OpTic Podcast - MULTI MILLION DOLLAR DEAL | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 28

Episode Date: June 9, 2021

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Yeah. Do you even have a hobby that you haven't made a business out of? Graffiti. Weird flex. Well, I'm actually chasing my dream. It's like I'm actually doing it. Everyone, welcome to episode 28 of the Optic Podcast. Is it 28?

I think so. Is that what you said, Matt? 28, right? Or 98. Have I been on all 28? 28? Matt says 28. Have I been on all 28?

No. I think I have. No. I don't think anyone, I don't think anyone has done all. Yeah, I feel like you've been like 208. Yeah. Have you been in a whole? Come on. No, but this episode is brought to you by Keeps and Better Help and we'll tell you a little bit about them later on in the podcast. I haven't been on every single one, but I've been on the majority of ones the same way that you've been on the majority once the same way that he's been. The same way. Yeah. This is your first one. Is this your first one, George? Probably. Or not George. Welcome to the podcast. Welcome. Thank you. It's a blast. Thank you guys for having me. Did you watch, did you watch Seth before you became part? of TST or whatever?

I watched Seth. Strange question. Yeah. We put you on this spot. I mean, I watched comparative cod. I watched comparative cod. He was trying to push me like a birthday game. You know the Mexican?

You know the Mexican just throw you in? He'll try to do that to him. Force of habit. Anyway, the reason I'm asking is because last week or two weeks ago, it was Seth, Natechot, and an eye with this guy. and then he made a tweet about, like, you know, I used to watch them before I was on the same podcast. I want to see if you had the same thing.

Like, did you watch Us? He was an Aix fan boy. Oh. Well, I watched Akes before, yeah. But then I obviously became an Optic fan because Hitch was in and stuff. But I was always into competitive Coddard, since, like, Cod 4. I brought Hitch and Blake into Codney.

Huh. Who was your favorite team back then? Damn, so he brought you in. That's my favorite team back then. Or what about competitive? Like, what? from Caldry 4? And we're not talking.

Pro mod PC stuff, right? You're talking about DCLs? Yeah, PCL is like PS4 Online and stuff. So, D-Treats, obviously, was your favorite player back then? D-Treats. He's the only one that actually made good Montages from PCLs.

It's crazy that that's not even possible anymore. You can't snipe against pros anymore. Yeah. That's not even like fathom. Well, Dash, you could. Yeah. Well, in this game, you could. But I'm saying, like, he used to snip and respawn

the whole from start to finish he was yeah no shot you can't do that now there's no shot maybe in this game because run around with the Pellington that's what I'm saying you can get away with the Pellington yeah I don't think you get away with the Tundra but run around

quick scope with the Pellington if you're raw enough so I banning the whole time yeah anyway so what what were the teams do you remember any I mean it was fucking over 20 years ago so don't I mean I remember the first monitors I watched was like Hasrow's montage but

Hasrow? With the This fucking Joggernaut MP5 with the red dot cheater. I've never in my life have used joggernaut ever. I would never use joggernaut. What about martinum? Martyrdom? No. Or, uh...

Get off your high, hoarse. I won't. My horse is high and I sometimes am up there with it. Never. Oh, dude, no, no, no, no. I abide by a code, scump. You're doing shot. Just hear hit markers?

Yeah. No, it's not my thing. Yeah, and I was not my thing I never played I never played respond in cod4 though Did you ever play respawn? Yeah, you did that's Cod4 was the first game that I tried to like Play pro really

I played in like the last I think it was either the last two or very last Like PCL we went like Six and three or we went like two and six and then we Remade and we went like six and three or like So is that when you're your you're your remake team I mean in the PCL yeah Because you had to get

a higher rank. So if you started off shitty, like, and you don't want the people you're thinking, and think you're at birth. I see Team Fear pop up. We're two and six. They're like, for you. I'm six and three.

They're like. Are these with your like high school friends? No, this is with like Bobby and. Bobby Hamwee? Shout out to him. Yeah. What's he up to now?

Fishing. Fishing and eating soup. We, I did something on stream where we went through a watch a map of competitive call of duty through, started at Cod Four and went every year. And yeah, we watched,

we watched, I think, a leverage game. I didn't see it, but I saw that. Dude, Black House 1 is... Oh, no, I can't. The worst, bro, it's where they fucked up sniping for the second time ever. Treyard. They used one gun the whole game.

The Famas and what else? Apparently, like, if you watch the Deserdo, because they used to make rule sets back then, the DeSarito rule set, if they would have used that in the United States, I probably would have watched. Yeah. But I just didn't watch because I can't watch eight Famases.

Well, the Certo, The Serta was like sort of mirroring pro mod. You know, like I remember that because what's his name? The French superstar. What's his name? Gotta. Yeah, Opta Gautaga. Yeah, Opta Gautaga was a thing at one point.

Really? In Call of Duty. Yeah. Was it? Yeah. Call of Dutty four. Oh, yeah, that's way before. I was going to say.

Way before his blow up? No, I'm just saying like way before I was even in it. So I was, I was just saying I would have expected to hear. or something. Yeah. But I never heard that. All right. We have no notes today, right?

Or any questions from the fans yet. So I want to ask you your true and honest opinion. I want to ask you the same thing too. What do you think or how do you think, how do you think the, it's my half brother, how do you think the war zone tournament is going to go? It's in a private lobby. Obviously, it's going to be all the super influencer dudes are going to be on it, who are also very, very good.

I want people to understand is that these people, like, Nick Merck's played professional at one point, right? So he, yeah, in two games. So he is like a good, he's not only obviously a superstar. Fortnite and Gears. Fortnite and Gears of War. He played Fortnite? Yeah, I mean, yeah.

