OpTic Podcast - Dashy Hit the Best Sniper Clip in HISTORY & Huke Stung by a Wasp | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 277

Episode Date: May 22, 2026

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free of charge. BetMGEMGEMP operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming, Ontario. I think it was hype and close enough to once again just talk about how awesome it would be to have like a system where these challenger teams are competing consistently. At the top level. Why are you smelling? Are you wearing a gross cologne or perfume? No, I'm wearing some fire shit. What?

You're weirdo? I thought that piece heaven. You smell it smells like rose. Oh, it is you. That is not rose? Yeah. Bro, smell that. Tell me that's not a woman's perfume.

That is aqued de parma sandal. I'm actually coming over. I thought that P7 Matt was... Tell me that doesn't smell like really feminine. It was going to be the one that put gentlemen mates back in it. And don't lie to give a show up. I don't smell anything. Yeah, I smell like man.

You smell of it. Yo, don't write, Hector. Be honest. No, be honest. You smell something? I do smell something. I don't smell a damn thing. It smells good.

It doesn't smell like cologne to me. It smells like a body lotion. Yeah, it smells body wash. Yeah, it's cool, dude. I'm not offending you. I was just telling you what I smell. It's a great scent. Oh, I like smells flowers.

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Figuring that the fact that we're filming this on Tuesday, by the time that you look at it, there might be some sizes left. so do try to grab them ASAP. This is probably one of my favorite. We've definitely upped our material, haven't we? No. We haven't. This is the same material.

We've always used. We experiment. Because I like this one a lot. Yeah, that one's nice and soft, man. It's that butter soft, kid. I mean, I guess we can just recap on Atlanta, how hot it was, how cold it was, how, what are the odds? That venue was hot.

And I'm not talking about one in six thousand people, but what are the odds in general? that a wasp comes into that massive 100,000 plus square foot venue and then just lands on a player in general. I never seen it happen. Nothing like that. That's hilarious. I was like, I wonder what the odds are.

My dumb ass. I said, I wonder what the odds are of that happening? Open chat GPT? I was like, what are the odds of one person out of 6,000 people in a room getting stung by a wasp? but it said one in six thousand. Mason looks up,

he's like, one and six thousand? But I knew what you meant. I knew what you meant. It was just like, look at that thing. I wanted like the percentage, like 0.006, 7.

I'd have been tweaking. I was. I was tweaking like, bro, for the rest of the night, I felt like, I'm just in there at the headset. I'm like, JP, I think something happened.

He's like, what happened? Like, I don't know. The ref was like, hook are you good yeah it's like dude i don't know what was that then my guy's like it was a wasp it's right there you know what we don't have footage of is our reaction to the dashy snipe because we didn't have cameras back then when emac crag used to accompany us to to go film stuff look no like he realizes there and then he gets stung he's like what the fuck wonder why i bit him i think the only things we've had it back

there is the last two champs because you had your camera. I think it was Clayster. I think he had it in a jar and just like... With the rest of his... With the rest of his insects? As he was walking back after fist bumps, just like right towards us, kind of like angled, he just popped open the jar and kept walking, put it in his hoodie pocket.

Nah, you walk into Clayster's apartment and he just collects insects. And he's like, you... That thing took a crazy fucking route to get there. That's what I'm saying? Like, what are the odds, dude? That it takes, like, what was it? The vibration from the stage? The lights from the stage. Wait, oh my God. Huk's essence. I didn't even think about the route it had to take

because of like where the... I'm outside there. The door in which it would have entered to make its way, holy... Think about how long our walk is once we got in. Yeah, but there's doors back where the PPA is. Like, dock doors. It's a less fun to think about.

Loading dock, for sure. Loading dock, yeah. Someone went out back, left the door open for a sack to bring something in. Oh, unless like somebody went outside who got a cigarette, it's on its back, right? Like the was sland on his back and said,

yeah, who smoked cigarettes? What's? Clay. Huh? Clay. Clay. Clay. I'm telling you.

It was Clay. No, shout out Clay and the rest of the Falcons. I mean, they turned up, man. They did what they were supposed to do. I mean, obviously, like, winning was what they were supposed to do. But, you know, they did their thing. They upset a couple of people who didn't think they were going to be upset by them. That was big for X-Nad.

He finally had a good land event. Everyone was like on his ass saying he's only good online. And he actually had a really good land event. So that was big for that. Yeah, happy for him for sure. I don't know. I actually, I predict them. beat thieves before

thieves eliminated them. I don't know why. After the way Falcons played us, I was like, yeah, these guys can actually do this. It's always hard to drop down, play someone right away. Especially when like you're 10 minutes away from beating Optic being in winter's finals on Sunday. Now all of a sudden you're setting your shit up on featured

against a thieves that's like becoming red hot. Yeah, play it like 20 minutes later. And then 40 minutes later, you're in the elevator going up to your room. Like what the fuck just happened? Like this is the worst thing about. It's like the highs and lows of competing are insane sometimes. One of the things that being considered one of the best, if not the best,

at one particular thing is that it gives you, it sort of you have that you have, and I'm talking about you in this particular case formally. Actually, you too, Damon. And me as well. Yeah, and you too is in to a certain extent. But like your honest take, well, where I was going is that it allows you to be free to speak your mind period, like your comment, your criticism towards someone. Like nobody, like that's your criticism.

Nobody says you're wrong because you're you. If you were a GM looking at this at this thing, what teams should be making changes immediately before Paris? Honestly, I've kind of given up in the bottom four teams. I don't think there's even a point at this point. Can't make champs really. I mean, like Carolina kind of can, but like it's like a miracle run. Like, and they're not ready for that, like truthfully. There's 70 points back.

Yeah, there's just no way. I mean Vancouver like Jesus Christ C9 same thing breach actually had a decent event for some reason they can beat Paris I don't really think they're special yet either though like I think the bottom four I've just given up on okay G2 there's possibility there Mamba or Caesar are on the on the board like pick your poison you know Mamba looks like he's kind of tweaking in matches not saying he's you know a tweak just from what I've seen recently and I mean both Cesar him and Cesar are statistically done pretty bad. Just looks like the cohesion there between Mamba and the rest of the guy.

Seems like if Crempe doesn't go story mode, then they don't win anything. I feel like the other one is just like hell inconsistent. Yeah, I mean, like, Cremps pretty like consistent. But Estreol definitely is like hit or miss. When he's on, he's on. And they become kind of like a weirdly good team. But that also depends on Lomba and Caesar.

And I feel like the meta has definitely fucked their team a little bit. Miami, do you bring in Rial? probably. I don't know. I will, to interrupt you, like, Trakes didn't have the usual performers that I was expecting out of them. Yeah, I mean, they were up to O on Mates

and then up 100 points in the game four and, like, had a very, very, very bad like choke to them. So you're probably looking at Miami to make a change, probably being in Rial as the last second, like, okay, we're not getting it done with this roster. It's been three majors. Let's see if we can, you know,

for medals. I would say for medals. I would say for medals. I don't know. I think. Metal is the only one that's... He's definitely like... Playing for the win. Yeah, I agree.

