The Flycast - What’s The BEST OpTic Video of All Time? | The Flycast Ep. 199

Episode Date: July 13, 2026

OpTic Gaming Merch: https://shop.opticgaming.com/Check out the OpTic SCUF collection and use code “OpTic” for a discount: https://scuf.co/OpTicCheck out the OpTic Podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/optic-podcast/id1542810047https://open.spotify.com/show/25iPKftrl0akOZKqS0wHQG

The Hulu original series Furious is coming to Disney Plus. Starring Emmy Rossum, Furious follows FBI agent Alice Black on the hunt for a mysterious and calculating serial killer. Both walk their own paths toward justice, and as their lives start to intertwine, the line between right and wrong begins to blur. Don't miss the three-episode premiere of the Hulu original series Furious on July 27th, only on Hulu on Disney Plus. This episode is brought to you by Activia. You might already be eating yogurt, but not all yogurts are created equal. Activia contains over one billion probiotics per serving to survive and reach the gut alive.

When it comes to gut health, Activia is the number one family doctor-recommended probiotic yogurt brand. Choose Activia. Feel good from the inside out. Visitactivia.coma.com. No, we are, we are one away from such an important episode that we've been planning for months, possibly even close to a year. We've got like the coolest idea for what we are doing next episode. You guys are really in for a treat. Yeah, I couldn't. I mean, I could, you know, go off on what he said, but I don't want to spoil too much.

I remember an episode like 120. We were like, yo, wait. Dude. For episode 200, though. Like we got a lot. have no idea. Until 200, when episode 200,

they are not going to expect this one. They don't even understand what's about to hit them. They don't even know. They don't even know. Like, it is going to be absolutely electric. Yes, I'm super excited for that.

I'm so excited for that. I don't know if I'm going to get through this button, but we're going to try, we're going to try our best to get through this one. We're going to try our absolute best. But the next one, y'all are not going to. want to miss that.

You are not. The next one, there is something absolutely epic going on. So be sure to tune in. Might surpass. It might be like top, might turn into like top five optic videos ever.

Top five optic videos ever. It goes right. What do you think? What's your top three optic videos of all time? Mine. Yeah. Crossroads. Crossroads.

You're. Rehab. And then Hex's montage from 2004. I go back and I click that and it has like 7 million views. I'm like, what was this? I go look at it. And I'm just like, wait. This was a nasty collat, bro.

You can't talk shit about his collat. Because who is the most? I'm pretty sure the process passed me up. Yeah, let's look at most. Hex is 6.4 million. 6.4 million. Guess that video game. Scum 1V1 fans in public?

1.2. Hey, that's actually good. That's good that we got. That's good that we got big. Off of, or we got a big video in the last couple years. That's good. Wait, where's my, where's my videos? Oh, man.

Oh, you're way down there. What the fuck? So many videos. passed me i was like top four i was like top five for a while hey time to run it back i mean i don't know if you count call of duty advanced warfare eastport like that's what what is that that's that's that video is so old we're still spelling eastports the old way which i believe that should be the right way to spell it 20 murk 1d1 everyone in optic almost got a mill holy shit yeah some in the thumbnail for some of them you know yeah but just click i don't

even like on hexistage yeah let's let's watch hexas tage again just i just need 10 seconds of it the most viewed video of all time for optic gaming and this was 2000 and like dude the optic logo looks so bulky there it looks like smush square yeah it's a box Do you 23 seconds in, you've already lost me. TikTok brain is like, yeah, it's a, you don't have it anymore. Like, there's not even a single clip yet. 30 seconds in and nothing.

Uh, let's see it. He starts it off with a bangor to capture us, though. Uh, boom. Then he just gets a collat. I mean, I guess, you know, back in the day, man. No respect. No, it wasn't even back. It wasn't even back in the day.

You, you know the story about, this montage, right? What? He got a jail broken or, uh, he, he, he went to like a mom and pop store and bought the disc before, like, convinced them to, to give him the disc before, uh, the release date. And played it for an entire day. Oh my God, that sick bastard. So it's played it for an entire day and then released that montage, the day that the game

came out or either a day early. So he was the reason. Oh. piece of content. Right, exactly. It was the only Monofer 2 video. It was only monitor two sniper montage out there. So he was like only piece of content.

Especially being recorded and uploaded. That was the only content for that game at that time. Yeah. And it was a montage. I mean, you know, work smarter. Hey, a hustler's hustle. That's the name of the game.

He's had that mindset since the beginning. He really has. He really has. Someone's not doing it. He knows what it takes. He does know what it takes. He capitalized. Why are you sick, man?

What happened? I kind of think. I guess. Every time I ever get sick, I had alcohol within the past week. But at this point, today is I got sick not last Thursday, but the Thursday before last. So tomorrow will basically be two weeks of me like But it started off with it was it was the weirdest Because I wasn't sniffling I wasn't coughing

I wasn't anything It was and like I drank on a Saturday I was fine on like maybe a low hungover Sunday Fine on Monday final Tuesday Fine on Wednesday Thursday I woke up and was like I feel like fucking shit Like this is not good I need to like

Like I need to just like chill And I'm probably gonna have to take a nap so I didn't even think it was like oh alcohol got me sick anything and then Thursday night ends up turning to I'm just like wow I feel horrible I'm sweating I feel like a fever coming but I'm not coughing I'm not sniffling I'm not I don't have gunk I don't have congestion it's just like fever chills body aches it was so weird and then that went on for like three days it was absolute hell ended up temperature got up to like 102 I went to to urgent care, got some meds, and then, I don't know, that helped me out for about five days. And then it's just been now, now I have this lingering, like, snoddy congestion kind of. Yeah. I have the hitch. I have the hitch going on right now.

