OpTic Podcast - Shotzzy's Big News, Blackout is BACK, and Ranking the 10 Best Video Games Ever | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 266

Episode Date: March 5, 2026

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Right there, right there. Any tarantulas? Right here. Pause. Hey, this is what you wanted to fucking get to. Sick fuck. Look at maniac's butt. Yo, what the fuck?

What the fuck? Yo. You're eating that chair up, dog. Bro, people in my comment. Yo, that's a sick picture right there, by the way. I didn't. That's what I told them. That's how he noticed it.

Besides the bodacious ass. Yeah, we got to like fucking Photoshop that. You got to Photoshop the ass out. But other than that's a fire pick. Yeah, the comments were saying something about like a chair thong and I was like, what the fuck are they talking about? And I went back and looked and I was like, oh my. And I think I think someone tweeted the picture to me. I was like, no fucking way.

Go back in. And I'm like, how don't I feel that? Hey, that's literally, that's just a fucking thong up my fucking ass. That's awesome. That can't be comfortable. But it was comfortable. It was comfortable? I didn't notice anything.

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What's up? Don't look over here to the vlog, boys. Yeah, dude. The vlogger. I literally, I walked in this morning. I got hit with a two piece before my fucking crusties even came on my eyes. You had two people pre-aming you? Two people pre-aming you.

Same cameras. Shit, how am I supposed to get out of that? I can't. Two people pre-aiming? Same cams. The vlog, the Lensis. The Mexico City of the Mo.

Yeah. Yeah, how was the trip? I saw, I was watching your vlog. I want him. I want him. I want him to tell us about the trip because I've been there and I have nothing but good things to say. This guy thought that he was going to go.

I mean, where do we start? Yeah. Let's start with the food. Our favorite. Well, first, we land in Mexico City. And I was almost, and I think I told you this, I was almost going to ask you like, does our place have a pool? You know, hex goes big. But we get in our spot and it's like a-

So you did or didn't have a pool. You guys wouldn't have a pool. Because the type, like, I was, this is what I was picturing. I was picturing we were going to be like 20, 20. I heard that. I heard my blog in the back. Dude, I was watching Sicario last night. So was I.

No. Yeah. Actually? Yeah. That's all. I've been watching all. Wait, maybe that's why. I'm in college.

You probably like saw it. Yeah, because you were playing it? Bro, I was watching Sicario last night. And you probably saw it pop up on Europe. No, you weren't. There's no way all time of us were just watching the same. We were all just watching the same. Yeah.

I was probably watching it like 10 p. Yo, that's like some weird high wind type. Hold on. You were watching Sicario too? Yeah. I saw a clip of it. I saw a clip of it. I saw a clip of it.

I saw a clip of a video. night. No troll, but I wasn't watched the movie. Yeah. I saw him sitting at the dinner table and starts talking to the guy. But did you see it pop up on your Apple TV? Yeah. That's why. Yeah. So you probably started watching out. I started it. Wait, when? Everybody's on the same account? What? I hardly use it though. Wait, even you can use it as

way more than him. Okay? He probably doesn't buy it. But I just wait. No, I haven't bought anything. I just think that's great. We're all in the same account. Bro, it's... And I am just so goddamn trendy that you guys both followed me up. So, so, so what else? What's that happened? Wait, you guys were both awake? I was, I watched it at like 1 a.m.

Okay. When? Yesterday? This morning. No, I watched it at like 10 p.m. When last night? Yeah. Okay, so I watched it first.

I watched it around like, like, right when I got home. No, that's not go in and like, it popped up. Continue watching. I didn't see that. I just like. Searched it out. I was watching it on Netflix.

Oh. Oh. Yeah. I wasn't even watching. Dude, then we do have hive mind. Yeah, that's kind of crazy. That's fucking nuts. Yeah.

That's, Well, I've been into all of that kind of stuff. I was streaming before Mexico, I was watching a cartel shit. Oh, yeah. I kind of forgot that was happening. What, all the cartel? Yeah, but that's not why I watched it. Yeah, we don't talk about that sort of stuff on those podcasts.

Anyway. I was just like, oh, this movie's dope. Yeah, I would rewatch it. I mean, obviously, it takes place in Juarez where I grew up. Yeah, I feel like this is the type of place for you, though. I just saw you just take a tequila shot. Like, this is your element of mezcal. Okay, listen.

We were taking mezz cow. I love mescal. That's Scorpion mescal that he drives. Or was it the spot? Keep in mind, it's about 10 in the morning right here. Yeah, be honest with me right quick. Are you fucking looks maxing over there? Because the jaw line is looking a little chiseled.

Please tell me you're not chewing like mastic gum and shit trying to fucking. With my camera? Please tell me that you're not. Yeah. What is it called the bone? Bone mashing? Yeah, whatever the fuck. I mean, I would like a thing.

I would like, you know, stop. You look good. My jaw shizzled. You know, frame maug him right now. Frame log him. stand up in frame, mug him. The fuck are you guys saying?

Mewing at home. Mewing. Okay. Is that like the fucking Pokemon shit? I don't do any of that. The only thing I try to do. Looks maxing is an online subculture and trend predominantly amongst teenage boys and young men. Focus on maximizing physical attractiveness to achieve an optimal level of beauty often deter.

The fact that teenage boys and young men are searching for them to be beautiful, the only creatures on earth are allowed to be beautiful are women. They're just trying to get some ass, bro. Men are supposed to be normal looking. They make it seem like it's something It's just about getting ass They're just trying to get some tail What is what?

By what? By what? By looking better. Make them laugh, man If you can make him laugh and giggle Then you can make that ass clapping giggle Mogging is online slang for dominating someone visually Huh?

I said Mogging is online slang for dominating someone visually I did see this clip of the of that dude On the left and then the guy on the right With the parted hair All right. All right, let's go. Let's get back to Mexico. Mexico. All right.

Stop, stop, Riley. Go back to the vlog. I probably do have a little bit of a tan going on. Body fats decrease. So I understand what's us saying. But yeah, I thought we were going to have like an Airbnb 20 minutes away, maybe a fucking nice ass pool or some shit. And then we get there.

And I was like, wait, this is it? We're like in the streets of fucking Mexico City. Yeah. And we just have some big ass door pushed through. So go to the beginning of this. so that he can see more, more, go to his first episode in the beginning. Yeah, I got the first...

Yeah. So the first episode, we get out of the car and I'm like, this is fucking it. I mean, this is dope. We're indulged in the fucking culture. You walk out the door, you're in the streets. Anything could happen. Not your back at all the time.

Right there, right there. Is it comparable to any city I've been to, Hector? Is this city kind of comparable to any city I've been to or no? Um, I would probably say, like a New York or yeah because you know how New York has brownstones where they're on the street but you have to walk up steps

to get to them in this case there's no steps and you literally are like the sidewalk is your front yard the sidewalk that everybody walks on right so like right here if you notice like there's no front yards is just like the building and then the street sidewalk

isn't that how most cities are? No because like if you think if you think about it like look at your house right You have the street, sidewalk, front yard, door. Yeah. This is just sidewalk, then door. Yeah. And usually in, like, other cities, it's like an apartment building with a leasing office and it's something.

Is it all just fucking... Is it a clean city? It was clean. Yeah. The pollution was a little bad. But, yeah, we arrived here, boom, get to the Airbnb, nice little Airbnb. Soon found out there was no AC. Ah, it's the worst.

But it wasn't too bad at night. I was a little sketched out like during the first night I was telling hex like I might have to find like a I can't sleep hotel or some shit around here because I was sleeping with no blankets on because this it'll show my spot but I was they were all in the house and then I was upstairs on the I don't know what you call Terrace on the terrace with just like my little hut just no AC just let the record show anything that's out anything that's outside can get into my room because you had to leave the window open and you had to leave the door open or it was so hot. Nope, I'd see, I'd be tweaking from that.

There was maybe two bugs that flew in, but besides that, it was fine. And at night, it did end up getting colder. I'd be tweaking about like a big spider. Same. I was. I was. And then you wake up, you have white covers and you just see a big black, like, or bulb on you?

And all while being hot as shit. Those were my exact thoughts. I was dying at your vlog last night at the end. When Mike just, he goes, dude, you're the fucking sometimes the most inconsiderate fucker I know. I was dying. To Hecker. Damn. Think about that.

