OpTic Podcast - MW3 MIGHT SAVE CALL OF DUTY | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 136

Episode Date: August 17, 2023

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Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon, good morning, good evening, wherever it is that you're watching this, or when it is that you're watching this. I'm here today to tell you about Optic Nation and the new upgrade that's coming this upcoming season. It is the same great platform as it was last year, but like anything else, it evolves. It evolves into something else. With that evolution comes a little bit of cost, but it's well worth it for the things that you're going to be receiving because it's no longer just going to be you getting additional exclusive content that you wouldn't otherwise see on YouTube. Now you're going to be getting specific pieces of content that have been created and catered straight for this platform. One of those is being my beautiful baby

that I created alongside with my friends, a show called Idiots. There is just an overall product that's better. What you experienced on the first season and the reason that it was only $3.50 a month is because we wanted to get a firm footing on what it is that we were showing. And as we were learning, we didn't want you guys to be paying as we were learning.

So now that we have a very solid platform and now a better way to distribute the content that we're going to be creating exclusive for this platform, it makes it a lot easier for you to enjoy. You're still going to get early access to merge. You're still going to get the early access to events. I know that the events one is a little bit tougher because of how quickly the ticket sell out. So it's definitely a benefit in a situation like that. Another upgrade that's coming to your hand is the Optic Nation application that is going to be playable on all of your devices, iOS, Apple, Apple TV, Roku. Eventually, you'll be able to not just

watch it on your phone, your tablet, your TV. You might be able to watch your refrigerator if you're making a sandwich. We also have this new program called Wallace Warriors. Wallace Warriors is us helping veterans, us helping U.S. military servicemen. We partnered up with USAA to deliver some unique experiences that will be entertaining for you to watch and also us giving something back to our servicemen and veterans who have probably served this country of ours. So what you can expect from the new platform is a commitment from us, for me specifically, to you, letting you know that once a week you're going to experience several exclusive pieces of contents that will be released there for $9.99.

If you are an already existing gold member, you're going to give a significant discount, which is why we didn't renew all of the subscriptions from this past season. We just have a better product that's coming out. We have better content that's coming out. so we wanted to make sure that we all elevate as we go. And I know that you guys are going to continue to ask why a new platform instead of the ones that we had. Well, like I said, it's all about evolution.

Everything that we do has to have a purpose. Everything that we do and have always done has to have a sense of growing as creators, growing as a company. More importantly, it's a company that houses creatives. Needless to say, the offering keeps on getting better on our end, and we hope that you enjoy it and you come along with his journey to see what this thing can develop into. Oh, and then Eagle tried to buy an optic for 50 grand ones too, right here at the Hilton Anatole. Really?

Yeah, for 50 grand. And I was like, it's very tempting. Very tempting. But no. No way. You would have sold for 50 out of it. You, then it was different, right? You don't know.

You don't know. You didn't know. Welcome to episode number 136 of the optic. podcast. This episode is brought to you by Factor and Better Help. And we'll tell you about them later on in the podcast. Skump, handed out $5,000. It's not about me. It's not about me today. Oh, it's not about you today. Oh, my God. Oh, you know what? I will, I will start with this. If anybody in the room can join me, Happy birthday to Zinn and maniac and my dad. Happy birthday to you. Big bad. Happy birthday

Big, little, little, Tony The big doggy dog dog. Happy birthday Be a doggy dog Thank you

Everybody who's behind the camera They didn't fucking join in I want to have a meeting with I'm going to have a meeting with you guys later Yeah that's fake as fuck 26 man Congratulations, Zinni Level 26, tell me

More life More time to get a smile more time to get it right came over smiling yeah joey showed up to work finally and shit came over damn how's it feel man tell us well it's not official until 952 tonight i believe is the official time you're one of those official time is about 12 hours from now i asked my mom and mom what what time was i born actually is that word every night he settled away your birthday for fucking fucking yeah he's one of those yeah i wasn't birth till 9502 so that's when i count it so you'll yeah that's a good question you only you'll eat celebrate your birthday for a couple hours feel old dude he's been

celebrating it for 26 so much first birthday not competing first birthday next is that yeah well that's a good thing to think about it's a good reflection that's better than more life which is more time to get it right yeah i can tell you i can tell you something about life i hear it when i was 26 years old jude and i bought our first town home together uh obviously the the state of the markets at the time the, you know, the real estate bubble, mortgage bubble, all that. Like, we, I'm just saying that by 26, I already, you know, I already had a girl. I was, I had a house. Successful young entrepreneur.

So, no, I was a successful worker, but by 28, 29, we were broke. Broke, broke, broke. Like, broke. Got our cars taken away, our home taken away. still made it out alive, baby. You know what I'm saying? So you got, you got, bro, you, 26 is nothing. Unless you die at 30 and then of course it's-

You're fucking sick in the head, dude. It's relative. Yeah, it's relative. But congrats, man, 26. What have you learned in life thus far? Shit, where do I start? Did I say what I said in the vlog? No, you gotta give me something.

What have I learned? I don't know. I've been asking them, whatever you learned thus far? I don't know what I learned because I feel like we just got blessed in the sense where it's like obviously it was a lot of hard work, but like we just loved gaming and this shit just took off and now we're here. So it's like a mixture of why are you looking at me like that? I'm just trying to get some wisdom. I mean, it's just. I'm just trying to fucking. Wait, where did you lose your voice?

When I was thrown up. Uh, all right. Hey, let's go. But, uh, yeah, I don't know. That shit was. I don't know about our celebration. Does he got a big celebration? So did Nick, Nick, because they have like a joint birthday.

We did a dinner at the Charles, which is one of our, probably our favorite restaurant in Dallas. Yeah, best restaurant in Dallas. It's pretty much our go-to. Bar-on. And then we had the private room. Luckily, they always hook us up and make sure we're comfortable. And we had like a 12-person dinner. That was awesome.

Then we went to the club. Wait, who paid? Another fun night at what? For those dinners? The company paid for the dinner. No, the fuck that we did not, did we? Yeah. Come on, man.

Who was there? Hey. Roger looked down. Zoom in on that face. Roger looked down the table. Yeah. And I said to him, I said, we have two birthdays tonight. And then I said, you can personally tell Hector that I said it's okay.

And he said, that's not how it works, Seth. I said, fuck up, bro. That's how works. I mean. And James, new hire was there. So there was a plethora of reasons to swipe the card. Quite. New hire, two birthdays.

The club. Like to say thank you to him. him. He put on his card before, of course, requesting Venmo from others. Hey, it's not about him today. It's about you. Happy birthday. I'll send my share. But I won't fucking pay. I mean, I blacked out. You don't have to pay. It was your birthday. I know. Yeah. And I wouldn't pay if you asked. Now, somehow, people are going to say, you're cheap. That's fucked up. He's having people Venmo for spending $2,500 at the club. He ate a, he ate a big bill. He ate a big bill.

and then requested very little from some others. But it was a lot of fun. What a fucking asshole. We got to start going out more. Obviously the club's expensive, but like... Cool. It's relative. It's been a lot... No, the club is expensive.

