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Another week gonother Big Mo Podcast, this time flying solo
in the Seat. Andy Nagle a much deserved day off,
at least of the Big Mo Podcast. He's on campus,
But that dude has been hammering away with all the reunions.
We had what two weeks ago, Bourbon cigar. Now he's
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working on the golf outing and so many things happening
that have his fingerprints on it. And I think you
just need a little bit of downtime. But a lot
going on. He had diamond seats last night, though. Those
are the best seats at Great American Ballpark. If anybody
has diamond seats and they don't have any friends, I'll
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be your friend in the diamond seats at Great American Ballpark.
But you could see his mug last night on the
right side of your screen. I think he was in
the first or second row. Andy Nagele class of eighty
eight alumni director is living a good life. No doubt
about it. Welcome to the Big Show. We got kind
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of fun interviews set up for this Big MO podcast.
Christian Harris. Big Chris verbally committed to Wake Forest this
past weekend. Excited for a Big Chris. I mean, here's
a kid who just came out of nowhere in the
high school football scene. I mean, he had a good
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sophomore year, but I wouldn't say wouldn't have defined it
as like a breakout year. And then last year he
lived in the backfields of every opposing football team at
the Crusaders. Played kind of a quieter guy, not on
the field, but off the field, kind of a quieter guy.
But he is really propelled himself into the college football
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recruiting scene and great news for him and his family.
So Big Chris will be joining us on the Big
MO Podcast. Scheduled to also appear on the show is
Mike Souiter in the class of nineteen eighty and obviously
two boys that went to Molar High School as well,
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and then of course Brent with the Cincinnati Reds. But
Mike was a catalyst along with mister Meyer and several
other guys putting on a nineteen eighty reunion last weekend
that for my money, outside of a fiftieth reunion, was
the most highly attended reunion again, non fiftieth reunion that
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I've experienced since I've been working in high schools, certainly
at Molar High School. It was huge. They had somewhere
in the neck of like eighty some guys at their
reunion at Bishop's Quarter. I actually drove up. Karl Kramer
was also there pulling up the Bishop's Quarter. If you're
familiar with that venue, it's a beautiful French quarter looking
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venue down to the Love One, but as you come
into Love One you can see the upper deck and
this thing was littered, I mean left the right top
to bottom with men of Moeler from the class of
nineteen eighty and they were rocking, having fun. It was
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one of the more energy I will say this, It
was the most energetic class reunion that I've ever been
affiliated with. Andy Nagel and I talk about this. Andy
does what I've done did for a long time as
an alumni director. Reunions are what you put into them.
You put little work, you'll get little attendance. You put
a lot of work into it, you'll have something special
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and something special that you will be able to talk
about with your classmates for many years, especially the eighty class.
Their fiftieth reunion is not too far away. So the
closer you get to that, if you could start that
momentum and build that momentum. Boy, if they get to
the fiftieth, well they will get to the fiftieth. God
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willing Katie barred the doors because that eightieth fiftieth reunion,
based on what we saw last weekend, will be off
the charts. There may not be a venue big enough
for the Molar class of nineteen eighty. Unbelievable. Speaking of
some of the older classes that put a post out
on Facebook about a week ago, maybe Lessen, maybe it
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was over the weekend talking about a graphic that Bobby
Maysong shared, one of my favorite men of Molar back
in the day, and he posted a graphic of the
nineteen seventy six Molar football team. And I pose the
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question now, now, the guys that on that team will
be partial, right? I think I can't have a little
more impartiality. I think not having other than being tied
to Mole, they not having an affinity to that class
other than just being a spectator. But looking at the
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teams they played and the scores of those games, let
me run through this and then you tell me, you
man of Moler, who perhaps was on the seventy seven team,
maybe the seventy nine team that I hear. I hear
people talk about the seventy sevent team. The seventy eight
the late seventies was the Molar football golden era. I
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don't think you can argue that now there might be
teams in the early eighties, certainly the last couple of
years at Molar as well, that could could stay claim.
