OpTic Podcast - New CDL Meta, Huntsmen Update and YOUR Questions | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 273

Episode Date: April 24, 2026

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Ladies and gentlemen, I want to welcome you to episode 27327 of the Optic Podcast. This episode is brought to you by the perfect gene and price picks. More about them later on in the episode, but first, offline, IRL conversation. Were you here last week? Oh no, we were in Mexico last week, right? What the fuck when we were in Mexico? Last week.

Jesus. We got back last Wednesday. How do you guys forget it? I was shit in my pants the whole trip. I drank the water or I messed up somewhere. I think I was like trusting places I shouldn't have. Because we went to some dope places.

Like the Michelin Star spots. Can we start there? Yeah, sure. We went to two Michelin Star restaurants. Two Michelin Star. Two, two. Michelin Stars. Each restaurant that we went to has two Michelin Stars. One of them was the number three restaurant in the world currently. And I learned something about myself. Me too. No matter how much

I like food and I respect it, it's not for me. I don't like, I don't like feeling like I'm handcuffed to a chair for four hours straight eating food. Three and a half hours was this show. Like I need to, I need to- Because it's full course, right? Yeah, like I want to get a nice dinner, order all of our food. And once I'm done eating, I want to leave. I don't want to sit there and wait for 11 courses over four hours. Can I also say something? Not for me. It was great though.

I really, I was happy to experience it, but just not my thing. As so am I. As a foodie, I'm sort of in a situation where I don't want to sound too whack in saying what I'm saying, but yeah, maybe the Michelin thing is just not for me. I like the food. What I don't like is like all the synchronized, like, plate removals and plate placings. And I know that's part of the show and the service. That's a two-star thing.

That's why one stars are like the place to be, because one star is just great. food. Yeah. Like one star is great food. Two star, I think, is like food and like that level of service. And then three star is probably like a fucking whole Disney thing. Yeah, they're probably massaging you. Yeah. Uh, Mexico City, I'll tell you what, just because you've been to Mexico city. So let me give you my raw opinion. Please. Very gritty, authentic city. Like, it's a place where like you have to be, like, you have to go there and dive into what it is. The, the hole in the wall joints, the walking around, the pockets. We didn't get to go to any museums or libraries, unfortunately because of our five hour long lunches.

But just a very, and I'll tell you what, after going there, like, I was a little scared going there because I was like, oh, fuck, Mexico City, I don't want to get hurt like a pussy. It wasn't like, I never once felt like unsafe. Like I was. I mean, you were rolling pretty deep. Like, there was a lot of y'all. We didn't have six of us.

And then we had, so Hector knows this like driver who. What's his name? Manolo. That's right. He's the man. The guy on the optic merch? Yeah. Yeah, he had to tell.

Yeah, yeah. Jersey? Security and drivers. Yeah. Fucking all in one. Oh, yeah. Sent him a massive mess. I'm like, yo, what's, I'm like, Manolo, like the, what size are you?

I was, I'm going to send you a couple of things. I sent the whole thing. Airbnb was crazy, too. Yeah. What's wrong with the water? It was crazy. In Mexico. It's just like anything.

If you go to anywhere, like, and Tabe to the face to the face. What up dogs? Tave here. And, um, Taddle. To the face, did a face. He used to tell me that he couldn't drink the United States water because of the microbiomes that we have in our water. They don't agree with however they grew up in it.

But yeah, we got back in within 24 hours. I had to, and Manolo, so I sent him a whole package, and he's good people. So happy to have gotten to know him. He just knows the city, unlike anybody else. The driving and all that stuff is crazy. That's one thing I hate. Riley, this is El Paso, Texas.

So let's come back to this in a little. The driving there is like, especially you pair the way you have to drive there with the way I was feeling. Like I had like the, it wasn't just like a stomach problem. It was like a sixth. It was like a different. It was like stomach, but like that's sick feeling. And then you add the driving. Driving is the craziest thing I've ever seen there. Is it like organized there at all? It's, it's organized chaos. It is like they're stopping short, nonstop. They're merging. There's no lines. It's like it was hectic. There's a lot of traffic too. So the driving I did not like. Would you rather drive there or tallie? California. It's not, for sure. I don't think you understand. You would do you're probably right.

If I drove there, I would have put the car right into a tree. Not me. Yes, you would have. No matter what you say. Zini, what you're going to make me do. When Manolo made that move where he fucking went backwards and we kissed the car next to us. I'd never seen something like it. It was honestly good on him for being able to do that. See, you have to understand that it wasn't his maneuvering. It was the other people knowing that he was going to do that also. And it's just like culture that if like you're not going to go out of your way to hit somebody we did see every single time that I've been there I've seen a car hit something though so first it was a like and it's always bikes and motorcycles that get into into car crashes because they don't give a fuck

and over it yeah but like Mexico is very like don't be stupid you know what I'm saying like logic and common sense leads the way and nothing else matters you're wrong because it's illogical so it was good and then we went to Obviously, I took the boys to one of my favorite Mexico spots. Tacos called Tacos Las Rejas. This is a different area. I don't know if you know why he put it in there. But this is it right here.

That's my man, Oscar right there on the ride. Yeah. Bro, right there, those tacos de Papa. Those are potato tacos. That's like a vegetarian taco, if you really put it, except for the fact that they are boiled in hot pork grease. I feel like we were robbed of more like because, like, the two Michelin's stuff.

joints, awesome experience. Like the food was good. Like it was good, it was enjoyable. But I feel like I was robbed of more stuff like this. Like more of like the stands. What's your favorite taco spot? Between the two? Probably the last day.

The Atlantados. Yes, definitely. Okay. Well, there's another spot called Tacos Domingo, which is, pooh, the spot for me. I mean, that's my favorite taco, but if I'm going to have like a full-on experience,

like there's no Tacos Domingo is just, where it's at, man. It was crazy is how cheap everything is there compared to here. It goes to, like, it's not even... They were paying for lunch or shit. They're like, I got it. No, shit. Tocos, I always do that, number one. Don't put that on me. No, no, no, of course. How many calories do you guys think you guys had? Like...

Total? Yeah. I don't know. I don't think I was eating that much. Big guess. See, we were drinking a lot. Less him, but, like, we went to, like, the number two cocktail bar in the world, the number 23 cocktail bar in the world, and we were drinking, and that's what, that's what gets you. Food-wise, I feel like it wasn't, like that Michelin Star Stuff, even though it's like

11 forces, I don't think you're eating like a crazy amount of... Bro. Tell them about these tacos. Is this all different spots or is this like one? This is the same spot in the last day. This is my favorite taco spot. So that was, that's like steak that's like steak. Yep. No, this is not. This is not. Oh, no, sorry, that's the, that's the, that's the brown. It's the brown on top of the meat. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, crunchy chicharon, just like crushed up chichelon. So good. It was insane. That That's like Pastor, but it's done with a black adobe instead of the red one that you traditionally see on Pastor. I wasn't crazy about that.

That was my least favorite taco. This one? I love this one. I took the piña off, obviously. I'm not American. Even less than Mexico. That right there. Yeah, dude.

That's that stuff. Oh, man. That was so good. And then they had this Arabi one, which is this Arabian taco. Oh, the gaonera. That's the gaonera right there. Man, that shows fire. So good.

