The Flycast - MaNiaC’s New Career, Gauntlet Allegations & Our Best Excuses | The Flycast Ep. 207

Episode Date: September 14, 2026

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Yeah, just turn on the PC, man Yeah, I'm hopping on, man All right, I figured you were about to All right, yeah, I was on my way Yeah, traffic's crazy Yeah, yeah, all right, man All right, man Back to the fly get, wait, wait, hold on,

Let's try to, uh, let's try to harmonize it All right, you ready? Was it? Wait, I'll do that. That's our, that's our, No. All right. All right.

You got that note. Yeah. Like that? What? What? Hey, I thought we're. Yeah, you go down. I go up.

Okay. All right. All right. Okay. Ready? All right. Well, come back to the flycast. I don't think it works.

Dude, you did not run the Las Vegas Marathon. Oh, wait. Oh, I thought that said Los Angeles. I thought that said Los Angeles Marathon. But what? Yeah. kind of hat is that that shit's fresh made in USA America's favorite cherry Los Angeles it's just some hat that costs like 140 bucks for somebody and you bought it um well I figured like you know

Trump's in town and shit all right oh so you know I got a support okay all right yo I mean I think I think the hat looks good I didn't I don't think it looks a hundred dollars good but it look good. You ever heard of Cherry, the bram? There's just like, I went through a phase of trying to be cool. Is that Tyler the Creator's brand? No, that's Golf Wang. Golf Wang.

It can't be Golf Wang. Golf Wang. No way. Wolf Wolfgang sounds better. No, I think it's golf. I think golf wang. Oh my God, it is golf wang. Whang.

Golf wang? I bought, um... That's the name of it? Makes no fucking sense. Oh, my kid. But I've actually bought some, uh, I bought some clothes from there once. And it's just, it all fit so big. And I even, like, I just spent too much fucking money on that shit, too.

Do you think now, do you think now... Clothes or everything? Do you think now that you're getting shredded that picking, picking a wardrobe is easier now? Because, like, you use your... body as an accessory. Damn! That's kind of impressive. That's kind of impressive.

You know, I was thinking about it. The body is the fit. The body is the fit. That's sort of a saying in the lean bodybuilding world that I now live amongst. As a fitness influencer, they say the body is the fit. I think a lot of girls say that. Yeah. But guys say that too.

I didn't make sense for girls to say it. They already have built-in accessories. We don't really have that. So you got to work really hard for it. Exactly. We have to work hard. They kind of just, if it's just, so I used to,

when I was 210 pounds, it was just like certain shirts had to be big, well, obviously bigger, but almost like an over, like your tits just poke out all the fucking time. Your tits just have gone down a little bit, but it's fucking,

weird i've lost 20 saying i lost 25 pounds and i'm going to lose more weight yeah especially i was going to say especially running every training shit every other day but like it's gonna like the miles are gonna just the more and more start doing fucking 14 mile long runs and yeah yeah but i don't know i am pretty good at eating um like i've actually gained weight since starting marathon training but yeah i'm i'm gonna probably end up getting down to like high like 170 something. Ew. Don't do that.

Right. I know. Dude, there's sometimes I see myself. Yeah, don't do that. Am I? Take that. Yeah. Take that day in between marathon training and eat a fucking burger or something.

I mean, I kind of. I don't know, man. I think I have body dysmorphia too. You can't have that. Like, I'll talk to some people and they'll be like, like, okay one person that I used to talk to all the time. And she'd be like, she'd be like, you literally don't have fat to lose.

And I'm like, are, like, are you just saying that? Because I know I fucking do. Like, there's plenty of fat to lose for the abs to show more. Look, look leaner. And I'm like, are you just fucking saying that? Or are you like, but she was like, no, you literally like, you need to eat. Like, you don't. And I'm like, like, I genuinely said to.

I was like, I can't tell if you're, like, hate it. Like, if you're like, you're afraid I'm going to get lean and, like, look really good. And then, like, then I start stepping out. Like, it's not going to. You know what I'm saying? I know what you're saying. I don't agree with it. But I know what you're saying.

I comprehend the words, yes. I do think there is a slight body dysmorphia, though. Yeah. I think you need to stop where you're at. I think James should stop too. Y'all are getting a little like... But like James with his shirt off, I'm like, come on. Like I just want to grab it.

Just take his little lower belly. Like, there's probably 10 more pounds. It's not really a good mind to have, but there are certain... I think it's like the arms. I'll see myself on a pod sometimes. And I'm like, you're like, huh? Like when I was like 2.10 and, working out also but when I was like

two ten and working out like the arms and like shoulders look good but then I feel like shirt off page sent me a picture one time from like cesspool and I was like Jesus your shirt well you're but then now that I'm leading or sometimes I'm if I wear a big shirt I'm like again same thing Jesus like just arms look fucking time this is like this is no way but but it it is better losing

losing a little bit of weight fucking everything kind of fits everything's sort of more you can wear white again yeah yeah remember how in pot well

yes I do maybe wearing white yes I do I would say nine months ago and I might have been pushing my max what eight months ago

seven months ago might have been pushing my max what where were you at seven, eight months ago. Bro. I remember, heck.

And you can admit it now that you're not that. Yeah, I think Hex came in one day and was vlogging. It was like, yo, where are you at right now? And I was like, I was like, I was like, bro,

I got to start. It was like after the second month of the pregnancy, Lexus couldn't eat anything but burgers. She couldn't keep anything down. She couldn't smell chicken. She never eats burgers. She couldn't smell chicken because she would throw up. She couldn't smell coffee.

She would throw up. She couldn't smell Mexican food. and we couldn't eat Mexican food. And the only thing she could keep down was burgers. So we went to Wendy's. Then we would cook meat at home. Then we would go to Freddy's. Is there a Freddy's in Texas?

Freddy's is kind of like smash burger. We would go to like Shake Shack. And like that was our meal for like a month. And she's gaining weight because she has to. I'm there just being. supportive. Just eating the burger and a half a day. I mean,

you can't make her feel like shit. Like what? What kind of partner am I? I'm better. So I'm gonna. And then I remember one time I flew to Texas and Hex was vlogging and he was like, where are you at? And I remember I weighed myself that morning and I remember

lying to him. He was like, where are you at? And I was like, dude, I was like, bro, I think I'm pushing 220. And he was like, oh shit. Really? I was like, yeah, bro, I got a start. I had weighed myself that morning.

