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Hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Nightcap. I'm your favorite sports uncle, Shannon Sharp, he's your favorite. Number 85. Cincinnati Bingo legend, ring of Famer, the guy who's delusional and actually think his five bingles could beat the 98 broncos. Chad Ocho, Cinco Johnson. Please make sure you hit that like, button. Please make sure you hit that subscribe button.

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With the holidays right around the corner, make sure you go ahead and order yourself one or a bottle for someone special. Ocho, we're going to do something a little different tonight. We're going to start with the Lakers at Pelicans, the Lakers dominate the pails 133. Eightyn James 30 points. Ada says five rebounds on 75% field goals, 100% from the three point line, 100% from the free throw line. And he did that in 22 and a half minutes. Let that sink in for the second.

For a second, the man is, what.

Probably less than three weeks away from his 39th birthday, and he scored 30 points in a game, the quickest in franchise history. It's the quickest someone has scored. Think about all the great players that have donned that Lakers uniform.

Kobe, magic, shaq, Wilt, Miken. Oh, okay.

Ad Pow Gasol.

James, worthy.

Who's the other guy? Not Connie. Connie Hawk. Who was that play with Jerry West? Elgin Baylor. That's what it was.

Elgin Baylor. Right.

Nobody has scored 30 points in a Laker uniform faster than what LeBron James did last tonight. And the man is 38 years of age. Watch this game. What was some of your takeaways from the game, ocho?

I mean, obviously my takeaway was obviously LeBron. It's a testament to what he's done and how he's taken care of his body throughout the years. And I heard some comments that he made about father time being undefeated. And he's one to be the first one to give father time his loss. Based on his performance tonight in such a short amount of time in a game that is of some significance, being.

That the money that is on the line, unbelievable.

I mean, words can describe. There's a reason he has the chosen one tattooed on him. There's a reason why we call him the king. And he's living up to the hype. He's lived up to the hype and exceeded the expectations since he came out of high school. Entering the NBA, he is 38 years old, getting ready to be 39 and doing things that 20 something year olds do on a consistent basis.

The funny thing about it is, most.

Of the time, as you get older, you have your ups and your downs. You decline a little bit. You get to see small discrepancies in your game. Nothing. I haven't seen a weakness in LeBron's game to this point.

And for him to be able to.

Play at a high level this late in the game, getting ready to be 39, is unbelievable. Unbelievable. And then the question to me, it comes in. Is it the fact that he is such an imposing figure, that he's that.

Much more physically gifted than everybody else?

Is he the best dribbler there is? He's the best shooter there is? No, I think he's just all around probably the best basketball player I've ever witnessed in general. And I don't even watch the game of basketball like that. Just based on the little bit that.

I do know, he is fucking great at what he does.

I think the biggest thing, ocho, is that when you look at it, your best players are your hardest workers. Let's take the NBA. Michael Jordan, one of your hardest workers. Kobe Bryant, one of your hardest workers. Larry Bird, one of your hardest workers. Magic Johnson, one of your hardest workers. You go to football, you look at the Peyton Mannings, you look at the Tom Brady's, you look at the guys that were talented. Now, when we look at quarterbacks, we don't look at them as talented, but their mind is one thing. But to stay on top of that and to continually work, there is really no offseason for those guys because they're spending countless hours even breaking down tape when there's no game to play on Sunday. Right? And so I think that's the biggest thing with LeBron.

Yes.

Six, 9260 pounds, and he has car Malone body, but he can handle the ball like a magic Johnson. God didn't create very many of those. That's a one of one. You know how? Like the Mona Lisa, that's a one of one. The Sistine Chapel, that's a one of one. LeBron James is a one of one. But the amount of money and the amount of time and the amount of energy that he spends on his body and the time that he spends to be great, because the thing that I tell people all the time, when you are a great player and you start to age, they don't compare you to great players that you're playing against now. They compare you to your younger self.

Yes, sir.

That's what they do with the greatness. That's when you know you're great. When they compare you at 38 to when you was 27, to when you was 30, and that's what they do with LeBron.

And you're absolutely right.

And I'm not saying that I was a great player like LeBron, but in my sphere, as I started to age, ocho, what I couldn't do is to give you the back to back hundred and 25 touchdown. Two touchdown games. I could give you one in September, might throw another one in there in October, might get you two in November. But if I skip November, best believe one was coming in December. I just couldn't give you those games.

Back to back to back to back.

But LeBron James, if you look at him, ocho, I mean, he's averaging 26, 27 points a game, and he's shooting at a higher percentage than he's ever shot before. At 38, he can still get to the basket. He can still locomotive. But the jump shot, it seems like it's a little pure tonight. He was perfect from the three point line, and it was him. Because they got up to the fast start. The Pelicans will it down. They come up.

They take a lead.

He checks back in the game in the second quarter.

It was a rap. He took off. He took off, but he hears.

See the thing, when athletes say, I don't even listen to the media. You might not, but guess what? You got a homeboy that does your wife or significant other does.

Your parents don't.

So he heard what they said. Oh, I think Bi and Zion are better duo than Ad and LeBron.

Zion has a higher upside at this stage, bro.

You don't get great without being able.

To draw down and summons it up.

Because when you tell me somebody better.

Than me, I got to show you that they're not. Right. That's crazy.

And also, I have another question. The plan tournament. They're playing extremely well. Obviously, the Lakers have to play the Pacers coming up. You know, when they play.

When they play, they play Saturday. Okay. Vegas ain't that far from LA.

There's a strong possibility. Strong, right.

You going, you got two tickets?

Hell, I don't even know if I got one yet.

Okay, let me know.

You join on over there, too?

Yeah, they got a spirit flight. I already looked it up. They got a spirit flight for $234, and I can get there. I got to make a stop, but I ain't worry about making no stop as long as I get there.

May the spirit of the Lord be with you on that flight.

But what I wanted to ask you, though, from a basketball standpoint, obviously, with them being in playing and LeBron playing to the magnitude that he is, he, at his age, do you think he can keep that up, or will Ad at some point have to come in and do what LeBron said at the beginning, saying, this is his team. This is his team. At what point will ad play like that and stop the inconsistent roller coaster week in and week out and provide some type of consistency where you know what?

LeBron can take a night off and.

Ad can take over and get that 20, 611 and five, or whatever it is. Whatever it is, he should be doing as good as he is.

I think the thing is, Ojo, is that what we've seen is that we look at the Lakers just this year, not going back any further than just this year. They're a different team when LeBron's on the court than when he's not. It's just. Remember how I said a great quarterback gives you that comfort level that you don't hope, you expect?

That's what he does.

He's the calming effect. He's the medicine. No matter how to skelter it gets, no matter how big a lead the opposing team got.

Well, we got that guy, and we.

Know he can catch fire. And we saw him tonight hit three threes in a row, drive the basketball.

And now everybody's like, hold on, he can do that.

We know he can drive the basketball. We know he can get down on.

The block and command the ball, but now he's shooting three.

What chance do we got? Because if we hug up on him, he's going to go by us. If we lay off on him, he's going to shoot the three on us. He had eight assists and no turnovers. So now not only is he scoring, he's making it easier for everybody else to score. You look at AD, 16 and 15. Austin reeves, 17, 517, five and seven. Torian prince, 15 points, five of eight from three. Delo, 14 points. Rui, twelve points. When you get that kind of balance, scoring, and you can get LeBron to go for 30, and he doesn't even.

Seem to work up a sweat.

Now, it's not going to be easy because I don't know if you watched the earlier game, I watched Indiana take apart. I mean, they took them apart, the bugs.

And the bugs got.

We know what they got. They got greek freak and they got.

Dame Lillard, but Halle Tyrese Halliburton is on another planet.

Yeah, because not only is he giving you 27, 30 points on a nightly basis, he's giving you 1314 assists on a nightly basis and minimal turnovers. We've seen guys give you 1213 assists, but they somehow sprinkle in four, five, six turnovers. He had 15 to 16 assists tonight, zero turnovers. The same thing the other night. So when you get that kind of point total, you get that kind of assist total, and the guy isn't turning the ball over. They're going to be hard to beat.

They're going to be hard to beat.

And they play at a pace because they're young. You remember you young. You could run all day, boy. Get back outside and play. Okay, that damn screen, though.

What's wrong with you?

Right?

But you.

Right back outside, you run. How many games could you run. If you play basketball, we play basketball. I could run ten, 8910 games in.

A row all day.

We play football. We running up and up and down in the fields and we running up and down the road. When you young, you can do that. And that's what they got them young legs over there. So the Lakers are going to have to be careful not to get in an up and down game with these young guys.

Now, the thing, they got to slow the game down.

Then basically nobody can slow the pace down like LeBron. LeBron's going to make you play at his pace. If he wants to get up and down, he will get up and down.

He will. If he don't give me the ball.

And you're going to play, hey, we're.

Going to play in the half court set.

And that's what you have to do to beat a team. Like, okay, but let me tell you something, ocho, this is what I've learned.

And taking the temperature of social media.

Now, you know, the play in tournament ain't gonna mean anything if LeBron win it kind of like the bubble championship. Now, if somebody else, why didn't it.

Mean anything if they having a playing tournament? They have in a playing tournament for a reason.

Because it's LeBron. We've got to find another way to minimize anything that he accomplished.

Remember when he won the bubble?

Oh, the. Yeah. What advantage did he have that the other teams didn't have? They found to hate. We're going to have a championship. We're going to go down to Orlando because the circumstances require us to be.

In a quarantine setting. Right?

Hey, everybody's going to go down there. You're going to get quarantined and you're going to be in this bubble. Everybody's going to have to stay down here.

Hey, when you lose, you're gone.

But as long as you win. So everybody was under the same situation. Oh, but it's cubic zirconia now, the moment, if LeBron James were to win this, oh, man, that wasn't worth why, but if somebody else win it, oh, Kobe would have won, Jordan would have won. This one would have won.

