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12:40Shannon Sharpe:Man, Ark broke bread. Ark broke bread, man. We would've had a good little old time. Boy, you missed out, Ocho. Oh, that play was nice. Ocho, hey, Joe saying, you know what, I can come back here. Yeah, why y 'all ain't working? Ocho, Ocho, first off, that thing was off the meat rack. You hear me, that thing was jumping. But you know, Ocho moved like the president. You know what I mean? We in and out like a robbery. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we ain't wasting too much time. Yeah, yeah. Hey, I got Joyce, hey, my guy coming, they ushering me, you got him, and swoop them in, straight to the back.

13:12Joe Johnson:I came up the back, straight to the back. What's the name of the place though? What's the name of the place?

13:19Shannon Sharpe:It's MCK. MCK. Well, we had a good time. Hey, Ocho, we had a good time, man. We had a good time. If you're in Atlanta, let us know. If you're in Atlanta next week, let us know. We'll hook it up. I'll call the guy. He'll hook it up for us. MCK, that's a restaurant, huh? It's like, it's a restaurant. It's a speakeasy. They got hoops, they got Luka Lounge over there. They got to play great music. It's a great -

13:44Joe Johnson:I can smoke my cigars in there? Oh, hey, listen, I'm with you when you write. And you say it's speakeasy. They listen. You know I like to get up there and get a word, huh? Oh Lord, here we go. Hey, listen, if y 'all come, I got somebody get up there.

14:00Shannon Sharpe:Hold on, hold on, hold on. You do open mic like poetry and all that? Yeah, Joe. I'm like, Ocho, Ocho.

14:07Joe Johnson:I know I be playing around. Joe, I used to do spoken word down here at the Hard Rock Hotel, down here at the piano bar. Yeah, man. Yeah, you know, they got a piano bar. They have a little spoken word, man. You know, I'm into poetry and poems and stuff like that. I like stuff like that, Ocho.

14:26Shannon Sharpe:You know what I mean? I like to step outside the box a little bit. I don't like to do everything that everybody else doing. I don't mind a little poetry, you know what I mean? I mean, I enjoy something like that, man. Man, look, I'm trying to get, I'm gonna go in there and have a little conversation. I mean, Joe, I'm like, hey, Joe, you ready to go? I'm like, well, damn, Joe. Joe, I'm like, bro, you ready to go? Can we, let's blow this joke. Right, right, right. Hey, Ocho.

14:51Joe Johnson:It's a nice vibe, Ocho. It's a nice vibe.

14:54Shannon Sharpe:It is.

14:55Joe Johnson:Yeah, I'm gonna do that. Joe, I'm glad to know you like spoken word and stuff. Like, let me say, you know, Joe, you know something I still do to this day? because I love poetry and I love putting wordplay together you know I still write love letters Joe. To your old lady? Yeah and I mail it to us you know so because sometimes it's better for me to be able to express how I feel you know on paper as opposed to being able to communicate in person because I'm shy in person Joe.

15:25Shannon Sharpe:Oh man I ain't buying that shy still but you know I ain't wrote a love letter since I was in junior high school man

15:30Joe Johnson:man hey matter of fact Joe let me tell you surprise your girl boy surprise just write something he ain't got to be long just just tell her how you're feeling how much you appreciate you know what y 'all been through throughout the years and having her by your side is a foundation that you can continue to build on later on in the future Joe I'm telling you man she's like oh my God and spray a little cologne you know what typically yeah I'll be a little closed-minded off the stuff

15:53Shannon Sharpe:you be kind of referring to you know you be trying to get us to do right so you know I I kind of you But I like the love letter thing, yeah. But typically, you be a little off hands, you know what I mean? Your boy, you can write him now. Your boy, now Joe, you know your boy got the gift of gab. I write a letter. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. I'm with you, I'm with you, you all right. You ain't, hey, hey. We're all right, nobody. I think the last one, I think I might have wrote one in college. In college? But I graduated 35 years ago, so. Damn. Joe, I graduated college before you graduated junior high.

16:32Joe Johnson:Yeah, hey Joe, sometimes you gotta, you know, I know some people, you know, it's old school and, you know, but I mean, a letter, open up a letter, it just does something to the psyche.

16:42Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I appreciate that one, Ocho. But you know what it is? It's, yeah, my, I mean, kids don't even write in cursive anymore. My handwriting's terrible because I don't really write no more. I mean, I find myself writing in cursive the next thing you know I'm printing. I'm like, well damn. What the hell? It is what it is. I didn't let my daughter, my daughter, I let my daughter write, because she got great, great, I mean she has great. Pinnmanship. And my sister. Yeah. Mine is awful.

