OpTic Podcast - Meet OpTic Cesar “Skyz” Bueno | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 218

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

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We never really fistpubbed and scrims, to be honest. Did we have a match thing? In Vanguard? You did? I can't really remember it. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, but that just gave me dope with me. It's like, wow, what the hell?

We're fistpub and scrims? I was like, so I kind of got used to it. You guys weren't fistpuping and scrimms over it? Only if we did like a crazy map or like a comeback. What about New York? What about New York? I don't think we did it either now. Yeah, we were.

We were getting like kind of hype in scrimms. Ender was like, bro, bro, bro, bro. There's comedy, bro. I fucking love Indy. Oh, my God, man. Euripides, you're ripet, you're ripet, E's. The candle. Wait, what it says?

The lantern. What the fuck was it? Dude, I have, I know what you're talking about, but I've no. The candle eight? I can't recollect that. What the fuck? It's so good. What are you talking about?

Rob Burgundy. Unique New York. New York. Unique New York. And then he says, the lantern ate my candle. The lantern ate my candle. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 28. of the Optic Podcast.

This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp and trade coffee. Who doesn't love coffee? Do you like coffee, Caesar? Sky's Bueno. I grew into it. You grew into it? Yeah, I kind of like like stronger coffee, like bitter coffee.

How old are you now? What do you think? 24? 25. 25? Okay, that's a good year. 25 is a good year. Dude, 25 was a good year for me too.

Coffee. No, I actually grew into it too. I don't like, I don't wake up. be like you're all on coffee but like low key I'm I get coffee today this guy wakes up and says he wants Nutella pancakes before scrimms I like it I was like I was vlogging yesterday

the reason the vlog didn't go up today is because we're announcing you too late so I'm just going to upload it tomorrow yeah but I walk in and this guy's like dude I try some sativa last night and I got faded you getting high oh hell hell I was fucking around I wanted to see what he would say what did I

what did I say was like oh my god I was like, no, you did it. It was like, no, the fuck you did it. I knew you did it. I knew you did it. I'm telling you, there's no way, dude, it's impossible. My body fucking hates them. Want to get high?

Sam. I get, like, hella anxious. Good. Yeah, it's not for everyone. I fucking think of it. The same way onions aren't for everyone, that's not for everyone. The same people are allergic, the way that people are allergic to penicillin or all that shit is the same thing.

What's penicillin? Penicillin. What is that? I don't even know what that is. Isn't that for diabetes or something? No, penicidid is. Isn't that an antibody? I don't know.

Shit, if you get the the clap? I don't know. I don't either. I don't either. Ladies and gentlemen, it is now a new week. We have a new team. We had an incredible, unbelievable, memorable

stage, what is it, stage two? Yeah, right, it's major two? Stage two. No, it's forgettable. No, it's not. It'll never be forgotten. And that's the way the cookie crumbles. It's forgettable.

So I guess to level set and to start from the beginning on this story as to how Mr. Caesar Sky is Bueno. What's your family from originally? My dad's from Chihuahua, Mexico. Chihuahua, so am I. Yeah. From where Nahuas. I don't even know.

I just know Chihuahua. It's called Chihuahua? Like literally the dog? Yeah, Chihuahua. The dog is called Chihuahua. Is that where Chihuahua cheese came from? Yes. Yes.

Is that where Chihuahua? You like this? Fuck. Yeah. Did you know that Chihuahuas were bred so that they can go in in burrows and bring out the rats in the in the rabbits? That's why they're so small. No wonder they're so fucking mean. Yeah, mean and small.

Did you know that? Little burrows trying to eat rats and shit. Yeah, listen. I'm never getting into Chihuahua though. Why? A little vicious, bro. Dude, they're fucking, they can be mean. My grandma has them.

I feel like they're like every Mexican. My best friend. Yeah. My best friend of 16 years, Mr. Schofield. was the chihuahua he was chill yeah and i have two other ones i have uh uh oliver and bashy bashy's hella chill with bashy's hell a cool name yeah bashers after my fishing brand how do you get that's his name is basher but we call him bashy he's a little uh he's a chihuahua but yeah yes he's a little he's a little slower he's a little slower he's a little slower but he's

actually like a cat he'll come up to you his tongue will be out no no it's not no it's not no it's that. Sometimes. No, no, that was Schofield because he had no teeth. And watch you fuck him out. That's my best friend. No, no, no. Bachel will do it too sometimes. Actually, you know, you're right. It's hell of cute. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He looks like a cat. He looks is just a lanky little dog. You can see him there, I'm sure. All right, so I guess obviously like we've, let me take my glasses off. We didn't have the best season, and understatement. So, from my perspective, and obviously you can tell your perspective, but from my perspective, it was it was not a matter of of making a change like right away. For me,

it was a matter of giving the championship winning team of last year a full run an opportunity to to ride it until the wheels fall off. And I wasn't going to be too, too overbearing or trying to influence the decision making in that case. And I know that a lot of you want me to VGM or once come to BGM and just make these hard decisions, but you have to take into account that I know that we are in front of a camera, you're seeing us through a screen, but like, you know, we are like literally living the same sort of life that you are just in a different industry. And what I mean by that is that there is an emotional attachment and relationship that I personally build with everyone here.

