OpTic Podcast - OpTic Gaming Replaces Dashy with Huke: The Full Story | The OpTic Podcast Ep 107

Episode Date: January 13, 2023

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Let me just put a bow on it. This shit fucking sucked. I wish this shit never had to happen. Let me just put a bow on it. I hate dealing with this shit. And then people will come back and they're like, no, you don't because you're the one making these decisions. Never at a point in Call of Duty has there been a sole person making a decision.

Everything has always been a team decision. I wish it wasn't like this. I wish I didn't have to drop my friends. I wish like there was a hard GM like in football. I know like your GM coach Like but you're not like we still did the dropping which fucking sucks It's a millennial thing I don't want to have to put my relationships with these people that I'm friends with and have

Been years playing and working with I don't want to jeopardize our relationship like I've had to do Welcome welcome welcome to episode 107 of the Optic podcast This episode is brought to you by Factor door dashed strafking and bit refill And we'll tell you a little bit more about them later on in the podcast We have a lot of to talk about. We'll get to the juicy part super, super quick. Call it the last 10 minutes of the podcast. You know, retention rates and all that to, you know, to have, to have going. But a lot of

things have happened that I want to get to, but, you know, I haven't talked to Rambo or Shotsie. What did you do for, for New Year's? New Year's, dude, my memory's already so bad, dude. You were your family. No, actually, no, no, no. New Year's, five year. We went to, you don't even know where you went.

Actually, no, we went to Great Vine. They had, like, all these, like, cool shopping centers and all this stuff. And... When it bought splurged on a bunch of stuff? Splurged.

Flurged. Like you spend money. No, actually, we went to the Italian restaurant and it was so, like, they set us down next to the bathroom,

and I actually wanted to vomit. And, We just did. Wait, why? Because it was like disgusting. What was he called? I don't know, but it was like. Bougatabbo? No.

It was like four stars, bro. I literally couldn't take it. Wait, they set you next to the bathroom? Yeah, like the bathroom was like at that desk. No. Yes. And you can smell it like you saw it. It was bad.

It was like, it's awful. It was insane. Yeah, that's foul. What? No good. I would never. I would never. I would never go back.

Yeah. Oh yeah. And then we actually went to Italy. Have you guys ever been there? Italy. Italy. Italy. Italy.

Italy. Italy. I've been there. I haven't eaten there. Is it good? Oh, yeah. No, it's fired. It's like basically like an Italian home style like joint.

They have like a shop, but they also have a restaurant. It's like Bucida Bepo. It's in the mall off 75. I can remember what mall name is. But yeah, it's lit. It's good spot. Props. No, it's actually really good.

It's like five stars. Very cool. I'm operating the crane today. Huh? I'm operating the crane today. Dude, this thing is, I mean, what do you get when you go to an Italian place? What's your like go to?

Pizza? Pizza? Jesus Christ. This guy. Bro, you're like, it's like, it's like Nate shot all over again. This dude only ate fucking chicken fingers and hot dogs. No chicken parm? No chicken parm?

No chicken. No chicken paris. No chicken carp. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They don't have damn chicken bar. He's talking about Italy. No spaghetti, no spaghetti, caccio pepe. They're asking you in general, like, not that restaurant.

Oh, oh, you're talking about Italy? Or like, you're talking about just in general? Italian? What he said? Italian food. Oh, yeah, chicken parm, yeah. Like spicy rigatoni? Ooh.

There's this, there's this, there's a, there's a, there's a, Italian spot. Yo, Portillo's open. I've been there. And you went. And you went. And he went. Yeah.

I've been there. And then I went the following day. So two days ago. So shout out Portillo's. Portillo's in the colony opened up. The grand opening is on the 17th. So next week, whatever. And it was the exactly what you would want it to be.

Okay. So Judith and I are sitting there. Now we knew that people were testing out like the drive-through because we heard through the great. Don't even ask me how I heard about this. But somebody pulled. up to it and they're like no no we're just testing it they're all employees we're not serving anything it's not open yet we don't open until like later in the month they're like okay cool

a couple of days after that jesus you know jesus i beat him in poker yeah jesus smack that ass beat that ass right jesus hits me up was one of my best friends from home went to high school together all that stuff uh he hits me up he's uh or he he texted the thread it's like yo i'm portillis right now in the colony hi-ha you're jealous i'm like i read that and i facetimed him And he picked it up. I'm like, yeah, are you really ordering?

And he flips the camera. And he's in line. And I'm like, live, dude, we're going to port to those. Like instantly. Yeah,

it was like, it was like 4.35 o'clock. And, and, and, we hopped in the, in the car. Was traffic bad?

On the way there, yeah. Were there a lot of people there? Once we got there, no. Really? When we got there, it's a sleeper still.

That's good. No, wait, listen, listen, listen, this was two days ago. Okay,

what's the day, Wednesday. So on Monday is when they started serving. They didn't tell anybody, but the people that showed up, they served them, right? They were doing employees and then they just started serving them. So he gets there. He gets his food. He says, yo, I went inside. Don't, don't stand in line. I was like, okay, I'm going there with Livin Jude and we're like, we're just going to do the drive-through, like no matter how long it takes. Like, it's going to be worth it. They had just eating Panda Express. I wasn't hungry because I had a massive lunch, but I'm like, I have to go. It was like one of those things where you just want to be the first line to go. So the thing is

said, live in Jude, haven't been back to Chicago since we moved. I've been back a bunch. So they haven't had, like, the opportunity to get Portoos as much as I have. So we're driving. We go there and then we get in. Everybody's like, hello. And I was like, yes, yes. And the guys started like, you've been there, been here before?

I was like, yeah, we're from Chicago. They're like, all right, cool. Well, have fun. So the only thing we don't have is ribs and some other shit. Man, who cares about the ribs? Give me a fucking glis. Yeah, you're goblisies. Yeah, give them glizzy.

What was your order? So we go. And I said, let me get one. For the first time of my life, I ordered only one chili cheese dog. I forgot to order the the sports peppers. You didn't just get one.

I swear to God. Joe fat ass. I swear to God. You just saved it. I regret it when I got home. That's all I say. I wish I had another one. You didn't get like the normal.

No. The normal Chicago dog? You got a chili cheese dog? No, bro. Chili cheese dog is what you should get at Portillo's. That's fair. Have you had it? No, but I will never get it.

Do you never get a chili cheese dog? From there. Really? It is the best. It's the best you ever going to have. I don't know. Something about like fast food hot dogs, chili cheese steers me steers me.

Okay. Have I ever steered you wrong with food? If so, which time? It's not the food. I'm sure it's delicious. It's like, I just have certain things with food that I'm like, but not certain things with food like this guy.

