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And what we actually think On and off the court Nothing's off limits We talk tanking I might get in trouble For this answer But I think it's like Definitely happening

In the WBA We talk about our mistakes too They pulled me to the side And was like Hey man We got a call last night And you can't be Rolling around the city like this

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means and who really wins. Open your free IHeart radio app. Search 40s and free agents and listen now. Lauren spoke on the Grizzly saying staying at the effing higher at 41 years old, you think I want to do that ish? Being in Memphis on a random ass Thursday, I'm not the first guy to talk about it, the NBA.

You guys have to move. Go to Nashville. You got Vanderbilt, NASCAR, a stadium, a hockey team, Joe. Now, everybody criticized LeBron, but KD has said this, has said that it's not great. Ant Man has said it. Everybody has said it like LeBron said,

I'm not the first to see it. But somehow, you know. Yeah, you already know, when they hear from him, it weighs a little different. But it could be some truth in that. I mean, five-star hotel, I don't think that they have that in Memphis. And, but they do have a, you know, you know, the funny part is, though,

they got a pretty good fan base, though. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, hold on, Joe. What do you mean? They ain't got no five-star hotel in Memphis? Maybe they don't have a five-star hotel in Memphis

that close enough to the stadium that the player can get to and from the game. I'm sure they got a five-star hotel. I don't think it's five-star. The Weston is right there across the street from the arena. Ocho, that's pretty much what a team stay in. But. Yeah. But normally, Joe, a lot of times, like when they come to L.A.,

they stayed at the montage. they stayed at the Beverly Wilshire. Yeah. Or they stayed at the fourth season or they stayed at the Reds. Yeah. And that's not downtown. That's in Beverly Hills.

Right, right. Right. Take forever to get to the game. It sure does. That's supposed to where I live. But I know how long it takes me? Boy, that's a nice. Do you all get police escorts you on to the game?

No, uh-uh. No. Wait, you don't get, you don't get a. I won't get no police escort, man, you got the bus leaving at a certain time. You figure out which one you're going to be on. First bus leave at a time. No, I'm saying going to the game, though. No, bro.

Yeah, we might get an escort. We might get an escort going to the airport. Oh, we get two in from the airport. Yeah, two in from the airport. Hey, everybody got to move. Everything out of the way. Traffic stopping. It's a bunch of y'all, it.

Yeah, A, A, A, A, A, A, yeah. We got two buses. We ain't got but two buses. That's it. Hey, them motorcycle cops be working, boy. Yeah. Y'all probably got about 10 buses. No, we ain't got four.

Yeah. Yeah, we ain't got a two, man. You catch this first or second one. We out. Yeah. In college, we had two buses. Yeah, we had two buses. Because we had the starters on one bus.

At first, it used to be offense on one bus, defense on the other bus. Then we started, offices and defenses started on one bus, and then the backups on the offensive defense on another bus. Hold on. You know, I'm at the back. You know, I'm at the back of the bus. I got seniority.

Couldn't wait to the upper class will lead because I'm going to be the top dog. I'm back there by the bathroom. What you got to do, one or two? Man, I got to do one. Do two, you stand there the whole trip. You might stand there hour, two hours, three hours. But you're not fin to go stank it up there because we back there with an engine at Joe and those Joe.

Yeah, yeah. What you got to do? I'm asking you. One or two, because if you do two, you're going to stay in there and smell it just the whole trip. Man, come on with you. No, no, you ain't coming out. And guess what?

I lead their ass in there for two, three hours. Those bus trips used to be fun, man. It was some good times, boy. Hey, hey, when y'all was in college, y'all flew to y'all game? everywhere, Joe. Yeah. Man, listen.

Yeah, from Savannah, we went, I mean, the farther, I mean, we go, I'm trying to think the farther. We could probably go for probably five hours on the bus. Damn. That's the furthest you had to go. Man, we used to take these look, them little crop duster planes.

I'm talking about I only fit like six or seven people on me. We take like four, five of them. I ain't lying. When I was in college, that's how we used to travel. It's the scariest thing in my life. I'm talking about, Hey, them little planes be dropping so much. Oh, man.

