The Flycast - Things are CHANGING at OpTic | The Flycast Ep. 77

Episode Date: May 30, 2023

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Got anything to talk about? We'll talk about running. Welcome back to the flycast. We're going to talk about right. Welcome back to the podcast. This episode is brought to you by Corderoys and Center CBD Sparkling Drink. Where's it at? It's right here.

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brought to you by CBD SparkRing Dray What's up Hitch Just another day in paradise What's your favorite What's your favorite like old Old guy saying Like how are you What's your favorite response

How are you I don't fucking know I like like playing the game What How are you doing I'm playing the game Dude I don't even know it How are you doing

I don't know any Another day in paradise Oh see I would have to like See a fucking list Oh I don't have my phone Can you look it up A list of list of list of List of old guy responses to how are you doing

There's got to be one out there What I open my phone It's just Michael Jordan and the wizards Bro how fucking happy is heck That the Lakers I was saying it on on stream He's like he's like he's like diving into it.

No, I think you and I, through our excessive trolling, have accidentally made Hex a player hater. Yeah. Like for the first or maybe second time in his life. He really is. He's like player hated. Wasn't he the...

It's like me. It kind of like hurts my heart a little bit. Because he, he should see LeBron and be like, damn. Like that's a fucking, that's a dude right there. I'm on par with him. But instead he's player hating him. And I'm like, damn,

all these jokes. finally caught up to him. Wasn't he the hate on success, success will hate on you? He is. Isn't that his number one? He was in the black and white. And he can't stop. I see him on his IG stories.

What am I typing in? How are you doing? Am I really typing this in there right now? Yeah. Greetings responses from old men. Dude, you like know how to like. I'm a good Googler. Yeah.

The greetings, responses from old. I mean nothing's going to pop up. It's got to be like living the dream. Haring on. No, man. I'm not going to find this shit. I almost said chat. You know what?

Comments. Down in the comments, let us know your favorite response. Guess what? There's some good ones. What? I'm finally free from my diet. for my 60 days Well, I'm still

exercising every day But it's not twice a day And I'm sure it's fuck not doing like that stupid Incline walk Fuck that But finally Damn, I bet I talked about this for like Eight weeks straight on the fly

Days I talked about this for six years Six years I talked about it before I did it Like I'm gonna do this Then I talked about it while I did it Now we talk about after.

Damn. What was your first? It feels good to be done. It was my first what? Your first meal? I've definitely fucked up. Oh, God. I had...

It started off day 61. I don't remember exactly what I had in the morning. Like something like a smoothie, like clean. I was like, yeah, I'm not fucking ruining this shit. Then it's like 6 p.m. and we're just let me and Michelle are laying their board and I'm like fuck let's just let's order something having door dash in over two months

so I was like let's just door dash something looking through looking through and it's like I don't know I didn't really know what to get I was like do I go all out and get pizza I was like no I really don't want to do that I'll completely chalk myself so I'm like let's just do chick-fil-A so I just completely chalked myself with chick-fil-A I get two spicy chickens

a large fry and a mac and cheese I eat that sounds so good I eat that fucking devoured it was so good so amazing

and then later that night like I should just be done eating later like that's that's that's almost like 2,000 calories right there like I should be done I had a smooth I think I had two meals earlier

I think I had like a big ass smoothie and like something else and then it was like dinner I was like I'll eat this go to sleep but I eat that and it just it sparks

a I think it's called ghrelin or something to where that's like what makes it is the chemical that tells you you're hungry or something

and when you eat sugary or just fucking tasty as foods it like sparks that so it's like I'm not that hungry, but I ate a Rice Krispy tree. And now I won 20 Rice Krispy Trees.

It's kind of like that. So after the Chick-Belais. It's also called being American. Yeah. It's just another day in the life of American. Yeah. So after that, I wasn't hungry, but it just, like, sparked the side of me that I was like, all right, I started.

Like, I'm going to just go ham today. Just one day. Yeah, I'm going to just go ham today, fuck it, and then I'm right back at it tomorrow. Day 61. Yeah, we're going to go to the grocery store. And this is day 61. And then I think that night I had like eight Rice Krispies, like three cakester Oreo things. Like another like some ice cream.

Some like I just went ham. And then I woke up the next day somehow gained 10 pounds. Like day 60, I was 2.0. well i'm not gonna i'm not gonna say wait for the video yeah 2 oh what what what it could be anything after that could have been 230 200 30 magically gained 15 pounds but i looked at the scale when it was up there i hadn't seen that number in quite some time and i was like god but i know it's not like it's like some water weight all that food in me like it's not just going to stay there but then even the next day it's like i go through the day i don't eat my

I think I can't remember if I like I don't think I went running that day but I like worked out I was eating clean like eggs and fucking meat and shit and then here comes nighttime and I basically did like the same thing over again and then last night wasn't too far off like I was last night I did or yesterday I ran 10 miles you did yeah I don't know how did you not get chalked I called you I was pretty chalked. By mile four, I have two blisters on my feet now, so I came around. Yeah. Like, it hurts just to walk. Like, I had to change, I can't wear those shoes either, or my feet hurt. What shoes are they? Nike Invincible threes or something.

I mean, I like them for running, but. Have you gotten, like, a pair of hokas yet? I have a pair of hocus. Dude, they're so nice. I tried them, but for some reason, my right. I don't know if my right foot is shaped weird or I run weird. It's like the inside. I'm like stepping.

It feels like I'm stepping on the fuck. The soul is like it's like it's not wide enough at the bottom. Yeah, I kind of, I know what you mean. But yesterday, yeah, I kind of did the same thing. Ran 10 miles and I was like, I was like Googling how many calories is that burned. But I was like, damn, that's a decent amount. I cannot believe you don't either have a Garmin or a Fitbit or an Apple Watch. I mean, I just use my...

I literally carry my phone while running. But if you just put it on, it monitors your heart rate and your calories and your elevation. It monitors everything. Just like a little like wristband thingy. Yeah, I mean, mine looks like... I mean, I don't have mine on me,

but it looks like a smart watch, but it's Fitbit. I like Fitbit because... I need to get one of those. I bought a Fitbit, never use it, and I just lost it, no. That's probably how Fitbit makes their money. Yeah, this is in like 2020.

