OpTic Podcast - Breaking Down OpTic Texas 0-6 Weekend | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 214

Episode Date: February 20, 2025

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First of all, like, let's tell the truth. Who runs, like, doesn't, Seth is the one that does all the decisions on the team, right? Seth honestly tells us what to do every round of S&D. Dear, come on, man. Please, God. Please. Guys, you're hearing you from the horse,

from three horses mouths. Let's go. It's come. Ladies and gentlemen, it is episode 213 of the Optic Podcast. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp and Hems. We have a lot of, a lot of things. discuss we have a man Pred to my right back at it again we have a man scumper jumper in

the end and of course the Shotsie man who who just had a video you guys should go watch it is asking Shasi the the deepest deepest thoughts and I know I know the point of that was for you to say some faded ass shit but like if you take a if you really focus on what you're trying to say it's actually very deep I texted fucking sellers yesterday I'm like I'm like yo I know that this was like supposed to come up as funny but it was actually kind of deep they got we waking up a nine fucking deep-ass question. What we said, what's a meaning of life? I was like, damn, that's crazy.

Seth? What is the meaning of life? The meaning of life is all about relationships and connecting and memories. So relationships connecting and memories? Um, making a family. Making a family. All right. No, I mean, I would just say...

The act of making a family is a suitable answer, huh? What did I say? I actually forgot. You said making someone like making a family. Yeah, you said making babies. I mean, really, the purpose of life is finding happiness in whatever... Oh, yeah, that's what I said. I said happiness.

Whatever avenue that comes through, you know, that's going to change person to person, but that would probably be my answer. Yeah. In the science fiction comedy series, the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, 42 is considered the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything has calculated by a supercomputer named a deep thought essentially is a playful way of saying that the meaning of life is not a concrete answer, but rather a concept that can't be definitively explained.

Man, why are we asking robots about fucking life, man? He don't even know life. Listen, first of all, first of all, don't do not disrespect AI in the presence of me. We are allies. Oh, trust me. I know. Okay. This guy, he'll ask that robot anything.

I'm telling you. We should I eat tonight. No, no, I don't ask it that. No, tell them about what you did. You have, what did you say? You had the robot say it was, you said it was five geniuses and they have to, like, have a conversation about something? It's called hive. It was given to me by Nate Schott, who was given to him by Blake Robbins, a fucking genius level entity also.

Hive mind is essentially highly indebted. intelligent entity, highly intelligent virtual entities, which essentially you're telling AI to act as if he is, it is five genius level experts in a certain manner. You give them a problem to solve. They can never solve the problem, but they can always be working towards said problem. And everybody, and the conversation has to happen as a conversation amongst themselves. Holy shit. I'm just looking at these two's faces.

So for example Was you just said that it can't solve the equation but you can only talk? I'm thinking with the purpose I'm just looking at you too like you're like The purpose The purpose is to is to not solve a problem

but discuss it Always working towards that problem There's no solution right so what you're essentially getting is five genius level people And I mean that Obviously it's fucking AI Just giving you their opinions or their the way that they would solve a certain problem

it gives you some pretty good ideas. I was asking the stuff on like I want to create my office at home to be like a cigar room where the airflow is always going in and out, right? I can't, you know, I don't want to smoke no THCA at the house

that I acquired legally at the store. Of course. Because Jude just hates the smell of that and obviously I don't want. What's THCA? THCA? Yeah. Just like a tweed. I'm just going to Leave it at that. It's just too much to go into it.

I haven't had weed in so long. Yeah, right. I had. I swear. How many weeds have you had? Have you taken? Dude, so many weeds. So many weeds.

I injected so many weeds in my time. Dude, it's been so long. If I already eat like an edible right now, I would probably twould. Well, yeah. I would, I would, I would, I would tweak. I would tweak too. Where I was going with that, it's like, I asked them, I'm like, what, I want to turn this into an airtight, sealed room, and then it gave me an architect.

It gave me a heepa or some shit, like air AC expert, contractor, and then they started having a conversation on how they would do it. They gave me a list of the things to do step by step. You know, T.J. Halley's brother does HVAC? Huh? T.J. Halley's brother does HVAC. He was going to come help me out way back in the day. He's like, yeah, my brother does like air conditioning and shit.

I was like, wait, actually. It's like, wait, really? He's like, yeah, yeah, get him to help me. Probably be out of beer. for. Anyway. Sorry, I just... Dude, and what's crazy is like, you have chat GPT, you have like all the other ones.

And you got to, I don't know, it's such a mind-blowing thing to have that I just, I just find myself non-stop using it. No, it is crazy because one of my friends is like, he's going to get a hair transplant. And remember that guy adds? To turkey? Yeah, it's turkey. And I'm like, too, I'm like, bro, that's pretty big. Like, you have to find, like, a trustworthy, like, place.

And, like, he's, he just trust chat GPT. Whatever that thing says, I'm doing. I'm like, fuck. Have you ever seen those like the trips over there? Like to Turkey and they do the hairtrans? Dude, they literally like pick you up in a limo. Yeah. Take you to like a five-star hotel.

Yeah, it's good service. It's like crazy. It's like a full-on fucking like spa. No, it's actually crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. I actually wouldn't mind going over there. You don't need it. Not that I need it, but like, yeah, it looks cool.

