OpTic Podcast - SCUMP LEAKS OpTic BOXING MATCH | OpTic Podcast Ep. 76

Episode Date: May 19, 2022

This week we have Scump, Hecz, Hitch, MBoZe, and Matty on The OpTic Podcast to discuss creator boxing matches, Warzone 2, and cosmetics in video games!  Go to http://betterhelp.com/OPTIC to get 10% off your first month! Go to http://masterworks.art/optic to check out Masterworks. Go to http://upstart.com/optic to check your rate today. Check out the OpTic Podcast here:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/optic-podcast/id1542810047 https://open.spotify.com/show/25iPKftrl0akOZKqS0wHQG MB01VRXLRVBBYYQ SCUMP LEAKS OpTic BOXING MATCH | OpTic Podcast Ep. 76 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Would you get knocked out for $7 million? Yep. No? I'll go in there and fucking try to knock you out of the blue. For $7 million? You're not going to knock out? Hell no. Yo, you know what?

Optic, Optic bats. Show ass up. I swear to God I'm not. For $7 million. No. Y'all don't got no respect for yourself? Uh, yeah. There's a lot.

There's a lot. It costs. It costs $7 million. Welcome. Welcome, welcome to episode number 76 of the Optic podcast. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp, MasterWorks, and Upstart, and we'll tell you a little bit more about them later on. I like that BetterHelp helps you. I like the MasterWorks helps you.

And I like that Upstart helps you get out of or get ahead on your financial, I love this. That's what I'm talking about. Jesus Christ. Well, you stay doing this in on every podcast. I know. We spoke about this already. Remember, you know what you're in the movie theater and that shit happens? I don't know.

Why is that M in front of the OG? Do you better recognize your... Yeah, there you go, man. Anyway, welcome, everybody. We got the usual suspects. We got my man, Money Biscuit all the way in. Mark Embell's blanks. We have hitch, a ride.

Robert Davis, Edwards, three first names. Matt has three for his name. His man is Matthew Cale Craig. Cale? He just threw his government. Damn. You're getting goo-r-r-r-r-rack-nail? Like the plant?

Yeah. How do you spell it? KAL. Like, Kale. Wait, kale, you throw kale in

with some oil and crisp it up. It's actually simple, a little bit of salt. What are you? Kail is so good. We have a man,

Seth Matthew, Abner in the building and then, of course, suck my ass. You have me. Ector Raul Rodriguez Hernandez,

Alias Elerculano Chonito Chonaco of the Ciudas, Chihuahua, Mexico, Damn. I kept going. Wait, we started a diet.

Me and formal today. You informal started a diet? I'm starting on my diet on Friday. So formal's been lying. What do you mean? Because he's been saying he's on a diet since we went to the diner. Oh, I mean, nah, nah, we've been started. We started it last week.

No, he has, no, we just started today. Yeah. Page just got us all our stuff. Yeah. Bro, you know what they're, tell me, give us the, the program. From my understanding. Yeah. It's like a, it's like a meal.

replacement like a bar and stuff i'm not saying i'm not like promoting this at no no of course i know like healthy or anything but it's like a bar and then there's like uh like protein shakes and like meal replacement shakes and then like you eat during the day and then like you like stagger when you have your like uh first meal like your other meals and like your snacks and like pre-made meals and stuff so it's like everything's like set out for you but apparently that's like what her friends and in cali did and she she was like i want to start it and then matt was like i want to start it too and i was like i'll join you guys okay and then you you're you guys okay and then you said what though that once you get like to a weight that you want to be and what do you do it yeah yeah

once i get to a weight i want to be i think just for like the content purposes i'm going to try to work out for three months but only work out my glutes and see how big my i can get my ass uh just you're trying to be like that one ticotker you ever seen that guy there's a guy that just works out he has a prosthetic ass in his pants and he like runs around with the secret service yeah yeah no i love that guy yeah i'm trying to get like that why just to say i did it and then like Like I got a big butt like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because like I already have like a good like starting point with my size of my, my, my butt.

So I'm like, I'm trying to make it like. Well, so you what you're working out over there? Sure. Not, not your butt. I mean, I've been eating better though. Yeah. Like, I mean, I eat. I try to eat at least decent.

Yeah. That's the number one thing. I'm an asshole when I eat. I've been going rogue lately. Yeah. I haven't gone rogue in a lot. It's been a while, but I have like had a lot to eat. But like it's good, like decent shit, you know?

I've been going rogue like. seven days a week. Really? Yeah, dude. Like, I was streaming two nights ago, and Iz brings up a plate of, like, 30 pizza rolls. Oh, so she's been going rogue. Yeah.

You've just been. Well, she's fattening you up, kid. Like 25. So I didn't eat all of them on stream. I didn't eat all of them on stream because I, like, didn't want people to be like, holy shit, damn. Pizza roll after pizza. The day before, I was playing with Ann,

and he was on stream, and I literally probably ate, like, 35. That's what he said. He blasted you all. in the blog. But I wasn't on stream, so I was just just playing valor with that off stream and I was going

rogue. Y'all, I'm going to give a shout-out to Teltino's pizza rolls. They're not our sponsor. They are fired. But my God. My God.

Do a little squirt of a barbecue Sweet Race Baby Race barbecue right there on the side and then also ranch and then you do that little and then you do that my diet starts Friday. You just bite a little bit off

and put a little bit of saracha in the top. Dude, I'm telling you right now that is the same. Same, same, same. I had a, I had like a salad yesterday. It was lettuce, green peppers, black olives. I had to remove a little bit of black olives.

And then on a base of like an Italian sub from Subway, it was really good. Subway. Yeah. What? No. No. What's wrong on Subway? Nothing.

Not your thing? No. What's your favorite? I don't know why Subway's gotten a bad rap lately. I don't know. Wait, what does it? Subway. Do y'all?

Y'all? No. Subway's been getting like a bad rap, I feel like. Because of the tuna. They had fake tuna I heard. And I love the tuna. I love the tuna from there. Bro.

You love the fake tuna. That was. Wait, why you're not going to work? Because, like, I hope I didn't get a bad dash. Am I tripping? What was the last time you had one? I mean, bro, I used to hit Subway.

No, but what was the last one? Oh, I mean, some years ago. Oh, so you may even wait. You haven't had a tuna sandwich from Subway? What if it's slowly, like, I've been waking up randomly and I'm like, Damn, I feel like shit's changing. You think the fucking tuna? No, I think

Subway's been getting a bad rap because it's just It is the worst of them. It's like... Of the subs? No. What's worse than it's good? I'm not saying it. Oh, Quisnells was fire.

Quiznos is fire. Quiznos, potbelly. McCallister's, like there's a lot of... The best place is a subplace. That's a sandwich place. The best place is Jersey. I'm talking about like a subplace. Jimmy Johns.

Jersey Mike's is good. Jimmy Johns is good. Better than Sopi. Dude, Jimmy John's steak and Chip and Cheez steak is just... In Chicago or in the Northwest suburbs of... Everybody that's Jersey Mikes. Where we were, there was a place called subcontractors. And they had the best subcontractors.

