USFL saying it's not the NFL. You're
right, it's not the NFL, but it's something that creates gives these guys
a pathway to the NFL. So take advantage of it if you're a player,
and know, as a player coming out, just because you don't get
your name called a draft day, you don't get your name, you know,
invited to a camp or anything like that, it's not the end.
You're still talented enough to play in these leagues. Showcase your talent amongst you
know, highly competitive guys that's been in the NFL, and then you can
get that second chance at it. And a lot of guys have been,
you know, documented to have you know, two, three, four or
five chances before they finally break through on a roster. You know, hopefully
some of these Misigan State guys that have been that people know, can not
only get their shot in the NFL, but as they're doing that, develop
a name brand for themselves, get themselves some notoriety and a little money.
You know that on nil they didn't have a nil treatment exactly day. Man.
I mean it's a different world. You've got facilities like this money and
now look we got a minor league that isn't college football in the XFL and
USFL. No for you too, Like you know, you've been around the
country, you know, talking to a lot of different players. What is
it like for guys? Take people inside of a player who is on the
bubble, so to speak, to get into an NFL team, trying to
stay in shape, waiting on that call, trying to make ends meet before
you know, if you have a family, if you're getting ready to start
a family, all those things. Talk about what that journey is like,
Yeah, their journey. You know, Like if you you know a player
that you're you're with a team during camp and you get cut the last day
of camp, you know you have that film from the preseason games and something
that's against these guys. Now, before you had an opportunity for four preseason
games to display your opportunity and talents. Now it's only two presisting games,
So you have to show everything there and you might not get to burn you
expect that you want and then you're done. So now you have to have
two choices. You have to go find a job because you want to maintain
a lifestyle. You want to be able to pay for a roof over your
head. And while you're don't working your ninety five, you got to be
training as well to stay in shape because you think you might get that call.
You're in touch with your agent. Hey, you know, to end
one reach out. You know, I might gaining any interest you know,
with any teams. You know, this is what I can do. Some
guys take it into their own hands by sending messages two teams saying, hey,
this is my film. I just want a shot. You know,
I'll come. I'll you know, I'll pay my own way to my workouts
and everything like that. So it's these guys that really really want to live
out their dreams and uh, you know, come and to do that.
And that's why it's so important to have these leagues like the USFL and the
XFL, so these guys can you know, earn earn a salary, earn
a living wage, and also continue their path to their dreams of one day
playing at the top level playing in the NFL. You know, in talking
about the facility upgrades that you've seen around the country a lot of schools,
and you've seen this in the Michigan State plans that there's a special group of
lockers for NFL guys. I would say it's pro football guys that are players
that are still in the game that are no longer at Michigan State. Talk
about that ability to be able to come back to your homeschool and get some
training in, you know, be around the guys, because that's really what
people miss the most when you're a player, is the camaraderie that is lost
a lot of times as you're trying to reach your pinnacle. Yeah, that's
absolutely huge, straight and you know you talk about it. What better you
know, recruiting tool for a player you known, Hey, your day is
your goal is to go to the NFL. When you're done with the NFL,
or when you're in their off season in the NFL. You made it
to the NFL, you're in the off season, or you're still trying to
work out to get back on a team, you can come back to your
homeschool where you know the facilities, you know the town, you know the
coaches, you know the training staff, and there's a there's a spot for
you. You can go in the locker and store your stuff that was in
there. When I went to San Diego and trained, I had to go
and rent a place in San Diego, pay for a personal trainer, you
know, and the facility in there. I had to go do all that
stuff. But now these kids have the opportunity to come back to their home,
you know, locker room that they're used to, and that's what we
talked about, you know, earlier. With these facility updates. It's all
about the ecosystem for the athlete, making them feel the most comfortable because they
can perform the best when you're comfortable. If you know the place you're going
to go one hundred miles an hour, you're going to go faster, You're
going to be more successful. If you're out there guessing an in an uncomfortable