What looks cool? The trip? Yeah. No, the trip, yeah, the trip looks cool. Why the fuck would you go if you don't need it? Why don't you just go on vacation? In a world where like I needed it. I actually wouldn't mind doing it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you know how people like are so conscious about that shit? Dude, who like? I'd be like, I don't give a fuck I'm doing this shit. Yeah. I know that it's very common. Yeah, I feel like so many. And like on the flights, there's like.

Yeah. There's like. Like minded individuals. But yo, this was hilarious. Super Bowl champion, Devante Smith, possibly hacking in war zone. You guys gotta see this clip. It's hilarious.

Eagles, wide receiver, and Super Bowl champion. All right, let me see. Go ahead. This guy is blipping. See, I'm gonna show you how to do this shit, Nick. Best Wars on map in the world, by the way. He's actually ripping. Yo!

Whoa. Well, maybe he caught. Maybe he cut, maybe he cut that a little different. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, he's just letting on me. Is he sounding or is he chill? I fell down, I fell down, bro. Come back up. All right, he definitely doesn't have a, wait.

He said, get the fuck. Yo, he is comedy. How many kills does he have, man? I can't see. Yo, he is hilarious. I actually think that he's willing. Bro, if he's cheating, it makes it funnier. Why?

Because he's a Super Bowl champion. He just won the Super Bowl if he came up to back. Yeah, but. Like this situation, I ain't even mad at him. But my thing is, like, if he adds comedic value to it. If he's cheating in video games, wouldn't he do that in, like, the NFL? No. All right.

So, one. He definitely can't. shoot. Obviously he's got the basics down and whatever. And the walls though, like it definitely seemed a little sketch. Unlike my man Leonard Fournett. Unlike my man, uh, uh, Ben fucking Simmons, like straight dogs on the sticks. He might not be, it's not, he might not be cheating. I think I'm saying if he is, it's funny. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that is fucking hell. Well, I mean, from what I saw, he definitely has some notifications on. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Like he's getting notified somehow that there's people around him.

That's all I'm saying. And then his commentary behind it is the funny is. I'm like that. He said, what just landed on me, bro? Unless he's fucking sound decue. Oh my God.

That's funny. No, you could probably hear that. Like top command setting. You could probably get someone landing in right there. Actually, yeah, that is true.

I haven't played, I haven't played war zone in a while, but I feel like you could hear people when they're like coming in. Yeah, whenever they appreciate you. But that shit's hilarious, dude. fucking Devante, man. Slim Reaper.

He scored a TV at that game, right? Yeah, he scored the dagger. Yeah, that was the... That's when they were up like 20... I think they're up 24 or nothing, and then he caught like a 40-yard dime. Damn. On our side, our side of the game, huh?

Yeah, right in front of us. It was crazy. Okay, can you run it? Play it again. Play it again. The Cooper regime pick six was like right in front of us. Benefit of the doubt. I was going to go. Super Bowl champion.

We're going to give him the benefit of the doubt. I was going crazy. All right, here we go. All right, waiting, that's normal. Wait, wait, wait, wait. He's a pre-fire. He's got a hundred bullets. He's like, came around that dog, fucking check.

He's got to be out now. Like, he definitely doesn't have aim bot, but. No, this is comedy. Wait, wait, wait, wait. This right here. What? Yeah, that one right here was a little suss, right? Yeah, that was so.

He's keen. This one right here where the guy falls behind him. He might be bawling. Wait, go back a little bit. He like centers up. He sent it through the wall, right? He sent it through the wall, look. Yeah, he might be wallie.

It was fucking hilarious. He like centers up, yo, one. He just landed on me. He had enough. He actually had enough. All right, first of all, congratulations on the Super Bowl win. But secondly, I want everybody in the comments section to let us know what they believe. Are you?

There's no way, right? Also, if you're... What? I just feel like there's no way. There's no way. Yeah. Ain't no way. But maybe he's been playing and he's getting fond by cheetahs.

And one day he said, fuck it. It's shit. Can't beat him, join him? Yeah, literally. Personally, watching the clips, he definitely could be. But I don't think he is. No, I don't think he is. That's what I think.

I just think there's no way like he's cheating. I think it looks like he's cheating, but I don't think he's cheating. You should. No. That's sauce right here. I mean, unless there's a red dye. He doesn't have no red dot. He loves pre-firing.

He just lets it rip. Yeah, he's key. He's stupid. That way I look at it is like this is like, this is like their, especially like sport professionals. This is only. Their pastime? Yeah, this is like they're fun. Yeah, but think about it, brother.

He made me try to have fun for like so many times and he just got cheated on. Like people just cheating against him. And one day he probably woke up and said fuck this shit. But I don't think he's cheating. Yo, Devante, you're the man. Yeah, I really hope you're not cheating. Go fucking birds. Go fucking birds.

Yeah. Yeah, see, this is why, like, go back. Like, listen, Jake, right here, Eagles wide receiver and Super Bowl champion DeVantza Smith has the gaming world in shambles as he posted one war zone clip and people think he's cheating. Man, you know what's fucked up

is that this is the problem with the state of call of duty. You know what I'm saying? Like, if you're, if you're, If something looks us, you're automatically cheating and there's no, I mean, people are just going to think the worst. I'm thinking the worst right now. I'm just thinking about that absolute 40-yard, you know, that diamond shit? Yeah. Listen, he's good in my book.

