Nightcap Hour 3: Quentin Richardson HATES Wemby POLITICKING for MVP + 49ers NFLPA Report Cards RELEASED

Summary

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Club Shay Shay: Nightcap Hour 3

Episode: Quentin Richardson HATES Wemby POLITICKING for MVP + 49ers NFLPA Report Cards RELEASED
Date: March 30, 2026
Hosts & Guests:

• Chad Ochocinco Johnson (“Ocho”)
• Joe Johnson (“ISO”)
• Special mentions: Quentin Richardson, Shannon Sharpe

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Overview of the Episode

This episode of Nightcap brings together Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson, Joe Johnson, and rotating guest commentary to unpack recent NBA and NFL headlines. Highlights include debate over Victor Wembanyama (“Wemby”) campaigning for NBA MVP as a rookie, unpacking the effects of the NFLPA report cards (specifically for the 49ers), player wellness facility upgrades, and live Q&A touching on sports, career advice, and the culture of professional athletics. The conversation is rich with anecdotes, hot takes, good-natured banter, and lived experiences spanning both football and basketball.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Victor Wembanyama “Politicking” for MVP (02:22–04:59)

• Quentin Richardson’s Take: Quentin Richardson is critical of Wemby’s public campaigning for the NBA MVP award, arguing that players should "let your game do all the talking." He says this was not done in his era.

  • "I like everything about Wimby, but I didn't like that big fella. Your game is doing all the talking. I don't feel he should have had to go up there and politic to prove why he's the MVP.” —Chad, 02:22
  • "My era really wasn't like that. We wouldn't go up there and say I should be the MVP. We'd be like, in the locker room, 'What is he doing?'" —Chad, 02:22

• Joe Johnson & Ochocinco’s Perspective: Both agree with Quentin, with Joe Johnson predicting Wemby will win multiple MVPs in the future regardless.

  • "You gotta let your game do all the talking… your job is to put your skills and talent on display, and then let the fans, let the voters do the rest." —Joe, 02:49
  • "He ain't gonna be MVP this year. But I promise, boy, in the next five years, I wouldn't be surprised he had two or three of them things." —Joe, 03:03

• Debate on Self-Promotion in Team Sports: Ocho critiques the ‘diva’ label attached to expressive or self-promoting players.

  • "Anytime… you got any type of personality, any type of individualism… they use the word diva. I, I don't, I don't like the word because it's a negative connotation.” —Ocho, 04:14

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2. NFLPA Report Cards & 49ers Facility Upgrades (05:02–10:20)

• NFLPA Report Card Fallout: Discussion of the recent NFLPA report cards revealing poor grades for 49ers’ training staff and facilities.

  • ”The 49ers found that players wanted more 1-on-1 attention. So guess what they're doing? Hiring three more PTs, investing $9 million in hydro areas, cold plunge and pools…” —Chad, 05:02

• Positive Response vs. NFL’s Usual Approach: Contrast between 49ers’ positive action and NFL's tendency to suppress negative grades.

  • "Instead of like, ah man, I can't believe they did this—they did something about it.” —Chad, 05:02

• Facilities Arms Race: Ocho and Joe compare state-of-the-art amenities in modern facilities to what they had as players—with nostalgia and envy.

  • "Man, I ain't never seen nothing like that, boy. It looked like ... I don't even know how to explain it... The locker rooms looked like a five-star hotel." —Ocho, 07:14
  • Discussion includes hydro tubs with underwater treadmills, cryotherapy, and old-school player hacks (e.g. cold-plunging in cattle troughs at home).

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3. Live Q&A & Fan Interaction (18:47–36:12)

• Finding Identity and Side Hustles (21:07–24:59)

  • A young fan asks for advice on finding identity beyond his job and creating side hustles.

  • "You gotta figure out what your purpose is... what are you passionate about? What is it that you can do where it doesn't feel like work?" —Ocho, 21:45

  • "If you build, they'll come." —Chad, 22:33

  • "You gotta find something you passionate about, something that doesn't feel like work.” —Chad, 23:17

  • Joe's advice: Sacrifice, put your head down, work on your craft, be focused and passionate.

• Favorite Cities/Opposing Venues to Play In (25:22–28:42)

  • Joe lists L.A., Dallas, Memphis, and New York for their atmosphere, crowds, and opportunities to reconnect with friends.
  • Ocho chooses Kansas City for the fan energy, and reflects on the difficulties of playing on dual-purpose baseball/football fields.

• Debate: Iceman Trademark (31:07–32:39)

  • Caleb Williams’ attempt to copyright the nickname “Iceman” sparks debate, comparing George Gervin, Chuck Liddell, and cultural branding.

• Sports Movie Rankings (33:18–36:01)

  • “Above the Rim,” “Love & Basketball,” “He Got Game,” “Space Jam”—enthused debate on orders of greatness, favorite soundtracks, and personal concert anecdotes.
    • "Above the Rim… I still watch that to this day." —Joe, 33:54

• NFL & NBA Lifestyle (35:10–37:21)

  • Addressing public perceptions of "party culture" among pro athletes: "They party just like that [Any Given Sunday]. Matter of fact, it's not exaggerated. They party more." —Ocho, 35:44 "You can smell that look on them when they out there running… in the huddle, when they run in the huddle." —Joe, 36:56

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4. Rapid-Fire Q&A and Fun Banter (41:05–62:20)

• Unique Wedding Services by Ocho (44:12–45:43)

  • Chad reveals he’s a licensed minister—offers to officiate and perform at fans’ weddings (music packages come with R&B, rap, or rock, as desired for an affordable $500).
    • "I'm licensed. When y' all get married, I can officiate your wedding, let me know... I could perform, too." —Ocho, 45:01

• Debate: Need for Facility & Contract Improvements (57:04–58:21)

  • Ocho suggests the NFL should let defensive backs play more freely as before.
  • Chad proposes guaranteed contracts or lifetime health benefits for five-year players.

• Candid Advice:

  • On returning to the NFL at 23 (61:07)
    • "You gotta be special... it's easier to get in and stay than it is to get out and get back in." —Chad, 61:48

• Final Four Breakdown (62:23–63:34)

  • Recap of NCAA men’s basketball: UConn's and Michigan's wins, star performances, and projected Final Four matchups.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Wemby MVP Politics:

  • "You gotta let your game do all the talking… let the fans, let the voters do the rest.” —Joe, 02:49

• Facilities then vs. now:

  • "I went to a farm store, a feed store, and got me a cow trough. That's what I had at home [for ice baths]." —Chad, 12:14

• On Sacrifice and Purpose:

  • “If you build, they'll come.” —Chad, 22:33
  • “Put your head down and get to work, bro. Eliminate all distractions.” —Joe, 23:56

• On Defensive Play:

  • “Even as an offensive player, I'd love for the NFL to go back to how it once was for defensive players… so they're not as handicapped.” —Ocho, 57:08

• Banter:

  • "You ain't never played against nobody that got the gift of gab that I do..." —Ocho, 55:00
  • "I'm too tall to be playing small, homeboy, and you know what I mean?" —Joe, 55:54

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Wemby MVP Debate: 02:22–04:59
• 49ers NFLPA Report Card & Facility Comparison: 05:02–10:20
• Audience Q&A (Identity, Purpose, Side Hustle): 21:07–24:59
• Favorite Cities/Opponents: 25:22–28:42
• “Iceman” Trademark Debate: 31:07–32:39
• Basketball Movie Rankings: 33:18–36:01
• Pro Sports Lifestyle: 35:10–37:21
• Ocho: Licensed Wedding Officiant: 44:12–45:43
• NFL/NBA Improvements Debate: 57:04–58:21
• NCAA Basketball Final Four Wrap: 62:23–63:34

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Conclusion & Takeaway

Nightcap Hour 3 is a lively, insightful exploration of what's new and relevant in the world of pro sports, with personal anecdotes, player perspective, and interactive audience exchanges. The conversation captures the evolving dynamics of athlete self-promotion, critiques and celebrates facility and player care advancements, gives practical advice to aspiring young listeners, and celebrates sports culture’s humor and heart.
Ocho and Joe’s chemistry and authenticity shine throughout, as does their commitment to connecting with fans about much more than just scores and stats.