I was 226. I had weighed myself that morning, and I still lied. I still lied. But, no, I think that was the heaviest you ever got was 226. I think the heaviest I ever got was like a two. The heaviest I ever saw on the scale was like 27, 218. I never saw a 2.20. No, the highest I ever got was a couple years ago.

before, I think it was before I went vegan. And we did a fly, I'm gonna look it up, we did a flycast with Shotsie. And I weighed myself before, and I had a panic attack the entire flycast, because I think it was 229. It was like almost 230.

Like almost 230. Where is this shit? Dude, I'll have to find it. I remember wearing like a button down. Do you go, you go back, look at your face. and it's gigantic because you can even see it in your face

yeah I go back and look at my face oh my god dude they didn't even put me in the thumbnail holy shit I found it no I didn't put you in the I was looking I was like did you just do you mean Matt Craig

so you can tell wait hold on I'm I'm Has that ever got I wonder if that's going through Matt's like wow Hitch does not look good I could not I'm sure I'm sure it is I'm putting this on

I put it in Discord I put it in Discord that is the I even have That's the heaviest I have ever weighed myself Was literally

An hour before we filmed this Dude look at my fat Fucking Pubey beard ass What the fuck? Dude it's so funny Because if you fast forward to 640 You're still doing this Okay, I don't look too bad.

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I'm not. You're not. Dude, it was always a fucking... I don't know. When I was that weight, I feel like the shoulders and arms looked bad. It just looked like I filled out t-shirts, but like, realistically, it was not that it's all fucking,

Yeah, so I'm on the right scale and with like shoes on and shit, I'm 2.30 there. Yeah. With the certain. Yeah. Depends on the clothing. Yeah. Where are you at now? I don't know.

I think I'm like 205, 2, 206. Oh, shit. I'm going down. When's the last time you were under 200? The fucking scuff house. I never even got under 200 during, uh, during my vegan year. and I was I look at my vegan year sometimes and I'm like bro I was like pretty skinny because I was running I was running and I was vegan and it was I got a I got down to like

202 or 201 I never I still never went under 200 but yeah I mean I just we just haven't been eating burgers lately and and you know we've been going on on or we were going on walks but luckily right now I think I'm going to start my I'm starting my I'm starting running again because it's starting to get cool half marathon it's starting to get cool in Arizona it's it's only it's it's it hasn't get above

one 10 this week so it's we're having a little bit of a cold front well I was about to say is it more is it worse running there here um there here you can't run here actually I don't know I don't know I'll

go down the road I'll be driving down road and it's 1 15 here and there are people running like on the sidewalk and I'm like there's no I I would yeah come on you're not running in 115 the fuck's wrong with you yeah but I don't know I but there's not there's not as much humidity here but the people in fucking people in California people in Arizona people and like they they they like to say if it's 120 outside and they'll be like yeah but there's no there's no humidity so it's fine. I'm like, bro, it's an, it's an oven out here. You could cook. You could

literally cook an egg on the concrete. That's how hot it is. Yeah, running in the heat, it's no fun. It makes it so much hard. You know, not to make this, I'm sure everyone's clicked off already. Not to make this about

fitness for the, is, are we a fit, fitness fond? We are not. You bring in the element, and I like it. You know who Max, what is it? Max Jollah, Dajaliby.

Max Vostappin. D do, da, da, da, da, da, da. Meg. What were you saying? Not that guy. Do you know, like, Max is the Ultra Runner? No, I don't think so.

Moab 240. I feel like you, like, because there's, yeah, I was watching a bunch of, like, Courtney DeWalter's videos. So I feel like you might, okay. I mean, you might have seen this.

It's, I think it's, it's the best ultra running documentary. Really? scene but it's sort of like this not random guy but like just a dude I guess no one had in mind that was going to win the moab 240 which is 240 mile is that what it's called yeah that's up yeah yeah I haven't watched it I like the thumbnail the thumbnail looks really good um but yeah he he won that and then everyone was like oh this guy might be like he's about to just start winning everything um but he won that and then I think he like didn't do

just too well and like his next view and then had like a DNF like did not finish and then he just raced something called I think the bad water yeah yeah I can't remember how many miles it is maybe a hundred maybe like 140 I have fucking forget but I think it was like the bad water or maybe it was like Leadville yeah I know I know all these names you're racing in the fucking desert yeah like like a hundred like if you look at your phone it says like a one yeah your phone is like overheating feels like 134. Like his heart, he ran, I don't remember how many miles it was.

Say it was 100 miles. He had like a 8, or maybe like 750 pace. And his heart rate average was like 138. Like, it makes no sense. People were saying like, that's not possible. That can't be right. his what like his shit wasn't detecting it right or like something like that but he has like two

different sources that show that's what his heart rate was but it's just like it's fucking wow i do a casual like if it's if i run at noon yeah my heart rate's probably and it's hot my heart rate's probably like 170 what in texas i don't i don't fucking know it is getting fun though I'm on week is this week three or week four I think I'm about to finish week three or maybe maybe I'm about to finish week four

but I'm like 15 I'm like 15 runs in so I guess I'm yeah I'm actually almost almost done my first month of marathon training but it's crazy how much easier it's gotten because I'm running basically every other day but it's crazy how much easier it's gotten

Have you ever gotten the runners high yet I feel like I know how to get yeah runners high like it's like uh you can't take mushrooms I never really because that's just a real high and you were just

why then because I used to take mushrooms I know that's just being high and running there is a there is an actual runner's high I think I've only gotten it like twice but it I can get it

pretty often which is kind of Because like I've heard maybe it was James that was saying that. I don't know. But some people say like, you know, like they don't get the runners high that. They're like, what is a runner's high? I just hate running every single time. But I feel like I kind of get it kind of consistently. And to be honest, days that I'm not running, like I'm, I don't, I shouldn't run today.

Today's supposed to be a day off. But I like kind of want to run. Because I feel like it's like, Like my. It's your therapy. It's like, I guess. But it sounds so like cringe and performative and fake to say like running your therapy and shit like that. Or like the gym's your therapy.

I want it. I feel like in the gym, I definitely get a gym high less often than like when I'm running. It's like, I don't know. Something does happen to where this like this like weight on my fucking shoulders or like just. just thinking about shit that I think I care so much about and like stress about it's like it kind of just it doesn't go away but it just lessens significantly and like after the run I'll feel good an hour after my run I won't feel good I kind of like I feel like I crash but yeah there is a I'm finding a I'm starting to enjoy it and I'm starting to want I'm starting to especially

I've been like stretching a lot as well so as I just I just feel more fresh on every single run. I don't feel fucking tight and as injured. But I'm starting to like that like first, those like first runs back when you're like sore. Yeah. It's horrible. Even just running again.

