The Flycast - Everyone Hates MaNiaC Now... Here's Why... | The Flycast Ep. 175

Episode Date: January 18, 2026

Come see us at Major 1 from January 29th to February 1st! TICKETS: https://OpTic.link/tickets OpTic Gaming Merch: https://shop.opticgaming.com/Check out the OpTic SCUF collection and use code “OpTic” for a discount: https://scuf.co/OpTicCheck out the OpTic Podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/optic-podcast/id1542810047https://open.spotify.com/show/25iPKftrl0akOZKqS0wHQG00:00 - Intro01:21 - MaNiaC is Getting Complaints11:03 - Hitch Confronts MaNiaC14:15 - The Comments Don't Understand Us16:54 - The Flycast Creative Process17:40 - 9th Anniversary of the Flycast20:36 - MaNiaC Has Trouble Reading28:35 - YouTube in 202632:26 - VLOGniaC is BACK37:40 - Have We Had the Same Convos for YEARS?!43:24 - Hitch's Vision Rewatch45:27 - FormaL Almost Played Gears47:30 - Gears of War GOAT49:09 - Calling Billy Mental51:20 - NiaC's Camera Problems53:56 - Around the Bar54:32 - Pamaj59:15 - Hitch's Next Stream (MaNiaC Steals It LiveEveryone Hates MaNiaC Now... Here's Why... | The Flycast Ep. 175

He really does get me with this like, sit down. That shit. Sit the fuck down. When he really gets into it, then I get fucking mad. You die to an elder ring boss and he goes, sit. Bro, it'll be, yeah.

You're like, shut the fuck. I'll just sit down for my one hour shift and embrace the master prestige. First spawn in, I'll just like, die. I'll just simply die to the side. sit the fuck down I'm just like and it's just him

with a fucking beer in his hand just sita he'll double down on it too I'll be like sit the fuck down I'll turn around he'll look dead in the eyes and say sit

I'm like how is this your fucking thing like how did that become your thing back to another are you kidding me are you fucking I didn't know what you were

episode, Who Gives a Fudge? It's a Fudge. This has been an issue. I've been getting complaints. From everyone in the office? From everyone. With eyeballs? Ever since I started bringing the cameras back.

There's mixed feelings about it. No, no. There's not mixed feelings about you having a camera in your hand and uploading. Zero mixed feelings there. you as a person have a tendency to be like I'm going to do this and now everyone has to follow my lead that is not that is true you just made me sound so bad right there no no no and I'm not saying you do it on purpose I'm just saying every once in a while you're like I'm on my health grind if anyone else eats a pizza their pieces of shit that is not that's kind of how you are that is

not and now you're like I'm uploading so there's no rules anymore because I'm back it has kind of been like, I don't know. Maybe I, do I forget, did I, back in the day in a spectacular way, smack at his face, packing a, back in the day, but we

would do, uh, the videos, were people vlogging during them? Not during them. No. But say we did like a smooth comp. No. No one's so we did. Yeah, because I don't really remember like cameras being brought out in the

middle of shit. Right. In the middle of a shoot. But I think I'm just like, bro, when I put my footage on my PC, it's like two hours plus. Yeah. Because I think I'm just like

getting everything. Yeah, you, you get a lot of shit. You do get a lot of shit. Well, it's like... James's been pissed. Yeah, no. James, explain from your point of view where your mindset

has been with Nick vlogging. Because he thinks you're just pissed he's vlogging again. And that's not the case. at all. That's just fuckery. Do you, before you say what you're about to say, do you watch my vlogs?

I skim them. I skim them a little bit because like if I see one scene where you're talking for like longer than four minutes, I'm just like, all right, where... That's what the people like, I think. No, no, they might like it, but like, I'm your friend. I hear this weekly.

About how locked I am? Yeah. I can't listen to anything over like a minute and a half. But it's because we have a podcast together. I'm not sitting here and... Like anything that you've said... I thought y'all would be watching and be like, damn, he's deep.

No. Damn, this is some real shit. No. Damn, he's got me motivated. Not at all. None of that. No. But when I see your back and shit, I'm like,

damn, I tear that shit up. What were you saying, James? What were you saying? Uh, there, I mean, there's a couple layers to this, because I think that there's, there's the optic side of this. And then there's the James. being the selfish

James side of it where I'm like I don't know if it's selfish I don't think it's selfish either because I think this the the intention behind my selfishness is for optic but

maybe it is selfish no it's not I because I think the intention is you getting dope which is fine because it is your dope and it is fine if it wasn't

it wasn't talked about it is fine to feel that listen listen listen listen you're gonna piss me up it's like like no we don't put our names on shit so when you say it's the dope like i get third person dope because like when optic post stuff i like i know that we made it and that's all i need like i don't need my name attached to things but like when people when the fans fuck with something or they like something a lot yeah then i'm like okay i did my job like this is good and a lot

the, we're talking specifically about the cash app commercial that we just shot. I don't think the cash app commercial reveal was that, was as bad. No, I mean, I believe it. It was the fucking. Oh, you think that? The work, you were literally vlogging in the middle of the shoot.

Well, I think it's both. I feel like that's kind of like, I don't want to say, is it bad? Or does it kind of add like a I don't know? Because I feel like it was a little stale. And I feel like that, you know, You know, you go up to everyone, you ask a question, they kind of just answer. That's it. But you go up to it.

So I feel like it had like something like, dude, made an idiot. Like you got to play it up. You got to like play it up. Like, like I got us a few likes. Anyways, what were you saying? I think there's an argument for both sides because like there's some things that like, Hex will purposely tease on his vlog and like, we'll show a little bit of this, a little bit of that. But the thing with the cash, the cash up one irked me a little bit because it's like those, the whole appeal behind those are we take you guys and put you in like these little skit scenarios that the fans are not used to seeing you in.

