The Flycast - The Unc’s of OpTic | The UncCast Ep. 118

Episode Date: August 23, 2024

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Like I get, I get it. And first off, this is, I'm not even trying to knock the entertainment. Because I think it's great. And this is literally, this is literally, this is literally, the way Ronaldo dives into the pool. This is what we should have been doing. And first of all, that dive was fired. I know what I'm saying.

It was fucking, that's the funniest fire. Look at this dive. Why is it so good? Welcome back to episode 118 of the Flycast. I am joined here with my. a wonderful co-host. His name is Nicholas Kirshner, and he's from the great state of Maryland.

Hagerstown, Maryland in H-town. We also got E-Matthew Craig behind the camera all the way from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Damn, he's a city boy. I knew it. It's close. I guessed on the city. Wait, where are you from, Matt?

Oh, wait, you're from Tulsa? Bro, do you want to go to Tulsa? Do you want to go to Tulsa? Let's drive together. Okay. Sorry, ECU's playing Tulsa in Tulsa, and I want to drive up there. So we drive up there Saturday. You get, if you want to go to the game, let's go to the game. Okay, cool.

Why don't I care about a lot of stuff, but sport? Did you wake up? Did you grow up watching? I only care so much. I grew up watching, like, Sundays, like my stepdad's watching the redskins and, I think that's who he was a fan of It's kind of But like yeah

Like we go to Thanksgiving It's on the TV Like it's people Everyone watch I just never I don't know I just never The only time

And I've said this a few times But like the Dante Colpeper Randy Moss Chris Carter Like that era Was like the only era I watched And was like a fan of people

Were you playing Madden back then? I was never like a Madden player I played more like NFL street Oh, okay, okay. That was the NFL Street, NFL Blitz? Yeah. Were those two?

I think NFL blit. Those are two different games? Yeah, NFL Street, you run on the walls, NFL Blitz, you punch people in the nuts. Okay, yeah. See, I played those. I played, and then I was into basketball a little bit. I just found. But I just, I'd never, like, why?

I think I was just, I think at that time I was just more addicted to video games. Like, there's no way I'm watching. in a sport over playing a video game. I get you. My dad and my mom both went to ECU, so they, like, we had, like, season tickets, like, every year. Even when they, like, there were two years in, like, 2003, 2004, they, over two seasons, they went, like, three and 20.

And we went to every game. Really? Yeah, and it was, like, and then. It's almost kind of, sorry, I just always talk over everyone on the podcast. Good. Go ahead. So, so I've just, I've been through the, I've been through the thick of it with that team, so I just like it. I like, and same with the, the, it's really only that team, like ECU sports and, and the U.S. national soccer team. I just like, I like, they're, they both have like an underdog feel. It's kind of fun when your team sucks. Dude, it's the best.

Yeah. It's literally the best. fan, it must be like amazing. It must be the best. Because imagine the pressure of being a Patriots fan every year, being a Chiefs fan. And you're like, if we don't win the Super Bowl, I am not happy. Like that is insane. That is crazy to me.

When Lions fans show up, they're just like, I'm just like, we're just getting fucked up. Let's just drink in like Detroit. Like we're having fun winner. We're down 38 points. We score touchdown. Fuck, yeah. He was like M&M, the Red Wings. It just seems

It just seems like so much more I mean I guess it is fun if your team wins a Super Bowl But it just seems so much less stressful if your team should Like I grew up watching the Redskins And like I was a Redskins fan Even though I didn't give a fuck But like my family were Redskins fans Everybody on the East Coast fans

And they were horrible Yeah my family's Redskins fans Because it was before the Panthers We can't say that It was before the Panthers we're in the league. Oh, you should hear my family talk about it. They're the Redskins. They'll always be

the ratskins. What are that now? Washington commanders. Commanders. Yeah. God. Wait, it is commanders, right? I think it is. Washington commanders. Redskins? Yeah, I think so. I think so. But

there's just something, I forgot what I was what I was saying, but there's something so, oh, I just can't, like, I don't know how much college football you've ever watched. None. I was a Notre Dame fan, I think. Jesus.

Why? I don't know. I just thought it was like the coolest college. Dude, Notre Dame fans. Like, I look back. I'm like, I have,

I could not tell you why. That's why I can't see a Notre Dame fan. Maybe it was something with like the quarterback at the time. Maybe it was like fast or like Virginia tech a little bit. See, VT. I can, I can get behind everything except for,

except for Alabama and Notre Dame. There's only two. Is Notre Dame nasty? No, they're just, they're just, they're scammers. They're always ranked in the top 25. Why's Riley Fiss? Is that your team? Oh, he likes Alabama.

A little bandwagon. Yeah, he's a bandwagon fan. Wait, they're fucking, they are good. I like this team. But he probably shares my sentiment about Notre Dame fans. They're always just like, they're always like, oh, we're the best ever. And then I was like, when's the last time you were going? good and they're like

1980, but they're always They used to be good, right? Yeah. I feel like I haven't heard the name in since like being an adult. I haven't heard the, I haven't heard Notre Dame.

