OpTic Podcast - WE ARE BACK HOME (RETURNING TO THE HECZQUARTERS) | The OpTic Podcast Ep 181

Episode Date: June 28, 2024

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We found out the day the watch party started that they expected us on YouTube. And I'm trying to stream on my main platform, Twitch, while doing the watch party. And I mean, I've been waking up, like, doing four hours in the morning, then doing the watch party for the past, like, fucking seven months. You are insane for that one. It's kind of crazy that we're finally at the end, but this has been my busiest year. There is. Without a doubt. Hope to be like you one day.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 181 of the Optic Podcast Back. Squatters episode brought to you by Cash App. We'll tell you a little bit more about them later on in the podcast. How are you feeling? Yo, walking in, I actually forgot what floor was on. I literally texted it. I looked at the floors when I did. I still have my fobs somehow.

I still have it. But I was like looking at the floors and I was like, fuck, what floor is it? I kind of felt like a pussy. Really? Yeah. Pussy Lanhamis, of course. Because I forgot the floor. And that made you feel inanimate as a man?

Yeah. We were here. We were here for four years. I got, even texted, or I suppose I was like, how the fuck do I get out? Then Duke can text me.

He was like, yo, everything's open, just like come up. And I was like, what? Is it four three? Everything is not open.

And then even I got in the elevator still hit three. And there was a guy in there with me. He was going to five. So I was like, my bad. I'm going to two. We're back, man.

He had to make an actual little stop. Oh, you got in with someone? It's cool because what happened is that the door's open on the third floor. He's seen a woman he's never seen before. She looks at him. He looks at her. You were Cupid

in that situation. I don't look at no female. No, not you. Him. That's the guy who's making the extra. Yeah, Cube, you're Cupid. What was I going to say? I don't know. I forget about this. The second we get back, look, I was looking at that.

Dude, this is, we literally downgraded. That's power in this whole thing. This whole thing. Oh, my God. God. For those of you who can't see that, I'm going to add it into it right here. Jesus Christ. Look at that.

Look at that. The size of that. Yeah. How long do you think it's going to be to like we're back to any resemblance? By the time they were back from the wedding, everything's going to be taken care of. You think so? Because everybody that takes care of things is also going to be at the wedding. Everyone's going to be there.

Yeah. It's it's, we're going to, WFH for a long thing. time work from home. Yeah? Oh yeah. That sounds awesome. Oh, really? Except for us, obviously, content creators are going to...

Well, now that, I mean, now that we're here, I did the drive today and I was like, this is great. I was going to, I was going to tax either one of y'all, and I was like, that five-minute drives, nice. Oh, yeah. This could be you. I mean, even at the optic office, I was... It'd be 30, or with absolutely zero traffic and I'm flying, it'd be like 25 minutes.

But usually it'd be like 35 minutes. or 40 minutes or sometimes, 45. But this, this right here, guaranteed 40 plus. Like today I think was 45 and there wasn't traffic. And you went, it's like, I'm not even. You didn't go the wrong way though, do you?

No. Where the hell did you get that idea? Matt said, Matt said, Nick thought it was downtown today. And then Seth's like there's no excuse. No, I thought it was. I said there's no way you thought it was downtown today. Well, I just, we've been like raving.

They texted me it. texted me that I was here and this was like the night before. And that wasn't enough. Friendly reminder. Yo, tomorrow the podcast is HQ. I'm like, okay. So I set my alarm for like eight.

And then, was that too late? It's a nine. You got to get up, shower, take a shit? Well, I was thinking,

I was like, I'm going to wake up at eight. And then just the whole optic or the, the hex quarters went out of my head. I was like, I'm going to wake up at eight. By the time I get up, shower,

shit, which I still need to do. And it's sitting with me right now. I let's talk about the, what the fuck is going on with this chair? I thought I was going to the optic office. There we go. So much better. I didn't time it.

I didn't time the 48 minute drive here. Oh, dude, I'd be pushing limits. Like, yeah, I saw got fucking cold of mine. Nick, what do you think? I'd be waking up like at the last minute that I could to like maximize my sleep. Just knowing that I was going down there. I always do that, but my morning shit fucks up. Yeah.

This morning I woke up at 820. 820 had to be here at 9. I fucking showered, laid in bed for 10 minutes on my phone. Crazy, I got up at 8.20. Yo, look at this shit doesn't even have handles. We literally reverted to what did you call it earlier? It was ghetto last time. It was ghetto as fuck again.

Yo, Nick, what do you think the people on this floor are going to think when there's two bathrooms occupied and all of a sudden here comes that fucking young jeezy fucking blasting? The amount of shitoffs we used to have here. I forgot because I was talking to Andrew about... Get-offs. Yes. There's every single time you go into that bathroom, there's someone shitting. Sometimes two people.

Sometimes... It's a show stalls. Always. But I was talking to Andrew and he was like, yeah, we have the whole floor now. And I'm thinking like... Because there used to be people over there. And I forget the company or whatever. Yeah, House of Outdoors.

Gugan, shout our Guggan. But there used to be a company over there. It wasn't Gugan over there, wasn't it? Oh, well, there was two. Just like that entire section over there. Scoreboard. But I was thinking. Are you talking about scoreboard?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I was thinking I was like, oh, shit, we got the whole floor now. Because I was thinking this morning, like, I'm going to have to shit. Like, right when I get there. But. Oh, finally, I get shit in peace. Yeah, and I was like, oh, no one's going to be here. It's just optic on this floor now.

And I was like, I'm going to be able to shit in the piece. But I forgot about, like, the, other section over there. So it's still going to be having shit off. But I guess it's pretty good to be back. Besides the drive, I wish I was talking to you about how I wish I would have known. Because in the beginning of the year, have you ever, have you talked about like the situation of like the process getting this?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like it was an idea. And then you weren't sure you were going to get it. Didn't know about getting rid of the, or the Dallas office, blah, blah, blah. but while I was looking for a house, I had no idea that this was going to be an option in the foreseeable future. Yes, you did.

If the plan is to- Damn, he's saying he got trapped. No, no, that's cool. And so I told Michelle, I was like, find a house like 20 to 30 minutes away from the Dallas office. Like, I'm not trying to drive more than like 40 minutes. Because at the time, I was streaming there as well.

