The Flycast - HARDEST PART OF GROWING UP IN OpTic (NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THIS) | The Flycast Ep. 55

Episode Date: November 7, 2022

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All right, man. All right, Matt. We'll see you later, Matt. We'll see you later, Matt. Thanks for hanging out, bro. Thank you so much, Matt. Yeah, we appreciate you. Chilling with us.

Oh, yeah, I'll turn the fan off, Matt. Yeah, no, we'll get it, Matt. I'll turn it off. Don't work now. You go. You go. You go. Hold on.

We'll get it started in a sec here. I don't want you to have to move. All right, man. This episode of a fun. Mycast, episode, what is this, 7,455? Yep. Is brought to you by Pringles. What does this sound like?

What's Matt's B-O-V? Yeah, let's hear, let's hear me. Hello, check, check. Do I sound wonderful? One, two, three. Ooh. It sounds good. I don't know how people do podcasts with mics on or headphones on.

Really? I feel like it would be better. I can't do that. Really? I can't. Well, do you have, voice playback when you stream very very very minimal like the most minimum it can go really i'd prefer like not to hear it at all but i hear myself i know screaming in my ears i don't know how you do that it's like the only way i can hear myself i can't focus also when i put like when i put auto tune on

and stuff like that's the only way i can tell if it's in key with the auto tune yeah in key with the yeah because you sometimes you'll put a track on in the Auto tune won't like register the key and you just sound well it doesn't sound great to begin with But you sound like I feel like it's the same thing every time. It's not like it adjust really or do you have to make it adjust? No it reads your it reads your computer What? Yeah go XLR wait what dude I'm telling you I don't I don't I didn't see it I didn't see many people before I started doing like the gulag song shit I'm not trying to pat myself on the nuts or anything but before I started doing like I don't know like the Gulloch song and shit, I didn't see many people because I was like, no one, no one's using this auto tune to like the biggest,

to like its biggest ability. But how do you use it more to its ability? So if you, it's a setting, if you go to autotune, it's called hard tune on, on Gawksilar and scroll all the way to the right, you can, it says source and it'll shoot, you choose the input that the source reads. And so I saw that and I was like, oh shit, is it going to be able to change keys? So then I changed the source. to the desktop and started playing YouTube beats and it would yeah it's like it's like an 80% it'll

change to the key like 80% of the time wow I did not know this I figured it was just like a one one key yeah like just some cheap thing like you all add auto tune on there is fuck it no it's actually like legit wow that's insane that's like when I first start when I first started doing it I was like what the fuck this sounds like incredible and that's why Blake and Georgia pop off so hard in that gulag clip because it was one of the first times i had ever done it oh that's when it's when it started off like it's all in key and everything did that low key go viral yeah that was a crazy that was that before tic-tok times no i think it hit tic-tok i didn't know anything about ticot back then yeah that yeah that that was i think that's like the only time of well actually we kind of went

viral with the fucking that thing when we were like Twitter viral you know what I don't understand is the whenever Yeezys were first coming out and like getting super super popular when we did that we were

when we were in the hallway with like yeah we did the SpongeBob with was it Seth Shoes? Yeah Sez Shoes. And Pomage recorded he felt so good about recording that dude he loved it. Yeah I don't know how

he like wanted like he was Like, dude, we did that. I look. Yeah, we did. We did that. I look back and just look at at least, I don't remember what you were wearing, but I like, look at my outfit. And I'm like, how the fuck did this, like, pop off at all?

Do you ever watch, like, Scuff House videos? Not really. I mean, not for a long time. I used to, like, maybe randomly bring one up on stream. It was like, Jesus Christ, I don't know what the fuck I'm going to stream right now. I've maybe pull that up. and then tweet it out. Re-watching Scup House moments.

Join up now and everyone joins. Yo. Uh-huh. I love, I can't. I fucking love these times. I miss these times. I miss these days.

Uh-huh. You guys will never amount to what you used to be. I mean, they don't, they probably don't say that. No, they more say that. They definitely don't say that.

What is? What did I see yesterday? It's funny because I feel like a lot of YouTubers have those, like, have those. those moments or a lot of the YouTube teams where it's like

that's like damn those were like the good days and that's so like that's such a I don't know if that's heartwarming for anyone in I don't know do you think that's heartwarming for like people like like YouTubers that maybe maybe

those kind of sentences or like those kind of statements are heartwarming for like Mr. Beast or like like courage or people who are like constantly crushing but for the rest of us that are like still trying to navigate through YouTube it's like holy shit like we were crushing at one point yeah now I've I've been thinking I've noticed that more when I've like I guess become sober is like if I because it would have been it would have been if I did then

what I did now and just kept doing it consistently like woke up did a three to four hour stream and in I was in a house and I wasn't always fucking like sleeping or whatever during the day and hated life for some reason like I would have been able like I feel like I would have crushed it so hard like it would have been so much easier to be consistent if you stayed consistent if I if I if I was just sober back then oh like how much easier it would have been to just stay consistent and I would have had like such a maybe I mean maybe everything's hindsight because maybe back then I would have like

thought I was cool and would have tried to like go out all the time or something I don't know yeah you never really like looking back it's like damn that shit would have been so fucking easy but wasn't always taking Adderall and shit and never wanted to be on camera yeah or the inconsistency of streaming

you would go through like spells of of not taking of not taking like at least not taking to the amount where you were a zombie. Like, I'm thinking about, like, your Q&A videos or, like, your, like, impression videos or, like, your vlogs, like, those were all really good. And you weren't, like, cracked on those. You might have been on stuff.

I might have been on, like, a 20 or 40. Right. But to me, that was, like, let's get out of bed. And then it would, like, that would kind of spark, spark it. And then I would randomly go in, like, maybe a few days or a week without taking. because Adderall was like I could always get off of it. Xanax I was always taking. Like I was just always on it.