And so they're going to see that video for the first time. And the first time they watch it, they're going to be like, oh, this is that six seven video where they were doing the six seven thing. I wonder when that's going to be a part of it. But I feel like maybe they see that and they don't know that that's, they might have just thought we were being dumb. Like they don't maybe know. Yeah, it's possible. And we could just cut this part and then,

and then not bring any more attention to it. But that's, yeah. I mean, it was, it was leaning. I mean, we leaned into the humor a little bit. I mean, it's not the end of the world. Yeah, I'm not trying to. But it's trying to create good habits to where you don't do this with something that's,

well, I don't think I do it with something that's really important. But I do, I do, all jokes aside, I do understand that it is something you and the production team work on. It's, uh, then the fans really enjoy these moments. So if there was like, like, if I just would have got a shot of us just like walking in and we're all sitting at the table, like, whatever. No one would care. But like it is something that surprises the, they don't know what the fuck they're about to watch. So it is something that surprises. the fans and you know there's certain moments in it where it would be better if it was never

seen until when that video drops so all jokes aside i do actually get it man and i hope i hope you accept my apology did you apologize i think i just did oh oh that was an apology oh yeah sorry yeah all good dude yeah and she came in and said i thought about it before i posted it it and I did it anyways. And I was like, why are you even, why are you telling me this? He said, that just made it worse

that you actually thought about it and still posted it. Well, I thought about it. I was like, well, this isn't the actual scene. We did it. And then I was like with, I mean, maybe we should not talk about the details. Because I feel like now we're just going to explain the whole fucking. I will say,

but no, I do get it. It'll be out this week, probably. Was it, uh, James for you was it did you put a lot of pressure on yourself to do these cash app ads because the first one was so good well

I think people in people's memory I don't know what people remember as the first one but like they have continuously gotten better wait the first one was was it me and Shotsie the first one I think the first was me and Shotsie I thought it was the then it was you know what I won't I think that was a second see that's that's what's crazy is you guys don't remember

so the first three oh so the first three were asked then. No, they weren't asked. The first, I just don't know if we, I don't remember how we like, they were just with me. So like, no one cared. The, the first one we had like, aunt show up in a cloud, like, above his setup. And he was like giving himself advice and doing like the Riz face to himself. I don't think anyone saw that that. I don't remember that one at all. We did the, he looks at his PC. It's still private. And then we did, uh, we did a company card one where like Zinn and Seth steal the company car. Oh, oh, downtown. That was downtown, right?

Yeah, I remember that one. And then there was another one that was, uh, Seth was giving the cod team like financial advice. I don't remember this. That one, that, and that was like another one. And they were like, oh, the, and it was like this or that. Like, oh, the super car. Oh, oh, I do remember that. The car team was like this super car.

I do remember that. So those were the first three, but the cowboy one was like the one that was like, took off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was a good one. So there, I mean, there's a little bit of pressure. because it's like, that one was so good that like,

it's just trying to do that good or, yeah, I mean, it's hard to, that I think the one we just did hard to do. The one we just did might, might be good. Like,

it might, that one might be as good. Because I remember we, we were shooting the grandma one. And I was like, this is funny, but it's not going to be as funny. Mm-hmm.

And then the therapist one were like, Shotsie's your therapist. That one was funny too. Yeah. Like, they're all funny, but for that one, I knew there's like I think I was like

I'm talking and then I think like mid vid we're like uh you know you should play like tick-tac toe against yourself uh and like as I'm talking he's like I'm like he's writing notes for me but he's playing

tic-tac till against himself and then like celebrates when he wins so like little moments like that like you just have to have like those little moments but it is fucking it is tough to do dude I don't like I will say when

you're like you know hitches laid and whatever you always add in this thing where he goes and he doesn't even shower who you you've said it multiple times and I don't like it I just wanted I wanted to go on the record and say I don't like that show wait when did I you say it

in that video you say it in that video the the where shots is your therapist and you said it last flycast wait I think they told me to say it though or no they just said start complaining about something. Yeah, and you say it. And ever since that video, you've said it quite often.

You've said it like six or six or, like, if you show up a few minutes late, I'll just bring, like, he's here, he's late. And he hasn't showered. Wait, that actually is, uh, that actually, why is that? I don't know, but ever since that video, I'm like, dude, do I smell? Like, because I don't know if I smell or not. like PTSD fucking like I forgot this all stems from actual true like like I can't I don't want to say insecurity but yeah you can't smell I can't smell so I don't know if I stink or not yeah no uh

no it does shower okay and I I actually don't think I've ever like smelled you so like in a bad I don't know why that's become a thing. I think it's because I think it's just your hair. I think you'll pull up sometimes and your hair's just out of control. Oh, my hair does get out of control. I will say that. I will say that. I chalk it up to no shower or something.

I don't know how to get fucking audio to work. Yeah, I think at the end of this, they just told me like, just start fucking complaining about it. Start complaining stuff. He's like, he's like, tecto against himself. Oh, yeah, it's this. And he. Yeah. Yeah, and you're like going off right there.

And he doesn't shower. And then I replied to it. Did you? Just like dot, dot, dot, dot. Like, what the hell? In my head is like... In my head, I didn't even like, I don't even think I, like, thought about that again. And then you've just heard it like eight times.

I've heard you say it like multiple times since then. Did I say it last time? You said it last week. At the... Her last flight cast. I think so. Like, yeah. Because we were talking about how we like, we joke with each other and then some people

don't understand because that one guy was like, Hitch is always low-key hating on maniac on some weird energy. Shot the fuck up. Wait, someone said that? Yeah. Oh, we were talking about that. We were talking about that. Wait, what was that from? Someone leave a comment.