So I was like, I'm not trying to drive like 40 plus minutes every single day. So we found a house, reasonable location. if I can move here and it's like I know people commute every single day even farther than what I'm saying but it would have been nice to just know yo later in six months we're going to be in friscoe look around that area but it's just a kept secret but it was not a kept secret I was talking to Mario Mario came to the garage this this past weekend and he's like yo what's up man how come you guys are moving and he's like and I'm like oh I was you know I've been trying to do that Man, they come out of nowhere.

And I'm like, I guess it did come out of nowhere to everyone. But this is something that's been like in the, it didn't come. You didn't think. I've known for a while. Well, no, I know. I know. I know. I'm saying.

I've been sitting there. You knew too. You knew. I've been like this. Just waiting. Yeah, everybody knew. We talked about it. What do you mean?

We're talking about it openly. I've just been waiting like this. Yes. Hey. I'm like, oh my gosh. Last watch party weekend where I have to commute downtown. I'm just sitting there like this. I know Hitch is happy as shit.

They couldn't wait to announce that. Yeah, they were. They were high-fiving, Matt. It doesn't have to fucking drive 40, 50 minutes. I'm most happy for Matt. Yeah. I think Jukin drives over an hour. Who cares?

No, it's cool. I'm happy that I finally came to fruition. It puts a business in a better, in a more right state. There's nothing better than this. To me, obviously, like I was talking about it, I drove to the old offices from there. I went to the, there was a place that I could have gotten. It was the Frisco Mercantile place. It was like an 11,000 square feet building.

It had a bait door that I could have drove my boat in. It was like massive. It was going to be 1.1 for 11,000 square feet. And I almost bought it. For the year? No, no, no, to buy it. To buy it. To buy it.

To buy the entire building. But there was going to have to be a lot of remodeling that you had to be a lot of remodeling. 11,000 square feet for 1.1? Yeah. Guess what happened a year later, Seth? It sold for 3.4. Choke. Choke.

Those are the biggest L. Well, one of the biggest. One of the biggest else. You've had a few big ones. Yeah. Anyway, but, but, yeah, pass once. Would that have been cooler? Victory's ahead.

Would that place have been cooler in here? Nah, I don't know. Like it was more like factory warehouse of high-be? Yeah, it was like the same height as this. but it was like just massive open space, just the same thing. Like we could, we literally could have turned that into whatever we wanted.

It was 11,000 square feet. How big is the office downtown? Nice, Matt. It's like 11,000 square feet, he said. That place is bigger than 11,000. Is it? Yeah. Downtown?

Yeah. Has to be. It's a whole fucking floor. I'm just not good with estimating those feet. Yeah, but it's a whole floor in a big-ass building in downtown. So my, My, my, uh, it's probably, yeah, it's probably about like 10.11. Yeah, maybe.

1011, 1,000. Yeah. Anyway, neither here or there. But I just, the, somebody beat me to it. And I just say, you know, I'm going to be here anyway because scoreboard is here. And then like, we have some plans, you know, so to help, you know, listen, those plans, fucking home runs, both of them. But, um, but I drove by there today just sort of explaining like what it took to get into the space and then what it became and I was desecrated.

and how like great times were had here. And now I'm happy that I'm back, man. I really am. Not just because of the drive is easy. I mean, that downtown office was expensive too, man. Yeah. Yeah, that show was kind of crazy. Yeah, I look at that shit and I'm like, how the hell was Envy doing?

Whoa, yo, relax. What? I mean, I guess not that that's even like a shot. I'd say that envy fucking any org. Yeah. Like, how the fuck are they doing that? That shit was, like, crazy. Yeah.

Really, for no reason. You're paying, well, no, it's a premium location. I mean, it's a premium location, but, like, for what? Yeah, I mean, not arguing that. I mean, I don't know why we were there, but. No. I mean, I know why we were there. People probably didn't even come, take picks, like,

well, no, there's probably a decent amount of fans. Well, no, it was dope because during the finals, though, it was like, they did, like, they did a, just like a, panoramic view of Victory Plaza, like, before the game and shit. And the optic was, like, right in the center of it. And I was like, that's pretty cool. That is pretty cool. What's cool?

We got our money's worth. Gold Axis garage. That's a paid ad. Right. Like that, I'm going to miss that. Like, just fucking park it in my spot and then walking right into the American Airlines Center. That was cool.

I wonder how many people, like, saw it and then is now, like, kind of like getting into gaming and shit. People that walk by was, what the fias? I didn't, let me see what this office is. There were times where I'd see people taking picks of it, like when I was walking in. They would be like, oh, take a picture of it as they're like walking by. Dude, Joey's happiest walk, too. Look at him.

There's a few people with some long, with some smiles, your, ear, your smiles. Long drives before. You look, he just got out of bed. Look at his hair. I ain't even going to, I ain't even going to, like, driving over here, like getting into the area, like pulling into this, like, whatever you'd call it, this area.

Yeah. Like right by the Civic. I was like, damn. Kind of like started bringing back memories. Like, I used to just be like drunk walking down here. Like going to that pizza place. Like what it's even called. Like right beside the cinema arc.

Pizza dieticesta. Is that what it's called? Yeah. He used to frequent that place. Who? I used to go there a little bit. I like it. We go over, hang out with Paige, Raj,

and whoever the hell's always over there because they're always hanging out with some. But those are good times over here, kind of. No, not kind of for sure. Yeah, like, this is a nice area. I kind of miss it. It gives me like a safe. Like a safety fee.

Of course it does, man. Like, of course, this was a refuge. A hug. Yeah, this was a refuge. What I will miss is the fact that British Line is no longer there. That's tough. That's tough. The great thing, the great thing is that the diners right there.

I thought that. Did it not close? No, they sold the original owner. Shout out to them. They sold it. New ownership is. I still go there. I'm still there.

Three times a week. I thought they sold it and now the... No, that's gone. Stakes and Sines is gone? Gone. They couldn't keep up. That's where we went after Major One in Vanguard. Yeah. It's like, this is where we...

I remember going to British Lion, like the first day we... Or first, like, kind of week we moved here. That was a spot. And I was like, this is about to be lit. And I walked in there and I was like, it's not right. I drove by your old spot over here this morning. There's like the Wilsherry, the Wilbury, the Derbyshire? What's it called?