Like at least just a little bit just to like chill out. But Addy's, I would take like little breaks and stuff. But then it would just be like I'd re-up and it's like, here we go again. Then it's like sometimes I wouldn't even use it for streaming. A lot of, every single time I streamed I was on it. But I remember there was one 24 hour. I didn't have it. And that was so fucking hard.

yeah i remember that yeah i remember how crazy is it that i remember you slept you ended up sleeping yeah it was like 22 hours in the stream or something i just slept on my bed yeah and it fucking i think someone like recorded it i might add like 1500 or 2k viewers just like you're sitting there watching me sleep that was before that was when sleeping was illegal dude not not it was terms of service oh really yeah oh so people were texting me like yo can you go turn nick stream off you're I also remember one time of my birthday stream, this was at the 60-50. I turned on my stream, it's my birthday stream. The first time I had ever heard of you, by the way.

I was watching this. I think I bought a bottle of gray goose. And then this girl, who I eventually found out it was a girl, don't know if this was TOS back then, but I put it up a screen $20. $20 donation for every shot or something. So it's like, I started out the street and someone hits me to a 20. I'm like, well, yeah. Someone hits me with another 20.

And this is when you, to be fair, this is when you had 60 viewers, right? Yeah. So you were averaging like 60. Yeah. So $20 a shot, that's not. If you did that now, you would die. Yeah. And you, because you almost died last.

But this is, yeah. This is like maybe 60 viewers. But one of my viewers, this hits me with a thousand dollar donation. What was there? even if I remembered her name but I don't know if I'd say it yeah but she donated a thousand dollars and I was like what the fuck and I thought it was a dude just like a fan and uh I was like no fucking way so I just started chugging it and a few hours later I was just passed out on my PC like I don't know how it happens I wonder if anybody

has the clip of Will walking in yeah that's what that's what I'm thinking of because I just started slowly fading away and it's just and then I just put my head down and I don't know how long it was but I think Will walks in I think he might have did a little dance That's what I remember seeing I think he did a little dance

I saw people say like maniacs passed out on a stream And I remember thinking like who the fuck is maniac And so but I had like I had like vaguely heard because I had vaguely heard of you Because Mike said something in one of his vlogs and dude those were the days Where everyone in the house that uploaded

They were all getting like 300K A video like that's fucking Those are numbers, especially in 2014, 2014. Dude, there was a whole fucking wave. I wish I was there during, like, the nade shot. Same. What do you wish? Same, dude.

Because I hit a good way. We had a really good wave in the scuff house. But that original 60-50 wave, like, it was a different beast. Yeah. But, yeah, what were you saying? You wish you were in that wave? well I wish I was in that wave but yeah big timer walks in fucking I think he just turns it off

and then I remember waking up a few hours later and just started blowing chunks on the carpet and then I just blew chunks on the carpet and then just went to bed just didn't clean it up like I was so fucked up so yeah there are some memorable moments do you might be you might be one of the first people in in optics like like IRL history like not can not including like the sniping team but you might be the first one that like when I joined was just call of duty right yeah it was just like guys hex had already dropped the sniping team and then Mike joined to be the coach no but then big timer was now the

coach quote unquote so then Mike started a halo team yeah so then that's when you got you come in and like you're you're trying to make videos but you're not getting the initial like 300k fuck no you're you're the first person to have to have to like to join optic and still have to like because i yeah i wasn't i never made a video in my entire life until i joined optic i fuck i'd never watched a video never watched any of the optic videos never watched literally any vlog i don't even know what type of youtube videos were made back then but I never watched any of that shit. I don't even know what I did.

That is insane. I played like League Legends, hung out with my Halo boys and Skype. That's crazy you took that big of a leap, though. I really don't. Thinking back, it's like, I don't even know why or how. Because I remember when I've never in my life have I made a vlog.

I don't even think I made a vlog up until then. Or I definitely didn't make a vlog. Never even thought about making a vlog. doing any type of content. I just wanted to fucking play Halo, take Addy. And then Mike asked me to join, except I knew my team was better, but it was like, fuck. Like, I kind of always, because they were always good friends of mine. Um, so I kind of always wanted to.

Like Mike and Ace. Mike Ace and Assault. Like for some reason, I always, like, I always like that team of, uh, Flame, Ace, Assault, and Enable. like they all they stuck together for a long ass time and no one ever looked at them like that like skilled ass team that was just super hard to beat it was just like for some reason at every tournament they would like play super consistent

and they were just hard to beat for something or for some reason and like it was like it seemed like only a tournament thing online they were fucking trash they were so easy to beat like an online scrims and it was like they seem like that team that didn't care like online like they were just sitting there saying They're doing that screw them.

But then in like every tournament, they seem to just like kind of show up. And but we did always make fun of the fact that they always had an SQ bracket. Like it was that thing. Like, oh, damn, we got an SQ bracket, which means it's just an easy-ass bracket to like top four or something. Like you've literally played the worst of the worst team up until like top four. But I always. That's hilarious. Those four were like some of the only people besides like a Roy and a lunch and an ogre two or

and a pistola that I like. hadn't team with because I've sort of dabbled I sort of dabbled with everyone like the snipe downs and the hinds and I sort of like APGs the Destins and I sort of dabble with yeah with everyone but I always wanted to I don't know I'd like wanted to team with them probably wish a naval was on the team because everyone kind of thought a naval carried Like everyone sort of thought Enable and Ace carried But like

There was games Mike would pop off CLEET I remember it I think they got second At a Nats 2010 maybe And Cleet played

Amazing It was fucking For knowing Gleet And knowing he's just Like people look at Like back then It was like support player

Yeah But like he played Fucking amazing Um Like shit ting With snipe fucking everything He's literally

Just slang hard But I always Wanted To team with them and I think when Mike finally when Mike randomly asked me to join because they were just like kind of fucked no one really wanted a team with them

and like I played really good at 8 or I was really good at H2A and that yeah yeah so they asked me or no they asked APG and APG said yeah and APG was on optic for a little bit really? Yeah it was Mike

cleat uh ace and APG and I think APG was on it for like a week or two and maybe they scrimmed and they were just trashed and ABG was like fuck this and then he left because like APG joined because of the

optic thing as well like I think in the Halo community maybe we saw I don't know when call duty started like popping off but maybe we saw the call duty shit rising then eight shots the scumps we're like this shit's blowing the fuck up optics number one

at that time so we were like what the fuck oh the with the chance to play for Optic, like, I think, I don't know, I don't really remember what our point of view or our thoughts about Optic were from, like, the Halo community, but for some reason,

AP, I know APG joined because it was like, oh, playing for Optic. Yeah. And then I think they just sucked. And it's like back then in Optic, especially for Halo, you didn't really get shit out of it. There weren't salaries.

