The Flycast - Call of Duty Scene on Fire | The Flycast Ep. 61

Episode Date: January 19, 2023

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Go Hitchie, go, go, go Hitchie. Hey, his name is Hitch, he's the bitch. If he went to jail, he would probably snitch. I got it, yeah, and I got an itch. Motherfuckers know that I spit the proper shit, yeah. And Matt Kank, Matt Craig, when the camera, bro. If you touch this girl, he will damage you. I got a fan of, bro, and I'm a sipping.
Starting point is 00:00:24 It's ridiculous. My stomach hurts. Why? Got shit, man? Because I, last night I ate like shit. Mm-hmm. Because I still haven't started my thing yet. What does that mean, diet or exercise or motivation?
Starting point is 00:00:55 Diet exercise. Oh, okay. Two month, 60 day video. You have been streaming, though. I have been streaming. There's one. One down. But so last night I ate like shit, woke up today.
Starting point is 00:01:06 And then I ate eggs and a protein shake. Okay. And oatmeal, which is healthy foods. But mixing eggs, protein shake. It's all just, did you have coffee too? I did have coffee. Oh, God. No wonder.
Starting point is 00:01:21 I was, I was already a little late, but I was like taking a piss in there and I was like, I really got a shit. And I was thinking about shitting, but I was like, I can't wait that. Once I sit down and it starts like coming out and stuff, I don't know how long I'm going to be in there. So I was like, let me just try really hard to hold this in. I get that. So right now I have the bubble guts. And that's how I'm starting off today.
Starting point is 00:01:44 You still did the, you did pretty good on the freestyle, though. Bubble guts freestyle? I get depressed when I freestyle now. Same, bro. I've been, you know, you know I'm like not doing, okay, I was going to say not doing well, but I meant strictly in a freestyle way. You're not doing well? No, I'm doing fine.
Starting point is 00:02:03 I'm not. I'm doing great. You can talk about it? I'm doing, I'm doing all right. But whenever I'm freestyling, you know I'm not doing well in the freestyle, whenever I just try to get funny with it, which I think is like what... When you start...
Starting point is 00:02:16 Put Dix and... Right, yeah. Whenever I start rapping about how I want to bang George, like that's... I always do better, but I always... That's when I've given up, like, trying to, like, actually make...
Starting point is 00:02:28 Because every once in a while, I'll, like, make a song, and it might be funny, but, like, it's still good. And then sometimes it's just, like, nothing's hitting. Yeah. I'll go into a multi-syllable,
Starting point is 00:02:38 and I have no idea where I'm headed. It's literally just takes... practice. Yeah, and I'm not, I'm not doing good because one of my freestyle sucks,
Starting point is 00:02:46 but two, fucking, since I've been streaming, I've been showing up the content, I've been working out damn near every day. Look at you.
Starting point is 00:02:56 But it's like, I don't know, I don't know what's going on. I'm thinking, and you asked me to be in the, your SND attorney or whatever.
Starting point is 00:03:06 Yeah, yeah, the birthday. But I'm assuming it's going to be like afternoon to evening-ish. Yeah, It's going to start like three, something like that. But in the afternoon, I'm going to, I have an appointment with my doctor,
Starting point is 00:03:19 and I'm going to, like, talk to her about something. Because, like, for some reason, my anxiety lately has been so bad. And I think it makes it even worse that, like, I feel like I've been doing pretty good. But I'm still, like, I don't know what it is, man. It's fucking, it's, like, something's wrong with my brain. It's going to sound weird. Do you think it's a... My medicine.
Starting point is 00:03:40 It's been bad. Do you think it's a redhead thing? I know that's a weird question. She's the most anxious person I've ever met in my life. I can, like, sort of tell when I'm around her, she's normal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, like, you can sort of tell when, like... Yeah, we went to...
Starting point is 00:03:55 So, we went to this like... They're just not completely, like, relax. We went to the soccer game. She's going to hate that. I put her on a blast, but it's fine. We went to the soccer game for my birthday. And she's not usually around, like, a group of people. But, you know, I went to...
Starting point is 00:04:11 I didn't even talk to Seth about something. So Seth and I were talking. And so like all the girls just kind of congregated together. Oh. And I kept looking over at her to make sure she was doing all right. Like that's how that's how anxious she gets. Yeah. And she was doing fine.
Starting point is 00:04:26 And like everything, like she was just having a casual conversation and talking to Paige and, you know, your girl and Seth's girl and and Sabas's girl. And like every, they were all talking to each other. And then, and then she finally came over. and I was like, how are you doing? She was like, oh my God. Really? Yeah, like literally out of breath.
Starting point is 00:04:45 It's so funny because like, I for one feel that. Yeah. For two, my girl is super, like she doesn't really know any of them, but it's like we walk in. And like she knows Tiff and I guess is they've met a few times. But like she walks in and I'm like, oh, here comes social situation, even though it's people I've seen almost every day for the past. seven years but it's like everyone a big group hanging out and like my girl goes in like sees is and tiv
Starting point is 00:05:17 and it's like hey and then it's like I start talking to someone and like she just starts talking to them and she's just like perfectly fine but it's almost like she's more comfortable in that situation than I am she's a like a people person yeah so that makes sense and I'm I feel like I'm a people person I just get stressed about like especially
Starting point is 00:05:37 because like it was like my birthday or whatever I was stressed that like like everyone was having fun so I was like trying to bounce and it's like that's I don't like birthday's bro yeah I don't I don't want to do anything me neither bro there's an episode of parks and recreation where it's like it's like the the main like macho do you ever watch parts and rec it's it's okay I'll just I'll be generic about the characters it's like this macho dude that works there and this like super like ditsy like blonde that that uh works at the same place and he doesn't tell her his birthday because he's terrified she's going to throw him like a
Starting point is 00:06:16 surprise party and he hates birthdays and then finally she figures out his birthday and he's like okay just get it over with and then it's like this throne of a chair and she she gives him a stake in a bourbon and then closes the door and she was like why would i throw you a party that you don't want when you want your own like you want a party that's catered to you and i was just like oh my god that's amazing like i would love a birthday or like i don't talk to anyone what's it who's I mean, that's literally all of my birthdays. It was like last birthday, I think, or my, yeah, my last birthday, I got drunk with, I got drunk with formal, just me and him in my apartment. That's incredible.
Starting point is 00:06:52 That's all you wanted. That's an amazing start. Like, at least, I'm not getting drunk by myself. At least I got formal there. Formal never drinks. So that's, it's always fun. That excites me. It's like when George drinks.
Starting point is 00:07:02 I fucking, okay, keep going. So me and, me and formal got drunk in my apartment. And then we went and got, I think it was like Paige, you know, page is like, it's like, it's like, it. It's your birthday. Yeah. And then I think we, was Paige there? Were you there? I don't know if you were there.
Starting point is 00:07:17 I know Matt was there. Roger was there. We went to some seafood place and got like the seafood broils or whatever with like crab, potatoes corn. But we just did that. And that was my birthday. And that's perfectly fine. Perfectly fine. That's a great birthday.
