OpTic Podcast - WHO ARE THE TOP 25 COD PLAYERS OF ALL TIME | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 186

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

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Yo, Pam's hilarious. Pam's talking shit. He's like, you gotta be quicker than that. He's like, dude, his shit talk is. He's like, I play World of Warcraft. I play World of Warcraft. I was like, that was a crazy church. Don't check us.

Just checking his team. Yeah, we were all like, you play World of Warcraft. That's your shit talk? Bro. Welcome, welcome to the Optic Podcast. Episode 186. Brought to you by Mountain Dew. Yeah, what's up with all that?

Jesus. What? All the shit at Bose's face. No one fucking clean that shit. I mean, we had the Val tournament last night, man. Yeah, it was fun. We have our sponsors, Mountain Dew, Cashup and Shopify. We'll tell you a little bit more about them on the later part of this podcast. But so we had the console land and you guys ended up winning. You were just bragging about how Salamander man could go pro if you wanted to.

I wasn't bragging at all. you want to though in your head you're like look how you're smiling like I still got it I'm better than these guys listen man you're in your head

you're like a more naturally talented of gaming dude no I came into this thing to have fun and I had fun mission accomplished the win on the top was definitely a cherry

it was nice to win yo Roger did say whoever wins gets a week off content yeah I know so you were out there once you heard that I heard it

starting tomorrow I was like, I need this. I kept saying, I need this shit. Starting? Listen, look, it's Tuesday, August 6. So you have off from tomorrow to Wednesday next week. That's so fucked. Why?

Because I fly to Paris tomorrow with Oakley, so I won't even be home. Wait, so are you? Olympics? Yeah, I fly the Olympics tomorrow. You're going to the Olympics. Where are you about to go see the pole vault jumping? No, so they sound us like a full-out-tintry. Wait, why did you say, ooh, like the hecker?

That we're talking about the guy that won? Yeah, it showed me that video. I was like- Shored you what? I'd have been pissed on. The wang? Yeah. It showed you that.

What do you- Well, no, because Andrew and the Nisa were over. We watched the House of the Dragon finale, and they were both like, did you see the pole-voting video? And I was like, no, what is it? And then I see it. And I was like, I see this thing, binging, the dung. And I'm like, you know, what the hell?

And she's like, yeah, he lost because of that. And I was like, I was like, okay. He's like the guy that won. He goes like, clearly, because you're not well equipped down there. She didn't mean it like that, though, but like, I took it like that. I mean, it's like, what do you, what do you do? If somebody sends you that, what if she said, what if she, what if she, ruin the night? What if she sent it to you accidentally?

No, she showed it to me on the couch. I don't know, but what if she sent it to you accidentally? Or you looked over and she's watching it. How does this finally wait? Yo, so have you, are you guys, are you guys big Olympics watchers? I don't feel like I am I could give a fucking less I've just been watching

I've definitely I'll tell you when I cared when Fred Curley from Oakley camp remember that we met him yeah he was in it he got bronze

really yeah yeah in the 400 oh that's awesome yeah but yeah I watch a good amount of the Olympa I wouldn't say a good amount I watch a little bit

I watch the events that I want to watch like tennis basketball soccer um tennis basketball soccer that's really all that I've been watching I watched the 100 meter yesterday when Lyle's won.

That was dope or two days ago, whatever it was. That was dope. So I kind of just pick and choose events. I feel fake not having watched a single second or any video recapping of the breakdancing competition. I'm going to be honest. There was break dancing? There's break dancing in the Olympics. Oh, shit. I didn't even know that.

They spin on it? No, no. That's the horse. That show is cool. Gymnastics. I watched a little bit of gymnastics. I can't get with it. I can't get with just gymnastics.

Gymnastics, all right. You didn't watch Simone. No. No. I mean, that's how highlights. It's impossible to avoid her, right? So I did, I did watch her highlights, but I didn't go out of my way to like keep. I don't have anything, any alarms on my phone saying it's like, yo, this is about to start. Yeah. Yeah. That's that was that. That's my issue. It's like there's certain events. Like even the no allows winning the 100 meter. Like I saw tweets and I was like, fuck, did I just miss that? I think I was like watching recaps while that was going on. Like I don't know the. I don't know the schedule. I mean, that shit's so fast, too. There's so many channels of, like... Yeah, there's so much going on. I didn't know, like, which one to click.

Like, I was watching the wrong shit, and then I missed that. They have, like, a Red Zone type channel on YouTube TV. Really? They just, like, recap all the events. Like, so you can watch the events live and they have them live. And if you miss them, if you just tune into that channel, like, at night, they're just rerunning, like, it's like ESPN for the Olympics, basically. But they're, like, covering everything.

