Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, well welcome.
Speaker 2: It's Thursday, November seven, twenty and twenty four. Welcome to
Speaker 2: the Only Show about Spartan Dogs hosted by Spartan Dogs.
Speaker 2: This is part of ms U. I'm your host Jason Strayhorn,
Speaker 2: along with my co host Cedric Swerving Irving Swerve.
Speaker 3: No, no, I ain't got I got nothing.
Speaker 4: You got something. You got something.
Speaker 2: Many we had to get everybody to get the vote out.
Speaker 2: But now it's Thursday, and I know you still really
Speaker 2: from Indiana lost?
Speaker 1: Uh right, But you know what I was telling people,
Speaker 1: one of my good friend slash best friend slash brother.
Speaker 1: We made it because he was on g M A
Speaker 1: what is GM showing everybody like you know he he went?
Speaker 1: That mean I went because I was with him in spirit.
Speaker 1: Good Morning America.
Speaker 3: I saw you boy. Whoa, oh you look the.
Speaker 4: Good talking about Marian Smith.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, Look, we're gonna talk about him as well
Speaker 2: as some special guests that we're gonna get to in
Speaker 2: a moment, and we're gonna talk a little bit about
Speaker 2: the loss of Indiana, but also looking forward to in
Speaker 2: the Illinois after this bye week. That is right now,
Speaker 2: Cedric Man, Look, welcome, people who haven't been here before.
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Speaker 2: platforms at this is part of MSU. Had some great
Speaker 2: content there, especially yesterday from New York City Swerve Woody Carr.
Speaker 4: I think he set a n C double a record today.
Speaker 1: Okay, wood he was mad because he lost last week.
Speaker 1: Somebody made him he had a record. He was he
Speaker 1: was consistent and he lost this time. He was super early.
Speaker 1: But we got hey, baby, we got married the Maria.
Speaker 3: Mary Maria d Maria got Jim. Yeah deep city again.
Speaker 3: I said, look, you gotta look.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, we got Jim. You know, we got
Speaker 1: we got some people in the house. That's what's up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Man, So, so what he set the record? What was
Speaker 4: the time? When did he get on? Let's look at this.
Speaker 3: I want to say, like ten forty seven am.
Speaker 4: Or something ten thirty three?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: First of all, wood can you please righte? How did
Speaker 1: you get on at ten thirty three and stayed on
Speaker 1: at ten thirty three?
Speaker 3: Like? How do that work? Over?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 3: Is Hawaii another country or something like?
Speaker 2: Man, it was five thirty in the morning for him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: five thirty three. Amn't. I don't know who's gonna beat that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: That's that's dominance right there.
Speaker 3: Not nobody eat Wood in the class, is all.
Speaker 2: He definitely is. Hey, listen, we got to get to
Speaker 2: some special guests. But before we get to our guests,
Speaker 2: we have to talk about our former guest of Marion Smith.
Speaker 2: And if you remember Marion, we had him on the
Speaker 2: show Cedric and I had him here with Mama Tron
Speaker 2: some weeks back. He lost his mother to cancer. At
Speaker 2: the time when we brought him on the show, his mother, Gayla,
Speaker 2: was still alive, and he has since been granted guardianship
Speaker 2: of his four younger siblings's five of them. One is
Speaker 2: nineteen his sister, so she helps out around the house
Speaker 2: as well with them, but siblings all the way ages
Speaker 2: down to ages three. Now that's the youngest right now.
Speaker 2: So you know, I think we have a couple of pictures.
Speaker 2: They ended up getting invited after the show with us here,
Speaker 2: and you know, they had I hopped cal stepped up.
Speaker 4: And I got him an nil deal.
Speaker 2: Then John Campbell over at McDonald's did a similar thing
Speaker 2: then Larry Lage at Associated Press wrote a beautiful article
Speaker 2: and it took off from there. Now Good Morning America
Speaker 2: did a phenomenal clip a show yesterday, and I think
Speaker 2: we have a bit of it right here for you
Speaker 2: to take a look at.
Speaker 5: For forty thousand dollars, that is that going to help you?
Speaker 4: Guys?
Speaker 3: Yeah, most definitely.
Speaker 6: Man, this is a bunch of owner thank kind shepping,
Speaker 6: you know, donating us to us. You know, everything helps,
Speaker 6: you know, it takes a village, So thank you so much.
Speaker 5: So we have another surprise for you because we know
Speaker 5: it's so much going on. It's so much stress, so
Speaker 5: much everything. So our friends at Disneyland Resort, they they
Speaker 5: saw your story and they wanted to give you a
Speaker 5: vacation to Disneyland.
Speaker 4: Are you serious? I'm shared about that.
Speaker 5: You're going to stay at the Disney Resort hotel. You
Speaker 5: got to get experienced Disneyland Park, Disney California Venture. How
Speaker 5: do you get around right now?
Speaker 6: You know it's kind of hard, but like not really,
Speaker 6: you know, I pay for ubers all. I'm trying to
Speaker 6: look back on that, you know, because it's taking a lot.
Speaker 4: Of my money, and then I can imagine that you know,
Speaker 4: I try to.
Speaker 6: You know, I got teammates and when anot you know
Speaker 6: that lookout for me.
Speaker 5: So yeah, you got some good support.
Speaker 4: There definitely a lot of support there.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: It's people that's around, like you know in the smartan
Speaker 6: community that helps out as well, you know, so and
Speaker 6: shout out to everybody that's been helping. You know, it's
Speaker 6: a blessing, you know, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: I got something.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, come on with Oh I'm following you.
Speaker 3: Come on, follow me, follow me, let's go.
Speaker 5: We're gonna go outside for a second because oh man,
Speaker 5: we know you spent so much on ubers that we
Speaker 5: got one laugh surprise for you. Our friends, right, he
Speaker 5: reached out to our Our friends are Detroit GMC dealers,
Speaker 5: and they decided that they wanted to get used this
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Speaker 3: That's your man, that.
Speaker 2: You can get yours.
Speaker 5: Your shotgun, your shotgun.
Speaker 4: What you know?
Speaker 5: How you feeling, man, Now, there's.
Speaker 6: Nothing the word in the world to explain like, oh no,
Speaker 6: I'm just feeling so I feeling love.
Speaker 4: Man, This is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: When we saw your story, you say you feel the love.
Speaker 5: We see the love that you show to your siblings.
Speaker 4: And everybody every day.
Speaker 5: So you're an inspiration to all of us. All of
Speaker 5: you are you and your whole family know your siblings
Speaker 5: are watching. So we just wanted to help you guys
Speaker 5: as much as we can. And thank you the Disneyland
Speaker 5: catch app in GMC.
Speaker 3: We be able to do that.
Speaker 4: Thank you God so much.
Speaker 3: Like this is a blessing. I want to what my
Speaker 3: mam to be doing.
Speaker 5: Right now, this moman, Well, we know your mom's probably
Speaker 5: that you said that piece. Your mom is always with
Speaker 5: it most definitely.
Speaker 4: All right, we're behind you the way man. All right,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: What, Hey, I ain't crying straight, I ain't crying.
Speaker 4: Man, you ain't.
Speaker 3: I ain't gonna do it. I don't want to do it.
Speaker 4: You see they cuting onions in that room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's something in this hotel roomer out many.
Speaker 4: What did you think about that?
Speaker 7: Ah? Man?
Speaker 1: You when you talk about a blessing, it's it's a
Speaker 1: big blessing. And then when you when you when you
Speaker 1: know how it started, Like if I was on the
Speaker 1: outside looking in, you know you you you emotional, you're
Speaker 1: saying all good.
Speaker 3: For the kid, but to know how it started? When
Speaker 3: when what it's called when.
Speaker 1: You're raising money, when that was at zero, when it
Speaker 1: was at whatever, when it was just five hundred or
Speaker 1: whatever it was, you know, and then to know that.
Speaker 3: You know, you you you, you put a.
