OpTic Podcast - The Future of Halo, OpTic Challengers and a Call of Duty MOVIE?! | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 240

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

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Yeah, Team USA is going to be the team to beat, obviously. And Shotsie's going to want to play for him. And Shati, well, Shati is going to have, that's what I was, because I was talking to him and I was talking about him, that specifically. Because he and I were supposed to go to Austin through the Razor Me. Our plane got to lay five, anyway, long story short, we ended up not going, but while we were there, we were talking about it. We had breakfast at this fancy-ass restaurant.

What's the name of it? Wendy's. And we were talking about it. I'm like, well, like, I'm like, yo, this nation's thing, what do you think about it? It was like, who are you going to play for? You're like, you're like mixed. And you're from here. You speak no Spanish, like, whatever.

And he's like, yeah, I don't know. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to welcome you to episode 4 240 of the Optic podcast. This episode is brought to you by Butcher Box. We'll tell you a little bit more about them later on the podcast. A lot has happened. I want to start off by giving a huge shout out to my boy who passed. My son, Henry. Um, oh my God.

It was one of the most hurtful things I've been through. But, uh, but he's in a better place. He had heart failure in the end. Two years ago, they told us that we, that he could go any moment, but he lasted us in an additional one in eight months. Benji was super sad. Benji, his duo, the golden doodle. He was the only one that was like, at first, like, uh,

I thought he was just like bored and shit. And Jude said, he's just bored. And I'm like, no, he misses his duo, obviously. He's the biggest dog there. So I told Jude, one morning, I woke up and I saw him because the dogs don't sleep in our room. And I don't know why I'm going into this thing. Just let me vent here for a second. I need to get it out so that everybody can understand.

The dogs don't sleep in our bedroom, but they have been for the last couple of since Henry passed just so that we can, you know, keep them whatever. And one morning I woke up and Benji was like sort of laying or holding on to Henry's, uh, fucking octopus thing and I was just like I woke up and obviously juice sleeping I took a picture room I woke up one about my day and I called she woke up she said hey I'm blah blah

I call it I'm like I'm like yo get him a dog immediately look for a dog immediately you were getting we're getting Benji your dog now so I wanted to you know to be busy and shit and to sort of get over it but but yeah man it's it's one of the toughest things

you just you just went through it recently You know what that's... I mean, I had a dog for two years. You've had Henry for how long? Since eight years total. Yeah, I mean, that's even tougher. Big dogs like that, look, that day, as Jude's telling me this,

and it was the most fucked up scenario too, because, like, for all my dogs, I've been there. And I'm going to try to say this quick so that I don't start choking up and shit, but, like, I was in Chicago from a fantasy draft when it happened. I sleep with my noise machine through my phone. white noise and at four like four or something in the morning like I wake up out of the dead sleep

and I look at my phone and it's ringing it's Olivia and I'm like what the fuck so I pick up and then she's like he's like dad we think Henry just had a heart attack we're taking him to the blah blah blah so I'm like fuck I get up in a panic I start packing and you know when you get up too quickly you start like sort of like yeah yeah so all these emotions are going through I'm like I'm like I'm like I gotta take shit so I sit down and I'm just like there and then that's when Jude calls me and she's like he didn't make it and i was just like and then i'm like all right i looked to see if i could get a quicker flight i was supposed to land here at 10 i didn't land here until like two because my flight kept on getting delayed and i'm just sitting i'm just sitting at the at the airport like man my

my my girls are alone with this fucking feeling i you know whatever but um he uh yeah his his heart gave out he was sleeping jude said that that entire day he was up running chasing squirrels fucking ate good, was feeling good, blah, blah, blah, and then, you know, he didn't make it. So, I've been a fucking wreck for about a week, haven't been able to do shit for about a week, and then here I am. Yeah.

The biggest boy. Those big dogs, man. RIP, Henry. Yeah, dude. RIP. I used to hug him so hard. Okay, let's move on. Butcher box.

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If he gets to a million, he's going to shave his head. He's going to get a haircut. The Jabba Waki's appeared. I don't know if he's getting two million. He got, he's getting two a million. Oh, he's getting two a million. Oh, for sure. He's hitting a million.

He was live for, he was live for, what, 30 days? Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh. Oh. He's so funny. He's so annoying. He's so good. I like how the intro is live too.

Yeah, and the soundtrack is in the background too. It's in the room. So you can hear all their feet stepping. All you hear is the best. We're like, yeah. Yeah, that is so annoying. Yeah, the Javahuahuahuahuas, man. Legendary breakdance crew.

They ain't no brickheads out of Chicago, but. Who know, they do their thing. That was, I mean, that shit was fire. You know, he probably, I know, I know a guy from, or he, who used to be a Jabawaki. Really? Yeah, he was in a commercial with me, the, he was in a, uh, previous, uh, energy drink. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Commercial that I went to Mexico to do, do, uh.

Oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah, Kai's got different stuff going on, man. Yeah, what's he doing right? We pull him up right now, Riley. And his, uh, so on the Mafia, Mafeathon 2, the bed, it used to have a smoke machine that would come out, would squirt like water, earthquake it would rock.

And this one, they can control the bed. So they'll drive them up into the room, spin him in circles. It's crazy. Oh, so,

okay, so these two are back. Good for them. See the wheels on the bed right there? Yeah. So they can drive him with a control, like spin him in a circle.

I want to know how big this fucking house is. Oh, it's massive. Oh, look at this. What room is this? It's massive.

The guest bedroom? Jesus. It's fucking gigantic. It's massive, bro. Oh my God, dog. Looks like an A-Shot's house. My thing is this, obviously... Is this the entire house tour?

Whoa, two islands? Wait, go to the very beginning if they show up because... Bro, what? They don't show it here. He did like a cinematic intro of like the house reveal, and it's just this mega mansion fountain in the front. God damn. Yeah.

Bro. I mean, I know he's a shorter dude, but... So who are all those beds for? Just people? Kai, Ray. Oh, so he has like a group, like a group that's always there? Yeah, all the AMP guys.

All the A&P guys. Oh my God, look at this fucking place. It's got Minecraft bushes. Pro. I mean, it's just a full product. I would love to see like the production behind it. Oh, no, dude, we have seen it. It looks like Corey Don is back there.

Yeah, I got a room. Look at the fucking pool. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, it literally looks like a control room like that. This is what, uh, race, It's a master prestige this year it's going to look like. Hopefully.

The fuck. My thing is this, obviously they rent the crib to do this stream, da-da-da, but do they have like a pre-agreements with it? Like, obviously we're going to do shit in this room. This floor might get fucked up. No, they, yeah. These are the Hollywood houses that people rent to, uh, to shoot movies out of. So they're always getting fucked up on the inside and they just fucking fix you.

Oh my God. Yo, does Kai have like a, you think Kai has like a love life? A love life? A love life. He's a girl. He has a girl? Yeah. Oh,

shit. So when does he have time to be with her? I mean, he was just off for a month. After this. Oh, so that's probably why he took a month off? Yeah, okay, that makes sense.

That makes sense. But it's probably like, maybe I'll see you. I'll see you. I'll see you. I'll see you. I'll see you. I'll have six months.

Next time we see each other. That's dope, man. And I think you started it off day one, Kim Kardashian collab. Already had 150,000 subs. You said, on the way here, Mark,

was like, did you hear what he said? I was like, no, he goes, if he hits a million, LeBron's going to shave his head. So I'm like, well, first off, he hit $728,000 last time. Then he ups to production to an insanely different level when it was already an insanely different level. See, I get it if it was like everything's...