Like, every important thing. if we're not in it, like if Italy's versus whoever in a gold medal match they'll like show it. You know you see rock climbing girl? No bro. There's rock climbing? It's like the not actual rock like the fake wall. Bro she scaled that

shit in six seconds. Oh yeah that shit's different. Like that shit was crazy. I'm out there like calculating like I fucking hold this they'll be like ran up the wall. Yo this is doing that what I'm afraid of is that I'm going to hold on to the wrong thing and then my nails are going to peel off just my nails. I'm sure they probably don't have nails.

Why do you think about it like that? Because bro, it's my thing. You know how people scratch on the board? Like that's not my thing. What I was skateboarding as a young kid, I was skateboarding barefoot in Juarez. And I tried, I hopped off the skateboard to stop it. And then my, my, my, my big toe fucking got hung up on something in the nail. Oh, needless to say, that's the last.

time I skateboarded? I... Oh no, no, I skate the electric skateboard. Last time I skateboarded was when I fell off that shit. My shoulders still fucked up. Yeah, the boosted board. Oh, yeah. Damn, boosted board.

That was quite that. That was quite the fuck out of that. You really thought you were Casey. Yeah, dude, everybody was... Everyone did. I was flying. Listen, the thing is, it's like... I don't think it was...

It was so much of me trying to get Casey footage as it was. Like, Casey found all the dope shit that I would like to do, and I did it. No, the boosted board. was fire. Yeah. Fuck, 100%. Dude,

I was riding the boosted board and I had the drone flying at the same time. Yeah, yeah. Dude, I had two controllers just fucking like the level coordination that takes to be the skilled. I mean, it's beyond me. It's a little dangerous though. That thing went fast. It's pretty fast.

Yeah. Yeah. I felt I had to have fallen five times on that thing. One of one was in front of my brother. He said, he's like, man, you almost had it because like I hit the thing and I went flying and I was running as fast as I could. So that I wouldn't fall. And then just like the last step on just fucking eight shit.

My brother was like, oh, you always had it. Like being a kid whenever you'd skateboard and you start going downhill. It starts giving you the wobbles. I don't. Like what do you do? Do you get lower? Do you bail? Do you just hold on as long as you can?

Like I just take the fall. Dude, when I heard Seth, Seth broke a shoulder blade. I was like, no. He's going to, oh my God. He's out of command. mission you can't play no more i don't remember i don't remember if it was during like the season i don't think it was oh yeah did you guys said well you didn't did you guys have helies no wait what you what it was i thought healy's like few years ago what was that mean what do you

mean i know you did it when they dropped you were grown oh okay yeah you never seen helies no of course i had hilly's like three years ago yeah you did i wore them once and then they just been sitting there dude that was the best oh they're so dope i mean it was cool for like a second Like, it's cool to, like, glide around for, like, a few minutes. But then you want to just walk and it, you're just, like, it's just not. It was stupid. I was like, this is fucking stupid. Oh, my God.

Dude, using them in the grocery store or just flying as a kid? See, I never had him as a kid. I never did that, but I saw people do it. It looked like fun. Yeah. It looked like fun. At the mall, they're like, yeah. People would, like, skate, jump on stuff.

And then just jump off. I've seen people jump on stuff without any skateboards. Or Helies, they just like do something, right? It's like street parkour. But it's not parkour. Like they're actually like doing like tricks. It's, I mean. Parkour is more like.

Yeah, dangerous. Yeah, climbing. Like you're in the matrix running from an agent. Yeah. But then there's going under bars and something. But then there's the people who just do it for like the trick aspect. No, there's, I don't know what that's called. No, there's there's people that definitely do it fucking super, super, super sick.

I want to talk a little bit about this formal back to call duty and Nate shot flagrantly. Yeah, what's up with that? Let's throw a flag on the play. That's kind of crazy. Yeah, it's like this guy is like trying to recruit Matt telling him he's not giving him the keys to the kingdom and shit. I was like, that's easy to say.

Yeah, that's easy to say. Real easy to say. Why? Why do you say that? Giving the keys to the kingdom. I mean, that means seven-figure contract fucking. No, no, no. Ease to the kingdom.

They can't do that. Nate shot. That's the first thing I came to my mind. Put that shit where your mouth is. You want him? Her formal would be. Yeah, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I approached him yesterday. It's in the vlog.

