OpTic Podcast - WEEK 1 OF OUR COD SEASON | OpTic Podcast Ep 102

Episode Date: December 8, 2022

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode number. We don't know. So we have, we're skeleton crew today. The majority of the people that are here on a daily basis are in Aspen right now, or Breckenridge or Breckenrock. I don't even know where there. There's somewhere in Colorado doing some fun stuff. Did you get invited to go to that? Yeah.

Would you have gone? Oh, you didn't go. You're still here. Did you get invited? You're not going skiing? No. That's not your thing? Snowboarding?

Oh, you know, I don't want to Colorado. The first thing on my mind landing, you already know what that would have been. What dispensary? Well, you could still, I mean, yeah, what's wrong with that? I know, but that would have been like my part of the show. Yeah, that would have been my trip. I mean, you can still, you can still like, I mean, anyways, it's a photo shoot, super cool photo shoot going on. The Bolter sisters are there, Maniac TST and a whole bunch of other people are there.

You know, your teammate is up there, lucid, just, you know, hitting the slopes, man, just doing blues. and blacks the diamonds the diamonds and shit you know what that is yeah I don't I don't know I have friends that used to go to like

Big Baron mammoth and shit but I never went the only skater or snowboarder actually I have a bunch of one but Sondance was the one that taught me how to do that

he seemed like an Aspen goer well yeah he's got several condominiums out there yeah I was gonna say I think I've seen him post pictures like yeah he's got several condominiums a couple of houses but uh

but Sundance so one day when they had the ascent been X-Games gold medals. Remember it was a Halo one actually. Were you there? You didn't compete in that? I was just telling Roger there because Hitch got deathly sick the second that he landed. Did you hear about that?

So he landed and the second day he got into the mansion or whatever, the big-ass cottage that they're staying in, he just like, I don't know, like almost fell out of shit because he, whatever. So he goes up to his room, page checks in on him like a couple of hours later and he's just got a fever, a cough. He's just like he can't breathe and shit. And then

Roger's like, I can guarantee you that this dude has... I'm kidding. Cut that, cut that. I can guarantee you that this dude, that this dude got altitude sickness. And it transported me back to the X-Games, to that X-Games thing. And I'm going to tell you a story about there, but I remember me and Rishi were somewhere. We just got out of our condo because they don't have hotels in Aspen. They have like condos and stuff, associations and shit.

So we got out of there. Fiz had this, and at the time Fis was with who, with MLG, who, machinima or somewhere, but he had a dope-ass condo. He had two rooms

didn't tell me about it. I'm like, I was sharing a room with fucking sepso and Sundance, which was a vibe, obviously by itself, but Rishi and I about to cross the street and we see a car coming on there,

let's go. So we sprint across the street and it's not like a four-lane street. It's like a two, it's a one, two-lane street. Some small. By the time that I got to across the street,

I was out of breath. I'm like, and I was like, I think I'm fucking sick. He's like, no, it's the altitude. He's like, different air. It's the first time being there, right? That's crazy.

You got to remember I'm from Mexico. Although Mexico City is super elevator and all that, but the part of Mexico I'm from is not. So I was like completely and utterly impressed by how out of breath I was because how thin the air is up there. And then obviously, you know, got a little bit more education on the stuff and whatever. So it took it easy. Still visited all the dispensary. You still did all the good stuff.

In fact, I'm going to tell you two stories. from that trip. Okay. And I hope that my friends don't mind me telling this story. But it was around, you know,

we were there for, for Halo World or Halo X games in Aspen. It was a fucking literal V-I-B-E vibe. You know the vibes. No cap. Wavy bra.

Okay? It was phenomenal. And, and you know, we went out, we hit the bar. We were, the club,

no, we hit the bar first and everything was good. And then we hit the bar. We got a, we got a table. then somebody in the group is like, yo, can we smoke weed in there?

And they're like, yeah, all right, cool. So we light up in the middle of the club. First time ever in my life that I experienced this, right? You know, remember, I'm from the 90s where it was like super, super, like an evil, evil plant. So to be in public, not just in public, but an indoor public space

with fucking hundreds of people just dancing. I was like, I was like, my God, how many more bottles do we need to buy to continue to do this thing? We cut the line, we did the whole thing, about a table, it was all fine. All right, what happens there? It's like, oh man, it's like, it's like 1 a.m. It's time to go.

We start walking out. We run into Adam Epicella, Sandin, Di Giovanni, and Sepsul coming back from wherever the fuck they were at. So they're like, yo, we're going to go to this billiard spot. So we go play pool. Now, mind you, it is one o'clock. By the time that the first game is over, Fizz has a paddle.

I'm not a paddle. What do you call those? A platter. A platter of fucking shots. And I'm not talking tequila shots. I'm not talking about honey drops or lemon drops. We're not talking about Manhattan's. We're talking about just straight brown whiskey.

Okay? On some Ohio. If you wanted to say, show me a picture of Ohio. It would have been Adam at Picella and Foy is standing there with a platter of like 40 shots of whiskey. And what are you going to do? Well, you got to drink it. But by now everybody's drinking water. They're like, yo, it's time to go to bed.

