The Flycast - WAS THE SCUF HOUSE FAKE? | The Flycast Ep. 101

Episode Date: February 13, 2024

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Look, who just... walked in or why did you wait why did you flick nick off we can finish our last episode scumpt just walked in the building oh he's a stream are you are you in the hangout oh okay you stream until they where are you streaming from he's got his own setup room out okay well welcome back to the fly gas episode 101 scum just walked in our our short i checked the at the comments of the hundred episode. Yeah. The top comment is where's the 10 hour fly cast? See but then if we do 10 hour they say where scomp? There's just no winning and I don't know if the 10 hour it's hard enough doing one hour a week. That's true. Ten hours we would have to like how would that go we said it what you said it.

I said it. You said it and then you're not slightly agreed and then you were not down. I wasn't down but I feel like there could be some good moments in that 10 hour. There would probably be a lot of downtime. Yeah. Guys, I'm very sorry, but I am famished.

So I'm going to have a fig Newton bar. What does famish mean? Hungry? Isn't that what that means? I don't know. I've never heard of that word in my entire life. I've never heard of that word

of my entire life. Meathead said verbatim. I don't know, man. I'm not good with words. Point proven. how would a 10-hour podcast even work? I just don't. All you have to do is say,

next Saturday I'm game. And then you show up. And then it somehow works out. And whoever walks in, we're like. Or it's got to be during the week, actually. Because we got to figure, we got to get people walking by. Yeah.

Got to get people walking by. Get the whole production team, Pages, scum, whoever the hell is, whoever the hell, some corporate guy going to take a shit. We're like, come here.

Like, Sarah, sit down. Yeah. Shea, sit down. Come here, snug it. Help us out with this. That's funny. I, um, last night I was, I mean, this is how it usually goes.

Last night I was laying down. It's going through TikTok. I come across a David Goggins video. Now, I don't know if you guys know, but as of lately, I ain't been on my grind. You haven't been carrying the boats. I have carried zero boats. No logs.

No, I have been streaming. Ooh. About eight, seven to ten hours. Well, I only did like one, nine and a half hour stream. Seven, eight, maybe nine hours a day. Damn. But I wake up, a shower, and I just get straight on stream. But last night, laying in bed, contemplating, just overthinking everything in life.

Somehow. Somehow I'm just not content. scrolling through TikTok, I see David's Goggins. David Goggins pop up. And usually I just scroll right past. Like I don't really, the hype for me, the hype for David Goggins for me has died out because I've already seen so many of his videos.

But for some reason, one of them sparked. I don't know if it was the background music or what to the TikTok. But I swore. I was like, I need to set a crazy goal. I'm going to run every day the rest of the year. Now, I woke up the. morning. Also, I, well, I did, but last night I was like, I think I'm going to make some crazy go of like run every day for the rest of the year. Like there's just something missing. I'm just not

getting it right. I'm just feel like I'm always chasing something. Watch the David Gagin's video. I'm fucking pumped up. It's like 10 p.m. I'm about to go to sleep. I'm convincing myself. I'm going to run the rest of the year. I go, I go to YouTube, starts to searching up his interviews. I'm watching that trip for like two hours. Pumped. And I wake up this morning and I'm just like, fuck this. But I like, it's so crazy how everything, my brain, I was so, I was texting, Boz randomly

text me like some, it was like some meat. Let me, let me see what he texts me. It was funny because I was watching all these motivational videos and Bose texts me some meme. And it says, oh, up late, up late thing about life. what's my purpose while I'm here? And it's like just a picture of LeBron James, just like chilling, like thinking. And he sent me that.

And I was like sending him shit. I was like, we'll randomly have this like this motivational text conversation between each other. And like last night I was just like so motivated. And then I wake up this morning and I'm just, I don't know where that goes. The brain can completely flip my perspective completely changes. But I knew if I didn't get up this morning. and do something, which I did.

I ran a mile. First, I laid in bed for like 30 minutes, popped the Zen in, and contemplated if I was going to do it. But I had nothing to do for like three hours before this. What time are you waking up nowadays? Like seven. I'm up at like 7, 7 a.m. every day.

And it's not even like, like last night, I think I probably went to bed by, I was probably asleep by like 11. So I'm on like a pretty good schedule. but yeah I woke up 7 o'clock had like three hours so I had to come here so I did do something but man like I moved I don't have a gym around there yet I got to sign up for a gym membership but it's just like something's fucking missing then I don't know if we've had this conversation on here before about you know this kind of stuff but like right I'm just in that zone again in my life like there's a lot

going on. I mean, there's not a lot going on, but there's a lot going on in my head of just like, I think it's just not sticking to my word to myself. Fucks with me. Yeah. So that's where I'm at. But you ran this morning. I did. I ran a mile. There you go. I ran a mile. Took like a two-minute break, and then I did. You should rowing James here. Then I did like five sets of sprints. Well, I don't want to come down here anymore. I, we have ran together. I forget you're not down here anymore. James is one of those guys

who posts his Instagram story every day and I'm just like, yeah. I used to, I used to be there. I've seen him at like 5.45 a.m. at the gym. I'm like, dude, you're fucking loser. Like, we get it, yeah. But I'm trying to fall back in that zone, man.

