The Flycast - The Flycraft Episode | The Flycast Ep. 179

Episode Date: February 12, 2026

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I think it would be cool to have this be a thing. And then... What if I did this? Are you fucking kidding me? Dude, I had it all planned out. You were supposed to die. And then I go, all right, that's going to do it for another episode of the Flycast.

Thank you all for watching. Are you kidding me? But we're going to get these diamonds. Come back to another episode of the Flycast. Episode. Who gives a fudge? Today we got a special episode, man. We're taking our talent elsewhere.

We were sick of the HQ. Yeah. Lately, it's just been bad vibes in there. We were so sick of the HQ that we build our own HQ that looks exactly like the HQ. Like the HQ. And that's just next level potting right there. Yeah, we're upgrading. You know, this is, is this an upgrade?

I would say this is an upgrade diving into the virtual world Yeah I mean I think this is This is kind of what Wait we're the first Wait we're the first We're the first This is going to be the future

And we are the first We're the first to dive into the virtual world Is that what you're saying? The virtual world of podcasting Oh Does anyone else do their podcast On In the virtual world

I'm sure sure there's someone. Yeah, actually. There is 1,000% someone that does like a podcast on fucking Roblox or something. Almost positive. There's a,

almost positive. There's like a thousand of them. Yeah, there's enough virtual people in the world. Wait, Matt, can you look that up? We just look at. Hey, Matt. Wait, let me go.

Yeah, Matt. He's not there, bro. he's helping uh shotsy with something oh shit in the other room is what it seems like all right well we'll we'll get him to look it up whenever he gets back yeah we're uh switching it up today yeah stay in uh stay in remote but not just to stay remote but to switch things up man this is the future every single episode we're now next is going to be like imagine we did this to atlas to where it was like you know next week we're going to be in like the basement of the scuff house.

After that, yo, we're going to be at the, uh, geez, what were they called, the people we worked with? Infinite.

Immortal? Infinite. Oh my God. You forgot Infinite? I forgot infinite. Next, next week we're at the infinite. Just go by.

So, so many, yeah, so many eras of the flycasts. We're just in different areas. Next, next week will be in the 2009 national championship

Halo Main stage Main stage Then we'll be at You feel right at home Or else Hex quarters upstairs

Had some bangers there Hex quarters couch Hex quarters table Multiple different areas In the infinite office Yeah of course All the bangers we made back then I kind of want to go back

And listen to some of those they can't have been good dude we were going into those offices at like 3 a.m talking about ninja every week I feel like that was peak though yeah because well yeah I don't know if that was peak what was peak flycash

leaving the comment below was it the episode when you got out of rehab I mean that was a banger but like no I think peak peak flycass is probably like first like I don't know like like Just in the movie theater room? Yeah, probably the movie theater room flies.

Because we also did them in like the dining room. Remember when we used to do them in the dining room? The of the scuff house? Yeah. The, um. Like where the chandelier was. Isn't that where we first started? I thought we first started downstairs in the theater room.

Oh yeah, we did start there. I can't remember. Because I think that was like episode one. Because I think I went back and watched episode one just to like, see what the hell we were even saying. And I think it was in the theater room of the scuff house. We were just called it episode one of the Nick and Maniac pod. It wasn't even called Fly yet. Yeah, it wasn't even called Fly yet.

What were some of the other names? The Humdrum podcast was what we were thinking about calling it. And what is Humdrum meeting? I don't know. That was your thing. It was the name of my montages. It was your. My phone's on 1%.

Matt Craig, look it up. Hum drum. I think Matt purposely left because he knew we were, we knew he was in Discord and we're going to be trying to talk. Lacking excitement. He's still here. Matt's still here. Ready to rock. Lacking excitement or variety.

Dahl, monotonous. Oh, that's what home drum. I mean, that's kind of a good name for what we do. When was the last time you played Minecraft? Last, I feel like I'm sitting, I'm like moving while talking to try to be. It was like last. The last time I played. Let me think.

Probably the last summer with Hex, we played a little bit. Oh, yeah, yeah. I've been Loki playing it like quite often. Really? Just like off stream? Yeah, yeah, pretty much. I've been

Obviously. I've been I've been beating the the Indragan and hardcore. So I'm just like get on and beat it and then get off. Really? That's fun.

Yeah, it's pretty fun. It's not bad. It's not bad. What is that? See, here's the thing with Minecraft. Last year, see I like started playing Minecraft fresh out the hab and I think it was like we got a decent amount of like optic people to play

I think like me and formal were playing a little bit karma started playing skump I think you and tST we're starting to join up a little bit hex was playing so there was a decent amount of us playing and it was actually it was fun but I feel like I didn't even dive into it that much and back but what was weird is I was we were playing to beat the game Well, then it turned into like everyone joining the server and everyone was making like ridiculous houses and blah, blah, blah. But I remember beating the game for the first time. And like my my Twitch wasn't even popping.

I was getting like good viewers because it was like fresh out the hat. People were just rooting for me. Oh yeah. But, uh, I don't know, say four, five, 600 or something. But then I think in my title, I put like, maybe it was like beating Ender Dragon for the first time. And like genuinely, I didn't know. I don't think I knew what it looked like. I didn't know anything about it.

Didn't know how to get there. And then like we finally got there. I think it was me. Might have been me karma and formal or something. I forget. And I look at my viewers and it was like 5K. And I was just like, what the fuck? Yeah, it was like my highest viewership ever for like organic viewership.

Not like getting rated. Yeah. Not not getting rated with 100. and six thousand people by ninja or something like that. But it was weird. It like caught a Minecraft wave. But I think shortly after that, we stopped playing. And then from there, I didn't, as, as everyone does.

They get into a Minecraft group for a few weeks. Yeah, the two week, the two week Minecraft kick. And then didn't play till last summer. I feel like people have been, I've been seeing a lot of, there's like a mod going around that. You are chained together with other people or a group of people and you play Minecraft. So people try to beat the game chained together. Oh, didn't Faze do that?