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Transcript

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[Chad Ochocinco]

Quentin Richardson doesn't like Victor Women. Yama trying to politic his way to an mvp. I like everything about Wimby, but I didn't like that big fella. Your game is doing all the talking. I don't feel he should have had to go up there in politics to prove why he's the mvp. Now, I also say he's not the MVP this year. SGA is. My era really wasn't like that. We wouldn't go up there and say I should be the mvp. Why? We would be like, in the locker room. What is he doing?

[Joe Johnson]

Right, right. It's a different times, bro. But I. I definitely agree with Q. You gotta let your game do all the talking. Let your game do all the talking. I. I don't. I ain't with that neither, Uncle Ocho, you know, you out here politicking for yourself, man.

[Chad Ochocinco]

You. Your.

[Joe Johnson]

Your job is to put your skills and talent on display, and then you let the. Let the fans, let the voters do the rest. You know what I mean? But, yeah, he ain't gonna be MVP this year. But I promise y', all, boy, in the next five years, I wouldn't be surprised. He had two or three of them things.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah. Hey, Joe. You don't like that, Joe?

[Joe Johnson]

Him. Him politicking?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I don't. I wouldn't. I mean, obviously, it is politicking, but you just said it. Putting your game and your skill on display. He do it every night, every time he out there. So just. Just throwing that out there just a little bit, you know, to add a little seasoning on the flavor, you know, based on his game and what he's already doing, he's showing what he can do on the offensive end, on the defensive end. Hell, he. He hella deal with.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah. Oh, he is. No doubt about.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Let me. Let me. Let me tell. Let me tell you about it a little bit, huh?

[Chad Ochocinco]

Let me tell you about it a little office. Should you politic, hold up a sign. Vote for me. I'm your candidate. A vote for Sharp is a vote for success, right?

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, hey, you know. You know, oo. He played that wide receiver position, man, you know, they divas. Well, Uncle Unc might be considered a little wide receiver too, huh?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, Uncle Diva. I don't like the word that they use. I hate that. I hate that moniker. But I mean, hey, anytime, Joe, you got any type of personality, any type of individualism, you know, yeah, you. You outlandish. You know, you express yourself in A way that they don't see fit. They use the word diva. I, I don't, I don't like the

[Joe Johnson]

word because it's, it's.

[Chad Ochocinco]

When it's connected, it's a negative connotation that's attached to it because when it's a team sport.

[Joe Johnson]

Now if you're a boxer or golfer or something.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Right, right, right, right.

[Joe Johnson]

You know, it may be a little different, especially for a boxer. Yeah, you gotta campaign for yourself. But when you play in a team sport, I think it's just a little different because I don't care what you say. You need your teammates.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

You feel me? Yeah, absolutely.

[Joe Johnson]

I think that's why, you know, it kind of gets a, it gets frowned upon.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yes, it's a bad rap. I don't like the word.

[Chad Ochocinco]

They make it seem like wide receivers are the only one that need their teammates. Quarterback need the teammate too. But when he fir. Oh, that's passion. We do it. It's a problem. I get it. Oo could have said let's effing go all the time. What is he doing over there? That, that's a malcontent. Hey, he tried to fire his teammate up. One is frowned upon, one is smiled upon. Yeah, yeah, but I get it, I get it. Oh, this is going to be right up your alley. John Lynn said the 49ers dug deeper into the NFLPA report card and in which team training staff grades were relatively poor. The 49ers found that players wanted more one on one attention. So guess what they're doing Ocho hiring three more pts, investing $9 million in hydro areas clothe, plunge and pools at which had graded low at the team facility. Okay. This is why, that's why I don't want them out. Because they don't want that report out there instead of, instead of like, ah man, I can't believe they did this. They did something about it. What the NFL do. See, NFL don't want no negative grade, so they suppress that. Whoa, whoa. So we'll get rid of pro football focus grades. That's an independent party. I want to get, I want us to get back in good graces with the NFL.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Right.

[Chad Ochocinco]

I'm gonna shut up. Right.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Listen, I'm picking up what you put down, but obviously this is, this is a good thing. This is a good thing for the players. Obviously. You know, when it comes to the 49ers, they already have a bad rep. Huh. You know, when it comes to injuries, they've had a bad injury history, you know, over the years. Obviously, I, I like what Fred Warner said when he came on the show when we were down there in San Francisco and debunking the fact that it had anything to do with the, the power plant, the fire plant that is sitting adjacent. He just said, obviously his football is a, it's a, it's a barbaric sport. Injuries do happen, but what the 49ers are choosing to do and, and, and adding, you know, 3pts and, and, and

[Chad Ochocinco]

cold plunge and things like that. Yes.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Improvements on those things to see if they can, they can help reduce some of these injuries that they're, they are having, you know, in season is, is a great thing.

[Joe Johnson]

It's a good thing they, My bad they don't already have all this uncle

[Chad Ochocinco]

OO I, I, but they're adding more.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, I, I, I would have thought they did. Hey, unk that goddamn Bengals facility, you hear me? I don't know how much money they pumped into that. Hey, hey, Joe. The locker rooms.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I ain't never seen nothing like that, Joe, man, I ain't never seen nothing like that, boy. It looked like you. It looked like. I, I don't even know how to explain it. I don't even know how to explain it. I just, I've never. Because what I'm used to when I walked in the locker room, Joe.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

You know, and when I, when I went in the Bengals locker room now, like today, I like, man, it's almost unfair.

[Joe Johnson]

Oh, Joe.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

It's almost unfair.

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, Unc, you ever been to the Hawks practice facility? The one they got next to Emory?

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah, I've never been to it, but I saw it. I went, I went and looked at it. Looked. I'm like, okay, y', all, y', all, y' all did it now.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

It's nice, Joe.

[Joe Johnson]

Man, Ocho, every time I go in there, because I do a lot of work with the house.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[Joe Johnson]

I get, I get pissed off every time I walk in there.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Well, y' all had it when I

[Joe Johnson]

was, man, when I was playing him. We got one. Listen, at the arena, at State Farm arena, it was called Phillips arena back in the day.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[Joe Johnson]

It's one small practice court inside the arena. That's what we practice at every day, bro. Yeah, like when I walk into their practice facility now, Ocho, I'm talking about state of the art, partner. You hear me? I'm talking about everything. The bells and whistles, they got it. I'm talking about, man, listen, I'm thinking about getting me an intern with the strength and conditioning coach man, just so I can go in there and work out. Yeah. I mean, and keep the guys, right?

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, hey, hey. I, I, I, I want to be nosy. I should have asked somebody how much, you know, Mr. Brown. And the Brown family poured into the training room, the locker room, the weight room, the nutrition, the cafeteria. Hey, Joe, it's like walking in some five star hotel when you talk about the bells and whistles with all the lightning.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Charging stations,

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

the players lockers.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Every, every, everything all lit up with the name.