Do you know me to be an inconsiderate person? No, I always go out of my way to take care of people. Rather, you got to show them. Go to the end of Hector's vlog. When have you ever waited for me for anything? When have you ever said, fuck, man, Hector had let me down? Never. It's not that it's not in my DNA.

No, that was the one. No, I wouldn't say. Yeah. I wouldn't say it. Wait on my vlog. No, the most recent one. The most recent vlog. Mine?

Yeah. Yeah, Hector's vlog. Zini, which one? The most recent one? The new huntsman have arrived. It's at the end of this video. What's at the end of this video? Wait, which one is where Mike...

Probably my vlog. On like the balcony when we're smoking. It was... All right, go to the one before this one, right? No, it's the... No, but I swear Hector put it in his vlog too. I'm telling you. That was me trying to sneak around 7-Eleven.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Donuts and cheese and shit, everything. Yeah, so this is... I could have sworn you put it at the end of your vlog. No, it was, it was maniac for sure. It might be at the end of my vlog, the one that we were watching. 100%.

It might have been the first night. Yeah, it's actually the first night. Oh, yes, this is it, yes. Oh, a little jointsky up on the bulk. But, uh... Bro, you don't understand. I continue with the city. Continue talking about the city.

Well, to put context into this part is the end of the day. And a lot of people... A lot of people in the comments said something about Mike. Like, God, he doesn't stop complaining. He's such a vibe kill. I'm like, that he is the complete opposite. of a vibe kill. Yeah.

Like, he makes the vibe. He is the vibe. Like, without, like, little shit like this and little complaint. It would just be boring as fuck. Like, he made the trip so much better. Him and Juan. He's literally Seth Rogan. Yeah.

Like, he was such a... Yeah, he was such a... I don't want to say good... Start him from right here, Riley. But... No, no, go back. I literally can't... Back.

Before you, Ash. Yep. Right here. You just realize I'm so aware. Dude, why are you so, like, why do you do that? Everything, like, we could be enjoying ourselves, but then you have to say something like that. We're just like, fuck. I literally can't, like, oh, hey, before you get your eye that, why you think that fucking maybe how.

Apologies for caring about other humans. No, it's not, it's not, it, dude, to be honest with you. It's like it's built up. But there's times that you are the most considered human being I've ever met in my life. I, bro, all the time. All the time. Damn, heckin? Listen, this, this is.

What are you talking about? Nick, do you know me to be an inconsider a person? I said, dude, you do have your stints of like, bro, like, how unaware are you something? I'm king aware, dude. King aware, dude. King aware himself is unaware. Yeah, I love how you're trying to be aware for me, dude. Thank you so much.

How did I make it this far in my life? How did I get the 43 with being so goddamn ignorance? Okay, I don't know. I see what you were saying now. There definitely are some people who look at that in like a serious, I can't believe you. Like, bro. It's just a little banser between the boys. It's called friendship, man.

And the thing is, that's whether the camera's on or off. It's not like his attitude or whatever. It's not like he's always talking like that, but like he has a- No, he is always talking like that. For the past 25-5 years. No, but it's like- Uh-huh. We gotta go to Goldies with him though. We have to.

Yeah, yeah. He's celebrity right there. We have to go to Goldies. Yeah, shout out fucking omens. For real. M and Juan were. Super. Y'all were a fun group.

I was a little like, because I know I'm the odd man out, y'all are little besties for the past 20 years. You got your graffiti and your idiot. But like, it was super fun. So the food, real quick. I felt included. I have to ask. The food.

Talk to me. Well, go back to the first clip. We can just, yeah, go to the very beginning. Boom. Get to the Airbnb. We're there for maybe 15 minutes. And I told myself before this. What is that?

Keep in mind, I've weighed all my food. I've ate nothing but chicken. the ground beef, Greek yogurt. This was my first like real cheat. We pull up to this place and we just see shit like this. I can't sit here and explain what that is.

Maybe Hex could explain. This was our first thing. The bottom left is a green guy. Landed, chilled for 15 minutes, got the squad headed here. How were the drinks? And this was like a three, three minute walk.

Tell them about the drinks. So this are tacos, the drinks. The drinks were just weirdly like refreshing and good. Like it didn't, uh, I mean, it was, I don't want to say.

It's impossible to get hung over there. Well, I proved that wrong to last night. But I was also going crazy. But when it comes to just like stopping somewhere, slamming a couple of drinks, the drinks were just so good and so fresh. It was just different. I don't know what it was. Shit just tasted cleaner and less maybe refined, sugary face.

Shit just tasted real. Yeah. Shit just like, it just tasted so smooth and so fucking. fucking good, every drink. And so, yeah, we get there. Mike, I think, orders three drinks for himself. Dang. Just to, like, just to get started.

And he'll get a drink, like a margarita, but just like, take it as a shot. Yeah, he takes it as a shot. So that kind of set me off. Didn't it plan on drinking the first day. That looks phenomenal. But our, you know, I saw them getting drinks and I was like, all right, man.

Well, I'm here. This is, this is when it fucking starts. No what I'm surprised by? I'm surprised by, like, the lack of like authentic Mexican food in Dallas. I kind of thought it'd be like a pretty tight. This is what I was tough. This is possible though.

The taco places are good, but there's not like any. Well, here it's like, it's like text mex. Yeah, like, like taco places are good, but there's no like traditional mom and pop, like. But I think even the taco places should be better. Apparently like California has crazy and apparently closer to the border, like I think San Antonio. No, see that's, see you think. San Antonio has, has good tacos. Callan like those of the border towns are always going to have like

obviously El Paso as well it's always going to have like real shit but um Dallas and Texas like it's Tex-Mex man like it's like fajitas and so it's not it's not authentic oh we were at a Alote's place and you could go back go back a little bit grasshopper

I'll tell you once to stop that's a good protein and I tried to do that grasshoppers aren't bad though they were out of grasshopper I saw you eating the scorpion nah I wouldn't be doing it. Scorpion was fucking burnt shit. I wouldn't be doing all that. He's burned shit. Did you eat any tarantulas? Right there, right there. Any tarantulas? Right here.

Pause. Hey, this is what you wanted to fucking get to. He's sick fuck? Look at maniac's butt. Yo, what? What the fuck? Yo, you're eating that chair up, dog? Bro, people in my comment. Yo, that's a sick picture right there, by the way.

I didn't. That's what I told him. That's how he noticed it. Besides the bodacious ass. Yeah, we got to like, fucking Photoshop the ass out but other than that's a fire pick Yeah The comments were saying

Something about like a chair thong And I was like what the fuck are they talking about And I went back and looked and I was like Oh my And I think I think someone tweeted the picture to me I was like no fucking way Go back in and I'm like How don't I feel that

Hey that's literally That's just a fucking thong Up my fucking ass That's awesome That can't be comfortable But it wasn't It was comfortable. It was comfortable?

I didn't notice anything. Dude, that is awesome. Oh, yeah. I didn't notice it either because I told them like, yo,

send me the color. Yeah, he sent me the picture saying, yo, take the filter off and send me this picture. There's a dope-ass pick

and I never sent them because of this. I don't know if I can send that picture. But now it's out there. But yeah, I was saying earlier to Zinn, he said,

you know, what was the food like? And it was like, obviously I've had Mexican before. but you go down there and it's like your first time trying Mexican. Like it's just not the same. It's so good.

It's just, I don't know what makes it different. I know Hector's about to say you guys got to come. It's a two-hour flight. No, I would have been. I would have went, but I couldn't go. The customs are as easy as fuck. This is where we should go in April because this is easy.

This is a quick two to three days. Down, down. That's easier for me too. Let's do that. 100%. Because I could go from Mexico City to El Paso. We're just going to be back. Let's do like April.

April 12th through 15th. Sure. But yeah, we got to just rip those dates. We got to experience it all, man. Saw Hex in his in his element. In his element.

So, Revised is the first guy that took me painting freights, like train, freight train graffiti. It was a very famous yard in Chicago called the Tribune. Revises the Asian guy,

Wan. Yeah, Wan. speaks no Korean, but he's from Korean descent. Nah, this is dope, man. Looks like a fun trip. Then I fucked up a little bit of his, of his...

Bro, okay, so this Torta is about four hours old. Is that Checherole? No, it's Milanessa, which is bread of steak. This was probably top two for me. Top two, like a bite of a trip. Bro, and it's four hours old. And it was sitting in someone's trunk for four hours.

What was number one? That looks absurd. But that thing is that... That was called the Argentina. Did you guys do any like... K-O. I don't know. Was it a K-O? Eating that?

