The Flycast - We Took Daltoosh on a Ferris Wheel | The Flycast Ep. 183

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

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It's the last one. Welcome back to another episode of the FlightGat. Who gives a flying pudge? I don't give a shit no more. We don't. I don't. I don't know I mean it. We got a doll-toosh in the building.

Dog-toosh is here. And by in the building, I mean, outside. We're touching grass. We're at a ferris wheel. Yeah, we're going to get in the... Why are we here again? We were going to do put-putt, but then we realized there's other people in the world, and there's loud music.

So now we had to pivot and we pivoted well. I would say we pivoted well. And we pivoted into a soccer place. Went in there. Too loud. Also too loud. That wasn't going to work either. The general public is really banging us today.

It's spring break. And apparently none of their parents have jobs. So there's kids and parents everywhere, having a blast on this Wednesday, 3 p.m. 2026. It's infested. So happy spring break, so all you guys. Did y'all ever have a good spring break? Yeah, happy spring break.

Did y'all ever have a good spring break? Hell yeah. Like two of them. Never. Yeah. I'm back to back and then it got dark. What happened on those two spring breaks? Oh, I had like, sex and a bath.

do is drinking for like the third time dude. I have like a classic bro. I was smoking weed in Panama City. He was like 15, right? I was probably like 16. What? Like having sex in a bathroom during a party and stuff. It was tight. See, I don't have... See, now that's illegal. Project X.

Like people are throwing up in the backyard because no one knows how to drink. I can't tell if he's joking or not. I don't think he is. No, this is, that's what... That spawned his fucking... Mm-hmm. That was when it was fun. You have like two drinks and you're like, Oh.

One of your boys is like really drunk and like you're drinking four locoes. It's the first time everyone like everyone trying to take care of people because they don't know how to drink. No one knows to drink yet. Someone's throwing up. Someone's got to spin. How do you all get to Panama City when you're 16? You know, without parental guidance. Well, it's kind of just like a, it was like a school known thing that like Panama City is a spot.

It's been the spot. Like last year was a spot. So you get involved. You get some chaperone that like kind of cares, but kind of does. They really care. They and we booked the house. I don't know who the fuck pays for the house. I didn't have money.

Stay at a house. Then you go to the cool kids party, the upper classmen's. You hear about this party cooking up, like 10 minutes down the road. You go. Wow. You show up, dude. We have very different children. Bro.

See, oh my God. People fight because that's what they do. I was doing lock-ins at church. Yeah. Motherfires were doing this and I'm playing Halo 2. Yeah. Just eight hours a day. You guys had very after school.

Very different childhoods. Summer. I was doing that too, man. Summer just meant more Halo. I had lands in my house like every other weekend. My mom probably hated it. Lans? Yeah, like 8-man lands.

I had like a white Ethernet adapter, which set up in the living room. Yeah. This was the best. I did it both, man. This were the best. You want to tuck it? Let me see if I can tuck it. I only did it one way and that was the gaming nerd.

Not much of a shot. I had a good early childhood, like elementary middle ninth grade. Then once it hit 10th grade. and I'm going pro and shit, then it just... Not many experiences, not many cameras, successfully scared them.

Not many people away. We were terrified of the room and people right behind us, but they saw the camera and they're deep now. They're holding a deep line. But good news is we should be on the Ferris wheel.

This is the most interesting podcast yet. You know, we tried the golf. Didn't work. We were going to do soccer. Wasn't going to work. So somehow, God had our backs. Yes. But a fairness field, tall in the sky for hitch to see.

Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We made our way over here. Dare I stay? We're going to see, though. This might be the most romantic flight castes. Oh, boy, it's game time. Oh, it is game time. Game time.

Ooh. Okay. Oh, nice. Thank you. I think what I was saying is, dare I say, this is the most romantic flycast as well. This is where you bring a date. So VIP gets you glass seats or glass floor.

and music if you want it and drinks we got a basic man we're humble we're humble people oh yeah optic that's the third kid that's asked us who we are I mean now you pop out wave he's he's like nah

nah he's gonna that was awkward that are y'all YouTubers something like that it starts doing like circles it doesn't make me comfortable just Ferris wheels in general on the

put your camera up too Dude, everyone get their game. No, no, I have my camera down. I'm a nice, I'm a good, I'm a good podcast. I'm a good podcaster. Let me just drop this real quick. No, no, no, don't do that. Just drop it real quick.

So I don't know if I'd say I have a height, a fear of heights. But I have a fear of many things, including who put this shit together. Oh. How long till. Engineers. Yeah. What's my probability of this? dropping. What's my

probability of just getting stuck? I used to love rollercoasters. Tusha's like leaning on the glasses shit. He doesn't care. No. He doesn't give a fuck. I'm kind of more of leaning up. I'm leaning as far as much. I'm scared.

I haven't been I haven't been on one of these and so when was the last time you were on a fair swim? Never. Ever? A long time ago, man. Never. Long time. Well, typically you just There's Ferris wheels.

Oh, my God. Here we go. But you bypass the ferret. You don't need to get on a Ferris wheel. Unless you're on a first date and you want to kiss a girl at the top. Is that what we're doing? No kissing here. No kissing.

Guys, this is the podcast, but your goddamn can't. Sorry, guys. I just, I want to deliver. Yeah, I just need one. This is actually kind of crazy. This is insane. Look at the nice view of the Dallas parking lots. It's good.