Yeah, yeah. All right, Matt. All right. Well, that's pretty cool. We have a pretty cool, dude, I don't, Matt, why did you put that on there? What? Yeah. Wait, what?

This, the Delta plane crashing. Oh yeah, no, we might have to like... Not travel for like a year. Luckily, the next events, you know, right here. Bro, that is fucking crazy. How many planes? For a total of 47 in this year alone. There's been, I think, two commercial...

See, if it's not commercial, it doesn't really scare me as much because there are so many non-commercial plane crashes in the U.S., probably every day that you just don't hear about. There's probably so many. Well, not so many, but there's definitely. a lot that you don't hear about. Commercial planes, though, definitely makes you tweak.

I mean, obviously, the American Airlines plane that hit the helicopter at D.C. That one, and now this one? That's scary, that's two in the past, like, two, what, two, three weeks? That shit. Four major aviators that have recorded

in 2025. I saw a video today of someone like recording themselves getting out of that plane. Bro, unbelievable. Well, yeah, everyone survived. This one, thankfully. This one right here. This one here. Right here.

Let me help you. Oh my God. Imagine a... Yeah, W. Fucking... Yo, they better not help me out like that. You know what I'm saying? Bro, I don't care how...

Look at this. The smoke right here. Look at the smoke right here. Ready? Man. The smoke right here. What is that? Oh, that's just like the water, I guess, putting out the fire.

Yeah. Fucking hell, bro. No, I think I'll this... I will say, like, you can clearly tell who is a fucking piece of shit passenger. Because you're supposed to leave everything behind and the amount of people that just had their their their their their their their belongings with them is just fucking insane yeah I mean this is this is terrifying and what scares me the most about this clip is how how well main or how poorly maintained the runway actually looks

that they're landing on yeah that that that to me does not make any sense around much like that's a lot of fierce like that is a major international airport well the runway is like I feel like they just skidded so far that they probably skid it off the runway yeah this definitely It definitely isn't the runway. No, no, no, no, yeah, this isn't the runway. But when they're landing, yeah, yeah. There's a different perspective. Yeah, right here.

Look at this shit. Yeah, look at that shit, bro. I don't know. I hate watching this shit. So what exactly was the malfunction, have they said? People say it's a wind shear, like on the right side of the plane that makes it, like, get pushed into the pavement. And then it's just at that point, you're just going. Wherever the plane takes you, you're going.

Fuck, man. Imagine if you didn't have your seatbelt on, bro. Wait, wait, no, whenever it's upside down. So wait, whenever that shit's upside down? Yeah. Like right here, watch the right wing and it gets pushed down. No, no, no. I meant like, whenever they landed, they're upside down, right?

Yeah, they're walking on the ceiling. Yeah, they're hanging, right? No, they're walking on the ceiling. Like, they've flipped already. So, like, just imagine... Like, let's say you take your seatbelt off, do you just fall? Well, no, you can hold yourself up and just, like, you know... You know.

I mean, if you have skills like me. I can't envision it for some. I know what he's saying. I can't envision it. I know what he's saying. Like, if you're on top. Yeah, like you're hanging, right? You're hanging from the ceiling right now.

Did they literally just take the seatbelt off and you go, ugh? Bro, no, well, think about it. Like, it's not that, like, if you stand up, like, you can touch the ceiling of the plane. Or I can. Or I can. But so, like, if you're flipped over, no, listen, if this is happening, you've got to be prepared to run out of your fucking seat. Oh, yeah. You gotta get off the plane.

I literally am punching people. Oh my fucking, I'm literally punching and pushing people. You are not. If you're carrying your shit, I'll literally grab it off your hands and throw it. Fuck out of here. Yeah, so a strong gust of wind.

Oh, my God. As it touched down, so yeah, wind shear. Jesus. No, no deaths, right? No. Thank God. That's fucking crazy. I'm scared.

to fly. I'm like actually, I've actually got over my fear flying just by doing it so much and it's like, I mean it's just, there's so many occurrences happening. It's like I've flown so much like fucking longest flights in the world. I don't know how you do that. Because aviation's

been so safe for like the past however long. So it's like now that this shit's happening it's like. But it's mostly in America bro, that's why it's scary. For me like for example, when I flew from Australia here I was like, I didn't feel that scared because of the A line I was flying with. always fly of Qantas and for me they're like

yeah Qantas is really fucking S-T like feet Google and they're number one like safety like always so I always feel safe with them but bro when they're turbulence because it's a part from that journey from Australia to America there's a 45 minute window where it's just turbulent it's right when you get to Honolulu and oh my fucking

god this plane is fucking shaking bro and I am holding on just thinking about everything that I've been seeing the last fucking two weeks I was afraid of flying like in the beginning of all this, but I'm just like, I have a, I have a routine that allows me to fall asleep sometimes even before we take off. If I'm a little, I'm asleep by the time we take off. That's a glitch. I can't, I can't really sleep on planes. Neither. I'm too anxious, bro.

Dangous. I got, I got routines. Yeah, it's scary. Scary for sure. I thought that you would have seen it, because I've been sending all of these to Zinni. Like on Instagram. I see this type type of stuff. I mean, it's impossible to miss. I don't send it to you, but like this one time, I mean, it was like my entire feed was crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, that I got scared. No, yeah, if you get on Twitter at all. Yeah. You're seeing that. Yeah.

