The Flycast - Will Champs Make FormaL Return to COD? | The Flycast Ep. 115

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

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She called you Nicholas Dude, how are, how do the ants just start crawling up the fucking bed? Dude, one time, dude, one time Mace took a shit and I picked it up and I went to throw it in a,

in a, in a trash can out here. And when I went to go, put it in, on the top of the trash can, must have been 30,000 maggots. Dude, I wanted to puke.

I was scared to drop Mace's shit because I didn't want maggots to spit, to nuke out of the fucking trash can. Uh-uh. I would have just threw the bag on top. What's good. Welcome back to the Flycast.

Damn, I'm so used to looking in this camera. I'm like sitting here looking. Welcome back to the Flycast episode. Who gives this shit? Who the fuck cares? Stop. Stop asking. No one cares.

Every episode. Wait, what episode was this? Stop watching. Wait, I think I lost the plot. Yeah, that was... Like and subscribe. I can subscribe to our... Comment, comment. Start liking, start commenting.

We're trying to grow this podcast. Five stars. We have something. We got something special plans. One of our production guys, he... What else do I go off? Can you ping that chat? Do what?

Can you ping it? I lost it. The chat. You lost your answers? No, I have the answers. I just lost the chat. Maniac. James.

All right. Starting off today a little slow, but here we go. James is pissed off at our podcast. He says it bored him. Oh, my God. So he went out of... Dude, do you know James has a YouTube channel? Really?

It's called James Just Plays. Can you look it up? No, it's not on. Matt's messing with it. We'll cut all this. Yeah, we'll cut all of it. We'll cut all this and there's like... Just the topics, champs, James questions.

Hey, it's Friday right now. So I hope Optic's doing well. Let's go. Let's go. Big week this week. And we're going to start off the week hot with the fly cast. Yes, sir. And our producer.

One of the producers. James. James Sellers. He actually got knocked out in a boxing match. You could probably find, yeah. James just plays Zero Riz. Why I'm never drinking again back about.

This is who we're talking about. This is what the fuck? Yeah, wait, click on. It's because of his shorts. Yo! Yo! 5.4 milt. Look at his face.

What the fuck? Shit. I didn't know he added like, well, learn something new every day. Learn something new. See, he's trying to get us to get on this way. He's teaching. He's 5.8 million views type way. He's trying to teach us. Yeah. So he was like, y'all, I got an idea for y'all. Sorry, my girl's texting me about the ants all over our bed because of Cheetos.

So. Not your fault. 100% my fault. Cheat day. Cheat day last night. Oh, okay, okay. James set us up with a segment. It was like, bro, do something. Like, y'all be, y'all get on the flycast and you just talk about.

Honestly, I don't know what. Like, last week I get it. Like, we went to Scumps wedding, talking about the vacation, the craziest thing that happened at the wedding. So, there's a lot to talk. Sketch, Doc. There's some shit to talk about. But then there's weeks like this where it's like, what are we doing?

So he's like, let me help y'all out. Here's this segment. I want both of you to answer these questions however detailed you want before the episode and it's important you don't share the answers before recording So we got three questions And I want you all to play around two Leave it in the comments below

Make sure to comment Your answers Right after you five star the video That used to be a thing right five star? I don't remember five starring a video Matt talk to me Five-starring a video? Did you ever five-star a video?

You five-star a food review. Okay. Top question number one. James, did you have a five-star or a YouTube video? Like, were there, was there like a star rating system? How many people have clicked off? Dude, they're still here. We literally told them that they're not allowed to leave.

They haven't left. Oh, yeah, true. All right, there's no five stars. It's probably just me, then. Number one. We got three, Questions. Three questions.

And they're genius questions. And I want you guys to play long. Unbelievable questions here. Top five things in life that cost less than $20. Less than $20. What are your top? Are we TikTok baiting right now? Are we clip farming?

Yes. We're clip farming? Oh shit. Okay. Hold on. Let me sit up. I think is that how? Wait, you guys are witnessing this live.

And you want to wear your hat? You want to wear your hat like that for the club farm? In case it like pops and shit. Okay. Okay, I was just making sure. I didn't know we were clip farming. Yeah, we're clip farming. Okay.

Ready, action. Go. Top five things in life that cost less than $20. Less than $20? Wait, what? I'm in character. I'm in character. Yes, top five things that you've already written your answers sound too.

Do you, have you ever seen the people who act like they're on a podcast giving answers? Yes. But like it's just, you know, it's just, them, but they're not talking, they're acting like they're what you need to do. They're all just tips. Everyone's just biting. To get in the best shape of your life. Oh, oh yeah.

Stop to fucking, like, and it's just like bros talking to, bro, bro's acting like he's on a podcast right now. All right, so number one, top five things in life that cost less than $20. Less than $20. So would you like to start? Are we going back and forth?

Or am I doing my five? Go back. Let's go. Wet platinum lube. Damn. How did I not? Because we used to like share that and we were like, this shit's the best. It's the best.

Mine would be a Twitch Prime sub to me. That's good. To my channel. Or Seth. So not only is that less than $20, it's free. It's free. So that's number one. I'd say guacamole on Chipotle bowls.

It hits just. God, your answers are so much better. It makes a B-list food item B-plus or A, even sometimes. That's a good one. I said a good fellow tank top from Target, not a wife-beater. It's just like a tank top. A tank top? Get yourself an extra large.

Don't dry the shit out of it or it'll shrink, but it's $5 from Target. I got, I got like a few blacks, a few whites, and then a few pinks. I was ready for summer. Okay, yeah. I mean, that's pretty good. I'd say a coffee to go. A coffee to go, it just, it helps me. Yeah.

That's America right there. Hagerstown brown weed. It's not that exotic bullshit that gives you panic attacks. That's true. It's just that trash weed that somehow is still in Hagerstown, Maryland, probably to this day. Yeah. But that's what got me addicted to smoking weed. And it was some of the best times of my life.

And so you could be an addict for less than $20. And you would be exactly. Name something better than that. There's nothing better. You roll a blunt. You could probably get two blunts out of $20. Probably could. My next is a hand sanitizer.

COVID. Yeah. It's saved the U.S. I feel like it's under $5. You always just want on you. The one friend in your group, if they have hand sanitizer, you end up just if you see hand sanitizer you just like you're walking out of the

anywhere you're walking out of the coffee that's a good answer I like that and it's saved the that saved earth saved earth saved earth for under you can say I saved earth for under $20.

My last one would be three gifted subs to Matt Craig because he smiles really he smiles a lot when he gets That's a good It's a good answer Yeah Three gifted to Matt Craig

For under $20 I can't think of Like yeah Hand sanitizers Safe Planet Earth from COVID But have you ever gifted Matt Craig three subs? They haven't

I know they haven't I haven't either But I imagine if I did You'd just be like Thanks man Thanks man And he would just be like Have you ever seen Matt

Matt Craig in YouTube When he's streaming? I used to watch his streams a little bit Guys, you'll never believe What's happening Yeah Imagine he had a whole different character

Different personality My last is YouTube premium Dude No no ads How are people watching YouTube Without YouTube premium? Alexis doesn't

She has almost two She has almost two million subscribers on YouTube And does it use YouTube premium I'm like, how do you do? I bet Seth doesn't either. Oh, and there's no way. There's no way he does.

There's no way he does. Yeah, that's a good one. And you can listen to music with and close your iPhone. It's a good answer. Boom, the cut, the clip cut. Oh, my God. Seven minutes. Guys, how did we do?

How did we do? I think that's probably going to go viral. As long as we have somebody that can cut it very well. The top three. Oh, we're doing the next one already. Let me read it. Let me reset so we can get back into TikTok. People were like, what the fuck is going on with this podcast?

It's not our fault. It's James Just plays. He got beat up one time. He hasn't been the same sense. This is what happens. This is what happens when you get punched. Top three worst places to get a boner. A boner?

Holy shit. You want to start? I'll start this time. All right. In a car with a family member. Why would you get a boner there? I'm just saying that would most... That would suck.

I would assume that would be bad. It would not be good. That'd be a hard situation to get out of. Yeah. I said walking off the school bus in 10th grade. That's happened many times. I'd have to put my backpack in front. I don't know why I just had raging boners on the school bus.

Sometimes the girls in the back would let me play with their ditties. And then it would be our time to get off the bus. And I was just... And you were just rock solid. Yeah, just going through the... Well, it was funny. Yeah. I get that.

It was bad. It was hard. I would have to, like, act like I'm just, like, carrying my backpack. It was just in front of you. Yeah. Which one was weirder? Church. Hey, the Lord gave it to you.

don't be ashamed it wouldn't be the best place to get one but I could see that being I could see that I will say in a car with a family member I don't think that happened to me I just assumed it would be bad but church happened many a time

okay all right so my first one was walking off the school bus in 10th grade and now I would say walking near a school bus now okay that might be the best answer

that would be a you don't want to get a boner especially these days certified lover boy my last is when you're in the bathroom and you have to pee why is that bad peeing with a boner

like the water I feel like sometimes sometimes if I pee with a boner it's sometimes if I pee with a boner it sometimes if I pee with a boner it just comes out like, boom. Sometimes they go...

