Club Shay Shay - Nightcap - Hour 1: Caitlin Clark gets drafts, DeVonta Smith gets extended, Puka Nacua gives up McDonald's
Episode Date: April 16, 2024Shannon Sharpe and Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson react to University of Iowa star Caitlin Clark being selected by the Indiana Fever with the No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA Draft, the Philadelphia Eagles ag...reeing to a three-year, $75 million extension with star WR DeVonta Smith and Los Angeles Rams WR Puka Nacua saying he's removed McDonald's from his diet. 0:00 Introduction04:20 Unc shows off Synopsis Award for Best New Sports Podcast08:30 WNBA Draft talk16:00 Eagles extend WR Devonta Smith21:20 CeeDee Lamb and Justin Jefferson not present at voluntary offseason workouts37:00 Davante Adams says he doesn’t want to get traded 447:00 Puka Nacua says he’s cutting McDonald’s from his diet54:30 Kevin Durant says key to healthy season was avoiding floppers01:04:30 Will Smith makes surprise appearance at Coachella, performs Men in Black #Club #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Ocho, okay. Before we get started.
Yeah.
Got a little something in the bag. Look at that, Ocho.
Boy, what's that?
That's the Synopsis Sports Media Awards 2024 new sports show, Nightcap
with Unc'n Ocho, the volume.
So we got the best new sports show.
Wait a minute.
No, no, no. Let me take that back. I got the best
new sports show because as a matter of fact,
I got the trophy in my hand.
Where my trophy at? Whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa. You jumping the gun. You
speeding right now. We're in the 30 mile
hour zone. Right now, I'm going 25.
Okay. Drive like Paul Walsley.
Drive slow, homie. Hold on, hold on.
Where my trophy at? I'm trying to stack
all my stuff up right
behind me. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Why they keep
sending everything to your house? Whoa.
Hey, first
my plaque. I feel threatened.
What we doing? I feel threatened. Chat.
Can someone call 911? I feel threatened. I feel threatened. Chat, can someone call 911?
I feel threatened.
He's really being confrontational.
He's hostile right now. You can't
feel too threatened when you said I can't beat
Max Holloway, so you really shouldn't be feeling
threatened if I get kind of hostile right
now. I want to understand why
they keep sending you all the goodies and
all the gifts and the rewards for things
that the two of us have accomplished. I'll answer that at a later date and time, but until you calm down,
sir, I'm not going to be able to answer any of your questions. Okay. I'm calm. Okay. I'm asking
you in a, I'm asking you in a, in a nice manner. I would like to know where my reward is or my
trophy. So I can also, I would like to show my kids. I want to show french fry
I'm not one show look what daddy did look what daddy did
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Nightcap with uncle nocho is the best new sports show
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as the volume who's I
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Unc and Ocho thank you thank you thank you
appreciate that key words
Unc and Ocho yeah yeah yeah
Unc has something to show for the
award Ocho is right here empty
handed I ain't got nothing over here
well at first
your award is coming okay okay here empty-handed. I ain't got nothing over here. Well, at first,
your ward is coming.
Okay, okay. I like that. I like that. Okay, okay.
I mean, I like to see wars are like blessings. You know they're coming,
you just don't know when. You know what I'm saying?
The war is coming.
I like that. But see, the thing is,
you don't be all, hey, now, Lord, you know,
I prayed to you yesterday waiting for this blessing
to come, and it ain't came yet.
But you harassing me. Right.
But listen, it's one thing about the
man upstairs. You know, he sit high and he look
low. Yeah. My grandma always told me
he don't show up when you want him, but he
always on time. Okay. Expect that
award sometime in the future. Hey, that's
just, that's why
I love you, man. That's why I love you.
One day you gonna go to the mailbox. It's gonna be a good show tonight. You gonna go to the mailbox like, man, what's why I love you, man. That's why I love you. All right. One day you're going to go to the mailbox.
It's going to be a good show tonight.
You're going to go to the mailbox like, man, what's this?
What's this?
And then boom, all your stuff.
Your phone code.
Yeah.
Yeah, send all that.
Yeah, yeah.
Hey, I really need that.
Yeah.
Your synopsis of war.
And listen, many other wars to follow later on oh yeah whatever listen the whatever wars that we've already won yeah we trying to run it back oh
yeah most definitely whatever wars that we haven't won oh you best believe we coming for we need that
we need that we coming because all we're that. We need that. We coming.
We coming. Because all we're gonna do,
we're gonna keep getting better. We're gonna keep producing better content. We're gonna be informative.
We're gonna be entertaining.
And we're, hey, so
and enlightening. So
we coming. So whatever awards that we
won, best believe we looking for a repeat.
Yes, sir. Hey,
like I always say Ocho
if Pete and repeat
was on the fence
and Pete fell off
who was left
repeat
so that's what we try to do
we trying to run it back
and if
I like
I gotta steal that
I like that one
I gotta steal that
and if we ain't got it
I like that one
that was a good one
so if you got an award
in 23
early 24 24 counts of Christmas.
Got all them going to nightcap, Punk and Ocho.
In one way or another.
All right, Ocho, let's get right into it.
The worst kept secret probably since Shaq, LeBron, and Tim Duncan came out.
Who's going to be the number one overall pick in the WNBA draft?
And the Indiana Fever selected. Kaitlyn Clark,
guard out of
University of Iowa. No surprise
there.
The Sparks chose Stanford
on Cameron Brink.
She'll stay in California. We'll give the Sparks
a two-way player, a prolific scorer,
Nate Smith, a defensive player of the year.
The Sparks also needed to replace
Nneka Abumake,
who left for Seattle in pre-agency.
Angel Reese went seventh to the Chicago Sky.
So here's the picks.
Indiana Fever selected Kaitlyn Clark, number one.
The Sparks selected Cameron Brink, number two.
Chicago Sky selected Camilla Cardosa, number four.
The Sparks also had two top five
picks. Ricky Jackson of Tennessee.
The Dallas Wings, J.C.
Sheldon, Ohio State. Washington
Mystics selected Aaliyah Edwards
forward out of UConn. Angel
Reese was selected seventh
out of Chicago
Sky. The Minnesota Lynx made a
trade. Alyssa Peely from Utah.
And Dallas Williams, Carla Lett from France.
So that was your top 10.
No surprise.
Really, I don't think there's any surprises,
especially the top four.
We know Clark was going to be number one.
All indications that Brink was going to be two.
Cardoza was going to be three. Ricky Jackson was going to be number one. All indications that Brink was going to be two. Cardoso was going to be three.
Ricky Jackson was going to be four.
But the Chicago Sky traded back up to seventh to select Angel Reese.
And so that's how it played out.
Any surprises to you?
No, no surprise to me.
Honestly, I thought Miss Reese would have went earlier. uh no no no surprise to me um i'm honestly honestly i thought i thought miss miss reese
i thought miss reese would have went earlier but those that that went before her all
fit very well and they were team needs you know based on where they went but i think um what i
really like is camilla cardoza and angel reese actually going to the same team yeah so you go
from competing now you go to playing together and. And I think that's really dope for them.
