Nightcap - Nightcap Hour 2: LeBron tells Grizzlies to MOVE from MEMPHIS + LeBron SPEAKS on PLAYING the VILLAIN + Wizards viral APRIL FOOLS Joke + Kirk Cousins INKS DEAL with Raiders

Episode Date: April 3, 2026

Shannon Sharpe, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson and Iso Joe Johnson react to Lebron spoke about staying in Memphis and how they should move to Nashville, Lebron talks about his decision to leave Cleveland and go to Miami when he was a free agent, and the Washington Wizards apologize for an April Fools skit and much more! 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 - LeBron spoke on the Grizzlies15:35 - LeBron spoke about his decision to go to Miami  25:10 - Washington Wizards apologize for April Fool’s prank1:29:00 - Kirk Cousins signs deal with the Raiders Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This season, we're deepening our relationships, creating collaborations, and the door always stays open for a third Amigo to pull up a chance. Listen to those amigos on the I-Hart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Lorne spoke on the Grizzly saying, staying at the effing hire at 41 years old, you think I want to do that ish? Being in Memphis on a random ass Thursday, I'm not the first guy to talk about it, the NBA. You guys have to move. Go to Nashville. You got Vanderbilt, NASCAR, a stadium, a hockey team, Joe.

Now, everybody criticized LeBron, but KD has said this, has said that it's not. not great. Ant Manor said it. Everybody has said it. Like LeBron said, I'm not the first to see it. But somehow, you know. Yeah, you already know, when they hear from him, it weighs a little different. But it can be some truth in that.

I mean, five-star hotel, I don't think that they have that in Memphis. And, but they do have a, you know, you know, the funny part is, though, on your Ocho, they got a pretty good fan base, though. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Hey, hold on, Joe. What you mean they ain't got no five-star hotel in Memphis? Maybe they don't have a five-star hotel in Memphis

that close enough to the stadium that the player can get to and from the game. I'm sure they got a, they got a nice hotel. The Weston. I don't think it's five-star. The Weston is right there across the street from the arena, Ocho. That's pretty much what a team stay at. But. Yeah.

But normally, Joe, a lot of times, like when they come to L.A., they stayed at the montage. they stayed at the Beverly Wilshire. Yeah. Or they stayed at the four season or they stayed at the Reds. Yeah. And that's not downtown.

That's in Beverly Hills. Right, right. Right. Take forever to get to the game. It sure does. That's supposed to where I live, but I know how long it takes me. Boy, that's a nice.

Do you all get police escorts to the game? No, uh-uh. No. Wait, you don't get, You don't get no escort? I won't get no police escort, man. You got the bus leaving at a certain time. You figure out which one you're going to be on.

First bus leave at a time? No, I'm saying. Going to the game, though. No, bro. We might get an escort. We might get an escort going to the airport. Oh, we get two and from the airport. Add to it from the airport.

Hey, everybody got to move. Everything out of the way. Traffic stopping. It's a bunch of you all, though. Yeah. Yeah. We ain't got two buses, Joe. We ain't got but two buses, that's it.

Aiden, the motorcycle cops be working, boy. Yeah. Y'all probably got about 10 buses. No, we got probably like four. Yeah. Yeah, we ain't got with two, man. You catch this first or second one.

We out. Yeah. And in college, we had two buses. Yeah, we had two buses. Because we had the starters on one bus. At first, It used to be offense on one bus, defense on the other bus. Then we started, offices started and defenses started on one bus,

and then the backups on the offensive defense on another bus. Hold on. Yeah. You know, I'm at the back. You know, I'm at the back of the bus. I got seniority. Couldn't wait to the upper class will lead because I'm going to be the top dog. I'm back there by the bathroom.

Yeah. You got to do one or two. Man, I got to do one. Do two. you stay in there the whole trip. You might stay in there hour, two hours, three hours. But you're not fin to go stank it up there because we back there with an engine at Joe and those choke.

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

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

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

I'm talking about I only fit like six or seven people on me. We take like four, five of them. mine line. When I was in college, that's how we used to travel. It's the scariest day of my life. I'm talking my boy, hey, them little planes be dropping so much. Oh, man. Don't let it be no bad weather, too. Oh, yeah. Oh, man.