Like I'm not going to get nach cheese from the gas station. Me either. This is portillo. That's fair. Bro, trust me. Even when they shipped it to the house and I made it, it was still like not as great.

but it was still really good. Anyway, so I ordered the chili cheese dog, cheese fries, and I forgot to order the the Jardera, which was a fucking mistake. Jude ordered her traditional, which is like a Chicago dog, a traditional jumbo Chicago dog, and then Liv ordered a plain hot dog and then we just went, right? Gotta get the hot peppers. We pulled up, the whole process, it took longer to get there than to get out of the line, right?

It was like 15 minutes in and out. The people that were there were flown in from Chicago to train the people here in Texas. Really? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Because the traditional thing that happens with people from Chicago or the Chicagoland area, we talked to the girl. She's like, yeah, we're from Chicago.

Oh, yeah, what part of Chicago? She's like, Seanberg. Me and Jude are like, so are we. Right? And you say that because if you're like, where are you from, Seanberg? Where's that? Oh, it's outside of Chicago. So you just go with the Chicago, it's the bigger city, whatever.

Ain't nobody fucking claiming that we're from Chicago, Chicagoans. All right, we're just easier to explain to outsiders. Anyway, it was really, it's delicious. We go back yesterday. We're like, all right, we're going to go back. Jude's like, all right, but we're going to go inside. We're going to have dinner there. It's cool.

We pick up my mom. We pick up, Leo came. Leo's my brother, a lot of, Jude's brother. And we go, bro, it was, word got out. And I'm not saying that is because we tweeted it out and then Castro tweeted it out. And then everybody was, you all had nothing to do with it. No, no, first of all. That's what I just said.

Orchillo is bigger than the both of you all. I just said that. I just said that. But we pulled up, bro. There was a two plus. our way through drive-through. Really? Bro, it was, there was cops.

There was cops there. There was cops there directing traffic. And then to go inside, there was like families standing outside, waiting to go inside. It was that crazy. It was nuts. So we got to wait for the hype to die down now. You're going to have to wait like a month. That's fine.

That's crazy. Not fine. Or we wait for DoorDash. Or after our match on Sunday, that's what we're eating. They want you to meet us there. No, no, like I'm not going there. Okay. We get it up.

We get it here. Yeah. We play our match. We get off. We eat. Yeah. So they'll bring it here. Someone will.

Yeah. Anyway, you know, shout up Portillas. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

For years and years of great glizzies. I've only had it once when I was with you for like that week during that event. Where in? I remember Chicago. I was like stuck there for a week after one of the UMG events. Oh, yeah. Went to like Weber Grill. Yeah.

Shout out Weber Grill. That was delicious. The pretzel bread that they gave you the beginning, like super, super, super fire. But even like the potato was like just this giant potato and the steak, the prime rib was just like. Yeah. Food's great.

Oh my God. I think we're all a little hungry right now. We're talking a lot about food. Dude, I'm so hungry right now, dude. So where we were, it's like, what do you order an Italian place when you go there? Just chicken farm. Always, exclusively.

Literally every single time. Because like, I've only had chicken palm up until like literally last year. Like that ever since? Yeah, yeah. We made him try last year and you liked it. Yeah, it's not to like it's chicken, fried chicken cheese. Yeah, that one place was RD though. They give us like literally the biggest bread of chicken.

Yeah, that was the place we went to in the. Oh yeah. Delilah. What was it gone? Oh, it wasn't back room at Delilah. Isn't that Drake's? Yeah, it's a drink spot, yeah. What's it called though?

I remember the name. Raps about it. Yeah, he wraps about it. Soto's, that kind of rings a bell, yeah. No. That rings a bell. Soto women, you know. You know.

Ha ha ha ha ha. He's singing the song. He's singing a song. We know. Italian restaurants, Drake. Yeah. No. No, it's not the Drake's.

Sing, maybe like Drake rap. No, who cares, but it was, they were over. That's why, that's why you and I were smart.

Because there was a prime, there was one called prime and I'm sure, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, we went to the other one. We went to the wrong one. Yeah,

went to the wrong one. I asked the waiter, the waiter, because he came out for pick after and I was like, is this one that Drake wrapped about? And I think he said it was, the other one.

Yeah, that's the other one. Anyways. Well, you keep going, but we did it the right way. Because I'm like, Seth, let's just split something. Right? You order the bolognais. I'll order the chicken parm and it was perfect. Everybody else left so much food on the fucking table.

I've never, I don't really eat chicken parm that much, but I want to try it there. And typically it like comes with like, you have just a chicken parmen and the pasta. But they literally gave us like a stamp piece of chicken that was like, I mean, it was the size of the plate. Oh, yeah, it was huge. That was insane. The amount of cheese on that was holy moly. Dude, it was actually gross. It was, yeah, it wasn't it.

Bro, what the fuck are you looking at, Matt? He's looking at some Matsumal suit. No, he's looking at purple flowers featuring Wes Khalifa. No, he's looking for the lyric. No. Oh, that's a, anyway. I don't know, it was, it was really good. Anyway, food aside, I think, I think we're in for some pretty cool right there.

No, no talent. Emilito. You know, you know what? El Molino. Il Molino. That's what it was. Ilmalino. Yeah, man.

Let's go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, fish me, bro. Ant's brains working today. All right, man, you can close out of that. It's going to be a good day of scrimbs.

And we're all reading his conversations. Yo, I see Tinder. You're not filling in any one. Get my man in trouble. You're right? Matt Craig's choking. No, this is, we're in a new setup. Yeah, sorry.

As you guys can tell, we're not at the, at the Hax Quarters right now. You know, we're going to be shooting contents out of the, out of the, out of the, the downtown optic offices for the time being what was up where were you upset about it it's far away yeah but we're gonna do you practice over here what's the deal we come here for practice like no but we're a day before a match no we're gonna practice here almost every day that's what we did before holidays we're practicing from here almost every day that's what we sign up for that i'm not playing from here almost that's 35 minutes here and back every day oh my god that's what we did before the holidays what you actually this is new all year that was

get used to here. All year we're going to be playing. Wait, you don't want to play on one. On one. See, okay, so you can't complain about the hex quarters and then get a more high-tech spot. Well, I wish the hexquers had better

fucking facilities for one of the biggest teams in the CDO. I wish I had a six-pack, but I love food. All right. As you guys hear, the ring in the background. We were just outside for a little bit. Fire emergency. Fire drills.

Fire drill, yeah. This wouldn't happen to my house. This wouldn't happen at the hex quarters. All right this is what happened so listen the fire whatever went down right and then I came back in and like this ring shit happened and like I got like a that's a raven memory. Yeah, I'm sorry. A what? The that's so Raven flashback. Oh, have you seen that show? Yeah. Have you? No. What the fuck? Yeah. Yeah. Basically flashback. But anyways like bro at one point at our school someone was putting the he was like clicking or like pulling the fire alarm right? But like dude it was like every day like no bullshit every single day and like we were trying to catch. the guy that did it for like an entire month. It was actually insane. He was elusive?