Like, are you talking about when it goes out like this? No, I'm talking about when I'm... Maybe we have different, like, verticality. Why are they laughing? I don't know. They're laughing so loud. Because when I have a boner,

I'm more of like a, hey, kind of boner. Oh, really? Are you, you're more of a... I'm more of a... I'm more of a... Straight? Okay, yeah, yeah. Uh, that makes sense.

See, when you're, when you're, when you're a upy it like it's like when you're kink in a hose okay and then you have to unkink it yeah are you guys upies or outies are you straighties or

yeah that would suck I know people know what I'm talking about because then you got to wait I think there's a few you either got to wait or you got to do a handstand those are the only two options um my last answer of

worst place to get a boner is the homie's funeral his sister's hot I feel like it's just disrespectful and the family they're not in the mood for that but what if she's just looking good that's what I'm saying it's like there's not much like I've told Michelle many times

I can't control it right and sometimes black just looks good on like black black dresses look good you look good I get boned it's no disrespect no disrespect In RIP to Homi. If it's an open casket, you can just Sorry, brother. Exactly.

Yeah. All right. So how did that do? How do we do there? James, these are your questions. How did we do? We saw your YouTube and YouTube real views.

Are these 5 million view clips? He said we're doing great. All right. He said we're doing great. He's going to edit himself. Pick a artist for each of these three events. We'll start with the first one. Okay.

Which artist? would you want at your wedding? I went, I went pretty lame. I went Ed Shearing. See, I didn't do much thinking with mine. Ed Shearin is a good one. You went mob deep? At my wedding?

No. Oh, okay. Who do you think I went? Drake? No way. That was, I ain't gonna lie looking at my answers. Now I'm like, this shit's, who would I? Hmm, who would I actually want at my wedding?

No way you put your head. I imagine you get off, you're at my wedding, you get off the bus. Because I'm dropping racks and racks for y'all to enjoy my wedding. Of course. You get off the bus and you just hear, then, da-da-nan, then-dan-dan-dan-dan-dan-dan. Look what you've done starts playing. Then you start sitting down in your chair and you just hear the over-my-dead body.

Or however it goes. Yeah. It just puts you. And then in the reception. And then Drake pops out, sings for like two minutes. And he sings that himself. It's not even the sample. And you're just looking at Michelle.

And then I start walking down with my mom and then I get married. That's pretty good. All right. What artist would you want to play at your funeral? I ain't going to lie. when I said these answers. Is it Drake for all three? It's Drake for this one.

Drake at your funeral? But I think what would be better would be mob deep. At your funeral? Yeah. Okay. You try to throw a party? He ain't a crook son.

He just a shook one. And then some bars about like guns and guns, death. Imagine you're just, you're just, and then they start rapping, you just go. Gun bars, death bars. Oh, he's getting killed bars I kind of went pretty

the same along the same track as you did Who? The guy that made the Minecraft music Like I feel like it would be a vibe Honestly A very good Is that good for a funeral?

Could you imagine what it makes me happy Imagine what Sam's playing While I'm And then it would also like Piss off Blake and George Because like Yeah like that That's my game.

And you have to listen to it. That's a good one. Yeah. Who would I actually want, though? Because I feel like, like Drake, I was just, because I thought we were going to do these. And he was asking me, I was like, all right, fuck, let me just fucking write these. Yeah, yeah. Who would I, chat, you can answer this to.

Who would I actually want in my funeral? People are going to think we're making up the next one. But I'm going to read it verbatim. James just plays, wrote these. the guy that was in the boxing match. I don't know who I'd want at my funeral. Fucking... I'd have to look at Spotify.

We'll go Drake again. Fuck it. Okay. The last question is... Over my dead. Ba! Both songs at Wedding and Funeral. Yeah, in and out.

I think I killed somebody in the game. I don't know. And I just read a Dron on the Dreams of My Stry. Fuck it, I was on it. Make sense Shout out my gamers Living tax free This is

When you tax me Oh well I guess you lose Someone wins some Alright All right The last one For pick

Artist for these three events Is the delivering room While your wife Is projecting the baby Out of her Budussie Now this one I actually gave some thought Tyler

And she said Maybe water And she's just And Tyler says Made me sweat Make me harder I might have to rethink that one as well Like I said when I came up with these

It was real quick Yeah I went with Metallica Master of Puppets and Pullin of Strings And she says Ah That sounds like a I could see that on like a Jack Black

If Jack Black had a movie where his wife was pregnant in a hospital pushing out a baby, I could see that would be the... Master! Master of puppets and pulling a string! And then cut. How did we do? How did we do? That's pretty good. All right, those are... If anybody wants to edit those, let us know.

We'll put those up on the channel. All right. Welcome to episode of Flightcast. Back to the fly, guys. I was the 115. It's champs week. And I'm not going to lie. I'm scared.

Well, I mean, by the time the people are watching this, we have already played. So we are either playing again today. Hey, congrats on the dub today, boys. No, yesterday. Yesterday. Congrats on that. We play Wednesday. We played Thursday.

And this is coming out Friday. So either, here's the two things that have happened. Either they have lost yesterday. And they have to play today. Or they have won yesterday and they play tomorrow. Congrats on the dub yesterday, boys. Hey. We're going to get them again tomorrow.

Rest up. Rest up today. Jam, Sunday. See you soon. Rest up today. We're knocking these boys out tomorrow. I wonder, because these guys that don't, I mean, there's obviously a lot of pressure with just being on the optic call of duty team.

Yeah. Are they... nervous? Yeah. Because I feel nervous. I think... Like, I'm imagining if I'm like a player and just I kind of get those feelings like everyone's doubting you.

You've just had your worst placing in forever. Best placing in forever automatically into worst placing in forever. Somehow first and 12th, which is literally I don't think has ever happened. Doesn't make any sense. Never happened in the history of e-sports. but it almost just like I think there has to be a god because like that just that's so impossible that this just has to be a part of their story their story like boom the most insane thing happened the most insane thing happened and now champs Sunday or champs weekend champs weekend they come

out and they just might do the impossible it's simply the Oh shit. So we might be playing today. So regardless, we played yesterday and we play today. So if we beat the guerrillas yesterday, then we play today. If we lost to the guerrillas yesterday, then we play losers today. We play either Toronto or thieves. Damn.

So the boys are still in it. Who's on L.A.G? Is that Clayster? Who's on L.A.G? Isn't that, didn't they play pretty good? like is that like fame and yeah LAG's been playing pretty good like then they just get like third or four

everyone has been playing infinitely better than they were at the beginning of the season yeah in the beginning of the season it was just like the top four and everyone else now it's not that assault Diamond Khan

Estreel fame wait is who's the five people who's the coach I can't remember yeah Matt doesn't know either it's got to be

I don't know Why do they have five players? They have a sub or something? Oh, okay, okay. DiamondCon Estrial fame and flames. That estuaryl kids is disgusting. Oh, man, oh, man. I just, hey man, I'm just hoping for the best.

Me too. Come out swinging. The venue's going to be dope. Get a quick little 3031. The venue's going to be insane. The venue is going to be so sick. Like, that has to be. a main stage match, right?

They're all, it's all on the same stage. Oh, shit, really? Every match is on the same stage. Yeah, it's a 360, it's a 360 stage. The stage in the middle. They, we, they brought in a stands around the, or fans around the whole fucking, they brought in a Jumbotron. Oh, my God. So the Jumbotron is like gigantic. So the people on the sides can, dude, they got a screen as well.

I am so excited. There, there are going to be so many people in that, because I I've been in this venue five or six times for different things. But I've never seen it packed. Because I've only gone for like, you know, like soccer games or other conventions. I've never seen it packed. It is going to be so loud. Is this not at the e-sports stadium? No.

This is where the sidekicks play. Oh, shit. And it's in the middle of the middle of the venue there. Damn. Dude, it is going to be so. I have, for as long as I've. been a part of Optic. I don't remember.

I remember being a part of like one crazy like, I think it was, they won a few years ago. It's like I like dyed my hair green and we won like the first event of the season. Major one, yeah. And like that crowd was like pretty dope. And I was like,

but I feel like other than that, like I'll go to some, I used to go to some events, not go to some event. And it seemed like the events I wouldn't go to are the events we did good. And then the events I would go to is like, oh, some of having a top six,

the top eight, a fucking something. Yeah. So I think that it doesn't matter what the match is. This crowd is going to be fucking insane no matter what. I am so excited. Like Thursday match. Bro,

I am so excited. Thursday match, I bet it's fucking packed and people are screaming. At least they better. Every day sold out. Every day sold out to the point where even the staff was hitting us up. The staff even hit up Hector and said, just so you know, no one else can come. They said that to Hector.

