OpTic Podcast - BREAKING DOWN THE FAZE MATCH | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 34

Episode Date: July 21, 2021

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I said before a series, if we go in and play our game and not theirs, we will beat them. Yeah. But if you go in and you play their game, they're going to beat you every time. If you go in and get frantic and just let them have gunfights, you're going to lose every time. Yeah. But to play calm and make the game come to you, then you have your best chance. Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode number 34 of the Optic Podcast. This podcast episode is brought to you by Better Help and also Manly Bands.

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We're gonna start out with a man, Julian Lopez. When was the first time that Hex yelled at you and why? Wait, what the hell? Julian, first of all, Every day. Every day. First of all, Julian, I'm gonna tell you one thing. It's lost. It's Lester.

It's every day. First of all, this is the way I talk. Okay. 500. It's who owes me 250? 250? Dude, it's a fucking Pixie.

It's a fucking pigsty. Who stole my Supreme Virgin? As if you need the 250 motherfucker? No, it's not, it's not about needing it or not. Oh, I think it's about needing it.

It's how much. You don't care about that. McDonald's. This is how much I charge to be a garbage. I didn't look, nothing wrong with that. But in order for me,

for me to do a job, like let's say, for example, moving furniture. I don't know. I charge, like a thousand dollars an hour because I'm just I just don't like lifting heavy you things okay so picking up a bag or box is 250 bucks well how else are you guys

gonna learn not to do that this place would look like a fucking pick style if you guys because I don't do that okay me neither dude no no no no no no no no now Brandon Brandon Matt Dill's good Dills good those two are different and not even close if I was the messy one I have did I've been overtaken I I've gone and cleaned your floor before. Shut. No, you have.

Yeah, I have. Steam cleaned or like? Anyway, so I guess, have you ever yelled at you? Like, for real, I've never yelled at you. No, not like, you haven't yelled at like. Like stern talking to. I don't think you've, like, yelled. You just always yell.

You're always yelling all the time. Josefummo's yelling? He says, yeah, Matt. Yeah, so apparently five out of five to say that I fucking yell. I don't know. when was the first time I yelled at you? Oh, when I called you a little prick for leaving me?

For stro? You didn't yell at me. You yelled at the camera with your bitch ass. Nah, but you... You were talking shit to Killa. That's the one time. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's it.

Fucking one here. I'm like, come on, man. He was so salty. Yeah, I was... Because I was tweeting killer talking shit to him. Wait, when? You like bust open the door. It was like five years ago.

Oh, really? When he dropped the whole nation team, they wanted to drop bows. Oh, so you turned around and... And hit him with them. You're a reverse card? Yeah. You can't try to drop the leader. That's not how this works.

And I'm going to swing back around and get you that. You can't plot on the leader. Turn right back around. I'm like, dude, you're on the team still. They're on. Let them be salty. They're off the team. And he's like, no, no, I'm like, oh, then it fucking keeps doing it.

So I had to drive to the fucking house. I mean, that's how it goes, though. Like, you can't just drop them and that's it. You got to be like, fuck y'all. Those are like the super PR days though. Where it's like if you guys said anything, they're like, ooh, boot camp. You know what I mean? Like that whole thing.

Yeah, right. Now are major PR days. Yeah. What? Now compared to then? No, I'm talking about for optic. Not as a whole. Not as a car as a whole.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just specifically. Because now it was like we get away with you. I mean, it was a different time. It was different times back then. Yeah. You have to adjust with the times. A hundred percent different times.

More at stake. I do. Oh, yeah, you do. I don't. Well, you are governed by the league. I'm chilling. I don't know. That's great.

All right. So first of all, I just want to give a shout out to whoever looked at the questions, okay? Because they, like, we went from having no good questions to look. To all good questions. We're handing out free shirts

and all of a sudden everyone's got a good question. Oh, man. You want to read one? another hitch uh yeah um lc lee elsie lee freedis friedis says how did it feel when you learned you were you would be joining optic like the process and emotions were you happy uh did you feel nervous first of all i'm gonna start this off right uh l silly it's it's spelled capital o lowercase p capital t okay the fact that whoever wrote that question didn't correct it for me to read it the right way we have a fucking problem afterwards i'm gonna yell at you

you guys. I mean, is that a good question? I don't think it's a good question. It's an all right. It's a good question. I think it's a question we've talked about it's like 10 years ago. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree. I go back and pull from the emotions then. I mean, I probably didn't really give a fuck. Yeah. Because it was like, well, no, because it was not so cool now. No, I'm not even, I'm not even saying that because like I was competing against you guys, like, and I kind of already knew that I was going to be joining.

Because we had been talking about it while I was still under contract. that I can't believe. Get a lawyer before you sign anything. I learned that very quick. Or just have someone look over it because I was trapped in a contract that I hated, first of all, while they were trying to get me during the season. So I had to wait until after the season to join. So I already knew that I was joining for a long time.

So when I joined, it was like, this is six months. At the time, it was me and Straw doing the Eon interactive thing. Way ahead of its time. Obviously, we predict the future. Look at what's happening now. But at the time he and I got on the phone with Seth's mom and we were like explaining to her like yeah, no, this is a real thing like it's going places But I do remember being on the phone with his mom with with stro stro and yeah Talking to him that's all right. All right. I was thinking something. I was thinking something. What about both? Oh, yeah, um

Oh, I so I don't know I don't came in during like the peak. Oh, yeah, that should have been though You got to move in. Yeah, like the first day the first day I turned on my street. Oh, I don't know. Oh, yeah. So I don't know. I don't know. right? Yeah. When I turned on my stream, it would get like 15K viewers off the rip. Oh, you were gas? Oh, hell yeah. He had the optic, like the optic juice. Yeah, like that was the juice time. Fuck. How many subscribers I get one month? Like 40,000, 45,000. Yeah, you were doing like Q&As and Nate and stuff. Like, that had to have been crazy.