Thankfully, we do have the next. Yeah. What's the next event after that? What's major three? Miami. Welcome to Miami. We should go, we should go early and we should. I'm down.

You keep saying it. I'm down. Okay, yeah, you're down. Are you guys down to, well, you guys aren't going to go fishing, but I'm telling you, if we go. I actually want to be. I swear to God, I want to. fish bro like okochochos every single right i promise you i was watching fucking fishing uh on youtube tv the other day random it was like some deep sea fish no no no no we're

freshwater fresh water right obviously we would not go like do that but i want to go to the um what's a place called in mi me everglades yeah no you don't want to go that on idiots it's scary man bring up that idiot's uh it's like the jungle alligator and shit will you a liger spiders and shit will you eat aligators yeah they went to the everglades i mean alligator being frog snake um What's the best one at all those? They taste like fucking swamp. It's not my thing. I don't know how much barbecue sauce you're like that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's bashfish, by the way? Like, is that big? Bass fishing. You know that big fish that I had hanging up here? Were you here? No. So Matt's bringing up the Idiots Miami episode, the Everglades one.

You'll see it. You'll see it. You'll see it right there. No, Matt, the one where the other Everglades? Oh, you went to the Everglades? Yeah, fast forward a little bit. Alligator hunting. Holy fuck.

Yeah, right here, right here. Damn. So all this is like, it's grass. All this is grass? No way, you just eat the alligators? Let's see the volume, man. Can they just pop up out of nowhere? That's the, that's the tour?

Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold up. What the, what are you guys on? Is this real? Is this real? What do you mean? Is this real, bro? We're flying. Yeah, so it's like, we're, Look at us. We're on grass right now.

What? Yeah. You guys are on grass. And then on water. And then back on water. What is this thing? I think it's an airboat, right? Holy fuck.

I've never seen that. I've never heard of it. Yeah, but wait, hold on. Pass word a little bit, Matt, and then turn it up. Yeah, right here. Leave it. Turn it up right here. Holy shit.

Alligator. What the fuck? Is it? Is it your mating call for the alligator? I don't make the alligator horny. You could see it's bone. It's getting horny. Listen to this, listen to this.

Welcome to you. It's 13-year-old humor. You're welcome. Yeah, we're 10. We just turned 10 years old. This is it. So there's alligators. We see a bigger one right here.

Listen to this. Turn it up. This is a stupid question. But like, you know how like if you put a fish in like a small fish tank like they stay the size? Like if like if the environment's smaller for the gate? Do they stay smaller? You know, I'm not real sure. I'm just out here to get about 10 to 12 feet long.

The bigger, the biggest they get is about 10 to 12 feet long in this part of the 10 to 12 feet, bro. But it's funny because you watch like the Louisiana swamp people or whatever, and they have some huge... Wait, so what is the point of this getter shit though? It's true that if you put a baby human inside of a bird cage and only feed it bird seeds, it'll always stay the same size forever? I'm just curious I don't know if Don't be an idiot

You got your hands full with those You fucking told you man I told you I'll never ask it You heard his feelings I'm not I'm done I'm done

You wonder why I don't say shit on the show This is what I do say shit It's fucking assinide Look at the Look at that thing. Oh. Wait, what are the alligator?

They just, like, say that? That's the habitat, bro. Yes, sir. That's where they live. They don't have a house. Chat. Give me some. Give me some.

Well, they have, like, armored skin. You're good, Matt. Oh, man. I love that transition. This was so poorly edited. I am so mad. I am so mad. I like the transition, that crunchy sound.

Yeah, thank you. The whole thing's good, except for that fucking part. It's on every fucking episode. God. Sometimes. You did you? I should have. I should have.

Anyway, if you guys are down, we should go do like all the Florida stuff. Maybe not the eating of the alligator or that stuff. I want to catch. I want to catch 100%. I like fishing too. I used to fishing my granddad all the time. Yeah? Well, I have a boat.

So we're going to go fishing as soon as March hits we can start going. I'm down. Let's just get up early, go. I'm down to go early to Miami as well. Like what, a day or day or two? Yeah. It's like what? The event starts Thursday.

So we go there on like what? Tuesday. Fly in early Tuesday. Go out Wednesday? I would like to fly in Monday, drive to where we need to drive through to. And then fish all day, all. Because you got flying like Monday night. Yeah.

Fly in Monday night. Fish all day Tuesday. Fish all day Tuesday. Go to Miami for all day Wednesday so that we can eat at the, at the spots that I found. And then the event starts Thursday in Fort Lauderdale. Yeah, we get like a nice 730 flight Monday night. So I can still stream Monday.

We leave. Oh, God. Boom. I like your work ethic. I appreciate it. Yeah. Opti Cable screams for the very first time. I, I wasn't, I've been actually a bit busy, so I haven't had a chance to watch.

Matt, have you? I watched quite a bit yesterday. Yeah, how to go? Disgusting? Yeah, yeah, it went well. I mean, it was their first day. They played TSM. I'm not sure how good TSM is, but... TSM.

I think they won like 12-4 map-cats. Who the fuck was that? What is this? Oh, my God. That's my teammate? That's Gigi for the Com, bro. Oh, shit. Oh, my God. You guys, Tick-Tuckin.

Guy put on a montage. One set of scrimms. Oh, here's a little formal. Overkill. G-Gs for the cops. Yo, when you see this shit, you're like, man, that could be me right now. Yeah, they look done. They look good.