But I think at this point, they're not thinking that way. They're thinking if we bring in Real, we've been a chance of winning, the truthfully. They're not going to sit there and say, the rest of us are killing, bro. Like, they're not going to think that.

Like, they might watch the matches back, especially against you guys. They just play not to lose. Like, they... Yeah. Like, I respect their little, like, teamwork thing. Like... Wait, do you play them?

Well, I mean, it's not the same roster. You play them in B of 4? Never played these kids. I played their coach, I think. Yeah. I feel like they just ran out. The real methods? Yeah, and like it's kind of weird because they're kind of the opposite now. It's the opposite.

Yeah, it's the opposite. It's crazy. Something happened where one of them was like, you know what, let's not move anymore. And then they were all like, I'm down. But they need to. I don't want to move, two don't. Yeah, I don't know. To go to or just on two.

God, wrinkle's triceps is jacked. Yeah, I think Real's kind of an easy pick here, just an easy swap just to like reset the vibes. Like, it's two turnies in a row. now where they look where they get online got second in the minor and then they are here they go up like I said they should have been mates

they really should have 100 points in game four is like dude you gotta close that yeah yeah I think they're probably gonna make a change pretty fast for metals for metals yeah I feel like metals as like obviously the KD is never gonna show you

you were gonna say something I was gonna say that metals is like the only one who I think is like actually doing something out there yeah that's what I feel too one playing for the win. Definitely why he looks like shitty something. That's what I'm saying.

He's not getting everything. I've been tapped in to challengers all year long. Real has not looked like Real from last year at all. Like I've been watching Real and like maybe there's stuff I don't see, but he's just not playing the way I thought. Like Cammy, for example. When Cammy dropped down to challengers, I was like, this guy's going to dominate challengers. I thought the same about Real.

Yeah. Cammy just dominated challengers. Went out there and won it shit on everybody. Real has really not been doing that. Yeah, no, trust me. I agree with everything you guys have just said. I just think that if I'm a Miami player right now and I'm one of them, I'm thinking like instead of coming to terms of the fact that the rest of us don't play the game right, I think it's going to be easier for us to accept. We could just replace this guy with a guy that we're comfortable with and we played with and just see how it goes. Yeah, I think that's much easier road for them mentally just with what they've been dealing with. What do you think about Toronto and Gentlemates? Like those are the two teams for me that I think can kind of elevate a bit. Like gentlemen mates is so weird because... Metmates is very weird. I don't even...

Oh, such a dude. Like, Sib is too good. Yeah. Like, I don't know how you replace Sibb's firepower. Like, his ceiling is kind of... I don't really see an adequate replacement for him. It's definitely not Dan. It's definitely not Neptune.

Neptune is not Major 1 Neptune. Granted, that's kind of normal. I mean, there's no way for you to consistently dominate the way he did Major 1. He was just a bit ahead. Envoy is, like, their facilitator, probably their best playmaker and, like, sets up the map. in the best way. I actually have no idea what they do.

I think if I'm like speaking honestly about this scene, like, and this is going to be pure speculation. I have no idea what goes on behind the scenes at this roster. I think that a lot of things have led to them kind of just like losing faith in one another in terms of like... Outside of the game shit? Not outside of the game.

It's in-game shit, for sure. Like if you were to watch the... Yeah, if you were to watch the way to watch the play at Stage 2S&D was very telling, like just... No like no cohesion and like situations and stuff like a major one they looked really good because they were heading hard point All of a sudden that just goes away major two like that's just like weird to me Being down five one against P seven is just weird to me like a team like this Having such struggles like this it's there's definitely something

Whether that be they don't like a player on the team is Impossible whether they don't like multiple players in the team is possible whether or not their side texting each other after every match is very possible It's very possible. I really don't know. It's the most similar to us, I feel like in the way that... Yeah, I think so too. I just think it's a lot of it is a personality thing. Like I think all four of those players are very fucking good. But when you put them all together, I think if you give them enough obstacles, there could be things that come from it.

And obviously it's easy to say right now because they're having struggles. But I mean, like, I don't know. I just think that this team should be placing much better, should be a lot of stronger against like a you know shouldn't have been down too out of Miami shouldn't have been down 5-1 to P7 like if that was happening to optic or phase with the easy be like what the fuck is going on like there's something going on but um but because it's mason because they've been having struggles for so long now it's kind of like yeah I mean you know it's I think there's something but do I think that they could also turn it around come major four yeah I do yeah I think

this team's very dangerous still I thought they were going to do it this of me too yeah me too I was like online okay they're doing this shit again they're going to go to the event and they're probably going to be a problem. Yeah, I think major four when they're playing in front of the very, very favorite home crowd, you're going to see much

different mates and I think it's going to be a resurgence for them. They probably at least go to that. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think this roster makes a change. Yeah. My child was asking a little week,

I just don't think they make a change. There's no way. I think it just depends on what's reasonable. I'm not going to, I don't want to put out free game, but I tell you what I would do, I would hit up Carolina and be like, what's going on with Lurks?

Just to ask again. because like lurks, lurks in Nest, you're like the only two on the bottom teams where I'm like, I could see them slotting into a team like this or Toronto

and like them actually wanted to do it. It's like you can't make champs, you cannot demand an unreasonable buyout because your player is just not going to go to champs. Like you don't have any fucking leverage anymore. You're not in the running. So it's up to you. We'll give you something reasonable,

but the only thing you're doing is holding your player back from playing at the biggest tournament in the world. If anything, I'll give you a small little fee. I'll loan them for the rest of, of the year, I'll build a stock and you can sell them. We're just trying to go out there and play well. But I would knock on the door. I mean, yeah, I definitely hear you. I hear you. I just

think, I mean, there's been three majors, right? It's one and one of them. Like, that's one and three. Like, that's, it's not like this year's been super long. We're six events in now and they've been failing every event. Like, they won the first one. Obviously, they looked bad the last two, including the online stages. But I just think this is one of those rosters you can never just randomly just think like their ears chocked. This team can turn it around randomly at any moment and become a threat to all the teams. I think the community thinks that things may be a little wrong.

Like winning a tournament is a successful thing. And like still being in that top five, top four, top six conversation, like at the end of the day, everybody's trying to peak at the end of the year, no matter what. So to go out there, like how many times have we seen, like MW3, what, four different team was won a major? Like imagine if the team that won the fourth major changed after the first because it didn't go well.

You know what I mean? Like, there's just so many... Yeah, I mean... At such a high level at this point where you can't... Consistently winning is insanely hard, as I'm trying to say. I think about all these things from... I'm putting myself on the mates roster and I'm looking at the rest of my teammates, and that's how I'm debating my answers here.

