Nightcap Hour 3: Unc Ocho what were pro bowl practices like + Jalen Brunson HOF status?!

Summary

Nightcap Hour 3 (May 26, 2026)

Unc Ocho, What Were Pro Bowl Practices Like + Jalen Brunson HOF Status?!

Hosts: Shannon Sharpe ("Unc"), Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson ("Ocho"), ISO Joe Johnson

Produced by: Shay Shay Media & Playmaker

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Episode Overview

In this energetic and candid Nightcap episode, Unc (Shannon Sharpe), Ocho (Chad Johnson), and ISO Joe Johnson return for their signature nighttime sports talk, serving up jokes, unfiltered conversations, and fan questions. Hour 3 goes off the rails early with personal, sometimes explicit anecdotes, but circles back to sports—focusing on the NBA playoffs, NFL legends, locker room culture, and Hall of Fame debates. Listeners phone in with questions about dating, youth coaching challenges, and the state of pro sports, while the trio delivers insightful, honest, and often hilarious commentary.

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Key Topics & Discussion Points

1. Listener Call-Ins & Relationship Banter

[03:17–14:05]

• Ocho’s Off-the-Wall Icebreakers: Ocho starts with silly, philosophical musings (“If money is the root of all evil, why do they ask for it in church?” [03:20]) before the group dives into a NSFW discussion about “groceries” (explicit sexual preferences).
• Listener Dilemma: A listener laments he’s doing everything (paying, being attentive, even “eating groceries”) but doesn’t get reciprocation. Ocho and the panel have zero patience for one-sided relationships.
  • Quote (Chad): “If you don’t see any reciprocation…abort mission!” [06:36]
  • Group consensus: “You paying and you ate…now I ain’t gonna keep doing both.” – ISO Joe [07:18]
• Locker Room Banter: Extended, explicit joking about dating, relationship standards, and personal “menus.”
  • “I was a gigolo…but people that were married, so I had to have different things they weren’t getting at home. I came with a menu, too.” – Ocho [11:30]
  • Ocho claims to be the “standard” for horizontal activity and takes pride in being “advanced”—all to the panel’s mock horror and amusement.

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2. Life & Coaching Advice

[21:57–28:38]

• Young Coach’s Question: A two-time state champion high school football coach in Arkansas asks for tips to keep his team motivated and to “get back to our winning ways.” (Also requests a birthday shoutout—delivered with enthusiasm).
  • Chad: “At that age…there’s just so many distractions, especially with social media. Has to be something they really want to do. That encouragement has to come from the household.” [26:26]
  • Panel discusses:
    • Player-driven culture (“Coaches don’t create a culture. Players do.” – ISO Joe [28:02])
    • It’s easy to take winning for granted; harder, and more important, to instill work ethic and routine.
    • High school kids are transferring more now, making it harder to build a program and culture (“They’ll jump ship on you too, now.” [29:01])

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3. NBA Playoff Deep Dives: Knicks’ Run, Jalen Brunson, James Harden

[29:18–50:05]

• James Harden: Defense & Legacy
  • The hosts dissect Harden’s reputation: giving up defense for offense—“chicken wings over championship rings.”
  • “He’s always been bad defensively, but he could offset that by giving you 30, 40, 50.” – ISO Joe [29:50]
  • Defensive lapses overlooked when offensive output is elite; as the scoring drops, the defensive weaknesses get scrutinized.
• Knicks’ Run to Finals
  • Discussion: Did the Knicks have an easy road, or are they that good?
    • “You can only play the team in front of you.” – ISO Joe [32:57]
    • “I’m gonna say they good, bro. I ain’t gonna downplay they play this postseason.” [32:57]
    • Acknowledgement: Knicks “sprinted through Philly…sprinted through the damn Cavs.” Now will get a real test in the finals. [33:07]
• Jalen Brunson—Hall of Fame?
  • Scenario: If Brunson wins Finals MVP, is he a Hall of Famer?
    • “Hell, yeah.” – Co-host [34:05]
    • “He’ll get on the fast track. I don’t know many Finals MVPs who aren’t in the Hall.” – ISO Joe [34:14]
    • Consensus: At this pace, with a few more elite years, he’s likely in, especially if the Knicks win.
• Fan Shoutouts & Side Tangents
  • Birthdays, travel mishaps (“used the bathroom at the Cancun airport”), and debates about coaching and player trades pepper the segment for extra color.

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4. NFL Legends & Pro Bowl Practice Stories

[47:37–49:55]

• Pro Bowl Practices:

  • Listener asks: What were Pro Bowl practices like, and what celebrations would you do together?
    • “The practices were chill…one-on-ones, but you’re trying to get open. Best of the best.” – ISO Joe [48:37]
    • Ocho recalls holding back: “We was out there chilling, boy, with them hats on…” [49:07]
    • In the fourth quarter, though, things got real—money and pride on the line.
      • “They turn it up…you got to button up your chin strap. We need that money.” – Chad [49:43]
      • $10,000 for winners was a big motivational factor.

• NFL Career Reflections:

  • Brief admiration for each other’s physical and personal style, plus what it would’ve been like to team up.
  • Panelist jokes: Ocho would "take one for the team" in any sense, sparking more laughter.

