OpTic Podcast - HECZ GOES OFF ON ACTIVISION (CAMOS ARE AN INSULT) | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 65

Episode Date: March 2, 2022

This week we have HECZ, Formal, MaNiaC, and Rambo on The OpTic Podcast to discuss the upcoming Call of Duty Major!  Go to http://purple.com/optic and use Code optic to get 10% off any order of $200 or more! Go to http://keeps.com/optic to receive your first month of treatment for free! Go to http://masterclass.com/optic to get 15% off! Check out the OpTic Podcast here:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/optic-podcast/id1542810047 https://open.spotify.com/show/25iPKftrl0akOZKqS0wHQG THE BIGGEST CHANGE TO CALL OF DUTY EVER | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 65 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yo, how do you determine and pick what hair color you're going to have? Why's that so funny? I don't know. I don't know. I walk in and I see what colors they have. And usually there's not. I think because we live in white, boring-ass frisco, they don't have like any cool shit.

You can't say that. Why not? No, you can. I'm white. Aren't you mixed? My ex's friend thought I was. Oh, that counts. She was just trying to slay.

She wasn't. Well, I think we were like going to bad bunny concerts and shit. So they were like, wait, is he? you like mixed with something? I'm like, I might. I'm not probably. My ancestry.com hasn't come in. Yeah, yeah. I'm still waiting on the results. But if you were to guess, like, what do you think you're mixed with? Yeah. What do you think you're mixed with? Some kind of Latin. Yeah. Probably Mexican. Oh, my man. If I could choose. Yeah. You don't get to choose that last I do. What was your nationality? I mean, I honestly don't know. Have you ever, uh, has,

done the Ancestry.com? Have you? I got the 23 and me? Yeah. But I bought it and never did it. Jude did 23 and me for the- That's how lazy I. Jude did 23 and me for the dogs.

Really? For every, not only just, not only just our dogs, scum's dog, like any dog that came in there, she did an, like a, like that and, what does it say? Like where the dogs are from?

Yeah, they're like, you're not a pure golden doodle. Well, I'm going to send Buba her way down. Yeah, do it. She's got, I bet you she's got kits everywhere. Yeah. You know, that's, that's, that's where it's at. The first major is happening this weekend. We're all going to be there.

Are you coming? I'm going on Sunday. Sunday? Hopefully they're still in it. If I'm trying to, listen, we're not going to talk about it. I'm trying to see them win. Yeah, yeah. That's good.

All right, cool. Every day. That's good. If you want to come a day earlier or whatever, let me know. I'll get you a hotel room over there. But I know that you're true. Are you going? When are you going?

probably Saturday Saturday That's when I'm getting a haircut Uh I was, I'm going Sunday with me No you gotta go

It depends Saturday night's gotta be popping Yeah fine He's on Saturday I'm on Sunday He doesn't know what to do Saturday and that's gonna be

Popping I'm not going to watch The cod match What are you going to do Probably be around the bar And just Then you want to do that on Sunday Why not both

Yeah Why not both I guess I guess that's a good point Yeah All right So Meet someone Saturday

No, next stop. That's usually how it happens. How's practice been looking? I think we're in a good place right now. Yeah. Don't have the easiest bracket. We got to play Seattle first who's been maybe a little slumping in the last couple match,

but still definitely a good roster this year. If we win now, we most likely have to play phase since they're playing Boston. But I mean, realistically, you got to beat anyone to win these tournaments these days. Now we're excited. I think Search is really, where we're at right now that's probably your best mode which to me is the most important thing anyways

going to a major especially with this game respawns a little more fluky sometimes depending on a maps you play so yeah um yeah i mean i'm excited for it i think from what have you have you watched any competitive matches from call duty what do you think you miss it no it's that this wouldn't be your game i mean you turn up obviously but yeah i can use the automaton yeah like it looks pretty easy to use yeah it's not that theme but i don't know overall the game just looks like there's like, it's just chaos. It is, it is controlled chaos. But, yeah, sometimes it's hard to control for sure, especially on Bacaj.

Yeah. But no, I think, I think we're in a good spot. I'm excited for it. I think we've come a long way since the kickoff. When do we start? Thursday. Thursday. Thursday night.

All the winners bracket matches on Thursday. The losers of the matches play Friday. The winners don't play until Saturday. I don't know how I feel about that. Yeah, they're doing that again? So you get a break if you win a match? Yeah, basically. So like all the win, like first eight seed play like first one versus eight.

two for seven so on so forth play on Thursday and then they separate last year they did where the losers play each other in the first round now they admitted to where all the losers of the first round of winners play the losers separately so winning your first match is actually huge in terms of points because now you get you basically get almost like 20 extra points winning your first match guaranteed right and just going potentially going to and out so like face four five and no in their pool play if they lose their first match and lose the second match for whatever reason they basically get nothing for the major so yeah damn and who are they playing first boston how do you play boston for that listen i'm gonna be the first to say i think zinnie's

gonna turn out i think i think boston is like we've talked about it before there's no pushovers in the league this year no i think paris going through roster changes new york going through rossar changes but besides that like every team in my opinion can beat any team yeah 100% it only keeps getting more and more competitive and the more that these little young up-and-comers thirsty right like these guys haven't been getting paid they're 25 000 a month, 35,000. These people are just coming in hungry. Like, yeah, let me get up in here against these old motherfuckers.

Let me get the minimum. Get the fucking minimum. Yeah, let me get the minimum. Let me show you why. It's not about the money to them. Yeah, no. It's about. What do I sign?

I don't give a fuck. Yeah. Pay me. Pay me in Cotskins. Pay me. Whatever. Actually, you know what? Don't pay me in Cotskins as long as I'm not the CDL ones.

Oh my God. What? You can't tell me. You can't tell me that you're happy about it. I'm happy we have something. which I mean honestly is probably like the wrong way to look at it. Yeah. Like for sure.

I'm not as well. I am insulted. I think the player skins are not bad. I think the gun skins are just like, I mean, I was in the death cycle and I can tell you that minimum effort is put into something like that. I know. I know that somebody out there said, you know what? Take as min. Just create one little fucking topographic little acid trip and then put different colors on it.

