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Bun B
Hey. Hey. What's going on gentlemen? What's going on? Thanks for having the old man on here.
Shannon Sharpe
Thanks for coming.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
What's up baby?
Bun B
What's good? I see oh Charles shining over there, man.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I'm a little something man. You know, I got a little lotion on. That's all it is, little lotion.
Shannon Sharpe
Let me ask you this. Let's kick it off with this. Bun, where did you come up with the idea to start Trillburger?
Bun B
I didn't come up with the idea. The idea was brought to me by two mutual friends of mine, okay? One that I knew in a previous career as a clothing line designer, and the other I knew in a previous career as a podcaster for the Texans. They both moved into new paths. One becoming a restaurateur, the other becoming marketing and promotions manager of restaurants. So the restaurateur, Andy Nguyen, came up with an idea for Smashburger. But Smashburger phenomenon was already moving on the West Coast. He's from California. He saw the trend starting to move east, and he was like, if I don't catch it by Texas, I'm gonna miss the whole Smashburger trend. But I don't have as strong a brand out there. I need someone to partner with. And if my other friend, Nick Scarfield, was like, well, I know Bunny has had a food blog for many years called you gotta eat this dot com, Go check us out. And. And he was like, I know Bun's been looking for an entry point into the culinary space. I didn't want to do a full restaurant because there's so many different menu items and there's so many different ingredients that you have to stock. And a lot of things you lose if people don't. If people don't come in and buy that. That shrimp. And a day or two, that shrimp starts to go bad by day three and you lose it. A lot of stuff gets lost. You know what I'm saying? But this was a very refined, very simple concept. I went and met up with him, I tried the burger, and I thought not only was it one of the best burgers I'd ever had, I thought it was one of the best meals I'd ever had. The flavor combination is incredible. Anybody that's ever had it will tell you they may have had good burgers, but no one has ever done with a hamburger what we've done. And what I mean by what we've done is we care about it more than I think other people care about a burger. Most burgers are afterthoughts. You know, something like, I got 30 minutes for lunch. Where can I go and get something real quick? Oh, man, I left this club. I'm full of this liquor. I gotta try to soak it up with something.
Shannon Sharpe
You just gotta absorb that thing gotta absorb it, bud, you know, but we.
Bun B
Found a real sweet spot, man. You know, we found a way to not only introduce a better product into the public, but also, for me personally, a way to transition my cultural equity that I built up in the entertainment industry into the culinary industry in a way that I can capitalize off of it a lot better than I could in the music industry because of the contractual agreements that I signed at a very young age. And with this, I was able to own everything outright with my partners. There was no investors as there was with the record company where you take that advance up front. We did all of this out of pocket. We continue to do it out of pocket. We don't take any money out of the company so that the company can grow, be self sustained. So we don't need investors, we don't need finances from anybody. And we just try to build something that we believe will last longer than we will.
Shannon Sharpe
Wow.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I like that. I want to go back with it being your birthday, you know, you, you, you turn a young. Are you, you getting younger? You know, listen, your recent birthday bonanza at Houston Rodeo, obviously it featured a diverse lineup, man. You had Keith Sweat, Don Toliver, Yolanda Adams. What inspired you to blend hip hop, R and B and gospel for this event?
Bun B
You know, we've done a lot of different lineups with my shows at the Houston Livestock show on Rodeo. Last year was the first year that they'd ever had two full rap nights. One was my night and one was with 50 Cent and his tour. And it kind of started to get away from what the Houston Livestock show and Rodeo, as far as Black Heritage Day has always been, and that's been a very inclusive evening that was always family friendly. And with some of this rap music, it could get away from being a family friendly environment very quickly. And so the rodeo was like, look, we would love to reset the bar. Like, we appreciate what your hip hop contributions and all of the talent that you brought to the stage have done for the rodeo. But we think we need to reset the bar because if we don't, we're going to lose the demographic. And that was the problem with the rodeo before, was that the rodeo had aged itself out. The rodeo did not bring in hip hop and younger music in a timely manner. So they started to age people away from the rodeo. Younger people. And when I say younger, this may sound crazy, but when I say younger, I mean like 50 and under.
Shannon Sharpe
Right?
Bun B
Right. There was nothing that was catering to them. Nothing in popular music was catering to Them nothing in popular culture was catering to them. And so there became a concerted effort to try to make sure that the people on stage reflected the diversity of the city of Houston, which is arguably the most diverse city in America right now. There's over 100 spoken languages and so many different cross culture things happening in the city. And so we did a good job of diversifying it, but at the same time, you don't want to leave people out. And I could tell that if we did one more show that was rap centric, my mama wasn't going to want to come no more. And most people, mamas weren't going to want to come no more because it could be a little much the way people dance to it. I get it. There's an energy and we want to bring energy and entertainment, but we don't want to do that and make sure that other people isolate others. Absolutely. You know, my mother comes to the rodeo, my siblings, my wife's siblings, our children, our nieces and nephews, and now our grandchildren all come. So I gotta. I wanted to make sure that I got something there for my mama and my wife's mother that they can relate to things that we can relate to my children and my grandchildren. So that's why you get a keep Sweat for us. You get a Yolanda for the older, more Christian grandmothers and aunties and whatnot. And you get a Don Toliver for a younger artist. Coco Jones for a younger artist. You know what I'm saying? And then of course, for my base, you know, Luda Ti, you know, we hit him right in the chest with that hip hop. So we want to make sure that when people come down, because now it's become a tourist attraction. There's literally thousands of people that come down for this thing now.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Bun B
And I want to make sure that they get something.
Shannon Sharpe
And what. Look, anytime, you know, the triple OG Bun B is on it, you know it's gonna be big. And you know he gonna do right. He gonna do right by H town. Cause the H town down he born and bred. Hey, hey. He believe in that. And I love that. But I love that the fact that the rodeo came to you and said, we really appreciate it, but let's not get too far away from what we intended the rodeo to be. Because while we're bringing in one demo, we're losing another demo. How can we blend these demos together and grow it so they still come, More of you guys still come. And guess what? We expand this thing.
Bun B
And a lot of people didn't really understand it because, you know, I don't tell everybody who's coming. I typically keep about two or three surprises to entertain people on the spot. So when I was saying, hey, I got Don Toliver and I got Keith Sweat and I got Coco Jones and I got Yolanda Adams, people don't see how that mix is in the room. Right, right. People don't see how those genres blend together. And people really didn't understand the vision. We knew what we were doing the whole Yolanda Adams was specifically brought in to be a part of the In Memoriam program, where we honored all of the legends that have fallen. And then we thought it was good to have some praise in the room. I feel very blessed to have this opportunity. I've done this four times. I've sold over 300,000 tickets in just four shows. We're averaging 74,000 people every time we've done this. So it's been a beautiful opportunity. Not just for me, for my family, for my business. I've been able to pass it on to other people that grew up in Houston dreaming of doing the rodeo. Now they've actually been able to do it. I grew up at a time where, you know, you didn't even think that somebody that did hip hop music would even be on that stage. And now we exist where I live as an example to the next generation. Maybe one day I can do the rodeo like Bun B. You know what I'm saying? So we understand how deeply this thing resonates with so many different people. And we don't want to let people down, Especially right now. I don't want to seem like I'm leaving people out of something because this world is so divisive right now. Yeah. And things are not really as inclusive. And I don't think people understand. No culture is more inclusive as black people, because black people understand what it's like to be left out. So we don't want people left out of a good time. You know what I'm saying? And we know that you don't need a bunch of money to have a good time. So we try to make entertainment as authentic and realistic and approachable as possible for people. And I think we've been able to do that with the rodeo.
Shannon Sharpe
Hey, bud, you know, we've been making stuff out of nothing with no money for the longest time. We don't need no money.
Bun B
So When I get $5, it's a party. Party.
Shannon Sharpe
Hey, for sure. Hey, we had one of our hood party, $20. Hey, we got the block lit.
Bun B
You know what I'm saying, bud?
Shannon Sharpe
Let me ask you this, but when you. When you were growing up, did you go to the rodeo when you were growing up?
Bun B
Yeah, that was my first concert ever. That's a big. That's a big inside joke about it. The first concert I ever went to was Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn when I was three years old.
Shannon Sharpe
People come to Conway Twitty.