But listen to what this nineteen seventy six Fighting Crusader
football team did. They were GCL South Champs, Triple crown
On champions they beat In week one, they faced Northmont
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and dropped them forty nine to nothing. Now, their toughest competition,
which may not surprise anybody, was in Week two against
Princeton they won twenty one to nine. They then went
on to roll Middletown thirty to thirteen, fifty six to nothing,
over with Row thirty four to six over Elder and
not much has changed their Shamanad forty five to nothing,
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Roger Bacon twenty to nothing that a lot of people
knewer to the Mueller family listening to this probably don't understand.
But Roger Bacon back in the seventies and even the
sixties and fifty going back, Roger Bacon was a juggernaut.
So that game, you might say, well, that was close
Roger Bacon, Roger Bacon. They had some dudes, twenty to
nothing victory over Roger Bacon, forty eight seven over the Lancers,
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sixty one nothing over Percell, thirty five nothing over Satan Xavier.
And then they went and played in the playoffs Youngstown
I think that was Youngstown Mooney, If I'm not mistaken,
I right, they beat them forty eight to nothing, and
then Gahannah Lincoln. Well you know how that thing ended
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as well, and that was an Akron. This team dominated,
I mean absolutely dominated. So I ask you, was the
nineteen seventy six football team indeed the greatest football team
in Molar history. Now there's also a caveat, and it's
a question that I often asked or get asked as well,
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do you have to win a state championship to be
in that conversation for the best team in Molar history?
Because there's been teams that have been you could argue
as good as that seventy six team. I said, you
could argue, but maybe they didn't win a state championship.
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So do you have to win a state championship to
still be considered? And let me tell you something, there
is no lack of emotion when you start to ask
these questions, to the point where I've had some guys
pretty angry with me just even asking the questions. There's
probably people listening to this right now who are throwing
their TV through the window that I should even ask that.
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But I think it's a fair question. Do you have
to have a state championship in your resume to be
considered one of the best teams in molar history. I'm
just asking the question. I'm not giving you my opinion.
I save that for you. Big show ahead, Christian Harris
on the show as well as as we mentioned, I'm
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hoping Mike Souter to talk about that nineteen eighty reunion
and we might have some special guests along the way.
I'm fine, it's solo tonight. It's hot, steamy outside, storms
rolling in this afternoon, and it's gonna be hot in
steaming this weekend. This is a great time to be
a Crusader fan. We'll be back with more in depth
team coverage of the best covers of your Molar Crusaders.
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The Big mo Podcast. Back on the Big mo Podcast
as we rock and roll in the second segment of
the Big Show and Big Breaking News, I think over
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the weekend that man of Moeller, Christian Harris, the much
heralded defensive lineman for this Moeller football team, has kind
of been following the trend of making his big announcement.
Of course, Sam Hamilton by way of West Virginia a
couple of weeks ago making his announcement ed, Cooper McCutcheon
also signing up with verbally committing to Bill Belichick and
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the boys at North Carolina, and the beat keeps rolling.
Christian Harris, Christian Harris, a guy who just broke out
last season and he was a disruptor in the backfield
of nearly every football team on Friday night, made his
announcement over the weekend, and he said he was one
I think it was one million percent confirmed, Christian Harris?
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Is that what it was? One million percent confirmed? To
the demon Deacons of wake Forest? Was it one million?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I think it was just about one million, Christian?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
How excited are you to finally put this behind you
making your announcement First and foremost congratulations, But how excited
are you to finally get this done and finally kind
of just now focus all full tilt on more football.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'm super excited. You know, the recruiting process is stressful,
but it's good stress. But you know, now I'm committed.