It's time to re, you know, hydrate a little bit. You can't go to sleep. You can't wake up on a hangover. And here comes Fouz. He goes hard. Yeah. And he puts it in the middle of the table. We're like, yo, game.

He's like, no. Ugh. So everybody's like, all right, you know, when in Aspen. So we all take drinks. And boy, we get, now it's like three by the time we leave that place. We get back. And like I said, I'm rooming with Sundance and Sepso. And Fuis and everybody else comes over.

We're all hanging out. I'm editing a vlog at the time. So I remember sitting at the island on the condo, and I'm doing this, and then all of a sudden I see Sundats or Sepso bring out a bottle of vodka. And they grab champagne glasses, and they just pour like legit, just like this much.

And I'm just sitting there like, what the fuck? No way they're about to drink. It's fucking 3.30. Bro, they started drinking even more. And they're like, you want something? I'm like, no, I'm good. But yeah. Anyway, long story short, do not party.

with those guys I went to Mexico with FIZ So I already know how he gets Wait when Me proof Doubt Cole

Bro Mike It was a lit at My dog It was a lit-ass-true Yeah What y'all do? Bro all I know is Fizz was buying

Like What is it It got the light up logo on it The black bottle It's green It might be Yeah Bro, or no, Don Pique.

Oh, Don Pryon. He was going. Yeah. I mean, that's all he was ordering. I'm like, yo, what? I got to get like you, bro, because, sheesh, that you. Every minute. He's walking around on with the whole trip.

I'm like, damn. I mean, it is, it's not that cheaper. It's not that much cheaper in Mexico either. Like, it costs what it costs, period. Bro, I didn't, like, I mean, yeah, I've never been. It was actually crazy because, like, you see certain shit places and you're like, wow I've never seen like bro I saw I'm not even like no troll like I literally saw people living in like cribs that were you could just tell like their walkway to the crib was like man like it was

literally looked like a mud hut I'm not even yeah yeah it was insane and people were living in there I'm like whoa yeah like no electricity yeah what part of Mexico um Puerto Vallarta but but like well it's like that I mean you can find that anyway yeah but where we were staying yeah But where we were staying, like, it was in, like, a big-ass crib up on the hill. But when you come down the hill, it's, yeah. It was like, they don't even have police. It was like guys on the back of trucks with fucking ARs and shit. It was actually, bro, I don't even know what animal it was.

The state police. I woke up in the morning and I literally, I thought it was a monkey. I don't, they said it wasn't. Bro, I saw a fucking animal, like, it literally looked like a monkey. I don't even know what it was, but I was like. Wait, when you say you saw him, like, are you, bro, he was jumping in the trees, like. Okay, but you say, wait. Like, it's crazy.

Paint the picture for me because you said, okay, because when you wake up, yeah, that's what I was saying. I'm like, in your room this monkey was fucking this way. No, no. I'm like looking out off the balcony, like laying in bed and there's a tree right in front of my shit. I'm like, fuck is that a bird? Bro, this motherfucker jumps. It was like, I don't even know. It was some kind of monkey.

Like, not a monkey. A lemur? May have been a limer. Maybe. But I was like, yo, I was trying to get videos at that shit. I've never seen that ever. in my life. That's the spot where you guys had a daily chef, right? Yeah, bro. I'm talking about fat meals.

Really? Yes. He was on demand like, he was on demand. He would be like, excuse me, da-da-da-da-da. They're going to whip it up. Excuse me, but I bette. So like, you tell them what you want. You got to tell them in Spanish, right? How did you say it? I forgot what I was saying.

I forgot what the chickens called. Pollo. Yeah, there you go. Boyoio something. Poyosos. Chicharon. Yeah. We had Chicharon Gordita set at my favorite spot. Remember that one spot it took you in Brandon?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I fucked with Chicharon. Wait, so the Mexico, what about the clubs back down there? Yeah, because I won't club. Yeah. Wait, was Clayster there too? Yeah, and Clay, there you go.

And Clay, that's who I forgot. Yeah, the clubs were lit. They were like on the, they were like on the beach. So like, it's like boardwalk and then beach and then the clubs were like all facing that way. Yeah. It was pretty dope. They had a, bro. This is crazy.

Not crazy, but like you're in Mexico. go, but they had a swing that swung out over the whole boardwalk, but I don't know. It was weird. Like, they would wet the girls, like, when they would come back. So, like, you were seeing some crazy. Like, I don't even, I'm pretty sure that's what they were purposely doing. Yeah. Like, a girl would get on the swing, maybe throwing water around and shit, but you're seeing

something crazy. I'm like, damn. That's dope, though. How long were you guys gone for? A week, I think. Have you ever gone on a vacation like that? Ever in your life? Me either, man.

I'm kind of, I'm 42. Like, when do I start that? When do I start to live my life? I ain't gonna lie. I would, I would have, I would have, I would have gone to Breckenridge or wherever it is that they go. I actually saw something crazy. What? Tell me.

