OpTic Podcast - BREAKING DOWN MERCULES FIRST CDL WEEKEND | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 225

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

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Bose, when are you having your second kid? With your third, third, third, third. It's got to stop that. It's been a while. Yeah, I got to stop that. They love getting on Marking the watch party, man. Do they? Oh, yeah.

You started this. You did. I got to stop that. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to welcome you to episode 225. Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 225 with the Optic podcast. This episode was brought to me by Cashab, Shopify, and trade coffee. Mercury's Joint's Optic And we go on a two and three

Versus Breach, three and no versus Lina And then we have some stats Scumper jumper to my left Money Biscuit to my other left The man Mr. Hitcheride himself Is joining us for this podcast It's been a minute

How many podcasts you got this week? Including yours Just fly and then I'm trying to figure out around the bar Because it's supposed to do with Matt But it fell through so Which Matt? Formal

What did you do with the tumors? What do you think Matt's drink of choice would be? Pinacolada. Pinacolada. Wow. What do you like a frozen? I got to get a blender. Okay.

I was not expecting peanut calada. I mean. I can't lie. He was like, can we just do water? And I was like, sure. And then he went, unless you can make like a pinocalada. And I was like, hey, if they want a pinocalada. You got to break out the Pinterest recipe.

Yeah, right. Find some shit. Oh, yeah. Pineapple juice and shit. Hell yeah. I'm hyped for it. I would have just ordered. like some margaritas or like a pinocalada

from blue goose they put them in a bottle and they said yeah oh really you can door dash it yeah as long as there's a 21 year old there there you go there like an early pinnacolades we're definitely 21 yeah especially you old ass damn you're about to be 30 next month yo yes sir I remember when you were 17 30 30 I remember when you were 17 year old creeping man

it ain't creeping it's sprinting it's britt man it goes faster it's called relative It's called relativity. The faster something goes, the more differently you experience time. But speaking of the youth, Mercilies, Mercilies, Mercilese, that kid's disgusting. As a former professional, some would say the, I would say the best of the best it's ever been. What's your proper assessment on that? And then Bose, you tell me that too.

What's your proper assessment? You guys obviously see the game differently. then somebody as skill, that's me and somebody with lower skill than hitch. So how do you guys see the board performing? He's raw, man. He's raw. You don't come in by chance and drop a 1.3 than a 1.5 back to back. That kid can ball.

Yeah? Yeah, man, he's nasty. It's not by luck. Yeah, it's not by luck. It wasn't just a good series for him. No, yeah. He's gross. You can just tell the way he moves, the way he plays his life, everything.

I mean, all glaze intended, the kid's gross, man. Bro, my question is, like, where the first? Like obviously you kind of like hear about them from like S&D stuff like I had heard of TB Mercury's but it seemed like the beginning of this year Everyone was talking about that encouraged kid or One of the or Afro was doing really well But I didn't hear anything about Mercury's until He subbed in yeah no I mean he's just 21 man

He was on he was on Tom's team right I think he was on Tom's team right? I think he was on Tom's Yeah, the stallions. Yeah, he's on the stallions. But Stallions is a friendship team, so they dropped them. Damn. Did they drop him? I didn't know that. And then a friendship team picked them up, too.

Friendship teams are the way to go, as long as the friends win. But yeah, no, he's disgusting, man. He's doing his thing. It's good to see. We drove him back after that big 1.5 series back to the hotel. I was like, you drop a 1.5. I'll take you anywhere you want to go, then. He went.

Bro, this guy made me get out of the car. Wait, wait, wait. No. Okay. this was insane. So my trunk isn't that big and we had to put his uh we had to put his like roller in the back of the car. Me and Mason are back there like bro we're playing Tetris. Like how the fuck do we get this thing in there? We tried every different variation. The handlebars first, the wheels first, the wheels to the left. And we couldn't get it to fit in there.

You've done it before. And we were back there for like five minutes like, bro, how the fuck can can we get this thing in there? I had to get out of my car. No, because my car doors, because you have to like pull the front or the passenger seat, you have to pull it and then it goes forward. It can't even fit in that gap, so that's not an option. So we're back there like, bro, how the fuck do we get this thing in? You had to hobble back there? I fucking had to get out and help the two dudes put that shit back there.

Dude, we couldn't figure it out. Every person that's close. We were like, Mason's like, that's not going to fit. He's like, that's not going to work. Anyway, first try I fucking got in there, put it in there. I had to hobble my way back off to the front. And then when I got out, he didn't get out of the car to get it out. I was on a hill going to my driveway.

I asked you, do you want me to get out and get it for you? You were like, no, it's cool, man. I had enough of you. When it came to asking you for favors during my tough times, next time bring the big truck. I literally offered, I was like, do me to get out and get it for you? He's like, no, I'll do it. And I was like, okay. I didn't have five minutes to waste.

I had to take a shit. It's so hard to take one with this. When he's direct, like when he says no, he means no. So it's like, all right, I'm not going to help. I did ask though. I don't know. Hell, yeah, I get to talk about the show on the podcast next week. How do you like, is it hard getting into your crib with that?

Like, like, fucking ramp and you're going up a driveway or stairs. Well, no, usually people drop me off all the way in the, like right next to the door. Pull up the gate, open the gate. They'll get out. They'll take out my scooter and give me a hand to get out of the car. You know what I'm saying? I'm limited capacity here. The gate was closed.