Oh, the hitch. So, I don't know. They're calling it. My, I'm kidding. Do you hear that? Yeah, it sounds like somebody is just breaking down the studio. I'm, um, that crazy. worry, man. Lock in. Oh, okay. Um, fuck, what were we talking about? Sick. Snott. You're going to get shredded

this year. Oh, what is I going to say? Fuck. Sick, snot congestion. Iceman. Hook. Ice. I still playing ice man. Still playing ice man. Um, I don't know. I was just, I was, I was going to say something. But yeah, I was just, I was just down bad for a little bit. And now it's just, oh, I was going to say, I'm starting to get worried. that the older I get, like I have a friend who was sick. She got sick two days ago. She feels better already. Like she was like, oh, I don't feel good.

Right. Two days ago. Today she's like in a workout class, you know, let's start the week. I'm like starting to feel better. I'm fucking like two weeks deep. And I'm just like, I'm pretty sure I still feel worse than you. still like do you think maybe that it's it's in your mentality that you don't want to get better no i want to get better i hate being like i used to kind of get hype when i was sick because like i i would just

because i would just you know tell page or something i would milk the shit out of it tell page especially like addie days when you were truly sick and like like sick in the head sick in the head sick right physically as well, but when you were true, when they truly just believed that you were sick, when you could just tell, you know, hex or like I'm sick and everyone, they believe you so they leave you alone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then you can just tee up. Oh, and you were free for like five days. Yeah. It was so nice. Or like when you would fake a COVID test and like, you would like have a picture of a COVID test from like a year ago and you would send it to page and be like, I can't come in.

and they're like damn well COVID nothing you can do and then just ah I'm free for a week I never did that I just you never oh oh oh oh oh I just assume other people have I've imagine I'm sorry well we freaked a pregnancy test just the last eight months or the last seven months we just fake your first your first prank video

my first I my name's Davis I've been working on a prank for nine months it would not get the we just be like no one would care he would be like you did what all right anyways fucking weird

you would not get the reactions yeah but I'm worried about when I get older that like when you get older you start healing quicker lesser when you get older

you start healing quicker lesser when you get older put it on a t-shirt put it I just looked over, Macrague was like this. Before the next track starts, have you ever wondered, who are the people in my old family photos?

Or what brought them to Canada? With Ancestry, you can start finding answers. Start with a name and we'll guide you from there. For just 499, try our new 30-day Beginners Pass and uncover generations of family stories. No experience necessary. You've got questions? We've got ancestors.

Offer ends July 22nd, 2026. Visit Ancestry.ca.ca. slash beginners for details. Terms apply. Hey y'all, it's Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair. Ever order furniture online and wonder what if? Like, what if it doesn't hold up? That sofa was four days old. You should have ordered from Wayfair.

With Wayfair, there's no what if. Just style you love and quality you can trust. Visit Wayfair.ca. Wayfair, every style, every home. When you get older, you heal slower. Right. And it scares me because I'm at, how old am I now? 42?

28. So by the time I'm like 42, like at 28 or 27, I forget my birthday's one. Yeah. But like by the time I'm like 43. Like you know how like grandma gets sick and it's like oh shit grandma's sick. Like even if it's just the cold, the flu, it's like this she, this could be it. I'm thinking by the time I'm like 40, Or, like, that might be me.

Like, I'm just going to get sick. Because every time I've gotten sick with, I've gotten, for what I've gotten sick, I think five times this year. Like, legit sickness. I don't think I got sick for a year before this. But this year I've gotten sick five fucking times. Every single times it comes, it has come with either traveling, alcohol, or both, or maybe there's one sickness that didn't involve alcohol. But I don't know. My body.

What if? me and then it just it's not like it's like oh he felt like shit for two days now I'm up now it's like no day one is pretty bad day two's horrible day three's the absolute worst I haven't left my bed in three four days and then like okay now maybe we can start moving a little bit but I'm still sick I'm still eating soups and yogurts and I'm eating oranges like I try to do everything correct I'm not just ordering me I remember as a kid you'd order fucking McDonald's and shit when you're sick yeah like now it's like I'm trying to trying to do i'm shoving vitamin c up my ass like i'm eating oranges shoving oranges at my ass like i'm

doing every eating soups and bros and bone bros and i'm eating clean like i'm trying to fucking cure this sickness when i get older i'm scared of like what it's going to do to my body yeah do you think like if if you keep getting sick because you're drinking do you think maybe you like eventually you should stop can't stop that oh okay so that's not even let's not even let's not about that. I just don't. I, listen, life, until I'm convinced otherwise,

life in my brain is not good enough to be sober. Oh, okay. There's too much, I hate when people say this, but there's like, I hate when people say the words, say the words demons, but there's too many

demons. Oh. In my perspective, In your head. I just don't know if I could make it so. Like true so. Like I feel like I'm never like out of my head.

I'm never relaxed. Like people think like all maniac chills all the time. He's chilling. He's in a good mood. Like he's chilling. They think like maniac's the man. Like he's always chilling. He's always chilling and shit with hella babes and like he's right.

Yeah. Yeah. They do. It's next vlog type shit. Right. Thank you for saving Optic 2026. Right. But like in my head, that's not how.

it is and I feel like I'm never like I'm never just like relax watching a show locked in and like laughing and shit I'm never like never just like I'm never just watching a show relax right yeah fucking and what a good episode and then I'm gonna watch another I haven't even looked at my phone like it's just like alcohol 50% 40% of the time can get me to a spot where I'm like

this is nice there's probably other drugs it's a necessity I don't know and then like whatever we think about like the repercussions of that like that just has to happen

I'm like yes I'm just like it's my it's the one time where like I think my brain shuts down a little the body the body like settles

and say I'm just like by the pool laying out and I'm just like this is nice this is what like not what life's supposed to be but like Matt Craig

what advice do you have for Nick Matt Craig's in the same boat he lives the same lifestyle yeah we're the same for sure oh yeah okay all right so Matt Craig is exactly like Nick I can see Matt Craig like that

like that like Yeah. Just highly stressed, lives in his own psychot. Imagine Matt Craig's thoughts. Oh, no. It's probably, it is actually probably dark in there. Yeah.