So, so, so, so. so good. Sassas were incredible. Company was good. I invited once, once Bose backed out and then who else backed out? Wasn't there two people that backed out? Did Mike? Oh, Oman's, yeah. So Omen's backed out and Boz backed out. So I hit up Oz, you guys know us, obviously, right? So I'm, because he and I are working on a project for one of his projects called Yearbook. It's a magazine for creatives. And I'm on the cover of volume two. So I'm like, yo, let's travel down there together.

We'll talk about it on the vlog, promote it a little bit. And I invited an old friend, Rishi, who used to be the head of gaming at Twitter. He did some fucking big shit

at, at meta or Facebook. Yeah, yeah. Sneakerhead, cool people. And then I invited Tavo to come eat. Tavo, our camera guy, for idiots. I invite him to go eat at Pujol.

That restaurant was the most beautiful restaurant I've ever seen in my entire life. It was like, it was the type of restaurant that you would only see in like a James Bond movie. Oh, fuck. So when it comes to like pure aesthetics, it is, I don't think I'll see a more beautiful restaurant the rest of my... Did you feel underdressed? No, no, no, no. It's not like that. Well, there are some people that wear the suits and stuff, but like, no, as long as you're presentable wearing something.

Like, I wouldn't go into tank top and shorts. I'd feel like an asshole. But, you know, you put a nice button up on some jeans. I went in a t-shirt. Not a strict dress code. That's why I hate Steakhouse. One of my main problems with Steakhouse is that you're giving me a boring steak and a fucking boring potato and you want me to wear a fucking dress shirt and be uncomfortable?

Fuck out of here, man. Fuck out of here. For sure. Not with my girl? Get out of here. I'm not getting dressed up for the boys. The fuck. I had a great time minus the stomach issues.

What do you think did it though? If we go back, I'm definitely doing it differently. Like keeping the days open, less planned stuff, and more like free flow, let's go good tacos, let's check out this spot. Less of the-me. Me and Eric Con were just bong rips the whole day. I smoked too. First night, first night I smoked, I was back. I was chilling.

I was making jokes. I was viving. Second day, I took too big of a rip. I had to go to the room and pace back and forth for like 20 minutes. I was like, yeah, I got a shit. I just went to the room and just walked back before. No, no one could see me in that state. No one would see you, period.

Go look at nature real quick, you know. All right, talk about the nature, the nature, the natural state of Mexico City. Yeah, Hector was telling me that, so the way it works is like they don't, they don't take down trees. So the sidewalks are like natural. So like, it's like, they're kind of like ramps. It's just. Cracked ramps. So Mexico City is sinking, but what is it again?

It's sinking, but what's going up? The tree? The trees, yeah. So the sidewalk is like going up because of the trees. But the city is sinking. The roots continue to crack the, they're going to grow. Yeah. So as they grow, they fuck up like all the asphalt, right?

And instead of fixing it by harming the tree, they just leave it, you know? There isn't a single building that goes up in Mexico City that does, that, that is allowed to go up without having some sort of nature attached to it or some sort of green. It's like a green program. And if you go on the highway and the other pass, it's like every column has a like mad, mad, man. So I was telling them that Mexico City sinks one inch a year and they didn't believe me It's 20 inches a year It's like look it up And it's 20 inches per year

In some in some areas, it's 20 inches a year Like what's gonna happen just go to float away at some point The whole city just gonna be like thucking the iceberg and club penguin Yeah Maybe wait for rock hopper Yeah it's like the biggest sinkhole yeah there's 27 million people that live there I wouldn't buy land there I'd be like fuck what's gonna flow away?

Maybe it'd be cheap. Maybe cheap. I mean, when? When is it going to? It'll be fucking ye. I don't think like that. It'll be fucking hundreds of years. Not in our lifetime.

But there's like, okay, the ground will continue to compact for another 150 years. They forecast adding up 30 meters to what it's already several. The thing is, it needs to be brought down of it. That's how it looks. Right? That used to be what's some considered Texcoco. I think it was more like Tenostitlan. What did I read there?

Texcoco? that lake bed was one lake texoco home of the Aztec city like that yeah tenoshitlan um but some are saying that you know actually according to some history it was more closer to Utah that where the Aztec Empire well you know it's debatable it's it's debatable but you're in the middle of a volcano right here you're in a sinking volcano in the popocatepel you're sinking and there's going to be volcano. What's that volcano? The active volcano there?

So I mean, look, look, look. Go down a little bit. Go down a little bit. Look at the purple. Volcanics. Holy shit. That's like really close. That's lava, dude.

What's red? It's a jungle, dude. You're in the middle of a jungle. It's beautiful. Like the difference between being in the sun and being not in the sun, it's crazy. Oh, I've never seen light. I woke up one morning and I checked the UV in Mexico City. Shit said extreme.

13. I thought it was weird too. Check the UV? Yeah. What is that? The index. Like the- Check the index?

Like how strong the rate? Yeah, that'll tell you. To weather or not, you should wear sunscreen. What the fuck? Yeah, if you go to the weather app and you scroll down. I see, oh, it's hot today. Yeah, no, but if you scroll down the weather app, it tells you to UV index. And 13 is like, I've never seen that in my life.

Usually here, like, on our hottest days here, it's usually like a nine, I would say. Like, I usually see Dallas like eight, nine, ten, I've never seen. You look at that daily? The UV? Before I go for like a walk or something. Yeah. If I don't even... And it tells you whether or not

you have to put on sunscreen. Is that you're saying? Yes. Well, like... I just raw dog. Like UV rays. You should wear sunscreen if it's moderate or above.

Especially with my skin. Like my dad had... I'm just super safe with a... Not us, right, Pam? Not with the skin we're in. Ha, ha. No, sir. Get me all nice brown.

Get me my brown sugar. This is your summer productivity. Ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Bro. But every time I see sunburn, I just think of omens when he paints and also Mason when he fishes. Holy fuck, bro. When we, he was, his arms were that red. And I'm like, every time you pressed his skin, it would turn like white and then it would go back to red.

Yeah. And then he's, I came back and he's like, look. And he had like a fucking skin peel from the sunburn when we went fishing. I feel like Mason is like an outdoor. I can see him being like an outdoors kid. He is. Yeah. Like swing on a tire swing.

Yeah. Like doing... Climb trees. Riley, bring up the food that you... Yeah, yeah. Bring up that... The... What Pam's feeling deadly about?

The scone dogs. The scorn dogs. The scorn dogs. Yeah, wait. What is this? It's fucking deliciousness. I made them yesterday for you guys. So I have it out there in the kitchen.

What is it? And it's like... Can we eat them right now? Can we try them on the pot? Or is it for a video? Yeah, yeah. Maybe after the pod or maybe after the 1B1s. Everyone could try it.

I made a fuck ton, dude. Hell yeah. I was standing in the kitchen. What is it? It's like a native corn dog. Oh, okay. And there, I got, I brought the ketchup, I brought the relers. I'll tell you what, they don't look.

I thought they were fried potatoes. The greatest, and I like how you have oil also on the, on the stove top. It was messy. I'm not going to lie, my kitchen was an absolute chaos yesterday, because I made them on FaceTime with my mom, which was like a really fun thing to do. That's also, yeah, of course. Yeah, she enjoyed that. You're a good man, Pam, you know that?