Like, this would, when I saw this, I'm like, oh, shit, this is real. Yo, I swear to God on everything I love. When we landed and we were coming out, like out of the, we got our bags and we're coming out to meet studying them, there's like a barricade, like a wall. But all you saw was people trying to get money. dead ass. Like zombies. Yes. What the fuck?

I'm like, Mexican zombies. What the fight? I'm like, oh shit, we are Mexico, you know? No lie. Yeah, no, there's obviously bad areas. I was just talking to somebody. I take a yearly trip down to Mexico to go fishing. Last year we couldn't go because it was like just getting over COVID.

Not me getting over COVID, but the whole situation was coming out of COVID. The whole world was coming out of COVID. And we, to go to Mexico, it's like, it's like a weird sort of. a situation where you have to take, you have to have a test before you fly, anyway, long short, we decided to go to Florida. Had a good time, but

I was telling him, like, yo, we're going back next year, and what what's crazy about it is that Mexico is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to, and I'm not just saying that because I'm Mexican. I literally went up into the mountains of Sinaloa to go fish and just picture a jagged mountain, right? A picture

a mountain, and then on top of this mountain, there's a lake, and the lake is deep. And I'm talking about deep, deep, deep, deep. And then around it, there's like the tip of the mountain is like jagged, right? Obviously, it's got the little mountains. Every mountain face that we were sort of swimming around, every single side of the mountain had trees that had purple, yellow, orange, pink, like flowers. It was like Eden.

It was literally like heaven on earth. It was beautiful. I saw lemurs. I saw wild cats. I saw cows, chicken. I saw it was like literally nature, right? I wouldn't say what else I saw. It's not of my business, okay?

It's not of my business. But it was one of the most beautiful places. But then when you get down into the, you know, when you're headed back down to the airport, you sort of see a Mexico that, you know, the wish that, you know, the people deserve a better government and that's it. Maybe that's like when you're going towards the airport, it's a little, like, no, of course it is, man.

Or yeah, it is rough. It's just like. I don't want to disrespect. No, no, no, it's not, there's no disrespect to say what the facts are, man. Like, it's, it's not, it's not great, and it's just like one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. And look, for what it's worth, like, my people are very tenacious and very, like, strong people that can, obviously, you know, endure whatever they need to. But, you know, I did feel a little bit sad, man. Like, it's like, there's just, it doesn't need to be that way.

And it is. Yeah, we should go to war. What, you want to go to where I'm from? I'm down. Yeah, just like, film a vlog. Oh, yeah. You want to go film a vlog? At your old crib.

And, no, well, well. I don't know if I could record at my old crib Not inside I have cousins, aunts and I Oh they still live there? I don't think so No but I would obviously ask for permission She wasn't just my grandma

She was someone's mom and someone's other grandma Although I was her favorite Very very obvious reasons She saw what was gonna happen You know what I'm saying But but yeah No I've been actually talking to my parents about You know going back to at least El Paso Texas

Just to just to try out some Visit family and also try out the best taco spot in the world. It's called Tacotote. Shout out to anybody that lives in El Paso. Taco Toto's the shit. Raffas, I dream about El Raffas, maybe twice a week.

They got burritos this big. Burritos this big. Picture on the screen is so you guys can ski right now. It's massive. So good. But anyway, how did we get to Mexico? Oh, your trip. Yeah, we haven't gone on trips.

You know what else I don't do? We don't have like family, like, vacation. Like I think, I think, and what's crazy is that I would love to have like a family vacation with like, you know, all Olives cousins and everybody goes like somewhere. I just don't make time for that. And I said, and I told myself recently when I picked up the camera again, I told myself that I was going to, you know, obviously try to vlog as much as I can, but I was also going to put it in my calendar that, you know, for these two weeks, I'm going to go out somewhere. Because even when I go fishing, like I'm literally there filming stuff so that I can, you know, help promote Guggen Bates or help promote the Guggen Gugan. gear and also have something for my channel which obviously, you know, benefits optic as a whole.

So, but I, but I did say that I needed to plan a vacation. Are you planning any vacations any time soon? It's not your thing? Uh-huh. Fuck a vacation. You feel better at work. Yeah, it's on my, it's on my thing.

Huh? It's on my thing. Like, it's too much like, I hate planning. I hate, like, I don't know. Just at this stage of my life, like, I just, I like just chown. Like, I travel a lot already.

Yeah. I've seen a lot of places. I don't know. I just like chunun. If you could, if you were to plan the perfect, like where would you go? Like, let's say Japan. Japan. Yeah.

Would you, who'd you go with? Like, if we plan a trip to go to Japan, like, I would love to-I'm talking to my mom for sure. You would? Yeah, because I need her there. Because, like, she speaks Japanese. They speak English. I know, but, like, she's, I mean, you kind of need to speak Japanese. Yeah, oh, God, with the signs and shit, like, just everything.

You would just be, like, in a mix. What about you if you had a place? Probably. Africa, Cuba, something like that. Africa or Cuba, Cuba. I love Cuban food. That's my favorite food in the world. Cuban?

What? Name one, name one. I'm not even saying a dish. Name like tostones? Lechon. Anything pork. Any Cuban, some kind of pork. Rice with the pork chunks.