The reason I got Fitbit is because it's not, there's, you don't, there's no, like, messaging app or any, there's no way to get distracted. Like, it is click, run. Yeah. Click. You're done. Yeah. I do got to get something.

But what about, well, yeah, I could use some of that information. I mean, I'm going to run with my phone anyways for music. Yeah. I can't. I, nothing's more tilting than running with your phone for me. I wear like the arm band. Yeah. I used to have like a waistband thing and like, would,

put it in the waistband, but like, I really don't mind it. Like, it's like, I don't, I really, like, don't even fucking notice. I know, I, I have noticed some people don't care. Like, there are ultra marathon runners that run with their phone, like trail runners. Yeah, like, I really don't even notice. They'll go, like, 100 miles just carrying the phone. Yeah, that's fucking, that's crazy because in the, even in the 10 miles, I was, I started having, like, consciously, I don't, like, my hand would, like, just be sore.

And I'm like, yeah, what the fuck? Let me switch hands. Yeah. And, like, stretch out. my hand and stuff. But what's the point? The 10 miles kind of fucking me up. But basically I ate like shit yesterday for the 10 miles as well.

It's been like three days straight. Dude. So the 10 miles when you get back is are you? Yeah. When I stopped, I did not stop running. That's insane. For the 10 miles. That's insane.

I don't know how you do that. I mean, I just slow the fuck down. So you're like almost at like a walking pace, but you're jogging and then you pick it back up? Sort of, but I'll only, I'll just like, I don't know, I guess I'm pretty good at like just running slow and not like. Yeah. Like, I really don't slow down that much. If like, even if you look at like all my pay, I feel like my paces are pretty similar. Pretty even.

At least in like the for the 10 mile. But yeah, that shit by mile four-eyed blisters. That's what also what's crazy is I can just. I feel like I can get up and run. Two months ago, I could not do that. Yeah, no, bro. Like, at the start of my 60 day shit, I still had, like, like, there's my back and my hips. I was like, okay, I'm, I remember in, like, the first two weeks, I was like, all right, no more of running for the 60 day shit.

I'm just going to incline walk because my hip, my knee, my, and it's like this, the walking helped a lot, like getting just my body used to that fucking movement. and then slowly getting into it just doing like a mile here or two miles there running a mile and then like walking a mile back or running two miles but it's crazy that I can just get up and run now

like it's like a freeing feeling dude it's so freeing that's a great way to put it because yesterday yesterday I was running I would do like my four miles and I wasn't stopping and I wasn't really like hurting especially a mile like two

I'm like, dude, I feel great. I usually, like, grab my water bottle. Like, I put my water bottle somewhere. And when I get to the second lap, I, like, grab it, take a few swigs and then keep going. But I, like, grabbed it while I was running and, like, took swigs while I was running and threw it down. All that shit.

Wait, where are you running at to have, like, where are you doing laps? There's just a certain area. There's a certain area, like, a neighborhood over that, like, I've figured out two-mile. So where you start, you just put your water bottle there. Yeah, put my water bottle there. And then it's a two-mile loop. So then I grab it and then I put it down. And then I do it two miles and I come and grab it.

And I grab it again. I don't like drinking anything. Yeah, that's crazy to me. On your 10 miles, you didn't drink anything? Dude, that's, how are you not? Dude, when I get back. I just getting like, I honestly, I think I hate running, but something about this. Because I'm like, I think you just sort of, what's the word?

you move towards what maybe you're sort of naturally good at. And I think with running, I didn't feel naturally good. Like, I felt like I sucked at running. But like the more I go, it's like I feel like I'm pretty good at this. Like I feel like I'm making pretty good progress pretty quick.

My legs might hurt less. I'm figuring out like after two miles, like the first mile or two, my legs are just fucking like so heavy. Yeah. But I feel like I'm just, just starting to enjoy so almost somehow

some way enjoy running and just like two weeks ago I was like I fucking hate running but because I hate running like it forces you to breathe it's obviously super good for you which is why I would do it but now it's just like I feel like I'm starting

like watching marathon I'm watching fucking marathon shit on TV and Kipchogi and shit Yeah, which is just absolutely insane. But I'm finding like, I'm just, I don't know, it's interesting. I'm like, somehow I, oh, the point, somehow I don't drink water or anything because like I feel just like focus. Like I'm in like a, I get in this zone and I figured out I have like a playlist.

I think I sent it to you this like new Fred again album. But it's like once you're halfway through and you're like semi dying, your legs hurt. and then you just play song number one. It's called, I think it might be called, just in case anyone listening wants to try this out. Say you go do a four-mile run, like you're a noob, do a four-mile run, it's tough as fuck.

Or like a, yeah, maybe not. Complete fucking fat noob, and you just do four-mile runs. I don't know about four-mile, like maybe like walk a mile. Let's say, try to job. gonna do four miles it's gonna be hard which for me i like that's what i'm i'm not doing this 10 mile shit like my my my blisters my knee uh what's just called it's called secret life by fred

again and you just play song number one and it's quiet it starts out quiet and very calm very like i want to play this relaxing can hear you hear that oh you hear that a little bit yeah a point to this. Where do we get to the point? But it just starts off super slow. And then outside of your headphones, you just hear your feet. Okay, that's,

that's nice. You put me, you you're immersed me like, you immerse me. You start feeling like you're the fucking, I swear I was the main character. I completely went into a different like dimension to where like I was the man. And everyone on that trail, how can I explain this?

You might, I don't know how this universe works, but there might be a different dimension that I can tap into where like on this same world on demand under these same circumstances and the infinity of all this. But basically, I was so high that I just, and I was playing this music, I was going fast as fuck.

This was like, I think this was on my six mile run. But like on the fifth to six mile, I was running like an eight minute mile. I was fucking moving. And like it was so crap. I think it was on a Saturday and it was so packed, so crowded. I swear everyone was looking like, this is in my head. Other times I'm like, I'm thinking people are looking at me. Like, this guy thinks he's a fucking runner.

Like, God, he's so slow. Like, or they're just not paying attention. This time, I swear. everybody was looking at me. And, like, I'm like, breathing heavy. And I just felt like everyone's eyes are on me. And I'm like shirtless. And I'm just thinking like I'm this big, tall, professional running guy.

