Wow, Wow, you gotta worry about you know, what's up everybody? It is Tuesday, May twenty first, twenty and twenty. Well, welcome to the Only show about Spartan Dogs, hosted by Spartan Dogs. This is Sparta MSU. I'm your host, Jason Strayhorn my co host. Hey, man, he just fell off the screen for a minute, but that's all right, swerving A're going to be right back in a moment. But listen. If this is your first time, we want to welcome to the show
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have them. Okay, And today's birthday for Chuck Bradley. Happy birthday, Chuck Brandley. There he is right there. You know. That's the corner back, Chuck Charles Brandley out of Venice, Florida. It's his birthday today. I hope he's enjoying his time today and getting ready to get back into that work, getting that gym, Chuck, were waiting for you, brother? All right, all right, now do we have swerve back? I think I think I hear him. Oh there there it goes. Come on,
swear. What's up? Man? And the glasses getting away? Technology? Technology straight technology, man. I gotta go back to school, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we gotta get you. You gotta get you, gotta get you. And I'm home by myself. So something went wrong this. I ain't touching nothing else on this computer, man, And I don't know what I'm doing. Battle Creek, Penfield? What's Battle Creek? Penfield in the house. I don't know Penfield. I know where battle
the Creek? I know Battle Creek. What's happening? Yeah? I know Creek too, swear. We talked about at L. George's in the house. Don is from at L. What's up with the a? Hey stay down at L? Shouted man? You know de Troy got what up? Though? New Orleans got edam mm hm, ATL got what up? Shouted what it got? What's uping like? But we gotta have the gold teeth man, you got life and go for Miami. Save It made me take mine's eyes if I see him now, punch him in his faith. He
made you take him out. It's a long story about that man. He told me to take about it. I took about mad That's what happened. Man. We ain't got no dad in your life. Man, You know that. Who can I go to? You know what I mean? Yeah, that's true. I hear what you're saying with that, you know. Yeah, yeah, Trevor's already in rare form already. Man, it just just getting started. He saying, Happy birthdays. Stay away from the portal, chop and you know Michael, Michael Beard a Beard. You know that
that's a good dude. Man, it's a good Christian dude. Man. I met him through Facebook. I guess we met when I was playing. I see somebody said it's Cedric's friend Michael Bart Barry Bike videos. Tell Mike, I say, what's up? And during the show, Man, that's a good Christian dude. Man. Love it back from Raleigh, Okay, JJ and Christian. Hey, we always love them guys. Man, I see my baby here, miss d I can't wait to get on the bus. Baby, I gotta get on the bus. Were coming to get on
the bus. And you know who else on that bus, man, that's your boy Obi. Man, he's doing this thing so ob ozon Barrassment MSU Men's tennis singles. He advanced to the second round and today, man, he did it even bigger today. Man, he punches tickets to the round of sixteen. Ob is doing his thing for the Green and White with the racket. Oh man. You know they had that situation with the Gulf going on this weekend, right, and so it kind of distracted me away from
watching OB. But I got the chance to see the final of o B. You see how you finished, like MJ like this, that's my guy. But wait that work, get that feet work with him. Tray Ob gonna be a mother, Yes, Ozon, Yes, what's up? I mean we had I thought we had some video for him because today, I mean, he closed it out against that boy from Stanford. And you know how hard it is to beat Stanford in tennis, because that's like all they
do over there besides running the rock as your son does. They better feeding the ball if you want to win. Put said in Hey we had I don't know we had a video or not, but man, hey swear you know we got one of our old teammates on him. Man, We're gonna get to him in the moment. Man. But like, this is the one thing that we have to talk about. Is something new that the MSU Athletic Department is the one and this is the Spartan Iron Event. I think
we have a video loaded for that. Have you ever wanted to know what it feels like to compete as a Spartan, Well, this is your chance, introducing Spartan Iron eight stations to test your strength, speed, agility and power. Free wims will be held in the Greg and Don Williams indoor facility, while the championship rounds will be held in the Spartan Stadium. See if you have what it takes to compete like a Spartan. The winners of each
group will be crowned Spartan Iron Champions. Oh why I sign up at twenty five and up? I think you qualify. Man. First of all, I'm definitely gonna beat her. You know, I don't care about Oh, she's a girl, let a win. I'm trying to get a big grey. I'm definitely gonna beat her in that Bowlhead dude, who's my teammate, I'm definitely gonna beat him too, because he wear basketball. Now he probably
done got sought. Lorenzo Guess. When when Lorenzo Guess came in as a freshman boy, he was like, Lebron, he can play football, he can play basketball. I was like, whoa, what we got us one? Yeah, he was that man coming out way down to play one sport by you school. We can't do it like that. And it's only a few guys that can do multiple I mean, I don't know if women do it as well. People that can do multiple sports at the collegiate level and
beyond. It's special. But you know he is still doing it now. He's still training kids on how to get to where he was at and beyond. So you know, hats off to them, man, the people that are gonna be doing that. Spartan Iron is a it's a new event aims to unify the Spartan community through thrilling competition in Spartan stadium. But you know, look, they're gonna be in the Greg and Don Williams football indoor practice facility and we used to call it the weed swear. I don't know so.
