The Yard - Ep. 203 - WE JOINED FAZE!! (ft. Adapt)

Episode Date: June 11, 2025

This week, the boys are joined by FaZe Adapt! They talk about Adapt starting on youtube whilst in high school, grinding so hard to join Faze, and how he was clipped on by Nick... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That might have been our best dismount. All the Olympic judges are pretty on board right now. Welcome, smooth actually. That was a good move. That might have been our best dismount. All the Olympic judges are putting up numbers right now. Welcome to the yard. We're going to tuck that in. You got a water to your left if you want. It's on the mic. Thank you. You can set that whenever you want.

How are you doing? We treat our hostages very well. Yeah, can I get anything else for you? I know we probably have like a beef. Yeah, man. Fuck you, Nick. Bro. I woke up the next day to a text from him

that just said, fuck you. I got the craziest edits I've seen of me. Why did it have to be me? That's why it was so perfect. Cause I was gone this weekend. I couldn't be there. And I just, I checked Twitter. I checked Reddit.

And it was- It's on Reddit? It's on Reddit. Oh, so many places on Reddit. on reddit so many reddits it's on random reddits oh no it's on our social world news it's really tragic it's on woodworking it was crazy it's cool Philip DeFranco covered it I uploaded like a 30 second clip of it and it has over a million views and usually the watch retention on a shorts like a hundred percent you're doing really good that means they watch it all the way through the retention for this clip is a and it has over a million views and usually the watch retention on a shorts like 100 percent, you're doing really good.

That means they watch it all the way through. The retention for this clip is 160 percent, meaning most people watch it through once and then another 60 percent. What? They're watching through it like two times on average. No, bro, it's not good for my legacy. It's been clipped and edited so many places. So there's all these different titles and versions of how it's been uploaded.

My favorite one is Nick trick shots adapt all POVs and then it's just six POVs. Alex and Yelling are cut out. That's my favorite. All POVs and they're still taken out of it. Alex sent me that exact thing. He was just like, man, fuck streaming. I hate this shit. Bro. I've seen an edit. Alex sent me that exact thing. He was just like, man, fuck streaming.

I hate this shit. Bro. I've seen an edit. It was the dialogue from the Cars movie where he's like, no, McQueen is fading. The commentator. It's like all my old clips like super fast. And I'm like, damn, bro. It's like the cars crash. I feel like I owe you an apology.

For what? I made a whole stink about Faze swag. Oh, yeah. I tried to tell you and you and I thought you were trying to hustle me because I didn't know about this swag and I only saw 4000 videos of Cod. And you're trying to tell me it's different. It's different. It's different. It turns out it's different. It is very difficult It's different. It turns out it's different.

It is very different. It turns out 4000 Warzone videos does not help you in Call of Duty Mono for two. Well, he was still their best player in Cod for but Mono for two. He was but they were kind of all but yeah, one for two. Honest to God, we were talking about it was cooking. Cod for he was cooking. He was the best player. Rod was the best at Black Ops. Yeahfor was the best at Black Ops. Yeah. He got 32 kills, I think.

Yeah. Where do you think it went wrong? Where it went wrong? Yeah. The first time I shot my sniper in the first game, that's where everything went wrong. Wow. I got a no-bomb spawn shot, cross map hit marker. Oh.

And I couldn't talk about it. He got it on me. No one realized that. I didn't know. We didn't know about the side game. At the beginning of the game, I spawn, I immediately, I do the same thing every time in a comp match. I look at the slide to see if anyone goes plain.

And I just get hitmarkered. And I'm just like, what the fuck? And I'm like, Dapch has some crazy spot that he learned. I don't see anyone. And I didn't even know he hitmarkered me. I just remember that spawn shot from MW2. Everyone would go up that ladder. Like, if you were trickshotting in sixpans, you would at least get one or two shots off. So I looked, I was in my scope, I didn't see anyone. I'm like, I'm just gonna shoot and I saw the fucking

transparent X and I started getting PTSD from when I was a kid. This is the equivalent slime for my non-Cod playing phrase. So like we're at the blackjack table, and you have like your main hand, but you also have like the Mickey Mouse bets. You just sat down at a random blackjack table and was like whatever ten dollars on it and got every card but one. Yeah, you all need like jacks that are facing to the left. Yeah, one was facing to the right. He's like, what the fuck? My first hand. Yeah. It was the first time I shot my gun in the tournament. I was like no.

I think where we went wrong is we really pulled up on just some weird like fuck it. Let's just go like, you guys were way more. Ron was jumping into the pool beforehand. Oh, my God. Did you see what my teammates were doing an hour before the match? They were riding a bicycle off of a ramp into the pool with full knee pads. I feel like most of the prep was getting the suits on. Oh, yeah, that might have been the most work we put into the tournament. More so than even practicing on the game.

Yeah, it was getting. They might be more we sound the phone and talk about it, too. Yeah, they might be more lit. They might have more money. They live like cartel members or bodies, but we won the video game. Yeah, we got to run it back. That's a true gamer. I don't care. I don't care. My question, if we did run it back, would you bring the same crew

or would you try to upgrade your crew? Ah, I don't know. I think that right. I feel like if we didn't bring the same crew, it would be a little bit different. But also, you for sure can't bring back Jason, bro. I'm sorry. You just can't bring it back. Played OK. He did. He caught. He did.

He had a lot of low lights, but in the second... In the last like two games or two, three maps, whatever, he started climbing on the scoreboard a little bit. Yeah. But there were some really bad moments. There's some low, low lights. I mean, this is what people say. There's this like cafe that I go to a lot.

And the guy there is a huge face fan. So much so that when I go, he gives me free food every time because I'm there with QT and he just likes the collapse QT zone face. He doesn't watch either of us. Wow. He's just such a face. Like every time we're watching, he's got your stream on a raw stream on. And he's so sick. He's always got one air pod in and he's like, yeah, it's free.

I'm like, dude, I'm OK to pay. Wow. Not man, not for you. Damn, that's a good dude. You're in the family. He's a good dude. And he's the phase writer nowadays. But there's people online talk about old phase.

And how this is an example of how you guys can't do it in COD. You're no longer a trick shotting clan. Yeah, I mean, well, we aren't. We just aren't. But you're the only one who does both, really. Yeah, I still play Call of Duty regularly, but I feel like it's been a minute since Faze was even considered a trickshotting clan still.

2016 is when we started to veer away from montages and started to be more focused on like vlogging and real life content. Back then, we got flamed for it. You guys were the first to do it. I remember you guys would do like, I don't know, you were in like SOAR or something at the time, but FaZe were like the first team

to start doing like face reveals. They'd be like, oh, 20,000 subscribers, we'll all show our faces. I remember in Cod, it was kind of a no-no. To like, dox yourself. Interesting. There was like, oh, 20,000 subscribers will all show our faces. I remember in college, it was kind of a no-no to like, dox yourself. Interesting. There was like, there was like hackers. There was like people who try to steal your PayPal information. Like, no one would show their names. Streaming wasn't a thing yet.

And I remember like, Faye was like the first team to like, get a house and start showing their face and start vlogging. And I was just like, at the time, I was just like, that's lame. That'll never fucking be anything big. It was the biggest thing ever. That was the majority of the world's opinion, though, and just everyone's opinion. Wait, so how old are you when the New York house is happening? Seventeen.

Isn't that crazy? Yeah, I moved in at 17. From Arizona to New York. Yeah. To enter a content house with a bunch of vloggers, mostly vloggers. How do you convince your family to do that? I didn't. You just pissed out. No, my mom was not down. My mom was not going for it.

But I graduated and I'm like, OK, I finished high school. You can't legally now I'm allowed to go. I'm like, I'm going to turn 18 in June. I'm going to go regardless. Like, I'm just letting you know I'm not going to college. But looking back at it now, I understand because telling like my mom or anyone 10 years ago, yeah, I'm going to move to across the country and go make Call of Duty videos with all my friends

that I play the game with every day. Sounds insane. Like it's also. Did she forgive you now? Yeah, now she she's super supportive and she's great. But at the time, not so much. So it was just a thing where it was like, yo, I'm going to do this regardless. So like, where Arizona are you from? Phoenix.

Oh, it's Phoenix. All right. Yeah. What part? Uh, cause I know it matters. Do you know where like desert ridge is that area? I don't, I don't know shit about Phoenix, but. Because I think it's important.

So please go ahead. Yeah. I mean, Phoenix is the part like Phoenix, like off the one-on-one and Tatum like straight in like in the desert. Like in the desert. Yeah. Okay. Forgam Devils. Forgam Devils.

You went to ASU. I did. That's right. 2017 to 20 or 2013 to 2017 damn there's probably a timeline where I didn't Join FaZe and I went to ASU out there somewhere I would have chopped it up. You guys could have come boys. Dude, us and Breslin would have chopped it up. Yeah, Breslin would have liked you. And you're on the first ASU trickshotting team. Yeah, facts. You're like a varsity knack swapper or something.

Varsity knack swapper. Wait, so I- I'm just happy someone's here. You know what I mean? Cause like I say shut your ass. I say shut your ass and I'm just like, I don't know what I'm talking about. Knack swapping was no joke. You guys go back.

You were talking about it after PSL. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, we'd play Assertion Destroy together. Like not a crazy amount, but every once in a while. Cause we have a lot of mutual friends to think about bro like 2011 probably 2012 That's good. I think phase started popping in like 2011. Yeah, like took February 2011 Yeah did and I joined in 2013 and then I moved in the crib. You're in sore You weren't even a phase when we would play. Yeah, I was in Sore for like two years.

What's Sore? Two, three. It essentially was like the G League for FaZe back then. Like FaZe almost exclusively only recruited trickshotters and snipers from Sore sniping. You can even make the argument that Sore was better at one point. Yeah. Like in terms of clips and. There were four elements much like Avatar. OK. And FaZe, I don't know.

There's the Fire Nation. Faze is the Fire Nation. Those are the evil guys they always attack. And then there was Soar, and then there was Dare, and then there was kind of like Era. I don't know. Era, TSU, Obey, SB, Random, High. This is kind of all based on the idea of trick-shotting and making videos, not necessarily competitive, Cod.

Is that right? No, never. Because you guys didn't have a competitive team for a long time. There's two skateboarders at the Olympics, and there's dudes who do street parts. I see. And Colby is like that, where it has the trickshotters who are montage makers and big on YouTube and stuff, and then it has MLG going to tournaments, wearing a jersey, that kind of stuff. And FaZe was pretty much the only team to do both at a legitimate scale.

Did the trickshotters kind of think that the guys competing, the Olympic skateboarders, if you will, are kind of lame? Or was there like respect for it? Not really. It was just a thing where... Opposite way around? It was more so that, I don't know, it's just like a preference thing. Like, it wasn't fun for us to like run around S&D with ACRs and like kill the entire other team.

Like, right. But if you throw on a sniper and you get to last alive and you throw in a 360, a no scope, like you add an element that makes it more difficult. It's like skateboarding, but in Call of Duty. That's how Tommy always would explain it. I think also back then, there's so many people online that most players were terrible. Like gaming wasn't that big yet. Do people used to be so ass at games.

It's not ever so fucking good. It was only like two or three tournaments total for Mono Warfare 2 in esports. Yeah, like esports was not big. So the average player online was so bad that if you just like put on an ACR and tried your ass off, you just kill everyone. I'm getting cooked in the world'Rerokart world. There's plumbers all over the world,

but I think the games have also gotten easier, and I think that's a big part of it. And they got good at skill-based matchmaking. I think that's it. Also, I'm playing Street Fighter right now. It feels like Baby's first game coming from Melee. Sure. But, dude, you can go from a plumber

to winning your first Warzone match so fast now. Aim Assist is fucking amazing. That's what I'm saying. it's such a different game now. Dude, that game is hard. There's no AimAssist, that shit's hard. Off for what, controller? We got AimAssist on controller. I'm saying old COD.

Oh yeah, that's why going back when we played an internment, it was, it's like kinda fucked if you play Warzone regularly, because you're used to 240 frames per second. Yeah, right. 1440p One like 160 FOV or whatever max is out at like I think actually 120 but these Yeah older games 65 FOV super like punch in FOV the movements like clunky that

moves like shit To the game too is like, you know, I mean it's lower so you gotta like there's like a little like Adjustment that you've got to like make before going into it, but it's still fun Do you remember how you got what got you in the trickshot? I know what it was. Yeah, I remember exactly what it was I was watching I had an iPod and I will watch YouTube videos on it and I would watch Call of Duty youtubers and then one day I seen FaZe made an R-War, it was called R-War, it was a Black Ops 1 montage.

