Club Shay Shay - Nightcap - Hour 2: Tony Baker joins the show, LeBron James on Pat McAfee and the nose gesture has been banned by the NFL!

Episode Date: March 27, 2025

Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson welcome Tony Baker to nightcap to talk about his comedy career! They also talk about LeBron James on Pat McAfee and discuss his beef with Stephen A Smith & much more!!06:14 - Tony Baker joins the show39:25 - LeBron James on Pat McAfee con’t55:45 - Nose gesture now finable in NFL1:00:10 - Q&Ayyy(Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.)#Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Tony Baker, great great comedian voiceover What's up, y'all can y'all hear me and see me yeah Thanks for having me yo, hey boy you But it's okay delighted delight to fight I got that I got the light on there bright. I mean, you got a flip phone, but it's OK. The light is too bright. I got the space shuttle. I got the beam me up, the helium joints. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, man. I can dim it if you need me. Nah, you good. You good. You good, boss. How's everything? Everything good, though? Man, I ain't got no complaints, man. I'm going.

I'm back on tour, so, you know. Yeah. Getting my pockets replenished. Just bought a house. There you go. There you go, yeah, getting, getting, getting my pockets replenished. Just bought a house. There you go. Hey, listen, every, every morning I ask, ask the man upstairs, man, to make sure that cup continue to run it over. You won't be all right.

Come on, man. I bought my first house though. I need every dollar. Oh, did you? Yeah, man. Just bought my first house, Southern California. So you know, they're going to charge you eight million dollars for one and a half bedroom zero bad

Congratulations congratulations. Hey, Tony did you all did you Tony? Did you always want to be a comedian? Did you were you a class clown? Were you funny always when did you decide to say, you know what? I'm gonna be a stand-up You know what man, I was always funny and didn't realize it because I'm the youngest of three boys. So I'm trying to crack jokes at the house, but my brothers would never laugh. They gave me nothing, man. So I would go to school thinking I wasn't funny.

So I'm making the kids laugh, but it didn't even register because I was like, man, I ain't funny at home though. And then, you know, when we young and we teens and we in the girls you don't want to be fun You trying to be all smooth and yeah, you know Jodeci boots on you just like yeah girl They'd be like you funny. I'll be like no no Funny, you know I'm saying that's no

I've never really paid attention to my funny until I got to college. And then that's when it clear. Right. But you know women like guys that are, but Tony, you know women like guys that are funny. One of the things that they say are sense of humor. Yeah, I found that out later.

That's what Rhyme by the Draws. I found that out later. Yep. Yep. I was like, hey. let me ask you this. When did you get into the voiceover? Because that's kind of how I stumbled upon you. You were doing voiceover, cast, dog, I forget.

What's the Scotty? Scotty is... Curtis and Scotty, man. Yeah, Curtis and Scotty. How did you get into the voiceover? You know what it was? We always had pets growing up, so I never lived without an animal in the house somewhere until I went to college. And so I was always wondering what they was thinking about, just looking at cats and dogs

and like, what y'all thinking about? And so I did two videos. It was one of this goat in Brazil just harassing the hell out of everybody man. Just Just cramming people on the motorcycle. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh surrounding him, looking at him like he crazy. Like, yo man, who's the man right here? And he looking at them. And then he took off and then come back for one last scoop and then he run off. That's the one that went viral and stuff.

I was like, let me just do these for real. And I just kept doing them ever since. Right. That's live. Hey, you had a comedy special, Scaredy Cat. Can you walk us through the creative process and the prep you had behind the special and how everything came about? Okay, so I started doing stand-up in 2008.

So really my voice though was just a vehicle to get you to come see me live. So I've been doing stand-up since then. So, you know, I'm just doing, when I started doing stand-up, I'm doing everything I can get my hands on, man. Every show, every competition, every bringer show, I'm just doing whatever. And so I'm just accumulating all this material. I'm getting up every night, dog. I'm like doing multiple stages a night And so by the time I saw scaredy-cat and I met these cats and I still work with Brennan and Tony That are transit pictures and he was like, yo

Let us shoot your special and I was like Alright, you know, it's so they put it together because they do dynamite work. And so we went to New Mexico State That's where that's why I went to college We shot the special there, you know, low budget, guerrilla style, independent, just shot them love. And then, so that's been like years worth of material that we just culminated right there. Started, who are your, who is your inspiration? When you grow up, when you like, you're like, okay, take a little bit of this, take a little bit of that.

Who are your inspir, who are some of your inspirations in the comedic space? Well, when I was growing up, I'm 47, so, you know, Delirious was the first comedy special that just blew my head off. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. You know, it is. What you know about that? Man, come on, man.

Oh, Delirious. Man. Anybody that knows that was around at that time, that special just blew everybody's head off. And so that's when I first took in a comedy special for real. And then as time went on, you know, I was called Raw, but then I started watching like comedy and I was like, Damon Wayans, Stan Barrett,

and Jerry Steinfeld are my three influences with a sprinkle of Bernie Mac. So those are like, those are my influences right there. And so I feel like I'm a combination of those three that I mentioned. And because I should, my mom knows a lot of Custon so we can watch them together. You know? Right. And then that's what I was about to ask you, because I don't don't hear a lot I don't hear a lot of cursing in your comedy Yeah, I try to keep it PG-13 for the most part like I don't want to I don't want to get too clean

Cuz I want to get stuck in that box But um, you know, so I try to keep it PG-13 so my mom won't cringe up so But yeah, then that Damon Wans the way he would just like storytell and do the character act outs. And then the way Seinfeld just details every like little basic human experience that we have. Talking about socks for like 15 minutes. Talking about toothpaste, talking about cereal.

I could do that type of stuff too. So those are my three influences right there. That's dope. I don't think people understand how difficult, how difficult stand up comedy is. I think they think people are funny. You just stand on stage in front of a crowd and it just works.

Not understanding that the material has to hit, you have to engage with the crowd, you have to have stage presence. There's so many factors and variables that go in for a comedian to be able to stand up in front of people, have said material, remember said material and the delivery to be able to stand up in front of people, have said material, remember said material, and the delivery to be on point. Yes.