Yeah. He wasn't going to move there and make YouTube videos. Or he wasn't going to move there. He wasn't going to move there. YouTube videos for sure. He wasn't gonna, like it was just almost no point of, like there was no using optic at all for him. So I think he just left and then.

Or no, wait, maybe he didn't join. Wait, did he fucking join? Did he leave my team? Am I getting this? It's so damn longer. He might have, he might have denied them. I swear he joined. I think he, I almost think he left us

and then came back. And then I left. Wait, is that how I fucking see? You're going to have to ask him. Yeah, last week, we were, Hitch was out of town. And I wanted to do a podcast, Me, Trippy, Ace, and APG. But Trippy was out of town. Ace goes to fucking Mexico randomly.

And APG was like, I'm trying to enjoy my offseason. All right, champ. I chant. But yeah, maybe next week we can get APG on here or something. I want to get like an APG and Trump. trippy or something. Yeah, we gotta talk to them. Well, here his point of view, because he fucking remembers everything. I'm pretty sure he left, joined, but it was like the off-season, so it's like, no one was really screaming or anything, and maybe APG changed his mind,

and then he joins back, and then I get offered, and I leave. Damn. Because, oh, when I got offered, I was like, if, if I joined, can I move to the house? and of course Mike's like yeah and I don't Hax says he didn't know anything about it I just kind of showed up I did the same thing with Aaron create I was just like by the way Aaron's coming

Yeah Hacks like no he's fucking not I'm like well he's here Yeah literally If you want to kick him out Yeah it was like yo maniac's gonna be here in like an hour He just drove here from Maryland I was like what the fuck

So I move in Or that yeah It was pretty much, I, for some fucking reason I knew the only reason I wanted to join, I think I was like kind of maybe not done with playing, but it was like, I think I was like, I'm getting old. I need like something else to fucking do. I was working at a grocery store stocking shelves. So I was like, all right, if I join, I want to be able to move into the house and I'll start making

videos. He said, yeah. And like instantly I bought a camera and started vlog. I even, I have hometown vlogs. I don't know how many. before you move yeah before i moved yeah before i moved it was like a day in the really so do i yeah i want to see yours uh fucking it's like me and blake going to the fair and shit yeah i don't know how many i made i know one was just a day in the life i went to like jiffy lube i got my car

looked at or something maybe i went to the gym i don't know but yeah i uh yeah before i even moved into the house i made i don't know how many maybe one maybe a few then eventually I move in and pretty much when I moved in I started sort of making videos and then I was getting maybe I think at first it was like a couple hundred then I got

then it was like I might pop up in Nade shot vlog or something I'm in the background and it's like so then eventually got to like a thousand views maybe 2000 and I think maybe the Halo season started and I'm still at max getting like 3K views and I remember talking to Nage

be like bro like I'm still only getting 3,000 views he's like that's better than like 99% of people that do YouTube still and he's like you just got to keep making videos every day and I'm like I don't know about every day but I will make some videos and then eventually I just made like one good birthday video and then from there shit sort of popped off but yeah when I moved in nature I was moving out yeah I was like what the fuck yeah like yeah I just yeah I move in, Nate Schott moves out and I'm like what now what? And at that point I think I don't know how much like clout Bose had but obviously Nate Schott's fucking huge Yeah, um Those do those days are so crazy

Like I think about I think about that all the time because like YouTube is so fucking different now YouTube is so like YouTube is It's like a completely It might as well have died and And we're on a different platform We're on YouTube too

Because like back then Like if you look at their thumbnails first of all Seth didn't upload thumbnails he just uploaded the The screenshot of the raw game two hundred fifty thousand 150 thousand 150 hundred seventy five thousand every I kind of did that even in 2016 17 day that is fucking absurd like yeah like my vlogs back in the day like I think people people have like hindsight or like Roastened glasses about what my vlogs were because people are like how many how much how much viewership did your vlogs get and I'm like Like it probably averaged like 20k views and they're like what? I thought they were getting like 150. Like no.

It was you and like 18 other people watching those. Like it was not. I think about that all because people say that to me like all the time. Really? Because things were just so like like I didn't you didn't think about numbers back then. Well, unless you were the person making the videos. Like when I uploaded a vision, I knew it was going to hit 150 and I didn't think about it. Like if it ever did it.

like I think I would it would have been more of a shock than it would have been like a like man I hope this doesn't but when we upload processes nowadays like Roger will put a process out we have no idea if that's going to hit 100,000 views or if it's going to hit trending and go 300 400

like when we uploaded the Valorant video the Valorant process it ended up hitting like 375 or something like that's a fuck ton of views but when we were putting it out we were like dude back then is like you kind of knew. Back then you knew,

you knew you were getting, when I uploaded a vlog, I knew in, I knew it was gonna hit 20,000 in a day. Yeah. Like I just, I knew every time, unless I was visiting home or something,

like, but as long as I was in the house, it was hitting 20,000. Yeah. I kind of looked at mine, like, my vlog, it's like I'm hitting,

just getting a vlog up. It's like, I'm gonna hit like 50 to 70K. but I always wanted I always like I feel like I have such I mean maybe it's high sight but I feel like I have such quality videos or like quality vlogs like every single vlog I feel like I ever put up was like pretty good yeah like it was never just like I don't know I just like figured it out some somehow but yeah I would I would just know it's getting like 50 to 70 and if scumps in it and we're doing something it could hit like 80 to 10

100 yeah but even like even like shit videos like i'll put up a h1 z1 19 kills and i'm like this is this is gonna get at least like 30k like 30 40 yeah my maniac booming shit so those would be like looking back it's funny yeah those would looking back those have like 40 50 60 k views like what the now if i uploaded a video i'm afraid i would hit 7k dude 7k 5K. 7K might be pushing it. From a maniac booming video. Oh, no, no, I'm just, no. Oh, you're saying just a video.