Outside of that, I'm excited.
I'm excited.
The funny thing, I'm a little bit more excited for watching the WNBA
coming up this following season as opposed to I am watching NBA.
I ain't really watching NBA all season.
I've been to two games all year.
I've been to that Philly game, that Philly game when the meter dropped 70.
And I went to that Knicks game not too long ago when Jalen Brunson was out.
But I had a chance to, you know, sit in the garden.
But I'm more excited to goddamn watch the WNBA this upcoming season.
So this is dope.
I think this is something I'm going to get myself into so I can talk a little bit more about it.
The way I can talk about soccer, the way I can talk about boxing, and the way I can talk about tennis.
So, and football
for that matter, but I'm excited.
Yes, Kaylee McClark going number one
overall. She goes, she teams up with last
year's number one overall pick,
Aaliyah Boston,
who's from University of South Carolina.
And so now she's going to have better
players around her. We know
she has a great shot, has great basketball
IQ. She can facilitate the basketball
because she led the nation in scoring
and she led the nation in assists.
Those things translate.
So if she's having an off-night shooting,
she can make it easier shots
for her teammates.
You know, her impact on the game
is already being felt
because 36 of her games
are going to be nationally televised.
Never in the history of the WNBA has that ever happened before.
That is impact.
But in seat,
that is impact.
Yeah.
Look at the Lakers.
When they go on the road,
there are more teams there to watch LeBron and the Lakers.
Then watch the team plan.
Same thing with Steph Curry.
That is impact.
She's going to have that type of impact. And we see
this rise in women's sports.
And so that's great for
all women because there was a time
that there was no WNBA.
And the women had to go overseas.
It's nice to see
that sponsors
and advertisers and fans
alike are starting to get behind these women's
sports. And we're starting to see because it's something to give the young girls that's growing up
something to look forward to.
We know our young guys, young men, boys, they have football, they have basketball, they
have soccer.
They have so many sports to look forward to.
But women, it's not like that.
So for them to have the for the WNBA to have a rise in popularity
yeah it seems like advertising the sponsors are starting to get behind I think Caitlin Clark is
going to be at the forefront of that but this is a great this is a great great group of young ladies
Cameron Brink, Camila Cardoza, Ricky Jackson, Jason Sheldon I am so excited and Angel Reese
rounding out going to Chicago that's great. I think all things
being equal, she could have
gone to Los Angeles, which would have been great.
Go to New York. That's great.
But Chicago is not a bad option.
Not at all. Big city. That's a big
market. That's a big market.
Very big market. I'm excited.
I'm excited for these young ladies.
Congratulations to all the women. And as I tweeted
out earlier today, Ocho,
this is not the end of your journey.
A new journey starts now.
Just starting.
Now, hey, the greatest ladies play here.
Show your why.
Show your why now.
It's not about what you've done.
Everybody at this level has accomplished something.
Now you're zero and zero.
You've accomplished nothing in the WNBA.
Now go show your wife.
So I'm excited for all these young ladies.
Congratulations, young ladies, to all those that stood behind you,
moms, dads, coaches, grandparents, brothers and sisters,
and loved ones alike.
This is a dream come true, but this is not the end of your dream.
This is only the beginning of it.
So congratulations to all those ladies and
much success. And if I'm not mistaken,
mistaken, I think the first game is what, May
14th? So less than a month away.
Wait, already?
Already, yeah.
And the ladies were impeccable.
Kayla Clark had on Prada.
Cameron Brink had the slit.
Nice, like he's walking the red carpet.
And you know Angel was going to do it.
You know Bayou Barbie was going to come out with it.
Yeah, she's going to kill it.
She's going to kill it every time.
Everybody has their own unique look and own unique style and fashion
and fashion forward way of expressing themselves.
Yeah.
I like it.
I do too.
That's one thing I like about the WNBA players.
Man, them girls, man, them girls put that shit on now.
Oh, they put it on? They put that shit on. But when it's time to come play about the WNBA players. Man, them girls, man, them girls put that shit on now. Oh, they did put it on?
They put that shit on.
But when it's time to come play, man, I enjoy it.
Some very, very, very, very stylish women.
Very stylish.
Yeah, they were very stylish.
They put on.
But pretty soon, it's time to put that hair up on the ponytail.
And put them gym shorts on.
Now it's time to put up the couture.
It's time to put on some gym shorts.
And let's go do this.
Let's go do this.
This is what we came to do.
So congratulations, young lady.
Well-deserved, well-earned.
Congratulations to all the people that stood behind them and backed them.
Because no one gets here alone.
And so, again, congratulations.
And I'm extremely happy for each and every one of these
young ladies that was drafted uh now it's time for our first segment of the night ocho yeah and it's a
news cap
the eagles have extended former heisman Trophy winner, first-round pick Devontae Smith to a three-year deal, $75 million.
Devontae Smith contracts call for $51 million in guaranteed money.
Devontae Smith is the Eagles' third major extension of the offseason.
Landon Dixon, four years, $84 million.
Jordan Maialata, three years, $66 million.
The Eagles now have Devontae Smith, Jalen Hurts, Landon Dixon,
and Jordan Maialata all secured
to the year 2029.
Devontae Smith has the most receptions
240 and receiving
yards 3,178
through the first three seasons in Eagles history.
The Eagles appear to have wanted a
head start on wide receivers market as
they extended Devontae Smith
prior to the extension of
other notable receivers,
Smith was selected 10th overall in the 2021 draft.
The notable receivers from the 2020 NFL draft who are still in line for a contract extension
have not received them yet.
T. Higgins, C.D. Lamb, Brandon Ayuk, Ayuk, and Justin Jefferson.
So Smitty says, you know what? Hey, bro,
y'all do what y'all do, but I
got to do what's in the best interest of my family.
And in the best interest of my family, I'm
going to get a head start on this thing. So y'all do what
y'all do. I'm going to take this 75
three-year, $75 million, 51
guarantee, and I'm going to get on up out of here.
And the most important thing about
it is the guarantee.
What is guaranteed?
What am I getting?
Forget what the numbers look.
I know it looks pretty, 3 for 75.
No, let me see the real numbers.
Let me break down what I'm really earning within that time frame and what is coming to me, coming hella high water if I get hurt,
no matter what, it's going to be in my pocket.
It's going to be in my pocket.
Yeah, for sure.
Them three years from the go-back so fast,
he's going to double up and come right back to the bank. Yeah. He's going to double up and pocket. For sure. Them three years when they go by so fast, he's going to double up
and come right back to the bank.
Yeah.
He's going to double up
and have that Brink truck
back on up
because I don't see
Smitty slowing down
anytime soon,
especially in that offense
that he's in.
He's going to be productive
the next three years.
So he's going to see
another payday.
I like the fact,
Ojo,
he's not waiting around
To see what others
Because the worst mistake
People can make sometimes
Is to measure your value
By what somebody else got
Right
We see that an awful lot
Well he got that
Wait what
That ain't got nothing to do with you
You not over there
You right here
I mean
How am I going to tell a man
Hey
They got cake over there And I'm in a hardware store.