But I'm like, bro. First of all, have you ever, Ocho, you rode the bus. Because you say you rode the bus to, from Miami to where Langston? Yeah. Like, Graham? You drove? Nah, I flew. Yeah, grandma,

Yeah, grandma had money. Yeah, grandma had money. My granddaddy had money, I ain't had no money. Man, look here. Y'all know, like, you ride the buses. I mean, people would be coming back because I rode the bus and go see my brother

on spring break. South Carolina. Yeah, I would catch the bus from Claxton. So the bus, the Greyhound would leave Claxdon, and it'd go to Meadow. It would go to Statesboro, matter. It just stop off at places and peek people up and, I mean,

it's a two and a half hour drive. If you drove in a car and just drove straight, it's going to take you about six hours by the bus. Same half hours. Because they're stopping everywhere. They stop in a joke of house. Do you come with his suitcase. Do you come with his suitcase coming up coming out of the dirt road.

I'm like, what, damn? But you know, you know, I don't know if you have been in a bus station, but boy, there's some seedy characters in there. Yeah. I know. Yeah.

Man, they tried to say you something, somebody trying to steal something from you. It's a lot of bull jobs going on. So you got, you know, and you know, I remember my, hey, don't go to sleep on the bus. Okay. Because I had, I got dark on the bus. Soon as the bus move.

I ain't got, I ain't like, you out of there. Man, hey, you soon as you closed the door. You think the door closed. That's your head hit the window. He's sleep. But going to the bathroom, I thought that was disrespectful. Oh, Cho, you knew you had to go to the bathroom. You should have used the bathroom before you left the dorm.

Right. Yeah, especially back then, Joe, them buses, once you open the dough, a stench comes out. I've been on the, yeah, a sense comes out. So you want to make sure, listen, you do number two before we get on the bus. Because you ain't doing it while we are on there. Because every time that dough opens, boy, that smell. Hey, I've been there.

Look, we wrote that Greyhound when I was playing AAU from Arkansas all the way to Cocoa Beach, Florida. And what? What? Arkansas to Coco Beach, Florida. Oh, Joe, one of the parents stuck up the bathroom, boy. I'm talking about the worst thing.

Oh, man. He had to, hey. It was bad. It was bad, huh? It was bad. Hey, ask it, like, as a matter of fact, somebody was asking my homeboy, because I was telling the story you guys the other night,

about doing the Oklahoma drill and how I ran over the DB. So a dude was listening. He said, man, Sharp said, he trucked somebody. Who is that? He didn't say no name. He said, so he told him the name. He said, what happened was, boom, boom, boom. He said, the DB slipped and said, Sharp caught him with a knee and just pile-dried it.

Yeah. And just boom. He said, man, he said that. He said, the guy slipped. I'm Luke Wilson. Join me each week for Film Never Lies. Since retiring from the NFL, I've had a lot of my mind. and now got my own show.

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. I'm John Green. You may know me as the author of The Fault and Our Stars, and now I guess also is the co-host of the away end, a brand new world soccer podcast. I'm Daniel Alarcon, a writer and journalist, and John and I have known each other since we were kids. My first World Cup was Mexico 86. I was nine years old. I watched every game, and I fell in love. On our new podcast, The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. For us, soccer, football, is a story we've shared for over 30 years since Daniel was the star player on our high school soccer team. Very debatable. And I was their most loyal and sometimes only fan.

I love this game. I love its history, its hope, its heartbreak, and above all, it's beauty. Together, we'll find out why, of all the unimportant things, Football, soccer is the most important. Listen to the away end with Daniel Auerkone and John Green on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up? I'm Miles Turner. And I'm Brianna Stewart. And our podcast, Game Recognized Game has never been done before.

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on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Called him, he drove him and y'all started jumping. Yeah. Ask them guys, hey, you're a starter in 88 and 89? Ask them who's at the back of the bus? Because we play spades back there. Ask them what happened if you used the you went number two in that bathroom. Would you come out?