Yeah. Nah. I swear. Really? I feel like you just... just get refreshed. Yeah, bro, I'm telling you. Because there's no GMOs.

Or maybe you're just excited because you're down there. I don't know. Bro. So this part right here is called La Rejas. It's in Chapultepec. Oh, no. That's good. They, bro.

Yeah, I fucked up with this clip. It was not supposed to just be this long of holding a cup. It would be like one second of B-roll. I know that's, that's, that looks refreshing. A little bit of juice. Juice was great. I had a guava pi and one. Oh, my God.

Street tacos. Did you guys do any, like, sit down? like, because they have a lot of Michelin Sarr restaurants there, don't they? You guys do any of those? We did a Korean spot. That was pretty good. I've heard that Mexico City has great Italian food too. Oh, yeah.

Bro, they have good everything. There's Mexicans back there. Oh, that looks, oh, that guacamole looks so fresh. Heck, self-optic. That looks, that's like the freshest fucking cold. Those are tacos al-Pastor right there, Seth. Those are the best ones you're ever going to have. You put pineapple on them shit?

They put them on. Wait, is that guaccaque? No, that's a salsaverida. Guac salsa verde. Yeah. It just, look at the color of that. Listen, you know, Alpasteur, one of my favorite tacos, take the fucking pineappas off. Thank you.

No, I love the pineapple. Get that shit out of here. Pizza. It's all your taste is the sweetness. Yeah, get it out of here. They're too sweet. It's already citrusy enough with the, with the, oh. And then he got potato.

Oh, bro, these potato fucking canasta tacos, the best, the best, literally the best. See, I'm so, because what, Giers had in the vet in Mexico City, right? I'm just so pissed that we never got. I mean, actually, no, I'm being. Bro, if we throw, if we can throw in a call-a-duty event in Mexico City, it'll be the, it would be one of the best ever. I've only been to Mexico one time. It was the bachelor party.

Puerto Vallada. That's it. Puerto Vallada is one of the places that was like fucking really up in arms. Really? Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, when we got out of the airport, is Mexico City similar? Like when you get out of the airport and you see like the, the policia on the back of the car with the mounted guns and shit?

At any point did you feel unsafe? except for the last night when you were getting fucking checked. What happened last night? Yeah, at the club? Mike told us that you were getting fucking clocked.

Yeah, are you? Right. No. Yeah. It's just a complete fucking lot. This guy was fucking unaware the whole time. Mike was, you know,

obviously looked at. Oh, that I was getting looked at. Yeah. Because this guy, like, all the girls were trying to dance with him, right? It's a local spot. This was what Mike was telling me.

It wasn't like a touristy. So all the dudes right there started getting maud. Started playing. Started playing. Started playing. Started playing. Started playing. You were framed.

You were framed. He was freemogging locals. He was freemogging locals, dude. Oh, that's hilarious. Dance the night away and stayed out until 3 a.m. Came back, had to leave for the airport at 4 a.m. and missed it. I got pictures.

Pictures to me? Oh, yeah. Wait, you stayed out until 3 airport at 4? Oh. I missed that fight. Oh, did you? Yeah. That sounds like a...

Wait, did they? Bad day. Did they left without you? I left. Yeah. He didn't wait on me. This is a thing. Hector at the club at three?

No, no, no. So I was in bed by nine, obviously. He was in bed by nine. No, I was in bed by nine. And I had told him and everybody, if anything changes or if there's anything that you need me to remember, good. Nick, I'm leaving at this time. If you're not ready, I'm going. Nothing.

Same rule as always. When we went to London, I say, yo, I'm leaving, except for when you got fucked up. But I'm like, yo, if anybody falls behind in Europe, I'm leaving. No, I made the flight. But I was. I'm getting back to my girls no one's stopping me from doing that I fell asleep on the rim of the toilet

I got pictures Dude there are a few things worse than a hungover flight You got pictures of me Being on a flight hungover is one of the worst feelings And then I woke up We went to the airport And it was our our Optic team

And I just kept saying USNA I love you and formal was getting so mad at me Because I just Dude I was so hungover I just kept repeating it Over and over See I was at a spot

He was like Seth shut the fuck up U S&A I ordered the Uber at like 2.30 in the morning got picked up, get back by three. I was wearing like a black t-shirt, I wake up and I have like a flannel over me. Like I walked,

I don't remember how, but I walked in and like got dressed and then just like late on my bed. Like that's how I don't remember any of it. And you missed the flight? When did you get your next flight? It's like 5 p.m. Oh, so you had to like, were you the only one left behind? No, I went to the airport with Mike and Juan.

And then we continued drinking a little bit and then we were just so hungover, had to start drinking, a little hair of the dog to keep his... I respect them. Then woke up Monday, sick. Yeah, Tuesday more sick. Their hangovers are probably disastrous.

Yeah, that's, they're still getting after like that. Juan's and Mike's? Bro, Mike. Mike's a fucking animal. Usually I kind of pride myself off being able to drink a lot. This dude was like, I mean, it was, we had three or four shots of Mezcal and like three mixed drinks within an hour of sitting down at that first place.

Where's the next trip? Because I told him, I was like, today I'm drinking with you. last day, cameras down, I'll log on my phone, if anything. I was like, I'm here with you today. Like, let's fucking go. No, yeah. Just fucking six, seven drinks within an hour. I was like, oh my God, I'm feeling it already.

And he's just jolly. Yeah. But he's also, like, look at the weight distribution between you and him, right? Like, it's going to take longer for any. He's a trained fucking drinking professional. And you know what he says? He said that. And then he says that jig is crazy.

Oh, jig is great, man. Yeah. That guy's fantastic. Oh, yeah. I've only met him one. But where's the next one? Is it secret or where you going next? Do you have it planned out yet?

Not really. I don't know. We'll see. Are there any places that I want to go? Are there any like ones that are on the list? Yeah, we can't, we can't end the series without going to California. California love. And then fucking Action Bronson actually, Action Bronson just released two videos about how Mexican food in New York is the best in the country.

And I said, first of all, I respect Bam Bam. Before you say it's not, you have to go experience it. Of course, of course. Because New York City, I mean, I've heard this a lot. Now, this one's controversial, but some people think that New York City has the best cuisines out of all of them. Like, for example, Italian food in New York is better than Italian food in Italy. Like, that's a controversial statement that people make.

I don't know about that one. Taste-wise, we use a lot of MSG. and butter. I don't know. In Italy was the next left. Yeah, but you got to realize a lot of people have migrated over. And New York City is that place where they've brought all of those things from Italy, from France, and they'd set up shop there.

Trust me. I get it. I know it's a melting pot. But that food in Italy, it's like clean. Yes. Like you can eat pasta. That is different. You eat pasta and don't gain weight there.

Well, you're also walking a lot. Let me ask you this. I'll ask you simple questions. I'll ask you simple questions. What pasta in Italy was better than any of the pasta? that you've eaten at the Charles or Mr. Charles? The Carbonara from Fortunata?

Yeah, that might have been I haven't had it. I haven't had it. I mean, listen, Italy food is great. One thing, noodles. One thing I remember, though, it was insane.

I feel like when I drank wine in Italy, I didn't get hung over. Like that, that's, that's, I feel like you can drink a bottle of wine in Italy and not feel it the next day. What's the difference? I don't know what it is.

Like some sugar shit? The chemics, just the ingredients that they're not allowed to use. a lot of the shit that we use. That's what they were saying. They actually have rules and regulation. Yeah, that's what they were saying. That's what they were saying in Mexico. And healthy about all the alcohol.

Yeah. You see, uh, they're starting to finally slowly, like targets removing a bunch of artificial dyes and Red 40 for your cereal. So like slowly but surely they're starting to phase somebody's things out. I guess these, I've always...

Oh. Dude, what's crazy? That was it. You know what pisses me off, though? We know food. And I'm not saying that in a weird way, but we know good food. Yes.

A lot of people, this is Osteria Day Fortunata, and I go on TikTok and everybody's roasting this place, saying it's a tourist trap, it's not good, whatever. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, touristy sure. Sure. That place had good food. You're not telling, that place was incredible. That place had good food.

Don't let these TikTokers tell you it wasn't good because it was good. It had Nate shot eating meatballs. His first ever time eating meatballs, he loved them. Imagine. Imagine being fucking 30 and not having meatballs your entire life. Imagine walking around being afraid of shit Like Seth and Matt, dude And it's like, it's like right next to the Pantheon

This it's like right outside the Pantheon Well no, we, what's the pantheon? The big ass like The Pantheon. The fucking Pantheon? I don't know what the Pantheon is. It was this. It's a Roman temple.