So my question is, how different is your approach when it comes to doing stand up versus the content you put on social media? Or do you just approach both the same way? Well, the way I write is, like, I think of a premise, like I'll be like, I'll be at the grocery store tonight. And I'll be like, man, look at this lady right here. And then next time I get on stage, I'll be like,

man, I was at Whole Foods and seen this lady right here. And so I write it in real time like that. I keep the premise in mind, all right, I'ma say this. And then I start, I keep doing it the more I go up and then I edit, add in stuff. And do it like that. And so, cause like the way my mind works, I'll forget it. If I don't like write it down or do it right away.

And so that's my approach to like stand up. My voiceovers and like the content, it'd be in the moment, man. Like when people used to send me before, I kind of stopped doing voiceovers because Instagram keep pulling them off my page and I won't get my page deleted. But people would send me videos all day long.

They still do. And still they be like, hey man, hey, so man this. And so I'll look at the video maybe once, twice, and then I'll just think of the whole scenario. Like the, I got a voiceover where it's these two cats. There's one outside the window and one inside. Yeah, yeah, hey Curtis. Yeah, yeah.

Look at all that you right quick. Yeah. Because the one outside looks like he been about their life. He in the streets. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He want Curtis to come out the house and give him the skippity pat for real. Yeah. And so when I'm looking at that, I'm like, oh, dude,

I got the conversation right here. It's like, hey, Curtis, man, why don't you step outside and let me holler at you real quick. And then he disappeared for a little bit. He like, oh, I'm hurting. He fell. Remember, he fell. Oh, I'm hurt, I'm hurt, man. I'm failing.

Then he come back, why you ain't heal me, Curtis? So he just told me, you freaking me out. You freaking me out, Scotty, you freaking me out. Yeah, man, and so, and I like production value too. So like if I do a voiceover of a giraffe running from a lion, I'll be outside running when I record it That way so you get the effect you like it like it's really like that's what's really happening Yeah, like you can hear me running outside. Oh, man. It's not like he's really running. So some people appreciate those little nuance Right. Yeah, that's good. That's dope Tony. Give me me a Mount Rushmore comedian.

Okay. I'm gonna give you two the ones I just named. I'm gonna give you 10 bad. This is my personal one. I can give you a comedy Mount Rushmore or I can give you my personal. I want yours. Who are your Mount Rushmore comedians? Okay.

Tony Baker's Mount Rushmore. That's it Damon Wayne, I feel like I feel like his HBO specials are underrated We know we know Damon is the legend but I feel like yeah, there's comedy specials don't get talked about enough man This is crazy. So I'm gonna give you Damon Wayne I'm gonna give you thin bad as well I feel like thin bad don't get talked about enough to be that funny and that clean and That consistent is crazy and his crowd work is bananas. So yeah got the two on there. Um I'm gonna give you

Dang man Cuz I want to I want to throw Eddie on there, but he only got two special but they was monumental though Any Griffin any murder any Murph? Oh Murphy, okay. Okay. We got two of those. I'm gonna be like, uh, I'm a slide involved Okay, I'm gonna put him on the legendary Mount Rushmore, but since they only got two almost light them off and then I want to put George on the legendary Mount Rushmore, but since he only got two I'm gonna slide him off and then I want to Put George Carlin on there because George Carlin man, just I can listen to him all day and the way he breaks up down is just I got hey

I got I have all his specials. Oh man all of them. That dude was crazy, man Listen you got you got it you eat he, there are very few comedians that you go and see where you have to think. He makes you think, he forces you to think. Yep. And then not only that, not only thinking, you gonna walk away having lunch and stuff. It's just like, no.

Yes, yes. He's very socially conscious. Yes, married. And the way he's- He's very socially conscious. He. He's very socially conscious. He's going to talk about things in real life that you think you're dealing with. And you think like, damn, he put that in perspective. You know who I think one of the greatest storytellers, especially of this generation?

Who that? Chappelle. Oh yeah, for sure. For sure. Man, that joker. And he can take the way he can diffuse our audience and talk about things that you shouldn't be talking about. And before you know it, his SNL, when he did SNL a couple years ago, uh, Bates, it might

have been the greatest monologue in Saturday Night Live history. Yeah. Ocho, if you haven't seen it go back to his monologue Yeah, you know what's dope about? The way the way is comedy transformed if you go back and look at the killing them softly or early specials There was no rapid fires more jokes, but he developed into like this Monumental storyteller where you just like listening. He just might man this dude Yes, bringing it all the way down to where the joke

You got on you now. It's like yes I don't know almost this best made it more comfortable and Approach to where it could just be right y'all gonna rock with me Anyway, so let me just sit down smoke this cigarette and take my time Yeah, you don't understand but his transition is just crazy You don't understand but his transition is just crazy. Patrice O'Neal is another dude that I feel like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Classic.

If he didn't pass away. Oh man, no telling where he would have went. But what about Pryor? What do you think about Pryor? You know what I feel about Pryor? I would put him on the Mount Rushmore of the best comedians that ever exists because when you look at Def Comedy Jam, it was 27, 35 Richard Pryor's on that thing.

Like he birthed so many comedians that if you were young and didn't catch Richard Pryor and his prime, you would go back and look at the Richard Pryor especially and be like, yo, this reminds me of like Def Jam. That's because they were born from him Yeah, so it's like, you know, his style of comedy is just essential to the whole game because it changed everything so I would put him right on the Mount Rushmore of You know the best comedians to ever do it. I think I think he's the most important comedian ever exists would do it. I think he's the most important comedian that ever exists.

But you see these, a lot of these stand up and he was probably one of the first that did stand up and transition to movies. Yeah. And then you got, you know, a Gene Wilder and you got a Murphy and you got you got a Kevin Hart. You got a lot of these guys. Rock, Chris Rock. You get a lot of these guys that started off as standup and it seemed like the,

is that a natural transition to go from standup to go into the big screen? I feel like a lot of times, because what happened was with Richard and Eddie, you had that blueprint of like, all right, I'm gonna do standup and then I'm gonna do movies like Richard Pryne, Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, because that's what stand up, and then I'm gonna do movies, like Richard Pryde, Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy,

because that's what happened to me. Like I always wanted to act. And so I was like, yo, let me try stand up as a way to get exposure. But then what happened to me was, I fell in love with stand up as soon as I did it. So now, when I get an acting role, I'll be like, cool, cool. But I don't be like, excited, like developing

like a dope set. Because because you know when you act so much other stuff is out of your control but with stand-up I control everything you know what I'm saying like uh right if I'm in a movie I'm at the mercy of the casting director then once I get past that you know I gotta work with the director, the writers, the producer. They might have hit my thing out. So you never know. And then before stand up, I'm in more control of everything. Like it's me. So as far as the transitions go, that was the move. It was like, it turned into the move.