Yeah, on the last flag or two flag has to go at this point. Someone said it about in a comment, flycast comment section. The flycast where I'm, oh, it's the flagast with me and Renegade. Hitch always hate no maniac. And I probably made like a little like, yeah, greatest of all, greatest Halo players of all time joke, like with you and him. That's funny. I saw, knowing me, that's what I would do? There is something.

What is there? There was something like people would say comments about me. What was it? It was like something like that. Like, I wish I could remember. Because it was, it was something like that. It was actually something that like It's one of those comments

That makes you just be like, what the fuck? Like, why the fuck would you say that? Fuck, I wish I could remember. Is something like You can tell Like maniac makes the others uncomfortable Or like just something that was not That's not what it said, but just like little comments like that.

I feel like I remember it being on the episode with Page Because I remember it, I think you were like tweaking about one specific comment on that the flycass we did with page at the old office no the one that you did with her here we did one with her here or is it just you and page i remember the one

at the old office side bro i was so remember this i was so what the fuck when was this i kind of don't remember that oh my god i actually don't remember that see if we can see the what like niac no there was something that

Neack needs to focus on the good things. It's insane to me that fucking Paige was dating Roger here and didn't tell us. Is that fucking crazy? You mean the last fucking eight years? That's fucking crazy. I remember we I think it was me and Paige

did one at the old office. Yeah, I remember that one. And I was so hungover for it. I wanted to like cancel because it was just like, there's podcasts where I know I'm not like my brain's just not working I feel like super I'm just like anxious I don't like I have nothing to like like my brain I'm fucking hung over I feel like shit I'm anxious my brain just not gonna work and I'm like not gonna think of shit to talk about and that was one of those with page I remember afterwards just being like fuck I sucked on that one need to bring them back need to get page in Raj yeah get them both on doing interrogation we'd have to well I don't know about you I don't know about you I I feel like I'm not that good at like, at least for like, I mean, with me and you, everything's just... The addict can't wait to talk over page.

I mean, that's every fly ever. Fuck, what was I talking about? Oh, for us, I wing it. But for, like, even if we have Renegade on Neum on, whoever, like any guests, even if it's people I see all the time, like, I have to like sit there the day before and like think of shit. Think of shit. Yeah. Okay.

What shit we could fucking talk about? Like I'm not that. So if we had Paige and Raj, I'd probably sit there the day before and just like, figure out some good shit. Figure out some good. Some shit that just make them uncomfortable. I don't know if they'd appreciate that. They probably wouldn't.

They probably wouldn't. Yeah. I don't, I don't think so. Um, what, what's, uh, what's new besides fucking yeah, shredding? Yeah, our ninth anniversary is coming up. Did we talk about the last night anniversary of the flycast, right? Ninth anniversary of the flycast is coming up. And what's crazy is we're, what, does it say what episode we're on?

This was 174, so I'm assuming this is 175. Nine years, 175. Hey, that's good pace. That's great pace. Move aside, Joe Rogan. Let's see, nine. I'm not the best with this. 174

how do you do this math 174 divided by 9 remember the um 19.5 episodes a year it's not bad not bad I mean it's just the first fucking four years that killed us

no it was the years that it was the middle four years so we started we started hot then we moved nine years ago that's what was it 2016, 17, 617.

617. So we started it. I don't know. People were fucking listening to it. Sometimes, I mean, it actually was good episodes. Like the first couple? But I kind of just, like, sit there and I'm talking. Yeah, we were, we were little mumblers.

But, like, people, I feel like it was more real, though. Was that real shit? It was, like, an actual, like, podcast. It wasn't, like, a, formative. All right, we have an hour. Let's think of shit to talk about. It was like, you're actually a fly on the wall. Damn, you might be right. We need to bring that. We need to bring the real shit back. Is that what you're saying? I think so. So where like no time limit. No time limit. No time limit. Just producer sits there until, because sometimes we'll be doing this.

I'm like, yo, hacks a walk in. You know, how much fucking are you guys guys got to wrap this up. Or sometimes we'll fire too we'll talk about like your political atmosphere and like then that'll all get canceled the fucking liby's yeah and that'll all get cut out of the podcast and like we didn't do any cutting back in the day nope it was all in the floor what what out back in the day there was something you used to call me out on i think it was like i had to think after yes that's what it was i was I was wondering if you were going to remember that. Yeah. That must be funny if I like didn't remember that. Because I would say when I edited, because I used to edit the flight cast, I would, I could see your waveforms and you would talk and then there would be a long sentence and then it would go back.

I shouldn't have brought that up. It's actually going to be in my head now. Because you will talk and then as the sentence is forming. I think I have a learning disability Like I'm pretty sure I had a learning disability And I think in high school there was one teacher that was catching on She sent me to the slow class And my mom got pissed she sent me to the slow class

But I was I was more so in trouble I don't think she actually thought I was dumb But I do think I'm I don't know man I don't learn quick When was the last time you were like read? I can't read I read Matthew

in the Bible. Dude, I can't, but I... That's it. When I start reading the Bible, even, I even have to go back. Like, I'll get halfway through the page. And then I'm like, wait, I haven't retained anything.

And then I'll go back, read the same thing. And I'm like, this is why I don't... This is why I stopped reading to begin with. Yeah. No, I'm the same way. I tried to read Art of War like, what? Like, five years ago? Once a...

Yeah, read that book. Because you want to be, you want to tell people I've read Art of War. I read Art of War. Five years ago, I read Art of War and I'm multi-mill. Yeah, don't fuck with me. I read Art of War. But in reality, I'm like, Ben, Ben, Ben, Man.

Bro, I bought, uh, I've bought Art of War. I've bought, what's the Napoleon Hill? Think Rich, Good Friends. That's it. Think Rich Good Friends. Isn't that it, James? What's the title of it? Think Rich and Get, fuck, bitches, get money?

