32 - (BAD AUDIO SORRY) Video Game Basic Training ft. Mat Best
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Are we live? Okay, yeah, we're rolling now. Quiet in the kitchen! Quiet in the little kitchen! We're recording! God! Yeah! Sorry. I'm so sorry, guys. What is she doing in there? They're out of control. They're fucking out of control. Okay, wait, I gotta sit down.

I feel like cum in my eye right now for some reason. I hate when there's cum in my eye. Oh, it's a nice, it's funny. This is, you guys have a cozy setup. You have to. You have a cozy setup. Well, yeah, because. Oh, you have, oh, I went. Fuck. You have to get a wife off. And we all, you have to get a wife off. You have to do it. You have to have one. It's the rules. I,

I live in free country, so... I don't know what to do right now. I can't. Everything's falling apart. Now, if you say, Matt, would you like to share when it's tradition? I would say yes. No, but we need you to crush one. That's what you ask it in that world. But you were forceful. Yeah, I'm always forceful. Yeah. Okay, so I crack it on here. What is this shit? Wait, are we... No, we gotta cheers it as we start. But we always...

What tradition? Oh, yeah. It's good from 32 episodes. Okay, well, clack it, put it down, take a shot. New tradition. Oh, we got to, yeah. Welcome to... Donut has to say it. Wait, okay, listen, wait. We got to clock first. Okay, wait. What? Did I have to say it before you? Welcome to Unsubscribe Podcast. Welcome to Unsubscribe Podcast.

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I love we're in 31 and we're doing a commercial right now. Okay, okay, okay. Thank you. Hi, everyone. Matt Best is here today. I taste like cat urine. Yeah, we got to wash down the cat urine. Hey, thanks for having me on, guys. Boop.

Oh, we got backstreet start operator. Eli double chat. That was delicious. Woo. And Matt best. Hello. National bestseller. New York times. New York times. Bestseller. Actually, I was, who was I talking to? I was talking to DC Drano on, on, let's go about that. It was, uh, I purposely didn't put New York times bestseller author in there cause they're fuckheads. And so I put national bestseller cause I was number one in the nation, but

uh really want to start this podcast off with the egotistical statement for me and i'm glad you're back beautiful voice how many number one singles are you at right now i'm actually a deer saver now um oh that's true i'm a deer saver yep if you haven't known guys this man is now an american hero he saved a baby deer on thanksgiving drunk

- Tipsy. - Tipsy. - It wasn't there quite yet, but yeah. - Baby deer, what was wrong with it? - It was stuck in a fence. So normally like my stepsister gets stuck in dryers all the time, so I was really well-versed. - You were ready to go. - And then my dad was like, "Why are you trying to have sex with a baby?" - Why are your pants down? - Dude, I can believe that fence was probably like six inches. It was short. - You know it gets stuck in there. - I do, I do.

Wow. Okay. This is a cozy podcast. I put my boots next to it and doubled it. It's like six inches. We're good. Exactly. Oh, you're so healthy, Steph, man. This is where I get my focus. Yeah, welcome. This is a gaming podcast. This is a game, like video game podcast. I like video games. We do like video games. I just want to point out Matt mentioned cum before I did. The very first thing in the podcast. I was just going to say, I'm so mad.

You'd be into it. Donuts are our cum caster. I want to get on your guys' level, so I was like, start this off with semen and not the Navy type like you. It's been, what, we've had this, I like you're our bestie friend, and you were the six months in, we were like, oh, episode 31. So, in our defense, apparently, Eli's just terrible at scheduling. Okay, first off, scheduling. Let's talk about scheduling. Guys, we're going to have lunch at 12.

Texas last night, Batty at 12 is like, I'm waking up. Donut woke up first. Donut was prepared to go. Matt forgot in the six-hour window. I was going to punch one to the restaurant today. I just would like to point that out. I waited in the parking lot until I saw you come in. Don't you live pretty close to the restaurant? We both live. Yeah, fuck both of you.

I don't know how to drive three states away to get here. It's a future of 12 minutes. The invitations have been very plentiful. It's more of been a scheduling conflict from an outside observer. I think everyone at this table fucking sucks. I thought you here. You did. I did like you. He was texting. I felt like you guys were battling. I think yes.

But he followed up with, so we're good. We're good. We're here. We're going to talk about gaming. Fucking beanbag over here. Eli, you're 5'2". Show up. You're a beanbag. Your body is shaped like a beanbag. I would like to think it's more like a love seat. And I want to hear that. All right.

Video games. This is really... No, we actually, we built a list today. Last night on text. I spent at least 30 seconds building it out on text. Okay. Okay. I didn't read it. So... Were you doing it? No. The last one we can't talk about. But every... Oh. Oh, okay. The thing we're doing right now. Like talking points. Yeah. Yeah. We have talking points. Yeah.

I'm helping you guys three days. Okay, the talking points was what was Matt's first video games and why does he love Call of Duty? Wow. Really? Are you whispering to me? He's whispering to me. You can't hear this. This is a guest. Be a guest. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.

Most people don't know you're a gamer gamer. That's what everyone's biggest surprise. When we first started talking, I was amazed you were a gamer. You're like, I'm playing Diablo 3. I was like, I had Diablo 3. Wait, I played Diablo 3?

Yeah, yeah. So backstory, I'll tell you. So I started, I played a shit ton of video games. So like book reference it, but I grew up as like playing soccer, super fucking nerdy kid. I didn't have puberty until like almost 22. Yeah. So I was like a very socially awkward, black hair, bass player, you know, pretty much you aspire to be. I can't remember what I started on. Backstone works. Yeah.

I think one of my first games ever because we had the 56k modem and I had to switch off with my brothers was Tribes. So that was like my go-to early on. And then it was Counter-Strike, which I became obsessed with. My brothers graduated high school, so I was like into it and that's what I played. And then Diablo 2 is really when I got into those kind of games. I already pushed off. So I used to fucking, my first entrepreneurial journey was actually I would level up accounts in Diablo.

get them to level 80 and then i would fucking sell to you java 2 yeah yeah towards destruction yeah of course absolutely i do the exact same thing i would level people i so we usually go to like 70s okay because yeah okay i flexed a little hard it was like 72 and then it's just like i've never had to count over 95 yeah i i you get to that 90 to 93 range is brutal it was not just worth it

yeah that's how old school that's how entrepreneurial all of us were we started in middle school and high school with video games yeah i would do the same thing with world of warcraft i got a little character to 60 that was a level cap and vanilla and i would sell that account like 500 bucks dude it's weird i a lot of my friends play woe and for some reason i never got into it i like i think it was maybe the learning curve but i always went back to diablo and then when d3 came out i played that i think d2 is so much better they just did the uh

was it resurrected or the reason i watched gameplay it's literally d2 looks like nice and you can go to the old graphics as well on there but it just it wasn't i don't think there's well yeah it didn't taste well innovative at the time yeah they came out but now it's like

I will say unpopular opinion, but D3 functionality wise, I like better because your loot without drops in D3, it's specific to you. Then you can throw it down and give it to your teammates. Whereas before, when you do like those huge runs and hit Diablo, it's

whatever's dropping is dropping and you're like fucking you had those guys that had the coding that did the auto pickup so like and you're like you fucking want to punch your computer 45 minutes yeah whatever man d2 so i i played the fuck out of d3 at launch and the real money auction house came out

And I just made so much money. I forgot that. Farming and selling gear. Like the Tal Rasha says specifically. Tal Rasha. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like burned into my head because I would just, I would just nonstop run for the mask. So I can make like 40 bucks a mask.

And I just sell this mask on the real money. What was the payment processor back then? Was it Paypal or was it Blizzard? Because I remember, I forget how people would pay me. I got conned once and I lost like a level 78 fucking sword. Was it D2? Yeah, yeah. D2 was Paypal. Yeah, D2 was Paypal. Yeah, yeah.

But they didn't have like the good systems to make sure like it was legal. You had to send it friends and family. Most of it was illegal. Like, it was all day. Like, they would ban you if they found out you were selling accounts. It's like instant ban. Because you were making like a grand two grand on EQ back in the day. I just had to make sure it wasn't wrecked. No, almost there. Getting so close to you. You're too nice to me. My first Wild Count got banned. My very first one because I was botting.

yeah we i do just my he doesn't do it anymore i don't do that cody's legit now guys i had a friend he's gone legit i had a friend and i won't say his name this is years and years ago no no one would know his name he doesn't work the company or anything like that but he he called you a nobody he was always on he's on d he's on g3 he was always fucking on and i'm like

motherfucker, man. Like you're, you're, I'm like, this dude's on the grind, bro. Cause we had like a, like a tribe, like a little clan that we all like play together. And we, you know, try to hit the leaderboards and stuff. I'm like, this dude's fucking grinding it out. And one day I texted him. I'm like, you're playing at six in the morning. And he's like, Oh no, my wife's on.