We was just like, all right, man, this stand up comedian is so popular and so large. Let's throw him in a movie or two, man, because he's funny and he might stand out. And then the next thing you know, he just got this wave of cats that like started on stage and then we gonna get him in movies and stuff like that. Now mind you, everything ain't gonna click.

Like when they do get movies, they be tanking and you only get a few points before they do. All right, all right, man, look out. But if you look at Bernie Mac, Bernie Mac is the only guy that, you watch his mannerisms in the movie, that's just his mannerisms on stage. Yeah.

The way he did Blue, Blue, don't make me raise up, it's gonna be Trouble. Trouble. You know what I'm saying? And you watch him in House Party, you watch him in Friday, his mannerisms on the screen is his mannerisms on stage. He was one of the the few guys that when you watch it you like he do a stand-up idiot. Yes. Yeah Yeah, he was able he was able to do that transition on on his terms

Like, you know, we had already seen them if he was in the know you already seen him in like house party and like these movies before the real comedians Yeah, then by the time real comedians came out and a lot of people saw him, they were standing up for the first time. They just like, oh my God, that's the way he got his TV show and he got like high profile gigs like Oces 11 and stuff like that. And so it was like, cause every time he was in something before, he was still in scenes all the time.

Everything he was in, he was still in scenes all the time everything he was yeah He was still in the show every time right? I know I knew you I know I knew you that you could call you You know talking about House party three man, I'll tell you every time he showed up for him to be able to stand out in life that movie had a dope on Oh, yeah But if you and you go back and look at Harlem nights when they had the smorgasbord Yeah, oh, yeah, oh you had the OG you had red fox you had Richard you had a You had an all-no-rate, you had Eddie, you had Renaldo Ray.

I mean, you had them all in it. And the same thing is life. I don't know who will ever see another cast like what we had in life. Not like that. It was great. Hey, you know, when you talk about cast writing and movies that are classics based on the people that were casted, life, life of Harlem Night could be on, it don't matter where you watch it

or where you catch it on TV, you won't stop to watch it. You won't stop to watch it. You won't stop to watch it. And there's one more movie. You stop and watch it, there's one more movie. There's one more movie where it was casted perfectly

and they would never be able to replicate it. They tried, but it was nothing close to it and that was Coming to America. Coming to America, I knew you was gonna say that, man. Yeah. Coming to America. Man, Coming to America is like knew you was going to say that, man. Yeah. Coming to America. Man, Coming to America is like one of the best comedies ever made.

Classic. Top the bike. You can't replicate it. They tried. I'm not saying they failed. They failed. But it wasn't close. They failed.

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But when you look at Harlem Nights and you get Della Reese and you get that scene with Red Fox and you get Pryor and you get Murphy and you get Arsenio and you get that guy, I think, what's the guy you say passed? Uh, Robert Harris. You get, you get, you get all of those guys. That's the cream of the crop. Yeah, man. It don't, I don't know if we'll never get another. We'll never, we'll never get, I don't, I hate to say never because never is always, but I don't know if we're going to

ever get a cast like that again, Tony. We could. We could. It's always but I don't know if we're gonna ever get a cast like that again Tony with a smorgasbob We could like once we get like, you know Once we get a Dave's to fail together Kevin Hart together like the Giants of now if we can get them in the right project That's the thing. No, right now we're oversaturated with movies and TV shows and stuff like that So it's hard. It's harder for us to get that classic because we so oversaturated. When Harlem Nights came out, that was a movement, man. I remember going to, I remember I was in Chicago, it was Evergreen Plaza, opening weekend, that movie theater was

packed. And what I'm talking about, when them jokes was hidden, you couldn't even hear what they said after the joke because that theater was so loud. You had to go back and watch it because you missed the jokes because people were still laughing and they was going on. That's how it was with life. I ended up having to buy the DVD because I couldn't hear anything because everybody's laughing in the theater.

I'm like, damn. And when you go back and listen to it, you realize what you actually missed. And like Hocho said, there are some things like they're classics. Even Friday, when you go back and listen to it, you realize what you actually missed. And like Ocho said, there are some things like they're classics. Even Friday, when you go back and look at the cast that was in Friday. The OG Friday?

Yeah, for real. And it's hard making, I wish, comedy sequels are the toughest sequels to make, man, cause yeah, like an action sequel, all you gotta do is ramp up the action and you good to go. But like with comedy sequels, they be trying to relive the magic

and then they just be feeling forced now. It's the once, once I feel like you trying to make me laugh, I'll be losing the will to do it. I'll be like, nah, you kind of forced me now. And the funny thing about it, you can tell. You can tell when they trying trying to make you laugh. When someone is authentic and organically funny, they're not even trying. Yep.

You can feel it. The funniest people are not even trying. It just, there's a certain if factor that you're just born with. You can't teach it, you can't coach it, you know? It just, either you got it or you don't. Because Friday felt organic. But, Bae, you know the problem is, is that when the first one does so well

and it makes so much money, you got to bring it back just cause. Yeah. For no other reason. You got to bring it back. When you see these like, man, they, man, that's a good old movie. A movie did five half a billion. A movie does a billion.

You get a two or three and maybe a damn form That's like the fast and furious. We don't got ten. We're up to ten now Yeah, we and then out of space and out of what once ludicrous and Tyrese was sitting in the vehicle outer space I was like, you know what y'all got it y'all got Car and outer space though. They're racing space shuttles. So, Limey, where we going with that? Man. Let me ask you this.

Yes. What's your favorite city to tour in? Where you like to go? Give me your top five cities that you like to go perform. Top five, man. I love the fact that you always do top five, because I love doing top five anything. You can ask me a top five anything. I'm going to givea-twee so

This this is any order this out of order, so I'm going off energy New York I'm gonna go with This this is a ringer right here. I don't know how many comedians don't say this but Louisville, Kentucky No I don't know how many comedians gonna say this, but Louisville, Kentucky. Damn. That's a good one. Kentucky got fire energy. Do it.

Every time I go out there. I'ma throw in, I'ma give you, who got that good energy. I really like performing in Chicago. I know I could be biased but because I'm from there but Chicago energy be fire. I'm gonna go with let's see that's three right there. Let me throw that Baltimore in there man. Baltimore. Okay, yeah, yeah. Baltimore good. Can I cuss though here?