Video in general. Yeah, maniac. I was like a maniac booming video. I mean, to be honest, the first one might, might do 15. Always like that, yeah. And then, but after that, 4K. Yeah. And that's why, that is why YouTubers come back and go away so often.

It's because they'll go away and they're like, man, I do miss it. but I hate the struggle of like not knowing if your video is going to pop or not or not know if people are going to watch it. So they'll go away for two months and they'll come back and they'll get warm welcome. Like they'll get a 30, like if they're, if they're, maniacs uploading again,

if they used to average 50K viewers, their views, their first video back is going to get 30K. And then they're like, well, you know, 30K is not that bad. Like,

and then they upload six more times and it dwindles down from 30 back down to like 15. and then they quit again. It happens, dude, I've seen that happen a gazillion times. I try to convince myself I don't give a fuck,

but it's like, there is something about it. Like I, there's been multiple times I've like thought about making a vlog. Like I even, Hax was trying to get us to go in a fishing trip.

And I was like, what would, maybe I should like vlog it. And I was like, that wouldn't, I don't know why. I don't plan on like consistently vlogging, but it's like,

what if I did like one every week or two? Just fucking, I don't know. I was just randomly thinking, fucking, who knows if that's going to ever happen. But it's like, if I vlogged again and came back, uploaded it, go to sleep, look the next day, and it's at like 5.4K views, I would be like, oh, my God. Dude, it stinks, bro. It stinks. And that probably sounds like so shit for people. Dude, if I got 5.4K.

Oh, for sure. 100%. And it's, yeah, I get it. But that's, I mean, that, I think that's what I'm saying. That's what I thought. But when I first started, like, when I got 5K views, I was like, fuck yeah, 10K views, fuck yeah. 20K views, holy shit, I'm famous.

But, like, now it's just like, and YouTube doesn't pay shit. It doesn't. Like, you have to be getting views to get paid. So it's just like, I don't know, am I doing it? What would I even be doing it for? vlogging every now and that might be kind of fun I think about vlogging fucking three times a week

like I'm like dude like vlogging was a lot of fun it really it was a lot of fun but if I ever and I I did the same shit I came back and I vlog once a week you know last year

and those were doing pretty good and I was just using like copyright music and like just doing it for fun and those were doing pretty good and that's if I ever came back to vlog that's what i would do it for so hopefully just you know just to put shit out there but

it's so different i mean that's what i feel like now i'm like i have to like get shit out there like i don't know how much longer i want to be a content creator that's how i feel about streaming i don't know how much longer i want to fucking stream i mean kind of same

sometimes and it's like this is i look back hindsight and i'm like dude if i was streaming H1Z1, I think I had over a thousand subs. I would get I would turn my stream on, hit 1,200 viewers just playing H1Z1 cracked out. Yeah. And I'm like, if I

did, if I just controlled my fucking Addy and like consistently streamed and had a just a better mindset with it and didn't, and I guess sort of realized what I had. But it's like back then it's like I had this attitude. Like,

I, like I didn't care. Like, I don't, I don't fucking know. That's why you, that's why you got so much shit back then. It's because you had an attitude like you didn't care, but, but the people closest to you knew that you did. Well, I don't know if I had an attitude I didn't care as if, as in like I showed it. No, you showed it. Did I?

Yeah. Because that's what everyone was saying. Maniac sleeps all day. He doesn't care. But in reality, they don't, I don't mean show, I mean, I guess verbalize it. I mean, I definitely, I guess, sort of, I don't know, man, I don't know if, I don't know if, I, I don't know if that's not caring. Because even, even back then, I definitely didn't feel good about it. But it's like, there was just something, I was just fucking, my perspective was fucked because I was so, I guess, sort of, I don't know, it's just fucking not sleeping cracked out.

And there's like, dude, I'm fucking tired. Like, I'm tired. I'm going to sleep. Like, I don't fucking. No. It would flip my zombie shit. I would just be in some zombie shit mood. And it would just, I don't know, the perspective was just not like, yo, let's grind this out. Fucking, I like, there's courage, JD, and I was on the complete opposite. What does that mean? Like, he's grind every day. He's trying this out. Let's build these numbers.

Let's figure this out. Let's plan this out. I was just fucking here. Like, I'm going to wake up. wake up and take a bunch and then stream and hopefully it goes well and it fucking it fucking would go well but it's just like god if i had any fucking balance in my life back then just like did it soap three to four hours three to four hours of streaming i definitely wouldn't have been as good but it's like i still the optic was supporters because i was still on the halo team would have been big like it would have went really well and if i just consistently did that up until now it'd be. Yeah. I would have hindsight.

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That's such a good. Hands in your cans. It makes sense. Because when you eat Prangles, you got can hands. Have you seen the commercial? It's like this guy. You and Hex were talking about it. It's like this guy who has a can't, like a, he's just doing normal things.

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Like that's what I wish I could do Is like be that I want to be that low key genius That people are like bro How did he You want to be that low key genius But still get credit Just like the

I'm trying to think of like producers Or Directors that like you don't really see, but it's everyone's like, dude. The Mike Deans of the world? The producer guy? Yeah. Producer engineer.

Yes. Something like that. Except he's kind of getting... Like totally respected in the, in the... In the space. In the space. You want to be the Adam Apicella. Yeah.

The Adam Acicella. But like above that. You want to be above Adam? Yes. Well, not like a... Like Mike Dean. Not in the gaming space is what I'm trying to say. But yes.

Something like Adam Apicella. Everyone in the space fucking just like how the fuck does he pull this all? The Corey Duns of the world, yeah. Dude, that's there are so many people like that in the world. That just there are. There is someone. There is a face and then there are. There is someone or a team of someone's that make that person go around.