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5. More NBA: Brunson, Trades, Knicks, and Cavs

[50:05–end]

• Knicks Sweep Cavs for First Finals in 27 Years
  • Recap: Knicks crush Cavs 130–93, sweeping the series.
    • “The Cavaliers really didn’t stand a chance. I’m not gonna say they quit, but I didn’t see a whole lot of effort…” – ISO Joe [50:05]
    • Acknowledges big changes on the horizon for the Cavs.
• Would Dame + Mitchell Work in Cleveland?
  • Quick take: Dame’s offensive game would help; could play off Donovan. More scoring, but questionable on defense. [40:11]
• NBA Finals Predictions
  • Multiple fans predict Knicks to win—some even calling a sweep.
  • “Knicks pretty good, bro. I’m giving them credit.” [37:02]
  • Panel cracks on Ocho’s temporary Knicks fandom (“Stay your ass in Miami with your sorry Heat. We don’t want you on the Knicks bandwagon.” [37:29])
  • Jokes about the necessity of post-season trades for teams like the Cavs (“You gonna have to add some…put my ear to the streets.” [37:42])

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Notable Memorable Moments & Quotes

• Ocho’s Relationship Wisdom (and Shock Factor):
  • “Stop in the front, you work your way to the back. Sometimes you…taste a little turtle head.” – Ocho [07:47]
  • “There’s nothing wrong with you doing, boy. That’s how you expand your power, Billy.” [07:41]
• On Player-Coach Culture:
  • “Coaches don’t create a culture. Players create a culture.” – ISO Joe [28:02]
• Knicks Finals Recap:
  • “The Knicks are going to the NBA Finals for the first time in 27 years.” – ISO Joe [50:05]
• James Harden Analysis:
  • “When production is up here, tolerance is up here. But when production goes here, tolerance can’t stay here.” – ISO Joe [30:36]
• On High School Sports Now:
  • “You talk about the portal in college…but in high school, it’s just damn…the same.” [29:01]
• Pro Bowl Practice:
  • “We was out there chilling, boy, with them hats on…Ray Lewis say tea time, leave your helmets in the locker room!” – Ocho [49:07]

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Important Timestamps

• [03:17] – Ocho’s opening jokes and relationship Q&A
• [06:36] – Relationship “abort mission” advice
• [11:30] – Ocho’s gigolo menu confession
• [21:57] – Listener: High school coach asks how to motivate players
• [28:02] – “Coaches don’t create a culture. Players do.”
• [29:18] – James Harden discussion begins
• [32:57] – “You can only play who’s in front of you” (Knicks playoff path debate)
• [34:05] – Brunson Hall of Fame prediction
• [37:01] – Cavs, Knick fans, trades, and blow-it-up debates
• [47:37] – Pro Bowl/practice stories
• [49:07] – NFL post-season seriousness, Ray Lewis story
• [50:05] – Knicks sweep recap/finals preview

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Episode Recap & Takeaways

This Nightcap is a wild, hilarious, and surprisingly insightful ride. The chemistry between Ocho, Unc, and ISO Joe delivers a mix of explicit humor and solid sports analysis. Topics swing from dating woes to modern youth coaching, and from Pro Bowl stories to serious NBA Finals breakdowns. The show shines with its blend of vulnerability, practical advice, and genuine sports insight, plus Ocho’s “crazy” storytelling.

Fans of candid locker room talk and no-holds-barred takes will find this episode especially rewarding—and probably won’t see Jalen Brunson, James Harden, or Pro Bowl practices in quite the same way.

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Recommended for:

• Fans of real, unfiltered athlete banter
• Anyone seeking honest sports analysis… with jokes you can’t repeat at work
• Listeners who want to understand both on-the-field sports culture and locker room realities

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Next episode: Tune in after Game 5 (Spurs vs. OKC Thunder), same time, same no-chill crew.

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[ISO Joe Johnson]

time for our final save in the evening. It's time for Q. Hey,

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, you know what I thought about before we do the first question?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

What?

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

That, like, I ain't told a joke in a long time, but I'm not going to tell a joke. I just got like, a question. What's that like to kind of make you think so they say money is the root of all evil, right, Joe? But so if. If money is the root of all evil, why do they ask for it in church? Hey, Joe?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

They're gonna pray for it.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, I understand. I understand. Hey, when we yawn, right? Do deaf people think we screaming? I'm just. I'm like. I'm just asking stuff that's been on my mind, but that's neither here nor there. But go ahead. We good?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Maybe. Here's our. Before we get to the super chat, we got four video voicemails from our discord. Let's take a listen to the first one.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Can't even mention y' all boy's name, you know what I'm saying? They might know who. Who sent the message, you know what I'm saying? But all I'm going tell you is this. When she see this bad boy come

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

out, it's all business.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

None personal.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

All business. No face, no case. Hello?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Yes, sir.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, you see what I'm talking about? Hey, I'm talking about Uncle Joe. I'm telling you. Listen to me. A time will be had if y' all go and get that swing. Listen, Joe. Yeah, I know, lady, y' all don't need to spice nothing up. But I'm telling you, Joe, surprise her one day, she come home and that swing just hanging on, hanging there in the. In. In the mad bedroom. Listen to me now. Hey. Yes, the swing can hold up to £300. Actually, £350, you can get the deluxe swing. Try it. I'm telling you. I'm telling you. And once you graduate from there, I send you some more ideas you could do.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Man, mama about 145. Oh, yeah. You go 250. That 390, about 400.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, you'll be fine.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

No, I'm good.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Come on, bro. Hey, was that you? Was that you in that damn video, man? With that. With that mask? Yeah, me.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

He with light skin, Joe.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

How it's gonna be me, man? I don't put that bad, you know, Ocho, come on now.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, you know, hey, listen, if it was me, you know, Joe, I ain't hiding my face now. I ain't doing that.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Okay.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

I ain't hiding my face.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Lord have mercy. Here's our second one. Let's take a listen.