Is that Ray William Atwood? Atwood? At least. Oh, shit, Roman-A-William Johnson. What the fuck? Wait, Roman Atwood. Roman Atwood. Oh.

Ray William Johnson? Ray William Johnson. Yeah, yeah. I went Ray William Johnson and Roman Atwood. Roman Atwood, right? Yeah. And his wife? Yeah, his wife and two kids.

Those are, that's their kids? Got big as that. Yo, what the fuck? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. His kids got big as hell. Yo, that's got to be his kids.

That's got to be his kids. And that just fucked me up because if those are his kids. Bro. You're old? What? Dude. Yeah, I think like last time Casey Nys said uploaded, he showed his kid. It's like a fucking grown.

Those kids are adults. Yeah. Grown adult. Have you been watching all the Casey's newest uploads? No, I haven't. I don't. I watched like a couple months ago. Dude, I watch everything that he uploads.

But I don't know if I've gone back to see anything that he's uploaded. Yeah. Like he did a, a Nintendo Switch reveal. Oh, yeah. I think that's the one. That's the last one. I think that's the last one. Yeah.

Oh, no. And then he became the creative storyteller for that billionaire. For the game console thing. Yeah, yeah. I did see that. The creative. The creative storyteller. He just, he just, what, he's just,

he's just, he's just co-owner? I have no idea. He's probably just co-owner. I have no idea. Creative storyteller, just making up job titles. Yeah, dude, everybody, especially in e-sports, there's a whole bunch of shit like that.

Yeah, I, I don't know, but yeah, that's Roman Atwood. I'm assuming those are his kids. That's, that's definitely his wife. That's insane. 21-1. 320K,000. 82K subs.

130 subs. went up 82,000 subs in six hours. I truly love y'all. Thank you guys so much. He may have also taken that, what happened? We're just talking money. Yes. He had 350,000 viewers at launch.

Oh, bro. Not even, that's not even talking about subs. That's what I'm talking about. Max ads? Oh, I didn't even think about that bar. I did not even think about that. No questions. I'd crank that bar.

Wait, what's this? I understand. Oh, this is the, Creative. Oh, no, this is a new one, though. That's a billionaire. Who how's that, Chum Lee? No, he's a billionaire.

That guy's a billionaire? B. For what's he do? I think that he is the billionaire that, that, that founded the game thing. But I don't understand what makes this game thing different. You wouldn't catch me up there. I don't know why. I don't, yeah, I don't know how it's like, legal.

How is it like legal? You know what? We're talking about the little console thing? No. It's this thing. And it's like a. Oh, Nintendo's about to send these guys to the moon. That's what I'm, that's what I'm kind of wondering.

But they have to know something, because these things are all over TikTok live. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, people are buying, uh, Nintendo's could have sent these guys to the moon. No, I don't know. They had to have bought some sort of licensing. Like, they just can't be freely. Nintendo specifically doesn't play. Wait, wait, like, scroll back up, rally?

Oh, shit. They have, like, their own games. They have, like, those are the games made by them. that's actually kind of crazy I didn't know by like a billionaire and all that like there's he's definitely doing it the right way

like he's not no one's silly enough to do this type of stuff like build that console and then make like dedicated games like this unless you know you're allowed to do it I mean it's basically

the soldier game with another name yeah yeah yeah yeah the soldier console it was just a wee right there's just a we bro it was like a

oh yeah he got sued like It was just it was like it was one of these things It was just dropshed them Um I didn't see this one right now Thank you The soldier game

Riley can you look up the analog pocket It would send it out to people and shit See I have I have this thing And this thing is godlike It's like I have the other one Oh do you I it's like it's

I try to play a game boy game And then I play it on the analog pocket And it's like three times the size And it's full bright color back lid It looks like, it looks amazing. Are you able to play this for more than like five minutes without feeling like you're not getting enough stimulation? You got to, you got to be in the right mindset. You got to be on a plane.

Or on a plane. With no internet. But even on the plane, like, you could pull out your phone and play fucking Bellatro or Starter Valley. And it's. Yeah, we're in dangerous waters. We are. We're at the point where if I'm watching TV and I make it through the episode without looking at my phone, I'm proud. I'm like, dude, good job, man.

Like, you just relax. I'm watching television. I get dope off of forgetting to check my phone. know when I look at is so many messages and so he he missed me no but I played I played like a Pokemon I played like a full like Pokemon play through at one point like before bed I was trying to stay off my phone so I would like put my phone down and I would like play on the game boy and that lasted like five days but but during those five days I'm like damn like I'm I'm on the fourth boss or fourth like gym and I'm like hell yeah like I haven't looked at my phone dude and I

took live to a concert in Houston while we were down there we walked into this retro fucking video game it was like a game step but it was called something else and uh and I saw I saw an original Nintendo so I'm like I'm like oh I need that

so I got that and then I got a Super Nintendo so that I can play Super Mario Super Mario the one with the feather and the woo you know what I'm saying Super Mario 3 um I got home I played it and I got to the second castle, and I gave up.

Yeah, it's just like... But I remember it giving me so much hype. Dude, growing up, slide Cooper was like my favorite game. And like, last year, you could play it on PS5. And I was like, fuck yeah. I download it. I play it. And I'm like, I'm never playing that shit ever again in my entire life.

And I'm mad at myself. When's the next slide Cooper's dream? Never again, guys. I can't. Yeah, but you also, I'm guessing, because there's a story. game how everyone is the story games you get less viewers so you're always tying well i mean to be fair if i had 5 000 viewers there's nothing i wouldn't do i would be yeah yeah exactly paint dry right like the game itself was just that's why i'm i'm so scared to play like my favorite games ever like if i didn't

if i was like hey i'm gonna play knights of the old republic man i would get 40 40 people would watch nights of the old republic it's like a knights of the old republic it's a star wars game uh and it's like the best it's But those are the realest of the real. The ones that will watch that, those are the realists, those are... And those are the ones that are, like, psych you out. They'll be like, dude, we need you. We need another Knights of the Old Republic stream. Yeah, Mike...

Like, Tomb Raider, too. What? You ever play the Tomb Raider game? Yeah, yeah, yeah, like on the original place? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or is the PS2 or the... I think the first one was on original PlayStation, but... I like that.

That was fun. Sonic was cool. Chad, type W if I should play Slide Cooper. There's 100 Ws after I start, 50 them leave. Just don't. They're gone. Yeah, that's how. it's how it always goes that's why people like I played it I was just like nah yeah what have

you all been playing in the office like what are you all been doing in the off season black ops four are you so you're still random brum bram bram bha yeah i'm a cod nerd man do you're excited for football season oh wait i asked you this last time yeah i mean like i'm kind of like the game it's cool i mean like i'm like i'm height for it but i'm not like overly yeah it's something to watch right i don't mind it is set is it this saturday or is it this saturday no it's thursday oh it's thursday oh it's Eagles Cowboys. Eagles Cowboys at his house? College football last week.

So many bangers. Riley asked me, he's like, yo, are you looking forward to Monday? And I was like, yeah, why? He's like, Bears. I was like, oh, yeah, yeah. Mr. William. Oh, JJ.

Oh, I guess the shit kings? I mean, I don't know. I'm kidding. Austin? No beef, Minnesota. No beef. Do you all see that? No, no, no, no.

