The Flycast - Taking Over The OpTic Major Event | The Flycast Ep. 177

Episode Date: February 1, 2026

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We're back on the main stage. It's been too long, but optic returns and we're coming back out. Big match ahead of us and we're taking the fucking dub. You've heard it here first. Welcome back to another episode of the podcast. Who gives a fuck and we've got a very special episode today. We have a very special episode today. It's obviously, well, is it very obvious?

I don't know if it's obvious yet, but we're at major one here. Dallas, Texas. I'm so used to saying Arlington. At the SMU campus. At the SMU campus, you know, we're going to get this over with, find some baddies. I'm 34. Does it make you miss college being on a college campus? No, it actually pisses me off for one.

Because one, I went to a community college. So it was like. No dorms. It wasn't. No dorms, no sports, no baddies, no classes, no learning. No one making eye contact. Oh, okay. With me specifically.

No friends, no experiences, no memories. Story of my life. But, no, this college seems great. I wish I had this kind of college experience. Like, I saw people, I mean, I guess there's classes going on. I saw a few. Yeah, there's got, I mean, I think so. I don't know how it works.

When do college start? When do people start doing shit? I have a question for Matt Craig. Matt Craig is recording behind the camera. He was here until 3 a.m. last night. And part of me wondered. if Matt's put that TV there and just said, fuck it. We're just going to leave it there.

We're just going to leave it propped up on the wall. Is that what happened, Matt? Is that what happened, Matt? Not the camera. Yeah. Were you setting up all of this stuff? All this till 3 a.m. Oh, my God.

We were here grinding. Allen's alien invasion. Let's go look at the Scuff House. Yeah, let's give you all a tour of Matt Craig's. Let's go look at the Scuff House. Room that he said. set up till 3 a.m. I just got here. I haven't had any time to look at anything. It really does look like the house though. Hey guys. Hey, how are you? Well, I'll go back to another episode of the fly.

We got some people here. What round are we on? Around five. Oh, I haven't made it this far. I haven't made it upstairs. Let me peek in my. That's me. That's your room right there. That's actually me, though. zombie mode hey it looks no no I'm good I'm good I'm good afterwards they got my setup facing the wrong way oh no he's gonna no we're not

my setup facing the wrong way he's not gonna die on he's not gonna die on the pod not on the fly cast oh he's been here before he's no is this Pomage's room he's no rookie to the zombies I think he's in Pomage's room right now

I think they Yeah, this is Pam's room. This is Pam's room right here. You can't get in the bathroom. It smells that bad. And that's pretty sick. That's pretty sick. Yeah.

Go play Allen's invasion. It's on the Steam marketplace. There will be a link somewhere in the world and you can play it yourself. Yeah, I never got to explore my room. Apparently, there's some like Easter eggs. Or I don't know if it's Easter eggs, but some of my like shit beats that I made. Apparently it's like a broken down. How we doing?

What's up, man? How you doing? Wait, he has a very important question For who? Okay, what's the question? So I was listening to your podcast, right? Which one? Around the bar, I appreciate it.

You're doing an ad read, right? You were like, you've seen it inside of someone's esophagus, man. What's up with that, man? I don't remember saying that. I don't think you watch a different pod. I don't think I don't think that was me. It might have been me. I don't know.

What did Hitch mean by that? For the ad reads, I tried to keep it light. I don't remember saying inside of the esophagus, but shout out to whoever to whoever add whatever company that was I appreciate you man um all right so this is a tour of the optics the optic area that was the Allen's invasion point and over here we have a UFC punching machine

and also this is where the meet and greets were do I got to get a swing in yeah come on come get a swing come get a swing if you get over 950 950 that's like a fucking record on that thing that's literally 15 over the highest if you get 950 i'll gift you i don't want to try 20 subs i'll throw my shoulder out but you know i'm not streaming i think we're gonna i think we're gonna cut oh yeah that's true next time you stream i'll gift

you for sure see this summer 50 subs 20 27 wait can we get can we get can we get nick to try it real quick for the fly cast i'll hold the i'll hold the man i'm gonna throw my shoulder i'm taking it The waiver has been signed. I am going to guess 732. I hit that mic. Yeah. Not warmed up, man. Remember to follow through.

I have a shoulder injured. Remember to follow through. You got to follow through. You're coming from the. What did I say? 831. Hey, that's not bad. We're going to have to stick with that.

I'm already feeling it. Let's move on. For a 42 year old, that is. not bad that is not bad i could get 900 just know that i could get 900 just know that should we go get some warm up should we go get something to eat from the concessions just stand in line at the concessions just ask people what they're eating well let's take a i guess you know this place more than me let's do i've been here for 15 minutes oh i was going to say you take me on that's up guys how you're all doing how's it going how's it going what's up guys what's up what's uh we're doing a fly

cast right now i'm sorry fly right now i'm just going to carry a mic around at all times all right even when we're not on the fly i just have the i'm on the fly right on the fly right so you walk in allen invasion of course yeah right off the bat right to the right you got a lot of people getting food there's a lot of food getters over here what kind of food does they have let me guess hot dogs nachos pizza you can count your calories here 300 calories so right here 180 for it when it says jumbo dog 380 to 780 do you only count the bottom one that's what i do i be bullshitting i'm like oh it's a 380 calories for the hot dog even though it's a 380 to 7 jumbo dog and souvenir top left it's either 780 or 380

Well, I think it's 380 for the hot dog. And then is the soda 400 calories? It's probably depends on what you put on. Or does that sound insane for a soda? It probably depends what you put on the hot dog. Like if you put cheese and... Oh, I guess that is true. And shit on it.

I guess... But regardless, I just get the hot dog and whatever's on it. I'm like, it's 380 calories. It doesn't matter if it has a pound of cheese and ketchup. Right. A full... A full soda. 380.