Like, if we won the first major together and we beat Optic Game 7, like, that high is so high. And, like, I can always lean back on that, at least for, like, Until major four like I'm I'm leaning back on that saying we've found something that works We all know we have we can step up in a final and beat Optic you know like that's something I'm definitely like falling on it I'm not saying like we should make a change yet because it's only been two more events after that Wait, does anyone know is is major for your lot champs team that's what I was curious

It might be because I could be wrong, but it might be yeah. I think you're right wait so I think you go into that you can't make a change at all your champs team That could change things the way people think, I guess maybe a little bit. It might be a thing. Yeah, I don't know, man. It's a, I think it's a respect thing too. Like, all these changes, like, when we're talking about teams that are, like, on the fringe of, like, still being great, it all depends on if there's, like, personal turmoil. Like, you just don't know.

Like, you don't know if two people hate one guy or that's what truly chalk the team. Is, like, that resentment. And if it's not there, like, think about thieves and Vanguard. When they, everyone was saying they should have changed, they play. last, they were like, fuck, no, we want to go do this. And they won back to back one champs. Like, that's kind of what you're hoping for gentlemen mates is they have that same respect for each other to where like they know what they can do and they're all boys. Who knows? Yeah, only they know. Jamie's getting lit up right now though. People are on Jamie's

ass. And I respect Jamie because he's still out there out there doing it. I will say that trio is disturbingly good right now. Especially that they, Kleenex elevates on land to a whole new level. I had Kipps as the rookie of the year before Neum's grand finals dominance to be honest. I think Neum is now the rookie of the year. And Joe Deceives is Joe Deceives. I'm curious to see how like Toronto feels about

insight. I think he obviously is respected in that camp and like he brings something that maybe a lot of people don't see but like it's pretty apparent that like once it gets to like those winners finals moments that top three it's very

he struggles a little bit. I don't know because I saw him play the best hard when I was he didn't play the whole fucking year against Optic Game 4. On Scar? Yeah, what the fuck was that? Just pulled out of nowhere. He's wall-bounce pistilling. I was like, what the fuck? Yeah, in Jamie's defense, I think that he plays for a strictly land POV.

I don't think he gives a fuck about the way he looks online, just truthfully. He plays very slow, obviously. He doesn't take many fights. He's not really a win-con, but if you look at the three teammates he has, like, it's three explosive-ass players. Like, if I was in his position, am I playing as slow? probably not but probably slow like I'm not running around with this roster the fuck Do I see him get absolutely slammed on land? Yeah, I do I saw it a lot this weekend and I was just like also talking to Sam like dude

What do you actually think this good? I don't know. It's just I think he I think he has just a lamp you let you scam and if you scam he can kill you Sometimes I'll see him randomly pop off for the most part he gets hyper carried I don't think that he's bad But I don't think that he's great like I don't think that he's great like I don't think that he's would say he's gray right now but I don't think that he would are you saying are you saying his his best days are behind him I mean probably doesn't mean doesn't mean like this next year probably know next year is going to be a slow game

and then right he's the perfect player for that game right like who knows right it's it's year to year but right now it's just look at like the slayer rating and the interactions Jamie's obviously just he's that last man in line pretty consistently yeah yeah I think he plays very like I mean he's played the same way since I fucking

played him in 2021. Since he came into the league, he's played like this. Does the little off angles, he plays the back, fucking, you know, he doesn't, never really like Eagle Chalue. That's just how he plays. I know that camp well, though. I know how the coach thinks. I know they're obsessed with, like, the up-and-coming newcomer. And like Ethan, I think, as someone who's being spoken about a lot. The thing with Toronto is they kind of have an advantage when it comes to getting visas. Like, it's a lot quicker for them than it would be for any team in the U.S. And you could also, there's more wiggle room to be in Canada, compared. to the U.S., like during the process, or

Toronto has a advantage when it comes to visas, so who knows the way they're thinking? I wouldn't be shocked at the very least to see them sign someone as a sub to give themselves an opportunity. Like, when you say that the major four roster is lock, the substitute is probably the cheat code there,

right, because he's signed to your roster. You can just elevate them to a starter. I don't even think it matter. Hmm. I don't know. I don't know. This team was one map away from being in the grand finals, meeting Optic and Winter Finals. Like, game five is a coin flip.

Like, that's a coin flip. They very well could have won that. Like, and then the same situation for them, they die or they lose, and they could drop down on the loser bracket and then just out of the tournament in 40 minutes. Like, it's a hard thing to bounce back. Like, when you're that losers team, you're happy as fuck. Like, you're like, do you look at them? I just had a grueler.

This is one of the scenarios. I wonder what the players are thinking. I wish I knew. What? What they're thinking? When they dropped down to losers? No. Just in general with that team.

Oh, yeah. I feel like the clock's ticking. if they don't do anything, like... Well, they're going to lose Joe, most likely. I'm pretty sure he's free after this year. Like, the odds they re-sign Joe are very slim, given how high his stock is right. Anywhere he wants, really, for the month, within reason, of course.

Imagine Toronto. I don't know. I mean, I won't say anything on it, but I think they're, like, one change away from probably making, like, every Sunday right now. I think they've been, like, that all year. Yeah, it's weird to talk about because, like, I hate to be that guy. I won't say anything more, but I actually do think it. The Insight Kleenex duo ship has been such a staple in this in this in seven years straight

Yeah they came on the scene together and singly it's probably hard as fuck to go away from But I'm sure Kleenex loves it. The tiny terrorists did it though and look two of them went on to win You know salium is the only one that hasn't hasn't won but both Both of the the the tiny terrors have so If you're Kleenex and I mean even if you're inside right like I don't know I don't know, man. I hate to be that guy, but like, if I'm Toronto, like, I'm trying to form, I'm like, we need to win one of these final events to make Joe feel like this is a place

where he can see himself. That's what I mean, I feel. Has he ever won an event? In the future. I feel like that. Joe has not. He's not been in the final. I'm not going to say it's necessary for him to win an event.

I think he needs to make a final. I don't think saying a player that's never won an event needs to win an event this year to be happy. I'll tell you what, Kips, Kips is a big, like, draw. Like, Gibbs definitely helps Joe's mental. Having him is like a cornerstone to like maybe consider staying there a long term. Yeah. I don't know.

I'm curious what they could even do, like their options. I don't know who they value highly. I really don't know. Who makes decisions over there when it comes to like team stuff? Hopefully Joe. No, I don't think so. But I don't think it's like the coaching staff? It's Ryan.

Yeah. Ryan's like the main. That ain't good for them then. Ryan is Flux, who is their coach and he is like the main guy. I think he includes everybody, but yeah, I think, I think it's Ryan. If that's the way I feel like Joe's fucking out of there if they don't win. If they don't make a change. Dude, if Toronto has an argument, let's go of, like, scrap, Mercilies.

I mean, at this point, the route they're going, like, I shouldn't even be saying this because they're the opponents, but, like, dude, they're going to fucking lose them. I guarantee it. Yeah. Toronto used to be like that team. Unless Joe, like, doesn't really care, but I don't know. He cares.

He cares. I feel like you fucking cares. He's too good to not care. He's in the prime of his life, dominating on main stage. Literally. I think he owes it to his skill to care. Toronto just used to pay like a top one, top two team. Like they would compete in terms of like, okay, phase offers you 300.

