OpTic Podcast - ACTIVISION HAS OUR BACK | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 63

Episode Date: February 16, 2022

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Welcome to episode number 63 of the Eves of the Optic podcast. Episode number 63, brought to you by BetterHelp and Babel. I'll tell you a little bit more about them later on today. It's not that I'm selfish. It's that I've missed this, maniac. I have missed this. Can't believe you were gone for two weeks. I can't believe you were talking shit while I was on my deathbed.

Wait, weren't you talking shit to me because of how long I had COVID? Yeah. Like I had it for like 13 days, like testing positive. Me was, I was, I was, I was, I was, like, longer. Where's Hitch? Is he still dead? Yeah, he's still, he's still, and you know what's crazy about that is that I gave it to him. Roger said. I gave it to him.

Trippie, I gave it to him in Los Angeles. Wait, wait, you said David still has it? Yeah. Dude, I'm not exposing. Actually, I'm gonna snitch. He was in the stew three days ago for two nights in a row streaming. No, he wasn't. Yeah, so that's set up over there is for sure. It's contaminated for sure.

According to the CDC, you're no longer contagious after after five days. Five days. Well, so we got three more days. I don't think he has it. Roger's giving me them. He doesn't have it? Yeah. Stadium. He's a stadium.

First stadium. Yeah. Re-deploying some antigens. You guys want to hear my story and how it happened? It was one of the... COVID story? Yeah.

What? It was... Listen, it happened like this. I go fishing with the Gugans. One rod, one reel. Mike, if you're watching this, fuck you. I'm kidding.

One rod, one real. Matt's in a little giggly mood today. I just see him. Ever since we got here's it. You know what it is? He missed the comedy. He missed. He missed what's up. All right. What were you saying?

Okay. So you know how we went to, we went to L.A. to do the envy house shoot with the, with the women there? I had it there. I was 100% I had it there. Like got it there? No, I had it. It was already inside me. Yeah. I got it at the Google trip for sure. Now, whether that was because one ride and one reel and I shared a staff. steak or I don't know what it was. What steak though? It's just we hired a chef.

You know what I mean? Al-Cheffé. Robi. Chef Wayne. Shout out Chef Wayne who's out there. Bro, I did not say, I didn't know salmon. I didn't know salmon tasted good like that. Like they made this like this salmon on on a on like terriarchy sauce with rice.

Boy, I could not believe. Don't you see when we go out to get sushi? I get like just slabs of salmon on rice You did the last time we wanted to go good sushi you did I love salmon That's your chef Oh yeah I like sad

It's nice and clean So healthy Even though it's raw Which is a little sketch Yeah I didn't know there was What finish your store No no no go ahead

I didn't know there was different Like there's Seafood Specific fish Okay yeah You have to like order it specifically From fucking God knows where I thought I could just go to the store

Buy like salmon from the whatever and just like make my own sushi and then but apparently you get sick or something

yeah because you need like specific sushi yeah have you ever watch the documentary hero dreams of sushi

no incredible incredible incredible it's about discipline it's about loving your craft it's about

waking up every single day with a purpose it is a beautiful thing yeah I'm trying to get there yeah anyway look at Matt

So I wake up on a Saturday. I wake up on a Saturday morning in Los Angeles, West Hollywood. Anyway, I'm going to fast forward. We had a burrito making contest. I took three bites that day. I didn't need, I took three bites of that. Okay, I think I ordered a sausage and cheese muffin for breakfast that day. And it was the worst fucking ever.

I didn't even finish it. I didn't eat it. I didn't want it. I felt like a little stomach bug, but I thought it was from the food. I get on the plane. And that's when one ride sends a message to the text thread that says, I got caught, I tested positive

and I sent it to Jude. Okay, now we're talking on Saturday, right? Saturday, I get home on Saturday. I land on Saturday. I showed Jude this text, Jude, my wife, and she says, go to the garage. And I was like, before you tested or anything? Before I tested her and she didn't get no fuck.

She sent me out to the wolves to die by myself. You know what I mean? You know how women say, or marriages in sickness and in health, trippy? Don't believe that shit. It's only when they are sick and that we're supposed to be there for them. But the man, if the man gets sick, if the man gets sick, it doesn't matter.

You go to the garage sleep with your boat, she said. Go sleep with your boat. Hug a pillow. And how was that? It was the worst, man, five days by myself. Did you enjoy any of the days? Like, damn, I don't got to do shit. No.

Watch a show. Is that your worst nightmare? That was, it was, I don't like being alone. I realized that I don't like being alone. But I realized also that you get very comfortable being alone. You get very comfortable in not having your typical day-to-day responsibility. Like when I got COVID, I kind of enjoyed it. And then it turned, well, at first I was like, God, I can't do anything.

And then once I started doing nothing every single day, just wake up, maybe shower, lay on my couch for like 14 hours. After like seven days of that, I was like, okay, I'm like adjusted. to this life. I've lost all of motivation. So yeah, it takes a toll on you. Dude, I lost 16 pounds because I couldn't eat food. No way. 16 pounds. 16 pounds.

When I had COVID, I gained weight. Because I was just so bored. Just bored eating? Yeah. And everything, like I didn't want to, I'm not going to eat clean when I have COVID. So it's just like Oreos, cookies, chips, just yeah, fast food. Chips. Nah, to me, to me, I couldn't eat anything.

I went from eating anything and everything to only eating three bites a day. So to give an example, I ordered North Italia, which obviously everybody knows what this fucking fire. Obviously, I order the chicken palm. Obviously, it gets to my, to the, it gets delivered.

I cut it up. I take a bite and immediately just as soon as it hit my mouth, I just put that shit away. I knew I wasn't going to finish it. I had no interest in eating. I had nothing. Pukin? That's how you know you're sick too.

If you didn't even eat. No. And it wasn't like a loss of taste or any of that. It was just, I had pressure behind my eyes. So every direction that I looked in, it hurt. And I just fatigue. I didn't want to lift a finger. I didn't want to do anything. I remember on that Monday taking a phone call just like this. And I'm just like, yeah, I'm not doing this again. So for like two weeks, it was bad. So I stayed away from the house for six days. And even even after the time where you're no longer contagious, I still stayed in my, slept and stayed in my

office at home for five additional days. I'm gonna be honest. Last night was the first night that I slept in my bed since the 29th. What? I swear to God. Damn. Yeah. Last night. 29th, so like half weeks?

Yeah, two and a half weeks without sleeping in my bed. And I love my bed, man. There's not a happier place on earth than my bed. You were on the garage couch. Didn't you get a hotel? I got a hotel for the like on the on the tail end of it. Like were you just tired of being in your garage? I was just tired of.

not being able to shower, like steam shower. Uh-huh. You know? I bet the garage was cold, right? Not, well, not upstairs. Not upstairs, no. Downstairs, for sure. Not upstairs.

Upstairs, the, the, the, the heat took care of it. Either way. Were you depressed? I don't think so. I don't know. I don't know. I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know how what depressed, depressed mean.

Bro, formal said something to me the other day. Um, he was like, what do you mean you're depressed? And I was like, I was like, you don't get it? Like, you really, like, don't. And, like, I try to explain it to them. What sort of feeling is it? Like, is it a cry?

Like, I want to cry feeling? No, it's like, it's not like a sad. It's just like a... No motivation. I just feel like blank. Like, I just want to... That. I mean, I don't want to smile.