Bro, he was like. He was like you on the map? Yeah. Wait, what's it you? No, no. Fuck knows me. Oh, you weren't cool? Uh, but like, dude, it was actually weird as fuck because like after like,

towards the end of the day he would do it and like everyone would just know. And then we went outside and like the longest time, we just didn't know it was. And then eventually you got caught up. What is the most memorable fire alarm that, that, that? We didn't have, we really have like shit like that at our school. No. Dude, that was so weird. Rambo?

I had a. good one. I mean, I have the good one. Go ahead. So, so it's actually, it wasn't in school, but it was here. It was, I lived in the apartment by basically down the street. And the alarm is basically the same, but it was 3 a.m. and the alarm went off. And everyone's like this. Like, everyone's trying to wake up. You're freaking out. You're like, this is real. Like, there's no fire drill at 3 a.m. Like, who's going to do that? So we literally go down the stairs, walk outside. And as people come out, there's this guy in the middle of the street with a shirt off in shorts with two like, you know the batons, like the police batons. And he's just swinging around like,

like you're like everyone's kind of like hold up like and he's actually like going to people and like like like like like doing this in their face and whatnot and then yeah and the card is the glow sticks no they're just like batons like you know they like yeah i mean they're they look like six i can't tell you what's kind of six they were but and he starts like yelling and like everyone's like freaking out because like what does this guy do and then the cops come in and it just like tackle him to the ground and it was just like yeah it was like 3m everyone's kind of half asleep and this you're like what the hell yeah i'd be mind blown it was like a i mean it was a movie like i don't Someone recording this like there's this like an act

That's why I could never live in the city just because of like I can't be around a lot of people because Out of all those people there's gonna be some crazy motherfuckers so the more people are you around Statistically you're around more crazy motherfuckers so I'll live It was packs east you know what I'm saying No, I'm not I agree 2014 That was a guy named white boy 7th Street

We were at a hotel And this dude Allegedly Allegedly, right? He was the one that pulled the alarm on the, because he was, you know, allegedly he was, who, you know, he had one too many. And I can concur that we all had too many that night. It was a World of Tanks, uh, uh, Pax East Party. What better occasion?

Free liquor. Free everything. And a lot of people, some of us, some people in our group also, uh, did things that they shouldn't have done. Uh, but it was, uh, it was. It was that, huh? Like what? Let's just say that a hotel room got ruined by the, by a person that you would least expect to be a ruiner of that thing.

When you say ruined, what do you mean? Uh, bottle of wine, I guess, you know, thrown to the TV. Oh my God. Glass, glass, why? Glass wine glasses were thrown out there. No. No. I'm not.

Never. No. Why do that? Why throw? Who was. Who was. He was, he was, he was, you know, somebody who's. As soon as you said, someone you don't expect to you, that's the first name of the kid in the mind.

Wait, really? Your brain went straight to that. Yeah, sure. But anyway, he, and we were all mind-blown. I'm like, you did this thing? Like, Jesus Christ. Anyway, but it was funny about it is that obviously because the YouTubers were there, everybody was vlogging it.

And they interviewed this dude, the hotel guy and some, like the police, police department. He was just sitting there, drunk as fuck, the culprits, allegedly. And they went up to him. He was like, who did it? He was like, man, I don't know. I'm so tired. I'm drunk. I don't know.

I don't know who it was. But everybody around, every YouTuber in the world that was there vlogging was like. They were snitching? No, no, they were appointing. But no, is this like a news outlet or just the hotel was like. No, it was, nobody was. It was the fire department. Yeah.

Yeah. The fire the firefighters, they went out to me. He was like, hey, do you got anything report? Anything say? I was sleeping. Blah, blah. And everybody's like, he's so good under pressure. Yeah.

Anyway, legendary. Nobody knows whether he did or did not. But I did not hit her. I did not. I did not. Remember that? Yeah. What movie is that? I did not.

The room. The room is the original movie. The disaster artist. The disaster artist. There you are. Is that what he says? I did not hit her. I did not.

Hi, Mark. And he throws the water bottle? I don't get to see that one. Dude, that movie is incredible. Oh, you got to watch it tonight. It's like James Franco, his brother. It's like that group. And it's a parody of a cult classic called The Room, which is like it's so bad that it's good.

That people, I've never seen it, but that's like, it's so good. I'll look it up. You got to watch it. You're a hockey dude. Obviously, we saw you on the skates. Ridiculous. What was your favorite hockey movie of all time? Don't say slap shot.

No. Favorite hockey movie all the time. I mean, the miracle is pretty solid in terms of like documentary story. That one's pretty solid. Well, that's like Disney movie. I've never watched a bad Disney movie in my life. I mean, that's fair. Really?

Just the actors and everything in that movie was like, that was really solid. Like they, they depicted, they depicted the story really well and everything is just about it was great. He said frozen. He just said ice skating. Frozen was insane. So which one? I think, I think the miracle has got to be like going. Is that with a Crow?

Russell Crow. No. No, I'm so bad with actor names. Yeah. No, it's not. No, he's not a. Maximus. The miracle.

I got to rewatch it. Oh, is it. But the Olympics, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so good. When they beat the Russian search. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my God, it was so good.

So much was on the line just from not just necessarily from the competition. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was basically based off of a true story. So it was like. Yeah, it's so good. It was like Disney, Disney kind of. My favorite hockey movie is a movie with a guy named Stifler or that was his acting name. Oh my gosh.

You want to know just one like crazy connection. Goon. Goon is great. Yeah. But the girl, Stifler's mom. is the girl from White Lotus, and I was watching the Golden Globes last night, and she won for Best Supporting Actress in a show.

She's like, oh, my God. And she went up and did her speech, and she was like, oh, yeah, you watched you, right? The mom, she won last night, a Golden Globe. And she went up, and she was like, I was milking American Pie. I'm still milking American Pie. She was like, the 6th, 7th one, let's do one.

Wait, I have a very important question. Have you ever seen American Pie? Is won't watch them. She doesn't like raunchy movies, She needs to watch those. I don't know, man. I went back and watched one of my favorite movies of all time, wedding crashers. Yeah.

That's still good. It's not. I watched Zoolander the other night. That's still good. Zoolander? It's never watched anything. He's like, oh, they're dance fighting. Dude.

I've never seen any of this. I heard of American Pie, though. That rings a bell. Yeah, American Pie is so good. I mean, it was Stifler's mom. Never heard of that? Jennifer Coolidge? is her name, I think.

I don't know, but she's awesome in White Lotus. I haven't seen season two of White Lotus, but season one, what was that? The first, the first season?

No, it's just the music. The intro? Oh, yeah. So good. Did I do that all right? Yeah. You knew what it was. Yeah, yeah.

Well, I haven't watched it since season one. Just because the sound is like, whoa, it's actually that's a death hymn from like, it's a death song from someone. But that's why it's like, it sounds eerie, right? Yeah.

It's a death like him or something. she plays a bigger role in the second season. Yeah, I mean, I don't give a fuck. Hold on, let me look it up. She's one of my favorite actresses. She's not one of my favorite actresses. She's my favorite actress in the show. Funny story.