17:20Shannon Sharpe:Mine is terrible. So you think Puka gonna get paid, don't y 'all? You think he'll get paid? you think the question is we know he's gonna get paid. Does he get paid before the season or does he have to play this season under the contract? They just fall under not.

17:33Joe Johnson:I think they definitely gonna take care of before they definitely gonna take care of before get it out the way, you know, not only they don't get it out the way, make him happy. Let him know how much you listen. We pay you this money because we appreciate you not only what you've done, but what you're gonna do for us for the foreseeable future. And he's gonna be one of the reasons why they make it if they do make it what guess what a super bowl at this so far and tell me that won't be the perfect story yeah playing super bowl right in your backyard aaron donald returns hey that's why aaron donald coming back hey listen hey the writing is on the wall now the writing is on the wall

18:19Shannon Sharpe:All right, it's time for our final segment of the evening. It's time for Q and A. I'm Mungus Shatikula, and I'm back with a new season of the podcast Skyline Drive. This time I'm diving into a rabbit hole of peptides, organoids, blood boys, blue zones, and brain replacement to try to understand what this longevity obsession is all about and what it really means to live forever for all of us. I learned about some rad science. I can make a brain for you, and then we can test what draw is the best for your brain, as opposed to his brain. Here are some hard truths. I would expect Indians to age faster, but I did not expect it to be almost a four to five year acceleration.

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22:30So I went home and I asked Billie if she wanted to sing it. She immediately made it her own thing.

22:37Joe Johnson:No fear.

22:44You really know how to make me cry When you give me those oceans So come hang out with us in the studio and listen to Playing Along on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

23:07Shannon Sharpe:Oh, we got two video voicemail from our Discord. Let's take a listen to what they had to say. Unc, Ocho, Joe, what's good with y 'all? We miss y 'all. Glad y 'all are back. Ocho, I came to talk to you, dog. You see the jersey. Remember I came over here a couple months ago. I talked to you about Shador Sanders being the guy for the Cleveland Browns, and he's being the star and the quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, and you told me money this and money that. Have you been seeing my dog lately? Have you seen the mean demonstration he's been putting down, the belt to ass he's been putting down?

23:37Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, I'm coming here to say, dog, Shador Sanders won this quarterback battle. Man, come to Cleveland, dog. Let's go to a game together. Come on, big dog. You know it's all love for you. Come on, man. Come to a game, man. Let's turn up. Let's celebrate Shador getting a dub and Shador just throwing some dots out there and winning the game, man. Come on, man. Y 'all know what type of time I'm on. Mean demonstration. Hey, listen.

23:59Joe Johnson:I love it. I love the enthusiasm. See that same enthusiasm, Uncle Joe, that he just had? I got that same enthusiasm about Shador as well. I always have. I've supported him since he was at Jackson State. I've supported him at Colorado. but I also understand how this business works. I understand that. And that's the part that people are failing to realize and just eliminating it in general. You're not having a quarterback making$40 million a year sitting on the bench. You're not. He's going to be the starter and they're going to be a job to lose. That's just the way it goes. This is the nature of this business in general.

24:31Joe Johnson:You know, hey, listen, I'm with you all the way. You know, that's my boy. I want him in there and I want him playing too, you know? But that's just not how it's going to rock based on the way this business, the way they, you have to think like them. The people that sit up high, you know, with the jacket, with the suit and tie. They cut them checks. It's different. They move different. They don't think the way me and you think. That's why they're in the position they're in.

24:56Shannon Sharpe:Let's take a listen to the second one. What's going on, Nightcap? Onk and Ocho, welcome back. And Isojo, you did your thing. You held it down and you did a phenomenal job filling in for Uncan Ocho. I don't think any of us at Nightcap expected anything different. So kudos to you, ISO Joe. My question for you guys is, which player or team gave you the most fits during your playing career? I hope y 'all have a good one. Keep putting out the amazing content. This podcast is fantastic.

25:29Joe Johnson:And yeah.