I'm like, I'm like, what's up? Are you flirting with a shot? He's like, dude, I was just flirting. And I was like, I was like, nah. I'm like, I know you. He's like, get on a loner shit. Matt thinks because he's on his way down here that he can just fucking pick and choose shit. Like, what the fuck?

Yeah, what's up, Matt? I mean, what's up, Matt? I mean, what's up? I'm fucking pressed form. I was like, what's up with that, man? He's like, you didn't really say much. Then I pressed Matt And I was like, bro

You can't take formal, right? You're poaching the shit He's on the contract That's tortious interference And I was I was saying He's not leaving And everyone was like

You're gonna Hold him back Yeah you're gonna hold your friend back For his career He's like you bet your sweet ass Yeah Let's Let's

Formal out there to Contend against us Fucking dog Yeah no no Of course not Is he leaving? Probably, you know, we'll see. Nate has to write.

Nate will have to write me a personal check from me. His pocket. Oh. Hey, I won't be mad at you. You know what I'm saying? Oh, hey. This is, listen, business aside, this is a me and you thing. I can make this happen.

Just break me. I still owe him a wedding gift. I still haven't gotten him a wedding gift. I still haven't gotten you a wedding gift. I got to give wedding gifts? I'll take cash. We don't. Listen.

Listen, let's record show. I paid for like half of that bachelor party. Speaking of the bachelor party. You got you got some shopping to do. I know you're not looking to me. No, no, no, no, you're good, you're good. Either way, like he too, the reason I brought up the fucking bachelor's because Nate's that still owes me fucking a shopping spree from about. And I'm not talking, no ditty.

Okay, I'm not telling them to take me shopping. You know what I'm saying? I already sent them links or what I wanted. Just that's how you're going to fucking repay me. Um, how long do you, how long do you think it will take formal to go back to form? If at all. I think it'll take them like one full month. Yeah, it would say a month.

Yeah. One full month. If he starts game drop? Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing with cod. Like, as long as you don't get behind of the current game, like, all the players can, like, get back to that level or close to it.

It's like, you just can't get behind. Like, you can't, you can't take the whole first month off and then come in and expect. You could still probably catch up, but like these people have a month play time ahead of you. They just understand things better and faster. So it's like if you started the start, if he started at the start I think he'd be fine like after the first

month. Like before scrimmed started he'd be back and like, he'd have his brain rewired to like understand. He would treat it like how he did Halo Infinite. That shit dropped. He, that's all he did. That was 24th. That was his 24-7 job was sitting right here. Yeah.

and playing Haloiff in it. He's up at, he's in the 4 a.m., not Skype. He's in the 4 a.m. Discord calls. He's playing money eights. Like he's going to be game battles, whatever is going on. Like he will. Yeah, game battles is no more. Especially brand new game, brand new game coming out.

Like formal will literally be one of the, I'd assume, one of the better players. You know what I didn't get a chance to talk to Trippie yesterday when I saw him. I was like, yo, what's up with your guy over here talking about he's retiring? Like what is you? That's what? If I'm going into worlds in two months, and my teammates negotiating with Nade shot on live stream. No, they know.

He's fucking right. Like, come on. He's locked. He's locked. Lock in. Shout out Trippie. We were on some duo shit yesterday. Boy, Joy.

Yeah, I love Tripp. Tripp's fucking hilarious. He's like, you think of what I'm thinking? What I'm thinking? Let's like, let's do it. Yeah, yesterday was comedy, bro. I heard Seth and Clutch is like, yo, guys, I need this.

Yeah. After I'd win a clutch and be like, I need this shit. Like one week off content, I need. Listen. Every year, everybody gets two weeks off period. At the end of the year, except for content, actually, except for production. Hey, Roger, Roger threw the words around, man. I'm just.

No, yeah. And then Hitch was all bragging like, ooh, it was my idea. I said, it's all next week. Let's meet. I say we meet back end of August. But the thing is this is like, you guys don't like doing. Like I like, I like coming here, talking shit. Not that we don't like doing it.

It's just that it's nice to have a free schedule, especially like for me because I stream. It's like it's nice to not have to wake up and come to content. I can just wake up and stream. Listen, I'm 100%. I'm like, I'm too free. I hate my life. 100%. I mean, I'm too free.

You always got you, you're always able to do. some. Yeah, and I never do. Dude, I called a, I called a friend of mine Carlos yesterday, like in the middle of the day and my sister-in-law, I was like, what the fuck? You can just call them? I'm like, what the fuck it's me? I call it. Yeah, you picking up. Which is a distraction. You want that. Who's number one? Number dashy at number 25. I've seen enough. Yeah, I mean, I've seen enough. That's all I mean, put Paraside at 24, dealing in 23. I mean, you think that's crazy, though? Big timer. Big timer 21. They put Dashie at 25, though. I mean, but what's wrong with that?