McCarthy he's not all right so it's time to make the picks obviously we have a football season wait how's the son go da da da da da da no that's the rock no that's rocky that's rock I don't know I don't know I don't Dan-da-din-din-din-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d... That's a tiger. I can't. Riley, what is it? What is it?

Give us a football. The money. Yeah. All right. All right. All right. So, obviously, we have one of the most storied rivalries between the Dallas Cowboys. and the scumper jumpers, Philadelphia Eagles.

Eagles. Who do we have? So just so you know, my quarterback is Jalen Hertz. So we're going to have to go. We're going to have to go. Let's start with with Doc Prescott. Is he going to get what? 241.5 passing yards?

0.5 passing yards? Yes, we're going to go more on that. Of course he's getting more than that. But what if he doesn't play? And that's the point. He's not questionable. He's good to go. Yeah.

Is he going to get a one yard? I don't know. I put fucking 50K on this right now? Yeah, you could. I mean, I don't know if you could. But here on price picks,

you get to pick more or less on the people that you are feeling most confident about through your own knowledge of the game. I'm going to say more for DAC. And of course, his wide receiver, CD Lamb, super unhappy with the organization right now

because they let go of, what's his name, Seth's pickleball partner. Come on. Come on. I know, obviously. I have no idea. Yeah.

His name's. Micah Parsons. Michael Parsons. Jesus. All right. So I'm going to go more with C. D. Lam because they're going to connect for all rush and reception.

Yes. More. Cedie Lambs. Citi Lamb. He's going to get like 120. Sequant Barkley, 96.5 rushing yards or less. I think the Cowboys are going to land,

so I think we're going less. All right. Let's go less. I think we're going to say Kwan Bart. We've set's not happy about that. Slow. So he needs a, he's going to get a one year.

He's going to get handed it off for a touchdown. So you just. Of like three yards. So as long as he gets one. So God would love the green. They're easier to win, but come with lower payout multipliers. All right.

Let's not do that. We only, we only go for the mega multipliers. Yeah. Yeah. Cidy lamb. Let's do less. Yeah.

And then Jalen Hertz, put more. I don't even give a shit what it says. Put more for him. More? More? He's going to go 214 yards. Yeah, no, we're not going to do the easy gimmies.

George, oh, Pickens. I'm going to do less. Yeah, I was going to go more. I was going to go more. All right, go more, go more. All right, Cid Lam, remove that. Remove the, yeah, that. Yep, and then just submit it.

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I wouldn't. Why? I wouldn't be coaching UNC. Why? I think I go coach Alabama. Like, but I'm not. I'm from North Carolina.

Bro. Alabama. I am from North Carolina. They might need them now, Riley. You and C. Holy shit. Alabama look like ass.

U.N. C is, U.N.C. is shit. Wait, you know, that's your shit, right? No, no, no. U.N.C. is shit, and they've always been shit. They have always been ass.

Who? UNC. Until, well, since Jordan left. Well, they're good at basketball, right? they're usually pretty solid basketball. Oh, they're amazing at basketball. But football is just not their ECU. Yeah, UNC is like...

What's ECU stand for? What's ESU? East Carolina. East Carolina. What's their record? SMU, they're one of them? Both my parents did. They'd be East A&M or something?

Yeah. They're loaded. They should have the best players. SMU. I didn't realize SMU was like that money-wise until I moved here and everyone started talk about SMU. And I was like, oh.

What they raised for their sports program. Well, what's us? Southern Methodist. Right down the street. SMU and TCU right down the street. 100 mil and like six months from like parents and They're different kind of brown. That's what ECU is always going to be mid because we don't have we're

Unless Mr. Beast, you know Mr. Beast is the same fucking town. Million in championship facilities. Bro. I will say I'm not even like a big college football guy. I'm a guy that's going to watch all like the good college football games. Yeah, yeah. Because there are some Saturdays. are miserable because there's like not many good games.

Right. I will say this past Saturday, just like waking up and immediately going to the couch and watching Ohio State. Texas, Ohio State Texas. Was like candle lit. It was, well, because. Because they're freaking out.

Because his last name is Manning. They're one seed. But wait, is he related? His first half, yeah, his first half was awful. He kind of picked it up. He's what? He's their nephew, right? Yeah.

Arch. Cooper Manning is Archie Manning's Fasha Yeah Dude I'm with I'm with I'm with I'm with the mannings I'm with the manning What do you think Peyton and Eli said to him like it's all right or they were like to what Bro he played he played the best team in the nation first game Like I think cut him some fucking slack

They lost by seven right Yeah cut him from some fucking slack Jesus I think people are pissed now because the players are getting paid I think that's what it is Is he getting paid? He's making like millions. Players are getting paid. He's definitely making at least, what,

three to six probably? I don't know. Archmanning? Well, I think Chedur made five, right? So, I mean, he's probably, then, he's probably, what, maybe one or three minutes? Damn. He's going to be similar.

Was it, name, image and liken, his valuation? Six point eight million. Dude. Panini, Raising Cain's Uber. Viori. That's insane. Players are making,

yeah, and I think that's why, like, fans are starting to get, like, pissed. because that's why, I think that's why college football fans, especially like the coach turnover is like, if you get two bad years, you're gone. Next coach. Look at the guy who just replaced Sabin for Alabama.

Riley knows a little more about that. But you want him gone, Riley? He is getting torched. You think he can do it? Well, it's one thing if they... I mean, they lost to FSU. And I feel like Alabama shouldn't be losing FSU.

Dude, Florida State looks good this year, though. I mean, I know Alabama didn't look up to their state, By the way, I'm talking out of my ass, so please don't crucify me. I don't know anything I'm talking about. But just to name Alabama to me from what I know about college football is like... Yeah, but you take Saban out. They've always been ass and balls, right, Riley? No.

Anyway, yeah, so I guess the Bears start on Monday. There was a point in my life, in my younger years. I think it was pre-internet where I was... I loved every... college. I loved baseball. I watched every... All Chicago teams?

Yeah. Notre Dame was my favorite college that team because of the quarterback. This one quarterback back in 90-something. I don't know. I just liked the way he threw the football, so that was my team. But if you ask me,

what starter jacket? I had the Georgetown Hoyas. All right. Bulldogs, right? NFL season is the best. I did all my football drafts. Oh, dude, I had the worst draft in my history.

I'm not coming in last, though, I'll tell you that. As your quarterback. Hertz. Jalen Hertz. And I got a good handcuff. And I got the tight end. By week, it's going to suck, but I got it.

I never. Drafted his first three and like our optic draft was Sequin. Next round, A.J. Brown. Next round, J. Brown. Next round, Jalen Hertz. I'm like, dude, what do you do it? He's drafting the entire Eagles

roster. I do the same thing. But then he's drafting another team for is his team. So he's like, yeah, but I got is his team too. I was like, okay, next year my girl's playing, my dad, my brother. Wait, can he trade? Can't trade players? Can't trade between them too. No, that, no, that's

insane. He trades himself Bijan. Right. He just gets two first picks? That'd be hilarious. Bray, how much you're all playing for? I think our Optic League is $100 each. I was watching like...

Or 150 maybe? I saw like a clip of Adaptstream, and it's like him, him, like Lacey Ronaldo sketch Ludwig. They're all in one and they put 5K down. 5K down, whoever wins gets like 50K because it's like 10 old. I was like, damn, you're playing like real. Big Cat from Barstool has like a 12 person, $10,000 each league. That'd be pretty cool, though.