Yeah. Baltimore good ass times. And then I'ma round it out with Shufilias though. I might round it out with DC man, DC. DC got them heavyweights now. They got Quake, they got Chappelle, they got Wanda Sykes. Who else from DC? Oh, Don L. Rollins. Yep, Domine. DC got some fire comedians. Chico from DC, ain't it? Chico Bean? Yeah, I think you from DC too. I think he is. Yeah man, I'm rockin' with DC heavy, this isn't city at all, but those shows be fun out there.

Hey, when you guys started here, have you ever gotten booed? I got booed one time. I was at a casino, this was a casino in Southern California, and it was a casino, the land factory used to book, and Tiffany Haddish was the host. So we out there, I make the drive out there, Tiffany hosting doing her thing. I get up there, I'm on stage, probably about 15 minutes and one dude was like boo! I was like, dog, man.

Boo! So it was one boo. I didn't get the community boo, but it was one strong boo that he sat in. And so that's my only actual boo though. But that's a boo though. How you, hey, break, how you get boo, do play in the slots and booing you from Wop Land this July?

Boo! Boo, y'all. It was a strong boo too. I felt like he had his shirt off when he did it, man. I felt like his chest hair was out. I was like, hey man, you gonna boo me? Then he was like, boo! He double down.

I know you're a sports fan. Let me ask you this. Who you go, basketball go, MJ, LeBron, Kobe, where you wanna go, who you go? You know, I'm from Chicago. So you are, you're- Ah, baby! You already know where this is going. I gotta give it to MJ, man, because he just changed everything. He did, he did.

He changed the whole, he shifted the whole thing. So I'm gonna go with MJ. Not only for that, not only because they played for the Bulls, but the stuff they was doing was just monumental. And I feel like, you know, the what if is, like, what if he never went to play baseball? And you know what I'm saying? The what if on that. We could have got seven, you know?

Maybe not eight, but we could have got seven, because we used to rock, it was cold. But I'm gonna go with MJ. I feel like LeBron is one of the best to ever do it. I don't like how people hate on him all the time. And I feel like LeBron is the best player with the cleanest image of all time. Yeah. Because when you think about LeBron's image to be that great,

it ain't been no scandals, man. He a family man, you know what I'm saying? He stayin' out of trouble. He ain't got no DUIs, he ain't no guardian. Yeah, he don't, they have nothing. He ain't have to go to court, you know what I'm saying? There wasn't no charges. I'm like, yo, man, this a good dude right here, man.

Cause he could, he ain't got no? Yeah, he ain't got no Elfin College. He ain't got no Elfin College. He ain't got no college. They took a bit of a mess in the game, but he was like, nah, man, my family, me, and I'm gonna be doing stuff on the side. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna be good with my money.

I'm gonna take care of my body, man. He is like the blueprint, I feel like, that you should follow in terms of how to manage, how to manage being an athlete and whatever else you want to be at a high level and still keep your head on straight. And I feel like what Kobe is, Kobe is the Terminator.

Like, you know, he out there Jordan Claus was just like, I'm going to fast and my job is to kill. He John Wick on the court. He like, yo man, yo, y'all killed my puppy before the game. And then he gonna go in there and make sure the job's not done. So yeah. Vague, we got a fight coming up next year.

It's gon' be in San Francisco. James Harrison in an MMA fight, taking on Ocho. Who you got? What, you really doing this, Ocho? Man, I'm finna beat the brakes off him, man. I feel like Ocho been waiting to fight somebody for a long time, man. He has, he has.

Listen, hey Tony, I just wanna show my skillset, man. I wanna show my skills, I wanna show all the work I've been doing behind the scenes. Everybody sees me as a jokester, they see the entertainment, they see the laughs and you know, the hee hee ha ha ha ha but there's another side that nobody gets to see okay and i'm waiting to preview that you know on whatever night we do have this bout and i need people of smaller size and stature to understand you don't have to be scared yeah the bigger the

bigger they are the harder they fall and at times if you stand up to those that you think are Intimidating you will see that yeah. Hey anybody could get knocked out man. Anybody can get it. You know what I'm saying? Thank you. What's thank you. What's your record off the court out the ring? What's your record? Right now in the ring one and oh Right now, in the ring, 1 and 0. On the street, 5 and 2. Okay. I respect that.

Yeah, I lost twice. You know, I ain't gonna say anything, I lost twice. I respect that. Now, let me ask you this. Did you lose the first two and then come back with the five straight or was the two losses in the mid to the five, in the seven? Yeah, I lost the first one,

and I went on like a winning streak. Yeah. And then I got caught on the back end. On the back end? Yeah. So your last three fight was an L? Yeah. Oh man, you had to go to sleep on that L,

looking at the ceiling fan? Yeah, it's all good. It's all good. I'm gonna redeem myself. I'm gonna redeem myself, though. You gonna take it out on D-Bow? Yeah, you can't, listen, you can't win them all. I don't care who you are.

Yeah, that's real. Nah, hey, if you fight them up, you ain't gonna get you. Now eventually they'll get you. They'll get you. Hey, they gonna get you. Yo, you know... That's why I quit when I was ahead. I'm like three and oh, I'm good.

Oh, you three and oh on the street? I'm three and oh, hey, I'm three and oh. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I was ahead. I like three and oh, I'm good Are you three and oh on the street? I'm three and oh hey, I'm three and oh I'm done. I don't got you all the fight now. That's how you tap out. You know what? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I'm just me. I had a fight since I was 25. So but I just what I tell people a bank

This is what I tell people I say I don't even know if I can fight anymore, but you probably don't want to find out. You know what I'm saying? Oh, man. You're trying to find out. That's a long way to happen. You'd be like, boy, if you do lose the challenge, you'd be like, it was a challenge. You know what I'm saying?

Oh, that's a good one. That's funny. Hey, Baig, we appreciate it, man. Best of luck, man. Congratulations on all your success. Hey, anytime. I'm going to catch you. I'm going to catch you at one of these shows.

Hopefully, we're somewhere in the same area. And I can get out to one of your success. Anytime, I'm gonna catch you. I'm gonna catch you at one of these shows. Hopefully we're somewhere in the same area and I can get out to one of your shows, man, because I really love what you're doing, man. And so congratulations, thanks for joining us and we're gonna check you out down the road. All right, man, I appreciate y'all, man. Thank you, man.