It's such a good, it's such a hard thing to replicate, but such a good place in time. You know what I mean? Like those days were fucking dope. they were yeah imagine if we had hex quarters back then instead of like a house imagine if we had vision back then who I do we did

it's just audio fucked up and I have like all the exiles huh so you might have footage you might decide that to a movie production come 10 million movie production

I'm getting to cut of that because my career what's that mean your career's gone what you mean I don't know I was a baby back then I was pointing fingers and

Oh, you think you're getting canceled after that? Oh. No, I wouldn't get canceled, but. You don't ever say anything bad. I didn't say anything bad, but I was definitely a little diva. All right. I was thinking about it. What would your rookie card be?

What do you mean? Because you know how Brett Farve has a rookie card with him playing on the Falcons? And it's like, holy shit, I didn't even know Brett Farms. I didn't know. He was my favorite quarterback. I didn't know that. And Black O'clock? That's what I was thinking.

Leverage? A little Seth leverage card. Quantic leverage. Quantic, yeah. Yeah. Under Mark. Mark. I forget his last name.

Ferraz. Ferris. Yo, what's up, Mark A? Yeah. Mark Farras. That was a... You know what's crazy about that is that there's an interview out there with him predicting or saying like the things that could wrong in an esports organization that a year later ended up going wrong for him and the final stages and steps of Quantic.

Like there was an interview of him saying it's like, well, this can go wrong and this can go wrong. And then like a year later, it happened to him. Damn. Yeah. I don't say shit like that. You don't put it out there? Hell no. All right.

What were your rookie card be? TK. Huh? TK. All day? You're on TK. I was on TK for like three weeks. What were you doing?

Wait, so was Roger, right? So was I. Well, Roger was on TK. Get out of here. Yeah. What were your, what was your first? Not on it a fish, but I was like playing with them.

I was about to join. Was I? Yeah, I was with Gungjar. Oh, no. I played with them at, remember I went to L.A. For whatever. playoff of that randomly woke up like the day before like 7 a.m. hungover like I wasn't playing none of that.

That was when Gujar couldn't get in. Yeah like so they picked you up. Do you remember that? Going in four piece in four I got a four piece in S&D. Blackups three. Uh, both are already retired. When you got it. You got it. He went to hang out with all of us at the Callie event. Oh yeah. Now remember then. Gungar couldn't get into the state. I don't remember that at all. Yeah. Gunger couldn't get into the States, and so they were about, they just needed somebody to play with, and they were going to play with either Nade or Bose and Bose. They ended up playing with Bose. And then I think I carried those. Boles was getting like three pieces and shit. I think I had like the second best KD. At the event? No, not the event, just like in the match. Look, was it only one match? I think so. Vers like Nelly and it was like a decent little team.

Oh, was it? L.A. wasn't it best of sevens and like single limb or am I thinking of a different one? No, it may have been. It was at that little like. In Burbank. Yeah. Yeah. So they were single allems. Because we lost, I think, to study a nameless like map seven or something. Yeah.

I remember that. I remember that. It was like, yeah, first or second round. Yeah. There's like eight teams there or something. Yeah. I should have won it, but not won the whole thing to match. Yeah.

That shit was crazy. What would your rookie card be? Like, phase? Who are you on? Who are you? I would say, United. Faze?

United. No. Oh, United. Right? Oh, Megan fucking coaching his shit? Was it me? No, it was Hilton

that was coaching. Oh, God. Oh, yeah. That was hilarious. He'd show up in a suit. Suit. Yeah. He's looking over and he's just

got a suit on. Screaming and shit. He's got his Astros or Turtle Beaches? Those are the days. That contract's up, man. What are we going to do? What are we going to do?

What are we going to do? Wait, what do you mean? Nothing. All right. It's different time. It was different. No, I was talking about the headset.

It was 10 years ago. Yeah. All right. So this next one, this next one's going to be one of those doozies. Yeah. All right. I'm going to read it from Alfie Ocho. Have y'all ever experienced any glitches in the simulation? I have, bro. I mean, I always, I view glitches is just deja vu. Like when I get deja vu, I mean, that's literally a glitch in the matrix.

It's so weird. Yeah. It's like the fact that we have a word for something that we all experience that none of us can explain is that's creepy to me yeah it's like it's just like things that are out of the norm that don't normally happen and it's like that was weird you know i mean yeah like it's like it's like something that you foresee and then it happens and you're like wait or like something like something like i little like stop and like wait this has happened before a lot of money for my dreams like i'll be dreaming something and then like three four months later I'll get deja vu and be like, what the fuck?

Was I dreaming this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's weird as fuck. A lot. Like I had a dream last night. I was back in my hometown. Some weird shit happened. But I was back in my hometown.

I don't want to talk about it. But like if I ever went back to my hometown and like something happened on like that road or something, I'd be like, holy shit. Yeah, you'd get it. Wait, so you ran over someone. No, no, no. What about the road then? You got ran over. No, it wasn't about the road.

It was just like, I don't want to talk about it. It was weird. I thought you were going to fall for it. It just like spill the beans. I was all those. But mine's, my deja vu's have always been like super, like I,

the most recent deja vu that I had was when I was having dinner at President Fox's compound and we were sitting there and like everything there. That's just a weird one. Go ahead. I literally,

I'm talking about deja, the last time I had deja vu. Weird flex. Anyway, I was having dinner with the former president of Mexico. I will give you that. It's definitely, it's warranted flexing.

That's pretty cool. I wasn't even trying. I was just telling you, I didn't ask this fucking question. Like, it happened. Anyway, we were sitting there and there was a cat.

