OpTic Podcast - POST SEASON ROSTERMANIA | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 35

Episode Date: July 28, 2021

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were shoplifting one time. They grabbed shit and they ran out the door. Waterwoman got caught, Arturo. And then Arturo's like, Danny. Danny's like, don't say my fucking damn. That's like straight bitch. Welcome to episode number 35 of The Opick of Piedcast, brought to you by Hello Fresh and Upstart. And we'll tell you a little bit more about them later.

Have you done your ad read? See, what was the last time we did an ad read and took it serious? This is serious. How do you take it serious? You just read the ad. You don't make jokes about it. You do it serious. I think I did one.

Yo, time out. Rookie, first of all, second, who? Who leaves their ringer on? What are you? 90? No bullshit. I've only seen old people do that. What do you mean?

You don't have a ringer? I do, but it's never on. Unless I'm waiting for a call that I cannot miss. Only times I turn it on. Aside from that, never not once had, like I wish there was a data. The said, how often has my phone been on silent? I'll miss it. It'll say 99.99% of the time.

My phone that only makes noise and further the alarm. Yeah. That's it. That's it. Or TikTok. Yeah. That's it. Other than that, it's quiet.

Like it should be. All right. Either way. Postseason roster mania, last week's matches. Regular season for Cold War is over. 3.3 half court basketball in the Olympics. Huh? Are the topics?

Yeah, I was seeing highlight to that. It was just fucking just lay up, missed. Someone throws it back court. fucking shoot a half court miss miss it was just chaotic it was like a hood game i don't that is that is where it came from i you know what i would like to see two ball same two ball i think would be like the the better one because there's actual like two like yeah's yeah remember two ball where it's like i remember it being called two ball i never heard two ball yeah it's optic two ball right i've heard a two ball yeah that's nick you weren't like 15 of them well your old self wasn't like 15 of them

That's probably what you don't remember. Yeah. Wait, Optic 2. Remember at the gym where it was like not a main one? It was like some private shit that Hex like paid for the year for it. It was like a private gym and 60-50. Yeah, where we would go with some of your family and play football. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

My brother, love brother. Yeah, Optic 2 ball. Okay, I'll remind my teammate. No, so Optic 2 ball is essentially a three-point contest of teammates. And then one is rebounding and running to get the. thing. So, for example, you and M, you remember now? You and Flame Sword, you shoot and you make it. You move to the next spot. You make it. If you miss, then you got to chase the ball down what, while Flamesort comes into position and then we go all the way around. Okay. Okay. Now you remember.

Yeah. I was thinking 2v2. Yeah, two's. I was thinking twos. The big three is an actual three on three. Yeah. The big three. Yeah. Is that what it's called big three? Well, not this. That was like, yeah, there was some like new game in the Olympics I was watching. It was literally chaotic as fuck. I don't know what the deal is with the Olympics

anymore. I see gymnastics. I get gymnastics. Ever since Hussein Bolt stopped running. Literally. Since Michael Phelps Usain Bolt.

I watch a little bit of track though. Yeah, that girl's Sakari. Like over weed, really? Something happened to where they're like finding

I think someone else was smoking like CBD every day and they're like looking into that. Like, it's not Can I have some privacy? Can you mute your fucking phone? It's like only old people are the only

The people that have like those on. No bullshit. You're muted. Muted right now. Mute it right now. There you go. See, easy man, easy. Who's that, who's that?

You girl? No. Don't have a girl. Oh. Ladies, ladies. Ladies, it's back on the shelves. Somebody come get it. scoop it up. The new, the new bows drop. You know what I'm saying? Top it before it's gone.

One of one. You know, that's how it goes. What do you think the, the, okay, so obviously we just, we just finished regular season in Call of Duty. Matt, do you think that this, the, the, the roster mania for this season is going to be crazy? Yeah. I can tell you from a owner's perspective, exactly what it's going to look like, but I can't. Rostermania. Yeah, literally every team changing besides like before. Or change. Is it just like anyone can change a team now? No, no, no.

Russar's locked, I think. But no, after. After champ. Yeah, season's over. It'll be weird. It'll be weird. There's a lot of, a lot of, a lot of, there's a lot of, there's a lot of, there's a ton of new players.

Like, I saw, like, a stat. It said, like, over, like, 50% of the pros or some shit, maybe even more than that. We're, like, have only been a pro since, like, last year. Yeah. Which is just fucking wild. That's crazy. That's just never happened before. I forgot.

I forgot. I was watching. I was like, yeah. It's a way of it. Yeah. People get pulled up. I mean, I'm happy about it because it gives young talent exposure, but at the same time, like, I know what it does to viewership and I know what it does to the league, right?

Like some of these dudes have no branding at all, have no, and, and, you know, it's up to the, to the, to the, you know, to the organizations to sort of build that up for them by focusing on them. But I don't think, I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I have to take a hard look at what I just couldn't do it. you know what I'm saying like I'm here to you know win champs sell t-shirts and create content get the views have fun with the audience you know what I'm saying

I know for sure I just I just don't know I'm happy that other people are doing it is what I'm saying I don't know I like bringing people up from from I think you meant like trying other stuff like yeah right desperate what you mean just like just trying anything I don't think this I don't think you should be able to

change teams like mid-season like you should have to use your substitute. It's not bad. Doesn't that just make sense? Yeah. Like why can't, why do you have a substitute,

but then like you're going to get someone from another team? Yeah, you can pick up anyone you want. It's a friendship league. Like after every team realizes, like, they suck. They just try to make some desperate change. Yeah.

Like, I think that one of the main things that you have. I feel like that makes it not interesting. Yeah, but I think that one of the, I want to see a shit team become better. Yeah.