Yeah, 380 calories. Which 180 calories for a hot dog's kind of insane. itself but I've been counting my calories and shit have you no I have I know this friendly reminder this is day we got BtH chance go and left one person said Bt H chance all in the crowd they're chanting BtH but this is day I believe day 20 what's what's today's date day 29 counting every calorie oh yeah every macro we've gone from 204 which I always tell people too many people surrounding me i'm getting over walking but i always tell people i started

james saying so speaking of over 200 pounds um speaking of hot dogs with loaded cheese but uh that was james i started my first way and was 204 but i swear it was more than that i was dehydrated but now today I'm officially 197.8 I've been under 200 pounds for like a week you're looking good man so this is unheard of bro I feel like

not to be dramatic but I can't even fill out of XL anymore oh shit you're not fat as fuck anymore what's all man but also I don't know if I like the look you don't know if you like I feel like I'm just shrinking

instead of it just like You're not that of it just being like abs it's just you know you're not bulking out human I don't know so you wanted to you wanted to bulk out well I need steroids this kind of I don't think you need this kind of what I'm getting too I was trying to like find a way around it but does steroids actually make your dick little Matt Craig can you look that up real quick leave a comment if you do steroids and then tell me the side effects tell me the pros tell me the cons I keep hearing mixed things I hear that it makes your dick I hear that it makes your dick I hear that it makes your dick little and i also hear that it makes your balls a little what's up what's up guys but i don't know

dick little ball your ball shrink but it's just your balls i'm fine with shrinking my balls i just don't want to shrink do you have plenty of balls to shrink i do have i have excess ball i don't really have a ball guy or are you uh like what do i enjoy more no do you have more balls or more i think i think i'm I think I'm pretty... More peen. I think I'm pretty proportionate. But I definitely think my... My balls are nicer than my shaft.

I'm just... This fucking headphones. It's so funny to me. See, I have... That's pretty much what I'm thinking. Solid shaft. What I... You have little balls?

They're kind of like... You got little tiny balls? Someone just hit me with a scratch and sniff. Oh, well, I guess I wouldn't. That's fucked up. That is extremely fucked up. What up? What's up guys? How you doing? How you doing? But what I was trying to get out here, it's very distracting and hard to concentrate.

It is very hard to concentrate. My balls are like inside of my stomach. Your balls are inside of your stomach? My balls are like on top of my shaft. I'm just kidding. You have a reverse stick? Upside down to it? Yeah. Stranger things? Basically.

What the hell? That's great. That's not. I just got a crazy visual. I should just let that rock, but I don't actually. actually have that i was like that sounds that kind of sounds like a medical condition like it sounds like something that could happen upside down but i don't happen to math dick one time inside out balls did i ever tell you about that no he woke up one day and got text test testicular torsion how to go to the hospital is this a true story yeah so what does that mean what is testicular tors

it means that what is matt craig's testicular torsion mean it means that your balls have flipped inside out and they swell up like a brick and then what do you mean inside out what's up man have you ever had testicular torsion no matt has though i told you what i tell you and what is this this and this your balls do what again here it here in dallas texas i don't know if matt wanted um this is awesome by the way they uh they just like they twist that's all they do so the right goes to the left. They like may flip spots, but more it's just like the, the one twists and a little tube that's connected, twists cuts off the blood flow to it.

And then it just like a bunch of batch that happens after that basically. It hurts a lot. You have to go to the hospital. You have to get an ultrasound on your balls. How did you know it just hurt? It hurt like the most pain ever. My life. Yeah, by a lot.

All right. Matt Craig. Thank you for that story. I'm sure you appreciated telling that and having. Matt loves when I put him on camera. hundreds of thousands of our viewers yeah hundreds of thousands of viewers now this one might head since we're at the event this one might hit a millie it might hit might be our third or fourth million viewed episode should we go back upstairs

now yeah are we pretty much yeah we're right right there oh yeah we can just go up we can go upstairs now see where we're sitting where the superiors are sitting the hall of fame club The Hall of, where I belong. What's up, guys? This ain't just for HALO. Thank you. See, back in 2009, I used to come up these same steps. The Hall of Fame stairs?

The Hall of Fame steps. It'd be like me, T2, Wash. Oh, is this messy? Did Messi go to SMU? I think that might be messy. I don't know, sure. Wait, that's fucking, who is that? Oh, dude.

That's Buddy Chamberlain. Legend. Yeah, from 59. Quarterback. Yeah. Legend. I mean, they probably don't know about that. Oh, this is the 1996 Bulls.

Caitlin Clark from high in high school. Oh, shit. Remember when Caitlin Clark in high school was so good, they brought her to college? Yeah. That was. That was her? Yeah, that was her. Isn't that Michael Jordan?

32. Yeah. Yeah. The thing about it is in college, he was 32, but then pro, he went on some, like, reverse. I'm changing my whole mindset. Flipped in 23. That's the story behind that. From Texas.

Yep. From Texas. Holy shit. Dude, it's fucking hot. But yeah, we can take a quick tour where the optic suite will be. I don't know when this is even going to come out or if anyone cares, but... Basically, don't come this way. Or Paige will kick you out.

Yeah. By force. Yeah. Page likes getting the law involved on some snitch shit. So unless... We would let you in, but... Yeah, we dap you up. Come on in.

Here's X. Oh, scum. Scum. He wants the picture. We would. Page isn't going to let that fly. It's all pages fault. But yeah, this is, I guess, is this optic suite?

Yeah, this is the optic suite. So apparently, uh, gentlemen's just beat Ultra. I'm not going to lie. That's where we're at. I have a lot of cod to catch up on. I don't know. I have sort of watched our matches. Sorry, I don't know shit.

I can't like when you. I don't know shit. You said, you said who? Toronto beat or Gentlemates beat Ultra Gemmates beat Ultra I couldn't tell you Who's on it.

I saw it. I saw on. I saw Envoy up there and I couldn't tell you which team he's on. He is on gentlemen mates. I do know that. Okay.

So he won. I do know that part. But yeah, this is the optic suite. Sort of, we've got a little bar behind us. Yeah.

