OpTic Podcast - COD CHAMPS VS ESPORTS WORLD CUP DRAMA | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 188

Episode Date: August 22, 2024

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I think Riley said we watched 350 matches this year. Like, that is insane. Insane. It would be like if you guys watch 350 and I only watched 100, because it only shows like how much I was in there. Do you think you watched 100 matches with us? I don't know. I can probably watch it.

For all 350, they're saying lock in. I'm like, I'm trying, bro. I'm trying, man. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 188. No, I'm not going to church. No, there's no funeral. No, I don't have a court date. I actually, I'm pretty hype because so like I had jury duty throughout like the whole like wedding couple weeks and I was like trying to coordinate with obviously the the office.

Yeah. So I'm like, yo, I'm not going to be here. And then they were like, okay, we'll reschedule you. They rescheduled me to the day after or the day of I got back. I can't remember. It was either the day over the day after I got back. But then our flights got pushed. Yeah.

So I missed my jury date and I was like, holy shit, I'm going to jail. Yeah, you're going to go to jail. I was like, holy shit, they're about to come from. me. Is that a thing? Yeah. I mean, jail. She was, the lady that I was, you're going to find. I mean, I talked to this lady like, I sent four or five emails. And every time she was super nice. She was like, yeah, that's no problem. Just make sure you send us like an itinerary is proof, whatever. And then I was like, okay, I'm finally back. Like, if you want to reschedule me, I promise I'm not missing this on purpose. I just have shit going on. And then they were like, nope, you're good. You're completely,

completely out of it. We didn't even need that amount of jurors. And I was like, fuck yes. and then is like the next couple days, she got her serve to go in. You know what's crazy to me about jury duty? Is that I recently found out that like, they could call you in for a serial killer. It's like random. I thought there'd be like a...

You could be in for presumed innocent. Exactly. I thought there would be like a tier level to like the jury. Like these guys are trusted to really try this one fairly. Like, could you imagine you got called in? It's like, yes, guys... I would tell on them. Did you watch...

You watched the whole thing? So fine. Oh yeah, I texted you. I knew. I texted you and I was like, I haven't finished it. You did not know. I knew two. You did not know.

You lied. Two episodes in. I did. Why would I brag about a show? Because that one was like unreadable. That one was like I don't think anybody saw it coming. It was the easiest one. I didn't read it.

If you go back and watch it, you can totally tell the tall-tale signs. Either way, who cares? It was an all right show. It was like, give it a seven and a half. What? That show was God, Mike. The acting in that show was something. Some of the best acting on TV and like, dude, the first court scenes when they're given like their first monologues, I was like, holy shit.

Now, the finale monologues were crazy. Jolin Hall and then Peter Sarasgard. Yeah. I'm a fan of that guy now. Yeah, he was great. Yeah. I love that show. I thought it was the son at first and not her son, but his son at first.

And then I was like, too easy. And it wasn't the opponent. The forward key a couple times if you plan on watching it. We're not going to talk about it anymore. I don't like to spoil ones. but it's not the sign. I mean, it's too late. They already watched it.

It's all good. Go ahead. Let's get into it. Let's get into it. What's usual, the co-holt is right here. We have a man Methods of Z at the end, Mr. Anthony Zini. We're in that new new to tie-dye. When I took this out, I was like, tie-dye, and I put it on.

I was like, oh, this is fire. Come on. I like, I like this should never go. I was saying, I was like. Been in itself since the 60s. I was saying that's right up my alley. That's all I used to wear. Like back in the 35 McAlpin days, 12-35.

All I was wearing was like tie-dye fucking cat shirts. Okay, whatever. So I was like, dude, this is this is right up my house. That was the best growing up when you'd like home-make tie-dye. Wait, what you say? So it was the best like when you were young and you would like home-make tie-dye at camp. Like I used to go to summer camp and like you'd make like. Wait, wait.

What kind of summer camp? Huh? Like fat camp? No. No. No, what the hell was. I didn't go to summer camp. I went to summer school.

No, it was just like, I don't even know. I don't even know. You had like pool days. It was in like the woods. I didn't even know how to describe it, but... Anyway, the scumper jumper and, of course, money biscuit to my left. I am big up to Cax here,

and I welcome you to episode 188. Brought to you by Rocket Money and Shopify. We have a bunch of topics to discuss. There's a bunch of drama going around. I would personally like to not... The season of Call of Duty is fucking over. And I just say my piece really quick. Please. I welcome it.

I'm going to keep it really short, sweet, and simple. Because we kind of touched on it a little bit during the watch party, because I just started getting mad. Like, So, like, during the watch party, after we were eliminated, everyone immediately starts debating how important the E-sports World Cup is in the overall landscape of the year, of the year of competitive Call of Duty.

So I went back from a personal experience when we lost Call of Duty champs in AW, and then immediately following that, there was a World's event. And that was like the clear cut, like, that's all I could remember. And clearly, E-Sports World Cup counts as a tournament. Of course. Now, in terms of weight, that can be debated, but nothing trumps the ring. The ring is number one. We won the year. I mean, people can say Faze was the second best team throughout the year, but it's like, you can't take away the prestigiousness of the ring. I think. But this tournament is still a big deal. This was $150,000. It's not a blemish for our team at all. Our team should hold their heads incredibly high for an incredibly good year. I even said that I'm super proud of them. They had an amazing year.

I mean, they get two tournament wins. They get the big one. And then East Sports World Cup, they get top three. So it's like the tournament counts. It's an important tournament. I wouldn't say it's as important as champs, obviously, just because that's always been kind of the- That's not even debatable.

That's always been the big one. But it's still an important tournament, and you've got to give props where they're due. 100%. I can agree with that. Yeah, congratulations the phase. I don't think it can be argued. It's like, no, it's champs number one.

And then you can debate, okay, was majors, World Cup. This is a $1.8 million tournament. So prize pool, it's champs in EWC. I feel like people are going to remember EWC more than, like, individual majors, just because of the prize pool of, like, the big production. Because this production, I think, was, I mean, we were seeing AI, and, like, I loved the key ceremony. Like, they had super new components that we haven't seen ever,

and I thought it made it really cool. I thought it was dope. I would personally put champs won EWC 2 because everyone wanted to go win a $1.8 million tournament. The competition was high. Our match versus phase was fun to watch. Really I want to say congrats to thieves though because

more so to the players, obviously Nate Shots our boy, but I love to see everyone gave ghosty flowers. No one was really talking about Joe Deceives, Cram, nasty, I'm like an actual level. I think it's super dope that they went out there and they did their thing. They made this run. They placed

top two. It was a literal underdog story development. and right in front of everyone. I love that shit. It was literally progression throughout the whole year. And I think they're the youngest team in the league, too, in terms of, like, average age. So it's cool to see them. Like, he was like, earned challengers.

Yeah, yeah, that's true. You know what I'm saying? You know what I like about them? And this may be some corny. I just, like, look at their content and what they're doing. They're just young gamers. Like, they're just, like, they're not problematic. They're doing it because they love it.