Go ahead. Thank you. I was going to say that what makes that difficult, I don't even know. You interrupted me like twice in my thought went somewhere else. I don't know. What were you talking about right before that? I want to see a shit team get better. Yeah.

Yeah. What I was going to say there is like I think chemistry has a lot to do with that. Like obviously salary cap, the amount of money that people are spending on players versus others. Like I don't know. Obviously I don't have insight into those economics nor do I want to. But you can tell who's who's putting in the effort. Like for example, and I'm not calling anybody out here. Never mind.

I'm not going to say, I was going to say, you know, I know like three owners are coming to this event. You know what I'm saying? Like if I, if champs and obviously like COVID is crazy and I don't know people's like reasons, but, you know, it'd be cool to have like a like a roundtable discussion with all the owners in person, which is what we used to do before COVID. You know, selfishly, I want to interview them to see their thoughts on the sport and, you know, to see to see how excited it is, what the future holds. but just you know it's just not not uh I don't know I don't know I don't know

let me ask you this and be honest okay from an ownership perspective do you mind that I'm always around or would you like it to be like a distant figure like out there that just pays your bills no I mean come on it's way better

that you're like involved yeah it's way better that you're fun to hang out with like the owner comes around you just don't know yeah and you're like is that him oh shit okay I'll just be like you've been giving me I can be myself, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, it's like it's fun.

And it's like, but if you need him to get something done, he'll just get something done. You know, he'll be, he'll be, he'll be, like, most of the time. Yeah, most of the time. So, for seven. Sometimes, not. I saw like, I saw like, I saw like three comments like a while ago. It was like, it's like, you need to like seriously take a step back and let the boys be boys. And I'm like, what the fuck?

I'm one of the boys. Yeah. It's like, if I didn't look like a, you know, sharp 26-year-old fucking fiend, I get it, but I do. So back up off. you know what I'm saying Bose? I don't know. I don't know what it is. I think that there's a lot of a lot of different

management styles I guess that do. But there's people like Minnesota Rocker, for example, like also obviously shout out to Atlanta phase Paul, the owner over there. It's like very, very involved, right? But, you know, has his boundaries, but he's there, you know what I'm saying? But Brian Cargo, for example,

he's like coming out, for example, this weekend to watch Minnesota Rocker Play. You know, like he's, I believe he's like in the, in the ownership group. Like, I don't really know. I don't ask those sort of questions. But like, he's the type of dude that doesn't have to be there. You know what I'm saying? Because he's got all this other, you know, Willf family business that he has to handle.

But he's still making and taking the time out of his, like, you know, schedule to come out and chill. So I don't know. I think, I think if this was any other moment in time and COVID wasn't a thing, I'd be a little bit more harsh in me, judging people not showing up or showing up but because of COVID I think I'm going to give everybody a pass and it's here and now it's kicking up again yeah I mean always something yeah it's like a variant a delta you know what they've been out this country they do that shit again oh imagine we have to do another 2020 no like I'm good I'm literally taking out every Marcus blanks business originally business loan we don't live off alone

I don't know I don't know what the Look It's it's uh Apparently the surveillance going on And you know what's messed up And what gets me mad about the current day situation Is the fact that I don't even want to see

I don't know what to believe I don't know what to believe If if Other countries around the world Weren't on lockdown Then I'd have a problem with people You know what I'm saying? Like then I'd be that

But it's not just the United States That's going on lockdown Which is like confusing If people would not turn it into a political thing, I would have, this would have been much better off because I, like, why can I, can I believe it or is it a political ploy to get something to do that? I'm not educated enough. I have not done research enough. I have not read enough to be an expert or anywhere close resemblance to someone who at least has the tiniest bit of knowledge around COVID. All I know is that

I have to wear a mask when I go on the plane and I'm okay with it. I'm okay with wearing mask in public. I'm fine with it, but I just want to gosh darn truth. That's fine. I don't think any of us. It's never going to come. You don't think anyone ever had it? No, no, I mean, for sure. You did? Yeah, 100%. Yeah.

You had it too then. Because you were... Oh, yeah, no, Minnesota? Yeah, definitely. Yeah, yeah. But I'm saying, like, confirm. You had it to, oh, yeah, that... Wait, you went to Minnesota.

Yeah. Right? Yeah. Weren't you, weren't you of you nears? Yeah. You went there, so you had it. Why? Was Minnesota an outbreak or?

It was like the start in the U.S. You basically started. Hey, we were like the beginning Starved. No, it dropped. It was like, it was the COVID drop. It was the first time. It was trying to think if I got like sick after that. Dude, I was sick as fuck. Because I remember being there and it was like cold as fuck.

Yeah, probably got back and I'm like, oh, I don't feel good. Yeah, but you blame that on a cold because you've been in Texas. It was so cold. Bro, I was there. I was there the whole time. So I know I had it. Period. And if I had it, everybody around me had it.

And I took up pictures with a bunch of people. I was right next to Gary Vee doing the fucking show. He talked to everybody, so he had it for sure. So you spread it. Bro, there was some people who started. Maybe it was me. If there was like a thing where we can go back and see everyone's tweeting, like tweets during that time, everyone was like, oh, I'm so sick. Somebody did.

Somebody did. There was something like. Yeah, there was something like that. Dude, everyone was like, oh, man, this is the worst. There were hell of people sick after that of that. Yeah. Like, it wasn't even a normal sick. Like, people were not getting on.

Like that is not cool. All I want is to remove health and any. anything human health related away from politics as soon as possible. Because I don't know what the fuck to look at. Do you think eventually like down the road like in the future that human health will just be like a constant? It won't be any fluctuation between person to person. It'll just be like we're all. You're just to human so you're fine.