Did any of you guys know what, did you watch R-War? I've never seen it, I don't remember it. I remember that title, yeah. Yeah it was R-War, I think Agony edited it, it had a 30 Seconds to Mars song in the background, I think Bury Me or The Kill and I was just watching this, because I watched Call of Duty the kill and I was just watching this because I watched Call of Duty youtubers I was watching white boy 7th Street He might be on my mouth See Nanner's taves what he's gamer tag mark a J like I watched them and I guess I ended up on a phase clan video one day and I thought it was the coolest shit ever and

Whenever I would be able to get on the game I would just try to do it. Yeah, I mean it's crazy how many people started as called the youtubers You know before dr. Disrespected that thing with a child. He was a cold duty youtuber. No way. He's an awesome cold duty youtuber Well, you're the cold duty developer Yeah, but yeah, he worked he he worked at a Division yeah, and he developed maps for one of the Black Ops. You think he wore that shit to the office? The jumpsuit and the glasses.

Before he was the straight guy. That's why he got fived out. They were like, ah, yeah. We just can't have you here. Yeah, probably did. We're gonna make a map and then dating girls under 18 will be legal on this map. And they're like, whoa, we have to fire you. It's a video game, so I guess they're always, all maps are like that. You can do what you want, your imagination.

I heard a stat about you, I don't know if it's true. What? That your KDA and COD was higher than your high school GPA. Oh, my KDA and COD is higher than my GPA? Honestly, probably. And I was a trick shotter, so... So you're going for suicide shots most of the time. Yeah, I'm not playing for KD.

Do you remember your high school GPA? It was maybe like 2.4, 2.5. It was just enough to have, to be considered passion in all my classes so I could have my controllers and play video games. My mom wouldn't let me play unless I had 70% minimum. Cause I would be considered a player. C-minus.

In all my classes. C's? C's pass. Yeah. But I still didn't get that. I would have to inspect element. So much shit I would do. I would make fake emails.

Wait, wait, for what? When they log in to check your grades, right? So I would sprint home on Friday I was dead asked the kid that was sprint out like I was sprint home I was back to school But sprint home to try to get home before my mom and load up my PVUSD portal There was one page where you could see everything and I would inspect element everything And my mom would come peek at the monitor be like okay you got

it here's your controllers and then go oh exactly same shit we had this like Apple setup it's like the whole school had like an Apple account or whatever and it was really early I graduated in 2008 so I'm like older so before they started like implementing this so I try to get home and I try to log in for her sharpie-ing the monitor dude she would say no I'm gonna log in and I'd have to sit there in horror as she pulls up my dog shit grades oh and I'm just like and she just looks back at me he's like a D huh and I'm like if only if only I could have lied to you dude so you did the strat I always wanted to do it was

in the cold I end a semester in December like running home in the cold just like maybe I can get home. I had to fin- there were so many other tricks. I got caught a bunch of times too. I used to have, cause I would play on PS3. I would cut the wires of the PS2 controllers. That's yeah, that's clean. And she would think that she had them and I let her, and like that worked for like-

That's a clean finesse. Are you walking away like the villain from door of the explorer like you doing one of these I was so high when they worked I my mom took I played a lot of world of warcraft in high school and my grades were shit so she took my keyboard away she's like I'm not take your computer and take the keyboard you obviously can't play it I had another keyboard in my closet so she so she'd go to bed I'd get my keyboard out of my closet but she she popped in one night. She was like, oh, no way. That's such a devastating moment.

You get caught. I was fucking I was in Thunder Bluff. I remember it too. It was so fun. What was the most in trouble you got? It sounds like you were play call duty at all costs, no matter what anyone says. I mean, maybe just getting. Oh, it was when my mom found out I was lying about my grades

because I made a fake email and emailed my mom. Your son, Alex, is doing very, very good. An exemplary student. We think his Call of Duty playing is helping with his math. It was like something along the lines of like, I know it doesn't sit, because I couldn't inspect Element for some reason this time. She already had did it herself.

So that burn method was cooked. I'm like, fuck, what do I do? So I made a fake email and emailed her and said, oh, sorry, I've been like, Alex is doing, Alex has this grade. I just haven't gone around updating it in the portal because I'm grading all the other students' work. And that worked.

And then that, the real teacher emailed and said, your son's lying to you. He's not passing. And my mom was so mad. Yeah. How did she find out? You guys, that's when you sent another email and he'd be like, that one's the imposter.

Yeah. I'm the real teacher. This lady emailed you, she's actually like someone stalking our school. Yeah, I could have flipped it. Yeah. Oh fuck, see I didn't have to. Yeah, see if we were around back then.

Yeah. That would have been, nah, she would have had to guess who was real, who was fake. You gotta kill both of us. Yeah. And they're like, mom, please believe me, that's the real teacher and she has to believe you. Yeah, I feel like I followed a lot of real teacher, and she has to believe you.

Yeah, I feel like I followed a lot of FaZe, but not back in, like, recently. Like, I followed it because of work. Because before streaming, I worked at a vape company. Really? Yeah, I was head of marketing at a vape job. You're talking about iPods. You're talking about the iPod.

Yeah, can you look up IQ Vape iPod? So you made a vape iPod? No, no, I didn't make it. It was a Chinese company, and they had, like, an American't make it. It was a Chinese company and they had like an American subsidiary. I was head of marketing. They already had this product. It looked like this. Shuffle. Yes. No, it's for adults. This is an IQ vape. He'd come home from work every day. We'd be like, dude, you're selling vapes to kids. And he's like, no, no, it's not like that.

Kids don't even know about them. selling vapes to kids and he's like no no it's not like that kids don't even know about them. And I would say, why do we come up when you look up the IQ vape? That's so funny. You're in the recommended right there. I am in the recommended. I hit one of these it tastes like burnt popcorn. I used to be a merchant of death. Yeah it makes your lungs pop. Wait what year was this? This is 2018. 2018? 19 I got fired. 2019 I got fired. But yeah, anyway, I worked there and I was watching a lot of Faze when you guys had the Faze house,

like the Clow house, right? Cause- Banks hit you up not much later. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. After that. He was on Loveick early. I hit him up. No, yeah, he hit him up.

I hit Banks up initially. He didn't know about this, but I hit Banks up because he used to vape, right? Yeah. Oh, right. And I came up with this $300,000 marketing plan where we pay him to do a monthly subscription with our vape. And every month we lower the amount of nicotine.

And the goal was over a year, he would be like Instagram, Snapchatting his story from how he went from vaping to quitting through our monthly subscription program. And we were gonna corner a niche of the market where people are using us to quit vapes. Yeah, and he's like, it doesn't even look like an iPod, bro.

Like not even a little bit. That's kinda, that would work. I feel like that's not correct. That's actually kinda good. I thought it was a great plan. Banks agreed to it. We had like a deal all set up. The president flew in from China.

They like greeted him at the airport. Fucking Uber blacks over. I have to pick it to this guy. 2018. This 2018. Yeah. OK. And then and I'm pitching it to him. We go through and he says, all right, great. Give me a few minutes, Ludwig. And then he talks to his Chinese advisors and they call me back in.

He goes, it was an amazing presentation. It's a great idea. We don't think our product's ready for this. And then actually that the president, the Chinese president. Then why did he fly out here to do say that? I think I think he got scared. He got scared. It was a big investment.

I think he got chicken feet. And you know what? He ended up closing the US office and the whole company failed. So I don't know if he was a great dad. His dad was super rich. At least you learned flawless Mandarin in your time. I did. I've lost most of it, but sure sure remains

Mandarin yeah, yeah, Japanese. Yeah, that's crazy a little French. Yeah, you know four languages. Yeah. Yeah, that's fucked I barely know one Your bag is increasing daily your lexicon is going crazy. Yeah I'm getting more clip now. I feel like because I hit you with a trick shot, I'm getting clips of you in my algorithm. I don't know how I figured that out. Is this the man you killed? I'm getting more clips of you in my algorithm than I ever have before.

And I'm seeing a lot where you just learn a word. Yeah. And you're like, that's a crazy word. It's like exquisite. It's like excitement, joy. Yeah. Yeah, like it'll just, like, there's a few clips where it just actually happened

There's one where I really don't think I ever used the word out loud I just heard it somewhere at some point and then just decided to use it I was like wait, I gotta see if I actually use this right and I did but um, my vernacular is getting a little bit deeper Yeah, vernacular. Yeah Okay, I put you on word of the day. You could just subscribe to that. Let's put you on? Word of the day. You can just subscribe to that. Let's give you one a day. That's what I was thinking about doing for my streams.

Having like a digital, what's it called? Like sign behind me. I do like that. Faze's word of the day. That's what he goes. Alex knows this. Yeah, call me Alex who was on our team for the match. He has a word of the day on stream every day.

One time it was grapefruit. I'm like, that's not a good word of the day. We all know that one. It's too intermediate'm like, that's not a good word. We all know that. This to intermediate. We need that. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Well, I guess nothing about word of the day says it has to be hard.

True. But you don't want your word of the day to be dog. Yeah. Or the. It's gotta be special. But think about how often we use the. And there's no respect on it. It's not like it's I don't think word of the day is the best word.

It's like a word to learn. It's a word to learn and use like vernacular. Yeah, exactly. I feel like it's got to be a word to replace words that are commonly used. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Wait, this is this is my opportunity to ask you, because I remember I followed FaZe growing up and I followed all the big Call of Duty teams. And it was always confusing to me how many owners FaZe Clan had,

because it was like Optic had Hector and like Envy had Hastro, but then everybody in FaZe was an owner. And you were, like when FaZe was around at the beginning, you were in Soar and then like joined the team later on. So who, who like founded the team at the beginning? And then who became the owners later on? Like how did that, how did you become one of the main people even though you joined the clan like later than other people did?

Well Tommy technically is the founder. He took over. He stole it right? He took over FaZe Clan at like 10k subs. I don't know the exact story of how it went down. What I remember was, it was like Housecat? Who was the guy before? Housecat was before him. Resistance was another one. And they had the channel and Tommy was like yo let me be leader and they were like no and then he was just somebody had the password and then he like changed it on him he's like alright I'm leader now yeah and then he turned into an empire that's what I heard yeah I know for certain fact that it had around 10,000 subs and they were like about to change the name of it or something. Or I don't know, I got to ask Tommy the exact like details, but he ended up being like, no, like we're not doing that. And he got the password, took it and ran it from like 2011. It got founded in 2010. And then I think 2011 is where it was like post him. He zucked him.

Yeah. I think 2011 is where it was like post him. He zucked him. Yeah, I think that's- Turkey. Yeah. But they weren't gonna do shit with it, I feel like. Yeah, it wasn't Facebook. No, it wouldn't have played out the same way. So he's basically the founder.

Who comes after that? Like who are the main people that stick around? Tommy drew the logo too. Oh, really? The same day of this day. Yes. No, they changed it now. Oh, the first F.

The first F? It's a little curvy. It's a little curvy now. Who did they do? The hand sign's the best part of it. The hand sign's crazy. Who thought of that? I think Tommy, too.

OK, he's the visionary. I think it was Tommy, like maybe a girl Tommy was with at the time who thought of Phase Up. Oh. It's a Martha Washington situation. I'm pretty sure. The unsung hero a Martha Washington situation. I'm pretty sure I don't I don't know for for like a hundred percent, but um, I thought for a long time It was famous stars and straps. I just didn't know

So then Tommy made it and went like who when did banks get in? So Tommy made it banks. I still remember the day banks joined because me and banks were in SOAR together. Me and banks have been friends since I was like 12 or 13 years old. That's when we met and he recruited me to SOAR. I was on PS3. I joined. So I had to get an Xbox because it was like only an Xbox plan. And I was literally all. If you underscore in your name you were a pussy. Yeah Team there was one ps3 team. It was called psycho

You got to go to your mom be like, sorry mom This piece is like an awesome gift But I actually next box cuz I'm a loser cuz I'm an underscore Playing online. Okay in ps3 you can't have a space in your gamertag. Oh, you have to use underscores I see it's crazy cuz I had a PS3 too. And I went to school and all my friends are talking about Nazi zombies. And that's back when Xbox got it first. Or got maps first.

And I'm like, what do you mean Nazi zombies? What's that? And they're all laughing at me. They're like, oh yeah, you have a PS3, huh? You can't play with us, huh? I went to GameStop. I sold my whole PS3, got like 50 bucks for it. Just to get the Xbox wireless adapterters, so I go online. That's so far. I'm just saying.