I can only get hammer and nails or salt.
That's all I get.
That's all I can get over here.
That's all I can get in a hardware store.
They're in a grocery store.
So you're not where they are.
So you can't say, well, they did this.
Never measure your worth by what someone else got.
And so if you do that that you'll be fine and so he's like look this good i gotta worry about my financial me he got
a wife i think he got a wife or a girlfriend a kid i think he just had a newborn within the last
six months and so if he feels comfortable with it let let that rock. Let that rock.
Like you said, hey, get that money early.
How old is he, 24, 25?
25.
He number 25.
25, yes.
He number 25.
He go ahead and ball out like he's been balling out.
They'll come back and see him again at 28.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, most definitely.
Real quick.
So congratulations, Smitty.
He's one of the first guys that I had
on my podcast at Club Shea Shea.
Actually, we did it here in my backyard
in the garage.
And so he had just won the Heisman.
I won all the awards that year.
So congratulations in order to him.
Yeah, yeah.
And he's very deserving.
And you know what else?
Hold on.
You know what else?
You know what Devante Nutrition, you know what his diet is? What is it? McDonald's. I just know what else? Hold on. You know what else? You know what Devontae nutrition,
you know what his diet is?
What is it?
McDonald's.
I just wanted to throw that out there.
I just wanted to throw that out there
for you real quick.
I just wanted to have that.
Hey, I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
I just wanted to throw that out there
for you real quick.
You see how much Devontae weigh?
You see how much I weigh?
He about 180, 190.
Devontae ain't never seen 180.
Devontae, I guarantee you, Devontae can come right now,
look through my keyhole with both eyes.
I'm just saying.
I'm just saying, Ocho.
I guarantee you.
Hold on, hold on.
Chill.
You ain't seen him lately.
He been in the weight room.
He about 190 right now.
Look at him.
I'm telling you, he about 190.
Huh?
Hold on, Ocho.
This is what we know because we played long enough.
Whatever they list you as, you were fun to that.
Especially with you.
He probably about 165, 163.
I'm telling you, he done put on some weight this offseason.
You know, he done bulked up.
I guarantee you, when you see him this year, you're going to be like,
God damn, boy, you been working.
He about 190.
I kid you not.
You'll see. Man, that joke was skinny, man He about 190. I kid you not. You'll see.
Man, that joke was skinny, man.
That's all I want.
That's all I want to be skinny.
The man swallow,
I watch it go all the way down to his stomach.
That's how skinny I watch.
I'm just saying, Ocho.
That's how skinny the man is.
I watch it go all the way down.
I say, well, damn.
Hey, come on, man.
Don't try to be the whole like that.
Nah, he good people.
Yeah, he good.
He really good people.
Real good dude. Real good dude.
Real good dude.
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What happened with C.D. Lamb, what?
Here we go.
C.D. Lamb and Justin Jefferson skipped workout amid contract talks.
The pair of NFL top receivers decided not to show up to voluntary workouts on Monday
in the midst of contracts talk.
I don't blame them.
Both players are set to hit for agency
in 2025
and will attempt to work
out a long-term contract in order to stay with
the organization. CeeDee Lamb will be
playing on a fifth-year option worth
$18 million. CeeDee's
coming off a career year in which he led all
NFL players with 135 receptions.
He racked up 1,749
yards while finding the end zone
12 times. Jefferson has
a base salary of $20
million. After the
Vikings exercised his fifth-year
option, the 24-year-old skipped
voluntary workouts in 2023,
although he showed up for the team's mandatory
minicamp. I don't blame him. Anything
that's voluntary. Voluntary
means it's on my own free volition.
I decide to come. That's what
volunteering is. I volunteer
my service. You want me
to come? Make it mandatory.
I ain't giving you no money back.
Just Jefferson and the Vikings nearly
reached an agreement in 2023, although
the deal fell apart and never was
finalized.
What you got?
Man, them boys, listen,
them boys ain't playing by their money, man.
They ain't playing by their money.
And sometimes, you know what?
You got to, it's one thing to love the game of football.
It's one thing to love it and be passionate about it as a player.
But you know what that business,
you know what this business will do to you?
They'll use it against you when it's pay time.
Oh, absolutely.
Listen, they will lose your love for the game of football and use it against you when it's time to get paid because they know, you know what, he love the game so much, he going to come in anyway.
Or he going to show up to camp anyway.
He going to show up to camp.
So that notion, you got to be careful.
You got to understand you got to play the game especially
when it comes to this business it's one thing to love and be passionate about the game and love
your team and be loyal to your teammates and all this there's no i am a team player all that shit
sound good until it's time for you to get paid and the business shows you exactly how dirty and
ugly you can get there's no reason cee Lamb should not be paid at this point
because the resume
speaks for itself.
There's no reason
Justin Jefferson,
Jamar Chase,
I'm sure it takes time.
You know,
you got to do the numbers
and all that stuff.
You got to do the books.
There's a lot
that goes into it.
But you already know
these individuals
are coming up.
You already knew
you had budget,
voluntary.
You already knew
you had voluntary
camp coming up.
You would want your best players in camp at that time.
You wouldn't want them in time.
So why even play this game?
You did the same goddamn shit in Dallas.
Did the same shit with,
with a goddamn,
um,
Ezekiel Elliott.
You had Zeke out there on the beach in Cabo,
wherever he was at working out,
he was training,
keeping himself.
Why even play this game?
And then they come into camp.
You know how different it is. You could train
100 times a day away
from football, but when you're in that
structured environment, it's completely
different. It's completely
different. You think you're in shape
working by yourself until you
get out there with 11-on-11
and 7-on- 707 and you're getting
pushed around and moved around it's a little it's a little bit different you get it you get in shape
by playing football that's how you get in football shape period guys play basketball they do open
runs yeah because you get in shape playing basketball yeah and so that's what you need to
do and look but i don't have a problem with the guys. Look, it's early.
Now, once training camp roll around and they're not in camp,
now we're going to have something to really talk about, Ocho.
That's even worse, though.
Why do teams play this game?
Why?
Why not allow him to be in camp happy, for one, like you do your quarterbacks.
You take care of your quarterbacks to make sure they're happy and have nothing going on in their head mentally so they clear
they have a clear mind ready to go in but when it comes to the skill position they always got
to fight tooth and nail you got to drag them through the mud no matter how good they are
you wait you last you wait to the last minute i don't know what point you trying to prove
okay we're gonna take care of that.
Two minutes before camp starts.
Two minutes before camp starts, he'll go cross the ticker.
Oh, so-and-so finally signed.
Oh, Joe.
The Cowboys won the Super Bowl.
Emmitt Smith's contract, he won and negotiated.
He missed the first two games of 93.