Who else, man? But like if Alabama or Ohio State wins a national championship this year, like who the fuck really cares? I remember. But then like you get that, that season where like Boise State shocks the,

what was it, Auburn or somebody in the, in the Cotton Bowl. and it's like, oh my God, there's like this underdog and they come through. That's the cool shit about college football. And that's the stuff that, and this, I feel the same way about the U.S. soccer team.

And so then I've always, I've always been fans of like underdog teams. And that's why like being part of like an optic fan and like seeing how the optic fans feel about like, BTAH. Yeah, BTH. Seeing how like optic fans feel about it. It's just, I, I think that.

that's why I'm more like, like, if we place top three, I'm like, top three is like pretty damn good. Top three is fucking good as fuck. Like in the grand scheme things, like it's not, it's not a complacent. I mean, I understand it's different in this professional sports and there's professional esports and like these, you know, I get it. Like the team, our team is disgusting. So you want them to place first.

But like, I don't know. Maybe I'm maybe it, maybe it's a, a. bad scenario to use because in that situation optic is like Alabama. We are like the Notre Dame of our esports.

So it's, I don't know. It's, I don't know. Regardless, three days until college football starts, I'm fucking hype and I'm ready to go. I don't know what it is,

man. Where's my dope? Like people, why don't you try things? College football starting, football, or college football starting, the NFL starting.

Try to. I see people tweeting about it. it and shit all excited i'm like i wish i saw someone i saw some tic talk of this like husband giving his wife a note and it's saying like from here till march i'm unavailable on thursdays from this time saturday mornings and sunday from 10 a.m to midnight or some shit and it's just i'm just like fuck man i would just wish i was like i don't i don't even know what i'm into like i think i'm not into anything i just scatter my fucking brain with like mindless videos i'm i'm really i'm like obnoxiously i i get obnoxiously i feel like you're fake ecu fan okay i just

told you i went to 30 game straight they lost all but three of them with the every game of the season had season tickets i've seen you post about it a million times since joining optic The stadium seats like around like 45,000 people. I guess maybe because are they like a big football team? No. No, no, no. They're like, WVU.

Way above. Way above UC. Really? Yeah, I was going to say. It's like a community college. It's not a community college. In, uh, in like college sports, there's like four big leagues. And then there's like, help me explain this, Riley?

And there's like five other leagues. Uh, is a group of five. in the big four, right? Big four, power five. I'm getting back into it in the group of five. Okay, so there's five huge conferences, and that's where you get all your, like, Alabama's, Auburns, VT.

Basically, any, probably any school you can think of. There are so many schools. Penn State, like, Yukon. Yukon, USC, Cal, like, all of those schools are in, like, these five conferences. And then there's other five conferences that,

you know, before this year, never would have even been able to play in the national championship. Like, no, there's not even a road to get there. Now there's at least a road. Okay. I was going to say, is that even, like, possible for, like, if you're not a big college, but you're just fucking nasty. You have, like, the best quarterback, like, and they're somehow at your school.

This year is the first year that there's 12 teams in a playoff. It was, over the past, like, I don't know, 10 years or so, it's been a 14-playoff. And then before that, they just picked the top two teams, and they play. for the national championship. It's been so, it's like such a weird system. But thank God there's like a, but regardless,

out of those five power, those power, or those, those bottom five like, conferences, like, ECU is always, always like up there

is like one of the most attended games, one of the most, like, there just ain't much going on in East Carolina. It's just like, yeah, Eastern North Carolina, there's not a,

there's not like a, there's not a lot of do out there. There's not like a big city. There's not a airport. So like you can't, you can't like have Yukon fly in and they go to, like it would be a, they'd have to fly in a four hour drive, four hour drive back. Then you fly. Yeah.

Yeah. It's like, it's in a weird spot. But I mean, the city like runs off of that, off of that college. But when it's time to come together, they come together. Dude, it's nuts, man. I'm telling you. There's some places like that. And then they're Redskins fans somehow.

Yeah. Oh, on in North Carolina. Yeah. It was just because there was D.C., right? Washington and D.C.? Wait, why aren't they? Who was the Carolina football team? Panthers?

The Panthers. But they don't, the Panthers don't join until like 98. To like all my parents' generation? Oh, yeah, true. They weren't Panthers fans. They were Redskins fans. Yeah, true. I think it was 98.

It might have been. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe this season I'll pick someone who, there was like two years ago or something. something, I, like, faked trying to be a Ravens fan. Yeah. And I made it my wallpaper on my computer. And, like, everyone on stream would always, yo, you're a Ravens fan.

Hell yeah. And, like, start talking. I'm like, I have, like, I'm such a poser. Like, I can't even remember their fucking quarter, Lamar Jackson. Yeah. But, I don't know. Maybe, maybe I'll pick a team this year. Who, is there a good team to start with?

Like, for what? For being a fan of? the NFL? Yeah. Who's a good team to start being a fan of? You should just be a Cowboys fan. Like that's... I was.