That might have been it. Think rich. Think rich, grow rich? by Napoleon Think and Grow Rich But like I bought that book I bought Art of War

I've bought like a Is that it? Think and grow rich It has to be Is this Napoleon Hill right there? I guess that is that But I tried to No that's not that

The poor dad, Rich Dad's not that I think it's thinking grow rich But yeah I'll fucking I'll try to read those books To be like I read those books And all the smartest people

and the most successful, they all, like, all these people recommend these books. And I'm like, but are, maybe it's not the book and maybe it's the fact that they can read something and actually retain it. Right. And that's why they're successful. Because I'm reading this shit and it is not sticky. Yeah. I can listen to books.

Maybe it takes practice. Do you think audio books is, or is, counts as reading? Both of you guys question. No. I would not say counts as reading. But I did. did listen to, I would say probably like half of David Goggins audio book and I like actually retained the information and like his story. So would you consider that? So if somebody was like,

I just want to say it was, I just wouldn't like can you say you read the book after you listen to the book? Is that what you're asking? Yes. Because I technically read my first book ever, not ever my first book since i was fucking in college last year because i just don't like reading but it was all audio book what was it it was called operation hail mary project hail mary is what it was called really good book was that about a war no it was like a fiction book oh oh my fiction's cool I don't think I could do a fiction. Like it's just a made-up story on some Harry Potter shit. I just can't relate.

What do you mean you can't relate? I remember I used to fake read Harry Potter books because everyone was reading Harry Potter. I was like, yeah, I'm reading it too. But it was just, it was the same thing. I'm reading it. Nothing's retaining. I don't know what the fuck's going on. Dude.

Really? Are you ever read Harry Potter? I would not say I've read it. I've watched, I, I think I had a, had a glimpse of what it was about, and then I saw the movie, so now I guess I get it. Dude. You read Harry Potter? It's so great. Yeah, every book. You read Harry Potter?

And, like, you retained the information. You were like, God, this is so good. I bought, I also, when I was an adult, bought the first four books on audiobook. They're very good audiobooks. movies or Harry Potter movies or Harry Potter books I would say the books Of course you would because it's the one fucking book you read

But do you actually Do you actually Like you genuinely think If you were on an island Would you rather take the books Or would you rather Take the movies? Take the movies

The books I think I think the books Maybe that's not a fair question, though, because if you're on an island, I think I'd rather have a book, too. Yeah. Just so I think you just need to read. Like, if you got caught on, like, a book and you really liked it. I'm tired of motherfuckers saying this to me.

No, but, like, I think the, my issue. Video games, books, movies, TV shows. Brain no work. I think you need to read a book that, like, is maybe non, or maybe fiction. There is a book. Because I think if you, like, if you get hooked on a story and can finish one of those books and like get it under your belt a little bit and you're like, oh, I can read again. Have you, has there been a story? Because you and I talk about this a lot. Has there been like a story since Breaking Bad that you've been invested in? Breaking Bad was it. Type in Garin Jones, change your mindset, change your life. This is the only book I've read in it.

Fiction? I've read it. No. It's about his life. He basically like hit rock bottom. I read this in rehab like a few times. And before rehab. But, uh, yeah, so I would say that was the, wait, what was your question? I was, I'm everywhere. I just asked if there was a story, if there was any story, whether it was a book or a movie or a TV show or a video game.

Eldon Ring. So you know the story of Eldon Ring? No. You just like the gameplay of Eldon Rings. That doesn't count. Just like. the five bombs. Does it count?

I did like Outer Ring, but no, I don't. Okay, have I enjoyed a story? Right. Have I enjoyed the actual point of the movie? Me? I know, like, damn near lore, not to an expert amount, but like, I was watching Game of Thrones. I know all the shit there.

I know the Pokemon shit. I know Harry Potter pretty well. I know Star Wars very well. Like, I like stories. I know. See, I don't even, I don't think I. The office, I mean, if we can even do comedies,

I know the office universe pretty well. I mean, I watched a lot of office episodes, but I do not know the story of like how it started, where it went, how it ended. I feel like there has to be something. Gotta be, I don't know, man.

I watch, I just watch, I watch a lot of YouTube. yeah and just like if you were in my bed with me watching what i breaking that shit up you would be like tearing a shit up are we doing oh yeah yeah no no like if we like watching yeah like watch that when we watch the movie like what will we be watching random YouTubers like I watch this one dude might be in my recents uh but I'll watch like nude people I don't even know James might actually like this guy if he doesn't fucking know him already.

I'm gonna try to see if he's on my... Who's that YouTuber? The fitness YouTuber? Will Tennyson. Yeah, like Will Tennyson. I watched the Alex U.Bank video. I watched the Gotham Chess video yesterday.

Um... I was into Mr. Beast for a while. Um, but now I feel like all his videos are the exact same. Yeah. Like the style, it's like we get it. You prefer.

this style. But it's just like, it's just the exact same. I do kind of wonder. I can't even like watch his shit anymore. I wonder if he's like nervous at all. About like where his channels added? Not where it's how it.

Just like, because he's perfected that one thing. And what if that one thing isn't what like is he? What if what if YouTube starts being less about like the algorithm? Yeah. exactly what if it's more of like storytelling like documentary style stuff and like that's what youtube well i think his i don't think it will but what would you go his niche will always kind of be a thing yeah like and he'll always be the mr beast of that niche yeah there's just like

like what's other niches that someone just only does these types of videos like fucking outdoor boys or something yeah outdoor boys would have been the good one but what's the dude who's a bodybuilder that uploads 40 minute vlogs? No. The big dude. Oh. Ronnie Coleman. Sam?