Starting point is 00:07:33 Like a dinner and then like. Why did you let the birthday happen? Because Paige was so excited about it. Oh, was it Paige? Yeah. She was like, we have to do it. something and then hector was like you want to watch some soccer and i was like yeah i like like soccer but then it was like a different i've never seen like that type what are you what are
Starting point is 00:07:50 nervous about or not nervous but like what don't you attention the attention and plus like turning 30 and having a everyone's there sort of because of you and it's like you look over no one's having fun and it or something yeah it's just like if i look over and like nina's on her phone i'm like okay okay i hope nina's having fun like i go talk to nina and then and and like jukin was there and like jukin was there but like also there's a part of me that's like the party part of it it's like and I know this is all in my mental and I'm not shit talking to anyone who does this but like the birthday part of it like the birthday party for a 30 year old it's like for me I'm like what am I doing but I know that's ridiculous I mean I know that's ridiculous those people that have birthday parties every day for
Starting point is 00:08:34 their entire life and they like that and they like like like like oh shit like today's about me hell Yeah. Even as a kid, I didn't like it. Like, I didn't either. Having to sit down in front of the cake with the candles and you have to like make a wish. Everyone sings happy birthday. Plus, I feel like I was, I honestly feel like I was trained, not trained. I feel like I was just brought up that way because my birthday is 12 days after Christmas. Not even two weeks after Christmas.
Starting point is 00:08:58 Yeah. So like my, I loved Christmas growing up. We went hard on at Christmas. And then for my birthday, we would go out to eat because they went. I had basically double the Christmas of like. everyone else because it was Christmas and my birthday like all the presents that I got for Christmas those were my birthday presents too yeah my mom's birthday's on Christmas I wonder if that sucks as a kid it probably does but as a kid like from from six to 12 that that
Starting point is 00:09:25 it's almost like like Merry Christmas oh yeah happy birthday too like she doesn't really where do you think you're more important than Jesus it's you think your birthday yeah like it's literally like a second thought like her cards are probably like Christmas cards or some shit that she gets it's like even me it's like I'll wake up Merry Christmas and then like 30 minutes a day like oh shit happy birthday tomorrow love you but it's funny you said that about your girl because literally in that same that same night I felt the same way and I don't honestly I feel like I was talking to much literally I enjoy streaming now because I think it's almost like therapy to me that I just literally talk to them about anything and they just listen they can't
Starting point is 00:10:09 actually voice back. No, I'm just kidding. We sort of have a conversation, but I just explained to them any problem I have. And of course, people listening, be like, what problems do you have, maniac? Um, but it's funny you say that because even in that same situation, like, I was feeling like that. And for some fucking reason, I really don't know what it is. Like, last night, I felt like I was about to have like a panic attack. I did smoke. I took one hit of a blunt. That's all. Yeah. I was like, this is bad. I'm not. never smoking again. Why the fuck that I did this?
Starting point is 00:10:41 I was already in like a weird state of mind. But I don't know what it is because I've even been, usually it's like I'm anxious because I feel like a fucking loser, like not been streaming, like maybe bailing from content. And all I'm doing is hermitting in my apartment or something like that. But it's like lately, I don't fucking know. It's like it almost seems like it's like getting worse as I get older. Maybe I'm, and I just.
Starting point is 00:11:09 think the worst possible situation. Is it like health anxiety you think? Not health anxiety. It's more like, I think it's just so, like social stuff. Like even, like I've been on camera and stuff. Like, I'll even admit before this, like, I literally brought tequila here because it was like, dude, I'm so uncomfortable and I don't know what it is. I have to like, I don't know if it's this fucking, this medicine I'm taking. I don't I'm gonna talk to my doctor and I'm gonna say about that but it's like for some reason lately it's just been worse and I literally don't have a reason why it would be worse I have been eating like fucking shit and it probably has been start I'm not the fattest I've been and I've been eating like shit that's probably not a good start but it has started to get worse I think since I've been
Starting point is 00:12:06 been eating like shit, but I've been working out consistently, streaming consistently, doing whatever content. Like, I feel pretty productive. Like, cooking food, going grocery shopping, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, sort of living a productive life from the outside in. But for some fucking reason, I'm just, like, freaking out in my head, thinking of the worst possible situation for everything. Have you ever taken anxiety mess?
Starting point is 00:12:31 Especially for content stuff. Like, it's just, like, it's, like, it's, like, for it. Content stuff. Like, being on camera. camera like streaming's fine being alone streaming's fine but like for some reason just like being on camera and like a group scenario where like like I'm thinking about the just future videos that I've talked to like like a sponsored video I'm going to be doing this little like series and I'm thinking about that and I'm like fuck I'm going to have to like almost like be the host of it
Starting point is 00:13:02 and like drive the video and like you have it's so I don't fucking know what it is because to answer your question, yes, I was always on anxiety medication. Like, it started off with Larazepam, which is basically a shitty Xanax. Okay. And then it evolved in the Xanax, probably in the Scuff House is when I started, like, found someone on the streets to just, like, buy it from. And then it just got worse and worse from there. But, like, it would fucking help a lot.
Starting point is 00:13:35 Because Blake, the only reason I say this is because Blake is on something that is not, he said, Weird, but you, God. He just said it's, it's, uh, it's, it's some sort of medicine that, like, do you, do you remember? Is it a beta blocker? I don't, I don't remember, but it, he, like, swears by it. Does he take it every day? Yeah, he said it changes his life. Because do you remember when Blake used to be, like, mad skinny?
Starting point is 00:13:59 Like, he's still skinny, but, like, do you remember, like, three years ago? Like, it was skin and bones. I mean, I'd still look at him like that. think yeah if you saw before and after like it's insane um i mean same with me when i look back i'm like what the fuck yeah yeah yeah no he was like skinnier than you were in that rap clip that crimsticks uploaded uh he's like skinnier than that yeah um and it was all it was all anxiety and like i didn't even know for a really long time until he started it started like actually telling george and i but like he said he started taking this medicine um because his his his body he can explain it better than i can
Starting point is 00:14:35 but he said every time he would travel like come here like go to an event his he his body like wouldn't let him eat because like I mean you're not hungry he was not hungry and he was always anxious he thought he thought like the worst things about Steph and the worst things about Lupin like you know he's not there to protect them like that kind of like the user's just constantly going down these like rabbit holes and um and he said like after after uh you know started taking this medicine and literally like changed his life I might have to see what he is on I'm on um I guess you could call it like an antidepressant but like I don't feel I don't necessarily feel depressed like I know what depression feels like and like sometimes it hits me but like I think my shit is more like I wish I if my goal right now is that like get off what
Starting point is 00:15:22 I'm doing and on like certain days that I'm nervous about doing something like super anxious or whatever that I just have like something to take that's sort of like maybe there's something that I can take every single day. I know in rehab there was stuff that they gave me that sort of helped but it wasn't like a benzo
Starting point is 00:15:46 um like or like it wasn't addictive they would say a non-addictive version of it basically a shitty version of it but I don't know I got to figure out what he's on because I don't even I really don't know what it is but it's just like there's like I'll just start thinking like it gets to the point where it's like almost like
Starting point is 00:16:07 some thinking about the universe stuff to where it's like that'll give me entirety to where it's like why is there a universe as like stupid as it fucking sounds I'll literally get into it like I was talking to my stream about that but it's just like anything from as small as like I have a video or I got this the flycast to do today I'm not feeling well I got the shit I'm super fucking anxious for no fucking reason there's not i like i'm not worried about my girl um or we're not in a fight i'm not worried about money i'm my stream's doing well right consistently doing well i'm like really happy about that i don't i'm i've been working out is like is it fucking food i don't know maybe i don't know maybe one day i'll fucking figure it out but it's like i don't i don't
Starting point is 00:16:59 It may be food. I don't know. I'm not a doctor. I always tell, this is why I tell Lexington every day. I'm like, go, go ask someone. I tell her to go ask someone. And then she talks herself out of it. She goes, no, I think I'm fine.