He plays well, I guess. With a controller, mindy. Yeah, he was like one of the first. Yeah, remember in Tilted Towers with Aiden? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, all right. So you have those people.

So these aren't just like people who are just like popular. They're not like me, right? I'm internet semi-popular, but not good at Call of Duty the way that these guys are good. Yeah. There's no, I mean, yeah. Mostly because I don't play as much as they do. These guys are trying to win. Otherwise.

It's going to be lit. It's going to be insane. That's a lot of good players. As long as there's no problems with it, it's going to be fun. That's the thing is every, what's the format? Every time. I mean, I was going to say every time that there's been a private lobby, the first couple games in any game are always, laggy yeah but they've done this before in the CDL so maybe it won't be laggy

this time around but there's gonna be a lot it could be crazy there's gonna be a imagine like I mean there's a lot of good players because even the content creators are actually really good yeah yeah so it's gonna yeah really sweaty yeah yeah it's gonna be sweaty like well he's gonna he's nasty right yeah dude I can't have met who's casting I think oh Merkin Mavit are casting it they're gonna have the time of their life it's gonna be so easy to cast because you just look around for what fights are going on where

and you know everything about all six of those players. Yeah. Not only that, but they play war zone every single day for hours on end. I can't if I was to do a contest right now to name five places in Verdansk, I don't even think it's called Verdansk anymore, right? Yeah, it is Verdans. It's Verdant. 1980s.

Okay, all right, whatever. From here, it's going, I can't wait. I can't wait to stream my reaction to it because I'm going to stream my P.O.V. Yes. And right now, Matt's gonna be playing from here. Joe Wohl was gonna be playing from here. And then possibly, how do the Joe Wohl thing happen?

I woke up one day. Yeah, yeah. He texted me and was like, hey, like I need good internet to play in this because I'm playing directly against, you know,

other people and the North Carolina internet can't hang. And you were like, I agree. Yeah, me and Blake might have to come down here. Holy shit. It's gonna be lit in here if that happened. Where are you playing from?

home I mean I might play from here yeah maybe there's gonna be a pack it's gonna be a house dude I'm gonna be like this

this is gonna be so well I'll tell you what content will be abound and then date I mean I'm focusing you are not coming in here

no no no I agree I agree not coming in here here yeah he's gonna be frying too because Damon's been grinding

dude Damon is disgusting The shit that I see sometimes From any pro player It's just like out of this world Then I want to see like a retired one Who plays fucking like seven other games On a daily basis Which have no resemblance from a

Engine standpoint What are the games he's playing? It's just like mind-blown. The shit that I saw him defending the base on Rust Did you see that? Dude, I don't know anything about Rust But I know he killed 45 people Yeah

It was just like got another one And he was just got another one Yes keyboard and mouse. Yeah, just he doesn't, he doesn't call out anything. I killed another one crooked. Bro, this is Damon the whole time. Probably.

He's always done that. Yeah, he moves his head right. Yeah. I know, I know his does that. Yeah. Well, we play Rockley. We play Rock. Dead ass I was playing Rockley with Blake the other day and I went like this.

And then I, we wouldn't have Cam's on and I was like, bro, if you saw what I just did, I'm so embarrassed right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I was just... You're plugged in. You're plugged in.

That's how you know you're in it. How do you think it's going to go? What are you looking forward? Because you're competing, right? Yeah, what's your team? It's me, Blake and Holly. Two. We just picked up Holly.

Looking for that. No, it's going to be sweaty. Blake and I haven't been... Blake and I haven't been... Stunned. Stunter's going to be Lofy, actually, but... Hit him with a slide cancel? We haven't played any private matches at all, so we don't know how it's going to go.

I mean, I don't think really anyone has... Yeah. You need to get somebody to get your guns ranked up. Yeah. So I had it in the thread, right? In the thread. I'm like, yo,

do you, I'm like, Matt, do you and Seth need somebody to rank up your guns? Matt said, well, Matt's been playing a little bit of war zone. I haven't touched it.

Matt's like, my shit's been ranked up and he did the emoji with the fucking, with the smoke. I haven't played war zone. Yeah, you got to get your cold war weapons up. So I was thinking this is what, this was one of my contents.

This is one of my content. content ideas, right? Like, you should give your account to Damon for Damon to stream ranking up scumps weapons. I don't know. I have like a 5.4 KD. I don't know. Your hands or your cheeks? I don't know if I can give him that.

Why? Because you have a really good one? Yeah, it's a really good KD. And you want to keep it up there? It matters to you? Yeah. What's your pub KD in Cold War? I have no idea.

Could care less as well. You have a 5KD in a war zone? 5.4 or something? Holy shit. Yeah. Mine's like a 0.5 something. Like almost the same. Almost the same.

Same numbers. But yeah, I need the T-Pose site and the Mac 10 leveled up. The T-Pose is not that bad. Dude, that's gonna be so fun. I forgot what event it was, but there was a H-1Z-1 event where a bunch of streamers went

and they all competed at like live, at like a Pax or something. And I remember Damon went, and Damon and Holly both competed. and Damon was just driving around and he he made it he made it he made it right no it's H1z1 oh yeah yeah he was driving around and just sniping people and they were watching him the whole time it was so fun to watch and then somebody came in with a car and holly was shooting it while the car was in the air and the car exploded in midair and holly had killed like a it was like a big name yeah i don't

i forgot who it was but i was just like dude this is so dope seeing like streamers play against each other yeah and now you're gonna take that little taste of like yeah that's what dreamer on streamer action and now you're just blowing that's what I'm excited about because Blake and I and Holly are going scrapyard that's where we want to go so I wonder who else is trying to go scrapyard well now we are shit I don't know I don't know where we're gonna go honestly we'll probably go when do you start practicing for that do you start practicing for I probably not you don't think you're gonna practice maybe like a day before yeah I just wonder who's gonna

make private lobbies You could play as soon as you get back from the land, unless you're taking a couple of day break. Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, when is it? When is the week after the major? 23rd, did it? So it's the major, and then the next weekend is the fours on.

