Boseman 'Bose' (Boseman, Optic Staff/Host)

You like how I said that shit?

Mocojete? Who speaks more Spanish, you or Cesar?

No, you're just a no-sabo kid. You're still Mexican. Some. But you're a no-sabo kid.

I don't know, but don't do a 23andMe or none. They're selling that data. There might be a Hector Jr. out there being molded right now. 23andMe is essentially the people that you spit into a vial, you send to them, they get your DNA, they track all your data, and they connect you to people. I have a Filipino relative that Nobody would have known because I just have lineage connected to it.

You got their info though? Like it gives you their info? No, you could reach out if you wanted to.

Yes.

I mean, they are. They're something to me. They're like long-distance cousins or whatever. That's dope, though.

I'm going to have to do that. So somebody's going to buy all of that out. So somebody's going to own all of your DNA, going to own all of my DNA. You guys haven't done it. I don't care, though.

Yeah, they can. They can clone. You did it?

They've been cloning sheep and shit.

Like if you guys got together in the same room and you knew everything that you knew, how would you know who's who?

Dang, Halo. So you used to hide it from your people? Hell yeah. Why? You thought that you were going to lose street cred?

It's possible.

No, dead ass. Obviously, he'd have to grow up, so he'll never catch up.

You don't have to worry about shots. But listen, what if it's like, hey, we got to notify everybody that has DNA here that we cloned them, so do you want a son?

Oh my God, that's so bad.

Have you guys ever been celibate this entire time?

So you're going to have more than one kid?

Oh, dude, I swear to God, I thought you were going to say I do have two kids. What were you going to say?

Yeah.

yeah dude nah i had playing halo talking shit me and my brother played madden shit like we played football i mean it was yeah yeah it was probably great i have a sister who's like a year younger than me but like we never did like nothing together i was always outside like we were if we were out there like we're if the whole if the whole neighborhood was playing hide and seek then obviously she'd be involved in shit but you're doing hood rat shit

No, he was here at 10.03. He said 10.03. You got here at 10.09. And you said 10.03, right?

That was straight up doing hood rat shit. Yes, sir. Graffiti. That's dope, bro. Nah, graffiti wasn't until like 1993 when I was 13 and already in the United States of America.

You asked me about formal getting second. What do you think? You're the Halo player.

No. Dude, I played... The first video game that I played back then in high school was Zelda, the Ocarina of Time. And, you know, obviously fucking 007 and all that, but...

Before we move on to that, I want to tell you what legend, because you brought him up, what he said. First, he said, hey, thanks for dinner last night. We went to... Last night? No, no. Well, this is Friday. Before the tournament, I took him out to catch... They fucking loved it. I mean, we overordered.

Yes. And then on Saturday, like at 11.39 p.m., he says, he's like, I'm so fucking sorry, man. Such a disappointment. I feel ashamed. We'll get the next one, hopefully. I don't want to promise not trying to jinx it. They got nothing to be ashamed of. And then I said, do not apologize. Once you guys get going, nobody's going to stop you. Y'all got this. No doubt about it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got to give credit where credit's due.

Yeah. Huge shout out to Frosty, though, and Royal, obviously. They did their thing.

gaming was always cool like in that era it was like it was so intertwined with hip-hop they would even call gaming the the the fifth element of hip-hop yeah back in the day yeah yeah breaking graffiti dj i'm seeing what was breaking break dancing break dancing yeah you break dance that's actually pretty cool a little bit a little bit yeah we got to see that you still got the skills No, no, no.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Again, a little bit. I figured out that I had two left feet plus motion sickness. Oh, bad combo for breakdance. Yeah. You look like that girl at the Olympics. Yeah, at the Olympics. Yep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nah, I tried it, but it was not my thing.

Did you know that we scrapped last week's podcast?

Yeah, we're minute watching.

Zany was on it.

Because we didn't know. All the stuff that I was saying mid-podcast never ended up being... Shit was changing so fast. Oh, my God, yeah. It was... Damn. I remember at one point saying, I just got something else. Grabbed my phone and said, I just got something else. As of right now, we don't know who... And it was already fucking like our roster. Yeah. It was already what?