[Caller/Listener 1]

Hey, this is for all three of y'. All. As Unc would say, you know, he was. When he was. Well, I'm doing pretty well myself. Can't even lie. I'm just trying to lock in with this one girl, though, and every time we go, she just like. She don't even do the whole, you know, act like you're getting in your purse.

[Caller/Listener 2]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna pay.

[Caller/Listener 1]

No, she don't do none of that. She waits for me to get my wallet out. I took her to McDonald's like Ocho said, and kind of been working my way up every damn time. She just expects the. I'm like, I don't.

[Caller/Listener 3]

She's cool and all, but it's like

[Caller/Listener 1]

I don't know what to do. I even took Ocho's advice and started eating it a little bit, you know what I'm saying? Eating them groceries. And she still don't even seem grateful.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Damn.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Hey, no, no.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, hey, twin. Hey, twin, listen to me. Abort mission. Abort mission. If you don't see any. If you don't see any reciprocation, you

[ISO Joe Johnson]

know, progress in the matter, huh?

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, yeah. Hey, no, roi. Abort mission. Yeah, because what. What are we doing? What are we doing? Everything is a one way street, and it seems like you're doing everything on your end. Abort mission, man. Yeah. Get up out of there, man.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Say, yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

I mean, you paying and you ate, you. Hey, look, I'm gonna eat. I'm gonna eat the groceries. Yeah, I'm gonna pay.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Now I ain't gonna keep doing both.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

B O F D said he a eater. That man said I even ate.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey. Abort mission, twin. Abort mission. Yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Hey, hey, hey, hey, Billy. Next time you come on here, get a shy, man. I don't want to be like this.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, hey, Billy. Billy, it's okay. Because my face is showing clear as Day. And ain't nothing wrong with you doing, boy. You hear me?

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Get on up out of there.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

That's the way to explain expand your power, Billy. Yeah, you stop in the front, you work your way to the back. Sometimes, you know, you. You know, taste a little turtle head, you know, Look. Hey, that's part of the process.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Come on.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, Joe.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hey, this man be out of pocket on here sometime, bro. He just. He getting a little too damn carried away if you ask me.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yo. Hey, Joe. It happens sometimes, Joe. Yo. Yeah, sometimes she don't wipe too good. You taste. You taste a little black.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Oh, no.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

See, that what I'm talking about.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, Joe. Hey, Joe, you ain't never ate?

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

No, sir. No, I have not. Never. No, I ain't got. No. No, no.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hold on. Hey, Joe, let me. Okay, listen, hold on. Yo, just the first lick.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Come on, man. Hey, hey, you out of bound with this hip hop.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

You out of bound. It's okay.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Hey, Joe, I'll put that back. I'll put that. Pass it.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, y' all be. Y' all be on here live, man.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yo, I don't be.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

You know, you first.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Yo, you got Joe Ocho. You don't at least like, hey, in the car wash. You on leash, running through the car wash. Hey, no, you.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

No, no, no, no, no, no. Hey, hey, hey, Joe. I don't want nobody tasting and smelling like none of that dove and. And Summer's Eve and all that. No, I'm. I want your natural. Your natural smell, your natural odor, huh?

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hell, no.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, but hey, hey, fellas. The fellas in the chat know what I'm talking about, man, that first lick,

[ISO Joe Johnson]

I'm sitting on the camera, I don't know nothing.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Was little kids. And you take that 9 volt battery.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You put it on your tongue, that little buzz.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

That's what that first lick be like.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Sometimes I'm straight.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah. Yes, sir.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

I ain't graduated. I ain't graduated today. Oh, yeah, you know, I just. It just ain't me, bro. I just ain't. I ain't that type of guy. You know what I mean?

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Like, Joe, we gonna get. Hey, we gonna get you.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

No, you ain't got to get me nowhere. See, the thing is, you can keep exploring all the holes you want to explore. I just say I don't rock like that. I don't get down like that.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yo, I don't care what you get down like. I said.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

No, I said I ain't trying. I ain't saying I ain't trying don't piss me off now. I'll be trying to be cool with you, bro.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

And see you.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

You take it a little too damn far. We can't have a nice conversation for the damn train or without the track. Oh, what do you mean? What he got going?