No, but we kind of got helped out Because one of the most The main one. His buildings in Rome. There was a long line for like, I guess, the main location and then one of the workers came out and was like, hey, five minute walk away, same thing, same food, same everything, no line, nothing. And the employee walked us there.

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I'll say is that whenever you guys feel like you have a weekend to spare, obviously we have the watch party, but like we can literally, today's Tuesday, we can leave today, come back Thursday morning, and you would have plenty to write home about it on a trip to Mexico City. We're going in April period.

No, we'd probably, we would just leave like Monday morning. Leave Monday morning, get there Monday afternoon. We have it off. Come back Thursday afternoon. So we got all Monday,

Tuesday, Wednesday, and we fly back to it. I love you. I just don't. don't think you're actually going to come, but we're going in April. I can't come right now. I'm down.

It's a little bit. I'm down. And Nick's coming too. I can't really travel for work. Open invite optic chat. Anybody that wants to come and have a good time. Yeah, that doesn't know how big of an Airbnb to get.

It doesn't get any better than that. Around like the same area? Same area. See, what I like is like we would get food, drinks, whatever, and it's just walk, we can walk back to the Airbnb, we can walk to the next spot. We'll be walking and see something we might want to try, get a coffee, just do anything.

That's what I miss the most. You don't have to like eat. and then it's like, all right, someone called the Uber. Where are we going at? Like, you just eat, you start walking in, like, you kind of figure it out from there. It's just so different from our life. It's like, I mean, it's vacation, so obviously, but. Well, it's also Dallas. We don't do that. Dude, I know exactly.

We wake up and sit in the house all day and. Stair at ceilings. Yeah, but it's also like Dallas is just a super, you can't walk it. Whereas, when I was in Toronto, I was walking. Yeah. Toronto is like, Toronto. I didn't Uber anywhere in Toronto. I would walk to the coffee shop. I'd walk to the lake. Yeah. Now it's like, here you have like little.

pockets of like two streets, then you've got to drive somewhere. Agreed. I missed the walkability of just like that, that city feel. Well, this, this literally is just like, it's a whole, anyway, let's move on. I'm like a solo trip. Dude, I mean, yeah, I would turn on my fucking whatever your app is that the dating app you had. I would open that before you get there. And make that the fucking. Yeah.

You were just slide. The premise of the vlog. Yeah. Yeah. Swiping. The last night I did turn it on. I turned on the dating app. But I don't know.

The first like few days, our days were just like kind of full. And I was with these guys, we were going spot to spot. Then we take like a two hour break. Then go to another spot. And then it's sort of time to lay down, edit my video.

And then it's, you know, I'm gonna be honest. I've never seen this dude that productive. Like he would go literally grab his laptop, bring it downstairs, sit amongst the editors. And he was just there editing his own shit. I'm out there.

For you, man. Semi drunk. Smoking my, my fucking brain. I was awesome. I need a new Mac, though. Mac was slowy shit. Getting those vlogs up, oh my God.

Yeah, I get a new PC, bro. Yeah, it was so slow. Our new laptop. I felt like it was going to blow up. It was overheat, explode. Got to invest. Got to something new. Anyway.

John of Mexico City, man. I will be back. We will be back. We'll go harder than ever. I already know what dinner spot I'm going to take you guys the first night. It's called Barra Lupe. You're going to be fucking. mind blown. That place has got some teens lined up now.

Damn. Anyway, so obviously to talk a little bit about some call of duty stuff, I mean, scrimms, I don't give a fuck how they go, how they're feeling. I couldn't give a fuck less. I don't give a fuck about scrimm. It's just practice, right? Like, I'm never going to, like, we've had seasons in which our screams were going great, and then we shit the bed every single time that we got to a tournament. I mean, it's happened. So I don't give a fuck about scrimms. The elite qualification, uh, Zini, you want to give us the Huntsman update?

Well, we auto-qualify for that. Yeah, yeah. So we didn't have to play it. Yeah, so it already happened, right? No, it's the elite starts this week. Yeah, Wednesday, Thursday. Yeah, Wednesday, Thursday. We have a pretty solid group.

I mean, new team, just to talk briefly about it. I think Renegade requested to move to a flex, but when we built this team, and I think he's still trying to adjust towards that AR. I feel like he's still a little more comfortable on the SMG, but he's getting there. Scrims, I mean, they're playing like the best of the best now, So when you're playing teams like Bush, for example, Cammy joins Omit. So when you're playing against Cammy, Asam, Brack,

and Real, very, very hard scrimms. That's a good team. Very hard scrims. And the boys, I mean, it's more so just trying to iron things out and put it together when it matters. So, yeah, I would say it's been kind of dead when it comes to the huntsman just because there's really been like a lack of, I guess, things besides scrimms.

But now with the elite starting back up, very excited to jump back into that. All the boys are here now. That's good. We're going to do a team dinner with them soon. The huntsmen look good, though. They've been playing well on scrimms. I would say, I would say solid, a little inconsistent. Well, there's been a couple really good days. They are playing the best of the best.

Like, one team is Afro-Beans. Like, they're playing against full-blown pro rosters, and they're putting up good fights, and they're losing a map by one rotation. Like, it's all positive, so I'm really excited to see how they play in this elite. So if you guys want to watch, I'll be streaming them, I'm sure, formal. Wednesdays and Thursday nights, we get two league matches. matches this week, and then next week, I believe Wednesday, Thursday as well. So it's Wednesday, Thursday at night. Oh, Johnny. Here's Johnny. Yeah, I'm surprised that Johnny, I'm kind of

thankful he hasn't been picked up yet. I kind of feel like he's probably one of the next to go. We can talk some of the CDL roster moves if you guys want. Obviously, Spark replaces Cammy, Spark coming in from Telly-Ride Bush. He's been playing good. And they just beat Faze. So that was a big statement and a big series for purge and Snoopy. In most recent news, Capsittle joins Vancouver Surge in place of Abe, and then Abe goes to Bush. Bush is hilarious because Bush does not wait for anybody, and they announce it immediately. And they just say, it's going to leak anyway, so we're going to do it. Yeah. So they just, they immediately tweet when their players are gone. So we get the Cap and T.J. Reunion, I'm not really sure if that's going to be enough to, like,

for Surge to do something. Yeah. I can't think of any moves they can make that's going to, like, catapult them into the top eight right now. So we'll see how Surge play. Unless Cap comes in and he's just walking on water. Cap has been phenomenal in challengers. So, I mean, him and TJ back together. I think Gwynn needs to like kill more. But yeah, let's talk about Faze though. I mean, Faze is kind of the talk of the town right now.

Faze is underperforming. Simp is getting costed. Simps getting costed. And I don't, like, you know, like, I feel for him just because of his legacy, right? Like he can't, he, there's no more time, right? There's less time than there is more time for him. So if I'm him, I'm fucking saying, you know what? I'm changing until I find the formula that I want.

Fuck feelings. Like, this is about me and my legacy. You guys are not going to get in the fucking way of that. I just don't know what they do, man, because, like, thinking about it realistically, I mean, you have Aluka on the bench. You pay a pretty penny for him, which, I mean, I'm a fan of Aluka, but the price they paid was a bit absurd. What? Well, don't tell me what.

But if you're them, and a Lucas, what? 18. Is it a AR? I think he's done both. He's primarily an SMG. He's primarily an SMG. But the thing is, and Faze has to make this decision, who? It's not a booze and it's not Sim.

It's Draza or O4. Both are struggling with consistency. O4 is getting a lot of flack right now because they picked O-4 over Neptune, and now Neptune is having an amazing season. Yeah. And the reality is there's not really anybody that you can go get. at birthday? 2007?

2007. Yo, that is fucking crazy. Yeah, good. Now you guys, dude, I love this. Beard and shit. That's crazy. Take that.

Oh, no. Take that. Take that. I've been, there's so many things that are making me feel ancient now. Yeah, dude. Yeah.

It's like, this is what I fucking started out. This is how I started at that age where it was like, age. It's like born 1995. What the fuck? Yeah. I don't know what you do though because. Young ass did us.

Yeah. Now you guys are like 2007. Now we're. aren't they? Fuck. 2007's fucking doesn't even make sense. Yeah, what do you do at?