Like, you know Kai, the Twitch streamer? It's been blowing up. Yeah. I have a fact- I like speed What? I like speed Her

Her Suey Suey I haven't fact-checked this at all But apparently Kai has a Has an assistant And she

Books everything So like all that Like when people come over to his house Or when Like she He's got his own page Basically That just like

Like Like does so much for that. Are there pages for fucking low tiers? No. Like me? No. I'm like, what do you need a page for? What do you need a page for? I don't know. Just like somehow figure it out for me. Tell me what to do.

No, you need motivation. And then pages will come. I need a page. No. That's not how that works. That would give me motivation. You and fucking Blake, go the same way. Blake's like, Blake told me the other day. He was like, dude if I move or he said it on stream he was like chat just so you know if I ever moved to Texas it's because I got a fucking bag I was like well it's the it's the other way around you get a

bag when you move to Texas it's not no one's gonna Texas and then you chase the bag yeah you don't like you you don't get a page in order to earn a page you have to earn a page I haven't even earned one it's fucking hard to get a page just kidding I have earned a page I have earned a page his name is Atlas and he runs around like a craghead. He runs around like a craghead and does everything for me. You'll find an Atlas man. I don't fucking deserve an Atlas or a page. You'll find a wips or a heavy skills.

Don't tell him I said that though. Dude, I feel like I've been, I don't know, man. I'm lost again. Those, shut up. I know what's going on with you. I don't. Yes, I do. No.

Yes, I do. My girlfriend? Yeah. No, it's not that. It is that. It's not that. No, I love her. I think she's great.

But it's, well, you just say, like, I get whipped. I'm not saying you get whipped. I'm just saying currently you are. Same thing. I mean, I guess I'm a little whipped, but it's like, it's really... No, once you move downtown, I was like, it's over. Well, I haven't moved downtown. Once you were downtown to 80% of the week, I was like, it's over.

We'll never see him again. The flight cast is it, Alan. Alan's going to be me and you soon No man It's not it I don't fucking know what's going on man I feel I literally feel like I've been sick for a month Love sick

I like my bones hurt Love sick I don't fucking know man I'm just I'm tired of going in and out of these fucking spells Like even Even when I was Ruin over there I'm not even

The thing is like I'm not even going through it It's just like, why can't I wake up and feel like hex? But I've been eating like shit. Well, the thing is... This really is like sort of a girlfriend syndrome. Oh, yeah. Like a little comfort. For sure.

So I'm eating like shit. She can eat whatever she can eat whatever she wants and she'll still just work it off. It's just going to not... It's just going to be off. Her metabolism is that crazy? It's pretty good. And her body is just like, like me, I have no legs. It all goes to my fat fucking gut.

So it's just obvious. And it's like, dude, this is disgusting. I can, like, I'll see my tits through my shirt. And as soon as these start pointing hard, it's like, okay, I need to. Yeah. And then I don't know, man. I just haven't been feeling good lately. I thought I was back.

And then I thought I was back. Then I went to Seattle. And I was so close. canceling Seattle because I was like damn we got to go to this post Malone shit afterwards I was like I know I'm gonna fall off and then I came back and I was like fuck I don't feel good and then I'm downtown

I was like fuck I don't feel like driving back and streaming and then I got I think I got sick or I think I didn't feel good then I think we went out and then I blacked out and I can't believe this is how this is how the conversation starts i don't know why i don't know what's going on and then you

like list all these things yeah been eating like shit i haven't done anything i haven't streamed i was blacking out been eating like shit didn't wasn't really working out flint out blackouts just turned into therapy i mean it's good to reflect and i know you know there's some people that are going to hear this i'm like god i fucking hate maniac fucking piece of shit yeah But then there's others who are going to hear and be like, same maniac, what the fuck, man? I'm a fucking loser too. And it's like, this is why we got to talk about it. And this is how we can all get out of it.

Because it's not, one thing I have to remind myself is it's not, it's not fair for me to judge how I feel if I'm not eating, if I'm not eating clean and exercising. Right. It's what I try to tell myself. Because it's like, God damn, why have I not had any fucking energy? my mood has been shit. I don't feel like doing shit. I'm sleeping until fucking noon. I was on a schedule of I'm up by 7 a.m.

Easy. Like when I wake up at 7 a.m. I feel fine or I feel pretty good. And it's like, boom, let's get up. Let's go get this workout over with. Yeah. And that was so easy. It didn't matter if, like, I would,

when I first was talking to my girlfriend, it was like, even at her house, I go over there, even if we like drank a little bit. But the night before, it's like, boom, 7 a.m. I'm up. Yeah, and it's just like, all right, I'll go chill on the fucking couch or I'll go home or something, but now it's just like, I'm sleeping until fucking noon. Like, I don't feel good physically, mentally. And it's just like, I got to get out of this fucking cycle.

The thing is, is you got to get out of it before the weather changes. The thing is, is it that? Well, it's definitely not that. I can't blame the fucking weather. I'm not saying, well, the fuck, it's daylight savings for me. When it gets cold? or when it gets cold and dark early. Yes, dude.

When you wake up and you have three hours, like if you're waking up at noon, you've got three and a half hours before the sun starts setting. And then by 5.30, it's black outside and dark or in cold. And those, I hate those months, man. I hate those months.

It reminds me to Chicago all over again. That's right. When we were in Seattle, I was like, yo like I thought I was gonna hate it Seattle's low key of it's like a vibe when you're there visiting

but if you talk to people they're like no don't move here when I was walking through this city of Seattle it was like everyone sort of minded their own business it was not like it is in Dallas like I've been in the city a lot

lately and it's like people were you just hear I'm talking loud there's groups there's you're kind of sketched out and it's there's too many people yeah people are fucking like

tattooed it's like is this guy carrying a gun and it's just this guy's fucking drunk and it's just I don't know that's the vibe I get when I walk around Dallas it's just like a little sketch when I was walking around Seattle it almost felt like a New York

but not populated at all like it was like everyone sort of bundled up yeah and just like mine in their business walking it's like they got somewhere to go yeah and it's like that's sort of how i felt walking around seattle no i like seattle because i love i love coffee and i love like the weather and i love like the weather going to get a coffee yeah it's nice yeah i've really enjoyed walking around it's like our own little london right there in the top corner it's kind of how i felt but i almost i thought the weather was going to like depress me because it was like that we weren't

there long enough if i lived in that it probably would exactly but to i guess to us. It's like that weather doesn't really exist here. We just came, we just came from Dallas where we had a hunt. It was above a hundred for 40 days straight. So yeah, a vacation to Seattle. And even today it's like, I bet what's the weather is, what's the weather in Seattle today compared to Texas? Right now it's clear blue skies. It is. It's pretty, it's, it's pretty chilly today. It's 65. Is it really? But there's not a cloud in the sky. It's sunny.