We hit a like a nice little four to six-way split. We'll be... Yeah, it's not bad. It's not bad. See, someone who's thinking my way. Or we can all just make more paper. That works too. We can also be responsible.

No. What's the fun and that? What's the fun and responsible? Finally. Nothing worth doing is worth overdoing. It's a waste of time, so I'd rather just like split it as much people as we can. Who the fuck are you? 400 bucks.

Where's your fucking voice, man? Because if you go to a bar and you get like a round of drinks, that's like, if you get like a decent round, that's like 150. So it's like you bought two rounds to have a table, get bottles. You know what I'm saying? Like it's just, it's a little more price. It's definitely illogical, but it's not about that. It's just more about like the fun, the vibe. So you missed out on a table.

You got a table, your closest people, like your closest friends. Well, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. It's like two, it's like buying two rounds. Bro, I kept getting burned by the, bro. No more who got that added. Yeah, what's smoking shea? I don't, I don't.

But I'm, I burned here. Were you sprinkling a little sum in the top that wasn't the spices? Hey, see, you missed out. Back in the day, I used to go out with the boys by the bottles and dip. You know what happened to you? Yo, I thought that was weird. I mean, it was like, I mean, grateful, like, cool. It was weird as fun.

It was just weird. Like, Irish goodbye. He would have come dressed up by the bottles. They would get there and within 20 minutes he'd be gone. Gone. Where's Hector? Sleeping. Why'd you even come dressed?

She just came to shorts. I will not justify myself to you. That's actually great. But before we got into that, you were about to say that I let someone win $5,000 yesterday. You let somebody win $5,000. Which kind of ruins the video. No, it doesn't.

No, if anything, it makes the video. It shows how kind you are. You know, this is the thing, though. This guy didn't let anyone win. No. Like, bro, this is what he tells me. This is what he tells me. He's like, I'm going to take it easy on him.

I was like, oh, it's cool. Have fun out there. Yeah, I actually didn't at all. Did not. You know what's crazy is that that's what happened. And I was seeing it in person happen in person. I've seen it before. But this time with like, you know, regular gamers like myself,

They were just sitting there playing. Like, this guy didn't let off the gas. The second he's like, he's like, yeah, I'm going to be cool. I'm going to take it easy. The second he got in, there's something switched in there. But he's just like, man. Well, he started shooting my body. Oh, that was not the first one.

The kid that I let him. He started to shoot my body and shit. Yeah. So we were playing to 10. Well, they'll ruin it. Don't ruin it. Huh? All right, go ahead.

So we're playing the 10. So I'm like, all right, I'll beat him to 10. So I beat him to 10. And then. You said, let's go to 11? So I beat his ass. I beat his ass and then I was like, all right, now he can go to 11. And then I let him win.

But he didn't beat me. Dude, he was shooting your body even. Like, I beat him and then I let him win. That's fucking insane. Some of these kids have no respect. People in the crowd, I wish I could play Zinny. What? So I sat at, I sat my ass down and I fucking slam that kid.

He got the first kill. Oh! He did get the first kill. And four straight. You're not fucking screaming anymore. Yeah, he was talking shit. Like, yeah. If I would have said, they would have been.

talking shit to me too. Because the whole crowd thought like pretty disrespectful. It's like, oh, I don't want to play scum for Shotsie. I want Zinny. What I did, what I did like about, what I did like about yesterday's crowd is that it felt it felt a little bit more personal and shit, right? Like it was like, you know, people were like booing Seth and shit and like clap, you know, like it was like a cool.

Yeah, it was a fun thing. Any other, you put that in, you, no, like in the joke. We were like, well, we were cheering for the for the underdog. Yeah. You put the same crowd in a different setting, Seth. Obviously, you know where the green ones loyalty lies. Some kids were shooting, though. Like, obviously, you know, you're okay, but some kids were, yeah, they were really shooting.

Yo, the security guard looks over, I mean. He's like, I thought he was with Shaw pointing at Zinnie because Zinni was talking, he was talking shit to Seth, like the whole time was telling you know what I'm saying? And then he's like, the security guard was like, that's, I thought the boy was in Shaw. And I was like, he, I'm like, he isn't, man. He's sitting on the other side of the crowd and shit. Yeah, no, I was, I was standing in the crowd. I loved that security.

He was cool as hell. A guy, a fan came up. He's like, yo, Seth, could you sign something? And he didn't hear him. And security's like, and he looks forward. He goes. He's living in a movie. Yeah, he was cool.

He kept whispering to me because I was telling Hector, I'm like, I'm going to let this kid win. And he was like, how much are going to let him win? for like the security guy and Hector's like five grand he said five grand he's like what the fuck do you mean five grand you let him win five dollars five grand he's like let me play

I gotta get in there hell yeah it was fun yeah super fun it wasn't even I mean it was the cold the cold front came in luckily like we've been we've been in like 106 107 108 and then the cold front came in and made a cooler it was like 98

99 it only felt like 105 I was up late last night It was like, yeah, it was like a nice breeze. It was breezing out. Yeah. The door was flying out, opening and shit. I'm like, damn. What door?

On my balcony, it was like opening and shit. I'm like, damn, we got 80 out. It's actually cool today so far. Yeah, we were playing outside, so. Yeah. It was only 85 right now. There were a couple moments where it got windy. I mean, it's 100 degrees.

There were a couple moments where my fingers were just. Well, no. Well, I played the last game. I played the last game. And, dude, I was sitting there watching for two hours, sweating my ass off. So I sat down and I felt the controller and I was like I'm about to get fucking if this kid's decent I'm done like there's like there's like And he shits on me first kill and I'm like no oh my god and then like my heart starts racing because the crowd's getting loud

I'm like there's no way the one game I play everyone's daze me out everyone oh man I would have lost my mind You were talking shit too like yeah let's play and then I fucking slammed yeah oh yeah you started yelling out of a show Everyone started pipe it up I want to play zini I want to play zini fuck do you think you guys are talking to the multiple times decorated jams and I'm Multiple time decorated champion. Decade long. Huh? Decade, decade long.

One percentage? Ten year. It was 0.000, 0.001%. Of course. Respectively. Respectively, of course. But no, that was a lot of fun. Yeah, it was a good time.

Really cool. Awesome turnout, too. Especially for that heat, dude, I would not come. I could be the biggest optic fan in the world. You told me meet up outside? No. See. If I have a chance at playing scump, a thousand dollars oh yeah that i'm gonna come i guess yeah but like that's a good point i forgot

about that point that's the other thing is is i'm with cash i told the dude right because i you're you're in the middle of a plaza there's mad people around it's you or it's you versus seth shot in four eight k quality which means that you can grab a screen grab from that and print that that that's what i would do i'll print it out for sure yeah if you're telling me that i'm i'm having a free throw contest with michael jordan i'm you bet you're ass i'm gonna fucking frame that she's just me and Jordan hanging out playing for people. What I would have done, the show. So $5,000 were given out yesterday.