Sam Solick. Sam Solick. Yeah. His shit has fallen off a little bit. Oh, has it? I mean, he still does pretty sure he'll get like, yeah, type in Sam Solick. Pretty sure he'll still get like 60K with 40K and nine hours. 100k 80k

170k but this shit used to be he does still get numbers yeah he still but like all of those like 80 100 150 like that shit used to be like 400 500 600 600 that motherfucker is huge bro

I'm gonna be I I like the Hulk yeah it's uh he's kind of ridiculous I like Sam Solick this is no shot to him but I don't know how people watch his videos. I don't mind his car rants, but like when he goes to the gym,

puts a mic on and then just like records his sets. So it's like you just hear that. Right. And it's just like dead quiet and that's what's in your ears. And I'm just, I can't do this anymore. I don't know how people are like, I'll skip his,

what's crazy is for Sam Solic I'll click on his videos and when he gets to the gym I'll just skip it and I'll get to like the end when he makes a meal and just starts like yapping again when I'm sure a lot of people watch it to see what he's working out that second thumbnail doesn't even look like real

bro just wait till my back in like two three months it's gonna look like that I ain't gonna lie sometimes I flex my back and I'm like especially in certain lighting and I'm like this is this might go crazy like this is not what everything else Yeah, I'm like, this is not what it actually looks like, because my shit looks crazy sometimes.

But like any other part of my body, I'm like, yeah, I'm not putting this in the video. But my back under a certain lighting, I've just figured it out to make it like a little turtle shell. It actually does look pretty good. See, this is, this is what my thumbnails are going to look like. I don't know, I don't know what direction. I started this YouTube or this vlogging shit again just to like, didn't even play, didn't really plan on it. to get views. You know, the core audience that

likes watching it, they'll enjoy it. And the people that are more into, I guess, the fitness stuff, they'll enjoy it. And that was sort of the point was for me to do this, keep it accountable, and, like, track the progress of this fitness journey I'm on. Not to talk about it. But now it's turning into, like, I feel like I'm just vlogging.

It's like not even my last vlog. it turned into just a vlog I wasn't even showing like cooking I wasn't showing on the screen this meal was this many calories because I don't know if a lot of people really give a fuck about that Personally I think that

Keeping yourself accountable in the fitness part That should be like a side character of your vlog You should be like by the way I'm still doing this But your vlog if you're doing it for real If you don't care about the views and shit And do it however you want But like I think you're not

should vlog to vlog and then also add moments of like still working out yeah so i am trying to have like each time i vlog i want it to be like a little bit better today i'm using like a point and shoot and i'm sure i'll have like some good moments whatever doing this uh yeah app and whatever the hell are we still getting tattoos today i'm down okay um i have to get shorts though but you just getting something on your leg yeah do you know what you want a halo sword oh i'm a a halo sword too. We're going to have two matching,

two sets of matching tattoos. That was the gayest thing we've ever done. We should just get the exact same. I don't know. A halo sword's a good idea, though. Where is I going with that? You have a point in shoot.

I want every vlog to get better. Today I'm using a point and shoot. But even, so I'm not going to get like, I kind of like getting like this kind of cinematicy walk in, pull off in the car, open the door. Yeah, yeah. Like, I kind of like doing that. And I kind of like having those moments of like putting music in with those clips.

Yeah. And like I like watching those style of videos. I don't like it when it's just like nonstop. Like a Steve will do it. 100K on black. Like I like more like cinematicy stuff. Like I've been watching a lot of YouTubers that they'll get. 5K, 5 to 10K

on their videos and like and I'm sitting there fucking watching them and they're really fucking good. Yeah. They put hell of effort into them. I want to just at least try to put more effort into the shots, the

sort of some cinematic stuff, the gym footage. The vlog footage is just going to be me but like just some of the shots the, I don't know what you, what would you, What would you what do you call those like just B roll? Yeah like B roll shots. Better B roll shots.

Better editing. I am trying to at least make every vlog better. Yeah. Yeah, we'll see. But yeah, it is, I think it is just turning into me being me. And you're like, oh, by the way, I'm way this much now. Yeah. But I do want there to sort of be like a finale one at the end.

I don't know if two months is going to be long enough. I might have to push this even further, which would be good. But I do want there to be like some, like a really good video at the end where I like maybe I'm hiding my physique for a while, even though I don't know if I'll be able to the first sign of abs. I don't know if I'll be able to. No, you won't be able to. Bro, there's going to be. I'm going to be an optic content just like wiping off my lips and shit. But no, I would like to like kind of maybe hide my physique and.

then at the end, boom, just have like a hire someone to edit some kind of video, maybe go back, find old clips, fine old druggy me in the optic scuff house. I sit down in a chair and I talk about it. I don't know if there's time. I don't know if there's times. I don't know if they're going to be able to find any moments in like optic videos of you talking about like I want to get fit and like I want to. Yeah. I wish I would have said it more. Yeah.

Because it's going to be hard to find those clips. They can probably just like go back a year, click on a flycast. And then it's somewhere in the first like 20 minutes. Go back another year. Click on a flycast somewhere within like they can probably find a clip per year by just clicking a year back. Somebody's going to make the craziest fan cam. Bro, I'm pretty sure.

When you get finally get shredded, it's going to be clips, five years of clips, be like, this has got to be the year. Dude. It's really. like this is it though because you said if I don't do it I'm pretty sure I said this though you said if I don't do it this year I'm dead

yeah it's like what do you mean that's it that's when you know that it has to happen or you die you should click on a really old video right now just for fun and you guys should guess what you think you're talking about we'll pick like a we'll pick how long ago

go to like go to Nick's channel go to flycast yeah on Optic Maniac just what really happened with yeah not that one oh is that the our thumbnails were like so good but so shit they're so like what the fuck is that oh yeah like the the playlist wait okay i just didn't yeah yeah play okay scroll down to like the hex quarters ones yeah these uh are transgender talk and butt cheeks all right but you guys you guys both have to pick a time

timestamp and I'm going to click to the time stamp and we're going to see what you're talking about. I think we're talking about a rave. A rave. Yeah, because I think this. 45 minutes. I'm going to say 22 minutes in. I'm talking about working out again. Fuck.

