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Chapter 1: What happened in the recent NBA fight and who were involved?
I'd go home, take a nap for like an hour, wake up, scrim, play till like 2 a.m., not do shit, do my homework like the next morning, sleep in study halls. I was on like a crazy schedule in high school. I'd sleep through my study halls-
And were you one of those dudes that kept his gaming life a secret or did you tell it?
No, everybody knew. I'd show up to like parties and shit. They'd be like, oh, you're a gamer. I'm like, yup.
I kept mine a secret.
They're like, I'd smoke you. I'm like, yeah, right.
Little did they know. I kept my shit a secret.
What about you? Did people know that you gamed in high school? Yeah, no, they actually didn't. Because one of my teachers pulled out some newspaper that was in my city or whatever, and then everyone knew from there. And Fortnite was popping at the time, so they're asking if I know about Fortnite and shit. What did you say to that? I said, I play Halo, bro. I play the romance game.
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 was just like, I don't know. It was probably some just nerd weird shit. Like I didn't want to get made fun of or something. People made fun of it? In reality, it was probably cool. I probably overthought it. You did? I just kept it a secret. Like my boys knew. But, like, random people at school? Hell no. The girls didn't know?
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Chapter 2: What is the status of OpTic Texas's new team and scrims?
What happened? The Wolves?
Yeah, that shit was great. They were brawling? Yeah, you know, like normal NBA shit. They have a little shove before the shit actually happens. So, like, they had a little shoving match or argument. And then the play went on. Someone went to the floor. And then, you know who Isaiah... What's his name? Isaiah Thomas, I think his name is? Yeah. Bro, this guy.
This guy's always trying to fight people. Yes, old ass. No, it's not Isaiah. What's his name? Maxwell? Maxwell. What's the big dude's name? Isaiah. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Is it on the Timberwolves? What's his name? Maxwell. Nas Reed? No, him right here. Isaiah. What's his name? The dude walking away with the bandana. I have no idea. I forgot his name.
I don't know why Maxwell's ringing a bell. Probably not Maxwell.
Isaiah Simmons? Or what's his name? Isaiah Stewart. That's his name. I don't know, but what am I? But, yeah, you'll see it. This shit is hilarious. What the fuck?
Yo, DiVincenzo reminds me of Miak. DiVincenzo.
Stewart's hilarious. He's always trying to fight somebody. He treats his shit like the UFC. What's his name? Dante DiVincenzo? I'm not trolling. He treats his shit like the UFC. Who does? Stewart. He can't wait.
He's looking for it.
Watch. He'll just come out the blue. Where is he? Right there. He can't wait. Look at him.
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Chapter 3: What was the experience and feedback from the HCS Kaysan LAN event?
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?
He stopped trying to impress. He has no comp anymore. Are you kidding me? What?
What you know about these 2022 jeans from Amelion Door? What you mean? What you know about this R&L Hex collab?
The other night, I raided Kyler after scrims and shit. Maybe not after scrims. I can't remember. But I didn't know. He doesn't read his chat at all. So I'm like, yo, who should I host? And they're like, Kyler, Kyler, Kyler. I'm like, I'll throw a host to my boy Kyler. Literally, I go into his chat. The first thing I read is, I don't read my chat. If you want to watch me play...
welcome no if you want to watch me play i'm thankful or something or something like that it's great though and he did i don't even think but he texted me after he was like thanks for the raid bro and i was i was just crying because everyone's like he really doesn't read jet he just sits there locked in no i dropped some gift to the uh like uh i don't know a while back a month month and a half ago when he was on the team and i was way i waited waited i'm like i'm out of here man
Then I got a text the following morning or when I woke up, I had the text and it said, thank you.
Yo, Kyler's been tucking though.
Yeah, bro.
Kyler's in, bro.
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Chapter 4: How is Kyler preparing for starting a family and how does it affect his lifestyle?
It's definitely possible.
No, dead ass. Obviously, he'd have to grow up, so he'll never catch up.
Oh, we're good, bro. I'll be fucking done.