Thanks for the shout out. I started giving a long time ago too, bro. Hey, plug your podcast. You wanna plug your pod? Oh, absolutely. So I got two podcasts. Go ahead. I got two podcasts.

I got a solo joint called Verbal Cardio. You can catch that wherever you get your podcasts. Go to Tony Baker Comedy on YouTube. And I got my other podcast, the Ball Brothers Podcast that I do with my bro, Kev on stage. And we do that together. So we drop those every Tuesday. And that's everywhere you get your podcasts from as well. And y''re so active over here, man. He was killing on here too, man Bet we don't look to do that. All right, sir. All right

No, I don't know I get off of you though Lead a chat. Okay Yeah I mean the guests that we had, old TJ and and and and Bate they were they were unbelievable. But back to this LeBron and Pat McAfee, like you said Ocho, we're not used to seeing LeBron James sit down for an extended period of time. Normally, yes, like when he's in the finals or he's in the playoff, he would sit down. That's like five minutes. He would sit down and he would sit down and he would sit down and he would sit down and he would sit down and he would sit down and he would sit LeBron James sit down for an extended period of time. Normally, like when he's in the finals or he's in the playoff, he would sit down.

That's like five, that's like 10 minutes. And it's always basketball related too, huh? It's always basketball related. He's literally talking about other stuff going on in life. He's being vulnerable, letting people in. Something he's never, never ever done before. Players like that of his magnitude, of his status, that allows the world and the public to see what he wants you to, to actually sit down for a change. I guarantee to you, if they were to do the numbers on how many people watch that Pat McAfee show, I bet it's

astronomical, crazy, because it's something he's never done. Right. And, you know, and to see, like you said, to see him, but that just lets you know that he, for me, looking at him, considering that he had ever, ever done anything like this before, to think about how many people

have criticized him, and he's's never ever done it before. So that lets you know he had gotten to a place that he's like, I've had it up to here. Yeah. And I don't know if he knew, I don't think he knew Stephen A was gonna come to the game, but he had it in his mind if he ever saw Stephen A, he was gonna step to him.

But he got Stephen A number, He got a text to call him. If there was an issue, you got a text to call him. They communicate with each other. Obviously they have some sort of relationship. No they don't. You don't think so? No. Okay. Well well my bad no But okay like you said I mean

What do you mean no they don't now as I don't think they've ever had a relationship where they pick up the phone and they talk to each other like that Oh, okay, they've ever had that type of relationship. Do I think they've been cordial to each other? I remember, I think I saw something on an old clip, maybe with YouTube where Steve and I actually sat down and he interviewed LeBron, but I don't think they're in a situation where they like pick up the phone, they have each other,

they can call each other like that. I don't know if any LeBron is maybe teammates. I could be wrong. I could be wrong. I could be totally wrong, but I don't know if LeBron is maybe teammates, and it could, I could be wrong. I could be wrong. I could be totally wrong. But I don't know if LeBron has his number or he has LeBron's number. LeBron is, you know, very, very, very, LeBron rocked with who he rocked with. And I think once you get to this level, if you hadn't, if you haven't developed

a friend by now, LeBron James ain't letting you in his circle. Right. It's really that simple. So he got, he got his friends, you know, Rich is his agent. Maverick is his step, chief of staff. Uh, Mav is one of his business partners. Uh, I'm trying to think who else he, he, he runs Chris Paul. He's very close to Chris Paul. I think he's the grand grand, uh, uh, Godfather to run a CP three. Then I think if vice burns the same thing with CP, but other than that, I don't think LeBron has a whole, a whole lot of what we call, I look at those guys. Like I look at bucket, like I look at bucket and burns, right?

He ain't got a whole lot of bucket and burns in his life. You ain't got a whole lot of, you know, TJ, your boy, you rock with TJ, uh, Tio, you ain't got a whole lot of Bucket and Burns in his life. You ain't got a whole lot of, you know, TJ Yo Boy, you rock with TJ, T-O, you ain't got a whole lot of them. Yeah, nah. And I look at LeBron, and I think LeBron is kind of like that. But hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, everybody's made their point.

Yeah. LeBron was upset what he said. Steve and they said what I was trying to say. Sometimes things get lost in translation. It is what it is. But at the end of the day, I think we've got a, we've got a lot of juice. I think both of us kind of squeezed that orange Jojo. Yeah.

And got a lot of juice out of it. And then LeBron took a aim at a Wendy Brian Winnhorst said this guy says he's my best effing friend. These guys are just weird. I Don't know if we did ever say I think Wendy went to the same school. He went to Ocho I've never heard not could be wrong guys. Hell. I was on I was on Undisputed for seven years. I didn't hear everything Wendy said as a matter of fact, I Didn't watch anything on anywhere. All I watched was the games that were only a speed I don't watch any other debate shows

I don't watch any other shows that do what I do what I'm gonna be talking about something Because I don't want what they say to creep in what I'm going to say So I don't watch it so Wendy Chad if he said that he was LeBron's best friend, I apologize. But I don't recall. And if I misspeak, I apologize to you guys. But I don't believe Wendy has said that he's LeBron's best friend. I think because he's covered LeBron for so long, and I think they went to the same school, St. Vincent, St. Mary. He says, I think he said, I might probably know him better than anyone else.

But I don't get why, I mean, he would say that about Wendy. Man, you never know. I think, like I said, LeBron is probably, LeBron is fed up. He's on, I'm not saying he's on the way out the door, but he's on the tail end of everything. And now he's opening up a little bit more, doing things out of character that he normally wouldn't do, which is giving the people what they want.

Letting us in, giving us a glimpse of what's inside the world and mind of LeBron King James. And I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I hope he does more of it. I hope other athletes do more of it. You know what? I wish LeBron,

I wish LeBron would like Jeff Teague. Have you ever sat and listened to Jeff Teague tell stories? Yeah. LeBron, it would be an honor for him to take a page out of Jeff Teague's book and be that bone over and open and just give it to stories. I would love that. Yeah. LeBron talked about his relationship with MJ.