I don't have the audio. I don't know if this work. Oh, wait. Yeah, we don't have the audio. Look at my jacket, though. Fresh is fuck. Oh, we've got the audio. wait wait we've got it

okay no so 22 minutes in I bet I'm talking about about fitness dude there's no way if it yeah but here in like

the United States or you know other places they see like these beautiful women on bikinis and shit like that and they're like oh

that's who I am I don't fucking know that all stem from Coachella Wait, I was right. Rave. Oh, wait, I said 45 minutes. Oh, this was before I went to Coachella.

Yeah. I'm going to go to the mall tomorrow. I was thinking, do I want to go Coachella? Dude, do our voices sound different? That's what I'm saying, bro. I'm saying, I'm telling. Chucks, high socks, tank top. Yeah.

Just bracelets everywhere. I don't know. This is weird. Bro, it's weird for me to go back and watch my old self because I know I, it's like I, once I see my old self, I can feel what he's feeling. If that makes sense. Like I like, I know I'm on barely any sleep. I know I'm probably, I'm 100, 100% on at least some Adderall right there. I know like, oh, we both are for sure.

Without a doubt. What year was this? like 2019 or something. Scroll down for a second. Yeah, 2019. April 12th. Because we used to film these at like 3 a.m. Yeah.

At the hex quarters. Or, dude, the weirder ones are the ones during the infinite offices. We would go. I kind of like those. We would go in the infinite office and it was just such a place of hatred and we would just. Sometimes we would get, our show would be like two hours, 20 minutes. So just

bullshit See that was just I don't Was it the adage? Yes I could not do that now But also I feel like there is no expectation

At all No there wasn't Like I didn't go into it With any like And somehow I was producing all of this Editing it And uploading it to your channel I was the star of the show

You did think that for a little bit That's crazy. She said raves. 45. Raves of 45, yeah. He likes guys shoes. If you walk by a girl and she's like, nice shoes, you're like, thanks to Jimmy choose.

I feel like it's just. Or you walk by a girl. What? What they are? Then they're like, who's the heck? Right. If you got Jimmy choose on.

That's so like, what would be the word. Do I even have those shoes anymore? Like, you care about like what people like, like, where do they go? Yeah, but, but at the same time, why is Seth buying seven pairs of Yeezys? Because he cares. Exactly.

That was, that was cool at the time. That's the equivalent. Yeah, that's true. Okay. It wasn't the rave. What's in the background? Do you see the Maniac playlist? Yeah, that was a YouTube series that I did.

That's what I'm saying. Yeah, if you, it, if you type in like, maniac, I don't know, hitter-ride maniac playlist or whatever, I had people choose their top 10 favorite songs on their life's playlist. I think it's life playlist. Yeah, right there. What's hell? What's up, guys? Maniac here.

Dude. I hate watching these. Even now, it's not like I only hate these. I ain't watching me now. Yeah, it says it's just songs. And I remember you put that fucking Immortal Technique song on here. Dan's with the devil. Yeah, you're like, this is on my playlist.

And I was like, that song's on your playlist. Just about. Insane. And don't listen to that song. Six, six, seven. Like six or seven, like right when I came out. He said it twice. It's crazy.

This is before six, seven. Like, no reaction. No, nothing. No reaction. How life has changed. Eight years ago or something. Yeah. It is crazy how that became a.

fucking thing. Like, I don't get it. I'm doing a, like a vision rewatch and it's funny to see how you are back then. Because it's, you've changed a lot.

I feel like I've changed a lot, but you're like, like, you walk in in the first episode and the, the boiler room's already flooding. And you go, those better not be my towels.

What? Was I better back then? I think you were like, you were like, I was always zombie mode. Yeah, you were always zombie and you wanted, I can't tell if you were on drugs or if you wanted to be like, like nonchalant. I wasn't trying to be anything. I think I just always felt anxious and uncomfortable. Dude, I didn't really, I would talk monitor. The first three episodes is Hex trying to get Bose to team with you for Call of Duty.

That's like, first three episodes of what? Yeah, because Blackups 3 had just come out. Bose doesn't have a team, but he's living in the house. Halo 5 hasn't really truly started yet, even though the game's been out, but there's no, there was no HCS. So you guys hadn't even started scrimming yet, and you didn't have a fourth. It was just you, Cleet and Mike. Probably should have switched.

And, and Bose's like, bro, like, like, I can't, if I pick up, if I pick up Nick, people are thinking I'm not taking it serious and like that no one's going to play with us. And he was like, then you got to be. their fourth for Halo. Yeah. No. The thing is, that's actually how Hex's brain works.

Like, he does kind of... That's why Renegades on the Huntsman. Yo, if Beau switches to Halo, y'all gotta pick him up. He's fucking good, man. He'll get, y'all got to teach him. If he don't get good, it's good to you all then.

I remember one time there was a, there was a Gears of War event where one of the players, this is when we were like dominant in Gears of War. like we won five events straight or something one of the players couldn't play and hex was like and they were like we have to pick up somebody for this one event because he can't play that one event and hex was like get formal put him on the gears team because then formal will have a chip in

three different events and matt was like i mean i guess i could play and i can see in like explosives face he was like and like formal hasn't touched gears doesn't know how to play gears at all The thing is, yeah, I don't know if formal's that good. I was about to try to hype him up. But it's 5. It's 5.5. So, like, you got a little bit to fall back on. Like, there's probably a spot where, like, formal can just be like, go or like, tell a formal like, go, just go here, hold this down.