I was like, wife? And then he put in parentheses wife. I was like, this fucker's bot. And so he just, he'd tear it to a run. And like, every season he'd be like, loot it up like a motherfucker. Schmoan's bro. Schmoan's bro. Yeah. He's gonna kill us. I don't think he plays anymore. Yeah. Fucking bots. This is what happened. It was, it's like,

Brody is his name. Yeah, we're just working, we're changing his name with a couple of letters to save him. Yeah, I forgot about that.

Dude, botting was a huge thing. Botting wasn't a big thing in EverQuest. You just couldn't bot back in the day, I don't think. I don't think. Yeah, that game, because if you die or anything goes wrong, because you had, like, if enemies got pulled to you, they would kill you. Like, there was no... Just people kiting enemies across the map just to get... I never did that.

Yup. Cause if the enemy's kiting, if you're kiting an enemy and they were just chasing you, they will kill everything along its path. And EverQuest was fucked up because they had like, Oh, you're in this level in a 20 zone. So newbies on, Oh, we're going to put four specters at level 46 and just like murder everything they touch right here. So I was like, I'll just go invisible and then speed run. And then they'll chase all me. And then I just have a, just a fucking highway of dead level in 20s. I'm like,

this is my work. And I leave and I'm back in and I'm like, okay. And then you come back in and you see the chat just, who the fuck is that? Like, who the fuck trained all the specters through the highway? I'm like, 100% me. That's weird. From the beginning. What do you think the potential, because you guys all played Counter-Strike, right? What's the potential that we fucking rage quit because one of us killed the other person back there? It's a high potential because I played like a gajillion hours of Counter-Strike.

You did 1.6 and pre-1.6, right? Pre-1.6, 1.6. I didn't do a 0.1. No, we had a whole... We were in clans. We did a whole thing. Like, we were... D.E. Dust, E.S. Italy. Dude, Dust was my thing. I was fucking... If I'm Dust and I get an AR, you're dead. Like, you're dead. I'm pre-firing boxes. I'm having the kids... I knew you were a crouch. I knew exactly where to put that bullet. I love it. I was just watching...

shit one of the current tournaments with Liquid Team Liquid yeah and I'm just like watching these like professionals still play at this level it's a fucking crazy like next level they're just like because they obviously have walls yeah that's it they're just they're just pinging all the walls like there's nobody there so they obviously on the tournament accounts you can see where everybody's at

And these guys are just pinging walls where people usually will peek at the last second. You're like, blah, blah. And then that third peek just nails the dude. And he's like, oh, there was a guy there. And it's just insane to watch the muscle memory and to see just how well they have every little tiny crack memorized. Which is map knowledge, right? That's a different thing with pro players. Because some of the pros, even the guys that we play with in Call of Duty, they're really good. They're decent shots. Callie's like...

a really good shot. But like, Zex is a perfect example. Like, not the best, like, shot per se, but his fucking map knowledge and his movement, it's just, he just outperforms you because he'll be like, losing 1v1, toss a flash, out the window, down, slide, dead, dead, hit an edge, run around on second story. Or yeah, second story edge and they think he popped. It's just the map knowledge and it's just smart, smart, smart. IQ, like, thousands.

I mean, that's the same thing for Tarkov, the way I play. Like, I may not be the best shooter, but I know the map so fucking well. Unless it's reserved. Let's not go there. I got on a big tournament, like a Twitch Rivals, like big screen. I was like last fucking round of the game. I was like one of the last surviving people. Just one other dude. And I was in a sewer system I did not know because I had never played it. Like 9,000 hours in this game. It never touched this one spot. I was like...

Guys, where do I go? Matty's on Google. He's like, sure. I have like 8,000 people telling me, go left, go right, go up, down, left, right. I'm like...

With, and I was bleeding out, I had broken legs, like, you're batting in real life. I had a stroke. And then this motherfucker comes around the corner and just annihilates me. I was like, oh, that was embarrassing. Thankfully it was only on a giant screen. There's only 8,000 people watching. Just the entire Twitch Rivals tournament focused on me. That's cool. Whatever.

Matt knowledge, guys. Matt knowledge is crazy because when we play like, yeah, Zex, as you're saying, Zex is really good at

Callie's like the better player. We cannot. There's Callie's a fucking monster when it comes to just murder. Zex learned from Callie on Call of Duty. Like Zex's call outs of like usually where to go. Usually Zex don't get a fucking big head because you make terrible calls on your piece of shit sometimes. Yeah. I'll keep you humble Mr. Puerto Rican. But he's like we need to go here for this specific reason above and even Callie even though he's a better player Callie's

Cali listens to Zex. We listen to Zex. It's like, where'd you go? Why? He's like, oh, it's right here. But that's like the parallels in between anything, right? It's like, it sounds really stupid, but like being in the actual military and having small unit tactics, the comparison is very similar to like a gaming community because

Because you have someone that makes the overall, like, 20,000-foot view of, like, the battle space, how many maneuver teams left, where's the gas going, and then you have the great, like, Cali's, like, he's the precision guy. Like, 1v1 me, fucking Cali's winning every single time. Like, the dude's nasty. And then you have, like, Sniper. Like, the elements that come together to make a great team is because of that, right? And so it's very similar, I think, to the military. Like, you can't have all team leaders. Like, you need a fucking good saw gunner, a good two- or three-gunner, good rifleman, and then you shut the fuck up and listen to the team leader. It sucks him deep. Yeah.

Yeah, I suck so much, dude, but I was really good with the saw. Can you put your mouth over this? Oh, I don't know who did all this fucking podcast. Yeah, don't do that. They all do this, but I don't play that game. Brandon was the last one to deep throw that mic. Okay, well. These ones are all labeled. As long as they don't catch the old, I like AK virus, we'll be okay. I'm sticking to ARs. I don't know why I think that bad. Eli, deep throw the mic. No. We've all done it. We've all done it. Wow. Just jump off a bridge. I'm sorry.

You guys are like, what a smashing trick, guys. Good job, Dad. I'm going to sleep on your couch after this show. That's fine. We're just having a good old time. But why Call of Duty? Why? Why Call of Duty? I was so happy when that one took off for you. You were like, God.

The first dubs and how it progressed for you. But go on. Sorry. I just fuck you. Let me tell the story for Matt. Matt, give me a second. What? What?

no um you know a very favorable time in my life when i wasn't as busy was when eli and i we had a couple other people who live in uh airbnb and we played battlefield and he didn't know i played first person shooters at the time i didn't know you played first person shooters and i was like you're fucking slaying bodies right it's like the perfect tinder date well it was great well uh

Whatever. My wife's okay. We were having fun with morally casual women. Mainly me. I was single. This was a good time. This was a good time. Which actually prompted me to lock in the marriage with my wife. I was like, I need to settle down. My dick's going to get COVID if I do this. I don't know. Maybe this is better.

Because there's only me and you at that fucking high-end house. We'd film content, and then we'd just, like, work out, eat Chipotle, and then get drunk and play basketball. We were drunk at that time. That's good shit. That's good shit.

But no, so we were playing Battlefield and then when Call of Duty came out, I was, I played a lot of Call of Duty in the military and as a contractor, right? Well, not military necessarily, more as a contractor because you're on a small base and all you have is like a LAN party and you play on a controller. But I was always a keyboard mouse guy. So I knew Call of Duty really well. And then when Warzone came out, that's what got me.

I just love, love, love, love that Battle Royale stuff because the stakes are higher, it takes more strategy, and people just don't do dumb shit because they're worried about dying. And so, like, even... I haven't played the new Battlefield, but watching the gameplay, I'm like, man...

the whole like let's out kill each other for an hour it doesn't do it for me so i'm a battle royale guy because it's like there's consequences and when there's consequences people play like a little more strategic and strategic shit means that like it's more fun for me at least and that's the gameplay i'm sure it's why you guys like tarkov right because there's consequences you can't just roll that bitch it's all gone yeah like that's like did you ever play pub g

A little bit, yes. My favorite way to describe Tarkov to anybody has always been a Tarkov game is like being in your top 10 of PUBG every time, or that final circle, because it's intense from the get-go. One reason I did, because I used to love PUBG. Battle Royales were my shit up until I found Tarkov. That's all I would do is play the fuck out of PUBG. That was all I played. But that game kind of dropped off, and I never... Call of Duty just felt too fast for me. I was...