Right.

You got to do whatever you can to try to minimize the man's greatness. But because he's been great for so long, and not just great, we're talking about historically, we're talking about transcendent or transcendental. That's how great he's been. We got to try to, instead of appreciating it. And sometimes we don't really appreciate things until it's gone. We've all been in relationships. We took advantage of that person's kindness and even what she was doing or what he was doing. And then when they left, you realize how special that person was. Everybody isn't necessarily replaceable because we have that mindset. Oh, I just go find me someone else.

No, it ain't like that. And the funny thing about it, and it goes, and not just relationships, just in life and journey, where you meet people, friends, sometimes even family. And when it comes to sports figures, sports figures like LeBron, you think of the Jerry Rice's and some of the great quarterbacks. You think those players are replaceable. There are other great players will come along, but those type of players, you have to appreciate them while you're here, because what LeBron is doing and what LeBron has done, you may never see it again. You may never see anything like that again. Now, you might get some close, you might get some phenoms, you might get some unbelievable freaks of nature that play the game of basketball. But what he has been able to accomplish since reaching the NBA coming out of high school, I don't think we'll ever see anything to that magnitude, especially this consistent, for so long.

But here's the thing.

Normally guys that played this long, they were Biggs, Kareem, they were Robert Parrish. There was Kevin Willis, there was Dirk Navisky. They weren't athletic like LeBron. They weren't required to run the show like LeBron. You look at BC Vince Carter, although he played a long time, most of these guys came off the bench. LeBron James is a starter. He's playing 33 to 35 minutes on a nightly basis. Some nights he's playing 38 to 40 minutes on a nightly basis. And he's giving you 27. Yeah, he ain't giving you seven. He ain't giving you two. He's just not. Well, I'm just holding on. He's playing at a level. I didn't tell you his age. You wouldn't know his age. It's the situation, ocho we were talking about. Everything is replaceable. I remember my aunt, I ain't going to say her name, rust her soul, but she broke up with a boyfriend, and my grandmother really liked this guy. Go to church. He picked my aunt up, take her, bring up when she needs something, he would get it.

She broke up with him.

And my grandma say, well, I don't know why you broke up with him. She said, mama, they plenty fishing to see. My granny said, yeah, but you might.

Not catch him, but that's a good one. That's a good one.

That happened to a lot of people, especially a lot of women that feel. That is one thing about it. I'm just short tidbit, really, to bounce off what we're talking about, about people being replaceable and always thinking with women. Sometimes when women are with certain individuals, you get so much attention from other men. You get so much attention to other men, you lose sight of what you got at home sometimes. And the funny thing about it is everybody wants you. Everybody wants you when you're not their responsibility. Everybody love you when they're not your responsibility.

And the minute you free, the minute you free up, and you can become his responsibility.

Oh, no, they don't want you.

No, cho, and I'm not telling you.

Something someone told me.

I'm telling you what I know.

Nothing makes you feel better than a.

New set of eyes. You see, when she's looking at you.

It doesn't feel the same if the woman walk across the street and she turned back and look at you.

Yeah.

And she give you that smile, hey, how are you doing?

Come on.

Nothing like that.

And so you have to be careful because I've been in situation is that I'm like, oh, okay. You think your boy like that? You like all this? You like 250, built like a brick out house.

Yeah.

But the same thing that the one that you're with is telling you, it doesn't sound as good to the ear.

The funny thing about it is, like, I meant, this is so funny. Me and rail, we talked about this earlier today. It's so funny.

When rail tell a.

Kid something over and over and over and over and over and over, and the fact that they always hear a voice and always hear a voice. They listen, but they don't do it right away. But then when they hear from somebody else that they don't hear from all the time, and I got to say.

It one time, and it get done right away. Yes.

It's somewhat of the same concept and same analogy. When you're hearing it from the same person all the time, hearing it from your man. I'm just being honest. When you're hearing it from your man and you're hearing it from your girlfriend or your boyfriend, oh, you look good. Oh, you look beautiful in that dress. Oh, you look gorgeous today.

But to hear it from a different.

Voice that you don't hear from all.

The time, it hits different.

No matter what anybody says, it just does. It's human nature. It's natural. There's no need to shy from it.

It is what it is.

My kids just say, well, daddy, you keep complaining. You keep asking us to do stuff over and over. I said, I wouldn't nag. If you did it the first time, it only becomes nagging because I got to ask gas over and over and over. Yeah, but then I got to the.

Point that I realized my kids really.

Is like their moms. I don't know what it is because my voice projects. It carries. And so when I say something the.

First time or get done the first.

Time is thunder, the next time was lightning, right? So I ain't going to keep telling. I ain't going to tongue wrestle with you all night.

I tell you one time, that's it, right?

Because my grandfather always said, boy, you never ration with a child. You never have to explain yourself to a child. You told the child to do something.

That's it. Well, why?

Boy, my grandfather would lose his mind.

Hearing, why what a child ask question, an adult.

Why we going here? Why are we doing this?

Why we got to eat that, right? Man?

Barney Porter didn't play that. Mary Porter didn't play that.

And if Granny says something, it was.

The same as Papa says something, because we already know if Papa ever came.

Home and Granny said, barney, you know them boys.

It was over. It wasn't no question as Mary what did they do? What did they say? Barney, you know them boys ain't. It's over. If he came home and one of.

Them girls, Barney ain't play that.

So I learned early on to do something right the first time. And so whether he said it or she said it, it didn't matter. It was all coming from one.

And there was no, well, go ask your granny if he said, go ask Mary. Granny.

And she said, no, don't go back.

To him because he's an earshot.

It meant no. And she said, well, I don't know.

You need to go ask Barney.

I mean, why would I even go.

Back to Grant if he said no, right?

You already know what it is.

They were in straight lines with that. So the Lakers advance to the first ever in season tournament. The winner will get $500,000, which is a lot of money to a lot of these guys. Not LeBron James. LeBron James is doing like 130,000,000 on.

And off the court.

500,000.

But it's the fact it's a competition.

When I shoot pool, when I've rolled.

Dice, I'm rolling dice.

I used to roll dice with guys bro, what is $20 to me if.

I hit a lick?

Nothing. But it was the fact it's competition. I got to win, and I don't.

Want you to beat me.

Right?

So that's how these guys looking at it. Some of these guys, excuse me, making 50, $60 million, they're going to do nothing. But what about the guy that's on a non guaranteed contract? What about the guy that's on a two way contract? $500,000 is going to do a lot for a lot. And so now you're thinking about it, because that's how we thought. We go into the playoffs. Now, all of a sudden, guys get in that pool. So now the practice squad guys, they're going to get salaries for an extra.

Week or an extra two weeks or.

An extra three weeks, or they're going to get part of the Super bowl money, the playoff money.

I thought about things like that.

The coaches, now, all of a sudden, they get some of that playoff money, unless you're a coach, Belichick or Pete Carroll, some of these coaches that's making 7810, $15 million, but for the most part, not when I was playing ocho, guys, coaches didn't make that kind of bread, right? So that was good. And so I thought about that, and plus the workers, the trainers, the equipment staff, now all of a sudden, because we always took up money and I always gave a large sum of money because I appreciated them, and I know.

That'S their job, is to, if you're.

An athletic trainer, to tape my ankles, to make sure I'm healthy and get back on the field. I understand the equipment manager is to make sure my uniform is clean and hung up in my lock and all of that stuff. And I understood it was a janitorial, the custodial services and the people that prepare, I got all of that, ocho.

I understood that.

But it was just something in me, because I was fortunate. God looked down on me and said, you know what?

Going to be a football player, and.

I'm going to give you discipline, I'm going to give you determination, and I'm.

Going to give you dedication, right? But in return for that, I need you to pay it back.

And so that's how I thought about it, ocho. That's just me now. Everybody, like, I mean, some people give $40, some, and I'm blind.

Just give what you can, right? Just give what you can.

But the guys that made, we're making three, $4 million back then.

What's 5000, what's $10,000 to a guy that's making that kind of money. You right? The Patriots beat the Steelers 20 118.

It's the first time in NFL history the Steelers which is a team that was 500 or better have lost consecutive weeks to teams that was under 500.

By at least eight games.

In his second start of the season Bailey Zappy completed 19 of 28 passes. 240 yards. Three touchdowns.

One interception.

He made some plays for the Patriots that we haven't seen their quarterbacks make this year. But the team didn't score in the second half and only had one drive that gained more than 20 yards.

Steelers in it.

When you watch this game Ocho.

What do you take away from it?

When I watch the game I try.

To understand for the life of me how was Mac Jones starting this long?

No disrespect to him. How was Mac Jones starting this long when the Patriots offense looked like a completely different offense that I haven't seen.

Since Mac Jones has been the starter. Right.

What I saw in the first half from Bailey Zappy. Goddamn. He. 14 for 21 for 196 and three touchdowns in the first half.

Well.

Obviously I don't know what happened in the second half. They let off the gas a little bit obviously with the creativity and the play calling and allow the Steelers to come back into the game.

But listen. There's your future right there.

There's your future right there. Because the offense looked completely different.

We in week what?

13.

We in week 13. Right? Yes.

We in week 13. I ain't seen what I just saw.

From the Patriots all year long.

And all of a sudden Bailey Zappy is in his second start and they look like a completely different team. A completely different team that allowed the play calling defensively to operate at its own manner. Allowed Belichick and Jabril Peppers and them boys do what they need to do.

And the offense did what it needed to do.

Obviously the Steelers tried to come back late. There was a fourth and they.

I think the first fourth and two.

I think they should have went for that. They didn't go for it. Obviously. Analytics saying you should.

Whatever.

I'm not sure Mike Tomlin chose not to go for it. This is a game that they needed.

To win if I'm not mistaken.

I think they really needed this game so they didn't fall behind.

But other than that kudos to the Patriots. They won.

