Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett is a Canadian CS:GO caster and one of the creators of Drop the Bomb, a new weekly show that features him alongside Henry "HenryG" Greer that aims to provide a high quality podcast for the CS:GO community.

Ahead of the show's Aug. 16 debut, Sadokist took the time to talk to theScore esports about what he hopes to bring to the CS:GO scene with his new venture and some thoughts on recent roster changes.

So what is Drop the Bomb?

Drop the Bomb is a weekly CS:GO show that will run six episodes for the first season and it's going to be produced on a level that has not been seen yet in podcasts. A lot of podcasts right now are done out of necessity. Thorin's Thoughts, Richard's show and even Alpha Draft and Vulcun's [Half-Time], which I was involved in at the time, they're all webcam-based shows that were thrown together very quickly. We want to take it to the next level.

We think there's a lack of behind-the-scenes content, player profiles, everyone sees the Valve player profiles, but we're not necessarily going to do that every week, but we want to do something more. I do tours sometimes with FragBite and everyone always says, "Oh that's so cool, I wish I could see more," so we saw a giant opportunity.

We're going to be broadcasting live from wherever we are in the world. The first season will primarily be done out of Cologne, but then I think we'll go to a few LANs in that time. We'll also try to go to team houses, meeting with individual players, perhaps go to North America and do some stuff there. Then at the end of each episode there'll be a five to ten minute feature documentary on the topic that we have at hand that week.

You mentioned that you guys will mainly be shooting from Cologne, does that mean you guys have a studio space setup?

Yeah, we're doing it out of an Airbnb setup. So when we say we're in a studio, all that means is we'll be in a studio environment. In other words, Henry and I will be side-by-side. It's not going to be crane cameras everywhere or teleprompters.

It's not a full studio per se, but it's not webcams. It's going to be done with high end cameras. I'm not going to give you the numbers, but we just spent a ton of money on a boatload of gear and we've hired a full-time producer, Tom Newman, and we'll be setting a new standard for podcasts.

If you look at esports as a whole, everything is great as far as live coverage, but where's the ESPN show? Where's the SportsCenter? Occasionally there are weekly shows and the LCS has some stuff with Riot, but they're kinda out in their own in the world. We don't have anything like that in CS and there's clearly a need for it. There's so many tournaments going on, it's hard to keep track of everything and we want to bring all of that together.

You talk about the show's production and having everything from the week bundled into package, but I think there's something to be said about the way Richard Lewis and Thorin do their shows. There's more timeliness to their content. Are you concerned about that since Drop the Bomb is a weekly show?

That's kind of the difference, Richard Lewis and Thorin, it is intimate when it's just them and there's no question that timing is their priority. For us, we're not a news show, we're an opinion-based show, but who knows, maybe there's something big enough that it's imperative that we get our thoughts out. If fans demand it from us immediately, we can look into that. It's not hard to setup a quick stream and do a breaking coverage.

We don't feel the need to be there every second, every day, five minutes after it happens. And sometimes, some people can be quick to make judgments. Richard and Thorin tend to be quite objective at times, but not always, I will say, as I know from working with them. We have time to really think about things.

I spoke to you about being one of the top casting duos in CS:GO, but Semmler and Anders stand above the rest, at least for now. Speaking to Semmler, he's said that they partly achieved that because they were the first to reach that pinnacle. Do you see your idea of Drop the Bomb as getting into this space first and claiming your stake?

I don't see it that way at all. They've done stuff with Room on Fire that is similar, but it's not a live podcast, and we've been in talks with them leading up to this. Just so it's all transparent we all work together.

If it leverages our casting, then great. If it gives up more rapport within the community, great, that's all added benefits, but those are side-effects. Our goal is very much just simply to provide the community with more and be more active within the community. This is something we want to do.

For me this is very much a mind thing, I get to be more involved and do something that I really like. And for Henry, as a caster, there's so much more he can say a bring to the table, but it doesn't really fit the cast —it's not appropriate during a live cast as there are time restraints. So this gives him another avenue where he can really show off his apt mind for the game.

How long has the idea of Drop the Bomb been cooking in your head?

We've been joking about doing an on-air podcast forever. I explored restarting the Vulcun show through someone different, but I'd say we've only been seriously thinking about since end of May, start of June.

Of this year?

Of this year, and really putting our minds to it and seeing if it's possible, first off, who would support it, secondly. And we've talked to... there's quite a few people we've talked to actually, but the first person we talked to that was all-in we elected to go away from because we had an offer that gave us a little bit more freedom in what we were doing.

Now, we think we have a good group of people supporting us that are going to let us do our own thing, but still be part of it. Once we got them on board and we had a budget, Twitch said, "Yeah, we'll help you out with the streaming side of it." Then we were like, this is definitely doable. We started writing up the business proposal, getting accounting things and legal things in order and here we are.

It's been about two months.

Switching gears, what's your read on s1mple joining Natus Vincere?

I think the interesting thing with s1mple is that he's always been known to be a troll. He's always been known to be demanding in his teams and I think that has to do with the respect factor.

I've always said that the one team I could see s1mple playing a role on is Na`Vi and I think it's because he respects them the most. In his mind they are the best players in the world. Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács is the best AWP, and it's always been, he's said it himself, his dream to play on that team. Now we get to find out if that's true or not. Now we find out if s1mple will in fact respect them and hopefully mature into it.

What about the idea of s1mple being secondary AWPer? That seemed to cause some stress when he was on Liquid, at least when Kenneth "koosta" Suen was still on the team. Do you think that will be the case on Na`Vi?

The weird thing is, s1mple has never really been a primary AWPer. On FlipSid3, he did kind of take that role away from Georgi "WorldEdit" Yaskin, but at the very beginning it was s1mple in a hybrid position. Again it comes back to respect.

jdm was capable of doing the role and he was very good in the role, so s1mple was like, "you're the AWP player, here's your AWP, I'll buy a second one when we need to, or maybe if I have a better spawn I'll take it," but he was more than willing to play the rifle, which he's also great at.

With WorldEdit, he was inconsistent, he was missing shots and s1mple said, "screw this, I can do better," and he just did it. koosta, same thing — in his mind he wasn't being aggressive enough, so he took the AWP away from him. That caused some problems in the team, but in s1mple's mind he thought koosta wasn't good enough to be the primary AWPer and didn't respect him.

As for GuardiaN and Na`Vi? Come on. Unless GuardiaN makes the decision himself, there's no way GuardiaN's being a secondary AWP to s1mple. If you do look at the double AWP setup, Marcelo "coldzera" David and Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo are probably the best double AWP in the game right now, but s1mple and GuardiaN could easily rival that.

What about on zews leaving SK as a coach to join Immortals as a player?

It's always scary isn't it? Jonatan "Devilwalk" Lundberg did the exact same thing with Fnatic and look at what he walked away from. But at the same time, I've heard from the Brazilians that zews is quite a good player and obviously Immortals are a closely tied team to him.

I'm not surprised, but I guess I'm disappointed for Gustavo "SHOOWTiME" Gonçalves. I think he did very well for that team, but inconsistency was a bit of a problem. However, he's got a wicked opportunity to showcase himself with SK and maybe things change from that.

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This is going to be one of those things that if SK starts to fall off in results, it'll be another look back at the change that really shifted the era. They won two Majors with zews behind them, I do really think that he and FalleN worked well with each other to make sure that the team was constantly improving.

I'm sure he'll still be closely tied with the team, but I really hope it doesn't affect SK's results. I wish him well, he's a wicked guy, but at the same time it's a bold move. I understand the hunger to play again, but I hope it's the right decision.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.