I don't want to talk. I don't want to watch. And nothing's enjoy it. So you want to be dashed you right now. I just fucking shit. You might be depressed. I don't know. Have you ever thought like four four more just like doesn't have that feeling I don't know about the press I don't have that feeling either

Yeah. I don't have that feeling either do you know no no you don't have a depressed feeling? I don't think so I think it's just like I wish that you can like You can make depression for like an hour so I did too that's why I was like were you depressed though? Yeah, you're just like me like yeah man. I finally get it He's like yes no I don't think so I mean I did miss like coming here. I missed uh like I I I I I I I I I couldn't do anything. Like more than anything, I just missed doing stuff. Like, I feel like I wasted two weeks of my life. Yeah. You know what I mean?

I went from waking up as me and... Imagine how I feel. What? The amount of time I've wasted. Yeah. But at least you're young. You know, I'm 42. I just turned 42 last week on the ninth, 42 years old.

Damn, that's crazy. To say it, to say it, it doesn't feel real. 42. 42. Ancient. It's ancient. Think about this. 1980 is when I was born.

1985 I was five years old. You're like the Hall of Fame like boomer. Yeah, you're the boomer. Yeah, well, according to the age bracket, I'm still considered a millennial, which you're fucking right. All right. So let's get on with the show.

Thank everybody for stopping by and listening to me. You guys want to hear the most fucked up thing about this thing, about the whole thing? Uh-huh. Okay. I had THC withdrawal. Okay? And it's not like a traditional like drug withdrawal where you like have shakes and you have like itching.

No. It's it affects you when you sleep because it affects your REM cycles. I had a dream on, what was on the seventh day when I was at the hotel. It was one of the nights that I stayed at hotel so I could shower. I woke up at 1.30 a.m. And I could not. And now this is going to sound fucking trippy and it's going to be pine park. Okay.

We get it. But there's none of that. Again, I literally have been clean. I haven't smoked in like three weeks or since L.A. Clean. Okay? Why not? It's just one, you know, there's.

You didn't want to? Well, there's none here. Well, it's Texas. Yeah, it's illegal. Secondly. Yeah, every time I smoke, like I fly to L.A. I'd smoke and then I come right back. Yeah.

So like that aside, like I literally didn't. I just didn't want to do anything. And then when I finally came back to normal, I didn't want to alter my state of mind because I had been on such a fog for two weeks. that I wanted to experience life normal. But anyway, it was 1.30 to 2 a.m. in the morning. I wake up from a fucking, like, dream. And I could not understand how breathing became such a task.

Okay? I woke up thinking NFT breathing. Every single breath that I took had a dual purpose. And every, every breath that I took took the shape of a cylinder because of the esophagus, I'm assuming. And it was like, this is a breath. Attached to this breath is a component. that is labeled NFT, which means that every breath that I take doesn't necessarily mean that it's following.

I'm so, you can't. There's so much now certain thing involved. There is nothing. There is nothing to understand. With With anything. There is nothing to understand. It's nonsensical.

I understand, but I'm just trying to tell you guys the fucking fuckery that was going on in my brain. Yeah. It got to the point to where I almost called the ambulance because I was having a fucking, what I assume was a panic attack. attack because every like my brain was was just infected with like cylinders of of breaths just like imagining like cylinders that that that were nfti breathing and that it wasn't just for me to be able to get oxygen to my body there was something else to it and that's something else was actually affecting the oxygen to get to my body so i wake up in a fucking panic and i try to calm down i'm breathing i'm doing breathing exercises i'm doing the breathing exercises and then i'm like all right cool

I'm going to try to go to sleep and just what the fuck am I going on. So I lean, I lay back down. I put the covers over me and I'm like, all right, breathe. And I'm like, why the fuck am I telling myself to breathe? Why am I on manual breathing? You know what I mean? I literally thought I was going crazy. Never in my life have I been more scared of my own brain ever in my life.

I've experienced that. Have you? Kind of sort of. I mean, I don't know about the NFT shit. But like sometimes I'll wake up and I wake up and I, like, I wake up and I instantly You have to be like, it's like I'm like not breathing when I sleep. Yeah. And like I like sort of wake up into like a panic of like, it's like I was fighting a wild animal or something.

Yeah. And I just wake up and I like have to breathe. Like I feel so deoxinized. Yes, yes. That's a word. That's a word. Just said it with confidence. It literally fucked me up.

Like I was, I was, I could not make sense of it. Your first no anxiety attack? I think so. I mean, it had to have been. Nice, nice. It had to have been. Like, I was in a panic. Good to hear.

I think it had mostly to do with the fact that I was alone. You know what I mean? Like, I had nobody to take care of me. Like, no one, no one took care of me. Nobody reached out. Nobody had said, yo, how you doing? Well, how many times did you text me? Yo, what's up?

How you been? Nothing. On a single time. You know why? Because we're men. We don't need that shit. I'm kidding. Sometimes if you have your, like, first anxiety attack, it, like, sparks it for,

I don't know about life, but for, like, a few years. Like, I had my first. panic attack when I was 21 or 20 I forget um but I had my first panic attack it was bad it was like 16 hours of hell like it was like 16 hours of waiting for my heart to explode and like yeah um but after that once I finally gathered myself and it this all happened at a T-O-N like oh the land network yeah and I always tell APG he's the one who caused my panic attack because he was like on the ground sleeping in front of us and like twitching in his sleep and I smoked that night and so I was just like I don't know I just started tripping I was like this kid is so weird man like what is

going on it's so weird and I just started having a panic attack and I felt like like everyone's like looking at me like everyone knows I'm kind of freaking out right now I like go upstairs and I'm like laying on the bathroom floor and shit but yeah I had my first panic attack and then I came home and I started getting him sober. Like even without like smoking or anything. And I was like, oh no. And, uh, yeah. And then like years, probably like two, three, four years after that, like I would like

kind of get him. But the more I got him, the more I like learned from them and was like less afraid. Yeah. Like I just realized I had to like sit through it. Just like wait. Have you ever had a panic attack? I don't think I ever have, no. It's like those are the same thing like Nick.

Just panic and like anxiety. Panic. Yeah. I use panic attack when it's really. like panicky and I think I'm gonna die and my heart's gonna explode. Yeah. Like anxiety attack,

it's like I'm really like nervous and anxious and it's sort of like a lesser is what I sort of define them as. I think I just have a really stupid brain that says it's impossible for you to make your heart like you're not that by calm down. You're not that powerful where you can make your own heart explode by overthinking.

Would that be typical? No, yeah, it would be. You're like you're meditating there. It's like explode, explode, explode. Heart attack, I was like asking them. Like, should I go to the, I think I was talking to West in the clutch.

And I was like, should I go to the hospital? He's like, no, man, no, you're good. Just like, just lay down, relax. And I was like, damn. He's like, burning his hair through his fingers. I'm like, I'm just late. And I was thinking like, I'm going to die here. Like, I was like, damn, I might actually die here.