position, you don't go as hard. So now this is absolutely huge and
it's a big recruiting tool for these guys, saying, hey, you're always
once you're a Spartan dog. You're always a Spartan dog, and you always
have a home here. If you're training to get back in the league,
you can come back and use our facilities. You can come and use ours,
you can have store your stuff in the locker, you can use our
coaches, our trainers, all those different things. It's really really cool and
it's really important. And I don't think a lot of schools in the country
do that, but the Spartans are doing that. Yeah, they sure are
doing and doing on a high level. And what people may not know is
now with strength conditioning, you have the coaches that kind of work with your
current coach, so you can the NFL Strengths and Conditioning guy or your personal
guy that you pay for in another town may will talk with a Jason Novak
or doctor guests in the strength and Conditioning department and be able to come up
with that workout plan that's tailor made for you. Everything is a lot different
than you know, the weight room that you or I and the people maybe
the guys are watching this gas watching this because it is specific to the athlete,
whatever their deficient and they find ways, they have specific plans to make
you a holistically better athlete mint, mind, body, and soul, so
that that the physical piece that we're talking about in the gym, like this
is stay. They are like this is great for Michigan State and like you
said, you're having pros in the in the weight room, in the locker
room while you you know, you're you're freshman trying to learn, like how
to even get the class on time? Does help you. Yeah, And
you know something that I absolutely love about this, you know this way that
you just talked about like tailoring the workouts for the person and not everyone's the
same, because talk about like we all you know, I want to talk
about in between the ears, the mental aspect of the game. Now for
a second, you're a let's go to the college level there and you're a
high school freshman coming in. You know, I can attest to this otis
can attest to this stray. You're just a different beast. You came in
strong, you could bench all day, so you didn't have that issue.
But you're going in there with guys from all over the country, people at
different developmental level. You know, you don't have the opportunity to lift,
you know all this, and you come in there, you're in lifting with
sophomores, juniors, seniors, and they're pushing weight and you're struggling with two
twenty five on the bar. If that and now with the way that things
are tailored. You know, you don't have to be, you know,
lose that mental game every time you go into the weight room. You don't
have to dread going into the weight room because you can't lift as much as
a senior. If you're a freshman, everything's tailored to you and it's your
body type and it's what's going to make you the optimal, the most optimal
athlete that you can be. And working your fast twitch, your quick twitch
muscles, all those different things, the nutrition piece and the strength piece has
really changed the game of football for the better physically and mentally. Without question.
It's something that that's that's something that's a must for the athletes of today.
And if you don't buy into these things as an athlete and you're not
getting those games that you need on the field, listen, like this is
a too much on the line nowadays, you know the transfer portal being right
there to reality, so you know to stay out of that. And I'm
talking in those situations where players realize that they can't make it at a certain
level. This is this is what we're talking about. And usually if the
guys plugged in one hundred percent and doing everything, the coaches are asking you're
going to see the results that you need most of the time, you know,
there are some other cases that that it doesn't happen, but it's needed.
This is not a luxury item. This is something that is a necessity
thing for the way things are now. And we're talking about necessity. We
we gotta know to like, you surprised me. And oh this last time,
I think it was Tuesday last week, we had a beautiful Mother's Day
show that you didn't show up for. But that's okay. You were there
in spirit? Was there in spirit? I love you, by the way.
Shout out to all the moms that were on that. It was absolutely
so. It was a it was a coaster of a show. You know.
At that time, I was at that Spartan Explored Detroit event there and
I was there with Darren Harris, uh Delon Tatum, Malie Carr, and
they were so excited that their mothers were hosting Malik. You know, we're
in the thing. He's watching it on his phone, you know, he
said he watched the show twice, you know, and it just showed like
the how proud these guys are of their mothers and in their mothers and uh
you know, shout out to them for you know, being thrown in the
fire, you know called baptism by fire there, and you know, a
great job to them. And Alicia absolutely crushed it. She absolutely crushed it.