You want to grab a drink? Nah. Maybe. Probably not. I was going to say maybe Saturday, but I have to finish I have to finish out the month strong are you going to go to case isn't case on doing a party

I think so yeah like a club you go to that yeah I'll be there I'll meet you there no I'll meet you there I'm for sure there because you're for sure I'm for sure at the at the at the 100thies after party think that's what it is that what it is I think it's the 100thies after party no honestly I don't plan on I haven't drank since last year I haven't drank since last year. Really? Been a long time. So I don't know if I want to start yet.

I've been locked in. All right. We are. Holy shit. That was very hot. I was getting so hot. Like, was it hot or are we just,

I think we might have. Anti-social. I think it might have been a combination of a lot of things. We were both wearing hoodies. It is a little warm in here. Is it warm to you, Matt? Matt runs cold, though. Matt,

under his desk at all times really yeah well i mean that's what he calls her why but you know you just get cold sometimes when you're locked in um but yeah i got a lot of cod to catch up on i don't know shit about shit but i'm probably only going to watch our matches if i'm being honest same i was gonna do this watch our match and then home go gym oh go gym yeah we're doing uh we're doing a uh around the bars this weekend so i'm going to have to go set up around the bar at like an air bambi right down the street really yeah who uh what guests you got this weekend uh talking to tray arc so somebody from tray art what the fuck yeah which is pretty cool uh tea dog call duty is back tray arc the one who makes black ops yeah and then also possibly silky i think silky's coming down okay and what the hell

yeah so those are those are the episodes that is dog yeah but then the other call duty is back tray arc and silky i would not fucking all over the place yeah that's fucking insane so we'll see we'll see i don't know if silky is planning on was planning on coming but with all the weather i don't know he's apparently

doing like after the phase thing happened his new like content plan was to do an org tours like tour different orgs and see like if he i mean they're gonna join and if he's gonna join another org i mean they're not going to but wow that's his content he wouldn't pick us either to join i don't know man if there's ever a weekend to come to get the best optic experience possible he's gonna see this see the crowd he's gonna be walking through people silky what the fuck what the i'm gonna put merch on him and then he's and he's like this is what it's like all the time i'm like every day

you were with the shitter squad yeah phase down you go to frisco bro get you a get you a nice apartment Frisco, bro, I'm telling you, your life going to really change now. L.A. shit, like, we don't even like that shit. The frisco is the place. That's more your, I can tell that's more your vibe, man. Make yourself home here. Well, shit, that's different. That's cool.

I would not think this would be his, because I'm going to be honest. I have, I don't know anything about any of them besides adapt, of course. And then I'll see, like, I'll see. obviously clips of like Lacey and Ron yeah and then who else black boy max I've seen a little but like I couldn't are you just gonna pull

well I guess there is a decent he joined phase and I guess you can ask about his whole I was gonna dude I try to say is what questions are you about to pull out of your ass if I can talk to Tyreek Hill for two hours I can talk to anybody yeah that's true that like the Tyreek episode was big

that was big for me that might have been the best thing that could have happened to you early in your for sure podcast page text me and said tyreek wants to be on in two days and i was like i have to learn i've never i have to learn about the NFL luckily i know a lot about football but i don't know anything about the NFL i don't know anything about

him see that's what i feel and i also didn't want to ask like what's it like being fast you know what i mean see that's what i would ask i know what's it like being that fast dough i did ask him like is it annoying that everybody asks you about being fast and he's like bro it's the only thing people ask and I was like what's it like so uh think of something else so is it crazy yeah no I don't think I would completely choke under especially that kind of interview yeah like I feel uncomfortable and it's funny you said it in one of your vlogs because I'm your I'm your your vlog drops notification watch it instantly first like

I'm watching yours I'm watching here and you said in one of your vlogs uh I think you like I think you had a, uh, around the bar or something, maybe during a match day. And I think you like sat on the chairs a little bit. Oh, and then you got up and you're like,

if I seem weird on that couch, it's because like, give me off of it. Yeah. I can't. And you're like, it's because I don't know. You're like,

I don't know if it's because I don't know anything about cod anymore. So it's just like you're. Yeah. Not a poser, but like, uh, kind of a poser. I think,

I think what it is. is like but it's like uncomfortable being in a situation or trying to make a conversation with something someone where you don't know shit the watch party like a halo person i can fucking talk to all day but even like cod nowadays or doing a pod with like silky or something i'd be like bro i don't know what the fuck i think well i think it's different because i think podcasts are my element now and watch parties aren't like i never because watch party a lot of the a lot of the content is in between matches and like during the match feels like dead time to me but that's because everyone one's watching. So I never know like am I supposed to be entertaining right now? But no,

you're not supposed to be. You're supposed to watch. Well, it's also because it's not your watch party either. Oh, dude. Yeah. Which makes it because I on my halo watch party, I'll fucking do whatever I want. And sometimes APG, I'll be like, well, you matches going on. It's 48 to 48. And you're still talking about that one fucking thing from last game. Yeah, exactly. And I don't want to I think when it comes to call a duty like we had our own niche for a long time like with with tST and even prior to tST like with what I was doing in cod and now like I missed the initial watch party wave yeah I didn't start I didn't try to do it so now it's been two years and watch parties are like stacked like that's the new wave yeah and I missed it and so I don't now when I

jump in I'm like y'all have been doing this shit and I don't know what I'm doing right i don't know how these work in it i just got gifted five do i even say it mention it am i going to get fucking verbally annihilated i forgot you had your little fucking your little time of uh yeah i was on the watch party for a while but um i don't know i never dropped type of shit i think i think they just dropped me well i think they planned on having formal one the whole time and then i think they were also getting a lot of complaints about like people said like my things like my thing was kind of like if you enjoy the stream support this train like super chats fucking right um five gifted just like kind of being obnoxious about it and i think they start even