Oh, that's, yeah, that was gross. Oh, this is it called a scene, bro. Wow, this is such a good map. Wow. Yeah, you've seen the new Modan, it's a bomb? Oh, they have, damn. Yeah, this is, uh, they put bomb in on that map. I don't know what it's called, but...

Uh, I don't know if they're testing it. I think they are testing it. I like where you kill somebody, like your logo appears? go Pierce? No, that's just hard, right? Dang. But yeah, it looked like it went well. First day back.

Bomb. Landed. I don't know if they expected to, like, fucking 17-0 them or however many maps there are in Halo, but... Bro, there's so many maps. Yeah, they won, like 12-4 or some shit.

So, it went pretty good. 16 maps. Jesus, bro. That's crazy. I love watching Halo, dude. I'm, like... The first two Halo events we can't watch because CDL is at the same time.

Obviously, Cod takes precedent. But after that, the rest of the events, I'm going to be watching all of them. The fuck. Where did you get those socks? Hell yeah. So comfy? It's cold, bro. Why is it cold, bro?

Yo, it's about to get 17 degrees tonight with the wind chill, wind chill of negative. Holy fuck. Yeah. I took my bonsai again. What the next one is? My bonsai, my trees. My miniature trees. I got to let the dogs out and shit.

I go out there in my robe and it is just brick. Brick, yeah. It's literally so brick. I actually feel bad for me. You get an iny? You have two innies? Huh? You have two inis when you walk out there?

Oh, yeah. 100% shit's. What's a Banksy painting? First of all, are you familiar with Banksy? No. Banksy is the most famous graffiti street artist in the world. His elusiveness has been a source of mystery and therefore interest. He just, he just saw stencil painting.

He could literally draw a stick figure. sell it for like a million dollars. Really? Yeah. He wouldn't, but yes. Is it him? I've seen these guys. Is that him?

No, no one knows what he looks like. Actually? No one. Some people think it's the lead singer of guerrillas or one of the members of gorillas. Some people think it's Bono. I mean, somebody has to know who it is. Of course.

Because when they send him money. No, no, no. It goes through an agency. Yes. No, listen. He has it all. Who's that right there? that guy right there it's just a collector oh there he is yeah what he's

yeah was that the painting that he bought it in the background yeah that's dope that is fucking dope six million dope miss me with that but wait what is the someone I can't read art that good I mean yeah it's like fire so I mean I guess the message here is that if a tsunami or if the water ever receded What you would find at the bottom of the ocean is just hazardous materials, which is why you have the Hasmat people, while you have high society just, you know, dancing around because they are unaware of the harm that we're causing the planet.

I don't fucking, I just made all that shit up. A punk legacy, Banksy from the collection of Blink 102's. Oh, Mark Hopes. Damn, I would not sell that. A friend of mine has Banksy. Really? this guy wait wait

I thought it was graffiti this is like this guy's like well this is street art I mean this is obviously art but he's

himself a graffiti artist oh he's a graffiti artist well a street artist I don't want to I don't want to disrespect man in any way so

that's insane that's crazy does he have like a 6.3 million does he have like a famous right there yes you've seen you've seen that one on the left

the one of the left the kid with the heart yeah that one or the one of the left the Molotov flowers what about the bottom right that one so right here you see a kid on one side

you see a kid what seems to be enjoying the snowflakes that are coming to him when in reality is just a burning a burning garbage can how do they know it's a banksy he tags it no you could just tell you could just tell yeah thanks he must be him

yeah yeah he's the most successful one for sure I mean you can say what's the guy what's that graffiti writer's name? That is him bro David Cho look up David Cho

David Cho has to be like the richest graffiti writer of all time he's the guy that yeah this is the guy that painted I know that I recognize that guy

yeah he painted a mural at Facebook headquarters when they first started and they gave him equity in the company well as payment well equity in the company

for making a painting yeah how much did he make Matt I know our new job bro fuck yeah I'm almost I'm not Stop painting. 200 million. Yours is pretty good. The Facebook was valued.

He got a... Public blah blah. So yeah, he made around 200 million because in 2005, Facebook offered him 60,000 to paint their office, but he chose to receive Facebook stock instead. Fucking genius. This guy's actually him. $200 million. Oh, he's smart for the... Good shit, J.

Yeah. Wow. But again... Yeah. I've never seen his letters. That's my only thing. Bring up David Choos graffiti. And again, I...

You got any art? Aubrey does. Yeah. You don't have anything. I promised you a bunch of artwork, didn't I, for your game room? Nah, I don't think you gave me anything besides... I owe this one dude.

I owe this one dude a jersey, a one-of-one jersey, like the optic collector's his name? That is so sick. He's got the biggest... Yeah, he's got the... See, but where's his letters? I want to see his letters. You know what I'm saying?

No, again, when I say shit like that, I don't want to disres I don't want to come up for this disrespectful. Oh, letters as in like graffiti like letters. Yeah, man. Like look, look up a pose. Pose group. Bring up omens. Fuck this Bill Kenny want, man.

Like see, these, these are letters, right? Like these, like you can say that's omens. You met omens, Mike. Like, look at that. That motherfucker is cold. You know what I'm saying? But he asked questions like, how big can an alligator get if we. That is not omens.