Emmitt Smith is the all-time leading rusher. And they made him hold first two games of 93 emmett smith is the all-time leading rusher and they made him
hold out two games they lost both of those games and jerry came to his senses and got him in yeah
yes so from an owner's perspective i know it's hard for us to think like owners i think from
that business business mindset on the other side of the spectrum, what is it that they're doing?
What purpose are they,
as owners,
do they do in withholding,
giving the contract
until the last minute?
They don't want...
The word, you remember last week,
Ocho, I asked you to spell
the word precedent?
Right.
They don't want to set a precedent.
They don't want a situation
where I ask,
okay, the team just gave in.
Let's just say CD wants 35 million.
A year.
Team probably offering 25 million.
Oh, no, no, don't low ball it.
Okay, but go ahead.
That's a, okay, now, okay, you come down, I come up.
You come down, how soon do we meet?
Right. That's how they're trying
to look at it. The problem that they're
running into is that
you got that beast over on the
other side of the ball, Micah.
Oh, yeah. You see what
Miles Garrett got? Yeah.
You see what Joey Bosa got? You see
what T.J. Watt got? Right, right, right, right.
Yeah. And that was two and three years. You see what T.J. Watt got. Right, right, right, right, right. Yeah.
And that was two and three years ago.
Inflation.
Yeah.
What you could buy, what you could get with a hundred million guarantee, you can't get today.
Mm-hmm.
Michael said, give me my money.
Yeah, you're right.
Because here's the thing, Ocho.
This is a bottle of water.
Yeah.
That's all it is.
Now, some places, that bottle of water, you can get it for a dollar.
Some places, you can get it for $2.
Right.
Go to the ballpark, it might cost you $10.
The value of the water is determined by where you are.
You see, sometimes, Ocho, you have to look at it.
If my value isn't right here, I might be in the wrong place.
I might need to go somewhere else where my value is a little higher.
Now, that's a bottle of water.
I don't care what they say. It could have been in the old day, could have packaged it in Switzerland or Antarctica or the Ozarks.
Right.
But at the end of the day, it quenches your thirst.
And some of it costs you a dollar.
Some of it costs you five dollars.
Some of it might cost you 20.
The only difference is where you purchase it from determines the value of it.
Where you're playing determines the value.
So maybe you might, hey, Ocho, because guess what?
If I take this watch, I might take it to the pawn shop.
Pawn shop might say, man, I know what it's worth, but you coming in here, so obviously you need the money.
I ain't going to give you what it's worth.
I might give you $5,000.
Your homie on the street said, man, I like that.
I ain't never seen that.
I might give you $10,000.
Right.
You might take it to the auction.
They're like, well, dang, Rolex only produced 100 of these.
This was in great shape.
I think it might be worth X
you see it's the same watch
three different people valued it
differently yeah
I like that
okay you don't value
also in a relationship
it's the same
yeah
he might not value you
you might have to leave.
Right. And where somebody else value what you do more than what you're currently being valued right here.
But you can't be afraid to leave. I like that. You can't be afraid to leave.
You can't, Ocho.
A lot of times people are afraid. They're afraid
of the unknown. See, this is
why people are afraid of the dark and not the day.
Because I
can't see that well at night. Something
might be lurking behind that door.
The boogeyman might be out there.
See, that's the difference between
that's what faith is.
You know what? people need to hear
What you're saying right now
Especially with that faith
And that afraid to leave
Because of the value
And whoever you
You might be in a situation
Where you're not feeling valued
Or you're not valued in general
Ladies
If you listen
Fellas
If you got somebody you're dealing with
It's not easy though Joe
It's not easy
I know it's not easy at all, Joe. It's not easy.
I know it's not easy, but still,
just to put a little bug in your ear,
just to put a little bug in your ear,
you saying this tonight for a reason.
It's going to hit somebody.
Yes.
You saying it tonight for a reason.
This came up tonight for a reason.
But somebody that's listening, I'm telling you.
Because you're in a situation where the person you're with is not valuing you and whatever it is you bring to the table it's a very it's a situation no joe where
my trainer thought it's the bible teaches us it says god says have faith see faith is
is believing with not knowing.
God said if you believe,
if you say you got to believe first,
then I'll show you.
What is man?
The opposite.
Man say show me and I'll believe you.
Right.
And so most people,
you need to show it to them
before they believe it.
Right.
But faith is taking that leap of faith
is the unknown.
But believing.
Someone asked me,
said, well, Shannon,
when your situation
ended at undisputed,
how did you know?
I say, I don't gamble anymore.
I said, but if I go to,
if I go to Vegas
and I play roulette, I'm betting on black.
I'm going to bet on me.
Come on now.
You see, the problem that people underestimate me because they forget where I came from.
Yeah.
This is the easiest situation that I've ever had to leave.
Right.
Yeah.
This is the easiest situation that I've ever had to leave.
Right.
Do you understand where my family came from and how my brother and I got it out of the mud?
Literally?
Right.
So you mean to tell me I can't?
Remember, what did I tell you?
If I'd done it before, I can do it again.
Oh, yeah, most definitely.
Every time.
Barney Porter used to tell my brother and I,
he said, boy, anytime I take y'allall somewhere you should always be able to get back if i take you
somewhere he would always tell me and my brother if i take you somewhere one time you should get
back well hell i was on tv before doing what i did you mean to tell me I couldn't get back on TV and do it again? If I got
an opportunity, you mean to tell me that
if I
did this with Club Shay Shay, you mean to tell
me I couldn't get with a host, a co-host
and create Nightcap?
You lying to me.
Y'all nothing to tell me what I can't do.
Just tell me it hasn't been done yet
because sometimes people try to force
their beliefs off on you
just because you can't do it that don't mean I can't do it
I can't
everything is possible
everything is possible you put your mind to it
you put your mind to it
you got your little discipline
you put your mind to it
and you're willing to execute a plan to get it done
everything and anything is possible and you know why to execute a plan to get it done everything
everything and anything is possible and you know why i knew i could do it ocho because think about
how hard i work for the broncos how hard i work for the ravens how hard i work for cds and fox
so you mean to tell me i'm almost i'm gonna deny myself vacation and everything for them but i
can't do it for my own i can't do it for club shea shea i
can't do it for nightcap that's mine yeah and that's what people don't understand people will
work themselves to the bone on somebody else's job and will give less than half the effort for
their own and then wonder why i don't know think about it. If you had worked as hard as you did on Mr. Charlie's job,
as you did for 10, 15 years,
when you got your own,
well, I don't feel like going to work today,
so I ain't got to go to work today.
See?
No.
I'm going to show up coming hell or high water.
I'm going to have to be gravely ill not for me to show up.
Show up, right.
Because guess what?
There were some times I didn't feel like taking my ass to work,
but I went and got on that man clock.
I can get on my clock.
Yeah.
That's the approach you have to have, people.
That's the mindset that you have to have.
If you can work that hard for somebody else,
you should be damn willing to work that hard for your damn self.
Yeah.
You got to want it.
Can't nobody want it for you.
Can't nobody want it for you.
Nah.
And that's the number one thing I tell my kids.
I can't want something for you more than you want it for yourself.
Right.