And then the championship round's gonna be in the stadium with everybody that's that's that's what's up. Man. That's a great event. Man. I wish I can I can be there to see that, but I'm thinking I'm gonna put my name in the hat and participate in it. You know what I mean? How many pulled hamstrings do you think will be going on at that event? Oh? Man? It depends sraight. If it's if it's if it's if it's twenty people, and say twenty people out of seven of them
is thirty five and over those seven ain't gonna make it. Not even Steve with the tight medium shirt. Steve's man, he ain't gonna make it neither. He out in the ruber man, you know, he he, I know he got all type of stories he over there. I bet if he's in a was straight. He did not pack a T shirt? What shirtless? If he do got it's a small tank time, real small when he
should be wearing a two eggs. If you want to follow Steve on his uh Twitter slash x, he's all over social media and he's showing pictures of what the sights are over there. And I saw he had like Michigan State. He found Spartan helmet over there in the ruper, which is rare. He saw he found us. He said, we worldwide. Baby. So I want to see some videos. Fare. I want to see this tennis video, Meca, I WoT. I want you to see my man backhand that he got. Man watch his back hand. Oh we just got the
ending killing. You missed the set before that where he had the backhand. But then that was him. That was an ace. Game over. He came over for ob kiss the baby, ob baby lying man. So this is the question everybody wants to know right now is which MSU logo is best, because we got a few of them, so I think we got a picture of her. You don't have a graphic ready for the ms U logo. You got the Spartan helmet, you got the block S, and you
also have the gruff sparty. Which one of those do you like the best? Sword Man, I'm gonna keep it with the S man. You either gotta go with the S of the Spartan and two at the top, that bottom one that's cartoon. I'm not going for that one. But that new generation, I bet they'll pick that one. Keep it with the I like to ask, keep that S on that on that I got it right here
straight, Keep on that hey, you know what I gotta go. I love it S because it's staying for swerve and and stand for straight in my you know. But that right there, you got you gotta go. And Slipper says, all of them, all of them. If you do the one behind you, that's worldwide. People see that and they know you know what I'm saying, just like, yeah, but not the bottom. I know we're in a new generation. We wear a little tight jeans and and all that type of stuff. But nah, let's not. Let's keep it
up top with those two. I take either one of those two goes trever again. I like gruff, I know, purlose like block ass saying likes to Spartan logo. Lynn Lynn says, what's she saying? Love them all? Love them all, love them all? Yeah, Linn, I love them all. I love them No, I love the top two the class, So I like them all. But s has to be top. That's bear you boy and bear Mike. But now look at this picture for a minute. Now look at number one. Look at that ass right there.
First of all, he looked good, he got good, try sells he's been in the weight room. Now look at the bottom one with the spot. It ain't up top. It just looked like, come on, somebody playing around and the NAT's let's keep those two right there, switch, let's keep it there. Do you think that the gruff might make the opponent come
harder against the Spartans? Is that what you're saying? I mean, if I see that I'm one of those, I'll do that little roe bell smash swing thing he used to have and just slapt out of whoever got that on their head. Man the block ass is cold. Yeah, man, you ain't lying, man. You know. Look, look, we gotta talk about the preliminary sports. We gotta get into some football talk. Man, we gotta talk about it with our teammate. There's a whole lot going on
in college football and college athletics overall. But before we do that, I swear we got to talk about something, man. We got to talk about charitable Gift America. Man, you got to. Yeah, your n I L give charitable This is your chance to take control of your NIL contribution. Direct them to the spartan athletic programs and your choice. This is part of fun power by charitable get to America allows you to choose what support you to
support with your NIL donations. All donations are tax deductible, and all CGA athletes donate five percent of their contract to a charitable organization of their choice. Were all you gotta do is had the cg A Athletics dot org today. That's what we are, simple as that, simple man, man, What does the people got to do? Got to make sure they hit that that yeah, hit that like and that subscribe button. Please do that, but please, but when you do that, get on your phone, call a
friend at know a friend and tell them to like and subscribe. Put your email in there, and let's get these numbers up. You know what, I'm a challenge, Trevor. I'm gonna travelers d I'm gonna travel Mary, call a friend, tell a friend to subscribe. Let's get these numbers up. Matter of fact, I'm I'm on one hundred more members. What what the members that right now? What number we had straight? Like twentyth right now? Six something, twenty six, twenty something in that range. I
don't know. It's it's moving every day. Okay, everybody in the comment, do me a favor. Make sure you get two to three people to sign up, and we're gonna see if we got more numbers come Thursday. That's right, and we're gonna hold everybody accountable. Right. Oh, we get off right now. You gotta be pissed off because we gotta talk to our teammate and uh, excellent spartan tight end. You're gonna hear about him in a moment after these message from our friends over at our house and go
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fro with the town. I'm not going to out hob with no town. I'm going to I Hop like Steve with a tight shirt on, ready to eat with my fingers and all. And I'm paying cake. You can't wait to come because right now, without further adudes, well we got to bring on the guy man right now. It's our tight end, not your tight end, not my tight end, tight end. Third round draft pick of the New York Jets just had a nine year NFL career. Chris Baker joins,
it's sparted m mass shoes. Chris, hold on, hold on straight, hold on, hold on, I know that, I know, I know that background. No, no, no, hold on, y'all listen to me. You ain't bring him in right but now that you brought him in, let me take my take this off, this over everybody. See when you got a background like that, ooh ooh, he living good because you know the background right there. Then he got his own pawn. I ain't never been there, straight. I can just tell you he got his
own lady back there. You see the palm tree, you know much, the poem tree, Coach Ray, Oh yeah, man, it's to the point in Florida you can write them off best tax. That's a tax, right. He got his own pawn. And then he got the command over top. And then on this side. I ain't never been there. That's where he got his grill, his green egg. Oh, Chris Baker, he's doing it. He's dressed. I said, the boy got his own money. He got his own money. It's a trigger. Come on,
sir, I know I got me some rich teammates. Boy. When you never hear rob bomb, I was good to Chris, no doubt, no doubt about it. I sleep in the cook what they called it the combat what's the ship that you lay on and it's hooked up to the thing cook ham what dammit? See I can't even pronounced. I know you got one of them. That's all I can speak. He ain't no balance over there. Don't nobody coming over there. He's got the type of neighbors. No, if he got it, if he leave his door open, straight the
neighbor come over and just close it for him. But you remember, I'm from New York, so I ain't never leaving the door open. No. Oh, man, I forgot you from New York. So what's up? What part of New York? You're from? Queens? Yeah? Yeah, everybody think I'm from Michigan. I'm from Queens. I'm from Queen. I was born in house. Give me one of the old Queens rapped real quick. Let's say I couldn't wrap though, can't rap? Damn sure, can't rap? But he cam roon? Yeah, yeah, who's Queens? Who's
a rap? Nos? Like, so fifty went to my my first high school I went to. Fifty cent went to the same high school. I was born in South Side, Jamaica or whatever, so fifty went there. But like, I mean, come on, Queens, you can't. You gotta be kidding. You got some of the best to ever come out on Queens. Nos, Come on, man, you know I mean, see so Chris, who is your best? Who your best? Out of New York? If you say the wrong name. I go through this. You
know, you know, I came up through the era. So like ninety two, ninety three, Biggie was big. That's what you got to talk. Let's no, no, he's in New York though, he's in New York. I know, I know, I know. Yeah. So like you know, Big obviously, Nas, obviously, Jay obviously later on. Obviously fifty came along later. I mean, so, so you know you're gonna need Jay the kids out of it. No, no, no, no, of course not. No, I'm saying you're talking about I mean
New York. Listen, New York is the mecca. That's where you know, that's where, that's where it all started. But I will say this, the first time I heard Trick Daddy was up at Michigan State. You know what I'm saying. You don't know now, you know what I'm saying. Like, Herb was Herb was my roommate my freshman year. So so soda, you're here for me. First, Herb was my roommate. Man, he was my first roommate. So you know what we got up. I started listening, I'm like, okay that Florida, Okay, a little
bit here and there or whatever. But you know, so yeah, man, So you know, but the first time I heard trick, I even heard the trick was up at Michigan State. So you know now that that's when that came out that freshman year coming up there, you know, do it like yeah, man, yeah, man, Man, Chris Man, it's good to see you, brother, man. Like, so talk to us a little bit about it, man, Like, so you from New York, Yeah, you came out of Salem when you at Michigan State.