Yeah, I mean. When you scroll down and you start seeing what other people have done, like it. Like, Dashie, the talk of Dashie being one of the best has, like, has been more than these people. So what does he have to do? Win another world championship? Yeah, that probably put him like, because all these people have one. Pretty sure everyone on this list is one of worlds. Where's that?

Let's see where Seth is. Oh, it ends at seven. So they're still doing it. Oh. What if they put you at, like, six? Thanks. It would just be wrong. Oh, okay.

All right. Do you guys want to talk about this or now? I mean, I don't really mind it. I mean, it's like these types of lists, like there's so many, like, the thing with like fucking these lists is that there's so many different criteria. And people, there's so many different opinions on what criteria matters more. Some people value talent over. Who's back there ranking, though? I want to.

That's what I go off of a. I go straight. off the eye and who I played against and some people go talent there's no way dashes some people go accolades strictly it's like people just have different criteria so it's like all these lists 24th there's no way the thing is this is like who's doing this do they know do they know ball have they played ball I don't know Cellsium's 18 and he's been in placing top three exactly seven years salium but 18 is fucking criminal I mean there's a lot of Older players.

Hydra 19 criminal. 36 events, 19 finals. That's kind of crazy. That is crazy. I mean, of course. But they lose in finals. Big time at 21,

I would have liked him to be at 23. He's like the ogre two. Michael Jordan. LeBron. Okay, yeah, sure. Whateves? I mean, you guys, my dream team,

never let anyone get close within a point of beating us. Damn. But yeah, these lists are strictly to get people going. I'm going to be honest with you. It's just to piss people off.

Yeah, yeah, no. They're doing a good job. Listen, let's move on. Let's move on. I don't know. I like these kind of lists. Well, I just like, I like hearing the talk around the list. Right when you see Dash 325, it's just an immediate.

But I mean, a lot of these people have been playing for a long time. Like, when was Will's last event? Fucking 2013. Black Ops 2. 2013? Yeah. January 2013, to be exact. I miss the best.

You want to know how I know that the day? It was 2013. Yeah, do you want to know? That was, what year was that? Do you know how I know what his last day? Is that ghost? It was, yeah, ghost, Philly. Damn, it was Philly, bro.

You know how I remember that? How? It scarred me. Me and Ricky went upstairs to the hotel room after we lost and just slept. Me and him, we were up there. No, you went to sleep with someone else. No, I didn't. Yeah, you wouldn't talk to Hasra.

No, it was Ricky. And you and him concocted a plan. I mean, yeah, that did happen. Like, he literally tried to take Seth from me. That shit happened during the snow story. That's my try to take my little brother for him. I remember that event well. That was the first time Hex put me on Uber.

Like, first time I found about Uber. You don't remember that? Yeah, I remember that restaurant on the water. Exactly. You remember that shit? That's where I went to, right? It was me, Ricky, you. I remember the sickest I've ever been from that

because everybody was drinking out of that water and disgusting little fucking gamer kids were fucking like, and then fucking putting it back in there. I landed sick as fuck. Seth's fucking leaving. I'm fucking. I'm fucking. My skin shriveled up into my body because it was negative 56 degrees when we stepped out of the fucking O'Hare.

Dude, yeah, that shit was- Negative 56 degree wind chill. Yeah. Remember the fire alarm and everyone had to go outside the hotel and the snow? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Like a swat or something? I don't remember.

Or am I just thinking of the phone. One of the brain rats pulled the alarm. Yeah. Idiot. They're one of the brain rats? I like J-CAP all the way up there. Black Ops won his legend. I mean, obviously.

Why I say shit, then it starts getting like holographic. Yeah, dude, it's fucking fire. Yeah. Upper deck needs to take some fucking notes. Yeah, but I mean, lists are, again, there's just so much criteria. So, so, okay, so we don't know number one, but the good thing is that you haven't appeared yet. If they don't have you. As long as I'm top three, I don't give a fuck.

Okay. If Akes is seven. Wait, where's formal up here? Not yet? So yeah, cram formal. Crime, the dynasty. Yeah. Karma.