I was at gaming. I was at, I was competing at the grand finals. In terms of what? Phase? I mean, they should have been in the grand finals. They literally let Neptune

do the impossible to keep them out of grand finals. They should have been in that final. Obviously, should have would have, coulda. But they had a good major and they kind of choked it. Want to tell you what I would do right now?

Now they're online and they can't put it together. I'm strategically swapping them in and out until I find my, but it's not working clearly. So I would start with 04 and that's, you know, that's my twin. Rodriguez, you know, that's my twin. But I will say

teams go through bad stretches. Nah, fuck that. Dog, they went to the major, got third. They should have been in the grand final. Sure. Bar Neptune doing some insane shit on Colosses. Like,

who do you get rid of on this team? I would start with L'4, then I would go to drop. and then I would try the combo of Aluka and those three. They're going to give them more time, of course. I think you give them till Major 2. If shit goes bad at the major, then I think there's a conversation. Because, again, teams go through bad stretches. We had the O and 18.

Teams go through bad stretches, and they should have been in the grand final. We made several changes as we were getting out of the O and 18. Listen, here's what I would try. We gave them some time. Granted, they won champs the year before. So you're looking at it from a player or something. perspective. Now here's what I would do, and I'm not sure if this is possible, but I would make the call. Joe Deceives is going to be a free agent next year. If I'm Faze, I'm saying,

listen, we'll trade and pay you right now, and then Toronto has to make a decision. Look at the Pred's situation. Then it's 04, though. Predd. They're going to want to sub for a sub probably. They're not going to take draws. Yeah. But they can take Aluka, though. Well, no, or Aluca or O4? I don't think they do that for Joe in either. Either way, Toronto could do two birds, one stone. They can get paid and try to secure a future piece for your star player. it's like if you're Toronto, what do you think? Are you in a win now and do you think they can win? Do you value a win now over money and a player for your future?

I don't know, but I would make the call and float the idea because you at least have some solid pieces. I like it. They're not getting rid of Joey D. I like it. You say that, but once again, the Pred situation, Pred, that Orr could have made a lot of money. 400. And AG walk for free four months later. That's right.

I'm not saying they're going to do it. I would definitely, I would try. I would have the conversation. I would say, are you guys open to this? Look at that smile, dude. The motherfucker is turning up. Kip's been friagging. That's why I would replace anyone with, one of those two, with Aluka, because

Luca's going to come in here wanting to prove himself the same way that Kipps has been trying to prove himself. Toronto looks really good right now, I will say. Toronto looks great right now. Yeah. Definitely, it's just, I would try it. I would just be like, hey, are you interested? And they're probably going to say no, but it can't hurt to try.

I would do two things. I would definitely, if I'm saying, I'd be like, All right, you sit down, a Luca play. All right, okay, and you didn't work out. All right, you sit down now and then a Luca play. And then after that, I'd be like, you know what, man, fucking call hex and tell him to fucking fix my shit. I'll scramble someplace around.

In the final season, man. If you got seven and a half, I'll give you skumper. Listen, man, if y'all need me, you don't have to break into that checkbook. No, I'm old. I'm old washed. Yeah, right. I don't know. That's what I would do.

Listen, if I don't have to think about pissing off a fan base or if I don't have like, from my perspective, it's a third person, like just looking at it and not giving a fuck about what happens to the brand or what fan get crazy, I would literally systematically start removing or replacing one with a Luca and then the other one with the Luca until I find the right formula. You have to. It doesn't hurt to try. It was actually hilarious.

Again, I do feel. You never see Simp. act out of character. And in that loss versus Boston, he stands up and you just see him like above the monitor just like, you can't see his face, but you can tell he's animated. He's not happy. He's like, what the fuck are we doing here?

I would too. And you never see that. Sims never really had to go through like a tough stretch. Like I feel like him and his phase rosters have always been dominating. Like ever since he's came in, they've always been like first or second in seed throughout most qualifiers and then they go to the major, you know, get a

top three. Now it's like, they get top three at the major and that's why I feel like you kind of have to I'd give them till the end of the time. No, they deserve more time. It's one of those teams that you give a little bit more time. Now here's the thing. I'm sure right now they'd go back in time and do one of two things. Pick Neptune?

Yes, I want to see this. Or keep Abisi. Yeah, Bezzi and Simp are probably texting each other. Well, Abezi thieves are playing well now with Neum but they're probably texting each other. I think O-4's capable though. I'm not I have not given up on O-4. I think obviously is a capable player.

Very capable. He can definitely put it together, but he has to do it soon because the pressure is on him in draws. Definitely not a booza and simp. Yeah. Anyways. Yeah, it's weird seeing Faye's struggle.

And they're in a, like, actually bad spot because they're two and four. Again, only six teams make it to the bracket, guaranteed. And then seven through 10 have to play a single elimination, one best of five play in, to get into the tournament.

Love that. So. You love it? but Faze has to play us and thieves this weekend. They could be two and six at the end of this weekend. They're at risk of not going or being in the playing. So they have to play us, thieves, mates. I think they play like Cloud 9.

That's a win. Maybe, I don't know, actually. They might have to play Coy as well. Yeah, dude, that's a very, if they're playing us, mates, thieves, and Coy, they are in big trouble. They could lose every one of those. They're in big trouble. And that puts them at two and eight, or two and eight. Then they'd be potentially three and eight.

Our boys look great, man. I mean, we could talk about our boys. Obviously, we just spoke about phase for a sec, but our boys look phenomenal. Our team is fucking absurd. I think the consistency now ever since, I mean, the addition of Mason, I feel like, I mean, we gasped the kids so much,

but they are, they're in the conversation now in every single match and every single tournament. It's never like... I go in watching our team now. I expect them to win every series. It's kind of crazy. Like, I expect us to win every series that I watch when we play. And we just look so good.

And I got to give a special shout out to Kyler, bro. Hell yeah. That guy, he's not only just, he puts so much pressure on the map. But, dude, he might have some of the best comms in the league. Not only that. He's the biggest grinder ever. Yeah. And he's been around since we came up.

But that's all right, because we got Mason. We got Mason The search is not looking good because Mason's taking all the kills Dude fucking Mason He's taking all the kills Yeah fucking 1 V3s Yeah one V1s

Uh uh But yeah Mason He's He's winning him One B3s Mason might be winning A V1B1s He's not winning

Fat Baby Fat Baby Fat baby what That's that's his old nickname Fat Baby That's what Temp would call him Fat Baby

Don Dada Don Dada Our boys are fun to watch Yeah I kind of agree Look at Merck fucking Flaxin

Mogging, frame-mogging, the whole squadron. Bro, his search stats, like, he's obviously gross, but, dude, his search stats, if you go through and look at, like, his career so far in search, I don't think we've ever seen this level of dominance in search consistently, bro. He is, like, he mastered the mode. He drops, like, a 1.3 minimum every split in search. It's absurd. Like that, if you get one split like that throughout a season, you're like, okay.

Damn. That's fucking dope. He does it every split. It's crazy. Number one, number four, number 10, number 10. Thank you, Zen City. Thank God. Thank you for making a call, man.

Thank you, Mace. And not only search, he's insane at Reespont, too. Like, this kid is fucking disgusting. It just doesn't make sense to me, man. Every time I see him lift that fucking thumb off the joystick to press hit a button. I'm like, how is your shit? Like, he's bouncing off walls instantly getting into fights. like the 1B3

I saw on just like How are you doing that? How are you doing that? He actually does that He'll wipe his towel Like he'll get a two piece And then wipe his towel And then start playing again

I'm like bro this guy's fucking He's just purposely He's making plays outside of the fucking game And he's making plays outside of the game During the game He's literally grabbing his towel mid hard point After he gets a piece It's like I don't get it man

I don't understand how he plays As good as he does As consistently as he does It's kind of it, dude, it's like some voodoo shit This is like a new Not like new style of player It's like a new evolution to where like I don't need paddles I don't need none of that

It's just me and my controller There's only been a couple of people that play like Scraps played like him back in the day Like similar, no paddles Like would do the same thing I don't know who else really plays like that or has You didn't use panels Yeah but he doesn't call

He doesn't claw either He's doing everything with his thumb He said something Sometimes he'll claw if he like has to. Maybe to like turn and switch weapons at the same time or something. But I watch him. His thumb does it not even stay on that joystick. I was on a walk with Cammy.

He goes, dude, I don't even fucking knows any mate. He just knows where I am at all times and I don't have a fucking clue where he is ever. Yeah, look at this shit, bro. That's insane. Wow. Jeez, dude. That is insane. And what is this?