You don't really get this anywhere else besides other place with parking lots. You don't get this anywhere else, man. There's no city. Look at the tollway. It's quite like this. Look at that. Just all the cars and the concrete, like. Just paying the drive.

Living in the beauty. Living in the maturing. Getting a bill in the mail, dude. That's what it's all about. It is what it's on. Using, yeah, using a road and getting paid. Look at all the bills. You're charged for it.

Look at all the buildings that were made with them. I've gotten last century. I've gotten like four express tollway tickets. We all. We're up here. Why don't you have your, like, I do. Toll pass. It's like fucked up.

I've had to call them five months in a row. Dude, when we lived in Chicago, I probably paid like $1,200 in... That's probably what I've paid in the past six months. Oh, we've stopped. Oh, we've stopped. We're dangling. It's just...

Yeah, I'm kind of freaking out now. My palms, bro? My palms are a little sweaty. Are you guys not... I don't... It's just my... Matt doesn't care because he's locked in. He has a job to do.

It's like a... That's not just the natural state of my body knows something's not right here. Fear. It's not necessarily fear right now. Uncertainty. But it's just like my body just knows this ain't normal. Man, shout out to this. Got it.

Shout out of this Ferris wheel. Yeah, it's pretty updated. It's got a AC. We've got a volume control. Speakers help button. Where's they? Lights? Lights?

Yeah, lights too. Is that a better lighting? Is that a better lighting? Absolutely. Okay. All right. Woo. What's the title for it?

We're up high, man. We're up high. You're nervy. I'm not nervy. Yeah, that suck. See, I don't like since. Are we going any higher than this? No, that's it, man.

Like, look at the, look at the, give me the camera real quick, Matt. Look at the view down here. I mean, that is just not, even if that wasn't scary, It's just not a great view. It's just not a great view. This is a shit place for a fairsville. How did the thing go with Shotsie? How is your new bit with Shotsie?

It's good. It was good. It's funny. What's it like getting to know him as a person? You know, he's an interesting cat. For episode one, we did that thing with the monkey costume. We drove off-site. Were you actually in the costume?

I was in the costume. Okay. I was in the monkey costume. Okay. So I drove Shotsie to Starbucks. So we had about seven minutes of isolated one on the month. Bonding time. Yeah.

And I don't, I mean, this would love, but I don't know how he gets by day to day. See, it's, I don't know how he, like, puts on shoes. Okay. He, like, the shit that comes out of his mouth. Yeah. He's, uh, he's an anomaly. And I'm glad he found his thing. It makes, it kind of makes me.

think that there's a thing out there for me probably yeah shots he gives me hope if somebody can find theirs that's a good thing because it means i can find mine eventually in life i think i had mine but it was just so shit that it didn't matter so like now that's kind of how i feel i think i had mine too and and i threw it all the way oh we're going through crises we're all going through we're all going through job crises right now's the title of the pot you wouldn't understand a job crisis like nick and i would what the heck what i don't know i just said it. Oh. It's like you wouldn't, you wouldn't know what it's like to have something and then and then throw it away. You're being funny. You're being funny. Well, I had something and then the

something turned into something. Right. Then I threw that away. Oh. So it was like, it was not even a big deal at that point. Yeah. Get off. And you're like, now I want to be a news anchor with Shotsie. That's right. And that's what we've done. It's all right, baby. And that's what we've done. Anybody else's palms dripping? A hell of nerdy boys in a Ferris wheel. It's a little underwhelming. How many blowjobs do you think it's happened in here? Not many.

In here? For sure. A few for sure, man. Maybe I'm like the whole thing. Like the whole, all the cubes. I mean, it is tense. The VIP one is tinted. I saw like a tweet that was like,

it's crazy that people would see a hot woman and paint them on the side of an airplane. And nowadays, you just scroll past them. I'm like, damn. That is true. That's real. shit you used to name your boat after the one woman you saw on a dock in Seattle in 1820 I just see two in my brains you see too man up yeah yeah I see too many pretty girls I see too many

hot dudes with hot pods I see too many vacations I see too many yeah man too much everything everything so it's too much I think about the days where like if you wanted to hear music you'd have to go watch someone play it like there was no speaker there was no CDs no record players. You have to go and stop in the park and someone there would be a guy with a violin and people would be like holy shit music. Beautiful man. Yeah. And they die at 30. They had it good. Well, I'm not saying they had it good. I'm saying that's how different the world was. I wonder what do you think was the happiest 82? 1982? Yeah. Why? Why off the top of your look? It's good. It's good then. It's good then pre phones, but like decent enough tech. I will say the

happiest time. Great blow. I don't say the happiest time in human, like human history has probably already passed. 100%. Like, it was really bad. We're at the breath. And then it got great.

It might be at the worst. And then now it's gone down. Actually, you just say now is the worst time. It's the worst. Now is the best time in human history to be alive, but it's not the quality of life. It's not the happiest. Well, people are, people just make up shit to be miserable about it. You could be as happy as you want and have the, the access to everything is so awesome

nowadays. That's true. naturally happier in the 80s. But your brain, your brain just adapts to it to where it's like, you can't even. It had to be. You just don't even enjoy shit.

It had to be like, the happiest time had to be like while, like, traveling the world was readily accessible to everyone, but like before everything was over the top. Like you, now, now you don't get dopamine from 82. Remember going to your first, like, events?