If you see him, call him out. Right. Or something. If it's like, where he's not going to be in a. He was playing with like, back in those days, like, summons explosive and mental. And then formal, like, he might have been able to hold his. Formal would have started pulling off 18 hours shifts and like grinded

He probably would have got pretty good pretty quick But I remember that was like a real discussion in the scuff house And I was like that would be fucking hype I remember saying it like that would be hype If formal got like a real MLG chip That'd be crazy In another In the only other console

There's only three console e-sports really I mean it is crazy mental was at least pro In Gears cod and And Halo yeah But he was he wasn't yeah No, you're right. I think, is he the only one that did all three? I mean, it ain't nobody gonna go to gears.

That's true. That's true. But I'm sure a lot of HALOR COD people would go pro in gears. Billy was like the goat of gears. Yeah. Like, I don't think. Is he the goat? I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. But he was like by far the best player in the game. Look up who's the greatest gears of war player of all time. What's that? What's that guy's name? He ain't paying attention. No, James is the Paine.

Greatest Giers of War Player of all time. See what, see what, uh, AI says? What's the Google AI that always pops up? Gears of War Player of all time. Kenny Bounce. Kenny Bounce. Kenny Bounce. Kenny Bounce.

Keney Bounce. Knie, mental. Explosive and summons. It can't be Kenny. Kenny, can he, can he was damn good, bro. But like, I feel like mental was. I would say mental was definitely the playmaker if I were. I feel like mental was definitely the playmaker if I were.

I feel like mental was just. just on top for so long and I feel it and I think Kenny was like I feel like when you think of the best you think of mental explosive summons yeah like that squad it was definitely somebody

the best gears player ever is definitely was somebody on that on that optic team I wonder who they would say I think a lot of people I bet you a lot of people would say summons wait let me see face time face time mental let me face some you think he

He'll see a face time from Hitch and just be like, what the fuck? Probably. He probably thinks it's for like a tournament or something. He might be like, what the fuck? Mental. I miss living in those apartments and we all just live beside each other, even though I was cracked out and always in my room and never hung out with anyone. But I remember, like, I'd go to the gym with snake bite in the morning.

We would, like, leave our phones in our apartments, go to the gym, work out, fucking babysitting mental dogs. babysitting mentals oh yeah you know what's crazy all the time i've lived with boz i've never been in his room i've never been in his room i've never been to his apartment yeah me neither i've never seen the inside of boz's sanctuary never i hope this i don't know another mental do i hello hey what's up billy how you doing i'm good how are you doing good man we're in the middle of the flycast and nick had a question he wanted to know who the best gears of war player all time is.

I mean, it's me and me and Gilbert. I would just put us too. I'd never say me. Because you're, because you're too humble type shit? I don't know. Gilbert's good,

dude. He's the IGL and I was like, I was like the main slayer type shit. So I always put him there. We Googled it and it people, Google AI said like Kenny, uh,

Summons. Powers. Summons. And I was like, no, it has to, it has to be Billy. Yeah, those are some of my teammates' powers.

He's like top 10 for a straight. He's really good. He's like an up andcomer. And then summons, of course, is up there too. Yeah, who, so it's... Is it even debatable? Like, you were explosive? Yeah, people debate between him and I.

But, like, there's mostly just us two people debate about. But, like, you were the skilled one and he was like the IGL, fucking... Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, exactly. All right. So is you. All right, man. I appreciate you.

I hope you do good, man. Yeah, you too. All right. Good one. Later. Shout out Billy, man. Dude's always a pleasure. Just hearing his voice kind of like.

Such a good guy. By day, like the lights got brighter. Yeah, everything's just good now. Everything is all. Nothing could bring me down. So it's official. Mental is the greatest years of war player for all time. You did kind of just like coax him into that though.

You were like, so. You were like the super skilled one. kind of sucks and like you're just kind of saying that that's what you were saying it was like yeah no he was like no yeah sure all right later you're rusting out the vlog camera again today huh yeah what's your what got rid of what why aren't you using a camera you don't have one oh you're on your phone type of james wanted his back so he could shove it in his closet an asshole my friend that lives in my building he needed his back because he does

vloggy kind of his shit's more like aesthetic cinematicy shit so he needed his camera back and so I'm borrowing Hex's point and shoot that I picked up this morning like a G7X or something I don't even it doesn't even have a name on it

but those are the best kind I was like do you have the because the camera I was using was the Sony ZVE1. And he was like, oh, I got that camera. If you need it, let me know. And in my head, I'm like,

this is one of those hexes, hex things where you're like, you don't have that camera. And I was, and I said him, I was like, is it the Sony ZVE1? He was like,

yeah, I got it. I was like, all right, I'm going to come pick it up. What does it say on it? What is it called, though? And he was like, I'll take pictures of it.

It is not the, it is not the Sony's ZveE1. I was like, the Sony Zvee1 is like $2,300. like nice ass camera like a little bigger he was like oh no there's just a little like point and shoot costs like 700 bucks

I was like yeah that's not it but I'll be there tomorrow to pick it up appreciate it picked it up it has one battery life left in I got like a few clips there got here got a few clips battery died so now I've been getting some clips on my phone so this is all hex's fault listen I appreciate hex uh doing this for me

no I do appreciate it I mean, I don't think he thought I was going to drive down, pick it up, and instantly he started fucking... He thought you were in charge it and shit. Like, yeah, he thought I was probably just going to pick it up, take it home, and figure it the fuck out. But, yeah, I picked it up one battery life. So it's charging today.

I'm vlogging today. And hopefully, hopefully it's like full battery by the time I get it back. What time are we getting tattoos? It's supposed to be at one. Where is it? Dallas. Oh, it's downtown? Yeah.

So you're going to go first? I mean, why? Why does that matter? Because I don't know if I'm going to make it in time. What do you got to do? Actually, I don't think I have anything to do. We'll probably be all right. All right, we'll be all right.

You want to drive separately? Yeah, because I got to come back. I got around the bar with scrap today. Damn, and around the bar with scrap? Yeah. Scrap today. Chengi tomorrow. Brown the bar's doing good, huh?