Yeah. Winning 120K. You'll try. You'll be in the waiver wire at fucking all hours of the night. You are trying hard. That sounds like so much work, bro. I'm good. I'm so good.

Let me watch the games and, like, have fun. That's like a stressful draft. Yeah. Like, if I fuck up a pick, I do most of them on stream. My chat's like, I'll pick, you just lost this season. I was like, imagine that with $10,000 in. It's like, no, what did I do? That's a pretty good idea of doing it on a stream.

I never thought about that. People love watching it. It's fun. But then the issue is there's so much conflicting. It fucks your head because, like, in my head, I'm like, okay, I'm going to pick this guy next. And then chat starts naming people. And I'm like, oh, maybe I should get him.

or it's yeah yeah and then people are stream sniping like page said she chose Brock Bowers because my stream was saying it because I thought someone was drafting for page because she goes CMC Bowers in a millisecond I'm like okay someone's drafting for page because she just insta someone's doing that what number did you get in the order I got seven are you in it no are you in I don't want to play it dude you guys and Leo we're like let's do one right here in our family and I was like hell yeah have fun doing that shit I don't want to be in this one.

The fuck, why would I want to be in this one that no one knows shit? That's what I'm saying. I don't know. I just want to watch the- The person whose chat is this big. What does that mean? What? Oh, no, that's a, that one typo.

Need the house this big, I'm assuming? Oh, all the chat. That chat is gigantic. It's like one of those fucking walls we have back there. Riley, can we get that for the watch party? No. I don't even know what, what application is that. What? It's just mirroring.

Oh. Just the feed. Mafiathon 3, Jim. By Nike, by the way. What's crazy? Yeah, dude. The branding everywhere. By Nike.

Look at that big ass Nike shoebox. That shit's crazy. Damn. That's so far. That's what the back of our video wall looks like, guys. Yeah, literally. Literally. If there's one thing that I know you guys like, it's meat.

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Actually, let's just, uh, introductions. Optic hacks. We got man money biscuit. We got methods. We got, uh, Hitch. What have, what have you guys been up to? I mean, obviously you guys haven't been playing any video games, have you? Black Ops 4, you said?

I've been grinding blackouts for. What do you mean? Like I'm PC. There's a... Oh, I think I heard of the last week's podcast. You guys talked about that. You buy it, I'm bound on that. And there's a client to get Amosys, but it feels amazing.

It's fun. It's just like... Once again, I would call this... Go ahead. Thank you. I heard it last week. I want to ask you about Rossermania. What have I missed in the last week and a half since...

Like, I think that ever since you left and you stopped, like, I usually turn on YouTube and then you'd be like Methods Reacts to. this roster. You're Method's Live. You're Method's Live viewer. I appreciate that. Yeah. Method's Live's always popping up on...

So is this the only change, Riley, the goodbye to Salyam? Goodbye to Abe as well. What's weird about this roster mania is, okay, so we obviously know what all these big teams are doing. Yeah. We have like no information on like five different teams. The bottom eight. You have Rocker, Carolina, Cloud 9.

I'm missing... I'm missing a few. Space Station, apparently. is trying to get in. Boston Breach, we don't know who they're filling their roster out with. Surge has to build a whole new team. So there's still like five teams that we actually have no idea what they're doing. And I'm kind of shocked we haven't really heard any any rumblings. I do know Craze. I've been playing a lot of blackouts forward with him. I think Craze's surge. My assumption is that Surge, they all want Craze's team or at least some variation

of that because of how they play at EWC, knocking out phase and just everyone loves the fact. that like crazy in Mamba, everyone wants like those new unknown quantities. So I feel like they're going to get a lot of looks. Dude, this year's going to be crazy because that gentleman's team is not any team to fuck around with. No, that's a, generally

had a good roster mania. Oh yeah. That's a great team. And they tried for better. And that's a good team. But like, yeah, I mean, they tried to get the Ibiza, they tried to get the Draza. They tried to get it. Wait, so where did Drozza end up?

Staying with Faze. Drozah's staying with phase? This is all rumored, yes. but because they're not official. Yeah, that's the phase roster. Simp draws 04 and Abuza. That's a good-ass team too. Thieves, obviously scary,

Scrap, Hydra, Kenny Abizi. So who are they thinking? Who's the rumor fourth for Falcons? Kismet. Kismet. Okay. Yo, I was listening to the podcast, obviously, last week, and you guys were talking about the nation stuff?

Like, that's something that I want to talk about because, you know, who is playing where? You know what I'm saying? Because, you know, you guys say, everybody's just saying Mamba, fucking Shotsie, et cetera. Well, you guys aren't picking, like Snoopy, obviously. But the way that I want to do it is I want to host a mega tournament in Mexico. Well, not in Mexico, but for Mexico, for Mexicans. I'm not talking about Mexican Americans or none of these Nosobo kids, which of course, you know, if they're good enough they can play.

but like Snoopy lived and grew up in Mexico just like yours truly so it can't again you know if you got it you got it but we we can't focus it on the United States no right and that's what that's what I kept on getting out of this whole thing like oh well what if you know Shotsi's playing for this or whatever like I'm like listen

we got a check we got to check we got to pull the cards I think that's the important fucking passports I'm kind of worried that I because Zoom is doing like his variation of like the nation's cup and like you can't even really form a team Italy like our game is so yes you can't and a dominated where it's like look at counterstrike for example like counterstrike has full-blown teams that are Danish or German or French yeah we have like players like you have Hydra who's French you have a booza who's Belgian but you have like a few players from different countries you don't have like doesn't matter international team doesn't matter that's what that's what

matter. That's what I was talking about. The ambassadorship, like, it's really, how I was thinking about it is it's really like a competition between the ambassadors. Like, if, if you give it to Hector, Hector's going to go crazy for Mexico. He's going to throw a tournament in Mexico. Yeah. And yeah, sure, he's already got Snoopy. And if he convinces, he's got two, they're there to help throw an entire tournament. But Shotsie, Shotsie is like, not full Mexican. He's got, he's like, Guatemala or something else. But it doesn't, I think as long as, as long as that player rides for Mexico. Like, all right. So for instance, Mexico, all right, Team Mexico,

they're going to grab the best three or two from Mexico. Once they have that, then they could, or if they don't grab another third for Mexico, then they could explore, okay, Shati. So I think they need to at least have their core. But you want to get the best play. From wherever that team is. Yeah, of course.

But look, Snoopy 100% captain, right? Like if people don't make it in, if a super good player doesn't get on whatever, Team USA or whatever, I mean, that's what it is. Team USA is going to be. Yeah, Team USA is going to be the team to beat, obviously. And Shati's going to want to play for him. And Shati, well, Shati is going to have, that's what I was, because I was talking to him and I was talking about him.

That specifically. Because he and I were supposed to go to Austin through the Razor Mead. Our plane got to lay five fucking, anyway, long story short, we ended up not going. But while we were there, we were talking about it. We had breakfast at this fancy-ass restaurant. What the fuck's the name of it, Wendy's. And we were talking about it. I'm like, well, like, I'm like, yo, this.

nation's thing, what do you think about it? Like, it's like, who you're gonna play for? You're like, you're, you're like mixed and you're from here. You speak no Spanish, like, uh, whatever. And he's like, he's like, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. How does this thing's gonna work or if is that? But if it is happening in 2027? Yeah, the next year. It's happening in 26? We don't, no, we don't know. We don't know. Okay. EWC is not working with Microsoft or, uh, yeah, with Blizzard, Activision Blizzard. It's November. It's November, it's November 2026. No, this is all hypothetical. Okay. So, so, Call of Duty is not in it right now, I think.