25:33Shannon Sharpe:The most fits? It would have to be somebody, Ocho, that you played because like you play somebody once every three to four years that really don't count it's gonna need to be somebody in your division that you see at least twice a year

25:45Joe Johnson:sometimes you end up seeing them three times a year yeah well I mean honestly I mean when we speak about teams and giving me fits you would think it would be the Steelers uh or the or the Browns or the Ravens but I I kind of had my way with the Browns with no disrespect I kind of had my way with the ravens and i'm not saying this in a disrespectful way if there was a team that gave me fits it would probably be ike taylor and them damn steelers it would probably be ike taylor and damn feels but i ain't a reverend ike i don't know you at boy i love you boy i miss them battles i miss competing against you but you you wanted the best ever man and i just want to give you your flowers you know while you can still smell them i don't get to see you as often as i should uh but boy ike taylor was that boy uh joe you know he was he was that boy he he gave me hell boy so if there's somebody that gave me fits and i'm not talking about that the defense was great in you know in its totality in general but that goddamn reverend ike boy he would not he would

26:45Shannon Sharpe:me okay ocho i'm gonna have to say you know i i i i'm i'm i'm basing it off me being playing here in atlanta when we should play against detroit with chancy bill of rip hamilton tayshaun prince rasheed wallace bing wallace oh my god yeah oh good joe the boy used to raise hell because for me at the two guard on okay ojo i got a guard rip hamilton he he he don't stop moving he running it all night long it's hell chasing him all game he like he likes that he likes step curry with it But then on offense, when I got the ball, I got Tayshaun Prince guarding me. Tayshaun got 7 '3", wingspan. He's 6 '9".

27:29Shannon Sharpe:And they played great team defense. They was a juggernaut, bro. They was a hell of a team. I ain't going to lie. I never looked forward to playing the Pistons. I'd probably say early Kansas City. Obviously, I had some big games against Kansas City. I set the record against them. And people were like, well, how you set the record against them? That was not the Kansas City that I grew up with in the 90s. Them Kansas City teams were a lot different. At that point in time, the Kansas City team that was in the 2000s, they had morphed into an offensive team. They got Priest Holmes. They got Trent Green.

28:07Shannon Sharpe:They're an offensive team now. They're not predicated. DT had passed away. No more D.C., no more James Aisty. Kevin Ross and Albert Lewis and they all retired KP Martin Bay all those guys are gone so this was a totally different team that I faced in the 2000 when I started having a lot more success as opposed to the 90s but I'll probably say Kansas City

28:37Shannon Sharpe:Drew Jitsu 83 potato tomato a whole MC round one by KO get the F out of here bro I guess there was a fight tonight. I guess. It was? On a Wednesday? Don't start me the line. He geeked about something. Great show, fellas, but the tracker doesn't tell the whole story. Shadour and Watson alternate with the ones. Shadour is with the ones tomorrow. What you thinking?

29:10Joe Johnson:Listen, you right. I like the alternating chances for each quarterback, you know, to allow them to be able to see what they could do. You know, we talk about the reps. Shador not getting the reps with the ones last year when they were playing the merry-go-round game, you know, with the quarterback situation last year. So now, you know, alternating the reps, you know, between Deshaun, you know, doing it one day and Shador doing the following, you know, it gives the quarterback coach, the head coach, and the people that's sitting upstairs looking down a better idea on what they want to do and and and let's say even if she do it doesn't start even if he doesn't they still know well if we start to sean we started to sean watson we know good and goddamn well based on what we've seen from shador we comfortable when it is his time to go in and play

30:07Shannon Sharpe:uh teague said when the hawks cut ivan he still showed up to practice and nobody told him to leave. Ivan was that boy. He was hard-nosed player. He said when they cut Ivan Johnson, he still showed up to practice. Yeah. See, they had already traded me by then. He still played like a year or two after I left. But I heard that same thing. He was one of them, Ocho. You know what I mean?

30:35Joe Johnson:Wait, hold on. Hold on. They cut him and he showed up to practice anyway?

30:38Shannon Sharpe:Come on. I told you, look, that man, they didn't even think the man was going to make the team. the man got into it with josh him and josh about to fight he about to fight stackhouse that man about to fight everybody on the damn team yeah he was good he was good he was relentless ocho like you know what i mean like okay it's like uh i might be undersized at the position that i'm playing but my heart and how hard i play man y 'all can't do nothing with this you know what i mean that's what it was bro it wasn't just practice though okay when he got in the game That boy made plays, man. That boy made plays, man.

31:16Joe Johnson:Hey, that's funny, though. They done cut it when he showed up to practice anyway.

31:22Shannon Sharpe:Nah, they probably got key cards. Your key card won't work now. There you go. There you go. They cut it off. Hey, you beat, you beat.