And that's what it's going to be. This is my thing, though. If Activision gave us the template, right? Right? To do that, not are we uploading work from them and us essentially doing all of the work that they're supposed to be doing, but we're doing them a favor in saying, let us take over that, make it a competition, because it becomes an immediate competition. And I get it. You want to have everything uniform and you want to have this and that. I get it. But if you give each team a template and a instruction says how they like it so they can skin it, I bet you every single one of those teams is going to have like so much like ours are going to be the dopest ones.

I think there's, yeah. From an implementation standpoint, I think there's more to it. I could be wrong here. You're wrong. But I know for a fact, like, when you say things like, just make a skin, slap it on the gun, we're done. It ain't. It never, it's never that. No, I get it.

But I literally just went through this process with Halo. Right. No, I mean, okay. The system in Halo might be built to custom to that a little more. You know what? You're right. Halo's not tripled eight. No, Ray just works.

No, Ray, you're right. You're still on the three four three is a triple A. We've got friends that are there. Yeah, once you're in, you're in. Yeah, once you're in, you're in. It's like, it's like an optic, right? Like, you know, you're out there. Can't get out.

You know, it's, I just wish. That's not entirely true. Look, I was playing against you guys for a bit there. Yeah, that's fine. Cool. It's all part of the plan. It's all part of the plan. Yeah.

At the end of the day, look, all roads lead to optic at the end of all this. And I agree, it's, it's super blamed. It's not really the camera road to go. The gunskins are just, they're just aides. well there are roads but it's dirt roads I just I just wish that they look if they're not going to try let us try you know what I mean like let let's let's

offload look if you have if you have five graphic designers I know that there's more right if you have five dudes that are implementing this thing and they're busy doing the Marvel they're busy doing the Star Wars or whatever collaboration they're making next let us do it and don't give us a piece of shit and and the thing is this everybody listening out there okay and I'm I know that a lot of you listen to this podcast. I see the numbers, God damn. I'm not bragging.

Thank you. Thank you for buying the skins because you're not necessarily buying them because they're cool. You're buying them because you're supporting a bigger picture and a bigger purpose. Because Activision 100% looks at the numbers and compares them to how much did this, what was the other one with the skin, with the muscles and shit? The Titan. They compare it to that and they're like, well, you know, call a duty skin didn't really fucking sell that much. No shit. You gave us a fucking acid trip, throw up right onto the skin.

Like give us an opportunity to be creative. Give us an opportunity to compete. Give us an opportunity to give it our best effort for our fans. Wait, wasn't Blackups 4? Was it Black Ups 4 or Black Ups 3 that had the cool skins? No, no, we never had cool skins. Isn't it a little crazy that teams don't get to make their own skins? Yeah.

Yes and no. What do you mean? Like what other league or whatever the league makes the skins and stuff. Like, is there any other league? I feel like, I mean, CSF? Valor does? Valor makes gross skins, bro.

No, but for teams? They're not team skins because they're not team skins. Like, their normal skins are bought by all the pros. They have team skins, right? No. Oh, Valeron doesn't. No, I feel like CS, CS has cool team skins.

Well, they have all the stickers and stuff. But I don't think the teams make those. I'm assuming the devs make those. I think Val makes it. Yeah. Dude, 1.1 million concurrent viewers. The fifth highest ever for IEM Kadavita.

Shout out to Facebook. clan for winning that. It makes me miss it. And for anyone that's wondering, and I saw some article that we were picking up a team, we're not picking up anyone, okay? And if we were, we wouldn't tell you. And if we were, it wouldn't fucking leak. Yeah. Most shots he's involved. No. There's so many leaks recently. Yeah, of what though? Like, since I got optic back there, there's been no leaks. The Razor, the Razor announcement. The Razor announcement. I thought he's like none to leak shit. Yeah, but, you know, that's, that, that was like just a mistake. You know what I mean?

So doesn't count. Like, like, I think, I think that, um, the, the, the Ballerent leak was, was, uh, like, like, a bad one. Oh, yeah. Right. Uh, but, but, but it's happened before, right? Like, it literally has happened before. But again, it, it wasn't a big deal internally, uh, but like, it can, it can be helped, right? Like, it's something that we did.

We allowed that to go. But I, I, I think that if we ever decide to, look, I, I love Counterstrike, right? that's no, that everybody knows that. Who doesn't love it, right, obviously. But it would have to be like not only the right time, but it would have to be, it would have to make sense. But, you know, Strow and I were talking about it and we're like, oh, look, if the time's right and it looks good, maybe.

But we have no immediate plans to do something like that. And you could take that to the bank. That event was pretty dope, by the way. Dude, I watched it, man. I couldn't, like, so many stories. storylines and it happens because Kerrigan has been around for so long, right? Nico has been around for so long. It was one of those things that it happens because it's got a storyline that spans over decades and decades.

Did you guys watch it? I did not. You did not? Wait, what team is that Munzi guy on? Monisee on G2. He's on G2? Yeah. That's gross.

Yeah. Is it Monise or Monzi? I think it's Monzy. I don't know. Either way. Is Mone or Ballarat? I mean, I hope it's monosy. It sounds dope.

Yeah, Counterstrike. It's a gross one of the three. Yeah. Saw that? Yeah, I did. I was watching. I was at the garage painting some walls and watching the major. It was pretty cool.

That show is sick. Yeah. It's like, you know, it's like, I don't know. That probably meant a lot that kid. Yeah. Like he was like, I can do it type shit. One thing that's crazy about CS is the age. Like, some of these guys are around forever.

They're literally like, yeah. Oh, they're mid-30s. You're not going to. Hope. Bro. There's still hope. I mean, I feel like for PC's been a thing

for all, even like StarCraft is a game that requires to be hell of crack. But there's like, when I watch, at least when it was in this heyday, like a ton of pros

are like in their late 20s or late 30s playing against these 18-year-olds. Like, why is there such a paradigm in Cod or Halo about old guys? Fortnite. Fortnite's just a bunch of young people, right?

Young crack people, yeah. I don't even know if they still have tournament? They do. Don't they? But they ran me off the game. Yeah They ran your pockets, kid

I don't Look Correct me from wrong But do they not play the same maps over and over again For the last 20 years in Connors Right Yes Yes and no They like mess them a little bit

Yeah they mess with They update sure whatever But like the quality of it Like it's becoming a little bit Like I like watching it Because I know the maps I know the strats Like in every single time

It's never the same game For people who constantly talk about building new maps because it's fresh basketball is played in the same format every single time and it's been going on for fucking decades it's all about what happens in the game and the game is always different and c s do you think if they like took the year 2000 year 2005 year 2010 and like kind of had like an overview of what their strats are it'd be completely different or is like kind of the same that'd be interesting to see what what you get what you run into though is opportunities to be like,

yo, this team is perfect for us to run that play that fucking Navi ran fucking five years ago. They probably break down so much. They break down so much. But the smokes, like the strategy. It's a beautiful game.