Don't let it be no bad weather too. Oh, yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. But I'm like, bro, oh, you, first of all, have you ever, Oh, Joe, you rode the bus because you say you rode the bus to,

uh, from Miami to where Langston? Yeah, like Graham. You drove? Nah, I flew. You flew? Yeah, grandma. Oh, you had a bus. Yeah, grandma had money.

My granddaddy had money, but I ain't had no money. Man, look here. Y'all know, like, you ride the buses, I mean, people would be coming back because I rode the bus to go see my brother on spring break. South Carolina.

I would catch the bus from Claxton. So the bus, the Greyhound would leave Claxton, and it'd go to Meadow, it would go to Statesboro, matter, and it just stop off at places and peek people up. I mean, it's a two and a half hour drive. If you drove in a car, just drove straight,

it's going to take you about six hours by the bus. Same half hours. Because they're stopping everywhere. They stop in a joke of house. Dude come with his suitcase. Do you come with his suitcase coming up, coming out of the dirt road. And I'm like, what, damn?

But you don't, you know, I don't know if you have been in a bus station, but boy, there's some seedy characters in there. Yeah. I know. Yeah. Man, they tried to sell you something. Somebody trying to steal something.

something from you, it's a lot of bull jobs going on. So you got, you know, and you know, I remember my, hey, don't go to sleep on the bus. Okay, hey, cause I had, I got dark on my miss it. Soon as the bus move. I ain't got like Joe out of there. Man, hey, you, soon you closed the door. You think the door closed that your head hit the window.

He's sleep. But going to the bathroom, I thought that was disrespectful. Oh, Joe. You knew you. had to go to the bathroom, you should have used the bathroom before you left the door. Right. Yeah, especially back then, Joe, them buses, once you open the dough, a stench comes out. I've been on the door.

Yeah, a sense comes out. So you want to make sure, listen, you do number two before we get on the bus. Because you ain't doing it while we on there. Because every time that dough opens, boy, that smell. Man, listen, hey, I've been there. Look, we wrote that Greyhound when I'm playing AAU from Arkansas. all the Cocoa Beach, Florida. What?

Arkansas to Cocoa Beach, Florida. Oh, Joe, one of the parents stuck up the bathroom, boy, I'm talking about the worst thing. Oh, man. He had to, hey. It was bad. It was bad, huh?

It was bad. Hey, as a matter of fact, somebody was asking my homeboy, because I was telling the story you guys the other night about doing the Oklahoma drill and how I ran over the DB. So a dude was listening. He said, man, Sharp said, he trucked somebody.

Who is that? He didn't say no name. He said, so he told him the name. He said, what happened was, boom, boom, boom. He said, the DB slipped and said, Sharp caught him with a knee and just pile-dried it. Yeah. And just boom. He said, man, he said that.

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But I'll be honest, I think people are kind of sleeping on Texas. Experts are suggesting that UCLA is the number one challenger to Yukon and that right after that would be Texas. S&C is so deep and so thick and just about everything, it really is annoying. So it's UCLA, Texas, South Carolina, LSU, only ones that could possibly upset Yukon. On Flagrant and Funny, we're giving our unfiltered takes

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I'm Daniel Alarcon, a writer and journalist, and John and I have known each other since we were kids. My first World Cup was Mexico 86. I was nine years old. I watched every game, and I fell in love. On our new podcast, The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. For us, soccer, football, is a story we've shared for over 30 years since Daniel was the star player on our high school soccer team. Very debatable. And I was their most loyal and sometimes only fan.

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Yeah. Ask them guys, you're a starter in 88 and 89? Ask them who's at the back of the buck? Because we played space back there. Ask him what happened if you used the bag? You went number two in that bathroom. Would you come out? No, sir.

They tell, hey, Coach, man, Sharp had us locked in the bathroom. Coach, they were like, God, down home, man, you know, somebody, they might get sick because you know the fumes back there. They shouldn't talk about that for they took their ass in there. I might get sick. So, I already know what you're talking about, boy.