As much as they're coworkers, I do like them as people, otherwise they wouldn't be here. and for me to just tell him immediately like, yo, we got to make a change. Kenny's not performing or, yo, we got to make a change. Fucking Pratt is not moving as fast or like that sort of thing. Like, why is he laying down on the ground? You know what I'm saying?

That sort of thing. Lay G. I guess we're on her a little bit. My mindset is the same shit. Like, this is a winning team. I never wanted to make a change. I mean, that was my mindset this entire stage regardless of the fact that we didn't want to fucking map.

I think we're like zero and 18 on one point. And I mean, bro, we literally had a talk and we're like, yo, what do, what does everyone think is like the problem? Everyone kind of said their problems. I'm not going to fucking obviously say like what everyone said, but. Everyone including Kenny? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, of course. Okay, okay.

Everyone said their problems on what they think is a problem. And then, yeah, we went into the mindset of just, you know, going hard, trimming. And then, I don't know, it's just a way like the, you can just tell like, the, you can just tell, like, the camp was kind of like defeated in a way. Like, we weren't defeated. It was just more like something needed to change. Like, we needed like a new something. And I feel like everyone felt it.

So yeah, I think, I think like the fucking, the biggest thing was the one we lost LAT's though. Yeah. I think once we lost LATES, because prior to that, we had really good practice, probably like our best practice going into the match. And. Can I play devil's advocate on that? We pulled up as if like we weren't, yeah. That's so weird to me though.

My thought on that is because like L.A. LAT is like the number one team of the league. So no matter what team was playing against them, it was going to be a more than likely defeat against LAT. So for me going into that weekend, it wasn't necessarily about you guys beating them. It was for me to see whether or not you guys can compete at the very least with the best team currently in the CDL. So my thought, and not decision, but my thought around it was like as long as they show science of life, it was going to do. But I think by then, I think Kenny had already sort of made his decision, right? A couple of days ago, we, we, and I guess we don't know where we're at. I talked to Kenny.

I asked him, I'm like, yo, you know, obviously like this whole thing sucks. I hope that you can still make it out to the ring ceremony. He said, yes, of course. But when he texted karma and essentially said, it's like, hey, you know, I think the team might need to consider somebody else. you know, we sort of had to take that into account in our decision making because if somebody's not comfortable out there for whatever the reason, then we have to obviously seek, seek solutions for something. If it was only up to me or up to us, I think that we would have seen the major through. But, you know, when you know your time's sort of up a little bit, it's up.

Like my feeling towards Kenny, obviously, like him being on the team for two years, like, one of the best just people that that has worked here it was nice to have somebody that also dressed well in Optic and not just me Stop playing. Hey, what? He's fresh. No, about me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But again, it's like, it's a tough situation

because, like, I really liked him. He won a world championship for us. So for me, that's, you know, that's legacy dude right there, you know? There has to be each other some curse with me, bro. When I win champs, like, some crazy shit happens the next year. fucking after mw 2019 we had to drop clay like you know we're dropping Kyler I'm team with fucking vivid fellow

this year we drop AG you drop Kent like I don't know what's happening then dude if if you look at the Maverick's current roster they're like one injury away from my god I swear to God I don't know what the fuck's happened with Texas but that was crazy I was so

pissing I have it oh my God what were you what were you about to say before on the LAT front oh yeah I was just going to say It was surprising to me that you guys went into the LAT series thinking you were going to do something in that. I mean, just... No, no, I understand it. No, it's just AIDS because, like, I don't know how I explained it.

Like, literally everything we were doing, like, leading up to that was like... Good. Good. Like, it was productive. It was like, damn, okay, we're actually getting there. And then, like, after that match is just like, I don't know, dude. Like, we just saw... That was the final nail?

That was like the final no, which is like AIDS, because like, obviously we never wanted it to be that. But I will say like about Ken, like, I mean, he's a winner. It's just as simple as that. This guy literally came in every single day on time, grind or like wanting to play. And I like just felt it by the way that he would like bring it stuff off. So I respect Ken. And I actually love Tim McKin. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. fuck everyone talking shit about him straight out yeah yeah for real yeah i mean do you think that he finds a spot in the league this year or is he like i mean i don't want to dive too much into like yeah i don't think we should just his decision to right i think he wants to play does he want to play i think he wants to play i think he wants to play with a different team though for sure uh and that's not like no disrespect towards us it's just more like i think he just didn't um like he wasn't

comfortable on this team is as simple as that on this was but was it wasn't comfortable on this team on this game because we won a fucking world championship yeah and a major last year we won't twice last year honestly kind of like this game I guess I don't really know explain it without going to I mean I know the the reason is but like I don't want to tell everyone and then like everyone's like holy fucking shit yeah but but but clear up the reasonings the reasonings is are they negative it's just like how we play as a team I guess one one of the things that obviously like Enable when Enable was saying that

that there's drama between the team like I never saw that The drama, no, bro I never saw that There's no drama with the team I don't know why the fuck Everyone keeps saying that shit Like no bro whenever you're losing

Like obviously Where our like physical emotions aren't gonna be like positive Like whenever you're losing It's fucking AIDS Y'all were 0 and 18 I wouldn't be cracking a smile at all I'd be like defeat again

That's what I'm saying That's why like I don't know I don't know where that like Rumor came out because like bro, we're boys. Like, I don't know why the fuck everyone thinks someone hates this guy or whatever the fuck. Like, we all respect each other. I can't. The last time that I allowed for any inner team drama was when Seth wasn't getting along with formal or some whatever weird shit.