So it would be like the 25th. Something like that. I think it's a couple days then just to play it. Play it with Damon and Matt, dude. Y'all can win that shit. Play fuck around and be nasty. Dude, y'all could. Well, there's some other nasty team.

Yeah. Who are there Clayster, Asim, and Zuma? That's a good team. No, there are good CDL teams, but like the war zone kids that are teaming up. I mean, I think Aiden's squad. That's the squad. What is it? You don't want to land anywhere near.

It's like, I think it's Aden scummin and someone else, right? It's like demons. Yeah, demons. Like Biffle and Super Evans. Yeah, like anime, Avi's. Damn. That's how you know when someone's good. Like Biffle didn't show his face to like last week.

No one knew who Biffle did show his face to like last week. full of like last week yeah I didn't know that dude I'm fucking psyched man I mean the the level of viewership that's gonna be coming from that alone the only thing I'm mad about and and look let me know who needs somewhere to play from the UK sideman fucking from Barcelona those who want to regrecent like to the US US do you know what was that I said I said pleasure as in pleasure, but I meant Lugar as in place.

I'm going to give you guys a pleasure. If George wasn't here, we would... No. You said it like a no sabo kid. No sabo. Everybody in the comments to speak, I'm going to be like, you're going to give everybody pleasure or whatever?

Yeah. You were looking at me doing it too. You were right in the eyes. I said pleasure. He said pleasure. I don't know. I'm psyched. The thing is, it's like, until we

open up completely and we see, you know, a ruby is, we see my brother, Willie Rex. We see all these massive Spaniolos come out here, right? From Mexico? Got against? French. Is he still

is he playing war zone now? Because he was But he, no, no, but he is that good though. Like him, Skyrose. Imagine him Skyros and if Wartek comes out of retirement plays. Like that's massive audience right there. That's what I'm saying. Like if you got the best. My best brother. The best, I mean, if you got them to

come down and play in a world series from the States, dude, that would break. That would be crazy. That would break viewers. Oh, yeah. No. All those bigs are. Everybody would be like

League of Legends, who? That's how big this thing would be. Does Nate have a team? Do you don't know if Nate? He got invited, but I don't know if he got a team. Because I'm trying to think of like, right now is he landing?

I think everyone's playing. Is that where you want to go to? I see. I wonder if Nick, is Nick Marks playing in it? I don't think he's playing it either. There's like a few that you could still get. Oh, no.

There's a lot of demons playing. But there's, I mean, there's obviously a lot. Are they not playing? No. Are they not confirmed? Like Tim, it's him playing? I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know if I'll, what about Dr. D? He's definitely playing. I have no idea. What? I really don't know. It's just going to be interesting to see how it plays out.

Because it's going to be like, are people going to try to rush, like, lesser skilled teams or are they, is everyone just going to play it safe? I mean, there is points per kill and there's points for placement. So I don't know. That's what I'm saying.

So like, what's the strat? I think the strat is you go in and then early game until you, until you, you just you just hit teams then once you gulog if you have like 16 17 kills like as a squad you just chill

I like that you want that you want that I wonder if what's the format like is it three games we had it last week it's like one kill equals one point yeah that I don't know because if it's more than what if it's just one game no I think it's like five I think yeah five or six or something

so then people might rush like we might do what he just said yeah just fly at teams until you get googly. Damon's definitely one of those kids. It's like, all right, I'm hitting the next team. And then you're done wiping a team, done looting up, and you look up and Damon's like.

But this is the thing. Matt was saying the other day when we were on the podcast that people are going to go solo like they do in pubs. And I said, no, the fuck they're not. No way. They can't. They can't. No one's going to run.

You try to 1V3, a good team, you're dead. Yeah. I'm just going to finesse you played up and have my teammates shoot you in the back. Yeah. There's no way you can do that. There's no way you do that. But that's the dope part. about this is like it's going to be

teams hitting each other yeah like I bet you there's not even going to be that many third parties because oh there's going to be a lot of third parties yeah because they're going to be holding each other off and the fights are going to the fights are going to be so long too yeah like people aren't just going to go throw their lives away exactly like the fights are going to be like two minutes

and if you hear shots you have two minutes to react to it like you're going to third party people like sliding jiggling around corners and like stun yeah it's going to be like the CDL just jiggle peeking it's going to be nuts I can't wait I want I wonder what, I wonder what something that people don't use right now in pubs that would work better in like, BVP. Yeah, Blake sniper for sure. Snipes.

And I was thinking maybe like smokes, maybe. Duns for sure. Like RPGs. I bet you, a riot shields. I bet you people are going to, people are going to bring out some stuff. I'm still using like the rifle that I used like a year ago. It's kind of like a CodXP in a sense. Like everything's open.

It's like weird. It's going to be weird for us. Like coming into that. We have so many restrictions and now there's riot shields. Riot shields and Cali-State. Gas grenades. Like you bought. Claymores.

It's going to be interesting. I don't think people use Claymores. They might. I bet you when they drop in and they see a Claymore, they're going to pick it up and put it down 100%. Yeah, you just never know. And then if you get it, you remember where you put it. If you get a hit later, you're like, there's a team. This side of the map.