If you're acclimated to that style, I can see why. Whereas like for me, Tarkov's way too slow. But then like if I play multiplayer on COD, like I'm over it in like five minutes. I'm like, it's just a... He gets boring. The arena shooter, the drop in, the same round over and over. When they're sparring behind you and it's like, I like tactics. Absolutely. That's why I hate Battlefield. The new Battlefield game.

Thank God you have to play it. It's fucking trash. Is it really? Like, the beta to now is just not good. I told Zex the other night where I was like, you guys aren't playing Battlefield anymore. Zex was like, well, I played it offline. I was like, that means it's a trash game. If you're not playing it and you're just doing it on your own. Wait, is it just a gameplay challenge? Yeah, they added a lot of elements into it that's not very fun. Think of Warzone, they gave you a grappling hook where you could get on top of anybody.

They have that in that. Battlefield is faster. It's kind of like... It's faster. It's faster based in Warzone. Yeah. It's kind of like... It reminds me of Advanced Warfare. Do you remember when Advanced Warfare came out? Yeah. Running on walls and all that. It just felt like they're trying to appeal to an audience that isn't theirs. They want that Call of Duty audience. What was the fucking... What was the Battlefield... I don't know if you... I played Battlefield...

It was 2009. What fucking Battlefield was out there? I remember I played with my brother. Was it three? I think it was. I was obsessed with that. My brother and I would play eight hours a day. It was a modern one. It was a modern one. My brother was the gunner and we'd just get banned from servers because we were just fucking demolishing C4 guns.

buildings and killing everybody inside. That was my jam. Three was amazing. Four was fucking great. 2009 was Bad Company also, right? Was that around that time? Yeah, Bad Company. I think it was three and then we played Bad Company. Bad Company had the destructible buildings too. That was what made multiplayer cool. The single player was amazing on that. The campaign on Bad Company. We did that for the new Battlefield. It's just the new Battlefield is so...

just fucking sucks i'm not like i'm so big on video games runs beautifully it looks fucking amazing like looking at the game the the terramorphic the destruction destructible terrain like everything like when bombs hit the ground you know the grounds making little craters like it's fucking awesome until you start like trying to move you start shooting it's they take more shots

Then Call of Duty with like three plates. Yeah, no, I saw that. Yeah, it was just, they're so clunky. Dude, I was like, die. Reload. Yeah, you were like,

10 to 15 rounds to drop a single person and i was talking to zack sir and i was like wait does the m4 literally take like 10 to 15 shots to drop somebody and the recoil is wild asinine on that game even when you have your build out because it's like and it's the little things where it's saving your gun data so if you build your guns yeah like let's say hey here's how i like my gun design because you have to build it in game uh when you're actually in the map it doesn't save it

Oh, really? So you have to rebuild it and you have to rebuild your gun to every fucking... It's stupid. Every draw. And then you have a gun. I see you like, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. And then I kill you. I'm like, cool. I'm going to grab his gun. It's bare bones of that gun. It doesn't come with every attachment. Everything just disappears. It's all those little things. And you're like, how is it 2021? And you were... And this is a AAA studio and you're building a trash fucking game. Yeah. With how much money was spent on it. Well, I wasn't going to buy it and I definitely won't buy it now. Halo, though.

It's apparently fucking awesome and free. So the new Halo is in like chronological order. Is this after the events of the previous Halo or did they... The campaign's not out yet still. No, but it's just multi-player. They released... So Halo Infinite is the multiplayer for the new Halo. Yep. It's like dropping wars though even though the new Modern Warfare is out. I play a lot of Halo. I'm checking. Yeah. Yeah.

And I'm hearing nothing but amazing. I don't think I've heard a single bad thing. You like Destiny gunplay, right? And it's the same. It's apparently just as good. It's faster than old Halo, but not so fast that it's not fun. There is a grappling hook, which I still, I'm a little butthurt about. But they're doing it in a good way because people are like, yeah.

I hate grappling hooks in games because all I can think of in my head when I had it at Battlefield when I was in the older Call of Duty when I was in Halo now all I can think of is going into basic training right and you're going through you're going down the wall and like okay now you're grappling hook training and I'm just picturing new idiots trying to learn how to use a grappling hook and just watching you as he just hits the wall he's like that guy's dead now I still I still I still think you should do that video like if video games are real because it's the same thing with Call of Duty and the riot shields and like

all the, and Halo, and all that shit. I just want to see if we can learn how to use this. Yeah, no, grappling hooks aren't real. Those exist in movies. That would be so awesome. They do, but they don't. Wait, I never, you got a grappling hook in basic? No, but if that was, if you're like, okay, fucking Private Joe, and he's like, he's like, what do I, ah!

He just hits a tree. One down. The rappel wall used to be the scariest thing. His parents will be very happy for his sacrifice. Every time. Just by grappling with it. No, no,

it's got like an arm washer and it straps to your belt so you're like yeet across the body straight yeeted and then you just go and you put it away real quick you know yeah you're just good you get to the wall you land you hang on the ledge you do a backflip cake flip backflip again off of it and you got your gun you're ready to go i love just all of all video games doing like stuff that's actually basic training it's like war zone they're just like

Halo 2. They're like cutting parachutes and then going faster. It's like, cut! Okay, how do you shoot in the air? You're like, cut! I call my fourth reserve. Cut!

That would be funny. It's like video game basic training. You're like, today's course is halo and shooting from the prone position while you're in the fucking air. You're like, this is called the rocket jump. Okay, you drop, shoot. Yeah. You got Freddy teaching that class.

Yeah. We've killed almost everyone that's tried this, but we're going to do something. We have a low respawn timer on. Yeah. Fuck. He's played half-life. Put a shit out of that. Engineering. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Make the turrets, bro. Oh, team fortress. Team fortress. There we go. That was it. Portals. Oh God, man. Portals and basic training would be the best. Close it.

That doesn't work. Okay, let's try something new. Some private does one on the ceiling and one on the porch. Good!

He's getting more speed. He's like, just hit terminal velocity. You know another part of him who's got wall behind him. He's just looking at his own ass like. Oh, he just puts it in. He just puts it in. He's just like, another video game. That's where it goes. Hey, dude, put your dick in this portal. Why? Whatever. Yeah.

I totally forgot about Team Fortress. That was the name. Yeah, yeah. Because they had Team Fortress that was with like CSGO 1.6 and the big orange box. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They have Team Fortress 2 now that people still play the fuck out of.

Really? One of the characters there was this spy. That was always fun because you got to pretend you were somebody else and stab him in the back. Yeah, then the engineer. Heavy. Heavy's the guy with the big guy with the machine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Engineer built it.

Engineer had the turrets. He was like the medic and could fix things. The scout was the baseball bat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You could have a baseball bat. There's the pyro. The pyro, pyro. And then the guy with the rocket. Who's the guy with the rocket? Soldier. Soldier. And then Demoman had the grenade launcher. Damn, dude, you know what's up with...

I play with John all the time. Oh, really? Yeah. I gotta get back. That was a fun ass one. God, I love how nerdy everyone is. Guys, we actually had to give Matt notes before we got on the podcast. He's just making all this up. He doesn't know all my games. It's true. It's true. I love Diablo 3 with Master Chief. It's one of my favorites. Grappling hooks in Diablo. It's like any of those games. Like, I love the...

Barbarian. Barbarian. And also the Wiz Sorcerer. Wizard. Wizard. Okay, we're on D3. The Paladin, Crusader, Paladin. Okay, one of those. One of those. Baddies Diablo books. Yeah, yeah. 13 and D books. 13 and D books. Close enough. Close enough. I have a Diablo strategy, guys. So let's talk about length versus growth. What's more important? I love one of my notes. I may never reach the end of the road, but goddamn, I'll blow

all the sides. It's a tuna can day. Matt goes with this and he doesn't know literally in the notes we sent last night was fuck, marry, kill, batty, donut,

Eli. You're you. You have to answer. Is he separated from his family? Is that a real question? I literally, remember I did, I text that to the group. Also, in the comments below, fuck, marry, kill, baddie, donut, Eli. You can add Matt too. Get Matt in there. Get Matt in there. That person felt really shitty in life. Baddie's name is just a racist. I know you two well, so I gotta kill Eli. Yes! Ah!

