Nightcap - Nightcap Hour 2: Miami Star Duo + Ocho gives a tutorial on how to strip at Area 29!

Episode Date: September 6, 2026

Shannon Sharpe, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson, and “Iso” Joe Johnson react to the latest college football, Miami beats Stanford, and Ocho aka Twix gives the world a tutorial on stripping at Area 29 and much more! Download the PrizePicks app today and use code SHANNON to get $150 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/NIGHTCAP 50:55 - Miami beat Stanford last night 1:00:40 - Jayden Daniels 1:07:55 - Pro Football HOF overhaul 1:26:35 - Ben Simmons back in the NBA 1:36:15 - Bam Adebayo having to rent out a whole theater 1:42:20 - Ocho’s pole dancing tutorial (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Indiana want to get up to a fast start. They did that today. 15 to 15, right over next to North Texas. We'll see how long they can keep the winning street. They haven't lost the game. 17 games.

16 home. 16 winning street at home. They got off to a great start. Last night, the Miami Hurricanesade, 45-6th ride over Stanford, Malachi Tony, 12 pass, a program record, 234.

three touchdowns, new quarterback, Darien Minza. The transfer from Duke, 27 of 30, 401, five scores in his Miami debut. Tony flashes iconic polls after a touchdown. He's like, look here. Y'all know what it is. He shredded to Stanford, anyone that tried to cover a man-to-man in Mensa.

If I'm not mistaken, I think Duke tried to take the man to court to get him to stay because he was, he's special. If you take me to court, I definitely ain't staying. Yeah. Ain't a way. Ain't a way I'm staying, but I want to talk about Malachi Tony, man. You're a baby Jesus.

I played with, I played with De Laugh is his dad. Yeah. From Liberty City. Right. Antonio Brown, he played for the Buffalo Bills. Okay.

He played with the Washington commanders, you know, back then on day. He ran a faux tool. Yeah. And now to see his son flourishing the way he's flourishing, it's unbelievable. He's a sophomore, Joe. Yeah.

He got to stay. He's going crazy. That's the thing. though. See, he's good enough to go to pro next year after the season but he got to stay with him more year old, Joe. He has to? Yeah, if he's a true sophomore. Well, they changed that. Y'all think they'll ever change that rule?

Never. Why? Because it's too physical? Yeah. Mind jumping. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay, I'm back. I'm back. I'm back. How is sound? How is sound? I'm good? Okay, okay. Appreciate that.

Appreciate that. But anyway, but what Malikar Tony is doing, He's so ahead of the curve. He's NFL ready already. Obviously, pedigree, having the skills, having the talent. Also, growing up in Miami, you know, you're learning at a much faster pace when it comes to playing the receiver position. So I'm used to seeing him look like this. You think about Santana Moss and Andre Johnson, obviously myself, Amari Cooper, all these receivers,

and we continue to pump him out all the time. You think about the high school players right now. There's a young bull by the name of Nick. You watch, he's at Carroll City right now. Amir Sears at Columbus. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like that? They're going to dominate the next level.

Just remember those names. Yeah, Sears had. They beat Bishop Gorman. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He said to tell him it was Aquinas though, right? No, he's at Columbus. Okay. He's at Columbus.

Okay. He's at Columbus, and Nick is at Carroll City. There's one more. I think his name is Bryson Wright. I think he's down there in Jacksonville. I could be wrong. It's somewhere in Florida, but those three right now

could go on any college campus right now. and be the starter. Wow. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Yeah, they're going to have the, but Malachi Tony is special. But Mimsa,

this is now you see why Duke tried to do everything they could to keep him. They knew he was a special talent. That's why Miami did everything they could, they tried and get him because they knew he was a special talent. You can see it.

I mean, 123 past yards, 1203 yards, rush yards. But Clemson has an uphill battle. I don't know what Clemson can do. What can they do in the second half? that they didn't try to do in the first half to get back into this ball game. 31 to 3.

LSU is just thoroughly dominating the ball game on both sides of football. I just don't know what they can do to get back into this ball game. And I think LSU dominating the line of scrimmage too. Yep. Yep. And that's the biggest key. You got to have them boys up front, man,

who can hold the fork down, open up holes, and make a hell on some of these teams. And I think that's what LSU was doing. I think Elaine Kiffin, he's going to keep pulling it, bro, in the second half. He's going to keep pulling it. He's trying to, hey, he want to impress this LSU fan base. That's what he wants to do.

And right now, what is, 31-3? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's doing it. Hey, but to speak on Melakai Tony, his rival running, Ocho, I'm talking about, you know, when you watch some Casman, they make the game look so easy. Yeah. And it's like, damn, he's hitting them with stuff.

I'm like, hold on. But he's very deceptive, and he has, that extra gear, bro. You know what I mean? It was amazing to watch yesterday. I'm like, man, I know they play in Stanford, but at the same time, I don't care who you put out there. A guy gave 234 yards.

Come on, receiving. Come on, bro. When you look at him, Mocho, in that slot, I don't know how they're going to deal with him in the slot in the NFL or so. No, they're not going to be able to. For one, for him to be as polished as he is, to be that polished this early in your career. Obviously, with the training that you're doing in the offseason,

then most of the good receiver coaches are down there. You've got receiver factory. You've got gold feet and being able to work with those two who work with all the top elite receivers in the NFL. And you take that formula and you put it in those players this early, that's the reason why he's so seasoned. And look the way he does. Right now he's NFL ready.

Every college receiver is not NFL ready. No, you're right about that. There's a learning curve. There's a learning curve. But Malachi, man, they call him baby Jesus down there at the crib, man. he's ready. And the fact that he has to stay another year, that in a sense, that sucks to me,

because he's ready right now. Well, you're thinking about Jeremiah Smith. Jeremiah Smith was ready his freshman year. Yeah, easily. And he had to stay. Easily. And that's the thing. You know, a lot of people believe

that Adrian Peterson could have come out of his freshman year. He rushed over 1,900 yards. Yeah. It's hard. It's just hard because that's just football is a grown man sport. It ain't like basketball. It's not. It's not. It is a grown man sport.

To ask a teenager to go play with grown men. Yeah. That's tough. Boy, you ask an awful lot. It's challenging, too, to have a hell of a freshman year and they have to do it two more years. That's the challenging part, bro. I remember look at Claret, the kid from Ohio State, the running back.

He challenged it. You know what I'm saying? He challenged the establishment. It lost. But he was so great his freshman year. You know what I mean? It's hard to make. maintain that high level of play for two more years in college because they're going

game playing for you. You can't surprise nobody no more. You try to leave. Yeah. You tried to try to establish establishment in the NFL and the court system sided with the NFL. I mean, they look. That's what Article 46 is. They said that in a situation like that, that you can't go pro until, you know, your class graduate or you're at least 20 years of age. Damn. And, because like I said, a teenager. Boy, you're asking an awful lot of a teenager to play the NFL, Ocho. We played that sport. We know it's brutal.

You're talking about grown men. I went to the NFL. I was 22 years of age. I just turned 22. I mean, I got drafted at 21, turned 22, basically a month before I had to report to camp. Yeah. That's a different ballgame.

That's a physical-ass sport. That's a grown-man sport because you deal with grown-men. They got wives. They got tuition. Hello. They got mortgages. Hello. They're not taking it. Look, they're not taking it easy.

Now, every once in a while, you get one that's going to try and help you. Yeah. Try to give you the ends and out of what it takes to be a pro. But more times than not, they understand. You're probably trying to get my job, bro. I ain't helping your ass. I don't even think the body's ready. That's why it's so good to go to college, you know, to get those three years.

