Nightcap - BEST of RELATIONSHIPS Part 2: HALL PASSES, What to EAT on 1st Date, the ONE that GOT AWAY for all THREE

Episode Date: July 24, 2026

Shannon Sharpe, Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson, and Joe "King Iso" Johnson bring you the Best of Relationships on Nightcap! The crew shares their honest takes on whether hall passes should ever be allowed, what you should order on a first date, and the unforgettable story of "the one that got away."  Subscribe to Nightcap presented by PrizePicks so you don’t miss out on any new drops! Download the PrizePicks app today and use code SHANNON to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/NI... 0:00 - Adapting in relationships 15:14 - Should Hall Passes be allowed? 24:26 - What to eat on a 1st date 1:02:25 - The woman that got away (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Skyline Drive, How to Live Forever on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Ocho, check this out. Seahawks Super Bowl champion, Byron Murphy, was walking around with the Lombardi Trophy at his wedding this weekend. Let's take a look at the video, y'all. Hey, that's dope, huh?

I think they're starting to treat the Lombardi Trophy like they do to Stanley Cup, where everybody gets an opportunity to keep it for a date. Right I like that Was that the actual trophy Or You think that was the actual Okay

Hey that's live Yeah So you know Ain't nothing left for me to do Hey I have a question Ain't nothing left for me to do But go on to get Hey, I don't do that thing

Oh hold on See that's what I understand So those are replicas Like you have right No you get Oh look John Got the OG

most people get the little minis. Right. But me. What those run on? I don't know. This was gifted to me. You know what? I'm going to get me one of the made two in gold.

I'm going to get one of, I'm going to get one of, I'm going to get one of the made and gold, man. Yeah. I don't know what made and gold in the Lombardi and silver. The same way I got my bus and gold. and the bus is bronze. Bronze. Yeah. Yeah.

So I want everything to be gold. The one that they give you is made out of wood. The one that they put in the hall. It is. The one that's in the hall is the bronze. The one that give you is the wood. But I'm going to donate mine to Savannah State. For real?

Yeah. And my jacket. Okay. Because I ain't got my one jacket. What I'm going to do? Get a jacket to the kid. Give one jacket to the kid. Give a Hall of Fame ring to a kid.

Nah, that's going to go to Savannah State. I'm going to get a ring, the jacket, and the bus to Savannah State. The kids get enough stuff. Trust me. They get enough. They'll be okay. Yeah.

They'll be okay, Ocho. Yeah. So that's what I'm going to do. I'll have my Super Bowl trophy at my wedding. Who are all coming? Hey, we, we get, we get married next year, huh? Yep. We're going to do the dude wedding or no?

We can do that? You know, you get a discount. Yeah. But you know, right now, Ocho, I've come to the realization, I'm done being with somebody that I have fun with. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. This is the very, this is the very pivotal moment. Yeah. Like, I like where you're going. Wait, wait, wait. Let me get comfortable. And I talk to me. I found somebody that I can suffer with.

I can endure with. Because you can have fun with anybody. Right. Come on, man. You can have fun with anybody. Take your time. Say you're going to them off. Coach, say you're going to Tahiti, say you're going to Santerini,

amikonos, Bali. You'll have fun. Right. When you come to suffering, when it comes to enduring. Come on now. Who you want to do that with? Who would do that with you? I got a question, though.

I got a question. Now, when you say you found someone you can suffer with, you got somebody you can have fun with. You know what that's like. Yeah, yeah. You know what it's like when the sun is shining. But when it's cloudy and it's storm and it's raining. Yeah.

They got the umbrella for you. Yes. How you even got to that point to realize that? Because most of the time, when it's storming and thunder, when it's thunder and lightning, most of the time everything goes this way. Because when you laying there and she said, baby, I'm counting your breath. breed

nobody else has ever done that come on man I don't this ain't this ain't yeah this uncle

on your last ride right right we go out we're hey I like that listen

I'm busy the kid and Jesse James we're going out one land right bam bam bam bam bam bam bam

bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam I I like that I never heard I never heard that one before

I never heard that movie before. I like that. Most of the time, you know, my grandma always say, find someone that's willing to unpack your baggage, because we all got it. We all come with it. Yeah. We all do.

The hard part is finding someone's baggage to unpacking. Most of the time, once you unpack it, when things go rough, uh, you know, you pack, they sitting, and you try,

you try on, you keep moving on and thinking something else is better. Yep. That's always been my thing, Ocho. You always thought someone, Because that's what made us who we are. Yeah.

Even though when I made the pro, I thought I could be better. Even when I made all pro, I thought I could be better. Come on, that. Even when I had a thousand yard season, I thought I could be better. A double-digit touchdown season, I could be better. It was always when you're satisfied as a person you threw as an individual. So I was always trying to see to get better, to get better, to get better. Mm-hmm.

Nah. You're done. You're waving a white flag, huh? I could be, yeah. Yeah. I can still search. greatness and be content. I like that.

So you got to search for that greatness in other areas, other aspects of your life. Yeah, for sure. Hey, that's a good thing. I'm glad you got that piece of the puzzle filled in, man. I like that. Yeah, yeah. Hey, I like that. And, you know, she don't know what the old shay was like.

Okay, okay. You know what I'm saying? Okay. You don't know. The old shay used to go double over time. Now she didn't get the first quarter. She didn't get the first quarter on your. Hey

I get her hide up I put up me a quick tin Yeah You're done She ain't know I used to have

I get a 40 point Triple Dub Ooh Yeah Hey I got one more Question on What's that

One more question Now this is This is for me This is my therapy session Because I like When we get on topics Like this Right

Yes Is there ever a timetable to decide when you know that's the one. Yeah, I think it is, no Joe. Six months, a year, two years. I don't know if there's a time. I mean, I think you have a feeling, and you're like, okay, when things go,

you've got to go bad. Because when it's going good, when everything is good, and you're flying everywhere, and you buying everything, and by the time you buy this purse and that purse, yes, sir. You give this and you give that.

Yes, sir. Okay, when it goes bad. Mm. Come on, man. It's bad. And I ain't, hey, I ain't been to beat you down now. But we're going to have a conversation. Just so you know, we're going to have a conversation.

We're going to talk. Yeah. Okay. Hey, I didn't, hey, I get frustrated right. I'm at that point now when things are great. Oh, when it's great, it's great. Yes. And I avoid those conversations.