I mean they three and ten.

It's nothing to goddamn hoop and holler.

Ain't nothing to hoop and holler about.

But still.

It was a little promise. It was a little promising. For them from an offensive standpoint, because the one problem that they've always had is a quarterback position and turning the goddamn ball over all the damn time.

Even though Zappi had an interception. Check this out, ocho.

Should Marvin Harrison stay or should he go? Marvin Harrison, Ohio State. I think he's a junior.

Marvin Harrison, junior, junior. Check this out. Hold on.

Has allegedly been offered nil deals that would rival first round draft pick money to keep him at Ohio State for the 24th season.

People actually think he should take it.

Des Bryant tweeted, because of the nil deal, I would love for him to enjoy his college career and do something that's never been done. College football is more fun than the NFL these days. I tweeted, I said, dad, stop giving these kid this bad information. This is what.

Okay. Last year, the number one pick in.

The draft got $24.8 million to sign.

Yes, sir.

The number two pick got 23.6 million to sign. The number three pick got 22.8 million to sign. That's to put your name on an NFL contract. That's the money they got. The fourth pick in the draft got 21.9 million to sign. The fifth pick in the draft got 20.4 million. If I'm not mistaken, I think the number one overall pick got about 40 million fully guaranteed. If I'm not mistaken, I think Bryce Young, his entire contract is fully guaranteed at 40 million.

Right?

But by coming out, guess what?

It does.

It gets you closer. Marvin Harrison being to a wide receiver. It gets him closer to that 100 and 5200 million dollar contract that he signs after his rookie contract. And because football is such a high risk sport, you would be foolish. I give you that. You remember Marcus Latimer, the guy from South Carolina that had a first round grade that tore his knee?

The running back.

Yeah.

Coming through the hole. I remember. Boom. Yeah. So for me, it makes Ocho.

Let's just say, for the sake of.

Argument, there's a finance student.

Pick any college you want to go, right?

He's a junior, he's a sophomore, and.

J. P. Morgan comes to him and say, son, you know what?

We really like what you do.

You are head and shoulders above anybody in your class. We're willing to give you somewhere between 1 million and $3 million annually to.

Take this job at JPMorgan.

Now, what do you think the average.

College student is going to do? Take that job.

He's going to take the money. Because you go to college to earn.

A degree, to make money.

So somebody wants to speed the ladder up. Somebody wants you to make the money first.

And then I saw people, you know.

NFL will be there.

Where the hell college going?

You know, these colleges have been around longer than the NFL.

Yeah.

You could always go back to school.

And get a degree.

Yeah, but I think you forget about.

The money part in which they're trying.

To entice him to stay for another year. They're trying to pay him nil money that will rival that of first round money. I'm not sure if they'll nil.

Ain't guaranteeing no 20, 30 million.

Yeah, I was just getting ready to say that. I was just getting ready to say that. Are they going to guarantee him that kind of money? Because he will be probably the second Nd pick. He's the best receiver in the country.

I believe he'll be at top five.

He ain't going past three. But I'm just saying. That's top five, ocho.

Okay, don't even say five.

Top three. But I'm saying top five.

Normally when they top five pick.

Right.

And that's why I just listed the guaranteed money that the top five picks got. I think most people suspect that Caleb Williams would be the number one overall pick because he plays the quarterback position. Right. But you need to stop because you got to stop telling these kids this because the risk factor with the NFL is just too great. We've seen guys, I mean, it's a different ballgame. You rupture your achilles in college, you tear ACL in college. It's different. It's difficult to make up that lost is. And so you, first of all, you know, they already looking for a reason not to give you your money.

Oh, always definitely injury prone.

Well, you know, this or that, bro. Get your money because of the rookie scale. When you came into the league, rookies, I remember Sam Bradford got 50 million. Never played it down, got 50 million.

Sam Bradford got 50 million. 50 million off the rip from the Ram.

He was the last one that got the deal. Because what the owners did, see, let me tell you how the owners got slick. They went to the players and say, man, we don't think players that's never played a down should get that kind of money. That's making Peyton Manning and all these guys type money. What we want to do is put a rookie pay scale in, and then we could take care of the vets. What they do, Ocho, put a Ricky pay scale in and then cut the vets. See how they fooled.

Chess.

Chess, not checkers. Fail for it.

Line and sinker. No I want everybody to get what the market are bear.

Yeah.

If I go to JPMorgan, if I go to one of these brokered house and they want to pay me top dollar, who am I to say, well, you know what? This is my first job. You know what? I don't think I work, but like 250,000. I don't think I work, but 100,000.

No, but I have a question. Sure.

Now you got to understand, this is a power five school.

Ohio State.

Ohio State probably have some of the most wealthy boosters that there are.

There is, yes. Now, depending on how true the facts are about them rivaling the money that.

He get as a rookie going in, do you think it's possible that the boosters could all come together and actually.

Pay equivalent to what he would get as a rookie? They could.

But what happens?

What would be your choice?

If it is that? I'm just curious to hear your opinion. My opinion would be to go.

My opinion would be to leave. I'm trying. Listen, as a kid, pinnacle, childhood dream, father of the son of the great Marvin Harris. Marvin, you know where I'm going.

I'm out of there. But I'm just saying, if the money from the nil deal rivals that of what he would get as a rookie coming in, do you still stay or.

Do you double up?

Or do you say, you know, what do you say? I'm betting on myself. I'm not going to get hurt. I'm going to go back and play again, get that bag and come back and hit him across the head and probably go, probably be the first pick next year.

This is the NFL. This is Football.

The risk is far too great, ocho. We've seen it all go away in a single play.

Yes, sir, we've seen it go away.

I don't believe, ain't no nil deal.

Going to guarantee 40 million or guarantee 30 million, right?

We saw Caleb Williams, we saw Shadur Sanders getting 5 million. You think an nil deal going to guarantee more than a coach?

Wait a minute. Now think about what school we talking about. We talk about a power.

They don't guarantee him more than a day.

The booster can guarantee whatever they want to.

They can.

The boosters can guarantee whatever they want.

To, especially listen to bring him back.

You already know it's going to take.

Hell and high water to do it.

To even get him to thinking, oh.

You know what your, tell me what your goal is. What was your goal to play in the NFL? If somebody say, oh, you can go to the NFL, but you won't have to go to college. Are you going to college if you didn't have to go to the NFL or you going to the NFL?

I'm going to the NFL. Thank you.

Because I don't think his goal was to play. It was a means to an end. I got to go to college in order for me to get to the NFL. But if somebody's going to. Hold on. If somebody.

You go to college to get a degree, make money.

Now, somebody wants to speed that process up for you, ocho, if you're a student, let's just say I play piano. I'm a pianist.

A pianist.

And Carnegie or some famed opera house comes.

We like you. Right?

They not turning that down. Why do they expect athletes? But most of the time, who the.

Athletes look like, ocho, who they look like? You know, I ain't gonna say it. Yeah. So turn that down. Right? An opportunity.

I can come back and get my degree. I can take online classes and get my degree.

This is the NFL.

This is the opportunity. This is what you laid in your bed at late.

Look, I'm just speaking for me, and.

I'm going to ask you. I did not lay in my bed.

When I was a kid saying, man.

I can't wait to go to college. That's going to be the opportunities that I can take care of my grandmother, I can take care of my family.

Right?

I'm looking up that tin roof like, man, college is where it's going to be at. I understood in order for me to get to my final destination nation, I had to have a layover. It's like, sometimes, ocho, you can't fly direct. Sometimes, no matter what the airline is, you got to have a layover. Yeah, college was the layover. But if I could have had a.

Direct flight, well, I'm taking a direct flight.

And most people, if cost is not an issue, they would prefer the direct flight, right?

Yeah, most definitely.

Most definitely.

I like it.

And if I get an opportunity to.

Ocho to get 30 million.

But the bigger thing is I take a year. I'm a year closer to 200 million to 300 million.

Yeah.

So that's how you have to think. If I wanted to come back and have that college experience, I did. I was two quarters short of my degree. I came back, I didn't stay on campus. I lived off campus.

Hey, boom. But people weren't taking online classes like.

They do now, ocho. And I'm not so sure Savannah State had online classes at the time, but for me, it's a no brainer.

Yeah.

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That kind of, you know. I'm curious if you can ask in the chat, do the poll how many would stay and how many would stay.

In college and how many would leave.

And I'm sure that the money factor plays a big determination on whether people stay or not. But I'm just curious to see what people's thoughts are and their opinions on the matter. But obviously, if I was Marvin Harrison Jr. And I'm sure Marvin Harrison senior also is know, telling the same know, baby, this is something we worked on and we waited on all our life, and I think it would be in your best interest to enter the draft.

And hit that next step.

Well, that layover is over. He has a father that's been there and done that. Sometimes I would give my kids advice and somebody else give them the same advice. It is just that it came from me. Oh, you my dad? What?

You know, right.

I would try to give my son pointers. He ain't listening to me.

He listened to the coach.

But your dad played the league.

Yeah. He ain't play. Yeah. I'm telling you how to run around.

I'm telling you what to to do. Do the new voice.

The new voice.

The voice that you're not used to hearing. Ocho, what do I know about football? Nick Bosa, outstanding defensive player of the year.

Nick Bosa said, jalen Hurts has been figured out. Jalen is looking at the rush every play. You have to be disciplined and not give him a quick escape route where he can get to his guys quick.

It paid off.

Obviously, we put the blueprint out there.

Hopefully the Cowboys watch the tape.

What is your take on Nick Bosa's.

Comments, and have they figured out Jalen Hurts?

No, they haven't figured out Jalen Hurts.

Obviously.

Listen, the Eagles are ten and two. The Eagles didn't play a good game. They lost 42, 1040, 219. I'm not sure what the end score was. They had Jalen Hurts. Yeah, 19. They had Jalen Hurts. Extremely uncomfortable, didn't allow him to settle it into the pocket and make some of the throws that we're used to seeing. He had to run, he had to scramble. There were sometimes he had like, six, seven, 8 seconds in the pocket and had no one to throw to.