Starting point is 00:17:13 Is hers like more like social? Yeah, a lot of, some of it's social, but some of it's like, pretty more intense than that. But a lot of it's, a lot of it's social. But I think it's not, social is just like she just gets like. There's like moments where, and I like talking about this, because for one, I'm so familiar with it. But for two, just like knowing certain people are listening and they're like, yes. Like there's moments where it's like, it is a full-blown, like, adrenaline, like, almost like that feeling like you're about to get in a fight or it's like something like that.
Starting point is 00:17:51 It's like this, your adrenaline just starts fucking spiking and I don't know. That's just the feeling I've been getting. lately. Do you work out when you do that? I mean, I work out every morning. And I feel better afterwards, but then it's like if I got to go, even like walking into the optic office downtown,
Starting point is 00:18:11 it's like, I hope I don't have to talk to anyone. Or if like someone says, hey, and it's like I say hey back, or it's like if I get into an elevator with someone at like my apartment or my girlfriend's apartment, and it's just like dead quiet, and it's just like, dude,
Starting point is 00:18:27 they don't know, but I'm freaking out. They might be freaking out too. Maybe. It's probably a lot more common than what people would. I'm sure it is. Anytime there's a redhead, they're always anxious. Seth anxious now? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:45 Seth is so... I feel like Seth doesn't know he's anxious, but he is. I think he's probably more anxious than like a different... He's got way more mental problems than we know about. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. It kind of is. There's not really many, like, normal redheads.
Starting point is 00:19:03 Isn't it something about, like, you guys' pain tolerance? Or your nerve endings? Yeah, like, that's what I keep here. That's what, well, that's what Alexis told me is that, like, you have to be careful with anesthesia, with redheads, or something like that because of something. I've heard of that before. Yeah. Our pain tolerance is high.
Starting point is 00:19:23 Pain tolerance high, but, like, nerve something. I wonder what great segue. I wonder what's how Seth was feeling because I can see Seth being a stressful, anxious sort of person and like certain situations. I want to say necessarily in social situations
Starting point is 00:19:40 but he is a little worrisome like with the team change. Did we talk about that at all in the last? Yeah, we did. Talked about the hook team change in the last one. Oh, we didn't, did we talk about dashes? No, we didn't talk about dashes, right? No, we did it.
Starting point is 00:19:58 No, we didn't. That shit took the world by storm. Yeah. I will say the first couple days, the first couple days of the memes were pretty fucking funny. Yeah. And I hate like the meme. Or the Rambo bowling. I like, that's what I'm talking about.
Starting point is 00:20:12 Like the Ray bowling, all those memes and then like, like the, the, the Zio memes or the scump memes, like they're, they were pretty funny. So did he say anything? I've heard, I heard like, maybe like a Twitter clip version. I haven't like sat there and watched. Did he go on a podcast? Did he, yeah, yeah, Bruce, so Bruce went about on his stream. Bruce went live and started answering a few questions and then like kind of went rogue and just started talking about everything. And then I think he kind of felt bad about that.
Starting point is 00:20:50 And then went on, went on stream with Ben from the flank. and Ben was asking him questions and he was like rebuttling and he was just saying like yeah I probably shouldn't have gone The Flan gets so fucking hype that he's doing that He should have got him on the fly cast Yeah He should have got him on the fuck
Starting point is 00:21:07 He would have came back and done this for sure Hey Bruce can you hey I miss you man Can you come back to the Xclos Just for for the fly cat I mean It was entertaining a couple weeks Or entertaining week but it was also fucking shitty
Starting point is 00:21:23 I can't like I don't know I don't know It's gonna I I It was always weird seeing Let it out man Let it out
Starting point is 00:21:34 It was weird seeing formal in an LG jersey Like it fucking stung In real realistically It stung to see Damon in a In a different jersey The crim The crim thing was weird at first
Starting point is 00:21:46 But low key Like he embraced like NYSL And like all the And like the Dallas Empire And So like he They built a team around
Starting point is 00:21:56 him but it's always weird to see whenever the the halo team went to talks or made their own made their own organ talks that was weird at first it's always just really weird but seeing Bruce in a different jersey would be like heart wrenching so he is he not I'm assuming someone's picking him up what's going on with that I don't know but he's not officially on a team
Starting point is 00:22:21 yet he's officially on optics payroll still So he's like a substitute type of Uh Uh Um Let's see What thoughts do I have on it I haven't listened to the whole thing
Starting point is 00:22:37 So I can't give I've seen Since I've seen obviously The thing about Ray bowling What else did Because people are on Ray's ass I wonder if Ray's stress from this
Starting point is 00:22:50 Yeah You wonder if Ray is stressed Yeah Or if he's just not chill out The top five most loved players in the whole league just got dropped and blamed it all in the coach. Of course he's fucking stressed. It's like if LeBron, if Steph Curry got dropped, got fired, got traded, got benched. Yeah, but what if Ray has this like Kyrie mindset where it's just he's going to.
Starting point is 00:23:17 It's hard to get coach, bro. There's, there, coaches don't have that leg to stand on. uh-uh coaches dude a coach is a hard fucking job why do you say that because you're not
Starting point is 00:23:30 you're you're renting success unless you're belichick you're or you're renting or or like like coaches that like are have legacy status like there's a couple football like soccer coaches
Starting point is 00:23:46 that have that like legacy but like you are the fans will love you until they hate you and you get fired that is the this can't be that is the this isn't going to be that no no i i hope not it's i'm just talking i'm more talking about in traditional traditional sports but you got to think like but i'm i'm thinking our fans or i don't even know if i'd say our fans because i don't is are our fans even saying anything or is it like people just love to see a public execution. I heard Mr. Bees talk about this.
Starting point is 00:24:23 They do. People love to see a public execution, whether it's in the 1800s where someone's literally getting their head chopped off or it's Ray going bowling. And the entire public wants to somehow esportedly execute him.
Starting point is 00:24:41 And it's just, it's become a thing on the internet to where it's just people love this sort of drama. Well, and also, people, especially in the cod community, I don't know about other communities, they side with, they side with the initial story, almost 100% of the time. Like, something comes out and it's the person that they like and there is an immediate enemy, boom, that's what I, like when, I relate, I relate all this stuff to when Frosty came out, said, yo, Natechot didn't pay us a lot of money,
Starting point is 00:25:17 didn't put us on content and didn't give us anything. and now the mob's broken up and everybody was like fuck a hundred these fuck Nate shot like all that shit and they sided with him almost unanimously and then Nate comes on and tells his side of the story and it's
Starting point is 00:25:33 just an immediate pivot and then that whole situation happens but it's like the same shit almost always like I don't know anything about the situation but just imagine a world where
Starting point is 00:25:49 like Ray comes on and it was just like, yeah, the bowling thing happened one time last year and it was for something. It was for my wife's. You know what I mean? Imagine he had like a notable reason or a notable excuse. It's not that big of a deal if you ask me. I'm not choosing. I don't necessarily care.