Speaker 1: Little couple of dollars into it. But then to see
Speaker 1: the you know, they always say, I believe and I
Speaker 1: always say this to my kids. Always processed before prize. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we was part of the process. And I seen
Speaker 1: the process and tend to see that like that was
Speaker 1: the ultimate prize, right because shout out to the people
Speaker 1: on Twitter, who who who you know who I love
Speaker 1: and when people speak their opinions and saying you don't
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about and the coaches can't do
Speaker 1: this and this can't be done, but hey, it got done,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. We was hoping that it
Speaker 1: got done another way. But when you speak, sometimes people listen.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad man the man got transportation, cash, shap
Speaker 1: and Twitter, Instagram and everything we ever gave.
Speaker 3: Man. That's good man. Just to see the sky.
Speaker 1: And like you said, what would his mama say now?
Speaker 1: But she's smiling, she resting good.
Speaker 4: Huh. Yes, he is looking down on him.
Speaker 2: And there's those six or five other siblings that they
Speaker 2: take care they take care of him.
Speaker 4: I mean going to his house and seeing how they operate.
Speaker 4: It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: And in that segment, they had a porch where they
Speaker 2: interviewed each of the kids and ask him what he
Speaker 2: means to them. And when you hear that, I mean,
Speaker 2: there wasn't a dry eye in the house. When you
Speaker 2: hear young k I'm talking about eleven year olds, five
Speaker 2: year old, thirteen year old or sixteen year olds talking
Speaker 2: about what a great man he is, even his nineteen
Speaker 2: year old sister, Like, think about that, you have a sister,
Speaker 2: you know, you imagine your sister when he was twenty
Speaker 2: one time you're telling people that he's a great man.
Speaker 2: He really is. He's a great man, and you see it,
Speaker 2: you feel it. I mean, the young man has taken
Speaker 2: on the responsibility that is beyond what I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We tried to find other cases like this. There isn't
Speaker 2: that hasn't been and so we do as much. We
Speaker 2: can't support them and any spartan people out here and
Speaker 2: any people that want assistance with things. And you know,
Speaker 2: speaking of that swear, we have a lot to get
Speaker 2: to today because we're gonna help stopping man straight.
Speaker 3: My sister would have said I was, I was great.
Speaker 1: I was, I was a great brother, I was you know,
Speaker 1: yeah great man.
Speaker 3: Nah, because she called.
Speaker 1: Me in mature. She wouldn't have said man. She probably
Speaker 1: would she would have called me boy. I would have
Speaker 1: had a problem.
Speaker 4: Come. Uh.
Speaker 3: That's that's one thing I said. And I said it
Speaker 3: one time before. Brother.
Speaker 1: You know, people don't understand your your dedication behind it,
Speaker 1: like you know, you you had the keys and and
Speaker 1: and a lot of us just jumped in your car
Speaker 1: and follow you your lead on this and and uh
Speaker 1: and brother, you you you was passionate about it, like
Speaker 1: you know you you your passion, your your passion rubbed
Speaker 1: off on me because I was kind of lost about it,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But through you and seeing
Speaker 1: how much it meant that you meant something to me,
Speaker 1: and I got into it just because I saw the
Speaker 1: desire that you had to make sure.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I mean, people don't understand like the calls and you know,
Speaker 1: us having cigars and you talking about it, and how
Speaker 1: passionate you was about it. I mean I can go
Speaker 1: on and know, but you know, I wish I could
Speaker 1: buy you a car straight.
Speaker 2: Oh man, hey, I don't look watching the look on
Speaker 2: the kids' faces and seeing trying to bring them some
Speaker 2: some brightness in the middle of a lot of pain,
Speaker 2: because it's not easy, right, losing a parent. I've been
Speaker 2: there when I was misis state. I lost my mother
Speaker 2: to cancer and I didn't have to take care of
Speaker 2: any younger siblings at all. And you know, seeing the
Speaker 2: weight that a marion has to carry and everybody in
Speaker 2: the home household, I felt compared well, and a lot
Speaker 2: of spartans, a lot of people around the world have
Speaker 2: felt compelled to help, and as we've seen that culminated
Speaker 2: a little bit yesterday on Good Morning America with Michael
Speaker 2: Strahan and Robin Roberts.
Speaker 4: Was there, I mean it was it was special. It
Speaker 4: was special.
Speaker 2: It was like watching an extension of my own family, right,
Speaker 2: I'm just watching them many I had the next thing,
Speaker 2: I know, I was like, why are people handed me tissue?
Speaker 2: They were handing me tissue?
Speaker 3: You were crap? You were you like, you know, was
Speaker 3: you just teary?
Speaker 2: Are you just no?
Speaker 4: No? No no.
Speaker 1: That's when you say, well can you break because I'm
Speaker 1: working on my stuff too.
Speaker 3: When you meet compel.
Speaker 2: You mean I was thrust. I felt obligation. I felt
Speaker 2: like I needed to.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, compel, you got me in my dictionary now,
Speaker 1: so I wanted to. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna use
Speaker 1: compelled to.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 1: But I know obligation, you know, obligation work well with me. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: that's that's a blessing. And man, like I say to
Speaker 1: the people that don't know, man, I seen like you
Speaker 1: know you, I could have easily sworn that that was
Speaker 1: akin' folk with yours. Oh you know, that's how passionate
Speaker 1: you was about it and behind the scenes.
Speaker 3: And I've seen that.
Speaker 1: So and like I said, I'm not gonna sit up
Speaker 1: here and be like, yeah, I took I followed your
Speaker 1: lead on it, you know what I mean, because I
Speaker 1: didn't know much about it.
Speaker 3: You knew the ins and outs. You was making phone calls.
Speaker 3: I mean, so.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of people said besides just me.
Speaker 1: Now, I know I can't speak for the people that
Speaker 1: I'm not one. I can't speak for the people that
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just know I know you so
Speaker 1: humble this and it's like, see me give me my flowers.
Speaker 3: From you.
Speaker 2: I'm taking them I'm taking you. I couldn't have done it.
Speaker 2: I didn't do it alone, so.
Speaker 1: You got it than me. I would have got on
Speaker 1: TV Good Morning Man. I would have got on teach
Speaker 1: something straying. Listen, man, I to need to come in
Speaker 1: to get a kid a hug or I was right there.
Speaker 2: I was in to see Shohn somebody else behind right
Speaker 2: when they were walking out to the car.
Speaker 4: I was there with my camera. But see, I.
Speaker 1: Would have ran something said about it, be like say
Speaker 1: it just ran by it. I would have got oh,
Speaker 1: good morning. You know how many people watch Good Morning Americas.
Speaker 2: You know when they were they were doing the hair
Speaker 2: and makeup man, and I didn't. I didn't do the
Speaker 2: hair and makeup.
Speaker 3: So hold on, I hope, I hope Mario didnt getting
Speaker 3: no makeup.
Speaker 4: He was mad.
Speaker 2: He was mad every every no he didn't want, don't touch,
Speaker 2: don't It was bad that part.
Speaker 4: I was like, come on, man, we losing.
Speaker 1: Street and I can't have no players right now, Come on, man,
Speaker 1: come on, no makeups right.
Speaker 3: Well, losing Street. I need no damn make up. That's
Speaker 3: the problem right now.
Speaker 4: Problem that's a bad mentality.
Speaker 2: Won't need no make up? Yes, they do on TV.
Speaker 2: If you don't good morning a magic, you're gonna do
Speaker 2: that you too. No, they ain't talking about last and lipsticks. Man,
Speaker 2: come on, come on, come on, come on. It's all good.
Speaker 3: At putting none no blush or no whatever. Man, I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 1: Great, there ain't no blush out at least, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean you what's the late?
Speaker 3: What the hell good? The sign is real simple beat
Speaker 3: it says.
Speaker 4: Back it up.
Speaker 2: Hey, all right, I don't know where that came from.
Speaker 2: All I know is that we got to get to
Speaker 2: our other special guest here, and we'll get to them
Speaker 2: after these message from our friends over and I.
Speaker 8: Hop I hopped uh huh everybody weekdays of the new weekends.
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Speaker 8: through Friday.
Speaker 2: All right, I hop Now it's time to bring our
Speaker 2: special guests in here. A football player who's doing something
Speaker 2: beyond just the field. He's doing something for his family
Speaker 2: and most importantly, his older sister said, you want to
Speaker 2: bring him in?