Yeah, we're talking about you. I'm trying to fall back in that zone. I'm just, I, there's so much stress that's not real stress that like somehow i think i've convinced myself that people watch me for my gameplay i okay i haven't convinced myself that but there's a part of me there's just like this i don't even have this like competitive side anymore like i'm not striving to be the best but it's quite disappointing when i'm just fucking bad i don't think but i think to the average

viewer. I'm not bad. No, no, no. But I'm so average and I'm just like, dude, fucking. I just, I play. I don't know if you saw that there's someone made like a little just rage montage of, uh, of me on Twitter. I think they posted like three, three hours ago or some shit. But it's like, it's almost embarrassing how just mad I get and just like cod timing and playing eight hours. And like, I think, think I'm improving, but then three days in a row I'm getting shit on.

And it's just, oh, I have so much a built up just aggression that I need out. The clip that I put in the chat of you. Did you watch it? Oh, the cheater. Yeah. Just die. Joy. The fucking cheaters.

Just. Nick plays a team of cheaters. And this is what I walk into. I think, I'm like, I'm not, I don't know if this is TOS, TOS, but like, die. Dude I was crying I don't know if this is TOS but like Die

Dude there's there's like There's the People that steal Rob Take what Take from others what they've earned And they just take it Yeah people like that

And then like obviously the fucking like Rapist Child Petto molestered like should like die Yeah, okay, okay. And there is a spectrum with the robbers and Steelers and stuff, but I feel like cheaters on Call of Duty, they fall somewhere close to that spectrum. To like the rapists and stuff are on the bottom.

Okay. Like they're there. They should obviously die. For sure. But then up top, you got the Call of Duty cheat wallers. And there's that spectrum. They're right at the top. They fit right there.

Okay. You're saying there's some sort of string that connects them? Yeah. It's just like a spectrum where there's a certain amount of people that I can't say this. It's too fucked up. I don't genuinely mean this, but I was going to say there's just like a spectrum of people that should die. But I don't actually mean this. I don't want the wallers and call it duty to die.

I know it's just like. And I found myself almost stooping to that level. I was playing Scrib Leo on stream. You almost cheated. I was like, I'm not going to look at chat to like help me out with the words. But I was playing out. And like if I couldn't figure it out, I'd look and then I type it and I'd get my points. And I'd be like, but I'm like, I'm cheating.

I'm cheating. But I'm like still happy. I'm like, I'm still getting dope from cheating. And I was like, hold up. This is how the Wallers feel. That's how I feel. This is how they feel. They're that sick in the head.

They cheat and they're still getting dope from it. And it's just a sick, sick world. I mean, there's just a bunch of stuff on Call Dude that's been pissing me off. Welcome. I thought... You can go back to Halo. Fuck no.

I uninstalled it. Just to, like, make room for the update, but... I don't plan on going back to Halo. But I'm just stuck in this Call of Duty world where it's like... When I... Like, during the GGCS stuff, even though he won, I was, like, not playing in between.

Like, I was just, like, praying I get on and get some kills. But then when rank came out, I've been playing this damn near every day. I started like a week late after rain came out, but I pretty much been playing it every single day and I was like improving, improving, I'm getting better. I'd have some games. One game

I dropped like 40, like seven kills on a control. And I was like, I'm fucking like, hold up. This is a good feeling. Was it high-rise control? Yeah. This is a good feeling of improving. And then that went on for like a week or two.

And then these past like four days, I was just like, like one day comes and I'm just like, fuck, I'm playing pretty average. Next day comes, I'm like, fuck, I'm still average. Like I'm, I don't even feel like I'm like, like I know when I get into that like overthinking, like I start playing super slow or when I get into that mindset, like I know I'm playing bad. And it's just like, I don't know what happens. I'm just like, I don't even feel like I'm in that mindset, but I'm just playing bad timings are off. Like, I can't, I'm just another player on the team. I'm not really having good games. Sometimes I'll have the worst stats on the team.

I'm making no plays, creating openings. And then I was like day two, then day three happens again. Day four, which was like yesterday. Oh, day three, then I like decide to switch to default and start sliding with my right paddle. And that, that's making me go into psychosis. Like, and it's not even that big of a deal. So like any, I feel, do, when other people switch, what's it called? Tactical to default or what's like the, just word for it?

When they switch, I don't know, just your button layout. Yeah. When other people switch their button layout, are they just like, they're like, ah, dang it. But like, they sort of just hang with it. And eventually they figure it out. Like, am I the only one going into like full blown psychosis about like, no, I think, me hitting the Y button?

I'm sliding too much. I'm snaking just in the middle of the fucking map. There's no reason for me to slide to snake to do to press my paddle. But I'm just pressing it every single time now. And I'm like, like, is this how it's always going to be? Now I'm like, I'll usually like, like if I start getting shot out, I'll claw real quick switch to my pistol while turning so I can run away quick. Yeah.

But now it's like, and then I'm like switch to my pistol turn and slide away because I'm on tactical guard. Just my thumb stays on it. but now my thumb's like staying off to hit y and so i can't turn while pulling out my pistol so then i'll claw to pull out my pistol and turn but then i can't slide because it's like not the middle middle finger comes up and that's just a inside look in my mindset while playing and it's just i don't know whether there's whether to stick with it i'm just go i tried this in halo five when i tried to switched the full-time claw, and it was like the most miserable month of my life.

And then I was just like, I tried it for a month and I couldn't get used to it. So I just gave up on that, like shooting with my middle finger. And I feel like I don't know if this is going to be the same thing because I feel like there's been multiple plays where I'm like snapping on people because I have just like full-blown control of my aim while sliding. Now, I know you don't care, but you're nodding. But am I the only one? No, I do care.