[Joe Johnson]

And I'm like, big old comfy chairs. Oh, man, they got it.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, Joe. Unbelievable. Like that. The training room with the, with the pools and the. I mean, listen, I didn't spend no time in the training room. The only time I went out, it went in there. Was it, you know, at halftime to get the iv, you know, when it was hot. Because I would always. Cramp on my calf muscles.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I mean, I, I, I was jealous. I was jealous.

[Chad Ochocinco]

And I am too.

[Joe Johnson]

I am too. Ain't gonna lie.

[Chad Ochocinco]

I've been there. Yeah, it's, it's a. Man, look here. They got all these dip tanks and infrared and. Yeah, yeah, they got cryo. Yeah, they got all that. They got. The Broncos got like two or three cryo tanks and they got all these infrared saunas and infrared beds.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

And I still don't understand that.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Those cold plunges, they got like three, four cold plunges. They got sauna, steam room.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, you understand that? What? That they got three of those infrared, what you call it?

[Joe Johnson]

Infrared. Yeah.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

What the hell? What is that for?

[Joe Johnson]

It's to help to, it's to help your, like, red blood cells for recovery. So it's like giving your red blood cells a shot of espresso, you know what I mean? To, to, to kind of wake them up.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Speeds up healing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, hey, my favorite one is that that hydro tub when they got the treadmill inside that? Oh, yeah, you getting that water, you can get on that treadmill, man.

[Chad Ochocinco]

It takes all the, in all buoyancy. So ain't no, ain't no pressure. Ain't nothing on the knees, the ankles, the joints.

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, I can run that thing all day. You hear me?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, Joe, that's for when you hurt, right? When you, when you, when you hurt and you coming back from injuries.

[Joe Johnson]

Well, it ain't necessarily when you hurt. You could do it for recovery because, you know, just being in the water like it's recovery. So. They used to make us get in the pool like we on the road. They'll wake you up early in the morning, make you go to the pool and just walk around in like 5ft of water for like 20 minutes. That's. That's an active recovery.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Okay?

[Joe Johnson]

So to have a treadmill under the water, like, man, that was everything, bro.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I.

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, look, I was always fascinated, that thing. Did you.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Cause you know that the way that, the way it was set up because you had a current, so.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Going against you. Yeah. So you.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Man, look at. Turn that thing down. Let me. Hey,

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

hey, Joe. Did you like the cold tub, Joe?

[Joe Johnson]

I ain't like it, but I used to do. I used to do the hot and cold contrast, Ocho.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah. Hey, hey, Joe. I love that cold tub. Why? You know, my. My crazy ass. I would wait till people be in the cold tub and I wait till they all in there and I go jump in. I cannonball in there. Hey, they used to hate that, Joe.

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, hey, we be fighting in the cold tub. That's the first thing we tell you. Hey, man, don't get in here splashing all that water, man. You need to sit down and be still.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Because when we first started, you know, the cold, our cold tub was a. A trash cans.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

No, no, no. Cold plunge, no taste like that. Sit your ass in a big ass one of rubber made trash cans.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

You serious?

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah,

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah, I remember that.

[Chad Ochocinco]

I mean, at home, that's what I did. I went to a farm. I went to a. A farm store, a feeding store, and got me a cow trough. Yeah, that's what I. At home, that's what I had. Yeah, I would go to, go to a convenience store, get me 10 bags of ice.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Ice. Okay, okay.

[Chad Ochocinco]

And then I was like, you know what? Then I bought me an ice maker that made 200 pounds of ice. There you go. Put that in there. Yeah.

[Joe Johnson]

Now you cooking with grease boy.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah, yeah, I had everything. I had got the normal tech boots and I got a. A game ready. Yeah, all that stuff. Yeah, I had a laser. I let somebody borrow and it never gave it back to me.

[Joe Johnson]

Tony Banks, man, I got that. Hey, I got that. I got that infrared sauna in my yoga studio.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

God damn. You got one in the studio?

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah, I got one. Got cryotherapy in the studio. Ocho, we ain't playing, man. You gonna come out of there glowing baby eyes, gonna be like this here? Yeah.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

And you got. Hey, Joe, you got money? What?

[Joe Johnson]

Here we go.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I'm just saying, I. I only seen stuff like that, you know, in. In the movie.

[Joe Johnson]

It ain't about Having no money, Ocho. You know, it's just being. It's about being intentional and proactive. There you go.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, you know how. You know how you be intentional and proactive, Joe? Yeah, by having money.

[Joe Johnson]

Talking about where you get the dude from man who raises.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Hey.

[Joe Johnson]

Oh, man.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, Joe.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Unc.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey. Hey, check this out real quick, right?

[Joe Johnson]

What's up?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

What do you. What do you call friends that eat together? Like, you know.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Friends.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Like, you know, what do you call friends that eat together?

[Joe Johnson]

Friends that eat together.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Friends. Friends that eat together. Friends.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Eat together.

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Why do we try so hard?

[Chad Ochocinco]

So I can breathe. Why do you need to breathe? So I can think. If I can breathe. If I can breathe, I can think.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I can think.

[Chad Ochocinco]

If I can think.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

If I can think, then I can win.

[Chad Ochocinco]

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[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Audience Member]

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[Chad Ochocinco]

Why?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

What's wrong?

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Chad Ochocinco]

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[Chad Ochocinco]

What you got?

[Joe Johnson]

Joe Associates.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

No taste buds.

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, listen, I'll be sitting here trying to think of the most off the wall stuff. I'm like, man, I know this. This dude. Hey, Ojo. Ojo. They say you laugh like Kermit the Frog.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Oh, that was a good one.

[Joe Johnson]

That was a good one.

[Chad Ochocinco]

You wait till you find out what the the NFL trying to do about these players contract. Ocho, you ain't gonna be laughing. Well, we'll Talk about that tomorrow. All right, it's time for our final segment of the evening. It's time for Q and A.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

What they try. They trying to get rid of the contracts or something.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Put a cap on how much players can make. Not let the. Let the market set the value.

[Joe Johnson]

Oh, man.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Oh, here we go. Here we go with the bull drive. Here we go.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Before we get to the super chat, we got some video voicemail from our Discord. The first one. Here it is. Let's take a listen. What he had to say. Ocho. ISO, man, been watching y' all boys for a long time, man. Watching y' all tonight, man. Y' all always make me laugh, man. Shout out to y' all boys. Keep on doing y' all thing, man.

[Joe Johnson]

Shout out already, already. Here's the.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Look at this. Here's the second one. Let's take a listen. What he had to say.

[Audience Member]

Hey, it's the famous never bust again, bro, on the nightcap Discord. But hey, let me talk my stuff real quick. Hey, kind of nervous, but kidding. Never nervous. Check this out though. For you guys touring in San Francisco, would you guys return and would you guys have the Russell perform again? I felt like he really put on and to be honest, man, like the Bay area, we have a lot of undiscovered talent out here. I'm from Sacramento, but I want to shout out my boy who I just met yesterday, Susan916, man. Hey, put on for Sack, put on for NorCal, bruh. That's how we do it out here. You see that, bro? I know you guys are shaved, smooth as butter, man, because you guys got rich people money. So you guys don't have an inch of hair on you. And I know like Ocho, he said he's going bald. I know Sharp's got his beard, ISO's got his facial going on. But hey, man, hey, I'll be honest with you. The best way to go. I don't even know what the hell I'm talking about.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Hey, hey.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

He just like me, Joe. Just be talking no sense, sir.

[Chad Ochocinco]

It sounded good to him, though. Here's the last one. Let's take a listen. What he had to say. Yeah, family, I want to appreciate y'

[Audience Member]

all to responding to my video and putting it up for the show last night.