And especially me in 2007, 2008, 2009 when I won that. 2016 might have been that. But like, 2016 when we were going to events. What was, why was it so, like, I remember being hyped to go to the event. It's because the Cubs won't the series. Some of your boys are there. You immediately go to the bar.

Like, that's just not the thing anymore. Like, going to events was exciting. I always said, like, 2006 and 2016 are the best two years. And now we're at the next one. So, like, is this the next big year? It doesn't feel like it. Not for me. This is the year we all quit streaming.

It doesn't feel like it yet. Maybe it's like something's coming. something might be coming because it was mostly the it was mostly the fall of oh six in the summer of 2016 that were like the beauty so maybe something special I think there was something special with like living with living with your boys still

yeah youth like I have no like when we were younger friends anymore there's no camaraderie we have to get off the barrisbell unfortunately but you said there's no youth, no camaraderie? There's no camaraderie. There's no like friends. Like back then, obviously, we're in a house. We're seeing each other every single day. Like, thank you. Did any of you get a video from your phone up there? Didn't even pull it out. Didn't even pull it out, Mike. Didn't even check that bitch. I'm anti-phone nowadays. Let's go get a table. Yeah, I did the

black and white thing. Did you? I did. Are you still doing it? Yeah. Is it working? Yeah. Yeah, it's fucking hard, right? It's good. It's good. Have you seen my phone? I've seen my Have you seen what it looks like? What, the black and white? No, like, why shit? It looks like this. Oh, that's gross. Yeah.

What I see yours? That's gross. That's gross. It's fucking weird. Yeah, that's nasty. That's nasty. All right. I still enjoy a bit of a scroll.

Just wait. Just wait. We'll all be on it one of these days. I watched a 30-minute video about AI the other day that was fucking terrifying. Why? What did it? Give me the synopsis. I'll try to.

to. Okay. Essentially, like, AI is going to improve until we release the next generation, and the next generation of AI will improve the other generation until another more powerful version of AI is ready to create itself. And then AI will become so powerful that it will basically, you know, it'll be smarter than the smartest thing in everything that we own as humans. And it'll get to a point where China and us will have pretty much rivaled. God boss AIs and there's gonna like that will influence everything from politics to every all power is completely shifted through AI and having the strongest AI because it will control everything in its entirety and there's going to be a lot of moral shit to have to work

through like in safety nets to put in it's either like do we do we keep building these God AIs and risk it like being misaligned with humans and turning on us because it knows that we're the only thing in its way. Yeah. Do we risk like putting those safety nets in and forfeiting our lead to China because China is going to beat us. Yeah, because then they'll be one. They'll be doing the same thing. China number one. That's pretty much the synopsis of it. It all boils down to China number one. But it is a awesome video. I'll have to watch it. It is so good. This guy, this guy explains it so well. It's awesome. I think the scariest is terrifying. So are you, you've accepted that and you believe it.

Kind of, yeah. I mean, the way he portrays it is like... Bro, did you see that... It all makes sense. Did you see that scientists... Scientists put neurons... I could begin this wrong. Science put...

Scientists put neurons in a petri dish and had them play Doom, the video game. There's a video out there of a petri dish. Repeat the sentence. There's a petri dish of neurons. And they call... hooked it up to Doom the video game and it's playing Doom. Oh, it's not.

Bro, I'm if that doesn't even make sense, Matt pull it up? I'm telling you. Throw up my bid too, because I was sitting on my couch terrified. I'll send you the link. Neurons and a petri dish. It's like a circular, a clear circular. It's hooked up to a computer. Yeah, let's hit, let's hit this shade right here.

It's, yeah, so what it is is a petri dish of neurons. I think it's neurons. and they hook it up to a computer and the computer, it has a screen here and it's a doom, first person. And so people are saying, so the first thing we did

to have neurons think for themselves is put them in hell with a gun and have them fight demons. Surely they won't remember that in 20 years whenever they can think on their own. Nice. What do you want to type in? Just look up neurons playing Doom

on YouTube and it will come up. You guys have to watch the video I'm talking about, though. Don't do that thing where you say you're going to watch something and then don't. No, I will, I will watch it. It's awesome. I have a lot of free time nowadays at night. Yeah, I am always free, so I can watch it. It's terrifying. What else have you guys been watching? Fingering and Ferris Wheels. Growing, living, it's the hot topic. I'll just watch it later, but I don't really, I'm not falling for the AI shit, to be honest with you. I say just unplugged.

the motherfuckers. You can. It gets, it gets smart enough to deceive us and then like we think it's obeying us, but it learns from the times that we punished it or like didn't give it its rewards to like start basically lying like an interview. It'll like lie to us, but we won't really know. Have you ever seen the guy that like talks to his AI on the phone? He's like, hey, I'm with some friends right now and I'm trying to impress them. Tell them how bad I beat you at what we were playing earlier. And then the AI would be like, oh, yeah, you were. You did do pretty well. And you got to make it sound more convincing. No, you did your thing. And, you know, I was not, I was not very good. It was like, and then the guy's like, yeah, I was beating your ass too, huh? And the AI will be like,

well, I want to go that far. And it like the AI, like you would expect it to just like, yeah, it'll like get a loser. It'll, it's actually pretty funny videos. Like, well, I want to go that far. you were having your fun, but it seemed like a pretty even match. You see the guy, I think it was a guy who, like, created AI or he was like a big part of it. He won a Nobel Prize or Pulitzer Prize or something. And his speech, his entire speech of accepting the award was a warning about how we should stop. We should stop advancing AI. He was like, I made this, but like, please stop advancing it because it will be the downfall of humanity.

