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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Rock your hits, Rock Yo.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And the Morning Show with d J four and it's
Suntig Morning.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Custin's number one for hip hop jam in ninety four five.
Hi everybody, good morning, Happy Friday. Big weekend for me.
It's alumni weekend at Northeastern. For those of you that
don't know, I played basketball at Northeastern from two thousand
and five to two thousand and nine Division one scholarship.
(00:33):
I wasn't gonna say it, but yes, I impressed it.
I got a little jumper. Can't dribble, don't pass, don't rebound,
but I will shoot the lights on the arc. I
will shoot. So it's always just an amazing, amazing time
with all me and all my teammates get together, and
I'm sure you feel the same way. Sound We tell
(00:53):
the same stories on repeat, and we there are always
actual tears because we act as if we never heard
the stories before. We cry laughing.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It's the best, and that's the thing. You fall right
back into the routine like.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We never skipped a beat. This alumni game is a
little bit different because, uh, I think most of you
know that last year was just literally probably the craziest
year of my life.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But I lost.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It was it was that unlucky three. I lost Drake,
I lost my good friend mel and then I lost Nana,
like back to back to back. There is this and
I know I talked about this during that time. I can.
I can digest Nana's because Nana has She lived such
(01:43):
a long life and she did so many amazing things,
like Nana biked across the Europe, you know, like she
did the craziest of crazy things, and she got to
meet all of her grandkids and their kids and she
you know, it was Nona's time, and I was okay
with that. Losing my teammate Melissa, a young, vivacious mom
(02:07):
with four kids that are extremely young. One is a
legit baby, you know, that one I still can't digest.
And this game on Sunday is dedicated to her, and
(02:28):
it's going to be, you know, all about her and
her legacy at Northeastern. So it is an alumni game,
but it's also like Mel's game, and her husband John's
going to be there and her family will be there,
and obviously she won't And I was thinking about this
driving in. I'm getting choked up now thinking about it,
like this is one of those ones I like won't
(02:49):
let my body process it, I think, and I just
won't accept it. So sometimes when I think about this weekend,
it's like it genuinely doesn't feel real. We all got
jerseys made with you know her name and like her
throwback jersey, and I have it hanging up because we're
gonna wear it this weekend, and I was looking at
(03:11):
it this morning when I'm getting ready, and I'm like,
it just it's like my body cannot process it. I can't.
I just cannot accept it. I don't understand. She went
in for a routine surgery and she's gone, and I
think about her kids, and I think about the youngest
little Junie, and not just not understanding and probably getting frustrated,
(03:33):
like where's Mom? Like why is mom not coming home?
And you know, I think Sean, her husband is He's
just doing such a good job of like posting of
him doing her hair and like little things that he
usually wouldn't do that he now has to be both
mom and dad and these like tragedies like this, I
I don't know, it's the weirdest thing. It's like I
(03:55):
can't accept it. So to me, it still does not
feel real, like I just can't.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Like I was four years ago we had a teammate
die and same exact thing, Like it doesn't feel real
because it seems unnatural. But I will say we had
the same thing for him, and it was like sad
at the beginning, but then we started telling stories about
him and then it turned into like a reminiscent part
about him where he was remembered and valued in all
these things. So I'm sure at some point you guys
will feel that as well. But the pain going like
(04:22):
going in is really tough.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, And I think, just like seeing everybody there and
we're all going to be in her jersey, and her
dad's going to be there and her husband, and it's
just in my head, I'm thinking, Okay, once this happens,
maybe it will be like, Okay, this is real. But
it never.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It never.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I sometimes just will randomly go back and look at
our last text exchange and I'm like, it was about nothing.
Miss like was her telling me she used to always
help me. See, you guys wouldn't have you would have
fault her on this because I'd always write her and
be like I want to buy I want to buy
the Chanelle, and she'd like, bitch, how many times were
we gonna do this? By it? Like by it?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Just buy like she was my just buy it.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I would hit ye, she would gass me and she
and she would respond to my photos and be like,
you're trying to be inconspicuous. I see the process, like
I see what you're doing here. And those were like
our conversations and uh, but.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
That's what I mean. These conversations will start to happen,
and then then it's a remembrance thing when you feel
the positivity about who they were as people. Yeah, that
feels good.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah. I also feel a little selfish forgetting emotional about this,
just because I know there's so many people that are
affected by what happened in DC and they lost people too.