But again, like immediately after that, like... It was more so formal not getting along with me. I loved him. No formal to defend himself here. But, yeah, again, it was like, that was the last time that I've ever witnessed. as like two people within the same team one of my teams not getting along with each other like that just doesn't roll

with my culture that I try to establish here, you know, the brotherhood of the OG. With that, I want to welcome it. Mr. Cesar Sky's Bueno to Optic. You win a championship this weekend. You put little thing, bling, bling in your neck, kid. You got to shake my own.

Just give me air. I'll dab them up for you. Yeah, this is a shaker area. Actually, let me, let me free say is that one no it's world championship right isn't that how we do it man you can't you know you can't go back I'm kidding can't go back I can't dangle the carrot and take the carrot away it's fucked up

bro really he's crazy I don't get one that dangle too yo Caesar just no no no no no bro he has one you know Caesar just looked at me you said is that real I said his shade I can't see that's why I'm glad you think actors by a fake shit oh shit

oh shit mom Actor by snake shit, really What? Of course it's heavy. Of course it's heavy. It's those lab diamonds. It's plated. It's plated. It won't, nothing would happen if it dropped.

Hey, you heard that guy sold his? Did you hear that? What guy? What? Oh my God. So, Caesar, talk to me a little bit. You got in what? Yesterday?

Or this morning? Two days ago. Two days ago. Wait, did you live here already? Yeah, I already had my apartment in Dallas. Oh, okay. So it's like, it was pretty easy. Were you staying somewhere else before here or were you like living here?

Oh, well, I was living here. When I got benched, I went back to Chicago. Oh, that's what it was. Because I was watching you last night on an incognito tab because I couldn't have them adding me like, ho. What are you doing here? He must be getting picked up.

Yeah, I was watching you a little last night. And they were saying you were in Chicago. So I was like, that makes sense. You went home, came back. So now you're here Yep How's it feel? It feels surreal to me to be honest

Because I didn't think I'd be playing Until like after the major Like I'm also grateful But I'm also like kind of in shocker now Yeah But It is kind of like a quick Yeah it's like so fast

I can't even like I can prostit But like it feels like in the moment It's like wow Happening I came across a screenshot of your YouTube channel Saying Yeah

Jesus Yeah What Jesus that's awesome man Don't be ashamed. You're fucking kidding me? No, I know. It's just my chat was calling last night because that's all they just kept spam me. I was like, oh, my God.

I can't read it. I'm just like, good. What is it say? What is it? No, they were being chill. They were like, yeah. Actually, just right there. Yeah, you can pull it.

Yeah, I'll do it. I'll do it. Yeah, they're big dogs. Hello, and welcome to my YouTube channel. My real name is Caesar Bueno. Didn't capitalize the C or the B. I don't know why. New, new generation.

You can make fun of my name all you want here. I will start to make videos and I will be streaming live every week. My main goal is to join Optic. Congratulations, man. I always wanted to join them for about two years. How old were you? What was this? When I was 11, bro.

I would be posting some montages. Bro, I read this and I immediately got warm feelings in my stomach. Oh, yeah, that's dope. Yeah. I never got an HGPBR because I was like the thing back then. The dazzles? Or the dazzles? Or the dazzle, dude.

Wow. That's how people would be posting GB proof in like 160 P. Yeah, I had to use my phone. I started to use my phone, but it was like, what am I doing, bro? imagine not knowing those struggles of getting a dazzle and then an HDPVR and then the black magic fucking cap all the way through I never had one of those either I don't know what my first yeah like like because those are like cod four like World at War days I don't remember what my first capture card was it had to have been the the hop hog no not the hop hog what's the other one called 3,000 I don't remember what the intern and one was called.

Avermedia? Oh, Avermedia. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know if that was like the right. All right. Thank you, Matt. So, I mean, obviously, it's got to be a little bit of a surreal thing that you want to join Optic, but you compete against us your entire career, right? And then all of a sudden happenstance happens, as it usually does.

And here you are sitting in the couch. Fucking second day here already on the podcast, already shot some social content with your new teammate shots. what's that feeling like what are your goals here besides winning championships well like you're obviously winning championships but like the environment here

I could just tell is like really good I like a good team culture and just off yesterday just like talking with everybody you can just tell like everybody's super close to each other like we're fist bumping in scrims I mean never really fist bumping in scrims to be honest it was like only a match thing in Vanguard

you didn't I can't really remember yeah for sure yeah but that just gave me dope of me and it's like wow what the hell over fistpup and scrimms, I was like, so I kind of got used to it. You guys weren't fistpupin and scrimms over it? Only if we did like a crazy map

or like a comeback. What about New York? What about New York? I don't think we did it either now. Yeah, we were getting like kind of hype in screams. Ender was like, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, blah, bro. There's comedy, bro, bro.