Or maybe four if you needed because the body's not developed yet to be able to play at the next level. We've seen guys going to NBA. We've seen guys going to NBA and play out of high school. We've seen baseball players maybe go down there and have to play 56 games, but basically they're basically out of high school. But an NFL player, to go out of high school and go play the NFL lowchow, I don't know. I just, it's just hard for me to see a scenario that I don't know if I've ever seen a player that was ready to go play NFL football out of high school.

I think out of high school, no, maybe freshman year, like you said, Adrian Peterson, he might have been one that might have been able to do it. Might have been able to do it. But I haven't seen anyone made with the physical tools and having all the attributes, but being able to withstand the punishment throughout a 15, 16, 17 game season. Yeah. Uh-uh. That's tough.

Yeah, you're asking an awful lot of kid. You know, some people say they believe Randy Marles could have came out of high school. I don't know if Randy, with his frailty. I mean, Randy probably put on another 20 pounds once he got to come. It'll be interesting to see what Randy say, what did he weigh coming out of high school as opposed to what he weighed by the time he got ready to go. to the NFL. He had to gain at least 15, 20 pounds. You're asking an awful

lot of a kid come out of high school and try to go to the NFL and play at that level. I agree. And I think the mentality, I don't think coming out of high school, especially in football, you've got to have a different mentality, bro. Them boys will break you up down. You know, in basketball, it's a lot

easier because it's not so much power. It's a lot of finesse. More skill. You know, more skill. But in football, we're talking about come on a gladiator sport. Yes. At 19, like, if your mind ain't right, and you go into a game, and the boy will break you up.

Oh, they're trying to break you up. Yeah. See, y'all try, y'all, y'all try, y'all trying to get around a guy. We're trying to run through a guy. Hello. Paul.

But that's the difference between the two. You're trying to, you're trying to impose your will on the guy. Yeah. Jane Daniels was not included in LSU's NFL, LSU. Basically, guys that said the NFL that went to LSU program. Daniel said LSU a cease and desist in order to stop using his name, image, and likeness before the season. They obliged it.

Yeah, that's what's the way. I mean, we're talking about it, but, I mean, we're talking about it, but, I mean, he said, don't use my name, image and likeness. I don't know what happened. I guess it was about the Jersey number, the number five. He wanted to retire. If I'm not mistaken, I don't think, I think Billy Cannon might be the only number that's officially

retired. I know Joe Burrow told us that they told him that no one was going to get that jersey, but they haven't officially retired it. Joe Burrow, that season, they were perfectly undefeated. He won the He won the Heisman trophy. The greatest season ever for a college quarterback, one of the two

or three greatest seasons ever for a college collegiate player. You know, like I said, I don't know the backdrop of the story. I don't know what was told to Jay Day. I don't know. Yeah. So without having, you know, further details and information on what was told to him.

Did they tell him, you know, we ain't not giving that jersey out to anybody else? Or did they tell him like they didn't share that information with him? I don't know. But for something, something ticked. Pissed him off. Yep. Most definitely. And I think, I think they probably did tell Joe Burrow that.

Obviously, Heistman winner, perfect season. And maybe somebody that might not be in that building anymore. Yeah. Might have told Jane Daniels, you know what, now from a business aspect, a likeness aspect, we're not going to let anywhere wear that five. Brian Kelly. Brian Kelly, the guy that has the number now. DJ Pickett.

DJ Picket. Brian Kelly reached up from what I can gather. Brian Kelly reached out to Jane Daniels. Jane Daniels didn't seem amenable to that. So Brian Kelly said, you got to get another number. Now, that's what, if I had to deduce, that's what I would gather from that situation. I'm not saying that's what happened,

but if I had to deduce, that's what happened. That's why he did, because he said he was promised number five. Well, if you tell me I can get the number when I get there, when you tell me you're recruiting me, and I give them a, Joe, if Arkansas told you, say, Joe, you can get number 24. When you get to Arkansas, you expect to get 24? Hello. Oh, definitely.

I mean, what are we doing here? Yeah, I think Jane Daniels, I'm like you, O'K, I think he was told something. I don't know if it was a promise. Yes. But obviously, he wasn't too fond of somebody else wearing that number. Right. And so he was willing to.

to go with this, what is this a lawsuit or tell them, hey, look, man. Cic and desist? Cicist, yeah. Don't, yeah, don't use my name, image and likeness. And it's unfortunate. Like you say, it's probably only been, what, one player got their number retired. A play Billy Cannon.

Yeah, so, so when I look at this situation, I feel like somebody told Jayden that, look, man, we're going we're going to make some special happen for you. And the fact that somebody else wearing his number, he didn't feel too comfortable. Yeah, my grandpa, you should always say, boy, promise to let pie crust,

thin and easy as it broken. So somebody gets your promise. You know, they like pride crus. They don't take much for it to break. But, you know, and that's, it's very unfortunate because, you know, he did, you know, Brian Kelly got him to leave Arizona State. He goes there. He wins the Hizman trophy.

And look, it happened. Jay, and man, bro, if I can give you any advice, bro, I left Denver. I left Denver. I was the all-time leading receiver in Denver history. I had, you know, seven straight pro bows. five first team, five all pros, four first team and a second team. And the year I left, they gave my jersey somebody else. At least they waited a couple of years on you.

They gave my issue away right away. How they were damn? And also him now being in the NFL. Yes. I wouldn't really be worried about image and likeness at LSU. No, I wouldn't, especially not with the money you're going to make after this season. Yes, for sure. I think for me for Jane Dan.

Daniels, less focus on having a good year this year? Well, you're a $300 million quarterback. You know, I don't mean to be disrespectful for those that are listening and watching, but with the likeness and image that you make in the LSU ain't going to be close to what you're getting ready to get, you know, in this offseason. If you have a good season this year, you know with the commander. So listen, it means something to him. It means enough to him when we had to send a cease and desist.

So, I mean, it is what it is. Savannah's taking you, my name, and me, like, now I don't care. If it's going to help them get some better players, if it's going to help them win some games, I'm all for it. Yeah, because that 87, what was it, 83-9? Eighty-seven. Oh, my God.

Yeah, you need some help. You got to give some NIL money down there, man. Yeah, got to give my kids some N-I-L money. Yeah, man. It's money. Yeah, I need what you call. Let me hit the lottery. I need to hit the lottery.

Let me hit that $500,600 million. So I can, you know, I can build a wake room. I can get top night facilities. I can, you know, pull up $2, 3 million a year in the NIL and let them come on up. That's, you know, we can challenge something. You know, we can do some things, now. Man, you hit that type of money here. That's just going to be me and Ocho with a nightcap.

We ain't going to be big a good. No, whoa, whoa, you got to think about it. If he went fast and a, oh, I ain't got no mic. Hey, I forgot I ain't got no mic. You got to think about it. If Unk went fast, 600 million, right? Yeah. It's still going to be all three of us because I'm sure he's going to break us off shopping.

Yeah, I would break y'all love now. I'm like, I must be talking. I'm just getting a number. I win $500 million. If I take the love some payment, I'm probably going to get $200 million. No, you'll get about $3.28. $3.28. I didn't did the math already.

Go ahead. Well, you know what? I ain't going to need that other one 28. So I would get Joe 28 again, you 28. Okay, okay, okay. And then y'all got to keep nightcap going because I'm going to be a guest. I'll be like Johnny did for college football. I'll see y'all once a week.