It is not happening. Call of Duty is not in it. Not this year. Fine. They're working with Ubisoft, EA, Tencent. Tencent's? Ten cents? The largest external shareholder of...

Oh, you mean... Oh, actually, not anymore. It's literally not in it. No, not right now. But I'm confused. Like, there's no... Where's, like, where's Counterstrike? Where's...

Like, where's... None of it's going to be there. None of that. It's going to be there. What, it's going to be Rainbow Six? Oh, so what are we even talking about then? We're just talking about the hypothesis. Because if this does well, then, you know, people are going to.

We're going to start looking for it. I think it should happen. And also, to point out, like, from the ambassador standpoint, like, I can't be that either. Like, it has to be a dude from Mexico that does it. I'll help as much as I can. You can do that. Yeah, you can. No, I cannot.

It has to be me and somebody from Mexico. I agree with that. I agree with that. His part is leveraging the biggest creators to make it that much more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, upset his USA versus Gotaga, France. Like that ambassadorship is gonna make it crazy. I get that, but like if actor gets someone,

helps someone from Mexico, he puts them in a. Of course. That's the whole point. That's my point. Whoever he's with, put them in a better position. Correct. I truly think, like, I think, because you can, It's got to be like, you got to get like everyone on board like to have a fun tournament.

Yeah, facts. If you're just going to have a tournament. Because I think what the call of duty people like especially like the fan base, they're just like, oh, we can't ever do that. North America or United States is going to win every time. Or it's going to be United States in Spain, maybe Canada. Can I ask a question? Isn't it typically non-pro people? It wasn't until the dream team showed up.

Riley, you're a sports guy. It wasn't until the dream team showed up to the Olympics because up until a certain point, Olympics was for non-pro up-and-combing athletes. I think they're taking this and viewing it not from the Olympic standpoint, but from the World Cup. Okay, got it, got it. And like, I think that, in America, I said it last time, but we got like a, we got a striker like two years ago who was between us, I think it was us in Canada. And it was up to up to the fucking boards, the federations of Canada or.

United States to like convince him to come to that. And he chose the United States. He's not American and everyone in the United States was like, fuck yes. Like we got him. And I think that is important because it's not so much about like who you're playing for. It's about what country you're representing for that country.

If Mexicans, if there are Mexican call a duty fans and if you go up to the Mexican Call the Duty fans, you're like, I want a real Mexican. I don't want Shotsie. They're all going to be like, Get fucking shots. What are we talking about? First of all, I wouldn't say it like that. I know, I know.

But there is something to be said about the fact that there are, like, Mexico, like, it still needs a lot of help in the esports theme. 100% specific. Specifically in Call of Duty, right? So as a Call of Duty player, the person who grew up in Mexico, like I want to make sure that somebody who doesn't have the opportunities that we have here in the greatest country on Irv

you know to have the like both said to put somebody in a better position to yeah to jumpstart that oh wait look at that right there the ENC will debut in Riyadh

before moving to a rotating host mode bringing national esport teams to fans and cultures worldwide starts in Riyadh and then they're open to move in so 2027 we have it in Mexico I will help

it'll be 28 so it's right 32 years direction so 2028 so yeah look we'll see I don't think

again the whole point of this program the Saudi program is so people can go there and to travel there so they could be like

oh shit this is a good vacation spot yeah I think a World Cup the only time I ever

cared or watched Overwatch was when they did the World Cup because it was just like I think that shit's dope. And I tried watching Overwatch, man. Could you imagine, I don't know if they ever did it,

but a World Cup for Counterstrike would be elite. Oh, World Cup for Counter Strike would be different gravy. It would go insane. That'd be so insane. That'd be different gravy. I would help Mexico in that terms too, but I need somebody because I got a job. You hear what I said?

I got a jobs. I got a jobs. I got a jobs. So like I need a need a need. Luckily, I know a lot of people down there. I think this would be so cool for Cobbman. I think the reason I keep talking about the ambassador shit is because I think that's a way to get people in like hype about it that aren't like Tim the Tattman's not watching every fucking CDL thing.

But if you made him and Seth ambassadors of United States, Tim would be like, oh, let's fuck it. I get the bald eagle, you're going to get my bald eagle shit on? Let's do it. You know what I mean? And I think that would happen with the sidemen. They would ride for, you know, what they would do it. Zinga. My brother, he loves college dude.

Oh, man. That would be so dope. dude. That would be sick. Hachian, the East Sports Nation's Cup, you run, hitch his plan for him.

Me and Joe Peschi. Yo, um, you got to help me because I need to, like we're running out of time. We got to throw this, this,

this, uh, this Calduty 4 land. Let's talk after this. Let's talk after this. But again, I have a jobs. I, I have a jobs.

I can provide. I can provide cash. How much cash are you? I don't know. What, what would be a good amount? Depends on who's playing. Well, who.

Robert Cat, Madison Walsh. Oh, no, fear my hoe. Stang Joe. Joey Moore. See, I want everybody. Anybody, like, I want an open tournament. An open tournament?

Stain's got a club. Oh, shit. Okay. Oh, you want open? An open bracket? An open bracket? There's no cheating in that, right? You can't cheat on that?

Hell no. Yeah. Like, are we talking about online? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely you can cheat. Oh. It's got to be a land. Here.

The hex quarters is invitational. Four to, four to 18. Land yeah that'd be awesome that should be so fun that would be so fun I say we do it casted by Cory Dunn and Foiz ooh foiz uh holiday doc holiday doc or fuck uh fucking fucking pucker uh fucking put in strobe uh fucking mr.combeck it fuck it foistro we bring strow back it's fucking MP5 and joggerna I would never put on jog or not I would never put an acog either I'm just no fucking toy noob Skylyl was playing you can't even fit in the chair I texted Skyla the other day

Skyler? Yeah, because he's a big Miami fan and I hate Notre Dame and I was like, I hope y'all beat him. Yeah, I talked to Sky a lot. Lately I've been talking to him a lot. Anyway, we got Rangers night. We got Rangers night.

We got Rangers night this week. Rangers night this week. If you guys haven't purchased your tickets, please do, actually, we've done pretty good. If you're watching this, tomorrow is Rangers night. Yeah. So you can still make it out of. The Astros.

It's a good game. Astros, Rangers. Yeah. That is a great game, actually. Hey, also, just so you guys know, like, uh, the only way to get that jersey is through the, through buying a ticket, so.

A little live parlay at the game. A little live parlay. We got a, we got a, we got a couple of sweets, so we're going to be having a good time. Shotsie's throwing out the first pitch. Hey. I'll get it one year. You down?

You know what? I'm going to ask Shotsie. Four years from now, I'll get it. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't know if. shots he knows how to throw a ball. Now, we were talking about it last week, and he was like, Paige told him to not even throw a ball just to make it raw, and I said, no.

Fucking. No, you got to practice. I'm throwing a. Me and Seth were throwing ball back and forth right here when we both threw it. They should just have two people throw it out every time. They should have all four of them go out there and throw it since they all won that show. Alexis was really nervous when she threw the first picture at a Cubs game. Yeah.