Speaker 1: No, I think because you only emotional roller coaster, and
Speaker 1: I think this is one of those situations where you
Speaker 1: got more spirit than me towards it, and then you
Speaker 1: can compel more better than I can right now, you know,
Speaker 1: so you take on because I'm ready though, But I
Speaker 1: want you to take the bull by the horn.
Speaker 2: Hey man, Look I've always done that. Look I want them.
Speaker 2: I can't speak for them like they can speak for themselves.
Speaker 2: As far as the passion that comes from this family
Speaker 2: regarding the foundation they've set up, I want to bring.
Speaker 4: On Aaron Brown and Aaron.
Speaker 2: Alexander with his mother Latif Alexander Brown, to talk about
Speaker 2: the Image Foundation his sister back there, Ayana, welcome.
Speaker 4: This is part of m shoe.
Speaker 1: Familysoes because I think we're gonna need a tissue for
Speaker 1: this one right here. This mom got a story to
Speaker 1: tell and and I I just go ahead straight.
Speaker 2: Hey, no, I welcome you guys to the show. Cedric
Speaker 2: is on is He's on a run right now. But like, listen,
Speaker 2: I want to talk about first of all, Aaron Alexander
Speaker 2: with the Belleville High School. You guys are residents of
Speaker 2: Ron unless you went to U Mass. You transferred from
Speaker 2: U Mass here to Michigan State University. Talk about your
Speaker 2: journey and how you got to Michigan State yourself.
Speaker 9: Right now, Uh, it really started up in high school.
Speaker 9: I got some little recruitment buzz from Michigan State and
Speaker 9: high school, but at me didn't lead anything. So I
Speaker 9: ended up going to you Mass things getting work out,
Speaker 9: and then I got a little I got some news
Speaker 9: from MSU like we want to see you here, we
Speaker 9: want to see you out and give you a chance.
Speaker 9: So I took that chance. I'm here now and I'm
Speaker 9: glad to be a Spartan dog.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you were at you Mass with k Ryan
Speaker 4: Lynch ch Adams.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I was. Caroen have been a dog since since
Speaker 10: I was there.
Speaker 9: So so when I knew when we were approaching him
Speaker 9: and I told coach KB about him, yeah, we got
Speaker 9: to get him.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Yeah that's beautiful. So now and I'll bring
Speaker 2: on Latis mom. How you doing mom?
Speaker 3: So well?
Speaker 11: Just proud of Aaron.
Speaker 7: Great to go green, go white, Happy to be an
Speaker 7: MSU Spartan dog.
Speaker 2: Happy to have him closer to home, I'm sure instead
Speaker 2: of being over there in Boston in Massachusetts now and
Speaker 2: talk about the foundation image.
Speaker 4: I am a j the foundation that you guys have
Speaker 4: put together.
Speaker 7: Well, Aaron started a foundation when he was in high
Speaker 7: school during the pandemic. His sister Ayana wasn't able to
Speaker 7: have physical activities at home during the pandemic, and so Aaron,
Speaker 7: with the athletic ability, decided to help her around the house.
Speaker 7: And then we also have homes for people with disabilities,
Speaker 7: and he wanted to help those individuals too. So what
Speaker 7: Aaron asked was to start this foundation. I assist to him,
Speaker 7: I'm a social worker, and we was able to fun
Speaker 7: found the Image Foundation, which expanded to giving out handicap
Speaker 7: equipment to people that are in need. It's about five
Speaker 7: years span between someone getting a new walker or a
Speaker 7: roll later or anything like that, so in the meantime
Speaker 7: we could fill that gap. And so I'm just really
Speaker 7: proud of Aaron to be able to continue to help
Speaker 7: and service his sister and help the community with this
Speaker 7: new project which is giving out turkeys to people in
Speaker 7: Romless and the surrounding communities, which is such a blessing.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, I mean that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: So you created this Aaron in high school, you said,
Speaker 2: during the pandemic.
Speaker 9: Yep, it's been been so long now. So that was
Speaker 9: like my junior year. So we first started off my
Speaker 9: junior year, but we really got into everything. The swingy
Speaker 9: thing in my senior year. That's when we had our
Speaker 9: first even wrong Fox News, I believe.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, yep. Wow.
Speaker 2: So you're you're having a turkey giveaway event coming up
Speaker 2: here on November ninth.
Speaker 4: I believe we have a flyer for that.
Speaker 7: Yep, Yes, it's at We were sponsored by the Romula's
Speaker 7: Community Baptist Church. We were able to secure their facility
Speaker 7: with such a blessing for them to offer it to us.
Speaker 7: The address is sixty two hundred Fourth Street and Romulus.
Speaker 7: We have wonderful sponsors that has sponsored us through the
Speaker 7: whole event, which includes the bishop auto wrecking. Thank you
Speaker 7: so much, just giving kudos to all our sponsors for
Speaker 7: helping us. Marriage, real estate Services, Nappy Roots, Hair Salon
Speaker 7: decor who made our T shirts because we're fund funded
Speaker 7: by selling our T shirts and donations.
Speaker 3: So you mean to tell me these free turkeys?
Speaker 1: Yes, y'all, y'all we got not FedEx, but we got
Speaker 1: a great matter do they?
Speaker 3: He can send the turkey to me because they giving
Speaker 3: him away.
Speaker 2: Man, you can't. You can't get a turkey, man, you
Speaker 2: got you need to give some away. Remember he was
Speaker 2: giving the happy mails away.
Speaker 1: You gotta know what you know who the mom looked
Speaker 1: like is the have and the have nots and it's
Speaker 1: miss Anderson.
Speaker 3: I know you ever got that one.
Speaker 1: Put it up, Sean, like the lady from the half
Speaker 1: and half not y'all are beautiful, y'all out?
Speaker 11: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Come up, Sean, Please put I got
Speaker 1: it right on this straight because I know you don't
Speaker 1: watch that see me and Tyler Perry friends, you watch.
Speaker 3: I watched every episode. Sean.
Speaker 1: Will you get a chance, please put it up. But
Speaker 1: you know what can you can you tell me this?
Speaker 1: This is the part that almost had me earlier when
Speaker 1: we were doing the pre show up about the daughter situation.
Speaker 1: But when you talk about it, please talk about it
Speaker 1: and tell us what the doctor said and how you
Speaker 1: was praying and and how to you know before he
Speaker 1: he didn't even have the dress back then, I wanted,
Speaker 1: I want to know everything.
Speaker 7: Well, God is good because and we have to give
Speaker 7: him first and foremost in our life. Just give honor
Speaker 7: to God.
Speaker 11: Thank you for for.
Speaker 7: Ayana being here and inspiration behind Image Foundation. Ayanna had
Speaker 7: brain cancer at the age of four. They said she
Speaker 7: wouldn't walk, talk to or here, but by.
Speaker 11: The grace of God. Ayana is doing that even more.
Speaker 7: We have had struggles over the years, but nonetheless we're
Speaker 7: happy she's had lived a full life, and it's about
Speaker 7: us giving back paying it forward. Knowing that God says,
Speaker 7: give our arms a secret, and he rewards you openly.
Speaker 7: So the reward that He gives us, we're able to
Speaker 7: bless someone else. The money that we've raised over the
Speaker 7: years to different events and things like that give us
Speaker 7: the opportunity to give back to the community. You know,
Speaker 7: two hundred turkeys was a huge milestone, and it's such
Speaker 7: a blessing that we can't wait to bless those and
Speaker 7: have them be recipients of what God has done for
Speaker 7: us in our lives as well, and especially have a
Speaker 7: wonderful blessing like Ayana to continue to be there, and
Speaker 7: she'll be there also giving out turkey too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I said, do I seend my address to
Speaker 1: a No no, no, no, yeah, gottween me and young
Speaker 1: this ain't got none of you turkey.
Speaker 3: My girl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yah yahda whoa, whoa, That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: My address seventy six one six, I said it to you, whoa.
Speaker 4: About send him a turkey? Give it to the people
Speaker 4: that no, no, no, no, listen, we have a question.
Speaker 3: Don't know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Can we donate to this asked question?
Speaker 7: Yes, you have the website image. I am a j foundation.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna let guarantee you about it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we have our website and this foundation dot com.