I did this. I feel like I'm actually, this is my therapy. session so I'm just and you're just my therapist okay I'm down um but I'm just going into like full blown psychosis with this shit then today will be day three and I just I don't know it's like do I switch back to tactical like no one really cares like I don't it's not like I'm trying to make the perm a switch and like get into the league or something like but I don't know man just it's been a stressful, this is where I'm at in life. Yeah. And I need, what do you play? Do you play default? Default. Default. Slide with paddle? Yeah. What do you hit Y with? Your thumb? Like, do you take your

thumb off your joystick? Yeah. Like, you don't claw to hit Y. No. Well, I mean, sometimes probably. See, that's what's fucking with me. Is the Y part? Do you, I think so. Do you use a controller with Because sometimes I'll claw to hit Y, because if I, like, need to turn while switching weapons or something. And then sometimes I won't if I'm just, like, casually Y-Wing or something. Yeah. It's just like I'm, I do it sometimes. Sometimes I don't. And it throws me off.

And then I'm sliding everywhere. I'm sliding into every. I have an MCW, and I'm just, like, pushing and sliding. And it's just, it's not, I don't post up anymore and just, like, play slow. It's just, I'm just sliding everywhere. It's just fucking with everything. do you use a controller with four paddles or just two

just two and I don't I don't think I could do the four paddles four battles is too much actually yeah if you're getting psycho saying that people should die because of your controller layout well that's just it wasn't even controller layout that's just wallers in general I've had

these these thoughts for a while because walling is just it's just sickening that people do this but I don't know I'm just I'm in this predicament of whether do I stay default or do I switch to tactical or do I switch

back to tactical and stay default and grind it out? Stay default. Because Blake said he made the switch and it's been like good. Blake, it took Blake a while. It took Blake like, because I remember Blake saying like, I can't get used to this. But then after like four or five days,

he was like, all right, it's fine. For some reason, because I'm like definitely the worst out of our group. But it didn't take me long at all. I shot bots for like 30 minutes. Did you play tactical? Yeah, for my whole life. And did you, because of all like the slide canceling, is that why you did the switch? Because slide cancelling was, slide cancelling is hard with tactical because you have to hit your button twice or your stick twice.

Like slide tap tap is how it was in MW19. Oh, yeah. And it's just like, but with the paddle, it's way easier just to hit the. And even just like. Like drop shoot. The amount of times I died to a drop shotter. It's like it's, I feel like it's a kind of O-P in this game. No, drop-shodding is good in this game.

But I try to do that in tactical. It's hard to like slam your thumb into. Yeah. Yeah. To prone and aim. Switching to default. Because when you use tactical back in the day, it was the shit. Because like you could drop shot.

You just hold it down and you drop shot. But you can't like do that anymore. Yeah. It's like, it's weird. It's so different. But, yeah. Call duty is so. just been I remember the first time I drop shot somebody I remember the exact

gillay isn't that weird I don't fucking remember any of that because I because I remember somebody telling me like oh do you know what a drop shot is and I was like no and then they told me and then I was like okay so I switched to I switched to tactical and it was on a state in 2009 yeah it was like way smoother back then came around came around the corner and just and I was like oh my God you were like I'm a drop shot I'm the best Did you start doing it? Like every...

Every kill. Every time I would shoot, I would just automatically crouch for a little bit there. You know what? Speaking of fucking skunk. Yeah. I got a bone to pick with him. Not really, but... What happened?

So for a while, it was... Wait, did I ever play with... No, when Rank came out, it was always sort of like... Nate shot scumps, Zini Bowes. But then, like, for a while in the morning's like... I don't know what scum. or like zini was gone for a little bit so like nade shot would join me in the mornings we'd play then like scump my join or bows my join and i got people to play with and now

nade shots back full time they those four play with each other and i just have no friends i'm in vickles chat he barely speaks english and i'm like yo we're the duo now then like i'm telling my i'm like telling my friend or my chat like me and vickle are best friends and shit now Does he know anything that's going? Does he know this bit? What bit? That you guys are best friends? No.

It's not a bit. No. But I'll join it. It is a bit. But he doesn't know. But I'll join his chat and be like, hello duo or like something like that. Be like, let's play or something. What does he say?

I mean, sometimes I think I've played with him once or twice. I think I've played with him twice. And then the second time I play with him, he was like playing by himself. I'm like, go, let's play. And he was like, okay, I got two more joining with me after this game. I'm like, all right, bet we're about to have a squad. And then it was like, I don't know, one of his, one of his friends who wasn't that great. And then like a girl who I don't know who she was.

Right. But we were kind of getting pounded. And I was like, I was like in my head. I'm like, Vickle, when I hit you up to play, like it was to like kind of like get carried a little bit and win some fucking. Like I get on. I'm on like a five game losing streak. I'm like, I need someone to fucking play with to carry me. So I'm like, Pickle, let's play.

And he was like, yeah, I got to where I think we went on like a, we lost like four out of five games and then he had to go scrimmish or something. And I was just like, what the fuck? It was kind of, it was kind of fun though, but if I didn't, I'm just, I've been on my solo shit or yesterday. Actually, I think the last two days I've played solo. Yesterday, ranked comes out. Oh no. Yesterday everyone like gets on and I had like no intentions of playing with them.