I'm happy to have that behind me. Now is this
time to get ready for this year and try to
win a state championship and get better.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
So let me ask you this that the recruiting process,
you've talked about it with the introduction now of the
NIL and social media, of course, what it is. I mean,
it's an animal. I mean you kind of walk people
through the intensity of it. I mean I don't. I
haven't spoken directly to you, but I've talked to a
lot of other guys. It's text messages all day and
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all night. How do you manage that?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It's kind of a lot, But you know, you know,
use your resources like your parents or you know, your coaches,
because it can be a lot. Like I know with me,
it was a lot. It's texting six or seven coaches
a day, so you know, you gotta gotta have a balance,
you know. So it was it was hard, but you know,
if you're able to manage it and you have people
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in your corner, that are willing to help you. It's
going to be a great situation.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Talk about, Uh, why why Wake Forest? You had a
lot of options on the table, Uh, but Wake Forest
is ultimately what you went with. Why Wake Forest?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
So when I first went down to Wake Forest my
first day, I was just thinking like, oh, I'm gonna
go in and just you know, see Wake Forest and
to go to Pitt. But the things changed the second
day and my heart was telling me like this is
the place and the reason why I feel like it
was the place because the coaches, they were passionate about
what they're coaching, what they're preaching, you know, and just
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and when I went up there, the only coached them
guys for six months, And how much they bought them
guys together as a unit and just them six months,
it was amazing to me. So that's hard for a
lot of head coaches to get all them players together
and come as one and work as a group. So like,
especially with the D lineman I talked to them, They're amazing,
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Like they're amazing. They come as one as a unit.
And the D line coach, coach Collagus, great guy. He
reminds me a lot like coaching se though, So that
was kind of a reason that I was like, Yeah,
wake Forest the place for me.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Wake Forest has a new head coach and the likes
of Jake Dicker. Jake Dickard coach. Dickert was at Washington
State from twenty twenty two to twenty four as a
head signal caller. He was the interim head coach back
in twenty twenty one. Has spent predominantly the last ten
years or so out west. He was at Wyoming in
South Dakota State. He originally was early on in his career. Actually,
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he was a Wisconsin Stevens point wide receiver. Played a
little Canadian football. What can you tell us about Jake
head football coach, Jake Dickard.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Coach Jake Dicker. He's a great guy, phenomenal young. You
can tell that he gets happy with the players. I
think it's great. It's ave and coach because he's more
interacted with the players, especially on the field. Let's say
we're working out, he's kind of.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
You know, I think we lost you there a little bit.
Can you hear us, Chris period, you're breaking up there
a little honest? Uh. We got wake Forest a member
of the ACC Conference you're going to play some dogs
in at ACC. You open up, you got on the schedule,
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you got opened up with Kennessall State, I believe, Western Carolina.
Then you start to get into that ACC, play NC State,
Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Oregon State. You got a bye
week then SMU Florida State, Virginia, North Carolina. Have you
already looked at the calendar for November fifteenth when you
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and Cooper McCutcheon are gonna go Mono E Mono together
down and win some Salem? Are you? Have you guys
talked any Smack yet?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yes, we always talks back. I always talks back to
Smack to Cooper, but it has been a lot recently.
You know, I told him no, I was gonna whop
up regardless of the situation. So I'm where I'm position at.
You know, if I'm in nose, I'm gonna find a
way to hitle me the way. So have you talking
a lot of trash?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
How much fun will that be? Though? All joking aside,
I mean just to be able to you spent. You know,
you and Cooper are gonna both rising seniors, going to
be spending your last football season together. But on that
night November fifteenth or day it's a TBD game, game
time kickoff, but on that day at Allegiance Federal Credit
Union Stadium in Winston Salem, You're gonna have another man
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of Mueller on the other side. How cool will that?
How special will that be for you?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
It's gonna be great, you know, seeing that your brother China,
you know, at another school, that's amazing. You know a
lot of people don't get that. You know, a lot
of a lot of players don't have another teammate look
to a different school and they play against each other.
That's that's hard, but that's amazing to have, you know,
teammates play against each other, seeing each other sign shine,
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seeing each other play against each other and just have
a great time in the field. So that's the great
part about it.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Christian or Big Chris as they call you, You've obviously,
as I said in the show open, you've really had
a breakout season last year. How do you what's that
next step for you as a student athlete. We'll talk
specifically on the football field. What's that next step for
you to kind of take your game to the next level.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Next step for me is just getting better each and
every day trying to find ways to contique myself as
to what I need to do right, what I need
to do better, and just making sure that I'm doing
everything to the best of my ability to keep getting great.