31:31Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, you beat on that door, huh? Hey, I done seen that happen before, too. Filthy McNasty 22081 If y 'all double as a church, then I'm here to pay my tides Keep preaching Up there sweating like a Pentecostal ministry You know how that Tent revival Ain't nothing like that Tent revival with them big old Injustice fans going, Joe They don't know nothing about that 420 LAFC And Niner fan Ocho, when are you guys coming down to watch LAFC and your cousin Sonny. Thanks, guys.

32:06Joe Johnson:Hey, I'm glad you just asked me that question, too. But I'm coming to watch my cousin soon. It's so dope. And, you know, Hugh Ming's son, obviously, he played for Tottenham. He's down in LAFC right now. South Korean player, played for the national team, just left the World Cup. He said, it's a pleasure to meet you. And I see the tweets about us being cousins over the years. And he said, anytime, anytime it would be an honor, you come to LAFC, you come watch the game. So I'm definitely going to get down there. Probably before football season starts, because when football season starts, I'm locked in.

32:51Joe Johnson:Everything is strictly football from that point on. So I definitely got to get down there, man. I can't wait.

32:58Shannon Sharpe:We got some news to share in a couple of weeks. well probably next week good news great news Ash we gonna share the news next week

33:10yes

33:12Shannon Sharpe:hold on y 'all ain't gonna tell me yeah we gonna tell you yeah I'll tell you

33:19Joe Johnson:okay let me know let me early so I can prepare now I gotta be able to prepare

33:25Shannon Sharpe:Real Sports Talk 8350 at what point do you think Mendoza will start the season. Hold on, because they got First Cousins. Kirk Cousins. First Cousins knows his offense. He played his offense for a number of years in Washington. He played in it in Minnesota, so he has a substantial advantage going into the season. What you waiting on if you the Raiders, though? I don't want to feed him to the Wolves.

33:53Joe Johnson:Don't do it to him, Joe. No, Joe. They had the number one pick for a reason, Joe. they ain't they they ain't they ain't turn it around that fast in just a year put that boy

34:04Shannon Sharpe:out there under that center don't do it to him also i guess i guess you and unc figure kurt cousin gonna go over there and he gonna he just gonna be a shining star or something

34:13Joe Johnson:no but you you you put fernando mendoza by that guy you buy you buy you buy you buy

34:18Shannon Sharpe:to you to mendoza to mendoza is kind of like okay yeah let him let him develop we said we heard tom

34:27Joe Johnson:brady talk about that they're throwing these young players out there too early without without no development let him let him develop a little bit let him let him learn behind kurt cut let him learn behind the veteran for a little bit baby uh hey nightcap can they

34:44Shannon Sharpe:pay aaron donald top tier money with the salary cap or will they come will he come back for veteran minimum aaron donald's gonna get about 30 million dollars he ain't gonna make no bed minimum they can pay him that they gonna pay him that

34:56Joe Johnson:they still got his rights so he's picking up right where he left off yep hey honestly Joe even with two years off he still worth every dime

35:13Shannon Sharpe:thank god I'm back 370 who's a better story Anthony Allen or 1987 Scab or Kurt Warner Kurt Warner Kurt. Y 'all do realize Kurt's in the Hall of Fame, right? He won the Super Bowl, went to three Super Bowls. He was a two-time league MVP, a two-time Super Bowl MVP. And before Tom Brady came along, he was the first quarterback for 400 yards in the Super Bowl. Kurt Warner. Brendan Crowe, 34-3. Money is spent already. Watson is no more. He's shown us the last four years. Browns clearly moving in youth direction. Todd is coaching for his job. Damn, after one year, y 'all feel the man coaching for his job?

36:00Joe Johnson:The man even had a season in yet. He talked about he coaching for a job. Damn.

36:05Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. You're hired to get fired here.

36:13Why does the second-round pick that wasn't expected to do much

36:17Shannon Sharpe:won a ring, been to two Super Bowls, and won a Super Bowl MVP has more to prove than all these quarterbacks. Y 'all hype every year and nothing has won nothing. At some point, the media is going to run out of excuses for these hype trains.

36:35Shannon Sharpe:Well, only one team

36:37Joe Johnson:can win these years. He's talking about Jalen Hurts. Oh.

36:46Shannon Sharpe:you think you think they believe in jailer hurt

36:51Joe Johnson:yeah yeah well young bull ain't no i'm saying look at the offense they run why they don't let him throw it like the other quarterbacks let them throw the ball oh but their offense isn't predicated on jaylen throwing the ball like uh why not i mean that's that's based on the No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

37:11Shannon Sharpe:They got a great offensive line that can protect the quarterback out of the yin-yang. And you mean to tell me you got A.J. Brown, you got Devontae Smith, you got Mike, what's the quarterback name? What's the tight end? They got a very good tight end. Dallas Goddard.