Like, I might fall asleep and like not wake up. And it's, this is how it is dying at a T-O-N. Yeah. I did somebody, who was it? I'm not going to go into that one because it was just me being like over like I'm an asshole but this time I was like a really fucking like didn't give off I was so sick that I didn't give a shit what happened and I fucking almost went in on this fucking nobody from nowhere but I didn't because I'm nice. All right let's let's let's get into it now that I've gotten my NFT breathing out of the way like holy shit man that was crazy my man dashy I come back and we fucking defeat a team. And you know what's crazy? It wouldn't have mattered who it was. It could have been Paris. It could have been phased. It doesn't matter who it was. It was a guarantee when the second

Papa come home, vibes are back immaculate. You know what I mean? Back to normal. Back to normal. Rogers no longer stressed out of his mind yelling at people fucking making his little sex dungeon back there. The back corner. And everything's good. So we've been Paris three, obviously. There's been a lot of talk about. Leadership, lack of leadership. Like this was like you don't know just just cat you're not in the trenches you know what I mean lose too serious it and it's it's it's over but make a roster change we suck we're never gonna win yeah I'm like everyone just take a deep breath you know yeah they take a page out of nix you know saying when you wake up take a deep breath I'm busy guys it's

it's okay it's okay we're gonna lose a series of you yeah okay it's uh it's it's crazy to me like look I get it like analysts need to say something right they can just so they got to make shit up and shit I get some You know what I mean? They gotta get clicks somehow. What works? Optics in trouble right away. Throw a thumbnail on that shit. That shit's gonna sell. 20K, easy.

Optics in trouble. That's the title or shit? Just like dumb-downeer of me just like coming in late to the studio or shit? I did say, yo, you haven't been late and chat, I mean, everybody watching? I'm feeling, by the way. I was, you know how I reversed into my parking spot? I was taking a meeting about two days. Oh, I was talking to Stroh yesterday.

Two days ago, I was talking to stroh yesterday. And we're just, you know, talking, talking, talking. And I see fucking this guy running, bro. With his beads and holding his wallet and this fucking backpack. And I'm like, oh, Michael, look at this. Bro, I couldn't get my phone out past. I'm just like, I got to, you know, I'm not gonna be fucking late. I saw Ray too, because Ray was at this too.

So it's like the one time he's there and I'm showing up late. Wait, late to what? Like warm ups for a match or something? Practice, practice. Oh. My reputation's clean. Yeah. Gotta keep the- You probably had one of those mornings where it's like, yo, we scrim it one.

wake up it's 1255 just don't shower now that's right that's exactly how he looked running he was like he was he was he was holding his phone on his pocket because he's wearing sweatpants obviously so he's got his head yeah he's rolling he's pulling his pants up that feels so good uh all right so what's up like what what uh has has there been any uh obviously the the the the two first matches i had covid so obviously we we weren't expecting to perform as well as we we were we were right expected to but who do we lose to we lost to a hundred thieves right we lost to hundred thieves and who else our Minnesota and London okay yeah so we we didn't we didn't we didn't get that that that that hot of a start but you know what who cares because

we're usually starting off hot as shit yeah yeah because if we were to start off hot you know what the narrators were yeah I mean they're just gonna break later on in the yeah so now we start off and then you'll like get a tough loss and it's like here it goes They're like, yo, they stop trying. They're not even showing up to scrimms anymore. Like, you guys are just making up shit. They're so ready. They're like, so ready, especially they look and they're like, title, thumbnail.

They see, they see me hop on Val. It's like, you see he's not dedicated? Holy shit. Just scrimmed for 12 hours. You hop on Val for two. Just shooting in the range. They're like, dude, he's not committed at all. Like it's clear.

Speaking of Valorin, speaking of Valorin, okay, I am so out of shape. Last time I spent this much time watching e-sports in a single day had to have been like during the scuff house. Because I was watching Halo. I was watching Val-B. Bro, Valeran started at three and at 7 p.m. I remember the texting stro, I'm like, Jesus fucking Christ, we get it. Right? Like we haven't played in a long time.

But God damn, bro. Like it was a four-hour grueler. I have you guys started? The series was four hours long? Bro, it was long. Was it the best of five? No, it was the best of three. Bro, it went on, it went on for what felt forever.

But it was good. Obviously, like, this is the first time that I've actually cared about Valorant. So, like, watching from start to finish. And then having obviously Halo, like, on there too, bro. By the time that that match was over and by the time that you guys played your second match, I was like literally, like, fighting to keep my eyes open. And I wake up the following day and it's like seven hours ago. I think it was like 10.30 p.m.

And I'm just sitting there on my phone. Yeah. No battery. Just watching it. No charger. So anyway, we ended up losing to Rise 2-1. I'm excited for the future in this journey of our valor and squad. It's going to be our new CET.

Because I feel like I haven't made friends with anyone since, like, the CS team. Yeah. The CS team besides the Halo players and the cod players. Yeah. So I want to meet these guys. I need to watch more Valour. I don't watch enough. Yeah, I don't.

I played it a little bit, but I haven't watched any. Did you watch any of it? I mean, it was a Sunday. So it's like Super Bowl Sunday, too. That was like the other thing. I know. Super Bowl Sunday, Halo and Valor. I'm not gonna, I was MIA that whole day.

It was setting it to watch any of the Super Bowl. I was milking sleep because, yeah, because you know, my perfect rep, I had to make sure I was on time and shit. So we're only averaging five hours of sleep. So I was like five hours, that's nothing. Do you really only sleep like five hours? Yeah.

What are you? typically uh five six probably seven lately six or seven but like i'm used to nine 10 11 12 yeah keep going but now that i'm like forcing myself to get up in the more or forcing myself to work out in the morning i'm like waking up by seven

usually honestly but like midnight ish sometimes fucking 930 or something but usually like midnight to seven if i get seven i'm chilling i'm usually in bed by 10 up by like seven, seven 30. When you wake up though, do you, could you go back to sleep? No, but if I do, and I have tried it. I have tried it, I wake up and I feel like shit. I feel like I just want to stay in bed for the rest of the day.

When you wake up and then go back to sleep from like seven to nine or something. Yeah, I just wake up just tired. I'm just like, I don't want to do nothing. In a bad mood. Yeah, it just, I don't know about a bad mood, but it's just like a shitty mood. Just like I don't want to do anything. Like I'm irritable. Like it's better to just like open my.

eyes and it's like all right my body sets it's time let's get up and and you know go go exercise you know what I mean because I I too exercise now yeah I live a healthy lifestyle you've been killing it lately you know what I'm saying didn't you work out like I went on a 16 day street is free yeah were you working out with Mike to working out no about myself he gave me he gave me the program he gave me the program but like I did I I wake up I go into my small garage hop on the treadmill like I'll walk for two miles and then I'll run the last mile at like four and a half five speed and then I'll just start doing weight training are you slacking because you were big into working out I was yeah you were

like ever since this game came out it's just been so inconsistent yeah yeah are you uh can you tell when you look in the mirror oh yeah you look in the mirror and you're like gotta start over like god damn it's like what I used to look like and what I look like now it's like you're a big boy back in the day huh yeah I didn't know you back like the trippy I know is yeah you now yeah so I never knew that guy but I did see I came in as soon as like you came

out yeah as soon as he took me out yeah yeah listen it was up to you all you had to do is perform okay what did you go it's either you're gonna listen listen look at the teams I was on this is the thing okay an optic you're either gonna give me wins or you're gonna give me viewership I'm gonna

paint somebody to fucking play video games for a fucking live we had decent viewership I'm gonna play you to have fun when it was me and Mike, like, even though he had some shit teammates, like, we would still do decent viewership. But yeah, we were, you had Braden

we could barely. You had Braden rules your teammate. And he left us nasty. He came, did a boot camp, got good as fuck, the left. Yeah, Mike ruined him. He's got a long hair like Mike now. He lives this you know, this hippie lifestyle. Yeah, this hippie lifestyle. And now no one can beat him.

Well, yet. Not yet. No one has beat him yet. You know what I mean? You know, this is the This is the second set. Can we talk about that? Yeah. Why?