I let y'all, I let y'all pick the day. We'll hold it down. Yeah, y'all hold that thing down, man. You know, I got to be me and mama. We got to be on somebody beat somewhere, man. You're going to leave us? Yeah, I'll be once a week. Hold on, hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, we don't do this show for the money.

We do this show for the people. I know. We're here to talk sports and tell stories, but if you get some money, you're going to abandon us? I'm going to abandon me. I got a pee-pee. Yeah, man. That's what that is, Joe.

Man, $300 million, $400,000, $500 million? Yeah. That's definitely going to change the way you think and look at the head now. Hello. You know, hey, all I know is Savannah State going to be looking a lot pretty, a lot better than what they look right now. I don't know about a whole lot of other people, but I know Savannah State going to be looking real, real good after that. Yeah, they need some. Yeah, they're going to get the Shatton Sharp Fitness Center.

They're going to have your name on the field. They're going to name the field out there. I don't care about the field. I want the Shepard Sharp Fitness Center. I want the Mary Porter Student Center. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm going for. One year after Bill Belichick got denied entry

to his first eligibility into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as overhauled its selection process. The changes will overhaul the process by reducing the panel of voters from 50 to 28 and limiting eligibility to three categories, players, coaches, and contributors. The new bylaws eliminate senior categories, keeping all players in the same pool without artificially a 25-year window for modern-era players. This eliminates what has necessarily become a cleanup process by giving one or two more bus per year to players who fail to make it during their quarter-century eligibility. will this fix help the process? What you thinking, Joe?

Let me, let me go. As a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, I'm number 267. Yeah. It's amazing how somebody that they thought was going to be a no-brain or first ballot Hall of Fame but didn't get in and they'll overdo the process. They redo the process.

Now, they redid the process to keep one guy in. They redid the process. They did one process. They did one process. They redid the process. Excuse me. I get my thoughts together here's your owner. They redid the process to keep

one guy out. Now they're redoing the process to get another guy in. Isn't that something? Yeah. Yeah. Like I also said earlier. When they want you in, they're going to get you in. When they want you out, they're going to keep you out. We're talking about the process in which they did

Coach Velichick. They redid the process now. They're overhauled. They went from 50 voters to 28 voters. They did away with the the old era, you know, they just got one. You got 25 years to get in if you don't get in, oh, well.

Wait, so it was 50 voters, now they're down to 28? They're down to 28. Now, I would love for them to tell us who those 28 are. Well, I mean, you're going to find out. I'm sure they'll tell you that. Because what they did, Ocho,

is that usually they had a voter for every NFL team. Right. And so his job was to present. So if Cincinnati, there was the reporter, he would report, okay, this is Ocho. He would present, case for Ocho.

Right. Ocho deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. You're talking about a guy that was a six-time pro-bler, a many-time all-pro, the all-time leading receiver.

Look at him in his era. He was one of the three or four best receivers in his era. Yes, he played in the era with Tio and Randy Moss. And he was the third or fourth receiver and yes, he played with Randy. Yes, he played with Tio.

Yes, he played with Marvin. Yes, he played with Reggie. But Ocho Cinco was right there with it. Right there. And not only that, he was the greatest to entertain of all the time. He was also one that played the game that needed no

validation that did it his way and if they were to make a mistake and let me in the Hall of Fame. The one thing they're going to have to deal with is I'm coming out with some smoke. I want smoke. I want pyrotechnics. Is that how you say it? Yes. Yeah. And I need the song My Way by Frank Sinatra

because that's the exact way I played the game. My way. Clap it up. Clap it up. Thank y'all. Thank you. I appreciate that. That boy good. As I was telling Joe earlier, when they want you out, they're going to keep you out. When they want your end, they're going to get you in. They thought Coach Belichick was a no-brain of first Ballet Hall of Famer.

I agree. You don't get no debate from me on that one. But for whatever reason, they kept him out. They owe completely overhauled. They dropped the voting from 50 to 28. That's 22 people that doesn't have a vote anymore. So they let the 22 people go

that probably voted against him. It has to be because it looks so egregious. It looks egregious. How do you keep him out? He would be the standard. If anyone is a Hall of Fame coach, he sets the standard,

he sets the bar on what that is. As I said, there's some guys that's eligible this year. It's going to be very, very interesting to see what they do with these players. Very interesting. Joe. Joe. It's going to be very interested to see.

Yeah, they're going to get Belichick in there, though. He should have been in. He should have been in. You voted in Coach of the Year. Look, Coach Belichick has some antics that rubbed me the wrong way as well. I don't like the fact that he doesn't speak to the media. He gives the media

his butt to kiss. But that's the problem that you have because it's the media that's voted for this. The same people that you gave your butt to kiss, those are the same people that were going to put your butt in the Hall of Fame. Now you got a problem with it. They had a problem with the way you talked to him, the way you treated

him. He really going to treat them bad now, though. You think he's going to change? No, no, no. Belichick's old school, man. He ain't steady. No, he didn't change it. Yeah. Oh, he definitely not change it. It's his way. Belichick, man, I'm going to do this my way.

That's the only way he knows how to do things. He can't do it any other way. The only way he can do it is to do it his way. And he should have been a first brother hall of fame. Facts. I don't think anybody's debating that. You don't do what he's been.

You don't become as accomplished as he is. He's won six Super Bowl. The likelihood of somebody else winning six Super Bowl is not very likely. It's the same, it's the same the equivalent of somebody winning 11 championships like Russell. Like Russell or Phil Jackson. It ain't happening. He won 11 as a coach. What?

Yeah, six and five. Where did a five come from? He won four. He won three. He won five with the Lakers. Three with Shaq and Kobe and two with Kobe by himself. He was born in Kobe. I'm true.

Yeah. Or if somebody went in 10 World Series rings like Yogi Berra. Man, the likelihood of that ain't happening, man. Hey, hey, look, we talk about Phil Jackson now. He was a hell of a coach. He had the two of the greatest two guards to ever play the damn game. Yeah. And the most dominant big ever.

Yeah. By pipping and coach. George and Cody. What you mean, Jordan and Kobe? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, come on, man. You get them two guys on your team, the way they want to win,

to what they'll do, they'll cut your hard out to get a win. Many believe he had three of the top ten players to ever play the game. Oh, facts. Jordan, Shack, and Colby. Many believe he had three of the top ten players to ever play the game. He had a whip, boy. Because when he went to New York, it didn't turn out. It wasn't so pretty in New York.

It's amazing that he never picked the players that won. Shack and Jerry Krau picked the players at the Bulls. Yeah. Jerry West picked the players at the Lakers. When he picked the players, y'all saw what he picked. He had a hell of a system on their triangle offense. It was tough. It's tough to game playing against a guy.

Like, it's hard to double team Jordan. It's hard to double team Kobe in that offense. And they flourished in it, bro. Like, because it got so many different triggers, you know what I mean? for different situations, those guys can score with the best I'm here probably two of the best scores ever played a game.

So I agree, man. I think Phil had amazing talent. You did? I think the thing that he did better than probably anybody that he was able to manage the egos. There you go. There you go.

It wasn't so much coaching. It was managing the egos. Yeah. Knowing how to deal with the players that you got. You know, Dennis Robb and say, man, look, Phil,

I already knew I needed some time. You know, I needed a little break. I'm coming back. You know, right? I'm like, what? So, yeah, being able to manage them different egos, they, man, that's tough as a coach, bro. Because that's the job of a coach.