37:27Joe Johnson:Yeah, Goddard, yeah.

37:28Shannon Sharpe:Do they believe in it? They believe that if we minimize his opportunity to throw the football, we have a better chance to win it. That's why they went out there and signed Saquon of Reagency. I don't want to look that's not you see when we tell you something you're like oh but you don't want to hear what we got to say anyway so I don't even know why you asked because if I we when Ocho and I tell you you like oh but y 'all don't say that about Justin Herbert y 'all don't say that about this because they put the ball in those guys hands and they don't ask them to run the ball say quad to run the ball 300 times like they do Jayla Hurts they make Jayla if they let Jayla do Do I believe Jalen Hurts can throw the football?

38:08Shannon Sharpe:Yes. Is he as gifted a pure passer? And some of these other guys, no. But I don't think he has to be to get the job done. See, the question is, do you want to get the job done or do you want something aesthetically pleasing? See, some people go to these fancy restaurants and they got, oh, the presentation is great. The food tastes like bull jive, though. Right. I don't care nothing about no aesthetically pleasing. I want to win games. Yeah. They win games. you might not like how they win the game but the objective is to win the game hello you play to win the game win the game her leverage

38:52but

38:52Shannon Sharpe:they got rid of AJ there's a lot of pressure on him because now I think Smitty can be number one but they got Malachi Lemon. I think they got guys that can step up and make plays. Big Lane is back healthy. The offensive line is healthy. They'll be back to being a dominant team again. They were Nick last year. Lane goes out. The center was Nick. Dickerson was Nick all year long. He limped into the season. He limped out of the season. Those guys back running.

39:33Shannon Sharpe:You guys going to talk about Bron, Ocho was wrong. We talked about LeBron on Monday.

39:41Joe Johnson:Yeah, where you been?

39:45Shannon Sharpe:Alright, it's decision. Unk gets his goat. Ocho gets a hyena and Aiso gets a capuchin. And y 'all keep us updated on raising them. Well, first of all, I'm not bringing my goat around Ocho's hyena. Second of all, I have a little I have some experience with raising I'm not eating animals. That would don't.

40:08Joe Johnson:Me too. Hey, hold on. Hey, my hyena, he gonna be domesticated right now. He still eat meat? He gonna be a vegetarian. What the hell you think, he gonna be vegan? Nah, he gonna be. Nah, yeah, mine gonna be a vegetarian. Oh, he gonna be pescatarian?

40:26Shannon Sharpe:A pescatarian. We eat fish and. What the hell is that? Seafood. Seafood.

40:32Joe Johnson:Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, my hyena's going to be a peggotarian. Okay.

40:38Shannon Sharpe:That damn thing going to eat Ocho ass over there. Exactly.

40:45Joe Johnson:Fine. I got this. I got it.

40:48Shannon Sharpe:And ISO, please pray for Brother Ocho if he gets a hyena pup. Man. Is KJ gaming one, bro? Ain't no praying. Ain't no praying for this man.

41:03Shannon Sharpe:Gregory Grogan, 4877. What's up, Nightcap? Has anyone been to New York? I traveled to New York for the Cardinals and the Yankees, and we're looking for some good to eat. Any ideas? Absolutely. I have no idea. Ain't no problem.

41:20Joe Johnson:Be careful. Hey, it's a little Cuban. Look, you probably might not like the restaurant I choose. Little Cuban spot. Little Cuban spot. Oh, you like Cuban sandwiches? No, not sandwiches. I always get chedasco. Steak, white rice, maduros, sweet plans with it. I like the Cuban sandwiches without the pickle.

41:41Shannon Sharpe:Hey, tell them go to Tao. Oh, 58? Oh! Tao. What's it called? Tao, 58, between Park and Madison.

41:54Joe Johnson:You know what? I don't even like the sound of that. No, it's good.

41:57Shannon Sharpe:It's Asian fare. They got skewed. Yeah. I used to go there all the time. Me and my girl, she works in NFL, Tracy Pearlman. Man, we used to be all over. We went to Tile, we go to Del Frisco's, Peter Luger, Sparks, Ben Benson, King. You name a steakhouse, I done been to it. Hey, hey, hey, that Peter Luger jumping ain't on. Peter Luger like that, oh yeah. Ooh, I used to stay in Peter Luger, boy. Yeah. Yeah. Peter Luger night. The way they cook them steak. Ooh.