Oh, did they? Like the... I think like Lacey, Ron and Adapt or some shit. Oh, my God. It's just the ultimate true. And I think Adapt just like quit. Yeah. I feel like we should do that.

We should do that with like hacks because he's so shit. he would do I don't know if hex I wonder how many hours it would take Hector to beat Minecraft hardcore like just hardcore

I don't know if it would pop I think it would pop yeah I think it there's with Hex there's a chance because he's so bad that it's like you know how many episodes

he could bang out yeah because you know you know he's choking like he's gonna die so much He would get, and then he'll probably, like, die at that last fight as well. I feel like the feeling of beating the game in hardcore is like such a good feeling. Like it's, it's like almost like mini, like a little mini, Loden Ring boss-esque type thing.

Yeah. But in hardcore. You know, I beat it in hardcore. Yeah, no. And then you started over your Forever World, not in hardcore. I mean, it just, Minecraft's weird I was so into it

so last summer it started with like just playing with hex we just farming and blah blah blah just kind of bullshit and then it turned into like all right let's beat the game what do you call it lonely island right is his little thing

he loves lonely island yeah you spawn up you're on an island surrounded by water and you can't get off of that island unless you're like digging underground or like in the nether. Yeah. Or maybe it was like until you finally get your pearls or I don't fucking know. But you can't, can't leave the island.

And it was actually, uh, it was pretty fun. And then we started just like actually trying to beat the game. But then it just turned into like he would play like three hours in the morning and I'd hop on as well. And then it turned into me just playing like 10 to 12 hours a day just grinding. But I basically just did everything for him and just like led him to the way to the Ender Dragon. And then just him even trying to fight the dragon at the end was so funny. Just him getting flung into the fucking air and shit.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like I feel like I would watch Hector try to beat it. Try to try to beat. I would actually, I would watch like damn near anybody for their first time trying to beat it. Yeah. As long as they're shit. Yeah. Like as long as they don't know what they're doing.

Yeah, we should do like a chain together. together with Hex because even that itself would be funny because it's like it's like it's like I just know he would make a mistake to where it just costs us like staring enderman in the eye or yeah something I remember we tried to do our hardcore I think we we need to complete that our hardcore yeah why did we stop I think did we die I think we planned on doing it in like one stream and then we kept dying and it was like eight hours in, we were just like, all right, later. Yeah, well, we died a few times, and then one of the times we died, like Atlas, who was in charge of resetting the server just went to sleep.

Oh, that's what it was. Yeah. What the, what? Dude, I think there's still. I always wanted to do that. Do you like my, do you like my, do you like, in the real flycast? In the real flight cast.

This is what I always wanted to do in real life. Oh, my God. You want to know what I. always want to do in the middle of the fly? What? Later, man. You know what I always wanted to do in the middle of the fly? What?

I was hoping I could pick up that sword. It's fire. Oh, my God. All right. So, yeah, I want to be able to say that you and I beat the game in hardcore. I feel like that's a good. yeah we could we'd be able to do that bro i remember at the end of my first time beating it it was like it was such a stream like everything was always on stream and i'm not even joking i was reading

the poem at the end and like started like tearing up really when you beat it wait when you first beat it or in hardcore like my first time ever beating it and then i'm pretty sure it's my i don't think it was the hardcore but like my first time ever beating it just by myself because I was still like hell a newb. I just kind of like got to the end somehow. And then I beat it. And I was reading the poem at the end. And it was like the poem just hit.

Like it wasn't even, it wasn't about beating the game like yeah, I beat Minecraft. But it was just like the poem just started hitting on some like real life shit. Dude, that phone, Notra's on some shit when he wrote that. I don't know if he was the one that wrote it.

But it is like, I don't know. At one point it says the, a person is made with milk and love and I'm like what the fuck were you on milk and love I mean kind of it's kind of true it kind of makes it's I think that's you are I think it's milk and love I think that's what it is damn bro the fly cast set the fly craft so should we just start fly craft welcome back to the fly craft welcome back to fly craft I mean like should we start like fly crafting.

Like is that something that we should do in general? Like start Like I don't know Let's see Let's see what they got going on here There are a few things to talk about What we haven't

I haven't even talked I think I sent like a text or something What the hell? They got boats and stuff down there What uh We texted it a little bit And about the J. Cole album.

Oh, dude. The J. Cole album. The Falk. The Falk album. The Fall Off. That's what people are calling. People have been calling it the Niac album. Yeah. Like, yo, you peeped the Niac album.

I mean, J. Cole's new shit. I, fucking love that album. I did, I do too. I said this in my vlog. One of my, or like, because you just, people online like

should we go rowing here I'm following you okay I've seen people online it's just every single thing is about like comparison of like well Kendrick sold

this or well Drake's coming out nah this wasn't it Drake's nah but Drake's Iceman and is who even care I mean Jake Cole dropped out of the beef like he should be like this ain't even and I'm like what do you fucking talk like are you just listen to the album listen to jaco's album yeah I don't give a fuck about this like top three but who's who's not top three but who's number one but not is cold even like yeah but actually who's the best route no but

who sold more no but this guy like he performed at the halftime show no but drake turned it down but it's just it's so lame it's single Discussion. Like, I'm like every single discussion of whether people like the falloff or not, it always, like, you look at the replies or even just the tweet itself. And it turns into just like Kendrick. Yeah, like some comparison shit. I think it was like, I think like a lot of people lost track of what the big three is, in my opinion. Like the big three are for people that are like 20s.