People are going to especially, I never underestimate Cod Kids. Cod Kids will scumbag in charity tournaments. They'll scumbag in this. Oh, 100%. So what other pro players? You know what it's crazy? Okay, so Aden does have his own squad, right? Because it may, it was weird to me that New York had Clayster.

Is it a Seam? Is it? I think it's Clayster, Aesim, and. Is it Aesim? Zuma. And Zuma. So Zuma's playing on mouse and keys? No.

I saw him playing on with hand. Oh, he was? With hands. With hands. With hands. As opposed to the usual. Who else is it? Who else is in it?

I honestly don't even know like what teams are in it. Methods slacked and John. Methods Slack and John for what? For the war zone. Okay. I don't know what other. So Crowder's playing with who?

Crowder's playing with Kaylee. Kaylee and someone else. And someone else. So that's probably the phase squad. Yeah. But yeah, I mean there's there's a lot of teams. Yeah.

A lot of teams with all. I bet you like every time you go to kill some, to go to go to. fight a team, you'll know almost all three of them. Yeah. I, I, I'm looking forward to the second World Series of Warzone, right? Is there going to be one? Have they made any of them?

There's like, or just one. This one, oh no, there's a lot of money attached to this thing. This one's like 300K is there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. In total is like a million. Yeah, yeah. So it is, it is several. It is several.

Okay, so like on the next ones, I really hope that, you know, my people from Spain, my people from fucking France and all the, the, the, the sidemen. Who else is nasty for? from like over there. Like, can you imagine like how good are the Russians? You know what I mean? Yeah, we don't know. How good are the Russians, the Ukraine, the Polish, right?

Like we're talking about people who have dominated in in Counterstrike for a long time. Here we go. All right. So the top squads made first place is 50,000. So 16K per player. Second is 10K per player. Third is 66666. That seems low, doesn't it?

I think it's just for one though. Yeah, this is for one. So the 300k. Yeah, this is just for the first one. that's why it pays out yeah it pays up oh it's only 200k then it pays out all the way to 25th yeah that's what I was saying it pays out but it's all this one's only 200k I thought it's 300 what's what do you think you're landing there like how much are you making total 200 the bottom there minimum like on the prize we got at least top 10 that's the way what's

is that oh top what it's like extra yeah the extra shit oh wait wait what is this so now I hope that Maddie's putting these these sort of things that we're looking at right now so let's just three dollars if you place top 10 Damn, what? The captain payout, wait, and the captain gets $20,000? Who's the captain of our team? Damon, David's going to get $20,000 if he comes from first? David and Blake, oh, no.

Wait, what is that? That's sharing that shit. Wait, what is that? Captain's Cup? Captain's Cup, paid directly to the captains' only. 20,000 for first, 50 for second. What is captain's cup? Some bullshit is what it is.

What do you mean, Captain's Cup? You guys have to come into agreement before anything. Oh, 100%. Yeah, yeah. The good thing is that the money comes to the org and then the org will... Yeah, so there's no agreeing. You're sending me, Mike. Now, now that's how it works.

Captain's Cup. Yeah, that's actually kind of cool. I like what they're doing with it. I like the fact that they're, as much as they're keeping it into a professional setting, that they're also having fun with it on some aspects of it. Yeah. I, for one, am looking super forward to it. importantly the second and third iterations of this thing is what I is what I hope to see yeah because

you know hopefully you guys will continue to play right like but if you guys don't want to then obviously there's no I mean in the off season we're playing war zone more so it's like that would be better for us I hope that as soon as though the as soon as soon as champs happens and we win champs right I hope that the next day you and is are on your way to Hawaii somewhere for at least fuck like two weeks get the fuck out of here sats bye go enjoy yeah i'm going yeah we're leaving we are all leaving yeah imagine no content for two months or two weeks i mean two weeks what what's the matter nothing you don't want to do that no that sounds great you don't want to disappear for two weeks that'd be cool come back looking like big tea and fucking x games in austin what bald no

just a red bald and red just bald and red just hurting herding her He still thinks to this day that it is because of that one that one sunburnt that he got that he's had all these fucking skin problems from it You think that's what he thinks might be right you think that quickly could have got fried and then just like said Maybe no joke I wonder how tan the cavemen were Well I would have fair too well there man I bet you you would have I would have been a gatherer If we st. You would have stayed in the cave You were a day walker Look at me like

If I went out in the sun every day Looking for saber tooths Like I'd be dead I'd just burn They were probably so tan Did I burn in like Shredded and tan

I don't know about shredded They didn't have the sustenance To be able to do that Not like the food To be able to actually get shredded Yeah you're probably all skinny Yeah Yeah

They're probably all like me It's like they had filets every day That is very true I had a flay last night It was delicious No, not even filets, right? Like, you don't get to, like, think about the amount of sugar, right? Like, the amount of sugar that, like, they've found that Egyptians who have been mummified for thousands of years had perfect teeth and little to no tooth decay.

Well, that's because the aliens help them. Because of alien technology that was dentist. No, because there was no sugar back then to deteriorate your teeth. Yeah, there was. They had cane sugar. But not the processed sugar that we have now. Yeah, it wasn't processed. No syrup.

No corn syrup. none of that. High fructose. Yeah, fructose stuff. He's just going along with it. All right. Give us a quick second. What we say hello the sponsors and we'll be right back.

