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

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Um, well, welcome everybody.
It is Friday, July seventh,

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two thousand and twenty three. Welcome
to the only show hosted by Spartan Dogs

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about Spartan Dogs. But you know, in this case is a little different

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today because we don't know what's in
store for us today. This is Sparta

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MSU. I mean hoj a straight
horn along with my co host Choo Choo.

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This is called ju Choo Chu culprit
is here? Great? That?

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Nay? That background? I mean, I'm jealous. Man, You're on

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the lake right now? What's going
on? This is what they talk about,

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you know, like when people in
Michigan be like, oh, I'm

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going up north. I'm up north. I'm not really up north north,

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but I'm a little up north from
where I live. But this is like

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right on Cadillac on Clifford Lake here
in Stanton, Michigan. The lake back

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there that you know, all just
chilling picking having a couple of toddies the

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time. I'm glad you're feeling good
man, it's looking good. I can't

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I think I can see a lake
in the background. I even got there.

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I even got the color out of
something for the big day, Big

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day, big day, guns out, Yes, big day for Spartan nation.

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Right now that commitment or is it
straight a reemtman um Nick Marsh,

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That's that's what we're gonna see what's
gonna happen today, because everyone knows four

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star Nick Mars six foot three or
four, two hundred plus pounds with Rouge

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Classic twenty and twenty four wide receiver, just a heck of a player.

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Was committed to Michigan State months ago, but decided to reopen his recruitment so

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he can take some other visits.
And you know, he's been on the

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road. Everybody knows he's been to
Kansas. Who we see some Jayhawk fans

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in the chat? Yeah, I
see a lot of rock chalk? Is

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that what's happening? You know?
Crazy ms lady from Austin, Texas.

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So we got as far as from
all over the world. Also someone from

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Germany. Yeah, I saw someone
from Germany, you know, right,

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little Wiener. Since low we got, we got, Penn State has been

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in the mix. Pitt has been
really in the mix as of late.

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We don't know, like we didn't
do this saying, hey, we already

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know Mama marsh total the story,
Jude, You've reached out and yeah,

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you know, I had had a
lot of conversation with uh Mama Tron uh

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this week and uh, you know, it's you know, it's a family

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decision. She was not you know, letting me know either way which way

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they're leaning and everything like that.
But what she, you know, wanted

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to get across this. You know, they wanted to make it a point

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for Nick to be somewhere for four
years, especially with the way that transfer

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portals and everything like that, and
that was one of the big reasons that

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they reopened the recruiting process and everything, so he gets the full experience of

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this recruiting process because at the end
of the day, it is a process

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and you have to go through every
step of that process. And having the

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opportunity to re you know, to
reopen that ruting process. So they were

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happy about it as a family.
And one of the biggest thing is they

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really really loved the visit. The
last visit that they had to Michigan State,

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it was a family affair. We
had the picture of you know,

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Grandma Tron. Uh you know,
she said on here like, oh,

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you guys made my grandma fame,
you know, my mom famous. Um.

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You know, she said, they're
calling me Grandma Tron you know from

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that video of them dancing on the
field and everything like that, you know

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this video right here, you know, and she said, you know,

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they're a big dancing family. Nick
loves dancing. He actually wanted to be

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a breakdancer. That's what she told
me, you know. But when it

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all got started. So, you
know, hopefully at the end of the

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day, we see lots more of
this, you know, maybe possibly in

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three to four years, on Senior
Day we see Grandma Tron, Mama Tron

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uh, Nick Marsh and them dancing
in Spartan Stadium on Senior Day. Yeah,

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we need to see a lot of
that. We're hopeful here in Spartan

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Nation that this is the decision that
Nick Marsh makes. But you know,

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until then, until the next says, we just don't know. We honestly

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don't know what's gonna happen. Been
a lot of movement. We just lost

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the commitment today. It looks like
to Oregon, Dylan Dylan Williams from Polly

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Uh, you know, Long Beach, Polly, the lineback of the fourth

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Star that was heavily sought after.
Looks like Oregon came in late and really

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took that commitment at the last minute. Looks like Uncle Phil strikes again.

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Huh yeah, Uncle Phil definitely strikes
again. And you know something, you

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know, speaking of striking a striking
comment. When we were sitting here before

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we went live on this listening to
his commitment video, he talked about coming

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to Michigan State and it felt like
home to him, Coach Tucker Um,

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Coach Johnson, all those different guys
and coach I'm um, I just went

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blank on that TC there, Scotty
Hazelton. Yeah, it's coach Hazelton.

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You know how it feels like home. And then something that really struck me

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off cores was he said, Oregon
the way that the develop their player,

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but the coaches haven't been there to
show development in their players that long,

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you know, correctly if I'm wrong
there, you know, but like,

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you know, what is that?
So at the end of the day,

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for him, it clearly showed that
it is definitely about chasing the bag and

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you know, picking up that money. Hey, different strokes with different folks,

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you know. He talked about development. But yeah, when you talk

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about Oregon, that staff has been
there for one season, so there's not

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a lot of And this is the
first time, first time head coach and

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coach Lanning who was a defensive coordinator
for the Georgia Bulldogs in the first National

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Championship season talking about the twenty one
season for the Georgia Bulldog and then you

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got the head coaching job over in
Oregon. We don't know how it develops.

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I know he's a younger guy.
He smoked cigars a lot on social

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media. He seems to be a
players kind of coach, But I don't

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know about the development as of yet
because he doesn't have that kind of pet.

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You know, they kind of history
exactly. The track record isn't there

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right now, so you know that's
gonna be proven to seat. But you

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know what, straight we can't talk
about who's who's not here. Let's talk

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about who could be here. And
one of the big things is what does

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Nick marsh What does he bring to
the Spartan offense if he comes here.

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Oh my goodness, you talk about
a playmaker here. I mean he had

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the name Mini Tryn who as a
younger player and then it's been Megatron because

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of his size, his athletic ability, his athleticism, his ability to high

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point the football, and his shiftingness
in his rocks. That's one thing that

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you want to see with receivers of
their ability to break on a dime and

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create separation from defensive backs. You
know, Otis Wiley couldn't be on the

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show. He's a guy who is
a defensive back by trade. You know,

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he is dealing with the family a
funeral right now, so he could

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not make it for the show.
But when I'd like to hear his expertise

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on this from but what I see, you just can't pass up a guy

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like this. There's a picture of
him right there being able to go on

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high point the football and the seven
on seven action. He's played with a

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lot of the best quarterbacks and other
receivers in the country around the nation,

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so you've been able to see the
apples to apples comparison for Nick marsh this

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is the guy that everyone wanted and
Michigan State still in the race as of

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right now. You know, the
loss of Keyon Coleman a year, this

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fast year in the transfer portal opens
up more cats. We just had Tyrrell

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Henry on last night on the show, and he talked about, hey,

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look there's a lot more targets,
a lot more catches that are available now

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because of the loss of Keyon Coleman. This is that big body receiver that

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can step in the day one and
be able to compete for a lot of

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those targets when he gets to whatever
school he goes to, but at Michigan

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State for short. Yeah, you
know, and you bring up a very

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good point straight you know, from
talking to Nick Marsh's mother on you know

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this past week, you know,
throughout the whole you know process having conversations,

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she asked a pointed question, you
know, what would it mean for

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the Spartans if Nick was to commit
to Michigan State. And you know,

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so we went through, you know, conversations about where he will fit in

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in the offense. We lost that, you know right now, like overall

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we right now, we're a receiver
by committee until one person steps up and

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can say I'm that guy, I'm
the number one guy that I'm the you

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know, go to guy that every
team has a game plan against, you

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know, opposing defense has to say
our best corner is going to be guarding

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this guy throughout the game and traveling
with him. We don't have that right

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now. We have a receiver by
committee. So I told her clearly,

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he's gonna get the opportunity if he
wants, you know, to perform at

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the high level and be that guy. Losing keyon Coleman was a big loss,

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but it's also a big opportunity for
all these receivers. Ver sais coming

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in and so we talked about that
the plane field, the time on the

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field as well as NIL. The
different strategy, says Michigan State University uses

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to get kids, you know in
NIL from you know, we got guys.