The makeup and the dna of that.

49 defense and its totality is different than any other team.

All 31 other teams in NFL, there.

Ain'T no other teams or your defenses exactly like that. They match up extremely well, extremely well.

Across the board, from the interior to the secondary to the second tier, all.

The way across the board. And I'm not even going to talk about the goddamn 49 ers offensively, they is a different juggernaut right now. But as far as them having the blueprint, other teams don't have the same personnel that the 49 ers have to execute the same way they did when.

They just played them boys the other night.

So, no, you didn't give anybody the blueprint, because even if they do have the goddamn blueprint, you don't have the personnel or the players to execute it.

The same way the 49 ers did.

Yeah, I agree with you. And just because you beat someone, that doesn't mean there's a blueprint.

You won.

No.

Now you won good. You ain't just win. You won convincingly. But, ocho, we've seen teams get beat.

I mean, we saw Mahomes and them get beat several times last year. So every time somebody wins, oh, we got the blue.

The blueprint is out. Nah, really, dude?

Nah, really?

One game.

So now they've lost two games.

Yeah. Okay.

You did a great job. You did a great job of taking away the quick throws.

Yes.

They want to run a lot of what we call under routes. I don't know what you all call them in a day's time. We call them the quick push up come right now. One guy clears, the guy comes up underneath.

Okay.

They did a great job of taking that initial throw away. And that's what you want to do.

You want to take his initial throw away.

And now I want, want to funnel him. I want to try to keep him in the pocket. I'm not going to run past him. Once I get even with him, I want to level off because if I run past him, ocho, he's going to jump out the window and take off on me.

And he gone.

And somebody with legs like Jalen hurts or Lamar Jackson or Justin Fields, the one thing you don't want to do is run past.

Yeah, because you ain't chasing.

I don't care who the lineman is. I don't care if it's Miles Garrett. One of those guys jump out the.

Window, you better hope you're not in.

Cover five, which is 22 man, with the guys back to him. Ain't nobody back there catching him going that away. So I agree with you. I do not believe that the poll play one more year at Ohio State. 12% go to the NFL, 88%.

Okay, I figured that. I'm glad everybody's on the same page. I would love to know who the 12% is and why they would want to stay.

But that's neither here nor there.

Murph donated $10. I disagree that 40 million can stay. 40 million with a bad organization versus a team versus a need for a team. This is what Nil is for.

It makes college.

So who's to say that Ohio State is going to beat Michigan next year?

So now he stayed another year to do what?

So they don't win the big ten. They don't win the national champion, the college football playoff next year.

Then what? Murph, appreciate the $10.

We really appreciate you watching us, but see, because what you gave me is a scenario, him going to a bad team. Now give me the scenario in which he doesn't win the big Ten, in which he doesn't win the college Football playoff and he gets hurt.

Now what? What you gonna say, murph donate another.

$10 to come at with another question?

That's a tough one. That's a tough one, because you see.

What it is, 40 million going to a bad organization.

Okay, where is $40 million bad, ocho? I don't know.

Listen, I'm not saying 40 million is.

Bad, but Bryce Young, he got 40 million, right? Yeah. How are they looking over there? Okay. He could have went back to Alabama, but he didn't go back to Alabama.

And you understand, you see the circumstances and situation that he's in now.

But you understand, ocho, when you come out in the draft, you're not going to a good. So you think that Bryce Young is supposed to go out and be able to go to Kansas City or be able.

You don't even want to go to Kansas City. Come on. Come on.

Exactly.

All the good teams got quarterbacks.

Quarterback.

If you're a quarterback, where you think you going? It's just like in basketball. Where you think you going? So you thought LeBron James was going to come out and go to the.

Lakers with Shaq and Kobe? Is that where you're supposed to go? No, but I'm just.

Oh, man, that's tough though, man.

That's tough.

Because I'm feeling bad. I feel bad. Not to go off topic, but I feel bad for Bryce.

I feel bad for Zach.

Now they got Zach. Zach starting again. This.

I'm. I don't know what to say. He better say, get that money. Demand Washington donated.

Shannon, times are different now. Guys getting paid more than some NFL. Not guys that's going in the first.

Round, especially not guys that are going top three.

We talk about top three. We ain't just talk about somebody just getting drafted.

We're talking about a top three player.

We're talking about a number one overall. First of all, guys that's not going in the first round ain't getting that kind of nil money to begin with anyway. Ain't no guys going in the third and fourth and fifth and 6th rounds ain't getting no nil deals. So we're talking about basically the first round picks. The last pick in the draft, the 32nd pick, is going to make more money from the NFL than what Caleb Williams or Shadur Sanders or what whomever the number one nil deal got last year.

The last pick in the draft. The last pick is going to make.

More than what shador, Caleb Williams or whomever the top nil deal. Can you see who got the top.

Nil deals last year?

And then give me what the 30th, 31st and 32nd pick in the NFL.

Draft got coming up this. And guess what, ocho?

I'm closer to getting to the big payday.

Yeah, because that's what it's about.

I'm trying to get this little bag to get to the big bag.

Barring injury. Barring injury.

Guess what? If I'm going to get injured, I'm going to get injured on an NFL field. I ain't getting injured in college.

Yeah.

Oh, man, that's crazy. I think that's a discussion and debate that can go on and on and on. Because regardless of what you sell, if you ask what points you make, that can go on and on.

Because let me ask you this different, ocho. All the people that saying, oh, you.

Know, he should go back. If your son had an opportunity to make 40 million, you tell him to go back to school. It's easy to tell somebody else, kid, what to do now, right? This is what we know, ocho. It's easy to have an opinion on what somebody else would. Well, this is what I would do. When you know damn well, given that same situation, you wouldn't do it.

Yes.

Ain't no way in hell you growing.

Up in your situation and you got.

An opportunity and they say you sign your name on this dotted line, you got 40 million. You got 30 million. You telling your kid to go back to school. You all need to stop this because you all get on social media and you all be up saying, you all say anything. And you know damn well ain't nobody.

That'S listening to this.

The 31st pick in the draft got twelve point 75 million. Now tell me, show me the nil deal. BRonnie James has the highest nil deal at 6.1. The 31st pick in the draft double Bronnie's deal.

Now, last I checked, whoever got a.

Kid dad named LeBron James. Now which one of the kids in the NFL? Marvin Harrison. His dad is Marvin Harrison senior. He ain't LeBron James senior.

Right.

So I want to know what football kid Shadur Sanders had the highest nil deal. He got 4.1. So the 31st pick in the draft.

Got four times what Shadur got.

Now you tell me what you going to do now, ocho. I want people at home to tell.

Me what you going to do.

Well, I told you what I was going to do. I was just curious to hear other people's opinions because I didn't think everybody.

Would agree on the.

Agree on what you and I are saying about. Listen, we go into the NFL and like I said, as soon as. That's why I said, please do, what.

Do you call it? The poll.

I do the poll and just like, I knew it. 12% say, shit.

I go back.

I don't know how. I don't know what they think about. I don't think. Do they understand who Marvin Harrison Jr. Is? This ain't just no anybody. This is somebody that probably maybe the second, maybe the third pick in the first round. I don't think they're not understanding the context of who we're talking, kid. No way.

There's no way, ocho. It's your kid.

People at home, Marvin Harrison Jr. Is your son.

Now, you have to understand now, his.

Situation is a little unique because his dad made millions. So it's not about money for him.

But here's the thing. He wants his own name.

He wants to be his own. He's like, dad, I appreciate the opportunity that you gave me. Went to a very good school. I had the best of trainers.

I had the best of the best.

Now, because if you remember what LeBron asked, he asked, said, well, you know what you doing?

He said, I want to do this.

He said, I want to do this on my own.

He said, well, let's get busy. Let's go do it. Your son comes to you, I can go back to.

And you know how inherently dangerous. We see those hits. We see those guys.

Non contact injury, Achilles ACL. Patel attendant. We see that.

And you got an opportunity to go.

Get 40 million, and you go say.

Nah, son, I think you should go back to school.

Okay?

I wish you all the best with that. But, hey, everybody's situation, hey, money is not everything for everybody. That's what they want us to believe.

Yeah. Have at it, ocho.

A woman threw her burrito bowl at a chipotle worker, was sentenced to two.

Months service in a fast food job.

An Ohio woman has been sentenced to a month in jail and must work at a fast food restaurant two months.

After she attacked a Chipotle worker, Rosemary Haney Heiney.

Okay, Rosemary Hayne was caught on video throwing food in the face of employee Emily Russell on September 5 at a Palmer, Ohio, Chipotle location.

Damn it.

Had to be in Ohio.

She was sentenced to 180 days in.

Jail at the hearing last week, but.

The judge gave her an option instead. Spend 30 days in jail and work the remainder of a sentence. 60 days at a fast food restaurant. She must work at least 20 hours a week at whichever fast food restaurant.

She finds a job at. At the present time. I'm reading this, she has not gained employment. So she's still in jail, then she locked up.

Well, she got to do 20 days regardless all right, so when she get out, she got to do 30 days. She got to do 30 days, and she got to do the remaining 60 days at employment.

I like that the judge was being gracious, the judge was being lenient. Because one thing that they don't do that people don't do is they don't treat those in the service industry, fast food service industry, with respect. They're very rude. They very mean to people. Listen, when I worked at McDonald's, I'd never forget when I worked at McDonald's. It was 62nd street, right across the street from Edison High School here in Miami.

I remember people treating me like shit.

Like I didn't belong.

Can I get some ketchup? Give me some old napkins. Can I get a straw?

I'm like, whoa, relax, relax, relax. Listen, every time you turn around on Twitter, you got a fight at KFC. You got somebody through the drive through throwing the food back at the person.