Like, there's like cats, right? Like, I don't know if they're wild, but they were part of the compound. And one of them like ran up a tree and snatched a bird. But when it came down, I realized that I was in a room that I had already been in before,

doing the same thing that I was doing. and everything there, like the way that the glass was, was exactly what. And for like five seconds, I was thinking about it. I'm trying to remember the dream. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, man. Right. Yeah, I'm here. You know, but I knew it.

And in my, I got the chills, man. I was like, what the hell? Like something else like I was meant to be here. Yeah. It was crazy. Wild. Yeah. I wonder if there are like documentaries about deja vu.

I saw one like long ass. time ago on TV when I was a kid like the one I remember the most like a story I forget what show was but it was a lady talking about deja vu and she can't like drive over bridges and apparently in her past life she like died on the bridge how did she how does she find that by a media a medium medium that's where stuff gets weird like the past life stuff that's where it's like that's you got one a little five year old he's like yeah I was George Washington and it's like it's like why do I believe this guy You know what I?

Like, you may have been. You ever seen those, like, talk shows? They're on, like, Maury or, like... Like kids die. Something like that. Yeah. Or, like, Oprah. And they're talking about the passage.

He's like, he knows things that he shouldn't. Yeah. Like, weird. Yeah, I don't know things I shouldn't. They're talking about, like, aliens and shit. And it's like, that sounds a little too real for a five-year-old. What happened with that? What happened with the aliens?

What's in the government supposed to release, like, everything? It was, like, trash. Did you see the files? It was. garbage. Yeah. That's what everyone, like, expected.

Everyone was like, they're going to release, like, the bare minimum. Like, just bullshit. But they acknowledge that it does, that they have been covered. Not really.

They were just, like, saying, like, yeah, it's there, but we can't, basically, we don't know what the fuck it is. Yeah.

It's all summed up, like, something's there. We don't know if it comes from overseas, us, or outer space or whether it fuck.

Well, I also saw, uh, the other day that Elon Musk was doing something. I don't know if it was like, I saw it on TikTok. But it was like he said that there's definitely been other inhabited planets that have just died because they couldn't get to another planet.

So like he said in half a billion years, the sun's going to expand and our oceans are going to evaporate and then we're just going to die. So if we don't get off this planet in half a billion years. But who goes? We're going to be extinct. So he said there's other civilizations out there that have probably had the same course as us, but they couldn't get to the next planet. Fuck. So maybe we're that. Maybe we're that race that's coming from a different planet,

and this is like our stop on our way to somewhere, but something along the lines, something went wrong, and we no longer had the technology. Something like sci-fi shit. Yeah. What I'm saying, it's like, who picks, who goes? Because in the movie Greenland. The billionaires go. Yeah.

Go, boys. What? That doesn't make sense. Because what's money going to do on a new earth? They just have the privilege of going. It should be the people. They're paying for the fucking spaceship, yeah. Oh, that's a good point.

But what I'm saying is this, though, like, in the movie Greenland, have you guys seen the movie Greenland? Mm-mm. It should all be about, like, talents, you've seen Greenland, right? Like, if they have to, like, grow corn, they have to have someone that knows how to build a sphere that. Botanist, architects, yeah, like, shit like that. Scientists.

Doctors. Have you seen the movie Greenland? Yeah. Oh, my God. Listen. Russell Crow, right? Yeah. Yeah.

No. You're on the right track. It's Gerard Butler. Oh shit 300 They look pretty similar Yeah yeah they do It is the most realistic End of Days

scenario that I have ever Watched ever It was so Crazy to me How real it was That it became one of I watched it back to back I didn't watch it like the following day

I rewatched it Really Because it is that good I only get like weird Feeling like oh my God I'd be so scared If I saw a tsunami That would probably be the way

I'd be like And just die by looking like you know what I'm saying if I saw a big ass wave that I like that New York what is it day after tomorrow yeah the day after tomorrow dude I'm telling you watch Greenland it is the most realistic because they made it real by the way that they recruited the people who were gonna essentially survive right and it was crazy because it it I felt that shit and then I don't want to ruin it you got to watch it everybody who wasn't watching it you guys have to go see it.

One of the topics that we wanted to discuss today, as is listed up on there, is Clay stepping down. Is he stepping down? Retired. Like, I read a little bit about it. I mean, I think he's just not playing in this week's match, right? Just taking a break. But that doesn't make sense.

It doesn't make sense. As a competitor, as him, right? He is like, he is a competitor, right? Like, people may get annoyed by him a, a bunch of stuff. If he's injured, he got to play. No, yeah. But he, there's no chance that a guy like that doesn't, want to compete every single time.

Every single time that he's been dropped, he's come back stronger. You don't drop yourself like that. You know what I'm saying? And for somebody, if for New York, for example, if it's on New York to drop him

or to put him on a bench, they have to think about how much improvement, New York subliners, how much better they became when he got dropped from over there. You know what I mean? Like, it's not like,

what do you think? Okay, it's a pro player. What do you think? You're there. I don't know. Because that's just, that's just me being a Reddit dude. You think he just like said what like said I don't want to take his face this Sunday

That's what I'm saying you think he like made it seem like he made the decision type shit I have no idea but he hasn't said anything could be like they dropped him and he they were like you can spin it like or like it could be that it could be he's struggling with you know the mental ass Oh yeah yeah yeah I mean he is not a good spot you can just tell yeah I was on the I was on the flank and we were just watching we weren't I mean I was even watching the game I was just just watching in between rounds, they would show the webcams in between games. And it's just like even the games they won, Clay looked defeated, really. Like, he looked like he just didn't want to be there. Yeah, it's, it's hard. Like, it's hard, unless you, like, spoke to him, you never, like, you don't.