I'm going to fuck Batty and I'm Mary Cody. That's what I'm also. Fuck me and Mary. Well, it's hard. I was, I was going to say I was in on marrying you until I saw the snakes and shit. And I don't do lizards in my fucking house. Cause you know, you always married. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, when he can cook, and then he'll have like a little emotional crisis and I'll just pet him and like cuddle with me. And then when I cry, he'll call the baby. I don't know why that's not even a thing. I'm just coming up with that. It was the lizards, not the poverty surrounding you right now. Okay! I was like, 1970s here. Yeah, this carpet's more than 10 years old. I don't know what I'm saying. I'm just kidding.

you're a fucking table shark poor tables this is a really nice table yeah that's the word for it but like well okay I don't want to say more of a more of like a weekend getaway together because I want to get like tattoos together let's go

Sorry, I was texting Will or Tattoo or my... Yeah, what are you getting tattooed today? Maybe. Oh, yeah, you do have a question. Tomorrow, he said... I think he's tired. His shoulders are messing with him. So he was like, how does brunch sound? And tattoos. And I said, yes, sir. Sounds awful. Sounds like a Christmas miracle right after Thanksgiving. I hate tattoos so much. Okay, what else you got for me? I want a question. You're getting me hard here, Cody. You're super talkative on this podcast. I know. I know.

Okay, you're the... Go. I don't know. No, you got to. This is fucking pressure song. Oh, no. I don't know, dude. I don't know. You're putting me on the spot right now. I'm not good at this shit. I didn't. He did. I flow with it. Okay, flow harder. I'm not having a heavy flow right now. You got to just look at Matt's eyes and tell him what your next question is. I don't know.

I love anything. Anything in the world. Just literally anything in the world you could do. What got you into gaming? What started it? We talked about Diablo. Yeah. And that was it? That was your intro to gaming? He literally started it in 1964. Matt's first thing. And he said, and I quote, oh, it was tribes that got me into gaming. Oh, he did say tribes. I forgot. I already said tribes.

You're dead. Dead people can't talk. I know. He's fucking you. Got it. I think it was when computers first started being relevant. But was it PC or console? PC. Never console. Okay. Well, I started. So my dad had an Atari. The first game I ever played. I forget. But it was... I'm trying to see your father using an Atari right now. Some Pong shit? No, no. It was like a... No, it wasn't Pong. It was the other one. It was like one of those things. A seesaw fucking thing. It was like... And every time you mess it up, it goes...

and make a shit sound. It's not hard. It's hard to remember. And my dad got into video games. He got a Nintendo and then a Super Nintendo. So we used to play Sonic back in the day. You're bringing back fucking memories I didn't know I had. Sonic is amazing. Oh. That was on Sega though. Was it Sega? Yeah, Sega was Sonic. Okay. Mario was Nintendo.

Okay, I don't remember. I was like fucking six at the time. It was like, I thought my dad was the richest person because he had this and he would never let us fucking play. What? You're looking for your own, like, only God's mom. No, I thought, no, it was my dad. He opens it in front of all the kids. He's like, I got a Sega from Santa? That's crazy, kids. So we didn't have any TVs in the house. There was one TV that was in my dad's bedroom.

bedroom and then if there's a console i had to go to the tv and you don't walk him like my dad who was a sheriff for 12 years marine guy like you just don't walk in that fucking that you you don't go into the master bedroom you know that's off-limits god forget he comes in and sees some breadcrumbs in his fucking bed like masking his ass what uh no i don't mean that way but we he had a super nintendo and a couple of those things and we finally got a computer i think when i was like

13, 14, but then I had to share it with my brothers. 56K modem, the whole AOL, H6 location kind of vibe. I don't remember. Probably. Probably. That was my first one. Dell was huge back then. Well, it wasn't a Dell because it didn't have the voice like her dad joke for the day. But God, that hurts. Sorry. I'm so upset right now. Dell compact

Do you guys remember Flash? Do you ever fuck with Flash? Oh my God. Yeah, I used to animate. Yes, new backgrounds. New backgrounds. Okay, yeah. So Stick Dex was like my thing in high school and I was like, I really want to recreate that and that's what we did. We do stick animations and that's what I built like fucking super nerd as a kid. So, and that kind of got me into the computer world and like, then we started talking. We used to call before. Macro. Macro Flash. Yeah. Macro Flash.

Macromedia Flash. And they had a couple of the programs. Photoshop. It was all those. It was different than Adobe. Adobe, yeah. And that was the hard part. I remember when we first got two different landlines where I could talk on the phone and fucking play on the game and talk. And like, that's all we do. Cause these fucking spoiled ass kids with their discord servers and stuff. And I'm trying to remember. I remember, well, I have a discord server too, but I'm saying back in the day you had to have your phone and it was like the landline. And if you were like,

lucky enough to have two lines but we couldn't have time to speak on the phone and yeah what was before discord team speak team speak and before that ventrilo ventrilo fuck dude yeah blast from the past ventrilo holy shit yeah team speak and vent vent was bad

That's when I played Warcraft. So what's your fan? Yes, because EverQuest was before that, so I was just very fast at typing. What? Fast? Very, very fast at typing. Very, very fast. Do you need some more whiskey? Yeah. Let's fucking go just downhill right now. Are you going to join me? Sure, why not? I'm not busy. Donut? Yes. This is the... I was going to say this is the first time we've ever gotten drunk on our podcast, but...

Usually we're drunk before our podcast. These are really awkward. This is Patty when he passed out on the street. Have you heard the story? No, but I put it on. Oh my God. Wait, Patty. Oh yeah, this is good. For sake of media. Okay. We have to explain this. I've never explained it on a podcast. Yeah, it is. I mean, that's a really cool shirt. I kind of want that. Okay, hold on. Before you tell your story.

So you know if you guys are in. I'm in. We're going to do something. Yeah, I'm in. Who's for my white cloths? Okay. All right. Can I give a clip of Matt asking who wants to ask his white cloth? Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. I have a really fun game, and you guys are going to be okay with this. Okay. I'm going to pick... Actually, Cody, pick one person at this table. Okay. Okay. Batty, pick one person at this table. Okay, me? Pick one person at this table. Got it. So...

I got you like that. Okay. So our goal is you have one month to create a t-shirt of your liking of your said pick the person. So just cause this is like very like, Oh, this is good. Motivational and inspirational. So like I'm picked Cody, right? Yeah. So you have to make me a shirt. You have to make baddie shirt. I have to make him a shirt. Yes. And I have to make you a shirt.

So, but it's gotta be like in a style like this, but nothing like two events, something where you can walk around, right? And that'd be fucking super funny. It's got, it's got to pull in ties to the person's characteristics, but then also hopefully be funny. And then what we do is we come back in a month, we do a show or whatever, and we have a voter off of who made the fucking best shirt. We had the best man wins deal. You guys in deal. Has anyone ever drawn you as a sexy hot lady?

No. Fuck. Fuck. I don't like where this is going already. I was just gonna put... I mean, you're easy. I got his. I don't know. But we gotta do it in, like, caricature. Like, you can't just do, like, you know... Oh, no. Don't worry. Okay. Matt, why am I mowing a rice field?

Oh, no. That's not the direction I want to go. There's sushi, there's burritos, there's cattle. So the hat is in the drawer of our bar show? Yeah, yeah.

Hit me with a drug story. All right. So for those listening, Donut is wearing a shirt that's a partied out Maddie shirt. And it's me passed out drunk on my porch. So I used to do streams at my old house in Vermont because I had great service in my yard where I'd grill. I'd just grill outside and drink and bullshit for a couple hours. Yeah.

I don't remember what happened, but I went out on my porch. I have a mug that's like a huge ass mug and it's like three pours of a bottle of Jameson and the bottle's gone. And I drank the entire bottle of Jameson in like 45 minutes.

So, as you can assume, I may have been slightly intoxicated. Yeah. And I had finished drilling. I was drinking White Claws. A bottle of jam was gone. And as I'm sitting on my porch hammered a moth that is like one of these giant moths just flew and landed on me.

on my goddamn head like I was Cinderella. I was a Disney princess for a minute. And this moth just walked around my head, just hung out on my head for like 45 minutes before it went and landed on the bug light I had on my porch to kill all the mosquitoes. And just sat there as all of its friends came and just got annihilated because it was too big for the bug light. Okay, yeah. So all of its friends were dying and being murdered in front of me. We named him Jeremy.

And then I passed out. I was like, alright guys, I'm going to take a nap. Like live on stream is

And then I just curled up and I slept for like four hours. Did you wake up and were like, oh my God, I'm so drunk. No, I was hammer drunk. So my moderators were freaking out because they didn't know what to do because you're not really supposed to pass out drunk on the street. Yeah, that's not really like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not kosher. It's not kosher. You can sleep on the street. You're allowed to sleep on the street. That's the only reason I even got in trouble, I think, is because I said, I'm just going to take a nap real quick. And they were like, yeah, you just did it. Yeah, like that.