But everyone got on and they were like, well, ranks not out yet. I guess it's like delayed or something. Let's play eights. So I played eights with like Nate shot havoc, sannie bows, uh, Octane like that group. We only played like two games and then it was like, oh shit ranks out. So like Nate shot and them got their party. No, it's like yeah man like avic if you need someone man like you know where to find me. And he's just like ha ha ha. That invite's not coming. He's like, all right. He's like, yo, y'all want to join the other call? And I just like muted. But others like,

I was like, well, they'll hit me up, I guess. And then I ended up just like matching them. And I think it was like, havoc,

Octane, parasite and some dude named like Bowser. I'm just like, got pounded. And I'm playing on default and I'm fucking just losing my mind. Like,

and I'm just solo cueing for six, seven hours. It's just, it's been so. call duty should not be this stressful but it has been like yeah you need a i think you need a little squad i need a squad and i was gonna say because we're doing this then we have to hang out i don't know if i'm not guaranteeing i'm going to get on tonight but do you or are you guys

playing tonight yeah yeah i was going to say i or if you guys would want to play i'm down i might be down to hop on tonight maybe depends what time do you guys get on like seven yeah like seven because I was I don't know I'm in a mix we'll see what mood Michelle's in when I get home because if she's in a good mood and just like doesn't care if I go but sometimes she wants her attention at night because I'm just fucking streaming on the man oh yeah and because I'm the man I'd like to I it's always been a dream of mine to play with TSC I wish you guys played in the morning yeah I feel like we'd be such like a fun morning squad that would be fun I don't know how long I don't know how much longer I

can do this night shit the fact that you switch to the mornings the fact that you get off at like three four p.m and it's just like all right now I can do whatever the fuck I want I mean I know you got like some optic shit meetings and whatnot but if you can I'm always there in the mornings no I'd be I'd be down or like figure out like some days that you can do it if you don't have meetings or I don't know what your schedule is like in the morning or during the day yeah I missed that that That's the, whenever I go to Arizona, that's like the best thing about streaming in Arizona is sometimes she sometimes she's, well, she's in mountain time. So like sometimes it's an hour less than here or an hour back from here. And sometimes it's two hours back.

So it's like California time. How does that make sense? I don't know. Wait, sometimes mountain time is a, is Pacific time. Wait, so right now it's, it could be 941 there. So I think it's 941 there right now. but sometimes it's 841. No.

What? You didn't know this? No, what? Yeah, mountain time is weird. What makes it change? I don't know. I think at daylight savings time, they don't switch. I think that's what it is.

So it'll be like six months all the yearish or something like that? Yeah. Or does it just switch every now, like every other month? I can't fucking remember. I can't remember. But when I was there in October, I was three hours behind Blake and George So I would go live

We were still live at 7 So I'm going live at At 4 Yeah And then we're getting off at We're getting off at like Back then We were kind of going through it

So we're getting off at like midnight Or like 1 p. 1 a.m. And if we get off at midnight It's fucking 8 Like it's like It's nine I don't know how

Dude we could like Work out We go to the casino you know, we could do, it's nine. Why do you guys stream that late? We just always have. We have always been the late shift. Like if you talk to?

We've tried, I mean, we've tried to stream in the mornings. We've done it before. But, I mean, nowadays with work or with content in the mornings here, because it's 10 a.m. right now, or we started to fly at 10 a.m. It's like we couldn't have done this morning. Yeah. And then we had content scheduled for yesterday, but it ended up getting postponed. There's just not like me.

I love that text. That's the best text of the receipt. I woke up this morning and I said, is Flycast still on? And you were like, because if I don't bail, then it's not, then it's not on me. And then I could be like, I don't know, man. Nick had something. Yeah, no, this was my only, this was like a good week. This was my only thing today.

I've just been waking up streaming and then today is sort of my I was gonna call it my off day of streaming but I kind of wanna I have like a it because bro I've been like

I've just been thinking like I got off on a bad note yesterday on call duty yeah I was like I'm still not used to this default shit like I can't I can't play anymore I need to take a break

I need to get off and then like today I mean maybe I'll play a little bit I don't even want to play I want I kind of want to take an off day but then like maybe play tonight. Yeah.

Maybe even off stream for just like an hour or two. This game is play with you guys. This game is so weird to me because like every once in a while I'll just like fry. And then I like, but I just don't. I like playing and I like league play and I like ranked play and hanging and hanging out and playing competitive settings. I like it. But I'm not.

I don't think about it at all if I'm not playing. really? I literally, even when I hit Go Live and I do my little freestyle and then we talk at the beginning, I'm still not thinking about ranked. I don't think about ranked until I spawn in. And then like with that mentality, every once in a while I'm just going to get slammed. Yeah. And I am kind of like okay with it.

But I don't think Blake and, I mean, every once in a while I look at the scoreboard and I'm like, damn, like bringing Blake and George down. I'm like, I should really care about that. And I don't. I don't care about it at all. And it's, it's just so different from how I used to be. Dude, if,

if this rank came out when I was in high school or when I was in the scuff house, yeah. Dude, it'd fuck you up mentally. Yes. I would be looking up like fucking nade spots and like, rotate, I would be watching scrims and,

like, I would be shooing on my other account. I don't even know what I care about. I feel like it's like, all I care about is all I care about is to stream. Yeah. And like and like and like making fun content.

And I honestly don't think ranked as good content. I think it's, I think ranked plays in e-sports games are a lot like NASCAR where it's like fun as fuck to play. But like people watching. Yeah, I don't even, I don't really enjoy watching. Like when I was.

playing when I was playing valerite like I watched valerite videos but I never watched valent streams and I never I mean terrick's watch parties get infinitely more viewers than his than him playing right than him playing what is it competitive yeah I can't remember what it's called yeah competitive play and apex is a little different because like nobody nobody plays pubs in apex like people just play rank that is the game yeah so I don't know I I I think I think, I think, like, just headbutton your wall into ranked play is a little different. I don't know. That could just be me, uh, because I overthink this shit all the time too.