I reversed into the driveway. I said, yo, you want me to get out. and get your shit for you said no I got it I said all right in my head I'm like you went up the hill roll back down on accident yeah too I see him start fucking just going back he's like come on now I will say that it's time to get a new one because like this wheel look oh it shouldn't be doing that right no that's not that's not normal it's it's it's it's uh axis yeah no it's it's uh it's the weight no it's because I I I used the brakes on it it shaved off, like, it shaved

off layers of a... Yeah, because you're out there riding it like it's a scooter, man. I know. I kind of am. I mean, it is a scooter, but you're out there riding it. Anyway, I knew what's on the fucking way. This is all I've got to say. And yes, it's heavier. Yes. It's got all-wheel drive and shit. How's streaming, man, the return to stream it? Yeah,

you've been grinding, man. Every single day. Yeah. 7 a.m. till 12 or 1. It's been good. I never understood really and luckily, I was gifted the gift of gab when I was a little kid. But I never really understood how people would sit around there and just

fucking hear somebody fucking talk, but they seem to like it. So people are clipping my shit. I was talking mad shit to them too, right? Like, I wasn't talking mad shit. So I was just trying to explain to them from a creator standpoint how it's sometimes bothersome when people are bragging about the amount of impressions that they're getting off of other people's content out of the channel. He was like, yo, my fucking tweets have been popping or, yo, my channel's popping and I thought,

look, and it's none of your kind. I haven't seen your face once. What do you say those ain't your clicks? Yeah, I said, like, yo. What? That rando clip of mine just goes viral. Yeah. I'm like, what the fuck?

I didn't even, like, it was just happened and. Oh, that was good. Bro. I mean, at the moment, I didn't think anything of it. Yeah. I go, this shit is fucking ass. Yeah, you see this shit went viral. Yeah, it was crazy.

It was like, it was like, you were like, damn, it went viral? Nah. Yeah, like any coin? That is good though that it went like. No, yeah, yeah, yeah. To be fair, to be fair, I made it so clear and I'm making it clear yet again right here. I don't care that you clip. Clip, put it out there.

Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. All that. I don't care. But don't. Don't. Pat yourself on the back saying, yeah, my channel's doing good.

You have I'm saying? Bro, those kids that like, like, there are people that just clip, that's what they do for a living. Yeah, I know. Oh, yeah. Like, they're making a lot of money. My question, my question to them was, is like, yo, if you're doing this here, like, I hope that you're also doing it across the way.

Fucking Musk said this. Trump said this. Fucking Theo Vaughan. Theo Vaughan said this. This guy said, I would cover an entire blanket of it. And now you're a drama Twitter. There you go. There you go.

Just like that. Oh my God. I mean, it just doesn't. Dude, that video, the speed video of all the AI channels, that shit is crazy. Dude, Matt sent me like a Instagram the other day. It was of, I think, Logan Paul's podcast. And it was a full AI clip. them talking everything.

I had no idea. After I had watched it, he was like, that video was completely AI. And I was like, no, it's bad. Bro, you, I could not tell at all that it was AI. Like, not even a hint. And he's like, yeah, that was all AI. I was like, dude. That is like, it's kind of scary, bro.

Matt, next week's AI was talking about AI. Bro, no, it looked like it was video and everything. I want you to upload an entire optic podcast as AI. Yeah, no, I watch it. Usually you can tell like, oh. this is AI. Like they're talking a little bit different or the videos like kind of stuttering or hinging in different areas. You're like, this is AI, but I couldn't tell it all. Yeah. Dead sober, no drinks. I got to preface that. Dead sober. And I was like, whoa, that's kind of like,

it's kind of crazy. What I'll say about streaming is that, wait, how long ago, sorry, how long ago was the Will Smith Eat Spaghetti thing? Oh, shit. That's how it all started. Was that, I didn't see that. Will Smith eat spaghetti? Uh-uh. I've remember something like Somebody put in a prompt like Will Smith eat spaghetti

And it's just like this weird Like choppy video of him You can tell his jaw Oh I remember I remember This is like when AI Videos Like start

It's really weird I mean yeah that you're like okay Right this was the first one to go viral This is like a bad assid trip dude I mean you're on the Somebody put this into like a prompt can you make a video of Will Smith eating spaghetti and this is what came out.

So think about how far we've come since just that. And now there are full podcast clips with audio that you can't tell. Can't even tell. In two years, that's happened. Yeah, no, that's insane. I just saw a Nico Harrison AI where he's a yeah, but what these fans don't know

is that I'm about to not pick the number one draft pick. I'm going to trade him for fucking, what's this guy out of Minnesota? Oh no, from Wisconsin. What's the Milwaukee guy that just has to be traded? Janice? Yeah, Janice. Janice wants to get traded? Well, no, no way.

He's open to it. Yonnis could go to the net stutter, sand. Yeah? Dude, that would be cool. I mean, bro, the Mavs and the WMBA Dallas team both got first pick. We're about to get Cooper flag. Yeah, that shit's gonna be great. Well, that's what I'm saying.

Who is the girl that we just got that? Page, man. Page buckets. Page buckets. She's nasty. Yo. She's disgusting. I was like, yo, Anthony Davis.