I fucking love in there, dude. Oh, my God, man. Listen, let's, listen. Listen, listen. Yeah. Yeah. fucking intermed yeah we were getting

hilarious he's the fucking man I love that dude obviously let's take a look at the bracket but I want to say obviously like there's there's a little bit of pressure

but not too much obviously there's a brand new team going into the new major but what are like who'd you guys scrim against you mean I don't know if you got do you guys talk about scrimms and who you guys played

who did you guys play yesterday yesterday we played phase and LAG his old team actually his old team how that dude how'd I go well the phase There's like three or four closed heart points, but one of them were like

Got away from you guys yeah though one of them's like a harder map like yeah, yeah, yeah, it need more reps on that was kind of weird Gotcha, yeah, yeah, but the controls he also need reps too, but the LAG one it went good, that's all I'll say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so so we have it here LA thieves versus breach on the first one royal Ravens versus the Kuvers face rocker and then where who so who we like let's see that losers, bro? We play the... Minnesota phase. Minnesota phase. And then L.A.G.C. 9 or phase.

The winner of Minnesota phase? Which is low-key, a hard round one. Like, how do you feel about that round one? Which one? You're either playing phase or Minnesota. I like either option. Damn bullshit. Really?

Yeah. Yeah, 100%. You eventually have to play a good team. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You get like some hot streak. It takes what? Three maps and you're in top six or some shit like that? Top eight, top six. You know, I...

I don't know how many times I've been losers. I think this might be actually my first time, or maybe second time. So I think you guys play, you guys play, or Faser, Minnesota, and then you'll play either Cloud 9 Gorillas or who does Cloud 9 play Toronto? Yeah. Yeah. Be one of those. That's actually a good much.

The Rantos? So, I mean, it's a pretty hard bracket, to be honest. But then again, like now in the league, there's not really, in Winner's bracket, there's not really a gimmie. Yeah, 100%. besides like maybe Boston right now. Yeah. But all the other teams are like,

solid. Oh, yeah. Are you talking just winners? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, even losers braggia. Like, heretics have been, heretics can beat anybody. They're weird, yeah.

Falcons, obviously Falcon bucks, but. Hey, Falcons might get a winner here. No bullshit. Who do they play? Who do they play? So I heard your Ravens? Fuck, no, they ain't getting away. Wait, well, oh, no, what if they play Ravens again?

It's the Ravens again. That was a little sketchy last time It was a little sketchy but They weren't trying bro I was saying they're due for like I think a month already bro I don't know what they do For every week

For a little bit Hey bro since it's our event Dude yo we need to turn off amicist On the people we put it No no no no We would never do that Whoa yeah yeah Whoa fuck

All right keep it on but like Put them on like not dynamic That's not how it's like Hey I'm just in a trillion moon man Yeah no I'm glad I'm glad I'm glad I'm glad I'm glad I'm glad to get tacos after this fuck this shit Yeah, where?

Chalongos. Chalongos. Chalongos is good. Go to East Plano and get the the signature ribby. That's where it's at. You still owe me tacos from last year. I still owe you tacos from that.

I just made some yesterday because I was vlogging a new salsa recipe that I got from a friend, the internet friend. It was delicious. I fucking snap, dude. I think that before my time is done, I will own like a taco truck that I will only operate on Fridays.

like in front of a club. They're crazy ants? Just one day, one day. I'm not doing it to make money. Money's good made. Just for fun skis. Just for fun skis. Yeah, I'm excited to try those holy folk.

I did say, I did say, and I was telling Seth that every single time that something good happens to me personally, Optic like takes a little bit of a fucking bump. That's why the whole time I'm like, may it may be me. It may be me that has cost this thing to happen. Yeah. Maybe What do you mean? When I sold Optic in 2017

That was like a fucking great time for me Because I had accomplished what I accomplished How much did you sell it for? Rumors Are out there But How many millions Was it like like was it good?

It was good? It was great It felt great for me Would you buy? What'd you buy? All right let me lie You at least have to tell me what you bought Bought a house

That's it Responsible I'm a responsible to do. And a boat. But with the boat came an F-150 Raptor. And then with that came a garage. And then with that came a G-Wang. You know, bro, I swear to God, every single time you see the garage,

I thought it was literally like your garage or your house. But it's not that. No, it's the garage mahal, man. Bro. What? I just, I actually just had breakfast with Rab and the breaking point guys. Give them a tour of the garage mahal. Didn't have time to come here because we had the podcast.

Was today? What? Oh, you did it today? Yeah, I already did that. Went to breakfast. Fucking Ben, who I love dearly, Ben J. Nassim, who I loved dearly,

made some comments about us blacklisting people because they were talking shit about us, and that is just not the way that I personally move out. This is the United States of America, the great country of the United States of America where freedom of speech. Blacklisting who for what? Fucking, just,

he told, and again, this is no hate towards Ben, Ben's a good, fuck, I'm a CEO. I'm going to shake his hand. I'm going to give him a hug. Was he riding your shit? No, no. He's riding your shit.

No, ain't nobody ride my shit. That ain't true. Hey, whoa. Anyway, so where I was going with that, it's like, we had already planned something to go to breakfast while they were here. But then, like, recently Ben said that, that, uh, that they, the heat. Ben told the breaking, the breaking point guys or tactical rab that they better be careful in the way that they keep talking about it because we were blacklist them. And I'm like, I was like, nah, man.