Oh, not funny, but anecdotally, about the Golden Globes last night, you know the piano player throughout the entire show? Yeah, I didn't watch it. Do you know who that is? No. The piano player from the Golden Globes. Chloe, Mike Seppso's significant other.

Oh, that's sick. Yeah, Chloe Flavis. Who she is, yeah. Really? Yeah, the whole time. She got the whole Golden Globes to herself. That's sick. She fucking snapped.

So whenever someone was going like off or longer than they were supposed to, she was the one that started playing? I don't know. I didn't watch the whole thing. Well, that's what they do when your speech starts going on too long and they're like bringing the piano. FedEx dude that just walked by knew who we were. And he's like looking around crazy. Shout out to FedEx guy. Yeah.

Anyway, let's. I get no service in here neither. Hey. May I speak to the camera really quickly? This guy You know how You want to know My most

Recent search was Where do most calories Come from in sushi Rice? Rice Pretty obvious All right I like to know things

Yeah Wait come on What's one plus one What's one plus one? No come on He's like I will fuck you up On this live

When you're eating salad What's the Wi-Fi here? I don't know Seth You don't need to be on the On the phone anyway I want to look this up

What the Matt can look at for you. He doesn't look confident in his ability. No, no. What is the song from White Lotus represent? Like, what is the intro song? The intro song from White Lotus.

Yeah, it's like a death hymn or something. What is the intro from White Lotus? Yeah, while you look that up, we just did a TikTok where we asked who the biggest divin optic was. And literally, in full display, is happening right now. I don't like the hexquoise because the internet is not more than one gigabyte up and down in two lines for it that I personally paid $30,000 each for 30,000. I like Hitch's diplomatic response.

Maybe I was right. He said, rightfully so. I was like, yep. Rightfully so. Who what? You being the biggest diva in Optic. That's not even true. I'm never late.

I'm always on time. I might bitch a little when I get here if it's early enough. Oh, hold up. Hold up. I look up what's the terminology for diva. So we can get this. Yeah. You don't know what a diva is?

No, we know what a diva is. But like what is the actual terminology? Look, it's a picture of Seth. A famous female opera singer. I don't fit that description. Here we go. No, that is a self-important person who is in, who's temperamental and difficult to please typically used.

This is not typically used. I've never used this to describe a woman. I've always used it to describe my teammates, which happened to be male. Nah, see, this is. That is you in a line, bro. This is insane, cap. That's a self-important person.

I'm one of the most selfless people on the team. I'm in Dill. I've changed my role three times this year. Oh my God. A diva wouldn't do that. Would you ever switch to A.R? Would you switch to A.R? Yeah, but you would do it because you'd be like,

yeah, I could be good at this too watch. So can you? Oh, I've been, I've been doing well. Yeah, you've been fine. Yeah, you've been peasing. I'm actually like honestly, like it's... You might not be a lot to retire. I might not allow you at the end of the year to retire.

Oh, no, I'm retiring. What if I don't allow you? Yeah, what if we don't? What if we don't? What if we all gang up when you and like literally jump you? Beat your ass every time. You're so peer pressureable to you would totally just not. You would totally 100%.

Yeah. Committing to a full seasons a long time. That's a long time. That's a long time. I got to stop this. I got to stop this laugh. I'm down. Yeah, yeah.

A season is a long. long time. I just heard, I was watching the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the podcast podcast on way down here. And, and, and, well, Nick brought up two things. And we'll talk about one of them, uh, right after this and I'll paraphrase it. But he was talking about how he's like, I'm an optic. So I don't know if this is right because I don't know what happened. But what I imagine that happened is that optic and he was talking in third person as if he wasn't. He's like, Optic thought that because they were optic, they were going to go to the other team. And talk to the player and say, yeah, you're going to join. And everything was almost right, except for the fact that we got tugged along for a fucking week on the pred situation. Oh, yeah. Can I say something? For everyone out there that was saying that we were milking it, do you use your brain?

I'm honestly curious. Why the fuck would we be milking it? Like we weren't late to practice, but like we were not milk. Everybody around us was milking it. We were the only ones not milking it. We were trying to get that shit done. Listen, all I'm going to say to this, to that point is this. You're fucking welcome, okay?

Because entertainment was that. How easy would it have been if on day one that we're making the decision? We tell you everything that happened. Then there's no content for like a week from people. Or a bunch of people. People were saying that we were milky. No, fuck. We weren't milking.

We were not milking. They would have been out there like talking about it. Like it's not like we're not. Aunt wasn't allowed to stream. This was like it was like a week and a half. And if we could have, it would have been a day. I stressed, I lost hairs in years of my life during that week and a half. Like, you guys have no idea.

Like, you guys had Christmas holidays? I didn't. Tell it. How did it happen? Bro, I was on the phone for like seven, eight hours almost at every day. Like, you guys want to see my phone records? Like, you can. I will show you.

But yeah, I mean, do you want to go? Like, how deep do you want to go into this? Well, I think it'd be, I think it's an important thing to talk about the, the, how this roster change was different than any other roster changes that we've had because we're planning essentially for not just replacing a temporary, you know, not a temporary solution, but we, in the moment that we had, we had to find somebody. We had to at least find something that was going to replace what we wanted to do. Secondly, this is the first time ever that we've made a roster change without having a backup plan. Just kind of how things don't. Obviously, like,

I can't speak to that. So clearly things were bad. Yeah, clearly things were bad. If I just came out and look, we weren't milking it. And it should be obvious because if if there's a milking, there's a benefit, right? There's a benefit to milking something. We didn't benefit at all. We got shit talked for like how long, right?

You know, people that didn't even follow us were like, oh, you all your fans, you're fucking loser. No, we fucking, no. Okay, first of all,

it's, and I'm talking strictly to the person that doesn't follow Optic at all but wanted to join in on the, it's like those crypto people that didn't understand and they were talking like

all this shit about NFTs. They just wanted to talk shit. But this is the thing. If I ruined it, if I ruined it and from the beginning said, this is the plan and this is how we're going to try to execute this thing. And that's what it is. Then there wouldn't have been stipulation on its pred. And then the following day, oh my God, it's not prayed. It's our cities.

Oh my God. It's not our cities. It was like for five days straight people were sort of imagining outcomes. I saw tactical rap as usual saying chaos continues at optic. Literally there was no chaos. There's no chaos at all. This guy is the epitome of using AI to come up with his YouTube titles. Give me something that's going to chat GPT.

Give me a good title that emphasizes something that's happening this way. Chaos and obvious. No, I'm not going in. I appreciate, I respect what tactical rap does. At least he's adding. He's not like these losers that rip streams and re-upload them without having anything to fucking add to the situation. You are not a content creator if you're not creating something for yourself. Yeah.

Okay. Zuma, tactical rap. And all these other people that talk about, they're adding something. They're adding personality. They're adding opinion. They're taking the time and spending money on editors. These people who just rip other people's work are not creators and they're fucking leeches and I'll never be behind it. And if I ever meet you in person, don't tell me that that's who you are because I'll see you a different way.