But what was your track coming from New York to Michigan, Like, what was the connection? How that talked to us? So? Yeah, So basically what happened was my parents they were separated when I was young. They separated. I was in like first grade, so I basically moved from I was living with my dad in New York and I moved my in the middle of my sophomore year in high school, in tenth grade, I moved to Michigan. My mom that moved to Michigan at the time. And that's how
I ended up in Selene. And my story as far as like my journey to get into Michigan State and getting to the NFL and all that like eventually I write a book on it. But long story short. My first game was my junior year of high school, after I got down to Salene or whatever and baseball before that, I got hurt in the preseason, so I played only played three games as a junior, and then I played my senior year and kind of went crazy my senior year and that's how I ended up
at State. But I only played twelve career high school football games, so I messed twelve total. And on top of that, like in New York, So like in New York, my I have a November birthday, so I have a late birthday. But I finished my high school career at sixteen as well. On top of all that, so my first semester up at State in ninety seven, I was seventeen years old the whole first semester. But so my story is like to get to where I got, you know
what I mean, to get up there and everything is. Yeah. When you write that book about yeah man, yeah, and you know it makes sense that you was he was he was young, sixteen seventeen, because I remember when you came in as a freshman, right, big dude, kind of quiet, you know what, I'm saying, So I think you came in with Kerr. No, Kurt the he was you didn't know, but he was a senior that year, my freshman year, he was a senior.
Yeah, yeah, he had a chance to constract Kerr. Kerr was a bad mother, you know what I'm saying, especially his senior year. He knew it. He had he had the hands, he had the size, he'll block whatever it is. And so the thing about me was when I saw Chris, I'm like, okay, Chris next. And Chris had it. Chris already had the size, he was already smart, whatever it was. So I just knew at that position as a running back, once currently we got somebody to replace him, that's gonna be a dog. You
know. That's how I was thinking as a running back, because I'm thinking, I need you, I need some dogs in front of me, you know what I'm saying. But what I knew he was young because not that I tried to punk him, well, you know, it was little things like you know, like like Chris, grab them socks over there for me. You know what I mean, get the socks with no problem, you know what I mean. They just little little stuff you know, I let
my shoulders out a little bit. Yeah, that was my man. But one thing about it, Chris, and I said this to a lot of guys that I wasn't able to say back then because I didn't know because we're all chasing a dream, you know what I mean, and I didn't know the to Yeah, we tapped each other on the ass and we give each other dap, but I didn't know about giving flowers back then as a young
kid. You know what I'm saying. But I give you your flowers because I was able to watch you once I left and then watch you in the pros and always say, you know what that was, that's my tight end, you know what I mean. And after that, man, I just saw you the other day with your kids. Man, you on you out there fishing. I don't know if you really caught those fishes you bought. Okay, Okay, tell me. I don't give fuck by seeing the pictures look at him now, Yeah, but I want to see the process of
them catching that. I'm sorry, you know what I'm saying. But if you call it, you called it a lot of me. One thing I want to say to your brother, I got so much respect for you and your journey and even now after afterwards with you being a dad and me following you on Facebook and things like that, and you was a hell of a teammate. I wish this something I knew back then that I could have said,
but I didn't because I was I was young. And then the Bible they tell us, you know, as a keyd you act as a kid. You know. When I become a man, I do man things. And now that I'm an apple man, she I'm able to tell you, brother, I got some much respect for you, and I love what you're doing, and I love watching you when you were with the Jets and everything, and you was the hell of a dude. Man, I appreciate all your your blood, sweat and tears to get me to be one of the
best. I am the best running back ever in Michigan state history, and I thank you. It'scray and all the other guys. So I appreciate your brother. I appreciate that, man. I really do you know, like and listen, we you think you grew, man, I'm telling you I've grown. And I've grown a lot lately over like the last like five to seven years, like as far as just growing into like understanding like a lot,
I'll put it that way. And so like I you know, I really appreciate that because, like you know, when I got there, I looked up to y'all you know what I mean. That's how it is, like you get so like I was saying about my journey getting there, I did not expect to get to Michigan State. Like when I truth be told, when I came down, I started playing football and all that. I was just playing I like, you know, like my like when I say my journey was different. I had no intention of like, yeah, Okay,
I'm gonna go to college. I'm gonna do this. Like that was not you know, because that's not coming from New York, coming from the city, that's not something you see. You know, you don't see like it's not a lot of football players coming out of there and all that. You see basketball players things like that. But so like when I got there, man, I was just like excited to be there. And another thing with you you were talking about Curt how he had it and everything like that.
