A couple weeks ago, I drove to Las Vegas to interview OnlyUseMeBlade in the middle of his Vegas bender. I chose to do this episode because his entire descent into alcoholism has been documented online every step of the way, and I wanted to discuss what that descent was like for him. Blade is a notorious & widely hated IRL streamer who has lost 5/10 of his toes to a combo of untreated diabetes & alcoholism. I first met Blade at an event called PAX East in 2018, and he was very different when we first met. Physically and mentally, Blade has clearly deteriorated in recent years. He seems deeply unhappy, and it's hard to ignore in this interview. His leg is bad, very bad. Blade desperately needs to quit drinking and get help. I have never been more worried about a guest than this. Blade justifies his drinking by saying it's "just for money", despite currently being homeless. Where is the money going? We originally planned to film this in his hotel room, but upon entering the room and being greeted by a bloody bathroom and a smell I cannot use words to describe, we had to book a new room across the hall to do the episode because my producer was going to quit otherwise. I threw away all of the clothes I wore during this interview. From what I've been around, Blade is a genuinely good guy when he's sober, and a genuinely bad guy when he's drunk. I know plenty of addicts, but I'm not sure if I've ever seen this extreme of a 180 from drugs or alcohol. Most addicts are still *somewhat* like their sober selves when high, but not Blade. During this interview, it became clear to me that Blade is ashamed of his current situation, his drunken self and the things he does while intoxicated, but feels he cannot stop getting drunk, so the cycle continues. Dropping tomorrow 10/21 at 12:00PM PST