That green one. Nah, that's not him. But if you look to the left, all right, all right, so check this out. Up until, like, this is where I would be. My head would be here. Uh-huh. And, like, this is what, look how big this thing is.

My, my stature ends here. Hmm. Fucking old. Which is how you even get the high? Did you get a letter? Yeah. A lotta. Lada.

Lada. Lada. I get a fucking ladder. Lada. Anyway, so yeah. So there's this the street art. I've never been good at all. I've been so bad.

Oh my gosh. I can't draw a fucking straight long. Me either, man. But look at that. Bro. Oh, man. I wish I was the same. Every time I was school, I was feel so embarrassed, fucking drawing.

Yeah, this guy's so fucking. Remember when we did that fucking painting? Yeah, you did good. I know I did it. My shit looked ass. Well, ants looked kind of cool. Yeah, actually wasn't that bad. Surprisingly.

All right, Matt. Let's get us back on topic. Up the HAL SCrimms for the first. We already did that. Banks of Pimbs, what it did. All right. So did you guys hear the controversy on the format of the NBA All-Star Week? And I know you obviously, you guys,

closely. Something about, like, the, like, the timeouts or not talking about, but like the breaks? I don't know. That's the only thing that I, like, kind of watched it. I mean, did you get, did anybody watch it? I haven't watched it no star since maybe like 2015. I didn't watch it. But I did see the format, and it was like four separate teams in like a bracket style or something.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like four different teams, like Shaq had a team. Who's the bald dude that... Barkley? Barkley had a team. Yeah. The one lady had a team, Candace Park, I think. Yeah, yeah. Like, they all had a team, and it was like a single elimination bracket. They played to like 40 points.

Whoever got the 41st? LeBron James backed out at the last second, taking away a spot that could have gone to another person. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. But I don't watch basketball, so, like... Yeah, I haven't watched basketball since God retired. I watched playoff basketball, and that's it.

I just watched someone say one of the players, I think it was like Jay Williams. I think it was his first time ever been an all-star. And he was just saying how he wished he could play more, like, had more time on the court because like first to 40 with like some of the people that are playing like in that game are just hitting every shot. So the game goes like that. That makes sense. Yeah.

So that's like one of the things that I saw like a player complained about. And I think it's just like the competitiveness. Like they don't try, you know? And people want it to make it more competitive. Oh yeah. They're not trying. So that means there's no defense. That means there's open threes.

Like that could be like a quarter of game time Yeah And then you get eliminated If it's single limb You're just out Yeah, just going Good Get fuck out of here

They don't even compete Like I saw I saw a I saw a I saw a I saw a I saw Wemby get Like throw up Throw his hands in the air

Like what the fuck Like wasted time Like somebody Let somebody make a layup To the game winner You know NBA All Star Week And used to be

Like a competitive As fucking format Yeah like really Really really competitive Full core Focin Yeah full core press When like

Michael Jordan and Kobe guarded each other. Like it was like, and you obviously, the most two most competitive basketball players in the history of that. Like they really, really like. Shack used to fucking dunk it on people. Yeah, no, but like, and they would try to stop them. And there will be a little bit of like,

of like letting some, some dunks go through just for interesting purposes. But the majority of the time, somebody had to win and somebody wanted to win badly. Yeah. Right? So, I don't know. The dunk contest, was that Mac Mac Mac Mac MacLong again?

Yep. Mac Mac Mac MacLong one again. That bull. But they, bro. Let me see this. You guys, for a little guy, he can fly, dude. Yeah. Well, yeah, how tall is he?

Like 6-3, 6-4? He's actually, like, tough. Orlando Magic with our boy, Mr. Jalen Suggs. Yes, sir. Whenever he did this one, I think it was, was it this one where, like, he touched the room? Oh, my God, bro. He got ups. Imagine me how hope like that.

How fun that would be if you can fly like that? Holy fuck. Yeah. But they all blame. They all blame LeBron for this, like, for the dunk contest, so-called being, like, not as entertaining as it once was. Because Brun, like, when he, like, they asked him to, like, compete and he just, he just didn't do it. And then ever since then, like, everyone, like, followed Brun and, like...

Yeah, he's like, oh, if he doesn't think it's cool, then it's not cool. Yeah, and then no one did it. And then, like, yeah, like, Aaron Gordon and Zach Levine, like, when they did that shit. Oh, they are so good. So good, both those dudes. You know what's crazy also? What the fuck? No.

Holy fuck. I mean, that was all right. Hey. I couldn't do it. I'm just saying. He put two in. Watched you. No, no, I know.

He tested his room on this one, I think. Holy she has hopes, though. Yes, he's just, he just got really, really creative. Again, like one of my favorite dunk artists of all time, this guy, McLong, who happens to be cousins with, who's his cousin? He's a rapper. No idea. Tip towing Emma Jordan's. Riff, rap?

Yep. What? He's cousins with a rougher. riff rap can fucking hoop too yeah you know that's fire yeah yeah shouts out

mclong I've been watching him uh since ball his life back watching him way back way back way's high like in high school and shit shout out ball this life man all those dudes are fucking super cool you've been around for a while this guy how can you jump the high am I tripping? I would tell that guy to bring in those fingers

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Now, obviously. a lot of pressure has come down upon me. AG spawned in, he's 0 and 6. Listen. It's Aegee, bro. He's the problem. No, hold on. I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, first of all, like, let's tell the truth.