It's the most beautiful game. And I love, and I love Culladoot is my shit. I got a gun tattoo from, I mean, I guess this is in Final Strike, too, right? Yeah. I think that I'm going to go ahead and say,

and I'm being biased here. I think e-sports that have snipers in them is worse. For sure. 100%. You're at 3, 4, 3. We had to fight this year to keep the sniper in and cod.

Pro just wanted everything just always G-A'd for annoying. Yeah, pros should not, pros should definitely have a say in some stuff, but the second that they say, this isn't fun for the viewers to watch, they should shut out. They're saying, though.

Huh? What are they saying? They're saying their team's bad with it. Yeah. Oh, I know. That's what I'm saying. Our team's not thinking of this. It's just GA.

For the most part, that's the, were you ever part of any of those GA talks? No. You ran out of the, I purposely said don't am into those chats. Yeah. Because, like, I would just troll. Yeah.

I would just be like, dude, you're garbage. Like, you're in last. You're talking about Ging and attachment. I'm like, it's not going to save you. Yeah. I promise that the attachment doesn't save your career. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like, what?

Speaking of which. Matt, can you switch out my monitors and cables? Maybe a new controller. It's not the machine. Yeah, it's the machine. It's got to be something, right? Yeah, it's not you. I can tell you that.

I've been having the worst days lately. Yeah? Fucking so bad. Do you play with people or are you just solo queuing? Sometimes I play with Ace. That could be the reason. Yo, is my man Ace serious? Like, I sometimes feel like, in talking to Ace,

Is he serious? Yeah, like, when I talk to Ace is like the most regular dude ever, right? Yeah, it's just boom. But when he gets on Twitter, I'm just like, are you, what do you say lately? He's like, Starbucks is fucking up by not selling smoothies. Like fruit smoothies. Your response, that was funny as fun. Yeah.

Like, could be because it's a coffee shop. Someone else responded, like, that's like saying, why doesn't McDonald start selling hot dogs? Pizza, like, started listing other shit. Yeah. Yeah. Need to check out. Look, the fact that they added fucking breakfast sandwiches, like, that's just, you know, like, thank you for that, right? Like, some parface.

It's not just a coffee place, right? If you want a breakfast sandwich, egg, and cheese, they got it. Right? A smoothie? A smoothie, you're going to go somewhere else. You're going to go salubrious. To a smoothie caning or something. Yeah.

Jamba juice. Jamba juice, yeah, it's salubrious is where I go because I'm healthy. Imagine if Jambuji started selling coffee, it'd be so weird. Yo, where were you going this morning when I ran into you? To work out. I lost the keys to my car, so I just walk there now. And then you run back? No, I walk.

Yeah? While I walk there, walk back. You lost the keys to your car. He lost your car. It's not important. I don't know, man. I lost my fob. I lost everything on my key.

Lost my storage key. Where? Bob here. Bob for my apartment. I don't know where. Obviously, you don't know where you lost. It could either be at Hilton's house, the Uber to the bar, the Uber from the bar to the club, could be at the club, could be at the Uber out leaving the club. Could be.

That dude is the soul off when you might have took it. He might have took it. They're gone. They're gone. Huh? So they're gone. You deserve this. The problem is that now you have to call Lexus.

Lexus has to come and scan your VIN. Well, they're making me toe, Michael. car there. Good. Well, you have to pay for you. You need to learn something. Yeah, for your irresponsibility. Yes, man.

You live life too recklessly. Let me ask you this. You live life by your case. Why did you take your keys on an Uber on a night out? I don't know, man. By that time, I'm like unconscious. I don't even know where I'm at. Yeah.

Well, that's a good excuse, I guess. Call of Duty is changing the annual release. This is something that you can talk on. I mean, from an internal standpoint. I think this is a good thing. I think it's good as well. I think it's a good thing. I also think that it's a double-edged sword for the developer

because in two years they come up with something. Who's the next one up? I'm pretty sure. Tradar. No, Modern 2. is up next this year at the end of this year. Yeah. They're going to be, they're going to be out for two years.

So it's great if they come out with something good. So in 2022, there'll be a release and the next one will be 2024. So 23 does not have one. Okay, which sucks because it would have been a perfect time for them to license Michael Jordan for Michael Jordan to be in the game. Okay. Excuse you? Sure.

Yeah. Anyway, I think, again, double SOR because if in two years is, I think it lands on Treyark, right? Yeah. Because it's Modern Warfare's Infinity Ward. I'm confident that the trail can do something. The thing is, though, if they don't. Well, it's Monten Warfare. It's first, like the first two-year gap is a Mono Airfare game.

So modern, I think it's called Modern 2 if I read it, right? Yeah. Yeah, so we're going to play Modern 2 for two years. Yeah, two years, correct. So if it's not good, then not good. If it's good and they can release content. Sometimes good, maybe shit. I don't see like, it may be good.

Like, to me, it's not, I don't think it's a bad thing. I think as long as we get like a good content, like wipe, like re-do at the end of the first year, like new maps, maybe a couple new guns, like change the facts of what we're playing a little bit to keep things fresh. Or if the base of the game is just so good, we can just keep playing for two years. We did it for Cod 4. I mean, granted, this is people were super young and unknowledgeable back then. I'm picky nowadays. But yeah, like, it was in 2008, 2009, we played the same game.

They released World War. We didn't play it competitively. We just played the same shot game for two years, and it was good. I'm excited to see what happens. I think this has been a thing that has been long coming. I thought that, to be honest, man, I thought that that's what we were on, from a cycle perspective. I thought they were on already, right? Because if, if Trajerk releases a game at the end of 2022, and then there is sledgehammer for 2023,

and then there's Infinity War for 2024. Doesn't that give Traiark 23 and 24 to work on that thing? It's a two-year cycle for them too, right? It's been a two and a half three-year cycle for all the games. So now it's on a four? Yeah, I guess. So now it's on a four-year cycle. It does give an extra year.