Bun B
Yeah. My mom had gotten a car wreck and a man had hit her. And she was very nervous because this was in the 70s, you know what I'm saying? She's a black woman by herself in an accident with a white man. She just knew, for example, that she would be at fault. But the police came. He told the police it was my fault. She did nothing. He took care of everything. And then he asked her, would you like some tickets to go to the rodeo when the rodeo come? And she said, sure. She gave me my information, the address, and she never thought nothing of it. And a couple of weeks later, the ticket showed up, and so they took the family to the rodeo. And that was my first concert, My first time ever being in the Astrodome, you know what I'm saying? And it left a lasting memory on me. Like, one of my first musical memories is the Houston Livestock show and Rodeo concert. And just over the years, going every different time. My wife shares these kind of memories. My wife saw Michael Jackson for the first time at the rodeo. A lot of people have, you know, you can basically, you know, have a timeline of your life based on different experiences at the rodeo. The first time you went as a youngster, the first time your parents dropped you off. Cause it's literally the safest environment you can be in at the rodeo. So there was a time when you get 15 or 16, your mama would drop you off at the rodeo during spring break, and you and your friends could hang out all night and then get picked up later because it was a safe thing, you know what I'm saying? So it's been a part of many people's lives over the years, and now people actually have a real time experience at the rodeo, and not just when I perform. We have like a 9,000 square foot installation called Trill Town, where we do the burgers, we do our Trill tenders, we have merch, trill lemonade, we have a bar, you know, basketball. Goal for people to play little games, win hats, win merchandise. So we've made it something that everybody that celebrates Houston culture can come in and feel comfortable. I know that there Are people from other races that feel funny trying to celebrate other cultures and mix company because they're not allowed to be as free as they would like to be amongst some of their own people. We provide a night where everybody can come and be who they want to be. And nobody's going to look at you sideways because in order to enjoy it, you got to leave your prejudice at the door. If you don't like white folks, you can't come because white folks going to be there having a good time. If you don't like black folks, you can't come because black folk going to be having a good time. Straight folks, gay folks, Mexicans, Asians, everybody comes out and they all having a good time. So the only way you can enjoy it is leave your bull, your bull stuff at the door, right? And hopefully we, we believe that if people have a good enough time with other people of other cultures and make friends and learn things, that maybe they won't pick it up when they leave and they can leave their prejudice outside forever.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
And that's live, man. Listen, but when you're talking, when you're talking, I can hear the passion, enthusiasm and your voice, the way you explain and everything.
Bun B
It's a new life coach. It's a new life for me.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Oh, yeah, listen, you've always been vocal about social issues. You know, you've engaged in various, various community initiatives in Houston, man. What drives you still, you know, in your commitment to always give back to the community? And do you have any upcoming projects that you're excited about that you can tell us?
Bun B
We in Houston, as entertainers, athletes, what have you, we have a different relationship with the public as other places do. I believe that there are lines that are drawn, cultural lines, neighborhood lines, other things that come into play in other major cities in America where people can't really bond in the way that we bond, right? Like LA has cultural lines, it has neighborhood lines that some people can't cross. So that city can very, very seldom come together and unite. Same thing with New York. Some people might be from Queens or Brooklyn or whatever. In Houston, we had division maybe 25, 30 years ago between the north side and the south side that doesn't exist anymore. Everybody sees themselves as Houstonians, no matter who you are and where you come from in the city. So we've been able to build a connection with people that's different. People see us in the grocery store, people see us in the mall, people see us in restaurants, at car washes, in the gym. We're very visible and we're very approachable and very personable. So people feel like when they buy our music, they're not just invested in music, they're investing in people, they're investing in neighborhoods and they look at us as cultural exports, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, when you come to Houston, we don't brag about who the best Biggie, Jay Z or Nas. We brag about who the best Slim Thug, Kiki or Bun B. You know what I'm saying? Scarfield. Those are the kind of artists we have a lot of pride. You know, Texas has always been a self sustained entity. It was its own country. So we never felt fully embraced until very recently. Everything we wanted, we had to make it on our own, entertainment wise. If you wanted to be a recording artist, you know, a New York label or LA label was probably not gonna sign you, so you had to go out, you had to make relationships with wholesalers and distributors and record stores and radio stations and club owners and all of that and make your way. And we all had to do it. So there's a common respect that we all have for each other because we all kind of had to progress that particular path in order to make it. But it's the people, it's not just the artists, it's the people of Houston who don't look at us in that way. Yeah, there may be somebody that's never seen me before and might be excited to get a picture, but if you roll with me through Houston for 12, 14 hours, you hear a lot of what's up, OG hey, what's up, B? What's up? It's not a lot of oh my God. Oh, wow. We don't put those kind of walls up with people. And that's why the relationship with us is a lot different, you know what I'm saying? Now, as far as projects, we are opening the second store probably within the next seven days. Seven to ten days. The second location of Trilberg will be open in Spring, Texas. We'll have two more locations, but by the end of the year. And I'm currently in Dallas right now with the wife, mainly let you know. So my anniversary, my birthday is four days apart. So I would never forget my anniversary. That's live, you know what I'm saying? So that's what's up. So we spent the daytime, well on the anniversary, letting us shop. We spent nighttime with me going to my favorite restaurant. There's a Carbone here. It's a closest Carbone I can get to in Houston. That's My favorite restaurant. So we drove up here, we did a little shopping, went did some dinner with a good friend of mine, and you know, probably look at some locations tomorrow right around Fresno and Plano at a couple of different spots, you know, looking for a location. But we hope to be in Dallas and Austin by the by summer next year, if lucky.
Shannon Sharpe
Hey, bud. Chase. What you think about nightcap at the rodeo next year?
Bun B
Oh, I think there's room to possibly do it at my activation.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah.
Bun B
Because you have to understand, I don't think many people understand what the rodeo is. The Rodeo is a 21 day event. Yeah. I'm only one night of 21 nights.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay.
Bun B
Of concerts that. That take place in the NRG Stadium. The football stadium.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Bun B
They average about 65, 66,000 people a night, easy.
Shannon Sharpe
Wow.
Bun B
So it's arguably the biggest music festival in the world that isn't promoted as a music festival. Because we talking about 21 concerts day after day after day in a football stadium. Right. You know what I'm saying? It's a huge undertaking. Now, that being said, my space, my wife thought of the idea of bringing in a DJ and a DJ booth and some space up there. So there is a stage now. Next year we can make it a little bit bigger. Okay.
Shannon Sharpe
Hey, we're making a little bit bigger that way. Yes, absolutely, man.
Bun B
What you think about nightcap at trail time?
Shannon Sharpe
Two thumbs up.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
There it is.
Shannon Sharpe
That's what's up. That's what's up, yb I appreciate that. Oh, we gonna. Hey, we gonna. Hey, hey, hey, og. You know, we gonna circle back on this now. We real talk now.
Bun B
I'm open to it because I want to make it a bigger weekend for people. We realize now that. And you know, you look at the music, boots on the ground, and all this other soul that's blowing up right now, that black cowboy, country western lifestyle that has always existed is now in the forefront. And my weekend at the rodeo is becoming a big proponent of that. You know what I'm saying? It gives a place that's big enough for everybody. Cause a lot of black rodeos, unfortunately, are still smaller, they still growing, they got a lot of momentum and energy, but they're still growing, they're still smaller. My rodeo is the largest rodeo in the world, you know what I'm saying? So you wouldn't have a larger audience to cater to with that type of movement in motion. My wife brought in DJ Paymey from South Carolina. He's the biggest lion dancer and Southern soul DJ in the country, and we had people. Our space couldn't even hold. How many people wanted to dance? They were dancing in the street. You know what I'm saying? It's just such a great way for people to come together and commune. That's what music has always been for people of color. It's always been a reason for us to get together and commune. That Domino's, playing cars, barbecue, crawfish, those are all excuses for us as a culture to come together and spend time together. We don't even like each other, but if so. And so who doing the barbecue? Trey doing the barbecue? All right, I'll come. Who cooking a potato salad? Niecy doing potato salad? All right, I'll show up for that. It's an excuse for us to get together. And so I'm looking at that. We built something that now gives people an entry point. If you don't know about it, you haven't had any experience. This is a very easy entry point into this cultural representation. But for those of us that know, oh, it's the bat signal.
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Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
That's a. When you, when you talk about this, man, I'm thinking about your plate. But your plate is full, man. Your plate is full, man. Listen, your role as a musician, an entrepreneur, you're a community leader, man. How the hell you balance all these different facets of your career and what that what keep you motivated, baby? Because just listen to it. This is a lot. It's a lot.