five to 35 and for a decade straight three rappers ran you know pretty much everything like that post like the post like conier 50 cent little wayne era it's like those three are the rappers that we all watched and whenever they drop an album we are like hell yeah let's listen to the album that's what the big three is it's not it's not even anything more than that in my that's what it was Right. And now because of the beef, it seems like, you know, like two of the three like really got into it. And now it's just like an insane comparison game between all three of them. But at the end of the day, those are still until something changes, until one person like legitimately retires or stops making music for whatever reason, those three or like insanely falls off, which I don't think any of them are going to fall off. think it's I don't think it's really possible Yeah

But I mean it's weird Because like I bet you Even Jay Cole naming his shit The fall off People are like I don't really know Why you're naming it though

I think like Um It's weird Because like Whenever Like the Naz And In JZ shit was going on

They probably People probably thought the same thing It was like Well these two Are gonna make music Forever And we're all We're gonna care

About their music forever And like that doesn't really like happen anymore. Not saying that if either one of them, I think Nause still puts out music, but like if Jay-Z put out an album, like obviously people would listen to it, but it's still not at the consistent pace.

It's like these three artists. Hip-hop might actually be dead. Like once J. Cole, Kendrick, and Drake stop. Right. I mean, not saying like hip-hop, but like who... It seems like there's a bunch of passing of the torches.

It seems like... Before they were. was like there was like the you know there was like the early 90s of like the mob deep noriega rakim right then it turned into like just big epoch j z and naz right and then even from there though it quickly turned to like m&m 50 cent uh low wane so it just seemed like there was always like a passing of the torch and so like when 50 cent m&m low wayne and shit started getting popping like I ain't got about like 2008 or some shit like no one really jasy would come out with like a kind of like a bang or popular song like gamers in paris or but like as far as putting out albums

I don't think no one was really looking at it like that like people were looking at like oh low wayne's the best rapper alive like right um but there was just there was almost just like every couple years there was sort of a passing of the torch but the last yeah it doesn't seem like that 15 years there has been it's just been drake j cole and kendrick if we're talking about like rap rap like if we're talking about like party stuff or like mumble rap or like yeah like we're not talking Travis scott right exactly like I don't count future in this like I think the big three is those three because they they are you know they're rappers that you know have some sort of like consciousness to their rap like they're good as

fuck they're really good they put out they put out introspective stuff they put out stuff for hip hop heads and then they also all three of them can make like bangers stuff to cry about like your ex and shit with like you've been you've been crying about your ex being in love no it's just like that's just like that's just like the type of vibe that yeah that's and they can just do it all is my point. Oh, okay, okay. You're probably going to die here, I would have said. Do you have armor? Just get out of here.

Yeah, let's just get out of it. Let's just get out of it. But yeah, I, uh, so how'd you enjoy the album? Bro, I, I really like it. Oh, one thing I wanted to say before you talk about, fucking what I was going to say this earlier, my friend who, like, when we were talking about, like, you look on Twitter and it's just like, nah, but I ain't really feeling the J-Co album and I'm like what the fuck that doesn't make sense to me right right um my friend

who I don't know if I can be friends with him after what he said but uh he said I was like you listen to the new j-co album he was like uh not really he was like j-co was just like not my thing anymore and I was like what do you mean he was like I feel like now he just makes kind of like 90s type of like just rap and stuff and I'm like that's the fucking very reason like that's why i like i like i like j cole more yeah i like j cole more now that i did in 2013 or whatever that in 2014 2015 he was like he was like no peak j cole was like no role models and i'm and i'm like holy shit i was like okay i was i was i was like i was like i guess like i guess for you if that if that's if that's your thing then that's your thing um

I can't, I'm not going to knock you for it. But I mean, I guess that's your side of, that's just what you like. But I was like, I like him even more now that he is rapping like that. So anyways, your thoughts on the album. I really, really enjoy the album. Like, I have been putting it on repeat. Like, but, but I mean, it's at a crazy time because I've also been kind of like obsessed with albums lately.

I'm like making these videos like asking people their favorite album and stuff. and like really telling people or like kind of like telling myself like music was meant i i feel like music was meant to be played album by album not like you know oh shit oh yeah music was meant to be played like album by album and not like uh you know you just put out a bunch of shit and then you just add a couple things to a playlist even though like i mean we used to burn CDs and shit, but... All right, guys. I've never had to do it this way, but...

Who has the OG? Guilty. And who is... The cookie? No, that's the world. Planet Earth. All right, and who is the sweets guy? Oh.

All right, and this one just says 67. Y'all got to leave. Please, get out. The boys did indeed leave, but not. without saving 10% off by adding the restaurants offer to their custom cash app cards in the app before paying. That's money. That's cash app. But I don't know, just listening to the whole album is like what the artist intended.

At least it was when I, you know, when we were like in high school and shit. We were waiting on, you know, we were waiting on 808s and heartbreak and, you know, we were waiting on the new J. Cole album. And you listen from song one to the last song Because it's supposed to be listened to in that order That's how it's supposed to be listened I feel like you listen to like a A yee album And it's like doesn't it really matter which fucking song I play first

That's true Or just yeah like the Like That type I feel like new age music Especially with like TikTok and stuff Like one song just like becomes popular Dude, Alexis went to this, this, like, thing one time where she, it was like a, like a, what do I call it? It was like a con, like some sort of like a, like business thing, basically.

Like they were previewing like different things like on like software and stuff. And they have like a concert every year. And they were very excited about the concert that was coming up. And the concert that they had for all the people there was a guy that made TikTok sounds. And he would go on and he would play a song for like 13 seconds and then move on to the next song. Like just like a popular TikTok. Right. Like a TikTok like sound.