Where did you see? It was on... It was one in Wheeling and then there was another one in Mount Prospect, like past the forest by the Sweet Baby Race. It is, I'm telling you, the absolute best... uh uh italian sandwich or italian sub i've ever had ever fire those are the best fire man i'm getting hungry i haven't ate lucky muck this is like this is just killing here and lucky monk alex Alexis lives in like right outside of barrington oh so you can so you so last time i went and visited that's probably like just a blast from the past like walking

in there is like probably like it's probably so weird they got the outer outer back that looks cool or gary's have you been have you ate garris no we didn't go to gary's you have you any garries? That'd be the first thing I got. Yeah, probably. Like, Gary's or portillo's. Remember the cookies? Bro, we used to, I wonder how much money we spent.

Oh, cookies alone? We could have got them in business alone, just us. Gone. The next day, gone. Like, just my, Mike used to have this thing where he'd be like, all right, Bose, we could eat one cookie before, one cookie each before we go to the gym. I was like, it's fucking 730, Mike. You fucking savage.

Like, you can eat a cookie. I can. Yeah. That was downfall working out. If you live in like the Barrington Is Garibaldi's a chain up there? Yeah, yeah, of course. If you, if you have a Garibaldi's next to you

and you haven't tried it, man. Oh, yeah, I mean, if I was there right now, your sleep. My number one place that I would go to is rodeo tacos on Barrington in, and, uh,

and it's by the, it's, it's on Barrington road by the Portillo's a little bit closer to Rosel. They had this, the soap is there and the green sauce are there. It was so fine. That's what I would have right now. Look at me. I'm getting fucking hyped up. Just thinking about it. these Burrito Express?

Oh, Barrito Express. The King steak burrito. The Barreto Express was so good. And probably that wide. What made it good was the way that they grilled the flour tortilla.

They just made it so crunchy. When you slice it, it sounded like, and then that rinse and gullas. I wonder if I'd have to go back. Next time we ever go to Chicago, I'm going to go back. Because we went to Chicago. Bro, it's so different.

What, two years ago and we didn't go. At least I didn't go. It's so different than what you remember. Is it? Like, is it more like, like, it's developed? No. It's just because, like, the area we're in in Texas is so nice. Oh, yeah.

So nice. You don't realize how nice it is here until you go back. I love it here. I don't think I'm ever moving. Same. I don't think I'm ever going to leave this place. I will live in Barrington. No.

You want to live in Inverness? I love Friscoe. Does nothing. Like, I fucking love it here. Inverness. I love for Texas. Frisco's a better Inverness. Like, it's got the niceness of that,

but it's got all of anything that you. want. I just hate, I like areas that are like first, like where you guys live and where we live, but like Friscoll there's a lot of people. There's traffic in that area around four or five. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like it to be toned down a bit. Like, you know what I mean? You like it. You want it to be a little bit busy. A little bit. Like, like, play no. Yeah, like a good place. Well, what I'm saying is like, there's a really nice gas station over here that I think you would fucking vibe with. Because I don't got right here. I've been there before. With Mexico, it's all Mexican. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

There's Mexicans outside There's always like 20 people just standing outside there Yeah, it's my people man hard workers They're not like they meet up there for lunch or something No they are they they go there so that Are you laughing it's a genuine question I know it's just funny sorry so so they hang out outside Because there's always like there's always mad people outside

Yeah, I know you just said mad Mexicans there's a bunch of them So every day Every time we drive by You're like I don't want to stop there The actor always goes, my people. That's my people, man. No, I mean, I wouldn't stop it. There's a gas station like right next to my house anyway.

But I'm into that gas station. They actually have some good food. Yeah. No, but there's another gas station a little bit farther down there with a taco spot inside of it. It also has like, all right tacos. But the reason that the Mexicans are out there, no, I see some black dudes. And I mean, I'm assuming that they're my people, right, but there might be some Honduran, some Chile and some South America's in it. But the reason that they're hanging out there is because, uh, I'm assuming.

people that have moving trucks, landscaping, construction, like any manual labor, like they, they just hang around and wait for people to come by. He's like, yo, we need three people to come with. We've got to paint this house. And then they'll pick them up. They'll pay them. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

They're there. So it's like a meeting ground to go get a job. Yeah. And, yeah. So instead of staying at home and waiting for the government to give them some free shit, when instead of standing on a corner with the fucking piece of paper that says, feed me, there are. out there's like yo don't I don't want no charity around here I'm here to fucking work so same it's my people I tell you need I need three people to build this doc today one day job 200 each that yeah done boom boom boom I tip it yeah

wait so like you're saying like if you ever needed anything done like you could stop by there and be like yo I need a couple people to come out and they would do that shit hell yeah that's actually elite that's smart no that's why they were there Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't either, so he told me. I might fuck around and ask for some help. But there's people in, it's usually Home Depot. It's like at the Home Depot back in Barrington, there was a bunch in Chicago.

There's a thing. Oh, that's a thing. Oh, that's a thing. Yeah, I didn't know that's a thing. That's cool. That's cool. Yeah, man. They're out there trying to get some paper.

We have a dope-ass meetup this Friday. So you guys are watching this. This is probably going to go up on tomorrow, Thursday. So tomorrow, if you are from the Austin area or the surrounding areas, We are going to be at the Razor store meetup in Austin, Texas. You can look it up. You can Google it. There's the address.

But we're going to start. We're going to be there at 2 p.m. until, I don't know, however long it takes. We're going to be viving. We're going to be viving. We're going to be a dope-ass spot. Who's all going? It's going to be me.

Nick. NIC. TST. Scump. Scumps coming. We're driving up there. I can't. I got practice.

I got practice. But yeah. So more information. It's going to be in the description down below, but if you guys are from the Austin area, we'll love to see you guys. We'll love to meet up and say hello. Yeah, we'll see you guys there. It's going to be dope. If you guys come, you guys will be in the vlog, I promise that. Here we go. The thing is, is like, what time is your matches on Friday? We don't have a match. We only have one match this weekend on Sunday. On Sunday, okay, cool. Perfect. So we won't miss. I hate missing those. I was at the Mavericks game.

Bro, the Mavericks seats. We'll talk about how much it is and how much. expensive. Mavericks play tonight. Game one. Game one. And in... Oh, thanks for telling me. It's down here, too. No. No, go on stay there. Wait, why? Because why? It gets busy? Oh, darn. People screaming and shit. People doing donuts. Like, God, damn.

It's going to be a late game, too, so I might be able to, I couldn't watch the heat last night because I was streaming. Yeah. I didn't watch that game either. You should watch it. While streaming? Yeah, just full camit. Talk to chat, watch the game. That sounds true. Really? Yeah. We did that with the soccer game.

and it did well and that was like soccer people like people like that really yeah like people I'm telling you it's just because people like it a lot I mean it's different for you but people like it when you just talk to chat yeah just dude I I would love dude imagine if you could watch the game like watch the game yeah like I'm like what Tim and Nick do oh I would be doing it all the time I don't think I'd play games anymore I just watch sports with NFL with the NFL they have an NFL contract so they just watch the game they stream the game they stream the game We could get that too for basketball.