And everyone's like, oh, who the fucks this guy? Like, it literally, and I'm listening to that stuff. I should have kept going. For that one. But I was like, if I go more than six miles, I might injure myself. I think Michelle's. Michelle's going to be waiting because I think I started out like because she walks and I'll run. She'll do like four miles and I'll just fucking run the whole time.

But it was a feeling I'm going to be chasing. And after that I was like, dude, running's kind of crazy. Running is like it's so, it's so funny. I was thinking about this earlier because it's not fun. It's not fun. No. Running is not fun. But it's so like fucking fun.

It's so fucking fun. You know what I mean? I'm like, fuck, it's so fun. But fucking, it's not fun. It's not fun at all. Does that mean? But there's like, there's, I don't know. I mean, our vocabs are just probably not good enough to like really describe it.

No, it's so, it's just so satisfying. I hate. I'm so, I feel so slow. Dude. And I like my shins. The first quarter mile for me is the worst. Really? Do your shins and shit?

Yeah. My shin's hurt every time. Shins, ankles, knees. My knees are dead right now. Yeah, my knees hurt a lot. Like, I'm like, why? Like, I can't calm down steps without, like, both hands on the railing. Yeah.

Like, limping down. Yeah. I feel, I don't know. Maybe I'm, I'm definitely going a little too hard. Not really. I mean. The 10 mile killed me. I don't know.

I don't know when I'm going to get out there now. Let's talk. I want to talk about the 10 miles because I did my second 10 mile last week, too. And the first time I did it, I got back and I don't know how I didn't throw up. I literally don't know. I was in my, in my, uh, shower, just letting cold water hit me. And I felt so nauseous. And so I thought this time around was going to be different because I was like, you know,

I've been running four miles every day and like really like picking up my pace on the four miles. So the 10 miles got to be easier. Plus I was running at night instead of like in the middle of the day. Uh-huh. And then so my pace was like way. better. I like and I got like I all I wanted was to get under two hours which I ended up doing and I was like okay I did it and then I was like kind of walking around and I was like I think I feel

alright and then I try to go to bed and dude I couldn't sleep I was so nauseous. I literally was so I was so nauseous I couldn't sleep because I kept having to get up thinking I was going to throw up I probably should have just thrown up it would have been easier but but I mean the full body aches when I get back from a 10, from a 10 mile is in, which I don't really understand because I get back from a four from a four mile and I'm like fine. And especially like yesterday, yesterday I was like kind of, you know, proud of myself because it was the first time I'd ever run like a like a four mile, four mile run on a sub like 850 pace. And when I first started this challenge, my fat, I did a mile as fast as possible and it was like nine 40.

So my four mile pace is faster than my initial like mile and so like or by a minute by a whole minute. So I was like kind of happy about that. But it just does not translate to a 10 mile run like the 10 mile run like I try to run the first five without stopping and then I'll stop and I'll not stop but I'll walk. I like power walk and like drink drink water and like whatever. And then I keep going. but it's, I'll probably power walk like two or three more times before I end. Because that's so far. You ever just, I want to, I want to run with you just to see, I don't know. A lot of it has to do with my fucking nose and shit though.

Really? Because you're probably getting 20% more oxygen. Really? Yeah, because I, like when I go, when I try to go in through my nose and out through my mouth, like eventually it hurts so much because I'm not getting a lot of air in. So I just have to go, like, I have to breathe in through my mouth. And that's like the worst part So like I always hit my inhaler

Yeah that probably makes it so much harder Because my I breathe in through my nose And out my mouth Yeah I mean that's what you're supposed to do I just can't I get to a point where I can't do it And then once I think once I get to like mile five Or once I get to mile like three

I can do that Because like working out like the inflammation goes down Like naturally I think I don't know if that's scientific But the only time I can smell Is when I hit mile three When I hit mile three I can smell the grass and the sprinklers are going

I can smell the water of the sprinklers And like if I pass like There's a barbecue spot If I pass it I can get like a whiff of them like Cooking breakfast if it's early enough And that's the only time I can smell Damn And then when I get

And after the 10 mile run I got back home And I could smell for like 15 minutes But then it goes away And then you just feel like complete shit Yeah just dude after it's like my whole body is just dead what's weird is like I feel like I didn't feel that I mean I'm definitely I'm not in the worst I have walked a lot and did I've done a lot of like walking on the treadmill like inclined walking so I'm like walking uphill the whole fucking time like breathing kind of heavy but I've done a lot of walking around I think that was I I look at where I'm at and I think to myself like I haven't done that much running. but I feel like I can still run four to six miles every single time

and be like all right the 10 mile or hurt but I don't know I think I got not lucky but I think I'm just like in better shape than I think but as far as like injuries I'm fucking I don't know my legs are not

I don't feel sick but I can I don't feel sick after I run but my legs hurt so bad. Like it's it's kind of weird. Like how I didn't expect like every single joint like the foot, the ankle, the shin, the knee. I really.

Like everything hurts. Like yesterday, you would think, damn, he ran 10 miles like he'll probably pass the fuck out tonight. Like you're going to sleep good tonight. Dude, it's the worst sleep. My legs were like just, it felt like, just, it felt like they were just like pumping blood or something. It's the worst sleep.

Yeah. Have you, have you like heard interviews about, or I watched Nick Bear, he interviewed Courtney DeWalter. I'm a Nick Bear fan, sort of. No, I like him a lot. He,

he was interviewing Courtney DeWalter. If you guys are just listening, you know, I'm sorry, I said jokingly, let's talk about running. What else is there to talk about, man?

Literally been talking about running this whole time, but, but Nick Bear is a fitness expert, ex-marine, ex-military, ex-military, really jacked and ripped dude. And he's recently gotten into running in the past couple of years, it seems like, I don't really know.

But he interviewed Corny DeWalter, which is basically the best women's ultramarathon runner ever. I mean, she did a 240-mile race. I mean, she's up there with, like, the guys, though, too. Like, she's like, I think, like, isn't she just, like, top two in the world? She's insane.

She got her big break because she did something called Moab 240, which she ran. It's a 240 mile race. Think about that. 240 miles. And she came in first and the second place person was like six hours behind her or something. It was something ridiculous. And it was like a guy. A guy came in second.