You can't, because, like, you could say something on Twitter and it could be cryptic. Like, there could be another motive or reason behind it that you don't want to share or, you know, it could be. Yeah, he has been playing call duty for a long as time every single day. He is the oldest one in the league, right? He's 28? 28 or something? I think he was the most winningest player in Mono Warfare 2. Think about that.

He was like he won the most money in MonoWher 2. I think that's a stat. That shit was so long ago. Such a long time ago. Like, good job. Look, if he's retiring, I mean, good for him. You know, congratulations. If he's not, look, as much as people like to meme,

throw me to the wolves. and I'll come back lean to the pack like the motherfuckers done it you know like no one can talk shit no more there's no way he doesn't play a chance it's like everybody when he's like throw me to the wolves and I'll come back leaving the pack

we're like shut show right but then he did it and you're like oh shit all right we got you hey look that's the way life is right

but that's the way the life is the dude did it and then he did it again and then he did it again so it is what it is slack Do you have two rees? Slack got sacked today, I think.

Got what? Sacked? I think it was... It's not a very nice word to use. What is that even mean? Yeah, Slack got sacked today. Like, what is it? I didn't mean it.

He got released from the Mutineers today. So his contract. But I tuned into a stream like right... I didn't mean it in a mean way. I mean. You could say it in a nice way and it sounds mean. Slack got sacked. Slack that's sacked.

Slack that's sacked. Now the reason... It's fucked up turn to sake. Okay, no. Let me put it into fucking context. Immediately after he tweeted out that he was going live, I tuned into his stream, and it seemed to me like it wasn't a sack. Like, I think he made it seem as though he was himself stepping down to pursue streaming.

Really? And, uh, challengers. He says, I wanted to play who I wanted to play with. And I also believe that he was, he said, I also have the confidence to believe that I can make a living off of streaming and challengers? I mean, I don't know about challengers. I don't know about challenge.

Can you make, yeah, if you get picked up? I don't know. I have no idea. Me either. They're like 40Ks and stuff. Yeah, so whatever. Salaries like are this because. I doubt they even have salaries.

Some do. Some have to. Yeah, true, true. If it's a nor. But they're not big salaries. No, look, if it's a org, if it's a Norg that has sponsorships, they for sure have to get paid.

But he made it seem like, you know, It was his choice. That's why I made light of the thing. Yeah, yeah. It's like a sack. Anyway, I think, look, I think that we are stepping into that realm where people who have been here for a long time are going to start removing themselves from competition. I think that we're there.

Don't open your eyes like that. You're going to make people title it differently. What's you saying? You got to make people title. shit. Hey, I'm still kicking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, has, has anyone retired during Cold War? Because now a lot of that. Pakes. I think Pat, he retired at the end of, or did he play at champs? I think he retired like mid year like Damon did. So what is it? David, Dave and Pat and a few others retired last year. A lot of people have been dropping. That's crazy. But I was like, it seems like a lot of

This year was the worst, like by far. For what? Just like people getting removed from the league and like new people coming in. Oh, yeah, yeah. Like this year's been the worst. A change at a time. Like every team has made a change at this point besides us and phase, I think. I think we're the only two that haven't changed.

Yeah, I think so too. Dallas changed, Toronto changed. So yeah, I think New York changed. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Damn. That's crazy. I mean, Ellie. We're still kicking three now.

Yeah, three now. Congratulations, man. you guys beat phase uh i would tell them what i said at breakfast tell them what i said breakfast i spoke it into existence i'll speak today's gonna be the day i don't know i did we were having breakfast we say that every time it's like hopefully it's no no that day i was like i was like look it's only gonna take one team to like get over that mental like they are unbeatable to be able to do that and set's like they're not or oh no this is what i said this what i said i said they woke up this morning thinking, I think today's the day that we get beat by Optic.

They all woke, and then Seth and they're like, zero chance. They woke up thinking that. They're 32 and four. They're not thinking that at all. They lost four games. Hey, can one of the tiny terrorists fucking back me up on this? Did you not wake up thinking today's the day that we can beat by Opt? Not even a little bit.

A, B. is going to be like, yeah, that was me. Yeah. I don't think. Today we lose. We've just been getting better. and, you know, we finally went into a series against them, not shook. Yeah.

That's, like, just what it came down to. Like, the last two times we played him, we were shook. We got LA Thieves next. Yeah. Two matches, right? L.A. Thieves and Wales. London. London.

We play London Thursday, L.A. on Saturday. So London beat. One of them were first seed. London beat L.A. thieves. Last week, yeah? Yeah, they did. No, Paris did. No, Paris did.

Paris. Scrabs. You're right. Scrabs. Yeah, this is what I mean any given Sunday somebody can come in step up and do the damn thing What that shit is annoying why it's people just pop about the blue like come on you weren't good last week That's how caught is I know Yeah it's especially this year it's like other than phase it's just been

All over the place yeah what do you what do you think was the you guys just were heating up at the right time I mean yeah you guys been getting better you guys have definitely improved a lot. Mostly in the mental, I think. Yep, that was fucking, it didn't even look like the game was crazy or anything like that. They could hear me, bro. No, they can't. Do you listen to the podcast back?

I do. And I go to all the comments and I see no one's ever mentioned that ever. But, yeah, like, what was the fuck was I talking about? Just do it like that. What's about it? Yeah, yeah, it looked good. I didn't see like no one choking or played out how it played out. And you guys.

Not, we played a good series. We just played how, I said before the series, if we go in and play our game and not theirs, we will beat them. Yeah. But if you go in and you play their game, they're going to beat you every time. If you go in and get frantic and just let them have gunfights, you're going to lose every time. Yeah.

