- We're getting McDonald's Chad, what do you want?
- Number one, extra cheese with no onions please.
Make sure the fries are fresh and lightly salted.
- You want anything to drink?
- Coke with no ice.
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What's up GQ
I'm Chad Johnson
and these are the 10 essentials that I can't live without.
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- Oh [bleep] yeah, UNO cards.
UNO cards are very important to me.
I've been playing Uno for a very, very long time.
It's something that I've used on all dates that I go on.
Something that you too should use on dates that you go on.
Just regular Uno, all the new stuff that they come up that
with now and just all the extra cards that they put
in the packs.
I, I have a, I play with the old school pack
the old school rules.
It's, it's always been Uno.
I don't like Monopoly unless I'm playing with real money.
We both know I'm cheap, so that ain't happening.
I won the spelling bee one time in kindergarten, but
after that played Scrabble kinda of suck.
And then gaming.
Gaming came to fruit when I was young so.
My next essential is cigars.
This is my vice is probably the only vice
that I do have in life.
There's one thing bad that I do.
This is it.
Oh, that's, any occasion
anything that you can celebrate for that matter.
Being here at the Super Bowl.
You can smoke a cigar for any reason, any occasion.
And I smoked two or three a day and have since 1991.
So I've been smoking for a while and this is my own brand.
If you guys wanna zoom in on that.
I had a three week stent in the DR did my homework.
I had to taste different blends, lots of blends.
I got sick obviously I did that after three weeks
and came up with the Bo Vita, the Good Life
and the El Patron, which obviously we all know means.
THE BOSS
I got into video games.
In what year did ColecoVision come out?
And I'm showing my age here.
ColecoVision was my first system or maybe Pong.
Remember Pong?
Pong, whatever year pong came out
that is when I started playing video games.
Soon after that it was ColecoVision and then Atari.
I'm kind of embarrassed for showing my age
but FIFA 23 is where it's at for me.
I've been playing FIFA since 1994 and I believe I started
on Second Genesis, if I'm not mistaken.
As of right now, I'm the best player
in the world in FIFA and that's pretty much how it goes.
I mean there are 8 billion people in the world
and I've beaten 1% of them.
Yeah, 1% of the population I've already,
I've already beaten.
See you gotta think.
Since 94 to 2023, I've been playing people in general.
I lost a Josh Norman once and it was embarr it was,
it was embarrassing cuz he's not good.
I lost the Reggie Bush once.
It wasn't my fault.
Why would you even challenge me at this point
after all these years?
I mean, they're not gonna win.
It's like saying, oh I wanna play Jordan 1 on 1.
Or I think I could take LeBron 1 on 1.
Like think about it.
Wait, wait, wait.
Just take five seconds and think about it.
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Okay, cool.
Grape has always been, it is always done well for me.
I am married and engaged now
but women in the past, before she came along, years, years
years before she came along.
Told me I had the soft slips that they ever kiss.
And I think the result in that is because of me taking care
of them with grape chap stick for the melanin.
And normally when the sun hits us
we tend to to swell up a little bit.
The lips, lip area, just being like voluptuous
naturally in certain areas because of DNA and shit.
Sunglasses. Sunglasses are very important depending
on the occasion, depending on where you are.
If you don't want people to see where you're looking
these are very important, especially in a public setting.
Nighttime, I'm really not out anyway
so therefore my sunglasses are always worn.
During the daytime.
It's a sign of, okay, I don't really wanna be bothered
because I have on my sunglasses for a reason.
Probably have earbuds too
and the sun obviously being a factor in why I'm wearing 'em.
It could be from Walmart, be from Target.
It could be something high end.
I just needed to structurally fit my face
because my face and my head happened to be so small
which also needed to be done as a study
because I wear a small helmet that they had to create
for me to wear an NFL, which is means to
it's hard for me to find frames to fit me perfectly.
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My next essential boxing gloves, since I've retired
I've needed a hobby that provided structure
in the same discipline that football did.
And I found that love
through boxing full-time and training full-time to prepare
for a fight whenever a fight presents itself.
But seemed like no one wants to fight me
so therefore I just keep training.
- I know you had your debut.
- Yeah, I fucked them up
even though I got knocked down, that looked nice, right?