We'll give you 300. Toronto is just not there anymore. I do think it is also worth known. This was their best split, I think, all year. And then tournament, it was their best one. Wow, there it is official. Eastport's World Cup is going to Paris. And so are we

We, we Monseo I'd be down, though See, I like traffic For we're coming To Paris You ignore that stupid shit? I'm happy as fuck about this

I mean I don't really want to go to Paris But I'm happy about it I'd rather take an eight-hour flight than a 24-hour trip It was not go to the tournament It's a lot closer Yeah, I don't know, man Damn, gentlemenates is getting two home events Damn, crowd jeez

It'll be pretty sick, though No, like EWC have been there now I think it's gonna be crazy Hell yeah It's gonna be fucking crazy Hell yeah So it's official, yeah, rumors 404

I mean your EWC What is it? Is it the 12 CDL teams How many teams was it total? Was it 16 team tournament And then what, two from NAA, one from the same shit. The same shit. I forget what it is.

Something like that. Is the last one? Yeah, EMEA. EMA. It's going to be a Saudi team, EU, and then. Actually, are you sure because technically EMEA and Saudi

are the same and EU or like the same? Like they compete in the same. Like there is no EMEA region officially. They compete in Europe. I'm curious how that works. Maybe it's two and two. But every single Challenger's team

was of course now looking forward to that because I'll tell you what bro P7 should have knocked out gentlemenates we should have beat Carolina like there were I'll tell you what I think it was hype and close enough to once again just talk about how awesome it would be

to have like a system where these challenger teams are competing consistently at the top level are you wearing your girls coland or perfume no I'm wearing some fire shit What? You're weirdo? I thought that P-7... You smell, it smells like Rose.

Oh, it is you. That is not rose? Yeah, bro, smell that. Tell me that's not a woman's perfume. That is awkward de Parma sandalow. I'm actually coming over. Yeah, I thought that P-7 match... Tell me that doesn't smell like really feminine.

It was gonna be the one that puts gentlemen's back in it. And don't lie to give us up. I don't smell anything. Yeah, I smell like man. You smell. Smell. Yo, don't write, Hector. Be honest. No, be honest.

You smell something? That's a good scent. I do smell something. I do smell something. smell a damn. It smells good. It doesn't smell like cologne to me. It smells like a body lotion. Yeah. It smells. Yeah. It smells body wash. Yeah. It's cool. Dude, I'm not offending you. I was just telling you what I smell. It's a great scent. All I smells flowers. And I've been smelling. Oh, man, who smells this good around? It doesn't smell like that at all, which is what?

I think we need Riley's opinion. Riley's definitely going to go my way. Brick by brick and can by can. What is that mean? We got optic That's legendary There's no way they went through that many Oh there's definitely a way A bunch of people Wait what

Oh they're weird They're just dumb turnt I thought it was beard They're just so terned And there's a bunch of different people They're closed though right I thought that was slack for a second Yeah

I was like what the fuck You know the fans were awesome there But like they were allowed Oh, wait, there's a butt. Yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you going to say about the green wall? Watch your fucking mouth.

No, I just want to hear more chance. Oh, yeah. Like, I want to hear, like, constant, like, just more. Maybe I'm being greedy, but I want it. Like, they were loud, but I do agree. We need to start taking some notes from Europe when it comes to their chance. You know what we need to do, Zinn. We need to, we'll make them for them.

But everyone in Europe is fucked up. We need to have some common fucking sense. Okay. if there's a match between team who cares and team who gives a fuck, they should not be on main stage, especially when the main broadcast is showing our esport, which is packed on another fucking side of the fucking venue, but empty in the chairs that there are strategically allocated

for the people to show the grandeur of our esport. But what did we have instead? Empty seats behind the scumper jumper. Empty seats behind. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What is this? Context, okay. This was the reasoning because phase thieves was not on main stage.

Hey, Ben. Everybody a chance upon main, yeah. Oh, man, I got, I just, I feel like I have to watch myself. Hold on. No, then let me go. Yeah, please. Well, I just think we think about this the wrong way. The NFL does not think that way.

The NFL does not put the Raiders on prime time because they think every. team should be on prime time. The prime time games are reserved for the games that the world wants to watch. And unfortunately, if you're unhappy with how often you're on main stage, then you should do better to get a better team and build your brand because matches like phase thieves, optic phase, gentlemen mates thieves, like those are going to bring people into the stands and that's what people want to watch. Like, it's like, who the fuck do you want to make happy? Do you see how many people are fucking standing there for those two matches?

Yeah, hot as fuck. Standing. Standing. Hot as fuck. Okay. Hey, Ben. The whole fucking venue was there. It was, there was a sea of people.

I don't even know how they fit in that corner. Me either. It was crazy. It was packed. I turned around at one point, I said, I'll tell you what. If you tuned in for the first time right now and saw this alpha, you'd think they're laundering money. That's what I said. Because it was just literally empty behind us.

And it shouldn't have been. It's just like. I just don't like Daniel's last sentence because. Show more. I just... It's kind of like... Like, this format is amazing. I feel like that sentence makes it seem like

this is why this format isn't the best. Listen, Toronto was a great team. They were the two seed. They of course deserve to be in high-impact matches, but it's phase thieves. Like there are just certain things that you have to look at with common sense and go, unfortunately,

because we're about to watch phase versus LA thieves, this has to be on main stage, period. That one should have been. There's no way around it. My thing is this. It's like they've been doing it the whole year and randomly. It's like Ben fucking last night trying to say,

well, finals are too quick if it's best of five. I late chat GPT, bro. There was like one three O in a finals like ever. And we were in like fucking all of them. Okay, you saw my, I saw that. You saw my tweet this morning regarding that? Bro, how many finals did we play from winners? We probably lost the first one.

A few, yeah. But then we like three. the second one. Yeah, it's, dude. I mean, like I said, I don't want to get into that thing, but like, bro. I want to get into it. They, they are saying it's short. It was never fucking short.

There was like one time. It was like, do we 3-0? Orlando and Black Ops? Are we seriously? We lost the first one five. Are we seriously trying? I don't know if we ever won a 3-O in the fucking finals. No, that was not that.

With like one series. What's the difference between a 3-0 and a 4-0? Like 10 minutes? Like, that's what we're arguing about? No, no, no. I'll tell you what we're arguing about. We're trying to, we're trying to, manufacture competition at its very core.

We're trying to extend something just because we want it extended. Okay, and the example that I gave is Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson, when he fought, and I'm not saying that I agree with Mike Tyson or what he does. Shut up. I'm saying that when Mike Tyson fought, he finished his fights in the first round. Do you know how many people? Don't pull up my tweets.

I stopped after that. Let's go down, Damon's. All I'm saying is that we can't just say, just because we want a fight to go on longer, it doesn't mean that that's right for the competition. The competition is the competition. And nothing outside of those four dudes in that, eight dudes in that match fighting against each other should have any point or relevance in whether or not that has a particular outcome.