It's an artist. Ray, why did we make a team change? Because things were not expected. I got to, dude, if you want to get into this, I got to sit up. Did it have anything to do with performance? No. Very, very, very, very, very minimally. And if that, like, I mean, yeah, it's to the point where he's saying no, yeah, no.

We dealt, okay, here, look, we were going to make a roster change in the off season. It didn't happen. We felt like we could move through it and do. We ended up not being able to do that, period. Nothing more to that. The reason that let us to want to make the roster changes in the office season is what led us to make a roster change in this point now. There's nothing more to say about it. Did we try to get someone quickly?

Yes. Did we try to get someone else quickly after the first person didn't work out? Yes. Like, we didn't just spend our time, spinning around like, oh, yeah, you guys waited fucking two weeks to make something happen. Like, why are we just hearing about this now? Like we're not going to share you guys everything that's going on behind the scenes. It's, it's, it's unimportant to the situation and it's going to hurt us to make it move. It like literally.

So to the point of like that, like, like trust me, I worked my ass off for like, I spent my holidays work. My mom was in town. My, my family's in town. I spent time with them to a certain extent. But like I was literally on my phone basically every freaking day. And it was the most frustrating experience in my life because, yes, there's certain ways that people do business in this world that aren't conducive. Like everyone has their own way of doing stuff. to be fair.

There's different people that have different chains of command to do certain things and that leads you to have a discussion with someone and they need to prove someone else and they need to prove

with someone else. It's just, it's frustrating, it's annoying, but it's just the way things are. So this is, we try to get Alec and L.A.G. He immediately said,

we're not letting go of Alec. If Surge would have led that same way, I would have no issues with them at all. But the fact that for a week... We got to the... We got to...

We got there. What was the percentage? We got... 99. The thing is... We got what they wanted. We got it. They got...

No, no, no. Look, we offered a lot of money. People are saying that it's the most, you know, the most significant... Not over seven figures. No, it wasn't... It wasn't a million. Not over seven figures. No, no.

I don't think... I mean, didn't you say... Let's not even talk about numbers. We're not going to talk about numbers. If on Friday... If on Friday... Yeah, yeah. People actually believe that.

Dude, if I, if, wait, you'd be saying, you'd just be saying random numbers to get reactions. We thought we were buying our fucking Barry Bonds. Let me just put it straight. Given the circumstances, that offer was like, in my opinion, definitely in their favor. Yeah. Like, period. Like that's just.

The thing is this is if, if on Friday, we were told, hey, Prad is important to us, we're no amount of money is going to is going to get them out of here. I would have been like, oh, I understand. I understand. I understand. I understand. I would never let go scum. I would never let go

O'Satsey. Future, right? Chop liver. But Rambo we can negotiate. Maddie, irreplaceable. I just wanted to clear up

a few of the like I heard you heard you hear you first. No, no, no. No, no. If you want a fucking professional coach. Let me. Yeah, that has experience

and has been doing stuff like this for a while. Just bang my line, baby. I just wanted to clear up a few of the false narratives that I've seen that just fucked, dude. people like they just it was not chaotic

they just make shit up like people just make shit up and then they run with it and then people also believe it and it's like I'm sitting here like none of this is true yeah and we can't say anything because then people get mad that we say something and it's like dude it's tell us it's a lose lose if you guys want us I know that I know the content creators don't want us

but if you guys want us we'll leave speculation out of the way and we'll just ruin it right for everybody the other thing is you have to consider that as there are one we don't want speculation we wanted to get the shit done yeah if there was ongoing I mean you think that we didn't want to practice for a whole week. And this is where I was... Okay, that's another thing. We were not late to practice.

We were like... By a few days. We were like two days late. Everyone's like they've missed weeks of practice. Nobody played until like a week ago. Like what, four or five days ago? A few teams played, but like for the most part, the majority of team now. Yeah, like nobody was playing. Just no. We were like two days behind like six teams, probably. Or five teams. Like we've been moving quickly.

Where I was going with it and I'll end it on this. Just a lot of false narrative. If it would have been, if from the beginning they said it's not a money thing, I would have understood. Were you good? Let me finish. If it wasn't a money thing and they said,

I just feel like we got jerked around for about a week, which was unnecessary. It's just like, it's not the way that I like to do business, right? Like we went above and beyond.

I was even ready to put up some personal money to buy that dude out because I see it as like, all right, one, he wants to fucking be here clearly. And two, if it's a no,

tell me a no immediately. I wouldn't jerk anybody around for a week, wasting time, wasting practice time. And it's like I just, I just didn't, I just don't get that way of doing business. But, you know, if it was strategy on their end to be like, let's just like keep them not practicing for a week or let's wait until the last second to tell them no. Like, I don't see that, I don't, I don't see a world. I'm saying we missed practice for a week. We didn't practice for a week. No, what do you mean?

We didn't miss practice. Did you guys practice the whole week? No, but we weren't missing practice. No, no, no, no. It's fine, it's fine. We were, I'm saying we were missing out on practice. How about that? We're missing out on practicing weeks.

But go ahead. I'm not saying that you guys didn't show up to practice. A few teams are playing. A few teams were playing. I'm saying. Whatever. Yeah. But again, it's like from our situation, like we were, we were trying to make things work with what was going on.

Like it's like it was worth the while of whatever it was that we're going to miss. If we miss a few days to make it work. 100%. But to be. told, oh, we need this much. We need this much. We need this much. And then we're like,

all, fuck it. You get it. And then they're like, no. Just like, it's just not the way that I do business. It was a rug pool at the end. Yeah, I just, I can't get behind that.

All the, all of the dishes were on the table. And then there was a rug pull. And just, just to, I want to say this because this is not the first time that's happened for me personally. Oh yeah.

Everyone does it. I just, I don't know what it is. If maybe it's like that in every sport. Maybe I don't know if it's just a call duty thing where the teams do, but like mid-season roster changes are just extremely difficult

from my experience so far in the league for the three or four years understandably difficult but this this one was just frustrating because it was like we got there and then at the end I mean that's how it always happens with us I mean that's what I'm saying

that's what I've been in a situation like twice now in like a very similar scenario and it's and the same things happen both times yeah like that's just that's why like at this point it's just like yeah and typically I wouldn't talk about what I just talked about just because that's not the way I like to do

business. I don't like to air shit out. But man, this time it rubbed me the wrong fucking way. The one thing that I will not miss, one of the things I will not miss about competing is being in this shit. Like this drama shit, I fucking hate it. The thing is... I hate it.

Yeah. And again, I can't wait to just watch other people's like drama. I can't wait. And I'm gonna oh yeah, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna be watching other people do it. Bro. I'll be like, I know how that feels and that fucking sucks. But I'm gonna watch it. I posted a picture. Obviously, like my, my best friend, my dog passed away.