It was not 65 when I got off the plane. What, it was, you felt it was colder? It was like, yeah. 65. Let's look at what Seattle is. So it's super sunny today. It's just fucking sunny every day. I mean, it did rain like yesterday or something, but like,

when it rains here, I love it when it rains here. And then in Seattle, I'm just going to guess it's glass. Yeah. It's 49 degrees. It's cloud. and raining. So it's like that. Every day.

Literally not a singular sun on this weather. And tomorrow it's going to be raining from 11 p.m. tonight all the way through noon tomorrow and Seattle.

Hell yeah. So it's just, that's a... Well, if you're from Seattle... Definitely a change of weather. If I enjoy it, if you're from Seattle, do you, do you guys like embrace it?

Or do you love it? Or is it like, holy should, I moved here for work and now it hasn't stopped raining in seven years? Yeah, what is it like over there? I wonder what people are. I mean, there's so many places on planet Earth that it's like, why are you here? And it's like, did you move here?

I understand, like. Yeah. Like you grew up in a small town, I grew up. But there's like, those North Carolina and Maryland, those aren't even bad. I'm thinking, what are some shit states where it's like, wait, how do you live here? Reed, Mr. Beasts manager, is from North Dakota.

I always picked on him for that. You're the only person I've ever met in my life from North Dakota. But like the weather and stuff might not be, because I lived in West Virginia. And it's like, do people look at West Virginia like one of those? Country roads taking me home to things. But there's songs about West Virginia. There's not songs about North Dakota. Is there North Dakota drill rappers?

I don't think Tear ass to me And he's probably fire Let's see Let's hear it Did you listen to any of the new Drake? Yeah we got to talk about that don't we Yeah

I think we Well I talked about it last time The second half of the album's fire When I first play Okay I listened to it on my phone The first few songs I was like

I'm bored Really And then I got We got in the car I think to get out What? No

There's no way this is There's no way this is right. Got 80 million views. Rappers from North Dakota. Tupac. Big L. Ice Cube. Easy E.

Dr. Dre. Snoop. No, that's not fucking real at all. What? DuPock was from Baltimore, I think. No,

I think, apparently was Khalifa is actually from North Dakota, though. I thought he's from Pittsburgh. Yeah, when I saw Dr. Dre. He's not from North Dakota. The best musical artist from North Dakota

It just lists every It just list it Biggie Park Like holy shit There's definitely someone out there That's big E-Pack DMX M&M Jimmy Hendrix Adele

From North Dakota I could believe that Adele I could believe that Where's she from London London Wait does it have her on the list

No Okay, if she didn't have the London accent, I could see that. This guy's name is rapper from North Dakota. Hey, I'm a rapper from North Dakota. Oh, yeah, Drake's album. You playing North Dakota drill? I was playing North Dakota. Yeah, but there's North Dakota drill out.

All right, so Drake's album, my thoughts. I haven't listened to it all the way through yet. The second, all right, so I'll tell you my experience. All right. First few songs played it. Oh, my phone, just like, laying in bed at noon. And then...

And then... I got bored. Just pause it. And I was like, I'm bored. And then we went and got ice cream later that day because I'm fat. And then on the car ride, on the car ride to go get ice cream, I was like, what the fuck? This shit's fucking... Because I think I got to like song five or something.

And I was like, I'm bored. So when I got in the car, it was like... six, seven, eight, nine, ten. I was like, what the fuck's going on? There was one song, he was literally floating. And I was like, bro. It's like old Drake. Because like, well, it was like, it was literally like eight bars or something.

There's a few, there was a few songs I really like, but there was like one part on this one song. When he, I saw that he said she's a 10, but when she wraps, it's good on mute. Did you hear that he said that? Yeah, people were saying that's about ice spice. That's fucked up. Is she really a 10 though? No. I hate when I see her, this is, I shouldn't even say this.

I was going to say I hate when I see her talking on camera. But that's mean. But like, you know those genius interviews where they like say their lyrics? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They'll say their lyrics and she's like, eat that ass man you and like she does her lyrics like that not much and ate it for lunch and just like her sitting there and rapping and I was like I was just like getting I hate the word cringe but I was like getting cringe vibes I was like why do I fucking hate something her look is so

distinct the song goes crazy that the song is hard the song goes crazy but like something about and like there was another time where I think some camera dude at a show one of her first show, like rolling loud or something, was like, Yo, Ice spice. And then she just goes, you thought I'd have video? Munch. And then, like, walks away. And I'm like, it just like, it cringed me so hard.

And, like, she got cooked on the internet for it. Really? I didn't see. She got fucking cooked. The only thing I know about her is that one song. Yeah. That's the only thing I know. She has another song out.