It was very kind of you. I was telling him too because the dude started shooting his body. And I was like, Seth, don't fucking lose to this dude. And I was like, yo, don't fucking get to him. Don't fucking lose. And he's like, you didn't care that he was shooting your body. I was so hungover. I didn't go.

Oh, yeah. We should talk about that dinner, dude. I should have told, I should have told Seth. What didn't he? Dude, we had a pool day, me him and Seth, and we just found this sushi spot in Frisco. Sorry, me him and is, sorry. We had, he wanted to go to some habachi place, and then we found the sushi place called Kinzo in Frisco. I looked it up as like 80 reviews, five-star rating.

I'm like, okay, this looks good, the menu looks fire. We go, and I'm not, you guys know I'm the biggest fat ass here. Ah, I eat a lot. We all can eat, but like, I'm, I'm all. for finding restaurants, it might, it could be the best restaurant I've had in my entire life. The fact that it's even in the conversation. In frisco or in your life. Like the fact that you can even say in my life might have been.

No. It's the best. Dude, I'm telling you. We've talked about this restaurant you have had in your life. I think it's the best I've ever had. Dude, I'm, what? I can't even. We've talked about this restaurant before.

And let me tell you how homey it was. Okay, well, we went. It was fucking insane. I'm not sure if it was because like it was, you know, late night on a weekday and not many We also had some drinks, but I don't think that, I don't think that matter. But they were just like super homie. The head chef standing right in front of us walking us through every dish, talking about, oh, I used to work at Nobu and Uchi and, you know, this guy worked here and we're all like a tight community. He's given us off menu, like new features coming up to try and like, how do you like

this? What would you change about it? I don't know what I would change because that's fucking insane. That's stellar. But it was called Kinzo and it was just. So you guys got the Omikaze though? We got the mini Omicasse. We got the mini Omicasse. We got the mini Omicasse. What's not even Me? We only got five courses. Instead of what? Seven? Eight?

It's, No, the full one's 18. 18 courses Omikaze, but it books out a month in advance, the first of every month, and there's two seatings. And we already, we have it. Tuesday through Saturday. I'm coming. When is it?

Tuesday through Saturdays. No, when is our book? Oh, I don't know. Yeah, don't say it. But, dude, I'm telling you. We don't want people to take our seats. Kinzo. I genuinely.

Where is it? Dude, it was, it was like one of the. Right by Little Elm, is that what's called? Like on the edge of Little Elm in Frisco? Dude, it was such a good night because we went there. By the Bowlin Alley? By the Bowling Alley? I'm not sure.

I don't know. And there's a hookah lounge opening next door. You could tell you. You could tell him. It was like a perfect night. It was a great night. So the Uber driver that was taking us on the way there. He was great.

And then we eat and we were like, what the fuck? What did we just find? We were like, this place is insane. And then we walk outside and there's a hooka lounge being open. Next door, the owner's son or something comes running out. He's like, no fucking way. That was the owner. Oh, was it?

Yeah, that was the owner. The owner comes running out, and he's like, no fucking way. He's like, such a big fan. You guys got to come by. I got his number. Now we got a hookup at the hookah lounge. It was a tour of the lounge. We hit Kinzo.

Hookal lounge. Sprinkle a little something, some. B-Y-O-B. No, it looks like a cool spot. They're like, it's like, they're still setting everything up. There's like tarps over all the chairs. So it's like they're not even open yet. and yeah

and then yeah we got back and we tried to watch Insidious and let me tell you that was the that was the absolute downer of the evening it put us all to sleep I fell asleep in like 30 minutes we got like 40 minutes in

and we were all like are we liking this shit and we all were like it's like dude we're having such a good positive vibes us watch something mega negative insidious is that is that

I heard good I heard really good reviews about that no you didn't you heard good reviews about talk to me stolen theaters the horror movie in theaters right now People were saying it's like the best horror in the past decade, which is like insane.

Because like the last good horror I remember are like Sinister or the Conjuring. We also watched The Exorcist yesterday night for the culture. Yeah, we watched the original Exorcist. I'm sure back then that was like crazy because I was like the first real crazy demon movie. But watching it now, I'm like, uh, the beginning was better than the end. I watched that when I was four years old. Yeah, like the buildup was better. It was kind of weird and shit.

Like there were a couple scenes. I don't watch. I can't watch. scary shit why? She live alone and shit I don't That shit doesn't even make me scared

It's just like I'll get to be getting out of my car In the garage I'll be like Now the worst I'm not sure this happens I get that feeling like behind me Like someone's following me

I hate coming up from the basement I always scurry up Hell yeah Bro does it Does it happen to you guys Where it's like 3 a m You're laying in bed Like the air condition

Will make a noise And like your heart just starts racing But like But like you know it's nothing Yeah It happens to me all the time at 11 o'clock, at 11.34 every night.

Well, you know nothing's wrong. It's just like an instant reaction. It's like you hear something of your heart just starts racing. Like, what the fuck? Well, nothing can happen in his home that goes unchecked. That's right.

As the pack. One footstep. Yeah. One ghost and then the rest are just joined we call it the symphony. I tried sneaking in your house. Not sneaking. Shut up.

I came back to your house late 2 a.m. When we were staying there in World War II, 2018. And I tried like creeping in and all quiet. Just fucking. It's better when you make noise An orchestra Yeah, you can't startle them

The orchestra just fucking gets there They go The last thing about hard though If anybody watching Is a horror fan The haunting of Hillhouse on Netflix The haunting of Hillhouse on Netflix It's like a 10 episode mini series

Mike Flanagan makes like a bunch of different horror series It is like The Haunting of Hill House is not only One of the best harsh shows of all time What's the best horror show of all time I can't think of the horror shows

it's like one of the best shows ever Have you seen The Witch? No I did rewatch Isn't there one jump scare in there That's like insane Oh hell's like a house Yeah you gotta watch it

I can't spoil it I can't watch it But there's one that's like insane There's one that just fucking ruin me I was blown back I was blown back But also I saw Chino's tweet last night Because I saw

Chino MJC I saw Bring Out the Cappuccino Oh not this capuchino He quoted like a game Thrones episode rating list. So I had to, for the culture I put on Blackwater last night in a couple of Game of Thrones episodes.

I think people, I think people forget how insanely good that show was because like the finale wasn't as good as it should have been. You know the rules. You got to answer on the podcast. Who is it, Pat? I mean, I don't know.

It's early. It's 11. No, it's not early. Fake number. But yeah. Haunting of Hill House I can't watch scary movies The first

The first actresses ruined I was four years old The internet didn't exist back then So I thought that was like a real Fucking thing And they really did happen I was four years old I don't know what the fuck movies were

And that that was an artistic piece There's some weird scenes When she was jabbing herself She was stabbing her privates Yeah that was She's stabbing her privates With like a cross And she's saying

Fuck me fuck me No Let God fuck you Let God fuck you Yeah it was like that I don't want to talk about that. It was insane. I was like, what the hell?