Speaker 9: We got our donation link on there, and then we
Speaker 9: even have a QR code a little flyer I made,
Speaker 9: so we got the PayPal QR code all straight to
Speaker 9: the foundation. We buy equipment, we raise money to buy
Speaker 9: more T shirt or get inventory for the T shirts
Speaker 9: and make the T shirts and everything is for the foundation.
Speaker 10: So nothing is like in the pocket. Nothing. This is
Speaker 10: all just to give to the community.
Speaker 12: All right, man, I want about would you say, did
Speaker 12: you say he's gonna actually buy one? I think you do.
Speaker 5: I think he did.
Speaker 9: He said he's gonna the QR code though it's only
Speaker 9: for donations. Though you got to go to the actual
Speaker 9: website to uh.
Speaker 11: Purchased a T shirt. Ayana has a T shirt.
Speaker 2: On We'll see that, okay, she's so beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, thank.
Speaker 11: You so much. Yes, thank you.
Speaker 2: Steve doing it to YouTube, you need to do it
Speaker 2: on their website.
Speaker 3: So Steve Steve, Steve.
Speaker 1: If you order a shirt, because Steve missed a pretty lady,
Speaker 1: you always get like the small shirts.
Speaker 3: But he's really a two X. So I hope that
Speaker 3: when he ordered the shirch, how do your shirt run?
Speaker 1: So we don't make sure Steve get the right size,
Speaker 1: always Websteen all the meeting.
Speaker 3: But he's really a two X.
Speaker 9: Smart two eggs. Like you said, if you're two eggs,
Speaker 9: we got that. So we got some from Smarty two eggs.
Speaker 9: So and they are they fit to the size? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 9: so he really he's two X, but he's really.
Speaker 3: Gonna get like a medium.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness. Those are nice shirts.
Speaker 11: Yes, yeah, great quality, great quality and.
Speaker 10: Shirts right there.
Speaker 11: And those are our first shirts, the older shirts.
Speaker 7: So we still have some vented shirts and we just
Speaker 7: obtained the new shirts for this event as well.
Speaker 4: You have some new ones. And that's what you have
Speaker 4: on right now.
Speaker 11: That a yes on with the logo and the word
Speaker 11: and on the back and white.
Speaker 2: Yep, oh we got we gotta get them. Support them, yeah, yes, proudly.
Speaker 2: We don't do what we hit to say. We gotta
Speaker 2: support image and Ayana. Back then, look you said, yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Know so y'ah. Y'all know you are the girl for me.
Speaker 3: You are a girl I never had. Yahya yah yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The handicap equipment. You brought up something about homes that
Speaker 2: you have. You have homes for people that have handicaps.
Speaker 11: Yes, we have homes. Well, we help and disadvantage individuals
Speaker 11: as well.
Speaker 7: So that's I'm a sponsor Americal Community Barning Home. And
Speaker 7: with that being said, like I was telling you that
Speaker 7: there are people that aren't able to get handicap equipment
Speaker 7: five year gap, so you can only get every five years.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 7: Yep, that's the Medicaid loss. So in between times, you know,
Speaker 7: people break, things break down, your health can deteriorate, and
Speaker 7: you're not able to get something.
Speaker 11: Up to date.
Speaker 7: So we have gently used equipment and we also can
Speaker 7: buy equipment. So the money that's donated, so we asked
Speaker 7: you to donate, we buy actually buy new things. We
Speaker 7: just don't you know, nothing comes in the house, nothing,
Speaker 7: nothing is pocketed. We help those in the community that
Speaker 7: need all we asked you to do. Keep that train
Speaker 7: of thought. Go to the webshite am I a j
Speaker 7: Foundation dot org and put in a request. Were able
Speaker 7: to ship it to you were able to deliver it
Speaker 7: in the Detroit metro area.
Speaker 3: Do y'all have anything for CTE? Why you laughing?
Speaker 4: Prayer? Prayer?
Speaker 3: You keep playing.
Speaker 10: You keep that head up, That's what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, keep your head up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He was in the in the old you know, man,
Speaker 2: man running back took a lot of shots year year.
Speaker 4: Still I ain't worried about him.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at yah ya ya.
Speaker 4: So the event I just real quick.
Speaker 1: So tell me how football going for you, how you
Speaker 1: like the transition her eyes, everything going? And also tell
Speaker 1: me compared to to you, man, I know Michigan State
Speaker 1: is on another level, but you know you want to know,
Speaker 1: you know how things going, you know what you're excited about,
Speaker 1: what's your goals?
Speaker 7: And after this because she she watches her brother on football,
Speaker 7: I mean on TV.
Speaker 11: So you watch your brother?
Speaker 4: Hell why my brother football? The biggest fan you gotta be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 4: You better promoted, you blessed man.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 9: Her and my grandma are my biggest fans. They always
Speaker 9: watch me. Now talk about come back home. My grandma.
Speaker 10: I saw you run it down on the field on TV.
Speaker 3: This wedd It's all about man Wed, it's all about man.
Speaker 4: Number thirty three, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3: Number what yes, hold on?
Speaker 4: Hold on?
Speaker 2: Hey, look his guns look a little bigger than yours too.
Speaker 1: No, right there, pop, I thought they weren't supposed to
Speaker 1: let nobody wear thirty three, because yes they is, Yes,
Speaker 1: standard soul.
Speaker 4: He's a linebacker, and.
Speaker 3: They let somebody wear thirty three after Yeah, there's.
Speaker 2: Several since boy, I tell you, man, we got to.
Speaker 2: By the way, we have two thirty three's on the
Speaker 2: show for the people.
Speaker 3: That it's really one thirty three, but.
Speaker 4: One that's out there right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, but now my eye is gonna be
Speaker 3: on him.
Speaker 1: Now I got this information, thirty three from ninety six
Speaker 1: to ninety eight, we're gonna have some problem by.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Talking about your season, man, I want to know
Speaker 3: about your season.
Speaker 1: I want to know the comparison, you know, the difference
Speaker 1: between you mass.
Speaker 3: And here and the whole thing. Give it to me.
Speaker 9: No, but it's been good. This is this year has
Speaker 9: been really good. Besides a couple of losses we had.
Speaker 9: I mean, obviously we won't have that outcome, but we're
Speaker 9: gonna bounce back. Like as the season going on, we've
Speaker 9: seen We've been a response team. So regardless of what
Speaker 9: happens in the game, it happened in the games.
Speaker 3: In the past.
Speaker 10: Every player got a history of its own. So we're
Speaker 10: gonna move on.
Speaker 9: We're gonna go into next week, prepare like nothing happened before.
Speaker 9: So and compared to you, mass it is a big change,
Speaker 9: like compared to being away and being home now it's
Speaker 9: I got my support support system around me. I can
Speaker 9: be here for my sister and from a mom and
Speaker 9: do things like this. Uh that's another real main reason
Speaker 9: I wanted to come back home. And then yeah, it's
Speaker 9: just a culture man Like I just feel like it's
Speaker 9: a family like. It just feel real, real, being like
Speaker 9: a spartan like. It's hard to explain, but it just feels.
Speaker 9: It feels real, like it is connected to your heart.
Speaker 3: Who got the prettiest girls?
Speaker 10: All right? Man, I got a girlfriend, So I'm not.
Speaker 3: I mean, you can't. You can't you got eyes?
Speaker 10: No? No, I'm face.
Speaker 4: Yeah always yeah, I don't do none of that.
Speaker 3: Oh you thirty three?
Speaker 1: Hey man, you know what, let me no, because I
Speaker 1: think somebody just put if you can steal with seventy nine,
Speaker 1: then you can win thirty you know what I think
Speaker 1: you should wear thirty two or thirty four.
Speaker 3: Man, you got it.
Speaker 1: You got eyes, so you got.
Speaker 4: You so mean with it.
Speaker 2: You're so aggressive trying to tell these boys who got
Speaker 2: the prettiest girl?
Speaker 1: So you mean to tell me if she if he
Speaker 1: say Michigan State, his girlfriend get mad because he said,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just just you know.
Speaker 4: What, no worry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I believe man, That's what I mean. You
Speaker 2: act like you ain't never had a relationship before. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Change, I'm an apple male though, I can say who pretty?