No, sir. They tell, hey, coach, man. had us locked in the bathroom because they were like, God damn home, you know, somebody, they might get sick because you know the fumes back there. They shouldn't talk about that for they took their ass in there. I might get sick.

So I already know what you're talking about, boy. Hey, I'm telling you. I understand the pageantry and I think everybody should have to at least go one quarter or one semester to an HBCU. To see homecoming, to see the pageantry, to see the student center, how it be buzzing, doing homecoming,

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

Nothing like. Ain't nothing like it, man. The step shows, because you know, these have the step shows. I don't know if y'all had it, so step shows, Fort Valley, and this one or that, they come in to do the competition. Yeah, yeah.

They used to be lit. Was it? Oh, yeah. I could only imagine. Hey, Joe, I went to my daughter probate while at Prevry and him. They cut up in the band. Oh, the girl coming here. They came back here.

I was out. Hey, I was in there. I was in tears. Oh, Joe, you didn't see that when you was in school? Joe Will. I was like, I was at length and damn there two weeks before I got thrown out for fighting, you know? And then I went to, you know, Santa Monica so I'd never had an opportunity experience that, but being there, man, you know, for that, that hour, that hour, two hours. Yeah, I don't like it, bro. Joe, I ain't never seen none. I ain't never seen nothing like it too.

Oh, man. Oh, man, it was unbelievable. College was amazing, bro. Who, not low, not low. Oh, man. Yeah. Hey, you're supposed to do it church, Joe, Joe. Yeah, yeah.

Not long. Hey, Angke, if you could do it again, if you could do it again and you had the opportunity to go to a Power Five to do it? No, sir. You want your ACE, you experience. Yeah. Because bad things would have happened to me at a PWI.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, I got you. I got you. Let me go. Because I know, because I'm not saying that it wouldn't, but I know that the professors and the doctors that I had, they cared about me. I'm not so sure that, and there might be a few that care about those,

but they knew that I was going to be the representation and I might be the best representation of Savannah State. So they're going to make sure that I would really, really educate. They weren't sending me out of there that didn't know, hey, we're just going to pass him along because he's good at football. Nah. And a lot of the professors that, I mean, some are a lot of them passed on, but Dr. Brock, I had Dr. Brock, she's probably in her 90s.

She still asked Bucket about me. How's she out and do it? Every time they see him, Dr. McLemore, Dr. McLemore, Dr. Green, they ask about me. And so when I had my jersey retirement, When they retired my jersey, they asked anybody, I said, find these people. Some of them had passed on. One lady, her name was Miss Pat.

She was in charge of the cafeteria. And they couldn't find her. But somehow she found out I was having it. And she showed up. She got her white on. She dressed to the nine. And they wouldn't let her in. But I, because I was in the back.

And they didn't know, you weren't on the list. Bucket told him, said, nah, y'all better let that one in. Man, Ms. Pat at the door, she saw me, take on my baby! Take on my baby! I told y'all my baby know I was coming. That woman loved because you couldn't, what you were supposed to do,

until we go through the line, the breakfast line, the lunch line, or the dinner line, you get one serving, you eat what you got, then you come back. Miss Pat, go ahead and give me two. Yeah. But everybody, not only was the players, man, the regular student, because we ate with the regular student body.

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

Don't you. I wouldn't trade that experience for nothing, man. Hey, I know people that had the opportunity, but people that had the opportunity experience HBCU life, man, for four years of that. You're the player, Jocho. You went to an HBCU.

I can see you pledging. What did he would have been? Hey, hey, what are the players, huh? Based on my personality. He's proud of the cap. Nah, nah. You think he got to cane because Ocho is showman. He's going to be twirling that cane.

Hey. Yeah. A cat boy, an alpha. A capo or alpha? Black and gold. Well, why can't be the one that... Oh, you're talking about the Q-D-all? I don't want to be disrespectful, but yeah, that's the FD.

You know, they're wild and they crazy. But normally football players play is Q. Yeah, for the most part, for the Q or a Kappa? Hey, they can't wait to take their shit off in the club and had them big U showing on. Yeah, yeah, they'd have got. I said, no. Man, Sharp, you are.