Yeah, I want to watch the game. I wouldn't even play Codd and just watch the game. Yeah, well, that's what it is. Dude, I want that with the World Cubs. I want that with the World Cup. So bad. Yeah, that'd be sick. The thing is, is like, I mean, they run their, I guess it's like.

Same, right? Good quality too. There's a lot of, there's a lot of obstacles and hoops that you're going to jump through in order to do that, but it'd be worth it in the end, right? Like, I think that if, for example, if draft kings or fan duel or any of these, like, big, big gambling websites wanted to sponsor us doing a watch party on those like that would be lit.

Fuck yeah. I think. All right, so you guys are playing L-A-G or who? We play Faze this weekend. On Sunday. How's the team been looking? Prolut is fitting. Good man, yeah.

So, yeah, we three-oed both our matches this week which was massive. Like we needed, we needed to do that. Because, I mean, the rest of our schedule is pretty tough. I mean, we play Faze, New York, and then thieves. So with those two wins, I'm pretty sure that we've pretty much clinched winners as long as we don't go like 0 and 9 map count. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So those two wins were huge. And I mean, shout out to Byron. He just walked by. But, yeah, I'm really happy with how quickly he's... Muffalo walks in like this. Yeah. No, I'm really happy with how quickly he's like molded to our system and like just gelled with the team. What's going on with Ender?

Have we heard from him? I texted Ender, I think, two days ago. and he said that he was going to a different doctor. The first doctor was faded. Imagine Ender. He's like, yeah, that guy was fucking faded. He's a doctor. But, yeah.

So he's going to get like, I think, MRI or something on his hand this week or x-ray. He got an MRI. He's getting x-rays this week to, like, get a for sure 100%. What is it? Yeah. So, I mean, yeah, we're really happy with Byron so far. We're obviously wish-ender the speediest recovery he can have and we miss him. Yeah, yeah.

But that was a big fucking weekend for us, like huge. Because the one thing we didn't want to do is go to Toronto and start a loser's bracket. Like that's just going to a tournament and being like you're one and done. Like you could go there and have one bad series, you go home. And you go home in like 12 if you go and lose. So, I mean, winners bracket's the goal and that was a really good step. But I'm looking forward to our remaining matches. Hopefully we can keep getting some wins.

So Jude Olivia and I went to the Mavs game and I was watching the game our match there. And I was just like, fuck. Because I'm like, you know, I'm like, I'm finally hanging out with the fam. And I'm like, oh, shit, the game's on. And then Jude was like doing a story. And then she pants over to me. And I'm like, uh. Yeah, I saw that.

But it was dope. And then those same seats that we sat in were 500 each because they were dope. There were dope, dope seats, but they were like a little bit far, like elevated. But you could see the game perfectly. Great seats. Right. I don't think that there really are any bad seats at this, at this stadium. The best stadium is the, is the Warrior Stadium because it's a literal, it's a small, it's

as small as, actually that's kind of big, but it's a tiny little bowl. Like they purposely said, we're only going to fit. Matt, check out how many people can sit in the, uh, in the Warrior Stadium. I was going to say that first game we went to, like when we first got here was the seats, we were in the sweep, but the seats were like kind of, like the rim was blocking 20,000 of the game. That's still a lot. Well, considering that the Mavs can fit 29,000 and additional 10,000 seats, it makes a difference.

This is so much smaller and it gets so much louder. But those $500 seats that we got are now going for $1,250 each. Oh, yeah. $1,200. I mean, and look, and people are saying that we might be able to take it. And I'm saying we because, you know, I'm from Dallas now. You know what I'm saying? Also.

Wait, what seats? The seats, not that, not, no, those seats, the seats, the seats that, not, no, those seats, the seats, the seats that we. We sat in, shout out Preston, the seats that we sat in. Those gotta be 13,500 minimum. You're talking about the, wait, you're talking about the court site? Oh, the court site? Per seat, 13,000 per seat. And the crazy thing is, apparently if you get those seats and a celebrity wants to come,

they'll hit up whoever has the seats and like, they'll pay like 50% extra. Yeah. Like, they'll just fucking be like, take it. Yeah. Would you? No. All I'm saying, all I'm saying is if anybody from, if anybody from the man, Mavericks organization is watching this.

For the last three years since I moved here, I've been trying to get court side tickets. Please holler at your boy. Okay. Please holler at him. Because I want to go too. But I will say that, and obviously, like, you haven't been back since you, since you, since you watch courtside. Like, you don't really, like, sitting courtside is dope, but it doesn't ruin your basketball experience.

Like, yeah, it's better, but. I don't not, I mean, I was just throwing when I said that. No, no, no. I don't think, I think any sporting event, wherever I'm sitting, I would have a good time. Because get a few drinks, get some good food, the atmosphere, the ambiance, you know, it's just fun. Everyone's having a good time. I love sporting events. Probably my favorite thing, like, entertainment-wise, to do.

So fun. Yeah. I saw a TikTok that said, so the next World Cup, like, four years from now, is in the United States. Oh, where is it, though? It's just in the United States. How long does the World Cup play for? Is it, like, just a week? No.

No, it's like a month long thing. So like you would go to like the last week and try to catch some of the big games? Yeah, or yeah. Or you like playing ahead because like there's a pool play. Yeah. So you can, if you want to watch your team play, you get the pool play tickets. But then like the... Is it like a festival?

Like do they all play? Are there like stadiums like one stadium? I'm not really sure. I think there's stadiums around the country of whoever's hosting it. Or maybe there's only one. I don't know. I really don't know how it works. But the...

Damn. Anyway, I saw a TikTok that was like, you know, we're hosting next. What do you think the final? Which stadium is, you know, like big enough to host the final? Or like, what's the most like? AT&T Stadium. You think of AT&T? Dude, if it was an AT&T, I go.

Dude, it would be insane. I don't know. I don't watch that. Yeah. Like, do you see a World Cup final would be, that's top of the table. Yeah. Yeah. That would be crazy.

Yeah. I mean, it's the biggest, it's the biggest thing in the world. I'll take the traffic would be insane. Who won the World Cup last time? I took the helicopter. Damn, who did win it? Italy? Who won the last one? Not Italy.

No, Italy won the Europe. Oh, Matt's got the answer. Dude, I forgot. So you're not a soccer enthusiast the way that I thought you were. You think that if I started watching soccer, like, just a little bit? Oh, yeah. It's the most beautiful game. It's the most beautiful game.

It's the most beautiful game. I like it. I don't know. I don't know. You have to know so much. Like, there's so many different things happening all at once that, like, people, People that like, if you watch soccer and you know everything about it, you're like, you have to dedicate so much time to it. Because there's seven leagues going on at one time.