Yeah. I looked at the, what clip popped up for me. It was, uh, I think it was a Pomage clip. Like greatest sniper of all time. I was so happy to do that. Oh, yeah. It's funny that one of his goals for the race of prestige was to do a... Around the bar with me.

One of my goals is for Hitch to think of a bunch of questions and pay a camera guy to come up and record us. that's my goal for me for for him he has to do all the work but like one of his goals was like you had to freestyle for an hour

yeah and and another one do a marathon with him like multiple day like a some other souls game marathon and I was like so just like

if you hit this goal I have to spend three days doing what you want. Yay. So good. But I mean, who knows it might actually. I was going to say doing a marathon with Pam would be fun. But you know how we did the Eldon Ring marathon?

And he'd show up at 5 a.m. Yeah. Like, no, he'd show up at 5 p.m. And then it's 5 a.m. And I'm like, I'm laying in bed, Pam. Kind of just waiting for you to get the hint. And he's just, yeah, he just loves it, bro. He just, Pam really is.

Look, Pam's one of my favorite people. I love him. He has a great heart. He's a great person. I'll be friends with Pam for life. If he ever, if he needs something from me, I would help him out. But there are some times where he just, he loves it. He loves the like, like his fantasy is just all of us, basically the race of master

proceeds. Yeah, every day. Yeah. That's his. That's what he. He'll do it. He'll go and tell. He wants us to do like

He can't level a thousand Until he can't go anymore Like what I remember when we were like wiped We were wiped from rock band Like we had played rock band for like an hour and a half He'll just grab another beer And I was like all right I think that's it He was like you guys are done

I was like dude Yes we're done He was like but we didn't even finish We didn't even finish that one song And Tush is like dead Yeah And we're all dead in my bed by then. He's ready to keep going, dude. No, he just, he loves like the camaraderie of it.

Yeah, he does. He does. Fucking, yeah, during the Eldon Ring pop up at like 5 p.m. It hits 5 a.m. I'm like, uh, all right. I'm getting, I can't do that like, like, after a few days, like, I'm not even like, all right, chat, I'm going to be back. I'm just like, I got to lay down. I don't get my fuck. I lay down and then he sits there and he starts talking. and just going. He just fucking, he just loves it. Yeah.

But, yeah, there was, so doing a multiple, he just started, especially once he starts grabbing the beers. Yeah,

he can go with some beers. He can, he can go. So doing a multiple day marathon, I mean, I don't even know if I could do it with, me and APG were talking about doing a Halo one.

I could probably do it with APG, but a multiple day marathon with pants, especially, doing the he really does get me with this like sit down that shit sit the fuck down when he said when he really gets into it then i get fucking mad you die to an elder ring boss and he goes sit bro it'll be yeah you're like shut the fuck i'll be play i'll just sit down for my one hour shift and then embrace the master prestige first spawn in i'll just like die i'll just simply die

to the side. Sit the fuck down. I'm just like, and it's just him with a fucking beer in his hand. Sit to sit. He'll double down on it too. I'll be like, sit the fuck down. I'll turn around. He'll look me dead in the eyes and say sit.

I'm like, how is this your fucking thing? Like, how did that become your thing? Oh, dude. I remember once I was at the or when we were at the Eldon Ring DLC stream, at one point Pam hadn't talked in the chat forever

and you were getting pissed because you kept dying to a boss and you just go and I know Pam's just sitting there with a beer in his hand happy as fuck and then he just types in all caps what the fuck question mark he didn't say anything for hours

and I just knew he was sitting there watching oh he's so funny dude I just know Pam sitting there with a beer in his hand oh my God invited him out the other night and he or it was weeks ago it's probably like a fucking month ago I don't remember

at this point it's all fucking blur but it was fun it's always always fun having pam around so you know I talk shit and but it's all just all good fun man all good fun he's one of my favorite people um I know what I know what my next stream's gonna be

or I know what my first stream back is gonna be like my first series back what's that I'm going to attempt to do all achievements in Minecraft which is fucking hard gonna say isn't that like it's like hard and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give my pretty nerdy

I'm gonna do it in hardcore and get and and I'm gonna give myself one attempt like if I die the stream ends basically like you can't do it again yeah like I would have to start from scratch the next stream so as soon as the as soon like basically as soon as I die I'll be like no and then the stream will just end like you're gonna do that on purpose I don't think I'll do it on purpose but fuck man don't know goodbye no anything and everyone's just like question marks LOL LOL there you

goes but I think I think that that's that's what my first uh my first stream yeah I might just steal that entire First stream back, hardcore marathon until I beat the game. I mean, like I can't sign off. I feel like you should do that anyway. You should do that anyway. Stream on until that dragon's killed. Stream has to be on.

Right. Even if I have to like go to sleep. Even if you have to go to sleep and chair. Even if you have to go to sleep, sleep in chair. Might be. That doesn't sound too bad. See, I need to start, like, you're going to start planning these out.

Because I do want to stream. I might have to write this down. Stream. Let me start a note. Stream ideas. I haven't started on that. Dude. Hardcore mindcraft.

You're just stealing my idea in real time. In real time. It's happening. I'm going to do it tomorrow. Tomorrow. Oh shit. All right. We're going to get tattoos.

Yeah, I guess we're going to get tattoos. Let's get food. Let's go bowling. Let's, we'll probably just get tattoos. Probably just get tattoos. Probably just call it from there.

Yeah, I would say. Yeah, it's probably, it's going to have it. Yeah. I haven't seen your place, though. Could show you my place.

Might go into that place and beat that shit up like it ain't nothing. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. All right, guys, appreciate you watch another episode of the Flycast. episode 175. If you guys enjoyed it, please PayPal us each $150 a day. Yep. My cash app, I believe,

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