And that's not how I don't move that way personally. Damn, Ben didn't get invited to the diner. To the diner or not. They're not like, it's two different, two different people, two different people, two different two different, uh, one zoo mafia. I'm just trolling, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I hear you. But anyway, long story short, uh, and again, this is no hate towards Ben.

Ben, Ben's a good, good fucking person. In fact, one thing I'll say about Ben is that he was the only, uh, org representative that brought a gift when we allowed people to, uh, boot camp out of here. back in the day. To this day, I don't appreciate that the motherfucker was walking around barefooted and shutting these floors. Ben was walking around barefoot

with his crusty ass feet. Ben, put on some shoes, motherfucker. Nature boy, Ben. Anyway, long story short, that was that. I just wanted to make sure that people not, listen, if I have a problem, and you can ask those who I have a problem with, if they know that I have a problem with them.

Also, I am a creator. I am a YouTube creator first that happened to stumble upon some responsibilities that led to great things. But I'm a creator when I see other YouTubers sort of building their shit like I respect that and I appreciate it and I it's kindred spirits in my opinion. So as much as Tactical Rab likes to lead the witness every so often and as much as everybody leads the witness Us included a little bit it's it's it's it's all fair game. It's all like we were performing bad

What the fuck were they supposed to say? You know? Yeah, that's straight up But us blacklisting people now even the people that I don't personally like are never blacklisted. So I'm confused about the blacklisting thing. Blacklisting them from like just to the like hanging out? No, from fucking throwing their show at the at the at our major. Oh, what? Yeah.

Who said that? Who said that? No one said that. Ben was insinuating. And again, no hate towards Ben. He said, watch out. He said, hey, you better watch out the way you're talking about them. We're losing, you know.

Are they going to talk about us? She still owes, rap still owes dashy some fucking stakes, though. That's not between me. It was just them. We have some pretty cool stuff happening this major.

One of them is the one v.1 me bro on Friday at 10.30 event. At 10.30 a.m. Why is I say hex? I don't, I gotta be there 1030. Yes, you do. Well, I'm not playing no one, am I?

Yeah. Wait, what game? This one? I don't know the game yet. What game, Matt? Is this one? It better be. He's black off six. I have no prack on.

Anything. Yeah, but it's been the wheel. You're gonna get shit. I'm probably gonna be there wrong. Fans get one life and cotton and try to get the highest kill streak possible. Yeah, I didn't know about that one. The kill stream equals more money. Oh, so whoever's funny gets you?

Do you hook there? You're getting a fucking rich. I mean, I do like to let people make money. No, that's a different event. That's a kill streak challenge Saturday at 4 p.m. That's a different thing. I think ours is like it's up to 10 and if they get a kill, it's $100 or something like that. So if they get 10 kills.

You know what I'm a man of the people. I let the people walk away some. cash. Yeah, you let them. Seth, may I remind you? I let them. May I remind you of what happens when I play eight hours a day? Okay? If I play eight hours a week, eight hours a day for a whole

week, I'm in Challenges. I'm fucking iridescent or whatever the fuck. Everyone's at 45 I still shit on these kids. You're in a CCL playing D4. Sure, but I'm still shitting on folks, folks. We also have a museum, the Optiv Museum. I'm bringing a lot of old school

stuff from 60-50. I'll have like literal relics at the place including some of the pink jerseys including just relics. I guess we'll start there. Hell yeah.

What else do we have going on? What are you looking forward to the most? Just sitting there getting the matches going? For the major? Yeah. Dude, it's our major. I fucking can't wait. The energy just being at a major. I feel Like ever since Madrid, it has just felt like this lull period, just waiting for the next, like, big thing, next major.

So I'm just excited for the event, man. Walk into the venue, you smell hot dogs, popcorn. Everybody's excited. Got the watch party. You get to watch some high-level cod on land. I mean, yeah, it's the major, bro. This is what we obviously do. We've watched already.

We have watched 300 matches. 300. The watch parties watch 300 matches. and only how many of them were the major or the minor tournament. Damn. So just think about how many league matches we've watched. Fuck yeah,

I'm excited for the major. Dude, because watching league matches isn't bad. Like, it's not boring. But they're just certain matches where you're like, you look at the schedule and you're like, fuck. Call it a dude, that's pretty good.

Specialist characters. Oh. Just make the shit crazy. They just make it crazy at this point. because I don't know. You got to make this shit crazy. At least in Valorant, like, you see fucking jet pop knives, fucking flying in the air.

That's just crazy. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited for the event, man. We have a meet and greet. It's fun. Yeah, meet and greet. 11. Saturday.

11 on Saturday. Yep, at the scuff booth. You already know. That'll be fun. I think it's the whole watch party. Yeah. So we'll all be there. It's going to be a fun event, man.

It's our major, obviously, a little biased, but I always think we put on the best major every year. going to be a fun time we certainly do got the ring ceremony on Thursday as well that'll be cool yeah yeah yeah so you gotta get our rings this way yo do they put the rings on you I will put the rings on you

oh you will yeah I got uh hopefully that shit well we measured oh shit you better have given you the right number because it was simply do you put it on and says nine okay I'm a size nine yeah you also have to like I have this is gonna be my fifth

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How excited are you for the major, man? Mark, I'm a lot. I'm pretty excited. Just because, like, I've always seen your guys as fan base. I just, I'm not going to lie. I've been booed, like, 75% of the time in my career. It's like, I've never had, like, a consistent cheering. Hey, whenever you use lots of chance, where they're doing whenever you're walking out.