You know, if we need a show moderator now, she know,
she's know that. You know, we ever get a debate show or something
like that, she's the moderator on that there, because you know, she
absolutely crushed it. All all four ladies did a tremendous job. And uh,
you know, they almost got me stray. They almost did almost got
me when they had when they had the messages from the kids the Happy Mother's
Day. Oh man, I was like, oh, gotta take some breaths.
Yeah, yeah, I had to cut onions in there. It's incredible
now, no true, We're all sitting here with baited breath, wondering what
is it? What is it that you have a special announcement to bring all
listeners here? It is right here. Yeah, I asked people. I've
had people reaching out to me today, Tom Story, a bunch of other
you know listeners, Hey, what is this special announcement? Like they just
I'm not gonna just tell one part. You gotta watch the show for the
special announcement. So this announcement so big I couldn't even do it myself.
So what I had I had to enlist someone to help me make this announcement.
So without further ado, Pete, could you please what is going on?
This is Sparta ms U. I am here with me, biggie,
and you know this. Uh, we're talking about big announcement coming up.
Summer Slam's coming to Fordfield right here in Detroit. This guy his biz and
by the way, fifteen he played at Iowa. Just so you know,
fellow Big ten actors, I two of you will have a chance to win
tickets to come with the crew myself, Otis and Jason Suma, August Filth
got chance to y'all Summer Slam here. Okay, I'm gonna slam two tickets,
So I mean that's you me. So you're saying just one of just
two of us can go and nobody else. What are you saying? Oh
no, we're that you me. Oh two people can have a chance to
win that hangout experience with us at SummerSlam. Ah, we're gonna be there.
We're gonna be there, you know, and it's gonna be it's gonna
be good tickets. You're not gonna be sitting up top. You don't need
binoculars. You know. No. Two is the You know that he's w
W expert. Now all the guys talk to him, they hang out.
I mean, I bet this is okay. This is gonna be bigger than
you're not. You're not even selling this right. Look, we're gonna have
all the access in the world here. You're talking about w W with this
guy. You know, Listen, we might need a couple of guys.
We might go out for drinks after your phones hanging with you light Detroit man,
It's gonna be a great event. W W. E puts it up,
puts out a terrific event, you know, whatever city that they go,
and they do a lot of stuff for the community, impact the community
in revenue side and entertainment side. And so I'm just happy and excited that
we at this is part of MSU, can share this experience with some of
our you know, listeners and our viewers out here. So it's gonna be
a great events. Summer Slam, Biggie myself, Jason Otis, this is
part of MSU takeover of Summer Slam exciting stuff. Oh man, so we're
gonna come with you know what we're gonna do in order to win this sweepstakes
soon to to just you know, you follow our socials as visus right here
for more info. We'll get more info as to how you can win these
tickets. But that's cool, you actually had It's really cool man. You
know, it's full of star power. This guy's you know, that's awesome.
So yeah, I can I can picture this whole night. That's gonna
be a very very very very cool night. Guys. Look, I think
that you know, this was a concise ship. It was good information.
It was very information. I felt like this show today I felt like a
report I was going. I felt we were we were both spitting just telling
people truth, you know. I mean, look, you know there's there's
a lot going on all over. We're gonna get some more updates on that
trip that went on in Detroit when Otis comes back on Thursday night. We're
gonna also talk about what's what's going on in in the NBA right now,
you know, see what's up with day and as he Draymond Green is no
longer in the in the fight right now, but he's going in the Free
Agency. I'm gonna have Tom Izzo is gonna be in the Orange County,
California area. I don't know who lives out there for golf out it,
so we may catch up with it. Was gonna be co hosting the show
maybe maybe little Tom miss no interview. I'll do a little bit of that,
but uh, but then there's a lot of things that we're gonna cover
in the next episode. But I'm Jason Strayhorn. This is Sparta ms You
have a good night, God bless and go great, Go White. This
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