I was like, yo, you see this? I was like, fuck yeah, we got first pick. What do you mean about we? Oh, oh, the Mavs. So, because I support the Mavs just, you know. We have a night. Yeah, we do Mavs night. I never had a basketball team.

Yeah, I'm cool with that. I'm cool with that. Oh, yeah. I support the Mavs too. But man, like the way that Jude's, Jude literally went with Luca. And she's like a Lakers fan, huh? Jude's a Lakers fan now?

Bro, there's Lakers shit all over my house. And I'm like, yo, baby, you're from Chicago. You're Chicago Bulls Jordan era. And you're buying Lakers jerseys. Oh, shit. It's got to be hard to be a Bulls fan. See, I'm not a fan of no team. I support the Mavs.

But like, if I see like Anthony Davis and someone else on the court, I'm like going, I'm hype for both teams. Like, God damn. Oh, yeah. Like, but I don't have like a. favorite favorite team I was uh I come out of my office and I see Jude's like they're about to announce the top the top four is is uh us it's Houston this person this this is this other one and I'm like oh shit so I I moved to towards the kitchen I'm I realize I'm like holy fuck we're top

three now so I pulled my phone out to record her because I knew that she was going to go fucking nuts because I knew that we were going to get it the NBA is rigged I knew that we were going to get it it's so rigged even they have Michael Jordan coming back to be a There's the worst move that anyone could do at first I got a little bit happy about it I'm like holy shit we got to see the the greatest of all time on camera but then I realized that There's gonna be some little fucking fuck out there that is gonna say you know what Michael? I don't agree with you Who the fuck are you to disagree with Jordan about basketball So I got angry immediately before it's even happened yeah

Yeah, you got if you're if you're great you got to just you got to just stay out of the line Dude's worth 3.5. That's fucking dope. Michael Jordan casting over games and shit, that's going to be fired. I mean, that's what you do. Is he casting? Is he casting or is he doing like infield? It's just like special correspondent.

So I don't think that he's going to be like a stand-in. It's just that every so often they're going to have him like interviewing people in the locker rooms. You think so? No, no, no, no. No, no, no. Mike ain't doing that. You don't think so?

Hell no. He's got to be like, he's got to get there. He'll be like, hold the mic, interview me. So you seem to be on, like, I don't think he should be, like, around. Like, like, if, if, I don't know, I feel like Tom Brady retiring and immediately starting to commentate, I feel like it kind of takes away the, the, not takes away, I mean, it's cool, but. The secretiveness. I don't know how I feel about it.

Like, if you're the goat, that's something, like, be mysterious and be the goat. Yeah, like, hear it, like, every so off, not even so often, just randomly have, like a little audio or podcast. I know what they talk about shit. Exactly. Like pop out every once in a while and show that you are still great. And then like, I disagree.

I think it's dope. Yeah, listen, I think it's dope too. I think it's dope. I just don't want anybody to disagree with it. But like what happens if Jordan's really bad at it? Come on, man.

Him bad at something? I'm just saying like what Jordan did with the Jordan dock is perfect. He went away. He fished. He bowled. He, you know, all that shit.

Yeah. And then he really, this doc comes out. Yeah. And now people are like, oh my God, he is the best ever. Like look at all this like wisdom he has that he just keeps to himself and then he went away again and now if we get to see him once a week

Twice a week it's like it's so cool when they're when they're just showing a game and then like yeah Jordan's here he's in the sweet right exactly like like like that cool Like if Larry Bird had a Yeah radio station I would totally listen when I was a kid like I'll listen now it wouldn't be like that like mysteriousness of Larry bird that that that that that bird would be talking right now about this day in age basketball players it would be one of the greatest shows ever i would totally watch larry bird do you watch uh jeff teegs podcast who's jeff teegs podcast i don't know who that is oh hector you got to watch it bro it's an NBA podcast where they just talk about like i think i may have seen a clip was somebody just arguing with someone uh i don't they just did million dollars worth the game together but you got a with like so many NBA

what's up zinny's a whole bunch of shit you'll love it tonight zini's in the house We're going to Stars Game 4 tonight. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. We said we had to go back to a game after that game seven. We're going back tonight, Tuesday night. Oh, yeah. They're up to 1 in the series.

You're going to get fucking twisted. They just blasted them in the last game. I saw that shit. I saw that. I can't wait. So where are we at? Semifinals? Quarterfinals?

Quarters. Quarters? Yeah. It's going to be so fire. They're up 2-1. They just had a great game. It's going to be so fire. I was at Mother's Day dinner when I, when I,

watched them score the last three after them being tied oh dude it was so good everybody like oh shit yeah I think it'll be cool to have Jordan around talking giving his insight I don't I don't really not I don't want him to be secretive I want to be

in the game yeah same I don't I feel like everyone should be in the game except for Brady Jordan like the goats the Goody Jordan fucking Gretzky Michael Phelps Tyson has a podcast yeah but he But also he's got to get his bag, too.

I'm sure he's getting paid pretty nice. Jordan. Jordan's got 3.5. Yeah, he's got Jordans. Billions of dollars, but it's still cool for him to be. He's got 3.5. As a massive Jordan fan, I don't think. What if you can get tired of him, man?

I'm not going to watch. I'm not going to watch. I'm not going to watch. I'm not watching. I mean, I'll watch the highlights of stuff for a long time. Yeah, right. But the thing is just like he's at, I think this is like an NBA move to try to get old school me's a bunch of us to watch what what's going on today.