The other thing is too in high school, I played receiver, so I wasn't blocking nobody, you know what I'm saying like that, that was my learning code going from outside out there. You know, I was touring in thirty five pounds receiver in high school to going down there and mixing it up with you know, everybody we had out there, Robert and everybody else who came through the underwood or all. You know what I mean. Like that was like my learning code curve that year. And I also got hurt
like that my freshman year as well. But just watching those guys, watching y'all, you know what I'm saying, Watching how y'all became. You know, like watching how y'all did everything, like the work, it took, the dedication, because truth be told, I didn't learn that in high school. I was just better than everybody, just off natural ability, you know what I'm saying. Like again, like I said, I played twelve games, but I like set school records in my senior year and all that,
and that was just off natural talent. When I got up there, I got around coach many, I got around y'all, just like to see how it went and how it's supposed to go, you know what I'm saying. That's what built me into who I became. And then I tried to pass that down the line. You know what I'm saying, because you know it's
I mean, y'all know what it is. Y'all know what it is to go through that program and to like to make it, you know, like to become a part of it, and then your responsibility that you have. So you know, that was like the biggest name for me. So like I always try I always try to represent that, and I always try to represent that when I was there in the league. You can ask any of my teammates I ever played with, they always seen something. It was always
something on Michigan State. When it came to me, he was betting on it or we it didn't matter what was going on. I was in New England in two thousand and nine. I'm beting with Joey Galloway on the Ohio State Michigan take game. You know what I'm saying. All that, like like it never stops, you know what I'm saying. So like it's once it's in you, as in you when you're a dog, You're a dog,
you know what I'm saying. So damn right, Yeah, that's why I'm trying to tell them young dudes that it went over and down the street. Once you're a dog, you stay a dog and it needs something to you. No, you don't take your ads down the street, no doubt, no doubt, no matter, no matter what the situation. But you know, listen, the thing at the end of the day, we're in a totally new era. We're in a totally new day and age. So
again, you don't get that. You don't get that, you don't get that to clean that until you truly are that, So you know what I mean, and then truth be told, that really gets bestowed upon you. That's not something that you get to really truly clean for yourself. So you know, I mean, it's a different day and age, but it is what it is. Hey, uh, just just watching those pictures, you don't think you should go back down to the load. You're gonna keep that
fro me So you can't hate on because he can. Yeah. So so that you got all that money, you can do what you want to do. But I'm just you got pumped. You got pumped too on right now, I don't know what's on the other side. Now look now, now it's the hair is twofold. I'm gonna I'll tell you about it first of all I had. I hadn't grown my hair since I was in high school, since I came down from New York truly, right, I always stay with a low cut. So so my thirty years and like obviously we had
the pandemic, so we was in the pandemic. Nobody's going to the you know or whatever. So I just obviously I let my hair grow and I just kind of like started to connect with it. Man, And like so now now now like it's the connection with that. But like I'm real, I'm real big in the nature now, you know what I'm saying. So like if you can't, I'm like real big into growing my own food. Growing said, if you come by here, you're gonna see some mango trees.
You're gonna be like, yo, Like I got stuff you ain't never seen before. You got kind of greens, bro, I got the biggest colla greens you've ever seen. I took you over right now, I'll take you. But yeah, so I like to say, like, but it's also like my hair has become like kind of like my connection. Like when I'm outside, I feel like that connection with the you know, the earth, like with the sun, like we're all that you know what I'm saying.
So it's not just yeah, you know what I mean you you connected with the earth, with the earth, I mean the earth, the earth, the earth, the stuff, fish, all that. I can't make that get down there all that. So yeah, colors and making mine no double truth be told, like I mean like that that, like I learned
a lot. And then also I also went back and finished my degree as well, and so like that kind of I finished I walked in December twenty twenty one, and but just getting back into school and like getting that that focus and that studying and all that. Like once I got my degree and all that stuff like that, then I've kind of like taken that and going forward with that with like with food and and and and like just like all the natural stuff that's on the earth that's for us and everything like that.
So like like I said, I've grown a lot over like the last five seven years or whatever. So that's what's up, man, that's big. That's that's what's up. I can't wait to get back in that backyard. I'm telling you. You know what I mean, I got my cigar, but I know you got your and all that done and where you had the neck bones done them. I bring them from the store, from the from the y'all both leave that pork alone. Man, better get you man. I'm trying to help you. Man, trying to help Chris. You can't
help me. I eat the ass of a pig. I'm sorry, brother, I love you you, my man, fifty grand I'm gonna eat me a port chop sandwich. I won't give him up with you say I'm trying trying to help you off. Man. No, no, ain't no help. Ain't no help, ain't no. But that's where we go the line. You know what I mean? My port chop salmer before I get to your house. That's all I'm listening. It's not religious, it's just health wise. Man, It's just it's this whole yeah, yeah, you know
what I'm saying. That's all right, right, right, somebody here, don't eat the swing. Y'all gonna say what you want to say. I grew up on it so that I I did too. I did too, Chris. I'm not knocking it. I mean that what you rich people do? You growing your food? You doing now? I'm still going to the coast. Don't getting we I feel okay, all right, all right, all right, hey, hey there's some graduation pictures right there. Yeah, yeah, that was big man. That was big to come back and get
that twenty one. You know, So what does it mean for you to be able to go back and get that degree after spending not nine years in the NFL? Man going back get your finisher degree at So I always intended on going back to get my degree. And like I mean, like when I left school, I left with one hundred and nine credits. It wasn't like I was that fall, you know, like but like my senior year, I got laser focused on the NFL, and so it was always my
intention. But obviously I'm playing, and you know, I'm growing, and you know, then I get married, have started family and all that stuff like that. So then everything is just kind of like then I then I retire, and then I decided to settle down here in Florida. I moved once I retired. I stayed in New York for a year and then I came down to I came on down to Florida and I've been down here every
since. I've been having here twelve years now. And so basically, I like, I just I kind of was just kind of finding my groove and kind of figuring out what I wanted to do. And then I was like, you know, it's time to go back to school. And so that's basically what ended up happening. I ended up just going back and during the pandemic fortunately, so I didn't actually have to be up in ease lands and and everything else. And it just kind of went from there. Man.
