OpTic Podcast - THE BEST MOMENTS FROM SCUMP'S WEDDING | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 183

Episode Date: July 22, 2024

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It is is breaching out for Seth. Because she's, they're both like getting thrown. And she's like, Seth, hold me. And Seth is gripping his chair so tightly. Oh, yeah. And going like this. Dude. You were about to fly out.

They were literally like, Zinni's side was like giving me no support. Your side was horrible. The other side was lifting up. Because I'm like, I'm like sideways and they're like trying to throw me like. I thought I was going flying. No bullshit. Did you just fix the wobbly-ass table? He did.

Oh my God. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 183 of the Optic Podcast. Podcast number three since we moved back to the HQZ. We have the co-host. We have a man hit you ride all the way on the right. I can't believe that my wedding isn't a fucking topic. That's all good. There's probably been a kind of run it into the ground.

Did you guys talk about it? No, we have not. We have not. Oh, maybe just Nick and I. There's been no podcast since the wedding? You guys did. We've talked about it. Really?

Yeah, no. There was, we have to talk about the wedding. We have to talk about the wedding. A hundred percent thanks. We're talking about the wedding. Live, uh, live corrections. There was two before and then this is the first one. Well, this is my first content day really since that whole trip.

I've had three weeks. It's been nice, right? Hitch, we were here last week taking photos. Someone's got to work. Hey, I've had three weeks off of content. Oh, yeah. I love that. Every day.

Yeah, right. You return back to street. Anyway, so we have my man methods on my right. And, of course, the scumper jumper over there. I am Optic. your... Anyway, how was your first day back streaming? It was good. I was really nervous because I don't like taking a long...

What? Nervous? Well, I don't like taking long breaks. He's hilarious. Especially now that I'm a full-time streamer, it's like I feel like my obligation is to stream and to create content. So whenever I'm off for three weeks, granted it was for probably one of the biggest moments of my entire life.

I still felt a little bit weird about it. It was supposed to be 12 days and bang, fucking COVID slammed you in the face. That pushed you back four days. That gave me three days, try to get ahead. Didn't you get the shot? I did, yeah, I got the shot. And then you still got COVID?

What the fuck? What did you take the shot then? I wish I could siphon the shot out of me. Be our honeymoon. We had a COVID honeymoon. It wasn't the most ideal scenario. Let's have it as funnel out of my body. It wasn't romantic.

We didn't take a honeymoon, but we joke and we called our COVID honeymoon because we got married. And then immediately following the wedding, we both got COVID. You got sticking? Q-tips up your noses? Yeah, yeah, we took tests.

Huh? We took tests. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's like so romantic. They were just like jabbing each other. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It was filthy.

We sat. We laid on the couch for like two and a half full days and just didn't move pretty much. It was good because it was like we hadn't been home in a while. We just got all the animals back because Gwen was it training. Yeah, how's that? Gwen? Yeah, she will behave? Oh, yeah.

She's great now. Really? Yeah, she's great now. But she's starting to revert a little bit. We need to keep on top of the training. Yeah, 100%. She's starting to go back. You know what it is about, like, one, I wish, listen, I love all my dogs.

They're my sons, all that. But you see me? The female dog of the pet. You see me? You see me? You see me? Anyway, she is the best. She is such a class act.

She is what I wish the rest of the dogs would be like. You want to know when the, sorry, me to cut you off. Oh, please. The dogs get bad when you're not home and it's just is. Like when my dad's not home and it's just my mom, if the dog does something, if Max or L will do something wrong, it's so much, it's treated so much differently from the woman perspective compared to. Oh, I'm jumping out of my chair.

Yeah, what are you doing? I'm jumping out. I'm just like, don't yell at him. My dad's like, what are you talking about? You want to yell at you instead? Yeah. No, he isn't, I'd knock him to fuck out. He knows.

He knows I'll take a flight. Wait, for what? You fuck up your dad if your dad and your mom got into an argument and he was yelling at your mom? I try. He's got a lot of weight on me. If I had a boy, he's got a lot of weight on me. If I had a boy and I happen to be getting yelled at, you know what I'm saying? And I defend myself, obviously.

Yeah. Try to step up. Knock his ass up. BOW. I mean, for the first for you. For the first 19 years. Then when he's 20, he's knocking your ass out. Yeah.

Good fucking luck. Axe. Good luck. But yeah, it's big. Totally kidding. Everything we just said is levity, guys. It's a podcast, a comedic podcast, everything. So as long as this is in the creative context,

according to the essence of the scene, nothing can be admissible. We're just shooting shit here. Yeah, it's been a little bit weird. It's been weird getting back into the swing of things because, like, I feel like any time you take an extended break like that, it's always hard to, like, come back to reality.

How do you do it? I took one break to get engaged. I took one break to get engaged. God forbid you get engaged. These motherfuckers. He doesn't even stream. And I don't stop. And I don't stop.

Every chance I've gotten for the past three years, I fucking do it. Oh, Blake's on vacation again. Well, Blake had a stint. Blake had a stint where he lived. He went to like four vacations. I wish he was blank. No, Blake. He's always working though.

Because the photos, he's always working technically because the photos. He's an incredible photographer. Yes. He can write it off. Okay, sniper, really good photographer. He went on a trip like three years ago or two years ago to like Ireland and like

Iceland or somewhere like a bunch of places and he got the whole thing booked because he shot a wedding in Ireland it was a TST fan. Oh, that's awesome. Shot a wedding in Ireland and then they just stayed and they got to write. Yeah, he shot like a little snippet of my wedding and posted it

and it looked like great. It looks so much. It pisses me off because I go to Mike Tamer Roll. Like, dude, my shit sucks. Like, I try to take a photo. We have, like, thousands of pictures from Denise's that we have to, like, sift through. Like, oh, yeah. She has, well, our hit, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our one of our our albums called hit and run, because we got hit and run.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was insane. And I think there's 5,000 pictures in just that one. I love that. It's a lot of photos. I love that. Or maybe not 5,000, but there's, like, there's multiple thousands. There has to be someone who documents it, of course.