So, sorry Hector's billionaire friends. You're not allowed in. It's packed. So if it's that, dude, I am going to be fucking. Are you going to be there every day? Yeah, I have to. I'm seeing a lot of it. Oh, really?

Yeah. Damn. So, do you get nervous about that? Not really. Not really. I just try to, I try to make it as exciting. Like, do you prep for that? Well, Corey and I talk, Corey is like the produces it.

We talk about it a lot. I didn't get a chance to talk to him nearly as much as I wanted to because of Seth's wedding. But he's been, he's been grinding. And we got, apparently is a lot of really cool stuff that we're going to do in the venue. So I'm excited about it. Blake is coming down. Two of us are going to do it.

Yeah. I don't know. I won't be there. Even this morning, I stopped to get gas and like a truck of construction workers, like just stopped beside my car. And I couldn't even hear them. They're like, oh, hey, can I get a pick?

I was like, what the fuck? And I was like, thank God I'm in a good mood. Because usually if like something like that happens, I throw off, I just feel fucking awkward. I say some dumb shit. I freeze up. But I was like, oh, yeah. He was like, yeah, we're going down to the event this weekend.

I'm like, God, damn. And he was like, yeah, my homie wants to pick two and then hops out the truck. Really? Yeah, we're going to. I was like home. I was like, God, fucking everyone. If you like call of duty and you're in Texas,

even if you're not in Texas, if you're missing out on this weekend, this is going to be the greatest event in some fucking time. And hopefully we come out swinging. Shit goes our way. I can't imagine how the boys feel. feel right now. I hope they're uh, I hope they're locked in. Obviously, they're locked in,

but it's just like, I don't know. Even just, just thinking about it from their shoes, it kind of makes, it's like, it makes me fucking nervous for them. Dude, imagine being bruised. The weight of their, the weight of the world on their shoulders. Because obviously,

obviously shots Ian can want to win. Obviously, they've been prepping for this event their whole year. But they've already won it. So there's got to be a little bit of like... Bruce has been playing good. Bruce has never won it. And Pred has never won it.

But Bruce has been playing longer than Predd, I can't imagine, dude. If I'm Bruce, like... We need this, man. This is it. This is a Super Bowl. This is everything. It all comes down to this. It would be, especially after, like, everything that's happened, then Seth retires and then some, like, weird team, not weird team,

but then some, like, last minute, fucking fake optic team. forms and then the team change. We get the team we fucking want. Start off playing good all year. Win the event. Everyone's like, I fucking knew it. Then we get a top 12 and then it was like, oh my God. Well, now it's

champs next. So it's if someone was making a documentary for this, it would be which we like kind of are. But I'm just thinking for I'm just thinking I'm thinking if someone just Somebody was documenting this on a week-to-week basis.

Well, that would be crazy. I'm looking at it from, because I watched this documentary of, like, track and field last night. And it was so good. But it was like the whole thing was like a one or two year period. Right. So our shit's like month to month kind of documentary. Yeah, yeah. But it's just, it would be insane to see this from like a documentative point of view of like the beginning of the year all the way to the end, which I'm sure that will be obviously be included.

no matter what happens at this event, but just the perf, I mean, not perfect, because obviously like a top 12 then going in the chances in what we want, but like, if shit goes our way, this would be a,

this is a perfect fucking movie. Dude, it would be insane. Yeah. It would be fucking insane. Well, I guess only time. We'll see. It would be a great ending to a,

scump documentary i would say scump imagine retires how do you engage engaged plays retires

or was any did he get engaged after he retired no no no i think he plays goes to halo worlds they win worlds he gets engaged he retires starts the watch party then they

lose they lose champs Then he goes to Italy, gets married, then they win champs at the watch party. I mean, think from a small scump getting into competitive call of duty, watching Halo from the sidelines, going through his whole journey into this. It would be a crazy, crazy ending to that documentary. We win champs. You're watching the process. Who's the last interview to end it?

If we win? Would it be a player? Would it be Hex? Would it be Seth? Oh, man. I think you would have to be Bruce. Fuck, yeah. I think you would have to be Bruce.

Yeah. That's what I would say. I was going to say, like, Hex is always usually the... Yeah, Hex is the meat and bones of a... Hex usually, like... Meat and potatoes of a lot of the interviews. Like he does his fucking yap session,

and then it's like, boom, it ends. Dude, recording Hex for a vision interview, they would last... an hour and a half and I would use 13 minutes. Remember, remember when I, when I was vlogging and we were at the, um,

the diner. The diner. And then Hex just started like, yo, record this. And then just went on a 10 minute rant session. And then I just turned the camera to you. And I'm just like,

which is, it's not, it's not his idea, but it's like, you know, pull the camera out, record this. I'm like,

all right, this better be like 30 seconds the minute. And then it was just seven minutes later. Did you wait? Which I vlogged. I was going to say, is that a vlog coming out? I wanted to come out. I just didn't think about the editing process.

And I don't like, is there free editing stuff? Like, I'm really not trying to pay for like Sony Vegas or anything. I'm the ass I ask y'all for your fucking Adobe logins. I don't have an Adobe login. What are you? what do you use to edit final cut oh shit so does matt you use final cut it's better than adobe it's better in sony vegas let's just say let's just say casey nice dad uses final cut when i use sony vegas it would just take so long to render yeah i mean and i feel like it would like honestly

that's the best part about final cut is it's like a but i use it's a productive i used the doby once and it rendered in like eight minutes oh really fuck i might have I've never used. But I've only used Sony Vegas, so I, like, just edit hitting ass and fucking, it's just, even though I'm going to be horrible at editing coming back, like, I thought I got, like, kind of decent. Yeah, you were good. But, like, now coming back after not editing shit in years, dude.

But, yeah, I recorded a vlog, like, last week. And I think once I'd chop it up, it'll be pretty good. I'm definitely like, like, I don't know if I want to put it on YouTube just because my ego, I'm afraid of it. I was thinking, like, I might just put this on Twitter. Like, it's not really like a plan. Like, am I a pussy?

I was like, what if I put it on YouTube? 24 hours later, I see it has, like, 3K views, and I'm just like, I mean, that happens. But because it's not like I'm going to, like, boom, vlog, boom, vlog. But, like, it's just, like, a one-off thing. So I was like, do I just put this one fucking It ain't like it's something special I thought out.

You're just doing it just to do it? I literally picked up the camera. I was like, because I've been just like stressing about not streaming And I just feel like a loser. Then I'm thinking like what I come back and start streaming? What am I even going to play? What am I even going to play? Fucking optic verse phase,

winners finals, Halo tournament or champ Sunday or whatever. Um, just happened had a thousand views. And I was just like, and usually it would be like three, four, five, six, especially if it's Optic phase. But Optic had a thousand views, like, 900 to a thousand. And I was like, like, just imagine if I kept, like, the Halo's fucking dime.

I haven't seen a tournament under like 2,500 views. And now Optic versus Phase Winters finals is that, like, the other match is probably getting like 600, 7. I'm like, that's fucking bad. And like, that's where I was at with Halo to where I was just like. Like, let me just, like, stop streaming. Like, this is getting a little depressing. Streams were slowing down big time.

And I was just like, let me, let me take a break. Summer's about to come up, obsessed wedding. I'm going to just take a fucking break and then come back with something. Why do that fit into my fucking vlog or aunt? So you needed to do something? Oh, so I was taking a break. And then after a few weeks, I'm just sitting here. And I'm like, God, I just, what the fuck am I doing?

Like, I work out. and then we were starting to like kind of go not go out more but like maybe hang out with some of our friends or whatever but I was just like not doing shit and I was like this is my I try to convince myself like it's a vacation I'm gonna just enjoy man we got

but then it just got to a point we're like dude I need to fucking do something so then it got to the point where I was I was I was like all right where's my vlog or where's my camera I think I'm gonna vlog tomorrow I saw on the schedule as like me and you had flycasts content shoot or like photo shoot

photo shoot with Hex and I was like and then Hex asked if we wanted to do breakfast I was like fuck it I'm gonna just vlog today and I think it came out pretty good it was uh picking up the camera for the first time in a while and like picked it up

did my typical morning shit and I think I said this I don't know where else I said this I definitely said it in my vlog but just my very first clip of turning on the camera, hitting record, and just trying to get the time a day it was, it was like 8.30 or something. Dude, it wouldn't focus. I needed lighting. So I had to open my curtains, open them blind, look, get my camera or get my phone in the fucking

sun, refocus it. It took like 12 seconds to just focus. My camera's like, like, like trying to focus. I get the time and I'm like, end the clip. I'm like, that just took a minute to just get the time on my phone I was like I forgot about all of this I grabbed my fucking You never used like a good camera Yeah Also the entire time filming

If it was like bad Or like just different kind of lighting My brights seemed so fucking bright And my dark seems so dark I was like this looks like fucking shit I was like I did like a little mini house tour And I'm like it looks horror It looks blue

it's like a white, dark blue fucking weird looking house like it just didn't make sense I was like isn't my fucking cameras or a setting I can change but I think it's just

my shit camera and it's a the Sony G7X and like I look up other people's videos online but it's like they always have the most perfect lighting

and then I like brought it in here and it looked horrible I'd like turn it around to like look at me it wouldn't focus and I was just like God, this is so annoying. I can't, like, I know there's bigger problems in life.