Hey, I'm telling you. I understand the pageantry, and I think everybody should have to at least go one quarter or one semester to an HBCU. to see homecoming, to see the pageantry, to see the student center, how I'd be buzzing, doing homecoming. Just, you know, the step shows,

and everybody, because we had a yard, so we had, like, where the capers would be at, they had their own little park, and the Sigma's, and the deltas, and the A.K.A. Everybody had their own little park, and they'd be out there doing their thing. So to experience that, man, ain't nothing like it.

Nothing like. Nothing like it. Ain't nothing like it, man. The step shows, because, you know, this out the step shows. I don't know if y'all had it because of,

so step shows, Fort Valley and this one or that, they come in to do the competition. Yeah. Yeah. They used to be lit. Was it? Oh, yeah.

I could only imagine. Hey, Joe, I went to my daughter, probate boy at Privy and him. They cut up at the man. Oh, the girl coming in a bit. I came back here. They'd be looking good, though, Joe. Hey, I came.

Hey. But my daughter crossed over as an AK, and I came. on the show to talk about the experience. Oh Joe, you got there bringing that. I was in tears. Hey, I was in there. I was in tears.

Oh Joe, you didn't see that when you was in school? Joe, well. I was that. I was at length of damn, there two weeks before I got thrown out for fighting, you know? And then I went to, you know, Santa Monica, so I never had an opportunity experience that, but being there, man, you know, for that hour, that hour,

two hours. I didn't like it, bro. Joe, I ain't never seen none. I ain't never seen nothing like it. Man. Oh, man, it was unbelievable. College was amazing, bro. Who, not low. Not low.

Oh, man. Yeah. Hey, you ought to supposed to do it church, Joe, Joe? Yeah, yeah. Not long. Hey, Uncle, if you could do it again, if you could do it again and you had the opportunity to go to a Power Five to do it?

No, sir. A. B, C. You experience. Yeah. Because the bad things would have happened to me at a PWI. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, I got you. I got you. I got me. Let me go. Uh, because I know, because from, I'm not saying that it wouldn't,

but I know that the professors and the doctors that I had, they cared about me. I'm not so sure that. And it might be, there might be a few that care about those, but they knew that I was going to be the representation. And I might be the best representation of Savannah. state. So they're going to make sure that I was really, really educated. They weren't sending me

out of there that didn't know, hey, we're just going to pass him along because he's good at football. Nah. And a lot of the professors that, I mean, some of a lot of them pass on, but Dr. Brock, I had Dr. Brock, she's probably in her 90s. She still asked Bucking about me. How she had to do it? Every time they see him, Dr. McLemore, Dr. Green, they ask about me. And so when I had my jersey retirement, when they retired my jersey, they asked anybody that said,

find these people. Some of them had passed on. One lady, her name was Miss Pat. She was in charge of the cafeteria. And they couldn't find her. But somehow she found out I was having it. And she showed up. She got a white on.

She dressed to the nine. And they wouldn't let her end. But I, because I was in the back. And they didn't know, you weren't on the list. Bucking told him, said, nah, y'all better let that one in. Man, Ms. Pat at the door, she saw me, take on my baby. Take on my baby.

I told y'all my baby know I was coming. That woman loved because you couldn't, what you were supposed to do, until we go through the line, the breakfast line, the lunch line or the dinner line, you get one serving, you eat what you got, then you come back. Miss Pat, go ahead and give me too. Yeah. Everybody not only was the players man, the regular student, because we ate with the regular student body.

It wasn't like what y'all got at Oregon State or Arkansas. The athletes eat together. And then the student body, no, we ate with the student body. So I was the only one. Athlete, anybody. She gave me both of my service on one trait. But they got so mad, they're like, why you do him like that?

Because y'all ain't my baby. I don't know. Man, man, man. Oh, Joe, I wouldn't trade that experience for nothing, man. Hey, I would trade that experience the opportunity. But people that had the opportunity to experience HBCU life, man, for four years at that. You're the plan, don't you.