She was so nervous. At a Cubs game? Yeah. She almost made it to the plate. Almost. I would just ask him to lie in the loudspeaker. I would tell you something. He's up for the Oscar.

Anthony, he's in it. Everyone's like, yeah, who the fuck is that kid? For the Oscar? Yeah, something. Emmy? Just lie to Jenpop. Is this her? What the fuck?

How'd you find this so fast? Oh, that's Riley, dude. Oh, shit. I don't know if she actually did make it close. Yeah, yeah. She's close. It's not a bad throw. Not a bad one.

That I would have thrown mine like full speed as much, but I was just like, I'm just going to get it to it. I would go up there and throw as hard as I can. I tried last year. You can't like 50 cents. Wait, was it? Was it you last year for the Yankee game that threw it? Not Yankee, no. Rangers. Yeah, but it was Yankees at Rangers.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Was that last year or two years ago? Yeah, no, it was last year. And you threw that? Yeah. Oh, it looked good. I would have just, I would have nosed into the Yankees dug out after. They'd be like, Aaron!

John Carl. You can meet them through, you can meet them through Jackie. You all remember George Bush throwing a fucking dot? That's my point. Wait, who threw Jackie? Oh, Dunlop. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

My Jackie boy. My Jackie boy. Wait, Jack threw a first pitch, too? Jack is like in with the Yankees. He's in with the Yankees. I'm talking, I'm collab post with the Yankees, and I'm like, Jack, what the fuck? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like a, he's like a lifelong fan, too.

Like, that's like a dream. That's like a crazy, full circle moment. All from reacting. That opportunity is. I'm kidding. I need to react more, bro. I'm trying to get like a... You know they just hand out degrees for people

for colleges? Like, if you're just a good enough fan, they just hand you a degree. I'm trying to get one of those for ECU one day. I'm trying to get my... 20 years from now. They just hand me a degree. Like doctor...

Yeah, like, I'm just a doctor. I'm trying to get Andrew Street and Bayonne change to Bow Street. To what? I think they'll let that happen. Boastry? What are you doing for the school? I mean, we could talk.

Yeah, that's what I'm. I'm saying like they'll do shit. I gotta show the city love and shit. No, you want to be back, dude. You want to be back. You're trying to be beg. Please come back and donate.

They send them a letter saying and an email. They say, yo, hey, Mark, obviously he's an alum. We'd like for you to come over here and talk to the kids. No, yeah, I got to come pick me up. No, and then he's like, he's like, nah, they got to beg. They got a big. Bro. Paramount requires the rights for a call to duty movie.

That's like. See, now, it's so my can. can get behind. I don't think I'd watch call the movie. I don't even think it's got to be good. No, it can It's got to be like, if they follow one of like the OG campaign storylines and they get some good at, a call did a movie can be fire. It can't. It's just a war movie. It's a war. It's a war. It's just an elite war movie. They do it right though. I like real war movies.

Yeah. Well, no, that's the thing. They have to lead to a team. Yeah. Yeah. PG-13. You know what I'm saying? This is my thing. They have. They have to. Put scump in it. One, number one, number one, of course, Nate shot scump, you know, impactful people in Call of Duty, okay?

But S-A-S and as part of the lore, they have to put an up the gaming logo in there somewhere. Somewhere in there. Just hidden on a patch. Send me the documents I'll sign today. We don't want nutsing. Like there's got to do a cameo. There has to be a cameo. The way I view it is like the main characters like walk or drive into a city or something

and then like out front of a gaming cafe there's like some logos. Seth and Matt are sitting there eating and like for a sec. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Exactly.

But you know, like, did y'all watch a Minecraft movie? I don't know if y'all ever watched it. No, but I know about it. But that Minecraft movie was made just for- For kids. Yeah, that's not. This needs to be made for, I want the shit rated R. That's what I'm saying.

So do why. So do why. I want to see an elite war movie with a Call of Duty storyline, a Call of Duty character. That's basically all you can ask for it is. I hope it follows that Cod4, Monofer II storyline. It has to. That would be.

Imagine if it follows... Crossing the Rhine and shit? What if it follows Black Ops One? Remember how Black Ops One? Do you all remember? Did y'all play Black Ops One? Yeah. I played it all about...

The campaign. The campaign, sorry. The campaign, there's like a... There's a character that... I can't even remember his name, but there's a character who's your friend the whole time, and it turns out he's not even... real. He's like a figment of your imagination.

Oh shit. You don't fight. It's like some Shutter Island shit. You don't figure it out to the end. I'm almost... Shutter Island had been mind blown. Am I right? Riley? Rezanov? He's like not real, right? Okay, yeah, yeah. He's fucking spoiler.

Sorry, if you didn't play it 13 years ago. Yeah, the first time I saw Shutter Island I was a mind-blown. I was like... Go back. Go back. What a movie. All right, so if you guys didn't finish reading... All right, yeah, go back. Thank you, Riley. Both companies are committed to honoring the brand's rich narrative and distinctive style,

promising and authentic and exciting experience for longtime fans and newcomers alike. What I hear from this is that Beavis and Butthead is not going to be making an appearance. Thank you. Or the turtles. No dabbing. No emotes. I just hope, like, listen, I wish that said HBO in Activision just because HBO, in my opinion, has like the stamp of approval to not fuck anything up.

Like if HBO's doing it, I always have full faith. Paramount's kind of like a little bit of hit or miss. Like I'm not sold on them doing it the right way until I see it happen the right way. Luckily, Halo went first and Halo. Who did Halo? Apparently it didn't do well. But who did Halo? Was it a movie or was it a show?

It was the show. But what Paramount did it? Yeah, but there was a bunch of backlash. But there was a bunch of backlash. So maybe they learned. Because, wait, did Paramount also do Fallout? That was Amazon, yeah, trust me. Because apparently Fallout was pretty good.

There's, HBO is my one, and then two I would hope, shit, I don't even, not, I mean, MDB it didn't do too bad. I haven't watched it, but I haven't watched it either. I've heard nothing but bad things. Wait, 80 Rotten's great. But it also got canceled after two seasons. I mean, it is Paramount slash HBO, right? What's on Paramount?

What's on Paramount? Oh, Moblan's on Paramount, right? Yeah. Yeah, Paramount don't play. Paramount doesn't play. Yeah, Mobland was fantastic. Billions. I heard Mayor of Kings Towns good. Landman. It's really good.

Tulsa King. Yo, you told me to watch the agency, right? The agency, no. That's not me. The fuck it's Thea Vaughn't doing there. Man up. What is man up? I watched Lioness. It was good. Okay, so they got, again, you know, Paramount doesn't mess around. Oh, they got yellow. Actually, no. Yellow Jackets.

Okay, some of these series aren't Paramount series. They're just exclusive to Paramount. Right, yeah. Like billions. I realized it after I said that. Ray Donovan, his Showtime. God,

Ray Donovan was fantastic. I only watched the first season. Big fan of Showtime. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, fucking Showtime had a House of Lies with, it's one of the best shows. Fucking hilarious. It's a business show about advisors.

It's fucking hilarious. Hilarious. You got to bring it a big dog to direct that. Who do you want to play? who would you want to play Captain Price? Guianu? No, not Keanu. I think John Bernthal will be decent.

I was about to say John Burnthal. John Berndhal, Captain Price would hit. You know he's getting a call, too. He better. Who else? I think it's funny. Ben Affleck? Yeah, I like Ben, but...