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We had Darius snow On working with
Harvard University, you know, doing

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different stuff that way. We got
Malik Carr who's has a WWE contract waiting

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for him. There's the long game
NIL that Michigan State plays to set you

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up for the future, and also
there's that instant gratification as well. So

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it's all really about what exactly that
you want. Do you want that instant

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lottery ticket where you know you can
just scratch off you say hey I win

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or I lose, or you're gonna
be like, hey, I'm gonna be

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invested in this program because at the
end of the day, and one thing

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that really came to that we talked
about as well is the legacy factor.

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The fact that after you play and
leave your mark in Spartan State, um

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on Spartan Nation, you come back. I don't care how long, how

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long have we played. We walk
around East Lansing straight and people say,

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oh, hey, you don't think
you know, appreciate you. I want

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to take pictures with you and everything
like that. That is how Spartan fans

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love their players, and that's something
that he's going to be able to,

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you know, embody and be a
part of. So if he comes to

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Michigan State, those are the things
that's waiting for him. Without question,

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there's no doubt that if he makes
the decision to come to Michigan State,

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that people will love him for life. That's a he's a local, hometown

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kid, you know, from the
state of Michigan. River Bruge, a

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very very h I would say,
fertile recruiting ground. A lot of players

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come out that blue collar, blue
collars, too hard working, tough kid,

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gritty kids that know how to play. And I mean he's been playing

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I mean his mom still hoops right
now. Mama Tryn was talking about taking

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him to the whole any day of
the week. Like, so, you

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know, if we are able to
get him on the show today after he

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makes his announcement, we're gonna talk
about that, did you as you know

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play you know twenty one, you
know, our the horse to find out

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who's going to be able to commit
to wear too. Right dance and there

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their breakdance a family from what we
were told as well, right and you

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know what at the end of the
day too, like I gotta I gotta

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really pat ourselves on the back at
this is part of MSU. UM you

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know, all of us, you
know, and behind the scenes and everything

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like that. Not everyone has this
coverage right now. Not everyone has some

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boots on the ground, you know
right now to you know, take a

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look at the inside. Look,
this is something that you get only with

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This is part of MSU. So
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right, special content, right,
this is what it is. I haven't

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even I haven't even talked ship on
Kickers yet. No Grand Pappy stories.

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You know, you haven't been in
stadium venues and getting everybody involved and getting

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tickets away, the all kinds of
special things. We haven't even gotten to

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the w W E, the what
is it? We're going to the summer

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slammer Way two tickets, all kinds
of things that are in store and right

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now there's been a lot to look
in River Rouge. They're doing it in

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the auditorium. It's like in a
bunker, like a nuclear bomb bunker.

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Where do we have a live shot
yet? I think it's very difficult.

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No one else in the world is
able to get this shot. But this

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is Sparta here we are. We're
are boots on the ground, straight,

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boots on the ground. Love it. Look, we're right there. We're

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so we're waiting for the for everybody
to get ready and we're gonna go to

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that live announcement when it comes.
But you know, speaking of that,

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the thing we might have have a
two four seven guy on our show right

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now, we can maybe join us. Corey Robinson joined us there, he

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is. What's up, Corey?
Not too much? Guys, how you've

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been We're good, Corey. I
gotta know that the choo Choo Crystal Ball

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has Marsh at nineties seven percent in
Michigan State right now, And like,

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are you are you dipping your toes
into choo choo pool? Remember what I'm

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doing? Pools by the ways and
pools. Yeah, I'm feeling like you

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probably got a pretty good chat at
going with your prediction there, But I

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guess we'll find out in a few
minutes. But yeah, I decided hop

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arms since Stephen Brooks he's covering it
for us down there, so so and

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Jason sent me a link. Yeah, so Corey, we were just talking

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about this, you know. So
if Nick Marsh does decide, you know,

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to choose Michigan State as where he
wants to make his home for the

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next three or four years, what
does he bring? And uh? Is

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he a type of players that can
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his freshman year? Yeah, he'll
He'll make an immediate impact to sixty three

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at least two hundred pounds. He's
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I mean going back to when he's
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he's kind of built for built for
this already. So yeah, if he

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chooses Michigan State, he's not gonna
red shirt. If he's healthy, he's

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gonna be a guy that's gonna come
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vertically and uh turn those fifty fifty
balls into ninety ten balls. M Well

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like that fifties and the ninety tens. So yeah, so let's let's dig

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deeper to his skill set. Corey, Like, what do you see if

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you're watching because you you do this, this is your thing, you break

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down film, and when you're sitting
and watching Nick Marsh, what pops to

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you? Just just how he he's
a complete wide receiver. I've seen him

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live I think four times, maybe
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that doesn't take off running plays.
He's out there blocking every play, which

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if you guys know obviously at Michigan
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know to play for uh coach Hawkins, Courtney Hawkins. So you get that

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out of him, you got a
guy that's gonna run his routes properly and

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just do everything that the coaches need
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is he is he up there right
now? We get done if he If

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he starts talking, we don't want
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There we go, oh, we
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background there. Like far has commitment, you know, like has changed.

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I remember standing at the bottom of
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calling Jeff Stalin and talking to that
crew that I'm committing to Michigan State.

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Now, this is what commitments come
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get? Uh? Yeah, I
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to with how he's doing this where
I think it's a good thing that he's

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doing it at his high school with
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Like obviously some people they do it
a different way with maybe they're seven

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v. Sevens and stuff, But
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the people that you go to.
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together since they were little a lot
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was a salad strong choice and kind
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where he's kind of been driven by
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so much some of the other stuff
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just another positive thing that you can
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a player. Yeah. Absolutely,
And you know these kids are turning more

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of these things straight into like you
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mini draft day here, you know, right almost bigger. Everybody has,

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you know, all eyes on that
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They get to choose the day that
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slot, and then we're all eyes
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see Mama Tryn there. You know, it's good to see Mama Hall sorta

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Hall has joined the chat. She
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hello to her. A feeling high, you know, look at I love

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you guys right back. We love
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It's like, Michael, I love
you. Yeah. Like So we're

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right now, we're getting reports that
Nick is near the stage. He's getting

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something. I don't know if he's
on the phone call. He's he's talking

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to somebody making sure that everything is
all the eyes about it. The teacher

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crossed and the decision is final before
he comes out here to tell the rest