I avoid those tough conversations because I, what's the word I'm looking for? I love my peace. I'm not one that I'm not one that really likes chaos now at my big age. So therefore, when I see chaos, I kind of go into a shell. Right. And it's so funny when I'm happy,

I'm a talker. Actually, I talk too goddamn much. And when I shouldn't be talking, I shut down instead of having those tough conversations that I should have. Yeah, I don't like having tough conversations. I don't like to have a tough conversations either, Ocho. I don't.

I got to. I got to work on that, man. Yeah, I do. Everybody got to, because I don't, I don't want to hurt anybody's feeling, and it's just easy. I don't want to talk about it. You're right. It ain't easy, though, Ocho.

Yeah. Damn show, not easy. Yeah, but who you tell you, what? What are you telling, what? It's a lot of work. It's a lot of work, huh? And sometimes I think to myself, sometimes I think to myself, if things are supposed to be this way, why does so much work?

Why does so much work? Is it natural? It is supposed to be this way. I mean, I mean, there's so many unanswered questions, you know, and I don't know. Sometimes, Ocho, you can work like, and the reason why I equate a lot to sports is because I was good at it and I worked at it. And I was like, you know what? If I work at this, I can change this and I can be good at it. you can work for years

and your relationship might not even get any better because the question is you working as hard as you are. That's a good one. Are you working for the same goal? Because sometimes we get into an argument, Ocho, me and you argue. Yeah.

So no, no, no, no. It ain't me and you. It's me and you versus the problem. There's a difference. We argue amongst each other. We go back and forth. But the problem still, there. How about you and I double team this problem?

Right. What caused this? Mm. And most of the time, the problem is me. Yes. A lot of times, a lot of times the problem is us. A lot of times is the situation where I'm gonna get, just tell me, if you want something, if you want to do something, I don't like to have to figure it out. Figure it out, you know. Right, right, right, right.

What you want to do. Right. Just tell me. because uncommunicated expectations will ruin a relationship. Because you have an expectation and you don't communicate what those expectations are. You assume I'm supposed to know. I have expectations. I assume you're supposed to know because you're at an age.

You've dated before. You've been in relationships before. You've been in long-term relationships before. Why do I need to walk you step by step? You wasn't a long-term relationship. You just wasn't in it with me. So I need to tell you what I expect from you. You need to tell me what you expect from me.

So if we communicate these expectations, we're on the path to going somewhere. But when you don't have, when you have uncommunicated, when you don't tell me what you expect, I don't tell you what to expect. And then I'm swore because you didn't do what I expected you to do. What you didn't tell me. And that's one of the worst things with marriages, with relationships, with friendships, is that one word. That one word, because we expect certain things.

Yes. Once a title, once a title comes to anything, with a title comes expectations. Most of the time when it comes to humans, we always fall short. Yes. Human error is inevitable, no matter what aspect of life you're in with those expectations. Then it becomes you trying to become somewhat of a character to meet the role that they won't. Yeah. And that's hard because you're not even being yourself.

Nope. You have to change who you are to meet someone else's expectations. How do you change? Because here's that you got to be careful. Because changing who you are, you lose who you are. But that's what expectations are. No, no, no, I can't be your true set. There's impossible to be your true self if you're supposed to meet someone else's

expectations. That's not even originally you. You have to be the version of the way they view you. You have to be. There's perception and there's, reality. A person's perception of you is their reality. A person's perception of you, that's their reality. But that's not always the truth. So now how she perceives you, that is her reality. That can be the farthest thing from who you actually are. And which is, which is normally the

case, 98% of the time. Women fall in love with the idea that they have in their head of you, not who you truly are. Of who they think a man should be, what he should do. You should open the door. You should buy candles. You should buy cards. You should be thoughtful. You should write poetry.

That is the perception of what they think. That ain't who I... When did I ever give you that impression? That was who I was. This ain't no harlequin novel. This ain't no hallmark movie. This ain't the notebook. Hell no.

But I like it, though. Tablet. Damn, the notebook. This ain't in to be tablet. But you know what I do like? I love becoming a better version of myself for the individual that you see in whatever way they do. Yes.

How do I become that version of me? Or the version of in which you view me as. How do I become the best version for you without losing me? Me. Because most of the time, one of the hardest things to do, the two hardest things to do, chat. you've heard me say it before, two of the hardest things to do is to hit a baseball. Yeah. And to keep a woman happy long term.

Because in turn and trying to keep a woman happy long term, you have to lose a sense of self. You do. You have to lose a self. How many times the man says, well, you know, this is what she wanted. She don't want me to go out with my Ocho. Ocho, I got a cut back. She don't want me to drink. I got a cut back.

She don't want to be over the time of my in-laws. Yes, sir. What do women say? I would like this when you met me. You ain't have a problem with it. You see, men are willing to change. For the woman that a man loves, he will change. That Joe will cut off his family.

He'll cut off his friends. Yes. He'll do whatever to make her happy. It goes back to biblical. Yeah. Samson told Delilah where his strength lied for a reason. Adam, you know, Adam did what he did for a reason. David did what he did to be she was hooked for a reason.

Just say it. Hey, that was a good therapy session. I like that. You know, we, you know, we do. That was a good therapy session. You've heard the chaos. Now you can see it. Hello.

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I am Rapaport Podcast. Yeah, you know. Ocho, this one going to get you going to get you going to go. I don't know how you're going to feel about this one. A guy's going viral on Reddit for his fiancé wanting a hall pass before their wedding a few weeks away to start the marriage off better. We've been together four years now, and it seemed like everything was great and mutual. yesterday at dinner, my wife, my soon-to-be wife, brought up the ideal of both of us,

having a free sleep with whomever passed before the wedding. This stupid idea of her, it's completely blindsided me. I can tell she's been thinking about it for some time, just wanted for the perfect moment to bring it up. She said it would be pretty healthy for our relationship. Yeah. He said it would be pretty healthy for our relationship and our marriage would get up to a better start because of it.

She also claimed that it would help get everything out of my system. We've, in four years, we've been together. I've never thought about being with someone else. Maybe you should stop thinking about it right now. But it sucks to know she doesn't feel the same way. Once you realize I wasn't excited about the idea, she began to retract her statement. I really didn't talk to her, talked about it, and just went to bed since this morning. She's been apologizing over text. A hall, man, you're going to be in the hall. You know what I'm saying? You remember in school? You get in trouble. You go sit in the hall? Yeah. Listen, honestly, this is how a lot of women think, but they refuse to come forth with how they feel and some of the things that they like to do, some of the fantasies that they may have.