But the issues that a lot of people forget, or some people just don't notice, but the studios work together to release games. It's not like it's just like Sledgen, IW help Trairc release their game. There's like resources thrown around between like engineer resources and stuff. So it's like, even when you say like there's a three-year cycle, like for the most part like they don't really get to focus all three years on their own title like their whole studio it's like kind of makes a match and like raven's been lean to charge with war zone

like most people think that like all these studios are working on the war zone they don't care about n p but in reality it's not really true like sure to have some people help on it but for the most part like there's just help going on everywhere so maybe the extra year should just really give track that extra year of like focusing on our own game could be good i mean i would think it's going to be I think right now would be the perfect time to go buy out Beachhead Studios. I think this is what they're called. What the fuck are they called? The people that the main battalion in 1944, right? And then they should make them do the competitive side of Call of Duty. Why don't they do that? Yeah. This is where I'm kind of like lost and confuses that we keep playing the game that's. You're good. Don't fucking ignore me. We literally keep playing the game that's based for the casuals. And we like we have to ban all these things, remove all these things. from the game when the game is not built for competitive. Yeah. But then we have this huge league, huge investment from all these teams, all these people.

We want to gain interest. We want to gain viewership, but we keep doing the same thing over and over and over again. When we could just literally somehow, some way a studio just focuses on a game. Like it's not, we're not saying like you need to make something crazy. We just need to make something that's competitive out of the box to where people just, people that played his game don't have to see any differences from the casual. Like if Formal was a casual player and you just get in and play and you're using your, whatever weapon that's banned and competitive.

And you just watch a competitive game. They're not playing TDM. They're not playing what you're used to play. And you're watching, like, I don't know how to relate to this. Like, I don't like, we always say like, oh, yeah, caught has the biggest reach because there's the most player base in the world. But like the most basically the entirety of that player base doesn't play what we play. Yeah.

So it's like, yeah, sure, like it's the same kind of thing. But it's like, still, it's apple and orange is like it's so different. Like from a, from a viewership standpoint, from a playing standpoint. I saw, I saw a tweet. And it was like, it was like, Call of Ditty tries to make casuals competitive and Valeran is like a competitive game that like appeals to casuals Which is like I was like damn. I wish like I had that. Yeah, because it's just like different like you know like Halo kind of does it too. So I'm like kind of happy with that but like like call duty forces you to like change you know like yeah say you love fucking hardcore. Like you just can't even like you don't even like if you were like a hard who say you were the best hardcore put in the world. What does that mean like where do you even go to like show that leaderboards? Where does anyone care about that you know? You see leaderboards?

Yeah, leaderboards is like the only thing. Like, because like they want to be tipped for it, you know? But I don't know. I think it's going to edge. There's got to be a world at some place where they just create a standalone game that's literally a game we play every year. And they can add and change things to it based on what we need. But it just needs to be, I feel like it needs to be separate.

Like if the game plays the same, I think the casuals who are interested in competitive will be into it. But then it just appeals to the whole other rest of the community in e-sports where competitive like Counter-Strike players or any other player who's interested in what called could be on a competitive front to kind of come in. But we're like trying to peach into the casual mass, rather than peach into the people who are actually interested

in the sports competitive to start with. So it's just, I don't know, there's some disconnect there to me, I wish was, I don't know, I don't see it changing for like the short term, but maybe in a long term we get something. Maybe.

It's like, it's Ballcat Studios, by the way. It's not Beachhead. It's Ball Cat Studios who made 1984. They're making play pro mod right now, which is, you know, again, a Call of Duty for Spirit of, competition.

But what I was going to say is that no matter where we go from here, like you think about what the deal is right now, right? There's a lot of distractions that's happening at the corporate level of Activision. And I don't know if those have any trickled on effects to where the guy that's in charge of e-sports goes to Bobby Kodak and says,

hey, the teams want this. No, okay, cool. That's it. He's like, he's busy. He's trying to get the $70 million, $70 billion deal across the table. He's got the government looking over his shoulder to make sure that it's cool. It's not cool yet. You have shareholders that are now suing Activision.

For this thing to happen and go through, like a million things have to happen. I need this for call of duty's sake, man. We've been working on this for 14 years. Like let's put some gas on this shit for fuck's sake. I just feel like Codd still has one of the smoothest kind of experiences. Like from a playing standpoint, like aiming, shooting, everything super responsive. It's snappy. It's fun. It's like casual, we're competitive. There's like something there that's just

fun to play. It's just, we need the playground to play it in. That's just built for us. The community's there. The community's there. If you look at the biggest organizations in the world, the majority of the top five are all console, call of duty clans. You know what I mean? Pays, the biggest, e-sports store, yeah? Where they come from? Sniping, in call of duty. Not even pro

call of duty. Sniping. Optic. Sniping. Specifically you. Me. Specifically your sniping. Let me tell you something. Okay, I did. It was me.

But look, you guys saw me play. You guys just raided me. I was the second highest rated play. Stop. Don't ruin it. All right. We're talking a little bit about Batman. Okay.

Hutch is in love. In love with, what's the dude's name? The main guy? Patinson, Robert Pattinson. In love with this dude. He wants. this Batman to be the best Batman that's ever existed. Do you know why?

Why? Because he wants a person with his body type to be fucking superhero. Okay. The age of the 90s superhero where you have Rambo, right? Big as dude. When you have Schwarzenegger, big as dude. When you have the rock, when you have like all of these massive, you know, alpha type of beasts, they're like, no, no, no.

We need some Robert Pattinson's in the thing. We need Christian Bill. It wasn't a beast, quote, unquote. Excuse me? Bring out, Matt. Bring up Christian Bill and Batman. I mean, he's a, no, he's a fucking tank. But he's not like, like.

Compare him. Yeah, comparison bail to this new guy. I don't even know what this new guy looks like. Wait, see, I'm right there. No, he's buff. I'm not saying he's not. Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, I want you to start recording your screen and putting this on the podcast because last podcast you did it.

Matt, obviously I'm pointing at the shirt. guy. Okay. Look at those pecks, dude. I'm not saying he's not but it's like, look it right there to the right there, bam. Look at that. All right now, now go to Robert Pattinson. That's about where I'm at right now. Basically. Go to Robert Pattinson. Type it. Robert.