So I'm saying like, like once you see Matt Craig drinking, it's like, whoa, you're like, there's a shine comes out. Like a glow. Oh,

oh, a glow. Like he starts glowing after like some alcohol. And you're like, after a little bit of alcohol? Yeah. And you're like, I think Matt's like,

he's feeling it all right right now he's he's happy yeah he's happy now i think i think he he's on my side with this what about you where do you stand with this uh less on that side i would say probably more of like i don't drink like that anymore what you really i don't i don't see you like drinking no i all i pretty much only drink on the show and even that's just like one or two yeah yeah oh yeah I don't really like drink to get drunk anymore. I just, it's just because I feel so, it's probably because of my like, my face,

nose situation. I just feel terrible after I drink. Like, it's like a day or two recovery for me. It's weird. But I guess it is for you. It's not only physically, but like mentally.

I'm like, yeah, I'm slower. I feel dumber. I'm more anxious. I feel stressed. I feel like a loser. I,

like, it's no longer, like it. almost used to be like i remember times in the scuff house which we didn't even drink much no but we would the one night we would go out all of us are getting fucking hammered and then it's like we see each other the next day and it's like i'm so hungover bro i'm fucking it's like that you're kind of like talking like and it's almost like it's not cool that we're hung over but it's like it's so where's pose that bro's and bo's he's fucking hung over too and it almost just like a

We're all hungover. We're all going to chill. Maybe go to Jersey mics or order pizza and cookies and like. Yeah. We just thought we were living that life. Yeah. It's just going to be a lazy hungover day. Yeah.

Now it's like you're hungover. You get you drink on a Saturday. Sunday you wake up feeling absolutely horrible. Monday, your brain's still not working. Tuesday you have anxiety and you're just overthinking everything. It's like maybe by Wednesday you start kind of. of feeling like you didn't drink Saturday. Like it's just, it's a whole other.

And then, but then it's Friday again and now you can drink again. Yeah, and then it's Friday, now you can drink. I didn't realize. Like, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, I was such in a different reality. I mean, I know you had the college experience and like, I drank a little when I was like, oh, maybe 19, 20, 21. I drink a little bit, but I definitely didn't have like much experience. but I'd get drunk sometimes.

Right. But in the scuff house, where was I going with this? That like was the college experience? The scuff house? I feel like I had the dorm room experience for a year, for two years, really, and then, but it wasn't like crazy. Like, it's not like.

It wasn't as crazy like college, hammered. No, I feel like if you're in like a fraternity, right I was gonna go to WNCG just like a random like tiny little school in Greensboro North Carolina and I was in a dorm and it's like not that's not like yeah there were people to drink in and there were people like like I remember the first time I went into the bathroom because it was like a shared common area common area bathroom on the same floor like everyone went to the same floor and it was just guys on my floor but but but I'm the other half of the dorm were the girls.

So they split them in two. So it wasn't floor by floor. It was like half of the floor was guys. And then there was a door. And if you went through the door, the other half was girls. And I remember the first time I went to like the common area bathroom. And I walked in and it was like a couple,

there were a couple guys there. And then there was a row of like seven girls that were sitting on the on the sink. And it was the first time I'd ever seen girls in the guy's bathroom. And I was like, and I was in there to take a shower. I had like my caddy and everything. And I was like, Hey,

Hey. And then I just like went around the wall. To the to the to where all the showers were. And I was like, this is weird. But I guess that was my college experience. It was just like, it was a bunch of like 18 year olds that are having freedom for the first time.

And they're either like, slutting it up, whether a guy or girl, or they're like, you know, having a drink or two or maybe smoking a little bit of weed. But it wasn't like Matt Craig's experience or it was like Project X. Like we're all hanging out in the, in the

Every day is a good day to drink. Yeah, right. People are ripping spoons and, uh, you know, doing lines and, uh, you know, jumping off the, that was the Matt Craig experience. Right. So I didn't get that. Yeah.

See, even like, I didn't, Didn't experience that. Went to a community college, but like Harley showed up, wasted my mom's money. But you paid her back. No. No. That was just like her L that she takes as a mom. Like you saved up for 18 years.

Hold that out. Okay. But my college experience wasn't like that. Then I moved into the scuff house or first optic house, then the scuff house. We didn't really drink like that. We'd maybe have a party here or there. We'd go out. But then it wasn't until, I would say, post-rehab and then, like, getting a girlfriend.

And then you would start to hang out with their friends. And then I would, like, I learned, like, and at this time we're, like, I'm 27, 28, 29. And I'm seeing their friend, like, every single. It is nothing but work. And then on Friday, it's what are we doing? Friday? What are we doing? Saturday?

What are we doing Sunday? Monday, we wake up hungover and feel like shit. We get through the week. But every single, I didn't like, like, I knew it existed, but every single weekend, like the, the Normie's drink. Yeah. Like, multiple days. Like, I didn't, I, it's like I knew that was the thing, but actually seeing it exist in real time. Yeah.

Always. making plans for a Friday, a Saturday, a Sunday. Like, Friday would be go out and drink. Saturday, you wake up, pool day, drink, come back, shower, maybe drink some water, night out, drink. Sunday, wake up, hung over. Another, maybe a chill pool day drink. And it's just like, bro, it's every single weekend.

And it's happened with, like, a few different girls I've hung out with that I just, I see there. Do you think that maybe? They have to do something to distract their fucking brain. Do you think maybe it's like your type that you have? Probably. Well, it's just, it's, I don't think it's like, I don't think there's a certain type. There's like, there's like, I've talked to like classier girls and like their, their friend group kind of does the same thing.

I've talked to like pure straight normies. Okay. They'll do the same thing. I was thinking about this earlier. There's this. misconception that like like people are always like if you look at the rat ass internet all the all the little fucking in cells are like

if a girl was attractive and she's posting herself online he's a whore or if she's had like two boyfriends this year she's a whore or if she's at an event in the type of shorts she's wearing her ass looks good she's a whore like it's all they point out like these pretty girls and those are the whores The biggest sluts I've ever seen are the most normie girls just like a five or a six. They're undercover.