Bun B
I think we, I think everybody here on this knows that God doesn't give you more than you can handle. You just got to figure out how to handle. I have an amazing support system. I have a beautiful, strong black woman as a wife in my corner. And the reason I've gotten this far is not because I know it all or I can do it all. My wife refuses to settle for a lesser version of me. So when she know I'm not going all the way in and not giving my 100%, she'll hold me accountable.
Shannon Sharpe
Wow.
Bun B
She'll be like, you know, you can do better than that. You know you're supposed to be doing more than that. So there'd be a lot of times I want to phone it in. Or I'd be like, man, I just want to stay home. Now why would you do that knowing you told them people you was gonna come? You know, my wife. I can't. I can't do it, my wife knows. My wife believes it, has always believed in my greatness. And when I don't live up to it because she talks about it, she holds me accountable, right? So I go out and do the rodeo and all that, and the next day I gotta come home and put the trash out. You know, I gotta pick up stuff in the garage. I gotta make sure I don't leave the kitchen light on all those things. We. We have moments where we are very blessed, that we get to see the world and travel the world and do all of that. But every other day, man, we are family trying to exist, making sure our children, our grandchildren are okay, that we got a good home that's comfortable for us to live in. You know, all I got to do is give her a house and she gonna make a home out of. That's not even the question.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
See? See what? You heard what he just said?
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
You see what I'm talking about?
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Now, see what I've been telling you now? But I'm trying to get him to settle down, but I'm trying to get him to find my wife. Because, listen, the way you talking, the way you explaining things, it shouldn't be hearing what you just said.
Bun B
But she got to keep up with him, though. That's the thing. You got to keep up with him. He got to find a woman that's so busy, he get jealous.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Oh, hey, listen. Hey, hey, hey, hey, bum. We found one for him. He interviewed her not too long ago.
Bun B
Wait till she ain't got.
Shannon Sharpe
Wait.
Bun B
Wait till she ain't got no time for him. We gonna find out where he's standing.
Shannon Sharpe
He gonna try to spend that money.
Bun B
Sending that plane plan that vacation, anything he can to spend time with that woman. When he started Ocho, when he started disregarding things he don't normally disregard, and.
Shannon Sharpe
Them assistant start having to do things.
Bun B
That he normally going to do. Yeah, he got something on his mind.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
He got. He got him on.
Bun B
He got something on his mind.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yes, sir. Hey, I got one more question. I got one more question. This is a good one. I'm sure a lot of people in the chat would love to hear this answer because I definitely want to hear it. Who are your top five Houston rappers?
Bun B
Oh, man, your top five.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yo, Mount Rushmore. Now, I'm just adding the fifth. I'm gonna make it five instead of four.
Bun B
We gonna start with K. Reno. K Reno is the OG of Houston rappers. He's the height, he's the epitome of what Houston rap's foundation. Should have been built on. So we had the right OGs to start it off for us. Obviously, Scarface, not just one of the best writers in rappers in Houston, but just, I mean, arguably the best storyteller that hip hop has ever had, ever. My dog. Very few people, I think only Tupac can really evade, convey emotion through words on a rap song in the way that Scarface does. When Scarface talks about death, you feel that loss. When he talks about friends phrase has a song called suicide. And I'm talking about. I had never heard a song about somebody delving into the psyche of somebody that they thought was okay, but wasn't okay. And then you start to question making sure you okay like this. So the depth of starfaces, of writing talents and mentality, man, have been criminally underrated in. In the world of hip hop, I think number three, you gotta go Willie D. And Willie D has been a bomb. Willie D is the prototype. Like, yeah. Willie D is the type of person that when you think of a Houston rapper meeting one in the dark alley, Willie D is who you project me, you know, that's somebody that, you know, has stood on all ten toes constantly, consistently, and still does. The fun thing about watching Willie Dee, one, he loved the culture just as much as he always had. And two, he bout that just as much as he's always been. There's certain things that you can count on, and Willie D being about that life is absolutely one of them. He still leads by example, and he still makes us proud to be from Houston. And knowing that, you know, whatever you say in this world, you better stand on it, because with some people, it might be a fight with it.
Shannon Sharpe
Right?
Bun B
You know what I'm saying? Number four. Number four. I might have to go out on a limb here, man. I may have to go out on a limb with this one. I don't know how everybody's gonna feel about this, but I think Gangsta Nip may be one of the best rappers from Houston, and I'll tell you why. The only reason that people really didn't get into Gangsta Nip is of the subject matter. He did a lot of horrorcore, you know, he wrote stuff for Bushwick. And a lot of his stuff was a lot of his music existed in this. In this world of horror and gore and all of that type of stuff. Friday the 13th, Jason. All of that type of stuff. That it. But his flow in the. In the mid-90s, in the early 90s and mid. I mean, it was some of the best rapping I've ever seen and done in my life. And number five, I'm not going to put pimp here because I feel like pimping supersedes a lot of things in this argument. I'm gonna go with Keller Kalion. I don't think anybody wants to be the best rapper in Houston more than him. I don't think anybody takes the art of lyricism as serious as he does. Now, we got people that got a lot of motion. Maxo got motion, Megan has got motion, Travis, OT Walker. There's a lot of people from Houston, young artists, up and coming, talent tal that have motion and have fan bases and really making major moves. But when we talking about just rap rapping, like rapping and looking in the motherfucker face and meaning what you say when you rap this stuff, I don't think anybody conveys that more than Killer Kali O. I think Killer Kali Ole could potentially be the best lyricist to ever come out of the city of Houston. He just gotta. The problem is he got too much respect for his predecessors. And I feel like in some form or fashion, as a competitor, at some point, you can respect the goat and still want to beat the goat at the same time.
Shannon Sharpe
Right?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I like it.
Shannon Sharpe
We gonna get y'all a little bit.
Bun B
I ain't waiting for him to wake up one day and say, man, F all that. Man F Bun B and all of them. I'm going from the top. And that's when he'll get. That's when he'll be the best.
Shannon Sharpe
Bun, we gonna get you out of here on this one. Which Houston team are you most excited about this year? Your Cougars? Your Rockets? Your Texans or your Astros?
Bun B
Now, that's a great question. That is a great question. It's always easy to be excited about the Cougars. Cause at this point, that's a program that does this, right? As far as basketball, that men's basketball team does this. At this point. They've gone into the last four marches being heavily favored. They've made it to the 8th at least two, three times. I know the last two years for sure. I think they got a great chance of going all the way this season. But at this point, with that program, that's to be expected. These Astros are going through transition, right? We lost Bregman. That was a hometown hero. We love Alex Bregman. As we lost Correa, we lost a couple other guys, but we're bringing in. We always bring in young talent. That's been the great thing about this Astros organization, that the Cranes have always Brought in and nurtured young talent. They draft well and they build talent up. They don't look to just go out and try to buy a player. They're about winning several. They're not about winning this year. They want to win several years. They tasted it. They know what it takes to get there, and they believe they can do it. But they're still in a little bit of rebuilding right now. Lost a couple of pitchers, got McCullough's back. So we're going to figure it out. They're perennial playoff team, right? But it's going to take more this year to get to that final step than I think it has over the last two or three seasons. The Rockets, I mean, my goodness, look at this young team. You talk about a talented young team. Tillman has done a great job of being like, you know what? We just got to start over. Like, we're not one or two players away. We're a team away. But, I mean, he put this team on his shoulders of green. Jalen is an amazing talent. I think he's a great leader. I think Thompson is a problem. I think he's a beast on that team. I really think I haven't got to him. It took a while to figure out how to say his name. It took a while. It took a while to figure out how to say his name. But, hey, we got promise with that young boy. I understand that he grew up in a game of fundamentals, right? But he playing with some dogs. I watched him the other day try to do an over behind the back pass.
Shannon Sharpe
He almost had it.
Bun B
They teach him that blacktop ball, right? They don't have to teach him fundamentals. You know, how to pad and all. They teaching him black top. No, look, passes in the paint. When he finds that step, that boy is going to be a real problem. But I say all that to say this team has everything. And, man, Udoka, that was a huge.
Shannon Sharpe
He's the right coach. He's the right coach for the field.
Bun B
And I understand why he couldn't stay where he was, but I'm so glad he's where he is.
Shannon Sharpe
Bridgetti, that's the trouble at the city.