Because we want it extended. Ben, Ben, Ben, because you want to see a longer one? Pause. Because you want to see a longer match. You want, like, you're interfering with competition. If a team three owes, a team, that's it. That is, that's how good they were. You wanted it to be longer has nothing to do with anything

Me wanted it to be longer has nothing to do with anything period Yeah like I've been watching the CS event Like there were two CS events the past weekend okay There was there was a dream hack right and then there was a PGL Astana and whatever But like Spirit played some team in the final and then they played Falcons in the final that's a godlike final Spirit versus Falcons and CS is a godlike final Spirit smote them like 3-0 like the first game was kind of close other than that I mean shit was like an hour long see

series in CS and obviously they stretch it with broadcast stuff and all the breaks and stuff, but they three-oed them. Like obviously, and people are holding on phones in the crowd, hopefully Falcons win this map, I don't want to go home, you know? Like, obviously you want to see a better match. Like, and then fucking Navi slammed fucking whoever they, fuck they played. Two three-ohs happened in the finals of CS. Like, obviously you want to watch better, more stuff. You're at a fucking tournament. You're watching the pinnacle of the game you like, right? You have, you have fucking Thieves versus Opt at Grand Final. God-like series. You want it to go on forever. But like, if a team 4-0s or 3-0s like it's done man that's what it is that's the end that's what it is

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This is pretty nuts, yeah. I mean, I did talk to Brandon a little bit. That's nice is one of the, uh, I can't even put in the words what that did to that venue. I mean, the video, I guess does it justice, but holy shit, brother. Yeah, not many things get the reaction to me that I gave for this one. Like, I think that Brandon, I was like pretty into the series, like, just like, kind of just, not ignoring my chat, but just, you know, really locked into everything that was happening in that game and like, That was one of the most turn things I've ever seen Brandon do. It came out of fucking nowhere.

It looks like they had the right team on stage on this one. Yeah, me too. And it sucks that Brandon got teased that hard. Like, how do you get that clip and then lose a turn? I mean, dude, fuck me. And even clock in seven. Like, dude, I mean, Jesus fuck. But, um, yeah.

Andy hit the Andy hit scrap. It could have been a triple. Yeah. It could have been a quad. It could have been a quad. What on? Are we? And the Den.

The Den Collette could have been a triple? It could have been a quad. Ernie said he was one hit. Calat's already crazy. You hit a triple collat. I'm smacking headsets off. A quad. A quad.

The additional two got hit. A quad? No, I know. Pacco was in the air. I think Paco is like too early. A quad would legitimately. I would be weird to happen round one. You like, because you're like just getting into it.

You couldn't. You just be like, what the fuck? It's like a nade, right? Landing and three. Yeah, like the ref would be like, got to end this? What the hell was that? Like, you know what I mean? Did they jump off the map?

Riley was quick as fuck on that save you saw that I mean there's in his little folder there's no there's no better feeling then than your teammate just does something like that Mace was clapping on stage he's fucking clapping yeah I'm not gonna lie I wish they would have given a better reaction

to Brandon players wise yeah like get a little more for that and it did and gave him something yeah like Mace just clapping the way you did like I was like what the fuck Brandon said he didn't even know loud it was dude brand's only he didn't even know the game was over he thought they

sold rounds to play so that's why he was like because he just got his new earbuds he was like bro I didn't even know it was like loud in there I couldn't hear anything so I was just like hey whatever do we were going to go is that game we were like freaking out in the see right there we saw we saw we saw him like we saw hydra in market so it was just like we knew he was there boom oh my god dude It is pretty insane. And you know what I like about this, Riley, too? You know what I like about the fact that we're talking about,

that is that not involved in the conversation or whether or not the red wedding should have happened on B or on Alpha? Okay, I have no dog in this. I could give a fucking if his face or I don't give a fuck if it's fucking thieves playing. Where are the fuck? Let me just throw that in.

The red wedding? Were people calling it that? That's what Seth called it, so that's what I was calling it. Oh, okay. Okay. I mean, it goes hard. Yeah. Let's go hard.

Atlanta was awesome, though. I mean, I just want to say, shout out to everyone that we got to meet like how yeah the like once again like you just that's just the way I think our events are supposed to be you're supposed to have everything consolidated into one big venue the main stage the featured stations to the challengers pit the vendors like that is what we came up on and I feel like that should be the norm it just felt good to everyone in there so shout out to everyone we met everyone was awesome of course

yeah the dream acts have been sick yeah shout out to the FG shout out to Adam up sell the entire team over there but they all they all killed it what I would suggest and a word request is that. Air conditioning. Fuck the air conditioning. I mean, it was hot as hell. No, food. What?

What? At what point can we get some good food stands? Oh, did they stop you at the door or something? You tried to bring them? Yeah, dude. You had to get those cold-ass hot dogs. Had two of them. No jalapenos.

You got to get food trucks in there. A fuck ton of them. That's what you do. Just back them in there and fuck. Yeah, just get the food truck. Open the loading dock door and just drive on in. Let's make something happen. Sold out Halo.

open. That's cool. Yeah. Hmm. I didn't see some clips. It looked pretty a lot. Did it? Let me see some clips from Halo, uh, Riley. See what Matt's talking about. Sold out Halo up in Fortnite arenas.

Road, okay, never mind, Riley. Uh, wolves and shit, look, I... I forgot Halo was there until I saw a clutch on Sunday night and I was, oh, fuck. That guy saw clutch and trippy and I was like, oh shit, Halo was here. Bro, when the, you got to think, think about this. You had a west.

Bro. I don't know how it happened. Think about what every other esport was thinking about when Brandon hit that shot and the whole crowd in unison, everyone in that venue fucking scream. Yeah,

because I remember like the first MLG events that we went to when something happened on melee and everybody from calling. Remember how it felt like when league was first like in MLB? And you'd see someone have like a cool like I forget what that term was when you like

one of the person in Starcraft like when the army would roll over like the Zerg fucking like mines Remember what I'm talking about Where it would just be like a giant Like it would just wipe their whole army right away Oh the fucking little green

Yeah the green bombs Yeah that would be in the ground They just come up and fucking blow all the Yeah yeah yeah Like dude and the whole venue would just fucking roar And you're like oh my God What the fuck just happened I wish I knew what I was looking at

Yeah and then you'd walk over later And you'd like watch someone play You watch like Idra play or somebody Hugging a pillow and shit Yeah like it was fucking crazy, dude. Or not League of Legends, fucking StarCraft. I was thinking StarCraft.

Yeah, StarCraft was fucking fire. I never understood the game, but, man, that audience was... That's, like, probably the only tough thing. I don't know if you can just, like, walk into any of the areas with Dreamhack, right? 100, 100 badges. It's just so far.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Like, I don't think we could go in CS. One of the times... One of the times, Paige, nobody was around it. I'm like, I'm just going to go get food for the guys who were... Who was it? Roger and Tanner, who were in the back?

I'll just go real quick And I was walking I was seeing people And people saw that I was in a hurry So someone would just be like What's how heck's people The others would be like

You don't even get up I'm like come with me You gotta walk we got to walk We're taking pictures And walk out I'm trying to find this Wrong side And then the empanadas

Had already gotten a bad review From Kenny So I wasn't about to pick those up But the food was good Went to a good sushi restaurant We went to a very A very good Spanish tapas restaurant Which

How was it walking around On town Is it still like Dangerous late night. Late night? We didn't do that. Clean. You didn't do that?