You gotta see a shirtless Pattinson though, you know? Yeah. Look at it. He looks like more like the joke. Wait, why was it already searched? That's not terrible. That's not terrible. It's not like skinny. He looks like. You're competing at the huts? You think Hutch looks like that? Yeah. Yeah. He does. Hutch is hot Why did Matt already have that searched?

Yeah In the search bar Wait, did he? Yeah, did he? He's like Robert Pants at Batman Hot I love Hutz you by the way But come on no there's no way dude He's not a good Batman right

Well look like that I'm just come on Hutch looks like that with a shirt off He's not buff like that Yes he does You guys have never seen him with his shirt That guy's got 40 founts on Hutch No he does not There's no way Hutch looks like that

Barbara Pants in Twilight, maybe. Look at Barbara Pants in Twilight. That's purple. Robert Pants in Twilight. Oh, look. Twilight shirtless sparkling. Hot. Yeah, look.

The thing is this, I think he's a great actor. He kills it, right? He's a good actor. Is he a good Batman, though, is what we're about to see, right? I wouldn't have never picked him as a Batman. And Hodge. Me either. I would have never picked him as a bad.

Hodge. 87% rotten tomatoes. 87% rotten tomatoes. Okay. He said this. No, it started at 96. Hutch said this. If this gets less than a 95% rotten tomatoes, I'm going to tweet out the truth. The truth being that I am a better call of duty player than him.

Okay, he just will never admit to it. Now, there it is. The Batman embargo, okay, 95% minimum tomato, tweet that Hector is a better cod player than I am now ever have been in a way. So these are just truths. And he thought that we needed to hear from the horse's mouth for some reason, as if we haven't seen his boring gameplay. But it started it started in 96

It started in 96 Matt And then it went down to 91% And I'm like I'm like You gotta understand that these critics That feel the same way that you do Were the first to vote How good he is What the fuck 91%

Bro, he's so he's I think he's just as invested In Robert Pattinson's Batman That he is on Biden I do believe that Anyway Look, I'm hoping that it's a win-win for me, right? Like, if I'm wrong, the movie's great.

If I, you know what I mean? I win either way. So lose, loose for him. Yeah, lose, lose for him. Moving on. Actually, let's take a quick break. Let's say hello to the sponsors. We'll be right back.

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Under the Influence. They were all in drugs. UTI? They were named UTI. Urinary track infection. Yep. You know what I'm saying, Rambo? I mean, what is there to do?

We'll be about the most precipitous rise and falls in the history of the internet in real time, which means that they're, like obviously since David Dobrick records everything, everything was caught on camera, He's just turning it into a documentary.

Matt? I'm actually kind of hype for this. Oh my God. So Matt just said that what's happening is that the documentary had already started before the before the accusation started to come out against David Dolbrecht. What is this Jeff?

What does that dude Jeff saying? He's saying what? He's a fake friend. It's like the worst shit. The worst shit. Like fake friend. That's like so. vague and like

yeah but he also got up there and did it yeah look and and they got and they got pain and they got pain yeah I don't know man like I don't know where these these influencers as they call themselves I don't know where I don't know where they they

see that they want to live this Hollywood lifestyle and not have any of the Hollywood drama in Hollywood rough patches that comes with with the program. Like, you think Steveo would call Bamargera fake friend because he, like,

hurt himself doing like some skit for them or... I think they were friends before they started. Like, welcome to the lifestyle. If David Dolberg would have told me

call it two years, it was like, yo, be a part of the vlog squad, I would have been like, yeah, Jude, I'll be back in like two years. You get all the checks. I'm out here being...

Put on the block squad. I would have been. Yeah, I don't know about the situation. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know anything about anything here. Anyway, I'll watch it. I even watch the documentary that Casey did on that one superstar singer, Dave Mendez, Sean Mendez. I watch that just because I'm a big Casey fan.

So I'm excited to see that. Is that good? Yeah, I mean, it was shot well. I mean, the music, not my thing. Russia, Ukraine is a topic. And the reason that it's a topic is because Elon Musk sent the Starlink user terminals to Ukraine after the prime minister asked him for help on Twitter. Did you see that? What does that mean?

So, obviously, because Starlink. Starlink is the free internet that, the free world internet that Elon Musk is going to provide for everyone. Like, everyone's going to have Wi-Fi at all times? Everyone's going to have Wi-Fi at all times. What? Yeah. Is that right, Matt? Yeah, basically in the simplest terms.

That sounds like straight out of a villain movie, isn't it? Yeah, dude. I'll log on. It's Papa Musk, man. What's he going to do? wasn't it the if he wasn't what's that movie the what's the James Bond movie like the circle thing

what's it called the circle thing like sit outside and play Halo like the golden circle is like the bad guys in the movie oh you're talking about the Kingsman the Kingsman oh the Kingsman the second King's fucking Bond

yeah well it's like the kind of knock off yeah the Kingsman all right so the who is who said Mikalio what does he do Fedorov all right so the Prime Minister of Ukraine said Elon Musk, while you try to colonize Mars, Russia

try to occupy Ukraine. While you rocket successfully land from space. Sorry. You got distracted there. Did it you guys want to go get coffee? Who led that rule? Who led that group? Was it Hitch?

Or Roger? Hitch is, yeah. Davis is alpha in that group right now. He's like, let's go get some fucking coffee. I'm going to tell you why it's good. He's like, y'all take a break. Come on. Let's go get coffee. On me.

Back on topic. Back on topic. Sorry about that. listeners. Matt's like, can I come? Anyway, pretty much it said Russian rockets attack Ukraine, civil people. We ask that you provide Ukraine with Starlink stations and to address sane Russians to stand. I don't know what the last part means, but I'm assuming this is a thing though, right? Like a lot of, I mean, I would even go as far as I say that the majority of Russian people that live in Russia don't aren't necessarily down with what Putin's doing. Right. So for people,

like people need to be very careful on the things and how they approach certain things because it's not necessarily the opinions and the beliefs of the Russian people as much as it is of the Russian government. But anyway, Elon Musk responses that Starling Service is now active in Ukraine more terminals en route.

So what Ukraine didn't want is that Putin would go around and just like knock down all sorts of communications. Yeah. So Elon is like, I got you back. Elon's clutching. Yeah, Elon's crazy. What's Elon Musk

Nationality man? Do you know? But anyway, they stepped up South African, he says. New that's where he's from. Anyway, look, I think more and more you get to see this heroic moves from Elon Musk and little by little people will realize that he is

fucking Iron Man. He's a modernist superhero. Yeah, he is Iron Man. He literally is. You know, what was to say? American, South African and Canadian. Good day, mate. My man.