He is a good man. You're always trying to make people happy. I'm always, I'm trying to share. You're gifted people, moccasins. You're excited for you guys to try this. I too should do a little bit more of that. You want to go have breakfast on my mom's this Saturday? Fuck yeah, I'm done.

All right, I'll let her know. I like this. Now, Hector, next week you'll bring in tacos and then, you know? What, we should have a, what was that called? In high school, we used to do like a potluck of nations. And everybody would bring in, like, certain different things. I'm not doing sushi. Bring sushi.

No, don't bring sushi. Come on. He's a natural out there. You got to go to Hikari and bring a box. It's your bento box. Look at him. I mean, my man is a little bit on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, the, on the, the, he knew what the fuck he was doing. Now, the mullet. The mullet, too, it's like the perfect. Yeah. And the glasses. This is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's. Oh, yeah. Robots. I'm, I'm, maniac. Holy fuck. Look, amazing. Oh, wow. Yeah. His poor eyes. Oh, robot. you what?

Like, Mace is outdoors as they come, bro, because he didn't want to get off the water at all. We only got off because, you know, Mannyac was feeling a little like... Really?

Yeah, a little... No, no, no, no, he wasn't. He wasn't. Matt, he was... Oh, there is. He was totally not being... But look at that thing, bro.

Look at that. That's nice. Yeah, that's nice. Yeah. No, Mace was fucking... He looks like a fishing YouTuber right. Yeah. He's like, when do we go back?

Damn, that looks like a fun... A fun little, uh, a little morning, man. Look like he needed that. you know, like needed to be out in the water. Yeah. When you're out on the water, you really do not. They're out in the back?

Like, yeah, I needed that. Yeah. I came back and then Brandon's like, yo, what am I going fishing? And I'm like, all right, you're down. And then Mace looks at him. He's like, you ain't getting out that early. He's like, and then Brandon's like, was like, what?

Like eight, nine? He's like, 4.30 in the morning. So after we got back last Wednesday, I spent the night at my house. immediately after that I was on my way to in a trip to El Paso there was a graffiti jam called Borderland Jam and I hadn't painted

a graffiti jam since probably scribble jam back in the day but here it is the amount of green wall members that came out to say what's up was fucking awesome it was good people on the left you have omens me in the middle

well wait could you go back I want to see all yeah ohman's fucking snaps obviously as usual yeah I did the one on the right. Revise. Listen, omens,

that looks. Yeah. That just pops. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That red is just... Yeah, he snapped for sure. He stole... You guys all been great though.

He stole my... Both of them fucking stole my fucking red. And then I couldn't find the red for it. Like, I drove around the entire complex in my scooter that I bought. I left it to the kids, you know? I like the idiots tag. Yeah, it's cool.

But yeah, no, it was good to be back in my... in my, not, I don't want to say home town. It's my birth town. But, yeah, like this guy, Christian, he came by, say what's up. And, yeah, there I am. Did he show up with that shirt or did you just? No, I tagged it.

He asked me to it. And I tagged it. Yeah, so here I am with step number one, two. People are saying that I'm losing a lot of weight. I don't feel it. Just take it, bro. Yeah. Just take the call.

me and the finish piece with the boys. Hell yeah. They were saying, hometown hero, and I'm like, ah, stop it. It looks,

in this picture, it looks better than the picture of all three. Like, it pops more in this picture. Yeah. Like, you see the color more here. Yeah,

and then I see all the mistakes right now. Like, I'm like, I should have done this there. Like, I forgot to do that there. Anyway,

I had a blast. I did get a little bit, um, congested as soon as I, as soon as I landed. Like, I just started fucking sneezing and that night.

I had to get one of those baby misters for the dryness in there because it was pretty bad. But I had an excellent, excellent, excellent. Where's Catalyst 6? It's on away, man. Yeah, you're working on it? I have like 60 clips, like just ready to go. Do you have the final? You already picked your ender?

Are you closer? No, I have, dude. What about your opener? I got like six, six of them, like at least really good clips. Okay. I look he recorded two years for this. Damn. Yeah.

Like, I was supposed to have something come out last. year but it kind of fell through what the editor editor yeah basically the editors and uh i was just sitting on these like 30 clips that i spent all your recording for and i was like what the fuck do do i do with these can i pitch you an idea let's let's hear it with with AI being as good as it is nowadays hold on shut the fuck what you're just sucking your teeth for come man you should do a you should do a video where it's like a vlog where you're not in it it's your character is vlogging you know what I'm saying? And you're going from, he's like, all right, now we're going to go over here and I'm going to try to do this fucking thing. And then bam, it cuts straight into that

that fucking play. I'd have to see more what you're talking about. Dude, you visually? I don't know what that even means. Yeah, I can't even put that together in my mind right now. Whatever you just said, I can't visualize it. What? What's you're saying? It's hard. It's hard right now because like I need like a nasty editor. Like I hit up SLP, like the one who made the second one. And he's like, I haven't made one in a while. And I'm like, there's money involved. I'm still waiting on to get back to me, but like, there's not a lot of good NASA editors out there. Get your wipe off the keyboard and let's get to work.

I know, bro. He would do so good, bro. And there's more, there's money involved too. But two years spent on this, I'm excited for it. I wanted to come out like summer, August, not like two months before the game, new game comes out. Like, I need this shit. I need the shit out this year. Oh, yeah.

And is it both last year's game and this game? Block off six, seven. What are you going to call it? Do you know the name of Catalyst, six, seven? Low key, that's not a bad, that might get some more clicks. I'm not allowed to you. But they both look good. Both games look good together, I'd say.

Because Blackop 6 and Blackop 7 are like pretty fucking alike. Yeah. So I think they would look good next to each other, kind of just like how MW2 and MW3 was. So it'll be cool to finally get that happening. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to watch that. Stressful, though.

Stressful, man. Because you'll be playing for 12 hours a day, nothing will happen. Like, you won't record anything. All it takes as one. If I play two hours, something's happening. If I play your lobbies, I'm hitting something. For fucking.

Bro, SBM don't even fucking work no more. Those lobbies are probably crazy. Yo, you play sniper lobbies, dude. Man, go play the fucking sniper only playlist, bro. Yo, James. They have that? What are you doing back then? I'm not using that.

I'm not using that. I just puked in my mouth. I pray every time they drop those. And I pray. Look how bad he wants to be Bieber. I was going to say. Look at the hair. I was going to say.

What up, Daisies? No, it looks good, though. It looks good. Cool. Zany just brought somebody on the podcast who didn't get it on the podcast. He looks like Bieber? He does.

Riley, take a picture of him and just... Just put it. More neck tats. Yeah, just throw it in there. Think confidence on the side right there. Wait, is that what he has? Yeah, confidence?

I think it's confident. Out of the neck? Some maniac shit. I don't know why he's catching strays right now. That's my bad. Yeah, what the fuck? Don't worry. You catch strays with him all the time.

I know. He's always talking about Pam. He's like, man, Pam should have came here. He's right. Pam would have loved this. He's right. Optic Texas starts a major three qualified. Hold on, hold on.