And so like that's how she made her like super big statement. And now she's signed by like a bunch of different like endemic. like brands or whatnot. But he's interviewing her. And he says at one point like, because he ran his first ultramarathon and he said the biggest thing that I was surprised about

is when you get back from one of those 100 mile races, you think that you're going to be able to sleep and you're going to sleep like 12 hours as best sleep. And he was like, I didn't get a good night's sleep for a week. And I was like, dude.

I wonder why that is. Because even just like, And then like whenever I do these like I mean 10 is a lot different than a fucking hundred miles. But I get back from a 10 mile run and I think I'm going to pass out. But dude, I cannot I cannot go to sleep. It's like I'm sweaty and I'm even if I just take it a shower, I'm like I can't get comfortable. And all my muscles are like, ugh. And and I'm nauseous.

I can't imagine. I want to do it. I want to do an ultra at one point in my mom. my life. Are we going to do a marathon? I'd be down, yeah. Me, you Shotsie, sign up for a marathon at the end of the year? I mean, I'd be down. I'm on his ass. I can't believe he does it. He'll do that shit on game day. No, that's insane, dude. It is insane. Like, when I do, when I did mine, it's like, the day's over. Yeah. I mean, the first time I did mine, I didn't realize how hard it was going to be, and I had to stream that night. And it was like a big stream we were doing. Like, we were

like it was like a community night we were playing h1 z we were like revived h1 z1 for a day how'd that go it went really well it was wait what'd you what'd you do on h1 z1 fuck man we played solos and so like like i had been playing i i like played a few solos that week to make sure the servers were all right and the if you go to h1 right now and you go on north american servers and you click it you'll get in a game of five to seven people in the circle i randomly i randomly watch watched H1 through the other. And it was like one person and they came with like nine other people.

Really? So like the zone is that you take the huge map that used to be H1 and you literally, it's like a one percent fraction of the map. And that's what people play on. Like just starting out? Just starting out. Or like you spawn in.

You spawn in and it's like the final circle already. And so that's what I had been playing. And I was like, like I hope, I hope they, I hope it's not that way if we fill up servers. I want a few. I mean, I'm playing three other people. Literal fucking,

who's playing that? Who is playing that? Like, there's you who it's like, what's, like, you're doing some like experiment fucking shit. And these motherfuckers are actually just,

I love this game. Yeah, they have like frostbite ARs and, and like the Santa hat fucking helmets. So then we, so first of all, we do islands of nine? Do you remember Islands of Nine?

You might have been your crackhead days. I don't remember much So we did Islands of Nine Which that one was crazy in and of itself But then we switched over to H1Z1 And so the first game on I'm like all right everybody Cue up Solos now

We queued it up Two full 150 lobbies Damn Full 150 lobbies And both lobbies Was the full map It's probably the first time the full map Has been played in solos

I wonder if there's a random motherfucker that just searched them. For sure. And he's like, what the fuck? For sure. I mention there's people that get like notifications on Steam when it's popping and they just pop, they hop in. Bro, they were like old school players

like I had forgotten about that were like nice. Like. But they were playing? Yeah, they were playing. Like you'd see people in like TSM backpacks. And I'm like, dude, I forgot that it was even a thing. Like TSM backpacks and like,

like they all had like the Santa Hats and some people were doing like the strafe jump roll stuff I was like dude I mean but it was it was a lot of fun like I think I got like one two tap and I was like dude tink tink tink what was there like a was it just like a community night or was there wasn't like a tourney or like no just for our community nights we usually just do something fun for everyone because we don't really play with subs

a lot of people play with subs but we don't so at once every like month or once every two weeks we like do something for everyone to do whether it's like a fall guy's game with everyone or give away something at the end dude h1c1 do you remember of course you remember but like laying on you said just like lay in my bed and just like watch me play h1 dude that was so like sometimes people will link me like bunny clips or like just old-ass clips and it'll be like playing h1 i'll see like you behind me or lethal behind me. Yeah.

Fuck, man. That was so fun. H1 was such a good game. Dude, it was, I, I don't think anything like H1 will ever happen again. Like, a game will never,

I don't think a game will be that popular. Where it's, if you asked anyone in that age, what do you, what do you play? The answer was H1Z1. Like,

was it that big? Even, even if, like, Mixwell had scrimms. And then when he got off scrims, he played H1Z1. We got, you got off scrims, you played H1. Like, Ninja would damn near end scrims early to get on H1.

Like, everyone played it. And nowadays, there's not a game. It's because it was so new. And I went back because every time I talk about H1, my chat just spams, like, big time it was the go to this game? And I'm always like, was he really, though? No. And so I went back.

I think Big timer might have been like first on. And then I went back and started watching his videos. I went back to his first ever H1Z1 video. And it's really dope because in the how he starts it off is like, if you guys don't know what this is, this is called H1Z1 King of the Kill. And it's basically like a, it's like a version of the Hunger Games.

And I was like, holy shit. The word, the name Battle Royale wasn't even out yet. Yeah. It wasn't even a thing. Was that the first Battle Royale? It was the first real one. People will say,

but what about Minecraft Hunger Games? What about Minecraft Hunger Games? That was the first... That wasn't the first one. That's a mini game. You could have put that game in Mario Party. H1Z1 was the first Battle Royale. What about Day Z?

No one was playing Day Z. H1Z1 was the first real experience. What about Air Ram? What the fuck is that? I don't know. People say it. Really? Yes.

No. H201 was the first one. Yes. It's the first one we were all watching. I didn't even have a PC. I was working at Walgreens and I would watch people play it because I was like, this is the craziest experience. Damn, you didn't have a PC. No, I didn't have a PC until I bought one in the Scuff House.

Really? Yeah, it was the first time I ever had a PC. That's why I never, I could never afford one. I never streamed. I never did anything like that. I remember tweeting one time, like, how do you stream? with a hob hog hdpvr and a mac a mac book and someone replied you don't i was like okay dude h1 really how did how the fuck did they fall off they they it's like a collection because it's so

it was so good i don't really remember it like i don't remember the downfall did fortnight come out so then it started downfalling? No, it was... Or did it die before Fortnite? I think it was like... I don't know. It's the thing where like... A lot of people will say like, they don't update the game enough.