You've got you've gotten like I don't know all vaxed like for everything in the world. Well I think I think that's what it is right now or what it was right now before COVID. I think before COVID like we still were able to fight. off colds, right? And that's a virus. We were still able to find off diseases, chicken pox. I mean, you name it, right? Like, that's happened. If you look at the documentary called, what's it called the End of the World with Keanu Reeves. Oh, yeah, I think you were talking about that in the last. Yeah, it's not a documentary. It's a movie about the end of the world or something with Keanu Reeves.

I love those type of movie. Yeah. Oh, no, it's not Keanu Reeves. It's, uh... You were saying someone else is Seth. You and Seth are talking about it. Yeah. Is it called the end of the world or is it called the War of the World? War of the World. War of the World. War of the World. Is it called the end of the world? Or the end of the fucking world. I think there's a show called

The End of the Fucking World. No, anyway, aliens. What ended up taking down the aliens was a common cold. Yeah. Shit that we've earned by developing the antibodies to do blah, blah, blah, blah. It was a pretty cool idea. Yeah. Yeah, really good.

So, I mean, I think that as it goes down, Josev will open that up, check the size on that. I just watched the Unabomber. It's so good. You look like him and shit? Remember? Remember I posted pictures that you looked exactly like the Unibumber? No, no.

That was Matt Craig, wasn't it? No, okay, no, that was, that was, yeah, that's, Matt Craig looked exactly like the real Unabomber? Was it? You looked like the, like the Unabomber that was played by an actor, by the English actor. Did he look like Slim Shady? Wait, which one are you talking about?

The Netflix one. Man Hunter. Manhunter Unabomber on Netflix. Okay, well, then whatever you have. saw that one. Whatever you watched was not as good as this one. It was just like real footage. Yeah.

Like Matt Craig. Yeah, no. It did. It did. Ted Kaczynski, yeah. Matt,

bring up, bring up, who would just mail bombs to like people he used to know that like fucked with them. Yeah. And they go to images. They're just getting their hands blown all.

Yeah, look right there. Holy shit. Holy shit. The one to the left of that. Yeah. The one to the left of that. Not a blue one.

Yeah. That one. Yeah. Look at it. Oh, I know. Look at that. And then if you look at the, Okay, Matt,

go down one left. That's Nick Maniac Kirshner. Oh, yeah. That's how, that's how you found him? That's how I found him. I knocked on this apartment door. There's nothing in here.

No, that was me when you would knock on my door and at 16, 1235? Nah, nah, hell no. That was me.

Those are rookie days. I go back to, Those are the rookie. Yeah. Compared to last year, they're fucking warm. Look, warm up.

All I know is that we are living in some weird simulation where it's just, it's just literally a cartoon. Shit that shouldn't happen is happening. Did you see the shit with Elon Musk talking about,

he was like explaining it on the Joe Rogan podcast how like all the, like everything above you is kind of like artificial. and they're learning how to like simulate neurons and all this i don't know it's a bunch of like smart talk that i didn't really know what he was saying why but it was basically just like how like we're real or i don't know it's not even in our reality he's always like it's all like it's all like fake kind of looks like it's being created yeah it's like a picture it's like a painting if i

would believe that if i didn't go into a different mental if i didn't go into it think about this you're sleeping right right because essentially you're sleeping in the simulation right? Because you're living only through your thoughts how do you smoke a joint and get high in your fucking sleep?

It's just another simulation Yeah It's like how Endless simulation It's like how do you have pain in your sleep Like you still feel Yeah

Do you feel pain in dreams? You do Yeah You do mental yeah Do you? You could feel like a zombie's biting you And shit Yeah

For real Most of the time Like I'll wake up And I'm like Oh whose arm is this And it's mine It's just asleep Right on top of you

I'm like Oh my God What? What? I don't know I don't know I sleep on my side and sometimes like I'll wake up and I'll touch like this cold ass hand and I'm like I'm like that's the worst So I throw it in his life on it or something

Yeah Jude's like sleeping on a sudden like her my hands like Yeah that's scary. I don't know that again what I'm saying though is like I believe that something's Something's up right something man something is up oh I think it's simulation right something is up for sure if it For sure. It will be if the Cowboys win the Super Bowl this year. It will be if the Cowboys win because of everybody else. Because I saw some shit. That's the thing?

I saw some shit like the last time the Bucks won a whatever. When the Cowboys won. So if the Cowboys win this year. There's three teams. I'm done. So two teams have done it. So two teams have done it. It's the Bucks and another team.

The Sons? Oh, yeah. The Sons? The Sons didn't win though. Yeah? Okay. Oh. So the bucks, the sons and the cowboys are all in the simulation together.

What was it? The bucks, the cowboys, and what was? I thought there was like another sport. Yeah. Like, look at how complex what we're doing right now would have. Like, think about how complex the simulation will have to be. I believe it. I'm going to tell you why I believe it.

Okay. Because these cameras right here are putting this reality into this tiny little card and then sending it out for everybody to fucking enjoy it. How? Just think about this thing. Yeah, if they can do that. What is this? What is this? What is this?

Can somebody explain what the fuck this? How did someone come with this? And they're like, yeah, just use this now. And you're like, okay, sweet, I'll buy one of those. Yeah. And not like, what the fuck is this? Your whole life is in there. They went from a flip phone to this.

Yeah. And we're just cool with that? And a matter of fucking... Ten years? We're cool with that. Yeah. We're just accepting that is a fact. I know, it's just weird.