Ben can grow a good mustache. Okay, my issue with some of, like, the megastars like that, is depending on the movie, sometimes they take you out of the movie. Yes, agreed. Like, if they cast a rock, I wouldn't even watch it. I agree with you. And I like the rock, but if I see the rock,

I'm automatically taken out of the movie. Yeah, that's kind of like what happened with the Minecraft movie. For a lot of his roles. Yeah, because like Jack Black was in it. And Steve, I was like... Apparently the Rock's new movie coming out. It just got a 15-minute standing ovation.

He plays an MMA fighter. He lost like a bunch of weight for it. Everyone's like, look how much muscle he lost, but it's for a role. And apparently it's really good. Okay, so let's... Looking at Captain Price. Yeah, this has Bernthal written all over it, dude.

I think burnt, yeah, yeah. After I said it, after I said whoever I said first, I was like, yeah, burntthal. Who else is there? Oh, he, well, you never know. Actress can do some shit, you know? Who else? Soap, Sope McTavish. Can I see a picture of soap?

Yo, do you think they're going to do? Imagine they did the fucking, no Russian? They're not doing it. They're not doing no Russian. Just a mess. Imagine that on the big screen? No. Okay, for soap, you can do, uh, I don't even know. Tom Hardy.

Might be too old, right? No, Tom Hardy's one of my favorite actors. That guy is fantastic and everything. Alfie and Peaky Blinders, he was fantastic in Mobland. You had some Bub ghost as well? Honestly, like Ghost could be anybody. Tom Hardy can be Captain Price. All right, all right, all right.

Let's stop. I'm enjoying this. I hope that I will watch it, no matter how. how bad the ratings are. Yeah, of course. I'm going to watch it. But I'll tell you what. If I don't see a face logo, an optic logo in that fucking movie hidden on a plastic cup, on a plastic bottle, I will be fucking mad.

We don't want no money. Shepherd, I have a... We just want to add to the lore of color day. I don't know his name, but... Okay, dude, too many, too many... I'm liking this. I also just don't know if they're gonna even follow the storyline. I think that was what I read about the Halo series

is that the producers, I could be mistaken, the producers said that they never played the game because they had the IP and they liked the characters but they didn't play the game. I mean, they didn't feel like they had to. Something, it was something like that. And I remember being like, what?

That's moronic. We didn't look at the game. We didn't talk about the game. We talked about the characters and the world. What? Master Chief Cortana, you didn't talk about them? Yeah, I think. That's true.

I think you got to stay, you got to at least be somewhat intertwined with the storyline. But once again, I think it has to be a badass war movie. Like, that's the only way it's going to do well. Like, you need to appeal to Call Duty fans, but you need to appeal to the last badass war movie. Black Hawk Down? That's a while ago. Like, I'm talking, because it feels like when we were growing up, it was like Black Hop Down, saving.

What's recent? Private Ryan. Ryan. Band of Brothers. 1917. 1917 was decent. Band of Brothers was dope because Carrington was,

yeah, 13 hours is really good. Look up war movies, Riley in general. Oh, I watched 13 hours. American Stiper was great. Okay.

Rodley, search war movies because there's one I'm forgetting. Warfare, I haven't started. I bought it, but I never started.

I never even saw that. I didn't even heard. I'll check that out tonight, Riley. 93%. I got to watch that shit. I bought it, but I never watched it.

What's one with Andrew Garfield? where he's the medic. Why am I? Haxar Ridge. Haxar Ridge was great. Yeah, this was good. The pink mist? Oh, no, that's not it.

The pink mist is something else. Fury's good. 12 strong was good. Haven't seen the opals. Lone Survivor's really good. All the queens meant the darkest hour. Battalion in 1944? Sorry.

17 0 dark 30 is so good It may also be that You know The leading role is It's an easy watch Enemy at the gates I saw him

You shot him The guy rich you won? What Surely you're not talking about the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare The covenant It's also really good Yeah

Yo, yo, yeah, yeah, yeah. Joe and Hall. There actually have been a lot of war movies. I didn't, I didn't notice that. Another war movie he was in. Joe and Hall could be a good price too. What? Yep.

I agree with that. Joe and Hall? Yeah, was he in another war movie? Was it called? The pink missed one. Jarhead. Yeah, there you go. Garhead.

You know your shit. Dude, I know all my movies. You know your shit. Jarhead, yeah. Damn. Jarhead was also great. When did that come out? Two guys.

I got to watch. I'm watching a war movie tonight, boy. Because of jarhead, I made everybody in the sniping team, well, the only team we had back then to name their snipers. I told you, Matt DeGis, they said, shaved your head. I guess I made all my boys shaved your head. I know there's a video game team, but everybody shaves their head. He's Skyping them just to get proof. That's awesome.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, obviously, like, we have the amount of roster changes that we've had this year going into next year. It is going to be one of the most exciting. And we don't even know what the... Okay, so from what we know, and this is going to bring up the halo thing that happened last week, right? I was going to ask you.

I know you were mad seeing them tweet free agent, are Halo players? It wasn't that I was mad. It's just that I was off of social media because of what happened. So for me to come back and see that, I was like, first of all, you're not even a restricted free agent.

Fuck that you're fucking free agent. And then I'm like, yo, what the fuck? I text, I'm like, yo, what the fuck is up? And they're like, we were trolling, man, trying to see who would get the most impressions. And I believe them. No, that's true, because everyone was doing it. And Nage shot tweeted it, Zuma tweeted it.

Everyone was tweeting FAA for Blackout seven. Shotsie was sitting there. It was like, yo, Hitch, you think Hector be mad? And he showed me, and it was a prepared tweet that said free agent. And I was like, bro, don't. Not right now. Don't tweet that shit. Please, though.

Because you know that I would never reply. Please, no, you're not. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But I was just like, I was, I was having, I was having breakfast. And, and, and they're like, hey, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the sponsors were hanging in, and asking, like, if we still have the stuff that we said we were going to do it towards the end of the year. What are the HAL of the, so, like, it touched something outside of that. And it went troll, and I know, like, I obviously know that guys didn't mean anything.

But I've also been, like, like, like, like, the fuck, what's wrong with y'all? Like, you guys, like, like, I understand. Like, I understand the trolley stuff. I don't want, I don't want anybody to never not be, you know, trolly or unsurious if they don't want to be. But I was just like, no, you're not. Did our guys win the last online cup? Now, they lost two, they placed third.

Place third? Yep. Who do we lose to? Envy. Envy? Who's on Envy? Damn. Losers final.

We kind of threw. Who is on envy? Oh, I think envy is piggy. Precision. I watched it. Or I watched that mat. at the end of that match. I forget the rest.

They got a decent roster. Yeah. So what is going on with, like, what does Halo? Because apparently this happened after Halo 5. My chat was telling me. So they just take a break and then they're going to take it back up at some point. But like to me that's like kind of crazy. It's so crazy.

Everybody has to go figure out their life for a year or two and then Halo's going to come back. Like you guys couldn't just run some more infinite tournaments? Yeah. Or even like they take. Because what's going to happen is there's going to be Halo 3 tournaments. Damn I didn't even hear about that I'm gonna fucking talk shit to him

You guys don't know Yeah What's what I? I just didn't know Like I don't get How that So like all these Halo guys Are they retire

Or try to go play different games And then when Halo comes back out They're gonna go back But Halo is coming back Like Yes Is that confirmed? No

It's not confirmed It's Halo We're all We're all expected There's rumors There's rumors of There's rumors of a Halo 1

remastered. Really? Which I don't know how that's gonna do. I really don't know how that's gonna do. I was saying the same thing in our world.