And but it was something I was told my mom. I was, you know, I told I would go back and get my degree, But I was for myself more than anything. Like I put all that work in, you know, and to put all that time and working and all that effort to leave it sure, you know. So it was great the fact that my kids got to see it and they got to see me doing the work.
They would see me, you know, studying and doing all the stuff and going through it and you know, just to put that out, put that there for them at the end at the end of the day, it was like a you know, it's a nice exclamation point on my time at Michigan State. Hey, Chris, listen, man, you man, Like I said, I got love for you, and you learn I'm gonna steal eat my poor I don't care what you say. I don't care. I'm gonna tell you this, man, and you, my man, I'm telling
we went the war together, we shared the locker room together. Man. I'm so glad your kids took out your wife. Yeah yeah, listen, man, look they got the good. They got what they needed from me, and they got what they needed from her. I'll put it. I'm glad they got. They look nah and you pretty. I mean you hands some I ain't. I ain't yet I should say you have, but boy, I'm so glad they look like they mama ain't, no doubt about it. And they both look like her. So I'm all good with that.
I'm all good with that. But no, I'm proud of you too. Man. It feels good for me too to go back, man. But mine was at mine was at Alabama, and and to walk across that stage because this time I really had to do the work. That was the difference. But my kid was too young. They probably went to care anyway because we already they already, like, you know, I showed them videos they oh dad, look at that. Yeah, you know what I mean. But it felt so good to walk across that straight stage, man, and
they hit them, people cheer. I'm like, they ain't even I ain't think nobody knew me. You know how you walk across and you got all these people, I'm like, I'm not from Alabama. When they mentioned my name and people screaming, I'm like, oh shit, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so good man. But once again, I'm glad your kids look like they mom man, you know, swear like they talk about he's gonna bring up his his graduate you So, so, Chris,
talk about right now what's going on? Because you kind of hinted to it, like it's a lot of different world right now. It's a big difference in what we played in versus what guys are going through right now. So you got the transfer portal, right and the nil all those things, And you know, you're a guy who spent nine years in the NFL. What is it to you when you look at where things are now? If you can give advice to the players today, what kind of advice would you give
them? Oh? Man, it's tough to give them advice right now. Man. To be honest with you, because I was actually just talking about this earlier. Guys can make wood in the portal or in their four to five years in college by using the portal, right with what a lot of guys can make in their career in the NFL. So it's it's tough because it's like you, I can only imagine if I was in that position. If I'm happy, I'm starting, I'm getting, you know, getting paid
or whatever, I'm not going anywhere. But it's tough to tell a kid like that's a four or five star recruit that's sitting on the bench that can go and get, you know, possibly secure their own future, their family's future at nineteen or twenty years old, that they shouldn't leave. You get what I'm saying. So like it's really a gift in the curse, you know, to be honest, it makes it tougher to like go somewhere and be there for four or five years and develop as a player and get to
the NFL. But it's so much money that they're giving these guys now. So I mean what I would say, as a player, it really just depends on what your focus is. Do you want to go somewhere. Are you going to the school for the school for the for the program for the you know, for the the atmosphere and all that stuff, or are you going for the money and and and you know, and also like if you are you going for do you plan on going there to graduate and try and
springboard into another career outside of football whatever. So it's so many variables right now where it becomes hard to say, well you should do this or do that. It's really dependent on your situation, you know. I mean listen, being out here in Florida, I go to a lot of things. I see a lot of guys, you know, and I see like the situations that people are coming from. You got to get it how you live, you know what I'm saying. Sometimes, So it's it's really it is
really dependent on your situation and what you're looking to accomplish. And my the way I would tell guys, you know, you got to do it in your best interest now in these times to me man, because you know, there's a whole lot of things. It's very loaded when you think about what guys are happening to decide in college football nowadays. Today, there's a big
story that broke. It had nothing to do with Michigan State, but it does have something to do with college football specifically, we're talking about the former Miami commit slash Florida commit slash Arizona state quarterback now at Georgia Schools Florida because he was promised was at thirteen million dollars to go from the nine million dollars at Miami to go to Florida, and Florida flat out renigged on them, didn't pay him a time or whatever. You know, what are your thoughts
on something like that? Because you just talked about, Hey, you know there's a lot of money out there, you can secure your future, you know, but what like Swerve, I'm gonna ask you, Swerve, what do you think about Jaden rashot it? This is the quarterback that I think they just had this contract details there. You know, what, what do you think about that? Five hundred thousand up front, two fifty a month as a freshman, two ninety one, sixty sixty as a sophomore, three
seventy five a month as a junior? What what do you think about that? And then the fact that you know, schools offer that and then pulled it away. See you see my head straight. First of all, you know, if you look at the draft right the draft, the slaughter.