You went to an HBCU. I can see you pledging. What are the way? Hey, hey, what are the players, huh? Based on my personality. He proud of it. I am. Nah, nah, nah.

You think he got the cane, because Ocho or showman. He's going to be twirling that cane. Hey. Yeah, a capo or alpha, a capo or alpha? Black and gold. Well, what,

hey, why can't be the ones that, you're talking about the Q dog? You don't want to, I don't want to be disrespectful, but yeah, that's the FD. You know, they're wild and they crazy. And normally, but normally football players, play is cute.

Yeah. For the most part, for the Q or a Kappa. Hey, they can't wait to take their shit off in the club and had them big you showing on. Yeah, yeah, they'd have got them branded. I said, no. Man, sharp, you are. Man, you are out of your damn, man.

Y'all live in the star of me, y'all not cut my hair. Ain't nobody wearing my clothes. Ain't nobody driving my car. Ain't none of that happening. Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, Uncle, you ain't pledged? I pledged me for me. Hey, Joe, did you play it?

No, sir. I played basketball. That's what, thank you. Oh, yeah. I got you. We had our own thing. We call it T5, T5T. So basically it was the team, the football team.

Yeah, well, they don't know. Hell not, Joe. I got to get my work, man, man. Poor they didn't send me down there for that. To all the guys, hey, it's a great community, and they got brotherhood. have all this and they have the conventions and all that and more power to you. But that just wasn't me.

Yeah. That wasn't why I was there. I ain't been to hold you. LeBron spoke about his decision which prompted immediate backlash from both Cleveland ownership and fans. I took the villain role because I left the media and I was young. I was 25 years old and a lot don't understand. That was the first time that I never left home. Even when I got drafted by the calves, my first seven years with the cabs, I still stayed in my hometown of Akron.

It was the first time ever going to Miami when I did. I'm Luke Wilson. Join me each week for Film Never Lies. Since retiring from the NFL, I've had a lot of my mind, and now got my own show. So if you're tired or lazy takes, if you want honest conversations, join us each week. Film Never Lies available on all TSN platforms in the IHeart Radio app. Ready for a different take on Formula One? Look no further than No Grip, a new podcast tackling the culture of Motor Racing's most coveted series.

Join me, Lily Herman, as we dive into the under-explored pockets of F1, including the astrology of the current grid. Lewis Hamilton, Capricorn Sun, Cancer Moon. Wouldn't you know it? Michael Schumacher is also a Capricorn Sun, Cancer Moon. The story of the sports most consequential driver strike. We have one man who, upon hearing that he was going to be fired, freaked out, and apparently climbed out the window of the bathroom.

And was Daniel Ricardo's illustrious F1 career, a success story, a cautionary tale, or some combination of both? He started getting all this attention, and he may be sort of. started to think, I'm bigger than this, I'm better, and plenty of other mishaps, scandals and sagas that have made Formula One a delightful, decadent, dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to no grip on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're trying to keep up with everything happening on and off the court, we've got you covered on the podcast, flagrant and funny. You look at the top four number one seeds. What do you think UCLA is going to do? Break down that for me. my friend. Obviously, Yukon is the

overwhelming favorite in this tournament, but I'll be honest, I think people are kind of sleeping on Texas. Experts are suggesting that UCLA is the number one challenger to Yukon and that right after that would be Texas. S&C is so

deep and so thick and just about everything. It really is annoying. So it's UCLA, Texas, South Carolina, LSU. Only ones that could possibly upset Yukon. On Flagrant and funny, we're giving our unfiltered takes on the biggest moments the conversations everyone's having. So whether your bracket is busted or you just want the latest on the tournament, we got you.

Listen to Flakron and Funny with Kerry Champion and Jamel Hill on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. I'm John Green. You may know me as the author of The Fultonar Stars. And now, I guess also as the co-host of The Away End, a brand new world soccer podcast. I'm Daniel Alarcon, a writer and journalist, and John and I have known each other since we were kids. My first World Cup was Mexico 86. I was nine years old. I watched every game, and I fell in love. On our new podcast, The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. For us, soccer, football, is a story we've shared for over 30 years since Daniel was the star player on our high school soccer team.