[Chad Ochocinco]

What are some. Some pointers and tips you can give, you know, a young man like me still trying to figure out, you know, myself trying to find my identity other than work, you know, my full time

[Audience Member]

job, but figuring out some side hustles

[Chad Ochocinco]

that I could Maybe, you know, do. To potentially figure out more income strategies and different things like that and. And who helped y' all get to

[Audience Member]

that journey as far as figuring that

[Chad Ochocinco]

stuff out too, you know? But, yeah, that's my question to you guys. Man, this is small world. I know people that know you guys and. Or have, you know, played against you guys or whatever the case may be. But yeah, I appreciate y', all.

[Audience Member]

For real.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah. Hey, that's right up my alley. Uncle Joe, you talk about identity, you know, for one, you got to figure out what your purpose is. He won other side hustles, other jobs, you know, to create revenue. What are you passionate about? What do you like? What is it that you can do where it doesn't feel like work, huh? There got to be some other things outside of your immediate job that you're nine to five that you go to. There has to be something you like, you know, pour into that, because when you pour into it, you're gonna get. You're gonna be. You're gonna get. Get your return back on, you know, on your investment. So it's all about you understanding, you know, what that is. For me, I work 237 jobs, but all 237 are things that I'm very passionate about, things that I like, you know, so you got to figure out what that is, you know, and when you create and find that purpose, that becomes your identity.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah,

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah. I mean, if you build, they'll come.

[Joe Johnson]

What movie that was Build a Dream,

[Chad Ochocinco]

like Ojo said, what are you. What are you good at? I knew early on what I want to do. I want to be a professional football player. So everything I did, how could I become better at that? How could I get faster, bigger, stronger? How could I get better at my craft once I was done with football? You transition, study ass off, learn as much as it. Because obviously, I can't just talk football all the time. If I'm going to be on television and be. Do a debate format, you're going to have to be able to talk about other things. Or when you go on someone's podcast, they're going to ask you about a lot of different topics, and you're going to have to be able to seem like you're intelligent enough to have a conversation about a lot of different things.

[Joe Johnson]

Right?

[Chad Ochocinco]

So I. For me, that's why I studied as much as I possibly could. I love sports, so obviously things that I wanted to do kind of wanted to be centered around that. But you got to find, like Ocho said, you got to Find something that you passionate about, something that you doesn't feel like work, something that you want to spend time. And, bro, I don't know what you do in your off time, but you're gonna have to spend more time doing things that you want to get good at and you want. That you say you want to make money at, that's gonna have to be a part of it, because you can't. Like, I want to go to the club with the homies, and I want to kick it. I want to do this. X, Y, and Z. You're gonna have to become very focused and very centralized.

[Joe Johnson]

Sacrifices, man. Gotta make some sacrifices. And fine. Hey, hey. I agree with. I agree with both of y'. All. You definitely have to find something that you enjoy doing. You know what I mean? And I'm talking about put your head down and get to work, bro. Put your head down and get to work. Eliminate all distractions and focus on. On. Focus on you and what it is you're trying to accomplish. For sure.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

I mean, we come here, we do this. This tomorrow, be your six straight nights. Six straight. For real.

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, hey, hey. But it's fun, though. It's fun.

[Chad Ochocinco]

That's it.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I didn't realize that.

[Chad Ochocinco]

And you. You build something, you know, you're passionate about it. And, you know, when I talk about. When I talk about, for the most part, I like to think that we talk about things that we, all three of us are passionate about.

[Joe Johnson]

Right.

[Chad Ochocinco]

It ain't no, man, man. Joe don't really want to talk about this. Ocho don't want to talk about that. Okay. We don't want to talk about it. We can't be passionate about it. Let's not talk about it.

[Joe Johnson]

Right, right.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Because if we're not passionate about it, the people that's listening to it, they're not going to be passionate about it. They're not going to have an opinion one way or another.

[Joe Johnson]

Right, Exactly.

[Chad Ochocinco]

And so we want, you know, we want to create content that people like, man. You heard. I. I don't know if I agree with OO on this one. I don't know if I agree with uncle on that one. I think. I'm agree with Joe. I think that.

[Joe Johnson]

I think.

[Chad Ochocinco]

And that's what you. That's what you want to have.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

If people are not talking about you or talking about the conversations that you had. But still, even if they talking about, you got to be somebody for somebody to talk about you.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

So just keep grinding, bro. Since the kid 19, what's up, Unc. Ocho, King ISO. Question for you guys. Which city in the league did you enjoy playing in as an opponent? Ocho, who is your favorite teammate you ever played with?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Shooting?

[Chad Ochocinco]

You like playing in Joe and Ocho?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Oh, you say favorite city?

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

As an opponent. What? Where? What in what city in the league did you enjoy playing in as an opponent?

[Joe Johnson]

I got a couple, man.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, go ahead, Joe.

[Joe Johnson]

I would probably say I. I enjoy playing in la. You know, stars always come out of la. You never knew who you was going to see on the sideline. I enjoy playing in Dallas, Memphis, because I'm. It's close to Little Rock, Right. In those states, there's a lot of people from Arkansas that I know that live in those states. So I get a chance to really to. To. I get a chance to really, when I go to Dallas or when I go to Memphis, I get a chance to really hang with guys who I genuinely grew up with. I'm talking about. Been knowing since I was six, seven years old.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[Joe Johnson]

I'm saying, so we get a chance to catch up, you know, talk hoops or the things that we're going through. And I just feel like that's always cool, man, because growing up, I ain't gonna lie to y'. All.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Like, I was.

[Joe Johnson]

I was always inspired to be an NBA player. But, you know, when you 11, 12 years old, 13 years old, it take a while before you can actually really see that big picture. You feel what I'm saying? So to be able to have these moments, bro, to be able to make it and be a professional for 18 years and get a chance to, you know, my best friends live with me for 12, 13, 14 years. You know, for them to be able to experience it as well, that's probably some of the coolest stuff. So I enjoy going to those cities and also playing in New York. New York is fun, as always, to make a basketball. And, man, even playing in Brooklyn was super fun for me. But playing in Madison Square Garden, same thing again. Stars come out, bright lights, big stage. Nothing better than that.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Kansas City, San Diego, and in Oakland. Not a field. Cause you know, Oakland had that baseball field. Yeah, yeah. So did San Diego.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yep. I played on both of those. I remember.

[Joe Johnson]

How's that? How is that playing on fields like that?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

It's hard, Joe.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Man, I used to hate when they running. You slipping and slide. Cause you can't. Because the clips are not going to go into that hard ass. That hard ass field.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Hey, let me run this right. Let me run this stick right on the other side on the grass.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I remember that.

[Chad Ochocinco]

You don't want to get tackled on it because it's gonna scar your ass up.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[Joe Johnson]

You want to get tackled in that dirt.

[Chad Ochocinco]

You ain't hard.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey. Hey. Hey. Uncle Joe. I played against Jerry Rice and Tim Brown on. In Oakland. On that. On that. On that baseball field. And I played against Ryan McNeil and Junior Se when they had the baseball field in San Diego.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I played on both of them.

[Chad Ochocinco]

But as. As at my favorite stadium to ever play in Kansas City. Because they nothing like those fans.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[Joe Johnson]

They fanatic.

[Chad Ochocinco]

000 fan and all red. And it's loud. Home of the.

[Joe Johnson]

Jeez.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Look here. They play the A. When they used to come out.

[Joe Johnson]

Man.

[Chad Ochocinco]

They introduced the defense.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

And they let DT Come out. That thing last.

[Joe Johnson]

You couldn't hear nothing.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Boy. That joke is that joker come running running right now because the. The. The chili with the. The cr. The thing the way they had it. Man. That you'll come riding that goal post.