What is it called? Arros con gondulas? No, gandules is something else. Wait, what is that? Go, gandulas are like, like, I thought I said something crazy. Okay. I don't know what's going to do this does pop,

but I like that Puerto Rican rice better than Cuban food. If there's any Cubans to listen to this, have you found any good Cuban restaurants here? Yeah, where? Latin pig. Latin pig was Latin mid. Yeah. I forgot the other spot that I ordered from.

It's in Garland. Fire? So good, bro. I don't know, man. Havana Cafe. Havana Cafe? Fire. Is it?

Ridiculous. one of my favorites bullshit. I'm dead serious. Havana cafe in Garland. I'm going to have to give it a shot because of this idea. Pinaas fire.

Rice fire. Okay, okay, okay. So you do. You do get out there. You like it better than Mexican food, though? Don't fucking speak graced to me, man. It's close.

All right. So a little bit of a business talks. Halo. We had a halo invitation that was happening. I was just talking to mad about it because we haven't made an announcement on what it is that we're doing. We are going to be postponing it, and we couldn't have said it earlier.

We couldn't have done it quicker. When something gets planned months in advance, whether we announce it months in advance or not is not a thing, right? Obviously, we have months of planning to announce what we're going to be doing. Unfortunately, because of the state of Halo as it stands right now with Russarmania, C-9 backing out, you know, like all these sort of moving parts, we were less. left in a position where we could have made it work by inviting, you know, X amount of teams and then doing a mixture salad of teams and creating that. Like, would that have been fun for you guys?

No. No. So for us, it was like, okay, so let me, let me restart there. So for us to sort of force an event to happen is just like not the optic way, right? Like we try to simplify everything because it just makes it more fun, more organic, and it works better than just trying to force something down someone's throat. So because of the months of planning, we also found months in advance a partner to help us on this initiative. What is the initiative?

Well, one, to keep Halo momentum up and running. We just won a world championship. We didn't want to do what happens in other e-sports where we have this like massive gap of like no blips in the, no events really that keep the interest alive, right? So we wanted to obviously keep up the momentum of Halo. we we I'm a as you guys know I have I support Halo a lot so if you are a pro player that has been talking shit about Optic and how unprofessional it fucking is you better watch your fucking mouth okay because I love Halo and anytime that I see somebody saying like that it's some professional for and and although I understand the position that some people are in know that you know it doesn't feel good to see that when you're trying to do something good and we understand that a lot of people have bought tickets so we're figuring out everything literally this morning as I sit here at 1155 November 30th on Wednesday, on what it is that we're going to do to sort of like, one, we could just say, oh, fuck it, we're not going to do it and that's that.

But instead of doing that, we said, all right, well, obviously the state of Halo, the way that it stands right now isn't like the optimal time to have this thing. So let's push it forward to next year so that we can still have an event that happens in the middle of the season, not in the middle of the season, but in the middle of like a downturn of the season so we can keep the interest up. but it's all saying we got a partner to get more money for players to make additional cash if they win something that we now have to sort of go back to and be like hey you know this is a state of halo this is what's happening and blah blah what can we do to push this a little bit forward and I know that a lot of people don't understand this so I'll make it a little bit I'll try to explain it a little bit

brands have budgets for a year they have we're going to spend a million dollars in 2022 this money is to go to this Halo event so that this Halo event can have some cash for players to earn additional cash and to keep the momentum of Halo and to keep the community intrigued and engaged and, you know, we go down this path. Okay. So now we have to go back to said partner and be like, hey, this is what's happening. It's unfortunate. It's out of our hands.

We could just quit, but we're trying to figure something out so that, you know, people benefit. So then we were trying to figure out a way to do it online so that people wouldn't have to travel so that they can do it from their home so they can. stream so they can have something to stream on top of that, right? So not only are we going out of our way to fucking keep the momentum alive on Halo, to keep the fans engaged, to keep the players playing so that they can have a way to monetize not only themselves. Probably just make money just playing.

Yeah, just something. So it's a little bit discouraging when I get told. I didn't read any of it, lucky you, but I did get told by my, by Joey, update the, my social person. You know, some pros were a little bit, you know, rightfully so complaining. to call Optic on professional when there are moving parts and we're still trying to keep this alive, that hurt a little bit

and I don't know how to react in certain cases, so gladly I didn't read it because I probably would have said something back on Twitter and it would have been nice. But please know that the sooner that the soonest we could have given you an update, it would have been after I exhausted

every single possibility of still having this thing and keeping it alive. So I hope that you guys can understand, but there are a million moving parts. What is this brand going to say the partner sponsor for the team? What is they going to say? What's Microsoft going to say?

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before you, what were we going to say? I was going to ask you, but you can say what you're going to say. What's going on? Like, C-9 backed out. Was there any rumblings as to why? I don't know.

I mean, I've heard that C-9ans gone into the HALOSC and, like, remove themselves, like, more than anyone else. They, like, I mean, I think they have a love for HALO, but they just, like, keep... I just don't think they're, like, turning a profit or something. Like, I mean, their players, like, are great. Like, the other, like, the other... Obviously, yeah. A good, you know, they've got first, first, second, second, second. Like, they're in the finals of every event.

