Let's go ahead and say it. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to episode 158 of the Eves Drop podcast with the unannounced yet. What kind of working conditions? You have me working under Kenny. Welcome and welcome to Optic man.

Super happy to have you here. I'm excited for the microphone to one day work properly and appropriately. It's okay Matt. Don't worry about it. Maddie has been working his ass off and has no help here at Optic. You know what I'm saying? Do you feel it? You know what it's like to not have help. Matt knows. Welcome, dude. I am. I'm happy.

I got to see where you go from here. Obviously having the career that you've had up until this point. I mean, fucking rookie of the year. And then beating our ass so many fucking times.

Anyway, with the unannounced Kenny, obviously you've been here. There was this instance, instance last night or two nights ago where you were you walked in front of a stream. Those going on at 1 a.m. Tell me about that.

So I was in here just gaming. I didn't think anybody was here is midnight. So I was like chilling and an AG Fred pulls up and he's like trying to come game as well. And I'm like, I go open a door and I had to go pee. So I'm going to rest room.

Somebody's here. I'm going to rest room. I go to the restroom and like, there's the halo room towards the restroom and I looked at my right. I'm like, somebody's in there gaming. Is that a twist chat? I'm like, no way.

No, I like kept walking and like, there's like the we did like the podcast in the one room. And I just kept walking into that room because I was like nervous. I was like, let me just keep going like figure out what to do. And then like, I was like, yeah, I got to call page and teller.

I feel so bad because like I actually didn't know nobody was streaming and luckily nobody called it. Yeah. Thank God.

The thing about that is that one everybody already knows that it's you everybody already knows that it's Fred. Yeah. And everybody still upset that we haven't made an announcement. I'm like, there's no announcement coming.

It's a video in which two new characters get introduced to the optic sitcom of sorts. And and and people are just like man, the thing back in the day.

Like if you look, if if you want to go back and look at our halo announcement, when we switched from from from maniac to to lethal in them, like that's a good announcement.

When we stepped into CSGO, that was a good announcement, Gears Award, good announcement. And we did those esports like and those those those players like we did things right by them. And you know, I always try to go out on my way to make it impactful for you for you as a new player for Fred as a new player.

So they can have their you know, their viral moment, you know, in our video, whatever viral is nowadays anyway. So you know, I although everybody knows there's still something to be said about our job having to make it entertaining still in the way that we do things.

So everybody that's waiting more often than not what I do is I just wait, wait, wait, wait until people just get so frustrated asking that. That's funny. It's funny to talk about it because like I know all the fans want it. But it's like, I'm also like super anxious.

Like being announced, like I'm just like, I've been thinking about it every day. I've been looking at the calendar every day. I'm just ready to be announced. So it's like, it's one of those things like as much as they want is like, it's not like anybody over here is like trying to delay delay it or delay anything. So it's like, you are okay.

I mean, I mean, I'm not like I'm just saying like, obviously you want to delay it. Not like that. I mean, like you're not like purposely looking at the comments. Like I'm going to make you wait. You know what I am. Okay. Okay.

You got to learn you got to learn out here. It's like it's because it's for I know what they want before they even know what they want. And I got to, you know, if everybody already knows the only thing they can do is you can prolong it as much as possible. So they're like, uh, yeah.

When it finally gets there, they'll realize it's not an announcement. Yeah. It's the back in the day. Right. Growing up in the 90s and the sitcoms. And when you were watching Fresh Prince of Bel Air, watching married with children or you watching all these these shows from back in the day, uh, guest appearances would happen. And people would be like, Oh, yeah. You know, that's that's how it is. Right. Like, but, but you're a literal new character that is going to be, you know, competing at the highest level. Hopefully bring us some of those championships that you brought a hundred thieves. Oh, yeah.

Um, you know, I think, uh, I think it's, it's a good thing because the, the hundred thieves culture because of nature is pretty much the same way that we do things over here. Uh, you know, I spent some time with him over his wedding. And, you know, he's, you know, it's bummed out of about the way the things are now. And, and, you know, but, but he more than anyone understands like what this business is like and, and all the evidence flows about it. So, yeah.

You know, we got lucky. Uh, you, you, uh, you were looking him. Oh, yeah. I was, um, honestly surprised because it was one of those things like, uh, I've obviously competed against you guys for like the longest time. And it's like, one of those things, like, I liked playing against the big crowds. And so, I'm just like, anytime I'm playing, I think I'm like, okay, this is like a good, this is gonna be a good day. Like, it's gonna be a bigger match every time. Like, top dogs, playing each other. There's gonna be a bigger match. And like, now I'm playing on the other side of it. So it's like, it's exciting. And I also was like, okay, what can I like build out of this?

Like, can I, can I win more championships on a different, like, different org? And it's like, I've always won for the thieves. And it's like, now I'm on the other side of it. And I just, it's gonna be weird. I'm sure another career where it's like, okay, we, it's like a whole new beginning for me. Like, I'll send them another day. Like, I came in the first day. And I was like, it's a first, like, first day of school. I was like, I got a lot of merch. And I'm trying to figure out what outfit to put together. And I'm like, okay, it's kind of cool. Yeah, you a fresh motherfucker. I've been saying that for a long time, too. Um, we got, uh, we got a, we got a, uh,

a couple of things planned out for you to work with the, uh, with the private selection boys. Yeah. We already hit them up immediately. I was like, yo, this, this dude is a, is, is part of the sneaker culture. Yeah. Fashion culture. Like, you know, let's, let's see if we can do something there. They're, those, those dudes are going to have a really good time with because they're, they're the way that they see things, the content game specifically. Um, it's like, it's refreshing to see, like, brain sight that come into an industry like that. Because I'm a creative, they're creatives. So I've actually shopped there before when I lived here.

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