But, like, I was just like, this reminds me of why we all stopped vlogging. I mean, honestly, the biggest thing is that we, there's just nothing to vlog. Like, I don't have a fucking life worth vlogging. Yeah. And I think that's the biggest thing, but I forgot all the fucking, the, the mini stressors while vlogging and, uh, set up your camera somewhere and then you get the shot but then it looks like shit so you don't even use it and like someone someone starts talking you paint it to them it's just not even focused it's all white and it's just my battery my i turn on my camera in the morning battery was full

i was like all right this will at least last me till i get home i got here 10 minutes within getting here it was just it was dead i don't know how but it just died so i did like charge it for an hour but yeah enough complaining that was my return to vlogging i'm sure it'll be a good vlog my fucking my first clip um because i'm i'm always i used to always get worried about my vlogs until i would edit them and i'd be like all right that's right yeah like sometimes i would think i would have nothing but then i'd be at like 15 minutes long i was like i need to chop this fucking shorter your vlogs are your vlogs are always i mean every time you come back i'm like yeah i mean they're so fucking good

like when you started vlogging when you were doing your like fitness stuff dude your first vlog back I was like you told me you were like I think that this is what you should do yeah I think it is like

you're like a good streamer but I think more of your thing is like you should do the IRL stream and you should do like IRO YouTube type of stuff when you vlog like it used to like I used to get like a little jealous

because like I would work so hard on like the fucking shots and set up my camera and do all that shit and then you would just do funny shit and it was so much better. And I was just like dude that you're how you're like wit of like what you should do in a certain

in a certain time. Just like a quick like 10 second of dude they're so funny. It's so funny. And I worry about that. I'm like fuck what could I do? Like because I think about that. I'm like what could I do to just be like like you need that like 10

or 15 second clip of just like what the yeah. That was random but fucking funny. and I'm like worried my brain won't think of that but once I start recording and like I'm going throughout my day like a little random shit will just fucking pop up my there's a fucking

I literally had one point that I was trying to say and I'm just going everywhere right now oh when I started vlogging I had my first clip in the car where I was just like hey I haven't seen y'all in a while blah blah blah fucking six minutes in I was like Everything I just said was fucking horrible.

It made no sense. I had like, there's so many, I'm all over the place. I'm like, I need to just redo that. I redo it. Probably another like four minute clip.

I'm like, God, that was fucking shit too. Then I did it again. It was like, boom, a minute, minute and a half rant.

It, like, takes, you literally like need like a warm up. Yeah, you have to warm back up. Dude, when you come back to home.

Talk about a fucking warm up. Yeah. Dude, you can literally see in the progress. of vision. I mean, it was, it was beautifully shit

how vision always was. But you can see, like, in the progression of the edit, like, I find it again. Uh-huh. Because the first couple,

the first, like, half, the first, like, 20 minutes is like, it's like, oh,

okay. It's a little outdated. It's a little visiony. It's a little 2014, like. But then as, as vision goes on, like,

in that little, like, charity one that uploaded, Like, you could see in the edit that it took me a while to warm back up. But so, I mean, dude, I do kind of miss it every once in a while. There's just no time, dude. I have no fucking time. Well, it's also there's.

And there's nothing. I mean, you have more of a life that I think could be vlogged. What? I stream every night. Yeah, but like you come to the office almost every day, I think. I mean, I don't really know your life. Yeah, I mean, I guess I come in here. Then it's like you go home and then you stream.

So it's like, what is there? Yeah, what the fuck? You're just like on your computer. Here's Mace again. I mean, that was that turned into my blog. And I was like, yeah, they just saw. There's nothing else. I was like, this is the most lit day I've had in a while.

And people are going to comment, I do nothing. People are going to comment how I have nothing going on and do nothing. And like, what the fuck was this? Vlog the fucking. But it was my literally like most fucking. fucking lit day. Vlog the All-Star game tonight. I mean, maybe if I started today, but not let me, I'm going to work on, this will be my last

vlog for a while. Okay. All right. But yeah, I need to figure out something to fucking edit this shit. All right. But I don't know if I'm going to make the comeback to the vlogs. I don't think so. Speaking of coming back, formal.

Plants that come back and compete. Dude, I never even saw the clip. Black Oppos. People just started spamming my chat and they were like, oh my God, formal's coming back and I'm like, what article did you guys read? And somebody links me a clip of him saying it himself. What does he say?

What does he actually say? He's so bored of Halo. Halo's so dead. He just knew it was going to get clip. Like he even had to mention the views. He was like, 272. He was like, I'm done with this shit. Yeah.

I'm done with Halo and I'm done just like playing some other shit on the side. Like, I think that a majority, like people that I actually understand, like, like they can just see how frustrated Matt is with Halo. I mean, bro, it's just, I mean, I don't know what, I don't know what can be done. When Matt came back to Halo, Infinite had just dropped. Yeah.

And it was hype. People were playing it. He was, he'd be in Discord late at night. Yeah, the sandbox wasn't, wasn't, was fun. The maps were fun. The movement was fun. And then like, then. There was a huge computer.

community. And then the developers were like, oh, we got the game out. Let's take a six month break now. Even, I don't, I just don't. Obviously, I don't think they did the best job, but I just don't think the only arena shooter, I think is going to be Call of Duty. It just has to. I mean, at Halo Worlds, I'm sure they'll get a decent amount of viewers.

But I don't know how that helps with like the other fucking. eight months. Because it's just in such a... Like I saw Lucid with like 200 viewers. I was like, pro. I used to get... I would be at like, say, 350. Then Lucid would get on.

And he'd go to like 650 and I would go to like 220. And I'm like, all right, guys, Lucid's on. I'm getting off. Yeah. And now it's like Lucid's... I mean, I did see they like started screaming and then he went up to like 350 or something. But I was like,

These motherfuckers used to sign on 1,500 viewers, 1,200 instantly. Even, like, Phase Frosty would sign on, and it would just be, like, 800 viewers. Now, I see him sign on. He had, he had, like, 210 viewers. And I'm just like, bro, this is why I just, like, I saw that coming, and it happened, like, pretty quick.

Well, to be fair. Of this season, there was still decent numbers. But, like, it just, I saw everyone's going down. Mom were going down. I was like, bro, let me just get, but this is like it's just stressful watching my fucking everything go down yeah so let me just uh i'm gonna just take a break i was like this is fucking fucking fucking blows because i mean we're we're still dude we're we're trying to t st right now like Blake went somewhere or no i went i went

and got engaged i got back we had five days Blake then went to a trip that he had already planned then we went to Italy then we come back we have a few days and then now champs is happening Blake's flying in for champs and it's just like dude we haven't had a chance to recover and like this is like the three of us that's like our livelihoods and dude it hurts like seeing seeing like our subgrounds probably the lowest it's ever been and our our numbers have been you know everyone's numbers have gone down Like everyone's numbers have like Gone unless you're way to phase

Yeah unless you're like Part of like A&P or phase Which I ain't gonna lie man that shit looks fun Yeah it does look fun dude They're I mean and they deserve it They're geniuses like I was watching Kason stream yesterday and he was just sitting there with rage And they were just

Talking shit to A&P about basketball And how like five members of phase Could be five members of A&P And I was just like, dude, it's so entertaining. It's so, and both sides are playing it so well. And they're, they just know what they're doing. I feel like Optic, Optic is, I mean, amazing. And I love what we've built, but we were so protective of our brand for so long

because so many people tried to use it in Call of Duty. Like, oh, you get in an optic. That's a free 100,000 followers. You can get rich and all that. That was a real thing for five years. But nowadays, that doesn't, like, you can't just. do that. There's not an org in the world. You can't just, I mean, fucking Riley could join A&P tomorrow and it doesn't mean he's going to get a million followers. Like, you've got to do stuff

in order to, to make it. And, and they are so good at collabing with each other. I wish that we, I wish we had that, like, natural bone in our structure. Yeah. The issue with Optic was we all sign. It's just like, well, the most of the members signed. It's just like pro players. Yeah. And so it's like we weren't, we were pro players who would do content because it was cool to see pro players do content.

Right. Like it'd be like, Crim Six is one fucking 35 events. What's his day in the life like? And that would actually be interesting. Now motherfuckers don't care. They don't care. And you have to,

we were just never in it for the content. We were just in it for, being professionals. And then it was like, okay, when your time, when your time's, I was like, all right, we can make this content work as well. Because it was, it, it, people still thought it was like, oh, cool, they're an optic pro players. Now they're going to dive in the content. Cool.