Listen, you have to understand when you're with somebody is very difficult. There's always going to be somebody that looks better, somebody that's a little more prettier, somebody with more money. I mean, whatever the case may be. You know, so I think it's very difficult for her to even mention the fact of having a haul pass before you get married. That just lets you know where her mind is. I mean, it just does. It just does. And the fact that she's retracting the statement knowing that, don't retract it. That's just how you feel.

Those are uncomfortable conversations that need to be had. And it needs to be had before you actually get married because at some point while you are married, you already know what happened when you are married and you're thinking like that anyway. You know, temptation. She might have that one guy that she'd been promising because, you know, hey,

you know if you get married, I want one more time before you get married. Okay. Okay. Hey, Unk, it's always... I ain't going to say that it's happened, but I'm going to say I know somebody that knows somebody that happened.

Right. There's always one. They never marry who they want to. They marry who they can. Damn. They never marry who they want to. They marry who they can. I'm going to just, I'm going to leave that on the table.

Nobody no. Oh, the trouble. I've been through. Bro. I don't even know. Man, I might have hit that thing like a red. on dead presidents, I might have just had to slump down in my chair.

Yeah. Yeah. Listen, at times, it's just something that more people need to do. You know, you need to have those uncomfortable conversations like that with your people,

with your partner, man. And why are you mad? That woman would say she wanted the hall pass. Yeah. It's like that. It's like that sometime. Yeah. And matter of fact,

and for those, that haven't had those uncomfortable conversations, you want to know how your woman really feel? Go ahead and go through that phone one time. That would wake your ass up. Go through her phone? You think that y'all think that shit's sweet, huh? Nah, I ain't going through nobody's phone, Ocho.

I hear you, I hear you, you ain't got to go through it. Oh, Joe. Listen, I don't want you losing no weight. I'm just telling you to lose the weight, hey, because I already, oh, Ocho. Listen. When you go to Ocho, in Easter, they hide the eggs. When you go look at what you expect to find?

Listen, when I walk through the mud, I want to come out dirty. Well, you're going to come out dirty. Listen, when I walk through mud, I want to come out dirty. That's it. All right. Yeah, but, she, be right. Listen, you're right here. Boy, I'm telling you.

Sometimes you're wasting your time. You think you got something, you think of you got something sweet. It ain't what you think it is. It ain't nothing but a lemon. ain't nothing but a lemon man go to that phone I'm not listening to Ocho

Ocho, y'all I'm gonna find me I'm gonna find it who you gonna find I don't know oh you're right there you go what you mean

what you're gonna find there you go there you I'm asking you said you're gonna find it I mean you told you you're like the phone no

oh okay okay my bad oh no I might I might surprise you make a guest appearance with Sometimes you got to pop out and show them.

Okay, okay, okay. I'm with you when you're right. Yeah. I'm with you when you're right. Man, but I'm going to, you know, I want my homeboy being Ocho, I meet my homeboy. You know, we're on the red carpet. We both got something. Who am I have?

Ocho. You know, hey, you've been together five years, fix it. Work it out. Work it out. Thanksgiving. You go right. I bet you go get a plate. You do, you do see,

you do see I'm at the house and ain't nobody here, right? She ain't up. She upstairs. You are the basement. Nah, I'm upstairs. Ain't nobody here. You would hear kids and everything.

Everybody, everybody in Tampa. You notice how very strategically when I'm here at the house, it ain't nobody here. See how to see how that work? Yeah. Man, we ain't talking about that. I know.

I should, hey, I should, I should get on the road and pop up out there. Nah, Ocho, because you wouldn't like nobody to pop up on you. Don't do that. Hold on. You the one told me to do that. I know. Hell, no. I ain't never told you to pop up.

Hell now. You just did. You said go get a plate. It's Thanksgiving. But you said y'all had already worked that out. Oh, no, I'm just playing. She sent me an invite, though. We're going to get it.

You heard me? Well, shit, I got to get on the road. That's all right. Catch a flight early in the morning. That's a three-hour drive. Catch a flight. It's a 30-minute flight. I'm going to catch a flight from Miami to Tampa.

Come on now. Easy. By the time I get to the airport and land, that would have been the three-hour drive right now. Nope. Man, go on. Look here, man. Look, you don't put that kind of time in the man.

Don't just walk away like that, bro. Oh, no, no, no, no. I'm going to get me a plate now. A plate, Ocho. That's it. A plate. A food. Food. Turkey, drescent, mac and trees, ham.

Mac and cheese. Yeah. Cheese, mac and cheese. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, ham, sweet potato pie. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know what else, but that's it. Yeah, that's all I won't. I don't need nothing else. Okay.

Yeah. You know, you got to be a gentleman. You got to read, you got to read like, hey, this is the new and improved, Ocho. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. I'm just going to eat, huh? That's it. That's what I want you to do.

That's, no, I want you to eat the food that's on your plate. I know you're eating, too. No, I know. You're not. Yeah. Hey, oh, man, I'm, yeah, I'm good. I'm, I listen, I ain't doing none to 20-25, man. Just, you know, I'm taking the backseat.

I'm resetting. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. That's my dog. Yeah, I'm in a good space right now, you know? Yeah. I'm in a good space. Good old college green. I got a singular focus.

Now what I'm talking about. I got, I got 37011 jobs right now. I ain't got no time for no distraction, you know? Okay, I'm in a good space. I'm here. I like that. You know the horses at the Kentucky Derby, how they put the blinders on it? You can't see nothing.

You can't see nothing. They're focused, yeah. See straight ahead. That's where I'm at with it. Okay. God damn it shit I like that that's the focus

that you need to have yeah that day then that's what I got it's going viral explaining her date with a 45 year old okay okay

that not my god 25 45 you know 20 year death you know A DK I can rock with that check this out on you show and switch a 25 year old woman is going viral

explaining her date with a 45 year old who left $100 on the table and walked out she told him she wanted to go to a state house. He took her to Eddie B's. Eddie B's in Nashville.