Did you see the, clip of like a missile hitting the building? That shit was nice. Dude you said good day mate? I've never seen anything like that. That's Australian. That's Austrians. We go bud. Yeah, bud. Buddy. Yeah. Have you ever seen dumb and dumber?

Yeah. He's like, where you from? Austria. Yeah. He's like, did you see the missile hit the building and you're like, hey, yeah. Dumb and dumber? Yeah, the other thing, the other thing is that the amount of propaganda that's being like pushed out, like, they they, they, uh, Hutch just tweeted it out, right? Like, they said that some person was killed

in something bring up Hutch's thing and it was Winks of Redemption that that they used as propaganda right there

I cannot get over the fact that Russian disinformation trolls use wings of redemption as a okay so here's what happened he started with

trolls trolls made fake CNN accounts to tweet weird stuff anonymous account mock CNN over the fake troll stuff

that CNN's did not actually do so essentially what happened is that somebody tweeted out from a fake official account that said that this guy died and apparently that this guy was supposed to be Bernie Gores, which is a journalist for CNN, or just a journalist in general. That's Wings of Redemption? That's Wings of Redemption.

I will say this. Wings of Redemption is looking fit. This is this dude is a dude that's lost a lot of weight because I don't remember ever him being like at this weight. So props to him if he's still around or if he's even, you know, watching this. All right, let's move on from there. I think, shout out to Elon Musk, man. He's Iron Man.

He's a modern day, I mean, current day, Iron Man. This is right up your alley there, Nick, with the purple hair and, you know, crypto punks and crypto, you know what I mean, living in that metaverse where you can, your avatar can be. I don't know if I'll ever understand. I don't even know what the metaverse means. I'm so behind. You need to get with it, dude.

It's the future. Okay. It is literally the future. The thing is this is like right now, because of the job that you have. in the industry that you chose to live in, you are able to turn your character into whatever you want. If you want purple hair one day, you can get it. If you want to cover your body with tattoos, you can't. I'm like a walking NFT. You're like a walking, yeah, something, avatar. Amiator. You're like a walking avatar for sure. So here's the deal. The Denver Broncos

are up for sale and a group of crypto enthusiasts are trying to raise $4 billion to buy them. Okay, let's get a little bit more information on that. Look, cryptocurrency, NFT, Metaverse and all this is the future. And if you're not fucking making an effort to understand it, to learn it, you are doing yourself a disservice. Right now is the time for people to pay attention. If somebody told you in 2010 that if you started a YouTube channel doing the things that you love to do, you will end up being not only a happy person doing what you love to do, but also a millionaire, You wouldn't take a shot at that.

Well, that's where we're at right now. Web 3 is coming. It's right around the corner. And if you're not making an effort, Nicholas, to figure something out, you're leaving a ton of money behind. What do I do? Just Google it. Yes. What's step one?

Google it. Step two? Step one. It's both on the rabbit hole. Step three. Study. Study it. Study it.

And I think more than anything, if you become passionate about, on the art side of crypto, So if you become passionate about it, then obviously you have an easier time understanding and playing the game. But to not take a shot at this to change your life forever, you're fucking up, I think. I just like living in the real world, you know? Yeah. Reality. Yeah. Breathing air.

Okay. Nick. Sun gazing, ice baths with ACV. Okay. See, now you're making that shit up because you spend on average, on average, on a daily basis, you spend close to four hours a day in the Metaverse. Bump that up. Bump that up. Oh, six hours a day, seven hours a day in the metaverse. Actually, if you count your phone.

If you count your phone and you're interacting with people online, like you're spending all of it. Been living in a dream this whole time. Yeah. So I don't know. I think, look, I think it'd be awesome. I think it'll expedite what what crypto is from an understanding standpoint. The fact that old people have come across the word crypto and NFT. It lets you know that it has sort of infiltrated just everyday society to where

you need to pay attention to what this is happening. Period. You know what I'm saying? Like right now we're living through screen names. Eventually you're literally to talk, to be on Twitter, you're going to have to log in or not Twitter necessarily, but you're going to have to be an avatar and you're going to go and speak your mind to people and they're going to give you back their thoughts on that.

What? Right now you tweet out. And people read it from their phones. Mm-hmm. Okay. You're going to be able to do that. I mean, you're doing it in game too, right? We'll do that right now with the little, what's the called, I think on Twitter, like the group listens?

Yeah, spaces. Spaces. Isn't that what that is? Yeah. In theory, yeah. Like, this is, it's spaces, but in this very simplest, like, stage. It's, it's a baby right now. It's a toddler.

It's a tadpole. It's a tadpole. Not, not yet a grown-up. You know what I mean? I've been, I've been going down the rabbit hole. I interviewed this dude named D's who who was a fan

has been around for a long time like Optic from the beginning whatever but this dude like fucking woke me up last time and yeah we were smoking a ton of weed while we were doing the podcast but like little by little

I'm unlocking the full understanding of this new world and I'm psyched man I'm excited for it little by little I become a bigger fan I need to inform myself as well yeah everyone does everyone listening to you make an effort to the whole crypto.

Nope. Do you own any Bitcoin? I don't. Do you? No. Do you? No. Okay.

Definitely behind the character. I used to, but I think I'd sell it. Dude. Dude. Dude. Do your research. Do your research. I do.

I own Ethereum and Bitcoin, so. And some doge. And, uh, yeah. We're a wanchine. Wang chain. That's Seth. I'm going to let that. I'm going to let that boy do.

that one on his own. Okay, because I think he needs to convince it was going to the moon. No, I think he still believes it. I believe it for you too, Seth. Your money's safe there. I think he gave up on that. You forget. Seth forgets not about a single penny in his fucking universe.