What are they going to do? But now it's just been so long to where like, like, we, it's just, I mean, I think back and I'm just like, pro, if I just didn't, if, once I retired, if I just stopped taking Adderall, like, because I didn't even make much money from streaming. I had like decent numbers, but I was super inconsistent. I'd disappear. All I wanted to, I would take Adderall for, be up for days, and I would just, like, be making music and just dicking around, literally.

But, like, if I just didn't take, if I just retired, stop taking Adderall, just did gym. And then all, my all day focus was just, like, just set up a fucking stream in the living room or something. Like, just set up a stream in the living room, fucking do something with the phase guys or like collab with anyone get other people

because everyone everyone is always like sort of chill and I think a lot of us had like like me Bose flame Pomage would upload his like call called duty stuff but like a lot of us we weren't like IRL content kind of people like Pomage wanted to do this called call duty shit

Bose was just Bose Flame was just like the chill fitness. He loved the gym. Never, didn't really record it much, but like, love the gym. And then just like, you know, kind of smoke weed. And then we just like maybe pump out a video or something, like a would you rather. And then it was like we chill.

But it was never like every single day what like we're all in this. Like you can tell Fays right now is like we're all in this together. If we if we all just show up to the same place and a camera's on, like it's going to work somehow. And we were just like But we also were like I said just pro gamers We don't like their personalities are Our personalities are not like these new phase guys Like these guys are just there I mean like I think we're witty

Like we're funny in our own ways we've had our moments But like these guys are just like high energetic Yeah They're down to be in every amount of drama Yeah And then we got Like this is our last hope It's Hex

It is our last hope With the content shit Our last hope is fucking heck What's up? Flycast I said it before I said again It's the best podcast

Out right now Uh They don't know about rap They don't know About movies But they have some They don't know about basketball They definitely don't know

A ball I'll tell you that much You're See and this is what we needed In the scuff house Instead of being cracked out on Addy We need just a stream live Hecks coming in

Boom X, FaceTime and Banks. Yo, let's do this. And Bose. Not everyone's highest shit all the time. But just more shit like that, man. I think, I mean, I don't think about it all the time,

but I'm like, fuck, man, we could have. We were such like, we just had, like, such egos and, like, felt like we were cool. We didn't see the bigger picture. And now that we see what the fuck the bigger picture looks like, it's like, damn, we could have done that. But we just didn't... We were kind of just, like, chilling and, like, smoking.

I still think we can collab. I think optics big enough of a unit where we can collab with anyone. I think we... You can play fucking phase in basketball? Yeah, we can do a one-off video. And, like, some show... I'm talking about every single day

at being a lifestyle. And you can't do that when... Our biggest person's married and does what he wants. Which, like... Yes, you can do go do that because you are scump. But like our biggest guy, he doesn't, he wouldn't want to do that kind of content. Well, he, he's about it.

He would be, I mean, like, he would show. He would show, but I'm just saying he has, he wants his stream. He wants his streams, his watch party. It's just none of us were ever into this like, like we would need, I don't know if we'd need a team house. I get, but we would need a team house. No more girlfriends. no more divorces no okay maybe not that

but like it just works like they wake up there in the same fucking spot you walk down the stairs plaque boy max or whatever his name is making fucking music and rapping it they just hop on in the background of a stream or

it's just they caught the wave they understand it and there's a reason they got to where they were individually because they just knew what it took like We got to where we were because we were pro players and just kind of fell into it. Yeah, just kind of fell into it.

But they, like, they've known what to do since the beginning. And it's like, I don't know. It's dope to see it all work. Like sometimes I imagine, like, what if we had a team house right now? Like, we would just have to start just fucking wake up and start the stream. Act fucking stupid. Start talking shit. Yeah.

We could do it, but it would take, we're just old. Everyone's got girlfriends, fiancys, and married. People like to do their job and then go home and chill. But sometimes I don't even know how we got into this. But sometimes I fantasize about it. I really, really wish when I retired, I stopped the fucking Addy. Because holy shit, that shit was fucking, it fucks up. Like, I didn't even have a day-to-day.

I felt like when I was... Yeah, you were just going through it. It was just like, I'm... If I... I remember when I would wake up before noon, I'd be like... Now, now if I wake up and I see like 9.30, I'm like, fuck.

Yeah. Like, back then, if I wake up at... If I can go get Jersey mics and be back by like 2 p.m., I'm like, this shit's like, here we go. I got a full day now. And then I'm up all night. Then I sleep all day and like, Texas is trying to do content,

but I'm asleep. and... But now look at us. I mean, I say all that as if it's in like a, it seems like a depressive way to like compare ourselves to the people who are fucking popping right now.

And it is sort of, it's not really depressive. It's just how it fucking is. Like, um, I was it gonna be my fucking point there. Oh, like it seems depressive and how I'm talking about it. But I feel like I'm at, I wouldn't say I'm at the best place mentally right now. But like 32, I have a good girlfriend.

I'm a homeowner. I got animals. We take three animals we take care of every day. It's like life is just changed. Like probably have the most money I've ever had. Like it seems like all I've done is sort of go up. Yeah. But then there's a part of me that just.

knows I can't like I can't turn on my stream and just have like a thousand viewers so I'm like yeah so I'm like where to where so what what do I do I do everything is up but somehow I'm still thinking here sitting here I feel like I'm like fuck is like it's just the number time over the numbers hurt man they hurt and having to brute force your way through them hurts hurts hurts as well well I mean you're fucking you're king NCAA now Oh, dude, I took ECU to the Promise Land Back to back AAC champions Back to back

Cotton Bowl champions And then we lost in the semi-funk You do this in all in one night? All in one night How the fuck does that? How long was the stream? I was fucking grinding Well, you only, in the game type I was playing

You only play as your character So it simulates everything Until you get to your play So you'll only have like 10 plays In a whole game Yeah, yeah, yeah Okay So it's and but it's,

What if you're crushing it and then just simulation you're just losing. That happens dude is so frustrating. And then sometimes the coach will take you off and then the second string because I'm a running back, the second string running back will

fumble. Really? Or the quarterback will throw an interception and they run it back for a touchdown now you're losing. You're just like dude. Did you expect when you started it up that you were going to get numbers? No. We had a TST stream scheduled. We were going to play blackout. And you're like, I'm not.

And Blake came in and said, whoa, there's 1,800 viewers. And I was like, what? Because I don't ever have my viewer count on. He was like, yeah. He was like, you just,

just play. And I was like, I'll play all night. I love this shit. Are you going to do the same shit today? No, we got to go to the baseball game. But I'm going to do it tomorrow.

Does that piss you all? Yeah. I feel like you have to get up. Like, what if you just went home right now and to start streaming to like six or seven? I don't know. I don't know. Once you have those...

I did stream until 3 a.m. I used to hate when like you had a pop and stream and then the next day you have to like do something or go somewhere. Yeah. So momentum based. Like you have to keep that momentum going. Yeah. It was like when Zinni started doing the MLB show shit and he was like getting momentum. And then I think like a watch party weekend or something.

Then he comes back and it's just like kind of not the same. Then he like tries again. It's kind of not the same. Then he plays. something else and then comes back and it's just never the same again. Once you hit a fucking wave you have to ride that wave hard as shit.

Yeah. Yes. Yes. You do. That's why when I return to streaming where am I going to set up at? I'm not going to stream here every day.

I mean, I just can't. For my first stream back, I think so. I plan on just doing like a I'm gonna end up being here for I'm gonna eat sleep shit piss here for four five

days or oh really you're doing your sub-tham I think I'm gonna do the Eldon ring oh shit Eldon ring Sub-a-thon I want to turn a Sub-a-thon or something yeah but like an Eldon ring Sub-a-thon but I can't I literally I literally can't leave the Hex quarters

until I beat it like can't go outside A portable shower like I want to set up like just over there and have my own little corner like portable shower in the fucking corner potty it's just some shit bed to sleep on and i'm just on stream the entire fucking time and then like whenever people come in here they can pop on they can pop in i like it a lot and i hope i like it i hope it i hope it would do well yeah i think it do well i mean it's just there's well i ain't starting my stream and playing fucking halo infinite yeah you got that shit by the end of that shit. It got to the, my best streams were when I'm like, fuck. Like, why the

fucking, like when I'm into it raging and it's like genuine, genuine fucking rage when I played the game. Like, my streams would do well. But then it got to a point where like, I would just, I would completely fail or just like, get fucked over and I'd just be like, I don't even care no more. And then it just got to, this shit's boring. And then everyone's just like, God, Halo sucks now. And then all the, the, yeah, all, all of Halo fucking viewerships dying. And it just got to a point where it's depressing. And I was like, all right, I think, I guess I'm done with this shit till like next season.