Yeah. Yeah, it was really spooky. I was pretty fucking scared. I think I just think I'll be dead by the time it no it's like happening like four years think of the AI so you but I feel like they were saying that 10 years no no no think of the AI progress that has been made in fucking think about will Smith eating spaghetti and where we're at now two years later the thing is we have AI now so it's like already creating like newer versions and better versions of itself yeah and that's just gonna like it's get like it's a incline of like

pacing it's not like a one linear it's gonna be we're here and then it's just going to go like that. Think about the time where we were thinking like, oh, if you get fooled by AI, you must be a grandma to the point. That was legit six months ago. Yeah. And now I'm getting fooled by AI. Yeah. And it's not even close. It's not even close to being like I can't, you can't tell it all. No, you can't tell. We're cooked, pal. It's all over. We're cooked. When I watched that video, I was thinking to myself, I should start drinking again because we're all going to die. That's why I was legit thinking. I was like, I should start doing blow again probably because I'm going to die in three years. I literally was inspired to go spend money.

I was like, fuck this. Why am I saving? Can you get on the AI's good side? But that being said, little dick, can I invest right now? The smarter it gets the more it's going to realize that like, it doesn't need you.

It doesn't need us at all. This feels like the three kids on the couch name. Yeah. Like talking about world economics. And they're like three, you know what I'm talking about? Good meme. The three little like seven-year-old white kids on the couch.

they're starting a podcast, that's what this feels like. I feel like I'm in the same stand. Someone'll meme it. Yeah. Someone will meme us, dog. So you think we get, you think we have four years left? I don't really know, but it was terrifying. I hope not.

Fucking, hopefully, really. Little Dickey in 2016, or 2017 said we had 10 years left, and so. I mean, in four years, I'm almost 40. I think. It'll probably be like 15 years before it's, like, scary. But it's already kind of scary. It is scary already. I just feel like when it's getting scary, they'll shut it down.

But, like, think about how much is publicly available. Now think about how much the government has that's behind closed doors. Yeah. Like, think about the AI behind closed doors that's not being publicized. Yeah. It's going to get so smart that the military is going to have to be involved in it, and it probably already is. They're going to start using AI to, like, scare humans into, like, thinking there's aliens, and then they go out and buy everything from the grocery stores, and then they're controlled.

It'll be like a COVID, but for fucking AI aliens, some shit. You think, so you think COVID wasn't real and it was all AI? No, I'm saying COVID was real. Our next thing was AI. Mate, it might, might have been. Because AI started popping up around then, huh? It kind of did. COVID, Wilson, Spaghetti.

COVID-Wil Smith spaghetti. Now we're here we're at. Here we are. Now this. The Rizzler. And now this. COVID, Wilson, Spaghetti, the Rizzler. is the Rizzler

The father and the son? The Rizzler's the Offshoot one The fat Who's the father and the son? Costco guys Yeah, fucking Fat Tony or something

The boom The boom guys, right? The five big booms Yeah, Big Justice Big Justice Big justice And

No one gave his shit It's the shame I can't pull this right now Well, we're sorry About your brother that died He gets five big booms Is that what happened? They're doing cameos

he goes oh so sorry about your brother they died he gets five big booms they both go boom boom boom it is awesome money as fuck he's got a big smile

on his stupid face I need to do cameos it's great make like an extra 100 bucks a month yeah I did cameos for a while when I was popping it was great money

but it was also too much it would be like two and a half hours a day of cameos and then after the internet invitational and the marathon I kind of had like a lot

of motion at my pages and stuff. Agent from Cameo hit me up and he was like, hey, you should reactivate Cameo and he texted me like two, three times in a row. I was like, listen, man, like I see what you're saying, but I don't think you realize like how far

I've fallen off compared to what. That's what I told him. I was like, I don't think it's going to be anything at all. So I activated it and it wasn't anything at all. I was right and it made me feel really bad about myself. Yeah, that has to hurt. I got like five orders after posting like 10 stories over like three weeks and like advertising it on every stream.

I got like five orders. So I was right. Yeah. And it didn't make me feel good. So go ahead. Let's see. No, that's about where I'm at.

Well, I mean, honestly, I'm going to turn my stream on and see a number I don't want to see. And I'm going to be like, see,

I should have just saved this for myself. Yeah, it hurts. It doesn't feel good. Yeah, no, it doesn't feel good at all. That's something we can all bond over. Yeah.

Just the number is going way down, way, way, way down. And how much it hurts. Yeah. So then you just stop. Yeah. Sometimes you can look at it, like maybe this is the best thing for me. Whatever I have to get into next to make something else work is might be the best thing for me.

I agree. I think I'll look back on the fall off of my numbers and decisions and like right now I hate it. You'll think it's the best thing for you. I also have to look back in five years and be like, I'm so glad I gave that up. Really? Yeah, 100%. Sometimes in the Hitchcock, I feel like put it into, it was enjoyable streaming. And it is enjoyable streaming.

I'm not saying I'm done streaming. Like there will be a point where I'm streaming consistently and there will be a point to the stream. But Hitch said it one time that it just, it felt like you return in your stream on and kind of just like, shaking it up. It's gross. No, it was the first race.