The three point league they were witnessing today. The three point league. So I don't know. Listen, again, whatever he wants to do, who the fucking mind? To question him, you know what I'm saying? So it's definitely the right move. I know that. I just don't know how.

I get that. I get that. Nate shot having his second baby. Yeah. And Haley, of course. Nate shot. Yeah, and H.H.N. H.N. H. H. H. H. H. H. Haley.ley is part of it. Congrats to them. I mean, back 10 years ago, just a bunch of kids chasing a dream now.

Not showering. Not showering. Trying to go live before each other now. Yeah. Family. I was going to say now trying not to go live before each other. Or now trying to go live before each other. Oh, there's no way. There's no way. What? Matt's live first. He goes like. Him and Mason are live at like 7 a.m. Just like Hax. They're on that super. I'm on like the kind of responsible. Yeah, no, your shit's normal. Responsible.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get on like 9, 10. I've been getting on a little bit later. It's not responsible. Well, what time do you get off? It depends on the week, like five of crazy. But I usually do like six to eight hours on my normal stream days. I did five and a half yesterday.

It flew by, actually, because there was a lot of things to discuss. Some guy went in there and he said, yo, this guy's been yapping for three hours. And I said, you stick around, bud. I got three more easy. I got some shit to talk about. I got some shit. I'm dangerous enough to talk about nutting. Yeah, no, congratulations to the Hague's.

It's super, super happy for them, obviously. Excited to see what this dude, you know, what, babe, girl, boy, like, you yet to see. Yet to see. Very exciting. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who's having the next baby in Optic, do you think? I'd say, Seth or Hitch.

No. Maybe. Matt? Ten gifted whoever's first. Roger? I guess I got to make some gifted subs on the baby. Formal? Nah. Shotsie. Shotsie says he wants three kids. Damn. He's going to have to start soon, then.

That's what I said. I want two. You want two? I want two. It is one's three, but I want two. So we'll see how that goes. You're getting three then. Bro, you're going to get two on the first round. Yeah, Twinsies. Quincy's? Just two boys?

Two little boys? Two little boys. and ready to play any sport handed to him. An absolute duo. I think Nick might send the text. No. My chat was like, what if your son or daughter wants to be a mouse and key player? I said, don't worry about that.

They'll have a controller. They'll only have console their first couple years of game and get them on the controller early. Then if they want to upgrade to the PC, they're eight years old. They can't tell 240 frames. They're just loving it. They're on roadblocks doing whatever the hell kids are doing nowadays. They can't tell 240. Start them on the Xbox.

You know? And then we upgrade them after they're already on the controller. I have a full-on, full strategy already. I like this strategy. Maddie, what do you think you're going to get going on the babies? Reagan's ready to go. Matt Craig ain't ready to go yet. Alex is ready to go too.

Matt, do it now. I'm going to tell you why. What's the worst that could happen? When did you turn 29? Okay, so you're on the way. I'd say I wasn't going to have my first kid at 29. I had my first kid at 29. I wish I would have, Roger, when are you going to have your first kid?

Maybe someone will get lucky next year. Everyone's just getting pressed. Everyone getting pressed. Yeah. About a very. You guys know it's. Bose, when are you having your second kid? With your third.

Third, third, third. It's been a while. It's been a while. Yeah, I got to stop that. They love getting on Marking the watch party, man. Do they? Oh, yeah. You started this.

You did. I've got to stop that. I'm going to do that shit to everyone. I'm going to start. When I start saying shit. Well, not to me. I'm a very mad. I'm a respectable man.

You got to say some wild ass shit. You know, Jude, this one time, we were in Anaheim and shit. You know, me like, yo, heck, here's in this chat. Yo, heck, did you tell you about it? That's insane. If y'all going to start making shit up, we can start making shit up. He's like, oh, yeah. Yeah, this guy fucking gets in the wagon, fucking throw some panties on the side of the shit.

That's a dirty. Some psychological warfare. No, no, no, no, no. That's insane. That would be insane. That would be crazy. I'm going to stop saying. Bowes has no baby missiles.

No, no, no. None. Next year, though, I'm starting. Next year. You're starting? If you want to get lucky. That's hilarious. I mean, there's a lot of.

I mean, there's a lot. of people that are not having kids, like nowadays. That's true. That is true. If you look up... Aren't baby rates down right now? Yeah, South Korea's... Baby rates are down?

In 10 years, they're going to have no kids. No people. Well, that makes no sense. Look it up, man. South Korea... No people. There sounds like some dystopian start to a movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Women cannot get pregnant anymore. There's something in the water of men? You got to keep the generation growing. Did you ever watch children of men? With Clive... Very long ago. I have seen it though Isn't that like kind of the same

concept? It's like one Girls can't get pregnant anymore I mean that happens That's what handmade tales about Only certain girls can get pregnant So they make like a different US and it's crazy

Really? Yeah we're on Anywhere near there Matt On the South Korean Look at that point seven Eighth birds South Korea and East Asian nation On the south half of the Korean peninsula

Law shares one of the worst... Wait, they used to have six kids per household? No, no, no, no. Is it? What the fuck? That's the U.S. Oh, no, that's South Korea.