What's up with the Huntsman, man? Let's talk about the Huntsman. What's up? I mean, Huntsman just stressed me the fuck out. But luckily, uh, so we've been new, what's going on here? What is? That's his brother, bro. That's not even him.

Who is that? Is it really? So we just have this saved? Yeah, what the fuck, Riley? Riley's a weird out. Riley's a weird out. Riley's actually... Riley, what the fuck, dude?

Those 30 seconds, really? Bring it back so you can see it. Dude, he saw James coming and he moved it. No, no, no, not that. No, no, no, no. No, show James what you just showed. And then walk on to the... There he is.

All right, it was worth it then, Riley. It was worth it. He saw it. That's why he walked away. He's like, God. Where is that? Dude, what? No, it's not.

That's Riley. Riley brought that up quickly, too. It's all right. No, I didn't. I did not ask that. That James. The fucking 135 pound James. I didn't mean it.

But yeah, Optic. Oh, sorry, Huntsman. Okay. So where, last time I talked about Huntsman, a lot has changed. So new roster, we released Rispy and the mentions. Just didn't really work. We tried to give a time. Rispy obviously was with us since the first iteration of Huntsman.

Shout out to Rispy. And NEMI as well. They just, they lost. a couple game fives in the elite, unfortunately, and that was the difference between making the playoffs. They didn't do that. They went to the major, and they placed top 12. They got reverse swept by four fun, which is vivid in them. That seemed that we've beat a bunch of times and just spoke to the boys, spoke to Major Maniac, and felt like we needed a new look. So we got Brack, who I feel like is a huge pickup. I consider Brack like a cornerstone piece for the Huntsman now.

I think his new shot in the league is long overdue, but I'm happy. to have him here for as long as teams want to sleep on him because I think like he brings a bit of veteranship to the team. Actually, we need to talk about all this because a lot of people, here's the thing with the huntsman. There's going to be a lot of things that I say that we'll probably go back on because the whole point of the huntsman is like this very natural, organic challengers experience. So what I say will never have pros in the team, that's obviously changed, but so has the landscape of challengers. Like right now it's being dominated by N.A. pros, like being Snoopy and them, they're the best team in challengers. Our goal right now is to

a-dh-uh, right? Field like this good mix of players where, like, you have this veteran leadership, you have this young talent. And with the pro-eam coming up, the goal is to hopefully be on the main stage. And the only way to do that is to win the elite. And this happens at Atlanta, right? Yes. And my, well, no, it happens in the elite online. So the elite starts Wednesday. We qualified in a nail-biter. It was way too close. The only team that gets in is the winner. So it's going to be very tough. Competition is going to be at its highest. Hopefully our boys can go out there and do it. But yeah, this whole, this whole thing is like this, Challengers is fucking chaos, is what I'm trying to say. It's very quick moving. It's not

very forgiving. It's very gritty. And honestly, I kind of love the chaos to the point where I was on my phone most of the time in Mexico City dealing with, uh, he was, and stuff. We have Swoodie now, which, from a content perspective, Suu-Di is probably one of the best pickups you can possibly find the challengers. The kid has, personality and I think he's still he's still continuing to prove himself. He's very talented. Like he's a character. He's very fun to have around and then we still have Renegate, of course, and Johnny from the previous iteration. Let's watch this. This segment is brought to you by Price Picks. We're going to pick what's happening this upcoming weekend. As you guys all know,

I'm actually don't know what my last picks went like, but I am, I go negative. I'm negative Nancy Hater when it comes to this unless this is our team. So any player that I pick is always less. You're a less guy. Yeah, I'm a less guy. I like going map two because map two feels like without knowing the maps, I just feel like search is more...

Go to Map 2 kills Riley. Let's see. Teage versus Falcons, he's been frying. Is anybody at five and a half? Like Afro? Like, come on, bro. Afro's got to get... Nope, not touching C-9. Big Lou,

Insight. Hmm. See, I would take Afro more than five and a half here. Who are they playing? I believe they're against G2. I don't, I'm not crazy about G2 right now. What do you guys think? Oh, it plays Miami. That might change things. Less. Whoa, less than five and a half. Map two. You think he's going to get more than five kills? In search. I hope so. I don't know. I'm a hater. I always give players benefit the doubt in search. If it's if it's that low two, five and a half. Well, he gets blooded three times and that's it. Just wraps. I think he, go more here, Riley.

This is the Tony pick. All right. I want Joe. I saw Joe down there. Who are they playing? Carolina. Carolina? Yeah, I got less.

Fuck yeah. Oh, we all have to pick one? Cook, yeah. Give me the top right square map or go back to the first page. Do cramp map 1 versus C9. Cramp. That's true. That's your boy.

It might be below him, and I like Crazy as a player, so please, my man, don't think that this has anything to do with you and your skill less. Okay. I like that. I like that a lot. I'm just a hater. I wouldn't pick that for my team. I think these are pretty solid. I would say...

Riley, how many times do we play this weekend? Oh, okay. Finally. No, that's not true. It could be more, right? It's the minor tournament. The minor. Oh, what the fuck?

This weekend? Yeah. They can play four times. Yeah, I can't. When did it start? Friday. Yeah. It's just like a regular watch.

party? It's like a tournament, yeah. Hell yeah. It's gonna be fun as fuck to watch. It's gonna be amazing. Fuck yeah. The only ones that I'm I mean, I just think cramp is map dependent, you know what I'm saying? If they get like a... I just think C9 starts off hard points and the... That's true, there's always a comeback. The game always goes long. That's a good point, yeah. I like these picks. You know what? Let's see if... Put 200 down. Yeah. All right, ladies and gentlemen, this at this upcoming segment is brought to you by price picks.

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Deers? And they happen to stumble across four hunters. Oh, wow. That's cool, dude. Four deer's, four hunters. I've seen enough. Get it going. He loves it here.

He's got it. He's got it, right? Let's freaking go. We'll see how the pools look, how everything goes to be live tomorrow for it. But yeah, GGs. You guys all have a great day. Let's go. Hey, be the hunter.

Be the hunter. All right, bye, go on now. He's hilarious. I love that, dude. Like his first day here, I was watching his stream, he goes, yo, Chash, should I go talk to Matt, aka formal? Or maybe, should I go talk to Seth? You may know him as Scump?

Like he's just He's got it So hopefully Hopefully this roster can Can make something happen He's called by the first names And shit And yeah man

I'm excited Huntsman once again I do feel like What do you think Matt You've been watching the Huntsman Is the project over? Nah that's not over It's okay

Nothing will ever be as good as the first Yeah Truthfully That's what I was gonna say It's I mean that's That's my feelings on it Like the Kips Niam Renegade Rispy

That was like our first roster that like we were all behind like the challenger scene was also exploding at that time yeah oh yeah um like back then people were arguing that it was better than the cdl yeah so it was like really fucking fun to watch everything challenges later there was stuff to watch every day basically yeah um then we watched them play the tournament and they got fourth and it was like all behind it i mean like every huntsman roster that we have i'm gonna watch and i'm gonna support it's just like think my natural like interest in it has gone down a little bit but like if they were in the elite finals tomorrow

then I'm fucking stoked as fuck for you. Yeah, of course. But watching them play the whatever they just played, whatever that clip was from, that shit was stressful, dude. Like they... They weren't playing great. Yeah, they weren't playing very good. And I'm like watching it. I'm trying to defend the players

and like, especially John, like, Renegade. I want to see him do well no matter what happens. And like just seeing them like lose to people I know they shouldn't be losing to, that shit irks me a little bit. Yeah. I'm like, dude, you guys shouldn't be thinking this guy's hacking and then also losing to them.

