Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson is a former NFL wide receiver who spent the majority of his career with the Cincinnati Bengals. He now co-hosts “Nightcap” with Shannon Sharpe and is also a commentator for ESPN. Theo is joined by the one and only Ochocinco while in Miami. They talk about how he navigated his unique and illustrious career, why he only dates moms now, and how he leaned on a sultry profession to survive before the fame… Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson: https://www.instagram.com/ochocinco/ ------------------------------------------------ Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com ------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: Celsius: Go to the Celsius Amazon store to check out all of their flavors. #CELSIUSBrandPartner #CELSIUSLiveFit https://amzn.to/3HbAtPJ Acorns: Download the Acorns app and sign up with code THEO20 for your chance to get your refund matched and invested in you. Tecovas: Go to http://tecovas.com/theo to get 10% off when you sign up for email and texts. Manscaped: Go to http://manscaped.com and use code THEO to get 15% off your entire order. BetterHelp: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp — go to http://betterhelp.com/theo to get 10% off your first month. Shopify: Go to http://shopify.com/theo to sign up for your $1-per-month trial and start selling today. ------------------------------------------------ Music: “Shine” by Bishop Gunn Bishop Gunn - Shine ------------------------------------------------ Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to: [email protected] Hit the Hotline: 985-664-9503 Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: https://www.theovon.com/fan-upload Send mail to: This Past Weekend 1906 Glen Echo Rd PO Box #159359 Nashville, TN 37215 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoVonClips Shorts Channel: https://bit.ly/3ClUj8z ------------------------------------------------ Producer: Zach https://www.instagram.com/zachdpowers Producer: Nick https://www.instagram.com/realnickdavis/ Producer: Trevyn https://www.instagram.com/trevyn.s/ Producer: Colin https://instagram.com/colin_reiner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is Chad Ochocinco Johnson?
It is part of it. You know what you signed up for. You know what you signed up for when you make it as a 1% in the NFL. It's a gladiator sport. It's barbaric.
It's a little bit of a bummer because you don't really get as many. There's not enough defensive cornerbacks and safeties. They don't really get enough love then because you don't even get to know them as much because they can't play as much defense. Does that make sense?
A little bit, but some of them have made a name for themselves that are really good. Really, really good. The Jalen Ramseys and McDuffie and, let me see, I'm going to run some of these DBs off. Sauce Gardner, Derek Stingley. Some dudes are really good, regardless of the game changing the way it has. Pat Sertain, Lazarius Sneed, really good. Jalen Johnson, good.
Young dude, Christian Gonzalez with the Patriots. Mm-hmm. Man. Hey, he's an animal.
Wow.
He's an animal. And there's another young fella.
Latino right there.
Yeah, there's another young fella in, damn it. Horn from the Panthers is really good as well. Joe Horn's son? Yeah, Joe Horn. He is nice. Really? So despite the rules being what they are, they've gotten so good technically, you know, trying to adapt to the rules. Yeah. Some of them stand out.
But it feels like there can't really be that beast out there that's just like clapping dudes down.
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Chapter 2: What are Chad's thoughts on dating?
I mean, look at this shit, bro. Hey, listen, he's on a historic run right now. He's on a historic run in his own lane doing what he does. I love him to death. I love him to death. You know, obviously a friend of mine before football. Oh, really? Yeah, before football. Yeah, this goes way back. And that's someone I will always support, whether it's up close, whether it's from afar.
You know, his decisions that he makes, you know, that's him. He's a grown man. But there's one thing about him, I'm going to always love him.
No, that's nice to hear, man. Yeah, I will say this. There's something extremely lovable about him, right? It's like whatever he does or anything he's saying, him as a person, he has such a warm energy and smile. And now I haven't seen a darker side of him. There may be, I don't know. But he's got such a smile that it's like... You want to hear what's going to happen with him.
Yeah. Very interesting. Very unpredictable. Unpredictable. That's what makes this so awesome. Because you don't know what the fuck. Excuse me. You don't know. You can curse? You can curse.
You don't know what the fuck is going to happen next. Because I don't even think he knows. He might know. But you're like, I'm going to ride with him even if he doesn't.
Everything AB does right now is strategic. It's strategic. It's planned out. And he's two steps ahead of everybody else.
Yeah. I love hearing that. Yeah, Belichick really opened a portal with dating a young lady, man.
Yeah. I mean, a portal. Yeah, I had the opportunity to work with Bill this past season on NFL Films. So Bill was there with me and Ryan Clark and Chris Long. And did you get to meet his girlfriend then? No, I didn't meet her. I think I might have saw her once.
People are almost overshadowing his acumen and what he's done with her. You know, the media will do that a lot of times.
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Chapter 3: How does Chad view player safety in the NFL?
Well, there are a lot of white guys, too. They have a lot of kids as well.
Yeah.
But I think we just get caught up in the moment most of the time. And I think our counterparts, on the other hand... They have a little bit more discipline in that area. But I think they're not as bad as us. What do you mean our counterparts? I mean white guys. Okay, so white guys versus black guys.
I'm not even looking at it like in a, I guess I am looking at it obviously in culture. I'm not really looking at it in race, but I'm looking at it in culture. So I'm thinking in black culture, is it more of a thing to have?
It happens a lot because we get caught up in the moment. Okay. We get caught up in the moment. Now, I'm one who's one of those. And y'all like to spike the ball. Yeah. But for me, everything I've done was strategic and not done on purpose. There was a method to my madness. There's a method. Nobody's I'm not having kids. Nobody's running to child support and old chat. No, no.
Yeah.
Yeah, you meet some thought at an equinox or something.
And you have a child, and the first thing you wonder why things don't work out. Yeah. Not things most times don't work out.
But no, it's like, yeah, you don't know who you're, you're putting yourself at risk.
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Chapter 5: How does Chad approach mental games in football?
I want to do. They don't have this anymore, huh?
I don't know. Have you ever considered investing in a type of athletic league?
Nah. Nah. Mm-mm. No, I will stick to the things I know, and that is cigars. Yeah. Cigars and kids. Those are my investments. Okay.
Do you think they have one last question on gay players? Do you think they got enough? Ocho, tell me this. Do you think they got enough gay players in the NFL to beat the Jets? Be real with me, Ochoa.
I have no idea. You would have to go by position. Is there one gay player at each position that is one of the best in the game at their position? But even then, I'm not sure. The Jets obviously looked bad last year. Ain't no telling. Ain't no telling how they're going to be this year now that they have a quarterback in Justin Fields. So we'll see what happens. That's a good question.
I would like to see that game.
I like that hypothetical.
Thank you, sir. I would love to see that. And who would I even cheer for now? I would cheer for the gay team. I probably would, too. Yeah. I'd be out there. Shit, I would coach them. I'd waterboy them dogs. I'd be out there waterboying, dude. We got a little bit of zest sauce for everybody in the huddle.
How tough is it for a player if you're going to a new team, if you know that the quarterback hasn't had a ton of success? Is that a tough spot to be in? How do you manage your expectations? Like, you know, you're going to a team where – You know, maybe you leave in a team that had like a Drew Brees or a Tom Brady, right? And you know the balls are coming, right?
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