Especially Joe, that guy's, that guy's vibey and he went out there. And he was getting a lot of hate after his first hit in the league, because his team wasn't that good. Then he goes to challengers. He's not even starting for thieves. He gets called back up and everyone's like, oh, Joe deceives. He's not going to make a ripple. And it goes to show that, like, you know,

team dynamics and growing as a player actually does matter. And I think people are too quick to write players off these days. So I'm just super happy for those guys. I think it was a timing issue. I don't think that the league should have ever allowed for the, for it to be like this. I kind of like it. Time out.

You kind of like what? I kind of like the timing of it. You'd like that there's another tournament past the ring? Yes. Why? Because it's like... It literally brings everything up for question now, right? Like it's literally, the only debate that's happening right now is because of that specific, because of the timing of it.

Nothing, as you said, is more important than the ring. Therefore, nothing should be after the ring. The ring is the last thing, the last tournament of the year, period. Also, though, I just like that there was another tournament. Could the timing be worked on? Sure. but I just like that it extended our offseason. Like, again, we would have had a month and a half

already into the off season, whereas now we just got to watch another amazing tournament and now roster mania starts. It just kind of, it just lessens that window. And, I mean, obviously, I thought the event was just awesome to start with. So I didn't really mind the timing. I mean, you can't knock the timing because... 100% can't. I just did.

But you're knocking it because the community's pissing you off. Nope, nope, nope. because they're like, nope, they're going back and forth now. True. Why, you just don't like it

because it's right after the ring. Listen, if, I, I can tell, I'll start by saying that if we would have lost champs and won this one,

I would have been making a bigger deal of how important this one was. Okay? Exactly. Now, having said that, just, what is better for call of duty? I think that the culture

of the ring being the most important is priority number one. Therefore, it should always be the last one. Always. It just weird, though, because the World Cup had so many different games that I wonder if it's even, it's kind of hard to cater towards like one esport. I wonder if they had to do it this late because

they had to wait for like normal seasons to wrap up and then throw the big event. Ideally, I mean, I 100% agree. Like, I do think champs should be the last event of the year. If I had to pick between no e-sports World Cup or esports World Cup after champs, I would keep the World Cup after champs. Just for extra cold duty. If I had to choose one. That's my point of view. It's before champs, but I would rather it after champs than none of all. I wholeheartedly disagree and I don't want to say what I think about you guys thinking these things. All right.

I just think it's great for the esports. A thousand percent. I am specifically talking about the... How about this? How about next year there is no world champs and there is an ESWC and instead of being $2 million and then 1.8. EWC, we have a $5 million dollar fucking EWC. Well, of course it is. But it's just, again, it's the timing issue.

The ring should be. When do you think it should be then? Same time. Where would you put it in the, where would you put it? So you think push champs back and have this before? Absolutely. So it's like the appetizer to the entree. I think instead of champs, we should have had a major five.

Right? Our event should have been major five. And world champs slash EWC should have been one single entity. It should have been one single tournament. Combine. They should be the same thing. Of course. Look, we can't diminish the value of either.

If this is going to be something that's mainstay, if this is going to be something, if this is going to be a yearly thing, then of course, let's find place for it. The e-sports World Cup, I find let's find place for it. But let's not do it after the most important, or what's supposed to be the most important thing that players are striving for. Yeah. What's annoying is everyone instead of being grateful, we had another fun tournament to watch. They're making it this war between these teams or this means more. It's like,

who cares? Like this. I'm not going to get into it because it's just, it's all part of the clickbait fucking Pat and who I like, obviously, Pat is going to say what he's going to say the same way that you guys are going to say the LeBron's better than Jordan. Is that you're just going to say that because your role is to hate on optic. Like that's your thing. The way you get views is by fucking saying spicy shit about optic but it's different though it's comfy uh fucking fucking shots he not being uh even you even you got used to used to be you know talked about in in in uh as you were not the best right it's it's not debatable who it's not debatable right like it's it's it's not it's just it's just uh it's and then everybody got me up for that it's like

bruce bruce replying to to pat on social was like this is not my thing i told him like yo you know don't do that. You don't need to do that. They're literally saying, they're literally fucking casting a fucking wopper-popper in your direction and here comes big fucking 10-pound Brucey.

The interesting thing about it being after champs is that now, for example, everyone was talking about a phase roster change because they don't place well at champs and now that they win this event, it could keep them together. So I feel like this event does throw a wrench in things. Like if I'm thieves, I know people are talking about thieves making a change.

I'd personally love to see them stick together. People are saying thieves players are going to go somewhere else. Not really thieves making change. Like they're going to go somewhere else. I just wish there was more unity with teams year to year. That way you can get behind teams more. And I also think, and I was saying this a lot when I was watching the process and hard knocks, I think every single team in e-sports needs like a documentary type series.

That way we can see more. Genius idea. Genius idea. Like it needs to happen. Why didn't you say this back in two? 2010. I know you did. But what I'm saying is like,

now that I'm watching more of this, it's like I think Thieves does a bit ultra and phase, but like what about these other teams? Like I'd love to see the, like imagine a documentary where you're watching Teage and Beans interact like that way. But people would eat that shit up

and it would make everything grow. So yeah, I would like to see more unity. Why do you think they don't do it? Why do you think they haven't done in the last decade? Well, I don't think two things.

I don't think some teams see the bigger picture. I don't think teams want to spend money. I don't think some teams understand that you've got to spend money to make money. That being said, that might be ignorant because I don't really know all the back end stuff, so I don't want to sit here and spew out of my ass. Well, that's what I'm saying. That's why I asked you the question because it's not just like, oh, everybody should do it. I'd rather an iPhone documentary than none.

You know what I'm saying? I'd rather Carolina, someone walk around behind him with an iPhone 15 or whatever it is now and shoot them behind the scenes and have to worry about, I mean, look at all these YouTubers. There are people, Sam Sillick, he's a fitness YouTuber. I think it's all like vlog style on his phone and his car and he's killing it. Like you don't need. Just thinking about like Legion when we were watching when they had Clay. Like if they had like any kind of vlog series or anything, we would have been tuned in.

100%. I mean, I agree with it though. The thing is like now this is obvious, right? Now more than ever is when you should have that because you have people like Zinni. you have people like Zuma that do watch that do reacts to videos right the same way that Zuma watches process

the same way that everybody watches fucking process like right now it's like the why I get left out of that because you don't do that you don't watch other people shit do you you create your own shit and people watch your shit what the hell is that a sly dig at me then a little bit I do it sometimes I don't do it

I don't do it I don't do it as much as like no one's safe today because I got riled up you got time today man it's not even about that it's just like it's no he tuned in my stream for two minutes at the worst ever time.

And I was like, and I was eating or something. I had you or Nate shut up. And he was like, oh, so this is content these days. And I was like, dude, you just too. This is what happened. I've been playing all day. I go, I go to Zinney's room to, you know, show some love and shit, you know. And then I see him watching you, watching Matt. And I'm like, I'm going to turn on the stream and I'm going to do a watch party on methods,

watching scump watching fucking, uh, nature. This is content. You know, content nowadays is just disgusting. There's nothing creative going on. That's the name of the game. I fucking hate it. If I do it, I'm only going to do it because I guess it's part of the game. And like fashion content will forever change.