1960s, South Korea, they were... Click on why. They were going to print. And people asked, what? They were print. No lie. The shift in social norm could be, could prove pivotal in the content. Dude, it's just that, you know, nowadays...

Women be working and shit? Women are working. Nah, nah, nah. Oh, oh. It's just men Men don't have verbals no more They don't know how to approach the ladies And woo that

Make them laugh Make them smile I don't know You think so? I got that on lock with his Yeah With his With the job, of course

Yes You know, yeah But I'm a comedian So what does it say You should type in When does, nah It's just not this

Look at Japan Japan's the same thing don't look at South Americans though I have seen though the like baby rates are just down in general Not in south of the border And I mean all the way down to the tip of South America You know what I'm saying

It's booming Well dude you gotta look This is just listen And business is fucking cracking y'all Yeah you got you gotta understand You got to understand Are you looking up Japan Matt No Matt Craig's

Japan's where The Green Line Oh shit damn See, Japan already had it unlocked. Two kids, now we're down to one and a half kids. They understood it a long time ago. I mean, I only have one kid. So how am I going to have one and a half kid?

Or is that just the average? I think two's the perfect number. Unless you get twins, or I think two's the twos you can. We, we, my mom and dad had two. Me and my sister, year apart. And then later on they brought in, you know, Pedro and Jen. The funnier brother. Yeah, the funnier brother.

The more unhinged, unfiltered. It's not filtered so easy, so easy. So easy. What he could say what he wants, right? Yeah, man. Wait, can you show, Matt, can you show me this office thing? If y'all don't mind. No, I'm still talking about.

Dude, my calf, my calf muscle is, is gone. Bro. Yeah, look at that. That shit's, oh, yeah, look at that. That shit's. I already had a problem. You got three more weeks. Your leg's going to look sickly.

The paper. The first look at the office follow-up series. What the hell is follow-up series? The paper. They're calling it the, paper? See, I don't like this. There's Oscar. There's Oscar. There's Meredith. Oh, no, that's not Meredith.

That's, uh, what's her name? I think it's just Oscar. Do they choke or do they close? Am I a hater for not liking this? The office is such a good, just historic show. They're releasing the office in the Mexico in the Mexico version. That's fine. Because they did the EU office and apparently that's great. I haven't seen it. Well, there was the first one and then they did the American one. Oh shit. Well, comments are about to light up about that. No, you're good. You're good. I had no idea. You're good. Listen, and you know who made it? The greatest comic, the greatest comedian in all of the world, Mr. Ricky Jervase is the one that conceptualized the office to begin with.

Of course it's on Peacock. Peacock's got the sitcom game and a chokehold. Yeah, I mean, that's, I mean, I don't know. What was it, NBC? Yeah, they got all the law and orders and how I met your mother and all those types of shows. I mean, this is going to be a first, the first look at the office follow-up series of paper starring Wow I do like that actor

In the middle Yeah the guy standing up Because he's from About Time or whatever Great great rom-com How I met your mother Liv I was buying weed from your uncle Leo

And there was your mom And I said hey Wow What a story The modern day Fucking Romeo and Julieta Yeah I was buying

I was buying a course A quarter order. A quarter order. Actually hilarious. This time they're documented the fundamental, the floundering newsroom of local paper, the truth, teller, and, yo, you know what's crazy about this? Who's the people, the writers or the owners of this? Who's the concept? Mind, the conceptual mind behind this.

Do we know? I don't. Is it an extension? If it's an extension or a, uh, is Oscar, is Oscar playing Oscar? That's a good question. Is Meredith playing Meredith? Executive Ricky Jervais, yes, it's going to be good. There's no way, though.

If it's a spinoff, there's no way they bring in, like, maybe for like cameo appearances. Bro, it's going to be good. And the reason that they did this, and I bet you that one of the reasons that they got this inspiration is from Ricky Jervase's Netflix show, which is called about the, his wife passes away from cancer. Have you seen it? Is it a Clarita diet? No, no, no, no, no, no. It's a Ricky Jervais show on Netflix. If you haven't seen it, you have to watch it.

It is afterlife. Have you seen that? Afterlife? Bro, please watch that shit. If you're looking for something to watch, watch that one. We have too much. Too much to watch. I say all the time we are the most spoiled in terms of entertainment.

There are 30 different shows that I want to watch. And Is is like, okay, well, I want to watch this. So then we watch that. And now that's still on the back burner. Bro, this one. This one is so good. Not this one, but the one that Matt had on, this one. Afterlife is so good.

It is so fucking good, man. It is so good. I cannot hype it up enough. It's, it's his wife. Now that comes out of left feet. Listen, listen. His wife passes away unexpectedly and he wants to kill himself. But he doesn't because of his dog.

And then the fucking whole story begins. He cares about nothing no more because the love of his life has gone away. He cares. He cares not about his life. He cares not about nothing. about nothing, but he finds, like, little reasons here and there, and he, it's so good, bro. So it's a feel-good show. It is a feel-good show, but he, Matt, can you, can you do the opening scene?

Go to YouTube and type in Rika Jervais' Walk in the Dog afterlife. Did you ever watch Derek? No, I did not. Really? No. That's the Ricky Jervase one, too, right? Yeah, that shit is so good. I watched extras on HBO.