It just makes us look bad. I don't know. It's just, I don't like it, but I'm going to watch them play the elite. And yeah, hopefully they qualify. That'd be awesome. It'd be a cool story. But yeah, they did squeeze in like the last spot. Yeah.

Which is like, you know, it could make for a good storyline because they are kind of a newer team. Maybe they shouldn't more practice, I guess, but. They, uh, there was like a big team talk after. Like, the Neum and Kipps roster, I think we were so spoiled. Like, when you send players to thieves in Toronto, obviously we had something special. What I think, and what I'm, what we had this talk about was like, Renegade is a takeover SMG player,

but he needs the confidence to do that. Like, you can't nitpick him, especially this early. Like, he's still early in his cot arc. Like, he is still learning and he has to be allowed to make mistakes. What Neum and Kipps did a really good job of is letting him do that and not like nitpicking his play style or like constantly correcting him. So I kind of reiterated that to this roster. Like, listen, John is a takeover SMG.

I've seen it. Mike, Major Maniac will tell you, but he needs the confidence to do that. Like, you cannot be calling him out every wrong play he makes. Like, it has to be a collective, you guys all need to instill confidence in each other. So honestly, the BRAC move was, I kind of thought about Niam in that instance. Like, this team needs like a Niam. It needs a guy who's like calling the right play, the calm voice. And I feel like Brack brings that. So, listen, hopefully, hopefully this roster can do something. You know, obviously that's always the goal. It's a little more difficult than maybe I envision to constantly field top rosters and

challengers with how much things move. And honestly, now players are signing contracts and stuff, which adds a layer to it where I'm like, some players are signing contracts where I'm like, why the fuck are you signing that contract? Like, signing our contract makes sense. You get a good salary. You get a team house. like you sign this salary for nothing and now I have to try to find you a way out of it. Like that's what so there's like more hoops than there used to be.

Without committing tortious interference, of course. Of course. Of course. Yeah, the Huntsman Projects, it's a process. It's fun. It's stressful. But hopefully the community is still loving it. Chat, this guy, you should see him.

He was working his ass off. And every time I looked at him, he was on the phone. What are you doing? He's like, he's like, do you show him? He's a huntsman business. and I see him like getting a little bit stressed out and you know, having fun with it of course, right?

But it's a little bit stressful. Yeah, definitely stressful. Okay, then I said, oh, ho, what is this? That's me if shit goes sour. That's me if we don't qualify. That's not a bad look on you. Yeah, I don't know.

I think I've got to pull that off. You kind of pull that off, dude. That's like five more Mexico trips right there. Nah, you can't get fat of Mexico. There's no GMOs. There's none of that. I can get it done. I saw people tweet me.

like, dude, you guys don't have a roster and you're in Mexico City? I'm like, what do you think I'd be doing at home that I can't do with this phone in my hand? Like, this is everything I need. All I'm saying is that I've been doing this for 20 years and that shit seems easy now. He's got sweating

and the shit, you know what's saying? It's crazy. The Wow, Wow, West. Matt, what do you think about this meta? The meta? Yeah. I think with a few more tweaks, it would be very good. I think it was cool to see, it was refreshing to see not only new maps but new guns.

With the MPC. Then they got kind of an OD. There was a bunch of MPCs. You see, you know, Mains taking it out, running around with it. It's fucking certain hills. There's eight of them. The gun looks really fun to watch. I had a good time watching it.

It was cool seeing like explosive-ass plays, fucking Kyler's POV specifically, Sims, like, 04, even at some points. Like, the gun looks fun as fuck to watch. It should be able to kill up close. Shouldn't be able to map ARs. I didn't really see too many, like, I could see, I saw a couple mid-range fights, not too many straight, like, beam, like, just mapping someone off ahead of you, like, the traffic was.

Um, I think it's a little overpowered now, though. It's, it needs a little bit of tweaking. It's, it's got too many perks right now. You're running, you're running as fast as you are with, like, a knife out with it. I mean, every, dude, go to every series. Like, the main A.Rs are, like, hiding almost, like, the Lunars. Dude, they're the, it's like there's demons on the map, and they just don't want to go and find them.

Like, they'll just hide in corners. I don't know. It's, it's kind of weird. Except for a booze or random. I guess he's squaring. I mean, that's a bad series of pull-up, Riley. Yeah, they also had... What?

They also had double scar there. Didn't you watch them? You watched them. I know you did. There we go. Look at Jamie. I mean, that's also a bad example because he's low-key kind of a slower player.

But like Sparth, even's like lower engagement. Go to find a Vancouver Surge series. Where's that one series I'm talking about? It was on Friday. It was on Friday. Yeah, that one. That one. Look at that shit.

Yeah, looters. Ketman. He's actually hiding. Like, he was like, holy shit, dude. That's a 302, and he's just like... Look at the R's 2 on G2. It is getting torpedoed. Yeah, like Mamba and Caesar were both kind of forcing in as well, especially like... Damn, that gridlock

came down to the wire, huh? It did. G2 choked. DJ went massive. Big Tige. But back to the original point, the guns needed. They needed a change. The Dravick was boring as fuck to watch. Like boring as fuck to play with. I mean, I don't think the pros, any of the pros like that gun. This new gun is very, very good.

It just needs a little bit of twas. weekend. I don't know whether it's a barrel, fucking, I mean, there's so many goddamn attachments. Yeah, it's like a shotgun. Yeah, it's just, I think that the sub should kill up close and you shouldn't be able to map ARs and air player shouldn't cry if you die close to it, but you shouldn't just get blown away. Like I was seen this, this weekend was pretty nuts. It was fun to watch, but I was like, holy fuck. I feel like it seems even more OP because in a game like this, what I was trying to explain, it just feels like you can take space so easily and like you can force close-range gun fights so much easier than you used to be able to.

Like I don't think you can get, I don't think you're given like super long-range fights on a consistent basis like you used to, you know what I'm saying? Like people are constantly closed in space. They're double jumping, they're sliding, and they're in your face like that. It's so quick. And that's why I think the SMG look...

Eight out of the 12. Eight out of the 10. Yeah, if you look at the last stage, I mean, like every top spot was an AR, and now there's eight SMGs in the top 10 of KD, of straight KD is pretty nuts. I'm sure they all had a lot of fun. Just the way the map should flow, it shouldn't be like that consistent. Like the ARs, because they're like the backline, more often than not, are like the cleanup crew. SMGs are usually like closer in engagements. But if you do look at the top 10, it is, I will say it is all like the top talented guys.

It is like, it's Shotsie, it's Joe, it's Huck, it's Neptune, Abysian Hydra. I think this meta complements them. Go back down, really? Pretty nuts to see Lunars in the top 10. When, like, look at Shotsie stats and look at Lunars, but Lunars played two series. And Shotsie played one. That's kind of nuts.