Fucking Thursday or I'm sorry, Tuesday. Like literally it was it was so that was that had to have been one of the most not unorganized because you can't organize something like that because you can't plan for stuff like that. But man, it was tough. It was tough because every decision that you make is obviously made public.

And no matter what decision you make, you have to deal with it for a certain period of time. So I don't know. I'm very hopeful. I like the fact that we're streaming the scrims. Obviously, like Seth said, it reignited the entire community and everybody's all about it and new storylines. But there is some pressure that's going to be added to everyone on top of that, right?

Because, yeah, we're performing good on scrims, but once we start getting into matches, and then once we start getting into fucking, what, Fort Lauderdale, where is it?

I actually have no idea.

Boca Raton is north. Boca Raton is nice? Yeah, I mean, that's where everybody goes to retire, but it's way up there, though. I'll put it to you like this. It's Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Boca. So it takes an hour from Boca to Miami, and it takes 25 from Miami to Fort Lauderdale, and only 25 minutes from, there you go. So we're in Boca Raton. We were at Fort Lauderdale last time?

Yeah, we're literally right in the middle, Seth.

So we're in like the home stretch. You shouldn't stream those scrims.

Falcons? Priestess.

So Falcons are doing a— R-Cities is going to— No, he's on— Wait, X-Net's staying on? He's on Falcons.

Who are they keeping? Exnid, surely. Yeah, Exnid. And that's it?

Dude, I've been around since Call of Duty 2. He's on the watch party, man.

The guy literally- Yo, right now is the perfect time. Bose, what's up with S&D?

I haven't seen a new team. I've seen the pre-nades.

We should have activated you during the dry run.

I'm going to be on a plane. Who's getting married? Castro. Castro?

Yeah, Castro. Castro? Yeah, Castro. Oh, hell yeah.

Poop.

Where, upstairs? Dude, the whole house. The whole house didn't smell like poop, did it? Just the upstairs?

He's looking for it.

I haven't seen it. Yo, yo, yo. Listen. The water... Has nothing to do with that Airbnb, okay?

That was just an anecdote.

The water does fuck you up. I mean, it's like you're not growing up with those, what are they called?

The biome in your gut bacteria is not used to that bacteria that you drink over there. It happens all the time. My man Tabe from Sweden, to the face to the face. To the face. You succumb to L.A. and only drink bottled water because he's like, I'm not drinking this dirty-ass American water. It's turning the frogs. No, I'm kidding.

Really? Yeah, like. Yeah, don't drink tap water here.

I do. Nowhere. Not in Texas.

In Jersey?

It's like an actual coconut.

It's just a coconut. Because of the fibers that connect the part that you eat.

It's got a hole in it. All right, tell us about these matches on Friday.

It is crunch time.

Oh, yeah, that's a good idea.

Dude, I swear, I'm telling you right now and I'm calling it. Oh!

Did I see somewhere that Nick Merck's skin was back in the... I think Nick said that he's going to come play it.

Yeah, I did see that. Either way. Like, everybody's coming back to play it.

Yo, you know what trailer I liked? I don't know how he came across this, but remember that guy that pulled this crazy-ass move where he, like... He used his jet to hit another jet, jumps out of that jet, lands in another jet or some shit. Call of Duty? No, Battalion. That sounds like Battlefield. Battlefield. Battlefield? I saw that too.

And him seeing the reaction to them using it in the trailer was so good. Made me miss being a gamer.

Yeah, I can't wait. I'm going to hop on that shit. Yeah, no, I think it'll be good. No lootable perks, movement changes, but buy station prices, lots of changes trying to make it as much as the original Warzone as possible. I don't know. What's up with this? Whoa, whoa, whoa. New RuneScape game? Dragon Wilds.

They said it was building for the last 10 possessions.

Me either, but I've heard nothing but good things. I'm a WoW kid. You play MapleStory? I'm a Minecraft kid.