Right, So if you know, if you're going number five in the draft, you know you're gonna sign a four year deer or such and such a money as already slotted, right, So you mean to tell me you're gonna pay me three three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars a month, right, And when I leave high school, those teachers are telling me we got to go to college, the ejectives to go to college to get a degree so you can get a better job. So now you're giving me three hundred and
seventy five thousand a month. I ain't passed now, of course yet, not just that I make more than the teacher that's teaching me. What what? What what do you want me to do? Not just then on top of that, you do damn that making more than your position coach? Yeah, oh damn that. Wait wait wait three seventy five a month. You are making more in your position, coach. So my thing is who I
got to listen to? So so so so so, babe. You know, when you see those kind of numbers right there being thrown out there, how is a player? You know when you see a you know, I know this is Miami Florida. But a kid like Jadeen Manga. This is a guy who was at Michigan State. His brother. I don't know what happened with his brother. He goes into the portal, but then Jayden into going to Michigan. If if it was money, I don't We don't know. We don't know what the situation was. But like, how do you
how do you navigate through these waters right now? Because I know there's a lot of heat coming down on players because they're going to schools that people like us, we say, ain't a way we should go to. No, damn Michigan down the road. But like you know, you see what's what's going on here? What's your thoughts on that? Yeah, I mean, listen, dude, with us, there was first of all, we couldn't even transfer within if we transferred, we had to sit out and you couldn't
transfer within the conference and all that stuff like that. So we even if we had but even if we had that option, that's an option that we
would never take. But my only thing is we really can't even it's a different landscape, you know what I'm saying, So like would it being a different landscape, Yeah, we can be critical of the kid and everything like that, but at the end of the day, he can do it, and you know, it's just so like I look at it, like it's just it's do business as business business is being done in this day and age. That's not something I would ever do, obviously, that's something that none
of us would even consider. But at the end of the day, they're allowed to do it, and it you know, like that's just what it is. That's just the way the landscape is right now. So you got to kind of just because we also did sign somebody from from there as well. You know, like it's just that's just what it is now. Like I mean, it's it's crazy, but I mean who else, who the
hell thought UCLA and USC would be in the big ten. So you know what I'm saying, like, this is just the landscape that we're in right now. But right here, Beer Ranking Show, right, it's part of growing up. I make more than my manager at work, but I still got to be professional. The amount of money you make shouldn't justify you being an asshole. But check this out, Bill Ranking Show. You haven't coached
high school football. You haven't coached these kids. That's coming from these, from these projects, from these one parent home, from the kids that's raising theirself. Some of these are street kids. You get that kid that much out of money, right that it is no respect, it's no it's no discipline, it's no structure. That's why, if anything I would, I would give kids work, work to earn. That's the thing I'm talking about. You. I coached football. I coach football with these four and five
star kids, and that's all on they mind. It's not on their mind that hey, I'm gonna go to college, I'm gonna get bigger and stronger. I'm gonna go there and work my ass off and then boom boom going to the league. Shit, I'm already getting league money. You see. Let's take women basketball. Them girls took a pay, had to go to
the w NBA. Yep, you see what I'm saying. So at the end of the day, what I'm saying is if you gonna pay me more money than my professor, and you won't you want me to do my homework, Shit, I ain't doing I ain't doing it. I'm sorry, call me roll mode or whatever. What what I'm doing? I got three five? I mean, this is like The money they're getting is life changing money. It's life I mean, like you can literally set yourself up for life coming out of college, like you don't even have to go. I mean,
so it's my biggest thing is with all these kids. I mean, I know it's not happening, but my biggest thing is they need to be able to make that money last because it's I mean, like you said, you got kids coming out of the projects, You got kids coming I mean even kids that are coming out of the gated communities. You give them a certain amount of money and they don't have any responsibility. They're gonna blow all
that money. So that's the one thing that I hope that they can try and get on, not only say get under control, because I don't know what's what the state of it is, but I already know just being in the NFL locker room and everything else. They really need to like guide these kids, and they really has to start in high school because they're getting that money. As soon as they walk in the door for visits, they're getting this type of money. So they really need to start training these kids because
the type of money they're getting could set them up for life. They don't you know, like they can set up their entire life or they can ruin their life too. It's funny Merlone said about the uh, the financial literacy part that need to be set up, because you know what I found out. Former kids of mine that I that I keep in contact with, called me and say, cool, they tell me I got to pay eight thousand
dollars of taxes. They ain't tell me that. When I came in, I say, yeah, you got to pay that new people's giving you. New people gave you eighteen thousand dollars a month. You gotta pay taxes on that. Brother, Man, they ain't tell me that. When I came here, man, hoping I'm up for the transfer, I said, Okay, wherever you transfer and they give you money, you're gonna have to pay taxes there too. Brother, You know what I mean? But like he
said, the eighteen he was getting, she he was spending it. He sending his mother five, he sending his homeboard. Two. He going out buying the c with the CDs. Kristen, do you what it is? The loan along the CD's shoes. You know they going to get the hell cats and all this type of stuff and krips are not telling them this. You know what I'm saying. He called me. I said, first of all, I'm gonna put you on the phone with somebody else to help you
out. But I can't help you. I said, They're gonna give you another eighteen next month, take the aid out of that, and pay your taxes. That's all I can tell you. The thing about it is, this is what happens in NFL locker rooms. Yeah, to them four years earlier or five years earlier, as teen year old kids, what do you think is, who do you think they're gonna do? They're gonna go month
to month and spend that money because they don't understand that. Like, like I said, even the kids that are coming out of places that where they have, you would think they have some kind of financial literacy, they're not. They're just getting money. And so like when they get that type of money, if you don't help them out, if they're not trained, that money is going to be gone and they're gonna be again. It happens in the NFL, happens in the NBA, happens in all these different spots.
So what do you think is gonna happen when you're doing it with college kids. They have no kind of they have no chance if we don't get them right. So you know what I told my kids, I said, when you get your money, just send it to me. Hey, Chris, let me ask you this man, Well, what was your best memories of best game in college and in the pros? College? Man? And you missed it because you know, but my favorite memory was the Citus ball.