No, not forget. I said gave up. I know he doesn't forget. He's like in a metaphorical like vault. Yeah. Physical gold coin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, speaking from a like a super like base knowledge, to me, like what it looks like,

is that people are almost like investing money into something that's could potentially get into something. It's almost like buying a big lottery ticket. Yeah. Like you're you're kind of investing your money into something that I don't understand what makes it goes up. To me, my understanding is that I buy it, so you buy it and he buys it and he buys it. Eventually a bunch of people just bought it so the word that it grows because everyone decided to buy something for no real reason just because it's growing. And then at some point people start selling like, oh, now it's so big, I'm going to sell it to Nick. And Nick's going to sell it to him and it keeps growing and-

Well, you're talking about NFTs, not necessarily crypto. Because Bitcoin, you're using, you're trading, right? It's kind of the same shit, though. Yeah, I guess. But yeah, I mean, do you find that as ludicrous as us believing that a piece of paper is worth $100? No, that's fair. I can see the correlation. It's just, but the $100 is worth something because there's goods and trades that led to it.

The paper's words and goods and trades is something that leads. The paper and the ink is worth more. in value than the actual value of that one $100 bill. I don't know. I just, I just still don't see like the mentality behind because it's, again, there's a hundred dollar be here in the day,

bro. Like, there's the $100 bill like, we're all going to die. It's all going to die anyway. I mean, again, yeah, it just feels like.

It feels like to be dust eventually. That's one of the reason why I've shied away from it personally. Your purple is actually pretty sick. I'm sorry. Um, all right. Let's let's get into the final, into the final topic.

and then we'll go to some podcast questions. The gentleman's known as Dashy and Shotsy just walked in a building. Liksy. Not Leeksy, not Leeksy, not no more. All right, so Chandler Parsons shared a Kobe Bryant story, and I'll paraphrase it for you. Chandler was guarding Kobe, rest in peace, back in the day. And Kobe's like, yo, how long are you staying in L.A.?

And he's like, we're probably going to stay for like two days. He's all right, cool. I'm going to put you in contact with somebody, and then you've got to go and have a good night out on, you know, it's on me. I'm going to put you guys up. So this dude goes to a very exclusive club that Kobe's a member of. They party their asses off.

And he's bringing, Chandler's bringing coaches, assistant coaches, teammates. He's like, yo, yo, we're good. Come on, the party and shit. They party for the entire night. And then he says that towards the end of the night, dudes, you know, in a good mood of spots, a waitress. And the waitress sees him. So Kobe's not there. No, Kobe couldn't come out.

He was paying for it. Yeah. Some G-J shit. But here comes, here comes the waitress with a, Bill in hand. B lines it to do it and she's like, here you go, it's $22,000. And this dude's like, fuck.

He's a newcomer in the league. He's not a millionaire yet. He's not a millionaire yet. He's making league minimum. And he's like, damn, Kobe just fucking set me up. And Kobe dropped 40 on him or something. And he won the game. I was just kidding.

You guys actually partied? Yeah. Before the game? And Kobe, you actually went there? What? he's like don't me go with Larissa too Bro Kobe was like

For the first lesson Don't party if you lose Okay Go back to training If you lose Yeah for sure Anyway The waitress says

He's like just signed for Mr. Bryant He's got to take care of it So the dude went from like Fucking his blood Just rush into his feet Like fuck To having a really cool

You think Kobe Told them to Oh 100% Like troll them kind of Yeah Yeah yeah That's fine Yeah.

Make him sweat a little bit. What if there's like a deeper mind game too? Like Kobe was like, this guy could actually be good. Let me make him party so he doesn't like. Yeah. Yeah. He betted money on the other team that he was about to play like the following day. That's some Jordan shit.

Yo, the amount of Jordan jokes that happened at the All Star was I tipped it. He loves gambling. I love gambling. Matt, you love gambling. You know what I'm saying? I do. What about you, Nick? I just, I've never had a good experience.

I just never got into it. You don't like gambling? I'll gamble on myself. I've never like one. Yeah, because you go with $200 and then lose it and say it's rape. Like at times, like say a roulette. Rolette's a say just betting red or black and it's a 50-50 chance. Somehow I'm losing nine out of ten times every time.

Because you're like already like, like you're like manifesting that in your own stupid purple head. But I've even tried. I've even tried to like manifest it and like be positive. Yeah. But are you really? And then they know, right? One time at Vegas, I lost like 1,530 minutes because I kept betting the same color. I was like, no.

You were doubling it? Were you coupling it? Yeah. You dumb fuck. I'm like, it has to come back. That's how you go down a shit time fast. And then it's like black fucking 11 times straight. I'm like, no.

Yeah. The fact of you're looking at the colors and you're looking at that board makes sense. Because if they want you to look at that. Yeah. And they want that to influence your bet. Listen, I hit black 13 times in a row once. I hit black 13 times in a row. I believe it.

And I was, but he's right. Like, just because you say, all right, I'm going to win, doesn't mean that you believe it inside. You know what I mean? Like, watch this. Watch this. I'm shredded and I'm buffed. Watch this.

I'm shredded and I'm buffed. Not true just because I say it's not true. You got to believe it. I mean, you got to wheel it. Matt and I have sat next to each other on a table and we've gone on motherfucking heaters. Do you know why? Because we kick everybody out who's not positive. Anybody says, if you suck your teeth in front of me while I'm gambling, get the fuck away from me.

Damn, I do that's so much on Haley. Hey, though. After I die, I'm like, Ah, they're just manifesting to get on, get shit on off of respawn. I am, listen, I do, I do, I just spawn get rocketed. I do gamble responsibly, though. I don't, I'm not a wild man. I've seen, I've seen people that I've gone to Vegas with drop fucking 60 grand, 75 grand.

Nope, not for me. Wild. I'll sit at the blackjack table and play for like five dollar hands just for fun. Yeah. For like a hour, just put a hundred bucks down. If I win, I lose, I lose. I'm probably up a couple. like a couple of grand and casino all time because I don't I never go there to win money 100%

all right Matt let's get to the podcast questions and then let's uh let's wrap it up here um yeah make it a little bit bigger here we go what is the secret to scum clacer and crimsics still performing at the top level even after eight years of competition are they superior soldiers or just or something like I know what they do their ego their ego drives them yeah it's their ego they just don't want any of the other three they don't want any of them to get a one like one up on them and they still think like if I just keep playing they shouldn't retire.

And their heads like they're thinking about the other two. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. I think it's one, it's not crazy to think that people at the age of 30 lose their abilities to play just because they're 30, right? Like in the past and the reason that people retired was because there was no business in esports that allowed you to be a grown man

live out of your mom's house and make a living. But now that there is, you're going to see a lot more people play into their I mean, look at me. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm 42 and I still got nastiness in me. I'm cracked. If I played eight hours a day. If I played eight hours a day. What would happen, Hector? They'd be fucked?