There are several of the Aty Bs, but I don't want in Nashville. That's neither here or no there. She ordered lamb chops, oysters, and crab fried rice after he only ordered the drink. Total cost of her meal, $159. You

could hear her tell him, this is usually how I ordered. She paid the rest of the bill after he left $100 and walked out. I already told Ocho, thank you. I already know. I ain't mad at it. I ain't mad at it.

Wait, it was the first time they're going out? I guess. Yeah, I ain't matter, but, yeah. It was the first date.

Yeah, I ain't mad at him. And the last date. For sure, the last. Man, listen. Out the real?

I would you're going to say. I was just going to say that. And most of the time, it's fellas out, it's dudes that. here probably that she's been with before and it's taken out, you know, it's all about showing out. It's all about showing out on the first date because, you know, first impressions of everything. You got to really, and how do you reel a woman in? By doing all the craziness in the beginning.

The more, the crazy you are in the beginning with spoiling and spending a lot of money, the easy it is to get to your end goal. And that's all to come down to. It's all the goddamn game, man. But, Ojo, if you start. And that game is wrong women to pulling off shit like this. that's true if I but switch here the thing check oh chole let me ask y'all this if if I take somebody on the first or second date and I get a private plane what I got to do next get to space shuttle what the hell I go from there if I'm getting you lobster if I'm getting you hold on if I'm getting you lamb chops and oysters now granted we in different tax brackets okay but I'm saying the average guy ain't got bread like that okay we you know we get your seafood Tower that cost four five hundred dollars. Okay, we get X, Y, Z. That's one thing. But I'm saying, the at the Seafood Tower, they got, they got like four or five lobster tails, they got crab plows, they got scallops, they got oysters, they got shrimp, whatever

the case may be. That sounds like a group even. What was the price? What was the price you said it cost? Probably by $350, $400. Man, y'all don't bump y'all goddamn head, man. But that's what I'm saying. But, also, but that's what I'm saying on the first date.

If you do that on the first date, where do you go from there? No, I can't, no. You can't go. You ain't nowhere to go. You got to go to the moon. You know what I'm saying. Baby, how about we start with something? How about we start with something, you know?

I ain't no sushi. So ain't no sense of me going there because I ain't going to eat it. But can we go to like some, like America cuisine? Okay. You know, they got burgers or they got some fish. They got some salmon. You know, they got, you know, they got a group or they got some type of fish. You know what I'm saying?

Dover's sold. I know. Can we start rills or can we start there? Start going to the steak and you know the steak is market price. You start seeing something with market price? Yeah. Nah. You know what it is.

Now you got to take. You got to take it real old school nowadays. You got to see what they really end for, and you got to take them on a couple of picnics. Pack up some smuckers, peanut butter, jelly sandwiches and something. Pack of them. Crustibles. Yeah, I ain't making them say the crustables.

They already got the crust off. Yeah, the crust is gone. Yeah. Give me a couple of those. You know what I'm saying? A couple of iced teas, little Arnold Palmer's in the joint. Like I said, he really liked me. A couple bags of skittles or something.

You see where we at first. Yeah. Hey, I'm a simple guy. Even swap ain't no swindle. Yeah. Okay, what we do? You use me for the ride. I use you for the hide.

You want to pay. I use you for a date. I mean, hey, even swap ain't can't be no swindle. Come on now. Can't be. Because, hey, hey, look, come on. Come on. We said out of back.

We chill in conversation. If you're trying to be a sponsor, if you try to be, are you trying to be a partner or you're trying to get sponsor. Ooh. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. It's wish.

I just need. Hey, I can be either one. I just need to know. I feel you. I got to know. Don't leave it up to me because I'm going to think the other way immediately. That's just the way it is. That's it.

I ain't got no problem with you. That's what you're trying to do. Yeah. But I'm going to try to do what I'm trying to do too. They don't get mad. Yeah. I'm going to put that with them a nose on my phone. I'm trying to be a sponsor.

Hold on. You're trying to, what it was, you're trying to be a sponsor? Are you trying to be a partner or you're trying to be sponsored? Hmm. That's from real, though. That's for real.

It's a lot of ones looking for sponsors. Yeah. Look, I understand. Look, like I said, I'm a little older now, Ocho. So you know what I'm saying? But see, here's the thing. The kid told me, she said, the reason why older men like younger women,

she said a guy told her as we get older ain't nothing wrong with our eyes what we like when we was in that age group we still like now I don't got no problem I don't got no problem whatever whatever we decide to do let's do that

if you say Shannon this is what it is let me decide I'm gonna tell you what it is Yeah. It's an equal exchange. That's where I think we're getting a misconstrued. Like one outweighs the other. This is a very equal exchange.

Even swap can't ever be a swindle. Ocho, look, if you got grain and I got cowl that can produce, okay, Ocho, I need some grain. Okay, I need milk. Okay, even swap. But now all of a sudden, you come. I'm down there with some bulljad. Oh, no, hell now.

You're trying to get over. You ain't got no grain, but you want all this milk? Hold on, baby. Oh, no, baby. And listen, that's that, that, that's, that, and then you read all I'm saying? Hey. Honestly, nine eight percent of time.

I ain't about no headaches. I'm going to, hey, I'm going to do right by you. Hey, you don't understand. Ninety percent of the time, you got all the milk. Ain't anybody got no grain. You just only one providing the motherfucking milk. So I'm the one bringing something to the party. 90% of the time, yes.

Yes. How about this, Ocho? Bring something to the picnic besides your appetite. Please. Can you bring plastic for us? Can you bring napkins? Can you bring something other than your appetite? I'm not saying you got to have, you know,

you got to have the most elaborate spread, but just bring something. Hey, you go to somebody house, Ocho, you can't just show up, hey, how y'all doing? And you ain't got nothing? You got to show up for something. They ain't brought a bag of ice. You can bring plates, cups, cups, plates. Hey, bring them cheap-ass checks.

So does the Ocho be like it. Bring something. Yeah, bring my quarter orders. Yeah. Bring something. We don't got to the point now we show up the people high, like, it's just because it's a high presence. Hey, how y'all doing?

What's your got? No, we ain't doing nothing. Nothing. We ain't doing nothing. You know what we're doing? Store and run. Hey, we need some ice. I holl at you a minute, dog.

And so a lot of time, they would be showing up with hoo-ha and think that's enough. Well, hold on. You know, sometimes that is all this enough. What are they advertising everywhere? What are they advertising everywhere? That's all they got to do. Hold on.