Yeah, you should do the Eldering thing though. The Aldering thing would be sick. Eldon Ring, um, maybe make like a sub goal to where if we hit it, you get naked, like a day break and then just come back through the DLC or something. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or just continue it. The only hard part, which, like, I would never give a fuck. But, like, now I have a girl.

girlfriend and I have dogs and I would I feel bad leaving her with them because like they our one dog has to go out 15 times a day just this the past year of my life since getting puppies there has been piss and shit inside of my house every single fucking day every day for a year straight it's insane like something and she said like her our first her first dog myel She said like after a while he learned pretty quick But like these dogs just It's every Chewy's better now

Our new but then we got our newest Charlie And it's just it's every single day There's piss and shit So I just I feel bad I would feel bad leaving Four plus days or whatever Yeah With her and the animals

So that's the only In not seeing them and maybe I don't know maybe see if she can like drive down one day But her like driving down here With both the animals in the car might be a shit show, but I don't know, we'll see. That's sort of, that's sort of where I'm at right now, trying to, there's not really going to be a perfect timing, but gonna, gonna figure it out.

Yeah. And then that'll be my, that'll be my return and then see where we go from there. Welcome, welcome, welcome to an episode. Actually, I think this is the last episode. I think, I think this, it says Flycast 116, but they haven't uploaded our last episode. Dude, just fucking upload We don't have

We don't have There's What I'm with you We don't have That many videos I'm with you I'm with you

Just Upload it And coming from me Dude I don't know if I can I don't think you can upload Yeah Just dream

The person that recorded a vlog It just ever edited it. I do think in our last episode we talked about I think I literally say it's Friday of Champs right now. Yeah. So you know, no.

Oh my God. And then wait, champs was yeah last Okay, so it's almost been two weeks. Yeah, almost. And they still haven't. Almost. But yeah, because when we've recorded that, he was like, yeah, we're going to upload this, I think Thursday.

Thursday or Friday. We were like, all right, so let's, then we talked about it a little bit. Well, hey, it did, it did pan out the way we thought. Hey, cheers. Ah, the Halo's done. I can't believe they just announced it.

Three for three sold it to. I really don't know if they're going to come out with another HALA. Nah, they will. They will? Yeah. After Halo 5, I don't think people remember how dead HALO was. Like, dead, dead.

I do. It was really dead. dead, like way deader than it is now. There was, I didn't even watch like Halo Worlds or anything. Yeah, I didn't watch events. Like, I wonder what the viewership was. They were having events. Dude, I, I watched, like, a, a clip of Worlds when I was looking something up.

I was like looking up Halo players to try to invite them to cod tournaments. I didn't even realize they played sanctuary. Halo 5 had sanctuary in the game. I think towards the end. And I was like, what? Like, I didn't even, I did not know that. It's all the same. shit and then there was the halo three era and halo reach era i want to know what the stream

views were for halo three during its dog because i don't know bad yeah i don't think it was like bad yeah because i you look back as like damn how because like you didn't hear about you just didn't know like numbers like you're talking about real halo three era yeah real i thought you were talking about the weird in-between era like the 2019 halo three yeah no yeah no yeah that was real halo three era was probably, I mean, it was better than anything else. It was, you think? Yeah. What did this, this past Halo tournament probably had, I mean, just from the Halo channel,

what was it? 15 to 20K. Was it for finals? I think so. Oh. I think for finals, I think I saw Seth with like 22K. Oh, shit. And.

I thought it was, I thought it was higher than that. Maybe it's not. It, weird, it was weirdly high Friday to where people were like, I think. their viewbodding. Like Seth had like 12K and then Halo had like 1920 and people were like people were like what the fuck is

and then the next day Seth had like 14 and Halo had like 13 and it was just like what the fuck's and it was when I think Optic was actually playing too so it's like why are the views like what's going on? Yeah I sell somebody

how was this randomly high as fuck when a Friday? I usually watch on my on my, uh, TV. Like, whenever I'm chilling, I just watch my TV. So I usually watch on, on YouTube. And I know sometimes the YouTube, the YouTube viewership, in comparison to the Twitch viewership is not even close. It's crazy.

It's like, like, I think I was watching Saturday. And I, in the YouTube stream had like 3K views or 3K viewers. Well, I mean, I'm not surprised. Yeah. I, uh, I actually was on YouTube and I saw fucking DSD stream. pop up. And I think you guys had like 300 on there. And I was like, what the fuck? Yeah. So Blake, Blake. Like I would not, I would say like, obviously like no offense. But like your guys this thing is Twitch. So it's like you get five, six, seven, eight hundred there on YouTube I would

expect like 70. Yeah. Or something like that. So on like me when my, when I start streaming again. After, after like, uh, three months ago, I think we, we switched it where. uh because blake and george used to just stream their point of views on twitch on like a burner account uh really and so if you wanted to go see if you wanted to if we wanted to clip what they were doing or true true wanted to use it for a video we would just rip that part and then a couple months ago uh i was like let's just have blake stream on twitch or on on on youtube so blake does the tst stream but he's like the big cam and it's his POV on YouTube

and then George does it on his own Twitch channel so yeah we had we tried to have George on kick for a little while but if you're not if you're not chasing petos talking about the left and the right and politicals

and getting into fist fights and like mocking Japan when you're in Japan and yeah if you're not doing any of that it's hard to find out if you're not causing hell you did your kick career just doesn't if you're just doesn't if you're George playing Bangalore for the fourth hour straight.

People are going to find you. I don't know if that'll work. I've been, I'm still, I got sick last Monday. And I know you made fun of me today in the, in our flycast thread, something about me being sick because I can't cancel last week.

I needed to shoot. I needed to, I needed ammo. It wasn't real. But the thing is, I was actually sick. Usually it's like, I,

sometimes, I'm going to lie. I've thrown out some like, I'm probably hungover. Yeah. And technically maybe I'm kind of sick. But it's like I just, there's just no way mentally I could provide a good podcast. And that's maybe happened like two or three times over the years. There's been times where I said I'm sick to where it's like, I could probably make it happen.

But it's like, it's just not a good day mentally. I don't think I'm just not ready to sit there and talk and try to entertain for an hour. But this time, post. fucking cod champs obviously go to the event i mean i guess could talk about cod champs for a little minute the event was ridiculous um fucking walk in yeah we'll just start with the event fucking walk in i didn't i didn't show up till saturday um because on i think we played friday and i was like i don't know i don't know if i want to just like go down there watch one match then because it was like 40 plus minute drive for me.

But then so I decided not to go Friday and I think we went down 02. I don't remember against like who or what but I think we went down O2 that I was like, see like I'm glad we didn't go. Like we would have just went to watch them lose then go home.

And then of course we reversed them. Reverse rebuk. Yes. Fuck. Of course I didn't fucking go. So then Saturday, but I'm like Saturday, Sunday I'll be there for sure. Saturday went

I don't remember how the series went, but we win. She was crazy. Hex's, I remember first day there, like walk up into the suites with the very important people. I think I was sitting with like, Cess Mom is Denise, whatever, my girl was there. Hex comes up. He's like in the suite with the flag. And then he just like starts going like this. I went, ah.

And then I stood up and I was like, what about me? And I was, I was like, what the fuck? Like, I almost wanted it to be like, boo. Yeah.

I don't know, them like troll me a little bit or just be like, yeah. Like, I expect to be like, yeah, like,

love you, maniac. Like, I always hear one of those. Every, like, I like, genuinely, like,

I like, I like, kid. My face got fucking red. It was just like, like, I just wasn't prepared. Like, I was expecting, like, yeah, but it was like they, like, they were like erupted for hacks and then I stood up. And obviously, like, that was my first time showing up

there. They were just having fun. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So when I stand up and they did that, I just fucking, on Sunday, on Sunday. I just hit in my shell. I was like, embarrassed. I was like, I was just not fucking ready for that. On Sunday, during like the downtime,

the crowd started chaining people's names. Hax, Hax, Hacks, Hacks. And then Hax would stand up and they would go, Ra! And then they were like, maniac, maniac, maniac. And you stood up and started doing like...

Oh, yeah. I was like, holy shit. Because I was on the floor. Bro, Loki, I was like, fuck, I'm doing... I do the same fucking, like, God. In my head, like, you think he's like, oh, shit, yeah.

But in reality, I'm like, fuck, I'm doing the same... I'm doing the same... Dude, this is like, like in 2019 shit I'm so I'm like so bad at dancing now

I know dude but yeah that was dope I don't know if that was on the main broadcasts or just like this in the venue yeah it's just in the venue they like brought me up started dancing of course had some drinks I couldn't use the bathroom without someone like offering to buy me a shot

and you're like damn a shit I'm like yeah man I guess and then they buy me a shot and I'd take a drink back with me anyways a double yeah that's it was what a what a weekend a perfect a perfect a per what a fucking weekend dude i don't in my memory which is not good i don't remember a better event i don't matter i don't remember a better um i don't want to just say event but like venue oh yeah i don't remember a better venue because there are events

where I look at as whole, as a whole, to where, like, the events, like, you're seeing, you're walking to the venue and you're seeing people, you're walking back, you're seeing people, everyone's kind of in the same hotel, everyone, the e-girls are there, your boys are there, Halo dudes are coming and watching the event.