No one's paying them. They don't really have an internet presence. Like they're not famous on IG. They're not like posting themselves in a sexy way. The biggest horrors I've ever seen are always the true sluts are always like the fives, the sixes. Like I've seen it with friends. I've seen it with like a girlfriend's friend to where like I'll hear story like four dudes in a week. But know what you look at her Instagram.

You wouldn't think that at all. It's just some average kind of looking girl. But it's like those are the biggest. I don't know how I was having this thought earlier. But literally I was having this thought of that. I'm not on game. So I wouldn't know. I mean, I must have been scrolling.

I wish I could like agree with you and put in my input. But I'm not on game. I mean, I think I was just scrolling and it's like, you'll just see, just say, do you know, like, Alex Arro is. I'm trying to think of like famous TikTok, like pretty TikTok girls or just, like people would just girls that show their bodies. Yeah, like, oh, this girl's a whore, this girl's a hell. And people would be like, she fucked. She fucked the whole football team.

She's fucked the whole NBA league, blah, blah, blah. But it's like, those are literally the girls that, I mean, I'm sure there's some exceptions, but like, the norm. are the ones who are getting down like that. I wonder if even the normies are like that in like four famous people. Like I wonder if there's like a couple like because there's people are like, oh yeah, if you're a if you're an NBA, if you're an NBA basketball player or like a football player, then you're, you know,

you're bag in tens. But if they're really, if there really are like groupies that are around, they're not usually tens. They're usually sevens. The ones that are just going to straight give it up. they're not they're probably not tens they're just like being in the room yeah you gotta like wine and

sort of wine and dine it's a whole process with with the true beauty it's a whole process it never really never really goes down like that yeah yeah i've got i've got you i've got you i need your opinion on something that the internet is currently in an uproar about what um so PlayStation just announced that they are getting rid of all physical discs in like by next year yeah so like so like I mean who the fuck is still buying a disc I knew that would be besides the guy besides the guy who just bought 20 of them and has one in his hand

Rises knows a thing or two about great combinations. Chocolate and peanut butter, obviously, but there's more than one way to Rises. From indulgent Riesas Big Cups with caramel to crunchy Riesces pieces and Riesce's miniatures, there's a delicious Rieces for every mood. It's the same combo you love, just with more ways to enjoy it.

So whether you're snacking, sharing, or just treating yourself, nothing else is Rises. I was wondering, for you who's like a normie, little gamer and doesn't really care about anything? Like, like, what do you think about that? Good. Get rid of the disc.

We don't need them. You can download every single game. I say, you pick a fucking side. Either you need the disc. Look, I would actually be team disc. I would prefer to have a disc. I would prefer to, you got to go to GameStop. You got to get the disc.

You bring it back. You get that experience. You plug it in. If it scratches, you're fucked. You go buy another one. I don't like this like everything's downloadable. There's so many games downloadable. Like I would say if I could pick it to where my way happened, it would go disc.

Yeah. Like even on the computer, you go out, you buy a Fortnite for the PC disc. You plug it and you throw that picture. Yeah. Yeah. But since that's not going to be the case and a lot of people are still, most people are downloading. games. Just get rid of the disc then at this point. Why? Why have the disc? I think though the weird part about gaming is because like people will compare it to to music or to movies and they're like

they still make Blu-rays. They still make CDs and in cassette tapes and vinals. But now Sony's getting rid of the discs. Like how many discs can actually like how many games can actually be played off of the disc? It seems like every day like because I have. an Xbox Series X. I have a PlayStation 5 and I play games off of them. But when I put in a video game on one of those consoles it has to download something

in order for me to play it. I think some of these discs are literally just like codes that give you access to download the game. Dead ass, I think that's what some of these discs are. Like if I had a PlayStation 5 and I had a copy

of Modern Warfare 3 or Blackop 6 and I went out into the woods and I plugged in my PlayStation 5 onto a on to like a box TV and I put in this disc I don't know if I would be able to play anything.

I don't think it would like read the disc and like play the campaign or anything like that like I think there's still some games out there. It has to be connected to the internet. Yeah like something there has to be some sort of connection in the first place which I think might be

I don't know Matt Matt do you know any games that have been one off a disc in the last fucking five years That have been Like only ran off a disc you're saying Yeah like you can only You can just like if you were in the woods And you put a disc in you could play

No Okay so I don't even know I don't know if Eldon Ring is like that Like if I had an Xbox I was in the woods I put Eldon Ring in like Would I still be able to play it Or would it say like

Needs connect to internet it needs to update. But regardless, I think physical media is great because you need to own it. You need to own something. Like you need to own it. Like if you just download it onto your game

or you download it onto your console and then they just get rid of it one day, then now that game is gone. And there's so many games where it's like that's the, like if you didn't download it off the PS3, like the first Rocket League, the first ever game called, like that was Rocket League.

like I forgot what it's called. It's called like acrobatic battle cars or something like that. Like the only way to you could get that game is if you downloaded it off the PS3 off of the app store. But then they got rid of the apps. Then they got rid of the PS3 app store. So now the only way to play it is if you have a PS3 with it already downloaded because they never made. There's no physical copies. There was no physical copies.

Like you can't you can't have physical copies of the game. So it's just one of those. It's one of those. It's so weird. That's so strange that they. that like people because they understand people

maybe or say you get a game as a gift you get the you get your little nephew you get little hitch his first game yeah an actual hard copy

then you get you receive the gift and you're like yay like yay I wanted to play this game but it's really just the downloadable content on the disc. Yeah, that's all it is. Yeah, and you pop it in.