Because at the end of the day,
oh yeah,
daddy pushing me,
daddy pushing me.
And then as soon as daddy turned around, you were like, nah, i don't really want to do that yeah and i always told him you
know hey do what you want because i've lived out my dream my whole dream was to get great out of
this environment and now if that's not your dream they say you're not upset your son didn't play
football hell nah that was my dream that wasn't his yeah yeah the last thing i wanted for my kids
to be was 30 years old and say, well,
daddy, I only did this because of you.
No, here you did.
You chose that.
You chose that major because that's what you wanted to do.
You chose that job because that's what you want to do.
Shannon did what he wanted to do.
Right.
Shannon didn't push you in any direction.
Once you chose the direction, I said, okay,
because this is what you're going to have to do.
So no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I don't, I didn't.
Yeah.
Did I push my kids?
Yes.
Be better.
Be humble, but not just, oh, son, you got to play football.
Now you don't want to play.
Okay.
Fine.
That was my dream.
Right.
I don't force my dreams off on my kids the hard work yes
absolutely absolutely i'll make sure you're gonna work hard now i said hey at the sharp household
it only got it only got one room for one lazy mofo i'm in i'm the only lazy mofo that can lay here. Right. So,
Devontae Adams rejects trade chatter.
If I wanted to be gone,
I'd be gone.
For more than a year,
trade rumors surrounding Devontae Adams
have circulated based on multiple factors,
including coaching change.
And he's 31 years of age,
seeking to play for a clear contender.
Speaking to Sunday at his youth football camp
in Las Vegas,
Adam told reporters he had no desire to be traded.
If I wanted to be gone, I would be gone by now.
This is where I want to be.
I like, yeah, I mean, listen,
sometimes you don't know when something is real,
but even at 31, Devontae to me,
still the most prolific elite route runner in the nfl now uh he is highly inspiring highly
sought after if he was a secret you know to want to be traded um some contenders some thoughts on
places that he would he could go and and fill that role very good buffaloills being one of them. You know, Buffalo Bills being one of them.
Getting that same type of
monster player that Stephon Diggs was
that is an elite route runner that you can put in any position,
can play from the outside, can play from the inside.
He can beat man, he can beat zone.
He can do it all.
He can do it all.
He built a nice home. He got do it all. He's like, look,
he built a nice home. He got a wife.
A couple of kids.
No state income tax
in Nevada.
Buffalo ain't it, dog.
Buffalo ain't it. No.
I don't think he wants to move.
I don't think he...
Listen to the words he said, man.
He said a contender.
That's what speculation said.
He said if I wanted to be somewhere else, I would.
Oh, yeah, I thought he said, okay, my bad, my bad.
Go ahead, go ahead.
After spending your time in Cincinnati,
you ain't really trying to go back.
You ain't trying to live in no cold weather, are you?
No, I like the cold, man.
Ain't nothing wrong with that, man.
I like that.
I'm in Vegas.
I'm in a controlled environment. Eight games a year it's gonna be perfect not maybe nine games so this might be
the year the afc have nine home game right perfect weather okay yeah i'm sure he would love to play
with a quarterback like a roger hell he take derrick carl over again because hell he would
have 50 on the yard that was first team off-road with Derek Carr. He just doesn't
like the quarterback carousel.
Quarterback
for four games, another quarterback,
another quarterback. He doesn't
like that. He likes certainty.
Talk about certainty. Who's the
quarterback right now for the Raiders? That's what
I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.
Aiden O'Connell
is the quarterback right now.
It's going to be interesting. He and Josh Allen. Don't disrespect him, but I'm saying. Aiden O'Connell is the quarterback right now. He and Josh Allen.
I don't disrespect him, but I'm just saying.
I would like, I love Devontae to death,
but I'm just saying if you could go to a contender,
it would behoove you to do so
because I want to see you get back to where I know you can still play
and I want the numbers to show. I want the numbers to show back to where I know you can still play.
And I want the numbers to show.
I want the numbers to show that.
So people can stop talking this, you know what, gibberish about,
oh, I ain't even going to go there.
I ain't even going to bring it.
I'm not going to give a table legs and bring that up. Well, you know, Gardner Minshew is also the backup.
They signed him.
I mean, hey, while you're bulljiving,
he got Michael Pittman Jr.
100 plus something catching
12, 13 other yards.
So if he could get gone,
that's no disrespect to Pittman Jr.
But I think Devontae
might be, but you know, hey,
different city, different situation.
I think the thing is, I mean,
Ocho, he's like I said, he's a family man.
He got kids.
He ain't trying to really uproot his family at 31.
And but here's the thing, Ocho. And sometimes, you know, we all will.
I won't.
I won't guys to win as much as anybody.
But ain't no guarantee.
That's the thing that we love about sports.
Ain't no guarantees. That's the thing that we love about sports. Ain't no guarantees.
Because what happens,
he get there,
then the quarterback
go down halfway
through the season.
Sometimes there's certain
examples you got to take.
You know,
sometimes you're like,
damn, man.
I mean,
Brady was always
helping.
Think about it.
In 20 years,
with the exception
of one year,
so 22, Brady came in at 20.
So for 22, 23 years, one season,
you had to worry about Brady not being up on the center.
But every Sunday, every Monday, every Thursday,
you trotted out there for 20-plus seasons,
you know 12, if you was in New England or Tampa,
12 was going to be on the center.
And if he's on the center,
I got an 85% chance of winning.
Every time.
Everybody don't get that old joke.
Damn, man.
Just think about that.
Damn.
So, at the end of the day,
what's important to Devante
because everybody doesn't view championships as the end all be all now us we've done that well
you a bum I don't I don't believe I don't believe guys are bum if you don't win a championship
I just believe and I've been on record and I still believe this I believe you can be great
without a ring but when we want us
to add EST to it,
you got to have that.
And that's not to diminish
anybody that doesn't have that.
Because someone asked me,
said, well, Shannon,
which would you rather have?
A Super Bowl ring
or a Hall of Fame ring?
I said, well, I ain't glad
I got to make that decision.
Yeah.
I'm sitting pretty where I am. well, I ain't glad I got to make that decision. I'm sitting pretty where I
am.
Well, hold on.
I got a ring, too.
And I got a jacket.
You about to have a wedding band.
Yeah, I got my own
jacket. I got one-on-one.
Yeah.
But so,
people like, oh, he wasn't no no
are you trying to tell me because Dan
Marino didn't win a Super Bowl ring
he wasn't one of the great quarterbacks
but the reason why
they don't put him like as the greatest
is because you got
Brady and you got Montana
and you got Mahomes and you got
Manning and you got Elway
with those rings and Bradshaw so you got Mahomes and you got Manning and you got Elway with those rings and Brad
Shaw so you got guys with rings
and multiples
but Marina but Dano
I played with Dano
I played in Dano's era
sometimes
it's unfair
how
we take
a team accomplishment and it's not, how do I say it the right way?
Super Bowl ring, a ring, it's obviously it's a team accomplishment.