And then after the event, people are at the hotel, like, everyone's out at, like, the hotel bars. So I guess I can, like, look at that and be like, would that be considered a better event? overall event experience, maybe. But this is definitely up there for probably the greatest venue atmosphere ever. At least for me, because I know there's been, I don't think I was there when we, the last world champs we won, like formal old scump.

I don't think I was there, so I can't really. You weren't there? I don't think so. You didn't go to Orlando? There were some events I just. Oh, shit. I thought you went. I don't think I don't think.

I know you went to the... You went to the Black Ops. Dude, I don't... It's bad. I'll hear APG describe events and I'm like, I don't remember anything. Maybe I get confused because you were at the Black Ops 3 one for sure. It seemed like every single event I went to, we never did well. Really?

Yeah. And that was the... Those were the Dynasty years. Yeah. What offense did you go to? I don't know. Or like we just, maybe not did... I don't know.

We just, I feel like we would underperform when I would... you. So then I just kind of made it a thing, oh, I'm just not gonna... That event for sure is like top three for me. Like that was...

That was just unreal. Yeah, that was a... How long in the making was this... Were you a big part of putting it together? Or is it kind of like... I... Because people throw you in there, and I feel like you are in there.

I used to be a really in there. Really? But... Uh... Yeah, I've kind of doc. I've got a read, I got, I'm more of just a, like, I'm not as involved as I once was. You see what they do and then you see all their ideas and then you kind of say, that will work, that won't work. At one point, at one point when I first became creative director, I was involved in, I was in like every meeting and all that stuff.

And then it just became too taxing. So now how I'm doing it is I the way if you need me call me type thing. So which is way better and way better for everyone. And so Corey who puts together our events. Yeah, he's the fucking man. He, uh, we, he always asks me stuff, uh, calls me and we just talk about whether it's the pickleball tournament or the softball stuff or whatever. Um, we just go through it together.

Um, And so I was planning on having a big part of this and whatever Corey needs I was going to, you know, help out with. But then we went to Seth's wedding and, uh, and some other shit happened. And, and he was just like, I'll, you know, I'll, I'll take it. I was like, all right. And then, um, but while, while I'm there on hand, I'm literally all around the, like, people probably think that, uh, actually, people who watch the stream, don't even know that I was probably even there. But except for the, when I hit the drums that. one day but like myself and blake uh where where were the interviews on the on stream no no so we

interview people and we uh interview and do giveaways and and and do little games yeah hitch was like down on the floor with the microphone yeah people in for like giveaways quite trivia questions yeah we were doing that like in between every break so every break that happened on the stream like we were we were doing something with the vip section or hanging out with or starting chance or doing something and uh it was it was it was mad mad fun uh but it is fucking exhausting holy shit and and and like also if anything is going wrong in the venue like i kind of take i was just like let me handle it or let me or like working with corey to figure out how to fix things and like it was me and roger came up with the idea for the for the dynasty walk out and so

i'm texting formal and and crim like yo can you be here tomorrow at one bring your white jersey Like stuff like that like I'm definitely two hours past no one's text you back I'm like fuck I don't know if we can do it yeah I actually it was actually surprising how down those four were the dynasty team yeah I think formal is fantasizing a bit right now about leaving halo coming back to cod I think so once you see the optic team winning and he's like damn I was a part of that yeah you kind of you start remembering how fucking amazing it is to be on the optic while winning. So I think it just like really piqued its interest to like jump back in the cod like world

for a little bit by attending the event, being on the watch party, just watching all these guys play, watching his boys end up winning. I think that like fueled the fuck out of him because I remember right when I got there Saturday, Lottie came into the studio or the suite with a microphone and like cameras following her. and she comes right up to me and I'm like, don't I just got here do not ask me for like

some kind of interview no one cares that people don't want to she was like I don't know no no no no do you know where formal is yeah and I was like no I haven't seen him she was like yeah he's been avoiding me uh since I asked him yesterday for an interview because I think he said like no I can't like I just want to watch party

like find me someone but I was like I was like oh does formal no like you're still trying to get an interview and she was like yeah I was like Oh, he won't be back at the venue then. He will never come back. I was like, he will probably not show up at the venue just to not do this interview with you guys. She was like, I know, but the people want formal.

I was like, I'm sure they fucking do. But he's just, I mean, I think he's just, he's like, I've said this a few times, but I think he's just like me with that kind of stuff. Just like, I don't know. I'm on, I don't like interviews. I guess sometimes it might depend. but like I don't know

I see he's just that type of person he doesn't like that kind of stuff he doesn't really like unless he doesn't like the limelight and the attention on him unless it's him just like dominating in a video game yeah yeah that's true

but I think he uh we'll see man I think he I don't know what he's gonna do because he's looking at it like fuck optics for the god that looks so sick And I've genuinely, I swear I have not talked to him about it or anything, or anything, but I wonder how much he really is like, it's just such a really, because if, if he makes the switch, say they say he makes a switch, I don't, I mean, you can't really join this team. Right. So it's like, does he join someone else?

Do they try to make an opting nation? Do they play in challengers or? Playing challengers, but like, I don't, he wouldn't want to play in fucking. challenge. No, he wouldn't. Just the same way. If he did switch and like got on a team and they say they figured something out and say they played they got like top eight or they start off the season like two and six and I think it'd be a quick reminder. He's like fuck. Because I was seeing when that was sort of happening his last season to where they just came up short, came up short, came up short, came up short. Like I could see it was he would do his cod scrims and then he just he didn't give a fuck

He would show up for his scrims, his practice. I think even some... That whole team, I don't think, was, like, good for each other, though. Envoy, dashy, formal scum. And maybe I'm talking out of my ass, but the dashy formal scumpt was just, like, almost too good a friend to where they...

Dude, all four of them were like... That was the friendliest team I'd ever seen. Envoy, like, they were... Like, even me... I would go to them to Envoy's fucking apartment and just like hang out like after their scrim. They were literally like all four great friends. Yeah.

And but it kind of turned into it like that's not good for it. A lot of the time that's not good for a team. Because it turned into like they would scrim, maybe do average in scrims and then they would just like get off and go do whatever. Yeah. And then just complain about the game or something. Yeah, yeah. Like instead of like no one was really like,

yo, shut the fuck. Like all right. I get it. this game but let's lock the like the like it was I don't know I just think they were such good a friend such good friends that it kind of started hurting their team not only that before I was getting sick of cod the game sucks so I I saw his interest in call of duty decline because I was fucking here all the time watching them scrim just I was just always fucking here yeah so like throughout the season I saw it decline and then he switched the halo and he's on top and this is

where he needs to be, but I think the game's so boring and shit that he doesn't even like enjoy it and like no one really cares about Halo and he sees all the love call did he get. I saw him get fired up this weekend. I forgot what it was. Oh, it was game one of Grans. Game one of Grans, they push out Eco and then kill him with ball, pick up ball, win the game and formal gets, stands up and starts talking shit. Really? What?

Damn. And then they just. And then they lost. then they lost the next four. Dude, that team is so good. What do you think of, what do you think is going on with-

SSG? Yeah. What do you think is going on with Faze? Uh, I don't, I mean, it's just, it's hard to see,

like, because Faze can come back and win next fucking event. And no one's surprised. No one's surprised. It's almost like, the Faze Halo team is almost like the Faze Call Duty team.

Like, you look at them, like they should be winning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not every single time. but for most of the time, like I think they should be the most winningest team

throughout the season, or at least the best placing team. Yeah. And they do end up placing, I would say SSG has probably been more consistent. They're top two, top three, every single event. Phases have been randomly having top fours, top six. I...

Is SSG on like a four-peat? No, no, no. Of winning? No, because SSG... they lost or they yeah they lost a phase

actually because how our guys have gotten second what four times straight yeah I think we've gotten

second four times so first place has either been SSG or phase yeah and I think and I think

it's been SSG twice and then SSG twice us yeah we're just second second second phase one

I don't fucking yeah but a royal two and snake bite they got I think top six, and I don't remember, I'm sure somewhere in between, maybe in like a fucking, I don't even know if Royal 2 went to like a 2018 Halo 3 event or like some

random event, maybe they got top 6, but I don't think Snakebite and Royal 2 have got placed outside of top 4 since. They've been getting top 2, top 3, since 20, practically 2012. the end of 2011, 2012. I don't know if they've gotten outside of top six in 12 years. Dude, they are, they are very, very dominant. Which is nuts.

Let's see this. Let's see this. Clicking on his Halo Wiki. Who runs all these Wiki pages? Shout out those guys. Yeah, shout out. Random. Whatever the fuck is taking the time to do that.

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That's money. Yeah, man. That's cash app. Halo. Oh, Halo Worlds was the last time. Oh, what they get? Top six. Fifth, sixth.