The Derbyshire? Of an apartment? No, it's a new restaurant. It's like an English pub right next to the cigar spot. Oh, hell really? Yeah. Damn. Yeah, that would have been cool.

Just so everyone knows the watch party will be against that wall. We've already made up our minds. It'll be against the wall. We're blacking out the windows. We're going to put that big-ass screen there, and that's where it's going to be. That's where it's going to live. So the trophies are going to move from this end of the wall to that end of the wall. Yeah, what's like the...

Are you going to make any changes this time around? or are you going to same setup? We got the desk in that corner, TV here, the couch. I didn't even want to call it the hex quarters, but then everybody's like, you should, you have to call it. You have to call it. I'm cool with it.

I just didn't want to make it about me, you know what I mean? I'm not going to lie. We can't, you know, we cannot let it get to the end of what it looked like when we were, like, leaving. We had the big ass curtains here. There was just, like, clutter everywhere. We can't let it get like that.

Well, I think now we have that entire side for sure. And also it's not just Matt and fucking Roger anymore. It's like we have a fucking full squad now. I'm just saying it was like it was just discombobulated at the end of at the end of the hex quarters. I mean, again, we had that big ass curtain here on the other side of it. There was just randomly placed tables. With PCs lined up for whatever reason.

With just random shit on it. Fliped up on a football. Yeah. Yeah. Matt had spilled all of his fucking ice tea right there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, someone going to come in and like buff the floors?

Someone's going to come in and buff the floors and maybe add the curtains. Because it really, it feels like we have not left. Like, look at the floor. It feels like we have still been here fucking this place up. Yeah. No, they usually just wait until somebody. The thing is, is the people that were supposed to take over the entire floor just backed out. And that's how like this thing came about.

And at the right place, somebody else came in and needed the space up up there. I don't know who's taking it. So it was like a perfect storm for us to get back. Yeah. I mean, I wish it would have happened sooner. Like I wish we would have never left here. And it would have been so much easier. I was so excited to go to Dallas, though.

Yeah, I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. And I still didn't even like live in like the high rise or anything. Oh, you did. I mean, I do. Several. I don't fucking. Oh, you're talking about living there.

It's like. Yeah. I'll wake up, look on the balcony. Like motherfucker has to be going to lunch. Oh, like work, brunch, walk around. Like going to. I don't even know what the spot was called. But there'd be like a little, yeah, Katie Trail.

So the place with like little water spouts, kids play. There's like food trucks and shit. Never did any of that. It was just like stayed. I mean, when I laid there or when I lived there and I started like running and stuff, during the summer, I did kind of enjoy it because it was like, especially the times I'd be like, you know what, I'm not going to stream these next six months. so I would just like do whatever I want apartment pool

Michelle would know some people I'd know someone we go to there and like that was fun and sometimes sometimes might have just go to our apartment pool drink a little bit after that go walk around I meet up with Ace TV randomly yoga yeah like we have a functioning television everything's walk or not everything's walker

Dallas is a weird city. Like, it's a city, but it's a very strange city. It's like, it's not walkable. There's almost no reason to really even walk it. But it's just, it's just like almost like four different, like sections. I've been trying to convince Diesel to move down here, but he already lived in Austin for like two years. He's like, I'm never fucking moving to Texas again. And also, he sent me a picture of Chicago because now he's, we'll never get him out of there.

That city is. I want to visit again. Yeah. I want to visit. Dude. I want to visit downtown Chicago and stay in a hotel in downtown Chicago. Or a week. Let's go.

And, yeah, and like every day. You know what you do for a week? Yeah. Pubs games, socks games. No, maybe. Garibaldi's to the hotel. Bro, I stayed in a fire hotel in Chicago. I don't even remember.

It was the last day before we moved here. Yeah. Me and Mike drove. Yeah. We stayed in this hotel. Dude. The Trump hotel? Yeah, I was going to say.

It was like, I don't, I don't remember where it was. I have a confession to make. Bro, the shower had a big ass window. It was just fire. I was just sitting there looking at the city. fucking naked. I didn't enjoy it. I mean, I didn't get to enjoy it.

I'm always worried someone's got binoculars. You could, the reflection, dude. I hope they do. I was there for, what the fuck did I go? Oh, for the Bachelor Party. And I'm like, I'm not fucking spending no more than this. And I looked at the only hotel that was right at that thing with the amenities that I wanted was the Trump hotel.

And I was like, I'm going to fucking, I'm going to go. So I stayed at the Trump hotel. beautiful view on the Chicago River. Don't turn that into anything. Okay? You guys know me. What, politics? No.

Is the Trump hotel even owned by Trump? Or is it just like a name of a hotel? If you stay there, is it like, bro, you really stayed at the Trump hotel? No, dude. I don't want to get into that. Is that a stupid question? Is that shit owned by Trump? Yeah, it's owned by Trump.

What's Trump enterprise? Stupid question. By 45 enterprises? I'm going to hear about that way. Wait, was he the 45th? I don't fucking know. See that's so much I don't give a fuck. Anyway.

Dude, staying in downtown for idiots for two weeks only made me realize how big of a fucking dumbass I've been my entire life, not just my younger years, like my entire life, because that city has got so much to offer. Like, I want to know what it feels like to be down there in the winter. You were never down there in downtown. You were down there and you were, you were in the in between. You were out there in the wild hondoes. The wild hondo. Anyway, yeah, it was, dude, I, I, I'm going to say it. Best city in the world.

Best city in the world. Like Chicago River, you've got the lakefront. Let's go back, but let's go back for a week and we'll make it about work. We'll go film a special edition of idiots, one week of idiots down there. Who's down? Raise your hand down. I'm down. That'll be the only place where I like.

You'll have a streaming setup out there. No, you won't. No, I won't. Oh, you will, but you won't use it. Listen, I'm about to be gone for two weeks. After I'm gone for two weeks, I'm locked in. I mean, I still have to travel for a couple things, but I got to lock in to streaming. I mean, with the watch party, taking away already half of my week, basically off of Twitch.

It's like, I got to lock in after a way. Yeah. I'm already freaking out about it. You shouldn't, man. Just enjoy it. Two weeks off. You just got two full weeks off. Do you know the last time I've taken two full weeks off of streaming?