Very debatable. And I was there most loyal and sometimes only. I love this game. I love its history, its hope, its heartbreak, and above all, its beauty. Together, we'll find out why, of all the unimportant things, football, soccer, is the most important. Listen to the away end with Daniel Auerkone and John Green on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Daniel Jeremiah. And I'm Greg Rosenthal. And this is 40s and free agents. The games may be over, but the NFL never stopped. This is my favorite part of the calendar. Yeah, mine too, Greg, free agency, the combine, the NFL draft, pro days, trades.

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Yeah, absolutely. It's hope season. We'll tell you what's real, what's noise, and what it means for your favorite team. Smart analysis, real conversations every week. I don't know about the smart, but definitely analysis. Listen to 40s and free agents on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The decision, I made an announcement that was going to Miami. My whole mindset was, I want to do something different. I wanted to treat it like a college when you guys. We guys get their caps. I didn't know or I didn't know or feel like the hate that I got from that, the backlash from that was going to happen because I felt I was doing it. So I was allowed to

media. I allowed everybody to put me in a dark place. The reason why the reason I played the way I played in the finals is because I wasn't me. Shed that black hat, shed that Villarroll. I'm going to get back to bed. My effing self. And boom, we came in ball to the wall and we were able to make it happen. It was tough on me, but it definitely made me who I am, ultimately, especially as a basketball player and also as a man. Ocho, Joe, what the thoughts? I think he had to take that route, Uncle Ocho.

He had to go to Miami. I'm going to tell you why. Boston had just got KG and Ray Allen, and that's who put Brun out. It was going to be hard for him. He putting up 45, 50 points against them dudes, and he can't beat him. he had to go get some help. He had to. Oh, yeah.

If not, he wouldn't have won one in Cleveland. You know, for him to go to Miami for them, what, four years or was it four years on? Four. Yeah, won two titles. You know, know what it's like to win. Now he got that under his belt. Now he take it back to Cleveland with a young,

with a young, Kyrie. And they brought Kevin Love in. It was cooking. It's tough because, you know, he's like, I'm just announcing that I'm going. Yeah. So would you have been upset had he not been?

Now, mind you now, he raised money for the Boys and Girls Club. I mean, or estimated he raised $2 to $3 million. Damn that. He was a free agent. He didn't request the trade. He didn't cost anybody anything.

He's not like some guys that's like, I want to be traded. And you got to move the guy in the offseason or you got to move him before the trade line. Whatever you think of LeBron James, He's played his contract out. He played it out in Cleveland. He played it out in Miami.

He played it out in Cleveland. He's playing it out in my, in, in Lakers. And LeBron, as far as I know, and you and I both, everybody knows here, had LeBron ever requested a trade, it got out. Yeah. He didn't, he didn't, he didn't have to request a trade though. He let, he, that was home. That's home for him.

And I think, you know, the people in Akron, the people in Ohio, they understood that and that's probably what hurt the most. I think with LeBron being 25 years old, you know, not knowing how to basically leave pretty much, you know, and doing that decision, I just felt, you know, the people of Ohio, they kind of felt like it was probably kind of thrown in their face to some degree. You know what I mean?

Like you put us on this big platform like this to tell us you leaving. And that's why they were so negative towards him, you know, when he left. but well you and I both know he wasn't going to hold that decision to say he's coming back yeah I mean what you thought Joe who holds on the nozzle like that oh I'm staying

nah no you don't I think we all were thinking that though I think we all were thinking like man hold on he's doing a decision wait this just don't sit right yes you already knew you already knew he was leaving at that point and boy they went to burning

them jerseys on and the thing is but think about it How many times, I guess because people, how many times you think people change jobs in the course of a year, Joe? Not too many. You don't think people change? I'm talking about regular jobs.

