OpTic Podcast - FORMAL MOVES IN WITH SCUMP? | OPTIC PODCAST

Episode Date: December 1, 2020

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Matt has, I've heard rumors that Matt wants to move in with me. I shut that shit down. I was like, what? He's like, So, four more was going to be moving in with you. Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode number two of the Optic podcast. Now, I know that you guys would like us to sit here for two to three hours talking shit, but we want.

We're going to keep it nice and concise for you guys to enjoy snackable podcast. And then maybe eventually at some point or another, we'll make it into something bigger. My co-host for today, we have Dylan on. boy. We have Will Big Timer and Scump Abner. Howdy. Seth, Scump Abner. So, Seth, how did you come up with your name Scump? I'm kidding.

I'm going to say we're going to do this again. No, we're not going to do it again. I actually wanted to talk to you guys about the meta. Obviously, you guys have started screaming just recently. You guys were saying that you got dumpster on by Fassay clan. Everyone we played yesterday. And Dallas, yeah. Dallas, too? Yeah. It wasn't a good time.

We were getting chokeslam. You know, it's it's very funny because the Undertaker just retired and Illy is an undertaker. I don't know. Is Coincinnik? I don't know. I don't know. You tell me. There's no coincidence. Tell me about the META.

Everybody's talking about the META. The META? The META. The Jig META. The Jig META. I don't think you watched this, but he used to work with me back in the mortgage days. Anyway, the meta. Is that you got a meta at this point in the game? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We played Faze. They were all using Craigs. We were all using AKs and

we just couldn't keep up. And it still be in a tweet. And now we're all using criggs. Yeah, now we're all using Craig. Oh, yeah. That's true. I mean, for us, it was day two. For them, it was like day seven.

Oh, yeah. So, like, I mean, clear imbalance there. We were getting bodied. And, man, like, the subs are not viable in this game. No. The AK-7-4 U is. Yeah. It actually is.

That's my favorite. On certain maps. People were running 3-4. Yeah, certain maps, it's like 3-3 and then one sub on each team. We played Minnesota. they were running four AKs on Moscow. We haven't played Minnesota yet. Who would we play?

Oh, New York. New York. New York. They were running four AKs on Moscow and I was mind-blum. Yeah. So, like, we were playing everywhere. We were playing other teams. They were using AKs.

Then we played Faze and they were all using the Krags. We were like, is the Craig better? Because, like, we were just getting smoked. The AK feels like it has ghost bullets. I don't know. It's all over the place. Okay. Now, we thought the MP5 was good.

Then we were like, the MP5 is not good. Everyone's using an AK-74, we're used and shit. Obviously with the meta being the way that it is, right now it's the stance, there's three ARs and one sub, right? Yeah, on some maps. Other maps are two and two.

Two and two. I mean, is that not the prefer meta? I mean, I'd like to use a sub. Is it true that Traiark banned Semtex? It was originally in there, but people are using it. It's not O.P. Like, I don't know why it was originally.

I don't know, yeah, I don't know why it's banned. All the pro teams are using, Flackjack. If you have Flagjacket on, you can eat like four, five nades. If you don't get shot, you can eat literally felt like five nades. Is there anything that's G8 so far? Is it pretty much

long as it's in the rules, everybody's using it? Are there? No, there isn't. Because it's we're not allowed to G.A. stuff. We just play the game the way the game's supposed to be played. I like that. We are, we are in Chicago, Illinois too, filming this podcast. So, Dill, obviously you being the only sub, Seth being the second one, but he's using the AK.

Does that put a lot of pressure on you? Obviously, year two of your of your like superstardom career uh i don't know i feel like the subs are just harder in this the sub's just harder in this game um but like like we switched to the AK 74 you and it's a lot easier we're using that mp5 and it was just impossible like impossible so like not using it work with the 74 you but i wish i had a r mp5 stinks does it okay it was so good too and then they made changes to it and then ever since then it hasn't been like viable at all it sounds like a black ops one situation where everybody's running like eight FAMOS. Yeah.

Maybe like one seventy four you on the team. It could turn into that. That's like that's what it's looking like. It's like part of map design too. Just how like how many headies, how many open lanes there are like where the hills are at. It's like really hard to break. So if you have four ARs like it's unbreakable. Okay.