Man, you are actually in the hell, man. Y'all isn't fit to starve me. Y'all not cut my hair. Ain't nobody wearing my clothes. Ain't nobody driving my car. Ain't none of that happening. Are you? Oh, oh, oh, you ain't pledged?

I pledged me for me. Hey, Joe, did you play? No, sir. I pledged basketball. That's what, thank you. Yeah. I got you. We had our own thing.

We call it T5T. So basically it was the team, the football team. Yeah, we don't know. Hell not, Joe. I got to get my work, man, man. Port didn't see me down there for that. To all the guys, hey, it's a great community, and they got brotherhood and they have all this

and they have the conventions and all that and more power to you. But that just wasn't me. Yeah. That wasn't why I was there. I ain't been to hold you. LeBron spoke about his decision which prompted immediate backlash from both Cleveland ownership and fans. I took the villain role because I let the media and I was young.

I was 25 years old and a lot don't understand. That was the first time that I never left home. Even when I got drafted by the calves, my first seven years with the calves, I still stayed in my hometown of Akron. It was the first time ever going to Miami when I did. I'm Luke Wilson. Join me each week for Film Never Lies. Since retiring from the NFL, I've had a lot of my mind and now got my own show. So if you're tired of lazy takes, if you want honest conversations, join us each week.

Film Never Lies, available on all TSN platforms in the IHeartRadio app. Ready for a different take on Formula One? Look no further than no grip. A new podcast tackling the culture of motor racing's most coveted series. Join me, Lily Herman, as we dive into the under-explored pockets of F-1, including the astrology of the current grid. Lewis Hamilton, Crapicorn Sun, Cancer Moon. Wouldn't you know it, Michael Schumacher is also a Capricorn Sun, Cancer Moon.

story of the sports most consequential driver strike. We have one man who, upon hearing that he was going to be fired, freaked out, and apparently climbed out the window of the bathroom. And was Daniel Ricardo's illustrious F1 career, a success story, a cautionary tale, or some combination of both? He started getting all this attention, and he maybe started to think, I'm bigger than this, I'm better, and plenty of other mishaps, scandals, and sagas that have made Formula One a delightful, decadent dumpster fire for more than 75 years.

Listen to no grip on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're trying to keep up with everything happening on and off the court, we've got you covered on the podcast, flagrant and funny. You look at the top four number one seeds. What do you think UCLA is going to do? Break down that for me, my friend. Obviously, Yukon is the overwhelming favorite in this tournament. But I'll be honest, I think people are kindlessly.

on Texas. Experts are suggesting that UCLA is the number one challenger to Yukon and that right after that would be Texas. S&C is so deep and so thick and just about everything. It really is annoying. So it's UCLA, Texas, South Carolina, LSU. Only ones that could possibly upset Yukon. On Flagrant and Funny, we're giving our unfiltered takes on the biggest moments, the

conversations everyone's having. So whether your bracket is busted or you just want the latest on the tournament, we got you. Listen to Flakron and Funny. with Kerry Champion and Jamel Hill on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. I'm John Green. You may know me as the author of The Fault and Our Stars,

and now I guess also is the co-host of The Away End, a brand new world soccer podcast. I'm Daniel Alarcon, a writer and journalist, and John and I have known each other since we were kids. My first World Cup was Mexico 86. I was nine years old. I watched every game, and I fell in love. On our new podcast, The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup.