Like, that was the issue with Halo. They don't update the game enough. I think... Wait, who made each one? Daybreak. Or daybreak ran it. Dude, daybreak. You fucking doc raising a daybreak.

But I remember like, they tried to update the game. But they, when they updated it a lot, completely overhauled the whole combat system and that's when people got upset. Like apparently like the combat felt weird at one point. I can't even remember. I literally can't even remember the downfall.

But it was also like a clunky ass game. Like it's not like a, if you put it apex legends gameplay beside H1, it is very obvious to see who the AAA developer is. It's super obvious. It looks kind of newbie. Yeah. Like it, yeah, very clunky.

the jump is like but it's so it's so satisfying those type of games oh it's so good like hitting those dude there's probably so much bullshit

that the amount of rage I used to have on that game yeah they never had Fortnite proxed did they

then Fortnite came out I don't know wait so H1's there boom it dies then what the fuck did I play 4th well H1 died

it was weird because the guy who created H1 left daybreak and he made Fortnite. No, he made PubG. Oh my. He created PubG. Yeah, then PubG got kind of poppin at one point. It was, that was all

anyone was playing. Wow, it's so boring. That is boring. Did you play that shit? No, I never played. I play, I've only won one PubG. Actually, I won two game. I won a game with a... PubG, then Fortnite. TST. I don't think. I don't think anything like fortnight will ever happen again i don't think so either there's no way well if among us didn't didn't do it nothing will ever happen again will anything even come close to like h1 z one

i don't know fortnight for sure did well i mean like just from now until the end of time will a video came come out to where it grasp the community together We've tried everything. Like the thing with H1 is it was a new idea that had never been done before. And then Fortnite mastered it. And then Fortnite just. Yeah. And then, but then after Fortnite, then everyone's trying it.

So when everyone's trying it, people are going to find their own games. Like some people play Fortnite. Some people were playing Blackout. Some people are playing PubG. Some people are going to play Apex. Like they're all battle royals. But you gravitate to whichever one, is your favorite.

If you're old and dog shit, you play Bubjee. Yeah. If you're a little younger than that, you're not too old, but you like classic games. You play H1. If you're a little cracked fucking dumb fuck, idiot, kid, loser, nerd, you play Fortnite. You play Fortnite.

So everyone has their thing. Those were the, nah, H1, Z1, and Fortnite were kind of like, the same community bounce from, each one to Fortnite. What a, dude, what a crazy time. That was a, dude,

that was a good time to be a crackhead. It's weird. No, that was a, that, maybe that was a bad time. It was a bad time to be a crackhead. Well,

I got to experience them to like the highest, most hours possibly being able to play, played. Dude, you've got to be in the top thousand

people, like a time spent on the game ever. Fortnite. season, what was it? Like, Fortnite season four. It was like me and this other guy, just number one and two with the most games played. First off, I'm like, who is this guy?

You can't be on more than I have been. Maybe you're just like getting dying earlier or something. But I think it was, there was something, there used to be some website. For those who don't know, when Fortnite came out, I don't exactly. remember, Fortnite comes out, everyone's bad. Like the building

and no one's doing any crack shit. It's just like, you build a ramp. Even just like building a ramp, building a wall, building a ramp, building a wall, building a ramp building a ramp building.

And like just going up a little bit and it was like that was pretty good. It's like still how I would build. Yeah. But for those who don't know when Fortnite came out, I think I got to it, I didn't get to it right when it came out.

But when there was a kickoff, did we plan a kickoff tourney? There was... Normaumage cheese to say. The one Pomage straight cheated us in. We can get to that. If I remember after this, we can get to that story. But yeah, I was straight up addicted to Fortnite.

I think we played... I think I got like... I don't remember how long after from Fortnite... Well, we got the invite to the Fortnite... The Fortnite Friday. The Keem Star Shish. Yeah, which like we have to play in that. Yeah.

Because that was the first time I'd ever heard of Tifu. It's the first time I ever heard of, like, anyone. Yeah. Any, like, any of those kids who it's like, Fortnite, they got so rich and, like, famous off of Fortnite. But Fortnite comes out, start playing it. I don't remember, see, I don't remember, I want to, I'm trying to remember my transition, like, into Fortnite. Was I still playing H-1-Z-1? Like, what?

Was I making beats or something? I don't know. But Fortnite comes out, I was completely addicted, man, I used to play. I would just play like days at a time. Probably not as bad as 2020, but I would definitely, I definitely had a lot of free time, took a lot of Adderall and played a lot of Fortnite. There was a time, me, who was it? They would get pissed if I forgot their names.

By season four, me, people would play squads and go. for records. Everyone would drop separately and just, yeah, they were trying to get a squad record. Squad record. At the time Faze had it. And I think it was Thifu. Tifu cloak. Yeah, I don't remember who had the record.

But I think it was me, Wizke. Mark you all. I didn't get the record with him, but I would play with him. I think it was me. Wait, no. Me. Monsker. Baldi

Sheenie? Okay, yeah. How's he doing doing? He's doing good. He went through like some similar shit I did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I remember reaching out to him when he was doing that. Yeah, so like he's a fucking crackhead like me.

Me, Mosker, Sheenie. Fuck. I feel bad for getting. It's not baldy. No, it's like a dude who is like kind of in the circle, but not really. It wasn't, you wouldn't, I don't think you would remember his name. Yeah. But we broke the script.

squad record. And like, that's just like, we were definitely not as good. We just played so much. I think like one time we just got. Random. They were pretty good.

I was, I was probably the worst out of all of us. But we had the squad record. And this is like when it's at its peak. We had the squad record. It's playing nonstop. I don't understand. I seriously don't even understand how a motherfucker can,

could. have the same amount like time or like games played as me because I was playing so much love Fortnite drop tilted towers every single time I never I never really like got into like playing the tourneys though

I think it was just like I don't know I never really I don't know I just didn't get into the tourneys that much I think Fortnite was the last time I was like really cracked like at wanting to compete not like compete realistically, but I would enter those like online tourneys and stuff.