Starting point is 00:26:13 I've known Dashie sort of longer. Ray's the one that's still, I guess, within, optic but it's like i still i have no bias so i don't really care do i wish dashy's success yes do i think he had to do anything he's done no he is young and he was probably fucking pissed off and annoyed so he said fuck it but i'm looking at it as a whole if ray went bowling over spectating a scrim one time last year and this is the community reacts this is fucking insane
Starting point is 00:26:52 because this is like this is fucking if it was like a every Tuesday and Thursday he wouldn't watch our scrims because he went to go bowling if it was like 40% 30% of the time
Starting point is 00:27:07 yeah like then a fun like that's a fucking issue Ray was there wasn't hardly there because he was going bowling but if this is one specific if this is one the way you said that was so If this is one specific scenario where he did this once,
Starting point is 00:27:24 honestly, I would bet money that the other three players on that team don't give a fuck. Coming from someone who was a pro player, including Halo coaches are more important, I would argue. I wouldn't give a shit if my coach is there or not. Now, if they're getting paid, I'm going to be like, motherfucker, you better, you need to be here because you are getting paid. But if you got to do something, I don't give a fuck go. You're gonna go bowling go.
Starting point is 00:27:57 You're gonna, you gotta top golf date go. You got a tinder match. I don't give a fuck. I really don't give a fuck. Yeah. As long as you're there, Ray puts an effort. Ray has the passion.
Starting point is 00:28:07 We'll play, we'll record what we played, and then we'll go over it later or something. Or just, it's one scrim who gives a fuck. I mean, that's also, I guess, why I wasn't ever number one but but like I would argue that
Starting point is 00:28:24 I don't think that I would argue that I don't think that was in Seth's dashed or I don't think that was in Shotsy scump or Ili's mind ever but the thing is that like that Ray left him one time I don't know Ray is getting he is getting bash though
Starting point is 00:28:43 but you know it is what it is it's called duty at the of the day it's what makes the fucking it's what makes our e-sport go around is the this drama is the drama dude i gotta tell you like it's 2016 again reddick came up came from my throat because i came for their throat dude so we we were playing we were doing this watch party uh tst he was and at one time during the series blake goes dude it would be fun to be somebody in in cdl chat in the cdl youtube chat or the twitch chat and then he was like every time someone would die.
Starting point is 00:29:19 Every time someone would die, he'd be like, oh my God, that player's washed. You got to drop him. You know what I mean? Like just being very extra. Then, so I start, so George starts playing along with them and they just start roasting every single person that died. Every single person. This sounds fun.
Starting point is 00:29:36 Yeah. Like every single thing that happened, they would roast somebody for it. And they were just being obnoxious, but it was fun. And the chat was laughing along. It was just like a bit we were doing. And this sounds amazing. Yeah, and then I started acting like a Reddit kid and like a like a quote unquote Reddit kid.
Starting point is 00:29:54 Yeah, how does? So I was just being like, I was being like, uh, super obnoxious too, but like in like like a joking way, but it was still, it was like, it was like throwing shots with like in a meme way. And at one point, at one point Blake goes, dude, this would be just so fun. I know why Reddit kids are the way they are. And then I say what, dumb virgin idiots? And he goes, yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:19 And that part got clipped and they put it on Reddit. They, dog, they win. What Reddit? Like, they're not competitive Reddit. Okay. I was going to say, like, did Reddit come at you at a. Oh, imagine Reddit as a whole? Nah, I'd be off the, I would have gotten death threats.
Starting point is 00:30:36 But I was just like, God, like, and then people, like, every once in a while, somebody would be like, dude, I think, like, with how much they were, like, talking about it and like, say, Which, to be fair, it's not really the people in the comments fault because it does sound like I literally say, if you're on Reddit, you're a dumb virgin idiot. But also, I'm 30 years old and I haven't realistic, I haven't used like dumb virgin idiot as a realistic, non-meamy insult since I was 16 or something like that. So it was just, it was crazy to see how many people like took it so damn seriously and they were coming back. at me they were like oh he calls us virgins some people some people thought it was funny or something not thought it was funny but some people like were funny back like somebody somebody said as i think you should be as i think you should the the funniest thing i saw was somebody said
Starting point is 00:31:30 me telling them to not plant in a three or to plant the bomb in a four v three situation because i don't have a girlfriend because they called him a virgin uh that was fucking funny because it's like a like a like a like a fight back or like a like being sassy back which is the point but some people dog it was just like I would kind of want to see that thread
Starting point is 00:31:51 it's it's a good read some people were like like it's crazy how these streamers make it leaching off of one community and now they bash down on the community we know more about Call the Duty than these three idiots
Starting point is 00:32:05 ever will I was just like holy shit bro I've put like a lot of passion into this community for not a lot of fucking like just off of passion. I'm not, this shit's not a paycheck.
Starting point is 00:32:19 So you guys were playing what, like a GB match or something? No, we were watch party. Oh, okay. We were watch partying the matches. And then it starts off with Blake just be like, oh my God, this would be fun. And she started bashing. Bro, even the Halo tournament that just happened.
Starting point is 00:32:36 It's like, what, why, who and where are these people? Why do they do it? It's like, how is this their thing? kind of makes it entertaining, but it kind of also annoys me because I like can't, I can't really look at chat because I'm an optic. So it's every time I look at chat, everyone that I'm friends with is getting shit on. Yeah. Like, and everyone that's what makes it not fun for me.
Starting point is 00:33:01 And everyone else that's getting shit on is not getting shit. Like, for instance, I, what did I tweet? What the fuck? What did I tweet yesterday? Um, I tweeted. something and someone responded on Twitter saying
Starting point is 00:33:21 like you're lucky to or you'd be nothing without optic. First off, you can't just say someone would, it's like telling Elon you'd be nothing without your intelligence or like you'd be or like someone
Starting point is 00:33:38 that's in the NFL you'd be nothing without the NFL or like it's like that's kind of like Yeah, that's, it's been my life. Like you can't tell someone you'd be nothing without Optic when e-sports and Optic has literally been their life. That's just not, that's been your entire life. It's like, yeah, you're probably right.
Starting point is 00:34:01 You're probably right. I'd be in a different profession. If I didn't win a national championship in Halo. Be pro for 10 years, dedicate every day of my life, join, put out some good talk, content. Yeah, if I didn't have some pop-in streams, some memorable moments. Yeah, you're probably, yeah. A little inconsistent.
Starting point is 00:34:22 Could have done better, but I've stuck around and still, people tend to watch sometimes. Yeah, no, you're right. But the funny one, yeah, yeah, but keep on it. He said that. And then I was like, let me look at his, let me look at his profile. He has a Dragon Ball Z anime picture. Of course.
Starting point is 00:34:42 Profile picture. So I click. and I look at his tweet. It was insane. I was actually gonna, he tweeted you like a day ago. Is it the, the bundle of sticks guy?