[Joe Johnson]

And.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Hey. And they get the rocket. Because back then they weren't the offensive team like they are now. They had Priest Homes and they had Trent Green. They weren't an offensive team. They were defense.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Boy. They get you backed up. And DT Walked back there to the end zone where you backed up at? And he talk about. Y' all want that? Boy. Buckle up. He coming. Buckle up. He coming. Joshua's petition 5,957. Shout out from the. From the ghouls. Ocho. Where's the goose? That's in Miami.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, that down south.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Okay. Celtics hyenas. I ain't worried about Shay and his dogs. What you need to worry about. Y' all ain't worried about the Celtics either. Y' all need to worry about who over there. Y'.

[Joe Johnson]

All.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Y' all ain't got nobody to worry

[Joe Johnson]

about the east throwing the Celtic.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah. I'll be.

[Joe Johnson]

I don't know though. Hey. Hey. Hold up.

[Chad Ochocinco]

You like Detroit? You like in Detroit?

[Joe Johnson]

Hold on.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Hey.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

They ain't got enough firepower over there.

[Joe Johnson]

Can Philly. If Philly can keep. If they can.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah. But the thing is Joe can Embiid play every other day.

[Joe Johnson]

Well then every other day. That's something he gonna have to. He gonna have to think about. I mean, they. If they got him on the floor. He ain't got to give you 30 every night. Man. His president. His presence alone is gonna be a distraction.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[Joe Johnson]

It's gonna be able to free guys up like Maxi and Edgecombe and Paul George. Because he gonna demand a double. I don't care what nobody say.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Oh, for sure. Weed, hustle, love, respect. ISO heard you talk about George Gervin last night. How do you feel about Caleb Williams trying to copyright the name Iceman? I guess it's fair game, but damn, Caleb.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah, I did see something about that. I don't really. I guess they both filed kind of like at the same time for the trademark. I thought Joe, he'd already had it talking about Girvin.

[Chad Ochocinco]

I got Ice.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah, I did too. I think it's. It's a lot going on with that because I know Iceman. George Gervin, you know, him and Drake. I think they was about to really do something big with that because, you know Drake, I think he was gonna come out. Or if not, he probably still Iceman. Yeah. So I think they really got some real affiliate and he's probably trying to trademark and knowing that, you know, that name really gonna be worth something. But Caleb. I didn't even know why they call Caleb Iceman.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Cause he got ice in his vein.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

All those clutch throws come from behind

[Joe Johnson]

victories this postseason, man, he know he got to come up with something else. Okay with yo.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Hey, he better come up with Sub Zero or something. Hey, Sub Zero.

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, April one.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Iceman. Hey, it's about. Well, I thought Chuck Liddell, man, George Gert was. Was Iceman before George Chuck Liddell was born.

[Joe Johnson]

You hear me? Hey,

[Chad Ochocinco]

what sub zero. Yeah, he better go with sub zero. He.

[Joe Johnson]

He number 13.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Caleb, you can take sub zero.

[Joe Johnson]

If he wore number zero, he probably would. But he. What he 13?

[Chad Ochocinco]

No, what is Caleb.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Caleb.

[Joe Johnson]

What number you were.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, what number Caleb? Well, I think. Is it 13?

[Chad Ochocinco]

He might be 13, I think 18.

[Joe Johnson]

18.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Oh, 18.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah, man. And. Yeah, I thought Ice probably would have been getting paid off that already.

[Chad Ochocinco]

The first time I was. I knew who he was. That picture. I remember, I went to a. A shoe store.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

And he was sitting on. He was sitting on blocks of ice. And he had the balls.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

They had Iceman.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah. Yeah. You ever had a conversation with him?

[Chad Ochocinco]

No. My brother played golf with him a lot.

[Joe Johnson]

Oh, man, he funny as. I'll get out. You hear me? I'm talking about, boy. Hey, I spent a lot of time with him last year, bro. Like, super cool dude.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Dr. Frankie L. Bellamy. All right, fellas. Rank these basketball movies. Loving basketball above the rim. He got game Space Jam. Damn. Damn, that game. Loving basketball above the realm. Space Jam.

[Joe Johnson]

Nah, that ain't me. I. I got aboard the rim one I got love.

[Chad Ochocinco]

That's what I just said. Above the real oh, I got, he got game I got, he got, I

[Joe Johnson]

got I got a boy to rim one. I got love and basketball two. I got, he got game three. And what was the last one?

[Chad Ochocinco]

Space Jams.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah. Space Jam 4. Boy, that aboard a rim do something to me. I watched that still to this day. I just watched that last week. No lie.

[Chad Ochocinco]

That's one of the soundtracks for loving basketball. Michelle and Dago Cello Make a Fool of me. I remember when you filled my heart with joy Was applying to the truth yeah. To fill the space because now you have no interest in anything that I have to say yeah. I've allowed you to make me feel yeah. I feel so dumb what kind of fool am I? You so easily bad that I know that's hard. That's hard every time. If she come close, I probably seen that woman in concert probably seven, eight times. Anytime she come close, yeah, I go see you. I go see you, man. I went to see it one time. I think I better be the only straight guy out there was never women up in that thing. I saw at the Tabernacle Joe in Atlanta. Yeah, the Tabernacle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen it seen in Denver. I've seen in la. And she come close. I'm going, what y' all know about plantation lullabies?

[Joe Johnson]

Hey,

[Chad Ochocinco]

Dead End Boulevard. That's my girl there. Moneyball87. My favorite sports movie is any Given Sunday. Just one of y' all thoughts on the movie. I know y' all didn't play a lot, but did. But do they party in the league like they did in the movie? Hey, actually Alucino came. He followed Mike around. So we saw him a lot.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah, so.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Cuz he took a lot of what he was doing from Mike, so learning mannerisms and stuff. I don't know. I don't. I was no party. I don't know what they do ojo.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, I. I hear the stories. Yes. They party just like that. Matter of fact, it's not exaggerated. They party more. Matter of fact, remember the show? What's the show with the Rock from back in the days.

[Joe Johnson]

Ballers. Yeah, it's just.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

It's just like that. Maybe a little bit worse.

[Chad Ochocinco]

You see the NFL say or not. We don't want that no more. Oh, yeah.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

It's just like that. Maybe a little worse.

[Joe Johnson]

How they take that out, bro. I didn't miss an episode of that, bro.

[Chad Ochocinco]

What's Denzel Washington how powerful the NFL is?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Oh, yeah, they don't play. They don't play. They don't play.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Do you do. Do you want. Do you want football or you don't want it?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, hey, that's exactly how it is. Some. Some of the scenes would be exaggerated. It's not exaggerated at all. And I love hearing the story, Joe, because even during that time, even when I was young, even when I was in my prime, I don't enjoy the nightlife. That's not what I do. Yeah, I don't drink. I don't party. I don't want nobody stepping on my shoe. I'm very sociable, but not in that kind of environment.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah, it made no sense.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

But one thing, when the boys came back from the club the next day. And I love hearing the stories in the off season. I love it. Oh, man.

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, hey, can you smell that look on them when they out there running. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

In the huddle. When they run in the huddle.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Joe, man, you finna go down there and sitting there, Mike gonna be coming to that thing you just got Smell like a liquor steel.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey. Right through their pores, especially when they start sweating.

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, hey, that's the funniest thing. You get to practice already. Two, three dudes sitting in the sauna like, damn, what y' all in here for, man? We trying to switch this alcohol.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yep. I like that. Did you take a shower and liquor this morning? Ain't no way. Ain't no way you drank that much and you still smelling like this right now.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

What? Tommy G. 1605. That's why I have a lot of respect for hockey players. They're tough as hell, man.