Yeah. Yeah. So weird. I still think of formal was like a alo kid, but he's one of the best. Call Duty players of all time. And one of the best Halo players of all time. You know what it is? Is that we spend so much time with each other that we almost like, it's a foregone,

like sort of unspoken thing. It's like, yeah, we know you're the shit. You know what I'm saying? Like I, sometimes I'll be like, I'll come across like one of your old clips and I'm like, this motherfucker really was that motherfucker. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, of course. But I look at you and I'm like, I don't, you know what I mean?

Like it's just weird not seeing you compete at that level. anymore and it's like man you really did that thing out there. Huh? Except for last night. You must have missed last night. Yeah, dude. 39 game three. That was actually, you know what pissed me off about that Valor?

The two maps we, my team played as two maps I'd never played before. Like, give me a break. This entire, the entire game is, and I was saying this while casting and everyone was like, of course, maniac's complaining. But like the entire, Valeron is all about like, Damn. It's not everything, but it's about like knowing where to line up. The timing of when they'll be there, when you'll be there, where you're safe, where you're not.

Just simply the maps in general. When to hit sight, when to peak, like, when you're on defense, like if you peek too early, you see three people. If you peek at the perfect time, somebody's turn, somebody's throwing something. It's all like timing and it was like abyss or I don't even remember. Abyss is actually a good map. But I like, I pop out, like, I'm just going to a window to where I don't even know what I'm gonna see outside this window but i pop out the window then i'm seeing like a few different areas and then they just like pop out so i have to like swing my controller down try to hit them by the time they're

moving somewhere else and someone else pops up so i just had no idea what was going on and that's my excuse of why i didn't dominate a lot of that game is also crosshair placement and yeah it's that's pretty much what it is i was just like god i haven't played these maps and then i got pomage just like knowing everything bro you know what he sniping me from up top he's He told me that you. Yeah, I was literally looking at you. Yo, Pam's hilarious. Pam's talking shit.

He's like, you got to be quicker than that. He's like, dude, his shit talk is. He's like, I play World of Warcraft. I play World of Warcraft. I was like, that was a crazy church. Don't check us. Just checking his team. Yeah, we were all like, play World of Warcraft.

That's your shit talk? Bro, like, at the end, when it started getting close, you could tell like everyone's like, you know what I'm saying? Hey, bro, Pam started fake breaking. He started breaking down a little bit. What do you mean? Like, there was one time when him and Shotsi were, like, watching the bomb. And all they had to do was just get close and, you know what I'm saying?

But Pan was so scared someone was going to come middle. And I hear Aunt like, yeah, you, come to the bomb. Come to the bomb. And Pan's like slowly just breaking. He dies. Yeah, that shit was hilarious. Dude, Pam was hilarious. Yeah, I love Pam.

It's funny to, like, play with, too. He was chirping the whole time. And they were just, it was so bad. And it was such bad chirps. I think it was like the last one. I think it was like, gotta be better than that. I play World of Warcraft.

I'm like, this guy's freak. Pam's hilarious. That was good. That was fun though. I forget what I was going to say. Something about, oh, oh, even on the desk,

me hitch. Who else was up here? And George, we were just making fun of VAM because he would just, I think it was the last round. You had like 31. Pam was like 8 and 17 or something

and we're just like guys Pam is playing like it was just some dumb joke we had going but just even on the fucking desk even on the desk we were just ripping into him he's hilarious but it's because we love the kid of course of course I am excited to see this World Series of Warzone

I often find myself like watching and thinking like man what can make this thing like better like is it Is it a faster? I have seen no, is it on, is it on that island? On the rebirth island? No, World Series Awards is like the actual war zone. Big map.

Yeah, World Series Awards. I haven't heard, I haven't heard much about it either. I didn't even know it was coming up. I guess it is still a month away. It's over a month away. Yeah, the last clips I've seen was whoever won it. Like they went like four an hour. I forgot what it was.

Histoka. Yeah, they're going to win that shit again. Hizokokokok Shifty and Biffel. they're just going to win again. Those guys are, those guys have They got that shit figured out. What did they just play in? Sports World Cup.

Oh, yeah. Like prize? Yeah, how much they win? I actually don't know. Probably, hey, probably. I think, I could be wrong. I think it was 30K each. Okay.

Yeah, 30 to 50K each probably. A good trip, 19 hours, so I don't know if I could do that. Wait, who's the team? It is a long flight. Biffel, Hizoka, and Shifty. They're just a God squad. Yeah, they're frying. Kind of crazy because it seems like there's some R&G

Like they don't miss Like they got this shit for you They's all they do They play $1,000 matches Just back and forth all day But it's just crazy out like some people's brains Just click on how to play this type of Like call of duty

Like there's other people putting in the same hour Same effort everything But they just Motherfuckers are just better Yeah I mean there's always arguments Can Shift E and Biffle playing the CDL I mean, people, it is a completely different game, Warzone, but they're definitely nasty.