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Back to the podcast. So a huge shout out again to Keeps and Better Help. Thank you for sponsoring the podcast. We're going to bring it back with a question from Brett Nicol. Question for the next podcast. ever been a content creator you guys have always wanted to collaborate with and if so who we'll start with you uh i've always said hamlins uh the tsm guys those tssm boys back in the day like their content was unmatched yeah they were hilarious i was not that i would not what happened to those

dudes i have no idea deacon hamlins daycuan hamlins i don't know i they uh i know myth is still yeah he's funny but i know they they posted something like a few months ago there was like selfies of both of them. So they're doing good, but I just think they took a break from. Do you think that that's the move, though? Like, most people sort of get in, and I'm, I'm, guilty of this. You guys are, you definitely guilty of this. Seth's guilty of this. You, you guys are now becoming guilty of it. That you get to this point to where the, your lifestyle gets so much better that you could, you could slow everything down with the money that you've made and, and sort of just enjoy life. Do you think that that's what they did? They just made so much cash

within those like couple of that one two years i just think that you burn yourself out yeah i think what i was saying because they stream like every day i think one of them got sick if i remember correctly and then he just stopped i can't remember i i really don't know what happened but but yeah i do know what you're talking about like where you you can just take breaks i i've definitely seen people do it i can't do it yeah i can't take breaks because i i'll drive myself thinking of it yeah i'll drive myself crazy yeah like that's why i don't really like take i definitely don't take longer than week week week vacations and i haven't had i mean i haven't been on vacation and yeah we just took one to be honest y'all did yeah yeah i streamed so i was gone yeah yeah yeah but i'm saying like whenever

whenever alexia i take a yeah uh vacation next it would be for it'll be for like a week but i think i think i take like uh i do a good job of taking the breaks that i do and i guess a break is just like getting out of the place that you're usually in right because i mean i still take calls no matter where I'm I was taking like phone calls while I was fishing in Mexico yeah for like meetings I was tuning into the lead calls from over there uh so I took a call in line at space mountain one time yeah though that's what I mean like it is that is that is that is a good vacation though right because because you don't feel like you're leaving behind the shit that you work so hard for and you don't have the fear of losing ground and that's why I keep

telling this dude like he need he needs to take a break more than anyone I think I see that's the fucking most we don't get breaks we don't get breaks. I know. That's what I'm saying. People are like, you guys aren't streaming. It's like, dude, we practice every fucking day. Yeah. Like, we don't get breaks. Right, which is why I'm saying. Like, look how red you turn. But it's, it's, I get angry because people like, people don't differentiate content from my actual job. Why do you, why do you listen to them? My actual job is to be a professional until I stop doing that. You're frying this week. Huh? Yeah. You do go off there, but. Thank you. But yeah, it's kind of

annoying because people are like, why do you leave us? And it's like, dude, like, we just got smoked for a week straight in the league like we got to take a step back yeah makes sense i don't don't get breaks no we don't right and but i do wish that you could you know like like i like i was saying i do take my like twice twice a year for sure i'm gone at least from a thursday to a sunday yeah twice a year like where i i try not to do any calls either i'm in mexico fishing with the gougans or i'm here at home with my friends somewhere in like yeah i don't i love Thursday to Sunday breaks are perfect. Yeah, I agree.

Those are perfect. But you also need that one Monday as like a reacclamation to like the thing. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Like a vacation from the vacation? A wind down from the vacation. But like a week long, like a week long thing sometimes. Like it starts hitting the like the post and I'm just like I got to get back.

Like that's just how I've always been. But like a Thursday to Saturday or Thursday to Sunday. Yeah. When I do content full time, I probably won't take more than like a week break. probably like a week would be my limit why is that just like probably same as him yeah yeah

you don't want to be gone for too long you think when you we think when you go full content full content full time you're going to get cracked with it like you're going to like really think about it like are you going to put as much effort into content as you put into your professional work what he means by that is like are you going to examine the thumbnail you're going to examine the title

the tags because right now right now you're heavily focused obviously on your job But then, like, your content stuff, like, you let other people do it or, like, you'll do it. You'll grind it for a month and then you'll stop. And, like, what are you, as I'm saying, like, will you, do you think you're going to get, like, obsessed with it? It's hard to say. Yeah.

Depends what game is out. Depends if I'm enjoying it. Depends, like, so many different factors. Well, in that sense, you have game freedom, too. You can play whatever the fuck you want. Yeah. I mean, you can and you can. It's, like, that's how Twitch is.

Like, you play something else with less viewers. That's true. You can't be playing Monster Hunter on your Switch? No, yeah. See, I couldn't play that on the street. How do you know, though? Hmm? How do you know?

It could be the best, the biggest monster hunter. I mean, you have to build a base before you just go play other shit. I mean, you could collaborate with other people. You know, that's, that's an easy. That's completely unrelated to what we're talking about. No, you can. If you're starting, what is it, Monster Hunter? If you go to Twitch and you see who the biggest Monster Hunter guy is, you can, I don't know if it's multi-playerer.

There's probably like. three guys stream you I can guarantee that if I go to YouTube right now and I look Monster Hunter videos

there's going to be like 2 million view videos out of I mean but those are like the Monster Hunter grinders that know like everything they give me the tips

and tricks videos I teach a professional call duty play or how to play scump I mean I'm telling you there's something there yeah there

there definitely is so anyway we were talking about a content creator that you guys wanted to collab who sideman sideman

that's a good one because I want I don't know. I'm really, I'm really interested in doing IRL videos for, like, I want to do, like, outside shit. Yeah. Yeah. A lot more. So would you be doing the, uh, the, the, uh, I want to do Optic versus Sideman crossbar challenge.

Crossbar challenge. Yeah. That's right. Wait, who, who won that between Face and Sideman? Sideman. Sideman. I think, I think they did. Yeah.

Phase, I didn't know. Phase has some, phase has some ballers. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think there's just, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I think, I think they're just like super athletic, just dudes that are into. who you know fitness more than anything i think we're doing a crossbar challenge on thursday with castro zuma and then you said you're yeah i'm in but where where is it

probably plano okay i'm in or because i can't figure out how to book those fields but yeah we're going to do stuff like that so sideman for you yeah yeah sideman i don't know you don't know i have no idea i wish that i could collaborate with scump and formal you know i don't i don't think I don't really like. Play league play with with Nick, but you won't play with us? I mean, that was before a match. I was just curious.