His first eight tournaments of his career? of his career. Just keeps going at 1.7.3. Yeah, now he's an interesting, interesting player. Love to watch him work. Amen. Love to watch him work.

Love to walk and walk through that door. He's ours. Mr. Ramsey, it's pleasure. How are you doing today? Mr. Ramsey. We take your coat. Take your coat. Yeah, CDL's been,

it's been really fun to watch so far. I mean, it's like, you know, there's competition in the league right now. I feel like there's a lot of teams. that can beat anybody on any given day. Cloud 9 just beat Gentlemates. Yeah, it's been fun to watch. Gentlemen mates are trending down.

Yeah, they are. They're having a tough split as well. Well, I mean, the personalities on that team, it's just, okay, you know, how will they deal with adversity? Like, will they be able to find that form again, or will they let it snowball? Now, they only lost two in a row, but the Cloud 9 one was big, and then Toronto Coy handled them, 3-0. Handed them.

They were close maps, though. The first, it was like a 9-point hard points. six, five surts. Like, they were close maps, but yeah, they got... I also just think Sibb is just so much more insane on land. Like, I feel like on land, he's just on. Yeah. His slang is consistent.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know what's up with our boy, envoy, man. I mean, obviously he was frying, actually, versus Toronto, wasn't he? Who? Dante, I think so. Oh, Dante, yeah. I think Dill had a tough series. Yeah. Yeah, Dill had a tough series.

I don't know why, man. It's like, it's like he starts out hot. He cools off for a little bit, and then he returns, like, to some semblance of what he was in the beginning of the other thing. So I'm looking forward to him turning it around ASAP because this team was really turning heads and we want this team to be good going into Paris.

They had a bad weekend though. It's like this is, there's so much. But against who though? Cloud 9 is a big loss. In Miami. Who called that? In Miami beat the fuck out of Cloud 9. Yeah. Handled them. But it's like, dude, there's just so much, it's just

in Call of Duty nowadays, you can have one bad weekend and people are just calling for your head. It's kind of crazy, but that's kind of how it is just because the matches, there's just not that many matches and they're online and there's such a big weight with online that it's like, you kind of have to overreact because of just the, you know, amount of games. There's not as many. Encourage had an insane series to us. I was going to say, was he getting cost? Shout out to a plus 20. No, encouraged. No, they won this. Oh, they won this. Cloud 9B gentlemen's here. Yeah. They won two searches. Shout out and

courage. Not. Shout out fucking the Stallions. The Stallions won that fucking match. The Stallions. Isn't that

a Stalin's team right there? Yeah. Min is, uh, NEDRA? Yeah, three of them won the Stallions.

And Nezra, yo, I think Nezra is good too. I mean, he doesn't have a crazy series here, but this team, they're just so young.

Like, it's just so hard from the fine consistency. I have no doubt that some of these players definitely have, uh, have some solid futures

ahead of them, though. Yeah. So, obviously everybody got mad at Shatsy's announcement, turns quitter into a dumpster fire.

Oh my God, dude, last night, I had no idea because, again, lately I've just been staying off social media just because it's a fucking, just energy sucker. Yeah. Just fucking sucks out good vibes.

But this was, dude, the bait, and then people were so mad. Like, I was just reading the comments, like, oh my God. I love it knowing James is seeing it. I'm just like sitting at his desk, not knowing how to feel.

People were so... Not knowing how to feel. Just nervous. He's like, fuck, is this good? Which I kind of get. I do kind of get it because it's like, but I kind of get it. Did people really think Chatsy was about to retire? Well, no.

Of everything they were assuming, this seemed like the best of the world champion. Like you would think that everyone that was worried about the announcement would see this and be like, thank God, it's nothing crazy. He's not retiring. There's nothing I'm going to say about. I can't believe that he's not retiring. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I guess I understand. You know what?

No, I'm going to get it. They rage baited us. every day in chat. Now we do it once and it's this big fucking problem. Dude, the clip of Mason is hilarious. I see. It's so fun. Yeah, I think they did a good job. What's the forecast for today? This long rip of the bait

blows out of cloud. I see. I see. Dude, it's so good. It's so good though. I mean, it's so good. That's a fucking rip too. I see. It's so good. He's fucking loved it. He's got that good hair.

got that good hair. She's got that that mullet going. He's got the half of the mullet. Yeah. Tush. Tush is the perfect person for this video. Can I also give Tush the most utmost fucking props? That motherfucker is good. He's great. He's like good, good. Like I look around like all of our creators

and I'm like, he's got it. I agree. He is good. And then honestly Aunt not known that Aunt thought the O.J. Simpson police chase was live. He's like, this is live right now? He's another person. I thought. I thought

I was confused on what you meant. I didn't watch the whole thing. I saw like, I think a lot of the clips. They showed him a clip of the OJ police chase. And they said, right now there's a live train. Wait,

this is live? And it was the OJ. police chase. Fucking, when I was watching it, James was like, you know where that's from. And I'll shut your young ass up, man.

The fuck. Look at this. This guy loves it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is what Tush is like made for. Yeah, dude.

He's so good. He's so good. Jersey, Jerry. You're live on a podcast. What's up? Yeah, put on speakerphone. Hey, what's going on? What's going on? What's up, Jerry?

What's up, Jay? Hey, how's everybody doing today? We're on the pod. Make sure that the mic is catching that. I love that. I love that. What are you doing? I had an idea. What was it?

Can you say it on the podcast? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I'm ready for an actual book test with you. I think we do a book test, like a paper test. Like, you know, instead of playing one night, you know, maybe we play one more night and then I think I'd be ready for an actual test. You want to make a quiz? You want to write a quiz? Yeah, like a quiz.

Yeah, I think that'd be good. I think people would enjoy that. All right, yeah, we'll do it. Yeah, I like that. We'll do some, like, tack map screenshots. And I'll like, yeah, I like that. We'll give you A through D. All right, yeah, let me, let me figure it out.

No doubt, no doubt. Enjoy the pot. All right, boy. See you, Jersey. He's out of his mind. He's had him ready for a paper test. This is a good idea, though. This is a good idea.

I like that idea. Right now in the city. God. Bro, look at this. There's, like, two schnoes, live chase. We've got some man on the run. He must have done something wrong. We don't know what he did.

We don't know who he is quite yet. A lot of people on the road, this is getting quite dangerous as he makes this left turn. Shots are you concerned? This is very... Where the fuck is he's going? Yeah. Listen, this was awesome. Yeah, no, this was good.

Oh, here comes James to hear the compliments on the... Enemy number one. Come go away, James. Explain yourself. No, don't explain yourself. All right, come on. Yeah, all right, we're good with this. I just look, at the end of the day,

uh, was, was it crazy? No. Was it a baity? Sure. Is it worse than anything anybody else has ever done? No.

Do you feel betrayed by the production team? I hope not. And if you do, then hopefully next time you won't feel as betrayed because we are going to continue to fucking bring crazy shit from the left field. Should be able to do what we want. Dude, people were creative. We're crazy.

We're fucking heads. Creatives at the end. We're artists. I know. It's insane. What the fuck. And the thing is, they tweeted it out, and it's not like, like, a lot of the other creators in Optic were, like, replying to it.

Like, I'm replying with the, the retirement chair and shit. But, like, obviously, if he was actually retiring, like, we're not going to all be replying. Like, oh, what could the, like, everyone would be dead. This was so obviously. Pitch was obviously in the replies. News. of news. This was just so

obviously like a lighthearted what's this going to be kind of thing. Like I don't know, I don't know how, well I do know. That's just Twitter these days and it's every, it doesn't even matter of it's Twitter, Instagram comments, fucking YouTube comments.

I wanted the weather. It doesn't matter. People are going to shit on anything. Bro, I watched the clip without knowing like what was going on because I just hopped on Twitter for a bit and I watched the clip, loved it. I was like, yo, that's awesome and then I looked at the comments and I was like what the fuck? Why is everyone so mad? And then I started

like doing some research. Like what the fuck is going on? Yeah. Just soul sucking, vibes sucking. The vibe suckers. Every YouTuber they watch, Batesham. We're eating at the best restaurant in Dubai today. Yeah, it's a little different. Is it? Eating the best tacos

in Mexico. I'm just saying everything's click. Yeah, in the hood. Yeah, but I do see both sides, but also. The creators were more at fault for click baiting. Like, and quote-tweeting with a heartbreak emoji. But, like, the way my mind works is if it was something super serious,

nobody would be replying to it. He wouldn't be quote-tweeting it with a heartbreak emoji. What? What up, Big B? What? So, Bruce. For today? Oh, yeah.