Am I yapping? So what? Tune the fuck out. Fashion. You're going to do fashion content? No, but it's what I'm saying. Like, it is just like that. You're watching Fuck That's Delicious.

Who was it? You. You. How good is that? I loved it. Like, see, I like that because you're spreading awareness about a fucking excellent, excellent content creator. And I'm talking about at the highest level,

this guy is a rapper. Action Bronson, Bam Bam, Backlubus. This guy is a rapper, but he's also a food critic. He's a chef. He is a shoe designer and a fucking wrestler. I just started watching that show, and it gives me, like, Anthony. So, like, my late-night songs are very different. I watch, like, I'm watching that.

I watch Mav's Outdoor Boys. Really. Dude, it's like right up your alley. Hit a backwood. And then you throw on Fuck That's Delicious. We've never seen it? Dude, he's hilarious. They just get high and eat food and say the craziest shit.

And then they wrap in between. It'll, like, show them doing a show, and then it goes to the next day and they're eating again. It's the best. You would love it. He was the best. I didn't think I was going to like it. And then I started watching it. And I watched like two seasons and two nights.

Like just sitting on the couch, just loving it. There is one, there is one, there is one recent one that happened in the last five months from action that was the best food show vlog that I've ever seen. The New York food tour? No, no, no. It's from Paris with Love Part Deuce or some shit. Wait, what is this? Action Bronson, fuck test delicious. But it is the best, the best fuck that's delicious episode I've ever seen.

I thought I watched a fucking fucking Ted Lasso episode. I was so happy afterwards. I was like, that was a fucking masterpiece. Dude, his videos are great. He's perfect for that too, because he's high as shit. And he just, he'll eat something and he's with all the chefs. He'll be like,

you ever have a woman lick the back of your kneecap and you're eating cheese on a counter and the chef's just like not just cheese he's just saying stupid shit and it's the funniest just spewing

just spewing he's like oh that's tremendous he's got the he's got the he's got like that type of voice and delivery though where it's like it works perfect yeah he's like and I'm only saying that's because I'm popular

I'm getting topped off at the front row of the opera while Bo Chaley sings my celly rings fucking cold. Accidental Bronson is essentially somebody that grab, go ahead.

Go go, go, go, go. No, somebody grabs, they scour the internet and any time somebody says something that sounds like Action Bronson, they retweet it. So this guy, for example,

I made the joke so I just watched me do backflakes. Okay, accidentally go down, go down. Sun dried tomatoes at the foot of Mount Etna in Sicily. That's like,

that's the sort of shit that this guy would fucking say. I'm nice eating raspberries and chocolate Chip baguette. I think that's Nice. You got to watch a New York food tour one, Mark. Start with that one.

I was in tear because he's interacting with people in New York Street. And some of the interactions are just the funniest shit I've ever seen. Yeah. But let's put a bow on East Sports World Cup. Holy fuck. And champs. Because we just fucking went. We went.

We just went off. And this is people want to hear like, I think champs is number one. East Sports World Cup is number two. Very important. Very fucking important. In terms of where. Wait, I think it's champs number one, you can't deny a $1.8 million tournament being number two for the players. It's big.

Maybe. That's it. Maybe timing could be better. No, it could definitely be better. But again, what Zinney said, it's also a lot of different events. It's been going on for like how long, a month and a half now? How long has e-sports World Cup been going on? I mean, it's been going on for like eight weeks.

But you've got to take into consideration that Activision is a triple A game. And they were the ones that took too long to say yes or no to this thing. You think that with the audience that we bring to the table, we as a call the duty community, we bring to the table, they're not going to put us above another e-sport that they're running right now. Like if Activision wanted preferential treatment on a month, we would have gotten that if we would have gotten to Google. Going forward, it's going to make it a lot easier. I'm just concerned and also a little bit out of the loop on what next year looks like. hope that this negative connotation around the event, around the timing, around people,

you know, bickering with each other, I just hope we get another one next year. Same. Because again, as a viewer and a spectator and someone that loves watching competitive Call of Duty, this was like. I have one phone to pick, actually. It was great. This was amazing for the community. I have one quick bone to pick real quick.

The one thing I would like to see, why were they not on the CDL player build? I understand it's not a CDL event. We should have given them the research. the resources to properly, because there was like server issues. 100%. Like the league. Like Activision. Like the CDL. Like the CDL should have given resources to make the event run as smooth as possible because it is still all the same product. Sure, it's not a CDL event. It's competitive call of duty with the CDL teams. So it should have been the same servers, the same accounts, the same everything that they play on at champs. Like that I did not

like. Like that should be cohesive. If you're going to allow what to happen, at least put your best foot forward to make it run as smooth as possible because I feel like EWC got a bit of a bad rep for something they couldn't really control because they were at the mercy of the servers. Bro, it is, see, this is where, this is where me and Patty aches fucking see eye to fucking eye, okay? That is the bare minimum that should have been there already. If I go to a pizza place and I see chairs, I'm not going to thank them for having fucking chairs at the restaurant.

That is the bare minimum they can do. If you are call of duty and you're not giving and there's a competition going on, You better give them the very, very, very basic things like operating servers, right? Like fucking the correct build to do that. That is the very basic. We cannot, we cannot fucking ask for this and say that it's like, oh, they're so great. This is the bare minimum. You sound like my girl.

She'd been, should have been fucking with me. Can you grab me the water? It's the bare minimum. And I'm just like, it is the bare minimum. Yeah. Damn, you're getting fun. Big dog. No, no, no, no, no.

She makes jokes. Can you go out of the store and get this? It's the bare minimum. I'm like, is everything the bare minimum now? It's just everything. I wasn't coming at you there, but you do need to be thoughtful as the way to use, the way that you say things to the public, to everyone that's listening because we should not be like, oh, we should have a better bill. They should.

Yeah, of course they should have, man. Let's not give Activision a break because they haven't. I'm not giving them a break. I just said that they should have given. That's pretty cut and dry. It was pretty annoying to see some of the things happen. Like that rematch versus phase we had to do? Well, first and foremost, too, it started with Carolina, which was the big one.

They were in a 1 v2, there was a lagout. Yeah. Then there was a situation with us where there was a full reset or they gave us the round or something. Yeah, I disagreed with that ruling. I will say that. Because it happened to Carolina earlier. It happened to Carolina earlier in the day. And then it was kind of like Carolina's situation, in my opinion, was worse.

Because they had more of an advantage. It was like, yeah, it was a 1v2 bombed down. 25 seconds. 25 seconds. So it's like, and then we were in like a 4v3 or something like that. And then we got like, I think. 17 seconds. I think right whenever, do you remember the round as vividly?

Because I think it was, we were in like a 4v3. It was 6 star. We were on the pool bomb site. It was a 4v3. There were trades happening. Someone lagged out. Or they started lagging. That's when Sib stood still.