When everybody, everybody turned backwards, everybody turned to the side, using the sink to make it, you know, let us sit. That's good. That's a bit. Hey, hold on. That's all. That's all. That's all there is. Hey, hold on.

Well, I see, I ask. How do you catch our attention, huh? How do you catch our attention? The most valuable thing you have to offer is what you advertise. Just like, just like a man. If a man got money, what's the first thing you advertise? He got what? That mullah.

Yeah. You know, what you said? Even exchange ain't no way. How you said? Even swap ain't no swindle. But you already know what it is? The game. Catching the man.

Catching the mall and ain't the problem. Yeah. That's getting that sucker to the boat. Yeah. To the man, there ain't no issue. Can you land him? Oh, yeah, you can land him. But he's going to be going to throw you back out to the sea.

Hey, I'm just going to keep jumping until I get back to the water. I ain't going to stop jumping. Stop, look. Oh, Joe, look, like I said, I'm in a situation now. I mean, when I ain't have a whole lot of money, knock on wood, I only had one situation with somebody, I thought somebody was trying to take advantage me when it came to eating. But now I got some bread.

Okay, you know, hey, we go to a nice restaurant. I mean, but you ain't about to get no Kobe. You ain't about to find nothing that costs $100 an hour, $100 an ounce. Oh, hell now. Yeah. I ain't going to lie. I walked out on the drum one time like that. I was in New York at a steakhouse.

She was just ordering it up, ordering it up. I went straight to the bar. I told the dude, I said, look, man, there's $200 for these two drinks, and I'm just going to hit him slide. He said, okay, hit me about an hour later. Where you at? What's going on?

I ain't never went back. I'm not doing all of you, ordering all this wine. You don't even drink wine. All of a sudden, you are a son. I can't get your eyes out of here. They do that, man. They know you got brand bad, look. I'm out.

I'll holl at you. You ain't even acting the same. When I met you, you was a chick from the run away from the Bronx. Now all of a sudden, you're Jenny from the block. I ain't, nah, bro. I ain't got time for that. I ain't got time for that. See?

See what you don't start at, Ocho? Oh, I started who? Who? Who? I don't even put myself in them situations like that. I don't play that shit? No, sir. Two of a $200 should be a nice little.

meal. $200 who? American dollars? Yes. $200 a nice little meal in the JR. Man, for sure. That was matured and everything on show. I'm good.

Okay, steak cough 50. I got a steak cough 50. She gets two drinks. I'm drinking ginger ale. More times than I, she'd probably be, you know, she ain't going to want no dessert. I'm cool. 200 for the thing.

Get a, uh, uh, uh, leave a tip. okay 250 leave they get a guy $30 to bring my car around I'm out okay I'm out $2.80, $300 yeah listen you have to you have to stand and then if you're a Nancy K okay I might go if I think she'll Nancy K I go to I go to 400 mm-hmm so what's you saying Ocho what's the what's the what's your cat bracket what's the budget but you know I don't I don't eat at those places that you got to talk about about. My places, I mean, I can be honest, we family and those of you that, you know, in the chat, especially if you follow me, you know, my stuff is always the same. You know,

my Bahama breeze. I love my longhorn. I like brimstone. I have a Cuban spot that I frequent all the time. So the places I like the frequent and go to dinner aren't like that. Aren't like that. Now, if you spend 150, it's the worst. They bring in on sparklers and everything. Now, you have the thing about date night. Date night when when I, well, I'm single now, when I wasn't single and date night, now then that's when I was introduced to, you know, different types of foods that I didn't eat before. And then

now we talk about a dinner might be $150, maybe $200. Outside of that, it was nothing, it's something that I don't do in the norm, so I'm not used to it. Yeah. I think if you get out of there, honestly, I think if you get out of there with, you know, she'll get two drinks, at least I'm hoping.

Two drink, stay. Shit, that's $400 for sure. show. That's four way to do. Your number's a little too good. Hey, they didn't drink me that $30. Yeah, for a meal.

Straight up. Cocktails like $30. I leave right there. She don't pause that off. Before we even got the meal, now if you get an appetizer, you get one, she get one. Boom.

That's another appetizer going to be at least somewhere between $20 and $30. So you get to that. that's 60 plus her drink 90 plus my ginger ale which is 10 that's $100 right there and we didn't even got to the entree

no and I ain't going to lot man I don't know if it's the times or the numbers is going up but it just seemed like they drink faster than they used to those two drinks go a little faster than they used to but they come back before you know it's like oh can I have one more

I just have one more you said that three drinks ago like damn man, bro. Hey, and low you that drive, hey,

you Uberin, hey, we good. Nah, nah, I say, I can't do a sloppy situation.

That's the quickest way to get me off your, off your line. You come over to go, hey, ah, I ain't got a time for that.

No, no, you got to be a lack, like ladies now, you're going to keep the classy.

Yeah, oh, no, oh, no. I keep it classy now. Mm-mm. I'll put you on a minimum.

We'll put you on on two, three, drink minimum. I think most women can handle two. I think that's, now, they got something that, hey, two, man, I can drink seven of these things. I'm like, yeah, okay, now I'm playing in my escape.

I'm playing over. Yeah. Seven? You're in the MMA match. Yeah. Whoa, whoa. Girl, you more woman than I ever be man. Draking seven of these things?

Oh, hell. No, hell nah. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. No, hell no. Like I say, I'm like you, J.R. Two. You get two drinks.

We got to get you at the minimum. And I got to make sure I got to see what you drink it too. Because they go order that $200 tequila and thinking they're doing that Casa Azou and all that. Oh, yeah. Hold up, baby. Hold up. You was repisado from Casamigos. Don't act like that now.

Now all of a sudden you cross-like Azoo. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. It just ain't that. So, hey, hey, get a lemon drop, cosmopolitan. Hey, hey, get, hey, one or two lemon drop or a Cosmo.

What else do they be drinking? The, uh, I mean, sometimes women don't got the way they drink in, uh, uh, what, vodka water? All more of the sours and shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, okay, I feel it. I feel it. Yeah.