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Yeah, I like it. Is this fucking Hogwarts in the intro? Like, this might be Hogwarts. I haven't seen this yet. This is Hogwarts. Dude, so cool. What the fuck? Such a cool idea, too.

I mean, this is going to pop, bro. How long is he like, how long is the, University open for is it just like forever or is it like a month stream I want to know what professors have like who's signing up to be a professor It's bro. It's gonna be I was gonna say like that'd be pretty cool. I would I would call of duty 101 Fucking gaming content one see me in there would have fucking that shit would be fired Yeah, that would be fire. Yeah, that's so cool Oh Changing the game man always always man, I like it. I like the production value of

that I mean those over the top No. No, what I mean by that is like, you know, respectfully that was over the top. That's in like he went above him being to do the same thing. It's like when Dr. Disrespect used to do all of those announcements. Are we not allowed to say that shit no more? Remember all this announcement? He jumped on a plane. He jumped out of a plane.

Like all the high-produced all the high-producedly produced. I mean, I like the high production stuff. Oh, yeah, for sure. That was awesome. It adds hype around it. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's just. But usually people don't do it that well.

That shit was insane. I mean. Are we sure that those New York in not LA? He's got... I want to... Dude, the team behind him... Wait, isn't he signed... He's signed tonight, I think.

Night media? Yeah. Is it? Bro, the amount of people signed tonight is fucking crazy. Yeah, man. There's that boy... Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Here, give me, give me. Goodness gracious. I'm sorry, man, I'm fucking... I'm breaking the set over here. He's making the set. Tori Lanes got stabbed 14 times in prison. Yeah, that's... They said the Mexicans did...

He's brought that up to me yesterday. I was like... Bro. And he's stable? What did you say? What was he's stable? He got stabbed 14 times and he's stable. I mean, but with what?

He had to go stabbed with like our... His lungs collapsed, whole bunch of shit. Damn. I mean, fuck. But like, he, you know, pulled through. Despite being in... pain he's I mean he

is right his torso two of the back of it oh shit two to the back of his head and one to the left side of his face both of his lungs collapsed and was on a breathing apparatus he is now breathing on his own so I don't really follow like what what's the reasoning behind this okay why was he in jail

because he shot she he shot her yeah that's what they saw he shot megan the stallion in the foot see I didn't even know that that's what yeah apparently got to look into that he shot Megan the stallion in the foot but some people don't believe that it actually happened. And his latest album was gas, too, man.

Tori Lane's. Bro, it was so good. His latest album was so good. He fucking went off so many bars. His fucking wordplay was fucking something to be talked about. You have no idea, huh? He actually does have crazy wordplay. But his last album was fire.

Baby, I want you to leave, but you stay. You know that song? Oh my God, yeah. I can already tell that he's a good rapper. Nah, his last album was so good. What I like to, What I would like to say, though, I think this is just a hater, dog.

When you see it, go out. That's his shit, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's just trying to picture Ray Kwan singing some love songs, and I just can't see it. No, it's always fired, though. Yeah, hopefully he's good, man. Fuck.

Gary. Yeah. You ever hear, listen to Walo talk about, you got to go look at Wallow's stories from the cell. He always talks about my motherfuckers had knives. Yeah. And he said he should just be hit. He saw a guy.

a guy was walking towards him with a knife but it was for someone behind him and he said he just got a hat he jumped out front of bed they're probably like what the fuck it's like the Miami story when the guy was walking up to me with the knife in between his fucking shit

and his was like he's got a knife and I was like he's got a knife I grabbed his hand ran past formal and John smoking a sig I was like he's got a knife they're like yeah that's hilarious it like 4 a.m.

They were like this There's nobody chasing me It's not like I made it up He had a bottle of acid or something in his right in And a knife in between his fingers right here And I didn't see it He was like he's got a knife Oh yeah

He was like I'm more scared at acid I told that story so many times He was like I need a stapler gun I got shot in the leg And immediately I'm like I was hammered so I like didn't really know Is was like Seth Because I start walking towards him

I'm like what did you just say and he's like I need a stapler gun I got shot in the leg and then she saw the knife and she was like he's got a knife he's eating up I would have been like sir stop I don't even think that knife was trying on yourself

I was like thank you see what happens I'm not fighting so the good thing the good thing is that he had like a bottle of like hydro peroxide or something in his own hand I think you said I think you meant acid yeah I thought you said acid

something paroxide acid I don't know what was in it it could have been anything But, I mean, he looked like he was in pretty rough shape. The good thing is that I just order a brand new scooter. Okay? So I am going to be able to be mobile, especially at DreamHack Dallas, which is happening. May 30rd.

Two weeks, man. May 23rd. What? Why? Two weeks, yeah. This is our final week of online call of duty for the remainder of the CDL. What do you mean? Our last weekend.

Our last watch party weekend is this weekend. This weekend. Of online matches. And then we have major champs and then EWC. Oh, my God. So we have four. more weekends of watch party for Kyle. Oh my, are we going to ESWC?

Not ESWC, EWC. EWC. But that's yet to be seen. Damn. Are we going to champs is the main question? I think we are though. But now Is is wants to go to south of France on a vacation at the end of August. Well, I love that.

Finally, getting you out of your shell. I mean, yeah, no, it sounds cool, but. What? Huh? Well, what? No, did you, did you ask her how much you got? How much you're putting in on it? No, I mean, no.