Starting point is 00:34:53 No, I don't think so. Dude, there's one dude that just replies to every optic member and says you're a bundle of sticks. Really? Which is,
Starting point is 00:35:01 I think it's like a derogatory thing. This, I literally screen recorded his Twitter because it was, it was, and usually it'll be like, um, oh wait.
Starting point is 00:35:14 This guy. Oh, He tweeted at you like a few days ago. But I... You did screen record it. Because it was the most insane shit I've ever seen. Usually, if someone shit talks to me... Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:35:24 A lot of times I won't even click on their shit. But for some... I was just sitting there bored on the couch. I clicked on it. I was like, let me see... Like, is this... I'm sure it's not his real Twitter. Of course, it's...
Starting point is 00:35:35 It's not. It's not his real Twitter. But every single tweet this guy ever says is mentioning, is replying to someone in Optic. an optic and i was just like dude all literally every single tweet is talking shit calling someone a dick rider telling them they'd be nothing every and it's not just like one tweet every like whenever he feels pissed off say optic tweet something and he it's every it's multiple times a day it's like 10 plus tweets a day to someone in optic or i like scroll down a little bit and like i see
Starting point is 00:36:13 these ones in optic I'm like too this guy's a piece of shit and then I see him like replying to methods and I was like okay this is kind of funny now but it's like he's replying to like Boston Breach methods but it's just it's insane because this is a real human
Starting point is 00:36:29 this is good like it shows you how good like the filtering is because I didn't see this guy's tweet to me and I said it's a wonderful day to watch him call duty and he said shut up pussy you're a dick writer on on an org what do you even do anyway what do you what does it's do or in optic yeah what like what the fuck it the guy who's involved in a lot almost everything in optic what do you do an optic
Starting point is 00:37:04 if if it's does nothing in optic then optic yeah I mean people that's one thing that like it I always laugh when people say like I'm Hector's lap dog That's always a good one that gets me They're like oh yeah you're just Hector keeps you around Are these like yeah? Yeah it keeps me around Yeah He just keeps me on the side
Starting point is 00:37:25 It's it's just I'm Hector's side bitch you know me It's fucking insane that like This guy is an actual It's a real guy It's literally a fucking real human Dude there's see there's another The bundle of sticks guy that guy
Starting point is 00:37:40 And then there's one other guy And I think they must be the same person. I'm going to his Twitter. They can't be the same person. Can you tell me? But I was going to, I was going to reply with my screen recording and just say, holy fucking L page or something like. Holy shit.
Starting point is 00:37:57 Like, this is the crazy. Like usually, if someone talks shit to me and I click on their profile, the majority of time, I just, I'm like, all right, fuck you. Let's keep going. Right. Sometimes I click on their profile, look at their tweets. Just like, do they do this to everyone? Who else are they doing it to?
Starting point is 00:38:13 A lot of times it'll be like, someone will make a Twitter and they'll just retweet giveaways or like, and then the occasional shit talk, because this is their fucking burner account or something. Yeah. But this guy is. It's always a quote retweet with their cash out. Seven hours ago. Like, he still kept going. Oh, wow. I guess these girls are being forced to be sluts and sleep around too.
Starting point is 00:38:35 KSI is such a loser now. At KSI. Jake will drop your ugly ass, bro. Shut up. At someone else. more dick he calls a lot of people dick riders he does um more dick riding uh he's a dick rider he's always had optics cock in his mouth it's no surprise shut up talking about there oh bucket bucket and then he replied to bucket yeah loved your rambo dick riding segment
Starting point is 00:39:01 and then he replies to kevy skills nah you're a dick rider and then someone else well that was true dick rider dick rider this is so bad this is like it's almost astronomically bad to the point where it's one, not good shit talk, two, not original. Three, this is fucking insane because he just keeps going. And it's like, just knowing
Starting point is 00:39:26 he's alone at his computer. Probably not even in a Discord call with like some of his other friends where it's like, yo, I'm a you know, what should I say to puck it? Dude, fuck, fuck pocket. They come up with him. It's funny. They all laugh. They get a response.
Starting point is 00:39:42 No one likes his tweets. No one seeing them, but literally does he know. This is what he wanted. You're giving him exactly what he wanted. This is what he wanted. He's going to watch the smiling. Just. If you're watching this, you need to rethink.
Starting point is 00:39:58 Because this is the only attention you'll ever get. And this is not like, the state of mind you have to be in to tweet this kind of stuff. It's not a good one. So I know you're not living like, you're not living the best life. There's no way. Your day to day is probably. pretty miserable and stuff like this takes you like out of out of your head and sort of like this it always seems intense when i say this online it always seems intense when i say this but i say it all
Starting point is 00:40:26 the time like you only get one of these like we only get one this is and that's how i'm talking if you're if you're doing if you're retweeting giveaways and then the occasional shit talk to fucking skump yeah whatever but this is 20 plus A tweet today. Yeah, yeah, obsessed. This is like... Like, come on. You get one.
Starting point is 00:40:49 You only get one. How do you want to spend this one that you get? I don't think sitting on, you know, probably an old Dell PC. And that's what I'm striving to change with people. It's like we don't have to be losers. We really do just get one. And as fucking insane as this life is, which gives me. anxiety to think about of why
Starting point is 00:41:16 I was what did I Google the yesterday like people say God's real because what was it in order something can't exist from nothing so God has to be real but if God is something
Starting point is 00:41:39 how do I yeah I don't know if I can break this down let's talk about how you were listening to a Mr. Beast podcast somewhere over here. You don't want to talk about God in the universe and stuff on how the universe is giving me anxiety, just thinking why it even exists, let alone our solar system. It's always one of those things where like,
Starting point is 00:42:02 I believe in God and I don't know why, and you don't believe in God and you don't know why. I'm not saying I don't believe in God. So like it's one of those things where like we would just have the most brain dead conversation about this. I couldn't even explain my first sentence. Like, if God does it, but he does, but something can't exist from nothing.
Starting point is 00:42:21 You would be like, well, why is he real? And I'd be like, I don't know, I just, I think he's up there rocking with us. I'm not saying he's not real. I think this universe is so magical and fucking insane that it's probably, there's something, something's going on. That's what I think that. Like, whether it's, I don't know if it's a fucking dude looking down and shit, but like, there's something fucking magical and mysterious.
Starting point is 00:42:46 I agree. And I think it's ignorant to say, you know. but I also think it's ignorant to say you don't know I agree or you don't believe because I don't know so okay so we're on the same plane yeah I I believe
Starting point is 00:43:03 there's a greater entity entity or some kind of energy or like I trust in the universe I believe in like karma I believe in just like energy of how you think leads to a better life
Starting point is 00:43:22 how you treat others lead to a better yeah um the way over here i was listening to mr bs lex freeman dude mr bese is so smart and he's cocky about it now he is for sure cocky wait so but he deserving me so so you is that the only podcast you've listened to of him like you listen to the joe over one no i've watched one where two guys are basically like interviewing him And I think like before the podcast they go on like a tour through Mr. Beast's like facility. But also he's been on Joe Rogan. I've listened to that a little bit. Yeah, he went he went on like a little like him and Reed went on a little like world tour like last year.