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No, but I, hey, that's it. Two draughts, Locho. They get paid. Hey, can I get one more? Nah, babe, nah. Uh-uh. See, that's why, for real, I go to wine. Like, because I'd rather just spend, I'd rather spend $100, 120 on the wine,

get your nice, good bottle of red. You're going to get four glasses. I get two glasses. you get two glasses, where everybody's satisfied. And it's gonna last us throughout the whole dinner. Right. But you're sitting here doing drinks and this and that, then you, before you know, they get that vodka or something up in,

they, like, not only, I'm trying to get you to chill, mellow out. Yeah. Go ahead and go to the crib, have a nice little night, all that. I ain't got, no, no, I ain't doing that no, no. I ain't good like I used to. See? See, I would go, you got to chill. Yeah?

You get, you know, when you get your situation, to rectify, boom. You turn your head in full. I don't like the way you're looking like. You see, yeah, it's fixed your body language, man. Hey, that's my coach. You're looking at me like, Uncle, I don't know, I don't know.

I don't know. Hey, listen, we family, right? Yeah. Yeah. The longer, the longer, how do you say it? The longer you apart, the harder is to get back. No, no, no. I mean, no, I mean, not even that.

it's just like, it's becoming like, ah, like, man, fuck it. Like the longer, you know, when there's something that's always, always constant, constant, constant, you have it all the time. And the longer, it's prolonged and it just becomes like, man.

Man. I'm just, I'm just saying. No, I feel you. I'm listening to you. I hear you, man. That's tough. That's a tough situation, man. May I work with that shit, don't

Joe. I was about to say, let me ask you this. Is it rectifiable? Everything is rectifiable. I can't say that. Me personally, I don't have that in me. You don't think everything should be. That's a good question.

Let me, let me ask you something. So, you, what isn't rectifiable in your eyes? For me. What can happen with, like, if she does this, this A, B, and C, A, B, or C, you know what? That's a rap. We can't do nothing anymore. It's over.

Well, for me, if I feel like I can't trust you, you defy my trust within, and it's layers to that. Like, it's like telling a lie. If there's a white lie, and then there's the lies you know that's just over-crossing the shit. You know what I'm saying? And for me, I feel like people will have a good, like, the person I picked, they got a good conscience to know what I'm standing for and what I'm not standing for.

So if you cross that line, And I felt like you knew what you was in. You know how I wrote. So you know, it would never be a situation to where you're going to come tell me what happened. Oh. If it ain't that. If you put yourself in a position to where you felt like you can't come tell me, you can't tell me, then we never was what I thought we was and we should stop right now.

Right. For me, me personally, because I trust too hard and I love too hard for you to be playing with me on a way that I feel about you, that you don't feel about me. Man, I can't take this anymore. Doc, you gotta help me. Man, this stupid meme is ruining my life. Now I know just what you need.

Ali Pop. Ridge Rush has got fiber, natural energy. It'll pick you right up. Oh, okay. Now that's a rush. Smile for the camera. Ocho! Here you go, Internet.

So have you ever since you've been in dating when you've dated before and you've been in love with these, you know, individuals. And a woman has made a mistake where you've lost her trust. Do you ever give her any grace? Or once you, once you cross that line, it's it. It's a rap. I have and I got burnt. Yeah, I got burnt crazy with my homie too. Like my man, who was in Vegas at the same time, All-Star popped up in the room. He in the room. I'm walking in there and go see my little joint. He in there with her. I'm like, oh.

Whoa. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that hurt. After I already went through some little sh- I was like, okay, so you know what? That's what we own.

That's what we do with. Savage. I'm a savage now. That's what I got to, that's what you turned me into. And I hate to, I hate to use that as like somebody fuel, put that energy in my back. But yeah, that's what, when I seen that, and I was young, I was like, 20. I got driving. after I was 18, I was 20, like young boy into the league still.

It was like my second third year. I was like, oh, okay, this is how they really move. And I was like, I read, this is the game plan. You don't, you don't learn the game until you've been in it for a few years with great understanding on how they move. Yeah. And you got to ask her, like, when you go to a situation, you got to ask some of the best. Hey, what's up?

What's up with her? Ah, man, blah, blah, blah. What's up with her? Blah, blah, blah, blah. because the vets know. And for the most part, they ain't, you know,

sometimes, you know, you stumble up on one and they want to and they're going to try to salt you up. But... It's a lot of hating-ass vets. Oh,

man, I would say she was bad, too. I stumbled up on it. You know what I'm saying? Oh, I stumbled up on one. You know, every once in a while, every once in a while,

I only can't find a whole chicken in the trash. He ain't going to always find scraps. I stumbled up on one-ocho. I made the mistake. I was cool with dude because he played with my brother. So I thought I could, you know, yeah, man, I've been serious,

so I've been, you know. So he going to try to back dough me. Oh, not the front door. He went through the back-dote. Back-dote. Check this out. He told. the girl, he did what he told her.

Oh, you're going to F him and you ain't going to give me no hoo-ha. Oh, hell, nah. Yeah. Yeah. See, I have the oldest trick in the book, God. That's for years. That shit still happens, dog. What? Years.

That, each other, oh. Oh, here's the thing to top it up, Ocho. He probably won't even be on the team next year. I swear, that one right there. He's going to be out of the league. He's going to be broke. He's going to be this Saturday.

Damn, champ. Because here's the thing, the Ocho, the thing about, like, not all. There's no situation of all or everything. But a lot of times, even if you cool with a chick and y'all leave on somewhat good terms, if somebody come try to, on your team, come try to holler and say something foul about you, they're going to let you know. They're going to let you know. You tell you.

every time, too. Tell you. Even if you're in a whole other situation and cool with it and everything, everything good, they're going to let you know for sure. Oh, she told me I had a dude to college. He ain't going to try to, hey,

ain't you cool, ain't you cool with shop? And ain't like that. Really, dude. Hey, matter of fact, you know, hey, hey, Jay. And, um, you know, This is a great topic. This is barbershop.

This is basically how the locker room is anyway. You ever been with somebody? If you ever been with somebody in general, based on your experience and y'all were together? And what happened? Do you give them grace if they step out on y'all based on what you're talking about? Because, Jay, you said if trust is broken and you can't trust them all, do you give grace or you like you out of dough? What you think? You out of dough?

How do y'all operate? It all, man. It all, it's all, oh, for me. You got to think about it. When y'all was playing, Jay, when you was playing, the individuals that are trying to talk to the women you with are those that have money just like you. Just as much money as you got, yeah, for sure.