While he still has immense respect for Jordan, the pair don't talk much these days. I think that would change when he retires from NBA, saying Jordan intends competitive spirit is why the two don't talk much now. We all know MJ even if you don't know him personally he's one of the most ruthless competitors there is and until I'm done and he doesn't have to look at me run up and down that court wearing the 23 every time my name is mentioned it's mentioned with his he's like I don't want to f and

talk to you. Do you agree Ocho? I mean, that's dope. That's dope. That's the competitor, the competitor nature in MJ. I think it's understandable, especially when it comes to him. I think he's not closed off, but MJ and Kobe are alike in a sense. MJ and Kobe are alike in a sense. I think their relationship will be much better and a lot closer once LeBron is done playing. Yeah. They go play golf together,

go play golf together, smoke cigars, you know, have a little, have a little wine, whatever it is that they do. But right now while LeBron is actively playing, I don't think him and MJ, just outside of playing the game of basketball and being successful businessmen, there's not much for them to talk about right now.

The only friend I know Jordan got is Oak. I mean, Oak is this guy. Now I've been around Jordan a little bit and he is ultra, ultra competitive. First thing I bet, I mean, I want, Hey, you want to play cards? No, I don't want to play cards because you know, Jordan games, you got to come down with Lisa 100 100 grand 200 grand in cash. He don't play.

Yeah I like no. I say bro you're not going to have me you're not going to have me living on the streets. I love my house. It ain't Jordan. But I ain't trying to keep up with you. No no I don't I don't play no five thousand or fifty thousand dollars a hand. Hell no. No bro bro, bro.

Guess what? As long as they make shoes with that logo, you got money coming in. I ain't in NFL no more. I ain't got no more money coming in. You know, I was 35 then. I can draw my pension at 62. So I got another five years before I can get that on children

before I take a pill of it. Hell nah, I ain't gambling with you. As a matter of fact, I'm mad you asked me that. You know damn well I ain't got no money. Ha ha ha ha. Now I'm gonna let you and O, cause I think they play guts. It's kind of like bourree.

You ever play bourree? No sir, no sir. No sir. Or in between, but nah, hell nah. He also, LeBron talked about Giannis on PMAG. You tried to tell me Giannis wouldn't be able to play in the NBA games in the seventies. Giannis would have had 250 points in a game in the seventies.

But let me ask you, see, you're transporting Giannis today back then. Right. Do y'all really know what they did? Did y'all see those fights? How many people got to go down the lane? See the stuff that they called they called foul now. There wasn't no foul There was nobody getting suspended for slapping the ish out of somebody there was no I mean there was no I mean what did uh, uh, uh, Calm alone put 44 stitches in I say ahead You still think you want to come down the lane?

Do y'all remember the, uh, the, uh, the finals in 84 when Larry, when, uh, um, Larry Burke, when, uh, who was that? Kevin McHale, snatch Kurt Ramsey inside the sky. Yeah. And it wasn't a playground, it wasn't nothing. If nobody was suspended, you can't take the modern play because oh Joe you talk about technology And you talk about the modernization. Yes, if you transform Youngest today and put him back then looking like this. Yeah, what player couldn't

What player if I take on Joe if I take you today You know what you know in the technology that you've been able to develop and put you back in the seventies. Man, Ocho will kill it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not a nation. That's unfair.

Yeah. I think from just like unfair. One more thing on Joe, just like it's unfair to say, Oh man, the Jordan play today. He averaged 50. Let's, how about this? Let's leave everybody in the era in which they played in. Yonis plays in the two 2010s and 2020s. LeBron has been in the 2000 to 2010s and now the 2020s.

Let's leave everybody that because it's unfair. Yeah. It's unfair. Look. It's unfair. Look, I get it. And it's, it's, it's a conversation, but come on because we're raw. We're not, we're not being fair to the guys that played in that era. That was great. Right. Because it's almost like if you talk about these guys, like you're trying to

minimize them and I get mad at the old guys for trying to minimize the current players. Guys, you were great. Nobody's trying to rob you of that. You were great. These guys are great. The guys in the 60s, that were great. The guys in the 70s were great. Guys in the 80s.

Right. But it's unfair, Ocho. Yeah, it is. I mean, listen. Guys in the 80s. Right. But it's unfair, Ocho. Yeah, it is. I mean, listen, I understand what LeBron was saying. Obviously, he is exaggerated a little bit. But if you look at the players from back then, I know, just being honest, from a technical standpoint, from a physical standpoint, I know what they did in between the lane

and being physical and slapping and punching and all that. But you're thinking about Giannis and Giannisannis today and it oh my goodness that athletic ability It's called technology Ocho you got an opportunity to work on things guys didn't have modern medicine they didn't have technology think about when you ruptured Achilles you were done you tore a knee you were done you had that big ass bulky knee brace that big done joy on it's different now we got modern medicine medicine. We know how to eat. We know how to train We have personal trainers and physio those guys in the 60s and 70s and 80s Didn't have the money to have all of this stuff, right?

But Brian when you're making 50 million dollars in basketball and another 75 80 million dollars off the court You could have a chef that prepares every meal to your specifications. You can have a physio, you can have a Mike Macias as Lebron, as excuse me, as Jordan had Tim Grover. Tim and I, Tim and I, we still, we text a lot now. But it's different. It's not fair that you try to compare this error to that error or that error to this error. You right. You right.

Oh boy. Damien Lerner was diagnosed with blood clots in his right calf. He's the third player this year to have blood clot issues in 2022. The playoffs, no Chris Middleton in 2023. Yonis plays two out of five games in 2024. Dame and Yonis both were injured. Dame is out indefinitely. Should the Bucks be thankful that Yonis had all time finals run in 2022, I mean 2021, because it seemed like every since then, at some point

in time, a key player has been injured. Chris Middleton was injured. Then there was a couple years that Yonis was injured and then you had Yonis and Dane both injured. And now Dane is injured. And the Bucks are not going anywhere without just Yonis. First of all he's not going to be at the Cavs without him. And he's not going to be able to beat the Celtics. He damn, hell he wasn't going to probably be able to beat the Celtics. He damn hell he wasn't gonna probably be able to

beat the Celtics with Dane. Live along with him without him. I'm not so sure they can beat the Knicks without Dane. The days of one guy dominating a series and winning the whole that's over. You forget all about that. Yeah I mean it's unfortunate it's unfortunate obviously very very serious when my mama has something similar to this. If I'm not mistaken, I don't know if the diagnosis is exactly the same, but obviously it's a blood clot. I'm glad they were able to catch it. It sucks. It sucks for the bucks.