[Joe Johnson]

What, they different?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah. Them boy need different mentality to play hockey.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Cam Shiesty. Oh, you being guarded by Ray and Ocho Being guarded by Reavers, Brady.

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[Ryan Seacrest]

What are we trying so hard?

[Chad Ochocinco]

So I can breathe. Why do you need to breathe? So I can think. If I can breathe. If I can breathe, I can think. I can think. If I can think.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

If I can think, then I can win.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Rated r. In theaters April 10th.

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[Podcast Narrator]

We're lost. It feels like we're going round in circles. I'm gonna ask that man for directions. Hi there. We're trying to get to the state fairgrounds.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Well, you're gonna take a left at the old oak tree at this here road.

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[Chad Ochocinco]

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[Chad Ochocinco]

[e-mail] Quarterback who gets the ball to win the game. Can you shout out my nephew, Saint?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Oh, well, I'm gonna get the ball. Cause Ray can't cover.

[Chad Ochocinco]

He just can't cover me. Yeah, he could cover.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, there's that

[Chad Ochocinco]

happy birthday, Saint. Man, hopefully you did something fun today, man. That's Cam. Thank you, man. Appreciate the support. Thank you for watching. I appreciate you listening. However you consume the content, we appreciate that. Data wizard. LSU gave my son a great education at a cheaper price than a smart northeast school. You can get a great education anywhere. It just all depends on what you want to do, how you apply yourself. There you go.

[Joe Johnson]

There you go.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Because half the time, the. The what you got your degree in ain't what you're gonna be working. Ain't gonna what you're gonna be working in.

[Joe Johnson]

Ain't that something?

[Chad Ochocinco]

Probably gonna get a job. Cause somebody, you know, told you about an opening that they had that's not in the profession that you chose that you got that you got your degree in. But, hey, they pay good. Hey, and guess what? You get to start. Get to start earning a paycheck right away. Yeah, absolutely. Now, I don't give a damn nothing about them schools. Hey, congratulations. You went to an Ivy League school or whatever. But hey, whatever's in the book is in the book. It is what it is.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah,

[Chad Ochocinco]

I just wanted my. I just wanted my degree to hang on the wall. I wasn't planning on using it. Brendan Crow P. Got WI fi Ocho used to be on.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

But my wi. Look, my WI fi was never that bad.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Nah, a couple of times, Ocho.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Oh, that's because I'd be in the hotel, man.

[Chad Ochocinco]

You be. Oh, you'll be up there.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, that's. Hey, that's when we first started, too.

[Joe Johnson]

I remember y' all got on me about my WI fi.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, man, it's raining down here. I was like, do you got a roof on the house? Is it raining in the house? I thought he in the rainforest, don't you. I thought he was showering.

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, I know that feeling, boy.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Hey.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

And the sad part is the person that's talking, he doesn't know or she doesn't know that the Internet is cutting up like that. It's just the person on the other end, like, damn.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

And they stay. They still be talking.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Marcus Mac ISO. Ocho, your boy getting married on July 3rd. To my best friend attire. Johnson. Wish us well. Love you plies. Tell Ocho to get his wi fi back from Pete. Marcus, you would. I guess that's how you say it. A t y a atala attire. I'm going to tell you, Johnson, that sounds right. That you know Ocho. That your cousin?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, that probably that problem my cousin. But hey, listen, how you getting married and they not. They not ask me to officiate the wedding.

[Chad Ochocinco]

That's his best friend. He get married to his best friend.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, well, he need to have me officiate the wedding. Hold on, let me. Let me show. Let me show you something. I'm joke.

[Joe Johnson]

What the man?

[Chad Ochocinco]

Leopard print pants? No more.

[Joe Johnson]

Them is favorite. Oh, there's definitely good luck pants. What this man got over there, bro.

[Chad Ochocinco]

I hope he ain't going to get no bible.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, just. Just so y' all know.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Now, what is that? Dr. Box?

[Joe Johnson]

American Marriage Minister Ministries.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Okay, I'm. Hey, hey, I'm licensed.

[Chad Ochocinco]

You hear me?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, Uncle Joe, I'm. I'm licensed. Hey, everybody in the chat. When y' all get married, this ain't a game like I can officiate your wedding, let me know. I don't charge much. And listen, I come two packages. I could marry you and then I could do. I could perform, too.

[Joe Johnson]

What kind of performance you do?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, Joe, I got a little band.

[Chad Ochocinco]

What?

[Joe Johnson]

Yes, I'm saying, what you doing? You singing? Are you talking?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I'm singing. I got a drummer, I got a guitarist and I got a violinist.

[Chad Ochocinco]

No, I think they better invite Bruno Mars.

[Joe Johnson]

Who?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Now he. You see, Bruno cost too much. Hey, my. My deal is a 500 package. 250.

[Chad Ochocinco]

So you officiate the wedding and then you perform afterwards.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

500 out the door.

[Chad Ochocinco]

I already know we gonna get some bull job, but let's hear a little something. What you're gonna sing, huh? You play instruments?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, I play saxophone, alto, soprano, baritone. Yeah, I do all that. I do all that.

[Joe Johnson]

Boy.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

One stop shop. Hey, listen, I'm trying.

[Chad Ochocinco]

He got a sack and a phone.

[Podcast Narrator]

Hold on.

[Chad Ochocinco]

You saying like, you sing like wedding songs? So you sing like Ohio Earth, Wind and Fire song?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yes.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Hey, hey, brothers.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

A Eric Benet case. All that. I do it all. It depends on the package they pick.

[Chad Ochocinco]

You say you. You say you only got two package. What you mean the package they pick?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I mean based on the two packages is. It's a multitude of things. You can pick from each Package.

[Chad Ochocinco]

But, oh, no, if you got two packages, you. If you got two packages, say one package cost 250, the other cost 500, right? So what? Hey, hold on. Listen.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

It's the music. The music selection. You might. You might want R B, you might want rap, you might want rock and roll down.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Rap in no wedding.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

What the hell you talking about now? You know, they play some. They play some more future at weddings. You ain't never heard My Savages at the wedding? No. My Savages. My Savages.

[Joe Johnson]

I know, I know. I know the song. They played it at weddings.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah. What?

[Chad Ochocinco]

It ain't gonna last long, Joe.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, anyway. Hey, young Bull, if you get married, man, holler at your boy. 500. 500, package, baby. Yeah, I can perform and I can officiate the wedding.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah, I think I'm.

[Chad Ochocinco]

You know, Michelle and Diego Cello would definitely be at mine. Probably. Maxwell, see if I can coach Sade out.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, I already told you.

[Joe Johnson]

Oh, you going all out when you get married, huh?

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah, I must be a little something. You know, I figured, you know, somebody don't wait long this time. I go on and do them right? Yeah.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah. Hey, you already know who gonna be at mine, Joe.

[Joe Johnson]

Who Was that?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Brian McKnight, Fantasia and Kiki Wyatt.

[Joe Johnson]

Oh, yeah.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah. Hey, I. I'll take. Take me to church.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah, take me to church. Yeah, man.

[Chad Ochocinco]

So. Well, I mean, it's a triple, so. Ocho. I. Joe. I mean, that's gonna be a long ass wedding. That's.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

That's right.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Got his three performers. I got my three performers. Yeah, you'll have your two.

[Joe Johnson]

I got a few. Come my boys.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Jagged Edge.

[Joe Johnson]

They definitely got to be there.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Okay. Okay. I like jacket.