Because everyone at school made fun of me. Wait, what was the question we were answering? Well, like, so it starts with Tommy, you and Banks joined. Who the fuck owns it now? So Banks joined in 2012 or 2013, and I joined, I was like low key blackballed from FaZe for like two, three, I didn't think I was ever gonna join FaZe

because one of the current leader at the time just was not fucking with me. That works. I remember I was even muted in the sore chat, he would like ban me in a sore chat and I was like, Banks, can you put me back in the sore chat, bro? The chat's on like Skype or something?

The Skype chat, yeah. But granted, I was talking shit. Like everyone in the Skype chat with low key just like dick rod and be like, oh, like look at this. I would be the one person that would be like, hey, fuck you. For no reason. For no reason.

And everyone's like, wait, what did you just say? Fuck you. That's good, that's smart. He's on a reed. Just for no reason, like completely unprovoked. So I was kind of, yeah, maybe, maybe it was for the right reason, but then Banks joined and brought me with him. And originally, though, it got cut up in four ways.

And it was Apex, Tommy Banks and Apex, Tommy Banks and Norden. Yeah, Fourways. And then it got split up again after that where me and Rug got broke off. And then after that, shit just started getting completely diluted. I don't even know exactly how it went out there. I just know that like business people came in

who were supposed to help elevate the brand and grow the brand. I was never a part of the conversations because I was never like a founder or an owner. It always sounded like a generational hoeing and everyone kid just throws up their hands and it's like they lost complete ownership and all like value that could be had in the company. Yeah. I mean, for lack of better words, yeah. There were people that were breaking off parts of the company

without any of those like the Faze members in the room or knowing what was happening. Everyone kind of like distanced themselves from the brand and from Faze. So these people who came in were like, oh, I gotta run it how I want to. And they would break pieces off for this person who just got here yesterday and somehow he's got more equity and a quarter million dollar salary and has made more money off this brand

than someone like me or like a FaZe, like that doesn't even make sense. This person just got here yesterday. They never played college. Are these like unnamed business people? or these like random players or like people that got signed to the team? No, no, no, no players. It was mostly business people for the most part.

But I just really remember. Seeing how fucked it was on the sidelines and watching all the main guys, like all the founders completely completely just distanced themselves and they were just over it for the right reasons. You know what I mean? Because there are people who are making decisions on FaZe Clan's behalf. But you never left.

I never left. Why? Because I still love FaZe. Like I still care about FaZe. You're 78 years old, you're fucking throwing this up. Yes, for real, I probably will be. I would still show up in the warehouse in that corporate era and try to figure out, OK, how can I make,

how can I affect this? Where can I come in and impact it? So what's the breaking point? The other two founders or owners that like came before you and Banks are like Rain and Apex. Rain, Apex, Norden, Banks. And that's the leadership now, right? Like all those people have? No, no, no, no, no. No, it's really... Now it's weird. Yeah, now it's really just Banks. I mean, Apex is still a part of it. Tommy's still a part of it. Yeah. And Orton's not really involved. Yeah.

But on like a day to day, like who's really overseeing everything? It's just banks. So what's the transition from like, how how do you guys decide or how are you able to regain control of the team? Or at least how is banks able to do that? That's what we're still figuring out. Damn. Yeah, I think from what I remember is the whoever had controls like the business people and I I don't I don't want to put you on the spot.

They always mentioned. I feel like I've heard random interviews like one person in particular. I felt like fucked you. Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure. But me, yeah, in particular. But I don't need you to dive in that if you don't want. But anyway, they the busy people take it public. Yeah, it fails.

Right. The public company, it has to get taken off the exchange. And Banks was like trying really hard to raise around to buy it out. And I think eventually did. It is now has like he has his own private equity deal. But I remember when he was raising he called me in and and I was in Like I was one of the craziest calls. It's like me Mr. Beasts moist critical Aiden Ross Gary Vee greatest minds of our generation

20 people I remember remember hearing about this. All right, boy, shit is not lit. Yeah. And we need to get shit up. We have like a billion dollars. Well, Banks, we can get up. I'm thinking iPod shaped babes, but like new iPods. iPods touches.

You're making a joke. You're making a joke. You're making a joke, but it's Banks explaining the situation and how he thinks that it's a good opportunity to pull money because phases undervalued because the It had been delisted and his value went from like whatever it was stupid 500 million to like, you know 20 million and and he's trying to explain all this and the whole time Aidan Ross is there and he's like banks And he like pans out. It's like fake nuts or something

He pans down and it's fake nuts or something. And then- And then- Well, at one point, the Gryffindor, I'll give him that. And then Banks is like, Banks is like, Banks is like, I get it, dude, not now. Bro. But he doesn't- he didn't stop, bro. He did it for like five minutes, and he kept going.

He's like, dude, if I was there in person from jerk you off He's like I was fucking for real kill you bro, but you have to fuck up That's funny and then mr. B's like can we get this on track like I have a shoot Call going like yeah, it's an interesting opportunity I don't know if I have enough bread to partake, but it was a fucking crazy call. But he regains control. And and I think got a lot of shit at the time for, I think, the first signings of FaZe, which is like the people who are in it now.

Yeah. But I mean, you sign Lacey to anything. You're like, what are we doing? But yeah, you know, but then it's worked out magically. Yeah, it's worked out. Magically work out. And we have awesome Lacey content with with adapt and Ron and the whole crew. And I would I think it's like, I don't know, I think I feel like the impact you guys have now culturally is bigger than like the New York house or

or anything, really. Like, I feel like it's at its peak now. I think so, too. I've actually thought about that a lot. And I think so, especially with've actually thought about that a lot. And I think so, especially with the new era that content is in and how short form is pushed to hundreds and thousands and millions. Like there's people who will tune into your streams regularly, right?

And you have like that floor audience who's watching you. But then there's outside of that, your reach is so much more through clips and in a month, it's like 50 million to 100 million different people, I feel like, who sees like the shit FaZe does. Bax. And there's like some trends that like I think people don't even know or like originate back to

FaZe. Like the somebody smells like shit. I mean, I guess it's like it's Druski, but it's like I feel like a lot of that too too, is just, like, fucking... Lacey and Ron. Yeah, Lacey and Ron spamming it. Does this take place in shorts, pretty much? Like, that's, like, the big main artery. Or short, I'm talking, like, short form.

Like, the artery of getting this to so many people rather than, like, I don't know, streams of videos. I mean, I'm just, was speaking in terms of reach, like, in terms of if, like, analytically, if we're comparing the two Like more people have seen new phase because of shorts. Yeah, because shorts didn't exist back then and also just content creation streaming YouTube all of it is way more popular and mainstream You know, I'm you know, I mean like it's you Consider yourself old head now kinda um I think so yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean every day in my chat. That's what they say sure No, they always make it hurt special ball But I want to ask you because you're you're not old you're 28 But relative to the I think you're younger than all the rest of the new sign. I mean we're the same We're the same he turned 22 days ago three days ago. Oh, yeah, okay? Yeah, come on hairline. I mean we're the same. We're the same. He turned 22 days ago three days ago. Oh shit Okay, like a couple of hairline is I mean In terms of the stream you bro, you're at the fourth one. They don't say that in my chat They say this is there's nothing is, there's nothing. It doesn't really go much further. Fucking Lil Kidd and Chad, bro. They're so mean.

Oh, God. Damn. I'm so sick. Bro, you look like a shy guy. I'm loving it. You're with Jason and Lacey and Ron on the streams, in the house. You're, while Banks is doing the business stuff,

Rain is out of the picture, like why are you the one person who's at the forefront of the content still from this old crew? How do you find your way to that spot? I don't know, I just know that even before we did the launch and like the hard reset, I was still trying to make videos and content.

Like I was still showing up to the warehouse every day. We used to have a warehouse. We had no talent. We had no roster. No one else was ever trying to do shit. And I was like, I watched you at the phase five shoot. What phase? They did like the phase five IRL.

Oh, that was such a disaster. It was horrible. What was this? I can't believe you spent as much money as, Holy shit. It forgot about that. It must have been like a multi-multi-hundred-thousand-dollar IRL stream where it was like phase five trying to recruit people to phase. And they got people from online to come in person to live at the warehouse.

And it's supposed to be kind of like a Big Brother show, a reality show. And they had like eliminations with challenges. Oh my god, it was so ass. The whole thing, the whole thing was ass. Yo, holy fuck. The production failed at every single aspect. Like it was truly, just insane. Bro, there was some guy that made the top 20, like the final stage and his content was he just made car sounds.

I'm pretty sure. Okay, well hold on, hold on. I don't know, are you kidding? This sounds kinda cool, is he? No, no, no. Did he like, get car sounds? I deadass think Lacey's done this. This has been a Lacey sound.

Is there's Lacey in a mustache? Just making car sounds and like, there's people who got snubbed from it. Like, we didn't have a say. Like, someone like me. No, the group was insane. Someone like me or like, even Norton, like, we couldn't be like, yo, put this person in here. They didn't listen to us. No. You know, I mean, so it's like there's the most random ass group of people

And it's like I felt like Twitch was running the show and it was a sponsored show and it had no soul Like in that lame way where they- yeah, yeah And this wasn't even long ago, bro. This is like not that long ago. Four years ago, maybe maybe maybe three? 2022 maybe? Oh, wow. It's like recent enough that it's crazy to think that that existed under phases branding And it now phase of branding is where it is like that's a insane turnaround So that is problem recently where I wake up and I feel like when Peter Griffin fell down the stairs Let your legs in a 90-degree angle to the left It's probably something to do with you sleeping horribly. OK, yes.

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So you're just like the only person from that group or that house era who is still grinding and trying to put out content so that in that just naturally fits with everything. You've got crazy ambitions still. Yeah, I mean, I really still do love doing it. I love streaming.

When we hit the hard reset button, it kinda worked, it happened on accident. I was making a YouTube video because I was gonna start making videos on my Faze Adapt channel again, because that's what I always did, I always made YouTube videos. So I made a video talking about

how I was addicted to nicotine and how vaping is really bad and I went and talked to doctors and extreme victims and like a documentary style video like really got serious about the facts and was like, okay, to hold myself accountable. So you guys know I'm really quitting. I'm going to be live on Twitch for seven days, 24 seven. You're going to see me on camera every second of every day. And you're going to watch me quit nicotine. You know what I mean? And I was going to do the stream in the phase warehouse at the time, but we had just got the phase house

and it was just Lacey. And I was like, I'm going to be live on Twitch for seven days. And I was like, I stream in the Faze warehouse at the time, but we had just got the Faze house and it was just Lacey, it was just Lacey and Ron that were living in there. And there was an open room and Banks was like, just do it there, like you might as well just do it there. Cause I was planning on just doing seven days and just playing like Plutonium or playing like zombies

for the whole fucking time. I had no idea what it was. I was so honestly so looking back on it, I was like so nervous to do it because I never had stream like that. And going in for a week straight is a little crazy. But after what point did you feel like I can do this? This is fine. Probably after the subathon, honestly, because after the week,

I was like, OK, it was cool. I had developed relationships more with some of the newer guys. I've always been friends with Ron, me and Ron. I went, me and Norden went and recruited Ron from X-Set two phase like years ago. You saw that Maroon 5 clip. Yeah.

You said this is the guy. He said, this kid's got talent. I hit the button, my chair turns around. Was he just an X set pro Fortnite player or something? He was a content creator. Oh, creator. Okay. And he was funny and like everything about him like screamed FaZe to me. I'm like, he should be in FaZe Clan. Like he should not, you know what I mean? So we went and talked to him and he ended up joining. And when we launched a new phase, like he was already a part of phase,

but like was a part of that too. So he was at the house. So it was a lot easier for me because me and him already had a relationship. And then after that, I was kind of like pulling up like randomly and doing like random one-off streams and just like in the background, but not really committed to it yet.

But then after the sub-a-thon, I was like, yeah, like I think there's no way that I don't, like I leave the sub-a-thon, I just don't stream anymore. Yeah. You know what I mean? You gotta keep going. And then you understand like streaming culture and like how you develop a relationship with the people in your chat and like different ongoing jokes.

And I bet you get called on like 400 times a day every day, all day. How different are your chats? You think like I'm sure you have a lot of crossover and people who run at each. But do you have like people you think fucking they only click that shit for you? It doesn't matter if you're not alive. Then I can feel a Jason viewer in your chat. Can you can you sense that he's there? I don't know.