And we were like, oh my God, look, Sibb. That was already after everyone was dead already, though. That was after, that was, he was in a 1v3 at that point. Yeah, everyone died poolside. He was in the back. Yeah. It was like impossible. for him to clutch that. Either way, none of that stuff should have even been up for debate.

But they started lying. The minimum was met. They had servers. Before the trade tag goes on. And then he stopped playing. And that's when we started laughing. We were crying. We were like, yo, he's trying his best to not move. So it's so funny. He's trying to not move so he wouldn't, his character would like. I don't know if he was actually doing that. But it just looked hilarious because he just sat in a pre-ame for like three seconds and we're like, we're on to this guy. That shit was too funny. But right there, yeah, the precedent should have been. The same as earlier. I do agree.

I do agree with that. Only ruling that I had an issue with. Yeah. But speaking of the World Cup, you guys are going to Saudi. We're going to Saudi. We leave tomorrow. Tell us why. We're there hosting the e-sports awards.

There you go. Co-hosting. Co-hosting. We're co-hosting. We're co-hosting the ESports Awards. We're not the main co-host. We're just like the flavor. Yeah.

I'll be watching. You know, obviously. I'll be live. Obviously, us personally, you can watch my stream. Us personally for a very long time have been really, really close. I mean, we're there from the inception of the

watch parties. Of the East Sports Awards. What's that? No, he was just talking shit. I was making a joke. He's talking about content. I was like, I'll be watching it. But go ahead.

Sorry. No, what I was saying is that obviously the Eastports Awards and us we go way, way, way back. We were there for the inception of it. We're like, I was a very, very good business acquaintances with the founders. So for us, it's been a very, very long time.

It started right here in Arlington. No? We started in London. That was the e-sports awards? Yeah, those are e-sports awards. London, Arlington, Vegas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Wow. Yeah, yeah. That was the first one when like, KSI

was there. Was that the same weekend? No, KSI was there for, oh, yeah. That might have been an event. He wasn't there, but that might have been an event. I can't remember. No, but yeah, obviously like, it's started in London. I mean, before that, it was the, the, the Machinaima East, the Machinaima Industry

Award or something like that. Anyway, long story short, we got contacted and I was supposed to go for the full two weeks. I was supposed to be there for the E-Sports World Cup and then just been there tomorrow and the day after, wait for him to show up and then we do the thing next weekend or this upcoming weekend as you're watching this. But, you know, business obviously had to,

I had a lot of shit to handle here before I left. So here we are. Also, we leave tomorrow. I'm psyched. Vote for Scump for Eastport's personality of the year? Hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I'd appreciate votes. I'm going up against some pretty tough competition in there. They're always just very tough competition. I think like Terrick's in there. I mean, there's some, I don't know exactly who else is nominated, but yeah, if you guys don't mind dropping a vote, I'd really appreciate it. I've seen some of my friends nominated for like, I buy is in there like streamer of the year. E by.

It's Kai Sinat. I mean, yeah, yeah. Nate shots in there. Look at us. Nate shots in there every fucking year. I was in there this year too, but I did. I said, no, I'm not going to win. I'm good.

Don't put me up there. That's so cool. Yeah. I appreciate the nomination, but I mean, yeah, those guys are, those guys are some tough ones to go against. How many, how many sports awards do you have? Just one. Just controller player of the year, I think in like 2016, 2016 controller player. Are you of our players nominated for anything?

I have podcasts of the year. That's dope. In 2019, I think. When did we win that, Matt? 2020, 2020, 2019, 2020. So I have one. I have the halftime achievement award from the East Sports Award also. It's a lifetime, but it's halftime for me.

I'm still going, baby. Yes, sir. I'm still going. Are any of our players nominated for like an e-sports? Yeah, is there controller of the year? I think Shotsie is okay, right? Hold on. Matt will get to it at one point. But I said out of being Matt.

Matt's shaking his head, no. Go to control a player? This is it. Okay, well. Oh, it's not even on there right now. It's just, man, the amount of good content that's being like outside of gaming alone, right? Or even in gaming, like, there's a lot of good content that's being created right now that makes it like almost impossible to to be a competitor in this space you got to be

1,000% just that you know what I'm saying like you cannot be doing all the extracurricular shit that that others people do other people do it's uh you gotta be just about like like for streamer of the year you got to just be streaming that is your thing that is your thing that's your that's your that's your that's your thing I mean taking a look at the category star studded cast Kai, jinxie, Koso, Speed, XQC. I mean, that dude's like you own Spain. Yeah.

XQC. I wonder who wins that. Probably Kai. Probably Kai. Probably Kai again. I feel like Kai wins every year, doesn't he? High show speed? I mean, dude, he's got a hundred-fifty playing Minecraft. I feel like speed. I would say Kai or speed. Shout out Koso though. Koso always shows love.

His chat moves like a million, but whenever he does see me, he's like, I grew up watching methods. Like he shouts out all of us whenever he gets the chance. That's dope. He loves Call of Duty. I'm not sure if he still does, still does, but he's also playing random shit. I go to his stream.

He's playing Judge Sim. He's playing like the shit. I didn't know existed. Yeah, dude, he plays some crazy games. Yeah. And again, this is like, ESports Awards. It's not the gaming awards. Like, there's so many, like, all of this needs to evolve into like the right thing.

Let me see. E-sports creative team of the year. Let me see. I want to, I don't want a game. into an argument about this shit. So let's just fucking move on. I bet. Let's move on. Hey, let's not, let's not taint it. No, of course not. We're going there.

We're going to have a great time. We're going to, we're going to co-host the e-sports awards. That's crazy because normally we would just go and drink. Yeah. Well, now we're going to go drink and co-host. Well, can't drink and soddy. But usually we would just go there and drink and act a fool. Now we get to actually go be part of the show. So

I'm a little bit nervous for this actually, because this is like outside of my range of work. Yeah. This would be my first time is like a host of anything. So hopefully I don't absolutely soil the sheets. Listen, at least that if you soiled it, I'll soil mine with you. But we get there. I mean, we have like, we have two days basically of like prep before the actual show. We have a full rehearsal the night before. Like, it's like a full, like we're not just going there to be in it. We're like, we're going there. We're going to be like, on to you, Seth. Yeah, like we're doing the

full thing. So we're here in Saudi. I'm excited, a little bit nervous. But, but Yeah, excited. It's a long trip, though. It's a long trip. 19 hours. We're losing two full days. You're going to go to sleep. Wake up, not be there. Go to sleep. Wake up. No, no. No. I thought you were going with like, going to sleep. Wake up. Not there. Wake up. Not there. Wake up. Not there. Wake up. Not there yet. Wake up. Not there yet. This is the last time I'm traveling out of the country for the rest of the year. I'm making it. Yeah, I ain't going to lie. You've been.

World Trotting. I am not leaving the country again. I'll go to L.A. I'll go to San Diego. I'll go to like events like that or me and his are thinking about going to Florida for a little vacate at some point with my mom and family. We'll see. We'll see. Dude,

I'm going to call you Brendan Dunn. You've been globetrotting all over the place. But I think this is my, because my stream's always on my ass. They're like, oh, you're part-time or part-timer. But it's like, guys, I have other obligations and things that I want to do and things that I get to do. Yeah, yeah.