We watched that shit. I was like, what the fuck? Different times. It was interesting. I had gotten over my fear of, my fear of the dark. Like I, you know what I'm saying? Like in hotel rooms,

I always slept with the light on. Always. Really? Always. But so like recently, recently I just put in the white noise and I'm good to go. But I just couldn't.

Growing up, I was terrified. I used to watch, I used to watch Courage of Carly dog and just shit myself and I'd have to watch Full House after. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would post game, I would post game courage with full house just to real shit, just to soothe me down. And also I would do it.

I was a weird kid. I would like put on ESPN live because it would give me comfort that I knew that other live humans were like doing this in real time. So like ESPN be live from California and I find comfort in the fact that like the people I'm watching are doing this right now in real time. It was like, I know how to describe it. Just like a comforting feeling. When we were at the dinner, like me and Nick were sitting next to each other,

so he just bullshit the whole time. And then he goes, bro, when I heard this song at rehab, right? And then, like, God forgive me. I instantly started, like, giggling a little bit. Like, it's Nick. We have a different relationship. They might think we're fucked up. No, no, no, no.

But, like, me and Nick are joking. So I instantly started. He's like, bro, when I heard this song, the Dirk and Drake, like, whoa. Sometimes we laugh. He was like, I was in rehab on the, basketball court and I just ran it to the radio. He just what? He just what?

He just what? He just what? He ran to the radio. He was like, oh my God. Like, drink. Dr. Dr. I didn't help him.

I started crying, bro. He was like, oh, my God. He was like, because he had no phone. Yeah. Like, when he heard the new song, you ran to the radio. He was like, that's fucking great. well last night

tell me why last night right obviously like it's a for the production team what happened yesterday is like a very fucking stressful Matt were you stressed yesterday the most you've ever been

he says right wait why yeah why yeah come talking to the mic man he's a lot of shit going on he says a lot of shit going on

he's waving his hands I thought we were going to stream it whenever I saw your like your setup I was like are they streaming this shit Did you try to? Bro, listen. Hold on,

hold on. Listen, listen. So obviously, you guys saw all the cables and all that shit. Made by the second, the second dude that stepped up, wanted to play on an Xbox controller.

Right? So Roger's like fucking, you know, you get to tell the stress levels on Raj. Because you can, you can just tell when he's stressed, right? Yeah,

he's got that face. Dude's like fucking trying to figure it out, opening up like the safety cover and then looking for the Xbox and he's like he's just fucking stressed because he wants to do it quick because he knows that we're about to be like oh come on you know

he's doing quick and then Nick's like we should just start booing Raj right now I was like what that's funny I went down to Raj and like yo Nick just said that people should start booing you right now how do you even think about this shit yeah because that

he just started tweaking oh my God I looked I'm like, yo, where the Bose go? He's like, he does what he wants, man. He just fucking left. And I was like, what? He's like, kid does what he wants.

He just fucking left. He's telling the fans at the event, he's like, uh, bo's don't fuck with y'all. There's someone got it on video. What? There's no way. Bose don't fuck with me or anybody out here. And someone called it on video.

Jesus. Nick said that? Yeah. Uh, well. Oh man. He's, uh, he's, uh, happy birthday to him too, man. Uh, is it today? Yeah.

I mean, could, could I also say it's my birthday too? Your dad's, right? It's my dad's birthday. Your dad's, if he wouldn't have been birth, he would have been born today in 1956. Damn. That's, isn't that crazy actually like really think about? In 1956, obviously, his dad was born.

He was born in the 1950s. That's a completely different world. Not even, technology wasn't even a thing. Like, that's, actually crazy. Yeah. Wow. You heard asshole.

I'm just like, it's genuinely crazy to think about. What I said? You're like, wow. And you're sarcastic ass fucking tone. And then, uh, also, uh, Damon's daughter's birthday, Bella. Happy birthday, Bella. So we have a lot of, and you. Happy birthday to you too.

It's actually crazy. One of my best friends from New Jersey. He same birthday, too, one year older. And then we obviously didn't know that, but like, that's crazy too. So are you a Leo or a tourist? Leo. Leo. And you look like Leo.

See? There we go. That's why. Yes, sir. You look like Leo Deek. I kind of see that. What's how with Leo? Leo folks.

Oh, yo, so we have camp fest. You know how I go with my boys like once a years ago? Yeah. So we're going somewhere in November. And we got, I also am bringing my boat and I'm going to shoot a video for my boat. And I want to, you and Nick should come fishing. All right. And chill with the boys.

All right. Hang with men. Men of girth. Leo folks going. What? Yeah, Leo, Leo, Leo folks. You just say men of girth?

Yes. What? You never heard that? No. No. Never my life. Well, you're welcome. You heard now use it,

use it sparingly, of course. So you're down? Yeah. Oh, much is going, yeah. Are spiders and shit out there? No, it's November's cold. It was not that cold. It's getting cold.

So they go underground? Bro, it's going to be, listen. You guys can come and hang out the whole time you guys can just come and shoot the video, but I suggest that you stay as long as you can. Oh yeah. Where is it going to be? Two hours from here.

All right. I'm down. However, I will throw one thing in. It's November 9th through 12. The new game drops November 10th. He's screaming. No, he's on. Optic Nation.

We're playing challengers in the beginning. All right. Yeah, I can't. We just can't play a tournament because we had to run the watch party. You want to move the day. But we're going to play everything. No. We're going to scrim.

I'm looking forward to the season. I'm being dead serious too because I want to play so bad. We're playing challengers cups and we're scrimming. and we're scrimming and like tournaments and shit. But then we can't play at the event. So we need to form like a little like either retired group. You're of course welcome to join. Yeah, he retired to go play that shit.

He doesn't, he won't do it. I don't blame him. I mean, we don't have to scrim, but like tournaments and shit. He's saying he wants to scrim every day. Well, you fucking kidding me? Well, wait, hold on. Hold on. Wait, let's talk about the leaks.

Yeah. Holy shit. All the MW3 leaks came out yesterday. And obviously we don't know if they're confirmed, but what they're saying is, um, slide cancelling's back. red dots are back. It's 150 health. All the maps.

What's 150 health mean? That's Cold War Health. Higher TK. That's Cold War Health, I think so. Yeah. I think Cold War is one of the game. And every single map from MW2 is in the game remastered. So every single original Modern Warfare 2 map, Afghan, derail,

Wasteland, Terminal High Rise, that's all the maps. Surely not Favela. Favela. No. All of them. You're going to be having fun in the pubs, huh? All of them. Yeah.

I might be too early to say this, but this might be my year. Stalker returns to? Oh, shit. What soccer? Oh, wait. Wait, they might be doing something. If all this is true, despite like competitively, like you can make the argument, like, oh, old maps, whatever, I guess how they work, whatever.

The hype for this game, if this is all true, is going to be through the roof. And, like, hit that nostalgia note to at least get like that influx of like. Yeah, I'm there. You got me. That's genius. Map voting, that's genius. Map voting. That should never go away. And think about how those maps are going to look now in 2023.