Go from Amazon to UPS, UPS to FedEx or do. I'm just talking about change jobs. How many people in the U.S. you think change jobs every year? Every year? Yes. I mean, I thought you were saying like. No, not players, no, no.

Yeah, yeah. See, the thing. The problem is that fans want players to be true to act normal. Act like you, you human just like the rest of them. And when they do things like the rest of them, do what they do on show they get mad. They get mad.

Very mad. You feel, I like to think most times, if you had a job, I want to rise up through the race. So no matter where I start, even if I start in the mail room, I don't want to stay in the mail room for 20 years. I want to move up. Yeah.

Maybe I get a desk and then maybe I do this and then I do that and I do that. We see Eric Spostra. He started breaking out tape, and then he's at the bench. And then next thing, you know, he's the head coach. Asperations dreams. Yeah. Most people have a dream.

Like, you know what? This is a nice little job, a little entry-level job, but I have bigger dreams than I want to move up the ladder. Right. LeBron's dreams was I would have win a championship. If I can't do it here, what? Why would I stay, Ocho? Why would I stay at a job?

They're not going to give me the ability to advance. So basically I'm capped. This is where I am. I'm capped in this $70,000, $80,000 of your job. This is where I am. Yeah. Or I can say, you know what? I think I got a better opportunity to rise up the ranks.

LeBron says, you know what, I want to win a championship. I believe had LeBron if Cleveland could have got like Boston got KG, like Boston got Ray Allen. I believe if they could have brought talent in, I believe LeBron would have stayed. What reason does he have the lead if he can win championships in his hometown? Because the championship that he won in Cleveland is worth more than both of those what he won in Miami.

I agree. Couldn't get no help. Couldn't get no help in Cleveland. And nobody want to go to Cleveland. And nobody going to damn Cleveland. The same thing Yon is finding out about Milwaukee, isn't you Joe? There you go. There you go.

It's hard to get, it's hard to get talent in Milwaukee to, for guys even want to go there and play their with yonnes. Yeah, that's what he's finding out. Unless you like Harleys, and they promise you part of the Harley-Davidson plant that's Milwaukee. But I don't see a whole lot of basketball guys ride motorcycle, so that's out.

Look, once you're, I don't have a problem. I've never had a problem with a guy leaving. Because guess what? They trade players all the time. Yep. Once you no longer any use? But it's amazing how fans don't understand that Joe and Ocho. You notice that Joe guys that fans, fans don't understand.

They trade somebody. Oh, well, it's part of the business. A player leave via free agents or asked to be traded. Oh, you sell. Not anybody. You don't care about the fans. What the owner traded you got last time, he didn't care about the fans.

But you understood that. I just never, I never understood how fans feel more connection to a billionaire than the millionaires. And maybe there's not a connection either way. Or maybe there's loyalty to the team. Okay, that's your team. LeBron or Janice or KD or this guy, they don't own the team.

So why should they have a loyalty to a team that doesn't have loyalty to them? Absolutely. Yeah, you're right. Y'all loyal to these teams, guess what? They pick up and move. Then how you feel? All the time.

How y'all feel when they pick up and move? You got to move with a monk. A San Diego to LA charges. They should stay in San Diego. I mean, hey, St. Louis Rams to LA. Well, they started in Anaheim. They were in, they were in L.A., and then it went to Anaheim and then went to St. Louis

and now they're back in L.A. Mm. The rate of Oakland and L.A. and L.A. and L.A. and now they're back in Vegas. Yeah. Arizona was in St. Louis. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, guess why they go, Ocho?

I gotta have it. Yeah. The Bears, they move it out of Soldier Field, possibly going to the burbs or going to Indiana. Why, Ocho? Kansas City left. Hey, the bottom line is never said. That my the dollar.

The Oilers, they went, they left. They in Tennessee. Why? That money. I don't, I don't, hey, players, leave, oh well. Yeah. Yeah. You play your contract out. You should, you, you, you get to pick, you get to pick and choose what you want to do. And I don't give it down to don't play the contract. Now you trade me before my contract up. So I should be able to ask you out. Ask out.