But to play calm and make the game come to you, then you have your best chance. It is crazy watching. Like, every game kind of looks the same, like from behind your monitor or behind Matt's monitor, because that's the only way I can watch. Every game kind of looks the same except for, phase phase is just like you're always weak it's crazy it's actually crazy like just seeing you guys slide behind corners and like yeah peak and as soon as you peek you're weak yeah you got a finesse they don't they literally they don't miss it's crazy it's crazy it was funny i was watching formal

he was in money on raid and uh he got he killed someone and then i forget who it was like they were running from the little cabana into basketball and he shot him running across and he jumped back out and killed formal and I was just like how do you fuck you even have the nuts to do that like he was in a head glitch I think I was just like he's in a head glitch and he's weird I'm just like and he's weak and it's formal and it's formal and like the way he died he could just tell he shot and he

crouched while still aiming in and he just died oh on the nice on the nice wool on the mahogany dude we paid good money for this it's semen in it better fucking now Phase is good. We played a good series. I'll do it. I'll do it. I will do it. Bounty. We'll talk more about it. The quicker bigger picker offer. We need some bounty. A little sponsorship.

Dude, look at all that blue ice. That shit's soaked into mahogany. Dude, not in the mahogany, dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got treated like a carpet. You didn't see it that was like kids, man. Can you get, I got it right here. You know what's crazy? I saw him have that open over there and I was like, I hope he doesn't hit that shit. Oh, I hope he don't fall. And then a couple minutes later, boom.

What do you think you are over there? That didn't even fall out like water. That shit fell out. That didn't even fall out like. That shit felt like it was mad saliva in there. You see how he dumped it? Watch when you watch it. Watch when they upload.

He dumped the water, but the water didn't go anywhere. It was just like, blah. Anyway, what's up? Are you excited about fans coming back? Are you sad that you're not going to get a chance to, like, meet them in person? I think it's going to be dope. Yeah, I just, I just am really worried that people are going to come in with expectations that it's going to be completely normal, and it's just not going to be. And I keep talking about it, and it feels weird every time talking about it because I know that some people just don't understand.

Like, they, and they won't. What do you mean? What do you mean? If we get COVID, we can't play. Oh, yeah. So we can't like meet and greet. We can't take pictures. We can't do this, that.

It's like we can't. Like you told your mom that she can't come. Yeah, my mom's not even coming to the event because I was like, if you're going to be in the stands and hanging out with all these people, then it's a very high risk factor for you to get dinner with me after or something. Because if you do get it, God forbid, then and I get it, then there goes our major. So it's like, it's like business. Like we've worked. Yeah. We've been working all year for this.

It's like, you know. It might be one of those hotels, the whole. The whole. The whole time in the hotel. Yeah. That's how, I mean, that's how it was the last time. Nobody was, like, out, really? Nobody was...

Can't risk that. Yeah. That's... What? I just saw Matt Craig in the background doing this, like the Marking Jay or some shit. Oh, I was like, what happened? Or the mocking Jay.

Yeah. That was good. But yeah, I don't know. It's going to be interesting. Because I don't want to be... I don't want to feel like an asshole, but, like, I'm probably going to have to feel like an asshole. Yeah, I mean, we have private interests.

But it will be dope to, like have the fans there and feel the energy of the in the game. You know, that's going to be awesome. I do feel bad for you because anybody that comes up to you, you're going to be like yeah, exactly. No, no. They probably won't even get a chance to get that. No, they were they can't. And people aren't going to understand that and they're going to

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Thank you so much to the sponsors. Thank you so much for the support. Come back again. We will gladly spread your gospel and words. Bose, you're uploading to YouTube again? You were talking to me about getting the Sony. He's like, yo, what camera should have get? And I'm like, get the Sony RX100 mark seven.

It's the newest one. My first day back, he's licking me $50 on the camera. I went straight. I went straight to best buy. I got one for like, what, 893? Yeah. It was something G7X3 or something like that. That was good, too.

I mean, it ain't no Sony RX100 mark. Like seven. I know, but I might get lazy in two days or something. So you got to ease into it. Yeah. But the camera is good. I already recorded the video. It's like hard to like constantly be doing it.

Dude. Like there's always a time where you're just going to get lazy and then you fall into the trap. And once that trap comes, it's so hard to get out. And then it's so like, yeah. It's so hard. Yeah. But you did it for a while, Hex. I salute you.

Thank you. Two years. Yeah. Two years straight. And then now I do it every so often. whenever I feel like, whenever something's going on, I'll just pick up the camera and record. People still watch it.

People still like to see it. You get a lot of residual views too, right? Yeah. So people I've noticed like to see you spend money because the video that Dash and I did like that, banged. People were fucking like, yo, I'll do that again. And I'm like, tax that's fine.

How much did you spend on that one video? Look, I don't want to save, but it was like $3,500. No, more, like $4,000. For what, two pairs of shoes? It's, yeah, two pairs of shoes, some shirts. No, I got the easy foam runners. Are those more expensive than the turtle those? No, no, the foam runners are like $400.

You skimped out on them? On what? On Bruce. What do you mean? He didn't win a championship. Damn. I told him if you won me a chair. I just caught a straight.

He said if Bruce wins a championship, he's going to buy Bruce and I, turtle doves. Oh, yeah. So I need you guys to win a championship. The thing is, like Bruce. is like, yo, I'm going to fucking spend a, I'm going to drop a bag. I'm going to drop a bag. And I'm like, in my head, I'm like, all right, what does he mean?

You know what is that? I hope you don't. All right. Is that 700 bucks or 7,000? I hope you don't fall. Anyway, so we go to, we go to the private selection area. We went to PCHLA at the gallery. I go check my other good people.

But we go where the expensive is just all right. And I'm like, yo, how much is that? And dude's like, oh, there's my man Ian. It's like, oh, $1,300. It was like, all right, cool. What are these? It's like, blah, blah. And then we get to Seth's shoes, the Chicago off whites.