I just hope that they don't like use those MW2 maps as like a cop out to not do anything else. Because like it's going to get old quick. There's definitely some original maps as well. I would still be playing strike to Jane. I would be playing those still to this day. I was telling Seth on the right here, as long as they have a good bolt action sniper rifle and a good like and dead silence for, for S&D, I'm back.

Okay, but they need to add new maps. They can't just have those maps. If they just have those maps, people are going to get sick of them. Yeah, because you've got to think about it. What? We'll play pubs on it for like a week and then turn into wagers. Nobody don't play the pubs. And after you get tired of wagers, that's it.

And then you wait for ranked. Is game battles still a thing? Yeah, but the problem is everyone wants to play for money, so everyone's playing wagers. Back in our day, it was straight pride. You lose one match, disband the team, you're fucking fuming. What was it 24 hours, then... If you had Prime, I think it was...

16 or something. It was 12. Then if you had Prime, it was like two hours or like an hour or something, so it speeded up the process. Yeah. Then you'd have like the... I think it was called Prime. It wasn't called Prime.

It was like eight hours or some shit or 12. I think that was before they introduced Prime, I think. Because then you'd have to like, if you were playing dubs, you'd have to go play team, like 3B3s because you disbanded so you can't play anymore. And you can't have a loss because it looks like dog shit. That big L Big Red L? What?

What? What happened? What happened? Okay, so what else? It definitely has potential. Which was soccer? Soccer's where you strafe hella quick. That shit was firing MW3, right?

Too? Yeah. That's the only, I think that's the only other game it was ever in MW3. That shit was fired. Using that and pubs. This is like a mic drop, I think. This is like, hopefully it's amazing. It's like a mic drop.

Because I think, I think Call Duty gets like a lot of negative like PR. but it's still call of duty. Like there, any game can be a fucking, any game can be a hit. I wouldn't know how it's going to feel like playing, like. Probably like, it's, it's probably exactly like MW2's like engine and shit with 150 hell slide cancelling new maps. I don't need, are there even new guns? I think there's new guns because they said it's going to be a premium release. Like it's not like an expansion.

Like it's like an actual $70 call of duty release. So you have to release new guns. There's no way. Yeah, I don't know. They'll probably have some of the old stuff or whatever it may be, but... Like I said, I just hope it's not a cop-out for them to, like, feel like they can just be lazy all year. But this game, if all this is true, is going to have a fucking just massive train of viewership. Off the rip, it's so like insane.

The only issue, because we always have that, but this will be crazy because of what it is, just need to figure out how to, like, try to... You're always going to lose steam. There's no way to keep the full train going, but, like, to keep as many people on board as possible. I just don't know how you do that. Is it tournaments? Is it weekly tournaments? Obviously sanctioned by CDL. There's so many things. Good cosmetics, supply packs. There's shit that you can do to like make people want to stick around. But this game seems like the game to do it because like let's say for example the next release,

they've re-released Black Ops 2 maps. That'd be cool, but it's not going to be like the first time they've ever done something like this, you know? Yeah, I can see that. No, the hype off the rip is going to be nuts. Like when I put on a red dot, I want to be able to pick through any color. Yep. Like shit like that. That's so cool to me. What did you pick? No, no, no, no, no, no.

Red blue dot. Killer was teal. No, killer used the green. Bro, I'm going to tell you something. As long as they don't bring up thumbs up reticles or spider web radicals or that shit that hutch likes to fucking use. I bet you if there was an optic gaming logo reticle, I still wouldn't put that shit on. Dang. I would use that block up front TLX.

So hard on the reticles. On the reddish. You're not, Hutch wasn't good enough to be experimenting around. Yeah, it was experimenting. Why are you hating on Hutz so hard around? I'm not. That's my boy. I'm just saying.

Yeah, besides, Hodge is having the greatest week ever, okay? Just leave it there. Oh, shit. Look at his Twitter. He's like, he's going to jail. Jesus. I keep sending him, like, I'm like, free the tea. Ladies and gentlemen, part of the interruption, I want to tell you a little bit about our sponsors today.

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That is code Optic 50 at FactorMeals.com slash optic 50 to get 50% off. Off. Link will be in the description to make it super easy. Let's get back to the birthday boy Zinnie. You're talking about like a like a nature retreat, right? Like fishing and stuff. I was watching it's like a like a getaway to get drunk. Okay. Well either way. I was watching TikTok last night. I saw a clip of Joe Rogan talking to this guy who like goes to the Everglades by himself. 17 foot Python. Did you see that? Oh yeah. Dude. What's wrong with people? Could you imagine going to the Everglades by yourself? It's like 5 a.m. and you're hunting pythons. Oh, no.

He said a 17-foot python bit him. He was like, yeah, he was like, he was like, it was a fucking battle royale in the Everglades, me versus python, 17 feet. He ends up obviously getting it. How did he say how he won? So it bit him and then he got out of it. Bro, think about it, right? 17 feet.

He said he can only see the back third of him. And he didn't know how big he was because you can only see a certain map. He's like, I saw the back third, but I knew he'd be big. And then he, he bit him. But, like, it just, I'm sure the clip describes it a lot better, but. I just saw one that was going up. Is it the one that was going up the hill? Like he's Predator or something?

He just got its own. Its head's like fucking massive. Really? And he said it's shrunk too because they have to like dry, freeze the head and like get the moisture out. So it's actually, dude, can you imagine a 17 foot python? That is like if you were to extend this, probably what, 20 feet? I mean 17 feet is actually, no, it's. a lot of feet.

It's more than his table. That's three. It's about three of me. That's three me's. Maybe three and a half. That's funny. But now, do those, those nature people are different. You ever see that guy that just like, imagine, dude, like they walk through like swamps.

It's like 4 a.m. You know what's in a swamp? Alligators. You never knew. You don't know. You know, it's crazy. When I went to Mexico, I jumped in the water. We had to swim to this little rock in the middle.

It was like you swim under, under this big ice like cave. in the middle of water, I don't know. And I got like not even halfway there, and I'm like, I'm going to go right back. All I could think about was what was under me, what could happen, like. Ocean's terrifying. I'm not playing no games. Oh, you were in the ocean?

No shark, like, hell yeah. Oh, you were in the ocean? And the guy was throwing food in the water. I'm like, oh, he's chirping. What are you doing? I jumped right back in the boat. It's called chumming. Fuck that.

I don't want a shark fucking swimming below me and shit. Absolutely not. But yeah, there's this guy on TikTok. that just let shit like bite him. Like big ass centipedes, fucking spiders, different bees. I'm gonna look that up. Yeah, he just let shit bite him and then he sits there and he's like just reacts to shit biting him.

Like the stick, he gets strong too, right? Yeah, bites. Does he have like paramedics right next to him? Yeah, he's got like anti-venoms if they're venomous. Or I don't know if he does venomous stuff. Listen, if he wants to take off. That's a different way of taking off. I'm gonna let anything in the world bite me.