Starting point is 00:44:07 He went on like the yard and the tiny meat gang. I'll see TikToks pop up and it was from Reed and it'll say like from your contacts. And I'm like, man. from your contact bro like what the crazy thing that pops one of the the weirdest flexes that i have is whenever a young gravy tic-tok pops up it says from your contacts and i'm like why do you have his number oh yeah i feel like you might have told me but because uh three years ago before he super blew up he people were saying that we looked alike really yeah and he said he'd follow me on Twitter and said, yo, text me. So I texted him.
Starting point is 00:44:47 And then he said, you know, it would be funny. I have a, I have a show in Dallas. And how about for one fish, two fish, one, one, one cross- Is this a song? Yeah, one of his songs, you come out
Starting point is 00:45:03 on stage and you perform it. And then I'll come out and say, psych it was optic hitch. And my anxiety levels skyrocketed. And I was like, all right, brother, I'll let you know. like what I'm doing that day and then I never texted him back.
Starting point is 00:45:18 Really? That's fucking hilarious. Young Gravy's in my phone and it's this weird like memory that I have. Yeah, I cannot imagine you. This is when my I was texting when my setup was over there. So this was Blackups 4. So
Starting point is 00:45:34 20 I don't even remember that. 2019. 2018, no, end of 2019. I would not be able to do that. No, I was terrified. I was terrified reading the text. I would be nervous.
Starting point is 00:45:48 Because he would say, yo, thanks for coming to this young gravy show. This was actually optic hitch. And they'd be like, oh. They'd be like, uh. Also, you would walk out and be performing and they'd be like, uh, like, uh, this is not. You might look kind of alike. Right. It's not like when Ninja went on stage and did a show with, like, Diplo.
Starting point is 00:46:12 It's not like that. Yeah. His ninja was that level. I was, and this was before, this was before, like, TSTs blow up. Like, we still had, like, 150 viewers. Like, this was so long ago. Damn. But now he's in my context.
Starting point is 00:46:28 And he still had an, and he still had an audience to, like, come out. I wonder how much he's, like, how much he was making then compared to, like, now. Isn't he dating or not dating? There was, like, something. Who's the TikTok? He's one of the TikTok original Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was like, uh, something,
Starting point is 00:46:47 banging her mom, Addison Ray. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he was like dating her mom. He like, I mean, it could be some like online bullshit. His meme, his meme lately was like he loves moms. Like, that's his thing and moms love him. So like he, for one of the shows, he took Addison Ray's mom to,
Starting point is 00:47:07 to like a golden gloves or something. Who knows? Who knows if it was real or not, but. Maybe. Yeah. Anyway, what were you saying? What was I saying?
Starting point is 00:47:18 You were talking about Reed in your contacts. Read my contacts. Mr. Bees. Oh. Do you ever watch Lex Friedman's podcast? I try. I've watched a lot of this. I watched a lot of his clips.
Starting point is 00:47:29 Well, Mr. Bees was on there and he was just literally breaking down. He said he like gets pissed off that like he'll go on podcast and literally explain every single thing that people need to do and they still don't do it. And like sometimes I'll look at. our videos what if we did should our videos or as an i would want to ask him the optic i would want to ask him like to like show him one of our videos say like the hockey one we just did be like what would you have done different see we i think it would be like me matt and rodge sit down and talk about this all the time yeah like twice a week for the past three years but the the
Starting point is 00:48:09 The problem with e-sports content is, or org content, is that everything, you have to have to have sponsors in order to pay the players, in order to pay the creators, in order to pay the staff, and you have to sell merch and all. You have to have, like, your revenue income. You can't just make really cool videos and hope the views come so that then you can get sponsors. So, like, they'll sell a sponsor, and so you have to make this amount of videos. So we have to make videos regardless of anything.
Starting point is 00:48:35 So when you see a trivia. When you see trivia, when you see videos, when you see, uh podcast is because we we we have to we have to make videos and so like like you can't we can't you can't just sit here and i can't explain to to scuff like hey we're working six months on this video but it's gonna be a really good video so like can you guys just take that video well i mean even like then we do the we spend a hundred thousand like i was i was thinking on the hockey video and this is like one of my what i be able to sit there and like brainstorm videos and
Starting point is 00:49:11 be able to make them as good as something Mr. Beast would accept probably not. Because sometimes I'm just sitting there with a fucking blank and I don't know how y'all think of videos. I genuinely don't even think it's possible. Like, but I was thinking for the hockey video we did. Yeah, yeah. Instead of like an intro
Starting point is 00:49:27 which I don't think Mr. Beast doesn't really do like the interest. Yeah. Like not an intro and it's like the stand there. Everyone's standing there. Like it'd be like say just you. in the camera and like you would do like uh a 10 five 10 seconds of like whatever everyone welcome back to another after video today we're doing the the optic hockey challenge brought
Starting point is 00:49:51 to you by blah blah blah and then it would like cut to the next scene to where you're like right beside the goal you're like little goal two points big goal one point no that's good and then it would like I don't know pan to something else of you explaining something else two cones You got to make a shot from here? Blah, blah, blah. And then it'd say, it would, like, introduce the player somehow, and it would be, like, just single shots of, like,
Starting point is 00:50:19 me standing there with a stick. And then scumps standing there with a stick, doing something, someone doing something fucking stupid. Yeah, no, that's really good. Everyone doing, like, singular player shots. That's really good. Then it'd get into the video. And then, like, the first round,
Starting point is 00:50:33 whatever, everyone hits the puck. And then it's, like, the second round comes. And it's, like, like they didn't know this but if you miss the shot this time you get hit by a professional hockey player and full pads so that's like we put on full pads or something and it's like if we miss the shot the player gets like run up and hit us because we missed the shot or something and knock us to the ground yeah like some sort of twist of the video yeah something like that but i was thinking i don't know i would want to see the the thing that here's here's what and those are all
Starting point is 00:51:06 like amazing ideas and i think we should do them 100 percent but So what? Whenever Beast talks, he says like, they, they go like by the seconds for his video. Yeah. So one to four seconds is the intro. Four to 12 seconds is the shot and the B-roll. And he does that for every video. We don't have the luxury of doing that for every video because we have to make, we're trying to work our way up to like six videos in total a week. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:34 And so I think as we get to more to a more stable, like, to a more stable, like, part to a more stable place where it's like okay flies out uh pot is out uh are you know we have two videos and the extended cuts for the membership program extended cut and then the membership program podcast and then uh and then we have like a trivia video or whatever but then we have this one big video then that what i want to get to is a part where that big video is dialed in like that yeah i would be interested in seeing what mr bese would say because he's like so critical of like super critical but he also reinvests all his money yeah and not everyone wants to do that also like looking back at the hockey video it's like yeah because i did the video while i was in the video
Starting point is 00:52:26 right right i think about the video i could think about the video like it's all like sort of hindsightish It's so, it is fucking insane how, like, dialed in and coordinated and time restricted. Everything is in all of his videos. There is also a vibe of optic videos that is, has, like, that is propelled optic to the level that we're at, but has also like, it's like a weird thing. I feel like I'm working right now. Like there were like kind of like not backed into a corner, but we are like like we, we owned one lane for so long that if we try to venture out of that, it gets like weird. So like people like watching optic videos and I've liked watching optic videos for a long time because it's the guys hanging out. It's the guys on different teams that are just hanging out.