Like starting out running again. And like I said, I'm only finishing like week four, but like starting out running again is fucking. When you stand up, do you go, when you stand up, you go.

Sometimes. Sometimes after me and James did seven miles. I think we might do eight miles this Sunday. Last Sunday we did seven. But yeah, after that. I saw Tush signed up for one too. Yeah, Tush is like, I mean, besides the fact that he's 140 pounds.

And the running's just super easy for him. Yeah, and he's like, he's so much better mentally than you are too. He's, like he can just, he can just go out and run and not, not think about it. Like, he doesn't have to fight his demons or anything. Like, you do. Exactly. His mental, like he's just clear-headed. He's crushing it.

He wakes up and, like, wakes up. He just pops out of bed. Smiles. Hits the track. Right. Gets it in. Genetically, just like never has to stretch. Exactly.

He's never injured. He's just, he's just way easier for him. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't sweat that. So there's nothing really to be proud of if you're him. Like, it's just, yeah. Yeah. Oh, you just did. Oh, you just woke up and did it again.

Oh, okay. Natsush is kind of low-key beast. And I don't, like, he'll just post like 14, like he'll just put in a shrava of him like strutting his feet or on his Instagram. He's just strutting his feet and then it's like 14 miles. Nine pace. Yeah. And he's always like a little slow today. I'm like, shut up.

It wasn't feeling it. I'm excited to. What's your number one excuse you come up with for yourself? because mine is always like now I have a crazy excuse so my mental's fucked my mental is fucked

but before I'd be like if you were or or or tush like posted or like said something like trolley to me like oh you go on your run today my first thought is like yeah but you didn't stream last night

so like that's fine I can take a break for myself because you didn't stream last night you didn't do something as as wonderful and as creative as what I did on stream last night. I played cod, so. Right.

You can't understand what it's, it's just different levels of work out here. And now you have a baby. So like, like, oh, dude, oh,

you suck. So now I have like, I don't know, four years, five years worth of excuses for myself. So maybe, maybe I am fucked. Maybe I'll get back up to 2.30.

We'll see. Um, no, I, I did, I did say in the last pod, that the um the marathon or the half marathon i'm running is in january but it's in february it is in february so i got another month to chill you got time i mean you got plenty by that time oh my

yeah no i know i know by that time you i say do a fucking especially you could start now like you could yeah i know the the marathon that i signed up for it chat gbt of running program the The marathon, half marathon I signed up for, there is not a marathon. Because I knew something that felt weird. There's not a marathon in that race. But like a half, like I've done a couple, I've done 10 miles multiple times. And it's like, what's multiple? Four.

Yeah. And it's like not. It's, I mean, it's hard. Of course it's hard. But I did just like get up and do it. I mean, that's how I feel about your half. Right. That's how.

Like I feel like you're going to. But I haven't started yet. Like you're just, you're gonna do it. Like, you think I could do it just now. I mean, unless you want to like, unless you have like a, I mean, technically you could do it now. Um, I mean, would you take walking breaks and stuff maybe, but yeah. Unless you have like, like, I know I could go do a half now. Um, but unless you like want to, I don't know, a marathon is kind of scary though.

Oh, a marathon is terrible. I've done it. I've done one half before and I think I was in like decent. maybe shape. But I was like my legs were fried at the end which like you know we're not fucking running athletes over here

so it's like that's gonna happen. But I remember my legs just being fucking fried at the end and like imagining doing another one of those. Yeah, another one. That's on top of it, no brakes. So unless you do this half

and like you have like a pace or you just kind of doing it for fun. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, man, it's a goal. We'll see. We'll see where it goes. Yo, you're having a crazy year.

So what I saw... I'm having a... I'm having a leveled up. When I saw you throwing the first pitch at the Rangers game, I was like, bro, he's... He's doing it. Have we talked about that? It was like a couple days ago. It was last...

Yeah, that was... I think I talked about on the Optic Pot of Ler. little bit yeah uh it was i could tell you were nervous and i was you did one of these how could you tell i was like oh he's shaking he's shaking in his britches well i feel like i'd be more nervous if i couldn't but i can tell you like i'm just i'm just i can tell you i forced it out you were like why like i had a whole i mean in my vlog which obviously i'm getting around just like a sort of a behind the scenes but yeah I was fucking nervous

I remember I remember page calling me then I like said all this in the vlog but I remember page calling me and this was like a month ago she was like September 5th Rangers game would you be down to throw the first would you be down to throw the first pitch the Rangers game

and I was like I didn't know why you did that my first reaction was like my first reaction was like my first reaction was like really oh the boom you weren't watching the yeah yeah I didn't know what you were talking about

I didn't even see Matt I was sure I was watching my pitch I thought it's probably like 80 miles per hour it was a strike though from our angle as long as he called it was a strike listen as long as he got as long as he could catch the ball

um but yeah remember she called me and I was like uh like I just I hate those I just something about being in front

feeling like I'm like center stage and people are watching and it's not like gaming when you're on main stage and it's like a team and no one's really watching looking at you like you're playing through a fucking screen

so it's like I never had that while competing in Halo but like something like a speech or just anytime it's like me and like everyone's around either listening or like, I'm doing something or you got to fucking perform or like

even like doing a fucking intro or like just I don't fucking know. It just makes me, I don't know why I go like into a like a scared deer in the fucking headlights and like everything around me just amplifies and like the lights are brighter and it's just for whatever reason genetically or something that happened to me in kindergarten. It's got to be the kindergarten. I've just always fucking hated that shit

so I was like at first I was like uh fuck I don't know but I was like this is something like like I have I kind of have to do this

like there's other shit I'll probably just be like no I'm not doing that but like with this I was like this is not a big deal no one no one actually gives a fuck about the first pitch

like I've been to baseball games before or someone's some of the first pitch I may be watching right don't care if they could fuck up. I genuinely don't. I'll never think about it again.

So I like had to remind, but I was just like, this is such a cool experience. Like you got to think when you're a kid, you fucking, you're watching LLB, NBA, NFL, whatever type of games. And it's always like, it's just like what would it be like to maybe play there or just be in that environment or even like work there? Like that it's just such a cool thing. Like being amongst the professional athletes full fucking. full stands and thousands of people.

So I was like, I just, I like have to do it. And like, there would be times leading up to it where I just think about it and I'd start get nervous. And I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, fuck. Like, I haven't thrown a baseball in forever. I was like, all right, but like, I just need some reps in beforehand. So the day came, got no, I had no reps in. Didn't throw a baseball.