So it's like, I mean, for an opportunity like this. Yeah. I mean, I got to take, you know, six, seven days off a stream. And that's just how it is. Yeah. So. You got to make sure you stay up all night before that flight. Like, no, I think I'm going to stream tomorrow, like before the, I'm going to stay.

I'm a stream tomorrow before the flight. How would you do? What's your strategy? What's your strategy? My strategy is stream. Get myself like mentally tired. Get on the flight. Try to, our first flight's the long one.

We fly, I think we fly from Dallas to. It's our. No, Istanbul. Oh, shit. I think we fly Dallas to Istanbul and then Istanbul to Riyadh. Oh, so we're not going to that, to Doha? Dubai. Yeah.

No, that airport looks crazy. I've been seeing that airport looks crazy. Yeah, so one of my duties and responsibilities and more so a pleasure is that I'm going to be vlogging the whole thing. Hell yeah. It's going to be good. You're vlogging it? I'm vlogging the whole thing, yeah. How I do it is you need to find five elite shows of television, download the entire season.

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I mean, I'm only like two or three episodes in. The first season? Yeah. The name The Witcher helps it out a lot. Seth. That world. How? What are you watching on?

Well, you just killed my fucking absolutely slaughtered my vibe. I was enjoying the first. couple of the first couple of. I'm just being honest. What's up? What are you watching on? Your laptop or iPad? iPad. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Okay. How would you do it? I bet. First season's not bad, but then he leaves, Henry Cavill. I would stay up 24 hours. I thought he was in season two as well. Oh, he leaves three? And then get on the plane and what do you mean? Well, I mean, you're going to, I mean, our flight's at 8.30 p.m.? Like, you're going to have to, like. Probably a very clean bathroom. Yeah. Our flight, our time makes it. Like, we're leaving at 8.30. We'll be awake for the first

couple hours and then we'll probably knock out. It's like a 12 and a half hour flight. So we'll probably get like six, seven hours of sleep and then we have a connection. So it's like, it's like right on our sleeping schedule. Coming back might be tough. I am, I am going to try to convince as many of my friends as possible to come with me and my family to Tokyo by the end of the year. Well, that goes against. It's one, it's just one week and it'll change your, bro, it is, it is magical.

I know you're in. Yeah, I'm end of the year. Fuck yeah. You're staying up all 24? Hell yeah. I don't know what I'm going to do. You can't stay up. I'm pretty sure you didn't sleep on the way there.

No, I'm not staying up on the plane. I'm staying up 24 hours before I get on the- Oh, to make sure you can sleep? Oh, yeah. No, I'm going to sleep with it adds on to my, like, I'm going to be able to sleep, wake up, eat something, go right back to sleep. I eat the, what I always do, I always eat the dinner.

Eat the dinner and then have like, I'm going to have two glasses of red wine and then I'm going to knock the fuck out. Can you do subtitles, like on shows? Can you do it? Yeah, I can. You can? I can read. Brother, I'm begging you to watch Dark.

Really? I'm begging you. I'll pay you if you don't like it. I'll financially compensate you because it's impossible. It's the best sci-fi show ever made. You're not the first person that's told me that. I'm begging you both to watch Dark. Okay.

You can probably finish it. I mean, you can probably... What's it on? Netflix? Yeah. It's a good suggestion. All right. Here's what I have. Season 2 of House of the Dragon.

Have not watched a single one, have been on tainted by any of it. Season 3 of The Bear. Yeah, I'm watching that right now. Just downloaded the one on the sci-fi dark matter. Just downloaded that entire season. I have Furiosa, the movie. I have Kevin Costor's new cowboy movie or Western movie, and he makes excellent Western movies.

I'm missing one. I'm missing something. Movie or show? A lot, both, I think. Anyway, I'm well prepared. I am well prepared Hell yeah Apparently the new alien movie

in theaters is good Alien and Romulus I love that show Every time I see those I'm like they don't do them like they used to But apparently this one's actually good So I want to see that What Prometheus was fucking excellent

Did you not watch that? No Prometheus was fucking fire I saw a gift on fucking Twitter That one of the facehuggers Like Oh yeah Some weird shit

I saw that too You saw that shit too I was like what the hell's going on here Oh yeah You're gonna watch an alien movie What? You're going to watch everyone? Yeah.

Let's go. You actually do, Anna? Yeah. All right. Why not? I said it to you yesterday. You're like, I mean, I don't really got to watch movies, bro. Like, I don't know what the fuck's wrong with me.

I try. I mean, I like shows, though. But, e-sports awards, I'm super stoked. Yeah, that's cool. Long flight. And then once I'm back, I'm back. And then after that, we got the, we got Cod Next into the beta. People have been asking if I'm going to Cod Next.

No, I'm not. I'll be watch partying it. I'll be watching his stream. I'll be watching his stream, Shotsie, Hitch, whoever. Red Zone, baby, boy. Oh, yeah, I'll be bouncing. What are you guys want to watch? I fly to D.C. I'm excited.

I get to stream the game earlier. I'm getting watch partied, scump, nade shot, zoom up. Is Matt not going? Matt not going? No, he's definitely not. Oh, he's like, he's moving soon. And he wouldn't go to begin with. Yeah, he's moving soon.

I'm excited, though, because we have. And then we got the beta right after that. Beta is going to be fired. We have Salt Lake City. We have Halo champ. So there actually is a lot before. And then the new game comes out October 25th. So it's going to come like this.

It's like two months away. Matt, you got it on all this shit. You'll go to my house and then download it and all that shit. And we get like 10 days of beta, which is also great. Yeah. And it's actually, when does, see, when does Salt Lake start the 6th? I think Salt Lake starts on the 6th.

The Friday, right? I'm in New York that weekend. September 6th. So what I'll probably do, I'll probably play beta and then watch party like our Halo team. And then, because like we watch party Halo a lot. But during the cod beta, that kind of takes precedent. So I'll probably play beta. And then whenever we play, I'll tune into us.

And then like do it that way. We'll see. We'll see if I'm sick of the beta by this point. Because again, betas are only three maps. You get a couple of guns. Like it starts to get stale pretty quickly. Quick. I might just do my 24 hour doing.

during one of the betas. Oh, that's smart. Really? Yeah, it's the best time to do it. Why not? Beta for 24 hours. What else am I going to do? Eldon ring and just cry?

Apparently, I mean, I've seen people that are actual gamers struggle at it, so I know I'm going to be awful. Nah, so I struggled when the DLC first dropped, but then I figured, so there's like,

there's like these, like, blessings, they're called Scatoo tree fragments, and it's like how you level up in the DLC. And I started picking those up and I did the DLC, I killed like the first two bosses like within 10 tries each.

Well, you know it's cool. I mean, I know you never went to WWE, but Rand-It's like not that hard. You know Randy Orton? Have you heard the name? Yeah. He's a WWE guy. He was doing like an interview, I think with, I think Cody Rhodes is his name. And he was like he heard himself or something.