Starting point is 00:53:19 Even when we do videos like when we shoot each other with paintballs, it's still like dash he's blindfolded and he's like low key just people are like, yo, he's to the left. He's to the left. That's not like a, hey guys, we have four paintball. players and and we blindfolded all of those two points if you hit them in the chest i'm wondering what would that work i don't know it's a risk it's a risk and like i said every video has a sponsor tied to it damn near every video and so like if our videos don't perform then it's like shit that looks i don't know if it would perform worse i agree i agree with you it's just a lot of extra effort yeah it's a lot of effort a lot of extra effort a lot of and then
Starting point is 00:54:01 people right especially like planning it all and it's like if if if we're gonna put that much effort in you kind of want to think virally like like you want to put you want to make the video go to the next level like the the video we did put that much effort in was the hot ones video and yes it was a it was a rip off of another show but we did put in the the time for all the B-roll shots and for the we we researched all the questions and and we ordered the wings and all that shit. Like, and that one took the fuck off. I mean, Seth is in the thumbnail,
Starting point is 00:54:37 but it did take off. And there have been a few videos that do take off, but also we have the luxury of doing a Road to 100-0 video and that one takes off too and it's just us playing Call of Duty. And like that wouldn't perform well on like other channels like Ryan Trehan's channel. You think that would perform well now?
Starting point is 00:54:56 It did. We did it last week and I got like 300 K. Wait, road to 100-0? Yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like, what, you just started, it just started it last week? Yeah, yeah, we started like two weeks ago.
Starting point is 00:55:07 With who the, the cot team? Yeah. Those are one of those, that's one of those things where it's like, that did really well? That's the optic. Yeah, that's the optic. That's because that's the lane we're in.
Starting point is 00:55:18 And so if we stick to that lane, we know we get results. If we try to branch out, which is like what we're trying to do with like other creators that we have right now, like especially even the war, it was even hard with the wars. guys. We have two or three of the biggest war zone guys. And even that, even though it's still
Starting point is 00:55:36 call a duty, it's still slightly altered. And even that is just kind of like, oh, shit, well, that's not optic multiplayer. And so then we try to get the chess girls in. And that's like super far left field. And so we're, that's, that's where we're at right now. It's like, we eventually want to have that optic feel with everybody that is in optic. But we, it's a very tricky road to navigate. It's especially in on YouTube on on on vertical content is a little different because like the algorithms are all different. Does vertical like TikTok and stuff? Yeah like TikTok and reels and YouTube shorts. Do we have a TikTok? Yeah but yeah I get what you're saying and I agree with you and randomly I'll just like be thinking of this shit you shouldn't you should you should
Starting point is 00:56:24 low key this is like been my motivation this year because for my personal channel I have like six or seven videos in the bank that I'm like all working on. because I'm trying to do videos, not, I'm not trying to go viral, but I'm trying to do videos that are more like put together for my personal channel. You should like just attempt to do one.
Starting point is 00:56:41 Even if you never upload it, just be like, I ran a month. I did 100 push-ups every day for two months. Here's what happened. And then just record yourself, write it down.
Starting point is 00:56:52 Well, I've been thinking about that with the video I'm going to do is the like the workout twice a day, eat perfect for 60 days. What's the, title. I worked out twice a day for 60 days. This is what happened, something like that. Okay. I, I, I, what if you did like, I, I, I forgot we're even doing a fly cast.
Starting point is 00:57:15 What, what if you did like, I, I, I followed a supermodels diet for a hundred, I, I followed a supermodel's diet for two, for a month. I want to do it. Like something, like something where people, because if you, if you did, I worked out for two days. I worked, I worked, I worked, I worked, I worked, out twice a day for two weeks. I worked out twice a day for 60 days. I think that would grab some attention. It would, but like, but if it didn't get like at least 200 K views,
Starting point is 00:57:42 I'd be pissed. Right. And it's just like, but how many people are going to click on somebody working out twice a day? Because a lot of people work out twice a day. Like a lot of people. But not a lot of people follow.
Starting point is 00:57:55 I mean, I've seen a bunch of videos to where it's like, it'll just be my weight loss journey in four months. And as long as the before and after thumbnail are pretty drastically different. I'm not saying it couldn't work. It could definitely work.
Starting point is 00:58:09 The only way it's going to work is if I really do this, even if I have to do something crazy, like starve myself and completely deplete my water, just to get that after the 60-day thumbnail pick for a good and pop my belly out in the before and then after, I think that would pop. because people would just I would click on it and I click on these other videos of like the other last night I think I clicked on the I worked out worked out for four months and or I don't
Starting point is 00:58:43 the dude worked out for four months and this was this transformation and the before and after we're kind of crazy but like how they did it was like a documentary style yeah and I was like like it's not like it the video started it's a mr. beast like what's up guys today I'm gonna do I'm gonna be working out I'm gonna be eating permanent I'm gonna this what this is what we're gonna yeah it was a more like documentary style and I was like how do I want to do if I'm going to do this what would I want to do and I want to hear if you have any ideas for like I don't know some random mr. I don't mr. B style or because you were going to mention some videos earlier but it's like I don't know
Starting point is 00:59:20 if how I want to do this video if I want it to be I think it's just going to be sort of documentary style not really an intro I think the intro it's almost going to be like my out of rehab video to where it's like the first clip is like me talking and then it's like it kind of gives you the like wait what's going on what's going on it and then it's like boom it'll flash to like me day one I'm starting to work out yeah that's sort of my plan now okay
Starting point is 00:59:49 um I need to schedule a dexas scan which is like this week and I want also I'm like do I I want Shosten to do it with me um at least get him like two, three times a week to, like, record a workout. Come with me to the scan, because this will be, like, day one footage. But besides, do you think I could make... Also, every video I watch right now is so high quality.
Starting point is 01:00:16 Do you think it would be... I don't want to say possible, but, like, to just record it yourself on a Sony Mark 4 or whatever the fuck we used to use or an A.E. Are you planning on doing a voiceover? because the most important part of a video is audio, in my opinion. So like if you do a voiceover... Yeah, there would be a voiceover.
Starting point is 01:00:39 Yeah, then it doesn't matter. You can film on your phone. Like, as long as you get a few quality shots of like B-roll or you working out with like a DSLR footage or like Shawson footage and then like when you're eating... There's something about doing it yourself though. When you're eating?
Starting point is 01:00:54 I feel like it's 2023 and almost every video, every vlogger, every video, every fitness. They have a cameraman. And it's just like, do I need? But I think you can do both. Like if you're eating healthy, you're trying something new, then you, like, film yourself, even with your phone or like your little Sony,
Starting point is 01:01:11 and you're like, you know, eat it. And that's B-roll. And you're like, yeah, and I found out this new diet. And the diet is this. And then bam, bam, be up on the editing screen. It's bam, bam, bam. Like, a cup of flour. And, like, yeah, and this is how he made asparagus.