I mean, they're really good, like, in general. Yeah. They're just good. They're just good players, and they also understand it. I think they're going to win the World Series of Warzone. I don't know if I'm going to watch much of the World Series of Warzone. I'll probably watch, like, the final. Yeah, same.

Like, I'll probably watch, like, the final, because it'll probably be like six games, placement, kills, all that, added up. I think they'll probably have the multiplier for kills. We have an issue, though. what? September 14th through the 15th, I think the UFC is happening at the, at the, at the, at the, at the sphere.

We got to go. Oh, I, I didn't know that either. He's fighting. I don't know. Oh, is that when McGregor fights? Yeah, that's when McGregor fights. Doesn't he fight soon? No, I'm kidding, I don't know.

No, no, I don't know, but he is, but he is playing it. I'm playing, but the UFC is going to happen at the, at the sphere. And Dana White said it's going to be the most glorious shit you've ever seen. Oh, yeah, we might. That's like, is that like the, that's not the first time that venue's been used for, yes it is. For fighting? Yeah.

Well, for fighting, but like, there's still concerts. Yeah, you two, you two, I think is the name of the band. You two? Thank, you two is fucking massive. You too, right? Yeah, of course, of course. Yeah, you two. It's a beautiful day.

Yeah, you two has the, has, has it. All Sean O'Malley. Oh, Shano Malley's fight. Yeah, that makes sense. I see the. Valentina Shevenko, okay. Brian Ortega versus Diego Lopez. I don't know if that's how you spell Lopez,

but unless he's from South, South America. Yeah, there's a lot of Mexican, a lot of Mexicans are going to be fighting that weekend. Man, that shit's going to be crazy. Yeah, I mean, that's not really a problem. We might go to that. Yeah. You're 100% going?

I want to. If I could get a good group of people that want to come. I mean, I know Matt. I know Nade's going. Is he? No, I don't know. We've been traveling. Dude, I was just going to ask you, is this the most out-of-the-country travel you've ever done in one single year in your life?

Ah. Don't include Canada. But like European trips, it has to be. I think this is the most that I've traveled in a year. Dude, I feel like it's been like every 10 days I've been traveling. It's been like, it's been crazy. It's been, my travel schedule has actually been crazy. And it's hard for me to adjust because I'm so used to just like streaming.

Like, obviously when I was competing. going to the events, that's travel, but like you're there, like, to play an event, so it doesn't really feel like it. Like, yeah, dude, it's been a lot of travel this year, which I'm not, I don't hate, I don't love traveling, but it's been fun. It's been fun. I mean, obviously the wedding was great. Going to Paris. We have something else coming up that talked about this month as well. Didn't you talk about it? Or just like the Paris, though? Paris? Or like, why are you going to Paris? With Oakley, Oakley for the Olympics. And what are you going to watch?

They have like a safe house there. What? It's like called the, I don't know what it's called. Like the safe house or something house. But it's where Team USA is. So like I'm pretty sure we're like in the building where all the athletes are. Okay. And we're doing like watch parties from there.

Some events we're actually going to the stadium for like it kind of just depends what it is. But we have a whole itiner area. I think I'm there for four days. Is this coming? I was like, can I bring it? Is there? They were like, yeah. So it is coming to the Olympics.

She wanted to go back to Paris. So yeah, it's going to be fucking dope. The Olympics has to be insane. Like the city. I mean, to have that many events. It's the summer. Unless I'm like not thinking about it right. But like to have that many swimming, track or whatever this is, whatever that is, just everywhere.

Like a lot of events are like, it's like the Olympic, like, park is like right under the Eiffel Tower. Like, are they making all of that from like scratch? practically yeah that's in like building pools that's that's one of the main like building stands that's one of the main controversies right obviously like the olympic the olympics will go to call brazil and build this massive stadium and then all of a sudden you know when they leave what what use is that for right so it's just an abandoned building that people just you know sort of get in there and that really would happen

yeah i don't know if i'm wrong but isn't the world cup in arlington yeah well in one of them yeah so the Cup is coming to the America. What is it? 20, 2026? That's going to be fucking sick. I am, I am without that week. I mean, that way. I don't watch, but I would have to go to the World Cup. You have to. I, without a doubt, am going to Mexico City to watch Mexico play in Mexico City. Damn, you got to find a connect for us. Well, what did you mean? Probably like $2,000 nosebleeds. Oh, yeah, it's going to be expensive. And they probably fucking, you gotta be on it. We'll be good, we'll be good.