And then it's like, okay, well, we need to download the game from the internet. This is actually, there's actually nothing on this, but a code to get you to get this downloaded from the internet for free. I bet you on this disc, which is monorfer three, I bet you there's a megabyte of content. It's probably a fucking. It's basically like instead of going and searching through the library app library to find the game and then download the game and pay for the game and have a visa on your PlayStation to buy the game you can just buy it at Target

bring it home and then that'll just basically just fucking the disc will send you will just get everything started automatically that's probably what it is and it kind of fucking sickens me yeah it says it right here games probably not on the game requires content download

is what it says there's just like there's nothing on that disc but like a code to get the download started that's actually insane. People are up in arms. Like, Matt,

can you go to the PlayStation Twitter page and look at the, look at the ratio of likes to retweets to comments? I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen anything like it. Their last tweet,

the one for an hour ago, look at that. 4.7, 4,700 comments in comparison to 800 likes. And then if you, like any of them, if you go to the one under that, it's probably even worse. What is it just everyone talking shit? Yeah. I mean, if you click on them, it's just everyone bashing the...

Wait, what are they saying? Click, click a reply for one of those. Give us disc games. Fuck Sony. Oh, I have seen that picture. I was kind of wondering what it was about. Yeah. It's, that's what it is.

I mean, disc were cool, man. When you would like stack all your games up, be like, like, damn I got this many games. Yeah, I mean, it's just, it kind of was cool. Like, this is something, I think this is something that like Sony would do

because it, at the end of the day, it's all about cutting costs. We don't have to make the physical discs anymore. We don't have to bring in stuff from China. We don't have to make the cases. But like, Nintendo would never do this.

Like, say what you want about Nintendo, but they would never, I don't think they will ever do this. I think no matter what console we have, you're always going to be able to have the little tiny, I mean, they might make it minuscule like they have with the Switch,

but you'll always be able to have your little fucking Switch games. So it'll be able to stack them up, show your collection. Like, you can download it. You can, because on Switch, you can download games if you want,

straight on to the console, or you just go get the, the fucking disc. And you can play it straight off the, straight off the disc. I don't know. Yeah, I'm team disc.

Um, but, everything's just everything's online now just gotta get over it yeah i guess you i guess you do have to get over how did the um so i want to know from the people i'm sure you left your comments on the last pod i mentioned it the hitch earlier how did the

your pod go without me i listen to like the first 10 minutes and it was going well and then you got pissed and so you clicked off yeah okay i looked at the views i looked at listening for 10 minutes. Saw how in tune you were. Yeah.

Oh, dude. When I clicked on the flycast with you, Bose and Toosh, I listened for, I watched the intro and then you guys all laughed and I was like, this should just be this perma squad. Yeah,

this should be the permanent. I was like, yo, fuck you, man. Hey. How you watched the intro and then you clicked off?

Yeah, I was pissed. You watched the intro, saw one comment and they clicked off. Yeah, like man, this squad's really, this squad's really,

really nice. I really like to squad. This is such a good change. Like this change needs to happen all the time. Just one little small roster change needs to happen frequently. All we need to do is change one of the guy. It's just a small little change of the fly.

No, it was good. It was good. He was, he had just gone to the To a world. Yeah, he had just gone to a World Cup game. Oh. And so his and I, and I, we didn't talk about it until the end of the episode. So I, cause we,

we were just talking like, before we started recording, I was like, he was like, dude, my voice is dead. Like, I went to a World Cup game.

And then we had talked about it for like 10 minutes. Then we hit, we hit start recording. So we just didn't bring it up again until the end of the episode. I probably should have in the intro been like, JP doesn't have his voice.

He was at a soccer game. Because he was like, his voice was cracking. And I was already used to it because we had been talking for 10 minutes. But, yeah people were like holy shit his voice but no he he lost his voice because he went to when Norway soccer came

but yeah it was good we talked about Paris and we talked about the guys and you know loading up to chance he's just we gotta get on after champs what are we gonna do at champs well you're not going to champs yeah yeah oh are you going to champs yeah yeah i'm gonna be there yeah oh shit me you and tush are doing the takeover

what's that mean oh the Twitter or the Twitter Socials Optic Technist Socials See I had an idea already I don't know if I should say it or not Okay Not that many people listen There's only like 80,000 people that listen to this

Right I was like okay I had an idea I think when it comes to the crowd Maybe y'all can handle that Let's fucking go Y'all are real quiet now. Yeah. But for some like funny skit, I was thinking like, what could be a funny skit?

I was thinking me with Tush's jersey on. Okay. And I'm wearing like a thong underneath. And I'm like, yeah. And then it just shows my thong from the back. That see, those, I just, I was, I'm just trying to brain. So, like, if you have any ideas, like, I'm down front of it to. Oh, okay.

So you're not going to, you don't want to hype up the crowd at champs, but you do want to wear. Well, just like funny clips. Oh, you want to, okay. Yeah, no, we can do that. No, it's because that's going to be, you know, the whole weekend, you know, certain stuff every day. You can't just hype up the crowd fucking every day. Yeah. Okay.

No, I like that. You know, hopefully make a champ Sunday. And then we maybe get a little rowdy, but, you know, we got a. Okay. Is that like, that's just the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that, that was my first idea. I'm with that. I don't know whose panties I can borrow. Bro, I went to, where was I?

Oh, in Mexico City. I had white Calvin Klein's on. Like, took a shit. It's fucking hot. Like, I thought I'm wiping like 10 times, but my shits were just fucking insane down there. So we have like ourselves a day. We got a breakfast, fucking walk around, do this, do that, maybe visit a market, have some drinks, come back. We're taking like a break.

I go to use the bathroom again. I pull my pants down. It's just, I just have shitty, like, white Calvin Klein's. I'm like, holy fuck. This would be so embarrassing if I, like, took my shorts off and, like, someone saw this. I took them off and, like, hid them under all of my other dirty laundry. And I'm like, how often does this happen? Because they were white underwear.

So I'm like, does this happen often with, like, other underwear? but you just can't see. Yeah, maybe. I wear, I wear, like, strictly black underwear, so I don't know. I remember one time, not that out page,

but, well, it's about pages. A girl Paige knows. I don't know if they're friends. But Paige said a certain celebrity, and it's not Selena. Right. She said there was a certain celebrity,

or maybe it was Paige's friend told me about it. Maybe it wasn't even Paige. But they know some celebrity sometimes, so like they randomly hang out meet people. They went to the beach one time and a certain celebrity borrowed a bikini and gave the bikini back

at the end of the day and there was like shit-stained bikini. And it's crazy who it is because I'm not talking like C-tier celebrity. I'm talking like this is an A-tier celebrity. A-plus.