Like, he's, what, 23 kills ahead of Shotsie, and he had a whole other series on top of it, which went to game five piece. That is nuts. That's insane, to be honest. I do like the gun. I think I need to tweak a little bit. I mean, I talked to, like,

Brandon and Scrap, like, late night when we're playing Counter Strike, and, like, obviously, those are two mains of two top teams. So, like, I'm hearing, like, the raw, actual,

like, what they're thinking, like, it seems like that gun is just a little too much right now. I don't think we'll see it the same in this minor that we just saw this weekend. It was really fun to watch,

though. So they are going to tweak it, you think? I think so. Yeah, they're trying, like, yesterday they tried

removing a certain barrel and like they're trying to make it like they don't want the gun gone they just want it to be a little more fair for for ARs makes no subs yeah not even just ARs too

just like just like just the even SMGs yeah it's just like dude it's making everyone kind of insane right now like sometimes there's not even a chance for a gunfight you're zapped and like there are some kills that we saw

this past weekend you're like yo holy shit that is not even real the shocker that whole that A bomb on fringe bro that A bomb on fringe is It's crazy because in B.03, like, you only really go to that bomb site, like, late into a round 2 v2. Like, B.03, you're playing the train tracks, playing the map. If you go top barn, like, for some reason, in this game, if you go top barn, it looks super fucking scammy. I don't know why.

When you peeked that window, it looks like they're scamming their dick off. Yeah. But in Blackop Street, that was not a power position, but, like, you would stand there in square and whatever. But that A bomb, like, that alleyway, inside, dude, there's just people sliding in that doorway, just dead. If I was in AR, I would be petrified of that hallway. Yeah, I would just be running up mid or something. Petrified. I don't know.

It's kind of weird. I don't know, by Plaza? That Plaza's indie shit. When I saw Falcons versus Serge where they just banged each other out in the bar, like... It's like vault. It's fucking insane, dude. Fogs and around.

I'm not a fan of Plaza. Yeah, doesn't seem like a lot of pros or other, but I'm a fan of Gridlock. Hold on. The way Plaza plays out, it's just a bang. It's just a bang out in the disco. Like what?

Yeah. It's kind of vibey if you have in-game music. I love, yeah, right? I love the every time, like, both teams would push that site. They always have like such a good POV. Watched them both fucking fight each other.

Oh, that third person. That was actually dope. Just hail Mary Nades and everything. Like who gets their first? What does Boston breach need a new roster? I mean, they're just, I mean, they actually looked pretty decent in their second series,

but yeah, I mean, purges went positive like one series in like six months, which everyone's harping on them for. They bring an Afro for, Snoopy. Snoopy's now dominating challengers with P7. Most people just think that they didn't do enough.

He actually got ripped there. Who was that? Kids? Around this day, I was watching the CS major stuff the weekend as well, and watching them like fucking chess, like every round. Like, you know what I'm saying? The crowd's like getting into it. And then going to the CD out and watching this shit every fucking, I was like, dude, this is

insane. Like God just looks so brain dead sometimes. This is one of those times. Like this is the round. We're not even 15 seconds in. You could still class switch at the door right there if you wanted Like that's insane. Holy cow Yeah, he just got that was like a 30 second round. It was 15 seconds. Oh fuck. Bro, they did that like five rounds in a row Yeah, kind of liked it. It was kind of liked it. It was kind of at a point I was like just do it the whole game then if you're gonna keep doing it

It and just keep doing it really just ripped the band-aid But I don't know and it really is like the better bomb site, right? Like Yeah, you can't read it. Yeah, there's like you can't even retake you just look at three fucking things That's just insane. That Spard looking over at like... I mean, come on. This is so insane. But like,

right, get this off the screen, dude. Wait, why, why? Because that's just like fucked up. First of all, it's just like fucked up

for the Cod League to be posting that. Yeah. That's fucking insane. 100%. Uh, I think it's taken out of context on top of that. Yeah. Don't think Spar's just staring at him

hating him. Of course. Like, yeah, you are fucking awful. Yeah, I don't know what the fuck that is, dude. Uh,

Navelus is top. I saw this. that top 10 CDO players community was not having it. Obviously. Obviously. He didn't put hook on it. What do he say, bro? He's basically said hook's S&D is what kept him off this top 10.

But I mean, I think Kyler has to be on this list. A hundred. Tyler needs to be on this list for sure. I would move NEP up a little bit. He's got. I probably move. Joe's number three. I think Nameless because he's been around so long.

It's like he can't, like even when when Seth was around or when you were around, Like he never put us at a number one position. He's always been just a massive Simp fan. He's Simps for Simp. Nameless. Yeah, it's because he was always fucking bleed blue. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's right.

Simp is good as fuck right now, though, man. The kid is a glitch. He is, bro. I am happy for him. And you know what? Like, out of the three, when the Tiny Terrorists broke up, out of the three, there was always like, all right, we know that Simps's going to be good. Which are the other two, and which one's going to end up

On top is like the one that stands out as the player. And I think there's no question right now that who's who. See a lot of hook supporters. I see a lot of hook supporters. However, but hook was bleed blue. No, but what's. Blue with envy. The one thing about this is I listen to Wheeler say Kyler's the best player in the game,

all of stage two. Every, every weekend he was saying, who's the best player in the game? Yo, who's the best player in the game? My blue. So I'd listen, I just think. Zero ball knowledge. Let's go. I also think that Kyler plays a really hard role

on our team for search specifically Just search specifically It's carrying bombs It's a player that you don't really want a leash on You're throwing on them on them And then it's like you have Ant Who's playing pretty solo the whole time Like on defense you'll see them

Run around together a little bit But like for the most part Kyleers Probably not like I would like 100% comfortable I would like some consistency from the Wheeler Mind You know if he is Colin Hooke

The most mind blown fucking player The reason why Shotsie's playing the way he's playing. He's unlocking everybody, not just a complete shooter, but also a fucking walking UAV and not put him in the top 10. It just throws away his entire expertise in Call of Duty, in my opinion. I can hear him now. What? This is blasphemy. Fire up the podcast. I am not a hater. Go, Ben, get him. No, no, no. We fuck with Wheeler. O.G as they come. I love Wheelhouse. He's wrong, but this is OG as they come. This is so wrong.

He's severely overblown. I can't believe that the, uh, the CDL posted. this no they didn't I don't know how I don't know I don't know wait a little this after the broadcast oh this was on the CDL yeah they just showed it I started over let me listen to it I'm walking dude oh it not to move on the green all of them green boys look all of them green we did the next space I mean you got show the situation really just like yeah Ryland what the fuck you doing I watch it back and I think then I'm not scar it's a scourage P...

Wait. Them blocking had nothing to do with this, though. Them blocking what? Like, Kismet said, why are we not blocking? They had nothing to do with why they got broken. Like, Simp just hits a great need. They had no trophy.

We'll see it. Exit loses a fight. There was a trophy, but it was poorly, poorly placed. That's what it was? It was very poorly placed. Well, like, what they thought happened is didn't happen. Yeah. It's at the very end of the game, probably.