Yeah, that was Denise. She, I mean, all the girls were taking a decent amount of pictures. I took like five. Dude, girls take so many pictures. I took five. Girls and Blake take so many pictures. I hate photos. I hate being in photos.

What? I hate the act of taking the photo. Let's take a picture. It's like you go there and it's like, all right, we're all set. But then it's like, there's always. Before we go, let's take, wait, can you get one of, can you, can it? And I'm just like, look where we're at. Just live.

Yeah. Let's just live. I brought my Osmo to record the wedding. And I'm telling you, I didn't pull out my phone for nothing. thing. I think if I go somewhere for a trip that's for me, I'm going to give Alexis and whoever's with me a little disposable camera. I'm like, this is what you get. Yeah. I'm not posing. I'll pose for that camera and that's it. That's it. I like taking pictures of like scenery and like views and like cool alleyways, like cool architecture. That's like stuff like that. I hate being in the photo.

Anything that's candid. I'm like that can't be me. I'm like that can't be me. The mirror does not fucking show that. That's not me. The camera adds 10 pounds. That's always been a. It might be adding 20. It might be adding there, yeah, might be adding quite a bit more. Or I gain 15, it has 10, 25 plus. I gained 8 pounds through like the past month.

When's your wedding? Maybe it hasn't been me. My what? You're wedding. We don't know yet. Okay. We're doing like we're doing like the in-game parties and shit right now. Okay. Let me know I has a E-Sep so I can mentally prepare to show up and be the best that I can be. All right. You need to

completely charge that battery yet? Yeah, dude. I'll tell you. It was, it was, it's gonna take some charging. Because I was like, we can't, we can't get back from Italy

and start playing an art. No, good. That's good. Yeah. It's good. It was a lot. The trip was amazing.

It was so sick. So sick. Before the trip, I felt like I was in that trance of like the same thing every day. I wasn't like super into it. Now I'm like excited to stream again. I'm not sure if it's like,

I'm not sure if it's like, I'm not sure if it's the new games. Like the mixture of both. But like that 12 day break, sure you get hit. Like you, You definitely, the thing with Twitch, like YouTube, you can record 12 videos and you'll be uploading every day. Twitch, you have to be there.

So you definitely feel the break. But I will say, I feel completely like rejuvenated and, like, excited to get back into it. I'm not sure if you guys feel the same way. It just feels like. I would have already been streaming, but Matt hasn't set up my camera. Damn. I bought a, what I buy, Matt, what I buy? What is it?

A webcam, the webcam that I got? See, I got an Elgado webcam and he, so I'm like, I haven't been able to start the server. for Minecraft. I'm like dying to do that. New Call of Duty's coming out so you know Old Middle Optic. You know what? I might drop my team. Really? Wow. I might drop Old Middle Optic. I'm going to play with people of my level of skill. I'm looking for I'm looking for people to replace Hutch and Diesel.

Maybe not Diesel. I was supposed to say. Diesel's, diesel's pretty good. Hutch, yeah. Hutch, you know. It's Hutch's Super Bowl right now. Hodge's Super Bowl is going on right now. It's his busy season. He had 2,500 people yesterday for literally six hours. Really? Yeah.

Does he happen? Because Elon Musk was on a burner account arguing with destiny. We're not arguing, debating with destiny. And then XQC joins in. Was it confirmed Elon Musk? How does that? Dude, it was Elon Musk. I didn't see him.

You cannot fake his voice. Oh, oh. Oh, it was a voice call. It was like spaces. But he was under like some weird name. And I texted Hutch. trying to inflame, you know, Hutch. Yeah, yeah, of course.

And the element of Optic, Mifuiz, Diesel and Hutch, and I'm like, I'm like, dude, 45, 47 has been secured, you know, and then he just fucking went off on a tangent. And he's like, and he's like, dude. And I'm like, I'm like, hutch, politics is kind of fun. I'm like intrigued. And this is, this is happening. Now, horrible what happened.

Very horrible. Very horrible. A lot of people were making levity and jokes, and that's the state of the world that we live in. living right now. We're so desensitized? That didn't even fucking matter or compute to people as something bad. That was almost like...

There are two things. That was almost... That was millimeters from... Millimetres from one of the worst days in... Yeah. American history. I mean, recent American history, but overall American history. Like, it would...

I mean, that would have been insane. On a live broadcasts? I was just talking... A former president getting fucking sniped in the head... I mean... We are so desensitized. We are so disatized. Like,

Like, no matter how you feel about Trump, if you love them, you hate him, whatever. Oh, no, that's lunacy. I mean, there are actual, like, I saw videos of lunatics. A former president almost got fucking executed on stage. Lunatics are like, oh, was stage? Like, listen, man, I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. Like, just say it that should not happen, please. That's fucking lunacy.

We're also so desensitized now where I feel like, like this, I could be wrong. This 20 years ago would have been crazier if it's on the news and everything. This would have made textbooks. It still Mike made textbooks, but like. It will be. No, it has to. Yeah, yeah. There's so much crazy shit going on that, like, that's insane.

And it had its one day of trending number one. Next day, it's something new. Yeah, I mean, I kind of agree with you. It's like, it's like already, like, died down. Like, I mean, I'm not saying that it should be just harped on forever. But, like, dude, it's, it feels normal in this day and age where I'm saying. It feels like another day. It's weird.