Oh my God. Before you started your journey. Long time. The thing is this isn't. This isn't anything. It's not like you're like bullshit in somewhere. Oh, yeah. Like it's,

this is the, this is literally the one and only moment in your life. That I can do. There's probably nothing besides like a funeral or something. Shelfth birth. Disappearing for three. I'm just saying. I could.

It's like, what fuck is, if he's like, if he takes his two weeks off and he's like, you know what, fuck it. I'm going back to Rome again for another. Yeah.

Who gives a fuck? Who gives a, who gets a? he does the only person that cares his head I give a fuck this is just like you're one there's only a few things in life

to where it's like nothing else matters enjoy this moment and this is one of those moments yeah amen you're gonna have fun you're gonna have fun we're all gonna have fun

we're all gonna have a blast man that made me feel better are you gonna take an extra week I told is I told is at the party I'm like if I hear this motherfucker talk about anything work related

no He's going to have his phone like this. No. Well, listen, the matches we got to watch. But that's not work. Yeah, I'm only going to watch the boys play. Yeah. And even then, it might be hard because we are, they're playing in L.A.

We are nine hours ahead. So. Damn. It's going to be like 2 a.m. Well, if the matches start at 2 and they go to 8, if the matches end at 8 p.m. LA time, that is fucking 5 in the morning. You know what I'm saying? But it's crazy because my birthday.

is June 30th and that is championship Sunday of the major. If they're in the finals, I don't care when they play. I'm going to do my best to watch. No matter what club you're in. Well, yeah, we're going to be in a club on my birthday in Rome. What do you mean fuck?

I just should have went a little earlier. Oh wait, you're not going to be there. I'm going to... That's crazy. That's crazy. Good. So yeah, some people are coming for like just the wedding.

So people are like, why are you there? for two weeks and it's like, dude, what? Like, we're going to Italy. Yeah. Like, it's my wedding. Yeah. We're making a trip out of it. It's not a two hour flight. No, we're in Positano for like three.

I think we're in Positano the first three or four days. Then we're in Rome for the next three or four days. Then we go to where we're getting married. The next like two days. I think we have one day there and then the festivity start and then, you know, a couple days and then we're out. So, yeah, we're making the most of it, man. We're having a good trip.

So my plans might change because Jude and Liv don't want to leave the dogs behind because of Henry's heart condition right now. And then tomorrow he's got another reading. So they put a they put a suit on him. Right? They put a suit on them. And then they put like the three sensors to like check his heartbeats. And the first time around it was a mild case of whatever the fuck it was that he had, which is like the third pump was like a little. He had like murmurs kind of?

I don't know what it was. I wasn't putting attention because my heart was skip a beat. My heart was like skipping a beat just fucking thinking about it. But, you know, no matter how it happens, live is really about staying back. So maybe it'll just be me and Jude or maybe it'll be just me. And, you know. But if they don't, then I'll probably change my flight and meet you guys for the party. Maybe.

Oh, so you're not coming right now for my birthday. No, I get there. I get there. I don't even know. I mean, it's like, it's like, it's. like major dude if I was turning 30 it'd be even crazier I'm only turning 29 I'm not the big 3 oh yet but imagine I was

turning 30 getting married within a four day span in Rome oh the big 3O the 30 30 30 dude best years of my life so far 29 it's gonna be it's gonna be an event although I do have a feeling that this year is gonna be a fucking excellent year yeah

oh yeah oh yeah well it just keeps getting better man so people are also like why are you taking two weeks and Who are these people? Who are these people? Name them. What's his name, chat? I don't know. But they better be soft so they can have like that fucking close of an opinion to you.

Oh, they ain't. They don't even tune in all. So people are like, are you guys doing a honeymoon? And it's like, no, this is like the week pre-trip is kind of like our pre-honeymoon. We might do one like a couple months later after I like get to lock back in. Yeah, yeah. But. You got to, dude.

You got to have a honeymoon. I never had a honeymoon with you I say you do a honeymoon but we all go to Mexico we go back inclusive yeah see now we already have a few trips planned like uh well they all want to go to Disney like Zinnie and Denise all the Burroughs how old are you fucking guys Jesus Christ they want to go to Disney but that'll be like right before the game drops so it'll be like late October but yeah man it's gonna be a fun fun stress it'll be a fun summer. I will say, though, I will say, in my defense, this has probably been, dude, it has to have been

my busiest year up to this point. 100%. With the watch party and trying, because at the beginning of the year, we didn't know if we were going to be on Twitch, YouTube, we didn't know where the fuck we were going to be. We found out the day the watch party started that they expected us on YouTube. And I'm trying to stream on my main platform, Twitch, while doing the watch party. and I mean I've been waking up like doing four hours in the morning then doing the watch party for the past like fucking seven months you are insane for that one it's kind of crazy that we're finally at the end but this has been my busiest year there is a doubt hope to be like you one day Listen, the thing is this, like, it's too late for me to be like you.

And listen, I consider myself a, I consider myself a fucking hard worker. I consider myself one that just fucking sits down and does the work, but no way in hell would my brain allow me to do what the fuck you're doing? Get the fuck out of here. You wake up in the morning for four hours and then you drive an hour to go stream seven hours. You're fucking crazy. On a weekend. Couldn't do it. Yeah, every weekend.

I am a hard worker. I'm trying to get a pool day in. I haven't had a pool. I've had one pool day this entire year. And it wasn't even high. But now I got my fucking weekends back. I'm about to be ripping pool days left and right. Because now I can stream five days during the week.

And even if I take two days off, I feel less guilty because at least I'm streaming on Twitch for those full five days. There's something wrong with you and your brain. But it's clearly working. Yeah. Obviously. It might be the message. I'm missing whatever that is. Yeah.

It's not a... Whatever brain part that is. Can I borrow it? Whenever that McGula A blumbada's at. Mama's wrong again. Mama what's wrong again? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to

the current setup room. Give me that. What? Who in the? What happened, player? I overdraft it. Bro, literally no cab. You have cash up overdraft coverage.

Don't even twut it. So you're saying when you direct deposit your paycheck on cash app? You can't. can get a little extra protection up to $50 in overdraft coverage. Damn, that's money. That's cash app. Yeah. That shit's funny.