So the chances of them actually being loyal, it is, I don't want to see it. It's even, because depending on who's asking, your girl is single. for sure. No, for sure. Hold on. You know, let me, let me say this again. Depending on who's asking, even if she's with you,

your girl is single. For sure. Yeah, for sure. Okay. 1,000. 1,000%. I think, I think, I think the casual people in the chat

probably wouldn't understand. But if you're in that world, if you're in that world. Yeah. She's gone. You get what I mean. But the most part, 95% of the time, you're absolutely right.

Ocho, Big Bang take Little Bank. No, for sure. You see, that's why you see. That's why you see big corporations gobble up little corporations. Mm-hmm. Five-stop takeover. Man, I went to the All-Star game in Houston, right? And that was my second year.

It's my third, no, my third year was in Vegas. The second year was in Houston. So I go to Houston. I bring this, I have my first little, quote-unquote, video vixing, little chick, a little smooth magazine, covered little joint. I got one. I'm calling the homie's back, yeah, I got it, man. Yeah, I got it.

Take it to the game and everything. But I'll take it to the game. My seats wasn't like that. I'm still first year kind of guy. Yeah. So I'm like 15, 20 rows up. So we chopping it up, kicking it. Half time comes.

I'm about to be right back. Never come back. Half time come back. She's sitting on the court side with a big homie. I'm like, oh, at the game. Left you midgame? Midgame. Let me be a big game.

Set on the court right there with the big... Big big... Dead ass? Huh? Yeah. Dead ass? Dead ass. Like booty in the cemetery.

Straight up. Straight up. Levy right stairs standing. But I'll give you another story. So for me or my teammates, I had a teammate who's best, like, his man is right-hand man. They're all on the same team, basketball team. Real live pro team. He go, will we go out of town?

My man's homeboy taps my home, his man, wife when we're on the road. Yeah, it gets fun. Now, see, I got to have him. Yeah. Oh, you know what? You know what? No, no, no, no, you know what? It gets funky, dog.

But here, you know what it is, Gil? The thing is, is that I'm not married to him. I'm married to her. Mm. Now, that's my home boy. Now, see, to me, because I ain't got a home boy. a whole lot of homeboys. For my homeboy to do that,

and if I don't allow you in my home, I'm gonna lump you up, bro. I ain't only lie. Hold on. It's the disrespect. Hold on, but the disrespect is with the women in that scenario. I'm not, not the homeboy.

My homeboy, what's your homeboy name? The one that you grew up with in Liberty City? Shoddy. Doink. Thank you. Your situation, hey, you're out of town.

You trust them around your people. They go out there and they try to, they smash. Come on, man. I'm done with her, but I got something for him. No, no, no, no, no. I'm talking about a teammate, though. Like, we're on the same team. We're all three of us on the same team.

Yeah. We go on the road. Ocho, man, holler out, my lady. He in my house with my lady when we on the road. Oh, oh, see, that's, see, now, now, yeah, see, that's all traditional. Now, now you're talking about somebody. somebody sent me, hey. Yeah, we need smoke.

Hey. Now somebody letting dubs go on Sunday. You're going to kill him on? For sure. I, what you mean? People will kill, boy, that's crime of passion. What? Do you understand people get off of stuff like that?

What are you going to be careful? Man, what? What? What I told you about? What I told you about manage your expectations, boy? Ocho, you don't manage your expectations. with a wife. No, sir.

You committed. If you got to manage your expectations with a wife, why did y'all even get married? Why do y'all, why did y'all say those vows? It ain't no managing, no, if you want to manage expectations with a girlfriend, I get that. Okay, okay, you're right. A wife?

Right. I forgot the wife part. I forgot the wife part. I forgot the wife part. Man, stay, look, man, look here. Women that are married, look here, man. Y'all got to know who y'all dealing with. because everybody don't handle rejection the same way.

But it goes around the other side. So I understand for the women to snap when they may not have tripping. So it goes both ways. So I want the women to think like, oh, we're on one side. No, it goes regardless. You get caught in that situation.

I ain't coming up in, I'm not coming up in no man's house. No, dog. No, sir. Ocho, you go up in a man's house. You know a man lived there. You know that's his wife. Anything that happened. to you after that I'm okay with.

Dang. Straight up. No, hell, yeah, straight up. Anything. The same thing I feel about when you spit on somebody. See, you get to control your actions. You don't get to control the consequences

of your actions. Right. So you walk your ass up in that man's house. You know, like, women, talking about I ain't know he was married. That man got a photo bids with a car seat in the back. What the hell you think going on?

What posters around this motherfucker? You come on! We're posters and I pitchers posters. What not, what non-married dude riding around with a car seat? Hey, it's a dirty game, man. Man, stop playing. Oh, Joe, I don't play, that's one thing. I play, you know, we and you joke back and forth and I joke.

Yes, I don't, I don't joke about nobody's woman. Yeah. No, so. Because I don't have too many situations in my hometown. Right. Where people have hurt somebody. For real? About a woman.

Hell you. Hey, Unk, it's all about no disrespect to those situations. And this is fellas for you in the chat. All you have to do is pay attention to who you're dealing with and understand who you're dealing with early. And you'll never get mad. You'll never get mad. You'll be disappointed sometimes.

You'll be disappointed. You'll be disappointed because sometimes you grow to love an individual. Yes. Sometimes those red flags, they look green sometimes, depending on who it is, you know? sometimes. So you're going to get mad at yourself. When you understand exactly who you're dealing with,

you just, at some point, the tables are going to turn. I don't, I don't be playing like that. My granddad used to say, way back in the day, boy, boy, I want you to always remember. The same way you got them and the same way you're going to lose them.

It always plays out that way every time. Always. I don't want that kind of, I don't want that kind of lose. I don't want to lose them like that. I ain't try to lose myself like that because I'm going to be hip about. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, you got to be careful.

You do. But, boy, hey, what I love, boy, hey, would that pain? Oh, yeah. You don't, it don't play, huh? What? See, I ain't, I ain't experienced that kind of hurt. Like, yo, I can see your face.

I can see, I can see the passion. When you rose up off that goddamn chair? Oh, Joe, boy. Tell you. I don't ever want to feel that. Man, look. I'll never want to feel that. I know.