when i wasn't on there people were getting on them for not watching the matches and like just all they only do this for sub trains and like they don't even you kind of started that shit that's crazy maybe i ruined the rod i ruined it you might have ruined the scum watch party no they've been begging for subs for a long time but uh yeah i think once that kind of changed they're like yeah i don't know if we can plus they know i don't even really watch cod like that but plus they got hacks they also got formal so i think i just kind of got thrown out of the picture and to be honest i haven't watched enough cod i think like last year i was into it a little bit and even before this year i

told myself like after the race i was like i'm gonna take uh i'm gonna take a little bit off and then right when the game dropped or shit the game did you drop huh but i was like i'm gonna take like few days off and then it's like i'm i need to grind this game yeah like milk it while it's hot and that just did not happen at all and now i feel just so behind to where i'm like what the fuck am i also milk it while it's hot unfortunately this game never got hot like i feel like there's no it never got hot tush was asking me he was like how's the viewership for competitive i was like the viewership for competitive is fine it's pretty much the same as last year but it's the general it's good for how much people don't give a fuck about the game exactly

yeah that's a good way i feel like people don't care about like i've heard nothing no besides like it's real bad the watch party it's real bad but i don't even know what they're like what are people usually playing i don't know like are people just in the beginning of games what are people are people watching like eights and they're usually watching like camo grinds and then they're watching like the zombies community is pretty big and then there's usually like something to keep people like to keep the the variety streamers that play like shroud and summit last year we're playing like you know face off and stuff and like trying to get camos like they were having fun with it playing some search and destroy with like marksman and people like that but like this year that

marksman marksman not even playing cod it's like that whole that whole that whole part of the internet like the s and d kids like the s and d pub kids they're not even playing the game yeah so also people like nick merks tim the tatman uh ninja and shit like they're not even i don't even did they even give the game did they play the game no i don't think they even played at all like arc raiders was out no wasn't like battlefield so battlefield drop prior to cod arc Raiders dropped right before cod yeah nah this god just got fucked and then uh escape from tarcov dropped like a full release the game had been in beta for like five years they fully released the game the day after cod came out so like bro peanut peanut had like 150,000 viewers

during the race just playing arc raters and tarcoff pestily had like 100,000 viewers because there was drops on Tarkovs. And we were playing the race while we were doing the race. It was just a really crazy time. Yeah, is this like the most dead release? Since 2008. Since 2008?

Yeah. The Steam charts came or the Xbox. What was it? The PlayStation or Xbox charts? I knew I wasn't the only one. I thought maybe my fucking serotonin's just low. So I'm like,

everything's bad. I think what it was is they released two Model Warfares back to back. And then they released two Black Ops back to back. to back, which is just not good for public perception. Because at the end of the day, this game is better than the last game. And Monofer 3 was better than Monofer 2.

But for the general perception, MW3 over MW2? Mottoeuvre, 22. Not the original. I just think it's stupid they even title it. I think so, too. I'm going to ask the Trajard guys so much shit that they're going to cut. I know they're going to cut it all. Really?

But I'm going to ask them some stuff. So what's the stipulations behind interviewing someone like that? Like is it like they're going to have control of like what can be said? I'm going to send them a cut. Everyone that does around the bar, I send them a cut. And if they want anything, if they want anything cut from it, they just say, hey, can you take this part out? And I say, yeah.

Which happens often. Tommy, my episode was Zoom, we cut like 40 minutes out of it. Really? Because of what? I mean, I can't say it. But we were talking about it. At one part, he said this. But no, we cut a lot out of it.

But it was, it's not like bad shit. It was just like, he was just like, I don't want to deal with it. Just being too honest or open about. We're having drinks. So like you just have a casual conversation. Yeah. No, that makes sense. But it's most of the time, like, just stuff where you're like,

I don't really want to talk. I don't, we were having fun, like talking about it, but I don't want it to be out. Yeah, that's happened a few times on the fly. the fly to where even we've cut full episodes even before it might be on the intro of what i was saying i don't know if matt craig was recording but as we were starting it up like what i was going to ask people like what are your thoughts about even shit like that it's like some especially sometimes when you're just yapping dude there was a dark ages there was a dark ages of flycast do you remember it

we cut like three episodes we we cut three entire episodes Really? When were these years? This was two years ago, a year and a half ago? Really? What was it about? I'm sure you could think if you thought hard enough, you could figure out why we cut full episodes.

Okay. One, okay. There were two episodes about the same thing that we cut both of them. Yeah, I do remember that. Because there was like no way around like editing it. And even if we do cut it, it's like that's 30 minutes cut out. There was no editing it. It was a chalked the whole thing.

Yeah, we've had a. And thank God we chalked those fucking episodes. That would have been the Drake beef, but way worse. People get people get wrote people roast us for. And I'm sick of the Drake beef shit. I mean, I'm not, I'm not even going to get started with that. I'm thinking about doing the, uh, the album listen. I do want to stream out of album, uh, listen parties though.

Yeah. Yeah. Like the Jay Cole one? Yeah. I told you, let me join you for that. You never respond. I think I'll be in Arizona. Yeah, I'm a fly out.

Content. Yeah. I want you to fly out. Fly out. You're going to fly me out? I want you to fly out. Yeah. Can I say at your house?

Yeah. 100%. Where? What do you mean where? What room? It's like a six bedroom house. Oh yeah. I forgot.