Then they dropped Shultz. Now it's Buckham. Now it's fuck them. Because they don't have Donne Schultz no more. So it's like, why would I care? Dacked this. Actually, who was it? Is it Dax the quarterback?

He called me a legend. I saw him at Abel's Barbershop. And he like came out. He was like, yo, what's up legend? Fist bump me. Be a Cowboys fan. that would be that would that would that was first off first off i'd be like yeah that stump stumped and like stumbled the fuck out of me i was like uh yeah bett h literally probably i was that like because

i'm just expecting him to like walk and like he's not his hair guy boom walk out and he walks out and says that i'm like too thank you that's so funny dude and i don't know just and i don't know just fucking threw me off but then I talked to Abel and he was like yeah I told you you're like a gaming legend or like a Halo legend or something like that and I was just like yeah I was like I was hype for a little but I assumed I was like there's no way he's walking out of seeing me

and be like what's up legend just thought he watched 09 yeah thought he watched 09 he was at he was at the event now he checks out the streams and YouTube videos and the vlogs but it turned out my barber just fucking actually just told him like oh yeah the guy out there won

an event and 15 years ago like a Halo legend yeah maybe I'll pick Cowboys we'll see Cowboys are just an easy pick the Cowboys are an easy pick because you get to

you get to pick it's like the best of both worlds it's like you get to pick that underdog team because they always they always suck but like also they're like the biggest

I don't suck. Yeah, it's like... They're like weird. It's like the Cowboys haven't won a playoff round in 20 years or something. Really? I'm almost positive. Almost positive. I think Matt's looking up right now.

Are they one of those teams to where they have all the resources in the world, but still just fucking choke? I think, well, I don't know. I'm sure Cowboys fans will sit down whenever, or you guys, Cowboys fans, you guys, you Because before the victory in the 2022 playoffs, the last... Oh, 2018? The last Cowboys win was 2018. Oh, what? See, I thought it was even...

I thought it was something crazier than that. Bro, multiple people have told me how many playoffs wins do Cowboys have since 2000? They've won four times in the playoffs since 2000. Oh, dude. People have been lying to me. Yeah, I thought it was even worse than that. Yeah, that's not that bad. I mean, I guess me and my girl do watch the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader series.

Have you seen that on like Netflix? This is pretty, it's pretty interesting. Just they're like, it's just crazy how like serious because you see them and it's like, oh yeah, cheerleaders. You don't even really pay attention. But like they used to be iconic. The Cowboys cheerleaders when you're growing up. Like if all girls.

If my uncle was to say I banged a Cowboys cheerleader, I'd be like, What the fuck? But now if you bang a cowboy sheer leader, it's like, no, I don't give a fuck. And I don't, I don't know what's changed, but like, it's like they used to be so iconic. But yeah, we've been watching the, it just shows, it just shows, like, them practicing and there's, of course, just crying all the time and arguments and drama and your cut. You made it. It's just like every other fucking show that's about stuff like that. yeah it's pretty fun i'm a cowboys fan now shouts out

who do we got we got dad sign fucking dalton i'm actually i'm actually kind of pissed it really was cool that an NFL player like i can't i don't even remember our like first interaction but just like finding out he's optic fan

he's he's listened to like he said he's listened to like every flycast probably listen to this right now and i just thought it was like super cool i met i met met met met met up with him one time just like eat sushi yeah i was like it's kind of cool like seeing someone dude he came up to me it was like i like i like you're rocket league streams and i was like bro that is so deep cut like there are 400 people max that watch those yeah at night and i bet you a three two thirds of them are asleep from us playing cod still like we're just chilling at that point yeah and i don't know

It was just cool. Like, I even started, like, paying attention to games a little bit. And just, like, I don't know, it's kind of, you know, the Dalton score this game. Or, I don't know. It was just kind of interesting. Yeah. Who they fucking, what was I saying? Bring batch, we got Dak.

Do people like him or hate him? It depends. Re-signed CD-Lam. Is he not signed? There's, like, I just, how I even know this, I have no idea. but he wants more money than what they're willing to give him, I think. So it's like on the fence. But I feel like those two are like Ezekiel Elliott.

I know that name. And I think that's about it. Dravon Diggs, I know that name. I think there's four of them that I know of. Yeah. I'll be rooting for y'all. I don't know. Why don't you try fantasy?

That's what people have told me. They're like, yeah, no, I don't give a fuck either. You just got to do fantasy That'll get you in Like you just got to do fantasy And then you start paying little attention to different Little games

And then you just start getting more interested I've had like a few people It seems fun but like I just don't It seems like a tall task Like I literally don't even know How to watch an NFL game Like where do I go YouTube TV

Or whatever That's what I do I watch everything on YouTube TV Well fuck football Let's get in a gaming. Esports World Cup, first off, it was an online tournament.

No, but why, what's all this discussion? Honestly, I saw more, I saw more people complaining about, so it's all Zulus. I saw more people complaining about people complaining than I saw people complaining. Which is how it happens.