And it's not it's not- It's not Selena go. Gomez. Right. Because I know every time I say page, people will think it's that. So it's not that. But it is crazy who it was.

Yeah, yeah. Just completely, uh, did I ever tell you that story? I can tell you who it was. No, Paige told me herself. Oh, really? I know who. Yeah, I know who it is. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I know who it is. You're like, ew, celebrities. That story's just her go-to. That's her Hey, if you want to know who it is, Ask Paige She's probably pissed right now So yeah, we're gonna be a world

I'm excited for worlds This is our chance We'll get a back to back To back And then to back And then to that Words I think if we

If we got a back to back to back It would be I mean, I don't think that would ever happen again I think that's the last time You would ever see it I don't think it would ever happen again Yeah, if we did back to back to back to back. I don't think you'll ever see it.

You'll never see two back to back to back to back to back to back in two years in a row. Yeah. It's not. Yeah. I mean it's because the level of, like it was easy in the 90s to do that. Like if you're playing like basketball or whatever. But it's hard like on real competition. Like if if you're playing when a sport didn't just start out and like people actually

learned how to like be good and put an effort. Yeah. And it's like you're playing against people that, you know, obviously don't know what they're doing. Like now everyone knows what they're doing. So it's impossible to be dominant. But it can happen. Shout out to the boy murk. Speaking of which, I know there's a listener here.

Like, are you, are you done sounding like a fucking idiot yet? Like, there's probably a lot of those. The Merck talk, the optic talk. let's let's talk about optics like i don't understand how people are so dumb let's talk about their last seven placings first first first second second second first and you see they're falling off this is it merck doesn't have it anymore or like you know merks losing passion i don't know about this team i can see him Hooke, the Shotsie still, he needs to adapt his place. He still may, why would he go there?

My name is Peter Parker, but I'm also. Spider-Man. This July, we're faced with a threat. That can be anyone. The world may have forgotten Peter Parker. I'm just a neighbor, friendly neighbor. But he hasn't forgotten them. Sometimes Spider-Man has to do the hard thing.

That's my responsibility. Dr. Banner? I didn't know you could get that big. Spider-Man. brand new day in theaters july 31st like shut up lost this passion i don't know you know this is the end fucking dude our average placing is 1.75 that's our average placing like bro it's people like people were saying that they say that and then do they act do they get the i just hope they feel the emotions of like damn i i sounded like a fucking dumb ass do they get that or do they just spew the negative whatever they say

and then it's like, uh, we got our third second place in a row and people were like, they've lost it. Like it's over for them. Dude. They're not good anymore.

They're not good anymore. They're using the bracket as an excuse. Like, but I think these are just hate watchers. I think these are hate watchers and they're getting their fucking dope. You know what I would do for three seconds? Oh my God. Oh my God.

Optic lost. Everything's so good. Everything's so right in the world. And then that's, you know, that's it for them. That's what they like. But now,

and now we win. And it's like. Second place is a fucking like, oh, they fucking suck. They lost. Like second, if I got second place,

three times straight, I'd be like, I'm the fucking greatest. But then you'll have people on the internet. On the internet. You'll have people on the internet. That'll tell you, oh,

that's a shit mentality to have what? What happened to mamba mentality? Yeah, I'm not fucking mamba. What happened to mamba? And it's like, you don't have Mamba mentality. Yeah, you, you have so opposite of Mamba mentality. You are so far from Mamba mentality.

Imagine someone, like, no one with Mamba mentality would be talking about Mamba mentality for someone else. Right, exactly. Like, you can't be you and speak of, like, someone with Mamba mentality. Exactly. I mean, I can. I can feel it in, like, I feel it in Shotsie that he wants to win. Like, he, he has past the point of, like, doing tricks and looking cool and flying around and trying to, like, he's past that. He's on some, like, he's graduated to his formal stage to where, like, he just wants to win.

Like, whatever, like, because formal, I think, had a, I mean, maybe, maybe. Maybe he did. Maybe he didn't. God. But I feel like there was a time where formal, he wanted to look good. He liked the spotlight. He liked people talking about his KD. He liked people.

You know, I was gun in there fucking AR. Like, shit. There was another shit in his head that wasn't just what's the best move. What's the best play to win? Right. And I feel like Shotsie was like that as well. Shotsie wanted to look flashy and. Right.

move around the map crazy or make some crazy flank and like that was kind of his thing. You know, I'm just that crazy outlier type of player that you don't, that, you know, doesn't come around too often and you're just going to have to deal with these plays that I make because I'm just that, I'm dumb, that guy. But I feel like Shotsie's matured into sort of what I think formal matured into during his Halo Infinite stage. Right. of like, I don't have to be the, I don't have to be top of the KD. I don't have to have the playmaking, whatever.

I don't need the sniper or the power weapon or the, like, what do we, what do I have to do to win? I just want to win. And I feel like shots he's in that space. I feel, I feel like, like all the legends that retire have those years before they retire,

whether you're, you know, Seth or Crim, Clay, uh, I don't think Seth ever had that. I think Seth just like, he just like, he wanted to go positive.

No, no, no, not that. I'm just saying like, like, whether you're a legend in any game, like Oger 2 as well, like they always have those later years where they team with demons. Yeah. And then they are more of like the back seat.

Like every, everybody has that. I'm wondering what those years are going to be like for dashy and Simp and Shotsie. It's like... Might be seeing it already from like a sim. Yeah, but who's a Simps team? Is it Semdraza?