But I guess the feeling could be the same that
you're like when you see somebody just so young and
like and I know that people have probably said this before,
but all she cared about was being a mom, Like
(05:49):
that was it. She was just such a good mom
to those kids, and I think about them not having her,
and it's just it it pains me every time.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, every time. That's probably like the toughest part is
to think about those four kids, right, Yeah, heartbreaking. And
I saw you posted a picture of her of her
the other day, Yeah I did. I've never gotten like
a good glimpse of her. But I mean she looked
good in the uniform, like you, Oh, stunning, and she
was your captain, right.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
No, she was older than me, okay, And so it's
funny because she was older than me, and our connection
came through my other teammates. And remember I've told you, guys,
I have like two groups of Northeastern girls. The older
ones were I'm the baby, and the younger ones were
I'm the old the old ones. So and I told,
I told everybody this, and I'll leave this with this.
(06:35):
In the in the younger group, none of them knew her, Like,
they never met Melissa. They know nothing about her. So
I when we were talking about this game and alumni game,
I said, listen, it's also going to be a dedication
game to Melissa. I know you guys haven't met her.
We're all gonna wear her jersey. You guys don't have to,
(06:57):
it's this is the amount of costs if you want one. Whatever.
Every single one of them said, I don't need a jersey,
but I want to buy one for her kids. I
want to buy one for her family. So they all
took care of anybody who was coming to this game
in honor of Melissa, And I just thought that was that, Like,
(07:17):
that's a teammate right there. Yea, who's going to be
at the Governor's Ball Manniquin, Pussy, really cool group. Yeah,
so we have those tickets to see Manniquin and Pussy
coming up at eight twenty.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Needed that
Rock your hits, Rock Yo.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And the Morning Show with d J four and it's
Suntig Morning.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Custin's number one for hip hop jam in ninety four five.
Hi everybody, good morning, Happy Friday. Big weekend for me.
It's alumni weekend at Northeastern. For those of you that
don't know, I played basketball at Northeastern from two thousand
and five to two thousand and nine Division one scholarship.
(00:33):
I wasn't gonna say it, but yes, I impressed it.
I got a little jumper. Can't dribble, don't pass, don't rebound,
but I will shoot the lights on the arc. I
will shoot. So it's always just an amazing, amazing time
with all me and all my teammates get together, and
I'm sure you feel the same way. Sound We tell
(00:53):
the same stories on repeat, and we there are always
actual tears because we act as if we never heard
the stories before. We cry laughing.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It's the best, and that's the thing. You fall right
back into the routine like.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We never skipped a beat. This alumni game is a
little bit different because, uh, I think most of you
know that last year was just literally probably the craziest
year of my life.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But I lost.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It was it was that unlucky three. I lost Drake,
I lost my good friend mel and then I lost Nana,
like back to back to back. There is this and
I know I talked about this during that time. I can.
I can digest Nana's because Nana has She lived such
(01:43):
a long life and she did so many amazing things,
like Nana biked across the Europe, you know, like she
did the craziest of crazy things, and she got to
meet all of her grandkids and their kids and she
you know, it was Nona's time, and I was okay
with that. Losing my teammate Melissa, a young, vivacious mom
(02:07):
with four kids that are extremely young. One is a
legit baby, you know, that one I still can't digest.
And this game on Sunday is dedicated to her, and
(02:28):
it's going to be, you know, all about her and
her legacy at Northeastern. So it is an alumni game,
but it's also like Mel's game, and her husband John's
going to be there and her family will be there,
and obviously she won't And I was thinking about this
driving in. I'm getting choked up now thinking about it,
like this is one of those ones I like won't
(02:49):
let my body process it, I think, and I just
won't accept it. So sometimes when I think about this weekend,
it's like it genuinely doesn't feel real. We all got
jerseys made with you know her name and like her
throwback jersey, and I have it hanging up because we're
gonna wear it this weekend, and I was looking at
(03:11):
it this morning when I'm getting ready, and I'm like,
it just it's like my body cannot process it. I can't.