Now you just expect, like, does the iPhone do this? Like, you know what I'm saying? You should do anything. I could scan let me see if there's an app for this yeah of course there is of course there is which is to me mind-blowing but I don't know is it so it would have to be humans in the simulation they can't be aliens it can be aliens it can't be aliens it can definitely what's a difference yeah well the difference we we're aliens and humans yeah we would be aliens to other people yeah I agree but like art is like the number one definition I mean think about how

complex everything is right that complex though Art? It's just not that complex. For us, it is. But for like a super advanced species, it's just not complex at all. Art? Anything. Anything in art simulation is not complex at all.

Let me put it to you like this, okay? An ant, a fucking monkey, a fucking giraffe. Like what they see in their brains, you know what I'm saying? It's just simple life. Yeah. And that's how we look at ants is how they can look at us. And how would we know the difference? Ants don't care they're in an ant.

Yeah. They're just living life. That's what they're supposed to do. We're just living in our hand. It's just bigger. Jesus, mind blown. We should have this conversation in L.A. You're down while we're high.

Yeah, that's where I was going with. Legally, of the Pine Park. Shout up Pine Park. We're out. We're live, baby. It took a while. I'm surprised. I swear to God, the most surprised I've ever been.

But it brings me back to the fact that if I keep all of the information within these four walls, it never leaked. I told 50 people. the name of it, what it looked like. Not once did it leak, but all the other times that we involve other people, shit leaks, get out of here. I know my people.

I'm surprised that Nick didn't leak it. No point. I'm surprised that you can't lab it out on accident. I don't care. That's why. That's why. I feel like you do it. You'd be like, wait, what?

You haven't announced that yet? You'd be like, uh, yeah. I could see that. If there was one person in Optic or just anyone it comes through these who do you think would be someone to leak you you or hitch really yeah accidentally though accidentally not like on purpose with like being like like I just leaked it like it's just like you would just say and we got opting back nix I knew oh yeah when we got when I got optic back I knew I got optic in my name

yeah he's like or remember what I'm like yo take that shit that then I also I hadn't got out but somebody leaked it you know what I'm saying you know how somebody out there leaked it to the news and then wait leaked to what the then hex got Hector a reacquired the optic brand and we had those no that was you wait that was me yeah remember he tweeted yeah you were like i knew i kept optic in my name for a reason or something like that x was like well i can delete it i'll delete that shit it's not wait right everyone's like really oh my god oh my god you don't remember i thought that was when i joined like mutineers though no that was when you joined rejoined optic or rejoined huntsman or join hunt you know what i'm saying i could i could

definitely see i'm saying that that was like during your moments i was in mutineer only mutineers yeah rejoined optic but it wasn't but it wasn't known that I was rejoining no it wasn't known that it was optic it was huntsman it was huntsman I hadn't gotten it back well you were half asleep you were half asleep when you two had that we'll go with that no he was I think no bullshit yeah it was like mid I'm like dude he's like what I thought you got it back I'm yeah but we haven't made the announcement we can't make the announcement like that you're just you were at your peak of numbers so to answer your question my brain was healing you were the one

Oh, man, we got a question from bald chaos. At this stage in your career, do any of the cod guys get nervous anxiety before big match event? If so, what are some of the ways you all get over those feelings? Or are you all cold-blooded killers and feel nothing inside? I don't think such a different-I-n-got actually nervous in a 1-V-1. Like if it's a 1-V-1 versus someone like S&D or something, I'm like, ooh, I can feel my heart.

No, yeah, it's whenever you're like, who is it? And then you hear it and then you're like, now you're like, I got to beat them. Yeah. But no, to answer your question, not really. I mean, we've just played so many events. Like, after a while, like, I was nervous, like, my first Halo event. Yeah. I was hell nervous.

I was, like, I was like, 12, 13. I was super nervous, but. A little nerve-wracking in, like, the beginning of the season. Like, your first match for, like, a new cod or something? Or is it not? No, not really. You remember the one we put in T? Like, we were all just kind of chilling.

Yeah. Like, it's just, like, you always know there's another event. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, worst comes to worse, right? So say like we went too well at champs. There's another champs next year. And the year after that, and the year after that. There's going to be more tournaments and like eventually you come on the realization.

Yeah. And you've just played well at so many events. Yeah, I mean. It's not like your name would be tarnished if you like didn't play well. I mean, people hold like me and set to like a really high standard. But like, I don't know. I don't think we're ever like nervous. It's like, I mean, we do bad.

I don't think you guys are nervous, but I do see when you guys are, you definitely are angry, happy, and sad. But nervous? I don't think you guys are nervous. I never see you guys with dinner. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll get excited. Like,

you know, if we know, like, we have a match that day or something. Our whole morning is like, we're just excited. And it seems like everyone's excited, but I wouldn't say it's nervous at all.

I get, I get super nervous. I do. I do get nervous. I do get like, I get down. I'm like, God damn it,

man, because I know that I'm like, okay, we can't go have fucking a fun dinner now because they fucking feel like shit. Hey, guys, I know what you're thinking.

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All right. You guys are beautiful. Back to the podcast. Jordan Tavaris asks, what was the one thing you did as a kid that you got really in really big trouble by your parents? I'm going to tell you right now. That sounds like a kid asked that. I was in Mexico. I'm going to give you two. I'm going to give you two where my parents beat the shit out of me. Really big trouble.

All right. Really big troubles. I'm going to give you two. One time I had like fucking, well, where were they? Fives. So in Mexico, you don't have A, B, C, or Ds or Fs. You have 10 for perfect, 9, 8, 7, and 5. I had fives, right?

That's an F. Yeah. Yeah, I had to have been like a fourth, like third or fourth grade. but we were uniforms because I went to an all-catholic school that said Centenario in Chile, Juarez. And they gave me my report card, and you have to take it to your parents because obviously the internet doesn't exist.

I remember that. And they had to sign that they saw it. And I was, bro, it was the worst day of my life, I believe. So I fucking hit it right here because I'm like, I'm not going to give it to him right. I'm going to chill. I'm going to eat. And then I'm going to give it to him.