Speaker 4: I mean, okay, yeah that's beautiful.
Speaker 2: So you have the parent tailgates and things like that
Speaker 2: with with Sean and Steve and all those guys.
Speaker 7: Right, Yes, we're with wonderful parents, supporting our children, you know,
Speaker 7: all our children across the world and just coming together.
Speaker 7: The camaraderie that we have to support one and one
Speaker 7: another is great.
Speaker 11: We love it. We support one another good or bad.
Speaker 7: And recently a friend of mine is her her name
Speaker 7: is Nikki, and she was talking about adopting, you know,
Speaker 7: some spartan kids that comes from out of town.
Speaker 11: So we've been connecting with that.
Speaker 7: Number thirty three DJ Canard, he's from Virginia and I'm
Speaker 7: connecting him with some people up here. This is impromptu everyone,
Speaker 7: so it just happened and we just want to be
Speaker 7: a blessing to our players. You know, they are away
Speaker 7: from home, and when Nikki came up with the idea.
Speaker 7: She's part of the Spartan family too. She has family
Speaker 7: and her daughter and son in law they work there
Speaker 7: as well. I'm not going to give out any names,
Speaker 7: but nonetheless it's about coming together as a family and
Speaker 7: that's what we do, support one another with the Spartans tailgating.
Speaker 4: Wow, it's beautiful. I've been.
Speaker 2: We were at the tailgate during the homecoming yes before
Speaker 2: that against I would just seeing everybody out there fellowship,
Speaker 2: you know, having food and you know, beverages and out there.
Speaker 2: I think I've seen everybody doing the hustle. I've seen
Speaker 2: all kind of lying. They they was doing electric slide.
Speaker 2: You know, that's what it is. We're for your time,
Speaker 2: your era, electric slow. It's called the hustle, you know.
Speaker 2: So it's look, man, it's a sight to see and
Speaker 2: you can feel the love and the family atmosphere. It
Speaker 2: is different than Michigan State than anywhere else when it
Speaker 2: comes to how people stick together now Aaron with the
Speaker 2: locker room right now, as you said, you're bounce back team.
Speaker 2: How what's the mood of the team this week, on
Speaker 2: this bye week when it's limited practice, But what's the
Speaker 2: mindset the mental right now with everybody?
Speaker 10: Shoot? I mean, ain't nothing chained. They were chaping on armoring.
Speaker 4: No nothing.
Speaker 10: We bounced it back like we've been through it before,
Speaker 10: we took an air before.
Speaker 9: Ain't nothing different like like after the game, we were
Speaker 9: like we gotta come back and it hasn't been no
Speaker 9: divide like we we all come closer together so there's
Speaker 9: no chipping the armory. Like like I said, we're gonna
Speaker 9: bunce back and show illinord what we got.
Speaker 10: So simple as that did did to the mom?
Speaker 1: Did you try for the group that didn't make it?
Speaker 1: That's on TikTok and do you add to it?
Speaker 4: Go to it?
Speaker 1: Oh, they didn't have a cut, they didn't have what
Speaker 1: they call that try out. They have an audition, so
Speaker 1: you gotta get your cabulary. They have auditions there.
Speaker 11: I'm not even sure what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Don't worry about you.
Speaker 1: You ain't missed up because uh, we're still working on
Speaker 1: Mama Tron trying to left a leg.
Speaker 3: I guess she wasn't never a cheerleader, but it's so wrong. No,
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like he's the mom that you know.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about it later.
Speaker 11: She was a cheerleader.
Speaker 1: She will yeah, yeah, hey, yeah, yah yah ya. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna text you after this. No, no, ya.
Speaker 1: I want everybody know, y'all, you're in the twenty eight
Speaker 1: so she grown.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they got a men, y'all in the business. She grown.
Speaker 3: She's twenty eight. So I don't want nobody to be
Speaker 3: like old said you wrong and look at me.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at y'all, y'all to leave us alone. That
Speaker 1: I was trying to tell thirty three, but he don't
Speaker 1: want to listen. God, so you mean to tell me
Speaker 1: his two thirty threes on the team?
Speaker 2: Yes, Hey, the other one is running back Jackson McKay.
Speaker 2: Sometimes are different. Listen, he has to go through this,
Speaker 2: he cycles. That's part of the I think the CT
Speaker 2: he talks about all don't mind me, this thirty three
Speaker 2: right here, and the beautiful family that you have and
Speaker 2: the organization image, the image foundation.
Speaker 4: That's something we'll put that up one more time.
Speaker 2: For people, so we can show the the QR code
Speaker 2: with the link to the website for everybody to donate
Speaker 2: and support and order.
Speaker 4: One of these T shirts Fresh T shirts too.
Speaker 2: I didn't get I'm gonna here with me and central
Speaker 2: gonna buy one, okay and also donate from This is
Speaker 2: part of the MSU family.
Speaker 10: Thank you, thank you anything else?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, absolutely you family.
Speaker 2: So look, we really appreciate you guys coming on here
Speaker 2: and sharing your story, a beautiful story.
Speaker 7: Appreciate this opportunity to being out of the community and
Speaker 7: being a blessing to others. Were able to help others
Speaker 7: and be there for them and just wonderful someone had
Speaker 7: put on there. Will we be selling the T shirts
Speaker 7: at the event, Yes, we will be selling the T
Speaker 7: shirts at the event, and also you can purchase them
Speaker 7: online and we're happy to ship them to you.
Speaker 3: So we get them online.
Speaker 1: What I get it by next week Thursday, I can
Speaker 1: wear them on the shows so everybody can know I
Speaker 1: did what I said.
Speaker 4: I want to do.
Speaker 3: I'm only doing it for ycause me and I got
Speaker 3: a bud and this. Yeah, I can't wait to see.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna make it this year, Yanna,
Speaker 1: because it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be in our
Speaker 1: in our riders.
Speaker 3: It ain't good for me right now. But in the spring, y'all,
Speaker 3: Yana's gonna be me. What what year? You You got
Speaker 3: one more year?
Speaker 10: I got too more?
Speaker 3: Two more years? Oh yeah, so y'all you're gonna see
Speaker 3: a whole lot of meat.
Speaker 4: Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 2: No, I appreciate you guys coming on, especially Ayana with Aaron, Alexander,
Speaker 2: your mother.
Speaker 4: Your be, my little tief. Thank you all for coming.
Speaker 11: Thank you so much for having us. It's such a blessing.
Speaker 11: Thank you. All right, just see everybody at the event.
Speaker 11: We need volunteers, that's.
Speaker 1: Right, Romulus, Steve's going, Sean going, I know Edy baby
Speaker 1: would go.
Speaker 3: She was this, she she going. We got we got
Speaker 3: some people.
Speaker 1: We got some great people in this in this chat
Speaker 1: that that won't mind letting her hand.
Speaker 4: And they're great people.
Speaker 7: Yeah, if you're gonna volunteer, we just ask you to
Speaker 7: come a little bit early, be there at twelve thirty
Speaker 7: to help set up and sign waivers and things like that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, spots, it's a really being it's a real
Speaker 1: church you gotta sign waivers.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, if my church just come as you is.
Speaker 4: No, okay, you heard the word the.
Speaker 7: Word Sponsors again, Roy's Community, Baptist Church, Murray's Bishop, Auto Wrecking,
Speaker 7: Murriage Real Estate Services, Nappi Roots Hair Salon, and Schools
Speaker 7: of Styles who provide us with the T shirts and
Speaker 7: a miracle community boarding home. And thank you again for
Speaker 7: m s U and all our the sponsors and everybody.
Speaker 11: That's listening and on us podcast to support us. Thank
Speaker 11: you so much. Go Green, go White, dude.
Speaker 3: What before you leave?
Speaker 1: Do he get his hair done at Nappy Route? Because
Speaker 1: I know that's not good. I'm just that because I
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. Go White said, is a mess.
Speaker 4: I appreciate.
Speaker 2: My baby, all right, all right, I said, listen, man,
Speaker 2: you something else, great family, great story right there?
Speaker 4: What you think man?
Speaker 3: You saw was looking at me? Come on dog? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you make me feel like I still got it. You
Speaker 3: know I was. I was down for man. I'm back.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 4: You're back. You're back. We would to make them mental
Speaker 4: is good? Right?