I've been saying this. I swear to you I've been saying this. If I ever get, listen, when you look at your book or you look at your story, do you want to say, yeah, he died of cancer at the age of fucking 89 in his bed with his family surrounding him? Or say, yo, what happened to hex? Well, let's see what have been in the book. He died fighting a shark. They both died tragically.

I'd rather live the longer life. Well, of course, we all do, but if you had a choice. The longer life. Which is? No, you have a choice. Let's call it at 103. You're out. How do you want to be out fighting or on the bed?

I don't want to go till 103. Okay. Well, make up your fucking mind. Unless I'm healthy. If I had it my way, I'd live forever. But as long as I'm healthy.

Okay, relax, vampire. No, because then if you live forever, you don't cherish the moments that you have every day. And you also get to bury

all of your friends. You'll be alone. You'd make new ones. That'd be terrible. And they wouldn't be nearly as cruel as though, dude. I think I'd, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah, think about it. I don't know. But you'd be the coolest probably at that point. I'm scared of death. What year would you go back to yourself to like keep your, like, what you were I go back to? What you're just going to get old as fucking. 2016, I'm back.

Remy. So that's how you want to look forever. Fetty Wop is dropping. That's how you would want to look forever. Huh? That's how you would want to look forever? 2016? Oh, how I don't want to look personally.

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what I'm like when I'm 30. Here. Could be fire. That's a great point. I don't think it's getting any better, pal. Dude.

Oh. I haven't hit my peak yet. You still pee Yeah, I'm on my way up there Yeah Got the gym last night First time in like two weeks Arvin

Ah, yeah, it is I don't know I try to look for it But I saw And I almost sent it to Jude But I'm like no She's gonna fucking get mad at me But

Oh no I have wait the TikTok The Python one Or do you have it? Yeah the Python TikTok Yeah Just type in Joe Rogan Fucking Python No bro

You don't understand There's this one They just came out And it's it's a python going up a hill. And it's coming now. Going up the hill. And it was long ass

scary. Like from here to to where Joey's at. Yeah, 17 feet. I'm texting to you right now. This is not 17 feet. That's fucking 30 feet. Well, yeah, but like even half of that distance.

It was this thick. It's one snake. I wouldn't know what to do. Shit, you're going to start hacking. I wouldn't know what to do. I've seen. You just take whatever you got. The king, the kink cobras too.

what the fuck else he's supposed to do? He has its head. It's just his head. You know he got that shit off. Yeah. Let me see this. I want to see his war wound though. My God.

This is you. No. That's nothing. That is a warm in comparison to what I just saw. No. And you're filming this. Yeah, I got my shoulder cam on and then I put a GoPro on the ground. This is wild.

Oh, there's actually the video? Normally, I don't always get great foot. I mean, I get pretty good footage with my cell phone, my shoulder cam, but like, I was set up to say. And I knew I had my go-coe running when this thing bit me. How it looks like. Are you cinching up at the top of your arm? Above the wound above the wound? Above the wound.

Yeah, above the wound. Jesus. Look at his arm. And, you know, to be honest with you, the first thought that went through my mind when that thing bit me and I have all these cameras going and I see all this blood is this. videos definitely go viral. Just don't die. It would really go viral if you died. Yeah, I'm sure it would have.

Yeah. Found GoPro footage. So now you have to carry this thing out while you're holding onto its head. Yeah. Wow, she really is like a limp noodle. While it's still alive. Oh, it's still alive. I'm an overthinker, though.

She's gassed out. She is done. What do you do? Choke her out? She is done. No, she's tired. She's just, uh... That's a man shit right there.

Listen to me. That is nothing. Dude, I'm an overthinker. Because if I'm, while I'm doing that, if I'm him, I'm thinking there's one behind me. I'm thinking there's three more. They don't live in packs.

They're not, they're not raptors. How would you know? There could be one more or something else. How would you know? I'd always be paranoid. Is three raptors with their nails clicking and Paul Megina in the background too? Oh, yeah.

Ego comes out. The leader, the big is. I'm in a fantasy league with Paul. It is an insane group. Me, ego the icon Ben Jain Naseem, nameless Remember exposed from back of the day?

XPO-Z-E Yeah, Nick. Nick. Did it's a dumb group. Pucket. Study. They're already arguing. Mock draft. It's a funny group. Once you invite scumper jumper. I got the last... I tweeted that I was anybody

any fantasy leagues and I needed one. So I got the last spot. Yeah, we're lame and won't start a league. No, we got to start. I'm tweeting today. Why won't we start one? Winner of each week gets to pick one day he's off content. No. No deal.

No deal? You know what I'm saying, Matt? No fun, man. I don't think anyone here knows anything about football anyway. Foo's ball anyway. So on these leaks, right, is it just strictly Modern Warfare 2 maps? I don't know.

That's what I hope it's, I mean, obviously, like, I don't want to seem like a hater because, like, I mean, I just don't. But, like, they're old. maps. People have played those maps for thousands of hours. No matter how good the maps are, people are going to get sick. People play basketball on the same court. It's not the same. To me it is. I still play called 34. I saw shots you arguing about it on stream. Right now, if Black Ops 2 re-release the same way it was back then, is it still as hype? It wouldn't be the same

as it was. I agree. You just can't recreate it. Different times, dude. You can't recreate it. But there are new things that they're adding. guns. I mean, it's going to be like new hit rag. I mean, it's a bunch of new stuff, but the maps are the most important part of Call of Duty, in my opinion, at least competitively. And if we already know all the maps that we're getting and they're all old maps, you don't think people are going to get sick of that at some point? No, I get it. I mean, I definitely think it's all old maps. There has to be at least new maps released. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Just to keep things fresh. As long as it's not solely MW2 maps and there's other maps,

then I think it's great. But if it's just MW2 maps and they didn't do anything else but rematch him. The biggest disappointment Call of Duty has ever done to me is the fact that they keep re-releasing Carrington, the map. It's always there. Why not too Jane? The way better map. Amen. When have they released Carrington?

Carrington was a Chinatown in Call-Duty 4 and then it was... Chinatown was a fire map. Yeah. The map was good. When that map came out, DLC, I remember like it was yesterday. running my MP5 silencer. See, that's cool, though. If they had the MW2 maps

and they made like little tweaks to the themes of them, like high rise is like, all different colors. Oh, like a different vibe? Yeah, yeah. Like, it's the same layout, but like just anything new.

Okay, so, okay, so structurally, you are okay with the map. It is the cosmetics of the map that you have a problem with or that you wouldn't want to see. Didn't they, what, didn't they mess with it? They definitely,

they've definitely done like remasters where they've tweaked the way it looks and feels and stuff. Like, I feel like Dome, that I feel like Dome they've done differently. Like they've, they've done that. I don't think it's cosmetic.

I just think it's more so like you got to keep things fresh and like, you can't just have all old. You need it at least a little sonnet. Because bro, think about how fun, dude, we all know. Back when a map pack came out, I would sprint off the bus. You got a new zombies map. You got like three new multiplayer maps. You would sprint off the bus?