That could just be me coping that like, oh, I don't really care anymore. But that's because people don't care either. Yeah. I think maybe I think that as well. But also like, I, then I have a reality check. I'm like, who the fuck? Even out of my friend group. Not even people in general.

Even just my friends, who's picking me to watch my MCW gameplay? Yeah. No one. That's what I have to like remind myself. Like, but I feel like when I do pop off, like my chat is very supportive. That's because they like you. Yeah. That's different.

But no one's especially fucking solo queuing. I'm like who in God, who in this fucking earth is going to click my stream to watching me play ranked right yeah it's a it's a terrible feeling it's not a good thought to bro yesterday stream like i ain't got a lot i was i was like down and depressed like my yesterday stream was fucking shit not only with the whole tactical default switching i just don't feel comfortable i'm over thinking every situation do i slide here do i not did i use the slide in these situations should i do i post up here do i practice sliding like now i'm fucking i don't know I think like everyone's at all think about how I play and I'm like okay maybe I should do this different I know one thing I don't do nearly enough is just play head glitches I just like if I know someone's there I'll just sit in the middle of the street and just like I hope you peek because I'm challenging you completely wide open I see I wish I didn't think about that stuff and I feel like sometimes I don't if I have like a good stream

Play decent. Like, I don't really think about it. But then when I have a bad stream, or it's like, like, yesterday, the, like, not only was I overthinking everything just tactical and fucking switching my layout. I was, rank play just drops. Scumnsini, Bose and a shot, I'll leave. I'm sort of just, like, the substitute. I don't have anyone to play with. Everyone's watching, like, in my head, like, no one's, yeah, everyone's going to go.

Everyone that fucks with Optic is going to go watch those four. I see my viewers. I was playing like Blune's Tower Defense before rank came out. I had like 900 viewers. And like the stream was lit. Rank play comes out. They also, I see Zini went live, Skunkwood Live, Nade Shot went live, all within like five minutes. I look over.

My numbers are probably could like probably cut into a fourth. I realize I'm not going to have a party to play with. Havoc and them don't want to invite me. and then I just go into my solo lobby. Don't even have music playing. It's just quiet. And then I look over and then I just look over to my stream and I just hit X or whatever, start the countdown. And here I go into rank play.

And it's just like I start up playing average, playing average getting shit on. Not that no one's watching. Like people were trying to be. I think some people like one guy was like gift and subs and I think he was kind of like trying to let's go maniac. I get some pitties, the pity subs, which I appreciate so much. Picture one guy. If it wasn't for him, yesterday's stream would have been astronomically bad. Not astronomically bad.

Like, honestly, it was, I still probably had more viewers than what I used to fucking get playing this shit. But like, my streams have just been doing really good lately, especially when I'm the only one on. Yeah. And like, I was, I was getting better and better. And like, people were enjoying it. And then yesterday it's just like rank play drops and here I am by myself. I'm playing like shit. I just switched settings.

I'm in my head. Stream's not going so well. I'm in a bad mood. I'm thinking this is what it's going to be like every single day. But it's not. But it's not. It's good. You're running now?

Maybe I take a day break. Eventually I'll get used to the settings. Blake George and I, uh, Over the last week, I think it was like a week ago now. Now we stream on three different platforms. I'd see that in your tweets. Yeah.

So I haven't checked out the, what is? So it's like, you know how we have like the triple cam. So on Twitch, we all do the triple cam still, but on three different platforms. So on Twitch, it's my POV and I'm like the biggest cam. Yeah. On YouTube, it's Blake's POV and he's the biggest cam. And on kick, it's true. And he's the biggest cam.

Yeah. So. But y'all, why not TikTok? TikTok, from what I've heard, I saw Kaylee tweet about it a couple times. If you cuss at all, they'll just take you down. Oh, yeah, I can't do that. Yeah, I would last, we would last three minutes of stream. Even Saboss was saying that, because he streams on TikTok live, he was saying that, like, every

once in a while, ho just get taken down too. Damn. Yeah. I don't know if it's still like that. That was a couple months ago. Is there, like, any support in YouTube or kick? Not yet. Yeah.

I mean, the YouTube streams have been doing pretty well. But you have, like, all the chats up? Yeah, we actually found, we actually found a, Atlas found like on some Reddit thread deep in the inner webs. There's like a, there's like a, dude, he can find anything. There's like a, uh, a program that just came out that can combine all the chats. So you just link all your accounts. And so we have one chat box that we open up and it's all the chats from all the different streams.

And we all read the same chats. Can you tell which is who's typing from like what like it'll show like a little YouTube emblem or something? A little YouTube emblem, a little Twitch emblem, a little kick emblem. And it says like where they're coming from. It's a sick app. You know what's. Are you signed up for the ad incentive program and stuff? For kick?

For Twitch. No. Bro. It's kind of like. Uh, yes. Yeah, I am. Okay. Yeah.

Like you just have to click. It'll just like. I think if you're like partnered and your streams are good, you just, it gives it to you. Yeah. But you have to like activate it or whatever. Yeah. I never did that shit. And I was like, dude, I'm not like, if this is only going to give me like a couple hundred bucks a month, like I would rather my viewers just not watch any ads.

Even though I think it makes them watch ads anyway. But once I, I was talking to like, formal and dashy about it. They were like, yeah, just don't even say anything. Or because I was like, I was going to. I think I started my stream and was like chat if you get like I'm trying this shit out like I just activated like if you get more ads

or it's fucking like I don't know I'm just testing it for it's like shut the fuck up don't even say anything and like I've I started doing that and bro it's kind of like it's not crazy the ad revenue what I get now is actually kind of crazy

what it used to be it's definitely noticeable like it used to be nothing it's definitely noticeable from what it used to be It's crazy. I saw Spartan the dog. I mean, I think he was getting pretty good numbers. Like, averaging like 300 viewers or something.