You're like eating again. I'm like, it's poking out of your shirt. I'm like, I'm not going to kill everyone's vibes. You know what I'm saying? So I get to, I get to the house. And then my mom's saying, like what is that? And she rips it.

I'm like, nah, it's not crying immediately. And, no, bro, they both beat me up. My mom and my dad

jumped me. They didn't like, they, both of them were like, what? One with the belt, what was like slapping me and shit,

not in my face, you know what I was getting abused. What's considered abuse now is there. But it wasn't. You know, obviously like I needed it because I would have been something completely different

if I didn't have discipline growing up. The second time was my fault. Okay? For some reason, Someone in 1985 figured out that spark plugs the white part of it, the porcelain part of it,

no matter how small the tiny little rock is. No matter how tiny, if you throw it at a windshield. Not even if you toss it. You don't have to throw it. The whole thing crashes. No matter how small. Yeah.

Yeah, we're going to do that as a test mat. Bring it up. Okay. Write that down. We're going to test this. Spark plugs when broken down into the tiny little things. You can drop it from this distance to glass. The whole thing shatters.

What? Yeah. Don't they use that with that fucking that little pen thing? Yeah, that too. Like you put it to a window. You just click it like a literally not like a car. Just. Wait,

and a window shatters. Put a video or something. Yeah. I need to see this. Yeah. So type in spark plug, spark plug porcelain YouTube video. Spark plug. Breaking glass.

Yeah. I kind of want to try that. But I want to try the pin. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. There is. With a tiny little fragment, according to Mike, is that simple.

Hammer? All right. Holy shit, you don't want to get DMCA'd. No, I don't think you would. All right, so the spark plug, a tiny little thing. Look how small this thing is. Oh, I mean, that's actually a big one. You can do it way smaller than that.

What? What the fuck? Yeah. Listen, you can throw, you can throw, you can, I don't know. I don't know what about it. But like, like, there, I wish. that he would have just kind of like this, like open-handed, lobbed it at the window, and it would have happened the same way.

Because you don't need pressure, you don't need speed, you don't need anything, something about the make of porcelain against glass that makes it shatter like that. Maybe we shouldn't have brought this out. Why? Because now everybody's going to be a giant wave of like high. Hey, all right. Guys, people have to pay money for this, so don't be an asshole.

If you're going to do it, do it to your own car and send me a video. But don't do it to somebody else's video. Don't do it to your parents' video. That's not your car. Do it to the car that you pay a monthly payment on and then let me know because I'm telling you that's like so I got in trouble What about you anything? Oh, dude We'll start with both Yeah, come on man. I get I told two stories to give you guys a chance to think about it

Okay, listen route What I was thinking about because yeah there were times I had really bad grades, right? And that was pretty much all I got in trouble for like my whole life was just like bad grades I wasn't like like breaking shit. I wasn't doing that type of shit right? I wasn't doing that type of shit right? Like, um, but I didn't do homework and shit. But the amount of excuses I would make, like standing next to my dad at the computer, like, I'm just like, well, yeah, no, she hasn't put the final grade in yet. So it's, that's not the final grade. And everyone failed that class.

Yeah. So like it's, yeah, and that, and that, I did really bad in that one. I can't, I don't really know Spanish, you know, like something like that. And then like, I just could have the whole thing. And he's just knowing I'm bullshitting, but I'm just still just dying with the lie. I'm just like, no, it's not even the real grade. So just don't even look at it right now. Yeah, I'll tell you.

I'll, I'll email it to you. Trust. Yeah, for sure. But yeah, that was pretty much all like I yelled out. I don't think I ever, like, I don't have any stories. Like, I just always got my Xbox taken away for any type of, like, one time I got in-school suspension. Why? Because it was in fifth grade, and I wrote my friend, and I wrote, like, my best friend note about this other kid.

and was just like talking shit just like talking hell and shit I try I just pass it in class and the teacher sees and takes the note then immediately fucking read it Reaches out loud Yeah

What'd say? I can't really say it It's not really like Like I'll get canceled Yeah For saying stuff like that nowadays But I was in fifth grade But I was just

I was talking a lot of shit And I got in school suspension and I guess I just got my Xbox taken away for a while. That was the worst. Dude, that was always in the school suspension. And we need, do whatever,

but don't take the Xbox. Yeah, right. And you know, I was talking to Brian about this couple days ago? Like, I kind of missed, like,

that time in my life. Like, at the time I was like, damn, this sucks, you know? But, like, I miss, like, that 7 a.m.

You see, like, a couple of your friends. You're like, dude, this sucks. You know what I was a summer school, but I have good, like,

decent summer school memories. Yeah. It's just like, Yeah, it's like, you're all just like in it together. All the hoodlums and hooligans. Hey, I had a class like that. All in one building. They just walk up to the teacher.

Like, was it good, my boy? Yeah. No, they did. Swear to God. What about you? Probably the one time, I mean, I had done a lot of fucked up shit is good. But the one time, one day, like, a lot of fuck those shit. But the one time I could remember.

You didn't kill no animals, right? Hell no. That's weird. One time I could remember, it was like, it was snowing. But like, it snowed. And then, like, like, probably like four or five hours after everyone went outside but there was a little bit of sun out there you know what I'm saying so you were able to like take the the ice off the windshield

in one piece yeah yeah yeah yeah so we me and my boy took it off right and he's holding it a car's coming but he didn't know and he throws it over the car over the car that we took it off like brakes the dude's windshield no driving down the street right through like he literally hops out charge chasing us right I'm running running my friend gets caught I'm still running because I lived over here my grandmother lived over here so I wasn't gonna run like where we got caught

this way so I was going right to my grandmother's house you know what I'm saying so I look back I see my friend call I'm like whatever I'll turn around he's just caught like holding him by the fucking coat and shit so I go over there and talk he's like what's your address I go home

I walk in the house my mom was like what's up Mark my dad just comes out of the room no he must have stopped by and like told my parents and shit I got my ass whipped for that one damn well you're Were you a bigger kid?