It's so desensitized that even the president or the former president, himself after being shot says, oh. We fight. Yeah. He says, you know, he was like, holy shit, almost died. Dude, if I stand up right now. I might get, I'm a legend. I might get reelected right now.

I might get reelected. This is my opportunity. He said, wait, wait, wait, wait. Dude, that is insane. It's, listen, and the amount of people that are like, that's a hard-ass shot, sure. The amount of people saying what they said, like, it is so, like, we are fucked as a fucking species it is not normal

too like been over and I'm saying this as a first person accountant of how much it didn't affect me that it happened until I thought to myself I'm like yo I was streaming I was streaming I remember vividly I was streaming I went to piss my mom texted me she's like Trump just

Trump just got shot and I was like what and I immediately went to Twitter when I sat back down and nobody in my chat like no nobody was reacting like my mom was watching it live so she was like she was watching it. She was at the rally. But she's watching it live. I knew as soon as he said it.

He was like, she's watching it live. She texts me. I sit down. It took like five minutes. I was like, yo, did anybody see what just happened? And then people and then it started like. Dude. And people were like what happened?

I was like, I was talking to a moron in person. Okay. It's so weird, man. This, this dumb person and I hope you're watching. he says it was set up and I'm like think about this

alright you're setting it up and you're like yo you're gonna go on that roof with it but only hit my ear with that bullet only hit my

dude behind me don't worry about me like what the fuck what do these people think no no no no these people use their these people can fucking vote that are saying that shit

no this is why dude it blows my mind it's like common sense has flown out the door and it makes me realize there are actual

just like like that that is like that is lunacy. To think that someone just got potentially their head blown off as a staged occurrence? Like, what are you talking about, dude? Dude, we were playing Blackout

because we were doing like a video where we go back to Blackout and try to win a game. I was 1v4 and I'm just looking and I look down at chat and chat's just freaking out. I'm like, what? And then Blake's not looking at his phone, George is looking at his phone and I'm like, all right, well. And then I just hear through Blake's

phone, through the mic like pooh, and it's insane. And then everybody's just like, Trump got shot. And I'm like, oh, now. The story is crazy, too. The conspiracy behind this thing is fucking nuts. Oh, that I... To be fair.

That I understand. There are legitimate questions to be asked about that. Like, how the fuck the Secret Service miss people staring pointing at the guy saying there is a fucking guy with a rifle right there? Oh, if that was Taylor Swift speaking, that never would have happened. Oh, are you kidding me? Never would have got a bullet out. Well, if Trump was a better singer than maybe... Joking.

Has he tried singing? Maybe he has a hidden talent. Yeah, dude. Anyway, the level of lunacy that has happened and transpired in the last 48 hours just tells you that it's the best temperature check as where we are as humans, where we don't give a fuck about something that serious. And again, I'm saying it because for 10 minutes, I myself was not taking that as like a, I was just like, yeah.

Just like, all right. And then I literally told myself, I'm like, how crazy are you that there's no, and then I'm like, it's a serious thing. And then I started to like, you know, sort of knock my brain back into the regular rails to fucking realize how serious this thing is. It's just, I think it's because of the access to so much information that you're seeing so much like tragedy and insane things on the daily. Like I think back to when I was young and Michael Jackson died, that day, it's like the world stood still. Like I feel like an assassination attempt That the former president

Should be a day where the world stands still Like that's like a I get you The most recent ones I remember where it like Stood still was Kobe Whenever Kobe died Oh my God Yeah

We were at the Minnesota opening Event and everybody was like Breaking down Like nobody was practicing Everyone was like What the fuck? That one's fucking crazy That's like the last time

That I remember Like an event like that It affects Dude one is I think I wholeheartedly believe that I had COVID that weekend. I stayed in my room for like three days. We didn't know what COVID was yet.

We still had another tournament in February in London when it actually started to shot everything down. But I was so sick and seeing that and hearing that his daughter almost being the father of a daughter, like it fucked me up. And I agree. Like I got mega emotional called my family, blah, blah, blah. But it is beyond believe how unsurious we are taking this thing. And yeah, like people are saying, you may hate him.

right you may love them fact of the matter is is this is the president or former president of the united states of america you see that shit that happened with jack black but even so jack black was on a tenacious d tour yeah and he's saying uh happy birthday to his co artist i don't know his name the other guy in tenacious d saying happy birthday to him and said what do you wish for

and that guy said i wish next time don't miss Trump. No. And Jack Black was like, huh. And everybody was like, and Jack Black put on Instagram today that he's canceling the rest of the tour. Really?

Yeah. Wow, it's his bandmate. Yeah, like the other guy in Tenacious D. Come on, Jables, now it's time to blow doors now. Exactly, yeah, that guy. I can't remember his name. I just know him as Jables from that song. Don't miss Trump next time is what he said.

Yes. What the fuck Don't miss Trump next? It is You're allowed to not like the guy Like that's the way politics works You're allowed to say that Also

Freedom of speech You're allowed to say that But it's like You know what I'm saying When it actually happened And it actually just fucking happened Like learn The

The days You know what you're Is nobody else like fucking seeing this shit? The days of healthy debate Are no more There's no more like, nowadays you're sort of put into a category, right? Like it's like, what category are you in? And then if you're in one category, that side's going to hate you and vice versa.

So like there's no more healthy. Like, I personally don't give a shit. If you like this guy and you like this guy, you like this guy, it wouldn't affect me. You know what I'm saying? As long as you're not going around screaming at nonstop making your personality, I don't care. Dude, am I. Like nowadays, if someone finds out that you support a certain side or whatever, it's like an end-all be-all.

there's like you're this, you're this, you're this. There's no more like healthy, just agree to disagree type mindset. Has aren't, I don't remember when I was a kid it being this divisive. And maybe it's just because I was no, no social media blew it out. No social media.