Yeah, you'll be retired.
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?
I'd be like, fuck no.
You wouldn't take you? Hell no. You would take a mini you immediately. Well, yeah, me and Iz are, we're going to start trying to have a kid here soon.
Oh my God, that's so bad.
Yeah, we've been talking about it.
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Chapter 5: What are the benefits and challenges of streaming CDL scrims?
But, nah, I like shrimp and shrimps, and obviously the community seems like they enjoy it too.
Are you going to keep doing it?
Yeah.
But what if you guys have a bad start to the stage? Just hypothetically, of course. I don't think you're going to, but.
I don't think it'll matter. Because I don't know. At least, like, because everyone always keeps comparing our old team to, like, this team. Because I was saying, like, the reason our team? No, no, no. The AG and Ken team. The reason I didn't stream, like, this is how it went down. We picked up AG, right? AG was like, all right, let's not stream scrims the first week because, obviously, like...
He wanted to be, like, unknown how good we were at this and that. And I was like, all right, like, I'm done.
And then... And if he got shit on, it's, like, it's his first week back. Yeah, exactly. Like, he might get shit on a little bit. But he didn't.
Yeah, no, I'm pretty sure the scrims went, like, decent that week or whatever. And then, yeah, we lost back-to-back matches. And then I think we lost, like, the... I think we had shit practice going into our third match, lost that match.
And then it was just like such a, at least my perspective on it was like, yo, I just want to focus on our team and not really give a fuck about streaming scrims, this and that. Yeah. That's why like we didn't stream that stage, but then going into this stage, I mean, my plan is to continue it unless obviously something happens.
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Chapter 6: How does the current CDL schedule and server issues affect gameplay?
And Pret. Oh, yeah.
We're fucking tweaking, bro. We're fucking tweaking.
There's so much roster shit. And then, yeah, Ken's going to Rocker. Yeah, we play him his first day. Bro, that's so funny.
That's fucking crazy how that works, isn't it?
What are the odds of that, dude?
The odds are insane.
Hey, that's a banger match. Toronto and FaZe. I actually have a... This is so random, but I have Toronto on that.
Nah, this weekend's matches are, like, lit.
Nah, they look lit.
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Chapter 7: What are the latest updates on Rostermania and team changes?
Is this hyped up as much as it should be? I don't know, man.
Well, Rivals is finally on a downtrend. All the streamers want to play. Tim said he wasn't going to play. Tim's coming to play it. Nate said that he wasn't going to play. He's coming back to play it. So I feel like people are finally starting to get a little sick of Rivals.
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.
He said he wasn't going to play it.
Yeah, I did see that. Either way. Like, everybody's coming back to play it.
It is back there? That's what someone said. Nick Merck's shit is back?
Yeah.
Oh, that means Scum can get it. That means Seth needs his. You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, right.
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Chapter 8: What sponsors support this episode and how do they help listeners?
Yeah, they sent me this yesterday, and I was like, these guys are trolling, bro.
And I... Hey, this room is godlike, bro. Straight up. Fuck with this room.
A lot of good meetings happened in that room.
A lot of good meetings, dude.
A lot of good deals happened in that room.
A lot of great deals happened in that room. Caesar's looking skinny, bro. What the fuck happened? Talk to me about teaming with Bueno. How's it been so far? Because... Yo, Bunny does a good teammate, bro. He just shows up early, you know, grinding, and just does his part, bro.
He's been grinding, which is what I like to see. He's been, like, he's been grinding. Even after scrims, he's, like, hopping on, playing 8s and shit. You guys are really all liking 8s. I've seen Brandon playing 8s.
No, yeah, he's, like, the first—how do I want to say first—
i guess he's like the first teammate that like uh actually likes going over like the extra shit like when it comes down to like the private match and like actually figuring out like timing and shit like that yeah because um not saying that like other teammates don't do it it's just more like he's more down to do it if that makes sense yeah like we would do it but like he's like he's like he's pushing you to do it exactly you'd always push me to do it you're like yo let's go over this timing or like let's throw nades and shit but he's like
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