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of the world what the decision is. This is really interesting. You know,

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this is the first time we've done
something like this, and this could

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either be something that's really good,
you know Corey for us, or it

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could be really like it's a platform. We're a platform. You know,

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we've had recruits on here who haven't
chosen to come to Michigan. Said,

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I think if I'm Dobby Felford,
the kid whose father is a m M

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A fighter UM, very famous family, and he had Michigan sate on the

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radar, he chose Virginia Tech.
Look and happy doesn't mean we don't want

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like, Look, it's okay.
We love to talk. It's about the

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players, the kids, the players, period athlete exactly. That's what it's

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about, increasing their brand any way
possible and doing it from a real authentic

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place. Do we understand what they're
going through And it's in a heightened way

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that it's more heightening when we experienced
it coming up, you know, to

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you're younger than I. You came
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you didn't have this, you know, we didn't I barely had I'm just

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signed a piece of paper in my
library, my school library, and they

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took a black and white photo I
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you know what I had on the
back of the backdrop in that library where

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the remember when we went on our
visits, there would paint, there would

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uh wallpaper the doors of the Kellog
Center hotel room with Michigan State pictures.

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That that my mom took those pictures
home, and uh that was my background

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on end of my school library.
You know. With that said, you

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know, I was in you know, in my high school. I was

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the first kid, you know,
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school ever to go D one,
you know, so incredible. Yeah,

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it's a big thing and you know, all the whole community gets around players

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take Oh absolutely absolutely, it definitely
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have you like, is there any
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I know, you know we're ramping, you know, we're getting into July

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training camp is gonna start here in
a few weeks. You know, are

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there any other targets that you know, we maybe you know, should be

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have our radars up for um Jason
Brown, the top one unning back out

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of Seattle Washington. Uh, he'll
probably be end of July August sometime make

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an announcement and I have a pick
in for him to Michigan State right now,

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and he would be a huge pickup. He kind of like I don't

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do the player comparisons a lot,
but with him, uh, you see

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a lot of Marshaan Lynch like where
he's just like the same the same body

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type and same running style and you
know he kind of uh same, same

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same pad level and then same thing
where he's just like he doesn't like to

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go down there on the ground.
He's throwing guys off of him and running

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through people. So uh yeah,
there's a lot of a lot of similarities

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when you see his tape to what
you saw Marshaan do so obviously that that's

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some lofty goals to to live up
to, but absolutely, But if we're

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just talking running style and physical appearance
and everything, uh, he kind of

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checks the boxes there. M hmm. You already. Yeah, So this

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one is like does he speak to
the media. Yeah, he hasn't hang

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anybody over with a golf part yet. I don't know, but maybe.

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Oh so it looks like there there's
still we're still waiting. I see.

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You know, look the thing now
with the families that they wear like something

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on top of whatever is underneath.
Underneath, there's there's definitely the school of

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choice, Mama Troyn. I believe
it's to the left in the red.

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You know, let's get up in
the end. Let's get in there.

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Getting we go up there and say, hey, this is smarta. We're

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here, flat and center. Yeah, he's got a microphone right there.

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It's auditor. We're thinking more gymnasium
for HiMAT where it's open. You can

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walk up there. But this is
you know, you got the rows.

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down so they're elevated, which is
good so you can get a good picture.

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Got good lighting here. We're just
waiting on Nick to join the party.

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I know that they had some issues
from a WiFi perspective in that bunker.

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For one bunker, it's a bunker
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in there in the middle of the
river Rouge High School. Ye see that

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a lot. Wouldn't we come around
live announcements? It's uh, you get

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there and everything's ready to roll,
and then everybody fills that auditorium with their

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cell phones and it seems like the
WiFi just shrinks down at them. So

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I've definitely seen something that we're pretty
choppy, but so far, so good.

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Here it looks like, yeah,
we'll just looking to see him,

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just just just communicating with our booth
on the ground and to see like what

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is our timeline looking like. We
just we're we're ten minutes into the official

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timeline of the announcement and you know
we're still we're still waiting. But look,

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patience is a virtue. Patience,
it's a very true. You know,

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Rome wasn't built in the day.
You know what we're doing right now.

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I did reach out and what we're
gonna try to do is after the

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commitment announcement, if it lose the
way of Michigan State, you know,

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we're gonna try to see if we
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comment from Nick and Mamatron really quick. Um. You know that, you

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know there's a message out to her
and everything. I understand everything's out there,

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but we're gonna get them. If
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gonna get them either Tuesday or Thursday. If next week, okay, Hey,

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we're all about it here and we
just want to see it live,

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just like everyone else wants to see
this live, bringing you the real information

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as it happens in real time.
This is this is exciting. I'm this

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gets my juice flowing. I don't
know about you. You know, it's

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great, you know what. I
have people sending me texts like I I

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don't condone this. I don't say
you do this. There's a new lawn

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Michigan. But someone there's something picture, you know, and then driving and

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their phone set up for this and
now this streams on there. Yeah,

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you can't condone that. You know. Big Gregious came out with her rules,

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but they haven't set up. They're
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anything. So we're we're good.
Looks like we're about ready to get rolling.

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Now. I see a large human
being walking up on the stage right

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now. Great walk up, so
great walk up. It's got to be

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fought out. It's beautiful. So
let's go. Let's go live to neck

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right now, I am a stage. There was actually one of the assistant

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principals as well as on the athletic
coordinators. Wrong with mister Chester Perkin.

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That's on the back. But we'd
like to thank everyone for coming out tonight

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to enjoy this clussification on behalf of
our Superintendent, Doctor Coleman, our deputy

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Superintendent, missus Barry, Miss Barry
Brown, the Board of Education High School

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has left administration football program. We
would like to thank everyone for coming out

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today to support one of our football
athletes, mister Nick Morris is celebrating him

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on his verbal committment announcement aware he
would not only be taking a football talents,

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but as well as academic talents.
We like to think the time mean

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for inst to day in the crowd
that's in autendis as well as as Nick

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and his mother, Miss Wilson and
his film Lea for allowing all of us

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to be part miss announcement in this
big play because I know we couldn't ended

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any weapon the truth to do it
here in the auditorium River Rouge High School,

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and we truly appreciate it. At
the time, I would like to

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take the time to introduce for some
more Westhy comments from our excellence, Superintendent

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Doctor Derek carcole Man. Listen,
we have to celebrate the young man's accomplishment

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that every child that has played any
sport aspires to become. So we're gonna

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provide incredible energy. This evening good
easy. So I thought about the magnitude

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that this is bad. And again
for any kid playing sam football on playgrounds,

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any basketball players, they all want
to go D one. That is

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every athletes grain. One of the
things that I tried to educate it to

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help young people understand it doesn't matter
if it's D one one, D two,

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D three. We want D freely. We want you to go somewhere

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where you're going to be celebrating,
where a billy is gonna get behind you,

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to make sure that this journey is
not complete. Before I get into

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everybody's role that's here tonight, i'd
just like to say that as much as

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we talk about Nick the football player, I think the most underrated and understated

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characteristics of qualities that you ask are
rights, humility, and is working.