I feel like the opinions weren't as loud because now everybody, everybody's voice can be so loud with social media. It's like you just have a, it's like an echo chamber of just fucking, just people screaming at each other. It's like, it's just different. You guys saw that the guy that predicted this three months. ago, yeah?

No. All right. Matt, you've seen him? Okay, I'm gonna send you the clip. Oh, the frogs are gay guys, that guy? I don't think so. Who am I talking about? The what?

Alex, it's not Alex Jones? Alexander Jones, I've been listening to this guy, Alex Jones, since high school. That's your guy? No, he's not my guy. Since 1997, he's not my guy, but he's also not my guy. Yeah, he's not not my guy. He's not not my guy. I watch.

Since 1997, since 1997-98, on Man Cow's Morning Madhouse, I used to drive my 1997 Ford Explorer to the bank to be a teller. And we would listen to me, Mario, you know Mario. We would listen to him like just because he was funny. And that's what we would listen to. Like Man Cowell, what the fuck? Anyway, so the fact that this motherfucker is still around. They'll do it. Dude, I watched what I watched his mini podcast that he did with Tim Dillon yesterday because he

got fed to me, right? Because I'm looking at all of the Trump stuff. So he came up. And then the guy that predicted it fucking months ago came up. Did I put it in the optic chat? I put it everywhere. So anyway, why don't you continue right now while I send you this, Matt? What were you talking about? Sorry, I cut you off. I think social media and like how you were saying it feels way more divisive than it used to be. Well, I think social media has made like, yes. It's been a lot of good and a lot of harm is what social media is done. Play this. Play this. This is three months ago. The guy that predicted the assassination attempt, but we all joked it could happen. All throughout and I saw Trump rising up and then I saw an attempt on his life. This bullet flew by his ear

and it came so close to his head that it busted his drum, eardrum. And I saw he was, he fell to his knees during this time frame and he started worshiping the Lord. He was, he was, he fell to his knees during this time frame and he started worshipping the Lord. He got radically born again during this time frame. I'm talking, people say he's saved now, but he becomes really... This was three months ago? Yes. What? World's crazy, man. What the hell? Yeah. What is that like a preacher or something? No, no, he's just like a, uh, uh, like a Nostradamus guy. An evangelist. That's crazy, man. An evangelist. Is that what it is? Is that what it says? I don't know. What does Nostradamus? What does Nostradamus mean? You're not familiar with Nostradamus?

A philosopher, yeah. Not a philosopher. I thought like Socrates, Nostradamus. Socrates, philosophy is a hypothesis? A hypothesis? No. Who's Nostradamus? Nostradamus is the clairvoyant, the very famous guy that predicted everything back in like the 1600.

Oh, oh, okay, okay, okay, yeah. Bro, as a kid, I used to watch those, like, I don't know, like regular TV show on a Friday, where Twilight Zone used to be, like in that sort of time frame. I used to watch when I'm talking about when I was in Mexico didn't speak a lick of English Yeah, and I would watch him and just be so fearful of fucking everything of everything that can happen. And sure enough, like everything that he sort of said it was going to happen fucking Sort of like the Simpsons, but not as entertaining. Yeah, yeah. Damn. What a fucking What a time. What a time we're living in, man. What a time we're living in.

We were scrolling TikTok, me and Kate, and we're just seeing all these Trump clips. and I stopped and I was like But you usually get those anyway But I stopped This is before the incident Well I Well I stopped and I looked at her

I was like The former president Was almost assassinated On live camera Like that is like the most insane But it's so I guess we're beating the dead horse It's just like so

Insane But it's so normal At the same time In this current generation That it's like a weird thing to see I am curious though what you guys think about this whole situation in the comment section I'm gonna come

I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I know that there's gonna be so many fights so many so many fights on the comments it's a mosh pit in the comments let it fly down there that's like Christmas that's what I do at Christmas I bring up politics and I just sit back and watch do you really oh I fuck that's interesting I've been done I've been known to do that I get my red solo

I throw a little whiskey in there and I take a step back and I so say politics and I hide in the corner it's fair back in North Carolina we brought up politics, it wouldn't be an issue because everybody would be in the same side. I just laugh for my family. That's funny. Yeah.

What I will say is that every single one of you like sit where you're sitting, look around you, think about your own personal life and whether or not you are where you want to be. And whatever answer comes from that, just don't focus on the distraction that is the division that's happening in this country where one side is trying to get you to go against another side when we should all be on the same fucking side. It is assinine to me that because you are a Republican, you can't like weed. It is assinine to me that if you're a Democrat, you don't like weapons. I'm sitting here in the middle like I like both.

I want a good tax rate and I also want to be able to shoot some freedom rounds down the range if I fucking want to while smoking a doo-be, man. More importantly. So, yeah. Maybe a different time. More importantly, is it maybe at different times? No. I'm kidding. More importantly, there's a bidding war to play with Pokemon that hit $500,000.

My boy, Gunless, went nuts with that one. Quick 500, quick half a mill for my boy. That is insane. Wait, so, okay. It's for charity. I'm not trying to play or hate. You know, do whatever you got to do. You got the funds.

You do whatever you want with your funds. Who won? But half a million dollars is. That's money laundering. That's fucking Marty Bird. He's like, you know what? Who's for a 500 Pokemon? No, it's still going on apparently.

Lacey. Lacey. I saw Rinaldo was doing a... Okay, Rinaldo did 15K. Lacey did $500,000. Seriously? Yeah. Wait, Lacey did $500,000?