Speaker 2: You know, look you got shirt. She's not sending you
Speaker 2: a shirt. Okay, you gotta buy one. That's the shirt.
Speaker 4: Straight.
Speaker 1: But you messed up me getting the free turkey. You
Speaker 1: ain't getting no free turkey either. You don't need it,
Speaker 1: you Cedric serving Irving. Man, come on, man, you everywhere.
Speaker 2: Any place you want to go in and get some
Speaker 2: turkey in Atlanta and Florida, the whole state of Florida
Speaker 2: and especially in Michigan.
Speaker 4: You got it. So why you need to what you
Speaker 4: need Onana's turkey for wow?
Speaker 1: Because trad they got two hundred how many people they
Speaker 1: gonna show up?
Speaker 3: Man, five hundred? Now what they can't do?
Speaker 4: You know now what they can't say.
Speaker 2: They can't give everybody in turk because they got to
Speaker 2: send one doctor say it. Come on, man, you ain't
Speaker 2: gotta do that.
Speaker 3: I can't. So that's so this So when you leave,
Speaker 3: Good Morning America, this is stray horn. I gotta deal
Speaker 3: with now.
Speaker 2: I gotta see how No, man, you can't listen. I'm coming, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Good morning American. I'm saying everybody's in the giving spirit
Speaker 2: on that show. Everybody, the camera man, the cord people,
Speaker 2: the light people, everybody given, give and given.
Speaker 4: I come here say like what about me? I want
Speaker 4: to take something?
Speaker 2: Oh, we can't take nothing, man, that's not the spirit
Speaker 2: swearve you gotta switch your mindset?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 4: What straight?
Speaker 3: How can I switch my mind when we done lost
Speaker 3: three to four games in a row. They want to
Speaker 3: talk about it? Can we talk football? Now?
Speaker 2: You gotta tithe, you gotta tithe about that football. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's talk football. Let's talk about it right now. You
Speaker 2: know what I've been thinking about.
Speaker 1: I wish we can finish the game how we start
Speaker 1: the game, because remember the last show stray, I say,
Speaker 1: we gotta make Indiana uncomfortable, and they did that the
Speaker 1: first quarter.
Speaker 3: They made they Indiana ain't know what dispect.
Speaker 1: But one thing I did learn from Indiana is even
Speaker 1: with a little adversity that they faced the first time
Speaker 1: this year in the season, they was down or whatever
Speaker 1: it is, they didn't fret.
Speaker 3: They didn't.
Speaker 1: They didn't, they didn't worry. They stayed. Of course, they
Speaker 1: played their game. And it ain't they are two definition.
Speaker 1: Ain't how you start, it's how you finished.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they are I mean down ten or nothing. They
Speaker 4: have never trailed one minute of any game.
Speaker 2: Going into the game last week against the Spidans, that
Speaker 2: we put them down, like you said, made them uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: tend to nothing on the road. The crowd was into it,
Speaker 2: and I mean, man, I can't understand it. Forty seven
Speaker 2: unanswered points forty seven I've never seen that, especially from
Speaker 2: Indiana in Spidan Stadium.
Speaker 1: I mean to us once once, you know we it's
Speaker 1: one of those situation where you know, and first of all,
Speaker 1: I understand this people, I know football if I don't
Speaker 1: know anything else, and I know right now being a
Speaker 1: Spartan dog a fan, yeah you won't wins raight now.
Speaker 1: But I know it wasn't realistic because new coaches, not
Speaker 1: like he just took over.
Speaker 3: A staff.
Speaker 1: I mean a team that just played in the bowl
Speaker 1: game or was in the top twenty five, you know,
Speaker 1: and the new coaches whole new team.
Speaker 3: So but as fans, you want it now.
Speaker 1: But that's why people they give them three year deal
Speaker 1: because let me give you example, Satan Nick Saban first
Speaker 1: year Alabama seventy six, next year twelve and two. The
Speaker 1: next year win the national championship with fourteen and zho
Speaker 1: And I say we because I was on.
Speaker 3: The staff and I got me a national championship.
Speaker 4: Rig okay, And I'm gonna ask you how to explain.
Speaker 2: Then Kirk Signetti, the coach from Indiana is a first
Speaker 2: year coach. Also, he probably bringing twenty nine or whatever
Speaker 2: players from James Madison and they undefeated. They nine and
Speaker 2: oh for the first time since nineteen sixty seven, about
Speaker 2: to be ranked and they're in the top ten.
Speaker 4: They're ranked number eight, Sir, how do you explain that?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: And I check your boy out. Listen, he's talking about
Speaker 1: a coach. What he did was when because before he
Speaker 1: James Madison was at another small little school or whatever
Speaker 1: it was, James Madison was upgrade from where he was at.
Speaker 3: And James Madison, he came in. He won too.
Speaker 1: He even undefeated. He beat some teams. He beat some
Speaker 1: you know, big time D one teams two on the schedule.
Speaker 1: I think he beat ECU. He beat some teams that usually,
Speaker 1: you know, James Madison don't even have.
Speaker 3: A chance with. Right.
Speaker 1: So, now what he did was when he takes the
Speaker 1: Indiana job, he know, I got to come in with
Speaker 1: my guys, right, He come in with a veteran quarterback
Speaker 1: and he brings sixteen guys from his program that was
Speaker 1: a winning program, right, And all he did was change
Speaker 1: the mindset and the culture of the other kids that
Speaker 1: was there.
Speaker 3: And now once those kids by into a winning coach
Speaker 3: with a winning attitude, who who who stand on the table,
Speaker 3: who talk his ship and the kids believe in him.
Speaker 1: So once you believe in a coach, you're gonna run
Speaker 1: through a wall for a coach. And he got a
Speaker 1: hell of a game play. They you gotta out score
Speaker 1: him to beat him, and nobody have done that yet.
Speaker 1: Why he's off mind, he's an off offensive minded coach.
Speaker 1: And and and like I said, he come from that tree,
Speaker 1: from Hayzus. It ain't too many coaches that came from
Speaker 1: Hazeus tree. That's not being successful.
Speaker 3: Straight.
Speaker 2: Hey, old on where you want to see? He was
Speaker 2: there when say, hey, Wu's first got the job at Alabama.
Speaker 3: Coach I coached with him.
Speaker 2: So tell me about Signetty. You you coach with, tell
Speaker 2: us about how he is, how he was back then?
Speaker 4: And what do you say?
Speaker 1: So you know what I saw from Afar. You know
Speaker 1: he's the receiver coach, I'm assistant to the running back coach.
Speaker 1: You saw that he was a smart coach, that he
Speaker 1: knew his football then at what I learned even there
Speaker 1: that either his.
Speaker 3: Brother or his uncle or his dad would coach.
Speaker 1: Also, all of them, all of them, right, Okay, so
Speaker 1: you know, you know I did my homework, so you
Speaker 1: saw that in him. And then one thing I saw
Speaker 1: in him and I could see the little fire ram.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget this. This is how I knew that
Speaker 1: it was. It was eye open to me. My first
Speaker 1: meeting in the summer when I get on campus, he
Speaker 1: had word with Saving and he talked back to Saving,
Speaker 1: but now Saving warned the conversation at the end because
Speaker 1: he told me, when you get your own team, you
Speaker 1: do it, Joe fucking way, your way. And I say
Speaker 1: that because I was like, oh this, these drown men
Speaker 1: do it my first college you know, on the other side,
Speaker 1: and I'm like he actually, I'm telling you my eyes like.
Speaker 3: This, like because I was like this I grown man talk.
Speaker 3: This would go on.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Saving like, niggle, you you want talking
Speaker 1: like this and you're talking like this in ninety six
Speaker 1: you and I mean, it was just an eye opening spirit.
Speaker 1: And then I saw more of it. And then it
Speaker 1: hit me like, Okay, these coaches getting six figures, you know,
Speaker 1: they got the best of everything as coaches, I guess
Speaker 1: they take that type of stuff.
Speaker 3: But it went on the whole year.
Speaker 1: I even got some of it, and I had tears
Speaker 1: in my eyes because I'm like, who you talking to?