Big Brucy, Habibi, how are we? I'm not to get shit on. We're back to be really. Yeah. Bruce is so hype. I love that. Come on, Brucey. Where we at?

Where we at? could roast Pomage's top 10 video games of all time saw that this morning I was like don't piss me up way mage's top 10 he said these are currently Pam's top 10 personal favorite games of all time no order Star Fox get the fuck out of Star Fox 64 I mean that shit wasn't that's a goaded game back when I can't shake them I can't shake them I've never played Star Fox

Yeah, Star Fox is a legendary game. World of Warcraft? Who the fuck plays that? I feel like this isn't the worst. I've been playing wow a little bit. Yeah, hell yeah, of course. Everybody plays it except for me. Florida Warcraft, of course, has to be up there. Now we get into that nerd shit. Elder Scrolls?

I haven't played that, I don't think. Yeah, I haven't either. Pokemon. So silver? Not red, blue, gold? Yeah, I, I haven't really, I didn't really play Pokemon. Call of Duty, Marvel, Warfare, too. You didn't play like red or blue?

I did, but it wasn't like, I wasn't obsessed with it. In my backpack. Don't forget. You weren't obsessed with Pokemon? Nah. Me either. I was my brother. I was obsessed with Pokemon.

I love Pokemon. I'm just making sure. My brother, my brother was like the Pokemon. If I could find my binders from back in the day, I'm telling you I'd be, there's got to be millions in those boxes. Yeah. There literally has to be. Just bent up Charzzar.

There has to be. Of course. You at least have like a $1,500 card in there. I had sports cards, Pokemon cards. Uguio and I have binders full just, and I, they're probably in my attic. I should probably just take a day to make sure see if I can just find them.

Top 10 video games and now this is collaborative, right? We'll start with you and then you do what, we'll do snake draft. But we're not drafting. Okay, call of duty. Okay. Okay. Just call of duty? Wait, what's game? Just call of duty in general. No, you can't do the franchise. No, you can. You can't. This guy's got to do Halo 2 and 3.

Yeah, you can't take 20 games though. Okay, fine. Black Black Ops 2. Okay, perfect. There you go. Great answer. Copsdale. All right. CINnie? Top 10 video games of all time. Oh, thank God you repeated it to yourself.

The true nerds are going to have a great. You're trying to thought. I'm going to, I mean, I'm a call of duty one trick. I'm going to say call it duty four. You're going to take mine? Okay, I'll damn the MW too. There you go. Take that fan boy shit.

Yeah. The real gamer nerds are going to hate this list. Or Modern Warfare 3. Hey, man, this is your pick. Well, it's kind of collaborative, right? I agree. No, it's just yours. I'm not inviting you to

collab with me on Call Duty 4 I'm saying Modern Warfare 3 If I'm making a personal choice See I would say World at War But that's a little too controversial See World at War was more of like The scene that was going on Everyone was playing game battles

Exactly world of war It's all encompassered hex That matters It was so fun Cod 4 remastered Hex Game battles on Call Duty was probably so fun Dude World at War And Halo only got that for like a year

Not the original? World War Game Battles was like undefeated. All right, which Halo title? I'm going to do. NW2.

I want to say, I'm doing Halo 2. All right, pick the next one. Superbath. Halo 3. That's what I thought. We're doing a snake?

Yeah. Minecraft. Okay. Minecraft's a good pick. Yeah, Minecraft's a good pick. Capital N, capital C.

Motherland. Hell balls. Hmm. Spell it right. Bill Bozo. Okay. Hector. It's me.

Yeah, you. Where do I want to go here, though? Grant, I thought, right, move on, come on. No. I mean, the GTA's up there. GTA is? I think one of the Mario games. Okay.

Super Mario. I don't remember the actual names. Mario 3 is the first time he flew. Mario Kart. Not, not Mario Kart. Mario 3, so we're only 3. I'm talking Nintendo DS. My next one, World Warcraft.

And let's just go. Let's go World of Warcraft and let's go Classic slash Burning Crusade the first expansion. What in the fuck? Did you just say? You heard his nerd ass. Well, there's classic, which is like

Classic what? Classic wow, the original. Oh, oh. You're going to pick a second World of the World Warcraft game and the top 10 games of all time. Well, no, I'm just saying like that's the time period because I'm going to do vanilla and Burning Crusade because that was the first expansion.

Oh, of course. Of course. Of course. Bernie Crusade, dude. Pick a different game, please. Pick a different game. World Warcraft, let me. You picked a out. League.

League of Legends. Damn, it already moved up like that. League is a good ass game, man. I used to grind that shit. People don't know. I was a beef. Finish us up. Actually, Riley, you picked a 10.

Oh, my. Legend of Zelda. I just love games with a high knowledge gap. Like, I love games. Well, not even a high knowledge gap. I love games that I'm bad at, and they're so different from, like, what I normally play because obviously I'm

an FPS guy. League being bad at a game is like refreshing. Not to sound like an asshole but like actually having to learn and get better at a game instead of just spawning in and being able to kill pretty much anybody. It's not about just how good you can aim and move. Yeah it's like you got to actually

use your neutral. It's a team some teamwork. Yeah they're going to hate this fucking list. This is just such a biased FPS list. Four call of duties, two halo. Yeah, let's try to get away from Cod, though. No, first of all, time out.

First of all, you should just let him pick Call of Duty as a franchise. Because he was going to pick HALA's a franchise. We don't have Eldon ring in here. We don't have Red Dead redemption. We could just get rid of the Cod's. Nobody plays those games. Could get rid of the Cod's. Obviously.

Just say Call of Duty and just say Hala. Yeah, that's what I wanted to do. Yeah, but no, Zini wanted to do it the other way. I mean, I just don't think it's fair. How do we do chat? I mean, not good. I am, but if... They're not going to like...

Could have been... Could have went better. I think Club Penguin's an underrated shout, man. I know it's controversial. You had the social aspect. You're typing the bubbles above your head. Never played it. Which one?

How old way? Club Penguin? It sounds familiar. You guys never even heard of a nerd... You guys... It's like a social... You guys weren't in the pizza shop or the mine car. I actually had friends in real life.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I played Tune Town instead. Tune Town was... You can actually play like Tune Town. Like, there's a full... Dude, this... game was my childhood, man.

Take them to Tune Town. You were talking to your penguin friends? Dude, this was awesome. Were people talking shit? So what was the point of, can you explain Club Penguin? Because I never played it. The point was to make friends, Johnny. No, there was no end goal.

It was just, there was, like, mini games in there. It was kind of like. Roblox? Kind of open world, mini games, talking to people. You're building your own igloo, like your house, like you're designing. You're buying a couch for your igloo. Oh, listen. You had to be there.

You actually had to be there. You had to be there. I'm glad I wasn't. I'd be there at that age while I'll be there. You were going to school getting hype about Club Penguin? Like, yo, your penguin's cool. Maybe. Yo, what's the future of basketball courts?

Fuck with that egg glue. So here is the future of basketball courts, according to Barstool. And it's what? Let me guess. You just fucking... LEDs. But what does that do to the bounce? Wait, that's actually sick, though.

Assume that it doesn't... Top is. glass? Doesn't that, I mean it's not wood? Yeah, but it's not a hard wood. How do people play? Like, yeah, streetball? So what? Whoever's... Yeah, I would say so. You're like dribbling, you look down and the fucking floor change? They could do this. It's just whoever's ball it is? They change it to... Yeah. I don't think they'd be changing it like midgame.

Yeah, I mean, that's cool. You thought midgame they'd be fucking changing the court? Yeah, I mean, that's... Yeah. No, just so like you don't have to tear it down and rebuild it. possession their logos on? That just makes sense. Yeah, sure. It makes sense, but I don't think, I'm not cool with it personally. I'll be honest.

It's like some AI shit. I just think, I just think that there's beauty in the fact that, you know, once a floor is done, that they can chop up that floor and sell it to fans of people. I can't wait for this. The Stars night's going to be sick. Dude, they're playing the avalanche, which is, I mean, you can't ask for a better game for a collab night. I've never been.

When we have a streak, the way that we do. And then four days... You've never been to a SARS game? Oh, they're so good. They're awesome. So I had to drink. And then four days... I'm allowed to drink now.