I saw that online. It said... He actually hit Bid. It said Faisie 500,000. Is that up there? No way. That would be a clip farm right there. Dude.

Half a mill for it? I'll tell you what. I think it'd be like it'll get your blood going. Like I'm going to go in there and bid 400,000, right? Imagine nobody else outbids me. You're just like, oh my God. For an hour and a half of Pokeyane? Like, no offense to her.

What are we, among us? Like, what are we going to do for? It's an hour and a half? Yeah. Hour and a half? 500K? Or is it two and a half hours? How much do you think?

It doesn't matter if it's an hour and a half or two and a half. Both of those are insane. It's one of those two. Both are horrible. It's one of those two. half a million, two and a half hours. All right, let's test this. That's insane.

Let's test this out. If you are in Texas, highest bitter in the comments. Play with methods. Wow. To go fishing with me and someone else. What the hell's funny about that?

You'll meet us at the pool. That would be a good time for the better. I just knew how you were going to react. You'll meet us at the boat ramp. Throw it in the chat down below. I, we'll see what's up. Oh, here comes a whatnot stream. That is fucking crazy.

How much do you think people would pay to play with Scum for an hour? Not that. It wouldn't be this level with all due respect. 15? 15 bands. I think 10 to 20K would max out. Anything above that, I'm worried. I wouldn't even want to take that, though, is the thing.

That's kind of insane. I would give them, I'd be like 20. All right, we'll do it for 10. Come on, let's go play. I'll do it for 20 gifted. 20 gifted. You can join up for 20 gifted. Exactly.

We'll do it for 19. and a half. You know what? Keep the Tao. Actually, 25 gifted you can join up. 25 gifts? You can join up? Hey, 25 gifted, half a million. Is this like a charity thing or something though? Yeah, it is. Oh, okay. So that's, that makes it way better.

Wait, y'all thought she just went live and was like, I thought she was running to the bag. I mean, again, more power to you. If you can do that, that's fucking crazy. That's what you thought. So we don't know who's in first right now, Matt? What charity is it going to? Have they said? It's...

It's... I can't remember. One minute ago. Holy shit. How much? Two minutes ago. $500,000. This happened two minutes ago?

There's probably screenshots. Wait, no, no. This is... Yeah, these have to be screenshots. Wait, why does it say on X? Oh, they're promoting their ex account. Ah, let me see. Click on the...

Let me see who this hairy vibes is. Yeah, yeah. Let's go to his... This could be the best marketing of all. time. His name is what? He's even, we're even promoting it on the Optic podcast. He's his only fans, pin tweet. Dude, it's already worth it to him. What the, my God. Oh, my God. I'm about to follow him. Oh, my God. He's got V bucks. I'm about to follow him. Oh, he plays Val. How many, how many, how many followers, not? He plays Val. Yo, Seth, I don't know if you notice, and I know that you don't go

on, don't go on Instagram, but listen to this. Are you guys ready to, are you guys ready for this? Are you guys ready for this? And I wonder why this didn't happen at the Abner's wedding. Okay. Oh, come on. I think we didn't talk about the wedding enough. We should probably circle back and discuss Italy. Yeah, we really just skimed over. Again, we've talked about it so much, so people are probably sick of hearing about it.

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I mean, I'm sure. I did, uh, did, did that shot is insane. Yeah, that shit was fucking dope. Jude got some really dope shots from this. Well, we had drones. Like, our videographer, the video is going to be crazy. I caught the end of this firework show. I was pissed off.

You didn't see it? I was in the facilities. Dude, I didn't know that. It was the worst time. No, I told you that. You couldn't fucking hold it for three minutes? I didn't know what was happening. Did you see?

I saw it. That's more than enough. I didn't know it was starting. And then I sped up the process and I caught the end of it. And then I told you that. He missed out. Why are you meant of him for missing out? He's the one that missed out.

Don't make them feel bad. Trust me. I started hearing it and I was like, fuck, white, white, white, white. He was making his own fireworks down there, M80s. You got the brown marker at the worst time. Dude, it was. That shit sucks, bro. That trip was.

I got the brown marker in the flight flying back from Italy. In a two-person stall, all the urinals were out of order. There was a line of like 20 dudes. I'm in there just, wing, wing, wing, wing. Just fucking friction. Just friction in there. That's disturbing, dude. I mean, dude, it was two stalls.

There was a guy knocking on the door. brother you gotta fucking wait a second here oh wait oh that's is i thought that was your picture because didn't you post this me no matt craig oh yeah is is posted when i stomped the glass dude set you haven't seen the video yet but i have to bring up the fact that people might think i'm fucking crazy but look as this as this scene was happening and i mean like as the wedding was happened right before you you you uh you brought the glass as the as the wedding biles were being made as the, what do you call the priest? Rabbi?

As the rabbi was singing two pigeons. Oh yeah, they were swallows. Two pigeons flew towards the left into the distance. Immediately after that, those two sparrows were circling you guys as if it was coordinated. It was gorgeous. It was a magical moment. Dude, I swear to God, it was a magical moment. Yeah, I was trying.