So sometimes it's out of individual players' control.
Just so happened, maybe you're part of that team that happens to go.
I don't know it just it's weird how that works and how it's looked upon where you're you're you're you're
seen in a different light as a as an individual based on a team accomplishment yeah when it took
a whole group to get it as opposed to you as the individual but you don't put that they sometimes
when we talk about the greatest quarterbacks,
they don't put Dan Marino in it
because of a team accomplishment
that his team wasn't able to achieve,
but other quarterbacks were.
If that makes...
I don't know if I said it the right way.
But that's just...
Well, that's just the way we do it now.
That's just the way that rings...
You know, we had that debate that rings.
I mean, in order to be in the discussion,
I think you have to have at least one.
Now, it's not the end-all be-all.
Right, right, right.
But I think in order to be considered great test,
you need a championship because that's why you play.
There's a reason why name a sport that doesn't have an, you need a championship. Because that's why you play. There's a reason why. Name a sport
that doesn't have an end of the year championship. Name the
sport. Be it ultimate
frisbee, be it
what that is, cornhole.
They got tag. They got
all kinds. Ocho,
you know right, I watched on ESPN, they
got pillow fighting now. Yeah.
They got pillow fighting. I would, yeah. They got pillow fighting.
I was the champ because I used to beat the brace.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
They got pillow fighting.
But at the end of the year, what did they have?
A thing called a championship.
Yeah.
So if it didn't matter, they wouldn't have those, Ocho.
Football, Super Bowl, World Series, NBA Finals, the Olympics.
What do they say?
The finals.
They have gold, silver, bronze.
There's a reason.
Look at Osafo Powell have all those fast times and got no goals to show for it.
So how can I say he the greatest when he ain't got no goals?
Right.
If Usain Bolt, nobody would consider Usain Bolt the greatest sprinter
without those gold medals.
You got to have them.
Yeah.
There have been a lot of great sprinters.
There have been guys that hold the world record that didn't have gold medals.
We got to remember those are individual accolades, though.
They're in control of their destiny.
Now, when we talk about basketball or we talk about football,
those are team achievements.
But then when it comes to talking about it,
it's talked about in an individual manner,
like it's just the quarterback that got it done
when it took a team effort to get it done.
It still took that same team to get you that MVP.
It was a team. Did he not took that same team to get you that MVP. It was a team.
Did he not play?
So did he not play on the team to get that MVP?
Or was he just playing by himself?
And then once we got to the finals, we needed a team.
Right.
You're right.
You're right.
That's a good combo.
That's a real good combo.
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in the celebrity all-star basketball game puka nakua say he's working out with cooper cup
and cutting out mcdonald's from his diet after setting an an NFL rookie record hauling in 105 receptions,
1,486 yards,
Puka revealed that he's been training with
teammate Cooper Cupp. His conditioning
days were some of the tougher
ones. The 22-year-old
admitted Cupp was ready to get
right before the Super Bowl.
He's already starting integration to get
ready to work out. A lot of mobility
stuff the first part. then continue to stay explosive
a lot of top end speed
we're working on
the first I came back
I think I threw up
every day of the week
he wasn't a fan of that
because he was
he was on his lawn
Pook also revealed
that he's changing his diet
during the season
cutting back
on some of the fast foods
I think Cooper would
definitely not advise me
to eat McDonald's
as much as I did during the season.
He wasn't a fan of that.
Ha ha!
I see. This is
what's wrong. This is what's wrong with
us at times. We
allow others to influence us.
We allow others to get in the way.
And it's the same thing.
Tiger, when
he was playing extremely well
You see what he did off the field, right?
Yeah
Stay with me real quick
You see what he did off the field
And then once that diminished
It seemed like everything else diminished with it
Now Puka Nakua
I need you to pay attention
Look at the season you had last year
Yeah
Understand your nutrition and your intake
And what you consume
Throughout the entirety of the season and the numbers you put up.
Now you go around and you come back the following season trying to change up the whole scenario and change up what you did, which was working.
If it ain't broke, there's no need to fix it.
Regardless of what Cooper Cupp says or might say or advise you do what works
for you, do what works for your body
Okay, we'll try it out then. He said I'm going to try
it out. I'm going to try to go with no fast food.
No, no, no, no. Oh, whoa,
whoa, whoa. Don't even, don't try it.
So you'd add nothing.
If you had a season like that
eating the way you do
stay within your
What if I could have a better season?
No, you wouldn't have a better season.
How you know?
Because what you eat
don't make or break you.
Yeah, it does.
Made it time.
No, it don't.
Made it time.
I ain't never get tired.
No, it don't.
No, it don't.
No, it don't.
There you go, Cooper.
Gotta be willing to switch it up.
No, you don't
And you know what
If his numbers
Are not reflective
Of what they were last year
It's because of
The goddamn nutrition
First of all
He might have a better season
But not have the numbers
That he had
I ain't trying to hear that
I ain't trying to hear all that
So numbers is the key
So that's what you're telling me
When it's time to get paid They gonna use the numbers. So numbers is the key. So that's what you're telling me. When it's time to get paid, they're going to use the numbers.
Yes, numbers is the key.
Thank you.
Ain't that what you always say?
He's going to get paid, don't you?
When it's time to get paid, they're going to look at the numbers.
And when you was eating McDonald's, the numbers was astronomical.
He said I cut it out.
Is that a word?
Was that a word?
Yeah, astronomical.
Okay, I'm just making sure it was a word.
I made that shit up on the fly.
Yeah.
He said, I ain't eating that McDonald's like that no more.
No, no.
He said he's not going to eat as much of it,
but he's still going to eat it.
No, he said he's not going to eat as much fast food.
Yeah.
Oh, he's still going to eat it, though.
I'm going to talk to him.
Pookie, hell, Pookie might be watching. I'm going to eat it, though. I'm going to talk to him. Pooh, he's hell. Pooh might be watching.
I'm going to tweet him.
Don't change no goddamn diet.
Hell, no.
I made that look. I ate a certain way.
I mean, to each his own.
But there's a reason why they hired
most of these people, except you guys.
Y'all cheap ass.
Most people hire these nutritionists
Hire these nutritionists
To come in and cook breakfast
Man, I ain't trying to hear that
The bingo's so cheap
Y'all ain't got no trade
All that nutrition and all that stuff
Man, ain't nothing but a money grab, man
Man, I ain't trying to hear that, man
Everybody got all these nutritionists
And everybody's still getting hurt and dropping like flies.
You got them injury.
Non-contact injury is up 47%.
Listen, you got all these boys
eating like goddamn rabbits
playing a goddamn barbaric sport
and wonder why your body
goddamn breaking down.
You ain't got to eat
all that foo-foo stuff,
but you ain't got to eat
all that fast food.
Listen, what you do need to do is you need to eat stuff.
You need to build a callus up in the body.
I keep saying it over and over and over.
Stop eating like a goddamn jackrabbit,
and you play a goddamn sport where you run into each other at 30 miles an hour,
and you...
You know what? Don't worry.