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, hey. We didn't had a nice conversation the past two hours. We've been talking basketball.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

See, Joe. Joe and I. A lot of light. Every cave ain't meant to be explored.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, if it wasn't meant to be, sport, it wouldn't be in the opening, no.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Well, you. That's where waste come out at. Ocho. Come on, man.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, Joe, ain't nothing wrong with a little ways. Just because. It's just. Just because it's normally the exit doesn't mean.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hey, you know what? And I'm gonna keep it real.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

It don't.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

It don't make you no bad brother that you do that, man. I mean, you. It don't make you no bad brother. Cause I know it's some more people out here who just like you, bro. I'm just saying.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

But that's the new thing. That's a theme. Young boy. We grew up in an era. We from the. I don't know where OO from. I think oo. OO might be from up north, but we grew up in the south, and that was. You know, Ain't nobody do no less like that. But them young boys. Them young boys done came in and they.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Anything young boy getting down like that.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

It ain't got nothing to do with no young boys.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Yeah, man, them young boys, they out of pocket.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Oh, you gotta understand, Joe. If. Joe. It was the time where I was a gigolo, but people that were married, so I had to have different things they weren't getting at home. I. I came with a menu, too. Something that they could choose.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hey, you've been an eater. You've been an eater for a long time. Any man.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

What.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, Joe. Since 83.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Damn.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

1983, man.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

I. I had.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

I had to, Joe. I had to live. I had to survive.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

I told you. But something about. I told you. That's why I'm gonna annex Florida. We gonna have 49 states. Florida gotta go. Florida could be. They could be a part of Cuba or something, but they got to go. They could no longer. Florida can no longer exist as a part of the United States. They got sticky.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, hey, we gonna. Let me get y' all together, man.

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Y'.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

All. You know what? You know what? Y'.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

All.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Y' all older. Y' All y'. All. Y' all experienced. You're very mature. You just.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

I'm still. No, no, no, I ain't shy. I'm just. I'm still learning, though. Like, I. I'm. I'm cool. I'm cool. It's like, I'm cool. I'm cool with all that. O. Joe, I ain't.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

No, no, I got you. Don't worry about it, Joe. I got you.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

And this man do. Hey, Joe, this man off the muscle. I'm talking about like he. This ain't no. This ain't no relationship. No long term. This a first night thing.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

No, no, that man get down. First night.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

First night. What the y' all be waiting for? See what you waiting for, Joe? Joe. First impression, Joe, you want to lock in right away, let her understand what she dealing with from the beginning. Why you think everybody, everybody. I've been with Joe from the. From day one. It lasts six, seven years. I don't know why I can't get past.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hey, the man don't even drink. How he doing all this sober? You doing all this sober?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

This. This ninja. This ninja out of his mind just to begin with. Can you imagine him if he was on that sauce?

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, hey, Joe, I'm. Hey, Joe. I'm the standard, Joe, huh? I'm. I'm the standard when it comes to horizontal activity and. And being willing to. To. To please whoever it is you're dealing with, Joe. That's all.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

This man going grocery shopping on the first day.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

I'm good. Good.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, hey.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

I'm let you have it, O. Joe. What's up, Joe?

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

You go to the grocery store, you got to hit every aisle, you hear me?

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hey, Ocho, it don't make you no bad. It'll make you no bad, brother. Bro, we just.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

We. Hey, hey, we just know.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

We just know who we dealing with. We know what we dealing with. We just. We just know how you get down. You know what I mean? We all got one of them, homeboy. You like, Boy, you. You just.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

You just nasty. Yeah, he the guy. Hey, Joe. He the guy that'll take one for the team. Even if you ain't got a team, he'll take it. That's him. Keep up the great work. Keep on doing what you're doing. Keep on fight on, bro.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, no, I don't know about that, bro. No.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Oh, man, I'll put nothing past you. I don't put nothing past you.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Ain't nothing gonna get past me.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

That's what I know.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Hey, you know how they say hey man, that joker hey that joker bad you he'll he'll heal the snake if you hold the head. That joker hit the wood pile that the snake in. Forget the snake, just the wood pile. I'll put that pants here.

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[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

oh, no, I know, I know it's. I know it's a little X rated for y', all, man, but I'm gonna get you there, man. Don't worry about it.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Look, here is Ocho is great to hang out with because if you got. Or you got an Ocho because, you know, sometimes ladies, normally ladies.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

There you go. There you go.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Always three of them.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

I'm glad you said that. Hear me? You know what? The pack, the pack, the whole pack wanna want that experience. Hey, I'm. Listen, I'm just telling you now I'm. I'm in a different. I'm in a different time right now where I'm a little bit more disciplined, where I can't deal with the whole pack. I can't not used to, you know what, it's five or six of them. Everybody want that experience. Hey, I heard you like Disney World. I want to go on the ride. So, you know, I out of week. Hey, each friend get it. You know, you get a chance, you get the experience. Like, girl, you was right.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Oh, my goodness, that one, you know, hey, you got somebody for my girlfriend?

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got somebody. I got the perfect guy for hey,

[ISO Joe Johnson]

hey, perfect guy he looking, hey, he looking for you.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, now understand, now understand that I ain't doing nothing. I ain't doing nothing under tens. I don't play the games.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Eight and a half. Eight and a half. I'm talking about. Hey, I need you to take. I need to take one for the team.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

You can't if you ain't got no team available. Ocho Your guy. I said he'll take one for the team sometime. The team ain't even available. Hey, hey, they had a bye week.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, Joe. Hey, Joe, my resume speaks for itself. I don't play them.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah, I'm saying you can't hold no conversation with it. Just keep a keeper distracted. Why?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Yeah, yeah. Hey, don't worry about it. Hey, Joe, in basketball, what are we looking for? The assistant three level scores. We got us a three level score right there.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey,

[ISO Joe Johnson]

that's Ho Cho.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, that's me. Hey, hey, hey. I'm like. I'm like Wimby. I'm like wimby. Yeah. Huh? Hey, I got height and length, huh?