I mean, we played softball, but it's like, I still wasn't like practicing throwing. But any, any fucking ways. I woke up that morning and I was nervous I was like fuck because in my head I'm like there's nothing really to gain besides like it's a super cool experience which there is shit to gain

but I was like if I fuck this like if I just if it just like slips out of the hand a little bit goes far left right up hits the ground before it gets I'm just like this is like I'm a tweet out and like streams live right new

vlog drop reply and it's just like a gym of just like youths like a fail who has the work isn't it like 50 sit has the worst one yeah I know 50s one of them 50s first pit I mean I'm sure there's fucking yeah I wonder what the what truly the worst first pitch is I but so like it's got to be 50 cent bro it's got to be 50 cent he almost he almost hits he almost hits the cameraman he almost cameraman. I will say his jersey's fire, though. It says 50 and has Jackson on the back.

50 cent first. No, it is by far the, it's the, that's the worst one. Dude, I didn't even think about it. 50 cents always been jacked, but do you think he? Oh my God. I'm telling you it's the worst one. Bro, 50 cents always been jacked, but do you think? Then he didn't get a shit.

Or did he? Maybe 50 cent is like not good at like sports. I mean, he's probably not. He's just always been jazz. I have heard he could play. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like he, like, boxes.

Yeah, I've heard that. But, like, can he shoot a basketball? Can he throw a spiral? No, it'd probably look like an idiot. 50 cent playing. No. I mean, it's obviously. 50 cent playing sports.

But this is, like, I was just having, I don't know if, like, people have learned this about me yet, but I tend to go negative on the negative side of things when it comes. to my thoughts or what the outcome could be or whatever and I like don't really pat myself on the back at times and I kind of just assume a negative so it's like in my brain it's just like like that could happen to me it could slip like when I get nervous I get really like jammed up and I just don't I just don't I just don't I just kind of freeze so I was like what like shoulder to be moving I don't fucking just shit was going through my head I mean I feel like you wouldn't

understand unless you're just an anxiety written show. But so that morning I was kind of nervous we got there, got some reps in. I was like, okay, this is not going to be bad. But then like some of my reps I was like, that was kind of bad. And I was just like, I don't know, man.

At this point, it's 50 fucking 50. But at the end of the day, I was just like, I'm just going to, I'm going to go out, enjoy it. I was like, I'm going to step out there, like look around, embrace like what has. And they were all chanting like, maniac. Maniac. Yeah, B-T-H.

Right when I was about to throw out here, Oh, nine. People in the crowd. A couple dudes, girls. So, yeah, I tried to just go out, enjoy it. And I did. I went out, enjoyed the experience, blogged it,

went out there, kind of like, like I was like, I need to just take it in. The inner child in me, like, needs to see this and needs to, like, enjoy this. So I was, when I went out, I was nervous, but I wasn't as scared. I was out there with a positive mindset. I can see that. This episode of the Flycast is brought to you by Very.

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yours today um but it was it was fucking nervous yeah i can imagine um but yeah through the pitch went well but i remember like just being nervous after the pitch and like when i get super nervous i like it's hard for me to smile and i just remember like afterwards like it was like all right let's take a picture and i was just like i was just like god i probably look fucking weird in those pictures but it really wasn't it really wasn't bad but then afterwards i Afterwards, I was walking off the field because I got to the field. The lady was like, all right, wait one second. Then she was like, all right, go, went up there, did a five second introduction through the pitch, boom, picture.

I was out of there within a minute. And I was just like, why was I freaking out about that? That's how like that goes, bro. I was like, I could, like, I know I could go out there again and just, I would just not care at all. Yeah. Like, I would try to throw just like a heater and just risk it. I wouldn't even give a shit about you at 50 Senate. I don't know.

Yeah, I don't think, I don't think. Almost. I don't know if I could do that. Yeah, I don't think it could be that. He's never throwing a baseball. But yeah, that was a, that was a super dope experience. And I'm trying to be like, I don't know, this year, it's just, see, what's crazy as I was going to be like, this year has been like so, so much of a, it's got to be a word for it.

but like, I just feel like I'm like leveling up and like becoming a better version of myself, which I think I've done in the past, but like, I almost look back and I'm like, fuck, I like wasted, there's so many years.

You can't think about it that way, though. You can't think about it that way. I know, but that's what I'm like, like, I'm just like, I've wasted.

I feel like if we went back and we, we told, because you always think like, if my, if my, if my kid, if my, If my childhood self could see me now, what would he say?

Or, like, what would he think? But we don't even have to go back to the childhood. We can go back to that Shotsie Flycast and tell both of us where we're at now. It's a good thing for both of those guys. And when was that? That wasn't even that long ago. Just a couple years ago. What was that?

20, 23 or something? Yeah, 2024. That was two years ago. It was not even that bad. Yeah, I mean, even then we could tell ourselves like, yeah, just, I just feel like, if you're like, dude, dude, I, I, I, I, I vlog every other day and run every other day and I've lost 20 pounds and, you know, I threw the first pitch and I'm, I'm shredded now. You'd be like, financially, still got a clutch, but like, but like, but like you figured out. You got to think like, does, does that maniac even believe you? Like, you got to think was that.

That maniacs would be like, well, wait, what about our family? That is true. Didn't think about that. And then you're just got to be like, oh, don't worry about it. And then I'm going to be like, trust, trust. Trust. Don't worry about that one. The best is yet to count.

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Find your advisor at IG Private Wealth.com. I have questions, and you probably know. Wait, first of all, Matt, where are they? You might be meeting. I wonder if they're, are they in? Do you know where they're at? But I guess he's still. They're in Shots.

Oh, they are in a house. Okay. I was like, there's no way they're doing this in the, in the hex quarters, right?

No, it's in his house. Okay. I saw they were both sleeping on the same bed with both of their, with all of their pets. Yeah. They were both

like dogs. They were both in the same bed sleeping, sleeping head to toe. I might ask to stop by. And then, and then there were like two dogs also on the bed

on like a blowup mattress. I'm like, dude, these guys are. I feel like King, King Eldon Rings got to make a... You gotta go. I should get an outfit.

I should get an outfit and just... I'll be like, yo, let me just come by. I'll come by for like 15 minutes, just hang out. I pull up in an outfit. With the Bloodhound fame? With my...

Yes. And then in the second hand, the Minecraft sword. No. Well, what questions do you say? Yeah, I don't know if... I don't know if this is... Okay, it's the modded version of...