I mean, I'm eating that. I mean, what else would you, what else would you spend it on it? If not that, dude, a beautiful place. Okay, people love, people love to call me frugal and cheap, which, okay, I'm not going to, let's sit here and lie, I am a little bit, but I do also make investments into shit, so like my house. Gotcha, gotcha, so you're not fully liquid. It's a normal place.

The pool renovation is going on right now. We're basically getting our whole backyard redone. It looks like a fucking bomb went off in the backyard. And now we're getting the doors as well, which people are going to get a kick out of the doors because we've been talking about it on the watch party. Those are quite expensive. Now a South France vacation on top of that. I mean, it's just. I love it.

I love it. I'm glad that that's happening. By the second. Next time I'm going to hear of a high five and I'm going to say thank you for taking them out of a shell. South the France. But Santerpais is she wants either Santrape or Greece. But and we're trying to have a baby, which I've been talking about. So she's like, now she's playing the baby card.

She's like, listen, once we have that baby, we're not going to be able to go. So we have to go this year. And I'm like, fuck, how can I even argue that? You can't. Dude, I wouldn't even, I would say, I would, I would be so happy for you that you, that you're doing that. You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. I said, do we got miles stored up? That's bullshit.

How are we getting these flights? Could have to do it. Check that account. We got miles, right. Cash, I'm all in for the truth. Yeah, we might go on a vacay. Love that, man. End of August, early September.

Right before football starts up. So we'll get back from Santerpay and then boom. Eagles Cowboys is the first game of the year this year. Where here? No, it's in Philly, but they announced it. Opening night of the NFL is Eagles Cowboys, which I like, obviously, but also a divisional game, that important game one of the season,

I feel like they've never done a divisional game like that to kick off the year because that is very, a divisional game between two rivals like that is super important. Game one. And then you have it just off the rip? I mean, that could be some fluky shit. We lose to the Cowboys. Now we're...

One of the guys from ECU got drafted to... Uh, to the Cowboys. Really? Hell yeah. What position? Cornerback. Yeah? Nice.

His name is Chavon Ravelle Jr. They just got George Pickens, too. I saw that 80% of the athletes drafted this year all came from Texas. Texas? Texas. One from Illinois, fucking one from Ohio, but the rest of them from here. Yeah. I mean, Texas is a huge football state.

Big football state. Big sports state, man. Big sports state. It's just the facilities here are just like you can't even compete. I mean, also just based off like pure population. Size. Yeah, so many fucking people live in Texas. That's true.

That's true. The Republic of Texas, of course. But yes, as I mentioned, Dreamhack Dallas is happening May 23rd to 25th. We are all going to be there. Live and in person. It's going to be fire, man. We got meetups. Yep, we're doing a meet and greet.

We're doing the 1V1s again. I think that's our only two things we're doing right now, which is what we usually do at an event when we go. We do the 1V1s. We do a good meet and greet. And then we're business, as usual, back on the watch party. Back on the watch party. It's nice to not have to travel.

I won't lie. I do love traveling, but also having an event just here. I could stream in the morning, drive to the event. Well, Hector drives me to the event. but it's nice well yeah I'm gonna have to drive him no no we're good we're gonna have a driver oh boogie yeah

I gotta be in the van the van oh perfect we got a sprinter? yeah we can pick you up for sure hell yeah man no not a sprinter van I can't climb that you're writing up a fucking gorilla fengue on the way

no it's a Toyota Venza oh we're bringing it back no wait what is it Toyota Sienna it's the van it's what I've been riding in in the back But it's going to be fire. I tried to convince my mom to come on Mother's Day. I think she's going to stop by for the event.

But first time, Optic Halo and Cod have played in the same venue at the same time. Damn. Never happened before. Which is crazy. It's going to be a very fun event. There's a bunch of watch parties there. I mean, it's really like a fucking festival of games, really,

if you look at Dream Act. If you've never been to one, I would go to this one because you have an excuse to go see either Halo or Call a Duty. But you will experience the rest of the events and you're gonna fucking fall in love with it. There are stores. There are like all the anime shit that you may like, they have it there.

It's just like a festival of games. It's like a convention. You got a bunch of different booths. I mean, you could pop over, watch Optic Cod play, and then boom, Optic Halo's got a match in 45. Go watch Optic Cod. Then you walk over, go watch Optic Halo. It's going to be a fun event, man.

Go watch the Geogessor Finals. There's going to be Geo Gessor Finals? The Sand is Pinch. Think. Himalayas. Himalayan. Go up, go up, go up, go up. Wait, only fangs lie.

Hold on, right here, hold on. Pause it right here. What does I say? Nate shot. A legend appears. Meet color duty legend and major champion at Dallas Live. He's like a Pokemon. You're excused.

Huh? He's like a Pokemon. A legend appears. Yeah. But it's going to be a fun event, man. Can't wait. It's kind of bittersweet that the cod season's kind of come into its close, but. Yeah, that's really fucking quick, right?