Yeah. Yeah, they're booed my ass. Yeah, they're actually insane. Yeah, that's tough. Yeah. I mean, in a good way, in a good way. Yeah, in a good way. There's the best, best fucking fan base out there.

The only people that hate it are the small minority that get, get, get, get, get, get, good. You know what I'm saying? Uh, but you know what they like? Wins. You give the, you know what they like smart, aggressive place? Yep. So you have an opportunity to earn the energy. I know.

I'm excited. I know. You can shoot them in the back. I know. I've noticed that. Like, I've seen you guys like get two pieces in the back. Like, oh my God. You can shoot them in the back, freebies.

They'll go crazy. I want to get a 1B2. I want to get a 1B2. Just hear it. They might bust. No bullshit. They want to hear the roar. Yeah, 1B2 would go fucking.

Me and Brand, me and Brand just get a permanent double island. Just clutch. Cool. So you were saying that you are not a no sabo kid. No. You speak Spanish. Don't test me. No, I'm not going to test you.

No, I'm not going to test you. Now I kind of want you to test them. Yes. Say, give me, give me. Say the, say the, uh, Scump Watch Party meeting greet Saturday at 11 a.m. At all no. I can talk to you, but like, I'm not, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm,

you're getting to be nervous. I'm kind of breaking. No, all good, I'll good, I'll go. I want you, I want you confident going into this thing, because it is going to be a war, it is going to be a battle, you know? I have like, I feel like any pressure or stress. Good, good. Yeah, we might have to pull up this, uh, the food list here.

Yeah, that's what I was going to say. I need to see if, uh, Zinn is cooking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Zinn knows ball. Yeah, yeah. I've seen that list. I've better not seen McDonald's. I screen shot it.

I'm ready. McDonald's. Kinzo. What? I mean, it is, it is, we should be arrested.

Everyone who lives in Friscoe should be arrested because why we don't go there once every other week is, it's expensive. What's like the least? Oh, the fuck did you just say? It's fucking expensive, bro. This guy.

It is. I mean, it's not like a once-a-week meal. It's like special occasion. Oh, Oh, I see. Okay. The Charles, Mediterranean and Italian. The Charles is a, it's up there.

It is delicious. It is a vibe. Mr. Charles' sister, obviously, okay, so just so you guys know, the Charles, Mr. Charles' sister are all part of the same ownership group, but they snap. Mr. Charles almost got an award, a Michelin star. Uchi, similar to Nobu, you know, it's pretty good Uchiba, El Carlos Aligante Mexican. also part of the Dura Hospitality Sweet. Delicious. It also got a fucking a nod from the Michelin.

Monarch, Nick and Sams. Nick and Sam's is expensive. It's a vibe. The Henry, yeah, these are all good. Haywire, fucking, wait. Haywire, you should cut that because it's not three money signs. It's just two money signs.

Yeah, what the fuck is he talking about? Yeah, it's like two. It's one money sign, actually. How much is a stick cost? Nah, it's like two. Like 20 bucks? Fake? I think it wasn't there. It's not that bad, actually.

I don't know. Yeah, Haywater's fire, bro. They're chicken fried steak. Bro, he was rodeo go. Is that downtown Dallas, right? No, there's one here. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah, there's one.

No, rodeo goes vicious, bro. You got it La Ventana? Taqueria la Ventana? Yeah, you see it? Come on the accent, bro. No, it's the arch. It's the way you say Ars. It's the way.

Yeah, yeah, you like that? Taqueria. Yeah, so it was, I used to... Hell! I think it was across the building from where you said. Takaria? Takaria. Taqueria.

Taqueria. Taqueria. It's Modelo time Time He doesn't have catch on here Wait Mike's chicken Why does he have Mike chicken on here? No Mike chicken

Oh he's never had Mike's chicken He had catch on Sunday He had catch on Sunday He was gas Levantana tacos is good Chalongos is good Yeah it's good That's a really good list

Anywhere on there I've ate it I've ate it like 90% of those They're all good Same So that's a good list You had mics I haven't had mics

Wait, wait, the Kinzo, the sushi? Is that a five a mile? Yeah, they cook it? Or is it wrong? Bro, it is the best sushi I personally ever have. Even better than catch? Like that catch card? Oh, yeah.

Really? But the thing about catch. I'll bring it here you if you want. Bring what? Mike's chicken. He said he'd bring in mics because it's downtown, so I'm not going to go downtown. I've never had Mike's chicken either. I've never had Mike chicken.

He said it's the best thing ever. Best chicken ever. When are you going to bring some? bring some uh you got to understand you got to understand you got a you got a day 10 a m fried chicken hell no no your whole day is chocked especially you your whole day is chocked okay wait what do you mean what do you mean especially he's gonna tuck you

the older yes I am proudly yeah dude I think it's a it's a foody team we love food is belly I know it's fine I see this all button we're ready bro I'm ready I've been eating. Cool. So yeah,

like I think Zinny hit it out of park with this one. I would have added catch, but catch you can get pretty much anywhere. That's like all that he left out though. I will, I will say though that if you're in this area, Hutchins is the best barbecue that you can have. But if you want to really have the best barbecue

in the Dallas Metroplex, you have to go to Goldies. Goldies is an experience within itself. The food takes you on a journey on a smoky, smoky journey. You got to get there early, though, because the lines start lining up at around 4 a.m. I love that shit. You walk out of there smelling like just meats.