Ain't nobody going to listen to me.
Y'all keep...
Y'all keep... Listen, y'all keep eating green...
There you go. There you go. That's what you're doing.
Hey, keep eating your green stuff. Keep eating all that healthy stuff, and wonder why your body and Y'all keep, y'all keep, listen, y'all keep eating green. There you go, that's what you're doing. Hey, keep eating, keep eating green stuff.
Keep eating all that healthy stuff
and wonder why your body
and y'all keep getting hurt.
Keep eating it.
Watch what happens.
And nothing but a money grab.
That's all it is.
Oh,
you got to eat this
and you got to eat this,
right?
And it help with performance.
It help with explosion
and all this other stuff.
And you're pulling this
and you're pulling that.
You can't run. you can't explode.
Man, please, don't get me started.
I'm hot.
Now I'm mad.
What you mad at? What you upset about?
Because, I mean, I'm just, they allow
all these new
stuff and technology and
food and all this green and all this
this is healthy, that is healthy. You ain't
playing Nintendo 64.
Why you ain't playing Nintendo 64?
What was wrong with Nintendo 64? Why you got
all them gaming apparatuses? Why you got that chair?
Why you got all those monitors?
If you saw
against advancement
Where's the advancement?
If everybody's
going backwards. Everybody getting hurt. Everybody don't get hurt. Where's the advancement? If everybody's getting, everybody is going backwards. Everybody getting hurt.
Everybody don't get hurt.
Where's the advancement?
Injuries,
injuries are up.
I believe the injuries are up because guys aren't practicing.
No,
no,
no,
no,
no,
no,
don't try,
don't try.
Stop trying to say,
so you mean to tell me,
so you mean to tell me guys don't do no kick,
no,
no hitting and just go out there on Sundays?
They hit on Wednesdays.
They don't hit nothing.
Oh, I can't.
I don't going to put no practice.
You only get, what, 13 padded practices a season?
Hold on.
Hold on.
So you're saying the reason they're getting hurt is because they're not hitting?
I tell you, you're not going to blame them eating like.
No.
Look, it might be a combination. But here's the thing No. Look, it might be a combination.
But here's the thing, Ocho.
It might be a combination.
It might be not hitting.
It might be overtraining.
Ocho, this guy, he said Cooper Cup was ready to start training before the Super Bowl.
The season just ended.
You got to give your body some recoverability.
I don't like it.
Eat what you want.
Understand what works for you. Understand your body.
Injuries up, and I know why
injuries up. It's because the bullshit they putting in our
system. That's it. I have nothing else to say.
You got to find food. But anyway,
Kevin Durant said the key to healthy season
was avoiding floppers and crash dummies.
Tonight, Kevin Durant was included in what are reported
11 players projected to lead U.S. basketball
into the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.
The Team USA is finalizing 11 of its 12-man roster.
Kurt Roge, LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant,
Joel Embiid, Jason Tatum,
Devin Booker, Holiday, Anthony Davis,
Anthony Edwards, Bam Adebayo,
Tyrese Halliburton. They have
room for one more. That inclusion was
anything but a surprise, but KD is coming
off a strong season in which he
also played in 78 of 82
games for Phoenix. With the backdrop,
KD spoke to the Arizona Republic
and delivered some unbelievable quotes that
helped lead to durability. No players
flopped into my legs this year.
Last two years, I had a teammate
flopped into me and an opponent
flopped into me two straight years
and caused me MCL injuries.
If it wasn't for that, I probably
would be out there the same amount of games,
but I'm glad nobody flopped. Just stay away
from crash dummies, you know. These dudes who try to sell calls don't mind hurting people by diving on the floor and
trying to sell a call i know who those guys are i try to stay away from them like katie calling
our team mason and some of the other guys that flopped into his knees because that caused lebron
james lebron james one year i believe was having an m season. Yeah. And I think the guy was, I hate to mention
your name, Solomon Hill. All of a sudden,
he's diving on the floor like he tried to make the team
and go right into LeBron's
and end up messing up his ankle or his knee?
Ankle.
End up messing up his ankle. Yeah.
And
Damn.
I mean,
you're surprised.
Think about how much they jump.
And more guys don't come down on somebody's ankle.
Yeah.
Think about it.
I mean, I get it.
It's just hard.
And I understand, you know, some guys,
that's how they made it into the league, diving.
But going at a ball, like you said,
it's not like KD has the most sturdiest foundation. The dude's seven foot tall.
So you know what I'm saying, Ocho?
You know, just a little tweak.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, man. Damn.
So what, you okay with
him?
Yeah, yeah. KD, I mean, KD
cool. You know, I talk to him. He don't eat.
He not one of them healthy eaters either.
He ain't one of them healthy eaters.
That's my thought.
I done been to five guys with Kevin.
I done been to five guys with Durant down here in Miami.
No, that one five guy.
It's a little burger spot.
So I know he flipped back and forth between eating what's right,
and he got a combination of both, which is why he had...
You see how skinny Kevin Durant is?
Yeah, but that's his frame.
His frame is just like that. There's nothing you can do.
There's nothing you can do to that.
Kevin Durant, I guarantee you,
it could be raining downpour.
Kevin Durant standing on the clothesline and not get wet.
I'm just telling you what it is, though.
I'm telling you now.
Saw it myself. Saw it.
I mean, some guys
just have that frame, no matter
what they eat, Ocho.
Right.
I mean, look, we've all had teammates.
I had teammates.
They needed to go out on Friday
night. They were going to get drunk.
Right.
Hey, man, come on.
Hey, Sean, look, shut up.
I play better.
All right.
Long you do you.
Hey, some guys ate what they wanted.
I wasn't that guy.
In my mind, I had convinced myself, Ocho,
that if I ate a certain way,
I would perform better.
The mind is a magnificent thing.
Yeah, it is.
It is, but that's how you became you
because you believe you was better
than everybody else.
That might have not been the case,
but you couldn't tell Ocho that he wasn't.
Oh, no.
See?
Oh, no.
Hold on. I'm going to go out there and show you i'm
gonna talk it and i'm gonna walk it and i'm gonna back it up everything everyone huh stop playing
with me now you know what it is i'm coming i'm coming to the party uninvited uninvited i'm now
front door hello i'm here we finna have. Yeah, you ain't getting nothing today.
I bet I'll leave with more catches than I had coming into the game.
What you want to bet on that, Big Mouth?
It was some fun days.
Man, please, Ocho.
Hey, don't get me hyped in here, man.
Don't get me hyped, man.
I don't even know why you talking.
First of all, why are you talking?
You on special teams. You not going to even see me hype, man. I don't even know why you talking. First of all, why are you talking? You on special teams.
You're not going to even see me on the field.
Yeah.
When you see me, I'm running off the field or running on
or you running on.
We'd never go, why are you talking?
You don't have to guard me.
You're doing all that talking.
Yeah.
I had some fun days, man.
You know what it's always like?
It's like the dude, you're not driving the car.
You're in the back seat or or you in the passenger seat,
and you trying to holler.