That food ain't what. I don't care what the restaurant is. Ain't no food that good. Going to make me act a fool at the restaurant. Throat and the throat of food. Come on, now.

Depend on how hungry you are.

Depending on how hungry you are. Then what about. I saw the McDonald's, the lady with the blender. The lady at McDonald's hit the lady with the blender?

Yeah, she deserved that. She deserved that. I think she threw the food through a drink on her.

Yeah, she did.

Lady got that blend.

It's like, hey, blend this whole list, but that's dope. Now, you do your 30 days, and then when you get out, they should make her work at the same chipotle.

That she had the incident at, right alongside with the lady? No, the lady probably put the mitts on her.

Did she have to find another job at another restaurant? I get it. You get frustrated. I mean, I've been in a place, and I like to be very specific when I order. I don't want any ketchup. I don't want any mayo. I want this sauce.

And then I get home, right? And I'm like, the burger got everything on it.

I call it a refrigerator, because everything that was in the refrigerator, they put it on my damn burger. Lettuce, onion, tomatoes, ketchup, mustard, mayo. I'm like, come on, bro. I just told you all this, but I ain't going to go back out there and throw my food in these people. Faith, it ain't that serious.

Everybody different, though. Everybody different. Like you say it all the time.

Everybody don't play the way you play. So when it comes to their food, man, we know black folk now, there's.

Two things we don't play with. We don't play about.

We don't play about our money, we don't play about our food, we don't play about our kids.

You don't play on nobody food, especially when you get the order wrong. You know how bad it is to sit in the drive through, especially when it's a long line. You order specifically what you want, and then it comes on the menu. Exactly what you order, and then you get your food, you check it before you pull off, and they got the goddamn order wrong. And then when you say something and.

You address the person, they got attitude with you.

They got attitude with you. You messed it up.

But I tell you what I will do, ocho. I will go back up there. I say, excuse me, you got my order wrong. This is what I asked for, and.

This is not how it came.

Yeah, see, I can't do that. I have a problem when I get.

Orders wrong, or when they do get.

My order wrong, which is very rare, being that I go to the same place over and over.

I never take it back.

I just eat it the way it is in the back of my mind. You know what? There are people that are starving, and I'm sitting here complaining about getting my order wrong.

But boom, real, we go eat somewhere.

And it makes me feel so bad for them to get her order wrong at a restaurant we go and eat at, and she's sending that food back. That really hurts me.

That bothers me.

That bothers me.

And every time I look at it.

Almost in disgust, like, come on, man.

What are we doing?

We doing to get my order right?

Okay, guess what I'm going to do. Onions in there. Just take the onions off. You ain't got to send the whole plate for no.

What I'm going to do for that steak that cost $79, I'm going to give them 59.

Come on, man.

Oh, you got my order wrong. I got the pay wrong.

We good.

Even swap. Ain't no swindle, ocho.

Sometimes it's just too much, though. It just be simple stuff. You could just take it off your plate like it's little stuff. You sending burgers back because they got tomatoes.

But charge somebody else. You can make that money up, Ocho. You can make that money up. It ain't no thing.

Come on, Ocho. They can make that money up. Yada.

You don't understand. It's hard to explain. It's hard to explain. I don't want to make their job any harder than it already is.

I don't want to make my job any harder either.

Eating what I didn't pay for. I ask it. Hold on.

Why you say I can have? Why you ask me to order if you going to bring it how the.

Hell you wanted to?

I know sometimes in the kitchen they make a mistake. Sometimes they make.

Sometimes when I pull it out my money, I make a mistake.

I thought I gave orders.

Oh, show you know what? I thought that ten was a Honda. So my bad. I walked up out of there, so it's supposed to be $150. I gave you 15. I thought that was a Honda, though, Joe.

I really did.

I worked in the server, the food industry. So it's hard for you to understand where I'm really grasp what I'm talking about. But I used to be a server.

I used to be a cook.

I used to be a hostess. So I come from a different place when I talk about these things because I'm talking through experience and what I had to go through, dealing with multiple personalities, dealing with egos, dealing with people that felt they were entitled.

So it's a little different. It hit different for me.

I can't work in a coal mine.

And complain about being dirty. I chose that profession, right?

I chose that job.

I didn't have a choice. I didn't have a choice. You didn't make a living.

I had to earn a. Oh, there's sanitation. You can pick up cans. Oh, there are other ways.

Come on, now. I'm in high school now. I can't be working in the damn garbage truck, man, in high school, yeah.

They let you work in the garbage truck.

Sweep would do via janitor. Y'all didn't have school janitors. We had school janitors at my.

I'm going to go to school and be the janitor at the same after.

School when that bell ring, put your clothes on and get your ass out there and start mopping the flows and sweep it up.

You shot out, man.

That's all I had. You said you wanted to use your head. You want to use your hand and your head. Well, I'm going to put a broom in your hand, on the hat, on your head.

And listen, if you understand what I had to go through, man, in college to make a living, man, you'd be.

Like, damn, no, I don't get no job in college.

No, Summer was my time to work. Once I got to school, once that was over, I worked a little bit. Had to catch chickens and stuff. But no, ocho, no, I wasn't going to work. How the hell I'm going to play football and work and do my schoolwork?

Listen, I did all that.

Listen, I could tell you shit.

We family now.

I was at Santa Monica College. Listen, it took me three years. This is how bad I was when it came to school. It took me three years to get.

Out of a two year institution.

1997, I had worked at cuckoo rules.

Cuckoo rules in LA.

That didn't work out.

Oh, you were to Juco?

Yeah, I went to Juco.

Me and Steve Smith, we was together.

That's the 13th grade.

Hey, so I'm at cuckoo rules, right? I worked at KB toy stores. KB toy stores in Crenshaw Mall. I worked at KB toy stores.

Then I worked at men's land upstairs at Crenshaw Mall.

This is way back in 1997. Let me see, what else? Oh, 1998, the year I was ineligible at Santa Monica College. I was ineligible in 1980. 819.

98.

Man, my mama pissed. My grandma wouldn't even let me come back to Miami. Like, listen, baby, I don't wipe my grandma. I washed my favorite line. I washed my hands.

I'd done all I can do.

Make sure you stay up there with.

Your mom in LA. Shoot, I had to make a living. Boom.

I was working at the right track exotic club. So I would dancing, making a little living.

I was bringing about like 2500 a night. Right track off of Florence. Yeah.

Hold on. Women paid to see you get naked, man. Listen, you put your clothes on, you.

Probably walked out there with us.

I ain't trying to be funny. I told you, we family. Now, I wrote that the right track on Florence.

This is way back in 1998.

They used to call me Twix because I was tall. Now, I had a lot of veins, but I won big.

I thought they called you Twix for another reason. I thought they called you Twig, but okay, go ahead, tell.

No, they call me Twix. And always what I learned about the nightlife. And obviously, when you're dancing as a dancer, you always dance for the bbWs, the big women, because they tip well. They tip real good. They tip real good. So I would make a $2,500 a night and I was, you ain't a.

Lady if you ain't.

182.

Ten count your boy in.

Yeah, I like that one. I like that one. Listen, you know what having making Friday, Saturday, Sunday, $25 a night and going to school. Going to school Monday morning, trying to get my grades together. So I'm eligible for the following football season.

Man, I would live in life.

Living life.

Then, boom.

That's when I got my grades together. Played in 1999. Dennis Erickson gave me that one shot at Oregon State.

I ain't looked back since.

Yeah, you had a couple of the plus size ones.

Oh, yeah.

You know what I'm saying? My grandpa used to say, boy, sometimes you got to slay a lot of dragons to get a queen. Where the queen at? She up in the castle. Sometimes you got to slay a lot.

Of dragons to get one.

Yeah.

The funny fact is, because of my.

Love or their appreciation for me during that time of my struggle and always.

Blessed me, I had always chose to.

Date and talk to those that were what we call bbWs. Yeah, I love them to death because they kept me above. They cut my head above water.

Plus size women, they like them skinny dudes.

They love us. What two big people going to do, take down a buffet? What y'all going to do together?

You very rarely see two healthy people together. Very rarely. Very rarely. One is small and one is of size. Or I call the big bone.

Like my grandma used to say.

Oh, man, it was a blessing, man. They was a blessing.

You took a couple of them down.

I'm sorry, real. She sleep. She sleep.

Just the past, though, 30 years ago, ain't none, but it was a blessing. I love them to death.

I never forget, boy.

Goddamn right.

Track, man. Good days in LA.

You're on the road track with that one, though, ocho. But I ain't got no problem.

We had to make a living.

I ain't got no skeleton in my clothes. I got a graveyard. I got a graveyard.

Oh, yeah. Talk about it.

No, come on, check this out. One thing. Some things I got to take to the grave. Now, I don't put a lot of stuff out there. Yeah, but some things got to go to the grave.

Okay.

A woman was shamed by her seat melt for watching magic Mike on the plane. A woman was watching magic Mike last dance on her flight from Bali to Australia. She then received a note from a passenger telling her, ask the Lord for.

Forgiveness for the movie Magic Mike.

I asked the Lord for slapping his.

Taste out your mouth. That's the forgiveness I'm asking for. Clearly some airline thought magic Mike was appropriate to show on the plane. Oh, wait, they showed it on her seat.

So you know how you get to pick your own movie, ojo?

Oh, yeah.

Especially on a flight that long.

You pick your own movie.

Ask the Lord for.

Judge.

The note said, if you want to accept his offer.

You may prayer. You may pray this prayer.

Dear Lord Jesus, I realize I'm a sinner. I believe you bled and died to pay the price for my sin. I believe you rose from the dead and you live for forgiveness. Please forgive me and come into my heart and save my soul. I pray this in Jesus name. Amen.

Amen. That's a good prayer. That's a good prayer.

But regardless, you already know where I got my bible. I'm a backslider.

Where your bible at?