Yeah. And then that's just club soccer. And then if you think international, that's a whole different other beast. So you have to watch soccer 24-7. Yeah, it's insane. I want to know the rankings because there's a, there's a Netflix show called Club Quervos or something, Club the Quervos or something like that. It's about a family that owns a soccer team or franchise in Mexico. and it's not like one of the main divisions

it's just like a second one. But that one is the highest, one of the highest grossing apparel teams in the world. Really? Yeah, because people got so, you know, think about, think about the Ted Lasso's team. Yeah. Right? Like, what's the name of it?

I can't remember it. Ted Lasso's team. What's up? That shirt, kid. Like that shirt? That shit five. That's a 20. But we're getting sidetrack here. Anyway. Ted Lasso's AFC Richmond. I want to know how much apparel they sell in comparison to some of the bigger franchises.

France won it, by the way. France won it. Yeah. Matt took a long time over there. Was it against? Who was it against? Brazil. No, I think the French one, I'm going to stop talking.

When were the PKs, the English PKs that everyone was freaking the fucking about? That was the Euros. That was the Euros. Yeah. So that was what we watched here. Okay. Yeah. Because everyone was like freaking out.

Because that was when they had their youngest player shoot And people were like, why is he? Right, right, right, right. Yeah, okay. And the Euros are gigantic too. I think it's like, massive. It's like the Euros, the Champion League final and the World Cup final are like the three biggest watched like sporting events in the world.

Something like that. I could be talking about my ass. But the Euros is like the World Cup, but only European countries. So that, I mean, it's so sick. I love it. I love it so much. Who you're wearing FC Dallas is? Yeah, it's actually Dallas one.

I will say it's a good time. Dude, they're crushing it this year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're second in the division. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And I've always like, like, my dad used to say this about the college team we watch. It's like, because the college team we watch is a small college in North Carolina.

And like the attendance is like pretty bad. But then like one year we just went crazy. We had Chris Johnson and he was like, and we were just like crushing teams. All of a sudden, packed out stadiums. Yeah. Big stadium too. Yeah. And it's like the easiest way to sell tickets in sports is to win.

Yeah. It's like that might sound. In e-sports, the easiest way to sell tickets is to create content. Yeah. Not the opposite. The opposite. It's so wild. Yeah.

So I'm psyched man. Tour de France. 3.5 billion viewers. 3.5 billion people watch the. The Tour de France? Yeah. That's insane. Wait, scroll down.

World Cup. So that's like what? Just under half the population? Yeah. That's insane. Yeah, that's insane. That is insane if you think about it. Cricket.

Oh, the cricket World Cup is fire. Summer Games. Wait, cricket. See, I was wondering about the summer games. Wait, cricket? Yeah. Apparently cricket is gigantic. India's massive, dude.

Smart. People, man. The Asian Mexicans. So, like, football is not even touching these numbers. Oh, no, no, no. Not even close. Look, look, the Women's World Cup. Women's World Cup, 1.1.1.2.

Dude. Wait. Dude. They so. The El Classico, female. Yeah. The female El Classico sold out camp, whatever it's called, the Barcelona Stadium. Damn.

Sold it out. Oh, my God. Super Bowl is 96. Wow. Check out of Caldardian. Like, what are we? It's a snooze fest over here. No.

Oh, it will. It's inevitable that soccer becomes as big as anything there. Soccer here is going to get gigantic in the next like 15 years. Oh, massive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why we need to get these tickets, get like a big section. Because it's like, the thing I love about the stadium across the street is that it's very, not close, but it's private. How do you say it?

I'm trying to find a word for it. It's very private. It's small. What am I saying? Intimate. Intimate. Thank you. It's just like intimate.

Nice job, Matt, Craig. There, Maddie Craig. But, you. Yeah, I don't know why, but I think this year's been the first time in a long-ass time that I felt like I've wanted to go to live events. Like I don't, I just don't say last night. I would have gone to the Rangers game, but it was like at 7 o'clock. I'm in bed already, man, 7 o'clock. I'm kidding.

All right, let's move it on. Apex Legend, Mobiles is releasing. Congrats to them. That's awesome. When's the next time that our team plays? Do you know? Do we know that? I'm not sure.

The next huge, or they have to go through the whole next stage. Raleigh, right? The whole next stage, but the next land is Raleigh. I'm going to that. I want to see my man Skittle Hex. Skittal Hex. That's going to be sick. KSI is returning to boxing to finally fuck up Jake Paul.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Are they fighting? Is it confirmed that KSI is fighting Jake Paul? It says it right there. It's, yeah. KSI's going to fight someone else first. Yeah. Because they definitely made it seem like they were fighting each other.

They both announced that they were fighting at the same time. Yeah. But they never said they were fighting each other. And I was like, I don't think, yeah, I mean, there's a reason why fucking Jake Paul has ranked 45th on the top 100 most earningest athletes over the last 12 months with 37 million Baccarus. That's insane. That's a lot of cheddar. Yeah, he's probably getting a good percent of the. Yeah, pay-per-views, of course.

Yeah, it's a good business. I mean, look, this is Jake Paul got 37, but out of that 37, he's like, yo, I'm going to give you seven out of this 30. to this opponent if you go down in the fifth round and knock you the fuck out. I'd be like, uh, yeah. Would you get knocked out for a $7 million? Yep. No, I'm not going to know.

No? I'll go in there and fucking try to knock you out at the blue. For $7 million? You're not. Hell no. Yo, you know what? Optic, Optic,

what? Show ass up. I swear to God I'm not. For $7 million. No. Y'all don't got no respect for yourself? Uh, yeah. There's a lot.

There's a line. It costs. It costs $7 million. There's a price. Think about this. It's like, seven million. Would you get punched for seven minutes?

Yeah, I would. Oh, punch, yes. Knocked out. Not in hell. Well,

no, I'm going to give my shot to, I mean, I'm not going to pretend to be knocked out. It depends. If it's on my terms too. I'd get knocked out for like $750,000. I'd get,

I get knocked out for $500. How much it would take to, to throw a fight? In a room, private room? What are we talking about in front of the world? It's in front of the world. To throw a fight.

How much would it be to throw a fight? Throw a fight? Yeah. Yeah, I'll do it for $7 million. That's what we're talking about. But not getting knocked out. You're saying completely different. I don't know.

I mean, I get where he's coming from. It's like, I'm just like, dude. Right here. I probably do what Floyd, but what Floyd did and like hold up, you know, do whoever I'm fighting out. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? It's because, I mean, knock me out.

You know what I mean? Naturally. Was that Logan Paul? No, Logan, yeah, yeah. Logan, I'm like, naturally, not Jake, Logan, I'm like, whatever, but. Yeah, so, okay, so, so look, Optic's back, man. I think we should see somebody up there,

one of us, who's representing? You're stepping up? No. Hitch, you look like, quite out. If I was younger, if I was a big fighter. If I was 10 years younger, I'd do it. I need hit the gym, ASAP. Don't step in front of me.