Well, I need you to send me a picture of your setup for your AK70 for you because it's up today. That's what I'm staging over to. You've obviously been playing out of a new room. So that has, has that affected you at all? Like your new stream room? Yeah, my hands get a little sweatier in there. Sorry, my freaking allergies.

My hands get a little sweatier, so I'm trying to adjust to that. But, I mean, just playing, it doesn't affect me, but my hands get sweatier. I can't take my... Your hands get sweaty. Yeah, I don't know why. Really? Is it maybe the position that you're sitting in? Obviously, you're sitting in a new and improved...

Less ventilation? Less ventilation? What do you think it is? I don't know. I don't know what it could be, but... I mean, I just have to reapply a gamer grip, you know, a couple times. Overall, are you liking your... stream room? Oh yeah, it's way better to stream up. What are you missing? I mean, aside from the

artwork, like, what else would you like to have in there that that you think, like, would help? Panels, maybe a TV. Just that? I mean, would you be watching stuff from in there? Like, I would imagine not, right? I mean, like, imagine I want to stream on Sunday and I can't watch football, but I can throw the football game up in the background, you know? Yeah. So if I'm ever, like, there's a moment where I can just relax for a little bit, watch the game for a little bit. What took you so long to get like a decent streamer setup? I mean, I thought I had a good set. I mean, I thought I had a good that up before. You did. I mean, obviously from a technology standpoint, you

did, but like, you know, the aesthetics of it weren't necessarily there. Yeah, I mean, it, you don't need... Your tripod was four boxes for your cam. Who cares? You're just a dude. Just a dude. That's what you do. I went in the Rambo's apartment a couple weeks

ago, and, like, his TVs were, like, on some like, Tupperware, like, cardboard. Yeah, gamers just don't care. Yeah, gamers don't give a damn. I will, look, play the game and... As long as it works. You put on... I was My stream was still good quality. The background wasn't... As long as it looks good behind the camera.

Not behind the desk. It's fun. You know, that's... Yeah. Yeah, as long as it looks good behind the camera. I mean, we don't care. I saw a meme today where there was a picture of some dude's living room, and it was one TV and one lawn chair in front of it with a controller, and the girl essentially took a picture of and said, men think that living like this is all right.

I've seen that. Right? But then right underneath. it was a guy, it says women hate how little it takes to make us happy, which goes to say, like, my stream room wouldn't be what it is if it wasn't for Jews. I'm a simple man. Yeah, same. Like, thinking about it, like, if you think, I mean, look at this, look at this, it's bare bones,

right? It's like kitchen tables, this is a kitchen table, a couple of microphones, and that's that. I mean, there's multi-million dollar facilities out there, tens of millions that are being spent on, like, you know, flashy shit and shit. Like, would I like to have it? Yeah, I would, but, man, like, work is work. Is it needed, though? As long as the story's good, the content is good. Well, also, this isn't like the final, you know, place of staying for me.

I mean, I'm probably going to end up moving houses eventually. Like, I'm going to live here for a little bit, obviously, like, you know, the foreseeable future. But, you know, this isn't going to be my end home. So, like, why try to pimpe it out like an end home and then just have to pack everything up and move it? I don't think that's how it works. But, like, that works for me because I'm in an apartment. You're kind of like, you have a whole lot of house. established house, but I know it's not going to be my final house.

If you're going to be there for like five years, though, you probably want to. See, I don't even know if I'm going to be there for five years. Who knows where is it? Who knows? That's the thing. We might have to go to Chicago. You never know where the win might take us. So why try to pimp everything out?

And then a year later we get some news like, oh, we're about to move. And then it's like, now it's a hassle to take everything down and redo. I don't think that's how it works. Or it would work. That's how I think. If you really change a lot, too, it could be like a tough resale. Like if you got some crazy. painted room. I guess you could always repaint it.

Trying to trick it out too much and then sell it back to like some 50 year old that doesn't play games. Yeah, like my game room is navy blue, the office room. Like I'm going to have to repaint that. Yeah, of course. Anyway, speaking of moving, we have dashy moving and formal moving. By January 1st. Yeah, man.

Well, I mean, I'll probably give them like the first week of January. No, January 1st. I'm not going to make them move during Christmas and New Year's, dude. What, do you think that's fair? No, that's not fair. Fair. A week after. What's Matt doing for New Year's? Partying probably.