No, I'm super excited. Look at his... Yeah, we leave tomorrow. So we're filming this on Monday. We leave tomorrow for the trip. Yeah. So as you're watching this, yeah. I'll be in Italy already.

This comes out Thursday, right? Yeah, this comes out Thursday, man. Yeah, I'll be in Post. My time, y'all are watching this? I'm in Posatano under a cabana. You leave tomorrow, right? We leave tomorrow, yeah. Tomorrow at noon.

We leave tomorrow at noon. We fly to, I think JFK there for a layover, and then we fly it's like nine hours or something, and then we get to Positano like tomorrow morning. What do you do with your animals? So the dogs stay there and Hector's family comes over and they'll let them out, feed them, and then the cats are easy.

They have like the litter robot. Just bring your dogs to Seths. I mean, I would be down, but I'm not trying to. I don't know Seth and your family's like cool with that Dude my house I can't imagine how many shits Gwen is gonna take while inside the house Yeah well we're gone because she shits a lot while we're still there she shits like five times a day Yeah it's oh yeah little dog with the same shit Well we try to we try to let her out as much as possible be as she she she she shits like

At least one at least once a day in the house How many dogs? Yeah yeah I have two dogs but my little dog like He's insane got Chewy the puppy, he's shit non-stop, piss non-stop in the house. I'm talking like 10 to 15 times a day. Okay, that's insane. And we let him out every 30 minutes. Did you take him out on the leash?

Well, we just had a little yard and then sometimes we take him for a walk on a leash. But like he would only... You got to take them out when they're getting potty trade. You got to take him out on the leash. Literally wait for them to go and then give him a treat right after they go. Yeah, we're not. And get hype and shit. Yeah.

Yeah, we're not good parents. I mean, we would take him outside. We just had like a little yard. And he would go out there and shit. Good boy. Yeah, he's all happy and shit. But he just doesn't. He forgets that like, that's what you're supposed to do.

Then he would go back in. He would shit on the wall, shit on the carpet. He would only shit. This is a wild child. He would only shit on the walls, the carpets or the couch. Like out of all the like hard floor that was down there. He would only shit on anything that would make it worse. Because he thinks it's grass.

And then this new puppet. is the same way, except she's peeing everywhere, peeing on the bed, peeing on the bed. You'll just be walking, you'll just be walking and just like stepping. No. Stepping piss, sometimes stepping shit.

No. No, there's landmines out there. Do you walk around with your phone like this? Well, like, how do you not see it? It's fucking like dark in the morning. We got the windows closed. I don't want the sun be coming in. But like, I'll wake up in the,

like sometimes she'll be up in the morning. morning or the dog will wake Michelle up Michelle will take the dog out then they'll come back in then they'll fall asleep then wake up again at like nine because my sleep schedule has been awful lately I was waking up at 7 a.m. hitting the gym in streaming but

sleep schedule has been a low off so once they're up they're up for a little bit and then everyone kind of goes back to sleep 9 a.m. I wake up I go out into the kitchen I'm like no oh my god it fucking stinks and then I'll just I'll just look around and I'll see like little shit

here, little shit here, like a trail of shit here. Oh, so you're in a different. One on the couch, one on the couch, two, like three in that, like 16 different mini shit spots. It's like she, it's like she just like

like, it just makes no sense. I wish we, I wish we had a camera to like record. We have cameras. We have cameras outside, but not inside. You have to have cameras. Because if someone makes it inside, I'm just like, I can't have that on tape. Well, when we got the...

Dude, you have to be for proof of you defending yourself. When we got the litter robot, we put a camera in the cat room to see who was using it regularly and who we needed to like put in the room. Like we had to put Moody, our one cat, we had to put her in there for a week. So she would only go, like, because she was afraid of it because the shit like she goes in. Well, yeah, you go, they go in. I say you go in, like I go in there and shit in this thing. Sometimes.

Hey, I've never done it yet. It looks kind of cool. So she was like scared because you go in, go to the bathroom, and then it starts rotating. And she's like afraid of her own shadow. So we had to lock her in that room for a week. To torture her. Yeah, no, no. Scare the shit out of her.

Well, no. She just had no other choice but to go into the litter robot to shit because she was going under our bed. She had like a whole tunnel system. Yeah. That's weird for a cat. Yeah. Well, she was, she's just afraid of people. She's afraid of everyone.

She's gotten better with us. But like when there's a party, when I throw a party, she always goes. under the bed because she won't come out and she just goes in there. Yeah, Junior always did pretty good using the... I've never seen a cat with like issues of like shitting on. A lot of them do. Really? Like whenever they pee one time outside the litter box, they keep going there.

That's what like bean bags that I've had, we've had to get rid of them. Like bean bags, they'll pissing it once and it goes into the beanbag and then they keep going back to it and we've had to throw away who beanbags? We're about to throw away our rug. Not the corduroy's one though. The corduroy's one has not been pissed on yet. yet it's been I mean and it's been like we've had it for a year now maybe eight months in the basement yet to be peed on so that's crazy give it time give it time what's it at the last get

together so what are you going to do with your animals then uh I mean I was talking to I texted Juki Jay see if like telling him like you can just live there if you want and I because I he lives in bum fuck nowhere so it's like he might be closer to this office now what if he's bumfucked that way you're bumfucked that way. Well, I think he's forget which bumfuck way he is. But all I know is he was like an hour away from the, I think over an hour away from the Dallas office.

So it's like he has to be kind of, and I'm hoping like I'm in between so that he could just stay at my place and watch him. Holly, I texted talking to Holly yesterday. She said she might be down. I think she's just bored. It would just be like, yeah, if I get, I'll go over. But I think, I think they live an hour away as well

because they're just in the complete opposite direction, but I got to figure something out. Yeah. Not a lot of family and friends. Our puppy doesn't have its a shot or something yet. That's required to, but I think we're doing that today. Like, I don't know.

We're figuring it all out. It's kind of a shit show, but that is kind of the annoying part because we wanted to stay longer. And I was like, if we go early and stay longer, it's more hotels, that's more days we're going to have to keep them like, pay the fucking daycare or whatever.