You know, Bible owner back that would. The Bible at right there.

Magic Mike isn't even a bad movie. Everything is rated r. Is Magic Mike rated r?

Normally they do a great job because the airlines, they understand.

They're kids.

There's young children, and so kids, they'll look over the seat. So they got to make sure it's on the up and up. I don't even think they got anything. NC 17 on the thing, right? I can see now. I thought when Ash was explaining it to me, I thought somebody had the computer. It was watching porn on the computer. Now, that's a whole different ballgame.

Yeah, different ballgame.

But if I'm watching something, I hate when people. I'm on the flight and they look over there and see what I'm watching, right?

You got your seat. You can pull yours up. You looking at what I'm watching for? Hey, speaking of.

Speaking of, you got to be careful.

Opening Twitter in public, too.

Oh, man.

Hey, listen.

You scroll down and scroll through the wrong thing, and you open it, and.

People around you, and especially you, got the sound on by accident, boy. Twitter gets in trouble, boy.

Yeah, that didn't happen many a times. I remember being at. We called the DMV, which y'all call the driver's license place out there.

Y'all say DMV, man.

That's what it is.

I open up, man. I open up a thing because I've.

Got to stand in line. Place crowded, quiet.

You get quiet as a church mouth. Everybody waiting to hear their number call. I'll open up my goddamn phone, go to Twitter.

First thing I hear.

I tried to circle about that bit so goddamn fast.

What you got on your phone?

Not my phone. My followers, man. Somebody had tweeted some stuff that ain't got no business being online.

Yeah, I have to get up out of that.

Like Kylie embarrassing me in public. The people think I'm watching something. I ain't got no business.

If I follow somebody and they follow that kind of stuff, and all of a sudden, that thing pop up on my feet, I got to block you.

Yeah, I got to block you. Ho cho.

I ain't going to lie. I got to.

Oh, man.

That's a good one, man.

God, man.

Hold on. Rail friend.

The doctor. Hey, doc.

What's up, doc? What's up?

Sis just donated $500, she says, shannon.

Meet me for dinner this Saturday in LA.

There we go.

You can even order the lobster.

There we go.

You know how to reach me.

Look forward to hearing from you. There we go. First of all, doc, come on. Now, Jake decided. Doc, I don't eat shellfish.

So you ain't got to worry about me ordering lobsters, shrimp, scallops, oysters, clams, none of that.

Listen, let's stay on point. Now, she said meet her for dinner this Saturday in LA.

Let's start there.

Let's start from the foundation.

It all depends on what we talk about. We for dinner.

What we eating.

Now, listen, because you all boys, don't ruin it. You all young ones, you all 40 and down. See what happened?

Look, I get it, ocho.

I'm all for the old, too, but you all take it too far. So you all owes anything. Between the toes and the elbows, you all doing all that, but the problems I got with you all. You all eating off everybody plate. You remember, we've grown up. We couldn't go to everybody house and eat, go to church and eat off everybody plate, right? Y'all young boys eating off everybody plate.

But you got to understand, this is 2023.

Okay?

Let me tell you something.

Off everybody plate. You can't eat everybody cooking. I understand.

That's why she said, meet me somewhere.

And go to dinner.

You all going to dinner. Now, when you plant a seed, that's how you build.

Everybody don't wash their greens the same. You know what I'm saying?

You're right. It depends on who house you go out.

That's why the first question you ask is, who cook?

You can't eat off everybody's plate. That's the problem that I got with you young fellas. You young ninjas.

Everybody plate. Who are you calling young? I'm 55.

No, you ain't no 55. Ain't no 55 year old eating, sucking no toes.

Who?

No, not no 55.

No, not the era I grew up in.

Listen, stay with me real quick, baby. If you grew up in an era from way back then, do you know everything from when you grew up is not compatible with today's technology? At some point, you're going to have to evolve. At some point, you got to evolve with the time behind.

Ocho.

I bet you still got that plastic on your couch.

You still got that plastic.

You remember how your grandma used to have a goddamn plastic on all the goddamn furniture in the house? You still got that? And you fall asleep on and you wake up and you be stuck to it.

Stuck to it. Ocho, check this out. Ocho, I'm very good at adapting, right?

I don't have a problem adapting.

You all eat off everybody's plate, and.

You know what I'm talking about. And that's out here watching. You all know exactly what I'm talking.

About when you eat off everybody's plate, right? You know what?

But you off topic.

I mean, we all know what a nose goes when the dose close. We know, right? You know what a nose goes when.

The dose close, but everybody plate.

I don't know who everybody is.

I'm like Andre 3000.

Everybody.

Hey, forever, ever.

Come on, ocho, man, we in a school zone, me and you. Sometimes, ocho, when you in a school zone, man, the kids might all of a sudden pop out there. You in a neighborhood, you got to slow down.

Can I ask you a question?

What time is it right now?

What time is it?

You at?

Almost 10:00.

Man. School out. School out.

You talk about the school zone and school is out. You're supposed to be doing 65 or better. You on the four or five right now. We own the 405.

It ain't no traffic. You know, you can five.

It ain't no traffic right now.

There's traffic all the time in four or five. You know, even if you got your seatbelt on, you can get a speeding ticket. Now, you might not get a ticket for not having a seatbelt, but you can still get a speeding ticket.

You speeding right now, ocho.

I'm not speeding.

I'm not.

To talk. You got to talk, doc, man.

Doc. To just say, you know what?

Meet me for dinner Saturday at six.

And he's scared. I think he's scared, baby.

No.

Come on, uncle, you got to represent, man. You got to represent, man. You got to get it. You got to stand on business, man. At least you got to make me look good because I talk good for you. I told you was a good dude. You was a great man.

Yeah, she is gorgeous, man. Have you seen her? Yeah, you saw.

You know, ain't no slow but walk. That's the only thing slow don't shake.

Hey, maybe she just donated another 500.

That's she.

2500 in the pot.

25. You know, you could do it.

$2,500?

She donated $2,500 to nightcap. In this economy?

What does that tell you? Tell me I ain't eating off everybody plate. She don't need them. She won't.

Yeah, she don't need you.

She wants you.

To work here. We're going to break you down. We got to break him in a little bit. We got to break him. He old man. He like a razor phone. He like a razor phone. The flip kind.

He ain't really compatible with the day. You can still call. You do all that other stuff.

I don't do nothing. All I do is text and call on my phone. Yeah. I ain't got no paypal. I ain't got no apps. I ain't got none of that.

You ain't got none of that?

I ain't got not one. What they call that? Paying apps.

What they call them? Like Zale.

Like Zale or what other call.

You know what, Venmo?

You know what? You need a woman in your life, because you can't live like that. You're 55. You're 55. You ain't got none of the necessities you need.

I got the best assistant in the world, right?

And when I call her, she is an uber meal. I ain't got no uber app. I ain't got none of that on my phone.

That's all right. We're going to get you right. I need you married. Because when I. Listen, 2025 in the Bahamas. I don't want to hear no excuses. Oh, I ain't find nobody all this time.

Listen, God is putting it right before your eyes right now.

And one thing the devil going to do, the devil going to play games you can't even see.

You're acting like Ray Charles.

God put that in front of me, man.

He didn't put it in front of you 2500 times.

I'm not sure what you're looking at.

Check this out, ocho. Top sports debate just donated $50 to say, stop dodging real friend and take your old single ass on that date. Give sister shot.

You lucky I'm married.

We want to pick up a friend. Look at. Man, you all have been donating money to clown me.

Man, come on, you got to stop playing.

Listen, if you're going to act like Rusty the clown, we're going to give you that. Now, we need to. Go ahead. We're going to check back in with you Sunday and make sure you went.

On a date this Saturday. You know how to reach. Thank you, doc.

I appreciate it. We got to keep working on him. He's shy. He's very shy.

Especially in public.

Speaking of movie Ocho, you tweeted earlier today, this is that time of the year. Name a better Christmas movie than Jim Carrey's. How the Grinch stole Christmas.

Please tell me something better than the Grinch. And look, one thing.

The preacher's wife. Friday after next. That's a good one. That's a good one.

I said the preacher's wife.

Ricky Smiley.

Ricky Smiley. You right, cat Williams.

But this is the funny thing about it. You say Friday after next. Preacher's wife. Right? And then how the Grinstow Christmas. Jim Carrey. You notice how all of them are.

Christmas movies but completely different?

Yeah, they're all Christmas movies, but completely different.

I want to laugh.

I like snowman too.

Funny. Even though Frosty was sad.

You remember Frosty, man? The man tried to put him on. He put him in the greenhouse and.

He closed the door and frosted building. Yeah.

Oh, man.

Chad.

Chad, what's your favorite Christmas movie, man? Oh, what about the Christmas story?

You gonna shoot your eye out with the bb gun?

Remember that?

Yeah, the Christmas story. Yeah, that's a good one, too.

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That's a good one. Yeah.

Pooka Nicole was asked about LeBron congratulating him on the Rams rookie record. Pookie said, if my girlfriend wasn't my screen saver, then LeBron would probably be it.

Ojo, what's your screen saver?

My screen saver is. Let me turn my phone your way.

So you can see my screen saver. Hold on. Oh, the baby. Yeah, little french fry. That's nice.

Look at my screen.

What's your screen saver? Is that the world?

Whatever came on it, that's my screen saver.

Come on, man, we got to. Come on, man. Come on.

Don't nobody pop up when you call. Don't nobody pop up. I ain't got none of that, Ocho. Ocho. I call, I text. That's all my phone can do, man.

Put some wallpaper on you. Put the dog. Put the dog on there. Put the dog in front of your screen.

Save us up, man. What a ugly dog at, man.

Don't do that. Don't do that, ocho. Don't do that, ocho.

Wait, listen.

What?

A dog. He in there.

The dog in there. No, he in the bed asleep. Your dog out of bedtime. See me and the dog in the bed? Okay, I see you. I see you.