Listen. I was sick. I did. I was there six years ago and it was not like it is today. The way that it is today, maybe it's because of the World Cup and all the streets are being cleaned up. But it was clean. Where we were, I feel like was fine. Yeah.

But I didn't really venture much further. No one did. I mean, look, you can go, you can land in Beverly Hills and you can still find a fucking a ghetto spot somewhere where it's not. When we drove to the tapest place like Uber, there was definitely like some places I was like okay a little crazy around here my mom has my location and I guess the app that it is on like brings up all the crime danger family share like it brings up like when it brings up when there's danger it brings up when there's danger close she sends to be a screenshot

three minutes from us she goes someone threatening someone with knife she goes you all good I'm like yes I'm with Bose it's me help it's me help have AI like drop picture yeah help but that that's hop us place was fire. Yes, it was. That was probably my favorite meal the weekend. But also was a good vibe. We had like 20 of us deep there. That was a good time. Bro, the guy kept coming back. It was great. No, he was a good server. That man deserved the kid. Need one of those.

And who didn't? The people at our hotel because holy shit. Worse service I've ever had. The hotel was one of my favorites ever besides the service. Favorite breakfast? Favorite dinner? I've never experienced something like that in my life. The service? The service? The service? Yeah, service. They had like three, they had three waiters for an entire restaurant. They had one chef for an entire restaurant.

They had one bartender for a bar full of people. Yeah. So everything took an hour. Like, Peterman was sitting next to me and he ordered a drink. Well, shout out to the waiter at the tapas place. At the end of the dinner after we paid and everything, he brought me a, what was it, Louis the 18th? Louis the 18th, Coneyac. Fucking old as fuck, 40 to 100 years old.

Really? It was, I didn't mind it. He gave that to you? Yeah. I took a sip of me. and I'm like, ooh. He gave us Jose Cuervo. Oh, no.

The table to the left got the, ooh, the jet fuel. Yeah, we did. I mean, this shit was warm. It was like warm. Yeah, yeah. Like all the way through, all the way down. But yeah, I mean, it was, it was like, all in all. And look.

I enjoyed the weekend. Yeah. For what it was. Same. I mean, I wish obviously things would have been different. Yeah. I mean, for us, I think it just came down to overloads and search, right? Like thieves also

I want to shout out on Neum too bro, I have to. Neum, I mean, we had him in the beginning of the year like to see him go out there and play against us like he was the grand finals MVP. I think Scrap. MVP. We like fried the fuck out of a fucking phase too.

Who? Neum? Oh yeah, Neum Sunday was crazy. Overall tournament, it's hard to deny Scrap. I mean, he's crazy. But Neum Sunday like, just shout out to him. So happy to see him succeed. Yeah, look, you don't have to fucking.

Is that the whole turn? Yeah. They only played those five games? there's no way six games dude I I think like playing in your first final is a very like

it's a very like it can be a nerve wrecking thing like for some players right and especially against optic like that's like pretty much the hardest thing you could do just off pure mental like aspect of the game

I mean you could tell you could tell like their matches before I mean dude they played eight games that's a lot of fucking games for nowadays you could tell they their like teamwork was like they got to a point automatic it was pretty it was automatic yeah they were they weren't making like too many mistakes

get the revenge on phase to start the day like that's just like such a kick up in vibes and then like you just get a clean three oh into going into the final like dude that is ideal situation yeah of what you want on your sunday look like that is fucking that's a clean tournament i'm glad we fucking got over the colossus you're gonna have to tell your girl hey i wasn't with with another woman i promise you baby smell this is from this cologne it's not man dude this is not this is not this is not this is not smell like a woman's cologne. E-MAT. Matt.

Mattie. Matt, come here. He's not there. Not again. It ain't going to happen again. What I will say is that every single one of our players said that it was awesome that they got to play two times today. Every single one of them was like, yo, this is fucking dope. We don't sit around.

We get to play two times a day. They should do this every single thing. That was the best tournament so far for sure. 100%. Shout out out. Pesla, he knows what the fuck he's doing. There was just something about it. Because you'd play and you'd have small down to.

time in the pro lounge with everybody, like you would like kind of like decompress with everybody and then you go out there and you play again. Yeah, you're bump into pros. When do you guys play? That's all you say really. Yeah. When do you guys play again? Again too. Like you already know, but you don't, you want to just talk. So you just like say shit like that bump into pros left and right. You don't just go straight back to your hotel like fucking two teams left in the venue Friday night randomly. Like that's just so weird. No, bro, they have better when people are playing more, bro. Yeah. You're going to get better competition at the event. The fucking shit where you're, oh, you play, hopefully you win, you wake up the next day, hopefully you're,

you're playing good. Yeah. Like, that's literally what it is. It's been like that for, for years now. Like, you got to be able to just wake up and play and play your fucking best. Yeah. Well, Friday, you used to, like, catapult your team forward. Like, Friday, if you started off hot and you went three and one or you started off

1-1-1-3 straight, it's like, it just changes your team dynamic. Yeah, like, if Falcons doesn't get a, like, a 3 over C-9 to start their tournament, and they got to go, let's say that Friday didn't exist. And they started Friday, or started Saturday, phase round one. Do they three-o-phase? Fuck now. No, it was really, yeah. Like, they had to get in their bag.

Yeah, they had to get in their bag, get the little land like jitters out. But the time they play phase, like, they're all doped up. Like, it's just, it's just different. I don't know. Maybe like, I don't know. I wish there was a way to, like, do like, at least a hybrid.

You have the 12 franchise teams. Then you do, like, maybe four teams that are open a relegation, where like bottom two from each split get replaced for example. I don't know. I just think there needs to be some way to get 16 teams back in this shit. Shout out to Neum, man.

Once again, happy for him. That's crazy. Yeah, very happy for him. Yeah, same. Super. It's crazy. The optic to win that tournament they just played,

they had to beat a former Hunson player to win it. Like, either way. Either way. How to play Kips? Or we had to play at Neum. Like, that is insane to think about. So I had good mentors, man.

I'll tell you what. Whoever's listening. The next player is not going to be that cheap. That is a promise. The price has went up, especially for Renegade. Oh, yeah. Renegade is not cheap. I'll keep him here forever, dog.

He was going crazy. He was. I mean, shout out to the Huntsman boys. I feel like, I mean, just to touch on him real quick, I am a little disappointed with our finish, just because I feel like we were way better than that. Like, we play second in the elite. We should have beat Carolina. We absolutely throw it away.

Miami would have been a tough match. I'm not going to sit here and be like we would have dominated Miami. But I will say, you never know. You beat that Carolina team. Renegades going crazy. Yeah, I think Miami looked very beatable that night. Yeah, so I mean, who really knows? The Challenders tournament, I think, was a bit disappointing.