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He didn't get here by chances.
He has these physical gifts obviously that most

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of us wish to man, but
his commitment in the classroom and to being

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a great person are far greater than
anything that athletics is gonna be able to

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do for him. Because football has
promised to no one, so we're going

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to celebrate you make on a young
manage you are, because I think that's

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bigger than the athlete from Lulleging.
Everybody hearing this is all feels like a

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wedding. This is a commitments here
a moment. It is him saying I

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do to one of the thirty plus
universities that have offered him an opportunity to

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come here and continue his academic and
athletic abilities. But when people go to

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a wedding, you are there witness
witnesses. You're not there to participate in

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the reception. You're not there to
just watch what happens. You're there to

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provide your commitment to the bride and
groom to say that we're going to do

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everything we can to make sure you're
a successful So, if you're here this

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evening, you're not here just by
chance. You're here because this next journey

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and his life is going to be
far more difficult than anything he's ever done.

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Here's why college teams are nothing to
high school all star teams. He's

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going to walk into college as an
eighteen year old freshman, competing with me

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and women in the college weight program
for five years or three four or five

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years, he's going to deal with
professors who could care less about what happens

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in football, because the academic integrity
of that institution matters. So while we're

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here celebrating this evening, make sure
that when he transitions from here to whereever

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he's going to go, that we
continue to support him. I don't care

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how mature he looks, how much
of a man his physique, Liz is

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all to believe he is. This
is a young man that's going to need

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all of our supporting. So niggas
are superintendent, somebody who views you as

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his nephew. You have one commitment, and I'm certain that everybody here shares

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in that believe because very few people
get to have what you have. When

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you think of all of that combined, you have the potential to play at

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the next level after college, but
it won't happen unless you make great decisions.

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It won't happen arrest. You're academically
eligible. There's nothing that about you.

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So you're going to college to be
an academic All America as well as

408
00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:07.160
an athletic All America, and everybody
here here is committing to help you with

409
00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:12.279
that you love and where you choose
to go. That university is gonna be

410
00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:24.599
better because you chose to go there. Thank you, Thank you, Dr

411
00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:29.960
Coleman for those marks. Now we
all know that there's a lot of people

412
00:32:29.960 --> 00:32:31.880
here to day that would like to
talk and share their experience that they've had

413
00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:36.960
on Nick Marcia's journey. The first
person got asked to come up to speak

414
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:45.920
is one of his former coaches.
Coach Mo resents, we can do a

415
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:51.359
little better than let right. Looks
like we're gonna get a lot of people

416
00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:58.920
talking on this right now. There's
a big fish coming out of here.

417
00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:06.759
Baby. They want to At one
point, at one point we had on

418
00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:10.839
our program nay stool at one time, um picking on pipeline for a ready

419
00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:16.599
moment time leading back to the Doggies
and all those great players that they head.

420
00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:21.720
Um. But I've known Nick because
he was like seven years old.

421
00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:25.319
We translated from the Tigers the wood
Raves and uh. At that time,

422
00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:29.240
we all didn't know he was a
dividual player. Oh you know, he

423
00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:30.400
was a big, tall, big
headed kid. I was a kicker,

424
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:37.200
That's about it, you know,
Um. But his transition um from youth

425
00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:39.880
to high school has been the remarkable. I remember getting a phone call from

426
00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:44.119
his mommy Linda, and she's telling
me, like, hey, at the

427
00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:46.759
championship game, I ran to the
coach his name is Close Russell and he

428
00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:50.119
wants my son and blah blah blah. I'm like, man, we're not

429
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:53.559
trying to get that. We're going
here, Uh Loriie Holts. It's real

430
00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:59.240
Roots. That's why all my kids
already had UM and Nickols. One of

431
00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:02.079
the ones I was a bright Spot
championship game. I think he scored four

432
00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:07.599
touchdowns, Zach rig Rick three touchdowns. Coursey gonn tell him because he stayed

433
00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:12.559
score of five touchdowns. UM,
but it was a tremendous UM. O'm

434
00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:15.039
coortunity here to coach Nick h Nick
is more, um, more just a

435
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:20.119
football player than me. UM.
I street like my son. He called

436
00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:22.079
hey, coach, I need this, I need that. Hey can compete

437
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:23.599
with this to pick me up.
That no problem at all, UM.

438
00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:31.360
But I'm extremely happy UM for its
development from coach Larry coach Petway Goes Lands

439
00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:36.760
UM coach partner of the Hole Rod
Roots staff. UM, and I'm eager

440
00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:39.880
to see the next three or four
years we would like to go and development

441
00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:52.440
leading to the next level. UM. That's pretty much it. I think

442
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:54.840
the coaching listen. Next up,
we're gonna have a coach come up.

443
00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:59.079
That's currently all the River Roots High
School staff. That's gonna say a few

444
00:34:59.079 --> 00:35:15.679
worse coach school keys. Good evening, everyone, can you guys hear me?

445
00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:22.079
Good evening? Uh? First off, I want I want to Uh,

446
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:31.079
let's take it up. Let's talking
up fool one. Uh, all

447
00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:35.320
of the staff, the facult team, everyone who made this. Possibly,

448
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:42.840
man, I've never seen nothing like
this. Everybody. Um. I started

449
00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:45.559
to a little bit about me.
Coach Russ Rus who used uh two thousand

450
00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:50.920
and five graduated River Rouge High Schools, threw the through I played at River

451
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:54.280
Rouge as a junior panther. A
couple of my old coaches are out there

452
00:35:54.599 --> 00:36:00.280
shout out coach Key, coach feeling
they coached me when I was nineteen years

453
00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:02.840
old starting off playing football. UM
So that just gives you an idea of

454
00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:07.039
the community field of me got here. Um So, you know, shouts

455
00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:12.000
out to to everybody here in the
Rouge community. So, like I said,

456
00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:15.840
River Rue Graduate, I actually walked
across this stage a long time ago,

457
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:21.159
back in two thousand and five.
So being able to celebrate one of

458
00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:23.239
our kids. Here is a huge
thing, from a huge sense surprise.

459
00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:27.079
I love think to death. He's
like my second son. You're here,

460
00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:30.039
he said all the time. Uh, you know he he get bad when

461
00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:32.599
I called him sling for everybody else. But I truly feel that way about

462
00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:37.559
him. So I give you guys
a quick story. H looking at you

463
00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:40.199
know, kind of everybody else.
He was playing in port role in next

464
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:45.199
life. H. When I met
coach Reese, Uh, he wasn't in

465
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:49.840
coach rings. I was working downtown
as an engineer. Uh. He was

466
00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.840
a chef in my one of my
favorite restaurants, and every day I used

467
00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:55.000
to go in there and get my
my soul food, my extra corn bread.

468
00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:58.440
And I used to kick you,
litting me he should show him love.

469
00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:01.119
Uh. And then rowing behind passed
forward. I found out, you

470
00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:06.159
know, he's the coach of me
and had had my experience with the reason

471
00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:08.599
not doing good days. He may
have been like, ain't no way.

472
00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:14.039
We heard what he just said.
We ain't going the rooms. Like if

473
00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:16.519
my experience was any different than them, Nick man, I've been here today.

474
00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:21.440
So um, just a quick story
on how you treat people. I

475
00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:24.559
guess going forward, when you when
you when how do you treat people when

476
00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:28.239
you don't know like who they are? So always being a good person to

477
00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:30.599
somebody, I think that we can
say that Nique is that to a lot

478
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:37.760
of us. Uh Man. So
first thing I want to say and shout

479
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:42.400
out coach Lands when we first met
me. When I first met Nick,

480
00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:45.039
all I want to do is to
be able to help him with his family.