I want to know from your point of view what makes, well, I'll tell you my point of view first. I think C-9's the best because all four of their players are like cracked. All four of their players are cracked with the weird weapons. The manglers, needlers, shock rifles, snipers, all the weird stuff. I feel like all four, especially penguin renegade and a stellar, they're really. good eco is even really good with it and I feel like you guys aren't as good with that stuff yeah as they are right now before straight BR you think they'd like is that an accurate analysis I think if it was straight BRs like we would yeah a lot of those games that we played

them like they have really good starts so when they get catch momentum and then they get the weapon they get all the weapons oh S rocket they're all so like all four them are so consistent so it's like Once they get a good start, like oddball, for example, it's so hard to break a setup. Yeah. Because they all are four so individually skilled. Yeah. And like their teamwork. Do you think they're, do you think they reign supreme with the power weapons over like everyone else?

No. No. Okay. I mean, we got Tommy, Mr. Fiesta on our team. Yeah. That's what I call them. See, I feel like, yeah. Mr. Fiesta.

Tommy. Like Fiesta like, like, he goes for every. He goes for random weapons. Yeah. He has everything. He spawns with like a gring gun. He doesn't have a BR. It'll be like commando,

plasma pistol. It's insane to be watching you guys play. It's like a laser one. Or is that not a laser one? Sentinel beam? Yeah. No, no. The shock rifle?

Yeah. The one head shot. The one head shot. There's a sentinel beam or a shock soccer rifle. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, the three shot. Yeah.

That one looks kind of broken. I'm not going to lie. It's crazy. It's kind of hard to aim. But if you. Use your right stick. Yeah. Aim with your left.

I feel like that's kind of like the commando as well. Like if I shoot the commando, it's just like fucking barely have my thumb on the joystick. I feel like they got to get rid of like shotguns too. Whenever I see someone of shock them like, they got to do something, man. Because it's like, even watching is just like, I don't know, it's weird. You never see the BR when you're watching. Yeah. I tell you what, though.

I mean, during the Super Bowl, Halo still had 100,000 people watching it. I was going to say, was it that many. It was fucking insane. Did the Super Bowl help though? Because everyone's at home. Like everyone's on their phones or TV. It's another tab. That's true.

But I don't know. Other East sports were live. What I liked, what I liked about, a shout out to Mixwood. Shout out to fucking Territ. God damn it. These two dudes, as soon as, as soon as the optic valerent, they both put on their jerseys, their optic jerseys. And they did watch parties.

Terrick's the man. Terrick is the fucking man. 100%. Oh, really? They did that? Dude had 30,000. Weren't they playing? No, no.

They were a watch party. Terek had 30,000 people watching them play. Well, watching them watch the party. He's been... But his op-in-jurz. Huh? Hilling it on Vow. Is he good? Of course he's got, I mean...

Well, he's nasty, but, like, his stream's been... He's still pro? I don't know if... No, he's not still pro, but he could if you wanted to for sure. He just focused on streaming because he's averaging 20K viewers. You know what I mean? Mixwell had like... It's a good idea.

Mixwell had like 17,000 people watching them, which is insanity. She's green wall. They're so proud, so proud of those two. It's good to see them thriving. Waiting on the Optic Gears team from back in the day to perform in Halo because they're like all still kind of teaming, but they're playing Halo down. I remember watching them in the,

going through the Ambracket. They lost like the avatures team. I remember they all. I'm trying to, yeah, I want to see them perform. Yeah, that'd be cool. Because I feel like mental is good at every game. Yeah. So I'm waiting, I'm waiting on him to step.

it up. Yeah, I was hoping that he'd have a better turn up in Cod, but, you know, he didn't get the, I don't think he got the shot. You know, he didn't get the shot that he'd served personally. Yeah. You know what I mean? No challengers. Like, no of that. He could have hung in there. Yeah, 100% man. Anyway, let's go to a quick commercial break. Let's say a little better help and Babel and we'll be right back. Let me start out by saying hello to Babel, who are coming on as the first sponsor for a very, very long time. That's new. So welcome to the Green Wall. Welcome to the Optic Podcast. Everybody check it out.

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God damn. You know what I'm saying? Like, if we're not having fun, we're not doing anything. Period. Okay. Period. Code sign. Period.

You know what I mean? Period. Anyway. Matt has a couple of topics. Who do we have this week, Dashie? Who are we playing? We play Toronto and then Boston. Toronto and Boston.

So Toronto's gonna be a good one, obviously, because- I don't think Toronto's playing with Cammy though, because Cammy's got COVID. Oh, imagine. Isn't it online though? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but apparently they'll play at the facility. It affects you.

Yeah, so they have to play with their sub last week. Yeah, it affects you for sure. Yeah, listen, as a COVID survivor, you know what I mean? It's a person that just hit me that hard. It just hit me that hard. I had the flu for like, or not the flu, but I had a fever for about two days. But after that, it was just like. I almost feel like I wish I would have gotten the fever and like the cough and then just like a three-day thing.

This is all two-week bullshit just like it's not, it's not for me. It's not for me. It's not for me. I feel like I still still to this day I feel like, I don't know. I just don't feel like myself. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah.

It may be. It kind of stayed with me for like a month. Yeah. like it and you just felt like a fog or like yeah like something's like just not like something's off yeah like even when I was like working out like I'm not like ah ha ha it's like I just I just felt like like you don't got that workout face every rep just yeah so like something about like my energy or something yeah it's uh anyway I hope I hope I get like you know it's crazy the craziest thing is that food doesn't taste the same and it's not

because a lot of me it's hard I don't remember losing my my sense of smell or taste. I remember biting into something and thinking, I'm like, oh my God, that's so salty or like, wow, I really taste a tomato. Like, I was able to taste everything, but it just tasted differently and it your balance just shocked. No, I'm going to tell you something. And I just posted this. What it could be, what it could be is a, it's a re, re, uh, resetting of, of your, of your, of your, of your brain. Um, I just posted this on, on on Instagram earlier today. This is what happens when you take 550 doses of LSD all at once. Now, hold up. What is 550 doses? Because you told me this earlier.

So it's like it's 1100 micrograms. What's a regular like trip? I can tell you. I couldn't tell you. Maybe like 20 micrograms. I don't know. I've never I've never, I've never, I've never a couple of friends in high school, Danny Barneek, you know what I'm talking about that muffling? Like he took some ass in high school. And he's he, he, he, he woo. You know what I'm saying? But I never, I've never done. I've done shrooms. I've never done acid. But a 15-year-old girl with bipolar disorder took 1,100 micrograms of LSD. Matt, can you look up how many micrograms are in the tab of LSD? Say she was 15. Huh? Say she was 15. Yeah, when she was 15, yeah. But it reset her brain

chemistry to the point to where two decades later, her bipolar disorder is no longer there. And aside from some postpartum depression, she didn't have any any additional, you know, things. Rashad Evan, How many milligrams of tab at LSD? 0.1 to 0.15 micrograms. This is 1100 micrograms. It lasted, I believe, 36 hours, according to this thing. She's fucking tweaking. Oh, yeah.

She was in the movie arrival. Okay? She was just like somewhere else. You know what I mean? But Rashad Evans, like he went through the same thing. He did ayahuasca. When he came out of it, He said that as he was tripping or as he was having his his his journey, he can smell rotting flesh from what he had been consuming for years.

So he stopped eating meat completely because of it. It rewired the circuitry of his brain. Would you would you do that? Why not? No, of course not. See, I want to, but I feel like, and this is probably a bad mindset to go into it with, but I feel like I'd come out like a fucking freak. Like psych, psychotic. Codic injury.