And it's not too bad. It's like on TikTok and shit. I want a fun. the song I'm talking about that I was going to get ice cream and this came on and then I heard should I play this on the doesn't matter if I play this on the

I'm gonna play it maybe it gets edited out but it's more M's let me figure out what time like that part I was in the car like literally fucking it's funny because I've heard I've heard a have you ever watched the Lost in Vegas guys the reactors

They're like the best reactors on I mean they're the best like actual reactors on YouTube Like when they took the way to talk about lyrics Nobody beats Zia's and Blu just regular reacting but hey if this part got cut out It's like 2.15 on more ms more ms more ms it's like 215 in but what but uh so the guy The lost in Vegas guys I like them so much because they're so knowledgeable and like my favorite video on YouTube is the lost in Vegas guys breaking down loaded luxes freestyle on sweat i think you've linked to me that is no it's funk it's funk master flex his uh hit his uh his uh freestyle freestyle dude it is it is it is one of the

most beautiful fucking written things ever yeah you've linked me that and so them breaking it down i like the video of them breaking it down more than i like the fucking regular video just because Like I'll catch shit I'll catch shit like that I forgot he said But anyway They one of the guys in Las Vegas said You know that they Love all of Drake's music

But he's always good for one corny ass bar Like in every song And every song Though right Not in every song But in every album at least Every album there's definitely one bar Where it's like

But he just said The way I ran you could Say that I'm Iranian or something like that and it's just like yeah but but the way he flows you just kind of like it's more about the flow like if you examine ever there is some there's some shit when i was driving here today i heard and i was just like but you give him but it's like he's it's it's so many bars it's like something has something's not gonna hit yeah but like that's i mean as long as the tune is good but his tune is His tune, his flow, his everything else, it's just, it's perfect.

So fucking, his cadence is just like, I feel like if you had, if you gave the same beat to 10 different rappers, depending on which rappers they were. But if you gave this, the same beat to 10 different rappers, Drake would never sound the same as everyone else. Like his, the, he, I feel like he, and you can like tell on this album, because like 20, it's like he's nothing he's not like I don't know how to fucking say

I feel like 21 Savage 21 Savage got famous because of his rawness because of when I first started hearing him I was like he kills people he is a killer that happens to yeah rap

and that's why he got famous yeah because like sometimes people love 21 Savage's music because it is like hard yeah I mean that's why I listen to it he's not making people cry you could have the same exact person saying the same exact stuff 21 savages but if he wasn't

from the hood on draught with right if he wasn't from the hood and was on this album with drake i would not yeah no one if it was if it was logic saying the same things like i'm not with the same flow like yeah but not work honestly like i don't know what when 21 savage first came out i was like okay all right like i understand why he's hard like why people are listening but like he's not gonna last his first his first shit was fucking hard no it is hard but I'm surprised he became I didn't think he became the rapper everyone liked

in the rap scene all the most famous rappers like Jake Cole like Jake's the future's the Jay Coles 21 like are apparently yeah yeah yeah like he became that guy the hood rapper everyone

but but I will say like in the past four years like he multi-syllables now and like he'll he'll ride a beat like there was a few parts because that's always the thing with me is like if you there are a lot of 21 was rapping in this there's a there's a lot of rappers out there that you know the if there's their songs are good or something but if you don't hit the multisyllables i just for some reason i just can't listen to it like it doesn't hit the same for me i don't know what and it's so annoying it's you're the same way yeah Because, like, sometimes, like, that's, Tyga is the biggest example.

Yes. I can't fucking listen to it. Tiga's music is so, I think it's, I think it hits hard in the club. It hits hard in the, in the, in the car. Yeah. But, like, he just doesn't, he rhymes yellow cat with orange bat. And I'm like, it's like, I get it rhymes, but it doesn't really rhyme. Like a cat and hat

But it's like yellow cat Fucking I can't even fucking think of so Like when I think cat and hat Then I think yellow cat fucking mellow hat Or like that's how my brain works Yellow cat Black hat See even that was too

Yellow that was a multi-syllable It wasn't the right one Fuck See it's hard to wrap shit It's hard to rap like shit Maybe it is a skill It's hard to freestyle

And I've noticed a lot of hood ass rappers will have Multi-syllables I'm like They're fucking doing it Yeah They probably don't have an education

And they're just fucking How do they get it And fucking Tyga You've been in the business For so fucking long And somehow you're still Logic will sometimes do it as well

Logic does it too Yeah But it's like logic will also completely not do it And fucking multisyllible is fucking ass off It doesn't make sense Then it's like the next 16 bars It's just not multi-syllables That's why I used to get so mad

Because I started like I knew I liked rap in middle school But I didn't know why And then there's this one video on YouTube It's probably still up there If somebody breaking down Lose yourself And it's just like palms are sweaty Nees weak arms are heavy

There's vomit on its sweater already moms and like and they started bringing it down I think that's how I got fucked it's like like shit like I love this like no wonder I like this I understand it now that's how I started listening to rap and I think that's oh it was like early even I think I was I think my first maybe my first rap CD ever was Nelly and even Nelly like raps multi-syllular I mean it's nothing like crazy but it's like right yeah it's still like multi-syllables and then I think from there went to Eminem yeah it's delicious ass to bobees yeah it's delicious I don't know but it's like after that I went to Eminem and then it was like from there I think maybe that's just like ingrained in me so I just can't

I mean he I mean to the to this day even if he's changed his sound and he's still he wraps like he's angry he's still nobody hits it I mean the multisyllables like the Eminem does I can't listen to new Eminem I can't either new Eminem is too multi-syllibly It's too much. And that's the thing. You can get too much. Or he's, he's getting to that like, ASAP rock like, where it's just like,

okay. Like, can we, can you tell me, can you speak English though? Because like, those, it's like he's not even making sense. It's just rhyming.

It's just rhyming. And it's just rhymed. And that's when you get the whole, like, that's when you get like, this shit is like COVID. You'll get it straight off the bat. And it's like,

you're straight off the bat. off the bat, ate off the hat. And it's like, you're, you're doing the, you're doing the algorithm right. But like, the straight off the bat thing is kind of corny, in my opinion. Yeah, I don't, I wonder what age group. Because like the bat, the bat gets the coronavirus, but also straight off the bat. Wait, what's straight off the bat? You'll get it straight off the bat.