Just we lost to Omit and Bush. Bush had a crazy run and won it, but I feel like both those teams, like our team goes, our team can beat both of them, and I feel like we just came out flat on Saturday. So it's tough, but it is what it is, you know, still, uh, still proud of them for some moments, but this guy is fucking great. He's a fucking nut. Wait, was this finals? No, this is not a semis or something.

This was the start the Sunday. He's got the Ballin Seaga fucking raincoat on. He's not even started yet. He's funny how into it he is. Oh, no, I love it. Just like instantly was just... A menace. But I like it.

Yeah, I would laugh too. Wait, was that a rematch against the Falcons? Yeah. Fuck you, bitch. In here, do, like, I don't think he's, he's thinking about long-term as like, none of these players will ever play for me. You know what I'm saying? He's, hey.

Fuck you. That is actually the best thing I've ever seen, dude. fucking crazy. That is good. That's fate though. Like the lead up to that match before the tournament, the whole shit where he's tweeting at QK, fuck you bitch, Saudi's going at Bush. Then they play the first time Faze Falcons beat them. They go crazy, double birds, non-stop, fuck you. Rematch, Bush beats. That's actually the way that you can't write it any better. No. You can't. That's good. He's like America.

I mean, the AT&T and Alator Cup happened again, right? I was actually curious to see how Seth was going to do on the League of Legends stuff because he's been playing like a lot. Like he's been playing a lot, right? Like you can say that you can say that he's been playing a lot. Yeah, but not against the greatest N.A. player. Of course not. Is Dumbled up the greatest N.A. player?

He's got to be up there. Is either double-up or Theodone? I'm no idea The odd one I don't know a lot about me either Me either but I know those names Jensen Not Jensen

aren't they all you What about Reggie dude I don't know But from what Seth plays against to what To Double Lift I mean I didn't get to watch the game Um

Because we're at the event But From what Seth said It was pretty fucking hard And I'm pretty sure he What was he playing? I'm pretty sure Double Lift was playing uh jinks and lulu or something

oh my god i can't play and put me up Caitlin and caitlin bro i didn't know league i had something where you it tells you when to last it now wait what

look at the health bars of the minions like they turn white you see how they're already like low like like you'll see it better in lane but it's like brand new i don't know wait and that's not like an elder it's not like the elder shit

i saw i saw i'm doing it at level one I was like, what the fuck? So here you just click and like... No, this is a really bad example of what I'm saying. Literally when the... Yeah, their health bars are white when it tells you that you're going to get the last hit. But he's just so stacked at this point. He's critting the head, you know?

No, but you do see it. Yeah, that's kind of weird. Who do they beat? It's got to be Peanets team. No, they beat Tyler 1. What? What? Wait, Seth was Fryen versus Tyler 1?

Oh, yeah. That's nuts. Was Tyler 1 not playing 80 carry? No, he was. And his best main God thing. Draven? Bermpeylae? That's how a bungulator does it.

He didn't even go off. Dude, he's got the scrap hat on. He did, dude, this guy is fantastic. Huh. Huh. I assume they won this, right? We'll go to talk, we'll go to top, we'll talk. I assume they won this, right?

Yeah. Charge! that guy is fantastic yeah it's good man team peanut holds it down that's how he gets down hooray hooray no way let's go he says he's playing garen now team mowing garen mordeca's that's gotta be summit

i i'm just a shooter i'm just a shooter guy i guess yeah you probably got no idea what's going on you know as fuck those that i've i mean it's been around for how long and i've seen it and i never can retain i played that Aram thing that I told you about Aram or whatever Aram with Aram with Eagle the icon

and Sam X-Jaws I think Holy fuck my brain just unlocked the memory We're the best That's the finding game one Yeah so what was that Hopefully Seth is uh... What game is there by? Can you go back? Ooh 2X KO today man

Looking forward to Seth's playing in this He's team Ludwig yeah Oh, I'm watching. Is it a riot fighting game? I don't know. Team Ludwig, how many championships does he have? I've never even heard of it. Just kidding.

God already good. It's got to be that kind of new. Adapt is in there too? How did that adapt to on the Call of Duty thing? Team Adapt, team. Team. Team peanut, man. Look at them go.

Look at Nate shots, team go. Oh. Dude, their team's so trolley. Peanut, Nate shot, Hutch, MF. Like, they have a trolley-ass team. They definitely, they're definitely going to win now. Yeah, for sure. Them winning cod, like, was just...

What are the last two? Oh, Counterstrike. What? Oh, yeah, actually, they're winning Counterstrike, too. Probably. They win in counterstrike. Wait, who's on their team? He owns a team.

Oh, Seth, I mean, Matt plays a lot, actually. He's been playing a lot. Because I don't think Summit's going to 1v5 with his team. And apparently that guy's level 10 face it, I don't actually know. Squeaks? Yeah, apparently. Double-lift, hutch, nade shot, Von, Von. Jake and Bake

Cool name What does he play? Everything I think Summit 1G legend Potthead This match tonight though I could be like D's I think there's a lot of people in this

Who like play fighting games Like obviously not like seriously But they like I'm pretty sure she's good Lily Pichu or something Apparently she's pretty good at street fighter Oh I'm gonna be tapped in though I'm definitely watching We'll see if Abner can make a comeback

That's what I'll be watching. Might be tough. Oh, you gotta do this 100 gifted if you do this and he'll do it. Oh, he'll, crazy. He's gonna pick one button tonight and just slam it. Guys, you can stay connected with the tournament by checking out AT&T.com slash Annihilator Cup. More details on the teams, giveaways, games.

The link will be in the description below. And of course, you've got to root for our boy. Yeah, good luck to the skumper jumper. Who's apparently sick? We're going to see how sick he is tonight on stream. I better I better I better see some No is there anything worse than when

I'm sitting next to him on the plane on the way back And he's just like Yo I think I'm getting sick And this is like before we even take off And I'm like dude I put my hoodie I put my hoodie over my nose

Which as a former fat does two things That's one of my go-toes Hikes of chin And what else? I have so many I have so many cheats and hacks You don't understand Pillow on the stuff

You don't understand. I'm a tenured vet. Dude, I'm on the heavier side. I know all the tricks. The shirt pole will be with me for the rest of my life. The what? The shirt pull? It'll never stop.

Oh, no, yeah. I mean, that's just comfort. This will never stop. That's just comfort, man. What's the next donk in the making? The next donk in the making. Is that the little kid I saw on Twitter? Yeah.

Oh, what the? The mouse is bigger than his hand. That was cute That was actually very cute Damn What the hell They'll never crouch spam Yeah

That's cute Pretty cute What the He was lucky slamming He was transferring right there Yeah I know That's cool That's pretty cool

He hit the Masters while riding a unicycle What's your excuse He hit Masters Not the Masters Oh Masters I thought he was golfing golfing.

Dude, what? Dude. God damn it. God fucking damn it. We've reached this point of streaming. Yes,

I was just gonna say that. Where this shit I can't compete with? Yes. And it's this type of stuff right here. What the fuck? Jesus fuck. It's crazyer me than like getting to kill with like the flutes or guitars. You know those people that do that?