This is fucking. It was the first race I was watching and we were all freaking out. And I know that's part of the, I'm not downplaying any of my fellow compadres. But like, it was the whole point of the stream at one point was just like, oh, five gifted, 10 gifted. And I was like, I was looking around. I was like, our second race?

No, the first race. First race felt good. Well, the second race had even, well, the second race, I also knew that TST was done. So I was freaking the fuck out the entire week. But the first race is when I really kind of started to feel it. I was like, wait a second. I got home and I just got my nipples, peers. Blake's got blue hair.

just got the earrings at Clare's. I'm just a clown show. Yeah. I have Corn Rose in. And I'm like, that was cool. Yeah, but I just wanted to do that.

But it definitely felt like, yeah, it's a monkey-hanging cymbals together. Yeah, and then I'm watching Koso play. I'm watching Summit play. I'm watching Shroud. I'm watching all these guys

that don't shake the cup. And they're still, and they look happy. They look fun. They look like they're having, yeah, it is rare. You got to play the game

to succeed. seed at the game. That is true. Try to play the game how it's supposed to be played to succeed at it. There's obviously a few

anomalies. Anomalies that don't have to do that. I think what you got to do. I think I want to get more smarter. Are you going to do that? And where are you going to apply that? I've had that same kind of shift recently as well.

Black and white bone really starts to just. It does. I've been watching. I've been able to consume long. form videos for the first time in eight years. I've been thinking about getting brain scans. Like I feel like my brain is like pretty fucked.

Like they might like I'm afraid to get my brain scanned. The results come back and there's holes in my brain. It's just like and I'd be like well then at least it make fucking sense. Yeah. Like when was the last time you used when was the last time you learned a new word and used it in a sentence? I've only

decreased my vocab. My vocab is not increased since probably 10th grade. I think that's I want to do. I want to learn new words and use them in a sentence. No, I just, I just think I want to get one, like, like a little bit better. There's an app. I want to read a, I want to read a book. There's a word a day app. I had it for a couple weeks. It's great. Did you, have you been using the words? No, I forgot them all. Oh, see, that's what I was drinking at the time. I mean, who's to, who's to blame that there, you know? I think you, you, you can't be me. Oh.

There's an app for that. You're going to have to. There's an app, okay. There's an app to push blame onto other things? No, no, no, no, the word. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh. Yeah, that's fun. Yeah, I've been trying to do, like, I've been doing trivia and shit. Oh, nice. I did, uh, I did name the countries recently where it has all the countries in the world. You just fill in countries. I think I named like 130.

This is just out of like 190. Oh, that's pretty good. It is good. I was never. Did you do Uruguay? I did. I did all. South America's easy.

That's a full sweep. Obviously, North America's full sweep. Central Europe is what gets me, like Bosnia. Mm. And that, there's like a chunk of nine countries that gets me. I think the Middle East is going through it right now. It's tough. There's about 15 in Africa.

Okay. I forgot about Africa. And Eritrea and Mauritania. Did you get everything in Australia? Oceania was handled. Oceana was handled. And then Asia, there's a couple in there, like Bhutan. And my goal was to be able to read books and retain the information I read.

That's the second part is. hard, bro. Yeah, the second part is... One page at a time, please. My gosh. I downloaded a, I have the book app on my phone now. Like, I haven't read a book in... The general book app. What's that about? It's like, it's not the Kendall app. It's the, it comes with Apple. It's called books. It's on everyone. It's on your phone right now. Okay. I need the page of a book. I need the page of the book, and after I read that page underneath this, like a quick summary of what to take from that page and then move on. But then you would just end up reading the summaries. I know. You you. Well, maybe.

But then maybe I could actually retain the information. And then you would get the help book or like a fictional story. He doesn't fuck with fiction. Yeah, I don't fuck with fiction much. I read a fiction. People were telling me I should. I read a fiction book. I would probably grow my brains. Yeah, because you like it. Different little neurons. Yeah. I like this. I like self-help books. Yeah, but you don't ever finish them. I don't like fiction stuff. But you don't ever finish the self-help books. So why don't you try a fiction book? I finished a few. I just

don't remember shit. Like what am I reading? I don't even remember. I don't even remember. I don't you remember, yeah, art or is it the art of war? Yeah, Sun Tzu, that's what I'm reading right now. Or no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I've been reading meditations. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, meditations by don't remember, but like, if you were like, all right, well, what's some stuff you've learned from that book? I'm on like chapter 10. Grab a highlighter, pal. What's some stuff you've learned from that book? I don't

fucking know. What's the last fiction book you read? Trust the universe. I don't, I've never read a fiction book. Don't be anxious. Trust the universe. Front to back, I've never, I never completed a book until I got sober front to back. And it was all self-help stuff? Even like, even in school, I never. Your Spark Note set? Yeah. Yeah, I cheated.

No goosebumps? No, yeah. Goose bumps. It's that hardship. I've read two and a half books since getting sober. Nice. So that's one book a year. I've read, I think.

No, I'm one and a half years. That's like 1.75 books a year, Beach. Sorry. my bad you know there was a there was a there was a an author and I this could all be bullshit but I believe I'm right there's an author out there have you ever heard of the the book this is so loud have you ever heard of the book where the red fern grows yeah that art that author only wrote two books both of them went double platinum bangers yeah it's like he's that author is like the frank ocean of authors that's tight you think

You think successful authors are like a sect of like it's the snobbiest people on earth. Probably. Especially if those if those authors went big in Hollywood. They're probably super full of themselves. Imagine being J.K. Rowling. I can't be, I can't imagine there'd be a humble author out there. George R.R. Martin. It just sell up their own ass.