And I dropped to get defensive. Nick, who? I might have to play. I played league play with Nick for like in like 40 minutes before we had our scrimms before our match. And of course, Nick, I just wake up to Nick's tweets and it's just, oh, I saw that. Live with scomp, he's going crazy.

I wasn't going. crazy I was just chilling. No, we know. It's just, yeah, obviously clickbait is everything. I don't think I have one that one specifically that I would. Let me think. There isn't.

There isn't one. And if it was it would be artists. Yeah, like a rapper or something. Not even a rapper. Like Riza. No, like I don't know. I would want to I would want to do a collaborative art piece. Asap Rocky.

Asap Rock. Oh, Aesop Rock. Aesop Rock. Aesop Rock. Yeah, Aesop Rock. Not to be confused with A, yeah, one's this Jewish dude from Brooklyn and the other one is this black dude from I don't know where. Where is Aes Araf Rocky from? Where is you from?

I don't know. I think it would have to be like an artist, like something graffiti like, I think, I think Ten Huna, Ten Hunt from. I just see where is it? Where is? Oh, shit. There you go. So they, they, they definitely. I'll do Aesaf Rocky.

That is. Oh, that is. Asap. Oh, he's from Harlem. Yeah, now do ASAP, A-E-S-O-P-R-C-K. Ooh, take no prisoners. A-S-A-R-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-S-A-R-S-A-R-S-A-R-S-A-R-S-ROM. That is pretty confusing.

That is. Yeah. Yeah, so who's better? Obviously. Obviously, Harlem. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bo-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B----------------. It's jibaja jabba.

That's the one. It's all good. I mean, that's just one song. You know what I'm saying? Okay, so, next one is there a specific part of your daily routine that you can't live without? And this is coming from Matt Rowe. I first read that. I thought they would say, is there a specific part of your body that you can't live without?

My brain. I would say my member. I got their laugh from Matt. I couldn't live without your memory. Is there a routine that you? You couldn't live without? Coffee. That's a routine?

Yeah. I don't really have routines. Yeah, I don't really have routines. I'm trying to think. I'm like, you don't brush your teeth? Gross. I mean, obviously. Obviously shower and stuff.

Yeah, I don't take a shit. That's mine. Okay, this is part of my daily routine taking a poop. I can't live without that. Well, it's like when I wake up and I'm like, I don't want to get out of bed. And then I'm like, well, coffee exists. And it motivates me to get out of bed. I'm on the movement.

Let's the movement. of nobody talking about their poops anymore. Oh, why is that? Why? Why? Because I just, I hate when people tweet about it. Did you know? Talk about it. That way back in the date royal families used to pay to smell certain feces. No way. Yeah.

That's some freaky shit right there. I know. So can you bring me that village nowadays you can send someone a bucket of monkey shit for like 60 bucks. I heard you talking about that. Yeah. I don't know. I don't think I really have a specific routine that I can't live without. movement to stop

What? That's just funny. I mean, I hate I hate with people. I was like, what are you talking? I don't care like. I got to move. Just about like their own personal, you know,

routine habits, you know, times, whatever length, birth. Yeah, I wouldn't talk that deeply into it. It's crazy.

I went 10 years not realizing they're like, that shit smells. Smells pretty bad. You? Oh, so now you're able to. Your shit actually didn't stick.

It didn't smell it. I would have such an ego. Couldn't smell the, couldn't smell it. Well, I mean, I knew it probably did, but I just couldn't smell.

How would you know? True. Exactly. And also, I forgot how, like, how bad fart smell sometimes. So you just let them go.

And the silent one smell worse. Worse. But I didn't realize, but I didn't want people to know that I was farting, so I would, all of them are silent.

How'd we get here? All of them stunk. So everyone around me Had familiar faces. Every time I see someone go. Yeah. Oh, he smelled it. I can't smell so I can't fart.

It's just like it's nature. But the thing is like if you couldn't smell it, you wouldn't. Like I wouldn't even act guilty. You can't smell it. It's like. I mean, I didn't. If you smell it and you're like, you know, you can't even act guilty. You just got to wonder how I just got to wonder how much.

I just got to wonder. how many times I would let it go and then not think about it because I couldn't smell it but it just affected everyone around me. Probably like probably hundreds of times. Yeah. Here's a question. I just did the

my my cannabis podcast on the eavesdrop. It wasn't, it was just about the industry. What's your shirt say? Is that the the Rocky Horse show? No, this is the guy from, tells from the crypt. Tales from the Crypt. You remember that? Oh, yeah. I thought it was called the Rocky.

Rocky Hor Show. No. No, yeah, that is him. It's the, the cryptkeeper. It was his name, but this was the Spliffkeeper. He's like a troll, isn't he? In the show? Yeah, this is a villain's exclusive t-shirt. He's wearing the same hat that I'm actually wearing right now. It's all saying, is there a business that you would like to explore outside of what you do now? Like, if you get to have an opportunity, like, where would you want to invest your money or music? Like, what? Do you have any ideas? I probably like on the production side of things. Like own a studio? Yeah, yeah. Like I mean, I can probably learn, but I don't know anything right now. But just being able to bring people. Because like I'm in a situation where I can find people that make beats, find people that, you know, mix, mix shit.