It's good, but, like... Yeah, that's pretty crazy. I don't know if... I don't know what it really was. Like, I don't know if it comes down to, like, no content or something, you know? I'm like, I don't know, because there's only, like, so much money you can make off, like, putting a sponsor's name on a load. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. So, like, I don't know what it was, but, you know, they backed out. But that team got picked up by Space Station. Shout out Sean Duras and the entire team. Yeah, that's good. They found a good home. Space Station did already have a team, though, right? They did.

And they just... Yeah. Oh. You got to do what you got to do. You got to do what you got to do? That's a great team. Yeah, like, C-N-C-9 is, like, you know what I mean? Like, I don't need to pick them up.

Yeah. I didn't hear anything. I was actually kind of surprised. They're a partner team, right? So I don't know. You know, it speaks again to the opportunity that players have themselves to create the amount of content that they can as much as they can to not only, you know, sort of safeguard themselves into having something steady because at any point a better team might be available, unless you have my team, then obviously there's no better team. But if there's a better team available, you are a jeopardy of being replaced. It's as simple as that.

Right? So while you have the opportunity, while you have these competitions, vlog it, make a video. So what if only a thousand people watch it at first? A thousand people turns into two, two into four, four into eight, and so on and so forth. Like you got to take responsibility. You got to remember at the end of the day, nobody fucking owes you, Jack. Shit. Nobody gets a fuck about how many followers you have. Right. If you have those followers, take advantage of that. entertain them somehow for yourself for yourself you don't even do it's like you benefit first and then your team benefits and then halo benefits god you know how many years do i have to continue to say this stuff man yeah it's like if i was young if i was younger do you know what i would do if if if youtube was around when i was 17 years old i would have been president of the united

States. I believe it. Anyway, so yeah, that's my explanation. And, you know, Matt has had been calling me, and I'm like, yo, give me some time. I'll let everybody know. Just give me some time. Just give them. I can't just give up.

I'm not, it's not, it's not in me to just give up and say, oh, fuck it. You know, players don't want to fly in because they don't want to just play against, you know, teams that aren't as great as somebody else. Or players don't want to do a mixture of salad. You know, I want to do what's right by the fans, the players and all that. And I'm just not going to give up. It's not my fucking vibe. So how's that for professional pricks? Anyway, we're playing,

did you, have you had a chance to talk to Dashie at all? About the Ping downtown? Yeah, he just, I actually just ran to him outside. What are you saying? It's like, 5,000 down.

Yeah, he was like, I was like, I mean, it's 5,000, 5,000. And I was like, damn. But, I mean, I don't think he's trying to, like he was getting into an Uber, as I was saying, like, hi-doing. I think he was getting into Rogers car. Oh,

Is that Roger? Yeah, it was Roger. Why did he get in the back seat? Roger Uber's on the side. Yeah, what the fuck? I thought it was Roger, but Brank on the back seat just looks so weird. It's because he was picking up Seth also. Oh, maybe that's why.

Or maybe he just wants to go back to sleep on the back seat, which is actually so smart. Yeah. So, yeah, so I get downtown, if you guys watch the vlog, which I'm vlogging again. But anyway, Seth's like, I've never seen a one ping. After the day before showing me 80 ping. He had 80 ping. Dashie and Aunt had 80 ping here

at the hexhors. We need another line. We need a line. The thing is, is like, every, we have two lines specifically allocated

for them. And they still like ping weird. And I'm like, well, run the, the speed test. And of course,

it's, you know, 1,000 up, 1,000 now. Gig, gig. But once they got into the thing, it was nothing. But what,

what made them start thinking about it is, well, if I'm pinging 80, Brandon's pinging 80 and and's pinging 80 but Ily who says apartment across the street is pinging 30 there's something really? Yeah but I don't understand how

Like it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's the is it the Is it service is it because we don't have like a Comcast We don't have uh uh what else is there around here AT&T like we don't have that we have something else Spectrum or some shit and they that's That's the only thing that's like they have an exclusive deal with this building So Anyway, they go down and tell them they have one pink.

What were you on there? It was horrible, bro. Huh? So, like, when it's time to design that, right? I'm assuming they, like, you could have did whatever you wanted for that. . It's, there's some guidelines for it. Yeah, so. Like, can you choose the color scheme? And then they are like, all right, we're going to turn this. No. They give you a bottle and they say paint it. Everybody gets the same exact bottle. with this exact cap, with these exact rivets, and then with this exact, uh, uh, strap around it.

You do with it what you want. I think, uh, you know, as you look at it, you know, Aaron grabbed it and did and then what he, what he, he created a very, very dope skin in my opinion. Um, but LA somehow had the, the genius to just make it all black and just put LA. Bro, that's like literally the way to do it.

That is the way to do it. Yeah. That's, um, I don't know. Genius struck over there And same for the skins too or no Huh? I mean not the skin same for the like the

Cammos no the camos the camos the camels The camels was like here Pick a weapon I'm like what do you mean He's like pick one gun that's gonna have Your design on it And we're like what the fuck how does it What do you mean?