42:28Joe Johnson:Y 'all name it all this stuff, it costs money. Everything costs money. Hell yeah. Yeah, but I mean, it's about steak houses. Yeah, I'm down for a good steakhouse.

42:38Shannon Sharpe:But you know what? I've opened my palate. I've broadened my horizons. What, you enhance your taste buds? I did, MCK got me, but I gotta go back there though. One more time before we go somewhere else, Joe, we gotta go there one more time.

42:56Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. Yeah. CD doing the dead glare, the Cowboys stadium for the sun. Jerry said, hey, he might consider tending because you know at certain times of the day that sun comes in and sometimes it gets into the eyes. Jerry said he could because if I'm not mistaken, I think they pulled a curtain when the World Cup was there, Ocho. So it could be a situation where he could pull the curtain or he said he might tend it. I don't know. Hold on, the curtain blocked the sun? Yes. Man, y 'all know, I can't remember what year it was. It had to be like 2009 where the NBA All-Star Game was played in Jerry's World.

43:40Shannon Sharpe:I can't remember when it was. And the sun got y 'all? Nah, man, it was a hell of a experience though, Uncle Ojo. Oh my God. Oh my God. Ooh. Woo! They cut up. Man, it's just a hell of a time, Ocho. You know, this is when the stadium had just, it probably hadn't been up no more than about a year or two, for real. You know what I mean? Okay. And to see that big scoreboard that he had, man, it was a nice little vibe. It snowed, it snowed the whole entire All-Star weekend in Dallas that year. You know what it was? That might have been, hold on, that might have been 2011 it may have been it may have been cause that's when they had the storm cause the Super Bowl it snowed during the Super Bowl it snowed hard the whole All-Star weekend bro cause if I'm not mistaken in the All-Star All-Star weekend after the Super Bowl right yeah yeah cause it's in February yeah I'm Mungish Hatigular and I'm back with a new season of the podcast Skyline Drive This time I'm diving into a rabbit hole of peptides, organoids, blood boys, blue zones, and brain replacement to try to understand what this longevity obsession is all about and what it really means to live forever for all of us.

45:00I learned about some rad science. I can make a brain for you and then we can test what draw is the best for your brain as opposed to his brain. Here are some hard truths. I would expect Indians to age faster, but I did not expect it to be almost a four to five year acceleration. And get myself into a world of trouble. I'd say probably start bone smashing. That doesn't work. Make it look more defined. They say it works. I don't know. Listen to Skyline Drive, How to Live Forever on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We've all been there. We've had seasons that have shaken everything.

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49:19Shannon Sharpe:Jim Hills 5, may I get a prayer from Night Camp. was playing basketball two months ago and destroyed my knee. Doing so, finally got the MRI done, tore my ACL, meniscus, LCL, and attempts on how to recover quick. Bro, ain't no recovery quick from that. Bro, you tore your ACL, your meniscus, just one of those alone is you talking about six months. That's just the loan. Hell, how old is it? because he could be talking about longer than that. Yeah. Jim Hill, bro.

50:03Shannon Sharpe:Damn.

50:07Shannon Sharpe:Father God, one of our listeners need you now. He need you to put your hands on him, put your arms around him, and let him know everything's gonna be okay. It seems dark right now, but sunshine follows rain. It's been dark, but the light will shine again. Bro, just stay prayed up. Yeah. Bro, that's a – bro, that's – and you know what it is, Ocho and Joe, is that when a regular person has an injury like this, unless you got millions and millions of dollars, you get rehab twice a week. Yeah. When we get an injury like this here, we go five days a week. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes twice a day. That's why they say, but, man, high athletes – yes, yes, we are, you know, We trained our bodies and we have more muscle mass and the way we eat and the way we train.

50:56Shannon Sharpe:But the treatment that we receive is so different than the normal treatment that a normal civilian would get.

51:06Shannon Sharpe:So you better be paying attention when you go to rehab. Pay attention to what they got you doing early and what you can do at home on your own. Cause them little two days after week, that ain't, man. They ain't doing nothing. They ain't doing damn thing. They ain't doing nothing. That's what got me, Joe. Hey, I paid attention to everything they do. I wrote it down. They was like, dang, you done got so much stronger. Oh my goodness. Because you got to realize, Joe, I had surgery. I had surgery that I had surgery on a Saturday. That Thursday, they had me lunging and squatting on a repaired hip. Yeah.