I, when I was, I was going through and clearing out, I was prepping for a video that I'm, that we're making. And so I'm going through my old second channel. I don't even use it anymore. And I, I, I've privated all the videos. And so I'm going through all the videos. And at one point, I found a five and a half hour stream rip from 2016 of me, Blake, George, and Josh, uh, Riley playing Mono Warfare 2 wagers and dude

I hear my voice it's like a different it's like a different human like I'll die and I'll be like dude he's one shot on me he's one shot on me I promise you if you dude Nate right here he's one shot on me and like rotate back and I'm like

talking like and I haven't I haven't calm like that I think in six years and so we watched a little bit on stream the other day and and Blake at some point was like, dude,

I miss this hitch and I'm like, I kind of miss him too, but like, there's not a game. There's not a game like that. There's not, I'm not gonna force that on a rotation second circle on apex. Yeah.

Like, I'm not gonna be like, dude, like I'm not gonna. That precious energy. It's so much. I'm not giving that to this. Like I,

and I think the only way I would get like that again is if we, if, is if a good if a call not a good if if a call of duty came out that felt like that type of cod it felt like a you know the spawns make sense and you you go to battle with another team and you're not getting chees by dude there's so much cheese now it's it's it's fucking gourmet out there like I we watched we react to that video of us playing monover two and then I'm like dude I kind of got being cracked on playing and Blake was like yeah I want to play too

so we hop in two games of ranked like this Call of Duty and it's just dude it's so different how much did how much of a buzzkill was that getting hyped up and then just hopping in the rank like when I watched Lucid play Aval

Val it's like I'm going on play a few and it's just like dude why did I do that like you know just ruin my night But like if you watch Halo, if you watch Halo 3, like a classic Halo 3 match, do you get that buzz where you're like, dude, that looks so fun? Yeah. I miss just like the simplicity of it like because people back then, it was like, it wasn't easy to aim because it was on Xbox. Yeah. And it wasn't, I forget how like the joysticks work, but it wasn't like, it was either like an up or down.

There wasn't this fucking. Yeah. I really don't know how to explain it. but it's just like now everything being on PC, it's just so much easier to aim in the frames. But it was just like simple. Like he gets a, you get a no scope,

it was like, it was hard to fucking do. Now everything seems so easy. And I think it's just because everything's on PC. But yeah, I get, I'll get that feeling on Halo 3, especially, and I think it's,

maybe it's more so just like working as a team together, though, too. Like if I see like old MLG clips and you hear everyone calming just like damn I kind of miss like being on a squad and like working working towards a goal. Yeah. And it's so crazy how much everyone

tries and cares. Because you are just playing a video game. Dude. But like you are you really want to win. Even that win means nothing. Unless you're like at attorney and it's like for money but we were playing like dollar 50 wagers like respawn wages like

best of 90. You just want to know people are trying. And it makes you want to try. At 5 a.m. at the scoff house. And I am correct. Like crazy Blake and George are sitting there sober. Just, just fucking,

just loving the game. It's not crazy to me. It's not crazy to me. Because I would, I would do that. If I could teleport back into time and play one of those again, I would 100% do it.

Like, I would do it right now. Like, just give me. one more night of crackhead 2016 not crackhead in a sense of like

I'm not sober but just like that passionate like feeling of just like grinding a game that I literally love and it sucks now because I the game is not even play it's not even possible to play. I can't

even play it. It's this weird it's this weird thing that we're our generation is experiencing for the first time where a multiplayer game that you can love gets to a point where you cannot play it. There's no one to play against. You're going to play pickup basketball and no one's on the court. It's like that like the games before our generation, like they were mostly like single player games. Like you're never, Tetris is never going to die. Pong is never, Pac-Man's never going to die. Mind sweeper. Yeah, they're never going to die because you can always play. You're playing

against the computer or you're playing a story. But like our generation was the first wave of like, and as much as that problems had, at least you guys have MCC. Like I would give anything. Imagine you had a MCC. I would give anything for a Captain Price collection or a- You would just complain about it. But I would complain. It's not the... Sure, I would complain. But I would play it. I promise you I would play it.

It would be something that I would play... Like, if I'm ever sitting there and I'm doing a video and waiting for something to render, I would hop on and play. Two games. And then I would get off. Because that's what I used to do with these, like... There was like a few PC clients where you can play MW2 or Blockups 2 and... And Activision shut all those down this week.

So, like, they cease and desist all. of them. So like, now I can't even play my favorite game of all time anywhere in the world, like anywhere. I can't play it. Do you remember when me and you played Blake and George in a 2V2 shipment for like five hours? Five hours. Dude, MWR. What, uh, what was it? It was 2v2 sabotage. 2B2 sabotage. So what was, what was the point? I forget. So there's, there's one, something in the middle there's a bomb in the middle and you have to get the bomb

and plant it at their base and then if you plan it it takes one second to plant and then it takes 30 seconds to it blow up and it takes one second to diffuse and there's no respawn time

and it's unlimited time that was so fun dude we were we played this so long I remember just being cracked like it was one of those like I'm cracked and I'm cracked and

I just want to play. Like, I want to, like, play and, like, I don't even know if you were live. Were you live? No. I was live. No. I was live and I didn't talk to my chat for three hours.

Really? I didn't say a word to chat. I would look down and somebody hadn't typed for 45 minutes. And it, I, dude, it was that, that night was the most fun I ever had in MWR. Just twisted. Yeah. Why? Me and you are just twisted.

Brings me back to my question. How are Blake and George doing it? How are they, dude, I want their brain to be twisted. I feel so bad for them because like all I think about is chat. That's all I think about. Every day I get on, I think about chat or I think about what video we're working towards. All they think about is the game. It's so, it's such a, it's such an interesting dynamic.

I mean, it probably works. It definitely was, if you weren't there, it's like. And if they weren't there, then like. Sure. Like, you know what I mean? how the I would just I would

I would tell would be like I would literally be like a I would if if Blake and George weren't there I would be a watch party react just chatting stream maybe Minecraft

one million percent that's all I would do but I do but I have such a love of playing video games with them because I have for so long they're like whatever they want to play like we'll play it

and that there were growing pains with that a lot because at first I was like, we are a content team. And like, this is what we're going to do. We're going to do all this shit. We're going to make these events and fucking,

we're going to become the next M-FAM. We're going to do all this shit. And then, like, at one point, they were like, yo, we don't have fun doing any of that. And I was like, what? And, like, we kind of like, that's when we found this, like, beautiful balance of, like,

these 100-hour videos because I get the dopamine of, like, working towards a video. And they get it because they get to just fucking grind. Yeah. And, like, it worked perfect. They just love grinding. They love, dude. I miss.