They have them there? Yeah. Well, they didn't have my size. They didn't have my size. Damn. Aren't you an 11, too? 11 and a half. You could squeeze into it.

No. So I was going to buy the North Carolinas that you have, the Offwhite North Carolina's. And I'm like, oh my God, today's the day. I have the perfect shorts for them. Today's a day. Do you have those in 11 and a half? He's like, I don't. I'm like, damn it.

What about these? The day that I finally get the shoes that I want to get, which are the ones that Seth has, because I had a chance to buy them at $2,100. You know how much those motherfucking shoes? $6,000. Wait, what shoes? The off-way Jordans that I have. Those are $7,000?

$6,000? That's a W, bro. They're freaking, what's the word I'm looking for? Rare? Yeah, they're rare. Well, there were probably a limited supply release to the public. Yeah. And that's always.

Yeah, they definitely don't make them no more. Like those hundred thieves, Gucci bags are probably gonna... Hell yeah, rare. There was only like 2,500 of them made, and Natechott didn't send me one. Or me. So a size 11.5 and a half is 5,600 bucks. Seth's an 11, 5,000 bucks. A 12 is 6,500.

A 12 and a half, 25,000. What? 25,000? Yeah, for 11 and a half, for 12 and a half. 25,000? For a 12 and a half. I mean, at that point, you're like, Oh, shit.

Yeah. A five and a half is seven grand. A six is, bro, a six and a half is 40 grand. A six and a half? Yeah. 40 grand. 40 grand. I don't even know the most I paid for you.

How much do you think the six and a half went when it released? 2100 like it did? Or do you, they always get like upcharged? Like the super smaller, super big sizes? Because they just aren't a lot of them. Yeah, no. I just, the popular ones are the ones that sell for the highest, though. I think, not the rare it is.

Like the, if it's popular, that means that it's going to cost more, in my opinion. So I don't know. I'm getting some. I got some of those foam runners. So, yeah, you bought, you tried to monitor. You had the same reaction that I did, but I said. I'm not going to buy me a pair now. It's just how it goes.

So, you do the shit? So we beat phase in them? You got to buy me a pair. This is how you, or I can just lend them to you for the match. It's literally a tax right off. Yeah, so you buy them. It's superstitious. So you do it.

Does that out? Does that count? Is that count? I'm a superstitious. So you buy them and you write them off. Let me do you a favor. I'm always trying to squeeze out. Yeah, I hear you, man.

I respect it. The thing is about those ugly-ass shoes. And guys, listen, I was the first one to be like, what the fuck? When I first saw them, like when I saw the leaks, when I saw them, I'm like, yo, this guy, this guy's gone too far. Yay, you went too far. Okay? You went too far. Them shit says not it.

They are not it. they're it. And then I was watching the PCH dudes on YouTube and I saw Ian wearing them and I'm like he's a bigger dude. Like I'm like I'm like I mean he pulls him off. I get there he's like you can try this on if you want and I'm like do you have my size? He's like well size off whatever

and I'm just gonna take them. I'm just gonna take them. I'm just gonna take them. I know they're gonna be comfortable I just got to take it. But when I put on and I'd realize how comfortable they were that's when I was like gotta get the black and the white. How much were they? 300 bucks. See that's not that expensive though. But to some people, Seth. For crocs, yes. But they're considered easies, though.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The brand, you're paying for the brand. Yeah, I mean, I get it. That's not expensive for like a yeezy. And I think they made them cooler when Walmart started ripping them off. And now Kanye suing Walmart. So I'm like, okay, these are actually, there's an actual moment that is happening right now where this one single.

Yeah, where Adidas and Kanye are suing Walmart, you know, for, for Walmart selling them. I did see that. Yeah, so I'm like, they're having a moment in sneaker culture, right? The same way that the pigeons had a moment, the same way that, you know, obviously off the way, that shit's probably often, though. Huh? Like, a lot of people probably sue each other, like, often. You know what I'm saying?

Like, in that kind of world? Yeah. For sure. Like, so much shit we don't even obviously know about. Yeah. That's crazy. So I'm like, anyway, so I put them on and I'm like, cool. And then I'm like, are they look ugly?

Then you put them on. What was your experience like? Oh, I immediately bought a pair. Like, immediately bought a pair. Or went home immediately and bought a pair. Yeah, on stock X? Yeah, a stock X. Bro, I'm telling you, the thing is, it's like...

I can't wait for them to get here. The thing is, like, I would see you buying those just because you like wearing that wild-ass shit to begin with. Yeah. Right? What's that supposed to me? The fucking the parachute, um, kimono, um, samurai pants. I can't wait for it not to be so damn hot. So I can start wearing those again.

Yeah. And I've just been wearing... So I always thought that you would buy those. that you buy those but then I'm like, nah and then you put them on and what happened what's your experience like? Would be phase.

I wish they had like more colors though. I wish they had like a like a green pair. Well the thing is this, right? If we could wear them with our jerseys. Yeah, well that's what I'm saying. Like as soon as that he liked them, I'm like, all right, I'm gonna buy the whole team once

but I'm gonna have Kixradamus teach me how to airbrush them into like some optic shed. You could always just have someone like paint, paint the shoes. Yeah. And they are sick. Yeah.

They're like phone. They're like, it's got to be harder because it's not like leather painting. Hydro dip. You can hydro dip those. For sure, for sure. Yeah, you can hydro dip those for sure. They come out fire. They come out fire.

Yeah. So I don't know. It's a hydro dip. It's like a layer, like a thin layer of paint, but it's a full design. So this, for example, this is like this is printed in a thin piece of rice paper. Okay, this is like a piece of rice paper and they put it in like a fryer. like a deep fry. Yeah, a deep fry.