You've got to be part psychology. You've got to be a part coach, part father figure. There's a lot of, there's a lot of elements that's involved in coaching that a lot of people might not think that's involved in coaching. And you're always going to have some guys on your team, some players who are not going to be fun of you as much. Yes, yes. You got to be perfectly fine with you.

that, bro. You know what I mean? I think the top coaches, they understand that. Like, okay, look, I can't please all 12 of these damn guys over here. You know what I mean? So it's going to be a few that's going to have some grights against me, but that's okay. I got a job to do. I think the biggest thing is

that if your greatest players are your hardest worker, and he guessed what he had, he had Shaq, I mean, he had Kobe and Jordan. Jordan was his hardest worker. He was his best player, but his hardest worker. Yeah. Kobe, when he first got there, he wasn't the best player.

That was Shaq. Let's not kid ourselves. And that's not to take anything away from Kobe. Kobe was fantastic. But when he got to Los Angeles in 96, Shaq was the best player. Oh, no question. He was.

No question. And Shaq was so dominant. Shack was so good. I don't know if Shaq realized how good he could have been. I think Shaq sat back now and said, you know what, yeah, I did this. Yes, I won three and three years. I went to four.

I went to three and four years and I did this. I want a score in title. I want a MVP. But I think Shaq deep down, if you were to put true serum in him and put him on a lie detector, I think he sat back and said, you know what?

I should have at least three MVP's like Nicola Yolkich. Facts. And I probably should have two more championships. Facts, facts. I think that drove Kobe too. Okay, Ocho. Meaning like for him to be great, I think he understood that, look, man.

Everybody got me in, in Shaq's shadow, you know, and I think that drove him to work extremely hard and be, you know, one of the top guys, if not the top guy in the NBA. Because when Shaq left, I guarantee that's probably his most gratifying championship. You know, when it was, yeah, yeah, yeah, being able to do it without him, yeah. Remember what Jalen Brown said? Yeah. This was his best season ever, yeah.

Even though they didn't win the championship. And I think the team looked at him and was like, hold on, what a minute, bro. you didn't win the championship. You won a championship. The championship season is not your most gratifying season? Joe, you know that's how they looked at it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

But J.B. was thinking, from a standpoint, man, I had to carry this team the whole entire season. I'm talking about I didn't miss a beat, Ocho. Still top two, three team in the Eastern Conference. Come on, man. He got a valid gripe and groan on what he's talking about. But when you look back and you say, Well, they won the championship, you know, it makes them almost to some degree look a little selfish.

Selfish, yes. Because he's looking at individual stats, not opposed to the team accomplishment. Yeah, yeah. And he had a 3-1 lead. Against Philly. Yeah, they did. They had a 3-1 lead.

They did. You got a 3-1 lead, you blew that, and that's still your most accomplishment? Yeah. That's still your greatest accomplishment? Yeah, yeah. It's funny how they hear what they want to hear because at the end of the day,

I kind of understand what he was saying. He's like, against all the odds that against me. Look, at J.T., our best play. We're right here. We're one in one. He's out. Nobody had us being the two seed. No, sir.

A lot of people didn't even think. Think about it. Al Horford is gone. We traded Prozingas. We traded a holiday. And y'all, who thought we were going to be the second seed to eat? Nobody. Nobody did.

So that's what I'm saying. It's gratifying. It's gratifying to me because it gets all odds when you thought we didn't have anything that we couldn't get any better, that we were going to basically we were going to be tanking trying to get great players. What do we do? We got second seed. That's all because of me I had a career year.

Look at it to be across the board. But that's not how they took it. They took it. You being selfish. How are you going to talk about y'all? Y, you did X, Y, and Z. You ain't win the championship. You won a championship.

And that's not gratified. You're the Eastern Conference Player of the Year and your final of MVP. You're saying the season in which you won none of those was your most gratifying season. That's how they f-it. Yeah, because y'all counted us out. Y'all counted us out.

Y'all had no, y'all didn't have us in the top of the Eastern Conference here, let alone even making them playoffs. And we end up being a two-seed and the numbers that J.B. put up, Uncle Ocho. Hey, man, I'm sure he understood that he was an MVP conversations. And with J.T. coming back, he sees the shift. You know what I mean?

And then now Boston has to get rid of one of them, which is obviously J.B. And I just think, man, coming into this season, he's going to have a whole different focus level. And I think Philly. I think Philly. I think Philly. I think Philly.

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He's not giving you enough. Nothing at all. So I can see, and I'm glad that they did, they did fix this issue because it's probably going to arise and continue to arise and think about how many other players have been left out because of them taking it personal. This is supposed to be what you've done on the field and on the field only, your resume, your accolades, all those things.

And I just don't like the fact that these individuals have so much power to be able to control who gets in and who gets out. I wish it was coaches and players only. Either you played against me, you had to deal with this individual or something like that. It used to be like that, though, didn't? No. It's always been media. Yeah, see, I don't like that.

Personally, like media, they get an opportunity to pick who they like. You know, if I had to deal with you, I know whether you wanted the best all the time or not. I know whether you deserve to have that gold jacket or that bus. Yeah. And at the media, I mean, listen, they do what they do. They've been studying watching the game for a very long time, but the fact that they control something of that magnitude and had that much power or say or whether who gets in who,

it doesn't sit right with me. But that's it. If somebody treated you like crap for, say, 15, 20 years, and you get an opportunity to vote for them for something. You're going to disregard the way they treated you and vote the man, or you're going to remember all the time that they gave you their butt in the kiss? You know, you know what's funny? Can I be honest with you?

Yes. And you're probably not going to believe me. if it was somebody with a resume like his, like Belichick, you know what? That motherfucker, oh, I'm sorry. Me? I forgot me on the show.

Okay, hey, listen, he treated me really, really bad. But he was so good at his craft and what he did. I ain't got no choice. I'm able to be able to compartmentalize and understand it. Most people aren't going to.

I hate him. I hate the way he did me, but I can't. I can't deny what he did when it came to coaching. I just can't. Most people like that, though, Joe. You can't overlook that, though, huh? People do that.

He's not just any coach. He is the standard of the best at it. What you're doing is abnormal. Most people do what's normal. I had a guy to tell me so that because he was, we were having a conversation and he said, you know, I heard you, your interviews, I heard you talking about how, when you went through what you went through,

that a lot of people abandon you. you. He said, Shanna, don't be, don't be upset. He said, you got to understand. They have something to lose that. They support you. He said, don't be mad at the normal. Be appreciative of the abnormal. Be ones that had something to lose and still stuck the neck out of that. Now it makes, now it made sense to hear him say, to hear somebody say that. It made sense to me. So what you're doing, what you're saying is abnormal. The normal person like Joe said, they're human. You know, gave me your buddy kiss for 15, 20 years,

and you think I get an opportunity, I get an opportunity to vote for you. I can vote you in or vote you out. You think I'm going to vote you in? No, sir. No. Hell no. That's really too much power.

It's like Chris Rock, like Chris Tucker's like, hell now. It is. But we've given to that power, and you understand they have that power. It's a, at the end of the day, you're dealing with the human. element. Humans are humans.

They have feelings. And more times than not, like I said, you're abnormal. More times than not, when you give somebody your bloodied kiss, when they get an opportunity to pay you, give you retribution. They're going to take their pound of flesh. They're going to get their

retribution. That's just the way it is. But, I believe, I'm with you. I'm with Joe. I believe Coach should have been a first battle hall of favor. So there can never a coach in NFL history that goes in on the first battle.