51:46Shannon Sharpe:They don't play. But I went to YouTube and I saw some of the things that told me what to do. I Googled and said, what should I be doing? They say, do hip, you know, put one leg down and try to raise your leg up. I was doing all that stuff before I got there. I was sitting up, you know, trying to raise my leg. I was doing all that stuff. Yeah, yeah. You got to. Trying to get those muscles to backfire because, you know, obviously they had atrophied somewhat. But, oh, yeah. But, brother, I'm sorry. I don't like to be the bearer of no bad news, Jim. But you got a long recovery ahead of you. Yes, sir.

52:18Shannon Sharpe:Do you think Aaron Hernandez could have been better than Gronk? I was watching edited earlier on TikTok. That boy had some wiggle. He absolutely did. Gronk was just so damn big and just so hard to get down. Once he got the ball in his hands, good luck getting his big ass on the ground. But Aaron Hernandez, he could have been special. Aaron Hernandez, bro, the way he could route you up, the way you could toss him the ball and put him in the backfield, Hand him the ball, pitch him the ball.

52:50Joe Johnson:Hey, what do you do with the ball in his hands, too?

52:53Shannon Sharpe:Oh, man, Ocho, Ocho, Ocho. This kid was special.

52:58Joe Johnson:He was nice, boy.

53:01Shannon Sharpe:Antonio Daughtry, can we give my little brother, Coach P, a sister of O-Life at Savannah State a shout-out and wish them a successful season? Yo, big bro, love you. Appreciate you. Yes, sir. Coach P, congratulations, man. Hey, we need a good season out of Savannah State, man. Don't disappoint us now. We expect big things. I'll be watching. I'll be watching. Little bro letting you know that he's really proud of what you've been able to do. So, and as an alum, I'm really proud. My son, Greason, sprains his ankle a lot. Any tips for strengthening his ankle? And what are some of the tips for recovery?

53:40Shannon Sharpe:He's a receiver and a cornerback. Sometimes I feel like it's the shoes. you gotta hey you gotta get them little bands you gotta get that little band put around your foot and do them and do them style ankle joints this way flex it this way you gotta you gotta keep them ankle strong bro that's where your power and everything come from down yep yep around the world yep gotta do all that bro i had ankle problems man my left ankle was so bad man i thought i was I kept, because what I did, Joe, I was pro-date. You know, a lot of times people roll their ankle, they roll over. I roll mine in. Oh, did you?

54:22Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. That was before they started diagnosing as a high ankle sprain. Yeah. See, I was doing that way back then. Oh, you just got a sprain. I was like, well, damn, why my thing hurt so bad?

54:35Joe Johnson:It hurt, boy.

54:36Shannon Sharpe:And then, you know, once you get tackled, and every time people tackle me, they would tackle me, they would hip drop me. So my ankle would get pinned down upon me. But like Joe said, you got to, what the hell you got? Peanut butter and jelly?

54:56Joe Johnson:Chief ass light bread. You see them Dixie plates, you know I don't use no plates here. I got them same plates, yeah, I don't eat no dishes. Yeah, I ain't paying for that.

55:07Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, you might be right. it might be the shoes. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I see these guys out there wearing no tape on the ankle. I don't know how they do that. I wish them the best of luck. Come on, man. Best of luck. I see Devontae and Tyreek out there with no tape on it. How? No socks. No socks. How? They have on footies, Ocho.

55:29Joe Johnson:Yep. Boy. Let's see how they do it, boy. I got to have on socks. I need something to cover my ankle. I got to have my ankle tape.

55:41yeah

55:44Shannon Sharpe:uh Devin Walsworth's 22 why do analysts have the Panthers finishing last after making the playoffs and nearly beating the Rams what am I missing they don't know

55:55Joe Johnson:nothing listen the analysts making an estimated guess just like everybody else

55:59Shannon Sharpe:don't take it personal before the season started

56:02Joe Johnson:I was the yeah they still got to play

56:08Shannon Sharpe:Drew, love y 'all fellas. Keep bringing these smiles and laughs. Woo-peed. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Apple Body's 925. Ain't nothing good to eat in New York except Tim's. Except Tim's and Pumper Jackets. Damn. New York has some good food now. Yeah. Just getting to it and not getting your head taken off is something entirely different. Hello.

56:36Shannon Sharpe:All right, so I need you to rank the top three cities you played for the baddest women. Damn. Boston, Phoenix, Atlanta, New York, Miami, Houston. Nightcap crew permission to travel will be denied for these cities. You're welcome. I already know. I got my line. Go ahead, Joe. What you got, Joe? What you got? What you got? I'm going Miami first. I ain't going to lie to you. I ain't going to hold you. I'm going Miami one. I'm going Atlanta two. This is my top three? Yeah.