Like people, like, that's a tall kid that lives over here. Hell, no. I was young as hell. But people knew you, obviously. 10, 11. Like, they knew who you were. You must have done enough bad shit to words like, oh, that's the same fucking kid. We wrote down our stuff for the guy because he caught us, you know what I'm saying?

Oh, he caught you too? Well, he called my friend. Now I just went back. Because I'm a real one. That's real shit. No, I'm just a real one. That reminds me of a story of Danny Bartniki. Danny Bartniki is one of my best friends.

Him and this other dude, his name is Arturo. were shoplifting one time. They grabbed shit and they ran out the door. Waterwoman got caught, Arturo. And then Arturo's like, Danny. Danny's like, don't say my fucking name. That's like straight bitch. My friends get mad when I tell stories about them.

So I just keep doing it. It makes me laugh. Question for the podcast. If you were in a zombie apocalypse, what's your first? Danny. I can't see what I can say my name. I was waiting for him. Marcus Blake's.

You know, one, two, three, main street. I'm like, what the fuck? Dude, I don't know. Zambia apocalypse. Like, I would go to Battle Springs Ranch with a man, Toby. I read the question. You didn't finish the question. Oh, if you, what's the first place that you would go to?

In the bottom. Where? What do you mean? At the bottom. One time. In a zombie apocalypse. You go to your apartment. You see it on the news.

You're like, no, fucking. What do you do? No, no. You wouldn't see on the news. Imagine just hearing it. Imagine waking up at like 8 p.m. one day. Like, you're just on a shit sleep schedule. You wake up and, like, I just hear out of my window.

There's just, like, just panic or something. I'm gonna stay exactly where I am. And you just hear a zombie walk past your door. And you're like trying to be quiet. You're like, move down there. So what's your first move? Neighbor who's gonna get up? If I'm here, probably come here.

I'd probably come here. No joke. I feel like we would have to come here and like just start clutching up. Unless the zombie's got a fob, I'm chilling on the second floor. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. He takes the fog.

He just bombs himself off. He just texts. Yeah, Texas. Yeah, Texas. He'll get a fucking text from zombies like in the elevator or in the, in freight. Please. He's Troy.

It's Troy. It's a zombie. He's walking in his tippy toes. Yeah, I feel like I'd have to just come here and get a gun. From where? Guns. No, you can't get a gun. No, you don't want a gun.

You want, you want like a, like something quiet. Sword. You want to defend yourself from other humans. We got that fucking low-key. What is that flame thrower? The flamethrower, yeah, with no gas. Matt, still slacking on the gas. But yeah, this is probably the safest place for us, the HQ.

No joke. Probably safer than all this. Well, if you think about it because of the amount of, like, think about all the snacks that could be up to. Think about all the snacks down. I would, I would rush downstairs and grab all the kitchen. I'd be on like the fifth floor of myself. To the just Randy's just like, do we got to start killing everyone else?

Yeah. So, or something. Or feed them. But we're always here, so we're ready to, like, defend right away. Yeah, because we know this map really good. Like, this is our favorite map. They're going to poop on me and Brandon, like here at 2 a.m. You know what I'm saying?

We're going to be here. We're the only ones in the building. Guarding it. Imagine you walking sweating, believe you? Guys, these guys are eating popcorn watching fucking Ted Lasso and shit. Like, fucking, like, what's happening out there? Look out the window. I don't know.

I would go, I would probably call Toby Thomas. He owns the ranch down. He doesn't let you in, though. I don't give a fuck he and let you in. Yeah. I don't know. You can circle in a range. I could circle you in that around.

I mean like, oh my God, imagine. No, this dude's in anywhere if you think about it like that. Bro, this dude's house is like in the middle. You're kind of circled in everywhere. That is true. I was thinking maybe the garage up there because you can like sleep in the in the elevators. But then I accidentally you get up and you press like one and then you fucking go. And for five floors you're thinking, oh my God, when this thing opens on the first floor,

there's going to be 15. zombies ready to fuck me up. Dude, imagine. How do you stop it from opening? You can't grab it. You can't hold it. If you're an elevator? Yeah.

You could stop it. Emergency stop it. They all got a button. Just chill there for life. No, then you open the thing. Stalling elevator. Okay. Tom Cruise, chill the fuck out.

What do you mean you open the thing up? I was thinking more like going. Climb through the shaft. I was thinking like Bruce Willis or something. Just flying out through the top. Open the elevator shaft, climb up. I don't know. I don't know.

That's not a bad question. I appreciate it, man. On the topic of Call of Duty, obviously we have the first main event coming up. Or not, yeah, the major five where fans are being allowed to come in, but they can't have any interactions

from what I understand with anyone. Did they give you like a manual of things not to do? I mean, maybe they'll probably give us like a, you know, like a rundown of like a run down. Yeah, it's not going to be like,

there's not going to be like, you know what I'm saying? But I mean, the problem is, the problem is that there's a, Like it's just like there's one hotel. Yeah. And it's like everyone that's going to be attending the event is going to be staying there too.

So it's kind of like, I don't know. They'll enforce a lot of rules at the event, I think. But I think at the hotel, it's kind of anything goes. There's no one really regulated. You get tested every day? Yeah, but that's the problem for me, right? You do? They get COVID tested every day?