That's the only one I've seen. I can't get into it either. No, it's because you haven't picked the right one. I've tried. Have you watched Akira? It's a movie. Watch Akira and then watch Ghost in the Shell. And then Ninja Scroll. And Ninja Scroll...

like they get it in what do you mean they get it in they get it in like you see it really the milkers the anime milkers no way no the waifu knockers i don't know about all that what do you mean that's you just said they get in yeah but i don't know anything beyond that i was like what's waifu mean uh like a waifu you got a waifu pillow it's a fucking anime like girl you're

No, your what?

Yeah. They just don't show the public. Oh, waifu.

I like window, bro. Okay, but let the record show. We wouldn't have moved you guys in there if the backdrop wasn't necessary. Like, we would have left Halo in there. We're only putting you there because... Oh, no, that was fine.

A lot of good meetings happened in that room.

A lot of good deals happened in that room.

Exactly. See, in this day and age, everyone's soft. You know what I'm saying? You get a brawl. Back in my day, in the 90s, brawl fouls were part of the game. No blood. No foul.

I mean, friendship leagues don't have teammates that don't get along with each other, though.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. April 18th and April 20th is the first HCS major of the year. You can buy tickets now. The link will be in the description down below.

At ESA Stadium. Yes, we're going back to ESA Stadium. Really good stadium for us. What about that bottom, the bottom one? K-Sun trying to host MLG Anaheim next year.

No, it's realistic as fuck. Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, timing of scheduling, it's like the number one thing, but... Well, first of all, how old is Kazon? Do we know? He's 29.

Dude, Malice at the Palace, you remember that shit?

He was 20, right? 20 back then?

I don't know if it works anymore. I've never been to Anaheim. Dude, imagine this bar today. It would work. Imagine this bar today, my man Boozer right in the middle. If you build it, they will come. Oh, no. Listen, I just don't think that people can fit.

No, not at all. Not only that, but it was almost like an industry party back in the day, right? So you're not going to have the same vibes, right? You're not going to have fucking Puckett and Fwiss and Shibby all wearing white T-shirts after they were fucking done casting and shit.

Wait, click on the first picture. Seth, it will 1,000... Exactly. It will 1,000%. You're saying it'll be overpacked.

I'll tell you what, what I was going to say is that in the future, and somebody is going to clip this part in the future, If any of my players ever get into a fight, I'm going to be out there holding on to one of their legs. Like, what's his name? You know what I'm talking about? In Palace of the Palace? Who was it? What the hell was that coach's name?

People are drunk. Bro, I can point to this area right here. This area right here, it was me, Duncan, Mike Sepso, and one Tim the Tap Man, when he had long hair, came by. And then I told Duncan, I'm like, yo, you got to sponsor this guy. This guy is going to be a big streamer. The man with the golden voice, as he was known back in the day. This is what it looks like now.

Obviously, we were there when there was no fountain.

No, no, no, it's not. But I'm telling you right now, I like the nostalgic vibe. So in fact, I think Peterman had a really, really good thought. It was kind of a sad thing to read in a sense, but... Oh, fuck. I don't know where he put it, but he made it... He put things into perspective as to... Think about 4,000 people, or how many people are going to go? Let's say 400 people go.

How many people go to Halo events nowadays?

That's a good question. I actually don't even know.

Think about that many people in that stadium seating. It's like literally just rows of that, right? So I don't know. I'm going to go if he throws it. I'm going. I mean, yeah.

Wait, what do you mean it's going to be a Cod event? No, it's Halo. No, he wants to do Cod, Halo.

She's going to be bossing. Yeah. That's definitely doable. I mean, I don't know how far along the business...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But still, like, the business unit between Halo and Call of Duty, like, yeah, we're doing it here at DreamHack, but we're also seeing all other games on there. But to have both of those two like we did back in the day, like MLG did, like, I don't know. That shit was so far.

Just go to Adam Apicella. Adam AP. So Adam AP is an old Halo dude named Clap.

It's like employee number one at MLG. Lots of channels talking about MLG Anaheim. MLG Anaheim was dope in 2006. Notice, dope in 2006. It also started our best attended event, blah, blah, blah. The Anaheim Convention Center, blah, blah, blah. I think in general, venue location aside, esports needs more robust roadmaps leading into major events. Online leagues, weekly tournaments.