So it's going to be on the field in the
weight room, constantly getting better, constantly getting out the guys.
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And you know, with me getting out the guys, that
helps me out a lot too because I like, I
got teammates, let me go after them too. That's gonna
make me a better person, I better teammate, I better
player overall because I can after them. That's gonna make
me even fired up. So like when we get in
the weight room, I'm always getting out the guys because
that gives me fired up the lift weights.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Why I see you get fired up in the weight room.
But what was it like to take a loss against
the president of Moeler High School, Jason Kniehouse, who destroyed
you in the weight room. What's your feedback on that.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I don't know if he destroyed me, but it was
a good match up. He's super strong, you know, let real,
real big. You wouldn't think that, you know, until you
know he puts on close the wrekout. He's like, this
guy is big, he can lift weights. But it was
amazing lifting with him. You know, I probably say he
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was one of one of my favorite partners to lift
with and it was a great atmosphere between me and him.
And after that he's like, you want to be great,
So it was just amazing breaking out well.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
So Christian, it was. It was cool. I was there
at a front row seat. It was it was a
lot of fun to see you guys go back and
forth and just see the energy in that weight room,
which is you can talk about it all you want,
but until you're in that weight room and you see
that energy that Chris Gray kind of that he kind
of obviously just lights a match or provides the match
and you guys all lighted in there, it's unbelievable. I
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mean if you, I don't know if you've experienced much different.
I mean you've been at more now this whole time,
but it is unique though, correct.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
M Yeah, sir, Thus great holders the IH standard. You know,
if it's a day where we don't meet that, he's
gonna let us know that He's going to challenge us
to be better each and every day. So like what coach,
we say, be better today, be better to to uh
for tomorrow than you were today. You got to you
gotta be better each and every day, get better each
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and every day. Today was great, but tomorrow I got
to be better. So that's that's kind of a mindset
that we have in right room and on the field,
and Coach Gray just does a phenomenal job with us.
You know, so like like today it was like, well
it was yesterday. It was like, uh, I might be
I might have to be a little mean, but that's
for me. He holds itself accountable. So it's not just
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us holding ourself accountable. He owes his own self accountable.
And that's a you know, that's a that takes a
lot as a coach to say that. Coach Gray, amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Got one last question. You obviously make an incredible plays
on the field, but I know you make a lot
of plays off field. How did Molar High School help
prepare you for the man, not the football player, but
the man you are today?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
It helps not a lot, because you know, you go
to a school where it's all boys. You go to
school where you have to wear uniform, so it's kind
of like a mandatory thing. But once you get out
into the word world, it prepares you for everything.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
It prepared me as a better man, to be a
better person, to be a better husband, to be a
better brother, sister, son, you know so, and it prepares
you in many ways. And that's why I think MOLA
is a great place for guys to come to to learn,
to be great, to continue to grow and develop in
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their relationship with God and their self. So that's what
I think.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Chris. You're one of the best on the football field.
I don't want you to be that nice though you're
incredibly nice off the field. You are a dog on
the field, and I am very excited for you to
take residency in the backfield of every opponent we play
this season.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
What do you think that's gonna be easy?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I love it, Big Christian Harris, Big Chris as we
call him. Congratulations on your commitment to wake Forest. Excited
to see you. Can Jason and I get tickets to
a game? Can you hook? Can you hook? Two dudes up?
Two men and more to come down to maybe hope,
maybe he can beat you down in the wake Forest
weight room as well.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I don't think that, but to get that TICKETBA.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Chris, you're the best man. Hey, thanks a lot for
joining us, and again congratulations a member of the ACC
the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest Man. That sounds good,
doesn't it. Yes?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
There good?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
All right, that's big Chris. We'll be back with more
in depth team coverage, wall to wall coverage of your
Molar crusaders when we come back on the best coverage
of Molar High School. It's w MOE, the Molar Broadcasting
Network and the Big Mo Podcast.