[Joe Johnson]

You know, they gonna turn us up. They gonna have us right?

[Chad Ochocinco]

Je.

[Joe Johnson]

Gonna have us right. They gonna. They gonna get the party started. You hear me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. We're gonna have a good time, boy.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, a triple wedding.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Me and you gonna get married. That joker gonna forget that something got came up.

[Joe Johnson]

Cambodia ain't gonna let it forget.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I ain't gonna forget that. Hey, one thing about it, boy. I ain't gonna play. I ain't gonna play when it comes to jumping that broom. You hear me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm doing. I'm do it right, man. Hey, hey, y'. All. Y' all remember. Remember that joke I told you about the chiropractor?

[Chad Ochocinco]

No, we don't remember the joke about the chiropractor. Tell us about it.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

No, it was about a week back.

[Joe Johnson]

I don't remember now.

[Chad Ochocinco]

What happened? Oh, you heard what he said. A chiropractor. It was about a week. It was a week back.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, that flew right over y' all head.

[Chad Ochocinco]

That was a good one. That was a good one, Cali. One, two, three, four. It's time to have a conversation about Nate A. Met. I don't see a lottery pick at all. I think that's the guy from Tennessee.

[Joe Johnson]

Nah, I know exactly who he talking about. Yeah, the guy from Tennessee. He a freshman. Freshman phenom. They had him project projected as a lottery pick. He had been. He got off to a slow start of the season. I watched a lot of Tennessee play, too. Then he picked it up, and then he looked like. Cause at 6, 9 with that 6, 9 frame, being able to handle the rock, you know, go off the dribble, can shoot the three, shoot the mittic and get to the basketball. I mean, the potential that he has, that's basically what they gonna be drafting on Uncle Ocho. Like, his potential. Like, he'll be. He'll probably be. If not a lottery pick, he'll be in the teens, you know, just. Just some raw talent that needs some work. I think he definitely got great upside, though.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Stephen Johnson, Unc Ocho, Joe. Y' all just got a shout out. Need a driver to take you to the hospital within the next 10 minutes. Who are y' all choosing as your driver? Lamelo Ball or Tiger Woods? Keep in mind, they must drive at a high rate of feet. I'm good. There's a good chance we ain't gonna make it either way.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, that's funny.

[Joe Johnson]

Damn.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah, I don't know, Tiger. Tiger definitely need to get him a driver.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to roll with Lamelo. I ain't gonna lie to you.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah. Damn.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, y'.

[Chad Ochocinco]

All.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, Joe. Y' all gonna run into something. I don't know what, but you're gonna run into something.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah, Tiger flipped a few cars.

[Chad Ochocinco]

You could run it up with Tiger, too. You could probably end up on your side. Hey, I ain't gonna be able to crawl out the window of the sunroof.

[Joe Johnson]

The one thing I say, I'm glad we can sit here and laugh about it, because what. What Tiger done could have been a lot worse, fellas. Yeah, man.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Tiger gonna definitely have to slow it down. Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Johnson]

And.

[Chad Ochocinco]

And like I said, whatever he has going on, you know, he. He passed the sobriety test where it was, you know, he blowed the breathalyzer and zero. But considering they want, that wasn't good enough. For them, they're probably assuming that he has something else in his system.

[Joe Johnson]

There you go.

[Chad Ochocinco]

I don't. I don't know. I didn't. I. I don't. I didn't see any photos of him. So maybe they're the. And conversating with him. Maybe he had slurry speech.

[Joe Johnson]

That's what they said. Huh? That's what they said. They said when they was talking to him, he looked like. He looked like he was under the influence of something, but they said it definitely wasn't alcohol.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Okay, so ts car was detail service. Y' all think Christopher Zingis is a good fit for the warriors going forward? He got. I mean, he can't stay healthy, and he got this thing that's going on now with him. Is he with. He's with the warriors or with the Hogs? Not Joe?

[Joe Johnson]

Nah, he went with the Warriors. I seen him play. I think I seen him play one game, and he looked decent. Hey, man, shout out to my guy. Moses Moody, man.

[Chad Ochocinco]

He tore his Patel.

[Joe Johnson]

Attendant tell attendant, man. And it was.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Did you see. Did you see it? Because they showed up. He had that indention in his knee.

[Joe Johnson]

They were playing in Dallas. I'm watching.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah, he went up for a dunk.

[Joe Johnson]

I'm watching the game. He went up for a dunk, bro. And he gave out. And look. That's typically how you tell your patella outfits. Trying to explode. You don't tell your patella how I tore mine. Somebody running into you, you know what I mean? That's why when I went in there and I got looked at, he was so puzzled. When he found out how I tore mine. He was like, what you trying to do, explode? Go dunk? I was like, nah. I said, man, a dude ran into me. He kneed me in my quad and tore my patella tendon.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Damn. Damn.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah. So I hollered at Mose. I sent him a message. He had surgery. He said it went great, so hopefully have a speedy recovery.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Goldberg, 800. Hey, can you tell us your best Jerome Brown story? True legend. I never played against Boogie, unfortunately, rest his soul. He passed the. The year that we're going to play them in 92. So he passed. And they dedicated that season for. To him. They got off to a great start, but they weren't able to sustain it. They had a really, really good defense. They had Reggie, had Clyde, Seth Joyner, Byron Evans, Eric ea. They had Muddy Waters. They had a really good. They had a really good defensive team. Mike Goldig was on that team. But Boogie man, he was. He. He's gonna be special. He was gonna be special. He was the one that started that. That tradition of great D lineman at the university of Miami.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

After him, it came tezz. And then you had SAP, and then you had all those other guys that came along out of there. But boogie started it. Okay, Well, I mean, I guess you could say that, but Jack. I think Jack Youngblood went to University of Miami also. That was way before everybody's time. He played. He played in the super bowl to broke a leg. Ocho Los Gianto, number seven. Sub fellas, I watched Ocho training session on insta the other day. You gotta challenge ISO to a soccer session, Ocho. Something gotta give twin.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Nah, I'm gonna beat ISO at what he do. I'm gonna be ISO what he's been doing since he was a child. I'm gonna be ISO. And Woody perfected his craft at and played at the highest level and created the moniker ISO, huh? Because when I beat you at your own thing, huh, you know that it's gonna make you feel this small. You hear me?

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

It's gonna make you feel small, Joe. And one thing about it, you ain't never played against nobody that got the gift of gab that I do. When it's time to compete, Joe, I' ma be in your head, boy. Joe, I'm gonna be in your ears. Joe. I'm gonna be in your nose, Joe. Hey, Imma have you so flustered, you ain't gonna know what to do. Joe. You're gonna want to fight me. And when you want to fight me, Joe, that means I got you out your game, Joe.

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, hey, Ocho, I'm way too composed for that, homie. I ain't no emotional dude. Like you ain't gonna. You know what I mean? You ain't gonna trick me out my spot. This. The shoulder.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah.

[Joe Johnson]

The forearm, the elbow, the hip.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[Joe Johnson]

When you get through playing me, I promise you gonna feel like you've been a heavyweight fight partner.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, hey, Joe.

[Joe Johnson]

Real's gonna be hurting.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, Joe, I. Can I tell you something?

[Joe Johnson]

Go ahead.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I put the ball on the floor every time.

[Chad Ochocinco]

What you mean?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

So I. Hey, I play with my back to the basket, Joe.

[Joe Johnson]

Huh?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

You hear me?

[Joe Johnson]

Oh, yo, you too, small, man. Oh, here we go.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Hey.