I mean, I feel like obviously there's overlap. Like if there's a Venn diagram and you're looking at like the percentages of different phase members and like, who's like, like which viewers is mainly watching which phase member. There's obviously overlap, but yeah, I think that there's definitely like a good chunk of people

who have not just like discovered me from new phase, but have been rocking with me since I made like videos in my mom's basement like years ago. You know what I mean? And I could see, like, cause people like, when you're streaming, like, you could, you like, could see the chat live, you know what I mean? There's certain things that they say that they know that they

wouldn't know if they were a newer viewer. Right, right, right. Like, yeah, you vibe check them. Yeah, like for sure. Like you're talking about like New York or like, I'll randomly ask, like, I'll randomly ask like, I'll randomly like ask questions and be like, okay, wait, let's see who actually knows this.

Oh, you put them in the test? Yeah. And then like someone in the chat will get it and like everyone else will get it wrong. You know what I mean? But- What always surprises me is when you guys will randomly do like throwback stuff, like, oh,

ranking every trick shotter that's ever been in phase or something. And in my head, I'm like, that should bomb. Like, no one should want to watch that. And then it's like really good viewership. That's crazy. That was a stream I did before the subathon, I think, or like before I was really committed to streaming.

Even just FaZe in general, whenever you guys do this like old throwback trick shot stuff, I always assume that like the new viewers like weren't there for that and like, don't really care about it, but I'm always proven wrong. I feel like they always- I always think it's people who want to be tapped into the lore like a yeah, you're like, what has been around or uncle's up to back?

Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. Crazy. Because so few things that are successful now in this space have that history like that. That's it's very, very few things that are in gaming or streaming or content. Make it past the 10 year mark, let alone, I mean, the 15. We're at 15 years right now.

It really is that 15 damn. That young woman who did this on one fateful night at a Culver's or something. She changed hundreds of thousands of Instagram pictures forever. For real. What? Do you quit nicotine? Did it work? It worked. Yeah.

It did actually. There's a, there's a Super Smash, there's a Melee player. By the way, we were talking, Adapt was talking about, oh, dude, we used to play Melee, like, after, you know, playing COD and stuff. He's like, we should play. He's talking to, we would run a train on you, bro. I'm sorry. What?

Like, it's, we- Let me get in the lab for like a week. This is how we all met. We all played for 10 years. We all played one life to R4. Sorry, if we had, yeah, if you had four lives to R1, we would win. I've done this bet with a lot of gamers.

You can, we can put as much as you want on it. I think I can beat you with one hand. He has a one-handed peach. Fuck no. It's crazy, bro. I'm just saying. We can put a thousand on it. This would be like me telling any of y'all

to get on Rust or Newtown probably. You cook me there. You cook me there. He has a good shot. I get cooked. Now you guys have really played though. Yeah, that's the thing. Don't step into the soundtrack.

As someone who's like done the COD thing and like was 1v1ing and all that, Melee is very different. Like you can't like, I do. I have friends who like play like only a little bit of Cobb, but they're actually pretty good. They're like crazy good. Melee is like my first two years playing. I don't think I beat anyone.

Yeah, you're bad for a long time. It takes so long. At tournaments. It takes a long time. Yeah. But like I was saying, there's so there's a Melee player who got really good kind of recently. He's get some good wins. His name's Krudo. He's from Florida.

And apparently he's packing 18 milligrams in his mouth. Zins. He is, he is at like the human limit of nicotine right now. Just upper deck. While playing. While playing. I've also heard he sleeps with him. Yeah. And he sleeps with him. We're all worried about Crudo. We're going to call this a PED. He can't be playing with that in his mouth. It can't be good for you. It's definitely not good. Well, I mean, he's winning. He's winning, though. But he's reaching peak gaming.

That's something to think about. He has best run actually, like I think we should give him more. Well, what was baseball the best when Barry Bonds is hitting fucking homers juice out of his mind? Bro, let's go back to that. Let's juice our melee players. Nicotine and awesome. I see a nicotine.

Maybe. Yeah, maybe I just relapse too and run it back. This is a good idea. If you had two in, you would have crushed us. Yeah, I gotta pull up. Relapsing to beat PSL. A bunch of IQ vapes the next time we take. Just the money spread of iPods. I'm getting popcorn so quickly now. I have a question. What do you like the most about new content creation? And what do you dislike the most about it?

Because it's obviously way different than 10 years ago. There's obviously shit that's different. What do you like? What do you dislike? I think it's more authentic now. Cause. Whoa, really? Cause. At least in terms of streaming, you don't think so?

Oh, I guess that's true. Were you in the 24 hours stuck in an elevator with face banks? No, but I made videos like that for sure. Yeah, I feel like if you watch a streamer regularly, like if you tap into their streams and you're like just a regular viewer, you're able to tell a lot about that person like for hours. Like people are streaming like six, seven, eight, nine, ten hours. Right. It's way more organic and natural. There's situations you're in where you would never be in. You can't cut a stream or like, or like,

You can't fake a personality. You can't edit to make it look nice. Yeah, you can do all this with YouTube. You can cut shit out. You could edit shit. Like you could hit start, stop on the camera, whenever. When you're streaming, it's all unedited, raw, organic. So I feel like more candid.

This happened. I noticed this Logan Paul tried streaming for like a short period, I think after like the Ninja Drake stream and they were bad, they were bad. He would like throw plates, he had a wall of plates that he would have me throw if he lost some Fortnite. And it just came off really inauthentic cause I think he was like, I'll do the YouTube shit

but live and then everyone's like, this sucks. Interesting. And so he quit it. And obviously found a niche live doing WWE, but I do think it's like a different skill. And you adapted to that skill pretty quick. Fuck, fire. No, fire.

Word of the day. Word of the day. Yeah. I didn't even think about it. You could tell that you didn't even realize. Yeah, that's sad. What do you dislike then? I mean, what do I dislike?

If I had to really think about it. Do you ever feel too old for the kids? I mean, there's nothing like there's times where I wish like say I'm like six hours into a stream where I wait, like I'll end and like go home, like where I actually live, shower, eat. And then like, there'll be times where like, oh, I could see myself going back on stream right now and chilling, but like, it doesn't work like that. Like if I wanna stop, I gotta stop, you know what I mean?

That's like the main difference, but there's nothing like super like loud that I would say I dislike about it. What about K-pop stans swarming Jason on the internet, purity testing him for everything he damn does? What about that? I mean, I feel like as long as the internet is a thing, there's gonna be shit like that that exists. So it just rolls off you? Yeah.

Because Faze has a lot of haters. Yeah, for sure. I mean, over the years in every rendition of what Faze Clan was, there's been a minority of people who have always hated it and been very vocal and loud about what we're doing. Like, when we stopped playing Call of Duty and started vlogging, people fucking hated that. People were like, oh, you're straying away from the roots.

This shit sucks. Y'all are lame. When we moved to LA and the whole Fortnite shit shit happened people like what the fuck you guys were call of duty Lifestyle vloggers now you guys are going to for tonight. What the fuck is this? Every and now with the new phase when we announced new phase. Holy shit were y'all on Twitter though for those days. Yeah They were dragging every person and the house. I had tears down my eyes, bro. I was screaming. I was like, rain! Oh, they...

No! They fried banks. I pushed a hole in the drywall that day. They did. They were all banks for everything they were showing. Like, I think we announced Macs first. People were like, no way. They started showing footage of Macs playing Call of Duty

and like the cod, like niche community of Twitter caught it and it went nuts and then like started roasting Lacey, Silky, everyone and like for me it's like a thing where I've been doing it for so long like and I've seen all types of shit on like and hate and what people it doesn't really affect me. You have a hater in your head that you like remember? Like maybe from back in the day? I just remember I would... I used to let it get to me because I used to read comments because I would really scroll through all my YouTube comments

and like read the majority of them and I used to get flamed for having bad acne. Oh shit. People were frying me and not even just on comments in like different Twitter threads and shit. Oh shit. People were frying me and not even just on comments in like different Twitter threads and shit. That sucks. And I was always getting-

That sucks so bad. Yeah, no, that's so mean. They were creative as fuck though. I don't know why they were like, damn, you got orbital V-sat on your face. Like, this shit is mad funny. This shit is actually- I hate when you get roasted and you just have to nod.

And the fact that it's funny and it makes sense made me even fatter. And mansy wavy. Oh my God, that's funny. And it's a COD reference too. It's like, whoa, I'm getting killed right now, like in my heart. And I remember like, that was the era where

it was like the last time I ever really let shit or like like an opinion of someone who I don't know on the internet affect me at just the concept of like you not knowing a person and 90% of the time it's a random Twitter profile pic. No face. No name. Yeah, they're saying some shit How am I ever gonna let like it's easier for me to say because I've been doing it It would be crazy for me to ever let that affect how I actually feel about myself or what I'm doing. You know what I mean? And that's why I try to tell all the newer guys because they for sure let it affect them. Really? Yes. You have to learn it. It's a skill man. I see Lacey getting emonas com.

Yes, bro. He gets sad. I've had the same version of this conversation time and time again with a lot of, even today, even with Ron today, I sat with Ron today and he was like, bro, anytime I look online, it's like mad hate and it's threads and it's like the hate, people are like, I see people replying to the hate and it's got likes to like, I'm not,

I was just trying to tell him like exactly what I'm saying. Now like, bro, you're giving it attention. Like you're letting it affect you. It doesn't have to affect you if you don't want it to. No. Like it's your decision. Yeah. Completely 100%.

What about when Ron told me to kill myself three days ago? Oh, what'd you do? On high rise. It sounds like. What do I gotta do about this guy? I'm a beast, bro. You can't let that shit get to you. I don't even think he's a lie. You can't let that shit get to you.

I don't even think he knows my name. You can't let that shit get to you. That's facts. All right, dude, sorry. My bad. That is so, bro. May, it sounds like you just have a deep love then for for like stream. I guess you had a normal job.

No, that's crazy. That's not crazy. One day you brought a HD PVR and then you never had a job. You never know. That's crazy. I didn't get a TV. I got there was a kid in my class who had one. And then he was going to high school and he was like, I'm going to high school now,

I'm not recording myself playing video games. I'm like, every day I was like, bro, please give me the PVR, please, please, please, please, please. Last day of school, he finally gives it to me, but I'm like, damn, I can't use a PVR and make YouTube videos. I need a TV, I need a laptop, I need a bunch of other shit. So then that whole summer, I'm trying to finesse.

I got my mom to like, for my birthday, cause it was in the summer, she's like, okay, I'll cover half of this like Toshiba laptop for your birthday, you gotta pay me back the other half. And then I started like, I remember I was in SOAR and I started making videos and doing other shit. Like we would sell friend requests and shit back then. And I paid back like the other. You were selling sub box spots.

You were selling friend requests. It was real. Like we would say like it's this much, but whatever anyone would get. Yeah. Yes. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.

And the crazy thing is there was this weird like. But people would refund sometimes. Holy shit. $100 is not refunded. But if. I don't know how it refunded. But if you had notable people on your friends list, like if you had like FaZe members on your friends list, you would go into random search and destroy lobbies and someone would DM you and be like, how much for FR?

For real? And then you'd be like 1600. And then all of a sudden they've sent you 1600 Microsoft points, which is $25. 100 for sure. And it was like, all right, yeah, you add them, you add them for one month, you delete them in a month. And then...

You also never talk to them, right? Yeah, you never play with them, never talk to them, never invite them. Wow. And sometimes people will be like, how much to be in your sub box on YouTube? And it's like, I don't know, 50 bucks. What sub box, sorry.

Like back, you know, now it says like, you know, like user also recommends these people. It used to just be like a box that you could put any channels you wanted to, like people you knew. They would like show you who the yard subscribes to. And it would include their subscription button under their name.

So it was like a way to promote someone. I see. But what I was, where was I at? Oh yeah, I never had a real job, but my mom was trying to get me to apply to one right when I turned 16. Because when I turned 16 and you legally can work, I was already grinding YouTube,

like making YouTube videos every day It was all I would do I would leave school. I didn't Party I didn't go out. I didn't I never took a sip alcohol. I didn't do anything. All I would do was make YouTube it I would come home from school and From the moment I got home to the moment There I have old tweets like I found one the other day where I tweeted, it was at like 6 20 a.m. I'm like damn, I just finished my video and now I gotta go to school in 30 minutes, fuck.

That was every day. Like every day I would come home and for hours. And you're getting views on these videos? Sometimes, like they would get like, and soar like around 10,000 views, but I was still posting regularly. You know what I mean? 10,000 views on old YouTube, that hit.