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Big thanks to Big Chris Christian Harris, congratulations again on
his big announcement verbally committing to the demon deacons of
Weak Forest. Congratulations that Chris. What a great kid, super
kid man. You don't want to see him on that
football field if you're a member of the opposing offense,
that do can be scary, But big congrats to Chris.
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Lots of camps going on. Of course, we had the
broadcast camp last week. Did you listen to the podcast?
How good were my kids in that broadcast camp? They
were better than you, Barrett, Some of them were. Some
of them certainly will be the extremely talented kids that
had the opportunity and can you imagine being a little
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kid and having the opportunity to talk to a Carson
Hobbs or Jordan Marshall or you know, any one of
these guys that we had on the air to the
guys from the Michigan football team going home and telling
your friends, gay guys, listen to who I interviewed, Jordan
Marshall from Michigan or Carson Hobbs Notre Dame, and I mean,
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that's got to be a dream come true for those guys.
It would be for me, that's for sure. A lot
of camps going on. We got the robotics camp going
on this week, and I think there's a second and
third grade basketball camp this week. The older boys the
last two weeks had camps and now it's time for
the little guys to get inside the gym that Karl
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Kramer built for the Moeller basketball camp. What's going on
a lot of stuff off campus. Congrats to the students
led by Dan Shannon heading to they call it Motana,
heading out to Montana the Wingspread Ranch in Missoula, Montana.
There's a minor league baseball team out there, if I'm
not mistaken, but they're out there for a different reason.
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A week long trip of rafting, fishing, swimming, hiking and
getting to getting to hang with mister Girard and mister Shannon,
two of my favorite dudes inside Mueller High School. You
got another group the Senior Trip, the highly acclaimed and
famous annual senior trip for the guys that just graduated
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from Big Mo. I don't know how many, off the
top of my head are on this trip. Judging by
the photos, I would have to say fifty to sixty
guys on a trip. I contacted brother Ron today. I
tried to get him on the show. He was in
a cab in room. There were two students I tried
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to reach out. They said they were just getting to dinner.
So I'm hoping maybe next week to get a couple
of those guys to talk about their experience. Big shout
out to Mana Moler. Hudson Arnberg twenty six grass he'bia,
a rising senior who made the Ohio ODP Olympic Development
team in Bowling Green. Then he proceeded on to represent
Ohio in the ODP in Westfield, Indiana this past weekend.
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So congratulations to Hudson Arnberg. Also my guy Jack Stetham.
Jack Stetham is a guy My wife met him when
he was a senior, just getting ready to graduate. He
was working at Silver Spring House a La Molar North
and I remember my wife saying I've met a lot
of high school kids in my life and grade school kids.
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Of course, she's the assistant principal at SMOY. She said,
I don't know if I've ever met a more mature
young man than Jack Stetham. You could carry a conversation
with an adult.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
He was.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
He still is a remarkable man of molar Excuse me
fast forward. Jack graduated from the Ohio State University in
May magnum cum lare with a bachelor's degree in physics
and astrophysics. This past January, Jack was accepted into the
University of Chicago as he pursues a PhD in physics.
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Dude's a little bit smarter than me and Andy Nagle combined.
He was awarded the Granger Fellowship for research and just
left on Monday for Texas, where everything's bigger in Texas,
where he'll be working with NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility. Unbelievable.
This kid has greatness written all over him. Jack will
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be on campus, I believe sometime in July we're gonna
get him on camera talking about his early success, certainly
at Ohio State University, also on his way to the
University of Chicago, and how Mohler helped pave the way
for his success, So congratulations to Jack. Also big news,
Moa has been announced as our MC for the Moeller
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Sports Day coming up on September twenty fifth, featuring the
Cincinnati Red nineteen ninety greats, The Nasty Boys, Rob Meyer,
Rob Meyer, Rob Dibble, Randy Meyer, Norm Charlton all the Boys.