So what, what, what's the issue so it's all Zuma's fault the zoo mafia that's the first tweet I saw he's started a he's raised an army on accident

he's like he's like it's like Edin Ross Loyals yeah exactly he's like grew and they're all the minions and now he now he doesn't know what to do they have the minions have taken over yeah so Optic wins champs

then there's this little narrative that's going around that the crowd and the drums and it's like a stupid very stupid narrative so then obviously those drums like dude so then the two times you played the drums that really really did it that threw off fucking scrap that fuck sell you him out so then the uh the same people i'm assuming that are you know trying to dilute optics champs win are trying to put all their eggs in this basket. They're trying to say this was... Was this more prize money?

No. The EWC? No, but it was still stupid, stupid prize money. What was it at $1.3 million or something like that was like $1.8 million? That could be wrong. So, so then we lose it to phase. And so now people are like, oh, phase are the world champions. and and then there's this like oh now it's who's actually the world champion right right so there's

like this this and then and then so like overly passionate you know phase fans will say you know oh without the drums and without the home crowd you guys lose and then optic fans overly passionate optic fans will say it was a single elimination tournament halfway across the world hold up And it was all online The production was run poorly That is true It's a single fucking A Limternie

That shit's horrible So That can't be Literally just off that right there To call it First off motherfuckers can't just call shit What they want Because they have billions

Wait that is how the world works It is how the world works But I do agree with you You can't just go from Because weren't they Like just called like gamers eight Or something like that I think I saw a tweet

I can't remember. Like, and someone was like, there's a reason they've rebranded from gamers A to ESports World Cup. And they just, like, can't come up with it randomly. And they just self. What's the word I'm looking for? They just, like, they themselves. Validate it.

It's like me calling myself the best in the game when no one's calling me the best in the game. It's like, they get just called themselves the World Cup when everyone's like, what? This is a rando single limb tourney. EWC is fucking Dubai. I think it's awesome. I think it's awesome. I'm glad that there is an EWC, the same way I was glad that there was an X games, the same way I was glad there was a World Cup or a World World's Tournament in

AW. I like those X games in Halo. Like different tournaments that aren't just majors and they aren't the world championships. I like that in between tournament a lot. I think it's awesome. Yeah. But if you win the world championship for Rocket League And then you lose the EWC Rocket League tournament

Everyone cares about it still is it doesn't take away The fact that the world championships that are already established in every e-sport are the most meaningful And have been established Every single year in Call of Duty since 2007 There's a season and at the end the big tournament right and that and that That's the, you're, the world. That's the, who the, the best players in the world go there at the end, and that's the fucking Super Bowl.

And it's not, I mean, it's not, it's not as big of it. I think people are just bored already because it is the season starting. And like, you know, there's a lot of banter. I banter a lot, but I only banter with, I only banter with, like, the social media guys for phase, because sometimes they, they're fucking obnoxious. So I just, I'll throw jabs back at them because they throw jabs. but like as when it comes to like phase and the optic teams like they all have a lot of fucking respect for each other they're both happy they won each tournament and I don't

think either team is thinking I don't think anyone on phase is like oh we won EWC so that's better than champs no one no one on phase is thinking that and no one on optic is thinking oh we lost EWC so we didn't fucking care like it they they They all went hard. Both tournaments were sick. But, I mean, all people are doing is arguing over which was more important. But some people are saying that EWC wasn't important at all. First off, it's not an argument of which one was more important.

That's true. We all know CDL Worlds. It's the most important call of duty tournament. It's what, the ring. It's been, it's just, it is what it is. and it's been like that for fucking 17 years. EWC, which I completely forgot about, a single LIM,

I think it was $1.8 million, but single LM is fucking insane. Especially when you're trying to figure out who's, I mean, not trying to figure out, but like who's the best call of duty team right now at this tournament. Single LIM is just insane, and it's insane for people to argue, just because the prize money was bigger,

like means more or something like that. What was the... Can we see the prize money? 1.8. 1.8. W.C was 1.8 mil. So 600K. God, you get 600,000 for first, man.

That is insane. I mean, what's more insane than even that, though, is... Is the fucking FC guy got 300K for first? Atlanta phase has a single player Atlanta face has to split 600K between seven people or six people

because they got two coaches they ain't giving them coaches shit I mean they're gonna give them maybe something should coaches get shit Bruce Dash he's in here but I mean no we ain't got a we don't got a dive into that he's in the back

I bet if Damon was here he'd be like fuck now yeah right you don't think because he's He's been a player. And I've had... The 800K.

I've had times where we've gotten like top three or... Okay, so champs was 2 million. Or the two times I won an event and it's like, do we get... If we said they're like, do we pay our coach? I think one time we gave him like 500 each or something. Just like, thanks for being a part of the other. Yeah, but scaled up, 500 each is now 5,000. Well, I remember fucking, yeah.

I remember... Because you were winning 10K a tournament. They're winning 100K. See, the thing is, I wouldn't even be so disgusted, but then I don't know their salaries, but I know their salaries are like pretty nice. And then you just see the prize money on top of it. It's just, I, duh. I'm just, it's crazy.