Yeah, it was crazy. Not enough to- The very sidekick did not hit those numbers. You know when we get stuck at 301 for a while? Yes. 301, we're fired. That's how you knew you were. That's how you knew you had a banger.

Oh, it's frozen, that's good. It's going up. But no, I never did, but my mom made me apply for one after I already was like Making a good amount of money from YouTube, but I never got a call back. Thank God. Were you partnered on YouTube? Yeah, my junior year. Remember how you got partnered? Like who partnered you? Uh, an MGM reached out and They would pay me out in pounds and it was a horrible split. Like a British MCN or something. Yeah, it was like 60 40. I remember there was like, I'm trying to remember that there was like TGN machinima. It wasn't machinima. My friend was on machinima.

That is 40 STs. Whoa. So when you were doing this, like when do you start making money from what you're doing? Like real money from what you're doing. And are you doing better now, like financially? Is this era of FaZe for you better? I'm just, I'm curious because you've been... Look, can one successful content creator... I don't think this is crazy. That's a crazy question.

Well, I feel like he's much bigger now. You don't have to answer if you don't want to. I'm just curious. I'm curious as someone else who does content, it's like, what's it like making money, making YouTubes back in 2014, 2013 compared to now? Cause back then was good for a lot of people too. Yeah, I mean, it was good back then for sure,

but you definitely make more money now. There's just more verticals and it's bigger. It's more mainstream. So I feel like for specific sponsorships and like one-off brand deals the bag is just bigger. Those didn't really exist back then. Like mid video ad reads and stuff like that. I don't even think about that. It'd be rare. But I didn't I started making real money. That shit wasn't even owned by Google yet. Like I was making like a... You I mean That guy does you had yeah What was owned by YouTube YouTube when did it get bought by Google year was that I think it was I think she was an 11

It was early with the public ads the public ad sense didn't get I mean like Like smosh and shit. We're getting like their first partnerships directly from YouTube. Yeah people Yeah, yeah, shit's better, it's gotta be better now. It is for sure. But I think I was making enough money, because I remember I did the math in my head when I was really like trying to weigh out

me not going to college and just doing what I was doing. I started making 8K a month and I remember, okay. Okay. 8K a month, there's 100K a year. I'm chilling, like what? As a teenager? Yeah, 16 years old. Dude, that's so,, 8K a month, there's 100K a year, I'm chilling. Like what? As a teenager? Yeah, 16 years old. Dude, that's so, yeah, that's crazy.

And that's just off ad revenue from Call of Duty videos. I remember when I hit that 8K number, I was like, okay, so if I don't go to school and I just do this, I'll make 100K a year, but I'll go to school and I'll have this much money in student loans. Also, graduate in four years and then this is like the base salary. I'm like, why would I not do this? Yeah, you crunch the numbers, you know, I mean and

What your only child? No, I have four sisters Your mom single raise you guys. No, my mom and my dad. Okay both together Yeah, and they all got way cooler names. You only talk about your mom Then adapt Yeah, I gave myself that one. The one they gave me versus all my sisters. All my sisters are named after cities in Europe. So it's like Paris, Vienna. And they just saw your face and they were just like,

we need an American name. Yeah, I was like, damn, they got these cool ass Govries. And I got Alex. But it's all good. It's all good. It's cause my dad wanted a name. In a different world, you're like FaZeBerland or something. FaZeBerland, that's how I read it.

That would hit. That would hit. That's cool, man. So I mean, like, did you, are your parents like, that is a weird question, but like they got money or like you hit it big and then you took care of them type of thing? I mean, yeah

we always were like well definitely well off and I always had like we lived in a nice nice ass house and Went to like a great school and like a middle class like upbringing Yeah, yeah, but it wasn't everything where it was like I had their money sure sure sure. Like I could go do what I want. Like even for, like the only thing I think I got fronted besides the consoles was half of the laptop, the Toshiba laptop that I started my whole YouTube career on.

My mom fronted me half of it and took care of the other half for my birthday. And then I paid her back, which is still like insane. I was even able to do that. And then if you're making 8K a month as a teenager, you've, you've solved something. Yeah. I remember my first, my first internship in college and it

was like 2K a month. I was, this is game. My first job, I got paid 725 an hour. awesome. Damn. I was I worked in a deli I learned how many's got eight hours to pay for a video game them Yeah fucks up your concept of money and like you how you like how you actually value it when you're that young and you come Up on that much money. Do you don't think it's real and you never physically have it You know what I mean? Like I never physically like I would just see it in your last 30 days. Like, all right, bet.

I never like would spend money. All your money was in PayPal. Yeah, I literally wouldn't even check my bank account. Even now, I still try to like not look at it. Like even like the analytics on Twitch or like you're like, because it, it, I feel like it fucks up your view of the content, like what you're doing, like you try to base it off of that. Like you don't want to do what makes the most money, you want to do what you think is good. Yeah, because at the moment, I feel like I'm not having fun with it. And I start like being like,

oh, like, not even just the money part, but like viewership too and like numbers. Like, oh, you don't have your viewership open when you stream? No, I have it, but I don't let it dictate whether or not what I'm doing. If what I'm doing like is something like if you were to boot up like plutonium and then the viewers were lower, you wouldn't not boot it up next time. Yeah. You're still still gonna do it. Yeah, cuz I feel like attaching like Your happiness or how you feel about the content you're doing to the numbers on the back end

It's just a losing fucking game. Mm-hmm, and I did it with YouTube for so long Like yeah, youtubers do that shit all of us in New York Apex normal tell you all the same thing. I mean we wake up. we're like, damn, our video didn't get a hundred K views. Say we wanted to kill ourselves. It's no. I'm dead ass. You're saying that doesn't happen now. No, no.

You don't feel that like, you've been in the game too long. You have a deep love now. I feel like he has a deep love like he's new to the game. Because he's talking about, he's been in here for 12 years and after doing a six-hour stream he goes home showers and ice stream again he wants to spark up another stream yeah because it's fun though it's actually fun i know but like this is not necessarily normal like i think i think that's what i'm surprised it's like a lot of people in your shoes that have been doing it this long they just phase out to other let's go let's go we're so bad dude they phase out to other let's go Adapting yeah

You know whether it's circumstances their career or not people move on to other stuff like and naturally or they they fatigue they don't want to Do it anymore old you fucking sunset? Do you keep your your ship up huh when you stream Yeah constantly I look at my numbers every fucking day, baby No, I'm talking about your viewership numbers. Yeah, always. Okay. What about because he loves stats You're talking about I don't like the analytics and shit He I kind of I feel like he's driven by them in a lot of ways. I'm a stats let. You're stats whore I feel like I have a different perspective on it because I was In like in the day to day and doing YouTube every day and so caught up on like, okay, this needs to hit this number

and this, that's like, I need to get this much views this month. And I was so caught up in it and then I stopped making YouTube videos and really stopped doing content altogether. Not really necessarily by choice, but if I really wanted to, I feel like I would have found a way. And for like years, for like two, three years,

I kept trying to figure out like, damn, like, I'm trying to, like, I'm not done. You know what I mean? Like, I still love doing this. I still have mad ideas, things I wanna do. And I would like sit around trying different things or trying to do this or that. And then shit like finally fell into place.

And not like overnight either, like that was like a thing where gradually it just started happening and I started having more fun with it. That's why I feel like I had a different or have a different perspective of it. And I just love it cause I was doing it before and I had it and then I didn't like, and I woke love it because I was doing it before and I had it and then I didn't.

And I woke up one day, I'm like, I worked way too hard my entire life to feel like this and to wake up every day not knowing what I'm gonna do. You know what I mean? And I would sit and try to figure it out by myself every day and yeah, that's kinda where I'm at, at least mentally. When I look at it.

I think that's the big answer is that people who make videos or content or whatever, or art, if you want to separate them, is saying, I still have something to say. And when you run out of shit to say, but you're still speaking, that's the bad part. And that's when you end up with making garbage. Do you, since you move out at 17,

you're making money as a teenager and you skip college, you skip a lot of like parts of life that, you know, other kids would be going through. Do you feel like you, do you like regret missing anything or do you feel like you learned things faster, learned any hard lessons because of the shit you did back then I feel like

Moving out it's still insane to me you moved across the country when you were 17 to move into a house With a bunch of people you had did not know the word vernacular when you move Bro, I turn a Mac D at it. I didn't know a lot of I didn't know a lot of things What's something you learned way too late? Like you were like, I should have known this a long time ago. Didn't you mean way too late and way too early? I don't know, it's actually a really good question. I mean, fuck bro.

When I moved to New York, I remember I genuinely thought mayo and mayonnaise were two different condiments. No, no, no, no. Do not laugh. Why are you not laughing then? Because I had the same. I swear to God. This is not me faking this in a novel. I now just think you're all so crazy. No, no, no. He's totally in the right on this one. It's weird that you call him the different things. No, it's not. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, that's because I never learned that. Exactly. We don't learn chain. I don't think it's like a thing they teach. I don't think they're like, it's mayo and mayonnaise are two separate things. It's a Southwest thing, bro. I grew up in Colorado. Same shit. But now that's in the bag. Yeah, it is. Now we have that and we can pull that out. You can be like, can I get mayo? I thought you were going to be I thought you'd be like like how to pay my taxes or like yeah something Joked when I when we first lived with him He didn't know that dishwasher liquid and dish soap for the sink was true this set different

So he put dawn in the dishwasher really bad bubbles came out like fucking Willy Wonka crazy That's not how we do various And you were 25. I mean, I think I used to get in my head when I was in New York and I was 18 and I would like look at my friends from back home and like Everyone's at ASU was lit like it was outside They're having these like real like he was invited probably me Me and Breslin, Ultimate Frizzy party going fucking crazy, slapping each other across the face, drinking beers, kissing people. Yeah, Breslin kiss a lot.

People are having real life experience and getting to be in these social settings. And I remember I'd just be in my room in Long Island, New York, and we wouldn't leave the crib. We wouldn't leave the crib. We really didn't have to. And I would kind of be like, damn, like, I feel like it would be cool to experience that at the time. But I mean, as I got older and like we moved to California

and then we moved to LA, like I've been around and I feel like in enough situations where I've been able to learn and grow and put things together myself without necessarily having to do it the traditional way. You're going far back to talk about FOMO, but I mean, you talked about on the stream, I don't know how genuine you're being,

but you're experiencing it now. Like people who you grew up with now are getting married, they're having kids. For real. They're moving on the next stage of life. And you are thinking about sparking up your second stream while watching Old Diaz alone at 10 PM. That's a different lifestyle.

That's really just facts though. What the fuck? But, I mean, it's like- No, Colgeas is so good though. It's a great show. Bro, Lelouch is the go- It's a great show and it might be better than having a kid watching that show.

For the first time, Lelouch- Yeah, cause what's it gonna, it's gonna shit itself again? Yeah. And Lelouch never shits himself. I saw that last episode. the first time, Lelouch. Yeah, because what's it going to shit itself? Again? Yeah. And Lelouch never shits himself. I saw that last episode. One time, Lelouch shit himself. Lelouch didn't ever cry or bitch.

He's the goat. No, he really is, bro. Coolest thing babies do is breastfeed. That's pretty tight. Yeah. But you respect it. Do you feel firm on that? I respect for that, because same.

Oh, how people my age or friends are having. I mean, not really. I feel like whenever I decide to do that when the time is right, like that'll happen. Do you think about like a retirement age or is that like in conjunction with content creation? It's crazy. I was talking, I think I was talking to Max about this yesterday. We were in the theater watching the game and like me, him and Silky and he was like, Yo, what are you trying to do after this? And I was like, what do you mean? He's like, after all thisky. And he's like, yo, what are you trying to do after this? And I was like, what do you mean?

He's like, after all this shit. And I was like, I don't know. You don't think about it? No. I mean, I'm really and I mean, obviously there's like the easy answer, which is like, yeah, like I will get enough money to be able to live comfortably and like raise a family, maybe go back home to Arizona, be closer to my family. Maybe like I feel like by default, that's like the default choice. and raise a family, maybe go back home to Arizona, be closer to my family. Maybe, I feel like by default, that's the default choice.

You know what I mean? That's the normal ending. Yeah, but I truthfully just don't ever look that far ahead. I'm more focused on. I mean, everything you've talked about, you seem pretty locked into enjoying what's in front of you, which is cool because I think a lot of other people struggle with the opposite problem. They're like fatigued with what they're doing

or they're spending time, too much time looking at the future and they don't want to just enjoy, enjoy now. Like, specifically this type of work. And I feel like a lot of the time when people are unhappy or stressed or sad, they're almost 99% of the time thinking about something that hasn't happened, something that could happen or something that already happened to them.