It's like okay you only gotta get one gun Dummy what Hector Pick one of these two bottles And then that's the one that you're gonna get skin So I can only either do an SMG An AR or a shotgun Wait what? And they're like yeah

And I was like okay well, I texted the team and I'm like, yo, what do you guys want? And then Scumps, like, the Ves, what does it go? The Vesna? The Vesnav? The Vesnav. Yeah. The Vaznav.

Yeah. He's like, yeah, the Vaznav. Is this one that everyone's going to be using just do that one? I'm like, well, they took a while to respond. I'm like, if you guys don't respond on time, I'm obviously going to do the sniper. So I'm like, all right, going once, going twice. I'm going to do the sniper. And then they're like, do the Vesnav.

And I'm like, okay. So I had to pick between, no, Dashie didn't care and neither did it. illy but you know it's that so look in in reality they did allow us to do it but i just don't understand well they just give us the freedom to just do it like weird so you can only do one gun i mean like one gun with parameters that's so weird that's so weird literally i mean it almost gonna just skip over the camos that they have in game and just get those it almost it almost feels it almost feels as though they they they just did it just to do it you know what i mean they they and look again our cdl skin is really really nice yeah

And if you buy it and you rep it, you are my friend for life. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but you look at it and you sort of get creative with it. And that's what it is. You see the weapon up there? Like we didn't, we didn't design that. See, click on ours.

It's the same AR, right? Same 4. Yeah. Yeah. Look, it's like that was, you know what was designed? You know what design we had on here? The magazine clip. Right?

We didn't get to this. Like, again, if you guys have. seen what we've created in the past. Not a single thing. And I hope that other orgs are the same. But not a single thing that goes out into the ether is not reviewed or has my fingerprint on it. Like every single thing that goes out, every graphic, every tweet, everything I take a look

at before I say go. Nothing goes out there unless I'm sure, you know, things slipped to the crack when Joey's feeling kind of froggy. And he does shit. I'd be like, did you fucking post this Joe? he posted a trick shot in spec video and I'm like dude we never trick shot at Joe he said Jesus he said I did oh breach is Breaches low-key cramping this their low-key who popping the swag yeah who is they got to

switch up their colors breach well they do you think they're biting I mean there's anything to do like you know what I'm like you can't just come in this bitch to steal the colors you know they can try yeah but like still like there's other You want to know how I think that. So they didn't. See, this is the thing. Boston Breach or I think it's Oxygen Esports. I don't know who owns them.

I think it is. So Oxygen Esports hires an agency. And there's nothing wrong with this. But they hire an agency and they're like, hey, we're in this, we're in this thing. Can you design something? These are the things that you need to design. Yeah, LA Thief snapped. It's all black.

It's like, that's what everyone's going to use. It's for the Wars and show. Yes. It's like genius. Good job. And the thing is. is like you're you're sort of almost put in a position to where like do you want to create something cool or do you want to create what everyone's going to use which is the most camouflaged shit

in the world if I there's different angles you can hit it from yeah all right so so going farther into it they're like uh what's you know what color is oxygen eastports like we're green I'm oh cool we'll just create something green and then they'll go in and then they'll create something see here we don't have an agent we don't we don't we don't have a single creative agent we don't we don't And if we did, it'd be paper crowns with my brother, Skyler. But aside from that, we don't. We literally sit there and talk, me and Omen, and Aaron, we sit there, or I sit there, and I sit there. And then I sit there and I give it to them, like, Omen, you do this.

Or Aaron, if it's weapons and skins like this, like, you do that. But I literally sit down and think about what would look cool, and then we send it out there. Right? We don't hire an agency. We literally do everything with our hands. So next year, if we're going to continue to go down this route, then I'm just going to do cool shit. You know what I would have done differently?

On the, on this? Yeah, now that I know what, what, yeah. Only thing that I, I would say, is just the gray turned black. That's it. In my opinion. Yeah. I mean, it's a, I would have done something different. I'll do it next year if I'm able to.

And I guess you'll see then. But again, I think the lead, go back to the Legion. The Legion one actually is, is one of my favorite. favorites. It just looks good. The black, no, the left one, the left one, the dark one. Yeah. That is fire. Yeah, they're, I like their color way. Yeah. Vegas Legion. Thank you, man. Uh, anyway, uh, where were we? Where we talking? Yeah, the design of the skins. Yeah, it's, it's a difficult thing, though, because, again, to run that level of a company, it's like asking somebody to land something on the moon. It's like, it's, it's just, everything's so much different. And yes, for

anybody that asks the organizations do benefit from you guys buying this. So if you buy it Yeah. Oh, that's dope. So if you're buying an and an optic Texas one, please know that it does There's just 20 bucks. There's Sean. Wait, why? There's just 20. Everyone else is 10. Is that, is that real? It's Vegas, dude. Wait, no, what? What, wait, why?

Why? And they finestead? They finestied? No, wait, why is it? Can you Google why that is? Is there a reasoning as to why? There has to be a fucking explanation. What are people saying? The extra $10 is going towards paying an actual sub. I didn't read that. That was not for me. I didn't mean to read it.