It sucks for the organization. And it most definitely sucks for Damien Liddell and his family. I'm hoping a speedy recovery for him, especially something like this. It's very, very serious, especially something like this is very, very serious, especially when it comes to the blood. Oh yeah, you'll blood thinners. You'll probably go, you'll build blood thinners the rest of his life. Man. Yeah, that sucks, man. I hope he gets better fast, man. My name is Brendan Patrick Hughes, host of Divine Intervention. This is a story about radical nuns in combat boots and wild-haired priests trading blows

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still, they all about control. Taking away our NFL, NFL stands for no fun league. And they continue to strike and continue to find ways to take fun away from the game and allow players not to be them individual selves. But you know, attendance was down, right? If I'm not mistaken, but we all go ahead and do it your way. Hey, they give me $60 million. I'll go out there in a tuxedo Every oh Joe, I mean you think about that buddy. I want you make good money. Oh Joe The joke is making six seven times what you made. Oh, yeah

They can you think about what you made and I yeah 66 exit yeah okay hey oh job have everything I'm having a nice and the other took my shirt is for the socks up nice I hate I want no problem I want no problem with the bill I tell you one thing if I was playing in today's era all the stuff I was doing back then I still be doing it now you still do it? Oh man, plus some. I ain't gonna get no penalty.

I ain't gonna do nothing to get my team a penalty. But you don't. I never got my team no penalty. I never did. I'm gonna talk some, I'm gonna talk ish now. Oh yeah, that's it. But then now you can't say the N word, old joke. Yeah, I know.

Can you imagine if we was playing during the social media era? You know how many times we done said the N word on that field? Oh yeah, you heard me? Can you imagine if we was playing during the social media era? You know how many times we don't say the N word on that field? Oh yeah. You heard me? Can you imagine if we was playing during the social media era? Oh Lord. Man, listen. Boy.

Oh Lord. Not me. Mind you, I got in trouble for tweeting on the sideline when we played Philly. I got in trouble for tweeting on the sideline when we played Philly. I got in trouble for tweeting on the sideline in the middle of a preseason game. That was the beginning of social media era for me in 2009. Can you imagine? Man, I'd be, man, listen, I'll score a touchdown

and go live on Instagram. Oh, who? I told you. Who told you? You don't hold your own. I'm gonna take that plan. But see, I did the celebration where I pretended like I had a phone. Joe Horn actually went and hid a phone.

Pull the phone and pull the phone out. I said pretty soon somebody go, hey, I ain't gonna lie one time. I'm gonna say, look here, I'm gonna say it 100,000. I'm gonna call Uber Eats. Uber Eats is gonna bring me a piece on the sideline. I ain't gonna lie. Uber eats. Uber eats gonna bring me a pizza on the sideline. Hey, I would say, look here, I would tell my agent, my friend at the people, I'm saying 100,000 a side because I know I'm gonna get fined. Uber eats gonna bring me a pizza.

Hey, that's the good one right there. Listen, today's game, I will push the envelope. I really, they allow everybody to celebrate. They allow group celebrations, but everybody doing the same stuff. Nothing is authentic, nothing is organic. They're doing stuff they see on TV, they're doing stuff they see on TikTok.

You get that. Oh, the NFL is all about fan engagement, right? Oh, this is what y'all want? You want the fans to enjoy the game and have fun? No, we tell y'all what it's like to engage the fans. Don't you try to come up with something OG. Oh, no, no. I'm coming up with something. I'm gonna push the envelope.

Don't let me score in the north and south end zone. Don't let me be playing away. Man, I'm pulling the fan out of the end zone, man. We're gonna sit there and do the kid and play. I'm gonna put him right back in the stand. Can you imagine? Man, you gonna get the fan thrown out. You know the fans can't step on the field, man.

That is a memory, that is a memory, Unc. I promise you, if I was playing today, whatever game I score, I'm telling you, I will pull a fan out the stands in the north or south end zone, pull him down, and do the kid and play. That will be iconic because it's something that's never been done before.

Everybody's doing stuff. Now that you can celebrate, they just repeat the same stuff over and over. Somebody has to push the envelope and make it fun. Make it fun. All right, Ocho. It's time for our final segment of the evening. It's time for Q&A. Matthew Tessify Ask Matthew Tessify asked, is it still the Lakers in five though? Yeah, we ain't running, we ain't ducking no smoke. We got some for the Bulls too.

We gonna pay the Bulls back. I think that's Friday night. Is it Friday night? When they pay the Bulls, Friday night or tomorrow night? I don't know when it is tomorrow. Friday night. When they play the Bulls, I ask Friday night or tomorrow night? I don't know when it is tomorrow. Oh, damn. Oh, maybe I spoke too quick. Now we got something for the Bulls.

We're going to play Kobe White back. Man, Kobe White, Josh Getty and Brazellas, man, they did something bad to us. We all y'all. We owe y'all, we owe y'all book. So we coming to the house that Jordan built, gonna try to drop by 130 on y'all. LeBron gonna go for about 40, 40, 10, and six. Oh, Joe, Fruits for Life say Chad Johnson, Magic Johnson, Johnson and Johnson.

Look at the five. Uh, triple X come sanity, Andy, Cindy, Wendy. Ladies is bad. Whoa. Say it. No one wants to see my Clippers in the West for seven games though. Clippers?

Thank you. Hey, for real? Leota Rolso said, what's up, Uncle Ocho? What's a dream vacation for both of you and where would you go? Dream vacation for me? I don't know why y'all keep trying to get me to go on vacation with Ocho. Why y'all keep trying to get me to go on vacation with Old Joe.

Why y'all keep trying to get me to go on vacation with Prime? They are bad influences on me. What is it that y'all don't understand? I'm not a bad influence. I can't be a bad influence. You are! I think they were asking individually.

No. As a matter of fact, hey Chad, I had a... He called you too, cause he called you before he called me. Yeah, he called me first. Yeah, yeah, I talked to him. Because he couldn't get on. I was actually, I was doing a, I was doing first take when he called me. Asked me, say you talking to Prash?

I said, nah. And he had called me, but I talked to him yesterday. I ain't gonna say what he said. When you know what he said, because he told you to say a yesterday. I ain't gonna say what he said. Well, you know what he said, cause he told you to say a thing. I ain't gonna say what he said. Yeah, Brian, shut up. What's the dream vacation?

Where we going, don't you? Listen, from an individual standpoint, we are polar opposites in the things we like. I wanna go to Norway and I wanna go to New Zealand. I wanna swim with killer whales in the wild. You not gonna get in the water. I'm getting in the water. I ain't gotten to the bathtub in 35 years.