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, let me stop playing for y'. All. Get me in trouble with my baby, man.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Yeah, they already know. They call him Slingshot at the crib. They already know he got. They call it Slingshot Joe.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Oh, yeah, yeah. They. Hey, they used to call me Boomerang in high school.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hey.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Oh, Lord have mercy. Let's take a look. Let's. Let's take a listen to the next one, man. Damn.

[Caller/Listener 4]

Oh, ISO Joe. Ocho Cinco.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Oh.

[Caller/Listener 4]

One question for you. Two minutes left in the fourth quarter. Any quarterback, all time who's leading your team down the field to score a touchdown to win the Super Bowl? Ocho, you need to chill out with ISO Joe. We've seen you play basketball. We know what's going to happen when you get on that court with that man. You're gonna have flashbacks. I know you don't know what I mean by flashbacks. My flashbacks. It's gonna be like you're looking in that window and this is all you see. Oh, ISO Joe. Just rolling up that cord on you. Peace out.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Have a good night.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

I'm taking seven over Mahomes. I'm taking Silver.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Been there, done that with it. Okay?

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

I'm with you when you're right. I'm with you when you're right. But you know, 15 like that too. Now, when you got, you got Brady,

[ISO Joe Johnson]

you got, you got, you got Mahomes, you got Manny, you got my channel, you got Manning. Yeah, but I saw, I saw. I. I saw my guy go 98 yards for the game. Tie and touchdowns and then go get. Go get in the game winning field goals. So I'm taking him.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

I got you,

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Man. Ocho, you need help? Here's a. Here's our last one.

[Caller/Listener 3]

What's up, nightcap family? Ocho is still king. Also, what's up, guys? I'm a football coach here in Arkansas. We are two time champions. I'm going into year four coaching. I need some advice. How do you guys think I can get my kids to buy in more? To get back to our winning ways, I would really appreciate any advice you guys can give me. Also can I get a birthday shout out tomorrow? I will be 28 years old. I would really appreciate it. Appreciate you guys. I love the show.

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[ISO Joe Johnson]

Absolutely. Happy birthday, bro. Happy early birthday.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Happy birthday.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Oh man. 28 years old, bro. Got a lot. Got a, a, a bright future. Already a coach, already two time champion.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

I'll be seeing him on. I'll be seeing him on IG too. I think I'll be. Yeah, I think he from the crib, you know.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Coaching them kids, bro. You know, that ain't that, that ain't that ain't easy, fellas.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Especially, especially at that age. Yeah. Trying to give him the fight. Trying to. There's so many distractions, Uncle Joe.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Yep.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

So many distractions today, especially with social media at that age. It has to be something they really want to do. I don't think there's really anything you can say at this point. They have no, they have to really want it, you know, and being the fact that they only come and see you for a certain amount of hours out of day, you know, that, that, that encouragement has to come from other places. Especially, you know, we got to start in the household, man.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hey, them damn Distractions killing them kids, man.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, it was crazy.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

I I sitting here talking to my son the other day, I'm talking about man, I see he just sat on the couch and he probably scrolled for about three, four hours on ig. I'm like, I can't help you. Hey man, you probably go get you a little workout in if you know

[ISO Joe Johnson]

me like you try, you trying to hit, you don't want to. You don't know, you don't want to put too much on it.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

But you just hit because you know when you got asked aspirations to be a hell of a any type of athlete, right. And you trying to play on the next level where you in college and you try, bro, it's gonna come with some sacrifices and some hard damn work. You better find you a routine quick, fast, in a hurry. Yeah man, you gotta outwork these dudes, bro. And they don't understand that part.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

I think the thing is like when kids, your older kids, I mean you got to be in a situation where the older kids, you see those guys work. And then when it's your time is your work and then the kids it's under UCU work. That's what a culture is.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Cultures don't. Coaches don't create a culture. Players, players.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

And if you're a two time state champ that sh. Man, them guys should be wanting to be a three time state champion the four times.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

But it's hard when you now you gotta think in high school if you winning like that, you can almost take that for granted. You know what I mean? You know how easy it is to take winning for granted, bro, when you've done it for so long. And I think that's that, that that tends to happen especially with a lot of these younger, with these younger kids.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

And then you got to worry about somebody coming get recruit.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

You damn right. Now nowadays, yeah, you're absolutely right. You absolutely right.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

And you know we the school oa. You went to the school that's in your district. You weren't crossing no line where you know hey, I can go to this school because they got a better sports program. Hey, well you better get good and build that one up while you why you there?

