What is up? Welcome back to Casino Friday. I am your host, Rob Fox, joined, as always by Ryan Moffitt. Here to play some Friday Blackjack. Yes, we are, man. But I hear you're a sad boy. A little bit. It's just, you know, long week at the office. But hey, we are getting into the weekend. I am looking forward to that. I got a pre-release event this weekend. I know. You told me, we'll get to that a minute. But I meant that you didn't get to go to your World Cup this week. That is true. All my friends right now are in Kiss Me, Florida, and it's been really depressing seeing all their stories. Come on, my bookie. I want to play a blackjack with you guys. Yeah, what's going on? Yeah, but it wasn't let me get a seat for a second. I had to refresh the page. Now I have a seat, but I miss this bet. What exactly does the World Cup of Paintball entail? It's a bigger event than you'd think. It's definitely one of those industries that if you've never heard about, obviously, you know, you've never heard about it. Right, right, right, right. Um, World Cup is a cool event because it, it is a world event. We have teams from Europe, teams from Latin America, teams from, you know, just, so there's a couple Asian teams that come over as well. I feel like the Asian teams... They get destroyed. Oh, they do? Yeah. Payball is not really their thing. But hey, we're glad that they come. And, no, it's just a really cool event. It happens in the same facility in Kissimmee every single year. And I've been going to it since 2017 was my first one. Good Lord. It's weird to not be there right now, man. A pup at that first one. Yeah. No, I was literally, I was 18. It was my first event out of high school that I started doing in that. How are the Europeans? Depends. There's a couple really good European teams. The top teams, taun taunts right now, they've been, since the early 2000s, they've been a really good European team.

Where are they from?

Tullulouse, which is in France, their French team.

But a lot of their, the European players, it's kind of like, if you're in Europe, you play for us.

Like, it's not just French players or just German players or just Belgian players. But can they communicate? Yeah. I mean, well, it's so it's funny. You see that a lot, there's a lot of pro guys who will go over to these like European local events and then be like a hitman, you know, they'll just get picked up for the weekend. And all those guys talk about

it at times is like, it's so funny when you're with a team that's like, you know, a Ukrainian team. Yeah. I don't speak, you know, their same language. So you just listen for the couple things you can pick up of like, all right, they said five. So there's probably five guys alive right now or, you know, like just those little intricacies.

I feel like anyone who's good at paintball in Ukraine

should be doing something else.

Yeah.

Well, literally one of the best or, you know, like just those little intricacies. I feel like anyone who's good at paintball in Ukraine should be doing something else.

Yeah. Well, literally, one of the best players in the world, Federoff, is from Ukraine. Yeah. And he's been living in the States the whole time because he knows if he goes back, he will be drafted into a war. Oh, shit. Yeah. So, like, there. Draft Dodger, huh? There's actually, you know, it's one of those things we, the whole paintball community didn't know how to handle it when we first got into it. But one of the best teams in the league is a Russian team. It is the Russian Red Legion. And they have been since the early 2000. How are those guys not on the front lines? They are all living in America now. Okay. They all got visas to come over here. And they're just like, mm-mm.

Yes, they have been living in Florida since 2020.

I'm not joking. Yeah, not going back. And they're amazing. Like, those guys are crazy. Malloy is, dude, one of the best players in the world with a paintball marker in hand, which I know it doesn't mean much to a lot of people. Right. To the small people, it means something to.

It does.

That's really funny.

There's Ukraine and the Russians who are dope at PayPal who are like... mean much to a lot of people. But to the small people, it means something to. It does. That's really funny.

There's Ukrainians and Russians who are dope at paintball who are like, I got to stay here. And it's funny because they kind of see it as like, you know, they're the only people in America right now who are from that part of the world. And like, you know, their thing is paintball. So they're friends through that. Like, hey man, do you want to do like a more hardcore version of paintball?

No, no.

No, I'm good.

Absolutely. paintball, so they're friends through that. Like, hey man, do you want to do, like, a more hardcore version of paintball?

No, no.

No, I'm good.

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