No, maybe not the pros. The challengers, though? Oh, God. Me, look, me, general, Kismet, and a fourth. Can you imagine? Huh? No, Senator Martin. Hector is just finessing you on like a pillar and you just can't kill me. You're just like, why am I killing Hex?

I'd be like this. If you fucking beat me, you're never going to be a lot. No contract for you. My perspective on that's a little different, I think. I think it's just the fact that they don't want to lose that feeling. Like when I was competing and I was kind of like when I stopped competing, I just, I didn't really want to go through the process anymore of like the practice. And I just kind of, it wasn't as exciting as it once was for me.

Yeah. I feel like these guys just like literally like they still enjoy the process on the daily. They don't want to lose that feeling. I agree with that. Like, I lost by the time I got kicked from off, or not kicked from off the, but dropped from the Halo team for the number one team. I just want to make that clear.

I just like lost all. What? What? I just like lost excitement. Like it was, I used to love like getting on and playing all day. And I always wanted to play more and blah, blah, blah. But like by the end, I was just like over it.

Yo, you know who has that lost passion? You know who has that vibe right now on our team? Illy number one and then Shotsie and then Dashie and then you know scop. Yeah, but people that but like this dude. Like how excited he is. Yeah, he walks in. He's got a game fuel. He's got chick flay.

He's got a bottle of water. He's like, he's like, yo, it's good. He literally cannot wait to have an automaton and it's how. What's he? What's he used? Yeah, the automaton. He cannot wait to spawn in.

You know what I mean? Like that, that to me is like what the driving thing is. Just to be clear though, the competing never gets old. No. It's just the things around the competing. I would be the worst competitor ever. I would be the worst. I am a sore loser.

I am petty. And it's always somebody else's fault. All right. All right. Wags 2125 asks for all the podcast. Oh my God. I just read that. Okay.

All right. I'm going to read it. If you had to pick a blue collar professional, did I say that right? Color. Yeah, blue collar. Huh? Collar.

Yeah, bro. It's my ex. Cooler. Yeah. Do you speak two languages? Blue collar. Do you? I do. T. Do you? Do you? Yeah, I do you parents never taught you? Like, do your parents speak in Japanese?

Yeah, I know a few words in Japanese. Dude, Olivia is, by elite, bro, she speaks both from fucking, when she's talking, when she's speaking Spanish, I'm like, God damn, that's dope. All right. What would you do? Blue collar? You go first. What kind of jobs do they have in Canada? Do they have plumbers in Canada? The same jobs you have. Okay. What falls under blue collar? Like, mechanics. construction works. Yeah, that's kind of where I was thinking.

You would be construction work? I think so. No, too. Basic jobs. I'm good with my hands. So I would, it would be like some sort of like building things with my hands. These hands haven't seen manual labor since UPS, dude, in 1996. I mean, mine technically never have, but still, I don't know if these little hands could handle.

I'm not carrying no fucking could handle boxes. It's like, oh. It's like, oh, I'm putting gun gamer grip. I need more grip on these boxes. I would, I would be, I know exactly what I would be. I would be a fucking delivery guy on a truck. Oh, I could do that too.

I'm by myself. I'd be a milk deliverer. Does that count? Delivered bottles of milk? I deliver newspapers. Yeah, you would. That's as high as my skills like you're just chucking on the door. You're just on the bike with the pink hair in the old man neighborhood, just chucking newspapers and just like blasting great.

Just fast-balling newspapers at the front door. That's where I'd be. Yeah, so I'd probably be like a delivery guy like just driving around a truck. I don't know. And I'm not, I'm talking like local stuff. Like I'll go to, to the, I don't know, I'll go to like a bread making place. I'll pick up all the bagels and all the donuts. And then I'll go deliver those to Starbucks and that sort of shit.

But I'm not driving across the country with a fucking big ass semi-truck. So like a small, like a UPS delivery driver maybe? I would do that. Like Amazon. Actually, it's too much work, man. You actually have to lift stuff. At least with the other ones that you can get the work or something. Especially if you got to deliver to a home.

apartments or something going to each apartment. You don't have a fob? Yeah, you don't have a fob so you got to go to the leasing office. He's like signature required. I'm like, oh, fuck. You're right. All right. Last question.

Let's send this podcast on its way. Okay, let me read that one again. From Fiery asks, this is for anybody really. But have you ever translated skills, knowledge, et cetera, from other games, sports, anime, manga, mangas. Isn't manga porn? No. That's time time.

Okay. Or, I think. Something like that. Or I think. Or books into your own gameplay decision making in competition or even just life. If so, one big, I mean, have you ever? I mean, I read a lot about, like, the breeding stuff. The what?

The brain? Breeding, like, making sure you're, like, calm and competing when you compete. So, I mean, I can't really think of, like, a big moment, though. What does that mean, like, taking a... Like, from what I learned in Halo, I felt like I kind of could, use it in like League of Legends like learning how to play your life stay alive when to sacrifice yourself okay first of all you're horrible both okay listen like I'm not I think the question is saying like I'll answer this question I use like over the years playing with people I've

used like the skills I've gotten from like how to treat your teammates like your people skills basically like I've taken that and applied it in everyday life yeah it's like that's something that's stuck with me forever and it's fair if anything people managing yeah yeah like people skills social awareness that's what I was saying too yeah I would say I was I was a player he's like all high to the bushes and shit I don't know what I would say I was a player I was kind of an annoying person a team because I was super direct kind of like condescending it would be I would say what I had to say without really thinking about how we react and then I worked at Sledge in a corporate environment where you have to like

really be to get things going and you have to be positive about how you're kind of expressing your feedback and I feel like that's helped me in my coaching job now yeah like the way I communicate to my players is way different than I would have if I where it just went straight from playing to from now. Yeah. I mean, I think decision making is the number one thing. It's bad sometimes, but sometimes good. I react very quickly, mostly because of my incredible sniping skills

where I'm just able to track down an enemy and then quickly dispose of them, get them off the map, delete them. You know what I mean? Anyway, that's what I do for this episode of the Optic podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you so much for Purple Mattress, Masterclass, and of course keeps for sponsoring the podcast. We'll see you guys next time.

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