16 and a half years old. Schofield, rest in peace, optic Schofield. Used to sit next to me when I was playing 1V1 Vosniks. I posted that. And everybody's saying, oh, my condolets, because those is fucking one, fucking three douchebags. He was like, uh, who's the fourth? I'm just like, I'm like, uh, you know, I'm my shit. I'm like, how come they don't ask me that in fucking person when I'm there?

You know what I mean? I stayed off social media. It's just, I don't know. It's just disappointing. Anyway, uh, luckily. We ended up picking up Huk, who was one of our targets originally, but he was also an L-A-G and under-contract, and we were just like, fuck. And then they were all released and it ended up working out. It ended up working out.

Thankfully. Thankfully, yeah. Because Kyler's been great, so it's like. It's been awesome. Yeah. Yeah. The other thing is, and I understand, and I understand the game. I've been a YouTuber since 2008, right?

So I understand. You have to think about the fact that what happens if we just tell everyone. everybody and there's no room for Zuma, there's no room for tactical. I'm not saying that we're doing it for them, but there is something to keep the interest of the league and the interest of what's going on in the league alive. I'd rather it wasn't that way. So do I. So do I. So do I. But it is. But it is. It is part of the game. I'm all. I'm here for it. I'm just not here for the titles because I, very, very, very frequently I feel like just calling people out and be like, dude, you're, you're teetering a line here

a little bit too fucking much. So, yeah. Anyway, practice. Yeah, we started, amazing. Started screaming like, was it four days ago? How do you feel about it? Amazing. Brings you back to like the MW days, honestly.

Yeah? I mean, I'm running a new role, so I'm not, I'm fucking, like, tweaking right now. I feel like you're having a good time doing it, no? I don't know. I mean, you've been... This is the third role change I've had this year. Stop saying that, bro.

You've said it like five times right. I went from M4. We get it. You're great. I went from M4 to, I went from like strictly M4 to basically tack like a hard flex. Now I'm like mainly tack. So like,

which is the scar. So it's like I haven't been able to really get comfortable all year. But hopefully this is the last time I have to change. You'll be straight. And now I'm running a trophy too. So now I'm like straight. The first day that we played, I was on Mars.

Yeah. I think I threw my trophy two times on Albauga. The first time we played. The first map we played, I threw my trophy twice. And you get it like kind of fast. Yeah. You're piecing though.

Like you've been absolutely frying. Don't say that. You have. Why? Why is that not okay to say? Because I've been playing average. Don't, don't set the bar high.

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Which has been great when I turn it on. Like usually I'm getting fucking hounded, but like, I think people, because it's my last year, they're like kind of like easing up on me like. Yeah, usually they're like, I can't believe you'd fucking drop him, you scumbag. And I'm like, dude, what? Now it's like, it's my last year. Like, yeah, I will, I, on that note and I've said this throughout the years, like, you guys have to understand that although we are in front of your screen and it seems like we are not,

you know, uh, there were just entertainment in some cases to you guys. Obviously the die hearts. Obviously, you know, we appreciate you. Like there are inner relationships, like actual friendships that get developed through all these things. So it's not as easy to just dropping somebody because of their attitude or dropping somebody because of their lack of skill, which in this case it wasn't. Like there are like some. I'm like this would be my third year now. So like, you know, we've been through a lot together and like it wasn't easy.

We had like an hour call with him, us three. And it was fucking not fun. Yeah. And not a lot came from it, honestly. But I mean, it was a long conversation. and we had a talk at the start of the year and we laid it out on the table like this is what we expect from everybody

this is what we want this year if we don't get it there's going to be fucking problems there were problems and that's as simple as was that's why I wanted Ray to say it's not performance based because it's not performance based at all and that's why it's like

it's hard it fucking sucks because I love brand I love brand as a person it just didn't work out and like people don't understand like the team aspect of things sometimes they look at like a person stats or their talent and they're like oh like that's great and it's like I'm not trying to bash brain

I'm just like people don't like they don't think about everything they just think about one thing and then they fixate on it and then they fucking like just keep driving that narrative yeah and sometimes those narratives are just wrong no the thing is is like and I understand most of the time they're just wrong yeah and I understand hyping up the video and being click baity and all that stuff and you know in this day and age for YouTube you have to almost be a super liar on the on the in order to get the attention for a piece of content. But if you, if like I was there and I walked away from this thing. But we had, we had a party of your house and we were all super lit.

You more than others, I think. And you, and Bose was out there with you and Brandon. And you like, you, you had a serious conversation with him. Like a very, very, I was actually kind of kind of proud of you the way that you approached it and the way that you were positioning it. I was going in on him. I texted him after. No, you did.

No, but, but it was. No, the way that he did it was very mature, though. A lot of people just not set anything at all. And you laid it out and say, hey, listen, this is my last year. It's very important that we do this thing. It's important for you and your future in your career because like here you have the opportunity to sort of set the pace for what, you know, the team's going to look like forever. Like something that you understand very much. Like there's a responsibility we come with being, you know, in front of the crowd that we had.

Crim Six was talking about the amount of pressure that be the plane in front of optic or playing for optic is. and although I do understand it and you say this a lot too like none of none of the things that we have luckily come without the pressure that is put on there and although the pressure is always in any sport you're going to get this this sort of pressure but the way that he positioned it is like like he even brought Brandon into the call or something I watched it briefly but he's like he's like how much different is playing for optic than it is for any other team right because there's a pressure there and then Brandon's like well I will say that you know when you win it's the best right because so

many people like talk how good you are, et cetera. But when you lose, like, you know, it's not the same amount of people, right? But there are people that are going to talk shit to you. The same way that I used to talk shit about the bulls when they sucked or the bears for the entirety of my life, because they are always ass. And it's just, you know, to be at the level that that Optic has been blessed to be in because of the support that we've had for the Green Wall and the relationship that we had with them. Like, it is, it is something that, you know, people are going to be unhappy with because they care so much about it. I rather have people be mad at. I rather have people be mad at us, did not even give a fuck about us at all.

Right. Because that is a reality. There is a reality out there. Like he talks about it's like how much better Shotsie, scump, Ily and Brandon would have done if they were playing for a team that didn't have that much popularity. And I'm like, yeah, but it wouldn't have the same meaning when you won. It wouldn't have the same meaning when you lost. Like it's a meaningful like place that we're in and we should, we should be thankful about it. And I was kind of disappointed that that he feels that way because, you know, he, it was cool when he was on, but when he's not, Like it's it's like you know

I don't know I don't know It's disappointed to hear shit like that You But it's person to person though Like you know what I mean Like I mean I don't feel that way Yeah

I just go up on stage and just like You talk up the love Yeah I mean You can't you can't let like The outside pressure get in Because then you'll just you'll just break Yeah But like yeah

But you can't walk around stage Like I don't give a fuck I don't give a fuck When you clearly are talking about it Like nonstop But just look at the titles man Like we don't do we're not here just for us like people benefit from the things like think about this last last week we are you know we're in a transition period of roster and like everybody benefited from the content that that came out of that right like it's not like we do more even when we're not doing like anything and and we're like we're like we understand that responsibility we understand like position that we're in so you know it'd be it'd be I don't know it's just it'd be nice for people to recognize the. Let me just put a bow on it.