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Yeah, Mexico City. There's another one in, uh, fuck. In Nuevo Leon, I think it is. That the stadium has like this massive, massive like, uh, uh, what do you call the roof? No. Retractable? Mountain for fuck's sake.

Ah. They have this, this mountain through the, like, it's an open, open stadium. And in the background, you see this fucking incredible, beautiful, uh, Bring it up, Matt. I think I know exactly what's saying. I bet the vibe at one of those big games is insane. I think I may have botched the... I don't know if it was Mexico.

I don't know if it was Mexico I saw you at, but you were at a crazy stadium, a soccer stadium, but I don't know if it was in Mexico. Right there. Damn. Yeah. Where is it? That's actually fire.

In Puerto Nara, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's it, right? Yeah. Monterey. Yeah. That's at the New Orleans. Yeah, look at that thing. It is, I'll be there.

Damn, Earth is crazy. Earth is fucking nuts. Yo, House of the Dragon finale, I can't believe that that happened. Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I was trying, I was going for more of a reaction than that. Okay. I heard about what happened.

That's all I was going to say. That was going to say. No, no. Is House of Dragon? Have you seen it? No. Okay. But is House of Dragon a game of,

Game of Thrones 150 years before DeNaris Oh it's supposed to be before 150 years But did it come out After it So more than likely

I will personally Be going to the Matt What day would I have to leave In order to be there For Championship Sunday At ESWC For the Cod thing

Championship Sunday Is on the 18th I think So I would have to leave on the 17th To be there No You have to leave on like 16th

Maybe the 15th Just to make sure you're there Dude, it's 20 plus hours and you're going ahead of time. So you're going eight hours in the future and you're flying 20 hours. That's 28 hours. I don't know if I can make it. Well, 28 hours is like time different. So you're like, you're gaining a full day plus more.

I don't know if I can make that flight. Yes, you do. No. I don't think I can. Those shit's getting me so sick. To where? To Saudi. To Saudi.

It's 19 hours. It's 19 hours there and 24 hours back. I don't know. I don't understand how like... A full day. I don't know if I'm cut out. It's not a full day of flying. No, there's like layers.

Even just to Italy. I would need a bag. Well, listen, what I will say about this, though, is that this comes right. Like, how many episodes were there for House of the Dragon? Eight. Okay, so that's eight hours of entertainment right there that I get to knock out. That's a whole season and you're still in the air. Yeah.

And then I have a full season of the bear, which is also. So, like, season three, I haven't seen. There's a 30 minutes, though. Yeah, I'm, I'm gonna, I don't know if I can make that happen. You gotta pull a 24 hour. That's what I do. 24 hour or what? I just stay up as long as I can.

Dude. A lot on that flight. That you got to sleep. If you don't sleep, you're just asking. I would like to see. Are you saying stay up before the flight? Yeah. I can sleep.

I can't do it. I do as long as I can. I mean, that's low key smart. I cannot do that. You'll be out. That's what I need to do. Like, I didn't sleep at all in the flight to Italy. And like when we landed, like, people are like getting their bags.

They're like, ah, yeah. And they're like ready to start their day. I'm like, I feel like shit. Yeah. Like, I get, yeah, literally land, get to the pool. I was, yeah. I'm like, I just traveled 23 hours in the back of the plane engine blowing in my ear. I'm in the last seat.

People taking shits behind me. I didn't sleep a single fucking minute. But it's almost, I try to tell myself that it's almost what makes it fun. It just, flying is just exhausting sometimes. The longer flight. Like, I don't really get jet lag, but I do feel it when I'm flying that far. I could do six, like, six ain't bad. I could do 14.

No, no. On the way to Japan, straight from here. Depends what seat I got. If I'm lying down, I don't give the fuck how long. Yeah. If I, if I had, now, if I'm lying down. 19 hours lying down Get the fuck

We had live flats on the way back From the wedding I slept the whole flight I was like this is awesome It doesn't feel real You're just laying down It literally feels like you're like in bed Yeah yeah

Our flight from ESports Awards Back then You got me in Hitch first class I did Yeah fuck it Thanks for coming out guys And we got first class Slept the entire time

Where was the sports awards London Oh shit hell you Yeah We're running in here and just slept the whole time. I'm like, hey, how much are upgrades? They're like, $1,500. I'm like, let me get two for these guys.

And then, of course, they fell asleep. I think we watched, um, what was the movie? That's the whole time. Literally time travel. What's the Jim Carrey movie? The word? Jim Carrey movie where he. Me, myself and Irene?