They want it both ways. You don't get to have it both ways. But that's where we are now, Ocho. Man. Joe, Ocho, the Washington, have apologized for an April food skit in which a planet fan was seemingly tricked and believing that he made a half-court shot for $10,000. In a statement today, the wizard said they missed the mark. But the entire bit was scripted.

They blindfold a guy, Ocho. They have to try to hit a half-course shot. Yes, yes, congratulations. You're going to get the check. They're like, hey, I know. I know he is. You got me company. hold on you got me coming to support you right not only i'm coming to support you y'all ain't

i'm coming to support y'all taking it and i'm coming out here to support and you go april food you should have gave me 10,000 off for showing my black ass up hey i have to see i have to see i got to see the replay of something you're gonna get me like that oh cho i baby joe but i mean they start screaming you think y'all got it yeah i'm not yeah i'm I ain't going to really believe in, Uncle. I'm like, hold on. I'm going to take it out. I made it.

Nah. Yes. Because they scream. He's like, yes, Joe, you made it. I need to see. What a replay. I need to see it.

Where is that? Man, look here. If somebody took it, Joe, if you think about it, if somebody had to told you, Joe, you and your mom just won $25,000. You ain't going to ask no question. How? What?

Give me that check. Yeah. Give me. When you ain't got money, you don't have money. no questions where the money come from if you think you about to get it. Hey, at all I know, hey, Christmas came early this year. Man, hey, listen, what you told about?

They should have gave, just go ahead and get a man to 10 grand and call it a day. Ah, oh, was it? Well, if he's in on it, why y'all upset fans? They said it was scripted and said the guy, you know, he was a plan. Oh, he was. Because it seemed like a, uh, uh, well, hell, they, they're going to be upset anyway, regardless, just because the thought, the audacity. But you know what? April fools ain't really, people ain't really, it's the got so bad out here.

Because if you really think about it, you read some of the stories. It's got to be April fool every damn day. Because ain't no way this possibly happening. Ain't no way. Think about, think about this now. It's gotten so bad that ain't written nobody really. We played no April Fool joke, didn't it? You ain't see nobody play no April Fool's joke.

Nah. That's how bad it's the guy. Because every day is that they got, this gotta be April Fool's. No, dumb, dumb. It's June 17th. Hey, look, I thought I got April Food last year. Hey, hey, I thought I got April Fool last year. What happened?

What happened, Joe? My home girl, Laura hit me. She was like, man, they want you to come on nightcap tonight. And it was like, it was early. It was early in April, like the first week of April. I'm like, man, listen, I said, hey, man, don't be calling my phone with all these April food jokes. Nah, I ain't playing.

I ain't playing. Yeah, that's when I first found out. I told us, I said, man, you need to go and get out of my phone with all these April food jokes. Yeah. But that's why, but I'm saying, man, I'd be like, man, you know back in that, man, we, April foods. I mean, you could believe nothing.

Nobody said because everything was a joke. No, I'm for real, though. Now, you're not. It seems like that's true. Yeah. It seems like that dad too. You know, you forget that it's April Foods. Yeah.

Man. Yeah. They ain't got so crucial now. It seems like April Fool. Like, nah, bro, this ain't April Fool. This is real. Oh, Cho.

What's that, baby? Cousins signs a five-year, $172 million deal with the Raiders. In reality, It's a one year 20 million fully guaranteed deal that also can buy the club option for two years and 80 million. The Falcons will pay Kirk Cousers 8.7 million this season. The Raiders 1.3 and Las Vegas, excuse me, but the Raiders will also play another 1.3. That's 10 million.

Vegas also agreed to play the new quarterback, a fully guaranteed $10 million roster bonus on the third day of the League New Year in 2027. And most notably, it also sets another new mark. It'll be the 11th straight NFL season in which Cousins has had a fully guaranteed contract. I told you, Uncle Joe, well, God has favor. God has favor for certain people. Obviously, timing for Kurt Cousins has always been impeccable, along with him betting on himself, Unk, when he was in D.C.?