Not even like a, not even like a full song, just like a sound. And it was just like, whoa. what? Like, I feel like that's, that is just not, that's just, that's the downfall of music. Dude, that's, I mean, if you really think about it, that's insane. Like, it's insane that that's like a, uh, downfall. And the thing is, it's like, I can, I get it. Right. Like, when you scroll through TikTok, like, the song will play and you'll know, like, I'll know low Oozie songs be just because it played for,

eight seconds and someone was dancing to it on TikTok. And then it's just a super popular song to put behind your TikTok video. Like imagine, like somebody comes out on stage and they're just like, welcome, you know, whoever it is. And then he goes, my money don't jiggle, jiggle. It falls. And then people go fucking nuts. Like that's where we're at. What was the age of people there?

it was like a corporate thing so there was like what the hell yeah they were like they were for all ages really but it was like a networking thing for like a software company too that really is where it's but they were so excited i mean i've been to things before and the and the people like the corporate the corporate people that work there are like oh we have something really cool planned and i'm at the point now in life where i just never believe them like it's not like oh we have something really cool plan and like you know Matthew McConaughey comes out like that never happened it's never cool it's never something cool it's always just like you're always mind blown of how they thought this was going to work yeah exactly which is uh for sure what

happened like absolutely what happened it's kind of what the world's becoming I'm I'm fucking I mean I'll talk about the J. Cole more album more but I am I'm just dis... I can't get on Twitter. I can't get on Twitter anymore. Oh, dude, it's pathetic. Twitter is pathetic now. Like, it's...

Like, I even saw Kason respond to the, like, CDL highlight dude because he took a clip from your stream. This was like an hour. It's, I saw that. And then I was like, yeah, I got to get off. Wait, what happened? I opened Twitter, scrolled a few times. The CDL highlights or some shit took a clip.

from your podcast of you talking to Simp and it was Simp discussing like, yeah, I don't really talk to, you know, MC and Abizi anymore. You know, I kind of just talk to my teammates but like, yeah,

we're still on good terms or it's just something like that. And then he clips it and titles his caption or whatever to the clip was like, what do he say? He just made it sound harsh as I could probably

just find him out my phone's dead but it was like Simp reveals him I really wish I could pull up the tweet

because it would I'm not gonna do justice by making a fucking word I mean he it was just like Simp reveals his fall off

with cell and Bezzi prefers to just falling out or something yeah falling out with a Bezian

cell prefers to just talk to his team has no interest of speaking to them or something. Like it was like it made it seem like Simp spoke about like they got beef and they're not cool

and there's some bad blood there. Like that's what he kind of made it seem like. And Kaysan responded to it. It was like, bro, you got to stop this shit. I'm about to get your page. Or he said, I'll get your page taken down in two seconds. But it was just like like that. It's too, but it's everywhere.

Yeah, no, it's like the way... It's fucking everything. Dude, there's this weird thing that's happening on Twitter. I don't know if you've noticed. It's beyond clickbait. It's just pure lie. Yeah. There's also this thing that's happening on Twitter.

I don't know if you've like noticed it. But like people are like posting like very vague things and it's going like viral. Like people will be like, I mean, people will be like, do y'all remember what happened that day? and it'll go, it'll get like 30,000 likes. And I'm over here like, what day? Like, what is this person talking about? And like the replies, are they like explaining a story? Because I hate those too.

The replies are usually like, I prefer context. It just seems like if you post very vague stuff with no context, like it goes like super viral is what it seems like, which I don't know why. Or it's like people. will click maybe clicking on the tweet like puts it more in the algorithm because people are like what the fuck this guy talking about so they click on the tweet to see the replies

but then it's nothing but it's still getting just the engagement yeah it's terrible like it's horrible you're dead fucker you at where are you at ah found like a little village thingy

oh yeah these guys are you at I'm over by you. Or you're just, you're running away, but I'll get to you. I got us, I got us beds now.

We're good. Actually, no, I don't. Fuck, I need one more. One more white sheep with a white fur. And I can get some beds.

Yeah, the internet, it's just getting worse and worse and worse. It's really, like, I like, I just can't open Twitter anymore. It's like,

it's like depressing how much of, fucking clavicular. Who the, is that? Who is that? The dude who invented or not invented but like just does look maxing like smashes his fucking cheekbones and shit?

What the fuck is look maxing? What could that even mean? It's where like guys start wearing like makeup a little bit, start like bashing their fucking cheekbones in. What does that mean bashing their cheekbones in? Like they'll take

like a hammer or something and like bash the side of like their cheekbones. so it like becomes more chiseled or something. What? Yeah. So they have that more like chiseled jaw line look. What the fuck? But yeah, you kind of does shit like that.

You love these guys? No, it kind of like, it just sickens me really. I'm just, I think I'm becoming, I'm just at like a hater age. No, I don't think it's hate. I mean, maybe it is. I mean, it had, you have to hate it. it though. Like, how could you not? I mean, that, it's just so,

it's just so absurd. What blows my mind is people, it's one thing to be entertained. Like, if that was on TV, a reality show and you're just watching it because you're like, look at these fucking dumb bucks. But it's the fact that people are watching, but they're also like, here's 50 bucks, 10,

50 bomb. It's just like, there's that, there's it's not, it's not just watching. Keep beating your head with a hammer. Like, I can, see why people will watch like a jack doherty or like just those kind of like streams like i can i can see why people watch what just like the pure brain it's just yeah pure brain rod it's entertaining like i i do understand it um it's but some people are like true like fans and supporters like they're buying

merch and shit they're buying they're buying a face maxing merch from this guy probably what it's just he sells custom hammers Probably. I mean, if he, low key, that's a fucking great idea for him. Like, there's probably a tool you could buy and like he just buys them wholesale and then just like puts his something is whatever logo. His logo is just like his face being smashed. Dude, what would, what would your tool? What would your custom merchandise be? Like a tool of some kind? Yeah, or something that's, that would.

represent me. Yeah, something that would represent. Not like a shirt or, or like a controller or something, but like something that really, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that's a prescription bottle, or something. Oh, shit. The good all two for one. Yeah, it'd be something like that. Okay.