Yeah, like, it would not cure me. It would just, like, ruin my life. But that's also, like, I also thought about that with mushrooms as well. But when I did mushrooms, it was like, it was like taking a happy pill. Yeah. And so it didn't give me, like, I don't know if acid would be the same to where it's like, I'm kind of scared of it. But then I take it and I'm like, wait a sec, this is kind of nice. I think it was a lot.

Or if I would just freak the fuck out. Well, at one point, within the next year, year and a half, I am going to go on an ayahuasca trip. And yes, I'm gonna vlog it. Optic journey? No, no. I mean, I don't know about that. I just, I just, I don't know. I don't know, I would, I would do it on my own and I wouldn't let anybody know.

Like, I will tell my man Max, who's, who's the CEO of Pine Park. I would let him know. And I would go with him. I just, he just seems like the perfect Sherpa for me to, like, like, I trust him. Like, you know, I believe in him. So he, I'd fucking hold his hand and let him, let him walk me through. But I want to tell anybody until this all sudden done. Wait, is it one of those things, though, that once you try,

let's say, try. changes you like you can't go back right like it's not like ooh that sucks like you're just gonna so like Mike Tyson said if you like who you are today don't do it oh really yeah he also said that it's like getting 10,000 years of knowledge in 20 minutes oh oh yeah like god I hear that stuff and I'm like I have to experience it right like you don't even know that like it's sometime in my life another door yeah like what am I missing because I hear too many stories of like just crazy shit of people like seeing shit uh they're here they're like talking to their dead fucking mom or something yeah like i feel like i have to experience that i feel like i have to

experience it too i think i i have to i'm just i don't know when i don't know like i said within the next year year and a half two years i'm gonna do it i'm like next 10 years but i mean i'm 42 you know what i mean like the time is now you know for me so i don't know Guys are sold on this. I'm not doing that show home. Optic trip to Peru and... The thing is like I wouldn't change anything of my life. I mean, I think maybe eating healthier and exercising

would be like the only one thing that I'm not disciplined enough in. Do you think you'll ever try to like get shredded? I don't know, man. Or do you just want like a healthy like so when you get old, you're not fucking dying like falling apart? So earlier today when you asked them, It was like when you look in the mirror, like, do you see yourself? I've never looked in the mirror and been like, oh.

You know what I mean? Really? I have. Never, dude. It's like almost how I feel, not right now, but I feel like I'm a little fat right now. It doesn't help that I call you a fat ass, right? It doesn't bother me. I don't think so.

I didn't think so. Imagine if it did that, that would be so much funnier. I don't know. I just, I just, I never looked in the mirror and I'm like, oh, man, you could do. You know what I mean? Like, I'm just, I'm just, I just like me. You know what I mean? Maybe it's because you're married, though.

Yeah. So you're like, you're like... What's that, what's that dude's name? The guy that does the shoulder thing, the rapper? Fat Joe? No. Lean back? It's a black dude.

Black, short, short dude. Low Oozzy? Yeah, Little Uzi. Yeah, Little Uzi said, too rich to ever be ugly. That's what he said. You know what he said? What he said? Too rich to ever be ugly.

Oh. I don't know what it is. I'm married. I'm happily married 20 years this past, what's today? That's nuts. 15, so 8 days ago,

20 years. What does it become? Same woman. What is your, because I'm sure at the beginning of your relationship, you're like, fucking goo-go-gaga.

I can't really imagine you being goo-go-gaga, but. Not publicly. It happens. Or it's just, yeah, it's what it is.

But like 20 years later, are you guys, what does that turn into? Dude, I don't know. She drives me crazy. Just like, like,

you walk in, you're like, oh, no, hell, yeah. This is most more like, what up, girl? You know what I mean? I don't know.

I just, it's still the same for me, you know? Like, I, I just don't see myself with any other woman. Like, she's, she does it all for me. From top to bottom. She was a better cook. We, you know, we'd really have a happy marriage, but, you know what I'm saying? She's got too much shit on her plate. But yeah, so I don't know, man.

We were talking last night and we were like, just like, man, it doesn't feel like. It is like a flash in the pan. Did you think you would find, did you see yourself more as a relationship type? Yeah, for always, yeah. I mean. Like you were never a little whore? No, I had my, I had my, I had my go at it. You know what I mean?

Back in the day. I can call it way, way back. I mean, let me, let me do the, let me fucking do the math right because Jude can subtract 20 years and be like, wait, what the fuck should you just say? You know what I mean? Like, this is at year 19. I get into it. No, I, no, I don't know. Just like the second that we started dating, like I knew that that was it for me.

Is it comforting? It gives you. Like having a woman. Yeah, it gives you a certain level of, uh, of confidence and strength that you couldn't find anywhere else, man. You know? Yeah. See, you say that, but I don't think, I don't think that. I say that, but I'm always the one breaking out with my girlfriend's fucking.

I suck. No, it's just to do the right thing, man. I don't know what the right thing is. I think you're doing it. I think it'll, when it happens, it happens, you know what I mean?

Like, I wasn't looking for it. I mean, you just have faith. Or maybe just, it isn't for you. You know what I mean? Yeah,

I don't know. It's not for everyone. Maybe you're just meant to unsheathed the sword and going to Lord of the Rings and venture. Just, just, you know, traversing the United States of America,

taking down chicks left and right, man, maybe that's your life. Bachelor, just a per bachelor. Just a per match. Trebeces. Yeah.

Maybe that is you. Yeah, dude. We'll see. Solo travel. Enjoy it, enjoy. Enjoy. Yeah, me and Ace will just forever be single and travel together. Just go to Thailand.

Probably marry each other. I think you saying traveling with Ace is like part of the problem. You know what I mean? Like that's still on your mind? You're 30. Yeah. Like, no, you're not going to E.B. Again, to just sit around with each other and not talk to girls.

That was so fun. Yeah, I bet. But those were like my fun days where I got to do other stuff. drugs and stuff. So I can't really do that anymore. I mean, you can't. You just not do those two drugs. Our next topic.

That are next topic. Rams win the Super Bowl. Okay, congrats. Tim the Tabman curse was broken. Sort of. If the refs wouldn't have done what the refs were doing at the end there with the amount of penalty, all of a sudden, like they're starting to call shit?

Like, sure. I will say, though, that the commercials were a little bit underwhelming. How are the commercials? ass. Were they? Not good. Nothing.

I mean, dude. I don't get to see an ounce of the Super Bowl. And everyone saves their best for the Super Bowl. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I'm sure they're like planning the commercial for Lord knows how long. All I'm saying is if there, if somebody hired my brain to come up with a commercial, I would have done way better than what the fuck I saw that. I swear to God.

Like it just, it just didn't, didn't hit it for me. I mean, the legends, the cartoon legends of football one was, was fun. You know, it was good to see, you know, uh, the, uh, the, the, it just didn't, it didn't hit it. the legends in there, but at the same time it was a little bit too much, man. I don't know. It just didn't do it for me.

Half time, the halftime show also didn't really do it for me. Yeah. You know what I mean? Mostly because I was expecting, I was expecting fucking Tupac hologram to come out.

Oh, yeah. That would have been cool. That would have been cool. Yeah, Dr. Dre played like a... Like four keys. Yeah. For like a match. It was Snoop.