Like, you'll get it. Straight off the bat. You'll get it immediately. these bars are like COVID you'll get it straight off the bat they get it immediately but also COVID started with a bat

bite and it's like yeah no you did it right but like it's still like don't care you did it you did a good job I don't care then you go back to his like

his like lose yourself is I feel like lose yourself is the perfect rap song and it's it's like man I wish because it tells a story but it is also the most intricate

shit ever and that's why you don't even notice it's like intricate or fucking you know that how many people do you think because you're just like mom spaghetti mom spaghetti and they're like they don't know the words but they just know the mom spaghetti part

it's like the reason you know that is because the vomit on a sweater already mom spaghetti he's nervous but on the surface he's calm and ready to drop bombs but he keeps all forgetting what he wrote down and then he goes to a whole other one wrote down the show it's so now he opening him out but the word won't come that's insane it is it obviously it is a number one is like one of the most played songs ever in history but yet is a reason for that

it's so a crazy fact i heard was drake's scorpion album has more played drake's scorpion album has more plays on spotify than every j z album combined Yeah, that's true But I also believe that Because it's like If Spotify was around back in Ninety 98 Like Jayze

Obviously Jayzy's albums from before When Spotify was out People aren't gonna just automatically Like those would It's not even like a fair thing to You've got to I mean you could

It's probably that way with all the classic rock bands And like people probably hear that and think like Like Drake's fucking so much better Jake came Drake came up in the streaming area. It's not even fair to compare.

I bet you Michael Jackson doesn't have that many streams on... Who is number one stream? Is it Drake? No, it's Post. It's Post? Yeah. It was at one point. Or it might be Kendrick now because of his last album.

That's probably why Drake drops. Did we get to talk about Post? I don't know if we can. We can talk about the concert. Are you a concert? Are you a concert goer? Fuck no. The Post Malone concert was the first concert.

I'm not a concert goer at all. That's the first concert I've been to since fucking... Let's have crazy good seats. Because I went to a bad money show and we had really good seats and he was really good. And you couldn't understand a fucking word he said. But he was really good. Like his vocal projection was just like fucking crazy. He was so good live.

And we just had really good seats. Like sometimes I thought he was looking at me. And I was like, he's like yeah heira he's like that boy's Spanish for sure no post was really good live show was super good it was really bro when he started I don't even know

I'm not sure if I even know the song that he came out to but when it was just like all quiet and then it's like boom smoke yeah lifts up and then he's just singing some song but it's such a song song it is a song song it was like no beat just like him singing something sort of almost like Acapella.

But it was so I was like I was like Am I drunk or am I just getting chills because I'm a Cause I'm soft Yeah But his singing was like

Literally giving me chills No he is It was so good live I want to see if he's still number one He is really good live It was the Um Uh

Not Hollywood's bleeding So it was the Uh reputation right What the name of the song? yeah it was this dude and it was just it was just smoke

and like he comes out like that and I was just like dude it was I feel like that that show because I haven't been to a concert in so long and I've never been to an arena show

he's number nine post is he was at I remember like two years ago he was like the number one artist I wonder who's up there now oh Taylor Swift just dropped so she's probably fucking up there says Drake was number one

I don't know if I believe this top 10 Spotify streams Ed Shearin's probably up there Drake's number one Bad Bunny number two

That makes sense Ed Shearin number three Okay that makes sense The Weekend number four Taylor Swift number five These all make sense They all make sense yeah Justin Bieber number six

Like, could it make more, Ariana Grande number seven? Eminem number eight. Post number nine. This artist and then the BTS. I've never listened. I don't know. What the fuck does BTS stand for?

Behind the scenes. Does it? No. No, I don't know. I've never listened to K-pop, but. Neither have. I know K-P. Is that your fire, Loki?

I know that Black Pink song goes crazy that's the only song I don't know if I know a single fucking song I don't know many many um K-pop bands do you I think we should bring back the album

listening party to the flycast yeah listening party or just album of the week album of the week do you want to go or is it my turn I can't remember um well I don't have one in mine right now all right well I've got one in mind that I want you to listen to.

People actually liked the album, the album of the week. Yeah. Didn't we, did we start, would we just randomly mention it, or would we start off with the album of the week? We would end, we would end each episode with album of the week. And I don't know what time we're at. Oh yeah, we could probably do it.

There was so many things I would not wanted to talk about, but I was just like thinking of, like obviously HALO. For this episode? Yeah, but it's, we didn't talk about any of it somehow. Yeah. But I mean, that works. for us next week. Yeah, we've got to talk about next week.

Fucking Halo Worlds. I wanted to ask you about the off season, but it's a whole, it's literally a whole fucking explanation. So we don't got to get into it. Because I, maybe I was talking to my chat or something, but I was like, I don't know what the fuck goes into running something like that. But you can explain that at a later date. Yeah.

I was like interested in hearing. But, yeah, I mean, we can talk about it next episode. The off season, explanation, next episode. Yeah. Everybody's gonna tune in. Make that the title. Make that the title. All right, you want the album?

Album of the week. Album of the week. All right, this one, the last couple of ones I did were like old school albums, but this one came out in 2021. I wonder what the last album was. The last one was Infinite.

Infinite. So this one is called The Battle at Gardens Gate. See, this is gonna make me have to fucking think. of like non-basic Nelly Hottenher No no no you don't have to be interested

I mean this isn't very interesting What was it going? I'll send it to you It's called the battle The Battle at Gardens Gate I actually didn't even know the The Battle of Gardens Gate I'll send it to you

It's by a it's by an out There's by an artist Or a band called Greta van Fleet And they are very good I would listen. This is one of the few albums I listen to. This is rock. Yeah, it's like rock.

It's kind of like, it sounds like classic rock. It sounds like a 70s band, but they, that album came out in 2021. So I would definitely check that out. Go check that, um, that album out. The battle. I mean, I'm sure a ton of you guys already know about it. It's not an under, it's not a small band by any means. Grinna Van Fleet.

I'm going to listen to this on my drive back to Dallas. Do it, man. To disappear again. Yeah. All right. Thank you all for watching another episode of the Flycast. Man, this was a good one. Wait, what did you think about Drake's album?

You like it? I haven't listened to it. I will listen to it while you listen to the battle at Gardensgate. What is it called? The Battle at Gardensgate. The Battle at Gardens. Thank you all for watching the Flycast. This has been episode 897.

We'll see you all next week. E-Mack Craig. Play that banger I made in 2017.