Don't get fucked up. I know my champion. Who? From Optic. Who? Who you think? If you had to guess, one person, who's going to fight? Bruce.

Bruce. Yeah. No. No. Who, maniac? Why'd you say like that? Yes. The other redhead?

He's got necktats, dude. He's definitely down to fight. I mean, this dude, he works out. He's buffed now, goes to Cabo and just floats around. He's definitely down to fight. He's down to fight? I think he would. I think he would.

He looks like he can fight. Ksosos loses $2.8 million on Luna. Luna goes from $116 a token or whatever to a cent. Yeah, that's. bizarre that's tough is that is it i saw everybody i don't know anything about this is so is crypto as a whole like going down it's getting smoked really yeah bad so it's not that specific one it's just crypto so it dude i mean that one is like that one's really bad though i mean it went for a hundred 16 dollars of this is one project yeah this is like one technology that just

like bottomed out really right i mean if but let's not just put it on crypto right like if you look at at our current markets, they're also down. Yeah, everything is down right. Okay. Everything. Stocks, crypto. And that's all we're going to talk about as far as crypto goes because people get mad when I talk about the Metaverse.

People do get mad. NFTs, NFTs. NFTs. I was wondering if you read those comments. I do. And I'm just like, silly. Silly, I'll talk about the Metaverse all I want. Stop me.

Stop me in the Metaverse. They did that. They're doing like what they did early Joe Rogan where they say all he talks about is DMT. Yeah. That's what they, you weren't on one. of them and they were like man I'm really good missing out on the metaverse and crypto talks yeah yeah why do people get so mad about NFTs I'm actually curious well because so there's no real reason I think that it's just I think the most of

most of it has to do with the scams that happened in crypto coins to sort of fuck the whole space up I think it's like it's like it's only like one big scam wasn't it yeah but it was like it was so I think there's a bunch when we in e-sports I don't know yeah like in the I guess no there's what would you call like everything like the Metaverse internet the internet the internet yeah the internet

yeah that's I think I think uh look when when we when we announced the Raleigh partnership and I'm finally gonna be launched my NFTs but when we did the Raleigh partnership the amount of people that were fucking mad

at me on Twitter was fucking insane but then I looked at every single one of the majority of them and didn't follow me or didn't follow any of my friends so I was just like you're just here to yell just to fucking yeah you don't they're Twitter searching NFTs and just talking shit's in everyone.

Anyway, it's like, I don't know, like how, let's not get into it because I'm going into this fucking deep dive, right?

Like the same people that are mad at me are the same people that have that just bought the King Kong Godzilla skins for fucking call of duty

and pay $10. And they're like, well, I don't want to get scammed. You're fucking using it. You moron. Luna, so KSI crypto,

my $2.8 million dollars literally is worth $1,000. Ha, ha, ha. He must be loaded because I would not be typing ha ha ha on all caps. I would be like, holy shit. I think he is, I think he's doing

all right. I think he's doing fine. What did I just do? 2.8 million. Gonzo. Oh, I'd be tweaking. Have you seen the, the clip of, it's a sideman video, and they're like asking each other tough questions,

and one of them goes, who do you think has more money, Vic or KSI, and they're sitting next to each other? And then they both look at each other, and you could tell they're like, and then they both pull their, phones up yeah and they look at each other's bank accounts yeah and then uh vic vic goes oh yeah i got you yeah who's vix star yeah yeah that shit hey i got me look at that thing and then can't side's like but i have stuff in crypto yeah all the other side men are like no no no no crypto does not

count yeah it reminds me of uh of el presente from barstool talking to um what's the the the fuck What's his name? Gronky. No, yeah, Garkowski. And he's like, how much is your deal?

And he's like, he's like, like, a 57 mil. He's like, oh, I'm more than that. And then he's like, yeah, you're more than that.

Yeah, it's pretty good. That is a funny. That is a lot. Dr. $1,000, a $100,000 Fortnite hot shot duo drop tournament.

I don't know anything about it. I wonder if that's, I wonder if that's a code red thing. No build, Fortnite tournament. Who's hosting it? Oh, no build. I'm going to,

I'm going to enter. Yeah. What? What's so chat? Yeah. Seth, if I played eight hours a day, I could, I could beat 90% challengers. What? No, you could. 90%.

No, you could not. If I got on a good team, and let's say there was four of me. To put it in perspective. You would get, I think, 30 point club. Seth, don't make me upload the video where you're gassing my snipes. I mean, yeah, but. Yeah, exactly. You don't understand, man.

No, I do. I'm talking shit, obviously. Jake Paul, obviously we already talked about how much he's worth. Modern Warfare 2, Warzone 2, could have tradable scans within the... See, this is what I was going to... I was so hot. Hold on. Where I was going with the NFT thing and why people are mad.

It's like a small group of people ruined the space in a sense and the... And what people think about that. But it's the same thing that happened with... I don't think it was a small group of people. Whatever. The amount... When you think the... The issue right now,

from my point of view is when you think NFT, you think the, the funny looking... Ape? Yeah, the pictures. Yeah. You think the the pictures. Yeah. It's like, and from my understanding, that's not what NFTs are. Yeah. It's not, that's not the sole purpose of an NFT is

yeah. There's art, those two things are. I'm gonna put it to you like this. I am a member of the Cowboy Club and I am mad that they didn't give me a digital ticket that says that I am a member and then, that I'm a part of this one thing and know who else has this, uh, this, this, this, this thing. Yeah, and you should get courtside tickets, shit like that being a part of it.

It's that level of something. It's to show ownership in a, in a virtual sense, right? Sort of. Yeah. It's like a digital ticket. Yeah. Anyway, what I was going with that is like the same people, like if CSGO skins and the, the roulette and all that shit wasn't a fucking scam, like there is an argument to be made that we would have been as esports would have been further along in terms of sponsorship and opportunity in the rest of the world. Yeah,

I think so too. If they didn't fuck with the, they kind of fucked it up. With the balance? Yeah. Because once you, once you, I mean it takes, you know,

the saying, it takes 100 years to build trust but it takes five seconds to lose it and they lost it. Yeah, they fucked up. And now it's going to take forever for people to trust anything, game is the perfect game for this. Yeah, same. Well, it's already been...

Counterstrike? Yeah, all the... I think Valoran is now the... Yeah. Oh, my God. What I'm saying. No, but from tradable skins, though. Like, they had it, they had it figured out seven years ago.

Oh, they had it figured out. Yes. You know what I mean? A billion dollar industry within a first year. All they have to, all they have to do is add ownership to what they already had and boom. That's, it's the best example of online ownership that you could have. Yeah, but you have a skin and it says, it already says it. doesn't it?

Yeah. Doesn't it already say this used to be someone's gun? It's trackable, right. But that's what I'm saying. Like, NFTs would have been so much farther along if they hadn't fucked it up because you are trading non-fungible tokens in the form of skins. Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2 could have tradable skins within the escape from Tarkoff-style game mode called DMZ.