And so my mods called Cody. They called Kings. All my friends are like, you guys need to call Batty and wake him up. He's sleeping. That's hilarious, dude. And then I just kind of like four hours later, just kind of stood up.

Looked at my phone, all the missed calls went, nah, threw my phone and just walked inside. Left the stream running. And because I had that, like the property, like the 20 acres, the camera was like overlooking the mountains with the sunrise. It looked like really pretty. It was like, oh, Batty's doing a landscape for us. Batty's doing a timeless. Yeah. Fast forward him like moving around. Like 10 a.m. rolled around the next morning. I woke up in my own bed going.

How the fuck did I get in my bed? Did I shut the stream off? I'm looking for my phone. I couldn't find my phone. I ran down to my PC, opened my stream, and I saw it was still on my phone. I walked outside, and I just hung over, like, ooh, in my boxers, slammed the laptop shut, and just went back inside. So there was, like, a freeze frame, and I was like, ooh. In my boxers. Yeah, yeah. So that shirt was made of it. Yeah, yeah.

His name's Dubs. He's one of the artists that did a lot of my merch. That's fucking solid art. He does awesome cartoon shit like this. I love the dude drooling baddie, white cloth with a bad dog. Really filling that negative space. That's Jeremy. That's why I got a big moth tattoo on my leg. It's got a little J next to it. I got a big moth.

I mean, Jeremy's dead now, you know. Yeah, 100%. How are you coping with that? All I know is in Jeremy's family, his grandkids and grandkids and grandkids, they talk about that night of the giant ginger monster. I heard Jeremy, our great-great-uncle landed on the ginger's head and worked out for 45 minutes. I don't know why moths are English, but they are. Yeah.

They talk about if you're real because you live here. Oh, no. He was fake. He never existed. They fly by the children and they don't see you. Like, he was right there. Just waiting.

Which it doesn't exist in Vermont anymore. Nor the Loch Ness Monster. I am! In Moth Lord, I'm the alien. That's me. You're canon now. And they're wiki. When they start building pyramids and shit, I'm the god wrong to the monster. That's funny.

Yeah. Super funny. You got fucking shit, right? It's like any man I stream, both times I blacked out. I'm like,

I just wake up in my bed at both times. Oh, no. What did I do? Oh, no. Well, that was like the cherry stream. I was like, man, I'm surprised someone didn't leave their fucking stream on there like Eli did for 45 minutes. We walked out. I was like, yep, knew it. Everyone was like, turn off the other stream. I was like, nah, just let it run. And I came back and it was still a bunch of people. I was like, we good. Did you just go right back into it? Yeah. Oh, perfect. Yeah, we were on there. I just got an all, so I sat there and talked to people.

And then after you dipped, I hung out because I was in that corner anyways. So I had my camera and I had your camera. Like, hey, Eli's streaming still hates you. And then I'd go back to whatever I was doing. No, I shout out to you guys, man. Thank you so much. You guys put that together. And Eli, shout out to you and Batty for the help. And you guys raised a fuck ton of money. And Batty gets the, you get the assembly credit and Batty gets the top earner credit. So thank you guys so much. Great cause. Like, super thanks. Fucking awesome, man. Fucking quarter mil.

You're all terrible people still though. Absolutely. Including me. Like, you know, we only do charity. We only do charity things because we, you know, welcome to the fucking show, bro. Welcome to the show. Oh, no. That's right. I've been like, I've been like, I've been in a proxy war Twitter for like fucking years now. So it's just fine. You know,

they don't like facts they don't like honesty they just want to discredit you they don't like you oh yeah yeah i'm not very liked on twitter no but i feel like i'm a decently likable guy and it's kind of frustrating so like man like i try to be like a sweetheart but apparently i just need to be more of an asshole because people like assholes that's what it is they do not like i mean i eat a lot of ass and they say you are what you eat and i'm not an asshole so i'm trying to work in that so maybe i can use your butthole my ass anytime no oh

It tastes like beer. There's a second beer. It's a ginger ale. Vinegar and Taco Bell. I don't like... It's like disappointment white claw. I feel like your ass would taste like Ed Sheeran. Poor Ed Sheeran. You know, because he listens to our podcast, obviously. He's going to be driving. What do you mean? He's like... I see fire.

Now what's it like being on Drinking Bros 2? The sequel. I like it. It's fun. It's great. The video games. This is our video game podcast, guys.

Whoa. No, we can't talk about life and stuff. Yeah, talk about life. I'll get tipsy and go for another hour. Dude, go for it. Tell me why you don't actually like Eli. Why I don't like Eli? Wow. I was just going to make a joke. He's a pretty likable guy. We've been homies for a long time. How many years have you been with each other? 2014? Yeah. I was 14. New York. 24.

Yeah, he forgot. He's really bad at math. This is why he streams. Yeah, the stroke. It falls over sometimes. And just like his body, he doesn't exercise his brain. Nope. I hate all you guys. Tony's like, dear God.

Don't put that on me. Y'all motherfuckers slept in till like 12. I was up at 7 and I drank yesterday. Got a fucking CrossFit workout. Shout out to Derek White. Thank you for the program. Oh, is that White is doing here? It's awful. When are you getting your face tattoos? I love him. Well, I love him, but I hate him because he fucks me up. But what am I what? When are you getting your face tattoos? No, no, no, no.

I believe that's Mr. Whitehead. I believe that's Mr. Whitehead. No, Derek was super, super cool. Him and his coach are like, I keep trying to pay him and he won't let me, but like they're every week handwriting programming for me. It's awful. That man enjoys exercise. It's terrifying. Derek's awesome, man. Like, have you ever met Derek? I've never met him, but I don't know. He looks so happy.

I will just shout out to Derek. He looks fucking phenomenal right now. I was like, you piece of shit. Fuck Derek. Why not? Because I tore my bicep. Oh, six months later, this fucking shithead tears his bicep. And then like three months later, he's like fucking dead lifting. And I'm like, I thought he tore his...

He's just, he bounced back. Like he probably took it more serious than me or whatever, but I was like, motherfucker, like got his arm back before I did. And I tore it six months before he fucking did. But he, he sent me the video. He was straight deadlifting and you see just pop and roll.

all the way out it's like I can show you guys it's nasty but if you guys don't know who we're talking about Derek White a good friend of ours army combat veteran shot in the leg knee above the knee amputee fucking fitness guru the guy is amazing but and he's got face tats like straight up come on for it I gotta bring him down you guys gotta meet him he's been a friend for years he's cool he's cool we'll see ya

He is in Nevada. Or he went to St. Louis back, right? I think he's back in St. Louis. Yeah, now he's back in St. Louis. Because he was in Nevada. He goes between. I think he's driving. How close do you get face tats at this point? You have the back of the head and the neck. I mean. I'm going to get my hand done tomorrow. Matt's got his hand done? Is your finger tattooed? You have one hairy finger. No, that's just, that's old. I've had six laser removal on there. It's all gnarly. It's all gnarly. It's just like my past. The ex feels I want to go to work. We call those mistakes. I don't know.

I don't have any experience either. It was a good memory. I like we all can just take a sip of that one. I don't even trip and like, uh, actually still have like an amicable relationship with this person. Um, see, that's probably got two kids now. She married and like we, uh, yeah, I haven't talked to her, but we had our dog together. And then when Grammy died, um,

called her and told her about it and she was apologetic and was like I hope you know are okay I was like oh my god we're adults so it's been nice like it's nice to like get it takes years and years to get there well I have another ex it's not the case but once you get to that point it's actually nice because you're like I fucking don't wish any ill on you or your family like I hope you don't wish on me like why can't we just like it didn't work out like I

I know I'm a crazy person. I'm a pretty hard guy to date. Like, I'm a fucking wild man, right? But I can't wait to find out. Oh, Johnny. See, I like the real life stuff. That's great. What else you guys got? I'm real. I'm going to tipsy so you can get some answers out of me. What do you want to play Dungeons and Dragons? I like the real life stuff. We played D&D, though.

Everyone wants to see all of us do D&D. I know. There's like a hundred percent fucking fact on that. No one's going to be like, no on this. I need an entire day with all of you. One thing, if I play D&D, do I have to open up a 4chan and Reddit account? Like, is that a part of being a fucking? No. Okay. I can just play D&D. You don't need to be woke, Matt. Oh, okay. I'm already super woke. I'm fucking super woke. Oh,

You just have to put it in. I need like eight to ten hours, though. Fuck. Yeah, because I need to sit down and teach you. One day. One day. I need to sit down and teach you. Wax off. Wax off. Yeah, we got to Mr. Miyagi this shit. Okay, I'm in. You got to learn how to build a character. I got to make a character for you all because you're all stupid. Except for Cody. Thank you. You're an idiot, Eli. Fuck off. I created a dark elf that actually fit in the world. No, it didn't. No, it didn't.