For us, soccer, football, is a story we've shared for over 30 years since Daniel was the star player on our high school soccer team. Very debatable. And I was their most loyal and sometimes only fan. I love this game. I love its history, its hope, its heartbreak, and above all, it's beauty. Together, we'll find out why, of all the unimportant things, football, soccer is the most important. Listen to the away end with Daniel Auerkone and John Green

on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up? I'm Miles Turner. And I'm Brianna Stewart. And our podcast, Game Recognized Game, has never been done before. Two active players giving you a real look at our lives and what we actually think, on and off the board. Nothing's off limits. We talk trade requests. What's the vibe of that when it's like your star players like, well, I want to

leave and then actually now I'm going to stay. We talk tanking. I mean, honestly, like, I might get in trouble for this answer, but I think it's, like, definitely happening in the WBA. And yeah, we talk about our mistakes, too. They pulled me to the side and was like, hey, man, we got a call last night, man,

you can't be rolling around the city like this tonight before games, no, you know, doing this, doing whatever. And of course, family stories. They'll be like, Mommy, why did you miss that? Mindy, do you play basketball? Check out Game Recognized game with Stoian Miles on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The decision I made an announcement that was going to Miami,

my whole mindset was I want to do something different. I wanted to treat it like a college when guys get their caps. I didn't know or feel like the hate that I got from that, the backlash from that was going to happen. because I felt I was doing it, so I was allowed to media. I allowed everybody to put me in a dark place. The reason why, the reason I played the way I played in the finals is because I wasn't me.

Shed that black hat, shed that villa roll. I'm going to get back to bed, my effing self, and boom, we came in, ball to the wall, and we were able to make it happen. It was tough on me, but it definitely made me who I am, ultimately, especially as a basketball player, and also as a man. Ojo Joe, what the thoughts? I think he had to take that route, Uncle, Ocho. He had to go to Miami.

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

Oh, yeah. If not. Yeah, if not, he wouldn't have worn one in Cleveland. You know, for him to go to Miami for them, What, four years or the four years on? Four. Yeah, one, two titles. You know, know what it's like to win.

Now he got that under his belt. Now he take it back to Cleveland with a young, with a young, Kyrie. And they brought Kevin Love in. It was cooking. It's tough because, you know, he's like, I'm just announcing that I'm going. Yeah.

So would you have been upset had he not been? Now, mind you now, he raised money for the boys and girls club. I mean, estimated he raised two to three million dollars. Damn that. He was a free agent. He didn't request the trade. He didn't cost anybody anything.

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

He played it out in Cleveland. He's playing it out in my, and Lakers. And LeBron, as far as I know, and you and I both, everybody knows here, had LeBron ever requested a trade, it got out.

Yeah. He didn't. It would have to request a trade, though. He let, he, that was home. That's home for him. And I think, you know,

the people in Akron, the people in Ohio, they understood that, and that's probably what hurt the most. I think with LeBron being 25 years old, you know, how to basically leave pretty much, you know, in doing that decision. I just felt, you know, the people of Ohio, they kind of felt like it was probably

kind of thrown in their face to some degree. You know what I mean? Like you put us on this big platform like this to tell us you leaving. And that's why they were, that's why they were so negative towards him, you know, when he left. But, well, you and I both know he wasn't going to hold that decision to say he's coming back. Yeah. I mean, what you thought, Joe? Who holds a noddle like that?

Oh, I'm staying. Nah, you don't. I think we all were thinking that, though. I think we all were thinking like, man, hold on, he's doing a decision. Wait, this just don't sit right. Yes. You already knew he was leaving at that point.

And boy, they went to burning them jerseys on. And the thing is, but think about it. How many times, I guess because people, how many times you think people change jobs in the course of a year, Joe? Uh, not, not too many. You don't think people change. I'm talking about regular job.

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

Yeah, yeah. See, the problem is, is that fans won't players to be true, to act normal, act like you, you're human just like the rest of it. And when they do things like the rest of us do what they do on show, they get mad. They get mad. Very mad. You feel, I like to think most times, if you had a job, I want to rise up through the race. So no matter where I start, even if I start in the mail room, I don't want to stay in the mail room for 20 years.

I want to move up. Yeah. And I get a desk and then maybe I do this and then I do that and I do that. We see Eric Spolstra. He started breaking out tape and then he at the bench. And then the next thing, you know, he had coach. aspirations dreams. Yeah.

Most people have a dream, like you know what, this is a nice little job, an entry level job, but I have bigger dreams and I wanna move up the ladder. Right. LeBron's dreams was I wanna win a championship. If I can't do it here, what, why would I stay, Ocho? Why would I stay at a job?