Simp draws a, abusa, and... And, oh, four. Yeah. And they're good, but they're not, they, they don't... He doesn't have the demons. Yeah, he, like,

like, if, if... Because, like, when Seth was on his way out, he was teaming with fucking hook and Shotsie, or maybe, like, you know what I mean? Like, Shotsy and Dash. Clay were on their way out. they had Illy Shotsie

Hooke. Exactly. Illy Hocci Hook like and it's like I wonder I wonder

what it's gonna be like whenever the next generation has to find demons I don't know I can't imagine you know 15 years deep

and they and there's some new kid which kind of like did happen it did happen with Merck but like it's not like

Shotsy and I don't think Shotsie and in Dashie have like lost a step at all. I think Merck's play style and movement is just too, what would the word be? Just it's not, not that it's like not special. I feel like I have to use like a negative word,

but Merck's POV seems pretty normal. He's just really good at the game. And he has like, he's really good awareness, centering fucking, but like I still don't understand how he doesn't use paddles and doesn't claw. Like this needs There should be a documentary on like

There needs to be cameras on his controller Like people aren't understanding how fucking Dude did you hear what JPM said in the flycast He said he said that What happened Another thing that happened for Merck this past event Because he fried this past event Where he was like

He was playing average the other three events Instead of playing like the best player in the world Um He switched back he had like a custom controller built for him that was a default controller and it had like a special interior I don't or a special like motherboard

he didn't he stopped using that one and just bought a Walmart controller is what JP called it just a controller a default controller from GameStop and used that one and won the event so like instead of all this like these like custom like this custom controller that has a higher polling rate and a better, you know, like the clicky buttons and all the special,

all the hoops and ladders or whatever it's called. All the, all the bells and whistles is what I was trying to think of. All the bells and whistles. He got rid of that, just bought a controller off from GameStop and used that and said. Yeah, $60 controller and won Paris with it. Dude. He's a freak in nature. People don't give it.

It's not given enough attention. how insane that is. I want you to just grab a controller with no paddles, know anything, don't claw, and go like,

slide cancel, go jump off a wall, go jump to get on the wall, jump while you're on the wall, while while turning your fucking joystick to aim somewhere and then still be winning that gunfight

against the best people in the world. It makes no sense to me. And I'm, especially that he doesn't claw. The fact that he doesn't claw. The fact he doesn't claw is stupid. I saw he'll claw sometimes, like, if needed. I forget when, maybe, like, maybe, like, picking shit up.

Or I don't even know if you pick shit up. Or maybe if he has to, like, pick up a gun and then hit why while he's turning. But he said he will claw sometimes. Right. But I don't know if he ever shoots with his middle finger, if that makes sense. Okay. Like, because I used to, like, in Halo, I would half claw to where, like, I would pick up the flag or, like, pick up an over shield and then, like, put on the overshield or, but I'm never shooting with my middle finger. Like, it's like, I'm clawing, but I'm only clawing to, like, pick something up and be able to turn at the same time.

So I don't know, man, that shit does not get, it is not taught. I don't know. It don't make sense. It don't make sense. It's not talked about enough. You know, I don't know what else could be spoke about it, but it's just absolutely. insane. Bro, what was the last time you...

What was the last time you played a video game? Last... Last time I touched a video game was on... Was the race of master prestige. And the time before that... I freaked out so much. I got...

I knocked my headset out. Can you? hear me? Yeah, yeah, I can't know. Dude, I, I, I genuinely don't know what it is. Like, I just have, wow. I have no, like, I met, that's a long time. I met this dude at my apartment. Yeah, it's like, what, 10 months?

10 months. I met this dude at my apartment at the pool. He was like, yo, is that an optic chain? I was like, yeah. Then, of course, they, we always get into the, like, so what are you playing now? And I'm just like, I'm not really playing anything. Like, just been doing. more like vloggy stuff or just lifestyle content and I'll do content at the optic office.

But then he like DM me on Instagram the other day. He was like, yo, you should download this game. Let's play. I'm just like, there's just not a chance. I don't know what it is. Bro, I'm telling you. It's just not a single chance. All I ever did was play video games.

The second I went to rehab for Addy and haven't taken it since, I have I have just had I mean Halo Infinite did drop and I was playing Minecraft a little bit I did get in the world of Warcraft a little bit as well like last year um

but so you haven't played wow in the last eight months I thought you played that for a little bit maybe maybe I did play wow in the last eight months yeah but it was like it was not it'd be like maybe an hour hour and a half for like two weeks um so I guess that was maybe

the last time, but I don't, since I stopped taking, from 2010 to 2020, every single time I got on a video game, unless I was completely out and just had to manage for one day. Every single time I hopped on a video game, I was taking Addy. There was a time in 2015 when I first joined Optic. I was in like a super healthy place. I was working out. My mind felt good. it's you know i'm not going to be cracked out when i joined the first optic when i first move into

the optic house like i'm trying to be in content i know when i take adi i get in zombie mode so i took a break from adderall to where i would only take it during online tournaments in at tournaments um so i would practice not on adie um then i was still like pretty good didn't really like make make a difference like that some some would say i was like better because I would probably stat or less. But besides that, it turned into me taking it all the time. Even at the first Optic House, it turned into me taking a lot of Addy. And then Scuff House, I was taking it every single time.

And then that turned into a fuck ton. And then after that, you know, they had their H1Z1, your Fortnite. And I was taking every single time I ever touched a video game. I was taking Addy. and then in December 27th of 2020 was my last time taking it. I haven't taken it since and I have not wanted to play a video game.

You know, Halo. It seemed like you, yeah, it seemed like you liked Minecraft that little stent. It seemed like you liked Eldon Ring for a little bit. I did. It's just the stream. But it has to, it has to be like offstream.

I've, I mean, I guess World of Warcraft for like two weeks. because I was just so bored I was like I need to find something like but like I was like forcing myself to do that and after an hour I'm like I don't even want to fucking yeah but I mean there were a few times to where I would get sucked in like when Halo Infinite dropped I was playing all the time

but I don't think I ever touched it off stream same with Eldon Ring same with you know there would just have to be because it's Halo Infinite like obviously I'm going to play but I'm playing it for the stream. I'm trying to have like a good time on stream. Eldon Ring doing the marathons.