I had the exact science to that shit, and that's what you hated. Because I knew where they were raised, why they had that dialect, and why it came off as baddy fucking hate. laughter

This is my shit. That's actually pretty fucking funny. The character that you created has a redneck drow. You stop it, George. You stop it. Because I know what Batty hates. I was like, drow is this. So drow are a type of elf that live underground and they're normally very angry and just like edgelord evil, not good. But Eli decided to make like a redneck

Because there's a Blumpkin community and the... A Blumpkin? That's what it's actually referred to. A Blumpkin. Yes. Blumpkin. No, Bumpkin. Thank you. Poopy Blowjack. Poopy Blowjack. Do you want to make me correct myself real quick? Bumpkin. Bumpkin community and the world that is... Half of Halflings, I believe. Yes. Halflings, yeah. So it's like tiny people. And you had...

original Dritz was yeah good feeling good but Dritz was raised by dwarven community and as a dark elf he was raised in a dwarven community became a hero and Finrear whatever I think he has a little tipsy yeah just a smidge but it doesn't matter I know I was like but

I just did the same exact same thing for our D&D campaign and it worked it did not work I hated it I wanted to kill your character so bad I didn't break character

I don't know how D&D works. It's like playing fucking Diablo, but you're literally your person. You're the person. I mean, I know the general outlines of it. You can be a British character. It's not an actual character. You can pretend to be Danny Worsnop. Oh, really? The entire time. Yeah, Danny Battle. Do I get his voice? You can. You're not quite there, but you kind of got a decent voice. If you ever compare my voice to Danny Worsnop,

You will never be my friend again. That man has the voice of a motherfucking angel that is in a created religion. So don't even say it. No, not even close. God bless his voice. Oh, he, he fangirled over Danny when he met him. Dude, who doesn't? I mean, thank you. Thank you, Matt. I learned my lesson. So I learned my lesson.

I learned my fucking lesson. I was in Florida. My wife flies out to see me. We were doing some work out there. It was a TV show for what the fuck doesn't matter. It relevant to the story. Danny's at Lizzie Ford and Danny's like, okay, I'll come down and hang out with you guys. Cool. My wife's there.

My wife's favorite song is Simple Man. Not Leonard Skinner version, but the fucking other... Yes, we... Okay, sure. Whatever, the rock band that did it, right? And so I'm like playing it. I was like, oh, dude, you know this song? Like, he starts singing. And my wife is as loyal as they come. But I saw the...

I saw, I saw the, she was like, she's like trying to be the best wife ever. She's like, eye contact with the husband. Eye contact, eye contact with the husband. And I'm like, I fucked up. I had deeply more stops to sing my wife's favorite fucking song. And it's like, and I'm like, even playing guitar, like,

i'll show you the sure seven b so like i learned my lesson that guy's got it's unreal like i don't think it translates as well to music like he has such a i'm not just great i love his music i love a's everything but when you sit in a fucking room acoustic and see the raw talent you're like that's what i mean like i've been a fan of asking me alexandra for

Years ago, I saw that work tour back when I was young. And then Eli was like, yo, Daniel's gonna come hang out here. I'm like, you freaked the fuck out. I lost my shit. And then we all had this stream at Eli's house.

And Danny was there and he was just singing Thunderstruck by ACDC with no background sound. And ACDC is probably my favorite band of all time. So now I have one of my favorite singers singing one of my favorite bands. And I was just like, I was just like, you were Thunderstruck. I think I sat there like this. Yeah. I looked over at me out in front of like a couple hundred people. Just like, I look over and I just see Danny's bad. He's like,

Batty, stop. Like literally right now. Because it was him singing acoustically, no background music. There's a difference, right? There is. Like when people will be like, oh, Matt, you can sing okay. I'm like, yes. I also have amazing producers that make my voice sound good. But when you hear a guy with raw talent like that, there's just...

eons of bitterness. And that's a real word, don't it? It's bitterness. Looking up in the dictionary. Looking up in the dictionary. One day when Marissa Lauren was playing piano and then I was like, oh, that's great. And then you played, or you played piano and then she outdid you. And then Danny replied to that and saying, the wheels on the bus go round and round. And I was just like, and

Yeah, he was on the piano playing as well as on the bus. He was doing his Danny voice. And I was like, God, I want that man's cum in me. He was just eating it every... It's not just he can play guitar. He can sing. He has such a multi...

talented you do a happy music well it's weird like I don't know would you attest to this I don't know because maybe because I'm just a fangirl of music and so are you we're just having two conversations I don't know if that's the reason but like I see other people like

Pro sports players, right? Like they like a Tom Brady, like if I was around Tom Brady, like I wouldn't even be like, whatever. I'm like, yeah, you throw balls. Well, like whatever to you, like you're the goat, like awesome. You're playing in your forties. Great.

there's something about musicians specifically like a dandy guy and i know we're like fucking someone's gonna make a meme about me sucking this dude's dick like you gotta listen you gotta listen to him in real life and the fact that we gotta do the memorial day song with him was like fuck yeah it didn't like go as bit i don't care but like i know people they're like my favorite song or something i'm like i grew up same as you listening that guy and that's the coolest part about being like social media and having a business is the opportunity to work with like legendary epic people like i was a fan of cody's and like we

We get to hang out with him now. Like, it's been great. Like, it's been cool, right? Like, it's awesome. Cody wanted to be a janitor for me. That's a true story. I don't know if I've ever talked about that on here. No, that's actually... Oh! Yeah, that's a good story. Because I talked... I knew Cody before he was like 20,000. Yeah. Eli and I got talking, I don't know, on Instagram one day. Yeah, it was like 20,000. Before you got 20,000. Pretty early, too. I mean, I don't respond to anybody, but I was like, yeah, it's fucking...

That's mine, man. No, I just opened this one, dude. That's yours. I had one or two drinks. Because that's mine. Yours is right here. Your boy's sober. Stop it. I can't wait for you to go cuddle me in my bed tonight.

Oh, man. We're all sleeping here. Yeah. So, Cody, your first interaction with Black Rifle was? It was like 2015, and I just saw some of your guys' videos, and I was super, super psyched about it. I was like, this is fucking cool, veterans making funny shit, because there wasn't a lot of that back then. And I sent a couple emails. I was like, can I come work for you guys? Like, here's my resume. I'll even sweep the fucking floors. Like, I just want to be a part of this family. Yeah.

And no one ever replied. I'm really fucking happy. So I didn't want to bring this up on the show, but I saw those and I was like, this guy is going to be a popular mustache one day. And I want him to be a peacock and fly. So if I can get some of the royalties from your channel. I remember this talk. Matt came to me. He was like, this dude's going to flourish. And I was like,

he's gonna find a cat that's gonna flourish i don't know who read cody's emails it was like i'm the worst with that because i think because i started my youtube channel earlier like i got those messages and they're like jared god bless him he is the guy that like wants to respond to everybody and literally all the interfacing i've done in my life is because of jared taylor like

That guy's fucking crazy with it. He like wants to interact and probe everybody in like a business sense, not like a dick sense. No, both senses. Both senses. That's fine. He's a reason that like I met a lot of people like Eli. He interlocked literally everybody I like in their circle was because Jared put that connectivity together. Jared connected you with Eli? I've known Jared since 2000. He reached out in 2010. Holy shit. Yeah, yeah. Because he was communicating with them. Him and Gallagher had done a video for us back in the day and then

I met Eli, I think in, during range 15, I met you before. Yeah. Podcast with Freddie. You were there and then range 15, whatever it was. You guys met for range 15, basically. Well, he was in range 15. Yeah, I know. He has the best character. Yeah. Him and you wouldn't, Clint, Clint. God, they scream. Yeah. All those quarter guys. Those are awesome.

I thought you guys had a connection long before Rain 15. I was like, who's Rain 15? Yeah, we knew each other before, but we hadn't connected and so Jared brought him out just to hang out and then he was like, I like tattoos, fighting, and fucking whiskey. I was like, okay.

The same thing I have Derek, like Derek Wida, for instance, Jared brought him out too. And then Derek's like, you like to lift and drink? I'm like, yeah. So it was just like very similar. That's like how me and Eli met. They're like, Hey, you guys were both in the infantry and you have tattoos. You guys want to hang out? We played games twice and it was like, you want to make out? Yeah.

because we did the Conor McGregor fight. Who did he fight? It was with Ross Patterson, I think. Yeah. At the bar that we shot Rage 15 at. It was Weed Smoker. Why can't I remember his name? Weed Smoker. Yeah, it was DS2. No, or 1? It might have been 1. Yeah.