I'm born at the worst time. Like, if I was six, if I was 18 right now, just, oh, my, be so nice. Like we used to I mean I've said this a hundred times But even just getting third You'd get I think it was eight grand per team So you get 2K each and like that would have to last me months It's just fucking insane what they get

Even at like the lowest level Of top 12 Even the lowest teams are I mean it was probably more Yeah it was probably more ridiculous when the CDL first started. Because I remember... I'm not going to say who,

but a player, their first season into the league, I found out what they were making, and it was like 200 some thousand. I think it was like 220 for the season. Like his first year being pro. Yeah, and then e-sports crashed. They weren't even looked at as the best.

East sports crashed, and people were like, how did crash? Yeah. What went wrong? Dude, it was... How did it all go wrong? Didn't Enable come out and say he was making $300,000 to be as the sixth man on Seattle or something? Dude, that can't be true.

Fucking, I swear it might be true. That cannot be true. Maybe a Naval can confirm, but I swear I heard somewhere he was getting... Or maybe he started off the season with them as a play. Either way, $300,000 to be a player for Seattle's fucking insanity. Hashtra offered him 170 to play on Empire, Surge, offered him 330 to play on Surge.

And I think he played for like an event or two and then got benched, but still like they paid him out. And it's just fucking insane. Like everything, good for Enable because he comes to, I met Enable at, I think my first event ever, 2007 Charlotte. That motherfucker's been around.

So at least he got to fucking, and get to reap some of the rewards of the later of the latest era he got it right before he got it out too yeah he's like yeah give me that for a year yeah no fuck it oh yeah i mean and a lot of everyone was just getting fucking paid i don't know what the i don't know what they're doing now but i mean we used to just you'd have to make two grand that's for getting top three you would have two grand and then you wait another two months for a tournament. Like I was working part-time jobs, stocking shells, FedEx in the summer, or was it UPS? I don't know. I worked at one of those. Boys really big again?

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about the old national champions for Kod? he and him and censor made him all rings yes I don't know you guys should all get rings oh the nat I mean it'd be cool Censor actually DM me about it

he was like yo you should oh I think we talked about this um he was like yeah yo you should try to get rings for your 09 Nats win and I just I don't know I just didn't give a fuck

and because in Halo that was like never a thing and I don't think it be it didn't become a thing in cod till like what 20 was it CDL that started the rings rings started in 2013 yeah the first like the first cod change yeah I just I don't know I don't give a fuck I mean it would be cool because like we don't really have I have like a big fake check that says like yeah or believe the hype 100,000 in first place MLG whatever I have a check I have a check but it'd still be cool to have but a pew it'd still be cool to have a ring

I'm not really sweating it though I do think it was I saw I think some people would like talking shit about it calling the rings trash and shit really yeah I mean that's all I pay attention to is what negative responses did this get

but no I don't really care I mean it'd be cool I'd accept it with pleasure but no I'm not really stressing it he was like yeah I reach out to this person that was like okay yeah I bet yeah that's dope but then dude if they did it for Halo

that's so many rings that's like a hundred rings yeah how many national championships because I mean they might have started 2004 or five for national championships but okay so maybe it's not maybe it's only like seven six teams something like that

I mean it's just ogre two ogre one ogre two Oger 2, ogre one, Walshey, ogre two, ogre one, Walshie, ogre two, ogre one, Walshie, all of a sudden, Walshie gets to take a Jordan pick. Literally.

Oh my God. That shit would be kind of fire, though. I just feel like, I do, I do respect it because, like, oh, yeah, the more we're talking,

the more I realize we've already talked about this, but, like, people think that Kod just started when rings started. And I think some people, but Halo, Halo doesn't have the same sentiment.

Like, you guys had, because there were national champions like there were cod two tournaments there were cod four national championships do people look at those like playing plumbers

yeah but they shouldn't because those I mean like what are they how many wins doesn't big time have like 21 wins or something yeah he won yeah he was in the I just can't imagine he's like too

normal and chill to imagine him going demon mode on the main stage and like winning for some reason like in like i just can't picture it in the off season like youtube keeps feeding me like old skump and nate shot videos so like i watch them sometimes when i'm just eating and it's all of them like scrimming back in the day and it's so funny to hear will because he's just like one shot on me dude and i'm just i just i can't see him like i don't know it's just so weird because i i just

can't because he's always been the type of like he'll do his like like he's like he's just sort of has his routine or like when i moved into the optic house he would just have it i wouldn't even didn't even see him yeah but like he would just have his routine of like doing his uh trading in the mornings then he would like record his video for an hour or two and then he would do whatever the fuck else he wanted to do but i just i i i've never saw that side of him that like grinded yeah like he i think he does grind some of these like zombie cod zombies videos and shit he does

but it's kind of just like a everyday probably like one or two hours but I just can't see the side of him like being addicted to call of duty yeah because since I've known him I have not really seen him play call of duty besides like the funner side of like zombies

yeah when I join he is already the coach so and but like I I started watching really and like keeping up a lot in monomorfare three and he was disgusting at monorephare three he was like the like the consistent like yeah he's like a consistent guy