If they do that right. Yeah. It could save Cod. Yeah. If they do that right, oh my God. Escape from Tarkov, Cod style with like skins. Yeah. Oh.

Because as much as... I'm not getting my hopes up. I'm not getting my husband. I'm not either. I'm not doing. The an anonymity? The an anonymity? The anonymity.

What am I saying? The anonymity. As much as people like the anonymity of have... Am I saying that right? I don't even know what word you're trying to say. Anonymous. The anonymity. Yeah, exactly.

All right. So neither. you can say it. The anonymity. I wasn't tried. Well, I don't know, but you just tried. Anyway, what I'm saying is like, if people, if people got the opportunity to say, you know what, I want to continue to gamble because I'm having a lot of time, a lot of fun doing this. And they were like, okay, there's a website here that can be verifiable. I can submit my, my driver's license and my passport to show proof that I am an adult that has, you know, that has the ability to do that, then it would have been

further along. Dude. These, these people fucking ruined it. I if wait so war zone two is supposed to have the tarcoff style yeah I think it's going to be like a separate mode but it's supposed to be like an escape from tarcov mode like in call of duty in call of duty so not war zone I'm trying to separate the two yeah no they would be so in modern warfare two they're going to have there's going to be mw two there's going to be war zone two and then there's probably going to be a dm z mode a mode yeah yeah which I hope it's not just like I hope they like did it right because if it's an escape from tarcoff type game, dude. Those games are

addicting. Yeah. Just like trying to build your balance, like going in, killing people, taking their shit. Yeah. Making them, that's such a good feeling. You make, like, him, you kill him and he has, like, the best loot that you can have. Yeah. And you go in with like a regular, just AK or something.

And you take like a million dollars from this guy. Yeah. That's, it's a thrill. It's so fun. I agree. Because you go in with a... And you know a call-a-duty version would be way faster than... It would be... It would be a dumbed-down version of Tarkov because Tarkov is basically military

simulation. It wouldn't be Tarkov, yeah. Like if you had a call-a-duty version of that, you got all this loot, but you still have the ability to like slide... Or I guess there's no slide-canceling, but you know, like, use your movement and stuff. That's what we should be talking about. Apparently there's no slide canceling next year.

Do you think that that's actually a thing? That might have just prolonged my career. A... The slide-cancelling area. This is what I'm saying. You say, prolong my career, It's not like you're out there leading some of these stats. So, like, you still got it.

What the fuck are we talking about? I still haven't, man. But, like, shit, the slide canceling era, I got to see it come to it. People were saying the same thing about boots on the ground. Bing, bringing back boots on the ground. B.O.4, MW. Cold War this year. We've had four years straight of slide canceling.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm over. Imagine if I had four years of jet packs. Yeah. There could be another. I mean, there could be slide canceling next year. know that. We don't know that. We don't know that. Slide cancelling is, is

pros breaking the game. Like, that's, like, like, no random now a person, because everyone is teaching about it, but in the beginning, that was just a very, a cracked-out nerd. First two months of MW, everyone was just... Well, there was slide canceling in B-O-4.

It wasn't the same slide canceling, but there was a slide cancel. It was a slide jump, right? No, like, you'd slide into a hetty and you'd cancel your slide and, like, pop up. So it was a slide cancel, but it wasn't as, like, Like in depth as MWs were like you had to go into your settings and change. Like hold the slide to tap to slide. Vanguard doing is crazy.

Yeah. You got to think about this, this DMZ mode though. It's like it's play to earn, right? Like this is what essentially this is good. Because play to earn games are going to be a massive, massive, massive movement in Web 3. What does that mean? Imagine that you're grinding. It's like you're digging for diamonds and then you're selling the diamonds that you find in Minecraft.

Like that's essentially what it boils down to. And this is like I think what this will be. Imagine I kill scump and I get his fucking red tiger camo whatever. And I can say that this was scump after I got lucky. Because obviously you got to get lucky to kill somebody that good. You know what I mean? It's only luck. But I got it now.

Seth, you want it back? I'll give it two for half. Half of what I'm asking this dude for. But then you bring in like actual money. Yeah. Like real money. I mean, cot points. I'm not buying my shit.

I'm not buying my shit. I'm not buying my shit. It's like cot points. Cot points is real money as NFTs or as crypto. It's crypto. Cropoins is a crypto token. I mean, it's people complicate the thought and the concept of crypto and they should talk it when they've been doing it for the past decade. Gosh, man.

You're so smart. I'm not. I'm not. I'm just well-read and cultured and handsome. Do you think, to go back to the slide-gansling thing, do you think a new game, a new, a new, a new, a new. No age. Do you got practice at one? All right, excuse yourself, my young man.

Yeah, they're already warming up. You might be looking at the bottom of my... I haven't even ate yet. I got to eat my Chipole. I'm going to be going to enjoy it. Oh, shit. You're going to have a long-ass. You're good.

You're good. What we're saying? It's going to be a long-skirts. No, no, you got it. You got to go ahead. Go ahead. All right, man. I was saying, do you think a new age call of duty can survive

without a slide cancel or any sort of advanced movement? Like, do you think going back to a call duty for... A thousand percent. A thousand percent. Not only do I think it would, but I think that if we go back to that, I'm not talking about, like you can still run, right?

Yeah. Right. Sit down, man. Yeah, have a seat, man. Join us in this conversation. He says fuck, but, you know. Oh, actually, Maddie, you can join us, man.

You're, you know, optic. Optic Maddie. Actually, yeah, hop in the chair, Matt. Hop in the chair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hop in the chair, man. Let's talk a little bit. So I was thinking about it

The last call of duty Without advance movement What was it? Black uh ghosts Ghosts had a slide Oh No So not

Blackups one had dolphin dive Yeah Okay okay so we're thinking It was like broken though So we're thinking ghosts right Ghost was the last one Yeah ghost Ghost came out in 2014

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Go to upstart.com slash optic. And that's going to do it. We're going to get back to the podcast. Matt, you play a lot of war zone. Actually, what's that game that you play? Apex. First of all, welcome to Optic Matt. This is the first time on camera as an optic member.

Let's go. Let's go. Make sure it's out. Make sure it's out. Yeah, make sure it's out. Man, we're proudly. How did it feel to become a member of Optic, man? It was pretty crazy.

A pretty surreal moment, I would say. It was not expecting it at all. Now, Hitch was very, very, when he wasn't an optic and he was working for Optic at the house, you felt excluded of some way? Oh, I was furious. Why? Because I was living with Optic members and was working. Did you feel like that?

Not really, no. It wasn't like a... It's also way different. Yeah, it's definitely different. because I don't live in the house. But I didn't feel like excluded. Mm-hmm. But it kind of did feel like,

like, there was another, like, step up to go to that I wasn't at. Mm-hmm. But I didn't feel like excluded. I felt like I was still friends everyone. What was it like for you? Well, the thing with Matt is Matt got hired, you got hired to be Hex's guy. Yeah.