I shouldn't read that. I doubt that since it can afford it. Okay. They're all making fun of it. But we do. That's crazy. So thank you for anybody that buys the Optic, Texas one. Thank you to the green wall as usual and it's per usual.

We appreciate you. But that is. Damn, that's a W though. Yeah. The Halo invitation indefinitely postponed, obviously. Thanksgiving. What happened, man? I invited you, Skump invited you and Dashie for Thanksgiving.

Dude, I... What happened to you? I woke up at 10. You got invited too. What a night, man. What do you? Okay. I woke up at 10 p.m.

I woke up at 10 p.m. and ordered Applebee's. I woke up at 10 p.m. I went to bed at 11 a.m. I texted. I didn't text you because I figured like, like, because Seth checked up on again. So like, are you guys coming? And I figured like you were doing something with your family. Yeah, you are my family.

I know, but like, I just didn't want to like, be like, you know, you know what I'm not coming to both here fucking Thanksgiving. You know what I said? So, yeah, I just didn't say anything. And so I said, I was I'm not coming. I'm going to bed right now. I would have had to be there in an hour. So I was like, I'm not showing up fucking on no sleeping shit.

Dude, if you would have texted me, say, yo, I just woke up. And I'd be like, oh, do you want me to bring you some fucking food? That would have been fire. It would literally miss the phone. It was 10 p.m. Like, when I woke up. It would have been 11 p.m. There's no way you were to brought food.

So this is the, what did you do? Bro, I woke up at, like, I think, like, 8 or 9. And I'm like, PM? Yeah, I'm like, I'm fucking sick of this shit. Goes a jack in a box. That's the only thing that was open. And then I just went to the crib.

You know, I order Applebee's like, I made sure I got mashed potatoes. I made sure I got mashed potatoes because it was like Thanksgiving, you know what I'm saying? Like, and I got chicken shit.

And I was like, I was like telling him very, I was like, I don't even fuck with Thanksgiving food like that. So like, you know what I'm saying? I was like, no,

fuck it. Wait, but do you or do you not fuck with? I fuck with it. But Brandon doesn't. No, he does. I was saying that I was missing out of that.

Yeah. Missing out. I don't like that shit. He's not like that shit anyway. How do you fuck with turkey? I had turkey and ham and stuffing and green bean casserole and mashed potatoes. Homemade straight from scratch, buttery. They were yellow.

Messing about Thanksgiving and stuffing to me. And ladles of gravy, too. Yep. And my mom makes this this jalapeno velvita meal. mixture thing? Oh, no, chips, fucking biscuits. I was an asshole. And I always said, I'm like, I'm going to overeat.

I know that I am. Let's just make peace with it. So, went to my mom's house with my family, eight. And then from there, we went to Scumps' house. And they had cherry pie. Oh, shit. I asked my mom, and I asked Jude months in advance. I'm like, all I want for things are.

You have been talking about it. It's a cherry pie. and the two most important women in my life. They didn't have it? No, they let me down. Wow. That's actually such a vibe killer. And I was like this.

I was like, I can't get a cherry pie? You get to live here and I don't get a cherry fucking pie? They were both very apologetic. They both forgot. And, you know, I respect. But I went to sets. You got your cherry pie. Is his mom handmade cherry pie was fucking godlike.

It was so godlike. that two days after I texted Seth literally two nights ago I texted Seth I remember being bag just got done playing Umu and I'm like man I really want some cherry pie I'm like yo you know Seth hit me up for something

complaining or just trying to be he troll complains but he just does it to annoy me and he says something I'm like yo what's up with that cherry pie didn't even engage in him I'm like didn't pay attention to what he said I'm like yo what's like that cherry pie he's like he's like dang you like that show

yeah he's like bro I fucking he's like he says me a picture of it I'm like oh my god look at that thing looks delicious he's like you want it I'm like wait that's a live picture from right now I'm like yeah I was like yeah I want it and I was like I'm on my way I'm taking the golf cart

okay I get dressed super quick Jude's somewhere like a container store or something like what I have Target or whatever would live and I'm like all right cool I fucking run outside I turn on the golf cart I see that the battery's half full and I'm like bet turn that shit on

go down my driveway, take a right, and all I have to do is take a right, a right, and I'm in Seth's house. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot you guys got that close. I fucking go, I turn right, and then the car starts to slow down, and I'm looking at the battery, it's half full, and I'm like, hmm. And I'm in sandals, right? It's cold as fuck out. I have my, my, anyway, I turned the third, the second, the third right, and it's

going up a hill, and I'm like, no, sure enough. No, no way. And I'm like, no way. And it's a fucking heavy-ass golf card. So I'm like I push the brakes I lock it and I'm like I see I'm literally I can see Seth Siles It's right here You can see the cherry pie through the window I can see the chair It's like it's like it's like I'm looking at where I'm wearing I'm in my in my fucking sweats And I'm like I'm like god damn it for you fat fuck fuck fucking pie you're definitely got it though