In high school, I used to be fashionable and be absent.

Whatever he says... I agree. This dude is like the utmost expert when it comes to throwing events. He is literally the go-to guy.

Buy tickets now. See you guys there.

Oh, yeah. All right. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I think that is going to do it for this episode of the podcast. I hope that you guys enjoyed it. Please leave a like. Share with a friend. Don't be selfish. Absolutely. And we'll see you guys next week. Peace.

He's bouncing around? That's not Rondo?

Yeah, let's run this shit, man. This guy gets here later than everyone and then says, let's run this shit.

Yeah, except for this. Actually, no, high school I wasn't. Partying, hungover all the time?

Oh, and it's the second. Second? Second quarter. Holy shit. They got it in early. They got it in early.

They saw him and shit like when we ran into FaZe at Haywire and shit. Oh, yeah. I was about to start a food fight against those. No, I'm kidding. Bose, did you ever wear 95s? Yeah. Were they tight on you?

I tried them on back in the day, and I never bought them because they're too tight. And as I'm wearing them here, close to 20 years after not ever wearing them, They are so tight.

You think those are in the top 10 shoes of all time? These? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, not for me, but like unanimously?

Yeah. Well, I bought these because the Neon 95s are coming out I think later this month.

I want to wear them before I buy the team because look at them. Hit the Neons right there, Matt? Matt, that chair is so fucking squeaky.

Were you? Yeah. Three days. You used to do your homework?

Yeah. WD-40.

I wanted to get these for the team, but I don't know. Might be too tight.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I got to... Do you have to lace them or what is it? Yeah, I mean, yeah. These are the Stash 95s. Stash is an old school graffiti writer. But look, what I like about these is that, look, Boz.

You know you put in them. That's hard. A little dime bag.

What? Put your cart in there? No, you put your Apple AirTag so that you don't get lost. Is that an actual thing? What?

So you never do your homework, right?

No. We AirTag our dogs. Yeah. Damn. We do too. Yeah. We don't AirTag ours. Ours are well educated.

Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 219 of the Optic Podcast. This episode is brought to you by HIMSS, BetterHelp, and Shopify. Kook, back on Optic Texas.

Kyler, I need you to know that there's nothing new with me. I didn't want you to go nowhere, kid. You know what I'm saying? But we had to give the championship team a go, and we're past that. I said goodbye to my man, Pred. We'll always, obviously, have his legacy cemented here at Optic. We'll always have a home here at Optic post his deal. And, of course, Kenny, man.

Kenny and I, kindred spirits, man. Fashionistas, both of us.

Exceeding it. Now you're undefeated again. Exceeding my drip, for sure. No, he left. Now you look like a dad, bro. What happened? I look like a dad? Why? What do you mean?

What you know about these 2022 jeans from Amelion Door? What you mean? What you know about this R&L Hex collab?

Then I got a text the following morning or when I woke up, I had the text and it said, thank you.

Yeah, bro.

I don't know how to explain it to you guys. There's only one line. No, there's three. Okay, but they all go into the same node. Yeah, but. It bottlenecks into the same node.

And were you one of those dudes that kept his gaming life a secret or did you tell it?

That's not true. We were going into major one. What were we ranked?

What were we ranked going into Major 1? Fucking number one seed.

Number one fucking seed. Same fucking room. I don't know.

It's all in your mind.

What's their, Cox? Cox?

Dude, I didn't want to count it. Like, I saw 18. Was that last week we had the podcast, right? And I'm like, Matt gets second for the 18th time in a row. I'm kidding. I don't know. But yeah, dude. I mean, what do you... Okay, first of all, what do you think about that? And I want to talk about your scrims and them being streamed. But what do you think about the winner's final stuff?

I kept mine a secret.

And again, shout out to K-Son for throwing the LAN. I don't know why it's not called K-LAN. Whatever.

Little did they know. I kept my shit a secret.

My mi cocina order is always the same. It never deviates and it never goes anywhere. It is a side of grilled serrano peppers or serranos toreados.

And then I get the steak al carbón. It's like this, oh, man, I just make tacos with that.