And then that transitioned into Optic. And then the Huntsman thing happened. And then all that stuff happened with getting Optic back. and then when we got optic back, then everyone was just in the kind of like grind mode to like get things back on track. So I don't think any of us were really, I don't, I never like asked you,

but I don't think any of us were really like thinking of that. I mean, unless you were, were you? No, I was just trying to work pretty much. I was just trying to smatty. Right, yeah, yeah. I was getting done. I was like, I mean, it would be, like, I always thought it'd be cool to join.

Like that'd be insane if that actually happened. But it was never like, oh, like I, you know, can't wait until I'm in or whatever. It was like, I never had that thought. Do you think that? that there's a better process for something like that in the future? Like, what would you... No.

You got to earn it. Yeah, you have to earn it. The time just has to be right. Yeah, if you're not a player or a content creator, you have to earn it. Which is like what happened... Well, that's what happened with when I joined is like the timing was right. And so that was the only time I really like asked you. Because like it was a 100K video.

I was telling this like crazy story, like the edit my life thing. And I was like, this would be a perfect time. So I like, that's when I hit you up. And do you remember like pacing downstairs? Yeah. with my phone out talking to you I'd be like dude if you fuck this up

yeah it's like I promise man I'm not gonna fuck it up and here you are it's fucking how many years now I I a long time

a long time hasn't fucked it up I try not to yeah so don't fuck it up I'm keeping Roger I'm keeping him grounded too no well you got to understand you don't even

fucking know if you are blessed yeah so Roger said Damn, Hitch had to ask. Hitch had to ask you. There's been iterations of optic. I wasn't able to get Hector blackout drunk.

And then just... I was like, yeah, he was a time. Yeah. I mean, I think we do it the right way, right? Like, there's no... Oh, we definitely do. For people, like, like us three, yeah, yeah. It's got to be difficult.

It's got to be like... You can't just get in. You can't just get out. Yeah, it's got to get to earn it for sure. Matt says that now that he's in. Yeah, you can just have. I didn't know if I wasn't in it too. What do you think about the DMC stuff,

the war zone on the tradable stuff? I think it's going to be dope, and I think it's going to be super good for Cod if it actually goes well. What do you think would make it look? Just because, like, having, I mean, for me, it goes back to the CSGO situation where you could buy and trade skins.

I think that's the coolest. For me, like, cosmetics and games are the best part because I'm not that good at games. So I'm able to like buy cool shit. Yeah. It's dope. So I think it'd be really cool. Yeah.

If it goes well. Yeah. I mean, again, the thing is, is like, why wouldn't, I always wondered this from, from these massive studios. Like, why wouldn't they want to do that? You know what I mean? Like, why wouldn't they want to make a transaction fee, right? By people transferring and making like deals within themselves and, you know, organically

within their community. Like, that's what, that's what I never get. And I get that. obviously manpower takes a lot and legal obviously as a public to trade a company uh the gambling laws like obviously come into play and there's a lot of a lot of these this is just big government man you know they need to calm the fuck is there like a legality thing that i just like don't know about with trading skins aside because that why it's not more common in games i think it's the side of it that's gambling because that i i used to trade skins in

h1 z1 but there was also a way you could gamble your skins and there was there was a loophole around gambling where all the gambling laws didn't apply because it was just kind of like digital items yeah and all the gambling was like through third party sites though was it yeah yeah so as long as you just the gambling is what's bad but it's all I think they just shut down everything yeah they shut it all down

because yeah well I think they shut it down shut it all down so they could be like all right let's put a stop to it right now figure it out and then we do that but I'm like all right let's figure out when uh I don't know four years we'll figure out let's wait until everybody starts buying pictures of of monkeys

Yeah, yeah. But, you know, it could have been, it could have been, I had this conversation with my friend, Kenny, also known as pill pusher on call of duty. That's a hard name, yeah. He's a pharmacist. Like that's right. Yeah, that's hard. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, but he's like, he's like, yo, I'm down. Like, I understand, like, I'm cool with NFTs, man. I just, it can't be a monkey, though. And I was like, it's not about the image, right? Like, I'm looking at you with your fucking ridiculous Godzilla red mecca or mech, Mech warrior shit.

And I'm like, that's what it is. You know what I mean? And I think another reason is like they haven't figured out, the Valve didn't figure out a way to make money or get their cut of that. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like gambling in the NBA didn't just, it just became legal a couple years ago because now the NBA has figured out to make money that way, right?

Like the second that gambling comes into call of duty and everybody that invested, yeah, the sick, right? But the second that gambling comes or it's allowed in call of duty, the way that, you know, where we're activists and the franchises ourselves can make money off of that. Like then we can turn that $27.5 million investment into something massive because you're getting that money back. And I think that that's like, that's the whole thesis and the whole theory behind this, behind NFTs. We're already paying cod points. What? Why is Raj doing this to us? What?

He's just showing the difference. Giving us the comparison between the Godzilla skin and the optic skin. Yeah. And I don't mind it. What I mind is the weapon skins. Because at least they fucking tried with this suit. Bro, look up the... Halo, look up.

Yeah, look up anything. Look up the phase octane in Rocket League. And then compare it. Phase octane? The Rocket League phase skin, yeah. Dude. Which one? Look, all of them.

Look at that. That is so fire. Well, it's fire because it looks like what they have in real life. Right. That's what I'm saying. Like all the skins, like the skins and other games are so sick. This is the fucking problem, okay? This is a problem with Activision.

Is that they say, well, we have a bunch of stuff that we got to do. And then I say, well, let me alleviate some. of that fucking pain. Let me... Let us do your job. And then you can take credit for it. I don't give a fuck. Who takes credit?

Just let me allow us to put Aaron create on the job. Aaron gets a huge zip file of like all the halo decals and models. Look at Valerant, man. Like I already know that our Valorin skins are going to be fucking way better than anything that's every... Like, please, Roger, piss me off. Piss me off and show me my current call of duty optic skin. Piss me off really quickly.

Please make me mad. Please make me mad. Vanguard skin. Where is it? Where's the fucking way? Look how good that. Look how good that one was. Oh, man.

Luna. Oh, man. It's bad. Hicks. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's a better way to do that. I'll give me a follow. while you're there.

You hit unfollow? More, more, more, more, more, more, right there. Tell me, tell me how. Tell me how. I am supposed to be proud of this. Tell me how I'm supposed to be proud of being part of a franchise that has all of the, all of, all of the potential in the world. And this is what you give me.

And why? Because you didn't have time. Let us compete in designing the way that you let us compete online. Let us take. work off of your plate to make your day easier. That is wild. For Fox's sake, mate. Mete.