That's my nugget.

That's my nugget. There you go.

So you see where he's sleeping? He got the whole side to himself.

Yeah.

You need a woman in your life.

Now and put a dog on the flow.

That's my goal. I guarantee you, and I guarantee you this, and I guarantee everybody in the chat before 2025 gets here, the dog will be on the flow and it'll.

Be a woman in his bed.

That's my purpose in life.

God put me on earth to find a woman.

Ocho. I ain't.

Ocho.

There might be a woman in the.

Bed, but that dog ain't going to ever be on the floor. That ain't going to happen. Listen, she could be in the bed.

You can't have the dog in the bed with you and the Mrs. You can't do that.

What I can't have is her in.

The bed with me and the baby. Oh, lord.

But she got a choice.

She got a choice.

She got a place.

She can sleep at her place, or she can sleep with me with the dog in the bed. You know what?

We're going to work on you. It's going to be a tough one.

That dog ain't going nowhere.

I promise you.

Since 2010, a dog has been in.

My bed every night since 2010. She lucky. If the big ones didn't snore, they'd be in there. I had a special bed made because I wanted all the dogs to sleep in the bed. So I got a ten x ten. The bed is 10ft wide, ten foot long.

So basically it's two king size beds put together, combined. Right. For me and the little ones. I like where you're going with it.

I like where you're going with it.

She got to sleep next to me, ocho, because he got a side by himself, so she got to sleep next to me.

Right? Yeah.

But I'm saying, sometimes when it's you and the wife and you or the woman or whoever you choose to be.

With getting out that bed.

I'm going.

To work with you. I'm going to work with you.

You're going to find a woman. You're going to find a woman. Somebody going to come into your life. It's probably going to be. Probably going to be the doctor, too. She going to work with you and you ain't going to want them dogs in the room. You ain't even going to want them dogs in the room. Oh, once she get a hold of you.

I'm telling you, that's how it works.

Do you know what I went through.

To get that dog?

If you knew what I went through to get that dog.

You told me the story. I know. Somebody had to travel. You had to pay her to travel. You paid 10,000. I understand all that. I understand that.

But you know what's going to be here long when that dog is gone? Your wife, your woman. Guess what?

You know what's going to be here when you get.

No matter when you get old and you need somebody to wipe your ass.

You know who going to do it? That woman.

When you got to get pushed around at whole food, could you be eating.

That healthy shit in your wheelchair?

You need somebody to push you and help carry your groceries up the goddamn stage. No going to do that.

You want the dog ain't be able to push you. The dog ain't be able to do that. Yeah, stay with me now. I'm going to tell you what you need to hear.

I ain't going to tell you what you want. Yeah, you keep playing around this and the dog that, you're going to be old and by yourself. The dogs ain't going to be able.

To do all that help. All right, now, you keep letting time.

Pass you by and thinking, you know what?

I got a few.

You know what? I would call my daughter, but she got to get up and go to.

Work in the morning.

You're going to put the load on the kids.

They put the load on me.

Oh, no. That ain't how it worked there, Slim. That ain't how it works, Slim.

That is how it works.

That's what you a woman.

God puts a woman in your life for that.

Okay, you know what, ocho?

I'm going to keep that in mind.

Maybe. Hold on. Okay.

Faith just donated $50. In Shannon's defense, dogs don't lie, cheat. They love unconditionally, they're loyal, and they're.

Less expensive than women. Talk to them, Faith. There it is. Wait.

She said, in Shannon's defense, dogs don't lie. Their love is unconditional, they're loyal, and.

They are less expensive than women.

Well, I'm not sure. I don't agree with anything. I don't agree with anything that would.

Just say you spent 225 bands on rails ring. I ain't got no dog called that.

And the upkeep and you bought rail a car.

Let me tell you something. And when I get old and raggedy and can't move, guess who going to take care of me.

Maybe you're going to take care of.

Me when I get old and can't move.

She says she's taking care of me now.

So, boom, that was an investment.

Now talk your talk. When I'm old and Gray, who going to push me in the wheelchair? That one over there.

Well, I can't tell you, Gray, because you ball here because you might be gray. Now grow your hair.

I can grow a full set of. Speaking of hair, May, you know, I.

Did our hair today. I had washing set, blow dried it.

Out and flatironed it, and I burnt my goddamn hand, man.

I ain't worried about that now.

See, me, you know, I got a.

Little dry bar set up over here. You ain't know that? What's a dry bar?

That's how I know. You don't know what you talk about. I got a little dry bar set up. Asrael, she know what dry bar is?

Asrael, what's another name for dry bar?

Because he's saying something I don't know about.

What's a dry bar? Oh, man. I don't use that. That's me.

I say, I got a little set up.

You got a little set up? I got a whole goddamn salon. What are you talking about, man?

That's what the hell you think dry bar is. I'm telling you, I got the same thing set up at the crib.

No, you don't.

You ain't live long enough to have that much. Haiti.

Hold on.

Who that was that you said they donated $50, right? Yeah. Faith say what they said again?

In Shannon's defense, dogs don't lie, cheat. Their love is unconditional, they're loyal, and.

They'Re less expensive than a woman. Actually, you know what the funny thing.

One of the things I don't like what she said. She said dogs are less expensive than a woman.

Well, actually.

So what I've done to eliminate all expenses, all expenses. As far as women necessities, I do them all myself.

Facials.

Listen, stay with me now, baby. I do facials, manicures, pedicures.

I do her makeup, lashes, eyebrows, and her hair. I install wigs, extensions, I can color wigs, I can braid. I do all that.

All I wanted.

Look, I'm paying for all that because. See what I'm talking about?

So you ain't making no sense. You're agreeing with faith, but then you willing and ready to pay for everything when I'm showing you how to save the money. Learn to do the things that she needs.

All you need is YouTube.

Why you got a dry bar?

How you got a dry bar but.

You'Re willing to pay for everything?

Check this out. Learn to do it. Learn to do stuff.

I got it. Let me ask you a question. I got it, but you got to.

Learn how to do it.

Let me ask you a question.

You got pots and pans you still.

Eat out right here? Exactly. And you ain't cooked nothing.

I cooked today, baby.

Did I not cook for you today? I cook a salmon macaroni cheese and.

Broccoli with the croissant roll.

The Pillsburg croissant roll.

Well, I ain't eating no salmon.

I eat salmon, but I don't eat none of that says salmon. I said the l. Yeah, my bad.

My bad.

Sal.

I won't Sal.

Salmon. Yeah. Well, God damn it. They put an l in that muffler. I'm saying l salmon.

You know what Nikki Grant said. Just want Shannon to know how fine he is. I think he's with gorgeous. I think he is with that gorgeous smile.

You're okay, too, Chadford.

Good night.

I'm okay.

And Shannon, only that what I'm talking about. Nicky, you heard what.

Okay, Chadford, I don't know if Nikki.

Can see, maybe she saw just fine.

Can you see? Nikki, this you talking back? I'm okay.

Shoot, man, you'd be hating.

I ain't hating.

I'm just saying I was 2007. I was sexiest man of the year in 2007.

Why they can't come to the. Chad? Give me a compliment. Why you got to get all the compliments?

I don't like the way she came at me. Tell by. Oh, Chad, you okay?

I ain't okay. Shoot.

I'm a ten, baby.

On a scale of 100. On the scale of 100.

What'S your most embarrassing NFL moment?

Also, ocho, for your help.

Stay away from Andre Ward. He'll hit you so hard. You eat healthy, man, please.

I'm a beat.

Andre, he know about.

You talking about the boxer. Oh, yeah.

You need to stay away from me.

I'm shit. Me, I was born for this.

Didn't we just talk about competing earlier? No matter what it is, we going to compete.

Yeah, you're going to have to show me.

Either you're going to become a lesson.

Or you're going to one of the other. Learn a lesson.

Learn a lesson.

Come. A lesson, learns a lesson.

Okay.

One of them going to happen.

Breeze said, uncle Nocho, love the show, but who's your top five greatest route runners of all time?

I believe number one is me.

Number one is me.

And any player with what.

Okay, you know what, ocho? I'm tired. You know what? You own nightcap Ocho?

The greatest route run of the year.

Ocho.

Yes.

You know, I play a lot of games.

I play a lot of games.

I always horse around, but when it.

Comes to that route running, ain't none like that. Ain't none like that. Ain't nothing necessary like that.

And even those that are playing now, and those from my day and the.

Those before me, they'll tell you that that boy some serious, especially with them.

Uncle Nocho, did you hear about TJ Pushmanzada have a stalker that changed her.

Last name to his? Yeah.

Have you ever had a crazy stalker?

Yeah, she right here in the house.

God damn rail. You spell Ocho? Yeah. How do you think we got to this point? You ain't called the cops on them?

Nah, boy, I wasn't calling the cops on that boy, if you saw what I saw.

No saw.

So you opened the door and let her, huh?

I ain't had no choice. I ain't had no choice.

Jew said, unknow, your big fan just got out. Three and a half of your relationship have been listening to old podcasts to help me pass time.

Any advice from either of you on.

How to move on?

Wait, you just got out of a.

Three and a half year relationship, right?

Yeah. The harder look, if you invested time, it's hard. Yeah.

Because anytime you invest in something and.

It doesn't work out, it's hard. No, but each day, and it all.

Depends on the type of relationship and how far along. And I understand three years.

But how?

Because for me, I look at it.

Like, how do I put this, ocho?

Time is the one thing you can't get back.

I don't look at it as, like.

I wasted this many years. I wasted that many years. It wasn't meant to be.

And it's kind of like, see, love is funny, ocho.

Yeah, it is. Love is the only thing that will kill you, but keep you alive to feel it. And so.

It'S kind of like when.

People ask me, say, well, Shannon. And I've had people ask me like, Shannon, how do you get on with death? How do you get on? I say, it doesn't get easier. You just deal with it better because.