Just fucking smoke meat. They run out of certain stuff. Wait, it's better than, uh. You got me. Rudies? Hutchins. We have a search of Goldie's. Yo, search of Goldie's line.

That was good. Their rice is good. Well, search of line. I just want to see. There's no way. Holy fuck. Yeah, I'm good, bro. No, you're not good.

Trust me. It's so worth it. Also, we know the owner. Oh, wow. No, though. Yeah, we know the owner, so we can get in. We can skip the line. Scroll back up a little bit.

When I skip the line. On the right? What? Up one more. Up one more. On the right? Fuck is that's Vaughn. Where?

In that picture on the left side, that's fucking Vaughn, bro. Mid left, that one? Yeah. Mid-right. Or this to the right. I don't know what the fuck you said. Vonderhor? Oh, David Vaughar.

Oh, my God. What are we baked? What do we? Would you hit the sativa at the garage mall? Nah. No, not today. What time is it? Did you get tack rab high?

No. What? No, you can tell that. No, no, no, you can tell. He doesn't smoke. He's a gentleman. He's too tall? Yeah, he's fucking, he's fucking tall.

Yeah, he hits it and it takes too long for his brain. 30 seconds. 30 seconds. For the T.C. You're long. So we could cut the line, but what happens when we cut the line? What do you say? No, when I cut the line, every single time that we've shot videos there, like I pay for the first five people.

people's meal so that they don't feel too bad that I cut in line. Oh, that's smart. What the heck? He's just him, bro. Nothing crazy. We also have a spring drop coming out this 420. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I'm wearing it actually.

You're wearing it? You're wearing it? I don't got nothing, bro. I don't got this. I got this. 420, bro? No, that's not. Because I took them home and they said, we need them back.

I'd bring them back in. Same, same. Literally. I'm not even joking. Well, those are just the samples. You guys can keep them after the photos are taken. But yeah, we got a lot of cool stuff happening at the event. A lot of people are asking if there's like merch booths at the event,

if they can buy jerseys, like on the watch party and stuff. Yes, yes, yes, yes. But just like a forewarning, like if you go to like major three, for instance, they're not going to have like an optic booth. It's like, you know, it's like, isn't it only if it's your event? Yeah. Yeah. So like if it's major three.

Major three, major four, there won't be like an optic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To say less. That's just how it would be. Major three, I'll be in a, in a pool. Yeah. I was thinking of, uh, I was thinking of, of, maybe we should do a raffle for some of the skate decks that we have for friends and family.

Caesar, I'm going to hook you up with a bunch of optic memorabilia. I'm not to do whatever, bro. I'm going to get you, you, you're done so what? I'm not to do whatever. Dunk tank? Fuck yeah. What is that? You sit on a, you sit.

Yeah, I'm not doing that. On top of a pool, I throw a ball, right down the middle into a target. If I hit the target, you drop into the pool. Yeah, but we should do it for gifted, though. For gifts, yeah, right there. There you go. It's a dunk tank. They fit the gifted two times.

Two balls. That's expensive. That's not bad. I would do it. I do it. People would probably vapor. I don't know. It actually would.

That ass. Yeah, actually probably would. Of course. That's what fucking. him, Roger and the production team wanted us to do it. I'm like, fuck y'all, y'all get in there. Really? They actually wanted to.

Yeah. I'm like, no, you sit there, Roger, we'll throw, we, the team, we'll throw balls at that and try to dunk your ass. I don't know, I'm excited, man. Every single time that we have a major, like the entire week is just packed with, with cool meetings, you're catching up with industry folk that you haven't seen in a minute. Yo, you my boy and shit, but the spring drop grows live this Thursday? Yeah.

It's March, man. it ain't 420 oh my god you're a whole month in the dude I know that I'm ahead of the game always but this time I proved it it's because he wants it to be for Matt thanks thanks for correcting me

Matt yeah I was gonna say Matt you couldn't wave at me you had to him to mock me at the I was looking at the major I was looking at Halo tickets and it was like events April 20th and I looked up I was like

March April 20th is when we launch Pine Park Texas what what happened I don't know that it's crazy already March. I know. You guys were going over callouts

yesterday in March. I had some crazy cost. I walked in with my blogging camera and they're going over callouts. Yo,

why do you call that shit on a red card P4 Phillies? Phillies because it's because it teege? I was like,

yo, are they calling that shit Phillies? That checks me out, bro. I just call it bleachers. There's like a on P4 red card

there's like a fucking stairwell that goes like into the seats and they call it Phillies because it's It's like in the seats.

I was like, bro, why they call it Phillies? Apparently because Teage. Especially comedy. No, we always have like one truly call out. I don't know why. Or P5. Even last year. What was last year?

What did we have? Actually, I forgot last year, to be honest. But we always have one trolley call out. I fuck with that call out. Billy's. Because me and Caesar has way different callout to us. So that's kind of why we were going. I kind of learned, though, learned some of your call is from eight.