Pondi River. Ponday. Like, look at this, man. Like, Obelis, like, you're telling me that you have, and look, man, the amount of talent from a graphic designer standpoint that Activision has is one of the top. It competes with anything and everything that's out there. Yeah, I bet you the designers that work there are.

probably they're probably just as in fear like furious with the I agree with the skins as we are yeah because they're like I mean unless they just don't know about e-sports and they're like we put this in a generator I have to work on the CDL skins like I want to work on the king Kong skins you know what I mean like yeah unless it's like that but yeah but even then like again it's not even about it man it's about like if you're not going to try let us try right if you're not like give us the templates like Halo did a great job you gave me this on in a w who has these

like did you get one of these I wasn't an opt-in look so to give you a quick rundown and and those are so five those are so sick let me give you a little history go back up and go to the white ones

yeah go to the yeah that was all right so there was this one guy that owned this one team called denial he fucking went and did a deal with the league

where they just gave the his skins away put op in a position to be either the only team that didn't participate or just a a team that isn't willing to go along for the betterment of all teams right but the way that he went about it was fucking incorrect it was so incorrect so what did I do I said fine if you're not going to give optic money so that money can be dispersed amongst the people in Optic then this is what we're gonna do I won't do it you don't have

access to my to our skins finally we can to the agreement I'm like I'll do it if you give us 19 white exoskeletons for champions and everybody in optic that's in optic is gonna get one of these things so in advanced warfare only 19 people had this skin it wasn't just about just wild to me that that came came out in 2014 yeah and here we are yeah yeah and think about the level of investment think about the level of investment that We as external entities have committed into this thing and you're telling me you can't do that if you were able to give me 19 Dude formal still talk formal still talks about that skin

Yeah eight years later bro So I had a white one yeah everybody everybody knows enough to cast a white one now imagine imagine if you can bring this into this day and age As a skin you don't mean like you know that that's valuable because it's seven years old Yeah, and only 19 that's an NFT anyway but back to it like you're telling me that you're willing to allow us to do this and then take it away after we're paying? I mean, that's, that, that just goes to a ground level issue with Activision.

It's just there's too many people developing too many different games that are so separate from each other. You're telling me. We went from five, we went from four before to five to five E five to five in a game that didn't work back to four before, just because there's no communication.

Yeah. Between all the different developers. I mean, yeah. It's like, it's like all, I don't want to get into the fucking details of it. But you're telling me that

Ferg, and I'm not talking shit, I'm so happy for Ferg's a good dude. Happy for the global scene, yeah. Yeah, happy. But you're telling me that that dude is going to get a skin before Scump? I mean, that's a thing. You're telling me that he's going to get a skin before.

Nate shot? Nate shot hasn't competed in how long? He should have a fucking skin in there. Yeah. People who have built this thing, players, not anybody else, players, should have the skin. Scump definitely needs to have his fucking skin.

For the amount of shit that he's, does for the league, the amount of shit that he does, he should have a skin. And he should get a cut of that skin because guess how much money they made from that black exoskeleton with the Opti Gaming logo? I'd like to hear it, actually. Guess how much they made? How much? Damn, I thought you're going to tell me.

How much was it? Let's talk about that. I don't know, $5.99? Dude. I don't remember the details. So, fucking take what I just said as bullshit. But money was made on that. Over a million?

Of course. Of course money was made on it. And you're telling me that the people that hurt that that help build that logo to what is It helped sell it nothing wild Fuck that is wild it is wild it is wild to me and and then guess what and that we know Here's the thing that pisses me off the most we're not asking for a cut of that Okay, we already have a deal and it's working okay. Yeah, but you're telling me that you're not gonna allow me to design our own skins Give me a fucking break if it was a if it was a it was an issue of like

wow, this is how esports in general is failing, then it would be less of an issue, but it's just Cod. And in our situation, Cod is our biggest team. Like our most, is a team of the most viewership. So it's like, how are all of, I'm seeing all these other esports orgs crushing it in that sense.

But like the biggest one can't get it right. It's just, it just sucks that you, like you had it. Right. You don't have it anymore. Especially since we had it. Yeah.

Like they took it away. So clearly it can be done, but. Not being done. I'm not even complaining about how much shittier the fucking outfits are comparison to this. Look how my dude looks right there. That looks amazing.

But you're telling me that now I'm wearing because it's World War II that I have to wear what I'm wearing. And I don't even mind the costume that we're wearing. I mind the skin on our weapons. Yeah. Oh, there's not a single optic gaming logo on that weapon. Not a single one. It's our colors.

And you can even maybe argue that they aren't our colors. Have you seen that? JV. Don't click on Halo. Never mind. The Halo ones are fire. The Halo ones are fire. Look at the visor.

You know, when people ask me why I'm so passionate about Halo, it is because they allow us to, they include us in the decision making on how we want to display our brand to the fans. I would love a Activision documentary. Who would be in it? I don't know. It just seems like it. It's Area 51 over there. It was like nobody knows what's going on.

I talk to Shanice, and that's about as much as, it's about as deep, deep as I can get. Shout out Shanice. Shout out Shanice. Look at Seth. I thought Seth was practicing. Damn, yeah. Anyway, to close out, look, look, blah, blah, stop.

What you're doing? Go bottom left. Go bottom left. What is that? What is that? What is this? Oh, this is last year. This is Modern Warfare.

Huh? That's OGL. Yeah, I know. So you got modern warfare. But this is monorfer. Look how much better this is. Look at the optic gear skins were dope too. Yeah, those were dope.

The optic gear skins were dope. All I'm saying is that there is, and it's not like, let's end the podcast on a positive note. Okay. The fact of the matter is that Activision has all of the resources, more importantly, has the ability to say, here is the template. Shut the fuck up on your podcast. Yeah. You design it and shut up. And guess what I will do.

I will say thank you. And then I will move on to the next thing that needs to be fixed in order for this esport to be a long lasting esport. And I understand that some people over there are there because they pay the bills with that money that they get paid for. This is a lifelong passion thing for me. Optic is my life. Call it duty is a big part of that. I wanted to be here when I am 93 years.

old six foot handsome skin glowing pockets heavy garage silly house dumb okay for the betterment of call of duty just listen a little bit just allow us to help just get that fuck out of the way and let us help what is this is this apex those are not the actual skin's though but they're not but they have the possibility those are fire so dope though and guess what in the end Activision makes money of the people to sell it's base mommy in the middle just you love redheads I do I do They are a weakness. They are a weakness of yours. They are a weakness.

Which is weird because Nick has the opposite effect with that. They have the opposite effect on Nick. Yeah. Anyway, I know that we went on a little bit of a rant there and it usually do. It's just that I just want call a duty to be here forever. And the quicker that we can get there or the quicker that we can get to a place in which we can start the building blocks for that, the better. And as long as I'm around, Papa's not going to shut up If I see that there's something wrong

I'm going to talk about it There's nothing that we're not friends Okay We're acquaintances And I don't owe you nothing The same way that You owe me nothing Okay

But we're if we are truly here together To build something cool Then let's start fucking building something cool And that'll do it Thank you guys so much for watching Optic podcast episode 76 We'll see you next time Goodbye

Peace bitches Is that No, I don't like it. Goodbye, guys. That's better. Thank you.