Like, if Black Ops 2 came out today, I don't think it would like... Yeah, but Black Ops 2, that Black Ops 2 is like Halo 2 is like if Cod 2 came back out. Oh, really?

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Like, it's that old. Like, there's no BR. There's no battle rifle. You don't start, like, they started with a assault rifle and a pistol.

Oh, damn. And the snipers were really weird and the spawns were really weird. But, I mean, they could fix all that, obviously, but. And maybe there is a BR, but I... If you're a Halo pro, you should play Call Duty. And the reason I say that is because if you're already a pro in Halo, if you're performing in challengers, you're going to get picked up so much faster than just like a regular amateur through the pipeline.

Listen, to round it out, right? Speaking of Halo, right, if, like, for example, with legend, obviously hot topic, hot conversations around them. Like, can he be picked up? Is he going to be picked up? First of all, if you're contacting any of my players. Or the GM. Without talking to.

Without talking to. Going through the right channels. Through the right fucking channels. I don't know if I can, if I can be cool about it. But at the same time, if a player, if a player wants to leave. Of course, man. I'm never held anyone back. It's not my way of doing things.

Every year, Hector's like, Zin, you're gonna go back and play? I'm like, now he's like, you sure? Yeah, well. Like, geez, man. All right. Yo, anybody. He's also asked me.

He said, yo, anybody hit you up about me playing next year? I'm like, nah, man. I've never once done that. He did it, he did. Well, you also never once said what you just said. Yeah, I know. It was funny. But like, like, for him specifically,

for legend specifically, I've had conversations with teams be, you know, around him and its interest. And my thing was always if you're going to put him on the starting roster, which will be a part of the contract, then if he wants to, then of course.

But you're not going to grab him to bench him. But I'd rather them play for Optic in whatever capacity. If they want to play Counterstrike, Valerance, Apex. Obviously formal's not going to gonna not gonna play challengers right but if these guys want to play challengers they can certainly do it under

this fucking brand uh don't have to be a slight salary adjustment obviously uh but like i think it would be good for us because think about the amount of coaching that they can get they have the the watch party they have fucking uh i mean formal could even just fucking throw into it formal sits on that on the couch which is what i would look in in my dream scenario one my dream scenario is like formal what do you want to do. I want to do this. Okay, that's awesome. I got you back. But if he's like, I don't know what to do, I'll be like, man, sit on that couch, man, come take, take my, take my chair Saturday and Sunday. I'll be here, I'll be here Fridays. But if not, then by all means, run some challengers. We get to watch shit in the middle of the week. We get to follow a team that's already

our team to go do something. And it's so new. The people are just going to want to watch because it's new. They're going to see, can they do what Shotsie for Huk, Krim, and others have done. And they play professional call of duty. I think, I think the way some of these orgs are going, I wouldn't be shocked to some of these Halo pros, like Halo pros in general, get bench spots or if you're a good Halo pro

a starting spot. Because some of these teams, like I've heard salaries have gone way down, like their offers going out aren't anywhere near what they used to be. Or call of duty? Yeah, like at this point, maybe take a chance on someone like I don't even know

I don't want to say any of our players but yeah like those guys are obviously like you're already starting with a huge spotlight we'll see yeah I mean whatever it is I know that for Call of Duty next year is going to have a really really good year and I know that we say this every single year since 2005 and more often than not

I think I can guarantee well I mean last year was fucking awesome because we won twice the two major ones but I don't know. I think, I think, I mean, from what I'm hearing already on like the events that we're having, like, they're really good. There's three events that have not been called for. So we submitted requests to run two events next year as always. But if, you know, if we can't do two, then obviously we'll take, we'll take whatever.

But we're, we throw our hat in the ring as we always do. Other people have as well. I heard of these two other things that are happening. I have my thoughts around it, but yeah, Peterman just told me last week that we submitted our shit.

So, dude, it's going to be the best year ever for Call of Duty, I think. Comes down on the maps, let's hope. Let's hope. Yeah. Happy birthday Canada, Reuse of Turn 61. Today. Ladies and gentlemen, wait, today when? Today or today as they're watching this? Because if it's today as they're watching this

and it's two days ago. day. September 2nd. There you go. 61 years old? Get the fuck out of here. He's 61 years old? Crazy.

S.A. Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones is 82. I thought he was 94. Who is? Jerry Jones. Well, that goes the other way. Have you seen the America's team on Netflix?

Yeah, I'm watching it right now. Fantastic. It's so good. I love shit like that. I haven't started it. I haven't started. Jude has. He said it's so good.

I haven't started. I haven't started. Yeah, so good. I saw the previous. I can tell us good. It is. It's super well made. Yeah.

No, it's Jerry, bro. Jude was telling me, you said, you got to watch it. I'm like, baby, I want to watch it. It's crazy when you give people access to, like, that side of someone, how their opinions do change a little bit. Everyone's like, fuck Jerry. I hate what he's doing.

And then some people I've seen that have watched that say like, wow, I, now I understand a little more why this decision. was made or this decision was made and this sacrifice actually worked out first of all it's so easy to villainize someone that you're not hearing from directly big Jerry fan right big Jerry fan

Michael Parsons should have fucking got nowhere that is crazy Michael Parsons should the same way that Luca shouldn't have gone somewhere I also saw this fucking clip of some fucking prick going up to fucking Nico Harrison while he was having dinner with his fucking family that was fucked up like yo like relax bro like you're who the fuck are you

You know, who the fuck are you to question that man on anything? No, what happened? Nico was eating at a restaurant. It was like one of those places where like he was on the window, but there was no window. So like- He was in the patio. He was in the patio. Basically, guy walks by, he goes, Nico, what's up, man?

Just so you know, we all still fucking hate you. And it's just like, bro, what are you doing? This gave me third person embarrassment. Like, I was cringing. That guy says, we all hate you? Turn the spot up right here. Out the window we go. He shakes his hand and said, we still hate you.

What a fucking... I knew he would look like that, too. And then he says right here, do better. Shut the fuck. Look at how he walk. He thinks he's so fire. Are you? He's like, oh.

And he's wearing an Alabama shirt, too. Oh, my God. That's the fucking most gross. No, I'm kidding. But, like, literally, you know, like, I get the level of fandom. I get it, but as a man, you should fucking self-audit constantly. But how did you feel good? good about that. Like, if I, even if I'm beefing with someone, if I was beefing someone, I saw them

with their family. Like, yo, like, that's not, that's not time for that. Like, what the and obviously, like, you're recording it. You're trying to look cool. You're trying to go viral. Congratulations. You played yourself. If he's in the Jumbotron at the game when you want to boom, all right, whatever. Like, that's fair game. You're at work. But like, leave the guy alone, man. Come on. Insane. What the fuck, Riley? The fuck out of here. Oh, it's because you said the shit about Alabama. Alabama. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, that is going to do it for this episode of the Optic podcast. We do appreciate everybody stopping by. Thank you for leaving a like. And we'll see

you guys next week with more shit. The king comes back. We're watching a war movie tonight, boys. Yes, we are. League of Ungentlemanly Warfare. I still haven't watched it. I need to watch it. Watch that one.