I might have to look into that. I see where you're at. But like now my shit's just like I'm probably just, you know, like fitness apparel or shit. Oh, supplements. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Supplements. You're going to make your own supplements? Yeah, protein powder.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You want some? Yep. Do they, do you have them in chocolate? We can do that. Okay. Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, anything you need.

We're working on it. Probably be like 20. 35 but 20 30 years from now yeah yeah I get that I got it out what uh what what what what what track really got you quick stop yeah quick stop is in dude did you see that clip from the joe button podcast um I that's that's enough like that was part of the my first discussion about the jaco album is I saw clips from like the Joe button podcast and to where they were like listening to the album and a few of them were just like sitting there smug like it's all right yeah like what the fuck what you might be doing it's all right

it's all right it's all right it's cool yeah it's cool I don't I ain't hating it's cool wait what clip are you talking about hold on enderman on me oh shit um He, uh, yeah, they were talking about quickstop. Oh, I got a pearl. Let's fucking go. They were talking about quickstop. And, uh, Joe Budden says like, says something like, oh, it's just like, it's about a story about him getting recognized at the gas station. I mean, he's just like kind of boiled it down to that.

Yeah. When in reality, it's like, probably one of the most heartfelt like, like, wait, that's how we broke it down. Yeah. He was like, yeah, it's a story about, well, just. Jay Cole, like, got recognized at a gas station and he made a song about it. Was like what the clip kind of like sounded like. So was he hating? Yo, it kind of seemed like they were all hating.

Especially the, I forget their names, but one of them was like mad hating. He was like, I don't want to hear. I just don't want to hear this shit. I was like, what? Like, I don't, I mean, see, I don't, I just don't get it, bro. Like the quick stop shit, it just, obviously, like, I'm not on. Jay Cole's level, but it's just... But like you're the J. Cole of Optic?

Yeah. Oh, my loneliest days. Rabami, oh, my loneliest day. Something, something, something. Yeah, it's like this shit will get, have you moving at a strenuous pace. We're all stuck inside of the picture that you paint. Like, what?

Yeah, no, it's about him getting just wrecking. Hey, hey, you want some weed? Hey. I just... Yeah, you want... That's just what it's about. maybe they like don't relate because like that the jaco's album and it being titled the fall off has a song uh the inevitable fall off or something like that like so many a lot of the songs were just

about i almost feel like shit i could relate to of like having love for the game and then you feel lost yeah and then it's like do i even want to do this and do I even have what it takes? Right. Just like shit like that. And like so it's like to me, I listen to it and it's like I feel that. Right. Like even if obviously like you don't got to be a fucking famous rapper to feel that.

Like I feel like a lot of people should know that feeling of like you know at one time they fell up. Then they feel down. Will they even get it back? Do they even have it? Like how do they get it? their love back for like to pursue some new shit to try to maybe be on top of like I'm not saying you had to be on top of like you know be a pro at something or be famous on YouTube or not like that's not the case it's just I feel like everyone in some sort of way

everyone can sort of relate to that yeah I mean no I um I did you give me a bed yeah did you throw it away? I don't know. Should be brown. Oh, oh my God, you scared me. I thought you were a, I thought you were a mob. But yes, I listened and I felt like a lot of songs were about that. A lot, there was one about like, sticking with your girl in,

like, I have a lot of respect for people that like get with a, get with a girl and like stay with the girl. Yeah. There's a song about like that. Just fucking, just, so many sort of relatable like even if i i forget what this song was because i i just be playing songs i don't even listen to their name but even just shit like i like i don't have a girl i don't plan but in my head there was once a time where i was willing to be with a girl and kind of

playing like even though i feel this way like i you know i did kind of make a promise and i'm gonna um down to figure it out type of shit so it's just like even and it's like i'm not sitting here married with kids and but like I can just I just feel the songs and with a lot of J. Cole songs I just fucking felt that shit. Yeah, just I mean I don't I don't get and and also one thing that people were like critical of him for was the like the way that he was like marketing like he was going around to North Carolina and like selling tapes out of the back of his car like he used to. Oh they were Like stop trying to like stop using this tactic of

trying to like relate to us bro. Like you're a you got everything we wish we had and you're just going to sit here and play fairy tale as if you're still broke. I'm like bro you don't you still don't get it. That's what he fucking wraps about you. He wraps about how he has that. And there's still this unful fucking film it.

Just how when everyone says like, oh, maniac or urinoptic like how can you be how can you feel like this how can like dude you have everything i want okay well that's you maybe comparing yourself to me what about the motherfuckers that are poor as shit in america and they're looking at you like bro you have a job you have fucking working legs like how about i compare myself to you like what are you coming how are you complaining to maniac about your life and i'm sitting here like how are you even complaining i wish i had your life and then there's people under them and fucking starving in africa i wish i

had your life. You guys have fucking food and fresh water and shelter and you don't have to worry about dying from sickness and the flu and shit. Like I won't, how are you can play? Like, it's just a fucking ladder of that. And I kind of forget my point. No, I mean, you know, you're, it is a ladder of woe is me. How can he, how can he do this, uh, you know, when he's rich. Yeah. How is he? Would you stop, stop being playing very fucking stop playing pretend like you're one of us bro you got the life we all wish we had bro fucking go live that and it's like bro his point is that he has that but he still feels the fucking way he does and he's explaining to you that like the material shit that you guys want so fucking bad and that obviously we've seen so many celebrities talk about how you get to a point and then you get used to it and it's like it's not about the material things and you're And you want more like normalcy and whatever they have to that they aren't happy about. It's just like, bro, he's trying to explain to you that like, you know how humble it is to have what he has the millions of dollars and the fame,

but still act the way he acts to go out and just like humble himself and sell CDs and give back to the fans by sitting there selling them and himself, sitting there signing him he's out in the streets like but people can't people can't even appreciate that i feel like they have they will find it if he was doing the opposite they would complain about that since he's if he's being humble they complain about that if he's not being humble they would complain about that like there's just simply no fucking winning like if we're talking about the big three j cole is by far the least performative of all of them i mean you've got to Kendrick wearing a crown of thorns you've got Drake you know