Four days later, Mitch is in town. My parents are flying in for a couple days. We're going to go to the Vegas night's games. Okay. My parents are probably going to stop by here? Is Mitch taking you out to dinner after? I don't know what his schedule's like. Are you taking him out to dinner is a question?

Yeah, I will. I told him. I said, let me know your schedule when you're here. He said, all right, I'll let you know one. He said, who is this? No, he didn't. Who Mitch? No, Mitch?

No. Mitch is cool. Mitch is cool. Had the best Caesar salad with him I've ever had. All right. I think that

we have two more things before we wrap up. Yo, we have the blackout finally the blackout trailer where I guess blackout-esque. March 13. Black in a couple weeks.

My return? The wingsuits? Not actual gameplay. It makes some good trailers, man. Yo, you know where this is from? This like some stupid. Dead Ops?

Nah. We're back. I just love this sound. Me and you early mornings? You're not down, dude. No, you're not. That's all I got. Early morning streams.

Danger zone. No loadouts. I always do better with like even guns because Grapple. Steal to chop. Jump out, land. Shit on. Grapple RC?

Oh shit, okay, karma I see you? This is called Blackout? It's like Blackout in Warzone. Nice! Oh, see, I'm actually hyped for this. Yeah, I bet you are. I'm actually hyped for this nerdy shit. Guy has a ray gun.

Warzone has been... Not good? Yeah, it's been awful. I like the resurgence. I like both of the maps right now on Resurgence. Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh, you saw my 360 Vaska!

I'm hype for this, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Blackout, obviously, dude, people have been asking for this style of BR for so long. It's Blackout. Dude, yeah. The loadout, you know, blueprint has run its course. Warzone has been in the depths. I haven't watched Warzone in so long, and I fucking love Warzone.

Like, I've played Warzone every iteration. You won a championship in Warzone. Yeah, but I've played every iteration, and I'm just so excited. for like a blackout style to come back. Yeah, yeah, same. Yeah, I just like,

every game is now different. It's not, okay, I spawn in. I go do my contracts. I get my money. I get my loady. Yeah,

fuck that. And now I just go try and farm kills. Now it's like, okay, we spawn in. Hope every game is, hopefully I get a good armor off the rip. Yes.

Which, yeah, the R&G is annoying, but. No, it's not. It's part of what we're supposed to be. Yeah. It's like,

I think that when you have your, like, when you have even weapons across the map, like sure, like, some are going to vary in that, but like, if, if you grab the best weapon that's given to you through number, to a random number

generator, right, the RNG, and then somebody else has it, then it's so truly about gun skill and not necessarily the best weapon system that you create. Wait, kill streaks, there's kill streaks in the map, though? I don't know how I feel about that. Like the dog, HKDs, the death machine, war machine.

I mean, they had that before. Dogs. A dog? Well, they had UAVs, like, cluster bombs, air strikes. They didn't have, like, actual score streaks for multiplayer. Let's give it a shot. Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to judge it until I'm trying. I won't make a phone call.

Symbol monkey. I really hope this does well, man. For the Warzone community, for everyone, I mean, I think it would just be such a better, I really hope Warzone can sort of, I guess, reinvigorate the fan base, revive it. That's kind of dead right now. Should be fire. As long as they didn't fuck anything up, like the looting and all that stuff,

Well, no, the issue is the cheaters. That's what needs to be... There's going to be something. Week one. That's what we'll kill it if it's not fixed. Oh, remember this user interface. Eh, they still have plates, though. Yeah, plates is fine, though.

Well, I was hoping that way... Weren't there plates in Blackout? Yeah. No, you would... You'd repair your armor. You would just get armor. Yeah, well, that's the same thing, same thing. No, but it's not, though.

Because, like, plates you put in, the armor, like, you could... Your armor could just get broken. Hmm. Plates is still, like... Either way, this looks good. But again, I'm going to try it before I knock it before you try it. Low town. But I'm hype.

I'm hype for this. I'm hype. Dude, if you look at my play history, I'm more of a war zone player right now than I am like a multiplayer player. Yeah? I'll play more war zone than anything else. At least two hours a night, minimum. Actually, I'm lying. But yeah, this should be gas, probably.

Play me. I'll download the game. I mean, I'm down to play. I haven't downloaded the game yet. Okay. What is this? Musician, artist band. The ultimate one-one draft.

Okay. All right, boys, let's play. I like this. We're back to the race. The whiteboard. Okay. All right, Hector, kick us off. Wu-Tang.

Wu-Tang, okay. Uthang plane ain't nothing to fuck with. Michael Jackson. Ooh. That's a beautiful one-one right there. Yeah, right. Drizzy. Well, now I'm out of options.

Imagine picking an R&B singer. Ha, ha, ha. It's a grown man. Let's go. Hell yeah. You guys cried to these songs. That's cool. let's go

God Balloons are deflated Michael Jackson and Drake were the only two Good picks Who else is left Lady Gaga Obviously Fucking shitters

Fucking Uh Um Just give me Taylor Swift Billy Elish Uh The Beatles

In hypen The Beatles, okay I mean that's a tough one The Beatles are All right Nick What actor are you picking Actor Let's go

I don't think my pick's going to make it back to me. Let's go. Do I want to go Leo or Matthew? Let's just go. Maconohen? Yeah. Or Damon. Matthew McConaughey.

Okay. Okay. Then I got Leo. Damn. Nick just kind of through. Honestly, if whoever took Leo, I was going to take, if he took Leo, I was taking McConaughey. What?

That's my second. Those are my top two, but I like both of them, sir. I fucks with McConaughey more, to be honest. I know who Method is going to pick. I know Leonardo's higher on the totem pole, but... Who do you think I'm going to pick? Al Pacino. No, I'm not picking Al.

De Niro. Actually, fuck. I'm thinking of De Niro, but I'm going to go... Hmm. Can I change my pick? I'm going to go De Niro. I know who you're picking now. Who?

Denzel. Brad Pitt. I want Denzel. Who the fuck is Roberde? De Niro. Yeah, who is Robert? Robert. I have.

I wanted to say Joe Pesci, but I feel like... Snatch. I want Denzel, man. Fuck. I can't believe... Good fellas. Get your hands off me. Interstellar.

Ooh, good. Good. Good, good, good. In a cell art. What the fuck? I guess. Inception. Just flip flop with the actors.

She thumbs. Yeah. Their best movies just didn't pick them. Food or fish main course. food dish main course uh let's go uh crab cakes there's fucking crap cakes

let's go uh lean 80-20 beef with lettuce and broccoli zero fat Greek yogurt food just go a lot of options here bro I almost want to just say pizza

all right do it's a good pick pizza's a great pick you know what my pick You know what? You should pick pizza because I don't know anybody else in the world that breaks their diet

all day and then at 1 a.m. says to himself, since I chalked my diet I need to have my favorite food ever. Pizza. Okay, mine's pasta. Pasta?

Can I do pasta or do I have to pick a specific? Pizza with ranch. I mean, that's up to the people. Chicken parm, obviously. See, I'm saying chicken palm. I feel like my, I could have just said chicken. Yeah, I was going to say chicken palm.

Okay, then I'll go, I'll go Carbonara for mine. nice thick egg-based sauce with a yoke. All right, Hector. Tacos. Yeah, I mean, that's... What kind, though. You got to get...

Tacos from Mexico City. Burrito... Burrito de assada. With beans, lettuce. But the lettuce has to be added at the absolute end. So it remains cold and fresh and, and, and, and crunchy. And then you pour the... And then you pour the...

The salsa on every bite. there you go right sound good well I know who won this list who you think one me you think you won yeah I have I have Michael Jackson okay Drake is like good fellows is better than interstellar Drake's kind of chicken palm is better than Carbara Drake's the fucking LeBron of a fucking scratch yes it is the only the only category you got me on is Leo because Leo I think is the best actor on that list what about Denzel where would you put in over that's great I wish I would have picked Denzel just because I fucks with him

I was thinking of doing Tom Hardy But I just I feel like De Niro is just his track record He's like I was thinking of doing the best actor Or the most handsome actor I was gonna do Tom Hardy No Tom Hardy is Alfie and Piki Blinders Is insane Sure sure sure sure

You know Tom All right that's our list What do you guys think? Let us know All right one All right what a pleasure guys Thank you guys so much for joining us We'll see you guys What a pleasure

What a pleasure What a plus sir You're all in two months