Like, it's got to be easier, right? Uh, so that it scales. So, so every. I know it scales like they got double. It's, you know, everything is like double. Every boss has two. Twice the house. But for bosses where they like, not stagger, but for bosses where they like flinch a little bit, you know what?

Right. And you got time to do damage. Like it's very, it's a lot easier. It's a lot easier. And you can step you, I feel like there's more opportunities to stagger them. Right. And the bosses are distracted on a. another player and then the other part can get pre hits like that like so it's like it has to be

like when we fought so don't think when we fought when we fought smoothie when we fought mollania as tST it was it took us three tries because it took me four yeah no it took and then when i fought her solo it took a it took like a hundred it took like a hundred or something like that like your first time by well i the first time i fought her was with tST so I had already, I already knew. Do you wish you didn't do that? Like you had the solo experience? No, no, I really enjoyed.

I think, you got a positive mindset and like, don't regret pass the past? Yeah. I try my best, yeah. But for the, um, like, I think the experience was so fun doing it with Blake and George, just because, like, we were running around the map together and we were like figuring it all out together. But the boss fights, there's so much. more rewarding when you do them solo.

Like so much more rewarding. But I think I think the next from soft game, they've got to implement a real multiplayer. Like you've got to be able to load up a world with your boys and, and like they build it into the game. Because this modded shit, like, it's great. And thank God it exists. Because it's really cool that it exists in the first place. Somebody built this mod and it works.

it's called seamless co-op it works seamlessly with the game like they even you don't have to do any weird shit to your computer you just kind of click something and you can join and um it's really cool

but I feel like if Fromsoft did it themselves I think I think you gotta have that like open world feel with your with your friends um and it would be so much so much better but

yeah I think I yeah I I think these guys are going to do fine. I knew they were going to breeze past the first four bosses. Because we breezed, like, with the three of us, we, like, the first four bosses, I think we did in the night. But then we get to the fire giant, and it took us like, bro, it took us a long time. The fire giant, it's good.

The fire giant is going to be the, I remember that. The fire giant is going to be the biggest, like, stop for them. I want to see him fight millennia and see if that's. See, Millennia is one of the ones where if you hit her, you can pause her. her like her attacks.

So she doesn't stagger, but she does this. So you can just like hit her over and over and over and over again. And of course, I'm in the back with TSTs just throwing fucking rocks at her. See,

who was I talking to? Was it, was it Shotsie? Um, or no, it was, uh, we had scrap on the,

I think fly cash. And I was like, I think you, like especially with Scraps personality I was like you need to do elder yeah just like he says he doesn't play games like that

I don't know if he has the mental for it it's I don't know if scrap exactly why he needs to do it I think both of these guys Swutie and and Shotsy I think they would be hilarious doing it solo but I love

I love the fact they're doing a duo yeah I think they have the mental for it as a duo you think so I don't know no I think Shotsie could persevere through it I think I know Swootie could. I mean, I think they could

I think they could do it. Yes, 100% like there's. But Scrabb, Scrap has very much the mentality where like if he's losing, he's got to blame somebody else. Nah, fuck this shit. The fact, this fucking marriage shit, bro. Like, this game, man. Like, nah, I'm not even going to waste my time.

This shit is trash. Scrap was loose. Scrap was losing in the in the optic, like, legacy week. And he, you could look at his face and he's looking for like a reason. Like, why is he losing. You know how I...

And then he's like, I know why I'm losing. It's because Zen's been... Zen's been playing console. He's used to this trash-ass shit. He's been playing. He's been playing Black Ops 2, so that's why he's beating me in Cold War.

And I'm like, there it is. He wouldn't be able to... Like, he just wouldn't be able to stand toe to toe with the Godskin duo and figure it out. See, I don't think he'd be able to figure it out. I knew Shotsie and... I guess I was on Swoodie Stream.

but I knew Swutie was they were getting into it because I went I went through this where I said like people were like

how are y'all struggling maniac beat this and like shit like that in their chat and it wasn't like they weren't talking back or like Swutty wasn't like reply

like Switty was just like looking over it's that moment in Eldon Ring where you look over it your chat and you see shit, but like, you're not going to react to it. You're not going to smile. You're not going to, like, respond because you're like, you're starting to get fucking pissed.

And it's like genuine rage. And I think I like, like, I, I, I said something in his chat. And so he's like, what are you talking about, maniac? And I'm like, yeah. I know that blood. I know your blood's fucking boiling. They don't even have to deal with Pomash. They don't have to deal with them.

Like, they, or fucking Formal's dumbass. I hate, I, fucking all he does. If you go to Formal's logs in my chat, it's probably just, I've never, there's just, it's just, it's just, dude, the day. Just you're bad, you're so shit. You're like, there was, I remember ignoring him, like, they're just, I think the rest of my, like, marathon. I think I responded to him like once or twice. And then he would, like, come in. And I would, like, glance over see him.

I wouldn't even acknowledge that he was. my chat, but like my chats talking to them and shit. Like, laugh my ass off for so funny. Bro, the day before, the day before the Mono Warfare 3 legacy match, which I don't remember what happened that day, but something crazy, I feel like something crazy

happened that day for the optic legacy match for Mono Warfare 3, but the day before it, I was doing a gauntlet stream and formal comes in and goes, low key hits, you think I won take this? And I was on run

40 and I was like no Matt you don't one take this you don't win 20 you don't win 20 team death matches in a row first try and he was like and then I was like just wait till tomorrow and he said I'm gonna run your shit tomorrow and I was like

what's going on maybe maybe it's like how he shows his like love to people the motherfuckers just can't yeah it's just it's they're so their brain's just so augmenting from call of duty like there's just

there's this perma defense that their brain has to be on like no vulnerability no love it's so true like tip no tipping it's so true and I think I think that's just the call of duty like I'm the gauntlet streams were so fun but I'm excited to get out of cod

for a little bit like the Minecraft the Minecraft series that I did was so chill and everyone was so like supportive and they were like you got this. You're going to get all the achievements. You got this. When I would lose in a gauntlet stream,

like obviously I have way, way more viewers doing the gauntlet streams than I was doing the Minecraft ones, but there would be so many people that are like, LOL back to cod four, LOL cod four stream, here we go. I'm like, who are you guys?

Why are you rooting against me? In my own little, like, my own little world that I created. Bro, I would see motherfuckers that are in my stream daily, like, B-T-H members, like, just talking down to me during, like, my Marathon stream. Right, yeah. Like, you're so fucking bad.