Bun B
Level, because they get to see me every now and then. So the city love that. Yeah, but them Texans, man. Man, them Texans, I think in two, three years, man, I think they gonna be the ones to beat, man. It could happen in the next two years. This team is building a strong structure. D'Ameco knows exactly what he wants. The organization isn't scared to spend the money to give him what he wants. And they're so embraced of the local culture. They do collaborations with local artists, and they bring in different talent to perform at the games. They allow me to bring my burgers into the stadium. They're doing everything they can to be as Houston centric an organization as they can be. They putting the money where it needs to go. They're trying to strengthen that O line. I know everybody wasn't crazy about losing Tunsil, but I can understand organizationally why they feel they needed to go in another direction. I hear there were locker room problems. There were a ton of penalties. Right. A lot of things going on. And I just think they were growing in a different direction. I think that they supplemented the defense. Absolutely. They're probably going to have to draft a little more to tighten up that O line because they got to protect cj. They got to protect CJ by all means. I like the Kirk signing. I like bringing Christian Kirk in. I think he's a fast young player. He's got some good talent.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Very fast.
Bun B
Definitely got hands. And CJ can hit him and strive, you know? Yeah. Because I knew we weren't. Probably weren't going to keep Diggs another season. I don't think we were going to keep him another season. So they had to start thinking receiver, receiver, receiver. Tank had his surgery. He's a young guy. I think he'll recover quickly. I think. I honestly think Tank will be ready by game one of a 25, 26 season. But I think the Texans are a team that everybody has got to circle their calendar dates when they play that team. That defense is only getting better. I'm curious to see what the new OC is going to do. I think that's going to be the big test, is what the new OC is going to be able to create with CJ but at least they won't be as predictable in Year two as they were in Year three, as they were in Year two. Because year one was a lot of surprises. Year two, they pretty much tried to replicate the playbook, and people saw it a mile away. With a new oc, I think there's going to be a new approach. I think he's going to find a better way of working with these new offensive lines. I feel positive about what we're doing as a team, so I would put it in that order. I would say Cougs, Astros, Rockets in Texas, four to one. Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
Triple OG Bun. B, bro. Thank you for joining us. Congratulations on everything. The Trill Burger franchises, the Rodeo, your big staple in the community. What you do to uplift your community. We appreciate you. We salute you here at Nightcap. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you down the road.
Bun B
Absolutely. Thank y'all for doing that drop for the rodeo for me last year, too.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yes, sir.
Shannon Sharpe
Always. No problem.
Bun B
Good success. We gonna find some space to put y'all in that trail town next year. Come bring, as a matter of fact, not only.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Hey, but not only that. Let me perform. You know, I can sing now.
Shannon Sharpe
I think we breaking up.
Bun B
Yeah, we break it up later, og.
Shannon Sharpe
Appreciate that. I love y'all, man. Thank y'all, brother. Thank you, bro. Ocho, take off for a little while. I gotta use the bathroom.
Bun B
Oh, you gotta go.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
You gotta go. Hey, Chat. Hey, Chad. Listen to me, Chad, real quick. Listen to me. What y'all think about me at rodeo in Houston next year performing now, there are many things I can do. I can dance, I can sing. It could be gospel, R and B. I could do hip hop. There's so many different things I could do. So I think me being a part of the Houston rodeo, even though I have no. I have no connection, I have no WI fi, you know, to the Houston culture, but they are accepting of me because I'm very likable. I'm very lovable. And I think me being a part of that culture and what they have going on, it's a 21 day event. I could be part of all 21 days. You know, they got country. I know country music. I can line dance. You know, I can dj. Like, there's so many facets that. That I can be part of when it comes to the Houston Rodeo. Chat, let me know what you think. Let me know what you think. Outside of that, I'm excited. I'm gonna just tell you about my weekend. I don't know what y'all have planned coming up, but tomorrow I'm flying to New Orleans. I'm flying to New Orleans. I'm going. I'm going back to the Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans. I'm going to see Alvin Ailey Dance Company. I'm sure about how many people in the Chat know about Alvin Ailey Dance Company. I'm a huge, huge fan of the arts and dance. Movies like Mulan Rules, movies like Chicago. I've been a huge fan of Alvin Ailey and Judith Jameson. Former artistic director Robert Battle, who's a friend of mine. I don't think he's artistic director anymore, but I'm going to see them. I'm very Very excited. Anybody in the chat. If you've never seen Revelations, if you've never seen all the pieces, the Revelations by Algonelli, I, I, I implore you to watch it maybe tonight on YouTube so you get a better understanding why I'm flying all the way to New Orleans to make sure I catch them, to catch them live on stage. I'm excited. Due to covet, I haven't been able to see them. And then what, three, four years, whatever, whatever it's been. So I'm really excited about that. That's my weekend. I wish I could see what you guys are doing this weekend. And that's pretty much it. That's pretty much it. I'm excited for the rest of the runner show tonight. I don't know what we're going to talk about other than that. That's it. Chan Cam. Chan Cam. I just want to say hi. Hi to everybody. Everybody in the chat. I love you, Ash. Hi. Hi, Ash. Thank you for allowing me to leave the show while Unc uses the bathroom. And if he comes back too fast, that means he didn't wash his hands. Hi, Jacob. Hi, Nikki and Marv and Alexis and. And Christian and. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Hi, Boost Mobile. How you doing? Hi, Doug and Ryan. Who else?
Bun B
Hey.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
To all my exes. I'm sure y'all probably watching. I'm sorry things didn't work out. And yeah, that's pretty much it. So chat. What else? What y'all want to talk about? Oh, you want me to sing? Oh, tell me what song you want me to sing right now. Tell me what song. Wait, wait, wait. Won't they take away our monetization? No. Oh, so we're free and clear. Okay, Give me a song right now. Ask. I'm gonna. I'm gonna blow right now. Never too much, Mr. Vandross. Okay, let me know when you're ready, Ocho. Okay, hold on. Never too much. Never too much. Never too much. Never too much. I can't fool myself. I don't want nobody else to ever love me. You're my shin.
Shannon Sharpe
Hey, bro, why did I tell you about singing this song?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
My love, my fantasy. They're not a me hour date. Huh?
Shannon Sharpe
Bucky Brooks interviewed Shadora Sanders during Big 12 Pro Day today. Bucky asked Shadow, how you gonna interrupt my song? Bucky asked Shadura about the draft process so far, Also about what's essential, what he's essentially been a smear campaign against him. His answer is what you expect from time, son. It's definitely a Learning experience. There are a lot of things that aren't in your control and just getting the knowledge from your dad and you're just coaching family, friends and everybody you know that's supporting me and helping me through this process is extremely important, and I'm thankful that I have those resources. We always understood block out the noise, even from Jackson State and Colorado. It's a lot of critics, it's a lot of hate. But we know what to do. We know how to handle that in every way, so we remain happy. What do you. What do you take away from what. What Shador spoke to Bucky Brooks about today.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Listen, prime has prepared Shador for this day for a very long time. And he had the right person on his corner who also had to endure the same type of negative negativity in general from the media based on his style of play, the way he approached the game, things that had nothing to do with his play, would always use it against him. Shadu understands that. He should understand that because everything they talk about has nothing to do with the game of football. It had nothing to do with what he was able to do at Jackson State. It doesn't talk about him winning at Jackson State. It doesn't talk about him winning at Colorado. Despite the obstacles he had to overcome, despite having, you know, inadequate play at the O line, still being able to complete 70% of his passes. They don't talk about none of that. We talk about the way an individual carries himself, his swag, the way he talks. Not about being in trouble. Nothing is talking about that ridiculous stuff. Oh, showing off the watch. I mean, so what? It's all about having confidence. It's all about having belief. That's what it takes to play at the next level and be successful. The fact that they're using that as a negative says more about them than it does Shador.