And then like other people that know stuff about music. So I feel like owning a studio or, you know, being in that environment. There's something there. but I don't know exactly what was the question again if you could like what businesses are you interested in that you would like to invest or participate in or start film film yeah I love movies movies shows yeah so you would like to be an actor maybe like critiquing or like acting what do you mean critique like like no I watch films or like you help produce them or you

act anything anything yeah I think it'd be cool what about you uh maybe voiceovers Yeah, you got the voice word. People always tell them I could do voiceovers So I'd be like, I could probably try and dabble into that. Oh, yeah. Some like alpha-beta shit. Yeah.

Oh, like cartoons. Like cartoons and stuff. Yeah, that'll be dope. I don't know what I would do. Cannabis. Oh, but I mean, yeah, so. That dinky binky. That chronic.

Yeah. I mean, I guess I am doing those things, right? Like fishing, obviously, like that's a big part of my life. You pretty much make a business out of all of your hobbies. Yeah. Do you even have a hobby that you haven't made a business out of you? Graffiti. Weird flex.

I'm actually chasing my dreams. He's like, I'm actually doing it. Yeah, I'm actually doing it. You're fucking idiots. Yeah. Yeah, I think graffiti would be a good one. Do you either want to make that a business? No.

Yeah, I want to keep that my thing. Like we're doing prints right now of like some of the work that I've done just so I can, what's up? You're squinting over there? I think you were going to say something. Yeah, so art, I think would be like... I'm not a wish for here to roast. Yeah, right. No, I think, I think so I think, I think the art thing would be like the number one thing.

But at the same time, it's like, you know, I'm a, I'm a, I'm really hard on culture. And I know what should and shouldn't be done in some cases. And graffiti belongs in the street sort of mentality. So therefore you can't put, you know what I mean? So even me stepping out of my comfort zone and putting it on print and then selling it. for people to have like it's it's uh it was like a weird thing to get sort of okay with right because one i'm not the way that this dude is right the guy this guy i'm not as good as my my brother omens like those dude should be making like a living off of that yeah but they're so i don't

know graffiti is just like a weird subculture all within itself have you gotten into do you have like ownership or have you gotten into like the business side of sports at all like traditional sports. Yeah. That'd be cool too. I totally forgot about sports. I'd love to do that. Alfredton Town FC. Like we have an investment into that. Like NFL? Imagine if we part owned an NFL team, that'd be so sick. It's like immediately like you're so invested. Oh yeah. I'd go to every single game. Get hot dogs, beers. That'd be running that shit. Or get a box. Just anything you want every single game. It's like automatically you have a

favorite team. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't know. Yeah, I probably switch. It would depend who we got in. It's different for you. because I don't like have, I never, I didn't grow up watching because like in North Carolina, we have the Panthers and we didn't have the Panthers at first and then we had the Panthers. It was just like, so everyone in North Carolina is still like a lot of people are still Redskins fans or Washington. Yeah, what? Football team. The football team, yeah.

So, um, so it's like I didn't grow up like insane with basketball. There's nothing in North Carolina either. Yeah. So like everybody's just a college football college. About UNC. Yeah. Michael Jordan looked behind you. Yeah.

Well, that's what I'm saying. A lot of people are college, football, college basketball fans. Yeah, North Carolina is just college basketball. Oh, okay. But no, we don't like UNC. Wait, why? We just don't. Who?

Everyone. Why? I don't know. I just grew up not liking them. What? That's so weird to me? Why? And I hate her.

Did you guys, did you know that Patrick Ewing played for them? Like, that basketball player alone is legendary. Do you know who else played for UNC? The greatest of all time. undisputed Jay J.J. He played for Duke, didn't he? Yeah, yeah, he played for Duke.

I think I watched him play. Yeah, I watched him play. I watched Steph Curry play in what he was on Davidson. Bro, Jude. Jude and her family saw, what's his name? Kevin Garnett played the Rexplex in Mount Prospect. Like, every weekend. And then my brother-in-law Leo, who you guys know,

he used to tell everybody, he's going to the NBA, he's going to the NBA, 100% going to the NBA. Yeah. So my girl and her sister got autographed like dollar bills and they don't know where the fuck they're at. Damn. When we were in high school, the high school it was like right down the road from us called Word of God, John Wall went there. And that's all anyone was talking about. It's like, don't play Word of God.

There's this dude on Lord of God that's just. And then so like, you know, the song, John Wall or whatever, have you ever like heard that song? Yeah. That song like is North Carolina artists. because like at one point there was like a few there was like six other John Wall songs you want us up what's like Kit I don't know I love

yeah I like the I think eventually getting into the business side of sports and stuff that would be fine yeah so so I mean even that investment over there like we were supposed to visit all last year to go to the to meet the town to meet the you know the rest of the ownership group and all that and we never got a chance to because of because of COVID and luckily

the team survived COVID because Because it's like, it's not in the Premier League, right? Like it's a, it's a super low, low team. But still, you know, it's, you know, part of mind. How did you get into liking West Ham? Yeah, that's what I was telling you. Long, long time ago, we got the signal for that one game and it was it. Like we, my dad and I obviously watched a lot of, like Samurai Sundays, for example.

Like, why am I into martial arts movies? Because my dad and I used to watch Samurai Sunday in Mexico. It's just the one team that we saw. I like the colors. Like even some of the, the graffiti stuff that I've done has always been like Maroon and Baby Boo. Is West Ham the team the team's stadium that we always went to at the copper box?

I think is that the stadium we walk past? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is the stadium. That's why I like. No, well, no, the other reason is that that was just like a fucking faint 13 year old memory, 12 year old memory from stuck with you. Yeah, no, but then a movie called Green Street hooligans came out. That's a fire movie. Yeah, so that's the West Ham. And I was like, oh my God, that's a team that they used to watch. So it's a kid. Who's in that again? That's a, Charlie Hondo's in that, right? Yeah, Charlie Hunnam and Elijah Wood and other people.