It's never like- Or something they can't control. Yeah, something they can't control, yeah too. But like people don't really exist in the present. So that's really at least where I'm at. I don't know if that sounds crazy. You're maybe the ideal person to have gotten hit by this trick shot. I'm not going to let that fuck me up.

I'm not thinking about that. That's not going to stop my momentum. That shit's over with. That shit was crazy. The thing about 7Sensitivity is like that's not an easy 360 to get out in that time. Oh, I didn't even see how you swapped to the M9. Yeah. What do you rate this shot, like, objectively,

ignoring that it's huge? 7Sens. I mean, objectively... Headshot over the bomb. It's a 360 no scope in a $15,000 LAN tournament. It's ridiculous. To even do this in a $15,000 land tournament. It's ridiculous Even do this in a land tournament like where money's on the line. Yeah is nuts Yeah, you know I mean and it was to win the fucking game

Nick has been working on PSL for months like a gross amount like neglecting at points his job Yeah, the yard everything his girlfriend his loved ones me. Yeah to work on modding Call of Duty 4 That's for setting up every console not for stream not for not for a YouTube video Just for fucking everyone's empty four months ago. But that's so important. I feel like. Thank you for saying that bro. I feel like people don't understand the value of like, cause that's something that has been a hobby

and something that you care about since you were young, right, since you were like 12, 13. Yeah bro. I mean yeah, I think you've ever since you're doing all this for baby you. Ever since Zerger has made the no scope tutorial, the G-shot tutorial. People get older and like let those pieces of them just die and wither away,

like the things that make them happy. A lot of the time you don't have the opportunity to take the money and time to go seek out something you wanted as a child. I remember this happening when we did the Double Dash LAN, because the GameCube has a fucking LAN mode in it. And most people don't even know that because so few games could even use it. And you can play LAN Double Dash with 16 people on the GameCube and we just like did an event with it.

And I remember as a kid looking at the game book and imagining how cool it would be to be able to one, afford it and have enough friends to do it. Yeah. But that's such a sad image. There's like little eight inches looking being like 15 people are here and they're all. And they're all my friends. They have shirts with my face on it.

But now you get to do shit like that. And even now, hearing you explain that, you could hear how passionate you are about it when you're talking about it. Yeah. You know what I mean? I feel like people get older and those things that matter to them as they were growing up. I think there's a generational thing, too, because like land gaming is like, like it's not a thing anymore.

The fact that like getting a bunch of consoles in a room or even a bunch of computers, which I used to do, it's like, it's so much more work. It's yeah, it's the most tedious shit ever trying to put together eight setups and like, you got to make a fucking mod menu, bro. He did make a mod menu a lot of late nights. That shit is not easy. Like it's not. There was a bug in one of the PSL versions. I'm only in the chat.

I don't go because I'm bad at all these games. And he's like, yeah, sorry, there's a bug where like the gun game doesn't swap well. And I was just like, Patrick Star, another 10K lines of code to the PSL. Yeah, because the guys like for like maybe a full month, I was just like AFK. And they're just like, so what do you, how is this thing coming along that we're doing? And I'm like, ah, well I picked up C++. Yeah, dude. Because I'm trying to make-

You're getting worried. Because I'm trying to play a game made in 2007, but today, no, it's not for stream, it's not even for work. That's the coolest shit ever to me though. I feel like that's why the clip's also awesome because it cements it. I mean like it would still be cool regardless, but now there's like a way to explain it

to other people who wouldn't get it. In a single clip, it's like this is why it was awesome to work at it. Well it's funny because when we were setting up the room to play them, for some reason I didn't think about it being similar to when we do PSL and then Dan was like Oh, you got to turn off all the lights and do like the disco lights and like the shit that you guys do when you play On Fridays, I was I didn't think about that at all I think that that added a lot to the atmosphere and your right side walked in like they were just like what the fuck is all this?

It's like a high school dance There was the disco lights driz playing music on his DJ. You were the only one who was like, wait, are you guys nice? Everyone else, like Ron and Jason, they were just running around yelling and you're like, wait a minute. What are we walking into? You guys have eight Xboxes. There's no way you just have eight setups and it's like, oh, like we just put these

together. Like you, we found it. You found it. There's custom fucking model for two cases. It's like the PSL case. Bro, is MW2 and BO2, you know how hard it is to play those games online? Like, you don't just like, oh, like you want to come, you know what I mean? So I knew. System went down.

He's been saying it's an Xbox 360 summer. Yeah, bro, it's an Xbox 360 summer. Everyone needs to go buy one and we are bringing the lobbies back. I'm down. Here's my idea. We run this back, bring the old FaZe guys. Oh, God, bro. We could do it.

Bring the unks. The only way we have a chance is if we keep the one sniper only rule. Yeah, for sure. No, we got to do all snipers, bro. We get hooked. We get cropped. I have to call some friends from high school for that. What?

Yeah. Just put these kids down, bro. That would be so much fun, bro. I mean, I just set up a LAN at the phase house, two monitors, two Xboxes, where it's just BO2 for now. But I want to eventually get like MW2. And I'm pretty sure the live servers for BO2 are still up and running. All of them are up.

Which is crazy. I play COD4 like every night. Because Apex, I know him for sure. He plays it and makes videos for his gaming channel on it. Every day he's been trying to tell me get on, get on, get on. So part of me wants to start playing BO2 on the 360 on stream and like making some sort of arc around it or something. Yeah, let's do the Xbox 360 summer and we can rematch at the end of summer. Yeah, I feel like there's so much and people love that game. It's so good. Yeah, chat is crazy. Like chat every time they see it, they're like, it's just a nostalgia wave I think you can still cue league play. Oh

My god, there's just not players But if you were but you're big enough to where like you could organize like everyone get on and go on league play You could do a team of four you could make a custom logo again Like you could leave lay was black ops embedded competitive mode It was like the first ranked mode that call you can make your own logo in the game because first ranked mode that call it you can make your own logo actually in the game because I think I learned more about vagina anatomy from the black ops to custom I did in school like just booting it up and beating it That game had everything. Yeah, that game pretty much had everything.

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Do you agree on that? Yeah. I mean, the majority of the new Call of Duty's. Thank you. Not enjoyable. You explain why as someone who I play like warzone sometimes. I don't know if fucking kills me that they've got they've like regressed in the opposite direction for over almost a decade now Mw2 remastered was good. That was the last one that I feel like existed outside the week where they released it Everything else wait modern warfare remastered 2019

Wait, there was an MW2 remastered? Yeah. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember that. There's so many thoughts! Not the MW2 we know. I don't know how to even explain it. Oh wait, it wasn't the same.

It was MW2019. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the last one that I feel like, and that kind of came out with Verdant's, where I feel like the game was fun. I still play Warzone. Every night almost, even sometimes off stream. But it's just not the same as it was, like when we would play Cod, like MWBO2. Like it was. What parts of it feel like what's shitty about it?

I don't, I mean. It's just a vibe. There's a lot of things like, I mean, if I off the top of my head, if I had to highlight one, it's just like the fact that you can put eight fucking attachments on a gun. The fact that to get a specific attachment for whatever gun is the meta, you have to use this SMG and get this SMG to this level to get this grip for this AR. Right. That doesn't even fucking sound like.

Yeah, you have to grind shipyard is the best way to get your ship. It actually is miserable. Even making a class with everything unlocked and custom. Because there's like a foregrip, a backgrip, a nozzle. There's so much going on. It's crazy because it feels like all of the biggest bugs are in-game play. And it's like, they'll be like, you know what, if the main menu looks like Netflix and Nicki Minaj is in the game and every gun has 45 attachments on it, that's what we want. That's the biggest game.

And it said what they do is they had Seth Rogen nuketown and there's weed haze. That seems like all their priorities are there. It's also like very clearly they're doing shit for money, which is like, I get it, but also it's like, I don't like how disposable the games feel now. Like it feels like they come out with a game, it's 900 gigabytes.

And then you're supposed to, when the next game comes out, uninstall that one, it's a it's 900 gigabytes and then you're supposed to when the next game comes out uninstall that one reinstall a new one because who the fuck has five terabytes on their SSD and It's like oh, yeah, fuck the last year one who cares wrong disrespect. Sorry Leslie. It doesn't even matter. Let's go It literally is so I can't can anyone here remember the last time like Call of Duty was like memorable people like talked about the new COD or getting out. Outside of the first week, a game came out. I feel like it's just Warzone.

Warzone was its own phenomena for a bit. Warzone gets people hyped. Because back in the day, MW2 came out, and then they were like, wow, it's the greatest game of all time, whatever. You play the shit out of it. And even Black Ops 1, MW3, Black Ops 2, all these games come out, you play them,

but you still play MW2. Yeah. And the servers are still big. Yeah, we would still go back to- New COD is not like that. You're not like going back and playing COD 4 remaster. Yeah, it's like Madden. More advanced warfare or close.

Yeah, it's like a sports title. It's like, why play the one from 2012? Yeah, they've perfected a development cycle in a money-making situation. And I don't know, but it's interesting to hear- That's what but it's interesting to see like an old head who's not that old be like, no, the mechanics still suck, but you know, you understand why it's so successful. It's like the blueprint for what everyone is like, overly like obsessed with in every conceivable category is already out.

It exists, but they just ignore it. So I don't get it, but I do cuz then again, it's like a money-making working Yeah, you know I mean in there making money. It just feels like damn. I feel like there's such a core group of people who grew up playing Call of Duty who was like a Part of like a lot of people's childhoods and life's growing up where now it's like They lost them. You know, I mean, this is why we still play the old Smash game, Melee. So we're very lucky in that there's still a very healthy scene and a powerful scene for the one game that we can't put down. Well, it's coming to Call of Duty Mono Warfare 2 or Black Ops 2.

Because it's a... Because it's a because it's a summer no we actually back to the masses we actually might have to do it bro we have a CRT in here adapt walked in he's like you play smash on that right like he knew yeah you're ahead bro yes that is our melee set up do bro we rent out what's that pyramid in Vegas the Luxor the Luxor the HyperX Luxor looks out the Hyper X Luxor Did say pyramid too, bro. And I responded with fear. That was soft, that was soft. Shit.

Yeah, we- We rent that shit out. At the end of the summer, we have a fucking awesome Xbox 360 land. Bro, you gotta get one. Huh? You gotta get one. Get what? The Xbox 360.

You talk a lot. I got eight downstairs. Me and Nick Engeling. You talk a lot. I got eight downstairs. Me and Nick Engeling play every night, bro. I got eight downstairs. You don't got them. I got them. They are his. Listen, I am down.

No, they're his. I will use every, like, bit of influence I have to push for this shit because I actually love this shit. What the fuck's going on? Xbox 360. Bro, even now I just play like a game. I say it's a game, it's always like an hour or two of Warzone and it was just me originally, but now like a lot of the other Faze guys are getting along. Jason has been playing a lot.

Ron will jump on and play. Silky, everyone like has been, it's to a point now where people ask for it. When I started streaming, I was like, okay. That was poison. It's weird, cause like, I like Call of Duty. I love playing Call of Duty, but I can't play it on stream because people hate it.

Also, I don't have fun with it. It was just like a desktop IRL like reaction and then straight IRL thing. So for, to see like over the past like month, maybe a little bit longer, slowly implementing it at the end of my streams, not just myself but with the other FaZe guys, and for people to fuck with it is really cool.

So I feel like doing it with Black Ops 2 is not something that's crazy, it's something that actually makes sense. It's doable. I think now is the time too, because people are kind of yearning for the nostalgia. It was the. I think now is the time too, because like people are kind of like yearning for the nostalgia. It was the shot heard around the world. Everyone saw the clip guys. Can we just be real?

I think that's going to be the spark that ignites the flame. I have to go on a redemption arc, bro. Real shit. I'm thinking about selling t-shirts. I just have your face on it. It says like missing. Bro. It's got no carton. Blasted on B-site. I just have your face on it. It says like missing

Bury me bury me like the animals are leaving clip cuz it's you know, it's recirculating again naturally people putting me in it Yeah, something that I thought about when this was happening is your Nick is also the reason that that clip like Yeah is Nick is also the reason that that clip took off. Oh, I blew that up. Yeah, that's funny. What clip? The one with the Vader V. Where she's like, the animals are leaving. 30 seconds to Mars. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That clip.