Shannon Sharpe
True.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
And I hope he never changes and he continues to have success in all that he does wherever he goes. You want to get a player like that that's going to change your franchise around. When someone comes up, comes out and says, I want someone to draft me that wants a player that's going to change their franchise, that's something you want in a quarterback. I know it's frowned upon a little bit to have one that's as brash and as vocal as that, but if you look at the film, you turn the film on, you know what you get? It shouldn't be no problems at all.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah, I'm sure time prepared him for this. His dad prepared him for this. He's been at this. His dad has been at this for a very long time. He's been in the spotlight since his days at Florida State. So he understands that there's a certain level of criticism that comes along with being the guy, with being a good, great football player. He understands that also. It comes along with being a quarterback. And yeah, the objective is. I think the thing is, Ocho, a lot of times they try to tell you what you can't do, but they never want to emphasize what you can do. Bring me a guy and tell me what, hey, what can he do? Because I'm going to keep him away from what he can't do. That's my job as a coach, is to not put him in a situation where he can't succeed. Okay, you said he's not good on read option. Okay, why would I run his own read if that's not what he's good at? I'm trying to put my players in a situation where they can succeed. That's what a coach's job is, is to put a guy in a position where he can succeed and get more out of him than the player thought he can get out of himself. It's going to be this. I'm glad that he's doing a great job, as good a job, but he's not a robot, Ocho. He sees this thing. I mean, he's on social media. He hears these things. He's not a robot. He has feelings, he has emotions. And so no matter how much you're like, oh, no, eventually, yeah, you hear it. You hear all the negativity that. That what they're saying, it does. It doesn't make it any easier. Now, your dad can tell you, like, hey, son, this, blah, blah, blah, but it doesn't make it easier, Ocho. I ain't trying to hear that. This supposed to be one. Look, if Shador is what we think he is and can become the player that we think he can. All that noise. That's all it is. It's just noise. It should have no impact. What somebody says about you, his dad says, what you say about me is not what I think of myself.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah, absolutely. I just hope he has the mental fortitude not to let it bother him. The fact that he's already been through it for so long and he has prime as his father. I don't think it will because I know a lot of people when it comes to the media, and the media jumps on you and they talk about you. Sometimes it gets to certain people it does. But I think. I think Shador is built different. Prime has been built different. So I think he has a great understanding to ignore it, to block the noise out. And when his time comes in April, wherever he goes, he shows up and shows the you know what out.
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Shannon Sharpe
Ocho.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I mean, I'm. I'm excited for him, man.
Shannon Sharpe
Look at that. Hey, Chad, Remember I told y'all I had that right there?
Bun B
Throwback.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Throwback.
Shannon Sharpe
That's the original. That's the OG like triple OG bun B. That's the triple OG iPod.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
That's live. That's live.
Shannon Sharpe
That's the number two version. This one holds 10,000 songs. This one holds a thousand song. Y'all remember the iPad touch? Ipod touch. And check this out.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Hey, how many? You know, that stuff might be worth something. Like, you got yours.
Shannon Sharpe
I mean, guess what? It's supposed to be worth something with this plus 5200.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Wait, come again?
Shannon Sharpe
It's supposed to be this plus 5200.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I'm just saying all your stuff is in good condition, like mint condition. You could probably get a good price for it.
Shannon Sharpe
Look at this OG you know what this is? Ocho?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
That's the iPhone 9.
Shannon Sharpe
No, that's the original one.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I thought. I thought it started with number nine.
Shannon Sharpe
Man, it started with number one. The hell you talking about?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
That.
Shannon Sharpe
Y'all remember that?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Oh, that's crazy. Hey, and you know what you do? Put Saran Wrap back in and pretend like it's brand new.
Shannon Sharpe
No, I ain't getting rid of. Ain't never been.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
You know how much. You know how much money you can get for that?
Shannon Sharpe
I mean, somebody probably gave me like five grand for it because it's the original one. One. It ain't.
Bun B
It ain't.
Shannon Sharpe
It ain't never been active. It ain't never been turned on. Ain't never had no phone number. Ain't never had nothing.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
And how much you said they can give you for it?
Shannon Sharpe
Probably about 5,000.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Well, there go you go. Go ahead and sell that one. I owe you 200.
Shannon Sharpe
No, they ain't got. No, it's mine. Y. You remember the Samsung, Joe?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Samsung?
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah, Samsung.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I ain't never had no Android.
Bun B
Look at it.
Shannon Sharpe
That's the Galaxy Note.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
It ain't never had no joy.
Shannon Sharpe
Oh, Galaxy Note.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Hey, listen, I tell you one thing. You ever text me and it turned green, I'm gonna block you. I'm block you.
Shannon Sharpe
I got a little stuff I gotta show you. All my phone. I got my. I got about 17, 18 phones.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Damn.
Bun B
Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
Cause I keep them. I keep them.
Bun B
Damn.
Shannon Sharpe
DK Metcalf spoke to Marshawn lynch about leaving Seattle and to play for the Steelers. The grass is greener on the other side.
Bun B
Ocho.
Shannon Sharpe
Hey.
Bun B
Excuse me.
Shannon Sharpe
Considering the Steelers doesn't have a quarterback, how can he be so sure that the grass is greener on the other side?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I'm not sure. But my grandma always said the grass is green on the other side, depending on who's watering it. So now you got. Now you got. Now you got to hold on. Now people gonna hold on to that clip. Now people, they gonna go back to that clip. Now it don't matter who the quarterback is. Now, there are two different type of receivers. They're receivers that need a quarterback to elevate their play. And their receivers, it doesn't matter who's that quarterback. Their play will always remain at the highest level.
Bun B
Right?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
So now you get to show us which one you are, brother. Dk, you know I love you to death. I love you to death. And I hope what you say is right. The grass being greener on the other.
Shannon Sharpe
Side ain't a whole lot of wiring. Receivers that can play through bad quarterbacks. DeAndre Hopkins might be the best one I've ever seen.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Oh, a quarterback carousel out this world. And. And then nothing changed. Not an ounce of production.
Shannon Sharpe
Chase Keenum, Hoyer, Brock Osweiler, Obviously he had DeSean for that great stretch, and he. And DeShawn was great, but it didn't matter. The quarterback, D. Hop put up those numbers.
Bun B
Yeah. Unbelievable.
Shannon Sharpe
And. And so we're gonna. We're gonna find out. Like you said, Ojo know, we're going to find out if. What if dk. If what? He said that the grass is greener because, you know, look, I think the thing is, you get upset. You spend time there, you ask for contract, they won't give it to you, but you had to go somewhere else and get it. But, you know, they traded me. I don't get to trade. I don't get trading Sam Darnold because I don't believe Sam Darnold is a better quarterback than Geno Smith. That's just me personally. And then. Then you like, you trade Geno, you cut, lock it. You trade dk. Now you left. Now you bring in. And granted, I think it's the same coach that called plays. I think Clint Kubiak is the OC he was in his ear in Minnesota. Ocho. I know Clint when he was about this big. His dad was my quarterback and he's also my offensive coordinator, Gary Kubiak. But the decision that they made in Seattle didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. But guess what, Ocho? It don't need to make sense to me. It just needs to make sense to them. Yeah. Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Damn, man. I'm. Hey, listen, I'm. I'm hoping it. I'm hoping to work out, and I'm.
Bun B
I'm.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I'm thinking. I'm thinking it is going to work out. I like. I like the dynamic duo.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I like DK and George Pickens, you know?
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Two of my. Hey, listen, two of my favorite crash out receivers.
Shannon Sharpe
Well, you know, you know what's gonna happen if they don't get the ball?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Oh, they gonna get it. They gonna get Arthur Smith. Gonna make sure they get from who? They gonna make sure.
Shannon Sharpe
Well, why didn't he make sure. Why did he make sure George Pickens get the ball last year?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Hey, man, listen. You know, they roll. They rolling coverage to him now. It's a different ball game. Now. It's a different ball game.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay. I hope you right. I sure hope you right. Jake Paul just called out Anthony Joshua. I will effing beat Anthony Joshua.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Come on, man, stop.
Shannon Sharpe
He doesn't have a chin, he has no skill, and he's a stiff.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Come on, come on, come on, man.
Shannon Sharpe
I'm just telling what the man said, Ocho. I didn't say it. You make it seem like I called out Anthony Joshua.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I know. Listen. Yeah, listen. There's a certain. There's levels to everything. I love Jake Paul. I love everything Jake Paul has done, you know, in his own right, you know, in entertaining and finding a lane and space for what he loves to do. And the passion. The passion and work and discipline that he's put into the sport of boxing and combat sports in general. But we talk about the elites. We talk about the elites at their craft. Yeah, it's. It's not gonna happen. If I'm not mistaken, I think Jake fought Tommy Paul the closest, actually. Yeah, Tommy. You know, Tommy, if you want to challenge someone, challenge someone with the one loss you have, take him out.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah, he too big.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Anthony Johnson.
Shannon Sharpe
Anthony Johnson. Big for you, Wade.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Way too big, bro.
Shannon Sharpe
You talking about 245. What does Jake Paul wear, Ocho? 210, 215. He might wear 220.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I'm not sure. But listen again. I love Jake Paul, I love what he's done in his lane, in the sport, in combat sports and boxing in general. But you biting off more than you. You bite. You biting off more than. Because you can. You can chew, man. I love it, though. One thing you do need in anything you do that he does have is confidence and belief in yourself. Confidence and belief in yourself. It's no different. It's no different than me feeling like I could. I could be James Harrison, you know, it's no different.