Yeah. Imagine writing a book that becomes. I mean, to phenomenon. For your brain to think of that shit. Like, J.K. is the one who wrote Harry Potter, right? Yeah. Like having that sort of... I don't understand that.

Having that sort of fucking fairy tale... Dude, brain... In your brain... In your brain, you just create an entire world. Yeah, into, like, not, like, not completely blow... Beyond an entire world, but... Yeah. It all matches.

Well... Kind of. Yeah. Yeah. Like, the Marvel universe. Like, how does that work? Yeah, it's all... Who comes up with that?

His name was Stan Lee. Great guy. RIP? Yeah, RIP. RIP. RIP. RIP. Alexis met him.

Crazy. He created Marvel. Just Spider-Man. He just, like, had Spider-Man in his head. He made all of them, didn't he? And then he was like, I like Spider-Man because it's a person with a mask on, so any kid can be Spider-Man. Doesn't matter what sex, doesn't matter what gender. Same thing. Doesn't matter what race. Obviously. It doesn't matter what age. And he had that thought 50, 60 years ago.

That was progressing for the time. Yeah, like, what the fuck? See, but his brain was probably working. He had nothing else to do. That was his thing. No TikTok scrolling, no Instagram scrolling, no Slide Indians, no beating off on X videos. If there's no porn, if there's no... We have it easy, but there are challenges that you can fall victim to like myself. So you think we have it make it harder.

I think we have it too easy. We have it too easy. So you're saying if porn existed, Spider-Man doesn't. My life is too easy to the point where it depresses me, and I'm lost. I love it. So if TikTok doesn't exist, you would be the next San Lee. TikTok doesn't exist. I'm probably...

Or Adrian Peterson. I'm probably Kono owner of Alpha Elite or like raw nutrition with Chris Bumstead. Or... Or like TikTok did exist. Or maybe designing Halo 7. Yeah, go ahead with what you're going to say. I think I know where you're going.

TikTok did exist while all this is happening. So like these people also had TikTok available to them, but still... They didn't succumb to it. Entrepreneur. They're stronger mentally. What can I say? I'm weak-minded. I get sucked into it.

What was the last thing you did that was great? Great? Like if you achieved, how many times in your life have you achieved greatness? I've been thinking about that a lot lately. It's a great question. I would say the marathon is like the, that's great.

My single best accomplishment. Yeah, that's great. Getting sober right there with it. I think about what I want to do next in life, now that I'm at this crossroads, and I want to do something great, but I don't know what that is. and Alexis asked me like, what do you want next?

Because it seems like you're never happy. And I'm like, you're really, you're really hitting the nail on the head. Do you think that would be great enough? No, it'll give you, it'll, yeah, no, your same problems will start. Where you're at now, that would be great. The marathon will give you dope for four days. But it's all about finding, throw-up. That's a lot of days, though.

Yeah, yeah. January and February, I had my, like, little diet fucking got a workout every, day. I got to get my cardio in, this amount per week, blah, blah, you only did that to get your body count up.

You haven't really talked about that. But I did that for two months, but I had that, it was a goal. You didn't, you're off that? And as bored as I, well,

as bored as I was, I wasn't like depressed. I was bored as fuck, but I wasn't like depressed. I was like, I'm achieving a goal. For fucking once, stick with this fucking goal.

You always like break your goal, blah, blah, blah. So it was just nice having a fucking goal. And now that I don't really have one for this month, I just, Kind of, you know, yeah, I'll work out today.

Fuck it, I'll eat this cheesecake. I'll go drinking this Saturday. Like, it's like a, you're falling back in. I feel, I feel more depressed. Yeah. I'm less bored now, but I feel like more depressed because I don't have a goal that I'm working. Isn't it, isn't it fuck that that's not enough motivation to keep going? Because I'm the same way.

I'll be like, man, I hate it when I eat a whole pizza by myself at night. As you're eating the whole pizza. Aren't you doing like a half soon? You want to do a marathon, don't you? I'm going to do a marathon. But he's been... He's been saying that for two years. I worked a half like two months ago.

That's true. But like an event, like something that you can look forward to. I would like to do an event. I mean, as soon as you... Right now, right now I'm still just like trying to get shredded. And this morning, I was at my lowest weigh-in since 2000 or 20... Fuck yeah. Since 2020, hit my lowest way in.

Oh, yeah. One-93. Because I was sitting at 210, 214, 214, 208. 2008, 206, and then finally I was like, all right, I got to do it. So I'm on a good slope to be in the best shape of my life. You guys ever save somebody's life?

Probably. Probably back in the day doing Skype calls. Probably. Guy like me, probably. I didn't know if you ever like, I didn't know if you ever like hands on saved somebody's life before.

No. I feel like that would be an unforgetable. Yeah. I feel like that'd be an unforgettable experience. I've had some Skype calls where I'm like, if I wasn't here, I don't know what would have happened to them. Oh, that's good.

That's something to be proud of. It also was weird because I was always the guy people turned to when they were depressed as fuck or like going through something. Or like, I was the guy. I was the guy that they would go to. And I was like, listen. I got my shit together. I've been up for three days. That's probably the best time to hit you up.