September twenty fifth. Mo Egger will be our EMC on
that night. Also, big congratulations to Matt Ponatowski, who is
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currently in Los Angeles. I was talking to his mom,
Becky before the show. I mean that kid. He was
playing baseball in South Carolina for his well, actually, let's
go back even further. After he was done in that
last Moeler baseball game, he jumped, jumped on a bus
I think, headed down to South Carolina to compete in
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his with his summer team. Came home, slept for like
six hours, woke up at four o'clock in the morning yesterday,
jumped on a plane, flew out the Los Angeles was
up for a century, actually twenty four hours, competing in
this Elite eleven program, which is the nation's top quarterbacks
on three recruiting has him after day one of Elite eleven,
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ranked as the eighth best quarterback of all the quarterbacks
they have out there. You think that they have eleven?
Do they have more than eleven? I don't know why
they call it Elite eleven, but he's ranked eighth after
day one according to on three recruiting. He did not
go to bed until two thirty the morning, so he
was up almost twenty four hours. And then when he's
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done with that, he's got a flight I don't know
another city for his summer baseball team that will resume
this week playing on the Wow Factor national team. So
incredibly gifted and talented young man. But well that's a lot.
That is a lot. And of course he had his
final four announced last week. I believe it was Oregon, Alabama, Kentucky,
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and I am having Arkansas, Arkansas, So we'll see where
he lands. I think he has a trip up coming.
Actually I lied to you. He's not flying from Los
Angeles to his next baseball trip. He's flying up to
Oregon for his official visit at Oregon, and then when
he completes that, I think he's going to be close
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to making his decision where he will play both baseball
and football. Lot's happening at Molar. You got to get
a notepad and write all this down. Of course, we've
got the Molar Golf Outing coming up in what a
week in foot three day, four days, the Moler Golf Outing.
Get your foursome, get in there. Always a great time,
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no doubt about that. We're going to bring on the
show right now. Mike Suitor, Mike's suitor, the class of
nineteen eighty talking about his reunion and Mike, welcome to
the Big MO Podcast.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Good to be here.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Now, You've done a lot of things in your life.
You've had a lot of success, beautiful, beautiful kids, but
you've never been on the Big Mo Podcast. So I
would I have to think this is a night you
want to head to Montgomery and enjoy a rib sandwich
or a sandwich, a ribs rack of ribs to celebrate
such a monumentous occasion in your life.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Oh yeah, lifetime achievement. Man, it's the pinnacle of my life.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Mike is a proud nineteen eighty grand And I got
to ask just about the reunion. I talked about it
earlier in the show, how cool it was. And I
know Carl Kramer has the same feeling, but you're coming
down Loveland Avenue from like lovel Madeerra that way and
you cross over the bridge and that my first reaction,
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I was heading to your reunion. But my first reaction
is who's got a party to night up there? Along
with our molar? This is crazy. The whole second deck
of that French Quarter looking Bishops Order was filled, stacked
shoulder to short with your classmates. How special was that?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:07):
It was amazing. You know what a great venue too.
You know that's was such a great location, great night,
big crowd. You're right to walk down and see all
those people and and of course we took some photos
with the reunion sign and stuff like that. It was Yeah,
it was really cool. It's just a great turnout and
just a great night.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I always and we talked about this and the Indian
I talk about it almost a nausea. You can put
very little work into your your reunion planning and have
a reunion and get five or six guys to show up,
or you can do what you did and and admired
it and a bunch of like you could really put
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some work into it and have something special. What you
guys had it just didn't happen. It was. It was
a lot of work of a lot of guys, a
lot of your classmates to put that together to make
that night possible. Talk about some of the work that
went into preparing that special night.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Oh, you're you're exactly right.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
You know, we are class captains.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
You know, we've been the same class captains. We had
pictures going back to like two thousands. So it's just
been you know, with me and John Meyer, Kevin Booth,
Rob winnerman us primarily. But I give a lot of
credit to John. You know, he reached out to me
in like February and hey, we got to do something, man,
we gotta we got to put some effort into this.