And then they take whatever they, like, they'll dip this, and they'll just dip it in, and then they'll hold it there. And then when they take it out, it's fully designed. Yeah. It's literally, it's crazy like that. Yeah.

It's literally crazy. It's weird. It's one of the coolest. If you look up, if you look up like dips on YouTube, what is it called? Hydro dips on YouTube. I think that's what's up.

Hey, chat or whoever's watching this, if you guys have own or operate a hydro dipping machine, hit up Maddie on the Hexquarters Twitter app Yeah the Hexquarters account And we're going to send you some easies to cut to do them for us We'll design them, we'll do that But we'll hire you guys to do it That way I don't go hire some stranger

You know what I mean But don't fucking keep my fucking shoes I'm psyched man I'm excited about it The thing about that Is like I'm not the kind To go out and try something new And when I made my mind up

How bad those shoes were I would never have gotten them. They're just like, but I'm evolving. I'm changing. You are. Seth put me on some dope as ginbe. I did.

It's our, it's our spot. It's a habachi spot. Very, very good. Yeah. I usually like Benihana. If I want habachi, paniana.

Dude, try that. The meat, look, no offense. I'm not talking shit about Benihana. It's so good. Okay,

but you're talking a difference in meat quality that is on, like one of them, you can tell is frozen because it's a national, you know, whatever.

but man this shit fucking do you know what I haven't had since I can smell a leg dude he literally brought like their

the meat out and that shit was juicy and I was kind of like yo I'm eating I know I got shook instantly because Is doesn't eat meat

and I just saw her like like she looked in it might ruin their dinner no bullshit but they I mean yeah that place is

Yeah, living, live in Jude liked it. They're big Benihana fans. They order Benny Hana like twice a week. I don't know if you can order that place, though. Like, go to that. No, yeah, no. You can't because when we walked in, there was a bunch, a table full of a to-go orders.

Oh, really? Yeah. But I wonder if it's like to go like call or like DoorDash to go. I have no idea. I get the Rocky, whatever. Rocky's choice? Yeah, Rocky's choice. It's chicken and steak, right?

Yep. I know that I've been to Benning out of way too many times. I have never been to Benihana. But you know what I haven't had since I've had my ability to snout. to smell you know that like I think it's Japanese like the white sauce that they have like at like mustard the mustard sauce yum yum sauce I don't know you spit out your water oh man that hurt why they grow up hey why I don't know I don't know what you're talking about hold on it's like horse rash no the white sauce white sauce it's

It's got to be the mustard, right? Like despite, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they only have a mustard or something. Is it at Benihana? Yeah. I've never been to Benihana. Oh, they have good chili paste. Oh, man.

Like, the chef made him. So, yeah, yeah, yeah. With fried rice is one of, like, the most unrivaled things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know who has a really good chili paste? Fucking best tie. It's the best one that I've had. Wait, I think you're right.

I think it is yummy yum sauce. Oh, it is, yeah, I think you're right. The way you said it made me laugh. Dude, I haven't, like, had it since I've been able to smell. It's basically just like, Mayo and yeah it's like a manate yeah I think you're right's in it uh mayonnaise butter tomato paste garlic powder paprika sugar and pepper like ah man we got to get off this topic you're right I was hungry I was hungry when I stepped in dude I've been so I've been

streaming with Zinie a lot and every time we're streaming he brings up like food for an hour and we talk about food for an hour straight he's talking about food so I'm always hungry it makes me hungrier is he here in Texas or is he in Toronto He lives in Toronto. Why? Oh, the whole team's there. No way. That's cool.

Yeah. He's like, he hit me up. He's like, yo, for champs, do you want to go try out like different taco spots and different, uh, chicken parramp places? Chicken parm places? I was like, yeah. There's probably not that many good ones around like in Arlington, though. Or maybe downtown Dallas would have some. He said champs, champs, champs.

No, in LA. He's not, he's not playing. Was that a lot? He been announced? Yeah. Champs? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. August 19th through the 23rd. So go get your tickets right now. Be the first to be in line. It's going to... I get... August 19th.

I don't get flustered a lot. But man. Where is it? Santa Monica? No, it's in downtown. Downtown. Fuck, L.A. The major is what it was hitting me because, like, the major, especially, like,

it feels like the last one was, like, yesterday. Yeah. It's like, we're a week. Like, next week, next Wednesday, we're back at the major. Yeah, that's so crazy. That's crazy. Like we have this week.

So what day is it today? It's Tuesday today, right? Yeah. So tomorrow we have a week and then we're back at the major. That's so weird. Like, it feels like it was like... Yeah. Which is a good thing.

Do you like it like that? Yeah. Okay. Because you get another chance. It's like, damn, we got fourth again. Well, it's like, oh, we're back. Oh, we're back. We have another chance.

Yeah. If we don't fuck up, we're first seat. Yeah, yeah. We're hitting up. We're heating up. I like it. We went one match. We're top three.

I was going to say. Best place to get the year. One match. So the format's got to change, man. We'll talk about it another time. Yeah. You can win one match? You're just top three.

I'm in winners finals. One match? We used to have to win eight. We used to win eight. Back to back to back. Oh, my God. How did you get first? The gruelers?

Bro, I didn't did that. Like a new team open, win, all open, win open, come into the. the actual bracket. Oh my God. You know how hard that shit is, bro. You have to win a tournament to get into the tournament. Like, that's nuts.

You have to win a whole tournament to get into the real tournament. Literally, what, fucking 20, not 20, but like 10 times bigger than the actual. Oh, yeah. Even if it was just group play at the tournament, like, based off of the seating, that, but, like, that wouldn't work. You know, like, there's no way to have a good format. No, there's no way. There's no way to have.