What, you just take showers? Yeah, I take showers. I ain't gonna sit in that dirty road and that water be dirty back on you. Hell, you gotta get in the shower to get the, nah, get the scum up off you. No. Hell, nah. No. Hell nah.

Yeah. I mean, that's my dream. That's my dream. People in the chat, I don't know if you don't know, if you do know me, if you know me, you followed me for a while. You know how much I love killer whales. That's my spirit animal.

My entire right leg from the waist to my ankle is tattooed with killer whales. And the last thing on my bucket list to do, I do anything once, the last thing on my bucket list to do, I do anything once, the last thing on my bucket list to do is to go to Norway and New Zealand and swim with killer whales in the wild. And I'm gonna do it.

I don't know at what point, but when I talk about a dream of mine. Oh Lord have mercy, Ocho. What happened? Look what LeBron posted. Who is that fighting? That's Steve and they boxing. Oh, LeBron. That's you. He posted that for real? He just posted like eight minutes ago.

Oh, oh, oh, see he, he, he. Look at it, look at it. And then he posted the other one. Hold on, he aided it on that now. He aided it on no purpose. Hey, you, come on now. Let that go. Now you know, you know you're wrong with you,

but let that go now. Come on now. I told you, I told you they weren't gonna let it go. I told you that. So now Steven ain't gonna respond, he gotta respond tomorrow. Oh Lord have mercy. Hey, this is a good thing.

Oh Lord have mercy. Oh LeBron followed the kid, man, okay. Okay. Yeah. I didn't know he followed the boy, okay, appreciate that. Man, bro, come on, Brian. Come on, stall him out, okay. Yeah. I know he followed the boy. Okay, appreciate that. Man, brah, come on, brah. Come on, stall him out, brah. Man, okay. Steve, man, he got rotator cuff.

And you see the caption? Womp, womp, womp. First of all, man, Steve ain't got rotator cuff. He got bad rotator cuff. That's why he swinging like that. He ain't smooth in the show. Okay. Come on, Braun.

Hey, Braun, shout out. What? Hey, Ever since, hey, Ever since Braun. Yeah, he just posted that like 10 minutes ago. Yeah. Hey, Ever since, hey, Chan, I don't know if y'all know, I'm sure y'all watch the show, Ever since Braun sent me that 50,000 that 50,000 point ball man

Even acting different man No, I have a bird's eye broad Do you like this new LeBron? Yeah, I like I like the new LeBron we seen right now. He probably watching he probably why he probably in the chat in the chat. Oh Joe, J213 said hey Uncle, don't you pick one to survive against for two minutes on a football field. An elephant, a grizzly bear, a silverback, or a hippo. That's easy. Which one?

The elephant. Yeah. Elephant or the hippo, cause they ain't got no lateral movement. I'm just gonna die. Yeah, but the elephant, forget that I only want a chance to hit po Naughty fam yo TJ still got that good hair He's uh, what is T.J., Iranian? What is T.J.? T.J. is Iranian, isn't he? God, don't, I can't even remember.

I know, cause he came, well, he told me one time, cause he used to come on, he used to come on all the time undisputed in the early days. I forget. Yeah, that's what I told him. T.J. said, when T.J. said, we still look the same. Nah, God blessed us. I said, nah, God gave you, still got your hair.

I'm sure he ain't been blessed like that. Nah, nah, do you want me to grow, my hair growing out right now, huh? Don't you let that thing grow out. Matter of fact, you know what? I'm gonna let it grow out and I'm gonna get, I'm gonna just get a taper. I'm gonna get a taper.

I'm sure. That man gonna start headging you up at the 50 yard line. What the hell you talking about? Get back here! I mean, I mean, I need to pay Ocho while we need to go out to your board job. We need to go to Turkey.

Hey, hold on, wait a minute. Right there, right there. And listen, I can go, I can go to get, matter of fact, you know what I should do for one of the live shows, huh? What? Get the man unit with the waves. You know what?

Nah, but you got, but see, you could do that because you got to shave your hair so it'll stay stuck and stick down. So you could. Right. I can't do that. I ain't shaving mine off because it might not come back. You remember when Andre Agassi had that hair?

And then when he shaved it off. It's all gone. It ain't come back no more. Yeah. Check Hook says, "'James Harrison finna fold Ocho like a vacuum cord.'" Hey, you know what? Matter of fact, whoever just said that,

I'ma see you in person. I'ma see you in person. I'ma see you. I'ma see you. Big Blue, Ocho, best receiver duo Matthew Stafford has played with? Megatron and Tate or Devontae and Pooka? Ooh, well Megatron and Tate because we haven't seen Devontae and Pooka yet.

We know what Devontae is. We know what he can do. We know what he's done in the past. We haven't seen it yet with the Rams. Yeah, just a fan say, uh for 50 million I go to hell I said that I said that oh first take we was talking about something Like what guys like? Yeah 50 million a lot of bread. Oh, Joe Uh, don't dg say what's up, uncle? No, Joe. Oh, Joe and ash with wrestlemania approaching You should ask some wrestling wrestling and WrestleMania questions

for a Don't go that would stop him. Yeah, I Mean I know a little WrestleMania but I know like before life before it became the WWL or the WWE We go back to the Georgia championship, but I'll brush up on it. Me, myself, and I say, Unc should have known a sports trivia expert was going to discuss playing.

Glenn and Lyle Blackwood played in 81 Dolphins from 81 to 86, dunk on Unc. You remember that? The no-name defense, that's what they would call the no name defense. No name defense? Yeah. Glenn and Lyle Blackwood. Micah, no one.

Flying Spirit tomorrow. Not by choice. Any advice or anything I should expect. Never flown with him. Ocho? What should he expect? Listen, I fly with Spirit all the time. What you expect, you can expect good service. You can expect great service. You can also expect Wi-Fi. Okay. All right.

Let me know how it is on tomorrow's show. Huh? I get that on airline outfly. Yeah, but ours is cost efficient. Can't put a price on my life. But anyway, that concludes this episode of Nightcap brought to you by Boost Mobile. Visit your nearest Boost Mobile store or boostmobile.com to join their nationwide 5G network today. Thank you guys for joining in. Y'all know me, your favorite uncle, Shannon Sharp, number 85, Liberty City's own, route runner extraordinaire, bingo, ring of fame honoree, pro bow bowler, all pro, that's Chad O'Kill Sinco Johnson.

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