It ain't even your car.
First of all, if you in the backseat,
you definitely shouldn't be trying to holler.
Ain't nobody hollering nobody in the backseat.
None.
You don't like that?
You ain't never did that?
Oh, me?
I did.
Man, hey.
Early in the demo show, I was in the back.
Me and some of our teammates, we rookies.
Right.
We stopped.
Hey, we saw this girl.
Hey, hey.
You know, back then.
What's up?
Ocho, you know, back then.
Check this out, check this out, Red.
Hey, hey, hey.
I was like, hey, throw some meat off in that car.
You know, you got to.
So, you know, you got to... So,
you know,
back then,
Ocho,
you could flag women down.
They would stop.
You ain't flagging,
ain't no woman stopping for you.
Now you flag them down,
they're going to call the police
on your ass and say,
okay, yeah, yeah.
Real quick.
Real quick.
Yeah,
he's still following me.
He's still following me.
Them blue lights
going to be on your ass.
But anyway,
I was in the back seat.
Man.
And so, you know, I was just going to chill until this one stepped out.
Man, dude tried to get out.
Man, I pushed that seat forward so quick.
So you can get out there first?
And pinned him against the steering wheel.
I beat it to a point.
Man, I was over that thing like Pebble and Pew.
You know how Pebble and Pew?
You know how Pebble and Pew Would fly, would glow back there
I was happy
Yes, Lord
She was fine, huh?
Huh?
Was she?
Damn
Man
You let that one get away, huh?
Ocho
See that?
Nah, let me tell you what It wasn't nothing I could do Ocho. See that? Nah, let me tell you what.
It wasn't nothing I could do.
Ocho.
Hey.
She had just...
The disappointment in the way you said,
let me tell you.
Ocho, she had just took the army test.
Mm.
Two weeks earlier.
She was going to the military.
Oh, no.
You got to find her, though, Uncle.
You got to find her.
She might be 80.
Don't think I didn't.
You know, it was a two-year lapse.
But I was tracking her down.
You tracked her down, huh?
Did I?
Okay.
Okay, okay, okay.
It just so happened, she was in Hawaii when your boy was going to the Pro Bowl.
I had to make it.
Hey, once I found out she was in Hawaii,
I went crazy on him.
Yeah.
I was like, man, what the God in the shop?
The bad shop didn't get frozen in water.
Yeah, okay, okay.
I like it.
And she was still stacked up like dirty laundry in the dorm room. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I like it. Hey, he was, and she was still stacked up like dirty laundry in the dorm room.
Yeah.
What?
She what?
Y'all,
you know what?
Y'all still,
still,
y'all still in contact.
No,
no,
no,
no,
no.
You let it go by the wayside.
You know,
time,
you know,
our time,
you know,
our time.
Yeah,
that's a good time.
Ain't our time.
Ain't our friend.
Yeah. Time and our friend. But you know, back then, you know, you could. You know how time. Yeah, that's a good story. Time ain't our friend. Yeah.
Time ain't our friend.
But you know back then, Ocho, you could wave somebody down. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Young ladies, I ain't mad at you for pulling over now.
I wouldn't even attempt to flag somebody down now.
Hey, you just choked that one up and say, hey, that's the one that got away.
But, oh, yeah, man. Woo, woo. up, say, that's the one that got away. But, oh, yeah,
man.
Woo,
woo.
Boy,
those good old days,
though,
Cho.
Those good old days.
I ain't,
I ain't,
I ain't,
I'm days old,
boy.
Listen,
my jersey hanging in the rafters,
man.
Yeah,
man,
I miss those times,
man.
The stuff,
the stuff that,
uh,
uh,
being some of the homies used to do.
Hey,
I got stories. Listen,
I got stories for Dave. We'll save it
for another day after. I got to make sure
I'm able to tell those stories so there's no
like, oh,
you know.
Listen, let me take my
glass off.
Boy, some good ones, boy.
Yeah, I can imagine.
I can imagine.
Boy.
Yeah, we are, hey, Ocho,
I didn't have very many fumbles on the field,
but I done fumbled a lot of them off the field.
Yeah.
Yeah, but hey,
hit my, hey, fumble-itis.
Oh, some good days, boy.
Man, I miss those days.
I miss those days, man.
Look at Ocho.
Man, I don't miss them.
I don't miss them.
It's cool to reflect on them at times.
Ocho, you know sometimes how you sitting alone
and you just be thinking.
You're like, damn.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, you say oh well
hey those days
ain't never coming back again and I'm
okay with that
once it's gone it's gone
and you know you got some people as you get older
they try to relive it
oh no no no
you can't do that
once it's gone it's gone
leave it for the young folk.
Love is like an eclair.
Yeah.
Once it goes cold, it can't be reheated.
You got to throw that away.
Everything ain't meant to be reheated, Ocho.
Now, I know we like leftovers.
Yeah.
And sometimes the leftovers taste better than the original meal.
But sometimes you say, you know, yeah, I don't have enough of that.
You're going to throw it in the trash.
Go on and throw it in the trash, Ocho. Let it go.
Yeah. Sometimes you got to let the hair
go with the hide.
You just got to.
You just got to.
But hey.
Damn.
Man, Ocho. Like I said, we're going to say
the story because I got a funny story
to tell man
I can't believe
man my homie
did this to me man
I was like
oh man
you gotta hold on to it
you gotta hold on to it
yeah we gonna hold on to it
check this out
Will Smith joined
J Balvin at Coachella
for Men in Black performance
Will Smith made a surprise
appearance on stage
with J Balvin
Sunday night
dressed in a full
Men in Black suit
and sunglasses
performing the title track
to the 1997 film
Men in Black
here it comes we know what it is
it was great to see Will up there
he looks like he's having fun
I'm glad to see that
he's bounced back he seems
to be getting his footing back we all
know what happened a couple of years ago.
We don't need to relive that.
But I am glad to see Will Smith getting back out there.
I think people forgot that Will Smith was,
was a bonafide rapper turned into a box,
a first TV star with a,
a fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Yeah.
And then,
you know,
box office,
you know, men office, you know,
Men in Black,
and some of the biggest
movies that Hollywood has ever
produced, Will Smith starred in it.
So I'm glad to see him getting back out there.
Yeah, most definitely. It's really good to see Will
back. He was in good spirits when I saw him.
I think maybe it was last month, maybe the month
before last, I saw him at the
Inter-Miami match.
You know, I went to watch Messi play.
I had a chance to sit down and talk with Will Smith for a little bit.
He was with Dave Grutman and some of his other people.
So that was pretty cool.
He was in good spirits then.
And I hadn't seen him, you know, before then.
I'd seen him in 2010.
Came by the trailer when I was on Dancing with the Stars.
I was on Dancing with the Stars and we talked for a little bit.
But, I mean, he's a good dude, man.
A good dude.
I wish more people,
wish the masses were able to know who he is
outside of what you see
on videos
or on camera
or that's said
and stories
that are written about him.
That's the way.
Real good dude.
Ocho.
Yo.
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