I'm like, that alone's going to be two to three grand extra, just to like stay in an extra extra couple of days. And it's just like, Jesus. And you're not streaming. It took six months off on shit. Man. Hopefully the comeback's good, though. What I'm doing, when I get back,

I'm gonna say, 2,000 subs, 24 hour, just like my man Nade shot. Yeah? And I'm gonna fucking rip a 24-hour if they hit it. If they hit it, I'm gonna rip a 24-hour Eldon ring. stream right when I get back. Dude, you, but yeah, well, you're going to love that. Because I still have the DLC, because I fucking played the DLC and fucking choked.

Well, not choked, but I was severely under-leveled. And I started the DLC, died 50 times on the first boss, was like, all right, I got to go level up and went back to the real game because I hadn't beaten it yet. And, like, you have to beat the game to get souls to level up. So that's what, that's my plan. That's what I'm going to do. I got a similar plan. Yeah.

A little comeback, Eldon Ring Stream. I don't want to like announce it and talk about until I like really figure it out. But I want to do it right. You want to do like a guy. And I want to do it here. And it's going to be like a I'm not leaving this office until it's beat. Yeah. And then like maybe if we hit this amount.

Yeah. But now so now. So now. So now. So now. I'll do the D. The issue is for you now though is that the DLC came out. So now you got to beat the base game and the DLC.

Yeah. Hopefully that doesn't affect viewers being interested. Because I'm sure everyone right now is just watching the DLC. Because when the DLC came out, I was like, fuck yes. So you had to beat two bosses to get to the DLC. And they're like, one of the bosses is like end game. He's like, you have to be level 105. Which took, it took me like 15 hours to get to him.

But I've played the game before. So I kind of like speed ran it. But it still took me 15 hours to get to him. And I beat the game already. So yeah, it's a lot. And that's like knowing where a lot of the stuff is. that's chat guiding me and knowing like kind of where I'm going. But the DLC is harder than the base game.

It's shorter than the base game, but it's like ties on like hour 60 right now. Yeah. Like, I'm just wondering if I do it if like people won't be interested. Are people like only interested in the DLC right now? No. Like that's what.

No. Eldon Ring just has like a buzz around it in general because people are, they want to see like, so like they, if you haven't got to that point, they want to see you get to that point. So you'll be fine. Like people will still watch.

Yeah, no, I'm going to try my best. I mean, Eldon Ring is such a... Make this like a... A big return? A big return, but I'm trying to think of the word. Make this for like a just like... Almost like community involved watch. I start from complete...

I've never played the game, never watch... Sub goals and stuff. I'm going to do all that, but like never played the game, never watched the game. And I want this to just be like my whole... community involved in this and everyone knowing how far is he now? I'm gonna try my best

with this train. I'm gonna give him my own. How many hours straight do you think it'll take for him to get it? Oh, if you haven't played it before and you're not gonna look up guides and shit, like where do I go? I'll have chat. I mean, if you're asking chat, it'll be easier, but

unless of course they go rope. I might have like a portable shower. You shouldn't do that because like Port-a-potty. So like I was asking chat a lot, like where do I go and shit? that's only because I've beaten the game. If I wouldn't have beaten the game, I wouldn't have wanted Chad to, like, guide me from place to place. Like, yo, where do I go now?

That's what I was doing, because I was trying to get it done. Because I had three days. Sometimes with streaming, though, I get inside. Like, whenever I was playing Power World, I would, like, get anxiety when I'm just sitting there, like, doing nothing. I'm like, Chad, what do I do? Like, this has to be not fun for you to watch because I'm sitting here doing the most minimal shit.

And I'm like, I know I'm doing nothing. Like, Chad, let's get something going. Where am I going? Tell me. That's how I felt like, no, put this here. No, go back and put this. Yeah, bro. It was so good.

A heart start pounding. Yeah. But then like what I feel like I didn't have shit going on, I was like, fuck, it's starting to get boring. And it's funny. That's how like streamers kind of think. I was like, fuck. Okay.

So I got to get trapped. Where do I go? And I feel like that might be the same kind of thing in like Eldon Ring of like, I'm just going and serving complete time. And I'm like, bro, motherfuckers are leaving this stream. How did you? Because I got that. too when I was playing like when I was playing the

DLC and I had to go back I was like fuck like I don't want to go back I've already beat this shit like everyone's already watched people beat this shit I want to play the new shit and I was kind of like it actually killed my mind because I was so excited and then I was just getting railed

by the first boss just railed 40 levels under level I never played a I never even really played a game like that besides like World of Warcraft Zelda it's not like World of Warcraft Zelda sort of Like, yeah, I just, I can't think of anything. How did, uh, how did your, the stream you guys do, uh, did?

The TSD Minecraft one? Yeah, the Minecraft one. Um, I think I did pretty good. I don't think it. How many hours did you guys go as one of my asking? Five or six. And you guys beat the dragon? I've never been the dragon.

But it was kind of like we could, I feel like we could have did it better. Because like when, whenever we were playing, it was, I kind of was forgetting everything we needed to do. Like, I beat it once. But I was kind of forgetting everything we needed. need to do. Blake, I ain't gonna lie, didn't seem interested in even being there. Because I think Valorant on PS5 just came out

that evening and Blake was playing it and we're like, yo, come play here. He was just like, I don't think he wanted, so it was just pitch and Marcel just fucking trying to do everything. And then for every like 10 subs, they would gift diamonds

and then we could trade those diamonds in for other stuff. So it's like, we didn't even, we beat the game, but like, We did it in like a modded kind of way, which kind of made it fun for viewers. It was different. I'm cool with that, yeah. But those are coming back to that,

like I wasn't even streaming at that time. And then coming back and doing a stream like that, I was like, this is like I like I'd like streams like this. Like something to, I'm not just signing on Halo Infinite, starting matchmaking. Searching 40 minutes before I get a game.

No. That was my daily. Why did you even go back? That was my daily. Why did you even go back? When I went back, well, I think when I went back, an event was happening happening in a week, then did the watch party. I think I did my own. And then when you guys were tuning in, like, I did it with y'all as well. The watch party went really well. Like, stream was popping for me, at least. And then I started streaming Halo and like the, I was, I was getting like decent viewers for me, especially playing Halo. And I was like, the Halo community is kind of. They're rocking with them. me right now. But then

just two months later. And it's everyone. Everyone's Halo Infinite Dreams have gone down. I've seen like formal and Lucid. Like they used to sign on they're getting over a thousand easily.