481
00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:47.760
I mean, you see this kid
with this great potential, U great

482
00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:52.199
head on his shoulders. Mom is
you know, daughters, everybody like you

483
00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:55.679
got this nice family, and it's
just like, what kind of do to

484
00:37:55.719 --> 00:37:59.519
help you achieve your dreams? When
I first met NICKI tell me I'm to

485
00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:02.760
playing the n field. So from
that day for everything that I've done for

486
00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:07.599
him has been to help him achieve
those dreams, run on the field or

487
00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:09.440
off the field, and all of
that starts with being a good person,

488
00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:16.079
like doctor Coleman said, being a
good student in the classroom and a good

489
00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:21.159
person off the field. A lot
of what Nick is great at it's not

490
00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:23.119
even something that's on the field,
just a great young man to be around

491
00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:28.760
and add the coach every day.
Uh Nick is a where's the coach Lands?

492
00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:32.679
He's a blessing to our group because
he's a humble uniform. Nick is

493
00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:36.840
so so humble. He won't read
off his stats, he won't read off

494
00:38:36.840 --> 00:38:43.760
his accomplishments. But I will hear
today Max Frev sophomore All Americans under Armor,

495
00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:46.760
next All American under Arm refreshment All
American, and he'll probably played the

496
00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:51.039
two All American games at the end
of the same year. And Nick won't

497
00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:52.559
tell you none of that. He
probably let our team and receiving the last

498
00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:59.639
three years, and touchdowns and receiving
yards, but most a problem of that

499
00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:08.760
he's ain't ten to three point on
GPA while doing all of that, all

500
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:14.719
right, And I ended with this
with this story. On Nick's ninth grade

501
00:39:14.840 --> 00:39:20.119
year, going into our first game, Uh, Mario Swift, one of

502
00:39:20.119 --> 00:39:23.719
our senior safety who's playing in college
football. He's playing. Uh, Nick

503
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:28.840
caught a pass across the middle of
a field on the slant route and Marion

504
00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:34.480
just drew him kelly right to his
chest and Nick fell out, not win

505
00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:38.320
out. Was going to come back
all stories about and it's really something that's

506
00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:42.679
cool, and uh, you know
you it was hit on there. You

507
00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:45.760
know that three point on GPA.
He's a smart kid, you know,

508
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:50.360
coming in and as you can see
Stray and Corey, I had to switch

509
00:39:50.519 --> 00:39:54.639
out here because my battery life was
not doing me and you're not helping the

510
00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:59.400
battery life. Everybody was not helping
me. So I hadn't switched come back

511
00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:04.039
inside. I had to leave the
beautiful outside that that Lake Michigan breeze and

512
00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:07.039
everything like that. But hey,
we're here, and uh, you know

513
00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:12.800
what this is something. This is
a really really cool commitment ceremony that I

514
00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:16.599
think that we're we're seeing right now
because you see a lot of different people

515
00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:23.320
coming up there and speaking to not
just the athletic callous that Nick marsh possesses

516
00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:30.400
possesses, but also the person he
is. And we all know this.

517
00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:32.920
If you if you're gonna be wearing
that green, donning that green and white

518
00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:37.920
and coming in and going to be
called a Spartan dog, you have to

519
00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:42.119
have those core characteristics. And uh
so you know, Nick step definitely a

520
00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:45.119
kid that possesses those things. And
uh, no matter what school gets them.

521
00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:49.320
You know, if it's us,
we would you know, be very

522
00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:52.280
grateful and appreciative of it. But
you know, no matter what school gets

523
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:55.159
him, I think that's you know, he's definitely possessing a really good trait

524
00:40:55.280 --> 00:41:00.760
there. Well, of course you
said that perfectly, you know, I

525
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:04.599
mean, I think that the town, you can tell, is very excited

526
00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:08.639
about this particular commitment. And when
you're talking about Nick Marsh's commitment today,

527
00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:15.679
he's a very very very big fish
in a place that is very proud of

528
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:17.360
him. You know, you talked
about it earlier. He said, this

529
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:22.559
is a very blue collar, hard
working area River Rouge, just south of

530
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:25.960
Detroit. There, um the down
river area. You're gonna see a little

531
00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:30.039
highlights here and Nick, you know, making it happen. I see Go

532
00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:34.480
Green Go Whites popping up everywhere on
in our chat. Uh, this is

533
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:38.280
a guy who you can see,
you got the you got the superintendent,

534
00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:44.159
coaches principles. I think we got
school board members. Everybody wants to get

535
00:41:44.239 --> 00:41:49.920
up and say a word about what
Nick Marshall means. Mamade Grandma. You

536
00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:52.039
know, I was expecting Mama,
Dame GRANDMAMADEV. But we're going we're going

537
00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:54.519
beep down the line now. You
know, everybody wants to get there.

538
00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:59.360
Time to talk about Nick. You
know, I know everybody wants to say,

539
00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:01.800
let's to it but look, God
might even enjoy the moment. Let

540
00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:06.519
him enjoy the moment. They're gonna
get to it. He's on the stage

541
00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:10.000
right now, and I know they're
telling stories about him as a youth player

542
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:15.760
getting into high school. I mean
because absolutely Karon said it perfectly right.

543
00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:20.280
It takes a village. This is
Knicks village. Let him enjoy enough said

544
00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:30.119
right there. You know, you
know, I'm just I'm dying laughter just

545
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:35.800
reading these comments, you know,
right now. And Steve Smith can't believe

546
00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:45.679
I who seemed chet turned up to
drink yet? Oh I can't believe me

547
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:52.039
Steve Smith and I didn't celebrate this
occasion right now. You know, spartan

548
00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:59.920
nation that it's getting more, isn't
it right exactly? You know, get

549
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:04.400
some read some some ice and that
in that cup. Keep going. Let's

550
00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:07.760
just say I have I have right
now, like behind the scenes, just

551
00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:12.119
like we at this is smart MSU. Behind the scenes have a great support

552
00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:15.000
system. I have a great support
system right now just feeding me. The

553
00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:19.679
line of bebbies. You know,
I'm not gonna say what it is because

554
00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:22.679
they're not partners. Right now,
this is part of myself. The line

555
00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:28.559
of Bebbies are just rein fed to
me right now. So they're not partners

556
00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:32.039
yet, the partners yet, but
they could be if they playment cards right

557
00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:35.880
there could be. But one thing
I want to say is this. We

558
00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:43.679
have over eight hundred people UM tuned
in right now. If you're a new

559
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:46.360
subscriber, hit that subscribe button.
If you're a new viewer, hit that

560
00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:51.559
subscribe button, hit that life button. Let subscribe. We bring Look,

561
00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:54.159
we cross all platform. When he
talks about Michigan State, yes we talk

562
00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:58.239
about Michigan State, but you know
we also talk about your school too.