Mansion. Yeah. Arizona Mansion. Yeah. gotta do what I did man what else what we do find someone find some some yeah hit the girl that can hold you down that can hold you down it's the best best thing you could do yeah I can't haven't haven't found and I can't is there is that coming through there's some like really high pitch squealing going on so yeah hitch said or hitch randomly texted me and said to fly out to Arizona

to do a flycast some kind of content what what will we do how long should i stay there because i kind i kind of want to go to arizona as well come to come come come for a few days we can go yeah vlog and do some fly like do a flycass you edit my blog you edit my vlog you edit my i'm actually down for that that's not a bad idea it would be you'd have the most but like the just monica on your clips people don't understand how much i fuck up on my clips and like repeat my like I would have to pre-chop it so you don't see that I just took eight tries to do like that's the good part I just put all of them in yeah you would make it like you wouldn't even cut it up and make it funny you would just make it long and awkward and it's just a 45 minute vlog no no I would do some shit I would do some shit now we could do something like that if if anyone's got any ideas uh yeah let us fucking know because I kind of I haven't been somewhere else when was the last time i've been out of texas uh i guess the beginning of last year grandma's funeral rip r i p r ip um but besides that i have been like gone somewhere like for fun yeah just to like switch up

the the the scene dude it was like 72 degrees outside and we were Alexis and i were sitting outside and there was uh people were complaining about the snow and it was two degrees here and i was like Holy shit. Yeah. So did you not experience the snow at all here? I landed on a snowy tarmac. Oh. I was like, my flight was at 8 a.m. and I got out, or 7.30 a.m.

and I got out at 1145. Yeah, it was kind of bad, but I feel like they made it. This girl was telling me like, I was like, yeah, were you here for the one in like 2021? She was like, yeah, it's going to be way worse. Like, this is going to be bad. It's not even close. And I was like, damn, I should go get groceries to my. She was like, you haven't yet?

She's like, oh my. She's like, I don't know, but yeah, I would go tonight if you can. I went tomorrow, just shit stocked up or I went the next day, shit was stocked up. Like, nothing changed because of the ice. That's such girl brain. But even though in like the girl brain, I mean, and obviously on TV, like the weatherman and shit and like different YouTube channels, they're going to make it sound dramatic. I think it just gives them more clicks.

But they were talking like this is going to be the worst since like, 62. But it was a regular ass. It's a regular snow. It is sketchy walking on the sidewalk because it's just like fucking ice. Yeah. Now it's not bad, but the first like two days, it was windy. It was super cold.

That happens every year. Every year there's snow and ice. Here? Yeah, right? Every year it snows, right? I wouldn't say every. Not like this. Only this year in 2020.

I go by broken ankles. Last year, ice broke his ankle. The year before that, Hex broke his ankle. the year before that page broke her ankle all from slippery ice on the side i mean i guess they're sort but i would say this year i would say this in 2021 2021 was crazy were the years of like just even walking to chewy to the dog park it's like bro i'm fucking if he slightly pulls me i'm fucked like i'm yeah it's 2021 when you and hector picked me up from the airport and we went to like some random barbecue place because all the lights were off

all the power was out. Why does that sound so familiar? Because that's what happened. But I, but I, but I, it sounds so familiar, but I don't remember it. Yeah, you and Hector, like during an ice storm.

You and Hector picked me up from the airport because I might have been living in, was this like fresh out of rehab? It might have been right after rehab. Then probably so, because I think I was like trying to hang around people just to like, yeah, try to get back to normal civilization.

I think that's, So I probably was hanging out with Hax. Yeah. And y'all, y'all came, picked me up from the airport, and then we went to a barbecue spot. Was it a gas station? No, it was a barbecue station? No, but you know like the... Yeah, like Rudy's.

No, it wasn't Rudy's. What's the other place? It's not Rudy's. Some other barbecue. I don't know. What's the... It's like a yellow barbecue. We've had it as like a sponsor, I think, one time.

Buckees? No. Matt, gas station. I think. I think their colors are yellow. They do Hutch. Hutchins? Hutchins is not a gas station.

Dickies. Is it Dickies? Dickies. Is it Dickies? Not Rudy's. Not Rudy's. I think Dickies is what I'm thinking of. Dickies.

But is it a gas station? It's not a gas station. Okay. I'm glad someone's got my back over here. Alice is just saying shit. Alice is just agreeing with you. I'm saying something. I look to my left hitches.

I look to Matt Craig's. but alice is a gas station yeah dicky's the alice he's yeah all right fine dickies is attached to a gas station i'll give you that i'll give you that um but what what i was saying is what what i'm thinking about doing is streaming album listen party album listening parties for new releases so tonight you do that but i want to be on the j cole one but if you're in arizona it's like four days i know and you're you're going to be in arizona i'll probably be yeah i'll definitely be in arizona actually i think guys i think i think i might start doing I think I might start streaming album releases.

So I think when Jake Cole's album drops, I'm going to start to stream and react to it. If y'all want to join the stream. I start vlogging. You start vlogging. I start losing 20 pounds. How's the vlogging coming? Are you more like...

I'm just chilling with it. Yeah. I'm really, really focused on. You just like don't really care. No, I definitely care. You more so have like a theme. Would your, what's your favorite album? I love that.

Yeah, I like that series a lot. The album series. I think, I think there's potential. I'm not really like trying to do anything, especially with my like, my like second channel that I'm, uh, I'm like running solely by myself. But the vision rewatch has been a lot of fun. That shit. That shit has been fun. Um, and then my vlogs and then the album rewatch series have kind of been what I'm doing.

Um, but people seem to really like the album shit. Like, like, that's definitely been my best feedback. Yeah, I've watched. I mean, I've kind of watched all your content lately. I want to see like more. Like, I get it. People are streaming and that's their thing and that's how they make a lot of money. And most of their money and them taking a day to vlog wouldn't even make sense.

Because why do that when I can get 250 subs today and run ads for 50%? But I, but like, I've just, I've seen streams. day in and day out that I'm just so even myself doing it it's just so even though it's financially a better decision by tenfold I just enjoy seeing even if Pomage drops a random blog I watch it

I've watched all of your videos even my own videos I'll go back and watch sometimes so I just I wish we had more YouTubers I guess YouTube content yeah I would just like to see and obviously they have a lot of stuff going on and they're not going to switch up what's working for them but I do enjoy seeing like

even a random Bose vlog I got fucking I put it on and I watch it I just like seeing I feel like with streaming I'm just seeing the same stuff and with vlogging it can get repetitive as well but I would like to see more IRL content out of not even just the vlogs maybe

somehow with like optic content as well or maybe even doing flycass fucking outside of the sitting down or something i don't know just new new scenery new atmosphere new vibes new kind of something different i think the um i think because people were excited about the because people were excited about the album videos that i've been doing and knowing that j cole's albums coming out this year what are you looking for my zins because i saw you grab your jay col's wait what milligram are years for no I'll just do my uh Jay Cole's album's coming out this year Drake's

album's come out this year Kanye has an album coming out this year and I was just kind of like maybe it's probably best to start it's not doing shit again who else Kanye J. Cole Drake Kanye J Cole Drake is what I know the big three sure man the big three but yeah like there's there's some there's some decent album I don't know like I don't know any rock albums that are coming out this year, but... Is Kendrick? Am I the Kendrick of Optic? Um, I think you're kind of like the little pump of optic.