It was Snoop Dogg. Dr. Shoeck. Snoop Doc. Snoop. Snoop. Everybody talking shit about 50 cent bean. big, mind your own fucking business. His pockets are

way bigger than yours and you're not going to be able to be in him. He was big. He's a fat dude. He's got some fat on him. No, but he's a fat. He's a fat. I mean, he's a big dude to begin with. Yeah. Ain't nobody fucking with him regardless. And he can fight. And he can leave him

alone. Like mind your business. He's happy. Let him be happy. Just because he doesn't see, he doesn't look the way that you want him to look doesn't mean that it's wrong. You know what I mean? His paper's right. His His fame's still there. He's living life. you know what I'm saying he was also hanging upside down dude

you hang upside out and tell me what you look like if I do that like I look like I'm just I'm super red like my face looks like a strawberry if I'm hanging upside down he was hanging upside down like I'd have like veins popping out of my head it was it was from one of his

original like famous video was it the in the club yeah in the club and like one of the scenes in his original videos He's like hanging upside down with like a bandana on and like, wrapping upside down in the camera.

But he's also wearing a bulletproof vest that makes him like thicker. You know what I mean? Or he was wearing some sort of vest. Regardless. It was, it was good. I like the M&M part. Obviously, like one of my favorite artists, rappers of all times. So of course, I'm going to, I'm going to dig it.

I wasn't too keen on the Mary J. Blige. I wasn't too like, man. I feel like you were never like an R&B person. No. Of course not. That's why you're hating. Yeah. Well, I just can't relate to a woman singing about love.

I'm not, you know what I mean? It's just not my thing. Yeah, me either. Now, that used to be like my thing. It was just listening to like R&B women. Love never knew what I was missing. Yeah. Shit like that.

No. I have never had, I have never pressed play. You? You listen to that stuff? No, just a boogie and Drake. Do you listen to more than three artists? No, I don't. Who's your three artists?

Who's your most played three? Obviously. Little baby Drake, boogie. Yeah. I'll listen to like Tori, little T.J. Who's your three? Right now, I am on the Iron Man CD, on the, I'm on Iron Man, Racon's only built for Cuban links.

Wait, what's Iron Man? Iron Man, Ghostface Killers. That one right there, boom, right there. That plate. God damn. Wow, what an album. Shit.

Woo! Gets me fucking hype. So Ghostface. Rayquan right now. And I don't know, rotating between underground hip-hop between A-Sop or Madlib. I listened to like a bunch of Madlib while I was at the garage. Just sick.

Just. Who did Madlib? Madlib's a person, right? It's not a group. No, Quesimo. Who did Madlib work with? Was it most? MF2.

MF Doom? In Mad Villany. Yeah. Quasimodal, the unseen. Who's your three trip? Recently, I've been listening, I've been getting back into, funny enough,

I've been getting back into Eminem. I'm listening to him. What Eminem? What, like, what? The 2011 album. Recovery? Or whatever it is?

You know it. Bro, there's not, there's not a, single, there's not a single rap verse that Eminem has spit that he doesn't know. Unless it's like new. Oh yeah, well obviously new shit. If it's anything after like two,

probably 2011. Yeah, I'm the same way. I know some of it, but like I know all of his like. I like his old stuff. I know his shit from like 1998 freestyles to like 2007. Sound bombish.

Like all that stuff. I came into place, came in, play Puffy with Mace. Yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to, yeah, I'm trying to remember the lyrics, but I need to hear it. I can't like, yeah, I can't like think of something and like remember the lyrics. Yeah, I just, I just don't, don't, don't find it.

I just don't find, I can't find it within me to, if I'm going to listen to a song, why I wouldn't listen to like all of the 90s. I mean, I can listen to Tribe Call Quest, Mabdiap, Capona Noriega, Campalo, like there's so many albums out there that like I, I, I just would rather listen to that dope shit that brings me back to a really, really good time in my life. Would it be corny? If I got a tattoo, like, I was thinking like above my knee that says the infamous and then mob deep. No, the infamous and like the cursive writing it does and then mob deep under it.

I mean, if you just like on their album. I don't know if it'd be corny. If you just did the infamous, that'd be one thing. Yeah. I was thinking that was going to be, I was going to get that tattoo when we were in L.A. Yeah. The infamous would be dope. I don't know about Mob deep.

Like I wouldn't get a Wu Tang. Actually, I would get a Wu Tang tattoo on me. But would you have the letters, like, The spelling Wu-Tang? It would just be the W. Yeah, they just don't have like an emblem. No, mm-mm. Yeah, yeah.

I don't know. I don't know. But I might get that. Yeah, the infamous would be dope. That'd be dope. The infamous would be fucking dope. What about you? What about you, Dashie?

If you were just, you would get a rapper. A rap tattooed. Catted? I was like, I'm so checked. I'm so checked. Okay, where am I? Where are we at? Are we talking about, like, which tattoo I'd get?

Yeah, of a rap, like a rap tattoo. Not a rapper, a rap tattoo. He would get a portrait of a buggy in his hoodie. No, no, no, no, no, no, actually. You'll get the Drake Al? Nah. The OVO? The OVO.

Or, like, the Drake, like, where, like, the take care of, like, album cover, you know what I mean? No, come on. See, now you're going too far. Relax. Relax, relax, relax. Or he's got it, like, or the one where he has his head in the clouds,

you know what I mean? He's got the comb in it. have your face. Yeah. Or like your dad's face or something. I would want. All right. So we obviously have the

the war zone tournament that's going on today. $100,000. You know what I'm saying? Optic Warzone. Those crazies that, you know, two years ago, I would have never thought

that we would be back in a position to be, you know, to have meaningful tournaments. Gump one? No. No. Well, he didn't win the optic.

Wait, there's another one of this? He won some 100K thing. He won the solo. The solo, yeah. So there is one hitch. Hitch and TST, obviously, Kings at this shit are running it. Tomorrow, I believe, what's the day?

So the 15, so in two days, league play comes out for Call of Duty. Finally. Yeah, finally. Finally. Does anyone even care, though? Yeah, 100%. I care. I care 1,000%.

I'm nervous, though. Like, I hope that it's good. I hope that it's fun. I hope that it makes me want to play it more than I play it right now. Because every single time I watch you guys play, Like I want to know. Just no hope. No hope at all.

Like for, do pros think of it? Like, oh, when this drops, we're going to be grinding. Like, remember when? No, but you're also going to think about it. There's like 48 pros. Okay? Like, think about this, right? There's 48 pros.

I'm going to play it. Like, they don't give it. Like, they play against each other. Like, they don't need to, they don't, they're not like me who, like, wants to play against people like my rank and shitting on them as a 42-year-old phenom. You know what I mean? There was a really good time in MCC and Halo 3

where they like, I can't remember if they like reset the ranks or something but like when everyone was trying to be the first 50 That shit was fun. It was. It was like a fun like two weeks or something of like every like every night like there's you're like gathering teams of four

And it's not like everyone's playing with their team Like everyone's just kind of like playing with teams of four And it's like it reminded me of like Halo 2 almost Like a good matchmaking system Those are so. I want that. It reminds me of a Battalion 1944 and the ELO rank that they had to face it. I never played that.

Oh, man. Like, I had, like, I wish that that that game would have, would have had, I don't know, I don't know what it needed. Any good rank system, we'll do. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Anything that, that's aspirational and it makes you want to work towards something is, is what's up. Like, I'm, I'm ready to not play with Hutch again because he likes to play Wars on Only. Like, I'm ready to.