And you know, we met a couple of different times
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and ultimately decided on Bishop's Quarter, and uh we started
working it. We started, you know what we called a
lot of us. We try to kind of organized by
our grade school group. Said okay, you know what the
same Savior. You know, there's a core group of guys.
We'll try to work on them to come and you know,
the Saint Girst guys worked on their their eighth grade
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you know, guys we went to school with and stuff
like that. So that's how we sort of organized it mentally,
by by our grade schools and just like you just
made everything invite people want to be invited. I think,
you know, a personal invitation is much more powerful for
anything than just to get an email. So if you
get a personal invitation with somebody said hey, you know,
come on, come on now, we're all going to be there.
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And it worked out great. It was exceeded our expectations.
To be honestly, I don't know what the final count
was because we had people, Barrett, that didn't sign up
that little we were walking you.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Know, guys that.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Came and just paid the money and you know, we're there.
People I haven't seen some of these got forty five years.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I think Mike, you were over ninety with those walk ins.
I think you were over ninety guys. And to your point,
you had people flying in from all over the country
to come to this thing and talk about timing of it,
and we talked about it earlier in the show. You're
at forty forty five year reunion. What a great opportunity
to grease those wheels. I can't imagine Katie bar the
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doors when you get your fiftieth reunion. I mean a
great American ballpark. I mean, can you hold it there?
I mean that's gonna that's gonna be special. And the
work that you guys did in this one is just
going to provide that fruit for an incredible night on
your fiftieth in five years.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Yeah, for sure, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
And some of these people, you know, I thought they
lived out of town and I'm talking to some of
these guys the whole name any names, Oh no, I
live over in Ready and a live and they hadn't
been back to a Molar thing in forty five years,
and uh, they came to this, which was really kind
of kind of cool. So, uh, you know, we saw
I saw people I hadn't seen in some time.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
You know what was really really cool for me is
obviously those guys that you're mentioning that haven't been back
in a long time. It is very cool for them.
But you know who was really special for Molar President
Jason Niehouse ninety three grand Uh. I think I could
make an argument, and I'm not speaking for him, but
I am. I guess I think the impact that that
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group made on him and seeing feeling the energy and
seeing the excitement of guys talking about Molar and what
that place meant to them really inspired him. He was
talking about it all this week and meetings we've had.
He kept mentioning all the unions that he visited, but
that at eighty class was I mean, you could feel
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the power of Molar in that room, in that space.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Yeah, for sure, it was. It was a really it
was a great, great event. It was great having him there.
I know, I talked to him quite a bit and
he I think maybe you know, I think he hit
every single reunion. There was eight of them. I believe something.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
He had all but two, but I think he hit
like seven or eight. But he had all but two
just because of timing. He just didn't have the timing
didn't work out, or he would.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Have right right. I know he went to Troy, my
son had at fifteenth and there started at once. He
was able to kind of some of those ones that
were kind of scattered throughout the day. He was able
to knock off more easily. But that was just great
for him to be there.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Did did Troy enjoy his He did.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
He had a great time. And it's different only you know,
fifteen versus forty five. A lot of those guys he's
still in contact with, and uh, yeah, he had a
great It was a great weekend. And then you know,
so if you know we had a night schedule of
events and we did you know that we had a
lot of guys at the Bourbon Sigarfest that have never
been and our class was really represented for that. That
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and then of course the reunion on Saturday, and we
did mass on Sunday. There was probably twenty five people
at the mass. Paul Coleman, who's one of our classmates
of father Paul, is now a priest that Notre Dame
has been for many years.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Did he did a massive Notre Dame? I think on
Saturday morning?
Speaker 3 (37:44):
I think no, Yeah, he did.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Know he did a wedding.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Is a wedding that's three.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
O'clock, three o'clock, three o'clock or something like that, finishes
the wedding, jumps in his car, drive drives down the
Vision Quarter and had a blast, and he was there.