This whole thing, man. Like her veil, I was watching the flycast, my favorite podcast. And you know how you said that her veil, as she was turning the corner behind this fountain, it like opened up and it looked like sales. Bro, she looked like an anime character, like an anime motion, slow motion. I'm like, man, then I turned around, saw you crying and I got a little bit teary eyeed. And I'm like, look in. Yeah, I said we all turned and saw her. And as soon as we saw her, all the guys looked at Seth and all the girls were looking at her.

her. Because Seth we just turned to Seth and I was like when redheads cry all this gets red and all this started getting red and I was like oh he's going to break down. Nope, didn't break down. I cried though. I didn't break down though. I was trying

not to look at the crowd because... No, you could have break down. Like yeah, I couldn't. I was looking like this. Oh yeah, my my nephew sharded Oh dude. Christian. Wait, did you hear it from up there? Oh yeah. I instantly was like

Yeah I was like this Because he was on He was on my Because his family was at her Her diagonal And then on our left My family and friends were

On the left I mean all of them are my family and friends But like obviously You know My side Just in case of five broke out Christian was there And we were

I think it was after Right after the vows Or during the vows I can't remember if it was during Or right after But he just sharded Dude it was insane I saw my brother's wife

You were Oh, dude, you and I were. My brother's wife just did one of these. Like, it was, it was, I was like, gnarly. It was hilarious. It was hilarious. It was hilarious. Now, now whenever he grows up, I'm going to talk shit.

Definitely an avenue. So you sharded at my wedding, brother. It's great. Feels good. How are you going to shard at my wedding? Dude, I tell you what, it was, it, I don't want to, I mean this. And I don't want to offend anybody. This is the most beautiful wedding I have ever been to.

It is just the, the magic behind it. I mean, you could, and I know it's corny, but you know, listen to who is coming from. There was literal love in the air and not just from the bride and the groom. Like, everybody was there truly, like, to experience something gorgeous.

The fuck is this shit. Oh, yeah, this is Blake's video. Blake's video was fucking so good. Nobody caught me making the speech of the best man. I was the best man, by the way. I don't know why he didn't want to say. Obviously, I'm a way better friend to him. Then nature had way better friend to him.

than Zinny, way better friend. He likes me more than he likes any of you motherfuckers. It was the best man. It was a fucking competition. It was a competition. And I want. No, no, so his brother. Yeah, it was Hector and my brother.

Yeah, yeah. That's so funny. Dude, I mean like, yeah. Your speech was good. Jordans was unbelievable. Well, I will say this. Is he Zinni had to bring him back down in reality? Your speech was okay.

I mean this from the bottom of my heart. you are and maybe it's the way that I was brought up or my culture but in situations like that you always let the family member like have the last or the last lasting word you know what I'm saying so I didn't want to well one I couldn't Jordan Jordan's fucking Jordan's fucking Jordan's fucking he was like this was like a story he basically told a story and he was giving you moments from like childhood and like he was giving you moments from like childhood and like Oh, dude. Like, he was, like, describing things with, like, vividly. For example, he'd be like, our TV stand had a sharp edge. Like, you could actually visualize what he was saying, and that's what, I mean, it was an incredible speech. Jordan knocked, you did great too. Everyone did great.

Sophie did great. Everyone knocked out of the park, but that was, I'll echo, you said, it's the most beautiful. Yeah. We were there for what? Nine days before the wedding. So we were just, before I forget, don't let anybody ever tell you that the food is different in Italy. fresh, it's good ingredients. You still get full. You still get fat.

Yes. Not as fat. Not as fat, but you still feel it. So, Positano was good because you're walking up and down so much that it kind of like, you're on a stair master everywhere you're going, because you can't really get like cars unless you're leaving Postano or like, I mean, you can get an Uber, but

it's like you might as well just walk most places. Rome had the best food. Rome's Carbonara. I mean, we went to a place that Haley, Matt, Matt's wife recommended. Nateshot's wife. Osteria de Fortunata.

Yeah. There's one at the Pantheon. There's like two locations pretty close to the Pantheon. Go to the Pantheon. The oyster. The oyster of fortune? That place, they had an ox tail pasta. Oh my God.

The meatballs there were astounding. So we actually, since we got stuck there because his got food poisoning. We went back again, just me and her. And it was just as good the second time. Bro, I got to tell you. and I'm a firm believer that the best pasta you're going to find it's going to be the best cuisine you're going to find

is in the United States of America I actually agree with this I hate to admit it but these places it's for you but it's no taste because we use more butter salt MSG than the other place so for example Florence is known for like

meats and steaks I had steaks in Florence and they were solid but like you can't compete with the US when they're using that much salt butter and MSG it's not possible and they're getting injected with their version of great compared to ours is very different. But this place was unbelievable. Each place in Italy has their

thing, like, Posetano. I think Posetano is more for like views, water. I don't know. Postetano is the best food I had on the trip. Really? That's what you said too, right? No, Rome, Rome, Rome. But I would say Rome, Florida, then

Posita. We went to, but we didn't go to any, like, five-star restaurants in Rome or Florence. I mean, either did we, really. We didn't go to any, like, super-famian. Fancy places. And Pocitano, Davinchev. Well, their version of fancy, like, Da Vincizo, I think, is a fancy place. That was our last place in Posto.

That was amazing. But that seemed like the only, like, really high-end place that we really went. Yeah. Like Tagliata, the first place you went, that was kind of like mom-and-pop style. That place was awesome. That place fully encapsulates Italy the way I envisioned it. So there's a place called La... Wow.

I think it's pronounced La Taliata. It's spelled like La. Tagliata. It's spelled T-A-G-L-A. A. T.A. What you're not going to what you notice? Well, it's, I'm just trying to spell it out so they can actually look it up La Taliata, I believe it's called. Yep, there it is. But, uh, so this is very family, family style. Basically, the amount of food they brought out.