Yeah, we do. Yeah. So the problem. Guys, all right. So if you guys are watching the new, you guys are planning on attending the event, know that I don't want to, but I will be strict on like the approach. right like if you guys want to wait until sunday or after the event to uh take pictures that's awesome but before that we cannot risk sitting around and just talking to be like if you come to me like look

at my my vaccine i'm like i don't want you to think i'm rude or anything yeah no they just don't no it's very serious if any of us get COVID we cannot play yeah we can't play at all it's no exception's nothing yeah like there's no are you i mean like accidentally you like what about this right this the same dude the same dude just went like this like oh my god I'm tired he scratches his eye and then he's like oh what's up man and then he goes like this to you puts a little bit of his eye saliva and then you scratch your eyes so now his saliva is in your eye essentially both your eyes kissed french I'm not touching shit dog yeah like that but yeah I just don't want them to think I'm being rude or anything no I am going to be rude super

serious so we can't okay I am going to be very clear with everyone friends listen we're friends but we cannot shake hands don't look at the players yet and after the event come through. You know what I'm saying? But during the event, we don't want to lose on a technicality, especially going into champs. We got to make these last two count. You're okay? So please be understanding. I'm pretty sure that people have like the, I know the hotel's going to be the tough part. Fuck. It is. Anyway, I don't know. Going back to the to the original conversation we're having about Rastomania as I got another thought on it. What do you think is like, what do you think happens? Like Tommy, Tommy has done a very good.

good job of having a side hustle for himself, right? Like, yeah, Zuma. He's not a pretty good job of having that, right? He can retire right now and, you know, hopefully have his, his career, you know, maintain what is doing it and increase. But what about everybody else? That's the only one player out of the entire league that has that side hustle to, that they have going for.

In the series, how long? And it's been how long? Yeah. I mean, he's put it in a lot of effort. Yeah, since maybe, yeah, censor, right? Yeah. I don't know. What do you think?

Tommy's like, Tommy put in hell of time, though. Yeah, the work. I remember when he was, like, first starting to, like, really stream and give it a chance. Like, I was still streaming regularly at the time, too, and I would see him always live every night and slowly built up the base. You know what I'm saying? And, like, he stuck with it and had a good idea with the flank. And then, like, if players want to do that, then they can take that around. Like, he went for it.

Yeah. Other players, I just don't see really going for that. They kind of just, like, stop playing and they're just like, I mean, I'm just going to play, like, I don't know, Val or something. See, at first, though, It's chill. Obviously, you taught this, but I'm saying, like, if people knew, like, imagine you're coming, signing to a team with, you're bringing, like, fucking 250,000 extra people as opposed to the guy who's good with zero, one, two followers. You get paid the same, even if he's better than you. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, at least you're bringing something to the fucking table. Yeah. Yeah. But, I don't know. I don't know. That's always going to be my concern, especially because we're not paying enough attention or trying to make enough out of the challengers division. And I don't know if you can.

You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know. I haven't talked to an org owner or an org owner outside of the franchise that owns a team that's competing in challengers. Seems like a shit show over there, dude. It's because like in Halo, people, no one's interested. If Am Bracket and Pro Brackett were completely separate and Ambracket could never play Pro Browbracket. No one would give a fuck about the AM bracket. Yeah.

But what the only thing that people care about would be seeing those and bracket teams playing against the pro teams. And so it's just like not interesting at all. Like I don't care who's doing well in challengers. But if they like have to play, you know, phase and it's like, they went to game five with phase. Like Westar at the beginning of the year. Yeah. People were very like interested in them because at the time it was like, Dan, this team could be like a top six pro team.

And it was probably true at the time. and I was interested in West Star We would scrimmed them all the time They were really good But then as the season went on They started splitting up And it's just like we don't even play them anymore Like any of those players anymore

I think a couple of them got picked up I think Paul X was on West Star Oh yeah I did too Venom I think was on West Star It could be wrong Venom had his time in the light Mm-hmm I mean it's cool that you get the shot though

Right if they didn't have the initial burst of hype they would never get the shot I think that's kind of cool I still missed the original I'm at an open like you're in the pro bracket like the best of the and I think that we're not interested in challengers but like for a team that that hasn't

like been doing that well right so say like L.A.G they're probably looking at challenges a lot to see like you know who they could be scouting and who they could be picking up if they're planning on replacing players. That's true. But even then what does that do for your franchise right? It's not hopefully something right. Like hopefully

something but you never really know could just be like they're just terrible huh they're just terrible. Who LIG or whatever fuck What team is trash? I mean, I don't know if they're trash. They're not performing well. Yeah, I always see people tell whatever team boys is silly.

They all kind of have similar records and they're not really doing that well. So the five, but tough, bottom four teams are surge, Paris, LAG in London. In London. Holy fuck.

London had a lot of issues like with visas and south. Zero and stuff. They had like a lot of shit happen to them, but, um, I don't know. Yeah, LAG's been making moves,

I guess. Seattle, I guess picked it. They replaced Looney. I think that was their only like really roster change. They picked up Desi for like a week, but then I think Desi left. Well, listen, I know that we're just so you guys know, obviously coming back from the commercial, this is going to be a shorter one because we'll suffer when I have to catch a flight in a little bit out to North Carolina.

While I'm gone, however, Nick, I'd like for you to continue to behave, right? No more out there working out, taking your shirt off and getting tattooed all over the place. Never mind. Too late. Hey, question on that tattoo. is that actual ink on your neck already? Is it? It's not like the outline?

It's ink. It's ink, but it's like it's permanent. Yeah, it's not the stencil. Okay, it's not the stencil. It's permanent. So what do you got? I mean, I, everybody was like, yo, what's up with Nick?