Matt Craig's the Asher Roth of content of optic. I am the... No, actually, Daltush is Asher Roth. Leave in the comments who I am of Optic. It doesn't even have to be... Yeah. Top comment is solidified. Yeah.

We will pin the most liked maniac is, the blank of and then that's it forever like you can't change after that and then I am that and I can't do you tell me you were like if I I'm the J. Cole of if I wrapped I would be the Jake I would be Jake you would be that that would be your like standard like if I wrapped it would have

been like me and J. Cole doing a versus against each other oh shit okay that makes sense like that's just my would you think I would be without saying little Dickie yeah sure without saying little Dickie

You would be definitely not Red Man. You would be... Like Method Man. Or shit. Definitely not Method Man. Yeah. You would think I would be probably like ODB maybe? Nah, that's more my style.

Ice Cube maybe? Ice T. I would be the iced tea of Optic. I'll take it. Like you would rap. People would respect it. You dabble into something else. People would respect it.

I'm on SVU. Is that what it is? Law and Order? Yeah, yeah. I could see that being you. I'm down for that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

I'm not iced tea. I'm not iced T. J. Cole. Oh, yeah. Have the people gotten to see the venue? We had... We had to take a little break. Had to take a little break.

Hitch was starting to shake and shit. Yeah, I was getting the lightheaded. Was that your first meal of the day? Yeah. Fasting. Well... Are you actually on your health? shit though.

Genuinely, I am, but, but not, I mean, traveling. You ain't on a Lexus level. What? You ain't on a Lexus level. I'm not, she has to count her carbohydrates. I was going to say, she's

doing what I'm doing. Yeah, but she's doing it because she has to survive. Oh. I mean, me too. It's kind of, I'm almost in the same boat. Like, I either have to make this dream a comp, like, it's either I die or I make this

dream a reality. I mean, we're in the same boat. Yeah. I replied to her shit. I was like, twinning. Yeah, no, she told me. I was like, I think he thinks you're like on your like health grind. And she was like probably.

Yeah. Oh, you're just trying to, you have to survive? Yeah. No, she's, she has to know exactly how much carbohydrates are going in her body. Is she like using it to like diet though at all or just now? Well, we're. Just know exactly what's going in her body. We're trying to eat better.

But also she's trying to really lock in her, uh, her like, and her insulin and, you know, all that. But yeah. And are you a part of that at all? I've been trying. I've been, I've been the one cooking and stuff. We've been eating a lot of turkey, a lot of ground chicken. A lot of less DoorDash.

Zero doordash. Bro, I haven't Doored. I haven't Dooredash this year. You haven't Dooredash in two months? Two months. Two months. I bet you've saved a thousand bucks. Bro.

Dude. Maybe more. We were doing our dashes. We were doing expenses for, or November for icons. And from the time, from the Mono Warfare remastered event, we did for Hector, your Eldon Ring thing and all the events, we had ordered food, we did the expenses for it. It was like $2,700. And that was like two weeks.

Atlas says it was more than that. How much was it? It's like 3,100 maybe. $3,100. See, I have no, I'll see other people ordered. DoorDash and it'll be like just a combo meal with a drink. That's not my type of DoorDash. I need like two McDonald's, McChicken, 20 piece nugget, Oreo McFlorrie, large diet, Dr. Pepper, uh, maybe some, maybe a few like little McDonald's apple pies. Like I can't just do this bullshit like I'm gonna get a double cheese burger. So you spend like 240 bucks.

Bro, it's some of my orders are in. insane. Dude, so we were getting P.F. Chang's like, dude, it was so bad. I was going through the, I doubt, I re-downloaded Uber Eats just to do the expenses. And I was going through it and I was like, oh my God. Yeah. No, you're ordering for multiple people like, because they were for events, but I must want to see what my. It is stupid. I must want to go back to my door dash and see what like some of my. Yeah. Just how just give me here. Give me like one week in December. Okay. one week in December in Dordas. Let's go me orders. Let's see when we... Dude, it was like... It was like 60 bucks, 80 bucks, 70 bucks, 40 bucks. Okay, so December 29th, I did Sonic, which was $50.

I had a premium chicken bites, a Sonic blast, a double Sonic Smasher combo, in mozzarella sticks with a Reese's peanut butter cup Sonic blast Did I always say that? Okay, here we go.

Chicken bites combo a Sonic blast a double Sonic smasher combo and mozzarella sticks, 50 bucks. That's just on some chill shit. I want some chill shit. How can I go back?

Same day. That was the end of the night. Okay. Earlier that day, $88. So we can just do one day. From Yardbird. Fried chicken, mac and cheese, collard greens, skillet cornbread costs $88. Dude.

That was just so one day. One day, $140.40. $150. Basically $140. $150. Day before that, Cheba Hut, $30. Day before that, Raising Cains, $30. Day before that, go puff.

Actually, these are all the same. Raising Cains, Go Puff, and Walgreens. $94 for that day. The same day. Day before that, Panda Express for $30. Day before that, $45 for chicken parm, a cheesecake, and fried mozzarella sticks.