Like, I would, like, there was a few I think I'm banned. Dude, it's weird. Like, 12-month subscribers are banned. I love watching. I love watching people play Eldon Ring for the first time, but obviously it's a hard, it's going to be a hard watch, but that's the fun part of watching. Like, watching them try to beat the tree Sentinel, and they don't, they're, like fat rolling they don't know how to like charge attacks right but my first thought is never

l-oh well they suck so bad they're learning a new game right i don't understand i don't yeah i've i've never been like that either because i know i guess maybe i know and maybe this is why people do it but i sort of know the feeling of say in a hcs yeah if i'm watching halo or something and i'm watching whoever play. Like I'm not gonna, after they lose, then they're like out of the tournament, they're like, fuck.

Like, I'm not. L-O-Ling? I, I'm not, yeah, I'm not L-O-Ling or saying, you're so shit. And like, like, they're at their lowest moment. And it's, it's like, they're already feeling, like, I don't want to, I feel sort of bad enough for them. Like, I don't want to,

other people like get and sometimes like there are times where seeing someone fail or rage or get pissed or like slam their desk like it it is funny to see and it like kind of kind of gives you a little dope but like I can't do the like someone just lost or someone's going through it and just add like a year so bad um yeah no that that uh that hurts that I can't do it. People got no problem. People have no problem. They love it. Which I like the banter and chat. I feel like when for TST streams, we never like,

like we had fun with our chat. We had such a good community. But that like banter-esque thing that like a lot of streamers have with their chat, we didn't have that. Like we would just ban people. Like if somebody came in said something shit about George, banned. You know what I mean?

Like it was, there was no. And nowadays, like, days like now I'm like kind of going back and forth with chat in like obviously like a trolley way but some people don't understand the banter and they'll just be like l-o-l you suck you're never going to do this and I'm like dude that's not funny that just hurts my feelings your kid's going to be in high school by the time you complete this I'm like dude no he's not damn he's not not the kid are not the kid jokes already shit does that

Damn. Yeah, but I beat it, though. I finally beat it. So you just beat it on PlayStation Xbox? Just Xbox. I thought you beat it on PS5. No, you just, that's the whole, that's the whole reason I,

Wait, when did you beat it? A couple days ago. When you were like, oh my God. Yeah, my last stream. I thought you beat it twice. No, no, no. There was one time in Texas where I was still like just trying everything out. We made it all the way to Mono for 2022.

And I lost in 22, but then I just played the rest of the games. I thought you did. And so I was telling people that I basically beat it, but I was, I was just like joking. So people would be like, where's the gauntless streams? I'm like, no, we basically beat it already. But I was trolling then, but I like legitimately beat it last stream. Dude, it is the fastest my chat has ever moved. Like, yeah, look at my last.

How many viewers did you get? I don't know. Let me check my phone. I don't have my viewer count up because it was ruining my mental health. But now I can check it in the post. Formal rated me after. So my max viewers, my max viewership was 1143. But that was after formal rated me for like, I don't know, like 400.

The 1100 now is like 10,000? 7. 10, yeah, basic. You had like 10,000. My average viewership was 745. So, like, I'm going to miss that, because that's obviously not going to carry over whenever I do, whatever I do next. Do you know what you're doing next?

It's either going to be level one Eldon Ring or I'm going to, like, blind play through a game, like either, like, um, like Subnotica or Teraria or something like that, like try to beat a game without looking at anything up. Also, if this mind, we're almost done with this Minecraft video. So if that video does well, then I'll probably do something in Minecraft, like a skyblock or like a RL craft or something like that. Like, but it won't be, it won't be called duty.

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H-2A. H-2-A, H-2A, H-A, H-2A, H-A, H-5. Infinite. Just eight in a row? As a duo, I think we could do it. Like first take? Maybe not first take. I mean, yeah, we would definitely fucking do it.

Because it would have to be what, like social slayer? I just don't know if it'd be like, damn, I just don't know if that'd be hard. Yeah, I don't know if it'll be hard either. Like, we might do it and just like first try. Because there's not, there's not the, the hardest. First like five. And also, what is, is it 4V4 no matter what place? list you're in besides like big team battle or is it six v six no I think like social slayer would

be six six on certain games because the worst part of it all was teammates trolling like I would pull up I was going through this I was putting in the stats yesterday like trying to oh that just reminded me hold on what this is perfect timing I'm glad you said that and I screenshot it too and I need you to address this live on the fly but like I someone I would go like like I would go like I would go like 30 and I would go like 30 and 8 and then my closest teammate would be, I have like nine kills

and he would be 9 and 18 and that would be the second place person. Yeah. Well, tell me if this is true. I never look at my Instagram DMs, but I like sometimes I'll just like scroll through, get some get some dope from all the love. I get titled

or not really titled but just first three words. Important Nick Kirshner. He smelled my name wrong. Nick Kircher. Nick Kirshur. So I'm like, what could this be? I open it.

Next flag cast, I need to, I need you to address the hitched gauntlet allegations. He. Holy shit. He actively has someone on his friends list name I, you, you, be. Join. Just let me finish. I know who this kid is. He's been freaking out.

Hold on. Just let me finish it. He has someone on his friends with his name, I-U-U-B, joined 70% of his games every day and he goes quadruple negative on the enemy team. Alongside that, he has lost multiple matches and continued the series because the maps were trash.

As a fly-cast listener, as a fly-ass listener, an active hitched gauntlet cheese-hanger. I need to be. I need you to tell him. He is cheating himself and this gauntlet is gimmicky, even if completed, unless he changes.

Parentheses, I'm a hater because I think the series is genuinely fun if he does it right. Okay, so in the first like four games of Cod, there aren't many active lobbies. So for the first 40 attempts, like, if you wanted to get into my,

cod four game you just click cod four and click play and you're going to get into my game so people because there's not many lobbies yeah there's like one to two active maybe two active lobbies so what was happening is there was there were two kids that were joining my game they would leave if they were on my team and they would join the other team and they would go as hard as possible like as hard as possible they would triple stun me and made me to the point where i stopped talking to chat and i was just like head down trying to figure it out. So then some people would join in the game to try to counteract those kids.

So then they would go, but it's not like they were going around shooting in the air going quadruple negative. That is, that never happened. That never happened the entirety of the time. The only time that ever happened is when people join my team and then they would shoot in the air to go 0.30. So people, I would say 80 to 90% of my games, there were stream snipers. They were stream snipers on both ways.