Who's the best on that team? Diesel Diesel Then me Then me The thing is this It's like I'm a full

I'm a complete player Hodge Would they agree Hodge? Yeah well Hutch wouldn't Hodge wouldn't

Hatch wouldn't agree The thing about Hutch is like He's obviously Like fundamentally good He's been playing Coddry for fucking That decade you would hope But he's just

He's just not He just doesn't play for the team I don't mean Like he's selfish He's selfish player He's uh He's always wrong

But things that he's right Just baiting the roster Yeah dude like, you'll run away. And if you say, if I give a call out, like, literally yesterday it happened. I'm like, I'm watching Hutch start a fight with someone and Diesel's backing him up. And then Hutch immediately starts running away, shielding up. So I give a call.

I'm like, I'm like, yo, just so you know, Hutch is running away. He got so mad. He's like, shut off, vodka. I'm walking around to fucking shield up. I'm just giving him a call out. Okay. You took that into something different because it's true. Just so you know, I know you're helping Hutch right now, but Hutch just left.

He won't be coming back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It happens a lot. Anyway, I'm hoping. I'm hoping that this, that this league match really does pop off because I miss playing game battles. I miss the competitive side of Call of Duty. Right now playing Wars on, as fun as it is, is just not my cup of tea. Not for me.

They just got a copy of the Valent one, ranking system. That one is, in my opinion, perfect. Is it good? Yeah. So, like, contenders, special. This is advanced expert if it works Master Challenger Are you trying to out

Wow those are new? I mean shit man That is dope That's a lot Might be cool Yeah like a lot This could be good If like you know what I mean

It was actually If it's implemented well I agree The thing is this is like The way that they're That they're implementing A lot of Trairwell Introduce in all new top 250 division

To showcase and celebrate The top competitive players Across the world Apex Yeah so exactly This is the thing though Like the redeploy The redeploying

the redeployment balloons that are in war zone right now that they took from Apex, like I don't understand why. Like, just take all of it. If it's available and if it's a good idea, take it. No one is going to talk shit to call a duty, maybe a few people that play Apex. They're going to be like, oh, copycats. But everybody else is going to be happy. You know what I mean?

Like give us a good ranking system. Whatever, whatever Valerine is, whatever Counterstrike is, whatever fucking Halo 2 was, whatever. steal that and implement it into Call of Duty. Give it to us. No one's gonna call you a copycat, man. Just gets everyone hooked. Get everyone cracked on. Just because of the ranking system.

If there wasn't ranked, I would not play the game. Guaranteed. But it's just the fact that it's so good, it just keeps you like, I don't know, someone will look forward to every single time. Yeah, it's sharp.

Even when you do here, radia, you still want to go like top 100. Yep. Or top 50. You know what I mean? So it's always like, yeah, right now the ranking system in Halo is like broke.

It's so bad. Like I'm at Onyx, which is the highest, rank and I'm matching kids. What do you get onyx at like 1500 or is it 2000? 1500. And it doesn't go past that. Um,

what do you mean? It just says it onyx, right? Yeah. Yeah. From like 1500 to like 2500. Yeah. Like I don't know.

There's no like apex predator type ranks. But yeah, something's just like bugged with the matchmaking system right now and it like makes it so boring like a matching kids who like aren't even ranked and they're like going like 0 and 13. I'm like how the fuck. are you in my match? Like,

and it just, I don't know. It just, like, that's the start, like a shitty matchmaking system. It's just like the start of like, oh my God.

You also have to take into account that not everybody's all playing at the same time, right? There's like limited amount of bodies to fill lobbies. So there, if there's a solo guy out there that's like a shit. Yeah. That happened, that would happen something or that would happen sometimes.

But as of late, like I don't know, something's messed up with the matchmaking system. Like unranked people. fucking silver three people are getting in my game. I think a lot of that has to do with just the population declining too though.

Yeah. They just have to fill in people. I was surprised the viewer count was so high for the Halo tournament because the population, like in game, I think is dropped drastically. And, uh, look at the,

yeah, we need to update and fucking, we need some. Yeah, we need a spark. But just to add to like the, the rank thing, like, this is kind of like almost kind of like a given, but it should almost reach a point where everyone like in the higher ranks are just sweating like calming that because that's what I realized like with playing val like if you're like in like the higher lobbies and you're not calming you just get roasted but it's like obviously it's like

why would you want that but it just like shows you how everybody like wants to win just like because of the rank yeah what's the like the like the like I guess they're like I don't know badge or whatever the yeah yeah I don't even know if it's like the badge or whatever it's I don't know it's just like something about that system like you want to rank up Yeah. You want to just keep progressing and then like you just hate losing and then you just like because when you lose you actually get punished for it. It's not like oh you lost just try again. And then like you know what I mean?

Like they like basically just brush it off. Yeah, because like younger kids will be like, oh, this weekend. This weekend I'm going to get. I don't fucking know the ranks in Valerant. But like this weekend, I'm going to get diamond. Yeah, diamond. Yeah. I'm going to grind for diamond this week.

There's like some like goals that these like kids are trying to. 100%. The thing is this too, right? Like you should have online. that happen if you reach challengers like you should have you know how they have dark matter you should have challenger matter or something you know something that says something that I reached it so people can be like you know what the fuck what camel is that I just pick something how do I get this do the research it goes on and then that's how you discover the competitive side look I

I solved this problem in fucking black ops too you know what I mean like I solved it for everyone just it's don't want to listen black ops too matchmaking was good wasn't it so good it was popular it was good it was good and And what sucks about it is that I didn't take advantage of it. What sucks about it is that I didn't play it enough. What sucks about it is like I didn't know what I had until it was gone. God damn it. That's amen to that.

Tell 15 year old me and fucking Halo 2. Yeah. Anyway. I thought it was just going to get better and better. Microsoft Vice Activision. Old-ass news, Matt. I haven't talked about it. I think it's a good thing.

Obviously Microsoft has a very, very good microtransaction. capabilities. This benefits the league. This benefits the orgs. The fact that we now have Halo and Call of Duty under the same family. Obviously that's good for the that's good for the org. We just, you know, we keep moving forward and this is the sort of thing that helps because we know how much, you know, Tashi and company over at Halo care about Halo. So if that, if that is, if we're able to translate or transfer some of that passion into the call of duty side not saying the call of duty doesn't have the passion right now but i'm saying that sort of interest in the esports side of things i think that it's it's a it's a good thing for everyone i'm excited for it personally

whether the deal goes through or not that's something completely different at the end i think they do but there's going to be a lot of money that needs to be paid out to this government's you know wait wait so this deal hasn't went through no i mean in theory two parties agreed to it but it has to be approved by the government This is like billies, you know what I mean? This is like $69 billion. Activision is co-owned. The government's fucking like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

They're like, where's my cut? You know what I'm saying? Pay papa, you know what I mean? 250. You know what I mean? They gotta get theirs. Because Activision is, Tencent owns a part of Activision. Tencent being a Chinese-owned company.

Like they can't have that much insight into 4.9% God damn. 4.9% Imagine of what? Of what was that? What's 4.9% of $69 billion? That's how much the government is? No, no.

That's 10 cents equity stake in that. So how much they get paid? I mean, in theory, that's, yeah. I mean, in theory, yeah, that's how much they get paid. What's the math mat? Just 69 billion was 4.9%? It was 5% of $59, 69 billion. Just like a billy, man.

Like a billy. Not one billion, are you out of your mind? It's way more than that. Yeah. Well, five. 60, wait, 5% of, huh? 3.4 billion dollars?

Shut them way off. Wait, that can't, that doesn't even make sense. Doesn't even... 5% of 60% or 4.9% of 69 probably is, like 3.0. That sounds right. Yeah. Shut it way off. I was going to say like 4.