Now, then it turned into like 800, 700, 700, 600. I'll see Lucid with like 300 now. I'm like, this, fuck, Halo's fucking dying. And I was like, so I cannot get people. 300 is a lot of people. I can, 300 is, if I

have 300, I'm happy with that. I'm actually, at this point, I'm fucking hype about it. But I'm just saying it's like that's just how Halo, what Halo used to be and like the numbers they used to pool even just six months ago

compared to where it is now. And I was seeing it live every single day on my stream. Like when I first started playing again, it'd be like 450 viewers. If magically randomly, sometimes over like 500. But then it started getting to like the 300th.

Then it would be like high to 200s. So I'd be seeing like 220. Then I start seeing like 180. And I'm like, Yeah, when like Cod starts When like Cod's life cycle starts Is this shit? Then I'd see like

160 and I'm like I think this is where it ends There's nothing you can do It's like it's just the game It was just The viewers just as a whole for everyone Yeah it's just You got to switch it up with that

There's just nothing going on There's no tournaments No one really no one gives a fuck about the online tournament Yeah that was fun Yeah I want to play I want to play I don't want to play console And I can't believe I'm saying that I'm not playing console.

What, all the cheaters in Warzone or not? It was just, like, fun as fuck, getting better with Mouse and Key. Yeah, Zinni wants to play console, and I'm like, brother, you have to learn. Wait, why not control her on Warzone? No, Mouse and Key on Val. Oh, that. It's console Val and Mouse and Key. Then he's so scared of Mouse and Key.

It's hilarious. It's so, like, you get that feeling of, like, you're, okay, I need to get better. But you want to play Valorant, but with Mouse and Key? Yeah, so again, like. I got to get it. I mean, I'd be down to try it up, but I ain't going to buy a PS5 and. I'm not going to play console, though. Like, I know I'd get on and be your automatically decent, and that's just...

Because you know the game. Yeah, I want to be shit and get better. Like... So he just doesn't want to play mouse and keyboard because why? He's afraid of it. It took me literally eight hours to be a master at Battalion 19, motherfucking 40. Battalion's, that game is like... That game is not as hard, though.

It was like Val and CS. Yeah, sure it isn't. Bro, me and Nick run that shit every day. And every day, getting better. It was fun just getting better, yes, and then getting your shit pushed in and then trolling some games. And then we're arguing with our teammates, hearing them just bitch. And it's like we're all in bronze. And it's like we all have to understand that we're all fucking trash.

I was just playing the game by myself and me and this guy were going at it. The whole game, just arguing, talking shit to each other. He was on my team. Afterwards, we're like, I'm like, yeah. send me your Instagram. Ninja, Tim the Tapman's tattoo artist. Oh, really? Yeah, no, we became boys.

Oh, what? It was hilarious. That's great. That's fucking funny as fuck. It was hilarious, bro. Y'all were talking shit to each other? All crazy. Bro, why would you do that?

Shut the fuck up. That show was hilarious. No, that's good. All right, let's talk about it. I know we don't want to, but Optic Texas lose to Ultra in the breach this past weekend. Starting in losers, Brack.

at major four. The performance, the recent performance makes you worried about their loser bracket run, but are you actually worried? Yeah. Yeah, a little bit. Like early exit or late exit kind of vibe? I mean, could be early. Mm-mm.

I don't know. I hope it's not early, but it could be early. I really hope it's not. I'm going to tell you why, because of the amount of money that that team gets paid. That's why they're not going to get out early, okay? They get paid as a Sunday team. They better make it a fucking Sunday.

You know what I'm saying? It's just their search and destroyer. If they can figure that out and put it together on land, I think that they could be okay. The fuck you didn't want you fucking giving them tips, they are in their heads. Yeah, that's all it is. They're just in their heads right now. Because obviously they have the scale. Obviously, they're not the fucking 12th seed,

which is insane. To win the event and go to 12th seed. It's never happened before. That's never happened before and then also a 12-steed team has never won a tournament. So they have the opportunity to do something crazy this weekend. Yeah. And it would be for the back-to-back. And I could see it happen.

I could see it happening. I could see them just steamrolling teams. Next thing we know, we see them top three going in this Sunday. Coming out of losers is that finals matches, though. Especially if you're playing someone like phase, bro. Wait, do you have to win two? I mean, they might be. No, just a best of seven.

They might be winning, win, win, win, and play like a cold team that's been sitting like, I don't know. And then that's it. That's the spark. They get like a phase that loses or they get a New York that loses. They beat them, get their confidence back. Boom, they make a run. I could see that happening 100%.

Yeah. But this is my concern. You want to tell you my concern? My concern is that we're going to an event that is the one we had in Ohio where it's like an online, it's like an online land event. It's going to benefit the teams with smaller fan bases. I mean, it's like they're going in. Usually the teams of smaller fan bases are just getting like kind of alphaed by the teams with bigger fan bases,

fan bases. I know I'm saying that word a lot. But like here there's no like external factor. It's they can kind of like they're in their own world, not having to worry about the crowd, which, you know, is a big factor at these tournaments. People get nervous. People feed off the height more. Like the crowd is a big factor. And the fact that there's no crowd, that concerns me a little bit because it Again, it's going to let some of those mid-to-lower-tiered teams play more comfortable on land. I agree. I just hope they come out firing.

I think the first match is going to be their hardest. It's going to be either Miami or Thieves. I think the loser of that match. Yeah, Miami or Thieves. So the first match is going to be the hardest. It's like one with no structure. They just run around on some crack shit. And the other one is some decent structure.

And they also run around on them. but what do we need to do dude i don't know because i think we need to win a fucking search we haven't want to search i don't know what i always think like when i was on nation like we'd be playing like a team like we'd go against i don't know fucking envy and it's like all right well we know if we lose the first map we're definitely winning the second one if we can somehow steal it's same but it's flip for them if they can just steal a search they'll be good steal the second search go on and win the map yeah it'll be fine but

The first search. Yeah, or however it rolls out. If you steal the second search, that's the game five. But yeah, I mean, well, shit, you got to win game five too. I just wonder how they don't have a guaranteed mode right now. How their chats are going as a team. We've lost, I think, I think we've lost game five. Every time.