He's getting like a whole bunch of tattoos. And I'm like, bro, this shit's going to look five. I know. Are you actually still hype about it? You don't have any, like, Byers' remorse? A little, I have been getting a little,

well, at first. getting a little anxiety like, damn. I'll like look at myself like so different. It's like, so different. It's like, I'm like, this sounds weird, but it's like not innocent. Yeah. Like I'll never, I'll always look like like

it's tattooed fuck. Yeah. Yeah. For the rest of my life. Not really. You can remove it. But yeah. You're not going to do that at least for 10 years.

I ain't going to do that. So I'm kind of stuck with this. No. No color? There's black and gray. I think you should. You have like. The perfect.

You know, I don't, I don't like a. You look like a. Sheet of paper. You should get some color. You too. No color. You got, see me, I can't, I can't do color because of the color of my skin. But you're pale.

You're pale. You got like, you're like, really subtle colors. You would have a really subtle color. I don't think I'm going to get color. A thousand percent. Now. Bevibe. So colorful.

Do pastel only. I'm going to have to get a bike. You do some shit like that. You got to get a motorcycle. You get colored tattoos. I don't know. I think it's coming out super raw. August 10th, getting this shaded in.

So I have my whole. whole neck done. Dang. That's going to hurt, Doug. So you're going to be, you're going to be all tatted up for the, for the launch party of Pine Park.

Exactly. Sometime in September yet to be announced. Open to the public for the first like two hours, I think. And then we go into the private party for, I think that's how it goes. How is that going to know? What's a party?

So we can't sell, right? Because you don't have a license to sell, but we can't, we can give it away. We'll probably be selling like merch and accessories and stuff like that, but we'll just, you know, give people can just like come there and smoke.

Get free weed, yeah. I mean, you're not going to get a fucking pound or an ounce, you know, you're going to get a joint. That's what I'm walking around with it. What? Pounds? At least one. Just walking around with pounds.

Just pulling out the pound. Just one brick. Hey, literally. Yeah, so it's, it's, uh, look, it's going to be filled with celebrities and shit. It's going to be dead. Just know that. You coming? You coming.

I'm coming. I've got to come. I mean, if everyone's coming, I'm coming. Legally, of course. Yeah, it's in season. It's off season two, which makes it easy. Oh my God. And we're in LA, so you know the food's about to be bow?

Fuck. That's going to be so fun. And it's going to feel even better because we're going to win champs too. Woo. Not going to the heck. I don't know. Hopefully. Hopefully.

Maybe. Yeah. It's not another realm of possibility. Yeah, you know, but every team is very, very hard. So I don't know. Maybe it's something that happened. So I'm really excited to get, look, I did feel a little bit remorseful when I got this one. Because I said I would never get a hand tattooed.

I was thinking about getting a Halo sniper. You should. Do it. Oh, do it. Do it. Do it. That would be cool, though. Yeah, hell yeah.

Would you get a fucking, uh, USMC right here? Oh, what was it? The SMC, what was it? Alo Sniper. USMC. Yeah, the SMC. Yeah, USMC. Yeah.

Or MSMC. MSM. MSM. What would you get? If you were going to get a tattoo of a weapon on you, which one would best describe you? A snipe. Probably a sniper. Yeah?

From right. No, but which one? from Halo. Yeah? The Halo Reach sniper. Which one did you, which one did you win the last championship win?

A bow. A bow. No. Why would you say that? A bow with a red dot? With attachments? That's like a variant stock. And you have the purple glow around there

because it's a rare. Like I unlocked this shit. I don't know. What would you get? Which one? A grenade? because you throw grenades and shit. Oh, yeah.

A Semp Texx. Yeah. That would be. That would be a cool. It's just a little fucking blob. With a little bit of a red dot. Just a little beeping red dot. I don't know.

As I was saying, like I felt virus remorse. Even as I was getting it done, I was just like, fuck, man. Like, what if I have like a meeting with like investors or whatever? No.

I'm not what the fuck. You know what I'm saying? But then, you know, now that I. If someone wouldn't want to work with me because of like my tattoos, then like I don't want to work with them.

Yeah. that's how I try that's how you feel now that's how I'm that's how you feel now myself to be okay with this yeah but now that I've had like the meetings with like the mega wealthy and the fucking you know business people that I've met with like they've seen as oh that's cool but thank you it's never changed my life there's like that shit's fire yeah and then I they see my pendant too so is that the thing is like that that like a couple of days before that I think we were in in Las Vegas no where were we I don't know but I think I had seen Tim the tatman the week before,

and I was like, dude, I don't think I'll ever get hand tattoos. He's like, why not? Just do it, right? Is hella tatted? Yeah. Who, Tim? He's the tatman? Yeah.

The tatman? Yeah, he's like, all tatted. So I was like, and he, he, um, he DM me like when I posted it. He's like, I thought you weren't getting any hand tattoos. I'm like, who I guess I did say that. So I think I am. I think I'll probably start with my left. Right here.

What are you going to get? Knuckles. I'll probably get 60-50, 1, 2, 3,5. Or I'll probably get villains. V-I-L-A-N-S. And then over here I'll do 60-50. I'm going to get 1-2-3-5 right here. Yeah?

Right here. 60-50. No, no, no, I'm not close. You should get all of it. 60-50, 1-2-3-5 because you live- I was thinking about getting 60-50, 1-2-35. Yeah, that's dope. The N-H-I-1-1-1-1-1-0.

His shit's like even wilder because he lived at 60-50 and his compound is 60-50. That was my mind. Yeah. What are the odds for that? That is simulation. That is true. Bricks us back to our first point. Simulation.

Wake up. Wake up. Guys, you know how you wake up by leaving a like on the video and sharing with somebody else. We'll see you guys next time. We'll be you back. Peace.