But even then, like, even then when people are like, it's like, you're probably a West Ham, you're probably a West Ham fan because of the movie Green Sea Hooligans. And I'm like, man, considering the fact that that movie came out over 20 years ago, like that I'm a bigger fan than. You're okay with it. Yeah. That's not like a bandwagon thing. No, and it's not like I follow them, right?

Like I don't follow them close. I used to in Chicago because I could see their matches every single Saturday. Yeah. Right? But now here, like, I don't really follow. I'll keep up with the scores. But, you know, I still like it. I mean, you'll see the captain's shit up there.

So, yeah, that's why. Yeah. Yeah. Chichita play, too? Like, a lot of things happen. Did he play for West Ham? Yeah. And he's played for so many teens.

Oh, right there. I was looking for it. I was like, what the hell are you all talking about? Yeah. That's funny. Yeah. So anytime that the deserted guys would be like, why did you even like it? And I was like, it's because of the movie.

And I'd be like, it became easier to be like, yeah, because of the movie than anything, you know, surrounding it. But excellent movie. I've got to watch Green Street Elite, as it's called anywhere else besides the United States. In the United States, it's called Green Street. Hooligans. Yeah, which is a derogatory term. Oh, God.

Look what the cat dragged in. Mr. Matthew Piper formal. But yeah, I don't know. I think more than anything, I don't think that I set out to make a business out of the hobbies that I'm in, but I did see the opportunity. So I said, why not? Right. And not that marijuana was like a hobby of mine, because I didn't smoke marijuana for fucking,

I think I took like a five year break because of the panic attacks that I was getting during it. But, you know, back then, like the ability to look on the back of it and be like, okay, this is this strain. All right, let me go see what, you know, guava biscotti's effects on the body are. Some people experience euphoric relief, happiness, drowsiness, et cetera. Like that didn't happen back then.

The other thing is like, I bet you that during the 90s, the amount of laced shit that was fucking going through, you know, CP and 5th and everywhere that we used to get the, the weed from was just fucking bad. It was the Shy Tom Brown for a fucking reason. Yeah. And you could only smoke blunt because otherwise you wouldn't feel any effects. That's crazy. That is nuts. Like, like, black market, I mean, there's just no regulation there.

Like, Nick was saying, like, Nick was telling me on the podcast that, like, because of the amount of drugs, that he was buying whenever he was like feigning the amount like the amount that he was getting there was no he was like I talked to people in in rehab and there was just no way that those were actual like adderall pills and there were like lace with les with mad it was like basically met which is the other thing that the other problem that he could have ran into is like if some if he got caught with that amount because you're a chance that you get you don't get pinch for distribution attempt because of the amount if he's like these are for me you're like these are for me from me you're like these are from me you're not you're B. No. What are you? A horse? How many? Yeah.

I have no idea. I mean, he said like 500 or something like that. Oh my God. How many pills were you carrying at any given moment there, Maniac? Sorry we're talking about this. Yeah. Like,

we were just talking about how you said that like on the black market. Yeah. 500 pills. Five grand worth of pills. Yeah. Have you seen it? His tweets are dope though. like don't do drugs and it's like him skinny yeah him jacked did you see my reply to him

no you don't before and after stop what you mean because you know how he's all like the everyone is like if if if n if this guy's drinking coffee it's like you don't barista dude yeah yeah you don't coffee he does that you don't wow i'm king coffee yeah you don't wow I was like, what? I'm King. So then he posted a before and after picture. So I said, you don't before and after. Stop.

Oh, man. Any close in comments? Anything you want to shout out? Oh, dude, did you see that the TSM, that $210 million, 10 year, $210 million to change their name from TSM to TSM. TKO. LTX. LTX.

LTX. You familiar with LTX, I bet? A little bit? A little bit. Not at all. It's in the crypto world. The fact of the matter is they're getting $21 million a year for 10 years to change their name from just TSM to that. Considering the fact, okay?

Shout out to Reggie by the fucking way. Considering the fact that at one point they were called Snapdragon TSM for maybe, I don't know, speculating a $450 to a million dollar deal to change their names from TSM to Snapchat. TSM, I believe is what it was, to going to 210. Finally, somebody clutches the fuck up. Shout out to him. That was such a good day for e-sports. Somebody needed to clutch up like that for everybody's tides to rise. And next year, Toyota Chicago Optic is just going to run through the brackets.

Down. First of all, the rule will always remain that optic. I'm going to pull up on a camry. Optic Toyota, Chicago. Optic comes first. Yeah, right. What? What happened?

Bill 210 comes across the table. What? If you don't change the name for $210 million, I'm leaving. No, we are 100%. I'm just saying you in front of Chicago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Optic. Optic Game Fuel.

Optic Turtle Beach. Optic Mavix. Where is the bag? You know what I mean? Wait, who's massive? Optic Chase Bank? I'm down. Optic.

Tesla? What's Craig Mohn and Johnson? What's what? Craig Mellon. Where's he worked? Schwab. Optic Schwab? I'm with it.

That doesn't have a ring. What would you, how much, how much would you say, you said that, that name change would be worth for TST? TST. TST? TST, what? TTSC snap dragon. Oh. Lee?

Fuck it. Run it. Run it. Run it. It's just a name. Yeah. What, what people. look, I don't actually want to say what I'm about to say next because I can only give

us so much free shit. You know what I mean? Anyway, that's what I do for this podcast of the Optic podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in. If you guys enjoyed episode number 28, we do appreciate a like. We do appreciate a share. If you're listening to any of the audio platforms that we release this on, rate it. Leave a comment.

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