What do you think? Game five, the last five series? Besides the Toronto series. Toronto we got three out. But I think the five series before that were all game fives. Matt, hit the arrow. Boston was game five. Let me ask you this.

Vegas was game five. Minnesota was game five. I have to throw this in there. The arrow top left, Matt. Just keep scroll. Nope. Top left. All the way.

Keep hitting that. Keep going. Yeah, we lost a New York game five. Minnesota, Vegas, Boston, and the Ravens. So yeah, our five games before the 3-0 against Serrano were all game fives. I have to throw this in. And they were all two.

search losses. We were about to start pulling in the control and that tanker blew up pred. Yeah, that tanker. I got it. I got to throw it in there. It was people. We got him dead. He was spawn trapping.

He came out the window. Tanker blew him up. Let me ask you this, though. As a professional fucking call duty player, do you not know that there's a possibility that a tank that hasn't blown up? Yeah. He killed them across the map. He was like their right windows.

No. It wasn't even realistic. You know where the shack is? Yeah. He was coming out of that window and the tanker blew. up and killed them. It just doesn't make sense of how it even works either. The trajectory of the...

Because you'd be like, yeah, let me not walk past that because it could blow up so you do something else, but you kind of are doing nothing. Or you could have just ran past the tanker and lived. Or like, you don't know if when you run past the motherfucker, you don't know if you're going to live or die. I hope they fix that. Even when you're past the shit, you still don't know if it's going to explode 50 meters away.

I don't, I don't necessarily have... But to be honest, they shouldn't even be thinking about that. there's way bigger issues. I don't necessarily have anything to say to them encouraging or discouraging. I don't have any, like, this is competition and teams. Like, I just don't have, I literally have to wait until, like, it's literally a point of, like, like, you know, this team is fucked. And right now, they get along. So it's not like they, there's nothing there that can't be fucking fixed.

And obviously, from a skill standpoint, like, you know, it is, it's, it's. It's a fucking good-ass fucking team. Yeah. Some's not fucking jiving right now. And to say that it was because they won a major and then became complacent. That's crazy. To say that it was- Now, we had JP on the breakdown last night.

He was like, that couldn't be further from the truth. We've been going just as hard in practice, same amount of practice. They don't know what. They don't know what's going on. They don't know how to think. How does that come to your head? They won and got complacent. So what do you think they did?

They got home and just like started grinding. about. Like, no, they're only fucking games still every single day. The hard part is a search because search you can't really practice well because teams in search practice just don't take it serious and that's what they've been mainly struggling in. So it's like, it's

kind of hard. Like, yeah, they're on a 10 or 11 game losing streak, which is definitely unacceptable. But it's hard to practice that mode. So like, people are coming home from the major. They're watching their Vod. It's hard to get good reps. Like everyone just knows what we're going to

do right now and you could clearly see that on some of the maps like. I feel like it's our mindset about not even necessarily I mean I don't fucking know. But like not even necessarily our strats but almost just our mindset. Well now it's confidence too now like

Yeah like it's a confidence Yeah they're confident not taking chowse. They're like They probably were taking chowse. They were losing some and then they ended up losing that search that series. So now they're like Alright let's play a little slower. No one played dumb. And then they're playing like

They're playing so slow, even though slow might not be the word, but they're playing so predictable when trying to use teamwork of just like, buddy up, buddy up. And then the other team's just sitting there like, oh, we know where everyone is. And it just makes it easy for them. Like there's no. But you could say that. It's like, people are like, oh, people are just going to wait for Shotsie.

And now Shotsie, like, isn't trying to run out and get first bloods as much. And now, like, they're trying to set up team pushes. And now they're just, like, waiting for the team. team push. It's like, there's always something. Teams are always adapting. It's the highest level of competition. Again, 11 losses in a row, it's not acceptable.

But the highest level, it's always adapting and it's fucking hard to whenever, you know, you're that good at search, everyone's gunning for you. And you can clearly see we've hit a wall. Sometimes you're just not in flow state. And it's once you start losing, you start whatever, there's flow state and then whatever the opposite of that is, is I think that's about where they're at mentally. Obviously, they have all the skill in the world, but I think just like mentally losing game five, losing game five, losing game.

Then they're like, how are we fucking losing? All right, we need to, you know, when we got this, don't do that. They're like, yeah, but like usually do you do that and does work. Yeah, what has it been working to it? And then you're just like, fuck, well, what do we do it play aggressive here? Do it? Yeah, one time goes into a lot. A lot of it's mental.

Like, we're not playing ourselves, bro. One of the plays that we, like, we kept trying to fight the bomb through middle. They would plant and we tried to retake through middle, retake through middle, and it wasn't working. Insanity. We had the perfect opportunity, all three of us to flank. We shortcut it went right back to middle and put the same, put ourselves in the same spot. The last fucking four-round. Like, does anyone want to try something new?

Anybody? Insanity. Insanity. Doing the same shit over and over. Well, they had two rounds where they tried to smoke and go through. Yeah. Whatever the fuck it is. They better fucking lock the fucking.

and I They better lock the fucking Yeah I believe If I thought it was over Like not over But like I know what you're saying I'd be like

I'll let you know But I think they're good Yeah I think they could go to the major And get top four easy It's only Top four is only three matches in a row And again

The way that the whole season's gone The top four have been Dominating the rest of the pack Now it's weird Because now the top eight Or not the top eight The bottom eight are shooting back And it's like

What is going to going on. Like phases getting taken to game five's. Like, Online. Play my win this event. Yeah, online. But again, we're not going to a fucking event either though.

That's us online. The only, the biggest thing about online is sound EQ. That's the biggest thing about online. You get a little bit, well, you get a lot of awareness. We'll see on land if sound EQ is really that crazy because that's what my chat specifically has been like really fucking zoned in on is they're just sound hoaring. They can hear everything, which is true. Sound EQ.

there's no daddy on some of the players. Like it makes a big difference and on land it's harder to hear players. So we'll see at the major what's really going down. Well, I'm excited for it. I can't wait to see it. Ladies and gentlemen,

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