563
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:01.079
Sometimes we might talk about a recruit
that we're in a battle with your particular

564
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:05.880
favorite school, and you'll get the
inside from us. We'd even real with

565
00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:08.559
you. Right now, we got
Mama Trump on the stage. Yes,

566
00:44:08.800 --> 00:44:15.639
let's go to Mama Trum. I
want to thank everybody here in this room

567
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:20.519
right now. Um. This needs
so much to me and means so much

568
00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:23.960
to Nick. This is I never
would have dreamed. This boy has been

569
00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:29.679
putting us in the rooms and places
that I could have never imagined this benn

570
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:36.320
Um. First off, I have
to thank Bo Thomas. Nick was about

571
00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:43.000
six years old looking about nine,
and uh Bo was my Facebook friend and

572
00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:45.239
he ended up being my camp driver
one day and he said, oh,

573
00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:49.679
you remember seeing you on Facebook?
Do you have the sun? I said

574
00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:51.559
yeah. He said how old is
he? About nine? I said no,

575
00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:53.559
he's six. He said, well, I coach, you got to

576
00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:57.920
bring him in. And I remember, makin seventy five is weird? All

577
00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:01.960
started? And when I took Nick
there, he was really a unicorn compared

578
00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:06.280
to all the other kids. And
the moment they threw a ball, the

579
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:10.400
moment he dragged a tire, it
was it was owned from there and from

580
00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:15.480
that point on he just been striving
ever since. Um. I really want

581
00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:21.360
to thank everybody, the entire staff, the entire community of River Rouge for

582
00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:24.159
welcoming us, because if it was
not for them, we would not be

583
00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:30.480
leaving the east Side. Everybody know
we're from the east Side. And Russ.

584
00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:35.039
Russ came and he pitched something different, cast and one of them King,

585
00:45:35.199 --> 00:45:39.440
one of them. But River Rouge
was a tight knit community and they

586
00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:45.960
believed in having that education, having
that brotherhood, and that discipline, and

587
00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:49.960
that's what stood out to me the
most. They wanted to make my son

588
00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:53.480
a better person and a better man, and that's number one in my book.

589
00:45:54.039 --> 00:46:00.039
And that's why we chose Ruge.
This so monumental and um son,

590
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:05.440
I am beyond proud of you.
You have been beyond a blessing. You've

591
00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:07.920
exceeded everything that I can ever imagine
for you, and I can't wait to

592
00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:12.719
see what these next four years of
Like, um, I just think,

593
00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:15.760
everybody here tonight and let's see the
burner instead of burning my baby. Thank

594
00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:34.039
you all so much. That was
Mama Tron on the one time there,

595
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:37.679
so you know, I think,
you know, I think we're getting closer

596
00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:40.119
and for you know, the viewers
popped in with us, we really appreciate.

597
00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:44.159
This is a big thing for the
marsh family. Um you know,

598
00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:46.639
talking to a Mamma Tron you know
earlier this week she said it's gonna be

599
00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:51.840
over two hundred and fifty people you
know out there for this event. So

600
00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:58.320
they're gonna make a big event of
this. So there's a video Oh yeah,

601
00:46:58.599 --> 00:47:02.559
West Virginia, just Allard, Wisconsin, you know, of everywhere.

602
00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:17.800
First I don't know, I don't
know. Yeah, yeah, I got

603
00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:24.079
to lose the counting these bandits and
part terms last little cops of rats talking

604
00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:34.719
about my fast when bad, Oh
my life, trying to keep you down.

605
00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:54.559
Keep no, no, I think
sometime I know so what see yeah

606
00:47:54.639 --> 00:48:01.400
where we wants licking the door?
My man? Where are you going?

607
00:48:02.039 --> 00:48:09.280
Right? Baby? May what you
love? I don't know your grandma?

608
00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:17.840
All right, boy a boy visit, I'm going to the jelly was chanting

609
00:48:17.880 --> 00:48:21.960
me up and you know that.
I'm faminius. See how you're going through

610
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:24.039
with my stimulus. But they really
ain't. Can't it good? I know

611
00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:30.639
some can't on her days. Stop
trying to thank job, not trying to

612
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:38.239
bendom. Use trying to bendom mind
and mad amen? So you remb woman

613
00:48:43.719 --> 00:48:51.760
man man, no, wait man, you know what's gonna lottle? Don't

614
00:48:51.880 --> 00:49:05.320
know? No, no, don't
want man by some stuff. I've been

615
00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:10.239
handing it a lot to talk to
about the brothers the ship. Did I

616
00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:14.159
spit out? It's a chaque cold
like I'm pinching a ring goal and I

617
00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:17.559
nigga put a hit out and another
one and another one. Y'all hold up

618
00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:21.400
boy, the last niggas. So
they take and I but I'm really in

619
00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:23.599
front of them, some of the
some of the nig fand f geting the

620
00:49:23.639 --> 00:49:28.519
little comp that they had and running. She could be gonna get sir,

621
00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:34.679
and he's gonna tell your many time. Feeling like nighting my prime and these

622
00:49:34.760 --> 00:49:39.119
days seem very Oh why have you
even heard a little buddy to somebody murder

623
00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:42.880
a little buddy? Now I'm on
the play a little body nay got to

624
00:49:42.920 --> 00:50:45.320
play the wet you y'all? Wo
where you tarking him? The three green?

625
00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:59.840
Yeah? Yeah, you're right now
in my life just ha take all.

626
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:05.280
We need to be better man.
It needs to be a better president

627
00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:08.760
overall. Um, I wish I
could think everybody like personally because you know,

628
00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:14.599
y'all just y'all just all blessings in
my life. Um, making a

629
00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:19.280
decision was pretty tough, but you
know, I wanted to make these decisions

630
00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:22.239
based off you know, how I
felt, you know, as far as

631
00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:25.960
like like coming to Roots, I
wasn't too familiar with it. But when

632
00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:29.119
I came in, I don't want
to treating my family. You know,

633
00:51:29.440 --> 00:51:32.840
it was a very family community,
and you know, making a decision to

634
00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:36.519
go to college, and I wanted
to be exactly like coming to Roots,

635
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:40.159
So you know that was a big
part of my commitment. Um reason I

636
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:45.800
chose Michigan State. Um, it's
not too close to home. It's not

637
00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:49.079
too far. And you know I
would love all of you to come support,

638
00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:52.360
come to games. You know,
we just buy my family. Um,

639
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:58.239
it's another thing, uh, Michigan
State, the fans, the coaches,

640
00:51:58.920 --> 00:52:01.679
everyone just like family. You know, it's like an extended family far

641
00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:07.079
from home, you know. Um. I would like to thank the Rouge

642
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:09.960
coaching staff. I would like to
name the staff and Rouge school district.

643
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:15.639
UM. I want to thank on
my teammates, former teammates, all right

644
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:20.239
now, you know I would like
to thank family, coaches, everybody part.