Certainly not playing war zone. He's not partied. Bruce might be partying. Matt's not partied. No, you think he's beyond that? You think his age has gotten up to a place where he's like being, just content playing video games, drawing. Stay in his room, game, watch weird movies. You know what I was thinking?

Watch animal play it. Yesterday I was, I sat down to draw and I'm like, man, this does make me happy. Like, I don't need a lot. all the stuff. Then I get out here into the real world and I'm like, no, yeah, I do.

Also, it's kind of, nowadays it's kind of, it's almost like taboo to go out and party and stuff. Yeah, well, that too. There is rumors. Well, it's not a rumor. We posted a thing

of me falling on, and riding my bike and super hex quarters downstairs. It's an open space, right? It's like, it hasn't been inhabited. Like, no tenants have moved in there

for the last three years that I've been here. And that was the first place that I looked at to get as the hex quarters. And the reason that I didn't go in, there was because it's like this massive massive place that I would have to pay

to put drywall, like ceiling and all that stuff. But now the owners of the buildings are like, yo, we'll do all that if you move your hex quarters down here. And then we have Gugan which is obviously growing so big that now they want to expand and this place would be perfect because they're on the other side

and this was that. So we might have a super hex hook super optic hex quarters. That'd be sick. Very soon here. So we'd have this end downstairs? No, just downstairs. No, Gugan would take over this. make offices in here and then we would go down.

First floor is bigger than this area? Oh, I've got a bigger, yeah. I've kind of, I've grown way too accustomed to like coming up here, though. Loving it. You know the tricks.

Taking the freight. Not me. I'm sick of the freight, I need a key or something. I'm tired of texting the freight. I hate the freight. Sometimes I'm sitting there 15 minutes like. No,

well, you have the, you have a fob and everything. No, I don't. I used to. What happened to it? Bruce lost it. So somebody can get in here. Huh?

Somebody can, no, no, they can't because they have two. No, Bruce lost my house. Maddie will get you a new one. Maddie will get Big Timor a new one and Embos a new one. Bruce lost my fob and my house key. That's why Jude had to get me, she made me those buzz house keys because Bruce lost my house keys. I was like, don't lose these because he was late to the airport. I was like, don't forget these.

And it was him and Teage. And they lost them. I don't know where they're at. Yeah, well, we're going to have a little bit more of that. Where do you think the apartments where you're at are suitable for them? to live. Matt and Brandon? Yeah.

I think Brandon will like it. I don't know about Matt. Matt's all the way up there in Cali. Matt, Matt, Matt, I've heard rumors that Matt wants to move in with me. I shut that shit down. I was like, what? So, four more's going to be moving in with you. No, he's like, let me live in the casseed.

I'm like, absolutely not. That actually wouldn't be a bad idea. What do you mean? He's not on your front door. You'll never see him. If anything, your security cameras and you have way too many in my opinion? What if he wants to come in and get a snack? That's what I mean.

Like, you're going to see him walking in there. He's going to have his tank top, his pajamas is going to be in there. All you got to see is like, like a zini. We're not going to be able to set the alarm. Buzz is going to freak the fuck out if he ever walks in the house. Like, it just can't happen. It's not, it's not logistically possible. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So the Eastport Awards just happened. Wasn't nominated? You were nominated? Wasn't. Was it? Were you nominated? No. You weren't either?

No. You know what it is? We had to win one less. Is that the same thing that happened with the same thing that happened with the video Game Awards is happening, I think, with the ESports Awards. The reason that we were never brought back to the video game awards is because we had such an overwhelming voting support from the Green Wallis, shout out to them, that they're like, every single time they're going to be in there, they're just going to win it.

Which is why ESports Awards move to a panel in which panelists like sort of rate the thing. The eavesdrop podcast won an ESPorts series of the year, so congratulations. Thank you, thank you. It feels weird to win an award for something that you love doing. But I will say this. And shout out to Carlos over at G2. I think they're great. They're doing a good job, like all that.

But if you think about their championships versus Energy's championships this year, like, it's, you can't even compare it, right? Like, we had back-to-back wins for the shock. Did G2 win, like, org of the year? Yeah, they won't org of the year. Okay. But if you're looking at organizations, like Energy, obviously has the Huntsman Optic Chicago. It's got the shock.

It's got Rocket League. Yeah, yeah. I mean, like, we won a bunch. So I think I'm going to have to. recount, hold the boat, hashtag, hold the count.