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Hey, naughty kids a dip out on your ass.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Cause look we talk about the Porter in college, but in high school it's just damn it's the same. You know. They probably ain't getting paid or probably they probably are. But here they'll jump ship on you. They'll jump ship on you too. Now.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Joseph Shamoon says, man, let me make you guys some custom nightcap pieces on the house. DM ass. Joseph, let's see what you're working with. Hard not to be. Shame. I've seen safety cones play better defense. At least in 2018, he give you 30. He makes 40 million and plays like a vet minimum. And that's the thing, Joe. He's always been bad defensively, but he could offset that by giving you 30, 40, 50, 60. He gave you so much that you overlook.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah, right.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Yeah, but he's always been that Ocho. You know who he was. He reminds James hard. You don't remind you of Trayvon Diggs. When Trayvon Diggs was getting 10, 11 interceptions. Yeah, you forgot the non tackling. You forgot the big plays that he gave up. Then all of a sudden he's down to two interceptions and the big plays and the non tack. You're like, hold up. And coaches, like, all of a sudden when he's getting no 11 interceptions, ain't nobody had a word. He probably would have let him stay over. That's James Harden. And when you up here, when production is up here, tolerance is up here. But when production goes here, tolerance can't stay here.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Right.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

And that's James. And James is the same. James is the same defensive player. Yeah, his hands might not be as active, but James really never played defense. We just overlooked it because he was historically great offensively and he had pretty

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

good goddamn defenders around him, meaning PJ Tucker, Trevor Ariza by Mute. You know, they kept. They. All these guys was on Houston team with him, so he had to do none of that dirty work. He just come out here and put on the show offensively and, you know, guard, guard. The guy on offense who really wasn't gonna be doing a whole hell of a lot. Yes, things have changed you in Cleveland now. Now you don't have these defenders on the perimeter.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

You got no big defenders. Basically, you got guys that can protect the paint.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

So it kind of exposes you a little bit because they seek you out, you know, you ain't just gonna use your. Your. Your. Your energy for offense. Your ass gonna have to guard. Yep.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

You ain't lying, Joe. Ocho.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hello.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Hey, can y' all do me a favor? Wish my wife, my wife Roro a happy birthday. Also got me to thinking. Well, bae, name is Roro, so I' ma pop too far. Come on, bro one, bro one.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, just do. Just do one twin. Just pop one twin.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Happy birthday. Hopefully you don't spend tomorrow because you pop two. You're gonna spend it tomorrow,

[Caller/Listener 1]

but.

[Caller/Listener 3]

Roro.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Happy birthday. Hey, bro. Thank you, man. Appreciate the support, man. Hopefully you and the wife have something. Have a great. Have a great celebration for.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Oh, yeah, man.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

We on this Dougie Fresh and get the Get Fresh Crew show next and four. And we live in Jamaica, Queens, baby. Orange and blue sky. Oh, we Dougie Fresh. Your own.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Okay.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

What's up, uncle? And still got a question. Was the Knicks run easiest road to the finals or the Knicks that good? Play 6 and 7 and 4 seeds. You can only play. You can only play who's in front of you.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

I'm gonna say they good, bro.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

And what you do if you're a superior team, you make it look like they made it look. Yeah.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah. I ain't gonna downplay. They play this postseason.

[Shaquille O'Neal]

They've been great.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

I ain't gonna lie. From, from. From the first serials all the way to the finals, they. They've controlled every series. Like, you know, I always talk about my house getting two games, but they just sprinted through Philly and then they just sprinted through the damn calves. You hear me? Now they. Now they'll get a test in the finals.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Y' all pissed them off, Joe, by taking them two games. Because after what they did to y'. All.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Come on, Come on.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Damn.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Why you gotta keep bringing that up? We know we had a dog game six. We dropped a dud. You hear me? We dropped a dud. But damn, we got two games. Look at Philly, bro. Look at the Cavs.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Come on. Knicks fan's gonna be riding around New York like the joker in that cop car. The Dark Knight.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hey, wait for some smoke, boy. What

[ISO Joe Johnson]

if Brunson wins the chip? When Finals mvp. Do you think he makes the hall of Fame when he's done?

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hell, yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

He got more to go. But he's. He'll be.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hey, he gets in New York, bro. Yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

He'll get on the fast track. He gonna be on the fast track. I'm trying. I don't know if there's. I'm trying to think. I don't know very many finals. MV MVP. Finals MVPs. That's not. Maybe bread. Cornbread. I don't think cornbread is in there. He won Finals mvp, but at the rate he's going to, I think he probably got another, what, four, five years, Joe, playing at this level.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah. How old is Brunson? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

That has. You say make the Eastern Conference gated great again. Statistically speaking, the Knicks, on paper, is the most dominant team in playoffs Ever. I think that says more about the conference. You could be right. They.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

They got a solid team, though. I like the guys they got coming off the bench. McBride, Alvarado, Clarkston. They got some guys who can get hot.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Freaky. Hey, y'. All, I was in Cancun for my 23rd birthday with my lady this past week, and we had a great time. Can I get a shout out? Also, I used the bathroom at the Cancun airport.

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[ISO Joe Johnson]

Bro.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Bro. Hey, that's the way you left your

[ISO Joe Johnson]

ass in Cancun, too.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, that's the way to live your life, boy. When you gotta go, you gotta go. Don't hurt your stomach.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Try, don't be. Bro, you just left the hotel. You just left the resort.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

He probably didn't have to use the bathroom at the hotel or the resort. Therefore, you have to do you. You got to go wherever you got to go.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

You better. Hey, you better travel on an empty damn stomach.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Yes.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Happy, happy birthday, too. He said happy birthday. Or Was it anniversary?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

23rd birthday with my lady.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

So happy birthday, bro.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Happy, happy birthday. Hopefully you had a great time. Hopefully you just told her you going to get a. Going to get something from the gift shop or something in the airport.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Damn.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Carnivore herbivore, ankle sore. Nixon. I don't know about that now.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Right?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

East coast cab. I have to give credit to our team. I also have to give credit to Mike Brown's coaching wwe. The, the housing for putting a curse on the calves. Dan Howden, please do it more time with a curse on them in the Western Conference. Hey, hey. I expect to see them nuns in okc. They definitely gonna be back there.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Oh, they for sure gonna be in San Antonio.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

I saw a post on X that said adding James Harden to win a championship is like marrying a stripper because you want a family. Couldn't agree more. The east that bad or the Knicks that good?