And he has like 700 hours on Eldon Ring. Really? Yeah. Hell yeah. That game's great. I mean, one game of the year. So it's. I'm definitely going to play it.

I will say that for the first time ever, I am looking forward to it. Well, not first time ever. because I used to play Grand Def Daff Dada when it was the top-down view and PlayStation 2. But since then, I haven't really been into it. But this next one, I'm super like looking forward to it. Oh, yeah. I am too.

I don't know why. For GTA? Yeah. That shit's been a development for how long? 10 years? No, but what's crazy is that it expands. Like the expansion maps is going to be what's going to be dope because it's all going to be connected to one island and then you can drive in this.

Bro, I feel like you'd love GTA RP. I actually think you'd love it. There's nothing more fun. Before I ever started it, I was like kind of judging myself. Like, I can't like go pretend to be a character in game. And I started doing it. And it was the time of my life for like ever. You would love it.

You create your character. You have your own backstory. You could talk with an accent or a different way and you have a different name. It's just like so fun. Yeah, we used to, me and Nick and Pam, Seth, I don't know if Seth played with us. Did you play GTA with us at that one time? I don't think so. Yeah, we used to just like.

We did that GTA stream, didn't we? Wasn't it GTA whenever we got Swaddy? Yeah We were playing That was like 24 hours GTA Like all day marathon

I'm pretty sure that's What's what we were doing Fucking PC and shit Huh? That's when you walked away With a PC and everything Did I? Yeah remember

No I don't remember that I was like yo take over my hours So I'll give you my PC Oh yeah I was like that I think I still have that Have you seen AG and MCMC On GTP?

I haven't even seen the highlights But I heard they're funny Brother So it's just Just to give you the gist it's selium acting like pred and pred acting like selium so they both have characters that look like each other yeah and they roast each other as themselves yeah so ag is playing selium yeah and he's like saying to a g like i'm a world champ bro i'm a world champ like help shotsie you fucking suck like

all you do is lay down and age and then selium will be on ag's character just crawling around the map laying down as lay g and he's of course of course my world champ bro it is it is so funny it is comedy it is hilarious Yeah, no, I am looking forward to it. This model warfare had too much it being shut down a day before the launch. Oh, yeah, what do you think about that? Dude, I have many thoughts around this thing. Well, dude, the crazy thing is that, so you had to buy MW remastered?

Yeah, why don't you give everybody a run-done just in case somebody out there is not familiar with it? Yeah, so you had to buy MW remastered. And then there was a mod kit on that that allowed you to play MW2, but it was on like, it wasn't just MW2. Like there was a bunch of maps included from other Call of Duties. Yeah. And you had to buy it. And so everyone was like super excited. There was like a pre, I think there was like an alpha for the mod.

So like some people got to play it early and stuff like that. And it was the day before it was supposed to release like the mod was supposed to release. So not not MW remastered like that. But the mod was supposed to release. And the day before they shut that shit down. So everyone went and bought MW remastered, which I think was like 40, it's either $20 or $40 because it's at a discounted rate. They put it on sale. So they all went and bought it, and then the day before, everyone's excited for this mod to drop.

They're only buying it for the mod. They shut it down. And I think the game got to, like, top... It was in the top 20 for sure. Top four. It was in the top four of games on Steam. So that shit was selling. Like, selling.

I mean, to get top four on Steam, that's not easy. Yeah, it's not. I mean, top four on Steam's like Eldon Ring, you know, like the top of the top games. Yeah. Bouldersgate, like, games of the year and other games that are, like, freshly coming out. So, and then the day before, it got ripped away and everyone was freaking out. It actually happened on the watch party. The day before sucks.

They set the season to assist. I was looking at. Everyone was like H2M just got taken down. Like, everyone was freaking out. The day before sucks. Oh, yeah. At the minimum. Let's do it a month.

Let's do it three weeks before then, so people aren't buying it and hoping. Oh, no. But they wanted to get those. They put it on sale. They put it on sale so that they can get some cash out of that. They put it on sale? Yeah. You haven't seen that you haven't read the conspiracies around this?

No. It's fucking insane. Not conspiracies, but just factual evidence that happened that people are saying, it's like, no, they wouldn't do that. But they, I mean, look, at the end of the day, it is their game and they can do what the fuck they want with them. But there is a level of responsibility that you have to your community, right? Period. And that is where this has always been an issue with call of duty and maybe Activision or whatever, the same thing in this thing. Because the people there, some of them aren't even fucking gamers have never touched the game, let alone the call of duty game.

You know what I'm saying? And they don't need to to perform, you know, a corporate job. You don't need to play call of duty. But this isn't just this isn't a bank, right? This is a community that people, you know, people, people don't care about Chase Bank the way that they care about Call a Duty. People don't care about, I mean, you name it, right? Like, it's just, this is different. This is a community thing.

So. One thousand favorites, people cared about it. Everybody cared about it. 2.6 million views, dude. This got impressions on how big of a thing this was. I mean, dude, when it happened, we were streaming in the whole chat. For the whole rest of the day, it was like, people coming in and like, what the fuck? Look at Rain, Apex, the Faze Clan, Twitter, everybody started going nuts.

Yeah. Yeah, look at it. Go down, go down a little bit right there. Rest and P, Roto Kill Cam 100 in the new gaming channel. So apparently FACE was going to be on top of their shit. They were going to do a Roto Kill Cam 100. Cutcoms, 1V-1s versus fans, 1Vus versus Fanez. They're going to face private match and then FFA video.

So they already had a plan in store ready to go on this thing. And again, this is the sort of. of like community building that brings it. This is a dead game that nobody's fucking playing. There's a resurgence of players and interest in this game that they get to financially benefit from. And they shut it down because they are afraid that the next game is not gonna do bad.

But the only reason that they are afraid that the next game is gonna do bad is because they keep on creating shit games. And they're always at the precipice of saying, this is the thing that broke our call a duty community, that bad fucking game. Are they doing it? it because they're worried that the sales for the next game aren't going to do good?

Are they doing it because they already have an MW, they have an MW2 remaster ready, vaulted somewhere that they're waiting for a rainy day to release and they don't want this to be like the soft drop of their remaster. It's their game. You know what I'm saying? They could do whatever the one. Because that was what a lot of people were saying. They were like they probably have MW2 remastered like done in a vault just waiting to do that play.

Yeah, that's the red button. So they don't want this to be like... Nah. I mean, think about what they released with Infinite Warfare. Who here loved Infinite Warfare? Raise your fucking hand? Dude. Well, yeah, we won't champs on that, but let's be honest.

I can't believe you like that game. How good of a game was that in comparison to all the games? It was the worst game I've ever played in my life. But what did they release? Because they knew it was a shit game. What did they release next to it? I don't even remember. Modern Warfare remaster.