Speaker 1: I ain't a player no more. But I never forget.
Speaker 1: Bobby William pulled me to the side. They say, yep, here,
Speaker 1: come with the territory. I said, coach, I don't think
Speaker 1: this for me because I beat his lad. But that
Speaker 1: don't shock me that he get that. Sinnetti get out
Speaker 1: there and he say, oh.
Speaker 4: We gonna beat Michigan.
Speaker 1: We're gonna beat these teams, and he talked his little
Speaker 1: I saw that in him.
Speaker 3: He did as a position, I can tell you that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean just just an incredible mind, bet
Speaker 2: on himself. You don't see a lot of college coaches
Speaker 2: doing that, especially when they come out of those trees
Speaker 2: like you're talking about Hayesu slash Nick saving Tree, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of elevate, get the coordinator jobs and then go
Speaker 2: on to maybe a higher level head coaching job. But
Speaker 2: he wanted head coaching experience right away. So we went
Speaker 2: to Indiana University in Pennsylvania. So that's that's at smaller
Speaker 2: school that he went to before going to Elon Phoenix
Speaker 2: and then James Madison. So yeah, Indiana's got one, nine
Speaker 2: and zero right now.
Speaker 4: Do you think they keep him?
Speaker 1: You gotta keep them and everybody getting his money, you
Speaker 1: got he gonna get paid and he gonna get some
Speaker 1: people that's gonna.
Speaker 3: You know, he's hot right now.
Speaker 1: He got a trail where he's been winning, you know,
Speaker 1: from Indiana.
Speaker 3: You gotta come.
Speaker 1: You know, Curb is getting thirteen if you get in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I don't know what he got to be
Speaker 1: getting five to seven.
Speaker 4: Four he's making four.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you go. He gonna go from four
Speaker 2: to ten or he gone Indiana? Can Indiana go to ten?
Speaker 2: That's the question. And he just got there, so I
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, that's that's something remains to be seen.
Speaker 2: But just on that, it seemed like a first year
Speaker 2: head coach coming into a program that's never been on
Speaker 2: the map like that.
Speaker 4: Let's just call it what it is.
Speaker 2: Indiana University football has never been good like this.
Speaker 4: Ever. Top ten they've been.
Speaker 2: They've had some decent years and maybe got the boat
Speaker 2: eligibility here and there, some seven eight win teams here
Speaker 2: and there, but never dying for the Big Ten championship.
Speaker 2: Right now and looking like they have a good run
Speaker 2: at the college football playoffs. This is a different era.
Speaker 2: I'm with a you know, transferred portal nil. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just keeps evolving.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: You're going to see new upstart teams like that all
Speaker 2: the time, which gives us hope that there is a
Speaker 2: place for Michigan State to join that party if all
Speaker 2: those things aligned, right.
Speaker 1: If okay, if you want to do a quick comparing
Speaker 1: contrash right, yeah, the key position is if you take
Speaker 1: Universe in Miami, right, university best Miami best receiver is.
Speaker 3: A five seven five a you know.
Speaker 1: Strap boat, right, you know, I mean he's not the
Speaker 1: kid at at Ohio State. He's not the kid at
Speaker 1: Michigan State number six, you know whatever. It is so
Speaker 1: and I say that, but you know why they's so
Speaker 1: different right now? Quarterback? Oh yeah, the quarterback for the
Speaker 1: defense is terrible. The secondary is terrible. The quarterback he
Speaker 1: give them a chance. Every time they touched the feel
Speaker 1: their averaging. They scoring forty points because of the quarterback.
Speaker 1: If you look at Indiana, the kid come back. They quarterback.
Speaker 1: They put the backup in last week he scored three touches.
Speaker 1: The quarterback is being consistent and got playmakers around them,
Speaker 1: and the coaches are putting them in the right position
Speaker 1: to make plays.
Speaker 3: And guess what, that's why you're getting the Indiana tea.
Speaker 3: I'm willing to bet you the sixteen.
Speaker 1: Kids that came with him, I wanted to bet you
Speaker 1: we had to see whatever. There's a lot more. I
Speaker 1: wanted to bet you. The starters are twenty two. It
Speaker 1: gotta be at least five or six on both sides.
Speaker 1: It got to at least ten to twelve that start easily.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a lot lot And the thing that's surprising
Speaker 4: about him that physical.
Speaker 2: But to the quarterback comment, those two cam Ward and
Speaker 2: O'Rourke at rourke at Indiana, they're one's a sixth year
Speaker 2: the other one's fifth year senior. Now these are mature
Speaker 2: quarterbacks that have been battle tested. Rorke comes from Ohio
Speaker 2: University six five, two thirty and then cam Moore comes
Speaker 2: from Washington State down to Miami. Now elusive, but I
Speaker 2: mean they've seen it all. That's the difference. Right now,
Speaker 2: what Michigan State's going through with Aiden Childs is he's
Speaker 2: learning on the job. You know, this is getting a
Speaker 2: rookie quarterback and throwing them into fire. Right now, it's
Speaker 2: not doing what you've seen guys like even Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: when he got into the league, he sat behind Brett
Speaker 2: Farr for a long time before he got his shot.
Speaker 4: You see.
Speaker 2: I mean it happens in the NFL now, but not
Speaker 2: as not as often. Was a kid that was at
Speaker 2: Washington last year. I'm drawn away from Indiana that got
Speaker 2: drafted by the Falcons. Okay, he's sitting behind her cousins
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: You make a good point because the perfect example what
Speaker 1: you're really trying to say is look at the kid
Speaker 1: that won the Heisman for Alabama that's down at Carolina.
Speaker 4: You're hurting, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, But Aiden has the talent, he got the
Speaker 1: arm strength, he got all the talent. You know, just
Speaker 1: like you said, it's repetition. I knew coming in he was.
Speaker 1: He's basically a freshman.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: He played a little good every third series they say
Speaker 1: in Oregon State or whatever it is. But that's not
Speaker 1: like the preparation everything you're doing now.
Speaker 3: As a number one.
Speaker 1: But he got the in talented, He got the talent
Speaker 1: like I'm not. I mean, you know, hopefully stays or
Speaker 1: whatever it is. But he's a kid that's a year
Speaker 1: two and three gonna be a hell of a quarterback,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, good question here by Maureen.
Speaker 2: Is there any word on how to staff plans to
Speaker 2: upgrade both sides of the line.
Speaker 4: I haven't heard much on recruiting.
Speaker 2: We look like we're getting man handling the trenches at times.
Speaker 1: I told you it was something by my ring. I knew,
Speaker 1: I knew it was something. I think either she was
Speaker 1: flag football champs or something. You that's a great question,
Speaker 1: because you know what, I also want to know why
Speaker 1: we start off so good in these big games but
Speaker 1: we cannot finish.
Speaker 2: Adjustments are made and you have to be able to
Speaker 2: count the adjustment.
Speaker 3: So we're not making an adjustment. I'm asking a question
Speaker 3: because I got me.
Speaker 1: I know, we got people on Twitter, which I love
Speaker 1: you who tears down.
Speaker 3: I'm asking because we got a question.
Speaker 1: Here while we're not making adjustment, or we're making adjustment
Speaker 1: and they coming with the counter punch, or.
Speaker 3: Because every big game, the last three games, what we
Speaker 3: lost three or four in a row?
Speaker 4: Three? Well, no, two just too too in a row.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we look two we won one and lost two
Speaker 2: two one win in lost two that's what we did,
Speaker 2: all right. So yeah, it's and you gotta match the intensity. Okay.
Speaker 2: So I think that in the Indiana game, there was
Speaker 2: some adjustments made offensively there. The way they attacked our
Speaker 2: defense changed a lot. You know, they went from trying
Speaker 2: to run power right at us to like they started
Speaker 2: attack the edges and getting thes way in getting them
Speaker 2: some a lot of conflicts, you know, sideline to sideline people.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of bone covers. You saw that
Speaker 2: after Charles Brandley went out of the game. It kind
Speaker 2: of got you know it, Brandley went down and Malik
Speaker 2: Spencer went down. Man, you got you know, you have
Speaker 2: some backups in there. And against Indiana, that's tough. It's tough.