and then you just let Seth do whatever he wants um but that shit was yeah i mean it was uh and then obviously in blackups two everyone loved everyone loved him in blackups too he had some crazy crazy series in blockups too but then cod just like then he retires and ghosts and then cod blow as far as like salaries and all that like it blows up after that well he blew up as well yeah yeah yeah he was on he was on like the year pro i see every single day him where do i see it instagram maybe but the hell like posts is like i guess earnings for the day like 1300 solid

day green wall street shit next day 900 solid day next day 2100 great day i'm like is this every fucking day. And I think it's only five days a week, but like five, there's 20 days. Like, what is this, 25, 30 grand, just fucking off an hour of trading in the morning? Or I don't really know how it works. I've talked to him a little bit about, like, getting into that. And I'm just, like, I think all they do is, like, read about it, study it. They know it's going to go up and down and there's strats.

And I just, I need to. to dive back into the Addy or some shit before I... Dude. Before I get into that. My mom's worried about you. With Addy? Yeah.

She saw the passion. She said... She said, I always listen to the flight cast. I'm worried about Nick. Because he keeps talking about the Adderall. And I'm like, he's bullshitting, mom. Yeah, no. He's bullshitting.

There's just no. I just don't have a reason. Besides, out of pure, selfish pleasure, there's just no reason for me to take Adderall. And I just, I know I look at it right now. And I'm like, I really could just like stream in the morning, take a 30, like, wake up, hit the gym early, come home, eat, take a 30XR and then just like stream. But then I just, I know a week after, a week into that, I'm like, all right, let me take.

Right, 90. I'll take, I'll take two 30s. Well, no, I'll just split this. Big team battle. I'll split the second one in half. If I get in a ghost, I can. kill three. Dude.

I could be running over. God, man. I can't believe what I used to do in that shit. Just up for days playing Halo 2, this like modded

Halo 2 version. Like it was literally Halo 2, like Xbox Live. Like it was the same thing. Halo cartographer is what they called it. But I'd be playing that and I'm playing like big team battle

playing like people in Mexico because I think I've said this. before playing people in Mexico and shit because no one there's like no one on the servers there's like max it's not Reed I didn't even know you were in town there's max like 16 people and I'm just playing big team battle

mouse and keyboard flying the banshee just crack and just just wasting it like even this more like just I would dread getting out of bed so much and just even this morning I was thinking about it like I got up I have the schedule of like getting up

I go and I stand outside for like 10 minutes and I like ground and I'm like in the sun boom do that chug of water while standing out there then I get in the cold plunge and I stand out in the sun like 10 15 more minutes and I'm just like this morning I was just staring at the sun

and I was just like just breathing and I just felt pretty good and I was like I used to never have this fucking feeling like it's so I

would, I dreaded like every second of the day unless I was peaking on Addy. Like it's just, it's crazy how much of a how much of a crackhead I was and how much, not really how much has changed, but sort of how much has changed as far as

just like day to day life and actually getting the fuck up and not losing my mind every single day is, I don't know. I guess it's changed for the better. Are Kai and Speed's still going? They're still going.

Can we check? Can we do that, man? Just need it. Let's do that but get a sponce. Dude, let's do it because it's good. Wait, I thought Speed quit. This one, no, they're a clip farming. Get people to watch.

I'm tired of this clip farm. This shit's fucking. It's just how it is. Like I saw, let me just get this off my chest. I just start yelling at the sky, man. I saw 40 deaths. I think it was like Silky destroyed something to Ksons. And then Ksan through Silky's PC in the pool or something.

And then Banks is on Twitter saying like, nah, fuck that. Wait, does he not know what to do? Oh, can they not? move if they're in that thing? The, the intermen cannot move if they're in the boat. What the fuck? Are they low-key nasty at this game now? Dude, they've been playing, they've reset 40 times.

Yeah, actually 90 hours straight is kind of. 90 hours. But, dude, I was, I was up after our stream last night. I've been, like, I've been, like, playing, I've been, like, chilling when we get off stream and just, like, watching, like, a podcast or something. So I tried to throw this on. I was like, I want to see where they're at. And they were both taking a shower.

The camera was set up in their bathroom, and they were both showering. And I was like, I don't know if I can't watch this right now. Can't watch. Can't watch right now, specifically. Right the second. I'm watching this. I'm watching a bit.

They're horrible at Minecraft. Holy shit. You think? Wait, clip farming. Fucking when silky through case sounds something in the or like destroyed something K-San through Silki's PC or something in the pool

Banks is tweeting like what the fuck K-San nah fuck you you're kicked from removed from the group chat kicked from Faze and everyone's sitting there like Ah clip farm clip farm and Banks is like No I'm fucking serious like it's gonna be

hilarious when motherfuckers realize this ain't a joke I'm like it is though You're like Like it just I don't know why it just bugged me, but this is, it's just how the internet works, though. It's like, you're not actually kicking him from phase. And it's like the whole internet's like, wait, is he? Is he not? What's going? Yeah, I don't know. Like, I get, I get it. And first off, this is, I'm not even, I'm not even trying to knock the entertainment. Because I think it's great.