Never. And I love Andy Reed. I know Andy was a tiny in coach in Green Bay. So I know Andy a long time, know his family very, very well. No coach can ever go into the Hall of Fame, pro football Hall of Fame on the first ballot.

I don't care if it's Sean McVeigh. I don't care if it's Mike McDonald. I don't care who it is. There can never be another coach going to the first ballot because I don't believe there'll be a coach to ever win that many championships. They had a resume. I don't be a coach that ever have

that consistency. Right. Over that length of time. It says a bad precedent. It does. It said a bad precedent. And obviously there are people going to have the side eye depending on when other coaches come up if they go in first ballot.

When a blind man can see that Belichick belonged in there. Yes. I mean, it's just, I mean, Now that they clean it up, I hope it gets better. And those that deserve to be in there, they get in there. Joe, Ben Simmons, has signed a one year $3.5 million contract with the Sacramento Kings. He's back in the NBA for a 10th season after sending out 25, 26.

Simmons will serve as a backup point guard to Darius A-Cuff, the number seven overall pick in the NBA. Joe, how you feel about Ben Simmons mentoring your guy? I like Ben Simmons, Uncle Ocho. I just think the expectations that was put on him as a number one pick, that's not his game. Okay, Ojo. You know, everybody wanted to come out 20, 25 points.

Like, that's not his game. I think now we're having a year off coming back. I think when you see stat lines, like 10 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists, you know what I mean? I think he can definitely contribute to a team and help them win, especially young guys. but I like being because I think he's the stats sheet stuffer. He's just not the prototypical 6-9, 610 who you're like, man, look, we want 25, 30 points from you a night.

That's just not his game. He's going to do a multitude of things. I think he has a great feel for the game. He understands the game. He plays the game at a great pace, and he makes guys around him better. He's a hell of a passer. You can play through a guy like that. You just can't expect for him to come out here and get you 25, 30 night.

That's just not what he's going to do. He can make everybody else better. except himself. Well, I think it depends on how you look at it. Now, if you look at him, damn, man, we want to see Ben shoot some mid-range, some three-pointed. He's not going to do that, bro. Why not? He's not going to do it.

You ain't seen him do it his whole trip. That's what's disappointing. Because, Joe, I like to see a guy that comes in and he has a game here. And then as he goes in the league, I see his game progress to here. Yeah. We never saw Ben get any better. No, we didn't. And he never really got challenged because he was so talented.

And 6, 9, 610, I can handle the rock, I can post up. He's probably a better postup player. He's a much better poster player than he is a perimeter player. You know what I mean? But he has such a great fielder where he knows how to pass and make guys around him better that I think having him at the point was almost a mismatch, especially defensively. Yes.

It's a great defender. He can guard 1 through 5. So I think if his head on straight, obviously he didn't have some time off, but coming back playing in Sacramento, guess what? There ain't no expectation, guys. None. Playing the Sacramento. Yeah.

can play, get your head beat in every night. Anybody going to say, now you're playing in Philly? That's a, you know, that's a tough crowd, bro. And that's the fact. You go back and look at the game that he played against, I think it was the Nuggets. He ended up having 42 points. Yeah. And then once he did that, that's what the expectation was.

Bro, if you did that, but there was no Joe Ellen B. There you go. So now everybody expected him to do that. That was the problem that he ran into is that once you put that on tape, Ocho, once you had that first under yard game, that's the expectations. Joe, once you had that 30-point game, that's the expectations. Once I had my first 100-yard game, that was the expectations.

And that's, it is what it is. I understand people sit sometimes unrealistic expectations on you. But at the end of the day, you should have those expectations for yourself. Hello. You should expect, like, you know what? Bro, you're the number one overall pick. What do you think the expectations are going to be, Joe? But there ain't nobody expecting you to have a damn 10, 5, and 3.

Fine? What the head you're talking about? Yeah. But I think he got a real chance to really contribute to this young Sacramento team. Okay, Ojo. He has some tools that have worked for him. Obviously, they're going to have a young team. And I just think, man, he's going to come out. He's going to play the right way.

He's going to be successful because there is expectations on it. No. Yeah. No. That's a blessing on the curse. You know, you don't have the expectations, though, Joe. That's a pretty low bar. Yeah.

That's a pretty low bar to get up under. Yeah. I mean, we all won't expect anything. We all should expect something. When no one expects anything from you? Yeah. Boy, that's a pretty low place to be. Yeah.

When nobody expects nothing from you. I agree. I agree. He got to find some way to get over there. I think he has such a mental block when he comes to offensively. Yes. Shooting the ball. I ain't talking about three, he's on coach.

I'm just saying even if you post up, shoot a damn, turn around jump shot. Yeah. You know, just even if you miss it, just let us know you ain't afraid to take the shot. And I think that's been, I think that's probably been hampering him, you know, in the NBA because he just aren't, he just isn't willing to take the shot. The question is, Joe, that I have is he left-headed to the right-headed. I think he's confused. You think he confused?

Yes. Because he shoot, he could shoot with their right. He can shoot with the left. He shoot a lot of jump hooks with his right hand. Yes. So I don't know. He may be a little amidextrous. but it ain't going to help that outside jump on.

No. So I think he's going to have to be a good pick and roll guy dive to the rim. Yeah. Short roll. Hit you in that short roll to where he can play make out of that. Maybe shoot some floaters, get to the bucket, spray out the threes. But I think he's such a great decision maker that he will have some value for that Sacramento team. Putting him in the Dunkin' Spot.

Yeah. Yeah. Have him in a Dunkin' Spot when you got A-Cuff out there running the picking roll. That way, almost similar like Golden State when Draymondel, If they leave him, then he's in a spot to where he can be effective. Right. Yeah, so I like it for being simple. I like to see him back.

Hopefully, you know, he got his head on straight, and he can help this young team out. I personally think the thing is that him being away from the game, I think it doesn't have any choice but to have his head, right? Yeah. Because you see how he sees how quickly the game will move on without it. But the question is, has he been training? Has he been playing?

Like, you can't just take no damn year off and ain't been working on your game. you think you're going to come back and be at an elite level. It don't happen like that, bro. But, Joe, he has something that you can't cheat. That's 16. You can't teach 16, Joe. You can't, um, but. He's an elite defender.

I mean, long range. Remember, he's an all the defender. He's an all, an all-N-Ba defender. Yeah. He's a three-time all-star. What's disappointing is what he could have been. That's what he should.

have been. That's what's disappointing. That's most most frustrating to everybody that's a Ben Simmons fans or 76 of fans. What could he have been? Because we really don't feel like he reached his potential. No, he didn't. You know, I expect him. I ain't going to lie.

I thought he was going to come into the league. And his first couple years in the league, Ocho, he was nice, bro. At about 15, 16 points again, he won rookie at a year, his rookie year, his rookie season. So I expected him to make quantum leads. you know, every season. It just didn't pan out like that, bro, for whatever reason. Now, I don't know if it's because M.B. takes up so much space with a low block,

and it don't allow him to have a lot of real estate to where he can work. M.B. bailed him out, Joe. He didn't want to take the turn. Joe, I passed him the ball for a leg. I'm passing him a ball for a lunger. He passed it off for a guy to get. And he had Trey Young, Gordon. I know, I know. That's the problem, Joe.

I think the problem is that what help is that and B built him out. Yeah. Because they would, he was like, yeah, I could just pass the ball to him. And then you won't know how inefficient I am. Yeah. At my area is that I'm not good at. Yeah. Bro, you got Trey Young.

