Stephen A's Take: Stephen A. and Tori discuss Chad 'Ochocinco' Johnson.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is about a football player who had Hall of
Fame credentials, who once dawned a Hall of Fame jacket
on the sidelines when he was catching touchdowns for the
Cincinnati Biggles before his career went in a different direction,
having to go to New England and play with Tom
Brady and Bill Belichick. I'm talking about the one and
only Chad.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
O Cho Sinko, famous these days for being the co
host of Nightcap with My Man Shannon's show. He was
on video talking about a uh breakup with his girlfriend,
I suppose, and he was talking about some things, pretending

(00:40):
about how she left him. You don't believe me.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Take a look for yourself, please, or are you breaking
with that beautiful girl?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Have you seen men? Look at me? She left this?
Look look at this.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
This means look at look at this chocolate. It's not anybody,
it's really Locke chalking.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
She left she left this.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
You know I left me.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
She left you. I'm in my season too. You have left.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
My season.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Oh lord.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Let me say a couple of things real quick. Number one,
I'm proud of my brother chad O Jo Cinco. He's
been through a lot in life. He's overcome a lot
in life, and to see what he's doing with man
Shannon Sharp is admirable. I love seeing last week Chad

(01:38):
O jo Cinco in those commercials previewing the Monday night
football game. I love seeing that. I love seeing him
on this Inside the NFL Show where Ryan Clark and
Bill Belichick and all of those guys. I love that.
I love that because Chado Josinko has a phenomenal personality.
As far as I'm concerted, He's made for this business,
made for television, and I will never root again. He

(02:00):
worries me, though, when he talks about these subjects, because
you never know what kind of stuff people might bring
up about him. And I don't. I worry about him
because I root for him all the time. So I
get the whole sexual chocolate thing. I got that. I
feel you on that. You know what I'm saying. Ain't
nothing wrong with a confident brother, but be careful about

(02:22):
how much you're willing to talk about yourself in that regard.
You never know when stuff can come back to aunt you.
That's just my thinking in today's generation. You know what
I'm saying, and I'll leave it at that. But that's
my man. That's my dog, and I root for him
all the time. And I'm not commenting about who he's

(02:42):
in a relationship with or whatever, but I'll give him
credit for this. I have never seen him with anything
less than a dying piece ever ever. The band got
good tasted, the man got good tastes in turns of beauty,
he's got good taste. I give him nam