And this is literally, this is literally, this is literally, this is literally, this is what we should have been doing. And So if that dive was fired. I know what I'm saying. It was fucking. That's the funniest fire. Look at this dive. Why is it so good? You can see, Ronaldo sees the camera and he's like, I must perform.

Yeah. And he takes all of his clothes off. Yeah, this is great. I love all the phases shit. But then it's just sometimes. I respect it. Banks is like, yeah, wait to motherfuckers see that like, I'm not even fucking joking. And I'm like, yes, you are.

It just, there's like, all right, Silkie's clip farming. Kisan's clip farming, bank starts, Banks, Frank's clip farming, and then he just like doubles down on that even on. I'm like, come on. I, everything, it's just about this fucking,

like, I have taken this, like, beef and not stress. What's the word I'm looking for? Everything's just about drama. Yeah. Just this beat,

someone has beef with someone. There's drama going on here. It's just, are we, are we unks now? Yeah, we're fucking unks. We're for sure. We're just,

boring unks we're just boring unks we have a podcast where you just talk about the old days we just talk about other people doing fun shit just man i want to throw i want to throw a pc in the pool i mean i ain't gonna lie man that looks uh that looks fun like i don't i don't think it looks fun i think it looks for them i put that myself in their shoes though dude i would have an anxiety i would have an anxiety yeah i like okay they're like nine you need to like they're made for look yo rickie no way you're actually mad they started this shit are you fucking r worded removed from the it's gonna be really funny when everyone realizes i'm not joking i'm like i saw that and was like dude but you are like i don't know why that bothered me but it's this fucking that is it is great though

it is great what what banks did with bays and like just it being what it is now compared to what it was it is kind of oh it's very typical he took an outrageous risk and it is paying off yeah ten full very very typical the the the amount of people i can't i can't knock it at all the amount of people because at first he knew there was going to be backlash and at first they kicked all the gamers except for scope and so people are like FACE is not what it once was at all

and those people are not even they can't even say anything anymore because like what what Ricky has been able to do is is like make something

everyone in everyone in these sports is going down and Faze is going up like they're just crazy especially where it was this time last year it's just I mean it was bad like rain rain

arguing with that stranger things girl like all that like that feels like forever ago was that just last year i think it was like either last year or two years ago and it's just like dude yeah it was kind of crazy what it was sort of becoming in the whole what do you say what banks say like they they were just doing collapse with this this person that person doing merch drops with whoever the fuck would like pay him a little bit and I mean I can honestly I did not think I thought Banks was sort of done with it and since he just fucking has the keys to Los Angeles

at this point like I thought he was just like it sucks this is what happened is what happening to face but like I'm moving on and I'm doing very well like I might just we might just have to move on the fact that not like that at all the fact that what he's just He's like super passionate about this and what's. Super passionate about phase, which is so sick. Which is, I mean, obviously I knew like him and Tom, like they're all passionate about

phase, which they should be. It's fucking theirs. Yeah. But when you're banks and you find success elsewhere and you're like this other things, my baby's fucking me over. Like the shit with phase is just not, it's not going to happen. Yeah. Like I honestly thought they were.

all kind of move on and I don't know what direction individually they take but I knew like banks was doing well so for him to even like stop what he's doing make this his priority make it his baby again um I don't know it's just very typical it's very I really like seeing that this group being put together living in a house they're doing it better than we ever could have thought we were doing yeah we did our thing though we did our thing but these guys are this is i don't i could i don't think i could live in this house because it's 24-7 clip farm 24-7 yeah just clip farm clips drama yeah someone's breaking something someone's coming into your room someone's doing it's it's so much like because even think even thinking like the scuff house like not if someone comes into your

room but like there were times people would come into my i hear that fucking like my door is locked and people people oh it's like let me go in through the bathroom and i'm like like is there's no one is no one getting the point everyone would come in my room it's so cool your door locked and so and sometimes um people would come in and i just like fuck or like you you hear hex coming downstairs i've been up all night i know he's fucking vlogging i see him get out of i'm like peeking through the window at the down at the driveway i see his camera in his hand i'm like fuck but these motherfuckers are like i think that's just the difference with like optic is a lot of us didn't come in as content people who didn't come in as like doing what it

takes for the views it was just like pros that you know the fans enjoyed and we slightly got into it and then it sort of just became our thing you can't have one you can't have but these motherfuckers on phase are the real deal. It's definitely like a yin and yang with us in phase. We're so different. Alexis was, we were at the founding father's land and Alexis was like, you can just

look around the room and tell who's in phase. Like you can tell who's an optic and thieves and then you can look around and just tell who's in face. And I'm like, yeah, I get what you're saying. And it's just because they're all, they're just all

that way. They're all like. I mean, that's, that's how it works for it. Which, I mean, yeah, it's working and I, I thank God for them because, I mean, like I said, Yin and Yang for us, where now we're all, optic is all like the unks. And the phase are all the new kids. That's what it seems like. Yeah. I mean, and they are, you know what it's crazy?