I'm junking. I'm dunking Trey Young in the basket. I ain't passing no damn balls to thigh bowl or whoever else. Facts. And I knew it was over when. Joel Elin B. said what he said, when Dr. River said, when he said, I knew it was over. I said it was over. I was on the other field in chat, and y'all go back and check, I said it's over. I said it's never going to be the same.

Nah. Because once your best player and the head coach come out and say something like that about you, it's a rap, bro. It's hard to recover from something like that. And he never did. He never recovered. He never recovered from that. Billy had the trash can going down to the river. Somebody just been similar. Go ahead. I say that was the middle thing for Ben. I think him, obviously, playing in Philly, that makes it even worse because you know how Philly fans are.

Yes. Having him be, say what he said, having the coach come out and say what he said, on top of what the fans are saying, I hate using this word because I don't take mental health as something weak, but the mind has to be strong when you play certain sports. The mind has to be strong. When you play a sport. When you play a sport in general, you play in certain environments. Yes. Philly is an environment. When it comes to that fan base, whether it's football or basketball.

your mental has to be on point. Yeah. You got to be able to block that out. When you have bad games, oh, they're going to let you know. Yeah. They're going to let you know. Yeah.

You know, so, I mean, it's unfortunate for him. There's no pressure on him in Sacramento. That's why I think he's going to do well, because there is no pressure. Yeah. And the outside, no, it's not going to bother him because it's not going to be any when you're playing in Sacramento. Yeah, ain't nobody going to watch him.

They ain't nobody going to know he's playing. Yeah, no, they're going to be watching for A-Cuff. Yeah, but ain't nobody can play. Ain't nobody looking for Ben Simmons. Ain't nobody going to be looking for him. But, Ocho, I'm with you. You got to have short-term memory when you play a professional sport,

especially basketball. We play in almost every other night. And if you have a horrible game, you got to put that behind you, bro. We got another game we got to attend to. So short-term memory is the key. Yo, gay business says Bam, out of bio, has to run out of an entire movie theater

in order to see a movie. That's cool to do, but do you really want to go to the movie? Do you really want to spend $1,500? Joe, is renting out an entire movie theater doing too much? I ain't going to say it's doing too much. I think it depends on who you are. Correct.

You look at guys like Kobe, Braun. They can't go to the movie. They can't go to the mall here. They can't go to the grocery store. They can't do nothing. You know what I mean? Those type of guys, you're talking about megastars. Hey, man, they have to go through things like this.

You know, you have to rent out a movie theater so you can sit there in peace. watch the move without somebody, you know what I'm saying? You want to take a picture, wanting to have a conversation. You're absolutely right. Yeah, that's part of it because guess what? When somebody see y'all, they're like, I might not never see Uncle again. Let me go on. Let me go and get a picture.

I might not never see Ocho again. Let me go and get a picture. You saw it happen to me tonight, Joe. Do want to take a picture. I said, well, take a selfie. Well, he ain't want no selfie. Well, I was going to get somebody else to take it for him. I say, so you want to interrupt somebody else so you can get a picture. He's like, he's like, a brother. Am I getting you

upset? Yeah. I said, bro, I'm not upset. I'm just saying, and his homeboy was just looking at that smiling. I said, won't you get your homeboy? I said, why didn't you bring your homeboy over here to take the picture to begin with? Because he were nervous off the dump. I was watching it the whole time. He was nervous.

I don't know what. Then when Ong started talking to him, he was like, oh, oh, oh. He's like, yeah, I took the picture with him. He's like, did I upset you? I said, no, bro. I said, you're supposed to have a plane. when you come to take the picture. I said, you want to take a picture.

You didn't want a selfie. Your homeboy was outside smiling and Kiki-Kee, why didn't you bring him to take the picture? Hey, hey, can I hear the picture right quick? My homeboy going to take it right here. Yeah, but me personally, $1,500 to half-piece, that's a small constellation of plagiar. I don't have to worry about talking.

I don't have to worry about signing no autographs. I don't have to worry about taking no picture. I get an opportunity. If I'm going to see auditsy, If I'm going to see Spider-Man, if I'm going to see Avatar, whatever I'm going to see, if I'm going to see Avengers, the end game, whatever I'm going to see,

if I get an opportunity to sit there and just watch it in peace without taking it with somebody. And look, look, hold on. Another day you've got to take into account your significant other. Yeah. Like, he ain't got no regular damn significant other. No. You know what I mean?

Like, you know, they low-key like a power couple. Yes, for sure. It's a big difference. I can see him having to rent out of it. movie theater. Man, you don't get no piece like that, bro. I mean, but think about guys like a Michael Jackson, like a Michael Jordan.

Damn, what was the last time you think Michael Jordan went to a regular theater? That he didn't rent out for the entire theater. For his kids, when he's taking his kids to the movie, he having to rent out the entire theater. Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson hadn't been normal since he was like 10. Rest his soul. I mean, guys like, I mean,

what am I supposed to do? Leonard Messey can't go to no movie. Rinaldo can't go to no damn movie. I mean, it's going to be like that for us in a minute. Give about another year. Hey, listen, by the end of, by the end of 27, nah, yeah, yeah, no, by the end of 27, they're going to be able to go nowhere.

I mean, we're going to do the live tour. They're going to be coming to the stage. Oh, my God. I show, also. Oh, hey, Twix. Oh, I'm going to say, oh, it's going to be crazy. Oh, they're going to say, oh, Twits. Hey, boy, we're going to be able to go.

I haven't been to the movies in a while. I want to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to see Spada, but. I got to go see Spider-Man. I hadn't seen Spider-Man yet. I heard it's really good. I mean, is it long, no.

I think it's long. It's like two and a half hours. Odyssey, like three hours is changed. Hey, I saw Odyssey soon as it came out. That's, in movies like that, Odyssey, Braveheart, Gladiator, Troy, 300. But I love. Those are fascinating to me. My tension span.

My problem is when I get in the movies, if it's over two hours, I'm going to get sleeping. Yeah, I'm going. That's me. The lights turned down, Ocho. It feels good. And the AC blowing. You got the snow. Flakes Blunt, boy, I'm asleep. I'm over.

Yeah. It can be a good movie, though. It can be a good movie, Ocho. Yeah, you can't go. Hell, you say. I'm going to sleep. If it's a bad movie, I'm definitely going to sleep. I mean, I just haven't been to the movies.

Basically, I just watch them when they come on, when they stream, when they come on television, not watch them at home. The problem they were talking, watching at home, you end up picking up your phone. Yep. You end up not paying attention. There's so many things going on to the You're not like when you're in the movie theater, you have your undivided attention.

You know, the popcorn is popping, the people bustling, you know, people, they're whispering and things like that. You kind of miss that about the movie theater, but what you don't miss is the interruption. Yeah. You know, people wanting to carry on conversation, and I'm like, bro. Oh, bro. I don't want to, oh. When you got small kids, like me, you in the movie theater is at least twice a month.

We go to the movie. Yeah, because animation, you see it all that. What? I'd be locked in on the animation ongoing show. Then my kids love it too? What? Yeah, you like me. I'm an animation type of guy myself.

But, you know, I don't have no problem with Bam. I don't have no problem with Bam, you know, running out of movie theater because he wants peace. That's really the only time that he gets an opportunity to escape and say, you know what, I'm not even, I'm not worried about, I'm not worried about anything. I'm not worried about, you know, I can just focus on this movie theater. I can get my mind. away from basketball and get my, I can skate reality and just focus on this.