But I just remember Ross, because he was a simp, he was like, call another Greg on it. I'm like, you don't even watch Vice Beach. I don't. But I remember that was that, it was like the first time drinking. Then we did, when we all moved to Utah. Yeah. We hung out at the bar and that's when we, it was just like one-on-one. We were just like, right ideas really quick. And we just kept fucking drinking.

pitch back and forth yeah i was like oh okay let's keep this going so what happened where'd the good go now that you guys suck in what way yeah it went away in what way did we use it up used economically because that's we can we can position ourselves anyway in this conversation you can't make it any worse we don't track through your statements because i really like you i was just curious if you wanted to fucking storm the beaches of texas because if that happens you're gonna lose china

Am I China? How did I become China? Fuck. This is like the beaches of South Central. I didn't really know all that. That's not true. You're really nice to me. Touch the ceiling. I can. Matt, touch the ceiling. You can. Yeah, I can. Watch. Watch. You can just stand there. I'm like this close. What I'm hearing is you're not quite there. Okay.

That's all I got. That's my only... You know, I can't touch my ceiling. I feel like this just reminds me of, like, old drinking bros where it's just you literally get fucked up with your friends and talk into a microphone and somehow people listen. It's... We just want to hang out. Like, this is just another excuse to hang out with your friends and talk about what made you. Literally, why I loved drinking bros back in the day was it was...

We wanted to hang out and it was the best excuse business-wise for all like the wives and the girlfriends. Like we had to do the podcast. And then it started like, you know, getting like ad revenue. You're like, Hey, I'm bringing 500 bucks home a month. And like, you know, your girl can't say shit to that. Cause you're like,

How do you like $80 flowers? I forgot the drinking bows. One of the first one I was, I was sitting in the background.

And you thought I drank a whole bottle of... Oh, whiskey? Because you put tea in it or whatever? Yeah. Yeah, I remember that. You put tea? I switched it out before their podcast. I was like, oh, I'll just play a prank on him. I think Jared knew. And I was like, I'll... I put a little bit of Coca-Cola in water so it looked exactly like Let's Slinger's whiskey. And I just fucking punched the whole thing. And Matt's face was like...

He was like, Eli's gonna die. Call the hospital. And back in the day, like, people turned up. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The street term for it. The street term. The kid term. Like, whatever the kids say. The kids are saying you got turnt. You got turnt up.

turned down for what but no people used to go fucking crazy at Jared's house and they'll pass him in and I saw some people like we had crazy story we had a dude fucking drink so much he tried to drive home on his motorcycle and I had

like fucking nearly fight this guy and I was like you're going to fucking die he's trying to get on his bike and he's falling over and I'm like to the point where we just pushed him on the grass pulled his phone out called his girlfriend his girlfriend and his fucking phone thank god she comes and picks him up he says he'd like we drugged him the next morning on Facebook and I'm like no you drank a half bottle so when I saw Eli chugging that I didn't know him that well I was like

I was like, go guys around to a fucking crazy person that's going to try to drive home after a bottle of whiskey and I'm going to fucking shoot a goddamn tranquilizer in his neck so he doesn't kill himself. Better root for this guy. In 40 minutes in, it's like, man, he's handling his alcohol very well. Yeah. That was during Drunken Debris. Yes, that was Drunken Debris. I loved Drunken Debris. Those videos are some of my favorite.

There's a really good series. I think Eli should do more of them. You know what? It'd be crazy if Eli did more of them. That would be crazy. Use your friend stories. It's weird. There's a bunch of friends of yours that are vets. Vets? Okay. Am I not a vet now? Eli, am I not a vet now? I got one vet friend at this table. Cody, whatever. I'm a fucking guest, dude. Fuck off. Fuck off.

I didn't do anything. I'm sitting here drinking her cat piss water trying to be somewhat of a fucking decent addition to this goddamn unsubscribed podcast. I

unsubscribe right now yeah we honestly help this is definitely just like I mean I remember this because this is kind of professional but this is what you just drink at this point it's fucking awful yeah White Claws are fucking awful dude you're hydrating while you drink water I didn't make a White Claws song that we didn't publish on time and I'm very sad about that because it probably could have been number one oh my god that's right I forgot you shared that all the time why did you never publish it

We were waiting to do a music video for it. And then just, you know, Tim's schedule was busy and ours. And like, I don't know. It just kind of like one of those things. Like it was a novelty project. It just didn't come to fruition. But the song's done. I just want to upload it. I think the world needs to hear White Claw Weekend. But we have to. I know we should do that for Christmas time. It's not a Christmas song, but we can make it. I mean, any song about White Claw is a Christmas song. I'll make you guys a song. I've been itching to get back in my studio. So what should we make a song about?

- Hmm. - White Claw. - That's already done. - Down on Twitter. - No, no. - But we don't have a music video for White Claw Weekend. - That's what we have. - When are we gonna make a music video for White Claw Weekend? - Well, you're gonna be in my emo video. - I am already going. - Can we dye your hair black? - I will absolutely dye my hair black for it. - Thousand percent. - You can just wear a wig.

No. He said he would do it. Oh my god, yeah. Look at that. It's like a fucking... Yes. Do you got some good headbang skills? Oh my, it'll be... It'll absolutely do it for the people. No, fuck them. They haven't earned it yet. You have 25,000 subs. Yeah, that's it. Oh yeah, 25,000 subs. 26,500. 47, whatever. Fuck you all. We're trying to... We're trying to... Don't hit the third play button.

That would be my sixth play button. How many play buttons do you have? Five play buttons. What? Cody hasn't talked. He's just like, oh, Bragg. No, no, no. Honestly, though. Put your hands in everything. That's five. How many play buttons do you have? A million main channel, 100,000 main channel, gaming channel, vlog channel. Did I say gaming channel? Yeah. Raw police channel.

I know you got another channel. Wait, you have a random channel? Yeah. You just don't tell us? It's just, it's like, we're all... It's police gay porn. Yeah, I jerk off to it. It's just police. They have a shot. You do child without condoms. What happens when you, it's like when the police officer comes, it's called a cop shot. A cop? Don't you have to do a happy? Okay. Oh, you guys. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm like, can you come get me?

Yeah, my wife's gonna come grab me. Ryan's picking me up. I'm here, father. I'm home, guys. I'm home here. I was hoping you guys thought, like, in the weeds on me. I want, like, some real questions. For, like, the last ten minutes. Is there anything you want to know? How does it feel to be woke?

I didn't mean we go that route. Okay. I can talk about that. Hold on. What's the combat round? No, that's kind of weak. I like this podcast. It's fun. It's all right. Matt, you're woke now. How does that feel? Oh, God. That's not what I was referencing. Okay. What are we talking about? Yes, coach. Okay.

So you have this super large company that you co-founded. Yeah. And you want to do more things on your own. What do you want to do? Oh, holy shit. What's Matt Best doing? Not BRCC? Yeah, yeah. And we know that you can spend a ton of time the past couple of years devoting a lot of time to that.

and you've wanted to hang out with us and you wanted to do other projects. So like what, what, what does Matt best want to do? What's your end goal? If I knew I know and go, what would make you happy to do right now? A project that would make you happy. Yeah. No shit, man. I guess. Yeah. Uh, I think, uh, there's a couple of things I haven't done. Yes. Direct the movie. A hundred percent. Yes. Um, okay. But like a good one. Cause like,

I didn't know. I didn't direct range 15. Oh, I thought you were. No, no. I was an executive producer. I didn't know. Sorry. I thought you helped direct for that. No, no. I wrote a lot of it, which I don't get writer's credit because egos take precedence and all that. That's fine. But no. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. I'm an honest person. I'll fucking say whatever. No. That movie was what it was for where it needed to be in the times. But yeah.

No, a lot of people still like it. It's fucking cool, but I... I watched it. I still have fun watching it. Yeah, it's like you have to realize it's a piece of shit movie. Yeah, it's okay if it's fun. But, like, when I look at, like, sci-fi versus soft, like, screenplay, written, Eli came in and helped me out on the writing at the end, and then fucking, obviously, on the production side, we just made it happen. So I'm like, I know that I'm capable of that stuff, and it used to be fun, I think, because to do, like, a film, and I want to do a full album. I think that'd be my thing. Because...