This is in Positana. I was no menu. There's no menu. There's no menu. There's, there's four courses and it's just crazy. Oh, yeah, I saw this place. Dude, they just keep bringing, fucking, yeah, we want to do that instead. Yeah, yeah, we tried, we tried to, or Steph wanted to get, this is, we're getting your reservations. With the amount of food we got, Unlimited wine, I was thinking like 150, 200 a person easily. They bring you a white and red wine complimentary. It's their own wine that

they make like... It was like 50 bucks a person for like the most of the I've seen in my life. It was insane. It was our first meal. It was our first meal. The amount of food was you couldn't finish it if you tried. I set the bar. I must have drank two, three bottles, three whole bottles of

apparel while I was there. I was going in. You were just going to Sprit. It's sprits a all the time. You can't get into it. You could keep drinking them. I'm not a Prosecco, champagne. Yeah, I love prosaqo and champagne, I think, are the two alcohols that are actually scientifically proven to not be depressants.

They actually, like, enhance your mood. Well, tequila's the safest. The coales are the only two. The way it breaks down in your body. Everything else is a depression. Aren't champagne and prosceco the same thing? One's just from a different. Yeah.

Bine or something? No, champagne has to be from champagne. Oh, gotcha. Yeah. One specific vineyard, I think, or area. What I did get introduced to, and thank you to whoever introduced me to it, the espresso martinis. Holy fuck. I had seven of them in one sitting.

And I'm like, dude. I'm like, you guys don't understand. Is that the first time we've had them? Yeah. Coffee doesn't affect me the same way that affects you guys. Everyone says that, dude. 30 a.m. When I have to be up at 8.30 to go do the fucking walk through and all this shit.

And I'm like, I'm like wide open. I'm like, what the fuck? Dude, one time. I had seven in a row. I was doing it around the bar with my man Ronnie. He's a professional paintball player. And I asked him what cocktail he wanted. He said espresso martini.

And I must, Matt, how many do you think I had? I must have had five. Yeah. Dude. And then Matt drove me home. I didn't shut the fuck up the whole ride home. I was like, dude, I think we could have something like really great here. Like, just the whole ride home.

And then I was like wired. I couldn't go to bed. I was drunk. I was hammered and wire. Just like in bed at 4 a.m. Dude, all that I was missing that night was even a bowl ski. You know what I'm saying? Just something.

But, man, I've had five espresso Martinez since we came back. So good. Every time I go to a place, I get it. They're amazing. But if it comes with Mascale, I send that shit back. Put that Titos in there. No, but not. Not with the espresso martini.

Oh, absolutely not. Well, some people drink tequila espresso marquises. No, no, no, no, no. That is not the wave. But if you like espresso martinis, the Charles and certain places do a Carahillo, Cartahillo. It's C-A-R-A-J-I-L-O, Cardahio. My favorite coffee drink of all time. It's liquor 43, espresso.

I think that'll be your new favorite. Dude, the only thing I didn't like about it was that it came in those, like, those martini glasses? Yeah. And you know me, you know, I'm not James Bond. Comes in the old-fashioned glass. You sort of throw them back. Yeah, see?

Mine looks like that. Oh, yeah. It comes in the air. Yeah, let's go get one right now. I promise you it'll be your favorite. Let's go get one right now. I'm down for the diner after this. Oh, I love it.

I'm down too. Yeah, listen, I guess to recap the whole thing, I was the best man and it was a great way. It was a competition. That shit was so good. Yo, but I stepped up in my duties. I've been, I've had the honor of being the best man in a couple of weddings. And there's one thing that I will not say here, but I will say offline that I tell the, the groom to be.

And then the rest of the stuff is just, I'm your man. Whatever the fuck you need, I'm your man's. This guy made me right. Didn't make me. I want it to help. Listen, I was told we had from two to three to get ready in the room. It was 2.15 and they came in and they were like, y'all ready for pictures, right? And I was like, oh, I thought we had 45 more minutes because I had to transfer my vows from my phone to my book.

We definitely had more time. They rushed the shit out of us for, yeah, that was the one thing. Yeah, because by the time, like, I'm like, go take the picture to the groom. I'll finish writing this thing with a fucking pencil. Should you fucking hurt my knuckle to this day. They could have gave us that 15. Hmm? They could have gave us 1520.

With how quick we were finished with our photos, they could have gave us 1520. Yeah. Well, I went to the venue with his. before the wedding and I was there for like an hour just standing there. Yeah. She got like her hair and makeup redone and I was just sitting there for an hour. I didn't have my phone. I had nothing.

In that, uh, in that hall? Yeah, just sitting there. If there's anywhere do you want to sit down and not do shit is that fucking hall. 100%. That dining hall was gorgeous. Dude, that was. It was this, this villa was owned by the Medici family or has been in the Medici family since the Medici family was able to afford it.

It is the most gorgeous place. I, I hope to one day have a place like that in Mexico. It was Succession, man. It was the first time in my life. I felt like I was in my favorite show. Dude, we were riding in the bus, like exactly like in Succession. Those two big fucking buses that took us there, almost got into a crash if it wasn't for me saying, yo. But this guy started playing the theme song to Succession as we were pulling in.

And I'm like, yeah. Did he? It was beautiful. And then I go up to the fucking piano player because, of course, there was a piano player under a beautiful Magnolia tree that had to have been 400 years old with beautiful blue. blooming magnolia flowers. And he's playing that. And I'm like, do you know Succession?

No, excuse me. And I was like, brother, successione. And then he's like, nah. Oh, if he knew that and started playing it, I would have been amazing. Wouldn't it have been amazing? I thought it would have been so chronic. The food at the wedding,

the dessert fucking table at the wedding had me in a chokehold. Fuck that shit up. I was just like, I was disturbing at the wedding. I was drinking. I ate the dinner. And then I did like, there was probably

do you mean in the courtyard dude I was filthy I was out there trying everything well there not nobody was dancing but everyone was in the courtyard because there was like

there's probably like 15 of us on the dance floor and I was like where the fuck is everyone I walked outside there was like 30 people in the courtyard oh the dude the DJ was amazing too he would do I was like appalled

the transitions that the DJ was throwing at us were like I thought I was at like a a live professional show you thought you were fucking flipping through TikTok it was like this song No, it was nuts. It was like the perfect transition, mixing songs.