No. Ace Ventura? Bruce Almighty. Bruce Almighty. The Truman Show. The Truman Show. We put on the Truman, like, Mom is like laying this way. His is laying the other way.

Put on the Truman Show. Three, two. one go and then five minutes later we're both just pass the fuck out and then then the plain lands we wake up i'm just like bro did you just sleep the whole time he was like yeah i was like so did i i was like that was the best like if you if i had the money to do that i'd do it every time um yeah it's i mean you buy comfort that's what you do you spend money on beds and comfort i mean that's a lot of money yeah for comfort of course we actually got i know the glitch i don't even know if i want to say down here

You mean glitch, man. I can't. I don't know if. You know, I'm still not even signing up for air miles. So, yeah, I am. Really? That's what you got to do. You got to, you got a buyer shit with the miles. I mean, I'd probably get like a pretty flight at this.

Overseas like $1,800. Well, they give you like prestige points too. Like if you fly a lot, that's why I should have. No, you brother. Trust me. I should have a frequent flight. I'm pretty sure I do it. No, I need like someone to sit me down and be like, do this.

No, no, I always. Is there like a card? You can get this credit card and you. The fact. that you don't already have that? Like, you're wasting so much. Like, I used to reserve my points exclusively for European trips so that I can 100% not be too in my head about,

am I about to drop eight grand on a fucking lay down. I tell people like, people make fun of me for being lazy, but I'm like, trust me, life gets me. You don't got to put me down. Life will do that for you. I suffer the repercussions of being lazy on a daily basis. Question, question. And I guess this can be the last topic.

On this Blackop Six gameplay, I mean, is everybody in agreement that this game looks fucking crazy good? Yeah, it looks like Cold War. And if it looks like Cold War, then it's good because Cold War, in my opinion, has been the best cod that we've gotten in the CDL era. I like how this looks. It literally looks like the UI looks like Cold War. I don't think you're allowed to show this. I want to see DMCA.

Is it? Yeah. I asked if I could watch this on stream and my whole chat was like, no, don't do that. But yeah, I mean, this literally looks like Cold War with like more advanced movements. So I think we're in for a good year, honestly. I know we, I know cod creators, people always like to, you know, joke and say, well, you guys always say that. At the beginning of the year, of course we're doing. And we always do say that one of our favorite games.

I was negative during World War, World War. No, no, not World War. This dude thinks he's crap. World War II. Bro, just show the movement. Really gameplay. But I think it looked, I think this looks great. This is like exactly what we need.

The thing is like he got a feed here. So he's like, let me put this in at Kilsie. I'm low-key jealous of the players like this year. MW2, I was not jealous. I was like, get me out of this shit. MW3, the game was all good. The game was actually fun. MW3, I got to give props because they kept up like their whole year.

They're still coming out with content. Granted, we don't play it. But like, they're still coming out with. camos, operators, new maps, and the gameplay was good on MW3. I think this game is actually going to be like really good. I just got to figure out of the mom. Listen, is there anything that you're going to be streaming while you're down there that we should be on the lookout for? Like, is there any schedule of what you will be streaming?

For what? Didn't you say you're going to be doing some watch parties from over there? Or you're just there to. Yeah. Oh, no, no streaming. Oh, okay. So you're just going to be chilling and watching. There's watch parties with Oakley and like everything.

Gotcha. That's dope. Well, make sure that you post some stuff on. on Instagram, man. I'd like to follow the stories. Hell yeah. Tomorrow, Friday, I am going to be doing a whatnot at 7 p.m. This is going to be up for grabs.

There's only 25 of these. And then when you get back, when you get back from Paris, I'm going to be in Riyadh. So when we get back from Riyadh, we got to get back on one. You tell me when and where, brother. Bow. That shit's some guys. On a quest, on a constant.

Yeah, go ahead, man. Look at that. Those are so sick. I am on a constant quest to help people decorate their homes and their gaming setups. You should see my stream room. What? You could do a whole episode of, like, what they use, like, home makeover type shit. Dr. Pepper.

My stream room. My stream room. Boring. No, so you need, you need some help. Did you even, do you even have a Wallace to put up? Oh, a Wallace? Yeah, Wallace figurine. Okay, make sure that you, do you have one?

But then I don't have a shelf. I don't have a shelf to put that on. Jesus Christ. I got my 2009 National Championship, check, my setup. And then just like 18 boxes beside me from when we first moved in. Oh, okay. I thought you were going to say from like Chipotle or some shit. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, that's going to do it for this episode.

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