Shannon Sharpe
But you can get money. The thing with Jake, Paul, he brings money. I mean, you got what, 60,000 showed up at what, 60,000 watched Netflix? I mean, I don't know whether it was 60,000 at Jerry World or how many or 300,000 watched Netflix. All I know is that he bring eyeballs and people show up to watch him fight. Maybe they show up to watch him lose, but at the end of the day, they're paying money to get into the arena.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Showing up. Listen, he's created himself and made himself the villain. He's made himself the villain. And the fact that everybody's tuning in to see him lose, he's in a great space and he's in the great lane. So what he's doing. He's doing it the right way. He's doing it the right way.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah. Ocho, A debate went viral on Twitter asking, should parents make their kids pay bills if they work a job? And the response went viral, saying, I'm just going to say it. This is a big problem in the black community, and we have to stop it. A lot of parents need help with their bills, so they take the money from their kids and disguise it as teaching them responsibility. And it's actually pretty effing ridiculous. Ocho, what do you think?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
You got to teach your kids responsibility at some point. You have to. I think if they're staying with you after the age of 18 now, if they're saving up, I wouldn't make my kids. If they need to stay with me after the age of 18. Are you saving up to get yourself a place? You have to have some sense of responsibility. I'm not gonna always be around, so you're gonna. You're gonna have to be able to be able to fend for yourself. I can teach you how to fish. I can teach you how to fish so you know how to do it when I'm not around. Now, if I do everything for you and still coddle you and have you up under my roof and you not having any type of responsibilities, and you go out There in the real world, you're gonna be lost. We can't have that. We can't have that. We got to have some type of structure and discipline and method on how things are to go. As a grown adult, you have to. But being under my roof and making sure, allowing you to save your money and get yourself together until you're ready to go on, on your own and be an adult, start a family, whatever it may be. I'm all for that. I'm all for that.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah. I mean, Ocho, I helped my grandmother with bills, but she didn't ask me to. I just felt it was the right thing to do because I saw my grandmother struggling. I'm making money, and so what? I'm gonna continue to watch her struggle. Now she's struggling trying to put food on the table for us. She's struggling trying to put food, get clues on our back. So here I am, I got a job, and I'm not making a whole lot of money, but $10 a lot was a lot of money back in the 70s. 20 was a lot of money back in the. In the 70s.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Shannon Sharpe
So, you know, I'm working two jobs. Hey, I mean, I remember the first time I got a job, I was five years old. I was walking behind the tobacco picker in the back office. 1973, 1974. And from that time, I started walking from walking behind the backup picker to carrying a row, to doing that. So I'm working 10, 12 hours a day doing that. Come home, shower. Me and my cousin, we play basketball and then go catch chickens for another three, four hours. So you make.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I'm making chicken was a dollar. A dollar chicken.
Bun B
Right.
Shannon Sharpe
So we catching 80, 12,000 a night. That's $12. Now you can only count chicken between Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Because Friday was the last day. There is nothing going on on Saturday. So you started. So you have. So they were going to be there. No, actually, Thursday was the last day. Thursday was the last day. You didn't catch on Friday because they were off on Saturday and Sunday that you called Sunday, they were there for the crew. The plant was operational Monday through Friday. So you called Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Then they. And so, you know, hey, I'm bringing home $5 a day plus half a day on Saturday, 27, 50 plus we catch 8 to 12,000 four nights a week. So I'm making maybe $60, but I'm working ass load hours.
Bun B
Yeah, okay.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Hey, that's. You know how. Hey, listen, back then, you know how Far. You can stretch $60 back there.
Shannon Sharpe
60. So even if I didn't help Ocho, guess what? I bought my own school clothes. Yeah, there ain't a whole lot of 8, 9, 10 year old, 11 year olds buying their own school clothes. Well, who else was gonna get them? What the hell I was working for. Yeah, I'm working, gonna hold my money. I'm gonna hold my money in my pocket. I'm watching my grandma struggle. Man bleeds.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I got a question.
Shannon Sharpe
Yes?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
What kind of, what kind of clothes you wore back then? Like Jordache?
Shannon Sharpe
Nah, nah, you know, you know, Citizen Roebuck, you know, we had to. But hey, okay. Then as I got older, Lee jeans were in. Oh, yeah, you had Sergio Rigoletto. You did have one. Yeah, you.
Bun B
Yeah, yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
You had Levi and stuff like Ivon. You had Polo. You had Dark Fire.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Hold on. Did you, did you, did you ever have a pair of rules? Please tell me you had rules with a zip on the side. You know, you know what rules are, right? Kangaroos.
Bun B
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
Walter Payton had kangaroos.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah, we had none of this.
Shannon Sharpe
I didn't have no kangaroo. No, we had, we had Chuck Taylor's, you know, back then.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Okay, okay.
Shannon Sharpe
Chuck Taylor's. The white, you had to meet. You had the highs and you had the lows, but you had them in all different colors. They came in black, they came in red, they came in blue, they came in green.
Bun B
Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
So, you know, you got. Mainly, I only had the white. I had the highs and the lows and I got a. I had a blue pair.
Bun B
Right.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
But, you know, hey, you know what's funny? They go with everything.
Bun B
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
It don't matter what you put on. You wear the black pair. You don't want the white pair. They go with everything.
Shannon Sharpe
Yes, yes. And so like I said, for me, and I get it, I mean, I can see her point. Trying to teach responsibility, but I was teaching myself responsibility because my whole purpose, like, man, I see my grandma struggling. She working that job, making $197 every two weeks, and she's, you know, working in a nursing home, the very nursing home that she ended up living her final days, the last two years of her life. Nah, man, I couldn't in good conscience, I could not in good conscience have money in my pocket and then have my grandma worried about. Well, boy, I don't know how I'm gonna pay this bill. This. I don't know. You know, the phone. I don't know about the gas, I don't know about the lights, man, please. So me, I took it upon myself and that is still my responsibility to this day is to make sure my family is taken care of.
Bun B
Right?
Shannon Sharpe
But you know, hey, my kids and their moms have done a great job helping them understand that's your daddy money. Now, if he choose to give you some, that's on him. But y'all don't know. I owe you an education. And I gave you the best education because all of you, for the most part, you didn't stay. But you started out in private school and you had college paid for. You got a car. You left college with no. With no debt, no student loans, no car loans. Yeah. Now anything I do after that, that's out of the kindness of my heart. But I don't owe you anything.
Bun B
Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
Now, hopefully you learned a lot from your mom and from your dad to be self sufficient. Now, I'm not gonna let you drown. Or at least, you know, you might think you're drowning. I might let you take on some water.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah. Matter of fact, you know my baby, Remember I told you my daughter. My daughter at Prairie B M, you know, she graduated. She graduated May 16th. Wait, May 16th and May 17th. Remember what I told you she wanted for graduation?
Shannon Sharpe
Huh?
Bun B
That.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
That G wagon. So we had a conversation when I was with all the kids. I told her, I say, listen, she done made the dean's list, the honorable. She done made everything.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I'm like, well, listen, now what you want? Now you say you wanted a Mercedes. What is it? So I'm thinking she was gonna say G wagon.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
And she said, no, daddy, you know, I don't really want no G wagon. I said, well, what happened? What made you change your mind? You say, I think it's too much. The maintenance. I just. I just think I just want to startle. Just give me a C300. I say, now we talking. Now we talking. You wanna. You want a white one? I could tell that. I could tell them to make your. Your interior pink, you know, with the AK stitched in the seat and all.
Shannon Sharpe
So what happened when she got to get rid of it? You better hope she sell it to another AKA.
Bun B
Man, I do.
Shannon Sharpe
But, you know, when we come to OO back then, guys used to get the headline to get Gucci, get mcm. I said, remember that? Yeah. Yeah, I remember that.
Bun B
Oh, yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
I said, well, you better hope. Hey, get. Get the initials Black. I said, you better hope you find another dude named Black that want to buy it, because I promise you, you gonna get great cross the Cos trying to sell it. Syracuse football head coach Fran Brown has a policy that his players must save 40% of their nil checks. There's no way, as a coach that I'm going to pay you a lot of money and then you're going to walk away from here with no money. Says during the upbringing in Camden, New Jersey, it could have been a difference in paying rent, keeping the lights on, buying food for his siblings. What you think? You like that, Ocho?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah, I like that. I like that. Because at some point, especially when you're that young, you know, kids. Kids these days don't understand financial literacy. They get the money, they spend the money. They have this. They have this mindset that that worth and value is based on aesthetics and the accessories that you purchase that makes you feel like you were greater than and make you worth or it makes you feel special. I want kids to understand, especially people in the chat, that a lot of players and athletes today, regardless of sport that they play, they feel that they have to live way above their means based on the type of money they're making. People in the chat, players that see this, there is nothing, I guarantee you, and I promise you, there is nothing you can buy that holds more weight or value than your name alone. No, nothing. Nothing than the name that's on that birth certificate. Because when you take all that, when you take off all that designer. All the jewelry, all the watches, that in itself is the value. Yeah, it is.