And so it's been two years now I'm ready to
get back in there and I'm just waiting.
I enjoyed using boxing as a way to prepare
for football season.
It happened when it was supposed to.
I just think about to myself, if I can look like that
in a three week span and look the part,
imagine if I had a a real three month camp,
I'll be a fucking animal.
So I'm gonna continue doing it until
while my body is still able, I've never been hurt before
which is why I can still be active
and move around after all these years.
I'm fans of Err Spence, Bud Crawford.
Did I say boots yet?
Jaron Ennis.
I told Boots, listen, I'll drop the 147
I'll drop the 147 and give this
give these hands now if you want to thump, we can thump.
I got my pro card so I can get in there with him.
I know I can go.
The last dude just ran all 12 rounds.
I know I'm gonna sit there
and and trade with you what you wanna do, homie.
So boots, if you get a chance to see this, let me know.
McDonald became essential for me when it was affordable.
When I was a kid burgers were 50 cents, fries were 20 cents.
I forgot how much soda was.
It was affordable.
Therefore it's all we could afford.
When I was a kid you know what happened
when I was little too.
When I ate McDonald's, I never got hurt.
You know, that's what I did as a kid.
When I ate McDonald's I dominated everything
that I did even in kindergarten.
So what is that?
So what is Ocho vs. Science?
Ocho is truth and facts because I'm sitting right here.
Science is researchers and scientists approving
with those who pay them.
That's what science is.
Hey, you paid me enough money I'll say this
is what's good for the people.
You want me to keep going on this?
This is not a conspiracy theorist.
These are all facts.
Why is everything healthy so expensive?
If it's so healthy for us and the people you care about.
The people.
Why is it so expensive?
Do you wanna know why it's fucking money grab.
You know what's not a money grab McDonald's
cause it's fucking affordable.
Most of you eat salads.
You know what a Big Mac has?
It has fucking lettuce on it.
You like croutons?
We have croutons on here too.
Cough fucking sesame seeds.
Same nutritional facts.
- Why the Coke with no ice?
- You don't need ice.
It comes out the gun cold already.
It comes out the gun cold.
So you put ice, then it saturate your soda
and then it takes away how much you can actually get.
You don't need ice.
My next essential is my wallet.
Wallet's very important
for those that don't have the discipline
in like order like I do.
Wallets are are pretty cool.
Hotel key.
Extreme Action Park.
I got a few points on there for video games and skating.
That's pretty much it.
Always carrying a hundred dollars
for emergency in case you need cash.
2, 6, 8.
I'm missing the 20.
You know, always carry a hundred bucks of cash
in case you need it Like valet.
You wanna tip somebody, somebody homeless
you wanna give 'em money too.
You know what I like?
I like the extended Wallace, they're kind of big.
You could probably put your checkbook in there.
I have a lot of those. I like those.
I like watches.
I like watches, I talk a lot about not purchasing watches
because time is free.
I think a lot of people miss the message
that I say behind that.
There are watches that attain
retain their value when you do purchase 'em.
I have real pieces, but again, the message is going
over people's heads on how I was able to sustain my wealth
or whatever you call it.
- What type of watch is that?
- It's Cartier.
Yeah!
Starters Casio Calculator Watch is a go-to of mine.
Apple Watch for those who are first starting out.
Get you a nice Rolex.
You can get one of those nice.
And you still have its value
if you every eight hour times need to resell it.
My next essential is football and football.
Soccer came to the picture when I was at elementary school.
I'll never forget my PE teacher's name
was Mr. Telles at North Beach Elementary.
You know, PE class they have all the,
all the balls in the net, you know
the big net that they have all, and they open the net.
For some reason I gravitated to the black
and white soccer ball as opposed
to everything else that was inside that net
and just kicking around, kicking around.
That was where the love I would guess, for soccer started.
Even not knowing what I was doing back then.
Football is radar all starting.
This is my my way out.
I played the game for a very long time.
I played it my way
really really my way with some extra added sauce
On top of that.
I then conform to how the media said I should have been
and the NFL league office said
I should have played the game.
So I, no, I have no regrets.
If I could go back and do it again
I'd do it the same way and add some stuff
to it that I thought about once I had left.
I'm Chad Johnson
GQ Thank you for having me.
Thank you for watching.
I love you.