You definitely wouldn't got it well dude I'm like yo is there anything wrong with a golf car she's like no why I'm like the battery's full and it's not fucking going she's they want so I'm wrong you know okay So I call I call my brother-in-law he comes and then we start pushing it up the fucking hell. Oh my God. We had to put and it's heavy bro two people me I believe I'm big and I was pushing it luckily I'm like there has to be a little gas in this thing and I push the pedalist I'm like pushing and it gave us enough boost to get to the corner of Seth's uh you know neighborhood and shit yeah or area and and as soon as we got there some dude was walking his dog and he said y'all need help and we're like yeah please so he helps us I'm like we're just turning into this uh into this uh what do you call into this uh

driveway and we finally got in there and I knock on the door I'm like my brother and lost running down the street to go get the car that you know he obviously pulled up next to me he gets in there and he's like what the fuck you run up here and I was like no man I drove the golf cart and I ran out I'm like I parked it outside of your thing so I'll get it some amount some time anyway long story short that's what that's fire living like around this you just take a golf cart over there yeah that's a five oh my god it was worth it go Uh, 25. Yeah.

That's perfect for the neighborhood. Yeah. Super fast. It's a golf cart. Have you been, uh, have you been watching the, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the, the world cup? Nah. Mexico's about to play at one.

It's, uh, anyway. Yeah. Um, can you go back to the, uh, to what's happening this, this week? Uh, these are the matches Friday, December 2nd, uh, or tomorrow as you guys are watching this. Uh, the Boston Bridge go against Atlanta face at 2 p.m. Uh, and then we play. Then we play at three.

30. Wait, is this, what is it? CST or EST? Central? This is online? Yeah, this is online. So we play on Friday at 3.30. Then the majors in December 15th? Oh, shit. The majors around the corner. Yeah, what the fuck? And then we go to the major. Oh, wait, that's the, wait. In two weeks. December 15th. Oh, oh, oh, oh. But we do play this Friday, though, right? Yeah, that's the first league match. Okay. The league match. Got it, got it, got it.

But yeah, but we're gone immediately after that. Yeah. Bro, it's about to start. That's another reason why I picked up the camera, too. I want to ease into. the commitment mentally to vlog every single day. But yeah, we play this Sunday, December 4th at 3.30 p.m. against the Florida mutineers. Well, you missed the first one. And Saturday, too. Yeah, there's a first one.

First Minnesota. Oh, the cameras. It's hiding behind the camera. I'm not blind. Cool. Well, I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, Minnesota on Friday. Oh, Friday.

That's it. Friday at 3.30. Same time against the Minnesota Rocker. So anyway, if you guys are interested in that, hope to see you guys in the chat. I will certainly be there. we don't have a pregame content shoot for it

we're sort of reformating and rethinking the way that we do that but you know in the future we may be bringing it back definitely the season or definitely we'll do a couple of them but what the little in like the before like the yeah yeah yeah yeah well the in the old ones wait what do you mean oh I thought with the pregame

I'm with the pregame show yeah the optic pre show oh the pregame I'm thinking you're talking about like when they say optic Texas and it shows a little Oh, yeah. Roger better have made a new one. Because right now, in my opinion, Rocker has the dopest one. They have like this herit card shit

and it's dope. They snap. Props to them. Shout on my brother, Brian Cargo, man. I haven't seen him in a long time. That's my boy. Anyway,

any closer comments, gentlemen? Anything to say? Good luck to the boys. Good luck to the boys. And we'll give you guys an update whenever possible on what we're doing on the Halo stuff. But, you know, again,

I apologize for, If we're not giving you guys a quicker answer, but We should talk about the last one real quick. On Twitter possibly taking off the Apple app? Yeah, that'd be crazy. Why? Wait, so they're saying that the iPhone is not going to have Twitter? They're saying, yeah, basically, or like Apple is not supporting it, so you can't.

Elon Musk claims that Apple has threatened to withhold Twitter from its app store. This is, it's like when, I'm not going to say anything. I was going to go down the travel hole. That's crazy, but that is nuts. Have you seen one? Have you seen what's been happening in China? No. What happened?

The riots that are going on? Bro, it's wild. What? Bro, I saw the latest thing that I saw last night was that the Chinese government has drones flying above crowds. I did see that. Spritzing fucking some sort of chemical above them. Drones spraying crops. Spraying crops.

They're saying that there's pesticides spraying drones. Hold on. Hold on. We're bringing it up. Look at this, look this. No, the one that I saw was at night, and it was right here, right here. Look at the shit. Look at the shit.

No, right there, yeah. Look at that. Zero COVID, also. Is it for COVID? So not only that, but what I saw also is that there are two feeds being shown to the Chinese from the World Cup. one of them only for for the for the Chinese one they are only showing the game not the crowd because the crowd none of them are wearing masks and they want to and they don't want to be like wait why the fuck are they not wearing masks in the in in other places but it's a bro it's

it's it's it's going wild right now I don't do that don't don't don't show me any human hitting a dog please yeah let's get away from those let's just close this out yeah good luck to the boys good luck to the boys yeah thank you so much everybody for tuning in stay woke Just kidding. I'm kidding. Thank you so much. We'll see you guys next time. Good.

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