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

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

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

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

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

that Joe and no, Cho. You notice that Joe? guys that fans, fans don't understand. They trade somebody. Oh, well, it's part of the business. A player leave via free agents or asked to be traded. Oh, you sell me. You don't care about the fans.

What the owner traded you got last time, he didn't care about the fans. But you understood that. I just never, I never understood how fans feel more connection to a billionaire than the millionaires. And maybe there's a, there's not a connection either way. wait or maybe there's loyalty to the team.

Okay, that's your, that's your team. LeBron or Yonnis or KD or this guy, they don't own the team. So why should they have a loyalty to a team that doesn't have loyalty to them? Absolutely. Yeah, you're right. Y'all loyal to these teams, guess what? They pick up and move. Then how you feel?

All the time. How y'all feel when they pick up a move? You got to move with a monk. Hey, San Diego to L.A. Chargers. St. Diego. I mean, hey, St. Louis Rams to L.A. Well, they started at Anaheim. They were in L.A., and then they went to Anaheim,

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

I got to have it. Yeah. The bears, they move it out of soldier field, possibly going to the burbs or going to Indiana. Why, Ocho? Kansas City left. Hey, the bottom line is never. That my the doll.

The Oilers, they went, they left. They in Tennessee. Why? That money. I don't, I don't, hey, players leave. Oh, well. Yeah. Yeah.

You play your contract out. You should, you get to pick, you get to pick and choose what you want to do. I don't give it down to don't play the contract. Now you trade me before my contract up. So I should be able to ask you out. Ask out. They want it both ways. You don't get to have it both ways.

But that's what we are now, Ocho. Man. Joe, Ocho, the Washington Withers have apologized for an April food skit in which a planted fan was seemingly tricked and believing that he made a half-court shot for $10,000. In a statement today, the wizard said they missed the mark. But the entire bit was scripted. They blindfold a guy, Ocho.

They have to try to hit a half-course shot. Yes, yes, congratulations. You're going to get the check. They're like, hey, I know. Hey, hold on, you got me come and support you, right? Not only I'm coming to support you, right? you, y'all ain't winning. I'm coming to support y'all taking it.

I'm having a horrible season. And I'm coming out here to support, and you're going, April Fool. You should have gave me $10,000 for showing my black ass up. Hey, I have to see. I have to see, I got to see the replay of some. You're going to get me like that. Oh, Joe.

I bet, but I mean, they start screaming. You think, yeah, I got it. Yeah, I'm going to, I ain't going to really believe in, Uncle. I'm like, hold on, take it out. I made it? I made it. Yes, because they scream.

He's like, yes, Joe, you made it. I need to see. What a replay. I need to see it. Where is that? Man, look here. If somebody, Joe, if you think about it, if somebody had to told you,

Joe, you and your mom just won $25,000. You ain't going to ask no question, how, what? Like, give me that check. Yeah. Give it it. Hey, when you ain't got money, you don't ask no questions where the money come from if you think you about to get it.

it. Hey, at all I know, hey, Christmas came early this year. Man, hey, listen, what you told about? They should have just go ahead and get a man to 10 grand and call it a day. Oh, was it? Well, if he's in on it, why y'all upset fans? They said it was scripted and said the guy, you know, he was a plan. Oh, he was.

Because it seemed like a... Well, hell, they're going to be upset anyway. be upset anyway regardless just because the thought the audacity but you know what april foods they people ain't really it's the got so bad out here because if you really think about it you read some of the stories it's got to be april food every damn day because ain't no way this possibly happening ain't no way think about think about this now it's gotten so bad that ain't really nobody really played no april's joke did me you ain't see nobody play no april's joke No.

That's how bad is the guy. Because every day is that they got, this got to be April food. No, dumb, dumb. It's June 17th. Hey, look, I thought. See here for a second, guys. Hey, hey, I thought I got April food last year. What happened?

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

Yeah, that's when I first found out. I told us, I said, man, you need to go and get out my phone with all these April food jokes. Yeah. But that's why, but I'm saying, man, I'd be like, man, you know back in that, man, we, hey, April foods. I mean, you could believe nothing. Nobody said because everything was a joke.