And for Halo and for Spartan the dog, like, this is pretty good. I mean, I think I did the math. It was like 350, 356 hours for the month. And this was like in like October or November. So he was streaming damn near 11 hours a day or like something like that. But he may, he would, I think he made. made like he showed his stream he like tweeted it because someone like called him a broke boy or something and he just responds with this and it was like his stream activity or something like

that fucking skump he just looks over and goes we were talking about how much money do you make last month i can't imagine the money skump makes from ads but spartan like screen shot at his shit to this dude that called him a broke boy. And he streamed like 11 hours a day. 300, I think like 300 viewer average. And he made like, I want to say like 12, 13 grand. But it was like all ads. Yeah.

Dude, did you see Ninja's like, what the fuck? Ninja accidentally leaked his dashboard. Really? Yeah, Blake loves talking about this. It was like a couple months ago. Blake loves talking about it. Yeah, because I think, I think for us, I can't talk for them, but for me, it, I still have to get my nipple pierced.

But other than that, oh, yeah. Nipples. Other than that, like, it's kind of difficult because just of how the landscape of, of streaming has gone, if more people in Call a Ditty stream, that means less subs for us. That's just how it is. Yeah. And there's nothing wrong with that. That's just how it is.

If more people in Optic stream, that means there's less. subs for us. Yeah. And now everyone in Optic and everyone in COD is streaming. Yeah. And so it's just tough for us, especially when we at one point, we were the only people streaming cod. And that's when we had 15,000 subs. The best of times at all time. Yeah. I mean, Blake bought a house off of that. Yeah. Like there's a lot. I mean, there was, it was a wonderful time. But now seeing that like, we probably average like, like, I mean, right now we're under three thousand. subs and like you know we would like to be like at like 4,000 a little over 4,000 would be like perfect for us if that's all that if that's all that we had income wise but then ninja

stuff got leaked and he was like yeah it was the bar was just like you know it's his subs and it'll say gifted subs and he'll say ads right his ads bar was that's what like like spartans were like three times bigger than his subs and it used to be subs were the only ads would be the tiniest little bar there was no cpm on ads you made like $16 for the day yeah and there was also like you controlled when to play an ad so like you'd forget to play it or you just wouldn't yeah or you just wouldn't like this doesn't make me any money anyway yeah but nowadays it it and and there was like a that was back in the day when if you did an ad read in your in your video they people would call you a sell out like you know what i remember that over those days and now

Nowadays, every single video I ever watch has a fucking add to it. So, like, the one thing that is good about our stream is that we haven't really lost a lot of our viewership. We've just, like, there's, we, we had, we were so, we were so lucky at one point in our life. We just had whales in our chat. That was just like, like, oh, shit. Like, like, 25 gifted if you assassinate this guy. And I'm like, oh, I'm going to run and try to assassinate him. You know what I mean?

And like that was how stream was. But but now knowing how like the ad revenue program and and how Twitch is like it's good. And and if we figure out how to get ad revenue on YouTube and kick as well, then like I'll be able to like breathe the breath of fresh air. Because it's it's tough with three people, dude. It's tough. We all three have to make money in order to keep this shit going. And I think about that like at least an hour. every day.

Like, it probably takes up an hour of my thought process every day is like, I hope GST can keep going. You know what I mean? It's weird. When you guys sign on,

is it just, do you, is there any thoughts of like trying something else besides, I would, I don't really know what the fucking answer is because when I'm like not doing anything,

like, bro, when I was playing Blune's tower defense and just like playing that game talking to chat, the chat, and stream is just like booming. It's because it's because the chat

But then it's like I can only do this 16 minutes. And then it's like now I still got seven out. Like I got to play ranked. You have to. But like what I don't what I don't really like about stream sometimes is like we get on and we get on at seven and we chat and chill for till 730 and then we play. and we play until our last game and then we get off.

How I would love to do stream, like I think Ludwig has the perfect stream because he streams for six hours, it's six to eight hours a day and his first two hours are him making a YouTube video. Really? Yeah, and it's like... What kind of YouTube video?

Like he's set up a collab against the best geogessor in the world and he plays the best geogessor in the world in geogessor tries to beat him, whatever and then crafts the whole video on stream and then the rest of his time he does whatever he wants like he edits it and shit on stream no no no like he just makes it his editors clip it and then make it into a video

or like he'll spend the first two hours like here's my credit card you guys chat you guys can buy anything you want from alibaba for me and I'll open it and up to a certain amount up to 50,000 dollars or whatever I mean, he's a gazibillionaire. And so they do it. And then that's the first half of the video. And then when all the shit comes in, that's the first half of his next stream is like,

he opens it all. And then that's a video. So basically he's mastered his fucking stream. Yeah. That's, I mean, I would love to do something like that. I think that's like the perfect way. And we tried to do that for a little bit with like our React videos.