This shit fucking sucked. I wish this shit never had to happen. Let me just put a bow on it. I hate dealing with this shit. And then people will come back and they're like, no, you don't because you're the one making these decisions. Never at a point in Call of Duty has there been a sole person making a decision. Everything has always been a team decision. I wish it wasn't like this.

I wish I didn't have to drop my friends. I wish like there was a hard GM like in football. I know like your GM. coach, like, but you're not, like, we still did the dropping, which fucking sucks. It's a millennial thing. I don't want to have to put my relationships with these people that I'm friends with and have spent years playing and working with. I don't want to jeopardize our relationship like I've had to do a bunch of times because I'm like, you know what I'm saying? Dude, it's, I was talking to Hitch about this. I'm like, what sucks about this is that,

you know, the way that I see this is like the amount of work that gets put into like shows like these or what we do and the audience that we bring to personalities like crim like clay well at the time clay crim brandon like these are people that are loved by the green wall and if and if they were retiring this is a perfect place for them because there's thing but the second that they start talking shit about the fans i can't bring them back i'm not going to say in the name of the player but this one player hit me up he's like hey man you know i'm you know i'm looking to move and you know optics seems like a good home for me and i'm like i'm like dude you and your girl have actively actively for the past couple of seasons

been talking literal shit about the green wall because you're the opponent of the green wall. And I get that it gets frustrating sometimes that some of the toxic people that call it 1% of the green wall is toxic that goes above me because I don't support those people. You can't talk shit about the fan base and then expect to be loved by the same fan base.

So for me, like letting go of Brandon a fucking fan favorite, a hector favorite. That shit sucks. Yeah, man, it's bad. Nobody wanted to do it. It's not good for business. Nobody wanted to do it. Like, but we had to do it.

If we wanted to do it, then we would have done in the office and not come back on it. Like that's why it was such a hard decision. Like we did. We overly tried. Yeah. Yeah. We tried to make that shit work and we couldn't. And it fucking sucks because now people like, people look at us like we're bad guys.

But trust me, we don't want to do it. Like, just had to be done. I don't know. I just, from my perspective, you know, the amount of work that we put in with with these players for me to just let them go and and take some fans to another, another team. Like it's just, it's just never a thing. Like, I would, I would, I would love to have crim back. But it's like, I don't know if, you know, it's like, it's gone too far in some cases, right? Like, I just, uh, sometimes it's just unmentable.

Sometimes you can't make it work. And that's like, we did our best to make it work. We genuinely did. We did our fucking best. And that's all we can do at the end of the day. And we're still getting scrutinized for things. And it's like, that's why, that's why it's frustrating because we, we don't talk about this shit a lot. Like, some people just lay out there dirty laundry and shit out there.

I don't even think we're airing dirty laundry. People just put all their shit out there, but like, I've always internalized a lot. Like I, and that's why I said when I'm done, I should do a tell all and give people my side because I've never gave people my side of anything. Yeah, but what do we say? I've never said anything. I've always just kept to myself and like, but people say like, you know what I'm saying? But they always point the finger at me.

Yeah. And it's like, me, me, me. Yeah. I get it. It's so annoying. And it's, I mean, I'm used to it now. So it's like, it's not as bad, but you know what I'm saying. I never really get used to that.

There's no getting used to that. It's just frustrating. It's not fun for anyone. Even I get shit talked to. I'm not even fucking out there playing. It's like, your team fucking fuck you. And it's like,

what the fuck if I wasn't out there? I wouldn't have missed that sniper shot. I would have fucking do that. And the thing is, I've been at fault sometimes and I've basically always manned up to when I've been at fault for like our team sucking.

Like whenever World War II, like when I was in Cali and my internet sucked, like I should have done something better about that. Like shit like that. I should have been a better teammate in Black O'Blockups one when I was telling people. people I wanted to be dropped. Like I've said my faults, but I've never said other people's fault. Yeah. And I'm, I'm sick of it. I'm fucking sick. Yeah. But you got to do it like in an

episodic series like episode one, this person, episode two, this, this, this scenario. Episode three, World War II, episode four, you know. People are going to be praying. They don't show up on that one. Yeah. I don't even know if I should say this, but I've seen like a bunch of people, people that I've teamed with before have texted me and they were like, I was. wasn't a good teammate, like a bunch of people. Yeah. Like I will, they've told me that. But I've never told the public that and I've never told the public.

People have texted me. Like I was not a good teammate and that's on me. And then they go somewhere else and then they be a good teammate because they're not on optic anymore. And I think that I'm just too nice maybe. My thing, my thing. I don't know. Like my thing with Brandon.

I don't know. My thing with Brandon and I guess we could put a ball in it. It's like like, like, I'm like, you know, you know how this thing goes. I'm, you know, I love you guys and, you know, I love Brandon. etc but it's like now Brandon is going to go to a different team who knows and he's gonna and he's gonna try

I guarantee you because now is now why not try that with us though like that's like you know you know that you're gonna go on revenge tour like what why why couldn't you just work with us why don't you just work here that's what blows my mind and people love that shit

and then they cheer them on to beat us and it's like dude it's so fucking annoying it's so annoying like I would have loved that here it's so fucking frustrating People don't understand. It's so frustrating.

But I don't want to talk about anymore. We've talked about it. This shit is annoying. All right. So for the fourth time, the Pat McAfee, do you follow them? Do you talk to them? Do you watch them? The Pat McAfee show?

They mentioned me before. Before. And I think we briefly talked. Nothing came out of it. They got your name wrong. But they brought you back up again. Oh, yeah. They got my name wrong.

Yeah. And then here, yeah, I saw this yesterday. They brought me up to be the coach of the Arizona car. Wait, do you actually said that? Yeah. Now Pat McAfee's like massive. Like they're part of Barstool, which is like huge. Wait, offered you to.

Watch watch watch watch. No, it's not an offer, but it's more. Yeah, the ownership group of the Cardinals offered Seth a coaching position, Shotsie. Listen, let's play. Well, go back to the beginning, Matt. He's talking about Kyler Murray. Pace had a collab with NFL. Does he?

Yeah. Tyler Murray? Kyle Murray. Kyle Murray played four hours. hours of stream at the hex quarters. I know he was there, but I've never talked to him. No, I wasn't there either. I've never talked to.

I didn't know that he knew who I was. I'm not going to lie, but that's cool. Yeah. No, it's, uh, it's, it's cool. Did Kyler say he had respect from yours? Yeah. I mean, everybody that place called duty knows who you are. I mean, that's typical.