obviously like being very very performative and like almost everything he does and and then well people I think I feel like the internet learns a word and they get obsessed with that word and then they use the word incorrectly and right now that word is performative

people will be like oh this is so performative like and it's like dude you're talking about fucking Hollywood if you're talking about actors or you're talking about musicians like people have been they're performing that's what they do for a living like being performative and then also like marketing and selling what you you know your art is two that's two totally different things if you're if you're a drama if you're a dramatic person and everything you do

has to be a performance i understand that that is performative but there isn't just because you learned to that word here pick up your bed so we can keep going just because you learn that word doesn't mean that everything now is you know like not everything is performative just because you know like that's the new thing to say i feel like that's this is what the internet does they they latch on to a word and and they latch on to like an id and like an idea and they just like start uh uh labeling things that because that's like the new thing to talk about i just don't understand how people are so obsessed with everyone else's life yeah like i like can't i can't imagine like being on twitter replying just like hate threat or just hate replying or fucking

comments and you're so into politics And I understand there's obviously like important issues and politics and fucked up shit does be going on. But like even just when it comes to like regular ass fucking like a Jake Paul or some shit, like people were just so. I don't know. I feel like I'm such at a place where it's like, bro, I'm so worried about my life and how like I need to clutch up. It's like I can't even begin to tell someone else how to live or like how to act. or like talk shit about what they're doing. Yeah.

I feel like the shit I saw about like the suit, like dude. Like the fucking Super Bowl. Holy fuck. The Super Bowl was like almost eye opening to what is like going on. Like we're we're at a bad spot. We're at a really bad spot. It's in it's bad. from like both sides.

Yeah. No. Like it doesn't matter if you're for the bad bunny concert or against the bad bunny concert. Like you, you're, they both just looked, just look bad. Yeah.

I mean, I mean, kind of. And the way they express themselves online is what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah.

No, I get what you're saying. Like, if you watched the bad buddy concert because you wanted people to be upset, I feel like that's. kind of weird. And if you watch the kid rock concert, uh, on YouTube TV instead of bad bunny, like I feel like you failed as kind of like a human being. You know what I mean? Like two two two sides of the coin, but I feel like one of the one of the sides is is worse.

Because in this particular, in this I, I think if you, if you are, uh, and it's funny because do you remember, did I tell you about when like a TikToker clipped me? Whenever the Super Bowl halftime got announced, it instantly sparked up whatever Bad Bunny's announcement for the Super Bowl halftime show got announced. It sparked a whole bunch of conversation on Twitter, just the internet in general of people like being like, why is he? He doesn't even speak English, blah, blah, blah. And I brought it up on the flycast or the optic podcast. I brought it up on the Optic Pod and I was basically like, do you guys think America is mad that

or do you think a lot of people in America are mad that bad bunny is performing at the halftime show because he's not American? And then instantly, or no one said it on the podcast, no one was like, well, he is American. Like Puerto Rico is like a whatever. It is American. Like no one like checked me on that. And so I do. understand like my ignorance for that and i actually like kind of did know just like didn't that that

shit if you're trying to trap people by saying like port like Puerto Rico is in america like is in america like obviously Puerto Rico is a a territory of america but it's not like it's not one of the 50 states that it's not on the top of your head all the time yeah no it wasn't like it's okay but even then like i i understood they were like how the fuck does he not no blah blah blah and i'm just like, all right, my bad. Yeah, yeah. Excuse my, I'm dumb as shit. Excuse my ignorance.

Like, yeah, my bad. But even besides that, a dude clipped me talking about it. And they were, and it turned into exactly what it does on Twitter. It turned into maniacs against Puerto Ricans. Puerto Ricans or his,

maniacs against Hispanics performing at a at a football half time show meanwhile his boss is Mexican and like this is such like this is boss no he said I'm like are you fucking and and I wasn't even

I didn't say I was for it I didn't say I was against it I was simply being like hey did you guys see this online people were awfully mad about bad bunny performing at the halftime show like do you think Americans are going to be mad about it it like that

I was I was bringing it up as a point of discussion and people like because I said something about like because Bad Bunny's not American it is no one gave a shit about the context no one gave a shit about like what I actually said people just instantly said like

oh my God maniac doesn't even know he's Puerto Rican and he's bringing this subject up because he doesn't want to see Bad Bunny perform in his boss is Mexican maniacs are racist who is this guy what a piece of What a dumb ass? How ignorant is he?

What's the fucking, what's the US educational system? It turned into a big thing. It got a lot of views. I never responded to it. But it was just like, bro, that was, I was simply bringing up a topic of just like to discuss it. Because obviously it's a huge deal to a lot of people.

And the funny thing is, is that I've only been to a few concerts in my life. One of them was first row at a bad bunny concert where I got backstage fucking pictures with him, you fucking idiots. and it was one of the best, probably the best concert I've been to. Yeah.

I haven't been to many, but I've been to a Drake concert. Bad Bunny's was better than his. Bad Bunny was good as fuck live. I ain't gonna lie. He was very, very good life. I thought the halftime show was good. I thought the halftime show was really good.

Yeah, I didn't see the half time. I didn't see anything, to be honest. To be fair, I think regardless of how you feel about anything, you can't, unless you're a Seahawks fan, it is undisputed that the halftime show was better than the game. Like the game was so boring.

Yeah, I heard. The game was mad boring. I mean, unless you're a kicker, kicker went crazy. There's just field goals. He got robbed for MVP. Yeah, people were, um,

people were awfully upset about, uh, bad bunny performing. Yeah. Should we do it? What are we doing? I think we can explore that. And hey, just to be clear, I don't care.