You never get over it.

Now, a relationship, it all depends on how involved, because the more you involve. See, relationships is easy to get over when you're the one doing the breaking up.

Oh, Joe.

It's easy to leave.

Yeah, it's easy to leave when you want to.

I'm out of dope.

Ain't thinking about it no more. Because before you made that decision, you probably checked out a lot sooner. Mentally.

Yeah, mentally, you already, before you actually.

Made the exit, or you summons up the courage to say, babe, this ain't working no more, you probably had already checked out. But when the other party says that they want to go in another direction and you're not willing and you're not wanting that to happen, it's tough, bro.

Yeah.

I'm telling you, trust me, it's tough.

Yeah.

I can speak on this. Obviously, you were someone for three and a half years.

I started dating, honestly, back in 1983.

And the funny thing about it is.

Everybody left me since 1983.

Every relationship I've been in, every woman built up the courage to leave me at some point. So I understand what you're going through. I empathize with you. I understand.

It does get easier with time.

Over time, it gets easier.

Yeah, it's tough. You deal with it better.

Yeah, most definitely. And then, obviously, I think about it.

At this standpoint, who was taking care of who, who was paying the bills? So are you really losing anything outside of an expense?

I look at it from that point of view, it's unfortunate.

If you're having trouble getting over her.

And have any issues, feel free to come on down here to know I can send you to some places that can cure you, maybe two, three days. You probably wouldn't remember who she is, so just let me know. You know how to reach me, man.

Just hit me in my dm.

And I got some friends that will show you around Miami.

Yeah.

You'll be all right.

I got you. It takes time, and the longer the.

Relationship, the harder it is to get over, because, like you said, you've invested three years. You've invested five years.

You've invested ten years. But at the end of the day, when I was younger, ocho, and I'm.

Still kind of like this.

If I'm with someone and we meet.

That person together, I break up with.

That person, I break up with you, too. Damn. Wait, so. Damn, why are you tough?

I'm just moving on.

Moving on from that individual and friends.

And the friends that we met together.

Yeah. Damn. Yeah. And it's okay.

It was easier when I was younger because I had other things to focus on. I was so busy with my career.

And now it's a lot easier because.

With nightcap and ESPN and trying to create other ventures and things like that, trying to come up with other things that could possibly work your mind.

It's just like when I just had undisputed and you break up, and people didn't know.

People didn't know what I was going through, but it was coming home to.

The dogs and every day to hear those voices, Bart.

Okay, now I gotta. Because, ocho, it was tough. I don't tell anybody this.

It was tough, right? And it was another. I was like, hey, give me a reason to wake up to see those a to see. I'm up. They up, right? Talking to my sister, she's like, shannon, I remember one night I went to bed, I said, lord, I'm 50.

I said, I know you didn't bring.

Me this far to bring me this far. Ain't no way you're going to leave me now. And I thought that over and over. It was that bad?

Yeah, man.

It was. But I just always thought.

My brother and I used to have.

A saying, mary Porter, thw three the hard way. And I always thought about that.

Think about what you overcame just to get here. Forget everything else. Think about everything you overcame in your 50 years of existence just to be.

In this very spot.

And you think, God is going to.

Turn his back on you now.

I got up one morning, I called my sister. I used to have to be to.

Work at 04:00 then. So I got up at 03:00 I.

Mean, woke up and I'm on my way to work.

I told my sister, I said, buck, I'm all right. She said, thank you, jesus. I hung the phone up.

Once. I said that once. I said, God, I know you didn't bring me this far.

To bring me this far. Call my sister.

Because my sister is my sounding board. Yeah, I mean, man, my brother, we.

Close, but my sister, that's my right hand.

That's my left side, but that's my right hand. I'm going to run something by her and she going to give me an honest opinion. A lot of times I might not like what she has to say, but I know she going to give it.

To me like nobody else, right? And so once I said that, like, okay, I'm good. And it was tough.

It was tough. And see, I think a lot of band, I ain't never been in love, bro.

It was tough. It was tough. But like I said, and there were some things that happened that shouldn't have happened, but I'm like, okay, I'm okay. I'm okay. And now I'm cool. Yeah, we cool.

I wish a nothing but the best.

You know what's funny, though? When I'm thinking about it and everybody in the chat that's watching, fellas, ladies, those that in relationships, those that have broken up or parted ways with people.

That they love before, is you never.

Ever really see someone's true colors or true intentions until a situation is no.

Longer convenient or beneficial. Yeah.

When a situation is no longer convenient.

Or beneficial, then their true colors come out.

That whole love and whatever it may be, it probably never really was.

It's just the opportunity itself created the.

Illusion that they actually love you when they really didn't. Because the opportunity and the convenience of.

That situation hadn't deteriorated.

Yeah, and that's a harsh truth.

Yeah.

It takes a special type of a.

Person to be hurt and not try to hurt the person that hurt them, because our natural instinct, I mean, hell.

Dude cheap shot me. I'm going to get his ass back. At some point in time in the.

Game, I'm going to get you back, right. But at some point, as we start.

To mature, we get older.

It's not to get back. It's not to get even. It's to move on.

And if I'm trying to get you back, I don't get to move on.

Because I'm here, you're back there, and.

I'm trying to get you back, and I need to be progressing.

Resting. Yeah.

And once you would let black. But like I said, ocho, I think that comes with age, that comes with maturity, because for me is that.

Just move on. You don't want me.

For whatever reason, the new guy is more handsome. He has deeper pockets.

He's more loving.

He's more understanding.

He commends you.

He pats you on the back. He tells you how great you are. And that was the biggest thing, is.

That not telling someone. I think the thing is that the constant praise.

It'S just hard for me to tell somebody 15 times in a day. You look good, and I love you and all that.

Listen, that's one of the most irritating things. Having to reassure someone constantly or the same thing over and over and over and over, because are you lacking maybe self confidence or whatever? That's very draining.

Yeah, very draining. Different people, ocho. This is what I tell people.

I'm the most outgoing introvert that you'll.

Meet, and I think people see me on television and they think, but I'm totally opposite. I'm home and I'm quiet because I like to be by myself.

Yeah, I can carry on a conversation.

I can go anywhere and I can present myself. But.

I think what it was is that I grew up when I had.

My brother, then he went to school, it was just me, so I would come home.

My sister's eight years older, my sister's.

Dating, so it's just me. And I go to college, I go to one party, and it's just me. I didn't really hang out. I'm not in guys rooms, and I'm outgoing, but I'm an introvert. So it's hard. Me and relationships are hard.

Maybe. Maybe that's why the fact that you're opening up a little bit about it.

Maybe that's why you're so reluctant right now, because you've been through so much. You've been hurt before, you love, and.

Now you kind of haven't been hurt. But now I'm getting a better understanding and the people that are listening and watching, getting a better understanding why you are so difficult in that specific area in your life. Yeah, but I feel like I'm your.

Ocho.

But you have to understand, ocho, I'm in a different place now, so I.

Have to be extremely cautious. Hey, baby. Hey, pookie. Say hi. No, forget you then. She just woke up. Just woke up. Yeah, she just woke up taking a nap.

Unculture j asked another question. He said, uncle, I'm only 22 years of age, but I have a feeling I'll probably be alone forever with no kids, and I'm fine with that. Heard a lot of folks say, that's bad.

False.

Society says that we should get married and we should have kids, but you have to do what's in the best interest of you, because society ain't going to love them kids. Society ain't going to pay for them kids. Society ain't going to pay for you to be in that society. Man, look here, we got to please ourselves and stop worrying about what people think of us. And we get a lot of that on social media. Social media make everybody think. Everybody flying private jet, everybody got pateks and rollies, and everybody know Cullinans and all this.

Oh, they don't. It ain't real life.

I mean, the times are hard out here, ocho, when the last time you.

Found some money on the ground, that's.

A hard time being right. Been when I was a kid. I walk outside about a dime or something.

A dime or something?

Nah, you can't even find a penny on the ground. When last time anybody went, last time you found a penny on the ground.

You got to do what works for you, man.

Obviously you do. There's always a social construct on the way things should go, rules that we're.

Supposed to abide by, what, like, to.

Call human morality, those guidelines we got to follow.

But it don't work for everybody. It don't work for everybody.

You got to do what works for you, do what's best for you. And that's exactly what I've done.

Obviously, I didn't do anything the traditional way.

The traditional way it should be done. I didn't do anything that way. But the way I did do it, it works for me.

And I make it look damn good.

The way I did.

Yeah, man, I make it look good. I make it look good.

Young K Ismael Flores just had ACL surgery. What advice do you have while dealing with an injury as a former athlete? Chad, please don't say keep a. Just keep a positive mind.

Wait, I just say the question again.

He just had ACL surgery. He said, what advice do you have while dealing with an injury as a former athlete? As former athletes? We're former.

I still am.

I mean, ocho ain't no athlete, but I am. Shad, please don't say McDonald's.

I'm not even going to say that. I've never had any injuries, so I really have no expertise on actually answering.

I mean, obviously tearing your ACL.

You want to get back as fast as possible. Take therapy and rehab very seriously. Take it just as serious as whatever you were doing that got you hurt. As much as you love that sport or whatever you might have been doing, take it just that serious to get back. Rehab, therapy, taking care of.

The.

That's the best I could tell you. It's hard for me to actually answer, being that I've never been in that position to have to rehab or have therapy to get back to something I love.

But I'm sure you love around, bro.

You know me, ojo. I didn't have both of my hips repaired. I had one, and then six months.

Later, I had the other. I was like, bro, you I robot. Yeah.

Like Shakira said, he'll go lie now.

He'll don't lie.

Oh, yeah?

What?

I can't say that you remember a Peter Gabriel song.

Sledgehammer, black hammer, come to town. I know what you're talking about now.

You know what I'm saying, ocho.

Oh, man.

That's it.

Ocho, please.

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