Starting point is 01:01:23 Like, oh, a cup of flour. But, like, it has to be, like, fast. Like, nowadays, dude. go watch ninja's videos ninja's new videos i don't know who is who his editor is but holy shit it is like bam bam bam bam his youtube videos his youtube videos
Starting point is 01:01:41 like fortnight gameplay yeah but it's not dude it's like every every time he shoots it'll go or like it's some sort of sound effect or like it's so I kind of don't Mr. Beast don't I don't find obnoxious but there's other videos I'll click
Starting point is 01:01:56 and I'm like this is obnoxious see the yeah but like see Mr. Mr. Beast is like Oh, that's so true. Face cam zoom in. Oh my God.
Starting point is 01:02:08 Right, right, right. I get that. I definitely get that. But there is a way to you, but as long as you get the theme and the pace of the video, that is like the most important part. Like if you watch,
Starting point is 01:02:18 I think, have you ever watched Ryan Treyhan's videos? Dude, I could talk about YouTube all day. Is that the skateboarder? Wait, no, no, Ryan Treyhan. He's like this. What am I thinking of? I don't know. Who are you thinking of?
Starting point is 01:02:29 Some skateboarder. Beer deck. That's Rob. Rob, Deere Dreckler. Ryan Shekler. Ryan Shekler. I met Ryan Shekler. Really?
Starting point is 01:02:37 Yeah. Anyways. But I think Ryan Dreyhan is, I think he's the best YouTuber in the world right now. Because his videos. Maybe I know. His videos are so, they're like that, they're that pace. Hey, I did this. But like, he's not screaming.
Starting point is 01:02:50 You can tell he does it himself. He's not a machine. Like, Mr. Beast is the best YouTuber in the world, but he's also a machine. It is. input output millions of views 100% of the time and it's it's perfect they're almost perfect videos so it's like if you watch them you're like holy shit like I can't believe this is happening
Starting point is 01:03:12 he's thinking about attention what's it called click through rate like all that like the what's the attention what's the word I'm thinking of retention retention retention retention rate or something whatever but he he looks at that like that's why his videos, out like that,
Starting point is 01:03:30 because he doesn't want to waste the second. He doesn't want to waste one second. Thanks for watching. Thanks for watching. Like, he won't even say anything. And then boom. Here's my last video and then bam.
Starting point is 01:03:39 Yeah, boom out. Even the three seconds. Like he doesn't stop. And I was thinking, I'm like thinking for our videos, it's like, do we do autos?
Starting point is 01:03:45 But it's like, we do have the sponsors. Right. You have. That's the thing. But it's like, can we incorporate that? But what I think we should be doing
Starting point is 01:03:52 is all of our fucking creators should be doing it on their own. Like, should be trying to do shit like that on their own. Yeah. Like, because that, that is what the side. I mean, that, whenever you watch a sideman video, they're hanging out. They're playing soccer.
Starting point is 01:04:06 They're hanging out. And it gets a gazillion views because on their own side of things, they're all doing shit like that. Like, KSI is boxing. I think just like we, I don't even know if like anyone from Faze is doing videos. I know, I know no one from Optic is really doing videos themselves. Yeah. We just, it would seem like that was a point in time.
Starting point is 01:04:28 it was like cool I mean it's still cool for like other people like it's not like it fell off in YouTube but like I don't know it's like every did every what happened to everyone to where they like it became not cool to I think 2016
Starting point is 01:04:44 they just didn't no one wants to do it because like I look at my life for I for sure there's nothing to vlog unless I have some fucking weirdo challenge I'm doing there's nothing to vlog and there's not
Starting point is 01:05:00 I don't know I think once so we all came up vlogging all of us I much just don't feel comfortable even except for Seth it's almost like I don't want really to be
Starting point is 01:05:12 a YouTuber yeah well here's the path of like what happened to a lot of people like early optic early phase is that we came up vlogging or doing gameplays and those banged
Starting point is 01:05:24 or did well gave us a name and then the vlogging thing kind of died out slash we realize we can make a lot more money streaming a lot of people switch to streaming and then optic goes through a rock okay let me just talk about optic in general optic goes through a rocky path it gets weird some of us stream some of us make YouTube videos some of us go on other ventures i'm thinking like bows with rich and lonely or air and create supply like do like other ventures and then now whenever optic comes back together now the meta is
Starting point is 01:05:58 totally different. You can still make a lot of money streaming and you can be a really successful streaming but vlogs don't hit anymore. Those vlogs that we used to do, they don't hit. Yeah, but even like doing individual videos, it's like I don't no one. And like who, what are we gonna
Starting point is 01:06:14 vlog? We don't live together anymore. Yeah. No one lives an interesting life. Hector does and that's why Hector's vlogs. Hector's vlogs do really well. It's because I don't know. Part of me is like do vlogs. I don't think. I don't think. vlogs hit anymore like you have to try so hard like or something has to be like i i not that i want to say i think it's corny but it's like what it's like just watching worse versions of casey nice
Starting point is 01:06:47 that i feel like when i'm watching vlogs so it's like i that's how it always i feel like i got spoiled with that yeah and then now i'm just I'll see, and I don't know, it just doesn't do, because it's not like new anymore. And no one's life is really that entertaining. I've watched a, I've seen maybe a few of Logan Paul's podcast co-host, the Mike, whatever his last name is. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:16 I've watched a few of his, and I think he might have, like, the most popular vlogs on YouTube right now. Really? Like, I think his get, like, Wanda, like, 3 million or something, like, her blog. I didn't know he was popping like that. But he does shit. Like, he has. only fans girls porn stars yeah the logan pauls the crazy life the vegas to
Starting point is 01:07:35 lae he kind of like that like david dobrook lane yeah i can understand like that like that can entertain me and like keep me right just keep me entertained but like just a day-to-day life i don't think so and like i don't i mean he got dude he got to a point where like even casey was the best casey is and forever will be the best vlogger on like in youtube history in my opinion but then you go from like Casey's videos and then like Vine dies and like all these TikTokers start making videos or these Vine guys
Starting point is 01:08:10 start making videos and they're so much fast-paced because they only had six seconds they all got big off of six seconds so like I think David Dobricks videos you know however you feel about them now like set a whole new path and a whole new trajectory for all of YouTube because his were like
Starting point is 01:08:28 Bona na na n I'm boom boom Was it action action action action But people just don't have an interesting Enough life I think to do that type of stuff I mean to hear him talk about Because I used to really like his videos Like the pacing of his videos Like to hear him talk about YouTube is crazy
Starting point is 01:08:46 He was just like He was like I would live every second of my life Like scheduling things Doing things for whatever You know whatever I had to do In order to get the shot I would do it And he would like film for 13 hours and only get four minutes. Like his videos would be four minutes.
Starting point is 01:09:03 I kind of admire that. Oh, it's really crazy. Not going to lie. I have a, well, I have a haircut in 10 minutes. Oh my God. Go, man. It's 20 minutes away. Go, man.
Starting point is 01:09:12 We don't have an album of the week. Why not? Because you still haven't listened to Johannesburg. Yeah. Hopefully you guys have listened to it. I promise. I will listen to it this week. You guys haven't listened to it?
Starting point is 01:09:25 There's no excuse. There's been three weeks. I'm going to come back with a banger next week for y'all because I don't even know what my album would be. I'm going to listen to it, I promise. Thank you all so much for watching episode. Flyguess that's the 152. Matt Craig, play the outro music, please.

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