Bun B
And then what you're going to do.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Your car, your Lamborghinis and your Rolls Royce and your iced out watch and your chains and all, man, that shit don't mean nothing, man. Nothing. The true value. Can you get the same reaction without the car?
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Without the clothes, without the jury, can you still pull the same chicks? That's your value. That's your real worth. Can you still do the same things you do with all the accessories, aesthetics on when you don't have it on? Yeah, yeah. Come on, man, stop playing, man.
Shannon Sharpe
Oh, Joe. See, the thing is, with me, people like, I don't like money. I like freedom. Freedom is what you get when you have money. Those are two different things. Some people just want money. I want freedom.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Hey, financial freedom is a beautiful thing, huh?
Shannon Sharpe
It absolutely is.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
We look at, listen, we look at all the numbers, we look at these, these huge gargantuan contracts, you know?
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Still, to this day, the money keeps going up.
Bun B
Right? Right.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
And one thing that has changed when you look up, statistically, the same amount of players are still going broke, two years removed from the game, even though the money continues to rise. All that's telling me the fact that nothing is changing from a financial standpoint because there's no structure and discipline when it comes to spending. Because our mindset is, well, if you give me more, I won't go broke.
Shannon Sharpe
No, you just spend more.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
If you ain't got no financial. If you ain't got no financial discipline, it don't matter how much I give you you. Because you're just gonna keep on spending.
Shannon Sharpe
Exactly. The more you make, the more you'll spin because you're like, oh, man, I got this. I got this. Now. I can do this.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Hey, it goes so fast, Unc. Man, it goes so fast. Before you look up, you got an entourage. You got an entourage. You, you, you, you the golden goose. You got to feed everybody else. You go shopping now. You got to buy everybody else something.
Shannon Sharpe
Yes.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
You go to the club, you spending 40, 50, 000 in the section buying bottles. You got a bunch of chicks, you know, trying to impress them. For what? For what they done. Google how much you making. You ain't got to do nothing. Your name alone gonna get you the woman you want anyway. They gonna deal with you based off a name alone. You don't.
Shannon Sharpe
Man, what.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
What are we doing? Hey, man, stop playing.
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Shannon Sharpe
Last segment of the evening Q and A.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Man hey you. Hey you just got me hot man. That, that, that little combo man. Golly man.
Shannon Sharpe
Cupcake Mama, it was nice to see you today in Charleston. Don't drink but I wanted to support you as well as give my soon to be ex husband a nice parting gift. Cupcake Mama thank you. That was very very nice of you to show up and support all of Charleston showed up and she also said Shannon, you and Ocho should do a Cognac cigar tour. Call it Cognac Swirl and Smoke Curls. Cognac swirls, Smoke Curls if you guys could find the time being both being that both of you are extremely busy. We are. But I want to thank everybody in Charleston and Mount Pleasant. There was North Charleston and Mount Pleasant guys that showed up and we ran out at one place, Ocho and a lot of the people like hey. And I took pictures with them and I said I apologize even though it was not my fault. They ended up going to the place in North Charleston and we greatly, greatly West Charleston. It's West Charleston. Right? West. And I really appreciate that so, guys. Thank you again in Charleston. Mount Pleasant. All you guys that came up came out and showed out. This tour's been unbelievable. Atlanta, you were great. Savannah, you were exceptional. Baltimore, you hit it at the park. Charleston. Knocked it out of the park. Connecticut, Hartford, Chicago, Miami, man. Houston. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Trey Bresman. What's up, Uncan? Ocho. Big fans of the pod. Thank you for coming out in Charleston today, making it a memory of a lifetime for me and my brother. Can't wait to see y'all in Charlotte in July. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you for supporting. Thank you guys for coming out. Bam. Gaming. Hey, Shannon. I'm so excited to see you in Pooler, Georgia. Thank you so much for the cherished memory and the tasteful liquor. Tasteful liquor. C. Young, bro, thank you so much, man. I thank you guys. I can't thank you enough for coming out and showing that level of support that you gave me today. Dr. Frankie L. Bellamy. Hope you had fun in South Carolina today. Ocho, I've been seeing your videos. Horseback riding, tennis, et cetera. You tried to join Yellowstone in the US Open at the same time.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Oh, yeah.
Bun B
Oh, yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I'm trying to do everything. I'm trying to diversify my portfolio and do as many things as possible.
Shannon Sharpe
Me, myself. And I said ESPN kept Caitlin Clark out of the top five women college ranks because of no championships. A championship is a team, not an individual. Correct. Why is this still happening to her? What the F did she do wrong? That's just the way it is. I mean, if you go back and look at it, what player didn't win a championship that's in the top five in basketball? Now, in baseball, I mean, you got Barry Bonds, but Barry won seven MVPs. And I. Look, I don't know. I didn't see the list. So without me saying. I'm saying Stewie should be number one. Right? Three Most Outstanding player. No, Four Most Outstanding Players. Three College Players of the Year. Four National Championship. She should be number one. Now, you can put whoever is you want after that. So if you want Cheryl Miller, you want Candace Parker, you want Momore, you want dt, I ain't got no problem with that. Hey, if you want to throw. I don't know if y'all remember Cheryl Swoops when she was at Texas State? She won the national championship. Dropped 48 in the championship game, and they beat Ohio State, led by Katie Smith. I remember that game. She was sensational. But I don't. Like I said, without seeing the list, I'M think I'm thinking Ocho. Like, you know, Candace, Maya Moore, dt, Stewie, Shamika's whole claw. I don't know. I'm trying to think who else could could possibly be in there? Cooper. Cynthia Cooper. Because I think she was on one of those national championship teams with. Okay, Brianna was number one. Candace park was number two. Diana Tasu was number three. M. Moore was number four. Cheryl Miller was number five. OO without even knowing it, did I not give you the names? Yeah, I. I'm like, I didn't see. Didn't see. I'm just basically, I'm old enough to remember them all. O. I'm old enough to remember them all. So I saw Cheryl Miller play. I saw her win back to back national championships. And then I saw them lose to an undefeated Texas team. Team. They beat. They beat the latest team, the latech. Kim Mul was on those team. But Brianna Stewart, that's a no brainer. Brianna Stewart is a no brainer. It's like Kareem. If you talk about the greatest college basketball player for men, it's Kareem. Kareem, he lost two games, three most outstanding players, three national championships. Because remember, OO the freshmans couldn't play back then. But Kareem freshman team beat the varsity team that had just won the national championship championship. Yeah. So the UCLA team that won the national championship team Kareem's freshman team beat them in a game. So for basketball, it's a no brainer. It's Kareem now. We can go wherever you want to go after that. You want to go Jerry Lucas, you want to go Oscar Robinson, you want to go Christian Laettner, you want to go Ralph Sampson. Ralph Sampson was a three time player of the year. Didn't win a national championship. He only got to the final four. So whomever you want to put after Kareem, I mean, I probably ain't going to even fight you, but Kareem gonna be number one. Just like Breonna Stewart should be number one. Yeah, I mean, what you call them? UConn took all the spots. They got three of the five spots. They got Stewie, they got DT, they got Mile Moore. So. But yeah, I can see that. Candace Parker, two time national championship. She was player of the year, most outstanding player. I ain't got no list. I ain't got no problem with the list. I ain't got no problem with the list. I don't ocho. Hey, J213. Hey Uncle Joe. Do you believe Michael Jackson would be More or less famous. If he was performing during the normalization of social media. Look, I don't know what he be. I just know I've never seen anybody that enlisted the response. When I see. When I. Look, when people start having concerts and people pass out before he performs, when they. Yeah, that's what I'm gonna say. They're bigger than Michael.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
Is bigger than Mike. No, you're never gonna see that again.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
It's not even close. Not even close. Not even close.