At the beginning of the edit. Yeah, and Nick, it was smart. One of my friends just sent me that, like as a downloaded video, not even a link. And he was like, have you seen this? I saw, I died laughing. This is the funniest shit ever. It was not viral, it was not a big video at all.

And I tweeted it and I said, hey, I'm not trying to is the funniest shit ever. It was not viral. It was not a big video at all. And I tweeted it and I said, hey, I'm not trying to say I made this video. I'm trying to find who made it because I think it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life. And that tweet blew up. Yeah, really? And that's why that clip is so big.

And everyone thought, despite how I wrote the tweet, everyone thought I made it. So I got DMs for like two years that were just like, bro, fucking, the video you made is so funny. And I'm like, it says it right there. I did not make it. No one reads it. And the guy who made it so I got DMS for like two years that were just like bro fucking this video He made is so funny. I'm like it says it right there. I did not make it No one made it found me and was like what the fuck and I'm like read the tweet I was looking for you the guy who made it was kind of pissed. Yeah I like replying to the tweet like this guy made it and of course no one replies

Inflation point for it becoming so Circle now that like I'm in the video. Yeah, it's crazy how many strings are attached to it now. That's insane. I did not know the lore behind it. What is it? My curiosity, what is your favorite trick shot that you hit? I mean-

Presumably back in the day. Do you have one that you go back, you're like- I feel like the one that everyone knows is obviously the crane shot. Cause that was a crazy shot, especially at the time. I don't know shit. I'm gonna try to send it. And you're a trick shotter, so you are-

You were in SOAR, right? No, I was in Faze. You were in Faze? Oh shit. At the time. But my favorite has gotta be the basketball court, Sui An Raid. That was like the most creative.

Can you walk us through the shot and then we'll see it? Like I can actually explain, fully break it down for you. Yeah fully break it down break it down break it down so like there's a basketball trick shots and it's just you on a basketball court I gotta find it bro so I could show y'all how I find this shit is it a certain episode hold on on a death like one of those videosQ videos. It's like if Faze Adap breaks down his most iconic. Yeah. Straight shots. Pause there.

You got like a pink marker. Is this it? No. No, I'll tell you. If this is a crane shot. I wanna see this. This is good, though. This is a good clip.

Is this TDM? This might. No. Are you 16? How old are you? 17. This is New York. TDM?

FFA. Oh, FFA, but I had a lead though Oh, I thought that was it. You see like yeah, I feel like yeah No one's amongst trickshotters like if you got a if you hit a clip and every someone else was at 29 It was kind of looked down on because other people were trickshotting right? Yeah, everyone's trying to win the game right here There was like a hierarchy There was like a hierarchy of how you could hit one and like what was considered the dopest or whatever This is probably the most popular one that people know me for I can't believe I didn't get the reload though still No, me four. I can't believe I didn't get the reload though still

The fake steez at the end and on top man, that's swag bro. I gotta find the raid suey, bro That's so funny finding the unlisted video bro. Hold on. I gotta find this Is my favorite because it's the only time I ever attempted it Did you send yours too nick mine send your? Send your gal. I sent mine. I know exactly which one it is. Go M4M. And then later we can watch me Falcon punching Aiden in pools.

This is all gonna be really fun. I like all these ideas. This is good. I win this set. I win this set. It is crazy you won the set, but- And nobody ever remembers that. No one remembers that part.

Nobody remembers that part. You get Falcon punched, you lost the set. It doesn't matter what happens in the game. Dude, it should instant end. Yeah, it should. There should be a mod. Yeah. There used to be an old 20XX mod where if you rolled,

it would just kill your character and then explode to incentivize you to like not roll. That's really funny. I have a question. I have one question for you while we're waiting. I've always wondered, how does FaZe Rug fit into FaZe? Because he is a gigantic YouTuber, like on his own, and he seems pretty separate

from everything. Is he still a part of it? Or? Yeah, I mean, he fits in cause, I mean, he joined the same way I did. Like he's been a part of Faze longer than me, joined off Trickshot in. I didn't even know that.

He was really good. He was a really good trick. Honestly, he has some of the most iconic trick shots ever. I actually didn't even know. He has a Collat wall bang across the map on MW3. He has a Collat trick shot on Nuke Town. He's the only trick shotter besides, Lynx, he hit a kill cam Collat,

but Rug got two spawn shot Collats, a bunch of other crazy tricks. See, I'm glad trick shots didn't happen. Yeah, and his MW3 one, it literally looks like he's cheating. But like, I've also been friends with him as long as I've been friends with Ricky. And he never was like a part of the New York house,

but always would pull up and do his own thing. And then even now, like when Faye started like becoming a thing that we're all a part of again and passionate about, he starts showing, like he was at the crib when we, what's it called? Announced a new house, like he was there. We did we uh what's it called uh announced a new house like he was there we did some shit with him he's gonna come back he's gonna be in this thing we're doing Thursday he's very still much a part of like FaZe and always has been yeah it's just he's got like 25 million subscribers on youtube yeah wasn't he like one of the first ones to start making like big IRL videos? Yeah. I mean, he like definitely had some like videos

even off the top of my head that I can remember, like the cocaine prank and different things he was doing with his with his family. That's like something should I just make up? Bro. Yeah. He made someone like the biggest at the time, like those that 2015 style of YouTube pranks. And yeah, took off. I remember before that, Tempor was doing like day in the life,

like him going to school videos. Way further back. And we were in high school when he was posting those and we thought it was so crazy. We were like, holy shit. He's like, he's got a camera at school. Yeah, that's what it is. It was such a wild thing.

That's what Loki inspired me to start, cause I was in high school vlogging. Because I was in high school vlogging. Like I was in high school, full blown YouTuber. I had almost... Dude, I made a vlog in high school. Did you? Yeah. Did you ever show it to the people?

Yeah, I uploaded it. It probably had like 70 views. No, I mean like revisited it. No, no. I've never showed it to Chad ever. It's crazy. Do people at school know you were like a quick shot over the YouTube channel and stuff?

No, the only person who knew was my best friend Mo, but I still remember the exact day everyone found out that I did YouTube, because I would make YouTube videos every day and post them. And I was in phase, and at the time I think I was getting like 50K views a video. It's crazy back then. Dude, in high school, I can't even imagine. There was celebrity back then but no one like no like I would pull up to school and I

was just I didn't talk to no one I didn't really have any friends besides Moe and That was it. But there was this game. We all played called senior assassins Where you get paired with someone and yeah, there was a Twitter page it where you get paired with someone and there was a Twitter page every kid in our senior class like to participate in Senior Assassins, everyone puts up like 40 bucks every senior. There's like a couple thousand dollars in the pot. Whoever wins gets it right and for updates and like rules and like who got out like who got out announcements, whatever.

There's a Twitter page. Everyone followed the Twitter page. Everyone followed the Twitter page. The first round of Senior Assassins, I almost got caught and didn't, made this crazy escape. And then I went home and made a video about it, like I always did. Like I would always talk about what happened in my day.

What you did at school today. Yeah, like what I did at school that day. And this was just a straight story time. And I called, cause the girls who tried to get me out lied and were like, no, we hit him. And I was like, no, they didn't. I was like on YouTube,

like I had just got home and I sat in front of the camera and made this and was still like, I didn't get hit at senior sassy. And if Amy and Becky are watching, they're bitches, first off. Yes, I said, I'm like, nah, fuck these bitches. I said that. I was like, I'm like, they're psycho. Fuck them. Like, I made it out.

Like I explained the whole thing, posted the video and I'm at school or no, I was at the gym with Mo and I got it because I had a notice on for the Twitter and they fucking put the link on. The Twitter was like disqualified after his adapt on sportsman like conduct. What? What? Posted a video and I went to school the next day and I'm not even trolling. And I could call Moe, he'll say the same shit. And I would be in English class and I would hear my voice

being played on a phone like this from like four different places in the room. And then people would stop watching it and have like a discourse about whether or not I should be disqualified or not. While I'm, people don't even realize I'm in the room with them. Oh, they're not doing it to fuck with you. They're just dead ass trying to watch it. Yes. Wow. And it was contentious.

It was like split. Like a lot of people were like, no. Was it a gender divide? Yeah. That makes sense. But also the one thing that I really remember is, what's it called? The girl who was watching it in front of me in English,

she didn't know I was behind her. And I was in the class with her, she stopped watching the video, she started talking to her friend like, nah, he should be disqualified, like he doesn't need the money for the Senior Assassins, like he makes YouTube videos, like what? Like she doesn't need this money.

She's right, you're making it advanced. Yeah, but there's not a fucking charity case. That's fair, that's fair. Like we're not jumping out. The game is the game. I didn't just donate the money, I'm playing the game. That's true, that's fair. You's fair. The game is the game. I didn't just donate the money. I'm playing the game. That's true.

That's fair. Just like you. And I remember that bothered me so much. I'm like, wait, why am I getting different treatment? Because I'm a YouTube video. 28-year-old in down-hull. Do you shave your shoulders? No, not at the time.

There was a girl in my math class who I spaz. Probably the only time I ever really spaz, like not I say spaz, but like talk back to Because a lot of people would say shit Even my English teacher would say shit about how I may call it duty videos and YouTube videos I was shitting on you for it I was fucking lame Because people would look at you like a nerd back then

Yeah, yeah Dude Even if you just played the game if you recorded yourself playing the game and posted it to YouTube you were super nerd No, super lame And my friends made fun of me That's why I stopped doing it. I made Call of Duty videos when I was 16. So I didn't talk openly about it and this girl Victoria at my math class started turning up and she was like, yeah, like you think you're going to go to, like not go to...

We were on the topic of college. I was like, yeah, I'm not doing that. And for some reason, like I got targeted. She was like, yeah, I'm not doing that. And for some reason, I got Targeted. And she was like, yeah, have fun. Make it Call of Duty videos forever. And I just remember, at this point, I was making a good amount of money. I was like, Victoria, I'm making more money than your parents right now.

Oh! You know? Like, what are you talking about? I know what your dad does for work. What are you talking about? I'm taking him. Yeah, he serves me when I go to the gym. This is like a situation a high school kid dreams of having.

You could actually do it. This is the comeback that most people think about at night, but never happens. I know your pussy ass dad works in the hospital. I was so mad at her. Ask your mom about it. Because they always, like people said all the time would say shit. Especially like kids in school, like everyone had their own opinion. I never really paid mind to it.

But I don't know, this one time I really got mad. I was like, yo, nah, like I'm not, like what? Like you're gonna tell me what I'm doing, like oh no, you're gonna fail. I'm making bread right now. But that was the only time. This is Slav every week on Twitter. No it's not. I don't do that.

He used to do this. I just, I didn't even use, yeah. I make more than a doctor. He'd go to people on Twitter, he goes, I make more than a doctor. I didn't go to people. People would come to me, be assholes, and I said. Like Victoria. Well, yeah.

They would initiate. They would initiate. And then you would bite back. So that's all there is to it. Sometimes you gotta bite back and guess what Victoria adapt is on the yard now. Yeah 100 podcasts on YouTube That's right, baby On the on the note of it was nerdiest fucking school, we were all like, I was on a smaller team. We had a team called Vast.

And, but it was like, it was like, you know, notable enough in the trickshotting community where like, when we were at school, we were like, no one can know that we do this. This is the nerdiest shit ever. And even so bad that one of our closest friends in our friend group, guy we hung out with after school every day,

just didn't know. And we would talk about it in front of him like it was sports, because we knew we just didn't watch sports. So one of our best friends just had no idea that we did this for like all four years of high school. And it's crazy. And it was like, why are we lying?

Like, looking back, it was like so insane. Do you feel like you're on some Hannah Montana shit? Yeah, yes. I had two Twitter accounts. I had a Call of Duty one, and I had one for kids at school. Yeah, like you're living like this weird double life. It's fucked up. And I don't know, it was-

And your Billy Ray was fazed temper. Yeah, it was fun though. And I look back at it and I'm like, it's crazy that I was that young and still that committed to it. Like my mom, like I would have to finesse to even get my Xbox controllers to play the game, to make the videos, to get into phase.