Me and my lady can watch the game. Now, this is the moment you've all been waiting for. Oaks, also known as Twix, is going to give y'all a tutorial. Bear with us, guys. We have to move the cameras around and let Twix, you know, get in the position.

I'm going to, hey, hey, chat, y'all can see me right now. Obviously, I'm at my area 29, a lot of y'all that don't know, if you don't know the story, I used to dance back in 1997. My stage name was Twix. I danced at the right track in L.A.

when I was at Santa Monica College. Obviously, I couldn't afford books. I couldn't afford books. I couldn't afford tuition, so I had to make some money some kind of way. So I'm at Area 29 out of here in Houston, and I'm going to show, you know, one of the young ladies, how she can maximize her earning potential. How she can maximize her earning potential?

and what I like to call adult ballet. This is not stripping. That's good. Is it adult ballet? You're adult ballet. It's like saying midget. You don't want to say midget. Definitely derogatory tour.

You actually a small person. Exactly. Little person. This is adult ballet. So I want to show her how she can control the atmosphere. You got to become one with the crowd. Right. You hear me?

You win the crowd. You go home with the most money. When the crowd, win your freedom. Win the crowd. I win the money. See? Yeah, yeah. I see what you said on Joe.

Chat, so I want you all to stay with me. I'm going to give her a tutorial on how to connect with everybody. I need her Wi-Fi to be on point. I want her signal to lock in with everybody. And I'm going to see, everybody's fine. Everybody here fine. For you. So it got to be something different about you that sets you apart from everybody else.

And for one, the first thing that's important, eye contact, Joe. Yeah. I'm going to see eye contact. Then the move. You ain't got to be going crazy, but you got to have to have. have subtle movements that captivate the eye. Right, right. Because what are men?

Visual creatures. We're visual creatures. So I'm going to teach to that. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yeah. So I'm going to teach you that. I'm going to teach some tricks.

Because one thing is one, one thing to be, you know, subtle and sexy, but then you have to have some type of entertainment to captivate and keep the eye. Right, right, right. You feel me? Yeah. Can you tell them why they call you twigs them? Because back then, I got, you got to. think this is 1997 I was what, what I was,

19, 18? Yeah, yeah. So I was so skinny, Joe. Yeah. And I had veins everywhere. Yeah. And if you open up a Twix, it's chocolate and it like it got veins. So that's what I'm going to stay in a name with Twix. Yeah.

So I'm going to give a little tutorial, man. I'm going to wait to... Bell with us. Yeah, I'm going to wait until she come out, till she get dressed. Ladies, ladies, if y'all ever thought about dancing or doing adult ballet, please don't. Just take note.

Take note. Because this is the cheat code in life, too. You know, for those that are impatient with nine to fives, where it takes, it takes two weeks, you know, to get your money, you can make, you know, thousands, you know, doing this. What you think, Joe? They can make a lot of money doing this just by busting it over. Bussing it wide.

I'm just keeping it real. I'm just keeping it real. I mean, you know, you and you, we're in a ballet establishment and adult ballet. establishment and, you know, you have to be captivating. Yes. Huh? You have to be an attention, uh, uh, uh, attention graber.

You know what I mean? So I think if you're able to do that, you'll probably walk out of here with a lot of money. Yes, sir. Yeah. Yeah. And you're right, Ocho, a lot of people like that fast money. They don't want to work to, they don't want to wait to two weeks. Every two weeks.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You mean... First and the 15th. Hello. I can't depend on that. Now, I depend on the first of the first and the 15th. Yeah. I didn't know the first and the 50.

I haven't been to hold with you. You got to think about it, Joe. You come here with a shift, right? Yeah. And you go home with $5,000 a night. Sometimes 10 on the good night, depending on who walked through that door. Hello.

Come on, now. I had a lady told me she used to dance, say the most she ever received in one night is $300,000. Damn. 300. What? 300 grand. I got she going to be on the podcast in two weeks.

And let me tell you something. That's not this kind of style. I know what she worked. Huh? That's what the, you know, with the, they ain't got no melanin. That paint like that,

but. She was down there, she was down there in Miami. Yeah, but, but, uh, which one? I start with a T. I don't know.

What it was, I don't know what it's called, but she told me that's the most she ever, somebody gave, you get 300. Yeah, that wasn't none of us. I can tell you that.

300. Yeah, 300. 300 in the night, boy. Man, please. Well, I take some off 300 right now. That man that's up,

that he gets buttonball on right now for 300. But quick 300? Hold on. Hey, text free? Hey. Man, start playing. Chat, what we talk about? Yeah, what's really going on?

300? No, I'm just saying, hey, Joe, 300? Quick? I know, bro. Listen, Joe, you got a thing. All they got to do in two songs. One song or three minutes So you mean six minutes

I'm walking at it with three No, 300,000? You got to do your thing though Man, why I'd be cutting up, right? Hey, chat Ooh! You know what, when it comes to tutorials

You can't have a tutorial That's a ban Huh? That's a band. You can't have a tutorial Without the money So also the tutorial To show men how to throw the one

See, it's all in the wrist. See, watch the wrist. You see how the wrist break? And it's an upward motion. You don't throw out. You throw up. So a rank. Yes, yes.

You just take it back. So a range. Stop. What you do it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, boy.

It's going to be a good night tonight. You're a good night. Somebody. Somebody, somebody going to get out of their rent paid tonight. Yeah. Hey. I got to keep it. Okay.

All right, Twit. Who my, who I got, who I got, who I got? Let me see what you got going on. I got a couple, I got a couple dollars. Huh? No, no, no, no. Hello, hello, hello, hello. Hello?

Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Y'all can hear me? Oh, we got, oh, we got them. Oh. Hello?

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I'm Emmanuel Jochi. I'm Kai Wright. And this is Big Lives. Listen to Big Lives on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts. Who's up, bro? We're good. What my camera at? Right here.

Where? Oh, I ain't even see my camera. Jack, you don't hear me? Oh, I'm right here. Jack, can you hear me? Yeah, we can hear you. I'm trying to make sure. I'm trying to make sure they can see me.

I got some sitting the woods over there for you. Up deck. Okay. I'm gonna be over there. Well, we get our camera. I can't let mama see me. But I'm gonna be over there. Where you go?

I'm gonna get my drink. I need my phone. Yeah, I need. Yeah, I need that too, Joe. Grab my phone for me, right you right there, please. Hey. Chat, y'all good? I got to get you.

I need that. Oh, it's your phone. Y'all need that. Yeah, I need that. You gotta get some light. You get some light. Chat, we're coming, chat, we're coming. Let me speed up.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I stay with the teeter pants on, boy. Huh? Don't say too much I'm miced up. Hey, Chad, we come, we're coming. Don't wait for something, huh? Okay. Mama, what's your name?

Charlotte. Charlotte, come on. You gotta come up here. Come on, Charlotte. Chat we have we have we have miss Charlotte We have miss Charlotte coming to the chat right and I'm gonna teach miss Charlotte how to maximize her potential Here at area 29 so if you don't know for those that have been here Hey miss Charlotte, how you doing how you doing stand right here nice nice nice nice nice nice nice nice nice honey so I'm gonna help you right

So when we open the night I'm telling you ahead of time right now based on what I teach you Huh? Listen to me yes No, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay. You don't remember me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's okay. Don't worry about your English.