He was still there when I left, and so he
was there. He closed that joint down and then it
was not you know, nine o'clock or not thirty The
next morning Sunday, he's he's doing mass for our group.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
And some of those guys I like kind and some
of those guys who are closing that bar down. It's
probably good to have a priest alongside them, you know
what I mean exactly.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Yeah, you can do. You can do confession.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Correct, one hundred per hundred percent. Well, Mike, thank you
to you and and uh you know John and all
the guys that you give, give some the names. We
gotta give him some problems. Some guys, I know, you
don't want to miss anybody with some guys that helped Kevin.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Kevin really Kevin Booth, John Meyer, Rob Winner and those
three three guys really did all, you know, all the
work and and deserve all the credits.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Rob, the pride of St. Margaret of York.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
There you go, There you go, Mike.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
I'd be negligent in my job if I didn't ask
about Brent. You know, obviously we talked about Troy. Brent
has uh rejoined the Reds after the passing of his grandma.
You know, the pride that you have and being able
to watch Brent home at Great American Ballpark. I see
you down there frequently. Hopefully I'll see you tomorrow when
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I go down for the afternoon game. How excited are
you just to be able to go down and watch
your son play in the town that he grew up in.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Yeah, I have to, you know, really have to pitch yourself.
You know. It's it's really amazing, absolute dream come true.
H you know, just to play in the majors and
then end up here where you always want it to be,
where you make your your home in the off season,
and he actually can live in his house. We get
to see his kids, are grandkids, often do a lot
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of babysitting. It's just it's just a dream come true.
So we're him, especially, trying to kind of enjoy every
minute of it because we know it's you know, it's
not gonna last forever. But it's been it's been great, man,
it's been a great you know, one and a half
years so far having him back here.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Have you ever had that reflective moment where you can say,
and I don't know where he played grade school, but
you know, youth baseball, and you'd be going to his
games these you know, these summer games which I'm doing
with my son now, and you're spending eight to nine
hours out there of course, and he goes to Harvard
and you're traveling up there to watch him play, and
now now you're you're going down to Great American Ballpark.
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Do you ever sit in this in the seat and
just reflect the journey, not just Brent, but Troy and
the kids and just the long journey of raising kids
and to see Brent at the pinnacle, the highest point
you can get in baseball, and just reflect on the journey.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Almost almost every time, Barre, I mean, I really it's
like you said, you know, because we all go through it.
You know, he's going through that everybody. You know, a
lot of kids want to play in the big leagues
and you know, and to actually fulfill your dream. You know,
when Brent was too no.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
So I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
He was the second grade. We found this book, you know,
what do you want to be when you grow up?
He wrote in it, and he says, I want to
be a professional baseball player. So he's, I don't know,
eight years old, seven years old, and now he's thirty
five and he's still doing it. So how many kids
get to do that? So that's quite a blessing. And
he realized how blessed he is and That's why he's
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got that attitude of gratitude. Every time you see him. Man,
he's signing autographed, so there's no more to be signed,
doing any charitable event he can to help and give
back because he is grateful for everything's been given, particularly
to do it in his hometown. Yeah, it's a dream
come true.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
And how blessed are we it moler to have. When
you think the Cincinnati Bengals and you think mister Cincinnati,
who do you think of, Sam Hubbard?
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Sam Hubbard?
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Yeah, sure you think of since.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Mister Cincinnati Cincinnati Rids. Right now, who do you think of?
Speaker 3 (41:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (41:49):
Two men of Mohler. So I think it speaks well
for Mollar, it speaks well for the Suitor family, the
Hubbard family, and we're proud of for Brenton of course Sam.
And its grateful that Mike you are a such an
important part your family is such an important part of
the More family. And we thank you for joining for
the first time, which is really criminal the BMP the
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Big MO Podcast.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Glad to be on it, man, Thanks for having me, Barrett.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
God bless Mike. We want to thank Mike Sooner for
jumping on the Big MO Podcast. How about that. What
a great guy. But he's a Penn State guy. He's
a Nitney lion. He doesn't rub that in many people's face.
Very humble guy. Wonder you wonder where Brent gets it
from Troy gets it from is from their father, Mike,
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a great man of Mullered himself from the class of
nineteen eighty. We're gonna take a break. We'll be back
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