Yeah, hold the count. There you go. That's not something that's happening. Anyway, either way, like I just wanted to throw it out there. We won in the hearts of everybody

that, the panel, that, it's League of Legends. I get it. If you guys want me to get a legal Legends team, we get it,

we hear you. Maybe that's what it'll take to do that. That's actually a League of Legends t-shirt that you're wearing. This is? Yeah. They made that

when the Legal Legends team was created for Infinite. Wow. Yeah, yeah. I didn't know that. You know you're crazy. signed Dylan up. It's all he plays. I'm not good.

But you do play league. I play league. I watch too. I'm not good. And you watch it. Yeah, I watch. Yeah. I don't watch or play it, but I like it from a business perspective. I think it's a cool e-sport. I see the potential of possibilities. Obviously now being branded the Optic Chicago team, there is a lot of questions as to what we're doing with the Huntsman name. What do you think we should do with Huntsman? I mean, you kind of got to retire it, right? It's like, it's like anything. thing. If a professional football team moves

cities, like the Las Vegas Raiders now, you know, it's no longer the Oakland Raiders. So it's The Washington football team. Washington football team? Yeah, it's a different situation. Wow, what was the situation there? I mean, they were called the Redskins. Yeah. Yeah. It was viewed as you know. So, yeah, I mean, it's kind of like one of those scenarios where you just kind of have to move on. It got rebranded and

it's a piece of history. And I've always said, I don't don't, when people are like, what are you going to do with, what am I going to do with these hoodies and stuff? I'm like, that's dope. That was a one year, like, spin off of. It's not like it's worthless now that it's gone. It's probably with more. Yeah. It's worth more. The founder's hoodies, like, yeah, those are fine. I'm still going to wear those. Like, I was planning on, like, I'm thinking as to what our ceremony is going to look like if there's some ceremony soon or everything lifts. I'm thinking, I'm like, I'm definitely wearing that, like day one and then day two, day three, like I'll wear something different.

Like the stuff that they gave me, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, sculpture that I was given, like that's always going to stay there. That's sick. You know what I mean? Like, it was, it meant so much to me or to us, like, during that year that I've never saw it as like a bad thing. And it's not like we're changing it to just any other, you know, team name out there. We're literally changing it to optic, which is what, you know, the thing was.

The only thing that I would change it for was the, the optic name and that's exactly what we did. So I was thinking, I'm like, all right, so what if we, like, do like, very limited edition drops throughout the year of, like, jerseys that would have been, I mean, obviously I have to make sure that I call. until them to start making jerseys, I guess. But I'm thinking, like, what sort of cool jerseys we can, like, Huntsman throwback jerseys that we could do.

Because all my friends and me, like, growing up, we always bought, like, the old school, super old school Bears jerseys because we thought it was super cool. That Black Hawk jersey is super cool. So I figured if we do something like that where we do like a limited edition, you know, like Huntsman X optic thing collab or something, like I think that that would be super, super cool, in my opinion. It's a piece of history.

It's, yeah, like, yeah. We had the, the, the, Dark Ages when you left for two weeks. And then that was like the blackout age. Are we ever going to get over that? I don't think it's funny. That was like a decade ago. It's part of history.

Let me live, man. And he came running back. I still get tweets like, you're going to go with Denby? I'm like, what? No, they don't, right? Oh, no, I still get them all the time. Like, you're going to leave again? I'm like, what?

I left for a week. Yeah, I don't know. No one's asked me if I'm going to sell optic against it. That was when I was. how old was I when I did that? 18. Were you 18? You were a young whippersnapper.

You didn't know what so. I was probably 18. I'm 25 and a half now. It was seven and a half years ago. People change. Oh, I still get it. I still get it. Sometimes.

It doesn't happen often. But I think it's funny. It's like there's no way. You were determined to shoveling snow at the driveway. Oh, I was breaking ice. As soon as we got home. So I got, my moccasins, my feet were frostbitten the first, like, hour? I have an idea for if and

when as soon as this all changes and goes back to normal, I have an idea to have a tour for our event, like super, the way I have to have VIP and then we're going to have like super exclusive VIP options where I will give people a tour of the optic house in, since it's in Illinois, it'll be like they'll have to fly in like on Thursday. You know what I mean? I don't know. Still thinking about it. What do you think?