Like we were like, we're like if we're reacting we might as well stream or react videos but then like we would chat it was just no reason to stream ourselves reacting to videos because like Did it feel weird too? It was weird yeah

and then like we would be like oh that was a good video and then people would pop up and chat and be like holy shit I forgot this was a stream I thought I was watching like a YouTube video and it's a it's a weird little landscape but I'm hoping that I'm hoping that with YouTube and uh and kick

uh with Blake and George, like, finding, finding that element of, like, the TST experience on three different platforms. I'm hoping that we can set up, like, members or,

what is it, YouTube members or, like, donations and stuff like that on all the platforms. So, maybe we'll be able to, I don't know, anything that just,

like, helps us fucking relax. Yeah. I, I have not been relaxed at all on. stream lately. I kind of want to, I miss, I miss, uh,

when I first got out of rehab and I came back and it was like, bro, I literally had like no attention span. Like I couldn't, I forget how, wait, when did, got out of rehab beginning, like January, 2021. When the fuck did Halo Infinite come out? I don't even think, oh, it didn't even come out to like, I think November or some shit later that year. But when I got out, I like,

tried sort of playing stuff and there was just like I just couldn't do it that's when you were playing like Minecraft so I would play Minecraft and it was the best man Minecraft and even like formal would hop on and hacks would hop on and I think Seth was playing you you hopped on for a little bit like it was just such a easy chill stream and it's like no one tries to be like good at Minecraft so you just you get on and you chill and you you're just hitting blocks I also watch I watch

Jack stream dude those motherfuckers have the they have the life yeah oh I like Jack Tim Jack when they play together not Tim like Jack Mark sell

uh fucking Wildcat like Puffer all those guys like they just like like pure variety streamers like Powell World comes out, they play Power World. Oh, yeah.

Fucking. And if they're not, if they're waiting for another game, they play war zone. And if they, and then like another game will come out or like this lethal company game comes out. They play lethal company. Like they have a crew of like, it doesn't, it doesn't even matter the game. No. Dude, we could be so good at that. But I don't know.

I love, I will always love Call of Duty from the bottom of my fucking heart. But like, we're sometimes. on our corner of the internet we're so backed into a corner yeah that's how i i i definitely agree with that i feel like we are sort of in a corner and it's like if we try i mean i i know i'm it's hard when i because i do feel like you get so much exposure now from youtube and ticot and people will find your street they'll see that clip and be like who the fucks this guy or that'll blow and it's like i don't do any of that and it's It's like I should and people are people always tell me maniac get a a TikTok editor like rip your to rip stuff from your stream and then I but I'll like see

compilations of me and I'm like if this was on TikTok I can only people would just talk shit about like who is this who the fuck's this guy raging this is so cringe like yeah like I feel like I don't have, like there's a certain personality that's going to pop on TikTok to get people to come to your stream. And I just don't know if like my content is like that. I almost feel like you had to like sort of know me and like see me grow up in like the optic world and the halo and the call duty world. And you don't have to. And you fucked with me. Ninja played Halo for how many? years. Yeah, but Ninja also, Ninja had like a slow growth.

It's not like he just like started uploading to different shit and then he blew the fuck up. Yeah, that's true. Like he, I don't know. There's just, I'm, I'm, I feel like I'm definitely backed into the, this like little corner of this little world with this like, not necessarily a little community because like the call duty and, it's a, it's not a little, it's a huge community, but it's a shared. community. Yeah. And if Seth's not on, they go to Zen. If Zinn's not on, they go to Zuma. If Zuma's not on,

they go to Octane. There's definitely like a, yeah, there's a, if no one's on there with me. There's a trickle, a trickle effect for sure, which is why we have always streamed at night, especially now that Seth is streaming so much. Yeah. It's like, we have to stream after him. It's just how it, it's just how it goes. Yeah. I wonder if Seth, do you think Seth, like, he doesn't stress there's no way he stresses about that no but he knows he knows about it yeah because i'll say he'll he'll he'll say to me like why do you guys stream so late and i look at him like like you motherfucker you and then he goes oh shit they're like dude you're up fucking early you're streaming like you're you been grinding streams like i like how i couldn't do that on

i'm like yeah i don't really got a choice i wake up and it's seven am and i know you're getting on at 11 like 11 is so far i got to get at least like three four hours of streaming before your ass sign which is like i think that's one of my biggest goals is like to not is is so many people break out of their scene and and then like still show a lot of love to their scene like i just just did a around the bar with uh aiden he's one of the guys on the yard which is like the podcast that ludwig that ludwig that ludwig and his in his friends have and they're all like Super Smash Bros. guys.

And they played, they were in our corner. They were, they were in a back to the corner like we were. Yeah. And then like, they broke out of it. And now they,

they've done podcasts with Mr. Beasts. And they've done whatever they want, but they still talk about melee or they still talk about Cod all the, or sorry, smash all the time. So like, that's why whenever I did, whenever I started around the bar,

I was like, I'm not going to have any optic people on it. Yeah. At least for the, No, it's probably a good idea. For like a couple months is what I'm thinking. And then like once the show has legs and is like considered a show that's outside of all of this, then every once in a while, like I'll just have optic people on.

But like imagine imagine how long it took Joe Rogan to to not be an MMA podcast or to not be a comedy podcast and to just be a podcast. And to just be a podcast. Well, he used to not even get that many views. Yeah. I remember watching him back in the, like, he's been doing this shit over a decade. Like, it's crazy. He was like the only podcast. It wasn't even a thing.

No. I don't even know if it was called podcasting. No, I think it was called. It was just, they're just streaming. Radio station. Yeah, they're just like fucking streaming. Talk show probably. Joe Rogan talk show.

You know what we, I think back. And it's like, it's impossible. Not necessarily impossible to tell, but when I think back, to like imagine in the scuff house if we truly came together as a collective and was like yeah we can let's stream together let's set up a schedule it doesn't have to be like all fucking eight of us or whatever but if like four of us we're on like a dedicated schedule a streaming schedule to where we can play it doesn't matter what we play we just all people always know they will tune in to these guys they're all streaming

They're all playing a game and they're making it fun. And like we could have Minecraft, fucking any game. Yeah. Try World of Warcraft or just anything. If we would have just like came as a collective to like. It's so, yeah. It's just hard to do because it's a great thought. And I feel like if we would have started then and we're still going now, like it would be.