645
00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:27.960
Um. Yeah. And the next
two to four years, I'm taking

646
00:52:28.039 --> 00:52:46.360
my times education to Mission State University. I ain't got to change my team

647
00:52:52.880 --> 00:53:05.039
wend Um. Yeah. Really,
what a special moment, What a special

648
00:53:05.159 --> 00:53:13.000
moment right there there? You have
it, Nick Marsh chooses Michigan State right

649
00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:15.920
here, live on. This is
part of the MSSHOE. We're bringing it

650
00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:22.559
to you, baby. Yeah,
let me do it right. We know

651
00:53:23.039 --> 00:53:27.400
you can't, you can't go against
Grandmama. What's happen? Moment? What's

652
00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:31.840
that? Corey Robinson? What's that
the moment right there? Yeah? I

653
00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:36.079
just put out a tweet that I
had in the draft. I said once

654
00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:38.760
he saw that. Uh you know, it was a rat for everything else

655
00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:43.360
was out the window. He was
coming to Michigan State. Like you don't

656
00:53:43.559 --> 00:53:47.519
you don't have that moment and and
not come here. I mean like you

657
00:53:47.559 --> 00:53:52.880
can't. You can't tell tell Grandma
no after you see her get getting loose

658
00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:58.000
and starting stadium like that, and
the official and I mean he saw that

659
00:53:58.280 --> 00:54:01.159
all of the visits that he took, Uh, you could see that it

660
00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:06.320
was family at Michigan State. That's
what I mean. I've probably been on

661
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:10.440
uh countless shows and for two months
saying it's coming to Michigan State. It's

662
00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:15.800
coming to Michigan State. Because you
got to understand each recruit individually. For

663
00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:21.320
Nick gets family like that. That's
what matters, uh, the relationships with

664
00:54:21.400 --> 00:54:24.639
the coaches, having his family there. So so that's why when you saw

665
00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:30.480
the picks go to Penn State early
or uh maybe there's some noise with Kansas

666
00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:37.719
or Pattern or Doozy's trying to offer
offer deals too good to pass up.

667
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:42.559
Uh, you know, it's always
going to be Michigan State because it was

668
00:54:42.639 --> 00:54:46.519
family to him and his family.
So uh, you know, you don't

669
00:54:46.599 --> 00:54:50.880
you don't see it a lot when
a guy d commits from school that he

670
00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:53.719
comes back. But like when Nick, it always felt like this was always

671
00:54:53.800 --> 00:55:00.880
gonna be where it ended up at, just because they never lost like that,

672
00:55:00.159 --> 00:55:07.639
that love for the university and coaches. Um so so Corey, Like,

673
00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:10.199
you know, we see a lot
of these pictures and we see you

674
00:55:10.280 --> 00:55:15.960
know, on social media, and
if you're a spartan fan or a casual

675
00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:19.960
fan and you see these these photos
and stuff like that, you see that

676
00:55:20.039 --> 00:55:24.199
big chair. Um, you see
Nick Marsh, Mama Marsh, Mama Tron,

677
00:55:24.800 --> 00:55:34.360
Grandma Tron, and coach Tucker like
the unsung hero really in a lot

678
00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:37.480
of this. And can you talk
a little bit about the Courtney Hawkins effect

679
00:55:38.280 --> 00:55:44.519
that he's having on the recruiting,
especially at the wide receiver position. Yeah,

680
00:55:44.639 --> 00:55:49.280
he's he's a different guy. There's
a lot of coaches out there at

681
00:55:49.320 --> 00:55:52.960
a lot of places they're gonna tell
kids what they want to hear. He's

682
00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:57.000
probably lots some guys because he doesn't
tell them what they want to hear all

683
00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:01.840
the time. But you know,
you get the the guys that understand that

684
00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:07.559
it's not all task kissing and rainbows
here. It's it's worked to be a

685
00:56:07.800 --> 00:56:13.400
very good football player. At the
power five level. So guys that kind

686
00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:16.119
of have that mindset that they know, you know, they've they've got a

687
00:56:16.159 --> 00:56:20.719
block. They've got to learn how
to get in and out of routes.

688
00:56:20.719 --> 00:56:22.960
They got to know the playbook.
Like, he's not going to promise you

689
00:56:23.239 --> 00:56:29.599
that you're getting playing time because to
get your commitment, he'll he'll tell you

690
00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:32.320
if you come in, you'd put
the work in, and you show that

691
00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:36.280
you can beat out some of the
guys that are here, then we're gonna

692
00:56:36.320 --> 00:56:39.440
play you, right. So,
I mean, that's kind of how how

693
00:56:39.480 --> 00:56:44.199
he operates. You know, he's
from Plint, Michigan, where you know,

694
00:56:44.280 --> 00:56:47.679
it's a town that everybody goes and
gets it that nobody's getting anything handed

695
00:56:47.719 --> 00:56:51.639
to them in Flint, Michigan,
and he kind of takes that approach at

696
00:56:52.840 --> 00:57:07.159
them. Yes, we'll see you
very soon. Congratulations, mama. Thank

697
00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:10.039
you so much. I'm so excited, y'all. I I have my own

698
00:57:10.079 --> 00:57:13.360
box of tissue. I was crying
up a storm. But you're gonna see

699
00:57:13.440 --> 00:57:16.440
us in a minute, all right, Mama trying. We're gonna try to

700
00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:22.519
get you on the show on Tuesday
or Thursday. All right. Thank you

701
00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:25.639
guys so much. All right,
hey, hey, big question. Where

702
00:57:25.639 --> 00:57:30.519
are you going for dinner? I'm
sorry, saga, where are you going

703
00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:34.559
for dinner? We're actually here,
I think at the school. What what's

704
00:57:34.599 --> 00:57:37.400
on the menu? What's on the
menu. It's so much good stuff,

705
00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:40.559
y'all. I have not like it's
so much stuff? Are you set up

706
00:57:40.639 --> 00:57:46.119
so nice? Enjoy yourself, enjoy
yourselves, enjoy it with your family.

707
00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:51.280
Like a message today, I've got
to find my mom. I think she's

708
00:57:51.320 --> 00:57:53.199
around here dancing somewhere, like she
s where she was going to dance.

709
00:57:58.199 --> 00:58:05.400
We gotta get her on video.
Thank you so much, Thank you.

710
00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:07.800
We'll talk to you later this week. All right, yeah, all right,

711
00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:12.840
And there you have it. Guys, you know, a big time

712
00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:16.119
recruit for the Spartans, you know, coming in Nick marsh Um Corey.

713
00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:21.599
Before we let you go, one
quick question for you. Nick marsh was

714
00:58:21.639 --> 00:58:24.360
a kid that committed to Michigan State
early in the process, and then he

715
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:30.960
d committed and wanted to, you
know, go through the process and everything

716
00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:34.159
like that, like what does that
say to you? And what does that

717
00:58:34.320 --> 00:58:37.679
say? You know for that fact, and then coming back to Michigan State

718
00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:45.440
saying, hey, maybe the grass
isn't greener somewhere else. Yeah, speaks

719
00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:51.159
to the relationships that he had with
Courtney Hawkins, Mil Tucker, Jay Johnson,

720
00:58:51.960 --> 00:58:54.440
some of them. You know,
they gave him that cooling off period.