They were stream snipers to counteract the bad stream snipers. There were stream snipers to try to reset me. And then there were people just trying to play in the lobbies. There's no getting around that. Like you can't. I was never once was I like, hey guys, join up and throw on the other team. never did that happen but I can't say and then and then there were times where people would join like the guy he's talking about was a guy in my chat and he would join and he's from a different

he's from a different like region so I would be sitting in the cod four lobby for 30 minutes trying to find a lobby and he would be like yo I found one and I would say okay invite me so That's why I added him to my friends list because he would invite me to a full lobby so that I could play. But now he's on my friends list and he could just join instead of like trying to find me. But it wasn't, dude, it's such a, dude, the gauntlet is 20, 20 call a duty straight of trying to win a team death match game. and that is 21 years of video games. Like that goes back 21 years. So you're playing games that every single day people would...

It's like who's still on that? Every single day people would say, how are you playing this? Like what mod are you using to play the old games? And every day I'd be like, you just buy the Xbox game and you put it in. The same way you did 20 years ago, it still works.

nothing has changed. So you're playing like, and also I'm playing all on Xbox Series X. So the Xbox 360 games are all backwards compatible, and they're all buggy. Like all of them, like, I think the most time-consuming part of this,

for people that watch, they know, like I would try to get into a game for like 45 minutes. Like that was the hardest part of some of these, some of these like Xbox 360. games is like it would take 30 minutes to even join a lobby because the lobbies were so few and far between so anything anything i could do to make that process easier i was not about like if people are joining off my friends list in order to fill up a lobby in order for us to just play sure if that's

what we need to do but dude it's so nitpicky that's the thing about the the cop like People were saying, people were saying in the last one, like when you hit the skill-based matchmaking cods, what I would do in order to make it even possible. It's order to make it possible. It's not, I'm not cheesing anything. I would go into a lobby and if the, and then I would look at the lobby. And there's a bunch of level 50s on my team. There's a bunch of level 5,000s on the other team. And so I would back out before the game starts.

And I'm like, no, I'm picking my lot. I am picking the lobby that I'm playing in. I still got a clutch. So you would get, would you get into a lobby and see like 5,000, rank 5, 5,000s on the other people leave? Yes, immediately. Like, in the pregame lobby, it would, like, split. And I would have a bunch of kids on my team. Were people calling you out for that?

They were saying, oh, this is cheese. And I'm like, well, you want me, so you want me. This guy. You want me to go in knowing that I'm losing. Like, the hardest part of it was my teammates. It wasn't anything else. It wasn't like anybody on the other team was, like, like unbelievable. It's just like I would click out the scoreboard and I'd have 30 kills and the

next place person has eight kills. And then three people on the other team have 20 kills. And I'm like, dude, how is this even happening? So it got to the point where once you hit levels, once you hit runs, once you hit run 70 was not cheesing. I had to be smart. I was making business decisions. I was making tactical business decisions. But at the end of the day, the thing that pisses me off is like, I came up with this. This is my idea. And then people are like, bro, you don't even... They're telling you how...

It's not like I took someone else's idea. Or I did something that was like... Someone like, Dashy did this, and now you're taking on the challenge. But Dashy did. It's not like I'm playing Eldon Ring and I'm using magic and summons and things that people are obviously thinking is cheese. And I'm like, no, no, no, I'm just doing it. No, like, I bought the Xbox. I bought all the games.

came up with the rules and people didn't like that i didn't like playing the small maps because the small maps are so cheese like nuke town rust and shipment you i would lose all of them because my teammates just running around like bet they and they would just feed them streaks and now there's now there's helicopters in the air on the smallest map in the game and i lose just immediately so i was like yo we're not playing the small maps like the small maps are not so people didn't like it people didn't like it, but I beat the gauntlet formal, formal and

Pomage live commentated or live reacted to the last game which is kind of hype. Yeah, and dude, if you look at my tweet, it's the fastest my chat has ever moved. Like the... Yeah, I did see that. It's literally the fastest my chat has ever moved.

It was hype. Junior, God damn it, man. It just makes me so nervous. This webcam wire is like so, like you touch it. My fucking PC just might turn off. He's like stepping around my P he's like on my PC stepping around the power button. All right. Well, we'll let the chat or the comments if you've made it this far in the podcast.

We can let the comments, you know, sort of decide. Was it legit or not? Yes, it was legit. It was 100% legit. 100% legit. I did it 71 times. And there's never a run. There's never going to be a run where people are like,

like, I'm never going to get into a full lobby every time that starts from zero, zero, and I slay out the entire lobby and I move on to the next one. It would be impossible for that to happen. Because just because of how the games are set up, also half of the call of duties, when you join a full,

when you join a game and you, and you beat the game, and then it nukes. I can tell this was a discussion while you were playing through this every shoot. It's because no one else is doing it. I'm the only one that can defend myself because no one else is ever going to do this. No one else is ever going to do it. I was thinking about a series where I bring my Xbox and my hard drive to the, to the hex quarters and just have people attempt it once.

I'm going to do it. I don't think you would get, Yeah, you do good. But what if... It also sounds so much easier than it really is. But what if I'm on a new account? Would that help? Not for the old games.

It would help for... Once you get to Morrow for 2019, you might just win. Like, you might just breeze through the whole second half of the games. Because that's what I thought was going to happen. But once you get to 2019, like, the skill-based matchmaking kicks in. And then you're like, okay, so you have three really easy. And then I've, dude,

it's, I kind of want to try it. I've been, um, yeah, I've been pondering the whole, I, okay,

so, so my plan is to sort of be a, I want to get into personal training as like, almost, there's a, there's, this is gonna make sense of it. Okay, okay,

I'm gonna, I want to go into personal training. And like, that's sort of what I want, my at least near future career is to be kind of be not really i guess sort of fitnessy influencer content but i'm still in still in optic of course and doing all that and like it'll mainly still be around that but like i'm also doing this and i want i want to be able to like help people who want to basically just like beginners and help them try to get in the

best shape of their lives and almost like once i'm like january first uh type of shit that i did this year like let's set you up on a program i want to i want to get into that kind of like almost like personal training online um but i've been thinking i was like i kind of need to like start streaming again because youtube just like doesn't like my views are pretty good also i heard youtube just came out with an update to where like like if you look at my channel like the views seemingly seem really good but apparently YouTube now lets all the views

be visible to your channel even if someone just like clicked it and then clicked off or if like but like it used to be they had to watch a certain amount to count as a view it used to be like you had to watch a certain amount and then it counted as a view

so now it's like everyone's right views are basically almost like double everyone's views are up right now yeah everyone's views are up right now because of this change that YouTube did so it's like I'm seeing the views increase, but like the money is not increase at all.