57:13Shannon Sharpe:I mean, I was in Houston for like a split second, but I guess we'll count that one too. And the honorable mention, I count Houston as three, but honorable mentions obviously is Boston, Phoenix. Them two cities, I think are very, very underrated. Okay, Ochoa. Boston and Phoenix? Yeah, because you go up a little higher in Boston, I mean a little north of Boston. Yeah.

57:40Joe Johnson:I'm picking up what you're putting down.

57:42Shannon Sharpe:Now we talking, okay? That's all I'ma say, okay? You like caramel and wavy hair, if that's what your taste is.

57:54Joe Johnson:Yeah, you know this is a nice community that Cape Verdean is down there. It's up there, I think it's like Brockton or something.

58:01Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, Ocho. All you gotta do is go to damn Hoes Food or CVS some damn way, okay? You ain't got to go far. Yes, sir. Woo, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

58:22Shannon Sharpe:Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Woo.

58:33Yeah.

58:33Shannon Sharpe:Damn. Let's go on up there. You got something to say, Uncle? You good? I ain't got nothing to say. I ain't got nothing to say. I'm just so old poor hustling just trying to survive this cruel and harsh world. I ain't got nothing, you know. Hey, like my old Uncle used to say, I can't kill nothing, won't nothing, die.

58:53Shannon Sharpe:I ain't got nothing. I ain't got nothing. Mama watch it. You know what I'm saying? Me talking about don't be playing with me. Yeah, them boys back in the day, that's your wish. Man. Yeah, it's something about, hey, you mean one in Target? I don't know what it is about Target. But you mean one in Target? You got your boy, look at him. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Target? If you mean one in Target, Hose Food or the Publix, something like that.

59:29Oh Joe, I'm just saying,

59:32Shannon Sharpe:Chad and I have been a while, okay? I ain't been on -

59:36Joe Johnson:I ain't been on no scene.

59:39Shannon Sharpe:I ain't been on the scene like that, but when I was, all you had to do was go to Target, Holes, Fools, or Publix. And what I'm talking about in Miami, I'm talking about in Florida. Ooh. Lord, have mercy. Can't they be out there like that, Joe? They go to Whole Foods, don't you? They go to Whole Foods, they come straight out the jail. You know what I'm saying? They come straight out the jail. Oh, man. They got the little jacket on. Oh. Come on, huh? Come on, huh? Talk slow so they know. Yeah. Talk slow so they know. Huh?

1:00:12Joe Johnson:Hey, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

1:00:13Shannon Sharpe:I mean, he he go, acting like he don't know. Sometime they got a one on and sometime they got a... Oh, yeah, yeah. Nah, nah, nah. There you go. There you go. The two piece? Hey, you got eyes, don't you? Yeah. Yeah, my arm. It's something about that onesie, though. It's something about that onesie. It's something about it. Mm, mm, mm. Mm.

1:00:44Shannon Sharpe:Boy, I saw one the other day. Huh? Bar, body harder than a 25-cent jawbreaker. I ain't lie to you boy. Huh? Think of it a liquor store. Hey, hey, hey, hey, think of it a liquor store pickle. Yeah, Joe. The last one in there just be floating. You know the last one in there be floating. Sometimes Joe, you know sometimes Joe, they two in there and they can't get to the top. That last one. Yeah, yeah.

1:01:17Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.

1:01:24Mm-hmm.

1:01:26Shannon Sharpe:Man, good God Almighty. That way I go Saturday morning. When I go to Whole Foods, I try to go first day Saturday morning, soon as they open. Hey, I be waiting at the door, waiting for the door to open. Hey, you don't want no problem. Get my orange juice, get the dogs. Ain't nobody there. Bounce.

1:01:46Shannon Sharpe:Man, don't be going there. You best probably going there at 9, 10, 30, 11, 12 o 'clock. you looking for trouble oh yeah

1:02:00Shannon Sharpe:that concludes this episode of Nightcap want to thank you guys for joining us again as always it's been a pleasure thank you y 'all know who I am I'm your favorite my partner and co-host Liberty City's own Bingo Ring of Fame honoree the Dade County native hey the six time pro bowler three time all pro that is Chad Ocho Cinco Johnson And the third member of the Big Three, a Little Rock, Arkansas native, Little Rock, Arkansas, University of Arkansas alum, the smooth shooting two-guard, seven-time NBA All-Star, Mr. Clutch himself. That is ISO Joe Johnson. Please make sure you hit that subscribe button.

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