Yeah, it's insane. I would get a hell are you doing this. How are you not motion sick? He has like such a good little flow too. like too forward, too backward, just so it probably feels like he's just chilling. He actually fell in the 700 hours at all. Don't look like it.

Because he's probably like on carpet, right? Or like on thin carpet? Probably decent exercise, right? He rode over 4,000 miles. You try not fall on your face for 700 hours. And I'll ride around 4,000 miles and I will reach, reach fucking Apex Legends. Dude, that is insane. That's pretty cool.

That's where we're at though Oh, that is good Like we went through all of the All of the never mind I was gonna go rogue But we're gonna move on Amazon's Alexa will produce AI generated podcast Featuring chats between two robots A.k.a co-hosts Amazon is linked

Has inked a deal with major news organizations To ensure accurate real-time news and information An example of a clip from Amazon email Alexa plus a narrator Says that more of 50% of the music listening Now comes from you on-sign artist The monoculture is just gone A female voice Alexa plus narrative jumps in the male Alexa plus.

Okay, let's see it. I just zone the fuck out. Do we have, yeah. Do we have a... I know there's AI music people listen to or some shit. I do. Lo-Fi, dude. There's AI music where I've like listened to like an AI Drake song and I'm like, this is fire.

It's like, dude, it's like... The one that mania keeps playing? Yeah. That one. That's funny. On my phone when you need me, baby. Smoke good, girl. Dude, you're actually fucked up.

What? We just acknowledge the range of what's come out this month. Over 50% of music consumption is now coming from unsigned artists. The monoculture is just gone. Completely gone and you've got stoner metal and indie pop and hip-hop. All dropping on the same Friday and all finding their audience. Is it supposed to sound like AI? Yeah.

I mean, every social media, every social media outlet like says what is or what is an AI generated. If you go to the Pine Park, the Pine Park, the Pine Park. Twitter and then look at the three things that Josefo just posted. He did that like all, well, he, all AI. See, I would. The guy sounded more. I don't judge them from doing. I don't judge them for doing this.

It's just the way the world's going, but I will judge you for listening to this. 100%. Okay, but let me ask you this. The news that they're talking about are real. What is the difference between two AI agents and some rando on the fucking TV giving you the news? Just, there's something about it. Yeah.

I love AI though. Yeah, I'm an ally, dude. I think it's more beneficial to humans than anything else that has ever been. I, for one, am an ally and thankful for AI is for AI and where it's going. Thank you. Oh, that was crazy. Shit. This is just a psycho.

Yeah, let's see him hit fucking Masters doing this. On one wheel. That was pretty nuts. Yeah, it was sick. Dude, that is, people are so cool. Yeah. Like, people are just cool. I went down like some weird rabbit hole recently.

It's like Japanese skateboarder that's like a pro now. Who? It's just some little kid. I forget his name. But he's like taking over the skateboarding scene. Like it's just like so like 15 year old. Yeah. Just dominating.

Long hair. Skinny dude? Yeah, yeah. It sounds like it's fucking sun jing woo. I don't know what the fuck. What it is. But it's like some cool ass name like some final ass anime. You see Wembe did the Aaron Yeager bite?

Like it did see that. That was so. hard. Yeah, it's Gene Wu. That was so hard. Oh, it actually is Gene Roe. Yeah. Okay, yeah. Watch Party Predictions Loser has to do this at Champs? When we were in Birmingham, I was watching like some skateboarding coach. Watch party loser? Really? Wait,

what you say? Was he there? Damon? I was, when we were in Birmingham at night, like it was on in the U.S., I guess. I was watching like a skateboard competition. It was like a tournament, like a match, like we do for God. It was crazy. How could you guys even do this? You have to go

sit and where Toronto and G2 were flying? That doesn't seem All you have to do is buy these seats At And listen, I'm a socks fan Okay, white socks fan At a white socks fan A game

Shit is fucking empty always How do you get all that shit in? That's what we should do Like the loser of the watch party prediction Do you ever see those videos Where it's like I have to spend 24 hours in a waffle house But

If I want waffle is one hour less And then there's beer too So people are eating chicken like 12 beers 12 waffles just destroyed just to get out can't think this was 13 years ago that I get the fuck out of there what was 10 was 13 years ago Riley what is this this one 13 years ago oh right I don't even know what that was Riley I think you're the only is up Denny's what is this that clip isn't it what the fuck is up Denny's I don't even remember what that was

Oh, I do remember that I do remember that, yeah So what's going on here, Riley? Oh, see, I'll judge you if you go to that too Does anyone judge if you like things? No Okay, that looks good Like some tater tots?

Apparently Burger King's making a resurgence That's just what the streets are saying And I might have to go test it out We gotta go to the Mexican Oh, I'm down, yeah. Bro, the Mexican has the best taco experience in, in, that I've had in, on a, on a, on a dish at any fancy Mexican restaurant. It's called the Mexican, yeah. They're a picture of me when you're walking.

Bro, they have the, bro, we have to go. Would you, would you, it's downtown, would you go? You'll like it. Yeah. You can't wear a hat, though. It's that kind of uppity-ass restaurant. I hate that's the only thing I hate. I'm scared you.

It's like, well, you, this is, oh, man. Yeah, it's very uppity, but bro, I could not believe my eyes. We're not getting this. We're literally just getting, go, go down to the tacos, and then there is, I mean, fuck, Riley, I'm not AI, dude, I can't read. Okay, hold on. Na' the governorador de black angus, Oaxaca cheese, no, it's the one, yeah, that one, filet and bone marrow. My goodness. I might go today, by myself.

The place in Toronto, Ketzel, they did like the shrimp and bone marrow taco? Mm-hmm. I don't know about shrimp. Dude, is it fat? He texted me about this place yesterday. Instantly, menu, looked at the drinks, looked at the... That's my shit. Yeah.

Where's what fat? Like, just, I look up menus in my spare time. Like, I'll be in bed and I'll, like, look at rest. That's... I guess when I say that's not... That right there, bro. Just mouth water? Yeah, that's a problem.

No wonder I can't sleep. Oh, man, it was so good. I was so surprised, bro. I was so surprised, bro. I was so surprised at how good this dish was. Surprised. You take that bone home and give it to a dog? You can, but it's not recommended.

Oh, okay. Oh, okay. But man, man, man, oh, man. All right, ladies and gentlemen, and that, the dessert, all the desserts were chronic. Ooh, we're going. Oh, shit. Coronic.

All right, so we got to take the cot team to dinner. They want to go back to catch, but we're going to go to Mr. Charles. No, the Charles next. They've been a catch too many times. It's all they want now. It's delicious.

It is good. Except for the fact that they removed the steak skewers and also the tuna tartar, which was excellent. No, but they're bringing the new menu soon. Another fat thing I know from L.A. and New York. They just revamped the menu and they're bringing it over to Dallas soon. They're just a couple months behind. Yeah. Either way, ladies and gentlemen, that is going to do it for this episode of the Optic Podcast.

I hope that you guys enjoyed it. If you guys did, please share it with a friend. And if you didn't like it, give it another shot the way the big timer would say it. And that's going to do it. We'll see you guys next week. Goodbye. Thank you guys.