Bro, Hilton, Hilton did the most. Bro, this guy had the, he was carrying Seth, throwing Seth up in the air. The embers threw me out of the chair. Yeah. I have back problems. Dude. This shouldn't happen before. In that clip, in the actual clip, I don't know if anyone has video of it, but it is, is

reaching out for Seth. Because she's, they're both like getting through. And she's like, Seth, hold me. And Seth is gripping his chair so tightly. Oh, yeah. And going like this. Dude. You were about to fly out.

They were literally like, Zinny's side was like giving me no support. Your side was horrible. The other side was lifting. I have back problems. I'm like, I'm like sideways and they're like trying to throw me like. I thought I was going flying. No bullshit. That's a heavy chair, man.

I will say this and I think that we can end it on this is that. That's a heavy chair. Is that the speeches that your mom, like the speech that you, like the speech that Your mom gave was fucking wow. Incredible. Funny, clever, threw it back to what somebody else said. Is his dad? My God.

Not, I mean, to me, so do I. I mean, that's something to be said. Fucking cool as fuck has beaten me every single time that we played pool in your basement. Servicemen. So, you know, whatever. But it used to be a DJ. The speech that he made, he fucking freestyleed and I was fucking torn up as a father of daughter I was like man what a fucking guy you know like I I have a picture with him just me and him

let's get a picture like you and me of course he was teaching me dances at the pool one night because it was then it was night after the garden party and yeah he's a DJ and like I was like he was dancing I was I don't know that night and he was showing me was unnecessary but it was great because we had the welcome party and then the fucking villa has a DJ come to the pool is right next to the welcome party. So we went from the welcome party to the welcome welcome party. And I think people drank more at the second location easily. And I'm drinking.

And the drinks were 20 bucks. We keep drinking. I mean, it was, it played out perfectly. It was great. I was hammered. Oh, everyone was. I was hammered. Everyone was loving it.

I had a flight. Dude, let's end it right here because now we're going to start to get into the complaint in the complaint part of the trial. like, Naitchak got shit, his shit fucked. He lost all seven bags. That is crazy. That's got to be a world record. He lost seven bags.

The airline lost on his way home, all seven of his bags and the stroller. I heard how much they were complaining. I think they got him back. But I think they got him back, but still. Two seven bags is insane. What did I say in the groomsman chat? Guys, put a tag on your shit. I don't know what you said.

Good one. The bus bag. He's any in the car yesterday. He was like, dude, it's champs. week and I was like, wait a second. Zinny getting excited about a cot event and he's like, dude, it's champs. It is champs. It's fucking champs week, dude.

We are three days away. I'm always excited for majors. I just think the five week online qualifiers are a bit miserable depending on who's playing. I think major four took the steam out of everyone's sales a little bit for Comcod. Because like major three, obviously we win it. It's fucking amazing. Viewerships great. And then major four, like obviously we get.

We get rounded and then There's no fans There was just like no fans We weren't watch partying Yeah I feel like it just kind of took It would just I think champs will be amazing Champs will like revitalize it

And then obviously after champs We got East Sports World Cup So We have a lot coming up We have a lot coming up Um Yeah But I can't wait

Live Allen Texas Everyone's flying in Everyone's text me For restaurant recommendations I'm like Charles All right let's do this Let's do this Let's do this

Let's do a quick recommendation of places to go. Obviously, downtown Dallas is like an easy one to do. If you're going to get food, you want to go to downtown Dallas. Thursday. All right. It's happening today, guys. Good luck getting reservations at that Charles, Mr. Charles, sister, Carlos Eligante.

Do not, I mean, try to. If you can have the omacase at Kinzo, do that over anything else. It's closer than it is to go. downtown but you got to make those reservation ahead of time because they overnight the fish and it is Gonzalo Mokase the Charles, Mr. Charles

sister is this right now Matt? El Carlos Monarch the Henry If you want tacos to go to Chalotayas 360 dude For burgers go to rodeo goat Is that Alan? Damn

Now the center stage is going to be sick That shit's going to be so sick Dude, I can't know. It's such an intimate venue. Like, I love, I love Champs, but a lot of times, Champs gets booked in venues that are big. And we end up cutting half the venue, only playing on half. This, we're going to fill the whole place.

And it's going to be intimate. This is going to be fucking awesome. It's going to be like 5,000 people, but still intimate. It's going to be so loud. It is going to be deafening. Yeah. I am so excited. I don't know where the drums are.

It's going to be so loud. It's going to be extremely loud. People aren't, I don't think people, like this picture, it makes it even look bigger than it feels when you're in there. Like when it's filled, it's going to feel tiny. It's going to feel. But not like tiny in a bad way. Not tiny in a bad way.

It's going to be like full. It's going to feel full. It's over 7,000 people, I think, right? So it's going to be 7,000 people in there. I got a text yesterday. It's like, hey, no more tickets. No more. They said, you don't.

got nobody else no more. Don't say I got you. No more. No more. We got that. The amount of people that have... You're going to be on the watch party. We're going to have spacious, space if you want to be. Dude, I'm so glad to be back in Dallas, Texas. I was like, of course, of course. All right. Ladies and and gentlemen, thank you so much for tuning into this episode. If you would like to congratulate Skump and the beautiful bride is on their wedding. Do leave a like on this video. We do appreciate it. Thank you so much. We'll see you guys next week. See your champs, baby. No.

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