Well, the thing is like, with specifically trick shotting, if you were not playing every day, you were not gonna hit anything. Yeah. Like you had to play all night to get like one clip. And you're gonna get one clip every like couple weeks. I remember I was hard I tried out for phase in the first phase five and it was during that era where I had to like I was only allowed to play on Saturday or Friday Saturday Sunday and then I got

into the top 20 I remember getting in the top 20 and I couldn't play as much as top 20 I was on like a dry streak. I only hit like a handful of clips. And I was like, fuck, I'm so close. And they announced the five. And I remember the first person they announced, it was on June 5th, it was on my birthday. I'm like, fuck, if they're gonna do it,

they're gonna do it today. You know what I mean? And they didn't, it was FaZe Hateful. It was FaZe fucking Hateful. That's a cool name. That was so sad. I'm FaZe pissed off. It was FaZe fucking Hatful. That's a cool name. That was so sad. I'm FaZe pissed off. I was so sad.

I remember sitting on my iPod, refreshing the FaZe Clan YouTube. I'm not even trolling like this, waiting for the announcement because I knew what was going up that day. And I just started introducing FaZe Hatful, zero views. I was like, no, bro.

You start crying in class. I swear I started crying. No, I was at home. I was so sad, bro. And then obviously I ended, I ended up doing it later on. But I remember trying to get into like doing clan tryouts and trying to explain to my mom, like why I needed to play at a specific time in the week. It wasn't like a thing I could just get on and play because I had the same shit.

I could only play on weekends. And I tried to get into like, I played Nintendo games, competitive Nintendo games. So I was trying to get into like, I played Nintendo games, competitive Nintendo games, so I was trying to get into a Mario Strikers clan, and I'm like trying to convince my mom why playing Friday at like 4 p.m. is so important to me, and I remember failing the trial and crying, I remember all of it. She's like, why do they call it a clan?

Like someone wants to be in a clan. And then she goes to your dad, she goes, you have to talk to your pussy son, he's crying. He played a soccer game and he's crying. Look, you should be in a clan if you want, just don't cry. It was so hard to convince any adult of any element of what it is that you're doing on the game. It was so fucking hard, bro. I mean, to be fair, like, I mean, we're in this room, but there's like a bunch of adapts who didn't succeed

and never made it to phase and did spend like 5000 hours trick shotting to not end up. So I think it's some of them became MLB players. That's true. Yeah, bro. So my friend, I don't watch baseball. My homies watching baseball like a week week ago and it's a Cleveland Guardians, the Guardians versus Dodgers. And someone on the Guardians hits a home run and their name pops up because like they hit the home run, the graphics and stuff.

And he immediately recognizes the name and he sends me a text. He's like, don't we know this guy? He was in my Call of Duty clan when I was a kid. What's his name? Dan O'Sheaeman. And I was like, bro, that guy was in our clan. That's crazy. Isn't that insane? Like just someone who was just like literally a trick shotter. Yeah.

Someone I would just play Xbox with like everyday for like three years. No hits, dingers. No hits, dingers. Different types of shots. Wait, I think we gotta wrap it up, but why don't we, can you break down the clip? Oh yeah, this is it.

We found the clip, yeah. This is probably my favorite trick shot ever. I'm trying to I don't know about best but definitely yeah I feel like best best and favorite are always different. I feel like It's not set up. No, I've never even seen a shot from that Even know that you could go for that. I just saw explain in a second For you there's nothing like it those reactions are so like nostalgic hearing like the Xbox mics the clipping. The reason that's my favorite is because if you look at the clip,

it's on this map raid, right? And floaters were still a thing at the time, right? Wasn't that a floater? Yeah, yeah. So the only shot people would go for on raid was that Sui out the window to B-bomb. Out of the house, yeah. Or is it A-bomb?

I think it's A-bomb, actually. Whatever, whatever bomb is there, the guy wasn't coming out of spawn, and it's like Ten seconds left right and see I see someone die. I see someone die with the bomb. I'm like, okay, he's back here Right. I stun I get a hit marker. I saw I get a marker again. I'm like six seconds. I might as well just go for this And I there's only time I've ever attempted it. I thought about it in my head before But you were never in a position where you would even be here on the map when last life was there.

So you have no clue where he is in the court. You're just fucking ripping it. I just know he's, yeah, you just got myself in it. And you have that period, that moment, right after you hit it, where you don't even realize you hit it. It's like, you're like, wait, what the fuck did I just do? And it hits you, you're like, oh!

Because you're sending out so many, right? You're just grinding for the trick shot. He went for that day, not that shot in that place, but that day probably attempted for the trick shot. He went for like that day, not that shot in that place, but like that day probably attempted like 80 other. And that specific shot, I never attempted in a public match. It was always just a thing. Like you probably can relate where you'd be playing on a map and you're like, you would think of a shot.

You're like, oh, this could be cool, but you would never go for it or try it because it just was not practical. Yeah, if you don't hit like at least, you know, 10 things the next two months, you're not making a montage. Yeah, and then you're cooked. So it's like, you have these ideas

and you'd be like, I could go for that, but it would take me maybe like four months to hit it once. Yeah, that's crazy. So I'm like, I don't, you know, cause like whether or not you get technically all the parts of the trick shot in, cause there's a lot of things you do in the air or whatever is one thing,

but then you need the luck of the no-scope, which is just a complete RNG. Everyone's got Commando Pro on because you don't want to die when you hit the ground. So you don't have steady aim. So you do have less accurate no-scopes too. So yeah, you were just like, the people who were really good,

they were also kind of outing themselves as people who play a lot. You'd have to play a lot. You'd have to be on all day. There's not like, because everything you just said, there's so many components and variables that need to line up. And then also you need to get lucky enough

for the no-scope day. Like you could, people always ask like if trick-shotting was a skill or luck. It's just like, I feel like with anything you have to be skilled enough to shoot in the right direction every time. You don't know if it's gonna hit though, but you have to shoot at least near him or

where you think he is every single time. That's the hard part. Vast9 shows your clip. This was my best one. Probably my favorite too, but I have two I put here. The backwards ladder saw. Oh, tack flip. You tagged him.

That was calm. That's really hard. I was like, I think I was like the first person to do this. 540 and on that ladder backwards is crazy. I've probably, yo you tagged him in the air. In the last stand into a headshot. Oh he was in last stand. Not tag shot. Tagging someone in the shot was also insane. Go to the comments on that real quick. Go to the comments on that. Oh tagging somebody midair. Like yeah, cause it's just, That was one of those shots.

So the story behind this is the same thing. I had that idea and it was one of those shots that I would literally never go for. I just want to point out Zezem and there's also Rain. I think not Rain, Rug is in the comments somewhere. Zezem is a go. Anyway, I had this idea and I was like, man, what if you hit someone in midair with a pistol?

Cause you always try to hit someone with your pistol before you trick shot at them to avoid getting a hit mark. Oh yeah, you would tag for sure. You tagged them and I was like, well, what if you did the tag as part of the trick shot? I always had that idea and I was like, I didn't see anyone do it. And I was on this map and we're playing like a try hard kid.

It was a whole thing back then, like people would like, if people recognize your gamer tag or whatever, they would stand still and let you trick shot. And it called setting up and for me back then it like ruined it I was like no, I want to hit like a fucking Plumber I want to hit a guy Does not want to be trick shot right now Like he's trying his hardest to kill me and that guy was like fucking you MP trying I had last stand on like no one who's standing still has last stand on

That's why the clips where you're red, where you got, where you're getting shot at, and you still hit a clip, I hold in higher, like a higher guard. I'd rather see like a 720, like simple whatever shot on someone who was really trying to kill you than like something crazy that was set up. Because you had a million opportunities to try it.

But my friend comes over and rings the doorbell and I get up and it's in that scrap yard game. And then my friend comes over and rings the doorbell and I get up and it's in that scrap yard game. And I'm up on the ladder and I come back in the room. My mic's not even plugged in. And I come in the room and I'm standing up. I'm holding my controller. I'm like, hey, look at this fucking fucked up shot

I'm going for. I don't even know the guy is there. Then I go for the shot and then I see him. I just hit him with the tag and I just hit the shot. I was just trying to show him what I was going for. And I just happened to be like, oh, he's there, shoot. That's so fire. And then hit it.

And then that's why everyone in the game. So that's the first time you ever even tried it? That was the first time I like really tried it. That's crazy. And everyone in the game is like, they're like, oh, fuck, he was in the last stand because my mic's not plugged in. So I'm screaming, but no one in the game knows

I hit anything. So all their reactions are like so candid because they're like, oh shit, what? They only find out like after the shot gets hit. Thank God you recorded it because otherwise you're just telling this story as if it happened. Yeah.

You know, and then it doesn't matter. I wouldn't be telling this story, I would have committed suicide. Yeah. I want to show one more because this was like way earlier, this was like 2011, back when like shots like these were like crazy.

But this was the shot, the only time, or like the first time my mom like yelled at me. Pause really quick. So this is like 3.30 AM on a school night. And my mom, every night, she'd come in around midnight and she'd open the door and I'd be fake sleep on the bed. And then she'd close the door and her room was on the other side of the house

and I'd get back up, I'd get out back online. I'd always turn my Xbox off around midnight so I could make her think I was asleep. Yeah, smart. And I'd get back on. So this is about 3.30am, I'm playing super light, I'm like being really quiet and then I hit, you can plush play, I hit this shot. I'd never hit anything like it before and these are all, all the kids in the game are the kids, my friends at school.

That's so lit, you played with your friends at school. Damn, that was clean. In 2011? In 2011, I think. Maybe 2012? Maybe early 2012? Yeah, that's crazy. It's a crazy shot. Maybe, check the date. It might be 2012. That's crazy. You played with kids from your school. You trick shot it with kids from your school.

2011, 2011. And I start fucking screaming and my mom comes into my room and she's like, the fuck you're still awake And I'm like oh, and I just get everyone here is it I turn the Xbox on The best thing I've ever done my fucking life There's a video somewhere of someone in my game recording my voice and it's like eight octaves higher I can't go back and watch some of my reactions because I start, like there's clips of me even like

when I'm in phase in like 2013 where I hit a clip and I just start freaking it, like start screaming. Yeah. Like I'm trying to think of one, like I hit a standoff window shot tomahawk across the map and I started screaming and I go back and watch it and I can't even watch it but. We didn't even have ore farming back then. Bro.

No one was quiet after doing something cool. You were allowed to. No dude. Yeah but even now, like even if I'm still on the game, like I was playing Warzone last week and I hit a shot, like you know how you can like mantle on the zip and go up? I mantle on the zip and someone was sniping and I let go of the zip, scoped down my HR, tagged him, broke his place, got back on the zip, pulled the bullet back, got off the zip again,

and then I killed him while like going, like while in the air. And I started, I was like, oh fuck, like I started screaming like it was a trick shot from back in, like from a decade ago. And. The real you came out. Yeah. There's nothing like it. The young boy. Yeah.

There's nothing like it. It's an insane dopamine hit, bro. When you hit, you see the plus five. Even like a melee combo, like it feels good, but you're like, I just straight worked for that. It was all skill. There was no luck. A trick shot, like the luck factor. It's hitting at the casino It is like it is like a crack cocaine feeling where you're like

I've wanted that to happen for so long and I've tried so many times and if it's like such a crazy feeling It really is I feel like it's diluted nowadays too cuz it's like for sure It's just like I don't know what it is. Just like doesn't hit the same. It's a montage now I'm kind of just like yeah, these clips are crazier than like anything I've ever done. I'm just like, I don't know something about it I'm just like I just don't care anymore. Yeah same. I feel like but if I go back and watch an old clip I'm like, that's crazy. Yeah that 100% I don't know what it is. Boomer shit I don't know what it is. Boomer shit. Yeah, old head shit.

Couple of unks. That's all I got. Couple of unks, yeah. On your fucking rocking chairs. Well, that's it for us, man. We're well over, but thank you for coming on. Yeah, of course. Thank you for having me.

This is a vibe. We got to sit here and talk about trick shotting for like at least a half of this. I'm gonna look at the graph of the viewership on this episode and it's gonna go right in the middle. You're riding a generational wave right now. You earned this.

So yeah. All right, all right. You're pretty awesome. Damn. Well thank you all for watching. Tune into the Primo where- We're gonna watch the clip a couple more times. We're gonna pretty much watch it for now.

Let's just watch it one more time. One more time. Just one more. Just to send us off. So the slight adjustment at the end, if I hit the bomb it would've. Cam, where did you go? Are you up?

Are you on your foot? Oh no, yeah, go back to, let's go up one more time. What's the see me immediately stand up? And I'm outie. Fuck him. Fuck him, I'm out. Not on me, bro. The empty camera is so funny.

Yeah. There, you lost to a chair. Bro. Money. On that note, thank you for watching. Goodbye. See you next year. Take care, y'all.