- It's weird, here, I'll be honest with you, Cody, 'cause I think I have to answer your question. I started early on being solely a creative guy, right? So I never put it together that I was gonna be like popular or like have a channel or like write books or like have a company. I just was like doing shit to make my fucking friends laugh because that's just who I am. I was just kind of class crowned what I did in the military.

it caught steam. And then I was like, okay, I want to professionalize this in the essence of having a day job where I don't have to listen to the man, the man being a government job, because it's what I did for 10 years. And so the sequential portion of that was nice because it's like, oh my God, I get to have like economic freedom where I can like have my own fucking life and like just make money on my own. And then now when things got like really good, Black Rifle, I think is just one of the fucking greatest companies out there and all that. But like

There are portions of that where, like, you want to, like, go do, like, independent fucking creative things. And, yeah, like, that's going to be a portion of me. Like, I got so involved in the business, like, so, so much involved because I had to, like, prove to people back in the day, like, five years ago that, like, I wasn't, like, the dumb bikini snap whiskey drinking guy that actually had some sensitivities about me with business and a business acumen and things that I've learned. And, yeah.

Um, now it's like the opposite, right? I kind of want to like go back to like being creative and like, cause the business runs itself. You want to have fun again? Well, I do, but like, I think the company needs to have fun again. Right. Like, and I think that the only way that happens is if I'm fucking leading that charge and, um, yeah, it's exciting times. Right. So, um,

Yeah. I want to create like, it's fun. I just like to see fucking people laugh, man. Like this world's a dark fucking place. Like it gets down. There's fucking, there's a war everywhere you look. There's someone talking shit. There's someone fucking being aggressive. And you're just like, if you really focus on the things in life that matter, which is like happiness for your family and your community, and you just support that and you'd go after it and

fuck all the white noise like life is a pretty fulfilling thing you can't get fucking mud sucked in these stupid fucking idiots on the internet they have no clue that like i'll fucking if they said that shit to my face or said shit i'll fucking choke them out in two fucking seconds they know nothing about me but we'll have a conversation it's just like video games right like like the the brilliant we'll roll back into the video game the brilliance about fucking video games when you sit on discord what's the commonality there getting the fucking dub and warzone i'm using warzone here

I've known Zach and Howley, like for instance, our two teammates for fucking years. And I got to meet Zach's. We are so different. Wait, you got to meet Zach's? You actually met Zach's? He came to my house. We are so different. But the fact that this dude showed up, you know what I first did? I gave him a fucking hug because I was like, I've spent a gajillion hours over the span of two years with this guy. And I got to meet him. Plus like, it was awesome.

that's what the gaming community does and i think the world needs more of that to like find what's in common with each other rather what's what's indifferent okay yes no no no no no i was listening no no you're fine i was great we're just drawing absolutely correct on all that yeah the world needs to find more commonality with each other because we're all breaking apart right now it's it's a wild world trying to cancel each other yeah it's a simple fact it's matt saying it's building a movie building

music yeah making shit and not having the repercussions of doing what you want to do and be happy with it there's should have specified more i'm i when i was getting aggressive there it was for the people that have never created anything in their life that one aggressive thing they want to they want to break down rome but they don't even know how to build a fucking hut that that's my point and the people that have never built a hut that won't break down rome my inquiry to you is to actually have a conversation with people that have built rome

in theoretical senses to like understand the perspective of what we've done. And it might actually enlighten you to fucking be a better person. Don't be a hypocrite. Don't go after people. You don't understand what's happening until you've been in a position. A lot of people have never been in that position, so they don't know what it is to hire 700 people.

Oh, I'm not even making this about the company. No, no, no. It's not here. That's what I'm saying. But it's wonderful. It's like pluralizing. It's great. It's all fucking shit. But they don't even understand it's like a single individual. They just like, hey, like be happy, be thankful for everything that this individual is given. They don't understand. It's like, oh, I don't like this person because X, Y, Z attacked them. They don't understand that one individual has everything.

X amount of people under them or children or family or whatever and they're like fuck them because they didn't say something random person on the internet yeah I didn't believe that there was so much hate for going on this podcast and getting drunk I'm okay with that because I had a really good time no you're never allowed to have that so far we had

This community knows what they're signing up for. No, I think this is probably the rawest we've seen you in a while.

Oh, like in the public eye. Oh, well, fucking awesome. I don't put that out there too often. I don't know, man. I'm open to any conversation. And obviously people like, right. I'll fucking put it out there. Like the stuff called my company woke and all that. Like, yeah, it's, it is what it is. Not to like, let's like put this on your podcast, but Hey, bucket, whatever. It's, it's, it's, it's a very interesting climate. And I've learned like,

it's one of those things where it's like the only time you learn in life is when shit's fucking awful. And it's been a really rough year for me and my family and our company and not from a monetary sense, like the business is doing good, but you, you want to sustain and maintain specific things that you believe in and the values and the things that you try to project to the world. And when they're miscommunicated in your own communities, it's,

going against you, you kind of start to learn and realize the dynamics that are associated with like social media and the way that people slander for market share gain and all these things. And I'm like, man, it's been hyper educational for me, like massively educational. I kind of just realized like there's a lot of good people in this world. There's a lot of bad people and people are influenced by like this machine of social media. And even the people that are like against it are for it. Right. They're so hypocritical. And it's been, it's been,

I guess I try to be like the glasses half full guy where I'm like, man, what a weird learning experience for me. Like, I know I'm going to be fine. Like, you know, I've worked my ass off my entire life. I keep trying to get back, try to do the right thing. And it doesn't mean that I am fucked up. Like I, I, during this whole last year, I've handled things incorrectly. Like I, for sure. I recognize that. I understand that. But like,

I can sit down and go to bed every single fucking day and know that I'm a fucking decent human. I support the constitution. I support people that fucking serve this country. And if anybody goes against that narrative, you're a fucking retard or come talk to me. That's it. Like, yeah. I'll fucking say it. Sorry. Yeah. I'm not saying something. I just wish more people like a tactical pause and understand that there's so many people fucking like,

facilitating this false slander narrative not just with me or my company but across like you got some shit like the internet it's like you gotta like you gotta fucking pause you gotta it's like it's like when your wife fucking says some shit to you and you're like i want to get an argument and you just pause they're like babe did you mean to say that oh my god i didn't mean to say that two minutes later you're fucking bending your wife over doggy style having yes right laura

But it could have gone the other way, right? It takes a little bit of emotional intelligence. And I think the world lacks that. And I'm willing and open for any person that wants to discredit what I've said to have a conversation with me. And we'll talk it out. And if we just disagree at the end of the day, that's fine. But I guarantee you'll leave there being a little more profound in your perspective of who the fuck I am or whoever you're judging on the internet.

Imagine actually having a conversation with people versus just healthy conversations. Do you know what I love? I hear your opinion at that. And on that point, you ever watch Russell Brand these days? Yes. Dude. Holy shit. He's a fucking... Listen, I'm a conservative. He's a liberal, but he's going out there talking to Candace Owens, who I adore, like...

He's having conversations and the world just has conversations. He's like, he's a good fucking beacon of like, we can have conversations. Yes. Yes. Why compromise and having a civil discord on disagreements? Cause no one's going to have the same talk. Everyone's going to have a different perspective on a lot of different things.

doesn't mean we have to fight about it. It is finding that, like, hey, Matt, yeah, common grounds. It's like, Matt might be anti-gun. But he owns a 249 song.

uh, a couple of hours. And I'm fine with that. 20 millimeters. I've never seen it still. And that's why I started playing Diablo 3.

That was the perfect place to end this episode of this gaming podcast. Today we have Eli Doubletap and Donut Operator as always, but of course, thank you to our special guest today, Matt Best. M-A-T-1-T. Yeah, can you learn how to fucking spell his goddamn name? Hey, by the way, guys, I love and adore all three of you. Thank you so much. Mostly me. I'm glad I finally got to be here. Thank you.

Oh, and then remember we have a shirt contest. Oh, yeah, I didn't forget. One month. One month. The 27th of December. Also in the comments, fuck, marry, kill. Four of us. It's a Christmas present. We're making Christmas presents. Fuck, marry, kill, and then left out.

Or you can double fuck, double marry, double kill. I don't know. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Who do you want to kill again? Twice, right? Same. You can kill two of us. If that was my thing, I would do donut twice and I would shave his beard, double his mustache and make it a fucking like lips, lips over lips. It'd be a lip mustache. Okay.

I found my new photo show. You made me that. I need a donut with donut. He's got a fucking lip mustache. The podcast is over. Go home. Follow, like, subscribe. Thank you everyone. We love you guys. So another story.

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