He's like, he's like, I mean, don't, he's typable. He's like, I'm embarrassed, but please keep going. What are they saying about me? I lean forward and shit. Yeah. like depressing time for like 20 minutes and then he's like perked up now he's ready to go let's go that's all dope though like you should try to reach out to him because you can hold a conversation

around football like you you're very actively like looking at not just the I mean he doesn't talk about football though like who Tyler Merritt no them the Pat McAfee show oh you should go on there to talk football I mean I don't know if I can keep up with them they like no but you live breathe yeah football yeah I watch it on Sunday and have a few beers they'll understand that You know enough to talk about the birds, yeah? They're going into, they might win it all. Don't you want to talk about that? They could win it all, man.

Let's set it up. Pat McAfee. I got my bird socks on right now. Yeah. I don't know if they can see that. They can see them. Bird socks. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, first seed in NFC. They play the winner of Tampa and the Cowboys round two. But it's in Philadelphia. Scump versus Tim the Tapp, man. No, I think Brady's going to beat the Cowboys. Oh. It's Brady. Brady in the playoffs.

He's going to, he's coming different. He is Brady. Coming different. Go. He is Brady. No, that's cool. We have a hockey drop this happening on Friday. I don't know how to not say this, but we're snapping.

Like, we have had heaters the entire fucking year. It's a sick, by the way. Oh. I'm actually, I'm actually starting to play hockey league with some of the people that work behind the scenes here on Sunday. Yeah. I'm not trying to get some bigger sizes. Just make sure that they're not any players because if that was the

we'd be playing basketball right now. No, of course they're not players. Yeah. No, no. It's, uh, I, even putting them on the ice, I'm like, man, Matt, Matt, you didn't think about putting scump and fucking shot, shotsie in the ice. At least this one's on the way out, you know. But on skate.

Oh, my shirt? Yeah, that, wait, no one. Yeah, the optic scump shirt. I love it. Oh, I thought you were talking. My mind was somewhere else. Yeah. Cats, as usual.

How do you, I don't understand cat people. I don't understand cat people. How could you not? Well, you don't have a single cat? Fuck, no. Hell no. And it's not because I'm allergic. I'm not.

I just, that's why it's a little live. I'm like, darling, we can't have a cat because I'm allergic to him. She's like, okay, dad.

13 now. No cat. You want a cat or a dad? I want this shirt to be my three cats because I have three cats. Okay, yeah, they'll be your three kids. That's a sample t-shirt.

Yeah. That'd be so, it is far as baby cat. Yeah, I'd probably wear it. I'd fucking hate cats. Your cats. Bingle jinkle.

Yeah. What are the names? Moody. Okay. Bink, bink. Binky. We call them Binkink. That's their set name too. Bink, bink, and then Lenn, Big Lenn. Big Lennard.

Big Leonard is a she, though. Yeah. Okay. Do you have any pets? Yeah. Hela? No, four. That's a lot.

That's a lot. I have a lot. What do you have? Uh, uh, Mini Golden Doodle Uh-huh Hazel Uh,

Jack Russell Rory Mm-hmm Cats one is Nabi Bambi Bambi? Bambam Uh

Just dogs No, no Oh, dude The last word cats Oh, the last sort of cats You like cats? Dude, cats are fucking The cool

If you get the right cat Have you ever had a cat They like They like Tuck on the blanket? No Really? Like a nice.

nipple. Yeah, literally. I don't know why, like, that must be like a thing. I haven't. I didn't even know it until like I got my new. Wait, the Titanic is getting re-released in 4K. Why? I mean, I get it. I get that. They're trying to make another back. Yeah. So Rambo, how many pets do you have? Oh my God. Nice, Rambo. It's not the dog's fault. It's an owner's dog. This is Bubba. And then you have another one named. I knew. I knew it was going to happen to. Bo and Bo. When he was in here earlier, I, I was in here. I picked it up. That's a good boy.

Yeah, he's a good boy. Can we get a paper towel? Go and doodle. We got spillage. Don't, don't worry about it, Shosten. Just sit there and fucking drink your water, kid.

All right, everybody. I think we've had, we've had, wait, what's a crypto betting sites are causing Valor in place to throw ranked matches.

Yeah. Did you hear about it? I didn't hear nothing about that. Yeah, so I don't really know too much about it, but apparently, this is in like, matchmaking.

So you can do it like real time and, like, bet against yourself and then just throw. What? It's the most crazy shit ever. It's like a ring play thing. I might be wrong on it, but that's like, I heard a little bit about it,

and that's what it kind of sounded like, but you can like go into an MM game, bet against yourself and then just throw. It's like playing game battles match, and I'm betting on my game battles match and I'm going to lose. And the odds are against like... Who's out of that system? That's what I said, that's got to be horrible for the site.

Like, how are they not just hemorrhaging money? Like, by people doing that. Yeah. And why would you want to, like, it's not competing? You're just literally going to lose. Wait, what if you get caught doing that, though? I think you go to Joe? I don't know.

Yeah, of course. It depends on how much money it says take also. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know how that shit all. But. So risky, dude. Why?

Is that even fucking worth it, dude? Even if, like, if you're, especially if you're a professional player or a content creator, like to cut your career short by gambling it away, like, you're literally not just gambling money. You're gambling your career and all that stuff. And sometimes, sometimes in very rare occasions, you can come back from someone. like that. But look at what happened in Counterstrike, look at what happened in all of these situations with crypto and all that stuff. Like there's not even a point. Like you're going to make

that money just by working hard. Why take it why take shortcuts? Especially if you're passionate about what you're doing, right? Like it's it just doesn't make any sense to me. Anyway, more to come, right? I mean, this is this is going to be the next 10 years as crypto sort of begins to set its, it's, it's, it's cemented its place in, in, in everyday life. I don't know. That shit's been down. So have the traditional markets. Crypto's been hella down for a while. Yeah, but so have the traditional markets. That's fair.

That's fair. And I can guarantee you the Chase, the JP Morgan and all these massive, massive banks are currently buying crypto in this downturn right now. I am holding. I'm a hodler. I'm hodling. You like crypto? Are you hibed? What I like more is the technology behind it and what it's going to do for artists specifically, but just like everything.

Everything's going to be trackable. Bubba is going to be trackable through a blockchain transaction. My shit is so down. It's so down that there's no other option but to wait. There's no, I can't sell. You'd have to pay to get your money out. Almost probably. It's like the hex six.

To get the hex six back up and running, I have to pay $21,000. And the value of the hex six is not $21,000. So it sits. It sits. It'll be a project when I decide to become a mechanic of some sort. Nah, because you're not down until you don't lose money until you sell. So if you keep it forever, it may never make me money, but I'll never lose money if I never sell that. Value, value.

Anyway, that's what I do for this episode, episode 107. Thank you so much for tuning in. If you guys enjoy to share it with a friend for all of you who are going to upload a lot of these topics, please be responsible in your titling. Okay, because just because you say it or you imagine it doesn't make it So thank you so much for tuning in. We'll see you guys next time. Goodbye.

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