I'm telling you right now. I'm telling you right now, that is not the accurate math. That is not accurate math. Back of the napkin. Maths sure. Back to the envelope, but that is not, dude, 4.9% is 3.3 billion. Like Matt's showing how he worked out the problem. All I'm saying is that when you, when, if I'm sitting here, if I'm sitting here and I'm saying 3.9 billion is not even worth it for 10 cent.

You know they got paper. That's not even worth it for them. Yeah. Yeah. That's how it works. If you're not really going that hard for any billion, you know what I mean? Do you think when, when billionaires shop, do they even think? Like is the price of something

Never a thought? No, there's no way. The price isn't a thing to them. Like price isn't even a word. They don't even like price. Let me ask you this. What's the last time you looked at any receipts?

I never have really. Exactly. Maybe when I was like 17. Like I can't tell you the last time that we all went out to eat and I looked at it and I'm like, how much was it? You're like scoping it? No, never. It just doesn't happen.

And I'm not anywhere near. A billionaire. A billionaire is not giving it. is not giving a fuck. Yeah. Guaranteed. It doesn't even compute. But even if they want like a yacht,

are they like, well, this one's... It's like a car. What? Like Jeff Bezos is walking around. So Jeff Bezos is like... So Jeff Bezos is rearranging a bridge. Not even asking how much it is. They don't live in reality.

It doesn't, it doesn't apply to them. It's just GTA. Property. Like, it's nothing to that. They want it. They just get in. Bring up to Jeff Bezos bridge there, Maddie. All right, check this out.

Historic Rotterdam Bridge to be cut up by, to make way for Bases, a mega yacht. Now, Bezos is a quarantine spot. Jeff Bezos has a yacht that's worth $500 million. Oh, my God. Okay. And they, it's so big that they're moving it so they can transport it or put it out to sea or something. I also saw a, a, what, and they have to cut a. a bridge to do you have to destroy a bridge no they're not this they're gonna put it back together

and they're gonna put it back together and jeff basso's being the kind man that he is is gonna reinforce it and make it better bottom line is this okay i also saw an article this is that three thousand men are waiting with 3 000 rotten eggs to throw at the 500 million dollar yeah those 3 000 fucking men who are waiting better get they ass to work okay you got better things to do that to throw fucking eggs that's why you're gonna choose to spend your time You're going to hate on somebody who's got paper. Focus on yours. Eat the eggs.

This is kind of funny. Jealousy just love and hate at the same time. Dude, it's crazy. It's crazy. I felt that. 3,000. Yeah, bring that out, man. 3,000.

That's got to be some, like, internet troll fucking petition. Dutch residents are vowing to egg Jeff Bezos. Yadis it passes through. You know what Jeff Bezos is going to say? He's going to tell one of his 1,000 employees to clean that shit up. He's like, yeah. You think he's personally cleaning up all 500 eggs or whatever? Dude, this is what's going to happen.

He's not even going to deal with that at all. He's not even going to be there. He's not going to be there. You're going to make it like hard for some fucking worker. Bro, Jeff Bezos has got to be sitting in some villa somewhere, fucking drinking a Mai Tai, answering his, an email that's just making them billions of dollars. And somebody's going to be like, hey, we took down the bridge. The bridges put back together.

The yacht got safety. There was a scratch from one egg. But that he's going to be like, ha. Wait, can he buy, I feel like he can buy a couple countries. A couple of what? Countries. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, just call it. That would be cool.

But why would you do it if I had that much money? No, you wouldn't. Like, where do you live, Bezos, Ireland? Yeah, he's got islands. Like that's his own, he's got a $500 million one right there. This fucking yacht is an island, literally. Anything that he wants is there. Oh shit, Amazon helicopter in.

Yeah, if I was him, I would buy some like anything like space related to like go to Mars you know like when he already has it he already has it okay this guy's different he's got what it was it called what's his uh his space program called it's not SpaceX spacex is uh uh I feel like he's buying those not to have it's it almost flexed that he can buy them you know what I mean like I could yeah I could drop two billion not even really give a fuck. Huh? Blue origin yeah it's like it when when you get to have that much money you you you it's a race to space it's your flexing yeah your flex your flex your flex because I he's not buying that two billion.

I'm just going to go to Mars next week. That's not a thing. Because like whoever gets their first, kind of could. Whoever establishes it something. Like put their flag down. I own Mars now. You're probably not coming back.

I got here first. I got Amazon flagged in Mars. You're not coming back. I want to know internet. Well, fucking interspace law, right? Like if you get to Mars and you're the only one on Mars, can you say that you own Mars?

And if somebody says no, who's going to dispute it? And how can they dispute it? Well, you're going to die before you're going to get some there again. You know what I mean? Like who owns the moon? No one. Well, I own it. Like,

you know, and like, how are you going to argue? Yeah, you don't. You know what I'm saying? Well, then it becomes war.

Then it becomes a law. That it's you versus whoever's, or claim it. It's team Basel versus fucking Elon Musk. Who wins? I don't know.

Just having space wars? Star Wars. Uh, Jeff Bezos is now worth more than the GDP of over 140 of the world's 195 countries. He's worth more than 140.

He could have three-fourths of the earth. There's only 55 countries that are worth more than him. They're nuts. Imagine being that. I want to see like a day in the life vlog of like someone like that. Like is he like what does he must get no enjoyment? There's no way he's like on his, is he on his PC like or laptop like emailing and shit? You have to understand.

What's he using Gmail? What is his email? Jeff Bezos at Amazon.com. It's something super. It's something way more encrypted. I'll tell you what, though, but once you've achieved that level of success and money is not an issue, I mean, everybody works to pay bills, right? The second of that that is a non-factor, you focus on meaningful stuff that's going to define your legacy forever.

Like, you're going to say, all right, cool, my name's going to be here forever. There's going to be statues of me. There's going to be that. But what does that mean? Like, what do I stand for? Do I spend for space exploration? Do I spend, do I, am I the guy that eradicated worth world hunger? Do you have a goal like that?

Because I feel like I don't really care. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't care about like a legacy. Like I don't think, I think that I will be happy when I buy my, the whole block of my grandma's, grandma's house and build like a massive park or something in Juarez. Like that's when I, that's when I'll rest my head happy. Yeah, I don't have anything like that. Like, but when you get that rich.

And I'll probably like hook up my old school that I went, like the, the primary school that I went to. Like, I want to go there and like hook it up. Like, fucking technology. Like, I feel like, like, I just look at it like, okay, I'm going to die. Six. Six. And then 60 years after I die, like, all of you are dead. Like everyone, everything I knew is dead.

Yeah, nothing matters. So it's like, it's not getting passed on. So it's like, I'm not going to try hard to leave a legacy Unless I like want to and it makes me happy But right now I just I don't have that now I don't know if you guys can tell Yeah, it's like

No, the thing is it's like it's a good thought to have Like I'm in there one day At one point My great great great great great great grandkid Who's fucking has a bike You know what I mean Just as simple as a bike That came from me from my hard work

He's not gonna remember who the fuck I am Take that bike away from him I'm not leaving shit behind no one I'm a hater. God damn. No one's getting nothing. Take it to the grave. I'm going to make a difference in the mental health community. There you go.

There you go. It all starts with a dream. Anyway, that's not a deal for this episode of The Optic Podcast. I hope that you guys enjoyed it. I'm happy to be back. I'm hoping that you guys enjoyed it. We'll see you guys next week for another one. Good.

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