Oh, yeah, I couldn't even get it. Bro, I could not play that game. And I have terrible. I want to be clear IW Oh yeah It was the worst thing I ever It's the worst called dude

I've ever played in my life I played it I'm like Wait Maybe an hour I thought it was kind of I'm getting aim assist Now I remember first hopping on that game

I was like What the fuck I was using the ERAD The laser sub It's just like shooting lasers Now I want to make A very clear point That the developers

The artists Behind these games Are not the fucking issue here Okay It is the non-gamers That think they know best in this thing. Okay. Now, if you're saying that this was going to be that or they have something

vaulted, of course they do, man. Of course they do. Of course, of course. Of course. Of course. Of course. W-W-2 remastered, don't be firing. Exactly. Dude, it's just... Nature had a take on this. Well, go ahead. He said, he said, this might be unpopular. I don't really care if it comes out or not because I'm tired of playing these same old fucking maps. He goes, I want new games. I want new content. Like, how many times am I going to play Raid or High Rise or Skid Row? It's like, I understand people love that game and it's hype and it's nostalgic but he's like for me I just

want new content wait and a lot of people agreed with that a lot of people were like eh we would have loved this so didn't they just announced yesterday that in call of duty 2026 so not not not be not 6 coming up but the following year didn't they already announced that there's maps coming back from mw2 into that game yes wasn't it or am i thinking of Rtaden you're right oh no m3 like old school that i'm okay with but they already announced give me those always always Give me arcade and, give me hardhack, give me bootleg, give me maps that we actually have not seen.

At least it's not like, Raid we've seen how many times now. We've seen standoff. Like, if you give me arcade and no complaints over here. But they've already announced for 2026 that they're recycling maps from a game that was made more than, I mean, what, Cod4 came out in 2007.

So like a probably, what, MW3 came out in like, what, 2009? So, I mean, 15 years ago, they've already announced for calls, of Duty two years in the future that they're using maps from 15 years ago. Yeah. That's crazy. All I'll say in that.

But they're good maps. They're great maps. But yeah, I'm going to Cod Next. I'm excited to play the game early, eat some food, never been to D.C. I will say Cod Next was a really fun event. Last year when I went, I'm kind of sad that I'm not going for obvious reasons. But it was, it was dope. I mean, it's like, it's like fucking the first day of school for, like,

like all the content creators in Call of Duty. That's a good way to put it. So like everyone gets there. Everyone gets there. Everyone's giddy. Like we're all going to play the new game. So it is really, it is a cool event. You pick your outfit the night before. You get a haircut.

I wasn't doing all that. I showed up. You have the, you have all the snipers that are trying to get the first quads. You know, they're trying to get their montage. You're on the bus and you're picking who to sit next to. I'm like, hey Mason,

you ready to play. I sit next to Legion. But first I've seen you from the wedding. That's good stuff. Yeah, Codnex will be cool. I mean, Blackop Six has a lot of hype around it. A lot of people are saying, I think it genuinely is going to be a good game from what we've seen. Cold War's been the best game we've gotten in the CDL era. And this is a sequel to that. And just seeing some

of like the gameplay leaks and stuff, it looks very Cold War-esque. So as long as like maps, see, the one thing also, MW3 this year, you can love the game, you can hate the game, but they actually did do a really good job of like their content roadmap. There was a lot of camos, a lot of new maps coming out, a lot of fresh content. So if we get that same level of like just things coming out on B-06, I think we're in for a very good year. Probably one of the best in CDL, the CDL era. I know people say that like that's your job and this is your livelihood so you're going to say that. But no, I actually do think this game is going to be good. It's fucking Trajark. It looks like Cold War. Like it literally looks like Cold War. The

leaks the game. We'll direct a line of Triarch. I can DMM, I can DMM, I can DMM-I on on Twitter and have a back and forth about why this is going on in the game, what I like, and he'll go back and forth. I like that. Scronk? Scronk? Have I said that right? Yeah, yeah. Skunk, cray? I always fuck up his last name. I know what you're talking about. Yeah.

Like, he'll go back and forth and say, oh, this is why this is happening, blah, blah, blah. And like, that's cool. Like, I've, I wish I had that with Infinity Award, where I could directly talk to a developer that really cares about competitive and ask why things are happening or what's, what can and be done. Infinity Ward made Call 32, Call 32, and Modern Warfare 2.

Leave them alone. They gave us the best thing ever. All right. Yeah, but they've fell apart. The OGs are crazy. No, they just have never supported the competitive community at all. At least Triarch gives it like a hell. No, listen.

Even if they're not like, at least they're like, at least give us hope. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? But like Infinity Ward is given no hope. No dope. Yeah, yeah. CS2 fan unboxes insanely rare knife and IEM Colon crowd live on stream. Let's see the clip.

Talk about the birthday. How was your birthday? It was great. Do you see my DM this morning? No, I didn't open it. I was in a rush. All right, let's see this. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. What do you get? Oh, wait, that's so sick. Was that a Doppler? There were someone behind the scenes like, yo, make sure he gets that. Yeah, that's actually a sick knife. That's so lit. Well, I want to see his reaction. He didn't even look at what knife he got. I guess he was

watching the, I mean, look at that. Look at that crowd. Yeah, that's nuts. That shit is. No, it goes, it goes tall. It goes higher. Shit. Oh my God.

What the fuck? I love Counterstrike. Yeah, it's a massive. But I mean, if you take down the bottom bowl. What? We did that. How many people attended that, Matt? 30,000.

Counter strike, how we miss you. How we miss you. That's awesome, man. Yeah, that is awesome. Yeah. No, I'm super, super. I'm just super hyper. Listen, I know that I have a very, very cynical view of things.

But I am excited about the rest of the year, man. A lot of good things are coming. If people just did what they said they were going to fucking do, everything would be such a better, in a much better place. Period. Talk about your birthday, man. You have a good birthday? How was your birthday, buddy?

You a knee-Ak, a little joint. It was awesome. I mean, the first night me and Kate got dinner. And then little did I know. So our first day was at the Charles where Hector My first date with Kate a year ago was at the Charles

and we started in the speakeasy for a drink and they bring us these two drinks and I'm like we didn't order these we sent them back. They bring them back out and they were like, no these were sent from over there. In the corner it was like a movie. I couldn't see him. Hector was against the wall in a corner and his friends

were around him and they all moved like this and it just Hector's sitting there and I was like, what are you doing here, bro? And then he goes to And then it was our first day. Comes and blows smoke up my ass. Take care of my superstar. He's got to be on camera. Sky's great.

I was like, thank you, Hector. But so she wanted to bring me on my birthday back to where we did our first date. I was like, okay. But I wasn't really in a rush. And little did I know she organized like a little surprise thing with him and his, Denise and Andrew and Nick and Michelle. So they give us two free desserts. I'm like, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not skipping these.

I didn't get an invite. I need to get an invite. I will not do something bigger, man. I do keep mental track of this. We were doing something bigger. I didn't, I didn't organize it. But anyways, we walk in. I was not the inviter.

I was an invitee. But I'm a psychopath. So I walk in and the first person I see is Is, but Is sees me and she like looks away all concerned. And my, I might need therapy. You know, his is. My first thought. I saw him and then was like, guys, you see. Yeah.