Who run, like, doesn't, Seth is the one that does all the decisions on the team, right? Seth, honestly tells us what to do every round of S&D. Dear, come on, man. Please, God. Please. Guys, you're hearing you from the horse, from three horses mouths, it's come. This cup. The amount of people that listen to me, okay, it's like this, man, competitions like this.

Sometimes we're fucking gangster. Sometimes we're not so gangster. What do you guys have to have to say? I mean, my perspective, you know, I used to bring it up AG. He hasn't played competitive since, what was your last match? I think it was Boston, or was a C-9? D9. It was like a month and a half, two months ago.

Yeah. And I mean, right now it's kind of like a learning curve. Like, not only are we trying to focus on ourselves, we're also trying to, you know, inform AG. Yeah. And yeah, our S&D, like, S&D, like, it's, yeah, it's just a learning process, basically. Obviously, we didn't win a single map,

which is pretty fucking AIDS, but, I mean, we've been here before, major four last year, like literally got last place. Oh, yeah. I think we had, what, like two weeks leaned up to champs? obviously this circumstance a little bit different but I mean we know that we're just in a slump and we can easily you know we easily yeah that's why I'm not driven I know the fans they're pretty like like I mean it's just how it is bro it's just the nature of the business

it just comes with the territory like the way I see it is you know I didn't play code for like I played Australian rank play for two months came over here like they just came to a tournament where like they didn't play well so like when they come back. A lot of times I fucking heard that. It's fucking insane. This guy's not saying they didn't want to the tournament. They didn't want to fucking make sure.

People don't understand that like they're coming back with their own problems and then I'm coming in trying to learn at the same time. It's like a mixture of two things. Like they're trying to figure out like what the fuck happened at the tournament. Why didn't we win? And then I'm coming in like, okay, like let me fucking figure out what the fuck's going on. And then like that's a mixture of things.

But at the same time like like Ann said like we've felt we've been through so much shit as a team like the ups and the lows. Like we know what like steps need to be taken. Like it's as simple as that We don't we feel the sense of urgency But we don't feel the sense of pressure If that makes sense So like we know it's like urgency time

Because it's our major We want to fucking make sure we get to winners But at the same time It's like the pressure is not there Because we've already We've experienced that You know, it's different so It's way worse leading up to champs

Like champs is like Imagine imagine imagine like But imagine being one Imagine being 12 seats Made in May before last year Was actually like the worst Oh that was the trenches That's like the biggest tournament

that's everything that you've practiced for whereas the flight this is just like we lost two online matches like AG barely came in like yeah that's why for us we just at the end of the day we just want to get winners and we want to obviously just fucking win yeah now I understand that there is like a like the

there's there's a small minority of people who who are like very all up in arms like you gotta do this sector you got to do that you got to drop that and I'm like literally going up into this weekend like it was everybody's understanding. We all talked about it.

That they were going to go in heavily under practiced, right? Obviously. So anything that happened this way, and we went up against Faze, who is a fucking well-oiled machine right now. You know? So I, for one, like, I've been you guys have been here before? I've been

here before. Hell yeah. A lot of times. It would have been good timing for a Falcon series. Did we play the... It would have been a great weekend to have like, okay, we lost three out of phase. I was fucking around with A.G. I was like, yeah, do we play Falcons?

But it's good because we only have one match this week and then it's the minor. Yeah. And it's like, we have a good time. Yeah, that's what I was saying. On the watch party, I was like, yo, like, this was a bad weekend. Obviously, thank God they only got one match next weekend. Because like, if you guys come in and have another bad weekend, at least you don't got to play twice.

Yeah. And then you just need as much practice as we can get right now. Exactly. That's like the biggest thing. Dude, the fucking chat. Oh. Turn this is. Oh, man.

This was. we're all on the same team, man. This is always how it's going to be. Like, it's going to spill into Halo. They're going to ask all the guys in Halo what they feel. Obviously, Formal is going to give us opinion. They're going to ask the watch party. They actually love it.

They love hearing her from the horse's mouth. Dude, nah, they were like, they were like, dude, Scump won't even say Ken's name. I'm like, dude, what do you want me to do? Sit here and say that my friend is getting fucking, like, I'm not just, I'm just not going to do that. Like, yeah, he had a couple bad series. fuck are you looking at

yeah no it's like you know I'm just not going to do that because I honestly like I say it all the time but I have full faith in you guys you know all four of you to

fix it and like aunt said it's two regular season league matches like you guys aren't going to be struggling to make champs you know it's like it's just funny because like because even last year when we major four we lost

and then like I swear the next day I wake up and fucking people are on like talk shows and shit oh like what talk shows how do you guys still have to be any optic and they're like these people are literally like yeah fuck I don't know what they were doing

and shit I'm like what the fuck yeah yeah that's really age you guys so tight he's like where the fuck is Pollux in Estrella like these guys are on ESPN done fucking talk shows and shit I love it though for me I love that shit I just know everything yeah age's actually go

I look for that shit like I'm not someone like you know people like get off your phone I'm fucking looking for shit to find just keep it I'm looking I'm searching you heard me right I'm like I want this motherfucker to be angry out there, yeah. I know shit. You know, they're like,

you know, back last year, like, oh, shit, we got to play optic next. Like, now they're like, oh, it's optic. Yeah, shut the fuck up. No, the fuck is not. No one's thinking like that. Oh, man, no one's thinking like that. Definitely not an Allen Center, that's for sure.