[Joe Johnson]

And I'm gonna keep it real. I'm too tall to be playing small, homeboy, and you know what I mean? I'm really tired of bumping guns with you. For real.

[Chad Ochocinco]

For real. I'm really.

[Joe Johnson]

I'm really Ready for this action. And see, you can see as my tone start to pick up, that means you starting to piss me off. And when I get pissed off, Ocho, you know how I get. Don't piss me off tonight, Ocho.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, I like that. I like that. I. I want you pissed off. Cause I know when you pissed off, you that mean I'm in your head. And if I'm in your head, that mean you're gonna be dead. Joe, this ain't what you want.

[Joe Johnson]

When I'm pissed off. When I'm pissed off. That just made me lock in a little more, you know what I mean, Joe?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

You locking in when I got the key. What since that make you locking in and I got the key, Joe, Huh? What we talking about, Joe? You not gonna out talk me, you hear me? Hey, no, that's not gonna happen.

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, what's wrong with you, bro?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I'm good, I'm good. I ain't take my medicine.

[Joe Johnson]

Okay? All right. I'm gonna get to you then.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Be more cow. Big three. What one thing you would change about the NFL or the NBA, Ocho?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

What you changing about the NFL?

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah, I mean.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

I mean, honestly, even as an offensive player, I would allow. I would love for the NFL to go. Go back to hat it once was for the defensive players, so they're not as handicapped as. As it once was. So they allowed to play a little bit better, more so the defensive backs and safeties. That's. That's one small. One small thing.

[Chad Ochocinco]

One or two things. Either guaranteed contracts or lifetime health benefits if you play five years. I mean, I don't care. Nobody. I'm going back the way it was. I'm talking about getting money or lifetime benefits.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, well, I already said that if I was an flpa, so I. I addressed that before a long time ago.

[Chad Ochocinco]

What you doing, Joe? What you. What you gonna change about the NBA?

[Joe Johnson]

What I'm gonna change about the NBA? Honestly, I really don't know, Uncle Ocho. I think the game is in a pretty good space and place right now with, you know, some of this young talent coming in. I'm not sure what I would change. I like the pace in which, you know, the game is played now. The up and down pace. Honestly, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I can't think of nothing right off back what I would change.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Every day's the deception. You said please subscribe or you'll make Ocho cry. I subscribe. Oo, still crying. What's up with that? Hello? Just kidding. Ocho, I'm glad you picked the right animal mascot. Go blue. That's how I picked it. Clifford, Busby, go. Align out. Please, haters, just shut the hell up. Don't speak on Illinois. If your team gonna be at home like you watching the final Four.

[Joe Johnson]

Oh, man, that's cold. That's cold. Shout out to Illinois, bro.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Mikey, Mike. What's up, big three? ISO. Would you ever go coach your hogs? And still.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

And still what? And still lost.

[Joe Johnson]

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. That's. That's over and done with the man. Ask a question. Can I answer the question?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Okay, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.

[Joe Johnson]

Look, look, I'm always in some form of capacity, Uncle Ocho. I'm always gonna be there for my hogs, you know what I'm saying? Coaching, I don't know, but they know if anytime, you know, they need me, all they gotta do is hit my phone. I don't mind going up there, spending a little time hanging with the fellas, giving them, you know, teaching them the ropes, showing them how to be a pro because college is a professional sport now. And what. What, what. What better. What better guy to have go back outside of, you know, former pros like myself or guys that still playing who went to the university? I think we have somewhat of an obligation to be able to come back, man, and have our presence around to where, you know? Because as a kid, I don't know about y', all, but when I was a kid, 16, 17, 18, 19, I had a lot of questions, bro. And if I could talk to a guy who played the professional sport that I'm trying to play, man, I'm taking that all day long. I'm taking that all day long. So I had guys like Corliss Williamson, who played for the Razorbacks, won the national title, played in the NBA, won an NBA championship with Detroit Pistons. Like, I've been knowing him since I was in high school, so getting a chance just to rap with him, get some game from him, you know, it makes you want to work even harder.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Alan Fletcher, 23. What's up, guys? How's it feeling when you can't. Can't make a basket? Like UConn missing threes tonight. They made the one that count.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah. It's demoralizing, bro. It's demoralizing, though, you know, you could be. Because you work so hard to get to this point of the season, you know, to get in the post season, to get in the NCAA tournament, and then you get that role and you can't make shots that you normally make on a day to day basis. I think that's the most frustrating part.

[Chad Ochocinco]

It is various 117 Ocho is 23 too late to getting back into football. If not any advice where to start trying to make it to the NFL. Did you even do you play high school ball? Did you play college ball?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

You gotta be special too.

[Joe Johnson]

Hear me?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

It got to be something special about you.

[Joe Johnson]

But y' all know what it is right?

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Huh?

[Joe Johnson]

It's, you know, some cats don't know how to take the game serious until it's taken away from them. And then they come back at like 22, 23, 24.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Yeah.

[Joe Johnson]

And trying to go pro in whatever sport it is and it's just a lot harder about.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Way hard.

[Chad Ochocinco]

It's easier to get in and stay than it is to get out and get back in.

[Joe Johnson]

Hello? Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

T lock 243 stay blessed. Chad family Chase your dreams. Don't walk after them. Know that you are the one that you've been waiting to for to make the difference. Hope that everyone has an amazing week. Much love ISO Ocho and up. Appreciate that man.

[Joe Johnson]

Appreciate it bro.

[Chad 'Ocho' Ochocinco Johnson]

Yes sir.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Chase them and they should shock you. Cause if your dreams don't shock, you ain't big enough.

[Joe Johnson]

Hello.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Thank you guys for watching another episode of Nightcap. Congratulations to the yukon Huskies. Down 19, they claw back and make their way to Indy thanks to a 7372 victory. The rookie Biden Mullet, Braylon Mullins knocks down a 35 foot 3 point shot to send the Huskies to the third final four in four years. Also, Michigan sealed their spot thanks to a thrashing of Tennessee 95 62. The Dominican LeBron Yaxel Lindenborg 27 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists. He was sensational. But everybody for the Michigan Wolverines played exceptionally well today. They're going so Illinois, Arizona, UConn, Michigan, those are your final four teams. Thank you guys for joining us for another episode of Nightcap. Y' all know who I am. I'm your favorite unc and that's my partner and co host, Liberty City's own hall of fame jacket creator, Regal Fame honorary former pro bowler and an all pro. That is Chad Ochocinko Johnson and the third member of the big three.

[Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco]

A seven time NBA all star from the Atlanta Hawks. Little Rock, Arkansas native, Arkansas University of Arkansas alum. That is ISO Joe Johnson. Please make sure you hit that subscribe button. Please make sure you hit the like button and go subscribe to the nightcap Podcast feed, wherever you get your podcast from. Thank you guys. Thank you for your support. It means more than you'll ever know. Thank you again. Those looking to purchase a bottle of Shade by Laportier. Head over to laportiercognac.com to purchase you a bottle if it's currently unavailable. Any city or state near you. The best tasting premium BSOP cognac on the market. Don't forget we have two sizes now, the 750, which is the OG, but now we have the Junior, which is the 375. Same great quality, the same taste, same smoothness. Please, please, Drake responsibly. We want to thank our special guest master P, for joining us. He's looking to get into culture now. Wish him the best of luck again. Thank you, P. And when you get that job, come back and talk to the Nightcap family about it. We'll see you tomorrow. Thank you guys for joining us for another episode of Nightcap. I'm unk. He's Ocho. He's ISO. That's it for tonight, Sam.

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[Chad Ochocinco]

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[Chad Ochocinco]

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[Chad Ochocinco]

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