I wasn't quick, but I'd be running. And it wasn't a far run. But yeah, I just thought. This is running. No, no. Kid could run. They're like Cartman off the buzzing. You're an asshole.

I will say, just based off of the leaks that we already have, I do think this game will be better than the last game that we got. So that's already an improvement. I do think it'll be better than MW2. But it's not, the bar's low there. I mean, there were just key components missing from MW2. Yeah. If you go to the barracks, can you see how much time you've spent on the game?

In MW2? In any game, yeah. I don't know. I hope so. You should be able to just to do that. That's what they got to do. Bring it back to the bare bones. You used to have fine game,

created class, later boards, and barracks. There's just so many hackers and shit. And now there's like... I wish it was cool to like go and see when your friend's list had a cool KD and shit like that. The only reason I'm saying that is because like I want to know how much time I actually played on Modern War on this one, on this game.

It wasn't a lot? Nah. Not at all. That's how people knew if you were crazy or not. If you had like a 4.2 KD, everyone's like, holy shit. This kid's going in a world at war and just piss it on people. And then I remake a new account because I drop a low of three and I'm pissed.

Different times, dude. I never been that much of a... Yeah, I never ever did that. My favorite things from back in the day was making like... It's cool. Like changing your name and making a montage for like that specific name. You know what I'm saying? Well, I used to, bro, back then you have like...

Like, there were friends you meet in pubs and then they'd become like your game battles partners. So I would have like a duo. We'd be like making a duo. Like, we'd make a new... PSN. And it was like duo. So like one time it was like homicide and suicide or like duo names like that. And then you have like, remember like Merkinem?

Jesus, gross. Couldn't have thought of anything else? Pesticide? We were fucking 12 or 11, dude. No, I'm saying right now. Go ahead. I can't think of anything else. It's insane.

Homicide and suicide. I can't. You could say, you could say peanut butter and jelly. I mean, I'm talking about, well, because that's what we have. actually made him. I'm ex-ex homicide, dude, whatever. Yeah, yeah, I get it. Then you had the, excuse me, you had the old school game battles teams like Merck and M, then you have like A-O-X. Army of Excellence. Yeah, and then have like the custom logo on back on the custom logo was like, damn. I miss World War, dude. Ward of War is a lot of them. I swear to each and every single

one of you, everyone watching that if you were around during call of, that's nameless, as Pac-Man, If you were run in those like early 2005 Call of Duty two days, then you really saw like the the coolest fucking clan tags and names. Period. G4P, 3G. They don't make them like they used to. N2D. Now you got Ricky, John. Those are cool.

Her first names. That's like me being Anthony. Well, I think he's talking more about like the name of the teamables. Right. He said Gamer text, dude. God's, God's clan. It was God's Nightmare, God's, Triggerfinger, gods, Covenant Gods. I grew up in the raw, saw, fear.

Saw. So, yeah. Fear was around back in my day. I forgot. I can't remember. AOX was big back then. AOX was always. Side by side, I-X-I.

Envious. NVS was always G-B's four-play, Stainville. Yeah. No, they were a G-4. They were originally called Gaming for Perfection, G-G-4-P. No, no, no, no, no. What was the game or the team that, like, Jamal and all them were on? Wheat's?

Yeah. Serial killers, CK. Enemy? Was it enemy? These names are all fire. Enemy? I remember there was it lowercase N, capital M? Yeah, like lowercase N, capital M, lower KC.

Yeah. Enemy. Yeah, that shit went hard. I think Jamal was on that team. I don't remember. Damn. That shit went hard. Yo, Wheats has a fire gamer tag.

Wheats? Oh yeah It was serial killers Serial killers It was CK pops CK wheat's CK Like all these Oh yeah I remember CK

Yeah CK CK CK CK Cureillers And then of course It was optic The first time I ever saw that name

I was an enemy Maybe it was that I don't remember Dude I actually I'm too nostalgic right now I just wish everybody could experience Because back then

Like Call Duty multiplayer Was the popping thing Like there was no Fortnite, like growing up our age, you'd get an Xbox or a PS4. Now it's like you have the Wii and like Nintendo's and whatever. Back

then there was no comp. Everyone was playing Call-Duty. Everyone was talking about it, multiplayer. Party chat. You can go into Netflix with like four people and watch in that virtual theater while on party chat. Really? Yeah. I don't know. I did that. Like getting it, like joining a G. G.B. tournament,

32 teams and all, every team is a real team though. Like you're playing real teams. It's not. And the payouts back then were big. Yes, they're nice. Now you're, now you went a tournament, it's like 20 bucks. Back then, it's like 300 to 400 each. And you're like, people are going hard. Yeah, like you said, it was all, that's how you justified it to see your parents. Oh yeah. That's how you justified that. I can't pause the game. Because I just made 400 bucks. He's like, you made 400 bucks? R.L. Reckless, that might be the,

people that are making it to the league are doing just fine nowadays. I'm saying back then to justify it. Like, yes. But like back then it wasn't what it was now. I think it's easier to justify now. Way easier. I'm saying back then, I had Nate shot, talk to my dad, and that, like, helped a lot because Nate was knade.

But, like, my dad was like, what the fuck you mean you want to quit all your sports and play video games? Sports. And then finally, why you hate this shit offline?

Why are you starting off line? Like, what kind of sport? Baseball is my main sport. And you said, he played for Bayonne, and I played for Hazlund. And you said, and you played what position?

Uh, pitcher, catcher, and then outfield. At the same time? Well, I mean, back then you wouldn't just have, one straight position, like one strict position. Don't train you out in all of them? Well, no. My travel team was pretty much catching,

catching and pitching. Catching. Second in state. Second in states got fucking slammed by Branchburg. You can't call it catching when you're throwing it back to the pitcher. Different times, man. Yeah. I like it. Um, Anthony got suspended, aunt. Take his Xbox away. No. He made 400 last night. That was my saving grace. Really? Yeah. Did you have to split that money with your parents? No. My parents, No, my dad never made me give me money. Nah? No.

I would be like, live. It was just those GV checks used to take forever until they made do walla. Oh, yeah. Dewala. I forgot about the walla. Ricky used to be like, yo, got my do walla. What was Dewalla? It was like the third party like payment service where they'd send it.

It's like the middleman. Yeah. And then you could withdraw it. That she used to come like this. Back in the day it would be a check three months. Like what the fuck? mom opens it, she's like, 300? But still, was it only one check or like, did you get several checks?

Like if, uh, like you should, like, if you're, if you're playing on a Monday, you should fill your prize schemes like together at the end of the week. So they should probably like come try to get them together type shit. See if you'll win during the week. Man, I fucking miss that shit. Me and me and Fis were talking about it at Nate's wedding. Because, uh, when, when Modern Warfare remaster came out, we played for 13 hours straight on a Friday.

and she was supposed to be fucking working. He's like, I'm a boss, man. I was like, all right, well, fucking. He was like, me too, let's fucking play. And it was just me and him playing dubbs, G.B. Dubs, the whole, the whole, the 13 hours. That was probably one of the best days ever. Ever.