Blake drove, Blake went to visit his family. Um, this Friday. Spend the night with his, with his sister and his mom. They're like opening their own business and help them out. And left early on Sunday to make his Valerant in game tournament match. It's like a, it's like a fun thing that Val's doing where you like sign up with a team and you play. And he, he, he booked it back home like it was a land. Dude.

Like getting super high. for it, they like go over lineups and shit. It's, I mean, it's dope. In the beginning of Halo Infinite, like, no, I'm completely, like, envious of that. Yeah, me too.

Like, that feeling. Me too. Maybe in the beginning of Halo Infinite, for maybe a week of Cod ranked, I might have been able to get locked in a little bit, but it's just like,

it's just not there. I don't think I'll ever be able to get locked again, less a good call a duty or call a duty esk game comes out again i wonder if when i'm 40 if i'm gonna like take addie and just like try halo 3 again no that's not that's eight years away dude that's not far away that's far away that's far enough to for it to be like acceptable no when you're 40 you should be thinking about other shit like or when I'm 31. I should not be thinking about when I'm 40.

Planning on kids and shit. And I'm just like, dude. Like that time, I'll probably like, but narrow. I won't be in the, I guess, like,

optic spotlight to where like people would judge me for it. I'll just be able to live my life. No, you're still going to be in this bitch. Do Adi. I mean, I'll be in this bitch, but it's like,

I'm not, what I'm, how long are we going to do optic content? I'm hoping eventually we can We can usher in the next wave That's what I'm hoping. We need a wave to fucking carry.

We need to be Hector eventually. Yeah. But what's it going to take? But what's it going to take? What's the next? We're so we're so non-trustworthy. That's the thing with us. It's like, who the fuck are we going to pick up?

Like, that's young enough to issue in a new audience. but keep optic the same. Yeah. That's been the hard part about this whole. I'm thinking like who can, who could do? Because I'm like, remember that wave of Fortnite kids that were just blew the fuck up? Yeah.

Huge. But every time you see a clip of them, they're screaming. Screaming into the mic and like saying like, like, suss shit or like whatever. And I, this is funny because I scream all the time and do shit like that. But like, it's very like. kind of kid friendly ish yeah well it's like kind of need that but like not kid friendly but it's i don't know it's it's a weird sense of humor yeah that i wonder if well for sure people are age when we were their age like the hex would look at us i wonder if you'd be like so like cringe

i don't know because hex loved call of duty if there was a new wave actually is a child if there was a new wave of young this is a weird sentence a young call of duty players that were also like that were like that the age that like when our generation first started playing that would make sense to pick those guys up or like console players or something like that but like to go like whenever like those fortnight kids were getting picked up by people i was like you know that's the that's the that's the that's the org's brand now is like that's their scump yeah their their their face of their org is like this kid that plays fortnight and like screams yeah and so that's a hard thing to build a base off of i think like cuss and like cuss badly like like you're not cussing good

I think I've asked you this before. What would you do if or what what what were what would you be doing if you weren't doing this? Or is there something in the future that you want to do that you haven't done that's not the run an event or podcast or not podcast but like just content in general. Something that doesn't have to do with content and optic and like I'd like to find. You know LeBron's guy, the guy with the curly hair, short guy, like, does all, he works like a lot of business, does a lot of business with him. Maybe if I saw. The guy who, the guy who runs the shop, basically.

I'd have to see him. Well, I don't even know if this is the case for him, but it seems like people that, like, excel in one thing, and I'm not saying I do, but, like, excel in one thing. And then they want to get into other businesses. they've got somebody there to help him that's what that's my goal i want i want my fucking my dude that like is going to help me venture into other stuff and like excel in that like if they're like if what would you do like if this if the guy's like yo uh mLS is on the rise and there's a investment opportunity for the FC Dallas you want to do that i'd be like fuck yeah and then like

incorporate, you know, my, I guess my knowledge of content into that. Okay, but what if... Let's go back to school. You're fishing for an answer. Okay. Keep going. Do you go back to school or say this optic stuff that doesn't happen? What would you have done?

What was your major? Kinesiology. What is that? The study of movement. Really? I was going to be a sports psychologist or sports therapy. But then I was going to be a sports psychologist, but then I realized I hate psychology because I don't like thinking about my own mental illness. But I would probably do something in music.

Like what? Make beats. I don't know, because I loved guitar growing up. I loved hip hop and I like, I feel like I have that. I feel like I have a natural ear for music, but I just never pursued it. Like not even a little bit. I just played guitar in my youth. That's what I thought, but I went into my Google Drive the other day and listened to some of my old beats.

I'm like, what the fuck? I'm so, this shit's fucking trash. There might be like a random glimpse of something, but it's just like, dude. The Flycast theme is fire. Yeah. That was one of, dude, if you would have, if you saw my screen of what it looked like just to play the Flycast beat, like it's like a lot of shit. And then it's just like halved. So it's just sounds sort of ambient-ish.

But it was like a lot of... That was one of my like the hardest I've like worked on something. But it sounds decent. Little lost boat. But it sounds decent. But I go back and I listen to it. And what's crazy is like I don't know if I was just so cracked. So I thought some of the shit was fire.

But I swear I think a lot of it was just like how loud I would turn the music up. And I'm just like, dude, this sounds fucking crazy. I mean, you like... I'm sure the first time you make like 808s, you're like, dude, I'm producing. Yeah. Like, fuck yeah.

Dude, I think I was playing it so loud that I just like thought it was good. And like Kanye said something like that. Like producers will... I forget what he said, but he was like, producers will just play their beat super loud. And it's like expecting you to like get hype for their beat or something. But he was like, well, like, how good is it if I just like turn it down a little bit?

Like does it still catch my ear? You listen to it at a regular level. It's like, does it still sound good? It's like my shit just sounded. My shit did not sound like that. And I just think like, damn, did I even have like, I think I had potential with it? I just had to, one, I was probably too cracked. Yeah.