I don't know how that would work with the current residence of the. Yeah, that's what I mean. If we have a current residence of the. Are there any current residents? I think there are. Hey, we used to live here, and now we, our e-sports team, can we come back and, like... They bought Super VIP tickets. Yeah, but this is a thing, though.

If I go to that, like... They spend good money on these. They live in suburban Northwest, Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Yeah. They live in a very nice, modest house. If I come in there and be like, hey, I'll pay three months of your mortgage if you let us use it for one day to give people a Oh, they'd be jumping down. Yeah, they would do that.

See, it'd be good. People get to take pictures. We'll put like standups of like when you guys first moved in, that picture of you, you, Nate and Merck where you guys like this in the middle. At the stairs? Yeah. Like, no, no, that's the, well, yeah, something like that. I don't know.

Let us know if you guys think that that's a good idea and it's something that you guys be interested in. But that's going to do it for this. I mean, you got to do McAlpin too, though. Macalpin's got to be easier because that house is like $1.6 million or something. Is it really? So, yeah, so it's not for sale. Or it's for sale right now, but no one lives there.

That one will be easier to do. 1.6 million for big ass spiders in the basement. They happened once. Huge. They happened once. No, what? Me and that were like, yo, you got to kill it. You weren't there.

You weren't there. I'm like, I can't do it. I was like 12. Were you? I mean, like 14 or something. How old are you now? 20? 21 in January.

Oh, yeah. No, you were a young whipersnapper. So one thing, give me one thing you remember from 1, 2, 3, 5, McAlpin that you didn't. like from 1235. I'll tell you I know exactly what I'm going to say already. That I did not like. I mean you did have the biggest room. Yeah there wasn't a lot to

not like. He had the luxury suite. I was in the theater room. In the basement. I didn't like the driveway in the winter. Like we got stuck on that a couple of times. That's when you leaked the address. Good one. Yeah. Good job. You? That I lived in the basement.

I was a cave dweller. That was awesome. Somebody would come in, Seth. You threw me down in the basement with big ass, imagine how many of them spiders crawled on me? In the theater? How many think you've eaten in your life? I mean, I know the stat. It's a lot, but, bro, I was in the theater. You said eaten?

Yeah, you eat. And the theater didn't even work. You never heard that? The theater didn't even work down there. It would have been cool if the theater worked. I actually got a bed. I was on a mattress on the ground. We were struggling. Well, let's be clear. You've never been struggling, so I don't know why you didn't buy yourself like the best of the best. What I didn't

like is that that toilet downstairs just kept on getting clogged so much that it started to flood the room next to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I forgot about that. And I know exactly... Where the water here was. It wasn't me. No, I know it was.

We had workers in there one time. One of them had to take a shit. Obviously, there was no toilet paper in that room because these guys never thought about bringing toilet paper in there. This guy used the hand towel to wipe his ass. No. Flushed it. It went all the way through the piping into the other one and it burst

the pipes. That's what happened. I think your mom was visiting or something because it happened. Desperation sets in, bro. I mean, yeah. Yeah, I would too, bro. There's literally a shower. There's a shower right there.

Yeah, my sock would have been the first thing to go. No bullshit. Then I would have had athlete's foot on my butt. Never mind. We're going to end the podcast right there. Thank you so much for tuning in. If you guys enjoyed it and you guys are, leave a comment down below. Welcome back the Optic podcast.

Episode number two in the books. we'll keep a short of consent. Like actually, actually, actually. We're actually, actually back weekly, weekly, weekly. You hype? Like Optic Gaming is back. Optic gaming is back, man. How does that feel?

That's dope. That's so dope. Oh, man. I saw your tattoo the other day and I'm like, I did it for that tattoos, man. You know what I mean? I saw some dude just like tweeted at me recently up fresh. What about the? What about the Huntsman?

What's a lot? I've seen a couple people with some big ass fucking. Well, I'll tell you what. One dude should be mad at the tattoo artist. did that atrociousness to him. I'm, I'm paying. I'll tell you what. You're taking shots.

If you can prove privately, obviously, I will pay for your tattoo, for a new Hansman tattoo. I don't know about the cleanup down there, but I am. And me and that doing, I'm going to get a Hansman tattoo. What do you mean down there? I think he had on his shin on his leg. So I don't know. Either way, we appreciate you guys watching.

We'll see you guys next time. Leave a like. Please. Hallam.