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Nick's pretty good, bro. I'm giving him credit.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

That's a mess. That's a messed up analogy.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

I, I, I think I probably say 85, 15, maybe 75. 25, 75. The Knicks good teams.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

They played, right?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

What's up, Big Three? I'm, I'm glad ISO finally got the nightcap signed. I told y' all a few days ago the Cavs should blow it up. Y' all said no. Still feel the same. No blow it. They gonna blow it up. Ain't no way I'm bringing this team back as currently constructed.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

And y' all made it to the Eastern Conference finals.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Yeah, you bringing it back as is?

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

No, you're gonna have to add some. You got to add something to that.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

But you're gonna leave. But I'm saying just add something. But you're gonna keep. Alan, you're gonna keep all these other auxiliary. Just.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

I'm gonna see. I'm gonna see. I'm gonna see what's out there. I'm gonna see what's out there. I'm gonna see what's going on. I'm gonna put my ear to the streets. You know what I mean? Put me into the streets. Let me see what's going on.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Ocho looking like crunchy black from three six mafia.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, it is my boy.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

You do like country black.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, that's my boy.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

I need a pardon. Here we go again. James Harden, Madison Square garden. Knicks at 4:1, love.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

They saying the Knicks gonna sweep in the finals.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

That's what they saying. I guess they're talking about the. The previous two times. The previous two. But ain't no way this. I don't think they sweeping. Three things guaranteed in life, death, taxes. James Harden being better than Houdini at the job in a close game. Joe, you can't keep having these games where you have more turnovers than field goals, man. Yeah, young guys are dumb. How about the Cavs just weren't better? James Harden took too many. Took too many teams to success. You make it so. Hold on. What were the Cavs before he got there? I'm confused.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

You.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

You really believe that? Okay, ISO has been less than a year and already has a nightcap set up. Maybe it'll be more. Maybe it will motivate Ocho tighten up, man.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

My nightcap setup is right.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hey, hey, hey. Look, all I did, Chad, I just went. Went to ikea. Gotta, gotta, got a few boards. I painted them black. You know, I didn't want that white backdrop. I seen how Ocho look. I said, hell no, I ain't going with that white backdrop. That white backdrop gonna make it look like that Waffle House sign.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, what's wrong? Waffle House, Joe.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

It's supposed to say nightcap. Ain't supposed to look like no Waffle House sign.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Okay, okay, I got you.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Would the game be different if Dane played with Mitchell and the Cavs?

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

If. If Dame. If Dame $. If he played with Mitchell and the Cavs. Yeah, I mean, his offense gonna be his defense. He gonna be able to. He'll put up big numbers. So he probably would have gave him a 40 point game here and now, you know what I mean?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

But I don't think he and Donovan probably more similar than he is.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah, I think, I think he can play off Donovan though, because Dame is such a great catch and shoot player and he's still, and he's still dynamic in the pick and roll, meaning getting to the bucket, you know, shooting his floater, finishing at the rack. He got, he got a little more in his arsenal right now.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Oo going to make ISO realize he's not that guy after he puts him in a blender and dunks on him. Don't forget to put the knee on his face, Ocho.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

What they saying?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

And then dunk on you, huh?

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Damn.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Put you in a blender, boy. Hey, I'm telling you, when I put that ball on the flow, Joe, it's going. It's going to be hell.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Chat.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Chat.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

I'm still mad the way y' all sabotage my goddamn film too.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Chad. Chad. I promise you, Chad, this shit gonna go viral. You hear me? It's gonna go viral.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, it's gonna go viral. Cause I'm gonna wash you, boy.

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[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey Joe, you look nervous too. I can tell by the way you sat back in there.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hey, chill out, chill out, chill out.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Ocho keeps talking ish too, and still king ISO. He gonna end up getting level like he did when he ran into Ray Lewis.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah man, he ain't doing up but building up. Every time he say something that I don't like, he don't know he just building up this ass whooping I'm about to get.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, I I joke. I wanna I'm gonna build a building as tall as a goddamn Empire State. I want you mad. I want you mad as hell.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

I want you frustrated.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Ocho, you better watch what you asked for, son.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, I'm gonna take you. I'm gonna take your soul.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

You better watch what you asked for, son.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, and you know, you see the emphasis I said on the word boy. You Ever saw Mississippi Burning?