That's one of the things you watch back. You're like, oh, I didn't realize. I mean, they get team-nated, self-hop still. Damn, they lost this. Wait, they lost this? They also just lost a heartbreaker game 3. I was actually arguing with my stream here because there, let me like Selium gets a two piece mid and he backs up but

Yeah, go back to the rotation to this by the way Kizmiko is fucking insane on this whole rotation to like get to this hill Or yeah before that right here look he's the only guy here he gets draws it new Goes Top Green he gets shot he like finesses this well He waits for the guy to turn his back kills him says whatever and now like they've won the rotation Just off of like what Kisman just did basically Watch Selium here dead. X-N-Gos.

His team needs him. Whatever. Whatever. That's fine. Because he pops two. So you're like, whatever, you know? Back up a second, Riley. See, right here, everyone's saying Cell should be the one to hit out middle. And I do agree with that. No, no. He's going back because he has the trophy. He has the only trophy that they have. That's the only reason that he's not hitting this. My whole chat was saying MC needs to hit out mid. And if you let this play develop,

if you watch what XNid does, it's the same exact play. Hey, hey, you, both of you. Come back down this. play from our players did sell scam right here all right you guys didn't see this here here here back it up a notch then you guys you guys can come break it yeah look at this look at this rotation I didn't see this I saw the hey this though I saw the clip of X did he was yeah raging he should take space he's like we didn't go green there's just something like that right yeah yeah okay so I I think and I'm not trying to harp on sell too much but like I think this whole place sells fault if he starts off with the team nade. He's me, I already won the rotation.

Okay, keep in mind. He just gave him, gifted him a rotation. Okay. Tell doesn't push mid. He comes back here. He throws a trophy. He throws his trophy like behind the plane though. It's like in the middle of the grass. Wait, do we see it? You'll see it soon. Yeah, you'll see it soon. You'll see it. You'll see it. You'll see it. You'll see it like towards the end of this club. And AG gets nated because of it. Yeah, he dies. Because they're only, dude, there's only 10 seconds left. They're not nating top plane. They're going to need the hill. Because they're like, if we don't need the hill, we're going to lose. You know what I'm saying. Look at it. Back in. That's where

That's what the trophy is. X-Nit shouldn't have even been middle. Do you think that's not blowing up anything in the hill? He was a fresh trophy. He just went back to put it down. Yeah, because he doesn't have it anymore. Yeah. Right here.

That shit's not blocking the thing in the hill. He team nades. He gets two. You're like, okay, fine, whatever. Look, he's got his trophy. He runs back here. He chucks it, then he goes back to him. Or then he goes to the plane.

That might be blocking, like, just top plane, like, too, like over his head. You know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah. He might be blocking bad days. Yeah, he definitely. He definitely does. He definitely does. Where did X to die from?

He died from B-cutt. Sim just came and tucked him with a... That's NPDG-G-G-G-G-G-GAT. He just shotgun to be cut. Sim made the guy on hill that goes B-C-O-B-Cut and just shock-G him. We didn't take space green. That's the only clip I saw. So whose fault was this?

Was it Kismet for turning around blocking blue or was it... I don't know, dude. Falcon's not pushing. I mean... All of them. I think all of them, but AG. You know... Yeah, we had a weird, weird,

twists of events. But I actually do a safer. I think X-Nid if he's... Yeah. He's also thinking that that guy is just pathing from P5 to mid-cut is kind of crazy. Like, only looking for him. Like, maybe he's mind-blown.

Not really. Simp, though. I feel like Simp would think to do that. That's a good play from Simps. It's a good play from Sam. It's also an insane play from, like, his three teammates are playing and they're not seeing that.

Yeah. That's what I'm saying. I can see all of them being like, what the fuck's going on. Yeah. And then maybe he's like, wait, is that why he said they didn't take space? Did he think that they should have bumped forward? But like, but like I also think, okay, okay, if I'm in excess position, my teammate gets in on the hill,

I'm fighting that B-cut fight differently than I am if my teammates are alive in the hell. Yeah, I'm off-angling the team like on the head. I'm not worried about it. But as soon as my teammate gets in, I'm like, I got to get a kill quick. Like, you know what I'm talking about this play, by the way? Just when you guys walked in. You guys just started talking about that just when you guys walked in, yeah. Because I feel like people, I don't know, what was Merck think?

I was going to say it was all their faults. I mean, when they got three dead, Sel should have stayed out mid, but, like, he ran backwards. Fucking facts. Backed up playing. And then, fucking facts.

And then Exxon went middle, lost his gunfight. Yeah, team they just, all three of their faults. There's a breakdown. Yeah. It actually was a breakdown. Because look right here,

cell should just stay out mid. Because then when they rage after two, now you can show the rage clip. Really? Because they're raging about two different things. Hizmet's raging about fucking blocking, and then, uh,

X is raging about not, pushing it looked like a block. I feel like they were good on blocking the whole time. Yeah, they didn't look like a blocking. No one was going to spawn behind them there. That's what I saw. It didn't take space. They didn't take space, all green.

Yeah, Exen said we spawned them all. It sounded Irish right there. What? It actually kind of sound like you had an Irish accent. Oh, it's really like. All right, guys. No, no, thanks for. Back to the podcast, guys.

Theleb appearances by the man, by the men right there. This is just such a setup. Like, yo, we couldn't keep Merck on the pod? What I was going to say is that I'm surprised and also happy to see that the exonet is like yelling and fucking taking position in its own team and having a, you know, the comfort level to fucking talk shit back when they need to. Why? You disagree? Why? Because he's a- He almost got dropped.

He almost got dropped. He almost all got dropped. I think that he was in fucking shambles right now. And I just think it's just adding fuel to the fire that is. an explosion coming to that roster. That one's heartbroken too. Because that was a, that was, they were about to force game five against phase.

And they were, and they were, and they were playing that series. Like, they could have won that series. And that, that's just like a, that's one of those series

that if they win that, it's one of those like, it's a weird resurgence. It's like a revitalizing. Yeah. But what is that clip of us of the game last night? Yeah,

we went to the Stars Playoffs game last night. Put it. Me, me, dashy, Teage and Scrap. Oh, hell yeah. We had great seats. We were like three rows up from the glass.

Playoff. awesome game. Hockey, I like to watch hockey from like mid, mid level. I don't like to be up front. Yeah, here's... By the glass is so awesome. These were our seats, yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah, it was honestly

awesome. Do you play off hockey? I'll tell you what, Dallas does it so well as well. Like you're unless you go to it, you're shocked that Dallas does hockey that well. Because it's like, it's not... You think of more of like Cowboys, Mavs, they do this awesome. And I'll tell you what, we paid like $480 a pop for like those seats. Anywhere else, you try getting those seats at the garden, you're paying fucking $2,500 hours of pop easily. What the fuck? What's the last minute or? No, it's just, they're like reasonably

priced. Like last year we went to game seven, me, Seth, like against the avalanche, it was a crazy game and I think those seats were like six or, fuck, seven hundred. Tony was on TV. I'm just saying, Tony? We were sitting right behind the penalty box and we were probably on TV at It's McDavid's year. It's McDavid's year. They might play them next and I will not miss. No, I need to go. I need to go to see that.

If you go, let me know and I'll fucking buy a ticket with you. Let's go. McDavid is. That was crazy. What the fuck? You can do that. Oh my God, bro. What the fuck?