And like it's just not that it's not worth the time because I could still stream while making a vlog or two a week. But yeah, YouTube just like that it's just not sustainable at that fucking 35 and like really trying

to solidify sort of like a career and pick a path. Like YouTube is just not. I could stream to my lowest amount of viewers ever I would still make more from streaming. It obviously would be way more time consuming

and probably stressful just because I stress when I stream because I'll be whether I'm playing something and it's fucking stressful getting shit talk by the chat. Not that it's obviously not the hardest fucking life ever

but it would be a lot more time consuming and stressful to stream but it's like my worst months of streaming were the better than my best months on YouTube right of course so it's just like it's just not fucking everything everything I'm doing on YouTube right now until until I went till we really pick up the the main channel because once you get like really good views like that's where like the money starts coming in like new from Nespresso blend wellness into your coffee routine with a coffee plus range infused

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Or if you get a fucking sponsor, like, which I was like kind of hoping would happen, but it's like, I don't know, maybe I'd need to reach out or like fucking have someone do that for me for fucking once. Yeah. Yeah, it's, uh, it's, it's more, I would say YouTube is way more rewarding. Or if you're doing something for YouTube, that's why, like, whenever I'm streaming, I'm always going to be streaming for like a bigger, I'm never just going to get on and and grind a game.

Like, it's always going to be for something. It's going to be some sort of goal, some sort of journey, which, which is exciting because when I beat, when I beat the gauntlet, I would say more than ever in my life, people have been like, okay, what are we doing next? And I'm like, that's dope. I like that people are starting to under, like, are starting to get like, that I'm, I'm trying to go for something else next. Once you're starting up your streaming, you're like, I don't know what I'm streaming. Started up and talk for 45 minutes.

And then it's like, all right, I guess I'm getting on my. Dude, that put me on SSRIs. That, dead ass. It makes your fucking, it made me tweak. Like, I remember when I was playing Minecraft a little bit, like, streams going super well at first because I'm I haven't played in forever I'm forgetting everything everything's almost seemingly fucking new but then you get good then you beat the game then you get all diamonds and you get all fucking whatever it's called the best armor and you bet the best shit and then it's like all right well I guess this is sort of over I guess it's sort of done and then it's like next street like you just see day by day by day by day that you're down it's like there's nothing the the excitement of what you're that's sort of what i i mean that's what i would i would have to do as well is yes have sort of a goal for when you sign on stream is um yeah to have to have a goal i think just

what it's i mean there's people that just stream every single day and maybe they can just play cod or i mean i guess everyone sort of got some kind of idea of what they're going to do every yeah but it is um it is very annoying streaming in not having that it's just so much better with like uh that's why these these marathons were fucking sick um start minecraft again was sick um i think i even played world of warcraft a little bit on stream then like that was cool at first but just way better having something instead of just signing on and sort of fucking wing yeah but but yeah I don't know in my head I've just been sort of thinking of like all right what are we going to do like coming up on the end of the year I do feel like I'm I'm investing in myself a lot because

like with these YouTube videos I feel like people are seeing a very personable side of me the comments are completely overwhelmingly positive there's like I really don't even like see a negative anymore and I feel like I could turn this into something whether like my goal is to be like personal training, fitnessy influencer, still in optic doing content like that, vloggy stuff, getting like sort of getting sponsors, building a brand, selling clothes, maybe some athletic wear, some regular. Like that would sort of still doing, still doing some YouTube videos, maybe some Meyer Raulstream, sort of just like a mix of shit.

But then a lot of shit would be like personal training because I feel like I think I forget because I've been doing it so long, a lot more off than Owen as far as like working out and to try to better myself. But I'd be forgetting how much people don't. Some people have never, like, stepped into a gym. Some people have never tried to start working out. So it's like, I would like to help those people. Especially in the gaming world.

In the gaming world, yeah. Especially in the gaming world. Just be able to start out. Yeah. Give you a fucking program or routine. Stick to this. Trust the process. Let's change your fucking lives.

So many people are depressed sitting in their fucking room. They have no motivation to do anything. thing. They don't have a routine that they know to stick to. They don't know what to do in the gym. They don't know what if they don't have a gym membership, what to do. And it's like if they were, if I could help those people just start taking a, once I'm like January 1st shit, start taking a step in this direction, four or five days a week. And like, just get them out of this fucking depression, secret, dark, lonely.

fucking lives that a lot of us live and that I've lived at one point and just get motherfuckers out of it because in the gaming world that exists a lot and those might be the motherfucking haters in our in our chats so might be this guy yeah it might be it's definitely that guy it's definitely i'm gonna help him out he's gonna be a new man it's 100% that guy i'm gonna lead him down the path and he's gonna be typing positive shit for your next uh next gone. All right, man, I got to go,

uh, I gotta go, uh, I got to go change the diaper, bro. All right. Yeah, I was gonna ask,

update on the, yeah, things are, things are, things are, things are, uh, we're,

we're finding a little bit of a, of a, of a routine, yes, definitely, definitely. Are you, are you obsessed?

Yeah, like, definitely when I, it, I didn't know, I mean, obviously I never thought this was going to happen,

but like, when I'm doing something, and then the crying starts, I'm never, like, never like you know when you when you have a dog and is it kind of like what's wrong yeah it's like it's like oh shit it's time so then I go and I pick him up

and I and he's opening his eyes a lot he can't really like understand what he's seeing but he's definitely like and I'm like hey I'm your papa you are mine like I'm talking to him and stuff so that I didn't because when you have a dog like and they won't stop crying you're trying to do something you're like dude and they're like open the back door and like go i was i was kind of i was always kind of concerned like before all this that maybe my mind would

be there too like even i can't even though it's like fucked up like i'm like i'd be like dude i just want to throw a pacifier in his mouth and move on that's not that's not a thing i still like if he's if he's fussing i just get him up and i and i spend quality time that's your little baby man that's Yeah, it's crazy. Dude, it's crazy. That's fucking you. But yeah, I've been having fun. All right, man. Hey.

Hi, man. All right, man. Guess that's going to do it for another episode of the flycast, man. Thank you all for watching. Matt should be back in the studio for the next one. Back in studio for the next. Because I know y'all like fucks with the webcams and stuff. Yeah, we'll be back.

We'll be back in the studio. My, uh, what's it called? My maternity leave. My paternity leave is coming. an end. Got to, got to, yeah, we're coming,

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