Speaker 2: And the thing that impressed me the most about Indiana
Speaker 2: was their defense, how physical they were. They've had good offense,
Speaker 2: never had good defense ever in the history of Indiana football.
Speaker 2: I've never seen a top ten ranked defense against the
Speaker 2: run and overall defensive scoring and all that. I mean,
Speaker 2: I thought that was joke based on their schedule. But
Speaker 2: they were physical. They were more physical than Iowa. In
Speaker 2: the Michigan game, the School down the Road, I think
Speaker 2: that there was more intensity in that second the late
Speaker 2: second quarter, you know, they lit into the guys on
Speaker 2: the side. They looked like a team that was ready
Speaker 2: to quit. The Wolverine was ready to quit in the
Speaker 2: first quarter. And their intensity went up and ours went down,
Speaker 2: and we were just kind of like uh. And they
Speaker 2: made you know, they played four different quarterbacks done in
Speaker 2: one drive. And you know we you know, when you
Speaker 2: saw a number what's his name, the zero kid that
Speaker 2: comes to the ball and never throws the ball ever.
Speaker 2: And we're playing in you know, too deep safety as
Speaker 2: you're talking about, so things like that, Man, you gotta
Speaker 2: be on it, and you gotta be able to sense it.
Speaker 3: I heard Kirk.
Speaker 2: Signetti in an interview. He talked about how he stalks
Speaker 2: the sideline looking to see who's having conversations about stuff,
Speaker 2: not about the game.
Speaker 4: He's looking for players.
Speaker 2: He's listening to coaches to see if the information isn't
Speaker 2: coming in quickly. You gotta be in tune, man, and
Speaker 2: everybody has to be going the same direction.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was interesting to hear somebody like that.
Speaker 2: And I noticed that what you just said about saving him,
Speaker 2: because they are saving now on game day, what they
Speaker 2: think about Signatty and he says, you know, I don't
Speaker 2: call guys.
Speaker 4: You know, they called me and I said, okay, they
Speaker 4: don't have a great relationship.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, trust me.
Speaker 4: I understand.
Speaker 1: What I learned about that tree is you love to
Speaker 1: go there because one thing about by his alex Or
Speaker 1: he gonna run. He's gonna run a first class program.
Speaker 1: Everybody gonna be accountable, you know. But but hours you
Speaker 1: put in, and how he's hands on and this and this.
Speaker 1: A lot of people can't wait to get away. But
Speaker 1: they'll love to go, but they don't want to be
Speaker 1: there the whole time.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: That's what you think about it a guy like that
Speaker 1: to go through so many coordinators and still had a success.
Speaker 1: I mean, but all you gotta do, though, is take
Speaker 1: something from Esus. You know, you know how the good
Speaker 1: books say, like all you gotta do is just touch Jesus.
Speaker 1: You know the clock for Jesus and you heal. You know,
Speaker 1: you're just taking something. Like I told you, every coach
Speaker 1: from that tree has been successful at some point, you know,
Speaker 1: So you know it's all about patient. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I given the coaching staff a benefit of the doubt,
Speaker 1: but you made a great comparison saying, you know, Indiana
Speaker 1: first year coach, but he brought sixteen or you say,
Speaker 1: more than sixteen of his own players, So that means
Speaker 1: I got the number sixteen minute, it must be sixteen
Speaker 1: players that starting or playing a lot from James Madison,
Speaker 1: that came from a successful program at James Madison, you know,
Speaker 1: so you know, to each his own man.
Speaker 3: But I got some hope in this staff. I just
Speaker 3: think we got to plug.
Speaker 1: Into pieces and and uh, you know, quarterback going continue
Speaker 1: to get better because we got some We got superstar six,
Speaker 1: you know, three, we got received.
Speaker 3: We gotta play makers, you know, and just gotta plug
Speaker 3: it in.
Speaker 1: But even as a team like we start that while
Speaker 1: I was looking at the game, like, dam how can
Speaker 1: we finish the way we start? Yeah, we're kicking ass
Speaker 1: in the first quarter this game, the Michigan game.
Speaker 3: We fighting with Oregon in the first quarter.
Speaker 4: It just.
Speaker 3: I turned the TV off out the third I just
Speaker 3: turned it off. I can't take it. My blood press
Speaker 3: is straight.
Speaker 2: But the answer Marines question, look, I there is that
Speaker 2: I think they know that they need depth along the
Speaker 2: offensive defensive line. You know, there's infhansis on that. But
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, Maureen. I'll tell anybody this,
Speaker 2: It has to be great talent evaluation, that's number one.
Speaker 2: But if you if you don't have the nil dollars,
Speaker 2: you better. Your talent evaluation has got to be so high,
Speaker 2: and then you gotta be able to find diamonds under rough.
Speaker 4: It's hard at the level of Michigan State.
Speaker 2: Is that as far as a brand to come in
Speaker 2: and start looking for diamonds in the rough. If you
Speaker 2: can't compete with the Miamis and the Oregons and the
Speaker 2: Ohio States and all that stuff financially, that's the issue.
Speaker 2: That's what everybody's experiencing right now. I think someone just
Speaker 2: did a it was on Instagram and something saying that
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 4: Ohio State's coach.
Speaker 2: You know, he would said, look, we can't find offensive
Speaker 2: lineman a defensive it's tough to find them right now,
Speaker 2: you know Urban Meyer he said that it's tough. It's
Speaker 2: just one of the areas that people are having so
Speaker 2: many problems. So it's gonna be the half and the
Speaker 2: half nots with that, there's not a lot of hitting
Speaker 2: going on at the lower levels, so they don't develop.
Speaker 4: So it's a dying breed. So to speak.
Speaker 2: So you gotta find some people that can coach them
Speaker 2: up and keep them happy, and you know, find them first,
Speaker 2: and you gotta pay them to so, I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't know if that helps you, Marine, but we're all anxiously.
Speaker 2: That's why they pay the coaches as much as they
Speaker 2: do to find um and do that. And I think
Speaker 2: that Michigan State can, but everybody has to be going
Speaker 2: the same direction.
Speaker 4: That's the that's the key swerve. So man, look, we
Speaker 4: gotta wrap this up. Brother.
Speaker 2: You know, it was a great show today, really uh,
Speaker 2: headlined by Ayana Okay in the Image Foundation.
Speaker 4: What's your final thoughts before we get out of here?
Speaker 3: Ayana, you are the girl for me.
Speaker 1: You are the girl I never but listen, man, I
Speaker 1: it's just it's just a blessing this week, man from
Speaker 1: from from you know, nineteen, receiving the car and and
Speaker 1: and receiving the money and having the opportunity to get
Speaker 1: his story out there, man, which I know, you know,
Speaker 1: this world is filled with people with big hearts and I.
Speaker 3: Know they'll receive more. And I know he gonna do
Speaker 3: right by.
Speaker 1: You know, I know he learned it from it and
Speaker 1: it's a situation where you gotta grow and and you
Speaker 1: got some good people in the ear, you know. And
Speaker 1: I just hope he can stay steady and be consistent
Speaker 1: with it. And and you know they like you said that,
Speaker 1: if they was to hear what the brothers and sisters
Speaker 1: were saying about it, mall bring tears to your eyes.
Speaker 1: So he got to be doing a good job. And
Speaker 1: I salute that brother. Man, I guess not to have
Speaker 1: a male president in his life and to do what
Speaker 1: he's doing. You know, I salute him because there's no
Speaker 1: way I could have done that at nineteen or twenty
Speaker 1: because I was looking at them girls.
Speaker 4: Straight doing too much of that.
Speaker 2: He's doing a phenomenal job of taking care of his
Speaker 2: sisters and his brothers.
Speaker 4: And O Marion man.
Speaker 2: You know, look, we always are in your corner, just
Speaker 2: like me in Ayana's corner, and anybody out there part
Speaker 2: a nation that wants that needs anything. What this is,
Speaker 2: what this is what family's about. Real families sticks together
Speaker 2: no matter what. All right, swerve, so we're gonna get
Speaker 2: out of here for centric irving. I'm Jason Strayhorned. This
Speaker 2: is part of MSU.
Speaker 4: Everybody, have a good night, God, bless you go, bring
Speaker 4: go white are yeah.