That's not even real. That was insane. I didn't even know you could do that. Bro, that defenseman is tweaking right there. He's like, what the fuck are you doing in front of my eyes? Stop. You think he's thinking like, oh my God, it's got embarrassed on national television.

This guy's juggling the puck right in front of my face. Bro, these are precious Twitter and they're tweeting out of him fucking clown. These are professionals. As soon as I see him start doing that, I'm lowering my shoulder and I'm just... Yeah, I'm taking the body. I have to rock them. I'm taking the body for sure. Yo, Ranting is huge, though.

What is? Ranting. That player who just did the cool move, he is giant. Wait, he's like the 6-8 or... I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

There's one guy on the... The Wild, they call him like the enforcer. He's just, he wears no face mask. He's just as big as fucks people up. I love that, dude. Very cool. What happened to Caringen leaves, Caring is Ghost of Falcons of a Sur career on face

and he, the muscle memory kick in. No, he's on the Falcons zone. Oh, yeah, he forgot which team he was on. Oh, shit. Yeah. Muscle memory. Ah, cool one. Thanks, Riley.

Yo, shout out Carrigan, man. What a fucking legend. He just turned 36, apparently. Really? Really? Good for him. Holy shit. See, I...

He looks great. I don't think you can play. Why is he posing in front of what looks like an ambulance? What is that? He's a doctor, dude. Oh, I get it. Never mind. I didn't see the jacket or anything like that.

I still don't get it. I mean, like, what's... Gonna fucking fix you up? It's never lupus? What the fuck am I here? What house? Well, no. Everybody lies.

Everybody lies. Everybody lies. 13. Mm. Yeah, keep it on here. Riley, let's see what happens. I'm kidding, Riley. I'm kidding, Riley. I'm kidding, Riley. That was awesome. NBA playoff, his picture? Fuck, man, no cares.

Billy Donovan out as a bootout. Finally. Yo, check out that Drake Ice promotion. That's actually, that looks dope. Pretty cool. I wish I was in Toronto for this. You didn't see this? No. Drake, you'll see. Promoting ice? Like the government? He has the release? He has the release date in the middle of this sculpture. So as soon as all the ice melts, the release date for the album shows.

So people are out there with flamethrowers, fucking, they're trying to melt their pickaxes. Wait, man, dude, I already, you know, was like Green Bay Packers, yo? The fuck is wrong with this dude, man? He gifted a streamer, like a streamer went in an IRL stream did. He gifted the streamer 2000. I almost booked the flight. Like, we're going to that sculpture. I'm actually going to Toronto in a week from today.

You think this will still be not melted? Maybe. Probably not, bro. I'm hearing stories of people like talking about throwing salt on it and shit. It's just not melting. Just to get it fast enough, you know. You guys have a flame thrower, Pam. This isn't.

It's a flame thrower. I don't think this will be here next week. Dude, that guy's a pickax. Yeah, straight into his toes. Straight into his toes. Let's think about the logic of that dude. He's hammering away or he's chisling away at the ice cube. He's standing on top of.

Yeah. This is actually. hilarious. This is great marketing. This is comedy. Are you sure it's not AI? It's still cold there though, so it actually might take like a week. Yeah, I hope so. I want it to be there when I go. But like now I'm wondering like is there something inside of it? Like that? Let's see the weather. Well, obviously. Like an alien? Let's see the weather in Toronto. Oh yeah. It's 46 degrees. It's, eh, it's, it's 62 tomorrow. So like that's not free. Like if it rains, that might help. Let me see the Japanese engineers making fencing look cool. Riley before we take. off here. It's like lightsabbers. No, it's like that fucking the ribbon fucking games at the Olympics. Like Disney ones.

Damn. Poked his ass. Get over here. I thought it was gonna be cool. You can leave this, Riley. Let's go to the fan questions. Yeah, thank you, Riley. I sound nothing, like just

fucking crazy. I thought that was awesome. I thought it was cool. I'm a sea turtle? How do we feel if we are this guy? It's a hockey fan. Oh my God. Hey.

Wait, he let that score? No, he was trying to get it. He was trying to get it, so you're saying like if he would have got it, this wouldn't have been a score. You better skate your fucking heart out at least. Wait, why'd he stop? Because he thought it was deviating. Oh, my God.

Right here we see him slam, right? He's getting benched next time he plays. Wait, would he have stopped, do you think? Yes. Oh, he would have stopped that. You don't stop skating. You fucking throw your body out there. Oh, no, I didn't even realize that.

That just looks so. bad. Is that the playoffs as well? Yeah. Dude, that's pretty... All right, the Greenwell asks the pod. From Sea Turtle, would you rather always have an annoying song from TikTok stock in your head or always have an itch in that part of your back that you can't reach? TikTok song. TikTok song.

Not even close. First of all, and Waltz exists too. From TD God, would you rather get yelled at by hex or scolded by page? Golded by page, 100%. No, I think I'd rather get yelled at by hex. Nope. Because I'm more used to seeing him worked up. up where if like if page is yelling at me I know I actually fucked up bad you know what I'm

saying like it's more frequent that you're pissed and you're going to yell at me than page you'd rather disappoint you're rather disappointed I never I never see I don't think I've seen Hector mad since uh that one board meeting we had I remember that year and a half ago whenever that was that was the first time we're not the first time but one of the times I was like oh he's like actually really mad that was scary luckily the times he's been mad at me I haven't been here and he's called me and yelled to me

so like that's a little better than like person I'd be like oh fuck but it doesn't come out of the blue I bet I bet yeah he doesn't also just get mad at me for anything so if he's mad at me I'm usually kind of already in like the sorry that's what I'm saying I just troll page

from blues boy he says would you rather change one decision from your past or see one decision from your future my past for sure I got a few options too I got a buncher all fucked up to say on the pod, though. Let's keep it going. From Riley.

All right, Riley, would you rather always, yeah, he just, he's like, he's not throwing in. Yeah, he's like, would you, Hector, would you rather give me a raise or an additional two weeks vacation paid? If people know what I was thinking, I'd be struck dead. So I would have- Go ahead. What's the question? Would you rather always know what the person you're looking at is thinking or always have to

say what you're thinking out loud when looking at someone? I like to say what I'm thinking. because even if you tell the person I know what you're thinking they're gonna be like, I have to wear a bane mask but like a muted one I have to muzzle myself

not me they couldn't see my face not me what are you Pam I think I'd rather know what they're thinking I think I'd rather know what they're thinking

yeah that's more interesting to me at why because even if you know they're still gonna deny it because the shit in my head if I say it out loud people will be like yeah but fighting people

nonstop like what the hell they would laugh though a little bit I think all right last question would you rather have a perfect photographic memory and you remember everything forever

or be able to forget anything you want at will. The first one, is then you could just compartmentalize the things you know. No, because then you're going to be mad at people forever because if you remember everything, that means that the emotion that you felt

when you learned that thing will always remain there. An episode of house, all we have in life is remember to forgive. All we have in life is our memories, man. That's all you got is your experiences. That's right. So being able to remember everything, that'd be awesome.

Knowing you can be 85, 90 years old, and you'd still have the same... Like limitless. Yeah. That one's easy. Yeah. GGs. GGs. GGs.

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