I saw, I was going to say they are all like young as well, like younger than you, like, what's wrong? The most important. The most important thing... I like that Lacey guy. I think that's his name. Yeah, yeah. The most important...

The dude is fucking hilarious. Yeah, I think he's my favorite. The most important part... The most important thing that Banks did is put everyone together. Because every... That is something that had been lost. Like, even we lost it for a little bit.

People thought it wouldn't even be... I think people thought it's a thing of the past. 21. Ronald was 21? He was born in 2003. Damn. Six years later, you won National. Is that?

I mean, I don't know if that's Let's see, 2003, what grade was I in? Lacey's 21. God! It's crazy Lacey came from a place where he wouldn't. He said he wouldn't stream with a webcam.

Like, no one knew what he looked like. But like people were still kind of watching his streams and then one day he did a face reveal and everyone was just fucking roasting him. And then I think someone did a video on it and it like, it's not funny. But it's just funny seeing where he is now to where he's on camera 24-7. People think he's fucking hilarious. Like he has the funniest like reactions.

But just coming from someone who literally wouldn't show his face on stream to now being one of the biggest streamers in the world. It's just. Dude, I saw a clip. And that's all you see with these fucking guys is they're their clips. They're so good. And dude, it's Lacey. I don't know what it's from, but it's like a dating show. And Lacey and this girl is sitting there and she's like,

they're all trying to get on a date with her. But she had rated them and she had rated him like a four or something out of ten. And so she was like, well, where would you take me on a date or something like that? And he goes, I'm not taking you anywhere. You set him a four. She's like, what, you don't want to date me anymore? And he was like, no. She's like, all right, you can leave.

And he goes, all right, cool. And then it pans. And Ronaldo's beside him also in line to date her shirtless. And he goes, I. And they both walk out together. And that's the whole clip. Dude, it was fucking. I watched it like three or four times because they made like the same movement.

Dude, it was fucking hilarious. They're so good. Like people think. to like downplay what they're doing or like they're just like idiot kids or the whole like must be nice to just get oh they're working their ass off they're working their ass off and to be able to execute that many clips that many clip farming impressions and fucking all that drama and every single day and then a party and then to be able to do that every single day 20. 24-7 and always be camera-ready. It's just a part of... It's really just a part of their personality, and they're just doing so fucking good with it.

And that shit is so hard to do. Like, how Kai Sinette streams... I used to be able to put that kind of... Did you find it? I used to be... I could do like two to three hours of Halo of just putting in energy. But like after two or three hours,

I'm fucking exhausted. Lacey eliminates himself. Oh yeah, this is it. Just a C. I just got a one. Why? I just, are you going to leave?

Yeah. Okay. Bye. You go. All right. You can leave and they both walk out. That's fucking, dude, that's so funny. They are, those two are my favorite.

Yeah. Same. Every clip that comes up. So do they just, like, do they just street or they do IRL streams all the time? He's just IRL streams at this. I don't know. fucking crazy. Could you imagine, dude,

we, but even like when they go into public and stuff, they're just so, I don't know where they get the social skills and the confidence. Yeah. I mean, the money probably helps of just like,

no, I'm getting fucking hate anyway. They're like, fuck it. Like there comes to a point where you're just like, like I don't give a fuck about anything. Like,

I'll stream in public, but I know I'm gonna make 15K off this stream, whatever. But like the confidence and like this, not necessarily, I guess, social skills, but sort of just like the confidence and the social skills that just interact with random motherfuckers left and right and new people and strangers. And you're in the middle of the street just talking and like middle of crowds. And it's like because it's fucking awkward having a cameraman just following you the whole time for your stream. Like it's, it's fucking hard to do.

last day in Japan yeah it's just all IRL stuff pretty fucking sick it's a dope-ass life like I hope I know I if I were to say like 10 hour 10 12 hour 25 minutes 10 hours and 30 minutes

if I want to talk to any of these phase guys which I don't think they would ever I mean they don't care but I would just tell them like these are the years like no one ever sat me down at the scuff house and said fucking every day appreciate it because like these are the years that like are going to you know take you are going to really propel you for the rest of your life and like

that's what the phase guys are going through right now and they're hitting it so fucking hard yeah so just makes me think man what i could have been you got plenty of time man i could have pulled that house together if i wasn't on adie could have pulled us together can we what can we see uh kai real quick, see if they died yet before we, before we, uh, before we, uh, before we call,

before we call it. Still on 40. All right. So they're still going. The 40th run. God, to completely start over and get Ender pearls and.

Oh, man. And then, um, a hundred and eight thousand. You know how much money? Who wasn't Ron and Lacey? Uh, oh yeah, they did it in six hours or whatever.

Did they really? I feel like even six hours is pretty good. six hours is pretty i mean six hours is really good for that like i don't but i get they actually are gamer yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i did it in one stream all right guys that's gonna do it for this episode of the flycast episode 118 if you guys enjoy it go ahead and smash that like button and we'll see you in the next one matt craig play the outro music