I just cannot accept it. I don't understand. She went
in for a routine surgery and she's gone, and I
think about her kids, and I think about the youngest
little Junie, and not just not understanding and probably getting frustrated,
(03:33):
like where's Mom? Like why is mom not coming home?
And you know, I think Sean, her husband is He's
just doing such a good job of like posting of
him doing her hair and like little things that he
usually wouldn't do that he now has to be both
mom and dad and these like tragedies like this, I
I don't know, it's the weirdest thing. It's like I
(03:55):
can't accept it. So to me, it still does not
feel real, like I just can't.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Like I was four years ago we had a teammate
die and same exact thing, Like it doesn't feel real
because it seems unnatural. But I will say we had
the same thing for him, and it was like sad
at the beginning, but then we started telling stories about
him and then it turned into like a reminiscent part
about him where he was remembered and valued in all
these things. So I'm sure at some point you guys
will feel that as well. But the pain going like
(04:22):
going in is really tough.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, And I think, just like seeing everybody there and
we're all going to be in her jersey, and her
dad's going to be there and her husband, and it's
just in my head, I'm thinking, Okay, once this happens,
maybe it will be like, Okay, this is real. But
it never.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It never.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I sometimes just will randomly go back and look at
our last text exchange and I'm like, it was about nothing.
Miss like was her telling me she used to always
help me. See, you guys wouldn't have you would have
fault her on this because I'd always write her and
be like I want to buy I want to buy
the Chanelle, and she'd like, bitch, how many times were
we gonna do this? By it? Like by it?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Just buy like she was my just buy it.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I would hit ye, she would gass me and she
and she would respond to my photos and be like,
you're trying to be inconspicuous. I see the process, like
I see what you're doing here. And those were like
our conversations and uh, but.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
That's what I mean. These conversations will start to happen,
and then then it's a remembrance thing when you feel
the positivity about who they were as people. Yeah, that
feels good.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah. I also feel a little selfish forgetting emotional about this,
just because I know there's so many people that are
affected by what happened in DC and they lost people too.
But I guess the feeling could be the same that
you're like when you see somebody just so young and
like and I know that people have probably said this before,
but all she cared about was being a mom, Like
(05:49):
that was it. She was just such a good mom
to those kids, and I think about them not having her,
and it's just it it pains me every time.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, every time. That's probably like the toughest part is
to think about those four kids, right, Yeah, heartbreaking. And
I saw you posted a picture of her of her
the other day, Yeah I did. I've never gotten like
a good glimpse of her. But I mean she looked
good in the uniform, like you, Oh, stunning, and she
was your captain, right.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
No, she was older than me, okay, And so it's
funny because she was older than me, and our connection
came through my other teammates. And remember I've told you, guys,
I have like two groups of Northeastern girls. The older
ones were I'm the baby, and the younger ones were
I'm the old the old ones. So and I told,
I told everybody this, and I'll leave this with this.
(06:35):
In the in the younger group, none of them knew her, Like,
they never met Melissa. They know nothing about her. So
I when we were talking about this game and alumni game,
I said, listen, it's also going to be a dedication
game to Melissa. I know you guys haven't met her.
We're all gonna wear her jersey. You guys don't have to,
(06:57):
it's this is the amount of costs if you want one. Whatever.
Every single one of them said, I don't need a jersey,
but I want to buy one for her kids. I
want to buy one for her family. So they all
took care of anybody who was coming to this game
in honor of Melissa, And I just thought that was that, Like,
(07:17):
that's a teammate right there. Yea, who's going to be
at the Governor's Ball Manniquin, Pussy, really cool group. Yeah,
so we have those tickets to see Manniquin and Pussy
coming up at eight twenty.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Needed that
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