No, I'm for real, though. No, you're not. It seemed like that. Yeah. Yeah, it seems like that they're there. You know, you forget that it's April foods. Yeah. Man.

Yeah. They ain't got so crucial now. It seems like April Fool. Like, no, bro, this ain't April Food. This is real. Oh, Cho. What's that, baby? Cousins signs a five-year,

$172 million deal with the Raiders. In reality, it's a one-year, 20 million, fully guaranteed deal. that also combines a club option for two years at 80 million. The Falcons will pay Kirk Cousers, $8.7 million this season. The Raiders 1.3 and Las Vegas, excuse me, but the Raiders will also play another 1.3, that's $10 million. Vegas also agreed to play the new quarterback, a full of guarantee $10 million roster bonus

on the third day of the League New Year in 27. Most notably, it also says another new mark. be the 11th straight NFL season in which Cousins has had a fully guaranteed contract. I told you, Uncle Joe, well, God has favor. God has favor for certain people. Obviously, timing for Kurt Cousins has always been impeccable, along with him betting on the self-unk when he was in D.C. Oh, that's how y'all want to play?

You know what? I'm betting on myself. I'm definitely taking. And every time he hit. Hey, he hit big. Every time he hit big in Washington. He hit big in Minnesota. Hell, he hit big in God damn Atlanta.

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

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

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

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

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

They go get somewhere, you know what? Good veteran mentorship, leadership in this locker room, let's go get old Ocho. Yeah. Let's go get Joe. But guys don't think like that. All they think is in the press. here right now where I am.

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

Hey, I'm calling Mike. I was like Mike looking, man. I need a favor. I know you don't hire a lot of people. I knew the job. 84 what you want to do? where you want to be Sean McVeigh was on his

staff Kyle was on his staff Kevin O'Connell all the guys Lefleur I could do something let me be community community relations

I can do something I don't want to do no coaching I don't do no coaching community relations you got no patience for no coaching the hell now get your money first cousins

Kirk Cousins contract history four years years, $2.57 million, and then he played that contract out, Ocho, and then he had a one year basically $20 million deal. And then he had the next year, fully guaranteed because of franchise tag. And then he had a one year basically $24 million deal. And then he signed a three year, $84 million deal, fully guaranteed, Ocho. And then he signed a two year, $66 million deal and fully guaranteed that is. And then he signed a one year, Minnesota, $35 million, fully guaranteed Ocho.

In any side to four year, $180 million with $100 million, guaranteed, Ocho. And now, five years, 172 with 20 guaranteed. And guess what? So five, six, nine, 11, 12, 13. So what is this? This is 15 year, 14, 15 year? 14 year.

And Grant told him 14 years, guess how many playoff wins he got, Ocho, drum roll, please. What? Man, get out of here. One, one, my boy. He got one. Alex Roman tweeted. Kurt Cousins had earned more money in football than Michael Jordan did,

playing basketball, more than Tiger Woods earned in playing golf, more than Serena Williams playing tennis, his career earnings from NFL contracts and seed the entire net worth of Merrill Street, who's won three Academy Awards, and been nominated 21 times. It exceeds the entire net worth of Martin Scorsese. Also, nearly identical to Tom Brady, who won seven Super Bowl.

Cousins won playoff win. Off win. Hey, he don't have no playoff win, Joe, but boy, during the season, he won the Super Bowl with that Blake account. He is in the Hall of Fame, won't show with that bank account. Absolutely. Yeah, that's his age.

I don't know who his age it is, but they might need to look at the hill. Hey. You're talking about cousins got favor. He got favor. Mm-hmm. But Joe, a cousin's numbers are put you in the blender

during the regular season. He's spreading that thing around, ain't? Oh, yeah. Give him time. He's surgical with that ball. Damn. Kurt, hey, curse in at the house, he's chilling.

Feet kicked up and everything. Uh-huh. Yeah, he is. He's very religious, too. Is he? Oh, yeah. Very. Good God for you to me.

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