Shannon Sharpe
Like I said. Like I said, you gotta. I'm old. Like I said, I'm old enough to remember when he came out with off the Wall, and I think, what, 78. And then, you know, when he came out with Thriller, it was game over. But what happened to Mike is what Ocho. He couldn't get over the fact he kept trying to replicate Thriller and he didn't realize Thriller was Haley's comic, and he couldn't. He just. I mean, he had albums doing 10 million. I mean, think about it. Bad was a damn good album. Off the Wall was a great album, I think. What was the Remember the Time album was on? What was the name of that album? Invincible. Was it Invincible? But anyway, he. I mean, yeah. And I. Ocho, I. I remember we just had the conversation. I said, cat Williams was my Thriller. I'm not gonna drive myself crazy trying to go.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Trying to. Trying to try to replicate and do it again.
Shannon Sharpe
You're not going to do it. And we've had great interviews before. We've had great interviews after. And I know a lot of people don't like the guest selection, but, hey, I believe in being diverse. I'm not going to try to hide, you know, hey, I liked Amber. I love. Oh, man. Young. Me and Young Miami playing that game. We had a great time. But Dangerous. Dangerous. That was the name of it.
Bun B
Yes.
Shannon Sharpe
Dangerous.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Okay.
Shannon Sharpe
Unbelievable. Unbelievable album. But he didn't like, you know, 10 million. I do. You know, an artist would give their left arm, right arm or leg to sell 10 million copies of an album.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Listen, and we ain't talk about no streams.
Shannon Sharpe
We talk about hard copies.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
People going in the store, and they.
Shannon Sharpe
Used to go to the store and get the. The actual hard copy of the album or the CD or the cassette.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
That's different. Yeah, that's different. Not no streams where you can. You can manipulate everything and get more. Man, please. Not comparable.
Shannon Sharpe
No Danny, Little John said UNC and Ocho. Who's better, Shaq or Dwight in Orlando?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
That's a question for you.
Shannon Sharpe
That's Close. Both went to one final. Both got, both got swept. I think I might have to go with Dwight three time defensive player of the year and I don't think Dwight had a comparable player to Penny. See what I'm saying, Ocho? Yeah, if you look at it. But Shaq, you got to realize Shaq didn't stay that long. Shaq was only there. Shaq was there. 92, 93, 94, 95. He's only there four years. People don't realize that. People look at Sha face. Shaq stayed up. No, shaq was there four years. 92, 93, 94, 95, 96. He was with the, he was with the with Lake show. Yes. He got, we got. He went to the lake of the free agent.
Bun B
You.
Shannon Sharpe
Breaking news. Steph Curry just went to the locker room grabbing his tailbone after a hard fall. He's out the rest of the game. You remember was that a couple of years ago he had that bruised tailbone injury that caused him to miss some games.
Bun B
He missed.
Shannon Sharpe
I think he missed a couple of weeks cuz, you know, they, they, they skinny. They ain't got no overall.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
You ain't got no cushion.
Shannon Sharpe
John Arena. What's up, Unocho? I listen to y'all every morning at work. Y'all dropping wisdom and knowledge I tried to apply to my life. Thank you. Thank you for listening. Thank you for your support.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Salute.
Shannon Sharpe
Mike Brown saw old clips of prime looking like Mr. Clean. Now he got good hairline for the plug. A lot of us brothers need help up again. Steph Curry just went to the locker room after having a a tough spill. Thank you guys for joining us for another episode of Night Cap, brought to you by Boost Mobile. Visit your nearest Boost Mobile store or boost mobile.com to join their nationwide 5G network today. I am your favorite UN, Shannon Sharp. He is Ocho Cinco, the rock runner extraordinaire, the bingo ring of fame honoree, the pro bowler, the all pro, the Liberty City legend. That is him. Please make sure you hit that subscribe button. Please make sure you hit that like button and go subscribe to the Nightcap podcast feed wherever you get your podcast from. Thank you for your support and hopefully you'll continue to support up and ojo here at Nightcap. Make sure you check out Shave by La Portier. We do have it in stock and if you can't find it in a city or a state near you order it, we will ship it directly to you. Thank you guys for all the stops that I mentioned earlier for coming out and showing your support. Please drink responsibly and stay safe. Go check out my media company page on all of his platforms, Shay Shay Media and my clothing company 84. With 84 being spelled out, everything is restocked. The link is pinned at the top of the chat. Supplies are limited and once they're gone, they're gone. So please grab yours while supplies last. Thank you Penny Hardaway for joining us. Thank you Triple OG Bun B for joining us. We greatly greatly appreciate that that that concludes Nightcap.
Bun B
I'm up.
Shannon Sharpe
He's Ocho. We will see you Sunday night. Thank you.
Bun B
The volume.
Shannon Sharpe
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Club Shay Shay – Episode Summary: Bun B, DK Metcalf, and Jake Paul Showdown
Released on March 21, 2025
In this engaging episode of Club Shay Shay, NFL legend Shannon Sharpe hosts a compelling conversation featuring special guest Bun B, a renowned rapper and entrepreneur. The episode delves into Bun B’s latest ventures, his contributions to the Houston community, insightful discussions on local sports teams, and touches on recent sports news involving DK Metcalf and Jake Paul.
Time Stamp: 07:33
Shannon Sharpe welcomes Bun B to the show, highlighting his multifaceted career as a musician, entrepreneur, and community leader. The chemistry between Shannon, Bun B, and co-host Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco) sets a vibrant tone for the episode.
Time Stamp: 07:48
Shannon Sharpe: "Bun, where did you come up with the idea to start Trill Burger?"
Bun B explains that the concept originated from mutual friends transitioning into the culinary and marketing sectors. Recognizing the potential of the Smashburger trend in Texas, Bun B partnered to create Trill Burger, emphasizing quality and brand ownership. He shares, “Anybody that's ever had it will tell you they may have had good burgers, but no one has ever done with a hamburger what we’ve done.”
Time Stamp: 10:42
Bun B discusses his involvement with the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, focusing on diversifying the event’s musical lineup to include hip hop, R&B, and gospel. He emphasizes the importance of reflecting Houston’s diverse culture to attract a wider audience while maintaining a family-friendly atmosphere.
Bun B: “We want to make entertainment as authentic and realistic and approachable as possible for people.”
Time Stamp: 19:56
Bun B highlights his commitment to the Houston community, describing how Trill Burger serves as a cultural hub during the rodeo with offerings like burgers, merchandise, and interactive activities. He outlines his plans to expand Trill Burger to additional locations in Spring, Texas, with aspirations to enter Dallas and Austin by summer.
Bun B: “We've made something that now gives people an entry point... if they don't know about it, they haven't had any experience.”
Time Stamp: 35:52
The conversation shifts to local sports, with Bun B expressing enthusiasm for the Houston Cougars, Astros, Rockets, and Texans. He provides insights into the Astros' rebuilding phase, praises the Rockets' young talent, and discusses the Texans' strategic moves to strengthen their offensive line.
Bun B: “The Astros are perennial playoff team, but it's going to take more this year to get to that final step.”
Time Stamp: 62:37
Shannon and Chad engage Bun B in a discussion about financial literacy, particularly among young athletes. They stress the importance of financial discipline over flashy spending to ensure long-term financial freedom.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco): “There is nothing you can buy that holds more weight or value than your name alone.”
Shannon Sharpe: “You just spend more... freedom is what you get when you have money.”
Time Stamp: 56:19
The hosts briefly touch upon DK Metcalf’s comments about moving to the Steelers, questioning the team's quarterback situation. They analyze the potential impact on the team’s receivers and overall performance.
Shannon Sharpe: “Considering the Steelers don't have a quarterback, how can he be so sure that the grass is greener on the other side?”
Time Stamp: 59:30
The episode concludes with a lively exchange about Jake Paul challenging Anthony Joshua. While Shannon relays Jake Paul’s bold claim to defeat Joshua, Chad offers a nuanced perspective, acknowledging Jake’s entertainment prowess but questioning the feasibility of his challenge against seasoned fighters.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco): “He's created himself and made himself the villain... he's in a great space and he's in the great lane.”
Bun B: “What I mean by what we’ve done is we care about it more than I think other people care about a burger.”
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco): “You got to have some type of structure and discipline and method on how things are to go.”
Shannon Sharpe: “You're in good hands with Allstate.”
This episode of Club Shay Shay offers a deep dive into Bun B’s entrepreneurial journey, his dedication to enhancing Houston’s cultural landscape, and his insights on sports and financial responsibility. Shannon Sharpe and his co-hosts facilitate a rich dialogue, making it a must-listen for fans interested in the intersection of sports, music, and community leadership.
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