Bad Bunny can perform at the halftime show. I don't care. Yeah, I don't care either, man. I liked it. Oh, I thought we were gonna try to drop down. Yeah, I am. I just wanna get, I don't know how. I don't know where.

Right, I think you drop straight down here. We're good. Yeah, we're good. All right. All right. Yeah, I don't care about. I don't care either. I thought it was dope.

I thought it was fun. I thought, like, if you, give me your top, like three. Oh, there's a,

you see, um, I think karma. Like, even like people, I think karma tweeted something. Um, it was just like,

I think while it was going on, he might have just tweeted like, what the hell is this? Because, you know, like, Damon probably just doesn't even know what's going on. He just,

like, half time show who is it and then they start speaking Spanish he's like what the hell is this what the hell's going on and uh dude so he got so many replies like unsubbing unfa like he literally tweeted like what the hell is this and he was getting replies just unsubbed unfollowed super disappointed you know your boss is Hispanic or like and i'm just like bro and he's he replies and he's just like uh i'm not saying it's bad or or or he didn't even really try to explain himself. He was just like,

uh, yeah, that's, I'm not like saying anything bad. I just, this isn't really my cup of tea. Like, I can't understand what they're saying.

So there's like one point where it's like, yeah, I get that. I can get why people maybe they don't. It's not, it's not like, it's, it's not they don't enjoy it because he's Puerto Rican.

Where's Kid Rock? It's, I don't speak that language. How am I supposed to enjoy this? Which some people, and it's not, it has nothing to do with racism. It has nothing to do with fucking any of that. They themselves just don't. Like I play bad bunny sometimes in the car.

I play L alpha. I'll play some shit that I, I'll play some shit that I literally don't know what they're saying. But that's just my, I like the vibe of it. I can move, you know, move to it. I can tell it's just good. It sounds good to the ear. some people might not like that

that doesn't mean they're fucking racist you fucking idiots like it's just not their cup of tea they maybe they listen to stuff and they like hearing the words and know what they're talking about and that's just not some people don't some people like music where they know the words

and can understand it I don't know I don't understand that I don't know what they're saying in that music but I personally can enjoy it I can you know it to me it just sounds good. And then you get into this like weird place where, uh, where like if you, like, you don't want, you don't want support from the wrong people.

You know what I mean? Like, like, like, Touche tweeted something like, I bet you this, this is electric if you speak Spanish. Oh, yeah. And, you know, just how toosh is. And then you get a bunch of like, hell yeah, brothers that are replying to it. And he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no, no. That's not.

Yeah, not you guys. Not you guys. I was just saying if you speak Spanish, it's probably fire. See, people see that and they're like, they just instantly think like, wow, this guy's racist. He's obviously saying that because he hates fucking Hispanic people. But it's like, no, he's saying it seems like the music sounds good. I don't know what the fuck he's saying, but I bet it's a banger if you can understand it. Yeah, that is for sure what are you saying?

But obviously there's people that are, I'm not saying there's not a fucking crowd that isn't against it and wants to keep it the 50 states or not even 50 states, just fucking English, just like English speaking. You know, they're not speaking English,

just ain't American. They want the white rock and roll like, Oh my God, you scared the shit out of me, bro. Holy shit. Yeah, yeah, no. I, I, 100%. See, even us right now, we are playing both sides. And we're playing both sides because

That's normal life. Because that's human. That's humanity. Like you, it's like you either have to pick one or another. But like we're sitting here. we're playing both sides because we can enjoy that type of music we have no problem with it

halftime show don't really give a fuck I don't even watch football I could give a fuck less who's performing at the halftime show but people will still listen to everything we just said wait for a little slip up and they will find

something about some sentence that wasn't completely perfect and they will like hearing maniac and hitch discuss they should really stick to talking about video games

they don't know anything about rap or politics they will find something yeah I mean it is bound to happen my god this this this chat this mine shaft is fucking big

it is if you had a if you could give me your top five artists for a Super Bowl half-time show who would it be? Top five artists, Super Bowl halftime show. There's unfortunately a right answer,

but it'll never happen. It's not Drake. I can tell you that. Well, I don't think Drake will happen either, but I mean, obviously, I think Lil Wayne would be good. If I got to choose his songs.

If you got to choose the songs. If his old ass comes out high as shit, it would not be good. And I'm single. Who would it? Like who haven't performed yet? Right. I think.

Yeah, you go. I think the most obvious one is Kanye, but it'll never, I mean, I don't think it'll ever happen. That would be funny if Kanye did and he just pulled some shit out of his, like not on the script. It's just some insane message.

They just cut to some screen that says, you know, we'll be right back. Yeah. I think Kanye, I think, Kanye, I think Metallica would be fucking amazing. I think Chris Brown would be amazing. Chris Brown, yeah. I think, I don't know. It's weird because like the strange ones are the ones that you wouldn't think about unless you're fucking, I guess, Jay-Z or Rockefeller or whoever, you know, is doing it.

Like, like I wouldn't have thought about Usher. I just wouldn't have thought about it. But he did a really good job. Like I thought. Yeah. I sure. I sure killed it. Yeah, Chris Brown would be good as fuck.