Because back then there was 32 teams. Now we have 12. 12. Eight. Eight at champs. We have a fourth of the team at champs. Jeez. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know. But like, yeah, it's definitely, definitely a lot different. It's better for you guys, though. Look, it's the second year of the season. I get it. As it evolves and progresses, I'm sure that we're going to end up. You want to know where the three-point line used to be for the NBA?

They're talking about having a four-point line now. What? Yeah. You see that? No. That means is so crazy. Yeah, a four point line. I'm like, I'm like, this game is like, I mean, if you think about how the game has changed, it's like insane.

So I think that the same thing is going to happen here, 100%. Like everything's going to evolve. Well, yeah. I mean, it's just, it's just so different from what we were used to. Because like it was good then. Now it's like different. You know? Yeah.

The four point. Yeah. It's like. You see it? You seen it? You thought I was bullshit. Yeah. I thought you were bullshit.

I thought you were off the pack. No, they're actually talking about it. No, I mean, I'm going to be out in LA soon, though, because I'm hurting. It's like,

I need a break. When we go to L.A., are you down to do a podcast? Let me know. Podcasts? You're going to get baked and do a podcast? We're going to smoke while doing the podcast. I don't know if I call it that.

I wouldn't be able to keep my cool. No, what would you do? Huh? You'd be like, ah. grasping at that. You know, that's not what happens.

The podcast would just be you guys talking and you look over and I'm just... Yeah, right? I'm just sleeping. No, no, you gotta... You gotta get some black Cuban haze in you. People will always tell me. That is a pure sativa.

That shit. You're always telling me, you gotta try this. You gotta try this. And every time I tried... I wouldn't like that. No? I'd be like... Yeah, that's what I need. I need that.

Oh! You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Uh, anyway, any, uh, any closing thoughts over there? What you got going on? Uh, three more war zone tournaments the next three Mondays. 10,000 to 10,000 and a 20, 25K. Uh, did the first one yesterday.

It should win really nice. Well, talk, what is it? What's the title? It's a crack creator tournament, so I get 16 content creators. And right before the tournament, you do a draft, 16, uh, you know, competitive players. And you're just doing that for you or is that, uh, is it through Activision. Oh, cool. Hell yeah.

It's my first Activision tournament. Yeah. Hell you. Atvii. Finally you clutch up, man. I'm really excited. It was a lot of fun. It was really cool seeing different people play.

The way they do? Yeah. Yeah, just people that you wouldn't normally see play together usually end up playing together. And, yeah, like yesterday, we went through the whole tournament and it was a co-ed finals. So it was Tommy and, and, shit, I can't remember. Oh, Swish. And then Queen Shadows and Huskers. That was a finals.

And it was like, you know, two girls, two guys. It was really cool. just from a 10 it was like a nine hour tournament Jesus and it was a grueler went when game or went reset bracket last map it was a really fun tournament What I like about those sort of tournaments is that people are just No matter the amount of the cash price

People are just there because you know it adds on to like what their are The stream is already going to be doing So it's an additive for them so they're going to they're like they're going in there thinking It's like all right this today's going to be even better now Because we have actually something to do is then it's not just going to be else like randomly playing So they're not necessarily like playing for the price pool as much as they are but also for their streams it just gives it gives exposure to both sides yeah i mean because i mean the last one i did it was like there was like

nick merks in it and and uh you know jack and like a bunch of different people were in in the content creator side and so if they pick up like a demon that has like you know like 150 viewers but is frying that that gives them exposure and then vice versa like one of the girls picked up Tommy and Tommy has a really big stream and then they realized how good she was and so she got a lot of viewership too it's really cool I love I love the idea of it was that your idea I mean you were the first one to do the co-ed show right yeah good for you yeah yeah it's so good such a good it's not it's not it's not sure I was the first one to do that the draft oh yeah yeah you should do it you should go back to doing like a strictly co-ed one I thought that was pretty cool yeah that's that's

to my date to this date my most successful stream was that co-ed tournament in fortnight that's really good yeah that's it was crazy what's up boss when it wouldn't so when do you start your show would you got any content planned like what what is what do you got going like what i'm uploading a video today and then missing tomorrow and then i'm uploading a apartment tour then missing the next day and then uploading the car video but then i'm hoping um i'm supposed to be linking out with my boy splurge and j money j money is a cameraman he shoots like a lot of rappers videos and stuff like that and spurge is a rapper so i'm a hope hopefully film some content with them and shit like that.

Like what? Just battle shit in. Hell no. I freestyle erratically for those that want to battle me, spit venom and emcease until this mic, court is staticky, juice. He beat Eminem and Rhymefast in 1997 Scribble Jam. Shout out Scribble Jam, Mr. Dibbs and all those dudes yurt.

Anyway, that's the guy's good for this episode of the Outkick. What you just say? Some hip-hop-ass shit, man. Hip-hop. So foreign. Real hip hop. I've never seen anything like the battle rap or anything like that. What?

I've never seen like battle rap or anything like that. Ever? I mean, I obviously know what it is. Have you seen the movie, Bodied? Have you seen the movie Eight Mile? Yeah. Is that what you just said? Yeah.

Damn it. Have you seen the movie bodied? No. You should. It's really good. It's a battle rap? Yeah. But it's a comedy.

It's really good. I enjoyed it a lot. It's pretty good. I'm going to have to watch that because I see it. Every time I go. like look through your movies. Yeah. Our movies.

I see it every time. What's up, Dale? What's up, Dale? What's up, Dale? What's up, Dale? What's up, Dale? It's going great, man. Yeah, we're ending it.

Well, he's here. Anyway, guys, thank you so much for tuning in. If you guys enjoyed it, thank you so much for leaving a like and leaving a comment down below. Thank you for the questions, everyone that's submitted.

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