I didn't realize how bad it was until my brother and sister called say, you need me to come out there. Hmm. My sister never called. Right. My brother never called. My brother calls,

Hey, bro. You need me? No, I'm going to be all right. He asked me again. I hung the phone up with him. He called me back face. That's the only time my brother's ever called me FaceTime. Only time. I've never talked to my sister FaceTime. Only one time my brother called me FaceTime. He said, look at me and tell me you're going to be okay. I say what we always say. Mayor Porter race three to Hardway. I'm good. He hung the phone up. I gave him my word I was good. I gave my sister my word. I was good. I might lie. In my life, I lied to a lot of people. I ain't going to see it until you I have her. Yeah. I ain't never lied to them too mopholes. I told him I was good

I had to be good how you got over that it wasn't easy Ocho I ain't only lie it wasn't easy time um time yeah see and it took you a while to get over I got better at dealing with it

see the quickest way to get over one woman is to get under another one I'll ride the hard get on head on coach I got to put me another one but no in all that in all seriousness It took a while, Cho.

It was tough. Because when you be with someone for a length of time... Right. And you know it's funny? You talk about even when you be with somebody for a long time, and even if you do get up under another woman, that post nut clarity, when it sets in and that temporary satisfaction, it goes the way,

that pain seat right back in. Oh, yeah, for sure. And reality hits again. Because you know what happened, though, Cho? You find yourself questioning yourself. Yeah. Do I like this person or am I trying to get over that person? Trying to get over and it ain't working.

Yeah. I don't even think it's a, I think it's a real question. I think you know you're trying to get over on. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's almost like he's tricking yourself into things. Yeah. And it's not fair to the other individual.

Yeah, at all. At all. It's not fair. I fell into that situation a few times, for real. That's just not fair. And it's selfish as hell because we all get tried. up in our own shit. And by the end of the day,

you've got to be mad enough to own it and tell them and be like, yo, listen, this is, I got, I got caught up. This is not what you thought it was or how fast. I'm like, listen, I'm coming from the situation, X, Y, Z. And it's tough, bro. I ain't going to lie, man. Like, I left my mom, my wife's kids, my ex-wife and her, I got three kids, we got three kids together, man.

When I left home, like, that shit, was like, it was eating me, not only for the kids, but like, I felt like that was my homie. Like, that was my Roli. Right. And when you go through, you know, I mean, we've been together for a substantial amount of years, like, I'm talking about, but like,

when you're growing apart and you're going through different layers and different phases of your life. Yeah, like, and you get up onto somebody else and like, you gotta wash that whole stink up off you from a whole other person. Like, that shit, like, and it ain't stink like that, but it's like, you got like, people, I've always heard of my grandparents

used to say it all the time. Like, you better be careful who you lay down with. Like, them souls and spirits upon you. And that shit is real for me anyway. Because, like, when you're laying down with somebody, you're intimate with somebody, you're giving everybody that type of energy. It's time to move on.

You got to wash all that shit up off you because you can't carry no new shit upon you to a new situation. You being the worst situation to what you just left. Yeah. Um, Ocho. And still. So, King Isso.

Hello. Is there a woman from your past that you later realize you let get away? Perfect for you and everything that you dropped the ball on. Hey, listen, I may have let one or two get by. I may have not been ready, okay? I felt like I've had, you know, I've had a couple of decents in my day, Uncle Ocho. But, hey, it must not be mentioned. to be, okay?

Yeah. You can be mad at God. We say trust God and everything, but when women get away, we don't trust God now. I say, what's that? Fag. Fag. You know, sometimes you,

there's an old proverb that says you measure ten times and cut once, as the poet is cutting ten times because you measured once. Hello. Of course. Of course. Had I known what I, had I known then, what I know now,

that's the thing about hindsight. It's a magnificent science. It's perfect. Because you know today, what you didn't know yesterday. Mm-hmm. So yes. But it happens. I ain't.

And at the time, you don't think about it like you letting something good go. Because all you know is bad, hey, you're arguing or you, you, you're, you, you, you, you're, you, you, You know, you're sitting your way. She's sitting her. Everybody trying to prove a point. I ain't moving off my... Hey, I ain't moving off my square. Hey, hey, that boy, real cancel.

I ain't moving. I ain't moving. I know exactly what you mean. I mean, I mean, Ocho, you could only keep... At the end of the day, you can only keep one of them 12s. You don't have my 50 of them, but you can only keep one. Hey, hey, listen, I always say, listen, And everybody, I think you're supposed to experience everybody.

That's about it. Hey, hey. Keep keeping them a long time. I just, it is. Hey, unless you kneel and you can talk to them and make them all get along. Hey, hey, I ain't. I wouldn't even. That shit sounds like a headache, though.

It seemed like a headache, don't it. It's like a headache, don't it. Oh. It got to be. Got to be. You know, hey, when you think about it, though, Uncle Joe, does anybody every really get away?

Because whoever's for you is going to always be for you no matter what. Yeah, you write about that. Because if they no longer here, they're not here for a reason. And when I look at it, anything that would people would consider, oh, you lost, well, here, how come anybody else picked it up? Man, listen, for me, I'm going to keep it real with y'all.

There has not ever been a woman that has ever came before basketball or me trained. See? I don't give a damn How you cut it You can boo-hoo And cry in my face But I'm gonna go to the gym

I'm gonna go hit these weights I'm doing that all day long That's gonna come before anything That's how I eat bro Yeah I'll tell you like great news To tell us The more you cry

The less you pee So Hey Hey So all that boo-hoo Hey guess what You're gonna give yourself a headache But I'm going to get this training session in

Yes sir I'm doing that. Yeah. Yeah. And I hate, oh, he fumbled. He, ah, I punted. You know, I got the third down. I got the fourth down.

I realized I didn't have a good, a good enough play called, Ocho. So I put it. Yeah. I don't understand. You know, it's so funny. I hate when people say, oh, you fumble something. Like when you play a game of football, there's multiple balls that they use in the game. Multiple.

Yeah. Yeah. God damn, you catch the next one. Yeah. I didn't find, but I just pointed it on first down. As a matter of fact, I pointed on first down. I already realized I wasn't going to get no yards. Ojo, I already do, Joe.

I do I can't go get, I'm like, you know what? Yeah, ain't no sense of me. Boop. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm sure people look back and they're like, man, I had an opportunity. I dated Joe. I dated Ocho, I dated, Black Ben.

Hey, you weren't ready. We weren't ready. I've had a conversation. many years ago with a couple of my ex-law, hey, we were just both too young, Shannon. We were just both too young. You're right. I ain't. 150 years ago, they were hunting us down to kill us, and now they're hunting down immigrants to deport them.

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