Probably I don't trust my own. Crack mind. Yeah. I don't trust my cracked mind. I get that. But maybe. That's something, that's what I would probably want to choose. But I sit down, I'm like, I'll have like a spark of being interested in making a beat.

And then I'll sit down and I'll start and then I'll just like, it'll just sound shitty. I can't figure it out. I'm like, dude, does this sound right? Then I just like quit. Like I can't, I don't know. I just don't, I can't lock the fuck in. I do think one time in the next like two years, if I continue with all these like challenge videos. I think like making an album was going to be one of them.

Right? Just like dedicate a couple months and just make an album. Yeah. I want to discipline. What do you mean make an album? Like find one producer and work with him. But you're going to like sing? Well, like rap and shit.

Like rap sing like. Really? Like like auto tune. Try to get features on them and shit like that. Like I want to do that. But not take it serious. Not like. I mean, not like.

Weird Al Yankovich hit, but like, what? I have to make a song before I die. I got to dunk before I die. I mean, you gotta start jumping. I need to figure it out now immediately. And I want to make a rap before I die. I want to produce, make a beat for an artist before I die. But yes, I do want to, I do want to make some kind of like rap song.

Because I think like, see, it's like even now it's like, I think people would be surprised, especially if I, like, sat down, tried really hard. Dude, when I'm running, I'm... You're freestyling? I'm freestyling. Really? And if, if, if, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm freestiling like my YouTube, my YouTube video album just took off.

I'd made it as a joke, but like, people really fuck with it. Yeah. So the L.A. L. L.A. leaders... Dude, it's crazy. the mindset you have. Fuck. So the LA leakers call me.

And then I spit the craziest shit. I spent the craziest shit ever. And then people are like, who is this kid? Dude. Oh my God, he's a YouTuber? It is crazy.

It's crazy where your mind goes. What did we say the other day when, what did I say? Oh, I was like, this year, but what was my example? I was like,

when you're running, do you imagine, what did I say? Giving a motivational speech. Yeah, like. And then I said, that I picture myself on Joe Roke. Dude, that's literally,

that is literally what fucking happens when I'm running. It's so funny. If you had one piece of advice for anyone, we're going to wrap this up, but if you had one piece of advice to give to someone to start turning their life around, what would you suggest? If you've ever had some shit in your life

that you've wanted to tackle mentally, but you've never been able to, or you've always ran from it and you want to do it in a more positive light try walking and then try running and more specifically try running at night like before the sun comes up and end your run as the sun comes up

or something like that because without getting too deep like seriously this past like two or three months I've probably I've I've dealt with more of the mental, you know, I guess hurdles that I've had in my life. I've dealt with grief for the first time that I've constantly run away from my whole life. I've, I've dealt with like, like, like when I say dealt with like I've actively worked towards thinking about and solving some of these things in my life. So if you've got something that's stressing you out or making you anxious or you have constantly, you know, put in the back of your mind or run away from, just try running when the sun is down and don't listen to music at first and just try to finish it.

And it might not work for you. It worked for me. But if if the motivation of just helping your physical body isn't, isn't. enough to get you off your feet. Think about all the shit that you got to work through in your mind. And this is a wonderful way to do it. I don't know if you feel the same way because you run with music like pretty much exclusively. Sometimes I don't run with music and dog that like, like yeah, we make jokes about like

the shit that pops into my mind or pops in our minds of like what makes us real. But like I've, like I've said, I've, I've laughed and I've smiled and I've cried and I've I've been emotional more in the past three months than I have in the past six years. And it's just because I'm back on my feet and I'm, you know, I feel like I'm figuring my life out through this. And I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know what has unlocked in my mind that way, but I don't know. I don't know.

That might hit one person out there. But if it does, then just try it. I'm glad you said that. because I feel like I'm sort of in the same boat to where like sticking to a, maybe it's just like, it's not just sticking to a discipline, but sticking to a discipline of like regardless of whether,

no one wants to go out and run. No. But it's like there's something about learning and building that, uh, consistency inside yourself. So whether you want to or not, you go do it.

That's definitely helped, my mind a lot and I feel like I'm glad you answered sort of with like running or something like that because I really do think that's like the it's a good staple. It's a good you don't have you don't have to it's something you were just completely in control of

is exercise. And I say this every time but thousands of years the human body has been used to moving And we're like, we're the first generation. It's like a motherfucker does not have to move. I feel like that's why a lot of people are depressed. And I think that's maybe why you're feeling the way you felt because you were like,

not necessarily depressed, but like you're kind of just like your body's just tight. And you kind of hold stuff in. For sure. And then when you're running, you're just fucking, fucking loose. You're like feel shit. And it's just like it. It's like when people say you do yoga and you're stretching. people like start crying and stuff or you start doing breath work and you start really relaxing

your body people it like releases trauma and i'm not the biggest fucking like believer of that is like press down your left hip bone to release but there's something behind it to where when your body starts relaxing you start being proud of yourself even if the day goes shit but you go do the run or the workout or you eat you eat healthy all day you're going to do it again tomorrow there's something about that. That's just, it's going to change the way you think, going to change the way you feel. So, yeah, I agree. If you feel uncomfortable when you first start, just try to keep going.

See if the uncomfort is physical or if it's mental. You have to keep going. Just push it a little bit farther. That's the discipline. Don't give yourself an out. As soon as you get winded, don't stop. Just keep going. just a little bit more.

And then the next time, you go a little bit further. If you're, obviously we got a bunch of gamers here. It's like if you hit, I view it in my head as ranking up in a ranking system. I know I've said this.

But that first time you drop in, that first time you run, you're iron one. You're horrible. You're terrible. But by the end of the week, you might be iron three. You might have,

instead of walked a mile, you might have run half a mile and walked the other half. And that is so, satisfying just to know that like dude I ran half a mile instead of walking or instead of sitting down and eating shitty food and watching you know that another episode of the office for the 500th time that I've already seen I actually ran a mile this time or I walked half a mile and ran a half a mile it just it feels better it really does and that type of stuff will kick in to other

points and avenues of your life as well. Yeah, 100% Just kind of like discipline and but yeah, all right. That's been episode

70 something, 7, 70 something, not exactly quite sure. Thank you guys so much for watching. Thank you again, Corderoy's and Center sponsoring the stream.

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