721
00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:57.800
You know, hey, go see
what you got to see. We're

722
00:58:57.840 --> 00:59:00.920
gonna be here for you. And
then maybe three weeks after the d commitment,

723
00:59:01.199 --> 00:59:06.079
they started talking again and you know, putting themselves back in the position

724
00:59:06.199 --> 00:59:09.360
for it. But yeah, I
mean it talks about the culture of the

725
00:59:09.480 --> 00:59:15.599
program under under Mel Pucker and that
you know, he was able to go

726
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:20.079
see Pittsburgh, he was able to
go see Penn State, he was able

727
00:59:20.119 --> 00:59:24.079
to go see Kansas and a bunch
of other places. An answer and he

728
00:59:24.159 --> 00:59:29.079
got every one of his questions answered
done. Why Michigan State was still the

729
00:59:29.199 --> 00:59:34.079
best spot for him, and it
led to today's announcement, and you know,

730
00:59:34.159 --> 00:59:37.480
that's it's good for Michigan State.
Obviously he's going to make an immediate

731
00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:42.519
impact on the field, but on
the recruiting trail. I mean, I

732
00:59:42.599 --> 00:59:46.199
think there's a something you gain out
of it too, because he did come

733
00:59:46.239 --> 00:59:50.880
back, you know, so that
speaks to the culture. Uh, he's

734
00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:54.000
a guy that you know, everybody
in the country knows who Nick Marshes all

735
00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:59.559
the other players. So you're going
to see other prospects on the Michigan State

736
00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:02.760
coaches his recruiting board. You know, this says something that's gonna send a

737
01:00:02.840 --> 01:00:07.440
shakove or you know, get their
attention. So a big day for Michigan

738
01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:15.119
State football. Definitely, it's a
big day. Straight. It's a great

739
01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:16.760
day. It's a huge day.
You know, I'm so happy. I

740
01:00:16.760 --> 01:00:21.480
don't know that video got me.
Hey you almost got me there, Nick.

741
01:00:21.760 --> 01:00:25.480
That video was very emotional. I
mean the song was great and involving

742
01:00:25.559 --> 01:00:29.880
everybody in the community. Was beautiful, like the young kids, you know,

743
01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:34.280
people in the stores, you know, the barber family, Grandmam and

744
01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:36.519
them on the corner going across the
street. I mean, it was it

745
01:00:36.679 --> 01:00:43.480
was beautiful arts benches. That was
a very thought well thought out commitment video

746
01:00:43.639 --> 01:00:46.320
that meant a lot. And you
know, look, look, I don't

747
01:00:46.320 --> 01:00:49.679
care how much time it took.
At least we got to the end that

748
01:00:49.760 --> 01:00:53.679
we wanted. And Nick marsh is
a Spartan. He's committed. Thank God,

749
01:00:53.920 --> 01:00:55.960
you know, thanks for all the
work that he's been able to do,

750
01:00:57.079 --> 01:01:00.320
and thanks for everybody. Thank God. Like that. Yeah, like

751
01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:05.159
it's just like you know, look
it all in all lines. We didn't

752
01:01:05.199 --> 01:01:07.320
know going into this. We didn't
No one knew for sure, Lady Cordon,

753
01:01:07.599 --> 01:01:10.920
you know Corey is I guy who's
in the Crystal Ball the two.

754
01:01:12.760 --> 01:01:15.760
Yeah, but yeah, no,
mine was at one hundred percent. Going

755
01:01:16.559 --> 01:01:22.239
you about Corey. You did not
have the coyones to say yours a hundred.

756
01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:23.360
I said, Mom, I's not
ninety five. And you said,

757
01:01:23.440 --> 01:01:29.119
oh, yeah, I gotta,
I gotta, I gotta hide hide it

758
01:01:29.239 --> 01:01:31.840
for the kids moment. I can't, can't, I can't be dropping.

759
01:01:34.039 --> 01:01:42.119
I did. That's why we did
the sixth confidence uh and yeah, Hey,

760
01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:45.840
the atmosphere, as you said,
Corey though you talked about it too,

761
01:01:45.320 --> 01:01:50.199
like the family atmosphere that they had
at Michigan State is what attracted him

762
01:01:50.239 --> 01:01:52.679
to that. And you saw him
Mama trying talking about the fact that they

763
01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:54.440
were going to look at the king
and cast and all that, but they

764
01:01:54.519 --> 01:01:58.800
like the family atmosphere of River Rouge. It's a family all the way around.

765
01:01:58.840 --> 01:02:00.360
This is a family affair. This
is part of the ms you as

766
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:07.840
a family that chat being over nine
hundred strong nine that's huge. That's a

767
01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:10.599
record breaking for us, and we
thank you. It's all about family.

768
01:02:10.920 --> 01:02:16.320
You know, one of our chat
the Loyalist, this happens to be right

769
01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:21.840
here with me, Landa. He's
right here in California with me live.

770
01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:29.880
You know, hey, you know
so so yeah, Green is where it's

771
01:02:29.960 --> 01:02:34.079
at. Family is where it's at. So it just you don't give me.

772
01:02:34.199 --> 01:02:38.039
Give me a shout out to um
little Dirk J. Cole for that

773
01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:49.559
song in that video there oh my
live Yeah. Hey man, hey,

774
01:02:49.679 --> 01:02:53.840
that was a great, great event. Appreciate you Corey Sean. Appreciate you,

775
01:02:54.039 --> 01:02:58.400
Sean. Yes, definitely, Tom
Boots on the ground. That was

776
01:02:58.480 --> 01:03:00.840
great and it is a happy endiver
shoe to you, you and your lovely

777
01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:06.559
wife things the fifth sixth anniversary son, No, let's go into this right

778
01:03:06.880 --> 01:03:14.639
it's shot and his wife sixth anniversary
tonight and he went to the press conference

779
01:03:14.760 --> 01:03:21.119
for us. Talk about that.
That's huge. About what else? That's

780
01:03:21.159 --> 01:03:24.360
compliment? That's that's love. Yeah, And how do we know shine?

781
01:03:24.519 --> 01:03:29.559
How to shine through this medium?
Right here? That's the day this man

782
01:03:30.360 --> 01:03:35.079
company and what we're doing at this
party. Lets the power and anybody in

783
01:03:35.199 --> 01:03:37.360
this shot is just just like somebody
is right here with us right now.

784
01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:42.760
So like the person handing the drinks
over the two who Who's awesome? The

785
01:03:42.920 --> 01:03:45.840
people who I want to give them
a quick shout out. My boy Mike

786
01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:52.920
Gee, my boy Brett Mellon continually
handing with never on E Choo choose never

787
01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:59.639
on E. That train keeps on
rolling, baby, he loved Uh.

788
01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:04.559
Thanks to everybody in the in the
chat that joined us for the show special.

789
01:04:04.599 --> 01:04:09.320
Thanks to all involved in our producers
in the fact you know, Tony

790
01:04:09.719 --> 01:04:14.719
Square, Tony g Tony Hell,
thank you guys, shoot you if you

791
01:04:14.760 --> 01:04:17.920
have anything to say before we've signed
off here. Enjoy your weekend, everybody.

792
01:04:18.239 --> 01:04:21.960
Everybody, enjoy the weekend. We're
going to enjoy it. Have a

793
01:04:23.079 --> 01:04:27.800
good night, God bless you,
and go Green, Go White. This

794
01:04:28.039 --> 01:04:31.679
is far by MSU as a combined
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795
01:04:31.800 --> 01:04:38.719
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796
01:04:39.159 --> 01:04:45.400
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797
01:04:45.480 --> 01:04:49.159
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798
01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:54.599
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799
01:04:54.679 --> 01:04:58.440
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800
01:04:58.599 --> 01:05:01.159
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801
01:05:01.280 --> 01:05:04.159
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