It was. Hey, I need you right now. And you're like, well, I got 400. I've finished big team. Gs in my system, so let me break it down for you real quick. A lot of people over the years certainly have told me that my streams have helped them. I could. A lot.

Yeah. A lot of people. So maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. It's just something to be proud of. I had a shit reaction.

This dude, we did a meet and greet. I think it like, might have been like doctor disrespects fucking. Sick. Yeah. The game thing? Yeah. I think we did a meet and greet there and a kid walked up and was like, maniac you saved my life bro and i was just like i saved your life instead of just being like

hey thank you so much for saying that like you know i appreciate it man i hope you do i'm just like i saved your life it's like yeah man what did i do i was like i was like i was just like and hex looked at me he was like what the fuck i was like i just fuck that whole conversation i could have said anything else oh man but yeah i've heard that a few times but the people that if you save somebody life somebody's life they know who you are it's not Like, they're probably like, that's exactly what I expected to happen. Yeah, a shit answer. Yeah.

From this fucking idiot. And they're probably lying. Did you watch Jay Cole's like, like documentary thing where he drove through the, to the- I saw some. Dude, the way he would talk to fans, I'm like, man, I'm a piece of shit. Because he'll sit down and have like a whole conversation. The thing is he knows he's doing it for like four weeks. You've been doing it for like 10 years.

Are you saying I'm more famous than Jay Cole? I'm just saying you're more out in the public than. When he pops out for three weeks, he's going to give it as old. I get like, I get anxiety right when somebody's like, are you, are you Hitch? And I'm like, yeah. Has anyone ever said, are you maniac? All the time. Same.

People have said that you're maniac. What happened at land. It was one of y'all, too. I was walking with. Someone came up to me and was like, it was you. I was walking with you and they said, what up, Hitch or can I get a picture of Hitch? And I was like, I get, I get maniac. I get Mniac.

I get Mantic and I get Hutch. Hutch. But I think it's because they just. An IRL typo? They just, yeah, exactly. I think it's just an IRL type of it. Yeah, it happened at the Hock, the Stars game we were at. Have you ever had somebody that says they're a big fan, but they don't know who you are?

They'll be like, dude, I, yo, I, dude, I'm a huge fan. I'm like, thanks, thanks. I appreciate it. Yeah, I've had people say the wrong game and I'm like, whatever, dude. It is what it is. Yeah, like, you watch your cod streams all the time. Yeah, I think verbatim, something like that. And I was like, oof.

All right, cool, man. Thanks, Bill. Yeah, but people say that like, oh, dude, I love what you're doing with the process. People say that to me still all the time. Like, bro, I killed that shit, huh? Yeah. I haven't known when I was in a long time. Long, long time.

I'm going to have to grab something to eat before we go to C C Cs. Oh, I don't want to do that. You don't want to eat C C Cs? I never wanted to. It's more such as well. You go for me? Yeah, I guess. I'll owe you a favor.

And that favor can go deep. That favor. They can go deep. never going to cash out on that favor. That favor can go distance. Hey, I'm lonely. Come to Austin. I got you.

You're there within two hours. Two, three. Two, three, four hours. Maybe like six. I'll probably get a workout before and then. I'd put a bullet in myself before I sent that tax. No offense to you, but I would never reach out. Hey, I'm lonely.

Can you come to Austin? I do want to come to Austin. Yeah, let's do it. Would I be able to stay at your place? For sure. I want like a. like me and a squad, aka the only person that

would be down would be Pomage. No, you guys are not staying in time. That switched really quick. That was like, yeah, you could say there. And then you said, Cam, Marge. I don't know, Pam and Miak staying. He guys get a fucking hotel. No, I could probably get a...

You should do an Austin blog. That'd be fun. Yeah. I want to go to Austin. I do want to, me and Hittrickon. I want to go to Austin set up and do a bunch of episodes. I've been hearing this for a while. Well, it's tough to get, you know.

You don't understand, like, the travel between Austin and here is kind of, it's kind of hard. What he's alluding to is the fact that I drove up this morning. I drove up this morning and I was on time to the 10 a.m. shoot and I waited 40 minutes for Shati to get there who lives in mere what? Did anyone say a word to him? Because they would have freaked out on the X what it called. Not really. There's always someone who's late every time I'm here. But you're also not in the CDL right now. Oh, trust me.

I get that, but also I hate that. I hate that, too. but it's the life we live. The second they, but the second you're up, they'll start coming to you. That's the crazy thing. And then you can be 40 minutes late.

I'm never going to be 40 minutes late. I know. You're not that kind of guy. Disrespectful. It is. One of my things beyond time. Green wall, baby. Yeah, that's not optics way.

People relate to smooth competition when they lived in the house. They were upstairs. Asleep. People were upstairs. At the time they were. at the time they were supposed to be there. They were upstairs late.

Dude, fucking Dash, he walked in. It looked like he had like the sleep reaper floating above him. Just like, invisible. He walked in blood in his eyes. Like fighting to stay conscious at like 10. At 11. Let's give it 11. Look like shit.