Like there, there was no way I would like play Eldon Ring off stream. Yeah. So I don't know. It's just I don't know what it is, man. Addie, whatever that chemical is, Addy is, Adi completely ruined that for me. Because I used to love playing video games. I would play League of Legends all the time.

Like, I don't even know if I was thinking Adi like. that like 2009, 2010. I'm playing League of Legends as well. I just loved video games. It's all I wanted to do. I was down to play something new. I was playing call of duty sometimes. But like once I started taking Addy

and then I take it every single time I ever touched a video game, it just, whatever it did to my brain, it makes me just not want to. Because I know people my age that will still be like, like I just want to, I just want to, You know, I like turning on a game, winding down a little bit, playing something. Like, you're still, like, you game randomly, I feel like. Yeah, I'll game randomly.

And I just, it's just, like a little, I like a little game every once in a while. It's just not there for me. I don't know. I feel like maybe I could do, like a. What are you going to stream when you come back? I mean, I'm thinking of, Bose is trying to hit me with some, like, IRL stream. Like, yo, after change. We need to, you know, let's find a cameraman.

Let's rent like an Airbnb for a week. Let's just be live for like a week and like see what, see how it does. See what. And he says all this, but I'm like, for one, I have a dog. So it's like I got to figure that out. Two, you say this, but it's like I know I'm going to have to drive. I'm going to have to pick you up. I'm going to have to like schedule what we're doing.

I'm going to have to find the cameraman. I'm going to have to figure out the payment situation. I know it's all going to be me. Right. So I'm like, you don't want the responsibility. Well, I just don't want, I don't want the responsibility.

Like if he said, yo, I got a cameraman for a week. Here's the Airbnb. Pay me 2K for the Airbnb or something. Like, that's how much it will be up. My boy's going to record us.

Just send him your Twitch information. Like that's, if he did, sure, I'll do it. Yeah. But the fact, I just know.

it would be I have to I'm going to be driving everywhere I'm going to be like I'm not going to be able to just like chill with the phone in my hand passenger seat and we're going and talking to chat like I know I'm going to have to all right what are we doing all right well let's go to the gun range all right well I'll call the gun range I'll set it up I just know no offense to Bose but it's like I feel like I would just end up having to fucking do it all and that's not what I do that's not what I'm the guy that's the guy that does not that and I show up

and I try to I try to put in my best effort so IRL stream I mean it would be fun me and Bose could talk about it it might be you know I don't I'm not trying to like call out Bose or say he won it because he does seem like he does want to do that and I would be down to try with him but I think he sometimes like he watches like have you seen

the Adrian Bruner streams yeah and like with Dean the Great right And he's like almost trying to compare I'm like bro, we don't know girls We don't have money like that Right They have beef every single episode

Or every single street They like fighting people They have drivers The shit's set up for them Like our lives are not that Our lives are boring as fuck And he's like Well we can like make something happen

We can like You know hit up this person See if he's got like you know Girls show and I'm like Well I'm like kind of talking to someone And it's just like, it's just like, I don't know. Your summer travels deserve an upgrade. With select Chevrolete, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac vehicles connected by OnStar,

you can stream, game, and more on the go. Whether you're headed to a music festival or a cottage getaway, you can access hundreds of apps on Google Play right from your center display. Explore OnStar Tech today at OnStar.ca and discover how to take your summer to the next level. OnStar. Better never stops. So wait, are you in love or no? Next question.

Oh, um, we're not even dating. We're not even dating. We're not like, that's not what I asked. It's not what I asked. So you can be in love without dating. A hundred percent. You ever been in love without dating? What?

Um, I like someone. Hmm. But, you know, takes two to tango. Damn. So you're hoping to tango soon. Listen, I'm going to be good regardless. I'm a grown-ass man, and I will make the best of any situation I'm putting. You put me in a jungle with a lion.

I come out with a lion coat. Oh, put that on a shirt. You put me in a jungle with a lion, and I'm coming out with a lion coat. Oh, yeah. I think that's how to quote goes. I think it's if you see me in a bear. about to fight protect the bear.

You put me in a junk, you put me in a snake pit I'll come out with a, with a fang tooth. Oh, put me in a snake pit

I come out with a fang tooth. You put me in a snake pit I come out with crock boots. Think about it. Yeah, snakes, snake skin. But crocs.

Now, how did I do that? There was a crock underneath. I killed that too. Oh, You kill them all. You put me in a panther pit. I come out with a, with a panther coat. Oh, that's what I'm saying.

You put me in a c. Pit, pit. What else? What's a C? You put me in a cugure. You put me in a cup. You put me in a cheetah chase. Oh.

I'll come back with a cheetah hat. Oh. Oh, I think that was the best one. Oh my God. Alexis scared me. Yeah, you have that baby yet, man. Hurry up. It's not, it's not on me.

You're gonna let me meet it? Yeah. You'll probably meet my kid before any of us meet Sets kid. I met Sest kid. Oh, but I was sick, so I couldn't really like, Seth's kid fucks with me. Really? Yeah, he was beside me, like, trying to, like, grab me and shit.

I think he, thought I was dad. Yeah, because of the red hair. Yeah. But he didn't fucks, he didn't fucks with those. Tattooed dad.

Cool dad. Oh, cool dad. He didn't fucks with Bose, though. Bose tried picking him up. He instantly started crying. What? I wonder why.

Racism, probably. Oh, shit. It starts early, they say. Maybe it's not learned. Maybe it is. Maybe it is. Maybe it is.

all right i gotta i gotta head out pretty pretty soon tell everyone what you're eating because i know you're not locked oh i'm i'm extremely locked you don't know how locked i am it's a it's a it's a it's a it's scrambled eggs and bacon oh you're hell of locked hell of locked put him in a friscoe diner will come out with scrambled eggs and bacon yeah put me in a put me in a diner bar i'll come out with a diner coat all right that's gonna do it for this episode

of the podcast thank you for watching I appreciate you watching episode 200 it's going to be a banger and it's going to be electric

we've been working on it with Matt Craig for months now yeah speaking of Matt Craig Matt Craig play now show music