Candid interview.

The end is near but what exactly is “near?”

That’s the question Joe ponders after watching park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking, tequila-shooting, smartphone-scared, waffle-grilling, trophy-throwing, roller-coaster-petrified, Bucs-Super-Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady have a sitdown with “Good Morning America” co-host and Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end Michael Strahan.

Strahan met up with Brady at the MouseHouse in Orlando and Brady confessed to several things.

Brady, Joe found out, hates amusement park rides but still hops aboard to be with his family, is paranoid of humanity armed with cell phone cameras, and that he sees the sun beginning to set on his career.

What Joe did not learn is when Brady envisions the sun to dip below the Gulf of Mexico?

Strahan decided to purloin Brady’s wife, Gisele Bündchen’s famous post-Super Bowl LV question to her husband, “What more do you have to prove?”

When Strahan asked Brady that, Brady let it slip he understands his playing days are limited.

“About football, once you stop you can’t go back and do it,” Brady said. “I’ve got some more football in me — not a lot. And I know that. What I’ve got left I’m going to give it everything I’ve got.

“That’s the great part about football. It’s not what you did last year. It’s ‘What are you going to do this year?’ For me, it was ‘What am I going to do for the Bucs?’ last year. I still feel that way.”

Later, the subject of the Super Bowl boat parade came up. Brady admitted his memory of that day is a bit spotty.

“A boat parade, which looked pretty cool,” Strahan said.

Brady replied, “From what I remember, yes, it was pretty cool.”

Brady reaffirmed that he was liquored up that afternoon.

“It was great to see you get off the boat,” Strahan said of backup quarterback Ryan Griffin basically holding Brady up as they walked/stumbled past reporters. “You remember that part?”

Brady chuckled and laughed, “Barely. I had a lot of fun.”

Also, Brady openly admitted to a phobia of sorts. One reason he is rarely seen in public, he said, is that he is freaked out by virtually everyone taking his picture or shooting video of him. The video of him staggering along with Griffin helping him was an example of why he’s not hip to hanging out in public.

“It is hard to relax,” Brady said. “It still doesn’t feel comfortable for me with my personality to have people filming. So I tend to stay at home more. I don’t go out a lot.”

Brady must get really triggered when so many people roll up in their rigs on Tampa Bay to take a peek to see if Brady and/or Gisele are lounging at Derek Jeter’s pool.

You can see the full piece of Strahan interviewing Brady in the ABC video below. Joe wonders when is the last time a Bucs player had a sitdown interview with “Good Morning America?”