Just listen, watch, and copy what I'm going to do once we open the night. You're going to leave here tonight. You're going to leave here with probably 20,000. 20,000, okay? So first, we're going to start with connecting with the room. Okay. Okay? So we're going to start.

Hey, we're going to start right here, back here. at the pole, right? So you got a room. I don't know. No, no, no. You're not going to use it. Just follow my lead, right? You've got a lot of men, right?

A lot of money. So you have to use eye contact is very important. Eye contact. No, the room. You got a picture. It's men everywhere, right? They got money. Mula.

Mucho, mula. Yeah. So you got to make eye contact. You got to follow. Follow me walk. You got to walk. You got a switch, though. Switch with it.

Switch, yes. Switch, make eye contact. You see that? Eye contact, eye contact, boom, and you stop right here, like this? Yes, like that. But when you walk, you got to switch

and you got to make sure everything in the rear, it got to go. You got to work it, okay? Work it. Eye contact, eye contact, grab the pole, and swing. Okay, do that.

Yes, bitch, yes. Yes, that's what I'm talking about, yes. Okay. Hey, come on, y'all can't laugh at I'm giving lessons. All right, right. Hold on. Back, do you work the poll at all? No, nature.

Who is nature? Who know how to work the pole? Oh, yeah, that was, yeah, what time? Get live, fella, what time? Yeah. One time is all we need. Oh. You nature?

Who nature? Who worked the pole? Nature, come on, nature. Come on. Y'all don't know how to work the pole. Hold that for me, Joe. Okay, come. We bandied up here, fellas.

One time. Oh. Damn, you still, huh? Nature. Nature. And DJ called Nation to the stage one time. We need nature coming to the stage. Nature.

Come on, Nation, we need nature to the stage right now to tell me how to do the... Okay, that's what I'm talking about nature. Come on. Come on. Twin, come on, twin. Yeah, we got to put alcohol in the floor to clean it off. That's what I'm talking about nature.

That's what I'm talking about nature. Nothing can happen without nature. Mother Nature. Oh! You gonna wipe it down? Whatever you do, I'm gonna do. Keep the towel. The nature is fitting to get crunk.

Y'all know what it is a fella? Come on, now y'all keep Timmy the symphony. What my, uh, oh, what my in at? Hmm. Hey. Hey. Huh? Is all you only got two thousand? Yeah.

I'm good. Nice, tight-ass cord. I can do that, right? I can do that, show me like how he'll be. When I tell him, I never got away. Be his piece because he would be with me when he was in space. And then I send him back to you when he start packing out of place. You have blacked me.

You have blacked. You have blacked. You have. Always ready for in a field. She gonna make her feel good, but I'm gonna change your life. He broke up his marriage. Give back that joke. Give back that joke.

Yeah. Make you know that's all I have. Everybody can't you say. Yeah. Make you ready. I don't care about the diamonds down there ice and out your name. Where the violence is that? Show me what a couch show.

Where the violence that? Show me where the mouth. What a dollar is. That's tutorial number one. Yeah. Time for tutorial number two. Hey, girl. Chorke?

Huh? What, what, what? I ain't got no more tutorials. That's it. What, what time we open? Two. What time it is? Lim 30.

Give us something, give us something, DJ. We gotta keep going on. What a dollar's there? Show me what? We're going. Chat. I apologize. Y'all couldn't be here

for this tutorial here at Area 29 for adult ballet. But if you ever in Houston, make sure you come down here. Ask for Ocho, you get 85% off at everything. Except the dances. We don't cut discats. Joe, you got, you rich, boy?

You're like, you're having a good time. I'm having a good time. You know, I don't get out the house much, Joe. Come on, DJ. Come on, DJ. We need some sounds. What are we? Oh, this is, we can hold things up that we can clear around.

Yeah. Ah, that's right, that's right, that's right. Baby, baby, you, you, you watching? Maybe you watch it? You see I'm behaving myself? I ain't doing nothing wrong. I'm just teaching. You hear me?

I'm just, I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm making a little cash. You know, make a little cash. You can go get your eyebrows done with this. Huh? And I ain't doing nothing but watching. You know what I'm saying?

You know what I'm trying to be on the DJ booth. I'm trying to keep tipping. Hey, I want the fella that keep tipping and sniffing. Y'all know what to do. Hey, they keep spinning. We keep winning. And everybody happened. That's how we do it over here at the area of 29.

We got a third one coming to the stage. What are you talking about? Hey, how you doing? Praise God. What's your name? Tam. Tam. Nice to meet you.

How you? I love nature, y'all. Okay, nature. What's your name, baby? Luxury. Okay, luxury. We like luxury items. We got love your items.

We're going to be. Show me where the cows show. Where where the house show? Come on. How are you doing? That was a time. That was a time. How about a show.

Where where the house show. Show me. Show me where the guy was... But you are it's what you ain't. Be careful. Hey, great. Hey, great, you're gonna' be a drug.

You're talking about your establishment. Hey, Keep up everybody right now for me, and he go, when I tell him I ain't never got a way. Hey, Drake, you do it, baby. Hey, Brett, you see this? We don't have a night,

Captain two of every tonight, Drake. And we're doing. Show me what a couch. Show me. Yeah Yeah Show me what about it way Show me where the dollar's

Oh, look at Where the dollar man And I was always ready For an interview She gonna make it feel good But I'm gonna change your love He broke up his marriage Because he can't draw us

Ain't know that he's Got my body looking right Tricking all this purse Come up Take me to the bank You know that's all I ever say If I don't get my way That someone got to get your safe

If you got to spin it Make you bring. I don't care about the dollars down there icing out your name. Where the dollars at? Yeah, we can't play that. Somebody tell you, he don't want to see nightcapping area 29. That's what we do.

We just, yeah, 100,000. Good night, Drake. In 20 minutes. Where you at? Hey, hey, hey, Joe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. You know what it is.

Hey, baby. How you doing? I ain't doing nothing. I ain't doing nothing. I'm here, you know. I'm on with best behavior. Praise God. I've been good.

I've been good. I like Wild Bill. Oh, Green, my. I'll be good. I'm going to do it again. I'm going to play my position. You hear me? I'm in the cut shit.

I'm making sure everything. Copacetic around hell. Make sure anything going smooth, we ain't got no problem, all right? Somebody in the chat, Toby, man, get your ass out of the way. Boy, y'all show the old little spitting up under that. Damn. What money this is?

You got more? I'm just trying to figure out who's money this is. You got more? Yeah. My boss, my mom. I thought we were done. You got me here. What's up?

What? Sure, you got it. What? How much money you get a five? What? How much money you get? Do what you do? I'm your favorite.

My partner and co-host San Otocico Johnson. And the third member of the big three, that is ISO, Joe Johnson. I love y'all. I love you ladies. Coming up here, give us a tutorial. A high getting done in Area 29. Y'all know how we do it. Keep Timmy to Siftin'n.

You keep finish. They keep winning. Hey, then what we do. I love you, Houston. I love you. Ladies, if you didn't come early tonight, you miss out on the great opportunity.

Never duplicated. Because if we were from nightcap, we had a good time tonight, man. We really appreciate our fans. We appreciate our fans. Appreciate that. Hope that everybody enjoyed it. But you stay for the stories.

It's only one. It's only one. Good night. I love you. I'm all. He's Ocho, he's Iso. Y'all know how we do it. Nobody in the podcast space and do it like nightcap.

Because we win. All we do is win. Win, win, win, win. Y'all see we did. Hey, add it up. And y'all can't do it like one. Nope. I didn't want to do this.

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