Still talk to Tuesday. It's been, the thing about, wouldn't it matter where for your mastery happen? Was E.F. Baby, him and Astro were cast in the MW2 Winter Showdown. And that's like, that was like my first look into variant. Because I was like a radar kid. Yeah. Radar always on.

Bolt's only. No perks. Like just random shit. Yeah. I saw MW2 Winter Showdown casted by Astro, it's like Dodgers, Assassad, Moho, a bunch of, like, old school names that, like, if you know, you know. And I was like, what the hell they're doing here?

This is actually, I think I-X-I was in it, extravagant. That was a fire name. I ex-I originally was side-by-side. Really? Changed it to extravagant. I was like, I spied on the name. No, I-X-I was fired. I-X-I, I-X-Side-by-side.

Side-by-side. I-by-side. So good. That was way but extravagant. with the little snake and shit. No, I mean, you know, respect to that one, but original was original. So much, so much better.

Dude, it was so good, man. They used to have this thing called King of the Hill on NX gamers, which was the website. At the time, NX gamers used to have this thing called King of the Hill. And all you did was, like, fucking play one v ones with people in Call Duty 2 and Call 34. And, man, that's all I did.

I would get home from work and be like, yeah, fuck these little teenagers up real fucking quick. Bro, there was a different website besides game battles. I forget the name. It was like super early on, like World That War Days. 36i icons? No, it wasn't 26y icons. What was it called?

Oh, it wasn't annex gamers. No, no, no. Game battles? I'm not sure. There's no way of any of us can remember. UMG, CmG? 360 icons used to go crazy too. 512 teams and a very entire time.

It was always 250 each. What? I was like the Paul? And he wouldn't pay. If you knew Paul. If you knew Paul, you. Dude, I was so. If I knew what I knew now, bro, like we had this.

Catch him in the call. Be like, I don't go, save my fucking money. You didn't get paid yet? You didn't get paid yet? You haven't got paid. I can't believe you can't pay you on page yet. I want to tell you, what the fuck, yo?

Talk to the account in, like, send me my shit. You didn't get paid yet? He's smoking a blood. He's like, oh, yeah. Yeah. Ego's crazy, bro. Shout out ego, man. I'll tell you, if I knew what I knew back then,

we started this, this website called ProFrags, PRO. Oh. I remember that. ProFrance. We started that shit. We had like 2,500 signups within the first day. By the end of the week, fucking Optic Nerve was trying to sell that shit. And how much you want to sell it for? He's like 50. I'm like, he does someone who's like in the beginning? We had, we were making no money. He's like 50 grand for that shit. Run it. Get to me right now. Oh, and then Ego tried to buy Optic for 50 grand ones too. Right here at the, at the Hilton Anatol. Really? Yeah, for 50 grand. And I was like, um, it's very tempting.

Very talented, but no. No way. You would have sold for 50 out of it. You back then it was different, right? You don't know. You don't know. You didn't know? It's like Bitcoin.

It's like Wang chain. But you knew the potential. That's why I didn't. Yeah, that's why I didn't. Well, I mean, I wouldn't, I probably wouldn't have even have known my life if you would have done that. I wouldn't have even have known. Isn't that crazy to think about that one little split second decision?

Wow. He's wearing an envy jersey like that. that was faded, it faded. It faded up. We wouldn't be here. Orange to blue. That stuff always trips me out, the micro decisions that are made that have such a big impact, but you don't even think about it. Everything everywhere all at once.

Yeah. That movie's fire. So good. It's crazy. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for tuning in. Actually, you know what? Let me ask you something. Can I say something real quick?

Yeah. My good friend Davis is hosting the TFT offseason event, September, I believe, 23rd, 24th. And I reminded because he was handing out the 50% off. Oh, that's right. He gave some discounts to people who came out. Yeah, so came out for Optic Day. But my team's like me, Nate, Zuma, and Attach. Yours is.

Me, Aunt Pred. What? Yeah, no, it's going to be, yeah, no, you and have Predman. It's unfair. I want last year. It's going to be a lot of fun. Our team last year was me, Big T, Pristini, and Alec. We fucking ran.

It's Alex and what the fuck is. What's his team now? Me, Shotsy, Prid, and Damon. They didn't play Black Ops, too. We'll slow. Yeah. They didn't play blackups too. There he is.

There he is. You'll be right. You guys, you guys always hear us. It's on 360. Like, nobody's shooting straight. Listen, you guys always hear us make fun of Bill Kenny. There he is.

Hello, sir. I'm with the king right now. You're in the presence of the king? I am. Have you had him out today? He's the pool side. He's the preface of the king? He's poolside?

I'm at the podcast right now, Bill Kenny. We'll call you right back. We'll call you right back. Oh, he's great. He called their day. What are you with the king? What are you, pull side?

Send me some photos. Best, best manager I've ever had. No, he's great, man. But I know, seriously, Hitch has been busting his ass for that event. So, seriously,

it's going to be a lot of fun. He should come out. Yeah, and it was dumb last year, too. I can't wait for it. He's got some surprises in store, so, last year, everyone had to take a shop

before the finals? A shot? A shot at tequila, yeah. Yeah, look, it's a yearly thing. It's for a good cause. Hitch works his ass off on that.

I think it's like the only time he works during the year. But it's always a good event. Everyone has fun. So do, tickets will be in the first line of the description down below. We will see you there

or you will be a square. What do you guys? One last thing. Speaking of buying tickets. If Elon Musk actually fights Mark Zuckerberg, would you go? What I like, it's at where is it?

It depends where is it. Because I saw Dana White met with Italy. Oh, in the Coliseum. The Coliseum. I'm not going to Italy for it. What? What?

Legendary. Actually, yeah. We would be in... Listen, first of all, first of all. I'm wrong. I'm wrong. You're telling me that you don't need any excuse whatsoever to go to Italy. You're right.

You're right. I've always wanted to go anyway. I would go. Seth could probably, you know, knock out a marriage while he's there, you know? How expensive would that be you think? Company pays for your travel. Realistically... You save some money.

We're always... Every dollar counts. We're on the podcast. The most podcast group goes. goes. Yeah. Watch party. Watch party.

Company card. Multiple nights. We get paid to go. Well, and I'm not paying to go on top of that. Food is covered. No, we get paid to go.

Yeah. As well as our travel comp. Paid to go by who? You're not going to get paid to go. What do you mean? The company. Why are you laughing? I think it's just great.

You know what? Now that I see that, Zinni also thinks it's ridiculous. I'm not paying anybody. Ladies and gentlemen, that is going to do it for this episode of the podcast. Thank you so much to the sponsors, Factor and Better Help. We'll see you guys next time.

Good. Bye. Also, I put more chains. I just order more chains for you guys to buy right now. Check it out. You're welcome.