Which, was it the last worlds? Uh, their last, I think we, or no, they won last year's world. Their last, their last, uh, Halo World Champion, 2020. The last event with, with TJ. Uh, okay. And then, and then besides that, dog, it's been, it might be some. MLG Raleigh, 2011 was the last time. Bro.

It's insane. That was before. That was before. six, which is pretty good. That's before PJ and, uh, and, uh, and Royal Two played like team together. So since they became a team in 2011, they haven't placed outside of top six. They've placed outside of top six twice since they became a team once in 2022. And then last weekend.

Royal two and Snakebite are the better versions of. Abizi, Selium, and Simp I mean, which is crazy to say but they are them, they just win more. They have just won more. If the Faze call of duty, and it is three of them instead of two of them. So they've had like some more options

to pick from. But I mean, even Snakebite Royal 2 and Frosty, just say that. Like they are the better version of Selium, Abysi, and Simp, which is fucking insane to say they just win more. Yeah. They place about the same. but these guys just like pull out a few more wins.

And they won a shit ton with TJ, obviously. They won a shit ton when Frosty goes to Cod, they pick up APG, they win a shit ton. And now they're playing with Renegade. They've, you know, they've won and they've, I mean, they've won worlds. They're the reigning world champions. Just insane.

It's, they're disgusting. Yeah. They're the fucking guys. Well, um, All right, so the, what did I even want to talk about? You said we have juicy stuff. I mean, we can get into the juicy stuff, but I wanted to talk about me being sick. Okay.

All right, man. And that's why I missed last podcast. All right, that's why you... So we go to the event. Saturday, hammered. Not really that hammered, though. I did drink, though. Okay.

Sunday, I woke up, pissed off. My dogs ate my glasses. two different pairs of my glasses were chewed up. I was like, it's nice. Now, what's the point of even me going to the venue? Because I literally can't see. Glasses were chewed up,

champ Sunday. I magically find a pair from like four years ago that like are crooked and all fucked up and like hurt my nose, but I just ended up wearing those. Go to the event Sunday. Have a good time. Drink, drink. Go to dinner, drink. Go out to the club, drink.

Next thing I know, I'm just, waking up. My fucking like it was almost not scary but it was just like holy shit I drank way too much like my like skin hurt I felt so bad

I felt my organs and shit and it was just bad woke up feeling like shit and then I think we were supposed to have a flycass the next day on like Tuesday or something yeah probably something like that Or we were, we had it, we had it Monday.

And then I woke up Monday. I was like, yeah. All right. I think maybe I told Matt at the club. I was like, there's no way we were. I don't think we even did content on the month. I think we all were, we all partied. Yeah.

But Monday. Matt was fucked up. Was he? I think I saw him a, I think I saw him a few times. Matt came up to me and said, are you Fycast tomorrow? Bro, everyone. But like, I was out of like, I planned on drinking. But once we won, I was like, all right.

this is like a blackout type like I don't give up fuck anymore like I am drinking I'm having a good time The second our boys won all cancel All all all All of content got canceled on Monday Um

Whenever we walked into a club Into the club There's this The back Well first we go in the back room And then in the back of that You know like the Stage place where like Shotsie and Kenny

There's like a stage Yeah yeah yeah I like couldn't really see who's up there, I walked over there, and then I just see it's like Shotsie and Pratt just like sitting there, like kings on a fucking throne just on top of the fucking club. I was like, this is hilarious.

Sorry, during whatever, Monday, felt like shit. Tuesday, I was like, I think I'm sick. Just snotty, stuffy. Then I think I canceled the flycast or Wednesday or something. I was like, there's just no way like I'm sick. And then they asked

me to do, I think you were trying to bail on the borderlands thing or I think you like you just weren't feeling good or something you know so I was like I'll go I was trying to bail 100% trying to yeah I was I was like fuck it I'll go like I ain't doing shit like I actually and we can talk about that fucking fucking I need to start streaming or something because I'm just losing my fucking mind um but just felt like shit and then I told him I'd go to that then they said you uh you were going and then the day came where I would have went and I was like yeah there's no way like I'm still down bad fucking

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday I think I woke up and was like okay I think I can get out of bed Because even like you can so hear it in my voice It's been I got sick last Monday and it's currently Wednesday of the next week like this is I don't know what the fuck's going on but this is insane But yeah I was just fucking down bad for over a week literally rotting in bed but the good news is when the sickness is over and it starts fading away i get this like rejuvenation of life i just i can't wait to work out can't wait to wake up start my day i think i might be a morning person now i got a cold plunge i saw have you seen my cold plunges i saw i saw on

Instagram gets anywhere from like 44 to 48 degrees which is pretty fucking cold. My first time, I've been doing it a few weeks. My first few times I was doing like 30 seconds. Now I'm up to, I did like three minutes, three and a half minutes today. Does it really work? So, I mean, I don't know what it does. I can just tell you how I, I don't know what it technically does, but I can just tell you how I feel.

And it's like, I wake up in the morning and I am never, I always wake up. anxious. I always wake up like there's almost like a doom feeling over me. Like I'm just like, I just want to lay there and rot. I don't want to get out of bed. But since starting this routine of like, all right, let me just get out of bed, grab a bottle of water, go outside and like the sun's hit in my backyard. I just stand there for like 10 minutes, listening to music, just breathing. Then I get in the cold plunge for, I was doing 30. say a few minutes it's fucking right when you get in

like right when I step into it my brain like shocks yeah it's like I also like just kind of woke up it's it's insane I'm like I'm so scared to actually hop in and then I hop in and your brain's like it just turns on like a little like shock happens in your brain and then I just see my timer of like just like I need to to drop in Just activate your like fight or flight and I'm like fuck and then I just I dunk myself and it's just so fucking cold like it brings out it would bring out like some animalistic shit in me like I would start like barking and shit like

Michelle would be like what the fuck and then one time I got in fuck what did she do she got I was I was just it puts me in this like primal like ready to fucking go to war I forget what she did, but I got in one time, and she started saying something, and I just went, shh. And she got so fucking mad. And I was like, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But it's just so, it's just so cold that, like, it just shocks the shit out of you. But after, like, a minute and a half in, you start settle down.

You start, you start breathing easier, and you start to relax into it. I have my hands out a little bit, because my hands just, my hands just, my heart. My hands hurt when I put it in that cold of water. Like, I don't know how I'm going to get past that. But then see, I do two minutes. Today I did three and a half hopped out. Just go stand in the sun. And it is the best.

How I feel then is how I wish I felt all the time. Like it's just this nice. The music's better. The fucking sun's hitting you right. You're opening your eyes. You're breathing. The dog. are out.

It's just, it's like that, it's like a beautiful, perfect morning. You're just like, like, it's almost like, ah, you know, life. Life's not right. Life's great, isn't it?

Or what did, fucking Jack Harlow? Life's not too. Oh, yeah, yeah. Whatever. Whatever. I never said. Um,

but it's just this like, and I'm not even like trying to get people, because, you know, once a motherfucker gets a cold punch, like we get it, you cold plunge. Yeah, That's kind of you right now.

Yeah, that's me right now. And I'm not trying to convince anyone, but it really does take me from a, I'm, I wake up anxious every day. I doubt myself. My first thing in the first things in the morning that I do, I wake up,

I wake up, make sure I'm anxious, start to doubt myself, ponder all the mistakes I've ever made, and start feeling insecure and unconfident about my future. then I might go get out, take a pit, get up,

take a piss. Brush my teeth. Brush my teeth. But then I hop in the, go out in the sun, start breathing a little bit, maybe do some little like yoga stretches, upward downward downward,

dogs, hop in the cold plunge, get out. And I'm like, fuck, this is how I should be feeling. Yeah. Like,

I, and that's, that's just what it fucking does for me. I, so far I'm loving it. Um, I kind of got like a cheaper one. It's,

I don't know, it's kind of a piece of shit. I'm expecting, it to just not work and also cleaning it and changing the water is pretty annoying but do that like once every two weeks but i like it y'all should hilton i asked um i asked hilton which i was like what cold plunges you get mine's a piece of fucking shit didn't come with directions like i literally got some like china randomly made manufactured like no directions came with it missing alibaba shit fucking cheapo shit

But I figured out how to get it to work. Mine was like $650. And I was like, Hilton, what cold plunge did you get? And he tells me the name I look it up. It's like $8,500. But we should. What would be a funny?

I would get a, a funny something would be for all of us to do a cold, uh, cold, oh, a cold plunge video? Yeah. Like the,

maybe a little TikTok or something. Kevin Hart's old videos. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm down Just give me a give me a I'm gonna buy a garbage like I want to see like Shotsie or Pred and one Pred would be hilarious Shotsie could probably do it or Seth

Actually yeah, dude they get to get all of them Yeah, that would actually be fucking hilarious in there But anyway regardless our boys won champs I gotta go eat some super spicy hot wings And Matt is it when is this coming out When's this firecatch dropping? Friday. All right.

Should be out in the month. All right. It should be out next month. Matt Gray, play that outro music. Peace, everybody.