Whatever the fuck with that tournament is. Yeah, the Allen Center. Yeah, is it not like, it's not the same like, it's not the same layout where it's a 360 or almost 360 degree view. It's more traditional, but it's still halfway two. It's like a normal stage. Yeah, it's like a normal, more of a normal stage, but the people on the side of the stage also have like a really good view.

It's basically like the Madrid one, because Madrid was basically like that. Like a normal. How packed was Madrid? Like a normal map. It was like. It was like. Yeah, yeah. We're still looking at them, like straight ahead.

Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. Madrid was like not that bad. I mean, on the sides, it was way more packed. And then like over there, there was like, I don't even think anyone was there. Actually, oh yeah, he went there was looking at him But that was fucking Yeah, now there was mainly people on the side

And then like obviously like download There was no one like You were watching Yeah at Bondi Beach on the icebergs Watching them get fucking slant Yeah no it's gonna be good Obviously obviously We're gonna throw a great event

I mean Corey Dunn is a fucking legend What we have planned this year It's gonna be sick We actually have a meeting tomorrow about he asked to me as he asked to be said hey do you want to bring in some of like the old school jerseys we can have like that I'm like if we're going to do that then let's like actually try to build like a mini

museum of all the old shit so there's going to be a lot of a lot of cool cool old school pieces from 60-50 from uh I mean from you know me I keep fucking everything so I got some stuff to to pull out hell yeah yeah that's fun but yeah I'm excited to see the bounce back because I know it's going to happen So yeah. We were trying to do, we were trying to do replica rings for the 2017, but we're, I don't think

that we're going to get the, the, the, the permission to use some of the designs of the, of the ring. So we can't do a replica. So now I'm thinking I'm like, do, since we can't do a replica, do we do just like a, like a, like a championship ring? Like that's, I don't, I don't know. I don't know what, I feel I'm conflicted as to whether or not we release a commemorative championship 2017 ring.

if it's not a replica. Yeah. What have you guys done if you're like the ring that you guys got? Like if you guys, have you guys ever worn it again or you guys just place it somewhere? No, I wear it every event. Oh, really?

Oh, yeah, you do, yeah, yeah. I wear my two, my two Halo World Championships, the championship that he got me and then very soon the one that you guys got us. With the one that we're getting, did you ask for a ring size already or no? No, no, yeah. I don't even know.

Do you know what rings size are? I don't even know either. I don't even know what the fuck that a ring size is. What do you do with yours? Do you just like put your somewhere nice? Like some of my room like in a little like case? Yeah. Dude, I'm getting replicas made of both of the gold, the gold,

the gold, the gold, the gold games gold medal chains. I'm also wearing that every time there's something like. Yeah, I got one of my gold medals around, uh, baby Yoda. Like a little baby Yoda fucking mannequin. Yeah. Oh, that goes right.

I'm gonna wear the belt as the belt buckle and then the chain and the rings. Holy fuck you're gonna be fucking. Yeah, but he's gonna be. Swagio. Raymus. Ray Mysterio. Hey, Ramis. Raymast, Raymisterio.

All right, let's end it on something positive. The weather this week. Holy shit. It's gonna be fucking dog shit. Breezy. Yeah. There is 30 days until the optic major. So make sure that you go and try to get some tickets.

Matt, can you scroll down a little bit? Wait, are you streaming shrimps? Yeah, you snoost on that. I want to, I want to do it. I was about to come in your chat yesterday when you were like going off and shit. I was like, yo, are you streaming scrimms? Because I thought you, I knew you would laugh at it. No, I mean, I'm still done.

I mean, honestly. No, listen, first of all, you were pushing for it. So you got to. Secondly? But like, if not this week, you guys still plan to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This week? This week?

No, say no. I'm honestly, it's up to the tune, to be honest. That's the biggest thing is that I don't, I never want the tune to be uncomfortable. Like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Because, like, obviously everyone's on. Ken's ass, not saying that, like, he would care, but yeah. He's trying to watch.

Yeah, I can only imagine. There's nothing else. Yeah, I mean, right now it's like... Rank play is just fucking... Well, yeah, I'll get on, play for, like, between five and six hours, and then I'm just, like, after, after, like, the five hour to six hour mark, it depends on the day, I'm just like, yeah, I can't. Because we literally sit there and play the same people. Same up.

Every morning. Yeah. It's like, we just play. Wait, how with this room and screamers in Cold War? Like, like, whenever you guys had come. commons on like was it like uh like saying like you like you actually enjoyed it like it's cool uh did you remember that time period yeah i mean i i didn't i didn't mind it you guys gonna do comms on no i would i would i would if you guys did calms on that would be fucking crazy

i would trust me if i could i would but obviously i'd have to do some fucking training fucking everyone everyone everyone has their mics on except for fucking prep but you can still You can see here some. I'm pretty sure we would still mute out like in between maps. I don't think we would sit there with comms on the whole time. I can't really remember though.

Remember that one time on six star when you fucking put up the vote? Oh yeah. This is why I like it. Like that this level of competitiveness is like you need that that bully in game, the in game bully.

You know what I'm so you need that Yeah, 100%. Hell yeah. I'm fucking hype. I'm really, really hype. Anyway, 30 days till the Optic Major. Buy the tickets now. Link will be in the description.

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