Yeah. From what? Like eights in the night? Yeah. Yeah, man. What is this Happy Gilmore 2 trailer? Did you see Happy Gilmore 1? Yeah, Adam Sandler?

Mista, Mista. That she's got like... Go out. Are they making a second now? Yeah, it's the second one. Oh, on Netflix, too. Oh, yeah, this is just a... Netflix got paper.

They just guarantee. They should have like... SpongeBob? What is that? What's with the Bieber 2? Holy shit. Why are they decided to make a Happy Gilmore 2 now? Because they are doing, Netflix is doing a documentary-esque.

So Netflix has a show, Matt, you like golf and you like F1. What's the F1 equivalent of, of that? Full swing. Thank you, Roger, who also loves, and I mean loves, and I mean loves F1 drive to survive. Like, this dude's got a tattoo on his back. Like, no bullshit. When you see him this weekend, if you see Roger this weekend, tell him to show you his back tattoo of F1.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. what France wants the statue of liberty back yes they do no givebacks France where we saw it from them wait did we what they gifted us

yeah he had me tweaking we stole it how in the middle of the night where did you put it you stuffed it on your pants I thought he stole that shit this big ass statue got wait so where I was going

the reason that they're doing happy Gilmore now is because one it's awesome and two it's a good way to also promote I don't know if you saw it but in the happy Gilmore movie that you did the trailer you saw all the professional golfers and all the professional blah blah I'm really mad at the fact that they didn't put my good good boys in the in the in the trailer or in I don't know if in definitely not the movie but you know what I'm saying you guys got see some good good good golfs in the background good golf hats bro these these guys own

golf anyway long story short they're using that as part of the promotion to also go along with their full swing full swing drive to survive as documentary series that they're doing it wrong Yeah, I'll be watching that for show. The first happy Gilmore is amazing. I haven't watched this since a long time ago. Is that O'Doyle rules? Play it where it lies.

Where's the O'Doyle rules from? Billy Madison, thank you. O'Doyle rules. O'Doil rules. Okay, hold it. Let me get the straight before we watch this. So they gifted us the Sessatria Libraise. What was the reason? What's the reason behind the gift? I don't

I'm just going to, the we help them gain their independence, maybe? Dude. Because the French would be speaking German right now, according to this House speaker. France gifted the Central Liberty to the United States as a symbol of enduring friendship between the two nations

and a commemorative, and then to commemorate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence. Oh, there's our independence. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, bro, you should see the fucking gift box that it came in. Is that you're saying?

Yeah, bro, big, go alone. Wait, so wait, all right, now what does the girl say? Let me hear. this. They didn't get in this back. The woman. There is now a member of the European Parliament from France who does not think the U.S. represents

the values of the Statue of Liberty anymore. They want the Statue of Liberty back. So is President Trump going to send the Statue of Liberty back to France? Absolutely not. And my advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to

remind them that it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now. So they should be very grateful to our great country. Damn. Damn. The fuck, she just went crazy. Yeah, she did. Yeah, she did.

She hit him with the low level. No name. That was a little little bit. Fucking politician. Low level, dude. I wish you, I swear to God, I thought she was going to say something like a Twitch, like a low level politician who streams on kick or some shit.

That would have fucking really bit. You know what I'm saying? No, that would have been. podcaster or something like that. Anyway, yes, Seth, they want it back. They won't get it back. They won't get it back.

Yeah, what? Yeah, get it? I mean, it doesn't sound like France wants it back either. It sounds like it's just one person being petty. Low-level politician. That wants it back. Yeah.

A US and Day. And US and they will not be given that granting back or, I mean, it's ours now, man. It's such a symbol of the United States. 100%. That can't go. Come take it. Wanted?

Come get it. I won't be there. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, ladies and gentlemen, I, as I am sure a lot of you are looking forward to today's or to this week's major, Caesar, I wish you selfishly. Selfishly, I wish you nothing but the best this upcoming weekend. I hope that you shoot straighter than you've ever shot. I hope that you move as fast as you've ever moved. I will say, last time I got dropped, I got like infinitely way better.

What do they drop you this time? This time? The pacing stuff, but it was also like... What pacing in terms of what? Oh. They were saying you're too slow? My engagements, but I also feel like we were going through the same thing that they were going through, like, they would scrim. Good, and then the game plan when they played, it's going to be different.

Yeah. That's how felt like with us. Like, we had like game plans of breaking or holding, and then we just do the opposite in a match. And it felt awkward for me, to be honest. Yeah. But that's like more than my engagements ended up being weird. just because I was like, I was playing my life too much

and trying to establish stuff whenever the way we played was different. And we need to take a route and we took a route so we needed it. Well, bang, bang, bang. Bang, bang.

Play every map like Boak. Just run at the hill, man. That was actually good at Boak. I used to throw up, bro. You remember in Vanguard when we were like, dude, why can't we win a fucking Boak? And then we just started banging hill

and we started winning gold. We just literally just started running at the hill. We took the quickest route to the fucking hill. That's all I remember. That's cool. Anyway. I'd go away for the major. Wish you luck.

Wish you luck. Wish all of you at home. Good luck this upcoming weekend. We'll see you guys next week. Same time. Same Bat channel. Sir, catch you guys of the mayor. Hello, boys.

Yeah, sir. Peace, peace, peace, peace, peace, peace, peace.