Oh, that's how y'all want to play? You know what? I'm betting on myself. And every time he hit. Hey, he hit big. Every time he hit big in Washington. He hit big in Minnesota. Hell, he hit big in God damn Atlanta.

And long behold, here we go. Right back up. Right back at it again. Ooh. And that's a good security blanket for them too. That's a good security blanket. Nice bridge. Nice little bridge to Mendoza. Yeah.

Yeah. Very nice. Is he going to start, though? No, no. I believe cousins do start. You think so? For the first probably five to eight game, think about it, Ocho.

Guess who his coach was in Minnesota? Quarterback coach. Cool. Yeah. Clibiate. Who the head coach of Vegas? Ocho, remember when you and I first started, I say, that's why you don't burn no bridges.

You see how they work? Because them guys go elsewhere. Yeah. Yeah. Think about it. All them coaches that I had in ball. Baltimore, Rex Ryan, got a head job. Marvin Lewis, got a head job.

Jack Del Rio, got a head job. All those guys, Mike Nolan, head job. Yeah. Mike Smith, head job. So all you got to do is play your cards, right? Don't be no jerk. And guess what? They go get somewhere, you know what?

Good veteran mentorship, leadership in this locker room. Let's go get old Ocho. Yeah. Let's go get Joe. but guys don't think like that. They think all they think is in the present here right now where I am. Right.

Man, please. Hey, either he got good luck or he got favor or he knows something about somebody. He got some information on somebody and they just keep giving the weed out. Hey, Kurt Cousie hit a lick out here, man. Hey, he hit them across the head.

Hey, I'm calling Mike. I was like Mike looking, man. I need a favor. I know you. to hire a lot of people. I knew a job. 84, what you want to do? Where you want to be?

Sean McVeigh was on his staff. Cow was on his staff. Kevin O'Connell. All the guys, LaFleur, I could do something. Let me be community relations. I can do some, Joe.

I don't want to do no coaching. I don't want to do no coaching. Community relations. You got no patience for no coaching. The hell now. Get your money first, Cousers. Kirk Cousers contract history. Four years, $2.57 million.

And then he played that contract out, Ocho. And then he had a one year, basically $20 million deal. And then he had the next year, fully guaranteed because of the franchise tag. And then he had a one year basically $24 million deal. And then he signed a three-year, $84 million deal, fully guaranteed, Ocho. And then he signed a two-year, $66 million deal, Ocho. And then he signed a $1 million deal, Ocho. And then he signed a $1 million.

one year, Minnesota, 35 million fully guaranteed, Ocho. And then he signed the four year, $180 million with $100 million guaranteed Ocho. And now five years, 172 with 20 guaranteed. And guess what? So five, six, nine, 11, 12, 13. So what is this? This is 15 year, 14, 15 year? 14 year.

And Grant told him 14 years. something to playoff wins he got on your show drum roll please what man get out of here one one my boy he got uh a little abraham tweeted curt cousins had more money in football than michael jordan did playing basketball more than tiger woods earned and playing golf more than serena williams playing tennis his career earnings from NFL contracts and see the entire net worth of Merrill Street, who's won three Academy Awards and been nominated 21 times. It exceeds the entire net worth of Martin Scorsese.

Also, nearly identical to Tom Brady, who won seven Super Bowl. Cousins won playoff win. Off win. Hey, he don't have no playoff win, Joe, but boy, during the season, he won the Super Bowl with that baseball. with that Blake account. He's in the Hall of Fame

won't you with that bank account. Absolutely. Yeah, that's his. I don't know who his age it is, but they might need to look at the hill. Hey. You're talking about cousins got favor. He got favor.

Mm-hmm. But Joe, a cousin's numbers will put you in the blender during the regular season. He's spreading their thing around, ain't it? Oh, yeah. He let that thing. Give him time.

He's surgical with that ball. Damn. Currie. in at the house, he's chilling, feet kicked up with everything. Uh-huh. Yeah, he is. He's very religious, too. Is he? Oh, yeah.

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