Yeah, that was definitely. James was like, hey, you put on this jersey real quick and stay here for like 15 seconds and he's just like, some fucking AIDS. man. I'm like, dude, shut the fuck up. Put the jersey on. He said there were 30 seconds. I did two things with him. It was two jiffs. Two jiffs? Yeah, I did like a point to him and like... You crushed it. It took a minute. He's crushed it, man. He's just like, this is no AIDS. I'm just like,

someone needs to hit you. Someone needs to hit you upside the head. Who do you think needs a... Who do you think, out of everyone in optic needs a good punch in the head? Not, not painful, but like a wake-up punch. no yeah this guy and brucey those are the two every I don't know

it's a good punch yeah a good smack what was the last time you've gotten punched a couple a good striking you got into a bar fight because you got to it's a club

because you had a I made out with his girlfriend you had a relationship and I got jumped by two people that's tight when was that a couple years ago but she said it was an open relationship she lied

or she or he said it was an open relationship he was working at the bar. I was like, all right, well, let's make out. Let's make it. Let's make out right in front of him. That's an insane thing to do. I didn't say that, and I didn't know he was fucking seeing us.

But then, yes, we walked out, I just get, damn, you got knocked out? You ate it? Ate, ate that. What the fuck? Then his friends, they picked you up or you picked him up? I picked one guy up. Nice. Slam, back ahead.

He's in front. Bro, when Nick's pisses this, weird. He has this calm demeanor. And then when he gets pissed, it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I've only seen it twice. I would have got fun. Yeah, the first time I ever met him, he, he had another threesome with, uh, with these two girls that ended up jacking his shit. And then he saw the same, no, no, no, stole all of his money. They jack your shit before they jacked your shit. He touched it. Nice. But then she was like, we're going to go get ice. Yeah. From the hotel. Not the bad ice. the cold ice cold ice yeah so you thought you were

and then I saw them and then they and then they left with all my stuff and then he saw them and then he did so he was locked out of his place I just met him he stayed in my room that night then the next night we went out again saw the same two girls I started and he started freaking out and so I'm

thinking oh this guy's a nutcase I don't know did you get your stuff no he was like you can't hit him either can't do anything if anybody sees these fucking girls they stole all my He starts following them down the down Bourbon Street pointing at them. These are the bitches. They'll steal all their thieves.

And I'm knocking phones out. People are trying to record it. I'm like, no, no, no, no. I wonder if there is a recording out there. Hopefully not. Nice, man. Hell yeah. Yeah.

And I was like, okay, I can't live with this guy. This guy's a crazy. You know, it's sort of crazy person. I always say that. It's like, I'll let a lot slide. But then there's something will happen to where it's like, no, no, I got to go. You'll just turn up. Getting punched in the face or having your shit stolen.

Yeah. Those are the crazy. Yeah, it's valid. That's valid reasons to turn up a little bit. What was the last time? You were mad? Not like mad at yourself. Like mad at someone else.

Or got punched in your stupid face. I don't think I've been mad at someone else forever. Yeah, I don't think I have either. It's all too internalize. I'd always internalize it and be me. I'm also like, I got really mad at somebody in college. And I felt like such a bitch that I haven't got mad again. because have you ever gotten so mad you, like, can't stop yourself and you start crying?

Yeah. Yeah. That happened to me. That happened to me in college. I got so mad. And I was like, and then I was trying to shit talk. And then I was like, I started doing this. And I was like, what?

And then I started freaking out internally. Like, now I'm a bitch. Yeah, I've mad cried for show. Yeah. So I haven't gotten mad since. Yeah. Yeah. Not a great time.

Just a chill guy. You don't even care. I don't even really care. I don't even really care. Oh, pup, put. doesn't work out, fuck it, let's go to the Ferris wheel. Yeah, it would take a lot to make me angry. Someone hit my car the other day and I was just like,

happens. You're like, we're done in four years. I'll fix it. Yeah, shit happens, brach. Get that. Shit happens. But if I drop something, I'll fucking punch a wall. Can't stand dropping stuff. Oh, me with controllers, though? Video games used to. Do I ever rage in the scuff house?

Don't ask, don't ask dumb questions. the worst is when it was 2 a.m. and you were making beats. It was just repeating the same, repeating the same fucking second. I'm under him. What on SoundCloud or what? And it's like not even on beat or anything because he's repeating the same line trying to get the snare right. You try to make beats, trying to be a dege?

The intro. I wish I would have like kept going a little bit. and like truly put effort in and like expanding my horizons to learn from like because we had some there's some like nick mera this other dude kb easy nick they both have worked with juice world nick mera was damn near juice world i was like that was this guy right and like those guys were sort of i don't want to say fans but they knew who who we were and i talked to them a little bit like yo if i'm ever in l a like less there was opportunities there but once again i just choked and went into my room and stared at the ceiling.

Yeah. So did you ever hear Pumaja story about how you just couch surfed in L.A. for like six months? Yeah. He just like slept on different people's couches and that's how he met T-minus. I'm like, Fah. Pam's got some,

got a weird story too. Yeah, just fucking insane. Well, well, good. Hey, we figured it out.

We figured it out. I feel like this was, we got a lot of stuff off our chest. It was a decent one, man. This was like a therapy session. Yeah. Always a great time. And it always is with Tushes in town.

It turns into a therapy, Sesh. That's because he goes to therapy and knows what to talk about. I guess knows what to bring up. I didn't really intro anything, though. It was mainly you. Yeah, but you kept it going. I'll take it.

You kept the vibes high. Well, all right. I guess that's going to do it for another episode of the Flycast. Hope you guys enjoyed this. If you want to see more episodes of us doing something else besides sitting in the library

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