That was my favorite Like that, I mean because just that year, that year was just that was saving that just left he just you know and everything, and you know, that was the year that well we finally put it together, you know, like we finally put it together, and you know, just I mean that that straight was you in that year? No, you left the year two the year before, right, yeah, yeah, no, that was that was the year because as a matter of fact,
if I remember, right, yeah, it was the year before. That's when we beat Ohio State when they were number one, and like no, no, no, we beat Yeah. But that's what I'm saying though, like that but we were just starting, like we were just figuring it out then, you know what I'm saying, Like that's when it was like okay, there goes I remember ninety seven, Like I said, I read shirt. In ninety seven, ninety eight we kind of scuffled and we didn't go
to the bowgo you know, we didn't even make the bowl game. And then in ninety nine is like when everything just was there, you know what I'm saying, and like we put it together and it was like so that like the culmination of that in the bowl game, after saving that left and all that. So that was like just the we you know, we're playing Florida in in the middle in Florida and all the all that just all that that came together and just getting that done. So that was my favorite.
I mean the Michigan games they were great too, don't get me wrong, Like the old one Michigan game that was great. But that was just you know, the Bowl game was a culmination. And then the pros. Oh man, man, I mean that's a tough one, man like, because I mean I had had some you know, some pretty big big hides in
the Pros and things like that. I mean, I can't really pick one, to be honest with you, you know what I mean, Like I had you know, I'm gonna answer this question, so so you you you played a long time with the New York Jacks and he went on to New England. So you got a chance to flavor Tom Brady from school down the road. What was it like? You know, so everybody knows of him as being the goat. He just got roasted a couple of weeks ago,
maybe like two weeks ago, ye on Netflix. What was it like playing with a guy who has that prestige that he has right now? So you gotta remember, I played with Brady and O nine, So he wasn't this at the time. He had won three titles at the time. But early on in Brady's career he was not. He was he was like barely a pro bowler at the time, you know, like I mean, I want he wasn't like a game manager per se, but he was. He was not even a pro Bowl. He was just he would perform like crazy in
the playoffs and like whatever. So he wasn't this. He was highly regarded, but he wasn't. Oh he's the gold, you know what I'm saying. So all have to say. We talked Michigan, Michigan State, back and forth. You know what I'm saying. Same like I said, I don't like we you know, we talked about it, We talked about the game in O one and everything. Tom was super cool, like he was like to say, Tom was one of the guys. He was one of the guys. I mean, I was on plenty of teams where guys thought
they were whatever, this, this, and that. Tom was one of the guys. Like he did. He was no different than anybody else in the locker room. So that was the That was the biggest thing I can say about him. He was He was not He was not like what you would what you would have fought with his you know, with his accomplishment. I'll put it that way. That's what's up. That's what's up. Mhm
right, oh yeah, sir. So now, Chris, you know, before we get you out of here, man, we definitely appreciate you coming on, man, because the background already went from the little light that was back there because I can't even see them, uh five thousand dollars palm trees anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know how it is. Everything else f in the light up now is on a timer. I know how you rich people do. I got a lot of rich friends something like that.
Yeah yeah, yeah, So now before we get you out of here. Brother? Man? What what? What? What? What do Chris do now? So basically, man, I'm like when I retired, I'm fully I was fully retired. I retired back and after the My last year was in ce So the year that was Peak How's first year out there, of the year that Marshawn had that big run in the playoffs or whatever, that was my last year. So I was out there that year and after that I retired. So the way my career ended, I fractured my hip.
So the week before that we played we had to play the Rams to get into the playoffs. It was winner take you know, winners and losers out. So we got in the playoffs at seven and nine. I don't know if you remember that. So I was on that team. So anyway, we won that game. So I fractured my hip in the second quarter. I didn't know my hip was fractured. I played the rest of the game. I played the whole game whatever, man, listen. I wish I'd have known it at the time because out of the SAT mands down.
But I finished the game or whatever. But that was basically the in for me. So then after that I went back to New York retired and since then I've been fully retired. Man, Like I stayed in New York for a year. I did a lot of fish in that year. Like in New York, you know, I'm always on the water. So my crib, I had the boat in the backyard. I'd go out fish every day and all that stuff. I did that for a little bit, and I
just got tired of being in cold weather. Man to truth be told, And I always wanted to get a spot down in Florida every time, you know, I was with the Jets, I was with the Patriots. We come down here in December, it's not eighty five degrees out and I'm going back up in this ten degrees outside. So we ended up coming down here in twenty twelve. And my son started kindergarten here. He's he's in eleventh grade. He's going to his her senior year next year. Wow. My
daughter she was once she turned one down here. She was born in New York. Who came down And I mean basically I dedicate myself to to them, you know, like I focus on whatever that they need me for or whatever it is. You know. My wife, she works, she works at the school with them and everything. So like I just been to that.
Yeah, but so so what happened was though, like I said, during the pandemic is kind of when like the light bulbs started turning on that I need to like, you know, And after I finished my degree, I started I started like I needed something else to like fiel the time, you know what I mean. And that's when, like I said, that's when I kind of got passionate about learning how to grow my own food, learning how to like you know, just all the different stuff. So that's
what I really focus on now. Man, Like I'm like super passionate about food, medicinal growing, you know, all that type of stuff. And down in Florida where we're at, all that stuff grows down here. So like that's I mean, I'm always all I'm doing is studying how to grow this, how to graft this, how to do whatever. So that's that's what feels my day. That and my kids in the family. Man,
gotta love it. Gotta love it man, and Chris, you know, seeing what you've been able to accomplish with your you know, football career and more importantly your family is what everybody wants to see, you know, that's what we love as Spartans. I mean, Swerve loves it. He loves the palm trees back then, the colleague greens that you're growing in your yard,
and you know, the recruits. The guys is coming after us, they're watching too, And you know, we really appreciate you coming on here man and been sharing a little bit of your career with all of Spartan nation. Brother, don't be a strange man. When do you get back? Do you get back up to some games? Ever? So, so that's the thing, Like I'm real settled into being in Florida, so I really, I mean, I'm just I very rarely go back up to New York.