The thing with those guys. We would feel so free. The guys that do that, like the stream teams in America. Because the most popular people who've ever done that are fucking sidemen and like beta squad. Yeah. They make videos together all the time. And they're, but they're over there. They're in Europe.

But here the people that do that, like, wake up in the morning and they just stream together or like record together every day. Like, that's what they do. That is their thing. We never did that. We had e-sports teams And we had smooth competition shoots in the morning

And we were traveling Like there was a time where Hector was in Hector was at a CS event Then at a HALO event Then at a Gears event and a Cod event We could never have done that We couldn't have but we could have Somewhat

Oh we could have done it more than we did We could have definitely clutched up We definitely could have done it more Especially me I mean especially fucking all of us like I think we were we thought we were cool and shit at least like when I look back at like

me flame Pomage definitely did his thing for a while like he was definitely still like dedicated to uploading his time was a grinder yeah but then like Big T just literally went solo and then the rest of like Flame sword

Bose never stream never uploaded I was just like at this crackhead who would kind of try to get into it, kind of not, and like, we, I think we just, like, thought we were fucking cool. And, like, we were, like,

living, I don't know, just, like, living this fake life. It's like we, we, we, almost like we acted like, we were, like, phase and, like, made a bunch of money and can just kind of do what we want, but we weren't like that at all. Yeah.

And I don't know. It was just, like, that house was very, very, very much filled with egos. And I think all of us at some point sort of like thought we were the man and just like didn't need to. And if shit hits the fan, fuck it, I can go do my own thing anyway and I'll figure it out.

And instead of just like, I don't know, thinking like this is the moment and we need to clutch the fuck up. Yeah. Which, I don't know. It's a nice thought. But it would have been hard to get that house to come to get like it was so well we you would

get was it um because I know like sometimes they'll complain about schedules and people there was no schedule was there was it difficult I guess you were in charge of like letting you and Hax would be like oh we got to do this yeah everyone needs to be up and it'd be like tomorrow like was it difficult getting people

on board to show up and stuff I don't really remember no it was just what we did so like you would wake up in the morning and there would be a blow up in the backyard and you're like ah and it's like at noon we're shooting like go wake formal up yeah go wake everyone up wake everyone up because in an hour and a half

we're shooting and that was just it it was so much easier than it is now like that's why I feel I feel bad for the production team because they have infinite amount of resources but way less access yeah

Like I would do I would be like Sitting down to edit at 7 p.m. A vision episode and I'm like fuck I forgot to do an interview with Nick And I would go do it. Yeah Like imagine that happening and imagine Roger sitting down to edit at seven and being like I forgot a Seth interview. Yeah. He would never show up to Seth's house at 8.30 p.m. Unannounced. Like even now. Now with like text like no one responds to anything.

Right. Yeah. They were like, I think they, I think Matt Craig texts us and he was like, Bose on the fly cast next week. And it's not like we're saying no. It's just like no one responds. No one does fucking. Everyone just sort of gets their like I don't know how much you can text you.

I wonder if this is making. Do you just thumbs down everything Jukin sends you? I just thumbs down everything. I think I used to troll with him like that. Like he would send stuff and I would just. like thumbs it down or something like that or if he sends me a call sheet and I'm only on it for like a fly cast I just I'll like thumbs it up and I'm like now you're learning or like something like something like that and I used to kind of fuck with him but now it's just I just fucking ignore everything page will be like

oh by the way you're on a meet and greet next week for the Mavs game something something something something I just won't respond or it'll be like something about merch like hey we if you wanted to do this or we can try to, and I just like won't respond. It's just, it's so bad. Yeah. It's just so much. It's not like an ego thing, but getting a hold of anyone,

for some reason it's like impossible. And I kind of, I kind of feel bad for the production team because they probably go through it weekly just. Nah, it's fine. People show up for their, for their call shoots. Are we doing the, wasn't there like a best friend quiz that I bailed on? Yeah.

Now I'm in Europe to where they scheduled me for that. And I was like, dude, I'm going to come there. That video is going to take 20, like, I'm going to drive 30 minutes. It's got out. Then I'm going to be in traffic. It's actually going to take 35, 40. And then this video is going to take 20 minutes. And I'm going to drive home.

I'm like, why don't you guys just schedule that? Yeah. For like Thursday in between. and this and then the hangout and stuff and I just wonder if like that kind of fucking shit's annoying they deal they deal it's just it's just what we

it's just how we rock here at optic these days all right guys I hope you enjoyed sorry for the short episode 100 but if it's just almost people complain about that you said you check the comments but all I saw were people talking about the 10 hour pod that's all I saw

we might do a 10 hour pod one day maybe maybe or people were talking people were getting scared no more flycast and we've talked about it like there's I think there's something better

we could do you think there's an end date to the flycast ending or like not the ending of us but the end maybe like we have talked

and we're like bro I feel like flycast every week it's just like a podcast and yes I do know people appreciate us talking but then sometimes it's just like dude what what is there to talk about i feel like i'm already on the optic podcast which we talk about everything that's going on anyway so it's like yeah maybe there could be something it wouldn't be for the worst trust me it would be for

the better but maybe there's something else me and hitch could do that would be for the better we have different video or maybe the i think we have different videos to react to and stuff react or we would be good react or something there's something out there but I guess time will tell thank you guys so much for watching episode 100 in one Matt Craig

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