A few days before that, and that was on Christmas. Christmas, chicken parm, cheesecake, and fried mozzarella sticks. Day before that, piggy pies, pasta, wings and cheesecake. Dude, if you,

so you haven't been door dashing? Pasta and cheesecake. No. Dude, I have cooked and weighed every fucking meal. We're about to save a lot of money this year. If neither one of us, DoorDash, we're about to save a lot of money. It's going to be great. I wish I'm like, Dan, if I need to get rid of this apartment, find some cheaper shit, stop DoorDash and, you know, get my life together.

Yeah, that's a good idea. It's a good idea. I feel like now is the time. All right. So just to update you guys where we're at in the venue. you. The LA thieves just absolutely put the absolute pound town onto Carolina

Royal Ravens. Like just absolute annihilation. Those guys are going to be sore in the morning. Our boys play next. So we're just here yapping until our guys do the walkout. And then you guys are going to see a live fly reaction. Yeah. A live

floreat, flora action. A live floraction of the walkout for Optic Texas. Yeah, we're going to be chilling here waiting. We're right around the corner. We got the top best seat in the house. Yeah.

So we're going to have an absolute view of the, what do they call it when they come on stage? Intros. Yeah, intro. It's not an intro. Walkouts. We're going to see the walkouts. And we'll give you all the optic suite,

top of the line booth, POV of what it's like. If you were here at the event, if you were here at the venue, if you were in Optic, this is the view you would be getting. So don't stop chasing your goals. We got goals to achieve. It's 2026. I know it's the end of January.

A lot of people already gave up on their dreams. A lot of people gave up with their aspirations. A lot of people gave up on the goals. It's not too late to start again. 2026 is our year. This is the time when you can change your life. And by next year at this time, you'll be sitting in this suite with us. Maybe even a guest on the flycast.

Maybe even. Well, that happened? I don't know. But the only thing you can do is lock in. We got Optic, Texas, versus the Falcons. The Falcons. I got to be honest. Selium scares me.

Pred. Pred kind of. Pred against Optic scares me. Yeah. Who else? Selium. X-Nid. Exnid and Kismet.

Kismet kind of scares me, too. This could be an absolute war. This is, I feel like this is a really, obviously, it's, first winners match, obviously a huge match. Every match counts when you're at the fucking event. Yeah. But this is going to be the match that I feel like if we come out firing,

maybe hitting one with a 3-0 or something, people are like, all right, optics in this shit. We're good. We're good. If we come out, we had a pretty bad late stage from what I remember. We come out slow, maybe go down 1-2-2-0-2-0-2. Yeah. Hopefully that it's not the case.

We're gonna wish for the best, but... Oh, look what I got. Just an OG iPod? OG. Well, it's actually like modded. Why did you get that? Because I like owning music, but it's actually modded. It's half a terabyte.

So I have 1100 songs on it and it's at one... It's less than 1% usage so far. Like a whole like... How many songs do you have on it? 1,100. Does the music sound better? Sounds good. I bought that and like in ear monitors.

and I'm just like... Let me go to your artist. Matt was making fun of me. He's like, you know, you could just listen to music on your phone. I don't even play a song. Click of the middle button. I mean, there's no... I was in settings.

There's no headphones on it, but... Music, artists. Green Day, guns and roses. What are you laughing at? Imagine Dragons. Jay Dilla, Jay Cole, Jay Z, and Kanye. And this is just, I was just starting, just a little something.

I got many years to build it. up a bcd efg a i saw i saw on uh on a youtube on a youtube channel a couple months ago that there's that ipods are coming back and i was like why and then there's just like a whole a whole like uh side of the internet that hates stream services they like to own their music and stuff i don't really feel that way but i do like owning the music but i'm not anti-streaming services but i was like i was like dude i want one but i waited for like two months before i finally got one but it's mod it's modded so it's half a terabyte and they upgraded the battery because remember the batteries were really bad in iPods so that battery i've never charged it and it's still

i mean it can't be can't take too much to fucking yeah right so i see you got drake on here yeah you got j cole yeah jZ all the greats Kanye west like i'm down in your kays section i only see Kanye i guess that's the only rapper that starts with a k that you fucks with. But I mean we also got Pink Floyd, Red Hot Chili peppers Skrillix, Usher. Let's see what Usher songs you got on here. It's just the Burr's just the

confession. Is the Confessions? Burn. Throw back. Confessions. Burn. I'm so Got up. I'm trying to do full albums too. Only full albums. It's fun. It's fun. I'm excited. What should I put on this? What albums are you missing? What album

should I put on it? I'll put on the infamous. I'll put on acid rap for Matt Let's see what you got for Drake You got nothing what's the same If you're reading this too late Take care Views

That's all I got so far Yeah you need them So far gone So far gone Yeah So far gone I also like Call me weird

But I like certified lover boy I think there's some good I think there's some good tracks On that album For some reason And people try to... I don't know. I'm just not that into...

New Drake. When Drake's on like a feature, I'm like, he makes this shit so much harder. Like, what's the one? Prada and Gucci, don't got a better... They're better. It sounds like a great song. Yeah.

Oh, no, no, no, no. Gang, gang, gang. The level was just to advance. The devil in Tiffany stand, no grip on my hand. And I'm not... I know that. Right, but not.

I don't want to dance. I don't be... Like that, like Drake on that, I'm like, oh, my fucking. I wanted to do like a gym edit video with that song But I don't know Some of his albums I'm just not What is so funny between you two

You got a little fucking inside joke No we're just talking about Drake again It's so funny But yeah I haven't really listened to I just don't give a fuck About music I feel like music

Does music still hit like it used to? No All right fuck Drake Fuck talking about that stuff Does music in it itself hit like it used to. Bro, I used to put on fucking songs and just be driving to like a land party.

Lil Wayne. And I'm just... Four years ago, I was putting on King Vaughn driving downtown, fucking taking one of my shooters. Straight vodka. You were doing all that? No, I would wait until I get there. But I had King Vaughn playing.

You had King Vaughn playing. Man, why? I just meant with some strip of bitch. She just wanted... But I haven't gotten that... I haven't gotten that feeling in a while. Especially from a whole album. I'm excited about the warm up or the fall off.