So the last last time I've been up to these lansing was for the for the graduation, and before that I came back for I forgot what game I came back. I came back. Every time I come back for homecoming, it's always in in like October, and it's always cold and raining, like it's like thirty five degrees in raining every time I come back. So
but I do plan on getting back up. I'm not sure If'm gonna get up this year, but I come back here and there you know what I mean, Like I kind of pop in because my mom still lives up there in Michigan, so I go and see her and everything like that. But I'm not really trying to be up there in the winter time, like I'm just they do have games in September, by the way, just just just for the record, so that that's what I'm saying. Like, the only
way I'm gonna really get up there is if it's something like that. But I did go to I went to hard rock. I went to the one down here when we came down here, and I represent it, you know what I'm saying. So but yeah, man, yeah, yeah, we gotta swear, we gotta get him up for a game and in the something in the early or the late fall or was the early fall? Late Yeah, once we go down past fifty, I'm done. It's a rap. Yeah, And you know you already know because you I mean, I used
to make fun of it. I used to make fun of her. I used to make fun of everybody from down here because nobody wanted to go to class when it was when it hit thirty degrees, when it hit twenty degrees, ain't no long ago didn't go didn't go. So that's what I'm saying. For me now, I'm kind of like, I get it. I get it because every every day I look up, it's I mean, it's eighty five ninety degrees every single day. So yeah, yeah, it's got some old sitting. Oh yeah this year. But man, you know,
we really appreciate you coming on the show Man and here's that. Here's that all editor. I had to go make sure it went through. You're gonna see me run through. That's here. I come right there, I go, old Bobby Williams. Yeah. Yeah. Also, actually I got to go back with one more thing. One other game that was my he goes up there with the Citters Bowl. Was that upset over Ohio State? Because that one that was that was also one of them that goes up there too.
That that's one in one name and y'all both there for that one too, was there for that one? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's beautiful coming out. That was my coming out game there, man, because that was like before that I was kind of like and then you know, that was like my big, my big first game early in my career. So yeah, yeah, yes, sir Chris Man, don't be a stranger. We love it, man. That that was an awesome uh time spending with you, learning about New York Queens, Celeen to east Land scene, New
York and beyond. Brother, down there with the palm trees in Florida? Right now? What city? What city are you in in Florida? I'm in parking. I'm in parking, man. I tell them, when you when you, when you, when you building, you making your own food and stuff that comes with it. The I mean that my cigarette. I can't wait to get down there, Chris. Where are you at? You not down here? I just moved to Atlanta, but I'm back and forth. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I got down there,
okay, door, But and do me a favor, though. The next time y'all catch those fish, make so somebody recorded, because I want to believe it all. Oh yeah, no doubt. And I done took a lot of pictures with fish. No, I don't do that. I got caught him, and I ain't catch not now one. I ain't never doing that. And look at that fish bigger than you, Chris. It never happened it that looked like some good eating right there, bro Man. Look Snapperoper. They don't get no better than that. No, it does
not. No, that's not Yeah. Hold on, can you from New York you put mustard on your fish? Listen, I'm from New York, but my mom is from Mississippi, so I got it. I'm suthering when it comes to it. You know what I'm saying, like, yeah, you did even fish with the head on it. When I go to the Islands, I knew it was somebody it one day that we were just dog skin. I just I knew it was somebody. I'm coming to Parkview. My mom is from Mississippi, so I'm getting Just let him know. I
come in peace. I ain't got nothing. They got to pull me over. I know. You know. I ain't Tray Bond none of that. I ain't got no hoody on. I'm gonna take this off everything I want to see Chris Baker shoot. Yeah, yeah, it ain't too many us over there. That wasn't living good. But that's not true. That's not true. I'm coming. I'm coming true we over here, trust me. Yeah, Hey, Chris, appreciate your brother, no doubt anytime, anytime, all right, for sure, Chris thinking man man man tighten. Hey
man, that was a great interview. Swerve and j Chris Man, Chris doing good for himself. Hey man, we got to give a shot to baseball too. I know we felled short straight, but they had a hell of a year Man on the show. You know, he had a few home runs, you know, but we fell short of the other dance. But you know that, right, it's always next ship, you know. Yeah, baseball is always in our heart. They closed our hearts because you
know, you know, football players are baseball players. Baseball players and football and basketball, so we all were all in this thing together in hockey too. Oh man. I heard the story of how Kirk Gibson played baseball just this last week at this Atlanta MSU golf party. His roommate was a picture he was walking by and he yelled. He was a junior. He yelled and said, hey, can I get a Can I get a couple of hits off the picture? Whatever the picture thing was. They're like, yeah,
come on, we're gonna give you ten. And out of the ten pictures his roommate through, he hit eight of them out of that park. What that coach called down on the phone saying, who is that ding up, damn ball? Who is that? Boom boom? And the guy was like the coach like, oh, I'm sorry. You know then I'm gonna get him out of here right now. Don't get him out, get him a uniform. We need him on our team. He played his junior year.
Yeah, that's an awesome story right there. I come believe that story, man, I know, I mean there's a lot of stories we can't believe. But man, that was a great interview by you and Chris Baker and Swerve, Red Cuffs and all were about to close this thing out. We got some stuff going on we got to talk about. Man, there's some there's a big thing coming up. It's a big thing looming on Thursday. So it's a n c a A and what the landscape is gonna be
for college athletics. So we're gonna see we're gonna talk about that on Thursday night show. So swerve hold on, let me clear this up. The mustard hot sauce go together on the fry fish. I'm letting y'all know that. Trust me. You know what I'm saying. Somebody's saying, must you put it that? I think, yeah, you put a little musty. Put a little hot sauce on there. You know what I mean, You rubbing around boom boom, and you cut it on up and you eat it.
You put it good, a slice of bread. We gotta we gotta show, we gotta you gotta show. Bring it, bring it in sho. You know they don't know. You can't talk about it. Be about it next time, all right, swave you know, But Cedric GIRVD, I'm Jason stre This is part of M s U. Everybody, have a good night, God bless you and go bring go White. Yeah, Lon lond I got you, I got you, I got you.