But I think I need therapy. My first thought was like, they organized this without me. We weren't invited. This is awkward. running and I was like what the fuck hey this is this is awkward and she's like I fucking organized this and I was like oh dude I've never seen him so flustered he was like his face went like pale he was like like he he was like flustered well I wasn't I wasn't ready for any I wasn't ready for a social interaction I was just

like were they here he came out of this is awkward or or whatever and then so you I don't know so you thought that people created a party you weren't invited to basically it's your birthday I'm a psycho. And also, it's his birthday. And also, you already told everybody in the world that you and your girl were going to go have your own personal thing. So if other people made their plans without you in and why, like, you do any therapy. They surprised us.

I'm like, then yesterday, two days ago we did your house, which was fun, a lot of people. We were just very intimate get together, some pool vibes. We couldn't really rage because we had the watch party. So like, normally, normally my pool party. turn into ragers. We're talking, raging the cage, people are fucking taking shots, like... If it was watch party at 1, 1.30, it would have got

ugly for sure. You think so? But everyone, like, kind of had that understanding, at least we did. We're like, I'm not turning up. I'm going to have a few drinks. I had, like, a couple celtzers. I would have been hurting way too bad to wake up at 7. I'd have been hurting way too bad.

100%. I can never have tortilla chips around me at a party like that. I'm not even kidding. I think I had minimum 80 tortilla chips. It's so easy to make. Four tortillas per corn tortilla. I can teach you how to make that in two seconds and your whole life changes.

Because once you have the chorizo beans down pat, you can put that on as the base. Yo, those beans are brother. Thank you. Thank you. They're amazing. Thank you. Anything with, well, anything with chorizo in it for me automatically slaps.

I mean, it's like it. That reminds me, I need to come and pick up the, the, the, the whatever the fuck I put them in. And also my idiot's apron. I left it there too.

All right. You come pick it up whatever you want. Oh and from the last time too I left some pots there. Whatever you want man. Aye man. Well listen I think

again, bright future ahead for gaming all and just in general. I think a lot of cool stuff is coming down the year. Like the movies that are coming out, the travel that we have coming. Matt's moving over. It's got to get funky, man.

I am excited for it. Can't believe that guy's moving here, man. God. What? Just going to get more nefarious. He's going to be hosting stuff. He's going to try to bring people golfing. I mean, football starts.

Are you guys going to get into golf with them? I am. You are? Yeah. My only thing is it's one of those things where I can't do it in the summer here. I can't imagine. Yesterday was 107. We go early, though.

107? Then at 9 p.m. It's 98. I'm just too well-quartered. How is that possible? In Jersey, when you go on that outside, it's probably like a cool 72, 70. Yeah, on summer night. Oh, you can put a crew neck on, shorts, Nike long socks, flip-flops.

Yeah, this Texas heat is no joke for sure. I get in my car after the watch party and it's like, it's a sauna. My car read 128 or something yesterday? 118. His car read 118. They don't cool it down, but it's not as hot when I get in there. But it's still hot as shit. 106 today?

Oh my God. 106 today, tomorrow, 103, 100, 100, 100, 100. And I sweat easily. I'm not made out for this. Dude, the second that I left the watch party when we lost, I went home and I'm like looking around and I'm like, I look, I walk past the pool and I'm like, I'm not going to the pool today.

Yeah, Hector sent us a picture in the pool. I was like, who is this guy? He's in the pool? And he uses his pool. When you got in, it was like, I sort of got. This past weekend was maybe the no bullshit. it maybe under the 15th time that I've been in my pool

since I moved there in seven years. Damn. That's what I'm saying. You never get in the pool I feel like you sent a picture too. I got on top of the waterfall and did a fucking backflip

like a fucking tank, yeah. You were crashing out? Oh, dude. Put something in the air and shit and that was it. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, that's got to do it for this episode of the Optic podcast.

We do appreciate everybody stopping by. Do leave a like. We will see you. Me and Seth will see you the ESports Awards. Information will be in the description down below. Hopefully.

Yeah. live for that. I'll be live on my channel. So we're just doing like a co-stream. I'll be live on my channel for that. And then we also have something else that I don't think we can talk about while we're in Saudi. Vote for scum. Vote for Seth, man. Oh yeah. Thank you guys. I appreciate it.

Vote for skum. Vote for that young vote. Personnel. Personnel of the year, man. I wonder why the watch party is the watch party nominated for for content show of the year? It's not really a show. It's not a It's definitely a show. It's a show, but it's not like show.

Not only is, yes, it is. And it gets, no nominations. No nominations for that. Damn. Yeah. Listen, it's what it is.

It's a good thing, though. Like yesterday we were doing our send-off of the watch party and it was like. Yeah, it's just like bittersweet because it's like, it's crazy, bless you, because we go through this whole entire year. Like, we missed a few matches this year because of like the wedding and, I mean, just stuff, just life. Yeah.

But I think Riley said we watched three. 350 matches this year? Like, that is insane. Insane. It would be like if you guys watch 350 and I only watched 100 because it only shows like how much I was in there. Do you think you watched 100 matches with us? I don't know. He's watched it.

For all 350, they're saying lock in. I'm like, I'm trying, bro. I'm trying, man. But it's like yesterday, it's like, well, now what? Because it's like now we're free. I forgot the rings, Raj. The four match weekends or four day. Thursday, Friday.

Those were long days. Dude, the Thursday was long, the Friday, I mean, you know, obviously it is. It is, I do give you guys props for that because when I travel with you guys for like the, for the matches, sitting there the entire day, no matter what is going on is fucking grueling. Not because we're not having fun, but because it does get uncomfortable sitting in the same fucking chair the entire day. Yeah, of course. For sure. What we do, man.

That's what we do. It's what we do. So we're damn good at it. You haven't been to Toronto once, right? No. Dude, you got to go next year. Toronto, Toronto, fire. We get to go to Vancouver, maybe?

That's the one place I'm sitting there. I'm like, oh, the air outside is probably great right now. Hey, Toronto. Can we make it a point to please? We went to Zinnies this past one. Let's go to mine. What? To my Toronto spots.

My Toronto food spots. I went crazy in Toronto this year. We went to Maddie Mathesidton's Prime Seafood Palace. That was one of the best meals I've ever had. Period. Where else do we even go? The Casamoto one night probably? That place is good.

We have to go to Casamoto. That's like just the ambiance is on that. The ambiance alone. Where else do we go? The Mavs were on playing in the playoffs. It was like. We went to Casamoto twice, right? The championship night and a different night?

Yeah. Everybody knew this. I could not believe my fucking eyes. I couldn't believe it either. This was like more than I ever thought. Really? I haven't seen in years. I'm not talking about like,

like, you know, like people from the community and we saw like fans. No, no, this is like restaurant tours, fucking businessmen.

We're coming. Hey, Mr. Zini, how are you? It was actually crazy. It was crazy. I was going on.

I was like, the mayor. Not that, not because I didn't have, I just didn't know it was like that. It's the mayor, he knows fucking everyone. Mayor.

That's a city right there. That's a city. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that'll do it. We'll see you guys. We'll see you guys. We'll see in saw.

Thank you.