The fall off, man. The fall off is, God, I hope they don't. I hope he doesn't let me do. Yeah, we haven't talked about it. He's been prepping this album. This album was originally supposed to come out in 2019, 2019. He was talking about the album. I'm glad I like when people take their time.

Yeah, same. I'm never mad if someone wants to push something back. Me neither. I think it's going to be, from what I've heard, from the people that have talked about it, it's unreal. But I'm excited. I think this was, but also, what was Jay Cole's last album, the one with like. Might delete later? Yeah.

Like that came out and I was like, fuck. And I listened through it. And I was like, this shit's hard as fuck. But then I like, I just didn't find myself going back to like replay it. Yeah. Like, I want something. I think that album was great. but there was such a weird time because of the fucking disc was on it and then he deleted the dis

and then all that shit so and then like deleting the dis and him kind of like bowing out bowing out of the beef it was like this kind of makes me not want to listen to the uh to the album itself we got the man we're just talking about drink did you want to he's he's gone he's drunk yeah he's been drinking today tequila he might be high no he's hype he's fucking hype he we this the first time the boys have been on stage and in the united states see i wonder if something is something crazy about like what are what's our record right now do you know we had a really good start and then there was a two month break and then a really bad ending so we're like middle of the pack two or something or like four and two four and two four and three i think

four and three because i know a lot of people are sort of writing us off for this event i just wonder if you know optic does the impossible i guess i guess that's the impossible i guess again merciless come out win this fucking event I would love for us to make it

the finals come here on Sunday when we show you all the arena I don't know if the audio is well the audio is not going to do it

justice because no one's going to be screaming and stuff but even the first match of the weekend was loud this shit is going to get loud

I can only imagine for like basketball games and shit the most important game besides obviously if we make finals and shit

the most important game right now is this one because if we win this one we are guaranteed to play on Saturday and that's when it's going to be loud yeah because I'm I'm kind of like fucking I'm kind of I have PTSD from last year our last optic major was when all the oh and 15 shit was happening and so we played we started in losers bracket and I'm just like dude we're not even gonna make fucking we're not gonna make Sunday like it's always a fucking bummer if we lose on Thursday yeah So as long as we win this one, that's what I want. Because then the guys are guaranteed to be here for the ring ceremonies, which is on Saturday.

There's going to be a bunch of people here Saturday. Yeah, the ring ceremony. I mean, it's going to be dope regardless. And they've earned it. But if they're not in the tournament, then it's just like, it's just weird. Yeah. Yeah. So need these got need to win this match.

It should be starting soon. I think I'm going to take a little peek over. I don't know if we're going to head over now. It might just have to take a break until they're walking out. But no one's on stage yet. Yeah, no one on stage yet. It's, you know, it's optics. So they're going to milk it, let everyone get in the building, take their seats.

But this should be an experience. I feel like I don't care. But then it's like when the match, when it's, when the match gets here. Yeah. And the players walk out and like, hacks comes up here. we're up here page comes come out of fucking nowhere he's right away here he got two beers

I would have been so funny if that was if that was pomage yeah but uh so boys the bar stool squad the bar stool they'd be rolling deep rolling deep

is that jerry yeah jersey jerry jersey jerry in the building it's funny how like people they're like let's care about challengers this year yeah no one gave a fuck before no

Was there ever a Challenger's team anyone ever cared about besides this? Like, did, who started it? Zuma always did a good job. Zuma did a good job with his team. But this year has been crazy. Yeah. Like, especially with the Barstool guys with us coming in. Tommy has three teams, I think.

Some Falcon or Stallions, black, white and green, something like that. And then. See, I want a BTA. The Omit team. Omit has a couple teams. they're they're doing their thing i'm excited that i might go to challengers tomorrow the challenger's venue is like a mile away apparently oh it's not here it's not how connected

not the same building because even for an idea for this is i wanted to when we were walking around i was going to say let's go hit the like challenge yeah that would have been nice what is it the pit just walk around the pit that's where you were that's those were your days those were the best days did you like the pit did you were you I remember competing in the pit. And it was like winners round three. And I had my feet up just playing on the TV talking shit. No.

That's what kind of kid I was. Just an asshole? I don't know. Because now I look at that and I'm like, God, what a loser. Because I wasn't even that good back then. I got like, I didn't even make it out of Am bracket. But I was in. I was in Am doing that.

Like, I was that type of like getting technicals and talking shit. It's kind of crazy how much like things have changed. It is weird that the first time I ever hung out One of the first times we ever hung out Was when you yelled at those two girls on On Bourbon Street And I thought that's I thought that's who you were

I thought that's the- That was one of your first times That was the first time we ever hung out Because I actually kind of let them have it Yeah you were like And I don't do that You were like these fucking bitches These are the bitches that stole my money

And I was like And I was like I knew I was like Potentially gonna move into the house And I'm like I'm gonna live with a fucking psychopath yeah like this guy yells at everybody but i almost wish like that was really yeah same i was i've been talking about that lately i want to be more just like damn man man it's a real motherfucker like i'm like yeah that's oh shh you're booing people

it's all right it's just optic so we're gonna we're gonna go hang out during the walkouts you guys are going to see a live reaction to the fly cast watching the walkouts um so so keep don't don't click off but we do appreciate you guys watching this episode of the flycast and we will see you guys in the next one i'm not going to lie i just mack craig do that whole show music i just blanked out so hard i was watching fucking jersey jerry walk fast man and i didn't think you were ending it here i thought we were walking over here hey hey hey hey hey yeah let's go let's go baby We're back on the main stage.

It's been too long, but optic returns, and we're coming back out. Big match ahead of us, and we're taking the fucking dub. You've heard it here first. Thank you for watching. Thank you guys so much for watching. Tune into the event. Tune into the event. I don't know when this is going live.

Hopefully we win. And hopefully we win. Bye guys. Matt Craig. Played out, show music.