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah. Yes.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Okay. That's the. That's the boy. I mean. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want you to take offense to that boy. Yeah.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hey, mean demonstration on this boy here.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Mean.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Mean one. I'm telling you, they're playing. Hey, it ain't gonna be no my. No mercy, no, none of that. Mean.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

They go, no taking it easy.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

I don't need no. Hey, Unc. I'm not taking it easy, man. I'm gonna fly by him, man. He gonna look like he in semen shoes, boy, playing with me.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

I can hear. I. I can hear Chad now. That ain't fair, Joe. That ain't fair. Damn. Damn fair. Life ain't fair. Here his ass. Hey, this is what he need. This is what he need.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Damn.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah. Yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Joe. You know, if he get a couple of buckets on you, say that's all he wanted.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

I'm not gonna let his ass.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

It's a rap. I'm gonna score, Joe. I don't play for the cab, Joe.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Once I get the ball, Ocho, I promise you, you won't see it no more. Okay, no more.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Bet. Bet, Amber, and bring your. And bring your last down in the goddamn block. Watch what happened to you?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

What? Oh, so y' all playing make it take.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Oh, damn.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

And you try to post up.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

What?

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

I'mma put this elbow right in your neck, right? Yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Harden AKA Cheesecakes over winning with my teammates AKA Chicken wings over championship rings.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

What?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

I guess he's at the Cheesecake Factory.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Oh, man, come on, bro. Let the. Hey, hey, hey. Let the man. Let the man eat in peace, bro.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Who that?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Nixon Six over the Spurs. I'll listen to y' all every day when I'm out cutting grass for a living. Keep being, y'.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

All. Yeah.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Nah, Ocho. Stay your ass in Miami with your sorry Heat. We don't want you on the Knicks bandwagon.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, hey, hey. Don't get beside yourself, fool. Don't get beside yourself. I'm a Heat fan. First, this is just specifically for the playoffs because the nick came out. These. They're my bandwagon, man. Shut up,

[ISO Joe Johnson]

ISO. Remember in 2006 when I saw you get a bucket, go bucket for bucket with TMAC and Kobe? I was like, damn. Super underrated. Mad respect. Ocho and ISO, y' all should have a Texas Death match and a steel cage referee. Ocho, you took Megatron and Julio over Fitzgerald. What? Fitzgerald is a way better Rod Runner and band better than both. I saw Revis Shut down Megatron and Julio while Fitz gave him that work. You agree ain't nobody.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Ain't nobody care what you saw. What I picked is what I picked based on what I know about the position I played. Came out what you saw. I'm telling you how it go. And that was the order.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Now that man spoke. Ocho, what were the pro. Pro bowl practices like? I would have loved to see both of you teammates in their prime. If Ocho threw you a touchdown and vice versa, what celebration would you do? Love the show. The practices were chill. I mean, we had one on ones and you trying to get open. I mean, obviously that's the best of the best. But I'm working my ass off. Cause I don't want you to think we get back to the main.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, hey. We was out there chilling, boy, with them hats on.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm talking about the big practice, but. No, no but. So you got to realize Ojo and. And back in the early. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We had one on ones.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Oh, for real?

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Yeah.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Oh, no, we was in that chilling. Hey, Ray Lewis say tea time when Ray hit that tea time. Hey, coach, we coming out in hats. Leave your helmets in the locker room.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Oh, yeah, they get mad about that. It was. It was. It was different back in them days, man. It was. I wish I could have got some of them times.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, listen, when they get to that fourth quarter, though.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Oh, yeah, they turn it up to four quarters.

[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]

Hey, Joe, you got to button up your chin strap. We need that money.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Yeah, $10,000 come in handy.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Yeah, yeah. It was saying like that with basketball too, though, in the All Star Game that fourth quarter.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

Get here.

[Co-host/Friend (possibly 'Ocho' or another show regular)]

Hey, hey. It's winning time here. It's a big difference.

[ISO Joe Johnson]

The New York Knicks advanced to the NBA Finals for the first time in 27 years thanks to a 37 point victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers to finish off the sweep 130 to 93. The Knicks play six guys in double figures and the Cavaliers really didn't stand a chance. I'm not gonna say they quit, but I didn't say I didn't see a whole lot of effort after the Knicks withstood their. Withstood their initial push. So the Knicks are going to the NBA Finals for the first time in 27 years. 130, 93 over the key Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cleveland Cavaliers got some reflection, some inspection to do also in their own house. I don't see how they bring this exact team back, but we shall see. Thank you guys for joining us for another episode of Nightcap. I'm your favorite up that is my partner and co host. That is Liberty City's own a six time Pro Bowler and a Ring of Fame honoree from the Cincinnati Bengals. That is Chad Ochocinko Johnson and the smooth shooting clutch making seven time NBA All Star from the Atlanta Hawks. He's 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 for your support and you continue supporting those looking to purchase a bottle of shade by Laportier. Head over to laportier.com to purchase you a bottle if it's currently unavailable in the state or city near you. We have two sizes the 750, the OG the 375 is now the junior and the same great quality, same great taste. A VSOP that drinks like an exo. Please drink responsibly and stay safe The Knicks going to the NBA Finals the Jalen Brunson is Eastern Conference Finals mvp. The Larry Bird Award and we've been nominated for four video hashtag awards Out Best Outside With a Nightcap Outside and Row Best Podcast Best Athletes Podcast Best Use of Live Video that link is pinned in the chat. Want to thank each and every one of you for joining us tonight. The Knicks are going to the NBA finals for the first time in 27 years. We're back tomorrow night after game five, the San Antonio spurs travel to take on the OKC Thunder. I'm unk, he's ocho, he's ISO. We're out. Sam.

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