Yeah, I was listening to a little. What's funny is I was listening to a lot of little Wayne last night while we're working out and I was like dude this would be so good at the like I thought of the Super ball did you like if he did like like like go DJ and shit like like like like older stuff yeah like older stuff I think like of course you got to do like a million shit but besides sad is right yeah bitch I'm me yeah I'm me I don't know if that hit or not but I don't think that way you you're not me Now it seems like as an artist

You can't take risks because You're just gonna like people are just gonna clown you It seems like no matter what I'm a motherfucker kid Imagine imagine he did I'm me and like the new age kids saw that They'd be like wait a second The hell is going on here They would not be very happy

I have a I have a YouTube a vlog going up today it's just like when I'm when I was recording this vlog it's just like all by myself all yapping I was I just felt depressed the whole vlog

I was like I suck this isn't entertaining but then I actually edited the vlog I was like oh this ain't too bad comes out to 40 minutes long it is a lot of like boring yapping and I'm just sitting here trying to figure out what a title to give it

and I'm not sure but I think I'm just going to completely lie. And my title right now, it's about to go up right after we end this. I'm going to make it live. But I think I'm going to do like, I quit, I failed,

I cheated by. Or like, just some, some performative shit. Yeah, some perform. Just some straight performative shit. YouTube is like,

I don't know. It's very, like I started my, my I started this like I told myself January February gonna do one video a week

one real week blah blah blah I had no intentions I was like it'll probably just be pretty shit like you know no one's really gonna it'll probably be boring

blah blah blah and it has exceeded my expectations by a lot and I'm even still just thinking about like man I'm gonna upload this and then like

the numbers aren't gonna be what I want I was like bro I can't like think like that it's crazy it's like it's like I don't know if they're getting past that I don't think you ever get past it if you think of it that way like I like my the channel that I'm uploading on right now like I am so like I'm just throwing shit up and then like hoping that whatever happens you know hoping that people enjoy it but if I and so like there's it's like

it's like there's a sense of peace there but at the same time if I uploaded if I uploaded an around the bar and it did you know it performed like my you know my channel that I'm uploading on right now did

I would be freaking out like I would be freaking out like oh it's all over like so it's just I don't know it's all perspective was there ever a time for around the bar that you were thinking that

um just like fuck maybe I can't maybe I'm not gonna be able to get this for around the bar not not really like things have been kind of it has it definitely has waves um but but no that that hasn't really happened it has happened on youtube and of course it's it's happened the worst it's ever happened on stream like on stream sometimes right now no it was me like like eight months ago it's just like oh it's mean it's i i don't have what it's like I would watch other streamers and be like,

oh, I can't do that. Like I, I just don't have what it takes. It's as simple as that. Yeah. But like when I'm, I mean,

that's how I feel about streaming. I'm just like, I'm not, I'm not that good. You are better. Even YouTube videos. It's just, it's just constant comparing yourself to like,

their quality is better. Their audio is better. They're collaborating with people. Fucking. Why am I even making, these. Oh shit. Oh, we can keep going down.

Have you ever fought a warden? Do you know what a warden is? You killed a warden? Yeah. I mean, I killed it with like arrows and I just built up or some shit, I think. Good for you. I don't even think I've ever killed a warden. Yeah, I think I died like eight times though.

Yeah. That makes sense. That makes sense. See, I'm trying to think of, I'm trying to think of other people that could be, that would be like just bang or Super Bowl halftime shows. I feel like besides Chris Brown's. Creed maybe? Can you take me higher?

Yeah, but once they get past that song, it's them what are they going. It's not really any rappers, huh? It seems like, there's got to be like female. Like has Beyonce done it? I don't know. I just feel like she's gotten to it. Like she had to have done it when she was in her prime and then it would have been a banger.

Has Taylor Swift ever done it? I don't know, but I feel like if she did it, there would be so much hate. I mean, yeah. Oh yeah, especially because of the football shit. I forgot about the football shit. Like she's like football players or like football fans are like tired of her.

Are they so? together no idea dude this thing goes straight down can you take me oh Matt Craig he's been chilling in the call dude I went all the way down here oh wait oh it's still going holy shit it's still going are we gonna keep so what's the future of the mind cast the flycraft the flycraft i mean i'm down for whatever is this just is this server just gonna stay up and we'll like say there's some people we want owen and maybe we just go remote yeah i think i think then again they'll have to figure it out too no that's fine and then we try to do we try to beat the

game i'm down to i'm down to i'm down to i'm down to i'm down to keep the server up we we play with different people and just kind of you know go back around like I'm down to I'm down to I'm down to we can probably teleport ourselves back to the the studio yeah and then um and then based on whoever you know comes on next we can just keep playing with them that makes sense yeah in the comments below give us like should there be um goals during this like should there be there's got to be some Like, I feel like we can't, I feel like we can't just run around randomly. Like there's got to be like started up, maybe talk about some shit, talk about what, what goal do we got today?

Or like, what do we need to do, build a house or something, something. Yeah, I'm not, I mean, I'm down to build some houses. So while we're watching, we have like, or, yeah, while we're playing, we sort of have an objective. Dude, what the fuck? It keeps going down. There's diamonds. Do you go down again? Let's go get these diamonds and then we'll call it.

Sounds about right. That's how I'd usually. That's how you would end it. I think it would be cool to have this be a thing. And then... What if I did this? Oh! Are you fucking kidding me?

Dude, I had it all planned out. You were supposed to die and then I go, all right, that's going to do it for another episode of the podcast. Thank you all for watching. Are you kidding me? But we're going to get these diamonds. Yeah, yeah, we are. Mac Craig would spawn you back in?

I don't have a fucking iron pick. Do you have an iron pick? Oh, you don't. Yes, I did. Let me make sure I pick these up, though. Oh, God. Get rid of some spots. This is so ass.

Diamond for me. Dimeon for me. Diamond for me. What was your health bar out? Uh, two hearts. All right. That's going to do it for another episode of the fly cast. Oh, the fly cast.

The fly craft. The fly craft. Thank you all for watching. Yeah, if you have any ideas of maybe what we could do on this, this isn't going to be, I mean, this will probably, this will be every so often. We're not going to do it. I don't think that much. No, not that much.

But if you have any ideas for when we do do this stuff of maybe some fun stuff or I don't know if it'd be too late to incorporate mods. or I don't know. Any ideas? Just let us know in the comments. Us, Matt Craig, probably even Atlas, going to be taking a look, seeing what we can do with our little world here in the fly craft. But all right, that's going to do it for us, man. Matt Craig. Play the outro music.