Dude, it feels like this specific Codier has flown by and I don't know if it's because of the scheduling or ranked play came out hell early so it kind of felt like everything like released on the same track because last year it was ranked didn't release until like

probably two months into the season so I was like okay we're watch partying watch partying now rank drops play that for a few months also like kind of how at least from my perspective how our team has been going through it it's kind of just a blur

it's just the whole year's just a blur yeah and it was like the scheduling was weird because they introduced the minor tournaments that's like the first two splits we had a minor tournament plus five weeks or four weeks of matches so there were five weeks

and then you have the fucking Christmas break I don't know it just feels like this season's flown by because we're choosing or I am certainly actively choosing to forget about our season this fucking year hey but they can turn it round. They got Mark in there. It don't matter how you start. This is how you finish.

They just beat Ravens 3-0 who's a champs team. So, hey, you never know, man. It's one weekend. You could catch fire and. Yeah. Surge. Surge. We beat Surge 3-0, beat Carolina 3-0. Right. Surge, right? Yeah, but that was what Caesar still. I mean, that's still, it still grows on the stats sheet. Still a great series, yeah.

Yeah. But then we lost a Boston game five. If we what? If we played breach again, we'd beat him. Oh, 100%. bro i just i was saying that yesterday man like if you think about how good this kid is right now imagine how much higher his ceiling is when he competes against people at this level right because he's gotten to this point just straight up practicing his challengers team the entire time does that make a difference if his ceiling goes higher than what we've seen holy shit because i mean 1.3 1.5 like the kid's ceiling is already he's already set the bar very very high yeah zen's so

annoying. You can't say anything. You can't say anything either. Zinn heard us talking about Mercury. He just walks by and says, that's right, fellas. I just watch Zin's face on the watch party. Because you would think he's playing. He's like, he's just smug. He's just, like, grinning. Like, he's the one that's triple positive. He's the puppet master, man. The GM. And he loves it, too. He doesn't like talking about it too much, though.

No, he doesn't. That's the thing about it. That's the thing about it. He's very humble about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yo, Stars game four tonight. Oh, man. Stars game four tonight, man.

The boys are going out. I'm setting myself a drink limit tonight. Drink limit. Six. Three. Oh, three. He closed his eyes, though. It doesn't count.

Three micolobes. It doesn't count. I'm sitting a drink limit. Three in each hand. One per period. One per hand. I need to stream tomorrow. I didn't stream Monday because we watched hockey and I ain't going to lie.

a little too much red wine. Oh. He woke up horribly. What a headache? Well, red wine gives me really, really just gross hangovers because it's so sugary. And Andrew Denisa Zinney came over. You didn't come over. Matt didn't come over.

Mason didn't come over. Mother's same, man. Yeah, but Matt said he was going to stop by and didn't stop by. But, yeah, they came over. We watched, I mean, we got off so early because it was 30303. Watch the end of the Stars game, the Leafs game. and then we watch Conclave with Andrew and Denisa when Zinny left, which was great.

Yeah, it was good. But I just was having a red wine here and red wine there. Rainwater everywhere. Yeah, nah, Chad will say he's coming over and then he just doesn't show up. It's two days in a row. In my defense, though, I've been grinding. This is like my first full off day on Monday in a while.

Just relaxing, waking up, not worrying about anything. What have you been streaming? Ranked? Just ranked Warzone. And I've been loving it. It's so much fun. Every game's sweaty, though? Every game is sweaty, but that makes it fun.

It makes time fly by because it's like you have to actually lock in. It's so fun. And then with the watch party, I mean, it's been crazy, man. That's good. I've been having a lot of fun doing that. So I am looking forward to my new little scooter. Hell yeah. Is it motor or is it electric?

No, they didn't have electric scooters for like knee scooters, electric knee scooters. you. That sucks. Or they didn't have like a thin one because I needed something thin like a like a thin profile so that I can go in the hallways and through the doorways. You got to give that back or you get a whatnot after? No, I'm not. I think it's bad luck to even keep them around. The fact that I kept it around is one of the reasons why it happened. You're setting up for another. Oh, is that what page used to? I don't think I don't think Paige ever used it. Oh, I know that we got it for it and I will spray paint it and put some optic logos on that shit. This next one though, I'm going to hook it up. We did whatnot. They were like,

Give away the softcast. Do the soft cast. Take your underwear off. They did say that. Oh yeah. They were like, Seth, auction your shirt. I'm like, dude, you guys are wild. They're trolling.

I'm doing a whatnot this next weekend. Are you all doing one? No, no, no. No, no. No, we just did one. We win? I'm trying to go with Matt to California to knock out like three or four around the bars out there. Okay.

And so I'm just trying to do a whatnot so I can pay for the flights and shit. Help. Hell yeah. We're going to do that this weekend. Anything that you want me to draw for you so that you couldn't sell? Yeah. Yeah, I got you. I'll think of something.

I'll do a TST wall or something. Yeah, or doing around the bar wall. Around the bar wall. I don't know how that will work or a TST wall. TST around the bar flight cast. I'll think about it. Hell yeah. That's dope, man.

Just a picture of Matt Craig on the wall. When? Plug it in. When is it? This Saturday? This upcoming Saturday at what time? This Saturday night. After the watch party.

I got old school T-shirts Like actual vintage t-shirts From like the 90s Like blanks And then I screen printed around the bar Yeah That's amazing

I love it Got like 24 24 25 of them And then I also have like Little other things too Nice Fuck yeah That's what we do Little surprises

Little surprises yeah I like it forces you to be Creative on things that you otherwise Wouldn't be That's why I I personally like it And enjoy it All right ladies and gentlemen

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